The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1900-05-17
Advert isement.]
A FAREWELL REPLY.

epistle from Mr.. Moultrle Ses-
sions, wherein he says she knows"
Judge Gober to be the author of
all article published by you three
weeks ago and signed Democrat. ;"
Mr.. Sessions is q wiseacre, adj
nit, but he does not know that,
and as l alone am responsible for
that article, l hasten to reply and
inform him that Judge Gober
knew absolutely nothing of that
article until he saw it in the pa
per, ard does not know yet who
wrote it. wrote it and paid for
it, as also this one, and as | had q
right to do. For the truth of this
statement ! refer him to the Ed
itor of the Journal.
] consider myself responsible
citizen and amply able to pay fer
anything bargain for. For forty
years | have been a resident of
Marietta and Cobb county. /
have property in my own name in
this city, with the taxes paid and
no mortgages thereon. | came by
it neither by fraud nor marriage.
In the article referred to / had
nothing whatever to do with Judge
Gober or his candidacy, and any
one knowing him remotely must
know he did not write it. This
one has nothing to do with him,
unless | should thank him for his
dignified silence to all the open
letters, challenges and vicious
thrusts made to him by this man
Sessions.
To Sessions, himself, l have no
apology to make, except that I did
not hit him harder. If he calls
my article dirty, what III the name
of sense does he call his reply,
and everything he said, for that
matter? | shall not soil my pen
by quoting from it. 1t was not
dirty. flatter myself there are
very few who could have used
more refined language than ! did
with the subject | had to handle.
These letters would neither of
them ever have been written had
he conducted himself with any de-
gree of decency, but he blusters
and boasts that Marietta and Cobb
county are with him, are at his
very feet, and it is just here my
letters come in. AS a small atom
of the makeup of this people / tell
him NAY. Marietta and Cobb Co.
are a people of refinement and in
telligence and they hang their
heads i'll shame and blush for this
man and the spectacle he has
made of himself, not them.
He placed himself on the level
l found him, and by that | mean
the level of his letters, the edito-
rails III his campaign newspaper,
his "Public Speaking" Everybody
Invited" "Opera House, "Moul-
tire Sessions" level.
Is there another lawyer in this
circuit who would have done
this thing? Seeking the office he
does with public speaking! He
invites his opponent to meet him
in this Everybody" business
and when he refuses he actually
publishes it on himself.
| can think of but one other
thing worse than this, and that is
the use he has made of a recon-
mendation given him by friend.
For six, eight, yea ten long years
he treasures this precious slip of
paper, carries it i'll his bosom. For
what? To prove to everybody who
reads his papers that he is an in
CRATE and n traitor to every form
of friendship. That he knows hot
there is such a thing as lawyers
etiquette. He will tramp many a
weary mile before he secures
another from any one who values
his character.
Every stranger is met by him
with a pleasant Have you ever
set on q jury greeting. Now,
the people must all turn thieves,
murderers and libellous candidates
for Office SO that this setting"
business may go on. For they
must and shall "set." Cobb
county may thank her stars she
has her new court house before the
"settin d" commences.
He compares himself to David
Poor, dear, dead David / an
glad he died before he knew hi.
namesake. When Mr.. Session.
has rested from his 2:4O race he
should borrow a Bible from some
of his neighbors and resolve him.
self INTO spelling bee until he
learns how to spell Goliath" Ii
seems pity to cut mans heac