Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-05-08
Query Ans7Oers TeyyelIs Forsyth Sbeenh
Ind AgQtn Calls For Joint Debate

violence is concerned, / will give a bond
to keep the peace and allow Mr.. Terrell 70
act entirely without a bond. Pardon me
for saying. that in my opinion. If 1t had
been present at Forsyth enjoying the priv
ilege of reply, Mr.. Terrell would never
have INDUCED In the abuse contained IN
this speech or in the charges made In II
Now 1 wish to notice some other por-
tions of Mr.. Terrell's speech. He tries 20
get up an issues between me and the Hon.
William A. Wright, comptroller general.
and yet have never on any occasion
made any allusion to that gentleman in
public or private speech, that accused him
of any negligence or that was not eulo-
CYSTIC or complimentary.
Mr.. Terrell seems greatly to resent the
suggestion that he is now liquor man,
etc. have never used this expression IN
regard to him and have never insinuated
that he was a liquor man in the sense or
a LIQUOR drinker OF a liquor dealer or
liquor manufacturer. have said ana 1
do now say, that he Is the candidate OF
the brewers and distillers and wholesale
LIQUOR dealers and barkeepers of this state.
That Is to say. these people are support
ing him with practical solidity. Is II not
fact? Are not these people in Atlanta
supporting him? Are not these people In
Macon supporting him, and seeking or
threatening to defeat me in Bib by car
rying this county against me for Mr.. Ter
rell? Are not these people practically
solid for him in Chatham. the home coun-
ty of Mr.. Estill, although Mr.. Estin is
an anti-prohibitionist? Are not these peo-
pie for him in Augusta and Columbuse
Are they not for him as rule all over
this state? Does not Mr.. Terrell know
these facts?
Mr.. Terrell fails to mention the famous
Potts telegram in his Forsyth speechs
perhaps wisely So He has never yet an
-l,of1 hc had
connection with that telegram at the time
1t was sent or not. 1 repeat that question
now, and ask him in addition If he has
not admitted within the last few weeks,
, that he was connected with that telegram;
that he was one among several from whom
said telegram originated
Now, Mr.. Editor, as you have seen Mt TO
publish land think you did exactly right
in doing sol this speech of Mr., Terrell,
which contains among other things an in
situation about my receiving as railroad
lawyer fat fees in 1890 and 1891, l beg
leave to PROFOUND in your paper a certain
question to Mr.. Terrell, not by way of
accusation and not for the purpose Of
provoking his wrath, but for the purpose
of eliciting some Information TO which
the public is entitled and which Mr., Ter
rell is entitled to make public, II 1t be
favorable to him.
Is it not a fact that one of the present
large number of such convicts in 1899 at
such low figure that he was enabled at
the time and has been enabled since then,
to sub-let said convicts at twice the cost
TO him. or nearly so2
And is ii not also true that this same
lessee, IN sub-letting convicts, as rule.
retained for his own service the sounder
and more able-bodied and furnished to
sub-lessees some that were so diseased
as to be unfit for service? While Mr.. Ter
rell was attorney general and in such ca
pacity the legal adviser and representa-
tive of the state in relation to the lease
and sub-leases Of all of said convicts. did
he not as a lawyer represent this same
lessee as such?
I wonder, Mr.. Editor. IL Mr.. Terrells
Forsyth speech Is an answer on his part
to the questions I submitted 10 Mr.. Estill
and him in the Journal of the list inst, in
which I sought to ascertain and simplify
for discussion, under the invitation Of The
Journal, the positions of and the issues
among the guberna torial candidates?
I certainly hope not. I do wish that
Mr.. Terrell would at least temporarily get
of the high plane of his Forsyth speech
and down to the plane of those questions
as submitted, in which the masses of the
people of Georgia are so much interested.
I shall have TO reserve my answer TO the
attacks of Mr.. Terrell upon my record as
senator in 1880 and 1881 on the local option
and railroad freights questions for anoth-
er article, as what 1 shall have to say up
on these subjects would, in addition to
what 1 have already said, tax your col
umns too much for one occasion. Yours
very truly,
DUPONT GUERRY.