Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-04-17
Declares Georgia IN the To1s
OF a Political Dynasty

bust the slate and ring like Sam
ford and Alex stephens have done.
Terrell has been ahead in the
race, but Guerry is gaining on him,
and If the one hundred had given
Query until the list Of August on
the track with Terrell, he would
have passed him about the LIST of
July, and gone under the pole while
Terrell would have been a hundred
yards behind, bellowsed, spawned,
and string battered.
To watch Terrell in those coVn-
ties where he has been on the track,
he reminds me of a scrub race / saw
in Canada once. / never saw such
running. There was one horse look
ed like he was half a mile ahead
the next one to him was doing his
best, and every time the negro wal
Hoped him under the belly 1t looked
like another leg put out, and he
seemed to be running down the
track with forty legs all hitting the
dirt. How wish Query would get
a mile ahead of Terrell, to see Potts
and the one hundred tapping him
up and see a leg push out at every
place when he got the lick. How
want to be at the race track when
that happens.
I stick to it, I am for Query be-
cause Query is a thoroughbred. He
is a sine qua non, he is a vox pop
uli, he is an pluribus unum, and
If there Is anything bigger and bet
ter, then he is that and all that. No
ring or clique can boss him or con-
troll him If he is elected governor.
He is for something and against
something. If Terrell is for any
thing it is for himself. If he is
against anything he is very much
against Potts sending kilograms
around over the country. Didn't it
take them long time to get up all
the facts and fables about that tele-
gram? They let time enough elapse
from the time Query got hold Of the
telegram until they made the ex-
PLANTATION for them, as the negro
said, to disremember all about it.
Memory may hold its place for
ever, but memory won't hold all
things forever.
wish sometimes 1 was omniscient
just an hour so / could know all
things about all men, what they did
and what made them do it, and who
was present when the thing was
did, and with it all I would want
some good witnesses, and good wit-'
nesses are mighty scarce. Some OF
them. poor fellows, are dead, the
balance are scared. and 1 had as
soon have an entombed witness as
weak kneed witness; a fellow that
disremembers.
The only hope Mr.. Terrell had. IL
it is a hope, is that the one hun
dred fixed the time Of the primary
June the 5th, but I am betting on
my nag passing their nag before the
5th of June. He is a-gaining on
him, gentlemen, and he amt a-put-
ting out any more legs. either. I
think Terrell could run faster IL
there were not so many riding him.
I believe he is handicapped. When
a fellow loads up with local option
these days, that means Potts and
Company, corporations and COM
bines, and If they don't unload Ter
rell 1 am afraid he won't make the
landing. and yet never met more
innocent man in my life than Can
didate Terrell. He looks to me just
like a good deacon of the church,
that never went anywhere except 10
prayer meeting and to business.
like him but 1 don't like his gang.
I keep telling you 1 am for Guerry
against all corners. My next choice
would be Estill. I rather prefer a
single bird dog TO a horse anybody
can ride, I don't care how fat and
plump and round he is.
These vaporings may be the re-
suit of indigestion, for I have had
it very bad for several days, in fact
I am under the doctor for repairs,
and If any of these candidates don't
like what have said they will have
to wait a long time before am able
to fight them.
Yours with no ill-will towards
any candidate. but mighty heap
of friendship for Guerry,
SAM P. JONES.
Cartersville, Ga, April 8. 1902.