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CARTOONS INTRODUCTION.
Remarks Made by the Eloquent
Athe nfan in Introducing Col. Estill
to an Athens Audience.

to am Athens Audience.
Athens, Ga, May 31.-Maj. Henry
H. Carlton, in introducing Col. ]. H.
Estill to the voters of Clarke county
at the Opera House in this city, spoke
as follows:
Fellow Citizens 1t is with peculiar
pride and pleasure that 1 discharge
the most honorable duty of presenting
to you the gentleman who is to address
you on this occasion. learn that but
a few evenings since you had intro
duced to you from this same rostrum
the next Governor of Georgia. There
may be some mistake about that. The
gentleman who so introduced his friend
and candidate. may perhaps, have let
his enthusiasm run away with his
usual better Judgment and conserva-
tism. Enthusiasm and the conserva-
tism so devoutly wished for are but too
often the father of reckless speech and
prophecy. l do. not say tonight that
L am going to present to you the next
Governor of Georgia, but l do say that
l am going to introduce to you man
who, by reason of his pre-eminent fit
ness for so high and honorable a posi-
ton, should be made the next Governor
of Georgia - One who 1 earnestly hope
and most confidently believe will be
made our next chief magistrate.
THE peculiar pleasure l feel in
presenting this gentleman to you
on this occasion consists in the fact
that even in the midst of modern day
politics and methods he comes before
you and the people of Georgia, not on
the defensive, not to answer charges
made against him, for, marvellous to
say, he comes as a man and candi-
date against whom no charges are made
worthy of his notice, none that are
fairly and honorably made or that can
be truthfully and successfully sustain
ed. He comes before you, not as a cam
paign orator to thrill you with such
campaign eloquence as might per-
chance throw you into wild and &c
statical support. Nor does he propose
to mislead you with extravagant prom
ises, highsounding sentences or we'll
rounded periods. Furthermore he does
not propose to disgust you with vitu-
peration and elimination of those who
are opposing him. He comes before
you as a plain, practical unostenta-
tious business man and citizen of your
state to present to you plain facts and
truths. AS one whose good, sound COM
mon practical horse sense has made
of him a successful man of affairs and
governor as Georgia now so sorely
needs. His qualifications and fitness
for this high and responsible position
of chief magistrate of our grand old
commonwealth have not been belched
forth from some political Vesuvius,
not from some eruptive and volcanic
hill in the Kimball House, which
Stimulating may perchance have been
influenced by the volcanic conditions
which have so recently destroyed a
Martinique. Nor have they been
kept on tap and given out from
the Prudential building in Atlanta. He
has had no headquarters in Atlanta
His headquarters have been before
and amongst the people of the state,
and he is the bearer of his own mes
sages to the sovereign voters of Geor-
gia. He is here tonight to entertain
you with plain practical business
like presentation of matters appertain-
ing to our state government, which
should engage the attention of every
taxpayer in our commonwealth, and
which certainly should have the hon
est, constant, impartial and patriotic
care and consideration of him who
shall be chosen as chief executive of
our grand old Georgia.
Fellow Citizens, l now have the hon
or of presenting to you the gentleman
of whom l have thus spoken, and who
is a candidate for the governorship of
your state-Col. j. H. Estill of Savan-
nah Ga4"