Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-05-22


governorship, but the three
or four columns a day of the joint
debate in The Atlanta Journal is
giving the public a fair deal and
making the race interesting. Any
thing will beat a dull time. My pri-
vate correspondence from over the
state would make interesting read
ing; many letters urging me to take
the stump, when / am physically
able to do so. Other correspondents
say write more and write oftener
for The Journal. Others commend
ing all have said; others condemn
ing all have said.
see in this afternoons Journal
a letter from Decatur. Ca, signed
byJ D. Pilkatrick. What office does
he hold? What is his pedigree?
Where is he from, what was his
name before he was married, or is
he a married man or dog? He
bristles up like he wants to fight.
Wonder If he would fight? have
got little grandson named for
me, Just three years old, If he don't
mind I will find him a match in
that little boy. suppose they are
about the same size. suppose he
has taken up the cudgel for Terrell
and proposes to kill or MORALLY
wound anybody that believes that
Terrell is the candidate of the IL
quor ring, or doubts Terrel's prohi-
bition proclivities. Good bye, Mr..
Pilkatrick, till we meet again.
Many of the little editors of the
state are jumping on me with both
feet, so to speak, or, to change the
figure, they are biting and snarl-
ing and swapping at me all the time,
but I just push out my wooden leg
and let them bite. Some. of them
have got no teeth, but let them
gum my wooden leg and that seems
to please them. 1 tell you when
little editor gets in his sanctum
and. begins TO write he can feel his
mettle jinglIng and his power trick
ling OFF of his pen point, and he pic
lures the dead and wounded lying
ali around, because the pen is
mightier than the sword.
And then brother Warner Hill has
gone to Dallas. Tex. am sorry
Warner left, he is flrst-class
shooter, but the goose falls at the
wrong end of the gun. Wonder
where Warner got that circular he
published about that liquor gang
in Macon? Wonder who wrote that
circular? Tapp says he never saw
it. I never saw a man that did see
It, except as 1t appeared in The
Journal and Constitution. Maybe
Potts could explain it.
see one of the correspondents
says Estill is a better man than
either one of the others, and COM
pares Query to mule kicking and
braying. So it goes. But in my
opinion Estill is a negative charac-
ter, Joe Terrell is passive and Guer-
ry is positive. The Savannah Morn
ing News in it's editorial columns is
but an expression of Mr.. EstilPs
character. That paper has never
taken a position on anything that
they thought would cost them a
dollar or rob them of subscriber.
or beat them out of a so-called
friend. And Savannah with it's mu-
nicipal life and Chatham county with
its dirty politics is the natural out
come and outgrowth of such a state
of things maintained by that news
paper. If Mr.. Estill shall have as
little to say about whatever goes
wrong in Georgia as he has to say
about what goes wrong in Savannah
and Chatham county, we would as
soon have his corpse in the execu-
tive chair as to have him well and
hearty and shaking hands.
Mr.. Terrell, as 1 said. is passive.
Not that he passes anything, for he
reminds me of the old darby riding
along on his lazy old mule, and
every other step he lambasted the
mule. A man caught up with him
and said: Uncle, have you passed
a man going down the road on
white horse?" well, now" he said,
Boss. I'll tell you, 1 reckon I meets
as many folks as any man who ever
Travelled, but hain't never passed
nobody yit on dis mule" A man
who says Terrell is not the candi-
date of the liquor rings and cliques
of this state is either q plain, simple
fool, or he is just lying on purpose,
but Mr.. Guerry announces his plat
form and sticks to II. His platform,
like the Ten Commandments, is for
some things tremendously and
against some things tremendously.
I don't know anything against Mr..
Terrell in his personal life, but the
gang he is running with mean to
ride him after the saddle and bride
are on him, and il they patted and
petted the candidate and stood bS
him while he was a candidate ana
he don't let them ride him after
he becomes an officiai, he Will re-
verse the natural order of things in
politics. Personally feel very kind
ly toward Mr.. Terrell, and the same
toward Mr.. Estill personally.
Some fellows jump on me and ask
what am I sticking my mouth in
this thing for and I am no Demo-
crat. Now isn't that nice come-off.
am something so much better than
a Democrat (for I was once a
Democrat and 1 had a mighty sad
home and a mighty ruined life
while was one); am a prohibit
ZIONIST, pure and simple, believing
with all my soul that whisky is