Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-05-15
"cREAT PREACHER BUT
POOR POLITICIAN"

To the Editor Of The Journal:
II strikes me that the Rev. Sam Jones
is one of the greatest preachers of the
gospel, and the poorest preacher OF poll
tics. in Georgia. He sloshes about Ike a
blind pup in a meat house and thinks his
funny gags are vote-making magnets
for Query. Certainly the friends Of Ter
rell have no reason to object to Rev.
Sans antics. He makes a very fit rag
tail to Guerry's tissue-paper campaign
kite.
Sam thinks that Terrell did an awfully
reprehensible job of mud-splashing IN his
Forsyth speech, but as Sam is used to
saying 'it's the hit dog that hollers," and
the "hollers" that Guerry and his crowd
are putting up over that speech indi-
Gates that Joe threw something harder
than mud, and every missile hit short
rib!
IT cannot be forgotten that both Query
and Uncle Sam have been trespassing up
and down the state for months, with their
coat-tails trailing the ground and beg
ging somebody 'just to tread on them!
They have lampooned. blackguarded and
abused Mr. Terrell until he felt II proper
at Forsyth to give them a few swift
punches on their jaws just to show that
he is able to give blows as well as 10
suffer them in genteel silence.
OF course. in the Guerry-Jones philoso-
ply II Is not abuse and mud-slinging FOR
them to denounce Mr.. Terrell as the can
didate of a corrupt political ring, as the
man Friday" Of the combined liquor In
terests of the state, as the gap-boy for
rapacious corporations that are ram
paging in and robbing the standing corn
of the people, as the defender OF tax
dodgers. and as an officer demanding ana
receiving Illegal fees from the state! on,
no; those are decent, legitimate cam
A.fs4 10 he Of
crowd, notwithstanding they are known
by the reputable people of the state to be
false in every detail and the Query peO-
pie. including Mr. Guerry himself. have
been yainly challenged to the proof Of
single item in their schedule of misrep-
resentation! They know that their char
ges are absolutely false and indefensioie.
If Mr.. Query is the clean and just man
that he claims TO be, he will cease to
battlewhang in glittering generalities
and come down to the specifications, CIV
ing names. dates places and persons. He
is lawyer enough to know how witnesses
must be properly contradicted-or offend
ers indicted but while he is long on ale
gaia he is wofully short on his probate.
And what does Sam James know to
the detrinent of Mr.. Terrell? Nothing
that he dares to definitely specify. He
simply uses his favorite pulpit device Of
getting up and bowling al the congrega-
ton. lampooning and Safeguarding them,
feeling safe in the decorum that pre-
vents them from replying to him in kind.
But when somebody does hit him, heav-
ems! how he squeals!
Surely the people of Georgia are not to
be taken in by all this CANNON and CUFF!
1t is the tom-tom beating of men who are
hungry for office, or simply trying 'to
raise HI in Georgia for the fun of the
thing, But men so reckless and so will
ing to demean others for personal ends
are hardly the safest men to be entrus-
ted with the serious and solid affairs of
state. Query is the man of fuss and
feathers and Terrell the man of sense
and patriotism I'm this contest.
Respectfully.
J. D. FITZPATRICK.
Decatur, Ga.