The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-30
DsaRFFEHRnrD AND JOHN.
They Have a Joint Debate in Useeu'
 boro.

0QIO. Greensboro. July 9.-tspeciai, )--Count Court convened here yesterday. ouite a number of citizens from different parts of the county were in attendance. Colo
 Tel 6. W. John of Birmingham was here also and during the dinner recess. made
 speech advocating the candidacy Of Captain Johnston.
 Colonel John said in part that the friends of the new constitution, could not maka any capital for Jelks. out or John ston's opposition to 1t and that the only question before the people was the ques- tion of primary election, and the purity of the ballot; that the constitution was How g matter of history and that 0ov- ernor Johnston had said that he accept ed 1t. would carry 1t out if elected Gov ernor and would only tighten the burdens created by 1t. He took up the back tax law, and endorsed 1t highly. comment ing at some length, on his Individual part as attorney for the state. in conductins l litigation In Dallas County. to recover escaped taxes
 His address was closed by an appeal to the voters. to vote for Johnston. At the conclusion of Colonel Johns re- marks. Hon. Edward de Graffenried. who was in the audience. responded to voci- ferrous calls and briefly replied to Colonel Johns.
 | He said that while Governor Johnston might have announced his acceptance of | the Constitution. that 1t was not so much by their words as by their actions, that l men are correctly judged. and that in the | light of the fact, that Governor Johnston had put forth every nerve to defeat the call for the convention, made during ms incumbency of the gubernatorial chair, and in view of the fact that he slone, or the former Governors of the State, was not in consultation with the Suffrage Committee of the Constitutional Conven- tion and in view of the fact that after l tho constitution was submitted for the
 ratification of the people. he vigorousiy fought it's adoption. His declaration as
 a candidate for office. that he would only l Tighten the gburdens 1t imposed upon the | people" was not calculated to inspire great confidence in his desire to carry out | its provisions. He said. the nsw con- | stitutien should be left in the hands of its | real friends. and not placed under tho I control of those who had at all times | fought 1t; that. the new constitution only | had made possible a primary election, and a pure ballot. and that he never heard | that Governor Johnston had favored . | primary election, until after the new constitution had been adopted. | In reply to Colonel Johns statement | that the issue presented in the cam | paign was not one of persons, but pl | principles" MT. de 1rafEenried said that | the express declaration from the lips Ol | Governor Johnston made in his speech Oi | acceptance made the Issue personal, go | far as Johnston was concerned, in that he | then announced. that he ran, because hs sought for the sake of himself and hts l children vindIcation, because the last | State convention had not endorsed hia ad- l ministration.
 MT. de Graffenried said. the convention which refused to endorse Johnston, who defeated the call for a convention, was convention dominated rot by the politl- clans, but by the plain people of the State, the farmers, the business men, the l ministers of the gospel. who in that cum ventiol, nominated Sanford, one or tue best men, who ever filled the oftice Of Governor.
 He said. the new constitution made t
 possible for white men to have white primary, and have their votes counted, and have eliminated the negro from Aia- hama politics, and that this had been ac-
 compllshed, by the men who favored
 Jeika, in spite of the determined opposl-
 tIon of Johnston,
 Colonel John replied to Mir de GrafEen-
 ried.
 The audience represented fairly the
 sentiment of Hale County as there were
 men from all parts of the county, lt
 was apparant from the manner Wlln
 which they greeted the different speak
 CTS that the Jelks supporters were in
 large majority.
 Hon. Charles E. Waller arrived here
 from Mobile yesterday morning and left for Birmingham last night Colonel John also returned to Birmingham on the night train.