Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-02-13
CARTERsvILLE, Ca. Feb. 8, 1902.
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~ INTERNATIONAL candidates
= are not multiplying in Geor-
gla today. Farmer Brown
has retired from the race. Farmer
Smith has not fully entered ii. an edi-
tor and two lawyers are still I'm the
ring, neither disfigured much up to
date Georgia certainly has good ma
terial to pick from when she selects
her next governor. Colonel Estill. of
Savannah. is a gentleman of ire
proachable character, and is highly
esteemed by all who knoW him per-
sonally. His business career has been
a success; his ocial life without a
stain. All this can be truthfuRy said
of Candidate Terrell. One of the lead
ing educators of Georgia and one of
the purest patriots of this state wrote
me some time ago that he had lived a
near neighbor to Dupont Query for
eight years. and he said in his letter
to me: Dupont Query is one of the
cleanest purest. brainiest, bravest
men 1 have ever known"
Senator Ben Hill once said that the
man who is privately corrupt cannot
be politically pure, and man who is
politically corrupt cannot be personal
ly pure. If what he said holds good
in all cases. Georgia never had better
timber to select her governor from.
Candidate Dupont Query is doing
more talking than any of the candi-
dates and. he is not talking through
his hat either; he is saying some
thing every time his lips part. In his
speech at Gainesville he made friends
and made votes. too. He disclaimed
all animosity or opposition to rail-
roads and corporations. and professed
for them the kindliest feelings. but
said: IF I were governor of Georgia
they would pay their equitable pro-
portion of taxes with any other class
of citizens"
He professed the profoundest aniTnos-
ity TO the saloon and the liquor traffic
in cur state. No successful candidate
in the history of Georgia has ever
talked right out upon the great issues,
moral and social, as Dupont Guerry is
doing. Candidate Terrell may be as
clean in his personal life as Dupont
Guerry. The difference in their atti-
tudes on the issues involved in this
campaign is that Candidate Terrell
seems TO be sitting on a stump watch
ing The procession go by, smiling at all
classes, cliques and clans. as much as
to say: Boys. 1 am willing. If you
want local option, am willing; if you
want "A wet counties stopping over on
III dry ones, / am willing; if you want
Hobbies and lobbying in your legisla-
ture. 1 am willing: If you want equal
taxation of all cliques and classes I
am willing; if you want prohibition,
am willing. I am willing for anything,
gentlemen: you Just make me gov
ernor; that's all l. want, is to be gov
ernor, and my attitude toward all
classes and issues will be friendly. I
won't help or hurt anything that comes
along if 1 can help it: 1 am going to
make you n good governor; 1 am go
ing to behave myself; 1 am going IN a
gentleman and ] am coming out a gen
tleman. My motto is, Peace on earth
and good will tsrmen.' Ny rule of
conduct shall be in line with the best
interest of my campaign, and my own :
success as a candidate. have sawed
a good deal of wood and / may keep
on saving until I have more sawdust
than wood. but ii shall be non-comba-
tive sawdust; it shall be peacable
sawdust. 1 am no bull; red rags don't
have any effect on me. don't believe
in antagonisms. The truth of the
business is IL does not comport with
my ideas of a gentleman to be in a
row. I am going to be a dignified gov
erncr If I get in. I am not going to
use my influence with the legislature
about anything that I don't want to
use it about.
But. If anything. COLONEL Estill is
more peacable and kindly than Can
didate Terrell. He sits quietly in his
sanctum and looks out at the wine
dow as much as to say. Il have got
friends on both sides and I am not
going to take any stand. want to be
governor as bad as Joe Terrell, and 1
don't believe in pitched battles
and joint debates. I write: I don't
talk ] remember my mother told me
when I was a boy "A still tongue
makes a wise head and somebody
wrote me for a copy in my copy-book
at school. 'That'the pen was mightier
than the sword. But Dupont Guer-
~ champions something and fights
something He is tremendously in
favor of some things; he is awfully
against some things and he talks
plain English with good logic and fine
rhetoric. The politicians and the
newspapers are for Candidate Ter
reH; Southeast Georgia is for Estill.
and there is a whole lot Of US scat
tered around through the state that
are for Query. first, last and always.
NY first choice is Query: my second
choice is Query: my third choice is
Query: all the time after that am
for Query. 1 am for Query because
he is against something. prefer him
to the other candidates because he
has got the grit to say his say and
believe ne has got the grit to do his