The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1902-05-29
COMMUNICATED
1OZLEY HAS A PARTING WORD
IN ANSWER TO NESBITT.

To THE o. desire to say a few
words in reply to Mr.. Nesbitt's card of
! last week, in which he repeated his as
sertion that he was unanimously en-
dorsed by the State Executive Com
mlttee and declared the regular nomi-
nee by unanimous vote, and also the
false charge that | consented to the
change in the rotation system provided
they would nominate me as senator
10 be perfectly plain, [ wish to say that
both statements are absolutely false,
| that Mr.. Nesbitt knows they are false,
| and that they are made for no other
purpose than to pull the wool over the
eyes of the people of this county and to
divert their attention from the main
facts connected with Mr. Nesbitt's
record.
The vote OF that cOnventian stood Is
to IA, just as | said and just as II now
say, and Mr.. Nesbitt knows it, and how
he can have the brass to say it was any
| other way | can't see. One that is &C.
| quainted with his record and his meth
DDS ought not to be surprised, though,
at anything he does or says. The vote
of the convention stood 16 to IA. After
the vote was taken some one of Mr..
Resbitt's friends made a. motion to
make it unanimous. Mr.. Nesbitt's
friends voted for this motion, mine did
! not. Mr.. Nesbitt gives us some quota
tions from the Atlanta Constitution
and ATLANTA Journal. That was use
less. The people of this county would
believe Mr.. Nesbitt nearly as readily as
they would what some reporters of
those two papers would say at that
time. They were Mr. Nesbitt's accom-
plices in this robbery in order to get
the rotation system changed for the
benefit OF Fulton county. Mr.. Nesbitt
played into their hands and BETRAYED
his own county and his own people
What all the papers in the universe
should happen to say about the vote
of that convention cannot change it
from the way it was and the way Mr..
Nesbitt knows it WaS-16 to IA.
The statement of Mr.. Nesbitt that |
publicly admitted that was willing to
give up Cobb's and Clayton rights to
the senatorship in the regular rotation
if Fulton would accept me is so fragrant
"a violation of the truth that [ cannot
express myself about it in parliament
tary language. Late one evening one
of my delegates told me that the Full
ton county delegation had agreed to
vote for me for senator if the Cobb del
egation would vote to change the rota-
ton system. [ told them that they
had no power to vote for that change,
that they were sent there to vote for a
senator and that alone. | did tell him
that Il would see what the Clayton
county delegates thought of the matter.
But did not even do that SO had n
chance to rob my county of it's rights
and refused to do so. The opportunity
was offered Mr., Nesbitt and he grabbed
it.
Mr.. Nesbitt makes the remarkable
statement that his personal inclination
prompted him to decline the nomina-
tion but he could not decline the "call"
of his party" Now, Mr.. Nesbitt, don't
yon get things mixed right there just a
little? Didn't you intend to say you
could not decline the call of your son-in-
law, OF your guanO Inspector and of Mr..
Albert Howell, your constituent from
Fulton? Did you think the people of
Cobb called" you when they voted for
me in the primary? Did you think the
executive committee of this county
"called" you when they asked you not
to accept the nomination? Did you
think the people of Clayt ION county
called you when they repudiated your
nomination and pledged me their sup
port? Yes, they called" you, ana on
the 9th day of June the people of Geor-
gia will give you another "call". only
in louder tone, and one to which you
cannot refuse to respond"
j. f. Motley.