The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-05-21
INTERNATIONAL COMM TENT.
High Tribute 10 Col. j. II. Estill.
From the Atlanta Journal.

From the Atlanta Journal.
Savannah, Ga, May Is, 1902.-To the
Editor of the Journal: Dear Sir-your
columns have been open for some time
to the candidates for Governor and
their friends to place before the public
the claims and qualifications of the
gentlemen who are aspirants for this
high office.
From various parts of the state advo-
Gates of Mr.. Terrell and Mr.. Query
have presented their reasons for sup
porting their candidate, and have set
forth his fitness and his superiority
over all others. No one from the coun-
~ of Chatham has hitherto awaited
himself of the use of your columns to
endorse the gentleman who halls from
her borders. 1t is due to him that
from his home and community there
should be an appeal TO the voters of
the state for their suffrages, and there
by contra dict that old adage that a
prophet is not without honor save in
his own country
John Holbrook Estill, by his own ex-
ertions without the advantages of in
herited wealth or position, has attained
success in business and a prominent
place in the community in which he
has lived from bOyhood. His success
is not the result of lucky speculative
investments. but the legitimate fruits
of untirng energy and industry. and a
wise and Judcious mana cement of a
particular line of business. His at
tainments were not acquired in the
halls of learning, but in the busy marts
of commerce, by attrition with other
minds, and the storing up of experience
gathered in the struggle of life.
Notwithstanding the eXacting char
acter of his business and its demands
upon his time. he has not allowed him
self to be entirely absorbed in the ac-
QUESTION of property, but he has de-
voted much of his time and attention
to matters of public interest. AS d
county commissioner he has contrib
uted much to the material interests of
Chatham county, to the development of
its agricultural condition and the build
ing of good roads. He has been a
prominent and valuable member of the
board of public education of the coun-
ty. and is the head of one of the
noblest benevolent institutions in the
state.
AS president of the Union Society he
has been largely instrumental in per-
petuating and charging a charity
founded by Whitfield and fostered by
Lady Huntingdon. an institution which
has secured to the state of Georgia
many active and industrious citizens.
who, without the care and training be-
slowed upon them by this society.
would have grown up in poverty and
ignorance.
Mr.. Estill. having overcome the OBJ
ETAnlaC h
and having acquired a large and varied
experience. very naturally desires to
serve the state in a higher and more
exalted position. He is actuated by a
laudable ambition to round out and
complete his career as governor of the
state. His aspiration is honorable and
commendable, not begotten by lust for
power, nor from a selfish purpose to
promote some scheme to despoil the
state or debaunch the people, or to
foster any grasping or INSCRIPTIONS
enterprise.
Mr. Estill deplores the feeling of sec
tionalism that has often prevailed in
this state, and the narrow and parti-
san exercise of this spirit which has
almost excluded some sections of the
state from participating in the ad-
Vancement of her interests and has
restricted not only the emoluments
but the honors of many important sta
tions to the favored few in the favored
localities, and often to the members of
a self-constituted and shrewdly or
ganized cabal or ring.
He recognizes that there are able
and patriotic men in all parts of the
Empire state, capable of representing
her at home and abroad. not only in
the discharge of duties in the state,
but as delegates to the various assemb-
lagos that are convened to promote
commerce, manufacturing, agriculture,
labor, art, science and finance. And
he will make it his special care to Sc
lect, when the power to so do deVolves
on him, from all sections of the state
the men who shall represent Georgia
in these conventions.
Mr.. Estill is a man of broad and lib
eral views. He fully appreciates the
advantages of combined capital prop
erly directed, but he deprecates that
unlawful aggregation of wealth, which
seeks to destroy competition and en-
nance the costs of the necessities of
life to crafty the insatiate greed of the
ulti-millionaires.
Worthy enterprises that contribute
to build up the material interests of
the state and afford increased facilities
to the people he would not have har-
assed with oppressive and partisan
legislation, but he would recommend
and enforce all laws wisely enacted to
prevent monopoly. and to require eff
Gent service by corporations endowed
with valuable franchises
He will strenuously uphold the con-
troller general in his insistence on
proper tax returns by railroads, and
other corporations, so that they may
bear their share of the burden OF
taxation in return for the privileges
and franchises granted them.
We are sure that the rule of the ring
will be abolished. cleaner political
methods will prevail. Fitness. not
favoritism, will be the basis of APP.
pointment to office, and there will be
no sinecures. AS far as the executive