The Savannah morning news., 1902-06-04
COL. ESTILL IN GLYNN.
cnntlnued from First Page.l

\ d. and earnestly and effectively for
- section of the state" On one of
4 - principal streets in the city of Sa-
,.-rIab a majestic structure rears its
Il 80 among the surrounding buildings,
E SauI among buildings, as is our can
5i5ate a Saul among men. From that
4 ti,iI5ing there issues daily the Savan-
usb Morning News, the cleanest, most
-orservative and the best edited news
amer in Georgia. The Morning News
4 = Iohn II. Estill over and over again.
T. has. from the beginning of his con-
4 -sction Herewith. borne the impress
Of his strong individuality. That pa
Dsr successfully stemmed the tide of
rt-sIlow Journalism, and throughout the
,r,iasmatic epidemic of sensation, the
ni,bHc commended, as they do now,
III YOU see it in the Morning News,
Il is true" Through that newspaper the
s+rong individuality of its owner and
e6itor has impressed itself upon the
homes throughout South Carolina,
Georgia. FIerida and Ala bama and has
baen potent force in shaping the poll
lev of the Democra tic party both state
. and national
His Loyalty to Party.
As an instance of the loyalty of Col.
Esrtr to the Democratic party, the
Dubltn Courier Dispatch says Col
.stus loyalty to the Democratic par.
~ is unquestioned. Five years ago,
when Savannah was a regular hot
he'd Of Palmer and Buckner and Nc
kinney supporters, a delegation of ex-
IRENE gold standard Savannahians
went to Col. Estill and asked him to
fgbt Bryan The newspaper man told
them that while his views on the
money question were not in harmony
with those of Mr.. Bryan, the latter
was the Democratic nominee, and until
another National Convention met and
adopted another platform and nominat-
ed another candidate, the Morning
News would support Mr.. Bryan. The
committee then wanted to know if they
could use the columns of the News to
express their views as to candidates
and measures. Yes, gentlemen, re-
piled Col. Estill, you may write what
ever you please over your own sigma
ture and the News will give space to
it: but even in this way you cannot
attack Mr. Bryan as long as he is the
candidate of the Democratic party"
And then the Courier Dispatch adds
what we, who lived in Savannah in
those times knew, ut required rock
ribbed Democracy to take such a po-
sition
His Business Career.
Your third reason for supporting my
fellow tOwnsman is because Col. Es-
till is not only man of irreproachable
character, but is a successful business
man. from his youth up, and because
there has never been a time in the
history of Georgia when business
methods We're more urgently demanded
in the Governors office than now"
He was born of poor but honorable
parentage. He began his ca
reer in the city of Savannah,
printer boy delivering newspapers.
While d journeyman printer he went
from the printing office to the defense
of Fort Pulaski. After the war, when
his arm hung limp, and almost pulse
less, by his side, from wounds received
while in the defense of his country, and
In fighting for principles he thought
We're right, he entered the Office of the
Morning News. Although handicap
ped in the battle of life with a weak
and feeble arm, his intellectually, his
shrewdness, his sagacity. his keen bus
mess judgment, and his honorable
character were not impaired. The
Slaughtered financial circumstances in
which the owners of the paper found
young Estll to become a partner, and
TO assume the charge of editing and
operating the paper. In the course of
time he became the owner of the out
Mt. The actual cash worth of that out
mt at the time he acquired it was not
more than two thousand dollars. and
yet that outfit and the good will there
OF were burdened with a mortgage of
twenty two thousand dollars. At this
n hCtlr I'll
assumed the mortgag es. 1t was not
long before the plant was rehabilitat-
ca the mortga ges paid off, and the
Morning News started on that up
ward road to prosperity, upon the sum-
mt Of which firmly it now stands,
financially the most substantial paper
IN possibly the whole Southland In
stead OF being numbered with mort
cages ten times it's value it is now an
enterprise without mortgages, and
worth many thousands of dollars His
real and PERSONAL property and corpor-
ATE property upon which he pays
taxes cost him in taxes more than if
Teen dollars per day. Would not the
man who can conduct a newspaper en-
leIpIlse with such marked success
,dHd nkeWise many other business en-
terprses in the city of Savannah of
"nlch he is the ruling spirit be very
Sale man to place in the gubernatorial
cnalr just at this critical time?
The Need of the Hour.
There has never been a time in the
history of Georgia when business meth
ods were more urgently demanded in
SHe governors Office than now There
H mas never been time in the history of
IIeorgla when man more capable
.naH John II. Estell of rehabilitating
LNe nIances of the state of Georgia
. .aS offered for that honorable posi-
eon. Possibly the best test of a mans
nIueSs for public office is the way in
TTsHch ne has managed his own affairs.
, ine course of events for the past few
sVdIa snow that the state of Georgia
t to Us, above all else. a business man
" conduct her affairs. The states
nnaHces have suffered from large ap-
imoprlations and inadequate financier-
ins Not since Gov Mcdaniel was in
Gtuce mas Georgia had a practical bus
a,9 man IN charge of affairs" and
C Inns ms administrator taxpayers of
i %voI Sla were paying to the controller
Sue' ohe-ha of what they are now
i"9l'Is & and at that very time the state
i vas dppropriating money for the build
a ns VI one OF the most expensive state
S, .plloIs IN the whole of the United
we are now paying for state
o s%Aa non little more than five mills,
ana If we &c on as we have been going
~ sL ne past two or three years, we
s st.I nave big oating debt Notwith-
srt,. Ils the fact that the public prop
49, una, amounting to several hun
80 llousand dollars, has been turned
WY the general fund. the state this
III nave to be borrower, as she