Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-02-13
Any One of the Three Would
Make a Very Good GoUemor

do If you give him a chance.
The battle win wax warmer as II
goes on and viii. soon narrow down
to two candidates, Candidate Guer-
ry and Candidate Terrell. If 1 can
get Joe to go on the platform in joint
debate with Dupont, there win be
blood and hair and the ground torn
up for two hundred yards all around
the platform and Joe will furnish
most of the hair that you win see
flying through the air.
While the state campaign progress
es they are having a very warm cam
paign in Floyd. Editor Knowles and
Editor Wright have been pulling wool.
I guess by this time they are bald
headed. 1 am for Wright and his
crowd just like I am for Guerry ana
his crowd. 1t is mighty hard mat
ter to conduct a campaign on issues
like that in Floyd without getting
mad. I wish Editors Wright and
Naxnowles would stay in a good humor.
i have fought whisky and the devil
for thirty years, and have tried to
stay in a good humor all the time.
Seab deserves to whip the fight; he is
on the right side OF that issue. be-
cause Of the two evils the dfspensary
is the lesser one. but after all it win
be left to the voters of Floyd county,
and many a man who is undecided to-
day will vote for the dispensary on the
day of the election. A many a man
won't decide until the hour of decis-
ion comes, and no man who really fears
God and looks the issues squarely in
the face can deliberately walk up and
vote for saloons as a choice between
the saloons and the dispensary. for
keep on saying it, the worst thing this
side of perditiOn is an open saloon,
and am sorry for any man who has
a good mother or a good wife or In
nocent daughters who can deliberate
~ walk up to the polls on election
dav and vote for an Internal saloon
TO be opened or be perpetuated In MS
county.
In Barlow county we want neither
saloons nor dispensaries. In Floyd
county, If lived there. Iwould cham
pion the dispensary, not because the
dispensary was right, but because
believe il a thousand times less harms
full than the saloon. It Is all | can do
to keep from going over there and TAX
ing a hand in the fight, but / am afraid
IL / champion the dispensary in Floyd
county, and the red-nosed rascals
should ever get the fight up in our
county and / were to fight the dispen-
sary they would have the joke on me.
It will be a great blessing to Barlow
and Polk and Paulding and Gordon
and Whitfield If the saloons are down.
ed in Rome and a dispensary estab-
lished, for whatever else you may say
of a dispensary, 1t does not slop over
like a damnable saloon will do. on. all
the territory in a hundred miles
around, and then another good thing
the dispensary will do in Rome, il viii
down that dirty liquor crowd that has
run the politics and bossed the ring Of
the county for so long a time. I
may not shout out loud but l will say
"halleluiah" easy when the dispensary
is victorious in Floyd. Yours truly.
SAM p. JONES.
p. S.-My good friend Pope Brown,
and I like him, he got out of the gov
errors race like the Dutchman in Gin
cinnati in the political meeting, who
got up and said: Gentlemen, / dush
make a few remarks myself: Ish been
voting in this fourt ward three years
and never opened my mouth. A fellow
hollered Kick him out" He turned
and looked at his assailant and said:
eff you dinks you kick me out you
Just come out doors and 1 will kick
myself out"
Pope didn't wait to be kicked out; he
Just went out doors and kicked him
self out. Yours s. P. J.