Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-05-22
HIGH TRIBUTE TO EsTILL
FROM HOME OF sAVANNAHIAF
SAVANNAH, Ca, May IS, 19Ol

tillOl anu AliEAI lllcuuS TO pace DCIOAS lhC
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 supporting their
candidate. and have set forth his fitness
and his superiority over all others. No
one from the county of Chatham has
hitherto availed himself of the use of
your columns to endorse the gentleman
who halls from her borders. 1t is due to
him that from his own home and commu-
nifty there should be an appeal to the vot-
ers of the state for their suffrages, and
thereby contradict that old adage that
prophet is not without honor save in his
own country.
John Holbrook Estill, by his own exer-
tions. without the advantages of Inherit
ed wealth or position, has attained sue
cess In business and prominent place in
the community in which he has lived from
boyhood. His success Is not the result of
lucky speculative investments but the le-
climate fruits of untiring energy and In
dustry, and a wise and judicious manage
ment of particular line of business. His
attachments 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 exactng character
of his business and it's demands upon his
time, he has not allowed himself to be
entirely absorbed in the acquisition of
property, but he has devoted much of his
time and attention to matters of public
interest. As a county commissioner he has
contributed much to the material inter-
ests of Chatham county to the develop
ment of it's agricultural condition and the
building of good roads. He has beer
prominent and valuable member of the
board of public education of the county,
and is the head of one of the noblest be-
nevolent institutions in the state.
AS president of the Union society he has
been largely instrumental in perpetuating
and charging charity founded by Whit
field 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 train
ing bestowed upon them by this society,
would have grown up in poverty and ig-
norance.
Mr.. Estill, having overcome the obsta-
cles that opposed his advancement, and
having acquired a large and varied ex-
perience, very naturally desires to serve
the state in a higher and more exalted
position. He is actuated by laudable am
bition to round out and complete his ca
reer as governor of the state. His aspira-
ton is honorable and commendable, not
begotten by lust for power, nor from a
selfish purpose to promote some scheme
to despoil the state or debauch the people,
or to foster any grasping or interruptions
enterprise.
Mr.. Estin deplores the feeling of sec
tionalism that has often prevailed in
this state, and the narrow and partisan
exercise of this spirit which has almost
excluded some sections of the state from
participating in the advancement Of her
interests, and has restricted not only the
emoluments, but the honors Of many I'm
portant stations to the favored few in the
favored localities, and often to the mem
bers of a self-constituted and shrewdly
organized 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 assemblages that are convened to
promote commerce, manufacturing, agri-
culture, labor, art, science and finance. And
he will make 1t his special care to select,
when the power to so do devolves on him,
from all sections of the state the men
who shall represent Georgia in these con-
ventions.
Mr.. Estill is a man of broad and liberal
views. He fully appreciates the advan-
tages Of combined capital properly direct
ed, but he deprecates that unlawful ag-
gregation of wealth. which seeks to de-
stroy competition and enhance the costs
of the necessities of life to crafty the in
satiate greed of the multi-milhonaires.
Worthy enterprises that contribute to
build up the material interests of the state
and afford increased facilities to the peo-
pie he would not have harassed with OPP
pressive and partisan legislation, but he
would recommend and enforce all laws
wisely enacted to prevent monopoly, and
to require efficient service by corporations
endowed with valuable franchises.
He will strenuously uphold the comp
troller general in his insistence on proper
tax returns by railroads, and other cor
porations, 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 meth
DDS will prevail. Fitness, not favoritism,
will be the basis of appointment to office,
and there will be no sinecures. AS far as
the executive can control 1t, there will be
full days work for a full days pay.
Mr.. Estill has not sought to advance his
cause by belittling his opponents. He has
not impugned their motives, nor accused
them of unpatriotic or unselhsh aims. He
has not sought to magnify simple,
harmless acts into plots to defraud and to
have waged a campaign of abuse, nor re-
sorted to silly tricks to mislead or preju-
dice the people against his competitors.
The simple courtesy of a railroad con-
ductor in affording to candidate the OPP
portunity for few moments conference
with a friend or the sending of a tele-
gram to save and secure a desired con-
nection in travel is not distorted into nor
denounced as the acts of a subservient
employee of a corporation to aid favored
candidate. We may safely assert that by
no accident would a misdirected letter be
sent to the headquarters of an opponent
TO be used to mislead and misconstrue
simple request. The Dunn letter was bad
iy handled; the recoil was more disas-
trous to the manipulation than the con-
tents of the letter 10 its writer. Chauncel-
lor Hill will regret that he permitted the
letter to be Tapped.
Allowing that II was an accident, the
opportunity was afforded to Chancellor
Hill to repair the accident, when he was
requested to authorize the use of the let
ter. He should have promptly and per-
emptorily demanded its return to him.
1t is of no special concern to the sup
porters of Mr. Estill whether the deliv-
cry of the letter to Mr.. Tapp was acct
dental or otherwise. The misuse of this
harmless epistle by those who so loudly
profess to be conducting a campaign or
reform is what attracts our special won
der" The occurrence ought to lead the
one whose career has been clean and free
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