The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1904-05-20
A WARM TIME
Over in Georgia Over the Nomination
of a Judge.
THE LIE AND BAD WORDS PASSED
Senator Clay Is Almost Knitted as
the Result Of the Quarrel
Over the Election
Dispute

the hesuit Oh the quarrel
Over the Election
Dispute.
According to the Atlanta correspon-
dent of the Augusta Chronicle they
are having a hot time over in Georgia
about the nomination of a Judge In
one OF the judicial districts. The can
didates in the district were the in
cumbent, Judge George j.. Gober, who
was seeking reelection, and Speaker
Morris, OF the House of Representa-
tives. After the primary, the case
was contested by both parties, and
was decided in favor Of Gober by the
State Democratic executive commit
tee. The correspondent says two
serious fights have been narrowly
averted in Cobb county since the ac-
tion Of the state Democratic execu-
tive committee, in the case.
| The correspondent says the news
comes that Judge George f. Gober
drew brick on man named Hendrix
and threatened to smash him in the
head; and Fred Morris, a cousin of
Speaker Morris, drew knife on
United State Senator Steve Clay: and
was, by the intervention Of byStand-
erS, prevented from stabbing the sena-
| tor
No two men ever give exactly the
same account of d fight, but persons
who have been coming to Atlanta
from Marietta in the last day or two,
give interesting details of the after
math of the judgeship race. Feeling
Is intensely bitter with no prospect
that it will soften much.
THE JUDGE AND THE BRICK.
The Gober-Hendrix trouble is deS-
cribed as follows: Several days ago q
man named Hendrix, who lives at
Ball Ground, was. passing through
Marietta on his way home from
=, Atlanta. He knew a contractor named
Black, who was building some brick
houses for Judge Gober. and called by
to see his friend Soon afterward,
Judge Gober came up and took Hend-
rix severely to task for having stated
that GCber had settled with his en-
ploycS on basis Of thirty three and q
third cents on the dollar. 1t is said
Judge Gobcr began:
Hendrix, you have done me dirt. "
| DuhRC bpDCl, 1 uOl
YOU" said Hendrix.
Ec@ circulated tie report during
the judgeShip race, that | had paid
my hands in Cherokee thirty-thrce
aud a third cents on the dollar"
II didn't do it" said Hendrix, Il
made this statement, that you were
president of the Marble company that
failed and that the Marble company
settled with its hands at thirty three
and third cents on the dollar. Is
not that true?
had no interest in the business, >
said the judge. . was merely presi
dent, and want to tell you that
when you circulated the report that
had settled with my hands al thirty
three and a third cents on the dollar
you circulated q lie"
was at this point that the judge
seized brick and prepared for war
Black interferred and stopped the
row. :, -
THE SENATOR AND THE KNIFE. :
United States Senator Steve Clay
was in barber-shop, in Marietta, &
few days ago, and when the election
came up for discussion, the senator
said:
: The man who drew the anldavit
, that George Philips signed is "a
The rest OF the remark was in re
gard to the ancestry Of the person re
ferred to. The affidavit had charged
Senator Clay With some improper use
OF the coin of the realm as campaign
argument.
In another chair was Fred Morris, q
cousin of Speaker Morris, and it wa.
he who had procured the affidavit. Ht
rose up instantly with shining blade
in his grasp, which some say was
knife and Others say was razor. TC
turn barber shop into a rough house
is no Joke, and when Morris started
for the senator the bystanders were
prompt TO pile in between and prevent
bloodshed. Later in tie day the
trouble was adjusted.
1t is said there is movement tc
bring the Blue Ridge row before the
state convention.
a friend OF Judge Gober said to The
Chronicle correspondent Tuesday.
Judge Gober conducted clean
campaign, and great injustice has
been done him by a failure to try the
case"
Yet it was Judge Gober's lawyer
who argued that the committee had
no right to go behind the returns.