The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1904-02-25

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necessary now to name. So, you see,
Mr. Morris was not endorsed by the
manufacturing industries of Marietta,
as he claims.
Mr. Morris had been for weeks log
rolling with the grandjurors in Cobb
| county, either to get an endorsement or
prevent the endorsement of Judge Gober
lie went to their homes he saw them on
the streets he plead with them at every
opportunity for these purposes. At last,
when he was utterly defeated, he fell
to getting endorsements of the demo-
cratic executive committee of Cobb
county. He publishes an endorsement
by them and of the names on it John
son never was a member of the COM
nlittee; G. w. Hill is not a member, as
he has moved from the district Of the
others, Asa Darby and f. G. Wardlaw
have signed and given to this committee
this paper: Owe have never written any
endorsement for N. A. Morris for Judge
of the Blue Ridge Circuit, nor signed
any such paper" (Signed) Asa Darby,
| f. G.. Wardlaw.
This leaves Mr.. Morris fifteen names
upon the endorsement he has, which is
minority of the committee. OF these,
M. M. Brown, Cash, H T Martin, J o
Allen, R H Clay, T B Terry, ] F Alta
way, Asa Darby and + G Ward1aw have
signed an endorsement for Judge Gober,
which leaves six members on his en-
dorsement which have not endorsed
| Judge Gober.
Judge Gober's endorsement is signed
| further by Whit Chastain, ] NJ Bishop,
J D Fuller, J / Can't, John Pace, Parker
Rice, George McElreath J Pickens,
NJ nr1o A
Black, none of whom have endorsed Mr.
Morris. The gentlemen who have sign
! ed such have signed Judge Gober's en-
dorsement since signing the above, and
good number of them, at least, say
| they never intended to sign any such
paper as Mr.. Morris has published
| More than this, at a meeting of this
executive committee lately held in Ma
! rietta two-t thirds of the committee were
| for Judge Gober, and voted as his friends
! in what was done. They named d f
McClatChey for chairman, and their
votes elected him.
Again, Mr.. Morris has an endorsement
by what he calls the executive commit
tee of Gilmer county. S Tankersley,
the chairman, wrote to Judge Gober
letter last year demanding that Judge
| Gober allow Tankersley and this conf
1nittee, which was presided over by
Tankersley, to name the jury commits
sioners of Gilmer county. Tankersley
opposed Judge Gober in 1900, and the
/ county voted more than twenty to one
in favor of Gober. Tankersley and his
crowd opposed Solicitor General Simp-
son in 1902, and Simpson carried the
county by $50 majority; Judge Gober
did not reply to Tankersley's letter.
This endorsement for Mr.. Morris was
gotten up by one H w Long, whom
Judge Gober removed from office of jury
commissioner upou the request and pc
tition of about fifteen hundred voters of
Gilmer county.
Our information is Mr. Morris has been
circulating this circular and calling at
tention to these statements as true. AS
they are made i'll his interest, and circu-
lated for his benefit, if he is a fair man,
he ought to repudIate them as false.
No man can, or ought to pull himself
up by pulling another down.
If there are reasons why Judge Gober
should not be reelected they ought to
be truthful1y stated. In all this circu-
i lar and other circulars sent out BY Mr..
Morris, there is no argument or reason
set out beyond the fact that Morris wants
the Office. In his first letter sent out
he states in substance that he is going
to run his race on high plane, and
leave out any mud Singing. Measure
this last circular by such a rule, and
see how far it falls short
He has sent out circular wherein he
states the President of the United
States can be elected for only two terms,
and the governor of the state for only
two terms, and therefore Judge Gober
should be defeated. In this'same letter
he takes further occasion to say that he
! has HELD THE OFFICE OF REPRESEN-
TATIvE FROM COBB COUNTY FOR
THREE TERMS He might say further
that, by the act of this legislature, his
term has been extended another year.
There is another thing we will state
to show the fairness of Mr. Morris. He
went west and became citizen of the
state of California. He held an office in
; that state. He has been back about ten
years, of which time he will have been
a member of the legislature seven years,
and he was an assistant to MI. Hutcher-
son for quite awhile. In fact, since he
has been a citizen of Georgia, he has
been continuously in office except a short
time, and he now asks the people to
give him an additional term of four years.
Now, it will be seen from the forego-
ing that the following statements are
made in this circular of the Morris cam
paign committee that are untrue
Judge Gober has not been in office
twenty seven years and drawn ten dol
lars day out of the public till. -
1t is not true that majority of the
grand jury of Cobb county were opposed
to endorsing him
Ii is not true that a majority of the
Marietta bar have not endorsed him.
tits not true that majority of the
Canton bar have not endorsed him.
1t is not true that majority of the
Elliiay bar have not endorsed him.
1t is not true that a majority of the
, Blue Ridge bar have not endorsed him.
1t is not true that the bar of Pickens
and Forsyth counties have not endorsed
him.
, 1t is not true that the manufacturing
, interests of Marietta endorse Mr.. Nor
, ris; but every one that endorse him now
, supported Mr.. Sessions in 1900.
IT is not true that the business men of