The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1904-05-20
A WARM TIME
Over in Georgia Over the Nomination
of a Judge.
TIE LIE AND BAD WORDS PASSED

Senator Clay Is Almost Knitted as
the Result OF the Quarrel
Over the Election
Dispute.
According to the Atlanta correspon-
dent of the Augusta Chronicle they
| are having hot time over in Georgia
about the nomination Of a Judge In
one Of the judicial districts. The can
didates in he district were the in
cumbent, Juoge George +. 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 a brick on a man named Hendrix
and threatened to smash him in the
head; and Fred Morris, a cousin of
Speaker Morris, drew a 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 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.
TIE JUDGE AND THE BRICK.
The Gober Hendrix trouble is des-
cribed as follows: Several days ago Z
man named Hendrix, who lives at
Ball Ground, was passing through
Marietta on his way home from
Atlanta. He knew contractor named
Black, who was building some brick
houses for Judge Gobcr. and called by
to see his friend. Soon afterward !,
Judge Gober came up and took Hend-
rix severely to task for having stated
that Gober mad settled with his en-
ploycS OH basis Of thirty three and a
third cents on the dollar 1t is said
Judge Gober began:
Hendrix, you have done me dirt"
Judge Gobcr, | dont understand
YOU" said Hendrix.
You circulated the rennrt during
the judgeship race, that had paid
my hands in Cherokee thirty three
and third cents on the dollar"
81 didn't do it," said Hendrix, II
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president OF the Marble company that
failed and that the Marble company
settled with its hands at thirty-thre
and third cents ON the dollar. Is
not that true?
| had no interest in the business, -
said the judge. Il was merely pres-
dent, and l want to tell you that
when you circulated the report that |
had settled with my hands at thirty
three and a third cents on the dollar
you circulated lie"
t was at this point that the Judge
seized brick and prepared for war
Black interferred and stopped the
row. ~
i'IiE SENATOR AND THE KNIFE.
United States Senator Steve Clay
was in barber-shop, in Marietta, a
few days ago, and when the election
came up Tor discussion, the senator
said:
The man who drew the aflidavit
that George Philips signed is a"
The rest OF the remark was in re-
gard to the ancestry Of the person re-
fcrred to. The affidavit had charged
Senator Clay with some improper use
or the coin Of the realm as campaign
argument
In another chair was Fred Morris, a
cousin of Speaker Morris, and it was
he who had procured the affidavit. lie
rose up Instantly with a shining blade
in his grasp, which some say was a
knife and others say was a razor To
turn a barber shop into rough house
is no Joke, ant! when Morris started
for the senator the byStanders were
! prompt TO pile in between and prevent
bloodshed. Later in the day the
trouble was adjusted
1t is said there is a movement to
bring the Blue Ridge row before the
state convention
A friend Of Judge Goher said to The
Chronicle correspondent Tuesday
Judge Gober conducted a clean
campaign, and great injustice has
been done him by 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.