Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-04-12
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You accepted the Democratic nomination
countersigned by a Democratic election
and before the congress met you mao
.syoked up with Jerry Simpson and
Mary Ellen Lease and turned up on ths
organization OF congress CANDIDATE
FOR SPEAKER AGAINST CRISP, the
democratic caucus nominee for that Of
flee. You received eight votes; four from
Kansas, and three from Nebraska ana
one from Minnesota That was In 1897.
what Democratic commission have
Won held since. from which you deserve
the right to criticize me as doing violence
to Democracy Is not this distress you
feel for the party Of a piece with those
tears you shed for me?
ssYou found the Alliance of Georgia
in 1881 the host splendid organization OF
the greatest number of representative
men ever gathered under one banner in
our state By the summer time of 1892
Won had led from its ranks a body of men
eager TO band themselves together for
the betterment OF their condition, and.
putting in you the perfect trust of loyal
men. they followed whittier your ambi-
ton led
You perverseIy ignore the fact that
the sixty-first congress was organized
with a Republican majority, majority
for Cannon for speaker. a majority for
the tariff law that was passed, major
ity for any Republican measure and in
terest except the one question of so
amending the rules as to enlarge and
elect the committee on rules. excluding
the speaker from its membership, and
electing the standing committees OF the
house
aou these questions / differed with the
Republican insurgents and those Demo
Gratis who agreed with them, and in DIFF
II IN rlerfRct
ment with Alexander H Stephens and
General Howell Cobb and Speaker Charles
= Crisp. each Of whom were members OF
the committee on rules. and two OF them
speakers Of the house when they were IN
congress- I can afford 10 stand where
these Georgians stood on this question so
Identical in principle
NO man will complain that you devote
yourself to political journalism whether
for profit, spite or patriotic desire TO pre-
vent wrong and establish right But your
first duty to the public that you would
serve rs that you lead them Alright with
the truth about men as well as measures.
Mistakes in Judgment will be forgiven.
but wiIlfuI deliberate Misrepresentation
OF facts Is sin against the public as well
as the Individual
HIS PURPOSE PLAIN.
I'm this attack upon me ii is charitable
20 suppose that you are animated by mo-
tfves for the public welfare In the same
month that you demand that Livingston
and Brantley and Lee and Edwards and
shall be driven from public life because
we voted against Clark's resolution. you
suggest that Bartlett and Hardwick, who
voted for the resolution. must be de-
feated. Your purpose is plain. you will,
II you can. defeat every man in the dele
CATION who Is unwilling to obey your
commands and hence your edict goes forth
for new brooms-'
You would have the people believe
that II is their welfare you are serving.
but your ruling passion betrays you.
What q glorious harvest is ripening to
your sickle this political year Of grace
1910 Brown and Smith for governor and
nine congressman besides. What an OPP
portunity for the Jeffs. Visions OF the
past rise up before you; bow the money
poured in in 1903. when II was only the
governors race Myi how interesting a