The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1910-05-27
HON. GORDON LEE
REPLIES TO WRIGHT
Makes Some Caustic Com
mentS On the Letter of
His Opponent.

To the Voters of the Seventh District:
A public official can not give proper
attention TO his duties and at the
| same time give answer to every let
| ter fired at him by professional office
! hunters and their heelers. | am here
giving the best service | can to the
district, while they are burdening the
air at home with speeches and letters,
in part false, and in whole, deceptive and
misleading. l ask the fair minded PEG
pie of the District to carefully re-read
my letter of April 25th.
Trading himself into office rather
running for it before the people APP
peals so strongly to Judge Wright that
he seems unable to distinguish be.
tween an agreement relating to personal
property over which the parties have
absolute right of control and an agree.
ment relating to a public office to
which they have no right whatsoever,
except as it is given to them by the
people tor public use. | am not re-
sponsible for this mental stupidity on
his part and am sorry that he can not
bring himself to a saner view of the
matter.
After years of scheming and plan
ming, it is, of course, disappointing to
him to find that the people object to
the contamination of his shrewd con-
triving. | thought Judge Wright was
a better man, as we'll as a better poll
tlcian than to keep clinging with such
desperation to an incident that he
should be praying for the people to
forget
The judges statement-that he
would not betray a personal or polit-
ical friend to be President sounds
well and might deceive the unsuspect-
ing. Scarcely was the ink dry on his
splendid tribute to himself before |
was receiving letters from his neigh
bors, and others, who know him well,
advising me not to take it seriously.
The temptation to make a rejoinder
in kind to the Judges impeachment of
my political integrity is almost too
great to resist, because of the abun-
dance and richness of material that
has been furnished me by his past OPP
erations in office getting. But such
an exercise at this TIME would not be
profitable or edifying to the public,
and would be contributing to his very
evident desire TO conceal the
real question before the people, name
| the most useful member of Congress
| for the District? His determination
| to limit, by every means in his power
] the choice of the people to himself
alone is pursued with an energy and
industry worthy of a better cause. If
he had studied public service and it's
needs, as industriously and assiduous-
ly, as he has devices and irregular
methods of Office. see king, he would not
be making such foolish speeches over
the District ridiculing my successful
labors in getting pensions, payment
for property destroyed, appropriations
for public buildings, and public high
ways, and opening of our rivers for
navigation as mere "pie-grabbers."
Naturally the Judge is disturbed by
being brought face to face with the
fact that in Directing to my name be-
ing considered in the primary this
year, he is contrayening the wishes
of thousands of people to whom he
must appeal for support. So he seeks
to enlist sympathy for himself by
claiming that he made a great per
sonal sacrifice" for me in signing an
agreement not to desert his post as
Judge of the Rome Circuit, Ito which
he had been elected for four years., a
few months after it had been given
him, to enter the race for Congress in
1908. Can you figure out what that
sacrifice was?
/ am certainly entitled to some cred
it for keeping him at his job two years
longer than he said he would have
stayed, that is, provided he did that