Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-08-18
SENATOR DOBBs RISES
TO PERSONAL PRIVILEGE
He Makes an Attack on The
Journal Which Is Answered
by Its Editor

Rising to a question of personal priv
nege in the senate Tuesday afternoon
Senator f. p. Dobbs made the follow
ing statement:
The Atlanta Journal on Sunday
launched a covert editorial attack upon
my candidacy for the office or comptrol-
Ter general and ex-officio insurance
commissioner.
cit was characteristic OF their meth
DDS that the real excuse for their inter-
est in my opponent was withheld ana
that they should have assigned false
and artificial reason for endeaVoring
to aid him at my expense.
The Journal intimates that am con-
nected or affiliated in some unstated
way with the Louisville and NashViile
railroad.
"As I have never had any connec-
tiou. direct or remote, with the l.. q
n. railroad or with its affairs, de-
nounce the statement as false and I'M
founded and demand the facts upon
which the insinuation was based.
"As senator from this district, my
record shows that 1 voted for the w.
q A. anti-paralleling bill and that L
have invariably cast my vote IN every
instance in behalf of the state, against
what is popularity supposed to be the
interest or desire of the L. n. rail-
road. as every senator on this floor well
knows.
aIn order that the voters of Georgia
NAV know and appreciate the real rea :
son for this baseless and unworthy at
tack upon me. 1 charge that the man
aging editor of The Atlanta Journal
Mr.. John s. Cohen. is a nephew OF my
opponent. General William A. Wright,
and this information will be sufficient
exclamation for the ambushed attack
OF Mr.. Cohen upon me for having the
temertty to ask Georgians to vote Tor
me TO succeed his uncle in office.
"If the people of Georgia require
further proof of the rotten record and
condition of the tax and insurance de-
partments OF the state OF Georgia II
| Is found in the attitude OF the irlenus
| ana relatives of the present monument
- saeL IN neruetuate him in office
| h, creating false issues intended 10
| divert popular attention from his Oh
| fetal record and from the condition OF
his department .,.
ct am much deceived in the people
of Georgia if this unfair effort on the
part of Nephew Cohen to aid MS rela-
| tive by endeavoring to bushwhack me-
does not react upon MS UNCLE my up
ponent. noppSm
1.-THE foregoing statement was read oy
Senator E. P. Dobbs Tuesday afternoon
on the floor of the senate chamber. LII
refers to an editorial which was PRINTED
In The Journal on Sunday, July H.
under the caption THE People Of Geor-
vta should Watch and Think"
Senator Dobbs in effect charges tnat
the managing editor of The journal Is
,be writer of the editorial referred TO-
or responsible for 1T, and that IL was
,,,r,,tsn because of his relationship TO
Countroller General Wright In this
Senator Dobbs is mistaken. The man
aging editor not only did not write the
editorial referred to, but he did not
Lnovv that such an editorial was even
ta,nS considered until he saw it in type.
ne was never consulted about It. ne
made no suggestion that anything Oe
written on that subject, and was IN no
u,av responsible for its being printed In
order that the senator may UNDERSTAND
oar,sctlv the origin and purpose or TINS
.ditor,al. I will state that l am the
.,,,hor and that 1 alone am Responsible
g. Its publication. 1t was my own
,hought. suggested by nobody inspired
by nobody and written with pa'ri0'''
purpose. - che
Mr. Dobbs wholly misconceives the
object OF the editorial If he imaelhsS
,hat a. was aimed solely or even prl-
u,ar,,v at his candidacy. Nothing was
rur,hsr from my thoughts, for really
ha,a not taken this gentleman's can
dtdacv very seriously. True IL ala re-
fer 10 his candidacy for comptroller gen
.ral hut this reference was mere IN
cident to the main object.
Nv purpose was to direct the atten-
tion of the people of Georgia TO Tour
,nnortant facts, all involved in one gen.
eral scheme
That efforts have been and are now
being made by foreign interests 10
usaken or destroy the value OF the
states railroad property by means OF
nsrallel lines or interurban electric lines
90 that these interests may lease or
u,,rcbasa the states railroad on their
own terms.
2. That the influences aiding ana III
reeting these efforts are also largely
a,reotins the campaign for governor
q. That the same influences are aiding
and largely directing. IL not entirely re-
sponsible for the campaign Of Senator
Dobbs for comptroller general.
Il 4 That the same influences are in
! directly seeking TO elect one or more
! friendly railroad commissioners.
\ So that if the plan should be success
full. these interests which are seeking to
depress the states railroad property for
the own purposes would dominate the
e, We office of the state. would DOM
in:. the comptroller generals office
which is the railroad taxing power of
the state, and would through friendly
commissioners have a potential voice in
the railroad commission, which is the
rate-making power OF the state.
II Mr.. Dobbs really thought the edi'
toriaI was intended as a mere covert
attack upon his candidacy. he missed
ats whole purpose. Apart from the gen
eral scheme, think the candidacy OF
~ nohhs mould he un{mDortant and