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wm ’l'HE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS, wamm TUESDAY, JULY S’. 1W. THE ATLANTA GEORGIA (AND NEWS) JOHN TEMPLE CRAVES, Editor. F. L. SEELY, President. Published Every Afternoon. (Except Sunday) By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY. At 25 West Alabama 8t„ Atlanta. Ga. Subscription Rateet One Year ....MM bit Months ig Three Months 1.0 pnr Month ■ lly Carrier, Per Wes* W Telephnnes connecting all depart- manta. Long dlatsncs terminals. Smith A Thompson, advertising rep- resentatlres lor ell territory oatslds ot Oeoggln. _ .... Chicago Office Tribune Bol din* Xew York Office Potter Building If yoo hnrs nuy trouble getting THE GEORGIAN A .ID NEWS, telephone the . imitation department and hare It promptly r/mealed. Telephones: Dell main; Atlanta MOL It Is desirable that all commnnlea. Hone Intended for publication In THE GEORGIAN AND NEWS he limited to JOO words In length. It Is Imperative thnt they be signed, as sn evidence of good faith. Rejected manuscripts will not be returned unless stamps are sent for (he purpose. THE GEORGIAN AND NEWS prints no unclean or objectionable adrertle- l.ig. Neither does It print whisky or any liquor ads. OUR PLATFORM: THE GEORGIAN AND NEWS stands for Atlanta's own ing Its own gas and electric light plants, as It now owns Its water works. Other cities do this and get gns as low as CO coats, with a prodt to the city. This should be done at once. THE GEORGIAN AND NEWS believes that If afreet railway! can be operated auceraafully by European rltlea. na they are. there li no good reason why they can not tw ao oper ated here. But we do not believe this ran lie done now. and It may be aome yearn liefme we are ready for ao big an mulerinklng. Mill Atlanta ebanld ret lie face lit that direction NOW. Persons leaving the city can have The Georgian and News mailed to them regularly by send ing their order to The Georgian office. Chnngcs of address will be raado os often os desired. A Time For Resolution and Care. Within the last four days thr^e very unpleasant Incidents have oo- curred In Atlanta. The attack made by negross upon two estimable white ladles In tho Immediate vicinity of the Grady Hospital on Saturday night was one. The other two Incidents have been suppressed at the particu lar request of the 'parties and by reason of certain circumstances which rendered It Inadvisable to mako them public. Out tbo three Incidents, all of tho same nature, justify a qulst and deco rous hut firm admonition to the city authorities and to Individuals at this time. This Is tho period of the year whsn under the reign of tho Dog Star many ot tho worst passions In the lower orders of life find their vent and ex pression. It was about tbls period lest year that there began the series of unhappy events which culminated In the most lamentable Incident In Atlanta's history. The' rapid sequence of three law less expressions ot the same general nature admonishes a prudent people Ui take time by the forelock and with every agency of the law and public opinion to suppress In the beginning the outrages which ones aarved to provoke this community to a lawless expression. Wo urgo upon the civil authorities that tho police shall be advised to un usual diligence In prevention as well as In detection of criminals. If It were possible to do so It would be wleo and eminently desirable to mul tiply during the next two months the number of city police to be distribu ted In the back streets and environs of the town. There are streets In Atlanta upon which the residents de clare that they have not seen a po liceman in several years, snd. Indeed, It jrouid be Impossible for the police to be In evidence over all the wide territory which they must cover. It is also trus that these retired streets during the daytime are left almost entirely In charge ot women, as the men are engaged In the ceatere of business and trade from morning to evening with a brief Interval at lunch. It it Is not so now it opght to be so that this territory should be covered by mounted policemen who can make It a point to traverse the beats assigned them, as often} at pos sible during the day. We counsel also the good women who lire on these streets to be tran quil and self-possessed and In emer gencies not to lose either their cour age or their clearness of head or of vision. There Is no need for any excite ment over this matter, and there is no occasion whatever for any aenta- tlonal utterances or hasty action. It is simply a time ot the year when, by the records, crime .seems to take on a spurt among the lawless classes, and i«, therefore, a time for the authori ties and the oncers ot the law to be •dnscailsbed to unusual watchfulness i to more than ordinary activity. NO OUTSIDE DRUMMERS FOR LIQUOR. It Is so generally conceded that tho legislature without further oh structlon will puss the Hardman-Covington prohibition bill, that wo may now pass to tho serious consideration of the best ways and means to en force the law and to make It effective throughout the state. Tho largest and most dangerous avenue of avoidance Is of courso tbo shipment into the state of packages of liquor from the distilleries and liquor bouses of adjoining states. It seoms to be regularly conceded that there Is at this time no law to prevent any citizen who desires a cask of liquor to order It from a dealer lu another state and to have It come to him by express or freight under the provisions of the .Interstate commerce law. It must b« left to subsequent legislation and to the wisdom and earnestness of prohibition leaders to provide In future legislation, If such a thing be possible, against this jug trade from adjoining states and dtles. One thing, however, can be done to lessen In great degree tbls evil One ot the prolific Inducements to the jug trade has been the agents ot the liquor houses who have been active In persuading Individuals In pro hibition states to order packages In larger and smaller quantities from the liquor towns about them. Men representing these liquor houses have gone up and down the state exploiting the merits of their different brands and have Induced citizens and Individuals who had no desire or Intention to order, to Import Into their homos the Intoxicating products of other sections. ' This practice has been defended upon tbe principle that to forbid It would be a violation of the commerce clause of the constitution of tbo United States. There can be no doubt that the volume and Iniquity of tbe jug trade has received a monstrous Increase from tbe activity of the liquor agents who have Inspired the orders. There Is now no longer any reason why this practice shall not bo promptly suppressed. The supreme court of the United States, In the case of Jay Delamater vs. the State of South Dakota, with Justice White delivering the opinion, has handed down on March 11, 1907, a de cision that ths authority of ths states to forbid agents of non-resident liquor dealers to solicit contracts for the purchase of liquor which other wise the cltlxene of the state a \vould not have thought of making,” mutt be as complete and efficacious as Is suoh authority In relation to contracts of Insurance, especially In view of the conceptions of public order and social well being which It may be assumed lie at the foundation of regu lation! concerning the traffic of liquor. With this decision of the supreme court as a basis, the legislature Immediately after passing tho Hardman-Covington act. may proceed to make plain to qutstde liquor dealers that when we have forbidden our own liquor dealers to traffic In Intoxicants and to receive the proflt thereby, we surely do not Intend outside liquor men to canvass the state and to persuade the popple to Import liquor from abroad. 'The Georgian takes tbe liberty to present this Bupremo court de cision to the consideration of the general assembly and to the authorities who are charged with the responsibility of enforcing prohibition enact ment. NEEL OF BARTOW AND HIS CONSCIENCE. W« have no fault to And with Representative Neel, of Bartow, and his conscience. We havo no fault to And with the attitude of Represen tative Noel toward the disfranchisement bill proposed In the legislature. We differ from Mr. Neel’s position and we favor now, fia wo have always favored, the act ot disfranchisement, not from pasaldn 'or from prejudice, but because of the popular necessities which un derlie the situation, and because the people ot Georgia, In full dlscus- , slon of this, as one of two great Issues, have given an overwhelming majority In favor of disfranchisement We trust the disfranchisement bill will pass, and the Issues that -are now ujion us, and those which are yet to come, render more Im perative and pressing t^o necessity that It should pass promptly and deAnltsly, as Its original advocatos have planned., But for oil that, we And nothing to justify a criticism of tbo atti tude of Mr. Neel. He advocated the election of Governor Hoke Smith In ttio aggregate ot the policies that ho represented, and we happen to know that he did not commit himself at any time to tho theory of dis franchisement ns advocated by the governor. One sentence In Mr. Neel's letter states, perhaps, tbo very core ot Governor Smith's suc cess. It was the personality joined to tho platform of Hoke 8mlth which gave deAnlto and hopeful promise of relief from corporate con trol In Georgia. Strongly as wo Indorao the disfranchisement plank In the governor's platform, wo do not hesitate to say that In our judg ment this sentence expresses the reason why the great majority of Georgia people voted aa they did In the last campaign. It was this which moved Mr. Noel against his personal friendship to support, the governor, and It la perfectly easy tor any clear-headed man to see how a citizen casting about among several candidates and not agreeing In toto with any of thorn, could yet select out of tho list, that man whoso platform Included not only tho largest expression of his own convictions, but tho%est guarantee ot tbelr fulfillment. But having done this, Mr. Neel Is under no obligations as a repre sentative to go countor to his Axed convictions or to his honest doubt, In any matter which Involvei his civic conscience or his obligations to the constitution of the government. No man who knows Neel of Bar- tow could possibly credit him at any time or under any circumstances with saying or doing anything that was less than honest and less than loyal to hts high Ideals. Mr. Ntel comes as near to being an Ideal legislator as any man In the general assembly. He is modest, vigilant. Arm, clear-headed, capable and absolutely conscientious from the stand point of the eltlsen and ot the man. However useful the representative Horn Bartow may be to our es teemed contemporary In pointing many of Its own contentions at the present time, no thoughtful man, separated from the entanglements of the Interests Involved In this controversy, can for a moment reAect upon Mr. Neel's consistency, his Integrity or his Intelligence. JOSEPH F. JOHNSTON ALABAMA'S NEXT SENATOR. The death of Senator Edmund Winston Pettus, of Alabama, brings Into Immediate national prominence his successor, former Oovernor Joseph Forney Johnston, of Alabama, whose election at the state primar ies as alternate senator will be conArmed In a few days by the legis lature ot Alabama, now In session at Montgomery. For many years Governor Johnston has been conspicuous In the legal, political, social and commercial life of Alabama. A brave Confederate veteran, be bears the scars received In hard fought battles, when scarce ly past his majority. After the war he practiced law successfully at Sel ma, Ala., later removing to Birmingham, where ho became conspicuous In the great Industrial and commercial development of that section. As a bank president, and president of the 8loss Steel and Iron Company, he was a prominent factor In the business life of Alabama. From 1896 to 1900 Oovernor Johnston occupied the* gubernatorial chair of his state with great credit and honor, being responsible for some of the most valuable laws enacted In recent years In Alabama. Since 1900 he has held no political office. Governor Johnston will enter upon his dutlei at Washington equip ped as few men have been for the grave responsibilities which await him. Of brilliant Intellect, clear dbt and analytical In Ite trend and scope, of unusually attractive personality, with a genius for accomplishing results, and with a magnetic and impressive style of oratory, he will of necessity make an' Impress upon national affairs and national legislation. Governor Johnston comes ot.a long and distinguished Southern ances try. He was born In North Carolina, but early moved to Alabama, where he married a lovely and accomplished Alabama woman, and where ho has been thoroughly Identified with the best Interests of tbe state. Among Governor Johnston's many remarkable snd forceful character istics Is bis unfailing Adellty to his friends, social and political, a quality which has drawn about him a following wonderful In Its strength snd In Its devotion. Governor Johnston is a loyal member of the Eplacopal church. - - ..djjkg mm .* THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN; THE BILL MUST PASS By J. C. SOLOMON. If there wen ever n doubt ns to the pne-t empire ntnte of Hie South, put tbe public •sge of tbe Hardman-Covington bill, thnt vlrtuo on the block end ilrng her citizen, doubt practically rnulnbed Wsdsendny | J® V. U .T*]L k f .°„ r Tbe strain has been Ions snd terrific. Tbe people ot Qeorgio have suffered In the spirit of martyrdom. Fathers hare h"< n tl.Hr dnuKhtrrH out rased; mothers have watched the diBgraco of their homes hnro been broken np; poverty, crushed hearts rape, riot, murder, nnd all the other IDs, which flow from tbe hor rible liquor fountain, have come to enrse ns and to mock us. Tho people hnvo borne tlielr burdens loner and suffered In silence, bnt hungry chll- dren nnd outraged mothers and fallen girls snd orphans and paupers nnd mad men ogd drunkards In hell Are erring out against tho rum curse. The Ucsllsed liquor traffic In this state hns blighted like a withering frost and polluted Its thou sands nnd its tens of thousands with tbe slime of the pit. pndent whisky defending, mammon ivor- ‘lipping fellows ridicule and mock our others and wives nnd daughters nnd sis ters? flow long will two nnd one-half millions ot people wear this galling yoke placed npon their necks by hnnds more cruel than death—end thnt without protest? How long will Georgia, long recognised as ths gold? No longer. Tho people have spoken In thunder tones. The time for the pass ing of Georgia's Infamy hts come. The dtahollfftl Jlquor triffle must perish. Men might as well undertake to put out the fires of a belching Vesuvius or stay tbe stars In their courses, as to stem this mighty rushing tide of public opinion and popular clamor. The people simply de- inand relief, nnd, after nil. tbe people ore the Inst nnd highest enrthly tribunal. .. Old Gladstone went before Queen We- torln one dny with a ten grave matter touching the realm of England. Gladstone said. Addressing the queen: “Will your majesty sign this paper?" The royal lady refused. 1 The premier, with flashing eyes, cried ont: “Madam, sign thnt paper! Inr- ' rnantly her mol&otj replied: “I am tho ot Engbin said: *T a fis i last, 0 ttfto)f'foil and tlie Ilardmnn-Covlng ton bill must become law. Next Tuesday Is tho dny set for Its passage. Let no fllllhusterer show his bend that day. Let no moro shameful tactics like those of Wednesday and Wednesday night be re sorted to again. Let such unworthy and unwarranted mi “ ‘ tlnn be passed. Khali not the small minority bo* grace- frilly to the will of the greet majority? Lot gentleman accept the Inevitable, for the Inevitable hns come. The hand ha* reached the right figure on tho dlnl nnd "it> funeral dlrgo of the liquor trnffle In eorgln most now break forth In the tost plaintive strnlu*. Let tbe dead rest. Lot no vandal band ever dlsturjt tbelr dust. A Man Who Works Hard For His Mohey Is entitled to receive tho highest rate of Interest that his - savings can legitimately earn. That Is why this bank pays four per cent after allowing a rea- Department. The money earns four per cent after allowing a reas- sonablo margin of proAt for servlce-and the depositor Is entitled to it. This bank's record of twenty-seven years of continuous service should appeal to thoughtful Investors who desire their savings placed where Income Is assured and tho principal available at all times. MADDOX-RUCKER BANKING CO. ARIY-NAYY ORDERS —AND— MOVEMENTS OF VESSELS snitlfMIMMIIItMMttMHIMItltltti THAT FILIBUSTER ONCE MORE j By J. L. D. HILLYER. No rule of the house was ever Intended to provide a wny for obstructing the busi ness of the house. Filibustering is general ly accompanied In ways that are perfectly parliamentary or atony rate entirely with in tho rules of the house by making per fectly regular motions. But the most won derful feature of the famous depot fili buster In 1001, conducted by Mr. Unit, of Bibb, end that of Wednesday, which pur sued the enme method, Is thnt it was not ouly unparliamentary throughout but con trary to the plain rules of the houso be sides. I was on the floor of the house In 1901, during that contest. The method, which was very simple, placed In i-flfth of those hands o* one-fifth of those voting power to absolutely nnd Indefinitely struct every motion In the direction of tho will of the mnjdrlty. The method completely blotted out the principle of nil dcilhcmtlve bodies that “the majority must role." It was this: On the dny when the depot bill was to come up some one gained the floor nhend of tbe bill nnd mnde some motion that was of no portance. Another ouo moved table that motion, or to commit •«. or anything else, it did not matter in thnt game. Homo one then called "the previous question" nnd some one else cnllcl for the •'rets and nays." Bo far, the rpoceedlng was entirely parliamentary am! In accor dance with tho "rules of the house." After that, when tho clerk was calling the names of the members nnd recording their votes, some one got up to explain his vote. 1 knew that thnt was unparliamentary nnd told some member so. He replied: “The •Ml*- **>. holla. na>rm|t Jf/* $011)0 time >py of the house I t! rules of the house permit Jt. afterward I found a copy of the roles. I found this to be true: First: One-fifth of the members can »rce a call of the yeas nnd nays; Second: By n vote of the house a mein- ?r might l»e granted tho privilege of ex plaining his vote. _ .... I also found that Rule 29 says distinctly thnt "During the calling or reading of the yens nnd nays on any question no debate shall be had." That meant thnt the priv ilege of explaining a vote must l>e tnken at some other time than during the read ing of "the yens and naya." I found further: Rule 62: "A motion to adjourn may be mnde after the motion for the previous question hap l#*en sustained, but when the has voted that the ‘mein question be now put,' no motion to adjourn Is In order, nor shall any motion to adjourn be In order after the clerk has called the first tutine of tbe yeas snd nays nnd n ot one member hns l>een given; or. n division of the house has been had rote and the rote la In process of established. It being true then, that dpr lng the tnklng of a rote Vlthcr hr reas and nays, or while the members adjourn Is In order, for a stronger reitoon, a motion to allow a member to explain his vote Is not In order. Hence tbe privilege of explaining must be necured at some time other than while the house fa taking a rote. Then I found Ilule 65. thnt tells about tho call for the previous question. It shows that after the house has voted that tho main question shall be now put, not oven u motion to adjourn Is In order. The mean ing of these rules Is that after n vote house rules make this very nice 'dis tinction, namely* "Rule 43: When the hour of adjonrn- tnent ns fixed by n previous resolution shgil arrive while the vote of the house Is being tnken by "yens and nays" tho ses sion shall continue until the final yote Is taken and announced." The rule then provides: Thnt If the hour for adjournment cornea while the house Is acting on the previous question, but before the rote on the main question has begun, tho house will adjourn nnd leave the pro ceedings ns they happen to l>e, bnt If tho voting on the main question Is In progress the session does not adjourn until the vot- lug Is completed and tho result Is an nounced. All of which means that nothing can In terrupt the Glrect. speedy progress or n vote; and It Is therefore jierfeetlv clear that the right of a nu>m1>er to explain Ills voto cannot override these cardinal aec- tlora of tho codo of rules adopted by the house. Yet. thnt Is whnt they did In the depot filibuster of 1901.. I called the attention of the speaker to those sections afterward, and In 1903. at I saw In the newspapers, when no attempt to flllbniter In the same wny was made the speaker cut It .short by applying Rule G5. This Is the true status of the tnw. Then tiring so d“ . . explaining vote has been allowed ns n motion, course, so long thnt very few memtiers of the house know that the rules forbid any- thing of the sort during the tnklng of n vote by yens and nays. Yet, the rules do forbid It, snd they do so repeatedly and explicitly, aa has been shown. Of course the first departure was si- Army Orders. Washington, July 30.—Co plain William II. Burt, Fourth field artillery, detailed In pay department to Philippines. First Lieuten ant Albert L. Ha!!( field artillery, unas- algned, to duty with Battery C, Third field nrtlllerq. until completion of practice march, encampment ond target practice. Following first lieutenants corps of on gtneer, from engineer school, Washington barracks, to stations designated: William I). Anderson, to duty with companies sec ond battalion of englnttifc In Cubs; Italph T, Ward, to Fort Mason for duty with com panics first battalion of cuglneers; Thomas M. Robins, tp duty with companies second battalion of engineers In Cuba. First Lieutenant William I* Guthrie, corps of engineers, to Fort Lenveuworth, thence to proper station in Cuba. First Lieutenant James B. Taylor, const artillery corps, from Sixty-fifth compnny to lMth company. Fort Mfrhte. Captain William M. Morrow, TWenty-first Infantry, assigned to station at Newport News, while on duty as quartermaster and commissary transport Kilpatrick. Captain Marshall Childs, Twenty-fifth In fantry, from army and navy general hos pital. Hot Springs, to general hospital. Washington barracks. First Lieutenant William P. Rtokey, corps of engineers, from from Military Academy to Havana for duty with companies second battalion of engin eer*, stationed In Culm. First Lieutenant Henry C. Jewett, corps of engineers, to West Point Military Academy. Navy Orders. Captain J. C. Wilson, retired, placed on retired list. Chief Boatswain II. R. Bray ton to Enterprise. Movements of Vessels. Arrived—July 26: Potomac at Norfolk. July 27: Prairie at League Island, Rhode Island at North Direr, New York cl fttnodlsh at New Londou. July 28: Dolpl at Watch Hill. Sailed—July 2fl: Potomac from Hampton ond* for Norfolk. July 27: Dolphin rr Gloucester for Watch Hill, R. 1. July 28: Don Juan do Austria from Portsmouth, N. Hoh. Dupoht Guerry II., for Boston. w nan fillbui hold of It It becoi than .. .. .. ....JIM at once a weapon thnt completely di “ * “1ty less strays tho power of any major! four-fifth*. The privilege of explaining a vote la not a parliamentary privilege, but one allowed by rules to a legislator. Still. It must lie nsed ns nny other privilege Is used, ami as provided for In House Rule 190. PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND PROHIBITION To the Editor of Ths Georgian: Matters seem to have reached ths acute stage In the Oeorgla legislature sines the agitation ot the state prohibi tion bill began. Tims and time again the members from the larger cities ot the state have almost expired In their unbounded solicitude over the fate of the public achools, If the prohibition law were to be enacted. One would readily conclude that these city "trents" ere the only real frltnds of common schools In this state. With stentorian tones they cry out continually from tho watch towers that we are ruined; that the country youths of Oeorgla must go unlettered, unleafned, unhonored and unsung, down to thelf graves. If prohi bition prevails. Since when, we'd like to Inquire, have these gentlemen from the big cities become such sponsors for the common schools? As a matter of rec ord. the city representatlvee generally have voted and labored to out down the common school appropriations, and they have done so for the reason that they did not want to be taxed for the pport of rural schools and for schools the small and weak countlea in the state. No, gentle reader, theae repre sentative! would like for the cities to run their own schools, aa they could easily do, owing to their large property valuation, and leave the sparsely net tled communities of Georgia to look out tor number one. There la Juat another phase of the situation we would not mind discussing, even on penalty of treading upon the toes of those who are wrapped up too completely perhaps In their love for their "Alma Mater." the University of Georgia. We are told by these bold "champions of Individual rights,” ao called, that there Is a deflctt of several hundred thousand dollars (capltsls must be uned here) In the Common school fund already, and it would never In the world do to dry the state. They proclaim with bated breath that this deficit would grow to such an extent that the nchool houses of the country would be closed, or the great state of Georgia would be bankrupted. Save the mark! Now, Just for the public Information, wc would like very much to Inquire an lo how much deficit Is to be found In the appropriations to the colleges of the state. Including the one hundred thousand dollars set aside by tbe last legislature for the establishment of a "would-be- agricultural college at the State University? The monumental fact remains that the "powers that be” pay off every fool appropriation madt by the legislature, and If there Is any thing left, then It goea to the common achool fund of the atate; otherwise the overworked nnd underpaid teachers must wait Indcilnltely for their small mite, and In the meantime aweat and borrow money to pay board. Why In the name of Justice should the deficit always occur In the common school fund? Why should the authorities pay off the University and Georgia and “Its branches,” the experimental station humbug funds, the Jamestown Expo sition appropriation, and, in fact, all other appropriations, and leave tho common school fund In the lurch? We would Inquire further as to why the school authorities of Decatur coun ty are not unable to pay off their teachers, according to contract, when the records of the state achool com missioner and the atate treasurer .show that on January 1, 1907, Decatur coun ty had to her credit In the state treas ury for school purposes In round num bers seven thousand dollars? We have repeatedly made requisition for this money—upon which contracts for teachers were made—and the pitiful reply has been received that the great state of Georgia, with her boundless re sources, has used this fund for “other purposen.” Now, what are these other purooscs? Perhaps the gentlemen who are now raising such a .howl about the dencit In the common School fund can answer. Will soma of these staunch city ad vocates of common schools, these great friends of ths country boy In Jeans breeches, who are trying vainly to de feat the prohibition bill, riso up In meeting and explain If they can these pertinent points of Inquiry? We, "the people,” would like td be enlightened. The gentlemen from Bibb, Fulton, Chatham, Richmond, Muscogee and a few others, will please arise and re main standing until they are counted. The performance will not take long. 8. R. BRINSON. Balnbridge, Ga., July 34, 1907, By SAM WILKES, a On Wednesday Inst, I wns an Interested visitor at the state capital a, the prohlbt- tlon bill wns being hotly debated In tbe bouse of representatives. Ileforo tbe bouse convened women, with bright eyes and enger Dices, men with earnest countenances nnd positive demeanor, thronged the cor. riders; the very atmosphere seemed cbsrged with n restless excitement. Jinny were .ngnged In warm argument, while etbe r ; talked in nulctcr mood, hut with eouii enrnestness. liver nnd nnon, tho voices Ht men nnd women were heard In sour mi.i the tuno of somo of tho good old brum, swelled forth In glorious volume, fllllne the halls, echoing nml reverberating throughout the grand old building, tho like of ihlch I hnd never before henrd In It Later there was also the sound of voices in eager debate and the supreme tension which nervadeh tbe houss east Its reflei over nil. Men snd women alike were un. lmtnrally excited, so great was their In terest In the question engaging the at, tenting of the lawmaksra-ths question of state prohibition. In turning nn angle In ont of the vestl. bnles, I olwerved, without being seen, s gentleman standing alone, quiet, composed, self-poised. From where he stood he could hear the noise of the tumult and witness the great excitement about him and feel the feverish public pulse which was shak ing the state from center to circumfer ence. I stopped and regarded him for a moment. He looked to mo ns would s great general who had planned a mighty battle, snd ns the bent of the conflict w„ at Its height, his legions, nnilaunted and ln- elnelble rushing to victory, be stood a silent witness, af tbs grand spectacle, self, enmpoeed and, to me, great In his quiet simplicity. ;i thonght If I were of the house, he n-BS (.uurnRr. btc ) rnrn nrinre, rniered the area* of politics, bearing aloft tbo banner of general reform and state prohi bition. It was his clarion rolce that rang ont In living words tho undying appeals for sup port ot his platform. It was he who. In flerr earnestness and fearless declaration, told to listening thousands the great good ond eternal benefits of state prohibition. In Its advocacy, his eloquent tongue wns never silent and his brave heart never weakened. He fought his campaign through with the brilliancy of a meteor, with the denrnesa of tho sun, the courage of a lion, his honesty unchallenged, his purpose respected and his pmnhood ad mired nllke by frlen/l and too. He went down in the splendor, not the odium of de feat, unscathed, nnhurt, magnificent In tbs sincerity of his character nnd worthy cltl- xenshtp. He retired from the lists with hlo crest ns ldeh and white ns when hs entered it, nnd if tho contest loft nny scars upon his heart, they havo been burled In his broad rhnrity. He wns as generous in defeat ns he would have been magnani mous in victory, nnd ns ho stood thus si lent and alone, listening to the ahonts of a victory which was his, but achieved under another commander, as ho saw ths seed ho hnd Plnntod so surely and well- hearing n golden ripe harvest, there «rss apparently no onvy nor chnrgrln In his heart. lie was quietly rejoicing at tho suceosa or principles for which ho bad five years before blared the way. It was a satisfaction to him. I knew he was In good humor, for he gmaped my hand warmly and greeted me with s smile. Such wns the lion. Dnnont Gnerry on the day when state prohibition showed Its iWHKK»OiWHWOO<HWKWH^ O O O PRIDE IN THE GEORGIAN; O 0 FAITH IN THE LEADERS. 0 o — o 0 To tho Editor of The Georgian: O 0 The prohibitionists of this sec- O O tlon are proud of your -aper and O 0 many of them are discontinuing O 0 other papers. They all are strong- 0 0 ly opposed to nny changes In ths 0 0 Hardman-Covington bill and havo 0 0 absolutely ho faltli In Hall snd 0 0 other so-called reformors. Their O 0 absolute conAdence In Wright 0 0 Hardman, Covington, Neel and the O 0 real prohibitionists Is something 0 0 wonderful. You would be sur- 0 O prised to know how solid they O 0 stand on this question. 0 0 C. R. BRAUM. O 0 Fitzgerald, Ga. 00000000000000000000000000 COMING TO A HEAD ALL OYER THE LAND MARSHALL FIELD & COMPANY STATE, WASHINGTON, RANDOLPH AND WABASH, CHICAGO. To the Editor and Publisher of The Atlanta Georgian, Atlanta, Ga. Dear Sirs: I feel confident that there are few if any mon who do not appre ciate a word of commendation and “God bless you," especially at such a trying time as you are now having. I have recently read in The Home Defender of the noble and uncompromis ing stand you have taken on the issue before the people of Georgia, and particu larly in the legislature, and as an individual and as a God-fearing, patriotic American citizen, I want to most heartily indorse the stand you have taken, and say that my prayers and my hopes are all with you. Nothing but the grace of God could cause you to do this and nothing but His strength can keep you true to the purpose which you have evidenced to he yours. I am sure Mr. Seely's mother is rejoicing, and well she may. Would that more mothers took pains to influence their boys in this way. I read in this morning’s Record-Herald of the legislative battle and also the fistic one. I regret the latter, but rejoice at the former. Truly this thing is coming to a head all over our land and I pray that the day may speedily dawn when the licensed beverage liquor traffic may be for ever banished from the whole world, particularly our own dear land. I pre sume you are acquainted with Dr. E. S. Chapman's famous address entitled, “The Stainless Flag." It has been given aU over the land under the auspices of the Anti-Saloon League and I believe most thoroughly in his arguments and predictions. Again assuring you of my heartfelt sympathy, I enclose ten cents in stamps for which you might send me two or three issues of your paper, particularly the one in which you declared your stand on the “burning^question!” Faithfully yours, p. g. HULING, July 25,1907. Manager’s Office.