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The Atlanta Georgian.
JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Edilor.
F. L. SEELY, President.
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“Liber 1 " exists In proportion to wholotomo
restraint.” —Daniel Webster.
An Individual Defense of Savannah.
We publish today, at his own requeat, an open letter
front Mr. O. P. Whatley, of Savannah, protesting against
the recent criticisms of the Savannah municipal election,
and seeking to fay upon the shoulders of the Hon. Pleas
ant A. Stovall and the Savannah Press a large part of
the responsibility for the publlahed reports of the buying
and selling of votes and the political scenes which
brought the cry of shame from the state upon the 8a'
vannah primary.
We publish Mr. Whatley'a article beoause, whenever
wp have felt called upon In the Interest of right and of
public morals to criticise, we have never felt justified In
withholding a hearing to those whom we have assailed.
Mr. Whatley will bear In mind that the editorial com
ments of this paper had no reference whatever to the
sins of any particular club or facUon Id Savannah. We
did not know when we wrote, and we do not know now
upon which aide the burden of this political Iniquity
should rest We spoke of It as a general thing, and pro
tested It as • general thing, in the interest of civic integ
rity and of representative government, without regard
to the source from which this wholesale bribery found
Its Inspiration.
We note that Mr. Whatley today concedes the exist
ence of this bartering of ballots In the mart, but claims
somo mitigation of the offdnse In the fact that there
was less of It than there had been In previous elections.
We are not disposed' to discuss this matter with
Mr. Whatley, because he donbtless knows more of the
nature and magnitude of the offense than we do. But, we
do feel and do repeat that this bartering of ballots In
open and shameless Impudence and defiance of public law
and public morality In Savannah, and In one or two
nthor cities of the state, whether It be In larger or smaller
degreo, ought to come under the prompt and fearless
ban of publt; opinion and public condemnation, and that
whlla the offense Is fresh the condemnation should be
strong and general throughout the state.
The Hon. Boykin Wright, of Augusta, moved perhaps
by some experiences nearer home to him than Savannah,
has prepared a bill which we sincerely trust will not only
pnss the Georgia legislature, but will most vigorously
and fearlessly be enforced In every city In which the law
is mocked and public decency Is defied by the sbameleis
truffle of ballots In these primary and other elections.
With one phase of Mr. Whatley's letter we have a
comment It would be difficult to persuade the people of
Georgia, who have known and honored Pleasant Stovall
for so many years, that he would willingly lend himself
to any form of public or private corruption, or that any
consideration of personal spleen or venom would move
him to a reflection upon his people that was not. In his
honest opinion, Justified by the facto.
We can do no leas than believe that Mr. Whatley Is
sincere In his protest against the aspersions which have
been left upon his city. We have no other conclusion
than that he himself was not responsible for these mon
strous perversions of civic Integrity, and that he was
himself a protestant against them, but we must protest
to Mr. Whatley our unwillingness to believe that any
thing less than clean, honorable, and patriotic can ooroe
from Pleasant Stovall In the public or the prlvato-func
tions of his life.
We trust that both Mr. Whatloy and Mr. Stovall will
Join their united hnd potential voices with the chorus of
protest which Is going up all over the state, and that
savannah may havo not only the restraining vojeo of Its
friends abroad, but the strong and fearless protest of
Its sons at home against any repetition In tho future of
H-enes, which, however Justifiable In the minds of par
tisans and however modified In degree by more conserva
tive statements of the Incidents themselves, are far from
Justified In public Integrity and In public policy, and
should be unhesitatingly condemned.
him to be anything but stralghtfon ard In all his d
Inga.
And he cannot discharge the high duties assigned to
him without experience. Tho system which made these
offices a part of the spoils of political war prevented any
man from becoming highly efficient, particularly In the
consular departments. He no sooner became familiar
with the languago and manners and' cuctoms of the
country than he was brought home to give some other
man a job.
This, we are told, Is to end, and men are to be pro
moted from one grade to another on a system of merit.
The value In dollars and cents to this country will be
very great, but it fs no less Important that they will
occupy a stronger position In the esteem of the country
to which they are accredited.
The Pennsylvania Situation.
While prominent leaders of the Republican party
have been In Philadelphia, celebrating the golden Jubilee
of that organization, the eyes of the country have been
turned npon'tbe crystallization of policies which will af
fect the future of the state of Pennsylvania, and Inci
dentally of the entire country, to a greater extent than
anything that has happened In many a long day.
Comment was made In these columns some time
since upon the fact that the regular Republican party
had nominated a practically unknown man by the name
of Stuart for governor of the state, and that this was done
at the dictation of Senator Penrose, the creature and
disciple of the late “easy boss," Matthew Stanley Quay.
That Penrose Is an adept In the art of political manlpp-
latlon there can be no donbt, at least on the part of
those who day, like the lamented Josh Billings, “I never
argue agin a success."
It was demonstrated that he had the regular ma
chine as much under his thumb as ever Quay had It.
Perhaps It was not the wise thing to make this fact
too manifest at a time when the entire people of Penn
sylvania had become aroused against bosslsm In the
state and In the city of Philadelphia. Mayor Weaver's
triumph over the ring was too recent and the people
are too strong In their determination to carry the crusade
against, the machine to the point of annihilation.
But the fact remains that he did It.
The Independent, or Lincoln, Republicans of the
state refused to accept Stuart, and nominated Lewis
Emery, for governor. This faction of the Republican
party Is pledged to the overthrow of the machine, and
the rehabilitation of the party and the state. It has a
large following, and will be a power at the next election.
But now comes a proposition from the Lincoln Re
publicans to Col. J. M. Guffey, the picturesque leader of
the Democratic party-in tho state, to Indorse their candl
date Instead of putting one of their own In the field.
Speculation Is rife as to what Colonel Guffey will do. He
has his enemies. Indeed, It has been said of him that
those who would flatter him, call him a fool." Just
what they would say If they Intended to speak unkindly
of him we are left to Imagine.
But there Is a Democrat by the name of Berry whose
strength Injects a new element Into the calculations.
Last year he turned the Republican plurality of half a
million for Roosevelt In 1904 Into a plurality for himself
of 80,000 when he ran for the office of state treasurer.
Thus, up there where the Dutch have been In possession
of Holland, so to speak, from the foundation of the re
public, a Domocrat was actually chosen by an over
whelming plurality. Tho Democrats took heart of grace
and have had their eye on Berry ever since.
Berry has already been nominated by the Prohlbl
tlonlsts, who poll a solid vote of 50,000, and It the
Democrats Indorse his nomination there seems to be no
reason, according to the knowing ones, why be should
not also P9II his full party vote of 500,000.
In short, the Indications are good that a Democratic
nominee will be elected governor of the great state of
Pennsylvania this year, whichever course may be pur
sued. The state has always gone Republican In national
elections, and a Democrat haa been elected governor
of the state only twice since a period before the civil
A Measure of Consular Reform.
While the consular reform bill, which has recently
licoa enacted Into law. Is not all that Its most devoted
advocates could desire. It Is a long step forward, and Its
!>.acUcal operation will contribute In no small degree
tu tho Improvement of that Important branch of the pub
lic service. v
Our consuls and commercial agents abroad are not
placed strictly under the civil service, and the reform
will not be complete until they are, but a policy of pro
motion on the grounds of merit has been tacitly es
tablished, and so long as a president remhlns In power
who favors this efficiency plan the system will work
well.
A few days ago President Roosevelt appointed 51
consuls. FIRy-nlne of these were In reality promotions
from one post to another and higher one, and In the two
Instances where this was not done the men who re
ceived the appointment had been for a long time Identi
fied with work which peculiarly qualified them for the
post to which they were assigned.
It is hoped that the good work will conUnue.
The nature of our consular system was for a long
Ume a serious reflection upon this great country. The
men assigned to fill these offices were pets and favor-
ttae of the administration which happened to be In
office, and the personal character of many of these
men made them proverbs of profligacy and Incapacity.
Such men are gradually being weeded out and men
of a higher stamp of manhood are being placed In office.
It really seems that the time Is coming when diplomacy
, may become a recognised and desirable career open to
awn of ability. The very nature of diplomacy haa
changed from the sinister days when a diplomat was de
scribed as a man "sent to II •> abroad for his country.”
chicanery and deception are no longer a part of the du-
ies of the diplomat. He Is expected to ue a man of eul-
ure and education, with a working knowledge of com
a and International law. There Is no occasion for
So it will be a notable event Indeed If a Democratic
nominee—whether he be techlnadly a Prohibitionist or a
Llncolnite—should be chosen to the chntr of the chief ex
ecutive.
The Important consideration Is that It would mean
tho overthrow of the machine which Boss Quay built
up with so much labor and astuteness, and aRer that
there Is no telling what the Democrats may be able to
accomplish In Pennsylvania.
Chancellor Barrow All Right.
There will be. found no man In Georgia to protest
the selection of David C. Barrow as chancellor of tho
State University, and there will be found thousands to
rejoice In It with unfeigned heartiness from the moun
tains’to the sea.
The Georgian is oqe of those who bad nothing to do,
even by way of suggestion, with the selection of Chan
cellor Barrow. Wo have heard from the beginning that
be did not wish the place, and we had only mentioned
him incidentally among those whose names were held In
the balance of judgment by the trustees.
It seems now In the light of events, that It was sim
ply stupid not to have seen that Dean Rarrow was
the logical man for the position, and perhaps In all the
mentioned list, the very best man that could have been
chosen. If there Is nothing essentially dashing or ab
normally brilliant about the ’new chancellor, there Is
everything which Is absolutely sound and perennially
safe.
The one transcendent quality which the new chan
cellor possesses, and there Is no better fact in executive
station of leadership, Is the possession of the absolute
love and cekfldence of the student body which surrounds
him-
There are two things which The Georgian In alt Its
discussion of university and college affairs, aad of the
men who hold executive stations In these great Institu
tions, has claimed to be necessary.
We have always held that wherever It was possible,
teacher should be selected for promotion to the high
places In the schools of the state. We have Insisted
upon this In every particular In which the public voice
could participate In the deliberations of school affairs.
The reasons for this fact do not need to be repeated
here. Encouragement to teachers. Inspiration to effort,
and training and equipment, all combine to make this
principle clear. Chancellor Barrow embodies In himself
this principle In the highest degree. He has been for
twenty-nine years a teacher or tutor In the university,
and his promotion comes normally, naturally and nobly
from rank to rank of usefulness to this high station In
his alma mater now.
The ojher great requisite for success.In a chancellor
Is to be able to command the unbounded confidence and
affection of the students who are under his authority. The
young republic of tetters has Its own creeds and Its own
Infallible Judgments of measures and of men, and no
maturcr manhood Is ever quicker and mors Infallible in
Its estimate of the worth and merits of a leader than tho
students who come in daily contact with him.
* It Is safe to say that no man In or out of Georgia
could command more perfectly and more universally
the confidence and love of the student body of the uni
versity than the new chancellor, who for twenty years
has been endeared to the university graduates and un
dergraduates by the affectionate soubriquet of “Uncle
Dave." They believe In him to the uttermost, they would
trust him without questioning In any statement or In any
decision be might make, and there Is not a man whose
name has been In touch with the university for two de
cades who would not deem it almost a sacrilege to quek-
tlon either the sincerity or the justice of any ruling
which the beloved new chancellor would make. He Is
the embodiment of good character.
|Upon the broad basis then of these two essential qual
ifications, It may safely be said that the new chancellor
enters upon his work with a promise of happiness and
success which few men have ever carried to the pre
siding office of our state university. When to this Is
Joined the amplest scholarship and the loftiest char
acter, the most thorough absorption of the traditions and
Ideals of the university for more than a quarter of a
century, the close personal touch and affection with
the people of Athens, and of the state—with stalwart
health and comparative youth. It would seem very clear
that all thoughtful friends of education are .In a position
to most heartily felicitate the university upon the wise
and prudent choice Which the trustees have made for a
chancellor to preside over Its future work. -
And The Georgian, yielding nothing to any man In
the state In the matter of personal affection and admira
tion for the new chancellor, sends to Chancellor Bar-
row th6 assurance of Its rejoicing approval, and the
pledge of its earnest cooperation with his official work.
A LETTER PROM .JUNIUS,
To the Editor of The Georgian:
Mr. Bryan can't be elected president
of the United States two years hence.
The great fight—the earnest light, the
fiercest political combat ever waged
In this or ahy country, In this or any
age—will be between capital and la
bor. Mr. Bryan Is not radical enough
for the labor party, and his Integrity
and patriotism leave him entirely out
of the question as a candidate for the
syndicates, trusts and money power.
Corporate greed doesn't want him;
wouldn't have him; couldn't use him.
He Is not sufficiently "safe and sane"
for their purposes. He wouldn't—he
couldn't—work In their harness. The
position he occupies makes It utterly
impossible for him to be elected. The
trusts and money syndicates, from the
Standard Oil down to the least malo
dorous of these, all would oppose him
stronger,' If not more violently, than In
the past. They know the difference
between Mr. Bryan and the Socialists
Is In degree, not In kind. They know,
as far as he goes with reference to
public ownership of the public services
and of nature's bounties, he Is parallel
with their principles. They know that
such a man Is as certain to advocate
the right of every man to tho undi
vided fruit of his Industry as the stars
are to pursue their course. They know
that Mr. Bryan hasn't become suffi
ciently advanced In political compre
hension to object to that great politi
cal “sermon on the mount," “the Dec
laration of Independence." They know
that Marx and Debbs and Bebel and
Upton St. Clair and B. O. Flower, of
"The Arena," and Bryan all hold this
superb expreihlon of truth and courage
In equal esteem. They know that Mr.
Bryan would not come down to the
front of the stags at the beginning
of a contest between Right and Wrong
—between the robber and the victim,
Are off his "hosa pistols" with a whoop
of defiance that said to the people,
“Who but I?" and later, wheA the
whole light had been won by another
In the Interest of the people, hide be
hind the smoke and noise of his foot-
light performance and snatch the mea
ger but hard earned vantage away, and
give It to corporate greed.
No, the respectable element, the con
trolling element, of the Democratic
party, beginning with Mr. Belmont, In
wall street, and ending with the great
subsidised press that fought him open
ly In 1895 or "damned him with faint
praise" and lack of help In 1900, bear
he same relation to their greed, to
their wealth, and to Mr. Bryan through
their lust for wealth and power, they
did then. These men. this Wall street
Democratcy at the hsad of ths Demo
cratic party, with Its organized wealth,
and the Republican party are cme. One
In Interest, one In sympathy. In love.
In hate. In greed, in wealth. In being.
In everything except In name. Mr. Hill
used to say on every occasion, and as
nobody could understand how It could
be, there was always occasion for him
to say It; “I am a Democrat’" And
the present Democratic party, organ
ised as 1 have stated It, and as It real
ly Is, ought to go Mr. Hill one bet
ter—“I am two parties at ones, either
at a time or the whole thing." The la
boring man hae begun to mix hie brain
with hie brawn. Ho Is waking from
the slumber of ages. He Is aroused to
life, to a consciousness of his power,
from the spell of years. The awe In
which he has been taught to hold
wealth has changed with his new vis
ion of things to a respect for the great,
patient, tolling myriads who produce
ft. He knows that while he holds the
Egyptian laborer in contempt for
building pyramids of stone for food
sufficient one day to enable him to
serve his master the next, that he, here
In America. Is building pyramids of
gold and furnishing the gold through
his labor that he may eat food and
continue this profitless toll of heaping
>lle upon pita of wealth through all
>ls dreary, hopeless life.
Verily, verily, this man of whom It
ever might hove been said. "Vox pop-
ull. vox del." has learned Indeed whose
voice Is meant and he Is ss sure to
raise that voice HU It echoes around
this greed-cursed earth as the eternal
sun Is sure to pursue Its wonted
course. The geographic line that made
thla former be tut of burden a Demo
crat haa faded from hla awakened
eyea. The local prejudice that made
him a Republican haa vanished from
hla enlightened mind. The universal
brotherhood of man, that he haa ever
been taught to hate and dtaplae; and
hla brothers beyond certain Imaginary
limits that he has been brained and
drilled In the most terrific enginery of
death-dealing destruction to destroy,
are the cause for which hla party haa
Its being. No longer does he, or will
he consider killing or maiming the un
fortunate laborer of another clime, a
sign of patriotism. Terrific explosions,
combined with the hardest, harshest,
most unyielding materials of the earth,
hurled at other unfortunate laborers
hired or forced to be In thtlr way;
as he Is—no longer charm a savage In
stinct in hla breast. . _ _
The bounties of nature—the fruit, the
substance of the earth—yea, the full
ness thereof with the means of pro
ducing and extracting these bounties
for all the sons and daughters of men
are his high and lofty purpose.
The Orientals have a tradition that
the shadow of a dog shall not fall upon
the surface of the great world beyond.
It will not be long before the great
voice of the people shall declare that
the shadow of a slave, the shadow of
one man tolling that another may have,
sowing that another may reap, shall
not be cast upon the earth. Samson
has learned his strength. His hand Is
reaching for the pillars of state. 8trong
hands, kind and steady and true; his
eyes are as clear, as calm, t* unsullied
by temper as the stare of heaven. His
mind Is as loyal to the right as the
needle la to the pole. These pillars will
be tom asunder. They will be made
stepping-stones to better things. The
edifice will not fall and crush. There
Is naught but love, universal for hu
manity. In Ita removal. It was built by
Samson the blind, at the behest of
greed. With eyes of love and light he
will build on the fatherhood of God and
the brotherhood of man, and It shall be
broad enough to shelter and protect
the human race. And the North and
the South, and the Hast and the West,
and Anttpota and Pole may aay, “It Is
mine, and It Is mine.” and It shall be
theirs. All humanity's—In joy. In love.
In triumph. In peace. In brotherhood, in
sisterhood, forever It shall be theirs.
JUNIUS,
CHOLLY KNICKERBOCKER
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Gossips About People
and Other Things.
By CHOLLY KNICKERBOCKER.
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By Frlrsts Letaed Wire.
New York, June 20.—The woman suf
frage movement gets small comfort
from Pope Plus X. In an Interclew with
the noted Austrian suffragist and
writer, Mme. Camille Eslmer, his ho
llness Is quoted as saying;
"Women ought not In any case to
mix themselves In public affairs. They
will be neither electors nor elected,
men have enough troubles already In
agreeing among themselves; they do
enough to bring disorder Into parlia
ments.”
That this will bring down upon his
head the anathema maranatha of the
women who believe there should be no
sex in the rights of citizenship Is cer
tain. and even though the pope ex
presses full sympathy In the advance
ment of women In other lines than pol
itics. He says;
All that tends to ralsrf the moral
and Intellectual level of hqmanlty Is
worthy of our encouragement, always
provided that It does not violate Chris
tian laws. It Is well that women ara
freeing themselves from the heavy
yokes that society has Imposed on
them for centuries. It Is well that they
are able to master their own means of
existence.
"For my part, I see nothing to pre
vent them from being lawyers, or doc
tors; doctors especially, so that they
can give proper enre to their children,
which In all times has been their natu
ral avocation.
"Education Is also one of the pro
fessions which suits them best. Are
they not first teachers of their chil
dren, and thus of all humanity?”
Miss Helen and Mrs. George J. Gould
have been granted the privilege of an
Folly of Life Insurance Investigation.
To the Editor of Thq Georgian;
What a great calamity and hardship
to policy-holders does all this Investi
gation entail!
Former presidents and officers of
these great Insurance companies have
stolen and grafted until *tbey were
all rich men—had all they wanted. Now
new men are In who have little, who
are poor men, with only a million, and
need eight or ten. They will now start
In to work to graR and get It from the
poor policy-holders and the whole mess
to go over again In a decade. Why
not leave the old regime as It was?
Policy-holders will be robbed more
than ever before, for the trail has been
biased, legislatures, courts and all re
straint mussled. Once upon a time,
long time ago, reads the fable; A rail
road superintendent called a conductor
of a passenger train Into his office and
said: "I am going to discharge you,
for I find out you have been taking
cash fares. I am going to put a freight
conductor In your place." Tho pas
senger conductor said: "Don't do It,
for It will coat you more. 1 have
made now abont all I’ll ever need out
of your road and this new man haa
never had the chance, and now he will
have to get hie pile out of you." The
moral Is obvious. There Is now about
99 to 95 paid out to life Insurance
companies In premium! to every 91
paid back In death claims. There Is
no reason on earth why any man
should take out a life Insurance policy,
for If he can’t, by provident means, in
vest or save during his lifetime, can he
produce a family who could cave or
keep a fortune left In life Insurance
after his death? In other words, on
the face of It, by their own figures,
life Insurance companlea condemn
themeelves for they show that fpr every
dollar they get they rarely pay back
50c. Does that look good to a work'
Ing man? N. K. SMITH.
Acwortb, Ga., June 17, 1108.
audience with the pope. Archbishop
Farley presented the dlstliupilehed
American women.
William B. Leeds will be called upon
to show cause why he should not pay
an additional duty of 9100,000 on a
magnificent pearl necklace he recently
bought for hla wife In Paris, and for
which he'Is said to have paid 9400,000.
On pearls the United States govern
ment levies a duty of only 10 per cent
of the value. But let those same pearls
be strung Into the length of a necklace,
or set, and the law, as Interpreted, en
titles the collector of the port to de
mand 00 per cent of the valuation.
But the pearls bought by Mr. Leeds
and brought to this country by M.
Cllroen. a member of the Cartier firm,
are said to be the most magnificent
string ever assembled.
The Justices of the court of special
sessions have decided. In a test case,
that the negro organization of Elks, the
"Improved Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks of tho World,” may le
gally wear the badge Inscribed “I. B. P.
O. E,” without Infringing on the white
order.
Miss Jane, daughter of Randall Mor
gan, traction magnate of Philadelphia,
Is now a New York bay pilot. She
already holds a license for navigating
oceans, obtained from the local board
of steam vessel Inspectors In this port,
Now she has a license for navigating
the waters of New York bay as far as
Fort Washington point. She passed a
nearly perfect examination.
Miss Morgan holds a certificate as
master of her father's yacht, which
once belonged to Emperor Frances Jo
seph. She also has a license for Phlla'
delphla waters.
WHATLEY RESENTS
REFLECTIONS CAST
GA,
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Replies to “The Press”
in Open Letter to
the People.
SAYS CHARGES MADE
BY LOT OF SOREHEADS
Deplores Vote-Buying, But De
clares There Was Less of It
Than for Many Years,
THIS DATE IN HISTORY.
About Foreign Immigration.
To the Editor of The Georgian;
In your Issue of June IS there ap'
soared two very forcible articles on
foreign labor coming Into the South.
Like very nearly every point of Issue,
there are two sides to It. There Is
really no dearth of labor In the South
at present. It Is not a question of
quantity, but quality. The main reli
ance for manual tabor, especially on
the farms, has been, and le now, the
negro. Thla has become very unrelia
ble and Is getting more so each year.
There la a great Inclination on Ibe
part of many classes of working people
to congregate In cities and towns and
congest the labor market. It appears
now In Atlanta that there are enough
Idle negro men (and many poor whites)
to till every farm In Georgia. A negro
paper recently editorially commented
on the worthlessness of the average
negro laborer. And, sad to say, educa
tion seems to aggregate this condi
tion. The foreman of an Industry In
your city recently stated In an Inter
view that he had often employed 50
and 109 negroes to work and no more
than half would report for duty. Many
would quit werk without notice, some
not even coming for their pay. What
the South needs Is small colonies of
Norwegians. Swedes and Germans to
cqme over and be divided Into sections
and go out on the farms and tend the
crops. They are willing and able to
work: they know hard work and don't
shirk It. They are reliable, thriRy
and honest, and will make Ideal farm
laborers.
Very few industries thrive without
competition and the negro laborers
need competition, not to run them out
nor to eliminate them, but to awaken
them by want and poverty, to realise
their danger and depart from their
shiftless way. They are getting en
tirely too Independent. They will work
two days and rest three, because they
know If they lose one Job they ran get
another in an hour. This condition has
got to changa or be changed. The
South Is prosperous and Increasing In
population. Increasing In laborers, but
of lbs mme shiftless, useless, unrella-
JUNE 20.
1542—Ferdinand DeSoto, explorer, died.
Born J496.
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ble kind, both white and colored.
This Is of no benefit, this kind of
Increase Is calamity.
Why on earth a white man or n ne
gro will go to a city to earn a living la
a pussle. They ara constantly leaving
the healthy surroundlngi of the coun
try. where they have few expenses and
can raise their children morally, and
coming to.the grinding life of the cities,
where labor Is high, but the cost of
living reduces their prospect of laying
a penny by to the minimum.
Recently a blacksmith leR North
Georgia for Atlanta. He had In the
country plenty of work, a good home,
garden, cattle and was prosperous. He
gets to town; gets more wages, has
td live In a squalid den, taxes and
cost of living so Increased that Instead
of saving money he is In debt and
can’t get bark to hla old home.
A merchant told me recently In 'a
smaller town that he had several cus
tomers who had been farmers, whom
he sold on credit, as they made good
crops and were honest. When they
came to town and they put their fam
ilies In a cotton mill, he kept on selling
them on account, but In a short while
found but that he would lose every
penny he sold to them and that they
had become utterly unreliable and dis
honest. In the country today there
are two Jobs for every laborer; In town
two laborers for every Job.
In the country are comfortable
homes, gardens, vegetables, a cow and
hogs for every family, few expenses,
health and happiness. And If the con
gestion of the cities Is uot relieved and
the dearth of competent labor sup
plied In the rural districts, then foreign
labor Is bound to come and spread all
over the South and take advantage of
the glorious opportunities now sxlsz-
Ing for them. A great cry is going up
all over the South now for labor—
help! help! comes the cry, and those
near by hear It and harken not; soon
thla cry will be heard beyond the
ocean and men and women will come
and take up these homes with com
forts and Joys they have never known
and draw from the bosom of Mother
Earth In this Southland untold riches
and power, and the shiftless Idlers, who
now spend their time loafing around
the saloops and corners of dark alleys,
In cities and towns, will see too late
what opportunities they have lost for-
rer. N. K. SMITH.
Acworth, Os. June 1", 1908.
To the Editor of The Georgian;
It seems . The Savannah Press,
through Its hired correspondents, hss
been very active In sending broadcast
throughout Georgia, reports of whole
sale buying and selling of votes at our
late primary election here, and equally
as active In collecting together from
Its exchanges adverse criticisms on this
election, and placing the same In a
double-column header In The Press of
Saturday last. No one deplores vote
buying and selling at the polls more
than the writer, or for that matter,
than the average, upright, honorable
citizen of Savannah, ond In view of
the fact that there was no necessity
for It ,ln the contest referred to, It Is
still more to be deplored, so far os ths
members of the winning side were con
cerned, as the victory was so decisive
and overwhelming, that the only possi
ble excuse for It must be attributed to
the work of a few enthusiasts In their
seal to still swell the majority, and
forever bury out of sight a crowd of
political corruptionists, harpies, graft
ers, gamblers and Sunday liquor sell
ers, the equals of whom no city in
Georgia has ever been disgraced with In
the annals of our fair state. The Press
was frank to acknowledge In Its com
ment on this election the next day that It
was the first time In the history of Sa
vannah that wealthy men, counting
their money by the hundreds of thous
ands. some of them, millionaires, were
found standing In line early In the
morning. In a pouring, drenching rain,
waiting their turn to vote, and did vote
before they left It, and before 9 o'clock
It was generally conceded by both
sides that the election had been won.
Chaffing Under Defeat,
Unfortunately, Mr. Stovall, the'edl-
tor of The Press, and the Citizens’
Club candidate for state senator, went
down with his ticket. Chafflhg under
his humiliating defeat, It was only nat
ural, that his paper, through Its corps
of correspondents, should.send out this
charge of buying and selling vbtes.
Everybody well knows that If the Citi
zens' Club ticket and Mr. Stovall had
won, there would have been no report
of vote-buying and selling, or any oth
er Irregularity, no matter how fla
grantly and unbluahlngly It may have
been committed.
This Cltlsens' Club, brought Into ex
istence here about twelve years ago,
with ths open and avowed declaration
to reform, upbuild and nurture tbs
best moral, social and flndnclal inter
ests of this city, has had a record of
crime that la without parallel In the
annals of Tammany In New York or of
the Mafia Society of New Orleans. It
hat cursed this town with more open
and notorious gamblers and Sunday li
quor sellers, protected by the sworn
officers of the law, than can be found
anywhere. It has brought untold sor
row to the .Innocent, destitution, starv
ing and rags to the widow and orphan,
wrecked lives to our young men and
corrupted morals on every aide.
Abuse Borne For Yeare.
After groaning under this gruesome
state of affairs tor these long years,
with a patience and submission to which
only a noble and long-suffering people
like those of Savannah could or would
submit. Is It at all to be wohdered at
that an outraged people should rise up
and put them out?
In the name and on behalf of the
good people of this city of my adoption,
where I have lived for the past quarter
of a century, where I have raised my
children, where I have tried to live the
life of an honorable man and upright
clllsen before God and man, I deny this
wholesale Indictment against my peo
ple and against the fair name of this
city. It has been conceived In envy,
born In vengeance and sought to bs
nurtured at the expense of justice and
truth. #
This Is the whole story. As tb the
buying and selling of votes, the num
ber was less, for the large vole polled,
than at any election In the history of
Savannah. Let the people of Geor
gia, therefore, not be deceived In this
abortive effort to traduce our fair name
by a lot of soreheads, defeated at the
polls, whose only aim Is to wreak pri
vate vengeance at the expense of tlw
truth, and especially at the expense of
the fair name of the city of Savannah,
before the people of Georgia.
(X B. WHATLEY.
Savannah, Go., June IS, 1908.
GEORGIANS IN- GOTHAM.
By Private Leased wire.
New York, June 20.—Here are some
of the visitors In New York today: _
ATLANTA—H. P. Mitchell, R- »•
Daniel, H. Cohen, B. Goettingen _
SAVANNAH—W. E. Evans. J. C.
Fleming.
HOT BECOME CANDIDATE
FOR THE GOVERNORSHIP
Special to The Georgian.
Jackson, Miss., June 20.—T. V. SU-
slon. district attorney of the Fifth dis
trict, has tendered his resignation to
the governor, effective July 1. ...
Four candidates ire In the field.
Bate*, of Calhoun; Lamb, of Webster:
Penson, of Choctaw; Turner, of Car-
roll. _ ,
Judge Frank A. Critx, of West Point,
has Issued an address to the Democ*
racy of the state saying he has de
cided not to become a candidate for
governor.
CONDITION OF BANKS
WANTED BY RIDGELY
By Private Leased Wire.
Washington. June 20,—Ths controller
of the currency today Issued a call tnr
the Condition of nil the national banks
at Ibe close of business on June 18.