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mam TIIE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. mm mm - The Atlanta Georgian. JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Edilor. F. L. SEELY, President. Telephone Connections. Subscription Rites: One Tear $4.50 Sis Months 2.50 Three Months ..... 1.25 By Carrier, per week 10c Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday by THE GEORGIAN GO. at 25 W. Alabama Street, Atlanta, Ga. V 1 JJ ■ 1 Ei>Wed at second-flan matter April 2S. " Atlanta. Ga.. under act of congnu 909. at the rontofflce at of March 9, 1979. L%l THE GEORGIAN COMES TO I GEORGIA AS THE SUNSHINE \ % “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 O Gossips About People and Other Things. By CHOLLY KNICKERBOCKER. O ............................................. 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, I 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. 1632—Charter of Maryland received by Lord Baltimore. 1719—Battle of Vlllafranca, Sicily. 1781—Richmond, ’ Va., evacuated by Lord Cornwallis. 1791—Flight of Louis XVI from Paris. 1824—John T. Morgan. United States senator from Alabama, bom. 1837—King William IV of England died; succeeded by Queen VIC' tori a, 1862—City of Mexico surrendered by the Jaurists. 1874—New conference currency bill Is passed by both houses of con gress. 1878—Santa Anna, president of Mexi co, died; born February >1, 1795. 1886—Prince Lutppold made regent of Bavaria. 1893— Lizzie Borden acqulted of the murder of her parents In Fall Blver, Mass. 1894— Severe earthquake at Yokohoma, Japan. 1895— Baltic ship canal opened. 1897— Queen Victoria began the cele bratlon of her Jubilee. 1898— United States troops reached Santiago de Cuba. 1903—Cardinal Vaughan died. Born April 16, 1999. 1905—Herbert W. Bowen, minister to Venezuela, dismissed by Presl dent Roosevelt. 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.