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Ihe Golden Age
(SUCCESSOR TO RELIGIOUS lORUJT)'
Published Ebery Thursday by the Golden Sigs Publishing
Company (Inc.)
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Sabannah! Sabannah!
Poor, pretty “pestering” Savannah! Her streets
are beautiful as a dream, but her folks —lots of
them, we mean —show that parks
Clearing
The
Jungle
enforce the law. And as soon as the curtain fell
on the old regime liquor shops began to break out
in places new and old, and protected by all sorts
of devilish devices.
First, Judge Emory Speer, of the Federal Court,
came down on them “like a wolf on the fold” —
and the club forces were made to go. And last
week Mayor Tiedeman put on his war paint and
declared that while he was not a prohibitionist
himself he was determined to enforce the law —
and thirty-nine “blind tigers” were caught in one
night, and it wasn’t a good night for tigers either!
We love to watch the clearing of the jungle. The
thing can be done.
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The Rnd of "Night 'Riders. ”
What seemed for a long time impossible in Ken
tucky is taking place at last. The “night riders”
have made life terrible in the
A Judge Who
Is Not Afraid
and occasionally some man brave enough to stand
in the way of the murderers has been beaten with
stripes or shot to death.
Anarchy prevailed and terror reigned. Officers
of the law have been afraid to strike, or, helpless,
have known not where to begin. But a faithful,
fearless judiciary is beginning to make itself felt.
Forty of these lawless men were in the Murray jail
last week, and the confessions of the leader of the
gang will lead to the speedy arrest of many more.
Judge Cook of the superior court at that place gave
a charge to the grand jury which reflected great
wisdom and bravery. “If you find my brother in
the crowd,” he said, “indict him, for this is anarchy
and must be stopped. Such lawlessness has made
the good name of Kentucky to suffer enough, and
I will do my duty in helping redeem that good name
if my life pays the forfeit.” With such a judge
night riders and blind tigers must go!
and flowers in themselves do not
regenerate a community. Savan
nah said before prohibition ( came
that she could not and would not
“Blue Grass State” for nearly
a year. Property has been de
stroyed, barns have been burned
The Golden Age for April 23, 1908.
Smith and "Brolvn on Prohibition
The eyes of the nation are on Georgia’s present
gubernatorial race. In fact, Georgia has away,
somehow, of keeping everybody’s
Georgia’s eyes upon her, whatever she may be
Candidates doing. But since Georgia was the
for Governor first state in the South to adopt
Both Declare statewide prohibition all people on
Themselves, both sides everywhere are anxious
to know about the effect of the new
law and also whether an effort will be made to
amend or repeal it. The fact that some people
just naturally like liquor and that others who do not
like it think some constructions of the present law
are too drastic has caused much comment and ex
pectancy concerning the attitude of the two candi
dates for Governor. Governor Hoke Smith, who
was a “local optionist” during the campaign that
elected him governor, did not press the prohibition
issue, and in this he was of course behind the party
that elected him overwhelmingly on personal and
economic grounds. And all the world knows how
the prohibitionists in the Legislature backed up
against the wall and said: “Give us Georgia’s
greatest need —dethrone the liquor traffic before any
other legislation is attempted.”
The glorious deed was done. But a number of
anti-prohibitionists who voted for the bill at the
request of their constituents led in the effort of
others to make the bill as drastic as possible, say
ing: “We' won’t vote for it unless you put the lid
on tight. We want you to get enough.”
This left the bill with some minor vulnerable
points, especially with reference to the sale of med
icines and flavoring extracts with alcohol in them
and also the keeping of liquor for the manufacture
of medicines and soft drinks which are not in them
selves intoxicating.
This caused a good deal of talk about modification
of the prohibition law. Whereupon Governor Smith
promptly announced that he would veto any bill
looking to the modification of the present law unless
that change be offered by the friends of the bill.
This announcement of Governor Smith was re
ceived with enthusiasm by the great majority of
prohibitionists.
When the Hon. Joseph M. Brown entered the
race for governor there was much speculation as to
his position, and inasmuch as he said he would sign
any amendment which the legislature might present
to him, some charged him with being favorable to
the cause of anti-prohibition and one partisan paper
went so far as to charge that a part of that million
dollar corruption fund recently raised by the brew
ers and liquor dealers would be used to elect Mr.
Brown. But men who knew that Mr. Brown has
Mercer-Wake Forest Debate.
College circles in many states were deeply inter
ested in the issue of the last battle in the series
of Mercer-Wake Forest debates.
A
Stirring
Forensic
Battle
stitution lost two times in “transgression,” as the
old woman expressed it.
The last of the series took place at the Broughton
Tabernacle in Atlanta Monday night, April 20, and
the Mercer men came student body and debaters in
the spirit of “win or die,” determined to dash
like “The Charge of the Light Brigade” to victory
or to death! •
And they did not die.
The question was: Resolved, that the present
tendency toward centralization is for the best
interests of our republic. Wake Forest affirmative;
Mercer, negative.
Mercer representatives, Chas. H. Garrett of
Macon and Ralph Bailey of Savannah, burned the
midnight oil and 11 ’twas not burned for naught. ’ ’
Garrett’p merciless logic and Bailey’s' cogent elo-
Mercer University had never lost
a debate in all her history until
she went up against the colossal
sons of the Old North State, and
then the victorious Georgia in-
been a prohibitionist all his life, refuse to take any
stock in the reckless charge that this corruption
fund will be used for him with his connivance or
his consent. We believe he ought to repudiate
everything that looks like such a “line-up” and
warn the liquor men that they may expect no com
fort from him in the event of his election.
Mr. Brown said he had supposed that his consist
ent record and the affiliations of a lifetime would
be sufficient guarantee as to his attitude on the
prohibition question, but the prohibition leaders
were not satisfied with his- declaration concerning
an amendment to the present bill, and urged a
more definite answer. To this request Mr. Brown
answered that he had from the first been in fullest
sympathy with the Hardman-Covington-Neel bill
and that he would, if elected, “resist any effort to
emasculate or weaken the present law.”
There was still a widespread feeling that the
word “veto” ought to be used and on Monday fol
lowing the great prohibition rally at the Grand in
Atlanta, Sunday afternoon, the issue was put
direct to each candidate, as follows:
In the event of my election as governor of
Georgia, I pledge myself to resist, if necessary,
with the veto power vested in me any repeal
or change by amendment thereto, the present
prohibition law of Georgia.
On this issue, Governor Smith reiterated his
purpose to veto any adverse bill, and Mr. Brown
said “Yes” to the question, explaining why he
has not said it before.
So at last we have both candidates for Governor
of a prohibition state standing on a straight prohi
bition platform. This is refreshing, compared with
other years, that the question of continued prohi
bition is not in the Georgia campaign and other
state and local campaigns in the South. The fact
that liquor men are trying to elect men favorable
to them wherever they have even a half hope of
success shows that it is an issue, and the friends
of good government must wake up everywhere and
have no equivocation on this point.
The Golden Age is not a political paper, but it is
pledged to “purity in the state,” and we believe
that no man should be elected to any office if he
meddles with a bottle himself or keeps company
with the man who does.
Study each platform and the man behind it, and
from bailiff to President vote for no man who is
not out and out against the liquor traffic in every
form.
America needs Georgia now—and Georgia must
keep “dry” at whatever cost.
quence did the deed. F. F. Brown, the terror of
opponents always, and F. T. Collins a magnetic
Irishman who talked like another Robert Emmett,
gave the Mercer contingent a tremendous shock at
first, but on the rebuttal the Mercer champions
caught on fire and ran under the string a neck
ahead.
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The Wesley Memorial Enterprise.
Monday, April 20, marked an epoch in the
practical progress of Methodism in the South. On
An
Epoch
In
Southern
Methodism
for the purpose of fellowship and
general* congratulation.
Major R. J. Guinn was made president of the
incorporation, Asa G. Candler, vice-president, and
Walker White secretary. Major Guinn who has
done valiant field work for this great enterprise,
reported $40,000 of the $220,000 recently subscribed
Shad been paid in and that all things are
jnpvipg splendidly. - •
that day prominent Christian
workers, preach el’s and laymen
from different parts of Georgia,
met in the afternoon for the
purpose of formal incorporation,
and at night a reception was held
