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iy THE CONVENTION.
s"‘l"he Democratic clans have gather
ed at San Francisco, and the greal
c.bnv'ention is under way. Some one
lfis said that the hope of the world
l{ss at San Francisco. Whether that
be true or not a brief survey of the
sfit_latlon makes an interesting study.
fter two successful campaigns for
&;e Presidency—the first consecutive
t:fio successful ones since the Civil
war-—the representatives of the De
!abcracy meet in supreme conclave
".S promulgate a platform and name
their standard bearers at one of the
mbst eritieal junctures in the histo
¢ of the country. - } i
g%*leilh(-:r the world, nor any appre
c%ble number of the people of this
country, find any thing hopeful in the
wbrk of the Republican convention
The assemblage of glittering general
itles which may mean all things, o
l‘;{othlngf‘ offered by them as a declara
t’pn of party principles, coupled with
a careful appraisment of their chief
sf.andurd bearer, convinces all thought
t‘in people that nothing can be expec
ted from that quarter; save a fow
ygfiommiea Ly the old regiblican bosses
-——~the bosses of the type who ruled
tl_i__is country twenty-five years ago.
l.fi'ough the Republican party. 'There J
fore the most charitable thing that
c?}l‘be sfml of the Republican party |
i%‘,that it is swiftly and gracefully “ad
vlneing backward.” |
gt would seem therefore, if hope re |
mx;ains to the forward looking pvuph-;
ogfi;Almerica. that hope must lie at San f
Francisco. |
‘{&)w the convention will discharge
t@;respnnsibility which rests upon
it, . remains to be developed. To the
pémctly candid, all is not easy there.
Tg; issues to be settled are such as
calt “for the highest qualities of pa
übgism and leadership. In that gath
e“_ of democrats are many men of
bx and vision—filled with lofty pur
pfiq and stern resolve. But amony
.thgm we also find brainless asse:,
tl&)}(ling politicians and party assa:
bl?b lurking around. Let us be frank;
not all the undesirables are found
w?@n the ranks of the Republican
pq&t&y.
he Field Marshall of the brainless
aa’@ is W. J. Bryan. The only rea
sop Bryan has lived so long to afflict
lhédumm-mlic party is because a reai
ly :'p;lgnesnmulike idea never struck
bim. Behold him now like a veritable
w%‘,hnrsv. with mane disheaveled.
no&_fi'ns distended, champing the bits
and ‘declaring that prohibition shail
be the issue “paramount.” in the pla’
fofip. What does the peace of the
womld and the honor of the United
Sté}es amount H) compared to this
bul:!ling issue? Especially in view (
thel fact that liquor in the United
St‘.éies as dead as slavery——both dead
an@® jburied under a Constitutionul’
amyulment No wonder the republi
(tal& .an(l the cowardly assassins \\‘i!'::
in 99 Democratic party, are speaking !
mighty well of Bryan now.
Sjgdd(-nly they have discovered that |
Brysn is a mighty man. After bhis
dis;utceful conduct as Secretary n:f
Sta&'*and after his forced retirement |
from the cabinct in the face of th:-{
CUISER T/ith CGermany Bryas, sou wilt
B S e
recall, passed into that silence which
he had so long deserved. You will
also recall, at the Jackson dinner,
early in the year, Bryan came out of
his long hybernation te remark that
being a life long friend of the peace
treaty and the League of Nations, he
would advise the Democratic senators
favorable to theé league, to absent
themselves from the senate, so that
‘the Republican majority might be
really the two thirds vote necessary to
emasculate the league. *
Immediately aiter this wise and in
tensely honorable pronouncement, the
entire republican party, and all the
bushwhackers of the administration,
suddenly discovered that Bryan was a
great man., His greatness will depart
with this convention, for the malcon
tents will have no further use of him.
Skulking around the edges of the
Convention, like a burglar trying to
break in with evil intent, we find the
Jim Reed’s and the Tom Hardwick’s.
Scorned by their own people, whom
they have betrayed, and held in con
tempt by the very enemies of the
democratic party, they insist on hang
ing around where they are plainly not
welcomed, hoping for a last chance to
betray the party, which, through a
‘grevious mistake,has honored them.
We also see there, if we look clese
?enough. the little peanut politician
who is trying to keep his ear to the
ground W an effort to locate and
stride the band wagon, regardless of
the direction in which it may be trav
eling.
There are other forms also that
we see there, Xim, mysterious and
sinister, they lurk around the corri
dors and the secret chambers of this
Convention as they do all others. So
far as conventions go, they have no
favorites. They play them all. We
refer of course, to what is known in
common parlance as ‘“the Special In
toerests.” This term used to be ap
plied to the money interests alone,
but it no longer has such a restricted
meaning. It now embraces numerous
classes and they all come under onec
general appellation of the “American
Nog."” : .
This great American Hog is one of
the developments of the war and he is
a very persistent and avericious ani
mal. He will bear close watching if
any gieanings are to be left for the
common run of people.
To say that the forees to which we
have alluded are not present and ac.
tive at San Francisco would be to de
liberately shut our eyes to the facts.
They are tnere, and they mean to
work their will if possible. But will
lthey? Honestly we do not believe !
hey will succeed! Over and above th‘e‘
intrigue and the tumult of the conven
tion, silently, we may say, but none
tie lees potently, ther> broads the
{wree of the greatest and the surest
leddership that the demoeriti- party
of this generation has known At the
mention of the name of their great
leader, the dispatches of yesterday tell |
the story of what happened in that
convention. Back in the silent reach
os of the White House, sits a silent,
stricken man, These representatives
of the party at San Francisco know
that their great leader has received
his mortal wound. They know that
in person he will never lead them tn‘
victory again. But in that lum-,l\'l
figure they recognize incarnated th-"
mighty degds that have been wrought |
‘or the past eight years through thoi
instrumentalities of the great party he i
has so splendidly led. Before the
;reat achievements of the democratic
nosts, under his leadership, its mis
akes fade. Before the temptest of
ipproval aroused by the mention of
hat name, the Bryans, and the Reed:
wd the Hardwicks shrink and shrivel
nd disappear. It must also bring an
ancanny shiver down the dignifie?
ipine of the Republican party. Some
ww they have unpleasant vecollec:
ions of 'that name. '
To say that the leadership of Wood
ow Wilson will domnate the grea:
Lemoceratic convention is the sux'(‘sl:‘
augury that the hope of the world will
10t be disappointed at San Francisco.
If he leads there, it is because he has
ho selfish ends to serve—and because
he delegates to that convention know
»f a truth that his is a leadership that
ledicated itself to the service of hu
nanity.
"o arpnzien
THE NEGRO IS PASSING.
The southbern farmer possibly does
not realize it, but the great industries
of the whole country are removing
cheap colored farm labor forever from
the reach of southern plantation em
ployment, The growing, ever widen
ing industrial world is learning to use
the negro as the south has prepared
him for public work. This outflow
will not remove all the negroes from
the south, but in ten years the black
race will be scattered over the whole
country. This is one of the chances
which the war brought. As a cheap
farm laborer, the negro is passing.
Soon he will be the problem of the
whole nation, the race burden of all
the country. His habit will still be
the habit of the southern negro. He
will spend what he makes and work
when he is hungry, except in cases
where in the hard knocks of life he
has learned something of the advan
tages of thrift.
The steady farming element among
the negroes that remains in the souath
must learn to do farming by machin
ery. and fill in for the labor that is
gone,
In Towa and Nebraska corn beélt one
man, a cultivator and four horses
plough out and out twenty acres of
corn a day. The accomplishment of
the one man, his machine and four
horses will equal what six to eight
hands can do under the Georgia ‘“‘nig
ger and mule” regime.
, The negro farm help in Georgia
!wlll continue to dwindle as long as
- high prices are offered in public work
Ifor unskilled labor. Woa mu'.&:t fill in
lthe losses with machinery and farm
for the money we can make out of it.
! The stumps must go and the ma
chinery must supplant the passing ne
i' gro. There is no other way. The far
jmer in Crisp county mast never y A.s“t
until the last stump is goie. He must
:udopt more economical methods. He
; must tend more acres with less help
The passing of cheap farm labor is
going to forece us to adopt the more
economical methods and when we do,
we will loak back on the old way anl
wonder why we had not learned how
stodarm longrago.nr: *- e e
’ Georgia has a better day aheaq in
farming. The scarcity of the old typ»
~of labor is bringing an unwilling souti
its greatest blessing—tthe why and
‘the how of making crops with one
| fourth present cost in labor.
\ The stumps must be removed f(irst,
?'l‘lmn farming by machinery will
bridge over all the labor shortage
and put us on an equal cost basis with
the west. That day is near and the
transition will bring great wealth to
one of the best agricultural sections
in the whole country. We can well
afford to give up the negro if it brings
us all these improvement.
KILL THE RAT.
Calling attention to (h- discovery
of bubonic plague in several American
and Mexicai® gulf ports. and renew
ing his warning regarding the intro
| duction of plague from Mediterancan
ports which are known (o he infected,
Surgeon Generzl Hugh S. Cumming
today urged communitios throughout
the country, and especially 2long the
coast, to inaugurate lat extermination
and rat-proofing campaigns,
“Bubonic plague is primarily 3 dis
ease of rodents, especially rats.” said
General Cumming, “and the disease
‘x-;m be controlled effectively by meas
lurvs directed against the rat. The
| extermination of rats is all the more
|to be desired because of the tremend-.
inlls economic damage they cause.” }
’ According to conservative estimates |
‘made Ly the U* S. Public Health Ser
vice on the basis of numerous surveys,
there is at least one rat for every per
son in the Unjted States. This esti
mate coincides with that for Grcat[
Brittain and Ireland, and with authori-|
tative figures for Denmark, anco‘
and Germany. The annual up-kecpi
per rodent was computed by the same
authorities as $l.BO in Great Britain,l
$1.20 in Denmark. and $l.OO in France.
! The depredations of the rats in thel
“l‘nitwl States will very probably ex
jcoed the estimate for Great Britain.'
{One-half a cent a day is considered
onservative, but even on this compu
ation, it costs the United States I
$180.000,000 5 vear to support its rat
vopulation, This does not includ
‘micu. ‘
| “The 1. 8. Public Health Service is
prepared to detail trained experts to
lu.w.ist communities in organizing the
fight against rats,” said General Cum
ming, “Many of our officers have
had extensive practical experience in
this work, and know how to make it
really effective. In the seaport cities
the vwerl (F cadenminatian - hagtd Ty
THE CORDELE DISPATCH
supplemented by bacteriological lab-'
oratory examinations to determine’
whether or not plague infection isl
present among the rodents. In thel
inland cities this is not now neces
sary.” ‘
The U.S. Public Health Service Jlasi
just published a new bulletin entitled
“The Rat: Arguments for its Ellmin~|
ation and Methods for its Destruc-|
tion.” Copics mag bhe obtained by
addressing the U. 8. Public Health
Service, Washinfiton, D. C.
The British (official) Labor Gazette,!
in a review of prices during the year
of 1915, states that the average in
crease in the retail prices of food on'
January 1,°1920, was 136 per cent com
pared with July, 1914, while the gene
ral increase in the cost of living, in
cluding house rent, fuel and light was'
125 per cent. !
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