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The New Era.
ESTABLISHED 1882.
,R. B. WALKER.
EDITOR
DALLAS, GA., February 0, 100S.
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CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.
There is going to bo a hot political
time in Cobb county tills year. No
less than thlrty-ono candidates have
announced for various offices.
The Milieu News lilts a lick at tlic
Methodist eonfutoneo which met at
Brunswick recently for publishing In
Its minutes a coca-cola ad. This is
hammering along the right lino.
Some man naked (hoother day why
it Is that tlie court rooms in never
kept clean between the terms of Su
perior court, that it Is only cleaned a
few days before court convonos. You
can senrcli us.
Mrs. Maud 11. Cobh lias been ap
pointed state librarian to Biiccood
JudgeC. J. Wellburn, resigned. Mrs.
Cobb lias the distinction of being the
first woman in Georgia to hold a
commission ns stntc official.
An exchange aptly remarks: “The
buying public if Influenced .by con
tinuous advertising as it makes an
impression and when ready to buy,
they . naturally' think first of the
store that advertises. Continuous
advertising makes business pay,’’
Tn order to set the public at rest
Hon. Hoko Smith has announced
that he will not bo a candidate for
United States senator this time. He
admits that ho lias looked forward to
occunying that exalted ofllce, but
thinks Ills duty is to servo as govern
or of Georgia one more term.
Hon Beverly 1). Evans, of Wash
ington county, and Hon. Horace M.
Holden, of Taliaferro county, are
candidates to succeod themselves as
judges of the supremo court. Both
these aro most excellent gentlemen
as well as able jurists and ttiey will
probably have no opposition. Judge
Holden was appointed last year to
fill an unexpirod, tern:. Previous to
his appointment lie was judge of the
Northern judicial circuit. His re
cord there will long lie remembered
for tlie Impartiality with which lie
presided and ability with which ho
fUledgthe position. He is probably
the youngest member of the supremo
court, but his indefatigable labor
and clear judicial mind have already
marked him fur a leading part in
the deliberations of this highest ju
diclal tribunal in Georgia.
The McRae Enterprise says it is
ngainst the election of the judges by
the people because this is one of tlio
offices that should bo “taken out of
the wrangle of politics.” The Mari
etta Journal says a hearty amen' to
this, suggesting that the governor
appoint and the senate confirm. But
wo see no reason for taking this pre
rogative .from the peopje. This is
supposed-to bo a government ruu ‘ by
the people, and if the governors' and
legislators and sheriffs and other of
ficers are,olected by tlie people why
not let them also elect the judges?
Were tlie governors to appoint there
would still be wranglings for en
dorsements and wire-pulling and po
litical trickery. We say the good
sense of tlie people of a judicial cir
cuit can as safely be relied on as the
judgment of tlie governor and the
senate. Let the people continue to
elect the judges.
The Atlanta Georgian and
News lias begun a crusade to
build up a public sentiment in
Georgia against capital punish
ment. The delicate sensibilities
of its editor were stirred to their
profoundest depths by the spec
tacle of the wife of one Glover,
who was executed in Augusta
last Friday, going before the gov
ernor, and pleading for the life
of her condemned husband. Af
ter looking thoroughly into the
case Governor Smith refused ex
ecutive clemency. Apropos of
this the Georgian depicts the
horrors of an execution by the
stale, and says that life impris
onment should be substituted for
capital punishment. It brands
the practice of executing crimi
nal ns a relic of barbarism.
This is no new position to be
taken, for from time immemorial
tlicro have been tliose who claim
ed that tlio state has no right to
tnke the life of a criminal, that
tho state itself commits murder
when it, through its courts of
justice and regularly constituted
oflieers, takes vengeance on the
criminal who has violated its law
declaring that tlie violator of it
shall bo punished with death.
Heartrending pictures can be
painted of the grief of the family
of tho criminal when he is con-
domened to die and when the
life is taken from him. Tho
Georgian very eloquently and
touchingly described tlie efforts
of tho wife to save the life of her
condemned husband in this wise:
“Yes, his wife went to the
capitol—just a woman—poor and
torn by sleepless nights and
troubled days; no taste for food,
no hope for future happiness;
just the wife of a man condemn
ed to death. She didn’t ask the
governor to remove the curse and
stain tliis man had brought upon
her; she didn’t ask for money
she only asked for his life; life,
that flmly unseeab^ spirit that
comes and goes without a sound;
that makes men walk and work
and love; that makes the little
baby cry and laugh; that one
thing we all strive to keep and
nurse and that we love first
Like the woman that she is, she
fought to the last ditch,” etc.
Very pitiful indeed, and no
one with a heart in his breast
can fail to pity the poor wite,
wretched and heartbroken. But
mind you thin wife’s pitiable con
dition was not brought about by
the state of Georgia on account
of its laws declaring that murder
shall tie punished by the death
of the murderer. The wretch
who committed tlie crime has
blasted the life of the wife whom
he should huvo cherished and
shielded from all harm instead
of consorting with other women
and allowing his illicit love to
lead to murder at last. Tho state
could not afford to give back thi
criminal to his wife. Had the
sentence beefi commuted to life
imprisonment then he could not
have gone back to his wife. The
stato has the right to deprive the
murderer of his liberty when he
violates its taws. The state also
has the right to take the life of
life of his wife. No, the state is
not to bUihe; the murderer him
self is to blame.
The Georgian cites the state
of Michigan as an example tod<
prove that the abolition of capi
tal punishment will itself make
crime to decrease. Statistics of
some sort can generally be used
prove most anything. The
No nred lo four emurhs h tI colds till
yearns you tun nbiuiu lives, Luxative
Cough Syrup now from your dealer. This
is good news to mothers who fenr croup
and whooping cough. It is n gdntie laxa
tive that cxpclls the poison from the svs-
tern in the natural wnv. Cuts the phlegm
and cle-rs t|up head. Guarantied at. Dr.
Coopt t’a drug store. 1
to
fact that Michigan is not so
densely populated with the low
class of foreigners like New York
and Massachusetts will doubt
less account for the fact that this
state has a lower percentage of
criminals than those two states.
And the negro population in
Georgia and Florida will, to any
observing man, account for the
greater percentage of crimes in
these two states.
There have been states where
capital punishment was abolish
ed and after the plan was tried
in this way conditions were such
that the lawmakers went back to
the old plan as the best. Capi
tal punishment was abolishod in
Switzerland,but afterwards when
the power of deciding upon this
question for themselves was con
ferred upon the Cantons, several
of them immediately took advan
tage of this and restored the pun
ishment. Capital punishment
was abolished in Iowa but after
about four years it was re-estab
lished “owing to the alarming
increase of violent crimes.”
The Georgian might cite a
hundred states where it has work
ed successfully and it might paint
so vividly the griefs and sorrows
of a condemned man’s family
that pity would shed it’s bitter
est tear, but there is one thing in
the stale of Georgia that will
prevent any lawmaking body
from doing away with capital
punishment in this state.
The presence of the negro
leaves absolutely no foundation
for an argumeut ill favor of abol
ishing capital punishment in
Georgia. The thing that has
made lynchings so common was
tlio fact that justice was not met
ed out with swift enough hand
and with terrible) enough circum
stances to the brute whom no
death could sufliclently punish
for the crime he had committed.
As lopg as the negro remains
with ns, nnd until the criminal
negro is done away with for good,
to soriously favor the abolishing
ot capital punishment in Geor
gia chnnot be thought of. If it
would be”productive of nothing
more, it would most certainly
cause more |lynchings than now
occuri
Therefore we aro constrained
to think that Mr. Seelev is on
the wrong track.
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T O tho voters of Paulding county:
I announce myself a candidate
for the office of tax collector, sub-
cot to the white primary, and ho-
icit your support, promising If elect
ed to execute my duties to the best
of iny ability. " J. F. Adams.
| HEREBY announce myself a can-
I didate for treasurer of Paulding
* county. If nominated I promise
faithful and efficient service. I will
appreciate the snpport and influence
of every voter. W. E. Oiikw.
the murderer for violating the
sanctity of another person’s life
We havo only the deepest pit
for the wife whose Jove for her
husband still burns—thongli that
husband is a murderer—a n
though lie became a murderer af
ter having first proved false to
the marriage vow to the wife
wlm endeavored with all the ear
nestness of her nature to^pniveiit
the death sentence from being
carried out. But howsoever ear
nestly this wife may plead for
the husband’s life, the state
would be doing he? no kindness
to refuse to execute her husband,
i’oor soul, in the blindness of her
love she may not see it so, but.
the man committed the crime.
He it was who has brought this
stain upon himself and upon her.
He put to her lips the bitter cup.
Perhaps when the death pangs
seized him he mav have known
that ho Was also being punished
for bunging the curse into the
I HEREBY announce myself a can-
didate, for treasurer of Paulding
county. As l cannot canvass the
county as I would like to, I hope
the voters will consider UiIb ns a per.
sonal conversation. , . . .
Yours for faithfulness,
' ' W. P. W101,8Y.
For
Ladles
Ills
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