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SOLICITOR-GENERAL, SAM P. MADDOX.
TROX BANKSTON
will enter
from this <3
tion. Mr.
sented Wh
islature ma
Advertising rates consistent with the
and will be made known on application
•Entered at the Dalton, Ga., Postoffice as
Hunter cannot strike the Sen
atorial trail in Kentucky.
some
Pot-metal is c
papers can use all
but none of it for
Blackburn
withdraw from
orth (Seorp (Eitizea.
SHOWALTER,
knows how to
when he catches one.
stew is nOt es
pecially tempting to an epicure.
Pure cussedness seems to be
the largest part of the makeup of
present grand jury of
Whitfield is one of the ablest the
county has ever had.
is cheap and other
all they want of it,
the Citizen.
has been asked to
the race for the
United States Senate in Kentucky.
Some papers in this great
countiy are as “ fearless and free”
as an almanac. No flowers, thank j-Snuthem Journalism,
you.
“ Billy Bryan’s ” stock is way
up since the election- returns of
Monday and Tuesday have been
received.
Mayor McAfee has gone to
Atlanta to see about the new union
depot for Dalton. He may bring
it back with him.
If the grand 'jury does every
thing Judge Fite told them to do
they will make it hot for the evil
doers of.this county.
CONGRESS.
It is understood on pretty good
authority that Hon. Paul B. Tram
mell, of the county of Whitfield,
the race for congress
district in the next elec-
Mr. Trammell has repre-
Whitfield county'in the leg-
many times, and is at pres
ent collector of internal revenue
for Uuncle Sam for the northern
district of Georgia. He has many
friends throughout this section.
WILL BE _ INVITED TO DALTON.
The Citizen, on behalf of the
inhabitants of the most charming
little city in the State, hereby noti
fies the members of the Georgia
Wfickly Press .Association that
they will be invited to hold theii
annual meeting in 1898 at Dalton.
The members of the fourth es
tate are now informed of the fact,
and the editor of The Citizen,
providence permitting, will extend
the invitation in person to the
Weekly Press Association when
it meets at Cuthbert.
If the city council want to do
a good thing for Dalton, let them
have the names of the streets
painted on signs and put up at the
most prominent crossings in the
city. Some member of the coun
cil has a chance to immortalize
himself. Who will it be ?
[ FITE'S CHARGE TO THE
grand
Full Report of One of the Ablest Charges Ever Delivered in
Whitfield or Any Other County.
THE PUBLIC HIGHWAYS OF THIS COUNTY MUST BE IMPROVED.
He Holds the Grand Jury Responsible for the Condition of the Public Roads.
The Demi Mond, Blind Tigers and Pistol Toters Must /
Seek a More Congenial Climate.
“ Trox Bankston very appro
priately alludes to the Atlanta
Looking Glass as ; the vulture of
and con
gratulates the Georgia Press As
sociation that the black-mailing
sheet can no longer claim member
ship in that body.”—Macon News.
One of the ablest charges ever
delivered to a grand jury in Whit
field county was that of Judge A.
W. Fite on Monday morning. It
is published in the news columns
of the Citizen. Read it and you
will concur in the remark.
The Presbytery meets in Dal
ton next Wednesday. Let every
body have on their best bib and
tucker when the brethren come.
No news is suppressed in the
Citizen office. The people pay
us for a newspaper, and that is
what we are going to give them.
See?
The Cltizen is the only paper
in Whitfield county that is all set
up at home. We leave the use of
pot-metal for others. Plate mat
ter is cheap.
The Georgia Weekly Prees As
sociation will be invited to hold
their annual convention in Dal
ton in JL898, if the editor of the
CiTrzEN lives and has no bad luck.
The free silver cause is grow
ing if election returns from the
North Central States this week
mean anything. Ohio’s cities went
Democratic Monday, Chicago went
Democratic Tuesday, Michigan
went Democratic Wednesday.
Three more days this week to hear
from.
The Atlanta Journal says: “ As
usual, Trox Bankston, was one of
the jolliest of the jolly visitors,
and with tears in his eyes he an
nounced that he would be unable
to go with the party, .that his two
papers did not interfere at all, but
that his dear wife had so many in
terests that he was forced to stay
at home and look after them.”
Whitfield Superior Court-con
veiled promptly at ten o’clock last
Monday morning.
The court house was crowded
and there were people there from
every section of the county.
The court was soon organized,
and - Judge Fite began his charge
to the grand jury.
He began by saying that the law
made it his duty to give the grand
jury in charge certain matters and
things touching the present ser
vice, and it would then, become
their duty to make a thorough in
vestigation of all such matters and
things that he should give them in
charge, and make true returns
thereof, in civil matters, in their
general presentments, and in crim
inal matters either by special pre
sentments or indictments.
He reminded them that in their
official capacity they'were simply
the. servants of the people, and
were paid by the people to dis
charge the duties incumbent upon
them and that they owed it to the
people to do good and faithful
He dwelt at length upon the
public roads and the public schools
of the county.
- He said that Whitfield county
had a fine .system of public road
working in theory, the roads being
worked partly by taxation and
partly by individual labor; but
judging from the condition of the
public roads of the county, espec
ially the one from Dalton to Spring
Place, which lie had recently trav
eled, he^feared the system was bad
in practice.
He said that he was satisfied,
that a portion of that road was
worse than any other in the coun
ty, or in the Cherokee Circuit, at
least he hoped so. That the road
was practically impassable, and he
feared that the grand jury would
be asked to charge its condition to
the recent heavy rains and to Prov
idence; and that if the grand jury
followed the precedent heretofore
set that they would do so, and say
in the general presentments, as
usual, that “we find the roads of
the county in pretty bad condition
JUDGE FITE'S CHARGE TO GRAND JURY
(Continued from 6th column).
President McKinley and
.family are out for an airing on
the Dolphin. After reading this
week’s election returns we suppose
he needed something to brace him
U P- .
Over fifty new subscribers have
been added to the subscription list
of the Citizen this week. That
is the way to do it. Publish a
newspaper and the people will
want to read and pay for it.
If the grand jury wants ter do
something for the people of Whit
field county and the city of Dal
ton, let them recommend that a
clock be placed in the tower of the
courthouse, so that everybody,
rich and poor, may know the time
of day.
“ Editor W. Trox Bankston,
editor and owner of The Dalton
Citizen and the Ringgold New
South, is among the visiting edi
tors, and is one of the happiest of
the lot. The only cloud that
shuts out the sunbeams of true
joy from his soul is the fact that
3 cannot leave his two papers to
o on the trip to Nassau.”—Macon
rening News.
Bates, William M. Lowry, John
A. Boyd, W. F. .Sanders, Henry
P. Stacey, John J. Dyer
Officer* of the Court.
The officers waiting on the court
this week are as follows:
D. Sholl, Clerk; J. M. Johnson,
Sheriff; W. Austin, Deputy Sher
iff ; W. W. Mauldin, Special Dep
uty; W. G. Tankersley, Special
Officer, Tom Hamilton and W. B.
Fry Riding Bailiffs, Sam C. Brit
ton, Bailiff to the Grand Jury.
Cases Disposed Of.
W. M. Hamilton vs. J. Iv. and
E. B. Farrar, Ex., Verdict for
Plaintiff, $279.26.
B. K. Hix vs. W. & A. R. R.,
Verdict for Plaintiff for $250.00.
W. M. Haig & Co., vs. H. H.
Ware and D. Puryear, Verdict for
Plaintiff $141.71, including inter
est and attorney’s fees.
Lake Street Manufacturing
Block Co. vs. Alexander Taylor,
Defendant, and J. A. Looney,
Claimant, property found subject.
Mattie Claridy vs. W. F. Sum-
merour, case dismissed by the
Plaintiff.
Lake Street Manufacturing
Block Co. vs. Taylor and Way.
Case now on trial.
A Criminal Case.
As the Citizen goes to press
Thursday afternoon, the case of
Henry Zuber, a negro who is
charged with selling whisky on
two different warrants, is being
tried. This is a specific case and
the regular criminal docket will
not be taken up until next AI on -
day
work. That they ought to put in
at least eight hours in a day of
actual service, either in the grand
jury room or on committees inves
tigating the financial condition of
the county and the conduct of the
county officials; or investigating
the violation of the criminal law.
He stated that the presumption
was that in popular elections the
best men were selected for office,
but this is not always true. But,
be that as it may, no officer was
too good, faithful or efficient to
have his conduct thoroughly in
vestigated by the grand jury, /and
that the bad should always be in
vestigated ; that if an officer had
been faithful in the discharge of
his duties it was at least just to
him that the public should know
it; and if he has been unfaithful
the public should know it and his
conduct exposed.
He then briefly, pointedly and
clearly, pointed out the duties of
each county officer, and urged the
gran.d jury to make a thorough in
vestigation of the acts and doings
of these officials.
but we think it owing largely to
the recent heavy rains and other
providential causes, and we rec-
commend that the road commis
sioners throughout the county put
their roads in better condition by
the next term of the court.
Gentlemen, such a recommen
dation would be a reflection upon
your body and not worth the pa
per upon which it is written; anH
the road commissioners would pay
no more attention to it than they
have done heretofore, and the
roads would remain in the same
condition that they have been in were
for years.
If the grand jury wants to be
respected they must respect them
selves and do something; that the
roads would never be in any better
condition than they are now unless
the grand juries determine to do
something and go to work and
do it. 3 >
The grand juries are responsible
for the condition of the public
roads, aiid the reason* they are in
no better condition than they are
isshnply because the grand juries
! have heretofore failed to do their
for neglect of duty every road
commissioner in the county, unless
it should appear that he has
required the road hands to work
every day that the law requires
them to work, and has spent
every cent of money allowed him
for road purposes. That if they
would do this, he would guarantee
that the roads of the county would
be in much better condition at the
next term of the court.
On the question of public
schools he said that we were be
coming more and, more paternal
every year, that he would not say
too much so, but very much so.
That he was not opposed to public
schools but in favor of them; but
he very much feared that they
were very little better, except in
that they were more accessible,
than the old field private school.
He said that while Whitfield
county had one of the best school
commissioners in the State, the
grand jury should look thoroughly
into the condition and workings,
of. the public school system in the
county. That the private schools
of the country, except here and
there, were things of the past, and
that the great mass of the people
had no voice whatever in the selec
tion of those who should teach
theii- -children. That the people
paid heavy taxes to support these
public schools but had no voice or
part in distributing the money.
He reminded the grand jury
that upon them rested more than
any one else the selection of the
teachers and the distribution of
the people’s money. - That they
elected the members of the school
board, and the board elected the
county superintendent and the
teachers, and that the superinten
dent distributed the public fund,
That no man or woman who die
not have good moral character
should be allowed to teach in our
public schools.
That the man who would curse
in the presence of the school chil
dren or should go to his school
under the influence of liquor or
with his breath perfumed with it
should not be allowed to teach the
boys and girls of Whitfield county,
or of any other county in Georgia.
The way to prevent this is for
the grand jury to elect no man a
member of the school board who
would vote for any such teachers
and if the're are any such'on the
school board to recommend their
'removal, and that the court would
take great pleasure in removing
them.
He then reminded the grand
jury that they were not only to
look after the civil affairs of the
county, but to look after the viola
tions of the criminal law of the
State as well.
He then reminded them of the
oath they had taken, and said “ if
any member of the grand juiy
didn’t have the moral courage,
nerve, backbone and manhood to
seep that oath that he would
cheerfully excuse him from ser
vice, then and there.”
He said the way to prevent crime
was to prosecute and punish it.
That it was not the severity hut
the certainty of punishment that
detered crime. That he did not
relieve in severe punishment, but
that he did believe in certain pun
ishment. That the laws delay
tot
and the uncertainty of punishment
the direct and immediate
cause of so much crime throughout
this countiy.
lhat if the would be criminal
inew that he would be tried, con
victed and punished for the crime
which he was about to commit that
in ninety-nine cases out of a hun
dred he would not commit it;
but knowing how hard it is to de
tect crime, how difficult it is to
get a bill of indictment, how un
certain the verdict of a traverse
jury and the great probability of
executive clemancy, he deliberate
ly plans and executes crime.
,, , . JUI 3' that
they need not lose much time *
investigating whether ^
crimes against the person had bee
committed, for they would find
knocking at the door of the j
J _. . . , c grand
jury room the injured parties read
to give all the information
essary against such offenders. Th a j
they should diligently inquire info
such crimes as effect the
morals, public good and
safety, such as running blind
tigers, gambling, keeping i ewd
houses, carrying concealed weap.
ons, disturbing divine serviee
carrying whiskey to churches’
giving whiskey to minors and th*
like.
In such cases men do not like to
become public prosecutors, aunj
many claiming respectability wink
at and often excuse and sometimes
try to justify such crime. I nniaDy
instances good men would prose,
cute such crimes if they were not
absolutely afraid to do so—not
afraid of pei-sonal violence perhaps
but afraid of private injury. { do
not say that one who would run a
blind tiger or keep a lewd house
would burn the dwelling house or
out house of the prosecutor of
such crimes, but they do worst—
they would debauch and ruin their
sons and send their souls to hell.
Don’t wait for men to come and
prosecute such cases. It is jour
sworn duty to do it, the law puts
the burden on you and if you fail
to discharge y our whole duty in
this matter you wiil simply st ultify
yourselves.
In calling the attention of the
grand jury to their oaths he said
that it sometimes happened that a
grand juror would divulge the
secrets of,the body in violation of
the law. He said tliat he had
been reliably informed that a grand
juror of Whitfield county, a few
courts ago, had held nocturnal
meetings with parties sought to
be indicted by the grand jury and
informed them of what had been
said and done each day in the
grand jury room. He then added
that if a grand juror were to so
far forget his oath in bis court
that he would not hesitate to dis
charge him from further service
as a grand juror and send him to
jail.
The judge touched upon nearly
every phase of the criminal law,
and urged the grand jury to a
faithful, honest and impartial dis
charge of duty.
If -this grand jury does not
prove a terror to evil doers it will
not be the fault of the court, and
the jury is composed of as good
men a& there are in the county,
and is as follows:
The Grand Jury-
Samuel A. Frazier, Foreman.
John M. Sanders, Clerk; JesseL.
. Calmer, Assistant Clerk. Wm-
H. Lasater, Will C. Fincher, Wm-
M. Heig, Price Peak, Sam hove
man, Thomas P. Wilson, Annan
M. Mitchell, Joseph V- Laffitte.
Taylor O. Nichols, Marcus A
Reed, James A. Caphart, Geo. W-
Stafford, Columbus V. Earned
David C. Henton, Wm. J- Co ^ ,
and, Bartley C. Wilson, James t-
loyd, Wm. Hill, Josiah M-
gins, Andrew L. Cox.
Traverse Jurors, First " wk -
The traverse jurors who
serving the good people of ^ ^
county this week are as 0
B.
Nations, Ruehen Pad*
Robert HA
Capehart, ■
Wm. H. Westbrook, Wm-
Arthur Glaze, Aaron Q- ® .
Webster Combe, Calome H-
Lewis Edwards, Wayland
way, Jackson V. Teems,
H. Moore, John A. Wilson? J
Bogle, jr., R. H. Fox, ^
Siner, James C. Barett,
C. Parker, Willirm A. Wj
Frank Hall, William Masters, *j
Moore, Samuel R. Hasketk ^
L. Kennemore, John M
James P. Cox, Lemuel A.
Francis M. Parker, R obert
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(Continued in 2d column, 1