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DALTON. GEORGIA. THURSDAY. APRIL 21. 1904.
$1.00 Per Annum
FITE AND MADDOX,
LEE AND SIMMONS
Win Out Handsomely in Elec
tions Yesterday.
BEST OF ORDER PREVAILED
The Australian System of Balloting
Proved a Success and All
Delighted.
There were about 1,380 votes
polled in the county primary
yesterday.
Returns from the state at large
show that Turner was re-elected
prison commissioner.
T. J. Simmons was re-elected
Chief Justice.
The returns show that Judge
Fite was re-elected by a small
“The Prosperity of the South
is Wonderful,”
SAYS JOHN W. GATES.
Some Interesting Figures and Sta
tistics Regarding Our Won
derful Southland.
From the Atlanta Constitution
of Wednesday we take the follow
ing, which is well worth the time
required for a careful reading.
The South is the coming country
of these United States, and he is
the fictitious paper quality.
The restoration of King Cotton to
his rightful throne helped to
bring the Southland into her own,
but that was only one factor of
Southern prosperity. The factors
are, in truth, as varied as the
South,s material resources are di
verse. Southern soil and climate,
forest and mountain, contribute in
divers ways to this grand diversifi
cation of industry and enterprise,
and it is doubtful if there is else
where on the globe a section of
like extent which can boast of such
manifold resources. The follow
ing table of comparative figures
from the current Manufacturer’s
Record, of Baltimore, will serve
to show the
rapid growth
and ex
tent of the “new South’s”
progress:
Pig iron made.
1880.
1908.
tons
Coal mined,
397,000
3,800,000
tons.
Valueof lumber
6,000,000
62,000,000
products
Capital invested
$39,000,000
$•200,000,000
in cotton mills
Numberof spin
dles in cotton
91,000,000
200,000,000
mills
Cotton consum
ed in southern
667,000
S,250,000
mills, bales...
Capi talinvested
in manufac-
925,000
2,000,000
turing
Value of manu
factured pro-
$-257,000,000
$1,200,000,000
ducts
Foreign exports
via Southern
$457,000,000
$1,600,000,000
ports
Railroads, miles
§261,000,000
§508,000,000
in operation
20,000
60,000
Value of cotton
3818,696.000
crop
Valueof all ag
ricultural
$625,000,000
products
§600.060,000
§1.700,000,000
HON. GORDON LEE.
majority. Sam P. Maddox by a (a dullard who cannot see
splendid majoiity, having carried [coming.
it
Gordon county, the home of his {
opponent, Hon. Oliver Starr.
Hon. Gordon Lee won out by a
nice majority, carrying Walker,
Cobb, Gordon, Chattooga, Polk,
Floyd and Catoosa counties.
In Whitfield Turner got 71
CHIEF JUSTICE T. J. SIMMONS.
majority; Russell, 240; Hucthens,
87; McCamy, 240; Maddox, 482.
Hutchens carried his own
county by only 250.
The interest in Dalton was at
white heat all day, and but for
the Australian system, proposed
by Secretary F. T. Reynolds, of
the executive committee, there
would have been trouble. The
people are all well satisfied with
the system.
Later.—Returns from Gordon
county show that Maddox did
not carry it over Starr.
Here is the story :
John W. Gates, so well known
on Wall street, said to a reporter
of the New York Tribune upon
his recent return from an extend
ed tour of the South .
I have been South, largely in Florida
and Texas, all winter. The prosperity
of the South just now is nothing short
of wonderful. I have never seen any
thing like it. Everybody in the
Southern country is prosperous, and
business in every line is booming as it
never has before. It is the greatest
era in the history of the Southern peo
ple, and they are appreciative and
enjoying it to the fullest extent.
Reference to the kind of statis
tics that spells progress is all that
is necessary to convince the inquir
ing mind that the Southern States
are in the van of the national pro
gressive procession. Such items
as the organization of eighty-seven
banks in this section last month,
many of them national banks, tell
of the South's great awaking'and
substantial advancement. So it is
in new railroad mileage, and, in
many Southern localities, in recent
population increase. The South
is literally on the high road of
prosperity.
It is no longer “Go West, young
man, and grow up with the coun
try,” but “Go South, live man, and
identify yourself with the livest
section of the union.” The land
of real opportunity—the “poor
man’s country and the capitalist
Notwithstanding this is presi
dential year, and, ordinarily, a
season of caution and retrench
ment, it appears from statistics
furnished by The Tradesman, of
Chattanooga, that the South is
right at the high tide of her inter
nal development. The last num-
her of that excellent industrial pe
riodical gives a list of the various
new enteiprises, mainly industrial
corporations, established in the
South during the first quarter of
the present year, omitting the last
few day of March, for which the
statistics were not then available.
Within this biitf period 1346
new industrial corporations were
established—an increase of 70 per
cent over the record of the first
quarter, and of 49 per cent over the
last quarter of last year, which, be
it remembered, was the South’s
ecord year. This is the strongest
showing imaginable, and there is
no indication that the top notch
has been reached. The spring,
now upon us, is a season of un
usual activity and enterprise.
The Tradesman list includes
261 wood-working plants, 93 nat
ural gas and oil companies, 61 new
telephone companies, 60 ice and
storage plants, 52 electric light
and power plants, 46 cotton and
woolen mills, 45 compresses and
gins, 39 flour and grist mills,40 de
velopment and improvement com - -
panies, 34 iron-working plants
33 oil mills and refineries, 30 water
works plants, 36 hardware com
panies, 34 brick and tile works, 8
ice mills, 15 tobacco factories, 12
country,
no less—is no
longe
HIS FLOWER FAIRY.
Copyright, 1904, by Kate M. Cleary.
They were not there when he
had left the room.
Percival Craig, the new rector
of St. Sebastian’s, paused with
his hand on the back of the swivel
chair which he had been about to
give a preparatory twirl before
sitting down.
“Another evidence of personal
good-will!” he murmured, his fair,
expressive face brightening, al
most boyishly, with gratification,
“Verily, my lines seem to have
fallen in pleasant places!”
One would have conceded that
fact, knowing how cultured the
minds, how generous the hearts,
and how high the standard of
rectitude among the parishioners
of St. Sebastian’s. The pastor
preceding the present incumbent
had*grown old in their service.
While he had been beloved, it
was pleasant to the congregation
to welcome the advent of a
By Kata M. Cleary.
Violets there were—a blue drift
of them across the open pages of
the learned hook.
This time, in the absence of
Mrs. Mason, he interrogated
Ellen—and with more success.
Sure, ’tis a slip uv a colleen
do be after bringin’ them.” de
clared Ellen, who was fresh from
Emerald Isle, and a new acquisi
tion in the clerical household.
“Her name do be Ward they tell
me. She lives in the great house
beyant.”
“That will do,” said Rev. Per
cival hastily. But he did not
read in the wide volume that day.
Instead, he sat a long time look
ing dreamily at the violets and
wondering—oh, the most mar
velous things.
Although he had been much
flattered by women, he had scant
share of conceit. So at the close
of his reverie, he sighed. He
ALTON B. PARKER
NEW YORK CANDIDATE
phosphate and fertilizer factories, 2
paper and pulp mills and 3 glass
factories.
Statistics aside, it requires but
a casual journey or sojourn in the
South to surprise the visitor with
the evidences of push and growth
on every hand. Few Northen vis
itors but retnrn-to their homes with
the same report of the South as
that Mr. Gates ogives The New
York Tribune.
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west of the Mississippi, but north
of Ohio and Potomac. The whole
South isathrob with the magnetic
spirit or new enterprises, new cap
ital, new blood and new hope.
Nothing like it was ever known
in the West, for the South has a
“boom” minus the gaseous element
The Marietta Journal says:
“Politics make strange bed fel
lows. Men favor a candidate in
one race and fight him in the
next. Politics can stir up more
bid feeling and create more en
mity between friends than any
thing else. If religion could get
the same hold on men as politics
it would revolutionize the world.’
From what little history we have
read, it strikes us that religion has
helped to stir up as much bad
feeling as politics. Each of them
gives a good chance for the worst
in man to come to the front,
whether he be regenerate or un
regenerate.
younger man, one whose opinions,
although progressive, were free
from the taint of irreverence, and
whose family connections were all
that the most fastidious among
them could desire.
This morning, the first that
Craig had deliberately settled
down to work in his study, he
had been called to the door for a
few minutes. Now, on his return,
he found things precisely as lie
left them, except that on the
ponderous (ome open upon his
desk, lay a slender sheaf of hya
cinths, heliotrope of hue, freshly
cut and fragrant.
“Mrs. Mason!” The footsteps
passing through the hall ceased.
“Step here please.”
His housekeeper, ruddy checked
and gray-haired, looked in at the
door.
“Did you put these flowers
here, Mrs. Mason? ’
“N(rt I, sir!” . /
“Ma) be Ellen did,” be haz
arded.
“She’s been washing windows
upstairs this hour back, sii, re
turned Mrs. Mason. And, mut
tering something about h e i
custards, she disappeared.
“Strange!” commented the Rev
erend Percival. But the pleased
smile still lingered around his
mouth when he had put the deli
cate spikes in water, and when he
was reading the solemn-looking
book.
Before the hyacinths had faded
there was another floral surprise
for the new rector. This time it
was a rose that lay on the printed
page, a pink, softly glowing,
velvety rose, that made him think
of Alys Ward. He had met her
a few times since coming to his
new parish, and he found himself
most persistently haunted from
the first time by her demure
beauty and pretty, graceful ways
He rang the bell.
“Has any one called to see me
this morning, Mrs. Mason? ’
“No one, sir ” Mrs. Mason re
garded him admiringly. He was
a fine representative 6f the church
militant. That straight, soldierly
figure, square shoulders and
proudly carried head would have
looked well leading a regiment
For several days after the find
ing of the rose, instead of loiter
ing in the dining room to read
the morning papers, Mr. Craig
brought them with him directly
to the study. The rose drooped.
He shook the loosening petals in
the big book. There was no odor
ous successor. But one morning
he was summoned to the bedside
of a hypochondriac acquaintance,
who was undergoing one of his
could attribute to naught save
A NEW COilTTEE
Selected Monday Without Any
Opposition.
For the Democratic Party of TAMMANY WILL HELP HIM
Whitfield County.
ELECTION AT COURTHOUSE
Today by a Mass Meeting of Rep
resentative Citizens From
Each District.
The old county Democratic Ex
ecutive Committee’s term of office
expired today.
A new committee was elected
by representatives from each of
the thirteen precincts in the
county by acclamation.
Before the old committee ad-
pure neighborliness the gifts of
the girl, to whom his love had
gone out almost at first sight.
Nevertheless, when the violets
were withered, on two successive
mornings he left the house with
much ostentation, and soon there
after noiselessly let himself into
the hall. On the second morning
there was a flurry of white by
the study table as he abruptly
entered the room, then a fall and
a cry of pain. Instantly be
sprang across the floor—to pick
up the slim little lassie of six,
who lay with a bunch of lilies of
the valley clasped tightly in her
tiny fii gers.
“I didn’t want you to—to know
—’twas me,” she sobbed. “I al
ways brought them to old Mr.
Snowdon—Mis. Mason used to
let me in. And he never knew
’twas me. He used to tell me
the fairies—or maybe just one
fairy—brought them to him.
And I’d laugh and laugh. Ouch!
She colored hotly with pain. “My
foot got hurted.”
“I’ll carry you home,” Percival
assured her, tenderly. “You
liked Mr. Snowdon, (who, by the
waj', was the predecessor of the
Rev. Mr. Craig) “you liked him
very much?”
“Yes. Maybe, I’ll like you,
too—sometime. Alys—she’s my
sister—says you ar« most—most—
forget. It was a long word.
But it means nice. Tommy
Brown says Mr. Snowdon only
pretended he .didn’t know about
me being the fairy ! Isn’t Tom
my a horrid boy?”
“Horrid! ” assented Percival
Craig. “Don’t be frightened, Miss
Alys!” For she had come flying
down the steps at sight of him
and his burden.
“Fairies always get well quick
ly,” he assured little May. “I
intend coming to see you every
day—until you can come to see
me!”
“Do!” begged the child, from
the shelter of her sister’s arms.
“But you won’t ever think I’m a
real fairy now!”
Alys laid her on the sofa and
went out to telephone the doctor
“Ob, yes, I will, if you will
help me to get my wish. Good
fairies always help mortals !
“What is your wish?”
“I want you to coax dear Alys
to marry me—and have you for
flower girl.”
“That’s easy. Alys will
anything for me!” declared May
complaisantly. “Say, I remember
that word now. It was at—at
tractive !”
“Good little fairy!” cried Craig,
and hastened off. In his study
The Empire State of the East Has
Set the Pattern of Harmony
For All to Follow.
Albany, N. Y., April 18.—The
democrats of New lork present
to the democracy of the union the
name of Judge Alton Brooks
Parks as their candidate tor presi
dent. This action was taken in a
way that shows Judge Parker to
be the choice of all democratic
elements represented in its State
Convention. There was but one
point of difference, one division,
and that bad relation only to.the
JUDGE A. B. PARKER,
Who Received the Full Vote of New York’s Delegation to the St.
Convention.
journed, sine die, the county vote manner in which the name of this
of yesterday was consolidated the .favorite son of New York should
result of which will be found in
periodical attacks of dissolution., h e gently picked up the blossoms
Striding absent-mindedly into His stie had insisted on leaving. He
study on his return, he stopped; recalled the look in Alys Ward’s
short—his nostrils assailed by a; eyes when she had taken May
perfume elusive as exquisite. j from him, and his pulse thrilled
“Violets!” he exclaimed. I “Good little sister!” he said
“Violets!” “Dear little fairy flower girl!”
another column of The Citizen
today.
Delegates were appointed to the
state convention which meets in
Atlanta on Wednesday, June 1st.
They are F. T. Reynolds, Mayor
Sherry McAuley, W. M Jones,
A. J. Longley, G. W. Head and
W. M. Haig. Each member of
the committee may select an al
ternate if he finds he cannot at
tend. The committee is for Par.
ker for president and will vote as
a unit in the state convention.
The new Executive Committee
is Hon. S. B. Felker, chairman;
F. T. Reynolds, secretary. J. M.
Cash, P. B. Trammell and S. Mc-
Auley, of Dalton; G. W. Head,
Tunnel Hill; M. F. Pitner, Var-
aell; W. D. Hunsucker, Red Clay;
Robert Deck, Trickum; D. P.
Keith, Finchers; D. C. Henton,
Tilton; R. M. Tarver, Ninth; J. G.
a Cooper, Upper Tenth; J. D.
Brackett, Lower Tenth; Gus \ ea
ger. Cove City, and J. H. V ood.
Rocky Face. This committee will
be called soon to decide about
having a county primary though
the concensus of opinion is that
none is wanted by the people
Delegates were also appointed to
the congressional convention.
They are B. L. Heaitsill and W.
W. Seymour. This convention
meets in Rome.
do
Mrs. W. H. Clayton leaves the
last of this week for California.
be presented at St. Louis. It was
a difference of opinion and of
judgment as to the best means to
attain the end toward which all
New York democrats are moving
—the nomination of Parker. The
name of no other candidate was
mentioned. The suggestion that
any element of New \ork s de
mocracy favors any other candi
date was not even remotely or in-
ferentially made.
The division was as to the best
means to attain the .nomination
of Judge Parker. The speakers
representing both sides vied with
one another in their expressions
of admiration for the distinguish
ed jurist, and of their desire that
there should be done only that
which would best promote his
1 candidacy. Those who favored
the instructions resolution, which
came from the majoiity of ti e
committee, contended that the in
structions method was best calcu
lated to impiess upon other states
the sincerity of New fork’s sup
port; those who favored the high
ly complimentary resolution sub
mitted by the minority, contend
ed that an uninstructed delega
tion made up of Judge Parker's
friends and acting under the unit
rule was calculated to exert the
greatef influence at St. Louis and
they gave their reasons. All the
advance predictions of a sensa
tional convention fight full ot bit.-
ter personal attacks fell to the
ground- Howeve’, the fight was
carried to the flooT of the conven
tion as Victor Dowling predicted,
but it was entirely devoid of sen
sationalism and practically free
i from personalities or bitterness of
any kind.