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TH* kOHTH GEORGIA. OITIZMf, DALTOR, GA.
(Eeargia Citizen
Publlihed every Thursday.
’FHONBS:
■41t«ri»l and Business Office
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Iflolal Organ of the County. Official Organ
ef the United States Circuit and District
Courts, Northwestern Division, North
ern District of Georgia.
T. S. SHOPH.
A. J. SHOWALTER,
T. 8. SHOPH and P. T. REYNOLDS, Editors
Proprietors
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class mall matter.
Thursday, May 12, 1904
For Representative.
I respectfully announce my candidacy
for the Legislature from this county
subject to a Democratic primary.
W. W. Seymour.
Turn the water on in the park
fountains!
Plant Bermuda grass,
fine stock and get rich.
The Jap victory last week re
minds us of Grant at Vicksburg.
By actual count sixteen peo-*
pie may be seated in the city park
in case of a rush.
HEARST’S RECORD.
TO WHITFIELD PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
The North Georgia Citizen, one of our
umns that the farmers of Whitfield
county plant Bermuda grass. The Mes
senger has said before that the Citizen
was working along a commendable line.
Therefore we know the Citizen will
Can anybody answer the ques
tion, “why is the water not turned
on in the park fountains?”
Dalton needs a board of trade.
She loses many things by not
having it. Let’s get together.
Would the esteemed Atlanta
News object to all the state dele
gations going to St. Louis in
structed for Hearst?
If a man is known by the
company he keeps, it’s doggone
hard to tell who is a democrat in
Whitfield county.
Bermuda grass growing and
stock raising is the best “get-rich-
quick” proposition of which we
have any knowledge.
If the Japs “bottle up” the
Russians many more times, the
bottle makers will have to work
overtime to keep up the supply.
If the Democratic State
Executive Committee accepts the
alleged fraud of Gilmer county as
a set off for the alleged fraud of
Fannin, then who is safe?
William Randolph Hearst has
a wabbly political record. In his
San Francisco Daily Examiner on
the morning of Tuesday, Novem
ber 4, 1902, the day of the last
state election in that state, he
editorially advised the people to I pardon a suggestion—which could be
adopted in this county with as good re
sults as in Whitfield.
Our news columns this week contains
the report of the closing of the Mount
Carmel school, the entire morning of
the last day of that school being spent
by the teacher and pupils in planting
Bermuda grass in their school ground
And as a result of such work another
year will see the Mt. Carmel school
ground the prettiest in the county.
The Messenger believes that Prof,
Loyd has inaugurated a movement which
should mark the close of every school
this section and if it is followed by
the schools of Whitfield, the Citizen will
soon see its agitation for the planting of
Bermuda grass yielding magnificent re
suits. If wo can instill in the minds of
the school children the value of this
grass, the next generation will see Ber-
mada pastures on eveiy farm in this sec
tion of the state.
From another view is this action of
the Mt. Carmel school to be commended
So far as we know it is the first time the
pupils of any of our county schools have
been interested in beautifying their
school grounds. And the movement
starts right. First a pretty lawn, then
the pupils can he interested in the plant
ing of trees, shrubs and flowers until
finally our school grounds can he made
attractive and gradually the pupils will
become intensely interested in all things
beautiful and their lives made better,
purer and nobler through their subtle
influence.
But going back to Prof. Loyd’s sug
gestion, we hope to see it followed by
every school in the county. Here at
LaFayette we have what ought to be a
beautiful school ground. But it could
be vastly improved, and if it were
planted'in Bermuda grass it would be a
long stride in that direction.—Walker
County Messenger.
I he Citizen heartily endorses
the foregoing, and congratulates
esteemed contemporaries, has of late f r j en( j G f Judge Alton B. Parker,
been urging through its editorial col-
vote a mixed ticket—republican
and democratic. The Citizen re
prints the editorial for the first
time since then. It is as follows:
“Today the voters of California settle
the fate of the Btate for the next four
years. To aid them in settling it
wisely as possible, ‘The Examiner’ has
prepared a ticket which it advises its
readers to vote.
“For Governor we offer no suggestion.
The Examiner has done its duty to its
party by reporting as fully as possible
all the meetings that have been held by
Mr. Lane or in his behalf. It has pub
lished all the matter that his friends
have thought would enlighten the voters
upon his merits; but it makes no selec
tion between Mr. Lane and Mr. Pardee.
For Lieutenant-Governor wo recom
mend I. B. Dockweiler ; for Secretary of
State we recommend Alexander Rose-
boiough; for Comptroller, we recom
mend Frederick Harkness. The Comp
troller is an ex-officio member of the
State Board of Equalization, aEd Mr.
Colgan in his twelve years’ service has
been a good programmer for low assess
ments for the railroad. We think it
time the people had a represen
tative. For Treasurer we recommend
Truman Reeves, the republican candidate.
S. H. Brooks, the democratic candidate
has not pursued a course in the past
that recommends him to the democratic
voters. For Attorney-General, we rec
ommend William A. Gett; forhurveyoi'
General, Chas. H. Holcomb; for Clerk
of the Supreme Court, Lawrence H.
Wilson; for Supeiintendent of Public
Education, E. W. Lindsay; for Superin
tendent of State Printing, E. I. Wood-
man.
“For Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court we advise the people to re-elect
William H. Beatty. Mr. Law, the dem
ocratic candidate, is a man against
whom nothing can be said ; but it would
PARKER TALKS.
Mr. Elliott Danfort, a close
ers in all the schools in Whitfield
be a grave injustice to a faithful and. .
able public* servant to retire Chief Jus-1 ^ ie Messenger 111 the effort to put
tice Beatty. For Associate Justices, we forth such practical educational
recommend Judge F. M. Angelotti and | WO rk. We trust that tile teach-
Judge D. R. Trask. We have nothing
to urge against Judges Shaw and Farns
worth, but we believe that the public I county will adopt the suggestion,
interests would he best served by the and we know of no better place
election of Angelotti and Trask. For , , , ,
ti . tor the movement to start than
Representative in Congress, from the
Fourth District, we advise the election ^ ieie Dalton, in both the white
of E. J. Livernash ; in the Fifth District, and colored schools. We have
we advise the election of W. J. Wynn.
In the other districts we can assure the
voters that their interests will be best
served by electing the democratic candi- j
dates.”
The Citizen reprints the above
editorial for the first time, and
would call attention to the fact
that Mr. Pardee
the grounds on which the Ber
muda grass is badly needed, and
we have the teachers who can
have the work done if they will
And any teacher who does not
feel inclined to help along a work
We said in our leading editorial
last Thursday that many Dalton
parents would not know what
their boys would be doing at 10
o’clock that night, and sure
enough the parents of nine of
them didn’t.
Hearst’s political record in
California will no doubt appeal
to many Whitfield county Demo
crats who, on the slightest provo
cation, and often none at all, vote
for the fellow who has the thinnest
veneering of party fealty.
Secretary Shaw said in a re
cent speech that “the Spanish war
placed the Pacific ocean where she
has always been naturally.” The
Pacific ocean must feel quite cut
up at such a remark, and perhaps
it will hereafter learu to know its
place.
so full of good for the public
is a lepublican Liquid s t e p as ij e an{ ] let the va-
and so is Mr. Angelotti. Thus Mr.
Hearst, who aspires to the nom
ination as presidential candidate
of the great democratic party,
bolted his party ticket with his
paper and urged the election of
republicans, labor unionists and
democrats. The difference be
tween him and Judge Alton B.
Parker is that Parker has always
voted the straight ticket, and took
the two Bryan doses with equ
n amity.
cancy he filled by some progress
ive spirit.
WHY NOT ACT?
If The Citizen is right in agi
tating the question of “why is
the water not turned on in the
park fountains?” why is it not
turned on? Now, why? Mayor
McAuley endorses what The Citi-
. I zen said, regarding the water and
grass questions. He says it is
right and that he is in favor of
had an interview with Judge Par
ker last week, and quotes him as
follows with regard to Southern
people:
“‘Elliott, they are a great poople
they are the countrymen of Washing
ton and Jefferson and Madison and
Jackson and Lea. Their courage and
their constancy have neverfailed. They
have changed velvet for homespun and
endured the pinch of honorable pover
ty, and are just now beginning to reap
the reward of their great sacrifices.
“ ‘I have implicit faith in their ability
to solve rightly and righteously the
difficult problems with which they are
confronted, and I believe it is the duty
of their countrymen at the North to
permit them to solve those problems
unmolested by irritating political in
terference from the outside.’ ”
The Savannah News adds the
following:
“Judge Parker must have been
favorably impressed by what he saw
and heard when he was in Georgia last
summer. There is no doubt, of course,
that his views on public questions are
all right. No democrat will find fault
with them except one who is unfriendly
to his candidacy for the presidential
nomination of his party.”
OUR SUPPLE/TENT.
Our four-page supplement this
issue, in the interest of the busi-
ness men of Cincinnati, shows
that live, up-to-date business men
know the value of advertising and
the value of The Citizen as a
medium. Scarcely six months
have passed since Knoxville used
The Citizen for a similar purpose.
\Ve call attention to these facts to
show what real Jive men think of
The Citizen. All of which comes
from being the best paper and
having opinions of its own, and
taking the lead in all that tends
to build up this section. We
neither run out and borrow our
opinions, nor run out and get them
written.
WHAT HAVE WE TO FEAR?
Elements ef Strength of the Most
Prosperous Country In the World
BY WALTER T. BALLARD.
an iron production and con
PATIENCE AND COURAGE.
The American flag now flies,
over Panama. Future historians
will point to this event as one of
great importance to North
America, and particulary to the
Southern states. Few of us ap
preciate what great benefits the
South has in store.
Elsewhere in The Citizen
will be found the announcement
of Mr. - W. W.' Seymour for the
legislature, subject to the action
of the democratic party. If
elected Mr. Seymour will vote and
act conscientiously for the best
interest of the people, we feel
sure.
Again we wish to remark that
prohibitinn does not prohibit—in
Dalton. Some oi you sly drink
ing prohis (?) go to the express
office on Saturdays and see the
amount of booze coming in, and
then Saturday nights leave yoiu'
own jugs long enough to be on the
streets about ten and see the kids
loaded to the gunnels, and you’ll
quickly find out that prohibition
is a farce in Dalton.
Roosevelt seems beyond all I having the most beautiful town
question the only candidate of his in Georgia, and that the city park
party for president, hut it must ought, by all means, to be well
not he forgotten that a month looked after, and new grass put
prior to the Chicago Republican out. Why, then, is it not done?
Convention of I860, it seemed He says that the water ought to
that Seward would be nominated, be turned on in the park foun-
but the Lincoln sentiment grew tains. Why, then, is it not done?
in the night time and he won out Will some one please answer?
in a jiffy. I -
_ I here are all over the state
The present administration of protests against the present sys
Teddy has cost over two billion tern of electing judges. Is it any
dollars more than did Madison’s wonder when we see such dis-
term in which the war of 1812 was graceful methods as were used in
fought; three hundred million | the G iber-Morris affair? Fraud
than Lincoln’s during the
war, and over five hundred
more than Mclviidey’!;
more
civil
million
during the Spanish-American war.
These pi pi ng times of peace
indeed!
The Dalton Citizen continues
agitate the Bermuda grass
to
question,
sincerely
things in
The Citizen believes
that there are gieat
store for the farmers
who go into t\is business and raise
fine stock. That paper says there
are people in the good old state of
Georgia who have gotten rich
raising Bermuda grass and fine
stock, and others can do it right
here in North Georgia. The
possibilities are great and the
probabilities are that not a few
of our people will avail them
selves of an opportunity that is
golden, says The Citizen.—Darien
Gazette.
DeWiti’s Jffijf Salva
F»r Piles, Burns, Sores.
was acknowledged by both sides
one candidate as guilty as the
other and neither fit for judge.
The Calhoun Times is of the
opinion that the building of the
state road to the sea by the state
is a “fantastic dream,” adding
that the load should he sold. The
Times is a mighty good paper,
hut 1 he Citizen believes it lias
slipped a cog on this proposition.
We get it on high authority
that there are “sermons in stones, a
hooks in running brooks and good
in everything.” If so, the alleged
rotteness and fraud in the recent
democratic (?) primaries may
force the use of the Australian
ballot hereafter, and the saying of
Shakespeare be made good. Let
us hope so.
Apropos of our editorial last
week, entitled “A Just Punish
ment,” the fallowing taken from
the Baby Department of the
Smart Set has been called to our
attention.
Upper Fifth Avenue.
Dear Editor:—About four months ago
I was born into a family of wealth and
social position, and since that unhappy
hour I have led a life of misery and neg
lect. I have seen my mother but once,
as she was going to a reception, and then
she cut me dead. Imagine my feelings
on that sad occasion! I haven’t bad a
particle of nourishing food, and of the
two nurses who have charge of me, I
don’t know which is worse than the
other. What would you advise?
Vandyke K.
Patience! The time will come when
you can get even. By-and-bye, when
your parents are beginning to let you in
on the family games, and ask your opin
ions about politics, you can sit around
and smoke cigarettes, and be seen with
soubrettes. As long aB they are giving
you the icy stare at present, you can get
their nerves by-and-bye. Patience,
and courage.
With
sumption increased from 9,000,000 tons
in 1897 to 18,000,000 tona in 1903, what
have we to fear?
With a country whose resources are
vast enough to take care of 0,292,989
immigrants in the fourteen years, 1890
to 1903, what have we to fear?
With a country able to undertake, as
a matter of course, the construction of
a canal to cost $200,000,000 or more
what have we to fear?
One of our many inland waterways
the Soo Canal, shows double as much
American internal water tonnage as
all the international tonnage passing
through the Suez Canal.
One railroad (Pennsylvania) measur
ing 11,000 miles of our 200,000 total
railroad mileage, carries more freight
each year than all that enters the ports
of Liverpool and London.
Our exports increased from $1,032,-
000,000 in 1897 to $1,392,000,000 in 1903,
an increase of nearly one million dol
lars each day of the year, Sundays and
holidays included
Our imports increased from $084,000,-
000 in 1897 to $1,025,000,000 in 1903, an
increase of $381,000,000.
Our internal commerce of $21,000,-
000,000, surpasses the external com
merce of all the nations of the world.
Our mineral resources produced over
$1,280,000,000 in 1902, as juBt ascer
tained by our Geological Survey, an in
crease of $174,000,000, or 18.02 per cent.,
over 1901.
We have 18,000,000 pupils in our
schools, representing every class and
condition of society.
We pay yearly in salaries to our
school teachers $140,000,000, or more
for school teaching than it costs to run
our gigantic government.
Our two per cent, government bonds
sell at a higher price than England’s
!2% per cents.
We have people enough to consume
$8,000,000,000 worth of food products
yearly. We produce the food and still
have a large surplus available for
export.
We have a decreasing public debt
and a permanently and largely reduced
interest bill.
All our matured debts are paid and
we have hundreds of millions of gold
dollars in the bank.
We own tropical possessions able to
eventually produce the $400,000,000
worth of tropical products which we
now annually buy.
Our cotton fields in the South con
trol the raw cotton markets of the
world.
Our coal production is greater than
that of any country in the world.
We have more actual gold in our
treasury than was ever before possessed
by any one nation at one time since
time began.
Our navy and army are second to
none in anything except size
We have 600,000 factories, 7,000,000
factory workers and a home market of
82,000,000 people, free from the compe
tition of cheap foreign labor.
Our farms are worth $20,000,000,000,
and the yearly product is worth nearly
$4,000,000,000.—Railroad Record.
THE BREAKDOWN GANG.
They
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To close out clean the entire lot.
SHOES, SHIRTS,
SUSPENDERS,
FANS, HOSIERY,
STOCK COLLARS,
UNDERWEAR,
UMBRELLASl
and ART LINENS,
We want to make a clean
sweep. Everything in the way
of sample goods must go.
Still have a lot of sample
STREET HATS
on
then
How He (lot a Pass.
The following story about Jas
J. Hill, the railroad president, is
told in the Northwest states. Mi-
Hill was talking to some friends
in a hotel lobby when a young
man hustled up to him and said
“Mr. Hill, }-ou claimed a year ago
that no one need be out of a job
in this part of the country.”
“I did,” admitted Mr. Hill.
“Well, your statement is incor
rect,” declared the joung man
“I have been hustling for a job
for the last six months and can’t
get work at anything I can do
“That’s just it,” observed Mr,
Hill. “What can you do?”
“Have several years’experience
as a stenographer; am an expert
bookkeeper; have been a shipping
clerk, ai d know the business; am
an A1 advertising man; also
the
HAGS WANTED.
Large, clean cotton rags
wanted by The A. J. Show-
alter Company.
first-class book agent,” said
young man in one breath.
It ended in Mr. Hill giving him
letter to the Great Northern
offices in St. Paul. He was going
to try out the young man and see
what was in him.
“Thank you, Mr. Hill,” he ejac
ulated as lie huriiedaway; hut in
a moment he was hack again.
“Say, Mr. Hill,” he asked, ‘do
I take the brake beam to St. Paul?”
He got a pass.
Friction board for mak
ing pulleys.
The A. J. Sliowalter Co
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Picked Men Compose It and
Have the Right of Way.
D. A. Willey, writing of the wrecking
crew in the May Booklovers Magazine,
says: On every large railway system
there is a train not scheduled on the
time card, but just as essential to main
taining the service as any of thelimiteds
or locals. It is a passenger train, but the
passengers pay no fare. It consists
merely of two or three freight cars and a
caboose, yet when it starts over the road
everything else on wheels must give it
precedence. If the president himself
is en route in his special or private car,
he must take the sidetrack until it
passes by. As Kipling puts it:
Oh, the Empire State must learn to
wait,
And the Cannon-ball go hang,
When the West-bound’s ditched,
And the tool-car’s hitched,
And it’s way for the Breakdown
Gang!
This special train has been dubbed
the “Wrecker.” Really it is a relief
train, ready to respond to any call for
aid in case of accident.
The man who would be a wrecker
must have what his fellows would call
“grit,” must be quick-witted and quick-
motioned, and must be an expert ma
chinist. It is not an easy task for the
wreck-master to select a force having
all these qualities, and his gang are
picked men from the best on the com
pany’s pay-roll. And size counts for
much also. Two or three little men
are valuable, for there are many nooks
and corners in and under the torn and
twisted cars where they can work with
hammer and wrench, where a big man
could not move. For the same reason
a few left-handed men are desirable.
If a railroader has ever been a sailor',
he is given preference in selection, for
there are so many ropes and chains to
be fastened to the wreck to pull it
apart that the seaman’s knowledge of
knot and splice is of much value.
1 for Ladies. These hats were
£ worth from $1.50 to $3.00. We
£ are closing out the entire lot.
Your choice for 25c each.
We are in position to fill ail
wants in the way of
STILISH MILLINERY.
Our stock has received large
X additions in the way of choice
2 * Flowers, Ribbons and shapes
by express this week. Come to
us for your hat. We’ll make
every effort to please.
Let us make you an estimate
C for your Dress Hat.
The best stock of
STRAP SANDALS
for ladies and misses in Dalton.
A nice line of White Canvas
Ties for misses and children on
sale this week. *
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Chattanooga Glass House can
furnish glass, by its semi-monthly
cars, to all dealers in this section
at LOWER PRICES than any]
other parties will deliver it. Send
for prieas. jul 14
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At all Stand Grocers and Saloons
FOLEYSHONEr^TAR
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