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Published srsry Thursday.
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■41 to rial and Builnoss Office lse
©ffialal Organ of the County. Official Organ
•1 the United States Circuit and District
Courts, Northwestern Division, North
ern District of Georgia.
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A* S HO WALTER. I Fr,,rl * t#r *
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Thursday, June 9, 1904.
For Representative.
I respectfully announce my candidacy
for the Legislature from this county
subject to a Democratic primary.
W. W. Seymour.
The water has been turned on.
Thanks.
The cloture rule is powerful
good when applied to convention
speeches.
The most interesting part of
the state convention were the el
oquent speeches which were not
delivered.
The largest peach crop that
has ever been grown in this sec
tion will be shipped from Dalton
this summer.
In the immediate future, if in
deed not now, no fire depart
ment will be complete or adequate
without an automobile apparatus.
Trox Bankston is engaged
on a brochure entitled “what I
don’t know about conventions
It will be printed in Chinese and
bound in a sickly grin.
THE SCHOOL QUESTION.
THE “BIO FOUR.”
There have been a great many The is no state in the union
inquiries the past week with ref- that will be more ably represented
erence to the school question, at the democratic national con
and The Citizen is not among the veution in St. Louis than the
last of whom these inquiries have
been made.
Our people, at least a majority
Empire State of the South. Every
one of the “Big Four” delegates is
of that conservative type which
of them, recognize the importance insures against the great evil" of
of the matter, and certainly no flying off at the wrong time and
body knows the needs better than I place. Georgia is a sane state
Mayor McAuley and his council, land she gave evidence of a high
and it is equally as certain that type of sanity at the convention in
nobody quite as well as he recog- Atlanta last week, when she
nizes the inability of the city to do I structed her delegation to vote
anything this year without in- for Parker—and what a superb
creasing the tax rate or issuing delegation it is!
bonds. It is now a question I Perhaps the most signal victory
whether or not the people will be won was that of Charley Pendle
willing to pursue either of these ton, editor of the Macon Tele
courses or wait until another year! graph. He had no headquarters
when the city will be able to han- is not of that type to ask people
die the matter without going to to do things for him but rather to
either of the above extremes. It ask something for his friends
would not be. advisable to raise Said one of the “Big Four” dele
the tax rate. On this point we gates to the editor of The Citizen
are sure, but we are not so sure I soon after the convention ad
about issuing bonds. We rather journed: “Charley Pendleton was
incline to the idea that there is no working for me this morning, but
use doing so much for posterity, was not saying a word in behalf
It can take care of itself, just like of himself.”
we are doing now. It must not! Editor Gray, of the Atlanta
be forgotten that at one time we | Journal, showed his good metal.
In fact he had been showing it
through the columns of his paper
were all posterity, and it does not
seem that our ancestors worried a
bout us very much. Issue long term I for quite awhile, fighting a clear
bonds, and we would not worry cut conservative fight. I11 truth
about their payment to any great he was the leader of the Parker
The farmers of North Georgia
who are growing grass and rais
ing stock are. the ones who er
attracting the attention of the
“knockers.”
Dalton, up in North Georgia
offeTs many inducements to South
Georgia negroes. Chickens roam
at large there in considerable
numbers.—Savannah Press.
le
The democratic cry during tl
approaching campaign should
“down with republican imperial
ism, grafting, highway robbery,
and most any old thing else that
is wrong,
And now the Supreme Court
of the United States has said that
a jury trial in any of our “colonial
possessions is no go. Another
strenuous 1 ap toward imperial
ism. What next?
Editor John Temple Graves
is the best and most graceful loser
in the world. If Mr. Hearst is
built after the same pattern he
will find many good things in
store for him in the near future.
Trox Bankston’s high dive in
the Kimball house ball room Tues
day night must not be construed
as an effort upon his part to take
water on any proposition before
the convention.—Rome Tribune.
Our Friend Jim Hall is as*
suming Willie Randolph Hearst
propensities. We assume that it
will not be long until he owns all
the papers along the Western &
Atlantic railroad between Chat
tanooga and Atlanta.
One of the resolutions adopted
by the state convention recom
mends that no state primary for
the nomination of governor, state
house officers, j uuges and solicitors
be called by the Democratic State
Committee earlier than July 10
and later than September 1.
extent.
The Citizen, always alive to
that which it thinks best con
serves the interests of the great
est number, has prepared a list of
expenditures which the present
forces in Georgia, and an abler
one could not have been found
John W. Maddox stormed the
I convention. At the very mention
I of his name the air was rent
with applause. He showed such
administration has had to meet, strength and popularity thht he is
and it is safe in saying that no]
such amount will be to pay next!
now being talked of for governor.
We do not know much of
year. The figures are approx* | Smith of Oglethorpe, but we do
know that he is of the simon pure
brand or the convention would
not have elected him. It would
not have been in keeping with
its action as regarded the election
of the other delegates.
Georgia is all right, her St.
Total $9095.001 ^‘ ou ' s da legation is all right, and
It will be seen that this isqliite can depended upon to do the
imately correct, being taken from
memory. Here they are
Filter Plant $4,500.00 I
Mosedals Case $3,400.00
Hotel Dalton Sewer $500.00 |
Fire Alarm System $400.00
City Tax Assessors $150.00
Cemetery Refund $145.00
a sum, and it must be paid with
out raising the tax rate. None
of this kind of expense will be to
pay next year; unless, of course,
the city becomes involved in
proper thing at the proper time.
PEACH OROWERS HEET.
The peach growers of Dalton
met in the Citizen office Tuesday
other damage suit, which is not at I morning to discuss the
various
problems which have to be con-
aum, together withlsidered in order to secure the best
government possible results from the fine crop
which is now loading the trees in
the orchards of the county.
There were present Frank Sum
merour, D. C. Bryant, S. P. Mad
all likely.
Take this
the regular city
expenses, interest on bond*,
etc., and it will be observed
at once that the entira city funds
are exhausted. There is about
ADVERTISING NOT A MATTER OF
SENTIMENT.
Recently The Citizen has had
occasion to note that a great
many people who advertise ar
moved by puerile sentiment and
prejudice, both of which are fra
quently brought about by an
opinion of the editor which
has been exploited through the
columns of his paper, and from
which opinion this man or that
dissents. In other words a great
many seem to think that a news
paper ought not to have an opin
ion of its own, especially if it
contradicts some preconceived
idea af those who set themselves
up as dictators and arbiters of the
community in which they live.
Advertising is a business prop
osition. The good business man
pays no attention to the politics
or policy of a paper. What he
wants is results, and if he does
himself justice he places his ad
vertising where he secures them.
If he is moved or actuated by
anything else certain it is that he
is untrue to himself and lacking
n that business acumen which
brings phenomenal successes. Too
often narrowness and littleness
creep in and play their part;
enmity also stalks in and does a
stunt that is positively hurtful to
business. The Citizen has
known of cases where one mer
chant would not put his ad in a
paper because another merchant
he did not like had an ad already
in it. What think you of a prop
osition like that? Comment is
not necessary.
As to the medium best adapted
to advertising it is the one with
the largest circulation, of course,
not an inflated and padded one,
however. The popularity of a
paper is also a good Ihing to
consider, as also is the policy
pursues as to the material
and moral development of the
community in which it is
published. The paper that seeks
alone the almighty dollar, for
getting its proper mission,
THE ELECTION OF JUDQE5.
■AH efforts to create a reaction in favor
of electing the judiciary by popular vote
will fall flat. The people have seen the
danger of such a method and have put
their seal.of condemnation upon it.
The legislature will take notice and act
accordingly.—Oglethorpe Echo.
Jnstsol The election of judges by
the people can have no safe guard that
would justify its continuance. It is not
the right method.—Marietta Journal.
The Citizen agrees with both of
the above named papers. The
present system is rotten to the
core, and any attempt to create a
reaction will prove a farce. The
present system is a creature of the
present incumbents, for the most
part, and of course their influence
will be thrown to protect that
which they have brought into ex
istence. It will be hard to find
any superior court judge in the
state who will favor a change in
the system. This fact alone is
condemning and shows at once it
is a political machine, and one
that has been the cause of more
corruption in judicial elections
than anything ever brought to the
attention of the people of this
state.
The talk of safe guarding the
system with the Australian ballot
is puerile, and is only an attempt
to divert the people and the legis
lature from the main question.
Any system that has to be safe
guarded like a convict is danger
ous, and the sooner done away
with the better for the people.
HERROK
&
THOMAS.
SPECIAL
Closing Salr
J
OF ALL
JUST A WORD.
[,700,000 of taxable property in dox, W. C. Martin, W. M. Hai<,
Dalton, which at the present tax Julian McCamy, Dennis Batrett
rate at 1 per cent, produces a rev- and A. J. Showalter. No peach
enue of #17,000, more than half (section in the state finds this im*
of which is already expended out
side the regular expense.
From the forgoing it is seen that I
to do anything with the school j
portant industry in the hands of
more capable business men than
these gentlemen, and their success
means much for Dalton and Whit-
question at the present time field county. They discussed the
means an increase in the tax rate matter of wages, methods of
or an issue of bonds. The Cit* ( handling and p ~ ackin the fruit,
lzen invites letters on this subject,! , .
realizing that the public wants all |. ^ "
the information it can obtain.
THE PRIMARY.
facilities, commission
houses, trimming trees with fruit
on them, a canning factory and
That other in -ans of handling the fruit
A’fter
were thor
oughly gone over, a uniform scale
of wages was adopted, and tho
meeting adjourned to moet again,
whenever matters of sufficient im
portance present themselves.
The peach growers of Whit*
field county will do their utmost
for mutual helpfulness, and by
Governor Maddox !
sounds good to us; and the air was | not suitable for shipping
full of it in Atlanta.—Rome Trib- all of these matter8
ne.
It is not inharmonious to any
Georgian whose acoustics are not
wired or cracked.
The Atlanta Constitution, in
discussing the Primary, says:
The next progressive step will be the
holding of all primaries for the selection | this means success is assured, and
Russell Sage is out in an
article in the New York Inde
pendent, crying against the habit
of taking vacations. He says he
never took a vacation in his life.
He may never have taken a vaea
tion, but one thing is cock sure,
he has taken most everything el*e
he could find lying around loose.
Miss Edna Cain, in her admir
able Free Press, sings a quatrain
of summer vacation thus:
The wild hawk to the wind-swept sky,
The red deer to the lea,
The thin girl to the mountains high
The other kind to the sea.
Now what we want to know is
which way she proposes going.
of the party’s candidates for county of
fices upon the same day as the stat6 and
congressional primary. This is now the
practice in the large majority of counties,
but there are quite a good many in which,
for local reasons, a separate date for the
county fight has been the rule. In some
cases this has been eailier than the state
primary, in others later. This is not
generally satisfactory, as it still leaves
the way open for the charge that the
committee’s aotion, whatver it may be,
was taken either for or against some can
didate or set of candidates.
* » *
The primary elections are the affairs of
the whole people, not of the men aspir
ing to office; and manifestly the only
fair way is for the state to bear the ex
pense. It will not be a heavy expense ;
and certainly if it insures absolute fair
ness and the right of every Georgian to
vote, it will be money well invested.
The Citizen agrees with The
Constitution in the above, provid
ed a strict secret ballot be adopted
so the will of every qualified voter
may be expressed.
Dalton will
thereby.
be greatly benefited
GRASS AGAIN.
The Bermuda grass question is about
the “livest” wire in this section.—Dal
ton Citizen.
And like a live wire, when you once
get it rooted you can’t turn it loose—it’s
there to stay.—Marietta Journal.
That’s the intention of the
proposition. ^Nobody will want
to turn a good thing loose.
Under existing conditions Judge J. L.
Sweat made a wonderful race for dele- j
gate at large. What we mean by “ex-1
isting conditions” is the fact that a large J
portion of North Georgia does not in
tend to give South Georgia anything.— j
Waycross Herald.
Was not Col. Estill from South j
Georgia? Was not Judge Griggs
from South Georgia? Was not I
Judge Sweat from South Georgia?]
North Georgia concentrated on
her man, Judge Maddox, went to |
the convention in solid phalanx
and won. South Georgia came ]
up there divided between three
mighty good men, if one of them
not worth anything to a commun-| was in the Hearst column, and as
ity. A paper without character, a consequence she lost. Many of I
fearing to champion any cause for Colonel Estill’s North Georgia
fear of adverse criticism, is reallv votes, in fact most all of them,
menace. It does a community went to Colonel Smith because
no good, and soon reaches a well- Colonel Smith was better known
merited oblivion. The paper that personally than Judge Sweat in
points out faults in government, this end of the state. It is a
from the smallest to the greatest, psychological characteristic of us
oalls attention to irregularities mountaineers to be clannish. We!
whenever and wherever it sees are raised in small compasses—in
them—in fact the paper that is | pocket valleys—and are afraid to
£ Summer Millinery.?
Every Flower, Shape,
Ornament or Trimmed
Hat at Cost, without
reserve. We offer allj
Summer Miliinery at}
Cost. Now is your >[
chance to buy a hand-z
some, stylish Hat for}
New York Cost.
not cowardly—is the paper that
will win. It is the paper that
has always won. It is a case of
the survival of the fittest.
venture too far away from home,
! either in our peregrinations or
voting. We stick to our nearest I
neighbor first, and then cautiously
40 DOZEN
Men’s Negligee Shirts,}
worth 50 cents, on sale
for 39 cents each.
20 Dozen Men’s Neg
ligee Shirts, worth $1,;
for 69 cents each.
No matter whether you like its venture away from home. Come
policy or not, if it brings results, up to North Georgia, brethren of)
the Herald, and get acquainted
with us, where the acme of c
hospitality may be summed up in
a mountaineer’s invitation to
guest at dinner—“stick your fork
in the beans, stranger, and pull
out a squirrel’s leg.”
it is the one in which you should
advertise. Advertising is not a
matter of sentiment: it is a busi
ness proposition.
LET POLITICS REST.
Chattanooga Glass House can
furnish glass, by its s#mi-monthly
cars, to all dsalsrs in this section
at LOWER PRICES than any
other parties will deliver it. Send
for prices. j u l n
Good old summertims ice
cream and soda water with
all the fruits and flavors.
HIGHTOWER & TALLEY
The Citizen is not one of those
papers seeking to agitate and
bring on turmoil and strife in
county politics. It is not that
mercenary. There is plenty of
time yet, and the farmers do not
care to be bothered with candi
dates when they are so busy with
their farm work which is of such
great importance.
Speaking along this line one
prominent county official said to
The Citizen last week: “I am op
posed to the agitation of any poli
tics now. The people want
rest; indeed they are entitled to
it, and it is not my intention to
have anything to do along this
line until crops are well out of
the way. Too much politics is
what is the matter with this coun
try now; the farmers are not
given the proper surcease from
the demoralizing effects of one
campaign until they are ushered
into another.” And certainly this
man -is right; he is the friend of
the people he so faithfully serves,
and when his name does go before
them for re-election they will
rally to his support and give him
a majority that will indeed fill his
heart with gratitude, and make
him feel that it is good to dwell
among the people who will have
thus honored him.
Let politics alone: the land
needs tilling that it may bring
forth a bountiful harvest.
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HERRON
&
j. THOMAS