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TM1 JkOATH OBOBQ1A OITWW, DALTOH, OA.
Ifsrth (Senrgta Citizen
Published • very Thursday.
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■4!t»rlal acd Business.Offic* - 188
•■•lal Organ of tha County. Official Organ
•f the United States Circuit and District
Ceurts, Northwestern Division, North
ern District of Georgia.
T. S. SHOPS, | _
A. J. SHOWALTER, I Pr »PrIeters
S. SHOPE and F. T. REYNOLDS, Edlters
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Thursday, Aug-. 25, 1904.
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
For Representative.
I respectfully announce my candidaoy
for the Legislature from this county
subject to a Democratic primary.
W. W. Seymour.
For Tax Collector.
I respectfully announce myself a can
didate for the office of tax collector of
Whitfield county, and ask the cordial
suppoit of all. Respectfully,
Berry R. Bowen.
For Tax Collector.
We are requested to announce H.
KEITH, of the 9th district as a candidate
for Tax Collector of Whitfield County.
For Ordinary.
With profound appreciation of
the
confidence heretofore reposed in me by
the good people of Whitfield county
which I trust has not been misplaced,
respectfully announce myself a candi
date for re-election to the office of Ordi
nary.
Should I be re-elected, the experience
gained in the service of the people will
be used for their benefit in the future
and I will endeavor to give them faith
ful, intelligent and efficient service
do not favor excessive or burdensome
taxation, but within our means, 1 am in
favor of pressing for “good roads,” bet
ter roads, and if possible “the best roads
in North Georgia.”
Respectfully,
Jos. Bogle.
Russia floats loans easier than
battleships.
The street sprinkler was seen
on the streets Tuesday morning.
August 23rd.
We suppose
Statesboro and Cedartown could
give pointers on. “barbecues as
they have found them.”
the people of
The superintendent of the
water works says there is too
much talk about the water by
people who know nothing about
it.
The Atlanta Journal denies
the report that Atlanta’s citizens
are going to be served their water
in chunks, about the color and
size of a brick bat.
The Knights of Pythias aban-
doned their parade in Louisville
last week on account of the lack
of horses. Evidently the breth
ren had left their lodge goats at
home.
If, when the city water is ana
lyzed, it proves to be pure, the
people will, no doubt, let up on
that phase of the question. Quan
tity is really what is going to
agitate the citizens of this good
little town.
The Citizen has no apologies to
make for tynching negroes, north
or south, for any crime. The
law should be allowed to take its
course, and in extreme cases, it
should be made to take it swiftly.
The law’s delay, and the efforts of
shyster lawyers to defeat the ends
of justice, have, no doubt, inspired
man}' mobs to acts of torturous
persecution. No means of death
is too severe for a negro rapist,
but it should be administered in
the name of the law, and not in
the name of the mob which takes
the law into its own hands, and
brings disgrace upon a community,
a state, or a section of country.
The Citizen is ashamed of the re-
cent occurrences at Statesboro and
Cedartown, though it recognizes
the provocation for such lawless
nessas the greatest.. However, it
does take some consolation in the
fact that in the north and north
west negroes are assaulted, brutal
ly murdered, or lynched for trying
to make a living by honest work,
as witness the following from the
Washington Post, speaking of a
Chicago outrage:
Albert Gotten, a colored Btrike break
er, was found unconscious in the stock-
yards today, with his eyes lacerated un
til the sight had been destroyed. The
right eye had practically been gouged
out, and the man was bleeding profuse
ly. It is believed also that he is suffer
ing from a fracture of the skull. The
police took him to a hospital. * * *
Possibly the negro “strike breaker
in Illinois may be a more detestable
creature .than the rapist or assassin in
Georgia. Possibly Allen Cotten richly
deserved his fate. But unless it be un
lawful in the former stats to work for
one’s living, at least the Chicago victim
had violated no statute. A “strike
breaker,” as we understand it, is a man
who tries to earn an honest livelihood
by accepting employment which others
have voluntarily renounced. Allen Cot-
ten’s offense, therefore, consisted in that
pursuit of liberty and happiness which
is guaranteed to all by the constitution
of the United States. Yet the police
found the negro lying insensible in the
stockyards with his skull crushed and
his eyes gouged out—a rather unpleas
ant spectacle, we should say, in a highly
civilized community whose exponents
are somewhat overfond of denouncing
barbarism at a distance.
The Cottsn case is only typical. It
stands for many, not only in Illinois, but
throughout the North. And while 10,-
000 similar performances would not pal
liate the Statesboro infamy of last week,
the incident must inevitably suggest a
comparison of the two civilizations—
one under which a negro was burned at
the stake for murdering a whole family,
and the other under which a negro is
tortured for trying to earn his daily|
bread. As no victim of either process
has yet returned from the other world to
bear testimony in the premises, we can
not speak with authority as to their rel
ative horrors. In a general way, how
ever, we should say that both are pain
ful and we know that both usually re
sult iu death. What seems to u> the
really important consideration bearing
pon the present inquiry is that of the
provocation npon which the Georgia ne
gro and the Illinois negro were, respect
vely, put to torture.
DR. GORDONS CARD.
Wheat at $1.15, cotton at 10
cents, bar silver at 58 cents, and
Mexican dollars at 45 3-4 ceiits
and the country on a gold standard
basis. This is respectfully re
ferred to Tom Watson and his
followers.
The more we think of the Lou
isville & Nashville and the Wes-
tern & Atlantic, the more foolisli
do we think the legislature acted
in not selling the Western & At
lantic. The State of Georgia will,
no doubt, rue the day the legisla
ture failed to act.
Way up in Indianapolis they
are having trouble with their
water works, and the News of
that city says that even the tur
tles won’t stay in the city water.
Really, Dalton has something for
which to feel thankful.
On another page in this issue
will be found a card from Dr.
Charlet P. Gordon, relative to the
water question. The Citizen
quite agrees with Dr. Gordon in
all that he says, save where he
gives expression to his belief that
the mill contract is good for all
concerned. The Citizen has ad
mitted many times that it is most
excellent for the mills, which is
equivalent to saying that it is
most excellent for the stockhold
ers. Rut it has never said that it
is good for the people, and it does
not believe that anj'body, however
much interested, can show that it
is. If they can, why don’t they
do it? It is argued that at the
time the contract was made, it
was a matter of expediency, and
as the city could not do otherwise,
it was (or is) a good contract for
the city. Gentlemen, the simple
assertion that it is, does not make
it so. There has never been given
a reason worth mentioning for the
contract, so far as city benefits
are concerned, and if The Citizen
knew one, it would certainly
give it out, and if any one does,
and will tell it, it will give it
gladly. Expediency! “ Many
things are expedient which are
not lawful.”
LETTERS FROM TEE PEOPLE
Dr. Gordon Explains.
Mr. Editor:—After signing the
communication to the mayor and-
council in reference to the city
water and filtering plant, I visited
in company with Dr. McAfee the
water works, and found that the
filter was doing all that could be
expected, and that the sediment
in the water was caused by the
working or flushing out the mains
by the superintendent of the
water works, which had not been
thoroughly done for years, and
which was a work of necessity.
The water which passes through
the filter is perfectly clear and
pure to th« eye, and I do not lies
itate to say, that in my opinion,
Dalton now has a system of water
works equal to any in the countiy.
Mill creek is a beautiful mountain
stream, the source of which is net
more than ten miles from Dalton
in the mountains; it is an ideal
HEAD AND FEET.
The Quitman Free Press has discov
ered that W. L. Douglas, the man who
makes the shoes that made him famous
resembles Judge Parker. This is a fact
as a comparison of pictures of the two
men will show.—Walton Tribune.
The resemblance is superficial for.
while Douglas makes things for the feet,
Parker makes things for the head.—
Quitman Free Press.
And what is another admirable
feature in connectioji therewith is
that Mr. Douglas was a delegate
to the St. Louis convention and
helped nominate Parker. A Cit
izen editor present had the pleas
ure of being presented to Mr
Douglas.
The Statesboro “war” promises
to become as famous as the “Way
cross war.”
The Pittsburg Times, republi
can, wants to know why all the
pictures of your Uncle Gassaway
Davis shows him with hands in
his pockets. That’s easy. He has
a republican son-in-law.
The rabid Northern press is
just now very busy writing of
Georgia barbarism,” and it really
has some reason for doing so. Mob
law is a disgrace to civilization,
o matter for what crime, hut so
long as negro brutes continue to
assault white women, mob law
will he practiced, no matter
whether the crime he committed
n Georgia or Vermont.
Henry Watterson and the
editor of Colliers have been say-
ing right “cutting things” about
one another recently, and it is
amusing to lead them. The ed
itor of Colliers says that Watter
son never mada a half-way state
ment—that he “never failed to
call a spade a damned shovel.”
They mob a poor negro for
taking a striker’s job in Chicago,
the home of the over-pious Chi
cago Chronicle, which reads the
South a lecture on all occasions,
while in Georgia a negro has to
commit the unspeakable crime
before he becomes a victim of
mobocracy.
The L. & N. passing through
Murry county, and not touching
Dalton, will divert a big trade
om us to Cartersville and it is
up to Dalton to nurse her manu
facturing interest* and complete
the D. & A. railroad. Let every
body who has Dalton’s interest at
heart stop and think what is best
to be done and then set about
doing it.
What a farce it is to send
troops to quell riots with empty
guns! Mohs are acquainted with
this fact, and a few bayonets does
not intimidate them. Let the
governor s«nd troops with loaded
guns a' d put a man in charge
like Sheriff Smith, of Birming
ham fame, who will shoot if his
orders ar# not obeyed. We ven
ture the assertion that no Bir
mingham mob will ever again
refuse to halt when ordered, re
membering the fate of Sheriff
Smith's command.
The Republican press is patting
Tom Watson on the back, know
ing that every vote Tom gets is
so many 7 taken out of the Demo
cratic ranks. Tom is the politi
cal Don Quixote of this year.
stream from N whieh to obtain water
for the city.
But Ah! the gentlemen who
are raising a great hue and cry
about the impurity of our water
to The injury of the city have an
object in view: they want to break
up the contract between the city
and the cotton mills—that is the
milk in the cocoanut. Well, that
contract is a just and equitable one
between the city and mills, was
made by that venerable citizen
and able financier, W. H. Pruden,
when mayor of the city ol Dalton,
and ought to stand. When the
spring ceased to furnish an ample
supply of water, in the city’s
growth, the mills at an expense
of nearly three thousand dollars
in purchasing land and water
privileges to Mill creek, thereby
supplied the increased demand for
water by the city.
I do not deny being a stock
holder in the mills; it is a good
investment for me, for the city,
and for the laborers employed
there. And the green-eyed, brave,
courageous individual who hides
behind the name “taxpayer,” and
who is so quick to impugn the
methods of other men, had better
examine himself; there may be a
beam in his own eye.
Very truly yours,
Charles P. Gordon.
Dalton, Ga., August 20,1904.
As long as unprotected girls and
women in Georgia are assaulted
by men, black or white, the assail
ants will meet summary punish
ment by fire, rope or shot. Time,
nor so-called civilization, nor cul
ture will change these facts, and
all politicians everywhere, are
welcome to whatever capital they
can make out of it. The Citizen
would rather see the republican
party forever in power, as horrible
as that would be, than to know of
one pure white girl being assaulted
by a black or white brute.
The Citizen respectfully calls
the attention of those interested
in the welfare of Dalton to the
letter of Prof. A. J. Showalter in
this issue. Prof. Showalter, while
the principal owner of The Citi
zen, does not take an active part
in its editorial management, but
when he does write he strikes
“sledge hammer” blows, every
one of which counts. He dis
cusses the mill contract and many
other things of interest to
Daltonians.
men, the majority of whom had
twice gone down into the bitter
waters of defeat following the
matchless silver leader; and, while
perhaps they realized the impo-
tency of attempting to revive the
silver question, the influence prob
ably prevailing and a kindly sen
timent still lingering for a dead
and buried issue, his telegram
might rekindle and create a re-
sentmeut which would have cui
minated in recalling his nomina
tion.“ That one act came like a
tornado to those who had charged
Judge Parker wanting iu moral
courage, and presenting to the
American people a character of
grandeur which stands out in
magnificence and height above
the present incumbent in the
white house like a towering moun
tain above the font hills.
Judge Parker is fiee of the
idea that because a man is elected
president of the United States
he is immediately endowed by
Omnipotence with so much wis
dom that he becomes greater than
his party, and is personally re
sponsible to the country for th*
legislation enacted by congress
and the senate. This hair-brained
departure from Democratic gov
ernment, inaugurated by Roose
velt, tends to so greatly increase
the personal power and influence
of the president that he would
eventually equal an emperor or
czar. Great personal power is
dangerous to the republic, hut
when centered in the people and
their representatives is exercised
in fostering their libertb-s and
Democratic institutions.
At no time within the history
of this government has there been
such an imperative necessity 7 of
electing a man president of the
United States' of such admirable
mental balance as Judge Parker,
who will by a wise and patiotic
administration bring hack the
national government to Demo
cratic beaten paths. If we are to
preserve the form of government
handed down to us by Jefferson
and his copatriots, Rooseveltism
must he repudiated by the election
and elevation to the presidency of
the peerless Parker.
R. S Mitchell,
in Atlanta Journal
Dalton, Ga.
e-te- & tw*r-
i VILLAGE * \
| IMPROVEMENT \
Mrs S. J. Huff is adding another
room to
cottage.
her Thorntou avenue
FOURTH ESTATE.
Romk, Ga., luxuriates with a
citizen by 7 the name of • Flopper,
a:.d he is not in politics either.
For Over Sixty Years
Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup has bean
used by millions of mothers for their
children while teething. If disturbed at
night and broken of your rest by a sick
child suffering and crying with pain of
Cutting Teeth, send at once and get a
bottle of “MrB. Winslow’s Soothing
Syrup” for Children Teething. It will
relieve the poor little sufferer immedi
ately. It cureB Diarrhoea, regulates the
Stomach and Bowels, cure* Wind Colic,
softens th* Gums, reduces Inflammation,
and gives tone and energy to the whole
system. “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing
Syrup” for children teething is pleasant
to the taste and is the prescription of
one of the oldest and best female physi
cians and nurses iu the United States.
Price twenty-five cenls a bottle. Sold
by all druggist throughout the world.
Be sure and ask for “Mrs. Winslow's
Syrup.”
Parker and Roosevelt.
The Atlanta Journal comment
ing on Judge Parker’s speech of
acceptance, has this prophetic
clause: “He has, for the third
time, accentuated the fact that
his own personality will he one of
the chief issues of the campaign,
for he unconsciously draws the
full-length portrait of a character
diametrically opposed to the reck
less, unstable and peevishly am
bitious Theodore Roosevelt.”
Roosevelt may be compared to
Paul. Paul was mad because of
too much learning; Roosevelt is
mad because of too much eleva
tion, and he has made everybody
mad who has come in contact
with his official acts and utter
ances. His administration has
been one of madness and folly,
and he has been a Hotspur and a
revolutionist in his policies and
declarations, which have caused
the country to recoil with amaze
ment and apprehension. Roose
velt has so impressed this peculiar
character and disposition of his to
distinguish himself regardless of
the dire cost it might entail upon
the people of the United States,
that many believe that should the
idea occur to him to declare him
self the czar of America, he is
rash enough to attempt it.
Yes, The Journal is right;
Parker’s personality will be one of
the chief issues of the campaign.
He has demonstrated in maintain
ing an equilibrium under the
most thrilling and dramatic cir.
cumstances, few great characters,
much less ordinary men, could
have withstood, and declared to WGle
the world his convictions in main
taining and supporting a great
principle. His telegram to the
St. Louis convention defining his
position on the financial question
will go down in history as the
most heroic, unselfish, sublime
moral courage possessed by man.
He knew in that great body of
Jim Nevins, the seven-up edi
tor of the Rome Tribune, writes
that the Japs have carried Hi
Cheng, low cheng, jack and the
gameski.
Tom Watson's recent declara
tion that he was out of politics,
need not be changed by his ac
ceptance of the populist nomina
tion.—Quitman Free Press.
Tne fountain for Thorntou ave
nue park has arrived and will be
put in place soon.
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The fire hall on Pentz street,
has been very much improved in
appearance recently by a fresh
coat of paint, and by being other
wise improved.
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v
Mr. R. A. Rushton has repaint
ed, rufeiiced and generally over
hauled his Chattanooga avenue
home, and it is now one of the
most attractive in the Fifth ward.
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m
A drive around town will prove
the interest being taken in keep
ing the premises in a neat condi
tion. You will experience no
difficulty in discovering where
interest is being taken—a casual
glauce will reveal it.
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Those having charge of the
Bard property, oit North Thorn
ton avenue, should have the small
forest removed that detracts so
much from this, otherwise, pretty
lot. There is danger of wild
beasts milking this jungle their
rendezvous.
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There has been a great deal
said about the purity of the water
supply, a great many theories ad
vanced and yet there has not been
exhibited a correct analysis of the
water. If the water is not pure
it is a menace to the health of
the e .tire city. If it is pure that
fact should be proven. Eet us
have facts.
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The colored people are inter
ested in the improvement move-*
ment and in the near future will
organize, under the advisement of
the Association, and will make
many 7 needed improvements, one
of which will he to reclaim the
spring in Spring Square, and
po-sibly establish a small paik in
that vicinity.
Herron
&
Thomas.
P
SHOES
Honest Shoes and
Pleased Wearers
is what we are al-
ways contending
for.
Shoddy, Poor Shoes
never brought back a
customer to a store.
Every pair of good
Shoes sent out by
store makes cus*
tomers for that
store.
The Press, a new weekly being
published at Thomasville, is a
visitor to The Citizen now and it
is a good looking, healthy young
ster. We wish it a long and
prosperous life void of offense,
Mellins Food, bankruptcy 7 and
Castoria.
The railroad commission of Georgia
has two Browns on it, and they are both
men of judgMENT.—Savannah Tress
If they have the same quality
of the late Senator Joseph E.
Brown, they will make our com
mission one by which all will take
pattern, and we think they will
The next time a Georgia mur
derer is threatened with lynching,
a company from the Home of the
Friendless will he sent to protect
him.—Americus Times-Reeorder.
The rumor that a detachment
from the Salvation Army had been
sent to Statesboro to restore order,
has not yet been confirmed.
Americus Times-Recorder.
Lightning killed two mules on
the Jones place,” says the Whit-
sett Courier, “but both animals
advanced in age and were
fast asleep at the time and, conse
quently. did not see it coining.”
Fifty cars of Coal just in.
JOHN T. HOLLANE.
COWS FOR SALE
Three Jersey cows with
young calves. Cash or
credit. W. S. McCARTY.
As autumn approaches, the
time of year when the farmer is
in most evidence, a rest-room
should be provided for the good
housewife who comes to town to
do her fall shopping. The mer
chants will likely be called upon
to contribute something to this
movement, and thus provide a
place of rest for their customers.
It has been suggested that some
one be in charge of this room be
tween the hours of nine iu the
morning and five in the afternoon,
to see after the comfort of those
desiring to rest and have a pleas
ant chat. The importance of this
room may be readily seen, and a
cozy room and a few magazines
will be a desirable place for the
tired buyers to spend a few min
utes just before starting home or
to enjoy more fully their noon
lunch—and will doubtless Le ap
preciated. Other cities have
tried this idea and as an evidence
of its popularity it is being
tinued from year to year.
We are trying to build up the
Biggest Retail Shoe
Business in North
Georgia, and if honest
well made Shoes will
do it we are going to
have it,
H. C. God man’s name is
fast becoming a household
word among our customers,
for they have tried them and
found them reliable and hon
est. Buy Godman’s 8hne$
for 3’our wife, daughter or
boy, and every pair wiU please
VOU.
cou-
Friction board bor mak
ing pulleys.
The A. J. Showalter Co.
A* Sweat Breath.
is a never failing sign of a healthy stom
ach. When the breath is bad the stom
ach is out of order. There is no remedy
in the world equal to Kodol Dyspepsia
Cure for curing indigestion, dyspepsia
and all stomach disorders. Mrs. Mary
S. Crick, of White Plains, Ky., writes “I
have been a dyspeptic fer years; tried
all kinds of remedies but continued to
grow worse. By the use of Kodol I
began to improve at once, and after tak
ing a few bottles am fully restored in
weight, health and strength and can eat
whatever I like ” Kodol digests what
you eat and makes the stomach sweet,
Sold by Fincher & Nichols. aug.
Dalton Encampment
I. O. O. F. No. 37.
Meets every 2d and 4th
Wednesday nights In Ma-
sonic Hall.
Visiting Patriarchs cordtally C lnvited m 6 ° “ 1
We are sole agents in Dal
ton for the ctlebrated
Queen Quality
Shoe.
Fail shipment in all the
late styles will be in soon.
See our line of Pennant
School Shoes,
Best Values for
the Money in
Dalton.
New shipment of the justly
famous Julia Marlowe on the
road, 1 his shoe fits when all
others fail.
Rags wantd.
Large, clean cotton
bought by
The A. J. Showalter Co.
rags
Kodol Dyspepsia Cura
NSMts what you cat.
^ee our handsome new line
of 1 urn Shoes for infants and
all the little folks.
Herron
&
Thomas.