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Komic Section
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ANNOUNCEMENTS.
F() R REPR ES E NTAT IVE.
i hereby announce my candidacy
for one of the nominations for Rep
resentative for flail County in the
next General Assembly, subject to
the Democratic primary to be held
August 19th, 1914.
LUTHER ROBERTS.
1 hereby announce my candidacy
for the lower house of the General
Assembly, subject to the action of
the primary of August 19, 1914.
D R. * CL IFTON NE WTON.
I hereby announce my candidacy
for the House of Representatives in
the Georgia Legislature, subject to
the action of the Democratic pri
mary of August 19th, 1914.
RICHARD MARTIN.
Lula, Ga.
Warm Times in the Ninth.
Home Journal.
The race between Col. W. A.
Charters and Hon. Thomas M. Bell
promises to be one of the warmest
the ninth district has witnessed in
years. Col. Charters is one of the
ablest men in the district, and an or
ator second to none in this section.
His address to the old soldiers here
in Homer two years ago was the best
reunion speech we have ever listened
to. It was a man’s speech.
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1 find it inconvenient for' me Io
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legislature. 1 thank my many
friends for their kind assurance of
support and should conditions be fa
vorable 1 may make therace in 1916.
Respect i vely,
W. W. Gray
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ASSEMBLY FACES
LIQUOR MEASURE
Are At Present The Real Issues Demand
ing Attention For Both
Houses.
TO ABOLISH LOCKER CLUBS
Is Text of Bill i n Senate—House De
feats First Attack on
Prohibition.
—Atlanta.
The liquor agitation has begun in
the General Assembly and the outlook
is tor along and bitter fight in both
the upper and lower houses. In the
senate a bill has been introduced by
Senator McNeil, of the twenty-second
district, which is aime ddirectly at
the locker clubs of Georgia, while the
house had it’s first real tilt this ses
sion over a resolution, which its ene
mies claimed was antagonistic to the
temperance committee.
- Bill Against Locker Clubs.
A biL to eliminate locker clubs in
the state of Georgia, introduced by
Senator McNeil of the twenty-second
district, was the new issue which has
created such a stir in the senate, and
bids fair to equal in importance the
bill introduced in the house by Repre
sentative Fullbright of Burke, which
prohibits the manufacture, sale, keep
ing for sale, barter or giving away to
induce trade any liquor containing
more than one-half of one per cent of
alcohol.
Would Repeal Liquor Tax.
The McNeil bill provides that sec
tion 933 of the code ,which now au
thorizes the license of locker
clubs by payment of a tax of SSOO,
shall be repealed. After this has been
repealed and the license of all locker
clubs have been recinded, no more li
censes shall be issued, according to
the terms of the proposed act.
According to Senator McNeil, the
author of the bill, it will be possible
for men to have liquor in their actual
lockers at the clubs, just as they have
in their homes, but the locker clubs
as they now exist in Georgia, where
liquor is sold to members, will be abol
ished.
Filibuster in the Senate.
A one-man filibuster was carried on
for an hour and a half in the senate
when Senator A. H. Burtz of the Forty
first district, talked for that length of
time against the bill to create Barrow
county, with Winder for a county seat.
This bill, which passed the house July
10, 1913, and lost out in the senate
by only five votes on July 24, 1913,
is expected by its friends to pass this
time.
Senator Burtz talked until the senate
adjourned and had the floor then.
Barrow county is to be carved out
of Gwinnett, Walton and Jackson coun
ties; it shall be in the Ninth congres
sional district; the Western judicial
circuit and the Thirty-third senatorial
district.
House Defeats Resolution.
Almost an entire session of the house
was consumed in the discussion of a
resolution offered by Representative
Beck, of Carroll county. This resolu
tion would require all standing com
mittees to report back to the house
within six days. When placed to a
vote in the house it was defeated.
Enemies of the resolution insisted
that it was intended for the temper
ance committee and during the debate
following the introduction of the res
olution in the house the temperance
committee and the Webb bill was
prominently mentioned and appeared
to be the real issue.
Representative Wright of Floyd
county, who spoke in favor of the res
olution, took occasion to criticize the
temperance committee for presuming
to review the constitutionality of the
Webb act. There is now pending be
fore this committee a senate bill to
make effective in Georgia the provis
ions of the Webb act of congress,
which prohibits the shipping of liquor
into “dry” states in more than three
gallon lots to any single consignee.
It is the belief of the temperance com
mittee that the Beck resolution was
meant to force an early action on the
Webb act in the house.
Sweeping changes in Georgia’s di
vorce laws are provided for in a bill
introduced by Senator W. D. McNeil
of the Twenty-second district. The bill
provides that evidences of witnesses
other than parties involved shall be
given on the grounds of adultery. Un
der the present law testimony of the
husband or wife is sufficient before a
divorce is given on the grounds of men
tal incapacity the fact must be proven
by at least two witnesses. The bill
also provides that no cases shall be
undefended.while in the past more than
two-thirds of the divorce suits in Geor
gia have been undefended.
A radical change in the grounds of
cruel treatment is made. The bill pro
vides that cruel treatment shall consist
of actual violence uncondoned by the
To Urge Mclntosh Memorial.
Atlanta—Mrs. A. H. Alfriend, chair
man of the Gen. William Mclntosh Me
morial association, is doing much to se
cure the passage at the present ses
sion of the legislature a bill to have
the state preserve as a memorial to
General Mclntosh the hotel built by
him at Indian Spring. “The Gen. Wil
liam Mclntosh memorial bill, which
had one reading at the last session
of the Georgia legislature, is meeting
with a great deal of praise and enthu
siasm throughout the state," said Mrs.
Alfriend. ;>-•
party. Witnesses other than the
parties involved must testify.
Habitual intoxication has to be prov
en by at least three witnesses.
A radical change is that there shall
be no more undefended cases; the
judge shall designate lawyers to repre
sent the defendants in each case,
v hether the defendants can pay attor
neys’ fees or not. But the defendant
shall pay fees and his share of costs
if he is able to do so.
The old divorce laws shall stand ex
cept when in conflict with this act.
Other charges provided for in Sena
tor’s McNeil’s bill are that intermar
riage of persons within the prohibited
degrees of consanguinity shall be no
grounds for divorce if there shall be
living issue of the marriage at the
time the suit is filed; in suits on the
grounds of force, menace, devices or
frauds at the time of the marriage, ac
tion must be instituted within three
months after marriage; in cases of wil
ful desertion, the party shown to have
deserted the other without justifica
tion shall not be given a divorce for
at least five years after the final de
gree for granting the other party the
divorce. This is a punishment for de
sertion.
Although the senate was in session
only fifteen minutes, adjourning be
cause of the death in Savannah Sun
day of Mrs. Edward C. Anderson, the
mother of President J. Randolph An
derson, several important bills were
introduced.
Senator Fred Kea of the Sixteenth
district, introduced a bill to provide
that the electric chair shall be used
in the execution of all felons in Geor
gia, and that all executions shall take
place at the state farm in Milledge
ville.
At the close of the senate’s fifteen
minute session, the general judiciary
committee met, of which Senator Mc-
Neil is chairman. Many bills from the
last session and three introduced this
session were referred to subcommit
tees.
The following bills have been intro
duced;
By Senator J. L. Sweat of the Fifth
District —To amend article 3, section 4,
paragraph 1, of the constitution to ex
tend the term of members of the gen
eral assembly until the time fixed for
the convening of the general assembly.
By Senator C. H. Parrish of the Sev
enteenth District —To create a new
charter for the city of Statesboro.
By Senator Watts of the Eleventh
District —To amend the charter of the
city of Guthbert.
By Senator Tarver of the Forty
third District —To regulate the expen
diture of money for campaign ex
penses for United States senator and
governor and state house officers at
primary elections.
By Senator Allen of the Twentieth
District —To provide for a hearing in
the courts of tax collectors or sureties
on their official bonds when executions
have been issued by the comptroller
general against the defaulting tax col
lector and sureties on their bonds.
Forerunnners of what may prove to
be the most bitterly contested meas
ures introduced into the general as
sembly of Georgia for many years
made their appearance in several new
bills introduced during the past week.
It is apparent that the solons will
not be able to evade the woman suf
frage issues, the liquor agitation and
the efforts on the part of the oppon
ents of the tax equalization law to
secure an amendment to this bill pass
ed at last session.
To Prevent Hasty Marriages.
Much interest has been manifested
in a bill presented by Representative
Parker of Liberty, which tends to reg
ulate marriages in the state. This bill
requires the publication once a week
for four consecutive weeks the notice
of an approaching marriage in the
papers of the county, where the fe
male resides. According to this bill
the full name of both parties and the
time and place of the ceremony must
be given in the notice.
Eugenic Marriage Law.
Another bill which might be called
a companion bill to Representative
Parker’s “wedding” bill, was one in
troduced into the senate by Senator
Hixon. This is known as the eugen
ics bill and requires a physician’s
certificate of mental and physical
soundness and abstinence from alco
hol and narcotics and fixing the mar
riageable age of the male at eigh
teen year and the female at sixteen.
Parents of the females are allowed
to furnish a certificate in her behalf.
Another Prohibition Bill.
What is believed to be one of the
most extreme prohibition bills ever
introduced in the Georgia legislature
was one presented by Representative
Fullbright of Burke county into the
house. After its introduction the bill
was referred to a temperance com
mittee. This bill prohibits the man
ufacture, sale, keeping for sale, bar
ter or giving away to induce trade
of any liquor containing more than
one-half of 1 per cent, alcohol. It
fixes January 1, 1915, as the date when
it is to become effective, prohibits the
issuance of any license in the name
of the state or any subdivision there
of or any municipality for the sale of
the liquor, and provides misdemeanor
punishment for violation.
Fight for New County.
Atlanta. —Advocates of the propos
ed new county of Tate in north Geor
gia, with Fairmont as the county seat,
will come to the legislature this sum
mer with a unique plead. Only one
new county has been created in north
Georgia (Stephens) since 1885, while
nine new ones have been created in
south Georgia. The Tate advocates
say that south Georgia needed her new
counties all right, but that the upper
part of the state should not be neg
lected in this respect, particularly
where there is such a great need
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LITTLE NEWS ITEMS
THROUGHOUT STATE j
Thomasville.—The tomato crop
here is beginning to move though as
yet the shipments have only been ex
press.
Augusta.—With the unanimous ad
option of resolutions of thanks to Pa
poose Tribe No. 10 for their splendid
entertainment, to the city of Augusta
for her generous hospitality, and the
press of the city for the liberal amount
of publicity given the event, the
thirty-fifth Grand Sun Session of the
Improved order of Red Men came to
a close, after a most interesting and
successful meeting.
Waycross.—Through the efforts of
a number of citizens the cold drink
lid. which the civic league sought to
clamp on Waycross, was kept off and
sodawater was supplied to hundreds
from a stand in one of the city parks.
No money was accepted, but a char
ity box at the stand received gener
ous contributions.
Demorest. —The formal opening of
the North Georgia Epworth League
conference occurred here. The people
of Demorest have opened their hearts
and homes to the young leaguers of
the state, as was shown by the royal
reception tendered the delegates on
their arrival.
Washington.—An event with the Ma
sonic fraternity of northeast Georgia
will' be the Eighth District conven
tion which is to be held in Washing
ton early in August. There will be
about 600 delegates and visitors in at
tendance for two days and nights and
the members of Lafayette Lodge No.
22 are making extensive plans to in
sure the visiting fraternity men a
royal good time.
Rome. —Floyd county peach crop
will begin to move about July 2. A
few more cars of the early varieties
will be shipped during the coming
week. The Carmens will move first,
and the Elberta crop will follow two
weeks later. The crop Is in good con
dition, and most of the orchard men
have already disposed of their output
at good prices.
Valdosta. —Cantaloupe growers and
shippers in this territory are disheart
ened over the returns so far, as well
as the prospects for the remainder of
the season. The crop is ripening rap
idly and shipments are going for
ward as fast as they can be loaded,
but the returns are distinctly disap
pointing.
Macon —John R. L. Smith, of Mac
on, may be the next district attorney
of the United States court for the
Southern District of Georgia. He was
summoned to Washington by Attor
ney-General Mcßeynolds, and partici
pated in a conference with the at
torney-general.
Rome. —The Rome district confer
ence at its session in Rockmart this
week adopted resolutions urging the
general conference to locate the pro
posed southern Methodist university
in Atlanta. The conference is compos
ed of thirty-five churches, with a mem
bership of more than eight thousand.
Macon. —A million dollar bond is
sue for Bibb county will be submitted
to the voters of Bibb county on
August 19th. Is is proposed to issue
bonds for the building of a new court
house and school house and concrete
bridges and for the improvement of
the roads.
Vidalia. —The taxable values for
Toombs county will this year show
an increase of at least $1,000,000, or
a grand total of about $5,000,000.
About half of the total taxable values
being in the Vidalia district, accord
ing to reports from the county tax
assessor.
Waynesboro At the county of
ficers’ convention, which met at In
dian Springs, Ga., Burke county was
represented by Mr. John A. Blount.
Mr. Blount was elected vice-president
for the coming year.
Decatur. —The first steps were tak
en at a meeting of tire mayor and ai
dermen held recently, to transform
the Decatur fire department from
a volunteer, to a paid department,
the change to take effect upon the ar
rival of the new fire truck, about July
1.
Waycross. —The consecration ser
vice conducted by Rev. Arthur J.
Moore, of Blackshear, brought the
thirteenth annual conference of the
South Georgia Epworth League to a
close. It was the most successful
and most largely attended held in the
thirteen years of the conference, and
reports brought from every district,
showed that the Epworth league in
the past year has enjoyed better
growth than ever before.
Blakely.—A very enthusiastic meet
ing was held at the courthouse by a
number of citizens of Early county
for the purpose of organizing a cham
ber of commerce for the county of
Early.
Cordele. —When the work of the
board of tax equalizers in Crisp coun
ty is complete it is expected that a
raise on tax returns and the assess
ments placed on property that has
not heretofore been returned tor tax
ation will reach between $700,000 and
$1,000,000.
Crodele. —On account of details
that must be worked out, the boards
of county commissioners of Crisp and
county commissioners, at a meeting
held Friday at Flint river, did not de
cide upon the site for the location of
the steel bridge that is to be con
structed across the river connecting
Cordele and Americus by a splendid
highway.
Athens. —Commencement day at the
University of Georgia, the conclusion
of the 114th year of service for the
state by the oldest state university in
America, was marked by several un
usual features.
FOR GOVERNOR
K m
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B ' J
NAT E. HARRIS
Why not?
What do the people want in their Governor?
Do they want COURAGE?
Judge Harris fought under Lee.
Do they want DEVOTION TO PRINCIPLE?
Judge Harris sacrificed his home and was driven from East Tennoo
see an outcast because he served the Confederacy.
Do they want LOYALTY TO SOUTHERN IDEALS?
Judge Harris came to Georgia and stood shoulder to shoulder with the
men of this State in the struggle for white supremacy and the rw
demption of our civilization from the horrors of Reconstruction.
Do they want LEARNING?
Judge Harris makes no parade of his learning, but .he is a student and
a scholar.
Do they want CONSTRUCTIVE STATESMANSHIP?
Judge Harris established the Georgia School of Technology.
Do they want ABILITY TO HANDLE THE FINANCIAL AFFAIRS OF THK
STATE?
Judge Harris drew up and put into execution the legislative plan at
refunding the State’s bonds in 1884, by which her credit was restored
and ruin averted.
Do they want FIDELITY?
Judge Harris has been entrusted with the affairs of countless clients,
and has never betrayed a trust.
Do they want ELOQUENCE?
Judge Harris is one of the few great orators left in the country.
Do they want SYMPATHY WITH THE NEEDS OF THE PEOPLE?
Judge Harris came to Georgia as a farmer. He has edited a country
newspaper, he has been a school teacher, he has been a lawyer, he has
been a builder of railroads, —he has learned by experience to sympa
thize with the hopes and aspirations of all the people.
Do they want CONSERVATISM?
Judge Harris has the calm, far-seeing judgment that prevents his being
swayed by every wind of doctrine, and keeps him true to the best
traditions of our people.
Do they want PROGRESSIVENESS?
Judge Harris is a true progressive in the sense that he is always in
the forefront of every movement for the moral, intellectual and mar
terial progress of our people and the upbuilding of the State.
Do they want INTELLECT?
Judge Harris is the equal in intellect of any man in the Union
Do they want RIGHTEOUSNESS?
Surely the purity of his character and the uprightness of his life during
all the years he has lived among the people of Georgia will speak
louder than any words that can be said as to what manner of man he is.
Do they want VIGOR?
The rugged frame that he brought from the mountains has not been
impaired by the passing years—he is as strong and virile as one of
the spruces of his native home.
Do they want ENERGY?
The fire still flashes from his eye; to his friends he is as gentle as a
woman, but when aroused he is the Gray Lion.
Do they want a MAN?
Judge Harris is no little man but a man every inch of him, morally,
mentally, physically—a man to whom every man, woman and child
will be proud to point and say, “There is our Governor.”
THEN WHY NOT VOTE FOR JUDGE HARRIS?
His opponents are all comparatively young men, and the people will
have many other opportunities to vote for them, doubtless.
This is the last chance the people of Georgia may have to honor
the man who wore the gray—a veteran who is capable of filling the
position asks for your suffrages—
le ho not worthy?
People of Georgia
VOTE FOR THE VETERAN.
« When you do you vote for a man.
On Account of
Georgia Horticultural Society and Apple
Growers Association •
Griffin, Georgia, August 5 - 7th
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returning until August Bth
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