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THE GAINESVILLE EAGLE.
'*Y the Eagle Publishing Company.
VOLUME LV
'Did you Ever See
An Unbreakable Comb?
Many are so called, but we have Combs made of Cotton Fiber
and Branded NEVER-BRAKE; a very striking Comb in ap
pearance and at a very reasonable price, 25 and SOC.
We replace every one that breaks.
George’s Drug Store.
MAKING LAST PLEA FOR
THE NECKS OF THE CAN-
TRELL BOYS TO-DAY.
Committee of Representative Citizens of Hall
County are Pleading for Lives of Boys
Before Prison Board and
Governor Slaton
H. H. Dean, attorney for Bartow!
Cantrell, and F. M. Johnson, attor-j
ney for Jim Cantrell, and Sheriff j
Spencer with a committee of citi
zens, are today before the Prison j
Board and Governor Slaton, mak- j
ing a final plea foi the lives of the
convicted men.
Jim Cantrell has been granted five
reprieves by the governor, and now
he and Bartow will hang on the 24th
of this month, 1 without executive!
clemency.
The last reprieve was granted, and
in fact every reprieve was granted, ,
the older boy that the two might be .
finally disposed of at the same time.
The Eagle and friends of the boys
have made perhaps the strongest
fight for the boys that was ever
made for anyone under death sen
tence in Hall county.
Petitions have been circulated by
friends, and executive clemency has
been agitated by this paper, solely
upon the grounds of the boys’ illit
eracy.
The final termination of the case
now lies with the Governor and
Prison Commission.
It is thought that, should the
Prison Commission recommend
it, the Governor would extend
clemency, and partially because
there are so many petitions
bearing names of Hail county’s best
citizenry, asking life sentences.
It is said by attorneys that the
strongest petitions that had ever
been carried to a governor were
carried to Governor Slaton in June.
The boys, when seen by a news
paper man Sunday afternoon, talked
freely and seemed perfectly re- ’
signed to their fate should not the
governor grant them a commuta
tion.
Spent the Day in Maysville.
Mrs. A. H. Whitehead, Mr.
Lawrence and Miss Blanche Atkins
and Miss Lulu Kiley spent yester
day in Maysville.
Ford Sterling.
This eccentric and original come
dian will be seen in a two part
comedy entitled ’’Hearts and
Swords,” at the Alamo tomorrow.
Athens Visitors Here.
Mr. and Mr. A. H. Whitehead
and Master Thomas Whitehead of
Athens and Mrs. W. J. Comer,
spent the week with Mr. and Mrs.
T. E. Atkins at their home on
Boulevard.
Autos Crash on Green Street.
A car being driven by Mr. Felix
Jackson and another driven by Mr.
J. C. Pruitt crashed into each other
on Green street Monday night. It
is said that the drivers ran into each
other to avoid running over Mrs.
DeLacy Law. who was crossing the
street. Slight damage was done to
the cars.
AETER LAPSE OF FIFTEEN
DAYS NEGRO REGAINS MIND
Had to be Confined in a Padded Cell for 15
Days—Mind Returned Saturday Even
ing-Said He’d Been Sick.
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Burl Elrod, a negro in Hall county
jail awaiting trial for being an ac
complice in snatching a purse from
Reube Burgess, a white man, on
Athens street about six weeks ago,
and who completely lost his mind
after being jailed i'3r fifteen days,
had hisj’memory return Saturday
evening, and now he wants to see
his mother.
Shortly after Elrod’s incarcera
tion he seemingly lost memory of
everything, and at times he became
dangerous, eventually having to be
placed in a padded cell with his hands
bound to prevent him from doing
violence to himself or Mr. Butfiing
ton, the jailor. At times it would
take five men to hold him.
He remained in that state, it is
said, until last Saturday when he
became rational, saying that he had
been mighty sick and that he did
wish he could see his mother. Mr.
Buffington told Elrod that Sheriff,
Spencer had sent for his mother and
that she was coming to see him.
The negro says his head feels
strange and hurts him a whole lot
at times.
This is the first case of the kind
known in Hall county.
Birfhdav Party.
I Miss Isabel Neese entertained a
; few of her schoolmates at a birth
; day party at her home on Riverside
j Drive, Monday afternoon. They
played games and had refreshments
.on the lawn. Quite a good time
I they all reported.
Visits Old Home.
i Miss Emma M. Lederer, sister of
'Mr. George E. Lederer, who has
I been making her home here for the
past two years, leaves this week for
a visit to her former home in Cow
dersport, Pa.
Returned from Convention.
Mr. Clarence O. Ellis and Mr.
Young J. Simmons of the Gaines
ville Post Oflice returned yesterday
from Columbus, where they attend
ied United National Association of
Postal Clerks three days this week.
They report having had a good
meeting of the order and say that
Gainesville will have the pleasure of
! having the Association with us next
1 year.
To Make Two Good Roads.
| It is desired by the County Com
missioners to make two good roads
out of the Keith’s Ferry road and
the Brown's Bridge road, but in
order to do this they will first have
i to secure the rights of way necessary
1 to make the roads from the citizens
| along these roads, and it is truly
• hoped that every farmer living
■ along the line will give the Com
' missioners the proper rights of way.
■and that the work will be carried
j speedily to completion.
• These are very important roads of
the county, and the farmers along
these roads and those who traverse
them are entitled to as good roads
as can be had. and the right of way
wiil be given, we feel certain.
GAINESVILLE. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1914.
ATLANTA SPIRIT DEMON-
STRATED HERE JULY 4TH.
Nearly One Thousand Gainesville Citizens
Joined in Big Park Clean-Up—Plenty
to Eat —and Drink —Water.
That Gainesville citizens can do
things when they set their shoulder
to the wheel is no longer a question
of doubt. It was plainly shown
that they can, and those who were
at the City Park on July 4th will
stand sponsor for that statement.
There were nigh unto one thous
and men and boys, it is said by
those in attendance, that joined in
cleaning up the purk, and inci
dentally in the big barbecue that
was served to those who helped
work; and they did justice, both to
the park and to the big dinner.
But, like feeding the five thousand,
they had a-plenty and some left.
Os course you would not expect
twelve baskets to be left, as was the
case with the Biblical multitude,
but we have no record that the five
thousand had worked any, as was
the case with the one thousand at
the city park.
Now, the next improvement is
going to be the swimming pool, for
they have already raised a good
amount of money for that purpose,
and the work of building a concrete
pool will begin at once, it is said.
Lt was rumored that some of
Gainesville’s citizens would not like
to go out to the city park if it were
fixed up nicely—that they thought
it was being done for Green street
only. That is not the case. It is
being fixed for every tax payer, and
tiie child of every tax payer, and
for every citizen and the child of
every citizen.
Don’t get it into your head that
the Eagle would take a part in any
project that was instigated for the
rich only. The park will be free to
everybody who cares to go there for
a little amusement and pass the
time. Everybody will be perfectly
welcome.
So the Work of beautifying a park
for the city of Gainesville is moving
along nicely. The Chamber of Com
merce ami the Mayor and Council
and the Civic .League are not going
to let up now until something lias
been accomplished.
And the Eagle is with them.
Home from Commerce.
Mrs. F. N. Dobbs and daughters,
who have been visiting relatives in
Commerce for two weeks, returned
home Tuesday afternoon.
Visiting Father this Week.
Mr. Ralph Merck, son of Mr. C.
S. Merck, who now holds a position
with the Georgia Railway <fc Power
Company in Atlanta, is this week a
guest of his parents on Green street.
Black Frank Safe and Sound,
Our readers must remember that
Black Frank some weeks ago had
his credentials took fora new suit of
clothes—was going to “Ole Alabam”
—so he said. First tailor suit he
ever had, and he went off under
suspicion. Also wore a paper collar.
Also rode on the cars —so it is al
leged.
Well, he has been heard from.
Luther Robinson tells us that when
Frank got off the train at Bessemer
he found he would have to walk six
miles —so he took off his new suit
and his shoes and walked it —till he
got near the place-—then sat down
on a log and diked himself out like
the Queen of Sheba.
A letter will reach Frank if you
will address it to Bessemer, Ala., in
care C. B'. Crenshaw,
We advise everybody to write
Hall County Hardman Club.
The Hall County Hardman Club
was organized here last Friday,
with the following officers:
W. A. Miller. President.
Hayne Palmour, First Vice-Presi
dent.
S. B. Carter, Second Vice-Presi
dent.
W. A. Mitchell, Secretary.
E. J. Hardin, Assistant Secretary.
The Club has entered upon a
thorough and systematic campaign
of the county, and is meeting great
success in enrolling voters under
the banner of its clean and able
candidate for the governorship.
The Club is sending a card to each
registered voter in the county, re
questing him to become a member.
Over 100 signed cards were returned
the second day. Every person who
gets one of these cards is requested
to sign and mail it, and express his
preference, whether for or against
Dr. Hardman.
Established in fSbO.
FIRST GUN FIRED IN THE
CONGRESSIONAL CAMPAIGN.
Col. Charters Addressed Voters of Gwinnett
at Buford Last Saturday—Large Crowd
Rallied to his Standard.
Col. Charters fired the first gun in
the Congressional campaign at Bu
ford last Saturday afternoon to an
audience of several hundred voters,
who showed their interest by closest
attention to the speaker and their
approval by rounds of applause.
The speaker was introduced by
Mr. S. J. Busha, a leading merchant
of Buford, and entered at once upon
his address, saying first that he
deemed it expedient to give a reason
for the faith that was in him.
“AVho' am I?” said the speaker.
“It has been circulated over the
district that I am a Pennsylvania
Yankee—that I am a Roman Catho
lic —that I am an Insidel —that I am
a drunkard. To those of you who
do not know me, I wish to say that
I was born in Richmond, Va., in
1863. My father at that time was a
captain in the Confederate army.
He died when I was seven years
old. When I was nine years old
my mother died and I was alone in
the world without a cent, and my
life was a continual struggle and
privation. Through the kindness
of relatives I received a common
school education. I came to Dah
lonega and studied law under Col.
W. P. Price and was admitted to
thetbar when I was 20 years old.”
The speaker declared that he had
only one standard of conduct in
baseness and in politics—absolute
honesty. ‘,‘That was my rule when
I was a member of the legislature—
absolute honesty. When I was
solicitor-general,” said Col. Char
ters. “I prosecuted every man alike,
high and low, rich and poor.”
“When I was in the legislature,”
said the Colonel, “I was one of the
three to vote for a bill putting the
convicts on the public roads. This
measure afterward became a law,
and the people have reaped untold
benefits from it in the way of better
roads.
“Mr. Bell is charging,” said the
speaker, “that there was a frame-up
between myself and Mr. Hclder.
Well, all there is to that is, Mr.
Holder declined to run. and insisted
that T make the race, and I con
sented to do so. And that is the
frame-up.
“Now. fellow-citizens, let me tell
you something about a frame-up
that Mr. Bell pulled over Mr. Holder
two years ago. You will remember
I announced for Congress in Janu
ary. Two weeks afterward Mr.
Holder got a message from Mr. Bel l
to come to Gainesville—lie wanted
to see him. Holder met Bell. Mr.
Bell said, ‘John, I want you to run
for Congress. I am not going to
run, but I will help you. For cer
tain reasons I want to see Charters
beaten.’
“For some unaccountable reason 1
Holder believed Bell to be sincere.
So he sat down and gave Mr. Beil
all li>s plans—what counties he ex
pected to carry—what men he de
pended on. Then Mr. Holder an
nounced. and entered upon an ac
tive canvass. Having seen Holder
safely launched upon the stormy
waters, he, Thomas M. Bell, also
announced.
“Nov, fellow-citizens, what do
you think of that for a frame-up?
“Mr. Bell opened his campaign in
Buford tenjyears ago, and promised
that if elected he would only want
the place for two terms. He got the
two terms. Then he went around
holding little vest-pocket fairs, and
got two more terms. Then two
years ago he told the people that
there wasa prospect of a Democratic
President being elected, and he,
Bell, from his long experience,
could get more from the Adminis
tration than a new man could.
The people took him at his word
and elected him again.
“Now. what has he done? He
has proved that he has less influence
with the Administration than any
other man in Congress, Republicans
not excepted. He even failed to
secure the postmaster for his home
town, a thing heretofore unheard-of.
Mr. Burleson, the Postmaster-Gen
eral, who served nine years in the
House with Mr. Bell, and who
ought to know’him. refused to answer
Mr. Bell s letters, according to Bell’s
own statement. ’I wrote the Post
master-General in regard to the
Gainesville post-office.’ said Mr.
Bell, ‘and got no reply. I wrote
again, and got no reply.’
i “Now. said the speaker, “that is
what I call influence with the Ad
ministration.
“Mr. Bell poses as a poor man,
yet he has drawn $75,000 of the
people s money since he has been
in Congress. Yet he is a poor man.
What has he done to earn this
money? He has done something—
he has introduced 292 bills, and five
have been passed—and what were
the five? I will tell you of two of
them. He got a pension for Gid
Man Pinion of Dawson county, and
at the time the pension was granted
Pinion was in the chaingang for
stealing a cow from a negro. I was
solicitor-general at the time, and I
ought to know, for I sent Pinion
up.
“Mr. Bell also secured a pension
for a “lady” at Toccoa—s3,loo of the
people’s money. This "lady” got
drunk on this money and came into
court and plead guilty to being
intoxicated on the public highway—
-1 was solicitor-general and I know.
This “lady” was afterward kicked
out of a drug store for walking in
with a negro woman and calling for
soda water.
“That is two of the five private
bills passed out 292 introduced.”
At this point our old friend Jim
Bell, who had gone down to hear
the speech, rose and asked: “Didn't
Mr. Bell have to go according to the
evidence furnished in these cases?”
Col. Charters answered promptly.
“Yes, but if I were in Congress I
would not spend my time appro
priating the people’s money to
thieves and prostitutes.”
The crowd cheered long and loud,
and Brother Bell looked like the
man who wished he hadn’t said
anything.
The Colonel told a story of a hog.
A man bought a pig—registered
stock—paid five dollars for it—took
it home to fatten it and make a
record porker. Well, the pig fared
sumptuously every day. It was fed
to the limit. At the end of two
years it weighed 60 pounds. Its
owner sold it for five dollars —the
original purchase price—and the
butcher who bought it lost money.
But the owner of the pig was satis
fied. Said he, ‘I got my money
back, and had the use of the pig for
two years.’
“Now, that is the way with Mr.
Bell. He has lived on rich food.
He has been pampered. But he
has not grown. I will not say he is
any smaller than when he en
tered Congress—but he has not
grown.
“But Mr. Bell is the Whip. Do
you know what a Whip is? It is
what a bailiff is to a justice court.
He does the roust-about work.
When a measure is about to be
voted on, the Speaker says. 'Here,
Mr. Bell, hustle around in the lobby
and in other places and get the boys
to come in and vote.’ And Mr.
Bell, the Whip, hustles around and
tells the tardy members to come on
and vote. That is the Whip. Think,
gentlemen, of the proud names that
have illustrated the Ninth District
in the past —think of Hillyer, and
Candler, and Ben Hill. Think »of
them being the Whip and proud of
it!
“And think of that infamous mile
age steal! For many years it has
been the law for a Congressman to
draw 20 cents a mile between his
home and Washington, while pay
ing only 2 cents. The question of
the repeal of this law came up not
long ago and Mr. Bell voted against
repeal—voted to draw 20 cents of the
people’s money where he only spent
2 cents —a clear profit of 18 cents.
For the past ten years Mr. Bell has
made $2,000 on mileage.
“Mr. Bell poses as a friend of the
poor—that is his stock in trade.
Well, let us see. How many offices
has he given to the widow’s son?
At Norcross he secured the appoint
ment of McElroy as postmaster—a
wealthy man. At Gainesville he
appointed to get the gin statistics
.Andy Mundy, worth $75,000. He
appointed to the scholarship at
West Point a Tennesseean named
McNeill, a base ball player who*at
tended Riverside Academy for nine
months. There were hundreds of
poor boys in the District who would
have been glad of the appointment,
but McNeill was urged by some
baseballl fans who allude to the
present incumbent endearingly as
‘Onkle Tom.’ And that is the way
he helped the widow's son.
"At Dahlonega he appointed
Meaders, a wealthy member of a
wealthy family. At Winder he ap
pointee! McCants, who is worth
SIOO,OOO. At Jefferson he appointed
Moore, a wealthy man.”
There were four applicants for the
Jefferson post-office. One was Rob
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Barber, whose father and four
brothers had always spported Bell.
Rob is a poor man. When he sent
Mr. Bell his application for the
office Mr. Bell wrote him, “Nothing
would give me greater pleasure than
to help the son of my old friend.
Charlie Barber. Rest easy; I will
take care of you.” But Rob couldn't
“rest easy;’’ he was too elated over
the good news. And, like the
Biblical woman who had swept
under the bed for the first time in
four years and found the lost nickle
he wanted to tell some one. Ami he
told some one. And the first one he
told said. “Hell, I’ve seen a letter
just like that —Frank Bailey has it.”
The next man Rob showed the letter
to said, "Homer Hancock has one
exactly like it, except tor the name.”
Then it was found that Dick Moore
—he. too. had one. Then the appli
cants held a convention and com
pared letters —and it would have
taken a microscope to tell the differ
ence, except for the names.
“Sit steady—l will take care of
you,*’ was the song that they all
sang—and sang with marvelous con
cord and unison.
And Rob is not “sitting steady”
any more. He has a hump on. And
he has a phenomenal lot of kin-folks,
and they all have a hump on.
And here was another widow’s
son that got left.
Col. Charters made a fine impres
sion on his audience, and was
cheered to the echo.
Making Improvement.
Mr. C. R. Stringer is this week be
ginning the installation of a plate
glass front for the building he oc
cupies, and will later, it is said, add
a Japanese tea room to his ice cream
parlor. When completed this will
indeed be an attractive place.
Movie Stars.
Miss Mary Fuller, who won such
fame in the Edison Company, and
Miss Mary Pickford, formerly of the
Biograph Company, and who re
cently starred in New York under
the management of David Belasco,
have joined the Universal ranks
and will be seen at the Alamo
Theater.
Cantrells Lose Home.
The residence in the lower part of
the county occupied by the parents
of Jim and Bartow Cantrell was
completely destroyed by fire last
Friday night and all of their house
hold goods. A petition was circu
lated in their interest here this
week and it is said that they met
with considerable help from the
towii at large.
Died at New Holland.
Mr. J. W. Brownlow, aged 38
years, died at his home in New Hol
land last Saturday from typhoid
fever. He is survived by his wife
and eight children. The funeral
occurred from the residence Sunday
ami the remains were interred in
New Holland cemetery, the Odd
Fellows conducting the funeral
services.
Soon to Have Swimming Pool..
Progressive citizens from the
Chamber of Commerce were out
early Monday morning soliciting a
public subscription for building a
swimming-pool at the new City
Park: and they were not only so
liciting, but they were getting money.
Think of that! Actually getting
money! But when you get the pro
gressivebusiness men interested you
can always produce the goods.
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Hon. Nat E. Harns
Os Macon. Ga., candidate for Gov
ernor. will make a public address in
behalf of his candidacy during the
noon recess of Hall Superior Court
on Monday. July 20th.
Judge Harris is one of the most
eloquent speakers in the state; is
one of the few remaining old soldiers
in public life, and a delightful treat
is in store for those who have the
good fortune to hear him.
The public is cordially invited,
especially the ladies.
$917,862 Gain.
The total taxable property in Hall
county this year is $8,527,682. which
shows that the tax increase this year
over that of last year is $917,862, and
that the valuation of property in
Hall county is growing rapidly; and
of course the tax equalization act is
getting in its part of the work.
The Assessors have not fully com
pleted their work, hence we cannot
give the table showing the exact
amounts of tax by the district, but
in next Thursday's Eagle we will
have the table in correct form.