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The Gainesville Eagle.
It. CRAIG,
Enter and Br.«ir>p«s Manatrei.
at. Gaineavt’le, Ga., vc-nt-of.ct
ats 'ass- matter.
Eagle Gall; Bell Phone No. 56.
Thursday, July 9, 1914.
BETTER DOCTOR YOL'R LEADER A
LITTLE.
Undet the h ad of "Be Gcnerou*
and Fair." Mr. Bell ~ organ, the
News, is .ng I nyi ads of sup
porter.' ot Bell to be kind and gentie
with their opponents. and not to
"rub it in on the fellow who is on
the losing >ide."
Now. brother, hadn’t you better
get Mr. Bell to take a dose of your
medicine? —he is needing it badly.
When Mr. Bell tried to have Sam
Cheek discharged from his job tor
being for Charter', we judge that he
had either lost his temper or his
mind.
The whole thing is very refreshing
in view of the admonition of the
News to "be generous and fair,”
and we will give you details later —
just as soon as Sam get' a reply to
his letter to Mr. Bell, which was
calculated to burn the tail feathers
off that amiable gentleman.
SOME THINGS TO CONSIDER.
As is well known. Col. Charter*
was Solicitor-General of the North
eastern Circuit for twelve year- end
ing four years ago. During that
time he prosecuted many per
sons. It is now charged by some
of those whom he prosecuted, and
by some of their friends, that he
was "too hard on the boys.” A
careful consideration of that state
ment will prove that it is not true.
No one who know.' Col. Charters
will to.r a moment question his per
sonal of .political honesty, integrity,
or fidelity* jo duty. No friend or
enemy has eves' yet induced him to
depart from the path of official duty.
When elected Solicitor General he
took the following oath of office:
"I do 'Wear that 1 will FAITH
FL'FLY. IMPARTIALLY an d
WH HOUT FEAR. FAVOR, or AF
fECTIOV discharge my duties as
Solicitor-General, and will take only
my lawful fees of office. So help
me God.”
With Col. Charter.' the words
"faithfully,” "impartially." "with
out fear,” "favor,” or "afiection,"
meant just what the words imply.
The rich and the poor, the high and
the low, received exactly the same
treatment at his hands —because un
der his oath he was so bound. It
will ever be said. "He was no re
specter of persons."
Duty, under his oath, was his only
master. How ably, how efficiently,
how justly, how fairly he met the
requirements of the office will be
attested by the law-abiding citizenry
of the circuit.
His time and talent'—all he prom
ised the Sate —were freely and faith
fully given. Demagoguery and pet
tifoggery have never touched the
character of Bill Charters. The
good people, who know, are wit
nesses to this. Then can the man
whom the grand jury indicts, and
who is convicted, justly complain?
Now. contrast Charters’ record
with the amiable inefficiency with
which the Hon. Thomas M. Bell
lias "sat on the job” in Washington.
How faithful has he been to him
self? And how faithful has he been
-to the political fortunes of the
Honorable Thomas M.? What in
fluence has he wielded in matters
of import to the people of the Ninth
District and the State of Georgia? ]
How much of his time has he given
to faithful service, and how much
to the little demagogic matters in his
district which he might turn to his
own use for the sole purpose of per
petuating his encumbeney of a $7,5'X»
job?
Let us illustrate:
Not a great while ago while de
claring his loyalty to the dear peo
ple, ami his fealty to duty, Mr. Bell
left his post of duty at Washington,
came to Georgia, and appeared be
fore the Prison Commission in be
half of Balus Merck, and pleaded
that liis death sentence be commuted
to life imprisonment.
And Who was Balus Merck?
Balus Merck was a Hall County
negro who years ago had been sus
pected of a criminal assault on a
white woman, and who, at the
time Mr. Bell appeared as his
champion; hud been sentenced to
hang for the brutal murder ot his
wife.
No one may know what induc'd
Mr. Bell to undertake thi- task, but
every one will agree that h" wa* not
faithfully servingthe people oi the
Ni::th District while he was at it.
HARDMAN OPENS HEADQUARTERS.
Dr. L. G. Hardman’s candidacy
for Governor took on added impetus
withan enthusiastic meeting of his
supporter- from every part of the
state held in Atlanta July Ist. The
reports from all over the state were
particularly encouraging, and those
well advised do not dispute the
claim of hi- -upporters that hi- sup
port i- more state wide than that of
any other candidate. A score or
more prominent business and -pro
fessional men of the state volun
teered their service* and formed a
state campaign Committee that
opened at once Headquarters in
rooms 313-315 Kimball House, from
whb-h a vigorous campaign will be
waged. Tin Headquarters are for
the present in charge of John N.
Holder, t ormer Speaker of the
House ot Representative*. C. B.
Allen. Editor of the Moultrie Ob
server. and W. G. McNelly. a well
known newspaper man of Atlanta.
It is promised that the campaign
manager will be announced within
the next few days, and a complete
organization will be formed in every
congressional district ami in every
county.
DR. HARDMAN’S LEGISLATIVE RECORD.
Believing that every child, and
certainly every country boy. should
know something of agriculture. Dr.
Hardman introduced and secured
the passage of the law requiring ag
riculture and civil government to be
taught in all the common schools of
Georgia.
He also secured the passage of the
joint resolution asking Congress to
send a commission to Georgia to in
vestigate the advisability of taking
up the question of irrigation and
drainage in the State.
Up until the time of his election to
the legislature, Georgia had no
Board of Health, but during his
time of service he led in the move
ment, securing the passage of law
creating this body. At this time he
was chairman of the committee on
Hygiene and Sanitation.
He iutroduc d and secured the
passage of the hill providing for the
treatment of diphtheria io be free to
every poor child in the State of
Georgia, as well a* the treatment for
hydrophobia and tuberculosis, which
has no doubt saved thousands of
lives.
Dr. Hardman introduced the bill
providing for the establishment of
the State Sanitarium at Alto, for the
treatment of tuberculosis.
He introduced the bill providing >
for the regulation and practice of
professional nursing in Georgia.
He introduced the bill providing;
for the State Highway Commission i
of our State.
He introduced the bill to extend
the work of suppression of conta
gious diseases among live stock.
In 1907 and 1908 he represented his
district in the’ Georgia Senate, and
together with Judge Covington and
Hom W. J. Neel, was the author of
the famous measure known as the
Hardman - Covington - Neel Bill,;
which coupled his name forever
with Christian Statesmanship.
THE ANCIENT PRIVILEGES.
There are certain ancient rights
and privileges that are hard to abate.
For instance, the practice of distil
ling spirituous liquors. Our fathers
and grandfathers and great-grand
fathers made liquor from fruit and
grain unmolested, and they made
good stuff, and no one said nay.
It became a habit, therefore a
law. Now it is very difficult for
their descendants to get out of that
habit, as our revnue officers will tell
you.
Well, it has been a habit, timeout
of mind, for gay and festive individ
ual* to go to the little park on the
Square to eat their watermelons.
And they would throw the riuds
hither and thither and yonder—and
no one to molest or make afraid.
Some time ago. at the earnest
solicitation of the Chamber of Com
merce, the County Commissioners
granted to the Chamber of Com
merce the right to beautify and care
for the Public Square. The Com
missioners made a contract with the
Chamber to pave the Square at the
expense of the county, and the
Chamber was to guarantee that the
City would throw it* protection
around the Square and see that no
more bed buggy f urniture was sold
thereon and no more would coons
eat watermelon* on the said square
and cast the rind* abroad for the sun
to bake and the flies to blow.
Well, so far *<» good. The rinds
appeared with the first appearance
of the watermelon, and a few days
ago eculd he seen very large and
presumptuous rinds—halves of mel
on* gouged out in the regulation way
|—serenely stinking on the sacred
precint* of the Square.
] I’hey were put there by vandals
who wished to recline under the
grateful -hade of the trees while in
'dulging in the delicious fruit with
none to molest or make afraid.
That i* all- U not that enough?
Where were our heroic police?
Wc believe, the sale of bedbuggy
I furniture has been disconti uued —tot
a time at least. But why grant
privileges to the watermelon-eaters?
I* our city going to get anywhere
while things go on this way?
DR. HARDMAN ON LAW ENFORCEMENT.
Bi thy seutencs from hi* J e*up speech :
"In law enforcement your Govern
or may exercise a positive or nega-
I five force. If elected 1 will use
. every mean- at my command to see
' that your law- are respected."
•’While Georgia has done much
in prison reform there i* yet a great
work to be done and to this task I
propose concentrating my best es
; fort*.”
"That crime may be reduced by
law enforcement i* known to all
students. It is the certainty ol pun
ishment that restrain* the criminal.
There is a wonderful salvage in law
enforcement. Not rhe prohibition
law only, hut all law.”
"To preserve the whole, every
part must he kept in harmony; to
preserve the State government, every
unit must be kept in accord. To
preserve and maintain the dignity
I and majesty of the law, we must de
i maud compliance on the part of
i every citizen.”
"The fact that you do not believe
i a law is just and fair doesnot license
] you to violate it. The open viola
i tion of law, when known to the pub
, lie and the officials, without effort
of the proper authorities to correct
it, is an evidence of disloyalty to
the State.”
"I ask my fellow candidates for
] this high office if they will join me
l in this pledge of enforcement of the
i prohibition law and other laws on
the statute books of our State.”
A SLAM AT BELL.
From Cleveland Courier:
If we vote for a candidate simply
because we are prejudiced against
or "mad” with his opponent, be
lieving that our action is not in the
best interest of the people, we have
committed a gross injustice to our
selves, tin* act of traitor to our
county, and a sin against God.
Squeal, if you feel like it, and if it
makes a more honorable man of you,
try it again; the country may be
better off.
It is your duty as a free citizen, to
make your own selection of candi
dates unbiased, unprejudiced, and
without fear or hope of reward, and
CAST YOUR BALLOT ACCORD
INGLY.
Endeavor then before the time
comes to vote for any man, to select
the bare fact* from the multitude of
lies and twisted and discolored polit
ical statements, just as in the dia-;
mond fields the man searches for .
the precious stones in the myriads '
of sands and worthies- stones, so? j
"all will not he gold” that will glit- I
ter in this campaign.
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Operated on Snake.
Bol> Chamblee, boot and shoej
maker, can do other things besides-:
work on chat part of your wearing-1
appa rel.
Boh caught a live rattlesnake
somewhere last week, and Monday
morning he decided that he would;
keep the snake for awlale. but iat
event the snake got away he
thought he would take out the fangs,
so he proceeded to do so. Boh got
some chlorform and pi&i the snake
to sleep, took him out of the box
with his hands, cut the fang* and
put Mr. Snake back into the box for
safe keeping.
It is safe to say that Bob is a
"prohi”—nobody else would haadle
a snake.
They Want to Know.
Candidates in these parts who are
aspiring to the lower house of the
General Assembly have this week
been receiving letters from the breth
ren up Lula way asking them to
come up and speak to the voters
from the stump —say they want to
know who and what they are voting
for before they cast their ballot.
That is mighty good. People;
should know just who and what
they .are voting for—but you can’t
always sometimes tell. Sometimes
after getting into office the thing]
slides the other way.
If the legislative aggregation de
cide to hold a six-j’inted spute at
Lula they ought to draw like a
mustard plaster.
< The Judge Makes ’Em Tell.
■ In Judge Gaston's court a few
] days ago he had *ome prisoners on
a revenue charge, who swore point
blank that they didn't know a thing
about a certain still, but the judge,
with a twinkle in his eyes, which is
well known to the boys that come
■ under the head of revenue prison
i ers, made them belch a whole lot
I about the still under question, be
| fore he finished with them.
This was our first experience in
listening to a revenue case. The
boys under the aforesaid charge
swear with a vim.
HERE THERE
--A/3D THEA §OAE
(By Stickem)
And little joe has broken the long
-lence, and soon the leg-puller*
will break the long silence al*o.
A communication to a friend from
Hoke *ays that he i* expecting his
friend' to do the busines —he is busy
in Wa*hington—and. by the way.
he i* busy in the interest ot the
farmer a great part of his time —and
that he cannot return South to
manage hi* campaign. Well, we
i will do it for you. Hoke. Hoke wa*
once a poor boy like ourselves, but
rose to the pfoud eminence of United
States Senator. Os course we’ll
never do that, but we are fer a man
that has the grit in hi' gizzard that
Hoke has.
Aou know they made a mes* out
of getting the Regional Bank for
Atlanta—for Georgia and Hoke
stepped m and told the brethren the
plain facts and captured the greatest
thing that has ever been brought to
Georgia—the Regional Bank—ami
now they can’t see how he did it.
We can He knew how to do it.
Tom Watsoii will stump the State
for little joe. We thought that
when we fust driv in, Tom. You
remember you gave little joe hell
not long since. How about ’that,
Tom?
Hoke gets ci edit for knocking Al
bert Hardy out of the post-office
here. That ain’t so. Ed T. Brown,
a son of old Uncle Warren Brown of
this city, familiar to all, and a
cousin of Mrs. Woodrow Wilson
along with a committee of citizens
of Gainesville, it is said, kept Mr.
Hardy out of the post-office. Hoke
had something to do besides dip in
with little offices and politicians.
It has always been the rule that
every Congressman could appoint
the postmaster at his home. Rut
our Congressman fell down. How
about that, brethren? Is he out of
harmony with the Administration,
or does Tugalo River need another
survey? Maybe Smitnm need* a
public building.
And it is not always that the
cleanest men are put inti the Gov
ernor’s chair, but it looks to a man
up a tree like our next Governor
will be Lair. Hardman. If this be
true, we will have one of the* clean
est men in the State and on- of the
ablest as our executive.
A clean, progressive Deitm-rat,
who is ever looking out for the best
interest and ths uplift of hi* fellow
man. is what they say of Hard- 1
man. What better could you say
for a man who is aspiring tv- the'
Governor’* chair?
Yesterday’s New* gives us srnel
under this caption: "Be Generous i
and Fair.” A little practicing of
what we preach suggested to the
News—how aboirt the report of that
Charters’ master speech at Buford.
Newsy? "First set the Beam out
of thine own eye that thou mayest
see clearly how go pluck the mote
from thy brothers eye.”
‘"As the dog re-iurneth to his vtaaiit
so does the fool to his folly,?’ but
not the laboring: man to the pails to
east his ballot for one little- joe
brown who betrayed the trust ottce :
put in him. ’ "The Lord loves the
laboring people because He made
so many of them.” They are all
for Hoke, and Hoke is for them.
Making Addition.
The building formerly aeeupied
by W. R. Singleton, proGuce mer
chant, is ibis week being, torn out
and new Mooring put in preparatory
for being used as a storage room by
the Gainesville Bottling Company.
Returned form Athens.
Mr.*. Susan M. Lampkin, who
has been visiting in Athens for the
pa>t month, returned home Sunday.
Mrs. Sarah Turner Dead.
Athens, Ga.. July 2.—Mrs. Sarah
Turner, aged more than eighty
years, president of the oldest hank
in Jefferson. Jackson county, died j
at her home there. The burial in’
Athens, her former home,will occur
Friday at noon.
She was for years the only woman
president of a hank in this State.
J. C. Turner, an only son, survives
her.
Return to Montgomery.
Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Anderson of
Montgomery, Ala., who were gue*ts
of Mrs. T. P. Martin last week, re
turned home Monday.
Out of Mexican Waters.
Mr. Jeff Cooper, who has been
numbered among Uncle Sam’s boys
from Gainesville for the past four
years, returned last week from Mex
ican waters, where he was stationed
] on the Battleship Virginia for sev
eral months.
Jeff is looking good and can give
you much of interest from the front.
No Substitutes
RETURN to the grocer all sub
stitutes sent you for Royal Bak
ing Powder. There is no sub
stitute for ROYAL. Royal is a pure,
cream of tartar baking powder, and
healthful. Powders offered as sub
stitutes are made from alum.
Dead Mule Makes Much Trouble.
Mr. Cap Powell hauled hi* mult
which died in Homer Sunday night
over near Mr. \V. R. Hili'* r*‘*idence
and placed it in a gully. Hill *ay*
Powell failed to put enough dirt on
the mule togive a decent burial, and
therefore he was much annoyed by
the bad odor coming from the car
cass. He therefore hitched his live
mules to the dead one and dragged
it back this way leaving it in the
woods near town. Mr. Will Daniel j
says that mule ha* been dragged
past his house twice ami he hope*
never to see it again. He says these
hot days are not calculated to make
a dead mule smell good.
Mayor Gordon Logan notified
Powell this morning that be must
come and bury the mule again, or ;
take it to Atlanta and have it ere- j
mated.—Banks County Journal.
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Gasoline Engines,
Wood Turning Outfits, Pump Jacks, Saw
Mills, Shingle Mills, Power Cane Mills,
Black and Galvanized Pipe, Brass Goods,
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Member Chamber of Commerce,
■GAINESVILLE. GA.
On Account of
Georgia Horticultural Society and Apple
Growers Association
Griffin, Georgia, August 5 - 7th
SOUTHEN RWY.
Premier Carrier of the South
Announces very low round trip fares from
all Points in Georgia
Tickets on sale August srd to sth. Good
returning until August Bth
CONVENIENT SCHEDULES
For full information call on Ticket Agent,
or Address
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Atlanta Georgia
Turned Car Over.
Mr. LleO. P. E*te>. Jr.. la*t week
had an accident with hi* ar that
came near being di*astrou* for him.
To avoid running into another ear.
it i* said, he turned hi- car down an
embankment out near Riverside, the
car turning over. Young Estes wa
only shaken up a little, and the car
was very little the worse off. except
for the smashing of the windshield.
Got Ten Cents.
Sheriff Spencer Sunday afternooi
flushed a bunch ot negroes having a
game of card*. When they saw the
sheriff they strowed card* in every
i direction, and one or two of the
negroe* got the greater part ot the
: money, but the sheriff managed to
| get a part of the deck ot card- and
i ten cent*. He also causrht two of the
miscreants.