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THE GAINESVILLE EAGLE. the Publishing Company. VOLUME LV Foil owing Our Usual Ciustom, We offer for the season of 1914, a prize of $5.00 in Gold for rhe best exhibit of Turnips grown from Seeds sold by this store. Terms and specifications of the contest will be announced later. Plenty of I urnip Seeds of this year’s growth now on hand. George’s Drug Store. GOVERNOR SLATON DEFENDS TAX EQUALIZATION LAW. Nearly Three Thousand People Hear Him — ' Now they Know More About the Law Than they Did. - Governor .John M. Slaton spoke} to something like three thousand : tax payers in front of the court house i here yesterday at noon in defense I of tax equalization lav.'. There are many in Hall county I who did hot understand the law, and many who have fought it. that are! now in sympathy with it. Governor Slaton made many illus- ! (rations of the advantages of the ■ law, that were convincing. After | the speaking he and Mrs. Slaton were tendered a reception by friends j at tiie Princeton Hotel. A committee from the VC. C. T. U. and various citizens who were interested in the Cantrell boys per- , suaded the governor to pay’the; boys a visit in jail. He did so, but with the understanding that hemake the call only as a private citizen, and not as tiie Governor of the State of Georgia, ami that the boys were not to know who he was. Tomorrow is the day that the boys ; are to hang, and owing to the dem ons!] iti. n of the citizens of the i county at large a-king the governor in person, and rhe vari-ou-s commit tees ir in different organizations, ai I that it was Iris good friend’s, Col. F. M. Johnson’s, dying request, it i is hoped that he will grant the re- 1 quest, ven if at the last minute,’- ami tl at the hoys w ill be given a ■comm nta tion to life im piwonment. Flowery Brassch. ( I I ’Mrs. Sam Cheek of Gainesville: spent Tuesday with M,r«. Stella j Cheek. I Mrs. ■). S. McCurry of Belton is > visiting her sister, Mrs. Chastain, ■ who is very ill. Mr«. Byer of Gainesville is-spend-.- ing a few days with her brother, : Mr. Pleas Mathis. I Mr. Jim Bob Jackson and family ; •of Atlanta Spent the week end with , Mrs. Jackson’s uncle. Mr. Harvey ; Charles. i I Mrs. Talley of Central, Tex-a-s is j guest other sister. Miss Bills and; Miss Rachel Porter. Mr. Forrest Additon has been i traveling in North Carolina in in terest of the Chattahoochee Furai- ; ture Co. for the last two weeks. Mrs. Janie Stevenson is visiting in I Gainesville. Mrs. Melvin, Misses Annie and. • Bessie Smith are going to Washing- ! ton, 1). C., soon on a pleasure trip. ; Mrs. W. L. Hawkinsspent Sunday ‘ with her mother, Mrs. Crow, in ■ Forsvth County. ‘ I Mrs. J. L. Hagrison of Gainesville spent a few hours with her sister. I Mrs. John Roark. Friday p. m. Misses Bonnie Roberts and Willie 1 Bagwell spent Saturday in Gaine-- ; ville. i Mr. C. B. Millikin and laniily re-I turned from St "'i: ions Monday. The ■!. W. A. Os Central Baptist church will have, an ice cream festival tomorrow ; eve -ing on the lawn in front of the j church at 6 p. m. HON. W. A. CHARTERS TO SPEAK AT NEW HOLLAND. [ Wn fiddress Voters at that Place Tomorrow Evening at 8.00 O’clock. I Hon. W. A. Charters has an . pounced that he will address the ■ people at New Holland tomorrow [evening at 8 o'clock. I Mr. Charters has many warm ! friends and supporters at that place ■ and will be given an enthusiastic j hearing by a big majority 7 of our ■ neighboring little town. BELLTON. ' Mr. Frank Bryan of Jacksonville, Fla., is spending some time with his [mother, Mrs. Alice Bryan. i Mrs. Sarah Williams continues quite ill, to the regret of her many friends. I Mrs. H. C. Jones of Atlanta is vis iting her son. Mr. T. H. Jones. Mr. Asa Payne of Sand Mountain, Ala., visited his aunt. Mrs. Sarah Williams, recently. Mrs. Arthur Martin and little son. Jack, ol Gibson, are spending some time with Mrs. Martin s aunts, Mrs. C. Wade and ?»Irs. V. 1. Carter. Mrs. Rober: F. Quillian of Gaines ville spent one day 7 recently with Mrs. Sarah Williams. Mrs. Mamie White and little daughter, Mary, of Mobile. Ala., were recent visitors to Mr. and Mrs. ' J ames Echoes. Mr. and Mrs. Carlton of Com merce ami daughter. Mrs. Garnett Faulkner, of New Holland, have re ; cently moved to Bellton. [ Rev. A. W. Quillian, Sr., of Bu j fold, ami -on, Rev. A. W. Quillian, I Jr., of Lula, visited Dr. and Mrs. jW. H. Quill* an Monday 7 . Rev. A. • W. Quillian, Sr., of Buford slopped i over en route to Cleveland, wfiiere he : goes to attend the district eonfer- I ence. ■ Mrs. Brown of Uniea Point is vis iting her daughter, Mrs.. T. W. i Carlton, i Relatives and friends of Mr. and [Mrs. Guy Carley 'of Atlanta were I very sorry to learn of the death of I their baby 7 . i Mr. Ma ynard Sa un d er* di ed ai his ; home in Atlanta last Friday 7 and was brought to Bellton Saturday for ■ burial. Rev. A. W. Quillian, pastor of the Bellton M. E. church. <e»u- i ducted the funeral services at the I Bellton Baptist ••hurch Saturday .af ternoon at 2.30. Mrs. W. H. Quil lian presided at the organ. Ker. iQuillian and Mrs. W. H. Quillian [sang “Shall we gather ar the River" [at the grave. Mr. Saunders leaves ; a wife and two daughters in Atlanta ' and a sister in Bellton. ; ! Mrs. May Davis and baby and , Miss Edith Poole, who is Mrs. Da ; vis’ sister, of Cocoa. Fla., are visit- I ing Mrs. Elbert Davidson. They 7 ■ will spend the remainder of the summer with relatives and friends ’ in and- near Bellton. Mrs. India Jones and little son i from near Gainesville spent a few day s last week with her sisters, Mrs. j Ira Carter and Mrs. Alex Garner. : She w;.- accompanied home by Miss j o innie Garner, who will stay some I Mrs. W. W. Bibb of Adairsville is i visiting her parents. Mr. ami Mrs. [ W. A. Palmour. on West Washing j ton street. GAINES\ILLE» GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1914. Col. Fletcher Johnson Dead. Col. Fletcher M. Johnson, the big hearted attorney, as he was known and familiarly termed by thous ands, of friends throughout the State, died Sunday afternoon at his residence on Green street, as a re sult of internal injuries. Col. Johnson was known promi nently as an attorney, but perhaps better known as just big-hearted Fletcher Johnson, who looked for the comfort and pleasure of others before he thought of his own well being. As further evidence of this fact, his last letter was written in the interest of humanity—in the in terest of his fellow being —a client for whom he had spent over two hundred dollars out of his own pocket without the hope of remuner ation. Yes, he had Mrs. Johnson prop him up in bed ’that he might write his farewell letter to Governor Slaton in the interest of Jim and Bartow Cantrell, who are to hang here Friday. He wrote the governor that he was on his dying bed and that was the last opportunity that he would have of being of service to his fel lowman and he begged the governor to giant the boys a commutation to_ life sentence. And here is a letter that he wrote to the Atlanta Journal on last Thurs day on account of Mrs. Palmour’s feeling so bad over the incident. And his last words were imploring his wife not to let Mrs. Palmour worry over the unfortunate affair, his last words being, “it’s all right; I’m ready to go.’’ | The following letter from Mr. j Johnson appeared in Sunday’s Journal, written on Sunday after noon, at which time he was already dying: Gainesville. Ga., July 16, 1914. Editor Journal, Atlanta, Ga.— ■ Your Gainesville correspondent was : misinformed as to the extent of my j injuries, for there is no doubt of my i recovery 7 , and my friends are not in [ the least apprehensive as to my 7 re -1 co very. | The only trouble in the case, and i the only fear, is that my friends, [ with their generous and affectionate i kindness and attention, may 7 kill me. It almost makes me glad that I I was injured to 'nave such comforting : assurances of the sweet affections of my friends. If dear Mrs. Palmour would quit worrying ) would be happy 7 , for ! am ’playing the game’—that is, ‘to be happy about everything.’ I am happy because it was a light ! machine, for a heavy machine would I have killed me. Then, of course, I lam happy that I was not killed; then my friends drive away every I ache and pain and that makes me ! happy. I am slightly disfigured, but still in rhe ring, and am happy 7 to feel I will be up and able to vote for our peerless senator, Hon. Hoke Smith. Let this little notehave a prominent place so my friends in the State can make me happy by doing their duty and electing Senator Smith. ’There's life in the old land yet.' I write this fiat my back. -Fletcher M. Johnson.. [ Col. Jbohnson was born jn 1858, in [ Coweta county, near Newnan., ' where he resided until he was eigh teen years old, then removed to i Gainesville, where he resided con j tinually until his death. Fie was married in 1884 to Miss Lizzie E. Sullivan of Tumlin’s Shoals, Lau rens county, S. C., and to this union were bom four children, Messrs. [ Hammond, Edward, and Fletcher Johnson, Jr., and Miss Carrie John- I son, ail of who survive him. He : was married the second time to Miss Lucy Keen of Oglethorpe county, in 1897, and to this union there were born two children, Doug las and Marion Dean Johnson, ' who survive him. He was admitted to the bar in 1879, and followed actively 7 upon duties of the office from that time. The funeral services were con ■ ducted at the First Methodist church Tuesday morning at 10.39, a large concourse of people assembling to pay 7 a last tribute of love and respect [to him. and as evidence of the great love of his friends, one of the pret i nest fforal offerings ever seen in Gainesville covered the bier. ] Judge Jones adjourned court and the local bar turned out to the fu neral- Mr. Johnson expressed the be lief that the accident was Provi dential, He said that he hud re -1 fused to ride home from his office with several friends, offering to take him in autos, and had he done so the accident would not have oc curred. He walked ou ( of the post-office | and started across the -treet. to ' catch his car, and being somewhat , deaf, he did not hear the approach [ of th-e auto, the accident being abso lutely unavoidable. And it was that which made Col. : Johnson believe tha the unfortu- I nate occurence was Providential. ; Established in 1860. i THERE MIGHT HAVE BEEN /I THOUSAND STRIGHT, BUT WE DIDN’T SEE ’EM It Grew and Grew and is Still Growing—from 225 Upward it fs Near the 1,000 Mile Post. I L (By Stickem) It was advertised Friday morning that there would be a “Tom Bell Rally” at the court house Friday -slight, and our understanding was that it was a free-for-all meeting, so laboring under tljis impression we thought we would take it"iu, ajid might, if nothing busted, learn something. And we did learn something. We found out that the object of the meeting was to organize a club, and being already a member of another club, we shortly vacated. So Brother Byron Mitchell was elected Chairman and Brother Will. Merk Secretary. But before organization Brother Hardy arose to announce that the club would raise hell a little later on—and you know these newspaper men are strong on raising such stuff. We learned, too, from Brother Byron Mitchell that Charters was the weakest man in the district to run against Mr. Bell. But the biggest thing we learned was “on the morning after the night before. We learned that there were nearly seven hundred present. We had calculated there were about 225 present. But it is still growing. We have , now heard that it was a thousand. Cream Festival. There will be an ice cream festi val at Dunagan’s Chapel Saturday afternoon, July 25. Everybody cordially invited. The Boys Go to Camp. Jl’be local troop of the National Guards, Troop F., Ist. Ga. cavalry, left Tuesday afternoon to go in camp at Augusta, where the troops are ! taking their annual outing thisyear. Joe Blalock Called. ■ Our old friend Joe Blalock, who ■is now bookkeeper in the State . Treasurer’s office, was in Gainesville Monday. Joe was just rusticating I around and dropped up to see some ■of his friends here. And he is for ! Speer, too. Home Again. Miss Cora Barron, who has been seriously ill for some time, on ac -1 count of failla while in Royston, and the result of which made an opera tion absoutely necessary, is now at home, to the delight of her many friends. Visited Parents for Week-end. Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Martin of AG I lanta visited the former’s parents, I Mr. and Mrs. Green Martin 1 on S. : Main street, for the week-end. Mr. ' Martin is an old Gainesville boy who is also connected with the Atlanta (Constitution, totaling three Hall ! county boys who are with this breezy morning paper. Plenty of Handshaking. ■Candidates from all over Hall ' county, and from nearly all over the i State, were here Monday shaking hands and buttonholing with the : voters. Especially was this true with the brethren running for the : legislature. And they all had good ! grounds upon which to ask for the ' suffrage of the people. King Baggot, This tallented and versatile actor, will be seen at the Alamo theatre tomorrow in a most remarkable pic ture entitled “Across the Atlantic,” in three parts. This picture was produced in Eu rope. and Mr. Baggot was assisted in some of the most thrilling scenes by Claud Graham White and Gustav Hamel, the world famous aviators. Hon. Hugh M. Dorsey Will speak at Gainesville next Tues day, July 28, at noon, in the interest of Hon. Jos. M. Brown's candidacy for the United States Senate. This will be Mr. Dorsey’s opening speech of the campaign and he will be at his best. Plenty of acommodation will be provided at Gainesville for taking ■ care of the crowd. Low rates on all railroads. COL. W. A. CHARTERS MAKES MASTER SPEECH TO TWO THOUSAND VOTERS. Largest Crowd Ever Seen at Court House Heard Charters Monday—Outlines Principles on Which He Stands. Col. W. A. Charters made a force ful and eloquent speech tosomethiug like two thousand voters Monday at ll o’clock in front of the court house, and his words were received with an ovation by his hearers. And he will make his final speech in the interest of his candidacy here in front of the course house on Au gust IS. when the final campaigning will close. He was introduced by Hon. R. D. Mitchell, who is President of the Hall county Charters Club, and who has been president of every Tom Bell club here-to-fore that was or ganized in the county. He then outlined the principles he stood upon, and he scored many rounds of applause from the audi ence, speaking of Mr. Bell as “Har dy’s congressman.” He spoke of Mr. Bid I poking him self out to be for the common people and the workingman, and then vot ing against every important measure that ever came up of benefit to the common people. Especially the tariff on sugar, and parcels post. He read a letter from Mr. Bell in which the latter said that Parcels Post would ruin the rural free de livery of the United States, and Col. Perry ran against Mr. Bell in 1910 and Perry advocated Parcels Post and Bell stood pat against it, and it has done more to increase Rural Free delivery routes than anything that has happened in the mail service. Mr. Bell also voted against free sugar, said Mr. Charters, and that is for common people, reducing sugar, a necessity of life, of two cents a pound. Mr. Charters then spoke of the Sam Cheek incident, and read a letter from Mr. Bell trying to pro cure the discharge of Sam Cheek from the employment of his com pany, because Sam. was for Charters instead of Bell, and Cheek had been for Beil heretofore. He also read a copy 7 of the letter from Cheek’s company 7 allowing Cheek to have his own political views, and saying that he «old more goods than any 7 other man they 7 had on the roads “And they all sell them, when they are for me,” said Mr. Charters, ami he received a big round of applause from this statement. He also spoke of Mr. Bell trying l force Mr. Hardy 7 over the people into the Gaine - . die post-office when there were petitions signed by 3,500 Hall county citizens asking that the ; widow Ham be appointed to this I position? “That is the way he sticks i to the widows,” said Mr. Charters, i “No, Mr. Bell would not have any [ one else and would not give any [ other name presented any consider j ation whatsoever, except that of his I political henchman. Albert Hardy.” No, the widow didn’tgetthe appoint ment from Hardy’s Congressman. He spoke at length upon Norman McNeil getting the appointment to West Point, McNeil being a North : Carolinian, while there were many I poor boys in the 9th District who I wanted the apointment and tried for it. “No, some of the baseball fans,” said he, “wanted McNeil to have it, and he got it. “And Mr. Bell —the common peo ple’s friend,” said he, “voted to ■ take twenty 7 cents of the people's money 7 per mile to pay his expenses [in going and coming from Washing i ton, when in reality it only 7 costs 1 him two cents. The record shows it,” said he. “He can afford to buy rolling chairs for the cripples and , sacks of flour, when it doesn't cost ! him anything; it comes out of the common people’s pocket. He makes i two hundred and sixteen dollars on ; every trip he makes going and com ing from Washington, and iie voted | to keep this law on the books.” “Yes. he is the common people’s friend, but when it comes to a show down, he is for the rich man, and he gives the rich man the plums.'’ “And another measure that is of vital importance to the poor man. and to the builders and contractors, was a bill introduced six years ago to put lumber on the free list. Did Mr. Bell vote for that measure? No. He voted against it, and when Tom Watson jumped him about it. he denied it. Then Watson went to the record and proved that he voted against it. showed him the page that it was on. Then Mr. Bell hushed I SI.OO a Year in Advance NUMBER 30 up. He didn’t reply to Watson, although he was. offered space in ! one of the local papers to publish a reply to Watson. That is the way I Hardy’s Congressman is for the ! poor people.” i Mr. Charters began speaking by [paying a beautiful tribute to Col. | F. M. Johnson, and said that he had- I decided not to speak, out of defer [ ence and respect to the deceased, but ■ that he had been asked by so many 7 who had come to Gainesville for the purpose of hearing him, that he I had re-considered and decided that he wotifd make the address. Sunday Busy for Jailor. There were upward of six hundred people that visited Hall county jail Sunday to have a farewell with the Cantrell boys who hang here to morrow. Rev. David Watson held two services Sunday and the jail was packed at both services, and Deputy Sheriff Buffington tells us that the jail was packed throughout rhe day, many haying to wait out side until they could get in. There were many 7 who visited the boys Sunday who stated that they did not sign the petitions circulated at first but would sign now if they had an opportunity, in an effort to save the boys. Grace Church. Services will be next Sunday as follows: Holy communion at 8 o’clock: morning service at 11:80 and evening service at 8:30 o’clock. Sunday 7 school at 10 a. m. Full ser vices will be continued throughout the summer. There will be uovaea tion. Morning subject: “The Lay ing on of hands and the Apostolic Benediction.” Evening: “Preparing for Confirmation.” On the Second Sunday evening in August the Right Rev. C. K. Nelson, D. D., bishop of the diocese, will visit Grace church ami will adminis ter the apostolic sacrament of con firmation. Those desiring to be con firmed should see the Vicar as soon as possible. Leg Broken by Auto. Air. T. T. Moore was knocked down by an automobile driven by Mr. James Castleberry Tuesday about one o’clock and sustained a broken leg. The accident is said to have happened just as Mr. Moore was leaving the ear at his home on Main street. Mr Moore in stepping from the car did not see Mr. Castleberry ap proaching from the rear, and just as he stepped to the ground the auto mobile hit him. knocking him to the ground and running over his right leg, and breaking both bones just above the ankle. Mr. Moore was given medical at tention immediately and it is not thought that the accident will prove fatal as no internal injuries were re ceived. Saxon. School started last Monday under the able directorship of Miss Attice Aderholdt of Gainesville. Attend ance good and school moving along nicely. Farmers have practially laid-by. Crops are very 7 good and a bright future in store. Mr. Gordon Barnwell left Monday morning for South Georgia to take a position with Mr J. H. Hunt of Gainesville, who has extensive in terest in saw-milling and einning in that section. Mr. Fred Roark attended church at Gainesville Sunday night. Won der who Fred is ••fur” in Gainesville. Miss Ethel Barnwell hastaken the School at Shallow Ford and has en tered actively upon her duties. Mr. Clyde Mason has purchased a new buggy. Had it been a gourd, we would have thought tiiat he had a Martin in view. The “School Manager” was out around Saxon last Sunday. What in the world was a school manager doing loafing around this time of the se ason. Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Carter, who has been spending some time with latter s sister, Mrs. A. S. Robinson and Mrs. O. G. Whelchel, left Sun day 7 tor Wylam, Ala., for a short visit to Mrs. Carter's sister. Mrs. J. A. Wheeler, before returning to their home in Memphis. Tenn. Mr-. Carter will be very pleasantly remembered as Mi-- Eula Keith. Miss Lillian Beatty of Suwanee is this week guest of Mrs. W. H. Car lisle of this ciiy.