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Ofticia! Journal ot Cobb County.
Official Journal of Marietta.
MARIETTA GA
THURSDAY MorNING, May 14, 1908.
—
If you don’t argue politics you will
feel a heap better. Try it.
Judging from the number of straw
ballots being taken, it would look like
“straw’’ would soon be exhausted.
Congressman Livingeton carried Rock- |
dale county last Friday. It looks as if
Lon will be re-nominated.
Coweta county now has a Joe Brown
club of nearly 1,500. And Joe goes
marching on to vietory.
Atlanta’s spirit is being displayed,
and the burned block will be replaced
by a better one.
Dr. W. F. Goldinjhas withdrawn from
the congressional race, leaving Hon,
Gordon Lee without opposition, |
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Hon. Gordon Lee has no opposition
for re-election to Congress. This is
well. He deserves to go in without op
position.
Politics, as conducted by some candi
dates, are about the most demoralizing
and hurtful thing that this country has
to contend against.
Ex-Congressman Moses, of Coweta,
made speeches at Bainbridge and Way- |
cross last week for Hon. Joseph M.
Brown.
Misrepresentations, abuse and other
dirty methods ought to be elimnated
from polities. Lot the good people dis
eountenance such methods.—Cuthbert
Leader.
Inman & Co., cotton dealers, of Au
gusta, are in the hands of a receiver;
liabilities, $1,500,000. The firm is com
posed of F. M, McGowan and J. R.
Gray, of Atlanta.
Seeley, of the Atlanta Georgian, is a
good one, He speaks with words of
wisdom, and is giving the people one of
the best, cleanest and newsiest papers
in the State. May the Georgian con
tinue to prosper.
No matter who is elected, whether
you are on the winning side or not, it
will be a sweet relief to know that the
election is over. Speed the fourth of
el
Mr, Seely, of the Atlants Georgian,
says it is a ‘‘qualification”’ and not a
‘‘disfranchisement,”” The white man
as well as the negro has to comply with
the qualificatious or not be able to vote.
It is said after next March 4th Presi
dent Roosevelt will take a two years’
vacation, going to Africa and engage in
hunting. This will be sad news to
those who insist on President Roosevelt
standing for re-election.
The Walker P. Inman estate, valued
at $4,000,000, has been put in the hands
of a receiver. Forrest Adair is the re
ceiver. James R. Gray and Mrs. Morris
Brandon, executors are enjoined from
interfering with the receiver.
Tennessee has a red hot fight on for
Governor. Carmarck candidate for
state prohibition and Patterson for local
option. We are hoping for Carmareck’s
election. We want to see old ‘'booze”’
knocked out of Chattanooga.
And =0 it goes. Joe Brown is now
preventing Gov. Hoke Smith from at
tending the Roosevelt conference of
governors.—Augusta Chronicle.
He is also preventing Hoke from
staying in his office and enjoying the
ne
Hetty Green, the richest woman in
the world, has quit her $4.00 per week
apartments in a flat, and is now at the
Plaza Hotel, New York, paying $3OO per
month for rooms and $lO per day for
meals for herseif and daughter. The
daughter is to marry an Astor, is the
cause of this sudden stylish living.
At twenty-one a man starts out tore
form the world; at thirty he has his
doubts about it; at forty he decides
that the world can’t be reformed; at
fifty he is busy hanging on by his eye
brows and letting the world reform
him.—Piedmont (Ala.) Journal,
Hope you have no reference to the
Georgia gubernatorial race. The Pied
ment bar has been closed by the pro
hibitionists of Georgia.
A farm of corpses have been un
earthed at La Porte, Indiana, being the
farm owned by the supposed murderess,
Mrs. Bella Gunness, who with her three
children were also murdered by some
one and her house burned. Great ex
citement prevails there. Adozen hodies
have been dug up in the yard and farm.
Some of the victims were shipped in
trunks from Chicago to Mrs. Gunness,
and she buried them. Robbery was
the incentive to this bloody work, A
hired man is in jail as an accomplice
and ag being the murderer of Mrs. Gun
ness and children, because she didn’y
keep him supplied with money.
MR. BROWN REDUCED COTTON
FREIGHT RATES.
_ Mr. J. L. Dickey, who wae associated
with Joa Brown for twenty-five years
in railroad work, in a recent article
SAys:
“] will add here that Mr. Brown,
while traffic manager, had the cotton
rates reduced from all stations on the
Western & Atlantic railroad to the
South Atlantic ports to the same figures
as applied from Atlanta, thus saving to
the farmers along this road between
the Chattahoochee river and the Ten
nesgee line 75 cents per bale on an av
erage crop of 52,000 bales, or $37,500
annually.
He also had the coal rates reduced to
all stations on the Western & Atlantic
railroad 50 cents per ton, increasing
the volume of coal shipments and aid
ing in the preservation of the forests
along the line, that the timber might
go into various useful articles rather
than go into grates and furnaces.” ‘
This should be appreciated by the
farmers who raise cotton, and the man
ufacturers and town people who use
coal.
WHAT COULD HE DO?
When Professor 8. V. Sanford, occu
pying the chair of literature at the
state umversity, was in the city, the
other day, they tried to ‘‘straw ballot’’
him on the gubernatorial race.
“Now, you have me,” he said smil
|ingly. ‘‘l don’t know who lam for.”’
“‘Can’t say whether you are for Gov
ernor Hoke Smith or Joe Brown?’ he
was taunted.
‘“Well, confidentially, old man, it is
this way: A number of young men of
the univergity board at my home in
Athens. Joseph M. Brown, Jr., sits at
my right for breakfast, lunch and din
rner. and young Tom Gray, son of Mr.
J. R. Gray, of the Journal, sits at my
left.”
What else could the poor man do?—
Augusta Chronicle.
TOM WATSON AGAINST SMITH.
In a letter to a prominent citizen of
Americus, Hon. Tom Watson says:
“It is Governor Smith’s failure to
keep his pledges and his reversal of po
sitions which he has taken on publie
matters, notably the concentration of
power in the four big cities, that have
made it impossible for me to support
him again.
Very truly yours,
TrouMas E. Warson.”
If Mr. Watson cannot support Gover
nor Smith, how can any other Populist
gupport him? If Mr. Watson is a guide
and leader 1n one thing, why shouldn’t
he be in another?
DISFRANCHISEMENT.
Hon. Joseph M. Brown, in a letter
published in the Atlanta Georgian Sat
urday, says:
“For the benefit, however. of those
who may be interested, and availing
myself of the courtesy of The Georgian,
1 bgg to say:
‘“That I am in favor of the principle
of disfranchisement, as shown in the
amendment, and shall suppoert the adop
tion of this constitutional amendment
to be voted on next October.
“I may add that, while refusing to be
drawn into unnecessary discussions of
settled questions with my distinguished
opponent, my views on this question
have been freely stated in person, in
telegrams and in letters to inquiring
friends in various portions of the state."
NOT CONVERTED.
Dr. Landrum, the eminent Baptist
divine of Atlanta, read: ‘‘Governor
Smith has never said that he was con
verted to the principle of State prohi
bition as against local option prohibi
tion. He will not say so. Why? Be-‘
cause he is not converted. The Aclnnta‘
Journal has not been converted, either.
Mr. Reuben Arnold, the Hoke Smith
orator, has not been converted. Mr.
Robert Griffin, the chairman of the
Hoke Smith Fulton county eclub, has
not been converted. Mr. Thos. Felder,
the Senate anti-prohibition filibuster,
the Hoke Smith leader in Bibb county,
has not been converted.”’
- Joe Brown doesn’t have to be con
verted. He has been a prohibitionist
for twenty years.
CHAMPION PROHIBITIONIST.
(Tom Watson in Jeflersonian.(
Here’s a recipe for becoming a cham
pion prohibitiomst:
(1) Hang on to your interest in a
profitable bar-rcom until it is shut up
by a law which you opposed :
(2) Flop to prohibition, when you
see that the prohibition bill has already
secured a sufficient number of votes to
override a gubernatorial veto:
(3) Write a dispatch for the Associa
ted Press which, after all the erasures,
interlineations and loop-holes are elim
inated, favors a law which would per
mit the use of ‘‘'light wines and beer’’
as food ;
(4) Loudly declare that unless you
are kept ir office, the prohibition law,
which was passed in spite of you, will
in some mysterious manner bescooped,
swiped, eloigned, subjugated, disem
boweled, smothered, strangled, par
boiled and otherwise scandalously mal
treated ;
(5) Shout this loudly, from Haber
sham to Glynn, until the welkin rings,
the tea-curs dance on the table, the
dogs bark as they run under the house,
the children fall off the fence as the
excitement tears along the road,—and,
the first thing you know, you will be
the champion prohibitionist, while such
life-lon% heroes of the cause as Hughes,
Edenfield, Cofer, Sibley, Poole, Jones,
Hill, Wright, Candler, and dozens of
old vets of the cause, will either be for
gotten or will look like slick dimes.
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