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Led by the Ooddess of Liberty; Guided by the Star of Bethlehem.
ESTABLISHED IN 1841
ICHAlTAtQUA IS
A GREAT SUCCESS
|Visitors Highly Pleased
With Attractions.
llODAY IS VETERANS’ DAY
From every section of Washington
I county and ninny other sections, reo-
, B came Sunday to be present at the
opening of Sandersville’* grent Chau
tauqua. The exercises Sunday morn
ing were pleasing, elevating and in-
Ltractive. The feature of the morning
exercises was the magnificent sermon
of Dr. John K. White, of the Second
Baptist Church in Atlanta, who foi
more than one hour lie Id the closest at
tention of every one in the large audi
torium with the most eloquent, sermot
5ANDERSVILLE, GEORGIA, JUNE 14, 1906.
$1 Per Year.
Hon. C. D. Shelnutt,
Vice-President Sanders*
ville Chautauqua.
IN REPLY.
SANDERSVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOL BUILDING
WHERE THE CHAUTAUQUA IS BEING HELD.
which has been heard in this section in
many years. In simple language and
yet with great power Dr. White spoke
upon the subject “The Song Which no
Man can Learn.” To describe the
power of this great sermon requires
langaiige stronger than we know and
perhaps the truest way to express its
effects is to say that every listener felt
sorry when this great preacher con
cluded. Dr. White should take up the
additional work of a lecturer. He is
most pleasing and captivating speaker
and such a man belongs not to one con
gregation but to the whole country
lbs sermon in the evening was us fully
special page ought to he devoted to
him. lie simply carried the audience
by storm and Air. Plumstead can do so
every time. He is a splendid tmter-
tainer and reader and his impersona
tions are excellent, His face has no
limit. It does not seem to have any
fixed ways about it. He cun look any
tiling ho wants to, except perhaps a
real handsome man—and with sufficient
practice and more experience we hope
lie may look like that too some day.
We don’t fear we may overdo the
tiling in complimenting the work of
Mr. Plumstead for we couldn’t.
Monday night’s program was made
up of music by the Orchestra, singing
by Miss Johnson and readings by Miss
Wimberly and Mr. Plumstead all of
which was greatly enjoyed. After
wards Mr. Edgar M. Wright delivered
Col. J. J. Harris,
Secretary Sandersville
Chautauqua.
Mr. C. L. Brewer,
Treasurer Sandersville
Chautauqua.
auprecniteu Uy as large a congregation.
‘ he music and singing lit botli services
"ere most excellent and while
every feature of it was thoroughly en-
j°yed, the double quartette in the
morning service, composed of Mes-
dttmes itell, Holmes, Rogers and Hitch-
eocK and Messrs. Mayo, Riclibourg.
McKinney and Bell, singing “Lead
Kindly Light” and in the evening, the
Orphean Musical Club’s rendition of
Abide with Me” were no doubt the
musical features of the progruniB.
Miss Annie Russell’s song in the eve-
mng was most beautifully and sweetly
sung.
1'he Monday afternoon’s program
“gain attracted large crowds. The
very first feature, the music by the
Orchestra gained loud and continued
applause and we have no hesitancy in
pronouncing the Orchestra the very
best which lias yet charmed the music
lover, of Sandersville. The singing
°f Miss Johnson was thoroughly enjoy
ed as was also the enarming recitation
of Miss Wimberlv.
Hot Mr. Ellsworth Plumstead—a
an instructive lecture on the subject
“Threads and Cables of Gold.” On
account of the long musical program
which preceded it Mr. Wright spoke at
some disadvantage. It is understood
tlm* musical features will follow the
lectures during balance of the week
In spite of a disagreeable rain, quite
a large crowd went to the Tuesday
afternoon exercises which proved to be
well worth the sacrifice.
The music by the orchestra at this
entertainment was particularly good
as was also the singing by the quar
tette. The feature of the entertain
ment however was the readings by Mr
Plumstead, who repeatedly delighted
the audience with his quaint and
charming readings. His Characte
sketch of the young author reading
“The Morning Mail” will long be re
membered by every one who heard it.
Tuesday evening Prof. Booth Lowery
charmed his audience with his famous
lecture, “Simon says wig-wag.” And
Wednesday afternoon Prof, Lowery
Editor Sandhrsvillk Herald:
We note in llftter signed by a Smith
supporter in the Progress two weeks
ago, that you were very severely criti
cised for the prominence you have al
lowed the Dick Russell Club to give
their candidate through the columns
of your paper. We beg to express our
regret,that you have been misconstrued
and misunderstood and have suffered
such criticisms on our account, and de
sire to declare to the public that we
the Dick Russell Club is responsible for
all matter appearing in the columns of
The Hkrai.d favorable to Judge Rus
sel’s candidacy, and to thank you for
the courtesies you have extended to us
in the use of your columns. We beg to
be allowed space for tho following ar
ticle because we believe it merits some
consideration:
To where are we drifting? Where
will the end be? Is there no truth in
politics? Is there no honor in politi
cians?
Wlmt a scene in Atlnnta last Friday
night. Five or six thousand people,
some of them ordinarily regarded us
men of some intelligence, applaud and
howl and hiss and stamp while two
candidates for the distinguished place
of governor of the grent state of Geor
gia stand in the presence of this great
throng of people and like two school
boys—one says you are a liar ; the oth
er says you are another. One says you
are the paid tool of the corporations.
The other says you are us full of lip—
pocracy as uu egg is of meat.
Is this the kind of stuff that please
the audience? Is this what our people
like to hear. Some of them going a
hundred and two hundred miles awaj
from business to be enlertnined by
this kind of stuff? Have we degenera
ted to flint extent that we would find
pleasure in honoring a man by giving
tlie highest office within our province,
who is guilty of half that lias been
cburgeG against either or botli of these
candidates? If these churges are true,
they are neither worthy nor merit tiie
respect of a decent citizenship. If
they ure not true, it must be admitted
they each have an unlimited capacity
for lying and are wholly unworthy of
the confidence of the people. Such
proceedings ure a disgrace to the fair
name of our great state, and are total
ly unworthy the men who should be
ourleuders, and usk lor positions of
honor.
Again I say to where are we drifting?
Where will tlie end be if we continue
in this course?
Tlie greatest work Georgia can ac
complish is the deleut ol both these
cuntlidaies.
We have just read “A Smith Suppor
ter’,’ letter in tlie Progress ana are
more convinced than ever that his
hopeless cuse, Therefore we will
not enter into uny further discussion
with him.
He gets things befuddled and con
fused and ‘‘can not see afar off” and
for that reason we arc not much sur
prised that he is "A Smith Supporter
This seems to bo characteristic of the
greater number of the Smith support
ing element-
We will however take tlie care to set
right wlmteYererroneous idea may have
been credited in the minds of the peo
ple, by tlie (Jarlysle of Georgia politics
n reference to Judge Russell's Tax
Exemption law.
In the first place, those who have
presumed to criticise this plank
Judge Russell’s plutform have endeav
ored most dilligently to create the im
pression that it is the hateful negro—
tlie great bone of contention in Geor
gia politics and lie only, that is to be
the recipient of Judge Bussell’s chari
ty idea and that the white man, is to
be the burden bearer-
Now it makes us tired to find it nec
essary to have to answer any such
charge. There is not a word of” truth
in tlie statement, and is the off spring
of a “befuddled” brain such as above
referred to.
Judge Russell very clearly stated
that lie believed it would be a good law
to exempt $300.00 worth of every man’s
or heads of families household and
kitchen furniture.
Why should it be necessary to ex
plain a statement so simple. Cannot
every one see that the law would ap
ply to all alike, can not it also be seen
that its effect would apply with far
more force to the white man than to
the negro? Where is tlie negro in
Washington county who owns $300
worth of household and kitchen furni
ture? Nothing else is exempt by this
law. It would not mean more than
five cents to the averge negro. The
regular schedule for tax returns on
household and kitchen furniture is
$5.00 to $10.
Personally we think $50 or $100 ex
emption would be a better law, but
out of the goodness and kindness of
Judge Russell’s big heart he advocates
this law in order to reach the poor
widow, who very frequently has to be
troubled to travel ten or fifteen miles
to return her taxes on a few pots and
skillets a three legged table or a brok
en down bedsteud and an equal dis
tance to pay 10, 12. 15 cents to the
common tax fund. This is the purpose
of the law advocated by Judge Russell
and he said so in just so many words
in his Bpeech in Sandersville and we see
no reason why uny man should have an
incorrect idea, unless for reasons before
stated.
We expect Judge Russells return to
Sandersville soon and possibly two ap
plications will be more successful.
DICK RUSSELL CLUB.
again delighted the audience with an
other lecture.
The Grand Concert Wednesday eve
ning was a climaxing feature.
Large crowds are expected today to
attend Veterans’ Day.
Russell Club News.
No man can listen to the strong
Anglo-Saxon language that falls
from the lips of Judge Russell as
he appoars before his audience
without being impressed with the
fact that you are listening to an
honest man. He makes no pro
testations of fidelity contrary to
the record of his past life, but in
a plain and simple manner gives
to his listeners the platform on
which he stands, and discusses
without bitterness the issues of
the campaign.
You can see that his very word
comes fresh from a great big heart
whoso pulsations are with love for
the common people of his beloved
state. He makes no fulse promises
to the voter, but opens his heart
to him so that any one can read the
man.
It is plainness and rugged hon
esty of Dick Russell that gives him
such power over his auditors where
ho is not well known. It is all of
this, with his strong character,
that gives him such a devoted fol
lowing where he is known.
Ask any ten men in his section
who know him, who they tavor for
governor, and seven out of ten will
say Russell; they say so because
they know the man and believe in
him,
lie is waging one of the most re
markable campaigns ever under
taken in this state. With no great
daily paper to go out each day to
influence the people in his behalf,
he bravely and sturdily goes from
county to county meeting the peo
ple face to face, impressing thorn
single and collectively with his
eternal faith in the integrity and
virtue of tho people,
At first there were those who
claim the right to control the poli
tics of the state by scaring the
people, who made fun of his cam
paign and hoped to run him off by
ridicule, by calling him a poor
man, by ignoring his candidacy
by calling him a ringster, etc. But
“Plain Dick” lias kept everlast
ingly at it, going before the people
day after day and week, undaunted
h!> weather, vituperation, by the
big papers, and with no holp but
his own strong arm and the loving
help of those who know him.
With no campaign committee
except his wife on their farm near
Winder, whose love must be a sus
taining inspiration to her gallant
and noble husband though good
days and bad days.
It was an Herculean undertak
ing of Dick Russell, and we doubt
if there is another man in Georgia
that would have gone up against
the big daily papers and tho money
and agencies of the other candid
ates. But he did in with a smile
on his strong bronzed faces; no
fear no fawning, no hesitating
there, but, like the cavalier that
he is, he charged the forts made
of paper and money.
The effect of this persistent
charge is that you hear Russell’s
name now all over the state, and
August 22 it may amount to a pol
itical cyclone.
Every now and then some little
unbought paper says something in
his behalf, and because he is tot
ing his own skillet” he has been
called the Alex Stephens of Geor
gia politics, and because of his
working proclivities’another calls
him the Abraham Lincoln of Geor
gia politics.
And it begins to look now. if he
can keep his health, that before
this thing is over, the jim-jams
that he has already given one of
the candidates will develop into
a case of political heart-failure.
That was a beautiful compli
ment that was paid Judge Ruseell*
by Dr. G A. Nunnally when he
retired from the race the other day.
With no political axe to grind
and hoping to benefit his states,
that man of God, in asking the
people to vote for Judge Russell
said of him:
To him you can give your sup
port assured if he be elected you
will have a man in the office of
governor who will do all that he
can to administer tho affairs of the
state to the best interests of all the
people: a man uncontrolled by
rings, combines or corporations
unswayed by partisan passion or
race prejudice, and unflinched
by personal rancor or commercial
antagonism, and I believe he will
make an honest effort at a clean
government, which will be an
honor to the state and a profit to
all the people.”—-Atlanta News.
A HOT SHOT.
Listen—Did you ever try
PLANKING DOWN THE
ELOQUENT CASH EVERY
TIME YOU BUY, and then
see how LIMBER everybody
is when you walk into their
SHOP?
If you NEVER HAVE you have
never REACHED BOTTON. Let
EVERYBODY know thev can not
book YOUR NAME under ANY
cond i t i o n s or circumstances.
THEN SEE THE DIFFERENCE.
No man’s name is as good as the
cssh. We rake in the ELOQUENT
CASH at Every Sale. Our FIRST
is LAST and BOTTOM PRICE.
JACKSON;
Friendship.
Weather hot and dry everything
needing rain.
Mrs. James Garner has been in
feeble health for some time; we
hope for her an early recovery.
■A
Mrs. and Mrs. B. Garner visited
friends at Deepstep and near
Barksdale the past week.
Mr and Mrs. James B. Archer
were guests of Mr. W. P. Peeler’s
family recently.
Mrs. Elton Veal has been sick
recently; we hope she will soon be
herself again.
Mrs. Amanda Holmes has retired
to her home near Dwight after
spending sometime with her
daughter Mrs.Charles Prosser.
Mr. Thomas P. Bland with Miss
Mattie Underwood spent Saturday
and Sunday with relatives near
Island Creek.
Mrs. A. P. Bland and Mrs. W.
H. Renfroo, Miss Minnie Harper
with Mr., R. L. Renfroe visited
friends and relatives in and near
Sandersville the past week.
Mrs. W. R'. Ray visited her
daughter, Mrs. Ben R.Tanner near
Suuhill recently.
Little Aboa and Annie Walker
have returned from a pleasant trip
to Savannah and Tybee last week.
Sunday June 10th is Mr. B.
Gaaner birthday he being sixty
seven years of ages we wisn him
many happy returned.
Mr. Charles Hodges has a smile
that wont come off, its a sweet
little girl and we hope it will stay
a long, long time.
Mrs. Betsy Yarbrough aiid Mrs.
Nancy Johnson of Linton are the
pleasant guests of Mr. and Mrs.
John Johnson.
Mr. Caldwell of Jefferson county
a lighting rod agent has been wor
rying the people in this communi
ty recently.
The crops are looking fine along
side the road ; cotton is looking
line where it has been worked out
free from grass. The oorn is look
ing fine also.
Mr. Siduey and Eugene Connell
attended the concert at Riddleville
last Friday night and they report
a fine time.
Mr. John Connell who 1ms been
attending the school at Sanders
ville, returned home last week for
summer vacation.
Mr. and Mrs, M. L. Taylor oj
Sandersville visited their old home
place last week.
Mr. Lawson Connell made a
business trip to Sandersville last
week.
A little rain now and then where
the crops are clean would not hurt
them ; but where the crops are not
cleaned, the grass would eat them
up.
Mr. Eugene Connell made «
business trip to Harrison last
week.
Mr. Sidney Connell attended
preaching in Riddleville last Sun
day.
Mr. M. L. Taylor of Sanders
ville spent Inst Monday night
with Mr, and Mrs. L. Connell.
There was a heavy rain which
fell at this place last Monday
gave the ground a soaking.
been
he is
very-
very
Mr. B. Renfroe has
sick but glad to know
much better
Miss Minnie Harper’s school will
close the 15th with exercises in the
A. M.
Mrs. W. A. Walker is on the
sick list.
Mrs. A. M. Veal and children
spent a few]days recently with hjr
parents Mr. and Mrs. B. Garner.
Mrs. Geo. C. Walker, of Lindsey
with her little son and daughter
Ralph and Lucile visited relatives
in this county recently.
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