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Reputlican Party Will Gain
New Vitality
DESERTERS WILL RETURN
But When They Do Let Them Bring
Forth “Works Meet for Repen
tance”—Republicans Have Made
the Grandeur of the Country for
Sixty Years. ‘
The address of President Taft to the
Beverly Republican Cluby, Beverly,
Mass., Sept. 3, was as follows:
Gentlemen of the Beverly Republi
can club and, I am glad to say, my fel
low citizens of Beverly, I thank you
for this cordial greeting. This club
suggests one or two thoughts of a po
litical character that I did not touch
upon in the remarks I addressed to
you on Saturday. It suggests the ne
cessity for renewed organization of the
Republican party under present condi
tions. The Republican party has been
successful for many years. I think
the last national defeat we suffered
was in 1892, and that is twenty years
ago. We have reached a point where
it was natural that there should be
some gentlemen who were convinced
that their position in the party was
not all that they thought they
were entitled to and therefore they
were in favor of sloughing off into a
third party. Now, the danger in the
continuance in power for a long time;
to the party itself is the jealoubies,
the factions, the quarrels within the
party that long life and success are
apt to generate, and, while, of course,
a third party is a misfortune to the
Republican party in the loss of some
votes, we must be philosophical and
look at this result on its good side as
well as on its bad side.
I conceive in respect of the life of
the Republican party that secession of
a third party is going to give us new
vitality in the very feeling of fight
that the injustice of the claims of the
third party will arouse in us as real
Republicans. We know that we are a
better set of men than we are now
called by those who were very glad at
one time to be known as leading Re
publicans. We know that we stand
in the nation as the guardian of those
institutions of civil liberty under our
constitution, the preservation of which
has made this nation permanent and
great, and that nothing could come to
this country of greater political in
jury than such a split in the Republi
can party as would destroy it.
The importance of this campaign in
its immediate result is great. I could
hardly state with more emphasis than
1 really believe the crisis that we now
face with reference to the continuance
of prosperity in this country by reason
of the vote that we are to have in No
vember, but there is something be
yond November with respect to the
Republican party. It is essential that
we should continue and revitalize it as
a permanent party and a permanent
force in this nation for the continu
ance of the progress that has made it
great. No student of history can dery
that the grandeur of this nation and
the height that it has reached among
nations during the last sixty years has
been due to the guidance and the force
and the energy and enterprise of the
Republican party. We propose to have
that continue. We propose that the
force represented by the Republican
party shal’ continue useful in the his
tory of this nation. With that in mind,
I would urge upon you the necessity
for closing up the ranks, finding out
who is a Republican, and who is not,
and. when you find a man who is not,
do not count him for the party. One
who is not loyal never helps. i
There is no use, gentlemen, tempor
izing about this matter. A man is a
Republican or he is not. Is he going
to support the national ticket, and is
he going to support the State ticket?
If he is he is a Republican, and if he is
not he is not a Republican. Now, such
a policy may cost us some votes, but
in the not distant future these gentle
men who have deserted us in the hope
of enjoying office, on the one hand, or
a millennium, on the other, will find
themselves without office, millennium
or party. They will feel a bit lonely,
and then when they come back to the
Republican party, as they will come
back, let them come back as Republi
cans, but bringing forth works meet
for repentance.
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?Women Don’t Like
| Snakes for “Pets”
Thomasville, Ga., Oct. 13.—Rat
snakes have been more than usual
ly plentiful in Thomasville of late
and several thrilling experiences
with them are related by house
keepers and other members of the
gentier s(x to whom a snake is a
<nake and a thing to be feared, o
matter what assurances may ke
siven them as to the harmlessness
of its nature.
One lady heie upon opening a
pureau drawer, was terrified to
tind what seemed to her a monster
snake coiled up init. She had
sufficient forethought to shut the
drawer and, running to the tele
phone, called for her doctor to
come and chloroform it. He, how
ever, ¢id not scem to think it ex
actly in his province and suggest
ed calling a negro man to kill it.
When it was dispatched it was
found to be only a harmless rat
suake. Another lady was horror
stricken at seeing the head of a
snake poked up between the bricks
of the hearth just in the act of
seizing & mouse. A negro woman
was frightened almost out of her
wvits a few evenings ago while sit
ting on her steps by a snake fail
ing from a tree on the step at her
foot. These ratsnakes are said to
be very useful in exterminating
rats and also perfectly harmless,
but it would be hard to find any
woman who would be willing to
have one around the house in the
place of a cat, as his been suggest
ed.
When You Set Out
Shade Trees
It is not dasirable to plant trees
in a straight line unless they are
planted on the sides of a straight
walk or road. It is monotonous
and tiresome to see the trees on
the grounds 1n straight rows,
However, it is sometimes necessary
to plant them in straight rows.
When this is necessary the monc
tony may be more or lcssbrokefi
by planting groups of trees and
shrubs a short distance from the
straight row of trees.
Try to arrange the trees, shrubs,
etc., on the grounds in such a wey
that all parts of the grounds can
not be seen at one time. Of course
this cannot be done on small
grounds, but there is no reason
why the grounds of a farm home
should be small.—lL,, A, Niven, in
The Progressive Farmer.
Astor Inheritance Tax
Paid; Totals $3,150,-
OCO.
- Albapy, N. Y., Oct. 11—A
check for $3,150,000 was received
today by State Comptroller Schmer
in pavment of the advance inheri
tance tax on the estate of the late
Col. John Jacob Astor, who per
ished on the steamer Titanic last
April.
The temporary tax was paid at
this time in order to obtain a b
per cent rebate allowed by law if
the tax is paid within six months
after the death of the decedent.
This rebate is equivalent to $155,-
000, The temporary tax repre
sents an estate, the estimated value
of which is new placed at $75,000,-
000 although the final tax will not
®e tixad until after the estate.has
been appraised.,
The payment is the largest in
heritance tax paid on a single
estate since the enactment of the
law twenty-seven years ago and is
nearly one-third as large as the
entire tax collected during the
fiscal vear ended Septensber 30.
The preliminary tax on the estates
of the other victims of the Titanic
disaster, including those of the
late Isador Straus and Benj. Gug
gerheim, has not been paid. The
executors have until October i 5
to make the payment in order to
benefit by the 5 per cent rebate,
While we send our influence
abroad as much as possible, we
should live so that we shall be
benedictidns to ‘hose nearest us,
Rev, J. R. Miller. ‘
THE LEADER-FNTERPRISE. TUESDAY. OCTORER 15, 1912
News Boiled Down and
Dished Up from Ash
ton Graded dchool
Mrs. O. S. Middlebrooks made
a business trip to Ocilla Saturday.
You betcher life we are going
to attend the Fair.
Mrs. Buford Tucker, of Mob
ley’s Bluff, spent a few days re
cently with her aunt, Mrs. W. H.
Robitzsch.
Mrs L. Robitzsch was in Am
brose Wednesday transacting
business. .
Messrs. Theo Middlebrooks and
L. D. Dozier attended the sing
ing convention at Douglas Sun
day.
Hurry up, cotton pickers, Jack
Frost will soon make his appear
ance.
Mr. George Bishop, of Nach
ville, is visiting relatives at this
place.
Mrs. W. H. Robitzsch was in
town Wednesday shopping.
School has opened at Ashton.
The first week of school is being
devoted to cleaning off the
grounds and putting the rooms
in order. With Prof. Harvey as
principal we are in hopes of great
success,
Mrs. Audie Cone is slightly in
disposed this week.
Mr. L. D. Dozier made Theo
MidZdlebrooks a pleasant call
Thursday evening.
The Pine Level Sunday School
is still flourishing By a special de
sire of the pupils Mr. Royal was
again chosen as their superinten
dent.
Miss Rachael Bishop spent the
week end at Abbeville, the guest
of Miss Mary Gladden.
Winter will scon be here; the
flowers are dropping their heads,
while the pretty trees and shrub
bery are shedding their pletty
suits of green. A few months
and the dear old year of 1912 will
be gone. But remember, “Time
and tide wait for no man,”’ and
how swiftly time passes.
One of our Ashton negroes was
accused of stealirg chickens, but
being a good laborer, he was not
prosecuted, and instead a negro
minister was sent to warn him
of the sin he was committing
The parson said: ‘‘Rastus, what
would you say if the Lawd wuz
to ax you what you gone done
with all dem chickens you stole?”’
Rastus seratched his wooly head
awhile and said: ‘‘Well, Parson,
vo’ know a man ain’t ’bleeged to
testify against his wife.”’
| LEONNE DELORAINE.
Don’t Waste Labor
Isn’t it, when you come to think
of it seriously. just as unwise and
as extravagant to waste labor as
to waste money? It all amounts
to the same thing in the end, for
to fritter away time and strength
doing unremunerative work, or
work unnecessarily hard, is to de
crease the profits of the day or
the year just assurely as would
be done by scattering d.mes or
dollars. Yet there are many far
mers who would lament the loss
of a nickel but who, day after
day and year after year, do work
that is absolutely unprofitable, To
put the potato patch, for example
¢en minutes’ walk from the house,
when there is plenty of land avail
able rnght to hand, and so to make
necessary a lot of extra time every
time potatoes are wanted for eat
ing, is just as truly a wasie as it
would be to throw away the price
of the extra time required in go
ing to this distant patch for the
potatoes.—The Progressive Far
mer.
We seldom take s deepand vital
interest in the affairs of our ueigh
bors—unless they owe us money.
1t is the things that are possible,
not probable, that keep some peo
ple from being happy. ¥
A Dozen Reasons
Why You Should Vote
Agains: Ex-Pres
ident Roosevelt.
BECAUSE:
1. He has broken his solemn
promise not to be a candidate for
a tnird term, therefore his other
promises are not to be relied
upon.
2. For seven years he was
president, and during those sev
en years the very conditions he
now pretends to comoat viciously
were more thoroughly developed
than during all the other periods
in the country’s history.
3. The day he become Presi
dent there werel49 trusts or com
binations, capitalized at $3,000,-
000,000, and the day he retired
from office there were 1,020 such
combinations. capitalized at $31,-
000,060,000,
4. He permitted the Steel
Trust to acquire Tennessee Coal
and Iron Campany, its principal
rival, in violation of the anti
trust law, and forbade the prose
cution of the Harvester Trust at
the request of George W. Per
kins, his present National Chair
man.
5. The man, next to Roose
velt, responsible for -the third
term movement, is Geo. W. Per
kins; Perkins is the promoter and
defender of the most pernicious
trusts in the United States, which
are the most vicious imposers on
the men, women and children
wage-earners of the country.
6. He urges the legalization
of trust watered stock and mo
nopoly, as first advocated by Per
kins, his principal supporter and
financial backer.
7. He accepted campaign con
tributions from trusts, insurance
companies and ‘‘erooked busi
ness,”” and denied that he had
done so—““My dear Harriman ”’
H. stands for ‘‘Boss’’ Flinn,
‘“Boss’’> Woodruff and' other
‘‘Bosses’” who serve him.
8. During the seven years he
was President, he failed, even
refused, to lift a finger against
high tariff. Who believes, if
elected, he would try to reduce
excessive tariff taxes? Why is
he now surrounded now by high
tariff men, who are contributing
freely to his campaign fund?
9. He loves war better than
peace. '
10. Out of office he promises
too much, and in office performs
too little. ;
11. He says that the small
farmer and the laborer of the
city are not to be mentioned in
the same breath with cowboys,
ete. Afterdescribing the drunk
enness and deadly shooting af
frays of the cowboys he writes:
‘“‘But they are much better fel
lows and pleasanter companions
than the small farmers or agri
cultural laborers; or are the me
chanics of a great city to be men
tioned in the same breath with
them.”
12 President Taft, whoknows
him best, says of him: ‘Heis a
demagogue, a neurotic, a flatter
er, an egotist.”’
C. C. Persons Purchases
| City Pressing Club
Mr. C. C. Persons has pur
chased the City Pressing Club
from Mr. B. B. Watkins, having
taken over the business with its
effects yesterday. Mr. Persons
will consolidate the City Pressing
Jlub with his business on Pine
street, and with the combined
forces of the two, has a splendid
working force. He states that
it is his intention to give special
attention to ladies’ work, such as
French Dry Cleaning: and invites
patronage.
A season ticket to the Fair,
8 days and 8 nights, for
$1.60, and 500 votes-for King
and Queen.
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National Guards To
- Meet in Macon
Atlanta, Ga, Oct, 14.—Practi
cally all the leading officers of the
Georgia National Guard with
headquarters in Atlanta are plan
ning today to attend the meetihg
of the Nationll Guard association
of the state which will be held
ia Macon this Saturday, October
19th.
The meeting was called by Major
Claude C. Smith, president of the
association and he will be there
in person to occupy the chair.
This is the annual meeting and
many matters pertaining to the
prosperity of the militia will be
discussed. Principal among these
will be the army pay bill, now
pending in congress, Addresses
will be made on various military
subjects by niembers of the militia
and by U. S. army officers who
have been especizlly invited to at
tend.
We wish t) reason a little with
the man who has peanuts, cowpeas,
soy bears or other grazing crops
for his hogs. Itis a mistake to
altow the hogs to ¢et their entire
feed from these crops. When hogs
are grazing these, a quarter or a
third of a full ration of corn will
be worth at least a dollar a bushel
and no one can afford not to feed
it. The failure to feed some corn
to the hogs while grazing these
crops rich in portein is almost as
big a mistake as to feed ccrnalone
in a dry lot. The only difference
is that the wasted feeds—peanuts,
soy beans, etc,—have not cost
quite so much as the corn that is
wasted by- the other method.—
The progressive Farmer. :
A female optimist is a womsn
who marries a poet.
By the time a man gets old he
ought to have sense encugh not
to let it worry bhim.
The noblest service comes from
nameless hands, and the best ser
vant does ris work unseen.—O.
W. Holmes,
Storm Will Bring
Unsettled Weather
Washington, D. C, Qct. 13.
Unsettled, rainy weather through
out the Gulf and South Atlantic
states during the fi:st part of the
coming week is predicted by the
weather bureau as a result of a
tropical storm now entering the
Gulf of Mexico from the Carib
bean sea.
‘““Elsewhere over the country
the weathér will be fair during
the next several days,’”’ said the
weekly bulietin, ‘‘although a dis
turbance of a moderate intensity,
attended by local areas of precip
itation will develop over the West.
Tuesday or Wednesday, cross the’
the Middle West about Thursday
and the Eastern states Friday.
% Seasonal temperatures will pre
vail throughout the country until
after the passage of this disturb
ance when a change to consider
able lower temperatures is prob
able over much of the country.
This change to colder will appear
in the Northwest Wednesday or
Thursday.
The man who has only corn to
feed his hogs should probably sel
them to someone who has grown
peanuts, soy beauns, cowpeas, vel
vet beans or some such erops for
hoo feed; but if he will not do
this, then he should buy tankage
and feed one part of tankage to
about eight parts of corn. The
tankage is high-priced—sso to $6O
a ton—but 1t is cheaper than corn
alone. Soy beans and corn grown
on the farm will make cheaper
pork than tankage and corn; but
tankage and corn will make cheap
er pork than corn alone.—Th>
Progressive Farmer. :
Three days and 3 nights
to the Fair for $1.00; 6 ad
missions only 16 2-3 cents
for admission. 400 votes
with this ticket.
Sufficient unto the day is the
night that cometh after.