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Democratic Rally Saturday, Nowv. 2|
Democrats of Ben Hill County, Come to Fitzgerald for a Final Rally of the Voters Before the Batég
The party calls on YOU, Mr. Voter, to turn"" out in full force and proclaim your faith in the time-honored pfirln
ciples of Demoeracy. We are facing a crisis in the history of the party in the county and State. The opposi
tion has flooded the State with documents reflecting upon the integrity and patriotism of the leaders of the Dem
ocrat ¢ party. All such statements are made for politcal effect to swerve you from your duty on election day. We
- call upon you, in all sincerity, to go to the polls next Tuesday and place Ben Hill County in the Democratic column.
Go Home, Colonel. |
Here’e your hat Colonel.
The South isn’t in your *‘ring.” ‘ :
It’s high time you were hurrying home. .
Oun your former visits to our State and section, you have found
that considerate welcome to which you were officially entit.ed, South
erners are by nature a mannerly folk and they have always met you
with the graciousness due a President, or a former President,
of the United States; but, when you twist their hospitable
greeting into an omen of political support, you become rather
presumptuous as a guest and, certainly, very foolish as a politician.
You seem, indeed, to have mistaken the South for ‘an African
game trail, where the natives will flock to dance for your sport and
gaze spellbound on your strange trappings. In a guise of sanctity, }
you come to convert what you derisively call the Solid ‘South; but bei
not deceived, doughty Colonel; for, the eyes of this section have
pierced your.missionary makeup and they see you as the political ad
venturer you really are,
You may shout ‘‘Armageddon” and sing ‘‘Onward Christian Sol
diers” until the young-eyed cherubin yawn with disgust, but you will
never find the South a missionary field for u man of your doctrines
and your record. The Southern people have longer memories than
you imagine.
They have not forgotten your scorn of their heroes and their
dead but sacred cause in the day when you cared nothing for Southern
votes. :
They have not forgotten how you wrote of Jefferson Davis—
whose memory 1s revered in this section at least—as a traitor and a
criminal. A
; Who that is Southern born could ever forget your vicious slan
der of Robert E. Lee, the knightliest spirit of America’s epic war?
You have trampled brutally on the annals and the ideals of the
South’s Confederacy, and yet you now come among the sons of the
men who died for that cause and try to flatter them into following
your selfish adventure.
This is a New South, but it is the child of the Old; and, while its
sympathies are today as broad as the Union, its heart i 8 none the less
warm or reverent t> the memory of its sires. It nurses no rancor of
sectionalism. Had you fought against its fathers, Colonel Roosevelt,
as did thousands of brave men, that could never have been held against
vou; but when in the peaceful time of returning friendship, you went
out of your way to slander them, you then forever barred yourself
from our political consideration.
Go home, Colonel! Go home and regale yourself on those pages
in which you belittled and falsified the lives of Southern leaders. .
If you fancy that the vharisaic pose you have recently assumed
on the négro question will win you this section’s support, you are
pitiably deceived, You have straddled this issue in both the North
and the South, fraternizing with the negro there and execrating him
here. :
- Do you think we are so stupid as not to see through this two-fac
_ed and impudent game? ‘ :
: Do you not bid might-and-main for the support of the negrojidele
gates at Chicago? :
Would you ever have pretended this sudden change of héart, had
you succeeded in capturing the machinery of that party as you violent
ly strove to do? :
Why was it, Colonel, that you never awoke to the corrupting in
fluence of the colored delegates from the South until you found that
they would no longer serve but would embarrass your political
schemes ? : : :
The whole country knows that no Republican ever went further
or stocped lower than you for these same negro, delegates when you
needed them to run your particular machine.
Certairly, the Southern people know that never since the days of
Reconstruction was there a Republican president who amagonized‘
their sentiment in this regard so flagrantly as you, &
You doggedly retained the negro Crum as collector of the port at
‘Charleston over the protests and- appeals of the white citizenship of
that community. ‘ . . Vi
In utter disregard of not only the feelings of South, but also the
decencies of your office, you dined Booker Washington at the White
House, receiving him on the most intimate terms of social as well as
political equahty. ‘ ’ *
" You closed the postoffice at Indianola, Miss., and told the people
there that if they would not accept your negro postmaster, they
should be deprived of the mail service. s t ;
And only a few months ago, did you not stand before a gathering
of national note and, with your arms around two negro politiclalns‘
from the North, proclaim them the ‘‘equal of every white man within
the sound of your voice.” e
Go home, Colonol! Go home and apologize as best you can to
the celored brethern whom you consider your ‘‘equals” in the North;
but as for the South, what you have done speaks so loudly that we
cannot hear what wou say. e - _ ‘
*Republican policies bave never been popular in this section but, i
i it came to a choice between yours and Mr, Taft’s we shoula infinite-‘
ly prefer the latter; for be has shown himself at least sincere and has
proved himself an honorable partisan n appointing federal officehol
ders who havebeen most considerate of our people’s interest, while you,
Colonel, were seemingly bent upon Africanizing the South A.tlantic{
coast.
' The truth Is{that on all essential matters of government your
policies and the South’s copvictions, your jpurposes and the South’s
interests areiradically opposed. : ‘
. - Yoo stand_for a perpetuation of the high protective tariff, |
‘% e bolieve with Woodrow Wilson that there should be tariff re
_yision, ‘‘steadily and uphesitatingly downward.” i
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Weedrow Wilson.
An Able Senator’s Political Forecast
Hoke Smith, of Georgia, Who Has Been Speaking in
e West, Summarizes Situation in Many States.
Senator Hoke Smith, Secretary of the Interior in President
Cleveland’s Cabinet, now Senator from Georgia and a very keen
observer, has been speaking for Wilson in the West. He makes
the following summary of the situation in States he has visited:
.““The best information. we gather in Chiecago as to how the
West and Middle West are going in the election is that Woodrow
Wilson’s election is a certainty. I spent the last four weeks in the
territory west of the Mississippi and north and west of the Ohio
River. :
“‘Beginning with Ohio, I don’t think there can be any doubt that
Governor Wilson will have the electoral vote of that State. Indiana,
Towa, Missouri, Oregon, Montaua, Novada, and in all probability
Colorado, are safe, :
““I will say that the possibilities are that Governor Wilson will
carry Kansas and South Dakota. :
California is close between Colonel Roosevelt and Gov. Wilson.
.Roosevelt, I think, has decidedly the advantage in Washington.
President Taft has the advantage in Utah and Wyming.
Taft seems to have the advantage in Wisconsin and Roosevelt
in Michigan, : :
““North Dakota seems to be close, from what we can learn, and
uncertain between the three candidates. New Mexico is regarded
now as safely for Wilson, as are Arizona, Texas and Arkansas. I
believe that is a fair estimate of the situation in the Western States.
*“I think Governor Wilsonjought to be elected President with
the Southern States and the Western States, which he will carry.
What you are going to do in the East you know better than I do.
“I omitted Illinois. So far as I.could judge Colonel Roosevelt
had an advantage in Illinois, with Governor Wilson a close second
and the final result doubtful.””—New York American. s
You are urging, as you have ever done, a centralization, of feder
al power at the sacrifice of State rights, '
We believe in preserving the integrity of the States in order that
this republi¢ may endure and its people be free.
You stand fora government by rules in place of laws and you
consider yourself the ‘‘indispensable man.”
The South believes in constitutional government and its Demo
cratic blood rebels at the idea of the dictainrship you would establish,
We might condone; though never accapt, your reactionary views
on the tariff, as due to your intimacy with the trusts and your depend
ency on Special Interests for campaign contributions. We might
palliate your greed tor federal power and your treason to the third
term precedent as the outbreaks of a fiery ambition but the South
cannot overlook the Pecksniffian hyprocisy with which you are now
seeking to cozen its votes.
We judge you by what you have done rather than what you pro
fess.
Your promises, a 8 your record proves, are but weathercocks
that shift with every wind of expediency.
Just as you clamor for the negro’s supprsssion when you are
South and for his equality when you are North, so on every other
issue, you are the lightning-change mountebank of the time.
By turas, gou wear the lion’s and the ass’s skin.
In one breath you clamor for industriai justice and in the next
you propose to legalize monopoly. . . ; 2
You denounce the ‘‘bosses” one moment and the next take them
to your bosom. %y :
You preach pure politics while your own hands arz dripping with
campaign fat from the Interests. .
In truth, youstand at Armageddon and you battle for the trusts.
Go home, Colonel! 2 :
'h' ];l‘he Soutb is hospitable but it isn’t so gullible as you seem to
think. ~ ;
It isn’t yet ready to sell its Democratic birthright for your mess
of political vagaries, .
Its people are marching in loyal phalanx behind a leader who has
sprung from their own soil, marching with clear eyes and true hearts
to certain victory. ;
Don’t delude yourself by thinking they will desert such a cause
and such an opportuaity for the tin horns and stale ballons of your
charlatan show.—Atlanta Journal. ,
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Thomas R. Marshall,
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Wilson’s Election e
Spells Business Prosperity
In every Presdential election save two in the past half cen~
tu_rv the political sentiment of the country has so crystalized by the .
middle of October that the result has been clearly foreshadowed.
The two exceptions were the extraordinary election of Hayes in
1876, when Tilden received a small popular majority, and the elec
tion of Grover Cleveland, when the national result turned on a ma- -
jority of less than 1,100 in New York State. i
| But this‘ year no such exception to the general rule of nation
‘al elections is apparent. The tide Txas set in for many weeks
steadily and strongly toward Governor Wilsop. His election one
‘week from next Tuesday is already “xscounted e '
What has been the one most signifieant fact in the whole
country in these past few weeks, next to the trend of the great
political contest? '
| _lt has been the vefy remarkable and about universal stimo
lation of business. Every one is hopeful. Every one predicts an .
early increase in good times. Every railroad in the country isover
whelmed with traffic; and there is an agtual shortage of many
thousands in the freight cars required to; move the visible freight
now offered. Bank clearings throughout\;he country show almost
unprecedented activity of general trade. | Nature has smiled on
us, and the tremendous harvests have increased the hopefulnéss and
business activity of the nation, but they are not the sole or even
the chief cause of the feeling of optimism that :évegywherelprevails.
. That feeling is the best possible answer to the prophecies of
of disaster of the two-pronged I}epublican ‘party facing|defeat.
Those prophecies are as old as Mark Hanna’s “fu@l dinner pail,””
and Foraker’s ‘‘bloody shirt,”” and as stale as sque" of the bread
the Republican party has been feeding the peop} . It is the argu
ment of the Republicans in extremity. It is a forecast of defeat.
The record does not show that finaneial diaturbaui;s follow
Democratic national victory or that par™§ are a part of its history.
The great panic of 1873 was ia the Imepdilican Administrition of -
President gl‘amf; and the greater pani 1907 was a vg&;of the -
Administration of Répuukpan Presidels sever, ligniag no\ru-g/"
under a different flag with many of the same followers behind hirw*
The same old cry of panic was shouted at the followers of
Democratic Cleveland in 1884, but Cleveland went in and went
through his four years in the White House without a suggestion of
panie. and the mighty surplus piled in the treasury in the Cleveland
Administration faded away in the beginning of .hard times under
the Republican Benjamin Harrison.
The silly linking of Democratic success with business deprqs—\,‘
sion comes not from business men or sound thinkers,- but irom
eager partisans and politicians. The great body of the business
men of this country have accepted Woodrow Wilson as the candi
date whose spirit and policies are best calculated to bring peace and
prosperity to the people. His prudence, his moderation and his
good temper have won the confidence of the people, and they are
willing to trust him since they have learned to know him.
The business American fully understands and expects that
there is to be a moderate, careiul revision of tariff schedules which
will relieve the oppression of graft and privilege without up
setting wholesome conditions of trade. :
The country fullv understands from his utterances in the
campaign that Woodrow Wilson is ‘‘not a- free-trader nor anything
tnat resembles a free-trader.’”” It believes that under his admings
tration will come stability to conditions and prosperty to the people.
And the eager partisan of the hour wiil find it impossible to
frighten by this wornout Republican bugaboo of ‘ Democracy agd
Depression’’ the reading and thinking people of this intellegent
ra. : : T
ve The American believes that on November 5 a greater numb¥s.
of intelligent business men will vote for Governor Wilson than for
Mr. Taft or Colonel Roosevelt.—New York American. 8,
To The Voters of Ben Hill County:
And The 3rd Congressional District
You are all familiar with the important. wok Con
gressman Crisp is endeavoring to do f9r the' Count amh
district. It is due hini that we give him a large vote. It
is your duty to go to the polls, even at a persc
fice, and give Mr. Crisp a vote that v'nll encqur% -f
to press forward this work for our city and count‘r, and
we should give the National Democratic Ticket such a
majority that it will enable him to accomplish w}mthe &
seeking to do for us. We hope every Democrat in the
County Will vote on Tuesday next. Itisto your mterest’*"g
do so. :
o ; 0. H. Elkins, ‘ ;
. ‘W. R. Bowen, g
Committeemen. . st .
W ANTED— Position as saleslady
olr i n millinery store. Have
had five years experience and
. can furnish best of references.
Address Box 625, Fitzgerald,
Ga. 4 : v
Noticz To The Publie.
Pay no money to T. 5. Watters
for us, as he is not in ogrgm;é
any-more, 2 R
* Very Respectjvely, JERNERT ¢
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