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THE VALDOSTA TIMES, SATURDAY. llAl 5, 15(06.
GEORGIA, do that, the rich south-haters at the
THE VALDOSTA TIMES. 8HERMAN ' 8 TRIP T0 ,
| Father Sherman, a Catholic priest, north would give millions for
— ~~~ ' jwhoae chief claim to notoriety ilea , schools in the south and it
C. C. ERANTLEY, Edltcr. j, n thg fact that he ls the , oa 0 ; his'not be long before they would have
TURNER. •u.in.ss Hsraf.r. i tather an( j who W j 8 he s to add to his [educational advantages far suiierior
ould
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(stock of that sort of fame by making to the white people. It is not
trip over the section of Georgia .while to figure on the result a few
said primary, an invitation is extend
ed only to such voters as accept it
in the same spirit of good faith in
which it is extended. Inasmuch as
there has arisen a controversy as to
the intent of the word ‘align’ in the
foregoing, we declare that as herein
used, it means to join the organized
Democratic party and become
Entered at ths Pnftofficc at Valdosta which was laid waste by the old man ’ generations hence. It lo sufficient to | Democrat in good faith."
Ga., as tscend Clssa Mail Matter. | forty years ago, should not be taken say that all laws like that proposed I
!too seriously by the good people of
VALDOSTA, GA.,
MAY 5, 1906
TWELVE PAGES.
this state. There are all sorts of
freaks In this country of ours and
freakish notions like the one that
A western paper refers to Speak- has fallen upon Father Sherman are
«r Cannon as the “autocrat of the l not uncommon, especially to that
pork barrel.” That ought to make
Uncle Joe feel “on the hog.”
at this time In Georgia are fraught |
with dangers of the gravest kind to
the people of the state. It 1^ like
opening a “Pandora box” and turn
ing loose the evils that It contains.
A law that puts a premium upon the
small crowd which would do almost education of a negro, while It d-
At last the lid ls on at Hot Springs ! themselves.
anything to attract attention to
Ark., and Governor Jeff Davis is now
looked upon as just the man to cork
up the United States senate.
Washington should not fret about
Tlsks of capture in war. It can mobi
lize congress and let It make speech
es at the foe, until he 8 succombs.
There never will be a
earthquake-proof building
have an earthquake-proof
build It on.
perfectly
until we
earth to
The dispatches say that Father
Sherman ls to be furnished with an
escort of cavalry, from the army, and
that supplies will be sent him at va
rious places along the route,
probably expects to find the south
much as his incendiary father left It
40 years ago, for the average northern
er who has not kept pace with the
growth and development of the south
It is an exceptionally cold day caB hardly reallze * he chan & ea that
when Tillman cannot find a new sen- 'have taken place since that time,
sltlve sjtot in a trust to stick a pin ]The advance of Wallenstein's army
Into.
Let the fellows who predicted the
earthquake give us the day and date
of the next one, Just to prove their
case.
It seems that before Dowle could
proceed to raise sheol in Zion City,
Jw had some trouble in raising fundi
enough to get home.
Doubtless when the congressional
committee comes around next fall
looking for funds, Mr. Perkins will
be busy gazing out of the window.
We should like to start a guessing
contest as to where the President
•will break out next. Here’s
chance of a ltfe-tlme for able guess-
era.
WJhoo Castro heard that Gen. Sher
man Boll, of Colorado, was going to
Venezuela* with an army of a thous
and rough riders, he promptly abdl-
catod.
An Arizona girl awoke after sleep
ing seven weeks, but upon being told
that^ge^statehood bill would beat
trance.
* slur went"' into another
In tho closing days ot the Smoot
c&ho, tho senator will give an inter
esting demonstration of how cheer
ful a man can bo while he Is being
used us a punching bag.
..xim
Now that Mark Twain and
Dooley have enlisted under i
Gorky’s revolutionary bauner,
Czar may see the elomeut of humor
in tho situation.
in the darker days of the world’s civ
ilization was not marked by a more
savage effort to wipe out every thing
in its path than characterized Sher
man's march to the sea. The homes
of defenseless women and children
were burned to the ground and their
means of subsistence were destroy
ed simply to bring suffering upon
these helpless classes.
That Father Sherman should take
a pride in the work of his father and
should desire to visit the scene of his
brutal triumphs Is merely a freak of
the man, who should probably not
be treated too seriously. It strikes
us that the ones who should bear the
Drunt of criticism lsthat freak at the
White House at Washington, who
would allow an escort, at tne expense
of the government, for such a mis
sion. If this cavalry accompany-
I not Increase the Incentive to Improve
rnent among the whites is a law; that
would work harm undreamed of. The
enfranchisement of the negro after
the_war was a crime against the na
tion, and the people of Georgia have
dealt with it in the most effective
way, through their white primaries.
If the negro is to be disfranchiae^Mt
must come by the government and
not by the state.
Those who are clamoring for ne*
grd| disfranchisement in Georgia
know that It cannot be accomplish
ed, except by provisions that would
give the negro new Incentives to im
prove his educational condition, and
would work three times as much
harm to the whites as it would good.
This paragraph states the case as
fairly as it can be stated. It bars
out only the avowed enemies of the
Democracy, and there ls no reason
on < arth why they should be allowed
to help nominate the men whom
they are to vote for, or against, as
they choose. It is true there was
some opposition to this rule In the
meeting of the executive committee,
but the opposition came from those
who look to partisan personal inter
est, rather than to the interests of
the entire Democratic organization.
If there la to be no rule in, the orga
nisation, binding members to It, It
would be as well to disband the
party and have no primary election
t all.
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To the Voters of Echols County:
At he sollcitaion of many friends
f hereby announce myself a candi-1
It is unfortunate that the question ia,e for the leg ‘‘ ,lature ’ 8ub J eet t0
'the Democratic primary.
has come in to the campaign in Geor
gia, and we shall expect the white
people—and especially those In
country—to turn from it like a i
gerous proposition when all sides of
the question are presented to them.
And there remains plenty of time to
become informed on the question be
fore the state primary ls held.
T. G. CULBRETH.
THE 8TATE PRIMARY.
As was foretold In The Times
Monday evening (the only afternoon
paper in the state outside of Atlanta
that gave the date) the democratic
primary for nominating a Governor
and state house officers ls to be held
ment ls sent along to give glitter and on August 22 and the state convenf-
glare and his Father’s visit, the pres- t,on ia t0 be on Septembm^th,
idwit u*M>ls official.'"at Wa«hlngtoniS Macon. Jhere wo. a detr^^-
take upon themselves an authority
After kissing all the babies lu the
Sixth Alabama district. Richard P.
Hobson Is goiug to Congress. It
now remains to be seen what tac
tics he will adopt to get on the Com
mittee on Naval Affairs.
The Richmond preacher who toM
n New York audience that In a con
tuiy there will be 100,000,000 negroes
in this country, must have been de
termined io make the future look us
black as possible.
which is not theirs. If they think
that the freakish priest is not safe
lu the south and that a troop of cav
alry Is needed to show that he ls un
der the strict protection of the Fed
eral government, an insult is heaped
upon the south which her people can
best resent bj* letting Father Sher
man severely alone, and letting him
feql while he Is her© that thq south
can remember . his fatner’s trip
through Georgia only with a shudder
and with a sincere contempt for him.
Negroes are eager FOR IT."
The Times has received a letter
from ono of the best known women
educators In Georgia, In which she
appeals for help for a proposed In
dustrial school to be established at
Tallulah Falls. We print the appeal
in another part of this Issue of The
Nobody need fear a fair and honest
discussion of political policies and (Times, and It speaks for itself. In a
nobody ls goiug to bo swayed by I private note to the editor of Tho
abuso of democrats who happen to jTimes, this woman says: “The poor
think differently from .omebody el»e> , o{ Georgla ttr0 , greater pl . ob .
on questions of policy.
.... — | lent to educators today than that of
ths negro Is
eager for an education, and the poor
According to tho American Protcc- the negro; because
five Tariff Association, tariff revlt- '
Ion "at the hauds of the republican .
party, seems to be a long way off” vyh,t#t * M a ru,e ’ d0 not atUch 80
“Seems” is a good word. But the much importance to it.” There is no
democrats will be called upon next use to try to get around this state-
fall to do that Job. .ment—we all know that it ls true,
fight for an earlier primary, Cut >t-
came chiefly from me friends of
cne candidates who have been build
ing their political fences and making
speeches over the state for the past
eight or ten months. There Is ab
solutely no argument in the world
for holding the primary earlier than
the date named. It comes after the
farmers have laid by their crops and
before they become busy with mar
keting their cotton. It comes when
the melon men, the peach growers
and others have finished shipping
and have a moment In which to give
to the study of political matters anji
to casting their ballots.
The restrictions which the execu
tive committee placed about the bal
lots to be cast In that election
meet the approval of the reunited
democrats in all parts of the stai
The gates are not thrown down to
all-comers, as some wanted mem to
be, but It Is to be a white democrat
ic primary, to be participated in by
those who are willing to pledge I
memselves to the support of the
state and national nominees. This !
is done to strengthen the organiza
tion and to prevent voting by t^ose
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It’s too bad that Maxim Gorky does Pity It Is, ’tis true,
not approve of America aud Araerl-j Any county school commissioner
cans but w© are still a little old-fash- > lQ Georgia will tell you that the ne-
ioned over here and have hardly ad-I ... . „
. ; gro schools are full of pupils. They
vanced socialistic ideas enough to I J
permit tho open flouting liberty but are eager t0 Iearn and their parents
not license and the sacredness ot the’ 8end thera t0 8cho ° l when the r have
home ls our most cherished Ideal. j to stint themselves to do so. What
would be the effect If the people of
And so, Peek aud Hines, and Mur
phy and Watson, and some others Georgia *hould pass a law dlsfran-
whose names we have heard so fre- chlslng the negro, except where he
qyently during the present campaign, qualified by an educational provls-
4o not like to bo bound to .import , on , WouW , t not , nCTeas(! W » in-
the nominees. They want to help ....
... „ ‘ centive to become educated? Would
name the democratic candidate and
then put up a man to defeat him. 11 B °< (orc<> th » white* to do more of
the manual labor In order to sus-
Mra. Mao Zimmerman tells tho Au4- . a . ,
, , ... . „„„ taiu themselves while the negroes
tin, 111., Womans club that she can
provide throe meals a Week for two *o to school? But the argument
persons for $5 and they will be good may be advanced that they can be
enough for any one, with n dally disfranchised without an educational
change oSmenu. A woman always qua nscatlon. That argument would
put* 'the soul of her letter in the post . ,, . .
v . j . .. . not hold good, because the Supreme
script, and she added to this state-
ment, as an afterthought that at the Co “« of » h ® Cnlted statea would
family table a person should never promptly decide such a law uncon-
tell his troubles. This ot course, goes stltutlonal.
« cood wlys toward explaining what ABottor wlu argue that we will
■die called a matter ofreduce the school fund In the negro
bnt we hive no doubt she was talk- .. „ ....
fug aenae apl the way through her lee- «*<»'* »“ 4 dc * troy ,helr cdu '
ture. 4 cational advantages. If we were to
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who might take part in the primary
and then vote against tne nominees
if opposition to them should arise.
No sincere democrat can object to
this rule, and no man who does ob
ject to the result of such a straight
out democratic expression should
ask the party to make him the par
ty’s nominee. Each ticket in the
coming primary is to have a pledge
printed upon it and each voter as
sumes this pledge when he casts the
ticket. The rule of the executive
committee on this point Is as fol
lows:
“6. The* official ballot to be voted
In said Democratic primary election
shall have printed thereon the fol
lowing caption: ‘State Democratic
primary election 1906.’ ‘By voting
this ticket I hereby declare that I
am an organized Democrat, that I
hereby pledge myself to support the
organized Democracy both state and
national.’ No ballot cast in said
primary election without such cap
tion and obligations shall be counted
by the managers.
While white voters without
regard to past political affiliations
who desire to align themselves with
the Democratic party, are hereby in
vited In good faith to participate in
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