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THE VALDOSTA TIMES, SATURDAY, MAi 12, 1906.
THE VALDOSTA TIMES.
C. C. BRANTLEY, I (liter.
E. L. TURNER. »««lnM* MirJ|«r
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE It A YEAR.
Entered «t the PoeteElee *t Veldoet*
Ge., ae Seeona Claea Wall Matter.
VALDOSTA. OA.. MAY 12, 1906
TWELVE PAGES.
For a man who started most of
the Insurance trouble, Jas. Hazen
Hyde Is managing to take life very
comfortable.
When PresTdenr Castro pays his
promised visit to the United States,
he may be sure of a warm reception
at the office of the Asphalt Trust.
We hope that Voliva will not rub
It In on Dowle, by offering him a Job
aa night watchman of the Temple,
or keeper of the dust rags.
AN UNJOINTED DEBATE. j Is In "that calm. Judicial frame of
A tremendous effort was made i mlad »« necessary In preparation of
over at Washington, Ga., on Monday
Russell Sage parted with 5,000
good dollars for the San Francisco
relief fund. None can doubt that
the case was serious.
According to Vice President Thay
er, the minds of the Pennsylvania
and Baltimore & Ohio officials, liaj>-
pen to run In the same channel.
Every day’s delay In the settling
of the coal mining controversy re
duces the number of John Mitchell’s
friends. As for Baer, he never had
any.
The pension office announces that
the last survivor of the war of 1812
has Just died. At that rate we will
clear the Spanish war pension roll
In 2,000, A. D.
to get up a debate between Mr. Hoke
Smith, Dr. Nnuually and Judge Rich
ard Russel), but the plan would not
work, as Mr. Smith refused to go In
to a Joint discussion with the other
two candidates, as an engagement
elsewhere called him off at three
oclock in the afternoon. The court,
however, was appealed to for time
for each of the candidates, and the
people had an opportunity of hearing
a debate, but it was of the "unj int-
d" kind.
Dr. Nunnaliy spake at 11 o'clock
Mr. Smith at one and Judge Russell
at three o’clock, the large audience
remafnlnp throught each of the
speeches. The Atlanta Journal says
that Mr. Hoke Smith literally “wip
ed up the earth with the other two
candidates” and In a three column
report of the speaking, each line Is
devoted to a partisan effort to bol
ster Its own candidate and discred-
a tariff act.”
This seems to be about as con
clusive as possible. We have only
the experience of a century or so to
guide us; but in that period Cong
ress has fallen dismally short of
getting itself into a calm, Judicial
frame of mind when the tariff came
up. On the contrary, every recur
rence of that topic appears to have
made it look more like a convention
of Kilkenny cats. Nor is the out
look for a “concurrent view” of tar
iff revision much more hopeful. For
purposes of the House, “the party in
power,” it must he remembered,
consists of the President, the Speak
er, Mr. Payne and Mr. Dalzell. Not
one of them will concur. Let
imagine the assembling of the one-
hundred-and-flftleth Congress with
the following colloquy: The Speak
er of the House (to the Chairman cf
the Ways and Means Committee):
'Are you concurrent this morning?"
The Chairman: “I am not concur-
the speeches of the other two can
It refers to the speech ofj rent " The Speaker: '' Are 5,0,1
d (dates.
Judge Richard Russell as a “haran-
calm?? Are you Judicial?” The
sue", because the Judge Is running Chairman (after earnestly search-
ing his mind): “I am not calm and
Ool. John Temple Graves now has
a paper of his own in Atlanta and
will show what a patriot can do
when he is free from the bondage of
the blue pencil.
The republicans in Congress are
divided on every proposition ’ that
looks toward roform. but they are
united on the “pork bill” and “for
the old flag and an appropriation.”
Ohio’s state food commissioner has
wrought consternation among certain
manufacturers of soda water syrups
oy announcing that henceforth “fruit
flavors” must be flavored with fruits.
Some one makes the wholly super
fluous announcement* that Carnegie
will provide San Francisco’s new li
braries. The. logic of the situation
made any other assumption Impos
sible.
The Republican bosses who have
been somewhat staggered by the
Jolt the people have lately given
them, are appearing In the garb of
reformers, ho ub to get their feet In
tho trough again.
This speculation as to what con
gress will do when the rate bill de
bate ends, Is most encouraging. It
Is one of the few in t limit Ions we have
had, that the rate hill debate Is go
ing to have an end.
Japan's earthquake experts,
«n route to San Francisco, should be
able to give useful advice. In Ja-
s pan an earthquake comes along
frequently that the inhabitants are
lonesomo without one.
Tho throat of tho Coal Trust
magnates that If the people iwrslst
In favoring the miners, the price of
coal will bo pushed up $1.20 a ton
has had but little effect now' that
warm weather hns come.
Gary, Ind., has taken u census, and
discovered that It already hns a pop
ulation of 100,000 though hardly
shovel has been turned. As soon
as they get up a few shnek?, the pop
ulation will easily be 1,000,000.
Republican senators seem
dread to vote on tho Smoot case, and
many of them Intend to repudiate
tho bargain made with the Mormon
church by Perry Heath in 1900 which
gave the republicans the electoral
veto of Utah.
“I should be very sorry to see M.
'Witte resign from official life.
“What difference would It make to
you?” “He Is the only man of any
prominence lu Russian affairs whose
name I have learned to pronounce.”
A Montana rnau has discovered
now to make potatoes grow In saw
dust on the roof of houses. But this
won’t help much. What most people
are waiting for is a kind of potato
that will grow Itself and then drop
on the table ready to be eaten.
It Is all right to preach that a man
should love his neighbor as himself
—It sounds so good and platonic.
But It Is not always possible. Take
for Instance the man who has plant
ed a fine garden and Ills neighbor
has chickens which he persists In
permitting to run at large. How
can the man with the garden love
that neighbor? It simply can't be
done, so long as those chickens are
not shut up.
for office against Its candidate. It
finds fault with Dr. Nunnally’s speech
because he let his tongue slip and
referred to the audience once as
congregation” and addressed the
crowd as “my brethren.”
Of course. It was all a trick of the
“ring” that Dr. Nunnaliy and Judge
Russell happened in at Washington
during- court week, and that both
of them challenged the Journal s
candidate for a Joint discussion of is
sues. Judge Russell has met Mr.
Smith several times during the pend
ing race, and the Journal has declar
ed on each occasion that Its man
literally wore him to a frazzle. Still,
the Judge keeps following Hoke up
and shows a willingness to be worn
out again In the same manner. If the
Journal does not look out, its read-
will decide to determine for them
selves whether Judge. Russell's
speeches are “harangues” and wheth
er or not Dr. Nunnaliy is able to hold
his own with Honorable Hoke.
Wo do not take a great deal of
stock In joint discussions, so far as
determining who would make the
host public official, though Joint de
bates aro valuable as public educa
tors. From the combat of two strong
minds the sparks of truth scintillate,
Washington Dessau said a
moment before his death. But a man
may be ever so able to preseut au
argument nnd then be ever so poor
to execute the affairs of office. One
of tho best governors Georgia has
ever had was a man who rarely ever
tried to speak, because he was a
stammerer. A good speaker may
make a good governor, though that
does not become necessarily so.
From tho few extracts of the
speeches at Washington that have
reached us, we can hardly refrain
from believing that Hoke Smith
missed an opportunity when he re
fused to meet Dr. Nunnaliy, or rath
er allow tho doctor a chance to reply
to his reply. The doctor seems able
to take care of himself in a rough
and tumble fight and he also has the
habit of handling his opponent with
out gloves. Still, he might not make
a good governor—or at least, his
ability on the stump does not guar
antee that ho would.
judicial.” The Speaker: “Then,
clearly, we cannot take up tariff re
vision at this session.” There is only
one slight -cloud In this bright blue
sky. The people may become con
current, and put the Democratic par
ty In power.
THE REAL STAND-PAT ATTITUDE
Chairman Payne of the • House
Ways and Means Committee he
roically rounds out, tops and cor
nices the stand-pat tariff attitude,
so that we now see it as a structure
not only noble and harmonious in
all Us lines, but well calculated to
endure for ages, says the Saturday
Evening Post. Speaker Canuon
laid the ample foundation by show
ing that It was quite out of the ques
tion to ask' tariff legislation of a
Congress which had rate-regulation
uml other weighty matters on its
hands. Later, Secretary Shaw point-
d out that the only proper time to
THE PEOPLE LOVE A SCRAP.
A* peculiar thing about the con
struction of men is that a majority
of them love a scrap. They will
hurrah and yeti at a dog fight when
they care absolutely nothing about
either of the dogs. They will pack
a public hall to hear some puhlic
speaker pour out the vlalB of his
wrath upon somebody else, and will
encourage him by shouts and laugh
ter, when, as a matter of fact, their
sympathy may be with the man who
is made the victim of his abuse.
One of the most enthusiastic meet
ings the writer ever attended was
one in which a wag of the town an
nounced himself a candidate for ,th©
legislature and 'made a speech of an
hour or more, laying the lash upon
such men as Judge Joe Sid Turner,
Senator Jenkins and others. His
speech furnished amusement, diver
sion and entertainment for the crowd
and the applause which greeted
some of his sallies might have made
him think that his opponents did
not have a friend In the house. But
on election day he received about
eight of the 1,300 or 1.400 votes that
were polled.
There Is not a speaker in Georgia
who can draw a larger audience than
Hon. Tom Watson because the crowd
knows in advance that the fiery Tom
Is.going to make the air sizzle with
his caustic criticism of somebody
else. And yet when Tom runs for
estdent he receives a smaller vote
than the mildest-mannered, quietest
man In the race. Ben Tillman us
ually packs the gallerleq and fills
all of tho seats on the floor of the
senate. Republicans and democrats
Of course the answer to this Is furn- *
Ished by the South Itself; In the In-,
dubitable statistics assembled from j
authoritative sources through which j
the public Is kept Informed of the j
actual progress being made by the!
several sections of the Union—sta- *
tlstics which show that the South is!
the most prosperous part of the coun
try today.
The largest factor In this prosper-'
ity Is the man of small means—the
man who has established a small fac- j
tory: a factory which soon becomes!
a large one—a small mercantile bus-1
Iness or has purchased a small tract
of land and proceeded to create a
home farm. The performance of
this individual may be read in the re
cent statistics compiled by the Man
ufacturers Record covering the as
sessed valuation of property In the
several Southern States in the year
1905, compared with 1900 and 1904,
for while the south has witnessed
some very large Investments of capi
tal, which have had their Influence
In bringing about the extraordinary
enhancement which the Record
points out—an Increase of more than
hundred million dollars in the
twelve montns of 1905, and an ex
cess of one billion, three hundred
and eighty-one million dollars for
the five year period from 1900 to
1005—the Important factor has been
the work of a multitude of people of
small means who have been adding
their mite to this stupendous Increase
of material wealth.
You will please see that each bottle has a
Coca Cola label on it and that the words
Coca Cola are on each crown, as there are
some people who will try to palm off on
you some cheap spurious article which
does not contain the medicinal oualities
of the genuine Coca Cola. Bottled under
the supervision of the Coca Cola Co , by
The Valdosta Bottling Works,
the only authorized bottlers in this section.
HOBSON’S VICTORY.
The victory which Captain Rich
mond Pearson Hobson achieved In
Alabama the other day in his race
for congress against Col Bankhead,
who has represented the district In
congress many years, was noti so
much a victory for Hobson’s views
on the navy question as it was a vic
tory for Hobson himself. He is a
comparatively young man who has
made an honorable and heroic name
for himself in the Spanlsh-Amerlcan
war and since that time.
The thing that brought about his
race, against the congressman was
action of Col. Bankhead In oppo
sing the retirement of Captain Hob-
jgon on account of his defective eye^
sight. It is said that but for the op
position of his home congressman he
would have been retired from the
service with rank and honor, and It
Is also said that the condition of
Capt. Hobson’s eyes at that time en
titled him to retirement. For some
reason or otner, Congressman Bank-
head opposed the measure to retire
him and Hobson put him on notice
that he would beat him out of his
place In congress.
It took two campaigns to do it,
but the result was overwhelming In
the recent primary. Hobson had
admiration for his heroic con
duct at Santiago and he had won
sympathy by reason of the fact that
his own congressman had been le38
kind to him than others were when
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he asked to be retired.
In congress, Captain Hobson will
probably be heard quite frequently;
especially for the first year or so.
The less experience one has the more
he wants to talk when he goes to
congress, It Is said. But age and
experience will get some of that out
.of him. He will learn that it is forum
nllke love to hear him tala, because , n wlllch .., here Ere other8 , beslde ,
he puts a lot of “hot stuff” lu what himself.
he says, but it is probable that not His bill for an Immense navy will
half who hoar him arc Inspired by]Probably be introduced at once and
.... .1 , rt 'he will push It with bull-pup vigor
any higher motives than a desire to. 1 ‘
for awhile. Then he will see it
be entertained. emasculated by the committees, “laid
Let the average man know that a. 0I1 table” lu the open sessions
speaker Is going to give somebody and finally supplanted altogether by
•fits” and he will be on hand to [the regular naval construction pro-
hear it and encourage him by yells 1 «>'“">• Thc I )roce83 will knock some
and otherwise. But It Is easy to
get enough of this kind of speaking.
Converse
of the vanity out of the Alabama hero
and will, therefore, do him good.
LOWNDES SHERIFF SALES.
GEORGIA—Lowndes County:
Will be sold on the first Tuesday
in May next, at the court house in
It is like Tobasco sauce—a little im
proves the flavor of life, which crav
es diversity—but too much will de
stroy the appetite. The public soon of sale, to the hlgh<
tires' of It. It Is the public speaker!“»!*• al > the '“"“wing property to-
rho sees something good In his fel- all that tract of land lying and be-
said county, within the legal hours
' est bidder,
lowman and who points towards the
heights, rather than the shadows,
who grows In favor and becomes a
fixture in public esteem.
lse duties was Immediately after’ tion for the man of small
a new Administration came In—Isays the Southern Field,
which, of course, meant that the j is not unusual to hear the criticism
subject could not be taken up be-1 made .that the problem of comfort-
fore 1909. Now comes Mr. Payne able living Is too easily solved—
to warn us that tariff legislation j that the ease with which a corape-
must not be thought of until there tency Is acquired in the South ope*
1s a concurrent view by a majority rates as a breal^ upon one’s energies
of the party In power and Congress and serves to retard material growth.
ing in the 12th district of Lowndes
county, Georgia, being seventy-one
(71) acres of lot of land number
seventeen (17) in said district; bound
ed on the north by Mitchell Jones
avenue, on the south by original line
_______ of said lot of land and on the east
VALUE OF SMALL ENTERPRISES. ftnd west by marUed lines, oelng all
The South is emphatically a see- ■hat part of lot of land number sev-
ienteen (17) lying south of Mitchell
means. • j ono8 avenue, which was deeded uy
Indeed it,Byrd Hightower to Joseph Hlghtow-
and belng( the place on
hlch
harry Franklin now lives.
Said land being levied on as the
property of the said Harry Franklin
to satisfy an execution Issued from
the city court of Valdosta In favor
of T. M. Smith. executor of the es
tate of Mitchell Jones against the
said Harry Franklin.
I This 9th day of May. 1906.
J. F. PASSMORE, Sheriff.
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