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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 | Town&Country Mixed Paint I I The Very Best Made i 4 Berry Bros., Varnishes, Atlantic White £ J Lead, Spencer Kellog’s Linseed Oil. Atlas X ♦ and Lehigh Portland Cement. White Rose ▼ X and Hydrated Lime, Brick. Maniels, Orates, 4 J Tiling. Window Glass and Wall Paper. 4 ♦ Hasoline Engines, Best Made ♦ \ C. B. PEEPLES, I X 113 WEST HILL AVE. VALDOSTA, GEORGIA. X t Telephone 36-x 1 ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ 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. Spring and Summer ....SUITS.... The suits we are showing now are top-notchers in style, serviceableness and general excellence. We are showing all the new Greys and the ever popular Blue serges . . - Mother’s Friend Wash Suits Buster Brown and Knickerbockers. Finest Line of Shirts in Valdosta. Converse Bros.