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THE VALDOSTA TIMES. SATURD^T, AUGUST 29, (908
THE VALDOSTA TIMES
C. C. BRANTLEY, Editor.
C. L. TURNER, EuoIimm Monogtr.
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE SI A YEAR.
Entorod «t the Pottofflco at Valdosta,
Co, a* Second Claaa Mall Matter.
VALDOSTA, GA., AUG. 29. 19C8
EIGHT PAGES.
• Bryan’* trip through the Nora and
Watt looka mooli like a "triumphal
astir.* ■
The flaoda over three or tour South
ern etatas are going to hare a bad
eSaotaM cotton. . -
• Carter, John Temple
Grans mi W. Randolph Oearet all
part ‘their names In the middle.
Judging from Peter Halne’ looka.
we do not aee phat h^was allowed
to ran at large tor, anyhow.
Candidate Taft threateiu to call
an extra aeaalon of congress to ra-
rlaa the tariff. The only trouble ta
he may rertae It Upward.
The floods In east Georgia and
South Carolina hare played haroc
with cotton and the price of that
ataple has shown a better feeling as
a result
A negro was found hanging to a
tree in Jefferson county yesterday
morning, but the • coroner's Jury did
not bring lu a verdict that he grew
there.
It la estimated that four or Ore
cities are shipping Into Georgia l?3..
000,000 of whiskey annually. And
yet the pulse-warmer season is -not
here yet '
If Judge Speer gets a real good
chance at the sea Island cotton trust,
with Its squeezing to both the buy
ers of thread and the growers of
cotton, something Interesting may
happen.
The trust which Axes the price of
•pool thread ta the same one that
controls the price 1 of the farmer’s
cotton, and It Is also One of the great
est contributors to the Republican
comipUea. fond,
The aBmrt to limit debates to tour
hours cat. the oonrict bill' was an In-
ault to such orators as Bath Wright
and Hooper Alexander, who hardly
gat through with their preliminaries
In Out time.
In cartooning the prison commit-
stonen the Georgia yellow-backs In-
.variably leave General Evans off, In
spite of the fact that he'e shaken his
flat In their faces and told them that
ha waa as much to blame for what
has been done as anybody else.
Of the more thin tart) hundred
thousand voters Who cast n ballot In
the state primary there are only a
scattering tow who think they can
violate their primary pledge wltSTTm-
punlty.
Many of the Georgia legtiUtecs
broke ‘for the -treaeury department
to get their mileage and two or three
day’s pay In advance when they
reached Atlanta. How do that kind
of cattle get In the legislature any
how! .
THE STATE CAMPAIGN.
As the state election comes
about a month before the national
election, It strikes ue that the state
campaign should have the rightof-
way over the presidential. There
does not appear to be a great deal of
disaffection In the state, though those
who took part in the recent primary
should see to it that the nominees of
that primary are overwhelmingly
elected In October. It strikes us that
it Is ss much to the Interest of one
faction as of the other for the nomi
nee of the party to be overwhelming
ly elected. If there were any serloni
deflection It would be charged that
one faction acted In bad faith, and
that charge ought not be possible
among the white people of Georgia.
The Tlmee has heard it hinted
at a good many of those who op
posed Hon. Joseph M. Brown In the
primary would not vote for him la
the state election. W# may nay, too,
that we would not dignify thin rumor
by repeating It if it had not come to
us from that ride. There In flo law
except that law which throbs In the
bosom of most men that will require
any man to abide by the result of
the primary. It (• a matter to be
determined by each voter for him self.
We can vote at we please In the pri
maries and then do a> we please In
the general election, but we do not
believe that one - white man In ten
looks at it that way. It Is a serious
reflection upon any faction to say that
any considerable number of the vot
ers who compose that faction are not
going to stand up to the candidal
whom the majority of voters prefer
red, and The Times does not mind
saying that It believes the rumors
which were hinted at above are
groundless, If they are not slander
ous. Political morals are not that
loose In Lowndes.
The primary election Is the place
where differences should be burled—
not only the campaign ended, but the
Issues of the campaign thrown aside
for the time being. No man who
votes In a primary should allow his
’’feeling” to keep him from voting In
the general election. To do so Is to
violate the Spirit of the primary's
pledge. It may not he a sin of com
mission, but It Is a sin of omission.
A good Democrat may honestly for
get to go to the polls on election day,
or he may have business calling him
out of town, but the Democrat who
remalna away from the polls because
of his "wounds,* or seeks any other
excuse for not <Jclng hi* duty to the
party.1* hot measuring up to the high
standard which nil of us ought to-try
to attain. -
The editor of The Tlmee hai eaten
as much crow In his time as the next
man, but he never dodged the dish
when It was passed hie way. As long
as he participates In a Democratic
primary, he may be depended upon to
be on hand the day of election. And
we believe that nineteen out of twen
ty white votere In Lowndei feel the
same way about It.
day will be separate. On one of the
days It la proposed to have a floral
parade; on another day will’ bo thp
paparde of Hoots, representing the
varied Industries, lodges, societies
and business bouses; on another day
will be the automobile parade and
races In the open street; another day
will be devoted to military parades
and band tournaments.
Besides these central attractions,
there will be spectacular bicycle pa’
radet by two hundred young people
In fancy costumes and with their-
wheels decorated. There will also be
a baby show open to babies from a
dozen different counties. There will
oleo be o balloon ascension and para
chute leap., rope-walkers, bell-ringers
end platform actors In many differ
ent roles. Every attraction will be
absolutely free, and open to all. The
money tor these attractions le almost
all subscribed. Only one ’'h'-Tf now
Is lacking, and that la the pledge of
hearty moral support by the cltixens.
If they will get behind the enter,
prise, talk about It to strangers, ad
vertise it, Invite people to come to
It, and deteimlned that it la to be the
very best that Valdosta can do. It
will be such a show as the people of
title section have never seen In the
open street* before, and It will make
people tor miles around have a much
better Impression of Valdosta. Most
of the cltixens have contributed lib
erally to the support of the Carnival
—now, let them see that It does not
lack In moral eupport.
THE LIMIT REACHED.;
In Its Issue of August 12th, tho
Georgian surely reaches the limit of
rabid expression. It c-Hs on Govern
or Smith to drive out of the state
"the thlevea and murderers,’’ mean
ing the officials of the penitentiary,
and assures him that If he never does
another official act his fame will be
"graved” In letters so deep ‘the tooth
of time will never erase them.’’ Very
passionately pretty, to be sure, but
Governor Smith has too much sense
to be driving out our "thieves and
murderers over the boundary of the
state,” as the Georgian urges. The
other states might bring into play a
tooth of erasure.
It le being stated with good cause
that such expressions as the above
coupled with cartoons showing the
lessee "element fattened upon the
blood of the state,” meaning presum
ably the convicts, has brought^ about
Insurrection' la the stats convict
THE PALL CARNIVAL.
From the Interest manifested In
the proposed Carnival by the business
men and cltlxena, during the past
few days. It Is about settled that Val
dosta Is going to have one of the
greatest fall Cayhlyals the city or
section has ever haaA It Is going to
be an affair that will be worth going
many miles to see. It Is not going
to be a gathering" of fake shows,
snake-eaters and hoochee-coochee dan
j cers. hut It la to be an all-home af-
The failure of, the Waycross Cnr; f s | r , w tfh the cream of mus cal en-
Works was due to a number of | ter talners to All In the time. (
cause* that are very regretable, as | i t Ia proposed to have flur or flve
the spirit of enterprise that was put
behind' the concern by the people of
Waycross' deserved a golden measure)
of subess. ’
days of the Carnival, each day to
have Its own particular prog-tin. Ev
ery day win be full of interest and
all will have a great parade, but each
made In their behalf; are taking
vantage of the state of affairs to-es
cape or to refuse to work.
It la proper to recall In this con
nection that the Atlanta News which
was replaced by the Georgian (And
News) was officially rebuked by the
city council of Atlanta at being an
inciting cause of the terrible race
riot;in that city several years ago.
The News, flaring half page headlines
and Intemperate manner of discuss
ing a series of crimes committed by
negroes, Inflamed the passions of
violent, Ignorant people, the element
that atwayr -figures in such riot*.
When the riot burst out and the mili
tary arrived and the council rebuked
the News, ltfoecame very.^neek.
Th* Georgian (And News) Shows
the same-Intemperate Spirit In Its
discussion of the convict lease sys
tem . If an Insurrection should ocour
now In a convict camp In which the
guards were murdered the Georgian
(And News- would merit another of
ficial rebuke whether It got It or
not.—Quitman Free Press.
C0NVICT8 OfrTHE 8TREETS
Will the movements started by the
Atlanta Journal to use the convict?
of Fulton on the streets of Atlanti
have any effect on local polities In
that city? Thq Journal la the only
'paper In that county urging the em
ployment of the county convicts on
city Improvements. It claims that It
has the support of public rentiment,
but perhaps It hasn’t got a clear and
full expression of that sentiment
Atlanta has a vast amount of work
to be done In the section of the city
that has Just been annexed. If that
section la to have water, gas and grad
ed and paved streets In the near fu
ture a very large sum of money will
have to be expended. The city hxsn’t
the money In its treasury nor Is It
In sight from taxes. Hence it is pro
posed that the county convicts be
utilized In thta work.
In this county there seems to be
an Impression that the county con
victs cannot be employed In the city
llmts. Just how this Impression got
abroad It Is Impossible to say, unless
It originated with the local political
boeaes who wanted to keep street
employes under obligations n> them
by creating the Impression that they
secured for them the exclusjve right to
do all the work connected with city
Improvements. In Atlanta they are
going to work the county convicts In
th* streets of that city, and It la
doubtful, If there will be many pro-
tests. The taxpayer Is really the per
son who, In a large measure, domi
nates public sentiment, and he prob
ably, favors working convicts on the
streets so as to save mosey to the
dty. Therefore, If there are protests
they will be but feeble, and perhaps
will- not be regarded as worth con
sidering.
We call attention to the movement
to use county convicts In Atlanta
limply to show that there la neither
law nor reason against using thun,
within the city limits In any city in
the state, and to point out that the
city could make, at very email coat
certain Improvements it hat , been
asked to make If the county oonvlcts
were used In making them. It,ha*
declined to make them because of the
Cost if (hoy war* made, however,
tax valuations would be considerably
Increased.—Savtanah News.
under his banner.
"The personal fitness of Mr. Taft,
In fact la very evenly balanced by
the personal magnetism of Hr. Bry
an.
“The question who will win la ren
dered still more difficult to answer
by the fact that there Is no ‘para-
mount Issue’ In the present presiden
tial campaign. If the party platforms
were to be surreptitiously transpos
ed nobody on elther’slde would ever
find It out It Is a case of ’six of one
and half a dozen of the other.’ Mr.
Taft could stand on Mr. Bryan’s plat
form and Mr. Bryan could stand on
-Mr. Taft’s platform without either
one or other feeling that he was on
a strange territory. It la tor this
reason that the Herald, a perfeqtly
Independent - unbiased newspaper
agree* with Colonel Watterson’s as
sertion that Mr. Bryan has a good
fighting chance. Of courts he has. 1
NEW
BRYAN’8 FIGHTING CHANCE.
Referring to (he statement of Col
onel Henry Watterson that "Mr. Bry
an has a good lighting chance now,
add In my opinion It will grow wKi
thh progress of (he. campaign," the
New York Herald says;
camps. The guards are afraid to en- 7 -Lake a true Kentuckian, Colonel
tore* discipline and the convicts, who tafottereon has hit tho bull’s-eye. Not
ate Informed'of the_ humane effort^ tJi-Jl,. Mr Bryan a good-fighting
Ws rffSiS niw. bit aT the iolonSi rery
Significantly remarks, there is every
probability (hat the chance will grow
stronger as the campaign develops.
No one now fears that Me
election would, provoke an Industrial,
commercial and financial cataclysm.
As i mttter of fact his speech of ac
ceptance has strengthened rather
than shaken public confidence. Mr.
Bryan has evidently mellowed In re
tirement. While Mr. Roosevelt baa
been growing steadily more radical
In hla attitude toward economic ques
tions, the Nebraskan has been stead
ily growing more conservative and
prudent It la plain that he has com
pletely recovered from his violent
attack of free sllveritls and no long
er prescribes state ownership of ev
ery thing as a remedy for all econom
ic ailments.
’‘Moreover, he la Indisputably the
Idol of an Imposing section of the
American electors. Even those dem
ocrats who repudiated emphatically
Mr. Bryan's most extravagant the
ories have been forced to admit that
his Influence with the rank and file
of the party Is unrivaled and undl-
mlnlshed and hare recognized that
-truth by again enrolling for service
GEORGIA’S TAX SYSTEM.
“In spite of all Its wrestlings with
the problem of the state's Inadequate
revenues, the late lamented general
assembly did nothing definite toward
solving the problem from ■ at least
one practical direction—that of In
vestigating (he unnatural discrepan
cies In tax returns of many Counties,
and devising an exact method tor
equalizing taxation In this state,”
says the Atlanta Constitution.
In line with the editorial oomment
of the Constitution tor the last few
weeks, the Savannah News expresses
itself In the following vigorous terms
regarding Georgia’s haphazard and
unjust methods of levying tades and
measures that should be taken look
ing toward a feaaable remedy:
“As a matter of fact there ought
to be a board of assessors In every
county and state board of equalizers.
Until property Is reglilarly assessed
and tfle assessments equalized, there
la bound to be an unequal distribu
tion of the burden of taxation.
"If, a* has been demonstrated in
many Instance*, certain counties as
sess values rigidly one year, pnd pro
vide no syatematle assessments what-
ever the next, It la not necessary to
search far for reasons for many of
the unfair conditions known to be
at present prevailing.
"Until method and order, persistent
Iy applied, are substituted for the ex.
lstlng oon fusion, we may reconcile
ourselves to the continued spectacle
of some of the counties of the state
bearing an unjust pro rota share of
the expenses of the government'
If Governor Smith were to Include
a tax assessors’ In hie call for the
extra sessslon, perhaps something
could be done.
At the present time the tax system
of the state is a farce. Every man
gives In his taxes as he pleases. The
grand Jury Invariably falls and re
fuses to examine the books as the
law directs. Men give in their prop
erty at from (I to (5 per acre that
they would not sell for from (15 to
(30 per acre.
There le a growing suspicion that
the members of the different grand
Juries and the member* of the gen
eral assembly fall to act for the reas
on that each and every one le guilty
of giving In their property at too low
a valuation. ..
Something should be done to re
lieve the situation, and It looks as
If nothing bur tax- equalizers will ac
complish the desired end.—Dublin
Courier DlSpatch. * -
Florence Hotel
Valdosta, Georgia.
Most conveniently situated Ho
tel in city, within one block of
both railroad stations. Newly
Furnished and Renovated*
BEST MEALS IN CITY
, RATES $2.00 PER DAY
Stop at New Florence.
JTimes Want Ads
NARM FOR SALE—Of 22® acres,
6® under cultivation and 60 suitable
for cultlvaUon. Apply to W. A.
Peterson, Lake Park, Ga.
8-23-flw-2t
WSl^JWheeto^r^B^kTSrSeven
Hundred Secrets between Valdosta
and Kinder Lou. Book was
to Thank Wilson and possibly left
at some neighbor’s house. Finder
will please advise Mrs. Henry Wll-
eon, at Kinder Lou. wlt
PoirTiALEHjIfln burineasT^eoa^
plete. Located at Suwannee^ Fla.
Address T. C. Carlisle, Vienna. Ga.
8-15-sw-lflt
Two one-horse farms tor tale, 160
acres each, a mile and a half from
Hahlra, Ga. Best settlement In the
county. (16.00 per acre.
TURNER JONES, Valdoeta Ga.
wkly 25-29.
WANTED—To contract with re
sponsible parties owning portable
mills,to cut lumber by the thousand.
Write German Co.. Valdosta, Ga.
8-18-d6t-w2t
FOR SALE—3 pool tables In farely
good condition will be sold cheap tor
the cash. For particulars apply to J.
Z Fitzgerald, Crescent Cafe, 201 Pat
terson street, south, Valdosta, Ga.
8-27-d5t-wlt.
FOR SALE)—1 neat 6 room cottage
on Flojd street, 2 choice corner Iota
on Hill avenue. W. L. Thomas.
8-22-d6t sw 2L
WANTED—300 hands tor track lay-
lug on Georgia & Florida railroad.
Camps located at Beaver Dam about
half way between Valdosta and,Nash-
villa. Apply at camps.- Wagedfrom .
(1.25 and up. Pay off every two
weeks, or every other Saturday. A.
& C. Wright, d6t-sw-2t
Who Is determined to lead In low
prices? Griffith, the Spot Cash Man.
The J. P. Carter Co. are paying
5H cents for good seed co’ton.
She Likes Good Things,
Mrs. Chas. B. Smith, of West
Franklin, Maine, says; <T Ilka good
thing* and have adopted Dr. King's
New Life Pills an our family laxative
medicine, because they are good and
do their work without making a fuss
about It” These painless purifiers
are sold at A. B. Dlmmoek’a, W. D.
Dunaway’s and Ingram A Ramsey’s
drug stores. 25c.
What’s the difference between a
thoroughbred Jersey and scrub stock?
One Jersey gives four gallons of
rich milk. It takes tour scrubs to
give one gallon of blue John. That’s
the same as the difference between
(he scrub way of doing business and
the creamy way as taught In South
Georgia Business College.
See the Autoplano at Mathis &
Coleman’s. It’s a wonder. Your old
piano taken In exchange a* part pay
8-24-d2t-w2t.
My stock of double harness at cost
B. J. Slrmans, Valdosta, Go.
8-15-wlt
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i 1.200 ACRES VALUABLE LAND FOR SALE. S
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The Burrows place and my,Ulmer lands, one mile from the city. Also Hightower place two miles from
town. These are very fine cantaloupe, melon and truck lands, almost in the suburbs of the best town in
South Georgia. Will cut lands up into tracts to suit purchasers, and they will be sold worth the money.
Call on or Address
J. A. DASHER, Valdosta, Georgia.
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