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THE VALDOSTA TIMES, SA'lURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1908.
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TI1F VALHh^Ta TIMES
C. C. BRANTLEY, Editor,
e, L. TURNER, Bu.lness Monogtr.
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VALDOSTA. QA., SEPT. 19, 1908
TWELVE PAGES.
tbs state capital la Atlaau would bo
m tunar ft It dldat como oo hlgft.
i Candidate John W. Kern will do-
liver. tie onljr opoeoh ha will make
In Qeocgto at Macon on Octobar 3rd.
Lock tha oaoltot doom, taka away
dtetr -hear boar" At ,Optra,
’am oa bread nod «IUr. It necessary
to brine things to a bead.
-Rooeetek's bit a tick -aoarad the
natl-Hughes force# out ot their boots
and the governor had a walk-orer la
the oooreatloo yesterday.
■Meaara. Taft and Foraker will hare
to repeat their handshaking atunt a
few tlmea before aU the Bepahlleana
are coerlneed that there lan’t some
mistake about 1L
The .public schools In the various
towns and cities in Georgia are open-
tag up their fall terms with the larg
est enrollment In their history. May
we not accept this as further evi
dences of prosperity?
Mr. Bryan says Illinois Is all right,
nnd that while that old war-horse,
Adlal E. Stevenson may be stronger
than his party and will undoubtedly
carry the state for ' governor, the
Democrats will also carry If In the
national election.
Those alleged Democrats who pro-
feu to TJo — so — groatly worried over
whether doe Brown Is going to vote
for. the Democratic nominee for pres
ident Ought to ask themselres wheth
er l they propose to vote for the Dem
ocratic nominee for governor.
Uncle Joe Cannon, who has some
thing more than a local reputation
aa a "ouaser," Is said to be turning
the air blue, up In Illinois now. The
old maa la up against the strongest
opposition he ever encountered—the
tprohibition and labor foroea, and he
la;: apparently trying to “ones” hla.
way through It or arotlnd It
ELECTION IN MAINE.
The election In Maine yesterday
was a surprise to Republicans and
an eye-opener to a good many'Dem
ocrats, says the Savannah Press.
Since the memorable time when
“Maine went hell-bent for Governor
Kent,” the state baa been a barom
eter.
In Its political map of Sunday, the
New Tork Herald said that Maine
was as “safe for Taft aa any South
ern state for Bryan.” In IMS It
gave Harrison 14,87# plurality, la
1898 McKinley 45,777 plurality, in
1800 McKinley 28.61S plurality, and
In 1904 Roosevelt 88,791 plurality. At
the test state election a Republican
was elected governor over Davie,
Democrat, by 7,888 plurality. Two
ygMbefore hla plurality over the
■atawopposent was 25,800, The elec
tion yesterday gave the Republicans
about 8,000 plurality, to the state
election four years ago the majority
was about 25,000.
The principal gain seems to have
been In the country oountles. where
there la a belief that the Democrats
oome nearer up to the policies of
President Roosevelt than the Repub
licans, sod that tha Republican 1 plat
form did not go far enough In deal
ing with corporations and financial
matters. Even among the Republi
cans the La-Follette platform is
strong East and West. That plat
form was presented to Republicans
as a minority report In Chicago, and
when It was voted down It gave Mr.
Bryan the strongest argument he
could have had that the Republican
party Is no longer progressive. The
New York Herald In viewing the Is
sues notes that the Denver conven
tion adopted the LaFollettfe platform
almost In' Its entirety.
Several very* prominent members of
the United States senate have ex
pressed the opinion that there will
be a strong probability of the sen
ate passing Mr. Bryan’s measures In
case ho were elected. They base this
opinion on the remarkable change of
sentiment on the part of Western
senators during the past few years.
In the West, as The Herald says In
campaign review, President
Roosevelt’s policies and Mr. Bryan's
measures are intimately associated.
Wherever a United States senator In
the Weat has come up for reflection
he has been choeen or defeated ac
cording to whether he was reformer
or conservative. The two new sen
ators from Nebraska had to pledge
themtelvte to carry out the Roose
velt policies before they could get] forts to widen the breach between
their election. Senator Klttredge
defeated in -h Dakota because
he would not promise to support the
reform platform Uke Bryan’s and La-
Follette's. Senator Long of Kansas
was defeated In the primary bjr
man who supported the guarantee
of bank deposits. Governor Cum
mins of lows will probably ba electf
ed to the senate there on the Bryan
and LaFoIlette platform. There Is s
strong sentiment showing Itself In
Massachusetts along with the tariff
feeling.
The election In Maine yesterday
was s decl.ded straw, seeing that the
Republican majority was cut down
about two-thirds.
MR. BROWN AND HI8 CRITICS.
No friend of Hon. Joseph M.
Brown has any doubt that he is
heartily to 'favor of the Demoentle
presidential tfeket. He haa said as
much, but (am* -of the disappointed
leaders of the taction that opposed
him to the primary are trying to
make It appear that he Is lukewarm
In his support of the national ticket.
They are missing no opportunity to
nag him to respect to the matter. ML
though he recently said there was no
more doubt to the mind of any Dem
ocrat who favors a square deal that
he was heart and soul hi favor ot
the election of Mr. Bryan than t that
the Baptist believe In Immersion.
There Is a persistent effort to create
the Impression that he Isn't favoring
Mr. Bryan, but rather Is hopeful
that the Populist electors will be
chosen In this state. So constant
and so unfriendly Is this nagging
that It would be embarrassing for
Mr. Brown to say again that he was
supporting Mr. Bryan. It would ap
pear as if he were driven Into mak
ing such a declaration.
Mr. Brown Is coming to this city
next Friday, and will make a speech
next Friday evening. On that occa
sion. no uoubt, he will make a state
ment that will put it out of the pow
er of those who are hostile to him to
say that he Isn’t supporting the Dem
ocratic national ticket or even to In
quire whether or not he It support
ing that ticket. Of course It Isn’t
necessary for him to go Into this
matter any further, since everybody
In the state knows Just where he
stands to national affairs, but It
might be wise to be patient and say
again that he is a supporter of Mr.
Bryan and a hearty one. Such
statement would close the Souths
of his critics sod preffat
the two fictions.
What Is wanted to the state
a united and harmonious party, mod
If by a word Mr. Brown can bring
about that condition ot affairs he
shouldn’t hesitate to speak it even
though he has already spoken It on
different occasions.
Of course, Mr. Brown will be giv
en a very hearty reception to this
city. As he Isn't s speech maker
the probabilities are his speech hext
Friday night will be a short one.
will be to the point, however, and
will read as well as speeches of the
most prominent Democratic leaders.
—Savannah News.
A GREAT OLD MUDDLE.
If the Georgia legislature finally
passes a bill ending absolutely the
convict lease system on March 1st
next, based on the expectation that
the near-bear tax will bring to rev
enue sufficient to maintain the peni
tentiary system, and the near-beer
tax la successfully attacked and de
clared unconstitutional, where Is the
state going to find Itself In the gen
eral round-up?
That things are In a pretty mud
dle there Is no gainsaying. The
near-beer tax which Is expected to
yield a revenue of from 8850,000 to
#300,000, In the Judgment of well-in
formed men may not bring In one-
fourth of that sum, conceding. that
no fight is made on It If the fight
Is made the whole act may be
thrown out and the state left with
out any means of supporting and
caring for the convicts.
The Times doesn’t pretend to
know anything about the constitu
tional questions Involved In the at
tack whloh It seems will be made
on the Wise bill. They may not
amount to a "hill o’ beans," but we
believe that it behooves the legis
lature to be sure of Its grounds be
fore the lease system Is Irrevocably
ended. That It should be wiped out.
and forever, nearly all Georgians are
agreed. We believe that It Is wrong,
front every viewpoint .but we don’t
want to be too hasty to fly to "the
evils we wot not of."
This matter of revenue, and the
ability to provide for the new order
of things as advocated by Mr. Fel
der In the senate, seems to be the
stumbling Mock In the way ot leg
islation. That astute politician and
legislator, Joe Hill Hall, of Bibb, has
rubbed this proposition Into the oth
er side, and demanded Insistently to
Shown where the revenue Is com-
Dispatches from Macon yesterday
stated than an Injunction would be
served there on the ordinary of the
county against the collection of the
near-beer tax, and that attorneys
had been employed to light the caae.
It will be claimed that the tax la
unconstitutional because It was an
act passed at a special session of
the legislature not called for that
purpose. It Is also claimed that the
constitution provides that funds so
raised shall go to the school fund In
stead of the convicts.
It Is a knotty problem, and after
all, perhaps the stubborn legislators
who have been contending with It
for'the past month are more deserv
ing of our prayers than onr curses.
ORIGIN OF 8TOCK EXCHANGE.
As a matter of fact, Wall Street
was determined at tohrft little dinner
at Jefferson’s house, where Hamilton
had sold New York’s political birth*
right to Insure the assumption of
the state debts, for most of the pub*
11c stock which the treasury issued
to flnanoe Its plan was marketed
through the auctioneering establish
ments located at the eastern end of
the still fashionable thoroughfare.
Indeed, the first stock exchange
known to the city, opened at No. 22
about the first of March, 1792, was
a direct effort on the part of the
auctioneers to control this business,
and it is a curious fact that two of
the men associated in this enterprise,
McEvers and Pintard, represented
families clo-ely identified with Wall
Street’s previous history.
No marketed alteration had yet
occurred in the appearance of the
street, but under one of the few
shade trees which had escaped de
struction during the Revolution
there now gathered daily a small
group of men who acted as brokers
In the purchase and sale of the pub
lic stock, and their presence gradual
ly effected a change in the character
of the quiet residential neighborhood.
Moreover, It was soon apparent that
these men had determined to main
tain the foothold they had acquired,
for they were quick to resent the
combination of the auctioneers which
threatened to drive them from the
field, and lost no time in declaring
war against all the allied firms. At
a meeting held in Corre’s Hotel on
March 21, 1792, they resolved to
have no dealings with the monopo
lists, and on .March 17 of the same
year they subscribed to a written
FOR HAY FEVER.
Pt-ru-na is Somttimes Usti With £»
celUnt Results.
A CASE IN POINT.
M ISS MAYME E. SMITH, 444 East
Mound St.,Columbus, Ohio, writes t
“Have used Poruna for catarrh and
hay fever. The results being remark
able, I can highly recommend It to all
who are sufferingwith the above dis
eases. I arn happy to be able to aay it
has helped me wonderfully.”
What is known as hay fever is In
reality endemic catarrh, a catarrhal
condition of the nose, throat, some
times the bronchial tubes, indneed by
some local irritant.
The irritation is generally due to vege
tal emanations of some sort. Hay has
been suspected as being the cause of
this malady, hence its name, hay fever.
It has been attributed to rag weed and
other vegetation also. It is a very
capricious disease, coming and going.
A medicine that will help one case may
not help another. Such treatment has
always been very uncertain and unsat
isfactory.
Peruna helps some cases without a
doubt, although it is not claimed to be
an infallible remedy for such cases.
Man-a-lin the Ideal Laxative.
give each other preference in all
brokerage tranaotlons.
Suoh was the origin ot the New
York Stock Exchange, but there waa
no Immediate attempt to effect a
permanent organization, and for
some years the trading conducted
under the old buttonwood tree was
almost entirely confined to the,mar-
memorandum agreeing upon a defi-1 ketlmg of the public stock.—Harper's
nite commission and undertaking to | Magazine.
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