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SHALLOW CULTIVATION.
There is no question of greater import
ance. connected with the future cultiva
tion of present growing crops of cotton
and corn, than that of shallow cultivation.
Practical experiments, in hundreds of field
tests, have clearly demonstrated that deep
plowing should be done in the preparation
of the land to receive the crop, and that
growing plants should, with but few ex
ceptions. be cultivated arith light running
implements Aside from the fact that pos
itive results have been obtained along this
line which do not admit of argument, all
sound and logical reasoning are behind it
from a scientific standpoint. In the first
place nature does not Intend that the
thousands of delicate rootlets which are
feeding out in every direction, searching
for nourishment for the growing plants,
should be ruthlessly cut. twisted and torn
asunder by the long steel blades of a
deeply running plow. Nature rebels when
these tender rootlets, the very life of the
plants which they nourish, are so seriously
interfered with. Growth for the time be
ing. when such is the case, is checked,
and the time lost and the damage done
can never be fully repaired. The latteral
rootlets of our principal field crops begin
their journey through the soil in all direc
tions. early in the life of the young
plant, searching for both food and moist
ure. Within an exceedingly short time
these rootlets have grown far out from
the parent stem, and when the deep run
ning plow point comes along an Immense
amount of damage is done. Any man who
would pause and think over the matter
seriously, would not be likely to do much
- deep plowing after his crop was up and
■growing Every farmer who does not live
in the sand belt should break his lands as
deep as circumstances will permit, but
such work should always be done befc.-e
the crops are planted, preferably in the
fall of the year.
Holding Moisture.
One of the great objects in spring and
. summer cultivation is to preserve the
moisture in the soil for the benefit of the
plants. Moisture Is constantly rising to
the surface of the land and passing off
thmug.-i evaporation. The moisture
passe- up tn the surface through innu
merable small air cellls in the soil, and
the whole process comes under the sys
tem tennned capillary attraction. That Is.
the powerful rays of sunshine become a
I magnet to attract and draw up the moist
ure from the soil through these minute
pores tn the earth's surface. The plan
then for proper cultivation, to conserve
motstur- and hold It in check. Is to culti
vate the land so as io allow, by capillary
attrartin. the moisture to come up from
below and cut off its final escape at the
dterface as much as possible. To do this,
we must leave these capillary tubes open
and undisturbed an Inch or two below the
surface of the land, and by breaking the
top crust break off the final avenue of
escape. At the same time a cemented
crust which has run together and hard
ened. if only for half an inch in thickness.
While a good thing to hold the moisture
bek.w. ft prevents the proper circulation
of the air from above downward, a vital
essential In the life and development of
all things.
There must be proper circulation of the
air from above downwards and the moist
ure from below must be allowed to come
upwards and held in check near the sur
face of the sod. How to do this, and to
do It properly during short or long periods
of drought Is one of the principal prob
lems to be solved in successful cultivation
of crops through the spring and summer.
It can only be accomplished through the
use of light running plows, and braking
the surface to the depth of one or two
inches. This system makes what is
termed a "mulch” of the soil's crush .and
serves the double purpose of breaking
and cutting off the escape of the moisture
as it rises upward from below, and at
the sam* time Insures proper circulation
of the air above, iownward. The pro
cess is simple and easy of accomplish
ment Shallow plowing, where the farm
er keeps up with his work, also insures
tbs destruction of young grass and weeds
as rapidly as would deep plowing. A
great many farmers, particularly in red
land sections, have an idea that they
must plow their crops with deep running
plows until the final plowing or "laying
by” work Is done. This, however, is a
great mistake and a small experiment
will qulekly demonstrate the advantages
of shallow plowing, particularly after the
first working. If the land was not well
prepared to receive the crop at planting
time, as a matter of course the ground
should be deeply broken, at first plowing
when the plants are up and growing.
Rapid Cultivation.
Rapid cultivation of the crop with the
plow is as important as is the proper sys
tem of cultivation. The hoe should be
used as little as possible after the plants
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J. NEWTON HATHAWAY, M. O, 88 Hunan bunding, Atlanta. Ga.
have been brought to a "stand.” as the
carelessness of the ordinary’ field hand
often results in damage to the shank of
the plant, and if the field can be kept
clean of grass with the plow the hoe
should be kept out. Hoeing Is expensive
anyway as compared with the plow, and
every Item of field expense should be re
duced to Its minimum in order to insure
as large an Item of net profit on the crop
as possible at the end of the year. Once
every two weeks during the cultivating
season the plows ought to be run through
the crop and get back to starting point.
In dry weather it is as essential to push
the plows as during seasons of wet weathr
er. After heavy rains it is oftentimes nec
essary to put one wide furrow on one side
of a row and skip to the next, rushing
over the crop rapidly and then tuHitng
back to complete the work. This partial
work in half breaking the cemented top
crust between rows is quite beneficial and
is of more decided advantage to the crop
as a whole than the more slow process
of plowing "out and out" from the start.
Each farmer must be guided in this work
largely by circumstances and the climatic
conditions surrounding him during the
different stages of his crop's growth. The
best resolution for every man to adopt
during the next sixty days is to rush the
plows as rapidly as possible without ces
sation except when the land is too wet
to plow, and to use shallow plows for cul
tivation, ’either short scooters and scrapes
or in sandy lands, wide sweeps. The pros
pect at this time is qylte promising for
both cotton and corn, good stands have
been obtained and plants are making
good progress as to growth. The outlook
is quite favorable and with rapid cultiva
tion from now on. backed by good sea
sons. we may look forward with a con
siderable degree of confidence to a pros
perous. successful year in southern agri
culture.
HARVIE JORDAN.
INQUIRY DEPARTMENT.
T. E. M.. Farmington. Ga.:
Please answer through The Journal
whether or not a sow. after having pigs,
has an after birth, as a cow or mare? It
is disputed generally through our neigh
borhood that they do not.
Answer—Yes. but it Is not so apparent
or excessive as in the other animals
named. This is true of all animals be
longing to the Mammalia species.
M. M. W.. Fort Mill, S. C.:
I am building a fish pond. Will yoYi be
kind enough to let me know at what point
I should apply for fish to stock it with;
also what kind of fish I had better get.
I want fish for a spring branch pond.
• Answer—Apply to the commissioner of
agriculture of your state or the depart
ment at your state capltol which has
charge of the state agricultural matters,
if South Carolina has no commissioner of
agriculture. I presume you have in your
state, as we have in Georgia, a “superin
tendent of fisheries,” whose duty it is to
give such information as you ask and to
supply you with suoh fish as is best suited
to the waters in your section from a
hatchery controlled by the United States
government. We have a fish hatchery in
Georgia which will supply all demands
from parties for fish to stock their pri
vate ponds. If you have no such depart
ment in your state, then write to Colonel
A. T. Dalias, superintendent of fisheries,
LaGrange. Ga-, and explain fully the
character of your pond and ask him if
he cannot supply your wants with the
proper kind of fish from the United States
government fishery established in this
state and under his charge.
W. C. W.. Wampun. Ga.: I am a sub
scriber to The Semi-Weekly Journal and
would like to have your ideas on the cul
tivation of Russell's big boll cotton. As
it is somewhat a late cotton would it be
best to lay by early or would it pay to
plow late as other varieties.
My neighbor planted corn full moon in
March. I planted April Bth. We both
got up a stand April 15th. Now who is in
th* full moon, or has he any advantage
over me in the moon? Is the effect in
the time of planting, if any. or is it after
getting the plant up? Please answer in
The Semi-Weekly and oblige.
Answer—The question of "laying by"
or bringing to a close the cultivation of
any crop la largely determined by the
growth and condtton of the plants. The
cultivation of Russell's big boll is not
different from that of any other cotton,
so far as plowing is concerned. I.ay it by
when the growth and fruiting of the plant
have reached the stage of other varieties
of cotton. The moon has nothing what
ever to do with the date of planting or
cultivating a crop nt any kind. The full
n<Mw. half fullness or newness of the moon
exercises no influence whatever upon veg
etation. Thorough preparation of the soil,
good fertilisation, rapid cultivation are
what makes good crops when seasons are
favorable
J. C. C.. Baxley, Ga —I am a subscriber
to The Journal, and would like informa
tion through its columns in regard to my
poultry, which are affected with some
kind of disease that kills them in about
24 hours after giving signs of being sick.
They begin to droop around and are soon
dead. Their droppings are perfectly green,
and they invariably die on the nest or
roost. Were affected in like manner two
years ago, when I lost my entire flock.
Please give name of disease and remedy
for same.
Answer—From the symptoms described,
it is quite evident that your chickens are
dying up from cholera, the most fatal of
all diseases among poultry. The germs of
disease which attacked your flock two
years ago have never been obliterated
from the premises, and the disease is be
coming once more contagious. Your
premises and poultry buildings should
have a thorough cleaning up and the
poultry houses and nests whitewashed
and whitewash sprinkled on the floors in
side the buildings and on the yards out
side. All of these deadly diseases originate
from filth and In crowded quarters. Chol
era may have originally occurred on your
premises or been Imported there through
the purchase of diseased stock.
The first thing to do for the sick fowls
is to give a teaspoonful of hyposulphite of
soda, forcing it. slightly moistened, down
the throat of the fowl. An hour afterward
give a grain each of powdered mandrake,
red pepper, ground ginger and copperas.
Each Ingredient should be finely pulveris
ed and mixed together with a little meal
and moistened. Place all the sick fowls in
a quiet, clean place to themselves and
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THE BEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MAY 22, 1902.
give them plenty of fresh, pure water.
Keep the poultry yards and buildings
clean, and these contagious diseases will
be kept down. Close up the poultry house
as tight as possible after the fowls are out
and burn some sulphur, allowing the
fumes to remain in the building for an
hour or two.
W. B. D., Moultrie, Ga.—We want to set
out three or four acres in strawberries.
Want them to ship and for honje market.
As we are not posted on this plant, would
like to get the names of the earliest and
best and also a large variety. Will you
please give us the names of these?
Answer—The Lady Thompson is one of
the best early varieties for shipping, and
the Haverland is a good late shipper. The
Hoffman also comes early, and the Bu
bach No. 5 matures late. The Lady
Thompson is one of the best all-round va
rieties for both local and foreign markets.
The Hoffman is probably the best first
early that you could plant. It is a large,
fine looking berry and is a good shipper.
I would advise of three varieties, early,
medium and late, as follows: Hoffman,
Lady Thompson and Barbach No. 5.
H. W. McT., Climax. Ga.—When is the
best time to plant Unknown cow peas to
make hay? How many to put in hill? How
far apart, and best fertiliser to apply?
Cotton on ordinary pine land, rows three
and a half feet apart, would you leave
two or one stalk. About 200 pounds high
grade guano to the acre.
Answer— Plant the Unknown cow pea
early in June in rows three feet wide and
two feet apart in the drill, six <o eight
seed to the hilt are sufficient to Insure a
good stand. If land is ordinarily fertile,
mix together 100 pounds phosphoric acid
and 50 pounds kalnit per acre, or buy a
good grade potash acid. If the land is not
fertile use complete fertilizer. Cotton will
do beat thinned down to one stalk on the
character of land described and the
amount of fertilizer as stated used pro
acre. In drilling cow peas you will make
a considerable amount of peas, but for
forage or hay .he best plan is to broad
cast the Unknown variety at the rate of
one bushel to the acre.
DR. STELL OBJECTS
To Killing 801 l Worms and Letting Big
Bugs Go.
Farmers Advocate, Paris, Tex.
To the Editor of The Advocate:
Some weeks ago a call was made for
concerted action to exterminate the boll
worms in the four counties of Red River.
Lamar, Fannin and Delta. The call urged
that inasmuch as the boll worms were get
ting worse from' year to year, if steps
were not taken it would soon be that we
could raise no cotton at all in those coun
ties; that the railroads compresses, oil
mills, cotton buyers and business men
would put up the necessary money if the
farmers would apply the remedies. There
was a meeting called for all parties inter
ested in those counties to meet Prof. F.
W. Maliy on a given day in Paris. Said
meeting was held, and Prof. Maliy was on
hand. Committees were appointed, etc. As
I had no confidence whatever as to any
good results from such action I stayed
out—thought I would just lay low, keep
still and watch the battle go on against
his wormship as the money for the war
was to be put up by those who felt able
to do so, and the farmers to only do the
fighting.
But how is it now? We are told that a
certain variety of early corn, recommend
ed by Prof. Maliy for the “trap rows”
has been purchased and will be sold to
the farmer at the (low) price of 10 cents
per pound. There are 56 pounds of shelled
corn to the bushel, so we see the farmers
must pay $5.60 per bushel for an early
variety of corn to plant late, when it
does seem that anyone should know that
if late corn (our corn varieties) was plant
ed early the result would be the same, that
is to bring the corn to the silk state in
proper time. This I know can be done.
Common corn is a difference, then, of $4.75
in the price of one bushel of corn, which
would be $475 difference In the price of
100 bushels—pretty good sum it seems to
me, when one variety will answer the pur
pose the same as the other, if planted at
the proper time, unless it be that the boll
worm has a choice in varieties. It seems
from Prof. Maliy’s experiments that he has
found out that the boll worm chews to
bacco, eats red pepper, and drinks beer
(see Prof. Maliy's report on the “Boll
worm of Cotton,” Bulletin No. 29.) Now,
if the professor could only teach them to
smoke the deadly cigarette there might be
some hope of exterminating them by that
route. I am quite sure it cannot be done
by feeding them on corn and peas.
It is altogether a mistake about the
boll worms doing more damage to cotton
now than they Hid many years ago. It is
entirely owing ’to the seasons. Os dry
summers they do no damage of conse
quence 071 our black lands, and of wet
years they do much damage; but not one
half the damage to cotton of wet years is
done by boll worms and sharp shooters.
Our black lands would not produce good
cotton crops of extreme wet seasons if
there was not a boll worm in the state.
When I found that the farmer would
have to go down in his pocket for $5.60 to
pay for one bushel of corn to feed the
boll worms on, I concluded I would inves
tigate this subject a little, even if my
own mind had been fully made up; and
believing the better plan would be to get
the desired information, I wrote and sub
mitted a few questions to cotton planters
of Caddo and Bossier parishes, Louisiana,
the same gentlemen upon whose planta
tions Prof. Maliy made his experiments
in 189 L viz.; Mr. John Glassell, Jr., Rush
Point, Caddo parish, and Mr. M. A. Cur
tis, of Bossier parish. Their answers are
as follows:
I. Both say Prof. Maliy’s plans for
exterminating the boll worms were put in
operation on their plantations.
2. Mr. Curtis did not continue the plans;
Mr. Glassell continued the plans two
year.
8. Both say the boll worms have not
been exterminated.
4. Both say Prof. Maliy’s plans for ex
terminating the boll worms are not being
conducted now by any one in their section
to their knowledge.
5. Both agree that the boll worms do
not damage the cotton the same each
yearw.
6. Mr. Curtis says the damage is much
worse of wet years; Mr. Glassell says
some worse of wet years.
Mr. Glassell says: "The worms were
worse here in 1898. than I have ever seen.”
Now here is the gist of the answers of
theee two gentlemen of whom Prof. Mal
iy speaks in high terms as aiding him to
prosecute his experiments by setting aside
parts of their plantations. Prof. Maliy's
plans were put in operation, continued
two years, did no good, but the worms
were actually worse the laet year than
ever before, and everybody quit in disgust
—no one now using Prof. Maliy's plans.
Remember, it was in 1891 when Prof. Maliy
prosecuted his plans in Loulsana. Now,
when his plans have been entirely aban
doned by the cotton planters of Louis
iana as worthless, will the farmers of
this section take them up at a big ex
pense and a whole lot of foolishness?
Would it not be a good thing, while our
aforesaid friends' bosoms are actually
heaving in deep and earnest sympathy on
account of the boll worm, just to invite
them to drop the little bug matter and
give us "one strong pull, hard pull, and
pull altogether” after the big bugs? You
see, the little bugs only prey upon the
cotton crop one to one and one-half
months of wet years, whereas the big two
legged kid-glove silk-hat bugs (the cot
ton bears) put in their Infamous work
every year, and from the first day of
January to the last day of December—the
whole twelve months—and if there were
18 months in the year, they would occupy
all the time. Neither does it matter to
them whether it Is a short or a long
crop, they are doing all they .can to de
press prices. They are the bugs that need
extermination worse than any other bugs
I know of. It would be a blessing to the
farmer if all these rascals had died of
colic, croup, spasms, or summer com
plaint while they were in their cradles.
Yours for an energetic war on big bugs.
W. W. STEEL.
THE JOURNAL’S “JOINT DEBATE.”
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Continued from Page Four.
and why did he share in the proceeds of
the job?
So long as he was a railroad attorney
he saw no justice in railroads charging
as much or more for short hauls than long
hauls of freight. Yet for that offense
mainly the constitutional convention of
1877 created our railroad commission and
congress passed the Interstate commerce
bill. But Mr. Guerry, in the interest of
hie clients, as a legislator voted against
forbidding that Injustice to the people.
The naked truth is that Mr. Guerry has
opposed none of the above things until
they ceased to be profitable to himself
personally.
Second. Mr. Guerry has a chief cam
paign manager, Mr. Sidney C. Tapp? That
gentleman has the bold shamelessness to
acknowledge that he became possessed by
accident of a private letter that he knew
was not intended for him; that when the
honest gentleman who innocently forward
ed it refused to authorize its use and sug
gested consultation with its writer, he,
Tapp, refused to do that genteel and hon
orable act, but assuming a corrupt pur
pose on the author's part, publicly used
the letter. This he did in defiance of the
United States postal laws and he is still
holding the letter contrary to law. Not
only so, but he boasts that he will do like
wise with anybody else's private letters
that he may obtain, and which he sus
pects conceal a deep laid plot to injure the
Guerry gubernatorial interests!
The question arises right here: Do the
people of Georgia want a governor whose
right hand man, whose Warwick and Fidus
Achates is Tapp, the man and
uses the citizen,
contrary to common decency and actual
statute laws, to serve his political pur
poses? If Mr. Guerry thinks this act of
Tapp is legitimate, fair dealing and com
mendable politics, then God save the state
and the people if he shall become governor
and Tapp, the captain of his campaign,
becomes the power behind the throne!
T. E. MASSENGALE.
Norwood, (Ga., May 14, 1902.
SAYS PENSION QUESTION
IS AN ISSUE IN THE RACE
To the Editor of The Journal:
In the discussion of platforms bearing
on the present race for governor, a very
Important item seems to have escaped the
notice of newspaper controversialists in
volving the construction and application
of Georgia's pension law.
Are e pensions of Confederate veterans
to be paid under a liberal construction of
the constitution, which places these royal
men on a deserving basis, or, shall there
be a restricted construction that will put
them upon an indigent or pauper basis?
Mr. Terrell is the only candidate who
has stated that he was in favor of "con
tinuing pensions on the deserving basis."
This makes him essentially the gratefful
and dignified friend of the ConfeSerate
hero.
Nothing less was to have been expected
of the loyal young Georgian whose family
blood bathed the trenches around Atlanta
in 1866.
It was in splendid accord with the po
sition taken by him in 1885, when, as a
member of the legislature, he introduced
a bill to so amend the pension law as to
provide for the payment of pensions every
two instead of every five years.
When it is considered that the discussion
growing out of this bill lead to the con
stitutional amendment providing for an
nual payments, the people will understand
the great benefit that was vouchsafed by
Terrell to the widows and veterans of this
state.
This was seventeen years ago, at the
beginning of Mr. Terreli’a public career.
Today he shows the continued high esteem
in which he holds these exalted and de
serving beneficiaries by being the only can
didate to say, without equivocation, that
he is in favor of continuing to pay to them
their justly won tribute on a deserving
basis.
In view of the fact that there is a
disposition on the part of many in this
thoroughly practical age to save money,
even at the expense of the delicate feel
ings of these grand patriots. I have felt
it to be my duty to a class who have al
ways held my profound admiration, and
who will ever receive my first considera
tion to appeal to the sons of veterans that
are dead, and to those frosted heroes who
are yet living, to rally to the - standard of
one so thoughtfully patriotic.
To my mind this is one of the most
important, questions of the campaign, in
that it involves a class of our citizens
who are fast passing to their reward.
Men and women who have cledrly won
their right to a place on the pension roll
should not be forced to humiliate them
selves by subscribing to a pauper’s oath.
Dignity of patriotism and the sterling
merit of citizenship are involved in this
thought, and in these brave, appreciative
words of Mr. Terrell.
There is a world of meaning and soul
in this delicate manifestation of a young
man to the aged loyalist, and I will vote
for Terrell on this account if for no other
reason. It is indicative of a spirit that
guarantees a good governor.
BENJAMIN M. BLACKBURN.
“PRECOCIOUS,” BUT WOULD
HE MAKE GOOD GOVERNOR?
To the Editor of The Journal:
The letter of Rev. J. W. Domingos, ip
eulogy of the youthful career of Hon. Du
pont Guerry is very entertaining, but it
affords no sound argument why all the
world should rush to make him governor
of Georgia. Precocious youths lived be
fore the Guerry era and will continue
after it is finished. But the item which
strikes me as peculiar is thai Mr. Guerry
should have been so much brighter than
all his schoolmates and then need at this
late day to plead the baby act on his rec
ord as a grave and reverend senator in
1880-1. Certainly so phenomenal a youth
as he was should not have been so raw
and green at that time as not to under
stand the purport and effect of the Hawes
local option bill. That measure was in
tended to put the whole liquor traffic in
the power of property owners and tax
payers. It would long ago, if law,
have cleared the saloons out of Atlanta,
Macon and all other cities, where the
Guerry idea of that day, adopted in 1885,
has since kept them and now protects
them.
Really, Mr. Domingos has done Mr.
Guerry an injury by showing how bright
he was and how he ought not to have
been so violently opposed to the Hawes
bill. But Mr. Guerry pleads Infancy and
Mr. Domingos tries to show that as an
infant Mr. Guerry was one of the wisest
children of the age. Somehow their theo
ries of his case do not jibe!
In fact, Mr. Editor, this instance only
the more clearly reveals how consumate
an opportunist Mr. Guerry is. He started
out opposing things because they didn’t
"gee” with his notions, even though they
were right in principle, and he has kept
up ever since the practice of being for
what suited his interests best at the time
and opposing any thing that Interfered
with his personal welfare.
Grant all that Mr. Domingos says about
Mr. Guerry’s school days and yet we have
no prevailing argument showing that he
would be a better governor than he was
a senator, or a railroad attorney engaged
in lobbyism and securing the passage of
unconstitutional special acts to benefit
the railroads, or as a candidate striking
like a blind adder at every noise and reck
lessly sinking his fangs in the flesh of
friends, as in the case of General Evans,
as readily as in the flesh of foes.
A serious study of the methods of Mr.
Guerrj - does not assure the people that he
would give the state a level-headed, judi
cious and statesmanlike administration.
He has too much of vicious spirit, of re
taliation, of self-interest and periodical
fanaticism to ma)te a thoroughly safe
chief magistrate. Very respectfully,
H. E. HATCHETT.
Decatur, Ga., May 17. 1902.
FAULKNER SARCASTIC ON
SEWING MACHINE AGENTS
To the Editor of The Journal:
Those sewing-machine agents and other
constitutional authorities whom the peo
ple have strangely neglected to elevate
to the supreme bench of the state, and
who are attacking Hon. Joe Terrell for re
ceiving the customary fees for services
performed outside of his jurisdiction, are
about the mpat amusing performers that
the Guerry vaudeville company has offer
ed us!
Think of Johnson and Earle setting up
as critics of the solemnly given legal opin-<
lons of Logan E. Bleckley and James
Jackson!
It is true that such men might err even
in questions of law, but is it likely that
Johnson and Earle would be employed by
anybody to catch them at it?
Suppose that those jurists did give opin
ions—do not tile mere ipse dixits of such
men weigh tons to the ounce of legal in
fallibility assumed by a gentleman whose
chief business is to explain bobbins, hem
mers and quilters? If not it is about time
for the general assembly to employ John
son and Earle to re-edit, correct and con
stitutionalize the decisions that Bleckley
and Jackson have put into the Georgia
supreme court reports. Something of tnat
sort ought to be done right away to free
us from their blunders in law, don't you
think?
Those critics of Clifford Anderson, Ely.
Terrell, Bleckley, Jackson and a half doz
en governors and three state treasurers,
would have us understand that the idiote
who made our constltion and the officials
who interpret and execute it should have
required our $2,000 a year attorney gen
eral to rack all over creation to look after
Georgia’s legal business for that pitiful
sum. If the attorney general can be or
dered before the state courts anywhere
in the Union to prosecute extradiction
proceedings, or be sent to Mexico, Can
ada or England for the same purpose, and
to the supreme court in Washington to
wrestle with the giant lawyers defending
corporations against the rights of the
state—all for $2,000 a year—then we car;
understand why Mr. Guerry has not of
fered himself-to be elected attorney gen
eral.
But the merest child ought to know that
the governor of Georgia has no authority
to order the attorney general, or any oth
er state officer, to perform any service be
yond the confines of the state. He can
not even order the commanders of our
troops to do any service outside the state.
The fact is when he himself gets outside
the state he ceases to be governor ex
cept in name, and by courtesy. A pardon
granted by him in New York would not
be worth the paper it is written upon.
Constitutions and statutes are con
structed in harmony with certain estab
lished principles and precedents, and it
is an unheard of proposition that the at
torney general of Georgia, or any other
state, is elected to chase all over the earth
and prosecute the state's business "in
any court” in Christendom. If "any court"
means any court in the United States it
also means any court in Europe, Asia,
Africa, or the Isles of the sea.
Stuff and nonsense! The people of
Georgia, fortunately, are not such gud
geons as to be caught on such bare sew
ing-machine needles! They know that
their officers in these transactions have
kept the law and not outraged it and they
will reward these malicious attacks upon
honorable officers, both the quick and the
dead, with a Terrell victory of mammoth I
proportions on the sth of June.
Very respectfully,
, . i, C. R. FAULKNER.
Belton, Ga. -
TAPP ANSWERS CRITICS;
USE OF LETTER JUSTIFIED
To the Editor of The Journal:
I read in your Saturday’s issue in the
joint debate column the contribution from
Hon. H. Warner Hill, chairman of the
Terrell campaign committee, in which he
states that he is "glad the Dunn letter
has been published.” If he is pleased, we
certainly have no objection to this repre
hensible political act of Mr. Dunn being
exposed to the people of Georgia, and.
therefore, there should be no issue be
tween Mr. Hill and myself on that ques
tion. Mr. Hill further states that he has
been ' impressing upon the people of
Georgia during this campaign the despis
able methods adopted by Mr. Guerry and
his friends against Mr. Terrell.” I wish
to state that as to the methods of this
campaign Mr. Guerry has been and is now
willing to meet Mr. Terrell and give Mr.
Terrell the opportunity to expose these
"despisable methods” to the public, and
that I, as I have suggested before, will ac
cept Mr. Hill, if Mr. Terrell accepts Mr.
Guerry, and give Mr. Hill the opportunity
face to face to expose these "despisable
to the people of this state. I
notice that Mr. Hill further states that he
has repeatedly stated in answer to such
requests (like those of Mr. Dunn's) that
he could not grant such requests. In
other words, Mr. Editor, we have it from
Mr. Hui’s own pen that the Terrell head
quarters have been flooded with requests
for free transportation to Atlanta in order
to return and do a "little judicious work.”
Mr. Hill states he did not grant these re
quests. Perhaps he is not attending to
this department, and therefore, it may be
that the "special agents” and “advisory
counsels” are loklng after this branch of
the campaign, and Mr. Hill with great
courtesy could reply to these requests in
the manner that he states. Where there
is "so much smoke there mpst be some
fire.” Mr. Editor. I wish to state that
these headquarters have not received one
single request for free transportation; that
the visitors might be prepared to return
and do a “little judicious work and
change the status of affairs.”
But as Mr. Hill is fond of recalling
"despisable methods,” I will give the facts
in a certain case and let the public decide
for themselves who is adopting "despisa
ble methods.”
Some weeks ago these headquarters ad
dressed a polite and courteous letter to
Mr. Hill inviting a joint debate in At
lanta between Mr. Terrell and Mr. Guerry.
Realizing the weakness of his candidate
and the platform on which he stood, and
knowing that it would be fatal to accept
the invitation, Mr. Hill and his advisors
undertook in reply to conduct a joint de
bate through the mails with these head
quarters. His reply, as a matter of jus
tice, had to receive an answer and thus
there was quite a correspondence between
these headquarters and the Terrell head
quarters in the Kimball house.
Mr. Hill and his ad.yisors have printed
simply one side of this correspondence,
headed with big lines: “The Hon. Warner
Hill Makes Hot Reply to Tapp," and
"The Hon. Warner Hill Proves Tapp’s
Charges to Be False,” and has sent this
“circular” oroadcast throughout the
state. We were perfectly willing that both
sides of this correspondence should be
published and sent to the people of Geor
gia, for in so doing, we were willing to
risk Mr. Guerry’s cause in the hands of |
the people. But Mr. Hill, like his candi
date. preferring that only one side of the
issue should be heard, and that at long
distance, prefers that pur side of the
correspondence should not go to the peo
ple of this state. We ask the public in
common fairness to pass judgment as to
who is audpting "despisable methods.”
We notice also that the Terrell head
quarters have published that long and
lengthy correspondence between Mr. J.
M. Terrell and Mr. Frank Potts and oth
ers. in which it took them a month to
“misexplaln” the Potts telegram, but in
publishing and sending it out over the
state they failed to publish Mr. Guerry’s
reply and Mr. Holder's signed statement
that Mr. Potts told him that Mr. Terrell
“engineered the scheme.” In the name of
common justice and common fairness why
did not Mr. Hill and the Terrell head
quarters. if they were going to send out
"cheap” circulars to the people of Geor-
gia, have both sides of the question.
Mr. Editor, it is plain to the people of
this state that Mr. Hill and his candidate
cannot meet the issue of this campaign,
and hence Mr. Terrell, at long distance
has to explain and apologise why he can
not meet Mr. Guerry. and Mr. Hill when
he undertakes to come to his rescue by
the joint debate through the mails can
only give one side of it to the public. We
are willing to let both sides of the issues
involved in this campaign be discussed in
common fairness before the people and
leave the results to their honesty, integ
rity, patriotism and conscience. If Mr.
Hill, his candidate. Mr. Terrell, and their
political machine, cannot do likewise, let
there stop talking and writing about
"demisable methods.”
v SIDNEY C. TAPP.
Chairman.
P. S.—Since writing the foregoing I
have read an article by a fellow by the
name of Massengale, from Norwood, (who
I am informed is a whisky drummer), in
which he seeks to measure the standard
of my conscience for publishing the Dunn
letter. I state for the benefit of the gen
tleman that I do not need his guardian
ship to direct me as to what is right and
what is wrong, and what my duty was
as to the Dunn letter. Had the Dunn let
ter conveyed a legitimate message no man
would have held it more sacred than I.
and would have made it his purpose to
have seen to it that it reached the Hon.
■Warner Hill in confidence. But I consid
ered an attempt at political corruption
should be exposed to the people of
Georgia, and every fair-minded and hon
est man will agree with me in this con
clusion.
It is the "judicious” work to "change
the status of affairs,” and I will come to
the Terrell headquarters "at once" that is
bothering these fellows, since it has been
exposed to the public and not what was
my conscientious duty. S. C. T.
SAYS GUERRY IS TRUE
LEADER OF PROHIBITION
* COLUMBUS, Ga., May 15, 1902.
To the Editor of The Journal:
Hon. Dupont Guerry is a prohibitionist,
and is not afraid to say so, votes or no
votes. He is, with all the force of his
great brain and all the power of his clean,
brave heart, the champion of the people
against the liquor traffic. He is not pos
ing as a saint, but performing the simple
duty of a patriot. He is a leader who
dares to lead. He stands for something
and prefers defeat to cowardly silence or
transparent duplicity. If he is a dema
gogue, then let us pray for more dema
gogues, for he is making the path of the
non-committal machine politician exceed
inly thorny. If he is a coward, may the
land be filled with cowards, for his words
do fight as an army with banners, and the
braves that go out against him do hold
their war dances in places remote and
wash off their war paint and bury their
tomahawks when he comes in sight. With
them it is not a question of where Rode
rick was then, but where Dupont is now,
for they have business elsewhere. If he
is a ranting fanatic, then may the soil
grow fanatics till the socalled sane and
practical politicians who are as colorless
as a chameleon and as boneless as a jelly
fish, shall become extinct as a species and
exist only as fossil remains of an age
when the holding of opinions was a crime
and to advocate a principle was a sign of
insanity.
Were he a prohibitionist for office, his
election would be at least an expression of
the strength of the cause, while his de
feat would' exhibit its weakness. But
since he, out of deep and honest convic
tion and with pure and patriotic motives,
has thrown himself into the breach, fear
less and unflinching to fight against the
solid whisky vote and the corruption fund
of the Liquor Dealers’ association and
against the political ring that would per
petuate the saloon that the saloon might
perpetuate it, a battle as heroic as ever
made victory sublime or defeat glorious,
for prohibition, not to suppbrt him is not
only a blunder, it is close akin to a crime.
For once we have a straight candidate on
a straight issue. If we shrink now, when
shall we rally?
When the local option campaign was
sprung in Bibb county in 18s8, Colonel
Guerry was chosen to lead in that cause.
He consented with full knowledge of
what it meant, and as chairman of our
central committee made a noble fight for
the home against the saloon in his own
county. In all the heat and bitterness of
that campaign he contended for a clean,
honorable campaign, and frowned on ev
ery slightest hint of doubtful methods,
and, with the same fearlessness that he
now exhibits, tore the mask from the
fraud and trickery of the opposition. He
came out of that campaign forever con
vinced that local option in Georgia means
the defeat bf the will of the white man by
the irresponsible vote of the black man,
Inspired by the rum and corrupted by the
boodle of the saloon keeper; that all talk
about white supremacy is merest non
sense when cities like Maobn and Colum
bus are at the mercy of the whisky seller
and his hired repeaters With black skins,
in spite of the votes of “a clean majority
of the white men. That conviction he is
now voicing on the stump with a fiery elo
quence and a merciless logic that make
the liquor king turn pale on his throne
and the political boss sit up nights to ref
pair his fences. If he is not the prohibi
tion candidate, will some one please tell
us what it takes to constitute one? If
prohibitionists of all types do not vote for
him, then will they ever vote for any man
who champions their cause? If prohibition
is not a cause in this campaign, then there
is no issue. 11 it makes no difference to
prohibitionists how the candidates stand
on this question, then platforms have no
meaning and principles have lost their
power to inspire. Then let us cease to ask
candidates what they stand for and vote
by the pull of the wires, and tell the world
that in Georgia we have politics without
principles and votes without convictions.
W. W. PINSON.
1605—1902—A COMPARISON.
'Midst the days of Spanish glory.
Old Cervantes wrote a story
Os a gent named Don Quixote,
Os a warrior, fierce and bold.
No old wind-mill could withstand him.
If he saw a pig, he’d land him.
No bad giant could command him—
This the tale Cervantes told.
Now this tale is ancient very.
Don Quixote’s passed: but Guerry
Still is with us, and the merry
Funny times are with us still.
So beneath the shades beguiling.
Folks have stopped in wonder, smiling,
While brave Guerry comes a-blllng
Down upon Quixote’s mill.
Octopusses fill his dreaming.
Railroad engines, mad and screaming.
Lobylsts. armed, a million teeming,
Charge him furious, day by day.
Tidal waves of whiskey, rumbling.
Judges venal, laws all crumbling.
Legislators, drunken, tumbling.
Pile upon him as they may.
But amidst the scene confusing.
Hear his mighty voice enthusing.
Feel his muscle, beating, bruising.
Cracking heads with many a rap.
Hear his ponderous orders thunder!
"Forward Broughton, modest wonder!"
"Jones has burst the bands asunder!
“Clear the way for tiny Tapp!”
Loud the engines, mad, are tooting.
High-balls past his head go shooting.
Octopusses grovel, rooting.
In the dust before his might.
Ixibyists round him swarm in masses.
Shooting him with railroad passes.
Foul Corruption, armed, enmasses
All Its forces for the fight.
None can tell this wondrous story.
None can fitly sing his glory.
Fighting all these forces, hoary.
Filling Spartan-like the gap.
None, but old Cervantes, merry.
He alone can picture Guerry
Fighting wind-mills, and his very.
Very warlike follower Tapp.
If this little squib Is daring.
Though I think it mild and sparing.
Just remember, I’m comparing
Two groat men of different climes;
And I think without dissembling.
' Though my heart with fear is trembling,
I have found a great resembling
’Twixt the heroes of those times.
O. G. COJL
LaGrange, Ga., May 14, IW2.
WAfINEBHILL SPOKE
AGAINST GUEfIRY.
ON MAY .
READ A CARD WRITTEN BY GUER«
RY SAYING LOCAL OPTION WAS
THE PROPER SOLUTION OF
LIQUOR PROBLEM.
Candidate Dupont Guerry came in fo*
no small amount of criticism at the hands
of Hon Warner Hili Monday night in an <
address to’the voters of Edgewood, in the
academy there. *
Mr. Hill, who is the campaign manager
of Hon. Joseph M. Terrell, undertook to
go after Mr. Guerry’s prohibition record,
and took occasion to read a published
card from the prohibition candidate, writ
ten in 1896 at which time Mr. Guerry ex
pressed himself in favor of local option
as against state prohibition.
Mr. Guerry’s card, from which Mr. Hill
read, was in praise of the late Dr. Hay
good, and was printed in an Atlanta paper.
Referring to this, Mr. Hill made some
sarcastic remarks about what he called a
ckange of front on the part of the Bibb
county man. Among other things, he said:
"He is now against local option and in
favor of state prohibition. Why this
charge of sentiment &nd of opinion? Will
he plead infancy on this letter, too, as h»
did on state prohibition in 1880-1881? He
said with reference to that vote, ‘I was
a young lawyer with but little education
and but little experience.’ etc. And al
though he has been making charge after
charge during this campaign and jump
ing on everybody and and
when Mr. Terrell, at Forsyth, and I, in
a letter in reply to one from him, quoted
a little of his own record, he whines like
a whipped child and pleads the ‘baby 1 act.’
"His positions on public questions are
as fickle as the wind. He claims to be
for state prohibition today, but where will *
he be tomorrow? 1
"In 1896 he was opposed to ‘prohibition
being tangled up with Populism, but it
reports are true, he is now industriously
and earnestly seeking the votes of our
Populist friends.
"Will the Populists of Georgia be thus
slurred at In 1896 and wheedled into voting
for Guerry in 1902? What say the Popu
lists of Georgia to this?”
Mr. Hill’s speech was well received by
quite a large audience which filled the
building tn which he spoke.
WATER MELON
and cholera are easily associated. This dread
ed and grave trouble of the bowels causes much
suffering, painful cramps, profuse sweating
and intense thirst with vomiting, purging and
evacuations. Treat vigorously with Perry
Davis* Painkiller. It is efficient and safe. It is
a standard remedy. Druggists, 25c and 50c.
WILL PRATHER KILLED”
NEAR ATHENS MONDAY
ATHENS. Ga., May !£.—A white man
named Prather, a painter, was struck and
instantly killed about 7 o’clock, two miles
west of here, this morning by a Seaboard
train. Prather had a job some distance
up the road, and was walking along the
track accompanied by his two sons. The
party started across a trestle near Hun
nicutt's farm, when the train came upon
them. By running the two boys managed
to reach a place of safety, but the father
was struck by the engine before he could
get off the trestle.
Prather was about 58 years of age, and
was reckoned a good workman and 4
steady man. Authorities in Athens were
immediately notified of the accident.
Prather was fearfully mangled, only his
head and part of one arm being left In
tact. He will be burled at the Prospect
church, in Jackson county, in the morn
ing. He was survived by a wife and five
children.
TEACHERS WILL GET ONLY
HALF PAY THIS MONTH
Warrants are being drawn up this week
for $175,000 which will be paid to the
Georgia teachers. This amount will only
cover only half of the amount due them,
but under the determination reached by
Governor Candler, the teachers will have
to wait until June 15th before they can
get more money, as none will be borrowed
by the state until that time.
The teachers have been anxious for an
other payment for some time, and they
will no doubt be glad when they receive
their hard-earned money.
CO«WON
MILL INCREASES*
CAPACITY
BIX THOUSAND NEW SPINDLES
AND ONE HUNDRED LOOMS ARE
ADDED TO PLANT OF GIRARD
MANUFACTURING CO.
COLUMBUS, Ga., May 19.—Six thousand .
new spindles and a hundred more looms
are to be added to the already big cotton
manufacturing interests of Columbus by
the Girard Manufacturing company, which
is owned by Columbus capital and operat
ed by electricity from the Eagle and Phe
nix mills, being just across the river west
of this plant. The Girard mill is the old
plant of the Chattahoochee Knitting com
pany, but has recently been equipped and
operated as a cotton mill.
Extensive enlargements are In progres*
and besides the spindles and looms men
tioned above, a lot of machinery of va
rious kinds will be installed to fill out the
complement. The work of enlargement is
going on fast and all the machinery has
been ordered. The officers of this com
pany are: Oscar S. Jordan, president; A.
S. Matherson, treasurer; William Caden
head, overseer.
BIRMINGHAM NEGRO
KILLS WIFE WITH GUN
BIRMINGHAM. Ala.. May 20.—Robert
Page is an Ensley negro, who worked for
the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad
company, and made about SIOO a month. ,
He saved quite a sum of money and went
to Texas, where he bought a farm. Re
turning from Texas yesterday, after com.
pleting his purchase there, he told his
wife to make ready to go to Texas with
him. She said she would not go to Texas.
Page became incensed and. seizing a
small rifle, shot the woman through the
breast. She will die. Page fled. Page
killed a man in Tennessee several years
ago and served a term in the penitentiary
for the offense.
soo 00 Steel Range s3l 08.
Our free circulars give Cut
Prices of everything.
Stoves $0.40, Dinner Beta
Sets $2 00.
PADGETT FUB. CO„ %
I— fF* J Augusta, G*.
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