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THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL
ATLANTA. GA.. 5 NOBTH FOBSYTH ST.
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HOW YOU CAN HELP ELECT
A DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENT
The Democrats of Columbus and Muscogee county
are turnin* their party faith into works. They
have contributed to the Wilson-Marshall fund an
amount that is not only substantial, but particu
larly gratifying because of the large number of sub
scriptions it represents. It is this breadth of interest
that will count for most in the national campaign.
A hundred donations of one dollar each are more
significant and more helpful than one of a hundred
dollars.
Every Georgia Democrat should have a share in
this patriotic investment. The State is expected to
raise thirty thousand dollars, a very modest sum
when it is reflected that the party's presidential
nominee Is himself virtually a Georgian and is
bound to our commonwealth by the closest of human
ties. Many citizens have already given generously to
the campaign fund, but the essential thing is that
every true Democrat should do his individual part;
and. if this is done, the thirty-thousand-dollar mark
will be reached and passed within less than a fort
night.
It is Important to bear in mind that the needs of
the national campaign are imperative. The election
is a little more than a month futureward. It is the
prompt subscription that will help most. Your dollar
is needed today.
The work of the Columbus Democrats should
bestir every part of the State to immediate and
vigorous action. The towns and cities are expected
to raise ten thousand dollars; and this can easily be
done if in each community some representative citi
sen or organization will at once undertake a canvass
of the party’s membership. The counties have been
requested to contribute another ten thousand dollars;
and through similar means this, too, can be accom
plished without burdening any one. Atlanta and
Fulton county are depended upon for the third ten
thousand-dollar share of the total State fund. This
is a comparatively nominal amount, when this com
munity’s population and wealth and the importance
of electing a Democratic president are considered.
The receipt of the Columbus contributions brings
The Journal’s readers’ part of the Wilson-Marshall
fund up to two thousand one hundred dollars. The
Journal will continue to acknowledge subscriptions
and forward them to national headquarters.
Let the Democracy of the State realise that it
has a vital and urgent duty to perform In this presi
dential campaign; that its aid is needed in order to
sustain and press forward the splendid victory that
is in sight; let every citisen who wishes to see a
Georgia family in the White House and a construc
tive statesman at the head of the Government con
tribute his share, however small, to the national cam
paign fund.
Self-control is the one thing a man always has
until he needs it.
No matter how fast a young man may be, he can
be overtaken by trouble.
Yesterday’s temperature really suggested the
opening of the football season.
A woman has more confidence in a minister than
a man has in a physician.
THE GEORGIA CORN SHOW.
The Georgia Corn Show to be held next month in
Atlanta promises to surpass any kindred enterprise
the State has known
Its date, November 26-29, will fail most oppor
tunely, coming as it will on the heels of various
county and district fairs. Into this one big exposi
tion, will be gathered the exhibits that show the
methods and the progress of corn growers in every
part of the State. Thus, too, the interest c. the entire
commonwealth will find a central rallying point and
the movement toward a more rberal agriculture will
press forward with that energy which comes from
uinted sentiment and purpose.
Particular stress will be laid upon tbe work of
the Boys* Corn Clnbe. Last year some four hundred
of these youthful fanners were the city’s guests. It
is expected that this season they will come a thou
sand-strong and it need scarcely be said that every
. one of them will find a welcome that will be truly
homelike.
There Is no enterprise in Georgia today which is
more fertile or far-reaching in its benefits than tljat
of the Boys’Corn Clubs. There associations have been
organized in practically every county and through
their efforts the State’s average acre yield of corn
has been advanced and its aggregate output greatly
increased. They merit the hearty public’s encour
agement and this, they will receive In royal measure
at the State show In November.
The Atlanta Clumber of Commerce inaugurated
this exposition last year in the interest of tbe State
at large and for the benefits it would bring to every
field of Georgia’s economic life. It Is an undertak
ing that deserves the earnest support of business
men and especially those of the Capital city.
WILSON IN NEW ENGLAND.
On none of his campaign trips has Woodrow Wil
son met a heartier welcome or bestirred keener in
terest than in sobersided old New England. In that
fastness of conservatism, where the chieftains of
high tariff so long held sway and where the ancient
and honorable Standpatters are still supposed to find
harbor, the Democratic leader vigorously championed
a program of political progress. Significantly enough,
he found his hearers as responsive as were those
of the West, a fact which would indicate that the
popular thought of New England, tar from being
turned backward, is like that of the whole nation
facing the light and answering the call of a new day.
Nor is it difficult to understand why those tem
perate-minded people respond so earnestly to the
doctrines of political progress as set forth by Wood
row Wilson. They recognize in him and in his pol
icies an influence which is above all constructive and
which will accomplish needed changes, not through
violent disturbances, but through a thoughtful and
workmanly process of readjustment. It is this char
acteristic of Governor Wilson himself and of the pur
poses tor which he stands that appeals with equal
force to all open-minded citizens, whether they be of
a conservative or an aggressive temper. He is dis
tinguished from the Republican candidate, on the
one hand, by the fact that he recognizes and is pre
pared to effect certain sorely needed changes in the
Government; and from the candidate of the Third-
Term party, on the other hand, by the fact that he
proposes to accomplish those changes through or
derly and constitutional means.
Especially Interesting and effective was Governor
Wilson’s discussion of the tariff before his Connecti
cut audiences. He completely routed the old bug
aboo, conceived and fostered by reactionary Repub
licans, that the Democratic party stands for abso
lutely free trade. Whenever a change in the existing
tariff schedules is suggested, the Standpatters inva
riably cry’ that the Democrats are trying to ruin in
dustrial interests and meam to wipe out the federal
government’s main source of revenue. Neither
Governor Wilson nor his party has ever advocated
any such silly proposition. What he said in this
connection to his audience at Hartford he has said
in effect time and time again. In addressing the
National Democratic Club at New York on last Jan
uary the third, Governor Wilson declared;
“What are we going to dos Are we going to
turn revolutionistsf Are we going to act as free
traders? I wish 1 might hope that our grand
children could indulge tn free trade, but I am
afraid they cannot, because they have to pay the
bills of the federal government. We have a fed
eral system of government but it is wise, it is
good housekeeping, it is good management to
leave direct taxes, for the most part, to the State
government, because they have current bills to
pay. It is likely that for am indefinite period we
shall have to pay our national bills by duties
collected at the ports. Therefore what we have
to ask ourselves is not the principle upon which
we are to act, for that is plain. We are to act
upon the fundamental principle of the Democratic
party, not free trade, but tariff for revenue;
and we must approach that by such avenues, by
such stages and at such a pace as will be con
sistent with the stability and the safety of the
business of the country."
Such an attitude as this can give no reasonable
apprehension to any legitimate industry to any sec
tion of the country, whether it be the West, the
South or New' England with its teeming manufac
tories.
It matters little where they live or what their
inherited opinions may be, the rank and file of the
people of this country have at last awakened to the
monstrous stupidity of the claim that In order for
them to prosper a particular group of interests must
have the Government’s nursing and patronage. New
Englanders are realizing this fact no less keenly than
Americans at large; and in their State and Con
gressional elections within the past two years they
have given ample proof of their conviction.
The sort of tariff that has grown up under Repub
lican administrations Is not ’’protection” but patron
age. It is not levied for the support of the Govern
ment, but for the aid of giant monopolies; not for
the benefit of the workingman, but for the profit of a
narrow group of financiers. Far from safeguarding
or extending prosperity, it pinches and starves the
people as a whole by placing an extortionate tax
upon the necessaries of life. Far from strengthening
American Industries, it weakens them by barring the
wholesome stimulus of competition.
It is this sort of tariff —the sort which both Presi
dent Taft and Mr. Roosevelt and their respective
parties would perpetuate—that the Democratic party
under Woodrow Wilson’s leadership purposes to re
form. The workingmen, the farmers and the general
public of New England are today bearing the burden
of such a tariff in common with the American people
as a whole. It is to the Democratic party alone that
they may look for any measure of intelligent or effec
tive relief on this great issue; and not until this
issue is settled as it should be is there any hope of
trust reform or of economic and social justice.
The Third-Termer has talked one plan of tariff in
the East and an entirely different plan in the West.
To him, the cloud is first like a camel and then like
a weasel and then, Indeed, very like a whale; in
truth, he has proved himself the prating Polonlus of
American politics. Dr. Eliot aptly described Mr.
Roosevelt when he said: “He has never shown any
acquaintance with the tariff questions, any interest
in them, or any comprehension of the disastrous
effects of the tariff on the prices of the necessa
ries of life to consumers. His present utterances on
this subject are contradictory and vague."
In sharp contrast to the Third-Termer’s dilatory
and really demagogic treatment of this vital iesue
stands the clear-cut, thoughtful utterances of Wood
row Wilson who says to the people of the West and
of New England just what he means and means
just what he says. That is the kind of statesman
ship for which this country is eager and the kind
to which it will rally at the polls in November.
This is fine weather for hot Scotch; but, ah,
where is the Scotch?
Governor Wilson says the people are tired of pol
itics. They are, generally speaking, but not of the
kind the governor preaches.
The mother-in-law usually has a good deal to say,
but about all the poor old father-in-law has to do is
tQ pay the freight and say nothing.
To save trouble and unnecessary expense, Roose
velt and Taft ought to retire just now and make it
unanimous.
tjIE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1912.
Some New Vegetable Foods
Bp Frederic J, Haskin
For a number of years the department of agricul
ture has been trying to find a vegetable that would
be as staple in the southern states as the potato is in
the north. The potato crop in
the southern states comes early
and is practically over by July
or August,'and the climate is tio
warm that it cannot be kept
throughout the year. Conse
quently, the southern menu is
apt to depend too much upon
corn pone and bacon. It is now
thought, however, that the culti
vation of the dasheen will solve
the difficulty and already it has
become known favorably In a
number of the larger hotels to
which it has been sent from the
government experiment stations
wher e for, several years it has
been cultivated assiduously.
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The dasheen is a vegetable
brought from the tropics, being
native especially to Central
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America, and it can be used in so many ways, and
can be raised with so little difficulty that it prom
ises within a few years to become one of the staple
food articles of the country. At a recent banquet
of the National Geographical society, held in Wash
ington, the dasheen was given a prominent place upon
the menu and was highly commended by those in at
tendance. It is now being raised in considerable
quantities as far north as the Carolinas, although it
is in Florida that it has achieved its highest success,
since a half acre connected with the Brookville exper
iment station in that state last year yielded 225
bushels of dasheens. It is believed that there r.re
thousands of acres of wet land in the southern states
which can be utilized in dasheen cultivation, thus
adding materially to the food supply of the nation.
The tuber matures in August or September, or even
later in some of th e states, and in the localities un
affected by frost may be left in the ground without
injury during the winter months.
In appearance the dasheen plant is similar to the
elephant ear or caladium which is so widely culti
vated as an ornamental plant. Its tubers are also
similar to that of the caladium and they grow in
large clusters beneath the ground. Some of these
tubers are as much as six inches in diameter, al
though they will doubtless vary as much in size as
the ordinary Irish potato. The flesh of the tuber
is similar to that of the potato when cooked, al
though it is apt to be somewhat gray or violet in
color. The department of agriculture has already
formulated recipes for cooking the dasheen, and these
directions are practically the same as for cooking
potatoes, since they are boiled, baked, stuffed, fried
or creamed. The taste of the cooked dasheen is sim
ilar to that of boiled chestnuts.
While the aubcr i B the most important part of the
dasheen food supply it is not the only one utilized.
The entire plant is edible and highly palatable. The
leaves are succulent, and when cooked as spinach,
form excellent greens, and the flower, which is yel
low in color in most varieties, is used as salad, while
the leaf, stalks and shoots, which are grown by plac
ing the tubers in a dark place and allowing them to
sprout, are said by epicures to be vastly superior to
asparagus in flavor and are totally lacking in the
fibrous quality which is often objectionable in aspar
agus.
The efforts of the department of agriculture to
broaden the list of plant foods require the services
of plant experts who are sent to all parts of ’he •
world in quest of new dainties to add to the menus
for the American palate. From Japan and China, as
well as from Turkey, Africa a; d South America, new
plants are constantly coming which the American
experiment stations are testing with a view to plac
ing them upon the food markets of the country.
A new salad plant which has lately been tried sat
isfactorily in the New York market and is already
becoming well known in California is the Japanese
"udo" which is grown in a manner similar to aspara
gus and can be easily forced for the winter market.
As a salad udo has been commended by the chefs
of some of the leading hotels in New York. It has
also received great favor as a vegetable. So far it is
not produced in commercial quantities, as It takes
years of education to popularize a new food, but one
truck farmer in California has this year planted for
ty acres of udo with the intention of growing it for
the eastern market.
It is quite within the memory of most people
when bananas began to be popular fruit. To many
people the taste for them had to be cultivated, al
though their introduction has now become so com
plete that they threaten in popularity the peaches,
pears and apples which are native to the country.
In the same way the department of agriculture ex
pects to popularize the avocado, or alligator pear,
which within the last five years has made its ap
pearance upon the market of every city of any size.
The annexation of tropical territory to this country
has added to the variety of our food supply, and the
economic advantage of utilizing these new foods is
apparent to any one.
In Hawaii the cultivation of the avocado has been
undertaken in a scientific manner by the experiment
station so that its advantages were established to
those familiar with it even before the attachment of
Porto Rico and even of the Panama canal zone. Now
it is becoming quite extensively cultivated, both in
Florida and southern California, so that the supply
is each year becoming greater, although it is not yet
sufficient to make the price low enough for popular
demand. There are stories told of fabulous prices
still being paid for the fruit of a single avocado
tree. It has one disadvantage, however, which the
experiments of the department of agriculture are
working to overcome. The fruit does not ship well,
chiefly because the seed is large and hard and
rather 16oSe inside. In the shipment this seed fre
quently becomes entirely free from the fibers i-e
--straining it and rolls around, bruising the inside
flesh of the fruit so that it becomes rancid and turns
dark. To make a satisfactory commercial product,
the fruit should have a smaller seed more tightly at
tached, and it is believed that this will soon be
achieved by those engaged in its cultivation.
Saving and Investing Talks
WOMEN AND THE “REAL ESTATE GAME"
BY JOHN M. OSXIBON.
It may be news that women are getting into the
real estate business, and making money out of it. It
was to me. I had no idea that they were active in it
until I saw the picture of one of
k -Sb®
the markedly successful ones in
a recent Cleveland newspaper.
There was an interview with her.
too, which contained some hints
worth passing on to ambitious
women.
This Cleveland woman has a
specialty—'building houses on
vacant lots with money which
she borrows for 6 per cent, and
selling the houses for a neat
profit. Getting the right sort of
a house on a lot, at the right
price, is her problem. When she
solves it successfully she makes
money, and she loses when she
fails to solve it. "Women.” she said, "are better
qualified than men to build houses. They are the
ones who live most in them, and know what is needed.
They know, -from long experience, just where the
closets and sinks ought to be, what arrangement of
rooms will be most convenient and save steps, what
sort of wood is hard and what sort is easy to keep
clean, and a lot of details which men builders either
don’t know about or wilfully neglect.
"T think the time will come when practically all
homes will be built by women.”
I do not know of a better investment for the mod
ern architect-builder than to add to his staff a wom
an of taste and experience a s a home maker. I di
not know of a better way for the young woman to
invest her talent than by getting into the business
of designing houses for people to live in—really to
"live" in. It is an axiom of the investment business
that money is safest which is put into the things in
every day use by a large gumber of peopl w
,/^^^\^ C (pUAITRY
topics
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COURTESIES AMONG ORGANIZATIONS.
Rudeness always discounts, itself. When people
enter convention halls as invited guests it behooves
those who accept the invitation to behave themselves
while the are occupying the seats allotted to them
for their comfort. I am saying his because I was
one of the invited guests to hear ex-President Roose
velt's address to the voters of his Progressive party
last Saturday night, and I saw more rudeness and
indecent behaviour than I ever expected to see in a
Georgia audience. J was afterwards told that just
such behaviour occurred in the same auditorium last
year when Hon. Thomas Watson hired the hall, padi
his money for it, and was effectually howled down by
Atlanta toughs sent there to deprive him of his op
portunity.
On Saturday night a person who went there to
hear Mr. Roosevelt’s address was effectually depriedv
of the hearing by a gang of Atlanta young men
whose names are known and will be given upon prop
er demand who took seats near this quiet listener and
in the icinvlty were perhaps a half hundred or more
creatures who were yelling for Wilson. Whenever
the distinguished speaker uttered a sentence that was
not pleasing to these sap-headed young politicians
these creatures were called on to yell for Wilson.
They were heard to say: “Giev it to him boys! Yell
for Wilson!” The fathers of some of these young
men made all they had in name or fortune by follow
ing dirty Republican politics in Georgia soon after
the war and if it had not been for their gains under
Bullock their sons would now be filling a brakeman’s
place or pulling at a rope over the back of a festive
mule. Whether their creatures were hired for the
eenving or otherwise by these "saps,” or discourteous
peopl* in breeches, it is a fact that they effectually
drowned out the speaker's oicve to those in the vi
cinity. It was a shame, and when I was given the
names of the instigators I said; “How low has Geor
gia politics fallen when no police officers were seen
to quell these conspirators’!”
It was particularly shameful in Atlanta, where
Mr. Roosevelt last year paid his ©wn expenses to get
to Atlanta to raise a fund to commemorate “Uncle
Remus” and honor the city in the purchase of "Snap
Bean Farm” for that purpose. It is miserable politics
when men forget what was due to the people who paid
their money to give an intelllectual treat to the in
vited guests and used their invitation to Insult ‘he
owners of the auditorium for that night and to fling
upon the speaker the rabid froth of their dirty souls
and dirty politics. Just such conduct deseres vto be
remembered at the polls in Noembevr, where men of
teir caliber should be effectually rebuked.
Courtesy in women's organizations should be es
pecially conseredv. The presiding officer should see
to it that no discourtesy should be shown to Invited
guests in their conventions by ‘ sap heads” and inter
ested people. A few days ago in a convention of
women one of the delegates was grossly Insulted by
a man who appeared as a speaker for his party before
the assemblage of ladies. Pointing his finger at one
of the delegates he made a gross attack and was not
called down by the presidnlg officer. The presiding
officer was either ignorant of her duty or conspiring
with the man speaker to humiliate the delegate, and
no public explanation was ever given by the presid
ing officer. It transpires that this discourteous man
who insulted the ministers of Atlanta a few days
previously. As I said before, rudeness discounts it
self. It will (time being given) react. Like the fa
mous Australian boomerang which, when flung in
front, curves itself and flings itself back upon the
unsuspectnig victim, and rudeness tn essemblies will
fling back odium upon the doers thereof.
Courtesy is the standard coin of cultivated social
life. Rudeness to invited guests is a sure token of
low breeding, no matter If the person wears %ilk
dresses or silk pajamas.
Those Atlanta toughs and the rude Atlanta politi
cians who backed them up should have been led out
of the auditorium with a policeman s authority, and
the discourtesy to the delegate of the woman s con
vention should have been handled by the presiding
officer as if the man had been a sprading adder or a
convicted blind tiger.
It speaks poorly for the intelligent of the com
munity when such efficient handling is omitted by
ignorant or rabid politics.
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urffAT WILL YOU DO WITH THE WOMEN?
I had conversation with two Atlanta gentlemen on
yesterday and they mentioned the raid made by Chief
Beavers on the houses of ill fame in Atlanta last week.
One of them remarked: "Four days of- this topic in
th e newspapers has done more to familiarize the peo
ple of Atlanta with the subject of lewd women than
forty years of you temperance women can undo.”
The other gentleman said: “The young school
children in Atlanta are actually discussing it on ‘he
streets as they go to school.”
So here you are. What are you going to do about
it? If you chase those unfortunates out into tne
fields and by-ways of your capitol city you will
maybe starve them and destroy human life and no
body is going to take them into decent homes to as
sociate with children, young boys and young women.
Now. listen, friends! The men who have robbed
these women of virtue and decent homes should bs
run out, too!
It is one of the enormities of this condition of a.-
fairs that the men go scot free while the victim gets
all the suffering and disgrace. Does it not make /ou
sick at heart to know that womankind must bear a 1
the' reverse and shame, although lewd men are the
prime factors in this ruin?
The police in New York are branded with vicious
graft by levying tribute from the demi-monde, and
it is the men whb frequent the brothels who pay thia
shame money to the police. Why in the name of all
that is just or honest, why do you not compel your
policemen to handcuff the lewd women and men to
gether and thus send them out into the publicity of
exposure? , ,
The truth is, the fast men of the city are in league
with your corrupt policemen and they are protected
because they will vote in these double dealing blue
coats at the next election. Why not arrest the of
fenders of both sexes, carry them into court and try
to get an honest judge to fine them or sentence thorn
to prison? I’ll tell you why! These base men who
betray women and who consort with lewd women are
cruel in their tyranny over their victims. God help
these poor women lying under the damnation of lust
and liquor!
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AN INQUIRY.
Collins. Ga.. Sept. 28, 1912.
Mr* W H. Felton, Cartersville. Ga,:
Dear Mrs. Felton—l have read with interest your
writings on many different subjects, and you have
such a clear insight of any subject of which I have
known you to take up until I am constrained to ss.c
vou to write in The Semi-Weekly Journal on the sub
ject of “Catholicism in America." I think the time
is at hand when all liberty loving American people
should take a firm stand against this high-handed
tyranny these self-styled religious hierarchies are en
deavoring to perpetrate on the American people.
I am sending you under separate cover a copy of
“The Menace," which is an anti-Catholic paper printed
at Aurora, Mo„ and every paragraph is an eye
° Pe " e have several of these papers which contain the
Catholic oath, and I will send one to any person r.-
questing same as long as the y last. You may use
your pleasure about publishing this. But I do want
to see a long piece of your writing on this all-im
portant question. Yours jqrdan
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CATHOLICISM IN AMERICA
I am continually appealed to to write something
for The Semi-Weekly Journal. As I would have to
deal with the subject in a political way and take sid<Z
against the encroachment of the Catholic church. •
think it will be well to postpone tne discussion until
after November.
I think it was unwise in Mr. Taft to place a Cath
olic (Jesuit) over the supreme bench as chief jus-
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Georgia and the South
Indorse The Journal’s
Editorial on Roosevelt j
Suits South Carolina
Greenwood, S. C., Sept. 30, 1911-
Editor The Journal: ' '
Your editorial, “Go Home, Colonel,” in yesterday's
Journal, i s a gem, and suits us better than anything
we have read during the present national campaign.
Yours truly,
A. F. M KISSICK.
'Sledge-Hammer Blows'
Atlanta, Ga, Sept. 30. 19U.
Editor The Journal:
Dear Sir—The editorial in your paper of Sunday,
Sept 29. entitled “Go Home, Colonel,” is indeed a
masterpiece. The truths and sentiments In this ar
ticle should certainly appeal to every true southern
er and every thinking Democrat in the entire south.
There are some deluded Democrats who have been
attracted by the political vagaries of the third
termer, but such sledge-hammer blows as this edi
torial gives should certainly assist in bringing them'
around to a correct way of thinking.
I sincerely trust that every newspaper in the en-> ,
tire south will republish your editorial in order that
the people may see the subject in its true light
• Yours very truly,
O. PALMOUR.
"Burnt to Cinders"
LaGrange, Ga., Sept. 29, 1912.
Editor The Journal:
Your parting shot at Colonel Roasevelt in Sunday s
Journal was so well directed I cannot allow it to l
pass without a hearty indorsement. EJvery sentence
pulsated—was Instinct with life and breathed and
burned to cinders the recent hypocritical utterances
of the most consummate demagogue that ever shad
owed. this country. I well remember reading from
the press dispatches a few years ago in a speech
mad e by him at Arlington in which he branded the
Confederate soldier as an anarchist. You might have
also referred to his putting in nomination for tempo
rary chairman of the national Republican convention
a few years since a negro as against a white man.
All these matters ar e public history, and should dis
perse the wind tooter ß from his Georgia band wagon.
It was all right and proper to treat him courteously
while in our midst, but with the record he has toward
the south, his appeal to the people of this stat* to
vote their convictions is a gratuitous presumption.
He has never intimated a regret for his conduct to
ward the south while president or his stinging epi
thets about our people. Cordially,
F. M. LONGLEY-
"A Great Hit"
Quitman. Ga., Sept. 30, 1912-
The Atlanta Journal. Atlanta:
The editorial “Go Home, Colonel," made a great
hit in Quitman. Congratulations on same.
8. S. GALDKN.
J. A. BRYAN.
Voices His Sentiments
Editor The Journal:
I want to congratulate you and The Journal on the
editorial in Sunday's paper under the caption "Go
Home, Colonel.” It voices my sentiments exactly,
and I am glad your memory is still good.
Very truly yours,
W. T. MARTIN
"Lucid Array of Facts''
Editor The Journal:
For more than twenty years I have been a close
reader of The Journal, not only for the current news,
but more especially the editorials, which I have al
ways regarded the equal of any paper.
Your editorials during the present campaign have
been unusually strong and timely, but the one in Sun
day’s issue, “Go Home, Colonel.” reached the climax.'
It is by all odds the most lucid array of facta ll
have read. The Wilson campaign committtea, I be
lieve, would do well to have this editorial put ♦»'
pamphlet form and send it broadcast over the coun
try, in as much as they want to make Mr. Wilson’s
vote as near unanimous as possible in the solid south.
d. a. s.
"The South's Sentiment"
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 30, 19J2.
Editor The Journal:
I desire |o express my hearty appreciation of<
your editorial, “Go Home, Colonel,” in yesterdays
issue of The Journal. Am sure it is the sentiment'
of all true southerners. It shows the areh demagogue
up in his true colors, and should be reproduced by
the press throughout the state.
Very truly,
P. B. HOLTZENDORFF.
Temple, Ga., Sept. 29, 1913.
Editor The Journal:
This letter is intended as an expression of appre
ciation of your editorial appearing in today's Jour
nal entitled “Go Home, Colonel.” We this under
signed citizens feel that we would like for you to
know that we as Georgions and southern men appre
ciate your efforts to unmask this arch political trick
ster, who, for the sake of his vulgar ambition, would
attempt to filch from southern men the heritage of their
political solidity, in order that he may have a third
term, to be followed, no doubt, with a request for »
life tenure.
Go on. Mr. Gray, with your efforts and with the
same ringing patriotism which inspired today's ar
ticle, proclaim your sentiments until every Georgia
home —from drawing room to vine-sheltered cotttage
—may remember with its ballot that we are a solid
south where meh do REMEMBER and where actions
speak louder than the harangues of demagoguas.
We hope that you will consider this letter as a
voice from the rank and file of Georgians who love
their state and would not see her repudiate the her
itage of her Democracy.
Yours respectfully,
H. F. HOGG,
Supt. Temple School.
W. J. M’ BRAY ER, Banker.
J. A. GRIFFIN. -
G. T. WILLIAMS.
T. F. WOODRUFF.
T. M. SPRUELL, M. D.
W. L. ROWE.
tice, and poor Archie Butt was a secret envoy to
Rome and was returning on the Titanic when he lost
his life.
The United States has won its triumphs as a pure
ly Protestant nation, and it would not be wise to
change to a doubtful progress in other religious chan
nels. There are many and valuable citizens who are
Catholics, but the policy of Catholicism tends to papal
supremacy in state as well as church.
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SCHOOL MATES USING PISTOLS.
'Montbrook, Fla., Sept. 19, 1912.
Esther Wilson, aged thirteen years, shot Gladys
Randall, of even age, through the shoulder in Es
ther’s father's home with a .38 pistol. Gladys ia
painfully hurt because she did not know the pistol
was loaded. The girls are beg of friends and school
mates. Has The Journal quit publishing the whole
sale grocery market of Atlanta? We patrons in Mont
brook want it published every week.
Sincerely.
E. C. P.
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BABE COINS.
Mrs. M. A. Bulce. of Eldridge, Ala., has a 59-cvnl
piece coined in 1891 and cents of 1876.
I H. H. Gully, oT Eastman. Ga., has a half-dime
coined in 1854.
D. G. Durden has half-dime of 1835, dime of 18M,
six-pence of 1*39, a Spanish coin of 1805, and the
smallest coin he ever saw, called the widow's mite.