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Here Shall the Press the People’s Rights Maintain
BV JOHN IN. BROWN.; I
BAINBRIDGE. GEORGIA. THURSBAY ■ORNINC, SEPTEMBER 26, 1907.
I Vol. 36—Ho. 48--SI.00 a Year.
editorial motes. J
ti'ii have got onto tbe law and
„ : ,. v won’t take ‘‘re baits.”
.«, su not ‘‘vagrants” any more;
j u . t v “pure food” detectives.
•j.. I)r,s uant Bryan to state
••ally whether lie is for Na-
lli;l : I’o.hibition or not.
| ,i ! uiidred and forty*one cases
I. it d icketed for the October
,,r tie Supreme Couit.
W W. J. Bryan is only one of
;1 i;,;x11% women in the country who
uiu-;:iik their husbands.
A ’1m gnat p era of the"-world
• j.Jihng lor ptace-—at long
'! if monster baltfa-ships
nr In mu ordered.
A h « -I'liing tickets on softie of
railway lines should&lso
1, | Id with blanks fot: the pas-
V' r- to make. their wills before
ftnrting.
Bi-orgci hotel men meet in Macon
toikiy. When they return home
each wi 1 put up a sign: “Member
Georgia Hotel Men’s Association.
No TRUST.”
Tie iliiriy million school children
in this ci uutry constitute its greatest
awl; itru 1 Bainbridge has got to
look af’tei tlie interests of her pro*
portion of the little darlings.
Tiic ■•hull of a corpse was sawed,
in Savannah, and the brain stolen.
Burglars would not be rewarded in
the same wav if they operated on
the skulls of some now living.
Tim Ailmta man who told the
judge that he tell off the water*
wa/Mii 1>< cause he got un to give
h> s “at to a woman has heard of
Either Vlam’s allegation, evidently.
II ii E. T. Steed, of Villa Rica,
K 1 ! 'S nt a member of the state
has announced himsulf a can-
lll * rr ' I St.ite Sell ol Commisi
' e.n r. Merritt, however, will b*
l’i‘ tt\ s mu the designation of
t’uir. dispatcher will possess a
ghastly double sense, for many of
our i>• v.t people “am being” “dis*
1'it i, i. into Eternity by errors
k "T i t to their ghastiy work.
M ih M.ta judge has fined three
mies $1,000 each for
■ a rebates from a railroad.
■ got, of course, to credit
mer with the money they
! ' d o ,t •>.; the railroad corns
jo >v.
g t<> the Liquor q teslion
l'.-'lsiW tiou in Georgia, Gov.
; 'at': “After January 1st, we
liqucr-selliRg out of Geor-
i ]*!i*.ise God it shall stay
* t it’ s right and so ought
. <u‘ iig'a official to feel, and
i ae
■“ion should be given a fair
U will soon be against the
* ' wliiskev in this state and
i be enforced all along Hie
iti. good men will quit the
' and the bad men should be
: . even if they have'to be
so behind prison bars.
■ t tl.e selling agents,” says
•‘Utile dispatch, “are iu u posi-
■ • re they can command their
' for goods to be delivered
■hree months. It is the
of all prices et cottons
lj_, f > ,
makes the price of good* so
s ' jheie is no urplus in either
s econd hands an 1 retailers
, 1 ‘whirg for goods from jobbers
“ny del very this side of January.’
There will be a total eclipse of
the Moon (present Congressman
Griggs) by the Sun (Hon. Rodden-
bery) next Primary fur nomination
of Congressman in the Second Dis
trict. This eclipse was entered upon
a short time ago at Bainbridge and
is progressing. It is very visible to
the naked eye,
Oklahoma begins with Probibi
lion and Democracy, which is a
combination Georgia has just arrived
at in spite o* the Devil. (It will
be noticed that our intelligent com.
positor has put ti e devil up—that is
he has capitalized him, tho we have
always insisted on keeping the devil
down, where he belongs.)
The Pensacola Journal stales that
contracts have been awarded to J.
F. Taylor, of that -city, for the Govs
eminent work of deepening the water
in East Passy rear Canabelle. Bam*
bridge’s chief seaport. The work
will begin Octobe. 1 and will require
several months for its completion.
This is good news, as the improve'
ment has long been needed, and
when completed we shall have a
straight shoot to the Panama canal.
Mr. Carnegie and o’her rich men
could find better uses lor their money
than establishing libraries or endows
ing universities. Training scboels
to equip young men for mechanical
and agricultural occupation will
bring better returns than any other
educational investment. Boys need
to learn the art as well as the scis
ence of farming and industrial
schools will reach a larger chss of
wage-earners than the higher insti
tutions of learning.
Tne Blavatsky cult are sending
and receiving “messages” by men*
tality alone, they say* You simply
think out what you want, to say and
the person receiving this “think,”
thinks out a reply, and at once you
get a reply, “in your mind.” If
really practicable, it would be ex
cellent in reminding people of their
indebtednesses. We have tried it,
but the psychic waves are either off,
or it may be they are on a sympa ■
thetic strike with the union tele
graph operators.
A practicable machine for picking
cotton is on the market. It is oper
ated by a gasoline engine and is
carried over the cot-ton fields in a
wagon. Several tubes project from
the machine and the cotton is picked
from the boll by little saw*. It is
then carried through the tube into
the wagon by means of suction. It
is said that a half dozen rows of
cotton can be picked by tins machine
at the Diirae time, aud it is estimated
that three men can do the work of
seven or eight.—Georgian.
Relative to the joint Roddenbery-
Griggs ■’•eet at Newton, the asso
ciated press dispatch savs: ‘The
debate began a lew minutes before
1 o'clock in the court room of Baker
County’s new Temple of Justice.
The September term of Baker Su
perior Court began at 10 a. in., but
Judge Spence granted a recess that
all m attendance might be auditors.
The audience filled the court room,
and Baker, Mitchell, Calhoun, Mil.
ier. Early and Dougherty counties
were well represented.” Griggs was
not burned at the stake, it is true,
but lie was awfully “roa ted”.
The papers of Am erica, generally,
have written Georgia’s enactment cf
prohibition up as one of the greatest
things in her long and splendid his*
i ;ory. Column after column and pages
• m »he great American papers have j
I been devoted to this Georgia Prohi-
i bilion law, and in almost every case
i it has been called the greatest step
the State has ever taken. The pa*
pei s speak of it as the great deed
ol the Georgia Legislature and T
Gov. Smith. Those tew men whom
some S&vauuahians think narrow
have called forth the plaudits of the
world.
A Political Boomerang.
(Communication.)
In the joint debate between/
Judges Roddenbery and Griggs at j
Tifton, Judge Griggs said Rodden
bery was like a negro boy who
said he was anything to get that
watermelon.
Well, let’s see if we can't turn
that joke on himself The late
Judge Henry G. Turner, our former
congressman, when he found himself
out of harmony wuh his party on
only one question, and though he
had been offered the nomination,
refused it for the reason already
given, and retired from p.oitical life.
He refused to surrender conscien
tious convictions lor the sake of
office. That is statesmanship.
Wa 5 he l&e the negro boy who
was anything just to get that waters
melm?
Judge Roddenbery, during the
last Stale campaign early espoused
the cause of the People, supported
the People’s Reform candidate, the
Hon. Hoke Smith, made an native
canvass for him, and by the succe»s
achieved has placed himself in full
accord with the present policies of
his party. He, therefore, can cons
scientiGosly and with perfect con
sistency represent his party Th con
gress. Would he be compelled to
surrender any convictions to serve
his party in congress?
Is Judge Roddenbery like Judge
Griggs’ negro boy who was an\s
thing just to get that watermelon?
Judge Griggs left his seat in
congress, came home and actively
eRgaged, with all his bypnotistic
influence, in the campaign. He
chose, however, to champion the
cause of corporations; spurned the
cause of the People, and supported
Howell as though he thought Mr,
Howell was in the race for govern
or (but now, seriously, didn’t the
Judge show the ponderous brain of
the business man that be claims to
be?) and who was overwhelmingly
defeated. He shot the schutss with
the activity of the monkey. He car
ried not one county ; lost even bis
own. He, therefore, is wholly out
of harmony with the present policies
ot his party and cannot consistently
and conscientiously represent his
party in congress. But, notwith*
standing all this, he is seeking re.
election.
Wouldn’t Judge Griggs be com*
pelled to surrender convictions te
acceptably serve the policies of his
party, which he fought? Wou’drft
he be necessarily compelled to sur*
render his convictions to serve the
People, whom he tougnt? Hasn’t
Judge Griggs proved that be hum
self is like his negro boy, who is
anything just to get that water*,
melon?
Judge, you must lo'e watermeL
on as well as your negro boy, sir.
Judge, which do you like best:
watermelon or Prohibition?
Mr. Reader, haven’t we turned
Judge Griggs’ own joke on him?
Methinks, if the breweries and
corporations would let the Judge go
off to some secluded spot and sit
down by himself all alone and sen
ioisly consider bow he is dragging
in the dust the high and lofty ideal
of statesmanship set by oni lament*
ed former congressman, the Hon.
Henry G. Turner, be would retire
from the race.
For your defeat Judge, I reuiaia
Yours truly,
J. D. Stringer.
Timber Famine Imminent
If the practice of bleeding the
rees for turpentine, and felling them
At tender age, is continued at the
present rate, the forests and wooded
tracts of the United States will be
destroyed and the lumber indnsiry
of the country killed, within the
short period of ten years.
At present there is a shortage in
the sunply of lumber, but the worst
is to come. Unless some miracle
happens and forests spring up over
night the lumber supply ef this
country will be exhausted within
ten years. Abuses are responsible
for this state of affairs, the bleeding
of trees being especially harmful.
At Norfolk, in discussing muni
cipal government at the second ses*
sion of the Eleventh Annual Con.
vention of the American League of
Municipalities, on the 20th instant,
the speakers scored greed and graft
in city government. The cause was
not any particular form of governs
ment, but men actuated by selfish,
ness and greed, willing and having
an opportunity to reach the govern
ment. It was declared tl at “the need
was character and that backward
ness in city administration is due
to a want of back bone aad intel
ligence.”
At Fort Gaines, J udge Rodden -
bery asked Congressman Griggs
many questions, in analyzing his
record, whieh he apparently studi
ously avoided answering. Griggs
is evidently well Bluffed with “chest
nuts*” He more than rivals Chauncy
Depew. But this is ^ot argument,
and sarcasm is not what thinking
people want t© l»«te» to. It is cot
physique but brains and honesty
that the electors waul in coRgress.
"Sunset Cox” was a very small man,
as far as stature and averdupois go,
but he was always lietenened to
with marked attention when he
spoke iD the House of Representa
tives Alexander H* Stephens was
a frail mas, but he was a leader.
A Chronicle special from Atlanta
says Judge Harris Dickson of Vicks
burg, well known asar author and a
judge, was in that city with a com.
mission to prepare a series of arti
cles on the Prohibition movement in
the South. While he will study aud
deal with the situation over tlie
entire Southern territory, he pro
poses to pay principal attention to
Georgia.
It will serve those well to know,
who have been in the habit of pro*
viding themselves with whiskey
when they went fishing, to be used
in case of snakebite, and who will
Rot be able to obtain n in this Slate
after January 1, that a superior sub
stitute is iodine, put in the circula,
tiou of the blood.
A few more days and the persim*
mou will ripen and the possum will
be in our midst. “In our midst”
is the synonim for “und< r , oar vest”
where the other ravishing!,y fine
delicacies ef the boH vivantsare put
on gHsratory storago.
Another Roddenbery-Griggs meet
took place in Nashville, Berrien
county, last Monday, during second
week of Superior Court. Rodden
bery has many friends there. It
was there that Griggs was admit
ted t* the paaetice of law.
The one hundreth and eighth ses
sion of the University of Georgia
opened with the largest attendance
in the history oi that m-titution,
wLich has been advertising in The
Democrat.
The State of South Carolma is
now wholly out of the liquor busi
ness after over fourteen years ex
perience, which proved unsatisfac
tory financially and otherwise.
When the cotton market lakes
downward turns is the most tmpor_
tant time for the farmer to hold on.
The man with the goods will win
everv time.
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Ye politician is out with a long
pole and painfully anxious expression
of countenance lookiqg wistfully to
wards the political persimmon.
The favorite air of the Offieeseek*
era’ Club is: “Tnou art so near, and
yet so far!”
Predicts Victory for Rod
denbery!
The Wiregrass Farmer.
The debate in Tifton between
Griggs and Roddenbery forcibly
reminded one of the combat between
Goliath of Gath and David o. old.
Not alone on account of the respec
tive sizes of the two combatants, but
also in the matter of combat, except
that we have no idea that old
Goliath could • in ar.y way equal
Congressman Griggs in heaping con
tempt and ridicule upon the little
stripling that stood before him, like
he did on the little man from
ThomasvilU, and in turn, neyer did
little David send surer shots than
did Raddenbery send home with
force,charges that pierced the armour
of funny tales and the spirit ot
ridicule with which his opponent
had clothed liimself. However, all
the anecdotes that Congressman
Griggs cm tell will never atone for
the insult he gave his constituency
unvoting to retain a Mormon in his
seat in our national congress when
the religious press of the United
States, of all denominations, headed
by the great inter-denominational
paper, The Christian Herald, backed
up by other moral agencies, were
doing all tfiey could to unseat him,
nor, for the insult offered Democ
racy, at Tiftoh, by the excuse he
gave for so voting. The virtue ot
our women, the sanctity of the home,
and the honorable state of matrL
mocy ory out that such a vote be
avenged at the ballot box.
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This is one race for office that there
is far more than politics in; and men
of different shades of politics are
coming together in behalf of the
morals involved. The moral sensi
bilities of the people of the Second
District are aroused and there is
rapidly accumulating amongst them
a tidal wave of sentiment m favor of
Anderson Roddenbery’s clean life,
as well as his clean polities, that
will make him our next CoDgresss
man in spit- of all the discouraging
assertions t<> the contrary that the
politicians may now make.
Thi is the sentiment among ail
the better elements in Decatur, and
we do not doubt it being so of all
this section of the District.
Meantime, watch the line-up!
The Wave of Prohibition.
Oklahoma takes its place in the
temperance column, says the Geo;*
gian, and starts tho leaven of Pro
hibition in the Southwest.
It is simply marvellous how this
wave of Moral Reform is sprerding
throughout the country.
With Mississinpi certain to follow
Georgia, with Alabama more than
probable, and Florida and Tennes
see coming into line, and with Texas
throbbing with the spirit of. the
Great Reform, the time is rapidly
coming when one can travel from
the capital of his country to the
Pacific coast without finding a drink
of whi-ky on the way!
If ever there was a time when
the great plan of National Prohi
bition seemed possible and probable,
this is the time. The conntrv is
literally swept from one end to
another with the spirit of this .Moral
Refo'm; and the several bills which
are to be introduced into the national
congress, looking to a National law,
are likely to astonish the republic
with the strength and vigor of the
support which they will receive.
And this is one main iea s on for the
imperative demand upon the trends
of Moral Reform, Prohibition and
Ci\ ic Righteousness, to staud to*
gether for the e’ection to office of
such men as have made and now
stand for the grand principles upon
which these reforms a~e predicated.
For these reasons The Democrat is
for Jauge Roddenbery as against
the man whose private and public
life has been (to put it m the mild*
eet way) anything but emulative as
a liquor drinkei.
The American ■■• pic do not eat
as much rice as v should. It is
the most nourishing of the grains, is
easily prepared in many ways and
the experience of the Asiatics, among
whom it is the principal food, has
shown how valnble it is as a diet in }
producing strong, healthy men, capa
ble of the greatest labor and endur
ance. Now that Texas and Lousi*
ana have become large producers of
rice and the territory for its produc
tion is constantly enlarging, patriot* -
ism alone would suggest that our
own people should furnish more
consumers for tbie nutritious edible.
Go to a Chinese restaurant and see
how they prepare it. The Asiatics
say we do not know Low to cook
rice so as to obtain the best results.
Endorsed l>y the County.
“The mosi popular remedy in
Otsego county, and the best friend
of my fainilv,” writes Wm. M. Dietz,
editor and publisher 'of the Otsepo
Journal, Gilbertsville, N. Y., “is Dr.
King’s New Discovery. It lias
proved to be an infal ible cure for
coughs and colds, making short work
of the worst ot them. We always
keep a bottle in tho house. I bes
lieve it to be the most valuable pre
scription known for Lung and Throat
disease*.” Guaranteed to never dis
appoint the taker by all druggists.
Priej 5oc and $l.oo. Trial bottle
free.
To the Ladies.
Opposite the county jail, on North
Broad street, adjoining the Steam
Laundry Building, 'Will Jacksoh'^
does first class cleaning and dyeing,
making skiits, waists, coats and
wraps and gentlemeu’s and children’s
clothing look like new, and guaran
tees tho colors Prices right. Save
half your winter bill for clothing
by having him clean, dye and ren*
ovate some ot those you already
have.
CASTOR IA
For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have Always Bough
Bears the /HX
Signature of C/■foCZ&tfa
A PELVIC DISEASE
Of Which Peruna Cured Me In m
Very Short Time
WAS SAPPING MY LIFE.
M RS. SOPHIA CALDWELL, 1122
iijGavock St., Nashville, Tenn.,
writes:
“After doctoring fer a year and find
ing no relief from leticorrhea resulting
from prolapsus uteri, and which was
sapping my life forces away, I finally
tried Peruna, and when I found that it
was helping me every day, it seemed
almost too good to be true.
“But, it not only helped me, it cured
me and in a very short time.
“I am now enjoying the bestof health.
“I am strong and free from pain, and
I certainly feel that all praise and honor
are due to Peruna.”
Thousands of women will read the
testimonial of Mrs. Caldsvell as above
given.
Thousands of them will lie induced to
try the remedy that saved her.
Thousands of them will have the
ae experience she had.
eruna is the remedy such womf
d. Peruna comes like a boon to su
ing womankind.
[rs. John Hopp, Webster Ave., Glel
e, L. I., N. Y., has also been reliev<
ireivie catarrh by Peruna.
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