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The Democrat
JNO. M. BROWN. Editor & M’g’r.
OFFICIAL
GAZETTE OF SHERIFF.
OR-
DINARY,
CLERK SUPERIOR COURT
and county COMMISSIONERS.
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at Bsomto
, Ga., postollice.
BAINBR
IDGE, January 16,
1908
Press on Our Candidacy.
Passing of the Booze.
There is not a strictly farming
community in the United States
where the saloon has a particle of
show in a standup vote. The tars
mer has become sober and sensible.
He finds better use tor bis corn than
to run it through a still; better use
for his truit than to convert it into
the brain maddening “applejack”.
Nemesis is marching on! This
goddess, sacred in the old Creek
calendar to revengers coming into
her own. The tight has been long,
the batt’es have been bloody, the
centuries are strewn with millions
of men dead trom drink, with count
less homes wrecked and ruined,
with blasted reputations, with seared
consciences, with that hope deferred
which maketh the heart sick. John
Barleycorn, generalissimo of the
hosts ot evil, the beasts of prey* the
legions of devils, the fiends incar
nate, is being drive* to the wall.
The scorpion is being surrounded
with fire. The bounds of the hunted
tiger grow less and less. The hosts
of hunters press on, remorselessly,
mercilessly, armed with argument,
business reasons, moral suasion, de-
cenev, selfpreservation, the hopes of
civilization. At the beginning of
the eighth year ot the twentieth
century we are able to report pro
gress.
The states that are now dry are
Geovgla, Kansas, Maine, Oklahoma
and North Dakota. A year hence
Alabama will be dry by state enact-
ment. A large portion of the state,
including Jefferson county, in which
Birmingham is located, is already
dry.
Kentucky, with one hundred milv
lion dollars invested in the manu
facture of liquor, has 97 dry counties
ont of 119.
North Carolina has dried 99 per
cent ot her territory.
South Carolina, 17 out of 41 coun
ties dry.
Tennessee has but three cities
where liquor can be legally sold—
Nashville, Chattanooga and Mem
phis.
Fight tor prohibition being waged
in Missisddpi, Maiyland, Virginia
and Delaware.
Massachusetts lias 250 dry towns,
100 wet ones.
Sixty .two per cent ot the popnla.
tion ot N w Hampshire lives in dry \
territory.
The temperance movement is
sweeping the country in an irresis,
table wave and soon, it is asserted,
no whisky will be sold in the United
States except in the larger cities,
into which the criminal elements of
the country will flock. The trend is
toward enforced abstinence and the
makers ot liqnor are greatly alarmed.
Nearly forty million people, about
half the population of the country,
now live in temperance territory.
All the eleven Southern States have
not as many saloons as the one city
of New York.
The North is falling into line
rapidly. The best statesmen in the
congress ot the Uuited States
are jostling each other to see who
can push the National Prohibition
plan along the most effectively and
quickest. They are charged with
insincerity and that they t,re doing
what they are doing for expediency
sake, lmt that is not the truth. They
are in earnest. They are not run
ning the movement; it is so vast, so
deep rooted, >o vigorous it is running
them With them it is “root hog or
die.*’ They are all rooting new.
Ben Tillman says he is not a candi
date for President on the Prohibition
ticket but that if he is “drafted” he
will serve. Here in Bainbridge is a
sign in a clothing store window, the
proprietors of wh’ch establishment
wore formerly in the whisky busi
ness: “Forget about booze and let’s
■get d'wn to business.” The move
mentis of a octial description, politi
co-economic character, and has a
moral, religious trend, and thus aps
peals to the minds, the hearts and
the pockets of all classes.
The Editor of the Democrat has
always shrank from undue publicity,
preferring rather the quietude and
seclusion ot private life, but having
in this single instance, in a newspa
per can er of thirty-six years (ail of
which but ten years have been sp nt
in this city s nd county and in loyal
behalf of these dear people, without
political reward or even the hope
thereof, but with an eve and purpose
single to the betterment and uplift
of their moral development and im
provement of their material interests
and the driving forth from their
midst conditions, forces and influen
ces calculated to mar or jar those
interests) to stand for State Sena
tor in the coming White Democratic
Primary, he trusts that he will be
pardoned for reprodueing in
part a few of the editorial comments
and opinions of bis brethren ot the
press, touching his aspirations to
champion, defend and advocate and,
if he may, make legally effective,
in behalf of these people, pure Dem
ocracy, along old landmarks, with
all that this implies, with Civio
Righteousness and official purity,
with all that these imply; the full
protection by the law ot every right
ceded the State, under their
several charters, of incorporated
bodies, by safeguards against the
encroachment of these legal entities
upon the rights and interests of the
people. Some of these gentlemen
have known us during all these
eventful years, hence are familiar
with our work and the results which
have flown out of it. First our
local conheres:
From the Bainbridge Searchlight.
Col. John M. Brown for the State
Senate. It is the first time in his
life that this old veteran has an
nounced for public office. He needs
no formal introduction from us to
our readers, being well known to
them for forty years past, most of
the time as editor of the Democrat.
He is a man of decided convictions
upon all public questions, and has a
habit of always getting on one side
or the other and staying there. Col.
Brown has many friends who hope
to see him elected—and if he don’t
get the plum he will make it inter
esting for the man who does.
From the Bainbridge Post.
In this iseue is found the an
nouncement of Hon. John M. Brown
for the State Senate. Mr. Brown
has been a citizen of this county
for a number of years and his rec
ord for political consistency is well
known. He is an organized demoi
ciat and lias always battled for the
supremacy of Democracy and ad>
hered closely to the principles as
laid down by the different and suc
ceeding conventions Mr. Brown is
in accord with the reforms of the
present administration and advo
cates conservatism all down the
category of issues.
From the Savannah Daily Press
Editor Brown is a veteran Demo
crat and has lived up to the name
of his paper. He is a good man
and will represent his district with
great credit. He has remained true
to his party and to his Stat°,
and has helped many inferior men
to get office. The time has come
when the people of Decatur should
select Editor Brown as their stand,
ard hearer m that senatorial district.
Hon. J. D. Harrell was the last sen
ator which Decatur county had and
he was a splendid one. Bainbridge
ought to keep the standard up to a
high plane.
From the Thomasviile Press.
Editor John M. Brown oi the
Bainbridge Democrat has announced
that he is a candidate for Senator
from the Eighth Senatorial District.
He stands on the State Democratic
platform of 1907, with both feet, and
has fought for the Reform move>
rnent that is on in Georgia, soon
and late. The Press will he do- j
lighted to to see the voters ot the
Eighth District select Editor Bmwi.
as their senator.
The w ireless telephone is in opera
tion in Pennsylvania. Farmers com- '
municata with each other.
The rainfall in southwesc Georgia
in 1907 was greater than in-anv year j
rf the last quarter ot a century, *
Democratic Primary.
[Published Officially.]
Bainbridge, Ga., January u, 1908.
At a meeting of the Democratic
Executive Committee held this
duv, it was resolved, and ordered,
that a white Democratic Primary
election be he.d at the different
election precincts of Decatur
County, on Wednesday, March
11th, 1908, for the nomination of
candidates for Judge of the Oitv
Court of Bainbiidge, Solicitor
of said Court, State Senator, two
representatives in the General
Assembly, Ordinary Clerk of
Superior Court, Sheriff, Tax
Collector, Tax Receiver, County
Treasurer, County Surveyor,
Coroner, and two members of the
County Board of Commissioners;
That the returns of said Primary
election be consolidated by the
managers thereof at the Court
House at Bainbncge,Ga.,on Thurs
day the 12th day of March 1908.
in accordance with the laws
governing Primary elections.
That at such Primary election
all white democratic voters
qualified to vote by registered list
of voters at the last County
election held on the 26th day of
March 1907, and all such voters
who have since become qualified
according to law, be allowed to
vote.
That candidates for City Court
Judge, City Court Solicitor, State
Senator, Representatives, Ordin
ary, Clerk Superior Court,Sheriff,
Tax Collector, and County
Treasurer, be assessed twenty five
dollars each aud that condidates
for Tax Receiver, County
Surveyor, Coroner, and members
of County Board of CPrnrs, be
assessed twelve dollars and fifty
cents each, for t. e purpose of
defraying all expenses of suen
Primary election.
That all candidates be required
to register with the Secretary of
the execut i\e Commotion atd
pav their assessment in full by 6
o’clock P. M, on Saturday the 22nd
day of February 1908, that the
name of no candidate who has not
so registered and paid shall be
plaoed upon the official ballot to
be used and voted at such
Primary.
That on Monday Feb nary 24 th
1908, the Chairman of this
Committee shall prepare
Legal fiaiiertisemsnt
STATE OF GEORGIA \
Decatur County. )
Whereas R A Reynolds, administrator
of Emma B Reynolds, represents to the
Court, in his petition, duly tiled aud
entered on record, that he has fully
ad ministered said estate,
This is, therefore, to etc all persons
concerned, kindred and creditors, to
show cause, if any they cSn, why said
adminis rator should not. be discharged
from his administration, and receive
letters of dismission on First Monday
in February, 1908.
T. B. MAXWELL, Ordinary.
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Dr. Kilmer’s Sw*mp-Root is not rec
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Plain Talks on Fertilizers
A Talk to Fruit-Growers
You use a fertilizer
of co rse, but do you
use enough ?
The yield per. acre,
and the profit therefrom
increases in far greater
proportion than the cost
of additional fertilizer.
What is an increase in
cost of $2.00 to $10.00
per acre for fertilizer
when the returns therefrom
show an increase of $50.00 to
$250.00 per acre?
The big Magnolia Fruit
Farms at Durant, Miss., tested
the well-known Virginia-Car-
olina Fertilizer
in different
quantities o n
their straw
berry crop.
Result; when
1,000 lbs. per
acre were used
the profit was
$75.00 moreper
acre than when
500 lbs. per
acre were used.
This is modem intensive cul
ture, the method that is doub
ling and trebling the crops of
all kinds of fruit in
either good or in poor
and worn-cut land all
over the country—and
in good soil, too.
they are i
and more
be your c
ize spann
i ho
be
the
de-
-tter
' greater
able will
Fertil-
and y 0u
reap sparingly.
The fact that over a million
tons of V irginia-Carolina
Fertilizer were sold last year
proves them to be without
equal. Every fruit farmer
no matter what method he
now uses, should get the Vir
ginia - Carolina
Company’s
new Year Book
or Almanac.
It is free to all
who are inter
ested enough
to write for it.
Address us to
the nearest city
below.
VERGUTA-CAEOLD’A
CHEMICAL CO.
Richmond. Va. Durr.am, N. C.
Norfolk, Va, Charleston, S. C.
Columbia, S. C. Baltimore, Md.
Atlanta. Ga.
Columbus, Ga.
Savannah, Ga.
lh!025 Montgomery, Ala.
Memphis, Tenr,.
Shreveport, La.
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have printed an official ballott,
containing the names of all
candidates who have complied
with the foregoing requirements,
and that at such Primary election
no other ballot shall be voted or
counted by the managers thereof
and that such ballot shalo be
distributed by the secretary of
this committee only to the
managers of such election.
That 'alter such primary
election and after payment of all
expenses incident to such election
aud after placing the sum of
twentyfive dollars in the Treasury
of this committee, tor future uses
of this committee, any balance
then remaining in the treasury
from the assessment of the
candidates shall be refunded to
the various candidates paying the
same in.
That the Democratic executive
committee of the County meet at
the Court house in Bainbridge at
1:30 o’clock p. m. on Thursday
M trch 12th 1908 for the purpose
of declaring the result of such
Primary election, and to transact
any orher business that may come
before them.
That the Primary election
herein provided for* be held and
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C. W. Wimaerley, Secretary.
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