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J /y i li y y tfXsCJL' ttere Shall the Press the People’s Rights Maintain ttQMINC' MARCH 12. 1908. Vol. 39---Mo. IS—$!.oc t Yur [prujt of the Sanctum. The “i -eatless” marriage is at Hmx- is “reform” right. I won’t be another February , ib five pay 'fays in'it for 28 years. 'll, < r i‘ note of prosperity in the j. lo-ard in the “gee” and “ban" of the farmer. Juft about this time of thj year t he fiiucteur gardener and the industrious hen come to the parting of the ways. y r Williams J. Bryan says he is cot seeking the Presidency, but it » \<> ‘rile” him when an*, otbei * 1 urgested as the Democratic caul'. iJ-« Since a cigarette is said to have irted the big Tampa fire that city 11 probably join the throng that Ids that cigarettes are harmful. Theodore Roosevelt is behind Taft, ami this means that Taft will be nominate 1. Taft is a great man ind a good big man. Th* Atlanta papers have a good deal to say about the empty cells of tbat city ^inoe the prohibition law went into .'fleet. “Empty cells,” we presume means no honey. When yon need a physician to prescribe liquor for your ailment let him prescribe it in ounces. Remem ber it take< sixteen drams to make an ounce according to druggist’ rule. Our -ood fiiends in Savannah do uot lee! just the same way about their luck, r clubs as they did a few dars ago—-hot about Judge Speer either. N an a^tonomer claims to have dib. -vi red water on Mars. That shows how the prohibition sentiment is spreading. The Georgia railroad commission nts the railroads to show cause why they propose to cut the wages of their employes. The penalty of being a public-service corporation crows more severe every day. Mr. Bryan went to Kentuckey an 1 employed his influence on the ^eiiatarial deadlock with the result tb it a Kepublican’minority soon after clt<‘ej ti !e i r candidate. Mr. Bryan certati'ily has pronounced political influence—it never fails to bring vietury to the Republican ticket. Brunswick Journal remarks that the mere mention ot an amendment to the present prohibition bill will revive hepe in the breast of many a thir-ty one who has tired of the “near beers.” It must be pretty good stuff they i‘sve in Brunswick. The Journal • here says; “Judging from the vfle :s it has on some, the “prohibit tl '- r beer" has simply been swap- F* n - the devil for the witch.” en times become normal the prospect is that passenger earnings V;i; he still further increased, lower railroad fares are nown to mean increased passenger tamings, the railroads will [not be .oiig in getting into the swim. The •-vuthern had thi foresight to see hjw increasing receipts could be *' ‘' r * d, and ii the returns for seven ^v'utbh and a half are even dupli- - Bod .n the next seven months and “ ‘-ail all other roads will soon adopt ' u Southern’s satisfactory policy. THIS NEW CHURCH SECURED. As It Will Appear Finished! The Cost of It all In /Sight Without /ndebtedness. Mr. Watson is not in a position to enter his customary and usual bitter complaints against the Governor. He hasjvouahe.1 ior him, and besides, the people generally will not believe the governor’s alleged effenses merits such com plaints. Tommy, k* c-p quiet! Verily, we cut some funny capers in Georgia po! ties. Every few years the people rise up and cry “down with the ring.” Aud, then, they forthwith proceed to create another “ring.” And so it goes on, year after year. The government is going to make a strong effort to rid the country of anarchists. It is the duty of the Secretary ot Labor and Commerce to enforce the laws against them, and the order he has given to the various subofficials of his department indie ites.clearly what his purpose When a patient dies who is treat ed by Christian scientists somebody is arrested for having caused the patient to die by the absent treat ment. To be fair, when a patient dies wh has been treated by a regular physician, should not somebody be arrested for having caused the patient to die by the present treatment? The indications are that there will be movements in several states in the direction of prohibition during the present year. There is a prohis bition wave sweeping over the country, and if it is dire; ted wisely the prohibitionists will be able to report great progress. If they don t gnide it wisely prohibition may get setback from whiofc it will not recover in years. the seven months and a halt ending February 14, the passenger earnings of the Senthern railroads were increased $898,906 over the receipts of the corresponding per od of the previous year. The period ended was, too, characterised business depression which In just by affected a good part of it—a depres sion that has cut down gross receipts on all railroads. _ The Houston Post says that the countenances >f the goats which adorn the bock beer s.gns m that city wear a benevolent and philan tbropic expression. A closer tow , IT £x y asSr^! wet when*all tlie rest of the South is • croi nff drv. Coming Across. State railroad commission is well pleased with its efforts to expedite the settlement of railroad claims In a statement issued by them states that they has evidence of marvelous improvements in this feature of the service, and that to their requests upon the roads for in ormation as to adjustment ot overcharge and loss and damage cla’ms many interesting replies have been received from the companies They say that during tne last three months of last year the Southern sett'ed 6,829 claims, amounting to $120,000, representing 80 per cent of those filed. A similar report from the A, B. and A. shows that during the same period 2,445 claims were presented and 2,233, aggregating a value of $19,579.21 were adjusted, and that only 212 were left pending. Another report from the Atlanta and West Point shows that claims are being more speedily adjusted, the general manager writing that he has instracted all agents to give such matter precedence over all other business, SHORT EDITORIALS. Double Murder and Lyn ching. Two negroes, Curry Roberson and John H.nry, were ljnched last week and their bodies burned near Hawkmsville charged with the murder of Mr. and Mrs. Warren Hart. One of the negroes confessed and said the motive was robbery. Rober son and Henry were arrested Wednesday following the discovery of the body of Warren Hart. His wife was lying near by in a dying condition. Mr, Hart had been killed as the result of a blow on the head, ap> parently made by an axe. Mrs. Hart was seriously beaten and was found unconscious. She died Wed nesday night without having re covered consc ousnees. The negroes were quietly taken from the county jail and carried some dictance from the town, where they were hanged to a tree. The lynching party consisted of a number of men who concealed their identity with masks. A.ter th** hanging the bodies were cut down aud inciuerated. After this the p-vsse quickly dispersed. While the murder was committed !' ,r Robbery, the marderres faild to dud #800 conseiled in the house. Cheerfulness begets cheerfulness, in business as well as in everything else. Spring, real spring, was ushered in by March down here in Gcd’s country. Taft s nomination by the Republi cans now seems to be about as certain as that of Bryan by the Democrats. The state will probably hear so me lively campaign speeches when Gov ernor Smith goes on the stump, whether another candidate appears oi not. In spite of tome throughly erudite opinions to the contrary, Judge Speer seems to have made good in his locker club opinions, as far as Savannah is concerned. Those who arw advocating op position to Governor Smith for a second team have heretofore been great sticklers for party custom. They now want to defeat him sfimplyto gratit their personal hatred of the Governor. But he will serve four years m the Gubernational chair, if be lives. The brewers and iiquor people or distillers have parted company they say. The brewers believe that prohibition in the south is due largely to the liquor traffic. They calculate that by starting a campaign of education in toe aenth to show the difference between iiquor aud beer as beverages that they can relieve the public mind of the prejudice that exists against beer. They have probably waited entirely too late. The pow*:r of advertising is told by a manager of the toilet depart ment ot a large New York depart ment store. “We have six different makes of one article,” he said, “and they are so near alike in quality that even experts cau’t tell the difference between them, yet we sell as much of one as we do of all Jthe others together, just because the manufacturer is everlastingly ad> vertising it. The other five sell in proportion to the amount of ad vertising given to them. If there is any difi erenee in quality it is in favor of the poorest seller.’ 1 It seems quiet nfins—ary for the 1 j Arr.i.Saioon League and aii friends of prnhibition, clean government and clean officials, to be active in some parts of Georgia. We know of candidates who have annooneed on platforms that appear on the surface to be wholly free ^from the “taiied-ring,” bnt who really are “running nnder cover.” However, we reiterate, “by their past records shall ye know them,” and the “uncovering” of such is daily coming to pass and their masks will be completely torn off at the ballot box; or we are much mistaken in the great majority of Georgia’s voters. You can fool bhe people for a little wnile but it don’t last long now a-days The District Executive Committee have ordered -the Congresional Primary for this District on the 4th of June—the tame date fixed by the State Committee for the State Primary. At the meeting of the District Committee • communication from Hon. 8. A. Roddenbery, ot Thomas county, who will be a candidate in the primary, was read. Asking that the oommittee take especial note of the recommendation of the State Congressional Committee in regard to an accounting for all campaign funds used by candidates in their race. When it has been shown tbat j any money was spent, either by the candidate himself or with his knowledge or consent be shall be declared iceligiable for the office. The letter was referred to the j committee on resolutions, which immediately retired for consultation and later reported resolutions and rule# for the government of the primary. • That part of their resolutions cm - bodying the request ot Mr. Rodden bery says: “That each candidate ior congress shall file with the chairman of this committee a sworn itemized state ment showing the amount of money spent in his campaign, and from what sources procured and how, on or before the 11th day of June, 1908 and no candidate shall be declared nominated who fails or refuses to comply therewith. “No candidate shall oc declared a nominee of the party if it be made to satisfactorily appear to this committee that he has used money or other things of value to employ workers at the polls or in advance of primary, or that he engaged in buving votes to secure his nomina tion; and this provision shalf* apply even where such improper use of money or other things of v-lue or the baying of votes is done by the friends of such candidate with his knowledge andcoBsent.” Boys and Switches. The arguments that are often heard m favor of and against whip ping in schools cannot be judged by any fixed rule. Flogging may ruin one boy aud make another. It, depends upon the temperament of the boy and the punishment that is administered. The once common schoolmaster who flew into a rage at the slightest provocation, and flogged his scholars unmercifully, exercising neither judgement nor forbearance, was an abomination. As a rule, the modern idea that the best that is in a boy can be brought out by an appeal to hie better nature needs argument to vindicate it, though tt.ere are instances where a judicious applica tion of hickory warmth w.ll accom The Lot .or Clubs. Fortyfour persons, indicated f or retailing liquor with >.it paying tb< government tax, pleaded guilty u the TJmte J States court last week and were released upon parole of honor, which they signed a open court, and by the term# of which they promised to pay the government assessment and to surrender their licenses to the city of Savannah, and never again to be connected W1 -h h locker club. Many of those who pleaded guilty were men in other lines of business, who never engaged in liq i-,r traffi.- and who were simply members of locker clubs. Judge Speer deliyejed a talk* in the nature of a temperance lecture, concluding wh:ch he said: .-w— “You are not aU of tfee offenders by many. You are but the advanoe guard under the Satui a&lian stand 1 * ard of Bacchus, and you have met a most disastrous defeat. advice to you is to go snd sin no more.” The government assessment ran ges from $100 to $800. If the kicker club men of Savannah bad any idea that they bad safely entrenched themselves where court nor minor of the law could reach them, their awakening must have been painful when the decree of Judge Speer dug them f>rth and baled them before the bar of justice. If “teror to evil doers” ever had a more genuine application in one place than another, or all the others, the place thereof is Savannah, Ga~, and the inspiration Judge Emory Sp^er. It is evident that the’ locker clul doesn’t present a safe way to evade the law prohibiting the sale of intoxi cants in this state. That is made clear by the final disposition of the locker club cases. If there had been any defense for the men indicted for operating locker clubs it would have been offered. There was none, and therefore the parties indicted had to • plead guilty, and take themselves out of the business of selling liquor in this state, and keep ont a# long as there is a prohibition law in Georgia. ADMINISTRATORS SALE. GEORGIA—Decatub Count*: By virtue of an order of- the Court of Ordinary of said County, will be sold at public outcry, on the first Tuesday in April, 1908, at the Court House ia in said county, between the usual hoars of sale, the following real estate situate in Decatur county, to-wit: Ail of that certain traci or parcel of land situated lying and being in the Fifteenth (15tb) District of Decatur county, Georgia, aud des scribed as follows, to*>Ht: Begin- ing at the southwest corner of lot ot land number three hundred and sixty eight (368), and tbence running along the south land line east six hundred and (660) yards, thence running north paralled with the west land line of said lot to a point half way between the north and south land line of said lot, theuoe running west parallel with the south and line of said lot to the west land line of said lot, aad thence running south along the west land line of said lot to the starting point; the same being seventy five acres, more or less, in the south west corn r of lot ol land number three hundred and sixty eight (368) in the Fiftlw teenth (15th) District of Decatur county, Georgia. R. GRlVFIN, Administrator, Estate ofSallie Griffin. The Mayor of Gamavilte must have been missing bis breal^ast be cause of a late cook, as he has issued an order stopping negro meetings plish reforms not to be wrought m at 10 o’clock at night. It wouldn’t any other possible way. p© a bad idea for Bainbridge’s Mayo* to follow suit. There’s no goo midnight meetings and “fore da dobs.'- 1