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nbriufle \ €jL— Here Shall the Press the People’s Rights Maintain py JOHN M. BROWN. BAINBRI06E. GEORGIA. THURSDAY MORNINC, MARCH 26. 1908. ¥ol. 39—No.“ 6—$S.o9 a Yaar Editorial. Gra>' l u rB are a crown °* honor, Wbin they mark the progress 01 increasing wisdom. (. wr inkh‘S are an adornment cv ,. r v face in which they are -n R . chrvetalliaod smiles that have b*-ani'*<5 t- r , jU1 a loving, generous heart. Stick to your winter underwear UDll ! it sticks to you, is a good old njleto remember now. We prob. S U-, wili have some cool snaps yet, au'l grip and pneumonia germs are waiting <or them. T‘> rea l about all those idle freight cars now will probably not j, 8Ve the effect of softening the swearing that will be done when ttc peaches ripen that are now on llie trees in the Georgia orchards. In Mr. Guyte McLendon’s Car- rollton speech he said: “The con ditions that surround us call for a display of the highest patriotism and intelligence. It is a time when foolish men should be asked to re main silent. It is a time when from the multitude of sane counsel there should come wise suggestion in the place of wild assertion.” Tln-re is an unwritten law that givesti-e governor a second term ami it will be difficult, to repeal than law at the polls. They are said to be shipping wet packages to Georgia labeled “dy r . uamite.” It is stilted, however, that it tab s something fiercer than dy- namite to scare a thirsty Georgian these days. The way of the reformer is hard. Some people may not know this who stand in line for promotion to learn it before many more moons. The “college on wheels” was probably the most costly election eering scheme the voters of Georgia have yet had to “stand for.”—Val dosta Times. The “college on wheels”,cost noth ing the railroads which furnishing it free—but it impressed us as more of a farce than a “college.” (, rover Cleveland has solved the problem of what ex presidents may do with themselves. The first dem ocratic president after a lapse of more than a quarter of a century of d mocratic administration spent his birthday peacefully in the fam ily circle, and is able at that ad. vanced age to enjoy a day of fishing or hunting with the ze3t of a boy. The Democrat will club with the farmers Union News, the National I nion paper, for $1.75 per annum, fd, include a copy of "Farmer’s I nion Bulletin on the home mixing ot fertilizers. tt 1 his trick of William J. Bryan 01 damning every man a “republi can assistant” who doesn’t yell ‘“Bryan,” “Bryan” at breakfast, diu- cht and supper shows the kind of ’"an Bryan is. Tom Watson is cussing Hoke > ubth for doing too little, while ivanv others are cussing him for uMng too much. So we have about decided that he took a safe, sane and conservative view of things and a Ged accordingly. But the people —•niany of them—see that their ma uds resulted differently from t; en oxj ectations—doubtlessly due tbe contemporaneous nationul millionaire’s panic. * he report that a grasshopper <an jump 200 times its length sug. -csts bis similarity to some politi- ' 541 aspirant* in their ability to side- the issue*. “Can Bryan be elected?” a**ks a newspaper, Can he be nominated is also a pertinent question. Every fourth year the Georgia g. o. p. may be depended upon to contribute something to the gayety of the nations. The sable end of the party and the Lilly-Whites are hopelessly divided, the white offices holders being fcr Taft, while the ebony-hued contingent are “agin” anything backed by Roosevelt. Grover Cleveland at seventy-one finds himself firmly enshrined in the hearts and confidences of his patri otic fellow 'countrymen, without distinction of party. It is now less than three months until the time tor the assembling of the Republican national convene tion at Chicago, and the vice pres. 1 dential candidate is not clearly in eight. The only really important politician who has confessed that he would like to have the job is Gov. Guild of Massachusetts. The party might go further and fare worse. Those merchants who do the least advertising in their home papers are the ones who howl lo-adest about the mail order business and hard times. Captain Wiley Williams, the Co lumbus chief of police, seems to be foremost in the race for state prison commissioner and is looked upon as a winner. He has the qualifica - tions for the position and would make a splendid official. Hon. Joseph M. Brown, the de posed railroad commissioner, has yielded to the voice of the tempter and announced himself a candidate for governor in opposition to the present Governor Hoke Smith. The compositor whose copy read “Let the galled jade wince” and set it “Let the gallon jug win” was more proficient in expressing the sentiment of many thirsty people than he was in reading what was writ. The Democrat could say with pride and well founded excuse many things that would be well to keep in mind but we would be misum derstood and we leave the duty for the present. Let it be remembered that we are here to do every thing that can be done legitimately. The second district congressional race is not attracting much atten tion but, deep water runs smoothly and they tell us some very active work is being accomplished by the tireless little knight of the alpaca coat. Tift county is now conceded to Roddenberry. At one tune it was a Griggs strong hold.—Fitz gerald Enterprise. Judge Roddenberrv’s friends are not scared. Congress promises to hold on un til May 15 at least Many an anx ious member will pair to go home to add a lew rails to his fences. If a bill giving states authority to regulate traffic in whisky across state lines were to get squarely be fore Congress the probability is that it would be passed. The prohibi tion sentiment has grown so rapidly in the last year or two that senators and representatives would be afraid to vote against it. “In God We Trust” goes back on the coins, but its no good at the grocer’s. Who talks of evil conjures into Shape the formless thing and gives it life and scope. This is the law; then let no woid escape that does not breathe ol everlasting hope. Mr. T. C. Wainrnan Dead The Mother. Mr. T. C. Wainrnan, the man to , Mr. Roosevelt told the congress whom this fair city and county owes i of naotb :r=> that he was accustomed much of her recent development !0 weiehiD 6 h,e ^■'de-.-hieh hae and progress, passed to the spirit 8 ' ,met,m “ b « n doubte ' i - SI,d tbat world on Thursday last, ^ | ■« wm hi. debkenrte opmmo that months of suffering, from kidney |‘ tbe “Other and the mother only is disease, paralysis and, finally blood 1 * better c "! zeB than lhe so!dicr ' rho poisoning and exhaustion following : ® bZ8 b ' 8 COQnlr V- the amputation of one foot and ankle; “ lhe S ood *“» in which gangrenous diethesis had mother-you cannot really be a good set up. Mr. Wainrnan was a clean, honest man—loyal in his friendships, true to principle and a true man. Fifteen years ago he came south ! of Mt ' onal llfe i 8be » >»ore .opor- and bought largely of timbered mother if you are not a wise mother *—is more important to the commun ity than the abUst man. * * * The mother is the one supreme asset lands, and built saw mills, and after catting much of the timber bought largely of Bainbridge real estate, and erected the Hotel Wainrnan, at a cost of some $100,000, and proba bly a dozen cottages, and a splendid brick residence for himself on | Shotwell street, near the hotel prop. tant by far than the successful busi. ness man, or statesman, or artist, or scientist. A good mother who does full duty i6 sacred in our eyes. But the woman, who, whether from cowardice, (from selfishness, from having a false and vacuous ideal, shirks her duty as wife and mother, ! earns the right to our contempt.” erty. H ; came South fiom Eldred, Pennsylvania. He leaves a deyoted wife, three daughters and a son and a large I circle of relatives and a host ol friends in this city and section whose profoundest sympathies go out in this sad hour of bereavement. His remains were embalmed and kept till Sunday afternoon, when they were taken to the Presbyte rian church, where the impressive Episcopal service was held by Rev. Drs. Fog( rtie of the Presbyterian, and A. M, Williams, Presiding El der of the Methodist church, in presence of a large congregation of sympathizing friends, at 2:30 p. m.; after which they were carried to the new Annex to our city cemetery and laid to rest. Peace to his ashes Political Unrest. There is no doubt that the result of present political and business un rest is causing many people to break away irom their old political moorings. Party lines can no longer be drawn as tightly as m former campaigns, and the inde pendent voter will have 'to be, more than ever before, appealed to. A great business man and Democrat, Hon. William J. Douglas, who showed himself when Governor of Massachusetts, to be also a states man, iu a late interview has given us his opinion of the trend of public opinion when he said: “That the methods and tactics of the administration at Washington are doing much to obliterate party lines, I can readily believe; that they will benefit the Republican more Botts Brokerage Co. than tbe D em0 cratic party, is far This rapidly rising young fi rm j less certain. The Democratic party has an attractive new ad in Tbe j s h ou i(3 in m y opinion, do all possi- Democrat, to which we invite very i b j e abolish special privileges and special attention. They are whole- L Q gj ve th e people a square deal. It sale jobbers who b ;y at wholesale j gho ' u]d be lpgs gpectaculaf in its and who carry dependable bacon, ‘ metbods and more certain in pro hams, lard, flour and high.grade j dac j ng substantial results. Above canned goods, as well as grain and ab thmgg i it should take a strong feed stuffs ot every description. They will be found on Water street and will‘be found most pleas, ant and accommodating gentlemen te deal with. Give them a call be fore placing your wholesale orders for anything in their line. Young Man, Buy a Farm We have always believed that the young man with brain and energy could do better on a farm than ary- where else. Of coarse, there is room lor a limited number in the professions and there is room for a limited number m many callinge in the cities, but lor the great majority of young men there is a better liv ing to be made • on the larm in Geor gia than anywhere else in the state This position is now being backed by results. Tbe educational n P awakening in the state has demon 8 ' strated to the minds of the young men that there is something in our position for immediate tariff reduc tion on raw materials and foods, and especially for the entire removal of all duties on trust products sold cheaper to foreigners than to Am ericans. It should also do all in its power towards securing reciprocal trade relations with Canada and all other countries. With such a platform and with candidates that command the confidence ol the people, 1 be lieve our party would not only gam the support of many honest manu facturers, now Republicans, but would win at the polls. I have no fear of the results when the Demo, cratic party presents a proper plat form and candidates to the voterg.” Wipe Out Divorce Laws. We hope very much that a legist lature will be elected this year that j will wipe out divorce laws in Geor- j gia. The grand old state could contention. There are too many ; mana?e to get a } ong a while any young men coming to the clties - i way witbout saeh laws. After tbe The professions are being o\ er ue-divorce plan had been tried for a crowded. There must be ^more , yg arg ^ could tell whether it young men to stay on the farms,; ^ be ‘ ter to have gucb i aws or no t. and many of those now in the cities ^ leafit j et thc gtat€ ma ke this ex- to return to the farms before the j penm ‘ nt _ Washington Chronicle, state reaches its highest prosperity, j Tfa . g . g 0Qe tbe re ; orms which —“ would put Georgia in the Carolina One Mall Power. column. Divorces are prohibited Some oi the pavers ot Georgia there by the constitution of the are verv much disturbed over what ! state. The day when Georgia will they term “the one man power.” j have no liquor and no libels for di- The trouble with them is that it is vnree, will see tbe lid well nailed 1 the wrong man.-Hawkinsville Dis- | down in this state.—savannah I patch. I 1 ^ 98 - . , . ! * There is a good deal of human But Georgia isn t ready, or rather in this. When our man is not morally prepared to abrogate ; nature in, we don’t see any great danger to i the government. When the other fellow is in, the situation seems to ue full of peril. It all depends | upon whose ox is gored. y divorce laws. The whiskey element were lined up against us as usual tho we love them all. The Co iton Crop. The publication of the govern ment report yesterday ought to reconcile all differences over the aggregate of the cotton crop of 1907. The report covers the entire season, it being stated that it includes 127,- 64t> bales returned as remaining te be ginned alter the time of the March canvas. This brings the re port up to April 1, the end of the cotton season m all statistical cals cuiations, and the total crop is shown te be only 11,161,163 bales as against 13,305,265 bales in 1906. In tbe lace of this report there can be little or no room now for differ, ences as to the crop aggregate, and prices ought to at once seek a level based upon actual conditions and the laws of supply and demand. Hanged at Camilla, Mark Brown, a negro, was haDged at Camilla last Friday for criminally assaulting Victoria Holmes, aged eight, on November 29th la6t* He had nothing to say oa the scaffold and showed a stolid indif ference to the penalty. Georgia’s Convict System Th ire seems to be serious diffi culty before the June session of the legislature on the subject of Geor gia’s convict lease system, which expires by limitation Dext year. It goes without saying that lesses of convicts could not employ them unless the-e were a wide margin of profit in their labor. Could not, then, the state afford to employ them in the various counties for the purpose of building and maintaining good roads with profit to itself and at the same time providing better supervision aud humanitarian sur roundings tor the unfortunate who have offended against the law? To the committee which has had this under advisement and which has made a painstaking investiga tion of the subject, we look to for a reasonable solution of this problem which affects us both as humanita rians and as citizens. The attitude that many of the great railroad systems a r e assuming appears to be one of direct hostility to tbe people of the country. There is a generally prevalent opinion that thev are deliberately creating, or trying to create, a condition in the industrial world that will have an effect especially desired by them in the approachin - political campaign. If this is true, and the people of the country will know whether it is or not, they are clearly disloyal and are writing themselves down ene mies of the country’s best interests* The American people have a way ot dealing with declared enemies that is seldom entirely agreeable to those enemies. Perhaps the big railroad ers had better think it over. Flint River Shad. It is a brief generation old on the Atlantic seaboard that shad never did and never will quit the ocean for the gulf and that gulf streams must be forever shadless. In spite of this tradition, there are thousands of shad in Flint river. There are no well equipped shad fisheries, but hundreds ol shad are being caught this Bpring. At the dam in Muckafoocee creek, which empties into the Flint a mile and a half above Albany they say shad have been found to accumulate in large numbers. Lo cal fishermen are reaving a harvest while the season is on. Shad are now abundant in Flint river that a fishery, properly equipp ed. would reap a harvest at. this season of the year. The iruit crop will not be Bale until after Easter. It was tbe front that came with tbe full moon in April that nipped the iruit last year. South an Panic. The Cordele Rambler says that “one of the remarkable things aboal the present money stringency is th< small number of failures atnoDg bus mess men. it seems that the strin gency was foreseen by our merch ants and other busioess men iu time to retrench on expenses. One of Cordele’s meichants remarked to the writer a few days ago that he bought less than halt his usual amount of goods and paid cash for what he bought, thus takiBg prac tically no risk. Such men as this rarely ever brea!..” The small * number of busiuess failures in the south and west to our mind shows more conclusively than anything else that the panic was artificial, ma’e to order as a part of the campaign to check the legal control of the great corpora*! tions. This panic was peculiar in that it was not based on any natural misfortune to the couutry. There was no crop failure, in any part of the land, there was no lack of de mand lor manufactured articles. The only failure was the money crop and that was manipulated as a chastisement for Roosevelt, and such states as were really doing or seeking to put the proper regula tions aud restriction on the great and growing population. Another peculiar feature of the panic was the man ier in which it stiuek, where it was not aimed. In> stead ot pinching the little fellow throughout the country it landed squarely on the big trust companies at New York, disclosing a rotten ness that shocked the manipulators at the impending danger. They had to hustle to Btop the panic, they had created for political effect, but could not do so until tne sui cides and stealages h id destroyed confidence. Some men may have foreseen the panic, but most business men had not. The reason why the south and west stood it was because they bad grain and cotton foundations. B* H. Levy, Bro. & Co. This old reliable clothing house (the biggest in Georgia) and for more thau ten years a continuous advertiser in The Demcrat—has a special announcement in today’s is sue to which we advert with the as surance to those do not know the house that there is no more reliable concern in the state. Their spring stock is now com plete an I their jgpriiig catalogue ready, carrying foil descriptions of any and every thing. Men’s wo men’s and children’s ready-to-wear suits and underwear, of the best class make and materials. Send tor their spring catalogue. They give special attention to m ill orders and guarantee satisfaction. By His Own Hand. About 6 o’clock on Monday morn ing last, near the entrance to the Jewish cemetery, a journeyman ba*» rel maker, nam<*d Willie Wadd, who had been in the employ of Nussbaum Bros.’ Barrel Factory, in this city, and who, for months past, has been on a rapid decline in health with locomotor-ataxia, sui cided, by shooting himself with a Distol—the weapon, grasped in his right hand being fonad on his breast and the deadly ballet had entered his brain. Tbe dead man had no relatives or family in this country—coming to America in his boyhood and wa3 ap. pareutly 35 years of age. A coroner’s inquest resulted in a verdict on Monday, consonant with the above recited facts and the r« mains were buried by Cut it out, forget it; the veq next time you may be lined ap wit the men opposed to you yesterday