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The Democrat
JNe. M. BROWN. Editor dr Bl’t'r.
OFFICIAL GAZETTE OF SHERIFF, OR-
PIUAKY, CLERK SUPERIOR COURT
AN» COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
E ite- second c Hi*.- »u»i
h«, t>a., postoihce.
i .i.^ner
BAINBRIDGE, March 26, 1908.
Soft drinks that “make drank
corae” a r e getting much people iDto
trouble in Georgia.
Georgia has another valuable ore
“in her midst,” the material from
which aluminum is made being
found in quantities near Macon.
Are some ot your habits’too ex
pensive for your income? For ex-,
ample, do yon pay too much for
things simply because you do not
read the ads?
It is predicted that the national
populist party will nominate United
States Senator LaFollette, of Wis
consin, for the presidency in the
first ballot. A mighty good man!
They still mourn the loss in At*
Janta as testified by the following
pathetic couplet from the Journal:
“The melancholy days have come,
the saddest of the year; the only
substitute for bock is ‘prohibition’
beer.”
Gsvernor Smith urges the friends
of temperance to turn their guns on
those congressmen who failed to
pass a 'Jbill prohibiting liquor ships
merits into dry states and territo.
ries. Governor, ours are turned.
Cheerful news was that announce
ed Tuesday at CoviDgton by Govs
ernor Smith. Confederate soldiers
and widows will be paid their sec
ond pension installment in April,
two months before due
Humanitarians are up in arms
against Hiram Maxim’s latest invent
tion*—the noiseless firearm. Well
they may be should such a weapon
get in the hands of the criminal
classes. Kentucky feuds would
flourish as never before.
‘•Who sent the tram?” The Ma-
c»n Telegraph asks, referring to the
agricultural special which receutly
toured the state. The gist of the
Telegraph’s inquiry seems to be:
Who paid the freight? The old
lady asks some mighty useless ques
tions
It’s easy enough < to make prom
ises, but it takes a strong man to
keep one. Governor Smith has
•proven himself a strong man in this
respect ever since he entered public
life, and'such a test as that put to
him through the “sealed envelope’’
affair only goes to make the people
believe in him more.
One of the South Georgia towns,
probably Bainbridge, pines tor a
law which would force the iceman
to carry scales What the ice man
wants during hot weather, is an aas
tomobile to make his tours on time.
—Savannah Press.
Not Bambndge, Brother, for when
she wants anything she goes down
an .1 gets it, if it’s good. No, the
story is fishy, having scales.
Congressman Griggs will return
home from Washington about
April 15th, and proceed to shell the
woods.—Dawson News.
Let him shell! For the woods,
aud fields, and cities, and villages,
and hamlets, are lull of good people f gtrong enough vet to force Congress
Hok^Smithand the Panic
Of coarse every one knows that
it was Governor Smith who created
the panic that started m New York
and spread throughout the whole
country. That it was his mighty
po*er and great control of Wall
6treet tfcat tied up the r.a*ion’s
oftpit ii and, to further his own po
litical pol.cies, threw iht country
into unrest. Ofoourse he is keep
ing the working man from employ
ment in Nebraska, Oklahoma, Coir
necticut and Georgia. It was his
politics that shut down factories iu
Georgia and South Carolina last
October before they went into ef
fect. It is his policies that has
kept cotton prices down and stopped
buildings from being erected or
finished all over the land thereby
stagnating the lumber market. (In
the mind of a man who has more
malice than mind)!
The Election In 1904.
W T ho were the two leading presi
dential candidates in 1904?
Theodore Roosevelt and Alton
B. Parker, both of New York.
Did Roosevelt receive a majority
of the popular vote?
He did. His clear majority over
all candidates was 1,736,264. There
were four lesser candidates.
Aud who were they?
Eugene V. Debs ot Indiana, So
cialist; Silas C. Swal ! ow of Penn
sylvania, Prohibitionist; Thomas E.
Watson of Georgia, Populist and
Charles H. Carrigan of New York,
Socialist Labor.
What was the vote of these can
didates? •
Debs, 402,283; Swallow, 258,536;
Watson, 117,183; Carrigan, 31,249.
Did any of these lesser candidates
carry any electoral votes?
No. The total electoral vote was
476, of which Roosevelt got 336 and
Parker 140. The electoral vote for
the vice presidential candidates,
Fairbanks and Davis respectively,
was the same.
Is not that always the case?
Not necessarily. In 1896, when
Bryan was nominated on both the
Democratic and the Populist tickets
for president, with Arthur Sewall of
Maine for vice president on the first
ticket and Thomas E. Watson ot
Georgia for vice president on the
second ticket, Watson received
twenty-seven electoral votes for the
vice presidency.
What was Roosevelt’s plurality
over Parker?.
It wa6 2,545,515. Roosevelt’s to
tal vote was 7,623,486; Parker’s to
tal, 5,077,971.
Governor Smith is planning to
spend many spring days in South
Georgia.
In Ohio a whole township was
made ill from eating waffles and
ehicken at a church social. Some
ot us do make such gluttons of our
selves when we sit down beiore the
unusual.
Judging from the number of idle negro**
all over the country, without visible means
of support, tte G«.*rgia vagrant law is a
dead letter.
What impossible dreams people do dream
sometimes! For instance, there was a poli
tician who dreamed the other night that he
Went to heaven.
There’s lots of work needed on the farms
throughout this county, at f ir wages and
those who are able to work and wont work
ought to be made t > work or leave the
county.
The unemployed are wailing that they
can get no work and the farmers of the
South are crving in vain for hands. ’Tis
a combination which doesn’t promote the
shedding of tears over those j obless people.
The man or the woman who continually
thinks and talks hard times is a menta
malarialist. Join a Smile club or the op-
tomists and get out of the fog. '‘As a man
(or woman) thinketh in his heart, so is he.”
Little Joe Brown’s announcement has
not evoked any enthusiasm even among the
railroad organs- They seem to regard him
as a white elephant on their hands who
didn’t have sense enough not to overstep
the limit which produce the suggestion.
Active work on the new Methodist
church will begin about the middle of
April. Meantime the contractors are get
ting their materials and tackles ready for
the undertaking. Barring unforeseen con
tingencies. the close of the year will find
the new church completed.
The old gang are doing their level best,
through the subsidized press, and other
wise, to render Hoke Smith’s administra
tion obnoxious but the honest geomanry
will not violate the unwritten law of
second term precedent by going back on
Hoke and reform.
Hoke Smith made the mistake of retain
ing in office most of the old gang when he
took charge of our state government, in
stead of remembering those who spilt their
blood and their brains in helping win his
fight for reform—and is now finding many
of them his enemies. True, he turned lit
tle Joe out—but this he did for purely per
sonal reasons, so little Joe says.
Gov. Hoke Smith, Hon. Joseph M.
Brown of Marietta and Hon. Walker,
mayor of College Park, are candidates for
governor in the June primary. The for
mer stands for the Macon platform—De
mocracy, corporation control and for the
present prohibition law, Joe Brown stands
for the railroads and corporations and is
gotten out by them, while Mr. Walker is
out for votes, no matter how. The gov
ernor will win.
The Macon News charges that
the anti-administration papers only
want Joe Brown in the racefjr
Governor to create a disturbance.
And that’s about the size of it.
Senator Bacon’s bill to prohibit
the shipment of liquor into dry ter.
ritory having been adversely re
ported by a senatorial sub-commit
tee, his colleague, Senator Clay, at
tempts the same legislation by
tacking a suitable amendment on
the ocean mail subsidy bill.
Public sentiment may not be
who will quieily vole for Judge
Roddenbery on the 4th June.
Twelve years in Congress, with as
few results to show, will lose Judge
Griggs the Congressional job.
The presidential campaign of this
year bids fair to rival the year in
which .Mr. Bryan was last defeated
with two vice-presidential nominees
tagged to the tail of the kite—moe
D vmocratie, jthe other Populist.
The New York World declares that
there will be a fusioD of the Inde
pendent and Populist parties, with
Hearst and Watson on the ticket*
The “prohis” will, of course, name a
ticket, and, there’ll be no dearth of
candidates to vote for.
to remove the federal barriers to
state regulation of the whisky traf-
fic, but li e indications are that it
will soon become strong enough.
Both Congress and the courts will
probably find toar the proposed leg.
is] at ion is constitutional when the
great mass of '.he people want it,
and they do want it.
It is reported that arrangements will be
made for the alignment of the populists
with the new independent .party with the
Georgia populists. The convention Tues
day will select delegates to attend the St.
Louis meeting April 2. The reform par
ties, it is understood, will be re-organized
at the St. Louis meeting. The Georgia
populists are said to favor the absorption of
their party provided Thomas E. Watson is
nominated for president by the independent
party Watson favors the greenback
money system and the two parties, popu
list and independent, are said to be at va
riance on this question.
Both houses of the Maryland Legislature
have now passed bills to prohibit Christian
Scientists and faith healers from practicing
in that state without the diploma of regu
lar physicians. But how are the authori
ties going to prevent the practicing when
it is altogether unnecessary for the healers
to visit the sick? How will the police
tackle and prevent the “absent treat*
ment” method of psychological therapeu*
tics? There is no such thing in the realm
of physics as the interception of thought
waves or the arresting and jailing of mental
suggestion. Police clubs nor constables’
staves can estop prayer. The acceptance of
fees may be outlawed, which might prove
somewhat discouraging to some of the
healers, but it is as futile to try to prevent
‘‘practice” by absent treatment as it is to
try to imprison a sunbeam in a bottle.
A New Railroad
U. S. Senator Brvan, of Florida
died in Washington Saturday last
alter ocouDying bis -eat but a few
wkees, havii g been sworn in about
two months ago. App.onos ol
which seven U. S. Senators died durs
ing the present congress, and a
whole lot more of them are not feel
ing verv well.
Work on grading the Georgia, Ala
bama and Western Railway has actually
commenced between Arlington and Bluff-
ton, and the people of Newton. Camilla,
Fort Gaines, Moultrie and a number of
smaller towns are sanguine of the eventual
carrying out of the plans for building the
line to all those points. The present plan
is to complete the road and begin the op
eration of trains between Arlington and
Bluffton, then build toward Fort Gaines
from one terminus and in the direction of
Newton and Camilla from the other.
There are quite a number of anti-
Smith men in Bainbridge and De
eatur ecunty. lhe pro-corporation-
lsts are ot course for Joe Brown
for governor. But Decatur will
swing into the Smith column on fcbe
4th of Juae, all right.
Standing by the Governor
While the Democrat does not defend all
the policies of Governor Smith, it is prob a-
bly true that the custom of gmng a f ov -
ernor a second term will be continued in
Georgia.
The people have annouueed by an over
whelming majority their desire to try the
experiment of a reform administration.
Wt respectfully submit that only one
tana of the legislature has passed since
that time and only a part of the laws have
been enacted. The administration is cn*
titled to a fair trial and to a full showing.
Let’s give this governor and his legisla
ture a fair chance to assert themselves, es
pecially as the people of Georgia have so
willed it
We might as well say that it is foolish
to believe the panic in the country or the
so-called hard times have been brought on
by Hoke Smith’s policy of controlling the
railroads. We did not believe that the
panic of 1885 or of 1893 was precipitated
by Mr. Cleveland’s advocacy of a reform
tariff or of a gold dollar. These depressions
are periodical and are the results of unwise
inflation. The reforms were necessary.
We cannot accept the conclusion that the
Roosevelt policies were ruinous to the
country or that a principle of thorough
government regulation is hurtful to the best
interests of the people. Without elabo -
rating these ideas, we are inclined to be
lieve that Governor Hoke Smith will be
given a sec ind term and by the full record
of his administration will he be judged b y
the people.
For State Treasurer.
To the Democratic Voters ofGeor.
gia:
I am a candidate for Treasurer
ol this State subject to the Demo
cratic Primary on June 4tb. My
candidaey is based upon my form
er service to the people in this of
fice covering a peroid ot more than
twenty yeai s a record that I be
lieve will bear public scrutiny aud
which has never been impugned.
If elected I promise the same faith*
ful attention to the duties of the
office that marked my previous
administration.
tf Yours truly,
Wm. J. Speer*
Trouble and Never Suspect it,
How To Find Out.
Fill a bottle or common glass with your
water and let it stand twenty-four hours ;
a sedimeut or set-
tlingindicatesan
unhealthy con-
i dition of the kid-
\ tf neys; if it stains
your linen it is
jj evidence of kid
ney trouble; too
frequent desire
to pass it or pain
in the back is
so convincing proof that the kidneys
id bladder are out of order.
What To Do.
There is comfort in the knowledge so
often expressed, that Dr. Kilmer’s
Swamp-Root, the great kidney remedy,
fulfills every wish in curing rheumatism,
pair* in the back, kidneys, liver, bladder
and every part of the urinary passage.
It corrects inability to hold water
and scalding pain in passing it, or bad
effects following use of liquor, wine or
beer, and overcomes that unpleasant ne
cessity of being compelled to go often
during the day, and to get up many
times during the night. The mild and
the extraordinary effect of Swamp-Root
is soon realized. It stands the highest
for its wonderful cures of the most dis
tressing cases. If you need a medicine
you should have the best. Sold by drug
gists in fifty-cent and one-dollar sizes.
You may have a sample bottle and a
book that tells all
about it, both sent free
by mail. Address Dr.
Kilmer & Co., Bing
hamton, N. Y. When Home of Swamp-Root
writing mention this paper and don'
make any mistake, but remember th
name, Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-Root, an
the address. Binghamton. N. Y.
Mica Axle Grease
lwwgthens the life of the
wagon — saves horse
power, time and tem
per. Best lubricant in
the world—contains
powdered mica
which
•forms
a smooth,
hard coating on axle, and
reduces friction.
If yon want your outfit
to last and earn money
while it lasts — grease
the axles with Mica
Axle Grease.
STANDARD OIL COMPANY
We promptly obtain U. B. ana Foreign
Send model, sketch or photo of ir\ cation for {
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Patent
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