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Here Shall the Press the People's Rights Maintain
Y JOHN M BROWN. |
BAINBRIDGE. GEORGIA. THORSDRV MORHINC. MAY 7. 1908.
| Voi. 39—So. 16—$l.oo a Yea
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f 4 EDITORIAL
When the people elect a governor
u rany out their wishes and his
pledges, why they should give him
a chance, especially when he is
working hard to give them the very
reforms they ask for.
The farmer and the laborer con-
htitute the bulk of the voters of
Georgia, and, thanks be to this day
of independence in political thought,
they are going to cast their ballots
(or what they believe to be their
best interests.
We are reliably informed that the
lax collector of Thomas county has
been asked by the leading black
Republicans in the county as to the
amount of back taxes which must
be paid in order to register the ne»
gro vote for the October election
when the disfranchisement ; amend
ment is to be voted on. Joe Brown
says disfranchisement is no issue.
Does this look like it?-*-Thomasville
Press.
The newspaper is the thing in
this day and generation for public
ity; it can sell a farm, nire a servant,
borrow money, extend trade and
spread the gospel. It does them
*11 every day every hour.
It. is believed that nobody enjoys
reading the Weekly Jeffersonian
now more than Hamp MoWhorter,
who hopes to be reinstated through
its agency into the place from which
he was dislodged after such long
efforts.
O:
After mature second thought Joe
Brown’s campaign managers have
decided not to let him make that
South Georgia tour as previously
planned Little Joe is one candn
date who will get more votes the
less people know what he is really
like.
When it is remembered that his
father flopped over to the republic
cans it should not create any sur
prise that Little J oe can take op.
posite positions on the liquor ques T
tion as he thinks expediency re
quires
Judge Gray of Delaware and
Little Joe Brown of Georgia are
two candidates who will be of the
same color when the race is over.
In feeling they will both be blue.
^.Little Joe is the standard bearer
around whom is collected the whis
key element of Georgia, backed up
by the whiskey interests of the
coutry. All that this crowd
have against Governor Smith is that
his backbone is too stiff to bend to
their whims and interests. He has
asserted his position, and they know
he will stand by it .
Five Trials at It.
On March 19 Joe Brown in a
signed statement to the people an
nounced as a part of his platform:
“I will sign any amendment to
the prohibition law the legislature
may make.’*
Ou April lo he said: “lamop-
p'sed to the saloon.”
On April 14 he said: “I will
favor any (amendment.”
On April 18 he said: “A gov
error's veto will not save the pro*
hi' ition law.”
April 20 he says that he will veto
*nv amendment in the prohibition
' ! *w (hut may be proposed. Possib
ly Mr. Brown still believes that a
‘‘governor's veto will net save the
aw" aud, therefore, has pacified his
Kukers^including the brewers and
i or dealers, into agreeing to his
pledge.
After Governor Smith talks to the
people and shines away the rails
road’barroom darkness of the oppo
sition and spares them the truth
about the negro disfranchisement
law and constitutional amendment,
the people will administer the old
gang a rebuke that they’ll never
forget.
The Rome Tribune has discover
ed the fact that the April fools did
not die on April 1st. No, there
seems to be a few mixed up in that
Joe Brown campaign.—Brunswick
News.
They say Gov. Smith has done
nothing, hence we must have a
change. The real trouble is, he has
been doing entirely too much for
the whiskey interests, the big cor
porations and the disgruntled poli
ticians. He is “one too many” for
these fellows.
Gubernatorial Situation
Whenever yqii hear the Joe
Brown boys telling about what Joe
is going to do for Hoke Smith down
m 'South Georgia just remember
that we heard the same old thing
in 1906 abont w^iat the other candi
dates were going to do. You res
member the result?
Of course, the opposition to Hoke
Smith this year may be stronger
than the vote of any one of the op*
posing candidates in 1906. This is
hut natural, tor the simple 'reason
that there were five candidates in
the race then, and only two now.
Naturally the majority of the op
position will center on Joe Brown,
bat let it here members A timrthotiM
be reaeive every vote cast for the
opposing . candidates ip 1906 { be
would! still foil tar short of being
elected. When you hear a Joe
Brown man blow real hard r do not
forget.
That the people of Georgia are
going to turn down with one term
a governor who has been faithful to
bis trust, and made an honest and
conscientious effort to carry out his
campaign promises, m not tb be be-’
lieved. A large majority of the
people do their own thinking, and
when they are asked to do a job of
that kind they will want Jto know
the reason why, and it can’t be
given.
Moreover, the people of the state
generally are satisfied with the gov
ernor. Of one thing they are sure
they have a man in office who is
governor, and who can’t be led
around by the nose. If Joe Brown
should be elected, they would not
be sore of that.
But it oannet be denied that the
governor has a fight before him.
From some source the Brown peo
ple have obtained a vast campaign
fund, and the power of money in
politics is hard to overestimate.
That the powerful influence ef the
railroads is against the governor is
well.known to all, and that the
whiskey influences desire to accom
plish his defeat is equally well
known. All of these taken together
make » combination hard to beat,
but the governor is the man who
car. do it and will.
Register Now.
Don’t forget that the registration
books close on the Mtb of this;
I month. If you registered when
I you paid your taxes last year, or
! since then, you’re all right, bnt if
| n ot you have only one week more
1 j n which to take this necessary step
if you wish to vote in the primary
on June 4th. t
White Supremacy and
Negro Disfranchisement
In a well conceived editorial,
upon the issues of the pending gub
ernatorial race in Georgia now, we
find the following, as fully embrac«
ing our own personal views on the
same subject in the Atlanta Journal
of last Saturday:
It is the whisky ring and the
hired politician who seek to control
the state that we are fighting.
Not only must the present law, to
which the state has already adjusted
itself, have a fair trial, but every
good citizen of tieergia should rally
around the cause of white supremacy
and the right of the ^people to regu
late their affairs, with out the interfer
ence of the old-time ring politicians
and the corruptible negro voters,
who have been a menace to good
government for more than a gener
ation.
The issue of white supremacy is
one of the most vital before the peo
ple of Georgia today and the for
tunes of that issue are bound up
with the return to office of the pres
ent administration which made dis>
franohisement one of the cardinal
principles of the campaign of a
year ago.
The triumph of the opposition, if
such a thing were possible, would
give a tremendous support to the
opponents of disfranchisement. The
Republican convention at Savan
nah endorsed the candidacy of Jos T
epb M. Brown.
As one of the many straws which
show how the negroes consider the
line-up, a negro paper, published
at Fort Valley, ts carrying a display
advertisement of the candidacy of
Joseph M. Brown for governor.
What is the meaning of it? Why
for governor be advertised ,in circus
poster type in a negro newspaper
unless his success .would bring aid
and comfort to the negro in their
effort to vote down disfranchisement?
Nothing is necessary except the
most casual inquiry to oonvioce any
man that the negroes all over Geors
gia, while unable to vote in the
white primary, are Mr. Brown’s
well-wishers, ere wearing his badges
and are outspoken for him.
His triumph would mean *the de
feat of disfranchisement and he
knows it He might have said in
three words that he was in favor of
disfranchisement, which is now one
of the living and militant issues be.
fore the people, but he contents
himself with the evasive statement
that it is a “settled” question.
No intelligent man m the state of
Georgia is misled by anything of
the kind. White supremacy in
Georgia for a generation is involved
in this race, as Mr. Smith clearly in
dicates. The only way to meet the
issue is to meet it squarely and to
support the administration “which
has made disfranchisement a para*)
mount issue.”
Growing Young Concern
It gives the Democrat special
pleasure to note the rapid strides
made during the past twelve months
of the worthy and popular young
wholesale house of Botts Brokerage
Co. of Water street and the way it
is making good in every department
of its business—consisting of bacon,
hams, lard, flour, grain, hay and
feed stuffs.
Mr. John P. Botts, the local man
ager, is a native ot Bainbridge, and
stands high in the estimation of the
moral and business community and
is ^inning out by the sheer force of
hustle and gel there w:th the goods.
And we predict that in a very few
years he will stand in the van of
Bainbridge bauness Young men.
United Slates Court.
In the District Court of the United States
for the Southwestern Division of the
Southern District of Georgia.
In the matter of S. D. Howard, Bank
rupt.
To the Creditors cf S. D. Howard, of
Iron City, in th? County of Decatur, said
District a Bankrupt.
Notice is hereby given that on the 17th
day of April, 1908, the said .S D. How
ard, was duly adjudged bankrupt, and
that the first meeting of his creditors will
be held in the United States court room
at Valdosta, Ga., on the 16th day of
May, 1908, at nine o’clock in the forenoon
at which time the said creditors may attend
prove their claims, appoint a trustee,
examine the bankrupt and transact such
other business as may properly ccfme before
said meeting. The bankrupt is required to
De present.
At Valdosta, Georgia, this 27th day of
April, A. D., 1908.
WILFRED C. LANE,
Referee in Bankauptcy.
M. E. O’NEIL, Bainbridge, Ga.,
Council for Bankrupt.
Hoke and Prohibition
There are many friends of Gov.
Smith who are not prohibitionists
because they doubt the wisdom of
that law as an effectual remedy lor
tfie whiskey evil, bnt these friends
see in him an unusual man, a man
filled with love for his state, a love
for the measures he advocates, and
which mean much for every citizen
of the commonwealth when they
have become fixed policies. They
see in him a man well fitted for the
highest office in the gift of the peo-
ple, not only of Georgia, but of the
nation. Again, like him, they be
lieve now, that prohibition has be
come a law, it would be a very uns
wise proceeding to render the law
valueless before it has existed long
enough to fuHy demonstrate whether
or not it is an efficient remedy
For State Treasurer.
To th« Democratic Voters ofGeor.
gia:
I am a candidate for Treasurer
ot this State subject to the Demo
cratic Primary on Jnne 4tb. My
candidacy is based apon my forra^
er service to the people in this of**
fice covering a peroid ot more than
twenty yeais a record that I be
lieve will bear public scrutiny aud
which has never been impugned.
It elected 1 promise the same faith*
ful attention to the duties ot the
office that marked my previous
administration.
tf Yours truly,
Wm. J. Speer
against whiskey. They do not
Bhonld the caadjdaay of Joe;. Brovp »tnt the state in an interminable
whiskey fight, and they believe,
therefore! the law should have a full
and fair trial before meddling again
with it, Unless it be to improVeit to
suit those who believe m its effec
tiveness.
Judge
Near
Fine Pair #f nules.
I have a pair o4 good mule* for
sale cheap. -Apply at the
I. KwileckL
Speer and
Beer
Judge Emory Speer, holding a
special session of the Albany divis
ion, United ^States District Court,
charging the grand jury l&6t week
made special reference to the sale
of “near beer” in Georgia. On this
subject he said: “I am not quite
able to understand the construction
of the State Court ot Appeals—and
I say it with all dne deference to
my brother judges—under which
they authorize the sale of “near
beer” as they oali it. Oar statute is
plain in its terms. It prohibits the
sale of any malt, spirituous or ins
toxicating liquors. But the court
says it relates to those beers which
are intoxicating. What will intox
icate one man will not intoxicate
another. It seems to me that we
should look to the statute. The
plain terms of the statute, and not
to a principle of construction for
which the best that can be said is
that it is doubtful. There is no
room for construction where the
language of the law is ambiguous.
Besides these “near beers” gentle
men mast swear that they purpose
to carry on the business of a mait
liquor dealer before the special tax
stamp is issued them.”
The ruling of the Court of Ap**
peals is intended as a wink at the
violation of the state prohibition
law and these remarks by Judge
Speer of the United States Coart
shows clearly that be thinks so, too.
Fortunately, the people of Geor
gia will get a chance in the not ere
long to call these appelate judges to
judgement, and wb3t they will do
for them will be a plenty.
POISON
Bose Pains, Can
cer, Seal; Sts,
Roils.
We Will SendSampleShowing How
B. B. B. Cures Above Troubles, also
Eczema aud Rheumatism.
For twenty-five years Botanic Blood
Balm (B B B) has been curing yearly
thoands of suft erers t om Primary,
Secndarv or Tertiary Blood Poison
and all forms of Blood Disease. We
solicit the most obstinate cases, for
B B B cures where all else fails. If
yon have exhausted the old methods of
treatment and still have aches and
pains in bones, back or joints, Rheu
matism, Mucus Patches in month, Sore
Throat, Pimples, Copper-Colored Spots,
Ulcers on any part of the body, Bating
Sores, are run down or nervous, Hair
or eyebrows falling out, take B B B. It
kills the poison, makes the blood pur*
and rich, healing every sore and com
pletely changing the entire body into a
clean, healthy condition.
CURBS ECZEMA
Itching, watery blisters or open, itch
ing humors, Risings or pimples of
Eczema all leave after killing the poi
eon and purytying the blood with B B
B. In this way a flood of pure, rich
blood is sent direct to the skin snafaee,
the itching stops forever and every
hurtfor or sore i* healed and Reared.
BOTANIC BLOOD BALM (B B B)
is pleasant and safe to take; composed
of tmre Botanic ingredients. Itpurifiss
blood.
FERE BLOOD CURS COOPOM
This coupon (cut from Bainbridge
- Democrat), is good for one larg^ sam-'
pie of Botanic Blood Balm mailed free
in plain packages. Simply fill in your
nme and addr ess on dotted lines be
low and mail to BLOOD BALM CO.,
Atlanta,'Ga. t
State name of trouble, if you know.
)f(n Tie Kidneys Aft
Weakened k) Over-Werk.
Dnhcaltny Kidneys Wake impure Blood.
It used to be considered that only
urinary and bladder troubles were to be
traced to the kidneys,
but now modem
science proves thx:
nearly all diseases
have their beginning
in the disorder of
these most important
organs.
The kidneys filter
and purify the blood—
that is their work.
Therefore, when your kidneys are weak
- oat of order, you can understand how
quickly your entire body is affected and
how every organ seems to fail to do its
doty. .
If yon are sick or “ feel badly,” begin
faking the great kidney remedy, Dr.
Kilmer's Swamp-Root, because as soon
as your kidneys are well they will help
all the other organs to health. A trial
will convince anyone.
If you are sick you can make no mis
take by first doctoring your kitin'”
The mild and the extraordinary effect '.
Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-Root. the g: _*
kidney remedy, is soot, realized. It
stands the highest for its wonderful cures
of the most distressing cases, and isso.i
on its merits by all foid
druggists in fifty-cent
and one-dollar size
booties. You may
have a sample bottle HomeotSwamp-Sex*.
ov mad net, zlz-- z pcmphl?t **-lhn« '*ot
how tc.find out if you have kidney 01
Mention this oaoei
when writing to Dr. Kilmer & Co., Bing
hamton, N. Y. Don’t make any mistake,
bnt remember the name, Swamp-Root,
Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-Root, and the ad
dress, Binghamton, N.Y., on every bottle.
Candidal
or Judge.
For Judge Albany Circuit
To the people of the Albany Circuit:
In response to the encouraging wishes0>'
many good citizens, as well as my own an
bition to serve the people, 1 announce as a
randidate for Judge of the Superior Court
of the Albany Circuit, subject to the rules
of the democratic primary on June 4.
In^making this announcement I pledge
the people to devote my undivided atten
tion to the duties of the office, to hold the
courts regularly at the times appointed by
law, and as rapidly as shall he consistent
with justice bring the business of the
courts up to date, and keep it there;
To run the courts of each • county witha
saving to the people and tax payers, and I
assure the people that much expense can
be saved by proper economic condu. of
the office;
r To give all people alike fair and impar
tial trial, to hear with patience and respect
motions for new trial, and to give fair bills
of exceptions;
To take no hand in trying to influence
the people of any county as to what par
ticular c >unty officers they shall chooee,
and as to how they conduct their local po
litical affairs; this being a matter for the
people of each county, and exclusively
their own affair;
Never to forget that I am one of the.peo-
ple; that I owe my position to the people;
and that while I may serve the people in
an honorable capacity, yet at a breath of
the people the power can be shorn from
me.
1 am not put forward, nor am I induced
to enter this race, by the political rulers of
the counties of this circuit. Whatever
discouragement I have met has come from
them, liaise who have urged and now
urge my race are the plain people, and I
respond to their wishes.
Believing that voters today are intelli
gent enough and independent enough t<
choose their own officers without the ad
vice a( political bosses; .tad that they cai
make a choice in two or three months ai
well as after a long drawn oat campaign,
enter the race confidently Relieving that
the demands of the plain, thinking people
will pitfaiion June 4th.
1 hope to communicate, cither by letter
or da person With each voter between now
and the electien on June 4thi and invite a
*q^RUGGIS'ratl'I^i -LrABe®- B0T- thorou £ h understanding of fte principles
TLB with directions for home care. upon which I base my caadfdacy for this
eflnfc. >a!t •
Earnestly soliciting the si
voter who desires an ho;
ort of every
t impartial,
economic and - respectful administration of
the*duties of this office, 1 am*
With respitt for all,
* ^ FRAljtK PARK:*
For Judge Superior Court
T*> the Voters oi the Aibanv Circuit:
I hereby announce my candidacy for re
nomination to the office of . Judge of the
Supesior Court of the Alban£ Circuit, and
respectfully solicit the vote and active sup»
port oi every, voter in the ^circuit, at the
primary to be held on Thursday, June 4th,
1908. ,
I beg to assure the people of my grate
ful remembrance and sincere appreciation
of their D**t confidence and support, and if
renominated, I’shali continue in future as in
the past, my very best efforts, to fearlessly
andffaithfully discharge rail the duties of
the, office.
I will be engaged, Jmost of my time,
from now until the primary, holding the
regular spring terms of ’courts, and will
therefore be deprived of the pleasure of
meeting, in person, some of 'the voters; but
it is ray desire to see them all, and I will
devote my time, while not actually on the
bench to seeing in person and otherwise
communicating with the voters of the cir*
c uit.ffik^„ Yours very respectfully,
W. N. SPENCE.
A Twenty",!ear Sentence.
“I nave j 1st completed a twenty
year healtlxj sentence, imposed by
Bncklen’s Arnica Salve, which cared
me of breeding piles just twenty
years ago,” wires O. S. Woolever,
of JLeKaysTille, N. V. Bucklen’s
Arnica Salve heals the worst rores,
boils, burns,Jwonnds and cuts in the
shortest time. 35c at all drug
stores.
AfW the 4th of Jane, Little Joe
Brown’s eandidaay will look iike a
store of | nickle’s worth, of lard in a paper
tf 1 bag, in Jniy.
The Democrat will club with the
Farmers Union News, the National
Union paper, for $1.75 per annum,
to include a copy of Farmer’s
Union Balletin on the home mixing
of fertilizers. tL
SouoajfuiB i uvenir Post
Cards.
The souvenir Post Cards issued
by the Atlanta, Birmingham A
Athntie Railroad are proving
exceedingly popular. They ar
printed in colors and reprrse*
attractive scenes along the line
A set of seven of these card
c.10 be secured by seeding te*
cents to W. fl. Leahy, Gererj
Passenger Agent, Atlanta, Ga.
