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i*** ! Where is Democracy.
1 he Democrats Agfeeabletooae of the p kr v s
i adopted in the platform formulated
! at the recent s-ta’.e convention,
wh:ch lets down the gap
iNO. M. BROWN, Editor Ac M’g’r.
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BA1NBRIDGE, GEORGIA, JULY 9
How would you like to be a law
maker and .vote yourself a trip to
Boozynooga?
If the nomination of Brown and
Taft were to be signals lor business
revival the signals sagged awfully
before reaching these parts.
A bill has been introduced into
the legislature this week, making it
unlawful for a person to carry a re lieutenants
volver less than twenty.four inches
is length.
There is one great lesson th^t it
seems to us sadly in ueM of being
impress* d upon *he rising geneta-
tion, and that is that honesty is the
best policy.
is no* designited as a Democrats
primary, out as a white primary in
which any white man, it matters
not whether he be a Den ocrat, Re
publican, Populist or any otbfcr po
litical faith, can vote and, if tne
nominee is distasteful, can then
turn round at the general flection
and help defeat those he helped to
nominate.
It is not right to destroy the real
Democracy by turning its primary
| over to the mercies of its enemies
•by calling it a white primary. Tom
Watson, the great leader of the
Populists, and many of his strong
helped to nominate
Ho e .Smith two years ago, and
.helped to defeat him this year, bat
m the general election they will
give their support to the men of
their own political faith.
We may well ask what has be
come of the Democratic party?
Mystery of a Soul
(Governor Smith and Nominee
Brown seem (o be together on one
thing, they both favor the passage
of an rnti-lobby bill That leaves
th<* legislature free to act without
fear of antagonizing either faction, |
so give us the law and then let’s
have it enforced.
The recent announcement of the
death of “Blind Tom” told of the
departure from life of one ot the
world’s celebrit.es, for such this un
•lettered, sightless negro was Many
who will lead this notice have lis-'
ter;ed with pleasure and wonder to
ins music, for there are but few
towns in the land, at least -f any
size, that “Blind Tom” had not vis-
ited. He was born the slave of (he
Bethune family, near Talbotton,
Ga., and in all physical aspects was
The report is already on the j the typical African, though his Ians
rounds that Joseph M. Brown will gunge grew better as he waxed in
Patterson Y>f Tennessee decidi d
Boozanooga should keep its name
and Jagsonville is flourishing at the
old stand.
not ask a second term as governor.
— Augusta Chronicle.
We hope that he will and that
Gov, Smith will be the candidate to
oppose him.
We think that Ex^ Governor
Candler might find some other way
to make a living than out of the
state. He has been on the state’s
pay roll as long as w r e can remem
ber
The man with the most confi
dence is doing the most business,
whether the panic is entirely over
or not.
The New Orleans Item declares
that there are no politics in bell.
But there is plenty of hell in poli
tics, and dont you forget it.
The days 01 usefulness for ihe
spellbinder are done. The people
have learned to do their own think
ing They know the facts in the
cause of the recent panic; about
railroad rates, federal ooutrol, tariff
reform, and they will ponder them,
and will vote through thinkiBg, not
influenced by hot air.
Mr. and Mrs. Bryan own only
$35,000 worth of property. That
shows how the mixing ot the pleas
ure of lecturing with ihe business ot
newspapering [pays.—S a v a 1111 a h
Press.
lu 1897 when Grover Cleveland
wrote his famous tariff reform mes
sage, some^of Iiis friends warned
him that it [would defeat hiru tor
re election. He replied: “What
is the use ot being elected or re
elected unless oue stands for somes
thing worth saying or doiag?”
“Most Georgia politicians now
me the soft pedal when they refer
to Tom Watson,” teaiarks the
Meigs Review’. Treading lightly
o’er the dead, perhaps
Heat pr. >trations are now ot
daiiy occurn uce in the Noi+h, wnile
down here in Georgia we find l! e
temperature ’ ost plea-ant since the
beat ofth ' state campaign has sab
sided.
\ ears, by reason ot his Constant
contact with educated white pe pie.
When came the genius for music
that inspired the soul of this blmd
negro, whose mem a 1 phase was akin
to dense stupidity! In all his life,
d ; spite the efforts during the days
of prosperity and fame to lessen the
bondage 01 his mind, he remained to
men but one remove from the idiot,
and so he remained to the last. But
for his marvelous gilt this negro
w iuid have lived and died in direst
obscurity, utterly unknown or un
heard of. It was only when he
seated himself at the piano and b s
fingers touched the keys and swept
the chords, that the living soul, the
spark of t he Divine that tenanted
the dark'-hued tenement of clay, as
serted itself and compelled admira
tion and wonder. To this age
this phase cf “Blind Tom’’ has been,
and may remain, a mystery, the sub
ject. 01 earnest speculation. Mad
ame Blaviitsky, who saw and heard
h.m in Lm.clou, insisted that he was
a potent illustration cf the doctrine
of re-incarnation, which she taught.
“The sou! of a great musician uf
Cemuries ag ne has been torn again
in this E: hiopian,” she sa d.
v*cieui.isls and physicists investi
gated and snunised, but “Blind
t orn” was a riddle to the la*t, S me
da), peihaps, for those now liv.ng
the riddle may be solved. To the
world at large he was simply “a
freak,” and yet, in soberest, truth,
he was a wonderful example ot the
subtility ot mind, the mystery f
dual mind, that puzzles and eon*-
founds because we do not know the
law that controls its operation.
“Blind Tom” and Padarewski were
kiudred types, manifestly from the
same source, yet how unlike, Low-
far apart. And of each we can only
say ‘'Whence?’' and “whither?” In
the next st-Ege of s ul existence will
to ere be fullest scope and red zuion
tor th- soul darkened and cramped
by its -ally environments, for the
S.ul ot the idiotic slave?
With two cand<dates for presi
dent, Tun n .tson cn the Populist,
Seaborn Wright on the prohibition
ticket and th» prospect of a candi
date or vie?*. president in Governor
Smith, Geoigia is putting her sons j
to the lore scpie.
North Carolina nominated a man
named K itch in for governor And
with Kitchin bis friends succeeded
admirably in cocking the dough of
the other candidates.—Exchange.
Wonder if Brown bread comes
from that kitchin?
One million dollars w nth of
peaches, over 2,< 00 carloads, have
so far been shipped from Georgi?.
The precise number ot carloads
shipped is 2,282. Tins is almost
1,<kk> carloads in excess of the total
sbijanenis of 19 7
Moral Aspects of -
the Situation
The results of the recent elect.ons
aro calling forth a variety oi com
ments from the prtss ail over the
country. Some urged that the rt>
cent result in Georgia was a defeat
of prohibition. It is claimed by
others that prohibition has not lost
in Georgia. Mr. Brown has made
his pledge to prohibition perfectly
satisfactoiy since his nominaii< p <i
and that has been doubly confirmed
by ihe convention platform.
Notwithstanding this the prohi
bition wave has encountered a seri
ous breaker. Florida’s fight has
apparently failed. Louisiana lias
tailed to get her bill through her
legislature. Carmack has 'ost in
Tennessee. Why? Because the
brewers who were helping in the
Georgia campaign, as soon as their
work was done, turned their atten
tion to other states and pointed to
Georgia to prove that prohibition
was losing. It is just as well for ns
to admit that the argument is put
just that way by our enemies.
But that is only a small part of
the real question. Our country is
passing through an awakening from
a long period of political oppression.
The Democratic party has been
clamoring for reform for forty years.
Mr. Cleveland was. elected on that,
demand. And then the enemies of
reform brought on a panic, and Mr.
Cleveland’s party split beneath him,
and the country lapsed again into
the control ot the old] grait party.
Mr. Roosevelt, though elected by
that partv, has thrown ail his great
power against Llie'Jcorruptions that
have dominated the country for
thirty years. The rapacious tru.-ls
have been checked up and the doui^
inatmg power of the railroads has
been broken.
- In the meantime Mr. Smith made
his first campaign in Georgia on a
clear cut reform platform. He won
magnificently.
But before he had been eignt
short mon-hd in office, as in the ease
of Mr. Cleveland, his policies were
attacked by a panic in *Wall street,
his party was ratt'ed, and scatteied
from about him. A hue and cry
was raised agaii st him, because his
policies had produced.the panic.
The absurdity of that pretense
seemed too clear to need pointing
out, ye. underlying the mendacious
suriace the 4 truth is: Mr. Smith’s
policies did bring on the panic.
That panic was an artific al affair.
It was constructed for the very pur
pose of doing precisely what it did
do. And theocorsion for it was
the pol cies of Hoke Smith. Wall
street attacked those policies by
the panic, and w r ©n, because the
p ople did n**t stand up to what
they had voted for.
Notwithstanding thefac- that Mr.
Smith was elected by an overwhel
ming vote when every voter knew
that he was voting for those polo
cies; yet in the face of the attack
made by Wall street his followers
were rattled and hi party divided.
It is doubtful tor this same rea.-on it
Roosevelt could be elected now, if
the third term barrier vero removed
What hope have we for genuine
reform under the-e conditions? It
is now, and always has been a bad
policy in politics to put- up men
rather than measures as the great
leaders or t ublic thought. Alex
Stephens mude o e ot the biggest,
and best fights o his life on the
mott* : “Measures, not men.” In
Georgia last summer prohibition
won before the legislature as a
measure. It won : s a measure in
Alabarn in Mississippi, in North
Carolina. Because it was adroitly
foiled in the Georgia campaign by
ti e attack of the American brewe r s,
it became involved in personal pre -
ferences and the prohibition sts mu
mediately divided. Other persona*
considerations overshadowed the
othei reft rm features of the enm-
paig and augmented the great de
mor i zing effects ot the panic.
Our people must learn to be
braver an i ti er to principle. Adopt
principles that you believe in, as an
act of duty you owe your own im
t griiy before God, and then stand
by those principles in every poiiti.
cal contest, whoever it may be that
rej resents (hem. - Golden age.
About “Near Beer”
It is evident that the sale of t ar
beer in this city and communit y is
veiling and making possible the ale
of real beers and other intoxic nts.,
The city council has always f. ght
to make il hard for the drink r o
intoxicants to get their liquor ai d it
is a tact that the present con*: tion
is being taken advantage of to sell
intoxicants. A caiefui inspection
ot the stocks at some ot those so*»
called near be«.rs will reveal the tact
that there are unlabeled bottles in
their ice boxes and a closer inspec
tion wi.1 show that these unlabeled
bottles are beer that will induce in',
toxicatiou.
As long as the city council allows
these beverages to be soid it is prac
tically impossible to locate the vio
lators of the prohibition law aud we
would suggest that the city council
look into the matter with a view to
enacting ordinances naming licenses
that are prohibitive.
All revenue licenses will expire
soon and if the matter is acted on
at once those dealers who are ex'
pecting to renew can save their foes.
There can be no question as to the
feasibility of such a law, il wiil ‘
ter enable the city to keep* tree ;i
blind tigers and other vio'ator ot
tne prohibition law.
While there has not been m any
flagrant violations up to the pres nt
lime, it is probable that tne maun-
factuf-.rs will gradually increase the
amount ot alcohol containeu in
these beverages until it becomes a
violation ot the state prohibition
law. As long as thes*- d*. alers stay
within the national law there is not
much danger of their arrest and it
therefore remains for each city to
enforce the law, either by a close
police inspection Iron, time to time
of the bottled goods being sold, or
what is better, for the city council
to put a prohibitive license on then-
sale, putting them in the same class
with domestic wines. By doing
this no one will be hurt to any ex
tent, in fact much m -re money will
be kept at home than is now going
to the out of town brewers. These
beers are sold for the most part by
elements of our population who care
nothing whatever about the state or
even a local law and who usually
take every opportunity to hand out
intoxicants of every description.
Thi: has been borne out by past
history while the county was under
local option. Every citizen should
feel honor bound to enforce the law
and if th*^ council will take some ac
tion cn the matter permanent good
to the community at large will be
the result, even if a few lose some
ot the profits from the sale of such
goods.
Adjourned Term of Court
A short adjourned term of the
Superior Court was held Monday
in this city k his honor, Judg<-Spence,
presiding.
The grand jury met and finished
their unfinished May term business
and adjourned dies non, Monday.
The petit *uries were not required
—only motions and'causes requiring
no janes being taken up by the
court.
The com t adjourned on Monday
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