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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. jn our OFFICIAL GAZETTE OF SHERIFF, — , DntAKV, am superior couin( primaries, to any one, S,M so he is . ANI> COUXTY COMMISSIONERS. Wl,!:e ,liaU ' In other words, o:ir next pr.mary K icored ns Becood class mail nidiier at Halt* bridge, Oa., postoffice. 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 For Your Sunday Dinner The following delightful des sert : 1-2 cup English YV alnut meats. 1-2 doz. figs, cut up fine. 110c package JELL-O any fla vor. Disso.ve the JELL-O in a pint of boiiing water. When eoM and ju-t commenting to thicken stir in the figs and nuts. Serve with Whipped Cream. 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