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THE QEMOCRAT
JNO.M. BROWN, Editor & M’g’r
OFFICIAL GAZETTE OF SHERIFF,
ORDINARY, CLERK SUPERIOR
COURT AND COUNTY COMMIS
SIONERS.
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at Ram bridge, Ga., postoftice.
FAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA SEPT. 3
If, as Tom Watson says, Bryan
and Taft are standing on the same
platform it must be broad enough to
please any voter.
Some merchants advertise very
infrequently. JYou will notice
they draw customers in the same
manner.
What a pity the world is to come
to an end in October—according
to some seer—for won’t this cut off
the hopes of a Bryan victory?
There is n strong disposition on
the part of some Ge rgia legislator
to say just how nigh the beer will
be.
Governor Smith’s position in re*
gard to the appropriation to the
Griffin experiment station and the
"Waycross experiment station was
correct.
Governor Smith his signed the
bill to pay the pensions of Confed
erate veterans and their widows
annually in advance, instead of
quarterly.
Partisanship isn’t patriotism; far
beneath our foundation of politics
there is the corner stone of civic
righteousness. Let us learn, there"
fore, that partisanship isn’t patriot*-
ism always, liberty is not license,
nor is the waving of banners always
victory.
The Hon. Foe Hill Hall may be
known as the watch dog of the
treasury, when it comes to keeping
bis weather eye on the other fellow,
but let it be remembered that he is
also one fellow who tried to double
/
bis per diem as a member of the
house.
We guess that Augusta has found
things wet enough to please her, re
cently. Bytheway, what became of
that north Augusta dispensary and
that over the bridge booze joint?
Enpassant, it will be lemembered
also that the Lord sent a freshet in
Noah’s time, on account of the
world’s wickedness; and He is the
same, yesterday, today and forever.
There is and has been for the past
tew months an opportunity to build
cheaply that will probably be long
to duplicate itseli in this section of
the state. Lumber today, according
to the estimate of an experienced
man, is twenty per cent cheaper
than it will be for many months to
come. A saving of from twenty to
thirty per cent on a house if it is
built now should piove an attrac
tive bargain for some who contemn,
plate building a residence in the
near future.
This year the Democrats have
the best opportunity they have had
since the first election of Cleveland
to get control of at least two
branches of the national govern*
ment. Will they grasp this magnif
icent opportur ty, or will they
wander away from the ranks and
follow other parties which have uo
chance of success and which, after
all, are maintained only to weaken
the Democracy?
To Exterminate Ants.
Take two parts eornmeai to one
of powdered borax and one oi sugar.
Mix with water to the consistency
of dough. Place this in shallow re
ceptacles and place in their runs,
or anywhere they are likely to be,
and as sure as the sun rises on the
earth they will disappear There
ate those who will say “I have tried
that, and it is no good.’’ To such
we say patience and persistence will
prevail. In the mixture dries add
a few drops of water is all that is
needed. One supply will do for
months or until exhausted.
Democracy vs.
Plutocracy
This paper is attached to princi
ples snd to moral ideas. Men
change and times change, parties
change and platforms change, and
candidates change, hut true prin
ciples and ideas do not change.
We are nearing the end of one
stage of Rooseveltisin Its fruits
are before us. In the name of
falte patriotism they are jingoism,
imperialism, extravagance, pluto
cracy, centralization. They are
violence, usurpation, panic, depres
sion. They are contempt for law,
contempt for courts, contempt for
Congress, contempt for Constitu
tion. All these have been crystal <
lized in the machine -made and
corporation-financed candidacy of
a personally amiable and excellent
Proxy.
It is imperative that there shall
be Opposition to this sordid and
menacing regime. To be effective
that opposition must be powerful.
To be powerful it must be ground
ed in principle. To be grounded
in principle appeal must be made
not so much in behalf of a man as
in behalf of a cau-e. That cause
must be not false but True Demo
cracy. It D?mocrati'c candidates
chance now to be identified with
this cause, as they always should
have been, so much the better for
them.
We have sharply disagreed with
ivlr. Bryan in the past, but have
upheld him whenever he repre
sented True Democracy, We have
opposed Populism and Socialism.
We have nothing to retract, defend
or excuse. In common with the
Democratic millions, as (listin’
guished from the Democratic poli
ticians, we respond now to the
merits and demands of a cause
rather than to the claims of any
man or any machine, and conscien
tiously. and with a keen apprecia
tion of our own responsibility to
the public, confronted on one side
by Reoseveltism and Roosevelt’s
Proxy and on the other by Demo
cracy and Mr. Bryan, we have no
hesitation in saying that within
the limits of True Democracy, the
Democratic ticket is entitled to
the full Democratic vote.
There are phases of iMr. Bryan’s
career and there’s articles in his
political creed of which we disap
prove now, as alway. But in the
essentials of opposition to Roo=e-
veltism we are in accord with the
Democratic platform.
In these things party ahd candi
date have come openly to our po
sition of opposition to privilege
and Plutoracy.
W e are coming to the true Demo
cratic position—in these matters
party and candidate have lost fa*
vor with Populist, Socialist and In
dependence Leaguers. It is an
impressive”fact that most of the
extremists, now following the
leadership of men !iKe WatsoD,
Debs and Hearst, have turned
upon a party and a [.candidate no
longer subject to their influence.
Stripped of its false and mischief
breeding alliances and no longer
attempting to reconcile Democracy
with Semi-Socialism, or with pa
ternalistic Populism, or with any
other form of eraze radicalism, the
Democratic party appears to have
recovered from its long infatuation
and to be once more in a position
to render efficient service to the
Republic. Without scanning it
toocl08eiy tor imperfections^we
believe that it deserves encourage
ment and is entitled to Democratic
sympathy aBd support.
The Democratic platform and
nominee are soand in their oppo
sition to jingoism and Roosevelt’s
war conjuring spirit, in their de
mand for publicity for eampaign
contributions and expenditures, in
their repudiation of ceBtralizatiou
through conservative ,‘jurisp:u-'
dence,’ in their hostility to our
wretched, bloody and costly expe.
riment in imperialism in the Ptil-
ippines, in their in-istence upon
genuine tariff reform and in their
call for retrenchment of reckless
and ruinous national exp-nditure-.
On ail of these thing- the Republi
can platform nod candidate are
either hopelessly wrong or silent
or evasive.
Says an exchange: “The people’s
will is the supreme law. The law
enforcers Bhould be in tull sympathy
with the people’s will.” That
seems to be about the size of it over
m Savannah where, it is said, the
law “enforcers” are about as blind
as the “tigers.”
Good Government League
A good government league, said
to number 400 to 500 Atlanta citi
zens, basjbeen organized there for
the purpose of taking a hand in
municipal affairs and securing an
honest and businesslike admimstra
tion of Atlanta’s government.
While no names are mentioned, it
is t generally understood tb.it the
pu^ose of the league is to fight the
nomination of James G. Woodward
as mayor.—Ex.
Here is a pattern set out for Bain*
bridge to follow—if she’ll only have
the civic manhood to do it—being
sure the next tfime that every man
selected is one you can rely on, in
every emergency and on every day
in the year, for civic righteousness
and moral reformation.
Our next municipal fight is only
a year off and ’tie time we were
casting about tor these things.
A Reductio ad Absurdum
A contemporary says that a rem
edy for the alcohol habit is not the
harsh method of the law—harsh
ness cannot lift up the fallen—but
the getler method of moral suasion.
Perhaps; but we do riot fust ie-
member where mo. v al su >.sion has
made any remarkable inroads on the
liquor traffic; and we have never
known the liquor men to object to
moral suasion; it doe« not affect
^their business in the least.
When men begin to wonder why
the government should be a partner
iD the business which makes crim
inals, and begin to vote accordingly,
then the liquor interest and the
brewery interest become alarmed,
as will be seen from a perusal of the
proceedings of their recent national
conventions. There is nothing the
liquor men so fear as the determined
vote of people who have become
tired of having a governmentdicens.
ed trap for their sons and daughters
on every corner.
For this very reason they are
glad to have good people—of what
ever pretension—advocate moral
suasion. Moral suasion, forsooth!
why not license places to sell cocain
"and opium and morphine to your
boys and girls, and then rely on
moral suasion to keep them from
evil? Why not license brothels and
open hell holes on all yonr resi
dence streets, and then use moral
suasion to keep your boys pure?
They need moral slamina, and if
these temptations are not in their
way, they will not be sufficiently
“developed!”
It is one thing tor a government
to refuse to regulate the ^private life
of an individual. It is another
thing, and quite indefensible—for
the government to give its sanction
—tor a money consideration —to a
business which is acknowledgi d to
add notably to the amount of crime
committed. W. C. T. U.
September Weather.
DeVoe, the weather man says of
September weather:
This month will enter with a hot
wave 1st to 2nd, hot wave. On
the 3rd a great storm will go over the
Hississippi valley. 4th to 5th,
heavy thunder storms. 6th to 7th,
pleasant. 8th to 9th,*cool. loth to
lltb, a hewy storm will form over
the Atlantic coast causing cool
ra'ns. 12th to 13th, cvol wave.
14th to 15th, pleasant. On the 17th
a heavy storm will advance from
the Pacific coast, causing a warm
wave. 18th to 23rd hot and sultry.
During the hot* spell the great
equinoctial storm will appear over
the Atlantic ocean, moving east
ward, reaching the South Atlantic
sta.es on the 24th to 26th, followed
hy a cold wave. 29th to 30th,
pleasant.
The sane thing to do. therefore,
is lor farmers to keep right up with
their cotton till October or later.
The Convict Bill.
victs of the state or the public
roads. Counties and municipalities
will have the privilege of using
them tor this purpose, beginning
April 1,19o9, the remainder to be
leased out to individuals until De -
cember 3], 1911. After the latter
date no convicts whatever shall bo
leased to private parties.
The lower house passed the
Holder convict bill on Friday, and
it is now up to the South and the
governor.
The Holder bill provides that
npon the expiration of the present
lease system on March 31,19o9, the
foundation of a fund shall be begun
which will be used for working all
the felonv and misdemeanor cor-
Tfre Waycross Car
Factory Bankrupt.
Waycross has had another ub*
pleasant backset One of her man
ufacturing Industries has gene into
the hands of a receiver.
The South Atlantic Car and Man*
utactnring plant, which is operated
at Waycross, has gone into bank
ruptcy, O. D. Wudley, an official ot
the A, B. & A. railroad, being ap
pointed tem: orary receiver.
Little less than a year ago the
plant was partly destroyed by fire,
since which time every effi rt avail
able was made to raise the nec
essary amount ot money to rebuild
the big industi'j.
Shortly after the plant was de 1
stroyed a city election was held to
vote for bonds, which was success,
fully carried out and the city was
bonded a: $75,000 and the factory
was rebuilt and work was resumed
within a short time.
The car factory employs from
four to six hundred workmen of
all classes of mechanical skill. Some
of these men are from the country
and know but very little about ma.
chanism, therefore they are com
pelled to offer their services tor
$l.oo per day, which is the mini
mum •'mount paid for their labor.-
Many of these laborers have fam
ilies and without their labor their
families will be left without the
necessaries of life.
To suspend this enormous plant
will cot only be destructive to the
city of Waycross, but will seriously
damage the merchants doing busi
ness in the city.
It is thought to be due to the
fact that the maladministration of
business has caused the plant to go
to the wall.
Just like Waycross—not many
months ago the Bank of W aycross
tailed under bad management—and
Waycross l as experienced a falling
off in business ever since the so,
called “Hoke Smit'j” panic visited
the country.
It is stated, however, that the
company will make strenuous efforts
to operate the factory until the
necessary amount of money can
be raised to defray the debts out
standing, but it is opined that the
factory will close its doors indefin.
itely. W.
A Good Woman Dies.
This community was shocked on
Monday morning to learn that Mrs.
Birma Chapman nee Cliett, sis*
ter of Messrs. C. C. and J. C. Cliett,
of thiB city, and one of the leading
Christian ladies of the Baptist
church, had died on Sunday night,
afier an illness of some two weeks,
aged 55 years and 11 months.
Mrs. Chapman was universally
esteemed and throughout her life
was a lady of lovely Christian char
acter, and will be missed W-i. in
her church and the circles in which
she moved a d shed a most salutary
Christian influence. She was buried
on Monday, and a large number of
sorrowing and symj athizing friends
turning out to pav the last sad
tribute ot respect to her sw£et mem
ory—Revs. B. M. Beck and J. A.
Smith both officiating in the sad
funeral rites
The be r eaved relative* haye the
sorrowing sympathy ot the entire
comra-unity in th'« dispensation.
Very Serious
It l« a very serious matter to ask
for one medicine and have the
wrong one given you. For this
reason we urge you in baying
tc be careful to get the genuine—
BUck-WgHT
liver Medtcfe
The reputation c£ this old, relia
ble medicine, for constipation, in
digestion and liver trouble, ia firm
ly established, ft does not imitate
other medicinal. It is better that
others, or it woald not be the b-
varite fiver powder, with a kafir
sale than afi others combined.
SOLD Of TOW* n
DM You Ever
Stop and Think
W lHO SELLS the most of any one article *
the town where you trade? To prove
j does a»k your neighbor and your neigh
\ bor’s neighbor who they buy their SHOES
? from, and nine out of ten will tell vo *
“A t Laing’s”
Now there must be a reason for it. It’s
simply this; I buy shoes from manufacturers
who make nothing but Honest Leather
Shoes, and buy in small quantities and of
ten, in order to keep them new and clean. Remem
ber, Shoes kept in stock too long are half worn out
when you buy them, the threads become rotten and
they soon come to pieces. Another goo ’
am satisfied with a smaller profit.
reason
TYBEE BY THE SEA
GEORGIA’S GREATEST SEASIDE RESORT
Offers the greatest attractions for a Summer Outing,
Fishing, Boating, Dancing, Surf Bathing, Skating,
Bowling, and many other forms of amusements.
HOTEL TYBEE
Under new management has been thoroughly overhaul
ed, and refurnished and is new throughout. Splendid
orchestra, Fine Artesian Water, Fresh Fish and other
Sea Food.
STUBBS & KEEN* Proprietors.
Also the New Pulaski, Savannah.
S quare Engagement
is made with every s-le in this store l>:
It is that, if the article purchased i
not exactly £« represented it can b
returned and the money will b
returned without question, cut w
are very
Careful About Our Jewelry
"We don’t buy it until we hav
examined it thoroughly. Sc we hav
everything all light. Our gnaraii
tee is good because we know tb
character of what we sell.
Townsend* Jewelry Co.
Bairtbridge, Ca.
I have a complete line of medium-priced
Hosiery for Women, Children and
ARen bought direct from the manufac
turer which is equally as good in pro
portion as my SHOES
Remember, I handle a general line of goods as
well as Shoes and Hosiery.
We Try to Make Our Store a
Pleasant Place to Trade
Pleasant because we handle only DESIRABLE
GOODS; pleasant because our PRICE IS RIGHT
and we are always eager to please, and accommodate
in any way we can. If you do not already know us,
I extend this invitation to call and let’s get acquainted
1TOUMS TO PLEASE
J. M. LAI DIG,
Phone 256
CLINTON'S....
MEATMARK
HICK’S BLOCK, WATER STREET
I BUTCHER and keep in Cold Storage, co- ' ta ”;
Beet Native Beet—and Hams,Lard and Bacon a. Low^ j, ^
I do my own work and don’t have big emp
charge my customers. „ , „,,. ne v on
Bring, send or ’phone me your orders and save
yonr meat account. . —
Ilf. Ilf. CUntoii A Son
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