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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. E itered as second class mail matter at Bainbridge, Ga., postoflice. BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA SEPT. 24 Yes, mine got Little Joe all right, but “Prosperity” is still one ot his unredeemed pledges “I’m no worse than my party,” says Uncle Joe Cannon. If he was what use would the devil have for him. The further solution ofthe convict question now rests with the conn* ties, which means the . people of Georgia, which is w-ell. General Apathay still cont rol the political situation so far as a -popular loosening of the purse strings is concerned. Anyhow, Gov. Smith has clean ?d ont the Augean stable and rid the state of the worst political stenches she has known since the Reconstruc tion era. Georgia is becoming the battle ground ot the National campaign. Rev. Aaron Watkins, vice-presiden. tial candidate of the prohibitionists, is also now dispensing campaign thunder in the state. Clark Howell says that John Temple will get 4,000 votes in Geor. gia. Clark knows that this is not the total number of oranks in Geor. gia, but he knows the crank vote will be split between several candi. dales. In Gwinnett county night riders have notified public ginners not to gin any cotton until the price goes to twelve cents. If they can en* force this order throughout the cot ton belt the price would soon go to that figures. Today the tends jcy is to Iook with suspicion upon the business of the man who refuses to adver tise. Advertising has created con fidence in advertised goods, and the man who will not advertise strengthens the euspioion that his product will not stand the search light of publicity. “He succeeds best who pleases most,” applies as readily to adver tising as to other people. No one can new foresee what is going to happen in November National election. Toe political situation in full of doubt end un certainty, Neither party can put forth any tangible claims to confi dence in the result. The masses are yet to be aroused. Six weeks hence—and not until then—we shall know. It is a short interum, indeed, yet ample for momentous developments. Considerable portions of South west Mississippi have become so infested with the Mexican cotton boll weevil that the farmers are preparing to * practically abandon cotton as a next year’s crop aud devote their lands to corn, hay, oats, truck and such other crops as are immune to weevil attacKs. By a rotation of crops it is believed the weevil can be destroyed and the lands once again be brought into cotton. Experts have declar ed tbat rotation of crops is impera tive as one of the measures for the suppression of the pest. A potential menace lurks in this news of night riders in the cotton belt of Mississippi, Georgia, and Arkansa*. The cotton growers are suffering from a great wrong beyond doubt—but a wrong cannot be righted by a resort to another wrong. The evil of dealing in fu tures, which is the methed employ ed by the bears to beat down the price, mu9t be wiped out by legiti* mate means, tnat is by the enact ment of proper laws. Nightrider- ism cannot be tolerated in the south. In its incipiency it should be so vigorously repressed as to kill it in its birth. Mr, Bryan in his Maryland speech, put it strongly |and truly when he said that “no Democrat could find in the Denver platform an excuse tor voting the Republican ticket. Nething but the bead ot it Billy. The Fitzgerald ' Enterprise says: “The Hoke Smith Democrats will over-whelmingly defeat Yancey Carter.” Correct; and they will save the party irom itself two years lienee, as well. The purpose to make fair weather with the incoming dynasty has handicapped > 1 t s Adminis tration for six month’s past, at every move on the board and hence the wbvnessot th;j sssinimty of the Leg’ lative and the Judicial Branches thereof, during that time. The dealer who carries the best goods h9 can find, sells them at the lowest margin of profit that is reasonable, advertises effectively, and gives careful attention to the innumerable ways open to him of attracting and holding trade will have little to fear so far as mail order competition is concerned. The best brand of Georgia deme*. cracy is to be found in the camp of the Hokeites* .Witness Tom Wat son, who asserts that this bunch prevented the rope of the Georgia electoral yote in his b half.—Macon News. And Faith Moike! Isn’t it the truth? With a great flourish of trumpets, we are informed tuat Little Joe says he is going to vote for Bryan and Kern. Oh, well, better late than never.—Macon News. Very like his attitude on the Prohibitkm'queetion, when he took five trials to commit himself on that question last spring. When The Journal wanted to know if Joe Brown wonld support Mr. Bryan, we Bent a man to ask him the question. When the Macon Pollygraph wants to know who Governor Smith wili support in the state election it simply throws a verbal fit.—Atlanta Journal And the “fit” exactly becomes the soured, sore headed old huzzy. it is the opinion ot governor Smith and ot other authorities who have looked into [the question that there will be no successful attack upon the constitutionality of the Wise Law, placing a tax upon imi' tations and substitutes for beer, so the state will be able to raise the necessary revenue for carrying out the provisions of the eonvict bill. Gov. Smith is probably better authority on a constitutional quess tion that the Georgia Court of Aps peals—a d of the State Supreme Court combined. The Democratic party in Georgia has been long enough under the suspicion of Watson’s influence, and it is time for it to redeem it self of him entirely—Atlanta Jour nal. True, Brother Gray, but thanks to your valiant exposure to the world of the damnable political d.eker, exploited by the National Representative of the State Democ- •racy, to deliver to Mr. Watson Georgi ’s Electorial vote, the scheme h Thank Goodness the party is henceforth rid of both of these dick- erers. Governor Smith Says: decatur sheriff sale ‘•The extra session has accomplish ed all that I expected. “The people of t”e state were en*. titled to the full bencfit*of the re» port made by the investigating committee: “The juvenile court bill and the parole bill mark a new era in the effort to prevent crime in Georgia. “The creation of a commission to investigate the extension of the Western and Atlantic Railroad to deep water is also an important and valuable measure. “The convict bill lurnished an apportumty in each county in the State to take its pro rata of convicts and work part of them on a farm and part of the yeai upon the coun ty roads. “The county that is not able to work its convicts all the time on the roads should be able with half their labor on a farm to earn enough to pay the expense of maintaining the convicts half the year on road work. “I expect under this bill every convict to be disposed of without the leasing ot a single convict for a day. “The tax provided by the bill presented by Mr. Wise, of Fayette, levied upon imitations and substi tutes far rralt 1 qnors should pay the State $200,000 before the end of the next twelve months. “There is no room for complaint. “The expense of the extra session is a small item compared to the benefits which will come from the legislation which has Jjeen passed. “I have no fear for the constitu*- tionality of the tax.” . Tolk, Douglass, and in our own state, caused the defeat of Hoke Smith and in Soutb Carolina of It is the party The plan of the Kentucky “night- riders” is eroping out in other states. In Tennessee it has been applied to the shippers of peanuts, and in Mississippi cotton gins are being decorated with notices lead ing: “You are ordered to stop your gin at once and not resume 1 John Gary Evans until further ord rs. We are not your enemy, but your friend. So take heed and close, for we intend to bav® oar rights.” This country can do longer be a fr®e country when such conditions exist and the Law is an “Impot ent” whicb can not put a stop to •och conditions, Convict Bill Enacted. The first extra session of the gens eral assembly since 1882 came to an end Saturday last, by sine die ad. jonrnment, after the passage of con*- vict legislation satisfatory to Gov ernor Smith and a decisive majority of both branches. The session, cov. ered twenty six legislative days which include intervening Sundays, and has entailed upon the state an expenditure of approximately $36,- 600. The Bill as enacted provides that leasing shall cease March 31, 1909. —Convicts to be prorated Jto conn- ties.—Overs to be given counties wanting more pro rata, but counties not taking their share will be given credit, and can get extra convicts when they need them.—Those then remaining may be let out to Muni cipalities and the residue Disposed of in the discretion ot Governor and Commission. The Governor has signed the Bill and it is now a law. Nay, Nay! Pauline, when the editor says,“Peace to his ashes!” he doesn’t always mean to imply the belief (hat the soul of the de ceased has gone to sheol; be refers only to his mortal ashes. All doubt as to Bryan getting a majority of the popular vote in this state is now removed, bv Joe Brown taking the stump in his behalf. It is safe to predict that the democ*. ractia elec- tors will be elected by a large majority over the combined opposition, not on his account but generally. The Logic Of It. All informed now know that like causes produce like effects. It has also appeared that throughout the country politically there is a great unrest, and dissatisfaction with things as they are. Of course there are voter; who are partisans to the extent that they will vote the party ticket, always and under all cir cum stances, but there are also vot ers, and their number is growing, who are more independent; and it is this body of voter* who are vot ing for a change. It takes different form in differ® ent states, but it is this feeling of dissatisfsetion which had caused GEORGIA, Decatur County Will bo sold before the Court hous- door in the city of Bainbidge, in sair County, on the first Tuesday in Octo ber next, during the legal hoars of sale the following described property to-wit All of lot of land No. two hundred and eighty-four [284] and the east half of lot oi land No. three hundred and seventeen [317] situated in the 20th District of said county, containing in aW three hundred and sev enty [370] acres more or less. Also all that forty [40] acres of land in the 15th District of said county, and known as the thirty-four [34] acres in the north west corner of lot of land No. 203, bound ed on the east by lands of J. D. Chasan, on the west by the western land line of said lot No. 203, on the north by the pub lic road from Bainbridge to Thomasville, on the south by property owned by John E. Donalsonand Hal Dunlap. Also six [6] acres of land situated in the northeast corner of lot of land No. 221, said tract being one acre wide east and west, and six [6] acres long north and south and bounded on the east by the above de scribed thirty-four [34] acres, on the north by the public road leading from Bainbridge to Thomasville, on the south and west by the balance of said lot No. 221. Also that twentysthree [23] acres being part of lot of land No. seventy three [73] and east of the Climax and Attapulgus road, and fully described in deed of M. SwicordtoJ C. Brockman, dated May 1st, 1891, and recorded December 2nd, 1891, in Book‘‘I. I.’’ page 113. Also fifty [50] acres of land situated in the northeast corner of same lot No seventy-three (£$]. Also that ten [10] acres of land situated in the northwest corner of lot No. forty eight [48] and fully described as bounded on the north by the original lot line of said lot No. 48, on the east by the run of Yellow Water «reek, on the south by a continuation of the south boundary of the above described fifty acre tract, the last three described tracts con taining eighty three [83] acres in all, are located in the 20th District of said county and state. All of said property levied u £>on as the property of defendants, to satisfy two ftfas issued from the City Court of Bainbridge said county, in favor of the Decatur County Bank vs. F, R. Grahasn and C. R. Graham. Property pointed out by plaintiff’s attor neys. This Sept. 8th, 1908. L. F. PATTERSON, Sheriff Did You Eyes Stop and Think DECATUR SHERIFF SALE. GEORGIA—Decatur County. Will be sold before the c^urt house door, in the city of Bainbridge, in said couniy, on the first Tuesday in Oct. next, during the legal hours of sale, he following described property, to-wit: All of Lot No, seven [7] in the town of Fowlstown, in the county of Decatur, de scribed as follows; Commencing on the north lot line 4, 6. O. C. to an unnamed street, thence south eighteen and a half [18*] degrees east along said unnamed street 6, 4 O C. to an unnamed alley [said alley on the north of Mrs. Rawls’ land] thence along said alley and the land of the railroad to the southwest corner of Me- Rary’s land, thence along McRary’s line northwest, thence westwardlj along Mc Rary’s line, thence “northwestwardly along McRary’s line to the beginning point. Said lot being described more fully in a plat drawn by C. T. Mims, county sur. veyor, in which said plat is designated as lot No “Seven” [“7”] said plat being of record in the office of the elerk of the Superior Court of Decatur county ; Georgia; and being the same land described in a deed rom W. L, McGill, administrator, to R. D. Carr, recorded in the office of the clerk of the Superior Court of Decatur county, Georgia, in Book “E-3” page 536, except a small lot containing thirty [30] feet, front facing the south and having a depth of one hundred [100] feet, running north and bounded as follows; On the north and east by lands of MtRarys. on the south by lands of the Atlantic Coast Line Railway Co., and on the west by lands of R. D. Carr, and being a small tract of land sold by R. D. Carr off »f the above described prope: ty to Abner Averitt. Said described properly levied upon as the property of defendant, R.D. Carr, to satisfy a city court fifa from the City Court of Bainbridge, in favor of the Bainbridge Oil Company vs- said R. D. Carr. This Sept. 8th, 1908. L. F. PATTERSON, Sheriff. DECATUR SHERIFF SALE. GEORGIA—Decatur County. Will be sold, before the Court House door, in the citvof Bainbridge, in said county, during the legal hours of sale, on the first Tuesday in Oct. next, the following described property, to- wit: Eighteen [18] acres of land eff of lot of land No fifty-eight [58] situated in the nineteenth [19th] District of Decatur county Georgia, said eighteen (18] acres being all of that thirty [30] acres deeded by J. L. Perritt to Mack Martin excepting twelve and a halfacres owned by Sam Mar tin, Jack Martin and William McElvin. Also twt nty-two [22] acres of land off of lot of land No. twenty-three [23) situated in the nineteenth 119th] District of Deca. tur county, Georgia, the Perritt Mill road being the east line; the north line being the land of Isabel and George Martin, both tracts making together forty [40) acres and levied upon as the property of defendant, Mack Martin, to satisfy a city court fifa from the city court of Bainbridge. at the Ju e term, 1908, in favor of Joseph Swicord vs. said Mack Martin. This September 8th, 1908. L. F. PATTERSON. Sheriff. HO SELLS the most of any one article the town where you trade? To prove «h" does ask your neighbor and your neiri bor s neighbor who they buy their SH0f« from, and nine out of ten ' will toll ** “At Laing’s 99 you, NoW there must be a reason for it. p- 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 wornJut when you buy them, the threads become rotten and they soon come to pieces. Another good reason I am satisfied with a smaller profit. I have a complete line of medium-priced Hosiery for Women, Children and Rllen bought direct from the maMufac- turer which is equally as good in pro. portion as my SHOES Remember, I handle a general line of goods well as Shoes and Hosiery. as 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 irouns TO PLEASE J. M. LUNG, Phone 256 DE _’ATUR SHERIFF SALE. GEORGIA—Decatur County. the election of men like La Folette,! d £ r lV be soid before the court house in the city of Bainbridge, in said connty, on the first Tuesday in Oct. nex , dnr. ng the legal hours of 3ale, the following described property to-wit: Ail of city lots Nos. one (I) and No. two (2) in block “Y,” all of Nos. three [3 and four <4) in block ll Y,” and lot No. one The | I in block ‘ ‘U,’’ all situate lying and being the town of Donalsonville, Decatur in power that suffers always voters are dissatisfied, and they ■ vote for the new as.ioet the old to j « the hope that the change will do j thereupon and levied upon as the property ! of W. R. Horn to satisfy a city court fifa from the city court of Bainbridge at the TVBEE BV THE SEA GEORGIA'S GREATEST SEASIDE RESORT Offers the greatest attractions tor a Summer Outing, Fishing, Boating, Dancing, Surf Bathing, Skating, Bowling, and many other forms of amusements. HOTEL TVBEE 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 It is that if the article purchased i not exactly as represented it canb returned and the money will b returned without question. But tv- are very Gareful About Our Jewelry We don’t buy it until we hav examined it thoroughly. Sc we hav everything all right Our guaran tee is good because we know tb character of what we sell. Townsend Jewelry Co. Bainbridge, Ca* ,ii| r; i——— •• good. Just now business condi tions are nnsettled throughout the country. The republican party, is in power and will be made to suf fer. March term. 1908, in favor of the Citizens Bank vs. W. R. Horn and B. B. Lane and other fifas in my hands. This Sept. 9th, 1908. L. F._ PATTERSON .'Sheriff. ..CLINTON’S.... IATMARK ET HICK’S BLOCK, WATER STREET I BUTCHER and keep in Cold Storage, constant ‘ Best Native Beef—and Hams,Lard and Bacon at ' ,jW uj|u to I do my own work and don t have big emp ove-> charge my customers. mr , n ev on Brins, send or ’phone me your orders and saw yonr meat account. IV. W. Clinton A Son Ph®M, 2f# »»w