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G. H. WILLIAMS, OF D
CANDIDACY FOR UNITED
SENATOR
uro THE PEOPLE OP GEORGIA
, I am a candidate tor the United
■States Senate to succeed T. W. Hard
wick and to deteat W. J. Harrla.
tn a letter to Clark Howell, Presi
dent Wilson asked the people ot Geer-
Lata te veto tor Harris. In a telegram
ito W. J. Harris. President Wilson as-
fe&ed the people ot Georgia that the
(heremment would not Interfere with
cotton and upon this political and
moral contract the people of Georgia
1 dominated W. J. Harris for U. S.
Senator, well knowing that he was a
E k man Indeed for this high office,
was not the choice of the people,
the fiasco of the President.
> We had faith In President Wilson's
premise to protect cotton planters
against the spinners and speculation
of the North and 1 of foreign conn-
Ion of this uafrismdir i
tees to the South, t* fix the price
of cotton aad place It under Govern
ment control.
Cotton dropped from IS cents to 19
cents per pound; millions were lost
to us and thousands ef people hare
been bankrupted, sacrificed and ruin
ed. The •oUtical sad moral contract
made with Harris aad President Wil
son at the September primary has
been broken and la Told, and the peo
ple of Georgia are now free to act
and vote as they please In the Novem
ber election for a United States Sen
ator. If the President had kept faith
with ns on this promise all the poo-
their part of the contract, but as
President did not keep his prom-
A
ris. all the people of Georgia will ha
disloyal to themselves and their sec-
- tlcna If they do not resent It and elect
an Independent Senator; and fight
■tils unjust and outrageous move on
the part ef the Administration to sac
rifice the product of our land labor to
foreign trade and unfriendly Interest
I, for one, will oppose It with all
the strength of my soul and being.
The farmers of Georgia are with me
aad the loud-month politicians, un-
scrupulous newspapers and powers
to be can not and will not fool them
again on the first Tuesday in Novem
ber.
E Wllao
Tuvwen'n.
_ lived since the days of
John the Baptist He holds the reins
ot the Government as no other man
;has ever held them. When he pops
ths whip the wheels turn or the
traces break, and we are with him
.whole soul and body in the winning
of the war; hut, he knows nothing of
the cotton conditions in the South.
He should not hurt us now If ho
could not help ns In 1914, and has no
right to dictate tho local politics of
Georgia against our Judgment and
against our Interests. If President
Wilson has not made another nolltl-
cal promise with the powers to be to
sacrifice our cotton for political pref-
(the South who have served
mis party as faithfully as a slave
could serve his master for fifty-three
years, why don't he settle this cotton
iQueiuon and kec
(Harris telegram.
Iona day ana save us millions of dol-
a and vexation of spirit ■
the world knows this Admlnls-
m is against the cotton market
.The farmers of the South are being
made philanthropists of to finance
the cotton seed oil mills aad other
great interests unfriendly to ns.
Thera, is but one reason for this—we
Jure been solid for one party until
a have no political standing in na
si affairs. Shall we keep our
la tn the same yoke? If so, we
deserve no better.
No farmer In Georgia has been able
to aell a ton ot cotton seed since the
September primary. They are scat
tered from the gins hack to the farm
ers, plied In heaps and are rotting by
the thousands, all on account or un-
Just discriminations against the farm
er at the most critical lime In the
history of our being and the protest
of Democratlo Senators seems to be
ot no avail.
The Mason Telegraph and
other newspapers in Georgia that
either know or care nothing ot these
conditions, have continually advocat
ed the price fixing ot cotton, but after
I made, my announcement on this Is
sue, John W. Bennett, of Waycross,
in preparing “Little Willie’s” speech
-juice at the Macon coi
"Little Willie" to say
a that he was oppose
price fixing on cotton,
t la a brilliant GeorT
all the thunder oui
1 acceptance at the Macon conven-
» had “Little Willie’’ to say for
.the first time that he was opposed to
.Government price fixing on cotton.
[John Bennett Is a brilliant Georgian,
(hnt he took all the thunder out of
.the Macon Telegraph when hs made
“Little Willie" say this last Thurs-
'day; but he did not say that he op
posed the Government stabilising cot-
Ilon as Instructed by President Wilson
ffinthe Official U. S. Bulletin of Bep-
■ temper 14th.
Don’t you know Harris will not op-
i appointed by this ....
_ l connection with the
j action seed Is being used
uuonn, us. bsniiaate i-
United 8tates Senator
Tou know and all the Administra
tion knows that it 1* the common talk
and dally statement in ths hotels and
corridors at Washington, in the Cot
ton Exchange of New York and New
Orleans and with purchasing agents
of foreign countries that If -cotton
goes above 95 cents the Government
will take control of it and fix a price?,
Don’t you know that the committee
appointed by the Administration to
control, and that is controlling cotton
is mads up of cotton mill men, cot
ton seed oil men, and cotton exchange
and commission gamblers?
If you don’t know this, get the Of
ficial U. S. Bulletin issued September
94th. You will see this Is true. Wash
ington it full of foreign agents. New
England spinners and Wall Street
gamblers, doing all In their power to
make the Administration take charge
of this and the next crop of cotton,
and, Incredible as it now seems, there
are some newspapers and paid agen
cies right here In Georgia advocat
ing the same dirty deal- and I want
ttnell you In no uncertain terms, that
unless the Southern people assert
themselve In the most vigorous terms
It will begone.
And when this Is done we‘Will be
at the mercy of the spinners and for
eign agents, Just as we are now at
the mercy ot the cotton seed mills.
Cotton seed Is congested and depress
ed now ; cotton will he depressed and
congested then. You can raise no
money on seed now; you could raise
no peoney on cotton then. You have to
wait on seed mills now; you would
have to wait on cotton mills then.
Southern banks cannot advance mon
ey on seed now; they could not ad-
If you
hundred tons ot
aad oontrel TtfP
would demoralize all business, wreck
aad ruin the South?
Do you knew that wo Mv* in a free
country and have a right to serve God
aoosrrtlng to the dictates of our own
eeesolence and to vote for what and
for whom wo please? ;
Tho Interference with the rights of
the people by taxing tea and the Bou
ton disturbance was a mild encroach
ment of the people’s rights edmpand
to the present Interference with cot
ton. I
Just why ths spinners and gamblers
should be protected from the effect
of the fourth disastrous crop and the
exporters for foreign countries s»
cure cotton at the expense of the
Southern planters I can not see. Brasil
looks after the planters of coffee, aad
not the oonanmera of coffee la Amer
ica and Europe.
But the Democratic party owns the
tit
flop in
tlonal independence, ire will have no
recognition in national affairs, and
will be bartered as weaklings for po
litical preference North, East and
West, regardless of our rights or
faithful service to one party. If it Is
so now and we bare our hacks to
the lash that Is bslng laid on In this
outrageous cotton situation, ho— ™»">'
worse will it hs when this woi
Is over and each — 1
for Its respective i
"ness n
grain
the South and be In position to do-
mand what Is right. It we have a
weakling tn ths United States Senate
trailing only In the banner of solid
Democracy, whipped Into line by pie-
Judical senUment and Ignorance, wo
oontemp? of barter sad sale for pout?
cal^ preference In mors, manly, tea;
States Saute 1 u
publican, I will have the help aad sup-
e >rt of that greet national organize-
on in looking after the Interest of
the people of Georgia, and I promise
you now that it I don’t do more in
one year than Harris could do In six
years, I will resign my Job and put
my salary back Into the treasury,.
Let ua see what It costs under tho
present conditions to make and mar.
ket cotton;
I hare one farm of thirty-two plow*
run by twenty-four tenants or crop
pers. Eighteen ot them white families
and six colored: there are 128 people
tn the twenty-four families. It will
cost at ths present prices $20.09 per
month each to feed, clothe and in ev
ery way support these people, or a
’ i cost for twelve months of $30,-
On the cropper system the land-
to the pimi.ict-BHnea
From this date I will quit buying
cotton from the board as I will-be-
in future a warehouseman only. The
cause is namely: It cost too much
money to carry a bale of cotton away
from the railroad, then hare to. haul
K back.' Thep resent cost is as fol
lows:
Sample at present price 50
Hauling to Warehouse ...» 10
From Warehouse back to railroad .15
Warehouse charges 55
Total.j $1.3tf
Kiifd friends who pays-this? Lis
ten! you pay it. If thii. was all I
would stop and say no more, but it
cost 3 days time on account of poor
service to get your bale of cotton out
of the warehouse on account of the
scarcity of labor, as on account ot the
warehouses being full it takes four
lord furnished the land, the atock and men to get a bale picked up and out
their feed, the tools and one-half the r
fertilizer. He gete one-half that Is 01 a P leL I say cut i$ out.
tt Your Tmllte^* 7 122* *?52i • * Ttoigh, class and put your
le made
this year as wUmated. %97'bales of
ootton. it takes the teed to pay for
the fertilizers, hut we are dogged up
now and can’t sell them. This cotton
at 40 cents per pound would be $999,-
00 per bale or a total of $59,400; the
re’ or tenants’ part would bo
It or $29,700. ft It has cost
live, $30,720, wo must get
iut of the pigs, chickens
—* ■’ s dtf-
Jes to make good this
of $1,020. They, ot course,
can do this; but at these high-priced
times. It you pay them less than 40
cents, somebody will and must do
without, while the great majority of
ithe favored class wallow In tho lap
of plenty. Shall this great Democrat
lo Government protect the spinners
whose profits are fabulous and at the
same time depress the producer,
whoso burdens are already more than
he can bear?
Our great ;
led ana we are being sacrificed to
Our gnat President has been mis-
—d and we are being sacrificed to the
advantage ot the New England mills
and Wall Street gamblers. Fifty
cotton f. o. b. the G. S. k F. Railroad
for sixty cents per bale against $1.30
it is now costing you. A saving of
one-eight of a cent per pound, not
only this, but I will save you three
day’s interest as well as loss in weight
for this time to the buyer.
Friends: I know the cotton busi
ness and am telling you facts this you
cannot deny, and more, I will not
keep you waiting all day to sell your
cotton. ' I will operate a free automo
bile to carry you and the buyers
twice a day at 9:30 a. m. and 3 p. m.,
these will bem y principle sales hours
as it is after the opening and close of
the contract markets.
Remember I will not buy your cot-,
ton unless you so desire then I will
resell it to the first buyer that comes
unless the marketc hangea, at the
samep rice paic| for it. I will make
sixty cents a bale without ever samp
ling and underweighing and save you
time and interest.
This is the time to cut out all ex
tra'expenses,and handle your crops
to. the best advantage to your coun
try and yourself.
Do not expose this the South’s
greatest crop to the rain to rot I
.will house and protect every bnle of
cojtton I weigh.
September 9, 1918.
8t D. Bl THOMPSON.
BREWERY TURNED
INTO PACKING PLANT
OLD ACME BREWING CO. PLANT
IN MACON NOW A MODERN
PACKING PLANT.
cents for cotton today would not bo
equal oven to the pay of other labor
la tho South.
Do you know that a common la
borer who worked on a farm In 1914
at one dollar per.day of twelve hour*
Is making $8.00 per day ot nine hours
on Government work? Do you know
that negro firemen who worked for
one dollar and fifty cents on rail
roads In 1915 for twelve hours a day,
are now being paid by McAdoo’s rail
roads $185.00 per month for sight
hours per day? Do you know that all
Government contractors are growing
rich and donating fabulous sums to
the campaign of their choice candi
dates? Do you know that tho cotton
mills have made ’100 per cent since
1914, and the Bibb Manufacturing Co.,
• cotton mill corporation in Georgia,
has Increased its capital stock from
one million to five million dollars
since 1914, sad., paid for this four
million with surplus and profits? Do
you know that tho Georgia farmers
who actually make tkelr bread by the
sweat of their brow and raises the
cotton to clothe the world la the only
class that has not made money out
of this war?
I know the farm from beginning to
end. I am a farmer, with a hundred
plows, raisin* all the supplies I can.
to help win the war. I paid more war^
tax than any man In my Congression
al District and I did it willingly. I
v aV M E n Ye ? ?h 0re the Red CrOMS “ d
ty. aid itn gUd“F ““h5v? y bSS{ The P lant of th ° Acme Brewing
of every issue and will buy Company which was turned into m
yeaMld son to'g* d to my Fn£?2*?3i ice P lant short,y Bfter Prohibition
fight for his country before he was went into effect is now a modern
Mt'l simply mention'ihnathtngs^to paC “ n 5 P l* nt ' November second win
.v— *■— a» mark the fo.rmal opening of this plant,
thef ourth.to ba built in-Georgia and
one of the largest in the entire Soup).
This day will be known as “Packihg
House Day.” It wUl be the first time
the gensrak public has had an oppor
tunity to visit the million dollar plant.
The salvation of the South and the
southern fanner, who la the backbone
of tho South, is diversification. Mil-
liens of dollars worth of western
meats ere sold in Georgia each year,
when this cattle could be rabid here
and would be much more profitable te
g-sra*isr?s ___ __
draMi* 1 badf^mttfisd ?&**»&*£ I th * *"iaer than the cotten
predate our Interest and faithful in-1 crop ’
vice to him and hie party. The dam-' Preparations are being made te-
SHt^ WeSn^SSt men*nor I WBr< ** »•?”
, ■ bif
** Prl “- 1 ?!“““!«¥»« forever. I F0R - BALE—The best player pleas
on the market. See Mrs. Mery Shef
field at The,Mirror.
“it. I simply mention these things
•ho* that! am no slacker.
President Wilson needs our cot
ton to run this war ha la perfectly
welcome to take It. We ere with hS
to a vlctorous conclusion, but it has
lt^caa not bo
toe spinners mTSBUn.rf toirtro
ua
too. end they £usft£u fMm now
I}* ‘hJvNoydober election or leave
Jttcefixlng of cotton end wttoa j GEORGIA MAN
HAD QUITE A SIEGE
gHISm
Dublin, Os,
MULES AT PUBLIC SALE „ ,
t The city tax books are now open
The Countjr Commissioners ot Dooly for 1918 Taxes and will dose Dec.
county will sell at public outcry In 2Q 1918
front of the court house door on the '
first Tuesday in November, next, five ■» N. A. POWELL,
head of males. Terms of nle cash. 10-17-4t Clerk and Treat.
F. C. RIES
TAKEN UP—Black heifer about 2
yean old, at my place one mile out on
Hawldnsville road. Ownej can get.
same by paying for this ad and ex
penses. W. L. Kidd. 10-24-dt
GUY ARMSTRONG
When In Macon Take Time to See
Ri^s ^ Armstrong
Watches, Clocks, Diamonds, Jewelry and Silverware
RELIABLE GOODS ONLY FINE ENGRAVING AND REPAIRING
315 THIRD STREET . PHONE 806
*■- MACON, GEORGIA
In Hospital, But loproreil Greatly Aflir
Taking Zfron Iron Toole.
In a recent statement, J. H. Martin
ef Mount Vernon, Oa„ says:
“I was In toe hospital wlth'stomach
trouble and kad qulto a siege. It
seemed I would never get my strength
heck after I came out, I bed been so
Iff. I ached all over. I was nervous,
restless and yet did not feel like get
ting ground. My skin wee yellow. My
appetite poor. I wee In pretty bed
shape amr began te look around for a
tonic. I felt like part of toe trouble
was lack of Iron la my blood. I was
so easily worsted, so easily upset I
heard ot Zlron and knew It would help
me. I began to take It aad toe Im
provement was great It strength
ened me, renewed my nerves aad
toned up my system.”
. When you feel toed yen need
strength, remember that Zlron Is a
perfected preparation of Iron salts,
combined with other etrengto-glvtig
Ingredients. Try Zlron.
ZNJ
“T\R. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin is all
that it is claimed to be and I will
always keep it in the house as it is all that I
need for my children, and grown folks as well.
I do not hesitate to recommend Dr. Caldwell’s
Syrup Pepsin to my friends.”
rfViom a letter to Dr. Caldwell written by\
I Mrs. Either Porter Hsrnlson, George-1
• \ town, S. C. /
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The Perfect Laxative
Sold by Druggists Everywhere
50 cts. $1.00
A mild, pleasant-tasting combination of simple
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Dr. W. B. Caldwell, 458 Washington Street;
Monticello, Illinois.
Studebaker Wagons
Summers Barnesville Buggy
Frazier Road Carts, Harness!
If you are going to need anything in the
above lines, you had better buy them now, for
they are hard to get. I can save you money,
having bought my supply last fall.
i
TOM SWAIN
PINEHURST, GA.
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