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AND SOUTH GEORGIA PROGRESS
THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST, 1906.
Landslide Was Complete.
Twelve Counties In
•Doubt.
Candidates
Hor Governor
B«tm F
Hoke Smith ..
Jim Smith
Clark Howell ., ..
Russe(l
Tts, IrWln, Jenkins, Johnson, Jasper,
Jefferson, Lincoln, Mttchell, -Hilton,
Miller, Morgan, Murrgy,, Newton,
(Oconee. Tike,- Tnttam, Pulaski,
Tierce, ’.Pickens, Polk, Spalding,
Screven, Stewart, Terrell, Tallfalr-
TO, Tift, Toombs, Talbot, Upson, Wil-
sanfora
Wright .
School Commissioner
Merritt
Johnson.;..
for Wright against Sanford for
comptroller, and for Merritt over
Johnston for state commissioner of
schools.
the returns, though unoffldal
correct.
are
They lack only the Glas
gow district, which Is off the railroad
and cannot be heard from until the
official meeting of the managers at
the court house at noon today. The
published tomorrow. '
The local managers and clerks,
Messrs Mitchell, Hambleton, Lester,
Groover and Dutcher, served with
out pay, and deserve the thanks of
the public. Their work was rapid
and accurate.
votes were all
counted and the result announced on
the stereoptlcon by half past ten. The
county precincts were all in and bul
letined by six o'clock.
It wbs a clean election, and the
people are pleased at the results.
majority at least. Is
fer the smaller blu, i
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Thomasville Enterprise, VoL XLt
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OH FIRST BALLOT
Wonderful Majorities All Over State—Howell Comes Second In Popular Vote, but Russell
Carries More Counties than Either Estill or Howell—Jim Smith’s Vote Very Small.
Me Carries at. Least IIP Counties and 294 Convention Votes.
THOMAS GOES FOR HOKE SMITH
It was a landslide. Hoke Smith three o’clock, furnishing the news,
will be the next governor *>f Georgia. I Tlle people ere Indebted to these
be elected on the first ballot' * ent,emen for falt “ uI 8ervlce ’
The returns given below are not
democratic convention , _.
i all official but seem reliable. The
popular vote will ex- ^ coni0 iidatlon may change some of
hh Bve opponents, the counties from one column to an-
mornlng he has ^ other, but this will not affect the
tlm 129 counties 1 general result,
heard from. Other returns will following counties hating six
. ... , ., , conventional votes have gone for
doubtless Increase his majority. He-
will go Itto the convention with more;
than 290 votes. 184 votes
I Hoke Smith: Fulton, Thomas, Floyd,
Bibb and Richmond.
He has carried these counties bav-
are necessary to a’choice, and Mr.ling four votes:
Smith will have easy sailing. Bulloch, Burke, Tatnatl, Decatur,
The ‘second man in the popular ( Dooly, Mereiweather, Muscogee, Car-
vote Will be Clark Howell, though j roll, Coweta, Troup, Monroe, Bartow,
Richard B. Russell seems to have t Cobb, Elbart, ’Wilkes, Hall, Wash
es rriuli more counties than he. Col. I Ington, Dewndes and Lnwrence.
EstGIk convention vote will be small-j ^Tbe two vote counties that have
er than Russel’s. 1 Bone In The Smith' column are Ber-
SnfUh's majorities range from 501 den, Baldwin, Baker, Butts, Brooks,
to 600. He carried every large, conn- ( Columbia, Chattanooga, Colquitt,
ty in the state except Chatham which Campbell, Clinch, Clayton, Chatta-
wewffor Estill. ’He had a great vlo-| Jroochee, Douglas, Dodge, Fayette,
tory in Fulton, Fleyd, Richmond and ( Forsyth, Gordon, Glasscock, Glynn,
Bibb. Thomas gave him a greater (Greene, Hart, Henry, Hancock, Har-
peTcentage of thewote than any oth
er county.
The returns are as accurate as are
possible to obtain. Both the West
ern'Union and the Postal Telsjp’ap’h
companies furnished splendid bulle
tins, The Postal manager, Mr. Burk-
Worth and Webster.
, This gives Hoke Smith a total of 84
counties with 211 votes In the con
vention. In addition to these he
has probably carried Crisp, Catoosa,
Cherokee, Grady, Jeff Davis, Sumpl
ter and Macon, and 29 others, giving
him 110 counties.
Col. Estill has carried Chatham,
and Camden, two counties with $
conventional votes.
vMr. Howell has carried Quitman,
Lee, Doughtery, Towns, Fannin and
Rabun, 6 counties with 12 conven
tional votes.
Mr. Russell has carried Lumpkin,
Stephens, Clark, Montgomery, Charl
ton, Turner and two others giving
him 8 counties.
Jim Smith has curried McDuffie,
the home county of Thomas E. Wat
son. This was the only county re-
>dfbv
ported fbv him, though he Is conced
ed Oglethorpe and another.
At three o'clock this morning, re
turns from all but sixteen conntles
are in. Hoke Smith carries 110,
Russell 8, Howell O, Jim Smith 8,
and Estill 2. The Constitution con
cedes Hoke more than 100 counties.
The Georgian gives him 120.
ent ,r®tur»s give Hoke TWO HUN
DRED AND NINETY-FOUR TOTES
IN THE CONVENTION, AND AS-
BURES HIS ELECTION ON THE
halter, remained -at his post until > Hinson, Ware Whitfield, Warren, | FIRST BALLOT.
BIG BILLS
IN A RUSH
- !,
Regulates
Passes Pure Food
Law.
As is always the tease, the closing
hours of the state .legislature wert
crowded with important bills. Among
these that passed, the three most
/ important are the pure.food law, the
law governing the registration of cor
porations and the insurance bill.
The Pure Food law.
Atlanta, Aug 15.—In .the Senate
today the Seaborn Wright pure food
bill, modeled closely after the nat
ional ptfee food law. heavily amend
ed, was passed by a vote of J-3 to 0.
This bill provides that it .shall be
unlawful for any person or manufac
turer, to sell or offer for sale within
this state any article of food, -drugs,
medicines or liquors which are adul
terated or misbranded, or which con
tain any poisonous or beleterlous sub
stance for man or beast. Any person
violating any of the provisions of
the law shall he guilty of a. misde
meanor and for each offense shall,
on conviction, be fined not exceeding
5300, or shall be sentenced to one
year's Imprisonment being left with
the court’s discretion.
Examination of specimens of foods
and drugs shall be made by the state
chemist, or under Ms direction and
supervision, for the purpose of deter
mining from inch examinations
whether snch articles are adultera-
poar from any such examination that
any of such specimens are adultera
ted -or misbranded within the mean
ing of this act, the commissioner of
Agriculture shall cause notice thereof
-to lie given to the party from whom
' ,, !such sample was obtained. Any par-
Corportions ty so notified ahall be given an op
portunity to be heard before the
commlsloner of agriculture and the
Attorney General, natter such''rules
and regulations as may be prescribed
by :them.
It shall be the duty of the state so
licitor to prosecute all persons vio
lating any of the provisions of this
act as soon as be receives the evidence
transmitted by the Commissioner of
Agriculture. After Judgement of the
court notice Shull be given by publi
cation In sucb manner as may be pre-
scrlber by the rules and regulations.
Senator Bunn Introduced two new
amendments, which were adopted.
His amendment provides -.that-only
those medicines shall be labeled in
snch cases where medicines contain
more alcohol than Is put In them by
the label law regulations of -the Uni
ted States. The other previsions
that labels shall be eonspiclons only
In snch cases as required by the Uni
ted States.
Senator Crum amended the bill by
allowing goods now on hand not to
be affected by the measure.
The Registration of Corporations.
The bill by Senator Candler caning
for the registration of all corpora
tions with the Secretary of State and
fixing the fee at. $1.00 each was
passed by the House. This bill will
Increase the revenue of the state
from this source alone by $30,000
annually.
It in further provided that In view
of the facf that be Is ex-offlelo cor
and be Is to be allowed $1,’000 per
annum clerical salary.
Insurance Bill Passed.
By a vote of 88 to 11, the House
passed the bill by Senator Strange to
fix and regulate the manner In which
contracts and policies oT Insurance,
whether on life or property, shall be
isstsad In this state.
GREAT TAX INCREASE.
Georgia
Gains Forty-Five Millions
Over 1000.
Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 17,—The tax dl-
gest from over 131 comities, which
have been received at the office of
Comptroller-General shew a net Ip-
•croase of $38,031,711, and at a
low estimate the remaining nine
counties will add $1,000,000 more
to this figure. This is not a very’bad
showing, and even the calamity
howlers will have to admit It.
The nine counties yet to be heard
from are Bartow, Baker, Lee, Mc
Duffie, Murray and Stewart. Last
year the digest showed an Increase
of the, previous year of $37,789,009.
Comptroller W. A. Wright estimates
that the Increase from the railroads,
and corporations this year will ap
proximate $6,192,000. According
to theee figures the total Increase,
from the corporations and railroads,
together with the Increase as shown
by the tax digest will amount to
$45,223,711.
»R. WATKINS DEAD.
Passed Away at His Home New Bov-
BY RECORDBREAKING MAJORITY
Vote In All Precincts—Estill Rons a Poor
Second—Jim Smith Gets No Votes—Wright
and Merrit Get Good Majorities.
The unofficial returns for the contested stale house officials In Thom
as county, showing a landslide for Hoke Smith are presented herewith,
showing the vote In eaoh precinct except Glasgow. The results as ex
pressed In figures are as follows:
78
14
19
17
28
'lO
13
0
315
131
96
96
77
46
31
39
0
0
0
0
0
0
•0
0
40
12
8
4
4
4
3
3
1
'
1
2
4
1
6
•o
0
26
13
33
6
*
li
■H
-o
401
165
85
117
*
51
36
42
378
149
77
107
.
50
10
42
43
29
44
121 •
111 36
0
As doss Thomas/ so goes the state.
There was a land slide for Hoke
Smith In this connty, that was mere
ly a mlnaturo of what the result In
the state was. Hoke Smith carried
every district la the county. His ma
jority over all -other candidates was
607. The tubulated table given
above tella the ..story better than
words can.
The weather (throughout the coun
ty was fair, and the fact that the vote
was no heavier waa a surprise. There
were 1902 registered votes In the
county, and tbs total vote cast was
-wnly 117 L OoJ Esttn ran second,
nd polled 183 votes. This was 100
snore than the third man; Clark How
ell. There ton some talk of a com
bination by which the combined an-
tl-Hoke vote should be thrown to Ks-
tlll, and tMs may be the reason for
the Coloners vote. It Is a surprls-
Among the new enterprises of the
week are five banks, bottling plant,
A. Continuous and Increasing Indus- buelneM college , twenty . tlr() corpor .
Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 23.—The result
of yesterday’s -democratic state pri
mary shows an unprecedented vic
tory for Hoke Smith for the guber
natorial nomination. *
The latest returns,. lacking official
confirmation give Hoke Smith 117, of
the 145 counties In the state, Clark
Howell 10, J. H. Estill 4, R. B. Rus
sell 10, James M. Smith 4.
On this basis, Hoke Smith will go
Into the state convention with ap
proximately 300 of the 366 votes.
and' is practically fissured of the nom
ination on the first ballot.
United States Senator A. O. Bacon
was nominated without opposition.
All the present congressmen were re
nominated. In the first district, J. _
W, Overstreet was nominated to fill
the unexplred term of the late Ru
fus E. Lester and W. W. Shepherd
was nominated for the long term.
W. R. Joyner, Chief of the fire de
partment, was nominated for mayor
of Atlanta by 255 majority.) The
present Mayor, James Woodward,
was defeated for the nomination
for county treasurer.
___,ta, Ga., Aug. 23.—UnoffirisR
fums from over the state At X Ihte-
Jur today give Jim Smith the- fol—
nvlng three counties: Madison,.
‘ ' iffle and Oglethorpe. Estill,, ,
rntles: Bryan, Camden,' Chatt- f
ham and Effingham I ffowelf, ten
counties: Dawson, Doughtery, Fan
nin, Gilmer, Lee, Murray, Pickens,
Quitman, Rhbun and Twiggs; Rus
sell, nine counties: Charlton, Dade,
Clarke, Heard, Lumpkin,^Montgom
ery, Stephens, Turner and White.
Twelve counties, as follows, have
not been heard from, and It will take
official consolidation ot the votes to
decide: Appling, Banks, Echols,
Liberty, Houston, Paulding, Ran
dolph, Schley, Towns, Union, Walker
and Walton.
The remaining 117 countlea are
for Hoke Smith. He will probably
get 118 in all—maybe 129.
Rattier Have Smaller Bill, Say the
, Bank *‘ ,-*M«
trial Development.
Columbns, Oa., Aug. 16.—The
^Georgia and Alabama Industrial In
dex, In Its weekly Issue today, says:
Continuous and Inclosing Industrial
development In Georgia and Alabama
:*• revealed by the reports of new en
terprises and the enlargement of es
tablished Industries In this week's Is
sue of the Index. A feature of the
week’s news Is the decision of var-
loito progressive cities In the two
states to pave streets. Install sewer
age systems and make other improve
ments of a public character. The
erection of new school houses and
the enlargement of present educa
tional facilities Is also a marked
feature.
Washington, Aug. 23.—It sounds
a bit strange to state that anyone
should prefer a ton dollar bill to a
tweuty—provided both are good—
but tysvertheless this situation exists
today on the part of the bankers of
the country; Up to this time the
plates for ten dollar notes (each
Plato prints-a sheet of (our notes) ’
have been pLiade for three tens amt
one twenty, so that banks needing
the former were nevertheless forced
to take one-forth of the number In
twenties. The strange part, to the-
that they pre-
and the bureau;,
of engraving and printing has there
fore Just been directed by the comp
troller ot cnrrency to prepare plates,
carrying four ten dollar national bank
notes. Upder this new arrangement
the banks can hare all the tens they
require, without being compelled to
take any twenties. 1
