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VOL XXII NO 49
VIENNA, GA. THURSDAY, JUDY 21 1004
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REPUBLICAN RULE
'Washington Letter from our regular
Correspondent,
In his late “most eloquent” speech
Mr. Root pointed with pride to
Porto Rico- as an example of the
. splcndcd enlightment tho United
States is .conferring upon insular
possossions. It did not scorn to oc
cur to him to mention the taot Porto
Ricans In this country are handi
capped and denied all tho rights, of
citizens and all the rights of for
eigners. Besides this, justice in
Rgrto Rico is a farce. Tho recent
smuggling cases prove that there is
one Jaw for Americans on the island
and another ior natives; I have
interviewed Seorclnry Shaw cfln
earning them.
Tho first oase was that of Armades,
tho matter boforo us, alleging cer
tain instructions. Wo now asked
the judge if the grand jury has' the
right to know of that case in spite
of the refusal of the District Attor
ney to bnug it before us; or if we
have not that right.”
J udgo Holt's reply took San Juan
by storm. It showed the natives
that, although Prosidem, Roosevelt
by Attorney-General Knox and
Soovetary Shaw had ordered the
proceedings against tho smugglers
dismissed and ordered that no new
cases should be presented to the
grand jury, Judge Holt was an
honest man and independent enough
to administer justice without fear
or favor. In his uistruotious to
the grand jury ho said: Gentlemen
of the.grand jury: Whon you were
impaneled at tho beginning of this
has smuggled thousand** of dollars
worth deliberately and clandestinely,
concealing tho goods in artificial
bunkers. The Secretary said the
officers indicted were practically
innocent, having brought in the
goods carelessly and thoughtlessly
“just as our naval officers always
have done. '*
a native, oonviotetl in San Juan of ' t(Jrm y 0U 8W ore that vou would
having some smuggled goods in his | inquire and true present-
possession and fined therefor * 500 1 nien t maKO of B U oh inattens as might
and sent to prison for a yeai. The | ^ g- lven y 0U , n charge, or as might
natives remonstrated, for they knew | othorwiB(5 ( . omo t0 your knowledge,
that officers of the navy, and army,'
in Porto Rico were smuggling free
ly and they demanded that they
have similar treatment. The
indignation ran so high that
district attorney Pettingill collected
a mass of evidence to submit to the
next U. S3, grand jury. When the
court convened the grand jury was
impaneled and found indictments
fer smuggling against Collector
Creezen; Captain Andrew Dunlap,
Commandant, of San Juan Navy
Yard; Robert Giles, contractor and
local sooiety leader; Benjamin But
ler, formerly of Boston, supervisor
of elections and polioe commission
er at San Juan, Captain J C Crabbs,
U. S. A., ohiof quarter master on
tbe staff of Colonel James A.
Buchannan, commanding the
Department; Captain Edward b.
Lowndes, U. S. Marino Corps, and
Paymaster William A. Merritt,-U.
S. N.
These men were indicted and
held for trial. The grand jury was
considering a 'number of other
similar cases when instruction'll from
Washington dropped in ilio jury
room like a bomb. It was a cable
gram from Attorney Gen or J1 Knox
’ toU. S. IBs!riot Attorney jRdttiu-
gill, and it ordered:- “Dismiss
pending proceedings in smuggling
cases and present no new cases to | j ngt { c0 ” ' r
grand jury unless otherwise directed WL , rtJ
hereafter. Report fully by mail
the nature and status of all said
touching violations of tho criminal
laws of the United States; that you
would present no ono through favor
fear, affection, reward, or tho hope
thereof. You oould not, if you
desired, escape tbe obligations of
this oath by heeding tho instructions
of any one, The honored President
of tho United Stateo might, if
ho felt inclined, interfere, even in
advance of indictment, by exercising
pardoning power; but even ho in no
other way has tho sligntest authority
to oonlrol your notions. If you
believe that any one has given
instructions which tend to prevent
you from milking the fullest investl
gatiou as to the commission of
crimes against the laws of the Uni
ted States and from returning an in^
diutment against the acouscd if
evidence warrants it, then you
should be insp red with additional
dci ermination to do your duty. The
moment the courts are deprived of
the'control of criminal jhrisdiotiori,
their independence is gone.”
The grand jury thereupon pro-
copied to summon witjfemes and
investigate the smuggling just as
Attorney-General Knox had
been heard of.
A REMEDY FOR STRIKES
Another big strike is oil in the
north where skilled laborers get
several dollars a day for their work.
This time it is the butchers in the
largo packing houses and the price,
of beef has advanood two or three
cents a wound wherever western beef
is used. The butohors, several
thoueahd in number, took advantage
of the world's fair to demand higher
wages. We view tho situation from
afar off and might see it from a
different standpoint elosor by, but
it occurs to us that if the paekiug
houses would furnish tho names to
caohothcr of all the strikes aud agree
to nover again employ ono of them,
aud stick to it, then fill their places
with green hands and train them, it
would be a long time before there
would he another striko in those
quarters. The training of green
hands would be a bit expensive, hut
the lesson learned by labor Would
be lasting, and tho paekera would
profit in the longrun by having no
inoro strikes.
ELECTION BY THE PEOPLE
It has been whispered in political
ciroles that the governor uf Georgia
is opposed to the eleetlon of county
and oity court officers by the people,
and wants the appointment of them
to remain in hie hands. Of course!
One in a higher office can build up
a lot of political fences with the
appointment of v minor officers.
That game has been going on in
Georgia for lo these many years on
the reeprbeity plan, or I’ll-tioklo.
you-and-you-must-tickle-mo. If
the popple are comptetent of elec
ting the state awd county officers
they are certainly capable of electing
never' the judges and solicitors. Men are
District Attorney j holding otllcodii Georgia today by,
Pettingill wanted to please both 1 appointipeut whu could scarcely get
parties- The local press' teemed j a tally if it were left to the people
with ugly comments on American | who know them. Some of them are
Robert Bird and George I not appointed for their' fitness for
THE OAMPMEETING
The- 1904 earapmeoting of the
Dooly county campground is over.
It began Saturday night and ended
this morning.
The crowd Sunday was too large
for the tabernacle but the woods
held the poople to> their entire
satisfaction.
Six excursion trains dumped that
many loads of passengers on the
grounds ana thousand's of people
mingled in social lovetcastcs
throughout the day.
The weather was fine, tho order
was good, and the-enmpmueting was
all that had boon expected. An old
settler said it was the best he had
ever attended. No groat show, no
htirlyburly, but a quiet good time
and lots of raou attended the
services in shirt sleoyes and were as
neatly dressed as anybody.
Four sermons a day and prayer
services each evening supplied the
devotional featuros.
At tho Tncsday night service
Willie Seago was the principal
mourner and a collection of <116.18
was made to buy a roller ehair for
him. He is afflicted to the extent
that ho can not use his feet or logs
at all, and they have not grown any
since ho was a year old. At that
age ho was paralized front bis hips
down and he now walks on his hands
by sitting fiat on tbe ground and
moving bis body forward while
resting on his hands. lie joined
the ohuroh and will takehis member
ship to the Baptist ohuroh in Cor-
dele.
Two watches and a little money
were stolen Monday night lrom
young men sleep 1 ng in tho Morgan
tent* No trace has been made of tho
thief.
Ono man showed off his borso and
buggy by driving through tno
■enclosure and paid a dollar fine foi
it.
There was a meeting of the tenters
ami trustees Wednesday evening aud
the expenses arranged. Tho time
for the next oampmeotlhg was not
settled, hut the 3rd Sunday in July
or thereabout was men iofied,
the tune preferred being the moon
light nights between laying by and
fodder pulling.
A GOOD FARM
One of the best farms tti this sec
tion is located at Ada, ownod and
oporated by Mr. W. A. Grqor. A
message from there states that Mr.
Greer has 900 aores in- cotton, from
which he expects 000 bales. lie
raises melons and fine stouk also.
Mr. Greer settled in this county a
few yenrs ago with a saw mill and
bought a good body of land. As
fait os he cut tho timber from the
land be oleared i: for cultivation and
took the stumps out. His timbor
mules were taken for plow mules,
and his saw mill business went into
the farm so easily that bo scarcely
know when he did it
WHERE TO MEET THEM.
The building to be known ns tho
Art Hall, at tho coming State
Fair, will be a novel structure. It
iB to bo oironlar in sltapo, ono liun.
dred feet in diameter, and two
stories in hoight. The floor is paved
with brick and uoraent, and altogether
will be made fire-proof. There will
bo a fountain in tho center, sur
rounded by plants and flowers- Thd
artioles forming tho art oxhibit will
bo hung odtbo walls, thereby guar
anteeing advantage to all exhibitors
in this olass.
It will ho tho meeting point and
resting place during tho Fair “Moot
me at thn art hall” will ho as famil
iar as “meet mu at the big Stato
Fair.” Filled with art exhibits,
music, flowors, fountains and Geor
gia girls, it will be well worth a
journey to Macon to see.
Eighteen Thousand Dollars in
premiums for agricultural exhibits
alone, plenty of musio, all the snows
aud amusements that can be gath
ered togethor, racing and overy
attraction, tho big Fair at Maoon,
October 19-28, will be tho biggest
and bcst.of all the fairs.
oases.
No message over received in Porto
Rico caused so great a stir; The
natives declared that justice was a
farce and denounced the Washington
administration. The San J uan press
called aioud for “justice”, saying
there was one law for the rich and
another for Porto Ricans who had
no political pull; and one newspaper
■edited by an American demanded
that,► the grand jury ignore tnese
••orders from Washington and “re
turn indictments against persons
although the District- Attorney has
furnished the jury with no infor
mation bn the subject-” Public
opinion wrs so unanimous that ihe
grand jury became insubordinate
and kickiny over the traces, sent
<the following .message to Judge
Holt, there presiding: “May it
please the court: There has come
to the knowledge of the grand jury
a certain ease of smuggling about
which we have asked the District
Attorney. Re has refused to bring
arrested, for contempt
of.court. A second cablegram was
then received, from Attorney-Gen
eral Knox by the DiStriot Attorney
which said: “Considerations of
moment, not confined to Porto Rico,
have caused the administration,
after full deliberation, investigation,
and thought, to pursue the course
already outlined.” In suite of this
renewed order the grand jury banded
down five new indictments, boldly
defying the commands of the U. 3.
government. President Roosevelt
and his Cabinet were arraigned by
the court of Porto. Rico for de
feating justice on account of “co i-
siderations of moment” supposed to
be political. Seoretary Show then
hastily decided that those against
whom indictments had been found
snould be let off by paying double
duty on the “importations” and the
indictments ' were quashed. The
native smugglers was kept in jail.
Your correspondent called upon
Seoretary Shaw and asked for his
defience of the orders of the ad.
urnistration, calling lus attention to
tiiu office,’ but for what they can
throw back to the governor in the
way of votes when be wants office
again. Such is corruptive, aud
there will bo puror men in office
when all of them are elected by
the people under the Australian
ballot system.
The Anstralian ballot system
stands a first rate chance of becoming
a law in Georgia. With this mode
of voting there will be less buying
and selling of votes and the precinct
will become a more sacred place. In
this, all tickets must be made alike
with the names of all candidates
printed thereon. At the voting
place there will be a booth or small
room at the window outside the
courthouse. The voter enters the
booth aud closes the door behind
him. Thus shut in from the world,
he prepares nis ticket, folds it a
Nii.e tents' were -filled. The
board.ng tent was kept by O S
Bazemore and P (J Everett, Three
children were there-
Another tent was kept by J. B.
Smith*, 11 C Broivn. W A Forehand,
Carl Forrhand and Rev. B E Whjt-
tington. This tent sbelteted 18
children, being the combined
bunches of the five families.
J G Forehand, Fletcher Forehand
ank TE Thompson occupied another
tent, and 92 cbildien were in that
bunoh.
Eli and Jack Woodruff ana Sam
Wilder have 17 children, and they
tented together.
Ten children tented with Walton
Bros, and Jim Meuough.
Only 3 children were at H. R.
Fenn’s tent, and one at Elihu and
William Johnson’s.
But next door was the tent of. E.
G. Greene, A. J. * Shell Alonzo
Haithcoek and their people consist
ing of 33 ohildren, and about 15 at
Jim and Shade Morgan's.
Making a total of 122 children at
'l he fruit commission men of
Georgia think there will bo fivo
thousand. cars of peat-lies shipped
from this state this season.
Wiley Whitley was nominated
last week for ordinary of Irwin
county. .1. J L< • was nomidatod
at the regular primary and died
noou after.
certain way and votes it without
even the. election managers knowing ’ ^ tontB "
how he voted. It will be against j
the law to buy or sell a vote, pr to j * n a ^» the compmeeting, was
the admitted foot thu tbe offenders offer to buy or sell a vote. (a deoided success.
, The drug stores of Cor.lele have
agreed among themselves not to Bolf
or oxposc for sale on the sabbath
day any cigars, cocoa cola, soda
water or any other goods not
necessary to be sold on Sunday.
Cordele sets in sometimes to just bo
good anyhow.
Cards are out announcing the
marriage on Aug. 3 of Ralph P.
Ketch tun of Cordele to M.iss Annie
Georgia Betts of Ashburn. Miss
Betts is a niece of J. S. Betts, the
saw mill man who has tnade a barrel
of money at Ashburn, a large portion
of wbich goes to the inteuaed bride.
Mr. T. E. Thompson has a cow
that will not ary up. That’s a fine
cow. She gives about a gallon at a
milking and hap been milked twice
a day for nine year. ’ This, may
sound fishy, but we saw the cow
and got tbe information from Mr.
Thompson who-has owned the cow
that long and she has given milk
every day of the time. Accordir%
to the oest calculation, that cow has
give over 6,000 gallons of milk fee
Mr. Thompson’s family.