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O L lladdst-son |i progress. VOL XXII NO 49 VIENNA, GA. THURSDAY, JUDY 21 1004 $1 A YEAR IN ADVANCE 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.