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SEW SERIES—VOL-I—NO. 43.
11. BAKER'S
ANNOUNCEMENT.
Gives His Views on Important
Questions-
CANDIDATE FOR LEGISLATURE.
Would Have Some Constitutional
Amendments— Exoresses Him
self on Whisky Question.
To the voters of Bartow count}’:
I hereby announce my name as
a candidate to represent the coun
ty in the next legislature, subject
to the democratic primary to b.e
held June sth, and I most earnest
ly solicit your support. In mak
ing this announcement I do not
do it upon the petition or solicita
tions of friends, but because I feel
that we need some changes in both
general and local legislation or
laws, and I desire to offer my fee
ble support .in an effort to obtain
the same. If elected I make you
tnis pledge, that I will represent
you as faithfully in the future as
I have in the past, and I will not
promise you my conscience for a
bos;; because forsooth some might
say “I fear be has no conscience,
and if one it may be elastic and
can be stretched to suit himself on
any occtrsion.” But I shall have
no boss, except what J conceive to
be the wishes of the grgatpst num
ber of my people and their best' in
terest. '■
When one announce's ’his name
as a candidate to represent the peo
ple in a legislative .pffioe. where
there is no party platform of pol
icies and principles to obtain, it is
right and proper that he should let
the people know where he stands
on all questions at the time at is
sue before the people. I, there
fore, will state a few questions
that will in all probability be be-
fore the next legislature and that
are now being discussed by the
people and give my position on
them, not in glittering generalities
but specifically,
ist. I am for as low rate of tax
ation as will support good govern
-d' * -
joyment of same. I am, as the re
cord of the state senate will show
for 1900 and 1901, in favor of am
itm° by constitutional amendment
the taxing power of the state to not
exceeding one-half of one per cent,
and I am in favor of limiting toe
taxing power of the county tor an
extraoidinary purpose, oy when
the amount-exceeds S3OOO or 1
requiring the same to receive b.e
sanction of a two third vote 01 t ie
qualified voters of the count} at an
election held for that purpose.
2d. I am in favor of an act 0,
the legislature not allowing an\
member of either house any pay
or per diem when he is absent from
such house without leave of same
3d. I am in favor of a law that
will disqualify any judge of an>
court in this state from sitting on
a case on trial of any railroad or
roads over which he has a free
pass.
4th. I am for a .constitutional
amendment that will disqualify all
judges of the superior courts of
this state, if elected by the peo
ple, from holding any elective
office for at least four years after
they have left the bench.
sth. I am for a constitutional
amendment that will render all
solicitor generals ineligible to the
office of superior court judge for
three or four years after he has
left the office of solicitor general.
6th. I am in favor of the judges
of the superior court if to be elected
by the people in favor of a consti
tutional amendment requiring them
to rotate or hold court in other cir
cuits than their ow;n, and I am in
favor of an amendipent letting each
circuit elect their OA'n judge anc
not be voted for all over the state,
And I would support a constitu
tional amendment that would ie
quire the nidges of the supreme
court to send in the names of can
didates for superior court judges to
the governor and let him of that
number nominate one to the sen
ate for its confirmation.
7th. I am in favor of a constitu
tional amendment, giving j u , stK . t J
courts jurisdiction incases of bai
and trover where the value ot the
property does not exceed sioo.
Bth. I am opposed to the sale Ot
the state road, because if sold, if it
brought $8,000,000 or $10,000,000,
and that sum went into the state
THE NEWS AND COURANT.
I treasury for tfie payment of the
public debt, when and as due. it
would be sought after by state offi
cers and the legislature like the
public property fund and squan
dered. The greatest part of the
public debt due in one year is in
1 9 1 5 a,] d the balance of the public
debt of $7,736,000 is due at differ
ent times from now’ till 1946. And
the holders of the state’s securities
could not be forced to surrender
l tl3ei f bonds for payment till due,
1 the interest on same ranging from 7
I to 3± per cent. They would
prefer to hold them and that
I would give many years in
which to squander the proceeds
of the sale of the road. I am
i.i favor of. the state protecting
its property. Should the em<2;-
gency arise by extending the W.
& A. railroad to the coast and even
supplying feeders to it if neces
sary. If such could be let as the i
state road in such manner as to
bring into the state a handsome,
•revenue. Such could be done |
with but little cost to the state by
misdemeanor, and if necessary
other convicts.
9th. I am in favor of maintain
ing pubttc schools for the teaching
only of the branches of a common
elementary English education.
10th;' I am opposed to the levy
and collection of a tax for an ap
propriation to the State University
for educational purposes. And I
am opposed to the levy and collec
tion of a tax to appropriate money
to its various branches established
over the State, all of which is con
trary to the genius, letter and
spirit of our fundamental law.
I am in favor of doing just what
the constitution says that the leg
islature may from time to time do
nate to the State University such
sums of money as the condition of
the treasury will permit.
nth. I am in favor of taxing
the franchises of public utility cor
porations but not in favor of tax
ing the franchises of such corpora
tions as onlyxjiave permits.
T 2th As to lobbying, I think
there is more talk of that than i
there is done, and if there is any
lobbying around a legislature
there is a law already making it
penal to lobby, and it is *•*■*++■
of another co-ordinate branch of
the government the judicial and
one of its branches the grand jury
of Fulton county to look after that,
cuTnEne 1 and h/ffcTOrue^Lt„ Is ffiffi- j
tion and to appear before commit-,
tees for and against bills or meas
ures to present their merits and;
demeiits ends and lobbying be-1
gins.
13th. I am in favor of a con-j
stitutional amendment where a;
vote is to be taken upon the issue
of bonds or such like debts, by j
counties, cities or towns, that a 1
two-third vote of the qualified vote j
cast at an election held for that;
purpose shall be .sufficient-to au
thorize their issue.
14th. I am in favor of an amend
ment authorizing the governor to
veto any item of an appropriation
act without a veto of whole act.
15th. I am for all railroads hav
ing the same standing before the
courts of the country. Railroads
are corporations and aitificial per
sons, and I am in favor of e\en
and exact justice to them and all
other persons and special privi-
leges to none.
16th. I am for making the pen
sion roll of Georgia a roll of honor,
paying pensions to those who are
poor, indigent, needy and meri
torious, and opposed to paying
pensions to those who are more
able to do without them than many
of those who pay thejr part of
them are able to pay.
17th. I am in favor of an act
that will require the supreme court
to pass upon all legal questions
made before it in a bill of excep
tions and thus get rid of so much
cost and trouble in having such a
voluminous number of reports and
thus lessen litigation in the su
preme and lower courts.
18th. I am in favor of a branch
of the lunatic asylum or sanitarium
The Finest Cake
Is made with Royal Bak
ing Powder. Always light,
sweet, pure & wholesome.
CARTERSYILLE, GA„ THURSDAY. .MAY S.
being established in North Georgia
for curables or probable ciuables.
19th. I am in favor of amending
the insolvent cost laws of the State
in the disposition of fines and for
feitures. Fines and forfeitures in
their application to insolvent cost
under the present laws are too am
biguous, They should be applied
on an itemized statatement of, to
what case or cases, how much and
to whom or what officer or officers
under an order of court, and such
statement and order should be re
| corded by the clerk of court. To
make the laws thus short, plain
and concise would prevent the
pocketing by the solicitors general, !
clerks and sheriffs of all fines and j
forfeitures and allow committal i
court officers and State witnesses to :
be paid what might be due them, J
show if anv remainder, and if so, I
let it remain with the county treas- j
urer and let it revert to the fund j
where the law places it. At pres
ent these laws can be too easily |
muddied.
20th, I am in favor of all per
sons whp are not able to live with
out work and are able to work,
being required to w’ork. .Idleness
is dormant wealth. lam therefore
in favor of making the vagrant
laws stronger.
21st. I am not for an attempt at
State prohibition on the liquor
question. In my opinion prohibi
bitiou will not prohibit. I have
never had much confidence in any
except individual prohibition or self
abnegation. In fact I do not think
there is any prohibitionists, but all
are restrictionists. I look upon
alcoholic and fermented liquors, if
as an evil, Asa necessary evil, and
its sale should be restricted by law
and regulated by police power. I
have been a practicing physician
and surgeon for forty-one years. I
have seen nitroglycerine, carbon
ate of amonia, strichnine, hydrogen,
nitrogen, oxygen, capsiam, oil of
turpentine, and many other stimu
lants tried in the sick room and at
the surgeon’s table and none has
combined with it stimulation and
nutriment except pure spirits, and
none are so effective. lam not in
favor of barrooms but I am for
each locality of the State bavin?,
dispinb.iVW' pf6Mi>inon "I, 1 ?" I
local acts or the general
tion act. lam a local option Ist.
and for localities in,vFHeu they
dvtirru having the option broad
ened and they allowed to vote
on the question of dispensary. I
am for submitting to the qualified
voters of our county dispensary or
no dispensary. If alcoholic or fer
mented liquors are needed for any
purpose by our people they ought
to have a right to have some place
to go and get it and get something
pure and at a reasonable cost. We
have got all the evils of liquor as
we are and all the expense with it
and get no tevenue from it. Our
taxes are high and we need the
j profits arising from its sale and if
we do not get it Floyd’s dispensary
and Fulton's wholesale houses and
blockaders will get it. They will
have whiskey. We had better
have a well regulated dispensary
than to take the chance of haying
barrooms, for as we now stand bar
rooms can be opened and the au
thorities mandamused for license to
sell or one-tenth of the voters
could petition the ordinary to order
an election under the general local
option act, and we would vote for
prohibition or against prohibition,
and the county might go wet, and
there may be idle talk about head
ing a mob to put down such thing
but no good citizen would partici
pate in or approye of such course.
I think the law should put the in
ordinate use of whiskies or drunk
enness upon same footing as carry
ing concealed weapons or gambling
aid such offenses. I think that
would be much more effectual than
prohibition. Concluding on this
question X say again I am not for
barrooms, but I am for submitting
the question of dispensary to the
qualified voters of our county un
der a well guarded dispensary act.
This is my record in the senate in
1900 and 1901.
22nd. lam not a candidate for
the legislature as a stepping stone
to another and better office. I am
a candidate because I want to see at
least some of the policies laid down
in this announcement with others
enacted into laws, because I think
it would work to the best interest
of the people. If I was a candidate
for the purpose of getting into pol
itics, making acquaintances and
friends in order to get another and
better or higher and more honor
able office, I would say if you un
derstood such such things as I do
you would and ought to defeat me.
Most of our objectionable laws that
1 have raised our taxes so rapidly
. have been passed since the adop-
I tion of the constitution of 1877,
l which placed the election of solic
| itor generals and judges in the
1 the hands of the legislature. Be
cause under that system men went
to the legislature not to enact good
and wholesome laws, but to get
acquained and become candidates
for these offices. To make friends
they would support omnibus and
pernicious bills, or would leave the
hall to keep from voting against
some bad bill of some member, or
would not raise their voice against
some measure that should receive
their active and open opposition
because in the next legislature
they would want the support of these
men for another office, so it would
be now of wanting their influence
at the ballot box, hence from these
causes you have seen our tax rate
rise from $3 or $2.25 to $5.40 and
the levy made on more than twice
the amount of property.
Concluding. While I am not the
paragon of moral perfection, the
solon or encyclopedia of wisdom,
or revel in the hallowed realms of
connudial bliss that the enthusi
astic friends of some who might be
elected would have you believe of
them, if elected I beg to repeat, I
promise you I will represent you
industriously, faithfully and hon
estly. I will represent no ism or
cism, no faction, no ring, no clique
but the people. One to make a
good rep res q j]£a Ux/t *£ A fc*
trials, their interest, and have com
mon sense to know how to vote
„ n d formulate methods that will at
V mitigate their ills, it i s no
prerequisite to make a good repre
sentative of the people to be vers
ed in the law, medicine, physics,
esthetics or the sciences, but one
must have the common sense, firm
ness and honesty to know the best
interest of the people and stand by
it, and try and enact laws for the
whole people and not a few.
Again pardon me for promising
you if elected I will represent you
as honestly and faithfully in the
future as I have in the past, and
thaking you in advance for your
cordial support and for your past
kind consideration at the ballot
box, and for the honor conferred
011 me of representing you for an
honor indeed it is to represent a
people second to those of no count}
of the State in intelligence and
probity. I am,
Most respectfully,
Thos. H. Baker.
THROWN FROM THEIR BUGGY.
Misses Bessie Lumpkin and Mary
Graves Make Narrow Escape.
Last Sunday morning as Misses
Bessie Lumpkin and Mary Graves
were driving along Market street
their horse became unmanageable
and ran away, making a turn just
before reaching the W. & A. de-
pot, and turning the buggy oyer
threw the young ladies out. The
horse fell down and was captured
before he could regain his feet.
Fortunately for the young ladies
they fell clear of the buggy, and
aside from some severe bruises,
received no serious injury. They
walked over to the Shelman house
and were later carried put to Mr.
Thomas Lumpkin’s, and their
friends hope to see them out again
soon.
Meeting Notice-
Cartersyille Lodge No, 142. I. O.
O. F. will hold an important meet
ing Thprday May Bth at 7:30 p. m.
at the hall. The 2nd degree will
be conferred. \ isitors and mem
bers cordially invited to attend.
T. Lumpkin,
Noble Grand.
L. W. Reeves,
Secretary,
Fine Pigs for Sale-
I have a few well bred pigs,
about ten weeks old, for sale. Call
at once. J. P. McConnell,
2t Cartersville, Ga.
IS. BRUINf
DIES AT MARIETTA.
Mother of Lamented Hero Late
Lieutenant Brumby.
BURIED AT CARTERSVILLE-
Party From Marietta Accompanies
Remains to This City Was
82 Years Old.
Mrs. A. E. Brumby died at her
home at Marietta at 12 o’clock last
Saturday.
Her death was the result of an
illness of short duration growing
out of a cold caught from sitting on
her yeranda of evenings. She
was 82 yeats old.
Mrs. Brumby was known as a
woman of rare kindness of heart
and manifested a tenderness of
sympathy and ministered personal
ly to the wants of many old soldiers
brought to her home during the
civil war. Her refinement was
equal to her warmth of heart and
her sweet nature shed rays of sun
shine about all who came in con
tact with her.
She was the mother of the late
Lieutenant Tom Brumby, well
known for his great gallantry at
Manilla and notable service with
Dewey.
Two sons, Mr. Charles Brumby,
of Cedartown, and Mr. Wallace
Brumby, of Athens, and one daugh
ter, Mrs. W. I. Heyward, of Mari
etta, survive here. She leaves
also a granddaughter, Miss Lucy
Leigh Brumby, who has lived with
her at Marietta.
The remains were brought to
this city for interment, the funeral
taking place from the Presbyterian
church, Sunday. The funeral ser
vices were conducted by Rev. Mr.
Patton, of Marietta, who paid a
strong and a beautiful tribute to
’^bW o manly worth. He was as-
Oak Hill. Tr p White.
A Party of relatives a „H 7? at
accompanied .the re *" and ,e " ds
Marietta here ma,ns f rom
I Mrc
Voters Take Notice— Registration
N ecessarv for All Who Vote.
By a recent ruling of the state
committee, every person that did
not register last year, (1901) will
have to register this year. All who
have not done so will have to regis
ter before the u’ght of the 24th of
May, in order to be able to vote in
the primary June sth, 1902.
In order to give everyone an op
portunity, I will accompany the
tax receiver on his rounds, com
mencing at Stamp Creek on May
6th. There will be a book at all
times at the court house in Car
tersyille for registering voters.
Registration books will be de
posited at convenient points in the
county with a person authorized to
register voters, of which notice \\ ill
be given later.
The registration of 1900 will not
answer as at first thought.
F. V. Smith,
Tax Collector & Register’g Officer.
Notice to Voters-
Registration Books will be found
at the following places and the
persons named are authorized to
register all qualified votes.
Adairsville. Franklins & Chilton
Pine Log, C. M. Maxwell.
Iron Hill, P. C. Griffin.
Euharlee, T. J. Taylor.
Taylorsville, J. M. Dorsey.
Kingston, J. N. McKelvey,
Wolf Pen, Richard Perkins.
Stamp Creek, J. E. Barron.
Emerson, Brooks’ store.
Caasville, R. B. Smith.
Sixth, Robert Raden.
Whites, Edge & Elrod.
Carteisville, At Court House.
Salacoa, J. B. Shellhorse.
May 6, 1902.
F. V. Smith,
Tax Collector.
Notice
From this date-we will not pay for
any lumber unless it is ordered and
received bv one of our board.
L. B. .Matthews, Chairm’n,
T. A. Jenkins,
W. D. Rowland,
A. M Puckett,
W. M. Kino. Clerk.
Board Commissioners Bartow Cos.
CONSUMP TI ON ? J
OLD SERIES—2IST YEAR
THE I’KETTIMST TH 1X&.
I wis Lunins: not of my win low
On 11 ninny summer Any,
VVitrhing some happy ehililr- n
W ho were near me, and so busy at play.
I listened with pager interest
I'their earnest sweet little talk,
WhHe hand in hand so happy
i lmy passed up un 1 down the walk
The prettiest thing I ever saw,
„ 1 he dearest little girl said.
Are the flowers I found in this garden.
All yellow and white and red.”
” I he prettiest thing I ever saw,"
( Said a handsome little lad.
I saw thin morning
And I wanted him, oh! so bad.”
“Itthink" said the third little fellow,
" ? n, ’h sweet and gentle grae *,
1 hat the prettiest thing in all this world
is my own dear mamma’s "
Lola Tcmlin Lyok.
GEORGIA BAPTISTS.
Southern Convention Meets in
Ashevl le Today.
The Southern Baptist Conven
tion meets iu Asheville, N. C., to
day.
Rev. F. C. McConnell, D. D.,
corresponding secretary of the Bap
tist Home Mission board, with
headquarters in Atlanta, will
preach the convention sermon on
fhe night of the first day.
The convention will be preceded
on Thursday by the meeting of
the Baptist Young People's Uuion,
of which Rev. L. O. Dawson, D.
D., of luscaloosa, Ala., is presi
dent, and W. W. Gaines, of At
lanta, vice president. The Bap
tist Educational Society convenes
in the afternoon. The Woman's
Home Mission Union will be in
session during the convention.
The officers of the convention
are ex-Governor W. J. Northen,
president, Atlanta; Dr. Lansing
Burrows, of Nashville, and Dr. O.
F. Gregory, of Baltimore, secre
taries; Geo. \7. Norton, treasurer,
Louisville; W. Patrick Harvey,
also of Louisville, auditor. The
vice presidents are: Rev. James
P. Eagle, Little Rock, Ark.; Hon.
William Wright Heard, Baton
Rouge, La.; Governor Andrew
Houston Longino, Jackson, Miss.,
and Hon. Joshua Levering, Balti
more.
Ex-Governor Northen. who has
been the presiding officer of the
convention, has declined to s.tand
for r2-election. His friends, how
ever, are hopeful that he will be
10 reconside r his determ
present a j nd all ° W his name t 0 be '
Son ted * m wbirh evem his elec '
non is assured.
D.. , HBJI£ others who have been
orphanage, and , £
Eagle, of Little Rock, Ark. Both
of these gentlemen are the pres
idents of the Baptist conventions in
their respective states and the
Texas convention, over which Dr.
Buckner presides, is said to be the
largest deliberative body in the
world. Governor Northen is also
president of the Georgia conven
tion
Thq main questions for consid
eration by the convention will be
education, home and foreign mis
sions.
Just What They All Say.
Eat, and you will be stronger;
Eat, and you will live longer;
Eat, and you will satisfy your hun
ger
When you buy your goods of us.'
Eat, and your life will be fleeter.
Eat, and your face will look
sweeter.
Eat. and you won’t give a
neither.
When you buy your goods of us.
Eat, and you will never sigh.
Eat, and you will always buy.
Eat, and it will never come high
When you buy your goods of us.
Every day, every day, every day,
we receive every day fresh from the
growers beans, english peas, beets,
strawberries new potatoes and, to
matoes. Every hriday and Sat
urday fish, pompano, Spanish
mackeral, bream, trout,shad flound
er, mullet, crabs and shrimp..
What is the use of living if you
can’t eat?
Yours for something to eat.
MILLER H. GILREATH, JR.
For Commissioners*
The following ticket is respect
fully submitted to the voters of
Bartow county as one embodying
probity, judgment, economy, good
citizenship, and the several re
quirements for a safe, able body
to manage our county affairs. We
need men in position. who are
capable, and true to the people a
interests: Citizens.
J. H. Gilreath, Cartersville.
John S. Leake, Cartersville.
D. W\ Louder milk, Adairsville.
J. C. Metier, Cassv lie.
J. T. Jolly, Euharlee.