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The Bainbridge Search Light
Published Every Friday
Light Publishing
by The Search
Compny.
P. B. BUTLER .
Official Advertising Medium of Decatur
County and the City of Bainbridge.
Entered at the Post-Office
as second-class m
at BainbridRe, Ga.,
BAINBRIDGE, GA.,
aug $6. 1912.
NOW FOS A FULL TOJETBEP.
More surprises in politics ate
reported in Georgia than ever be
fore in one election year. Many
prominent men of the slate have
gone down in defeat before an
element that seems to be work
ing on new political lines. .
It is believed that Bainbridge
will have the best school next
year in the history of the city.
As has been mentioned before,
thi high school department will
be advanced to do the work done
by my other first class high
Bch x 1 in the state. This feature
alone should speak a great deal
fpr the school.
Reports from over the county
ind cate thit a fairly good cane
crop will be produced in Decatur
this year. It is believed that
from now on South Georgia Syrup
will bring a good price on the
market. Farmers have learned
to put it up in packages that not
only look well, but will keep
well, and retain the flavor,which
is unlike the flavor of any other
syrup in the world.
The keenest regret which the
meat majority of Dougherty
counlians experienced in con
nection with yesterday’s primary
was caused by the defeat of So
licitor General W- E. Wooten, of
the Albany Circuit, who has filled
that important office for nearly
16 years. Colonel R. C. Bell’s
victory is one of which he and
his friends have every reason to
feel proud. It was a splendid
triumph, and there could be no
stronger proof of the confidence
which a majority of the voters
of the circuit have in his ability
and general fitness than the
heavy vote he received. Albany
is Colonel Wooten’s home town,
however, and he received the
loyal support of Dougherty coun-
tians in his race. As already
stated, the fact that he failed
of renomination is the keenest
regret which the Rreat majority
of the vot«-.*s of the county have
as the result of the primary.—
Albany Herald.
The Search Light editor has
been eating crow ever since the
first returns began coming in
Wednesday afternoon. The boys
had the dish prepared for the his future home,
editor and he just had to take his
medicine: that was all there was
to it. One thing the boys have
found out, is that we can fight
as hard as anybody for what we
believe: and after the fight is
over if we have received a good
sound thiashing we can take and
eat the crow with as much grace
as any of them. We have set a
few pegs down and are already
preparing for the next fight.
It looks very much like the
whiskey forces of the state are
getting the advantage in Geor
gia. Many reasons could be giv
en for this. One of the main
reasons is, that the prohibition
ists are without a great daily pa
per to champion their cause. The
Atlanta Georgian did this while
it was owned by Mr. Seely. Since
the Georgian has been sold the
prohibitionists have been without
a great newspaper champion
the state. It is a pity for the
cause that thid is so. The pro-
hibitiqpists will find sooner or
later that thev cannot even keep
their forces together without a
r ewspaper to make the fight over
the state. If they want to save
Geotgia from going back into the
Now that the election is over
we are very much in favor of
getting together on a big move
ment to boost Bainbridge and
Decatur couuty.
Every true, patriotic man in
the city and county will agree
to this. Many of us were licked
badly in the election. Some of
us didn’t get near all the men
we wanted. The true fighter
will not give up under such cir
cumstances. He will befin at
once to prepare for the next bat
tle. The next battle will cer
tainly come. It will be here in
two years, and those who are at
the bottom now will have an op
portunity of getting the advant
age then.
As for the writer,- he claims to
be a veteran in political battles.
He has helped to win many vic
tories, and he has been snowed
under in many battles. Having
been in the newspaper business
for twenty years or more, he
knows how to take a defeat as
gracefully as any man. He is
one of those kind who, when he
gets snowed under begins at
once to lay for the other fellow
in the next battle. If the other
fellow don’t turn his way by the
time the next election comes on
there will be another fight. You
may count on that.
There is but one thing the
writer deplores in a political tus
sle, and that is unfair methods
of sending out reports on candi
dates that are untrue. Such
methods however, are losing
ground more and more as the
years go by, and as people
become more enlightened. Those
guilty of using such methods
will be discounted accordingly.
We believe in pure politics. A
sneaking, backbiting method in
politics is just as bad as a sneak
ing, backbiting method in busi
ness. There is no excuse for it
in the one place any more than
in the other.
But laying all this aside we
say again, let us take our defeat
like men, and go to work now
for the upbuilding of Decatur
county. We believe in working
just as faithfully in this as in
politics. And on the question of
building up the county we can
all agree. There is no room for
difference on that issue.
The county needs the help of
every patriotic citizen in order
that better moral conditions may
be had; that better schools and
churches, better roads, better
farms, Jmore up-to-date methods
in conducting the affairs, both
private and public, may be
adopted. We n od t!..s in order
that the people themselves may
be benefitted and the outsider
may see the most inviting spot
in the South in which to make
Parcels Post Assuned
f< r Alexander Wednesday. How
else can it be explained? This
is being written before the popu
lar vote over the state has been
announced. But the indications
are that Alexander did not carry
a single county. What his popu-^u
lar vote was is not known, bull y
e V^eo
taking th%stateV" Vlivefy. We charge $1.32 for transporting an
repeat that it looks 7fk r Qg eleven-pound package over eigh-
hibitionists Georgia ar^w teen hundred miles. This ends
half so numerous as we thoug| e _ a long fight extending over many
they were. This proved true l or years in which the express com-
Decatur county, although tnL panies of the United States have 1
county polled about the heaviest 1 exerted their utmost effort to
Washington, Aug. 19. —Uni
versal parcels post system in the
United States is assured by the
senate in formally ratifying its
'.ction in adopting the Bourne
jian, based on a zone system!
vote for Alexander in th
according to- population.
A great many men, not on
in Decatur, but throughout
state, who have been posing,
p-iohibitionists, did not
stand th“ test when it
put to them Wednesday.
This explains also why
present law is not enforced o
the state. A majority of
people seem not to be in sym
thy with the law. It need no'
state ^prevent the adoption of a parcels
host system. Before the final
| ote was taken, Senator Hoke
.-Smith offered two amendments
| reduce slightly the rates pre-
j ribed for the first and second
ed ■ ines ’ but tbey werb vote d down
Tl J the scale of rates as unani-
U " 1 Hal s ly agreed upon by the post-
Lan- committee was adopted 31
1 order
which'
confo^tor Smith was successful, i
■ 1 'noever, in securing the odop-
BAINBRIDGE STATE BAMjri
Bainbridge, Georgia.
Capital ioo„„
Surplus 2o?^°J°°
Read!
Reflect!
Resolve!
Pennies Make Dollars.
DOLLARS
Start Bank Accounts.
BANK ACCOUNTS
Beget
Confidence and
And these
BEGET SUCCESS
Credit
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Earn Loans]
A
Specialty.
Collections
Made
Speedily at
Favorable
Rates.
Every
Accommoda-|
tion
Consistent
With Safe
Banking II
Methods I
Extended* To
Our j
Patrons.
IN LIFE!
We Pay 4 Per Celt Interest On Time Deposits
be a matter of surprise if it is j tlVh of an amendment which
found that the next legislature i raises the rate on magazines
is composed of anti-prohibition-! published less frequently than
ists, and the present law will be j once a week when sent in mail
repealed. j cars from 1 cent to 2 cents a
We venture right here to make J pound. Such magazines are per-
the prediction, that the next two;mitted to be shipped by fast
years will witness the greatest! freight whenever deemed practi-
fight to capture Georgia ever | cable by the postmaster general
made b / thd whiskey interest to! at the option of the publisher at 1 -
capture any state in the Union. | the reduced rate of 1 cent, which C|_i nn CU L
We have already heard it being■ is the existing rate on all second ^HUlCfl ImalDCr
said since tne election that pro-; class mail matter. This amend-' Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 22-Super- ti . „
hibition is dead. Just such' merit re-enacts what is techni- h.tendent Paul B. Reese, of Trini- tolhe h Vb Tn/‘ •
talk may be expected after suchlcally known as “blue tag” pro- t Methodist Sunday School, to- 2 shHL r resp ° ns ' b! ® offi «
a vote Wednesday. vision. It has caused extensive d y gave out a brief card rela- i & i ,General of the Al-
But the ’true prohibitionists discussion and investigation by ti :e to one phase of the life of noKb^nol ii^] ° n . e f of most
will not give up the fight. Not [ the department. The postal ap- y , r Jjhn M Slaton regarding -ik victories ever
a bit of it? The vote Wednesday J propriation bill was passed by nothing has appeared in I'- h -' d by a youn * man in
the Senate at the end of two\\ press during his camnaio-nl A
Bell first entered
So'icitor-Elect R. C. Bell
was simply one of those waves 1
in which the whiskey element
gains the ascendency for a time.
The other wave will come by and
by.
But they tell us the question
is not a political one. They say
.... . , ueorgia,
press d-nng his campaign W hen Mr
days sharp fighting over pro- f. r governor. Mr. Reese said heL lp 4 , iroo .. , ,
visions relating to parcels post, f L ;t Mr, Slaton’s friends over thej A,-,.-* hfVU +•
good roads improvement and the 1 sLite should know these facts, i ,” b °JL ? one the best
affiliation of postal employees a , d ho therefore took it upen '*ZL 'JSL . V
with labor organization. It con- h nscif voluntarily to make this' ' th _ ° " T
tains some restrictions upon the statement: i 0V e pre '‘ n ' incumbent on
it is a moral question. We have j right of postal employees to join; ‘‘Thore is one side of Gover-
account of the latter’s strong
never seen, any reason orsense (outside organizations and an en-1 r Slaton’s life that even many! corT^'^pJosTcutln^ttt'omy
. for the State.
But Mr. Bell soon had the peo-
guessing. He developed into
one of the finest campaigners
% — ” ~ui ilia ultimate intJiiua iviiuw
the whiskey interests control ancj | based on the zone plan” with nothiag about, and that is his
dictate much of the legislation j varying rates for varying dis- ! a t tivities along religous lines.! ,
Of the nation, as well as much ttnees. k llis Hue in laro-e measures tn p
of the legislation of many of the |
states; that the use of whiskey
is the cause directly or indirect- •
ly of more than seventy per cent |
of the crimes that are tried in!
tke courts—then it is the great- 1
est political quest!
Football Team Organized.
Bainbridge is to have a real, 1
in Georgia. I '* ve football team. The team
Tnis is due in large measures to
his becoming modesty, for any
thing in the way of display or
pretense is wholly foreign to his j to-^ouse CanVa s 8 and talked tn
the people face-to-face. He in-
who ever entered a political field
in Georgia. He made a house-
StKMll]
It is the greatest^itical ques-; was organized a few days ago,
tior^n America.
It seems that the
had a serious backset in Georgia. |
j spired confidence as he went
! among the voters and they ral-
of
nature,
“It has been my pleasure to
be associated with him in Trin
ity Sunday School where he has " h *j; S u p ~“ rtin overwhelm-
and the young men will go into been teacher of a class for more ingnumbers .
cause has | training at once. Than twenty years, and itisa So , icitor Genera , willfam E .
1 It is believed by many that a rar * thln <f tbat he 18 not at h,s Wooten made a strong and noble
But for one, the Search Light! football team here will prove to p “ n U " h ay he has^issS'a fi ^ ht to hold the P° sition be had
does’nt flinch. Not a bit. We be one of the most attractive c , , . , " . a so ably filled for many years,
have been knocked out in this features of recreation .engaged on^a^nkrti/ train from ^outh but h . 6 waS unable t0 overcome
round Badly sc/T But we warn > n by the young men of the city. ,, . ,. ... . , the tide.
Ehe o hefsSe ¥re and now i As to a full description of the 1 ^ eor , g,a reach,ng f ^ anta ea 5 ly | Be. it said to the credit of both
hatwearenot down and out’ work of a football team, the^■ Sunday morrnng to be wi h h,s tbese men> that they have made
We are coming at them again! Search Light wiUhave to depend,^ ™ y be a ^
There is no letting up in this upon some of the young men b and the voumr ladies P ol ‘tical race. If a single harsh
, fight. who understand the game, to; Jerv fond of or disrespectful word has b< ?
feVe have been told time and' keep the public informed. Thei, p y f ,said by either one about the
again, to quit “agitating the i editor know r s nothing about itj «... ci , • snlpndid st„_!°tb er > the Search Light has not
question.” We notice however,;and so he cannot write so as to j ent ' i takes finite -in interest beard of it. The editor talked
that the less the question is interest those who understand j n lbe S (- U( jy 0 f the Bible jj g ! with both men and each spoke
agitated, the deeper is the .the game. , 1 comes by this honestly for his
hold that the whiskey interests, It may be expected from time grandfather wa8 a Methodist ° ther
get on the communities. Of | to time a an ai ,c e ,vi ap |minister. He is one of the most , , „ „ t v lpTW ic P
course they don’t want ,t i>agi-|pear stating just what the teami We teachers in our Sunday have done otherwise.
IS T C f ° inff T . , . ,, . I school, and I am very glad to be ° Pn W '
thing the prohibition! It is believed that the team'
Georgia needs, is for! will develop into
Col. Wooten will retire from
c icami ... ,. ... ..... .... the office with the good will of
one of the! e to pay h ’ m tins little tribute thousands of his fellow citizens,
for no one would ever know of
THE FIGHT HAS JUST BEGUN
The vote for Governor
Georgia in Wednesday’s election
was almost enough to cause the
prohibitionists to tremble for
their cause in the future. This
would be the case but for the
fact the prohibitionists KNOW
they are right in wanting to keep
bat rooms from being opened up
all owr Georgia.
Hardly any prohibitionists
beleived that Mr. Alexander
would he elected. Certainly the
editor of the Search Light did for the mothp «y(
not hope for it. He did hope daughters of Je and mabe " “““ the teachers and officers in Trin
however, that a much larger vote " ■. „. Rev. Walter Anthony will fill jty Sundav School, and they
would be cast for Mr Alexander e ^ 01 e ’ Wis pulpit next Sunday Morning feel it a privilege to have as an
than was received by him. Of weakened asd the forces are ;(nd even i n g as usual. The con- a ssociate and co-worker, a mas
course Alexander did not hav&-\attered without such leader-, gre gations during the summer 0 f such high ideals and splendid
but a few days in which to mal_/up as can be given by a great, \ have been perhaps the very best character.”
the race, but every prohibiti^U_^ ily newspaper. The other the entire year. An especial- PAUL p . REESE,
ly attractive feature of the wor- - Superintendent, Trinity Sun-
in the very highest terms of the
They are both too high-
toned and too gentlemanly to
tated. ’
One
cause
some great daily paper to take j strongest in this section of the;^™ jn our 8chool , if it nMnmi . , any
up the fight for the people, for j state. I were left to him to tell it. He pr , obab,y ._ "^ ur ° assed by y
the young manhood and woman- ^ ; does bis duty qu i e tly asd with a
hood, for the precious children,! , chai'acteristic modesty. He has
after having made a record
for the mothfi/e*yi wives and Neai-SlBS 3Ild Near-SinnerS the enthusiastic admiration of all
newspaper.
, side has them, all over the state.
ist in the state knew that 1
was a candidate for Governor.
Every prohibitionist also knew | ^ nd through such ageseies the
that Alexander was the snly pro- other side is most powerfully
hibitionist in the field. It was entrenohed round about Georgia,
not a case in which a voter could As sure as the shining stars
say that one or both of the a re above us, and the Gsd of
other men were prohibitionists. | Heaven 9Uch * a pape r and
They knew full well that neither . , , , , ,
... j., . force will be had one dav—and
of the other candidates was on
that side. ta en a battle will rage that will
ship last Sunday was the splendid
music discoursed by the large
day School.
solicitor in the state.
Col. Bell will take up the du
ties of the office with the full
confidence of the people through
out the entire circuit in his abili
ty, and with their belief that
his powtr will be fully as great
and his record equally as strong
as the one whom he will suc
ceed.
Here is the hearty handshake
of the Search Sight to both these
i noble young Georgians.
LOST—Butcher saw, between
Bainbridge and Iron Bridge.
Finder will please return to
barroom business the quicker . ,_
they hnv*> a paiier to take up the I The vote was almost enaugh shake ths very foundations of the Sins and Near-Sinners”,
t ght over the state ohe better j *° make one believe the full pro- < arth. ur.tH Georgia is freed of j The oth?r services of the week
for the cause. hit.':on strength was polled her darkest blight. are as announced.
• )
Chords Choir.
Two subjects of rare interest
are announced for the sermons i
next Sunday. In the Morning at!
eleven o’clock Mr. Anthony will
preach on “ Short Cuts to Sal- j
vation”: at the evening hour. 8 the piano contest at Haire
P-M his message will be Near-
You can never tell what
City Market, Bainbridge and y° u can yoiitrj ,
so get in the contest at
Haire & Wilson’s and win
the $350-00 piano.
Miss Edna Kelly of CuthberL
is the guest of her aunt, Mrs-
R. A. Bishop.
get reward.
Enter your
favorite in
& Wilson's and help her
to win that beautiful
piano.