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THE
POST-SEARCH LIGHT
Published Every Thursday at
Bainbridge, Georgia.
E. H. GRIFFIN
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March 18th, 1HII7.
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OWIOIAI, OKOAK OK THE CITy
OK HAINKKIlKiK AND DECATOB
COUNTY.
Telephone No. 239
How long before black-berries
will be ripe?
May 1st is on you. Are you
fixed?
Our advice now to the boys is
to drink buttermilk or. branch
water.
A skin full of cheap whiskey,
a cheap gun and a big fool can
do more harm in one community
than a ton of dynamite.
Roosevelt did not run so well
in New Jersey. He did not take
his new bird down there with
him on an exehibtion trip.
Theda Bara gives a full descrip
tion of the kind of a man she
wants. We had an idea that the
man she wanted was not made
yet.
Well we have got enough to
last us a few days anyway. Good
old corn wont last last long, not
near so long as the headache,
that awful headache that follows.
Candidate Ivakes for the State
Treasurer’s job seems to be some
what of a live wire and is hand
ing out some dope that will make
the boys sit up and take notice.
— ——<>
What is the use of all this talk
•about that preparedness. Have'nt.
■we gof Teddy with us yet. We
need not fear with him in the
^country.
I — o -
These very high topped shoes
will relive the women of wearing
garters if they add another inch
to them. Well if they can stand
it there is no reason why the men
should kick.
An Ohio mob attacked a street
Carnival in Cleveland. We dont
blame them much but we are
waiting to read one of the
hysterical attacks on the south
about an occasional mob.
Lilian Russell wishes that she
was not beautiful. Now we have
a fellow feeling of deeu sym
pathy for Lil in that desire. It
does get in our way dont it Lil,
old gal.
The boys that drive their cars
on West Street are improving in
their speed now and can come
mighty near trimming the whisk
ers off a stray goat that might
blunder onto the race track.
Thomas, the Dirty Felder fail
ing to get that thousand beans
in Savannah for his corruption
fund is meeting the first of a
series of set-backs that come to
the cheap grafter of his type.
Marion Jackson’s The Way
should be named the Liar since
he has gone out of his way to
belittle |as good a man as Dr.
Hardman. And for no other rea
son than the fact that Hardman
knows the littleness of Jackson
and wont bow to him and his ilk.
The Savannah District it going
to have a warm old congressional
race now since Charlie Edwards
refuses to run any more for the
job. Overstreet of Screven seems
to have the call on the job.
Peace, politics, pumpkins and
potatoes seem to be the watch
word now. If old Hank Fork will
furnish the peace, the Decatur
county farmers will furnish the
politics, pumpkins and potatoes.
The two-bit white hose that is
fast becoming the leading wear,
especially if they have a black
dot or two in them will boost the
price of cotton in a short while.
Keep at it ladies, one fad ought
to be beneficial sometimes.
The new prohibition law is
in force and the boys are wonder
ing now where their next supply
of juice is coming from when
what they have on hand is given
the jug-handle twist. Coffee pots
will be in great demand in a very
few days.
Dreamed a few nights ago that
there were no more blind tigers,
speed fiends or suffragettes on
earth. Found out latter that it
not intended that such an earth
could exist. All of these are
modern products of civilization
and it is hard to tell which is the
most useless or aggravating.
The Waterwagon is running
under full headway. Now we
what to suggest to the reformers
that they take a little side-swipe
at Uncle Asa’s cinch. The coco
cola evil is |very paramount but
when a man swats it, he is
doomed to private life because
of that powerful lobby.
A fellow named Flem Dame
is editor of the Homerville paper.
We dare anyone to say that name
three times very fast.
Grease up the Ford, trim old
Mol’s fetlocks, coal up the engine,
or get a good pair of heavy
bottomed shoes and hit the trail
for Bainbridge on the I5th of
May. Everybody is sure to be
here as everything is going to be
done here that day.
Judge Thomas over in the 11th
district is going to win that con
gressional race from that district
and we are ready to bet a sum
mer hat on it. No better or truer
man is in the state and he is
worthy of every honor that he
seeks.
We always try to spare any
one’s feeling when we think they
are honestly sorry that they in
jure any one in an unexpected
manner but we never do this
that we dont have occasion to
regret by an exehibtion of non
appreciation or an example of
commercialism on the part of the
party whose feelings we are try
ing to spare.
Bainbridge folks that took in
the Grand Opera in Atlanta say
that the dagoes did some pretty
good warbling this spring sure
enough. (“Many went but few
understood what they were
listening too”. We had one law
yer to go and when he found out
that an aria could not be eaten
or drank he came home.
Charlie Edwards quit Con
gress because he saw that he
starving to death and now some
folks are saying that he quite be
cause he feared defeat. What
unkindness this is. We move
that Chatham county and the
Frst send Herman Shuptrine up
there and let him starve awhile
Shup could love that gang up
there out. of most anything.
The baseball season will open
here m a very short while and
things will get lively for a few
days afterwards. The day that
the gambling begins on the
games, that day will the fabric
and structure begin to crumble.
Every time a gink looses two-
bits on the home team he be
gins to knock. Did you ever see
it fail?
A glance at the papers over the
district last week will show that
South, [the Bainbridge photo
grapher is some taker of pictures.
Any man that can get a fair
looking picture of a lawyer is
going some and South has done
pretty well with several of that
stripe here recently. He did pretty-
well with a Bainbridge whole
sale grocery man too.
POLITICS AND
BANKING.
In the dailies last week appear
ed an article with the above cap
tion and from Senator Eakes, the
candidate tor State Treasurer
and in reply to a circular letter
that went out from the Treasury
Department. This article makes
some startling statements that
are going to be taken up by the
people and looked after. Mr.
Eakes shows that there is some
very big politics in the Treasury
Department and makes plain al
most the fact that any bank that
was in line with the bunch now
in the saddle could have little
privileges but if they were not in
line they would have to hew
right square to the line. Senator
Eakes is an experenced banker
and shows very conclusively in
this article that depositors over
the state have been the chief
sufferers from the lax methods
of enforcing the banking
laws used by the treasury de
partment. The question is not
one of picking a treasurer but of
taking care of the uususpecting
public who deposit in these banks
and the Senator shows in several
ways that the public receives the
least consideration from these
matters.
The present Treasurer has
gathered about him a cabinet of
political advisers, making it al
most a point to employ most any
man that fights him if he can
get him and he has held on this
office for more than thirty years
by virtue of the activity of this
conclave and it is about time to
change. Decatur county has not
supported this regime in the past
several years and will not do so
this year. The candidacy of
Senator Eakes has been very ma
terially advanced by this article
of this week,
WITI-I THE EXCIIAX^
The Early County News takes
a side-wipe at Congressman Park
and the Albany Herald in their
last week’s issue. Things are be
ginning to wake up. The Blakely
The people of the Albany cir- Editor got a draw deal and is not
cuit have the chance to get a | heatetmg to talk out m meet-
splendid Superior court judge ini in /’ Gotol , t , B . ub ’ T ff cl s ° me
Bill Harrell of Decatur and they | tif th ® pollt!C!ana that they
are beginning to get close to the cant play fast and 00s f ™ tbe
idea. Abetter man never offered!' country papers and get by wlth
Senator Jim Ham Lewis says
that we are going to have another
party. We are pleased to learn
that and hope that said James
Ham, Teddy, Bryan, Watson,
Patterson, Eckelberger and Tom
Felder will all join it. Tvvould be
a most beautiful sight to see
these brethren dweling under the
same banner.
And now comes Governor
Harris and disappoinnts thous
ands by not naming Joe Hall
judge after saying that he was
going to do it. Why will that
man get balled up on all his ap
pointments? Naming some man
that was not an applicant to avoid
the bad job of settling a dispute
is getting several congressmen
in dutch as well as the governor
of the state.
ff Governor Harris did not ap
prove of the dirty and contempti
ble methods of Atlanta’s prize
Jackass Marion Jackson he would
say so and let all know that he
was disgusted with him. So long
as Jackson abuses and villifies
good men in this state just that
long will his supporting a man
mean that man’s slaughter. Jack-
son. Felder and Echelberger are
all indulging in the business of
cut-throating character to boost
Harris and every time this gang
attacks Hardman either with the
Governor’s approval if not bid
ing they make Hardman votes.
for the job and reports that come
from over the circuit indicate
that he will not have much op
position. Some splendid gentle
men have been mentioned for
the jobs and this paper finds no
fault with either of them. Just
our man’s time, that’s all.
it easy.
Sir Tomas Watson is right in
behind the State School Com
missioner Brittain and we have
a hunch that Thomas will come
pretty near making it very un
comfortable for that gentleman.
There is perfect accord and
harmony between Mr. Brittain
and the school book magnates.
Hence Thomas has begun to
Doubt. Can you be very severe
on said Thomas for doubting?
Dont you?
Tom Felder went down to
Savannah and tried to gobble
some of the funds in a political
pot and falling down on it he
started a row with the Mayor
and the Chief. We knew that
Mazuma was the main object of
Tommie’s work from the very-
beginning and say here and now
that unless the Anti-saloon league
gets rid of Felder and Echelberger
they are going to lose ground,
yes even lose cast and respect
the people.
The West Street Race course
is showing some remarkable
bursts of speed these nice warm
days. The good weather seems
to grease up .to the old [cars and
they get from tarty to sixty miles
an hour down] West with a per
fect ease that is x-emarkable. No
harm done at all. at all. Only the
women on that street that happen
to be mothers are verging on
nervous break down but that
must not interfere with the joy
riding ot the half-baked, idiotic
speed fiends.
The Georgia Republicans have
in their “flatform” a plank that
requires a county to pay the
family of a lynched man ten
thousand dollars. That may look
very fine but Bub, [is a dirty low
down rapist worth that much to
his county or his family either.
It might not be a bad idea to do
something like this and exempt
the rapist. Folks may fume and
fret, snarl and resolute but when
a man rapes a woman in this
country he will be strung up in-
stanter and there is no use in be
ing mpaly-mouthed about it. Law
and order is a most priceless
thing but no more priceless than
a good woman.
We never did believe in giving
flowers to a black box or to fellow
that has cashed in. Did you
know that Harris, the local
manager of the Telephone com
pany and that able bunch of
lady assistants that aid and abet
him in the telephone work have
given this town about the quick
est and best service that is ren
dered anywhere by any phone
company. The operators are
kind, gentle voiced and lady-like
despite the fact that about half
of the folks they serve show very
little courtesy. It looks like they
might absorb some of.'the boorish
ness of their patrons but they
have not. There was a guy in
this office several days ago from
“up ter Atlanta” whoblowed off
his face about telephone service
and we just decided to give him
a touch of it sure enough. He
told how quick they did business
up there and in just 2 1-4 minutes
we had one of the hotels in a
neighboring town some distance
away in actual conversation with
us. The Atlanta guy shut up and
moved on.
BASTIONING THE CASH
Regardless of which direction
the State road problem ultimate
ly takes there is no gainsaying
the fact that its disposition has
become far and away the livest
issue in the State. Now comes
the Bainbridge Post-Searchlight:
If the State road is sold and
the Legislatures spend the money
what will we have then? To The
Macon Telegraph. Can you place
anv restrictions around that
money so that nothing but the
'interest could be spent, in the
j event that it did not take it all
Jtopaythe bonded indebtedness
of the State?
The thing is quite simple as
the sale advocates have planned
it. Any sale of course should be
subject to reatification by vote
of the people. On the ballot
should be printed a condition of
sale that the several millions left
in the treasury after paying the
bonded indebtedness of the State
might be spent only for the pur
chase of five per cent county or
municipal bonds issued in Geor
gia, and the interest money to be
so derived shall be expended
only through the common school
fund. A simple enough procedure,
safe enough and guaranteed to
protect the millions of cash from
the so much feared onslaughts of
the grafters it is taken for grant
ed we shall pack into our General
Assembly the moment the Gen
eral Assembly is given some
money to spend.—Macon Tele
graph.
This paper is not one that be
lieves that our legislatures will
will wilfully waste money that
belongs to the state nor that our
people are such poor judges of
human nature that they will only
use thieves to serve them but we
do know that a proneness on
their parts to not [be as careful
with the appropriating of the
state money as they do their own
will give the proposition hard-
sledding unless there is a limit
to the expenditures of the money
in the event the road is sold. Let
your mind wonder to the many
desperate attempts to raise the
5 mill tax limit fixed by the con
stitution and you can see the
justice of these fears, these
misgivings on the parts of the
people.
Eight out of ten men in this
state know that road ought to be
sold, that the state has no right
to compete with its citizens and
to pass laws making a monopoly
for that road or toj
counties in which i t r J
petition or a chance to 7
their resources but the°
•reckless appropriations *i
money has got to be re J
fore that road will be J
you know it. Since J]
anarchistic preaching thi
been going on in this s y
the past 10 years by detj
that all men that have twj
shirts will steal, you hav e l
make some provision as yj
gest above. The political!
ing that has been going 1
Georgia for the past te n |
has been very detrimental
in more ways than one. \\
the school was opened, an J
we are going to pay f or 1
our best motives being j mp L
in every public movement!
0
There never lived a mal
understood women. There]
will.
There never was a
didn’t understand the mal
cared to take the trouble 3
to understand. There neved
—Albany Herald.
There never lived a mail
could fool a woman six ml
after they were married(
never will. '
The name of one promt
Georgian has never beenmej
ed for governor; but that ca
easily accounted tor. No
he has warned the space-v..
to “hands ofP’and if we are!
mistaken, he owns a gun]
can shoot straight. - Dari
Gazette. That fellow is tail
about us right now. Some L
is always disturbing our eq|
brium.
Judge W. M, Harrell, of
bridge, candidate for judges
ot the superior courts of I
Albany Circuit, spent Wed|
day in Arlington getting
quainted with the voters. Jul
Harrell alreadvhad manyfriel
here and on this his first visit!
made quite a favorable imp]
sion upon many who chanced|
meet him the first time on
visit. In this connection r ii
Courier is authorized to say ti
Judge H. M. Calhoun, of tl
city who for a while contempll
ed making the race for this pof
tion, has decided not to run.]
Calhoun County Courier.
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