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I N THE POST-SEARCH LIGHT Published Every Thursday at Bainbridge, Georgia. E. H. GRIFFIN Editor and Proprietor Entered at the PoBtoffice in Ham- bridge, On., as second class mail matter under Act of Congress March lHth, 1807. Subscription Rates ONE YEAR *1.00 SIX MONTHS nOc Advertising Rates Advertising rate depends on position, number of insertions and other requirements, and will be furnished at the business office. Ol'KICIAI. ORflAN OK TIIK CI'I'V OK BAINHItllMlK AND KKC'ATL’K COUNTV. Telephone No. 239 12 Pages What’s the use of having an attorney general in the state. “LetTom Do it”. In behalf of the fans let’s get a pitcher that can ‘‘chunk to a left 'hand knocker” and see if our luck will change. There will be some warm old times in this part of the woods now pretty soon as the congres sional campaign is now pulled wide open, The Georgia man that does not want to pull everything that he can in this direction is not looking after the interest of his people. The battle lines of the parties will quickly form and here is hoping that Your Friend Teddy will do the bull-in-china-shop stunt this year again. Pointing pine straws will be gin to get popular now as soon as all the candidates get lined out for Governor. Straw ballotis have lost their fruitfulness in the past few years. Sure enough now. What’s the issue in this race for governor? All agree to keep the state road and all agree that they want the job and now we want to know what it is all about anyway. Have you ever had a boil on your shoulder and every gink that came along slap you on it. Would this not be a sweet world if every one of those ginks was u friend that hit you when the boil was ripe? | Judge Cox shelled the woods Saturday and opened up his cam paign at Tifton. He is alive wire and the boys from over the dis trict will see some old time cam paigning before the Ides of September. We always heard that a fellow had his Sunday manners but it seems that our men have lost all theirs. Especially on Sunday afternoons in the park when any of the ladies happen to need a seat. The bi-ennial session bill will get up in the house pretty soon after the legislature meets and the wise man will put his ear to the ground and vote for that bill if he really wants to please the people of the state. The knocker that makes it a business to oppose everything that is started in the town, (with out his money to help) is about the most useless thing that we know of unless it is a bull frog without any hop in him. The affinities and their affairs are getting badly jolted here of late. One church brother made his affinity mad and she told his wife. Who the dickens wants that kind of an affinity. Might as well give up to onct. The movement to make the governor’s term and the members of the house and senate four years willj do away with a lot ol uselese elections and we be lieve will meet the approval of the people. This with the bi ennial session bill will do lots of good and save lots of money. The congressional lid was pried off Saturday and things are be ginning to hum all along the line now. Watch the line-up and you will observe some interesting and attractive things. Get your eye focused down the line will you? Hughes and Wilson, two mighty good and strong men to elect a president from. For a Republican Hughes in an un usually good man, far better than they usually put up but Wilson will beat him in a walk with Teddy bucking the game all over the country. It may be a comlimentary thing and if it we are thankful. We have had 78 requests lor ex change in the past thirty days and we have been glad to do in deed. We feel that our work is appreciated among our own kind when we reach such point as this. Somehow the boys seem to be side-stepping the bi-ennial ses sion bill. They had just as well come to the scratch and toe the line. The man that overlooks I this important matter will have to learn a few things about what the people want One beautiful thing about this Democratic National Convention is that a supposed leader like Bryan will have no chance to betray the instructions of his state and trade out. A couple of Florida delegates wont have the chance either to lay down on their primary instructions and get a job later as the price per. Now with the issues of the campaign lined and with Wilson as the democratic leader victory is ours as sure as shooting. Of course we have some people that are not supporting the president but not a single one of them can give you one thing that they could expect tangible from a Republican administration. - -O — ■ The Baker county News has celebrated its fourth year of existence. The editor is being congratulated by the papers all over the section. While his paper has not been a great big sheet it has done more for Baker county than any one ever established there and has some force in the section as a helper of all deve lopment projects. Well, the city council has bought some nice new seats on the park ior the men of town to use. The women can stand or sit on the grass just as they have been doing every Sunday. If the men who hog the seats could see just how doggish they look sit ting while the ladies are standing they would go off and stick their heads in a gopher hole. Florida has just closed the longest campaign that she has ever had for state offices. This race has been on for more than a year past and the last resource of the politician and the cam paign liar has been strained to the uttermost and the result is that they have a lot of office holders and would-bes, all they had when they started on the long run. The election of Governor Tram mell to the United States Senate last week means that state has put in an able man that is young enough to be useful and his long career will be watched with in terest. Trammell is less than forty years old and in magnificent health and being able he ought to make Florida the senator that she needs along with Fletcher. The speech of Pottle was en joyed very much by the voters here that heard him and made friends with the folks pretty quick. Pottle is an able man and will have a strong following in the campaign. The bank statements appearing this issue show the institutions of the county ingoodeshap along all lines. Decatur county is in fine shape and few sections can boast of such conditions as we can here. Shope called old Judge Fite in the last issue ot the North Georgia Citizen a judicial gutter snipe. Now that is what we call ramming a guy. Dont know’ what it means but do know that somebody s ought to fight or get off the bench. If you dont want to boost the local ball game. Keep your mouth shut unless you have some of your hard money in the whirl. Bob-tailed knocking is about the poorest thing we know of. The man that usually knocks the loudest is the man who has not one penny at stake. Some people have lovely dis positions. We never give a man any free space in the paper that gets good results. He is too busy looking tor something to kick on lie forgets to thank us. Such carelesness and meanness is made not born in a man. Is’nta disgusting thing to hear a man stand on the corner and villify and abuse some public officer when he knows in his own heart that he is far more rotten than the man he is villifymg. Such men are a stench in the nostrils of decency. It gets more digusting to hear one use and expression that a team of mules could not pull them close enough to the man they are abusing to hear it in person. Knott is governor of Florida. Knott has made a wonderful race and waded through a slough of vitrol and hatred it seems to have gotten there. Well he may not be that way but it seems that he has some enemies to punish and if he does not hand them some of the dose he is more long suffering and patient than the average man. If a man was ever wlhfied this man was. It is to he hoped that the police can make some arrangements with the negro nurse girls of the city whereby the ladies can get some of the seats on the park in the afternoons when they come up town. At least they could trv it a little and see if they could. Well, the Republicans dug up old buttermilk Fairbanks out of the trash heap and put him on their ticket again for vice president. Sounds like a breath from the past to hear his name in politics and he will be allowed ] to drift back into very private life just as easy. ! The towrn has lost two of her oldest and most prosperous mer chants in the past month by re- .tirment. John M. Laing and I. Kwileeki after years of useful and honest merchandising have retired. Mr Kwileckci being succeeded by his sons after 47 ( years in active business. In wel- : coming the new r merchants a j good word and a passing flower are offered the old war-horses who have helped bring this town out of the mercantile wilderness are in order. The business in tegrity of both of these mer chants remained unsullied in all the divers kinds of times that have come over this country and in retiring they carry with them the best wishes of all their friends and all hope their rest will prove beneficial to them. Repeal When Enforce ment Mean Class. Much is being said about the city repealing the Sunday open law. Some misunderstanding has gotten abroad on this matter and the indications are that we will have open Sundays. This law has been useless for the rea son it cant be enforced except by showing favoritism and it brings about class legislation. A hotel, a restaurant or a livery stable has no more right to do business than any other man on Sunday and the idea ot punish ing one and not the other will not work. The city has merely put all on an equal basis and it is now a matter of a man’s own conscience as to whether or not he will keep the sabbath or not. The garages have as much right to sell gasoline as the hotel has meals and etc and it is hard to make the distinction. With one drug store keeping open, the ordance on the statute books it was a violation for any of them and if the law was not one that could be enforced it should have been taken off the books as it was. It is foolery to have the law and it not in use, we have too much of that now and the coun cil did the right thing to wipe it off. Few men want to do business on this day and each of them have been taught the holiness of the sabbath by faithful old teachers and the council that takes the religious feelings of the citizens under its wing is on rocky ground* We all respect the sabbath, know that it ought to be observed but we cant say that some should and some men should not observe it lor such a position will not hold water. The sumptuary position to make one do that is in line and let the other not do because he is out of line smacks too much of Tammany and the thing to do is to let all follow their own re ligious teaching on this matter. The council saw that they could not carry out the law without playing class legislation utter ly and the repealed the law. Now let each man remember the lessons his mother and his con science taught him about Sunday observance and he will do more reverently out ol respect to those memories than he will at the behest of a policeman’s billy. Let’s have a little individual reponsibility in more of the things ot life than we are hiving. Religion and family life are operated upon love, not statutory enactment and the quicker we learn this the better off will we be. The council does not believe in dishonoring the sabbath but it does think that men ought to governed on these matters by common sense and not always the love of the dollar. The citizens really thank the council for trusting them with their own consciences on this matter. Having received several com munications from Quitman this week relative to the alleged rough treatment of the ball players in that city we .feel that in calling the attention of the people to the impression that was getting out we have done our home town a favor. This paper did not have any grouch over the ball game proposition tor we would like to see Quitman and Bainbridge occupy the two highest places in the league but we did not like to hear our old town put in the rowdy class and whether it was true or not THE IMPRESSION was fast taking hold and that was our reason for calling their attention to it. It does not make any difference whether a report like that is true or not. it does great damage and if some of the fans were creating that impression it was time to call, a halt. In fact we ragged the life out of the Bain bridge bunch that told us the fact but when Valdosta came' along with same complaint that J looked very much somebody was asleep on the job in Quitman and hence cur article. The dream of a white Republi can party in Georgia is gone up in smoke. They very quickly demonstrated that they had no use for a party in this part of the country except to get dele gates for convention purposes. An effort was made to put white men in control of the machinery of that party in this state and try to build up a white republican party in the south but they got knocked cold when the show down came. There is only one party for the white men of the south and that is the Democratic party, the party of our fathers. Every time one strays off from it he gets cracked on the head. It does looke the band concerts could be continued on Sunday afternoons and that what little support that has been promised the band could be paid and kept up. The city has kept up and is keeping up many things that dont give as much general plea sure as music and it is one of the greatest drawing cards we have. You can see more strangers in Bainbridge on Sunday afternoons as a result of the concerts than you can see any evening in the week. This hoop-skirt economy will cause the folks to loose something that they really en joy. We doubt very sincerely if old man Johnson down at Appalchi- cola apprecaited his re-election as much as a great number of his old friends up here. If the old man could have been here in this editors chair and answered the requests of the old men for information as to how ‘‘old Henry Johnson down at Appalach come out” he would feel devoutly and almost reverently grateful for the interest these old friends of his have in him. Men who have taken no interest in local matters of this nature for years called and phoned to this office for the reports on the Franklin county Judge. The power and sweetness of an honorable name ments of real estate J cent last week all the!' the line. For which grateful public b e?8 acknowledgement If blessing is in store f J we are thankful to h, that be. Reducing ta J romantic and thrilling heard and read of it L the first time that w e k saw it in real life. T Bainbridge too, the most prosperous town While you are sitting the ball boards or in thi stands waiting f or the start when you buy t buy one that is made Home. Saw nine men wi about folks not backing t] team buy cigars last Frid: noon standing around board and not one ot bought a home made cig a bought the same kind ma | factory not forty mile here and not half as g 0( into the game and cigars made in Bainj Scratch the fellows hidi rakes yours a bit MR. AUTOMOBlI OWNER Hot weather is coming. Your Tires will heat. The rubber will softee a| come more elastic. Greater tension will be t on the fabric. You will not dare run the and you will not dare inflati hard. The result will be a BLOWN-OUT-TIRES. USE RIM-GRIP SUB-CASINGS and head ot this annoyance expense. Rim-Grip Sub-Casings wil was herein manifested so gloriously that we only hope in Jply that additional strength years to come and when time has ess ^ r y to carry a full infl allotted us the same space ot life it has Judge Johnson, our friends will be as many and as interested in us as his have shown us this past week. Truly can this old Judge say ‘‘Mine eyes have seen the Splendor of God and through him the best in men”. What is more to be desired than a good name and old, interested friends. without danger of blowinj the tires. This small outlay will you for the season as the can then be worn out. The Sub-Casings can be usl other tires. Sold by- Brooks Garai Hear Ye! Hear Ye! READ DRESS TALK NO. 11 Many a man is hot and irritable simply because his underwear is uncomfortable, yet he doesn’t realize it. Here you will find the comtortable kind right in the weight, and perfect in fit, whether you are long or short, stout or thin. Step in and let us show you our line. The largest and best in Bainbridge. Geo. H. Fields ‘•THE FASHIONABLE HABERDASHER” BAINBRIDGE. GEORGIA.