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VOLUME 8. NUMBER 23.
The Post-Search Light
BAINBRWGE, GA„ THURSDAY OCTOBER 5th, 1922
SMITH WITHDRAWS
CONTEST CHARGES
jl lHiE CUSTERS NAME GOES
before CONVENTION WITH
OCT OPPOSITION.
judge Smith, who started out to
contest the election of Judge Custer
a< judge of the Albany circuit, with-
tirew his contest Wednesday.
We are sorry that we did not get
this news in time to keep from publi
cation the judge’s attack on this ed
itor, and the reply thereto, but it
was too late.
We think that Judge Smith acted
wise in this matter, an 4 he would
have done better not to have written
the letter that he did, as we felt call
ed on to answer, which wt did.
But the thanks of the county are
to the Judge for withdrawing his re
faction on the fair play of Decatur
county.
However, Judge Smith will find out
t.iat not a single soul in this county
ha* aught against him, though it is
felt that he did them all an injustice.
WELL KNOWN LADY
CALLEDBY DEATH
MRS. W. F. WHITE PASSED
AWAY SUNDAY AFTERNOON
AT HER HOME HERE
Mrs. White, wife of Mr. W. F.
White, died late Sunday afternoon,
in her home on Evans and Scott
streets, after a short illness.
The news of Mrs. White’s death
came as a gveat and sad shock to
far family and many friends. Hav-
i Li been sick only a short while, and
far illness not thought of a serious
: :ure, the change which resulted so
: k!y in her death, was entirely un
is. White was a frail, lovely little
an, a devoted wife and mother.
Rev. Mr. Foster, of the Method-
hurch, performed the burial cer
emony at the grave in Oak City cem
etery. Many beautitul floral offer
ee sent and a large number of
lends acompanied the body to its
sting place.
Besides her husband and two small
ldren, a father, mother and a
>ther survive Mrs. White.
EXT COOPERATIVE
HOG SALEOCT. 10TH
ISTING FOR THIS SALE WILL
CLOSE SATURDAY AFTER
NOON AT 3:30.
W. J. Powell, president of the Live
Association , announces the
o-operative hog sale for Oct.
Oth, at the A. C. L. pens, with Bob
alcy in charge.
The services of H. P. Townsend, of
limax, have been secured for addi-
nal checker.
Mr. Roberts, the man who does the
ting, states that he wil be on the
>b to list as late as Saturday after-
• :30 o’clock, the 7th, when the
ting of hogs tor this sale will close,
every one interested in this
'o-operate as they did before,
his sale will result in perfect
as did that of the last one
' keep our market price up with
:eel!ent quality and condition c f
heretofore, and continue fa
Bait bridge the best market in
■RIGHT LITTLE BOY
DIED LAST SUNDAY
LENS’ DERBYSHIRE. JR.. PASS-
I ED AWAY AT HOME IN
DONALSONVILLE
the many friends in Bainbridge of
and Mrs. Glenn Darbyshire are
l’y gneved to learn of the death
|their bright little boy, Glenn, Jr.,
i> h occurred early Tuesday morn-
at his home in Donalsonville.
few friends knew of the little
w’s sickness, but very few know
[thing of the death until Wednes-
precious child, only five anl a
years old, and the joy of his pa-
. and grandparents’ lives. Dr.
| Mrs. Smith and Hinman Smith
constantly at the bedaide, and
• there when death came.
Uneral services were held at the
and interment took place in
petery at Donalsonville, the
Ward, of the Bainbridge
Brian church, performed the
i. A large circle of close
deeply sympathise with
__ grand parents and
tele, of the little fellow
r »addest hoar.
REGULAR SESSION
OF COMMISSIONERS
KIWANIS CLUB ASKS FOR THE
EMPLOYMENT OF COUNTY
FARM AGENT.
The County Commissioners met
Monday in their regular session, and
spent the moiing paying the usual
bills.
Messrs. Andrews and Bell of Face-
ville section went before the board
to get some assurance as to dipping
their cattle in the event their vats
were blown up. The felt like the
vats ought to be guarded, as in
event of a blow up they would be
required to drive their cattle so
to dip them. They were earnestl>
trying to guard against possible fu
ture inconvenience.
A committee frohi the Kiwanis
Club asking the board to employ
county agent, was heard and the mat
ter tabled unul the lam can be look
ed into by the county attorney.
Messrs. Baggs and Conger appear
ed before he board, asking assistance
in the cleaning up of the lot that will
be devoted to public convenience and
the play ground.
Mr. R. V. Griffin appeared asking
the board to give the West Bain
bridge school the privilege to connect
the school with the countf wires and
get light, which was granted.
A resolution asking pardon for Mr.
Stewart was read and adopted with
a full vote.
The Callahan Grocery Company
was awarded the contract for sup
plies for the month of October. The
minutes read and adopted.
Box Supper To Be
Held at Fowlstown
The young ladies of the Fowlstown
community will have a box supper
Friday night, October 6th, at the
school house. Everyone is invited to
come. The supper will be given for
the benefit of the basket ball team.
Aged Colored Woman
Passed Away Tuesday
Aunt Jane Williams, one of the
best known colored women of this
section, died Tuesday night, at ar.
age of about 72 or 73 years.
Aunt Jane was one of the most
thrifty of her race, and left consid
erable personal property, % among
which was a brick block at the lower
end of Water street. '
In the livery stables days Aunt
Jane was one of the most enterpris
ing among the livery folks, running
a stable and a hack service, along
with a restaurant. She accumulated
and saved money, and made good in
vestments.
She was well liked by the older in
habitants, and before the days of au
tomobiles, she was very much in de
mand. She left a daughter and sev
eral grand children. She was buried
in the local colored cemetery.
Opening Reception of
The Womans’ Club
The Womans’ Club wishes to a
nounce its opening reception f
Thursday afternoon, and that it w
be held in the home of Dr. and Mi
I. Allen Johnson. Every member
urged to attend. A musical progra
will be given by the entertainment,
ommittee.
Busy Corner Opens
Fall Trade Campaign
See the big double-page advertise
ment in this issue. The Busy Corner
opens fire for the fall with a big sale
that will rock the county. Read this
jmmense double-page advertisement,
and select what you want and get it
at marvelously low prices. They are
off for the fall now with a vim and
go. Watch their smoke.
Watson’s Objection
To Keep Curran Out
Savannah, Ga., Sept. 30.—John F.
Curran has no chance of being post
master at Savannah, according to ad
vices received here fnom Washington.
The senate rejected Mr. Curran upon
Senator Watson’s objection, he being
“personally obnoxious” to the sena
tor.
It is believed the examination pa
pers will be re rated, allowing a Re
publican to be placed on the eligible
list. That Republican will be George
I. Morris. He stands a very good
chance of being appointed.
The two highest men on the eligi
ble list are both Democrats. They
are W. R. Gignilliatt, present post
master, and Marion Lucas, police
commissioner and former postmaster.
JUDGE E. L. SMITH, OF EDISON, REPLIES TO POST
SEARCH LIGHT’S COMMENT ON JUDGSHIP CONTEST
Mr,
i DonaUen.
Al|>r4.w<4 Mm. FaulU^ii
C.. will arm, on
Edison, Ga., October 2nd, 1922
Editor Post-Search Light:
If you are the good “sport” you claim to be in the article
you used last week to attack me. I’m sure you will be sportsfiian
enough to let me reply to your attack through the columns of
your paper.
I’m willing to leave it to any fair-minded citizen of your
county as to whether I am due an apology for anything I’ve
done. If I am, I am ready to make the apology.
Ordinarily, I might be willing for you to decide the matter
but you appear to be highly prejudiced against me. However,
if you’il answer the questions below publicly, I may then be en
tirely willing for you to determine the question ot my apolo
gizing: |
1. Do you believe in elections being conducted under
rules and in accordance with the law? If so, do you wish to see
me denied rights given all candidates, simply because I don’t
live in your splendid county. fs
2. Do you know why your executive committee refused
to recount the ballots for me the day after the primary, be
fore the ballot boxes left their hands, but did so 16days later
after Judge Custer requested it?
3. Do you know why he waited so long to ask it. and do
you know why no information could be obtained by me as to the
result in your county until the day after the primary, when I
had to go to Bainbridge to find out? Why was it every other
county gave out the result and Decatur would not do so?
4. Do you understand why the executive committee re
fused to let me contest the election: why they went ahead and
paid no attention to my notice, and then after so long a time
served me with notice to come down, after they had lost juris
diction of the matter, and had sent the certified result to the
state executive committee?
5. Can you understand why my attorney was denied the
right of seeing the list of voters who voted, as the law provides
for all persons, and can you explain why my attorney was de
nied the privilege of taking a look at the ballot boxes the day
before the recount?
6. Do you understand why the executive committee
wanted to be so fair 16 days after the election, when they treat
ed me so shamefully on the day after the primary? Can you
understand why it was so important that the recount be con
ducted fair, that all the lawyers, judges, ex-judges, mayors, etc.,
of Bainbridge, were invited in to the recount, after 16 days
from the election?
7. Is it hard for you to understand why the committee
wanted to be so fair thatthey actually appointed aff'attorney
for me, when they knew I had an attorney in Bainbridge who
refused to participate in their irregular conduct? Why not
have been fair the day after the primary ?
8. Do you understand why the notice was not served on
me for five days after being prepared, inviting me to the re
count, and why it suddenly had to be served about midnight by
your sheriff?
9. What was it that aroused your suspicions and caused
you to ask for the ballots in the Bainbridge precinct to be
counted again for you ?
10. If you got them recounted, why do you claim then to
be such a better sport that I am, when you got what you want
ed, and I was denied the samething?
11. Did you learn the reason why one of the clerks hold
ing the election in your precinct had to be hauled home during
the count, and that another had to be called in to take his place?
12. Did you know what caused one of the clerks to become
disgusted with the manner of the count, to the extent that he
got up andleft?
13. Have you learned why the ballots had to be recounted
several times in your precinct, and was it done by two sets of
“counters” or by one, and were both sets sworn in, or some just
invited in?
14. Do von know that the paper I filed with the executive
committee asking for a recount and giving notice of intention
to contest, was in as gentlemanly language as I could express it,
ad made no charge or attack on anybody? Print or publish a
copy of it, if you will.
15. Do you expect me to sit supinely down and do nothing
when I have been treated as I have-, and talk about what sweet
people there are on the executive committee?
16. Do you think 1 am doing wrong to see that I get a
square deal and that every voter’s ballot is counted correctly?
17. When was it that you became so intensely interested
in my political ambitions that you actually got sorry and “re
gret” that I have made such an awful mistake?
18. Do you think that the voters of the good old county
of Decatur can be prejudiced against me by such articles as you
had attacking me? Were you only just throwing bouquets at
your own sweet self, for not being dissatisfied with just one
vote defeat? Did you time your article just before the execu
tive committee met for the purpose of trying to prejudice me
before the committee, or did you get the committee to fix the
date for their meeting just after your attack?
19. Do you suppose the committee thought after they had
already refused to let me contest, refused me a recount, gone
ahead and certified the result, that they could then again ac
quire jurisdiction of me and of my complaint, and force me in
to a white-washing campaign to cover up their own mistakes,
or whatever you may call it?
20. Do you know that I am aware of the fact that there
are some good, clean, upright men on that committee, and that I
regret that it i* necessary for me to have to talk collectively?
These men were ill-advised is the satisfactory answer for my
self.
21. I may withdraw my appeal i the state convention and
let the voters decide the question two years hence as to wheth
er I have been treated right, and if) I
such articles as you have published, or may publish hereafter?
Yours very truly,
E. L. SMITH.
W’e publish above a statement from Judge Smith, answer
ing our article of last i eek, which he seems to think was unfair.
He has made so many false statements in thi* thing, so far aa I
am personally concerned, that I will just answer them. In ques
tion 9 be asks why we asked for a recount the night of the el
ection, in the Bainbridge precinct, and that our suspicions were
aroused. If Judge Smith will bring to me any man that says I
ever asked for a recount of any precinct at any time, the night
of the election or any other time, I will tell his informant that
he is a liar. If any man told him that I was suspicious, and ask
ed a recount of the Bainbridgedistrict, that man told him a lie.
If any man told him that I asked anything, or made any
request, or that the ballots were recounted for me, or at my re
quest, that man lied. Judge Strickland told me several days af
ter the election that he had not received any request from any
friend of mine to do any such thing. I have not had a recount
and have not had even asmuch as you, Judge. You got a re
count, and in the presence of the best men of Bainbridge. You
were in the city that morning. Why did you not appear? Your
attorney was in the city all day the day of the recount. Why
did he not appear?
Who was the clerk that was hauled home drunk, and who
was the clerk that took his place? I challenge you to name
him. Now, Judge, so far as you ever getting any support of
any kind in this county, you will never do it. You were actual
ly petted by the party machinery, because they knew that you
never did intend to abide by the vote. If Jesus Christ had held
this election in Decatur county you would have carried it to the
convention and you know it. You know good and well that this
is all bull, and that you don’t believe that you have been mis
treated in this county, or that one vote has been unfairly hand
led. You know good and well that you never did intend to bow
to the will of the people, and that your first hope was to get into
a convention. I am not prejudiced against you, and would not
do you an injustice, but I have seen your kind before in this
game of politics.
I don’t believe for one moment that you believe that any
man in this countv has worked you any harm, or taken any
thing from you. I know that Judge Custer alone is responsible
for you getting a new count, as no man on the committee would
have entertained your proposition at all, for they knew good
and well that you had a fair count at first. The Judge insisted
and begged the committee to do it for you, because he wanted
you satisfied. So far as timing my article, I did nothing of the
kind. I WROTE THE ARTICLE in the first paper that I pub
lished after I found out you were acting the baby.
What specific charge did you make the day after the pri
mary? All sane committeemen know that the usual cry of the
defeated candidate is “unfair,” and they paid no attention to
you because you made no specific charge. It is easy to holler
corruption in anything, but it is a different thing to show evi
dence enough to warrant an investigation.
So far as being unfriendly to you Is concerned, I would
have voted for you in preference to any one In the circuit if
Custer had not been in the race. If you could hear what the
voters of the “good old county of Decatur” say about your con
test, you would agree with me that you have made a serious
blunder. Who is the clerk that got disgusted and left the bal
lot room ? Give us his name and the name of the man who was
hauled home that night, and I will run him out of the county
for getting drunk wjiile handling public matters. I will hound
him with the wrath of this paper and the people until he will
have to leave. We don’t stand for such.
No Judge, you are not a good sport.. You don’t like your
medicine, for you intended to do just what you have done if you
had not gotten a dozen votes in the entire circuit. Who stuffed
the ballot bo$ in the good eonuty of Calhoun? Since when has
a candidate in this circuit failed to get his own county by three
or lour to one? Aren’t you the first one that ever failed to get
your own county unanimously? Seems to us like you arc.
LISTEN Judge, a few years ago Judge Harrell got the
same proportion of votes in this county that Custer did, and we
heard no such cry from his opponent. We have a habit of send
ing the home man out of here with a solid vote behind him, a
trick that you don’t seem to have taught the Calhoun voters.
We really and truly were sorry that you made the-break
you did, and it was from our heart. Personally, we would rath
er have seen you elected than any man we know of, except our
neighbor, Judge Custer. We think yet that you have been lied
to. We know that if any man told you that I got suspicious
and demanded a recount, and got it, that man lied to you. If
you were misled in this, it is possible that you were also mis
led in other allegations. If there is not any more truth in any
of your other allegations than there is in the statement that I
asked a recount at any time, or that any of my friends did so,
God help you. I know some one had to tell you that, for you
were not here, but whoever told you any such thing lied to you,
and misled you badly. I did not ask anything, and were I to
ask anything I would ask for a run-over, and nothing less.
This is the first time in her history that Decatur county
has ever been charged with any such thing as this, and frankly,
the people resent it deeply. Some of your friends, it seems,
wanted you in the race for the purpose of getting you before
the people for future needs. Well, brother, you have played
hell before the people, and you will find it out. We don’t fool
that you have acted at all on yourowninitiatlveHn this thing.
We feel that you have been taken advantage of, so far aa the
allegations set out are concerned. But you have gotten what
you want. You did not really want a recount. You did not
expect election, and was not hoping for it. And w> kind of i
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