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Dig Piper in the bent town, in tbe hrst county, in the beet stnte in WE NEED YOU 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 An ex ginia ! on the dressing cultivsti in this i Mr. WJ( places lit | of feels that I Tve of thaf has seen. At a i court ho ed thon but this about it \ form you. The me o'clock in : house, come ^nd 1 J. J. KDGf ENTE Mr. J. J.l asville Mar] ville, Ga.. North Brop will open name of tlHj Granite Woi Mr. Edge I and will givi best in thatf been needind for mnny y\ Mr. Edge community. Mr. Edge j to stay and 1 oral high-prl come into 1 him. Thou the county I of work that | FOURI Al CARS COLL ROAD SI Saturday powered Albany roa Brinson, In Harrell and ware painfull] It is very .orlouslj Why all i main, a mysti plete de.tn ■tated that rd to pick (ip the j Mr. All< time to give I Seller, coltapaf lest reports th doing nicely. 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