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THE DAHLQttEGh NUGGET.;
Published Weekly.
DAHLONTCOA, GEORGIA.
“Tho Rood old Huminortimo” la en
tering on Its last lap.
Even Indian maharajahB got to bo
nuisances, according to London ro-
porta.
Somo persons dive Into shallow wa
ter at summer resorts and others got
ongagod.
Earthquakim that hate to bo snubbed
am carofu) to koep away from Han
Francisco alnco tho fire.
Tho crown prince of Hiam rofusos
to bo a polygamist and ho does not
say It In Japanese, either.
If tho cows will not giro milk
when thoro Is no rain wo will bo
driven to milking a can of condensed
cow.
Tho cold storage figures indicate
that omelets will bo moro reliable
next winter that poached eggs on
toast
An Indiana mule kicked a motor
cycle and cyclist across the road tho
other day. Homo mules seem almost
buni&n.
That little earthquako out In San
Prandaco tho other day did no dam*
ago, hut the restored city did not like
tho hint of its calling again.
Our friends of tho Weather Bureau
aro respectfully notified that one large
verification of thoso rain predictions
Is still overdue.
Tho man who ate Cl ears of corn
for a prlto probably followed nature's
example by holding tho oars down as
he ate them, with his foro-foot
Tho aeroplane as a possible factor
In wnrfaro Is somowhat handicapped
by tho tnmptlng targot It would mako
for oven an ordinary marksman.
An "author of many arithmetics”
has peacefully died In Pennsylvania,
but tho nrlthmotica, doar children, are
still allvo and walling for tho fall
term.
A scientist who has been investiga
ting decides that grasshoppers aro en
tirely useless. Evidently ho never had
n flock of young turkeys to bo fat
tened.
Whilo ho was saving two lives n
Connecticut man loBt f 18. The pooplo
whoso lives ho saved might at least
have tho good tasto to get up a purse
for him.
Tho wireless Is turning out to bo
tho best crlmlnnl catcher In the busi
ness. Thoro Is no oscapo for tho bold
est and shrewdest from Us llghtnlug-
llko, toll-tain agility.
Scientists announco that they have
Isolated tho gorm of leprosy and hope
soon to havo a euro. Hut there Is no
hopo In sight for thoBO alTUctod with
an Itching for public offleo.
A Princeton professor contends that
tho common ldeu of boavon Is wrong.
Now If someone will dotermtno Just
what 1b tho common Idea of heaven,
tho wholo matter will bo settled.
Tho hobble sk’.rt Rhows signs of
Joining tho autonobllo and the airship
for placo In tho accldont-rocord con
test. Its use li a comment for tho
cynical on the t »mon of this liberty-
seeking day.
Though tno bulletin of tho Chicago
special park commission concedes that
tho larvae of tho tussock moth "is one
of tho most beautiful of our caterpil
lars,” It does uot recommend that tho
larvao bo treated as pots.
Canada Is also a big country, al
though not yet in tho same class with
the United States as regards popula
tion and general development. There
have been reports of crop failures in
tho Dominion. Now comes the ex
planation that In some quarters grain
and other products have suffered from
drought. But In other sections there
has been an ample supply of moisture
and tho yield will be good. The out
cries of tho calamity shouter and tho
speculator must bo taken with duo al
lowance on both sides of tho border.
The official figures showing that du
ring the calendar year 1909 the ex
penditures In the United States for
building operations aggregated about
a billion dollars, surpassing tho record
of 1906 by ten 10 cent., not only prove
how completely the country had re
covered from the “panic" of 1907 but
indicate that the people havo made a
fresh start In prosperity. There may
be checks and reverses from time to
time, but no nation like ours can bo
kept permanently crippled or Indus
trially Inactive.
HOKE SMITH NOTIFIED OF HIS NOMINATION
Georgia Democratic Convention
Met in Atlanta to Nominate
Next Governor.
A "STEAM ROILER” CONVENTION
Tribute* to Hoke Smith as a Man of
National Prominence and Presiden
tial Possibility—Mr. Smith Was
Nominated for Governor by a Vote
of 233 to 78, on the Roll Call of
Counties.
Atlanta.—It was a steam-roller
convention which mot to nominate
Hoke Smith for governor, a body of
Georgia men so exultant in their vic
tory that they wore Intolerant of their
defeated foetnan, impatient of any
thing but celebration of victory and
laudation of their chosen candidate.
This was demonstrated early in the
convention when Joe Hill Ilall, of
Bibb county, endeavored for ten min
utes to put before t.he convention a
request for representation on the
platform cominlttte for the minority
faction; It was shown more conclu
sively when at the close of the con
vention Senator E. D. Griffith, of
Haralson, tried, us the right of the
minority which brought 130 votes to
the convention, to place In omlnation
Joseph M. Brown, the choice of a
representative body of Georgia Dem
ocrats.
Again and again Senator Griffith
was hooted and Jeered by men on the
floor until his voice was drowned in
tho uproar. Twice and thrice did
courteous Smith leaders on the plat
form plead with their followers for a
“square deal for a fellow Democrat,"
but to no avail Senator Griffith
tried in vain to speak against the up
roar, nnd at Inst Mr. I.awrence, of
Chatham, a Brown supporter and a
Savannah delegate, approached the
speaker and drew him from the foot
lights through the door at the rear.
The name of Joseph M. Brown had
never been placed before the conven
tion.
Though Oio county delegates came
to Atlanta with a convention vote of
238 for Smith and 130 for Brown (the
figures are Reuben Arnold’s, and in-
cludo the settled contests), the Smith
men making up the delegations out
numbered tho Brown delegates by
ten to one, the jubilant Smith coun
ties sending big delegations and the
Brown counties intrusting their con
vention vote to but a handful of dele
gates. It was a Smith convention all
tho way. Tho county vote plan was
forgotten from the start and never
a roll of the counties was called until
the actual nomination for governor.
The one-sided make-up of the meeting
rendered a roll call unnecessary, nnd
nction on every motion was taken by
acclamation nnd with hardly a dis
senting voice raised against the ma
jority. Tho platform, the rules of the
convention, the election of officers
and secretaries and choice of commit
tees—all went through ns if greased.
It was cut nnd dried, framed by lead
ers who had tho confidence of their
supporters and who were not hin
dered in their work. There was not
an amendment to the platform
drafted by Chairman James R. Cray,
except a supplementary resolution
which urged upon the national
party the consideration of Hoke
Smith as the next nominee for presi
dent.. Tho convention steam roller
moved without ji hitch and the minor
ity delegates who traveled to Atlanta
had only the privilege of seeing it
roll.
The platform of the convention,
drafted and read by James R. Gray,
editor of the Atlanta Journal was
lengthy document. It was in
ways n reiteration of the memorable
Macon platform of four years ago,
but toward the end it grew bitter In
its denunciation of tlie Brown admin
istration, criticising the governor for
the Durham mine affair, for failing to
purchase the Chattanooga terminals
and for other official sins of omission
or commission. Following it Mr.
Gray read a resolution offered the
committee by a delegate from Spald
ing county declaring Hoke Smith tho
choice of Georgia Democracy for the
next president of the United States.
Hooper Alexander, of DeKalb,
chosen to place Hoke Smith In formal
nomination for governor, delivered
eloquent address. His demand that
Georgia claim a right to affairs of
national Democracy was received
^•ith cheers, and the name of Hoke
Smith as Georgia’s choice for presi
dent brought forth another outburst.
Henry C. Cohen, chairman of the
Richmond county delegation, in a
brief speech fitting to the occasion,
seconded the nomination of Hoke
Smith for governor. He praised
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* Some 8allent Features of state Convention Plotform. ♦
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* Reaffirms Faith in Party. *
* Condemns the Tariff. *
* Congratulates People on Enactment of Principles of Macon Plat- *
* form. *
* CommendB the Disfranchisement Law. • *
* Disapproves Efforts to Emasculate Registration Law. *
* Renews the Demand for Anti-Lobbying Statute. *
* Approves the Railroad Commission Law and Welcomes Legitl- *
* mate Investment of Foreign Capital in Georgia. *
* Purchase jf Terminals at Chattanooga is Recommended. *
* Unauthorized Use of the Military 1b Condemned. *
tho accomplishments of Hoke Smith’s
former administration and predicted
greater things for tho coming one.
Joe Pottle, of Mlfledgevillo, made
a brief but appropriate speech in
seconding the nomination.
Following him, T. C. Olive, of El
bert, made a brief speech seconding
the nomination of the progressives’
chief.
CONVENTION SIDESTEPS
PROHIBITION QUESTION
The state convention sidestepped
the Prohibition question.
An effort was made to secure an
expression in the platform indorsing
the present Prohibition law and op
posing any changes or amendments
thereto which are not indorsed by
its friends, but the effort was doomed
to "blush unseen nnd to waste its
fragrance on the desert air.’’
The resolution indorsing the Prohi
bition law and opposing any changes
in it except such as are favored by its
friends was prepared by W. C. Bunn,
of Cedartown, and was handed by
him to Reuben R. Arnold, chairman
of the committee on rules, and in the
pocket of the chairman of the com
mittee on rules it found its perma
nent resting place. It was heard
from no more.
The resolution as drafted by Mr.
Bunn was as follows:
“Resolved, That we indorse the
present state Prohibition law and op
pose any" changes or amendments
thereto not approved and Indorsed
by its friends.”
NEW DEMOCRATIC
STATE COMMITTEE
The new Democratic state execu
tive committee selected by the state
convention follows:
First District—H. A. Boykin, A.
I). Coleman, Clarence T. Guyton, J.
W. Hughes.
Second District—L. S. Moore, Tho
mas; E. M. Davis, Mitchell; J. G.
Dean, Terrell; O. S. Harris, Ran
dolph.
Third District—J. R. Statham,
Webster; D. W. Nicholson, Stewart;
George W. Jordan, Pulaski; W. L.
Williams, Dooly.
Fourth District—W. C. Neil, Musco
gee; C. V. Truitt, Troup; H. C. Ar
nold, Meriwether; Leon Hood, Car-
roll.
Fifth District—C. D. McKinney, De-
Kalb; D. B. Bullard, Campbell; T.
it. Whitley, Douglas; R. W. Milner,
Newton.
Sixth District—W. B. Smith, Pike;
J. B. Jackson, Jones; W. B. Womble,
Upson; H. M. Fletcher, Butts.
Seventli District—P. T. Akin, Bar
tow; J. E. ltocer, Walker; Fred Mor
ris, Cobb; T. P. Taylor, Chattooga.
Eighth District—J. R. Mattox, El-
berton; J. D. Matheson, Hartwell;
T. J. Barksdale, Washington; F. C.
Shackleford, Atehns.
Ninth District—AV. S. Cornett,
Gwinnett; W. A. Cox, Gilmer; F. L.
Asbury, Habersham; Cleveland
Bonds, Stephens.
Tenth District—E. W. Jordan.
Washington; John T. West, McDuf
fie; W. D. Crawford, Lincoln; T. F.
Fleming, Hancock.
Eleventh District—L. V. Williams,
many i Ware; D. J. Melntash, Pierce; J. L
Kent, Johnson; R. L. Tucker, Irwin
An English physician is of the opin
ion that chickens spread tuberculosis
among cows. Nevertheless a good
many peoplo who are unable to cause
trouble in any other way will con
tinue to keep chickens.
The evening service at a church in
New Jersey has been discontinued be
cause of mosquitoes. And it cannot
be charged that the skeeters were
Imported for the purpose. Whatever
the effect of the sermon, the congre
gation refused to be bored by the
mosquitoes.
Hoke Smith did not make his ap
pearance in' the Auditorium until es
corted in to accept the nomination,
though there were many false alarms
of his coming wheu some late-comer
of prominence arrived and was greet
ed with cheers. Thomas S. Felder, |
of Macon, the nominee for attorney |
HERE ARE THE MEN
WHO WROTE PLATFORM
The platform committee of the
state convention was nominated as
follows:
First District—Frank Mitchell.
Second District—W. N. Spence.
Third District—R. L, Greer.
Fourth District—D. H. Hill.
Fifth District—James It. Gray.
Sixtli District—S. Rutherford.
Seventh District—-W. C. Martin.
Eighth District—Dr. A. S. J. Sto
val.
Ninth District—Joseph Underwood
Tenth District—W. A. Smith.
Eleventh District—Joseph A. Mor
ris.
HOKE SMITH ACCEPTS
SECOND NOMINATION
Ex-Governor Hoke Smith, nomi
nated again for this office by the
Democratic state convention at Its
meeting in Atlanta, made a pointed
speech accepting the nomination.
Governor Smith declared for a
strengthening of all the principles of
"progressive Democracy” which were
enacted into laws during his admin
istration as governor of the state,
and for adherence to the policies
promoted by “progressive Dempc-
racy” until all proposed measures
are enacted. He declared that all
the efforts of his administration shall
tend toward perfecting laws making
a clean ballot for Georgia, and that
the laws governing the franchise of
Georgia voters shall be strengthened,
honest ballot.
He denied that the people of Geor
gia want convenience in preference to
an honest ballot.
The speech of Governor Smith con
tained no harsh arraignment of his
political enemies. Rather he declared
the exponents of “progressive Democ
racy” should forgive and forget, and
unitedly turn all efforts toward the
development of the state and the im
provement of the Individual citizen.
HOOPER ALEXANDER MADE
THE NOMINATION SPEECH
A tribute to the steadfast and rock-
ribbed Democracy of Georgia, a de
mand that the Empire state of the
south claim her right to a voice in
the affairs of tho national party, and
a peroration in which he asserted
the right of Georgia to name the next
president of the United States in
Hoke Smith, of Georgia, were the
principal features of the address of
Hon. Hooper Alexander, of DeKalb
county, who nominated Mr. Smith for
governor in the convention of Thurs
day. Mr. Alexander began his ad
dress by declaring that Mr. Smith had
been given no intimation of the
speaker's purpose or the subject of
His address, and started the conven
tion by his reference to past candi
dates of the national party.
W. C. WRIGHT, OF COWETA,
MADE PERMANENT CHAIRMAN
In accepting the permanent chair
manship of the Democraetic state
convention, which carries with it the
ex-officio chairmanship of the Demo
cratic state executive committee, W.
C. Wright, of Coweta county, address
ed the convention, expressing appre
ciation for the honor conferred upon
him. He declared it the duty of ev
ery loyal citizen to lay aside past
differences and unite for the upbuild
ing of the state. Georgia, he said,
had prospered under Democratic rule
and "progressive Democracy” is but
a modern name for the pure Jeffer
sonian type.
J. Randolph Anderson, of Savan
nah, sat far back on the platform.
“I’m surprised to see you in the
camp of the enemy,” joked a friend
“Well, why shouldn’t I come and
take my medicine with the rest?”
returned Mr. Anderson, a staunch
Brown man.
Shirt sleeves and shirt waists rub
bed elbows in boxes and balconies,
for the morning was hot and sultry
and even the men who sat next to
t.heir women folks discarded coats
early in the game. Palm leaf fans,
furnished by a wideawake advertiser,
were at a premium.
, „ At 10 o'clock it was estimated that
general, was on ue floor before the j there were more than 3>200 persons
convention opened and was kept busy j , n , he big buildlng and the crowd wag
s a mg mm s. ; atill pouring in. The balconies held
The Coweta county delegation bore , a great many women, who appeared
a big banner inscribed “We Are Pro-: , () jjp intensely interested in the sliift-
gressive Democrats.” | lug scenes about them.
Early in the convention Congress
man Tom Hardwick took a seat on
the stage and immediately a tremend
ous yell of “Hardwick! Hardwick!”
went up from the crowd. The con
gressman was dragged from his seat
by a friend or two, who didn’t appear
to be straining their muscles, and
came to the front of the stage for a
speech.
"Gentlemen of Georgia,” he began,
“we are here today to—”
“Boom!” came an explosion from
behind, where some misguided pho
tographer had set off a flashlight.
The diminutive congressman ducked
—no man can stand a shot from be
hind—but he soon resumed his ad
dress. Some one yelled "Watson!”
from the crowd, and Hardwick
smiled. He had a smile coming.
Thomao S. Felder nominee for at
torney general, was given a tremend
ous burst of applause when he took
a seat on the platform, and as soon
as Congressman Hardwick concluded
his brief address the yells for Felder
forced him to step out and make a
few remarks. Mr. Felder took up
the fight on the convict lease system,
declaring that not one of “the reac
tionaries” had lifted a hand to aid in
the abolishment of the system. He
paid an eloquent tribute to the past
anministratlon of Governor Smith
and promised Georgia an equally
good administration to come.
Reuben R. Arnold, floor leader, was
about the busiest man on the job
before the convention opened. Ev
erybody wanted to talk to him* at
the same time and he was approached
by every delegate who had a pet res
olution to offer.
When the delegation from Cobb ar
rived at the Auditorium, 150 Hoke
Smith men from Brown's home coun
ty, a cheer went up from the crowd
that nearly drowned the great organ.
M. T. McCleskey, a grizzled veteran,
tore a banner adorned with a picture
of Hoke Smith and kept it aloft.
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