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R. 0. ROSS & SONS.
Entered at the Postoffice at Winder, Ga.
as Second Class Mail Matter.
R. O. ROSS Editor.
BEN A. JUHAN - - Associate Editor
Thursday, July 3, 1913.
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aped. cards of thanks, and notices of entertain
ments where admission fee is charged, will be
published at one-half cent per word. Cash must
accompany the article.
Merit should win. Barrow
county has merit.
Pulling for B rro v county aid
boosting Winder, like a motion to
adjourn, is always in order.
Mr. Victor Hagood, after a
w<*ek spent in Winder helping
The News force out until last
week’s issue and visiting rela
tives, has returned to his home in
Lawrenceville. Victor is a pleas
ing gentleman and a good printer
He made additional friends here
on this trip.
Did Editor Camp know that
Georgia is the largest State east
of the Father of Waters? That
she is entitled to more counties
than the other smaller States?
That some of the large counties
in other States have two court
houses for the accommodation of
the people? That it would be
a great step forward for the peo
ple of these large counties to do
what the people of Borrow are
going to do.
The Chicago authorities might
have know'll that the notorous
negro Jack Jgiinson, would
leave his bondsmen in the lurch,
just as soon os police surveillam
was relaxed. They have made a
mess of punishing this convicted
“white slayer,“and given lynch
ers another excuse for their in
terference with the tardy pro
cesses of th elaw". —Macon Tele
graph.
Yes, but a white man who
would sign the black brute’s bont
ought to be left in the lurch.
Editor Camp seems to be great
ly worried over the expense tin 1
county of Harrow will be to the
people of the new county. If he
is to be guardian of the people
of this section, would it not be
Jthe proper thing for him to make
Application in the legal manner
so that they may have right to
•object? Does he think they
will accept him as a self-appoint
ed guardian? Idle people of Bar
row know what they want, Er
nest, and most of them are na
tive to the soil they now tend anc
they have the interests of all sec
tions at heart and are not the
paid howlers of a subsidized
cause.
The members of the legislature
are fast seeing through the at
tacks made in the scurrilous let
ter sent out from Monroe about
Winder’s cause every day. No
county in Georgia has a finer
citizenry than will compose Bar
row county. They are behind
the movement and the county is
not for any set of men but for
the benefit of all within its bor
ders. It might interest Editor
Camp to know that a large peti
tion is in hand from a section
outside of.the proposed couiuy
asking to be taken in. The edi
tor might in his application for
letters of guardianship take this
; uto account and includb them al
. .. I mißlflftH ‘fof'AffC pVirc&r’caVnly df’fcu-T' e
Commerce News, sounds well and in the opinion of Editor
Caldwell, of the Walton News, is the “sanest thing yet writ
ten on the new county question'’. We reproduce it so that
our readers may have the benefit of the “good things’’ that
are going the rounds:
“If the people of the county want the ccjunty cut, and say so
at the ballot box, we will cheerfully' abide the will of the people.
Until this is done, we are unalterably opposed to the use of the
carving knife. But this is just the thing that the carving ad
vocates do not want. They make light of the proposition
They fear the verdict of the people. They do not want the
people to have a voice or a vote in the matter. From first to
last they have fought shy of the people. Without ever con
sulting the people, they took the chain and marked off certain
territory, run certain lines, cut off at one whack hundreds of
our population, and proposed in broad open daylight, to rub
the county of hundreds of thousands of dollars of taxable prop
eity, thereby diminishing our income from taxes, and increas
ing our burden of taxation, without ever consulting the people
of the county as to their wishes. In every instance, the coun
ty carvers have dodged a direct issue. Their candidates for
office have always dodged. When they have offered candidates
for office they have universally affirmed that the new county
proposition was not an issue. After the result has been an
nounced, they then affirm that it was an issue. When the peo
ple are to vote, they say it atj, is?ue. After they have
voted they affirm that it was an issue. The people of the coun
ty want the issue fairly presented, on its merits, stripped of all
incumbrances. This, the carvers do not want, and will never
submit to if they can prevent it. Until they do this, they may
expect opposition. The people of this county propose to tight
to a finish any scheme to carve the county that ignores the will
of the people. This is good old democratic doctrine. It’s
democratic to the core. By it we will stand or fall. The peo
ple of this county, a majority of them, do not want the county
cut. Neither Jo they want to lx? ignored, by a set of carvers,
who propose to use the knife regardless of the will of the
people.”
In 1912, when candidates for legislative honors in Jack
son began to insert their cards in the papers, and the new
county question was uppermost in the minds of the people of
Jackson, this same Shannon was writing laborious editorials
calling 011 the voters of Jackson county to cast their ballots
for no mail who would not pledge his disapproval of the prop
osition to carve Jackson county. This same selfish Bundle
of Prejudice knows that he supported Lord and opposed
Rainey on the new county issue. He ought to know', if he
does not, that the Board of Trade of Jefferson made the new
county question an issue in that campaign, and sought to
pledge every candidate with the exception of Rainey (who
was known to favor the creation of Barrow county) against
‘‘the carver’s knife”.
One of the representatives in the general assembly, and
he is’not H. N. Rainey, in answer to a letter recently written
him urging said representative to oppose the creation of Bar
row county said: “Every intelligent voter in Jackson
county knows that the election of H. N. Rainey to the
legislature indicates the approval of Jackson to the new
ciunty proposition.’ ’
Last year, fresh from defeat at the hands of an unscrup
ulous politician who wielded the power of his office against
us, we came home and put H. N. Rainey in the race, then
three-cornered with two seeking votes as anti-new countyites.
Rainey was known as a member of the committee who had
been fighting for the new county, and truth to tell, there is
not a baker’s dozen of voters in the entire county who cast
their ballot for Rainey who are fighting the proposition now.
But, I ask you, since when have counties been created
by a vote of the people iu the territory effected? While we
have utmost confidence in the good sense and fairness of the
people of Walton, Jackson and Gwinnett, should such an
election be held and we should be victorious, the kickers and
howlers would have the same opportunity to misrepresent
the facts before the Georgia legislature as they are doing
now. An election of that kind would only be a useless
waste of time. In Jackson at least the opposition is based
more on selfishness and prejudice than on fear of business
injury.
Speaking of sane editorials, The News invites careful
reading of the one from the pen of Editor Harber, of the
Commerce Observer, reproduced in this issue. It is the
opinion of Editor Harber after a careful study and'investiga
tion of the subject, and reflects the general opinion of the
good people of Jackson outside the new' county lines (that
vast majority) who are not warped by selfishness, prejudice
and sentiment.
After netting a taste of war, the
Balkan states, it seems, are now
certain to war with each other.
‘‘Give me solitude! ” cries Elbert
Hubard. Help yourself, Elbert,
help yourself. —Sparta Ishmaelite.
We are sorry to chronicle the
continued serious illness of Mr. Hi
ram Sharpton who has been con
fined to his bed for many weeks.
By all means Winder must have
that Fair this fall.
In bis zeal or in his haste Editor Camp of tne Walton
Tribune makes a few slips of the cog. His opinion of the
legislature in general and in particular is expressed in a
clipping from his columns of 1912 and he can not now unsay
what was then his candid opinion. Wise old Job wished
that his adversary might write a book. David said in his
haste “all men are liars”, but Camp went David one better
and in the leisure and calm of the editor’s easy chair said
‘‘all the legislators are asses.” We quote:
“77ie Tribune in its CALMER moments sometimes
thinks that the Georgia Legislature should be ABOLISH
ED altogether. A large bunch of the WILD ASSES cor
ralled there ought to be out lassoing mustangs on the
praries of Montana. Talk about making laws. Some
of them haven't the brains to get out of a shower of hen
fruit of the ripe variety.**
You will notice that Editor Camp expressly says that
this reflection is one developed in his calmer moments and
he cannot charge it up to anything said in the heat of the
campaign. Of course, all people in this section know that
this fulmination came from the mind of the editor during the
campaign of last season before the legislature when the
merits of Barrow county had been recognized by a vnani
mous vote in the senate and the Barrow county proposition
had been passed by the senate to be smothered in the com
mittee of the house by Speaker Holder.
No one denies that. only the power of the speaker and his abuse of
power caused the Barrow county movement to. be defeated in the. bouse.
The merit of the proposition is recognized bv the people all over the
state and-one can not be in the Kimball lobby five minutes without hear
ing the Winder fight mentioned for it has become a state-wide issue. Of
course, it was fore-doomed to defeat last session when the speakes placed
on the committee two men from the affected counties who had already
pledged themselves against the county and the merits of the case matter
ed nothing to them and to others who had been p’aced on that com
mittee for the express purpose of defeating the Barrow county move
ment. It succeeded for the time being but the movement still lives and
is growing all the time and the people of the state are awakened to the
injustice of an unjust official in abusing the prerogatives of his office to
strangle a just cause. More than that. This very injustice has made
friends for Winder and Barrow county and the present session of the
legislature will without any doubt pass the amendment allowing the
people to right this wrong. The people in mass are honest and will not
stand for injusice and they will see to it that Barrow county is ratified
after the passage of the amendment to the Constitution of the state.
Creation of Barrow County
A bill, providing for the cre
ation of Barrow county, to . be
formed from portions of Jackson,
Walton and Gwinnett counties,
with Winder as the county site,
is to be introduced in the legisla
ture again. At the last session,
a similar bill was presented but
it uever came to a vote, being
stifled in the committee room.
Tliere is every reason to believe
that the measure would have
passed had it been voted on in
the house and in the senate.
Th.e Observer investigated the
claims advanced in favor of the
creation of the new county, stud
ied the facts and figures pre
sented in its favor and familiar
ized itself with the argument in
support of th.e movement. Con
vinced that the proposition was
a meritorious one, We went on
record as not opposing the crea
tion of Barrow county.
This year our position is the
same. Since the last session of
the legislature, we have made fur
ther investigation in the matter
and no new developments
or phases of the movement has
served to alter our opinion.
Insofar as we are able to judge
people on the eastern side of
Jackson county are not alarmed
over th.e posibility of a part of
the county being cut off. There
is no apparent effort being made
to oppose the measure. If the
taxpayers of the eastern side of
tlae county believed it would ma
terially injure their interests to
give up the area that would go to
Barrow county there would be a
determined fight made against
the bill. But, no such fears are
entertained, thus the indifferent
attitude that is manifested towart
the new county movement.
The creation of Barrow county
nrght decrease the fees of some
office holders in Jackson coun
ty and wfcrk a direct injury to a
few individuals, but in the main
there is no indication that the
people in general will suffer any
material loss.
Jackson county is a big coun
ty. If she gives a portion of
her to the new county, she
will continue to be a big county
—in area and in fact. Her peo
ple and their energy and brains
will continue to make her great.
Winder has conducted a clean
fight, anned with substantial ar
gument and facts. Her claims
make a strong appeal to those
who view the proposition on its
merits free from prejudice and
selfish interests.
The Observer recognizes the
merits of the proposition. View
ing it from the principle of right
we do not oppose the creation of
Barrow county; and if a part
of Jackson is taken off, vve do
not believe the individual pros
perity of its citizens will be ma
terially affected. The people
will be just as happy and peace
ful, the schools will continue to
flourish and the county will en
joy the same prosperity that has
characterized-its history since it
became a unit among the coun
ties of Georgia—Commerce Ob
server.
The New York Sun describes a
gentleman as “a man that’s clean
inside and out, who neither
looks up to the rich nor down to
the poor; who can lose without
squealing and win without brag
ging; who is considerate with
women, children and old people
who is too brave to lie, too gen
erous f o cheat and who takes his
share of the world and lets oth
er people have theirs.”
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