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THE WINDER NEWS
Published Every Thursday Afternoon By
R. O. BOSS Sc SONS
Entered at the Post Office at Winder, Ga., as Second
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ROBERT O. KOSS, Editor
LOYALTY THE PARAMOUNT ISSUE.
These are strange times and strange things are
hapis'idug, but the atruugcst thing known to twenti
eth century ingenuity is the claim by a few ex
changes that Georgia patriotism is Isittled up in Wil
liam J. Harris, the coal price expert.
Bill Harris says the president is behind him, and
that should seem to settle the matter in Bill's opin
ion.
We love President Wilson and we believe him a
man called of God for the position he holds, and we
are behind him in all his war measures with our
money and our blood, but we feel competent as a
Georgian to help select a patriotic statesman to rep
resent this state without even a suggestion from our
great president.
It was William J. Harris who at Macon, using the
argument that Woodrow Wilson wanted Hardwick,
deserted Ills own primary candidate and was legging
for Hardwick.
William J. Harris’ personal loyalty rnay he all
right, but ills record for political loyalty puzzles us.
He supported Hoke Smith. He opposed Hoke Smith.
He supported Joe Brown. He opposed Joe Brown.
He supported Jack Slaton. He betrayed Jack Slay
ton and supported Hardwick. Now he opposes Torn
Hardwick.
Just because the Americus Tiines-Uecordor took a
straw ballot of the newspaper editors last year and
learned that as between Hardwick and Harris the
majority preferred Harris. Mr. Harris and his cam
paign committee claims that he is the logical candi
date to oppose tin* junior senator. Every one with
a thimble full of brains must know that this straw
ballot was a political feeler sent out by Mr. Harris
to clear the track before he relinquished his SIO,OOO
job to enter the race for a $7,500 job.
Mr. Harris lias not been able to make a ripple
upon ttic political surface in lids bailiwick, and not
until the announcement of Congressman William
Schley Howard appeared in the daily papers was the
senatorial race a topic of conversation. True, Willie
Upshaw came to Winder and made a campaign
speech at the court house, hut at that time the gen
eral sentiment was that Georgia should seek a more
formidable foe to compote with Hardwick.
The scheme of Mr. Harris and the few politicians
backing him to rush the political pot and defeat the
true wishes of the voters of the state by keeping the
men who are well-equipped and qualified to repre
sent the state in the United States senate out of the
lace, is directly responsible for the crowded field to
day.
! <■, t lu* issue Is loyalty or no loyalty to the gov
ernment, but the red hills of Georgia are covered
with loyal citizens, and they refuse to uccept as u
standard bearer one who is not mentally equal to
Tome Hardwick. Therefore, they have been calling,
calling for different ones, ami too many have an
swered the call.
The strongest and nearest approach to a states
man who has answered the call is William Schley
Howard. In fact, if the contest was pulled off at
the present time, it is our opinion that Howard
would carry Harrow, with Hardwick second, the
other candidates receiving very few scattering votes.
,We have heard many prominent men express them
selves for Howard, with the added statement that
they would vote for Hardwick before they would
support Harris.
Howard is running on his record and his Qualifica
tions to represent the state in the tipper house of
the national congress. He is the only Georgia con
gressman who returned to his state and made pa
triotic addresses at a time when decision, tirmnesss
and loyalty to the government was most needed in
our state.
Howard has been tried and not found wanting.
His loyalty has been proven and is unquestioned by
the president or any other living man. He is the
peer of Hardwick mentally and his master in rough
and tumble debate. Sired among the common peo
ple and fighting his way to the top by sheer nerve
and grit he is a true represenative of southern man
hood. Of the candidates announced so far, we are
unequivocally for,Howard.
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The Southwest Georgian seems to think that Wil
liam J. Harris got his senatorial car all greased up
and ready to start for the drive but at the signal to
start she wouldn’t crank. Yes, and when the old
car does start she will head toward a blowout, for
Hill Howard has already punctured that “loyal”
casing.
OVERLOOKED BILL HARRIS.
“Tho Tribune fails to see any consistency in
the Macon Telegraph’s attempt to belittle ffm,
Schley Howard while boosting little Billie Bur
well for the senntorship. Bill Schley may not
be an Abraham Lincoln, but lie's got Bill B.
skinned about four city blocks on brains,
breadth, ability and statesmanship.—Walton
Tribune.
We agree with The Tribune as far as The Macon
Telegraph is concerned in its attitude toward How
ard. but in our opinion no brainier man has been dis
cussed in connection with the senatorial race than
Bill Burwell.
But, Ernest, in the name of high heaven, when
you speak of brains, breadth, ability and statesman
ship in connection with senatorial candidates, how
do you get your consent to support William J. Har
ris?
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WE BET IT WAS HOKE.
We see where a man is touring the country with
h two-faced animal. Our curiosity was so aroused
we went to see if it was Hoke Smith or Tom Hard-
Wick.—Greensboro Herald-Journal.
lost his goat.
Weren’t it ’long ’bout fourteen
A great mongrel adding machine
Smashed all party lines in sight
With the slogan “Might is right."
To feather an official nest?
Did we stop to think and figure
When we were yelping “portrates, nigger,”
What was really best?
Tho’ of the same political school
Hatched when Georgia played the fool,
Whilst our little Thomas Tit
Was out in the open doing his bit,
We could not place our Hoke.
Now Georgia bows her head in shame,
Both senators have disgraced her name
And caused a hellofasmoke.
The senior senator with perfect ease
At the proper time came to his knees
Until friends on the Railway Commission
Refused to yield him further permission
To change his vote.
Thus being faugh oil a rising tide,
lie could not flop to the other side,
And lost his goat.
—G. D. It.
HEARSAY GOSSIP
When the special car carrying the boys of the se
lective draft to Camp Gordon passed through Win
der there was a party aboard from Madison county,
and the boys seemed to be having a good time “rag
ging" the friends and well-wishers gathered at the
station. There was one young wit in the crowd who
appeared to be the leader. When asked if he was
going after the Kaiser, he said, “No, I'm a bachelor,
and I’m on my way to France to get me a Hun.”
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It is learned that one of the most highly appre
ciates! lady teachers of the Winder Public Schools
has sent in her application to the Red Cross for
foreign service. This teacher’s energetic devotion to
her work and pleasing personality have gained for
her since coming to Winder hosts of warm friends
who will regret to see her leave, but Winder’s loss
is a Red Cross gain, and this volunteer will carry
with tier to the fields of France the well wishes of
(all Winder by reason of her loyalty to her friends
to her duty and to her country.
* * *
The city of Winder bus been blasting through a
strata of rock just beyond the new home of Mr M.
J. Griffeth for the purpose of laying a water main
to the country home of Mr. H. N. Rainey. Several
negroes are employed on the job, among whom is
Jordan Biggs. Mr. Harris, of the waterworks de
partment, carefully read to the negroes the rules of
caution contained on the boxes of dynamite. In the
course of a blast one of the hands was tapping a
stick of dynamite with a hammer and Jordan took
to the tall timbers. He stood at a distance and re
peated the rules in a loud voice, saying in conclusion:
“The book says if a charge fails to fire, don’t return
to it for twenty-four hours. It says don't drap the
din-a-mlte or fool around it wid iron. Some er you
niggers are goin’ to kill everybody on these works,
and what ain't killed the sheriff will break their
nocks. Any little ol’ two-by-four lawyer could take
the case and win it agin’ Jedge Dick Russell and
Rube Arnold, for instance ”
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Hardwick has a poor opinion of the newspapers.
Even at that he has nothing on the average country
editor.
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Senator Hardwick refuses to debate with any can
didate who will not promise to grant him loyalty to
the government. We suppose the junior senator
wants his record overlooked in this campaign.
A MOTHER’S RECOMPENSE.
A mother whose son sailed for France as part of
the American expeditionary force has touchingly and
eloquently expressed in a letter to a friend the con
flicting emotions that many—that all—mothers must
feel In like circumstances. She writes without a
thought of publication, but her words deserve wider
circulation than she intended them to have, partly
because they give new realization of what suffering
German’s mad ambition has imposed on well-nigh the
whole world, even among those who have never
heard the sound of her cannon, and partly because
they point the way toward something higher and
better than resignation for other and less articulate
mothers whose sons have sailed out into the Great
Adventure. Here is the significant passage in the
letter:
“My boy, my boy has gone! ‘I could not be sat
isfied with less,’ and yet the conflicting emotions
that permeate my entire being battle against each
other with German Hun ferocity. My heart cries
out in love, my fears—just a wail! Will my precious
boy come hack? I feel I am In a tightening grip, al
most beyond human endurance. Then I am seized
with the pride of his going; the duty I owe him and
to my country tempers the ache, and I realize that
all I dreamed for him in his babyhood he now typi
fies —manly beauty, strength oT body and a high
sense of honor to himself, to his God, and to his
country. The storm continues to rage, hut it is con
trolled by force of mind —and the beautiful boy goes
on to do his part and what 1 would have him do!’’
Such a mother as this has no need to envy those
mothers whose sons either could not meet or have
not met the high demand of these days. She should
pity them, not they her. For though they escape her
agonies of dread and do not confront her possibili
ties of bereavement, they cannot share her pride.
Her motherhood gets the supreme vindication;
theirs, whether through fault or misfortune, must
go without it. —Macon Telegraph.
THE TIGHTW.VUI).
If there is anything on earth that gives a long
ing for eternal rest and deep, damp solitude it is
the man who comes to town, builds up a big busi
ness, grows rich, then squats down on his gold like
h lien on a door knob, and is too stingy even to let
the gravels grind in his own gizzard. A real, genu
ine 18-karat stingy, selfish man. can’t be honest, and
if he ever gets to heaven and has wings he will fold
them up and walk for fear he will ruffle a plume or
lose a tail feather.—Marietta Journal.
THE WINDER NEWS, THURSDAY, MAY 2, 191S.
J. L. Saul’s May Drive for
SSOOO More in Sales
A Monster May Merchandise Movement
Today, Friday, we continue this great May sale, with
many new under-priced specials. Not in our merchan
dising experience of 17 years in Winder have we offered
the Winder public the values that we are offering today
WE ARE offering, in this sale, thousands of dollars’ worth of staple merchandise that
in many instances we cannot replace except at much higher prices. Many smart
merchants are no doubt amazed at our action in under-pricing merchandise that is so dif
ficult to obtain today and that is constantly advancing in price We have decided in
stead of holding to this merchandise, and therefore realizing a long protit, TO GIVE
THE PUBLIC THE BENEFIT OF OUR FORESIGHTEDNESS IN BUYING, BY' LOW
ERING PRICES HERE AND THERE THROUGHOUT OUR STORE. WE can save
vou much money on merchandise, such as Men sand Boys Clothing, Ladies Dresses,
Shoes, Oxfords and Millinery.
We own today many thousands of dollars 4 worth of cotton goods bought many months
ago ‘way below present quotations, and we think it our duty to divide profits with the
Winder public who have so magnificently-supported this store for more than 17 years.
We shall have new specials every day, and demonstrate our value - giving supremacy
in this big May Sale.
t Men’s Suits
We are showing handsome Men’s Suits at / /\\
$15.00—518.50—522.50—525.00 Ifrf AA
Will cost you from §5.00 to §lO more any
Knee Suits lTj\\
200 Serge Suits, sizes 3to 8— §7.50 quality
10 to 18, $lO grade at $7.45 &
Fancy Worsted Suits at $6.00 — SB.O0 —$9.50
The cheapest one in the lot worth $lO today
Jl!| Wasits! Waists
TV s —SOO new Waists, just in, placed on sale
—Crepe de Chines and Silks at §2.45 —§3.00
/(Ilfr Ladies’ One-Piece Dresses
iplA L IJli/jZf About 75 more to close out at a bargain, H
50 Taffeta Silk Waists, Worth up to $25,
jjlj $15.00 all wool serge dresses at $9.90. v
lllf $2.50 house dresses extra good quaUty $1.75
dSfijL Millinery! Millinery!
SECOND FLOOR
V" ' 0U can buy two nice hats from us at the price one would
YjJ cost you elsewhere.
Dr y Goods-Staple Dress Goods
I This line is too large to mention prices, but we are
/ / \ / actually selling Dry Goods now for less than they can be
l / manufactured.
J- L. Saul’s during this month and
save 40 per cent on your purchases.
Remember, we have a large stock on hand, bought
long ago and will let you reap the benefit.
J. L. SAUL~
The Clothier. Winder, Ga
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