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WINDER WEEKLY NEWS
Published Every Thursday Evening
Robkrt O. Ross, Editor.
G. D. Ross, Associate.
Entered at the Postoffice at Winder. Ga.
as second class mail matter.
SIJBSCU 11‘TION KATES
One Year, - - *
Six Mont Its. - 60
Three Months, - *
Thursday, August 6, 1908.
ACT (H A DOG LOVER.
New York —Following an idabo
rate funeral today Judy, j fox ter
rier, owned by Mrs. James G. Ross
m:m, Atlanta, Ca., who,is stopping
at the home of her mother, Mrs.
A. R. Kune, Brooklyn, will be
buried in a day r two in the cem
etery for dogs near West Plains.
Judy died on Thursday of paralysis.
After an undertaker had embalmed
the Uid.v it was placed in a small
coffin. Children of the neighbor
hood, who bad played with Judy,
were invited into the parlor of the
Lane residence to have a last look
at the dog. Some of them brought
(lowers.
Several of the children, acting as
pallbearers, carried the coffin out
to the street, where it was placed
in a white hearse, which was in
waiting. The body of the dog was
taken to an undertaker s shop,
from where it is to be removed lo
the cemetery near West Plains.
We suppose Atlanta is proud of
tliis freakish inhabitant, who be
came imbued with the Atlanta
spirit a few years ago and permit
ted a man to share a flections with
her fox terrier, but we deny that
Georgia has any interest in a
woman guilty of such sacrilegious
tomfoolery as the above. We pity
the man who is tied to a creature
of this kind and would be pleased
to give hubby lessons in the artistic
use of a Ikhl slat. The most di
gesting scene under the sun is a
childless woman fondling and kiss
ing a ribbon-bedecked blamed little
old d*>g.
(An exchange asks: “Now, who
will carry (ieorgia —Graves or Wat
son? ’ Neat her.
Reformers must do things by de
grees. The advent of the sheath
skirt should have satisfied Repre
sentative Glenn.
It comes to us on good authority
that some of our county nominees
will have opposition at the October
elections. Wo can t foretell just
‘the Mnd of curves those who con
template making the race intend to
pitch, but the early closing of n
trance to the county primary is be
ing freely discussed. With state
polities in the scrambled mess that
it is and the disfranchisement ques
tion and the negro in the garni',
late suppers and night rides in
Jackson are not at all improbable.
A petition is being circulated by
relatives of R. L. Vanderford ask-
iug for hi* pardon, and as a result
his notorious crime is again being
aired in the Gwinnett papers. Sev
eral of the jurors who heard the
evidence have refused to sign the
petition and Vanderford s wife has
made affidavit fluff he acknowledged
his guilt to her. , The general pub
lie is familiar with the ease and we
don't care to go into the details
further than to state that a petition
for pardon and a counter petition
is now being circulated.
PRESS COMMENT ON LEASE SYSTEM
While thonfUghly disgusted with
the whole convict lease system, we
cannot coincide with those views
which seem to hold that the h -secs
should provide Florida water baths
for a lot of negro convicts —Augusta
(’hronielc.
The state is in danger of being
made to suffer at the hands of well
meaning fanaticism. “Behold what
a great matter a little fire kind
let he —Fort Gaines Sentinel.
t
If the stories told by the witness
es in tin convict investigation are
to lo relied on, eold and cruel Li
beria has lost its fame. But when
it comes to believing the testimony
of the averagi ex-conviet or dis
charged guard or wardtn, we arc
very slow and incredulous. Much
of the testimony is so patently un
real >i table. —Mad ison Madisonian.
If this system is as vile and base
as it now appears, Georgia cannot
afford to accept a revenue from
such a source. If the reports are
untrue, we must know it, that
Georgia’.- name may be vindicated.
Eiberton Star.
We arc in favor of wiping the
whole thing out, and commencing
anew, after probing to the bottom
ami punishing every man who has
been guilty of unseemly conduct in
connection with our present diabol
ical system. —Fayetteville News.
And the people are being treated
to a great deal of sentimental gush.
Some <*f them are forgetting that
the Georgia penitentiaries are filled
with the hardest criminals of the
state, and they are sent there to he
punished.- -Me Du flic Progress.
Before we finally make up our
minds on the convict question leTs
wait and hear some testimony from
other sides. The prison commis
sioners will be heard from later,
and they will make a defense worthy
of consideration. —Ocilla Star.
It must l>e remembered that our
criminal class in Georgia is of a very
low order mentally. To be punish
ed for crime is no disgrace to them
—rather it exalts them in the
estimation of their class. Confine
meat has no terrors for them, and
all that they really dread is work.
To take this class of criminals and
attempt to punish them by confine
ment in “a comfortable and well
ordered penitentiary," where the
food that is given them is better
than they have been accustomed to,
where “all the modern eon veil*
ieiiees' , are provided to give physical
comfort, would be simply putting a
premium on crime.
To coddle criminals who have
committed heinous crimes,for which
their necks should have been broken
if full justice had been given them,
lis a mistake. Tudor our new law
ibis class of criminals are to be
worked nomore than ten hours a
day,same number of hours as honest
people and poor women and chil
dren are being worked in the mills.
I'ndor our new law this class of con
victs mav not be worked under
ground, which is too hard and dan
gerous —this must l>e left altogether
for good, lamest, law-abiding men
for whom no mawkish senti
mentalism is raising its voice.
Why lie more concerned over
detcstahU criminals than over the
condition of honest, law-abiding
people? Why put a premium on
crime by making its punishment a
physical comfort and pleasure to
the convicted criminal, greater than
Ik enjoved Indore? —Augusta Her
ald. ‘ '
The memliers of the legislature
who have been shot to pieces for
drunkenness by the paragrapliers
of tlie state press have been exoner
ated by a committee appointed to
investigate the ma’ter and the
charges of John T. Moore, of Ma
con, branded as wholly unwarrant
ed and absolutely falsi*. Now, boys,
apologize and in future weigh well
your testimony besore you? become
character assassins.
With the Paragraphed.
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There is about as much chance
for Georgia to go Republican, Popu
list or Independent as there is for
Atlanta to win the pennant thb
year. —Marietta. Courier.
An exchange says “a woman in
Philadelphia kneads bread with her
gloves mi,” Well, if some of our
subscribers dont pay us a visit soon,
we ll need bread with our shirt on
and our pants on, too. —Soe ia
Gircle Sentry.
’ ( antelopt—can t, eh? It we
had the rigid partner we would
show you,” -ay- our .-tenograher. —
Fitzgerald Enterprise.
Is she red-headed, freckled, and
wears a“merry widow hat, Brother
Mercer? —Tallapoosa Journal.
Kansas used to be the state that
was inot noted for freakish polities,
but it appears that Georgia now has
that enviable distinction. —Colum-
bus hedger.
If you are a democrat be one; if
not, get into some other party and
I quit masquerading as a democrat. —
'Columbus hedger.
Though list'd foi centuries in
oaths in all Kngli.-ii speaking courts,
“So help me God” will no longer
lx 1 heard in the Louisville police
conrt. Judged. W. McGee decided
that it was so often and so flippantly
repeated each day that it became
sacrilegious, and be ordered the
clerk to strike it from the form.
He says that he will follow that plan
for the ifst of his term. —
ville Times.
The merchant who thinks he can
succeed without, advertising lacks
wisdom and w ill soon be a forgotten
quantity- —Kx.
There are county weekly papers
all over the state who have in bold
typo at the bead of their papers
“Democratic Organ," and would,
tight a local county candidate of the
Republican or Populist party to a
standstill, but when Taft and Tom
Watson rame out for president they
totally ignore their bold type head
ing and write long-winded editorials
in favor of Mr. Taft and Mr. Watson,!
and actually expect their readers:
to believe, they are good old line j
democrats- Such polities makes us
sick. Re true to your Democratic
organ in tlie national as well as your
county elections and urge your
democratic county and state to give
Mr. Bryan its loyal support. Our
paper is now, and has been the;
oltieal democratic organ of this eolin- 1
ty for over 2o years and we w ant to
tell everybody we are supporting
Mr. Bryan for president and hope
to see the democratic nominee carry |
our county, state and Tnitcd States’
for president.—Cherokee Advance. :
The court of appeals has handed
down a decision which puts a stop
to the flooding of the mails of Geor
gia with whisky advertisements and
solicitations for orders by firms out
side tin* state. Since the prohibi
tion bill was passed the whisky
firms in near-by states have made
this territory a dumping ground
for their literature and personal ap
peals for patronage. Men who
never used intoxicants in any form
have received familial personal let
ters praising the different brands of
whisky and asking the privilege of
sending a sample order. The de
cision as handed down by Judge
Russell ends this mode of procedure
and it is the opinion of some of the
best lawyers in W inder that it is
far-reaching enough to cause the
discontinuation of whisky adver
tisements in the newspapers of the
state. It is now'against the law for
whisky firms to use the mails for
the purpose of soliciting orders in
Georgia, and it seems to us that the
advertising in the papers would l>e
a violation of this ruling. With
officials and a strict enforce
ment of law, (ieorgia is all right.
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