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WINDER WEEKLY NEWS Published Every Thursday Evening !{<*? H. Editor." and Proprietors "" ' "' ~ " 1i... *r. ’ i*o*tofTice at Winder, Ga. r. s.'f i *. 1 u# mail matter. HU J iSCIv 11 *T IOX KATES One Year, - Six Months, - p* Three Months, - - Thursday, November S, 1908. Now let us have that lie cotton. It tut*ina the |teople had rather he ruled than rule. Possibly it is host. Already a movement* is on foot in Nebraska to send Bryan to the United States senate. (iovernor Johnson was re-elected in Minnesota, hut the state went republican otherwise. The papers arc now recording the political deaths of William den nings Bryan and Thomas K. Wat son. This strenuos race for president has left more dead ones along the roadside than any previous cam paign. Bryan in the I'uited States set - ate would mean more than Ihyan in th * executive chair with a rc puMiean house and senate. The republicans used the hatd times seate to a successful finish. The money power has the comnn n peo )h sc ‘ treiy hound, and tiny fear the result of breaking away. When we say thing** of interest to tie- readers o[ i'he Jackson Her ald we would appreciate it if that paper would give us credit when reproducing our article a week later. Taft received more votes at Win ded precinct, Jackson county, than did Tom Watson, and Bryan more than doubled the populist candi date. Watson carried Jackson four years ago. We are t*>o far from tin* scene of • action to tell how it happened. The smith is given glowing accounts of a one-sided argument every four years, only to see the democratic play house kicked to pieces on elec tion day. It's an ill wind that Mows noj good. W’itli nineteen counties gone republican and great gains in other parts of Georgia, we will have a larger and more competent array of citizens from whom to select our postmasters. About eighty-three of thr night j riders in Teunesse, who murdered Lawyer Rankin, have been arrested and will be brought to trial. Gov ernor Patterson is proving himself worthy of the high office to which the pei)ple have honored him by the fearless manner in which lie is bringing the outlaws to justice. An exchange truthfully remarks that “there are too many people in almost every town who * will not east their bread upon the waters, unless assured beforehand that it will come hack again in a few days a full grown sandwich, all trimmed iwith ham, butter and mustard, rolled up in a warranty deed for half the earth and a mortgage on the other half,^ TABLE Of VOTES BY STATES The following is the estimated electoral votes of Taft and Bryan by states: Tact. Busan. Alabama., 11 Arkansas, 9 California, 10 Colorado, n Connecticut, 7 Delaware, 3 Florida, f> Georg a, 13 Idaho, ,3 Illinois, 2*7 Indiana, 15 lowa, 13 K vnsas, 10 Ke'rrt uek.v, IS l£Mna, 0 Mairib, (> Maryland, S Massachusetts 10 Michigan, it Minnesota, II • Mississippi, 10 Missouri, 18 Montana, >• 3 Nebraska, 8 Nevada, 3 New Hampshire, I New Jersey, 12 New York. 30 North Carolina, 12 North Dakota, 4 Ohio, 23 Oklahoma, 7 Oregon, 4 Pennsylvania, 34 Rhode Island, 4 South Carolina, 9 South Dakota, t l’ennesst v, 12 Texas, 18 Utah, * 8 \ ermoijt, t Virginia, 12 Washington, 5 West Virginia, 7 •Wisconsin, IS Wyoming, Total, 309 171 Necessary to elect, 212 sror cotton lira. BY W. K. LYLE & CO. Considerable cotton has been 1 *ought up during the past week by speculators on anticipation of an advance on the election of Taft. I pon the opening of the New York market yc.sterd iv cotton was bid up u few points, when bulls Degan to unload with a crush, which caused a decline of 18 to 20 points, closing at the lowest, with weak tone. Spot cotton is .-till very duil and hard to seii at full prices, and ;rt* see no good in tlie market until this feat-, ure improves, os mills flatly refuse ! to follow any advance. To those’ who expected the election of either Taft or Bryan to the presidency to! boost cotton we ivill say cotton ,is too big a tiling for any man or set <tf men to control, only for a very short time, and even then, unless favored with conditions, the end will result disastrously to the one who attempts to manipulate a cot ton market. Cotton and its pro ducts penetrates the utmost parts of civilization. Spot quotations for today: Winder —Weak, 8 7-Se 1 a verp<x>i —Bpots, ■). 5Sd. New Orleans —Quiet, 9 5-l(ie. New York —Quiet, 9.35. Mobile —Steady, 8 7-Sc. Savnnnah —Steady, S 15-1 <h* Charleston —Quiet, 8 G-4e. Norfolk —Steady, 9 l-Se. Baltimore —Normal, 9 l-4c. Houston —Steady, 9c. Augusta —Steady, 9 l-10e. Georgia's Vote. The liest information up to time of going to press gives the following figures in Tuesday’s election for president: Bryan 70,8(50 Taft 39,0-71 Watson 17,219 Chafiu 748 Ilisgen • •• 83 THE PUBLICATION OF THE LAW. ft is a long-standing evil that tin laws passed bv our legislature are not published until months after 11 it- body adjourns. Formerly the rule was that laws, even those which specifically provided that they should take effect immediately on their jmssage, were not binding up on the citizens until published in some public gazette, and even then three days were allowed for - every hundred miles distance from the state capital before a knowledge of the law could he presumed against the people and when this was the rub' delay in publication was not a serious matter. But in some way this very just principle was abro gated a number of year* ago, and j another and very harsh rule was [established in its place, namely, that a law becomes of force the mo ment the governor afiixcs his ap proval and from that very instant every citizen is presumed to know that law and is bound accordingly; and under Ibis rule early’ publica tion is of prime importance. The present system is worse than that of a certain tyrant recorded in history who wrote his edicts in very small characters and posted them up on very’ high poles, and then took a ma licious delight in punish ing those. who disobeyed thorn. He made some pretence, of publication before punishment, hut under our iniquitous system men are made untenable to statutes, without any puhlieation whatever. Some years ago a man was actu- ally tried and convicted of violating a law and appealed his ease to the Supremo Court and that tribunal passed finally upon it before the law itself bad ever been published: and just at this time we have an other instance of unsuspecting peo ple being trapped in the same way. Our last legislature passed an act requiring county officials to file jit t 1 o •tyyeutv days tin eg election an account, of their campaign ex penses. The general election was held on October 7th, that being the first Wednesday in the month, and on October 27th, the twenty days expired. Of the 1,-*>(K.) or so county officials elected throughout the state it seems that not one filed the required statement, none knowing of its requirement. The whole ar ray liecame captive to the Jaw as a country boy bags a, coveyjof part ridges. The special guardians of the law have violated it wholesale, IxHia-itsrfrlne law TeehnicaHy, they are as much guilty as the chicken thieves and i other small offenders they arrest and try, though really, of course, innocent of any intentional offence. It has been suggested that the governor help out this curious situ ation by a general amnesty of our law-breaking guardians of the law, but even if the criminal element fx* thus eliminated from the transac tion some civil complications are not unlikely to ensure. Officers are required to swear to this, among other things, that they are “qnali- tied to hold aid office according to the constitution and laws of Geor gia,’’ and if this new law conditions their right to hold olliee on compli- j anoe with its requirements, how! are they going to qualify; and if they fail to qualify within forty day? after election, another elec tion must he held and at such elec tion such defaulting officers are in eligible to re-election. The gov ernor may wipe out the criminal offence, but whet her he can remove the civil disability depends upon whether his right to remove disabil ities extends further than to restore eiti/.i nship after conviction of crime. Altogether it will le seen that our present iniquitous system of making the laws obligatory on the citizens before he has a reasonable opportunity of knowing of their ex- We Save You Money on ■V% I J LOWB We Guarantee Every MIDDLE BUSTER We Sell Against BREAKING OF STANDARDS. They are light and easy draft. They TURN RED LAND. See thi Plows and get our prices be fore vou buv. ' WOODRUFF HARDWARE & MANUFACTURING CO. WI XT VleK, OA. i . WINDER LUMBER CO., WINDER , GEORGIA. Phone 47. | OLIVER , CANNON & CO. WINDER, GEORGIA. istance, has put us in a very cm harassing position. On October 7th we published an editorial entitle “Slip-Shod States manship,” in which we said: “We needed more lawyers, apparently, rather than less in our general as semplv, that is real lawyers who know the laws, and not fledglings just admitted. It would take a search-warrant to find men of this enlarged type willing to go, but none the less \\e need them. Com plication upon complication has re cently arisen in our public affairs, all due to the slovenly manner in which legislation is now enacted, and “we are heaping up trouble and expense by <ur present slip YOU TAKE NO RISK un any plank or beam. joi|st <>r flooring sold by us. We handle the very best grades of thorough ly seasoned lumber of all kinds. Our stock is very large and care fully assorted, and nothing what ever is misrepresented. We’re prepared to supply anything m the line indicated at lowest: prices. Orders for any quant ity' promptly delivered. DON’T BE AT IFfiE END by wrJlbig until the last moment-in en tering your harness orders, ov making your purchases of horse equipment and cold-day covering. To-day’s as good a day as any —l*?st day some ways —for you to see what wq have on hand ready to-sell, and samples of what we can make to your order. Our last say is this: We can oufit your horse to your satisfaction always. shod way of transacting public busi ness.” The ink is scarcely dry before to the impending difficulties we then mentioned this new one is added. The general assembly met <*n Juno 24th, and adjourned by law fifty days thereafter. Two months and a half have elapsed since ad journment and the laws are not published yet. There is no excuse whatever for this long delay, be cause there is no reason whatever why the laws, at 1 -ast the general laws which affect everybody in the state, should not be published in side oftwo weeks after adjournment. For 1905 the general laws made but. IGO pages; for JOOti but 127; for 19<>7 but 124, and it's a poor print er that could not get these out in a very few days. —Augusta Chronicle.