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WINDER WEEKLY NEWS
Published Every Thursday Evening
Ross Bros. Editors and Proprietors
Entered at the Pastoffice at Winder, Ga ,
as Second Class Mail Matter.
Thursday, July 1, 1909.
No, Gertrude, we are not guardi
ans for men who sign every peti
tion presented to them, Gut the
state has a place tor such people.
If our farmer trends will come
fourth a- numerously with water
melons, cantaloupes and Elherta- as
they have with cotton blossoms the
editor will 1x• in clover this summer.
While other town- complain of
hard times large enterprises are be
ing launched an 1 new buildings
erected in Winder. A glance at
our local page wdl show that then
is always something doing here.
The Gwinnett authorities are put
ting the road from \\ inder to Law
rcnceville in splendid shape, and
the Jackson county convicts arc at
work on road from this city to-Jef
ferson. When the work is finished
these t 111 ee towns will he connected
with as line a road as can he found
in this section of the state.
Tin- .Journal is showing it.-* tut tli
lx‘Cause “Little Joe” simply said
he ii.t nd. <1 to b ■ governor of Gcor
gia, a- 1 that was the office to which
he had been elected. It will be
remembered that others followed this
course before Hoke s one-term ad
ministration, hut it seems The Jour
nal has not fully realized the aboli
tion of the Georgia dictatorship.
The Gwinnett Journal’s grape
vine to Winder seems to he crossed
up, and almost weekly v.'e are called
upon to straighten out little kinks in
items published in that paper rela
tive to supposed happenings here.
Uncle Hiram Rainey hasn't pur
chased an automobile as yet, James,
and Brothers Perry, of the Baptist
chinch, and Hunnicutt attended the
ball game.
An excursion under the auspices
of the Farmers’ I'nion will be run
from Gainesville to Athens July
10th. Ticket** will be sold from all
points on the Gainesville Midland
railroad for the round trip for one
fare. The purpose of the excursion
is to visit the college at Athens,
where lectures on agricultural sub
ject- will lie delivered. There will
be a basket dinner in the grove in
front of the college buildingand those
who attend are expected to take
dinner with them.
The moving picture artist over
looked his hand when he failed to
obtain films of the antics and polit
ieal summersaults of the retiring
governor and his satellites in the
name of “refawn." From Madison,
Morgan county, where the gaping
throng vociferously ’(dueled the
pledge to save the people 8-1,000,000
annually until last Saturday, when
the “little old ugly pig" emerged
from the sack and received the seal
of the great state of (ieorgia at the
hands of the retiring governor,
Hoke Smith's political career
has been marked with patnos
and comedy. We would not
call attention to this sad picture
were it not for the fact that a few
men in Winder, innoculated with
that detestable spirit which desig
nates Hokeites as the elect, while
others are thugs and ruffians, came
crawling out of their holes this week
to join the anvil chorus on the pres
ent administration. But we’ll he
fair with you, we would like to see
a moving picture show of Hoke s
brief administration.
CIVE IS THE fACTS.
Winder, Ga., June 2ft, 1909.
To Whom It Way Concern:
We, the undersigned citizens of
Georgia, desire to say that neither
of us ever supported Hoke Smith
for governor, but we heartily in
dorse }i is action in suspending
Chairman McLendon from the rail
road commission, (Signed) R. 1).
Moore, M. Fcrgcrson, W. J.
Ib-rrin, C- 0. Niblack, F L. Sims,
S. B. E. House, J J. Wilson, J W.
Segars, G. W. l)eLaperriere, physi
cian and druggists, J- H. Turner,
J. T. Strange, John M. Williams.
H. J Garrison, II A. Perry, X E.
Jackson, Richard 1 Wright, Thus.
1). Ilodges, A.G. Cooper, J. A
Thompson, W. L. Blasingame, Q.
(' Phillip-, J. A. Arnold, J. R.
Jones, S. E. Sliarpton, (voted for
him last time.)
“The majority of the citizens
whom I have heard express them
selves,” declares (J. W. Woodruff,
“are loud in their praise of Mr
Smith’s action m suspending the
‘turn coat' commissioner. All of
Mr. Smith's friends think lie did
right and half ol his enemies, who
have never hen known to say a
complimentary word for the gov
ernor, now say that Mr. Smith has
their respect and confidence.
Many good citizens who love hon
jc.-ty and sincerity are disgusted with
Mr. McLendon- They say he was
insincere somewhere. They admire
a great man like Mr. Smith, who is
sincere and faithful to the last. ’
Atlanta Journal.
With our limited means of gain
ing information we make it a point
to get as clear an insight into pub
lic questions as possible, hut we are
frank to admit that we have not
been permitted to read the evidence
submitted before the railroad com
mission by Reck it Greg Hwd. Cos.,
of Atlanta. Therefore we tender
space and call upon the above
named gentlemen, for a terse ex
planation of just why McLendon
was lired and offer a 50-cent reward
for one of them who even knows
the abes of port rates.
As we see it, the chairman did’no
more than carry out the wishes of j
the people of Georgia as expressed
at the polls and repudiate Iloke
Smith and his anti-railroad agita-1
tion. Mr. McLendon was an ofli- j
cial elected by the people of Georgia
and sworn to do his duty by the
people as a whole, irrespective of
the orders of the self-appointed j
czar. The last election would seem
to indicate that Georgia was not
quite prepared to take unto herself
an infallible dictator, and we are
truly glad to note that some few
men of the Hoke Smith adminis
tration were not wholly subservient
to his will, hut had the nerve and
brain to think for themst Ives.
Mr. McLendon is still in favor of
the reduction in port rates, or the
establishment of uniform port rates
that is, to and from certain
points —provided they are made
general and including all inland
cities of Georgia, hut he draws the
line on special privileges for a few
firm- in Atlanta, which would tend
to make that city the central dis
tributing point in the state. To he
clear, the proposition as presented
to the c unmission made it po.-sifile
to ship freight from Savannah Gy
small towns to Atlanta and hack to
the small towns cheaper than the
small towns could get the same
freight direct. And that is what
Hoke calls * 'port rates.
We are not indebted one penny
to a railroad on earth, blit it makes
us exceedingly sick to see men who
owe what prominence and success
they have attained to the fact
that railroads have been budded
through land valued at B<> per acre
and lifted it to B~>o per acre rush
into print t> condemn someone
who is disposed to give the roads a
fair deal-
Railroads are ttie arteries of com
merce which give life and vigor
to the communities through which
they pass, and there are few roads
in Georgia today w hich have not
been sold and re-sold or are in
the hands of a receiver, and yet,
strange as it may seem, men who
owe their business success to them
are velping “Robber! Robber! Rob
ber!”
We want the port rate question
fully explained to us. Therefore
we throw our columns open to the |
above gentlemen, agreeing to pub
lish three letters per week. Please
lie so kind as Ho give our reader-1
the benefit of your v. luable infor
mation 011 the subject.
OF LOCAL INTEREST.
By trading with home people we
help Push build up the to\vn---we j
help ourselves.
Two forces that go hand in hand j
to build towns are buying of the
home merchants and advertising.
Kit he* without the other fails. lo
gethcr they succeed.
The merchant who docs not ad
verts*} in the home paper cannot
consistently complain when the
people of liis town - aid to Chicagb
for their goods. He is not helping
Push build the town. Why should
they?
The business man who does not
patronize the home paper is fail
ing in his duty to the town. No
institution in a town does one-tenth
as much for a town as a newspaper,
it tells hundreds of people evt ry
week about the advantages of the
place and depicts its life, progress
and prosperity. Yet its usefulness
is hampered where only a part of
the business interests are represent
ed in itscolums.
By advertising and trading at
home Push can build any town. —
Dawson News.
Probably you have not thought
of it, hut ’twoukl save the county
commissioners much extra work if
first travelers would drive in the
middle of newly made roads. Driv
ing to the side looking for firm
ground before the roads become
packed soon fills up the drain
ditches and the first heavy rain
which falls washes the road to pieces.
The first vehicles traveling a newly
worked road pickes out the way
and thereafter others follow their
tracks. Let’s remember this
and “keep in the middle of tire
road.”
SPOKEN LiKE A MAN.
The Augusta Herald, which was
one of Hoke Smith’s stanchest sup
porters, carries a doubled-colum
editorial in its issue of Tuesday,
June 29, relative to the inauguration
of Joseph M. Brown as governor of
Georgia which has the ring of true
democracy and southern manhood.
Among other things Editor Phin
izy says:
‘‘Since lie recieved the majority of
votes he was undoubtedly the choice
of the majority for governor. This
may be.one of the times when the
majority was right in their belief
that Joe Brown would make the
best governor.
“it must he assumed that he
means to do what is right. There
is nothing in his past record to justi
fy the belief that he intends to do
otherwise. And for that reason
there shoud be no unreasonable an
tagonism to him now. There should
he no captious criticism, springing
only fr mi a desire to criticise* and
find fault.
‘‘Give Gov. Brown a square deal-
Give him credit for a desire to do
what is right. Await his official
acts with the* intention to approve
them, unless approval he really un
deserved and wrong.”
liYiU iilS NOt CHANGED.
After going thoroughly into a
discussion of the port rate question
and giving a review of his official
acts, Gyrt McLendon, railroad com
missioner and Hoke’s kickout No
2 in a letter to the legislature con
cludes as follows:
“I believe the commission should
give the public the benefit of all the
information it secures, whether that
information be favorable, or unfa
vorable to the railroads. I believe
the commission should he the
throne of righteousness , within the
shrine built upon the basic pillars
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WINDER, GEORGIA.
of the state; the throne that stands
unshaken mid the surge of rival j
greeds and party insolence, or the |
wild clamors of the frienzied hour.
I believe that the commission, in
arming at conclusions, should he
governed absolutely and only b\
facts and the law as presented in
each ease.
”1 have never, at any time in my
life, subscribed to the proposition
that Atlanta and Atlanta alone
should have the Unit fit of reduc
tion in port rates on special iron ar
ticles. 1 repeat that the question
of a general reduction, applicable
to the whole state for rates from the
ports, has never lx-eti brought be
fore the commission. Ihe only
case was* the special and particular
case of the city of Atlanta,
which I have attempted very briefly
to review. There has been no
change of policy, there has been no
change of opinion, on my part, on
FJURTH 0? JULY PREPARATIONS
attention of many in Winder and
we oanaß9ure them that we can fill
IT’S A GOOD THING
any matters concerning the regula
tion of the railroads in this state.”
IN HONOR Of MISS PHIPPS.
Mi ss Ethel Jackson entertained
Tuesday evening in honor of her
guest, Miss Phipps, of Fayetteville...
The old-time southern home on
t Candler street was practically turned
over to the young people of Winder
and the light-hearted merry-makers
took charge of the building, porch
and lawn in front and could he seen
promenading to and fro in the
moonlight along Candler street
until a late hour, when they all
gathered upon the porch, settees
and curbing, where delicious re
freshments were served. Space for
bids publishing a list of inyited
guests. Misses Hortellc Hood and
Mary Dunn presided, at the punch
i bowl.