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CONTRACT FOR ELECTRIC
POWER PLANT AWARDED
The Progress takes the liberty
to publish below a personal letter
from Mr. W. F. Smith to us re
questing that he furnish us with
what facts he could in regard to
the Ocmulgee dam and the pro
posed car line.
Of course, Jackson is naturally
interested in knowing whether
or not the car line will extend by
Jackson, and judging from Mr.
Smith's letter, it would seem that
Jackson is not altogether for
gotten. The letter follows:
Editor Progress:—As I have
promised you that I would give
you the facts as soon as I could
speak definitely about the work
on the power plant; I am now
glad to say that the contracts are
now let and the contractors are
now here on the ground with
their foremen or superintendents
laying out the work. The con
tract for both the dam and car
line are let and will be built as
soon as men and money can do it.
White & Cos., of New York,
have the contract for the engin
eering work, and Lane Brothers
& Cos., have the contracts for the
construction work.
MR. DAVIS REPLIES TO “VOTER” IN PROGRESS
Mr. Voter, if you reside in the county of Butts
I'll prescribe for you a dose of “Tutts”
To work the animule off of your liver,
In order that you learn to sever
Brute, tadpole, rooster and hen,
From Daniel in the lion’s den.
Perhaps, at night in your dream,
You drive the chinch and black snake team,
The donkey breys, and fire-dog tails
Are mixed in your defeated wails;
With monkeys wearing hydraulic rams,
And Hoax Smith beat back in the jams.
Till female lions submissive like lambs
Bleat to Governor Joe Brown for alms,
Your dream not ended, the worm and snail
All wound up in the monkey’s tail
Across your face will weave a line,
That may be read by all mankind.
More natural to the poet’s ear,
Than your delirious dream of fear
Mixed with beast, snail and snake,
Stupendous dreams of fail and fake.
Gold made of tin, and rooster roar
Hoax like to be heard of never more:
Now “A Voter” don’t be a sneak,
For fear your name might spring a leak.
Don’t hide behind your boozy plank,
Bea man, honest and frank.
Sign your name, and all Joe
Brown men will sympathize
with you in your defeat.
A. H. S. Davis.
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G. R. PETIT, T. P. A.,
Macon, Georgia.
They have a large force of men
and teams over on the A., B. &
A. Railway that will be brought
over in a few days and put to
work.
lam not at liberty just now
to say just what point the rail
road will be built from, but I
hope to be able to give your
readers something definite on
that before long. You may say
to my good friends who gave me
the right of way between Jack
son and Griffin that I am going
to build that road for them as
sure as I live.
It has taken me over three
years to land the electric plant,
but I never lost faith.
It will be the largest of its kind
in the South, and I suppose it
will be ten or twenty times the
largest investment ever made in
the county.
When the work is farther ad
vanced and I can spare the time
I will give your readers a history
of this enterprise. This the 4th
day of May, 1908, is a great day
for me. Yours truly,
W. F. Smith.
WHY ROOSEVELT SHOULD
BE RE*NOMINATED
1. Because he does not seek it.
2. Becadse he “does things.”
3. Because he destroyed sec
tional hatred and has well nigh
obliterated party lines.
4. Because he is wanted by the
rank and file of all parties.
5. Because he is what the foun
ders of this republic intended
their president should be; one of
the people.
6. Because his great heart is
in touch and sympathy with the
common people.
7. He is accessible to the hum
blest citizen.
8. His administration has
brought more peace and prosper
ity to the world than any former
administration.
9. He did what no other living
man could have done at that
time, in bringing about peace
between Russia and Japan.
10. Another term of his ad
ministration would dissolve the
curse known as Solid South.
11. Because he did what we
had been trying for a century to
do—get the politicians to allow
the people to begin digging the
Panama Canal.
12. He has pointed the way for
the people to get cheaper trans
portation by deep water connec
tion between the lakes and the
gulf.
13. He has called a conference
to take steps to condense the
natural resources for the coming
generations.
14. He is regarded as'a media
tor between labor and capital.
15. He had to spend a part of
term carrying out the McKinley
policy. Therefore he should
have two terms to carry out his
own policy.
16. A leader in war he has
proven by his actions in securing
peace; that the love of peace
dominates his being.
17. He will not allow sectional
feeling or party prejudice to
have any part in his administra
tion.
18. Because there are thous
ands in the south (myself one of
them) who have never voted the
Republican ticket, will vote for
Roosevelt another term regard
less of the party that nominates
him.
19. Because he has proven that
he knows no north, no south, no
east, no west, but is president of
all the people.
20. Because many of his great
plans and policies have just fairly
started and he should have his
two full terms in which to as
nearly as possible complete them.
W. F. Smith.
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at the Progress Job Office.
The postoffice departmet and
passenger trains also profit by
frequfent campaigns.
Scfme people belive Ananias was
a politician who failed to get
away with the goods. •
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