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Jackson Progress - Argus Published Every Friday. J. DOYLE JONES, Editor and Pub. Subscription $1 a Year, Entered as second-class matter at the post of!lce at Jackson, Ga. Telephone No. 166. Official Organ Butts County And the City of Jackson. NOTICE Cards of thanks will be charged at the rate of fifty Cnnts, minimum for 50 words and less; above 50 words will be charged at the rate of 1 cent a word. Obituaries will l>e charged for at the rate of 1 cent a word. Cash must ac company copy in all instances. A CONVENTION NOMI NATION It begins to look more and more like the governor’s race will be settled in the convention. With four candidates in the field it is hardly probable that any of them will have enough votes to insure his nomination on the first ballot. Anything is likely to hap pen in a convention. For in stance the convention held in Macon two years ago. A great many people now be lieve that Solicitor Pottle, a cous in of T. W. Hardwick, and a Hardwick leader in the 1914 Ma con convention, was put out by certain interests with a hope of blocking the convention and of perhaps finally securing the nomination. The following comments will be of interest to voters who are interested in the present cam paign: It will not take any more entries in the gubernatorial race to give such a variety that, no matter what the specifications and preferences of the individual voter may be. he will be able to pick his kind from the lot. —Ath- ens Banner. But will he? Will he be able to choose the man he wants for governor. To “vote” for him, yes; but how will that vote be recorded in the state convention? The Chronicle has had no par ticular gubernatorial candidate of its own, so far; at least there was none whose candidacy we felt called upon to support; but we have been doing some think ing about the gubernatorial situ ation of late. And we have about come to the conclusion that if the people want to have a real voice in the election of the next governor, it is about time they were beginning to concentrate on one man. With four candidates in the field, it looks mightily like a con vention fight; or, rather, that the present program —on the part of the anti-Prohibition forces at least—-is to throw the nomination into the convention. Nor is The Chronicle alone in this view. We find the Hawkins ville Dispatch speaking out along the same line, as follows: “It now seems like its Gov ernor Harris against the field, and if the Prohibitionists don't stand by him, he’s a goner. W'ith Dorsey and Pot tle making raids on Dr. Hard man's support, we believe that Governor Harris need not fear anything more from the Commerce Jphysician.” While we are not so convinced as our Hawkinsville contempo rary seems to be, that Governor Harris is a “goner” in any event —for the people have a way of taking the political reins into their own hands occasionally— nevertheless, it is only fair that A FORWARD STEP It is regretted that there is a division of sentiment regarding the eradication of the cattle tick in Butts county. If the people of Butts county could get together, co-operate whole heartedly and work determinedly the cattle tick could be gotten rid of this season. That would be a considerable saving to the taxpayers. In this connection it is interesting to read what Col. B. W. Hunt, of Eatonton, has to say. Col. Hunt is one of the most suc cessful bankers and dairymen in the state. Replying to the sug gestion that a meeting be held in Macon to discuss ways and means of fighting the cattle tick, Col. Hunt says: “That the extermination of the fever-carrying cattle is a pre-requisite to successful dairying and to cattle rais ing has been fully proven to all people who will accept proof of the actual truth. “Only those believe the contrary because thev do not allow their intellectual processes fair play. “Many oppose because they follow insincere leaders, who are hindrances of lawful methods and opposers of in dustrial progress. “The writer has spent money and time in missionary work, but he has never secured an audience composed of the opposers of tick eradication. Those who oppose the benefits we are trying to extend them will not hear the truth spoken if it be in favor of tick eradication. They are willing to read, listen to and follow the leaders of their way of thinking, hereby saving themselves the risk of hearing the two sides. “Believing the foregoing to be the truth, the good that the Macon meeting may accomplish will be largely by hav ing the papers of the state publish the resolutions. Resi dents of counties already free of ticks are interested only because they hope to benefit recalcitrant communities. “My own county, one of the first to take up the work, paid out less money in actual expense in exterminating ticks than its annual loss from ticks had heretofore been. Hence, economy is the accompaniment from the initiation of tick eradication. Respectfully yours, BENJAMIN W. HUNT.” attention should be called to the fact that it is “Harris against the field,” and that the “field’s” only hope of beating him is in the convention. In further confirmation of this idea, we find the following in the Laurens Citizen: “It now appears that the governor’s fight will be set tled in the convention. The race has developed into a free-for-all and it will hardly be possible for either candi date to get the required ma jority This fact is probably what influenced Colonel Pot tle to get in the race. The colonel and his friends are doubtless counting heavily on being able to manipulate the convention.” It is just as well that the peo ple understand this, right here and now; that the hope of the anti-Prohibitionists is to throw the gubernatorial fight into the convention—where the politicians and not the people, may dictate the nomination. It will be easy enough for them to “manipulate” the convention —and this, it is said, they are prepared to do by having either “luke-warm” or even anti-Harris delegates ap pointed from counties carried by Harris wherever possible—but it will not be easy for them to do it. once the people are onto their game.—Augusta Chronicle. While we have thousands of almost unnecessary public officials paid good salaries, yet the most important public servants a state can possibly have, its law-makers, FOR HOME BAKING ROYAL BAKING POWDER Absolutely Pure THE GREATEST BAKE-DAY HELP No Alum —No Phosphate BEAUTY PAYS Most people probably need to be reminded that not only is “beauty its own excuse for being,” but it pays in dollars and cents as well. Recently President Barrett of the National Union told our Progressive Farmer readers about finding farms in Paradise Valley, California, selling for $l,- 000 an acre chiefly because the country round about had been made so entrancingly beautiful. Likewise the Charleston News and Courier notes that every year at this season unnumbered visi- tors are attractive to that city by the far-famed beauty of the neighboring Magnolia Gardens. Beauty pays—will pay a neighbor hood, an individual, or a city. How about your lawn, your flow ers, and also “Clean-up Day”?— The Progressive Farmer. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children In Use For Over 30 Years Always bears signor {Z&69M&K in most cases receive hardly enough to pay board, room and washing at any first-class hotel. The natural result is that men who have no axe to grind find it a sacrifice to go to the Legisla ture, and are not likely even to run unless the people bring pres sure to bear to make them. —The Progressive Farmer. 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