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Let's have that ice factory.
What has become of the time-hon
ored straw ballot?
It must be great to have a corner
on all the loyalty. Lucky dog!
Being 21 and wearing no man’s
collar, the voters of Butts county re
sent any man telling them how to vote
After the election maybe W. J.
Harris can get to be chaplain in the
army.
The more one sees of the senatorial
race the more he wants to viash his
hands of the whole business. Let
the light continue. Let the candidates
cover each other in mud. The weath
er is too hot to get excited. We will
whip the war in time and regardless
of who is elected the state will sur
vive. Keep cool!
THE JACKSON GEORGIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 23^1918
CHOOSING CANDIDATES
r""" t the pfop.: respert
mander m chief of the army .and J WUson ig one of the greatest
“ d n of n modt™ttee‘. He has handled the country’s business in these per-
Uous times in masterly fashion. We all honor and respect the man and
admme hB qualities of leadenhip- dictator js anothcr matter. The
peopie of" believing in State’s Eights as one of the bed rock prm
ciplcs of our government, believe they ore capable of choosing their own
officers without outside interference. _ . x .
Two years ago Mr. Wilson was largely responsible for the nomination
of Thomas W Hardwick. He advocated Mr. Hardwick as a man to carry
out the administration’s policies. These things are a matter of record
Xow it is the Hon. W. J. Harris that has been selected as the candidate
to lead the people of Georgia along the paths of righteousness and rectitude.
But the people of Georgia have a way of doing their own choosing of
their own officers in their own way.
The fall of the ballots on September 11 will tell the story.
A COMMUNITY NEED
Citizens of Jackson should not lose a day in preparing to install and
have in operation by early next spring an ice factory and cold storage
plant. Jackson has been peculiarly unfortunate this year in regard ti ice.
While other communities have had more or less ice all the year, Jackson
has not been so fortunate.
The plants in the big cities have all they can do to take care of the
government orders. Establishment of the cantonments in Macon and At
lanta creates anew and largely increased demamd in these centers. The
consequence is that inland towns, those without ice factories of their own,
have to do without ice. This has been Jackson’s experience.
Business, as well as patriotic reasons demand that Jackson install a
plant. There is a market right here at home for all the ice that can be
manufactured. The enterprise should be owned by citizens of the com
munity, who will then feel a direct interest in the success of the plant.
By having a plant at home citizens can rely on ice when they need it and
at the same time can get it at a reasonable price.
Let our business men speak out. The Progress-Argus is willing to do
its share to encourage the enterprise both financially and morally.
FORTY WASTED DAYS
It is hard to be temperate in speech in talking about the Georgia leg
islature. By the narrowest sort of a margin was an extra session aevrted.
Two extra sessinos were held during the administration of former governor
Nat Harris, and but for the firm stand of Governor Dorsey there would
have been an extra session this year.
It is time for the people and the press of the state to “talk out in
meeting” concerning the general assembly of Georgia. Nothing should be
left unsaid to let this bunch of time-killers know just what the people at
home think of them. The real sentiments of the people would not look
good in print, however.
The general assembly has fallen into the habit of appropriating money
when there is no funds in sight to meet these immense bills. Just what is
ic be gained by such a procedure is hard to explain. It shows an utter lack
of business ability, a total disregard for the office of governor, who must
pay out the money, and a lack of consideration for the taxpayers who must
foot the bills. As supposed leaders of the people, the members of the leg
islature should be very careful in making appropriations. There should be
a dollar in sight for every dollar appropriated. Anything else is mere
child’s play and is no credit to the men responsible for it.
For forty days the legislature goes on a jaunt, attends barbecues here
and picnics there, wasting the people’s money, and showing a total lack
of business ability, r. hen comes the real wok of the legislature, the busi
ness of making appropriations to support the state’s institutions. This bus
iness is usually transacted in ten days. If the business cannot be transacted
in that time, then comes talk of ar> extra s-.tsion —with mon expense to the
people of Georgia.
It is time the legislature was taken to task . The business of the state
should be attended to in the shortest time possible. There is no moral or
legal excuse for these extra sessions and the men guilty of forcing such a
condition should be held up to indignation and scorn.
What Georgia needs is men in the legislature who first of all will look
after the people’s interests and give the state an honest, straightforward,
economical administration of the public affairs.
WHAT’S UNDER COVER
Unless we are very much mistaken there is something under cover
that has not be6n brought to light in connection with the race of the Hon.
W. J. Harris for the United States senate. That the negro will crawl out of
the woodpile in due season we have every reason to believe.
Two years ago Messrs. Harris and Hardwick were standing on the
same plank. They were political bedfellows and slept in the same political
bed at the Macon convention. The Hon. W. J. Harris is said to have pulled
the wires that landed the Hon. T. W. Hardwick—“the administration candi
date”—in the senate. Poor old John M. Slaton was led to the slaughter.
He was a “reactionary” and unfit to represent Georgia in the United States
senate. Mr. Hardwick was the annointed one and the Hon. W. J. Harris
helped to put him where he is today.
But in two years things have changed. The Hon. W. J. Harris has a
corner on all the loyalty. He says—mark the words—that he has more in
fluence in Washington than any twenty-five men. It must be glorious to be
so great!
The Hon. Clark Howell, national committeeman from Georgia, has
whispered in the ears of President Wilson that the Hon. W. J. Harris is the
man to beat the Hon. T. W. Hardwick. Now, a lot of us are wondering,
where does the Hon. Clark Howell come in?
Unless we are mistaken—and perhaps we are—ethings are shaping up
for the race two years from now when the Hon. Hoke Smith will be a can
didate. Governor Hugh M. Dorsey is being groomed—so the reprot goes—
to bring about the defeat of the Hon. Hoke Smith. So, it seems, we are hav
ing an echo of the old Joe Brown-Hoke Smith fight in Geergia. The Hon.
Clark Howell will leave nothing undone to antagonize his old political rival,
the Hon. Hoke Smith.
Watch the line-up. Watch and see if the Hon. Clark Howell is not
looking more to the defeat of the Hon. Hoke Smith two years from now
than he is the election of the Hon. W. J. Harris. The Hon. Clark Howell
is using the Wilson letter to build up political fences. Watch and see.
There is something under cover. It will come out in due time.
And in the meantime, granting that the Hon. Hoke Smith is not
asleep, being the smartest politician of them all, it will not be surprising
to see all the Hoke Smith faction stand solidly behind the Hon. William
Schley Howard and insure his election in spite of the Hon. Clark Howell
and his presidential letter for Harris. The issue is clear cut. William
Schley Howard has the record, the ability, the statesmanship. Howard is
the man to smash the Howell-Harris scheme into a thousand fragments.
The voters of Georgia, resenting dictation from any source, should stand
by Mr. Howard and break up the slate-makers. Howard is the man to do it.
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Monticello, Illinois.
GET WOOD FOR WINTER
The individual who lays in a supply of fuel now will be the man pre-l
pared to stand the cold this winter. As time goes on it is becoming as plain!
as daylight that there will be an acute coal shortage this winter. Condi-I
tions will be every bit as bad, if not worse, than they were last winter.
The government has its hands full. Transports must be kept moving be
tween this country and France; war industries must run full time; the'
railroads must be supplied with coal. After all these demands have been
met there will be mighty little coal for domestic consumption.
Take heed in time. Get some wood. Get all the wood you can secure.
In this way and in this way only will you be prepared for the cold weather
that is bound to come later on.
Howard says he will remain in the
senate race until the Lord removes
him. Now, what have Shaw and
Cooper to say?
j Secretary Baker says when we get
an army of four million men in Eu
rope that we can break the German
line at pleasure. That is reassuring.
President Wilson opposed Congress
man Huddleston in Alabama. The
result was that Huddleston got twice
as many votes as his opponents.
It will be just like the voters of
Georgia—rude things—to throw a
monkey wrench in that Clark Howell-
Woodrow-Baldy Harris political ma
chine.
We Have Just Received a Car
Load of
Studebaker Wagons
Have some with extra wide tires, and
deep bodies. If you need a wagon see
us before you buy. WE CAN SAVE
YOU MONEY.
R. V. 6 R. T. SMITH
Flovilla, Ga.
Studebakers last a lifetime
An extra session of the legislature I
was prevented by a narrow margin.
Governor Dorsey is due the thanks
of the entire state for his firm stand
in holding down appropriations and
thus avoiding an extra session of the
trouble-makers.
Now is a good time to stock up on
wood. Take warning from the bitter
experience of last winter and also
let the present ice situation remind
you that every man must look out
for himself in these war times.
Unless the hot weather is responsi
ble for the Georgia legislature acting
such a fool, it is hard to explain some
things that happened. For instance,
appropriating money with nothing in
sight to foot the bills.