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THE T1FTON GAZETTE, TIFTON, GA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER S, 191C.
Ube Litton (Sajette
Published Weekly
Entered at the Postoilice at Tifton, Georgia,
as mail matter of the second class!
dao. L. Herring ....Editor and Manager
Official Organ City of Tifton
and Ti!. : t County, Georgia.
KEEP THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE.
As a rule, the demand for the abolishment of
the electoral college comes from those who havo
given the matter the least thought This ven.
erable institution comes in for a storm of criti
cism every four years, and the close contest this
year lias given this criticism additional accent.
The electoral college, which was created on
the principle that the states and not popular
vote should elect a president, is based on the
same theory of government that gives us the
Senate, which is representation by the states,
while the House is representation by the people.
While it is a little cumbersome, as a whole the
college has stood the test of a century and a
quarter and should not be rashly exchanged for
an experiment.
It is to be noted that rarely has a president
been elected who did not also receive a major
ity of the popular vote, although such a con
tingency is possible. That it has occurred is no
good reason for exchanging a slight evil for a
greater one. Electors are chosen in the same
manner as members of Congress and as a rule,
the man who gets a majority of the popular
vote also gets a majority of the electoral vote
It is idle to argue that this might not have been
the case this year, because the result was so
close in California. It could be said with equal
truth that a change of 200 yote3 would have
given Minnesota to Wilson or a change of 30
votes would have given the Republicans New
Hampshire; or that a change of 10,000 votes
would have given Wilson seven states carried
by Hughes. Possibilities work cither way.
The great advantage of the electoral college
is the power given the smaller states. Although
based on Congressional representation, and
therefore in a measure dependent on the popu
lar vote, the Senatorial representation enters
'therein and this gives the states with small pop
ulation a greater voice in the selection of a pres
ident than they would have under a popular
vote system.
Of all sections of the country, the South has
the least cause for complaint at the electoral
college. Although Tilden was counted out. the
same result would probably have been attained
by the same parties under any other system, and
J with this exception the college has been the
friend of the South. It has enabled thh section
to wield an influence that would never have
•'■been possible under a popularvote plan of pres
idential selection.
RUNNING THE NEGROES OUT.
(Villa Star: We are astonished, too, to learn
that one of the reasons for this unrest among
the negroes who were,born and raised here is
the fear that all negroes are to be run out of
Georgia. This idea, of course, has been planted
in the minds of the simple-minded of the race
by the crafty and unscrupulous labor agents
who have operated in almost every section of
the state.
Savannah Press: The negroes have this idea
from the fact that there are localities in "the
state right now where a negro cannot live. And
we do not know of anybody that is doing any
thing to change this condition.
Miss Emma R. Suttbn
Editor
Ty Ty Department
TY TY, j
GEORGIA ' v 1
Labor agents are doing their best to put the
fear into the hearts of negroes in this state
that they are going to be run out by the white
people, some of them even fixing the time as
next June. But this work begun long before
the negro exodus North was thou'ght of. Th
example of one county in^orth Georgia, which
ran every negro out, was followed by other
counties adjoining, and the general public has
little idea how widespread the contagion be
came—for lawlessness is nearly always con
tagious.
Tift county is nearly three hundred miles
from Cherokee, Georgia, where the white-
cappers did their Hyork, yet plots to
run the negroes out of this county as
sumed such definite shape that the auth
orities were able to take action and
the project was nipped in the bud. We pre
sume that what was true in Tift was equally
true in many other counties all over the state.
So the labor agents have a basis of truth to
work on.
If Georgia is injured, agriculturally and in
dustrially, by the negro exodus, the white peo
ple here have no one to blame but them
selves. They have allowed negroes to be lynch
ed, five at a time, on nothing stronger than sus
picion; they have allowed whole sections to be
depopulated of them; they have allowed them
Jto be whitecapped and whipped, and their
homes burned, with only the weakest and most
spasmodic efforts to apprehend or punish those
guilty—when any efforts were made at all.
Has not the negro been given the strongest
proof that he has no assured right to live, to
own property nor to expect justice in Georgia?
Many of those already gone North, others oth
ers who contemplate going, have had these
facts laid before them—and decided to leave
only because they thought they would be run
out next June.
The offense against the negro arose from va
rious motives: A foolish idea that public sen
timent expects mob violence when a negro is
accused of a capital offense
the white race; a certain strata of lawlessness
that is ingrained ip too many human breasts;
the thoughtlessness of youth, inflamed by race
prejudice; and last but greatest of all, a desire
on the part of an element among the white la
boring class to remove the negro, under the
Mr. E. W. Oliver, the druggist,
went in his ear to Atlanta Tuesday,
Edgar Scott, who has been quite
sick, is back again at his post in the
drug store.
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Dr. Pittman's house is approach
ing completion, and the family will
probably spend Christams in it.
• • • « •
! Three brick buildings going up in
the business section at one time is
net bad for a little town like Ty Ty.
* • • • •
The horse-tradera* village of tents
remains on the outskirts of Ty Ty,
and the men teem to be doing a
rushing business.
• •eve
Material is on the ground for the
new house of Mr. W. J. Williams.
Mr. Williams’ home was burned on
this lot some time ago.
Members of the Methodist church
and the people of Ty Ty generally
are glad to have Rev S. S. Kemp
returned to the work here.
• • • • •
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Williams and
Mr. and Mrs. Jos. Baker, all of Ty
Ty, are among the members of the
Primitive Baptist church recently or-
ganiied in Tifton.
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Come out Friday evening and take
supper with the Ty Ty Improvement
Club. You’ll never regret it—unless
you find things so nice you eat too
much. Ty Ty has the name of serv r
ing the best of things gastronomic.
• • • • •
Mrs. R. R. Pickett, Mrs. F. B.
Pickett, Dr. and Mrs. Pittman, Mr,
W. B. Parka, Mrs. Aaron Parks and
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Varner went in
automobiles to Thomasville Sunday
to hear Bishop Candler’s sermon.
A SATISFYING FUNERAL.
WOODMEN OF THE WORLD.
All but the deepest w#Bs have
een put out of business by the dry
weather, and the majority of citi
zens ara borrowiig water. At a
time like this the peoplo of Ty Ty
think longingly of the waterworks
that have not materialized.
Several years after the close ol
the Civil War, a riot was threatened
between the white and colored people
in Dawson, and conditions became so
serious that the Albany Guards, the
military company nearest at hand,
were called out to quell the distur
bance. The company’s drummer was.
a negro, and. he refused to go. An
other negro who was an excellent
drummer—and not fit for" anything j
else-volunteered his services, anc
the Guards went to the scene of what
had threatened to be serious trouble.
Their presence was sufficient, howev
er, and they came back without hav
ing fired a gun. Their new drum
mer remained with them, for it was
a job exactly suited to his taste.
Years went by, and the drummet
remained faithful—^faithful untc
death, for he died while still a mem-
iber of the company.
The best men of Albany belong
ed to the Guards—a company that
had fought with distinction, in thi
Fourth Georgia Regiment, through
the entire war—but they did not
feel too good (maybe beeause they
had the right kind of goodness) tc
give their drummer a military fu
neral. So they set about making
preparations for such a-funeral
he would have desired if he eouic
have arranged it himself.
There was a company of Artillery
then, composed of Albany men, and
they readily lent their assistance.
This surely was the most gorgeous
company that was ever seen in an
cient or modern times. It is impos
sible to describe their uniform, but
it was made up of red, and blue, and
gold, and Borne other colors. The
uniform of the men was as nothing
compared with that of the captain.
An old soldier, a veteran of the wav,
when he saw this uniform, for the
first time, on the captain seemed to
At a meeting uf the Woodmen of
the World last Saturday night all the
old officers were re-elected except
.he banker, to which office Mr. J.
B. Hollingsworth was elected.
The officers are now as follows:
Council Commander, W. S. Scott.
Advisory Lieutenant, Seaborn Wil
lis.
Banker, J. B. Hollingsworth..
Clerk H. G. Malcolm.;
Escort, Chas. Walker.
Sentry, C. H. Johnson.
Watchman, J. H. UImn, Jr.
Manager, W. J. Warren.
Captain,.R. E. Ricks.
Physicians, Dr. R. R. Pickett and
Dr. C. S. Pittman.
Managers previously elected and
still holding office, Chas. Bauman
and G. G. Young.
The W. O. W. hold their meetings
on the first and third Saturdays of
each month and all visiting-brethren-
are cordially invited' to be present
W. E. WILLIA1
DEALER IN
High Glass General Meichandisd
THE STORE
Where Your Dollar Goes Further]
Courteous Treatment
Your Trade Will Be Appreciate^
W. E. Williams, F. B. Pickett. M.l
President. 1st Vice-Pres.
W. C. Thompson Thos. M. Per.
2nd Vice-Pres. Cashier.
BANK Of 1YT 1
MARRIED.
In Macon, December 2nd, Mr. W.
J Williams to Mrs. Williams, former
ly Miss Long, of Tift county, (Miss
Williams is a sister of Miss Berlle
Long, for sometime in charge of
the Girls’ Canning Club of this coun.
ty)
Mr. and Mrs. Williams win make
their home in Ty Ty.
At Ty Ty, on Sunday, December
3rd, Mr. “Abie” Cravey, whose home
is near Chula, to Miss Bessie Paine,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alex Paine,
of Route 3, Tifton. Judge C. W..
Graves performed the ceremony.
CAPITAL $25,000.00
We Pay Interest on Time Deposit
Deposits in This Bank Guaranteed 1
DO BUSINESS AT HQM
The Ty Ty DrugleJ
DRUGS AND DRUGGISTS’
•• « «• hu Acuiuvs; was nugiu, uuuui uic
we do away with the electoral college w« migUken idea that they would take his place
will see negro disfranchisement in the South .„ a mcasure and that M would be h £ her .
com up as a national problem. But little at- But whafever the moti the t ma8S of
tention is paid to it now in the North because ^ , 0 of the South ar ’ e to blame for the
the Southern states are considered hopelessly oxodu8 because th have permitted
Democratic and a few thousand negro vote* thcgg th , to be _ have ftllowed wr
more or less make no difference But should' ed and crime to unpunlghed because
the time come when these votes might turn the ^ vJcUmg were bIack
scale in the selection of a president, negro dis
franchisement would become an issue and once
No objection to good roads in
other parts of the county, but it does
seem that Ty Ty’s vicinity ought to
receive a little attention. Please fill
up our gullies, Mr. Commissioner,
1"TTT Tv and cut down somo of our weeds. If
against one of your automobile ever trsveled thU
way, you surely would give us somo
relief. Six months is a long time to
jolt over gullies.
• • • • •
Mr. J. S. Harold went to Savan-
nail Wednesday on a business trip.
If investigation would kill there
wouid’nt be a boll weevil left in Ala
bama.
Mrs. C. E. Grubbs and twp chil
dren, of Arizona, are visiting Mrs.
R. R. Pickett.
brought to an acid constitutional test, there is
not much doubt what the result would be.
The nation, and especially the South, should
let the electoral college alone. We might go
further and do a great deal worse.
SOUTH GEORGIA’S SYRUP INDUSTRY
The great majority of South Georgia people
do not realize the magnitude of the sugar-cane
industry in this section. This is what may be
called an off year in sugar-cane growing, yet
last week’s issue of the Cairo Messenger said
that 1,000 barrels were marketed at that place
the Saturday previous, and an equal amount at
the four stations of Whigham, Calvary, Pine
Park and Reno, combined. Two thousand bar
rels sold in one county in one day at 39 to 40
cents a gallon brought close to $28,000.
The Messenger estimates that Cairo will ship
probably 22,000 to 25,000 barrels this season
and that other points in the county will ship
10,000 more, making a total of about 35,000
barrels for Grady county.
Forty cents a gallon is considered a record
price, although syrup in Tifton is. bringing
from sixty cents up and a good article is rather
I ard to get. It would be hard to find a better
substitute for cotton as a money crop than su-
:rar-cane, where care and uniformity enters into
the manufacture of the product. Grady will re
ceive nearly half a million dollars for its syrup
erop this year; we hope for the time to come
when the crop in Tift will bring as much.
BIRDS AND BOLL WEEVIL.
* Editor Constitution:—The hunting season is
here and so is the boll weevil. Relentless war
Is being made oh all the quail in the state, and
while they are at it many boys and other care
less and ignorant gunners will kill many other
birds which happen to come in their way mere
ly for the savage pleasure of killing something.
Birds are insect eaten, and every time a quail
or any other kind of bird eats a boil weevil the
great menace to the Southern farmer is reduced
that much. All kinds of birds will multiply ve
Until these things are changed, it is perhaps
as well that the negroes go. Contact with peo
ple North will give them a better understanding
and appreciation of the people of the South.
This contact will also give the people of the
North a better understanding of the negro and
the problem with which Southern people have
struggled for half a century. Out of a better
understanding will come a greater good for all
concerned.
When the negro is gone, his loss will be felt
in every large agricultural section and every in
dustrial community of the'Soutl.. For the av
erage white man cannot do the heavier wqrk
at the saw mills, naval stores plants, and in ma
ny lines of manufacture that is now done by
the negro. As a consequence, these plants and
many large plantations must stand idle or im
port a class of white labor that will be a great
deal worse than the black. And then, when
it is too late, the people of the South will have
driven home to them the fact that the negro
is the best class of labor of its kind in the world.
And the very class of shiftless white men who
are now clamoring for the negro to move, be
cause they think that they will have more work
and higher wages will find themselves confront
ed with cheaper white labor, and white men of
a race of which they have no understanding.
Then, indeed, will the South have its labor
problems.
But at present, it seems little can be done
Unless Southern white people who have their
all invested in agriculture or manufacturing
take care of their own interests by seeing that
the negro gets justice when suspected and a fair
trial when accused, and is assured that so long
as he behaves he will be guaranteed safety of
life and property, it is perhaps as well to let
the negro go. It will mean an industrial revolu
tion for the South, but the present condition of
affairs has become intolerable.
, tection. The quail would soon become numer
ous and comparatively tame. Why can’t the bird
shooters forego the doubtful pleasure of kill
ing for a few seasons and give the birds
L «*hance to help fight the boll weevil?
J. A. Hall.
The large dailies which publish weekly ed-
r < _ itions are withdrawing alj premium offers with
ty rapidly in Georgia if given any effective pro- the first of the year. The Ugh cost of print pa
per is given as the cause.
Ordinarily, we are opposed to boycotts and
embargoes. But when a rough-neck has you by
the throat, you can’t wait to pick a place to hit
him.
,^'U
Mr. Daniel Driggers was in Ty Ty
Wednesday. He says the boll wee-
vi's. dunaged him considerably, bnt
hi- will plant “a little” cotton next
year.
Mr. J. A. L'lm, Jr., has recently
bought from Mr. T. A. Inman the
corner lot just west of Mr. Inman’f.
residence, and will build a home on
It.
• • • • • •
One ear on the A. C. L. brought u
thousand bushels of groundpease to
Ty Ty on Wednesday, most of their,
for the Farmers Supply Co. Probably
as'many more have been bought in
this immediate vicinity this winter.
The Department of Agriculture
be quite overcome. When he was
sufficiently recovered, he asked the
captain, in an awed voice, to stop and
then to turn around slowly, af
ter which the veteran walked
around and viewed the captain
from every angle. “I have seed
seventeen thousand" captains, ’•
murmured the veteran—" “No I
won’t fall a single captain—but )
never saw anything to equal this.’
A'negro company, the Colquitt
Blues completed the military escort.
Civilians, not to be outdone by
the military, did their part, and all
the handsomest equipages in tht
place were sent for the use of those
attending the funeral. Except the
two lmlltary companies, very few
white people were present.
The drummer and his family lived
in the upper story of a wooden build,
ing long since pulled down, on Jack-
son street, and all available space
was packed with such a crowd as the
presence of soldiers always bring;
out, augmented in this instance by
those who had come to attend the
funeral
The widow appeared at the head
of the stairs, swathed in crepe and
all the other paraphernalia of mourn
ing. Maybe you have heard of
"luxury of woe:’’ the widow was the
personification of that. She knew
what was expected of her, and she
“done noble.” She was carried down
stairs almost bodily and deposited in
one of the waiting carriages. Rela
tives and friends filled the other;
and a multitude flocked along on
each sidewalk.
At the head of the profession,
erect and soldierly in their plain,
gray uniforms, marched the Albany
Guards, as fine a body of men as any
town could produce.
And then came thg glory of ths
ASSUME A VIRTUE THOUGH
YOU HAVE IT NOT.
This altogether superflous advice
it handed down to us by Shakespeare
as if people had not been assuming
virtues ever since Adam was so inno.
cent' (according to his own show
ing) in that apple case.
It is rather good advice, though,
in a way. The modest violet Is'very
well in its place but it Is the sun
flower and its kind that usually get
there.
Furthermore, if we assume the
virtue and act up to it, we may be
come the real owner of such virtue,
and the more we assume in this way,
the better. We not only get others
to believe in us, but we believe in
ourselves.
School Sooksj
and Supplies ]
A COMPLETE DRUG I
artillery and made a very credit
able showing, but nobody gave much
attention to them.
Not the smallest derail of a mil
itary funeral was omitted, and ev
erything was done with as much so-
lemnity as if it had been a general
who was being buried.
A very elaborate funeral came oil
in Ty Ty once, a year or two af
ter the negro died, and the widow
told one of her white acquaintance;
that they “had the fineat kind oj
a time, an’ ever’body said it was tha
nicest fun’al they ever ’tended.”
That seemed to be the kind of fu
neral the drummer had, and if he
could have looked down—or up, as
the case may be—no doubt he would
have been deeply gratified.
JONES & COMPAf
Dealers sW?
High Class General ‘Mar-
After you read ftiis lidrertjs
go to thi* store nrid do,' yq
shopping.;., )
PRICES RIGflrtV
says taht the Spanish groundpea »! whoIe procession, the artillery with
the variety to plant for oil, but thoso the|r bj(f RunSi and on each
who have had a large experience i« carriage , at six men , their arm , foId ,
the business give the preference tc ed and their backll „ atraight
the running variety. Spanish ground-
peas they say, have more oil, but
they yield practically no hay and th.
erop of peaa does not compare ir.
quantity to the otehr variety.
any ramrod. Their gorgeous uni*
forms flashed in the sunlight, and
the friends of the dead drummer al
most envied him.
The Colquitt Blues followed th;
Messrs. J. M. Varner, Leary anc
Walters have recently returned from
trip through Southwest Georgh.
and Alabama. They went in quest
of seed groundpeas and thorough
bred cattle, and they found, ano
bought, what they went for. Theif,
gentlemen and many others in this
locality are going into cattle raising,
and they propose to raise food for
their cattle as well as for themselves
and others.
Prescriptions A Specialty
\
FOR SALE.
Y
Berkshire Pigs. S. C. B. Lea
horn Chickens, and Milk]
Cows. I also buy good, -J
fat cows and hogs. ™
W. F. SIKES, Ty Ty, Gal
A. PARKS,
Groceries, Dry Good
Caskets, Coffins
Ty Ty, Georgif
M. A. WOODARE
General
Ty 1
DR. CARL S. PITTMAN,
Physician and Surgeon.
Phone No. 7.
Ty Ty, Georgia.
C.
Gener
N«w Goods*
THE PARBOILING SEASON.
This is the season of the year when poor mor
tals who must travel on railway trains go
through the process of parboiling.
Savannah business man. First went the toddy,
now the nap—what horrible innovation is com
ing next? After awhile, living in Savannah will
be just like living anywhere else, for the glory
J. A..
In this fair land of ours, the care of the of the old town will have departed. Something
steam heat in the ddy coaches is usually left to is to be said for the business man of the old
the negro porter, who has about as much idea school, who took his siesta from 2 to 4 p. m. H*
of the proper regulation of temperature as a may not have been quite so hasty as others, but
sausage machine has of surgery. It would not he was thorough. He not only had time to take
be so bad if there was no heat at all, for the; a nap and a nip, but he had time to be courte-
passengers would know what was coming and °us; and the fact that Savannah has neved had
wrap up. But when some one complains—and! a bank failure is proof of his ability. If he has
there is always the kicker—that the car is cold.! kone, we will miss him, for we had too few of
the porter turns the steam on in full force, and | hi* kind.
those who were shivering a few minutes before; Tho Democrats may be able to organize tha
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Country
Mr ;
find themselves shucking surplus clothes and
perspiring. Too many colds and cases of incip^
ient pneumonia doubtless come from poorly
regulated heat. Too much is worse than not
enough.
A few years ago. a passenger got a verdict
against a railroad because >the car was cold.
We thought then the courts set up a pernicious
exrmple. The next one will probably be sued
because the car was too hot. Then we may
get the meap temperature.
Now they want to take his noon nap from the
House and elect Champ Clark Speaker after
all “Counts in three closely contested districts
in Pennsylvania, in one New Jersey district and
one North Carolina district favor the Demo
crats. This makes the present outlook, Demo
crats 217, Republicans 213, Progressives one,
Socialists one, Prohibitionists one, and Inde
pendent one. The total membership is 435. and
on the above reckoning the Democrats lack
one vote of a majority, but Randall, the Califor
nia Prohibitionist, and Kelly, Independent of
Pennsylvania, are counted on to act with the
Democrats on organization.”
Cotton
Highest pr
at
DR.Jp
Physician ai'
Ty Ty,i
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