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Entered as second class matter Januar y 8, 1916, at the post office at Cordele,
A (eorgia, under the Act of March 8, 1879.
i OFFICIAL ORGAN OF CRISP COUNTY.
TOO INTENSELY LOCAL.
The people _pt’ Georgia are blamed
with the short cdmings of the legis
lature for sending the representatives
to Auanta under the impression that
it is a matter of local importance
which should be cared for. Matters
of local importance should occupy
oniy a very small portion of time,
The sessions of the legislature,- it
is now being pointed out, are presum
el by many representatives to be
largely for the passing of local mat
ters for the various communities,
cities and towns. Few of the present
,da& regrgsenmtlves realize that it is
i "t look closely to such mat-
Cleanly a6t to the people
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: é’.‘..m'fi'is'fi{ure can then do
allh‘ils worfi in half the time and every
two years will be amply sufficient for
the sessions.
« Phe people who are sending back
their representatives for the new ses
sion ought to keep in mind that local
matters are not half as important as
are state affairs. This thing properly
impressed will get the desired re
sults.
GREAT CAUTION HERE.
Could one be fair to himself and
to everyhody else if he believed that
Judge Reagan has been to Atlanta and
has boasted about his intention to
pat the steam roller to Hugh Dorsey?
We often see things in the Jefferson
ian which cause us to doubt whether
Tom Watson is really careful about
telling the truth. But here is some
thing worse than all that:
“Judge Reagan, of McDonough,
has been in Atlanta several days,
blowing around, and bragging
about his intention to put the
steam-roller to Dorsely at the con
vention,
“Go slow, Judge.
“You wouldn't look too pretty,
wearing a new suit of tar and
feathers; and you can ride on the
cars with more comfort than you
could get out of a ride to a fence
rail.
“If you try any of your steam
roller tactics on Hugh Dorsey, you
will soon learn what it means to
be man-handled.
“All of us know how desperate
the anti-Dorsey combination is,
and we know that it will not hes
itate at any crime; but, knowing
this, we will be ready for the fray.
“Leave your Hardwick-Pottle-
Robson steam-roller at home,
Judge.”
This is the Jeffersonian. This is
Tom Watson in the same humor, in
the same atmosphere, under the same
barometric pressure, under the same
steamn power that brought on the
lynching of Hugh Dorsey’s human
game which be bagged. This is the
kind of tune that the noble leader
likes to hear.
Georgia better go slow on Watson,
Dorsey and any other man who will
suggest or become a party to incen
diary, impassionate, unlawful courses
to be followed by those who for a
time may see their political hopes
about to be dashed. All the political
prizes within the gift of the state for
the next century are not worth the
high regard for the law which oght
to prevail both in Hugh Dorsey’s polit
jical camp and out of it.
Tom Watson has already been too
long engaged in open rebellion against
the laws of this commonwealth. Some
friends ought to be kind enough to
tell him. |
:
Eand S e W At i Bt ol i
FRIEND OF TOO MANY.
Here’s another farmer’s friend. He
wants Charles R. Crisp’s place. How
many farmers have the least bit of
doubt as to which man of the two is
capable of serving the Third district
in congress? How many farmers be
lieve Tom Hudson cares more for
them than he does for the office he
is after?
And it isn't quite fair to cry “mud
slinging” at Congressman Crisp be
cause he asks to be reelected and be
cause he resents what his enemies
arc tiving to do to defeat him.
People who know Congressman
Crisp,—and nearly every voter in this
district knows him by personal ac
quaintanceship,—knows that he
has sought to deserve and hold his of
fice solely through service rendered
his people. He is not l‘})j’ming on ped
igree and his friendgs know that such
charge is ghly a stab made by those
V¥~ besought him for appointment to
A fice, And among those who sought
tC,'.‘)poi_utment to office are still his
.ceends, for most of them know that
‘ : proceeds with impartiality and fair-
ASS. /
= Nobody wishes to dispute Tom Hud
“son being the farmer's friend, but
“mzmy of them didn’t know it before
“developments of the last week or so.
!()ue Billie Parker, who came here and
was housed by Tom Watson's friends,
caill Hudsen was also a friend of the
Catholics and the the Catholics were
spending a great deal of money tg
elect Hudson, because Crisp had hand
ed them a rough deal a time or two
in the past. But this makes a friend
of too many of them. Hudson will
doubtless not be able to take care of
S 0 many. ]
LOYAL TO THE SCHOOLS. \
Savannah can do a few things, too,
when it comes to educational advance
ment. A tax was voted the past week
for maintaining the schools of the
county and the voters of Chatham
were almost to a man for the tax. The
returns from the election showed prac
tically everybody favoring the issue.
Crisp county can do what Savannah
has done and it can be done with as
much ease. A one-system plan with
a county tax will turn the trick and
an educated supervisor whose duty
will be to see that the country teach
ers and the country boys and girls
have an equal showing with the ci®
teachers and the city boys and girls,
can well be entrusted to the task of
making the public school system serve
the largest number.
The citizens of the county are being
confronted now with the complaint
that the boys and girls in the country
are not given the educational advan
tages to which they are entitled. These
citizens ought to realize that the coun
try boy and girl occupy just the same
relation to the system as do the boys
and girls in the city. And this is true
with regard to the teachers.
We may have the impression that
we are doing our best. But we are not.
All interests consolidated and under
one head, would make it possible to
do much more good at much less ex
pense. The fact that other progres
sive counties in the state are doing
this is the best evidence that Crisp
can do it. The bruden can be no great
‘er and the provision for a real educa
tional work throughout the county,
from border to border, must follow a
;pl;m such as that adopted in Chatham
} Wednesday.
The rank and file in Georgia would
regret it if Tom Watson, finding his
candidate not elected in September,
were to set out to fulfill his threats.
Think of the new cotton over the riv
ar that Cordele might be getting if we
had that bridge at Huguenin's. Alba
ny and Americus swoop down in our
territory and race with each other for
this business every year. Our cotton
men, merchants, and bankers might,
spend a little time to a good purpose
by investigating the volume. It is
ratixer large.
THIS LAW UNNECESSARY.
Elsewhere on this page is a lettér
from a subscriber who makes inquiries
and comment anent the recent legis
lation known as the Veazy bill, which
measure became a law when the gov
crnor gigned it. It was one of the
four which he held over for studying.
Regarding the provisions of the bill,
our subscriber has a correct impres
sion so far as our information goes.
We, too, have not seen a copy of théd
bill. But this is an outcropping, or
rather one of the damaging results of
the anti-Catholic agitation which has
‘been waged by Tom Watson and oth
ers in Georgia. It will be remember
ed, lecturers have been to Cordele for
the purpose of “enlightening” the pub:
lic as to the Catholic church, have
taken their collections and have pro
ceeded on their way. They use the ag
itation for making money and are
able to do better for themselves for
the reason that Watson has always
‘got the state aflame with as much
passion as he can stir. -
Catholicism in Georgia, so far as we
know, and so far as Watson and his
prosecutors know, is no more than
what the average person sees when
he attends a Catholic service and fol
lows it through. It is a ¢hurch ser
vice that does not suit, the protestant
at all,—lit is far from his idea of wor
shipping. j
The Georgia Catholic is an average
American Catholic and Catholicism in%
Georgia can be easily understood.
There is nothing criminal about this
church or its schools in this state. The
average Georgia citizen may see any
time for himself and know the whole
thing. The Catholics, we have found,
arc always apparently glad to see an
outsider interested enough to attend
the church or visit one of their schools
or colleges. They always want to
make more Catholics, but this is like
other denominations.
We are not trying to argue that the
Catholics, schools and churches, are
wholly without evil. That we do not
believe. But their evil is much th&
same as the evil which gets into the
churches of other denominations.
Sometimes somebody goes wrong and
it is charged to the church. Isn’t that
true with the protestant churches?
In the Catholic churches we have
found some of the best people on
earth, They are not all good. Some
of them are terrors, bad citizens.
Again this church is much like the
protestant, for in the protestant
church all sorts of people, good, bad,
and indifferent, maintain their names
on the church miembership' roll.
_.The_impression that this denomina
tion hold:s people (women is what we
have often heard) against their will,
and without right of trial by jury, is
all erroneous. The Catholic will do
all in his power to educate his daugh
ter or his son a Catholic, but Catholic
schools in America, and especially in
Georgia, do not serve as prisons for
young women any more than does
Wesleyan, Bessie Tift or Shorter for
the Baptists and Methodist young wo
men of thie state. It is not at all dif
ficult to find this out.
Those of the papers who know what
tl.e Veazy bill is, have fairly come to
the conclusion thdt tt is in spirit a
plan to patrol the premises of the
Catholic schools,—to make sure that
no more of these reputed crimes are
committed. But under this same law
the patrol may as easily be set over a
Baptist or a Methodist school.
Our subscriber intimates that he
wouldn't care much if the grand jury
did investigate. But he would, and
every other member of the church
‘would resent an investigation by the
grand jury, if it were made with a
view to ascertaining whether young
women were being mistreated by the
denomination in the school or church
investigated. |
The Catholics, so far as we could
learn, did not interpose an objection,
at least in a strong way. They have;
permitted this very serious injury to
their cause without fighting it. Protes
tants will, il the measure is active
ly enforced, suffer its baneful effects,
for they will likewise be investigated.
When there is a church rule or cus
tom which coniravenes a state or na
tional law, then the church rule should
be done away. And Mormonism, so
far as poligamy goes, must finally go
by this route, but no such unlawful
regulation is promulgated by the cath
olics. The state should have nothing
to do with a ilegal supervision of the
churches or any of their aftairs, no
matter what their form or worship, so
long as that worship does not directly
contravene the laws of the state. Any
step of this character can mean noth
ing else in the world but a circumven
tion of religious liberties.
Watson and his agents charge Amer
ican and Georgia Catholics with what
was done by this church centuries ago.
They create prejudices by telling over
‘and over again what the Catholics are
doing in Mexico. They forget what
other people are doing in Mexico. The
‘explusion of the Cathotlies from Mexico
iwould. we believe, have much to do
with settling the Mexican troubles,
‘but, be it remembered, there is no es
‘tablished law now, and what the Cath
:olics do or fail to do cannot determine
:;he destiny of that bandit-ridden coun
try. {
But Georgia Catholics ought not“o
have to answer for what Fifteenth
THE CORDELE DISPATGH, SUNDAY, AUGUST 26, 1916.
Century Catholics dit. They ought
not to be bound with laws circum
scribing their liberties bécause Watson
has found something about which he
can write all the false accusition he
1¢ putuing out, without being called
to answer for it. The Catholics have
never openly and publicly resented
whai Watson is doing against their
church, and he has had a free hand
with his posion. They did not even
stand for his prosecution when the
government got after him.
If we know what truth and false
hood is, if we ever told the truth in
ourselves. Tom Watson has caused
more lies about the Catholics to be
circulated in his publications than he
could by these same méthods, justify
or substantiate in the remaining years
of his life. .
| So long as our idea of fair play re
‘mains as it s, so long as we are still
not afraid to trust our own judgment
as to the justice of such a thing as
this, we will resent it. The Veazy
law is but an outgrowth of the Wat
son attacks on the Catholics. It is
as unnecessary in Georgia as such a
thing could ever be. The law will
never be needed and it ought surely
to be shelved where it can not be said
the state is intermeddling with reli
gious affairs.
The Grand juries of today have the
power already to do what they please
with reports of the kind Watson is
circulating about the high wall around
Catholic schools. They can go be
hind these walls and investigate any
thing at any time, and no Catholic
power or any other power can prevent
them from laying hands on the crimi
nal there any more than in the low
sst dive. Catholics know that and
Watson knows it. Ask any good law
ver and he will tell you this is true.
Watson has needed something that
would sell his paper. Anti-Catholic
report is the kind of sensation that
will make it go. But anti-Methodist
or Anti-Baptist or anti-Missionary ar
gument hits back too hard.” Watson
hears from it when he attacks in this
direction. If the poor old Catholic
had a thimble full of resentment and
that resentment were directed at Wat
son’s phisiognomy, there would never
be such laws as the Veazy bill.
HARRIS GAINING.
Governor Harris is pulling things
together in great shape as he travels
over the state. When the legislature
guit and let him out of Atlanta he
began “hitting ’em up” at a lively gate.
He is going to be reelected. The old
veterans showed in Americus Wednes
lday they know how to appreciate him.
The people of the state know how to
appreciate the veterans and Governor
Harris, as a veteran, has been honored
with the office he now holds for a
term of two years. No governor since
the civil war has been put out without
his second term, and this is a veteran
asking Georgia to give him what it
has given all other governors since
the war. And this is perhaps the last
veteran who will ever‘ask for the of
fice. The people of Georgia do not
want it said of them that they turned
their backs on the last soldier of the
sixties who was qualified to hold the
office. ;
Americus gave the veterans a great
time this week. Some of the visitors
will remember that the weather was
hot, but they will also remember that
the capital of Sumter is full of hospi
table citizens.
Worshippers of the sage of McDuf
fie keep on saying Dorsey is the can
didate of the plain, common people.
The change must be a recent one, for
ever since he had the price of a fare
to Atlanta, he has been waring creas
ed pants and hard hats in that little
Georgia town, Atlanta people say
he ought to be made governor, but
the plain, common, people want Gov
vrnor Harris for another term.
The fact that J. J. Brown has to ad
vertise for complaints against Jim
Price in order to get up steam for a
real race against the present com
missioner of Agriculture, speaks
alarmingly well for the man now hold
ing the office. Jim Price has been
doing about and is a live man. He
works, and works hard for the farm
ers of Georgia. He was as much de
voted to the business of his office be
fore he had opposition as he has been
since and the people of the state have
every cause to belleve he has per-'
;formed his duties with great zeal and
‘enthusiasm.
It is hardly worth while for Teddy
to try to be good. He hasn't said a
word in some several moons and Oys
ter Bay sounds like graveyard, but
sixteen thousand and one meddlesome
golukes are busy making comment
about; his silence. That’s just the way
to sp’vli_g all. : :
P £ AR ee S A
THE VEAZY LAW.
Editor Dispatch,
Dear Sir:—l note that your paper,
as well as several othels which I have
seen, is printing articles deploring the
action of the last session of our state
law-making bodies in passing the Vea
zy bill. Almost every article which
I have read, condemns rather than
defends this bill, and yet I noted when
it was passed few voted against it.
Now I don’t know the merits of this
bill, not having seen a copy of it, but
I understand that it provides for the
inspection by grand juries of certain
institutions in the counties in which
these grand juries sit. I understand
that it has been alleged and proven
timme and again that people have been
detained in Catholic ' institutions
‘against their will, and without the
right of trial by jury. |
- If this be true, then it strikes me‘
that the Veazy bill is timely. If law
lessness is being carried on, then it
should be the business of the grand
javier to investigate it, and if there is
ro lawlessness being carried on in
these institutions, why the awful howl
that is being set up by the press all
over the state because of this power
of investigation.,
I saw in the Macon Telegraph a few
days ago that a Baptist minister of
Augusta, Rev. Ashyy Jones, scored
this bill in his sermon, and stated that
next we would have investigations of
‘Baptists: and other denominational
institutions. Now, 1 think a grzat
deal of the Baptist denomination and
I believe that they will raise but little
objection to investigation, because
they have nothing they wish to hide.
The argument is made that this bill
strikes a blow at religious liberty. It
seems to me that it only provides in
vestigation against lawlessness in the
name of religion. The Mormon religion
allow a plurality of wives, yet we do
not allow this practice in Georgia. I
wish to state that from what I know
of this law, I am in favor of it, in that
I believe it is intended to prevent what
has occurred in other states of our
Union. Yours very truly,
‘A SUBSCRIBER. |
Judge A. W. Cozart, of Columbus,
who is a candidate for one of the
new judgeships on the court of ap
peals, recently created by an act of
the general assembly, has been en
gaged in general practice in both the
state and federal courts for more
than twenty years, acd is recognized
by the eminent judges and lawyers
throughout the state as one of Geor
gia’s ablest lawyers. He has been
endorsed by every member of the
bar of his !iome city for the office to
which he now aspires, and by many lo
cal bar associations of other towns and
cities’ in Gz2orgia.- -Columbus Engquir
er Sun..
DR. B. DANIEL
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THE GIDEON MOVEMENT
Clifton G. Childs, representing the
Gideon movement will address the
Sunday school at the Presbyterian
church this morning* and at 11 o'.(;lock
lie will occupy the pulpit at the<First
Baptist church. In the evening he
speaks at the Methodist echurch. These
(Gideon talks will be for the purpose
of placing Bibles in the guest rooms
of the Cordele hotels. |
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Rev. J. H. Coin will Tétdrn to ule
city and cecupy his pulpit atthe First
‘Baptist church on Sunday,” Sept. 5
Rev. and Mrs, Coin have spent the
month of Afgust at .Decatur ant'g
other points, ‘afid Mrs. Coin expect:
to remain ther,_e;.,through ;S_captembet.
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