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STH:: JACKSON HERALD
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Enteredat The Jefferson Poitoffice
** Second-Class Mai! Matter
Offuial Orjin of Jaikton County
JOHN N. HOLDER Editor
W. H. WILLIAMSON Du*. M’f’r.
Jefferson,, Cos., Septur.i'. ’’ 2. J!t26
Markets, Not Credit, Needed
Mr. J. A. Wi st brook of Powder
Springs had a communication in
SnnuuyAtlanta Constitution, in
which h ■ aid that the farmer needs
markets more than credits, and the
Constitution con me nr ■ this idea, and
wdd.i.
"There is credit a plenty. Credit
means debt and debts have to be
voluntarily paid, or the securities
roust bo yielded. Hence farm debt
moans ihat a farmer must be in po
sition to make the money of f his
fa rin to pay it, or loac that which he
had when he incurred it. In the
meantime credo- and the lenlting
debt - encourages extravagancies,
wild-catting, ard every other gold
brick scheme under the sun.”
They arc eminently correct. The
farmer needs market'-, and ns th- 1
Constitution further aa;. s, "What we
ivscd is legislation to get the farmer j
out of debt, not, further in debt.”
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The Bulwark of Pay-A*- i
You-Go
(From Atlanta Journal)
Another high authority-speaks out
against the peril of overtaxation,
such as excessive bond issues will en
tail. This time it is Secretary Jar
dine, of the national department of
agriculture, and he ,argues the case
from the standpoint of the man on
the sail. Urging the need state
and local tax reform “to lighten the
burden on farmers,” he says that
although they have profited indirect-'
ly and to a (tag fee from the general
business betterment brought about 1
by a reduction of federal taxes, they
are nevertheless in need of relief be
cause “the great bulk of farm taxes
are levied by slate and local .govern
ments."
The .secretary was referring parti
cularly, we take it, to regions which
hare not been as fortunate as Geor
gia in their bond and tax policies.
This state, adhering to the prudence 1
and economy which are written deep
into its constitution, refused to be
swept off 'its feet by the bond-issue
furor that broke upon the country in
the wake of the World war. The 1
happy consequence is that Georgia
taxes today are comparatively low
and arc uncommonly invitin I to in
dustrial investors as Well as favor
able to buyers and owners of farm
lands. But a survey of America will
show that this condition is far from
being general.
Between 1919 and 1924, for in
stance, state taxes for the country as
n whole increased eighty-seven per
cent. The debts of state and local
government' have been (nounting at
the rate of more than n billion dol
lars a year. The expenditures of
state and local governments, taken in
the aggregate, now fm exceed their
tax receipts, and the ever-growing
deficit is made up by large-scale bor
rowing, “What does it help us," asks
Roger Habson, “to have federal ex-,
penditures cut down two billion dol
lars a year, if at the same time local
expenditure: are jacked up two bil
lion dollars a year?’’
Such are the proves: es by which the
tax burden on the rank and file, and
■particularly on farmers, is made
heavier and heavier. It i to save
Georgia from such danger that the
Pay-As-You-Go forces appeal. Let
us not sell our freedom and prosperi
ty for a mess of bonds.
Dr. Hardman says he is in favor of
h better system of paying the county
school teachers, and so is everybody
else. This has been a slogan of can
didates from time immemorial. Why
don’t ho advance some plan so the
people will know how he means to do
It? There is a vast . difference in en
dorsing an idea and presenting a
Workable plan to carry out this idea.
Since he entered the -ace for
governor, Dr. Hardman has discov
ered that thousands of dollrr worth
of fruit and vegetables lot in Geor
gia every year : cause of no ade
quate facilities for canning. Well,
we can not see how the governor of
Goorgia can remedy this. Dr. Hard
man has been such a wonderful suc
*e:-vs as a business man, he should
vuil3 canneries instead of entering
politics.
—— k
Mcadamea J. H. Campbell, .T. C.
Bennett, and Miss Ella Dickson,
piotorcd to Hoschton, Friday after
n * 11 *° *Ucml c womans auvliarV
■ meeting entertained by Mr=. Ralph
Freeman.
COMMENTS ON
GOVERNOR’S RACE
What Georgia Newspapers
Have to Say Concerning
the Gubernatorial
.Campaign
(From Walton News)
Walton County Road*
A citizen living in the good old
district of Buncombe, this county, a
'county where, in years gone by, the
mads were very, very bad, insists
j that th" people of this county have
no fight, to make against Mr. Holder
[because he is against bonds. He af
firmed that new stretches of road
are being opened up in that section
and that all around us the roads are
fins.
(From Ashburn Wircgra; Farmer)
Unju*t Political Charge*
The seeming apathy that has ex
isted m the early stages of the pres
ent campaign for statehouse offi
cers. turned first to amazement arid
astonishment and afterwards to in
dignation and abhortyice at the
charge i made against some of the
candidates now holding office and
who are either running to succeed j
{Jfeiselves or offering for soma oth
er state office. Men who are con
sidered honorable men by their
neighbors and all who know them
where hearts are not embittered by j
jealousy and envy, or so inflamed
by the greed for office that they lose
thoir sense of gentlemaniiness, tol- 1
erance and equity and indulge in
charges of the yjj*st nature and lan
guage most emphatic, virulent and
reprehensive. Veritable “bilingsgate”
of th - lowest type such as “embez
zler," “robber,” “liar,” “crooked as
a snake in the grass,” “pilcherer”
and all down the vocabulary of vitu
peration.
(From the Carroll County Times)
“A Walkover for Hold**”
After an absentee of ? month from
the state we return to find that a
prediction made by the Times*soma
' weeks ago, namely, that Holder
would have a walkover race for gov
ernor, seems even more imminent
now than when first made by us.
Nor does this conditipn indicate
for one instant that the people are
not in favor of good roads, nor that
they are unwilling to pay for their
construction.
It does indicate, however, that
they are opposed to creating a big
bonded debt when they can accom
plish the .same results on a cash basis
i.y using proper economy and busi
ness methods.
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(From the Adel News)
H older'* Coursj Approved
At last accounts a few -lowspapers
and one or two candidates were hop
ping on John Holder but he pays
little attention to the noise of the
politicians. Plain honest citizen that
he is. he is just quietly going along
and making now friends and votes
by his dignified course in refusing
to be led into a useless wrangle.
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(From tlie Moultrie Observer)
“In the Last Throe*”
John Holder’s opponents arc say
ing some very intemperate things
' about him. These things nearly al
ways come when the opponents get
iu the “last throes."
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! (From I.awrenceville News-Herald)
Look* Like Holder
The Macon Telegraph has come
down off its high horse, and admits
that Holder will not receive a ma
jority over Carswell, Hardman, and
Wood combined, and that there will
be another primucy at which only
the two highest will be permitted
to run, and then he will be licked,
whereas there seems to be no doubt
about Holder getting more county
unit votes than all l;is opponents
put The Telegraph has
uniformly failed to get on the strong
side in Georgia primary elections,
and history is generally pretty apt
to repeat itself, as usual. If Billy
Anderson had lived ‘in ye oldo.i
times" he would ly*ve bom stoned
to death as a false prophet.
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(From Lavonia Times)
The “pay-as-you-go” plan is pretty
good, whether used in paving roads or
every day business.
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Tine Piastre:* on Paved Ro-ds
(From the Valdosta Times)
Chairman John Hofder was up in
N- i-h Carolina Saturday making a
(“good roads” speech In which he
showed that this year would see a
pi . and highway from a point near
<
Stone Mountain to Ferry, Ga. The
work is under way. was u
mod campaign speech if it was made
in North Carolina.
I . f V • 0
, “The One l**u”
(From the Moultrie Observer.)
John Holder will be elected gover
nor because he took the right side
of the bond proposition. It was a
high-handed scheme that was laid to
' mortgage the state of Georgia to the
[road machinery and road material
people through the prosperous me
dium of the big city tanks. It was
Holder who stepped in and saved the
state from this indebtedness. This
race for governor is an appeal from
the legislature. It will cither pa:
Georgia cn record in favor of bonds
or against bonds. If Holder is elect-
ed, the state will be pledged to a
policy of phy as you go. Any at
tempt to find other issues and to
inject personal matters, is an at
tempt to muddy the waters and dodge
certain defeat.
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Ousting Holder
(From the Wilkes County Forum) !
The Macon Telegraph has classed
John Holder so persistently and con
tinuously “day by day in every way,”
that it i said to have contracted such
a rase of sore throat that it can scar
cely speak above a whisper.
“A Walkover for Holder”
(From the Carrol! County Times)
Possibly there was never so little
interest in a political campaign in
this county as is now being mani
fested by the voter and the public
generally.
It is true that there is the usual
complement of state house officers
to be voted for with two or three
candidates to be' chosen from. There
are four for governor, but the peo
ple refuse to enthuse on either one
of these. A vast majority of them
seem to take it for granted that
John Holder has a walkover, and
that there is no need to become ex
cited over a fixed fact.
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Lamar in Holder Column
(From the Barnesville News-Gazette)
.... Lamar is counted in the
Holder column with practical cer
tainty.
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Attending to Busines*
, (From the LaGran te Repor'er)-
John N. Holder seems to Lave
adopted the Coolidge policy of attend
ing to business instead of politics in
his campaign for election to the gov
ernorship. That seems a good indi
cation, when you consider the fact
that his business is paving highways.
Georgia needs paved road ; .
'The People Will Rule
(From Franklin News-Banner)
As the gubernatorial campaign en
ters its final stages, the overwhelm
ing election of John N. Holder, of;
Jackson county, is accepted as cer
tain by persons conversant with sen
timent throughout the stijte. Mr.
Holder’s popular vote will far exceed
that of the combined opposition, and
his majority of county unit votes will
be no less preponderating.
The certainty of Mr. Holder’s elec
tion is based primarily on the real
ization that he has rallied to his sup
! port the great mass of Georgians who
are opposed to a state bond issue.
The campaign has revealed the Jack
son county man as the only candi
date for governor who is opposed to
a bond issue without equivocation or
reservation of any sort.
Efforts of bond advocates' to ob
scure the real issue admittedly have
failed. The people have not been
deceived. Attempts to divert atten
tion have reacted in Mr. Holder’s
favor. The people fully understand
that the campaign involves a test of
strength between those who would
contract a heavy public debt, on the
one hand, and Mr. Holder, on the
other, who is the outspoken champion
of the pay-as-you-go plan of highway
construction.
1 “It is the field against Holder,” re
marked one of the keenest political
observers in the state. “It is high
way bonds against the pay-as-you-go
plan of road building in Georgia. The
issue is clear cut and fully under
stood by the people, despite efforts
to obscure it." **
KNOWS WHO HE HAS TO
BEAT
The Walton News, giving an
account of the speech of George
Carswell, candidate for gover
nor, at Monroe, one day last
week, among bthcr things, said:
“Mr. Carswell gave most of
his time to a discussion of the
record cf one of his opponents,
the man he says that he has got
to beat, John N. HMdcts-"
, A rwtuns In Ssrvice To
Hi* i eople
•
(From Aug data Chronicle)
“He is the pressor of a large
fortune In service to his people"
conclude! a ma*i ifie?r: endorse
ment of John N. Holder by a large
number of citizens of his home coun
ty.
This one sentence sums up Jojin
Holder, who will be named governor
of Georgia September 8, by the larg
est majority in Georgia history.
John N. Holder, good business
man, experienced legislator, rugged
in honesty, a democrat through and
through, with all tyat the name im-
plies', goes quietly forward, attend
ing to his duties as chairman of the
highway department, building high
ways on the “pay as you go” plan, a
plan which, gentlemen opposing him,
cannot successfully attack, and con
sequently they do the most conven
ient thing, side-step, evading the big
i.-sue of the campaign.
Gentlemen who oppose Mr. Holder
'seek to prevent his nomination by
attacking his abusfng him
in general. One of Mr. Holder’s col
leagues on the highway commission,
his neighbors back home, and many
other citizens throughout the state,
v ave answered it eloquently, earnest
ly and convincingly. Of course, some
charges are so ridiculous that Mr.
Holder or his friends would belittle
themselves before the hundreds of
thousands of intelligent Georgia vot
ers to even notice them. S \
With a personal and official record
untarnished and unblemished, John
Holder stands today, the almost uni-
versal choice of the pepple of our
state for governor. We say this
based on reports that come from ev
ery nook and corner of our common
wealth. He will carry a minimum
of 125 counties and probably 140.
He stands four square to every wind
that blows. His armor is truth,
courage is his helmet, and in his
hand is the baton of leadership for a
greater agricultural and industrial
Georgia, while all who know him,
know that in his heart is the spirit oi
service.
No, he isn’t a rich man, but he is
more than that, a successful man who
turns his income into helpfulness and
service for others. He is impervious
t ridiculous and slanderous attacks,
because the people of Georgia know
him and know what is in hi3 heart.
Abase him, slander him, singly if you
will, and in concert,' if you please,
gentlemen; but remember you can
not lift yourself up by tearing the
other fellow down.
The fear that some gentlemen, sen
sing the clement of the situation
might desist ev n for a moment in
attacking Mr. Holder caused us to
heslthte in calling attention to it.
But after September 8, there should
be a chair of applied psychology a'd
ded to the universities, with a special
course for aspiring gubernatorial
candidates.
“He is the possessor of a large
fortune in service to his people,”
reads the tribute to John Holder from
his home people.
Could anything finer be said about
any man than this?
THE NEXT GOVERNOR OF
GEORGIA HERE SATURDAY
(From Braselton Four-County
Booster)
lion. John N. Holder and his
wife were in Braselton last Sat
urday afternoon. Mr. Holder
has thousands of friends through
out this community, who will
give him the biggest vote he has
ever received for any office. We
firmly believe Mr. Holder is the
right man for the governor’s
chair and will make Georgia a
good executive.
We hope the people of Geor
gia will send men to the legis
lature svho will stand by Mr.
Holder and kill every bond Is
sue that comes up before them.
Unjust Criticism
(From Djhlonega Nugget)
We learn that Mr. Carswell, one of
John Holder’s opponents, is criticis
ing Mr. Holder as Chairman of the
Highway Board, for the expenses of
a delegation that was sent to a dis
tant state, at the time when Mr. Hol
der was suspended by the Governor
and had nothing to do with it.
Mr. and Mrs. Jo3e Ferrer of
CiCnfuego, Cuba, after spending a
week with Mr. and Mrs. P. Bertram
left yesterday for their home. Their
son. Taco, who scent the summer
here, went home with them. Mano
lo remain* here to enter Emory Aca
demy, While hero Mr. Ferrer de
cided to send his o’her son, Pepin, ij
Emory Academy for the next term.
State Bon<fS*The
Vital Question In
Governor’s Race
(By W. If. Williamson)
This is the las’ issue of The Herald
before the Sta..* election on next
Wednesday.
I The Herald is vttally interested ir.
gcod government and the election of
! competent men to fill every office.
We consider all the candidates men
of superior intelligence and integrity, j
and whomsoever the people select,!
Georgia will be well governed. <
With the exception of the office of
governor, there are no issues of su- I
prerne importance which overshadow 1
the candidates themselves,, It is
merely a race to decide which is l
the moat popular, and each voter has
the privilege of expressing his choice
far his favorite.
In the governor’s race, there is one
great issue, and only one—whether
or .not the people will have saddled
upon them a debt, of a hundred mil
lion or more dollars in bonds, which
will enslave the people of Georgia
for generations to come. Of the four
candidates for the office of governor,
only one, 4k )l, n N. Holder, is outipok
en and unfalteringly opposed to the
issuance of State bonds to build
roads. He is running on the Pay-
As-You-Go Platform, which is a safe
slogan to follow in any line of busi
ness, whether State or private. The
other candidates are non-committal,
or they are in favor of bonds, or they
are on one side one day, and on the
other the next. • They have no set-
tled convictions on this important
question. These candidates have
sought to darken and be cloud the
issue in the campaign. They have
resorted to abusive and slanderous
statements, and have engaged in
mud-slinging that is beneath the dig
nity of a candidate for governor. The
people of Georgia are not in favor
of a State bond issue, and by their
ballots will resent such methods of
campaigning. If John N. Holder can
not; be elected to the high office of
governor on his own merits, he cer
tainly would not deserve the votes
of the people if he endeavored to
ride into office by slandering his op
ponents.
Again, we repeat, the on? greai,
issue in this campaign is whether or.
not Georgia shall place a mortgage
of millions of dollars upon her people.
No one questions that Georgia wants
paved highways, no one questions
that Georgia wants better educational
advantages, but shall we pay for
them as we get them, or mortgage our
future with a great bond issue?
In 1877, the bonded indebtedness
of this State was $10,777,009. To
date we have paid on this debt $5,-
888,000 on the principal, and we
have paid $18,531,000 interest, and
we still owe the remaining $5,000,000
of the principal. At the rate the
State is now retiring this principal,
viz: SIOO,OOO each year, it will be
fifty years before this debt is final
ly paid; or, in other words, the prin
cipal and interest on this debt will ag
gregate of nearly $35,000,-
000 when it is finally paid.
This is an object lesson that stares
Georgia in the face, and it should bo
a tower from which warning light
should be flashed the people at all
times, telling us of the seriousness
of debt, and the ruin that comes
from the extravagant use of the
State’s credit.
Mr. Holder is the only candidate
for governor who is pledged to keep
this great State out of this large in
debtedness. He has been chosen to
carry the banner of anti-debt, and
we feel sure hs will receive the ma
jority of the votes cast on next Wed
nesday. His election seems assured.
His friends in Jackson county arc
standing loyally behind him, and will
go to the polls and cast their votes
to vindicate the principles for which
he stands.
Detours And Construction
Politicians there may be who are
so wise that they can build hard-sur
faced roads with no need for de
tours while construction is going on,
and so powerful that they can con
trol the rain from heaven, making
it to fall on field and garden, with
never a drop on ways of travel. But
the Gainesville -Eagle doubts l that
such wonder-working are really to be
found in Georgia, although there are
partisans and propagandists for state
bonds who seem fully equal to pro
fessing those miraculous gifts.
The Eagle’s remark is prompted by
an attempt of theirs to misrepresent
the roads of Hall county and to bp
little the work of the highway de
partment. During the recent down
pours a certain detour between
Gainesville and Buford, around a
stretch of the main road which 13
being hard surfaced, became soaked
and heavy. Thereupon the camp of
politics whose strategy it is to dis
credit or ignore what is being achiev
ed for Georgia, set up a cry that
hotels were empty, that crop values
were being destroyed, that ruin ar.d
uesolation were threatened—all “On
Account of State Highway.” The
incident would have been too triylal
for comment cave for the fact that
it was so characteristic of the meth
ods cf extremists trying to force an
i:v men t; state bond irsvve on the
taxpayers.
See us for Meat, Lard,
Fleur, Sugar, or anything in
f.hc Grocery Line.—Boggs
Eros. 3c Dadisman, Phone
245.
WINDER GROUP SEEKS
TO REORGANIZE BANK
CLOSED IN CHAIN FAILURE
Winder, Ga.—Since the closing of
the Winder branch of the Georgia
State Bank, efforts have been made
by those interested locally in the
Winder blanch to get it disconnected
from the parent bank and reopen for
business by the state banking de
partment.
The Winder branch is only about
a year old, h-a3 good clean papers,
and splendid deposits, and was clos
ed in the failure of the parent bank.
Some of the best business men of
Winder were associated with the lo
cal bianca and say that it has been
organized for such a short*time that
its affairs are necessarily in good
shape, with good deposits and no
insolvent or worthless papers. C. O.
i Maddox, an experienced banker and
president the local branch, has
! been appointed liquidating agent.
The Kiwarns club of Winder has
taken an interest and he is asking
the other Kiwanis clubs of the state
to assist in getting this branch dis
connected from the parent bank.
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MAYSVILLE TAKES STEPS
TO REORGANIZE BANK
Maysmlle, Ga.—A mass meeting
was held here Friday night for the
purpose of formulating plans for
organizing a bank over the
assets of the Maysville branch of the
Georgia State bank. It was agreed
to give all depositors of the old bank
an opportunity to take stock in the
new, and a committee was appointed
to solicit subscriptions. About 100
attended the meeting, and all seem
ed optimistic over the outlook for
reopening the bank for business.
JUDGE PARK SEES EARLY RE
OPENING OF CLOSED BANKS
j Judge Orville A., Park, who has
I been representing the state banking
department ire the hearings on the
affairs of the Bankers Trust com
pany, returned to Atlanta Saturday
after a conference with the comp
! troller general of Florida, predicting
the reopening: of all Georgia and
Florida banks which were forAd to
close by the failure of their fiscal
agent, the Bankers Trust company.
“Within a short time,” Judge Park
said, “the remainder of these chain
banks will reopen almost without ex
ception, I I refer to the
towns where there was are is a real
need for a bank. Some members of
the chain never had a reason for ex
istence, either because the town
could not support a bank or because
there was already another strong
bank situated there.”
HOWELL TAYLOR VISITS
RELATIES AND FRIENDS
Mr. Howell Taylor, an Elbert coun
ty boy who holds a responsible trav
eling position with the Guf Refin
ing Cos., with headquarters at Pensa
cola, Fla., is on a visit to his parents,
Mr.' and Mrs. C. P. Taylor. Mr.
Taylor's family, consisting of wife
and five children, are with him.
They are making the trip through
thf country.—Elberton Star.
Mr. Taylor, who for a number of
years made Commerce his home, is
here with his family spending a few
days. . For all we know, he may still
have some of the ink on his hands
that tmide them so white and cleg#
while he was associated with the
News, force. His friends here are
•glad to have him come back to see
them.—Commerce News.
NEW VIRGIL
Our literary school will close next
Friday, and we regret very much
giving up Miss Jordon, as she has
proven herself one among the best
teachers, and a kind friend to all.
The protracted meeting closed at
this place last Saturday, with four
teen new members. Much good was
done throughout the meeting.
Mr. and Mis. T. W Phillips and
baby of Pleasant Grove spent last
week with their parents here, Mr.
and Mrs. Hugh Phillips, attending
the meeting at this place.
The little babe of Mr. and Mrs.
L. P. Doster was very sick last Satur
day, but vve are glad to say is bet
ter at this writing. •
Mr. John Stewart of Jefferson was
visiting relatives here last Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Phillips and
daughter were the Sunday afternoon
gQests of the latter’s mother, Mrs.
Roxey Phillips, and family.
Rev. and Mrs. J. O. MeNeal and
children, and Rev. Lucious McNeal
and son. dined with Mr. and Mrs.
Hugh Phillips la3t Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Whitehead
visited relatives near Hoschton last
Sunday p. m.
Mr. and Mrs. Grady Bryant ana
children spent Saturday night and
Sunday with their parents at Pender
grass.
All School Books strictly
cash to every one. —Boggs
Bros. & Dadisman.