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By Holder & Williamson
BONDS ORNO BONDS
Issue Is Plain And
Hardman Must Face
It, Declares Holder
Pointing out that he received
m ore than three thousand votes in
the recent primary than were re
ceived by Dr. Hardman; that he car
ried Jackson, the home county of
both, by a substantial majority, and
that he ran second in most of the
counties which he did not carry,
John N. Holder, w|jo with Dr. Hard
man will run off the governor’s
race in the second primary on Oc
tober 6, declared he welcomes the
coming battle.
“The issue is plain a-nd well-de
fined,” says a statement issued by
Mr. Holder. “It is state bonds or no
state bonds. An honorable reord of
public service versus a check book.
I do not believe that Georgia can
be converted into a Pennsylvania or
an Illinois.”
Mr. Holder’s statement follows in
full:
To the People of Georgia:
Complete but unofficial returns
from every county in Georgia in the
primary held September 8, show that
I received more than three thou
sand more votes than Dr. Hardman;
that I carried the county of' Jack
soh, in which we both live and
where our records and characters
are well* known to the voters, by a
substantial majority; and that Dr.
Hardman carried two more coun
ties than I did.
Say* He Was Leading Candidate
These results also show that in
the counties which Dr. Hardman
carried, the race was, in the main
between Dr. Hardman and myself;
that in the counties George Carswell
parried,, t'he race was between
George" Carswell and myself; and
that in the counties that J. O. Wood
carried, the race was between J. O.
Wood and myself. This proves con
clusively, I think, that I was the
leading candidate in the raoe.
.In statements published this morn
\wg, Mr. Carswell and Mr. Wood an
•aounc* that they will support Dr.
Hardman. They have been doing
this all along, under the guise of
running for governor (themselves,
and their action will create no sur
prise, especially after the long and
fervid conferences held by Dr. Hard
man in Atlanta Friday with Mr. J.
0. Wood and Mr. George Carswell.
It is one thing to ask a man to
vote for you for governor, and an
other thing to deliver that vote to
somebody else. I have too much re
spect for the intelligence and patriot
ism of those who voted for George I
Carswell and J. 0. Wood to believe
that they can be delivered like sheep
into the camp of those who would
foist a huge bond issue on the state
and lay new tax burdens on the
people.
Real Issue Undetermined
The people of Georgia, for the first
time since the great campaign of
1906, have an opportunity now to
pass on a supremely vital economic
issue. Too many of the campaigns
since that time have been waged on
merely factional or personal issues.
1 say it without bitterness —the pri
mary held last Wednesday resulted
in a stalemate," largely because of
slanders hurled against me by my
opponents. The real issue was left
undertermined.
But in the coming primary the
question of whether Georgia shall
have high credit and low taxes or
low credit and high taxes must be
decider}. Whether the state of
Georgia shall make much needed
improvements in paved highways
hy paying as she goes, or by mort
gaging the future with huge bond
issues —that is the question.
My opponent, Dr. L. G. Hardman,
c annot escape the issue in this run
-oVer primary. He and his allies
shall he made to face it.
My campaign was fought on. an
economic issue of grave import to
the ’ate. The campaign 0 f my op- j
P°ncnts was one of slander and i
*huse. In the closing days of the
campaign the falsest and most libel-:
®u charge ever made against a pub- j
‘*c man in Georgia was underhand-;
edlv circulated by Dr. Hardman’s j
heac juarters against me. This was
Bo * done until the eleventh hour of j
l he campaign, when there was scant
'TP' rtunity to counteract it. That,!
to °. has- now been swept aside.
The camouflage issue of machine
c' i 'ies is swept aside. Dr. Hard-j
CLIPPINGS FROM WINDER NEWS
Death of David nrchir
The death of David Archer was
very sad. He was known as “Uncle
Dave.” He was about 75 years of
age and was healthy all of his life
up until January whbn his baby son
was buried. He then began to go
down in health. He leaves a wife,
one son and four daughters, 36
grandchildren and 17 great-grand
children. Rev. J. H. Wood had charge
of the funeral at the Presbyterian
church and he was laid to rest in
Rbse Hill cemetery by the side of
his son. He was born and reared in
Jackson county.
Death of Mr. Hoyt Lyle
The friends of Mrs. Fannie Couch
will be sorry to know that she re
cently lost her only brother, Mr. Hoyt
Lyle, by death. Mr. Lyle was in
the sanitorium at Milledgeville at the
time of his death, and had been visit
ed often and shown many attentions
by this devoted sister. Three other
sisters, a wife and five children sur
vive him. The interment was at the
old family burying ground, Maxey,
Ga. q
First Baie of Cotton
The first bale of cotton brought
to Winder was received on last Fri
day, September 3rd. It was grown
by Tom Hayes wh* lives on the
Millsaps farm near the Appalachee
river and weighed 382 pounds. It
was classed as midling and brought
18 cents, which was a premium of
one cent over the market.
IT TOOK OFF HIS SHOES
A colored brother named Alex Hen
derson was taking a little nap the
other day during one of our thunder
storms when a bolt of lightning en
tered the room and neatly took off
both his shoes. Except for waking
him up from his slumbers no damage
was done.—Gordele Dispatch.
man, Mr.-Carswell and Mr. Wood
knew perfectly well that I had no
alliance with any other candidate.
The Only Machines
The fact that more than 70,000
Georgians voted for me shows that
the mass of the people themselves
did npt believe it. The truth of the
matter is that - the only machines
that are involved in the coming pri
mary and that were really involved
in Jhe late primary were the money
machine headed by Dr. Hardman and
his check book and the machine of
Governor Clifford Walker, with its
army of employees, by which he
manipulated county after county,
throwing votes to Carswell, where
most needed; votes to Wood, where
most needed, and votes to Hardman,
where most needed. The charge that
there is a highway machine is false,
but if there is a political influence,
in the highway department it is, as
every well informed man in Georgia ,
knows, directed against me and not |
fer me.
The opportunity will not be given
this time to let slanders go un
checked. My mistake was that I
thought an- honorable record, cover-
ing four terms as speaker of the
hr use of representatives, many of
fices of public trust, and unfailing
vindication in every race that I made
in my own county, where the people
know a man’s character best, was
proof against slanders.
Welcome* the Battle
I welcome the coming battle; the
issue is plain and well defined. It
fs state bonds or no state bonds.
An honorable record of public serv
ice versus a check book. I lo :ot
believe that Georgia an be convert
ed into a Pennsylvania or an Illi
nois.
In due time the people of Georgia
will be told of the vast expendi
tures of money made to defeat me
in the state. I have supreme confi
dence in the people of Georgia, and
I have a feeling of eternal gratitude
to the 70,000 votes who withstood
the slanderous attacks made upon
me by my opponents.
From every section of the state,
including counties carried by me and
counties carried by my opponents,
there has come a regular flood of let
ters and telegrams, assuring me that
in the runover race a genuine victory
for the real interests of the people of
Georgia is certain and sure. These
letters and telegrams have come
both from old friends who supported
me in the recent primary and from
new friends who proffer their sup
port in the coming primary.
tOHN N. HOLDER.
JEFFER3ON, Jackson County, Georgia.
PROCEEDINGS DEMOCRATIC
’ EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE,
JACKSON, COUNTY, SEP
TEMBER 9, 1926.
Motion made and carried, approv
ing accounts for expenses of the pri
mary of Sept. 8, 1926.
The new committee elected by
each district on September 8, 1926,
reported as follows:
Miller’s District, D. R. Marler.
Minish’s District, J. B. Hardman.
Porter’s District, J. M. Davis.
Wilson’s District, J. O. Voyles.
Harrisburg District, J. Morgan Wil
hite.
Center District, J. P. Johnson.
Randolph District, G. S. Duke.
Talmo District, J. H. A. Simmons.
Cunningham District, W. T. Long.
Attica District, J. T. Hale.
Newton District, J. L. Barnett.
Hoschton District, R. E. Stewart.
Red Etone District, E. D. Wh^lchel.
Jefferson District, J. E. Tribble.
Went into election of officers, re
sulting as follows: Chairman: Homer
Hancock; Secretary-Treasurer: T.
T. Benton.
Motion made and carried, ordering
the result of the primary to be de
clared as tabulated by the secretary.
Motion made and carried, that our
representatives in the legislature be
asked to prepare and introduce a till
that would enable the registration i
list in Jackson county to be perfected.
Motion made and carried, that tijs;
body go on record as favoring tie
putting into effect immediately h
Jackson county of the Australian b;|-
lot system of holding elections n
all precincts.
T. T. Benton was appointed b
§ee the proper county officials, afl
ask that such steps as may be neca
sary to put this system into use im
mediately, be taken by these official
No further business appearing, tl
committee adjourned.
Homer Hancock', Chairman, s
T. T. Benton, Secretary.
42 MILLIONAIRES IN GEORGIA
INCOME TAX FIGURES SHO*
Ngw York.—There are 11,000 mi
lionaires and probably one billionaii
in the United States in the opinio
of Joseph S. McCoy, treasury aett
ary.
“The billionaire probably lives j 1
New York,”*Mr. McCoy guesses, I
the current American Banker*’ fij\
sociation Journal.
i Nine years ago, when war profit!'
held sway, there were 11,800 million
aires, but 2,800 of the toppel in
' 1920, and 2,000 of them have been
replaced, studies of income tax re
turns reveal. Some of the war mil
lionaires were even wiped off the
income tax lists by the end of the
1920 depression, buf today one out
of every 10,450 Americans is a mil
lionaire.
New York, with 2,800 millionaires,
j leads the list. Pennsylvania is next
(•with 1,052, then Illinois follows with
800, Massachusetts with 610, Cali
fornia 470, and New Jersey 390,
North Dakota ts the only state with-
out a millionaire, anfl Idaho, Nevada,
South Dakota and New Mexica have
one each.
Other states are: Alabama, 26;
Arizona, 7; Arkansas, 24; Colorado,
44; Connecticut, 180; Delaware, 24;
District of Columbia, 86; Florida, 51 ;
Georgia, 42; Hawaii, 30; Indiana, 85;
lowa, Kansas, 17; Kentucky, 32;
Lousiana, 35; Maine, 30; Maryland,
129; Michigan, 312; Minnesota, 110;
Mississippi, 14; Missouri, 174; Mon
tana, 8; Nebraska, 16; New Hamp
shire, 28; North Carolina, 63; Ohio,
361; Oklahoma, 33; Oregon, 28;
Rhode Island, 83; South Carolina,
19; Tennessee, 29; Texas, 96; Utah,
6; Vermont, 15; Virginia, 36; Wash
ington, 24; West Virginia, 52; Wis
consin, 95, and Wyoming, 2.
Next to the billionaire are three
men worth $1,000,000,000
them, and in 1924 there were 74
Americans with incomes of $1,000,-
000 a year.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18TH !
* ,
On account of holiday, our stoni
will be closed all day Saturday, Sepi
tember 18th. We will appreeiatij
th<? favor if our friends and patron*)
will come to Athens before the 18th*
or thereafter, as no business will b<j
transacted by us on Saturday, Sej
tember 18th. I
MICHAEL RROTHEIJS, INC. i
Athens, Georgia
RUN-OVER PRIMARY OCT. 6TH
John N. Holder led the four can
didates for governor in popular
votes, and Dr. L. G. Hardman led in
county unit votes.
In popular votes the standing was:
Holder, 70,818.
Hardman, 67,051.
Carswell, 31,978.
Wood, 12,731.
This made a total of 182,580 votes
reported.
The standing in county unit votes
was:
Dr. 1.. G. Hardman, 168.
John N. Holder, 158.
George Carswell, 72. ,
jJ. O. Wood, 16.
There are 414 county unit votes,
S being necessary for a choice. No
orf candidate having received a ma
jo ity, a second primary will be held
0< ober 6 between Mr. Holder and
Di Hardman to decide the guber
na trial race.
lAYSVILLE BANK TO OPEN
From Banks County Journal)
lr. to. C. Sanders, mayor of Mays
vil ■, made a very interesting talk
to he people in Homer Wednesday
me niug. An effort is being made to
op i the bank in his town, and he ex-
pli ned the plan. A mass meeting
jwi held in Maysville, Tuesday, when
jab ut 300 depositors of the bank were
pr sent. They elected Messrs. San
dejs, Chandler and McCurdy to man
! agi the affairs of the institution,
provided enough depositors signed an
sgieement to that effect. If 80
per cent of the depositors sign up,
the State Banking Company will al
low the local people to take over the
bank and liquidate themselves. A
new bank with anew name may
spring up in that town, and it is possi
ble for the depositors t be paid be
tween 50 and 100 per cent. This is
the only plan whereby the depositors
have a chance to realize any reason
able amount on their deposits. If
you have even a small amount on de
posit there, go over and sign up for
it at once.
WINNERS IN GEORGIA PRIMARY
For United States Senator—Walter
F. George over Richard B. Russell.
For Governor—Run-over primary
October 6 necessary between Dr. L.
G. Hardman and jJohn N. Holder.
For Commissioner of Agriculture
.— Eugene Talmadge over J. .1. Brown, j
1 For Attorney General—George j
M. Napier over J. Herrman Milner.
1 For Public Service Commission—
Wit J. Woodruff, of DeKalb, over 1
\\ R. Frier, of Coffee. *
'or Pension Commissioner—John j
V. Clarke over J. Sam Askew.
’or State Superintendent of Edu
cibn —Fort E. Land over N. H.
Blard.
’or Associate Justice Supreme
Cjp Judge J, K. Hints over Judge
live.
for Justice Court of Appeals—
Jsfc Alex W. Stephens over Judge
Jf. High smith.
|
ITE CRAIG AND HIS
CHRYSLER TAKE BIG MONEY
T*ler “70” Run* Away Witjp Other
Car* in Big Florida Race*.
(From Daytona Beach News.)
fhat is thought to have been the
competitive racing event ever
in the history of the beach
rse was run off Monday after
n, Labor Day, and the old Triple
ourse.
’ete Craig .in the second race of
day drove the ten miles in 8
liutes and 30 seconds. The form
jrecord is ten minutes flat.
There wfre 13 entries.
ft is estimated that a crowd of five
*usand was in attendance, equally
large as the one of the Fourth of
Jy meet. The entire assembly
fnt away satisfied. Speed to burn
M the rule and thrills and action
(lore filled the classy bill.
True to predictions, Pete Craig, 10.1
.1 leadfooter, who copped two firsts
1 the July fourth card, at the helm
! his speedy Chrysler “70” yester
ly took the major portion of the
*jney by virtue of one first, a sec
fd and a third 1 . It was said by quite
j few that Pete was’ not himself
isterday- if that is true what would
t have done if right?
: Mrs. Fred Evans and children of
(cala, Fla., are guests of her par
nts, Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Appleby, at
feeir horn;.* in Jefferson.
Thursday, September IG, 1926.
; Fifth of Counties
In Governor Race
Won By Under 100
' s— ' i
The record-breaking closeness if
the gubernatorial race in the dem
ocratic primary last Wednesday was
made more impressive Saturday, when
official figures revealed that approxi
mately one-fifth of the counties In'
the state were carried by pluralities
j of less than 100 votes, while the mar
gin of victory were less than 25 in
eleven counties.
mately one-fifth of the counties by
pluralities of less than 100 \otes,
while the margin of victory were less
than 25 in eleven counties.
Dr. Hardman led in the’number
of counties carried, 64, with Holder
a close second with 62. Carswell
carried 28 counties and Wood 7. *
As examples of the nearness
the contest, Dr. Hardman carried
Campbell county by three votes over
Mr. Holder, Catoosa county by 18
votes, McDuffie county by seven votes,
Miller county by 25 votes, over the
same opponent, and Webster county
by 16 votes over Mr. Carswell.
Mr. Holder carried Putnam coun
ty by 14 votes, Screven county by
24 votes, and Taliaferro county by
19 votes over Dr. Hardman; Quit
man county by 23 votes and
county by 12 votes over Mr. Cars
well.
Mr. Wood took Cherokee county
by five votes over Mr. Holder.
ITEMS FROM ATHENS BANNER.
HERALD
S. M. C Win* Over Jefferion By
3-2 Score Saturday
The Southern Manufacturing Com
pany baseball team won over Jeffer
son here Saturday. The final score
was 3 to 2.
Jefferson scored first in the fourth
.inning and drew her final marker in
J the eighth, and in the ninth, with
the score deadloked at two on,
“Creekmore for the winners sent a
screaming single down the third
base line, scoring Smith from second
6ace, who had previously hit safely.
Sosbee, Sheridan, and Nunnally
led the hitting attdek for the victors,
while the batting of Nunnally fea
tured for the losers.
Mrs. D. .1. D. Myers is in Athens
for the winter, having entered her
daughters, Suidee and Mary in the
‘Athens High School. Mr. Myers, a
native of LaFayette, Ga., anti a
graduate of the University of Geor-'
gia is the American Counsul to
Durango, Mexico.
Miss Marie Storey left Thursday
for a visit to Mrs. Stewart Willis in
Pelham, before going to Quitman
where she will teach Home Economics
in the Quitman High School.
* * •
Miss Catbeine Massey of Cedar
town has entered the Athens High
School and will ba with Mrs. George
Thurman on the Jefferson Rive?
Road for the winter.
JEFFERSON GIRL SERVES RO
CHELLE POSTOFFICE FOR
TEN YEARS
Miss Annie C. Brown, who has for
the past ten years served the patrons
of the Rochelle postoffice as assist
ant to the postmaster, has resigned
her place, to take effect at once.
Miss Annie has made many friends'
during her stay at the postoffice,
who will miss her smiling face and
kind and gentle disposition.—Rochel
le New Era.
J’he above notice is read with
much interest by the friends ot Miss
Brown in Jefferson and Jackson
county, where she formerly resid
ed. She is the daughter of the lute
Col. and Mrs. Geo. W. Brown, and
has msny relatives and friends here,
who are pleased to know of the ex
cellent services she has rendered at
the postoffice in Rochelle.
JURY REVISERS IN SESSION
The Board of Jury Revisers of
Jackson county has been in session
at the court house this week.
The board is composed of the fol
loming: J. H. Boggs, W. P. Frost, J.
P. Johnson, Ernest Brock, W. M.
Thurmond, R. E. Stewart.
Stoy Bailey of Palatka, Fla., has
been visiting his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. G. W. Bailey.
Vol. 51. No. 20.
I Waycross-Florida Highway
Stretch Now is All Pave<|
| Waycross, Ga.. Sept. 10.—Way
cross is celebrating this week the
completion of the paving of the Cen
tral Dixie highway from Waycross
to the Florida line. This gives a
paved highway from Waycross to
Jacksonville and on to Miami.
Work has been started paving this
highway north of Waycross to the
Bacon county line! Immediately
this is completed the contract will be
be let to carry the paving on into
* Alma.
At Alma the paving will join the
Dixie highway to Macon, the Beeline
highway to Macon, and the Wilson
highway to Augusta.
On each of these there is a strong
probability of a continuously pqved
highway from one end of Georgia to
the other, with the likelihood that the
Wilson highway will be the first to
reach this goal. At Macon the Cen
tral Dixie highway and the Beeline
highway connect with the highway
that will be paved into Atlanta bjr the
first of the year.
The completion of this paving
south of Waycross brings to success
! a dream of many years. About sev
en years ago this road was graded.
1 About two years later it was sand
clayed. Later on the first seven
miles were paved. Now the entire
stretch is paved.
This is the highway about which
it was said a fish could swim all the
way from Waycrass to Jacksonville,
which shows the nature of the diffi
culfies that have been overcome.
The Finley Construction company
was the contractor in charge.
MISS BESSIE KEMPTON
WINS ASSEMBLY RACE
Miss Bessie Kempton, of Fulton
county, will he the only woman to
answer roll call in the Georgia as
sembly next year. 4
This probability became known
Thursday when it was reported that
four other women aspirants had met
defeat, thus leaving Fulton with the
only woman in the house or senate.
Miss A. Mayhahly Lancaster was
defeated* in Heard county for the
legislature by J. E. Favor, the vote
standing 92 to 500.
Mrs. N. H. Peterson lost a race for
, the senate from the 47Hi district to
E. P. Bowen.
Mrs. Viola Rn Napier, of Bibb,
, Was defeated for reelection by about
i25 votes.
So’after A flurry in which two wo
men were seated in the legislatori
at the last election, women have in
a measure withdrawn from puhlio
life in Georgia and have left th 9
field cleared to the men. And Mjcs
i\cmj ii.n is the sole survivor.
MR. FERRER EXPRESSES AP
PRECIATION
Editor Jackson Herald, Jefferson,
Ga. Dear Mr. Editor: In my name,
and that of my wife, I beg you to
tell good bye to those of our friends
that we could not do so personally,
and reiterate to all o fyou our grati
tude for the many kindnesses shown
to us while we were in Jefferson,
and also for the manifested kindness
and help given to our sons, Manolo
and Paco, while they were in your
city arid among you. •
With many thanks for you, dear
editor, an<j telling you all “UNTIL
WE RETURN AGAIN”, I bek to re
main your sincere friend.
Jose Ferrer.
At home, Independencia 210,
Cienpregos, Cuba.
THE ROSY TINTED MELON
The Georgia watermelon, rosy
tinted, delicious—than which there
are none better—although fewer in
number than they were some ten days
ago, are still luscious, 4nd after them
go the lovers of the fruit with no
abating interest and delight. If
there by a country where “milk and
honey” flows in more abundanl vol
ume than ours, we have let to learn
of it. And to deorgia, the fairest
of the group of in the Union,
belongs the credit of having reaped
the grandest, most abundant harvests
of fruits and vegetables—all of high
est quality—during the present .year,
—Walton News.
Mrs. Lee Cooper and three sons,
who have been visiting Mr. and Mrs.
S. B. Archer, have returned to their
home in Birmingham, Ala.