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Official Organ of Taliaferro County.
Crawfordville. Ga.. August JO, 19o6.
Mr. Editor:
This contribution is not
intended to advance the interest
of any candidate, nor is it a plea
for Taliaferro’s welfare, nor for
the well being of her citizenry,
but it is an humble, earnest plea
for Taliaferro’s sacred honor.
if anything herein written
shall induce any voter to con
wider well before he cas»s his
vote in such a direction as that
in after days, upon more mature
and sober thought, he will not
regret his action then this con
tributor will feel that his humble
effort has not been in vain.
There are
ing the oflice of Governor of
Georgia who will be voted for in
the coming state primary. Only
two of these are considered to be
really in the race in this county :
The Hon. Hoke SSinith of Pulton
and Col. .fames M. Smith of
Oglethorpe.
The few scattering votes that
will be cast for the three other
candidates will not amount to 5
per cent, of the entire vote cast
in the county.
The reason for this is plain and
is well understood by every in¬
telligent voter, consequently
needs no comment in this com
nninictttion.
Col. James M. Smith has quite
a large following in some parts
of tho county and they are ap¬
parently very confident that
their candidate will be trium¬
phantly elected.
Some of his more ardent sup¬
porters are so sure of this that
they are offering to bet large
sums of money upon the issue.
Are there any real grounds for
this assurance on their part?
Is there any real probability
that Col. James Smith will carry
the county?
Do his supporters really ex¬
pect it? Do they really wish it?
Are they in dead earnest? Is
there any real danger that Talia¬
ferro county will cast its vote
that way? I trust not. Is there
any real danger t hat our county
is about to be subjected to so
great a humiliation? Prom the
depth of my heart I hope not.
With all the earnestness of my
nature 1 hope not. For the love
of my home I hope uol. For the
sake of humanity I hope not.
For the honor of my beloved
county l hope not. For the
memory of her sacred dead 1
hope not.
\\ hat has Col. Jus. Smith ever
done to commend him to tlie
voter's of this county? What is
therein the history of his life
thut would commend him to the
voters of any county? What has
lie attained to that tits him for
t he highest office in the gift of
the slate.
Ha-' he been successful iu busi
nes>. Grant it. Has he
mutated great wealth? Admit it.
When these are told ail is told.
but how did his success
From whence and how came
vast estate? By trading in
and blood. By dealing in
misery such only as that
which a convict slave is
quainted. The price of the
ing of the utterly hopeless.
price of groans such as only
chained slave can utter.
legitimate result of the crack
the convict slave driver s whip,
The money constituting his
great bank account is red with
the blood that dripped from the
shackled ankles and bleeding
backs of those who made it.
His vast domain is sonorous
with tho echoes of agonizing, de¬
spairing cries of anguish, heart
rending, hopeless pleas for mercy
that never came.
The roads and by ways, the
hills and dales, the ravines and
woodlands on his vast estates
are haunted by the ghosts of
those who were done to death
by his inhuman task masters.
Cruelty—such as is character¬
istic of a convict lessee only-—is
stamped upon every bale of cot¬
ton, every bushel of corn, every
acre of land, every foot of rail¬
way owned by this man of suc¬
Voters of Taliaferro; do you
court success at such a price?
Do you want his wealth at such
a ransom? Are you in earnest
when you say you want such a
man for your governor? Are
you in dead earnest when .you
say you want a man for governor
who is, by association, better
acquainted with the crack of the
whip and the clanking of chains
than he is with the simplest prin¬
ciple of statesmanship? Let me
answer for you. In the name of
humanity, NO.
Have I said enough? Is it
necessarry for me to call your
attention to that part of Col.
Smith’s life history that does not
tit him for so high and honorable
an office?
Is it not enough for me to ask
Taliaferro’s voters if they want
a man for their governor who
when addressing the. people in
his own behalf is obliged to con¬
sume over half his time to dis¬
prove the uumerous charges in¬
volving social and statutory un¬
righteousness that have been
made agaiust him in the press
and from the rostrum, boldly,
fearlessly, by speakers and
writers, who are amply able to
make good, and whose news¬
paper finds it necessary from
time to time to publish certificates
of character for him written by
good natured and charitable
preachers? Let me again answer
for you. In the name of civ right¬
eousness and social purity.
Never! • Never.
Neither Clark Howell, nor Col.
Estill. nor Judge Russell, nor
Hoke Smith have found it nec¬
essary to make such a defense.
While I am pleading for the
honor of Taliaferro county, let
mo point you—by comparison—
to a monument that stands in
front of Liberty Hall,
It was erected to the memory
of Georgia’s foremost citizen,
Georgia’s greatest --------------- statesman. .
Not so much because he was a j
and patriot, philosopher—all a statesman, an of orator, which j j
a
he was. preeminently—but be
cause lie was more than all these, I
and above all else, an honorable,
God fearing man. a despiser of I
; gold and a lover of his race. :
people loved him.
Alexander H. Stephens was—
25 years ago—Taliaferro’s type
of a man for governor.
What is Taliaferro’s type of a
man for governor today?
Is Taliaferro county, today,
ready and willing that Steph¬
ens’ pure, white mantle should
fall upon the shoulders of a man
who has nothing else in God’s
world to recommend him except
affluence, money .^wealth?
Let me answer once again for
you. In the the name of exalted
statesmanship. Neyer. Never.
Never!
God forbid. Shame, for shame
the very thought.
But—which God forbid—if
Taliaferro, blinded for a time by
the god of greed and gold,
should elect to set up simple
success in the place of merit,
money in place of character, low
political trickery in the place of
exalted statesmanship; if she
should so far forget her sacred
heritage as to be willing to take
down the pure white banner
borne aloft by her peerless
statesman, aud substitute for it
one of a saffron hue, all besmear¬
ed by blood and dirt; should she
elect to set up a statue dedicated
to the god of greed as a standard
for her people’s morality and
statesmanship; then let us, in
God's name takedown, tenderly,
the pure white monument that
stands in front of Liberty Hall
and reverently bury it out of our
sight forever.
Then down on some low
marshy plain from which arises
perpetually, impure, unhealthy,
immoral miasma, let us set up a
statue to the god of mammon.
Then let us say to our benighted
people here's your type of
statesman. Bow down to it,
worship it. vote for it.
From a very ancient
we learn of a man. and a very no
table character, who had inherited
by birth what was in
day considered an almost price
less heritage. Having no regard
for the future welfare of hims< If
and his descendants, and being
utterly devoid of any noble or
patriotic impulse, being hungry.
He stood for the highest type
i of mwrnlity and purity; in politics
in society and in the home.
He was always the friend of
the poor, the unfortunate, the
distressed and the fallen.
Abounding in love for his fel
low man, his sympathy and char
ity extended not only to the poor,
the unfortunate, the ■ distressed
and the helpless, against whom
j there was no suspicion of itnmor
ality, but extended even to those
who on account of crimes com¬
mitted were shut in behind pris¬
on walls and to those who were
bound by chains while working
out an expiation of their crimes
against society and the State.
His great heart was easily
touched with a feeling sense of
the infirmities, weaknesses, er¬
rors, sorrows, woes, tears, groans
and misfortunes peculiar to the
unfortunate of his race, and
what he had of the world’s goods ____ J
—and there was no suspicion of
stain upon it—he gave freely - - to
the alleviation of the sorrows
and the necessities of all such.
His life was a universal bene¬
faction. He was the pride of
his people, the joy of his county,
the honor of his state, the be¬
loved of the entire country; a
statesman without fear and with¬
out reproach. No wonder his
Campaign Comment.
BY
J. A. BEAZLEY.
Voter, would you like for your wife
or daughter to form the acquaintance
of Jim Smith and be known as one of
his lady friends? We think not. Then
is he worthy of the highest office we
can give a man?
Would you be willing for your young
son to serve 5 years in any capacity
under Jim Smith for a thousand dol¬
lars a year above expenses? If you
love that boy you would not. Then is
he fit to be governor?
The politicians are making desperate
efforts to take the county away from
Hoke, but in their mad effort to do so
they committed a great mistake in try¬
ing to concentrate’on Jim Smith for
they can’t force the people to tie onto
a man from whose very name the wo¬
manhood of Georgia recoils.
It is being said that all sorts of tricks
will be resorted to in this county to
defeat the will of the people—that the
polls will not be opened in certain pre¬
cincts and that a sham contest will be
instituted after the primary in order
to tie the delegation up and exclude it
from tlie convention and thus throw
out two votes for Hoke Smith.
We do not believe that these gentle¬
men who compose the Executive Com¬
mittee will allow themselves to be
made the instruments for such nefa¬
rious schemes. The will of the people
ought to reign and these gentlemen
recognize that fact as much so as any
one else and will not be made parties
to a scheme to defeat the will of the
FOR SALE
One 4-room house, and lot of 2 acres.
Good barn and stables on place.
THE HOUSE IS NEW,
Situated in a
Good Residence Part
Of ~~......................... the town of Crawfordville. Terms, half
j Casb, bldtinCC Oil eUZY * temiS.
ROGER D. FLYNT,
Crawfordville,.....Georgia.
j he, one day, exchanged his sacred
birthright for a mess of pottage.
For a dinner!
A wayfaring man though a
fool cannot fail to understand.
Now, iu conclusion, let me urge
you, my fellow countrymen,in the
name of all that is elevating and
exalting, in the name of all that
is pure and moral, in the name
of all that is. noble aud honorable,
to cast your ballot on the 22nd
inst, for that candidate—no mat¬
ter who is for him or against
him—who, in your opinion meas¬
ures nearest up to the stature of
that statesman who, 24 years ago,
went from Liberty Hall to ad¬
minister the affairs of State,
Let the big rich Colonel contin¬
ue to rule over his little kingdom ;
iu Oglethorpe—if his subjects are
willing—but in God’s name keep
him out of the chair once occu¬
pied by James Jackson, by Geo.
M. Troupe, by Herschel V.John
SOD ’ Walter T. Colquitt, by
Alexander H. Stephens and by
John B. Gordon.
Respectfully,
A. C. Davidson.
Sharon, Ga., Aug. 7, 1906.
SMITH’S SURE KIDNEY CURE.
The only guaranteed kidney remedy.
Buy it—try it—it costs you nothing if it
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Moore’s.
On the editorial pages of this paper
(which Larry hoped had been forgot¬
ten) we find Larrry giving Jim Smith
fits for going negro postmasters’ bonds,
and saying among other things—listen:
“Mr. Jim Smith may try to explain
but the unalterable facts stand upon
record that he is one of the pillars
that uphold our negro postmaster.
“We say that when a radical negro
is held in high office over white men
and Democrats, it is a shame for any
man to sustain the infamy. Athens
calls upon the Democrats of the state
to avenge her wrongs. We do not be¬
lieve that the white people ijind Dem¬
ocrats of Georgia are prepared to sanc¬
tion this outrage and IF OCCASION
EVER OFFERS THEY WILL ADMIN¬
ISTER A WITHERING REBUKE.
“We have been a personal friend to
Jim Smith for years and deeply regret
that he has seen fit to take this step,
as it will forever debar us from giving
him a support which we would have
accorded otherwise if he had asked it.”
That’s Larry’s own words when he
ran a real newspaper and was not own¬
ed by Big Jim.
Talk about prominent white men be¬
seeching Jim Smith to go the negro’s
bond! t-t-t-t-tut! t-t-t-t-t-tut! What
was the matter with these “prominent’’
men that they could not make a four
thousand dollar bond without “beg¬
ging” Jim Smith to go on it?
As a matter of fact, honest voter,
don’t YOU YOURSELF remember
back about that time how the people
of Athens—prominent men and all
raised such a howl about that negro
postmaster.
In this slate it is nut necessary to serve
a five days’ notice for eviction of a cold.
Use the original laxative cough syrup,
Kennedy's Laxative Honey and Tar. No
opiates. Bold by Hadaway A Moore.
people—and that, too, in the boasted
White Primary.
Clark Howell’s followers and those
of Russell, Estill and Jim Smith have
a right, if they want to, to center on
Jim with the hope of taking the county
away from Hoke, and they are doing
this, but no man or set of men have a
right to institute a fictitious contest
after the people HAVE EXPRESSED
THEMSELVES and defeat their will
and WE DON’T BELIEVE THESE
men can be made to do it.
The negro pays about $1 to the white
man’s $4 of Taliaferro’s taxes, property,
poll and commutation and yet, the
negro child only gets one dollar per
year out of the school fund while each
white child gets six dollars. Think of
that—tlie negro gets less than his pro¬
portionate share of the school fund in
Taliaferro would be if it were pro-rat¬
ed according to whole amount of taxes
It would seem that the county
Board of Education has not been
asleep.
Larry Gannt, Jim Smith,s jumping
jack, attempts in the Southern Field
to explain “Farmer” Jim’s actions in
going on the bonds of negro postmast¬
ers for the classic city of Athens. Lar¬
ry now says that Farmer Jim was im¬
portuned, besought and prayed to be¬
come the negroes’ bondsman by the
best white people of Athens. That’s
what Larry now says.
AVliat did he say about a dozen years
ago before Jim thought it wise to own
Larry. Larry then ran a paper—not
farmer Jim’s paper like the “Southern
Field”—but a real newspaper. Some
cruel men have actually gone back to
the old files of this paper of