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ROOEK I). KGYNT, * Editor.
AliBKHT II. Vui NT, Busineaa Manager
Official Organ of Taliaferro County.
• Crawfordvllle. Ga., August 17, 19o8.
It is said by Oglethorpe county
people that Jim Smith will not
carry that, his home county.
And old Taliaferro will be
found lighting the enemy of white
supremacy whoever he may
be.
No, Sir, old Taliaferro rings
true yet. She will never de¬
grade herself by furnishing Jim
Smith delegates to be used as the
ring crowd see tit.
The issue is closely drawn, on
next Wednesday you record
yourself in favor of white su¬
premacy or in favor of continuing
the negro in politics.
The proof of the puddin’ is the
tasting thereof. Six southern
States ha/o tried negro disfran¬
chisement puddin’ and it goes so
well they smack thoir lips. Let’s
have a slice for Georgia.
' The anti Hoke Smithite
may
wag his tongue till it becomes a
perpetual motion macnine, but
he can not explain why disfran¬
chisement laws will not work as
well in Georgia as in other South¬
ern States.
There are some people who
still claim that the white primary
is the best solution of the negro
suffrage question. And Major
McGregor is threatning to run
independent in the November
Congressional election where the
negro votes without let or hin¬
drance.
Next Wednesday will tell the
tale as to whether the majority
of white citizens of Taliaferro
will staud up like true Anglo
Saxon men and carry the county
for the man who is battling for
popular government against pro¬
fessional politicians and corpo¬
ration corruptionists.
And now Major McGregor
says that if he can get the State
Executive Committee to say that
he was treated unfairly by the
District Committee he will run
as an independent in thoregular
November election. Now what
about your white primary? It
eliminates tho negro from pol¬
itics, does it?
Old Abe Lincoln himself was
not in favor of negro suffrage.
Hut there are a few Southerners
Georgiaus—who have actually
lot tho politicians pull the wool
over their eyes so that they will
vote against the best plan to dis¬
franchise the negro ever proposed
since with bayonets at its throat
the South was forced to accept
the fifteenth amendment.
The paramount issue in the
gubernatorial campaign is negro
disfranchisement. When this
is accomplished whatever re¬
forms are needed can be secured
by the white voters. Then there
will be no negro voters to be ap¬
pealed to by disappointed office
seekers, and to be purchased by
corporations in the effort to de¬
feat the will of the white citizens.
! Taliaferro county voters have
| too much self respect to lend
themselves to the schemers who
arc working to carry the county
for Jim Smith.
Calmly, deliberately, earnest¬
ly, honestly think whether in
after years you can say that in
j the State primary of August
22nd, 1906 you did what was best
for your State and for your fel¬
low white citizen,—then cast
your ballot.
Negro disfranchisement effects
vitally the every day life of
every citizen of Georgia, because
disfranchisement is the initial
step towards the solution of this
vexing race problem, and it is a
serious duty for every voter to
perform when he goes to the
polls on the 22nd of August to
vote for the good of his race.
Mr. Jesse Mercer, editor of the
Fitzgerald Enterprise, is a can¬
didate for Railroad Commissioner
to succeed Commissioner Brown,
whose term expires Oct. 15th,
1907. There has been no provi¬
sion for the selection of a eandi
didate for this office in the pri¬
mary and the race will have to
be run in the general October
election. Mr. Msrcbr is a man
of ability, is a friend to the peo¬
ple, and should he be elected to
the office of Prison Commissioner
would be found endeavoring to
compel the railroads to deal fair¬
ly with the people. The Advo¬
cate Democrat does not know
what other candidates will be in
the field, but it will be no easy
matter to find one who would
more ably and conscientiously
fill this office than Jesse Mercer.
White Supremacy Pre-eminent
The South*-™ Field tries to
use the fact that a negro is run¬
ning for Lieutenant Governor of
Alabama on the Republican tick¬
et as argument against the adop¬
tion of the Alabama plan of ne¬
gro disfranchisement. Because
there is one negro in that state
who runs for Governor tends not
in the slightest degree to prove
the inefficiency of the Alabama
disfranchisement laws. There
are thousands of negroes in
Georgia who could announce as
candidates for Governor of this
State and under the present pri¬
mary farce the negro who offered
would stand a better chance—a
vast deal better chance—of being
elected Governor than the negro
candidate for Lieutenant Gov¬
ernor does in Alabama.
And the Southern Field after
the fashion of practically all the
anti Hoke Smith papers contin¬
ues to make the assertion that
the Federal courts will, if Geor¬
gia adopts the disfranchisement
laws, declare them to be uncon¬
stitutional. But they do not try
to explain, because they can not,
why the laws of the other states
have not been declared contrary
to the Constitution of the United
States. The laws in some of the
states have been in operation for
numbers of years and the best
informed public men of those
states without exception, so far
as has been shown in this cam¬
paign, state that these laws work
exceedingly well. Of course
here and there a few negroes will
vote, but not enough to be a
menace to the white man’s
goverment. And the white men
of those states do not continually
stand in dread of independents
in the general election, or the
machinations of the executive
committees uud those iu control
of the party machinery to work
things in favor of some man not
the choice of a majority of the
white people. It seems strange
that the Federal courts would
declare a Georgia law similar in
terms to those of the other South¬
ern States unconstitutional when
the laws iu the other states have
been working without the least
trouble.
The Southern Field has a long
row of figures to try to show that
the negro disfranchisement laws
in South Carolina have put more
negroes in school than whites,
but wherein the Field fails to
show what it sets out to try to
show is that there are any more
under the new laws than'there
were going to school under the
old laws. And it further fails to
show that this attendance of
schools allows any of them any
more chance to vote than when
they do not attend school.
The negro as long as he re¬
mains an inhabitant of this coun¬
try should have nothing more
than the simplest kind of educa¬
tion, such as would fit him to
perform his duties in the inferior
station which nature - has given
him. But now the thing of su¬
preme importance is to get into
the white man’s hands the reins
of government without the pos¬
sibility of thej negro’s being the
balance of power. This is the
thing of most urgent and vital
importance at the present mo¬
ment. This is the initial step
towards the solution of the negro
question. Afterwards when the
white mans hands are free he will
bring about such solution as will
be best for him as well as for
the negro.
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A Word of Explanation
Tuesday afteruoou the secre¬
tary of the county Executive
Committee handed to the editor
of the Advocate Domocrat a pa¬
per signed “C. L. Bagby. G. T.
Edwards, Com.”
This was a severe attack upon
Mr. J. A. Beazley ou account of
an article which appeared in the
Advocate-Democrat last week
signed by him. Being a person¬
al attack upon Mr. Beazley the
secretary was told that before
same would be published Mr.
Beazley would have to see the ar¬
ticle. When it was shown to
Mr. Beazley he said that some of
the statements contained therein
are untrue. The editor knew
that there was not a quorum of
the Executive Committee at its
meeting, and therefore no official
action could have been taken.
He was afterwards told by one
of the members of the Executive
Committee that the paper in
question was not submitted to
those members of the Committee
who were present. After read¬
ing and re-reading
several times Mr. Beazley’s ar¬
ticle in last week’s Advocate
Democrat Its editor failed to find
the least reflecton on the county
executive committee.
Knowing nothing to justify the
severe criticism of Mr. Beazley,
and in view of the fact that to
publish the article as it was
would create the impression that
it was officially authorized by
the Executive Committee, when
in truth there was no quorum
present, and there could not
be any official action the editor
refused to publish the article.
Since the above was written
it has come to the editor’s ears
that it is being told that an offer
was <made to pay for the publica
fion of-Utie
to. Not a cent was offered in
payment of publication of the ar¬
ticle criticising Mr. Beazley men¬
tioned above, and any statement
to the contrary is absolutely and
unqualifiedly false.
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Executive Committee.
The Democratic Executive Commit¬
tee was called to meet here last Tues¬
day to make arrangements about funds
to pay the managers and other expen¬
ses for next Wednesday’s primary.
There was not a quorum pfesent, but
arrangements were made by those in
attendance so that there will be no
failure to hold the primary on account
of the lack of funds. It is desired
that each district make the expense as
light as possible and try to meet its
own expenses, but in any event there
will be ample funds provided.
Senatorial Convention.
The convention for the 19th Senato¬
rial district met in the court house
here last Tuesday and nominated Hon.
Marion L. Felts of Warren county as
candidate for Senator from this dis¬
trict. Some time ago at a primary
held in Warren Mr. Felts receivd the
nomination by a large majority. It
was to ratify the nomination of War¬
ren county whose time it is to furnish
the senator that the convention of del¬
egates from all the counties of the dis¬
trict was held. Next week the Advo¬
cate-Democrat will publish in full the
proceedings of the convention.
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