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Mt. Vernon, Georgia, Thursday Morning, Aug, 2, 1906.
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li«'t the legislature alone. They |
are only humim. anyway, and un
doing fairly well.
We have more faith in Harvie
Jordan than to suppose that lie
will allow speculators to run the
office of the .Southern Cotton As
sociation.
Away down here in South Geor
gia, it looks like the State Rail
road Commission in a very fair
match for the Atlanta llokorutej
Bureau.
The man with a good farm and
utock to work it need never he
frightened by calamity howlortj
who make it a business of howl
ing to get votes.
We presume that the State 1
Democratic Executive Committee j
propose to do what they have on
the boards for August 22d —ltold
11 Democratic primary.
If rains are an iliceHHnnt over
the remainder of 1 lie cotton belt
an tliey are in Montgomery coun
ty, the ala pie will be abort —in
quantity as well iih quality.
The people who have established
the Union Baptist Institute here
are an original wet of thinkers—
original hecauat* they have con
ceived the idea that all schools
should not ho established in North
Georgia.
We hope the next generation of
map makers will investigate the
west side of Montgomery county.
None of the maps being sold are
correct. Those who are interested
in building a railroad through
this lino territory will be led as
tray if they accept such maps as
correct.
You can cast your vote for J.
it K*till on August 22d and your
children can never rise up in the
next generation and say t hat you
helped to unde the work of
Toombs and Stephens and others
who tlid more for Georgia in ils
time of need than all the politi
cians Atlanta can hatch out inn
century.
We pity the man who is so
weak mentally as to look out
over the Helds, the factories, the
shops, the hanks ami enterprises
of Georgia and see the prosperity
that crowns her today, and then
go off into spasmodic quakes w hen
a political howler gets up and
3’ellß that the whole business is go
ing to smash if he is not put in
to office.
We give much of our space this
week to educational matters, for
which we make no apology. Edu
cation is of supreme importance to
Montgomery county. South Geor
gia is waking up. The outside
world will learn of the wonderful
resources of this section only as
wo give the matter publicity. No
agency advertises local advantages
more swiftly and surely than
good schools.
The dirty attack on Col. J. 11.
Estill's war record, which was
promptly given the lie by La
fayette McLaws Camp of Sav
annah, United Confederate Vet
erans, is being worked over by old
Dan Purse of Savannah. When
mailed out some time ago from
Atlanta its rotten purpose was too
apparent to all veterans, and be
ing mailed from Savannah this
time will not deceive those who
stood by their country when they
were needed
CONFEDERATE WIEOW
SHOWS HOKE FALSE,
To the Public: I noticed in;
this afternoon’s Atlanta Journal j
that Mr. Claude N. Bennett, who
says over liis signature that he
was Mr. Hoke Smith’s private sec- i
rotary “during the first half of
his administration as secretary of i
interior”—endeavors to extract
Mr. Smith from the position in
whu:!) lie lias been placed Gy his
: treatment of me.
I am frank to say that I am not
j inclined to keep before the
public in a newspaper controvery,
but as a defenseless woman i do
not propose! to be attacked without
saying a word in defense of my
self. Mr. Smith, Mr. Bennett and
the other undelings may think it
ja chivalrous thing to attack a wo
man, but 1 respectfully submit!
j that they have no right to go be-1
yond the bounds of truth, and j
more especially do I submit that ;
in their attacks on me they should j
at least get together and present a
harmonious front.
Mr. Claude N. Bennett in his
card published in yesterday’s
Journal says:
“1 remember Mrs. Marga
ret J. Hampton very well.
She wrote a number of pa
thetic- letters, which are still
on tile in the department.
She wrote first from Roches
ter, N. Y., March 18, 18'.Iff.
She wrote again in April, stat
ing that, she had stood the
ciyil examination and failed
to pass.”
And yet, Mr. Bennett, do you
know tlmt Mr. Hoke Smith from
every stump in Georgia has dk-
CLAKKD OI’KM.Y AND ON Ills SACRED
WORD OF HONOR THAT I NEVER
WROTE HIM ON THE SUBJECT, AND
MORE THAN THAT, THAT HE NEVER
EVEN KNEW OR HEARD OK ME UNTIL
MY LETTER WAS PUBLISHED A FEW
WEEKS AliO?
You are, therefore, convicted,
Mr. Smith, by your own former
secretary of the fact that my!
whole ease was before you, and
| that w hen you said at Albany and j
eleowlu rc that you never heard of 1
mo when you were secretary of
t he interior you made a deliberate
misrepresentation.
“1 have thoroughly exam
ined the record of the interior
department concerning Mrs.
Hampton. SIIO never lunl a
position in the patent office,
and never detailed to the pat
ent i.ffieo for work.”
And yet, do you know, Mr. Ben
nett. that Mr. Smith in attacking
me 011 the stump luts declared
that the records show that 1 was
IN THE PATENT OFFICE BEFORE I
WAS TRASFKKKED TO THE CENSUS
OF’F’CK?
You sav again, Mr. Bennett,
that Mrs. Hampton was dismissed
with 94 others employees of the
census department because “noth
ing more remained for them to
do.
And yet. Mr. Bennett, do you
know that Mr. Smith has said re
peatedly on the stump that l was
nISMISSF.II FOR INCOMPETENCE. w!lCll
he knows that the only wprk 1
j had to do in the census depart-j
ment. was to fold papers, which 1
! did in a manner which fully satis
fied the chief of that department,
and there never was a complaint
against me. And yet we find from
the records that David M. Turner,
sou of Bishop Turner was dis
missed by two republican admin
istrations for “drunkenness and
inconipotency,” and immediately
reinstated by Secretary Smith.
Kven if 1 had been dismissed for
“incompetence,*' does it not seem
that 1 should have had at least the
same consideration that was
shown this negro?
Gradually the facts are coming
out. and Mr. Smith is being con
victed over the signatures of h:s
own former employe s! I knew
that some day the truth wouldde-i
THE MONTGOMERY MOXIToh—THURSDAY, AUG. 2, 1906.
I velop, and every charge that I
have made in my communications
:on this subject have been more
than corroborated by the testi
mony of Mr. Smith’s own under
lings in their attempt to defend
him.
lam sitr*- that I will be par
doned for thus obtruding myself
upon the public, but when a wo
man and a detenseles widow is so j
mercilessly attacked she has no
other recourse but to put herself
'straight before the public.
Respectfully,
Mrs. M J. Hampton.
Atlanta, July 28, 1906.'
STATE FEBSS COMMENTS £
Sandersville Herald: —The way
the commercial travelers ore des
erting Hoke Smith is calculated
to make the Atlanta Journal soon
draw the ring around the whole
crowd. The drummers are a
strong lot. And the loss of so
many of them by Mr. Smith is a
very serious loss to him.
Americas Tunes-Recorder: —
Hoke Smith has stated in his
I speeches that the railroand and
! corporate interest 111 Georgia
I would spend a million dollars to
defeat hin for Governor. Again
the wily Hoke is in error. The
railroads will not have to spend a
cent. They know Smith; they
have had him often, and the same “
price that has bought him oftimes
beforecan buy him again.
Macon Telegraph :—lf the Dem
ocratic party is worth living it is
worth saving, and if it is Worth
saving it is worth fighting for. If
it is worth fighting for let Demo
crats get together and do battle
for it. If the Democratic party is
not worth living, nor saving, nor
fighting for, then let Watson take
it and go with it.
The people must decide.
Savannah Press : —Maybe Bryan
took the Interparliamentary Un
ion by the back of the neck and
told the delegates they had to
adopt his peace resolution, as lie
did the last Democratic conven
tion with liis silver plank.
Fitzgerald People:—North Geor
■ gia is all torn asunder and her
I distinguished sons engaged in an
| undignified scramble over a di
vision of the public offices
and the appropriations for state
institutions. They are comnien
dably united upon one point,
however, and that is to see that
neither an office nor an appropria
tion goes to South Georgia. Still
we’re such a set of asses that we
deserve nothing better.
Darien Gazette:—We honestly
believe that Georgia will survive
and continue to prosper, it mat
ters not who is ciisisen governor.
However, to make the thing dead
sure why not vote for the South
Georgia candidate.
Bryan Enterprise:—What arej
you doing for your town? If you I
have no confidence in the growth j
and improvement of the town and
country in which you live how on
earth do you expect other people I
to move among you and cause the I
country to develop and grow for j
your benefit?
Dublin Courier-Dispatch:—The |
, mail who bet JfIJXX! that Col.
i Jim Smith will carry 40 counties
must have more money than he
knows what to do with or has
more facts than are in the posses
sion of the rest of us.
Cochran Courier: —A few still
persist in calling it a “white,, pri
mary, although it is a well known
fact that no white primary has
been ordered. It is to be a “de- l
mocratic” primary and under the!
rules none but democrats or those
who purpose to become democrats
can vote in it.
Way cross Herald :—lt is now
an acknowledged fact that the
race for Governor is between
Estill and Smith. Now what are
you gentlemen who said that,
Estill was running in Howell's
I interest going to do about it'*
The. vilest rot that has been
dumped on the state during the
disgraceful scramble made by
• Atlanta politicians for the gov
ernorship, is the puny statement
of a few me-too-barkers that Dem
ocrats want the negro kept in
politics to keep the whiskey curse
fastened on the people. The Dem
ocratic party put the negro out of
Georgia politics years ago, and he
would have remained out if Hoke
Smith had not undertaken to ride
him into the governor’s mansion.
Atlanta Georgian :-A new hotel
has been erected in New York for
the accommodation of working
girls, from which women “over 85
years of age” will be debarred.
The expert on age limits is in for
a stormy time.
While the fun is 011 you need
The Moutor. Only SI.OO a year.
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ROAD NOTICE.
Office Commissioners of Road and
Revenues, July 2 1906, in re work
ing public roads of Montgomery
County:
Upon duly considering (lie pro
priety of changing the present meth
od of working the public roads of
Montgomery county under the Alter
native Road Law now of force in
said county.
It is ordered and adjudged that,
from and after the date of this order,
the road funds collected from the
people of each Militia District of
said county, shall he used solely in
file district in which it is paid and
none other.
Disordered further that it, shall
Ire the duty ot the Clerk of the boaid
of commissioners to keep the funds
collected from each District separate
and distinct, and draw warrants on
the funds from eacli District only
for the-purpose of paying legitimate
‘expenses in keeping up the public
roads of said district.
W. \V. Pope Chm,
Win, Bland Secy,
J. C. Conner.
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