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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 21, 1911)
rt of je Nontgornery r\or\iior. m MB EVERY THURSDAY. OFFICIAL OROAN MONTGOMERY COUNTY. Vhitareri at the Pontoffloe in Mt. Vernon. Ga. an Second-Class Mail Matter. __ ______ H. n. foi som, Editor and Owner. Si a Year, In Advance, UT L-kkl mlvortiHcrnant* must invariably be paid in advance, at the Iok») rate, and a« the law irootand mnat be in hand not later than Wednesday morning of the first week of inaertion Mount Vernon, Ga.. Thursday Morning, DEC. 21, 1911. If the Itoys don’t hurry they will not finish telling how it all happened before we are into an other election. The election of all county offi cers and the governor once in four years would give us a little rest from strife. And the Lord knows we need that rest. There are still many acres in Montgomery county white with ' cotton, and some fields in which . not a lock has been gathered. But what’s the odds, so long as we* are happy? If we make more corn and pea nuts than we can gather the pigs will do it for us, and instead of I charging two prices for it, will j pay big money for the privilege of doing the work. The Mawkinsville News-Dis patch, one of our most conserva tive and leading exchanges, is on the right line in advocating the change from biennial elections to once in four years. Ix*t us at least get rid of half the strife. Georgia has a fair system of public schools, and is fast acquir ing better roads, and when our taxes are equalized so that the honest poor man does not l>ear all the burden of government, we will have a very good place to live in. The fellow who sat around the village store all the fall and waited for some one to come along and pick his cotton, still rotting in the fields, will be the first man to apply to the mer chants to furnish his supplies on time in the spring. We may not live to see it, but when the United States govern ment sees fit to give aid to Con federate veterans we may rest assured that strife between the North and South has forever ended; hut Confederate veterans will never receive it by asking for it. About the biggest good resolu tion Georgia could make when the new year comes in would be to begin at once to devise some plan of dispensing with one half of her state and county elections. If the election is a necessary evil we can make it more “like an gel’s visits few and far be tween.” MAKE GOVERNOR'S TERM FOUR YEARS. We are in favor of increasing the governor’s term of office from ] two to four years and allowing , each governor to serve only one J term. Under the present system one campaign is hardly over be fore another is started. It will bo sometime yet before Hon. Joseph M. Brown, who has just 1 been nominated, is inaugurated 1 and takes his seat and they are now talking about his successor. In fact the campaign for the ; next governorship has already ; opened with some half a dozen or more prospective candidates in 1 the field, including the Hon. Joe Hill Hull, which means that the people will 1m? surfeited with pol itics and hot air from now on 1 until the next election is held. We are willing to promise in i advance our vote to the candi date who will insert a plank in his platform to make the gover nor’s term four instead of two 1 years. We believe the people 1 would gladly endorse such a proposition if allowed to vote on j | it for they art* getting tired of so 1 much politics and so many elec tions and want a rest. ! elect the governor every four years and not allow him to “come back.” Hawkinsville J Dispatch-News. » TTTmmTtTYYfTYYTYYTfY • E From the Mouth * ► < £ of Georgia Press J Douglas Enterprise; How about the proposed railroad from Douglas to Pearson and on to Homerville? Let’s whoop it up. Savannah Press;—A New York grand jury went on a strike be cause it was asked to assemble in a basement. It didn’t strike for higher pay, but for higher quar ters. Americus Times - Recorder:— Champ Clark headquarters are to be opened in Washington. Some headquarters effects might be purchased at a bargain in At lanta. Dublin Courier-Dispatch:—A south Georgia paper states that a matrimonial wave is sweeping over the state. The young peo ple of this section fall in love in the spring, court during the summer and marry in the fall. Eastman Times-Jocrnal: Dr. Len (i. Broughton of Atlanta Rays Dick Russell should resign from the court of appeals. The reverend gentleman’s heart must lie entirely void of sympathy. Just think of the judge’s four teen children. Savannah News:—lt was at one time thought that Gov. Sla ton would not have much if any patronage to dispense, but from the way things are moving in the Court of Appeals it begins to look as if the ad interim Gover nor would have some patronage, after all. No more again can it be said that Lil’ Joe was elected by the whiskey rings, the corporations or the slum element of the cities, so-called, since the returns of the election plainly show that he owes his election to the voters of the unterrified, incorruptible vote of the smaller counties. Nashville Herald:—You re member the story about the man who was going to get a dose of calomel down a mule’s throat with a pipe stem. The mule blowed first, unfortunately for the man. Well, tjie plurality rule in the last state primary was framed up to beat Joe, but the dose w’ent the wrong way. Albany Herald:—The biggest groves, the best groves and the most valuable groves of pecans in the South are embraced in the territory within a radius of thirty to fifty miles of Albany. It is the pecan center, and the point on the map of which investors and home-seekers North and West think when Georgia paper-shell pecans are mentioned. Augusta Chronicle: —In the wake of the political judge stalks the judicial recall and countless other evils that eat at the very vitals of law and order. We do not believe that within the next generation will another judge of a high court in Georgia enter in to an active canvass for an office of different character without first putting aside the ermine. Darien Gazette:—The oppon ents of Governor Joe Brown can never more aucuse him of being elected by the whiskey men. The whiskey people supported Judge Dick-Russell and therefore Gov ernor Brown is under no obliga tion whatever to that element The whiskey people pulled that local option apple before it was ripe. They were too anxious— and they got a slight jolt American Lady Corsets give best fit. form and service. Com- I plete line at Mrs. J. L. Adams’. THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR— THURSDAY, DEC. 21, 1911. ~ I A Note to You: j November 23, 1911. i I The paper these notes are printed / r on is not as good a quality as j 1 that we sell to the people to write j ) their notes on. The Monitor is a good paper, : C of course, and you enjoy reading j . it after reading our notes, but j 1 . ! \ - you want something extra nice; - when writing to him or to her. We carry an especially nice ' ■ line of stationery! j > Yours truly, i Mt. Vernon Drug | Company. | M. B. CALHOUN, j Atty at .Jiw, ! Mt Vernon, Georgia.j> i ) » I Money! Money! j ; Money! S ! We lend money cheaper on farm j , landß than any person making loans in Montgomery County. All j we ask is to get our rate before * making application to some one j else for we can save you 1 to 2 | per cent, interest. Loans closed r without delay. Write us and we { will come to see you. The Lyons Loan i ml £ Abstract Compai ly l LYONS. GA, : ; a. P. CANON W. O. 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