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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (April 18, 1912)
TF\e PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. OFFICIAL ORGAN MONTGOMERY COUNTY. Entered at tli< P M ill Mt. Vernon. (Ja. a« Hecond-ClasK Mail Matter, j 11. B. FOLSOM. Editor and Owner. a Vear, in Advance, j | iKlvcrliH.-iiiciit* niiint invariably be paid 1h advance, at the legal rate, and an the law j direct.; and mn.i h« in hand not later than Wedn. aday morning of the first week of inaertion j Mount Vernon, Ga., Thursday Morning, APRIL 18, 1912. \ We hope to hear from thei bright hoys of t he corn club soon, , and that they are entering heart and hands into the work. Too much local politics is worse on the crops than too much rain. One half the time and strenuous efforts spent in political scram bles would make Montgomery county an agricultural paradise. On next Wednesday evening as the county primary votes are being tallied, Candidate Brown will be scratching his head and wondering u hat became of that armful of ballots Smith and Jones promised to drop in for him. • Miss Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross Associa tion, did at her home in Glen Echo, Md., on Friday morning last. She spent her life of 90 years for the good of humanity, and died one of America’s great est characters. The time for the meeting of the Georgia Weekly Press Asso ciation in Dublin is getting sadly mixed. Some of our exchanges give the date as July 12, several as June 12, and one puts us hack to “June, 1214.” Where are we at, President Methvin? Please straighten us out quick. The Dublin Chamber of Com merce, through its live secretary, R. M. Martin, is moving in the matter of a big county fair for Laurens in the fall. No county ever had a more paying proposi tion than a properly conducted fair. When will Montgomery county wake up to this fact? Montgomery county made 27,117 hales of cotton last year, besides hundreds of 4hales that rotted in the fields. This was more than 10,000 bales over the yield in 1910, which was 17,187. If this big increase had been in grain and live stock, our people would today he the most pros perous in Georgia. Don’t get excited over the lit tle rise in cotton. Figure like a business man. Last year’s crop was 5,000,000 bales in excess of the crop of 1910. There was a shortage then of 2,000.000 bales. You have piled up'still in excess; of ordinary demands 3,000 hales. How can you expect a,.big price if you make anything over an ordinary crop? Down in a coast county there lived a farmer several years ago who made up his mind to change his way of living. When he had given a great herd of scrub stock fora few good cows that actually gave milk, he said: “I am mighty glad 1 learned how to live before 1 died.” Some people in this country are dying with old age without learning how to live. People who live on strife never accomplish anything in public benefits. When people pull to gether every individual becomes a beneficiary. The fellow who fattens on agitation and all man ner of schemes to accomplish his ; own selfish designs has a maw about like the whale that swal lowed Jonah. While gulping down one thing he is on the look out for another. The county of Floyd has not a dollar of indebtedness and has $45,000 in the treasury and $45,000 worth of road equipment. And steel bridges across the Ous tanala and Etowah rivers are as common as foot-logs in this coun try. Montgomery county may not show such a record this year nor next year, but good manage ment will yet bring us all right. The whole thing rests with the men you put in charge of your affairs. TYYYTYYYTYYTfYYYYTYYYYYYY• ► From the Mouth 3 ► ◄ | ► of' Georgia Press 3 •AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Savannah Press: —Those Geor gia farmers who think their lands are wet, ought to stop for a mo ment and think what those poor fellows in the Mississippi bottoms have to contend with. Adel News:—The ballot is the highest expression of citizenship, the one thing in which both the mendicant and the millionaire can assert his freedom, and the man who is pulled around and ! almost coerced into voting against his real convictions, isn’t worthy of the right of suffrage. Macon Telegraph:—lf 140,000 majority of Democrats in Illinois voted for Clark because he lived in an adjoining state, as alleged in explanation of Wilson’s defeat, why won’t the same sort of rea soning that impelled them move the people of Georgia to vote for Uunderwood of Alabama? Americus Times-Recorder: The Atlanta Journal says that in the May first primary the voters of Georgia should “vote as they think.” That is a remarkable concession on the part of Journal. Heretofore it has expected them to vote as the Journal and Hoke Smith think. Perry Home-Journal:—The ma terial, nor the political, welfare of Georgia does not depend upon the nomination of any particular man for the presidency. While Underwood is the choice of this writer, the selection of Wilson would not bo hurtful to the state, nor more helpful. Dublin Courier-Dispatch:—A candidate for county treasurer in a middle Georgia county offers to hand hack half of his fees. That kind of a promise rarely is ever taken into account. The man who values his services at half of the fees allowed by law, even if the fees are too large, makes a mistake that the voters rarely forgive. Pembroke Enterprise:—Recent heavy rains in the northern part of the United States have swollen the Mississippi to overflowing, thereby causing a great loss of property. We believe this is about the best part of the coun try after all. Savannah News: —An orches tra from London landed in New York the other day. It is stated that the instruments of the per formers cost $500,000. Is there no possible way to get art away from the dollar mark? Albany Herald:—One of Alba ny’s greatest blessings is her i shade trees, of which there are thousands. The season of the year is near when we will appre- 1 date just how great a blessing 1 they really are. Darien Gazette: — Murderers, who expect to escape the rope route, need not waste time in appealing to the governor who believes in law enforcement. There are too many murders in Georgia. Nashville Herald:—The Atlan-i ta Journal doesn’t care who gets, the nomination —just so it isn’t Underwood. That paper hates him with a gift. Douglas Enterprise:—The Un derwood sentiment is spreading like wild tire until now it has reached the extreme north-east, : and it is very probable that New! , York state will cast its vote for, . ! the Alabamian at the Baltimore 1 'convention. THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR—THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1912. STRANGLING OUR COUNTY - i "Under the rules adopted by the State Executive Committee, a facto ry district in Fulton may absolutely •hut the mouths of the majority of I the people of any of the smaller coun i ties in the state.” The preservation of the county unit i system means more the people of | Georgia than Woodrow Wilson or j Champ Clark or Oscar Underwood or 1 Roosevelt or Taft. These may pass and come again. | but this principle is constitutional, fundamental and essential to the rights of the people. No greater usurpation of popular rights has been made in this genera tion than the act of the state execu tive Committee by which the real in tegrity of the Georgia counties is tie stroyed and the aristocratic rule of a plurality is substituted for the Demo cratic rule of the majority. The protest against the usurpation ' has not ‘‘died away," and it will not i die away until the last voice of pub- i lie opinion has been thundered into the ballot box. The more you think j of It, the worse it grows. This is still a Democracy, and no oligarchy has yet arisen upon its ruins. In a dozen states of the Union such j a rulo as our state committee has or- : dered would have been promptly halt ed by an injunction under the law. 1 We have no law governing the pri- j mnrles In Georgia, and we must there fore suffer until wo can establish laws for the primaries or alter the minds or the personal composition of the committee. Under the long established and safely working county unit system, the majority of each county is enti tied to cast the vote of that county i In the general convention of Ihe par ty. Under this new hybrid expedi ent of the committee, a small plural ity of the general voters may cast the vote of every county in the state. Under the unit, system, Kchols coun ty, for Instance, had its individual right and its individual voice in ev ery convention. Under the committee usurpation, a factory district in Fulton may abso lutely shut the mouths of the ma jority of the people of Echols or Mon roe or Walton or Clarke in the con vention. Under the wholesome rule of the I unit system the minority always had its constitutional rights. Under the daring and revolutionary rule of the committee, the plurality strangles and buries and obliterates the minority, in spite of its constitu- j tional rights. Wo are too old and too- great and too free in Georgia to permit this challenge to liberty to go unanswered. This state executive committee, In the absence of laws for the presiden tial primaries, has provided a ticket which is to contain the names of all those whom the committee chooses to regard as candidates for the Demo- ! cralic nomination at Baltimore. Whichever name on this ticket re- j celves the votes —not necessarily of the majority, but of the plurality of those voting—is ruled by the com mittee to he the choice of the state. ; The friends of this candidate will then rise up in the arrogant mind of this < mere plurality and dictate to every j county in Georgia not only HOW they shall cast that county's vote, but 1 WHO shall cast that county’s vote in tho general convention! If every man in Bibb county saving ; three should vote against a candidate, one-fourth of the people voting in Georgia may, under the committee rule, trample upon Bibb’s enormous majority sentiment, and these three men may meet aiul elect themselves delegates to cast a vote in defiance of all the other votes in the county ! And so with any county in the state. Will the free and independent vot ers of Georgia spend a few moments in silent contemplation of this su premo civic audacity! Os course the state committee is said to be a Wilson committee. That is not of consequence. Os course, this Wilson committee hopes by this ballot to divide up the vote of the state by tempting the citizen to vote for many names and so divide the | vote cast that Wilson will have a j plurality. Os course this committee's idea is that if there are 100,000 votes, and Wilson can got 26,000 votes, or about one fourth, and the other 74. 000 votes can be scattered among Clark and Underwood and Harmon and Bryan, their plurality man, even if he has only one-fourth of the votes, will win the state! That is merely a trick of politics. We could forgive the trick if it as feeted only the campaign The per i sonal result does not matter in the long run. The partisan advantage j can he ignored. But the great fundamental princl- J pie of the RIGHTS OF THE OOVN j TIES, tho RIGHTS OF THK MINOR : ITY and the RIGHTS OF THK MA I JORITY are absolutely RUN OYER ! roughshod and reckless —and that, by Andrew Jackson's memory, DOES MATTER, and It WILL MATTER so long as there Is a voice of protest and a vote to fall for the sanctity of the i constitution and the rights of the people. So let's get together on this ques ; tion, Citizens of Georgia. We may not be able to beg or to , persuade the partisan committee to ! do the right thing now But we have our ballots, and these . ballots should fall like hail upon the ' first election which will indicate how j Georgia and her people reel about this monstrous rearing of a partisan plurality above the wreck of our his toric majorities. I This question rises above the pres idential campaign—clean to the sum mit of our democracy. Whatever else may be in doubt for 4 the people of Georgia, and particular ly for those who live in one hundred |! and forty out of the one hundred and forty-six counties of the state, it is supremely THEIR DUTY TO VOTE DOWN TFIIS REVOLUTIONARY COMMITTEE ACTION and to vo'eup i the state constitution and the will of | the people in majority vote. Every man seeking office in Geor gia this summer should be made to speak out on this question. Candidate Tom Hudson has spoken and on the right side. But, he didn’t speak loud enough. They must be a mart's words and a | man’s votes which will heal this in j iquity upon our people. Atlanta ( Georgian. Don’t forget that the Soperton i Grocery Company can save you j money on your Dry Goods, Shoes, Hats, etc. Order your Saw Teeth from the Vidalia Machinery & Farm Im plement Co., Vidalia, Ga. MONEY TO LOAN On Improved Farms m Montgomery County at a Small Rate of Interest. J. E. Hall, Soperton. llamp Burcii Attorney at Law MoRAE, GA. Practices in all the Courts. M. B. CALHOUN, A tty at uaw, Mt Vernon, Georgia. J. R. WATSON Dentist Soperton, Georgia | DR. J. E. MASROW Refract ionist Glasses Corrrectly Ground and | Fitted to the Eyes. Consultation j Free. 109 Whitaker Street. SAVANNAH, GA M oney To Loan. I am in position now to secure loans on farm lands and town property in Montgomery County, i The lender that will handle my ! business is especially desireable for parties that want big loans on farm lands, and for those who want to build homes in towns. Their interest is 6 per cent.! : T< mis live years, the borrow pay- j ing 1-10 each year thereby re ; ducing the interest, and princi- j pal so the final settlement will be i easy. The money for building or improving homes in towns is j also 6 per cent, money, and the j loans are arranged so the bor rower repays monthly for 60 months. You only have to add a little to the amount you are paying as rent to own you a home in a short time. I think this a good way for a person to get a home. L. C. Underwood, Mt. Vernon, Ga. Money on Hand TO LOAN. LOANS PROMPTLY CLOSED. We have a good sup ply of cheap money on hand at this time and can close loans very promptly, either on farm or city property. If in need of cash, come to see or write us at once. Southern Loan & Investment Co. VIDALIA, GA. || The fIT. VERNON BANK MT. VERNON, GA. J I * SURPLUS, $15,000.00 * Or. 'H- McArthur, President ] | x McArthur. Vice-President j ;i Reflect! Specialty. j; !; : Resolve 1 Collections ;! 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Horse for Sale. One bay horse 8 years old. Al iso 250 bushels of com. I will sell at a bargain B. A. Rowe. Soperton, Ga.
