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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.
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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
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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
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I am in position now to secure
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this a good way for a person to
get a home.
L. C. Underwood,
Mt. Vernon, Ga.
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We have a good sup
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Eggs for Sale.
Thorough Bred Single Comb
White Leghorns. Single Comb
Rhode Island Reds. SI.OO per
! setting of 15. Also a few White
i Leghorn Cocks at SI.OO each.
1 For sale by Dr. J. R. Watson,
Soperton, Ga.
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.
