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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (April 25, 1912)
Th\e r\or\tgorr\&ry Monitor. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. OFFICIAL ORGAN MONTGOMERY COUNTY. Knti !■■(! at tlx; PoHtoJlici in Mt. Vernon. Ga. an Hfcond-Clann Mail Matter. H. B. FOLSOM. Editor and Owner. Si a Year, in Advance. * r - l, lv< ■ tii-' im nta muni invariably hr paid in advance, at the legal rate, and aa the law diiei'ia; .nd mnal In- in hand ind later than Wcdncnda? morning of the Ural week of ineertioo Mount Vernon, Ga.. Thursday Morning, APRIL 25, 1912. After all, we prefer to take chances out under the pines. No mistaking the fact that this is a well watered country at tin's time. If Tom and Dick and Harry did not K< t elected yesterday it was probably caused by a lack of sufficient votes. I.CSS than a week to the presi dential primary, and we hear not hing of any move made by the county executive committee to hold a primary. Underwood will give Democra cy a candidate that will not need to be apologized for at every turn in the road to the white house. His work speaks for itself. Judge Martin did well to ad journ Montgomery superior court over to a later date, and give us a chance to plow out our prize corn patches along lie tween the elections. The world’s mania for being just a little faster than the other fellow was what drove the Titanic into till* icebergs last week, and sent fifteen hundred people to the bottom of the sea. Those Eaton ton hens that ride around in automobiles to do their incubating will have to stand back for the hen that rode into Valdosta, hobo style, on a nest of nine eggs. South Georgia is hard to down anyhow. The echoes of soul-stirring sentiment will reverberate from the sinking Titantic for years to come. The millionaire and the dusty stoker were on the same footing as the great ship made its grave in the icy depths. It would take ten bales of cot ton to bring SSOO. One hundred bushels of velvet beans orchufas would bring the same money as they sell at $5 per bushel. The cost of production would be twice as much for the cotton. But we just love to pili* up the bales. Montgomery county has passed a part of the agony. Another county primary has been held. If no others could be held for four years out people would be better otf. and would have time to consider improvements that ( would really benefit the whole people. Oscar \Y. Underwood has been sixteen years on his job, contest ing every inch of the ground for measures that deeply concern the South, and he is still sticking toj his work. Such a man is worth a whole army of howling politic-. ians who run around and toll us | what ought to Ik* done. We are having a lot of water now, but it is nothing when com pared to the frozen bath that car ried hundreds to the depths and caverns of the old ocean when the Titanic went down last week. In this blessed country we know nothing of great disasters, and seed time and harvest have never failed us. You’d better quit kickin’ The rain dog aroun’ And cussin’ and fumin’ Al*out the wet ground. If your best field Was ten feet deep, In red river water And Mississippi seep, You’d put on your l>oots And go boating around And Ik? very thanks d That you are not drowned. ▼VTTVTTTVTVVTTTTTTTTTTTTV• E From the Mouth 3 ► of Georgia Press 1 Dublin Courier-Dispatch:-Lau rens county demonstrated what she can do in the way of growing cotton the last season that will be hard for any other county to equal at any time. She has al ways been the garden spot of the state and the recent cotton record shows she is proving it in no unmistakable manner. Savannah News:—ln France t hey are going to mark the hours on the clock from 1 to 24, thus eliminating the “a. m. and p. m.” surplusage. But will it lie any easier for the belated hus band to explain that he was in the house long before the clock struck 24? Dawson News:—Hay is retail ing somewhere around S4O a ton. Perhaps the fact most to be re gretted is that the farmers of this section, where the all-cotton system prevails, will not get any of the benefit of the high prices. There is no section where hay can be grown more abundantly or of better quality than in grand old southwest Georgia. Albany Herald:- The fields of Southwest Georgia haven't been dry for so long that a plow mule would probably shy at a dust cloud. Unadilla Leader:—One of our reasons for supporting Mr. Un derwood is that he is not lam basting any one of the candidates but is sticking close to his duties in Washington. Industrial Index:- Did you ev er think of the immense purchas ing power that is given to the Southeast by the yearly value of the outputs of its factories, farms, orchards and all its many, varied, prosperous industries? In the aggregate it is the power of many millions. Atlanta Journal: —What no school of journalism can attempt to teach is how to work at high tension. A newspaper office un der conditions like those of last night and this morning is a won derful demonstration of effi ciency. Perry Home Journal:—At this distance from Oyster Bay, it seems that Roosevelt has disqual ified himself from voting the re publican ticket should Taft be nominated for president Valdosta Times:—Col. William J. Bryan is not tying on to any of the candidates very strongly, but is using them to suit his own purposes in the different states. When he goes to the Baltimore convention he will probably go there with only one name on his slate and that will be his own. Hawkinsville Dispatch-News: Hon. John H. Bankhead, cam paign manager for Underwood, says that, the Alabama candidate will go to the Baltimore conven tion with at least 175 delegates and that he stands a most excel lent chance of being nominated and and elected. Darien Gazette:— We cannot help admiring President Taft for the dignified manner in which he is conducting his campaign. Mr. Taft is a gentleman and deserves a renomination front his party. We are going to vote against him but w e are also going to tell the truth about him. 1 >ouglas Enterprise:—Wilson’s march thru Georgia will not com pare with Sherman’s in the mat ter of a crushing defeat for the opposition. Americus Times-Recorder:— “It’s a peculiar delight to come back to Georgia,” says Woodrow Wilson. Strange he should have denied himself of this “peculiar j delight” for nearly a quarter of ,a century, until prompted by presidential aspirations. THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR—THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1912. GEORGIA FARMERS NOT BEING FOOLED ABOUT UNDERWOOD ATTEMPT TO CREATE PREJUDICE BY LAMB INCIDENT HAS FAILED. LAMB WAS NOT NAMED BY OSCAR UNDERWOOD Alabamian Had Nothing to Do With Appointment of Virginian to Head Committee on Agriculture—A Geor gia Farmer Exposes Methods of Wilson Managers in Georgia. Washington, April 4. —(Special.).— Kfforts to prejudice Georgia fanners against Oscar VV. Underwood because John Lamb, of Virginia, was made chairman of the house committee on agriculture, is the meanest kind of underhand politics. It is an attempt at deception. It Is founded on a fundamental'untruth. Bringing such an issue into this cam paign is no credit to the individual responsible. It is all the result of j petty, personal pique, and the whole truth may yet come out. Underwood Didn't Name Lamb. Oscar Underwood did not name John Lamb to tns present place. The ways and means committee was re sponsible for that action; just as they were responsible for making Adam son, of Georgia, chairman of the com mittee on interstate and foreign com merce; Hardwick, of Georgia, chair man of the committee on rules; Bart lett, a member of appropriations; itoddenbery, of public buildings and grounds; Tribble, of naval affairs; Bell, of postoftice and post roads, and Lee, of agriculture. Underwood Is a wonderful leader, and his personal influence with the committee and with the house is great; but lie is not omnipotent. That is not a human quality. How Lamb Got Place. John Lamb has been a member of the house for sixteen years, and uu der the rule of precedent, was enti tied to the position he received. To set him aside would have been a vio 1 lation of Its usual custom and of long- | established precedent. He is a Virginian, commanded Com I pany .1), Third Virginia cavalry, through three years of war, and was several times wounded. He is a southern Democrat. Mr. Lamb may have made mis takes; he may have been guilty of er rors of Judgment; as ho is 72 years of age, he is sometimes crochety in temper. But to strike at Underwood over the head of Lamb is about as j fair as tt would he to charge his se j lection to Uepresentativc Brantley, of Georgia, or any other member of the ways and means committee. Harris Trying to Use Lamb Incidents. The adoption of the Lamb incident by William J. Harris in a circular let ter he Is sending out was called to the attention of the Underwood headquar ters here by a Georgia farmer. He wants to know if this same Under wood Is not the man whose name is attached to the farmers’ free list, and j which passed the house last year, and j would today be a law but for Presi- ' dent Taft's veto. This same fanner was evidently not as dense a “rube" as the Wilson managers took him to he. Commenting on the charge that ; Woodrow Wilson helped to defeat ex- ! Senator Smith, “the millionaire poll tlcal boss,'' by putting up Martino, of New Jersey, Mr. Georgia farmer re calls that Senator Smith was former ly an accepted supporter and large contributor to Governor Wilson's cam paign. Georgia Farmers Not Fooled. The following sentence in Manager Harris' letter Is marked No. 3 by Mr. Georgia farmer: “The enemies of Governor Woodrow Wilson are charg Ing him with being against foreign Immigration and urging all foreign ers to vote against him.’’ Commenting on tills point, he says: “I haven't seen them brag on this before. This 'argument' is slipped to us by mail. It is not being publicly I used. It Is whispered In the farm er’s ear.’’ Mr. Harris declares that “Wilson j started life a poor Georgia boy, and his life should be an inspiration to every boy in Georgia." The only trouble about that is Wilson was real ly bom In Virginia He only lived a very short time in Georgia. ATLANTA JOURNALS OPINION OF UNDERWOOD As Expressed Just Before the- Cam paign Began. Congressman Underwood, as House leader of the Democrats and as Chair man of the Ways and Means Commit tee, has measured up to the standard of true statesmanship. He has ren dered Incalculable service to the cause of honest tariff revision, the great Issue of the pending campaign, and by his splendid poise and mastery of affairs he has exalted his party's name In the minds of thinking Amer icans.—(Atlanta Journal. Jan 7, 1912) house for four years. mmmm M K {Reliable Goods.) | | I ' i | THE BEST IN SHOES, HATS AND CLOTHING 1 Wj ® I and Genuine Dry Goods will be found in my stock. I offer only Dependable Goods in all lines, Special attention F 1 I ' I | LYNCHBURG PLOWS, DISC HARROWS, | 1 GRAIN DRILLS, HARVESTERS, 1 1 NEW HOME SEWING MACHINES, ETC. 1 P Bargains in Dry Goods and Shoes. For a Square Deal, see |j j W. H. McQueen, I $ ( r rhe Old-Line Merchant, With “the Goods”) fe | Mt. 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Taylor and ■John Taylor, late of said county, ; deceased, represents to the court lu his petition, duly filed and en tered on record, that he has fully administered said estates, this is therefore to cite all parties con cerned, to be and appear at my office on the first Monday in May and show cause, if any they can why his application for letters of dismission should not be granted, as prayed for. Given under my hand and official signature thi3 the Ist day of April, 1912. Alex McArthur, Ordinary.
