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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.
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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)
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Citation.
' Georgia—Montgomery county.
H. T. Taylor, administrator of
j the estates of Geo. W. 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
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as prayed for. Given under my
hand and official signature thi3
the Ist day of April, 1912.
Alex McArthur, Ordinary.
