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VOL. XXVII.
CHAIRMAN GEIGER
NAMES NOMINEES
Tells Whos Who In Next
State Election As Shown
By Primary.
Editor Monitor:
My attention has been called
to the fact that you failed to pub
lish, after the August Democratic
primary election in Montgomery I
county, a full list of the nominees
for the various county offices.
On account of this failure to
publish the names of the success
ful candidates in both primaries,
some confusion has arisen as to
who was and who was not nomi
nated. In order to set at rest the
rumors and inform the public
generally who the nominees are,
I will thank you to give publicity
to the list of nominees set out be
low, which is a list of the nomi
nees officially so declared by the
Democratic Executive Committee
of the county:
For Representative,
John C. Johnson.
For Sheriff, James Hester.
For Treasurer, A. Gillis.
For Tax Collector, D. M. Currie.
For Tax Receiver, Isaac Brooks.
For Surveyor, Sumner Morris.
For Coroner, W. P. Meade.
For Ordinary, Alex McArthur,
For Clerk S. C., M. L. O’Brien.
For County Commissioners,
J. M. D. McGregor,
J. G. Snellgrove,
J. T. Walker,
R. D. Beatty,
W. H. Moxley.
Sept. 17, 1912. J. B. Geiger,
Chm. Dem. Ex. Com. M. C.
Old Dog Tax Law
Holds Good for 1912.
Comptroller General William
A. Wright, acting upon requests
from many confused county tax
collectors, Saturday morning rul
ed that the new dog tax law,
making canines ad valorem pro
perty and taxable as such,
does not become effective until
next year.
This ruling means the old law,
which taxes dogs at the rate of
$1 per head, whether they are
common curs or pedigreed pom
eranians, will apply this year.
About $130,000 per year has
been collected in taxes on dogs
under the terms of the old law.
It is claimed that the new law
will practically wipe out this in
come, as it is not believed that
the average dog owner will place
any valuation upon his dogs.
Ask for Ordinance
Against Auto Speeding.
Much complaint is being made
about the fast running of auto
mobiles inside the corporate
limits of Ailey and Mt. Vernon,
and it is a well known fact that
several accidents have been
averted by only hair-breadth
escapes. The reckless running
of bicycles on the sidewalks of |
Mt. Vernon has long been a dan
gerous nuisance that the town
authorities pass unnoticed. A
speed limit for automobiles is be
ing demanded by parties who
have come near being run over,
especially in the vicinity of the
Brewton-Parker Institute. We
have been asked to call attention ,
to these matters.
A mad dog on East Broad street,
Savannah, Tuesday caused great
excitement and bit three persons
before being killed by a police
man.
Church Pews for Sale.
The pews in the Mt. Vernon
Methodist church are for sale at
a reasonable rate. In good con
dition. Call at Mt. Vernon Bank.
Mr. Anderson’s Dwelling
Burns at Alston.
Bewteen eleven and twelve
o’clock on Saturday night the
residence of Mr. Ira L. Anderson
was found on fire. The house
was burned to the ground, but
Mr. Anderson with the help of |
friends managed to save most of
his household goods and furni
ture, Adjoining the Anderson
house was a small wooden store
in which J. W. Sharpe & Son had
stored a lot of hardware, plows
and other goods, and this was
also consumed at a loss to them
of about $250.
ADVICE ADOPT PECANS
FOR BEGINNERS
How The Toothsome Nut
Can Be Made To Pay
Handsome Dividends.
Mr. Editor:
I see in your issue of two
weeks ago an article copied from
the Home and Farm in regard to
the pecan industry, and I read it
with interest. For four years I
have been reading up and study
ing in every way I could the pe
can industry. I have sent for
the bulletins published by the
United States, I have taken a
couple of journals, and have been
attending the meetings of the
National Nut Growers in their
annual conventions. So you will
see that the opinions I have form
ed have been the result of care
ful study and not mere guess
work.
This is one of the most profit
able industries in the south, pro
vided it is carried on with proper
care and work. A great many
people are going to make a fail
ure at the business, as a great
many do in nearly everything
else. But there is big money in
it for the man who will go at it
in the right way, and who will
energetically follow it. It will
not pay to buy any sort of trees
that an agent may want to sell,
just because he calls them paper
shells. There are only about 150
varieties of paper shell pecans,
and only about 20 varieties any
account. Every farmer should
plant a few trees of the best va
rieties, and should fertilize and
cultivate properly. The first
thing is to find out what some of
the best varieties are, and then
find out where some good first
class trees can be bought. Never
buy pecan trees from an agent
and a nursery from whom and
about which you can find out
nothing. Be exceedingly care
ful about the nursery from which
you buy. Then when you get
your trees be very careful about
setting them out. If you do this
you should not lose over two or
three per cent.
Do not put out seedlings.
Five acres of land carefully set
in first class varieties from a re
liable nursery and then properly
cared for, planted out for a child
three or four years old will edu
cate that child, paying his entire
schooling, books, board, clothes,
tuition, traveling expenses, &c.,
and settle him down at 21 years
of age with a piece of property
worth SIO,OOO
In some future issue of your
paper I will give full directions
about setting out trees.
C. M. Ledbetter.
Bam Burned.
A report reaches us that the j
barn of Mr. G. L. Peterson whose
farm is near Sadie school on the |
east side of the county, was
burned Tuesday evening, and
was probably set on fire by light
ning. Mr. Peterson lost too good
; mules and it is quite probable
that most of his farm implements ,
were burned.
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MT. VERNON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, SEPT. 19, 1912.
The Stardard Bearer of
National Democracy.
Will You Help to Elect Him President?
Many of the leading papers of
the state, both daily and weekly, j
are raising funds toward the sup
port of the Democratic campaign. ;
The Democratic party, with vic
tory almost within its grasp, is j
not begging; neither does it want
money to buy votes, for such is
not the case. But it does need
legitimate money to defray the
expenses of the campaign, and
thousands are responding to its
call through its leaders.
The party leaders do not de
mand funds from the nublic, but
simply allow all patriotic citizens
to make a free-will offering to
the cause of success. In order
that the public may understand
the request, we publish in full a
letter from the chairman of the
Georgia Press Contribution Bu
reau, Hon. Pleasant A. Stovall,
Savannah, and take up the work
along the lines suggested there
in. While we may not expect no
large amounts, it is to be hoped
that many will contribute some
thing—not less than a dollar, nor
more than a thousand, which
amounts will be duly published
and receipted for, and will be:
forwarded through the Mt. Ver
non Bank. Leave a dollar at
this office—every patriotic citizen
who is interested in the success
of the Democratic party with Mr.
Wilson as the standard bearer.
Savannah, Ga., August 30,
1912.
Dear Sir:
Hon. Robert Ewing, chairman
of the National Democratic Press
Contributions bureau, has ap
; pointed me as chairman of the
'Georgia Press Contributions Bu
reau, and as such lam writing
1 you to ask you to open a sub
scription list in your paper in or
der to secure funds with which
to advance the interests of the
Democratic nominee in the com
ing presidential campaign,
i I take the liberty of directing
your attention to two striking
facts in this connection: (Ist)
that the funds with which the
; Democrats will make their fighl
; are being given by the great
| masses of the people and not by
j the representatives of the big
e rporations and privileged class
es, and (2nd) that, while Georgia
I was the boyhood home of Gov.
Wilson and the birthplace of Mrs.
Wilson, this state is not a battle
ground and the only real service
that we can render is by raising
funds to assist in the great work
to be done in more doubtful terri
tory.
It looks as if this will certain
ly be a Democratic year, provid
ed the enemy does not, by the
use of vast sums of money, offset
the advantage which our candi
date has by reasons of his splen
did popularity and which the
party has by reason of its mag
nificient record. As every one
knows, it takes a very large
'amount of money to conduct a
presidential campaign, even when
every cent is put to legitimate
uses. It, therefore, behooves
: every good Democrat to do his
■ share toward assuring the vic
tory. If we do not win now, we
will not again have such a splen
did opportunity in many years to
come.
I am writing to enlist your
support in this matter feeling
that, by exertion and enterprise,
you can secure a considerable
sum in your locality. In asking
you to undertake this matter, I
assure you that my associates
and I will be glad to co-operate
with you at all times and will en
deavor to aid you with sugges
tions and entertaining literature
on this subject for your readers,
what is being done elsewhere I
and how the Democrats are I
amassing a big campaign fund
by voluntary contributions from
the people.
Will you not start a subscrip
tion fund in your paper right
away? I am enclosing a few
Brantley’s Going Regretted.!
“No man will go out of Con-1
gress with more regret, I dare
say, than representative W. G.
Brantley of Georgia,” said Dan
iel C. Roper, clerk of the Ways
and Means Committee.
“During Judge Brantley's six-
I teen years in Congress he never
!so much as made formal an
-1 nouncement of his candidacy, I
! doubt if any man ever elected to
the House has a record to com
pare with that of Mr. Brant
ley. He was first nominated in
June, 1896, while he was solicitor
general of his district, otherwise
prosecuting attorney, and the
nomination came to him unsought
and unexpected.
“Mr. Brantley, as everybody j
around the House knows, ha»j
been one of the most active and j
influential members of the Ways!
and Moans Committee, and for a
long time was a member of the
Judiciary Committee.
“After 28 years of public ser
vice Judge Brantley feels, as
some other members of the
House feel, that he should give'
some time to his family. There
are many members of the Con
gresss who have found it impos
sible to live on the salary of a|
congressman, lu this connec-l
tion it is remarkable that so!
many members of the House are
leaving public life at the end of
this Congress, and in nearly
every case they are moved by
the same impulse to make mon
ey to live on.” —Washington
i Post.
South Georgia Show
To Break Reeords.
Tifton, Ga., Sept. 15. —One
entire booth devoted to a colossal
exhibit by ehd champion boy
corn raiser from Terrell county,
an 800-foot midway, with twen
ty-five amusements, three free j
acts and other attretions, two
aeroplane flights daily, football j
games and a great agricultural j
display will be among the chief
attractions at the South Georgia
Land and Agricultural Exposi
tion which opens at Tifton Octo
ber 31.
Bishop Flipper Visits
Churches in this Section.
Bishop J. S. Flipper, in charge
of five conferences of the A. M.
E. Church in Georgia, with
headquarters in Atlanta, was
here on Sunday and preached to
a large congregation at the church
of Rev. A. It. Easters Sunday
night. He visited Longpond, Vi
dalia, Soperton and other points.
Bishop Flipper is the first and
only colored bishop ever visiting
here, and his people were natur
ally proud of his coming.
printed suggestions which Mr.
Ewing has sent me which they i
aid in this work. The success of I
this enterprise is dependent en
tirely upon the co-operation of j
the editors who open these lists. }
Will you not do your part and
help us out instituting an active
can vass ?
Please let me hear from you
right away, and bear in mind
that I shall be very happy to as
sist you in this matter in any
way that may occur to you. Kind
ly start the list in your next edi
tion, as the time is short.
With success beckoning to us,
let every Democrat put his shoul
der to the wheel and do his part
toward the consummation of a
devout desire to again place a
Democrat in the White House.
With best wishes,
Sincerely yours,
P. A. Stovall.
The following amounts con
tributed through The Monitor to
: date, and will, grow from week 1
I to week:
! Montgomery Monitor $2.00
j Dr J. E. Hunt 100 j
' Cash GO |
j $3.501
TWELFTH DISTRICT
NOMINATES CANDIDATE
Hon. Dudley M. Hughes
First Nominee Os the
New District.
Dublin, Ga., Sept. IG. - The
congressional convention of the
Twelfth district met here to-day
and formally nominated Hon.
Dudley M. Hughes of Twiggs to
represent the district in Con
gress.
The conventoin was called to
order by the retiring Chairman
V. L. Stanley of Dublin, who
called for nominations for tem
porary chairman. J. H. Roberts
|of Dodge county was nominated
j for both temporary and perma
nent chairman, and was elected.
! Mr. Stanley was nominated per
manent secretary.
Every county was represented
except two, Wilcox and Johnson.
A resolution was passed en
dorsing the work of Mr. Hughes
in Congress and after the ap
-1 pointment of a platform com
' mitte and a committee to select
the executive committee of the
district, nominations for con
gressman were called for.
i L. Q. Stubbs of Dublin an old
! friend of Mr. Hughes, made the
j nominating speech, which was
seconded by every county that
was ref resented at the meeting.
All the speakers paid tribute
to the character and ability of
Mr. Hughes, who was notified of
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HON. DUDLEY M. HUGHES.
the action of the convention and
made a speech of acceptance in
which he thanked the body for
the honor conferred upon him
and pledged his best efTorts to
see that the districts citizen's
were represented well in the
next Congress.
Resolutions were introduced in
dorsing the Twelfth district fair,
Ito appoint the executive com
i mitteemen from each county a
I committee of one to aid in the
| work of raising a campaign fund
for the Democratic campaign,
and to get each county thorough
ly organized and canvassed for
funds. This will give the en
tire district a strong organization
whose work it shall be to collect
as large a fund as possible for
the national campaign.
The district executive com
mitte elected is as follows: Pu
laski, Warren Grice; Houston, J.
P. Duncan; Twiggs, L. D. Shan
non; Wilcox, J. H. Bankston;
Dodge, J. H. Roliertson, John
son, C. T. Bray; Laurens, V. L.
Stanley; Emanuel, W. H. Proc
tor; Toombs, F. M. Smith; Mont
gomery, D. W. Folsom; Telfair,
Max L. Mcßae.
The platform recommended
that the convention endorse the
platform of the national conven
tion. Resolutions were also pass
ed endorsing the candidacy of
Woodrow Wilson and the Demo
| cratic ticket.
Mr. W. F. McAllister, cashier
;oftheUvalda Bsnk, was up to
| see us yesterday afternoon.
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