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VOL. XXIX.
Seeks the Suffrage of the People
In His Candidacy for Governor
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Hon. J. Randolph Anderson
SUPERIOR COURT
CONVENED MONDAY
Regular May Term Now in
Session to Last One
Week.
The regular May term of
Montgomery Superior Court was
called to order by Judge E. D.
Graham on Monday morning.
Judge Graham delivered one of
his precise and pointed charges
to the grand jury, and tn. co”rt
proceeded at once with the civil
docket. The grand jury was or
ganized with Mr. Sam D. Morris
as foreman, and Mr. J. B.
O’Conner is acting as secretary.
On account of the very busy
season with our farmers, the
crowd in attendance is not as
large as usual- Many cases have
been disposed of, and the crimi
nal business is scheduled to be
taken up today.
Some important cases are on
the calendar for trial. The most
interesting case, perhaps, is that
of the state against May Dunn,
the young woman committed to
jail some weeks ago, charged
with the murder of Fred Miller
at Soperton. Solicitor General
Wooten is on hand prosecuting
for the state. He has already un
earthed a near-by case, not on
the lists before, in which a true
bill for murder has been return
ed. We hope to give a list of
the cases disposed of in next is
sue.
Besides the local bar, we note
the following visiting attorneys
in attendance:
W. C. McAllister, Eschol Gra
ham, W. B. Smith, of Mcßae:
Wimberly Brown, E. J. Giles,
Lyons; C. W. Sparks, W. M.
Lewis, Patillo, Jackson DeLoach,,
Vidalia; J- P- Tomlinson, Alamo;
P. H. Howard, Dublin; Alex
Smith. Swainsboro; A. S. Ander
son, Millen.
Baseball Last Monday,
S. G. C. vs. 8.-P. I.
An interesting game
was played Monday on the dia
mond of Brewton-Parker Insti
tute between the South Georgia
College team of Mcßae and the
home team here- The score w r as
10 to 6 in favor of the Brewton-
Parker Institute team. The heavy
hitting of the 8.-P. I. team was
a feature of the game.
Mr. J. R. Carr of the Higgston
section, a successful farmer and
expert surveyor, was here on
yesterday.
Uvalda.
Special Correspondence.
Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Mason of
Lyons have been visiting rela
tives here.
A large crowd attended service
at the Methodist church Sunday
evening.
The fish-fry at Dead River on
| Thursday night was enjoyed by
1 quite a number.
Mr. P. M. Moseley left Mon
day for Augusta for treatment of
his eyes.
Many of our young folks at
tended the picnic in Augusta on
Friday over the Georgia & Flori
da road, and report a fine time.
Miss Bessie Mcßride of Sharpe
Spur visited Miss Mae Gibbs on
Thursday last.
j Little Miss Allen Clarke of Al
ston is visiting Mr. and Mrs. Hi
ram Johnson this week.
Misses 01 lie and Pearl Crosby
were shopping in town Saturday.
Miss Lucile McCleland, Dexter,
is visiting her grand parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Wm. Calhoun.
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Brogdon
visited home folks in Augusta
Friday, returning home Sunday.
The ice cream supper at the
home of Mr Wiley Sharpe was an
enjoyable occasion.
Miss Lucile Kelley was the
guest of Misses Whitlock Sunday.
Miss Virginia Gray is visiting
friends in Vidalia this week.
Miss Ophelia Partin visited her
sister, Mrs. P. J. McNatt, here
last week.
Misses Pearl Jones, Virgiaia
Gray and Mr. Lester Oneal were
out automobileing Thursday.
i Mr. John Gray of Baxley vis
ited home folks here last Sunday.
The ice cream supper at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. J E. Jones
; Saturday evening was enjoyed by
a large party of friends.
Oriola.
Revival at Ailey.
Revival services will begin at
the Methodist church at Ailey on
the fifth Sunday in this month,
(May 31,) and will continue
through the first Sunday in June.
Services on Sunday at 11.00 a.
m., and 730 p. m. On week
days at 3.30 and 7.30 p. m.
Let the members of the church
be much in prayer for a genuine
revival. H. C. Ewing, P. C.
Mr. J. A. McQueen of Vidalia
i Rt. 1 was here yesterday.
MT. VERNON, GEORGIA. THURSDAY. MAY 7. 1914.
J. KELLEY SIMMONS
IN ERUPTION AGAIN
Vehemently Denounces His Own Utterances as Utterly
False. Forgot He Said Things that Show Him Up
Daft. Speaks of “Dignified Position of Editor” and
Falls Off the Pedestal Into the Mire of Hypocrisy.
Editor Simmons, of the Tel
fair Enterprise continues to rant.
He devoted large space in large
type in his paper last week in
discussing and otherwise cussing
the editor of The Monitor. This
seems to be great sport for Sim
mons, and is furnishing an end
less amount of fun for the
friends of Congressman Hughes
and Judge Walter M. Clements,
who is seeking to succeed Mr.
Hughes. With his editorial som
brero he is fanning himself and
shouting for us to “name ONE
THING Mr. Hughes has done
since he has been in Congress.”
For the benefit of Editor Sim
mons especially, we are proceed
ing to show several things as
emphatically set forth by Sim
mons himself as to Dudley M.
Hughes’ work in Congress. If
these statements are absolutely
false, as Simmons now vehement
ly declares they are, we will leave
him to explain just why he print
ed them and sent them out to
impose upon the public, who in
nocently supposed that a man in
the “dignified position of editor”
would publish the truth. We are
not exactly in the predicament
of one of the great characters of
the Bible, who exclaimed, “Oh,
that mine adversary had written
a book!” Simmons did not write
a book—he can’t. But Simmons,
unfortunately, has a very poor
memory. Things he said two
years ago are now denounced by
him as utterly false. (Perhaps
they were “mental gyrations,”
“rambling, incoherent mumb
lings,” or “vaporings,” as de
scribed in the Enterprise of last
week )
The editor of the Enterprise
concludes his article of last week
with “we have already devoted
too much space to his puerile ef
forts at reasoning and hence dis
miss the matter.” Please don’t
ring down the curtain yet, Mr.
Simmons, we have something for
you
In the Vidalia Advance, “J.
Kelly Simmons,editor and prop,,”
Nov. 15, 1912, after copying a
long article from the Macon Tele
graph, which spoke in the high
est terms of Hughes’ work, said:
Mr. Hughes is familiarly
known as the “Farmer Con
gressman” by his colleagues in
Congress, he being one of the
largest planters of South Geor
gia, as well as one of the most
successful. He therefore natur
ally takes a great deal of interest
in matters pertaining to agricul
ture and things that tend to make
the life of the farming people
more congenial.
In the same paper, “J. Kelley
Simmons, editor and prop.,” Oct.
12, 1911, the editor said:
Mr. Hughes has a national rep
utation as a “Farmer Congress
man” and itis a distinction that he
is justly proud of. He has been
in Congress now for some time
and has made a reputation there
as an able representative. He is
enthusiastic as to the success of
the Democratic party, and it is
to be hoped that all will read his
interview on why a full vote is
desired on next Tuesday.
In the Advance, January, 1912,
Simmons, the forgetful “editor
and prop ,” said:
Through the courtesy of Con
gressman Dudley M. Hughes,
The Advance is in receipt of a
nicely bound volumn of the Con
gressional Dictionary. Congress
man Hughes will be a member of
this, the Twelfth district, when
the bill creating the new Twelfth
goes into effect, and is already
an announced candidate to repre
sent this district in Congress. He
is now representing the Third
and is doing so very ably.
Simmons says Hughes helped
to make the vote large for Wil
son in a “most aggressive cam
paign.” See Vidalia Advance,
Nov. 15, 1912:
While much has been said
about the large vote polled by
President-elect Wilson in Geor
gia, the real cause of this large
vote seems to have been over
looked. Every congressman
made a special trip over his dis
trict in an effort to bring out an
extra large vote. Congressman
Hughes of this, the new Twelfth,
made a most aggressive cam
paign in his district in an effort
of this k;<nd in which lie was
highly succussful.
According to Simmons, the man
Hughes, whom he now swears in
capital letters “has not done one
single thing the six years that he
has been in Congress that will
entitle him to another term and
the esteemed editor of The Mon
itor knows it,” on July 25, 1912,.
was doing like this:
Mr. Hughes has made an able
representative for his district
and will make the new' Twelfth
Congressional district of Georgia
a valuable and able representa
tive. Beiow we publish an arti
cle from the National Democrat,
published at Washington, I). C.,
giving some idea of the high re
gard and esteem with which the
people of the national capitol hold
Mr. Hughes: (And then follows
a highly complimentary article of
Mr. Hughes and his work on the
agricultural demonstration bill in
Congress.)
Monitor readers will readily
understand that when these ex
tremely laudatory things were
being said by Simmons his nose
was pointed toward the “pie
counter” —he wanted something,
and when Congressman Hughes
saw through the veil of his hy
pocrisy and dropped that post
office plum into other hands,
Simmons soured on him. Judg
ing from his remarks of the last
week it would take about a car
load of soda to neutralize the acid
in him.
According to Simmons of the
east side of the Oconee, Dudley
M. Hughes “is now representing
the Third, and he is doing so
VERY ABLY.” (Jan , 1912.)
From the same sanctum, sanc
torium, July 25th, 1912, comes
this: “Mr. Hughes has made an
able representative for this dis
trict, and will make the new
Twelfth Congressional District
of Georgia a VALUAbLE AND
ABLE REPRESENTATIVE ”
From across the muddy w'aters
of the swift-flowing Oconee there
came last week these astounding
declarations from the same pen,
dipped in the gall of a thankless
friend: “Mr. Hughes was at
one time the head of a prominent
railroad. It is true he was de
throned, but does that keep him
from being an ex-railroad mag
nate? Editor Folsom knows the
farmers don’t want a man to rep
resent them who is closely al
lied with the money powers ”
From his “dignified position”
as editor, Mr Simmons sees fit
to insinuate that the family af
fairs of this editor are at stake
in this race between two gentle
men. We would spare any allus
ion to his family, knowing some
thing of the ethics of decent
Georgia journalism. Two years
from now, when Simmons is lead
ing that agricultural ox up and
down the rows for Farmer Clem
ents to lay off his cotton rows,
and Dud Hughes is busy in Con
gress fighting for the interests of
the old horny-handed farmers of
the Twelfth district, the forget-
Candidate For the U. S. Senate
to Represent the State of Georgia
Hon. John M. Slaton
ful editor of the Enterprise will
be swearing that he meant to say
that the “little satellite” of The
Monitor was hatching a scheme
to be appointed minister to Mex
ico.
Simmons is entirely too eco
nomical with the truth. He is
losing a great opportunity by not
hastening to Atlanta to get on
both sides of the Frank case
people who can testify today
that what they said recently is
all false are in demand—especially
by Burns.
Truly, truly, our words are
“babyish argument” to Editor
Simmons, but if a Montgomery
county baby, two years old,
played with veracity and truth as
dangerously as Simmons does, the
kid would be electrocuted.
Judge Walter M. Clements is a
nice gentleman, a Georgian, and
the frothy eruptions of Editor
Simmons will not disgust his
friends in Telfair into voting
against him.
White* Oak School
Nprrigl Omitchp'hfl' iter*.
We are having quite a dry
spell. Farmers are busy killing
grass while the sun shines.
The ice cream supper given at
the White Oak school house last
Friday night was enjoyed by all.
Among those present were Misses
Mamie Tarver, Lillian Miller,
Maude and Carrie McLendon,
Annie Dukes and Mrs Elmo
Smith, Messrs Clarence McCrim
rnon, Lee McLendon, Martin
Smith and Bruce McLendon.
Our school will close May 20th.
We are planning for a fine time.
Mr J. A. McCrimmon will be
among the old soldiers going to
Jacksonville this week. We wish
for them a good time.
We are sorry to note that Mrs.
A McCrimmon is ill; we hope for
her a speedy recovery.
Messrs. J. W. Mitchell and
Geo. McCrimmon are attending
court this week.
Call M. H. Mason, Ailey, for
ice, and try to keep cool.
; DEATH OF J. C. GEIGER
; AT SAVANNAH MONDAY
Well Known Hotel Man of
Wide Acquaintance in
i the State.
1 Savannah, (la.. May 4.- Mr.
1
John Corley Geiger, who con
verted the old Marshall House
into the present modern hotel
which bears his name on East
Broughton street, died at 6
o’clock this morning at the hotel
~ after an illness of several months.
He was 54 years of age, and a
native of Effingham county. Mr.
Geiger, who was horn Oct. 30,
’ 1858, removed with his family to
Savannah from the interior sev
eral years ago. The deceased
I was a newspaper man in young
manhood having‘been editor of
the Baxley Banner and the Bap
tist Watchman. He operated
hotels at Helena, Athens and
Cordcle be fore coming to Savan
nah.
lie is survived by his wife,
Mrs. Minnie Geiger; a son. Mr.
Homer F. Geiger; two daught
' ers, Mrs. A. J. Stebbins, of Jack
sonville and Mrs. Charles C.
, Cook, of Savannah; four broth
ers. Messrs W T- P. Geiger, of
Milton, Fla.; James Geiger, of
i Glenwood, Ga.; J. J. Geiger, of
Taylors Creek, and Judge J. B.
Geiger, of Mt. Vernon, and many
» grandchildren.
1 Big Picnic at Spring Hill
on Saturday, May 16th
On .Saturday, May 10, there will
I be a pieme at Spring Hill with a:i
iextended program from 9 a. m.
' until 10:80 p. in. Seine able
speakers will occupy the program
in the forenoon. The afternoon
will consist of various field exer
cises. \ program by the Spring
! Hill Literary Society will be
'looked for with eagerness, the
main feature of the program bee
i ing, “That Rascal, Pat.”
Everybody is welcome and a
good tune is assured all who at
tend,
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