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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 13, 1914)
®ljt ffimitiiinumf Mmutnr. VOL. XXIX. FOR NEW BOARD CO. COMMISSIONERS Provision for Three Members and for Three Road Districts. There has just been passed a bill providing for three county commissioners for Montgomery county, which will become effec tive January Ist, 1915. The three new commissioners will be elected at the general election in October. The county will be di vided into three districts, accord ing to wealth, population, etc., and they are as follows: Mt. Vernon and Lothair dis tricts forming a road district. Longpond, Higgston, Kibbee and Tiger districts forming a road district. Soperton, Orland and Tarry town forming the other district. In the October election each new road district will elect one commissioner, who will not be voted on outside of his district. The yearly salary of each com missioner will be SIOO, and no commissioner will be allowed to serve as extra time more than two days in each month, and re ceive not more than $3.00 per day for such service. Commis sioners will be allowed to hire a clerk at $25 per month. He may be chosen from the body or may be an outside man. There is provision for publish ing quarterly statements showing the receipts and disbursements of the board. The people have never been given an insight into the workings of the board through the public prints. The bill passed is substantially that which was published in the coun ty paper some week ago. A Wise Bridge Building Policy. If Lowndes county replaces its ; wooden bridges with others built i of concrete it will find in all like lihood that it has made a good investment. It is a good sign that all through South Georgia bridges are being built for per-1 manency. Often after heavy 1 rains bridges by the dozen are swept away, with the result that travel is difficult along the roads, farmers are prevented from get ting their crops to market as soon as they would like, and 1 great inconvenience and actual | loss follow. Bridges should notj be considered as separate from roads. They are a part of them. If they are not strongly built of lasting materials they will large ly decrease the value of the roads. '-Savannah News. f \ A VOTE FOR Randolph Anderson IS A VOTE FOR Progressive Georgia Shall Georgia Go Forward or Backward? It will depend largely on the governor you elect—whether you choose a man nearly 70 and not in touch with Georgia’s affairs, or a man young, active, energetic and progressive, who has served the state ten years and has worked his way to its next to highest position—President of the State Sen ate. RANDOLPH ANDERSON has studied and KNOWS GEORGIA’S NEEDS. He is the only candidate who has of fered the state a strong, progressive platform. South Georgia has not had a governor in more than three quarters of a century. It is conceded all over the State that South Georgia is entitled to the governorship this time. Vote for Georgia’s progress and upbuilding by voting for Randolph Anderson. . (Advertisement) Mrs. Wilson Laid to , Rest at Rome. Mrs. Wilson, wife of the Pres ident, was buried at Rome, Ga., i| on Tuesday. Eight of her cous ins bore the casket from the fun eral car to the hearse. To beau tiful Myrtle Hill, near the home of her girlhood, the procession 1 passed, between lines of school ’ 1 girls dressed in white, bearing ’ laurels, and the remains were . laid to rest. The President and , | sorrowing family returned im ' | mediately to Washington. 1 The Farmers Pay Heavy Interest Bill. In 1910 the farmers of Georgia ; were paying interest upon nearly eleven million dollars borrowed : upon farm lands. ! | The census covers the Mort l 1 gage indebtedness on farms cul tivated by owners, mind you. It says nothing of the mortgage indebtedness on the farms of ab sentee landlords. 1 i The farmers’ interest bill on i land loans in Georgia is around a . million dollars a year. In the entire United States the farmers yearly interest bill is some six hundred and ten million dollars. 1 Farm and Homestead. I THE OCONEE BAR ENDORSES GRICE Held in Highest Esteem by Fellow Members of Oconee Bar. Mcßae, Ga., Aug. sth., 1914. We, members of the Bar of the i Oconee Circuit, unanimously en-1 dorse the appointment of the Hon. Warren Grice as attorney ! General to succeed the Hon. T. S. Felder, resigned. ; Mr. Grice is an able lawyer, well qualified to fill the position, and is a man of character, true to every trust imposed upon him. Therefore, we who know him best, both as a man and lawyer, ! respectfully commend him to the ! Bar and people of the State for election to the office of Attorney General. W. S. Mann, Chas. W. Griffin, R. W. Cooper, Hamilton Burch, ■ ;J. P. Tomlinson, W. B. Smith, i B. M. Frizzelle, Tom Eason, L. A. Whipple, A. C. Adams, J. C. Linney, Eschol Graham, J. M. Bleckley, Chas. D. Loud, A. C. Saffold, O. J. Franklin, L. C. Underwood, J. H. Milner, W. C. McAllister, W. A. Wooten, IA. A. McLain, Jr., D. D. Smith, jj. T. Persons, M. B. Calhoun, !J. H. Roberts, E. D, Graham, j W. L. Wilson, A. J. Wismer, L. C. Harrell, A. C. Pate, H. E. Coats, - M. S. Means, H. F. Lawson, Marion Turner, B. R. Calhoun, E. E. Persons, C. W. Atwill, W. M. Morrison, A. L. Lanier, J. B. Geiger, C. W. Turner, G. H. Harris. MT. VERNON, GEORGIA. THURSDAY. AUGUST 13, 1914. | Will be Re-elected to Congress August 19th. ■ i pMNWiMiMiHNiKiiiiiHuHiiiiimiiiHiiiiiiiMinHmuiininHiumHiiiHniniiiiiiiM - ; . 3 S 5 i 1 l HON. DUDLEY M. HUGHES. : As this is the last issue of this paper before the primary, we ; wish to call the attention of voters to a few facts. Congressman Dudley M. Hughes is serving his first term as the representative of the new Twelfth District. He served two terms as representative of the Third District. His record is an open book, and only those who want his job have even attempted to assail it. He is one of less than twenty farmers in the United States congress, and the only one from Geor gia. His work in the interests of farmers has attracted the notice of the whole country, brought the endorsement of the farmers of Georgia and the whole South. The strongest endorsement that President C. S. Barrett of the Farmers’ Union could write has been given the farmer congressman. The Georgia legislature in a strong ;resolution urged the passage of the Hughes School Book Bill re cently introduced by Representative Hughes. On the Smith-Lever bill, in the light to eradicate cotton gamb j lers of the New York cotton exchange, on the proposition for ex- I tension of farm demonstration work, and on provision for farmers lin the currency laws passed, Hughes has proven the champion of farmers’ rights, and measured up to the full stature of a statesman. As one of a committee of nine on vocational education appoint ed by President Wilson for the whole United States, and as chair man of the Educational Committee of the House, and as the cham pion of the bill he has introduced to have the school books for the children of this country printed by the government presses and fur nished to the children at actual cost, there is imperative need that Mr. Hughes be returned to congress. A farmer all his life, a Christian gentleman, a staunch sup porter of the present Democratic administration, a man of valuable experience and an untiring worker in the great uplift of agriculture and education, Dudley M. Hughes offers for re-election. How about the opposition? Judge Walter M. Clements wants the job. Having nothing whatever in his own record that he could possibly use on which he could ask for the votes of the people, he conceived the idea that his only chance for election lay in besmirch ing the life and record of Congressman Hughes. Calling to his aid a few disappointed postoffice seekers who had sought with deceitful flattery the endorsement of Hughes, he has worked day and night to break the solid ranks lined up for Dud Hughes. Seizing upon the idea that the people are very much in censed against Judge Speer, Clements got up a circular in which Ik; 1 reproduces a letter of Dudley M. Hughes written nearly twelve i years ago, and attempts to deceive the people by a flaring false headline that “Congressman Hughes Endorses Judge Speer.” i Deliberately concealing the truth that Speer was endorsed at that ( time by a hundred eminent Georgians, like Gen. P. W. Meldrirn, Hon. Sam B. Adams, and others, Clements has personally distrib uted this deceptive sheet all over the district, taking up his whole time in trying to deceive the people for what votes-he could make out of it. Having been fully exposed, this circular now hangs like a millstone around the political neck of Clements. A man who has nothing whatever to commend him, except his ability to use such methods to traduce his opponent, is so far be low the standard required by the people for their representative in congress, that Clements will be snowed under by an avalanche of Hughes ballots next Wednesday. You can deceive the old farmer sometimes, but not every time. An old and highly respected farmer of Montgomery county summed up the congressional race for us a few days ago in these words: “I can see no earthly reason for taking a first-class farmer out of \ congress to fill his place with a 2-cent lawyer.” Anderson All Right. They do say that Anderson is going to surprise ’em when the votes are counted on the night of the nineteenth. Even his op ponents are beginning to sit up and take notice. His campaign is clean and dignified—and its taking with the people all right. —Darien Gazette. Mrs. Flora Higgs and daugh ter, Miss Bessie, were visitors to Savannah Tuesday, returning on the evening train. I Jas. D. Price Shows * Real Results. In a recent address Commis sioner of Agriculture Jas. D. ! Price said: “I have turned into i the state treasury more money > to he used for the education of ■ the farmer boys and girls of the ! state than has ever been turned in by the state department of ag ( riculture for a similar period.” i Mr. Price is a practical farmer i and has made good all right. Seeing The People by Automobile Method. Col. Lem Park, candidate for ' State Treasurer, stopped over in Ailey and Mt. Vernon a short ■j while Monday afternoon, en | route to Stillmore. Mr. Park is \ a very active campaigner and a I gentleman of pleasant address. ! He is a veteran of the Civil war, | but well preserved. He is travel ] ing in a Ford automobile and has j covered nearly every county in \ Georgia, meeting the people, who 1 are giving him a cordial greeting. } 50 Bales New Cotton Received at Americus. j! Americas, Aug. 8. —Fifty hales] | of cotton constitute receipts of I the new crop in Americus. To i date there is no demand for new \ cotton and it is being held. Far -1 mers have been indifferent re | cently regarding picking cotton, i and continued heavy rains here 3 I , 1 are inflicting considerable injury. j 1 Americas bankers and ware-i | housemen assembled this after-j ! noon and informally discussed | the situation, agreeing toco-ope-j j rate in the marketing of the crop] | locally. | SOUTH GEORGIAN FOR GOVERNOR’S CHAIR | Hon. J. Randolph Anderson Acceptable Man For the Place. As the date of the primary ■ draws near, the prospect of a South Georgian occupying the , governor’s chair becomes very bright. i South Georgia, the garden spot < ' of the state, is fast forging toj the front as an agricultural and j . industrial center, and her claim to; | this honor should be heard, not! ’ only within her own bounds, but throughout the state. South j Georgia need not beg this partic | ular honor from either Middle i Georgia or North Georgia; her [Citizenry, united in sentiment, will allow this honor to come to South Georgia. North Georgia is more consid .j erate than in former years, and ; the South Georgia candidate, | ■ Hon. J. Randolph Anderson, will carry more than twenty counties north of Macon. Let South , Georgia rally to his support. In j • Montgomery county Mr. Ander- j son has many strong supporters. ; They realize that the whiskey ; question does not enter into the campaign, and will never be set tled directlv from the governor’s i chair. Mr. Anderson is not an advocate of liquor; Mr. Harris is not an advocate of prohibition in Georgia. The abililty arid loy alty of Mr. Anderson cannot be questioned by any save the most; narrow and prejudiced. 1 Let Montgomery county people stand loyal to a native South Georgian, and keep the county in | the Anderson column. As presi- j dent of the senate, he has found ; it impossible to visit every portion of the state. COTTON WAREHOUSE j WILL BE BUILT Mt. Vernon Citizens Prepare To Take Care Os Cotton Crop. On Tuesday Mr. .J. I. Fountain and other citizens canvassed the town, and in a short time had subscriptions in hand sufficient to build a cotton warehouse here to store and handle the cotton com ing to this place. The move was a success from the start, and the work will begin at once to erect the building in time for use this (season. Any one interested in the project can secure stock in the enterprise, as it is preferred to have a number interested in it. But enough funds are obtainable for putting up the building im mediately. This is a splendid] l i move in the right direction. i {commissioner price FRIEND OF FARMERS i ] Will Make Provisions For Holding Cotton For Better Prices. The Association of Agricultural Commissioners of the Southern States is in session in Washing ton City, for the purpose of de -1 vising ways and means by which the cotton growers will be pro -1 tected. Plans will be made by } which the farmer may hold his cotton during the depression which will probably result from the war in Europe. Mr. Price, ! Commissioner of Agriculture of j Georgia, as usual, took the lead in this move for the farmers of j the South, and for the farmers ,of Georgia in particular. Mr. Price has never missed an oppor ] tunity of doing some good thing for the farmers. He farms on a large scale, and knows just what the farmer needs, and is not afraid to get it for him. ! Mr. Price is serving his first ! term, and according to an estab lished custom, will doubtless be re-elected by a still larger major ity than he was two years ago. ! The farmers of Georgia should not overlook this man Price. Just how long he will have to be !in Washington, we cannot say; but if necessary, he will remain i there a week or ten days—until he gets what the farmers need right now. Mr. Price has many warm friends in Montgomery county, and they will not be will ing to see him defeated by a rep resentative of the guano trusts, Mr. Brown, who seeks his place, j The State of Georgia needs Mr. Price another term. He has put more money into the State treas : ury during his term than has ev er before been given the State in the same period. There have been many moves to deceive the farmers of Georgia, but this is a time when they appreciate the work of Mr. Price, and will see that his name remains on their ticket. Two years ago Mont gomery county gave him a ma jority of nearly five hundred | votes, and our people will remain loyal to “Uncle Jim.” He hopes to see the farmers get a full nrice for their cotton. CAMPAIGN FAKIR GETS CALLED DOWN Hardwick Falls Down In Attack on Governor’s Family Tax. As a sample of what may be expected of eleventh hour fakirs, the attack on Mrs. John M. Sla ton’s tax account by Tom Hard wick has been cited, and has been {exploded by the following facts: Mrs. John M. Slaton will pay i into the State of Georgia this year $0 000 in taxes. Thomas W. Hardwick, al ! though he has drawn about ! SBO,OOO from the national till since he began to serve as a congress man, will pay into the state $ll.OO. In other words, Mrs. Slaton makes returns op. property valued at $415,725. Mr. Hardw’ick, in spite of his SBO,OOO from the national treasu ry, has given in only his poll tax of SI.OO and only his professional tax of SIO.OO. The Disappointed Ones. The fight in the Eleventh against Walker has narrowed down to a scrap by disappointed applicants for postoffices. The great common people are inter ested in no such an issue. They continue to get their mail in the same old way from the same old i source. Coffee County Progress, NO. 15
