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Mount Vernon, Ga., Thursday Morning, Aug, 27, 1914.
Montgomery county will have
the youngest legislator in the
house next session, Mr. Jim L.
(iillis, the nominee, being 22.
If Judge Clements, late candi
date for congress, did fail to car
ry his home county, he is still one
county ahead of John It. Cooper.
Here’s hoping that no such
ring streaked and speckled cam
paign as Georgia has just passed
through will strike us again in a
century.
They could not “shoo” Dud
Hughes hack to congress last
week until he got through figur
ing on the landslide he made in
the Twelfth.
The state convention next
Tuesday may prove a test of the
unit plan, and the people may be
more positive in their demands
on that line.
The war has its advantages as
well as its distressing features.
The way it has put a shadow on
the Mexican situation and Cole
1 Mease is restful, at least.
If Governor Slaton is chosen
United States Senator for the
short term, Georgia will be quite
safe in the hands of J. Randolph
Anderson, who will become gov
ernor.
Nations, like men, may have
greatness thrust upon them. If
European fighters convert, this
country into a hog and hominy
supply depot for the world we
will have some pocket change, if
no military glory.
Hon. James I). Price, chosen
again as State Agricultural Com
missioner, is not only backed up
by the votes of the people, but
lias valuable experience in the
conduct of the office that will
make him more efficient in his
second term.
The farmer with full barns of
food stuffs is being congratulated
from all sides as the one lucky
individual in this crisis caused by
the war. His class may be mul
tiplied by the same cause, but
the cotton planter is the one
needing help just now.
Southern writers who are de
ploring the fact that the girls
will soon be short on fancy stock
ings by reason of the failure of
mills to secure foreign dyes, have
surely forgotten the poke berry,
maple J>ark and walnut hulls of
the war between the states.
The late campaign was not
lacking in strenuousness, neither
was it short in lessons. The can
didate whose platform consisted!
solely in what defection he could
stir up against his opponent
came to realize in the count the)
poverty of his political assets.
Ur. Holderby of the Moore
Memorial church in Atlanta made
this truthful remark from his
pulpit on Sunday: "Any man
who depends upon the defama
tion and pulling down of his op
ponent’s character in order toj
prejudice the public tnind is un
fit to hold any office.” m
The meeting together of farm
ers, bankers and others to dis
cuss the marketing of the South’s
cotton crop is of vast impor
tance. A united people have
scarcely ever failed at anything,
and we confidently expect plans
to be formulated that will ease
up the situation. The United :
States is certainly big enough to
stand by its own. i
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Dublin Courier-Herald:—lf the
I United States government has
the right to fix the price of food
stuffs in this country it certainly
has the right to keep the price of
cotton up to a living price for the
farmer. « 1
Monroe Advertiser:— E v e n
those whose candidates failed to
receive the nomination should
feel good, because they have the
knowledge that they fought a
good fight for them. Old Monroe
just couldn’t go for everybody
you know.
Adel News:—Georgia has an
excellent official at the head of
her public school system and the
people did well to let M. L. Brit
tain remain there.
Perry Home Journal: —All
Georgians should be profoundly
thankful that all the campaign
predictions were not true,—there
would have been entirely too
many senators, governors and
other state officers.
Darien Gazette:—Georgia, we
hope, has witnessed her last po
litical campaign of hatred, spite
and bitterness. Now let us have
rest and peace.
Lyons Progress: —Cotton in the
fields is not worth a cent, but in
the warehouse it is the best kind
of collateral. In the warehouse
it is all the collateral necessary
to obtain cash with which to dis
charge pressing obligations. This
being true, the thing to do is to
hustle early and late to get the
cotton in the warehouse.
Dawson News: —The Southern
congressmen are at work earn
estly co-operating with the
Southern bankers to secure plen
ty of money to handle the cotton
crop. Their efforts will count,
too. Have no fear of that. So
we advise people not to feel de
pressed or discouraged. The
clouds will roll by and the sun
will shine clear again.
Athens Herald: —There’s going
to be money in holding the sur
plus of this year’s cotton crop
more money in holding it, than
in disposing of it, at this year’s
prices. But the main lesson the
war is teaching the Southern far
mers is to live at home. It’s go
ing to be profitable. Prepare
now to du it.
Savannah News:—lt is easy to
imagine a sarcastic Turk saying
“Onward, Christian Soldiers, ” to
those European armies whose
commanders claim Providence is
helping them.
Brunswick Banner:—The sea
captains who come into port and
r late having seen war signs on
! the voyages have got the old
time captains who only saw sea
serpents badly bested.
Atlanta Journal: A Hussain
official declares that the Europe
an war will not last longer than
two or three months. Why, the
the average baseball season is
longer than that.
Nashville Herald: —Is it true,
as we have heard it stated a num
ber of times, that Berrien county
politics get dirtier and meaner
every year? It is a fact that
some people get so wrought up
that they do not hesitate to say
ridiculous things about their
neighbors and friends.
LaGrange Reporter:—Our com
pliments to the losers. For the
most .part they are proving good
spoi ts, accepting defeat in a
manner that is highly creditable
to them.
THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR—THURSDAY, AUG.. 27. 1914
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Why a County Fair?
Once again The News would
'urge the people of Terrell county
not to overlook the fair that is to'
be held next fall. The county
fair is for the public good, for
giving individuals new idq#is and
for stimulating county pride, and
too often it is not the success it
ought to be because of the fail
ure of those who should be inter
ested to make exhibits or attend.
As the Progressive Farmer, in
discussing the county fair, says,
these fairs are social organiza
-1 tions as well, and so helpful in
this respect that it is question
able whether in any other way
they serve so large a purpose.
Bringing together the represen
tatives of every township at some
central place like the county seat
leads the people to know one an
other, a knowledge as powerful
with the community as the
“know thyself” with the individ
ual. They are likewise educa
tional. The average fair, coun
ty or state, has something for
the visitor who goes with his eyes
open and his mind alert.
Moreover, our fairs are putting
larger stress on these educational
features each year. The midway
is lessening and the gambling de
vices and those who play them
are on the decrease. This new
order of things means much for
the larger fairs, but more for the
smaller ones, which have suffer
ed from the false impression that
special attractions beyond their
financial reach were necessary to
their success. Numerous most
successful county fairs were held
last year with their agricultural,
educational and livestock exhibits
for their sole drawing cards,—
Dawson News.
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June 1, 1914.
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