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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 31, 1918)
G. H. WILLIAMS, OF DUBLIN, ANNOUNCES CANDIDACY FOR UNITED STATES SENATOR TO THE PEOPLE OF GEORGIA I am a candidate for the United States Senate to succeed T. W. Hard wick and to defeat W. J. Harris. In a letter to Clark Howell, Presi dent Wilson asked tne people of Geor gia to vote for Harris. In a telegram to W. J. Harris, President Wilson as sured the people of Georgia that the Government would not interfere with our cotton and upon this political and moral contract the people of Georgia nominated W. J. Harris for U. S. Benatoiv well knowing that he was a weak man indeed for this high office, and was not the choice of the people, but the fiasco of the President. We had faith in President Wilson’s promise to protect cotton planters against the spinners and speculation of the North and of foreign coun tries, but in three days after Harris was nominated on this issue, Presi dent Wilson on the 14th day of Sep tember issued an order directing the War Industries Board to look into the cotton situation, stabilize grades and distribution, and if necessary in the opinion of this unfriendly board of Yankees to the 'South, to fix the price of cotton and place it under Govern ment control. Cotton dropped from 35 cents to 29 cents per pound; millions were lost to us and thousands of people have been bankrupted, sacrificed and ruin ed. The political and moral contract made with Harris and President Wil son at the September primary has been broken and is void, and the peo ple of Georgia are now free to act and vote as they please in the Novem ber election for a United States Sen ator. If the President had kept faith With us on this promise all the peo ple in Georgia would be glad to carry out their part of the contract, but as the President did not keep his prom ise he made in that telegram to Har ris, all the people of Georgia will be disloyal to themselves and their sec tion if they do not resent it and elect an independent Senator; and fight 4his unjust and outrageous move on the part of the Administration to sac rifice the product of our land labor to foreign trade and unfriendly interest. I, 2or one, will oppose it with all the Strength of my soul and being. The farmers of Georgia are with me and the loud-mouth politicians, un scrupulous newspapers and powers to be can not and will not fool them again on the first Tuesday in Novem ber. Mr. Wilson is a great president, he is a powerful man and the best schol ar that has lived since the days of John the Baptist. He holds the reins of the Government as no other man has ever held them. When he pops the whip the wheels turn or the traces break, and we are with him whole soul and body in the winning of the war; but, he knows nothing of the cotton conditions in the South. He should not hurt us now if he could not help us in 1914, and has no right to dictate the local politics of Georgia against our judgment and against our interests. If President Wilson has not made another politi cal promise with the powers to be to sacrifice our cotton for political pref erence in doubtful sections for the November election, and cares for the interest of the people of Georgia and the South who have served him and his party as faithfully as a clave could serve his master for fifty-three years, why don’t he settle this cotton question and keep his promise in that Harris telegram? He could do it in one day and save us millions of dol lars and vexation of spirit. All the world knows this Adminis tration is against the cotton market. The farmers of the South are being made philanthropists of to finance the cotton seed oil mills and other great interests unfriendly to us. There is but one reason for this—we have been solid for one party until we have no political standing in na tional affairs. Shall we keep our heads In the same yoke? If so, wa deserve no better. No farmer in Georgia has been able to sell a ton of cotton seed since the September primary. They are scat tered from the gins back to the farm ers, piled in heaps and are rotting by the thousands, all on account of un just discriminations against the farm er at the most critical time in the history of our being and the protest of Democratic Senators seems to be of no avail. The Macon Telegraph and some other newspapers in Georgia that either know or care nothing of these conditions, have continually advocat ed the price fixing of cotton, but after I made my announcemenfrpn this is sue, John W. Bennett, &r Waycross, In preparing “Little Willie’s” speech of acceptance at the Macon conven tion had “Little Willie” to say for the first time that he was opposed to Government price fixing on cotton. John Bennett is a brilliant Georgian, hut he took all the thunder out of the Macon Telegraph when he made “Little Willie” say this last Thurs day; but he did hot say that he op posed the Government stabilizing cot ton as instructed by President Wilson In the Official U. S. Bulletin of Sep tember 24th. Don’t you know Harris will not op pose anything the President favors? Don’t you know that stabilizing cotton means cheap cotton? Don’t you know that every agency and committee appointed by this Ad ministration in connection with the cotton and cotton seed is being used ♦o depress the price? Rules for Sending Parcels to Soldiers. Only one package may be sent to each man, enclosed in a stand ard carton furnished by the Red Cross, Cartons will be distributed to Chapters by November Ist. No parcels may be mailed after November 15, 1918. The label issued to the man! overseas by the Army authorities and forwarded by him to some relative or friend in this country will entitle the holder to apply to the local Red Cross organization for one carton. The cartons must be packed by the relatives or friends and de livered unwrapped and unlabeled. (ADVERTISEMENT) G. H. WILLIAMS, Os Dublin, Ga., Candidate For United States Senator You know and all the Administra tion knows that it is the common talk and daily statement in the hotels and corridors at Washington, in thfc Cot ton Exchange of New York and New Orleans and with purchasing agents of foreign countries that if cotton goes above 35 cents the Government will take control of it and fix a price? Don’t you know that the committee appointed by the Administration to control, and that is controlling cotton is made up of cotton mill men, cot ton seed oilmen, and cotton exchange and commission gamblers? If you don’t know this, get the Of ficial U. S. Bulletin issued September 24tli. You will see this is true. Wash ington is full of foreign agents, New England spinners and Wall Street gamblers, doing all in their power to make the Administration take charge of this and the next crop of cotton, and, incredible as it now seems, there are some newspapers and paid agen cies righ_t__here in Georgia advocat ing the same dirty deal; and I want to tell you in no uncertain terms, that unless the Southern people assert themselve in the most vigorous terms it will be done. And when this is done we will be at the mercy of the spinners and for eign agents, just as we are now at the mercy of the cotton seed mills. Cotton seed is congested and depress ed now; cotton will be depressed and congested then. You can raise no money on seed now; you could raise no money on cotton then. You have to wait on seed mills now; you would have to wait on cotton mills then. Southern banks cannot advance mon ey on seed now; they could not ad vance money on cotton then. If you had one hundred tons of seed today and had to pay one thou sand dollars debt you would have to wait until the oil mill rould use them to pay the debt, and tile same prin ciple will apply to cotton if the price and control is fixed. These conditions would demoralize all business, wreck and ruin the South? Do you know that we live in a free country and have a right to serve God according to the dictates of our own conscience and to vote for what and for whom we please? The inierference with the rights of the people by taxing tea and the Bos ton disturbance was a mild encroach ment of the people’s rights compared to the present interference with cot ton. Just why the spinners and gamblers should be protected from the effect of the fourth disastrous crop and the exporters for foreign countries se cure cotton at the expense of the Southern planters I can not see. Brazil looks after the planters of coffee, and not the consumers of coffee in Amer ica and Europe. But the Democratic party owns the South by a prescriptive title, and un til the bonds of this peaceable posses sion are broken and We show some sec tional independence, we will have no recognition in national affairs, and will be bartered as weaklings for po litical preference North, East and West, regardless of our rights or faithful service to one party. If It is so now and we bare our backs to the lash tlmt is being laid on in this outrageous cotton situation, how much worse will it be when this world war is over and each section must fight for its respective rights. We will need business men with guts and gall, grit and grain to stand for the interest of the South and be in position to de mand what is right. If we have a weakling in the United States Senate trailing only In the banner of solid Democracy, whipped into line by pre judical sentiment and ignorance, wo will reap the harvest of that same contempt of barter and sale for politi cal preference in more manly sec tions. If I am elected to the United States Senate as an independent Re publican, I will have the help and sup to the Red Cross to be weighed, inspected, wrapped, labeled and delivered to the Post Office. No package may weigh more than three pounds. No written message may be in closed. The sender must furnish the necessary postage from place of mailing to Hoboken, N. J. Each parcel must bear the label received from abroad with the name and address of the soldier and the inspection label of the American Red Cross. Inspected parcels must remain in the cus tody of the Red Cross until de livered py its representatives to the Post Office. In the event of a Christmas parcel label being lost, no du plicate can be issued. This rule can not be altered by anybody, i THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR-THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1918. port of that great national organiza tion in looking after the interest of the people of Georgia, and I promise you now that if 1 don’t do more in one year than Harris could do in six years, 1 will resign my job and put mv salary back into the treasury. Let us see what it costs nnder the present conditions to make and mar ket cotton; 1 have one farm of thirty-two plows, run by twenty-four tenants or crop pers. Eighteen of them white families and six colored; there are 128 people in the twenty-four families. It will cost at the present prices $20.00 per month each to feed, clothe and in ev ery way support these people, or a total cost for twelve months of $30,- 720. On the cropper system the land lord furnished the land, the stock and their feed, the tools and one-half the fertilizer. He gets one-half that is made. These thirty-two plows, twent ty-four families or 128 people ijiade this year as estimated, 297 bales of cotton. It takes the seed to pay for the fertilizers, but we are clogged up now and can’t sell them. This cotton at 40 cents per pound would be $200.- 00 per bale or a total of $59,400; the croppers' or tenants’ part would be one half or $29,700. If it has cost them to live, $30,720, we must get something out of the pigs, chickens and vegetables to make good this dif ference of $1,020. They, of course can, do this; but at these high-priced times, if you pay them less than 40 cents, somebody will and must do without, while the great majority of the favored class wallow in tile lap of plenty. Shall this great Democrat ic Government protect the spinners whose profits are fabulous and at the same time depress the producer, whose burdens are already more than he can bear? Our great President lias been mis led and we are being sacrificed to the advantage of the New England mills and Wall Street gamblers. Fifty cents for cotton today would not be equal even to the pay of other labor in the South. Do you know that a common la borer who worked on a farm in 1914 at one dollar per day of twelve hours is making SB.OO per day of nine hours on Government work? Do you know that negro firemen who worked for one dollar and fifty cents on rail roads in 1915 for twelve hours a day, are now being paid by McAdoo’s rail roads $185.00 per mo’nth for eight hours per day? Do you know that all Government contractors are growing rich and donating fabulous sums to the campaign of their choice candi dates? Do you know that the cotton mills have made 100 per cent since 1914, and the Bibb Manufacturing Co., a, cotton mill corporation in Georgia, has increased its capital stock from one million to five million dollars since 1914, and paid for this four million with surplus and profits? Do you know that the Georgia farmers who actually make their bread by the sweat of their brow and raises the cotton to clothe the world is the only class that has not made money out of this war? I know the farm from beginning to end. I am a farmer, with a hundred plo\js, raising all the supplies I can to help win the war. I paid more war tax than any man in mv Congression al District and I did it willingly. I have given more to the Red Cross and Y. M. C. A. than any man in my coun ty, and I am glad of it. I have bought bonds of every issue and will buy more. I allowed, my nineteen year-old son to go to France and fight for his country before he was called and he is still there doing his bit. I simply mention these things to show that I am no slacker. If President Wilson needs our cot ton to run this war he is perfectly welcome to take It. We are with him to a victorous conclusion, but it has not been, shown and it can not be shown that it is necessary to do this in winning the war. All the world needs this small cotton crop, a*d as soon as the end of the war is in sight, this crop of cotton will bring a high price and we will for the first time in forty years make some money to pay our debts and improve our condition. If President Wilson allows the spinners and gamblers of America and the European powers, who are anxious for cotton, to take it from us at prevailing prices, or if he allows Baruch and his speculative commit tee to keep talking it down, the Presi dent is badly misled or does not ap preciate our interest and faithful ser vice to him and his party. The dam age has already been done, the fight must be made and neither men nor party names should be considered. Men and parties may come and go, but principles must stand forever. Let the newspapers have their say, and the old party leaders abuse mo all they may. The world is fighting for freedom, Georgians must do so, too, and they must do it from now un til the November election or leave the yoke of oppression upon their children’s necks for another half cen tury. Price fixing of cotton and cotton seed will help the North and will hurt the South. The Administration should not allow the financiers of the North to levy an indemnity upon the South fifty years after we have surrendered. Any man In Georgia who refuses to vote his protest against this outrage Is a political coward, and should leave Georgia or be disfranchised. Respectfully, G. H. WISLLIAMS. Dublin, Oa., October 12, 1918. Car for Sale. A Five-Passenger Baby Grand Chevrolet; in First-Class Condi tion; only had one puncture since it was bought; run little over 3500 miles; extra tire. See T. B. Conner, 919tf Mt. Vernon, Ga. Lost Cow. One large brindle cow; marked crop and under square in right ear, old bit and underslope in left ear; white hind feet; about six years old. Left my place Oct. 4. Five dollars reward for re covery. Notify Pearley Bellamy, 10174 Rt. 3, Uvalda. Notice to Debtors and Creditors. Georgia—Montgomery County. All parties having demands against the estate of J. R Conner, late of said county deceased, are hereby notified to present them, properly attested, and all parties indebted to said estate are hereby required to make payment to the undersigned. This the 7th day of October, 1918. W. A. Conner, E. L. Carpenter, Adrs. Est. of J. R. Conner. Executor’s Sale. Georgia—Montgomery County. Under the terms of the will of W. R. Adams, deceased, 1 will offer for sale, at. Kibbee, Ga., on Saturday, Nov. 2, 1918, one house and lot, and possibly other prop erty of said estate. Prospective buyers may inspect property prior to sale day. ,1. R. Adams, Ex. Estate of W. It. Adams. Sheriff Sale. Georgia—Montgomery County. Will be sold before the court house door in Mt. Vernon on the first. Tues day in Nov., 1918, between the legal hours of sale, to the highest bidder for cash, certain property of which the following is it complete descrip tion : One certain lot of land in the Town of Soperton, laid state and county, being a part of a ten acre iract formerly owned by Benj Gillis, being carved therefrom according to the following boundaries ind dimensions: Fronting Hamilton street ‘2OO feet on east and running back 100 feet south and bounded on the north by lands of A. Gillis. east oy Hamilton street and south and west by other land of F. R. Durden, together with two houses thereon. levied on a r d will be sold as the prop erty of Fra- k R. Durden to satisfy a tux fi fa issued by H. C. Davis, tax collector, for state and county taxes for the year 1917. Levied by I. C. S. Berner, special bailitf, and written notice given in terms of the law. This the Ist dav of Oct., 1918. 1. J. Davis. Sheriff. Sheriff Sale. Georgia— M)titgiunery Connfcy. Will he sold before the court house loot in Mt. Vernon on the first Tues lay in Nov., 1918, between the legal hours of sale, to the highest bidder for cash, certain property, of which the following is a complete descrip tion : Sixty two acre* of lam! situate, lyina ami tieirur in the 1091st district G. M. of said county and 4tate and hounded as follows: On the north by lands of Sophie Mosley, on the east by lands of Ijouisa Baker, on the south by lands of Ruth Ad •ims and on the west by lands of Geo. W. Blocker. Levied on and will be sold as the property of E. Vfoslev to satisfy two tax fi fas issued by H. C. Davis, tax collector, vs E. Mosley, for state and county taxes for the years 1916 and 1917. Levied by 1. C. S. Berner, special Itailiff, ami written no tice given as required by law. This the Ist day of Oct., 1918. 1. J. Davis, Sheriff. Sheriff Sale. Georgia—Montgomery County. Will be sold before the court house door in Mt, Vernon on the first Tues day in Nov., 1918, between the legal hours ol sale, to the highest bidder for cash, certain property, of which the following is a complete descrip i ion: That tract of land lying in the 1687th G. M. dis trict of said county and state, containing 143 acres more or less, and more particularly described by a survey made by S. B. Morris Sept. 25, 1918, as fol lows: Beginning at a stone corner to property of Barnes and Mrs. Gray and running thence hound ing on other property of Mrs. Elibeth Allen, north three degrees east 55.74 chains to a dead pine; thence bounded on property of W. B. Greenway south 89 degrees east 44 chains to a stake; thence bounding on lunds of Jennie Sterling north 22 1-2 degrees east 12.42 chains to a stake; thence bound ing on property of Billy Smith and Davis Smith north 89 degrees west 26 chains to a fallen pine; thence south 82 degrees west 47.75 chains to stake or stump on the hank of Messrs Creek; thence iff southerly direction along said c-eek to a black gum tree; thence bounding on lands of Barnes and Mrs. Gray 31 degrees east 44.75 chains to point of l>eginning. Levied on and will be sold as the prop erty of Mrs. Elizabeth Allen to satisfy a tax fi fa issued by H. C. Davis, tax collector, for state and county taxes for the years 1916 and 1917. Written notice of levy given to defendant. This the Ist day of Oct., 1918. I. J. Davis, Sheriff. Sheriff Sale. Georgia—Montgomery County. Will be sold before the court house door in Mt. Vernon on the first Tuesday in Nov., 1918, between the legal hours of sale, to the highest bidder for cash, certain property, of which the following is a complete description: All of that tract or parcel of land situate, lying and being in the 1567th district G. of sai t county and state, more particularly described as follows: Beginning at a pine corner on the south east Bide of said tract of land and where said tract intersects the lands of E. L. Srr»it • ami Mrs. Ada Peterson on August 6, 1912, ami running from said pine comer thence north 45 1-2 degrees west 50 chains to a stake corner; thence north 16 de grees east nine chains to a black gum corner on a branch line; thence in a northerly direction along the run of said branch to whee the same Hows into the waters of Swift Cree, thence down the run of said Swift‘Creek in an easterly direction to where the waters of “Little Swift Creek” How into the said Swift Creek; thence along the run of “Little Swift C-eek” In a southerly direction to a maple tree corner on the E. L. Swith lands; and from said maple tree corner thence south 43 de grees west 18 chains ami 30 links to the beginning point; and being bounded on the north by the wa ters of Swift Creek and lands of Charles AUmond; on the east by the waters of “Little Swift Creek” or the lands of Mrs. J. Auld and lands of E. L. Smith; on the south by lands of Mrs. Ada Peter son and on the west by lands of Mrs. Ada Peterson and lands of John Dixon and lands of Mrs. Cath - arine Morris and containing 250 a n res of land, ac cording to a survey and plat the eof made by J. R. Carr, surveyor, on the 6th day of Aug., 1913. Said land levied on and will Is? sold as the property Mrs. Florence Hl'ton, found ip her possession, to sa isfy a fi fa issued from the superior court of said county in favor of Peruvian Guano Corpora tion vs Mrs. Fl rente Hilton. Written notice of levy given In terms of the law, this Oct. 1, 1918. I. J. Davis, Sheriff, M. C. Patillo ft Jackson, A ttys, for f Iff. LOANS ON FARM LANDS. Loans on improved farm lands of Montgomery County can be placed promptly at 5 l-2c in terest in amounts of SI,OOO and above, with the privilege of re paying part of the principal at any interest bearing periods in amounts of SIOO or multiples thereof, thereby stopping the in terest on amount paid. Loans can be made for periods of 57, or 10 years to suit the borrower. Commissions charged are reason able. M. B. Calhoun, Mt. Vernon, Ga. R. E. Ward, Soperton, Ga. Administrator’s Sale. Georgia—Toombs County. By virtue of an order granted on the 2d day of September, 1918, by the Ordinary of said county, I will sell at public outcry on the lirst Tuesday in November, 1918, j between the legal hours of sale, at the court house in Lyons, said county, to the highest bidder for cash, the following described real estate to wit: (1) All that certain tract of land situated m the 1567th district G. M. of Montgomery county, Ga., containing two hundred and six and nine tenths (200.9) acres more or less, bounded north by I lands of J. E Palmer, Mrs Media Hilton and I). A. Jackson, east by Mrs. Medie Hilton ami D. A. Jackson, south by D. A. Jackson, A. B. King, John Hall and J. E. j Schumpert's land and west by ' lands of the estate of \V. H. Mc- Queen. The above described prop erty is sold subject to a debt oir'j ing to The Second Investors Mort gage Security Company of $1590 00, due Nov. Ist, 1919, and $1,620 00,1 due Nov. Ist, 1920, by the lute J. E. Sehumpert. 2 Also ninety (90) acres of land more or less, lying in the 1667th district G. M. ot Montgomery county, Georgia, bounded by lands j of J. E Palmer, Georgia Ann) Blocker, D. E. Palmer, C. Jj. I They Let Him Sleef "Since tailing Foley Kidney Pith I I I believe / am entirely cured and I J ' 'ti lib steep soundly all night. ” / Straynge / Take two of Foley Kidney "-mm \' Si' r ' M with a Klass of pure |& water each meal and at bedtime. A quick and easy i ((ri i)/*xv q.o° way to P ut a st °P to V° ur °° ° Retting up time after time °°V 0 during the night. 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Interest at 5 1-2 per cent., 11 FIVE YEARS TIME—EASY PAYMENTS |j You have the privilege of paying part ij of the principal at any interest period, |j and stop interest on amount paid; hut || no annual paymentof principal required Prompt Attention to All Loans Entrusted to Me |i Come to see me at once if you want a ij j! loan. lam well equipped to take care | ji of the loan business. See me. j! L. C. UNDERWOOD j MT. VERNON, GA. Allmnnd and others, and being all of the lands not included in the above described tract lying in Montgomery county, belonging to the late J. E. Sehumpert. Said property is sold for the purpose of paying debts and distribution among the heirs of the deceased. This Oct. Ist, 1918. W. S. Boatwright. Adr. de Bonis Non Estate of J. E. Sehumpert. \V. M. Lewis, Attorney. Stock and Supplies for Sale. Three hundred bushels of corn, 2000 bundles fodder; one good milk cow; good farm mule; one yearling; a full-blooded Jersey bull; full-blooded Chester White sow; sow and six pig 9; 1 cradle; 1 harrow; 1 Joe harrow; buggy pole; 2-horse Oliver middle burst er; 2 crescents; 1 sixty-two Chat tanooga plow; 1 Junior; 1 guano distributor; one 1-horse wagon; points, bolts, etc. May be seen at Wm. Connell place. C. L. Moore, 10243 Rt. 1, Mt. Vernon. Seed Oats for Sale. 1000 Bushels Fulghum variety; perfect condition. Call at once. J. C. Calhoun, 1038 Mt. Vernon, Ga.
