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Just received a large ship ment of Skirts and Shirt Waists, handsomely tailored, and style and make-up will please a queen. — J our CLOTHING DEPARTMENT We don’t hesitate to say that we can please anybody; The Clothes we sell fit people, and the style and workmanship cannot be excelled. Don’t buy your suit until you see our line. YOUR BOY WILL NEED A SUIT, and"we have them to suit you. They are made up in the la test styles and they will not rip. It is a hard proposition to buy a good boy’s suit We mean an all-round suit. Now we have this kind of a suit for you and at a very reasonable price. Come and see this line and make your selections early. L Yours truly, HIGDON-HERRING CO., CAIRO, GA. J WOE UNTO THE po»fe tongue. the Editor Progress: I notice in last issue of your yaluable paper an article under the head-lines of “Something to Think About” some severe strictures upon the judge of the city court for certain things said to have happened at the last term of said court. Now, this was the case of the State vs L. H. Fos.ei, and “Justice” is wholly mistaken as to the disposition of a part of the cases. Why didn’t he consult the record before making this tirade? If ire had he would have found that the solicitor had, with the approval of the court, had two of these Cases nol pros’d, and by agreement be tween the solicitor the defendant was to plead guilty on the other charge, as they all grew out of the same transaction and considered one continuous case. The defend ant was brought into court late in the afternoon on Thursday just be fore the jury was discharged and plead guilty, and left with the un derstanding with the court and so licitor that the sentence was to be passed the next day when court convened. This was understood bv all the court officers. Let me tell “Justice” that this is not an unus ual practice in the courts; on the contrary, it is the rule that when ljie ; court discharges the jury the defendants are brought in end sen tenced. It is not necessary that the • jury be present. But in this case court convened the next day .quite a number, among them Mr. Foster, who plead guilty the afternoon be fore. The court then had the so licitor to prepare the following or der 1 “Ordered that the sheriff take into immediate custody all de fendants who have been fined, or who have plead guilty and have not been sentenced, or who have been fined or Sentenced and who have been granted a supersedeas and JjlftCG said defendant in jail for dis position according to judgment and sentence, unless said defend ants pay their fines to the solicitor of this court instanter; a reasona ble time having already elapsed for the payment of such fines. This July 26, 1910. J. R. Singletary, Judge City Court of Cairo When Mr. Foster was brought into court the next morning for the purpose of passing sentence upon him ho arose and said on account of the order issued above, which he said reflected on him, he was going to witlidray his plea of guilty en tered into the day before and de mand trial by a jury. Now, the court was in doubt as to whether he could do it. The demand was made under section 946 of the penal code. It appeared upon reading that section that the court had to allow the defendant’s demand. Now, the court had been imposed upon; the duplicity of the defendant was most flagrant and reprehensible but the court was not a party to it. The court never dreamed but what the defendant would do what he prom ised the judge and solicitor; he be ing a member of the bar and by vir tue thereof an officer of the court and supposed to be in good stand' ing. Now 1 , “Justice” lays great stress on the fact that the solicitor was trying to get the court to pass sen tence upon the defendant while the jury was present. The solicitor did urge upon the court the import ance of having him plead guilty before the jury was dispersed, for the reason the defendant wanted to enter his plea of guilty the next day and the solicitor was afraid he wouldn’t do it after the jury wrb discharged. The court directed the sheriff to bring the defendant, in court and the solicitor entered his plea of guilty. The matter of pass- Grady superior court to answer to ing sentence was not brought up until after Mr. Foster had left the court room, but the court never thought the defendant intended to play false to it and the solicitor. Now, this is the case in full; and is the night-mare that is so disturb ing the equilibrium of “Justice.” It is true that the judge of the city court may make errors, but they are errors,of the head and not of the heart. And if “Justice’ ’ means to lead his readers to believe that the judge connived with the de fendant for the purpose of having his ease continued, or having a whispered conversation relative to it, or that he was a party to a “con temptible trick which has for its object to defeat justice;” then we denounce this black insinuation and demand that he make proof of it, or be branded a common slanderer, a traducer, and character assassin. Again he says, “an unfaithful or venal officer is the worst curse that can be imposed upon any commu nity.” Now, if ‘'Justice” means to infer or to intimate by innuendo or otherwise that the judge of the city court is guilty of venality, can be bought, hired or bribed; then we demand that he make proof of the same or else be denounced as a dirty - dog, a caluminous slanderer and fomenter of strife and discord. The judge has his faults, but they are not venal and every act he has ever done has been founded upon the highest plains of justice as he saw it. He has tried to make his every act conform to what Csesar wanted His wife to be ■ above sus picion ’ ’ On what kind of crow has this “CtBsar” been feeding lately that he arrogates to himself the right to censure all the institutions of the county; even to know the whisperings going on in the city every vile imputation in “Some thing to Think About.” Very respectfully, J. R. Singletary. THE PLEA BE THE ACCUSED Cairo, Ga., August 27, 1910. Mr. Editor: In the county pa pers of Inst week under the cap tion, “Something to Think About,” some mighty mind unleached a tinv atom of its greatness and the hot ozone violently vibrated from its priggish prattle. But alas! poor bubble, the truth will explode you and the fragrance of your bloom will perish and the decaying mould of misrepresentation will leave a rotten odor to pestilate the author who deflow ers and soils to excessive blackness the pure white name of justice by assuming it as a signa ture to perpetuate an injustice. The writer of this article, mind you, does not charge that the article in question is untrue as to the whole, but only such parts thereof as he is personally familiar v ith, to-wit: That which has reference to the conduct of a certain cases at the last term of the city court in which the gentleman’s article, “Something to Think About” is entirely mislead ing. The facts are: The accused came into court under three accu- sations cumulative from the same offense. In two of these cases a verdict of not guilty was signed by the court after being opportuned so to do by the solicitor. • To the other accusation the defendant entered a plea of guilty, asking the solicitor through courtesy to allow the court to pass sentence the following day after the jury was dispersed. Not one word was said in open court about sentence being passed before the jury was dismissed. This was late in the afternoon; the jury was dismissed that day. On the follow ing day the accused was not in court, whereupon the judge, upon his own motion, passed an order requiring the sheriff to incarcerate the accused in the county jail until the fine was paid. As no fine had as yet been assessed the accused by written plea, withdrew his plea of guilty and plead not guilty, as the law allowed him to do, see penal code of Georeia, section 946: “A defendant has the- right to with draw a plea of guilty at any time before sentence is passed.” The judge remarked that the de fendant was trying to take advan tage of the court and asked the so - licitor if he knew of any law to the contrary. The solicitor produced none and the judge had no other alternative except to order the plea filed, which legally carried one case over and not three, as the author of “Something to Think About” would have you believe. These is not one word of truth in the web he attempts to weave about any whispered conversation relative to these cases. If the accused had any whisDered conversation with the judge it concerned something else and had no connection what ever in any way with the cases in question as the accused has never had any conversation with the judge at any time pertaining to these cases. The writer has thought, and thought, and thought, and now, in conclusion, thinks that the author of “Something to Think About” did not know the facts whereof he wrote. Thr Accused. court? , ,, T .• ,, Now, we want to put Justice on notice that he will have an op- nortunitv, not before tn© grunu ~- „ . • , , jury, but before twelve good men in went with the sheriff into court and The Meeting at Long Branch Last Saturday By request of the pastor Rev. G. F. Taylor, Dr. R. H. Harris preached for him and presided over the church conference, at Long Branch, last Saturday. There was a large congregation present and the occasion was very impressive: Dur ing the conference, Dr. Harris read the pastor’s resignation, for him, which was relunctantly ac cepted, to take effect at the next re gular meeting of the church to in clude the fourth Sunday in this month, September. Then to avoid a possible “interregnum,” a call was made for a new pastor whose term will begin with the regular monthly meeting of the church in October. Rev. J. P.Swan was elec ted by acclamation, and on motion, the vote was made unanimous. Witness.