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S6e Grady County Progress
ROBERT H. HARRIS
ROBERT L. KINCAID
Associate Editors.
Entered as mail matter of the second-class at the Cairo, Ga
Post Office, July 22, 1910.
GREAT DANGER! LOOK OUT!
Present symptoms do not, in our humble judgment,
adequately indicate the terrific political ferment into which
Georgia is going to be thrown, after the prospective re
signation or the governorship by Senator-elect Hoke Smith.
Some incipient frothings may be observed, before that
date; but the stage of most violent commotion will not be
reached until the approach of the nominating primary.
People, look out!
We are not a politician—nor a political augur; but we
venture upon some political prognostications, m order to
justify some timely warnings.
Here they come.
Two gentlemen have already announced their candid
acy for the position about to be vacated: Judge R. B.
Russell, of tne state court of appeals, and Hon. J. Pope
Brown, late treasurer of Georgia.
In addition to those candidates, there will probably
be others; of whom we shall speak, in due time.
As to the two named, there is, aside from all other
considerations, a direct issue between them, upon the
liqucr question. Judge Russell has declared unequivocally
for local option, upon the ground that, as he alleges,
“prohibition is a failure”; Mr. Brown has pronounced, un
qualifiedly, for prohibition.
As to the position, on that question, of other prospec
tive candidates, we shall see what we shall see, whenever
they announce.
In the meantime, we feel constrained to offer some
plain comments upon Judge Russell’s attitude.
Before doing that, however, we must remark that
while, as possibly some of our readers may remember, we
predicted, six weeks or morp ago, that the liquor question
would be “bound to come to the fore,” in connection with
prospective political conditions, we lament the fulfillment of
the prophecy.. Sorrowfully, and not boastfully, we record
that the prediction has come to pass. And very regret
fully, we must add that this deplorable condition is due to
the culpable indiscretion of one whom, in some respects,
we have heretofore greatly admired, ,
, Alas! and alas!
For two reasons, we believe the injection of the pro
hibition question into the presently impending guberna
torial contest to be a calamity:
First, because it will 'augment existing difficulties in
the way of enforcing the prohibition law as it now stands;
Second, because it will arouse bitter animosities, ex
cite hostilities, provoke dangerous antagonisms and preci
pitate homicides.
Now, let our readers fail not to remember the words
just uttered. And let them not forget, at the polls, who
caused those words to be written!
. Let another thing, also, be remembered. Even had
it been proper for the local option liquor question to be
precipitated into the gubernatorial contest, at this time,
the wrong man has injected it—and in the wrong way.
It is the business of a judge to enforce law, except
when required in judicial proceedings to pass upon ques
tions of constitutionality; not to decry it, to undermine it,
to bring it into contempt. The fact that Judge Russell
may have enforced the prohibition law, as alleged, while
upon the superior court bench, cannot excuse his extra
judicial aspersions upon that law, in a political campaign.
Furthermore. While, as claimed, Judge Russell, if
elected governor, might not be able, during the official
tenure of the present legislature, to secure any change in
the prohibition law, as it stands, yet his pronouncements
“upon the stump” will encourage malefactors in violating
the law that he has discounted; and he may at times
find himself facing appeals for pardon in behalf of offend
ers who can plead that they have merely disregarded an
empty statute, practically declared to be nulla lex, by the
very man who holds their destiny in his hands!
Moreover, as we shall indicate, further on, t
change may .be expected!
Fellow citizens, give ■ heed and take warning! The
great poet- philosopher has said,
“Idiots alone are cozened twice;
Once warned is well-bewared.”
But there are other dangers attendant upon Judge
Russell’s candidacy, against which we would give warning.
Listen!
Listless, indifferent, apathetic prohibitionists, wake up!
There is great danger involved in carelessly permittin:
a man of Judge Russell’s avowed principles to be electee
governor, upon the erroneous idea that he can do no harm
during the official lease of life of the present legislative
body; composed, as it is, of members a majority of whom
are understood to be prohibitionists.
Who knows, how many of those legislators mav be
men whq can be “influenced”? y
There is such a thing as being taken “up into a high
mountain.” .
Allow not yourselves, people, to be deluded into the
vain belief that the liquor men are going to use no effort
and spc . .1 no money in the interest of Judge Russell’s
candidacy. Be not deceived by the indifferent tone as
sumed by the anti-prohibition papers. That is but a part
of the game;—like Mr. Mann’s unstudied question, which
elicited Judge Russell’s unpremeditated anti-prohibition
announcement, in his Swainsboro speech. Effort Hercu
lean will be made. Money in profusion will be
And there are “susceptible” men'; devoid of “back-bone.”
There are many human oysters in the world walking a-
round with trousers on. And some of them may be mem
bers of the Georgia legislature. The promise of support
for some future office, or the “judicious” bestowment of
fluent currency, or both, may be found of great weight in
the cases of not a few molluscan bipeds. The election of
Judge Russell, upon a local option platform, should such an
event occur, will induce many an invertebrate, now posing
as a prohibitionist to change his complexion.
Further than all that, should Judge Russell be elected
for the remainder of Senator-elect Smith’s term, he will
have a decided political advantage over his opponents in
the next general primary, when candidates for legislative
positions, as well as the gubernatorial aspirant, will be
nominated upon the very issue that Judge Russell has so
unfortunately sprung; with what results who knows?
—in the midst of the confusion which will by that time,
in such an event, have become a wild turmoil!
Finally, (for this occasion), we warn the public of
another great evil that will inevitably follow upon the
triumph of anti-prohibition; by whatsoever name called,
under the leadership of Judge Russell, or of any other
person whomsoever.
We mean the quadrennial recurrence of the same fight.
Under local option, the six or eight “wet-city” coun
ties in Georgia will, every fourth year, force the one hun
dred and thirty eight or forty “dry” counties into an ex
pensive, irritating, business-disturbing, bitter fight, in
which friends will become estranged, neighbors will be
made enemies, men will be shot and stabbed to death,
schools will be demoralized and churches be rent with
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U People, Mind What You Do! H.
GRAND JURY PRESENTMENTS
We, the Grand Jury, drawn
aijid., sworn for. the September
term of Grady Superior Court,
beg to submit the following
report:
Our Committee appointed to
investigate the condition of the
Public Buildings of' the County
report the Jail in good conditioh
with the exception of some trash
in the corner!? and there is some
spitting on the floors. The Court
House is in good condition with
the exception of floor in Justice
Court room which needs some
repairs and we recommend that
same be done. This building is
neatly kept but we find that dur
ing court week there is consider
able ,spitting on the walls and
floors. Cuspidors are provided
for this purpose and we certainly
think the public should use them
or that they should be fined for
not doing so. The buildings
recently erected for the use of
the poor of tne county are very
neat and well arranged. The
convict camp is in very good
shape.
In regard to the roads of the
county and the way they should
be worked we have 'found this
one of the most difficult problems
with which we have had to deal.
We realize that, Under our
present system, we will, never
have good roads unless some
means are used to enforce' the
law. We have discussed the al
ternate road system pro and con
and we are persuaded that it
would be a mistake to saddle this
on our people at this time. All
things considered we think the
old system now in use had better
be continued for awhile and so
recommend; but we want to go
further and recommend that the
Road Commissioners of the Coun
ty be given until, fall term of
court in 1912 to get their respec
tive roads in good condition and
tion be taken as will result in our
roads being speedily put in good
condition.
We find the following roads
and bridges in very bad condition
and recommend that same be
looked after without delay: bridge
over Swamp Creek on the Calvary
and Bainbridge road; the road
from Cairo to Whigham is in very
bad shape and most of the roads
in the Whigham district need
work badly; the Lime Sink bridge
is in very bad shape and has been
condemned and should have 1 im
mediate attention; bridge over
Sofkee Creek on the Hawthorne
Trail needs some repairs; the
road opened up about a year ago
from Pine Park to Duncanville is
hardly in a passible condition'in
some places; there are stumps
that need to be gotten .out and
rough places leveled up and in
one place there is a fence that
should be moved.
We have a committee to ex
amine the books of the various
officers of the County and find
those of the J. P.’s, Ordinary,
Treasurer, Tax Collector and
Clerk of the Court neatly and,
so far as we are able to deter
mine in the limited time in which
we have to examine them, correc
tly kept. We find what appears
to us to be some little irregulari
ties in Tax Receiver’s book but
we feel sure that the Tax Receiv
er should have been present and
gone over the books with our
committee, that it could have
been explained satisfactory.
We recommend that a thorough
ly reliable and competent auditor
be employed to make a full and
complete audit of the books of
the various county officials and
that said work be complete be
fore the convening of the Grand
Jury for fall term of Court next
year.
We recommend the appoint
ment of Neel Hollingsworth as.
N. P. and Ex-off, J. P. for Spring
Hill District. We recommend
be paid $2.00 per day for his ser
vices, this amount to be an addi
tion to his regular pay as Juror,
We have elected D. G. McNair
on the County Board of Educa-
spent. tion to succeed N. G. Christop-
" her, resigned.
We desire to thank Judge Park
for his able charge to this body
and also our solicitor Col. Wooten
for his advice and help during
our deliberations.
W. H. Collins, Foreman.
J. T. Booth,
E. J. Dickey,
R. L. Vanlandingham.
J. H. Hudson,
W. B. Brown,
T. J. Watts,
E. A. Alderman,
C. E. Stringer,
P- W. Buasey,
C. H. Vickers,
J. T. Larkins,
D. C. Haire,
A. L. Wamble,
E. A. Norton,
H. D. Payne,
T. M. Duggar,
J. R. Garland,
B. B. Martin,
J. A. Gainey,
F. J. Miller,
W. B. Godwin,
C. E. Vanlandingham.
Grady Superior Court, Septem
ber Term, 19J.1. -
The foregoing General Present
ments received in open court and
ordered filed and spread on the
minutes. All recommendations,
nominations and elections therein
contained are hereby ratified and
confirmed.
Frank Park,
j. a. c. a; C.
The Invariable Rule.
In all well-regulated printing
offices, there is an inflexible rule
that requires every communica
tion to be accompanied by ther
name of some responsible person;
not necessarily for publication,
but for the protection of the
managing editor. In many cases,
such a rdle would appear un
necessary; but if anonymous ar
ticles of a harmless character
were allowed, the same privilege
could be claimed for those of an
other character. Therefore, no
deviation from this universal
rule can be permitted. H.
that if our Commissioners of j that Jurors and bailiffs be paid
Roads and Revenues are not now j the sum of $2.00 per day for their
clothed with the proper authority j services and that the Grand Jury
to enforce the above that the bailiff be allowed to draw his pay
proper steps be ffiken to so'clothe along with, the Jurors and not
them.' We are of the opinion .have to wait until .the. meeting of
that we have the law, which,. if. the County Commissioners. . We
enforced, will accomplish results also recommend that our Grand
and we recommend that such ac-, Jury Clerk, R. L. Vanlandingham-
Knowledge
and skill avail him nothing
if his prescriptions'Jfare not
carefullyfilled. The potency
of a drug depends on its
quality.
We recognize that fact in
compounding our prescrip
tions.
All Drugs and
icines
sold by us are of absolute
purity, fresh and of the pro
per degree of strength.
When used as directed or-
prescribed the result is al
ways satisfactory.
& Browne
Leading Druggists
Phone 14.
Ga,