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THE GftADY COUNTY PROGRESS, CAIRO, GEORGIA.
GRADY COUNTY PROGRESS
S. R. Blanton & Son, Owners.
S. It,Blanton, Kditor.
V. Blanlon, ABsociato Editor.
Mia- Addle Lou Pmvell, Local Eilitoi
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Next Senator Should
Not Be From Atlanta
Tt is announced that Governor
Slaton will not appoint Senatoi
Bacon’s successor, who will serve
till the man whom the people
elect for the major part of the
unexpired term can qualify, un
til after the dead statesman’s
funeral, which will occur Thurs
day at Macon.
Whom will the Governor name
We see many distinguished
Georgians mentioned as possible
appointees. And conspicuous in
the list are the names of several
Atlantans.
We want to say here and now
that we are opposed to having
Atlanta furnish Georgia with
both her United States senators.
We have no man to boost for
the high office which death has
just made vacant, We are start
ing no boom for a favored candi
date. We have no man in mind
whom we would prefer above
several others of whom we are
reminded, as avail able for the
vacant senatorship.
But we are going on record as
being opposed to having two At
lanta men in the upper branch of
Congress as the representatives
of Georgia.
Senator Smith is from Atlanta.
He is exactly where he ought to
be, and The Herald will support
him, when he offers for re-elec
tion, against any man in the state
who may oppose him.
But it will not be good for Geor
gia to pick for the other senator-
ship another resident of Atlanta.
The Georgia capital is a great
city, and no Georgian could be
prouder of her achievements and
her prestige then are we. We
are willing that she should have
even a little more than a fair
share of political plums and pub
lic reward’s but we are not will
ing that she should have all of
those which are most important.
It is no narrow spirit which
leads us to this view. We are
thinking solely of the best inter
ests of Georgia. The Governor
is an Atlantan. The now senior
senator is an Atlantan. The
other senator should be from
some other part of the state.
We fully realize that some of
the Atlanta gentlemen whose
names we have seen mentioned
in connection with the senatorial
appointment are well qualified
for the office. We have no per
sonal fault to find with them
either as men or because of their
known political affiliasions and
alignments. But we do not sup
pose there is an intelligent per
son in the state who will serious
ly contend that there are not
other Georgians—Middle Georgia
Georgians and South Georgians-
who are quite as well qualified to
render distingushed service in the
Senate as any candidate which
the Capital City can hope to offer.
We reiterate that we have no
fight to make on anybody, and
we have no aspirant whose cause
we seek to promote.
We are simply speaking early
And in our view we have lots
of company.—Albany Herald.
Dear Progress and Progress
Readers:
I has been quite a while since
l wrote you a line from this beau
tiful city of graft and greed and
glory. But there’s a reason.
Mrs. Blanton and little James
Arthur arrived here on the morn
ing of the 5th of Feb., arriving
in a cold rain, which lasted for
several days. Both took grip
from the dampness and change
of climate and both were very ill
for a few days. I am glad to be hotel didn’t know that John Tern-
able to say however, that we are p i e Graves was getting twice as
all well once more. More than much per annum for his servic-
that, we are permanently located es as a United States Senator
The Pelham Journal asks “Did
Oliver Lose His Wife?” Since
the rumor has been floating
around that the ex-wild cat bank
er is worth a cool one hundred
thousand, we thought the querry
should be “Has Oliver been lost
his wife?”
Interesting News From
Washington.
By S. R. Blanton
editor-in-chief of the Hearst
papers. So I humbly made my
way to the desk and asked if
the Hon. John Temple Graves
was stopping there. “Is he a
Senator?” asked the “full-jewel
ed” clerk. “No,” I replied:he’s
a newspaper man. ‘ 'Then he’s
not here,” said the clerk; “news
paper men don’t stop at this
hotel.”
Now what do you think of
that? Probably the clerk of tha
for the remainder of our stay in
Washington. We have furnish
ed two rooms at No. 18, second
street, North-east, one block
from the Congressional library
and only two blocks from the
Capitol.
Washington is snow bound and
snow-wrapped today—and will
be for several days. It was the
first snow that little James Ar
thur had ever seen and he called
it “ice-cream.”
Every Georgian in Washington
was sincerely and truly shocked
Saturday afternoon, when it was
announced that Senator Bacon
was dead. No one was expect
ing or even thinking of such a
thing. I called at his office in
the Capitol after eleven o’clock
Saturday, and one of his secre
taries told me that he was better
that morning. He died at 2:10
p. m.
The funeral will take place in
the Senate chamber Tuesday
after which a committee from
the Senate and House will ac
company the remains to their
last resting place in Macon. Ga.
Senator Stone of Missouri will
succeed Senator Bacon on the
Foreign Relation Committee.
Senator Stone is at this time very
ill at his home here.
The life of the average govern
ment employee in Washington is
a sad. sad tragedy. They make syi ' up
gets. I didn’t ask the gent what
his rates were by the day or
week, but I wish I knew.
Last Monday as I returned
from lunch I was very pleasant
ly surprised to find my friend Mr.
T. L. Rushin, the well known
Cairo merchant, waiting for me.
You may just bet any old thing
that I was glad to see him. I
took him through the Marble
Room, the President's room, then
down to the House of Represen
tatives, after which we took in
Pennsylvania avenue and Seven
th street. Mr. Rushin liked
Washington very well, espec
ially the Avenue. He was en-
route to Baltimore to buy his
spring stock.
Tell the boys back there I am
working my poor self to death.
I have to get up anywhere from
nine to ten o’clock in the morn
ing; I go on duty at 12 and have
to work a whole hour before I am
relieved so I can go to lunch. I
have to return at 2 or half past
and sometimes I am forced to
work as late as 5 p. m. And it’s
heavy work, too—toting visiting
cards to the Senate chamber, one
at a time—and sometimes more
than one. Omi, this is awful.
But mabe I’ll pull through until
June.
I’d like to swap a keg of logger
beer for a keg of Georgia cane
G ady Conuty’s Largest Store
Check up Your Linen Closet
Early Spring is the best time to check
up your supply of table and bed linens.
It gives you a chance to be prepared
for the summer months, when greater
quantities of cotton and linen things are
needed.
You good housewives will appreciate the value of
having plenty of Sheets, Pillow Cases, Table
Clothes and Napkins for summer use. You know
how hard it is to make new £ones during the hot
weather, and doubtless try to make ample pro
vision early in the Spring. Our new stocks will
help you right now. Whether you prefer goods
by the yard or made up, you will find splendid
assortments in every section.
SHEETINCS
10—4 Bleuced or Unbleached Sheeting in all the
reliable grades at 30c to 35c per yd.
SEAMLESS SHEETS
Regular size, full bleached, excellent
quality; 50c to $L.0u each
TABLE CLOTHS
namask and Linen, 62 and 72 inches wide, made
in table-size putterns 25c to <51.00 a yard.
PILLOW CASES
42- and 45-inch Pillow Casing, full bleached;
dependable quality 25c to 50c pair
SHEETINGS
Yard-wide bleached or unbleached.
Reliable grad -s at .. .6 to 12 1-2 per yurd
NAPKINS
Choice patterns that match our stocks of table
cloths 50c to $3.00, set of 0
J. C. C. Corsets Are Mad For The Woman Who Cares
See the new Spring Dry Goods. Dress Fabrics,
Trimmings, Laces and Embroidery that
we are opening up
Beer is here in waste,
jnst about enough to keep soul and strong drink in abundance;
and body together; five in a rent- I huuger and pine for Geor-
ed room in some second-rate & ia cane syrup,
apartment and get cheap meals 1 9 ongr ,? SB IS ta ^ in ^ now re "
at a restaurant, or board at a tiriI ? K a government employes
cheap hotel. They stroll about a * . ager T °/ years with a
over town, unknown, unloved—j pension ; U that bill should be-
a mere human thing—sucking a come a ^ aw > I would go home in
little nourishment from the pub- dune * retired with a pension for
lie pap. And for this-and for 1,fe - That would b ? fine for the
the glory or the name of living em Pl°y es > wouldn t it? Of course
in Washington—they are willing no su . cb f 00 ' ' aw * s soing to pass
to stay here and be a mere hu
man thing—or for the hope of
sometime obtaining a better pos
ition.
You all remember that old
song:
“Tnere’s ninety and nine that
safely lay
In the shelter of the fold;
And one was out on the hills
away,
Far off from the gates of
gold.”
That song wants to be chang
ed. The ninety and nine are
out of the fold, while the lone
some ONE is in. So far as one
is concerned his whereabouts is
in doubt if he happens to live in
this city.
The brilliant, eloquent John
Temple Graves was here for a
day or two recently. I saw him
at the Senate lobby for a few
minutes but we didn’t finish our
conversation, as I was called
away. I heard. later that he
was stopping at one of the big
hotels here, so I went there to
look him up. N6w I thought
that everybody that is anybody
know John Temple Graves—the
but if it should, I would join a
mob of a million men to come to
Washington and lynch a member
of Congress at every entrance to
the Capitol—there are eight en
trances. That is the way the
proposition strikes me—how does
it strike you.
It looks like we are in for some
severe weather in spite of the
predictions of the weather man.
It is snowing again this morn
ing.
The Department of Commerce
in a statement just issued, says
that the trade balance for the
last month in favor of the Unit
ed States is thirty-eight and a
half million more than for the
corresponding month last year.
They' say it is the tariff getting
in its work
Senator Bacon’s death will ser
iously trouble the political waters
in Georgia. No one can fortell
at this time the final outcome of
the political trading which has
already begun, or where it will
end The governorship will be
traded to South Georgia for the
Senatorship. Of this there is lit
tle doubt,
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