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THE CAIRO MESSENGER.
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1904.
F. J, WIND, Editor and proprietor.
Published every Friday at Cairo, Thomas
county, Georgia.
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Entered as second-class matter Januuary
st. liW4 at the post office at Cairo, Ga., under
21 8rd. 1870.
the Act of Confess of March
Advertising rates reasonable, and furnished
upon application.
Pull for a new county.
'J he turkey got it in the neck.
Yes. Atlanta even gave thanks.
You can’t down her.
It is the living turkey that can
gobble his thanks.
Nan Patterson dined all alone in
prison on Thanksgiving day.
Thanksgiving being over lets all
get together and woik for a new
county.
Mit Shaw, a prominent lawyer
f Hickman, Ky., shot and killed
his uncle, Robert Buck, last
Thursdav.
There is one new year's reso
lution that David B. Hill is
bound to keep. He just can’t
break it.
Chattanooga has the world’s
fair bug in her bonnet. The
“Chattanooga spirit” must be
something fierce.
The Baltimore Sun declares
that the South will never be
sa tisfied with the crumbs that
fall from the president’s table.
An Ohio convict out on parole
lost his libertv by marrying,
Most every man who is not a con
vict also loses Ins liberty by mar-
1'ying.
In a fight over a bale of cotton
iu Bourke county on Thanksgiv
ing day, Hamilton Givens shot
and killed his brother-in-law, S.
H. Wilson.
School children iu New York
caught an artist by the name of
Francisco Valorazzo who had
and fatally wounded his
heart.
The reason why Missouri
ed republican presidential elect
ors is apparent enough in
analysis of the retnrns.
democrats stayed at home
election day,
The constitution of the
States, interpreted by the
ed States supreme court,
take care of the southern
that have made education
qualification for suffrage.
One of the brightest writers
the field of journalism has
to say about Thomas
jail: Thomas county has a
fine neAv jail but we are *not
ious to board there.
The Echo is i he title of a
and newsy little 4-column
issued from the Thomasville
office, and gotten out in the
estef Thomasville’sPublic
by the students, We echo
wish of the Echo’s already
friends, in wishing for the Echo
long life and a rich harvest in
field jf journalism.
Five Italians perished in a
in Lancaster, Pa., last
One was washing a pair of
iu a pail of gasoline when a
from his pipe fell into the
causing an explosion.
there was a panic among the
mns. They fought madly to
cape from the burning room,
the five men killed are thought
have been trampled to death.
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It is rather early yet to be
vocating this or that man
the office of governor of
gia, to be elected two
hence, but several have signifi
ed their intention of making the
r?ce, an early campaign may be
expected.
As will be shown by a press
dispatch from Atlanta which we
publish in this issue, Hon.
Howell of Georgia wiU be
of the candidates.
During the past few years we
have heard much of the south
Georgia idea. In fact, we our
selves have indulged more or less
in talk of this kind. It appeared
to us that this section of the
state was not being favored as
it should be by the chief execu
tive. For that reason we thought
it a good plan to bring into the
race a south Georgia candidate.
Except when necessary, under
the peculiar stress of peculiar
conditions, it is never best to
array one section of the state
against another. For that rea
son we present to our readers
today as a candidate for govern
or Hon. Clark Howell of Geor
gia.
Since his graduation at col
lege and his entrance into the
active business of life, Clark
Howell has been essentially a
Georgian. The accidency of
birth or the circumstances of
life may fix his residence in the
northern section, but his work
has been to develop Camden
county as much as it has been
to develop Dade. He labors for
the development of Brunswick
just as he labors for the devel
oprnent of Gainsvilie. Savan
nah has felt the touch of his en
couraging aid just as Atlanta
has felt it Dublin owes just
as much to him as does New
nan; Hawkinsville as much as Ce
dartown, and Dawson as much
as Dalton. In fact, we do not
believe that to any man more
credit is due than to Clark How
ell for the present progress
ing made by the cities, towns
and counties of Georgia, be they
located in the northern, eastern,
western or southern part of
state.
For this reason we feel
the facts iri the case warrant
in referring to hi rn as
Howell of Georgia.”
In the selection of a chief
ecutive for a great state
Georgia, a number of
tions are necessary if the
ernment affairs are run
ly and evenly arid the best
sults are to be obtained.
must be ability, morality,
esty, experience, knowledge
human nature, sympathy,
gressiveness willingness,
ness and ripe
combined in one man. If
of these qualifications is
the chief executive will fail
his duties, and if he fails
state and the people will be
jured more or less. With no
tention of endevoring in
least to disparage the merits
any of the other candidates,
believe that Mr. Howell
ures fully up to the
ments as indicated by us
which we believe are
in whomsoever may be
to manage the affairs of
state as governor.
It is a well known maxim
4 4 nothing succeeds like
It every walk of life Mr.
ell has been a success. He
not tailed in anything. As
business man he has
great success; as an editor
has reached the highest position
attained by any other southern
er, and as a politician he is yet
to meet his first defeat, if we
remember rightly at the hands
of the people
It is probable that Mr. How
ell has been tried more severely
than any other man in the state.
He was a pupil and assistant of
Henry Grady, and was by Gra
| dy selected as his successor, It
| was not thought that for years
he would be called upon to fill
this position, however, because
Grady died while yet in the
j prime urally of if life, the position As easily had as been nat
as
created just to fit his peculiar
endowments. Clark Howell suc
ceeded to the position of man
aging editor of the Atlanta Cou
stitution at an age when it
would have seemed folly to trust
one so young with such respon
sible duties.- C/id newspaper
men shook their heads and pre
dicted failure, but Clark Howell
measured fully up to the posi
tion and dissapointed those who
were so unwise in their predic
tions. Later, when his father
suddenly and very unexpectedly
gave up the chief editorship of
the paper, he took his place eas
ily naturally, again disappoint
ing those predicting dire disas
ter. In fact, the Constitution
today is a greater newspaper,
has a wider field and broader
field under the management of
G*ark Howell than the elder
Howell and the lamented Grady
ever dreamed for it. In the
north it is looked upon as the
south’s greatest newspaper, and
Hie best published anywhere.
In polities Mr. Ho veil has
been equally as much of a suc
cess. One morning two or
three days before the election
and just a few months before he
was twenty-one years of age he
awoke to find himself a candi
date for the legislature, He
was astounded when he found
his announcemeni in the Con
stitution and did not know what
it meant. His friends had put
him in the race overnight with
out his knowledge or consent,
He led the ticket on election
lay and became one of the three
representatives from Fulton
county. In this capacity he
served until he voluntarily re
tired. He was a candidate for
speaker foi the house and was
overwhelmly elected over the
late governor W. Y- Atkinson,
who was one of the most popu
lar men in the state. Four years
ago he was elected senator from
the districts comprising the coun
ties of Fulton, Clayton and Cobb
and was called upon to fill the
high office of president of that
body. He was re-elected to
senate and re elected president,
which positon he is just
down. Only once or twice
fore in the history of
has any man been so
honored, and the honor so
ly deserved.
In the field of politics
Howell is as well known in
north as he is as a
For a number of years he
been a member of the
Executive Committee, and
such has had a great deal to
as to the management of
national campaigns, His
vice is sought by the
party leaders and is followed
a great extent by them.
a large measure he is
upon as the southern
tative on the committee,
not merely the
from Georgia.
Whether in the
halls or in his newspaper
Mr. Howell has always
a ed measures in favor of
masses as against the
Some salient instances of
in va riable devotion to the rights
of .jjtie common people are
worthy to be racalled. In his
second tern in the house Mr.
Howell was chairman of the
committee on railroads under
Speaker Clay. It was then that
the sensational subject in the
legislature was the Glenn bill
to permit the counties ot the
state to tax railway properties
lying within their borders, It
was defeated one time in the
house, but Mr. Howell on the
floor of the house and the Con
stitution got behind the meas
ure actively and vigorously and
by their combined power in
fluenced the legislature to en
act the law—a law that has
brought to the counties of Geor
gia in cash returns more than
any other one act ever adopted
in the state.
Again, while president of the
senate he advocated on the floor
of the senate and in the Con
stitution the passage of the bill
to tax railway franchises, from
which the state treasury is now
so largely profiting and where
by, in part, the state authorities
have been enabled to reduce
the general tax rate upon all the
people.
More recently, in the last
session of the senate, a bill, af
terwards killed in the house,
was passed to protect the lum
ber shippers of middle and
south Georgia from being re
quired by the railroads to pay
for the equipment of the cars
for the transportation of their
lumber. That is the only com
moditv whose producers are
thus burdened by the railways.
Mr. Howell left the president’s
chair to eloquently plead the
just cause of the lumber inter
ests as against the adverse re
port of the committee that con
sidered the bill. The result
was the passge of the bill in
the senate by a close vote over
that adverse report.
Also in the matter of the
creation of new counties Mr.
Howell was in active evidence.
His liberality of patriotism was
shown in the fact that, although
a citizen of Atlanta and sup
posedly not locally concerned
he entered heartily both as a
senator and as editor of the
Constitution in support of south
Georgia’s appeal for the new
county amendment. His double
influence was indespensible to
the cause of the new county
project, as every leader of the
movement will testify.
What more need be said in
favor of Mr. Howell for gover
nor or any other position he
aspires to? What greater
qualifications are expected in
any man than he possesses?
What better claims on the office
has any man than he?
Feeling sure that the people
of the statedesire a candidate
for governor whose labors for
nearly if not quite twenty years
for every section of the state
alike entitle him to the con
sideration of every voter, it
matters not where he lives; puri
ty of life, devotion to duty,
loyalty to friends, coupled with
his signal ability warrants him
in aspiring to any position the
voters are called upon to fill,
and being of the opinion that
the fairness, the integrity, the
ability he has shown as
dent of the senate—a position
second only to that of the gov
norship and in direct line
promotion—gives us
warrant to favor for the
office of governor Clark
of Georgia.
Two 18-year-old boys in
playing together quarreled
one felled the other with a
mer. Another Thanksgiving
I hap.
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if you want to save money on
Dry Goods, Shoes,
Clothing, Household
Goods, Notions, Tin,
Enameled Ware, etc,
Don’t fail to see our big price
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Some of the lowest prices ever
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If you are having trouble with
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We have the most complete line in town to select from, in
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Men, Women and Children.
We invite comparison on these well known Shoes.
J. L. Oliver,
Exclusive Dealer for Cairo.
CANE MILLS.
The Best Cane Mill on the Market today is the
Sutherland mm.
Twenty Sizes and Styles for Steam a Horse Powei
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Catalogue and Net Prices on A pplication.
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Machine Works and Foundry,
Bainbridge, : Georgia
Be sure and ask for Ahe Sutherland Mill. If is the besl.