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Meet in Macon and Unanimously
Name Hoke Smith for Governor.
GREAT ENTHUSIASM
No Other Candidate’s Name
Presented—Proceedings
Harmonious and Work
Was Quickly Done.
The Georgia state democratic con¬
vention met in Macon Tuesday at
noon and within six hours carried out
a carefully pre-arranged program,
which went through with but one
hitch, that involving the state court
of appeals, Hon. Hoke Smith was
unanimously nominated for governor
by acclamation amidst wild enthusi¬
asm, which almost shook the great
Macon auditorium. This was the prin¬
cipal feature for which the people
were waiting and they kept calling for
Mr. Smith throughout the proceed¬
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HON. HOK E SMITH.
It was nearly 5 o’clock in the at
ternoon when J. L. Anderson of At
lanta arose to place Mr. Smith’s
nomination before the convention,
The appearance of Mr. Smith a few
minutes later completely eclipsed the
enthusiasm which greeted the men
tion of his name by Mr. Anderson,
and it was some minutes before Mr.
Smith could be heard.
The assembly rose to greet him and
saluted long before they allowed him
to proceed. He came into the meet
ing escorted by a committee.
That Georgia's next governor has
set for himself a hard task and that
he fully realizes this was clearly evi
denoed in the address he made in
cepting the nomination. The strong
appeal to the people not to put in an
independent candidate where the of
flceholder of the present general
semblv refuses to support the views
of the party, evidenced his deper feel
ing that the Georgia legislature might
not hurry with the reform policies
which he has put forward. He urgeef
the delegates present to see tneir
representatives and senators and urge
them to stand on the platform upon
which he was chosen governor, and
then if they refused, ask them to get
out. He said this ought to be done
now. He declared that the speaker of
the house, and the president of the
senate should be men in accord with
the platform and believed after look
Ing over the lists that his supporters
already had a working majority in the
general assembly.
The keynote of Mr. Smith’s speech
was that everybody holding state of
flee in connection with the admin!*
tration should be in favor and in line
with . , the , reforms which he
had advo
eated so that they may be put through
without delay.
BRUTE KILLS TWO WOMEN.
Negro Runs Amuck in South Carolina.
Chased by Mob of Own Race.
Lawson Addison, a negro, Monday
night at Lowryvilln, Chester county,
South Carolina, murdered two negro
women. A mob composed of members
of his own race was quickly organiz
bd and started in pursuit of the mm
lerer.
Summary of the Proceedings.
Following is in brief the story of
what the convention did. Congress¬
man T. W. Hardwick of the tenth was
elected temporary chairman; Judge A. I
L. Milelr, permanent chairman: H. H. I
Cabaniss of Fulton and A. L. Martin I
of Bibb were elected permanent sec¬
retaries.
N. J. Norman was declared elected
solicitor general of the Atlantic cir¬
cuit over the protest of Livingston
! Kenan, who contested the election.
The platform as introduced and read
by James R. Gray, chairman of the
platform and resolutions committee,
: was adopted with only one change,
the majority rule as to counties, sen¬
atorial and congressional districts be¬
ing stricken out.
The state court of appeals amend
ment was indorsed, but the convention
took no action regarding candidates,
that being left an open matter for
the new state committee.
A resolution was adopted favoring
legislation which will prevent liquors
being carried into counties which have
voted in lavor of prohibition under
the local option law.
A resolution was adopted endorsing
James R. Gray and his services in
the recent campaign and recommend
ing him for national democratic corn
mitteeman. Hoke Smith was nominat
ed for governor, and other state house
officers were nominated in accordance
with the result of the recent pri
mary.
S. G. McLendon of Thomasville, for
mer city attorney for the Plant sys
fern of railways, was nominated for
railroad commissioner to succeed Jos.
M. Brown, whose term expires in Oc
tober, 1907.
A new executive committee was
chosen, consisting of four members
from each congressional district and
eleven members from the state at
large, to be named within the next
few days by Chairman A. L. Miller,
Hooper Alexander of DeKalb was
made vice chairman of the state com
mittee. The convention then adjourn
ed sine die. Many new changes were
proposed in the platform which forms
I an interefeiing document in state poli
tics.
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DEPUTY KILLS HIS ASSISTANT.
Young Man, Mistaken for Negro Fu¬
gitive, is Shot Dead.
E. C. Elmore, deputy sheriff of
I Tattnall county, Georgia, shot and in
! btantly killed Jesse Branch, a young
| white man cf Reidsville.
Elmore, together with Branch and
two other young men, went to the
| house of a negro in the country to ar
rest him. The negro tried to escape
j through a window, which occasioned
both Elmore and Rranch to run to
, that end of the house, and each.
thinking the other was the negro,
raised their pistols, Elmore fired.
shooting Branch through the breast.
COLLECTORS HALED TO COURT.
North Carolina Revenue Department
Frauds Being Probed.
! A special term of the United States
j district court for the trial of the fa
mous revenue fraud cases convened at
Greensboro, N. C., Tuesday morning,
with Jld S e James E. Boyd presiding.
’£ ficers, here and are lhirty number or more of distillers revenu e of¬
a an I
j gaugers named in the bill
ENTERPRISE, COVINGTON, GA.
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GEORGIA BRIEFS
Comes to State University.
A Boston dispatch is as follows:
Stata Forester Alfred Akerman has
resigned to accept a position as pro¬
fessor of forestry in the University ot
Georgia.
What Legislature Cost State.
State Treasurer R. hi. Park has
just completed his statement of the
total cost of the state of the recent
ly adjourned session of the legisla
ture. The entire expense of the fifty
day session was $69,308.20, as against
$65,122.20 for the session of 1905, an
increase of $4,168.
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State Pays Reward.
The state has paid a reward ot $200
to J. B. Nixon for the arrest and con¬
viction of eight negroes who are charg¬
ed with burning the barn of J. J. Nixon
in Campbell county on July 6th. The
harn was rebuilt and burned the sec¬
ond time on August 1st, and there is
another reward of $100 offered for the
capture of the incendiaries.
New Boat Line Assured.
Work upon the organization of a
steamship company in Macon, for the
navigation of the OKnutgee river be¬
tween Macon and Brunswick, is now
being pushed. The chamber of com¬
merce is behind the mo.fiment and
the majority of the organization are
interested personally in the success of
the plan, and success seems assured.
The present lease of the Nan Eliza¬
beth, the boat that is now making
the regular trip between these points,
soon expires, and then a new deal
will he on.
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Lower Cotton Rate Ordered.
The railroad commission has, in
circular 322, lowered the rate on cot¬
ton from Dublin to Savannah from
38 to 32 cents per 100 pounds.
This action was «aken upon com¬
plaint of the eitizens of Dublin, who
shbwed they were similarly situated to
Hawkinsville and Eastman, frera
which a rate of 32 cents is allowed.
The railroads tried to show that Dub¬
lin was not a common point, but the
commission held differently.
The rate of 32 cents is made on cot¬
ton uncompressed, the carrier being
granted the privilege of compressing
if desired.
Only Five Counties Show Decrease.
Out. of 145 Georgia counties, 140
of them show unusually large gains
in tax returns over the returns for
1905. The principal decrease is in
Chatham county.
The total gain in 140 Georgia coun¬
ties was $41,612,523; the total de¬
crease in five counties of Baker, Butts,
Chatham, DeKalb and Glynn was $845,-
351, leaving the net gain in the entire
state $40,767,172. This figure is larger
than that previously published as the
result of estimated increases In
Toombs and Wilcox counties, and an
additional increase of $9,000 In Banks
reported later. Adding in corporation
returns the net gain over 1905 iS now
$46,359,312.
“Jim Crow” Law For Savannah.
An ordinance has been introduced
in the Savannah city council provid¬
ing for the separation of the races
on street cars in the city. The or¬
dinance makes it the duty of the
police officers of the city to make
cases against and to prosecute in the
state courts passengers violating the
provisions of the state law, which re¬
quires the separation of the races.
The ordinance makes it the duty ot
conductors to assign passengers to
seats so as to separate the white and
colored passengers as much as prac¬
ticable, while the cars are within the
jurisdiction limits for police purposes
of the city of Savannah.
Legislature Extremely Liberal.
The large number of appropriations
which were provided for by the last
general assembly will probably estab¬
lish a new high record for the ex¬
penditures of the state, The total
appropriations amount to $422,991.17,
the greater part being due next year.
The increased appropriations pre¬
vented a further reduction of the state
tax rate, which was reduced from $4.90
to $4.80. The appropriations follow:
Special pensions, $1,150; completion
of state reformatory, $3,006; James¬
town exposition, $SO,000; Oglethorpe
monument, $15,000. (half in 1907, half
in 1903); State Agricultural College,
$100,000, (half in 1907, half in 1908);
Gordon equestrian statute, $15,000, (to
be paid when subscriptions are paid
by Gordon Monument Association);
Soldiers’ Home, hospital and equip
ment, $7,500; Georgia School for the
Deaf and Dumb, at Cave Springs, ad
ditional dormitories, $20,000; Georgia
School of Technology, deficiency fund
for maintenance, 1966 and 1907,
$10,000; deficiency appropriation,
$101,341.17; for additional land for
Georgia School ot Technology, $17,- 1
500; Academy for the Blind, $05,000;
Georgia Normal ana industrial, Mil
ledgeviile, dormitory building, $27,-
500; additional dormitory at North I |
Georgia Agricultural and Military col
lege at Dahlonega, $20,000.
Agriculturists Elect Officers.
The State Agricultural society, in
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session at Griffin the past week, elect¬
ed the following officers:
President—J. J. oonnor, Carters
ville.
General Vice President—tR. F. Crit¬
tenden, Shellman.
Vice President—First district, James
Blilch; second district; W. D. Ham¬
mock; third district, John A. Cobb;
fourth district, Roderick Leonard; mm
district, A. J. Smith; sixth district,
I. T. Williams; seventh district, \V.
H. Lumpkin; eighth district, J. McC.
Bryan; ninth district, J. E. Claud;
tenth district, George Gilmore; elev
district, W. B. Burroughs.
The committee appointed at Albany
to prepare a report on the advisability
of having a commissioner of agricul¬
ture lor each coqnty recommended the
appointment of another committee to
prepare a bill to be Introduced at the
next session of the legislature creat¬
ing said office. The recommendation
of the committee was unanimously
adopter] and the society pledged it¬
self to work for the passage of the
bill.
The Amended Local Tax Law.
The local tax law was amended in
several particulars by the recent gen¬
eral .assembly. Among the changes
in the old law are the following:
‘ The county board shall lay off tho
county into school districts clearly ue
fined, of not less than sixteen square
miles, and when practicable, shall
be so shaped as to have the school
building as near the center as possi¬
ble, and no territory shall be includ¬
ed whose occupants reside farther
than three miles from the school
house without written petition of two
thirds of the qualified voters therein.
The failure of any county board to
comply with the requirements of this
section within six months after the
passage of this bill, shall operate to
annul their comm is-* ms, and vacan¬
cies thus created shall be filled as
the law requires such vacancies to be
filled.
“Within ninety days after the hoard
of education has laid off said districts
the said board shall order the citizens
of the several school districts to hold
an election for the purpose of elect¬
ing three trustees for each district In
the county.
“In school districts which levey a lo¬
cal tax lor educational purposes, the
hoard of trustees shall make all rulea
and regulations to govern the schools
of the districts, and build and equip
school houses under the approval of
the county board; they shall share the
public school funds apportioned by
the county board and determine the
amount necessary to be raised by
local taxation. After determining the
tax rate the county school commission¬
er shall report to the proper taxing
authority of the county and to the
comptroller general the rate of taxa¬
tion so fixed, and the levy shall be
made as for other taxes.
The above extracts and condensa
tions of the new law show that the
defects pointed out by the supreme
court in the old law have been remr.
died and that it will be safe and p.d
visable for districts and counties to
vote foT a local tax to increase the
school fund.
Have the best for your children,
If you desire literature for local tax
campaign write me.
J. S. STEWART, University of Ga.
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