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Coving rox, Ga April 17, 1908.
The Cause of The Panic.
Besides other things (just as
nonsensical) that have been laid
to Governor Smith and his admin¬
istration, is the absurd statement,
of the disgruntled agitators, who
hysterically declare, that the wise
measures taken in this state to
make railroad traveling cheapnr
and safe; to make the collection
of overcharges and claims easier
a:.d 1 ,he stopping of the free pass
evil has plunged Georgia into a
state of hardtinies.
The agitators know that the de¬
pression in Georgia is no more the
fault of Governor Smith, than that
he is to blame for 50,000 men
being out of employment in De¬
troit, or the closing down of
canneries in Main ; but, like drown¬
ing men after a straw, they take
to the financial question in the
hope of misleading the people into
believing that the reforms which
have already beuefitted the masses
of the people of Georgia and
which, if continued, will eternally
bless them, are wrong and that it
is these reforms that has caused
the panic.
Governor Smith has enemies.
Every man in the world’s history
that has fought for better con¬
ditions for the masses has had
enemieB. Governor Smith’s ene¬
mies are men who belong to
that class who ARE RESPONSIBE
for the panic and they know it
and because they feel the hand of
the masses upon their necks they
are crying out, in Judas like voice,
and pointing to the defenders of
the rights of the people and saying
« I they did it, not us.”
Why not blame Smith for the
San Francisco earthquake, or the
Boer war, or the corrupt manip¬
ulation ot the Chicago & Alton, or
the crash of the chain of banks in
New York and Brooklyn, or Rus¬
sia’s financial shortage, or Ger¬
many’s hardtimes?
These things are all a part of
the present financial unrest in
America! And not alone is Geor¬
gia affected but all the United
States and Europe as well.
But Governor Smith’s enemies
will continue to cry out against
him until their throats are sore
aud until his vindication comes
irotn from the masses which will
gag them into silence, for a time
at least.
Ho stands today, amid the whin¬
ing unreasonabl criticism of the
band of treacherous railroad
lobyists and rum selling politici¬
ans, stronger and firmer for the
rights of the great masses of the
PEOPLE OF GEORGIA
termined to carry out
WISHES and to fight
ly tor THEIR RIGHTS .—Fitzger¬
ald Enterprise.
The happiest man in the land
day is the successful farmer.
sits under his own vine aud
tree, undisturbed by the
ing noise of the great city.
fail, railroads go into the hands
receivers booming towns
all business stagnates, But
wise farmer can snap his lingei
these things. He is the
of all he surveys on his
acres. All the honesty of his
and the purity of his girls is
ed against temptations, and
them he is giving the country
best manhood aud
says an exchange. The farmer
to be envied, aud, if he is not
tented with his lot, he is
in wisdom.
Uncle Remus’ magazine and
Enterprise for 51,75 per year.
Why Editor Dickens
Supports Governor Smith,
In the person of Rev. E. C. J
Dickins, of Yidalia, Governor Hoke
Smith has a strong supporter, and
one whose support any man can
appreciate, says the Augusta Her¬
ald. Mr. Dickins is a Baptist min¬
ister of note, having held impor¬
tant pastorates, was educated at
Mercer University and the South¬
ern Baptist Theological Seminary,
Lmuvdle, Ky.
Only last fall he was forced to
resign the pastorate to give his
time to his editorial and education¬
al work. He is moderator of the
Daniel Baptist association, is pres¬
ident of the board of trustees of
the Union Baptist institute at Mt.
Vernon, and in his papers or upon
the rostum is the staunch defender
of the educational interest of Geor¬
gia. He owns a large publishing
plant at Vidalia, where he edits
and publishes the Advance, one of
Georgia’s largest weeklies, The
Stillmore Leader and also the
Georgia Baptist. He is one of the
busiest men in Georgia, and is al¬
ways connected with every move¬
ment for the good of his growing
city. He is known as the “tire¬
less worker.”
In politics Mr. Dickens is a re¬
form democrat. He seeks noth¬
ing political, but writes strong
when he thinks municiples of val¬
ue are at stake.
When interviewed by the Au¬
gusta Herald as to his position on
the governor’s race, he replied:
“Oh, well, I am too busy to talk
for the papers. I supported Hoke
Smith in 1905 and rejoice that the
very reasons for which I did so
have been made good—laws that
honor our Georgia. I have abso¬
lutely no ax to grind in politics. I
have nothing against Joe Brown.
I honored his father.
But I am stronger for Governor
Smith than I was in 1906. His
administration is the greatest in
Georgia’s history and I fully be¬
lieve that before his four years’
service is out, nearly everybody
will recognize the value of the
man’s work for Georgia. I regard
it as an absolute necessity to re¬
elect Hoke Smith. Great moral
and educational principles are at
stake. Hoke Smith is our only
hope for these principles. I am
no prophtt, nor make no predic¬
tions, but I do not see how any
man who loves Georgia can vote
against Hoke Smith. It’s all prin¬
ciples and not politics with me. I
have not nor will ask the governor
for any favors. Put that down
strong. I am not in politics.
When you get a letter these days
that does not contain the card of
some business house on the corner
it is an even guess as to whether
it is from a candidate or a whiskey
house, says tho Moultrie Observer.
Harvey Jordan asserts that un¬
less the cotton acreage is reduced
83 per cent, it is probable that the
bottom will drop out of the market
nexffall. Whether he is quite
right or not, to reduce the acreage
is the safest course.
The editor of the Lee County
Journal says, The bream are biting
in the lakes; the strawberries iu
the gardens are red as the cheeks
of the girl just returned from say¬
ing good bye at the gate; the old
blue hen is leading a big brood of
preacher charmers, and the ticks
and the red bugs are getting ready
for a rushing picnic season.
Onward March of Prohibition.
Prohibition is no longer a local
issue. It is no longer a sectional
issue. It can no longer be regard¬
ed as a passing fancy or fad. It is
a question which is nation wide,
and has its champions in every
city and in every county in the
whole country. Audit is steadily
gaining ground.
It has been many years since
prohibition was adopted in Maine,
and in a fashion in Kansas and
one or two other states. Then
local option was adopted, and un¬
der this, especially in the south,
quietly and step by step, county
after county was voted dry.
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While in this way prohibition was
gaining, little attention was paid to
it except in the communities
directly interested, until suddenly,
by the action of Georgia, the
country was aroused to the strength
the movement had gained. Ala¬
bama quickly followed suit, and
unmistakable indications point to
early prohibition in other southern
states.
Still it was contended that the
movement was confined principally
to the south, where it was sought
to keep liquor out ot reach of the
negroes. The result of the election
in Illinois last week shows that
the prohibition sentiment is as
strong in that state as it is in the
•outh.
Twenty counties became ab¬
solutely antil-saloon territory and
approximately 1.500 or about one
half of the total number of saloons
in that territory were voted out of
business Most of the larger
cities in the state, however, voted
in favor of licensing saloons. The
larger cities voting in favor of the
saloons are: Springfield, Free¬
port, Aurora, Elgin, Sterling,
Kakakee, Lincoln, Momouth,
Bloomington, Dansville, Joilet,
Murphysboro and Rock Island.
Those voting to abolish the saloon
were: Rockford, Decatur, Dixon,
Roopestown, Carbondale and
Cbampign.
In Illionis, a great western state
with few negroes in it outside of
the larger cities, the prohibition
movement seems to follow exactly
the same course it took in Georgia.
Under local option the rural
sections are voting out the saloons,
and the counties containing the
larger cities are voted wet. Local
option may hope rarely to repeat
the performance of Birmingham in
voting a large city dry, but what
can’t be accomplished by local
optiou will be accomplished by the
state legislatures, which will adopt
state prohibition as soon as all but
the larger cities have by locaj
choice outlawed the saloons. So
prohibition is now spreading
rapidly, north as well as south.
That it will end in placing the
liquor traffic on an entirely dif¬
ferent basis throughout tfce country
seems a logical, conclusion. Abso¬
lute prohibition is an impossility,
and socalled prohibition is really
only regulation of the traffic.
This regulation must be uniform;
to have some places wet and ethers
dry brings about conditions of
irritation which the people will
not always endure.
And so the end of all this
prohibition agitation and tribulat¬
ion through which the country is
passing may hopefully and
confidently Fie expected at last to
end in the adoption of a proper
and uniform regulation of what is
called the liquor traffic, in which
the saloons shall disappear, and
the absurd efforts to prohibit the
sale of wine, beer and liquor for
legitimate and proper uses will
cease.—Augusta Herald.
Sons of Great Fathers.
The Savannah Press expects
young Turner to follow in the foot
steps of his illustrious father, Hen¬
ry G. \\ e know both parties and
in this case The Press is doomed
to disappointment.—Rome Tribune
Herald.
It very rarely happens that th
son of a great father measures up
to the father in the qualities that
made him great. All through
history this is shown. In England
this was so marksd that great and
sorry rulers alternated with almost
clock-like regularity, the son of an
ab.e monarch regularly proving a
very plies inferior ruler. This also "ap¬
to the present opponent of
Governor Smith, known as Little
Joe by comparison with bis emi
nent father. Little Joe Brown
seems to he a bet‘er Greek scholar
than Georgia’s war governor was,
but in executive ability and the
qualities that make a man he i 9
not a chip off the old block, so in¬
ferior, indeed, that those who put
him iu the race are afraid to let
him go out among the people and
face them from the stump.— Au
gusta Herald.
RE -SOLVED
that if You l/iSH To
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JTYLISH SHOES
YOUR FEET ARE HARD
% To HIDE. YOU NEEDN'T
[jinz *YOU WEAR- OUR.
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TRA .SHOE.S. WE ARE THE EXCLUSIVE AGENT^
FOR THE WALKOVER SUoES IN C 0 VIN 6 T 0 N GA.
,
No {SETTER LINE To BE HAD. WALKOVER .SHOE.S
.SATISFY YOU. BUGTER BRoWN GHoEG, FoR
MIGGEG AND CHILDREN, FEEL C0MP0RTABLE
AND GIVE YOU WEAR. Do not neglect your
YOUR FEET, You OWE THEM A DUTY. IF YOU
Do Not think they Do You Good, try Doing
WITHOUT THEM AWHILE. WHY Not GHOW AP¬
PRECIATION for your feet, and get THEM A
GOOD PAIR of GHoSG? we can algo give YOU
GHoEG, GUCH AG THEY ARE, AND THE ARE NOT
VERY BAD FOR $3.00. beetwell ghoeg for
MEN, IN TAN AND GUN METAL, GNAPPY GHoE
FOR $3.00. WATCH OUR WINDOW.
REGPECTFULLY,
CASH, MOBLEY & CO
LEGAL ADVERT!^
For Letters Admin,,1
To Whom It May Concern: Oration
admi in du 23 a, istrator form W Tb^rpp upon g oi ® tt ^»Ppli^ fC
Owens, late of said counj, l° f %
COUtltv Of |
day a J’- 1908. y u
of April, 1908. This
G. D. HEAR ». Or*,,
BANKRUPT s ALE
Under and by virtue of
the will United sell before States Court tv,? „ or(iet la
Newton, the Gcor^o" court h
lawful hours County, of sale the’ ^ i“ etWee 8e *»»
on (<£*?> »
i» M„. >908.
Seventy Five Thousand f Petnf '°‘ ,
more or less, oak, ash, CU)n N
Also blower, the following hand lot 0 f o“ InHf l' ^ n H
one rod joiner. e ! ?Cst
saw; one machine; on P sfiS l A
shaper; dot ble and la
heater; dpnble counter ,,\?*!
one e«d E mer
one band saw filer; one knit/, •^
hand Eagan power gauge drill, lathe; one circular S'
on f machln e ; ?"« one single J
. np MeKnightS saw and
pomp; two Knives for '
drum; one chuck cut off saw efifi
one check mandrel and three
water lot of heater; one L filer 7 Z and ?H
unfinished tools; one ] 0t su P Jf ; p “nlP"!
lot chairs; one lo T r >
ofshHf,ing;onelotofhox onelotof belting; doU Ps S
ers; 150
for chairs, more or less; 12 dozen J
more or less, also the followingrealr
All that tract or narcel of land- .S
or being in «he Pity ot Covm to
formerly owned by .T. C. H arwp]| *
bounded as follows: On the pm ,iL J
orchard of B. M. Hollis estate j
formerly and owned by Lucinda Chenev
by lot ot land owned by Geomt
lor, eol; on the north by public rod
the west by property of Mrs, 8. W i
kins and on the south by CentralofS
g.a Hal way Company, said property
tuimng two acres more or l P88
buildings on same, it being the plan;ofi .
Covington Chair Company.
Terms Cash.
J- O- BRADSHAK
_ Trustee
Covington Chair Co., Bui
SHERIFF SALE
Will be sold before the court tomeii
in the city of Covington, on the first ft
day in May. 1908, between the Win
ot sale, to the highest bidder lorcatl,i
following described property, to wit;
4 bales lint cotton in the Fir®
Union Warehouse. Numbers 228tiJ
2288 and 2289, said proper, v levied on
the property of J. W. McDaniel wii
a laborers lien fi fa issued from the C
Couri of Covington in favor of Fit
Sams vs .T. W. McDaniel. Lena
and turned over to me by J, C. Sit
deputy This sheriff.
March 30th, 1908.
S. M. HAY,tin
Also at the same time and placed
sold : One- seventh undivided inters
the house and lot stuated on East stree
the city of Covington, Newton county,
containing bounded one acre, more or North less.i
as follows; On the 1
A. Thompson; On the East by Cash, E. F. ani
eey; On the South by C- I
the West by East street. Said pmpi
leveid on as the property of W. B. In
with a mortgage fi fa issued from tie
perior Court of said county and Statt
favor of C. C. Brocks vs. W. B. Yial
Written Notice given W. J. Higgins, t
ant in possession, as required by I
This April 8, 1908.
S. M. HAY, Sheri!
II
For Solicitor-General of St#
Mountain Circuit.
With grateful acknowledgment theirrt
people of Newton County for
support in the past. I announce
as a candidate for re election to the*
of Solicitor General of the Stone Mow
Circuit, and will greatly apprec ate p
support it you deem me worthy otf
suffrage . ' Most gratefully HOWA® V"®
WM. SCHLEY
FOR STATE TREASURE
To T the Democratic candidate Voters for Treasurer of Geoijj* oh
am a of tw
State, subject to the action ^
oeratic primary on June4th. .
didacy is based upon my former - ■
to the people in this office cov>
period of more than twenty ' ,
record which I believe will hear p
scrutiny and which has never »
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punged. If elected, I promise the *
faithful attention to the duties« aim
office that marked my previous
istration. Yours truly. SPE 1 *
WM. J
E.H. ADAMS, Mi
Resident Physicisn
Office in Star Building, l' 0- !
Office Hours 8 to 9 a m 12:30 to -F
During absence from 0i! ^ c |
calls at Wright’s Drug -‘ t ‘ 1
with Venable Bros.
Office Pho*» J
Residence Phone 284.
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