The Covington News
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VOL. 1L NO. 27
OVINGTON HOTEL
property is solo
lee AND DR. N. Z. ANDER¬
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SON WILL PROBABLY BUILD
HANDSOME hotel.
jj, w. o. Thompson, who formerly
1 tlw Covington Hotel on the
««k which
side of the public square,
as burneii about the first of the
,
ear has sold the lot on which it
ood to Mr. E. O. Lee and Dr. N.
I Anderson, who will erect a
andsome building threeon sometime
i the near future.
j liSt what the building will be is
0 t yet definitely known, but it is
mrlu 01 (luu they will erect , a hand- , ,
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(lie site, which , . , • the
omt hood on is
i, lSJ j appropriate in the city for that
urpose. It has been rumored that
stock company will he formed and
big hotel built, but the plans of
he gentlemen purchasing the lot have
at fully decided ujion. Mr. Lee in
Iking to a News reporter yesterday
tated that lie thought two stores
■onId be built and that on the upper
lories would be the hotel proper,
his would be a good plan, and
hould the building be put up with
hive or four stories the plan would
e ideal for a big hotel.
The lot referred to has been the
Intel site for Covington for years, in
act, almost since the town was large
inongli to afford a hostelry and as
hove stated is the best in town for
hat purpose.
Mr. Lee stated that he did not
hink it possible that a stock com¬
pany would be formed but that it was
eriain that he and Dr. Anderson
ouiil place a modern building thereon,
Whether a hotel is built or store
corns, it will add much to the ap
icarance of (lie city, and both these
teatlemen being among the most pro
tressive in the city, it is but natural
o expect something nice in the way
a building.
OTTON IS BLOOMING
IN SOUTH GEORGIA,
(otton is beginning to bloom in
outb Georgia, and the report says
hat il is in a very healthy condition,
he acreage is not much increased
W| bud ot last year, but, the report
■s-'.iies that the prospects for a heavy
Deduction are very promising.
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depend on his knowing his business.
Suppose you take the hint and depos
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lon. Open an account now so your
money will be safe from Fourth of*
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The Bank of Covington.
Covington Georgia
CAPITAL = - $100,000.00
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W H O ’ S W II O — A N 1) XV II A
Plain Uncle Lon.
Under the above heading the last is
sue of the Saturday Evening Post
ried an article referring to the abili¬
ty of the Congressman from the
Fifth District, and telling as it^does
of the eminent character of “Uncle
Lon” we reproduce it. The Post in
devoting a page each week to men in
the eye of the nation is doing a
vast good throughout the country,
and is assertions about them ail are
accurate and true to the letter. Us
portrayal of Mr. Livingston’s meth¬
ods and his work is based upon tin'
records in Washington. Like the News
‘ several weeks ago B ’ Mr.
Lonmer, . ’ editor ol the Post, believes
that the next , Congress r , will carry a
democratic majority and that “Un¬
cle Lon” will be made chairman of
the committee on appropriations, the
most sought for honor in the entire
congress, and the one carrying the
most responsibility. Should be re¬
ceive this appointment in ihe next
congress it. would reflect honor not
only to himself but to the entire south
for certain it is that no other con¬
gressman during the present genera¬
tion has attained such importance as
to be honored, even as lie is now, by
being placed on the above named
committee, much less the chairman¬
ship. One thing in particular about
the article in question is that it refers
to Mr. Livingston as a dyedin-the
wool democrat. Evidently there is
nothing to the rot that is being passed
around this district about him voting
with the republicans, else the north¬
ern papers would have something to
say of it, instead of commending him
for his democracy. Following is the
article in full:
Always some hot-blooded and im¬
petuous young Georgian or old Geor¬
gian, as the case may be, is dashing
up against the stern and rock-bound
contour of Txm Livingston, and always
the said adolescent or ancient Geor¬
gian is falling back shattered, smat
tered and scattered, while Lon pur¬
sues the even tenor—or is it bass?—
of his way.
You see, Lon is one of the fixtures
of the House of Representatives, like
the flag back of the Speaker’s desk,
the red carpet, the ventilating appa¬
ratus, the pictures of the dead and
Speakers in the lobby, and
Uncle
Sam
Has
Money
COVINGTON, GEORGIA, JUNE 15 1910
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Greatest Getter the Democrats Have
General Harry Bingham. It wouldn’t
seem like the same old place if Lon
were not there, padging around
saying next to nothing and sawing art
unconscionable quantity of wood.
Naturally, since Lon lias snagged
all the Congressional honors there ope
for Atlanta and some contiguous ter¬
ritory for the past twenty years,there
have been rumblings of discontent
and bumbling's of anti-Livingston sen¬
timent, complicated with the desires
of various and sundry statesmen who
wanted Lon’s job. It has been giv¬
en out. cold, in Atlanta and elsewhere
in the Fifth Georgia District, that
Lon has no entail on this job of be¬
ing a Congressman; that he didn’t
inherit it. and that it is high time to
se parate him from St. Hence t.he hot
blooded and impetuous Georgians who
go out. against him, and hence, or
hither rather, the wrecks that, strew
his padded path.
The enterprise of jimmying Lon
out of his job has been popular down,
in the fifth Georgia district for twen¬
ty years. It has caused many an ar¬
dent youth to exude oratory from ev¬
ery pore and to desquamate denun¬
ciation for months at a time; hut to
what end? I pause for a reply. Re¬
ply: To the end that Lon has been
in Congress for twenty years and
seems to be fated to stay there for
twenty more if lie wants to. Ardent
and impetuous Georgians who think
to talk Lon out of his job are not
doing any particularly fancy or flos¬
sy thinking. Indeed, their brand of
thought may be said to be scrambled.
As well try to talk the Washington
.Monument into a Leaning Tower of
Pisa.
lam always has had opposition. lie
thrives on it. “Uncle Lon” thoy
call him down in his district; and
along about a year before the end of
the term he happens to- be serving,
some person who has aspirations to
sit in the halls of Congress gets out,
waves his arms and shouts for tin*
toys to rally around him and help
him unseat this aged and inconclus¬
ive person who has eaten taxes for
twenty years, and who is now mark¬
ed to give way to the march of prog¬
ress. Georgians love to hear speech¬
es, and the boys rally around to tin*
extent of listneing to the conversa¬
tion. Then, on election day, they
march up to the jiolls and drop in a
si ownvliite ballot for Uncle Lon and
wait, with ill-concealed anxiety, for
the next campaign, when some other
aspirant will aspire, respire, pers
pire and conspire in this great did ven¬
ture—Lon, in the meantime, bidd¬
ing down the job.
This year it is even so. William
Schley Howard, an eloquent and fiery
young lawyer, is dashing up against
the stern and rockbouml Lon. Re¬
cently, William Schley addressed a
gathering of farmers near Atlanta.
He can talk some, can Wm. Schley.
“My friends,” he said impressively,
‘name me three things Livingston
has done in his twenty years of pub¬
lic service, and I’ll quit the race.”
There was no reply.
“Name two things he has done,”
thundered William Schley, “just two
things for the benefit of the country
or State of Georgia or the people of '
this distric, and I’ll get out.”
Not a voice was heard in response, j
Emboldened by the success fo his
challenges William Schley threw his
whole soul into his next defiance j
and roared: “Name one thing Lon ,
Livingston has done in these twenty
years, just one single, solitary thing,
and I’ll step down and out. I’ll quit
the race. Name me one thing. i
challenge you all.”
Whereupon, an old whiskered ag
riculturist. arose and said: “I’ll tell
you one thing, young man, L>n Liv
ingston has done in the past twenty
years. He has beat' a hull passel of
nien for Congress, and it won’t be
necessary for you to get. out. You
won’t have to quit, lie’ll beat you,
too.”
Now, that’s the fact. They have
been hammering at iLon down there
for years, but he is in Congress, mov¬
ing about, chewing the stub of a
cigar, makiug less noise than a rub¬
ber-tired sulky and getting the goods.
The fellow who Invented rubber heels
must have heard Ixm walk. Lon has
rubber heels and rubber soles and
rubber elbows and rubber joints. He
makes no more noise, than Murray
Crane does when he is talking to
•loe Bailey, which is exactly no noise
iC all. But say, he is the grandest get¬
ter of getters that the Sunny South
luis produced, and it may be
in passing, the Sunny South has a
few representatives who know how
to get" their hooks in.
Lon was born in Newton County,
Georgia, which is in the district he
■represents. As he said himself,
while delivering his speech on tar¬
iff a time agoue, “Coming as I do
from the plain people, whose repre¬
sentative 1 am proud to be, 1 make
this appeifl,” etc., and loud applause.
Lori never lets them forget, that lie
comes from the plain people. You
bet lie comes from them, and he in¬
tends to keep coming from them un¬
til the end of the chapter. lie Is a
farmer,lie says. He has always lived
on his farm. Moreover, he has al¬
ways made up for the part. To see
Lon chewing a straw and keeping
one trousers leg carelessly drap¬
ed over a boot-top is a liberal edu¬
cation on how to keep coming from
the plain people.
Lon knows how. Like many other
Southern representatives lie fought in
t e Civil war. Unlike most of them
he merely says he fought all through
tin: strugle as a private soldier. No
shoulderstraps or epaulets for Lon.
Nor does he boast of his privacy.
Unlike others—Private John Allen,
for example—Lon does not seek fame
as one of the few in all that army
unworthy of promotion. He was a
private soldier. Why? Because, dear
brethren, most, of his constituents
were private soldiers also. You will
never catch Ism putting on any airs.
All he desires is the suffrages of his
comrades in arms and their sons;
and by the same token, he gets them.
Leonidas Felix Livingston they
christened him. He served in both
branches of the Georgia Legislature
and was vice-president of the State
Agricultural Society, as well as pres¬
ident. of the Georgia State Alliance.
Then, twenty years ago, he came to
Congress, and he has been coming ev¬
er since.
Lon is a member of the Committee
on Appropriations, the ranking Dem¬
ocratic member. So be it that the
Democrats carry the next House he
will probably he chairman of that
committee. He has been on Appro¬
priations for years, years in which
Oeorgia has had her full share of all
that was coming to her and, on oc¬
casions, a trifle more. It is not the
policy of ljon to overlook any bets.
If there is any pork passing around
Lon is always there with his fork.
He plays the game. When Jim Taw
ney wants something Jxm says
“Sure!” Hence, when Ism wants
something Jim Taw ney says “Sure!”
i 00 . An(1 in addition to that, as I
pave mentioned, Lon is the greatest
getter the Democrat* have. He has
more people in Government jobs than
f our other Democrats. Like as
not, more than any ten. Ism is al
ways padging around. He hannts the
Departments. He always has a likely
candidate for anything that may be
loose. He slides in and slides out,
and usually brings borne the bacon,
Although the Governmnet may be
ruled by the Republicans, and Lon
is an enthusiastic and dyed-in-the
wool Democrat, you sever bear him
emitting any loud howls about the
Republican miscreants who are rul¬
ing us to ruin. Ho may have ideas
on those subjects, but he keeps them
to himself. What Lon does is to be
perpetually presona grata with the
folks who have jobs to give out. He
garners one here and one there for
some aspiring patriot from down in
I he Fifth Georgia District, and when
i* comes to holding his people in
place he is the wonder of the world.
He can smell vacancies that may
naturally go to Georgians, and lie
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goes out on a sniffing expedition
about three times a week. If there
is any place that isn’t nailed down
Lon grabs it. He is on Appropria
lions, you know—the ranking Demo¬
cratic member, and a very powerful
citizen in tin* House. Thus, if there
is a place a Georgian can fill |,on
has found It. and filled it before Au¬
gustus Octavius Bacon or Alexander
Stephens Clay or any of the rest of
the Georgia bunch has heard of it.
He comes from the plain people.
Slick a pin in that. Moreover, he is
likely to ki'i'ji on coming. But a
notch in that. Ism may Ik* a farmer
in the agricultural sense, but some
of those farmers do know a heap of
politics.
Death of Mrs. R. E, Wright.
Mrs. Lizzie Wright, mother of Mr.
•Toe W. Wright and Mrs. Wick Wil¬
lingham, of this city, died at the
home of her daughter in North Cov¬
ington Monday night. She was XI
years of age and well known to near
', V .‘ I ' V ' Lizen jd the minify, bav¬
ing lived 1 here all her life.
Mrs. Wright’s death came as a
shock to her relatives and friends as
she was in her usual health up until
only a few days before her death.
The funeral services were conduc¬
ted from the home by Rev. Eugene R.
Pendleton, pastor of the First Baptist
church of this city, an*' 'he remains
laid to rest in the family section of
West view cemetery on Tuesday after¬
noon. The sympathy of the entire
community is extended the bereaved.
In the last issue of the News we
made error in the head of the notice
of the meeting to lie held at. the Bap
fist church. The date .should have
read July 20th, instead of June 20th.
Covington Buggy Co.
Garage Department
Have Your Automobile
Repaired and adjusted by a man who
knows how. We have secured the ser¬
vices of* Mr. Sidney H. Cook, who has
six years experience and is capable of
doing any kind of work.
We expect to run a first-class Ga¬
rage and do first-class work at reason¬
able prices.
Call on us for work or supplies and
we will serve you right.
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■ Covington, Ga.
Flowers & T aylor
Do more Commercial Job
Printing than all other
county print-shops. Why?
$1. A Year In Advance,
MAY HAVE ANOTHER
DAILY SCHEDULE.
RAILROAD MEN HERE WEDNES¬
DAY-RUMORED NEW TRAIN
WAS THE OBJECT.
One day last week Messrs. J. T.
Johnson and W. H. Wright, two of
the high officials of the Central R.
R. were in the city looking after
the business end of the road appar¬
ently, but It has been persistently ru¬
mored since their departure that the
object of their errand here was to
look into the advisability of putting
on another passenger train on lliis
branch of the Central to oj>er&te daily
between this point and*Gordon.
.lust whether tilts report is true
or not cannot at this time be ascer¬
tained but several of our citizens are
confident that should they find that
the conditions here warrant the addi¬
tion of another train they will have
it put on sometime during the com¬
ing summer or early fall.
This would give Covington and the
other towns down the line a splendid
schedule, in that, it would give Un¬
people a double daily service from
here to the terminal of the Middle
Georgia and Atlantic branch.
The people of the city will wait
on the anxious bench until the out¬
come of the visit of the officials be¬
comes publicly known, and they are
all hoping that the new train and
schedule will be put on.
Prof. Allen Here Sunday.
Prof. G. L. Allen, of the department
of Latin and Greek, Bessie Tift col¬
lege, filled the pulpit, of the Baptist
church here Sunday morning while on
ft visit to tills section in the interest
of the school, and preached a very
fine sermon.
Tax Notice.
State and County Tax '.to..!;*
on July '1st. It is necessary that all
returns should be In by that time.
J. F. LUNSFORD, Tax Rec’r.
$176.00 BUYS A HANDSOME, HIGH
grade 4 passenger surrey, used only
a few t inies at Ever ft t’« Furniture
Store.— 14.
