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COVINGTON, GA., JUNE 26, 1912.
Let us hope that the democrats
will not make asses of themselves at
Baltimore this week, ais the republi¬
cans did in Chicago last week.
A new party with Roosevelt at its
head is now promised. If the party
is to be of the same quality as its
leader, the country is to be pitied.
The purchase by the commissioners
of the big road working engine seems
to have struck the people very forc¬
ibly as being a good investment. It
is doing some mighty good work.
It is contended that Champ Clark
has the strongest chance of the four
candidates for the democratic nomi¬
nation at Baltimore. A dark horse
possibility is also spoken of by a
number of those oti the inside.
Mayor Smith of this city has the
same position with the democrats in
Baltimore this week that Kermit
Roosevelt had with the republicans
in Chicago last week. The office is
that of assistant sergeant-at-arms.
Scientists tell you that the fumes
from a gasoline automobile are very
conductive to the growth of plant
life. That being true Newton county
will in a short time compare favor¬
able with the “garden of the gods.”
An effort was made to tighten the
lid down in Atlanta on Sundays. It
did not materialilze, though, and it is
said that you can still get a cigar,
soda waiter and most any other kind
of wet goods there any time, Sunday
included.
Our sister city Jackson, calls her¬
self the “power city,” supposedly be¬
cause she gets her electricity from
the Central Georgia Power Co. About
the only “power” Jackson has is
what she buys.—just like Covington
has contracted for.
The republican convention last week
gave the democrats some mighty
strong “talking points” in the coming
election for president. If there is
any one thing which should elect a
democrat it is the conduct of that
Chicago convention.
Covington people are losing their
best chance of securing another rail¬
road. If the extension of the Bost
w ! ck railroad ever gets to Monroe it’s
a cinch that they will carry it on to
Loganville, thereby knocking us out
of the extension of the Loganville
i oad to this place.
Although President Taft secured Ms
nomination for another term, he has
forever riuned his political ambition.
The steam roller methods of the re¬
publican convention does not meet
the approval of the better class of
American people on either the repub¬
lican or democratic side.
An operation has been performed
and the bullet which caused all the
sensation in the Grace case has been
extracted From the description of
the location as given out by the sur¬
geons, we are firmly convinced that
they extracted it from the rear side
of the third bed-post where he was
lying at the time he was shot!
In the bill to be passed by the
legislature this summer abolishing the
board of county commissioners of this
county and creating the office of road
commissioner, it seems to us that the
best plan would be to refer it back
to the people after its passage in
order that they may vote on it intel¬
ligently. The question as it appeared
on the primary ticket was not at
all satisfactory as was seen by the
fact that nearly five hundred people
did not vote either one way or the
other.
Mrs. Grace will never be tried for
shooting her worthless husband. Re¬
ports say that he will obtain a di¬
vorce and drop the proceedings. In
justice to Mrs. Grace the trial
should proceed, as there was no evi¬
dence against her except his uncor
loborated word, and he has made
many conflicting statements, always
claiming that there was no one else
who could have shot him. Dollars to
doughnuts she could (never be con¬
victed, and they knew it. Hence the
withdrawal of proceedings.
A NATIONAL DISGRACE.
The open bribery and debauchery
of which the -southern negro dele¬
gates are the center in Chicago be¬
tween -the contending republican fac¬
tions is only another argument in fa¬
vor of excluding that race from politi¬
cal power and activity says the Daw¬
son News. Not only is it a disgrace
to the party that controls the gov¬
ernment of this great country, but it
is a spectacle -that must be viewed
with shame by 'the people of the en¬
tire nation..
On the eve of the republican con¬
vention a special dispatch from Chi¬
cago to the New York Herald said:
“A scandal of national proportions
is developing rapidly here as a -result
of the tactics which managers of the
third term candidate's campaign are
employing to get the negro delegates
from the south. No such lavish and
open display of money has ever been
seen at a national convention. Ne¬
groes of prominence from all parts
oi the country, physicians, lawyers
and even preachers axe being
brought here gfor the specific purpose
of working among -the delegates in
the effort to swing them into line
for the third term candidate.
“That certain interests -have an
unlimited fund for the controlling
of the southern delegates became ap¬
parent three days ago. Negroes who
came here with just enough money
to pay -their expenses and get home
again suddenly began to display -sums
of money away out of proportion to
their positions. Three negroes dis¬
played a ono -thousand dollar bank
note each, and when asked where
they got it smiled. Others proudly
have boasted of large sums, and
there as been an unprecedented era
of prosperity among a certain clique
of negroes for several days.
“So much talk has been caused by
this free use of money, however, and
so much doubt engendered in the
minds of those who furnished it as
to the efficiency and wisdom of -this
process that new tactics have
been adopted. The negro colony in
this city is a fairly prospreous one.
They live in a good scetion of the
city in substantial homes and are so
far more abundantly endowed with
the good -things of life than -their
brethren of the south that they have
been seized by the managers of the
third term candidate’s campaign as a
powerful object lesson to the south¬
erners of how they are being depriv¬
ed of what they are entitled to in
life. Within the last few days much
money has been scattered in the lo¬
cal negro colony. It has enabled
men and women to dress better, to
improve their homes and whalt is far
more significant to entertain preten¬
tiously. The visiting delegates have
teen invited to the colony and there
treated in a lavish manner. Certain
influential negroes have not hesitated
to mingle advice on the duty off/ the
delegates with their hospitality. The
southern negroes -have not failed to
be impressed by all that they have
seen, but as they are an intelligent
lot. is is scarcely conceivable that
they axe not aware how the stage ha.:
been set for them.”
All this is not only having it -tem¬
porary effect of debauching -those -im¬
mediately concerned, but will neces¬
sarily have a more fax reaching ef¬
fect on the members of the race at
the south and will go far to make
the presidency in future a mere mat¬
ter of barter and sale with -the south¬
ern negroes holding the balance of
power subject to the highest bidder,
-if they are -not shut out from partici¬
pation in future contests.
As the Macon News -says, “it is a
enrious illustration of the hyprocricy
of Col. Roosevelt that in the very act
of denouncing the Taft managers for
using the southern negroes who cut
no figure in the election to overcome
the republican electorate* at the
rorth ^e and -his managers are up
to their necks in the scramble to
suborn these same negro delegates
and seduce them to vote for him in
violation of their instructions. This
is in accordance with the accustomed
logic that instrumentalities that are
bad when opposed to him become
good the moment they al-lign them¬
selves on his side.”
ONE-HORSE FARMS
WILL BECOME POPULAR.
Atlanta, Ga.,—That the one-horse
farm: idea, with more hogs, more cat¬
tle, more poultry and good gardens
is growing in the state of Georgia is
the confidently expressed belief of
Jim Price, of Oconee, who is running
for commissioner of agriculture.
The small farmer is Mr. Price’s
great hobby and he believes the clo¬
ser devotion of attention to small
farmign is going to be the ultimate
salvation of the agricultural interests
of Georgia.
Mr. Price believes that the farmers
throughout Georgia and the whole
south have planted considerable less
cotton this year and that prices will
consequently be good. In Georgia,
be says, there is nearly 25 per cent
less acerage planted than last year.
The republican convention at Chi¬
cago is noow a matter of history, but
the one a' Baltimore this week is
in full swing.
TENDENCY OF MODERN POLITICS
It -is always pleasant to live on
the sunny side of life, to associate
with and to be an optimist. It is
never either congenial or popular to
entertain or give expression to pes¬
simistic views. It is more pleasing
to the writer or speaker, to commend,
than it is to condemn. The individ¬
ual, who is commended and compli¬
mented is delighted, while the man
who is censured is always displeas¬
ed. Hence it is that it has become
too common to commend, when it is
possible to do so, and unpopular and
undesirable to censure and criticise.
It -is -nevertheless a duty that we
all owe ourselves and to o-ur fellow
man, to cry aloud and spare not whei
the exigencies of the case demand.
Many people look with disfavor on
modern political tendencies, especial¬
ly on modern political methods. We
are drifting farther and farther away
fom the long hoped fo and iderl con¬
dition, wlme the office goes out to
seek a man. From president to bail¬
iff its a scramble for position. Time
was, when leaders of all parties con¬
sidered it undignified to let it be
known that they were candidates for
the presidency. In the days of Grant,
Cleveland and McKinley and others,
there were no candidates for presi¬
dent Party leaders sought out and
nominated the men they wanted as
candidates. But how changed in re¬
cent years. Candidates for the high s
office -in the gift of the people of the
greatest country on the globe, do not
hesitate ot let it be known that they
are such, but actually go on the
stump, and use methods in some in¬
stances -that would be repugnant to a
high toned gentleman running for
bailiff Bad and distasteful as this
is, to all high conceptions of prudeiuo
and dignity, it is not so hurtful and
and degrading as some methods
now enployed by office seekers. Mon¬
ey flows like water in all parts of
this great Christian country of ours,
during campaigns. Candidates for
piesident use it freely, and seemingly
v ith as little compunction of con¬
science as the ward politician. , In
the recent presidential campaign in
this state, thousands and thousands o
dollars were used, by the candidates
oi through their friends. Such a thing
was never hear of before. Candi¬
dates for governor spend from ten to
twenty thousand dollars to make their
calling and election sure. It has be¬
come so common to use money, leg
imately, it is claimed that the aver¬
age voter now openly declares that
no man can be elected to the office
of governor of this state unless he
spends a pile of money. One candi¬
date for governor recently withdrew
from the race and published to the
vtorld that he did so because he
found himself unable to finance his
campaign, and that same candidate
had, within a few months already
spent more than seven thousand dol¬
lars. So rapidly has this method and
practice grown wihin recent years,
that it is now conceded by thought¬
ful observers, if not by the common
people, that no poor man can be
elected to office.
Already, many of our offices are
filled by men of means. In the Uni¬
ted States senate, it is said that a
majority of the members are million¬
aires. But a rich man may be both
an honest man and an -efficient, wise
and safe legislator. This feature is
not so dangerous as * the other.
Money may be, and is spent legiti¬
mately in elections, but its lavish
use is fraught, with untold and un¬
known dangers to our government
and our people. Up to the time when
Georgia passed a law requiring sworn
affidavits to the amount of money
spent in campaigns, and the pur¬
poses for which it was used, there
was very little of it expended. Since
we legalized its use, it has become
as common as paying a dollar for a
bushel of meal, or a bushel of pota¬
toes. There are icebergs and preci¬
pices ahead of us. The love of mon¬
ey, ithe book says, is the root of all
evil, and if there is no check to the
1 resent use of money in elections, we
fear it will undermine the founda¬
tions of government.—The Commerce
News.
BRYAN’S TWO FAVORITES.
The grief and distress among Gov.
Wilson’s friends and the concern
among the friends of Speaker Clark,
caused by Mr. Bryan’s resolute refus¬
al to say which of his two favorites
he prefers, seem to become more
acu t e as the Baltimore convention
date draws near. It would appear
that not even with tears and prayers
on bended knees can anybody hope
to induce the party’s supposed War¬
wick to name either Wilson or Clark
as his chosen nominee. Hope long
deferred not only makes the heart
sick but breeds suspicion, and so we
find the Charleston News and Cour¬
ier seeking a measure of relief in this
pointed paragraph: “If Mr. Bryan
had had it in mind to devise some
plan by which tc prevent any one
candidte from going into the conven¬
tion with a majority of the delegates
behind him, he could hardly have hit
upon one so effective as that of
bludgeoning Harmon and Underwood
while playing Wilson against Clark
and Clark against Wilson.”—Macon
Telegraph.
THE COVINGTON NEWS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 1912.
RULE NISI TO FORECLOSE REAL¬
TY MORTGAGE.
Newton Superior Court, March Term,
1912:
It appearing to the Court by peti¬
tion of A. B. Simms, that Ed. L.
Edwards on the 27th day of June,
1911, executed and delivered to said
A B. Simms, a mortgage on certain
lands in Newton county, to-wit:
Lot six (6) in Block ”B.” in Cov¬
ington, Ga., according to plat of said
addition, which is on record in the
office of the Clerk of the Superior
Court of Newton county, Ga., hereby
made for further description, for the
parrpose of securing the payment of
one certain promisory note for Six¬
teen and 50-100 dollars, made by the
said Ed L. Edwards, pay-able to said
A. B. Simms with interest after date
at the rate of Eight per cent per an¬
num and ten per cent, of principal
and interest as attorney’s fees—the
service of this Rule Nisi being the
notice as required by law for said at¬
torney’s fees, which said note the
said defendant refuses to pay.
It is therefore ordered that the
said Ed. L. Edwards pay into this
Court, on or before the first day of
the next term, the principal and in¬
terest due on said note, and the cost
of suit; or in default thereof,, the
Court will proceed as to justice shall
appertain.
And it is further ordered, that this
Rule be published in the Covington
News, a newspaper published in said
Newton comity, once a month for four
months; or served on said defendant,
Ed. L. Edwards, or his special agent
or attorney, three months previous to
the next term of this Court.
L. S. ROAN, Judge Sup. Ct.
Stone Mountain Circuit.
March 19, 1912.
JNO. B. DAVIS, Clerk.
CITATION.
State of Georgia, Newton County:
C. A. Harwell, as administrator on
the estate of Annie Clark, late of
said county, deceased, represents that
he has fully administered said estate.
This is to cite all concerned to show
cause why said letters should not
issue as prayed for on the 1st Mon¬
day in July, next 1912. Witness my
hand and official signature, this June
4, 1912.
A. D. MEADOR, Ordinary.
CITATION.
State of Georgia, Newton County:
All persons concerned are hereby
notified that I have this day applied
to the Honorable Ordinary of said
county for Leave to Sell the real es¬
tate belonging to the estate of W. J.
M. Preston, deceased, for the purpose
of paying debts and distribution and
all concerned are hereby notified that
same will be passed upon on the 1st
Monday in July next, 1912. This June
4, 1912.
J. W. PRESTON,
Adm’r. estate of W. J. M. Preston.
LOCAL LEGISLATION.
Notice is hereby given'that a bill
.will be introduced at the next ses¬
sion of the General Assembly of
Georgia with caption as follows: “An
Act to repeal the Act entitled An
Act to establish a board of County
Commissioners for the County of
Newton, and to define the powers
and dutjes thereof. Approved Feb.
27, 1877, and the several amendments
thereto.”
This, 11th day of June, 1912.
Notice is also given that another
local bill will be introduced at the
approaching session, of the General
Assembly of Georgia with this cap¬
tion: “An Act to Create the office
of Commissioner of Roads and Reve¬
nues in and for Newton County, to
provide the method of election of
said officer, to provide for his salary
and term of office, to prescribe his
powers and duties, to provide for the
management of County affairs in in¬
terim, and for other purposes.”
This, lltk day of June, 1912.
A. H. FOSTER, Representative.
NOTICE.
Eppie Jones Lassiter v. E. C. Lassiter.
Libel for Divorce in Newton Supe¬
rior Court, March Term, 1911. Ver¬
dict for total divorce granted the 18th
day of March, 1912.
Notice is hereby given to all con¬
cerned that on the 8tli day of May,
1912, I filed with the Clerk of the
Superior Court of said county, my
petition addressed to said court, re¬
turnable to the next term thereof, to
be held on the 16th day of September.
1912, forr the removal of the disabili¬
ties resting upon me under the ver¬
dict in the above stated case by rea¬
son of my intermarriage with Effie
Jones Lassiter, which application will
be heard at the September Term,
1912 of said Court, which commences
on the 16th day of September, 1912.
E. C. LASSITER.
Rogers & Knox, attorneys.
But for the somber manner in
which some ministers are garbed lots
of peopel wouldn’t be able to recog¬
nizes a good thing when they see it.
Houses For Rent
Two nice 5 room houses
1 4 room house, all con¬
veniences, close in, very
reasonable rent. Apply
D. A. THOMPSON
Covington, Ga.
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Make OUR Bank YOUR Bank.
We pay liberal interest consistent with safety.
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New Racket Store
Spot fash! One Price! BIG VALUES!
New goods of season arriving
every few days, many new
lines added more to follow.
Yours Very Truly
1. 1. GUINN
Record Breakers
“Higgins Strain” Indian runner ducks.
Pen No. 1, Phronie and Yatesie, com¬
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greatest ever made. Eggs $10 per * -•
Pen 2, Yatesie’s daughters with a
great English drake, J. W. Walton
strain of England. Eggs $5 for 12.
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W. J. Higgins, Covington, Ga.
