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COVINGTON, GA JULY 3, 1912.
The Baltimore convention is now
a thing of *he past, but the Georgia
legislature is still with us!
The republican party is afflicted
w. ', Roosevelt and the democrats
with Bryan Both seem to be chron¬
ic and incurable.
Roosevelt jauntily pitched his hat
in the ring, and Taft, just as jointly
kicked it out for him. Of such is
po’itics composed.
The blackberry crop is fine, peach¬
es a re ripe, wnd the season is ripe
tor barbecues, but we haven’t yet been
sufficiently urged.
Old Bill Miner, train robber and
general bandit, has again escaped
from the Georgia penitentiary and d.
at large. He just won’t stay “put.!”
It is said that Thomas W. Hard¬
wick willl oppose Slaton for the gov¬
ernorship. Hardwick will find that
Slaton is a mighty hard man to beat.
Now wouldn’t it be a travesty on
political procedure if Bryan, the
Peerless One, should unite forces
with Roosevelt in that third party
plan of the latter’s?
The accusations of Bryan against
Champ Clark and Clark’s answer re¬
mind one very much of the recent
Chicago convention. Bryan seems to
be determined to control the party.
The republican party is grooming
i*self to do just what the democrats
did a few years ago—form a third
parly. And it will just as surely
come to grief through it as we did.
Georgia put Bryan in the race the
first time he made a dash for the
presidency, but the delegation to
the Baltimore convention did not en¬
dorse either him or his resolutio
last week.
Quite a number of our citizens are
guessing what the bill abolishing the
Board of County Commissioners and
creating the office of One Commis¬
sioner will authorize and the plan
of selecting.
Both the Chicago convention and
that held at Baltimore are notable
from the amount of disorder each
had. Pity these things cannot, be held
in accordance with civilized ideas,
and a semblance of twentieth centu¬
ry methods.
It is reported that Monroe will not
contract for power from the big dam
of the Central of Georgia Power Co.
Just what bearing that will have on
the contract is not known, but it is
practically certain that it will delay
matters to some extent.
The farmers of Newton county are
not so badly behind with their work
as the were some weeks ago. The
cotton crop where it has been work¬
ed is looking fine and the prospects
are probably as good for an average
yield as in many other years.
The Atlanta Constitution says that
“Roosevelt has about as much chance
as a bow-legged girl in the town she
was raised in.” The language of
this comparison may not be consid¬
ered in good taste, but the fact is
prominent and very noticeable.
The race for Governor seems void
ot anything pertaining to life in this
section. The nomination is not two
months off, yet all is quiet. How
different four years ago, three years
ago, two years ago, one year ago?—
Fort Valley Leader-Tribune.
It now looks as though the tax¬
payers would have to pay interest on
money borrowed to pay for holding
the present session of the legisla¬
ture. Verily, the people pay a high
price for the privilege of being gov¬
erned—or misgoverned, as the case
may be.—DeKalb New Era.
A bill has been introduced in the
legislature by Representative Foster
providing for four terms of the supe¬
rior court for Newton county. The
dates for the terms have not yet
been decided on, but will be made as
nearly as possible to meet the re¬
quirements of the people. Rockdale
is also to have four terms.
BEGINNING OF THE END.
The republican party for the
fi'ty years, has exploited the many
for the benefit of the few, says
North Georgia Citizen. It is the par¬
ty ot pillage and plunder, through
protective system that is a disgrace
to a civilized country. It is the par¬
ty ot' Thad Stephens and the negro,
and has thrived on the passions of
the war.
But the scene is shifting. The con¬
vention at Chicago revealed the inner
workings of this old party. It showed
how the manipulators in the past
nave steam rollered the people by
disregarding the instructions of the
states where primaries were held
when said primaries instructed firmly
agains* the machine—Taft.
We are holding no brief for Roose¬
velt, but he has treated shamefully.
His delegates were stolen in a most
high-handed way. The action of the
machine was characteristically repub¬
lican, and is the beginning of the
end of the moost piratical party that
ever existed.
Roosevelt has bolted, and will lead
the progressive republicans. This
has split the party wide open, and
makes the election in November ol
a democrat doubly sure.
The Columbia, (S. C.,) State in
discussing the republican mess says:
Whatever frauds have been perpe¬
trated in Chicago are republican.
The ‘‘Steam Roller” is a republican
invention.
If Mr. Roosevelt has been swindled
he has been swindled by the repub¬
lican party.
If Mr. Taft has been cheated he is
the victim of republican methods.
The methods at Chicago are not
new. They were in the full flower
of operation in 1908. Ask Cannon,
ask Fairbanks, ask Knox and they
will answer “aye.”
The card sharp practices in Chica¬
go asre republican practices. If
Roosevelt or Taft are the victims, no
democrat is responsible for it.
No democrat will seek a hero’s
medal by attempting to rescue Mr.
Roosevelt the republican, from re¬
publican thugs, “naked thieves” and
accomplished croooks.
Let not the Colonel deceive him¬
self that any American democrat is
too 1 enough to desert an honest par¬
ly that a bleating “martyr” or repub¬
lican brigand and ruffian may hate
his revenge.
For if Roosevelt is a repudiator of
republicanism he remains the head of
the Perkins-Flinn alliance against
democrats. He persists as the high
tariff angel of the privileged class in
America.
What has occurred in Chicago
the reasonable fruit of
The tree is known by it.
The South Carolina delegation in
Chicago supporting Taft
the party of Franklin J. Moses and
B. K. Scott.
T h e North Carolina delegation in
Chicago voting for Roosevelt is the
party of Marion Butler and the ring
streaked and striped.
The convention in Chicago is in
hands of the southern
southern parties created by “Old Ben
Wade” and Thad Stephens. It
always been in their hands.
The “Rotten Borough”
hold the balance of power now.
have always held it_
From the “Rotten Borough”
gations neither Grant nor
Harrison no McKinley, Roosevelt
Taft has had the courage to cut
The disgraceful orgy of
in Chicago is the bursting of the
that has long festered.
may be the immediate victim and
outcries deserve the sympathy
they excite, but he writhes in
grip of a machine that he has
ed *o build and sustain.
Always the republican party
been ruled by cold-blooded,
ing, shrewd agents of property
privilege who have capitalized
passions of the war and thereby
persuaded the majority of the
can voters that it was right to
tain the always pliable southern
gations.
Now’ the inevitable climax
The Roosevelt cohorts in honest
volt find themselves bucked and
ged by the conscienceless
who are at least intellectually
to the rules of the game they
formulated and to which
has eagerly confirmed until now’.
The republican party’s wounds
self-made and Mr. Roosevelt’s
les are his oWn.
MISSIONARY NOTES.
What does it mean when a
vention to nominate a president
t>>s Protestant country that
within its borders so many
distinguished divines of the
Protestant creeds, must be
by prayer by a Roman Catholic
nal? Are not Protestant prayers
acceptable to Heaven? Are we
paring to turn this country over
the Romanists? Then, woe to us!
The Romish church boasts that
never changes. We may expect
sectuion, Bible-burning, etc., for
age of Bible-burning is not past
t’’e fallowing extract from a
letter received from a brother Mis¬
sionary in Bazil by Rev. H. C.
THE COVINGTON NEWS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 1912.
the agency secretary of the American
Society, will show: “I am sending
you cne of the partly burned gospels
of which I spoke to you at Sao Paulo.
On September 11th, last, I was in the
town of Janguary in the south of Mi¬
nas, and preached to a large audience
whicl’ had never before heard the
gospel. While there I was told that
the priest in the small town of Cam
buby, three leagues away, had public¬
ly burned a number of Bibles, Testa¬
ments and other evangelical books,
which had been distributed by two
colporteurs from Sao Paulo. On Dec¬
ember 4ih 1 went to Cambuby with a
supply of the separately bound gospels
I liar received from you. On distrib¬
uting these from house to house, grasp
uig the opportunity of explaining to
the people the motives of the priest
in his conduct, I was presented with
the leather cover of one of the Bibles
previously destroyed. In the even¬
ing J learned that the priest had sent
oiV ir town having the gospels gath¬
ered up, and I resolved to go to the
Roman church to hear what he would
have to say. There I heard myself
denounced as a demon direct from
the abyss, who had come with liter¬
ature full of lies, condemned by the
church, and full of poison for the
faithful. The faithful were admon¬
ished not to touch or read anything
I offered, not to be deceived by my
"gooa manners, as they were nothing
but a cloak to cover my deceitfulness,
etc. On coming out of the church
we found a small fire burning in front
of the door, which was discovered to
be composed of a small fraction of
the gospels I had distributed, most
of the people having refused to give
them up. The colporteurs who pre¬
ceded me had sold more Bibles after
the priest’s fire; and so on this occa¬
sion he created an interest and a cu¬
riosity in the minds of the people
which caused thgm to wish to know
what it was he Mus condemning and
fighting. I brou jkt back two of these
half-burned gospels, and the leather
c-ovei of the Bible.” Are we ready
to have our Bibles burned, and fall
at the feet of the Pope declaring him
to be Christ veiled in the flesh, as
the Roman Catholics do?
MRS. A. M. TRAVIS, Press Supt.
In tl e District Court of tne United
States for the Northern District
of Georgia. In the Matter of T.
G. Aiken, Bankrupt.
IN BANKRUPTCY.
By virtue of an order granted by
Honorable N. L. Hutchins, Referee in
Bankruptcy, there will be sold before
the Court House Door in the City of
Covington on the first Tuesday in
August, 1912, all the property of bank¬
rupt consisting of a certain stock of
merchandise, and an undivided half in¬
terest in a lot of farm tools; a com¬
plete inventory of farm tools and the
merchandise will be furnished parties
interested in a purchase of same by
the undersigned upon application; the
merchandise will be sold in bulk or
by parcels according to the bids.
Also the following real, estate con¬
sisting of an undivided half interest
in all that tract or parcel of land des¬
cribed as follows: One-half undivided
interest in and to all that tract or
parcei of land situated, lying and be¬
ing in the 464th, District G. M. New¬
ton county; said state of Georgia and
containing one hundred and one-fourth
acres more or less, and known in said
district as the south half of lot (No.
122) number one hundred and twenty
two, also one half undivided interest,
in that tract or parcel of -land bound¬
ed east by lot No. 122 and west by
public road leading from Covington
to Jackson Ga., being the south west
corner of lot (No. 121) one hundred
and twenty-one, and containing four
acres more or less.
Terms of sale as follows: twenty
five per cent cash on day of sale and
balance when bids are confirmed by
the Referee in Bankruptcy, all bids
received being subject to confirmation
by the Referee in Bankruptcy.
R. R. FOWLER, Trustee.
Pay up your subscription.
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 duties 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, 11th day of June, 1912.
A. H. FOSTER, Representative.
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
FOR JUDGE.
To the Voters of the Stone Moun
tain Circuit:
At the solicitation of many kinu
friends throughout the Circuit, I
hereby announce that l v> ill be u
candidate for re-election as ju. g
of the Stone Mountain Cir uit, sub
ject to the action of the L>e.uoeraU
party. Resptx tfu ly,
L S KOAN.
FOR SOLICITOR.
I hereby announce myself a can ii
date for the office of Solicitor Gener
al of the Stone Mountain Circuit,
subject to the action of the Democrat
ic primaries. Having had only a
portion of a term, I would naturally
like to have a full term, and will
appreciate the support of the people
of the circuit, Feb. 5, 1912.
C. S. REID.
FOR STATE SENATOR.
I hereby announce myself a candi¬
date for the State Senate, subject
to the white Democratic primary.
Suffice lit to say in this informal an
nouncement that all reports to the
effect that I have left Newton Coun¬
ty are absurd. Any further rumors
alleging my removal from e county
or even contemplated removal will be
equally absurd and purely for politi¬
cal effeqt.
A. H. FOSTER.
I am a candidate before the voters
of the county for State Senator from
the 27th Senatorial district. If elec¬
ted will give my best service to the
people Will of the district and the state.
appreciate your support for the
very responsible trust. Respt.
J. W. KING.
I hereby announce myself as a can¬
didate from the 27th Senatorial Dis¬
trict, for State Senator from Newton
county, subject to the action of the
State Democratic primary. I will
appreciate any and all support given
me, and promise to represent the
best interest of my country without
favor or affection to any party or
parties. I will later outline my plat¬
form to the people, that they may
know where I stand.
F. D. BALLARD.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE,
To The Voters of The County:
This is my formal announcement
that I aan a candidate for represen¬
tative from Newton County in the
general assembly of Georgia, subject
to the Democratic primary. Hav¬
ing spent all my life in newspaper
work in Newton county, I feel that I
have practically had my finger on
the pulse of the majority, and be
lieve that I can represent them to
their satisfaction, if elected. I will
sincerely appreciate the support of my
friends and everyone who can con¬
scientiously vote for me, assuring
thorn that my earnest effort will be
to protect their interests a" all times.
Very truly,
LON L. FLOWERS.:
To the Voters of Newton County:
At the solicitation of my many
friends, I hereby announce myself as
a candidate for the legislature, sub¬
ject to the action of the democratic
primary. I will, sometime in the fu¬
ture discuss before the people, some
of the important issues that are vi¬
tal to the people in every county and
the Great State fcf Georgia. I will
greatly appreciate any support given
in the coming* election and pledge
faithful and efficient service, if I am
elected. JOSIAH C MORGAN.
To the Voters of Newton County: —
I hereby announce as a candidate
for your suffrage for the office of
representative in the general assem¬
bly of Georgia, subject to the action
of the democratic primary to be held
this year. I assure you that I will
appreciate the l<unr of >tur vote and
t e ected wi’,1 do ra/ best to hono
you, the county and the ofiice.. Will
say that I have no pet schemes ot
special legislation in view nor do 1
represent any faction in Georgia 1 pol¬
itics, but desire solely to be your
servant, and look after your interest
at all times. Respectfully,
ERNEfcT E PARKER.
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 ajll con¬
cerned thait on the 8th 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.
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