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Telephone 159 —:— Covington, Ga.
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JACK L. PATTERSON,
Editor and Proprietor
Official Organ of Newton County and the
City of Covington
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Entered as second class mall matter December 2.
*1908, at the Post Office at Covington, (la., under tbe
4ct of March 3, 1*79.
THE “DIVINE HEALER.”
P. T. Barnum, the famous circus magnate, was
absolutely correct. “The American people like to
be foo)ed.” Years ago it was stated that “there is
a fool born every minute,” but since that time the
birth rate has shown a healthy increase, especially
in the great city of Atlanta.
Several weeks ago an impostor posing as "Alex¬
ander, the Man Who Knows,” was exploited by one
of the Atlanta newspapers. The Wise One gave
daily exhibitions at one of the local theatres, claim¬
ing to be gifted with the power of answering com¬
plicated questions upon a moment's notice. Thou¬
sands of men, women and children rushed to the
performances of the monumental liar, whose prin¬
cipal asset is a knowledge of the fact that “a, fool
and his money soon part.”
And later came another super-man heralded as a
“Divine Healer.” W r hile he did not claim to be able
to unstop the ears of the deaf, open the eyes of the
blind and raise the dead, he did avow that tm could
heal the sick through faith in the Almighty God by
the touch of the hand or some other equally silly
operation.
Strange to say this international fake carries with
him the unqualified indorsement of the Church of
England, of which he is a lay member, which ex¬
plains that fact that he was allowed to perform in
an Atlanta church dedicated to the worship of God,
but that is another matter. The News is not so
densely ignorant as to doubt the effiicacy of prayer
even in cases of illness, for its editor has more than
once witnessed the “fervent, effectual prayer of
righteous men.” The Bible bears testimony that
prayer will be answered, but “faith healing while
you wait” is unscriptural.
It is true that many of the minor ills of life are
largely the result of a diseased imagination, from
which the patient could recover by the exertion of
commendary will power, but any man who claims
to possess “Divine Power” is either a fake or he is
cra/.y. Suffering humanity, in its affliction, will
grasp at any straw with the hope that improved
health will ensue, but one thing is certain—no man
possesses the power of “Divine Healing.’’
ORGANIZE DISTRICT COMMITTEE.
Newton and Rockdale counties have each elected
two members of the Thirty-fourth Senatorial Dis¬
trict Executive Committee, who will be pleased at
any time to confer with two members representing
DeKalb, the other county in the district.
That it is Newton’s time to elect a State Senator
has been practically admitted by the other two coun¬
ties, for both have had representation in the Senate
since this county was similarly honored. The first
meeting of the Committee should be held in Conyers,
which is the central county in the district.
Under the rotation system Newton would have
been allowed the privilege of electing a Senator this
year and its representatives on the Committee will
insist upon the recognition of its rights at the initial
meeting of the new Committee.
The Grand Jury recommended increases in the
pay of everybody except The News, which it ex¬
pects to continue to publish the General Present¬
ments for ten dollars which was the price in sev¬
enty per cent, of Georgia counties fifteen years ago.
WONDERFUL IS GEORGIA.
Georgia has more liquor laws than any other
,State in the Union, most of them formerly en¬
forced; more blind tigers; more lynchings than
any other State; more good people and more
lawmakers, territory considered; with a very
low education standard and yet furnishing soma
of the brainiest statesmen the nation has pro¬
duced, the State of Georgia must be something
of an enigma to the outside world. They won¬
der at the formula used in Georgia for mixing
crimes and virtue, brains and imbecility, blind
tigers and anti-liquor crusades—how the wings
of angels flap in unison with the hisses of dev¬
ils, as the old commonwealth moves on under
the martial strains of progress and under an
exalted banner on which is emblazoned “The
Empire State of the South.”—Montgomery
Monitor.
Well, the chittlings are here and “Tom”
Shope won’t come down and join us. Old men
lose their taste for good things, anyaway. The
last cold snap caused the murder of more hogs
in this county than there are at all in many
counties of the State.—Bainbridge Post-Search¬
light.
Doesn't appreciate the real delicacies of hog¬
killing time. By the way, isn’t his name Theron
instead of Tom?—Covington News.
We’ll say it is Theron. But it oftentimes gets
mixed up with our associate brain-stormer, Mc
Camy, who happens to own the good, old
fashioned name of Tom, who, however Demo¬
cratic he may be, and even with hunger gnaw¬
ing at bis vitals, will never knowingly be guilty
of eating chit’lin’s.—Dalton Citizen.
As we have remarked before, some mighty good
men are afflicted that way.
THE GRAND JURY RECOMMENDATION.
Following an editorial appearing in a recnt issue
of The Covington News, the Newton County Grand
Jury at the January term of Superior Court, adopt¬
ed a ringing recommendation urging County Com¬
missioner l. W. Meadors to “move the county chain
gang to Covington and to work the roads leading
i therefrom during the remaining weeks of winter.
- -Commissioner Meadors accepted the editorial in the
kindly spirit in which it was intended, but so far as
this newspaper has been able to ascertain the con¬
victs are still engaged in the work of grading the
roadways of Rocky Plains district, while the high¬
ways radiating from Covington are rapidly becoming
impassable. It is with genuine reluctance that The
News again directs the attention of the Commis¬
sioner to the condition of the public roads of New¬
ton county, but the necessity for immediate action
is urgent.
Newton Traveling men and others agree that the roads of
county are as rough, if not rougher, than
any other roads between Atlanta and Augusta. It
is reported that the Commissioner is planning to re¬
lieve conditions, but now ia the opportune time to
msis the chaingang.
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THS COVINGTON, NEWS, COVINGTON. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 1920
A FRIENDLY REJOINDER.
We do not know that the “ovations” received
by Senator Smith in either Savannah, Colum¬
bus or Macon have any special political signifi¬
cance, inasmuch as they were engineered by
the city politicians and acquiesced in by the
people, who desired to be cordial to a distin¬
guished guest. Ovations given former Presi¬
dent Taft in Georgia upon several occasions
probablv equalled or surpassed those ever ac¬
corded any other distinguished visitor. And
yet, Mr. Taft was no serious factor in either of
ids two political campaigns in this state.
No public man in the history of this country
has received greater ovations and hurrahs than
have been tendered William J. Bryan, of Ne¬
braska. No such crowds have ever listened to
puhlic speaker in the country as have turned
a quarter of century
out to hear him during bis a
of political activities. .... led lus
And yet, Bryan blithely and blindly
party to three‘bit ter and successive defeats by the
No doubt the thousands referred to
Covington News are likewise aware that Hoke
has been slipping and sliding and many of them
have already dropped him like a hot brick.
These and many others are only awaiting the
proper time to place permanent skids under his
fPe< received anything
Senator Smith has never
like the unanimous endorsement of Georgia vot¬
the nearest approach to it occurring in his
ers, thousands of Georgians, like the
last race, when other
‘editor of the Tribune, dissatisfied with the
candidates, desperately chose him as the lesser
evil of the two.
The “relics of 1906, 1910, 1911 and 1911 are
no more. But thousands of those who have
voted for the Hon. Hoke in all his previous
campaigns will never vote for him again, and
added to this are -the considerable number who
have always had him catalogued as a dema¬
gogue and a fraud. The editor ot the Coving¬
ton News has always supported him, and like
some others, always will. To these few Hoke
is king, and the king can do no wrong.
The reference to the “me, too” Senator is
reminiscent of the late campaign, when, much
against the wishes of the Covington News, Hon.
Wm. J. Harris was chosen to succeed T. W.
Hardwick by an overwhelming majority of
Georgians. that such
But right here we want to state un¬
worthy flings were no discredit whatever to
that loyal and splendid gentleman. They wera
merely reflections upon those who made them.
For any man knowing Mr. Harris as we know
him, as thousands of other Georgians know him,
as the President of the United States and ev¬
ery department head in Washington knows him,
would never attribute to him other than the fin¬
est qualities of mind and noblest attributes of
character.
But back to Hoke.
Seriously, during the past few years we have
tried to like him and at times partially succeed¬
ed in fooling ourselves that he was busy in a
regular effort t omake good. We have ap¬
plauded him at times and always watched his
progress with interest. We have occasionally
attempted to excuse his cussedness because we
wanted him to make good, and now and then
we have endeavored to visualize him as the Col¬
ossus and demigod that our friend of the Cov¬
ington News imagines him.
But the light has failed.
Going to Washington pledged to stalwartly
defend lus party, he became a thorn in the side
of the administration and began hobnobbing
with its enemies. With an opportunity for lead¬
ership possessed by no other Southerner, and
with the brains and capacity for such leader¬
ship had he been solid and sincere, he chose
rather to heckle the President and make him¬
self obnoxious, a hindrance rather than a help.
11c lias often voted right, but usually after hav¬
ing been beaten to a frazzle in committee or
after having beard the thunderings from the
people at home. the
A pro-Gerinan before our entrance into
war, he allowed bis hatred for England to over¬
shadow all other considerations and then tried
to camouflage his duplicity with bis love (?)
for the Georgia farmer and cotton.
He is still engaged in the same old game, but
the Georgia farmer, yielding to no one in his
patriotism and love of country, has, like The
Tribune and numberless others, carefully and
accurately weighed Hoke in the balances and
found him wanting.
He should be defeated and will be if a strong
man enters the lists against him. So mote it
he.—Walton Tribune.
Not desiring to pervert the facts, The
ton News takes pleasure in reproducing in full
interesting editorial appearing in the Walton
une of last week, in which Editor Ernest Camp
livers a few more sentiments along the same
line and unintentionally violates the record,
should be kept straight.
The editor of the Tribune “does not know
ovations received by Senator Hoke Smith either
Savannah, Columbus or Macon have any
significance, inasmuch as they were engineered
city politicians and eequiesced in hv people who
sired to he cordial to a distinguished visitor.”
believe, however, that Editor Camp would have
convinced of the meaning of the ovation
the Senator by a crowd that filled the auditorium
Macon on the night of Monday, December
when more than two thousand people voiced
approval dozen of times of practically every
uttered by the speaker. The editor of The
made the trip to Macon for the purpose of
first-hand information, knowing that it would
distorted by at least one Macon newspaper.
upon the state of the crowded auditorium
Judge Charles L. Bartlett, for twenty years
man from the Sixth Georgia district; Hon.
I,. Berner, one of Georgia’s most prominent
yers; Judge John I*. Ross, for a number of
solicitor general of the Macon circuit; Hon. R.
McKenney, editor of the Macon News; Jesse
Hart and a number of other prominent citizens
have never attempted to qualify as “city
As the Tribune recites, it is true that Hon.
liam Jennings Bryan has been several times
ed for president of the United States, but it
be remembered that he was responsible for the
nation of President Wilson, after he had been
feated in a preferential primary by Hon.
Clark, of Missouri. Mr. Brvan cannot lead his
ty to success, but he is the only man in the world
who can name the winner.
The Tribune says: “Senator Smith has never re¬
ceived anything like the unanimous endorsement of
Georgia voters, the nearest approach occurring in
the last race, when thousands of Georgians, like the
editor of the Tribune, dissatisfied with the other
candidates, desperately chose him as the lesser evil
of the two.”
If our recollection is not treacherous. Senator
Smith carried 123 counties in his first race for gov¬
ernor, opposed by Hon. Clark Howell, a good man;
Judge Richard B. Russell, of Jackson county; Hon.
James M. Smith, of Smithsonia, and probably a few
others, which, while not unanimous, perhaps, is
something like it.
In 1910, opposed by the Tribune’s “ex-friend,”
Little Joe Brown, of CobB county, Senator Smith
was nominated for the office of governor and found
necessary to defeat his opponent again in the
election.
In 1914, opposed by Little Joe Brown, as usual,
Smith carried 141 counties out of the pos¬
150, leaving only nine counties to his once idol¬
opponent. If Senator Smith has not received
like two unanimous endorsements, then
we confess that we are unfamiliar with the defini¬
tion of the word.
Romans, Countrymen, Lovers and Others: Lend
us vour ears. “The relics of 1906, 1910, 1911 and
1914 are no more,” says the Tribune. Three of
them have been firing broadsides at the Senior Sen¬
ator almost monthly for fourteen years, one of
whom that gentleman designated a villiunous liar
in his own home town no longer since than Decem¬
ber 22nd, 1919. Where on earth has the editor of
the Tribune been since the demolition of the old
Atlanta ring that was once the mainspring of Geor¬
gia politics? As the Madison Madisonian pointed
out last week, “the opposition to the Senator this
year is coining largely from the same old source.”
They are to he found in the front ranks resorting
to tiie same doubtful operations of other years, hut
they have long since lost the confidence of the peo¬
ple of Georgia.
And no wcomes the Tribune’s most umazing
statement: “The reference to the ‘me, too,’ Sena¬
tor is reminiscent of the late campaign, when much
against the wishes of the Covington News, Hon.
William J. Harris was chosen to succeed T. W.
Hardwick by an overwhelming majority of Geor¬
gians.” We know that Editor Camp is honest and
incapable of intentionally warping the record, but
for once his memory is obviously delinquent. If lie
will prove by the consolidated primary election re¬
turns that Senator Harris received a majority of
the votes east on September 11, 1918, we will pre¬
sent him with the finest silk hat in the city of Mon¬
roe and in addition send the orphan children to
Washington whom Senator Harris disappointed,
after one of his statements had been disproved by
lion. C. Murphy Candler.
The primary returns showed that Senator Harris
received 71,335 votes, against 86,528 cast for the
opposing candidates, lacking 15,164 of receiving a
majority of the votes polled. William Schley How¬
ard received 41,988, Thomas W. Hardwick, 39,684;
Emmett. R. Shaw, 2,754; John “Runner” Cooper,
2,090. Senator Harris^leceived a plurality and his
nomination was the result of the infamous county
unit system. For some reason about 83,000
ed voters remained away from the polls, hut that
another angle of the issue.
Of course it is to he regretted that Senator
has failed to make,good in the estimation of
Tribune, hut he has received wonderful
of endorsement from thousands -of others.
The Tribune continues: “He has often
right, hut usually after having been beaten to
frazzle in committee or after having heard
thunderings from the people at home.” This
was answered by the Senator in Macon in
tion with a certain well-defined proposition that
original inventor declined to accept.
The Tribune also accuses Senator Smith
committing the “unpardonable sin” of refusing
obey President Wilson. The editor of The
does not recollect that the Senator went to
ington pledged to respond to the lash of the
dent or anybody else. He has a
ord for a public official who has so “often
the people of Georgia and heard the rumbling
home.” Five times out of a possible six the
tor has won in political campaigns, one time
governor in 19906, twice for governor in 1910,
the United States Senate before the Georgia
lature in 1911, opposed by Senator Joseph M.
rell, Hon. Thos. E. Watson and Judge W. A.
ington. Ilis defeat in 1908 by Little Joe
was the direct result of prejudice and
many being persuaded to believe that he raised
hand in Washington and created a panic in
pool, England.
The editor of The News frankly admits that
has always supported Senator Smith, although
does not regard him as a king. If one
reason appeared to us why we should oppose
Senator we would do it quicker than hades
scorch the feather of a humming bird. We
a man of ability, trustworthiness and capable
fighting his own battles. To us it seems that
Senator possesses more of the qualifications of
statesman than any other man who has
Georgia in the United States in thirty years.
why we are for him against the field; that
nothing more. Despite the noisy clamor of his
emies it is becoming more apparent daily that
ator Smith will lie re-elected without
Editor Camp has again grown desperate, as
a few others, but they have utterly failed in
the strong man for whom they have burned
woods, sifted the ashes, swept out from under
bed and emptied the slop pot.
Governor Dorsey, the principal hope, is
of the situation in a series of addresses on
subject and is receiving little encouragement.
Judge Andrew J. Cobh, of Athens, a most
cellent old gentleman of recognized ability,
sufficient money to wage the campaign and will
make the race.
Hon. C. Murphy Candler, chairman of the
gia railway commission, could probably raise
necessary expense money, hut the Candlers
sense'as well as money.
Hon. Pleasant A. Stovall, of Savannah, one
the princely men of the South, is considering
ing the race, hut will be prevented from doing
other interests. His friends would regret to
him sacrifice himself to please the enemies of
ator Smith.
Hon. Hooper Alexander, United States
for the Northern District of Georgia, could
ably be induced to issue his announcement.
ran for governor against Jack Slaton several
ago and failed to score outside of DeKalb county.
Little Joe Brown is rearing to run, but—
William Telegraph Burwell has not been
front.
From this distance it seems that the
will he compelled to support “Bunk” Cooper,
doubtless would he glad to make the race if
would promise to vote for him.
The opposition seems to he perfectly willing
“put skids under Hoke,” hut the difficulty is
they haven’t any skids and can’t find ’em on
side of the stream.
If anybody knows of a pair of skids that
support Hoke’s weight, they will please
.
them to Editor Camp, of the Walton Tribune.
Jack Patterson wants to name Athens as the
regular meeting place of the Eighth District
Press Association. Jack’s a handsome bachelor
and Lucy Cobb has some wonderfully pretty
girls. you’d think Washington by hasn’t a female coliege, but
so t|ie number of pretty young
women you can see on the streets here any af¬
ternoon.—Washington News-Reporter.
The Madisonian does not want to see Athens
or Washington corner on all of these Eighth
District press meetings. Madison wants some
of them herself.—Madison Madisonian.
You shall have them; Morgan county beauties
are good chough for anybody.
The Eighth District Press Association had a
very satisfactory meeting at Athens Saturday.
The press of the state is confronted by some
serious problems at this time and the district
associations will help solve many of them in a
large measure if the proper interest is taken in
the organizations. The press “boys” were giv¬
en a warm welcome to Athens by Editors Rowe
and Carroll and the city hall was turned over
to them as a meeting place. Rowe and Carroll
are regular fellows, anyway. — Washington
News-Reporter.
Every district in Georgia should have an as :.,, :.i
tion as an auxiliary to the state organization.
Reat it, fellows! This is leap year, and 5,000
girls are rushing over from England on a rampage
for husbands.—Four exchanges last week.
How many times can a state go “bone-dry?”
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We are holding our great list ot
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another one there, and so cn down the
long list of articles sold in a grocery store.
By the end of the year this accumii
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it has reached a sum m dollars of sur
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prising proportions.
It pays to trade with us—you save the
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