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PUBLISHED EVERT THURSDAY
JACK L. PATTERSON,
Editor and i'roprietor
Official Organ of Newton County and the
City of Covington
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NOMINATE A DEMOCRAT.
Don’t il make you want to vomit to read
Democratic papers discussing t lie whys and
wherefores of putting a man on the ticket that
is not a Democrat? We would like to know
what the hell a Democratic primary is for if
not to be governed by Democrats. If Hoover
is not a declared Democrat he has no more
business on ihat ticket than a Baptist
preacher has to run for a Methodist Bish¬
opric. And would the Methodist conference
sit about like a bunch of damned fools dis¬
cussing whether or not it was WISE to refuse
to permit his candidacy?—Bainbridge Post
Searchlight.
The News commends the paragraph to the
thoughtful consideration of Democrats who have
evidenced a disposition io Criticise ihe State Dem¬
ocratic Executive Committee for decreeing that
only the names of Democrats shall be placed upon
the ticket to be used in the preferential Demo¬
cratic primary in the Democratic State of Georgia.
Editor E. H. Griffin is somewhat given to the
employment of emphatic language, but he always
says something worthy of the consideration of
Ihe readers of his bright and interesting paper.
The News commends the State Committee for
refusing to admit the candidacy of any man who
is not a four-ply, thirty-third degree, rock-ribbed,
hell-roaring Democrat, for Georgia is a Democratic
state and the preferential primary is supposed to
be a Democratic primary. It is foolish to advo¬
cate the elimination of party lines and issues, for
they cannot be eliminated. The Republicans will
vote as solid as Stone Mountain for the Repub¬
lican nominee; of that there can be no doubt.
No candidate except, an accepted Republican need
hope to receive the support of ihe Republicans
of any of (he states in which there are a suffi¬
cient number to elect a justice of the peace.
The Democratic party should nominate a gen¬
uine, Simon-pure Democrat or retire from busi¬
ness at the old well-established headquarters. If
the party is not good enough for Herbert Hoover
it is his privilege to organize a new party of his
membership. There is no “popular claim” in
Georgia for the candidacy of Herbert Hoover ex¬
cept that emanating from the Atlanta Journal,
which seems to have forsaken the eternal prin¬
ciples of Democracy, and a few other noisy news¬
papers that have apparently lost their Democracy.
There are scores of able and conscientious Dem¬
ocrats in the United States who are willing io
make the race for president upon a Democratic
platform. Men who are “party men’’ and who
have stood four-square for southern political
Ideals, for the Democratic party, imperfect as
it is, is the party of the South.
Twenty-five years ago Tom Watson disrupted
the Democratic party, but he had the nerve to
perfect a new organization. The present peril
is originating within the Democratic camps and
all Democrats should unite in stamping it out
in its inception.
The News favors the nomination of a Democrat
in keeping with the customs of the Democratic
State of Georgia. Let’s stand by the old banner
or cast it to the winds and erect another.
The members of the County Democratic Exec¬
utive Committee are to be congratulated upon
their action postponing the county primary from
Tuesday, April 6tb„ to Tuesday, April 2t>th, in
order that the voters of Newton county may be
afforded an opportunity of expressing a prefer¬
ence in the presidential primary.
—
Editor Gordon Callaway, of the Eatonton Mes
senger. advocates a return to the true Democratic
party. The job of first finding it might be a hard
one.—Oglethorpe Echo. Not at all, “Uncle Shack.”
Democrats may find the Democratic party of their
fathers just where they left it. The trouble is
with we Democrats and not with the party.
—-—
Mr. Tenant, if your rent has been raised and
you are paying double rent from what you did
four years ago, ease around and take a peep at
the tax books and see if there has been any in¬
crease in the tax values of that property.--Bain¬
bridge Post-Searchlight. And we are of the
opinion. Mr. Tenant, that you will find that the
rent hog is about the last profiteer who will vol¬
untarily increase his tax returns.
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Somfi young men would rather have a .<14 silk I
fcurf than to have a <2 shirt and <12 in The
f^ink. They are the kind that will find it hard
>sledding when hap time* come and ohs are
scarce. And these things are coning. —Dawson
NWs. No man who refuses to work has right
to eat. j
It’s better to get right at a summer revival than
to never get right at all.
Generals Robert E. law. Stonewall Jackson,
“.Teh” Steward and -Old .Tube" Early could liardly
t»i<luted as co.-t tders for tin medal-* as proof
of their Courage and generalship. The Navy squab¬
ble is thoroughly disgusting.
THE COVINGTON, NEWS, COVINGTON, GEORGIA, THU.SUA*. MARCH 4 1920.
It looks more and more like John X. Holder will
he elected governor every day.
Under wliat rule of reason law or common sense
can anybody expect to make the race for presi¬
dent of the United Stales on a Democratic ticket
who is not a Democrat.
if Jack Patterson will “pi” some of those lines
in defense of Hoke Smith it will make just as
good an argument—outside of that he is all right.
—Marietta Journal. We have published no lines
in defense of Hoke Smith, but have been en
deavoring to “keep the record straight.” Anyway,
Hoke Smith doesn’t seem to need any defense,
No man in Georgia has dared to announce that
he will enter the race against him. Really, Com
fort, isn’t it you fellows who are on the de
fensive?
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Admiral Robert E. Peary, the famous Arctic ex
plorer who in all probability approached
the North Pole than any other adventurer, has
just died of anemia. The Admiral accomplished
much for literature and science and his death
was a distinct loss to the scientific world.
The editors of the Eighth Congressional District
have organized against free space grafters. This
has the right sound.—Savannah Press. Every
other district in the state should do likewise.
The Winder News thinks it appropriate that
the suggestion that William G. McAdoo’s name
be placed upon the Democratic ticket for presi¬
dent originated in Milledgeville.
We find no authority that loyalty to the presi¬
is of first importance. On the contrary,
federal office-holder takes oath to support i
the Constitution of the United States, not to ■
the president, and when the president j
in what such officer deems an uneonstitu- 1
manner it is his duty to resign his office
oppose the president. Was it Mr. Lansing’s
to remain loyal to the Constitution or to
president? Was it his duty to embarrass his
or his chief in office? Mr. Lansing
have resigned when he returned from the
East, where the real split occurred. It is for¬
for the Democratic party that Mr. Wilson
the calling of the cabinet meetings as a
for discharging the secretary.—Winder
SENTIMENT FOR HOLDER IS
INCREASING.
Reports from about sixty South Georgia coun¬
indicate that sentiment favoring the election
Hon. John N. Holder, of Jefferson, to the of¬
of governor is rapidly increasing. Mr. Holder
received many assurances of support from
sources and that he is the leading!
generally for the admitted. office to which he aspires is j
The voters of Georgia will welcome the privi¬
of voting for a newspaper man, farmer and
banker, many of them having lost confidence in
lawyer-governors. The News congratulates them
upon their determination to honor a man in every
way worthy of their confidence, for John Holder
has the confidence of as many people as any other
man in Georgia.
Reports from North Georgia are equally en¬
couraging to the numerous friends of the pop¬
ular and able speaker of the Georgia House of
Representatives and this crystallization of senti¬
ment is merely a fitting recognition and appre¬
ciation of a good man.
REPEAL THE SUNDAY FREIGHT
LAW.
Early in its 1920 session the Georgia Legis¬
lature should repeal the law’ enacted during the
war permitting freight trains to operate in this
state on the Sabbath, for the railway officials
will never of their owrn accord discontinue then
operation.
The law introduced by Senator J. C. Beau
champ, of Pike county, provided that freight trains
might be operated during the war under certain
conditions, but it was used as a blanket excuse
for operating them under all conditions.
Manv laws that seemed advisable in time of
war should be repealed in time of “techincal”
war, and the people of Georgia are opposed to
the operation of freight trains on Sunday.
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RAILWAYS UNDER BUSINESS
MANAGEMENT.
At 2 o’clock Sunday night the railways of
America were returned to private ownership and
business management. Two years of government
operation resulted in a deficit of more than
$700,000,000, and if there still be a wild-eyed,
long-haired fanatic in the United States who is
in favor of government ownership and opera
tion of railways his case is hopeless.
Under government management everything ad
vanced except the service, which was the most
unreliable and unsatisfactory’ every imposed upon
'he suffering public. Perhaps it was wise for the
government to assume control of the lines during
war period, but the utter failure of those in
charge to employ business methods was inex
ousable.
Under private management colored day laborers
will not draw salaries equal to that of the gov
ernor of Georgia, nor will other employes con¬
tinue to receive the princely salaries lavished
upon them by the government. The work of re
adjustment will precipitate dissatisfaction, but it
s ihe duty of the people to aid in the work of
reconstruction.
“We acknowiedge the appreciated arrival of the
Telfair Enterprise to our exchange table, after
an absence of five or six months. We threatened
to discontinue The News to Kelly Simmons’ ad¬
dress unless he reciprocated and heard from him
at once. One of the joys of being a Georgia edi¬
tor is reading the Enterprise and we just must
have it.”—Covington News. Well, we hope Jack
is happy now. A threat to discontinue sending
his paper Is enough to exact almost any favor
within our reach, as his is a paper “Quick to com
mend and not afraid to condemn.” His editorial
page lives up to that motto, but since he is large
enough to back up his convictions he can afford
it.—Telfair Enterprise. You are now overdoing
thing. We are receiving from two to four
copies of the Enterprise every week. One copy
-ufficient, .lamiili&i *
Evidently the Atlanta Journal is suffering front
political appendicitis. There can be no doubt
that some of its inner-works needs amputating.
Speaker Champ Clark’s Georgia friends are in¬
sisting that they be allowed to vote for him in I
the presidential primary. The Speaker was de- |
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frauded out of the nomination eight years ago,
which action is still resented by his numerous
friends throughout the country. He is one Dem
oerat who is stronger titan his state, being re
j elected from Missouri in a contest in which
state went Republican,
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A little boy of an inquiring turn of mind would
like to know if Columbus had not discovered
America and there had been no United States
! where would the European countries go when
they want to borrow money. It isn’t fair to look
in the back of the book for the answer.—Colum¬
bus Enquirer-Sun. Has anybody answered the
little boy’s query?
Senator Hoke Smith, of Georgia, and Senator
Oscar W. Underwood, of Alabama, have stated
that they will offer for re-election to the office
they now hold and that they will under no cir¬
cumstances allow their names to be used in the
presidential preferential primary. The former’s j
enemies, failing in an attempt to discover a man
who is not afraid to make the race for the senate
against the senior senator, are endeavoring to
create the impression that he is a possible candi¬
date for the Democratic nomination for president.
The campaign of deception will not succeed, for
Hoke Smith will be a candidate for re-election to
the Uniled States senate in the primary of 1920.
The editorial page of the Madisonian is worthy
of the careful perusal of its subscribers. Editor
Charlie Furlow knows how to hit the spot wirlt
truth and wisdom.
Some men live and learn, but buyers of wildcat
oil stock merely live.—Macon Telegraph. Per¬
haps they live and lose.
A Kansas editor remarks ihat “we need a few
tig guns in the United States senate who can
shoot beyond tlie next election.”
Next week will be a good time to begin prepa¬
rations for planting a spring garden.
One reads much about “Wilson haters” in strong
administration newspapers. We know of nobody
who "hates” President Wilson, but even if they
did it is not a violation of the law or the Con
stitution. it may be possible that some people
<1° not love the president less, but America and
'be Constitution more.
Social-^Circle has organized a Board of Trade
and is just that much more progressive than
Covington, a city of several times its size and
importance.
Isn’t it about time for someone to go to Europe j
to take up a collection for the poor Americans
who have to pay a quarter now for a pound of
sugar? Won't they please start a “drive” over
there to help us?—Dawson News. Yes, they will
not. Europeans have not, subscribed to Ihe ad¬
monition that “it is more blessed to give than
receive ” i
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A recent issue of the Tifton Gazette carried
an interesting editorial on “Farming by the
Moon.” While we are not prepared to endorse
the plan, we once knew a one-horse farmer who
“farmed by the moon,” stayed drunk three days
a week and produced as much cotton, corn, wa¬
termelons and other product as the average two
horse farmer.
,
i The chaplain of the house of delegates of Mary
j land advises against marrying an automobile
wife on a wheelbarrow salary, and the Baltimore
News says “the men who get wheelbarrow sal
aries nowadays are about the only ones who can
afford automobiles.”—Columbus Enquirer-Sun.
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wild horses to pollute the Democratic ticket.
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