About Weekly edition of the Waycross evening herald. (Waycross, Ga.) 190?-1908 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 5, 1904)
ZKHaycross WEEKLY EDITION OF THE - , ... \mg IMerald. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF WAY CROSS AND WARE COUNiTY. VOLUME XXVI WAYCKO-S, GA.. SAfcRjUDA Y. NOVEMBER 5,1904. NUMBER 24 Brantley-and Findlay. The flan of Deeds and the Man of Words. Hon W.'G- Brantley, the Democratic nominee to the jg’h Congress, has rendered very val- uabfc service to our distiict du- ring the time that he has repre. 'sented it. Among the things that have been secured .by him for the district are: A public building for Brunswick; a new Federal court district, with headquarters of Valdosta (which insures to that city at no distant day a court housebuilding); ap propriations of something more than Five Hundred Thousand Dot lars for harbor improvements af Brunswick and lor depending and improving the Oconee and Oc mulgee rivers;'a syrup experi ment station at Waycross; and the detail of a scientist to Blackshear by theAgriCultural Department to stuy diseases that infect the cot. ton plant and seek « remedy for them. All these things have been of immense valile to the district. Be sides this, he has introduced a bili appropriating $100,000 for a light ship off the coast of Brunswick, /This bill has received a favorable . report trom the House commit tee having it in charge, and is now on the House calendar, and will probably go through the House during the com ing short session of Congress. Through his efforts, a similar bill has already.been passed through - the Senate, so that there is every prospect thaf before next winter shall have passed away the bill will have become a law. Mr Brantley is a member of the ju diciary commitee, one of the three big commitees of the House (the other too being appropriations and ways and means), and is also a member of the public buildings commitee, a commitee that ena- hies him to render good service to our people, The fact is that, should the next House be democratic, he' will in all likelihood be chairman of the public buildings committee The things which have been ac. complished by Mr Brantley have been scconiplished without any bluster or parade. To use an old expression, in his work for the district, he has said nothing, and sawed wood, Without making any blow about what he expected to do, he has lost no opportunity to render practical service to his district What about the man who wants tosucceid him. A. B. Finley of Douglas, who was nominated by a few negroes at Waycross, call^i^”'** government to them, and ing' themselves tile Republican convention? He has issued a let ter accepting the nomination thus made, and this letter abounds in promises of wbA he wil^do, if put in Mr. Brantley's place. There is hardly any limit to what he does promise, in thii-respec', the con* Jrast between he and his Demo cratic opponent is very striking: The one cannot promise too much add the other has never promised more than that he would serve his people to the best of his ability. From the way this negro nom. iiieo talks about what Jie is going to do, one would naturally get the id. a that he has been busy all his life doing great things^and j et we find that he' has forthe past tew years held the position of post master at Douglas under the Re- publican adminfstratiou, and that he was recently fired from this of fice, and we have heard that the ground for his discharge was in competency. Think of it! The man who would have us believe’ that he can do so much tor us in Congress not able to run a third- class post office Leaving out. of consideration the two parties these men repre sent, the one the Democratic par ty, the party which has always been tpe true friend of the South, and the other the republican par ty, the party which ha9 always been antagonistic to us and to out- interests and has endeavored and out of season to force negro domination upon us, which man do you prefer: The Man of Deeds, or the Man of Words, Bluster and Promises? We have no doubt in the world as to the preference of our people, but the purpose of this article is to urge upon them the importance of voting. Should Roosevelt be re-elected President, we will need our best adB ablest men at Washington to combat the negrophile polocics that he is committed to. It is his avowed purpose to treat the ne< groes of the South the same as the white men. In other words, he intends to do all he can to place them upon the same footing, and to put them in places of authority in the South whenever he sees fit to do so. Besides this, if his pub* lie conduct m dining a negro at the. White House and entertain ing other negroes st the Gover nor’s mansion in Albany when he was Governor of New York means anything, it means that he endors es social equality between the ra ces. The Republican party by its last platform hts committed it self to the policy of punishing cer tain of our Southern states by cut ting down their representation in Congress because they have de> prived the negro, of the right to vote, and Roosevelt says he cor, dially approves .the platform. In Mississippi and South Carolina the negroes greatly outnumber the whites, nud these two atatns at least, the white people had to^ cut off the negro vote or else turn over now they are to be punished be cause they will not submit to ne gro rule, if Roosevelt and the re publican party can accomplish it Come out <to the polls on Nov 8th and by voting for Parker, Da vis and Brantley, register your dis approval of the Republican pro gram and all things Republican. Old Georgia should show by th- biggest vote on record for the Democratic nominees what she thinks of the revival of the'race question by Roosevelt and the re publican party. For AMeross 1st Wsrd. I am a candidate for alderman from tbe-Brst ward of the City nf Wsycrott, subject to the act on of the white primary to te called m December. I am at present representing this ward, having recently been appointed by the Mayor and Council. 1 1 will ap preciate the support of the vot ers of the city. J A Lott. For Aldensu, Fifth Ward. At the solicit ition ot certain residents of the Fifth Ward and of manv of my friends through out the citv. I have decided n> be come 4 candidate for 'Alderman from the Fifth Ward, subject to the action of the white primary to lie called in December. 1 will appreciate'the support of the voters of the city. A. S. Morton. The Necessity of Voting. Hon. W. G. Brantley Tells Why Democrats Should Cast Their Ballots Next Tuesday. The following interview of Hon. W. G. Brantley uppeurs-in the Brunswick Nows of yester day. ilr. Brantley urges demo crats to register and vote. There is danger in apathy. It requires a majority nf all the votes cast iu tiiestatefor Parker to win Let every democrat do his duty: ‘•Congressman Brantley was seen by a representative of The News yesterday and he talked very interestingly of the politi cal situation The Congressman says that the democrats in Geor gia do not realize the importance uf a big vote in the November election and he urges them to register and vote. ' During the conversation Mr. Brantley said; On November 8tb uext the presidential and congressional election occurs, and I am afraid that some of our democrats are notgiving as much attention and consideration to it bb its impor tance requires. There are five Dresldcntial electoral tickets to bt voted on in our state, towit: such 11 candidate and is Hooding the district with republican liter ature. If we only had demo cratic and republican electoral tickets in the field, there could be no possible question as to the outcome of the election, but with three other electoral tickets to be voted on, and among them the populist ticket, we hnvc no way of'ellingon how many nf these other electoral tickets tho name ot the republican candidate for congress wilt appear. Wo should net only avoid troub'e, but even tho possibility of trouble, and the only way to do this is for all the democrats in the district to register and turn out and vote on election day. Thero is another thought 10 which til -attention of our people should ne called and that is, if the next house of representa tives is repubbean by a small majority tho seat of no,demo- - cratic member of congress from the south will be safe and those democratic members who have the smallest majorities behind Democratic, republican, populist, hem, w 11 be less safe than the "' ' id si ’ " ' - prohibition and socialist, and,un der the law, tho electoral ticket that carries Georgia mutt receive a majority of all votes cast. Wo all know that the republi can ticket will receive a uutiaid. erab'o vote and that the prohibi- bhioti and scci.list ticket will others. It is important tor this 1 eason nldne to elect nil of our demoeratio memb.-rs from the south by such overwhelming ma jorities ns to preclude the pos sibllity of a contested election. They should be elected by large majorities for another get some vo es. No one appears reason and that is, heretofore to be nblo to estimate the Tula, most of ourcongressiona'elcc- ibat will be cast for tho populations have practical y gone by ticket, but a great many believe default. There has bee , sub- that it will receive a large vote. Mr. Watson is quoted iu the pub lic prints as claiming that his ticket will carry Georgia. One thing appears to bu evi dent, and that is, unless the dem ocrats turn out better on Novem ber 8th than they did at the state election this month, the demo- cratic ticket will not receive th- requisite majority tote. There is no question about Georgia being overwhelmingly democratic, an 1 there is no ques tion about the Klevemh district being yverwhelming'y democrat, ic. Neither the atate nor the district, however, will be demo cratic' on election day unless democrats vole. My informalim stantinily, no - pposition to the democratic nominee 11 d »itii. the result tha mostof the mem- bers from the s utli h-ve .been elected by very sm ill vo es The small v to nceivdd by them liaa heret fore furnished ground for 1 ., 1 he char, e that southern mem bers of congr ss represen' no- lx>iy and for the furthered arge that a part of the vot-~ in tne s u'h is suppressed. 1 h-se charges tend to weaken the power of the sou h in congress.' The best a-d most effective way to meet theso charg-s is to elect ou - mem bo is of congress oy larger v tes This year I would love to see in-Georgia an 1 id tim 1 demo-- is that in our district thero wasjeratio mhj'rity of. eighty or but a small negro registration I nlnet. thousand It is a most for the state election. Tho tax - opportune time for such 'a inn. cnihclor of Hlyno 1 ounly informs | j or ty. q he present i.dministra- me t'mt he l as recently regie- j tion is the most dittos eful one terod neurons who 1 aid as high, toour peop'e that wo have hud as twenty and twenty four doi-jjn many years. It is the i-nly lars each of back taxes in order I administration since reconstrue to retri-tier. We l-ave now rogis 1 tion days that- has openly and tend in Glynn county a little notoriously br nght section 1 _ ,ro than six hundiod while voters, with more than two hun dred negro voters liuvo regis tered and tin re will probably bo many more of them to reglsttr before the registration book- close. The wbi'e registration 1- r-i- dictilous-y -mail ai.d there is not much tint-- 111 which to lncresss it. The reg .iratio.i ho iks c!o-,- mi the 18tli of this mouth, ai d I v* ry much hope that sonic effort istn and race issues to ho ft' n I ho only wpp utunity that ou peon'e will have for an exprns si- n of their disapproval of adtn nist-'iition is 1 elect on d\ty • Tin re is another tlir^ pt t * which too much 111 bb canne bo given an)-tha* jt *. iji^pi-e i less excuse, ' ^al-arton c- reason for th', |M J le „. eom r UiWd(; <" r. „gt lectiron titan there ha. wintc r-igti- ri 1 in vJ ore iltt meet is no whei.'ior3fjr, „ at» : hooka cloic, -- - My iiifOitriuliuH from other ci unties hi .the district la that, in some of them, ihdro is quite a mrge negro registn-t 0:1. 1 have ,1 letter this morning advising nte th. tin one county alone nine hundred and thirty n- gro votes have already registered. The • JClevooth dislr-'it it to strongly democratic that the pos sibility ot anybody but a demo craL leiog elected to represent- It in congress does not occur to many people,' Perhaps, many of bur people do not even know that there is a republican candidate Mr Debs or Mr. Swtilio vjhnli bo eiccte 1 president, 'or every body kno .i s tha neither of them will be elected. Tho issue wo have to meet is whether or not ihe Kooseve t admini tra ion shall be indorsed or repudiated by the peopl- / ; > To refuse to vote for • Parker, the 1 nly man ,, {li '' possibly defeat the wllo can candidate is. iaeth ^publican the republican -iSfj » en< * t ’ r8 ?' refusng to ‘ fMdldate ttrjr count in o r 'W a vote that will lican ca- «i5'?°. 8 tlon , 1,10 tepub- refr . -wdate and the man who- there Is a republican candidate nefivju ““*11 »i.o in the field this year, and yet, .■'j; ' V J” ub 'l< Mr. A. B. Findlay, ot Dour.-A ishriCcs htm^ 7, ? fcet - Wm- J. Bryan is doing a noble part in thepreetdentialcampaign and is receiving greet praise front those who formerly bitterly opposed him,' Watson aays lie is not in piy of the republican p Watson’s rath to that , would not cit ing.- tim npinic Georgians.
