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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.