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THE WAYCROSS WEEKLY HERALD
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At anyrate we can’t accuse Hoke
of using smokeless powder.
<(•
At anyrate Little Joe Is making the
big governor sit up and ta*e notice.
The prohibitionists are trying to
prove that Abe Lincoln never took a
string of liquor, bat they do not seem
to care to tackle the nablts of Ge;rge
Washington In the same direction.
It IB joins to be a square show
down between Joe and Hoke. There
will be no other entries and a majority
of the voteu cast will nominate Cue
WAYCROSS, GA., APRIL,
And nm/bo the “divine call"
struck Joe Drown. Who knows?
4*
Delightful weather this. Perb
you had caught on.
It now transpires that while Joe
Drown was losing Jobs , Hoke was
Hopping. Let 'er flop.
in some quarters Is bewailed the
fact that Governor Smith < ! ld not open
hat letter, but when Little Joe’s pen
gets to flowing freely there’ll be
enough to satisfy everybody, and t.ien
ioi.ie left over.—Columbus Enquirer.
US A F10PP3R
Airc/Icu* Recorder. ^ tlful exa.xi.le of adherence to convlc-
It consistency Is a jewel tiler. Is no-lion ht . • Jents tnere.
especial brilliant In Ue diadem oi | After ..L election the Governor rusk*
Governcr Hoke Smith'. |e/o2 to Europe. It was announced
To begin with let us examine him V.o-i-^4*. til ret: ghost t the country that
*. the prohibition record, j the great Georgia statesman had gone
H'.ke .smith absolutely controlled th** to personally investigate Immigration
Macon convention which nominate and arrange to fill up ibe waste places
aim. He dictated the platform of the: f Georgia with sturdy seas of the soli
jarty on that occasion and it reflect- Much was naturally expected.
»d hi* views. He spent six or eight weeks, came
In that platform he announced him* lack, and great dispatches filled the
self as unqualified favoring local op- papers announced that in Austria
W. E DEMPSTER WRITES
V HON. JOS. M.
The owing article from the penj tonight Is, God grant that they may be
of Mr. W. E. Dempster. the well! to him as fruits of the Dead Sea, bit-
known machinist who resides on ter, very bitter.
If acounts that are coming In from
arions sources are to be credited,
a*.* people of Georgia are rapidly gett-
v.y' into a frame oi mln.l to overturn
political precedent that has obtained
luce the adoption of the constitution
f 1-77.—-Morning News.
Miss Edna Cain, who has been In
low York for tne past several month*
sailed from there Saturday for San
., Porto Rico, where she will re-
i six weeks writing a series for
an Industrial magazine in New Yor*.
Who is playing governor while Hoke
Is picnicking? Guess Calvin Hitch ls| Quitman free Press,
bolding her down. I ^ V
. I Endorsing Hoke 3mit
Tift county will name the senator
from that district. Wo nominate I stabbed
Herring of the Gazette ler tne place.I neH * ,tu
No better tiiu.i lu ilf: county.
adminls*
like picking the knife that
r>»j and that 1* why the bush
men the working men, raoti-
en. the drummers are for Brown
.*, j which means sanity, conservatism
Just as a matter v. c..roslty we an «l progress, declares the Clark
would like to know If HoKes last call! L&uuty Courier.- Athens Banner.
In also a “divine call.” if so, little | A pretty strong arraignment of Holt
Jt-o bud’ better hide out. I
,j 4 —’
The District Executive Committee { Griffin can claim the 1 pre-eminence
of the Sixth Senatorial district at noon' 0 * being the first city in the state to
yesterday dcclJed tuai It is Tilt's! 8tart u •* oe * {rown dub. The move-
time under the rotation rule to furnish' n,ont
lartcd about nine o’clock yes-
morning, u:;d by five o’clock
afternoon teleph >ne reports
from those circulating different lists
membership of between
I 4'jO and 5u0, a largo majority of whom
.11 and bosses In tho
and manufacturing
stnW>hr.irn‘s.—Qrlflln NewsSun.
i With absolutely no embellishments.!
with wohi-palntlng cntlruly wanting, j “He
without beating around the bush, butt my hi
getting down to business tn a very j president of t!
few words the Macon Telegraph says Dank yesterday:
the Augusta Herald Is a liar, - %v *u carry eve
the next seuator.
That Governor Smlta Is awaxenlug
to the situation is shown by the ef
fort a that he and Ms friends arc max
ing to stern the tld<
Fulton county.
erdny
for Brown* in aro vor » : » n S
j different ^jillls
a letter Just received from
r, J. F. f.ewU,” said the
:;f the Fourth National I
• says Joe Brown j
ounty In South I
don. There was absolutely not a
word that could be deemed as fav
oring state prohibition in Georgia.
When he was Inaugurated as Gov-
»rnor Hoke Smith in his address re
iterated his views in favor of local op
tion. He stood flat footed on that oc
casion as favoring a continuance of
the system by w'hlch each county was
permitted to decide for itself whether
It would allow the sale of liquors or
not.
Then came tho surprising victory
for prohibition In the legislature. It
alarmed the governor and when the
time came for him to sign the prohibi
tory bill he was quoted throughout the
state as saying: ‘T thank God that
I have lived to se e this day. It is the
greatest pleasure of my life to sign
this act."
Three or four months after this,
when the prohibitory sentiment
cd to be somewhat on the wane, he
went to Savannah and there was quoted
as publicly saying that the law wa*
too stringent, and t 4 iat he favored the
German system of using beer anu
light wines in moderation.
This was naturally construed to
mean that he would officially endorse
had found the Ideal Immigrants to fill
up the unuiual lands of Georgia, that
all arrangements would soon be per
fected. and that before his term was
'.voll under way shiploads of the in-
iiustrlcus farmers mignt be looked for
ui G-crgia ports.
Then the Farmers Union took a
hand, and the labor unions likewise.
They declared that they did not be-
!>ve in immigration. Hoke Smith's
.Ic: ik di r.rreared like snow
j : j ci t .5 legislatera expressed a
to I.e-r from the governed on
lnnn.rjftticn question the "Iron- j
or.c.:" Hckc took to tne storm "It and j
•J* dged the Is-rue. lf-ever* clam closed
Us rnoutn the go\emcr did his about
that time. Since then he has never
heard to »*y a word about Immi
gration.
Just ns he has trimmed and dodged
on prohibition and o:i Immigration so
ho has endeavored to avoid responsi
bility for the part he has bad in bring
ing business desj rezsion on Georgia
for his Instrumentality in forcing cap
ital but of the state and keeping It
out. Of course be denies responsibility’,
would expect him to avow It.
Francis street in this city, should be
read by every one here. Mr. Demp
ster has known Hen. Jos. M. Brown
for thirty year* and favors him for
Governor because he believes be has
no peer in the state.
Mr. Dempster’s letter Is as fellows
j Editors Herald:
Permit me some little space In your
paper to reply to some of the animad
versions maje\by ouf Governcr In hit-
speech at the opera house last week.
It is a well known fact that all men
love truth. It is also a fact that all
Mr. Editor, If there is one thin*
that mankind loves, It Is fair play.
A brave man Is rarely (If ever) vitu
perative in speech; is justly generous
to an opponent, no matter who or
what be may be. Yet In hl^ anxiety
to vindicate ills own position Govern
or Smith did not hesitate to Invada
the family, taxing his opponent with
Having failed in every ruing he^ever
undertook, privately as well as pub
licly; that as a family man be was
a failure; as a Railroad Commission
er he was a visionary, seeing Tilings
r»n amendment to the law by leglsln- But when we remember the threats
tive enactment. j about reducing freight earnings by
When this was charged to him later j millions of dollars a year, the claim
he changed front and denied that he j that five per cent, a year was enough
meant t.ils. When the proof was J to allow railroads to earn, the conten*
brought out that he had said this he j tlcn that two cents a mile was ade-
fluked by the claim that he meant t:iat quate for the transportation of pass-
it would be n good thing outside orjengers, the sympathy shown to Am-
Ceorjia where prohibition did not ex-jbama In its contention that corpora-
1st. i tlons tad no right to redress through
men do not practice truth, neither In j that were not and failing to wear a
speech nor action. Some men pos-j Smith pair of glasses, ho could not
sens the ability to gloss over and with'see things as he did.
an art which can only be acquired by) "^Ir. Editor, why in the name ot
long study and careful practice, be-! coni:.*on sense did not **Ir. Smith
come so proficient In that sophistry: come cut and say that he kicked him
that It la hard for an ordinary man out, ate', beer.vs? he v;a« ; cr"?.
to determine when a statrms:l*. is cr that ho nr,' a failure, tut p
offense of an action; whether the]shod, riprearlnj. methods against
truth is being tarnished, throttled or! roads, corporations, public utiili: .
strangled, or being spoken ns an an-! etc., proposed by Mr. Sc::t.i anu v •
adulterated truth. i adherents.
Unfortunately for Hr. Smith it has! Mr. Editor, the writer has watched
only been but a few short months! the career of Mr. Smith. He has
since he with the blare of trumpets,! also watched the career of Utile Jce
the tinkllng^of cymbals anj the so-! Drown. Tlle first—spectacular,
phlstlcal arguments of an educated
politician, stumped the stale premis
ing all things to all men; that while
we were enjoying great proseprlty,
yet if we could but join under his
banner we would land in a perfect
Utopia, a land that would put a lotus
eater out of business altogether.
Gentlemen of Georgia, he came
mighty near to doing it, but it has
not proved an Utopia, If one may be
permitted to Judge from the number
the iluie-llght of public opin
ion. Tbo second—retiring, modest;
rarely speaking or writing until he
has fully mastered the matter to be
dealt'n with.
The writer knew Br. Brown as a
young man, thirty years ago, working
in the offices of the Western & Atlan
tic Railroad. He has seen him ad
vance step by step, not so much be
cause be was the son of ills father,
but more because he possessed in no
Now he announces that he will si^n
an;, bill that is pas-ed by the "friends
of prohibition.’’
It-, uhould Ttwe adled "T l den’t
chsagtf my n*!r«l again.”
J.tfs look at hi; :cccr l on the* iv.mi-
;;vtka ru'-stiLn, snd u.-e what a beau-
,tho federal courts, and other acts cal
culated to drive every loose dollar out
of the state, cue Is forced to fear that
dentals are as much out of place
with retard to prohibition and immi
gration.
Surely w e need a change In Georgia,
^ ^ •Goor-la, from Quitman to Savannah.
Mr. Mostly, of Marietta, lu hit card'He say's. Brown’s election is assured
the other day knowing the unfitness jf this sentiment keeps up until tne
of .Joe Brown for governor, closed to? j e>ctlon." and Mr. Lewis added, "the
sayli’.i that .Mr. Brown is "a K°o<i | s*at!:uent will probably keep up as
Greek scholar." Any man that can j long a* the financial depression lasts,
master tho Greek verb is able to dojaud this will surely last until then."
aimost* any thing.—Dublin Times. i --Macon Telegraph
* ! ' > >
The Tlftou Gazette says: ‘\Ui.
Brown's platform, on which he makes f
the race for governor, Is a good one;
too good, wo fear, for a man to bo
elected gvernor of Georgia on. The
average voter prefers more froth and
Au interesting story is being told In
j Atlanta by one of the crew that ran
j the traty which carried Governor
j Hoke Smith to Gainesville for his
j meeting a few days ago. He states
But maybe ho got cnoujii of Chat
i year* ago to last a while and io
ituaUlug uteri solid this time.
As we have said, Gov. Smith <thl uol
bring on these hard times, though
many ur his critic.* conjcnd that he
took a prominent part lu contributing
to tne troubles. Bat he will be made
to suhVr for the ’••a that have aflJctcd
the pcvplo of Georgia, mid he will nat
have time between now and Ju»e 4
convince a groat many people wnu
:»r e set In their ways that uo aud hlu
policies have not brought them to their
fcuu 4ondltlons.—Doubllu Times.
Welter Wellman, Washington car-
ro-dku' ui for tho Chlcayo Record-
Kcra d, say* that at a private gather
ing recently \lr. Roosevelt salil: Con*
sldt r >\ from tho standpoint of purely
intellectual equipment Ellhn Root I?
undoubtedly the greatest tana wc
have in public life today. But for all
round strength, for ability to arm
witfr men as well as with question*,
os. a worker and result getter, WiY
am if. Taft la thc’^itgcest going con-
*r:i la tag country."—Bryta'i Corn-
cuer.
that there were forty-two voters In the
c:aches. A drummer noticing: that
the governor was getting very -little
notice from the traveler* mustered
kU courage and took poll. Out
of forty-two, thirty-seven expressed
themselves ns Intending to vote for
Joe" Brown, white five were non-
mlttnl. The trainman neglected to
state wbetSfbr or not the governor
hud Ralph Smith wqre included In
too poll.
fr—...
Years ago girls made quilts,
remefiiber hearing them talk about
how many quilts ibey dad. The
“pine patch,** the "log cabin," the ”T'
quilt and many other patterns. Thus
they learned to sew. bad a great num
ber of quilts which are accessary in
oold nights, ^nd enjoyed the making
*T ihetu. 'Ve fear wo a. the lasers
by the passing of this* good old way.
Now there is more talk of teas, par
ties and some kind of work which
take* tbo young women out of the
homi end out of the home-making
business. Write us down as an old
foiry. If yen will, but be sure to put
us down in favor of the woman who is
home-maker and
Chlpley Banner.
\
u-tion in South Georgia
to the
utii the.
ITf‘2 RE3ULT Cr THE PRIM ARY, and tho result was teat h i was defeat-
, IN EMANL'SL. | ed mere than dcuble.
] i "J. C. Jones, who does business at
Met ter. made the statement Sunday
that that section was practically un-
fanimotig for Brown.
~ ■ iW *- ! . "The writer spent Sunday night at
‘Goveruor Smith seems to nave lost. p^j ag j.j aa ,j t ». e same condition pre-
his hold cn the voters. Even Dia j Vailed
most ardent supporters here are mak
ing no big extraordinary claims for
him. Most of ijiem frankly admix
unt Bipw n will have a walk over , u | Bfo " D rco '‘ “ ri; Criep county
•Bul’ocU two to one.—Cordele Rambler.
"As far as we have been able to ;
learn the same ccnditlcn 'oxlats, . Taking the vote on trains nnd In
throughout South Georgia, A gch*i group* Is now’ the fad again, and it
tleman from Tatnall made the state- • 8 et»ms that Brown predominates,
meat yesterday that Brown would,
beat Smith among the men who sup
ported Smith two years ago, to say
nothing of the men who voted“against
.Mr. South who oro nactlfifliy tU iSBKV. cmiatsn. It la Mid that Joe
agalflbt him now.
“A travelin? man who was In to
Saturday stated raat the day Brow
Politics begin to get lively; the Joe
of men who are working on short! small measure much of the ability
time, the number of men who ‘have! and acumen that made that father
not, nor can get work to do, the num-j ;iie peer of any man in the state,
her of women and children in thej either as Governor or the head of the
state w'ho are not yet In Utopia, neith- best managed railroad within this cr
cr the land of the lotus eater, but! any other state at that time, until
are actually in a new’ state—not the now h e stands, by heredity, by train-
state of Georgia, gentlemen, but in ing, by application, by complete
a state bordering on inanition. j knowledge of ihe conditions by which
Yet, Mr. Editor, tills mar., this great! we arc confronted, preeminently forth
reformer, this would-be railroad reg-j as the one man best equipped to deal
ulator. tills sympathizer with the poor! with the question, or rather questions,
working man, who would never rerusoj that confront us.
to prosecute a railroad In the inter-! Remember, Mr. Editor, this in-
eat of a distressed widow or a maimed J eludes Mr. Smith’s port of entry hob-
man, PROVIDED he got half of what j by horse, and several other things,
was awarded, tells us in that speei I The writer knows where Mr. Brown
that there are no hard times, tk j stands when he commit* 'himself, but
his actions as Governor will bear fine, the Old Nick himself would find It
fruit that will far surpass that which! hard to tell where Mr. Smith stands,
grew in the garden of Hesperus. committed or non-commltted.
Mr. Editor, the prayer of the writer j \V. E. DEMPSTER.
Ralph Smith
• Washington to
ia^ come back from
vrlte up Governor
j Brown's
alarmin;
candidacy has developed
strength Marietta Journal.
If “Little Joe" is such a joke, what’s
the use cf reorganizing tne Fulton
Count} - Hoke -Smith Club?—Macou
County Citizen.
announcement and platform appeared
he was on a Seaboard Air Lino pas
senger train, and when the train was
polled cut of thirty seven voters
thirty-fire of then! were fer Brown,
or anybody against lioke Smith. The
man stated taat a poll was made the
same day m front of tA^-posrofflce atj -
Lyons nnd out c? sixteen men present * Jliq Cordele Rambler :■? of the op-
fifteen expressed themselves forlinlcn that the new mode cf nornlna-
Brown. j tlon iu Georgia will work to the help
"The result in Emanuel cauntv in) of Brown.—Augusta Chronicle,
the primary held last Wednesday | — -
Tho Atlanta Journal Is not "polling'
so many trains as it aster.
shops that ^tjse pendulum has swulgj
ITS A BROWN WHIRLWIND SAYS
JUDGE TV/IGGS.
Savannah Press.
•Little Joe Brown will be the next
governor of Georgia a3 sure as the
Democratic primary is held cn t!v^ -ith
Jay of Jurfe," said Judge H. D. D.
Twiggy this morning.
Judge Twiggs has jus: returned
from a visit through different sections
cf the state and he basis hl3 opinion
vpen hla talks with the people he met
while on tho trip.
"I have been in Dcdre, Wilcox, Tel
fair *aad other counties In that sec
tion myself," said _the Judge this
morning, "and I have seen people from
all sections of Lie state and they tell
me the Brown sentiment Is sweeping
everything before u. I know In the
sections I have visited it Is very hard
to Ibid a Hoke Smith supporter.
There seems to have been a complete
.reversal of public opinion with the
past two years, ir may have been
because^ the people do not think
edves from Macon are that there are
few Hoke Smith men to be found
there.
"Tom Watson will do him as much
harm by his opposition this year as he
did him geed through hla support in
1906.” he says. “There are 20.000 fora:-
er Populists in Georgia who will vote
as Tom Watscn says,' and Watson
ill never again lend a hand to aid
eke Smith politically or otherwise. 1
have this from two sources that can
not be wrong
"Charley Northen, the secretary of
the senate, was In Savannah cn Sat
urday, nnd he told me the Atlanta
sentiment is overwhelmingly for
Brown, if th e cities are for Brown
and the country is as strong for him
n Northern Fccrgla as l have found It
m South Georgia, he has every reason
to believe that he will h* elected.
It is said that for every 50 foreign
laborers arriving In this country, 14 f
are leaving ft. To. have nearly t!I?ee
Brown was given the proper treatment j emigrants to one immigrant Is sorae-
when fee was displaced and Intended
to give him a’ sympathetic vote, but
my belief is that it is a protest against
what the people look upon as the in;
sincerity of Hoke^mith. He seems to
have endeavored to attach himself to
every popular movement, even If it
They Cali Jo*? Brown "Little Joe.’’
to the other'sIde up there. Two years^They call Alex Stephens "little Alex?
ago Emanuel went for Smith byVsix; Brains are not always inHhe posses-
hundred majority. Tao issue waa’slon of big heads and fat.bodies. JoeTrequired a complete change In'the at-
ede in the representative’s race las: j Brown Is a match for Hoke Smlta’ tltude to do so."
Wednesday. Editor Tyson was ajany day tji an argument. Georgia! Judge Twiggs thinks there is little
home-keeper.— * staunch, Frofclhltlcr.ls: and supporter• dues not need an crator for governor | doubt of Chatham county going for
cf Hoke Sml^i ar.d made It an iiiue! — Moultrie JdfxrsaL
thing new in our experience. It indi
cates hard times. Nothing like I: ever
happened while the Democrats were
in rower.—Ex.
Thinks it Wan Hat Shot.
Joe Brown's announcement for gov
ernor may not have set the woods on
fire, but it is creating some commotlin
In the wlrcgrass.—Savannah Press,
l Prsr ** e £r - c r ferest fire, It was a
Brown, and'fca says the reports h e fe- hot *hot.—Columbus Enquirer.