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THE WAYCROSS WEEKLY HERALD THE WEEKLY HERALD A. P. PSRHAM A SON. Editors And Publishers. •’Entered at tie Post Office at Way* tros*. 3a., as second class matter." ■£he Evening Herald la published #ttry evening except Sunday. The Ytvrtily Herald every Saturday. All Subscription? ar*s payable in Advertising rates reasonable and Mde Known on application. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION*: tally. One Year .,,...15.00 ally. Six Months $2 50 Dally. Three Months $1.25 Weekly, One Year 50 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.