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THE WAYCROSS WEEKLY HERALD
THE WEEKLY HERALD
A. P. PSRHAM 4 SON.-
Editor* And Publiahdr*.
•Entered at tile Poet Offlce at Waj-
croak, Ga., aa aecond class matter.”
The Erasing Herald Is pobllabed
erery erasing except Sunday. The
Weekly Herald story Saturday.
AD Subscriptions are payable In
adranoe.
Advertising rates reasonable and
piade snows on application.
Speeches and loud talking do not
till empty stomachs.
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They asked who Little Joe was i
they evidently found out.
Hoko Smith continue* to thresh over
he old straw. There is nothing In
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Hon. Wm. M. Toomer of Jacksonville
delivered an eloquent address at Co
lumbus on Memorial day.
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From the Thomasvllle Times.
Give us Brown bread every time.
We’ve had enough of the Hokeacbe.
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Mr. Brantley has secured free De
livery for Quitman. Quitman is en-
entitled to many things she hasn't got.
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The governor is making lots of
strenous speeches but he is waiting
his sweetness on the desert air.
votes vs. eloquence.
---41 INCONSISTENCY OF IKE IMA JOUBHL
WAYCROS8, GA., MAY 2 1008
Tne Free Press reports that the
town of Quitman Is largely In favor of
Brown for governor.
Nino 'tenths of tne straw ballots all
over the state give Joe Brown large
majorities over Smith.
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From the Thomasvllle Times.
Goodby lloke, some hate to see you
go, but thank goodness they are get
ting smaller and smaller every day.
iT ..Ident has again appointed
Harry Stilwell Edwards to be postmast
er at Macon.
Don't get mad now boys, Just amuse
yourself thinking about the quantity
of crow you made some of us eat
year ago. Turn about is fair play.
The campaign is not so much Hoke
s. Joe. It is the good times we were
having when Governor Smith was elec
ted against the bad times we have nad
for the past seven or eight months.
From the Grinin No
Ev
moon eyed mule would be
Tne last stay of the administration j able to observe tne trend of things i«>-
ls the farmer vote ami hero Is whore ( utical In the gubernatorial race, uud
it has another shock coming to It.
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l.lttlo Tom Hardwick Is coming
home to help Hoke, wonder If we will
b « compelled to buck little Tom Wat
son against him. i
that is not favorbale to the present
btato administration.—Home Tribune.
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Men of all classes, professions and
vocations who scrambled over their
friends and neighbors to get on tho
— j Hoko Smith reform band wagon two
It is said thut the Atlanta Journal ■ years, are now rampant reactionaries,
printH only about one In five of tne j lining up in support of an opposition
polls it receives. The others are too j candidate. "Such Is politics.”—Albany
Brown for It. I Herald
Tlic Atlanta Constitution says It Is Governor Smith Is railing upon the
uoutral In tho gubernatorial fight list j riomocrats to stick together an'! save
it Is our opinion thut at least two ot j aim. Two yearn ago ho never men-
the big Atlanta papers favor little i tioned the word democrat in his
J° c ’ i ; speeches. It was always “me and the
v people" meaning mots] ytbo Populists.
Tho Macon Telegraph calls utter.-j—Griffin Nows,
lion to the fact that the Atlanta Jour-) — ——1
nul seated 3,00ft voters in the 1,300 j It would not not surprise us to hear
chairs in the Mu ecu auditorium where | thut all .of tne members of that $35,-
Governor Smith spoke, leaving sever-1 000 railroad commission w ho have
nl hundred wt
accotimed for.
and ehildrei
The Gazette says that a Tlfton gen
tleman 'who is taking a good deal of
Interest In the Governors race, u
a calculation from the Atlanta papers
Saturday, of the votes that they si
ed for the opposing candidates for Gov
ernor. Taking the Georgian, Consti
tution aud Journal, he figured thut
they nhowed a total or 2,981 straw
ballot.-? for Brown amt 935 for^mlth.
dene nothing for the people to be out
on the stump and save Hoke. Hoke
Smith la undoubtedly the most fright
ened man in four hundred states.
Reports received at the Brown head-
- quarters In Atlanta show that never
111 the political history of the state
has there been so much voluntary or
ganisation drulng a campaign. County
club» have been formed by the Brown
supporters in a large majority of the
•counties. Every city has a substan
tial club of supporters, and more than
60 towns have organizations. Most
of them were formed without special
offort from central headquarters here.
They sprang up, almost by spontaneous
acclaim.
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~ The following Is the closing pafa-
grupii In a finely written editorial
which appeared In the Valdosta Times
of yesterday:
The election of Joseph M. Brown
would give assurance to •foreign” In
vestors that their money Is wanted In
Georgia. It would tusplre confidence
home, as well as abroad. It would
like breaking the shackles that bind
the prisoner or opening the door up
on a caged bird. It would show that
tho people of Georgia are tired of tb*
•'AUTOCRACY OF ORATORY” and
are ready to turn their faces toward
tho "DEMOCRACY OF DEEDS.”
This Is the Issue clearly defined.
Mr. Smith tries to get away from It
»ut he cannot do so. The people will
old him to tL 1
Did Shakespeare have Hoke Smith,
Dick Gray anti t'ne press agent in
mind when In Hamlet he said: "He
waxes desperate with Imagination?”—
Columbus Sun.
No imagination about it. It is the j
real thing that worries Hoke.
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The report comes from Atlanta that
the Governor's campaign managers
are going to organize an army of spell
binders, made up of the beneficiaries
of the appointing power, and send
them out into every militia district
to make a rasa campaign during the
last month before the primary.
What dees all this mean? Han the
“joke" exploded, and has the explo
sion created consternation and a
panic- Verily, It seems so.
But you wait. The people are not
putting much store in oratory this
year. They want prosperity more than
oratory. They want the things that
go Into the mouth more than the vapor
chat comes cut of the mouth. The
full dinner pail is of far more con
sequence, of greater real eloquence
than the sound of empty brass, or
of the tinkle of many cymbals.
Tnu Governor may add to Ills own I
eloquence that of a hundred young j
lawyers, (If he can secure that many) j
aud they inay preach until “doom’s j
day” io a hungry man. but they cannot {
convince him that he is not hungry.
A defender of the present order of
things was talking to a few people
on a corner, the other day, when he
went so far as to say that there was
danger that the railroads would “put
shackles on the people.” A working
man. standing near, remarked that
he had been out of a job for three
months, “and If you were In my fix
you would rather work with shackles
on than not work at all.
The young spellbinders In their
patent leather shoes—fat on tho feed
from the governor's dispensing hand,
the people’s table—may pipe thoir
pretty voices and shake their fluted
locks at every fanner and working
man In the land, but they cannot con
vince the farmer that cotton Is selling
at 15 cents a pound, or that It will as
long as a large percetn of the cotton
mills are shut down anl others run
ning on short time; nor that the work-
lug man Is prosperous who Is out of
a job cr working on short time.
Let them go forth. Let the army
of the Government employed face the
army of the unemployed, and put elo-
quenco agalnrt votes, and watch foi
results,! -Macon Telegraph.
ta Journal now claims to be the "dad- controlling issues finally evolved.
Prohibition was not among them.
dy” of prohibition In Feorgla and balls
Governor Smith as the High Priest
of Temperance, we call the attention
of our readers to the following strong
and well written editorial which ap
peared In that paper, li was publish
ed while the prohibition question was
being discussed by the General As-
commencement of its
last session. At that time, less than
ten months ago, Governor 8mlth was
fighting prohibition and he undoubted
ly approved and probably dictated
the article walch we publish below.
Gentle reader; If heretofore you
j have doubted the inconsistencies, the
I duplicity, the bypocracy of the Journal
and Mr. Smith in regard to prohlbl-
! tlon, read the following article and
you will be convinced.
The editorial shows how the Jour
nal and the Governor stood on the
prohibition question only a few
months ago, and
In view of the fact that the Atlan-»importance were discussed and the are men who are entitled to be heard.
They differ from the most ardent ad
vocates of prohibition only as the wis
est and safest aud surest means of at-
cctnpUshlng the end in view. They
are men who loathe lntemperaance
and would do anything In their power
to wipe It out forever. It Is because
they deplore intemperance that they
wish to see a law adopted Walch will
really accomplish that purpose, In
stead of seeing the state led away into
the perilous paths which hare already
been tried and found unsatisfactory,
futile, a very encouragement to tbo
evil they condemn.
No fair w inded man can say, or in
his heart of hearts believe, that the
journal has ever championed any
cause which it did not honestly and
earnestly feel to be for the best in
terest ot the state, and In voicing this
protest we spesa the sentlmens of
thousands of good men and true who
behove with us.
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lature and anything more is beycn^ doar Jtg Vu?/e has been laid down
tne mandate ot the people. It Is un- nemoeratlc party in lta state
The declaration of the Macon platform
was clear and explicit. It demanded
the strictest enforcement of the local
option laws, so that prohibition in
such counties as have voted for it in
dividually would be prohibitive in let
ter and In spirit
It is the duty of this legislature to
carry out that plank of the Demo
cratic platform. Indeed, public sen
timent in the state was never more
vigorously aroused in the Interest of a
strict enforcement of local option laws.
It Is the common desire that a very
Chinese wall of prohibition should be
built around those counties which have
adopted local optiou: that additional
regulations should be passed making It
physically Impossible to import liquor
Into the dry counties, and that the op
eration of the nefarious blind tiger
should be made a felony.
This is the clear duty of the legis-
falr to the people at large and it is
unfair to the urban counties of the
state to attempt the present movement
Local option Is the very essence of
Democracy. Under this plan of self-
government it rests with every coun
ty In the state to say whether It shall
jhave prohibition or not. It Is wrong
not willing i tn tl;eor >’ an( * practice for the individ
ual counties to go further and say
to concede that their information and I w hat shall he the rcgulaton3 in other
' counties ar.d particularly in these
:s!mi kae betjn co s;
rfuliy accomplished.
Jedlly
by the Democratic party In Its state
ention. Prohibition In those
counties which have adopted It under
local option laws must be so buttress-
lud entrenched that the sale or
of liquor for a beverage in those
counties will be absolutely impossi-
No quarter must be shown tho
meH who would evade the laws and
nullify the wishes of the people. This
has never been done before. Local
optic n lz never been fairly tried in
'—eie. 7bn — 1 tho
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QUESTION AND ANSWERS.
'he Atlanta Georgian, whic
on a neutral position in th
After the most earnest and sincere
deliberation, taking into consideration
every aspect ar.d hearing of the ques
tion. we have arrived at the conculs-
itn that it is tho* solemn duty cf this
paper to enter Its protest against the
present movement to adopt state pro
hibition In the State of Georgia.
We are aware of the passion am\
prejudice which are ordinarily engen
dered by the discussion of this ques
tion, and in recalling it we deplore it,
for this Is essentially an issue which
must be discussed In tho light of so
ber reason and experience.
But we believe that the highest in
terests of tho state, and the dictates of
true patriotism demand that we set
our faces against a movement which
menaces tho welfare of our people
and Is calculated io defeat the end
which Its well-meaning advocates have
In view. We feel that we would be re
We feel that we would bo recreant to
creant to the people of Atlanta and the
people of Georgia as a whole If we
did not voice a protest which hangs
upon (he lips of thousands of good
men and true meir, high in their raor-
nlity, unimpeachable In their integri
ty and supremely devoted to the wel
fare of the state.
In the first place, there has been
no mandate from the people for this
legislation. In the long campaign of
last summer many momentous issues
were discussed. It was perhaps th*
greatest educational campaign
population are located. This farcical regime must u.... .
Those who oppose State prohibition C01nni0n carriers must be require 1 *.'
speak from experience when they say | Kll0w Uie ,. iature 0 f the content ; -l
that it is not the best mennB of check- shipment** ar are made in ;. •
ins the evil of Intemperance la the counties and If thr.v consist of
mere populous centers. | j ca ting beverages tkey must be keid
Atlanta ha s tried it. She tried it i up 0 r confiscated. The Keeper cf .;
faithfully and well, with an over- 51Im j tircr J3UCi t c declared a felon,
whelming public sentiment behind it. an( j should be visited with tue
The hit tory of that experiment was one I utmost severity of the law.
long series of humiliating failures. Not J \y e believe that this will be effect-
only did It mark a distant deterioation i j ve> WO u!d be but simple justice
In our mental welfare, for we are fet-J[ 0 the dry counties and at t’ne same,
Ing such considerations entirely as-] t | nie it W ou!d preserve the autonomy
Ido, but it was a period of the great-, atll | the general welfare of the more
est demoralization Atlanta has ever ■ populous centers. It would remove
known, and the youth of the city was from th j s promising session of the
detmuc.ied to an infinately greater ‘le-1 gt . a eral assembly a cloud which is ov-
gree through contempt for law than. ershadowing it'in the very morning
under the strict regulations which now| of lts gre at work. It will clear the
prevail.
We refer to Atlanta only in passing
What was true of Atlanta has been
true of the other greater cities which
have tried it. and It would be true of
the other laree cities of the state under
state prohibition.
The advocates of prohibition must
net make the mistake of assuming for
moment that the protests against
t- eir measure comes from men who
are Identified with liquor Interests nr
are men of small stauding. It is not
the rum-sackers and selfish debauch
ees who are sounding the keynotes
of this protest. It Is the men, of sub
stance and standing, men of high Ideal
and genuine patriotism.who are warn
ing the general assembly against em
barking upon a course which it is
iionestlvv believed will be destructive
lipid iu the stale'. Matters of great of the best interests of the state. The,
for those vital reforms which lie
so near to tne hearts of the people
and for which they have waited with
a sickening sense of impotence these
many years. It will revitalize and
reunite the discordant elements which
already threaten tho highest efficien
cy of the most harinoniuos and Impor
tant general assembly which has met
In Georgia in a generation.
The civic conscience, tho whole
some sentiment, the manhood and in
telligence of the state In favor of
strengthening and enforcing the local
option laws In the dry counties. It
would not be only futile but disas
trous to throw away this moral sup
port 1. favor of the untimely measure
for state prohibition which now jeop-
rdlzes the best interests of the state
nd threatens the hlghes efficiency of
the legislature. . ,
has |
gub
ernatorial race iu Georgia this your, j
printed In Us Saturday's edition ,a A ' C ' L ' l '
lens list of questions from subscrlb-
which the paper answered. From
tho number we take tho following:
The Atlanta Georgian:
I take The Georgian and have been
praising It fur and near. I also read
rt’ r paper:? and I ask of ^ou an
explanation of how that nearly every
letter and clipping In your paper ap-
pearo, for Joe Brown, while you pro
fess to be impartial.
Yours truly,
A. S. JONES.
Wolsey, Gn., April 23.
To which the Atlanta Gceorglan re
plies: |
There Is a riddle: “Why do white
sheep eat n)ore than black one?” Be
cause there are so many more of them.
That is about the only answer to
.-our question. Some 75 per cent of
ANOTHER STRAW BALLOT.
A straw ballot was taken on an
assenger coach between Pill-
cock and Quitman, coming to Way-
cross last night. Result Brown 28
Smith 6.
A JOE BROWN PICNIC.
At the nnnual plat Is in Appling
county a few days since a straw bal
lot was taken which resulted as
lows: «Brown 163; Smith 3. We call
thai a Joe Brown picnic.
Ex-Congressman Ben E. Russell o»
Bninbrldge, spent lust uight in the
city en-route to Adel, where he de
livered the memorial address today.
Capt. Russell says Decatur county Is
whelmlr.gly for Brown.—Valdosta
Times.
If anybody knows about Decatur
county, Ben Russell does. He built P a P era of Georgia are reported to
It. against Mr. Smith's candidacy and
•£. J since we do not discriminate, but print
Querries of tho Hoke Smith papers 1 everything we can get for or against
have brought out 'Unwelcome replies ^ candidate, we can only say to
iu many Instances. The Tallapoosa we cannot regulate the
Journal answers an exchange which Noughts of tho people. "White sheep
asks: "Who Is behind Joe Brown?” j cat more LKan black ones becauso
by saying; "Up this way its tho poo-1 there aro 80 man r more of them.”
pie."—Ex. ...
Hoke is also behind Joe Brown —
long ways behind.
THE SONQ OF THE FIREMEN.
HOKE’S ORATION.
Thomasvllle Times.
A listener inclined to poetic thought
and feeling, hands the following In for
publication, a part of which we publish
to snow the extreme poetic ability and
versatility thus displayed:
Hoke’s Oration.
Friends, Countrymen, Thomasvlllians,
lend me your votes
I come to save tho state not to ruin
EXTRACTS FROM THE
MANUFACTURERS RECORD.
Tho following extracts are taken
from an article which appears In the
Atlanta Georgian. The article Is from ;
the pen of Richards H. Edmonds, the j
caption being: "Capital and the South" j
and is one of the bust which Mr. Ed
monds has given to the public. These
are the extracts:
Tne reason for this change is that
the South has not treated capital with
ntiro fairness. The wave of politi
cal hysterics which has swept over
the South has made the moneyed peo
ple of the world afraid to invest here,
and so we are not getting one third as
much of outside money as we need
for legitimate development and which
could readily command under wiser
and saner recognition of the right of
capital - to thorough protection.
dollars of loss to the South; it has
meant the impoverishment of thous
ands who are without employment,
while twelve montns ago there was
more work to be done than there were
workers to do it.
Tho South has more of natural re
sources to offer to capital than any
other region, but it will pioad in vain
for capital unless wo give to the wbrld
the assurance of as good protection as
can be found anyweher else on earth.
QUITMAN FOR BROWN.
The present financial and business
conditions and the recent decline in
The depredation that Joe threatens cotton have not been at all surprising
will always live, to me.
His whiskey has been run out by pro- Last summer I published a state-
hibltion. j mont to the effect that the anccorpora*
So let it b6 with Joo. tlon and anti-railroad legislation and
The Noble Joe hath told you that ho the effort to change ell trade conditions
was a prohibitionist
It Is not so, I am the man
And my record will show it so.
And I say he is a nuisance
We welcome the blast of the siren.
Aa it sounds through the still of th© i And 1 am an honorable man
night.
The Albany Herald, n Smith paper, .», * .
" Line the blast of the bugle to Ue sol-
a believe, calls attention to tho fact dieY, * ?
that the "Atlanta Journal is at lta old us 118 s *F na * to ®8bL
tricks garbling editorials from other I % *
„ ... _ . , Wc loveAo feel the pressure,
jmpors, cutting ont sentences and r> • Ag Int0 <ha raging fire
arranging them to suit tho Journal's , It sends the stream of water
_ j With a force we know will not tire,
purposes. A ccntemptiblo procedure J ,,
which Is not surprising. Tho Jour- j We love to buck tho nozzle, '
nil L .imply df.peratt- and de.parate j fo'low'to clSSa’tht 'toL,"
papers, like desperate men, sometimes ! For it Is the-fireman's pride.
Jo tsinsa t-iat nr, doaplacabto. Th. j It m „ tcn not IO muc - a who ., 0oT
lloralJ lays "It has lost all respect and ernor— I
. ! Our choice of conn. I. Joo Brown;
denco In th. Journal and Contt!-.; , c , o!hcr , l00k >ttcr elMtloII ,
n for such practlo..."—Amsrl.n. ; Wa must work for our Chief and our
rdt * —By j. II. J. Way cron. Oa.
based on years of experience which
was sweeping over the South would
not only affect every business Inter
est, but woui-i cost the cotton planters
of the South at least $100,000,000 on
So they are, all honorable men, who the crop of 1907-08. Taat prediction
vote for me. has already been fulfilled. It did not
But yesterday the tcot of new railroads' require any great mental ability or
might j any gift of prophecy to know that its
Have benefited the state, now they | fulfillment was inevitable,
will not come.
Quitman, Ga.. lApril 28.—Both the
Brown and Smith clubs have organi
zations and are hard at work. Ballot
boxes were placed In two prominent
drug stores yesterday. The proprietor
cf one of the places is a Smith man
and the other is for Brown. Tho re
sult of the poll showed 179 for Brown
and 31 for Smith.
Oaklahoma has prohibited the use
of Wooden Indians as cUar signs. That
may be all right ns far as it goes, but
what this country wants is a law that
will prohibit the use of cabbage,'old,
rope and excelsior as cigar * fillers,—
Ex.
'Loral, Buy your cigars from the
ycross Factory, and yon will get
■ight goods.
I mill do them wrong, I rather chooso
to wrong
Wo aro paying the Just penalty of
our own sins. As a people we heeded
Them, the state, and everything else I the teachings of false prophets, and,
can, and be elected. , like tuoso cf old. who^accepted the
Here Is MY command with MY seal of: teachings of the false prophets, who
approval. | claimed to be divinely inspired, but
I found it after "Sileat Contempt” j proved not to be, we have had to pay
Woilda’t work.
—A LISTENER.
the penalty. The penalty has been one
aggregating hundreds of millions of
If the present gubernatorial cam
paign has done nothing else, It has
made Hoke Smith n good pro. tem. pro*
hlbltlcnlsc.
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A man’s Jcb often tlm?s makes him
change his views. Witness tho posi
tion cf the Atlanta Journal "now and
then."
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The Atlanta Georgian is giving born
aides of the question, but IT tho whito
sheep cat more than tho black aheep, it
is becauso there aro more of them
and fet Georgian oaa’t help 1L
