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z ft 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. + They asked who Little Joe was i they evidently found out. Hoko Smith continue* to thresh over he old straw. There is nothing In RATES OF .SUBSCRIPTION: Dally, One Year 15.00 .Ally. Six Months $2.501 Pally, Three Months $1.25 Weekly, One Year 50 Hon. Wm. M. Toomer of Jacksonville delivered an eloquent address at Co lumbus on Memorial day. +—-— From the Thomasvllle Times. Give us Brown bread every time. We’ve had enough of the Hokeacbe. * Mr. Brantley has secured free De livery for Quitman. Quitman is en- entitled to many things she hasn't got. * 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. + 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. — 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. * 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. r ~ 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. * 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. — - -- --- “ . The duty of the general assembly is 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 Til Jo ft.: dws: 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. * A man’s Jcb often tlm?s makes him change his views. Witness tho posi tion cf the Atlanta Journal "now and then." —+ 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