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9 THE WEEKLY HERAID A. t. PERHAM * EON. Editors and Publishers. it the Po«t 0«ce at Way- i. Ca.. aa second claa matter." a Evening Herald la published r evening except Sunday. The Vastly Herald every Saturday. All subscriptions are payable In Advertising rate* reasonable and Hide known on application. KATES OF SUBSCRIPTION: DsPy. <*»» Tear 15-W DtQy. Six Montha f!M ft.Tr. Three Montha I1.2S Wet Ur, One Year SO WAYCROSb, GA„ MAY 1« 1908. Tea iafieed politics makfc strange bed follow*. We've soon it do It. *r Tli* Fulton County Joe Hros'n Cluo suv lift * "fake" Uui It makes the Kal ian county Hoke Smith Club Iook likd thirty cents. 4 from every corner of the county «hm the nows that Hon. Jos. M. Inti Is In the lead.—Illnckshear It Is said t/iat there was over eight lnndred thousand dollars Insurance on xhr property recently destroyed by Ire In Atlanta. Cast. Ben Mlllikcn Is a candidate for jeorcsentstlre from Wayne county. TIa Herald [s on Cspt. BenY'sIde and | we io not. doubt that no will be elect- Let it be PEACE, PLENTY mnd PROSPERITY, on Jane the 4th- That Is our motto. Bob Burner speaks at Folkston. We consider Mr. Smith one tally In Chari- tea county. .J. Be a politician if you so desire and hare sense enough, bat don't do it si the expense of your Christianity and (he loss of your Influence for good. The Constitution states that If It bad to come Atlanta has sustained her reputation for having the biggest lire known In the state for years. * Reliable reports from Chatham county give Mr. Smith not more than 1.000 out of 6.500. The balance go to Brown. -7 •b "Who Is the railroad commission today? It Is Hoke Smith?"—Ex. Well that’s a hard one on our old friend Obe Stevens. Quite a number of papers are sug gesting that the Anti-Saloon League of Georgia should have a house clean ing. 4. Reports from Decatur county, where Mr. Smith spoke last week are to the effect that the county will go three to one for Joe Brown. Let ’er roll. . An exchange says "the destiny of the Atlanta Journal is Involved in the Inman bankruptcy case." We thought the future of the Journal was bound up in Hoke Smiths nomination. 4 THE WAYCROSS WEEKLY HERALD Albert Cox uii Little Jot Bran !» the ‘tterld of Democracy." The agreeable oewe la sent out that Grover Cleveland Is etlU Improving. + The ••tbuee" this year Is for Joe Brown and It Is sweeping everything before It In nil parts of the state.— Valdosta Times. 4 Charley Motes says that the name was formerly Michael Hoke. If we were sufficiently Intimate with the governor we would call him Mike for short 4 Mormonlsm Is a living faith, accord- ing to the Atlanta Constitution which says: "When a real avaricious man ooka at be lady on the dollar he wants to be a Mormon." BROWN AND PROSPERITY. "I want to see the prosperity of the State restored. I want the man who is willing to work to find it accessible to bis band. I want the mllU and fac tories of Georgia to clamor again for laborers and artisans to fill orders that ever-iscreasingly multiply. "While, If elected. I shall insist upon the faiiNtnd just regulation of all public utility corporations. I want foreign and domestic capital treated alike, and placed upon a plane of per fect security and equality. "I want dlhdller, friendlier rela tionship between labor and capital: mutual acknowledgement of the rights 1 of each and the full recognition that I prosperity for one cannot exist when the Roosevelt conference of governors It's not right in Joe to do this. He ( should be satisfied In preventing the gi ver’-or from being elected again.— h v Herald. .. , * ., y „ .1 adversity beclouds the other. Now Ii it true tnat Joe Brown is _ ... , i "Let us on June 4th serve notice on preventing Gov. Smith from attending j rhg» RnncPVPlt rnnforon™ n f tfnvomnrn' 9 * l *10Se WhoTfcJfle With the people for I selfish purpose of their own political advancement, that their reign in Geor gia Is ended. i, *Ri! gentlemen running for the office of "Then le: us live quietly in peace, in j governor. Certainly not Mr. Smith, good will, honesty. God-fearing, and { Indeed, this is a serious blunder of dealing to all absolute and exact 1 tie garen to six. The governor swears that he never mid it was the happiest moment of Ms life when he signed the prohibi tion bill. It makes little difference with us. We pever thought the gov ernor was much of a prohibitionist anyway. " 4 • Dr. Len Broughton has sized up the recent endorsement of Hoke Smith by 4 snap meeting of League leaders, when be says "The League played the fool". Unless the action of the seven leaedra" la rcclnded, tho usefulness GEORGIA ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE. Barnesville, Ga., May 11.—John H. Blackburn, president of the Ant!-3a- loon League of Pike county, and one of the most highly esteemed and in fluential men In the county, has Issued the following statement In which he declares his Intention to withdraw from the Anti-Saloon League if it is its intention to go into politics. Mr. Blackburn says: "I nave been a lifelong prohibition ist, both by precept and example, to the letter, and I enter my protest with all the enrgy of my nature against indorsing Governor Smith for re-elec tion. "In fact, the Anti-Saloon League could not consistently indorse either candidate, after the interview of their ’representatives with the respective sttce. J ••£ thin:; I recall that at one time 1 "if my candidacy for the Governor- | fraudulent president was palmed off 01 * Joe Brown was traffic manager of Aw Western and Atlantic* railroad for SOcaw years, and Increased the reve- juts aa no other man before him. How msn-jr men hold n job that long with out a change? +—— After June 4th we'll all wash the war paint off our faces and then we can tell who la who. Aa the matter i«*r stands, you can scarce dlctin- jictti a purchaser from a comon mo: art In the fighting ranks. The governor says Joe Brown la afraid to show hlrasalf. Certainly the governor Is afraid not to show him- of the League will soon be over, and the strong arm of the prohibition cause be palsied. * Cat. Smith now says that the same practe who were behind the assas- aiuatWn of Goebel In Kentucky are m behind the movement In Georgia 10 stefMt him. Tile governor seems hard par to U for reasons.—Amerlcus Jadan Parker will head the New York delegation at Denver, tala aa!4 lo be the first time a defeated Candida to tor president has been a IdUili. but New York Democrats aiw to be congratulated on being so alb represented. 4 Worn of the trailer, of the Anti Saloon League of Oeorgla hare “done foot and done It." It I, the wont (stag* that could hare been done for tho inhibition cause In Oeorgla and -Aa a council blunder on the part of she partisans who turned the. trick.- Albur Herald. 4— Tfte Cobb county Joe Brown dub met ad the court boose on last Satnr- dfcr *fcht, and encouraging reports mb made. New clnbe had been or* Xjulrtd and an additional membership et SCO names added. The member* MKfr wOl new amount -to about 1600 ft ft expected the membership will auaeft 1,000 In the county.—Marietta Governor Smith baa written Preel* Gat WmmrtU that be wlU not be sAft Id attend the conference of gov* mmAft Washington May 16. U and Sfeibth the campaign la the tut* and he has named Asa a Candler, of Hfth, Pleasant A. Stovall editor eg fte Bmaaah Preen, aid Charles ft. Rnrreft. president of the National 1 ft this Important esafemnm self. So it's six of one and a half dozen of the other. *1 Evelyn la sueing Harry because she alcgcs he i« crazy, yet she la willing to testify in the habeas corpus proceed ings that he la not. Evelyn touches that sanity proposition about like Hoke touches immigration—It Is alto gether owing to the audience. ' ~ •!« A dispatch from Washington says: Mr. Brantley, of Georgia, la the rank ing democrat on the committee on public buildings and grounds.. It Is understood that Georgia has fared very well, but no exact Information will be given out until the bill Is reported. This will probably be some time next week. f Tho following resolution was recent ly pased by the Joe Brown Club of Lowndes County. ^ Be It resolved, That in our opinion the issue before us la one of prosperi ty only and that the nomination and election of Hon. Joseph M. Brown la absolutely esieotlal to an early and complete restoration of prosperity and business prosperity In Georgia, and to the early re-employment of the thousands now Idle on account of de posed conditions existing In all lines of trade, and that our campaign will be waged on this issue only; and on this Issue ^je earnestly eoliclt your votes. Total registration figures Satyfdky afternoon show that of the estimated 5,500 voters who it has been expected would register, 6,119 have already been given certificates. Of this num ber 4,651 are white, 568 colored. Chat ham county Is expecting to give Joe Brown a majority ft at least 2,000 votes fer Governor.—News. s-ij> contributes to this end I wili hava abundant reusen to i:ian'.t GjU I have been aa humble liutrurdefP; in the much-needed work of the restora tion to the state of peace, plenty and rrosperity."-Joseph M. Brown. An order waj Issued by the railroad commission Saturday, declining to grant the petition of the Central of Georgia railroad for permission to dis continue two suburban trains between j Jemon8 tratlng that it was 2,000,000 ONION NEWS SPEAKS 00T From the Lawrencevllle News. Tha full editorial page of hte Farm ers* Union News Is devoted to Hoke Smith's deceptive attitude on the im migration question, and the secret or- passes ti retfok der Issued by the railroad commission authorizing railroads to issue free pas ses to immigrant agents, and the re ply of President Duckworth to Chair man .McLendon’s effort to defend 1l Duckworth understands Hoke Smith better than the average voter and keeps hot on his trail. Last fall, while the union was trying to hold up the price of cotton, by ;hls nation by the arbitrary vote of ‘se.en to six.' Well, gentlemen, your ittie scheme to boost 'your favorite la uii losing ‘race* is entirely too flimsy and will not work. There Is not I a selfrespecting prohibitionist in Geecfyla who will take your medicine, but. ou the contrary, will bind every latent force at bis command to down this effort to make a political tool of the Anti-Saloon League of Georgia. "This crowning effort which has made possible the glorious achieve ment of stats prohibition in Georgia has been waged for more than a de cade. I enlisted under this white banner to fight for this God-given cause more than thirty years ago, hence I feel that I have a right to be heard; and now*, after this long- ought- for end has been accompllsa- ed. select a man as standardbearet humble Instruments In Hia hand to save our fellow man from an awful end. 1 am forced to My that Hoke Smith la a “sweet blossom' to don the white robe of prohibition. “In the name of erery prohibitionist every member of the Anti-Saloon Lea gue of hia ataie. what baa Ur. Smith done to merit the use of tbla Btalnleea robe? “Why he advocated the sale of whiskey In hia own city—was part owner ot the Piedmont bar, by way ot parenthesis, I ask the question. Is Mr. Smith anly the lean guilty than the keeper of a bar in a dive on De catur street, because he had-the means to have the 'other fellow’ to do his work (at the bar) by proxy. Nay, hia Is Just as guilty and more, for he took the sacred obligation at God's altar to shun the very approach of evil, while the other ntay no! have hod a got!!/ portals of heaven weep on aceci,.. f such hypocrisy, while the satellit. - . : his sotanic majesty dance for jcy at the prosperity of his itingdo.':: cu God's 'footstool.' Oil, ocnsistency, thou are a j rel This is not my medicine; I am only protesting against having my nose neld anil receiving It because seven to six said so. “Please turn the other leaf In simple Justice. Mr. Joseph if. Brown has voted the prohibition ticket for twenty year* given his time money and influence to make prohibition possible in Georgia. His pastor, Dr. While, says that he la a modest, earnest and unostentatious Christian. Consistent with his church obligations, he refused to rent hia property for saloon purpses. Now, aa to Mr. Brown's promises, he stated clearly and unequivocally that he was unalterably opposed to the saloons, who has given the best effort of his 1 That he would not permit, At In bis life, time, money and ability to fOBter | power, any emasculation ot the pro- aml maintain the sale of whiskey Inlhlbltlon law in Georgia, this grand old commonwealth of ours, I “In the name ot the Antf-3aloon is «olug quite too far. ' League, what more do you want? The campaign in Georgia tala year it not tor Joe Brown against Hoke Smith so much a> It I, a fight for regi on and conaervatlam In dealing with the lnveatora of money. Do we en dorse Hoke Smith', war on “foreign capital ". If we do, wo may as well make up onr mlnda to peg along a few more year, without It. Do we want -foreign capital" to come’amoag us? Do we want lower rate* of Interest and better opportunltlee of making a living—higher prices for tho fanner and better wage, for tho artiilan and mechanic? The election of Joaeph M. Brawn will ho tha algnal 'that Oeorgla wanta outside .money' to come hero for in- vestment and that Georgians will throw safe guards around legitimate Industrie*. ’ SnCa an entrance would restore condition!'ll they wan a year ago—or before Hoke Smith's dtsas- irons propegrand vat eet la motion In J* sum It la BltOWlt. BREAD and against HQKK AND BARXhWIXKS. *%at Is in thin Is Ss R. Osstssjun Atlanta and Jonesboro. It was claim ed that the trains are operated st a heavy loss. Several patrons protested against the discontinuance. So the trains must run It they loose money. .]■ If Mr. Brown Is elected governor It Is said, he will appoint Charlie Pen- :>lon “secretary of war."—Savannah Pres*. , There tro few positions In the state or under the Federal Government, for that matter, that Charley Pendleton couldn't All with honor to himself tad profit to the people. 4. Let everybody keep cool during this very heited gubernatorial contest. Per sonal friendship are worth more than nil the politics In tbs world. We ought to be able to advocate either candidate for governor without letting a differ ence of our frlensbip. Remember, the other fellow baa the^Very same rights M you have. Let us all set like men and be men.—Jetup SentineL * —Aaony. JOE BROWS MISTAKES. The nation and the state ot Geor gia are Indebted to the Hon. William The Capitol doeen’t need me ta O. Brantley of the Elerenth Congress- as It used to. lonol District for bis couragsons light before the Judiciary committee of the boos* for-the preservation of onr forests. Ur. Brantley ie a broadguxge man, and some day that big Webster- laa head of hta win lead him to the tailed Btates senate.—Rom* Tribune jsnld, 4 bales short, just as It turned out to bo Hoke Smith gave out an Interview to pome cotton speculators, la which he said that Georgia would make the big gest cotton crop In her history, £ud that It would reach 2.000.000 bales. This was telegraphed to every cotton exchante In the world, an ddld much to help the bears keep down the pries ot cotton. Duckworth again lit Into him like a duck on a June bug, and, as usual, Hoke undertook to explain, but could't make a ratlatactory showing. Keep up your good work, Ur. Duck worth. The people are at>our back and will put down every man who fights the farmers' interest, directly, indirectly, openly or secretly. DON'T KNOW WHEN. “The dose Is simply nauseating. He (Mr. Smith) has declared all over Georgia that he was and ia a local op- tlonlst He aided in building a palace and in this pnlatlal home he equipped the most dazzling apartment to be uied for the sale of whiskey, Just what the Anti-Saloon League has been fight ing. How many mothers' hearts have “It seents last you hare a little per sonal desire to gratify, even at the loss of every organized effort t^e Anti- Saloon League has made. “The only thing that Mr. Smith has done relative to prohibition in Geor gia 1* that he signed the prohibition bill which 4ad passed both branches ot the legislature by a three-fourths been broken, how- many orphans made I majority, which made it a law la and happy homes destroyed, forsooth, | spite of Mr. Smith, that the coffers of Mr. Smith might) "Since signing this bill Mr. Smith be tilled to satiity hit Insatiate greed tjhaa advocated the drinking ot wine Still not enough, but In order to more \ and beer at our tables, and &• a would- successfully entrap the unsuspecting I be prohibitionist, conUnued the Pted- The UtUe Brown rooster said to the j Big Smith Hen. Haven't seen brou 'round the csplto! In I don’t know when. The Big 8m!th Hen Mid to the LltUe Brown Rooster, bad Tho Albany Herald, saent the attack ot the Atlanta Journal on the Geor gian, wall says:" It la neediest to say rich dirty politics ss this affair hat furnished wtU recoil upon Its per peas tors sod do the candidate In who** Interest K was attempted mors fact tt Hoke Imlth woald soppeeastha Atlanta Joans! ha weald b* a sOwat- The late 8enator Joseph H. Brown, father of “Little Jos,” said on on* oc tet '1 make mistakes—we all make mistakes occasionally—hat -I never make the same mistake a sec ond time." little Jo* has not mads a mistake during the present campaign. Hit candor, his equilibrium under try ing circumstances tad his good Judg ment st erery point shows that b* I* built ot the material of which govern ors are made. Tha people of Oeorgla mad# a 1 uka two yean ago, w* do aot belter* they an going to get canghf la Ike MR apahk Tea rat aot Hal thane always^-Talleeta Times. ' young men of bis own fair city, the beautiful form ot woman, God’s crown- Ing gift to man, was prostituted, by placing this beautiful representation of motherhood in this place when its •ole purpose is to break down every sacred influence of our godly mothers. How many tonight, on account of this gilded effort, reek In the torrents ot tbs damned, eternity alone can tolL "Now, this Is the would-be standard- bearer ot prohibition la Georgia. In the name of God and the cause we are espousing, In order that we may be moot bar until the strong arm of the law proclaimed ‘thus far and n* farther.' Who would you 'name aa a leader, a volunteer who enlisted while the battle was raging, with odds against our cause, or a conscript at the eleventh hour? By their fruits you •hall know them.' “If the seven to tlx are to pass on my conduct as t prohibitionist my re situation is at hand. “JOHN H. BLACKBURN, “Prcjident, Anti-Saloon Pika County, Qsorgia'' Napoleon the Great I* generally thought of as a small man. It Is true he -disliked men taller than hlmaelf, hot be was really not so, small as to attract notice bn account of It When ha In 1815 after hit defeat at Water loo, surrendered to Captain Maitland, ot tha BsUeropbon. he was measured on board tha ship and the height of the fallen “conqueror of' the world" was found to he Eve feet seven inches. Wellington we* only one-half an Inch taller than Napoleon. Oilier Crom wei measured Are fact and two tad a half Inches; Waehlngtln had half aa inch added to hia stature, Edward VU Is five fast eight and a halt Inch es and Nicholas n Hr* feet seven and a half. Tha King ot Italy la only are QUITE A CHANGE. Carnegie, Ga., May 9.—A Joe Brown Club has recently been organized at this .place/with sixty-four members. Mr. J. M. Andrews was elected pres- Ident of the club. This section wee almost solid tor Governor Smith two years ago, hut now Hon. J. M. Brow* Is far in the lead. Two years every voter hut two In Cordrey Dto-' trfet of Calhoun couaty, went for Gov ernor Smith, now them lx not a vote la the district for Smith. Judging the 8Ute by this section. It looks vary ranch Ilk* “Little Joe” BroWa wO bo our next Governor. HMMsMHBtssii GROVER CLEVELAND FAMED RESTFUL NIGHT. Rev Tort, May It—Grover Cleve land pasted a reetfa). sight aeoMkR to aa oMctal boltette tested teem Lektwoed, H. J, teds* V: