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WAYCROSS, GA., MAY 23 1003.
Hokes’ recent speech at CartersvIIIe
was a fiasco and made votes for
Brown.
And now perhaps somebody will
wanting to know pretty soon who o
the "Atlanta Journal.”
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Coweta county now has a Joe Brown
club of nearly 1,50ft. And Joe goes
marching on to victory.
It now looks as If the whole stab
Is turning brown before the autumn
season comes.
No Governor of Georgia ev<
such n raking over as that given Gov
ernor Smith by the Augusta Chronic
yesterday.
The Macon News says the "genius
of Hoke Smith is constructive."
ly a typographical error, probably
Destructive Is Cue wor.l that describe
it*
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Our weekly Is ready and goes out
In the morning to thousands of goo
Joe Brown and Hoke Smith mci
Mostly to Brown men because, like
tho wlhto-sheep, there are more of
them.
It Is being told of a Way cross man
that he recently left South Georgia
to go to North Georgia where
thought there was not so much Joo
Brown heat. Ho now says ho Tius
Jumped from the frying pan into the
lire.
^
Mr. Seely, of the Atlanta Georgian
says It Is a "qualification” ami not
"disfranchisement." Tho white man
ns well as the negro has to comply
with the qualifications or not bo able
to vote. Ami after nil that Is tho
size of the dlsfraiirhisement law
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A corespondent writing the Griffin
News from Hnrmlst Ga., says
This is tho garden spot of the grand
of state of eGorgla, of which Joe Brow
Is to be next governor. Remember wo
said It and for a fnct. We havo been
from place to place and poled rjiany
wherever we could get men together
and Brown stands well in the lead
In every cnee. ^
When n newspaper gets so narrow
that It cannot sec but one side of a
question it ought not to publish any*
thlnb about the subject being discuss
ed. especially if the subject be poli
ties. Borne of our exchanges are
blind that, they cannot see but one
side of the present gubernatorial race,
ami absolutely fall to see any of the
good quality In Hon. J. M. Brown
while the other side falls to give the
present Incumbent credit for what
good he has done. The Times Is for
Joe Brown and looks upon him as
being no© of the most successful flnan-
cclr* la the state—Just tho kind of a
governor Georgia needs. And then he
la a prohibitionist from principle. But
for all this. Gov. Smith is none the
less a great man and a shrewd poli
tician all of which we give him credit
for. The ability of these two men runs
in a different direction and both
men are equally honest In their In
tention!. So let ns all think on this
matter carefully and conscientiously,
eliminating from our rafnd* all bias
or prejudice and vote for the man
think will do the moat good to the
test number of people.—Black-
Indian only scalps hla enemy The only question now' is ag to
.,1 Hutvhlna skinned Hoke Smith its size—the size of Brown’s major!-
Smith claims, we understand,!
i he ha# taken all of Tom Wat-1
a followers away from him, and
r he was going to bury Tom. There j
•ns to be some good In Hoke after
Madison Advertiser.
,:.! t.iat Mr. Smith came very
i- convincing the Savannah whiskey
i that he is one of their pals.
Wont somebody please find out what
iov«-rnor Smith said to the whiskey
iu;i in Savannah tho other night. We
rant to print It In a Joe Brown paper.
*u-
Hoke continues to deny that he was
happy when he signed tee prohibition
bill. No use to emphasize such de
nial. We all Know he was miserable.
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IT you have tears to shed prepare
to shed them now, Iloke Smith has
(lopped again to the local option side
of t.io prohibition question.
A band ome eight by ten picture of
Tgly Little Joe” can be seen at the
Herald office. You are Invited to call
and view your next governor.
The city directory of Atlanta has
nothing to do with the Joe Brown
club of Atlanta. Except that the Joe
Brown club list Is reuly the city dlrec-
•cry of Atlanta.
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Gov. Smith In his Augusta speech
struck barn at Lie newspapers. Ills
argument was "liars." Its u pity»
a handsome man should lose his i
pi r. And that too over a "joke."—
A merit u» Recorder.
It Is said that Nick Longwortli wants
Teddy to take it again. Nick evident
ly thinks it la a good thing to keep
in the family.
:i exchange suggests that If Chlrst
should conic again today he would
find a number of ‘nls so-called apostles
stormed into politicians.
le consensus of opinion at the
Georgia I'each Growers’ Association
vslen here today. Is that the crop
year will foot up something like
i or 8,000 car loads.-—Rome Trib-
The first man to Inject prohibition
Into the campaign now says that he
Isn’t a prohibitionist at all but a local
optionist. No necessity to call names.
Wiley Williams Is making a winn
ing race for Prison Commission, it
Is probably that he will receive more
vote* than ail of his opponents to-
get'uer.
—
A primitive Baptist preacher says
that Emanuel county is almost solid
for Joe Brown. We would as soon be
lieve a primitive baptist preacher as
any other sort of a preacher.
BROWS VERY
STRONG MAN.
Ju.l.i
A. Davis
towi
The fact that Congressman Brantley
Is going to congress make us glad. Tho
whole South is interested In keeping
men like Brantley In congress.—Dar
ien Gazette. s
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The editor of the Herald refuses
positively to discuss politics with a
•acher. It may be for the reason,
forsooth, that most of them know
mere thui we do, or think they do.
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Wo never could fully understand
this port rate busiuess but Joo Brown
does. However, we are fully advised
as to the proper modus operand! for
dissecting a bottlo of "old port.”
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lluke is the first Governor ih all of
these years who did not nave time to
pay tribute i our dead heroes on deco
ration Day. | Toko was to busy ver a
Stateabro making a campaign speech.
Congressman Hardwick, of Georgia
who was chairmnn of the Democratic
State Convention two years ago, which
favored the nomination of Bryan for
sldent tlilg year, says that "Georgia
I send an unlnstructed delegation
to the Denver Convention."
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Two prominent citizens from North
Georgia called nt tho Telegraph office
yesterday, and reported that tho
Brown movement In that section wa- i
practically swtoping everything before
They named a dozen counties In ‘
a block which they said would go fc; j
Brawn, and most of them they thought
l go two to one for little com-!
nior.rr. One county they named would j ,. .. ^ QuInn
not give Smith one hundred votes they
declared.—Macon Telegraph.
John Temple Graves Is taking n!
prominent part In the work of the
i: Impendence League In New York,
this mean that he has quiet the
democratic party?—Rome Tribune.
non was Mr. Graves ever slncero In
his allegiances to tho democratic
party? Certainly not when ho want
'd Mr. Br.vnn to endorse Roosevelt for
sldent.
this week, and stated that the r^ast
that he Is supporting Joe Brown
one of the moit powerful men he ev
saw. He says that Brown can »
dowTi ami write a six inch card In oi
of the Atlanta papers and Hoke Smith
will immediately jump six hundred
miles to make a speech In reply to It
Big Hoke is as liable lo Jump in one
direction as another, but he jumps
every time Brown pushes the button.
He will catch a midnight train to trav
el across the state. Brown must
joy the fun of seeing Hoke Jump every
time lie pushes the button.—States
boro News.
DOES HE MITRUST THE PEOPLE?
The Governor has been absent from
his office now for three or four weeks,
allowing it to run itself, while the
"Nobody" (to use S.mith’s own word)
Against whom uo is daily declaiming
cn the rtiimp, Is staying quietly at
heme, i i.il cr.i disturbing the people
at all except by an occasional letter.
If Brown was actively campaigning
an 1 arousing public sentiment by per
sonal harangues to the people there
might be some Jus*'«.catIon for the
Governor to leave his office and go out
to counteract It. But Is there any
Justification for film to do so when
Brown Is not doing anything of the
kind? Is the Governor afraid to trust
the calm judgment of the people to de
termine the Issues on a plain written
statement of them? His course Indi
cates that he Is and that he Is relying
on the power of oratory rather than
the strength of the facts.—Telegraph.
TOM WATSON
AGAINST SMITH'
In n letter to a prominent citizen
rf Americas, llorf. Tom Watson says:
-It js Governor Smith’s failure to keep
hris pledges and his reversal of posi
tions which he has token on public
matters, notably the concentration of
power* iu the four big cities, that
have made it impossible for me to sup
port him again.
Very truly yours.
THOMAS K. WATSON."
If mr. Watson cannot support Gov
ernor Smith, how can any other Pop
ulist support him? If Mr. Watson Is
a guide and leader in one thing, why
shouldn't he be In another?
Cook him Brown, Joe Brown.
The Washington correspondent of
the Philadelphia Inquirer says that
Senators Clay and Bacon, of Georgia;
Smith, of Maryland; Daniel and Mar
tin. of Virginia; Simmons aaJ Over
man, cf North Carolina; Foster, of
Louisiana; Taliaferro, cf Florida, and
Bankhead, of Alabama, share wit
Senator Tillman the view that t!i
Democratic delegates to the National
Convention in Denver should be unln-
structcd. That is the view cf all men
who are thoroughly informed as to
the situation and who have no preson
al Interest at stake.
j 0 .Vi WATSUh , 3‘ —
RECEIPT.
Here's a receipt for becoming a
champion prohibitionist:
1. Hang on to your Interest in -i
: ..Liable bar room until it is shut up
by a law which you opposed.
2. Flop, to prohibition, when you
see that the prohibition bill has al
ready secured a sufficient number of
votes to override a gubernatorial veto.
j. Write a dispatch for the Associ
ated Press which, after all the erasure
interlineations and loopholes are elim
inated, favor a law which would per
mlt the use of "light wines and beer"
as food.
4. Loudly declare that Unless you
are kept in office the prohibition law
which was passed in spite of you will
in some mysterious manner, be scoop
ed. swiped, eloigned, jugulated, disem
boweled, smothered, strangled par
boiled and otherwise scandaloussly
maltreated.
5. Shout this loudly, from Haber
sham to-Glynn. until the welkin rings,
the teacups danco on the table, tau
I di; s bark rs they run under the hcU3 j
Admitting that it was a "happy
day," for him when he signed the pro
hibition bill, we are forced to-admit
some days since then have been a
little blue for Hoke.
rail will enthusiastically
r. Bryan If he Is nominated
•;i:_ support any ether good
la fact we wl;l rapport
f.o democratic convention
::cept thet devil. • ,
An S3-year-old Missouri man who
ba3 just married for the third time
says. "Nothing so conduces to long
evity as matrimony.’’—Ex. Provided
you don't marry Mrs. Gunness of La'-
po *e
ek-brated Benda
Ilob Berner Is going to u«e hid elo
quence In Ware. "It will be his first
appearance in this direction since he
ought of being governor himself,"
a the Savannah Press. Governor
th has spoken In Ware a couple of
, times and each time Ralph has claimed
that the county was overwhelmingly
for him. Can It be that Hoke and Bob
no longer place confidence In Ralph?
—Griffin News. Watch the lino up
on June 4th. Glcssner and you’ll see
why they are rushing reinforcements
to Ware, We’ve got ’em bent that'
what's the mater.
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Wq are in the midst of one of the
liveliest campaigns in Georgia that
ever agitated the state. Feeling runs
high In many communities, and the
fellow who bristles visibly whenever
be hears an argument advanced for
tho candidate for whom ho opposed
Is much In evidence.
Such men are nuisances, without
realizing the fact. They do their
cause more harm than good. They
need to be reminded that every man*f
opinions are his personal property,
and that no candidate ever had r
-monopoly of votes. The? should stoj
anugh. nt least once n day to
>1 off.—Albany Herald.
s is re-
family
killed uni hurried a score of
• In Kansas aor..o years ago.
being the case she tsuus hon-
<-kLy by :.er murderous proclivities.
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All those people that are so dead
anxious to see Joe Brown can have a
very fair opportunity If they will just
call around at the executive mansion
about June, 1909.
about June, 1909.—Rome Tribune-Her
ald.
Tom Wason probably knows as
much about Hoke Smith as any man
living. He has studied the governor's
record closely and he has hisactions
In public life.. Watson says Smith has
been found wanting. And the ma
jority of the people In Georgia agreo
with Watson.—Sylvania Herald.
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As "Little Joe Brown said: "What
the country needs now la honest.
UralghtforwhrJ. manly frankness;
they are tired of political evasion and
cheap clap-trap." But they
not going to get these from tho pres
ent Governor. lie seems (capable of
dealing In that kind of Stuff.—Vab
Icsta Times.
.j.
What's the use? When you see two
fellows wrangling over a heated dis
cussion of the governors race, you
naturally ask yourself, what does It
amount to? Neither one can convince
the other, and It all ends in hot air.
What’s tao use?—Ex.
Just fifteen minutes writing by "Lit
tle* Joe" puts Hoke, Seab, Hines and
the great exponent of Prohibition and
publisher of whiskey advertisements,
and others employed by the state to
wiggling, and ranting around over the
state, trying to explain, getting mad,
crying like babies, and beseeching the
people not to let the "divine call” hit
the ceiling too hard. But tho people
will say, "nay, nay, we had bread, and
you took that from us and gave us a
stone; you filled us up on promises
which did not pan out, and now our
stomachs are aching from emptiness
nd we dread the future with you
ghting everything that gives
read." -Clarke County Courier .
fall
fenci
dtemeat tears along the road and, tkv
l.rst thing >on know, you will be the
champion prohibitionist, while sue.i
life-long heroes ef the cause cs Hughes
Edenfleld, Cofer, Sibley, PooTe, 3one?.
Hill. Wright, Candler, and dozens of
old vets of the cause tfill either be
forgotten or will look like slick dimes.
—Watson’s Magazine.
W. W. LASTINGER HERE
THAT PURP08E.
FOR
A headline In a Northern newspaper
reads: "Taft Will Have $582 Dele
gates." The dollar mark is a Typo
graphical error, of course; still If the
newspaper carrying it were .of largo
circulation In the South, tho error
might have a demoralizing effect upon
tho colored delegates to the Chicago
convention, since it would lead them
to expect too much.—Savannah News.
And the people like Mr. Brown’*
4tyle of campaign. They like his can-
lor, his dignity, his clear-cut, straight
forward way of expressing himself.
They like his honesty, his modesty
and his magnanimity. And they are
;oieg to eject him. The tide is sweep-
ng al! over the state and the orators
cannot stop ic. Georgia will be proud
of Joe Brown and tho world will be
fetter for tho triumph of the hlghtou-
Gavernor Smith said in his Au
gusta speech:
"I am encountering the most stub
born and persistent opposition that
has ever been presented against n
candidate since I haTe lived and ob
served politics in the state of Geor
gia," said Mr. Smith. Now ain't that
the truth cne time.
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It is now an assured fact that Way-
cross will shortly have a new Nation
al Bank. Mr. W. W. Lastlnger is
now in the city for the purpose of or
ganizing this bank. Mr. L'astinger
was originally from Valdosta but In
recent years he has been engaged in
banking and other business enterpris
es In Waco, Texas. Having amassed
considerable means, Mr. Lastlnger’s
mind turned to his, old State of Geor
gia, and talKlng with experienced fi
nanciers in the cities of the State, he
found that the opportunities offered
by Waycross for a new bank- were
more promising than those offered
elsewhere. He nlso decided that
Waycross had the best future of any
small city in the State, anil after going
over the situation thoroughly he de
cided to cast his lot with our people
In this city and to bring his new
terprise here.
This will be a stroke of great good
fortune for our city, and we hope it
will prove a wise move for Mr. 1ms
tlnger.
Mr. Lastlnger’s Idea is to organize
National Bank, for which the pa-
ON THE JOE
BROWN TICKET
Bryan county has the distinction
of having two candidates for senator
from tho. first district, both running
on the Joe Brown ticket. They are:
Hen. W. F. Slator, Ellabella, and Hon.
L. M. Lanier, of Groveland. Both are
running on t'ne Joe Brown ticket, to
run on in Bryan, as Hoke Smith men
were as scarce as hen’s teeth down
that way.
COL. McDONALD’8 REPLY.
* Little Billie" Hardwick is coming
Jo»n to make some speeches for Cov j r .ors have already been made out, with
emor Smith. As a matter of fact, tho ! a capital stock of $50,030.00. He' Is.
-silent contempt" campaign Is gate- j however, having so many applications
erlng volume as It goes, "title Joo" I f„ r subscriptions to the stock of this
promises to Issue a general statement | r.ew hank that he may have to tu-
to the public In a few days.
"It takes only one mau to destroy
state, but It takes many men tp
illd up a state," says "Little Joe."
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Tom Watson has spoken. He 1*
against Hoke Smith for governor. And
contrary to the claims of the gover»
nor's organ Tom's opposition Is not
based on the refusal of Hoko to com
mute the sentence of Glover. Tom
state* that be Is opposed to the re-
election of the governor because the
latter baa failed to keep his word to
‘d and manly methods which ht has J the people who elected him. That’s
called Into hi* campaign.—Valdosta j plain enough, Isn't It?—Jonesboro J2a-
•iws.
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crease It to $100,000.00. He and his
associates are more than ublo to take
the entire stock themselves, but they
desire as many of ou» citizens as pos
able to become Interested in the bank
i".’ therefore a limited amount of the
stock will bo offered to the public.
If any of our people are Interested
on the subject they can find Mr. Las
tlnger at the office of Mess. Wilson,
Bennett and Lambdln for the next few
days. U is probable that ho and his
friends may call cn the people of the
city to take some of this stock. We
bespeak for Mr. Laatlnger and his en
terprise a liberal encouragement on
the part of onr people.
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Waycross, Ga., May 16, 1D0S
Editor* Herald: ^ ..
Replying to my opponent* card in
yesterday’s paper, I beg to say that
it is not -necessary to quibble over
dates or grow technical, because
when the members of the bar signed
my endorsement for Judge of the
City Court, recommending me to the
oter* of the county, they did It as u
endorsement of my candidacy for thl3
office, and they still endorse me, and
will vote for me at the approaching
primary. I would not have been a
candidate if a majylty of the members
of t'ne bar had not favoced my holding
the office, and I would not have
thought of offering for the place if I
had not felt assured that a large ma
jority of the citizens of the county
were In my favor. I am a candidate
not only because the lawyers are for
me, but because a great majority of
the people assured me of their sup
port and desired me to become a can
didate. The primary on June 4th will
settle the matter.
^Respectfully,
JOHN C. MCDONALD.
MR. EDMONDS RECENTY SAID:
We have indeed fallen upon evil
times and pity it t* true, that just a*
-ve have begun substantially to recov
er from the ravages of war, we must
become victims of these political
mountebanks that now seek to tear
down what others have built up. Let
us go back to the older time—let us
help the laboring man,-the mechanic
and all, to get to work and earn as the
•geed Lord has commanded his dally
bread in the sweat of his face. And
as the good wives and little children
of these honest folk kneel by their
bedside at night .may tyelr prayer*
be speedily answered as their peti
tion* reach the throne of Him who
tempers the wind* to tbs stara lamb.