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THE WAYCROSS HERALD WEEKLY THE WEEKLY KERAI A. P. PERMAM A SON. Editors and Publishers. : Entered at the Post Office at Way- cross, On.. a>* second Has matter." The Evening Ib-rald l« published every evening except Sunday. The .Weekly Herald every Saturday. * All subscriptb-ns are payable advance. Advertising rates reasonaWe and made known on application. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION Dally, One Year Dally. Six Months $2 Dally, Three Months $1.! Weekly, One Year 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.” + 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* * 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 4* 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. * 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. * 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 1 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. -+ 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.” +—* 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." * 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. 4* 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. 4* 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. •{. 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. . * 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." *- 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. ■ Itt*; 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. • - :i.J 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.