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r V / , Waycross • — PUBLISHED TWICE-A-WEEK. — - -c - - * . VOL. VII.—NO. 55. WAYCROSS, GA., TUESDAY. APRIL'29, 1902. $1.00 A YEAR ^he North Rebels, Not The South. Hon. VV. M. Toomer, Makes A Address. Brilliant Memorial Memorial day was celebrated in-a moBt appropriate way in Waycross, last Saturday. Although, the merchants felt that they could not well close their stores, the banks aud many offices remained closed all day. A large aud enthusiastic crowd was iu attendance, and a very in- > teresting program rendered. At half past two o’clock, the parade formed ou Plant avenue, in front of the Phinuix hotel. • , The WaycroBs Rifles, under aommaud of Lieut. Baxley, led the procession to-th.e cemetery. They were followed ty the Way- cross cgmp of United Confeder ate Veterans, under command of Capt. G. A. Sheldon, the Frances E. Bartow chapter of the Daugh ters of Confederacy, and citizens in barriages. On the corner of Mary street, the school children, four hundred strong, joined the procession, which proceeded to the Lott cem etery. At the cemetery, Capt. Sheldon presided over the exercises. After the school children finished sing ing America, Rev. J. H. Mather .led in prayer. Then little Fred- dte Harbin recited a very pretty aud appropriate selection. Capt. Lemuel Johnson intro duced the speaker with a faw well chosen words. He said that while Mr. W. M. Toomerqras not a veteran, ne was a veteran’s son, and three of his uncles slept on the battlefield. ■Mr. Toomer caught the crowd at once and held them through- , out the entire address, which was ■said to be the best Memorial ad- e-c-% dress ever delivered here. Mr. Toomer spoke upon the causes of war from the standpoint of a lawyer, and showed from a legal view the South was right. He showed that the term “rebels,” as applied to the Southern people, was entirely a misapplication and that, in reality, the Northern peo ple were the rebels. That the South asserted that the Constitution was a compact between sovereign States; that the Federal lluion was the crea ture of that compact; that it pos sessed only such powers as were expressly delegated to it by the parties to the original compact, and that all rights, powers and privileges, not so delegated and ontrusted to the Federal Govern ment, were expressly reserved unto the several sovereign States: That !P the fsce. however, of the Constitution, which expressly recognized the right of property iu slaves, and in open defiance of acts of the Federal Congress, and in wanton disregard of the con'itructiou placed on the Con stitution by the highest tribunal >— ✓ of justice under the, skies, the Supreme Court of the United States, speaking as it did through Justices likeTawney; and in the face of the construction placed upon that organic law by lawyers like Daniel Webster, a party of openly rebelious nulifiers began organizing in the North. States in New England and the middle west passed statutes which sought to nulify the acts of Congress, and the Hag of rebellion floated not over the South; but, over a dozen Capitols in that section of our Country, whien has had the temerity to since denominate ns rebels. That when Mr. Lincoln was by a popular majority elected to the Presidency of the United States, and his party declared in its plat form for the repeal of the fugi tive slave law, the several States of the South then realizing that Constitutions and Courts, Liberty aud Property, must, now yield to a rampant Republican majority, thereupon, with perfect Constitu tional precision, withdrew from the Federal Union, and repealed the several ordinances by which they had ratified the Constitution of 1789. Mr. Toomer asserted that when the Confederate States 1 met in congress iu Montgomery, they ordained as the constitution of the Confederate states the most perfect piece of organic law that was ever spread upon parchment and called a constitution. So correctly did it state the rights if the sovereign states, and so accurately did it define the powers eutrusted.to the general government, that in a cur rent issue of tli’e New York Herald, that great paper argued in favor of the reuniting of all the states of the Union by ^ie repeal of the Federal constitution', and the adoption of the. constitution of the Confederate states, as the fundamental law of the entire nation. Said the speaker, “When I con template the injustice which our people suffered; the blood that was shed; the oppression aud ty ranny of whierf n people were the victims, I am prompted to appeal to my Maker and say; “Lord God of Hosts be with us yet, lest we forget, "lest We forgot.” It is proper that from year to year and to the latest hour of recorded time, the ladies of the Confederate Vet erans’ Memorial Association, the Daughters and Sons of the Con federacy, and their children and children’s children should gather amid these solemn surr.oandingB, and with fair hands and* fragrant flowers decorate the graves of those heroes; mid perpetuate respect for their memories aud for the justice of the cause for which they fought..*’ Mr. Toomer was loudly ap plauded and his speech will be placed among the archieves of the local chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy. Rev. R. A. Brown then pro nounced the benediction, after which the school children decor ated tlfe graves of the soldiers, which was followed by a salute, fired by the Rifles. Taps were the sounded aud the large crowd returned ,to the city. Mr. J. M. ShaW, of Pierce, was in the city yesterday. Seeing the fine specimens of grasses brought <Kliy Mr. Steffes, he said they wefe flue, but claimed that the Hungarian grass is the best hay maker that can be -planted iu this section. Chief Singleton of the fire de- partmdht says that he has had four hundred feet of hose placed on two reels, one is iu Old \Vay- cross, the other will be kept down town. He has 700 feet on the hose wagon and has. 500 feet addition^ at headquarters. Compares Valdosta and VVaycross. 46 Blind Tigers in Cob EstiU’s Home Town. But Says thd Colonel can Only See Those In Maine. Dr. A. M- Williams preached Sunday night on Local Option as advocated by Col. Estill in his speech it Dallonega and in his paper, and State prohibition as advocated by the Interdenomina tional Committee of Georgia. Dr. Williams said that he was not culled upon to make a politi cal speech and he did not propose to do so, hut that Col. Estill had attack the position of his church on the prohibition issue and he felt called upon to defend it. He spoke in part as follows: The “NeWs” and its candidate owner say that prohibition is a failure iu Kansas and Maine, that there is more liquor consumed per capita in these States than in Georgia, hence the local option plan is best. When called on for proof they quote the assertions of anti-prohibitionists. They fail, however, to find any quotations on the other Bide. They find Bishop Potter stigmatizing “the grotes que failure of prohibition from Maine to Kansas,’’ but liavo never heard of Bishop Millspaugh resid ing in Kansas and an Episcopal bishop, who contradicted the New Yorker with his own experience and declared prohibition to be of incalculable benefit to that State. They give publicity to extreme attacks of the antis on the law iu Maino, but ignore Dr. Luther Freeman's declaration “a moro utterly false representation of things in Maine could hardly be imagine,” aud refuse to note when be says : “Our law is uotppr/ect, but I have lived iu Massachusetts under local option and we certainly have iu Maine, under honest officials, a law that greatly surpasses any I liavo ever seen iu operation." . Here in Waycross ! had a man declare to me that there was as much drunkenness as in Valdos ta. I denied it and took the cases docktted in the courts of the two places as a test. Iu Valdosta there were 88, in Waycross only 8 for January, February and March. ^•The local optiouist, further try to establish their case by pointing to the issuance of United States Revenue licej’ps and claiming n^jjjfetiw-'vortion to population in the prohibition states than in Georgia. They prove nothing by that fact as to (he comparatively consumption of liquor. One saloon may sell more liquor than 100 blind tigers. They only, prove that the law is violated. It is violated in the same way ‘in license states. In 8t Louis Coun ty Minn, a detective bureau has taken a census of “the blind,pigs,” as they are called qut there, and find 470 against 240 legally licen sed saloons. In Savannah there were issued, in 1901, 278 United States reveDue licenses and 228 city licenses. Four of the former are issued .to druggists and ore not to be counted bliutf tigers', the other 4(5 are. Is it possible that this ambitious opponent of state prohibition can see a blind tiger in Maine or Kansas, and ig nores them in'bis own town. All laws will be violated and iir some communities there is less dispe- CHARLTON COURT HOUSE- Mr. Virgil Parker will SuFcrlntend Its Construction. Mr. Virgil Parker left Monday for Folkston to start the work on- Charlton county’s new court house. The plans of*thc building indi cate that it will be a handsome one. It is to be built, of brick and will cost about 110,(XX). <rho contract was awarded some time ago to Mr. Jeff Darling. Mr. Parker is foreman for Mr. Darling and will superintend its construc tion. sitiou to execute them than oth ers. Persons in Portland is work ing no harder to execute a sound prohibition . law than Basconi Anthony in Savannah is iu fight ing the gambling and policy evil, in one county in Georgia the local opinion was greatly opposed to punishing homicides. Will Mr. Estill, if elected gov ernor, consistent with his local option notion send in a message recommending that gambling, murder, .lynching and othor such dimes ho placed on the local op tion basis. His argument will ap ply to counties and relates to these sebjects us well us tc the liquor traffic. We advocate state prohibition because it is right. If, the liquor traffic is legitimate it is a gross injustice to hamper it with tuxes, high licenses, local option or pro hibition. If it is injurious then it is wrong to allow its legal sale at all. The Georgia policy.of the ma jority of the people voting against the sale of liqugr and allowing a minority of tho counties to do all in their power to annul this vote by pushing their nefarious wares into dry comities is to say the least stupid in the extreme. Adopt slate prohibition and doubtless Savannah, under its factional officer, will defy the law and openly violate it just as they now defy the Sunday laws and the gambling laws. The othor parts of tho .state, however will not have to fight a traffic protected by the same constitution and operating under the same scheme of laws. But they tell us jugs will come from out tho state. Perhaps they will, but some thirty odd jug cen ters nearer home will have been closed and our fight simplified to that extent. The restriction of the whiskey evil has been by series of evolu tionary steps. The teetotal pledge, high license, local option the next step is iu tho direction of state prohibition.- ATtor that is accom plished the question of national prohibition will follow. At every slop we have met the same old ideas. When counties took up the question the plea was "What is the use-of shutting it and its profits out of our county, you can go to'the surrounding counties.” That argument had gone into innocuous desuetude till the candi date for governor hunted it up for campaign purposes. There is nothing in it. Take the step that is before os. Tennessee is getting in line: Alabama will follow ns: soon Florida will join the proces sion. We will correct the amor phous South Carolina position. ThcSonth font down with slavery. With the leadership of this abo lition of the meanest slavery the world ever jiaV she wilt regain her position at the front of the nation and help l to make-America the mightiest moral nation in the world. r ■ MUST PAY BY IfJTEENTH Or Names Will Not Appear CandIJates Who Run In the Primary Day Set for June 5. The Democratic executive com mittee met at the court house yesterday morning. Mr. Warren Lott was elected chairman and Mr. W. M. Wilson secretary. It was decided to hold tho county primary June -6, the same time as appointed for the state primary. Only one ticket will he used It will contain the names of all the Candidates for the stats and county officers. The candidates for all county officers will he required to pay in to the treasury #10 for the oxpen bob of running the primary. Un less this amount is in hand by May 15, the names of candidate will not appear on the ticket. Warren Lott, W. W. Sharpe, A M. Knight, W. S. Booth and D 11. Bennett, were appointed on a committee to consolidate the votes the day alter the primary is hold. The polls at thb opera house and court house will open gt seven o’clock, and close at six Tho polls for the county precincts will open at eight o’clock, and close at three. MR. STRICKLAND, DEAD. Was 73 Years Old-Had a Large Family. Mr. James M. Strickland died at the home of his son, J. II Strickland, ' near Schlatterville. Pierce county, Sunday, April 27. Mr. Strickland was ovor 78 yeurs old, und died of old age. He had traveled and lived over most of the State of Florida, but returned to his old’ home settle ment to diu. He leaves a wife and seven children,.six boys and one daugh tor. His sons are J. H., of Scblat- torvillo, J. N., Cyrus, John and Wilson, of Florida, and Falcon, of Valdosta. Mrs. Silonn Mor rison, is his daughter. Mr. H. Strickland, of near Sdhlattorville, is his own brother, and Messrs John Strickland, of Sclatterville, mid Richard Strickland, of Jack sonville, his hulf brothers. Mr. Strickland’s remains were buried at ten o'clock, yesterday, at the Thomas grave .yard in Pierce county. He was an hon orable man, and a good citizen. THE FERGUSON’S LEAVE. Have Made Many Friends During Their Stay. Mr. and Mrt. W. L. Ferguson, and their two children, left last night for Rochester, via Charles ton and Washington. While here Mr. and Mrs. Fergu son have endeared themselves to the [leople of Waycross in a peculia/ way. Probably no two people have ever become more popular here, in so short a time. They will live iu Rochester, Mr. Ferguson’s former home, for a year or until tbeir vacation in this country ends. It is likely that they will return to India aftertbat. Mr. Ferguson’s two missionary ser'mons at the Baptist church Sunday were gems of thought and delivery. 15 IWJHE RACE. Will Make it Hot Hence forth. Former Representative Has Entered the Race for Old Position. \ As will be seen by tlin following announcmmmt, Mr. J. It. McDon ald hasVntored tho rac«* for repre sentative: , At tho • solicitation of many friends 1 announce myself a candidate fur Repre sentative of Ware county, subject to the Democratic Primary. I am 'opposed to the distribution of free railroad passes to ofliciftls whose duties require them to pass upon the light* of the railroad com panies dlstt Uniting such passes. Also I favor the dethronement of tho ring, headed by the Southern Railway Company and the Liquor Dealers Asso- cintion, that now dominates our stato politics. Also the equalization of taxation espe cially with a view to Compelling the Croat Railroad Companies who uro not doing so to pay their share of the taxes including just taxes on their franchises. • 1 am opposed to the sale of tho state railroad. I favor tiie subjection of the Southern Railroad Company to shite court juris diction the same as other railroad com panies, l am also in favor of reducing the sal ary of the judge of tfco city court o£ Waycross from $1,200 to $900, per year as recommended by tho grand jury. Very Respectfully, J. R. McDonai.d. Mr. McDonald promisos to en-_, liyen.. Ware county politfcs from now until the primary. » In the first place he is opposed to lawyers going to the legislature, lie says they make lawB to create litigation and make business for themselves an he thinks the farm ers are much better legislators. Tie expects to stump the county and he challenges any of his oppo nents to meet him, He avows that he despises a dull time and will make things hot from uow on. / FINE SPECIMENS 4° OF STOCK FOOD. Rve Seven Feet Tail Crown In Ware- a Mr. Steffe’s Farm. r Mr. J. G. Steffes Iras la model farm of about sixly acres trader cultivation out near Ruskiii. He has six acres planted in broom corn and expects to plant twentv more pn his oat land, after tho oats are cut. He has twelve acres in corn and uxpocts to plant about twenty mor :. Five acres are planted in cane, and five in sweet potutooe. Ho is experimenting on best food for stock. For this ho has planted one aero in stock beets, a half acre iu casavo, and a small amount'in alfalfa. Ho planted the alfalfa in tho fall, it was green all winter and grew five feet high. His goats eat it down and. it is now about three feet. Hie expenmenta with blue gras* has boon successful. It was green, all winter and grew to an average height of about two feet." Mr. Steffei brought in a few ■amples from bia various crops and placed them on exhibition at the Journal office. Arno/ig them,, was a bunch of rye faveu feet tall, alfolfa, bltlegrais, "and a bunch of oata five feet tall. , ‘ ’ Miasea Mary Guilford and Lula Lee went down to Atkinson Fri day to attend a protracted- meet ing, while there they ’ were the guest of Mrs. Youlos. To The Farmers. We want to buy your field peas, 1 bring tfiem to n|, We will give you Highest cash prices. - ' t Habbv Bfcos.