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FKIDAT, JULY M, JML WATCR088 J01RNAI. IRK WEEKLY JOUBNKL Established in 1895. Published Every Friday at Waycross. Ga. U VOLNEY WILLIAMS Editor and Manager The Only Weekly Paper Publiib- lh » vote * J „ / . . will succeed ed at the County Seat. SUBSCRIPTION 1 YEAR *1.5C H MONTHS ,75c ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ WHAT HA. NKHKPAI’KKK * THINK OP SLATON. ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ NO POLITICAL LINK.IT. United States Senator I* a big of- ttce and a big wan should fill it. In dignity and honor it stands next to the presidency. It* importance to the people fo the United States is great. It has been the custom to fill tills office with the ablest men. measure up to the requirements of the high office, it takes years ol training, no boy ought to fill this of ficial station. No weakling ought even be considered for the place. Til. Senate Is the measuring pot of grea' men, and all the states send their ablest men there. The present gov ernor of Georgia Is senatorial timber, lie towers like a great tree over sap lings. In ability, experience and character, be Is the man. No fa. tional coterie, no political line-up of Jack Slaton, lie is toting his skillet and going to win. lie Is a of Meriwether, of whom the old coun ty Is proud.—Meriwether Vindicator. As to the race of Gov. Slaton for the uncxpired term of Senator Bacon, this well known statesman Is gait) to,' grounu every day and the high |iiane t:pcn wblch be Is conducting his campaign la gratifying friends, m well as disappointing to bis opponents. Gov. Slaton is excel lent senatorial timber, he will gain the nomination by a flattering major ity.—Columbus Ledger. "Send Slaton to the Senate," listens good.—Traveling Man. Slaton’s record will stand the test bf the very deepest sort of Investiga tion. There is absolutely nothlug wrong with It and the people of Qeor gla know that pretty well.—Bruns wick News "Senator Slaton" la beginning to sound natural already.—Pike County Journal. It Is generally conceded that Sla ton is overwhelmingly in the lead for the Senate.—Uouglaavllle Sentinel. We are still of the opinion tha*. Gov, Slaton wijj get a majority of all form the backbone and sinew of the HENDERSON—THE HAN. [not .tgdS lt«Ttuft) declaration, In ■ ! ram pa iff! a In wblch ho was the candi- (Douglas Enterprise.) ! date fpr Prdd.nl Secretary Bryan Parmer Jim Hendenon It regarded at lbe !, aame time bolted the party by those who know blm » Congrea- nominee In hi, own iUte because that slonal timber of the very soundest (candidate wa« nominated by a conven- and strongest kind. This dlitrfct I. tlon that declared In favor of the 11- an agricultural district. |Quor Interests. Ills action In repudl- The people who do the voting and atlng James Dahlman. Democratic in the primary, all right.—Darien Gi zette. It looka like Slaton against thy field, hut he will get more votes than all the others combined.—Clarksville Advertiser. Slaton is standing at the high wu ter mark for tue United States Sen ate, according to the state newspa pers. Our good wishes go out to him —Montezuma Georgian. Slaton's qualifications will fit the place and the place will fit him— Southwest Georgian. Governor Slaton is presenting hi. claims for election to the Senato in a dignified and unhysterical manner which makes an effective appeal.— Athena Banner. \ye are for Slaton for the Senate because he has ever been true to the causa ot our glorious state, bee* us- •f his high principle. Clean conduct and steadfast devotion to duty at ait Umaa.—Helena Herald. The tax law alone should "Send Slaton to the Senate."—Sends Enter prise Gaxette. When a Congressman abandons his duties at Washington aa Hardwick Is now doing he is little short of a _ tray a I of trust—Lawreucevllle Sews* Herald. It la evident that the Slaton forces are gaining strength rapidly.—Jack •on Progress. * — Governor Slaton expounded facta and figures In hla defense pf the ta* act and did It so convincingly that the opponents quieted down.—Thom asviiie Ttmea-Enterprlae. *• Some of the politicians are making a great fight on Gov. Slaton but ht seems to be making n winning race jnst the same—Hswklnsville News. We favor the election of Jno. it. Slaton because we honestly believe blm (hr more capable of filling the place of the lamented Bacon than any of the other men la the race.—Mont gomery Monitor. Again we any that Gov. Staton Is far and away the beat man for tht ►hort Senatorial term.—Oglethorpe Citizen. The men who know “Jack" Slaton —and that means almost every bod) -ire going to vote for him purely on I is r»-cr ril. It is not a factional fight • here Is no reason for a line-up o any kind. Lots of folks think he it the best man.—Baxley Banner. Gov. Slaton will carry Coffee coun ty by a big majority. He is one the ablest men In Georgia, and v be elected Senator and all Georgi- will be proud of him.—Douglas En terprlse. ftv men strong In their political convictions have the faculty of re raining the friendship, good will at respect of men of different opinion: and it is tills, an much as anything else, which makes "Jack" SIato> stand out from among the candidate as the best fitted for the Senatorial vacancy.- Hatonton Messenger. Governor Slaton's explicit advoci cy of the maintalnance and extension ot the parcel post system is a con struct I vc plank big enough to t-iec- hlm.—Griffin Daily News. upporting Gov. Sid The Herald Is ton for the Senate for more reason) food's estate he has planted his crop.*, than one. In the first placo he is — *- of the brainiest men in Georgia— the explosive kind. He Is even t< pered, conservative and firm. In the second place, he has appointed i South Georgia men to office than other Governor. Thirdly, wo i peace and Slaton la doing oil he to allay factionalism. — Nashville Herald. When Gov. Sluton'induced the Le; islature to save Georgia by enacting the tax law he did the greatest work any public mun lias accomplished c the State In half a century.—Lav rencevlllc News-Herald. There will be lots of people cjlmV ing aboard the Staton band wagon lie fore two weeks end—Thomasvll.* Timcs-Enterprlse. It strikes us that "The house Jacl. built" atlil rests upon a pretty firm foundation.—Gray News. was evident that seventy-five per cent of the audience were for Slaton It was a Sluton «rowd,—Cordcle Dis patch. GREAT I m: It KMT IX STOCK. That a great interest Is being cre ated In the stocK raising business in this county is demonstrated by the fact that whenever a crowd of farm ers, or farm owners get together about the first subject thnt comes uj) for discussion Is the stock raising business. Not only are farmers, and farm owners talking about cattle anil hogs, but professional men, and bus iness men arc ap well interested. 8everal days ago a conversation took place betweeu an Atlantic Coast Line conductor and a prominent wholesale grocery merchant of this city regarding the gAat advantage offered by South Georgia for stock raising. The wholesale merchant said, "before South Georgia can take a place In the front ranks aa a pro ducing section she will have to turn her wild territory into grazing lands.” The conductor replied, "Yes. you are right, and I will tell you tha the land owners of South Georgia al ready realtie this fact, and arc begin ning to branch out in the atock rats ing business. Every time two j: more farmers get together on mj train they begin to talk about ho** and cattle, and I am told by the freight conductors on our road that more live stock has been shipped in to South Georgia during the past year than during the live previous years." The conversation of this wholesale merchant and railroad condutcor an idea of th»- aeuiimeut tha; ia being created in South Georgia re garding atock raising. For several years the Journal has advocated the necessity of this sec tion turning Its attention to stock tg. We have been convinced that money invested In cattle and bogs Is WiregrsM Georgia will pro duce a larger return than a Ilka amount invested In any other enter prise. The lands of this section are peculiarly adapted to stock raising The toll will produce the very oes: forage and will produce It more months la the year than any other section of the United States, thereby greatly reducing the coat ot houslug and wintering stock. In fact cattle and bogs can run In the open th* year around in South Georgia and at ill times find something green to ml Every former In Ware' county should begin making plans at one? ©ward getting into the atock but- Umaa. It to not necessary to go Into he business at the beginning on * large ecale, in fact It to better to tart In a small way and learn the buaineea aa one goes. The Journal « making arrangements to get tor »ubUcatkm each week practical let- ere from South Georgia tnen on cat- le and hog raising, and in addition ttr this bulletins from Secretary Cal- iu of the WsycroM) Board of Trad* will be published from time to time nominee for the governor of Nebraska on the liquor issue, has cut across his political prospects In his own state, and has, of course, arraigned a new army of enemies against him as a Presidential proposition. It Is characteristic of Mr. Bryan to farms and have no money Invested let everything go before a principle, in farm lands or industries of any for practical as he is In his under kind. It therefore stands to reason standing of the political game he is district and produce the wealth the farmers and laborers. A very large part of the men In Congress are lawyers who are not engaged In tilling the soil or in manu al labor, and many of them do not own that these men are not as closeiv Identified with the voters of the dis trict or know or would protect their interests as well as would one who has always been actively engaged in the things done by the masses of his district. Farmer Jim Henderson was raise I % poor boy on a farm in Irwin count/. He not only plowed when a boy, but after be reached manhood estate lie stuck to It and started life as a one- horse farmer, right where he was raised, and from that by hard work, ability and energy he has grown to his present position as a man of at- i fairs. Hut he has never deserted his arly calling or censed to love and work his farm. Every year since he reached man- one of the greatest and most compell ing Idealists of his times. Then, too. Secretary Bryan realizes now as he did then the tremendous obstacle, from the viewpoint of organ ization politics which he raised for himself in his action in the Baltimore convention in courageously turning his support from (Thamp Clark to Woodrow Wilson tor the purpose of defeating the control of the Tamma ny machine and Its moneyed backers. Here he made a gallant sacrifice of personal ambitions before the shrine of party integrity. He is justly proud of his course and by It he won heart- hole admirers who never before re alized the true grandeur of the man, but the secretary knows full well that while he won for himself a great place in the hearts of true patriots and tort.. VprtnV«ntf”tar;«w''ll.™ he hammered .great n.ll the fall I Into the coffin of his Presidential as- iways had faith In Wire Grass Georgia and its people, and has worked for Its developments and up building. as never cared or tried to hoard his money and loan It out his neighbors or the people at a n rate of interest, but he has invested it in lands and put the land In cultivation. He has built railroads and saw mills and developed the country and given employment to the laborer. He has helped to brin*< money in this section and put it in circulation, thus helping to build up the country and do good to all the people. He In a big-hearted, blg-bralnei worker—a man who works and fights hat be believes to be right and for the best Interests of his people and community. need this kind of a man to rep resent thfs district. His interests will the people's Interests; his wauta their wants;, hla sympathies will be Ith them. All his life he has been working along tbe same lines and in harmony with .them. He knows thei trials and struggles, because hi trials and struggles have been tic same as theirs. voters will remember Famie Jim Henderson when the priroar, rolls around, and they will make u- mistake in Bending him to Congress. BKY.4N ELIMINATES HIMSELF. Those who are close to Mr. Btyan declare that his enemies and oppo nents need not exercise themselves so frenzledly If their animosity and cri ticism springs front the fear that he is considering the Presidency. Repeatedly he is said to have talked with freedom and unrestraint to his close associates in Washington and frankly revested h|s state of mind. While Mr. Bryan la a personally am bitious man hia personal ambition is secondary to hla Intense and earnest desire for his principles of goyero- ment to be put in action. He Is first of all a Democrat and after that a Bryanite. In this he is different from his followers, who are first of all Bry- anites. It ia rateher generally accept ed that Mr. Bryan'a understanding of the practical side of politics leads him to realize that ho will never become President. The secretary Is an compromizing foe of the liquor traffic and he is said to believo for one thing, that In sacrificing political interests before this principle hia chances for a future President are severely dam aged. With a record of having bit terly assailed Democrats who would piratlons. I The frequent reports that Bryan is plotting against his chief are as silly as they are unkind. The President and the secretary of state understand each other. Mr. Bryan’s loyalty to country. Therefore when his money Mr. Wilson is w ithout the shadow of a chest became empty he had to resign. Tu equalization ii 'nothing morn, the front rank o( diplomat.. And It in Georgia’s caae, than uncovering wouldn’t be surprising if the ConstI u- property which has been habitlally tionaiists should follow his advice n hidden from the tax gatherers, and, many matters and that he will be ent - placing It on the digests. No class ot j tied to the credit—at least a very property In the state is overtaxed, but 'great part of it—of pacifying Mex co and of bringing about great and much needed reforms in Mexico.—Savannah News. there has long been millions of dol lars worth of it which has borne no share of the burden of maintaining government. And the only objections to the new law have come from those who are being compelled, for the firs*, time, to pay taxes on property whicn ibe> have have heretofore succeeded In keeping under cover. The results thus far achieved through tax equalization in Georgia far exceed popular expectation, and give promise of much more notable achievements. Now that the people see and understand something of the practical workings of the new' law, they will the more cordially support it, and another big increase will be shown in returns next year.—Albany Herald. WILHO.VM CLEVER MEXICAN POLICY. There was a disposition, especially •ny Republicans, to ridicule President Wilson when he practically told Huer ta that he must resign and Huerta said that he wouldn’t. It did seem at that time as if President Wilson had reckoned rather too strongly on moral suasion and the dominating influence of the United Slates to accomplish his purpose, but he wasn't relying wholly them. War cannot be carried on long these days without money and President Wilson planned to cut off Huerta’s supply of money. And he did cut it. off. Because of his diplomacy Huerta couldn't borrow money from the bankers of his own or any other The Walker club in Ware county numbered 4*58 the first day it waa organized. Judge Parker was natur ally much stronger in Ware, it being his home county, than Mr. Henderson can hope to be. Mr. Walker lacked just 250 votes of carrying Ware in the last election, and it is conserva tively estimated that he will carry the county this year by at least 25'» majority.—Nashville Herald. Editor Sweat must have gotten his dope from the pie counter. "Farmer Jim" will carry Ware county by 400 majority. _ duel, novelists, playwrights and ex premiers making impassioned speech es. the court room crowd cheering, booing, sobbing and enjoying the spectacle of wife No. 1 and wife No. 2 facing each other. The trial was as amazing as the verdict. Nothing like it could have occurred outside of Paris.—Savannah News. The Honorable Jack riled''em up some with his cards, and the whole bunch are after him, but Slaton is. . sure to be one of Georgia’s Senato^fT —Waynesboro Citizen. For his efforts in standing by the tax law Gov. Slaton deserves the Sen- aWorship. He and the Legislature are ! proud of their work and it is work j to be proud of.—Darien Gazette. ! jack Slaton is running as a Geor gian and not as a citizen of any par ticular section of the State. Georg’.i 1 as a whole ia going to send Slaton to I the Senate.—Americus Times-Re- doubt. These reports have been char acterized by the President as “cruel and wicked Inventions."—Savannah Press. EQUALIZING TAXES. Cypress Shingles The Hebard Cypress Company tiers lor role at th, mills, Hcb- ardrile, tor a limited time only tula 16" Clipper Skint let it..... $1.25 per H 3x16 Stir A SUr Skliplet it $1.50 per N BILE Is NATURE'S DieinfeeUnt. SMSke, KIMS Winw.se, UuUym fo Mt Watfc Ike LIVER, rsfotkvttla ON* AapU RaaO fosa. foJk tas la FaisalifWia att Us *tpa takaaMt. _ _ Vtoa r«3r popOlAX If Col. Roosevelt had been inaugu rated President Instead of Woodrow Wilson in 1913 we should have had war with Mexico. Thousands of Amer icans would have been killed and [wounded and a vast sum of money J would have been spent with the result As the. tax returns of county after tthat peace wouldn’t yet be restored, county In Georgia reach the comp-[under the Wilson plan the war in trailer general, evidences are multi- Mexico Is practically over and only a piled of the success of fax equallza-[few Americans have lost their lives, tlon In Georgia. The very few coun- j Those who ridiculed the President’s ties whose returns show little if any methods of eliminating Huerta will Increase are lost sight of in the shad- now praise him. Since some of them ow of the huge totals of increase will say that they always believed shown by scores of counties in which that President Wilson would win In his hundreds of thousands of dollars contest with Huerta. It makes no dlf- worth of property not hitherto re- ference what bis critics said or might turned for taxation has been placed have said the fact is that he won a on the digests. diplomatic victory that places him in Locomotive Engineers Endorse Henderson Ocilla, Ga.. July 22, 1914. Mr. S. B. larker. Way cross, Ga. My Dear Sir: Col. H. J. Quincy advises mo that a report has been circulated in W*yrrt>"« to the effect that the Ocilla Southern Railroad Company, of which Mr. J. A. J. Henderson Is president, employes on its road negro engineers and negro hostlers. I have been working for the Ocilla Southern Railroad Company for the past seven years, in fact ever since the company was organized, and I know absolutely of my own knowledge that there is not one word of truth In the above report. Ev ery engineer working for the Ocilla Southern with the exception of one man, are members of the B. of L. E. 706, Fitzgerald, Ga., and the one ex ception to which I refer haa made ipplication to become a member of this order and hia application has been accepted, but he has not yet been put through. In addition to thia every conductor employed on the Ocilla Southern Railroad are brotherhood men. In fact the Ocilla Southern Railroad Company recognizes union labor to the fullest extent and Mr. J. A. J. Henderson, president of the road, has to my personal knowledge always been In favor of union labor. Every brotherhood man employed by hit. road are not only bis strong supporters In his race for Congress but they hia persona! frlenda, and he la thelra. I cannot understand who could have made the statement tha*. any negro engineers or negro host lers were employed by the Ocilla Siuthem. Such is not now the, case, and never has been. I will make affidavit to the facts stated in this letter, as will evtiy official of the Ocilla Southern and every engineer and conductor employ ed by it. You are at liberty to mace this letter public, and to use it In any way you see fit. Yours very truly, (Signed.) J. H. MORRIS. Member B. of I* E. 706, Fitzgerald Ga. WHAT ABOUT THE HACKS I What is Waycross going to do about tbe hack business? fhere is not a city tbe size of Way- cross in the South that is so badly imposed upon by old dilapidated dir ty hacks as Waycross. It Is true that there are hacks aplenty, but such hacks as they are. There are very few that are fit for a gentleman to ride in not to say any thing about a lady, and our attention has been called to the fact that about the only decent hacks are run by col ored,in en, which is not what should bo desired. The Journal believes that this is r matter for the city authorities to loos: into, and if there is no other way to provide fit hacks for the public free license should be given some person roads. A poorly built road soon who will put on good hacks with washes away and the initial cost is white drivers. Or the matter might l(^t. whereas a road that is properly be solved by making the license a > 1 constructed and is well maintained high that there would not be so many .will exist for years. It will profit the hacks thus making it possible for th■? J county nothing if the road construc- owners to make enough money from ting forces is hurried along to anx- Jack Slaton will win in a walk over all his opponents.—Macon Coun*y Citizen. Slaton has made a good governor and he will make even a better Sen ator-Social Circle Enterprise. Everything points to Jack 8!atcn carrying Pickens five to one over all candidates for the Senat.e—Jasper Too much importance cannot be at- cched to quality in road work. It is i waste of money to hurry over the business to enable them to i the public in the proper manner. Some newspapers still believe that either Mr. Felder or Mr. Hardwick will retire before the end of the race, but as both have practically sworn up and down and back again that they wouldn’t, we may expect to sec- three-cornered affair, with Slaton taking off the plum.— 1 Thomasvi)^;*, Tin es-Entorprise. A -* * To Go At CUT PRICES ALSU 100 SACKS OF BBM AMD SHORTS IT WILJL. PAY YOU TO SEE US before you buy PRIDGEN BROS. SUCCESSORS TO JF. W. S. HARDY 4 90 NtltCmutHoua, AN AMAZING VERDICT. The impression was quite general in Paris that Mme. Caillaux would ((■quitted. Her trial was spoken s a melodrama an<J melodramas full of romance, sentiment amt sensation and end happily. The end ing of the trial was a happy one for Mme. Caillaux. Nevertheless the erdict is an amazing one. There was no question that she killed RI. Calmette, the editor of Figaro. She walked into his office and shot him death because she believed that he intended to publish certain letters which would reflect injuriously upon her and her husband. The testimony showed that he had no such Intention. And the one that he did publish simply proved that M. Caillaux was the sort of a politician that would fool the people if he could i i order to gain his point. If politi cians In thfs country regarded as a deadly offense the publication of such letters or the charging of such un moral conduct as M. Caillaux con fessed to in his "Thy Joe” letter, Mr. Barnes, the Republican boss of New York, would have shot CoJ. Roosevelt instead of suing him for libel. | The Paris Jury no doubt thought ■ the best man.—Darien Gazette. that Mme. Caillaux had suffered — enough, that her punishment had been sufficient, and that M. Calmette, since It was shown that he had prac- bis country to a po litical faction in Hungary, was no great loss to society or the state, and they acquitted her. There is no ious communities, while the perma nence of the work is sacrificed. We would forever be building the same roads over if the coramisisoners pur sued such a policy.—Moultrie Observ er. T. S. Felder says he is In the race for the Senate to a finish. Well it Is already finished, so far as he is con cerned—Rome Tribune-Herald. Mr. Hardwick criticises Governor Slaton for leaving Atlanta long enough last week to address the weekly editors at Commerce. His criticism will only add to Slaton'* support.—Pembroke Enterprise. The gubernatorial race will take care of Itself and we would therefore advise the voters to pay attention to the selection of members of the legis lature. It is very important that good be sent to the legislature, for they are needed there. Because a man wants to go to the legislature Is no reason for sending him. Vote for HAS FREAK COTTON. Atlanta, Ga., July 29.—E. H. Os borne has returned from South Geor gia with a bit ot freak cotton. It was raised on the farm of E. P. Jone3 in telling what twelve serious-minded ; Jeff Davis county, two stalks laden «.n In n Jury box will do when the'with boll, which grew from .talk, defendant I, a pretty woman and tbe ot laat year and the year before. Mr. Jones planted an old cotton field in trial is full of dramatic situations. There Is no doubt that the trial abounded In dramatic features, and it was more remarkable for its political than ,jts personal hatred and loves. corn and noticed that one of tbo old cotton stalks sprouted. He did not plow It up and later it developed into full grown bolls. Another stalk was It wn» one reene nfter «n- j the ,ecor.ii year growth from an old other, with talk of burning love let- stalk. THE RAPID FIRE HAY PRESS I* a fnll-rlrrle double.,Inte Hrtln, Je.fgaafeJ aad naitncM hr Keartit et Ike hdhldnal farmer, | being light, k*«dy, almple and euy taw agenhw Only aa. horse nal three man are rrqnlred t. operate it. Very few^ Iwo-hor.e greaw, will eqaal It hr ballhg and ...a „m pat ap . alecr ar •■aatkrr hair, jet aay farmer who make, a few haadred hale, ef hay ran afar* fe own one ef time machine,. i Jones 1 Baggy Co., Waycross, Georgia PIERCE INSTITUTE **» THE PLACE FOR BOYS AND OIRLa A Sop.,lor Junior Cothpu for Yount, U,n and Young tmHt... . r«« wt*.i a.i.ct.e «? Danwltarlas are Ilka Momaa. Teacher* Kv« with, and Ilk. a.a'h RATES REASONABLE AS ADVANTAGES GIVEN WILL ALLOW. Fw tarWMr tatanMUMi. aael, I. ' n.an> Mr a naaa, ■ JORDAN, Vic»-Pr»aUle.t. Or REV. W. A. SROOKS, Secy., Cxactive Board, Bieckahaor, Usorgia