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DAWSON NEWS.
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I_)EVQBE\T,_GA., May 31, 1905.
THE GROWTH OF ADVERTISING.
The Atlanta Evening News, which,
by the way, is one of the brightest
and liveliest newspapers to be found
in the whole country, recently carried
in one issue sixteen pages of adver
tising for an Atlanta firm of mer
chants. This firm, who has given the
subject of advertising long and care
ful study, is convinced that it pays to
use a large amount of space in a sin
gle newspaper. The experiment was
begun by using two pages at a time,
and gradually this was increased un
til the climax was reached with the
sixteen page exhibition.
Necently the Chattanooga News
¢losed a contract with the Miller Bros.
Company of that city for a very large
amount of advertising space to be
used during the year. This contract
is one of the largest ever given to al
southern newspaper by a department
store, and it came after several years
of experimentation by this firm in ad
vertising. They believe in using a
Jarge amount of space. They have
demonstrated that it pavs. The May
number of the Cosmopolitan maga
zine contained twenty pages of adver
tising from one advertiser, which
doubtless breaks the record for maga
zine advertising in this country. That
is to say, it was more space than was
ever used before in one issue of a
magazine by one advertiser. It sug
gests the question as to which paysi
better, a large amount of space or
small advertisements. That the in
clination toward larger space is well
nigh universal with the big advertis
ers of the country is proved.
THE GIFT OF SILENCE.
William Nelson Cromwell has been
elevated to the position of adviser
and peace-maker in chief to the war
ring Equitable interests, and has sig
nalized his entry into office by advis
ing everybody concerned to keep his
mouth shut. Wherein, says the Sa
vannah Press, Mr. Cromwell has al
ready gone far toward earning his
salary. If he succeeds in making his
injunction effective there will be no
further question of his high value.
“It’s a great thing,’”’ says our con
temporary—*‘the value of silence.
There are persons who possess it in a
remarkable degree, and these in al
wost every instance are the men fate
selects for her favors and upon whom
fortune delights to shower honors.
When opportunity pays her single
visit they are not so busy talking that
they fail to recognize this very tran
sient guest.
““And when we say silence we do not
mean dumbness. There are occasions
when men must speak, and speak to
the point. When that hour arrives he
who can keep his own counsel and has
done so finds he has something to say,
and what he says commands attention.
He has not excited needless antago
nisms by talking wildly or foolishly
at random.
**A great thing is silence. Contrast
is effective in this world of ours, and
we all listen when the silent man opens
his mouth. Usually we are reward
ed.’’
SOMETIMES THEY RESIGN.
"1t has been said that in Georgia the'
man who holds office, no matter of
what character, may die but he never
resigns. This old witticism, for such
it was doubtless intended to be, will
no longer hold good, due to the eccen
tricities of a number of estimable
gentlemen of this state. In the past
few months there have been several
vesignations from the supreme and
the superior court benches, a week or
two ago a member of the legislature
resigned, and a few days ago the
Perry board of education broke the
record as to resignations. Without
any friction or unpleasant feeling on
the part of any one two-thirds of the
members of the board resigned. The
school at Perry, like the Dawson
schools, is under a special law, and
is conducted by a self-perpetuating
Aoard.
Perhaps there was never before such
an incident in the school annals of
this state. The retiring members, who?
had given loyal and faithful service to
the school interests of Perry, thought
they had served long enough, and
that it would be best for others to as
sume the duties of their responsible
positions.
LIGHT-MINDED scoffers who have
lmughted at the pious Philadelphians
who have been praying for ‘‘Sinful
John' Weaver must now laugh out
of the other side of their mouths.
“Sinful John'' has suddenly seen the
light. Exercising his power as mayor
he is disciplining the peliticians, ve
toing the actions of the council, and
making a strenuous fight for the
smashing of the machine that has held
the Quaker city in its cogs for vears.
THE wet weather is a better reducer
than Harvie Jordan. .
ANTI-CORPORATION RECORDS.
The Savannah Morning News,
whose able and distinguished editor is
looked upon as a probable candidate
for governor of Georgia, thinks there
will be more important issues in the
campalgn than the question of whether
Hon. Clark Howell or Hon. Hoke
Smith has the most violent anti-cor
poration record. The Morning News
takes the high ground that justice
should be done both the people and
the corporations, and in the course of
2 very sensible and conservative edi
torial along this line says:
“The inference from the state
ments of these gentlemen is that
they think in order to be strong
with the people they must appear
to be great fighters of corpora
tions. \
“‘But wouldn't they be stronger
with the people—all fair-minded
people—if they could show they
have stood squarely for what was
right and just as between the peo
ple and the corporations? Why
should either Mr. Smith or Mr.
Howell wish to appear before the
public as having an anti-corpora
tion record? Do they not believe
in being just to the corporations,
in dealing with them fairly? If
they do why do they not prefer to
have a record for insisting upon
what is right for both corporations
and the people rather than for a
record as fighters of corporations?
“The people don't want the cor
porations wrecked. They couldn’t
get along without them. In fact,
they are calling for them all the
time to build railroads, mills and
to engage in other sorts of enter
prises for the development of the
state. The purpose of a states
man, therefore, should be to have
them dealt with justly—to see to it
that they get what they are en
titled to and nothing more, and
that they do not become the op
pressors of the people. If this is
the right position why should an
anti-corporation record be thought
so desirable by anyone seeking the
suffrages of the people?”’ l
WOULD FEED ON THE SCUM.
A great deal is being said by some
of the newspapers, commercial bodies
and the railroads about the necessity
for an immigration bureau in Georgia.
The Bainbridge Search Light has ex
‘pressed some pointed views on the
‘subject which The News endorses.
Our contemporary says:
“The chances are that the next
legislature will have before it
another spasm of immigration
talk. The scheme to spend money
through an immigration bureau is
one that can rid the state treasury
of a great many dollars at short
notice, and should be squelched at
once. What the state needs is the
natural influx of good citizens to
this section, and they will come
just as fast without the aid of an
immigration bureau, whose anxie
ty would be to make as big a show
down as possible, and would there
fore feed the law on the scum of
civilization.”’
THE long-continued spell of wet
weather has played havoe with the cot
ton fields, not only in this but in oth
er states throughout the cotton belt.
The crop will be late, and in the boll
weevil zone this will be favorable to
the propagation of the insect, which
is likely to materially reduce the pro
duction.
The Challenge Issued; The Howelis
and the Smiths in Georgia Politics
From the Savannah Press.
The little passage between Hon.‘
Clark Howell and Hon. Hoke Smith
is very interesting. The Press has!
kept up with it from start to finish,l
and has given Savannah the principal
information in regard to this interest
ing and unexvected development.
The Howells and the Smiths are
old time political enemies in Atlanta.
Time was when the elder Howell ed
ited the Constitution and Hoke Smith
owned the Atlanta Journal. They
were very close rivals in business and
in politics, and when the Constitution|
took the David B. Hill end of the[
democratic controversy in 1392 the
Journal had the good sense to take
the Grover Cleveland side. KEvery
body remembers that contest. It was
decided in favor of Grover Cleveland
by the action of Chatham county,l
which sent Cleveland delegates to the
state convention thirteen years ago.
The majority in the state convention
was very small, but Hon. Pope Bar
row of Chatham was elected president
of the convention as a Cleveland man.
The Georgia delegates to Chicago
were uninstructed, but the majority of
them voted for Cleveland. Hon.
Hoke Smith was pressed by Judge L.
Q. C. Lamar upon Mr. Cleveland for
a member of the cabinet. He was
looked ,upon as the anti-Hill, anti-
Howell type in Georgia, and he was
‘elevated to the cabinet as secretary of
‘interior. The Howells waited, and
‘when the free silver issue developed
‘they got even with Cleveland by tak
.ing up that cause and carrying Geor
oia over the head of the cabinet ofti
cer. The associated press telegraph
ed from Atlanta in 1896 that the capi
tal city and the ward in which Mr.
Hoke Smith lived had decided for free
silver. They made it so warm that
Mr. Smith had to resign from the
cabinet and come home to his paper,
which just then found itself out of
touch with the masses in Georgia.
Hoke Smith had the argurment on his
side, of course, but the Howells had
the people with them. .
The candidacy of Hoke Smith at
this time would be peculiarly pointed.
Mr. Smith is a successful lawyer, is
credited with being a wealthy man
and would contest with Mr. Howell
Fulton county itself. He has always
been looked upon as anti-corporation
in his views: his opinions and his law
practice are that way. So when Hon.
Clark Howell challenged him to com
pare records on the corporation ques
ltion Hoke Smith was visibly nettled.
This record is just where he believes
FORMER CONGRESSMAN MADDOX,
who has been looked upon as a prob
able candidate for governor, an
nounces that he is not physically or
financially fit for the ordeal. He will
support Clark Howell.
THE Washington (Ga.) Chronicle is
107 years old, and the Augusta Chron
icle 120 years. It is not given out,
says the Marietta Journal, whether
they use tobacco or whiskey. Very
likely some of both.
} FORT G AINES is having spasms of
ijoy because she won some ball games
from Dawson. And it is all right that
‘she should. Any town that Dbeats
Dawson doing anything is entitled to
jubilate.
THE Macon Telegraph and the At
lanta News are now in a controversy
over the ‘‘Parker trick.”” That’s an
cient history. brethren: and besides,
1t is not in good form to disturb the‘
dead.
THE next governor of Georgia will
be a man who has had no connection,
either by association or sympathy,
with the bushwhacking crowd in the
democratic party. Howell that do?
HOKE SMITH says he is very much
inclined to accept Clark Howell's
challenge to compare records before
the people of Georgia. Better be care
ful, gentlemen.
DAwsON keeps right in the front of
progressive towns. First-class sys
tems of sewerage and waterworks
owned by the town will be a long
stride forward.
TEDDY is rapidly getting to be the
whole thing. The Southern Indus
trial Parliament, recently in session,
passed the strenuous one a boquet or
two.
HuMAaNITY demands the passage of
of a child labor bill by the legisla
ture, the cotton mill men to the con
trary notwithstanding.
’ BLAKELY'S new brick depot has
turned out to be an addition to the
‘old structure. That’s more than Daw
‘son has been able to get.
Mgr. HOKE SMITH cannot be elected
governor of Georgia. If he is shrewd
he will not make it necessary for the
people to convince him.
To make a campaign for almost any
kind of an office in Georgia now a
man must be robust financially as
well as physically. |
THE Cuthbert Leader wants it un
derstood that it never advised the
farmers to hold their cotton, nor how
to pitch their crops.
PACKERS in the beef trust say they
are treated like common criminals. i
They evidently think they are uncom
mon criminals.
A SAVANNAH man has coughed up
a snail. Is there an explanation in
that of why the dear old town is so
slow?
THAT man Rojesvensky has surely
acted queer for a fellow with shattered
nerves.
Ihimself to be strong, and where he
evidently considers his opponent to
'be weak. He answers Mr. Howell’s
dare with spirit, and confesses that it
may bring-him out as a candidate for
governor. ‘
Now, Hoke Smith has never been
‘a candidate for any public office in
‘Georgia. He has closely interested
himself with educational work, having
‘been president of the public school
system in Atlanta for a long time. He
has been identified with the reform
element of the party. as The Press has
alreadyv said. The Parker victory in
Georgia last July was largely due to
Hoke Smith’s personal effort. Heis
the embodiment of opposition to the
present political regime. He is very
strong in Georgia, particularly in
south Georgia. The Press doubts
' whether he will run for governor at
‘this time, although his friends say
jthat he may be brought out for gov
ernor or United States senator in the
[future. The Howells have alwa_\'s|
been in public life. They have never
hesitated to make the issue in Fult()ni
county before the people. Kven P']
Howell has been member of the house‘
twice for Fulton county and state sen
ator from the Thirty-fifth distriet.
Clark Howell has been twice a mem
ber of the house and has twice repre
sented the same district. Even How
ell has been elected mayor of the city.
Hoke Smith was spoken of as execu
tive committeman from Georgia in
1892, but the personal popularity of
Clark Howell kept the latter in place
in spite of the Cleveland boom.
| _There is Clark Howell's strength.
1 Personally he is very popular and ge
| nial; knows more men by name in the
state than anybody outside of Joe Ter
rell or Treasurer Park. Of course he
will have the Constitution back of
him, while Hoke Smith will probably
have the Journal behind him. Each
man will have access to a barrel if he
runs. The reform element in democ
racy is said to be restless for a
{change. It was stirred up by DuPont
Guerry two years ago. 1t may be
further brought out by Hoke Smith
next year. Both men are strong rep
resentatives of their school of politics.
““The men who control,”” if they win
at all, can best win with Clark How
’ell. The reform element, if they have
any hopes, are wise to center them on
Hoke Smith. This contest would, of
course, wipe out the line between north
and south Georgia, but it would em
phasize the issues between the different
elements of the democratic party in
this state.
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City Ordinance.
Be it ordained, and it is hereby ordained and
enacted by authoritv of the City Council of Daw
son, Ga., that from and after the passage of this
Ordinauce it shall be unlawful for anyone who is
not a member of the fire department to get upon
or ride upon any wagon, truck, engine or other
vehicle while en route to or from any fire, or
while passing through the streets or other places,
unless said party or parties have been previously
invited by the chief of the fire department or the
driver in charge of the vehicle to do so, which is
used by the fire department of the city of Dawson
for extinguishing fires.
Be it enacted that all ordinances or parts of
ordinances in conflict be and are hereby repealed.
Be it enacted that violation of the above ordi
nance shall be punished in the manner prescribed
in section 186 of the code of the city of Dawson.
Passed a 8 an emergency ordinance at regular
meeting of the City Council of Dawson. This
May 2nd, 1905. CHAS DEUBLER,
R. E.:BELL, Clerk. Mavor Pro Tem.
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For Guardianship.
GEORGTA. TERRELL COUNTY. Ordinary’s Ofs
fice. May 1. 1905. Miss Amanda Brown, of said
county, applies to me for letters of guardianship
of the person and property of Mary Brown, of
said county. This is. therefore, to nntiffi all per
sons concerned to show cause, if any they can,
on or before the first Monday in June next, why
letters of guardianship should not be granted
said applicant as applied for.
J. W. ROBERTS, Ordinary.
. . . .
For Dismission.
GEORGIA, TERRELL CoUNTY. Ordinary’s Ofe
fice, April 29, 1905, J. R. Mercer, administrator of
the estate of Owen Dodwell, deceased, represents
to me that he has fully discharged the duties o
his said trust, and prays for letters of dismission.
This is. therefore, to notify all persons concern
ed to show cause, if any they can, on or before
the first Monday in June next, why said adminis=-
trator should not be discharged from his said
trust. J. W. ROBERTS, Ordinary.
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For Administration.
GEORGIA. TERRELL CouNTY. Ordinary’s Of
fice, May 1, 1905. >usie Johuson, of said county.
applies to me for letters of administration on the
estate of J. S. Johnson, late of said county, de
ceased. This is, therefore, to notify all concerned
to show cause, if any they can, on or before the
first Monday in June next, why letters should not
be granted said applicant as applied for.
4 W ROB%RTS. Ordinary.
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Notice to Contractors.
Bids wanted for construction of a city and fire
hall for Dawson, Ga. Bids will be received un
til noon, June 6, 1905. Plans and speciflcations
can be seen at the office of City Clerk, Dawson,
Ga., or Lockwood Bros.. Architects. Columbus,
Ga. Right reserved to rerj!ect any or all bids.
J. R. MERCER, Mayor.
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B. F. Amos, Builder.
Commuaicate with B. L. Amos, Dawson post
office, if you wish to let a contract for building.
Guarantees to do satis actory building in strict
conformity to specifications at lowest possible
price.
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Money to Loan.
The Georgia Loan and Trust Company loans
money at 6 per cent per annum on real estate.
Prompt service guaranteed. [f you want to bore
row money see H. A. WILKINSON.
For Sale or Exchange.
Residence corner Stonewall and Fulton streets.
Residence on Church street. See me at once for
a bargain. W. H. DAVIS.
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Two mules cheap. J. R. IRWIN.
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