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Decided That as a Party Organization” It Has No Ju
risdiction. Spicy Talk From Start to Finish.
Another chapter has been added
to the continued story of the effort
to abolish the City Court of Dawson.
It was done Saturday at one of the
most interesting political meetings
that has occurred in a long while.
At the request of thirteen of the
eighteen members the chairman
called a meeting of the democratic
executive committee for Saturday for
the purpose of submitting the ques
tion of abolishing the city court to
a vote of the people at the state elec
tion in October.
When the committee was called to
order the following answered to thair
names on roll call: M. C. Edwards,
echairman; G. W. Bass, J, L. Hil,
3. M. Roberts, A. W. Fleming,
J. H. Senn, G. T. Marshall, B. W.
Aven, T. W. Haddock, W. S. Thorn
fon and G. W. Bell. J. G Dedan . A.T.
‘Wall and W. B. Dismuke were rep
feNented by J. R, Irwin as proxy,
J. H. Pritechard by B. W. Aven, and
J. W. Fillingame by H. A. Wilkin
son as proxy. The other two mem
bers of the committee, J. F. Cocke
and J. T. Waller, were absent. In
the absence of the secertary Mr. G.!
W. Bass acted in that capacity.
Chairman Edwards stated that the
request of the thirteen members for
a meeting of the committee for the
purpose of arranging for an election
on the city court had been handed
to him by Senator-elect J. R. Irwin,
who was one of the most active of
those who wanted to abolish the
court. He said that the meeting had
been called ‘“‘to consider such matters
as may legitimately come within the
purview of the comm.ttee,” and that
he had intentionally given the meet
ing a wider scope than the city court
question, as the conly duty of the
committee is to look after the affairs
and interests of the democratic party,
and not to take charge of matters
generally. He concluded by stating
that as he was judge of the city court
he would retire from the meeting in
order that the committee might be
relieved of any embarrassment -in
what it might do, and asked that
some one be called to the chair in'
his stead.
Get Down to Business,
The committee requested that he |
remain in the chair, and the real
business of the meeting was opened
by the introduction of a resolution by
Mr. Irwin providing that the question
of abolishing the city court be sub
mitted to the voters of the county at
the next state election.
Mr. H. A. Wilkinson gained the
fioor and proceeded to lambast the
proposition by declaring it to be the
most remarkable ever heard of. He
charged that an effort was being
made to have the democratic party
take a hand in a private and personal
matter, a matter which was in no
sense a party affair, and that the
committee would stultify itself if it
even attempted to deal with some
thing over which it had no jurisdic
tion. He defended the court., and
declared that notwithstanding state
ments to the contrary it was of bene
fit to the county. He further said
that nothing eould be gained or set
tled by a vote of the people, as the
court could only be abolished by the
legislature, which had refused to do
s 0 at its last two sessions. ‘“*You can
Yyote every day from now until
doomsday,” he declared, “and never
move the court an inch.” He asked
if an election was held who would
count and consolidate the votes, and
who the returns would be made to
to Mr. Irwin? The speaker also took
the position that there was no Inw|
or authority to put on the ballots
for the regular state election any
thing but the names of regular can
didates for office and question that
had been submitted by the Iv_szi.«]u—'
ture to the people. Anything else,
he said, might be illegal and in
validate the whole ticket.
Says the People Have Been Throtled.
Mr. Irwin took the floor in de
fense of his resolution, and for sev
eral minutes spoke earnestly in favor
of the people voting on the court.
1t is not pretended that a vote of
the people would settle the question,
he said, but it would settle one
thing, and that is whether the peo
ple of the county favor or oppose
‘he city court. What objection, he
)sked, could there be to this? The
lnes who oppose giving the people a
chance to express themselves, he de
clared, are those who would be
financially hurt by the court’s abol
ishment.
He charged that they had fought
before the legislature a proposition
to submit the question to the people,
and now they were at home contin-
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Announces to his patients and friends that he has
returned from his vacaticn, and is now at his office.
where he is ready to receive patients during his usu
al office hours—SB a. m. to 6 p. m.
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Dawson., Ga.
tof the voters of the county. The
ballot box is the only -‘way, he
sald. to get 4 definite and in
luqni\'m-al expression as to the
wishes of the people, and whenever
lit is gotton that way and the ques
{ tion brought up again at the next
session of the legislature it can't be
disputed, as was the petition of two
thirds of the voters. The efforts that
| were made to abolish the court in
i.-\tlanta before the legislature on two
occasions, with which readers of The
News are already familiar, were re
viewed.
An Unheard of Proposition.
At the conclusion of Mr. Irwin's
speech Chairman Edwards took the
lfloor and spoke against the resolu
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'GREAT LITERARY AND RELIG
~ IOUS FEAST TO BEGIN TONIGHT.
Opening Addres Will Be Made by Dr.
Rufus W. Smith, Who Will Speak
on *“Christian Womanhood." |
The chautauqua which will hegin
at the Methodist church tonight,‘
Wednesday, the 19th., is 4dttracting
considerable attention, and each ses
sion during the ten davs it will last
promises to be largely attended.
People in different parts of the state
pronounce the programme splendid.
Prof. Rufus W. Smith, who will de
liver the first address, is one of the
most unique speakers in the state.
He will be introduced by Prof F. E.
Land, superintendent of the Dawson
Public Schools. Dr. J. W. Malone,
who will speak on Thursday, will be
introduced by Prof. R. H. Hankin
son. |
Following is the programme for
the series of lectures and sermons:
August 19, 8 p. m.-——Address, Dr.
Rufus W. Smith, president LaGrange
Female College—Christian Woman
hood.
Aungust 20, 8 p. m.—Address, Dr.
J. W. Malone, president Andrew
Female College Denominational
Schools.
August 21, 8 p. m.—Address, Hon.
DuPont Guerry, president Weslevan
Female College—Relation of the
Church School to Civie Righteous-
Nness.,
August 23, 11 a. m.—Sermon by
Dr. J. E. Dickey, president Emory
College.
August 23, 8 p. m.—Sermon by
Dr. Dickey.
August 24, 8 p. m.—Address, Dr.
J. E. Dickey—lntrospection versus
the Outward Look.
August 25, 8 p. m.—Address, Prof.
E. A. Pound, superintendent Public
School of Waycross—@God’s Call to
Men.
August 26, S p. m.—Address, Rev.
B, Anthony, D D). of Americus--
Fundamental of Methodism.
August 27, 8 p. m.—Address, Rev.
Charles T. Clark of Lumpkin—The
Seriptural Mode of Baptism.
August 28, 8 p. m.—Address, Miss
Mary Johnstone of Dawson—Why I
Am Going as a Missionary to Korea.
August 30, 11 a. m.—Sérmon by
Bishop W. A. Candler of Atlanta.
August 30, 8 p. m.—Address by
Bishop Candler.
DEATH OF MR. BRIGHTWELL. |
Parrott Citizen Passes Away From
Hiness With Fever,
Mr. J. L. Brightwell died Thursday
night at his home in Parrott after
an illness of several days with ma
larial fever. The interment oc
curred in the cemetery there, Rev.
S. H. Grady performing the last sad
rites.
The deceased was fortyv-eight vears
of age, and is survived by a wife.
two children and several brothers
and sisters, among them Mrs. John
Leverett of Dawson.
The bereaved ones have the Sym
pathy of many friends.
Shot Birds Too Soon.
Three Dawson citizens were ar
rested for violating the game law,
and Tuesday morning were bhound
over for trial in the city court under
bond of $lOO each. The warrants
for their arrest were sworn out by
Mr. J. W. Shepherd, the county game
warden.
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tion. He said that the law governs
primaries, and defines what an ex
ecutive committee of a party can do.
No primary elections except for
the nomination of candidates, he
declared, are recognized by any
law. The resolution under con
sideration did not ecall a demo
cratic primary, but would admit
populists, republicans and negroes.
Never before had he heard of
the democratic party calling that
kind of an election. The author and
finisher of the city court, he said.
is the Georgia legislature, and no
other power on earth can touch it.
An election by a faction or party
would have no more effect on the
legislature than the wind which
blows through the trees.
Chairman Edwards said that when
he was appointed judge of the ctty
court Mr. Irwin was an applicant for
the job, but was turned down by the
bar, and has since been fighting the
court. He charged that that gentle
man’s antagonism to the court was
personal, and that if he was sitting
as judge he would be one of its
warmest champions now.
| Would It Be an Expression of the
People?
Mr. Edwards took the position that
if an election was called there was
no assurance that an expression of
the people would be obtained, as
there was no reason to believe that
!un_\'thing like a majority of them
would wvote —on the question, es
pecially as it would not accomplish
anything. He called attention to the
fact that in the prohibition election,
which was one of the hottest ever
‘held in the county, one-third of the
voters, enough to have carried the
election either way, did not g 0 to the
polls, but stayed at home. How they
would have voted nobody knows,.
You cannot force people to vote when
they don’t want to, and especially
would that be true in an election
gotten up by those on one side of a
question.
Why Not Vote on Other Things?
Mr. Edwards said that he had
noticed that some resolutions which
were introduced by Mr. Irwin at a
recent meeting proposed to abolish
the experimental station, and he sug
gested that this also be submitted to
the people at the same election. |
Mr. Wilkinson interrupted to say‘
that Mr. Irwin had run for the senate
on a platform that contained seven
planks, and he thought that if an
election was ordered on the city court
question all of them might be voted
on at the same time, especially the
one to abolish guano fillers.
Mr. Edwards concluded by saving
if the democratic committee, which
was nothing but a party organization,
called an election on this question it
would stultify itself as near as a
committee ever did.
He Wanted the $lOO a Day.
When Mr. Irwin arose to reply he
stated it was true that two years ago
he was a candidate for the judgeship
of the city court. He saw that the
court was paying a salary of $l,OOO
for ten or fifteen days’ work during
the year, and he wanted the job.
“I would be dog-gone glad to have
it now,” he said, *‘and if I had it
I would very likely be like Mr. Ed
wards—fighting to keep it.”
Mr. Irwin disclaimed personal
animosity toward any officer of the
court, and said he was fighting to
rid the people of it through a sense
of duty. The matter of the city
court, he said, was not injected into
his race for the senate. and never
came up, until the city court people
forced it on him. The legislature is
made up mostly of lawyers., who fa
vor courts of all kinds, and the peo
ple of ’l‘(\rroll“county will never get
rid of this court until they fall
in behind him and help him relieve
them of its burdensome expense.
Everything that is done will be ille
gal and improper in the opinion of
those who want to keep the court
for the sake of the moncy they make
OuUt of it
“‘Mr. Wilkinson tells vou,” he said,
“‘lhat you will stultify vourselves by
lmxlling this election. He is one of
' those who is benefited by the court
as a practicing lawyer, and he be
lieves that when you stop taking
money out of your own pockets to
pay the expenses of something that
puts money into his pocket vou will
stultify yourselves.’
Thought the People Should Vote.
Mr. E. W. Aven, one of the com
mitteemen from Parrott, said he was
a city court man, but believed the
people should vote on it and stop the
agitation. He suggested that the
matter might be settled by having
separate boxes for the ballots and
an extra set of managers on the day
of the state election.
This did not seem to meet with
the approval of the committee, and
after some further discussion and a
proposition to submit the question to
a white democratic primary Mr. Ir
win offered as a substitute for his
original resolution one calling a pri
mary for the first Wednesday in De
cember, Committeeman W. S.
Thornton wanted to know where the
money was to come from to pay the
expenses of this primary, when some
one offered an amendment to the res
olution requiring its author to de
posit $lOO for that purpose,
Mr. Thornton said it was clear to
his mind that the' whole question
was one over which the committee,
as a party organization, had no juris
diction, and made a motion that the
committee adjourn. The motion was
seconded by Mr. G. W. Bass, and on
being put by the chairman was
adopted, several voting for it and
only two against it.
The next chapter is awaited with
interest.
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THE DAWSON NEWS.
WENT TO THE SPRINGS TO WED.
Two Popular Dawson Young People
Married Sunday.
The wedding of Mr. Laborn Sears
and Miss Drucie English at Jackson
Sunday will be learned of with much
interest by the friends of the happy
couple in this, their home town. It
was an event of quite a romantic
character. :
Miss English left Dawson some
days ago for a visit to the popular
resort. Mr. Sears departed for the
springs on Saturday. On Sunday he
and Miss English drove over to Jack
son, where the words were pro
nounced which made them man and
wife. The couple then returned to
Indian Springs for a stay of a few
days, and are expected to arrive in
Dawson this (Wednesday) afternoon.
The brige is a young lady of
charming personality and of great
popularity. She recently resigned as
stamp clerk in the postoffice here,
which position she occupied for some
months. She is a daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. A. W. BEnglish of near
Herod. Mr. Sears possesses the es
teem of a host of friends, and is a
young man of recognized worth. He
is connected with Beavers’ livery
stable.
Innumerable congratulations and
expressions of good wishes await the
couple here.
DEATH OF A GOOD WOMAN.
Mrs. R. L. Watson Died Loved and
Esteemed by All
**Let us not with ungovernable sadness
L.ook on the face of our beloved dead,
But rather in profound and sacred gladness
With Jaurels crown the honored head,”
Even as calmly as the closing of
a Sabbath day passed a gentle soul
into the vast eternity. Mrs. ‘“Tip”’
Watson on the 26th. day of July,
1908, was called to that upper and
better home, where neither grief nor
pain may follow. Reared in Chick
asawhatchee, she added much toward
the moral happiness and uplift of
that community by her untiring ex
ample of love and gentleness. Her
death is mourned as only that of a
gentle friend, a dutiful wife and a
loving mother could be.
Mrs. Watson is survived by a hus
band and two small children, upon
whom the weight of their sorrow
rests like a cloud. Yet in the dim
distance shines a star which no mist
can veil—the star of hope.
*“For God has marked each sorrowing day,
And numbered every secret tear,
And Heaven's long age of bliss shall pay
For all His children sufferhere.””
When, upon that final day,
The mists of earth have rolled away,
Upon God’'s bright eterngl shore
Friends who meet shall part no more.
A FRIEND.
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| Card of Thanks.
‘ We wish to express our heart-felt
thanks to the people of Parrott and
lvicinity for their kind ministrations
and sympathy during the illness and
death of our brother, J. L. Bright
well.
MRS. JOHN LEVERETT.
MRS. E. D. PATTON.
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Cotton Warehousemen
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10 THE PEANTERS U 0 TE e
AND ADJOINING COUNTIES.
wITH thanks for your past patronage we again tender
you our services in handling your cotton crop during
the coming season. We feel assured tnat by long experience
in the cotton business and being in elose touch by wire with
home and foreign markets we can procure for you the highest
market price on the day of sale. OGur best efforts will be given
to your interest. An ample supply of bagging and ties always
on hand at the lowest market price. Mr. J. W. Gurr will he
with us again this season, and will be pleased to serve all
of his friends.
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DAWSOUN, : ; : : GEORGIA
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And City Property for Sale
I have fifteen or twenty splendid farms, well improved in
every way, and in a high state of cultivation, which I am in
position to offer cheap. Terrell is the banner county of the
State, and parties investing in Terrell county dirt will surely
hit it goou, for these lands will soon bring double the price
they can be had for now. It will be to your interest to in
vestigate,
Some Dawson Snaps
I also am offering valuable real estate in Pawson, both im
proved and unimproved. If you want to buy a home or a
building lot in a desirable section of the city you should see
me. If you have farm or city property you desire to dispose
of let me handle it for you.
J. A. Horsley, Real Estate Agent
Dawson, - - . Georgia
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