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The Dawson iews
PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT $l.OO PER YEAR
BY E. L. RAINEY.
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Entcred at the Postoffice at Dawson,
Ga.. as Second Class Mail Matter.
DAWSON, GA., Serr. 23, 1908,
A GREAT TRUTH.
How often is a great truth spoken
in jest.
Clarence S. Darrow, the eminent
lJegal defender of Eugene V. Debs,
and of Haywood and Pettibone, was
the principal speaker at a recent
gathering of two thousand socialists
in New York. Jokingly he said:
“I am a friend of the working
man. It is easier to be a friend
of the working man than to be
a working man. I've done al
most everything in connection
with the labor question except |
to work.” l
Just so, Mr. Darrow. Excluding
you, for ‘‘present company is always
excepted,’” it is generally the case
that the ‘“friend of the working
man,” and the ‘“‘friend of the farm
er,”’ too, does not work or farm. It
takes all of his time and energies to
tell these large classes of our people
of his tender regard, and to bamboo.
zle them into putting him into an
easy political berth. His ‘“friendship”
generally proftts him greatly, but
rarely does it accomplish much for
those on whom he Dbestows his
friendship.
The working man's friends and the
farmer's friends are their own com
mon senses, their energy, their hon
esty—not the fellow who can talk
well and invent a great many ficti
tious wrongs while doing nothing to
right real evil.
; WHY TAFT WILL STUMP.
When Mr. Taft was first nominated
it was given out that he would be
guilty of no such ‘‘bad taste’ as the
making of a car-platform and car-tail
campaign. He would sit in serene
dignity on his own front porch and
receive admirers, and when delega
tlons were numerous enough to war
rant it would address them in speech
es and tlus give wide publicity to
his views on all public questions.
But that plan hasn't panned out.
Everybody knows that the visits of
delegations, like the prolonged cheer
ing and great enthusiasm at the con
ventions, are not spontaneous, but
are all cut and dried by the campaign
managers and political boomers.
Very few individuals are willing to
travel far at their own expense in
order to convey to a waiting candi
date assurance of their profound ad
miration. There are thousands who
would gladly journey half way across
the continent and wring the hand of
a candidate if it cost nothing. But
it does cost.
In the old days of railway passes
the thing was easy enough—especial
ly for the republican party. Mr.
Hanna and the others had no diffi
culty in arranging for a visiting dele
gation at any hour of the day. But
those were the good old days. Now
gverybody who rides on a train must
pay for his transportation, and since
the individual will not pay the cost
of travel the expense on the part of
these visiting admirers must be pro
vided for by the national committee.
Even with the republicans the
money is not coming in any too free
ly, and the management discovers
that it is cheaper for Mr. Taft to
visit the people than for the people
to visit him. Consequently he must
give up his front porch ease, and
go on a number of speech-making
tours. It is another case of Mahomet
going to the mountain, owing to the
persistent disinclination of the moun
tain to go /to Mahomet.
ENTHUSIASTICALLY RECEIVEO.
Governor-elect Brown is making
visits to some of the principal towns
and cities of the state. Friday
night he was in Savannah, where he
received a majority of more than
three thousand votes in the primary,
and was given a great ovation. From
there he went to Waycross, Valdosta,
Quitman, Tifton and Cordele, and
will very probably be in Albany to
day. Everywhere Governor lh'own}
has been enthusiastically received.!
The people in all parts of Georgia
are like those of Atlanta and Mari
etta, where he has lived all of his
life—the more they see of him and
the better they know him the more
they like him.
The chief difference between the
nouse and the senate was that the lat
ter wanted to end the convict lease
right now regardless of the fact that
the state had no money with which to
meet the heavy expenses of the
change, and the house wanted to see
at least a prospect of getting the
needed cash before revolutionizing
the system and saddling another tre
mendous financial burden upon a
people whose public treasury is al
ready in an impoverished condition.
l MOVING ALONG BRISKLY.
The national campaign is going
along right briskly, and even mer
rily. Both of the great political par
ties are doing their level best, and
both profess reasonable confidence as
to the outcome. Mr. Bryan, it may
be said, is displaying all of his old
time vigor and purpose, and is mak
ing talks that seem to impress
voters in the doubtful—or supposed
ly doubtful-—states, where he is ('on-l
centrating his efforts. It is in those
states where the real excitement and
effort of politics is felt and seen.
We don't know anything about that |
in Georgia. In many of the northernt
states democrats and republicans
wage combats such as when, we have
been told, whig and democratic bat
,tlod for supremacy. And by thei
eternal, if all accounts are true,:
those were grand old days, with epi
’sodes and incidents that put the best
‘men of both parties on their metal;[
‘that made the blood tingle; that pro- |
voked patriotic enthusiasm, and bred
statesmen and law-givers worthy of
the name. Here, thanks to our un
questioned majority, we have only
conflicts between democratic politi
cians and office-seekers, and often
“two for a quarter’ politicians at
that figure in the opera bouffe melo
drama that we (in blissful ignorance’
of the real thing) call politics. But,
anyway, the national campaign is go
ing on briskly. Bryan is making a
brave and gallant fight, appealing to
the patriotism and common sense of
the masses, and it may be that he
will win and give the United States
what is needed—a change in political
administration. Mr. Bryan is a pa
triot, and for that matter so is Mr.l
Taft, but “it is time to turn the
rascals out and get a peep at the!
books.”
Mr. Bryan set a commendable ex
ample on a recent Sunday in a Mary
land town, where he stopped to rest
for the day, when he positively de
clined to make a political talk to a
large audience that had assembled
without his previous knowledge to
hear him. It is to the credit of the
democratic nominee that without any
cant or parade he proclalmed pub
licly that respect for the christian
sentiment of the country which has
made Sunday a day of abstention
from worldly affairs—at least in cer
tain lines.
Will Hearst and Tom Watson have
both lost their running mates of
former campaigns. Lewis Chanler,
who ran for lieutenant-governor of
New York on the ticket with Mr.
Hearst two years ago and was elect
ed, has just been nominated by the
democrats of that state for governor,
and Tom Tibbles, who ran for vice
president with Mr. Watson four years
ago, is now enthusiastically support
ing Bryan.
Judge Parker says President
Roosevelt's administration created
99,000 additional federal office-hold
ers at an additional expense of $70,-
000,000. This was about ten times
as many new office-holders as were
created under Cleveland and McKin
ley and at over eleven times the addi
tional expenditure. lls it any won
der Teddy lis popular—with the
office-holders? aks a contemporary.
Hon. Aden B. Stansell, editor of
the South Georgia Home at Grove
land, is a candidate for state pension
commissioner, and his announcement
appears in the advertising columns
of The News. Editor Stansell is a
son of a confederate soldier, and it
elected it will be a pleasant duty
for him to look after the welfare
of these old patriots.
} eet et e
The Georgia State Fair, which
will be held in Macon next month
under the auspices of the State Agri
cultural Society and the Macon Fair
Association, is going to be worth
seeing. But then, Macon is noted for
its agricultural fairs. They have
always been the best given in Geor
gia, and this one isn't going to be
an exception.
The Darien Gazette says ‘loving
kindness sprinkled all along the road,
even in a campaign year, would make
us all feel better.”” Sure Mike!
Greatest Conflict Since the Crusades.
As Mr. Carrington Phelps truly
says in one of his articles in the
Broadway Magazine, the mightiest
moral conflict waged since the days
of the Crusades js now under way
in the United States of America—
the fight against the liquor traffic,
and the right of the liquor traffic to
hold its ground. In this conflict
many elements of society and many
forces and organizations are engaged,
and capital and investments repre
senting over six billions of dollars
and over 5,000,000 people are en
gaged. It is the conflict of the cen
turies, the stranger that it has origi
nated in this comparatively new
country rather than in Europe, where
civilization is old.
“MODEL FOR EVERY WEEKLY
NEWSPAPER.”
From the Atlanta Georgian.
One would have to go far and
search long to find a better all
round weekly newspaper than
The Dawson News. Editor E. L.
Rainey is a very capable man,
and is holding his paper up to
a very high standard. The Daw
son News is a model for every
weekly newspaper in the country
to emulate.
WWMWW
If All Would Pay Up.
It all would pay their bills prompt
ly it would enable everybody else
to pay up, and would leave nobody
ran)' poorer. Much of the stringency
of the present time is due to the fact
that people who have money will not
pay their debts with it. That only
forces other people to put their cred
itors off and stop the circulation
which causes healthy conditions. Ten
dollars might pay a thousand dollars
in debts in a day if the man who has
it would start it going.
The farmer who sells his cotton
should pay his debts immediately,
and the man he pays should turn
about and pay some one else. He,
in turn, should do the same thing.
What is needed right now is a
general settling up all along the line.
—-Quitman Free Press.
European advices state that a
large surplus of cotton and cotton
goods is in stock. It may be that
cotton will continue to sell very low
this season unless some effort is
made to keep off of the market the
million bales that will perhaps ex
ceed the needs on account of the de
pressed business conditions.
The extraordinary session of the
legislature, the first since the adop
tion of the present state constitu
tion more than a quarter of a cen
tury ago, was extraordinary in more
ways than one. It was one of the
biggest blunders that has happened
in sometime.
The Americus Times-Recorder
charges the Georgia legislature with
having eaten up several good farms
during the extra session. Incidental
ly it has also destroyed several
square meals at the state’'s expense,
observes the Rome Tribune.
Joe Brown says he will vote for
Bill Bryan, and Hoke Smith says he
will vote for Joe Brown. That’s
good. Now, let everybody quit their
foolishness and usher in the era of
loving kindness Dick Grubb has been
pleading for.
Hon. John W. Kern, the demo
cratic candidate for vice-president,
will make a speech in Macon on Oc
tober 3rd. He will be given a rous
ing Georgia welcome, and made to
feel that he is among friends and
democrats.
Did you ever! Atlanta even tired:
of the legislature, and a hundred of
her ‘“foremost citizens” met and
passed resolutions asking the mem-j
bers to go home. |
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The Macon News has written a
lengthy editorial on *“‘The Price ofi
Whiskey.”” What difference does iti
make? You can't buy any in Geor-i
gia. |
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The Macon Telegraph says that?
word ‘‘near’” is overworked much
nowadays; a “near” rest would be
welcome. That's a “near” truth.
The governor of Indiana has called ‘
an extra session of the legislature of
that state. He probably hadn’'t heard
the news from Georgia.
A contemporary rises to ask
“What are we to do with the ladies
and gentlemen in the convict camps?”’
It is feared that some of the col
ored people will not desert the re
publican party this vear.
et
After all, it was just a ‘‘near’ ar
ibitration of the telephone question.
Asia, the birthplace of the human
race and the oldest land, witnessed
the first movement against strong
drink. Mohammed, the Arabian
prophet, was the first great prohibi
tionist. The religion he founded
forbids the drinking of intoxicants,
and all consistent Mohammedans,
even today, are abstainers. But with
that execption the war on liquor has
been limited to America, the New
Land. Christian Europe and Bud
dhistic Asia are looking curiously at
what the descendants of the Pilgrims
and the Cavaliers are doing in the
new land.
How will the conflict terminate,
and of what nature will be the set
tlement or adjustment? That is the
question.
THE DAWSON NEWS.
ALL AFTER BRYAN. WHY?
From the Macon Telegraph.
W. R. Hearst industriously seeks
a controversy with W. J. Bryan on
any or no excuse. He alleged that
Bryvan offered to make a deal with
him to obtain his support, and when
Bryan curtly replies ‘‘absolutely
false'” Hearst says, well, Bryan said
something to him in a private and
confidential conversation that led
him to infer as much. So if he had
not been a liar in the first instance,
as charged by Bryan, he confessedly
violated a confidence, which, under
the code of ethics current among
gentlemen, is worse than a lie, be
cause the violator of the trust is dis
tinctly put upon his honor. But the
point is, he will resort to anything,
no matter how desperate, to injure
Brvan, the democratic candidate.
Why?
John Temple Graves challenges
John W. Kern, the democratic can
didate for vice-president, to a joint
debate. He has not challenged
“standpatter’” and Trust Representa
tive James 8, Sherman, the republi
can candidate for vice-president, to
a joint debate. He has not chal
lenged Thomas E. Watsdn to a joint
debate. We have the strange specta
¢le in this campaign of men going
around with chips on their shoulders
looking for antagonists bigger than
themselves. The only candidate who
does not want a controversy with Mr.
Bryan and is desperately anxious to
dodge him is Mr. William Howard
Taft, the candidate supposedly in the
class with Mr. Bryan, and certainly
the only one who has any chance to
defeat him for the presidency. The
little fellows are all after Bryan and
the big one is dodging him.
Why?
There is usually a motive behind
all human actions, and circumstan
tial evidence is sometimes stronger
than positive testitmony in detecting
it because people do not always
frankly admit their motives even to
themselves. The strong circumstan
tial evidence in this case points to
the conclusion that the little fellows
are in a conspiracy with the big one
to sandbag his antagonist and give
. Discord in the Vest-Pocket Party.
IFrom the Wrightsville Chronicle.
They tell wus that distord has
cropped, out already in the ranks of
the Independence party in Georgia.
Each manager thinks he’s inde
pendent of every other manager, hav
ing seemingly forgotten that all of
of them ‘have all the time had one
great big boss, to-wit: The Honora
ble Wm. Randolph Hearst, origina
tor, millionaire owner, and private
backer of the so-called misnamed
party aforesaid.
We are not informed as yet as
to whether the aforesaid Big Boss
put his hand on the sore spot and
applied some golden lotion when he
was in Georgia last week or not.
But we opine that he did his best
to produce harmony; and where the
soft words of a Graves wrought
nothing surely there was none to
cure unless that one be the Big Boss.
Speaking of independents, don’t
laugh boys when John Temple and
Mr. Hisgen are mentioned—llikewise
er-r, who is the feller whose runnin’
agin Brown?
When Bryan Stumped Boutelle.
From the New York World.
During the pendency of the Wilson
tariff bill Boutelle of Maine, who had
the floor, was earnestly claiming that
the foreigner paid the tariff duty. A
young man arose on the democratic
side and desired to ask the gentleman
from Maine a question. Boutelle
glanced at him and told him to go
ahead.
“If the foreigner pays the duty
why did the gentleman from Maine
in congress present here a bill re
quiring that all the salt to be used
by the fisheries in Maine should be
admitted free of duty?”
Boutelle could not answer, where
upon the same gentleman asked the
gentleman from Maine this question:
“If the foreigner pays the duty
why did that same gentleman, after
a certain town in Maine had been
destroyed by fire, offer here a bill
requiring that all the material to be
used in the rebuilding of that town
should be admitted free of duty?”
Boutelle could not answer. T
asked the man who was seated be
side me to kindly inform me of the
name of the questioner.
He replied that it was Bryan of
Nebraska. (Vide Congressional
Record.)
FROM CYPRESS POND.
We sympathize with Mr. and Mrs.
Green Norman in tne death last
Thursday morning of their three
months-old babe, Robert.
Mrs. Leila Kennedy is at the bed
side of her father, Mr. Jesse Tucker,
who is very sick with fever.
Mr. Scott has just about completed
his new house, and now intends to
put rods on it soon.
Mrs. Annie Turner of Sumter
county is at the home of her father
to spend a while.
Mrs. Hancock of Tifton and Mrs.
Ethridge of Bronwood have visited
Mrs. Ben Hooks.
Miss Allie Lawhon of Bartow, Fla.,
is the guest of Mrs. Nadie Kennedy,
Mr. Marlin McLeod is out again
after a spell of fever.
Master Tom Kennedy is improv
ing.
A Paying Investment,
Mr. John White of 38 Highland
avenue, Houlton, Maine, says:
“‘Have been troubled with ga cough
every winter and spring. ILast win
ter I tried many advertised reme
dies, but the cough continued wuntil
I bought a 50c¢ bottle of Dr, King’s
New Discovery; before that was half
gone the cough was all gone. This
winter the same happy result has
followed; a few doses once more ban
ished the annual cough. T am now
convinced that Dr. King's New Dis
covery is the best of all cough and
lung remedies.” Sold under guaran
tee at Dawson Drug Co's. 50c¢ and
$l.OO. Trial bottle free.
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Little Joe Was Given a Great Qvatipy in
Savannah, and Made a Stirring Speec),
e S i s TR
.~ Governor Joseph M. Brown was
the guest of honor at a democratic
;rally in Savannah Friday night, and
ithe Morning News says it was one
of the greatest political demonstra
‘tions that city has ever known. The
following is a short extract from the
Morning News’ lengthy account of
the occasion:
“It was a ‘glorious occasion for the
‘democracy of Chatham county and
for Georgia. The entrance of the
‘Hon. Joseph M. Brown was a signal
for an outburst of applause which
did not cease until after the guest
of honor had walked the length of
the hall and taken his seat. The
vast audience stood while Mr. Brown
and the committee filed through the
crowds.
“Mr. Brown made two speeches,
and made a good impression both
times. What he may lack in stature
he more than made up in clearness
of thought, perfectness jof diction
and force of utterance. His friends,
who are familiar with Mr. Brown’'s
retiring disposition, were surprised
and gratified at the degree of ag
gressiveness and forcefulness which
he displayed in handling his theme.
“The impression which Mr. Brown
made on the crowd is vastly different
from the impression which those who
were unfriendly to him in the recent
campaign sought to create. His
statement that when he becomes gov
ernor of the great state of Georgia
he will not be the governor of any
faction, but of all the Georgians, was
heartily approved. In the course of
his speech Mr. Brown said:
“We Are All Georgians.”
‘“T do not intend to know that
there was a division in our councils
before the June primary when it
For cheap homes in Early county write
to R. H. Sheffield, Blakely, Georgia,
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l Special Notices. '
For Sale.
500 bushels of improved Tool cot
ton seed. Price o 0 cents per bush
el. J. H: DAVIS,
Stove Wood.,
We have a large quantity of stove
wood cut to length, and can deliver
promptly.
THE VARIEIY WORKS CO.
Sanitary Lime,
We have reduced the price on san
itary lime to 50 cents per barrel.
Phone No. 48.
THE VARIETY WORKS CO.
Pair of Horses for Sale.
I offer a pair of six-year-old home
raised horses for sale. They are
sound and gentle. Will sell one or
both. H. A, PHEITY.
For Rent,
One five-room house on Eighth
avenue; possession given Jan. 1,
1909, Apply to Mrs. W. J. GCham
bless.
For Sale, ‘
Scholarship in the Georgia-Morse
Telegraph School. Will sell at re—}
duced price. Call on Drane Lawhon.}
at J. L. Edwards’ store. l
Lost,
On Wednesday a. m., either on or-|
ange, Stonewall or Main street, an
envelope containing $lO and $5 bill.
Address of R. .. Kimbrough on en
velope. Finder will return to News
office.
| Do Ditching.
1 am still here for work, and
everyone in need of my services can
get them by dropping me a letter
at Dawson, Ga. I am a ditcher of
29 years experience, and thoroughly
understand the work. I can get all
the labor I need at any time.
CHARLEY CARTER.
Notice of Business Change.
I have bought R. E. Foster's busi
ness in Bronwood, Ga., known as the
Bronwood Picture House, and will
conduct it in the future. I assume
the bills of the Bronwood Picture
House now due if presented within
thirty days, and will pay the same.
The continued patronage of the pub
lic is solicited and satisfaction guar
anteed. This Sept 7, 1908.
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P. Allen at Dawson Drug
Co’s. All work guaranteed.
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'comes to the administration of tha
office of governor,” saig Mr. Browy
I intend to forget that there Were
such things as Hoke Smith men and
Joe Brown men before the Primary
I intend to convince you, ang a 1 oth
ers over the state, that we are Geop
gians.
" "I believe that men shoulg be tog
great in soul, no matter how smal
in body, to cherish animosity against
those who happened to differ froy,
them. 1 concede to €vVery man tpe
right to vote for whom he Pleaseqd .
and do not harbor resentment against
‘him because he didn’t vote for me.
- ‘“And when my administration je
over, God permitting that | may take
my seat as governor, | hope to haye
discharged my duty so that you may
with truthfulness say that Joe Brown,
carried no animosity into the higp
office with him. :
Applause Was Frequent.
Everything Mr. Brown said wag
applauded. And when he arose the
second time to thank Gen. Peter W.
Meldrim for a beautiful tribute tq
the good qualities of the guest of
honor Mr. Brown could scarcely pro
ceed with his remarks for the ova
tion that was given him. Adopting
the word ‘“Faith,” which Gen. Mel
drim had so beautifully used, Mr.
Brown said it had been uppermost in
his mind.
‘ “There was never an instant from,
the time when 1 announced my con
didacy that I had the slightest douht
that the result would be what it
was,” he said. ‘This was because ]
had faith in the people of Georgia,
I determined in the beginning of the
campaign that I would Say nothing
and write nothing that would leave
a stain behind it. It is for you to
say whether I did or not.”
Did you see Hall, the 3
tin plate artist, with the 2
two Crouches as seconds? 3
Say. we can put up a 3
Job of tin work that a 3
novice can see good points ;
in. 1
DR. CHAS. F. CROUCH
DENTIST
DAWBON, 7 : ! GEORGIA
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Office over store occupied by J.
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solicited. Work guaranteed.
Office phone No. 30.
DR. S. D. BOWMAN.
Office Adams’ old place, 21-22
Baldwin building. Hours 7a.
to 6 p. m. Office phone 163,
residence phone 81.
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Physician and Surgeon
BRONWOOD, : GEORGIA.,
All calls promptly answered
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I offer my professional services
to the people of Sasser and
vicinity,