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THE DAWSON NEWS
By E. L. RAINEY.
WHO GETS THE MONEY?
Y
: e
The Many Millions It Takes to
Elect a President,
Em———
OVER-RICH HELP REPUBLICANS
il
.Mm“‘ fianna Collected and Spent
Nine Million Dollars to Elect Mc-
Kinley, While Bryan Assembled
Less Than a Paltry Three-Quarters
of a Million. Funds This Year.
'+ costs a lot of money to conduct
5 presidential campaign. The legiti
mate expenses—such as those for
printing and mailing politieal litera
ture, hiring halls and paying the ex
penses of orators and spellbinders—
amount to large proportions. But
the illegitimate outlay far exceeds
that which is lawful and honorable.
What then becomes of this illegally,
expended money SO lavishly con
triputed to the cause of , the candi
jates? Who gets it? And why?
s there any doubt that the great
pulk of it goes to purchaseable
voters? 1s there any. doubt that a
considerable amount sticks to the fin
sers of the so-called local political
igadm‘,\'.‘ The answer to both these
queries must be a negative one.
Everybody knows that in every elec
tion, especially in a presidential year,
tens of thousands of votes are bought
in the open market. The knowledge
is common property, but the facts
are not always easy to prove in a
criminal court. Every communityi
has its proportion of venal voters
and its quota of criminals who make:
the purchases. The buying and sell
inzg of votes is illegal, but the of
fense goes on openly, the only cau
tion exercised being in connection
with the actual transfer of the
noney
Fortunately big corporations will
not be permitted to send in their
enormous checks this year, and as a
consequence the campaign funds will
be smaller than for some years past.
As a result there will be less buying
of votes. At least the prices paid
will be smaller,
Because of the faet that it has
been so long in power and also be
cause the majority of the over-rich
are its adherents, the republican par
tv always has by far the larger cam
paign fund. This year the sum to be
raised by the republicans is esti
mated at $3,000,000; probably it will
be 50 per cent. or 100 per cent.
larger. The democrats cannot hope
10 raise more than half the amount.
Necessity, rather than superior mor
ality, therefore, will place them at
a disadvantage in the market. But
it has always been so. The republi
tén campaign fund is usually from
W 0 to five times the size of the dem-
Otratic. An exception was in the
vear 1884, when it was claimed that
tie partisans of Mr. Cleveland had
more money to spend than did those
of Mr. Blaine,
Wh?rio f;:m}%t disparity was in 1896,
| dMarcus A, Hanna raised the
oSt enormous sum on record as a
ff‘ml‘*amn fund. He managed to get
ngi;}w\ l:;il‘n(;th'i'ng like $9,000,000
frien(l‘~ ‘”t \\llfl ey’s behalf, while the
.9 Ol Mr. Bryan assembled only
:f_’}';‘;\;li:;‘)-'-"”I“). a pitiful sum in
bind wm,rl -m‘f ‘n 1900 the republican
i : about a third, but the
ifOllm"'i. xu.nd also shrank. The
while Were apout - 41 to 1;
_~ OUr vears earlfer they were
Tore than 13 to 1,
f'vtqhh}i.\fi ' ‘we are to know from
R !ust how much is raised
. 71 ‘.\p:ngn funds, and we are
Bt . o the contributors are.
. .. bromise, howéver, of any
0“ ‘“f to the disposal of the
E - 'ar as that is concerned,
mitte. . . KePt. The general com
dos w 1 'S the ground over, de
-200 ' money will do the most
E. SHd sends it tg ita representa-
R S4Ds to the state commit-
L,-p;:”"“ ‘ From there, in turn, it
Y be 04l committees and bosses
. 71 2s they see fit, and no ac
‘OO COTTON MILLS ARE IDLE IN ENGLAND
o Million Spindles Are Stopped and One Hundred and Forty
MANC 1o Thousand Operatives Are Without Work. :
41'..“ HESTER, Eng.—More than than $700,000 in wages & “egk.
0,. " mills in Lancashire are| In view of ghe present glutied con-
Tesult of g dispute between |dition of the market it is not be
‘, and employes. This | lieved that this cessation of wor%{
whorr. ¢ four million spindles are |will entail heavy damage to empltol:-
Nope ~ . Partially stopped; that|ers. It is not-felt here that 3
i n.,,“;d‘}.l 3‘.350'000.000 ‘of capital [strike will last long, for the ca:o
that 14, S 8 in any returns and|room workers are expected soox:
work .0 oberatives are without|take a second ballot, and agree to a
“0 losing something more |five per cent. reduction in wages.
counting is asked for. If results are
obtained, well and gopd:- It not--
well, there is then a mild suspicion
that the trusted agent managed to
put a good wad of it in his pocket
and forget all about it.
R ey
TO TOUR STATE IN OCTOBER.
———
Dr. Tom Cheatham Will Begin Work
as State Drug Inspector.
Commissioner Hudson has appoint
ed Dr. T. A. Cheatham, formerly of
Dawson and brother of Ordinary W.
B. Cheatham, state inspector of
drugs. Dr. Cheatham was recom
mended to the department of agri
culture for this work by the Geor
;gia state pharmaceutical board. This
position was created by an amend-
Lment to the pure food and drug law,
which calls for a state inspector of
drugs. The duties of the pure drug
inspector will be to the drug stores
what the state’s pure food inspector’s
duties have been to the food and feed
stores of the state. The pharmacists
of the state registered a complaint
to the effect that many druggists are
selling inferior drugs, and for the
protection of the life and health of
the citizens of Georgia, they said,
such an inspector was needed.
TEDDY IN ANANIAS CLUB.
Mack Gives the President a High
Place in the Order.
National Chairman Mack has ad
dressed a telegram to President
Roosevelt, in which he denied flatly
statements contained in a reported
interview between Timothy L. Wood
ruff, chairman of the republican
state committee, and President Roos
evelt, in which the latter is said to
have remarked that he considered it
significant that $300,000 had been
found in the treasury of the demo
cratic.party after Judge Parker had
declared throughout the last national
campaign that the party’s treasury
was receiving nothing from corpora
tions; and further because it was an
nounced that at the time of the elec
tion the treasury was empty.
“I have not received ‘one cent
from Chairman Taggart or any one
else connected with the last cam
paign,” asserted Mr. Mack. ‘‘Neither
‘has any ane connected with the dem
'kocratic national committee.”
' CHEMIST SHOULD GET POSTED
In This Section Cotton Seed Meal Has
Been Used for Sometime as Feed
for Horses and Mules.
State Chemist R. E. Stallings, in a
recent bulletin, writes: ‘‘ln bulletin
36, page 51, season 1899-1900, after
comparing cotton seed meal with
corn, as to their feeding value, and
showing the great superiority of cot
ton seed meal, will be found: ‘ln
the light of these important facts it
strikes me as being astonishing that
no experiments appear to have been
made to see whether horses and
mules will eat cotton seed meal hulls,
one or both, and if not voluntarily
whether they could be gradually
trained to do so by mixing them
gradually and by slowly increasing
degrees with corn and oats and
hay.”
“I ask the Georgia farmers to try
some cotton seed meal rations, be
ing careful to use only good quality
of cotton see meal, avoiding the use
of any dark-colored, damaged or
musty meal. Mix-it thoroughly with
‘the corn and cob meal, and if not
thoroughly relished try mixing in a
little fine salt. I would be glad to
‘have reports from any who may try
the cotton seed meal ration as to
'their success.”’
A LITTLE WARM IN TEXAS.
A Strawn, Tex., dispatch says the
thermometer registered 112 degrees
there the other day, with a hot wind
blowing from the south. All busi
ness was suspended during a great
er part of the day. Waco reported
a-temperature of 101 for three days.
The irritating cuss who asked “Is it
hot enough for you?” was shot on
the spot.
DAWSON, GA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1908,
FOREST FIRE:LOSSES WOULD PAY FOR NAVY
~ WASHINGTON.—The forest fires
which have just laid waste whole
counties in Minnesota, Michigan and
extended into Wisconsin, destroying
many towns and making thousands
of persons homeless, have focused
the attention of both government and
state forest officers on the enormous
losses of forest wealth which will be
checked up to the year 1908.
In the whole northern half of the
United States throughout the vast
territory extending from coast to
coast the reported destruction by
forest fires has been terrific, and it
is likely that the year will go down
as one of the worst in the last guar
ter century. It seems that no part
of the country has escaped the work
of the devastating flames.
~ The latest disasters in Minnesota,
Michigan and Wisconsin are the
worst of the many that have visited
‘the Lake states this year. Other
sections have also suffered from for
est fires during the spring and sum
mer months, and the people of the
ONE OF THE SEVEREST IN MANY
YEARS, AND 1S CAUSING .
MUCH ANXIETY.
BOSTON, Mass.—Anxiety is filling
the heart of the New England farm
er, for a drouth, which is pronounced
to be one of the severest in many
vears, has spread itself over the New
England states, causing suffering to
people, cattle and crops throughout
the country districts.
It was on August 26th. that the
last general rainfall came to New
England. In many places the wells
are running dry and a serious state
of affairs confronts the farmers.
Water in the lakes has been receding
at the rate of one inch a day. Num
erous forest fires have started.
Many mills have been crippled by the
lack of water supply, and others
have been compelled to shut down.
Potatoes have been dug earlier than
usual, and are much smaller than
in previous years. Cattle have been
suffering and the milk supply is be
coming limited.
In New Hampshire the drouth is
especially pronounced. Since the
August rains there has been but one
or two local showers, and they were
of short duration.
‘ Although Massachusetts has not
suffered as much as the other New
‘England states, the country districts
are in need of water.
The situation in Maine appears
more serious than any other New
England state. Land Agent Edgar
Ring has issued a proclamation on
the seriousness of the situation in the
Maine woods.
In Vermont mills have been seri
ously crippled or shut down, throw
ing hundreds out of employment.
Quarries about Montpelier were
closed during the past week for an
indefinite period.
For several days past the water
has been the lowest since 1881 in
Lake Champlain, and steamers have
discontinued touching at St. Albany’s
Bay.
Smoke from the burning forests
of Maine, Canada and northern New
York has hung over New England
for the past week, obscuring the rays
of the sun and threatening to rival
the famous ‘‘vellow days of 1881.”
As the result of the extraordinary
conditions shipping all along the
New England coast has been serious
ly hampered.
BISHOP'S SON UNDER ARREST.
T. C. Dupcan Charged With Obtain
ing Money Under False Pretense.
Thomas C. Duncan has been ar
rested at Union, S. C., charged with
fraud and obtaining money by mis
representation to the amount of
about eight thousand dollars.
The charge was made by the re
ceivers of the People’s Bank of that
city, which several months ago went
into voluntary liquidation, and re
lates to certain checks and drafsts on
the bank of Spring City, Tenn., paid
by the People’'s Bank, but turned
down by the Spring City bank, as
Duncan had no funds on deposit.
He was released on bond.
Duncan is the son of the late
Bishop Danean: .-~ 1 * ;
Pacific coast, the Rocky mountain
and the New England states and
Canada have had, in some cases, a
continuous experience in fire fight
ing.
Officers in the United States forest
service here say that this year’s ac
tual losses from forest fires in all
parts of the country will run up so
high in the millions that were all the
timber burned up this year in all
parts of the country converted into
cash it could provide for a good
sized navy of first-class battleships.
The fires have started a wide
spread movement in many states to
check them by adopting rational sys
tems of fire protection, and awakened
an intense interest in throwing a
better protection around the forests,
which grow more important as anat
ural resource as the timber supply
dwindles.
- The government has had to do a
lot of work in fire fighting in the na
%tional forests, but careful patrol and
‘organization have held the losses
down.
SOUTH GEORGIA'S FLY PEST
THE PEST IS SAME AS THAT
" WHICH ATTACKED ORANGE .
TREES IN FLORIDA.
THOMASVILLE, Ga.—The white
fly, or gnat, which has invaded south
Georgia and Florida and gets into
one's eyes, nose and mouth, is the
same little fly which ruined the cape
jessamine, orange and other trees in
this section some years ago and in
jured the orange trees in Florida to
such an extent that the financial loss
to the state ran up into the millions
of dollars.
The flies settle on the under side
of the leaves, where they deposit
their eggs. The upper part of the
leal soon becomes covered with a
black coating and shrivels up. It
seems to affect the vitality of the
trees to such an extent that they
haven’'t strength to bloom and soon
die. A grower just from Florida
says that they are all over the orange
belt, and the growers are very blue
over the prospect. ;
The growers have gone to work
to try and rid the trees of the pests,
but it is a very troublesome process.
Kerosene emulsion is said to be the
only thing that has been found that
will destroy them. This is made by
boiling sulphur with water and mix
ing kerosene with it. It is then
sprayed on the leaves. As the eggs
are on the under part of the leaves,
however, it is often hard to reach
them and the spraying has to be re
peated several times.
The cold of '99 killed the flies to
a great extent, though there has been
a few every year, but this year they
are everywhere, and people on the
streets in the afternoon who wear
dark clothes look as if they had lit
tle snowflakes all over them.
One thing that is surprising about
the pests this year is that they have
attacked the chinaberry trees. It
has always been thought that these
trees were exempt from insects of all
kinds. In fact, their leaves are often
put under carpets and in woolen
goods to protect them from meoths
and such things, and a tea from the
berries is said to be a sure cure for
insects and bugs on cabbages, but
in spite of all this the flies have at
tacked them in swarms this year, and
seem to be enjoying themselves, and
they certainly are thriving.
’ JOHN TEMPLE'S BROTHER.
‘lu-pul)]icans Have Given Him a Hand
‘ some Raise in Salary.
~ David H. Graves, file clerk in the
United States government pension
office at Washington, has had his
pay raised $4OO a year. He will
get $1,400 a year from this time
forward. That is a remarkable sal
ary for a file clerk. It is as much
as the chief of the section in which
David is employed is paid.
Why this sudden generosity on
the part of the government toward
David H. Graves? Some say it is be
cause his brother, John Temple
Graves, of Georgia—or New York—
is a candidate for vice-president on
the ticket of the Independence party.
The Hearst ticket is supposed to be
of help to Taft and Sherman, and to
that position Mr. Graves attributes
his good fortune. He is telling his
friends in Washington that after he
failed to get a promotion based upon
his record his brother, Temple, went
to see the president, and that soon
thereafter the increase was ordered
by direction of the president.—Sa
vannah Press.
R T S
FOUNDER'S TOMB IN A COLLEGE
Will So Directs in Giving $1,000,-
000 for Institution.
More than $1,000,000 has been
left by John Burnham Brown, a pio
neer business man of Chicago, who
died Thursday of last week, for the
founding of one of the most unique
schools in the country. ‘the institu
tion will fit young men and women
to enter business careers. One of
the peculiar provisions imposed is
that the bodies of Mr. Brown and
his wife, who died suddenly Jan.
3d., be buried under the rotunda of
the main building. Only $90,000 of
the estate goes to relatives.
According to the will the school is
to belocated at Ipswitch, Mass., the
former home of the philanthropist.
The board of trustees, who will have
charge of the institution, are forbid
den by the will to draw the color
line. .
POKING FUN AT EDITOR GRAY.
Posing as Leader of Democracy He
Can’t Vote in State Election.
Considerable fun is being poked at
Editor Gray of the Atlanta Journal,
who had a number of caustic things
to say about Nominee Joseph M.
Brown because the latter was not
prompt enough to suit him in an
nouncing his support of the national
democratic ticket. Now the allega
tion is made that Editor Gray did
not register this year and was, there
fore, unable to vote for his friend,
Hoke Smith for governor, and
even since then has not quali
fied to vote for the nominee or
for the disfranchisement amend
ment to the state constitution
about which he had so much to say,
during the two last campaigns. Ed
itor Gray, under fire of some of his
contemporaries, has admitted the
charge, and in view of the Journal’s
daily advice to democrats Mr. Gray
is being somewhat taunted upon his
failure to qualify himself to partici
pate in the elections of this vear.
SECOND DISTRICT SCHOOL.
Begins Its Second Term Under Bright
Auspices, Governor Brown
Made a Speech.
The second term of the Second
congressional district agricultural
school, located at Tifton, opened last
Tuesday morning with a largely in
creased attendance. The exercises
were opened with prayer by Rev. W,
L. Wright of Sylvester. Addresses
were made by Judge Frank Park of
Worth county, chairman of the board
of trustees; J. L. Pickard, trustee for
Tift county; H. H. Tift, President
W. E. Johns of the Tift County Farm
ers KEducational and Co-operative
Union; Hon. Joseph M. Brown, Presi
dent Driskell, Agricnlturist Moore,
Editor J. L. Herring of The Tifton
Gazette, closing.
Mr. Brown thought the education
of the farmer in scientific agricul
ture had been sadly neglected, and
was glad to see the movement of
which the agricultural schools were
the result. He told of some of the
benefits to be derived from science
as applied to agriculture as he had
demonstrated on his farm at Mari
etta and hoped the state would foster
and increase the scope of usefulness
for the schools.
A MONSTER PAIN PRODUCER.
—— ey
We saw a cucumber at the home
of T. J. Fox a short time ago which
weighed six and one-half pounds af
ter having been pulled from the vine
more than three days. It was six
teen inches long and seventeen inches
in circumference, says the editor of
Arkansaw ‘Traveler of Grandfield,
Ark.
THREE MILLION BALES ESTIMATED IN TEXAE
Sambo and Pedro Are Very Import
ing Attention in T
SAN ANTONIO, Tex.—Cotton]
picking is now in full swing through
out the length and breadth of Texas.l
Black Sambo and his compadre, Ped
ro from Mexico, find themselves justi
now very important personages, able
to command the attention and,
what's more, the money of the cot
ton planters of Texas. The crop this
year is estimated to run over 3,000,-
VOL: 2i-RO. 1
Many Towns Have Been- Burned
. and Others Are in Danger.
MANY MILES SWEPT BY FLAMES
Property Loss Aiready Amounts to
$15,000,000, and 30,000 People
Are Homeless. No Ridin of Any
Account Since Early in July, and
. Woods Are as Dry as Tinder.
Smoke Has Shut Out Sun.
DULUTH, Minn.—With Grand
Marais, a town of 1,500 on the north
shore partially destroyed, Beaver
Bay, eighty miles away, also at
tacked by the flames and a dozenm
smaller towns in great peril, it is
apparent that unless rain sooa.comes
the forest fire district is doomed to
destruction.
Among the larger places in peril
are Colerain, Bovey, Nashawauk,
Marble Hibbing, Buhl, Big Bay, Chi
cago Bay, Crofton, Aurora, Mountain
Iron Rearionshall; Fort William, On
tario;- Hymers, Ontario; Port Arthur,
Ontario; Cascade and Nutson,
The Gopher, the Minnesota train
ing ship, succeeded in removing
many refugees from Grand Marais,
The steamer has gone to Beaver Bay
to bring away the people there.
There is little hope of saving these
towns.
The entire north shore is alive
with wild animals of all kinds driven
out of the woods by the flames. The
residents of small settlements have
deserted their homes and fled to the
lake.
For more than a hundred miles
the flames appear to be almost con
tinuous. The roar of the fire can be
heard for miles,
In response to Governor John
son's appeal $45,000 has been raised
by the Duluth committee for refu
gees. The supply of provisions and
clothing now seems to be ample,
No rain has fallen in tnis region
since July 10th., and everything in
the woods is as dry as parchment,
and the walls of fire with a land
wind behind them are eating their
way toward the settlements along the
north shore of Lake Superior.
The inhabitants of the region are
gathered along the shore, praying for
rain, but prepared to take to the lake
in small craft should the worst come.
" The fires are devastating hundreds
of square miles in Michigan, Wis
consin, Minnesota and Canada. The
smoke from these fires, blown south
by the winds cover Wisconsin, Mich
igan, Illinois and Indiana, is like &
dense fog. For nearly a week Chica
go has struggled and gasped through
dense layers of irritating smoky fog
piled upon her own volumes of the
product. .
The loss is estimated at nearly
$15,000,000, and 30,000 people are
homeless,
The smoke shut out the sun. At
some times in the day downtown
buildings a few blocks from Publie
square could barely be seen through
the haze.
It was a blue haze and not unlike
fog. It had blown across the lake
from hundreds of miles away, but
some could still notice in it the smell
of burning wood.
KILLING IN RANDOLPH.
Another Tragedy Occurred Near
Edwards’ Store. :
The Cuthbert Leader tells of the
killing on the Coxwell place, near
Edwards’ store, of Sid Daniel by Har
rison Key.
It seems the two negroes had a
fuss on Sunday, and Daniel armed.
himself and went to Key’s house and
opened fire upon the latter, shooting
several times without effect. Key
got his gun and succeeded in bag
ging Daniel at the first shot. .
Coroner Blackshear held an in
quest, but the jury did not agree on
a verdict, and Mr. Blackshear issued
a warrant for the arrest of Key and
Sheriff Bynum placed him in jail,
ant Personages, and Are Command
hat State Just Now.
1000 bales and to bring to Texas over
$150,000,000, or a per capita of $43
'to every man, woman and child in
the state. Last year, according to
igovernment statistics, Tetqs pro
(duced 2,300,179 bales, and the gear
before over 4,000,000. This year
over 900,000 acres are in cotton.
Texas produces twice as much cotton
as any other state. S