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The Dawson Tews
PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT $l.OO PER YEAR
BY E. L. RAINEY.
Entcred at the Postoffice at Dawson,
Ga., as Second Class Mail Matter.
DAWSON, GA., Serr. 30, 1908,
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A MAN'S POINT OF VIEW.
Be syph-like, and if you can’t be
syph-like be as syph-like as you
ean. This is the mandate which all
over the land is breaking the hearts
5f women, and causing strong men
to weep. ;
And who wouldn't weep? Wasn't
fourteen pounds of false hair to every
head enough? And now comes this
-——this monstrosity of a get-up, this
shapeless, curveless, straight-up-and
downness of a figure for which wo
men, old and young, are striving
with a fury which is pitiful. And
that isn't all. One could stand, per
haps, after one got used to it, one
piece gowns with apparently no be
ginning and no end, and certainly
wot. having the slightest intimation
of a waistline; one could stand flat
hats atop Sarah Bernhardt coiffures
—if only the slim and the tall es
sayed these things. But, oh, the at
~ tempts made by little girls, girls with
dimples and alluring baby ways, to
look statuesque and to assume that
popular bored and far-away expres
sion! The mothers, aye, grandmoth
ers, who get themselves up to look
dxtremely long when they! are ex
tremely broad!
From a man’'s point of \view, at
s least, it is to be hoped that this
phase of fashion will soon be at an
end, and that the time is not far off
when our women foik will be satjs
fied to be as nature intended them.
One is forced to moan with the
poet, ‘“‘Ain't it awful, Mabel?”
SOMETHING DOING.
There has been something doing
in national politics the past few
days. After Mr. Hearst had dealt
Senator Foraker of Ohio a knock-out
blow, alledging that he was in the
service of the Standard Oil trust,
President Roosevelt Jumped on the
prostrate -senator and cudgeled him
mightily with the Big Stick, it
all resulting in Foraker's with
drawal from the national cam
paign and his dates to speak
for and with Candidate Taft be
ing cancelled. Senator Foraker has
come back at Taft, and charges that
in that indignant statesman’'s bhosom
there is raging no righteous hatred
of oil and trusts, The senator kept
an eye on Mr. Taft while that can
didate way flying around with the
trust magnates and accepting their
hospitality, and points out that only
a month ago he was keeping com
pany and sipping with the oil folk.
The New Yorw World, which, un
til the present campaign, had never
been a Bryan supporter, notes in
connection with this matter that
President Roosevelt himself was the
beneficiary of $lOO,OOO from the
Standard Oil Company in his last
campaign,, the compamy having con
tributed that sum to the republican
fund. ‘
Then there is Governor Charles N.
Haskell of Oklahoma, the treasurer
of the democratic national cam
paign committee, who, because of
the charge by Mr. Hearst that
he, too, had been tarred with
the same stick, which was also
taken advantage of by the Big
Noise in the white house to shake
the Big Stick at the democrats, has
resigned his poasition T save the
party any possible embarrassment.
Though no proof has been submitted
of his guilt in any respect Governor
Haskell has withdrawn from any con
nection with the campaign under the
fire of charges because, no matter
what may be said or shown in his
behalf, with some the suspicion will
remain of undue corporate influence.
Next, the republican campaign
comniittee has dispensed with the
services of T. C. DuPont as head of
the bureau of campaign speakers of
their national committee. Mr. Du-
Pont, who is a consistent and life
long republican of Delaware, is the
head of the one hundred and fifty
million dollar powder trust with
which the federal government is en-‘
gaged in litigation, and, in view of‘
the developments of the past few
-days, the republicans deemed it good
policy to have his connection with
their campaign cease.
These incidents illustrate in a
striking manner the determined
growth of public sentiment demand
ing the divorce of the great ‘“inter
ests’” from politics.
Editor Dick Grubb says he would
walk ten miles to vote for Congress
man Brantley for governor. That's
spunky, and would require some en
ergy. We Georgia editors always
have been noted for doing more for
other people than we would do for
~ourselves. ;
ANOTHER MILESTONE.
With this issue The News enters
its twenty-seventh year. For twenty
years it has been under its present
management, and whatever it has ac
complished, or success it has at
tained, has been largely due to the
kindness and partiality of the people
of Dawson and Terrell county. We
are duly appreciative of their good
iwill and patronage in the past, and
iwill endeavor to conduct The News
in’'the future so as to merit a con
tinuance of their favors.
" HE STIRRED THEM UP.
Mr. William R. Hearst was not,out
on his speaking tour so very long,
but he covered a large area of ter
ritory, coming as far south as Geor
gia and Alabama, and what is more
interesting he succeeded in creating
a considerable amount of perturba
tion, discussion and comment. He
did not contribute ‘‘to the gaiety of
nations’” to any extent, but hed did
contribute to the concern of sundry
politicians and public men in both
of the great political parties. He
was not at all partial, was the Inde
pendence Leaguer, and he tackled re
publicans ahd democrats with cheer
ful impartiality. Whether he lied,
slandered and distorted, as is freely
charged, or whether he told the cold
truth we cannot say. It is certain,
though, that he has put United
States Senator Foraker of Ohio
right out into the limelight of pub
licity, and eliminated him from pub
lic life. He has also put Governor
Haskell of Oklahoma, a democrat,
on the witness stand, with some pe
culiar charges that evidently sting
the Oklahoma executive, for the lat
ter says in print that Hearst is a
cowardly liar. Mr. Hearst also al
ludes to some other well-known po
litical figures in words that challenge
inquiry, and all in all the New York
publisher has succeeded in enlivening
the campaign in no ordinary way.
Let the public be patient, and abide
results. If Mr. Hearst has slandered
anybody the truth will come out, and
Hearst will be the man most hurt.
If he has told the truth he has done
both of the old parties a real service.
Time will tell.
THE NET RESULT.
Hon. Joe S. Turner, the chairman
of the state prison board, had a card
in Sunday's papers thanking his
friends for their loyalty and sympa
thy during the recent investigation
of the state's convict system, ' and
promising to later turn some light
on the whole affair, which, the
chairman asserts, was nothing but
politics. He intimates that yhat
he has to say will astonish the
people of Georgia. Mr. Turner, in con
cluding his card, says the ‘“‘general
assembly finally, by a decisive ma
jority, vindicated the commission by
enacting a law giving it greater pow
ers and responsibilities than it ever
had before.”
That last sentence states, in truth,
'the net result of the expensive extra
!session of the legislature. At first,
;:13 the Eastman Hustler points out in
its last issue, there was talk of im
peachment of the members of the
prison commission; then of its abol
ishment, looking toward which num
erous bills and resolutions were in
troduced; next of only allowing the
members to serve out their terms.
Finally it dwindled down to mere
censure through all the forms from
severe to mild. And out of all this
talk has come a law which gives to
the same prison comimission more]
power and more money to spend in
the conduet and in the maintenance
of the penitentiary department than
it has ever had before. |
The law, which might have been
made at the regular session had the
governor not interfered and the sen
ate had only surrendered, as it
stands is a mast eloquent witness to
the folly and wselessness of the extra
sesgsion.
In a speech at Carrolitow Thurs
day Hon. Thomas E. Watson said:
“If you entered the June primary
you are bound by the implied co=m
tract that you would vote for the
nominee of the October election, and
a man with just common, ordinary
honesty can do nothing but keep his
implied contraet and vote for Joe
Brown for governor.” Mr. Watson,
who seems to think ne is running
for president, might’ have gone
further and with equal truthfulness
said the man who voted in the state
primary is also in hener bound to
vote for the national candidates of
the democratic party.
—_—
“Steve Clay supported Hoke Smith
for governor, but he is not sulking
in his tent. Steve is out flatfooted
for a great democratic majority in
the coming October election,” says
the Americus Times-Recorder. To be
sure. What else did you expect?
When the Georgia politician, espe
cially the office-holding kind, finds
the band wagon has gone in another
direction he overtakes it at once and
engages a front seat.
{ “THE BEST IN GEORGIA.”
The Meigs Review says: “Ed
itor Rainey of The Dawson News
continues to get out the best
{:i:zekly newspaper in Georgia.”
Editor Seely of the Atlanta Geor
gian has made a calm and dignified
reply to the recent cards of Judge
Spencer Atkinson, and disposes of
the matter in a way that should be
satisfactory to himself and friends.
Mr. Seely, however, is incensed at
the statement of Representative
John Holder that he sent private
detectives to pry into the intimate
affairs of that gentleman, and says
that unless the newspapers which
printed it make a retraction at once
he will sue them for slander.
The Macon Telegraph has Deen
doing ‘‘some smoking out” itself,
and has forced from the editor of
the Atlanta Journal an admission
that he not only forgot to register
and vote in the primary last June.
but afterwards failed to register and
put himself in position to vote for
the democratic candidates and «is
franchisement in the election next
Wednesday. And to think he as
sumed the role of dictator and boss
in this state!
Now here comes The New York
World and shows that President
Teddy Roosevelt, who got so indig
nant with Mr. Foraker because of
his alleged connection with the
Standard Oil Company, was the bene
ficiary of a $lOO,OOO contribution to
his campaign fund by the oil trust
in his last race.
They are going to bring Candidate
Taft snipe hunting in Georgia. It
is given out that the& “fat un’ will
recite two speeches in this state dur
ing October.
The Oglethorpe Echo thinks that
near beer legislation is curious-—pro
hibiting the sale of an article, and
then taxing the sale thereof.
With AII of the girls being edu
cated in the schools and most of the
boys failing to complete the course
of study what will the answer be?
Can't Brother Rockefeller pour
some oil on the troubled waters?
FROM ELECTOR POTTLEL.
To the Democrats of the Second
Congressional District: I am in re
ceipt of a letter from the chairman
and secretary of the finance commit
‘tee of the national democratic com
‘mittee, addressed to me because of
my selection as presidential elector,
asking me to appeal to the demo
crats of our .aistrict for contribu
tions to the campaign fund of our
party. The tide is running high for
our candidates in the doubtful
states, and their election seems as
sured if sufficient funds can be se
cured to properly carry on the cam
paign. Our party is asking only for
small individual contributions, and
I urge you to contribute, ei{her
through the editor of your local pa
per, or by sending contributions di
rect to Hon. Herman Ridder, Treas.,
Auditorium Annex, Chicago, or I
will take pleasure in forwarding any
contributions which may be sent to
me. J.. R. POTPELEN. 1
Blakely, Ga.
The Night Rider.
From the Farmers” Union News.
The secular press is having a great
deal to say just now about the Night
Riders, and their apparent efforts to
throttle the ginning of cotton. It is
needless to state that the Farmers’
Union is opposed to the methods be
ing used by these so-called night
riders.
The Farmers' Union has always
stood for law and order. We have
always been opposed to old or young,
big or little, rich or poor, violating
the law. We are anxious to secure
our price; we are determined; we
propose to fight the battle out, we
are fighting fair. We are fighting it
upon a plane that the most severe
critic cannot objject to. We believe
we will win. We are determined to
win.
The people who are classing them
selves as night riders are fiable to
destroy the very thing and the very
purpose for which we are fighting,
and it for the purpose of discourag
ing the growth of this in the south
that we are writing this article. We
ask each and every member of the
organization throughout the south to
use every effort amdng their laborers
and friends to keep them from in any
way enlisting in the methods or op
erations used by the night riders.
Stock Law and Automobiles.
From the Shellman Sun.
The country is filling up with au
tomobiles. The Dawson Consoli
dated Grocery Co. has bought three
carloads of them.—Dawson News.
The existence of the stock law
makes possible a more extensive use
of automobiles. With no fence in the
way the man with the scarry horse
can drive out in the field when he
sees an auto coming.
Now Listen at This.
From thetMontgomery (Ala.) Times.
The virtuous town of Dawson, Ga.,
will not even permit the sale of near
beer; and next thing you know
they’ll be sending people to the luna
tic asylum for being near crazy, and
}there will not near be room for the
whole bunch,
THE DAWSON NEWS.
A FLOOD OF CONVICIS.
From the Augusta Chronicle.
One bad feature of the new con
vict law is that all the unhung, con
victed criminals in Georgia are to
be scattered in squads all over the
state instead of being herded in a
few large bodies in isolated places.
Another bad feature is that these
desperate convicts are not to be kept
steadily at hard work, but are to be
worked only as arrangements to that
end may be made, which arrange
ments, under the act, seem termina
ble almost at pleasure.
A third feature as bad as either
of the others, and possibly worse, is
the parole clause which, while in a
separate act, is part and parcel of
the new convict scheme. Under this
the governor can excuse convicts
from confinement on the convict's
word of honor to be good. To re
lieve an apprehended ‘‘congestion,”
that is having 2,500 more felons on
his hands than he knows what to do
with, it is understood his excellen
cy intends to parole 400 or 500 of
the ‘““more worthy’’ reprobates.
When the system thus outlined
gets fairly to work; when squads of
felons are camped in decent neigh
borhoods; when these squads, un
tamed by constant hard labor, have
leisure to plot mutiny and other
forms of deviltry; and when a swarm
of “paroled” burglars, forgers, stab
bers and so on get back to their
old haunts we are inclined té think
that we will find to our sorrow that
a large problem cannot be solved by
small men.
The Kind of a Man Joe Brown Is.
From the New York Press.
Joe Brown is a sincere friend.
He is as ugly as a goat, and admits it,
but he is a man of the old-fashioned
kind. He is as independent as Abe
Lincoln, as silent as Napoleon, as
calm as Lucifer, and as immovable
as the Rock of Gibraltar—or the
American tariff. In Joe Brown Geor
gia will have the ablest governor
she has had in thirty years. Like
Johnson, he is no man's man. He
s of the earth—earthy.
Still Has the Mullygrubs.
From the Bainbridge Search Light.
Judge Perry of Baker thinks Jim
Griggs should abandon the idea of
canvassing his district for the demo
cratic nominees, and shed the lustre
of his ability and fame in places that
need him more. It would doybtless
have pleased the Judge if ‘“‘Sunny
Jim*” had kept out of the district
during the landslide that culminated
June 4th. last. ¢
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the Second Congressional District of Georgia, located at Tif
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Splendid brick buildings, electric lights and waterworks and
telephone connection from the Buildings to any part of the
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Rates for boys and girls, $lO.OO per month, and this may
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The $lO.OO per month includes board, tuition, laundry,
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Each pupils is expected to furnish when he comes a pair
of blankets, a pair of sheets, a pair of pillow cases and
towels.
Terrell county is entitled to five scholarships for boys and
three for girls.
For further information apply to
W. W. Driskell, Principal, Tifton, Ga.
No. 4115. Report of the Condition of the
DAWSON NATIONAL BANK
At Dawson, in the State of Georgia, at the close of business September 23, 1908:
RESOURCES.
Loans and Di5c0unt5...............5266.569.61
Overdrafts, secured and unsecured. ... 48,791.66
U. S. Bonds to secure eirculation..... 100,000.00
premivms on Uy 8- Bonds: . . 3,827.76
Banking house, furniture, and fixtures 6,000.00
Due from National Banks (not reserve
SRENUS) & b e Y 5,376.156
Due from State Banks and Bankers.. 14,478.79
Due from approved reserve agents.. 45,969.40
Checks and other cash item 5....... 222,171
Exchanges for clearing h0u5e........ 2,640.00
Notes of other National 8ank5....... 3,925.00
Fractional paper currency, nickels, and
831 G ISR e U S s 378.60
Lawful Money Reserve in Bank, viz.
Bpeele ol e 0 818 016 00
Legal-tender notes ....... 65,900.00. 14915. 00
Redemption fund with U. S. Treasurer
{0 per cent. of Circulation). ... .. 5,000.00
Total . vl oL 0L BBD2 008 e
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State of Georgia, County of Terrell, ss: is
I, R. L. Saville, Cdshier of the above-named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statv_ment
true to the best of my knowledge and belief. R. L. SAVILLE, Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me Correct—Attest:
this 28th day of September, 1908. E. W. HOLLINGSWORTH,
T W, MARTIN A. J. CARVER,
Notary Public. W. C. PASCHAL,
Directors.
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EVERY SERVICE A BANK MAY RENDER
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is performed for its customers by the Dawson National Bank cheerfully, promptly, and on the ;i{h
best terms. The experience gained in TWENTY years of expanding business makes a connection ol
this institution especially valuable, and its ample capital, surplus and resources enable it to take ¢
of its customers’ interests to the fullest extent. et
A. J. CARVER, President. S. R. CHRISTIE, Vice-President. R. L. SAVILLE, Cas
| How to Kill a Lie. |
It’s pretty hard to know how to
treat a lie when it’s about yourself.
You can’'t go out of your way to
deny it, because that puts you on the
defensive, and sending the truth after
a lie that’s got a good running start
is like trying to round up a stam
peded herd of steers when the scare
is on them. Lies are great travelers
and welcome visitors in a good many
homes, and no questions asked.‘
Truth travels slow, has to prove its
identity, and then a lot of people
hesitate to turn out an agree?ble‘
stranger to make room for it.
About the only way to kill a lie‘
is to live the truth. When your‘
credit is attacked don’t bother to
deny the rumors, but discount your‘
bills. When you are attacked un
justly go about your business along
the usual ruts, and the lies Soon fade
away for lack of nourishment.—Ma
rietta Journal. |
Wait for All the Facts.
From the Atlanta Georgian.
A Columbus policeman arrested
a woman who threw kisses at
him. The ungallant scamp!—Daw
son News.
Don’t judge him too hastily with
out all the facts. How do you know
but that his wife was in sight when
the other woman tossed the oscula
tiop his way?
Teddy Forgot to Have It Sent Back.
From the Macon Telegraph. |
The New York Sun, which is mak
ing a desperate effort to defend Fora
ker, says that Archbold’s $50,000
check was returned to him, but Har
riman’'s $260,000 never was. There
was the money of the widows and
orphans illegally contributed by the
‘insurance companies also. |
| This Hits the Bull's Eye. |
IFrom the Americus Times-Recorder.
‘ If Bryan wins a lot of stiffs who
‘haven’t opened their mouths for the
party, or coughed up a cent for its
expenses, will be wearing out their]
shoes getting petitions signed for
‘their appointment to postmaster-‘
lships and other federal jobs. |
' Cusses Watson in Spanish.
From the Washington Herald.
} “Sabe mas que Lepe. Lepijo y
su hijo,”” says the Mexican Herald to
‘Mr. Tom Watson. If the Herald wiil
say that to Mr. Watson in United
States it may hear something to its
; disadvantage.
LIABILITIES.
Capital stock paid in.............. 5100,000.00
BuEDlus fund ... 00 ey 0 20,000 .00
Undivided profits, less expenses and
DOROB BRI . . L. 0 e 2,648.00
National Bank Notes. Outstanding.. 100,000.00
Dividends untedd |.o 50, 130'00_
Individual deposits subject to check.. 152,424.66
Time certificates of desonis. . ..., 81,700.78
vertifiod ehoeks & vty 96.00
Cashier’s checks outstanding........ 76.19
Bills payable, including eertificates of
deposit for money borrowed...... 90,000.00
TOWRL ~ ol 098
SEPTEMBER 30, 190 g,
Did you see Hall, the
tin plate artist, with the
two Crouches as secondy?
Say. we can put up g
Job of tin work that g
novice can see good points
in.
B T R XY
DR. CHAS. F. CROUCH |
DENTPIST |
DA%NSON, s st GEORGIAE
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Baldwin building. Hours 73.
to 6 p. m. Office phone 163,
residence phone 81.
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