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The Dawson iidews
PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT $l.OO PER YEAR
RY E. 1. RAINEY.
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DAWSON, GA., Oct. 14, 1908,
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WHY HIT THE CIRCUS SO HARD?
Why the state of Georgia and the
rities and towns should tax circuses
so high is past understanding. The
modern circus and menagerie are the
zreat popular amusement and de
tight of the masses. Not only are
they harmless in effect or influence,
put the menagerie is full of interest
and instruction. It is the ‘‘zoo’’ of
the common people, of the children
wf the lamd, and no other ‘zo00”’
equals or surpasses the display of
znimal life made by the great mod
»rn shows like those of Barnum and
Bailey, Ringling and others. Fur-l
thermore, the circus leaves nearly as
much money as it takes away, for
it expenses are enormous. Georgial
kits the circus-menagerie shows
heavier, perhaps, than any other
state, and just a few more turns of
the taxing thumbscrew and such
shows will cease to come to Georgia.
We suppose there are some people
who say that it is to be desired, but
shank the Liord they are few in num
ber. Popular and clean amusements,
like helpful industries, ought to be
encouraged and not burdened with
taxes, for the masses need helpful
amusement as much as they do in-
Austry.
JUST ONE MORE CARD.
It is said that' Mr. Joseph M.
®rown is now preparing what will be
mais last card to the public dealing
with the recent campaign. It will
eontain expressions of gratitude to
Ris friends, and a plea for party har
mony in the future. He will also an
nounce his plans for the interim be
tween now and his inauguration next
June. He will spend the time pre
paring himself for the office he is
to hold, his intention being to visit
every county of the state and to con
fer with all classes of its citizens. In
this way, which is in accord with
the purpose set forth in his original
announcement, he hopes to acquaint
himself fully as to the needs and de
sires of his fellow-citizens.
Mr. Brown has twice surprised his
spponents. The first time was in
June, when he received the largest
number of votes ever given any can
didate in a primary election, and the
second time was last Wednesday,
when his majority in the regular
election was the largest ever given
in the history of the state. If there
are any who really believe the things
that were said of him during the
campaign The News predicts that
they have still another surprise com
‘ing to them. The new governor will
be one of the best and most popular
executives Georgia has even had. He‘
will give the state a plain, practical
and business-like administration free
from frills and grandstand plays,
with an eye single to the best in-(
terests of the whole people, and not
to some future political advancement
of himself.
When Mr. Brown comes to Daw
=on he will be given a cordial recep-l\
tion by our people regardless of their‘
preference in the campaign. Every-l
body will be glad to see him. |
LET THE WIGURES TALK. |
Recently The Dawson News l
published the receipts of its
rural routes for the past year, ’
an_d was disposed to boast a lit- \
tle as to the good showing made. ;
Our postmaster says the rural
routes going out of Cuthbert <
make a better showing than ,
do those of Terrell.—Cuthbert
Leader. |
If the rural mail business out of
Cuthbert is larger than that at Daw-|
son there is something more than
usual doing over there, and we want
to offer our sincere congratulations.
We are glad to see our neighbors
waking up, hustling and prospering.
But the fact is The News has not
“‘published the receipts of its rural
routes for the past year.” Recontly‘
we did print the amount of the
money orders—and money orders
alone—soold on the rural routes go
ing out of Dawson, and it aggregated
$13,774. About the same time, if
our memory is not greatly at fault,
we read either in The Leader or our
other Cuthbert contemporary an item
giving the amount of money orders
gold by the Omthbert routes, and it
was less by two-thirds or more than
that of the Dawson routes. ‘
Anyway, this is a matter of figures,
and we suggest to our friend and
neighbor that he let them talk for
him.
The State Fair will open at Macon
on October 27th. It will be the great
est event of that nature in Georgia
this year. No doubt about that. So
try to enjoy it for a day or so. The
railroads will give rates.
THE MAN ON THE FENCE.
The News would raise its voice in
behalf of a long suffering individual,
one whom every tin hero worshiper
and wild-eyed partisan feels it his
bounded duty to biff.
Between the strenuous politics and
the agitation of prohibition and anti
prohibition the past three or four
years the fence rider has had a very
interesting time of it. The Hoke
Smith men have denounced him, and
the Joe Brown men have denounced
him; the anti-prohibitionists have
denounced him, and the prohibition
ists have denounced him.
' As he seems to be a friendly prop
osition perhaps it is permissible to
see if some good cannot be found in
him. As a rule he appears to be a
man who attends to his own business.
He does not get hysterical over every
breeze that blows. Andrew Jackson
once said he had ‘“heard of a man
who he greatly admired, who had
greatly prospered by attending to his
own business.” It will be noticed
that the partisan who today de
nounces the fence rider will tomor
row climb up beside him on some
other question at issue. To many
people some particular issue seems
}vital; to others as immaterial. The
latter, lacking interest, stay on the
fence. For instance, it is difficult to
convince an anti-prohibitionist that
human liberty will not be abolished
if prohibition prevails. The prohi
bitionist is sure that the temporal
and future state of the citizen will
be sacrificed if prohibition does not
prevail. Neither has any sympathy
for that vast army who think it a
good world with prohibition and a
good world without prohibition, and
are unwilling to make enemies of
friends, or, for that matter, attempt
to thwart the cherished wishes ofl
friends on either side.
The fence rider is not necessarily
a mollycoddle, but is often a useful
citizen as a dividing wall between
warring opinions, and gives pause to
intemperate speech. Taken all in all
he is a good citizen and generally a
very numerous one, for if he doesn’t
get on the fence on one issue the
next one is almost sure to see him
climb up. While we all like the man
in the ranks, who does the actual
fighting, the man on the fence is
‘the recruiting line, and also has his
use and gets all that is coming to
him of abuse.
MAY BE TRUE AND NOT TRUE.
Cuthbert's four routes claim
to have done more money order
business than Dawson's routes,
and Shellman’s routes have
- bought over $2OO worth more
than Cuthbert’s. We can’t say
whether Terrell people are drink
ing less liquor than Randolph
people, or that Terrell people
are patronizing home merchants
in other lines of goods better
than the people in Randolph.—
Shellman Sun.
We are not prepared to dispute
the intimation that the people of
Terrell are drinking less whiskey
and patronizing home merchants in
other lines of goods better than
those of Randolph. In fact, to keep
down an argument we will concede
that this is true. But there is no
evidence that the rural money order
business at Cuthbert is larger than
that at Dawson. On the contrary
the figures we have seen show that
the volume of this business there
the past year was but little - more
than half what it was at Dawson.
TWO TIMELY EDITORIALS.
Now for Bryan and Victory. [
From the Atlanta Journal. l
The decks are now cleared, and wei
can concentrate our attention upon
the work of electing William Jen-|
nings Bryan president of the United!
States. i
The state election, while the re
sult of it was a foregone conclusion,
has nevertheless divided public at
tention to a certain extent, but now
that it is over there is nothing to
prevent us from taking a broader
view of the situation and uniting
with all the energy and strength of
our nature for the democratic nomi
nee for the presidency.
It is in the very air that Mr. Bry
an has a better chance than he has
lever had before. The consensus of
opinion is that the democratic party
has certainly shown up to the best
advantage, and has been the winner
in the net result of the exposures
and debates which have heen going
on in the public prints for some time. |
Some of the most prominent re
publicans have been given their final
quietus, and the whole republican
party has felt the effect.
And yet this is not a negative
campaign. The democrats have pos
itive advantages which are not to
be overlooked or discounted. There
is greater harmony within the ranks
than ever before, and there is a Erow
ing confidence in the wisdom and
strength of Mr. Bryan as the best
representative of all the people, as
distinguished from the interests of
the classes. \
| There, of course, is not a moment's
doubt but that Georgia will go dem
‘|ocratic by a handsome majority, but
'|for the sake of the moral effect we
cwant to make it as overwhelming as
possible.
MAIL ORDER HOUSES AND
HOME PEOPLE.
A friend remarked to The News
editor recently: “I never see ad
vertisements of the mail order houses
in the big cities in your paper. How
is that?”
The News has never solicited,
never carried, those advertisements.
It might print them if they paid the
current price, but they have never
offered our current rate, and, as said,
we have never carried them.
What is more, The News has never
failed to urge upon its readers the
importance of trading with home
merchants. For years its slogan has
been: ‘“Stand by home industries, by
home folks.”
So it is not a new thing or a new
departure for The Dawson News to
fight the battle of the home merchant
and home industries. It is what we
have been doing all the time, and
explains why it is that the adver
tisements of the mail order houses
are not seen in this paper, for even
if they did appear the steady policy
of the paper in urging loyal support
of home houses, home people, would
undergo no change whatever.
The Lumpkin council are wise old
‘politicians, and know how to make
‘themselves solid with their constit
‘uents. When the dispensary in that
town went out of business in August
of last year a quantity of whiskey
was left on hand, and last week
these astute officials hit upon the
happy plan of disposing of it by
distribution among the citizens.
Accordingly, the inhabitants of the
drougth-stricken village presented
themselves with flasks to receive
their share of rare old rye.
A contemporary notes that in a
middle Georgia town the other day
the same court sent one man to jail
for six months for violating the pro
hibition law and another to jail for
three months for attempting a homi
cide. Thus, it would seem, trying to
kill a man is only half as bad as sell
ing him a drink of whiskey.
" Mr. J. C. Cranford, who was nom
%inated to represent Lowndes county
in the legislature, got enough before
‘he got there, and resigned the other
day. That extra session farce per
haps changed his mind about wanting
to be a statesman and sit with the
law makers,
Let no man who lives here knock
Dawson. It's a good town. If it is
good enough for him to live in and
make money it is good enough for
those who want to come here. .
Candidate Taft is coming south.
He has appointments in Tennessee,
Kentucky and Virginia, but demo
cratic Georgia is not on his calling
list. 1
The democrats of Georgia have one
more‘duty to perform. Let's give
Bryan even a greater majority than
Joe Brown received. l
The man worth while is the man
who will smile when some one steps‘
on his ingrowing toe nail. i
If some people were to appear to‘
others as they do to themselves they{
would be very beautiful. |
Yancey Carter carried Goosebery:
district.
Now, All Together for Georgia.
From the Macon Telegraph.
It was a foregone conclusion that
Hon. Joseph M. Brown would be
elected governor without appreciable
opposition after having won the nom
ination in the June primary. The
people of Georgia are a fair-minded
people, and having fought out the
question of the governorship in a
hotly contested primary the great
mass of those who opposed Mr.
Brown bowed gracefully to the willi
of the majority, and his election was
made sure. |
There are always some who do not
regard seriously party obligations,
and who bolt without pretext or ex
cuse. There were some such in this
case, but they were not numerous
enough to spur the great democratic
hosts of this state to action, The
voting was light and listless because
‘there was no danger to the nominee.
Hon. Joseph M. Brown is now the
lgovernor-elect. Although some bit
terness was aroused during the pri
mary, those who were disappointed
in the result in June will find that
the new governor, to be, is a man of
broad culture, business acumen, and
endowed with good common, hard,
horse sense. He has grown on
those who have known him, and he
will grow on those who do not as
yet know him well. He will make
2 good and acceptable governor.
The time for criticisms has passed
until he has a chance to make good
by the administration of his office.
Of course no man has ever been able
to please all men, but the new gov
érnar, when he is inducted into
office, will measure up to the best
standard for that high place.
Now, all together for a greater
and better Georgia.
THE DAWSON NEWS.
I CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS.
The News has received and for
warded the following contributions
to the Treasurer of the National
iDemocratic Campaign Committee:
lßobert Pulton. . .00 s LBOOO
CHE D U R R R S
Loeiws Famar. 0 2 e 100
M. C . HBdwarde., =.. .vs. 100
’J. D weody. -Lo adao e D 0
3. lewls o s s e
Jegse' ‘Perey. . ..o b T ovee
B L, Rafnew ..., . i 290
W. P H0rpa11y,..... ... v i 100
’H. Wl e AN
WS Degler, . o ril 00
A d B Lo T 100
'“Cash” e e gl
J A ERIDE e, 00
|M. J. Yeemans: ... 000 100
JoHDavlg .oo ol 00
’J. PO R
E. W. Hollingaworth. ..., ...,. 1.00
IC. RSN (sl e e 300
IJ. S. L0wrey................51.00i
‘ Total ..................326.501
| We will be glad to forward anyl
other contributions that loyal demo
crats may desire to contribute to
‘ward defraying the expenses of the]
l campaign. l
It is only three weeks until the
election, and if you intend to helpl
it must be done now.
Send in the dollars.
Colonel Tapp has met in conven
tion in Chattanooga and nominated
himself for president as the candi
date of the ‘‘Liberal” party. This
places Georgia right up at the front
in politics. She is the only state
in this grand Union that has two
candidates for president and one for
vice-president, with a plenty of presi
dential timber left. With Watson
and Tapp running for fist place and
Graves running for second Georgia
will be in the limelight until the bal
lots are counted, even if they won't
' get many of them. '
l The Editor. An Essay
[ A little boy in town was given the
stunt by his father to write an essay
on ‘“Editors,” and here is the result:
“I don’t know' how newspapers come
lto be in the weorld.. '1 don’t think
God does, for He hain’t got nothing
to say about them and editors in the
Bible. I think the editor is one of
the missing links you read of, and
stayed in the bushes until after the
flood; and then came out and wrote
the thing up, and has been here ever
since. I don't think he ever dies.
I never saw a dead one, and I never
heard of one getting licked. Our
paper is a mighty good one; but the
editor goes without underclothes all
winter and don't wear any socks,
and paw ain’'t paid his subscription
since the paper started. I ast paw
if that was why the editor had to
suck the juice out of snowballs -in
winter and go to bed when he had
a shirt washt in the summer. And
then paw took me out into the wood
shed and he lickt me awful hard. If
the editor makes a mistake folks
say he ought to be hung, but if a
doctor makes any mistakes he buries
them, and people dassent say noth
ing, because doctors can read and
write Latin. When the editor makes
a mistake there is lawsuits, and they
say he ought to be hung, but if a
doctor makes one there is a fun
eral, cut flowers and perfek silence.
A doctor can use a word a yard long
without him or anybody knowing
what it means; but if the editor uses
one he has to spell it. If the doctor
goes to see another man’s wife he
charges for the visit; but if the edi
tor goes he gets a charge of buck
shot. When the doctor gets drunk
it’s a case of being overcome by the‘
heat, and if he dies its from heart'
trouble; when a editor gets drunk
it's a case of too much booze; and
if he dies it's the jim-jams. Any old
college can make a doctor; a editor
has to be born.—Exchange.
THE DISFRANCHISEMENT
AMENDMENT.
From the Albany Herald.
The time may come—and before a
great while—when the people of
Georgia will rue the day they ratified
the amendment to the constitution
which is now popularly supposed to
be aimed directly at the negro and
the ignorant and irresponsible negro
voter only. Everything depends up
on the registrars, and if at any time
in the future they should become par
tisan and their selection should be
made upon partisan lines wholesale
disfranchisement of such voters as
may not come up to an arbitrarily |
imposed standard will inevitably fol
low. Under the administration of
partisan and unscrupulous registrars
this constitutional amendment could,
under such political conditions as are
likely to arise in the not distant fu
ture, be made an instrument of great
injustice and oppression. Great care
should be exerted in the selection of
the registrars.
Will Be Need of Wisdom and Justice,
From the Savannah News.
The disfranchisement amendment
was ratified by a pretty big majority,
and the disfranchisement question
will no longer disturb the people.
‘The enforcement of the amendment,
however, may be the cause of con
lslderable irritation. There will be
need of wisdom and justice in the
enforcement of it, if it is to be pro
ductive of only beneficial results. In
the hands of partisan and unscrup
ulous registrars, under certain politi
cal conditions it could be made an
instrument of injustice and oppres
sion. It is to be hoped that no such
use will ever be made of it.
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Our new crop of Royal Scarlet
Peas have arrived. One can will con
vince you they are the best. Wal)
Bros.
AUTUMN IN BINGVILLE.
From the Bingville Bugle.
We take our editorial pen in hand
at this sitting to write a beautiful
rhapsody on the subjekt of Ottum.
Ottum is something which happens
oncet every year about this time, and
its arrival and departure is some
thing which we, as editor ,of the
Bugle, nor anyone else, has no con
trol over.
It is at this season of the year
that the foliage around Bingville
and vicinity presents a most excru
shiating appearance, being decked
out, as we might say, in all the col
ors of the rainbow and then some.
Some of the leaves is yaller and
some is brown, while others is of
different hues, altogether making a
galaxy which beggars descripshion,
and which even our editorial pen
cannot do justice to at this time.
It is said that poet cannot portray
nor painter write in rhyme on can
vas the many beauties of the leaves
‘Which Ottum causes. Be that as it
may, Ottum always brings to all of
us a melancholy feeling, espeshlaliy
when the leaves lose their holt on
the trees and fall to the ground
withered and dead to such a extent
that they become a nuisance and
haft to be raked up and burnt. Af
ter that the trees present a naked
and nude appearance and will look
redikulus to the observer until next
spring, when they begin to leaf forth
again.
Ottum always makes us melan
choly personally, but we calkilate
this Ottum makes us more melan
cholier than ushual, being as we
are much depressed because we
have just went over our books and
find that about three-fourths of our
total number of subscribers owes us
anywhere from $5 to $lO each, dog
gone ’em anyhow! If they would
pay their debts like men and women
ort to we would feel a good deal
more happier than we be at present.
A Big Crop of Babies.
From the Americus Times-Recorder.
The Moultrie Observer chronicles
the very important fact that the crop
of babies in that vicinity is larger
this year than ever before. Twins
are ceasing to be a rarity. On lot
247, wherever that may be, there
are now 21 children, and wonderful
possibilities. Moultrie is evidently
destined to become a city by natural
increase.
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When the Collector Comes Around.
From the Dalton Citizen.
When our collector comes around
with a little bill for subscription to
this paper don’t fly off and cuss him
out, and then add injury to insult
by telling him to stop the paper, for
we will not do it. We will only stop
yours, and then you wil have to
borrow it in order to read it.
Complete—A complete and up to
date line of machinist and carpen
ters’ tools. The best and largest as
sortment in Dawson. Prices guaran
teed. J. M. CLIFTON HARDWARE
COO., ’phone 173.
For cheap homes in Early county write
to R. H. Sheffield, Blakely, Georgia.
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This picture will give you some idea of how I received a
watch for repairs.
About twelve years ago My, Geo. Bass happened to the very
dangerous accident of getting wound up in some machinery, and
by accident he is still living, and I understand the watch is also
still alive. The case and entire watch was bent around the shaft;
if anything worse ‘looking than the picture. 1 repaired the watch
throughout in my shop. I bought a dial for the movement, 1 be
lieve, is all the new manufactured parts I used. :
I now have a complete s hop, better than ever, and 1 promise
better work for the money. )
I hope that any time You may be in need of anything in the
watch and jewelry line you will remember. Your humble servant,
J. P. ALLEN, At Dawson Drug Co’s.
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telephone connection from the Buildings to any paft of the
State.
Rates for boys and girls, $lO.OO per month, and this may
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of ten cents per hour, for nine hours per week.
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