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t J|rue (£itiBen. The Survival of the ittest. WAYNESBORO, GA„ MAY 12, 1900 Hon. W. W, Osborne has with drawn his appeal to the State Detn ocratic Executive Committee from its consideration and there will be no call ot the committee. The call i3 cancelled. VTING DEMOCRATIC EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. ant to authority vested Id hereby call a meeting of nocratic Executive Commit- be held in Waynesboro, Ga.. at 11 o’ciock a. ra. on the 16th day ol May, 1900. The purpose of said meeting to compile, consolidate and declare the result of the primary election held on May 15th, 1900, and also to select delegates to the state con gressionai and senatorial conven tions; and such other matters at- shouid properly come before the Committee. May 11th, 1900. S. H. Jones, Ch. Dem. Ex. Com., B. C., Ga. THE PRIMARY ERECTION. It ought to be understood by every man who presents himself to vote at the primary election on the loth that it is a Democratic election helo simply to nominate Democratic candidates for the next November election. It ought to be also under stood that he is registered under oath authorized by law which oath is in these words: “I do swear that I am a citizen of the United States, that I am 21 years old, or wilt be on (such a day) this year; that 1 have resided, in tnis state for one year, and in this county six month? immediately preceding the date ot this oath, that I have paid ali taxes which, since the adoption of the Constitution of 1877, have been re quired of me, (except taxes for ihis year) and that I am not disfranchis ed from voting by reason of any of fense against the laws of this state. I further swear that I reside in the district, G. M.” Besides this every voter goes to the polls m this primary to vote as a Democrat; he pledges bis honor to stand to and abide the result ol the primary and to vote for the nominee at the general election, He cannot any more vote at a primary election drshonestly than he can at any other. If he does his vote will be thrown out and he wiil be subject to prosecution just the same.The pri mary election is established by law. Every established political parly ha.- a right to hold its own primary election. The Democratic party has provided a mode for an honest fait expression of opinion. Therefore let every man look carefully at the ticket he is going to vote, scratch off the names that he does not in tend to vote for and leave those un scratched that he wishes to hold of fice. Every candidate’s name is on the ticket or should be for the voter to choose from. Now go to the poll? every properly registered voter and exercise your right of franchise like an intelligent honest and unbought citizen of the great state of Georgia should. HAMMOND VS, REYNOLDS. Rev. S. A. Walker. Ex-KepreBentative of McDuffie County, Answers the Card of Mr. Gross, Thomson, Ga., May 7th, 1900.— Editor McDuffiie Journal:—1 am out of politics, and have no in terest to serve except to select the most efficient and best qualified man for the position of Solicitor General. This is why I snail vote for Hon. H. C. Hammond in the primary of May 15th. In your issue of April 13th there appeared an article from the pen ol Mr. M. W. Gross, dealing with the question of the race betw’een Hon H. C. Hammond and Hon. Jos. S. Reynolds for the position of Demo cratic candidate for Solicitor Gen eral of the Augusta Circuit, to be determined in a Democratic Pri mary to he heid on the 15th of May Some of the statements made by Mr. Gross in his over-bubbling en thusiasm are so erroneous, and his deductions from same so mislead ing that I haye decided to ask space in your valuable columns to make reply thereto. Mr. Gross’s first paragraph deals with “the qualifications of Hon. H. C. Hammond and Hon. Joe. S. Bey nolds for the office of Solicitor Gen eral of the Augusta Circuit.” He proposes, however, to shed light on this question “by giving to the peo ple of McDuffie the record of each as a legislator.” Now, will Mr. Gross kindly ex plain the connection between these two apparently different things? Will he have the goodness to ex plain to the good people of McDuf fie, whom his letter is intended to instruct and enlighten; how the fact that Mr. Reynolds “answered roll- call” in the Legislature more times than Hammond makes the former a better person than the lat ter for the Solicitorship? It does not occur to the writer that this roll call business illustrates in any degree one’s fitness or unfitness for the Solicitorship of the Augusta Circuit, or demonstrates anything beyond the fact that the roll-call was answered. If a legislative re cord is to be considered at all in this question, the pertinent inquiry would be, so far as Mr. Reynolds is concerned, what else did,be do iD the Legislature besides “answering the roll call?” The writer really does not know what he did, but he loes know what he did not do. When the so-called Child Labor Bill—out of the defeat of which by Mr. Hammond, Mr. Reynolds is making so much capital—was be fore the House, Mr. Reynolds made uot a smgle speech in its behalf ;and Ylr. Hammond made a strong and jonviscing argument against it,Mr. Reynolds had Dot a word to say in reply, His most effective weapon igainst Mr.IIammond is the latter’s opposition to that act; and yet Mr Reynold-', with his Legislative re cord so vaunted by Mr. Gross, was oot true enough to his cause to ut ter one word openly in its advoca cy. Doubtless it is true that Mr. Hammond was present, he at least had manliness to speak boldly hi- convictions on aDy important sub ject even while knowing that his utterances were unpopular. But let us see about Mr. Ham- lUODu’d absence from tire Legidla- cure. In the session of 1898 he was promptly on hand at the opening ct cbe Legislature. In two or three lays be was taken violently ill with the grippe. On his arrival at Au gusta his physician pronounced dm too ill to be taken to bis home, ao further off than the village ot Summerville, but insisted on send ing him in an ambulance to the nearby hospital. He remained there lome weeks, too ill to be 3een, ex cept by some members ol his fatni ly, until he was removed to his dome where he lingered for some time in a wretched state of weak ness and prostration. Towards the cod of the session he went back to the Legislature, though it was a most imprudent thing lor him to io. He did so against the command nf his physician. It is true that Mr. Hammond was absent some days from the session of 1S99. These absences were due mainly to his employment, belore the sitting of the Legislature.in cap ital cases in Richmond Superioi court, as to which he could uot ob tain leaves of absence from the court. When he made an effort to obtain a leave of absence and was refused, his conduct would have oeen despicable haa he abandonea ms clients at the hour of trial. I reei sure that the fair minded vot ers of McDuffie county wili nevei condemn a man for faithiuliy per forming his sworn duty. But when he did attend the legislature ho did it as a man and not as a politician. He did something more than “an- -iwer roll-call.” But after all, why should Mr. Gross address this complaint of Mr Hammond’s Legislative record tg the good people of McDuffie? Whai interest have they in the matter? vlr. Hammond was not faithless to any duty whichjhey had entrusted to him. The people of Richmond are the ones to be mad with him — and they are not. When they elect ad him as one of their representa cives in the Legislature, they knew ne was a criminal lawyer with an extensive practice, and they did so vvith the full knowledge tnat he ivas an officer of the court and sub ject to its orders. And, even from Mr, Gross’s standpoint, what dif ference did it make whether Mr Hammond was present or absent? vVas not the ever-present Mr. Rey- lolds there all the time, answering every roll-call. What difference, too, did it make it Mr. Galvin also was absent or present? For Mr. Gross tells us that Mr. Reynolds was not only •‘one of the ablest members of the House, but the ablest,best and most conscientious member of the Rich mond delegation.” It strikes the writer that Mr. Gross’s views of the office of Solic itor General of the Circuit are a tri fle unsound. He says, “we have never yet had an experienced law yer as a Solicitor yet.” Again: “It’s true that Mr Hammond has had more experience than Mr.Reynolds, but that makes no difference.” Again: “All this talk about an ex perienced lawyer is all bosh.” Now what substitute in this important professional office does Mr. Gross propose in the place of professional knowledge, professional skill and professional ability? Mr. Gross loes not leave the good people of vIcDuffie, to whom he addresses his remarkable views, in any doubt on this point. His substitute for these qualifications, hitherto considered essential in the Solicitor General, is personal popularity of that official. With most gratuitous, uncalled-for tnd unwarranted disparagement ol the professional ability of the pres ent Solicitor,Hon. William H. Davis, he attributes the number of convic tions he ha3 obtained to his person il popularity. Mr. Gross says: “He (Mr. Davis) even surpassed Hon. Boykin Wright in his number of eonyictions in McDuffie county, be cause he is so well liked. This state- nent he makes by way of illustra- ion of his proposition to the case in land by saying: “We never have lad an experienced lawyer as a So lieitor yet. Give~me a man like Joe Reynolds that is popular with the people.” Surely Mr. Gross does nol correctly represent the good people >f McDuffie when he ascribes to hem such a state of public opinion md such a remarkable administra- cion of the law, that the acquittal jr conviction of parties charged ivith crime, depends on the person al popularity of the prosecuting offi cer You .<• need not lose flesh in summer | | if you use the proper means $ S to prevent it. You think i | you can’t take SCOTT’S $ .<• EMULSION in hot weather, | | but you can take it and di- | $1 gest it as well in summer as £ | in winter. It is not like the | £ plain cod-liver oil, which is § | difficult to take at any time. 9 If you are losing flesh, | | you are losing ground and | if you need j I Scott’s Emulsion \ and must have it to keep up J I your flesh and strength. If \ | you have been taking it and | j£ prospering on it, don’t fail to i continue until you are thor* J | oughly strong and well. | a 50c. and $1.00, all druggists. T qg SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists. New York. ® Mr. Gross makes two charges agaiDst Mr. Hammond’s election— That he and his friends are respon sible for the “consolidated Circuit primary,” and that such primaryjis unfair. Neither of these charges is true. Mr. Gross means by the con solidated primary the direct vote of all the voters throughout the cir cuit, as distinguished from a nomi nation made by a convention com posed of delegates selected sepa rately in each county.What is there unfair in this ? What is it, indeed, out the rule of the majority? Wben in the Democratic paity, has the rule of the majority, fairly ascer tained,been considered unfair? And flow ofteD, on the other hand, have devices, by which a minority has gotten control, received justly mer ited denunciation! Neither are Mr. Hammond and bis friends any more chargeable with the primary whether it be good or bad, than is Mr. Gross himself, or any other cit izen. There has been for a long time the discussion of the primary system. It has been universally ap proved-doubtless it is approved by Mr. Gross himself in his neart. And when the State Executive Commit tee met, it simply voiced the senti ments of ali members of the party -Mr. Hammond and his friends Mr. Reynolds and'his triends, and everybody else’s friends—in order ing a primary. As to the registra tration which the Executive Com mittee ordered, will Mr.Gross kind ly inform the good people of Me Duffle, whom he had undertaken to instruct, how a primary could be neld in any legal and orderly way without registration? Also wh registration is not as necessary for a primary as for a regular elec tion ? Will he kindly answer why the Populist party, to which until recently he ciaimed allegiance, al ways required registration as a qualification to vote in their prima ries in McDuffie county, if it work- od such a hardship as he now de scribes? Why did not the clarion voice of Mr. Gross ring out in de nanclation of the registration for primaries at that time? Why ap prove registration for Populist pri maries, and denounce registration for Democratic primaries? Yes to register does take time, both in the city and in the country; but the pertormance of any civic duty and the enjoyment of any civic privi lege takes time. Mr. Gross proba bly exaggerates,when he represents the time required for registration as a great hardship. Moreover, this hardship, such as it is, has been greatly softened by the empioy ment by Mr. Hammond of a deputy to cali on the farmers at their h omes and regist t r tfc< m. I have failed to fmd any merit in the reasons which Mr. Gross gives and which I have thus far enumer ated, why the good people of Mc Duffie should prefer Mr. Reynolds to Mr. Hammond. Perhaps, how ever, a sufficient reason is to be found in'the last proposition of Mr. Gross, which I shall mention, and which I proceed to state in his own language, to-wit: “I-am opposed to Mr. Hammond because I was not intimate with him in the legislature of’98 and’99.” It is very much to be regretted that Mr. Hammond did not appreciate the importance of Mr. Gross’s intimacy. He, doubt less, would have done everything which any self - respecting man could do, to attract to himself Mr. Gross’s intimacy, if he had thought then, as Mr. Gross evidently thinks now, that to be thus favored was a necessary qualification for receiv ing the votes of the good people of McDuffie. In conclusion allow me to say that the main issue in the present campaign is, “which of the two can didates before the Democratic vot ers is better qualified, from experi ence and practice, to fill the import ant office of Solicitor-General?” This each voter chouid determine after a careful investigation of the record of each as a Laicyer. Every one at ail familiar with tne admin istration of justice knows that we look to the Solicitor-General for the conviction of criminals and the suppression of crime. We ail know that he must meet in the forum the ablest lawyers that the State ol Georgia can afford. We all know that however clever a Solicitor Gen eral may be, unless he is a lawyer of both ability and experience, the interests of society will suffer; and this, uot alone in the city; not alone in the town; but at. the country store, at the cross Loads and at the rural home, far from the protecting hand of the officers nf the law. I feel that Mr, Gross has dodged the maio issue. I fail to see why the fact that Mr. Reynolds had no opportunity of obtaining an educa tion in youth should be used against Vlr. Hammond. I fail to see why the tact that Mr,Hammond has had access to the large law library of his distinguished uncle should in any way unfit him for the position of Solicitor General. 1 fail to see why a man born in the “good old county of Burke” wiil make any better Solicitor General than one born in the “good oid county of Richmond.” Let us return to the main issue;and after a fair investigation, of the re cord of each candidate as a Iaw 7 yer. free from prejudice and passion, cast our ballot as our own judg ment may dictate. S. A. Walker. CASTOHIA. Sears the /) The Kind Yon Have Always Bought Signature of Augusta Real-Estate Is tbe safest investment you can make. Those who have noted the rapid strides ot devel opment made in Augusta in the past 5 years, and are familiar with the vast number of new buildings, manufactories, indus tries, etc., that are now in course of construction are buying real estate in Augusta, because of the certainty of great enhancement. At the present time we can sell lots in the growing section of the city for $250 to $500 on the installment plan ol $10 per month. This is better than Building and Loan Association Stock which has proved so disastrous to thousands of stockholders and as sate as a government bank. Write for prices, location, plats, &c.. ALEXANDEB & JOHNSON, 705 Broad Street, AUGUSTA, ; : : : GEORGIA octl4.’99—lira Painters Strike In Asheville. Asheville, N. C., May 9.—Acting under orders from the Brotherhood of Painters and Decorators of America the members of local nnion, No. 132, de manded $2 per day instead of $1.50. Sev eral contractors have complied with the demand while others refused to do so and a few of the painters went out. The union here includes about 53 members. At the beginning of the year they de manded a 9-hour day, which was com plied with by the contractors. BOTANIC BLOOD BALM (B.B.B.) Striking Miners Riot. Wilke jarre, Pa., May 9.—During a riot between strikers and workmen at the Buttonwood mine of the Parrish Coal company today about 20 men were badly injured, including Superintendent W. T. Smythe. The strikers dispersed the workmen. The sheriff lias been called on. Operators Locked Out. Greensboro, N. C., May 9. — The roximity mill has locked out their 500 nployes, in order to forestall a threat- jd strike. Savannah River Association. Augusta, Ga., April 28.—The Savan nah River association has been organ ized here by the election of W. H. Bing ham president. The object of the asso ciation is to obtain the deepening of the river channel from this city to Savannah. Capital Stock Increased. Columbus, Ga., April 28.—A meeting of the stockholders of the Columbus Manufacturing company was held here today and increased its capital stock from $250,000 to $400,000. — Have your orders for whiskey filled promptly by ordering from Paul Heymann, Augusta, Ga. SOUTHERN RAILWAY. olv Central Time at Jacksonville and Savannah. Eastern Time at Other Points. Schedule in Effect February 25th, 1900. NORTHBOUND. Lv. Jacksonville (P. S) “ Savannah (So. Ry.i “ Barnwell. - “ Blackville.. Springfield. Sally.. Perry. Ar. Columbia Lv. Charleston,(So. Ry DB. GILLA3I. A. Trial Treatment Sent Privately by Mail Eree to All Who ; uiler. 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S TATE OF GEORGIA—Burke County- By virtue of a verdict and decree from tbe .Superior Court of said county, rendered at tbe April Term, 1900, in the case of H. H. Perry, Trustee, <tc., vs. B. H. Dunn, Guardi an, et al„ decreeing the sale of certain prop erty herein described: Will be sold before the court bouse door, in tbe city of Waynes boro, said county between the legal hours of sale, on tbe first Tuesday in June, 19(H), next- all that lot, tract or parcel of land, lying near Waynesboro corporate limits, East o! the lands now occupied by tbe Central rail road, and West of lands of P. L. Corker, bounded South by McIntosh creek and North by lands of P. B, Corker, containing (18) eighteen acres more or less. Also the lot with dwelling and outhouses thereon, on the cor- nerof Liberty and Barron Streets, adjoining lots on the South and East of Mrs. Angie P. Reynolds, containing seven-eights of one acre as isurveyed, Terms Cash. Purchaser to pay for titles. May 5th, 1900. H. H. 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Atlanta, Ga. rED. You are invited to see us and while in Augusta, you are also cordial ly invited to call at our store and see our elegant stock of Fashionable Spring Clothing. Don’t forget us. We are sure to please you in style, quality and prices. Make our store your headquarters during your stay in the city. Our Ladies’ and Children’s Department will command the attention of the fair ones. J. WILLIE LEVY, 844 Broadway, Augusta, Ga, feb25,’99— by When You Come Don’t forget to call at the 836 AUGUSTA Broad Street, : HOUSE FURNISHING CO AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, And inspect their immense stock of FURNITURE, MATTINGS AND RUGS. We do an exclusive Furniture Business, and will sell yon any goods in our line at Low prices, prices. When you have to be suited at other places. We will please in both. See our stock and get o AUGUSTA HOUSE FURNISHING CO. mar31,1900— 836 Broad Street, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.