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Official Or?an Ben Hill County.
The Senatorial Situation
Atlanta, Ga., June 27. 1911.
Muddled—that is the one word
that best expresses the situation in
the senatorial contest.
One might with impunity offer a
handsome reward for any person
who knows anything definite about
it.
But on one point there seems to
be an almost general agreement—
that if Hoke Smith remains in
the race with out announcing,
there is going to be a deadlock.
Further, there is a pretty^gener-
al opinion around the Kimball
kdoby, th'e scene of the greatest
:rial activity, that, unless
w^Krnor Smith announces his
C^^dacy Jfc and he goes has actively chance to
for it, no
whatever for election.
Two members of t he house, .long
known as Hoke Smith men, told
one of Governor Smith’s warmest
friends Tuesday they would vote
for Governor Smith provided he
announced his candidacy; other¬
wise jthe-y would not.
It is said it has been practically
put up to Governor Smith by his
friends that he must either an¬
nounce or abandon all hope of win¬
ning. Consti¬
A representative of The
tution called at the office of Gov¬
ernor Smith, in the Peters build¬
ing, but was informed that he hail
nothing whatever to say.
CANDLER IN THE THICK OK IT.
Railroad Commission C.M. Can¬
dler was right in the thick of it
Tuesday. refused be quoted, but
He to
his friends said he was simpiy in
“awaiting attiutde.”
In other words, Mr. Candler is
ready and waiting to take on harn¬
ess, provided Governor Smith gets
out of the way.
Mr. Candler spent the day in
talking with members of the legis¬
lature in the Kimball lobby, and
his friends there were quick to ex¬
press the opinion that he could be
elected if he were only given the
opportunity to go after it.
On the other hand, it was re-
ported that certain members of
tne legislature, generally in sym- had
pathy with Governor Smith,
announced they would not stand
for a transfer of their votes to
Candler or anybody else; that they
; were for Smith if he wanted to go
] to the senate, but after that pleased, they
felt free to vote as they
did not > d to be dictated to.
WATSON CIl E ED AS HE ENTERED
I. » 15 B Y
1 Tom Watsi . arrived at 1 o’clock
m 'Jthif afterDoifcr.. His appearance in
‘dHgBeudous JfifcbiJi lobby w&« the signal
cheers from a
alB|Bnber of evidently his supporters hand and
sympathizers, in call. on
t response to his
I He had trouble elbowing his
way to the desk to register, and
as soon as he had put his Dame
dbwn a mob surrounded him to
.
shake hands.
“You’re all right, Tom and we
ate with you,” scores shouted.
Ill As he moved slowly towards the
stairs to go to his headquarters on
the first floor, room 107, he was
followed by half a hundred men.
Once in his rooms he held a gener¬
al reception and shook hands with
evident pleasure with all. He looks
unusually well, and is stouter than
he has been in many years.
He had no particular comment
to make now, but said he’d prob¬
ably have something to say later
on. There appears to be a consid¬
erable number of his friends here
in response to his appeal.. They
are talking Watson enthusiastical¬
ly, and will undoubtedly follow
his lead in whatever he under¬
takes.
7 JUDGE COVINGTON ON HAND
“No, 1 have not opened head-
jquarters yet,” said Judge W. A.
SEMI-WEEKLY
Fitzgerald
FITZGERALD , BEN HILL COUNTY , GEORGIA, JUNE**, 1911.
Covington, of Moultrie. “I only
reached Atlanta 7 o’clock
this morning, slung my grip in the
check room, and have been busy
ever since shaking hands with
friends. No, I have no statement
to make at the present time, but I
am feeling tine, and ready for the
tight.”
Senator Emmett Shaw, of the
eleventh, one of Judge Covington’s
strong supporters, announced that
he was ready to back up his asser-
tion that Judge Covington would
receive 40 votes on the first ballot.
Hon. Joe Hill Hall, of Bibb,
another of Judge Covington’s
friends, thought that was about
his strength on the first roll call.
TERRELL CONFIDENT.
Senator Terrell and his many
friends seemed unusually confident
Tuesday of the outcome of tli3
tight, and are constructing the ev-
ident bad split in the Poke
camp to mean a Terrell victory.
The senator spent the day in his
headquarters as on Monday, and
with the increased arrival of mera-
bers his rooms at the hotel were
thronged both morning and after¬
noon.
Hon. Peasant Stovall, of Savan¬
nah, was busy during the day
holding conferences with friends
from various sections of the state
and it was thfeir declaration that
things were coming ids way.
Mr. Stovall’s friends beleive that
with the tie-up, which now appears
to be a certainty, there will be a
splendid chance for his election,
especially in view of the south
Georgia sentiment which the sena-
torial discussion has aroused.
SOUTH GEORGIA DETERMINED.
The south Georgia members are
getting more and more clannish in
respect to the senatorship.
Regardless of their general po-
lical inclinations, they are now
urging the election of a south
Georgian to the senate seat, and
with a deadlock on they express
the belief that they will have an
excellent opportunity to carry out
this design,
Mr. Stovall and Judge Coving-
ton are the south Georgia candi-
dates, and if this movement takes
definite shape it is probable that
*>ne of these would prove the ben-
eficiary of it.
Whether it could be made
strong enough |to elect, however.;
is another question. I
HUDSON ON THE SCENE.
Commissioner of agriculture T.
G. Hudson, generally reputed to
have engineered the Hoke Smith
senatorial campaign with a view
to making the race for governor
in case Mr. Smith should go to
the senate, has just returned from
a trip to New York and Washing¬
ton and was busy greeting his
friends during the day.
Mr. Hudson refused either to
affirm or deny the report that he
had conducted the Smith senator¬
ial campaign.
“I feel this way concerning it,”
he said. “As you know I have been
away from Georgia about two
weeks, and as far as the political j
situation is concerned, I am in
practically total ignorance. Sena¬
tor Terrell’s friends, I believe,
have been responsible for connect¬
ing me with the Smith campaign,
and I have just concluded that if
they think spreading such reports
will help their cause, I will not
deny them,”
“Will you be a candidate for
governor in the event of Governor
Smith’s election to the senate?” he
was asked.
“As to that I cannot say,” he
replied. “All my friends know
that I have intended making the
race for congress, and though I
am being urged to become a gub¬
ernatorial candidate, I have not
City Court Convenes
Next Week
Judge E. Wall will com ene City
Court next Monday, with perhaps
one of the heaviest dockets on
I record in this city, there being
about 150 criminal cases to be tried.
The jurors that have been drawn
for the terra are as follows:
W.T. Hogan, W. ,J. Robitzsch,
D.T. Taylor, C. Kilburn, T. A.
Burden, Geo. W. Brown, W. R.
Dykes, H.H. Rapp, Warren Gibbs,
T.S. Graham, B.E Archer, W.H.
Fountain, Wiley Garrison, E. E.
Perkins, J.J. Ennis, J.C. Wilson,
C. F. Dixon. H. H. James, C. C.
Dozier, James Fletcher, W. H.
Minix, J. C. Boney, D. Z. Luke,
Toliver J. Livingstone, L A Par¬
nell, I.N. Frey, J. F. Base, A. E.
Jones, J.W. Easm, T. J. Davis,
I. W. Porterfield, Geo. E. Ricker.
J M. Barrentme, Jas. B.
G. J. Dormiuey.
yet decided definitely what I will
do. Of course, I feel it woula tie
the highest of honors to become
governor.”
Mr. Hudson refused to discuss
the senatorial race except to say
that he felt sure Governor Smith
would have a good chance of ’elec-
tion, whether he went through on
the first ballot or not.
.Mr. Hudson declined to discuss
the senatorial predictions of Gov¬
ernor Smith’s election which he is
said to have made to a newspaper
man in Washington.
ALLEGED “DEAL” RESENTED.
“Do you know,” said the legis¬
lator who has served in that capa-
city for the last ten years or more,
“that not only members of the
general assembly, but p e o pi e
everywhere, are strongly resenting
this ali.eged deal between Hoke
Smith and Tom Hudson ?
“I have come across this resent-
ment in several sections of the
state, and on my arrival in Atlanta
I found it even more pronounced
among certain members of the
legislature.
“I was taking breakfast this
morning with two members of the
house who have always been strong
Hoke Sm th men, when I was sur¬
prised to hear one of them, bring¬
ing his fist down heavily upon the
table, make this remark:
“There are two men in this sena-
torial race who will never get mv
vote. One of them is Joe Terrell
and the other is Hoke Smith.’ And
the other one immediately agreed
with him.
“I found there, and 1 have found
in conversation with other rnem-
bers, that there is a strong resent¬
ment cropping out on account of
tiie reported deal by which Gover¬
nor Smith was to go to the senate
and Tom Hudson was to become
governor.
“I believe you will find that the
people are not going to r.ave it.”
HOLDING UR PATRON AGE.
The proposed movement to hold
up the patronage of n Governor
Smith in the se mte by refusing to
confirm his appointments until
after the senatorial situation is
settled was ge orally discussed in
the Kimball lo oy during the day.
According to one member of the
senate, who is for neither Smith
or Terrell, the so-called auti-Smith
majority in the senate has agreed
to this course, and the belief is
expressed among them that it will
nave the effect of drawing support
away from the governor.
There were still rumors current
that Governor Smith would not let
Bis name go before the legislat ure
and coupled with it the statement
already reported, that he could not
hope for election unless he.would
announce his candidacy.
MCLENDON MAKES STATEMENT.
S. G. McLendon, former rail-
road corarni oner gave out a
F ' tZ wfi 3 *P " ft ° n
II I I ay Ball |
The Fitzgerald Baseball team
will cross bats with Tifton next
Friday afternoon, the game being
called promptly at four o’clock at
j the second ward diamond.
From present indications, the
game bids fair to be a hotly con-
tested one, and there is a deal of
real pleasure in store for those
who witness it. The Fitzgerald
nine are practicing every afternoon,
limbering up, and those who have
watched them vouch for the asser-
tion that they will play Tifton a
tight game. Lay business aside
for the brief season of an hour and
a half, and go out and “root for
the home team.’’
Mrs. Lulu B. Ryman
Dead.
The sad intelligence of the death
of Mrs . Lulu B. Rym m was re¬
■ ceiv'ed in the city yesterday from
the p res byterian Hospital at Chi-
cago, Ills., where she was taker
several weeks ago for treatment.
Mrs. Ryraan’s only son,Glen, was
her at the time of tier death,
anc i is now en route to Fitzgerai 1
Wlth tbe body, and it is expected
vv j;j arrive here in the morning on
^ be ear jy train, No h ur for
funeral has vet been announced,
but the remains will be interred in
Evergreen Cemetry beside her hus¬
band, Col. E. W. Ryman, who died
several years ago.
Mrs. Ryman was a resident of
Fitzgerald since early colony days,
and was known to a large number
of friends. She was an intelligent
woman besides being an earnest
church worker of the Christian
’ ’ t'.A
faith, and always took a prominent
part in W.. G. T. U. work.
She is survived by one son, Glen,
a lad of about seventeen years, and
two step-children, Col. D. L. Ry¬
man and and Miss Miss Lulu Lulu Rvman 1 yn an, and
to them is extended the sympathy
of this entire community in bis
sad bereavement.
New Pastor Takes
Charge Next Sunday
Dr. C. Thomas Coombs, the new
Pastor of the Central Christian
church, begins his pastorate here
next bers Sunday, July 2nd. The mem¬
of the Church and the public
generally are invited to be present
at both the morning and evening
services. The following extract
from the State Organ of the Chris¬
tian Church in Georgia. The Chris¬
tian Messenger, will give an idea
as to how Bro. Coombs is regard¬
ed elsewhere.
“The Guyton field has been ex-
ceedingly Thomas fortunate in securing C.
Coombs for its minister.
Bro. Coombs has held important
charges and is well qualified in
scholarship and oratory to fill the
most Brotherhood. important pulpits in our
HisPh. I).
ship literary enables work him to do important
and he should not
be allowed to hide his talents un-
der a bushel. As a speaker Bro.
Coorabs ranks among the best I
have ever heard. His voice is soft,
penetrating and stron g. His
thoughts are clear, simple and im¬
pressive, ever awakening his hear¬
ers to the beauty in Christian life
and service. The churches through-
out the field are showing their ap-
preciation of his work by their
hearty responses to his exhorta-
tions.”
statement Tuesday in connection
with the senatorial race in which
he professes belief that a primary
will yet be held. He says he has
not talked with any members of
the general assembly with a view
to soliciting their support, because
he believes a primary should be
held and he expresses confidence
that it will yet in some way be
brought about.
B °° S,e ” 0n Way Home
After A Remarkable Trip
Barnesville, Ua., June 26.—The
scout car of the Georgia State
Chamber of Commerce from
Barnesville, boosting the State
Chamber of Commerce convention
to be held in July, is now on its
home trip after having visited
Columbia Raleigh, Richmond,
Washington and New York citv.
In all of these cities, besides in
various minor ones, the Barnesville
boosters have been most cordially
welcomed and royally entertained.
They have received the hearty
affiliation of the chambers of com-
merce in each city and the mayors
and governors have joined in en¬
tertaining the party on their trip,
Governor Kitchens, of North
Carolina showed especial interest
in the organization of the State
Chamber of Commerce, as n d
Governor Mann, of Virginia, who
has promised to be in Barnesville
during the convention and will
make , address. ,.
an
In Washington they were tat n
in hand by the Georgia congro *
I LuDUl ohnr ! UlllUliO IninnQ nlU AiH
To Good Citizenshin .
There is no school in which a
man or boy can be better acquaint-
ed than in the school which admits
of free discussion of all questions;
where the individual has the op-
portunity to express his opinion
and has the opportunity to listen
to the opinion of others on the'
points he makes. Thus in the trades
umon movement we have an open
forum where every member learns
of others many sides of a question
tliat were da k to him before. To
stop and consider before doing
makes the trades union movement
one of the most conservative in
the progress of nations. There are
no wild theories advanced. Every
argument is based on fact. There
& cQncrete sub j ect to be dis .
cussed and thus the mind is train-
ed for better things. In the general
makeup of the tradrs union there
are men of many minds, holding
views opposite each other and t »e
membership, after a free discus-
sion adopts that which to them J
appeals the most reasonable. Tlu .*
is no politics in the trades unio
movement. Matters of public im-
port are discussed from the e< o-
nornic import; the greatest good
to the community than from an
individual standpoint, and if you
get into an argument with a mem-
ber of a trades union on any qu s-
tion of public policy you will find
him better informed than the rcer-
jturer. j chant, the banker or the manui . ic-
The men in the professions
are j eas t informed on public ques-
. ting thc lawyers,
* the lawyer , always , .
or v kws „ a <,
tion from the view point oi the
interest employing him andseldom
looks at the other side.
The equalization of wages with
the cost of living and others inci-
dentals is one of the functions of
the trades union, and in that they
maintain a standard not only for
themselves, but for the large ma¬
jority of workers who are not
members of a union. A high wage
means more money geing into the
local market for home made goods;
to the local business man; in the
!and> and enriches the comrauni-
ty. With a low standard the pro¬
fits of a business may or may not
be larger, but it is a well known
fact that the man and women with
a surplus amount of money spends
that surplus in foreign cities and
countries, and it is just that much
of the energy of the community
gone never to return.
Unions teach obedience to the
laws. The training in a union is a
lesson in itself. To be a good union
man you must obey the laws of the j
VOL. XVI. NO. 38
man and were honored by an offi¬
cial interview with the president,
who is still wanting to know
where Barnesville so suddenly
sprung from and whether or not it
is a suburb of Atlanta or Macon.
They were most cordially received
in the east room of the executive
mansion, the president quitting
his deskto entertain the Georgians.
The New York Chamber of Oom-
merce also promises to aid Barnes-
ville in every way possible in the
amalgamation or the Georgia trade
bodies.
The party is returning via the
uational highway and will be re¬
ceived in all cities en route by the
chambers of commerce and the
mayors. They will reach Barnes-
ville the latter part of the week.
The automobile used on the
journey is a Primo, furnished by
the Pritno Auto Company, of At-
lanta. . T It , has
created much inter-
est on the tr 'P and has at a11
-
kept up to the schedule.
union - To be a good citizen you
must obey the laws of the land.
Paving learned to obey the laws of
the union it is not a hard matter to
°hey an .y laws imposed by the city,
state or nation. Union men never
question authority given by the
l aw - If it is a bad law they seek
to have it remedied. If a good law
they try-to have it enforced and
maintained. In this regard we de-
sire t0 call the attention of our
readers to the fact that the initia-
tive > •&« referendum and the re¬
ca H have J°ng been a part of the
platform of the American Federa-
tion of Labor, and was a part of
the declaration of principles of the
Knights of Labor before the
American Federation of Labor
came into being. Laws that ap-
peared to be for the benefit of the
labor few against attempted the to many, have organized repeated,
memorializing the state legislature
and th « congress in that direction,
It was then they sought bringing
the P« w er of government into the
hands of the people, and action of
legislatures during the past two
Years shows their efforts on that
^ are bearing fruit. The 1 bor
movement is not revolutionary,
hut evolutionary. We want full
protection for the weakest of our
citizens regardless of affiliation
witil ,!l hor unioi We want the
law applied alike > ie man with-
out a dollar am i to the man with
millions. The n. v mofit for bet-
t er laws and a h ,er standard of
citizenship wil be kept up in the
ranks of organized labor even
though they are the only body of
citizens working to that end. The
movement is not for today, but
for always. A clear study of the
labor movement by those not ac-
quainted with it will reveal the
fact that they have been working
f° r ^e benefit of humanity in all
lines of endeavor.—Macon Indus-
trial Journal.
Messrs. Drew W. Paulk, Clay¬
ton Jay, L. L. Griner, and John D.
Dorminey will be among the local
Elks to attend the Elk’s Conven-
tion which will convene on the 10
th of next month at Atlantic, N.
J.
Benefit Day
To-morrow (Thursday) will be
benefit day at the Tarrymoore Ice
Parlors for the Ladies Aid
of the PresbyterianChurch.
Patronize a worthy cause and assist
the ladies in a laudable work. Fine
cakes will be on sale. Remember
the date—to-morrow, Thursday,
Tickets good for that date only.