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The Hitzgerald Leader.
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Official Orjan of Ben Hill Co.
The development of Fitzgerald
cannot be stopped but may be
stunted.
_
Vote as if your personal affairs
were in jeopardy and your judge¬
ment will lead you right.
Let your votes speak your
judgement—men who have been
good citizens cannot make bad al¬
dermen.
The administration of the cityV
affairs rests mainly upon the
Mayor It is opportune to elect
a man whose record would assure
the enforcement of law and
order. The most radical couldn’t
expect more.
WHERE Oh, where is the editor
of the Enterprise in the Mayor’s
contest. Instead of wasting hi.~
venoru on the editor of the Leader
who is impervious to “snake”
poison, the Enterprise should be
promoting the interests of the
Candidate for Mayor, who is best
fitted for the position. The Pub¬
lic interests would be better served
if he’d unmask his batteries for
the benefit of the candidate the
Leader has presented to the Voters
at its earliest opportunity.
The tent meeting conduct d b;
the Culpeppers culls to mind :
happening of years ago in wh cl
the elder Culpi pprr and one o
our old friends played the leading
role Some 17 veur* a o, win-
we lived in Jacksonville, Fla., Mr.
Culpepper carried on a big revival
meeting on the corner of Cedar
8nd Forsyth streets. Our friend,
Mr. Williams, at that time the
owner of a large department stoie
became a regular attendant at the
meetings. During same the re¬
vivalists delivered a strong appeal
against card playing, gambling in
general and novel reading. Bro.
Williams carried a large stock of
novels, playing cards and dice,and
becoming convinced that the
vendor shared in the guilt of sin-
fullness as expressed by Rev.
Culpepper, brought a two horse
dray load of books, cards and dice
to the Tent one Monday morning
and burned them in the presence
of a large gathering of friends.
We were intimate acquait ted
with Mr. Williams until his death
which occurred a few years ago
and we believ--- he adhered to h s
conviction, refrainitvr from the
sale of anything that did not lit
to his public profession.
Mayor Gaynor On Religion
Mayor Gaynor has received
letter from a man in Los Angeles
who says he has u got religion”
and in consequence desires to con¬
fess that, while living in New
York, he perjured him-Hi h
lawsuit before J udge Gaynor and
thereby unjustly defeated the op¬
posite party to the suit. He seems
to think that mere confession
without restoration is all that is
necessary, and the practical-mind¬
ed mayor is reported to have re
plied as follows:
“You state that some years ag*
you were a witness before m«
when I was a judge and a fals*
witness and deceived me so th» 11
decided the case wrongly and tha
you make this confession to me be
THE FITZGERALD LEADER. TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 19. 1911
The north side of the city doef not seem to be favor¬
ed with aspiring politicians. W. R. Paulk and C. A.
Fretwell are the sole claimants for political honors in the
First and Second Wards.
cause you have become a Chris¬
tian and want forgiveness. Ac¬
cording to my views you have to
do more than this to be forgiven.
You have to make amends. Mere
talk does not purchase forgiveness.
Where anything is stolen or got
unjustly it must be refunded be¬
fore foregiveness can be expected
if the sinner be able to refund.
That is the way I understand it.
So you had better tell me what the
case was so that I may look it up
and see what loss the defeated
party sustained, and then you
must restore his money to him or
make good his loss. If this be not
your view I fear you are in error
in supposing that you have got re¬
ligion and are a Christian.’—Macon
Telegraph.
An Eloquent Tribute.
In the Senate the other day,
after Hey burn had made the usual
exhibition the country expects
from him whenever opportunity
is given him to attack the men
who fought the battles of the Con¬
federacy, and after John Sharp
Williams had completed the task
of hanging the Ileyburn hide on
the fence, Senator William Alden
Smith, of Michigan, paid the fol¬
lowing beautiful tribute to the
Southern soldiers and the Southern
people:
“You on the other side are ask¬
ed to forget the war, forget what
you suffered. Why, Mr. President
1 would despise a Southern man
who would ever forget the loyalty
and bravery and the daring and
the heroism and the sacrifices their
people made in a cause they be¬
lieve to be right. That is part of
the history of our country, writ¬
ten by the sword and attested by
the gallatry of our own country¬
men on every battlefield in the
South. I respect the men who
wore the gray; I honor the men
who .wore the blue. I honor their
Intrepidity and skill, attested cn a
hundred battlefields, from Bull
Run to Appomattox. Sir, their
daring touched the highest mark
ever attained in patriotic devotion
to country and the valor displayed
on both sides is our richest herit¬
age. But, sir, I do not know a
soldier in the North who is not
broad and generous and catholic,
who does not look upon the South¬
ern soldier living with kindness
and spmpathy and upon the Con¬
federate soldier dead with affec¬
tion and good will. Their loyal
devotion to a principle which they
themselves thought dear will ex¬
cite the admiration of all future
generations of men the whole
world round, and is the proud
legacy of the sons and daughters
of the Southland. Sir, those men
have cared for their wounded and
suffering; they have asked no pen¬
sions from the Government against
which they rebelled. With a soli¬
citude which we may well emulate,
they have bound up their wounds
and nursed their own sick and
cared for their dead and rebuilt
their own devastated States and
voluntarily burdened themselves
that we might pension our heroes
and house them in comfort in their
declining years.”
How weak and pit.ful the rail¬
ings of Heybum and his kind
sound beside the simple eloquence
of the sincere tribute of the Sena-
tor from Michigan! The war is
over. The glory of each is the
heritage W of all. Let us have peace.
— ashington Times.
O.K. BarberShop
Changes Quarters
Mr. P. B. OweDsandson, Robert,
Managers of theO. K. Barbershop
have moved from beneath the
hirst National Bank to 119 east
Pine street, the room formerly oc-
■upied by the Model Cafe. In the
new place, the Messrs. Owens have
uore convenient and commodious
juarters, and can better handle
their growing patronage.
Real Facts in the Case
BY CKO. II. SHOAF.
As a result of the rigid investiga¬
tion conducted by the defense in
the McNamara case, the facts rela¬
tive to the Times explosion have
been definitely established:
According to the affidavits of
thirty-five Times employes who
were in the building at the time of
the explosion, the odor of gas was
strong from tne basement' to the
top floor before the explosion oc¬
curred. So strong was this odor,
according to several employes, that
sickness resulted. One map left
the building Jhalf an hour before
the explosion because he could not
longer tolerate the odor of gas that
tilled the room in which he worked.
Ten days before the explosion a
Times linotype operator declared
to his wife that he expected the
building to blow up any night.
This man, who was killed in the
explosion, prepared a blue print
diagram of the composing room,
showing entrances and exits, in or¬
der that he might study the best
way to escape. The expected ex¬
plosion occurred. This blue print
will be introduced by the defense.
The man’s wife will testify to what
her husband told her before his
death. Two nieces of the dead man
will corroborate the man’s state¬
ment.
The day before the explosion
two telephone splicers refused to
work in the basement of the build¬
ing because of the prevalence of
gas. One hour before the explos¬
ion occurred two telegraph opera¬
tors, doing Associated Press work
for the Times, .complained of the
presence of gas. The two men were
forced to (leave the building for a
short time in order to get fresh air.
All these witnesses will testify for
the defense at the trial.
Ed. Sewell, who had charge of
the lynotype machines, asserts that
had a gas main anywhere in the
building been broken either with
wrench or dynamite the decreased
gas pressure would have registered
on the instrument near which be
was standing when the explosion
occurred. Had a slow leak been
made several days previous to the
I explosion, he says the registration
would not have been visible. Ac¬
cording to many witnesses the gas
mains wer° not broken at the time
of the explosion, but were wrench¬
ed apart by falling machinery dur¬
ing the progress of the fire. Many
witnesses will testify that not one
window in the building across the
street from the Times was broken
from the force of the explosion,
but that the glass in the window
began to break after the fire grew
hot.
All witnesses agreed that the
noise of the explosion was not a
sharp, barking noise, such as dyna¬
mite makes, but a prolonged roar.
One man who was passing theTimes
building at the instant of the ex¬
plosion, declares that the flames
tilled the building completely and
simultaneously with the explosion.
He says the employes ran to the
window and jumped to their death
because there were no escapes down
which to go.
Harry Chandler, business man-
ager of the Times, it is declared,
was standing on the steps of his
home in a distant part of the city
when the explosion occurred.
“There goes the Times,” he is re-
ported to have exclaimed immedi¬
ately following which he wrote the
famous editorial charging union
Iaborwitha dastardly deed. The edi
tonal was printed and read on the
streets two hours after the explo
sion. Mr. Chandler does not deny
the facts. Not a single person
of official consequence was in the
building when the explosion took
place. Even the city editor, whose
business it was to remain for the
last local news, had gone. H. G.
Otis, the owner, was in Mexico
returning from a conference with
Diaz, good authority, ass. rts.
WHITE PRIMARY
OFFICIAL BALLOTT
FITZGERALD, GA.
September 20, 1911
FOR MAYOR. .
(Vote for one)
O. P. Adams.
A. B. Cook.
CITY TREASURER
‘ G. P. Mingledorff.
TAX ASSESSOR.
B. T. Strickland.
W. L. & B. COM.
(Vote for one.)
L. O. Tisdel,
P. B. Owens.
BOARD OF EDUCATION.
(Vote for five)
J. E. Turner, Pres. ,
W. D. Dorminey,
J. C. Glover,
J. T. Lyles,
L. W. Meakin.
FOR ALDERMAN AT LARGE.
(Vote for five'.)
J. M. Adams,
W. G. Broadhurst,
C. A. Fretwell,
L. L. Griner.
J. D. McLauchlin,
J. H. Mays,
W. R. Paulk.
D. B. Ware,
C. A. Wheeler,
T. E. White,
Ben Hill County
Farmers Condemn
The Carnival
At the last monthly meeting of
the Farmers’ Educational and Co¬
operative Union, resolutions
were demning unanimously adopted con-
the Carnival, and endors¬
ing the editorial position of the
Leader.
It is charged that one employe,
a relative of Otis, was warned to
stay away from the building the
night of the explosion, and that he
admits he is alive today because he
heeded the warning.
The Times building was almost
ready to fall down, according to
the architectural experts. The lino¬
type machines were among the first
manufactured and had to be held
together with baling wire. Much
of the other machinery was mere
junk. The building ana equipment
were insured beyond their value.
H. G. Otis is the only man who
has profited from the explosion.
He is preparing to erect an eleven
story building on the site of the
old structure and to equip it with
modern machinery.
Chemists and explosion experts
affirm that dynamite will put out
fire rather than start one; that gas
a ad oil nfcver were fired by dyna¬
mite explosions; that there was not
one feature to the Times catastro¬
phe that indicated dynamite; and
that dynamite or nitro glycerin
could not have been used as is
charged by the prosecution.
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Why Republics Fall
Washington, D. C., Sept. 16.—
While speaking to a gathering in
Denver, Col., President Gompers
startled his audience by sounding
a significant warning note. Speak¬
ing of the fall of republics, he
said: “As Americans we have
been fortunate; we have a faculty
for overcoming obstacle;. Through
all turmoils and despite national
upheavals we have somehow land¬
ed on all-fours safely. From the
time of the framing of the consti¬
tution, a network of difficulties
has been overcome. We have be¬
come a nation of optimists and
self-sufficient and for that very
reason we often fail to appreciate
the dangers that confront us, dan
gers not so much from without as
from within. The common con¬
ception is that Rome fell a victim
to marauders outside; in reality,
that republic fell as others have
done, to growing weakness and
dangers within.
“The decadence of fallen repub¬
lics was due to men of wealth ar¬
rogating to themselves first power,
then titles, charters, concessions,
privileges and immunities. They
tooK away from the masses their
means of protesting, and in doing
so they resorted to issuing edicts
and making laws denying to the
people the right to associate. All
laws and statutes and the heroic
pages of the ages show that when
the people were deprived of the
right to associate they became
docile and sei vile.”
Addressing a monster gathering
in Salt Lake City, Utah, President
Gompers electrified his audience.
An excerpt from his address fol¬
lows:
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“Organized labor h s always
contended for equality of oppor¬
tunity, equality of rights, equality
of the hours of labor and equality
of remuneration for men and wo¬
men.
“There is no greater question
being considered by the people ot
today than the labor question
The great unrest among the people
is world wide. Here and there
uprisings among the workers are
tangible evidences of the impor¬
tance of this question.
“Some there are who would
dodge the labor question, who
would doom it to oblivion and con¬
sign the agitators to a
place. But to these the men wh
toil must reply that they are
the creators of the unrest. What
there is that is wrong and that oc¬
casions this unrest and these up¬
risings is not because of us, but
in spite of us. Should the man
who discovers the fire and sounds
the alarm be condemned as the
man who starts the flames? No
man believes present conditions
are a finality.
‘‘Great wealth, magnificient
structures, stately mansions,
beautiful paintings, wonderful
statuary are all the product of toil.
Money possesses no intrinsic value
until it receives the magic touch
of the hand of labor. The greatest
thing in modern life is labor. The
productivity of labor means great¬
er opportunities and larger enter¬
prises. The world cannot live,
progress cannot be made, civiliza¬
tion cant ot continue except
througn the agency of labor.
“The men and women who toil
are beginning to ask if they were
brought into this world simply to
produce wealth; if they are simply
human machines without an ele¬
ment of manhood and womanhood
in then.. They are beginning to
feel that their Creator endowed
them not only with life, but with
sensibilites and feeling of love,
hopes and aspirations. Men and
women who toil are beginning to
eonsider that all the gifts of the
toil of those bygone days shall
not be for the exclusive use of
those who do not toil and do not
produce wealth.
Whitehead and Perry
Will Erect Stabes
B. T. Strickland, the real estate
man, sold for J. M. Hanes several
days ago, two lots on East Central
avenue to Whitehead and Perry,
upon which the owners w ill
Urge and up-to-date sales
The property is next to
Stables, and is admirably located
for the purpose to which Messrs,
Whitehead and Perry intend to-
put it.