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•Official Or^an Ben Hill County.
Union Revival Services Close.
Culpeppers Left Yesterday. Union Prayer
Service L»st Night.
The big Union Revival meeting has passed into history; but its
influence remains. On Tuesday night the evangelists conducted their
last service, one left the citv yesterday. They expect to begin a meet¬
ing in Douglas, Ga., next Sunday.
Interest in the meeting continued to increase to the last. The
afternoon service on Tuesday was the most largely attended day service
of the meeting; and Mr. Burke Culpepper’s sermon one of the best.
At the night service Rev. J. B. Culpepper preached on “Belshaz¬
zar’s Last Night.” Before doing so he thanked the ,people of the
eity for their kind entertainment and cooperation. He also specially
thanked tin papers for the notice they had given the meeting.
Preaching powerfully, as he had so many times before he drew
the picture of Belshazzer’s last night and his doom for disobedience
and dissipation applying it to the service he pressed men and women
to decide for Christ before they left the tent that night. Many re*
sponded to his call. the Fitz-
It would be hard to estimate the ►-H meeting to
gerald. More than a hundred have united with the various churches.
At the Union Prayer service held last night the attendance was large
and the expressions of pleasure with the services many, Beyoud|doubt
there will be more and more consecrated work among the churches
from this time forth. The holding of a Union Prayer service monthly
and a Union Young Peoples service quarterly was mentioned and met
with favor. Also the question of organizing a Y. M. C. A.
Blue And Gray To
Meet In Big Peace
Jubilee
Memphis, Tenn., Sept. 27.—
Plans were made at the reunion of
the veterans of the Union and
Confederate armies held here to¬
day in connection with the tristate
fair, for a peace jubilee and gen¬
eral reunion of the blue and gray
to take place at Washington in
1913.
Gen. John H. McDowell, com¬
mander of the army of Tennessee,
subdivision of the United Confede
rate Veterans’ association, presid¬
ed at the meeting, which was at¬
tended by 500 veterans of both
sides in the civil war. Wearers
of the blue are registered from
Maine, Wisconsin, Iowa, Califor¬
nia, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri
and other states. Commander-in-
chief Trimble, of the Grand Army
of the Republic, could not be
present, but sent as his personal
and official representative Adjt.
General C. P. Koch, of Chicago.
The blue and gray reunion here
will end tonight with a parade on
the downtown streets, which have
been decorated and will be illumi¬
nated for the occasion.
The best of feeling prevailed at
meeting of the veterans.
Speeches were made by Gen. S.
R. Vanzandt, former commander-
in-chief of the Grand Army of th* 1
Republic and former governor of
Minnesota; General McDowell
and others. When the vote was
put on the proposal for a peace
jubilee and general reunion at
Washington, it was carried by
acclamation amid enthusiastic
scenes. General Vanzandt and
General McDowell will each ap¬
point a committee jubilee. to arrange Today plans
for the peace an
old-fashioned barbecue was given
the veterans.
A Bank.
that has resources of over three
hundred thousand dollars and is
safe, prompt and accommodating
is a good hank to d6 business with.
The Third National Bank does an
exclusive banking business and
does a large business with the
farmers of Ben Hill and adjoining
counties. This bank maintains a
Savings Department and pays
you to save. 64-2t.
Howe Plea-ds Guilty In
Mayor's Court
Will Howe, on whose premises
whiskev^report'of' N ’ L* which ^appear- •
j . „ iaa
ago, and Pj^ ac j to a viola-
Mayor tsS' a fioe 1 'oT
which was readily paid.
SEMI-WEEKLY
Fitzgerald Leader
FITZGERALD, BEN HILL COUNTY, GEORGIA, SEPTEMBER 29, 1911.
Industrial Progress
Shown in Many
Georgia Cities
Columbus, Ga., Sept. 27.—The
Industrial Index says in its regular
weekly issue:
“The awarding of a contract for
the construction of a twenty-story
bank and office building, to cost
$1,000,000, in Birmingham, Ala.,
incorporation of a company by
Alabama, Ohio and Pennsylvania
investors tqjbuild a railroad and
develop a section adjacent to Mo¬
bile,. Ala., and completion of plans
for extensive additions to cotton
muis in Georgia cities aye occur¬
rences of the week that indicate
substantially the upbuilding and
industrial progress in this section.
“Announcement is made of plans
for the erection of a bank and of¬
fice building in Mobile to be ten
to fifteen stories high. A quarter
of a million dollars or more is to
be expended in Atlanta, Ga., in
the enlargement of au ice plant and
construction of another at Way-
cross, Ga., a five story building
that eventually will have seven
stories is to be built and three
stories will be added to an exten¬
sive structure.
“Some of the other building to
be constructed are:
“Apartment house, Brunswick,
Ga.; library building, Vidalia, Ga.;
churches, Prattville and Cordova,
Ala.; warehouses, Florence, Ala.:
Atlanta, Ga., Macon, Ga., Pratt¬
ville, Ala., and Roanoke, Ala.;
school building, McRae, Ga.; Cof¬
fee county, Alabama has voted
bond issue of $100,000 road im¬
provement. Clarke county, Geor¬
gia, will vote on issuance of $200,-
000 of bonds for building court¬
house and jail. Parrot, Ga., will
vote on issuance of bonds for erect-
ing $10,000 school building. Bax¬
ley, Ga. -, will vote on issuance of
bonds for establishing electric
light plant and constructing water¬
works system.
“A company is being formed at
Americus, Ga., to establish electric
light and power plant. Applica¬
tion has been made at Tuscaloosa,
Ala., for franchise to establish
electric power and gas plants and
construct an electric railway. Ly¬
ons, Ga., will have a fertilizer fac¬
tory. Dallas, Ga., and Pineora,
Ga., woodworking plants and Val¬
dosta, Ga., a plant for makingtur-
pentinc “B-nks cups.
will be established at
BainoriJge, d Clarksville, Milan,
S™-*'?? “ LOTe “' Ua -’ “ d
.“T«W‘»o aggregate corporate capital stock with
mm>murn,
42 000 are for the
*‘Q no 0 f the largest land sales
> a *■* «' *.«* aa ™» in
L'dy? 5 county, Georgia, for S22
DuPont Guerry, Georgia's Leading Prohibitionist,
Discusses the Governor's Race
Asserting that dispatches out of Royston, published in various pa¬
pers, quoting from a letter he wrote to a friend there, anent the state
political situation, particularly in regard to his possible candidacy,
misquoted him to a great extent, Dupont Guerry has given copies of
the original letter to the press.
The Royston Dispatch went on to say that Mr. Guerry referred
to the ‘ ‘cunningness of the whisky spider,” as evident in the present
campaign and that he referred to Joseph M. Brown as a probable can¬
didate of an “unholy alliance.”
The letter, which was to L. J. McConnell, of Royston, however,
does make mention of Mr. Guerry as a possible gubernatorial candi¬
date leading the prohibition forces. It makes no such reference to
former Governor Brown.
It is as follows:
MR. GUERBT’s LETTER.
September 20, 1911.
Hon. L. J. McConnell,
Royston, Ga.,
My Dear Sir:—Yours of the 18th was received yesterday evening
and I assure you was and is most highly appreciated. While I led
what you truly call “the moral and prohibition forces” of the state in
1902, the struggle we then made resulted immediately in some of the
vital leforms for which wc contended and later on contriouted to the
election and re-election of a governor and several legislatures, who
have accomplished other and still greater results; chiefly that of the
enactment of state prohibition, which was the chief plank in our plat¬
form.
All the reforms so instituted are now triumphant except that of
state prohibition, and that has been and still is naturally most opposed
because most reformatory; that is to say, because it interferes most
with ringism in politics and administration and wickedness in business
and social life. As a rule the laws that it is most difficult to enforce
against evil are exactly those that are most needed, The very fact
that a punitive law is easily enforced proves that there was little or no
reason for its passage.
I never supposed that state prohibition would be automatic, and
I fully anticipated concerted and persistent effort on the part of op¬
ponents to prove that it would not prohibit, but I am, nevertheless,
disappointed to some extent.in the measure of its enforcement so far.
However, I am not among thjse who have lost either faith or
courage, but rather among those who are more determined than ever
to make prohibition prohibit and to prove that there is sufficient moral
manhood in this state to protect our selections and administrations
from degredation and debauchery, and our women and children and
others from the ruin and wretchedness which liquorism, licensed and
fostered, or permitted b) non-enforcement of law, has been causing
and will continue to cause, until outlaws are convinced by punishment
that they cannot secure the repeal of this wise and beneficent law by
violating it.
The enforcement, of the law, however imperfect, has accomplished
much good already.
. W bile those among us of little faith may be wavering in their
convictions, “our friends the enemy” are, to some extent, tiring of
crime as a business and of politics as an investment. Should the law
be persistently enforced, those of them who do not change for the- bet¬
ter or move out of the state, will be comparatively few and harmless,
and wiil soon be skulking like other criminals instead of posing as vic¬
tims and martyrs.
Local option under the Dresent conditions of the issues, means
simply all the liquorism to which the antis can at this time reasonably
aspire and Judge Russell is a local optionist.
It is my recollection that when I was a can¬
didate in 1902 on a state prohibition platform
the Hon. Pope Brown was a candidate on a
local option platform, and that when he retired
from the race he supported Col. Estill, although
the latter was an outspoken local optionist.
Recently he declined to declare one way or the other on the ques
tion of st te prohioition until Judge Russell declared for local option
and then (according to the newspapers) saying in effect and somewhat
eompluiniiigly that Judge Russell had forced the issue, he therefore
declared for state prohibition.
In view of his record and present attitude, I fear he cann )t make
us as strong and positive champion of state prohibition, either in the
campaign or in office, as the situation demands, Reaction or retreat
now from state prohibition to local option would be disaster for tjae
cause for a generation or longer.
I have hoped, and still hope, to be able to espouse the candidacy
of some«state prohibitionist with a record, and with the unshirking
courage of positive convictions. Although the prospect at present is
gloomy, state prohibitionists should reserve and preserve their soli¬
darity and strength for close quarters and then wield them assuredly
in the right direction.
As prohibition is a governmental question, it is necessarily a po¬
litical, as well as a moral and economic question. It can no longer be
evaded or repressed. It is here to stay until liquorism is gone, and
the sooner that happens the better for purity and peace in politics, to
say nothing of our personal and social welfare.
The governor for the short term may not be able to accomplish
much of a positive character one way or the other, but being in and
for a short term only, his incumbency will give him strength for the
ensuing term, and if he should be a local optionist he would upon
election be very influential in any effort to repeal or impair the pres¬
ent law.
Besides, he may, during the short term, defeat by veto of the
Tippins bill, the passage of which would great! v strengthen and aid in
the enforcement of the present law.
You can easily see the unpublished program of the opposition. I
sincerely thank you for your kind and complimentary words about
myself and but for the reasons I will mention 1 might agree with you
Swimming Pool
Opened Tuesday
The swimming pool at the Blue
and Gray Park was opened last
Tuesday, and is receiving a liberal
patronage from the young folks of
the city, who seem to derive con¬
siderable sport from splashing
around in the pretty blue water.
The pool is indeed a credit to those
who planned and constructed it,
being seven feet in the deepest
place and affords ample room for
swimming purposes. The pool
stands in high favor with the school
boys and many of the older boys,
and about forty or fifty go in every
afternoon. The basin of the pool
is cement and perfectly clean,
water being furnished by the city.
No Contested Cases
Tried Til February
Col. A. J. McDonald,
Fitzgerald, Ga.,
Dear Sir:—Yours with petitions
of attorneys to hand, you may say
I will only try divorce and uncon-
tested cases on Monday.
In compliance with the petitions,
I will pass all contested civil busi¬
ness to an adjourned term about
the 1st. Monday in February.
Trusting this will meet the ap¬
proval of all, I am,
Sincerely yours,
U. V. Whipple.
“The Next Governor.”
(From Dawson News.)
Hon. Joseph M. Brown has
issued a statement announcing that
he will be a candidate for gover¬
nor of Georgia. He has not been
in a hurry to get into a race for
an office in which there is no va-
cancy. He does not move with
rashness, and, like all careful men,
he has examined his ground
thoroughly.
If reports are true, he has been
the recipient of urgent requests
from every part of the state, and
from both of the former political
factions, and it is only from a
sense of duty to the people and his
friends that he has consented to
re-enter the political arena.
Governor Brown, as the press
says, is known to be a painstaking
and conscientious man. These
elements in his administration ap¬
pealed to the people, and it has
long been apparent that the two
candidates who have been before
the public some time have failed
to cover the ground or to arouse
the enthusiasm of the state.
in your opinion that I would be in the approaching primary the logical
candidate foi our cause: but my presidency of Wesleyan College for
six years has caused me to be lost sight of as a public man, although
I am sure I am not less fit for the office for that reason.
Besides, you know it requires some money to make such a race
without spending a cent for illegitimate purposes. I found such to
be the case in 1902 and came out of the campaign much reduced
financially and with ray business much impaired.
While as president of Wesleyan I received as much salary as I
deserved, I owned still less when I retired from that position, and
would have had for some time little business, had I not accepted the
standing invitation of my friend and former partner, the Hon. Joseph
II. Hall, to rejoin him imthe practice of the law.
I am not too poor to be governor, but I am too poor to get to be
governor.
I am not very ambitious and beyond doing what I cm m the fu¬
ture as a citizen for the good of my native state, I have no discon¬
tenting aspirations.
Writing to you as a friend in the uttnost frankness. I think I ChO
say without just condemnation for vanity, that our campaign of 1902
accomplished more for the people of Georgia, although we were de¬
feated, than some administrations have done during one or more terms.
The moral and mental conditions for such a resuit existed and it
seems to have fallen to ray lot to help in the warfare for ths relief of
the people, without the achievement of personal success.
If we can now only retain and maintain the policy of state prohi-
bition—a peaceful crusade of-humanity, against “man’s inhumanity
to man,” and also our other reforms, I shall be content, to live and die
a defeated candidate and a private citizen. Your , sincerely,
DuPont Guerry.
Official Organ of Ben
Hill County. $1.50
a Year.
VOL . XVI. NO. 64
Louisville Fire
Effects Fitzgerald
It is sometimes difficult to esti¬
mate the far-reaching effects of a
disastrous fire, for instance, the
big fire that occured in the whole¬
sale Millinery district of Louis¬
ville, Ky., Monday night, last,
has made itself felt away off here
in Miss Fitzgerald. It happened that
placed Alexander, the milliner had
an order with David Baird
& Son for her choicest pattern
hats, been and the same would have
had it shipped been about Wednesday,
not for the fact that
they were destrowed in the fire
Wednesday der night. Miss Alexan¬
is quite disappointed as she
will be delayed a week or more in
receiving a duplicate order of the
hats.
Mr. A. 6. Cook to Be
Fitzgerald’s Mayor
Mr. Ansel B. Cook, formerly
of this city was on last Wednes¬
day elected Mayor of Fitzgerald
by a large majority.
Mr. Cook hesitated before an¬
nouncing his candidacy for May¬
or of that thriving south Georgia
City, but great pressure was
brought to bear upon him by the
citizens of every vocation, and
he found it impossible to resist
the call, the strong desire to
make him the chief executive of
the city was manifested in the
overwhelming majority given
him.
As the results show Mr. Cook
is held in the highest esteem and
confidence by the citizens of Fitz¬
gerald and his business ability
and integrity and uprightness is
recognized.
Mr. Cook is the second son of
Mrs. Samuel A. Cook of Midway
and the son-in-law of Mr. and
Mrs. E. J. Flemister. He was
born and grew to manhood here
and his removal from the city
was deeply regretted at the
time he went to Fitzgerald to
make his home.
The Union-Recorder joins Mr.
Cook's friends in extending con¬
gratulations to him and unhesi¬
tatingly predicts that Fitzgerald
will have in him a live, progres¬
sive and honest mayor.—Union-
Recorder, Milledgeville, Ga.
Mr. H. W. Brown of Brown’s
Studio has been called to Tifton
to make some Special pictures for
the Fair Association and will be
there the balance of the week.
While the studio will not be closed
any one desiring pictures made
this week are requested to make
engagements by telephone or wait
until next week.