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THE WEEKLY TIMES-RECORDER. || FRIENDSHIP |' CONCORD
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WM. S. KIRKPATRICK, Editor;"" LOVELACE EVE, Business Manager
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THE TELEGRAPH'S STRAW BALLOT.
A thing political being watched with keen interest all over Geor
gia just now is the straw ballot on presidential possibilities being
conducted by the Macon Telegraph. That paper has been publishing
for nearly a week a blank ballot with all the names mentioned in
Democratic ranks for the nomination, together with a blank space
for those favoring an uninstructed delegation to San Francisco, an
has invited its readers to signify their choice by marking the ballots
and returning them. The response up to this morning has been very
marked; the result has been heralded by many as amazing and eye-
opening. This morning's Telegraph accounted for a total of d,Ut»
ballots returned. These were divided as follows:
Edward 359
Uninstructed .zi
Mrs. E. W. Harris is spending the
..eek with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas Murphy, near Ebenezcr.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Carter, of Ella-
vilie, spent Sunday with Mrs. Car
r's mother, Mrs. Rosa McGarrah.
Mrs. Sam McGarrah had as guests
Sunday afternoon Mrs. Robert Wells
and Mrs. Pearl Harvey.
Miss Lonu Mae Casey, of Concord,
..as the guest of Miss Mary Harris
Sunday afternoon. UV.I
Mrs. Emmet Miller, of Americus, 8[) ... .
Miss Mary Wynn, of Americus, is
visiting Miss Pnmaris Holley this (
week.
Miss Bertha Kate Lassiter enter
tained her friends with a singing Sun
day evening. , .
Mrs. Claude Stover, of Atlanta,
spent the week-end with her sister,
Mrs. Jennie Morrell.
Mrs. L. It. Lavender and children,
who are visiting Mrs. Lavender’s fa-
thei, M. C. Guest, at Andrew Chapel,
Hoover
McAdoo
Palmer .
Reed
Marshall
Wilson ..
BryaI Many commentators profess to be greatly surprised at the pre
ponderance of leadership of Edwards, the wet candidate N *"
lersey Which really should occasion little or no surprise when the
figures are carefully analyzed. Edwards' sole bid for attention is his
filht against prohibition. He calls it states rights—and so do a
great many others opposed to prohibition, for that sounds more re-
spectable and less offensive to a great many people—but it is noth
ing but an appeal to the wet sentiment. And we may a 83 " 1 "' th “*
nearly every man who cast his vote in this straw ballot for Edwards
did so believing that he was registering sentiment for the restoration
of liquor in some form. This being true, we may also assume that
nearly every man who did not vote for Edwards is not an adherent
of the wets' ranks—at least as the paramount issue—and therefore
would vote for almost any of the other candidates against a man
running solely on the wet issue. If this also be true a re casting
of the tabulation of the straw vote will show. For Edwards, 925.
against Edwards (not counting the uninstructed proponent), I.OWL
Which isn’t far from the real proportion of wet and dry sentiment in
Georgia; two to one and overwhelmingly against the wets.
So much for Edwards. The next highest in the voting list come
the men favoring an uninstructed delegation. A great deal of com
ment has been heard on the fact that the second highest total is
for an uninstructed delegation, and there has been talk of Chairman
Flynt calling the state executive committee together again and de
claring the primary off "if that is the sentiment. But an analysis
of these figures show that 2,726 vote for instruction, against only >
opposing instruction. . , , . ... , ■ „
Drawing conclusions from the remainder of the candidates is a
different matter. Hoover, singled out in the Telegraphi s ballot as
an Independent, leads the field next to Edwards by a moderate mar-)
gin, despite the fact that the vote is being taken among the readers
of a newspaper that has been hostile to Hoover s candidacy on the
Democratic ticket. Then in order come McAdoo, Palmer, Reed,,
Marshall. Wilson and Bryan bringing up the rear ’ H, e . r “ i
these seven names we have more than 1,800 votes. Of this list only
the name of Palmer is so far openly on the Georgia primary ticket,
although several others have been filed. Palmer will be opposed,
however. And flow the votes tabulated here will be re-divided in
the primary April 20 is a matter of speculation. And one man s
guess is as good as another s. , ...
Commenting upon the revelations of the Telegraph s straw
ballot. "Jim" Nevin. who is writing the best political column in Geor
gia just now, says in the Atlanta Georgian: , , , I
"It spells whatever it spells, whatever that it. That s the best
CBn n "U < s°ems to indicate that there is a very decided division of
opinion as to who's who and why; it shows an astonishing Edwards
strength. It gives Hoover a very tight l ea d over Palmer, but neither
of them leads Reed, McAdoo or anybody else much.
"Combining the Edwards strength and the uninstructed votes, it
'is apparent that there are an almighty lot of "insurgents abroad in
the ,a . I ?d B j| seemg gomewhat to vindicate an opinion 1 have
persistently recorded in this column of uplift, to the effect that there
are more independent voters in. this state nowadays than there ever
were before; and unless 1 mistake badly the trend of the times, and
the trend of thought as 1 gather it. there still are not nearly so many
in evidence as there likely will be on election day. . ,
"A lot of things are apt to happen in Georgia this spring. Ana
one man's guess as to what some of them are is as good as another s
—but not much better 1" ,
FATHER AND BOYS.
Up to a certain time every father is an intellectual hero to his
son. He can help him add up the longest strings of figures for the
arithmetic lesson at school. And subtraction is as easy for him as pie.
A wonderful fellow is dad I .
Then one day the boy comes home with a problem in propor
tion; or with one that has to do with decimals, or algebra. By
George, how that boy is growing up! It seems only yesterday that
he was trying to learn the addition table up to ten. . ^
"Dad," he says, "how do you do this problem?
Dad scratches his head. At last he must step down from the
intellectual pedestal on which the boy had placed him. But he has
always been frank with the boy, and he remains so in this crisis.
“It’s something I’ve forgotten,” he confesses at last.
But deep down he's very proud.
"That boy of mine is some kid, he tells his friends the next
"He's beginning to show me up."
It's a wise father who can remain an intellectual hero in the eyes
of his son. But it's a mighty poor one who cannot remain his son’s
moral hero—the boy's exemplar of character; the kind of father the
boy likes to quote admiringly in after years.
"There was my father. He used to say '
The former crown prince was undisturbed by reports of the rev
olution. German affairs of state never did interfere with bis pleas-
.ipent Sunday with her mother, Mrs.
Wade Fraser.
Mrs. Sam McGarrah spent Sunday
with her sister, Mrs. Sam Croxton in
Buena Vista.
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Drane spent
Sunday in Buena Vista.
Blake Harris made a business trip
to Americus last week.
Mrs. George Austin is visiting her
mother, Mrs. Weight.
Miss Christine Harris visited old
schoolmates in Buena Vista on
Sunday. „ ... , ,
Mr. and Mrs. Robert McMichacl
spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.
Deriso.
Miss Georgia Harvey spent Mon
day night with Miss Christine Harris.
Isaac Harvey, Page and Brown
Harris and William Woolridgc spent
Sunday afternoon with Edward Mc
Lendon. ______
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Lane says that Washington is full of side-steppers. It is ,a pleas
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There is a general understanding that if little Mary remains a
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Money talks. But it doesn't say as much as it once did. Prob
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