The herald and advertiser. (Newnan, Ga.) 1887-1909, May 22, 1908, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextTHE HERALD AND ADVERTISER VOL. XLIII. NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY, MAY 22, 1908. NO. 34 FARMERS, ATTENTION Here is what you can find at T. G. Farmer & Co.’s— things you now need on the farm. Hardware Guano Distributors, Cotton Planters, Scovil Hoes, Handle Hoes, “Little Joe” Harrows, Barb Wire. Groceries and Feed Stuffs 1,500 pounds Tobacco, different grades, at low prices. Georgia Cane Syrup in 5 and 10- gallon cans, and 35-gallon barrels. Pure Wheat Bran, Cotton Seed Meal, International Stock Powders—saves feed for horses, mules and cows,, and makes your hens lay more eggs. It also prevents cholera. Your money refunded, if it does not give results. Sorghum Seed, to sow for forage. T. G. FARMER & CO. AULD LANG SYNE. It sin^eth low in every heart. We hear it each and all — A song: of those who answer not, However they may call. They throng: the silence of the breast: We see them as of yore — The kind, the true, the brave, the sweet. Who walk with us no more. ’Tis hard to take the burden up When these have laid it down: They brighten all the joys of life, They soften every frown. But. oh! 'Tis good to think of them When we are troubled sore; Thanks be to God that such have been, Although they are no more! More homelike seems the vast unknown. Since they have entered there: To follow them were not so hard, Wherever they may fare. They cannot be where God is not, On any sea or shore; What’er betides. Thy love abides. Our God forevermore! —[John White Chadwick. Tom Wants to Know Why. Watson’s Jeffersonian. The somewhat excited Atlanta Jour nal exclaims that “Little Joe’’ has made five different platforms on the prohibition question. Yet none of the five seem to favor the use of light wines and beer. Not even “for,other States.’’ The big cities refused to close such establishments as the Piedmont bar, so the small counties, acting through the Legislature, did it for them. Appar ently, the big counties are getting ready to hit back. When the new rule of the new committee goes into effect, it will be possible to elect a Governor who will exert all of his power to re store former conditions, thus leaving the small counties “dry’’and the big cities “wet.” 4 4 4 4 4 * 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 % 4 4 4 4 4 4 $ 4 4 4 -An -A, -A- -On -A? cA?: 4 4 4 Jmft Received a Beautiful Line of Glassware Clear crystal thin Tumblers, set.. .. Ul/Llo Good common Tumblers, set 25cfts Heavy lemonade or iced tea Glasses each lOdts Hotel Goblets, set 50cfts Berry Bowls, some thing nice, each... 40dts 50<fts Clear heavy ice tea Pitchers, each ENAMEL WARE Just received a large factory shipment of the highest grade, and the price is as low as the grade is high. Look at this: A heavy, round- handle 4-quart boiler, with enamel- /\ flrQ-p ed top, only ‘tvLlo Everything in this line is just as cheap in pro portion. GRAIN CRADLES Cultivators, “Little Joe” Harrows and Scrapes—enough for everybody. Kirby-Bohannon Hardware Company. <%* 4 4 4* 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4* 4 4* 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 I 4 4 4 44 4 4 4 4 # # 4 4 4 4 ■4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 Our handsome, eloquent and beloved friend, Seaborn Wright, fancied that he had something to say upon the gu bernatorial race, and he began double-column performance in the At lanta Journal. By the time he reached the bottom of the page he suddenly discovered that he hadn’t said any thing; so he got disheartened and quit What was it that you started out to say, Seab? As to that violation of the law the making of such a big deposit in the Neal Bank, the question arises: Did Gov. Smith act in willful disregard of the law, or was he ignorant of the statute which limits a deposit of Stat funds in any one bank to $100,000? At the time he renewed the fifty-thousand dollar note which the State owed the bank, the bunk owed the State mon than twice that sum. The State de posit was already illegal. By renewing the note and thus adding to the deposit, Gov. Smith became a party to this vio lation of the law. Why did he do this? Was it dune willfully, or through ig norance? The chairman of the Railroad Com mission being laid up with the rheuma tism, and the other four members being sufferers, apparently, from locomotor- ataxia, why shouldn’t Judge Hines go abroad making speeches? The en larged and high-priced Commission doesn’t at present need lawyers; what it wants i3 a medical staff. Representative, he should give us the full benefit of his talent, energy and in fluence. If one of our Congressmen should set the example of cording home to tell us how to vote on June 4, the whole dele gation might come tumbling down on us, and that wouldn’t do. at all. Let our members of Congress attend to their duties in Washington; that’s what they are paid to do. Suppose every liquor-dealer and every anti-prohibitionist in Georgia should vote for Hoke Smith—how would that affect the prohibition law that is already on the statute book? Don’t you know that the Governor cannot amend, repeal or make a law? The Legislature does that, of course. Consequently, the prohibition law is perfectly safe, if your Legislature is, no matter whom you elect Governor. If Brown should be nominated at the primary of June 4, the prohibition law would be absolutely unaffected by that result. Why? Because you will have already selected the men for the Legis lature. If you have chosen safe men for the Legislature your prohibition law is s^ife. No thanks to Smith or Brown, [f you have chosen unsafe men for the Legislature, your prohibition law is un safe. No blame to Smith or Brown. If the temperance sentiment was so strong as to wring the prohibition law from the Legislature, when Gov. Hoke Smith was opposed to it, how '’an the law be repealed or injuriously amend ed, now that both Smith and Brown declare that they will veto any adverse legislation? The announcement is made that our Governor will continue to rampage around on the stump, from now until June 4; and that Judge Hines is going to rush out and say it again; and that Congressman Hardwick is going to tear himself away from his post of duty in Washington and come all the way to Georgia to tell us poor, ignorant crea tures how we must vote for Governor. What an awful agony we’re in, to be sure! Why so much stump-speaking on the Hoke Smith side 7 Joe Brown goes along quietly, con- j « iven ' ducting his campaign by nqail and by communications addressed to the news papers. In this way he reaches the people, and he is satisfied to leave the case in their hand3, without further discussion. Why can’t Gov. Smith conduct his campaign in the same manner? The mail and the newspapers are as open to him as they are to “Little Joe;” is he afraid to trust the people to pass on the case after a calm com parison of what each candidate says in writing? So it seems. Suppose we had suspected, in 1906, that the first thing Hoke Smith would do after he became Governor would be to make an addition of two members to our Railroad Commission and to bounce up salaries all around—does any body believe that we would have worked a3 hard for him as we did? Suppose the people had been frankly told that he had it up his sleeve to lie down on the Governorship during his first term, and make the race for the U. S. Senate this year, does any one believe that he could have been elected? Suppose he had let it be known that he was going to reverse himself on that matter of the early primary and was going to sanction rev olutionary methods to deprive the small counties of their constitutional rights, wouldn’t he have been the worst beat man that ever ran for office? And suppose we had imagined him capable of abandoning his office at the State House, assigning the chief clerk for duty at his campaign headquarters, and leaving a nigger in charge of the executive office—wouldn’t he have been jeered off the field? Some of the Hoke Smith shouters who are pretending to feel alarmed for the disfranchisement amendment are really making all that noise for the pur pose of keeping the people from looking at something else—to-wit: the new rule of the Hoke Smith committee which deprives minority counties of represen tation, and which takes away from the small counties the share of power allotted to them by our State Consti tution. In other words, the Hoke Smith com mittee has amended our Constitution to suit themselves, and the people are asked to ratify the outrage by electing Hoke Smith again. No wonder these tricksters raise a false alarm over prohibition and dis franchisement ! Many Are Named, But Few Chosen. Washington Cor. Savannah Press. A member of the Committee on Pub lic Buildings and Grounds says that the omnibus bill carrying the appropria tions for the erection of public build ings in the various States aggregate not more than ore-third of the total ap propriations asked for in the bills intro duced. The total of one thousand and thirty- two public building bills making appro priations in various cities and towns, introduced this session, is far and away the largest number ever introduced at a single session of Congress. These bills propose a total appropriation of be tween ninety-five and one hundred mil lion dollars. The number of hills introduced in the first session of the Fifty-ninth Con gress, two years ago, just prior to the passage of an omnibus public building bill, was five hundred and forty-seven, carrying a total appropriation of about forty-five million dollars. The following projects for public buildings in Georgia have been intro duced this year: Covington—By Mr. Livingston, site and building. $25,000. Monroe By Mr. Livingston, site and building, $50,000. Newnan By Mr. Adamson, building only. $75,000. LaGrange By Mr. Adamson, site and building, $82,500. Carrollton — By Mr. Adamson, site and building. $82,500. Milledgeville—By Mr. Bartlett, site and building. $50,000. Tifton By Mr. Griggs, site and building, $50,000. Thomasville By Mr. Griggs, site and building, $50,000. Bainbridge By Mr. Griggs, site and building, $50,000. Savannah By Mr. Edwards, land for marine hospital, $18,500. Rome By Mr. Lee. enlargement of public building, $60,000. Statesboro—By Mr. Edwards, site and building, $75,000. Jonesboro—By Mr. Livngston, site and building, $15,000. Conyers - By Mr. Livingston, site and building, $15,000. Fairburn By Mr. Livingston, site and building, $15,000. Douglasvill# — By Mr. Livingston site and building, $15,000 Decatur—By Mr. Livingston, site and building, $15,000. Lyons—By Mr. Edwards, site and building, $75,000. Vidalia—By Mr. Edwards, site and building, $75,000. Griffin—By Mr. Bartlett, building only. $10,000. Cedartown—By Mr. Lee, site and building, $50,000. Cartersville—By Mr. Lee, site and building. $50,000. Gordele—By Mr. Lewis, site and building, $100,000. Augusta—By Mr. Hardwick, enlarge ment of building, $300,000. Fort Valley—By Mr. Lewis, site and building, $50,000. Hawkinsville — By Mr. Lewis, site and building, $50,000. Americus—By Mr. Lewis, increase of appropriation, $50,000. Jefferson—By Mr. Bell, site and building, $50,000, Commerce—By Mr. Bell, site and building, $50,000. Buford By Mr. Bell, site and build ing, $50,000. Winder—By Mr. Bell, site ai d build ing, $50,000. Lawrenceville—By Mr. Bell, site and building, $50,000. Toccoa—By Mr. Bell, site and build ing. $50,000. Savannah—By Mr. Edwards, immi gration station. $25,000. Millen—By Mr. Edwards, site and building, $50,000. Elberton—By Mr. Howard, site and building, $50,000. Monticello—By Mr. Howard, site and building, $15,000. Dublin—By Mr. Brantley, site and building, $85,000. Waycross—By Mr. Brantley, build ing, $85,000. Athens—By Mr. Howard, enlarge ment of building, $50,000. Total amount asked for in Georgia, $2,413,500. Entries for Governor and Other State Offices. The entries in all races for State House offices huve closed. No person ho failed to pay the assessment of $50 will he permitted to enter any race for State office. So the line-up is now complete and there will be no other andidates. Following are the entries: For Governor — Hoke Smith and Joseph M. Brown. For Secretary of State—Philip Cook. For State Treasurer—Robert E. Park and W. J. Speer. For Attorney-General—John C. Hart. For Comptroller-General — William A. Wright. For Commissioner of Agriculture— T. G. Hudson. For State School Commissioner— ere M. Pound. For Judges of the Supreme Court, (two to he chosen)—Horace M. Holden and Beverly D. Evans, both incum bents. For Judge of the Court of Appeals — Richard B. Russell. For Railroad Commissioners—George Hillyer, Fuller E. Callaway and H. Warner Hill, members of the present Commission, and W. D. Branan and H. Jenkins, candidates, who* are op posing Hillyer and Callaway, respec tively. For Prison Commissioner—R. E. Davidson of Greene, Wiley Williams of Muscogee. Jesse E. Mercer of Ben Hill, R. H. Milledge of DeKalb, and R. K. Foster of Baldwin. The race for Prison Commissioner is the only contest in which there can possibly be a second primary. This will be necessary in the event any can didate fails to get a majority of the vote cast, and should it be held it will come on June 17, under the commit tee’s rules. It would be pretty hard on the candidates should it be found necessary, as the burden of the expense of holding the election would fall wholly on them. The salary is only $2,000 a year. Commissioner II. Warner Hill is the only one of the three present members of the Railroad Commission who are candidates for re-election, who is with out opposition. W. D. Branan is making the race against Commissioner George Hillyer, and R. H. Jenkins is running ugainst Commissioner Fuller E. Callaway. Both Commissioners Hillyer and Calla way were appointed by Gov. Smith. A peculiar feature of the situation is that Mr. Hill, who will be renominated without opposition, is the only member of'the present Commission who is not identified with the present administra tion. As a matter of fact, because of attacks made on him, Mr. Hill openly fought the election of the Governor in 1906, and the two huve not spoken since that time. Although his own office as Railroad Commissioner is scarcely u hundred feet awky, Mr. Hill hus not been in the Governor’s office since his inauguration. We think that Gov. Smith would gain ; votes by staying at his office and at-! tending to the duties thereof. If we don’t need him in his office, then the sooner we abolish the office and stop the expense, the better. As to Judge Hines, we have already said that our new Commission seems to need pills, pla-sters, wizard oil and trained nurses more than it needs legal advice; therefore, the State won’t lose anything by Judge Hines’ absence from his office. As to Congressman Hardwick, we believe that our able young friend will remain on duty in Washington, where extremely important legislation re quires his presence, and where, as our The four big cities of this State were | given, by the Constitution of 1877, ] t wice as much political power as twen ty-six next largest counties, and three times as much as all the others. The framers of the Constitution de bated the subject thoroughly, and this division of power was thought to be the best that could be made. So matters stood until we elected Hoke Smith Governor. Apparently he or his advisers were not satisfied with our Constitution, and wanted to change it. Knowing that the people of the country counties would never vote to deprive themselves of their Constitu tional rights, these city politicians slipped a new rule into the Macon plat- , form, and have thus revolutionized i our system. Instead of having twice as much power as the twenty-six “next largest counties,” the big cities will have ten or fifteen times as much. Instead of.having three times as much power as the hundred and odd small I country counties, the big cities will have thirty times as much, j Unless Hoke Smith has his commit- ’ tee to come together and undo what they have done before the June elec- j tion, the success of Smith in this race will be taken to be a ratification of the new rule in favor of the big cities. Then “goodbye” to country influence in Georgia affairs! The Historian’s Hen. Lippincott'a Magazine. An Indiana man tells of the efforts of an author belonging to the Hoosier school of historical novelists to put ii his leisure time as a “hen farmer” ir that State. The literary person’s ven ture afforded his agricultural neighbors no end of amusement. During his first year the amateur farmer discovered that all his little chickens, which were confined in coops, were languishing at the point of death. The novelist went over his “heu litera ture” to locate the cause of the trouble, but to no avail. Finally, he called upon an old chap named Rawlins, to whom he put the question ; “What do you suppose is the matter with these chickens?” “Well, I dunno,” said Rawlins. “What do you feed ’em?” “Feed them!” exclaimed the novel ist-farmer. “Why, I don’t feed them anything.” “Then, how’d you s’pose they was a-goin’ to live?” “I presumed.” replied the literary person, “that the old hens had milk enough for them by now.” A Parable. Once a farmer had 1,800 bushels of wheat, which he sold not to a single grain merchant, but to 1,800 different dealers, a bushel each. A few of them paid him in cash, hut the greater number said it was not convenient then; they would pay later. A few months passed ami the man’s bank ac count ran low. "How’s this?” he said. “My 1,800 bushels of grain should have kept me in affluence until another crop is raised, but 1 have parted, with the grain and have instead only a vast number of accounts, so small and scat tered that I cannot get around and col lect fast enough to pay expenses.” So he posted up a public notice and asked all those who owed him to pay quickly. But few came. The rest said, “Mine is only a small matter, and I* will go and pay one of these days,” forgetting that, thlough each account was very small, when all were put to gether they meant a large sum to the man. Things went on thus. The man got to feling so bad that he fell out of bed and awoke, and, running to his granary, found his 1,800 bushels of wheat still safe there. He had only been dreaming. Moral. The next day the man went to the publisher of his paper and said, “Here, sir. is the pay for your paper, and when next year’s subscription is due you can depend on me to pay promptly. I stood in the position of an editor last night, and I know how it feels to have one’s honestly earned money scattered all over the country in small amounts.” Ever notice how much truth there isn’t in a compliment? ManZan Pile Remedy, price 50c., is guaranteed. Put up ready to use One application prompt relief to any form of Piles. Smithes and heals. Sold by Huffaker Drug Co, Two country clergymen had argeed to exchange pulpits on a certain date. One of them made the following solemn announcement to his congregation on the Sabbath previous to the event: “My dear brethren and sisters. I have the pleasure of stating that on next Sunday morning the Rev. Zacha- riah B. Day will preach for you. Let us now sing two verses of hymn No. 498, ‘That Awful Day Will Surely Come.’ " And it took him some time to discov er why the congregation smiled. Charity is giving something we have and want to somebody who has not, and needs it.

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The herald and advertiser. (Newnan, Ga.) 1887-1909, May 22, 1908, Image 1