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Ordinary's Office
THE HERALD AND ADVERTISER
VOL. XLIV.
NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1908.
NO. 1.
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need. Get our prices on Bagging and
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also car-load of Ties.
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A LULLABY.
The sunboamH nre kifiainff each other ffood-niffht:
Hush, thee, my little one. hush.
The (lowers are closinff their peepers up tight;
Hush. thee, my little one, hush.
Now draw close the shutters across thy blue eyes;
The loved queen of Nod land awaits her sweet
prize,
And fairies stand ready to carry thee o’er
The meadows that stretch to the far, silent shore.
Hush, thee, my little one, hush.
The golden head nestles on mother’s warm breast;
Baby is almost asleep.
A wee little bird tlutters home to its nest;
Baby is almost asleep.
How gently, how fast, fall the deep twilight
shades
O’er sea nnd o’er land, o’er hills and o’er glades!
How softly the moon sheds its silvery beams
On Slumberland’s walls and its cities of dreams!
Baby is fast, fast asleep.
—[Amy Churchill in Lippincott’s.
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Just....
Hardware
Heating Stoves from S3 to $15.
Cook Stoves from $6 to $25.
Fire Shovels from 5c. to 25c.
Fire Tongs from 20c. to 25c,
Fire Sets from SI to $5.
A good Lantern for 60c.
A better Lantern or 85c.
The best Lantern for $1.
Log Chains, heavy and light.
Wagon Bridles; they are beauties.
Hay Forks.
Seed Forks.
Seed Scoops.
Pistols, Shot Guns and Rifles.
Pocket Knives and Razors.
Table Knives and Spoons.
Galvanized Wash Tubs and Buckets.
Oil Cans—glass, galvanized and tin.
A new lot of Seven Top Turnip Seed.
Kirby=
Bohannon
Hardware Co.
Telephone 201.
How “Little Joe” Got Into
Running for Governor.
Bridges Smith in Macon Telegraph.
During the visi.t of Governor-elect
Jos. M. Brown to Macon, and while he
was feeling good from the effects of an
elegant luncheon at which were some
of his strongest supporters, he was in
dulging in a casual talk with Joe Hill
Hall and Col. W. A. Huff. It was a
chance meeting, and the Governor-to-
be liked his company. Joe Hill Hall is
always good company, being a mine of
politics and information, and when not
aroused by some infringement on the
articles and sections and paragraphs of
the Constitution, he talks and listens
well. Col. Hutf is not so young as he
used to be, so far as his age is con
cerned, but his brain is as clear as a
bell, and he has a wonderful memory.
Sitting there with big Joe Brown’s
‘‘little Joe,” his memory carried him
back to the days when the elder Joe
was his model in many respects. For
this reason, the opportunity to he with
the son of his old friend was to him
treat, indeed.
It was Joe Hill Hall, in the exercise
of a habit acquired in the court-house—
that of asking pointed questions—who
asked the Governor-elect how it was he
decided to run for the high office of
Governor, after his rather unusual ex
perience with the present Governor.
Mr. Brown, in that quiet, undemon
strative way of his, with no use for su
perfiuous words and no beating about
the bush, then told how it all came
about. And then came the unpublished
story, and, like many others, it brought
out the fact that a woman—and
| sweet, good woman she is—was, in
way. at the bottom of it.
He told of the ‘‘port rate” letter
that appeared simultaneously one Sun
day morning in February in the lead
ing papers of the State. It was an eye-
opener to merchants and manufactur
ers in many towns and cities—told ns
it was in that clear, short, forcible way
in which he wrote things during the
campaign, and which did more to elect
him than all the speeches made in his
behalf. His Monday and Tuesday
mornings’ mail was heavier by twenty
more letters than usual. Mrs.
Brown remarked the fact, and he him
self was puzzled to know why it should
be. There were letters from merchants
and manufacturers in certain towns
thanking him for that letter on ‘‘port
rates.” There were letters, three of
them, from Macon, and one of them
from Dr. Subers- asking him to run
for Governor. As such an idea had not
entered his head, such letters were read
and laid aside.
But the mail continued to grow in
bulk, and not only that, they were get
ting unanimous. They piled in, and
they were followed by petitions, long
lists of names, and in lumps, some of
them bearing the finger-marks and the
thumb and hand-marks of the machine
and railroad shop. Then Mr. Brown
began to sit up and take notice, as they
say. He decided he would drop in on
Joe Terrell. Once it was Gov. Joe
Terrell—and he was one of the best-
hut now he is Joe Terrell to his count
less friends, one of which is Mr.
Brown. So he told Joe about the let
ters and the petitions, but Joe smiled—
only smiled. The rain of letters was
now a shower—a downpour, a deluge.
He saw Joe Terreli and this is what
Joe told him: He had good, strong, in
fluential friends in every county in the
State; bring some of the letters and
let him see them. So the next time
Mr. Brown went to Atlanta he gath-'
ered up a handful or so of these let
ters—without seeing whose they were—
and he and Joe sat down to look them
over. Then Joe Terrell’s eyes grew
wider open. He saw letters from the
best men in the State. He saw letters
that would make glad the heart of any
candidate. It was Joe Terrell now
who began to sit up and take notice.
Then Mr. Brown went home and left
the ex-Govemor to do some figuring
and thinking.
father, with an approving smile. So
it was decided. The farm place was
good enough for them.
Then he went to Atlanta, and of
course he saw his friend, Joe Terrell.
Then he sat down and began to write.
What he was writing was something
like this: ‘‘Profoundly grateful to the
people of my State for their kindly ex
pressions, I feel that I must decline”—
and then Joe Terrell, with a loud
‘‘stop.” applied the emergency brake
with force. This was a surprise to Mr.
Brown and he had not bargained for it.
Then Joe Terrell pointed out some
thing that Joe Brown had not thought
of. "Do you know what they will say
of you when, after all these letters,
all these petitions, all these papers
have been asking you to run. and that
you are the man for the occasion?”
Mr. Brown was slient. ‘‘They will say
that you are a coward,” continued Joe
Terrell.
There it was. Never in his life—
never in his twenty-five years of a bus-
ness life—had he been called a coward.
He went home that Saturday night
ivith now thoughts in his head. He
found Mrs. Brown sewing in the sit
ting-room, and lie sat down and told
her of his conversation with Joe Ter
rell. All the time Mrs. Brown was
sewing, but she was listening, listening
to every word. Then Mr. Brown said
that they would not decide just then,
but would take it up Monday or Tues
day. I11 the meantime the letters were
continuing to pour in.
Tuesday came, and Mr. Brown was
to go to Atlanta. Breakfast was over,
and the good-bye was about to be said.
As he hesitated to ask her decision he
thought of what Joe Terrell said about
people calling him a coward, and per
haps he wished he could frame the
good wife’s reply. But the good wife
had been thinking of what Joe Terrell
said, and her mind was made up,
though Mr. Brown did not know it. »o
when he heard the whistle of the train
in the distance to take him to Atlanta,
he turned to her who had more inter
est in him than any human being in all
this wide world, and she met hi.s look
with: ‘‘1 guess you had better run,
Joe.”
And thus the people of Georgia are
indebted for a man who can and will
make a good Governor, to that sweet
woman, Mrs. Jos. M. Brown.
Pri-
Joe Brown, of Georgia.
New York Press.
There will be fun for somebody when
Joseph Mulligateway Brown takes his
throne as Governor of Georgia. “Joe”
is a wee bit of a man, sleepy looking,
(but very wide awake) ; with the head
of a mummy, (but chockful of brains) ;
a reddish beard, as thin and straggling
as the whiskers of a Chinese mandarin,
style a la Li Hung Chang; form,
scrawny ; eyes, blue brown ; weight,
122 pounds; height, live feet seven
inches; age, about 52; phlegmatic tem
perament; slow of speech; mild, but
severe when necessary ; as long-suffer
ing as Job; always a railroad man ; son
of the famous war Governor of Georgia,
old “Joe” Brown, who made millions,
served four terms and then elected
himself United States Senator.
Mrs. Joseph Emerson Brown was a
faithful wife and mother. Old Joe
posed as a Cincinnatus of the people.
When his nomination was cut and dried
he disappeared from the haunts of poli
ticians and was actually found in a
wheat field swinging a cradle when the
committee on notification called. At
the first State reception in the capitol at
Milledgeville, all the dignitaries being
present, Mrs. Brown appeared in the
parlor with an infant in her arms. The
women were terribly shocked, or pre
tended to be, hut all the men bowed
down to the mother in honest admira
tion of her courage in nursing little
Joey, while the straight-lacers scowled.
The Governor cared nothing for the sit
uation. He was as plain and matter of
fact as his better seven-eighths, and
frequently paused in the midst of the
festivities to pat the infant on the
head.
Exactly half a century later little
Joey is elected Governor of Georgia.
Perhaps everyone at the reception in
3857 is dead except the infant himself,
Joseph M. Brown. Cut out the M. and
call him, as all Georgians do, Joe
Brown.
Hoke Smith, the retiring Governor,
was an employee of the new Gover
nor’s father.
Little Joe worked in Smith’s office.
He is as ugly as a goat, and admits
it; but he is a man of the old-fashioned
kind. His clothes don’t cost him $50 a
Gov. Smith Tired of White
mary” Plan.
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 26.—An interest
ing piece of gossip is afloat around the
corridors of the Capitol building. The
dramatis personae are Gov. Hoke
Smith and Chairman Ilewlette A. Hall,
of the State Executive Committee.
As the story goes. Chairman Hall
called on Gov. Smith a few days ago in
reference to the official tally-sheets be
ing sent out to the Ordinaries of the
several counties. Chairman Hall taking
the position that unless the wording
contained in these sheets in reference
to the disfranchisement amendment
was changed the amendment would be
lost, even though it got a majority of
the votes cast on that question. The
chairman showed wherein the words,
as sent out, were not the same as was
provided in the submission law. The
Governor finally agreed to make the
change in accordance with Chairman
Hall’s suggestion. The chairman hav
ing accomplished the object of his vis
it was about to leave the office, when
the Governor called him back with the
statement:
“There is another matter, Mr. Hall,
I would like to talk to you about.’’
“All right,” said the chairman, and
he sat down to hear about it.
”1 think the time has come,” said
the Governor, "when we ought to get
hack to purty regularity in Georgia,
and let Democrats control their own
affairs without outside interference.”
Chairman Hall was scarcely prepared
for the shock, and he plainly showed
his surprise at this utterance, coming
from the man who had led the fight for
the opening of the doors to every white
man in a State primary, and who had
taken the position that, in determining
State affairs, all white men. regardless
of past political affiliation, should have
a say-so—dividing in the primary if
necessary, and then uniting in the gen
eral election.
This was the attitude assumed by
Gov. Smith two years ago, when he
bitterly attacked what he alleged to be
the “old ring,” because the latter had
made a stand in favor of confining par
ticipation in the primary of that cam
paign only to organized Democrats.
The Governor having presented his
views to Chairman Hull, it was up to
the latter to say something, and this
is substantially what he said :
“It seems to me, Governor, that
whatever is to be said on this line
ought to come from you and not from
me. You know where I stood two years
ago, and where the steam-roller left
those of us who then agreed on that
question—and you were running the
steam-roller. The old custom of a
strictly Democratic primary was
changed and the white primary was
substituted over my protest. It is now
the fixed policy of the State, and you
forced it. We must give it a fair trial,
and I have very grave doubts if the
State will ever go back to the old plan.
Still, it is up to those who have forced
the change and who now advocate go
ing hack to the old plan to have the
first say.”
Gov. Smith, it is said, replied that
now was not the time to discuss the
question as to who did it: that he was
wiling to assume his full'share of the
responsibility, and that he thought it
had been a mistake.
That practically ended the conversa
tion.
affiliations, who, in good faith, desire
to align themselves with the Demo
cratic party, and who intend to abide
the result of the party primary and
support the party nominations.’
“While it would have been unfair to
require a voter in 1906 to bind himself
as to his party allegiance for two
years, 1 did not object in 1906 to the
old rule, which was readopted by the
committee in 1908, and which required
a voter to align himself with the Dem
ocratic party in addition to agreeing to
support the party nominees.
“This year the State Convention se
lected Presidential electors. The map
who voetd in the primary of June 4 not
only voted for State House officers, but
he also participated in selecting dele
gates to the Stace Convention, which
sent (lelegates to the National Demo
cratic Convention, and which named
the Presidential electors.
“I regard those who voted in the pri
mary of June 4 last as committed not
only to support the entire State ticket,
hut also to vote for the Presidential
electors named at the DeGive opera
house convention, who will, in turn,
vote for Bryan and Kern.”
Gen. Wm. Phillips, Commander of
Famous Legion, is Dead.
Marietta, Ga., Sept. 26.—Gen. Wil
liam Phillips, one of Georgia’s most
prominent sons, died last night at Ma
rietta. Gen. Phillips was born in Ashe
ville, N. C. t July 8, 1824. He came
to Georgia as a boy with his father and
settled in Habersham county, where he
grew to manhood. He was graduated
from the University of Georgia and
moved to Marietta in 1851. Studied
law in the office of former Gov. Mc
Donald, and was admitted to the bar in
1852. In 1866 Gen. Phillips was elected
Solicitor-General of the Blue Ridge cir
cuit, and served under Judge Irvin.
Judge Rice and Mon. J. R. Brown. Af
ter serving ten yours as Solicitor-Gen
eral he went into the general practice
of law, and was for ten years the lead
ing attorney of the Blue Ridge circuit.
Gen. Phillips enlisted in the Confed
erate army as soon as the troops were
organized and was appointed a briga
dier-general by Gov. Brown. He com
manded the famous Phillips’ Legion
throughout the Civil War. He was
wounded and lost an eye at Cheat
Mountain, .‘a.
After the war Gen. Phillips was a
member of the State Legislature for
several years, and always took an ac
tive interest in politics.
THE PUBLIC BENEFITED.
GOV. SMITH DENIES ALLEGED INTER
VIEW.
Atlanta Constitution, 2Dth ult.
There appeared in a recent issue of
the Columbus Enquirer-Sun and other
State papers an account of an inter
view between Gov. Hoke Smith and
Chairman Hewlette A. Hall, of the
State Executive Committee, in which
the Governor is stated to have taken
the position that it is time for the
Democratic party iri Georgia to get
back to a position of regularity. When
asked about the interview yesterday
Gov. Smith gave out a statement in
which he said that nothing took place
between himself and Mr. Hall to justi
fy such a story. Regarding the alleged
interview Gov. Smith gave out the fol
lowing statement:
“My attention has been called to
day to the story published in the Col
umbus Enquirer - Sun. purporting to
give an interview between Hon. Hew
lette A. Hall and myself. Nothing
took place between Mr. Hall and my
self to justify such a story.
“The criticism which I made two
years ago upon the action of the State
Democratic Committee was that it un
dertook to have printed upon the back of
the ticket a stipulation which required
... ... i , . , , , . i a voter in 1906, two years in advance.
In the meantime Mr. and Mrs. year, and his beard grows only once in i t0 pledge himself as to how he would
Brown had been doing some caucus- 12 months. He is as independent as vote in 1908. I insisted that no change
ing. They had the dearest, sweetest, ; Abe Lincoln, as silent as Napoleon, as should be made from the rule which
most comfortable home in the world. |calm as Lucifer, and as immovable as
It was a nest, removed from the dust 1 the Rock of Gibraltar or the American
and the noise and the grind and the j tariff. In Joe Brown Georgia will have
troubles of the city. They were com- the ablest Governor she ha3 had in thir
ty years. Like John Johnson, he is no
man’s man. He is of the earth—earthy.
fortable and happy. Why change all
this, merely for the honor of being
Governor? Perhaps he saw a face on
the wall, that of the good and wise
It’s easy enough to make love,
trouble is to keep it up.
The
had been in use for years. The Demo
cratic convention at Macon adopted the
rule which was in force in Georgia
prior to the action of the committee in
1906, and the Democratic State Com
mittee on Feb. 6. 1908. followed the
same rule. It fixed the right to vote in
the primary as follows:
“ ‘All qualified white voters in Geor
gia, irrespective of their pant political
Newnan People Greatly Interested
in the Genorous Offer of Holt
& Cates Company.
The people have already demonstra
ted that they would rather trust a man
who is naturally honest, than one who
was honest only because he had to be.
Holt & Gates Co. have a firmly es
tablished reputation for square dealing
and sterling honesty. When they told
the people that Rexall Remedies are
the purest and most dependable reme
dies that it is possible for modern
sicence to produce, and that they would
tell the public exactly what each one
of these 300 remedies contained, and
that they sold Rexall Remedies on their
own personal guarantee that they
would give entire satisfaction or the
medicine would not cost the user a sin
gle cent, they were believed.
Ever since the announcement the
store of Holt & Cates Co. has been
crowded by people buying Rexall Rem
edies; all of which proves that Holt &
Cates Co. have the confidence of the
people and that honesty is the best pol
icy.
There is no “cure-all” among the
Rexall Remedies—there are 300 differ
ent and separate medicines; one for
each human ill, and each unquestiona
bly the best of its kind.
Rexall Dyspepsia Tablets are partic
ularly recommended for the positive
cure of stomach irritation, indigestion
and dyspepsia. They are rich in bis
muth. subnitrate pepsin and carmina
tives. and are prepared by a special
process which perfects and enhances
the great curative value of these well-
known medicinal agents. Everyone
suffering from a stomach disorder
should try Rexall Dyspepsia Tablets,
inasmuch as they cost nothing if they
do not satisfy.
Holt & Cates Co. are certainly fortu
nate in securing control of the sale of
these remedies, and we urge everyone
in need of medicine to investigate and
take advantage of their frank and gen
erous offer.
Wood’s Liver Medicine is for the re
lief of Malaria, Chills and Fever and all
ailments resulting from deranged con
dition of the Liver, Kidneys and Blad
der. Wood’s Liver Medicine is a tonic
to the liver and bowels, relieves sick
headache, constipation, stomach, kid
ney and liver disorders and acts as a
gentle laxative. It is the ideal remedy
for fatigue and weakness. Its tonic
effects on the entire system felt with
the first dose. The $1 size contains
nearly 2J times the quantity of the 50c.
size. In liquid form. Pleasant to
take. Huffaker Drug Co.
To-morrow may never come, but the
bill-laden first of the month arrives
with sickening regularity.
