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Ordinary's Office THE HERALD AND ADVERTISER VOL. XLIV. NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1908. NO. 1. oooooooooocooo “BAGGING: o o o o o o o o o o o o J -AND- TIES O 11 We want your fall trade, and we are in position to make you some very close prices on anything that you may need. Get our prices on Bagging and Ties. We have just received a car load of the York & Hub Bagging, also car-load of Ties. Don’t forget we are still selling the famous Chattanooga Wagons— O the best made, everyone guaranteed. O O o o Come to see us, or ’phone 147 for anything you want and we will be glad to supply your wants. O o T. o o G. FARMER & COMPANY o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o 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. the OOOOOOOOOOCOOO w 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. 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