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vote to convict, and that nothing could
change them.
Jurors going about in advance of the
evidence proclaiming their intention to
convict! God of justice, hurl a bolt at
such shameful proceedings!
Young Mr. Wright, of Floyd.
Macon Telegraph.
Mr, Harry Wright, of Rome, makes
an interesting exhibit of a bright but
callow statesman treading brusquely
where wiser men walk slowly. He hns
not yet learned an important lesson in
life: Re just first, and a partisan nev
er, in a trial which is judicial in its
character. Tuesday he declared, in the
McLendon trial, that “the question is
not whether Mr. McLendon voted prop
erly or not” in the Atlanta port rate
case, for which vote he was suspended
by Gov. Smith. Wednesday he re
peated it in this form : “The question
is not whether a man is bound to car
ry out his oath of oflice,“ but whether
he should carry eut a “promise” made
in a political platform which had been
in the meantime reversed by the peo
ple who who elected him to office. He
also referred to “the other ride” in the
committee, involving the confession
that the committee was lined up on
two “sides” and that he was on one
of those “sides.”
In other words, to the dickens with
your oath of office ! What has that got
to do with your conduct as a partisan
tool, expected to do the will of a boss?
We are trying you, and have already
convicted you for failure to sustain a
platform which has been repudiated by
the people, and which no attempt was
made to enforce while it was yet un
repealed !
That is the logic of Mr. Wright’s
stand.
It came out by the mouths of two
Railroad Commissioners Wednesday
that no attempt was made to enforce
the said port rate demand of the Macon
platform until six months after it had
been superseded by the Atlanta plat
form—a fact well-known to the gener
al public.
Isn’t it strange that these people
paid no attention to the Macon plat
form until it passed away by the adop
tion of another one?
Young Mr. Wright, of Rome, who is,
we believe, the son of Hon. Seab
Wright, and a member of the House
Committee in the McLendon case,
seems to be acting the part, not of a
juror, but an attorney for the prosecu
tion. He made Tuesday a fatal confes
sion of the purpose and intent of this
drum-head political court-martial. He
said:
“The question is not whether Mr.
McLendon voted properly or not. The
question is, whether, having commit
ted himself to port rates during the
campaign, he voted against them at the
lirst. opportunity which came to him to
vote on them!
i Not a question as to whether he vo
ted right!
That admission lays bare the whole
blooming farce!
Ry this token a man sitting as a
judge may vote right, and then be tired
from office, humiliated and disgraced
because in voting right he voted con
trary to the wishes of a political boss!
This is the most outrageous sugges
tion we ever heard made in a free
State, whose motto is “Wisdom, Jus
tice and Moderation.” It is a bold at
tempt to rape in the very temple of
justice all that is dear to a liberty-lov
ing people.
Immediately following this astound
ing declaration Mr. McLendon at
tempted to introduce the evidence in the
Gregg hardware case to prove that he
decided right, with the statement:
“That’s the case I passed upon, and
now you’ve got to decide it,” and im
mediately several members of the com
mittee answered : “We beg to differ
with you!” And the evidence was
ruled out.
This action officially puts the ques
tion where it has really been all the
time: but what amazes us is the bold
ness of the stand taken. The case
not to be tried on its merits—not
whether McLendon decided right, but
whether he decided contrary to the
will of Gov. Smith, who first catue into
the port rate limelight as the attorney
of the Atlanta Freight Bureau.
All this is emphasized by the testi
mony of Commissioner Warner Hill,
who told the committee that port
rates, such as were contemplated by
the Macon platform (which latter has
been superseded) has never been
brought before the board. The only
port rate questions that have come up
have been the several demands made
by Atlanta for special port rates for
Atlanta.
So, as a matter of fact, Mr. Wright
has put the question where it really be
longs -did McLendon have the right
under the law and the evidence, and
under his oath, to vote his own convic
tions, or was he expected to vote ac
cording to the wishes of the late attor
ney for the Atlanta Freight Rureau,
and later Governor?
The position taken by the prosecu
tion is that McLendon was bound body
and soul to the late attorney of the At
lanta Freight Rureau, and not to the
law and evidence. It is not a question,
Mr. Wright says, "whether or not Mc
Lendon voted properly !“
And on this issue the members
of the committee have boldly stated
Better Ways of Farming.
Albany Herald.
The improved method of corn culti
vation which E. Mclver Williamson, of
South Carolina, has given to the farm
ers of the South, and which bears his
name, is but the record of another step
in the education of those who coax the
fertile earth to give of its riches.
Some farmers who employ the Wil
liamson method make three times as
much corn to the acre as they did be
fore. Others make four or five times
as much. Williamson himself makes
seven times as much, and it is better
corn than his farm formerly produced.
Other men have developed new va
rieties of cotton, and have shown how,
as the result of certain methods of cul
tivation, the yield of every acre plant
ed may be largely increased. New
varieties of oats have been given to the
farmers, who would as soon think of
not plowing their fields as of planting
any but rust-proof seed. A few years
ago a strange wheat plant was discover
ed in Alaska. It is superior to any
other known variety, and as a result of
its introduction the wheat production
of the country promises to be enormous
ly increased. Retter and more prolific
fruits, nuts and berries, finer vegetables
and more dependable cereals, are being
continually added to the nation’s new
sources of wealth, and those who till
the soi are realizing as they never did
before that it is less a question of how
much land is cultivated than it is how
well it is cultivated. An up-to-date
farmer will raise more on one acre than
a shiftless farmer who is “too old to
learn” will raise on ten; and in the end
the one-acre farmer will own the whole
eleven acres.
Agriculture, like everything else, is
progressing. The farmer of the past
learned how to plant and tend and har
vest from his father. There were no
books to teach him new methods of
farming, and when he first heard of
agricultural colleges he ridiculed them
unmercifully. Now he knows better.
He has found that the young men who
have recently graduated from agricul
tural schools are the best equipped
farmers in the land, and unless he is
hopelessly stubborn, he is glad to bor
row their ideas.
The farming of the fnture is the
farming that causes each square foot of
ground to produce all that it is capable
of producing, with the assistance of all
the fertilizer that it can assimilate. It
is farming that concentrates energies,
and stops the waste that has placed
mortgages on tens of thousands of
farms. It is the farming that will add
more to the wealth of the South than
all other wealth-producers combined.
Will Work for Columbus Road.
Atlanta Constitution.
Former Gov. Joseph M. Terrell, who,
as chairman of the good roads meeting
held at Meriwether White Sulphur
| Springs on June 19, was authorized to
appoint a committee of five from each
county traversed by the proposed road
from Atlanta to Columbus, yesterday
announced the membership for that
committee.
The counties traversed by the sup
posed road, which was fixed by resolu
tion passed at the meeting, are Ful
ton, Campbell, Coweta, Meriwether,
Harris and Muscogee.
This meeting assembled as the re
sult of The Constitution’s good roads
campaign for Georgia, and the occasion
was a trio over the proposed road by
The Constitution’s official “White
Steamer Pathfinder,” and a party from
Atlanta and other points on the line of
this road.
Every county was represented at the
meeting, which was attended by more
than a hundred delegates. The meeting
decided to adopt the route through the
counties named, and authorized the
chairman. Gov. Terrell, to name a
committee of five from each county to
take up the matter and work out the
details.
The committee as named by Chair
man Terrell is as follows:
Muscogee—Frank IJ. Garrard, chair
man of entire committee; Frank G.
Lumpkin, R. Curtis Jordan, W. L. Lott
and Henry Spang.
Harris- G. N. Murrah and W. F.
Key, of Chipley: J. B. Burnsides and
.1. H. Mobley, of Hamilton; J. W.
Thompson, of Pataula.
Meriwether -Charles L. Davis, of
Warm Springs; H. H. Tigner, of Odes-
sadale; N. W. Parham and A. M.
Hill, of Greenville, and Dr. J. W. Tay
lor, of Lutherville.
Coweta—T. M. Zellars and S. E.
Leigh, of Grantville; Hon. J. R. Mc
Collum, of Newnan, State Senator;
Chairman H. C. Glover, of the Coweta
County Commissioners, and Hal Fisher,
of Newnan.
Campbell —Dr. H. L. Johnson, of
Palmetto; Chairman E. G. Hammond,
of the Campbell County Commission
ers; Mayor D. A. Carmichael, of Union
City, Major John T. Longino and W.
T. Roberts, of Fairburn.
Chairman Terrell expresses the hope
that the committee will get together
as early as possible and take steps that
will lead to the establishment and the
proper improvement of this road be
tween Atlanta and Columbus.
Chairman Garrard of the committee,
who was in the city when the commit
tee was appointed, stated that he would
he glad to serve and do all he could to
wards the success of the movement.
He says ho is ready to co-operate with
the committee in every way possible,
and says he hopes to see this made one
of the best roads in the State.
Not Entirely Undisputed.
Youth’fl Companion.
The case before the court was one
involving the ownership of a tract of
land, and the attorney for one of the
parties to the suit was cross-examining
a witness.
"Now, Mr. Crimshw,” he said, “the
property on which you live was origi
nally a part of the twenty acres in dis
pute, was it not?”
“Yes, sir.”
“And your title is based on the orig
inal title to that land, I presume?”
“Yes, sir.”
“How long have you resided there?”
“Over twenty-one years.”
“Have you had—now, mark me—
have you had twenty-one years’ undis
puted possession of that property?”
The witness hesitated a moment.
“Remember, Mr. Crimshaw,” said
the lawyer, raising his voice, “that
you are under oath. Have you had
twenty-one years’ undisputed posses
sion of that property?”
“It has been disputed once, and only
once,” answered the witness. “I found
a nest of bumble-bees in my backyard
one day last summer.”
In the general laugh that followed
this answer the lawyer subsided.
Don’t think because the reporter sees
you getting on the train that he ought
to know who you are and where you
are going, or if he sees you greet some
friends that he knows who they are
and where they are from. We aim to
get all the news, but you may be the
one we don’t happen to know. We try
to become familiar with names and
faces if possible, but during the years
past we have been to church and failed
to see you there; we have loafed on the
street; we’ve even risked our reputation
on back streets on a dark night, but you
weren’t all there. And we’ll be hanged
if we know where to find you all. So
if you are going or coming or know
anybody cutting up queer capers, let
us know.
“Sure, it’s Mike, the boy, that’s the
lucky man.”
“How was he lucky?”
“Why, mum, he got inshured fer
five thousand dollars, and the very nixt
day he fell off the ladder, paintin’, and
broke his nick. ”
A fresh child is easily spoiled.
Every case of Rheumatism has its origin and its development in the
blood, It is not a disease which is contracted like a cold, but it is in the
blood and system before a pain is felt, and the changes in the weather or
any physical irregularities, such as a spell of indigestion, bowel disturbance,
etc., are merely the exciting causes producing the pains and aches, which
are the natural symptoms of the disease. Rheumatism is caused by an
excess of uric acid and other corrosive, irritating poisons in the blood, which
are carried through the circulation to every part of the system. Every
muscle, nerve, membrane, tissue and joint becomes saturated with these
acrid, irritating impurities, or coated with fine, insoluble caustic matter,
and the sharp, piercing pains or the dull, constant aches are felt with every
physical movement. When the blood is filled with uric acid poison, perma
nent relief cannot be expected from liniments, plasters, or other external
treatment. Such measures give temporary relief, but in order to conquer
and bring about
Wedded Girl He Loved and Lost
Honors.
Madrid, July 18. The marriage of
the Infanta Alfonso of Bourbon-Or-
leans and Princess Beatrice of Saxe-
Coburg, for which the prince has been
deprived of his title as an Infanta of
Spain, was the sequel of a romance,
the details of which have just been
learned. Prince Alfonso recently was
breveted a lieutenant, and was anxious
to proceed to Melilla, to which place
Spain is sending large detachments of
troops.
While the mobilization of his brigade
was in progress the prince hurried to
Paris to visit his mother, the Princess
Eulalie, and later went to Coburg to
say good-bye to Princess Beatrice, to
whom be was betrothed.
Instead of farwells, there was a mar
riage ceremony, both civil and relig
ious, the latter according to the Catho
lic and Protestant rites.
Although the decree of degradation,
which strips the prince of his title and
Spanish honors and decorations, is based
| upon his marriage without royal con
sent, it is understood that the king op
posed the union because the princess
declined to change her religion.
A HARD STRUGGLE*
Rheumatism
complete cure, the uric acid and
other inflammatory matter must be
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blood, and removes ever}’ atom of
impurity from the circulation. So
instead of being a weak, sour
stream, distributing uric acid to the
different parts of the system, the
blood is strong and healthy and
therefore able to supply every mus
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mation and swelling subside, the pains and aches cease, and not only is
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the entire general health is benefited and built up. In all forms of Rheuma
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Sometime rro, I had Rheumatism and had to
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CONRAD LOHR,
Anderson, Ind. 122 E. 10th St.
I was severely troubled with Rheumatism. I
had it in my knees, legs and ankles, and any one
who has ever had Rheumatism knows how excru
ciating the pain is and how it interferes with one
at work. I was truly in bad shape—having been
bothered with it for ten years, off and on. A
local physician advised me to use S. S. S. I did
so. After taking two bottles I noticed the sore
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soreness and inflammation gone. I recommend
S. S. S. to all Rheumatic sufferers.
J. L. AGNEW,
803 E. Greenbrier St., Mt. Vernon, Ohio.
Many a Newnan Citizen Finds the
Struggle Hard.
With a back constantly aching,
With distressing urinary disorders,
Daily existence is but a struggle.
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The Negro Going North.
Now Orleans States.
In spite of the public addresses of
Hooker T. Washington beseeching the
negroes to remain in the South and be
come artisans, planters, capitalists and
business men, they are going North in
ever increasing numbers, where they
can vote and shine in politics as the
equal of the white man. This is espe
cially true of the young and ambitious
negroes, and the leading Northern
newspapers are even now predicting
that the census of 1910 will show a vast
movement of Southern negroes into the
North.
The esteemed Washington Post, be
lieving that the race problem now con
centrated in the South should be dis
tributed so that “the burden might be
borne by the whole country,” is doing
all it can to encourage the negro move
ment into the Northern States, be
cause it can see no reason why the ne
gro should heed the voice of Booker T.
Washington and confine himself to one
section when he is free to go to another
where he can enjoy political liberty, so
far as the ballot is concerned.
She Knew the Day Well.
Pearson’s Weekly.
A poor little faded woman had been
brought into court as witness in a case
involving very important issues. The
entire case depended on the fact that
a paper had been signed on a certain
day, and this the forlorn little woman
was prepared to prove.
“Y’ou saw the paper signed?” asked
the opposing counsel in cross examina
tion.
“Y’es, sir. ”
“And you take your oath that it w T as
the 13th of August?”
”1 know it was, sir.”
The lawyer, who thought another
date could be proved, assumed an ex
asperating smile and repeated her
words.
“Y’ou know it was? And now be so
good as to tell us how you know it.”
The poor little creature looked from
one countenance to another with wide,
sorrowful eyes, as if she sought under
standing and sympathy; then her gaze
rested on the kindly face of the judge.
“I know,” she said, as if speaking to
him alone, “because that was the day
my baby died.’’
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But for the credulity of some
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