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JOSEPH M. BROWN Clearly Defines His Position on The Issues of the Hour. OPPOSES LAWLESSNESS Says Labor Has a Right to Organize; Favors Separation of Church and State; Stands For Parcel Post and Rural Credits; Against Ne groes in Office; Favors Literacy Test on Immigration. ************************** Jack of * ♦ Diamonds; » — * At Times the Hand Is * * * * * * * * * *****¥«**##**¥************ To The People of Gmrgm: The strength of the govern ment of a free people lies in the deliberate making and the fear less and impartial enforcement of just laws. Preference for a class and fear of a class by those who make and administer the laws are alike odious to all who hold jus tice a* a basic principle and not the temporary expedient of the opportunist. So bdieving, I pledge myself, if elected to the United States Senate, to introduce and press bills for enactment into laws, for forcing the labor unions, a large maj'vtey oi whose members are foreign born, to obey the laws in the same manner as they are obeyed by all other citizens of this republic. Laboring people have a perfect right to organize these unions, but they should he incorporated and put under the ed as the “nurseries of democra cy,” but there should not be, even indirectly, any steps leading toward a union of church and State. No religious teacher should be given governmental emolu ments and authority to enforce his sectarian discipline over those of other faiths. I stand for freedom of speech and of the press, safe-guarded by the State. I oppose interft r- ence with the individual by the federal government. I favor legislation which will establish rural credits on such basis as will enable the rural pop ulation to secure loans at a small rate of interest, as is now done in several European countries. I favor amplification of Parcel Post facilities as rapidly as the resources of the government will admit. I oppose the appointment of same penalties as are provided negroes as trial judges or to of fer common carriers, since it is a ' ices ! n w ^ h th ** wlU ^ lve or * i 1—i— ders to white employees. matter of common knowledge that they obstruct or prevent the operation of the common carriers. I favor greater restrictions on immigration. Too many unde sirable foreigners are now enter ing the United States. I believe a literacy test, should he applied, and that all failing in this should he debarred. I believe that reverence for re ligion should he fostered, and liublic schools should be support- employ As to general matters yet open to legislation by Congress I stand on the last platform adopted by the national Democratic party. I favor the enactment by the Slate Legislature of a law requir ing the establishment and con stant maintenance of the county unit as the electoral basis for nominating United States Sena tors and other statewide officers, JOSEPH M. BROWN, | Advertisement I r Georgia Needs A Young, Active and Progressive Governor If you were going to select a manager for your own business, would you pick out a man of nearly three score years and ton, who had not been in touch with it for twenty years or more, or would you choose an active, progressive and constructive business man who has been in direct touch with your affairs for over a decade? Randolph Anderson knows Georgia’s finances and Geor gia’s needs. He has been in close touch with them and has studied them the last ten years or more. He is the only candidate who has offered a substantial, progressive platform. If you would vote for Georgia’s best interests— Vote For Randolph Anderson. J I Advertisement 1 Court Calendar. rowKTA mum*. U. >V. Proeiuau, Jmttfu; ,1 Itemler Terrel!, So licitor^ Jcueral. Meriwether -Third Monday* in February ami Aujtuftt. Coweta Fliht Mondays In Match and Septem ber Heavil Third Mondays In Marolv and Septem ber fa noli—Firm Mondays in April and October Troup- First Mondays in t obiuury and Aug CITY COI KT O.F N KWNAN. w. a. l’oat, Judge; w. 1,. StuHinea, Soticu I tor. Quarterly term meets third Mondays m Janu ary. April, July and Octobet BANKRUPTCY COCUT. A P. Freeman, Nt'wuan, (la.. Reieree in Bank ruptcy for counties ot Coweta, Troup, Heard. Mei iwetber, Carroll, Douglas amt Haralson. Petition to Remove Disabilities. Mattie Hill j Libel for Divorce. Coweta Superi- vs, or Court. Verdict for total divorce. Henry Hill. ' Petition to remove disabilities. Notice is hereby given to all concerned that on the 7th day of March. 1911. 1 filed with the Clerk of the Superior Court of aakl county my petition, addressed to said Court, returnable to the next term thereof, to be held mi the first Monday in September. 1914. for the removal of disabilities resting upon me under the verdict m the esse of Henry Hill against the petitioner, which applica tion will Ih* heard at the said September term. 1914. of said Court. MATTIE HILL. All kinds of job work done ith neatu this office. with neatness and dispatch at ""‘"-“ u t RANTEE opt ,cal co.. Box 508. Athens, Qa. Citation to Heirs-st-Law. T. F. Rawls, administrator of i Bill for direction, W. O. McCombs, deceased. 1 etc., in Coweta vs, }• Superior Court Mrs. Muttie Reavers, i Sept, term Mrs. Frances F„ Cutler, et. al. 1 1914. To Mrs. Mattie Reavers, Mrs. Frances E. Cutler, Mrs. Annie Meacham. Mrs. L. A. Huggins. John H. Walston. Y. H. Walston. W. D. Walston, Jesse Adams, Mrs. Surah Walker Salado, Carrie R Wall. Mrs. M. A. Chandler. J. R. Brooks. Mrs. Anna Carroll, Mrs. Millie Youngblood. Mrs. Joe* Pryor. Mrs. Lucinda Barron. Mrs. Sue Dunn, Mrs Ella Griffith. 1 *. Mrs. Nancy Dalton, Mrs. Alio T. Holland. Mrs. T. S. Ball, Mrs. A nice E. Taylor, Mrs. A. A. Moore, Mrs. B. V. Moore. Mrs. Id. JetTery, Mrs. Elir.a Smith, and nil of the heirs at law of W. O. McCombs, late of Coweta county tin . deceased: You ami each of you are hereby commanded and required, personally or by attorney, to be and ap pear at the next term of said Superior Court of said Coweta county. Ga.. to be held in and for said county, at the City of Newnan. Georgia, on the first Monday in September, at 10 o’clock a. m._ then and then* to answer the complaint in said action, being a bill for direction, etc. As in de fault of such presence said court will proceed thereon as to justice may appertain. Witness the Honorable R. W. Freeman. Judge of said Court, this the 9th day of June. 1914. L. TURNER. Clerk Superior Court of Coweta county. Ga Quicker Than the Eye By MARVIN DANA Copyright by Frank A. Munney Co. READ THIS Do You Need Glasses? Glasses aold on Honor. Fitted to your Mtiafaction. Wear and compare them be fore you pay. Get our prices and methods of tit- tinc You will never regret it. Send name and It happened more Minn n score of years ago. The gulden spike had Just been driven at Portland, Ore.—that last spike of the Northern Pacific rail road by which the continent was span tied. Helena, Mont., was In the heyday of lusty, unabashed, crude youth. The released (traders from llie completed railroad thickened the crowds In Its streets. All had money; all were aflame to spend It. The ugly main street was two lines of saloons, dance halls, gam bling hells, all open, all crowded from dawn to dawn. Of the several busy minister* of for tune then and there present, Kallroad Ifni whh the busiest. He ran a little game of three card monte In a hack room off the Montana Parlors, by which name was glorified one of the smallest and worst saloons in the town. He was busy indeed, for custom was brisk, and he had no assistant. An assistant, to have been anything but a costly luxury, must have hail Ungers is agile as Jim’s own. In their pectidar way. Such a one was not to he had very readily. The last had been shot by an indignunt victim. In Kailread Jim's opinion, the man had deserved his fate, for he had been culpably onreleNH. almost awkward, and had thus invited his doom. So now, perforce. Jim tolled Inde- fatlgably. When he slept was a mys tery beyond any man's solving. His meals were sandwiches, swallowed dur ing the progress of the game. 11 is sole drink whs coffee. Of course such labor deserved a re ward. and equally of course Railroad Jim had It. A steady stream of men slouched from the saloon into the back room and anon slouched out again, much poorer and uot a whit the wiser for their experience. But there were no complaints—except against the goddess of fortune, who. In truth, was most ungallantly nud vigor ously cursed betimes. Yet. while the losers reviled tliclr own bad Judgment or 111 lucli. they candidly admired Jim for the dexterity with which he be fooled them, l-’or he wou honestly— he ran a "square game." trusting to the artfulness of hi* ten Ungers for Ills modicum of proht. All who gambled there knew that Jim was honest, because be held the game down to a limit. Any oue can see that. Imd lie cheated, the limit would have been a palpable absurdity. No limn .would refuse to take all be could get on u certainty. But Jim, aware that a sufficiently acute observer might sometimes pick the right curd, refused to accept any single bet of more than $200. To be sure, no one had ns yet offered to bet so large an amount on one throw of the cards, but that fact bud no Influ ence ou public opinion. Jim was a large man, with a large nose, a large chin, a lofty bald skull und bulging, glassy eyes. He was not at all pretty, but very imposing. He had big hands, too—hands that were like brooding wings over the three cards with which he toyed so con stantly. It was really an edifying spectacle to behold those hands as they manipu lated the three cards—the ten ot spades, the ten of clubs, the Jack of diamonds. The cards seemed never quite to disappear from view. More over, the movement was rather slow than hurried. -The faces of tho cards were first ex hibited. two In the right hand, one In the left. Then they were held backs up and deposited softly, one by one. on the table. All one need do was to keep an eye persistently on the jack of diamonds—to watch it unwinklugly till It was at last put down. Then it only remained to place the bet and finally to turn over the card selected. Unfortunately for the crowd, this card was rarely the Jack. The unhap py losers shook their heads and rue fully admitted that Railroad Jim was "a cussed slick un with tb’ paste boards." Among many others, Old Ike lost. He had been In Helena Just a week, and already he was a familiar figure in the various resorts. lie was a man of about sixty, short, thin, cleau shav en. bright eyed, taciturn. He drank a moderate amount of whisky without going on the rampage, and he gambled here and there, also In moderation. Every night he drop ped in at the Montana Parlors and regularly made two flfty-dollar bets with Railroad Jim. In his fourteen efforts he had lost precisely $700. However, he took his losses calmly and remarked each night that he guessed lie could afford It. whereby all his hearers knew him to be a man of wealth. On the eighth uight of his stay In Helena Old Ike got drunk. He visited every bar in the place and drank at each with democratic impartiality Anon he varied this pursuit by a mild effort to beat a faro game, in which he failed Ignominously. It was near midnight when he stag gered into the Montana Farlors and in vited every man there present to the in ask ed. 1. Wt a bar. Raving drunk. Old Ike announr* ed to all ami sundry that he purposed "buckin' ng'ln" Railroad Jim's uionte gnnie. In the back room the crowd made way for him, and he stationed himself directly opposite the manipulator of the cards. With garrulous comments he mnde his usual two bets and lost. Every moment the effects of drink showed more plainly In Ills flushed cheeks and thickened speech. Then suddenly. Just after the big hands with the agile fingers had swept In the second $50. Old Ike be- tanie foolish. "Is th’ limit off?" he demanded and •fared at Railroad Jim with bloodshot eyes. Jim’s orbs returned the old man’s gaze without apparent emotion. “’Taln't reg'lar," he replied life lessly. Old Ike banged Ills hand viciously on the table. "Is tb’ limit off?" he shouted. Railroad Jim ran a wary eye over the company before he answered, then: “All right, unless any gent objects,” he declared coldly. “Any ernery cuss as wants ter ob ject 'd better any so tor me!" the old man spluttered, glaring about. And to Jim: "Th' limit’s off. huh? Bel right?" ”Th’ limit's off," Railroad Jim agreed. Old Ike drew forth a haltered pocket- book ami laid It before him on the table, one hand still clutching It. "Throw yer kuerds." tie commanded. R Annul ,||nj obediently displayed rtie three cards to the company and to th* old mail. All could see them dis tinctly, the ten of spades, the ten of clubs, the Jack of diamonds. The thrower passed them hock and forth gently, slowly, then dropped them deli cately on* by one on the table. "I’ll bet my pile 1 pick th' jack,” Old Ike clamored. “How much?" Railroad J1m His voice waa colorless still Heck of red burnt In either cheek. “Jest s plumb fd.OOOr Ik* opened the pocketbook nnd dis played a thick roll of hills. Twice he counted them. There were tens, twen ties. fifties, hundreds. The total was an ev«n $4,000. He laid the money in a neat pile on the table midway be tween himself nnd the three cards. "Match It." lie commanded tersely. Railroad Jim produced Ills pocket- book In turn and counted out an equal sum in bills of large denomination, fresh from the bank, Ids profits of two weeks. Tills money lay on bis side of the table. Between the two heaps of bills the three cards waited silently, ar biter's of fortune. Suddenly something happened— a swift movement, a flash, a thud. A bowle knife stood quivering In the ta ble. Its polished steel a shaking flame. The howie’s point was burled deep In the table top, and It pierced and held fast in its place the center card of the three. Old Ike. Ids spectacular deed wrought, stood back a little and laughed aloud. The tension of the startled crowd re laxed somewhat. They bad expected a robbery, a murder. They leaned for ward in breathless attention. “That’s my keerd," the old man cried triumphantly. His right hand was at his hip; his left pushed his stack of bills up against the center card. "That’s my koerd," he repented defiantly. “My $4,000 is hot on jest that same per- tic'ler keerd. And It's there t' win!" Railroad Jim had neither moved nor spoken. Now the eyes of the two men met nnd locked for a long half minute, and neither flinched in his stare. But at Inst Old Ike again put forth his left hand, nud now he turned over the card on the right It was the ten of spades. A moment more of pause, then he turned over the card on the left. It was the ten of clubs. The third card remained face downward pinned to the table by the bowie's blade. Once more Old Ike raised his eyes to those of Railroad Jim. "Do I win?" he asked tauntingly. And again he laughed. The monte dealer thrust his pile of banknotes toward the old man. He displayed no emotion, but tile tieck of color In his cheeks burned brighter than before. "Excuse mo a minute, gents.” be re marked in his cold tones. "I must git some more money t’ go on with.” With that he left the room by a back door. Old Ike put away the $8,000 without undue haste, chuckling softly. This done, he pulled the bowle knife from the table. As the blade left the wood the card was loosened nnd fell on the table face up. It was the ten of clubs. A gasp of amazement went up fiom the crowd. The three cards now lay plainly revealed to ull—the ten of spades, the ten of clubs and—the ten of clubs! A chorus of exclamations broke forth. The old man looked at the excited crowd and waved bis hand for si lence. "Where's th' jack o' di'monds?" he repeated contemptuously In answer to the burden of the cries. "Why, Rail road Jim sleeved th’ Jack reg’ler. He never let it on to th’ table when they was any money wuth while. Kept that other ten o’ clubs out o' sight be hind it when he showed th' keerds. then flipped the jack into his sleeve with them long fingers o’ his’n. "But I got outer his little game. An' he didn’t dast let me turn up that oth er ten o’ clubs. He’d ruther pay. He knew well yew’d string him up in- stnuter. He"— But Old Ike’s t-oiee was lost among the shouts and curses. The crowd rushed forth to wreak vengeance on the man who had so deftly fleeced them. They were too late. Heleua knew Railroad Jim no more. Ike followed the crowd, sober. SENATOR HOKE SMITH PRAISED BY POSTMASTER GENERAL BURLESON FOR WORK ON THE PARCEL P0S1 The charge made In certain quarters that Senator Hoke Smith has opposed the parcel post system is refuted by no less an authority t| lan Postmaster Genera! Burleson himself. Mr. Joseph P. Hoekniore, 0 ( gansvllle, Ga., wrote to the Postmaster General as follows: "Logansville, Ga., July 13, 1914 "Hon. A. S. Burleson, "Postmaster General. "Washington. D. C. “Dear Sir: It has been charged that Senator Hoke Smith, of Georgia, I Is opposed to the parcel post. I being a friend and ardent supporter of Senator Smith will ask that you write me just what his attitude toward the parcel post has been in the past and greatly oblige. "Yours very truly. "JOSEPH P. ROCK MORE." Mr. Burleson’s Reply. The Postmaster General replied aH follows: - * "Office of the Postmaster General I "Washington, D. C., July 15, 1914' “Mr. Joseph P. Rockmore, "Logansvillo, Ga. "Dear Sir: I am in receipt of your favor of recent date. I am profoundly! astonished that any one should charge that Senator Hoke Smith | s opp05 I ed to the parcel post. The exigencies of the situation must be desperate Indeed when such gross perversion of the truth it resorted to. 1 sllp . I pose the shadow of basis for this charge is found in the fact that Senator Smith one time expressed a fear that the department might go a little too fast in increasing the weight limit of mailable parcels—an apprehen- sioe shared by others, some of whom are in the department itself. “Instead ot being the eifcmy of the parcel post, Senator Hoke Smith k M 1 been and Is one of its most intelligent friends and supporters; in faot, the people are Indebted to Senator Smith for material assistance in em I bodying in th® parcel post law ths vitalizing provisions which will enable th* postmaster general to ultimately mak* this splendid service so helpful I and beneficial to the great producing cesses of our country. Indeed, they! owe him a debt of gratitude for what WShas done for parcel post. "I have said this much In response to your query because it is duel SBnator Smith that ths truth be made known. "Permit ine. in conclusion, to expAnss the hope that this faithful servant sp^fer no hqpt because oiYhe circulation of such basele •Oust xtateMMts. “Respeotfully yours, “A. s. Burleson, "Postmaster GoneBl." Protection For Farmers’ Organizations Section 7 of the bill recently reported to the senate, known as the anti-1 trust bill, was placed in the measure by Senator Hoke Smith, after a vig I orous fight, and is as follows: “Sec. 7. That nothing contained in the anti-trust laws shall be coa-J strued to forbid the existence and operation of labor, agricultural, or hot-j ticultural organizations, Instituted for the purposes of mutual help, and [ not having capital stock or conducted for profit, or to forbid or restrain Individual members of such organization from lawfully carrying out the legitimate objects thereof; nor shall such organizations, or the member! I thereof, be held or construed to be illegal combinations or conspiracy| in restraint of trade, under the anti trust laws." The above section is intended to prevent the prosecution of such I organizations as the Farmers’ Union as being in restraint of trade. Ill embodies the spirit of a bill introduced in the senate in April, 1913, by | Senator Bacon, and in the houBeby Congressman Bartlett and known as the Racon-Bartlett bill. Since the death of Senator Bacon Senator! Smith lias put the above amendment into the anti-trust bill which is | soon to be passed. [ Advertisement ] LAND, FARMER’S SECURITY, NO LONGER BLACKLISTED, AT THE NATIONAL BANK! In the course of an attack on the Regional Reserve Banks, establisliel under the Democratic Currency Bill, published in the newspapers of July 3l| Px-Governor Joseph M. Brown says: "However, the law does not force the borrowing banks to loan money to farmers, and recent developments have proven those latter banks are ’not in the market for farm loans,' hence the Regional Bank system IS A NULLITY SO FAR AS RELIEF TO THE FARMERS IS CONCERNED.” It would be absurd to suggest that the law should force a bank to lenl money to any individual, but the law passed by the Democrats DOhi PERMIT national banks outside Central Reserve Cities to lend money oi farm lands, a privilege which for more than fifty years has been denier them under the Republican law. For half a century farmers and farmeij organizations have complained that their security was blacklisted by tlj National banking law. But farm lands have been taken off tlie black I is| by Section 24 of the new Currency law passed by the Democrats and signer by President Wilson on the 23d of last December, as follows: "Section 24. Any Naional banking association NOT SITU ATED IN A CENTRAL RESERVE CITY may make loans secured by improved and unincumbered farm land, situated within its Fed eral Reserve District, but no such loan shall be made for a longer time than five years, nor for an amount exceeding fifty per centum of the actual value of the property offered as security. Any such bank may make such loans in an aggregate sum equal to twenty- five per centum of its capital and surplus, or to one-third of its time deposits and such banks may continue hereafter as hereto fore to receive time deposits and to pay interest on the same. It ia expected that there will be twelve Reserve Cities: Nc* Boston, Philadelphia, Richmond, Chicago, Cleveland, St. Louis, Kansas t U!f Minneapolis, San Francisco, Dallas and Atlanta. Banks in Central Resent* cities will not be permitted to make five-year loans because they will be Kj cities where thousands of other banks will go to get money when it is nee f j for comriiercial and agricultural purposes. But every other bank in '1 United States is free to lend money on farm lands, which the National ba.nrj were prohibited from doing until the Democratic law was passed. If the man referred to in ex-Governor Brown's card who made »PP k t tion for a loan by the National banks of Atlanta, had read the la", would have known that the Atlanta banks, expecting to he in a 1 en 1 Reserve city, which will be the money reservoir for several States. c0 “I not, under the law, be “in the market for farm loans.” Then it might occurred to him to apply to ex-Governor Brown’s National hank, which 1 authority to make farm loans and, which can be “in the market" for tie I Read the law quoted above and see if this is not true. J The farmer’s land is no longer blacklisted by law at the National 1 ^ scattered all over the country as was the case until last December, that, certainly, is a step forward for the farmer. ,, Before the Currency bill was introduced Senator Hoke Smith * n duced a-bill permitting National banks to lend money on farm >a n “ s ' this plan, proposed by him, \vas_ incorporated in the Currency bill an now a law. , „ Dr. H. E. Stockbridge. editor of the Southern Ruralist, upon J attack on the farm loan feature of the currency law, wrote t 1 -.jj country national banks in Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama and L 3 asking it they would make farm loans under the terms of the new la*' 1 without exception, they replied that they would. One bank stated t^ was already making such loans. These letters are on file in th - " u office in Atlanta, and the statement herein made will be substaiitD ,e Dr. Stockbridge. HOKE SMITH CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE. Atlanta, Ga., August 1, 1914. [Advertisement]