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NEWNAN HERALD & ADVERTISER
VOL. X LIX.
NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1914.
NO. 40
In
Our New
Quarters
We are now established in our new quarters
on the corner ot Jefferson and Madison
streets, and extend a cordial invitation to our
friends to drop in and see us.
We are beginning now to replenish our
stocks in' preparation for the fall trade, and
shall be “ready with the goods” to supply ev
erything in our line that may be needed.
We advise our friends to keep cool and not
get demoralized on account of the war in Eu
rope. Ours is a great Government, and will
provide means to take care of the South’s
cotton crop. Be of good cheer. Everything
will turn out right in the end.
Reduction of Fords
Buyers to Share in Profits
Lower pritcs on Ford cars effective from Aug. I,
1914, to Aug. I, 1915, and guaranteed against any
reduction during that time:
Touring Car $490
Runabout 440
Town Car 690
F. O. B. Detroit, all cars fully equipped.
(In the United States of America only.)
Further, we will be able to obtain the maximum efficiency in
our factory production, and the minimum cost in our pur
chasing and sales departments if we can reach an output of
300,000 cars between the above dates.
And should we reach this production, we agree to pay as the
buyer’s share from $40 to $60 per car (on or about Aug. 1,
1915,) to every retail buyer who purchases a new Ford car
between Aug. 1, 1914, and Aug. 1. 1915.
For further particulars regarding these low prices and profit-
sharing plan, see the
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W HO STARTED THIS WAR
Who stal led the war?
"Not I.” says the Kaiser.
’Tve been an adviser
Of peace from the start:
I wouldn't depart
From my peaceful position
On any condition;
A tiarht I deplore;
l am dead against war.”
Who started the nr rap'. 1
“Not I,” says Franz Joseph,.
“This war I'd oppose if
They’d listen to me;
But they will not, you see.
These waMovinir Serbs
Are the class that disturb I
My peace-loving; nap.
I detest a vile scrap!”
Who started this mass'.'
"Not I,” says the Czar.
“It gives me a jar
To think of the shooting
And burning and looting.
And Backing, pillage
Of city and village;
I'in the kind of a Russ
.That despises a muss!”
Who started the fight?
"Not I,” replies France;
“Not by any mischnnce
Would I force the occasion
For German invasion.
What though Alsace-Lorraine
May become mine again
It doesn’t seem right;
And it grieve* inr to tight!"
Who started this row?
'Not I.” says John Bull;
‘ Lud, they juat had to pull
Me into the rumpus.
Sit still while they thump us'.’
Well, that isn't our game.
But we’re grieved just the same.
We abominate war;
It's a thing we abhor.”
Who started this war'.’
Though none will admit it.
On thinking a bit it
Seems certain to us
That some onery cuss.
Some kaiser or king,
Must have started this thing.
Let us know, we implore.
Who started this war.
Gov. Slaton Issues Statement.
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 5.-Gov. Slaton
has issued a statement to the people of
Georgia in which he gives his interpre
tation of why he was defeated for Uni
ted States Senator by the Macon con
vention. His statement follows:
“To the People of Georgia:
“The convention met in Macon and
saw fit to give Mr. Hardwick the Sena-
torship, without regard to the choice
you expressed at the ballot box on the
19th day August.
“Its action leaves with me no bitter
ness or sensation of defeat. My per
sonal loss can soon be forgotten, hut
disregard by party leaders and conven
tion delegates of instructions given
fhem by the people beget a lack of con
fidence in party counsels calculated to
do lasting harm. The Democratic par
ty owes its existence to a wholesome
reverence for popular government and
an unhesitating and cheerful obedience
to the peoples’ will when expressed in
their sovereign capacity.
“A Democrat who believes in no spe
cious or hair-splitting devices to escape
the peoples’ will is fundamentally more
ioval to his party than the one who en
deavors to excuse his violation of their
instructions under the guise of further
ing some peculiar brand of Democracy,
which, fairly interpreted, means his
own particular interest and domination.
"The State of Georgia is obligated to
the Democratic party for its emancipa
tion from Federal domination and for
progressive laws adapted to changing
conditions, but always consistent with
the everlasting principles of right. No
man was ever made superior to party,
and the people of Georgia have never
recognized their officers and represen
tatives as other than their servants.
“In the convention that has just ad
journed were many delegates from
counties I carried who voted against me
in the general election. Many of them
deserted me after the first ballot.
Where they voted for me unde- insttuc-
tions I did not receive their cordial sup
port and influence. Jn fact, they be
came floor leaders of my opponent,
while the delegates of my opponents
were chosen from men who had contin
uously advocated them and of course
refused to desert them.
“I fought for the temporary chair
manship because the selection of a cre
dentials committee, which had the pow
er of unseating delegates, rested with
him. It was understood that N. A.
Morris was slated for membership on
that committee, and when Judge Pottle
was sacrificed on a protest, the expect
ed happened.
“The delegates who had expressed
themselves for me as second choice
were promptly unseated, and those sug
gested by partial mass meetings and
not executive committees were substi
tuted. The question openly asked by
the committee of gentlemen duly certi
fied who asked retention of their seats
was whether they voted for or aguinst
Mr. Jenkins, ft was not whether they
were properly chosen, but which candi
date they favored. Even one of the
members of the credentials committee
rose to offer a protest.
“I venture that no county which Mr.
Hardwick or Mr. Felder carried sent a
delegate who did not earnestly support
and advocate them. With me, the con
trary was largely true.
"The executive committees in a large
number of counties who voted for me
were in favor of my opponents, and
where they did not injure me, the cre
dentials committee did the necessary
work.
“I had believed that factionalism in
Georgia should he destroyed, and that
officers and representatives should he
chosen with reference to the interests
of Georgia rather than those of ary
one man. 1 believed that Senator
Smith should not have opposition to the
Senate, and expressed this view. It
was not because I indorsed his course,
but because I thought it was the best
for the State that existing dissensions
and strife should cease, and that men
should rely for preferment upon their
own merits rather than upon the fac
tions to which they might have be
longed.
“Had I been elected, 1 should have
worked harmoniously with Senutor
Smith for the benefit of Georgia, just
as 1 would have served with him as
counsel in a law suit for a common
client. I should have been independent
in thought and action, but harmonious
in accordance with duty and obligation.
“I lost thousands of votes because 1
refused to run against Senator Smith,
as I was suspected as having an under-,
standing with him,
“There was no word of truth in this.
My action was based on my independent
judgment.
"I have been elected Governor by 1118
counties out of 148, and I knew that
this would have been impossible ex
cepting with the vote of both factions,
and I appointed to the highest offices
men who had been adherents of each.
“Senator Smith declared in newspa
pers that he would have nothing to do
with the Senatorial fight for the short
term, and when he received the votes
of 137 counties out of 148, he knew this
could not occur except by votes of thou
sands of those who had been his bitter
antagonists.
“The United States Marshal from
the Northern District of Georgia was
there with all his patronage, and one of
his deputies was a delegate from a
county which went for me, and at the
first opportunity he promptly voted
against me.
“The Commissioner of Internal Rev
enue was there as a delegate to light
me, and was on the stage a large part
of the time.
"The Census Commissioner was there
with all the power of his patronage.
“It took them all, and it took a cre
dentials committee, a temporary chair
man, a permanent chairman, and an
ousting of delegates and a desertion of
delegates from counties that went for
me, to uefeat me. •
The people were forgotten, and pol
iticians wiih patronage were in full
control.
“The duty of the convention was to
register the will of the people, but that
was their last consideration. The can
didate who would have been elected un
der the State law drawn by Senators
Bacon and Smith, who received over
7,000 votes plurality and a plurality of
county units and of counties, and was
the first or second choice of three-
fourths of the counties of the State,
was sacrificed and deserted after the
first ballot.
“The delegates of my opponents were
loyal and did not disobey the counties’
instructions because they were chosen
from faithful adherents.
“The details of the convention and
its proceedings are known through the
press to all Georgians. If its proceed
ings are characteristic of progressive
Democracy, that adjective will evc-r be
hateful to Georgians who believe in pop
ular government instead of ring rule
and manipulation.
“I am thankful to the convention for
one thing. It indorsed the tax equali
zation law, for which I fought and
against which my successful adversary
directed his keenest invective. Indi
viduals may pass, but this act is the
best work of constructive statesman
ship which has been placed on the stat
ute hooks for half a century. It will
live when Mr. Hardwick and I have
passed away. It will equalize the bur
dens of the people, rehabilitate the
finances of the State, and guarantee
the tax payer against waHte and ex
travagance. My monument will be
written in that law.
“The convention which approved my
work defeated me and elected a man
who opposed it.
“It is a tribute for which I am thank
ful, and leaves me in a spirit of good
humor and unabated cheerfulness.
"The people who elected rne are due
the information as to the means by
which I was defeated in the convention,
and judgment on the proceedings of
this convention is a matter for their
masters and mine—the sovereign peo
ple.
“I stated to the convention, when
permitted to speak, that I believed the
junior Senatorship should be referred
back to the people for their direction.
The office was too high and too sacred
and meant too much for Georgia and
the Union to be controlled by manipu
lation and trade. This suggestion was
refused.
“I have always had an abiding confi
dence in the fairness and justness of
my fellow-citizens. I believe they are
the best people on earth, and their civ
ilization is the noblest. My confidence
in them and my love for them
abated.
“I trust that they will take their af
fairs into their own hands and see to it
that their sovereignty shall he vindica
ted. John M. Slaton.”
War Stops Drug Market.
Now York Boat.
Stoppage of virtually all the interna
tional traffic in drugs is one of the im
mediate and important results of the
European war and the stagnation of
shipping. The American Druggist and
Pharmaceutical Record, in its issue pub
lished recently, says that shipments of
nearly all the principal botanical drugs
from Europe, Asia and Africa have
ceased, and that stocks now here arc
commanding extraordinarily high
prices. That journal says:
“The general European war haB found
instant re(iet4jon >n the drug markets
of the world by halting gathering an,'!
shipping operations abroad at a time
when 7C> per cent, of the European bo
tanical drug crops Were being harvested
and when Asiatic atul African drug
crops were generally awaiting ship
ment through the Suez canal and Medi
terranean Sea. Even such European
ports as have not already been shut off
are not shipping their principal drug
commodities, because of the prohibitive
war risk marine insurance rates, the
danger of seizure by war vessels, and
the refusal of the banks in these
centers to discount bills of lading as
hitherto.
“Glycerine, potash, saltpeter and car
bolic acid cannot be shipped under any
circumstances, ’ as they are deemed
‘contraband of war. ’ The prices of these
ami many other chemicals have been so
much affected by the war that no quo
tations are made on them at all. Most
of the German synthetic preparations
have advanced in price, and all quota
tions are mode subject to change with
out notice, no contracts of any sort for
future delivery being accepted, whether
on chemicals, proprietaries or botanical
drugs."
The United States, as the largest
drug-consuming (though the smallest
drug-producing) country of the world,
is naturally suffering more than any
other country from the cessation of
shipments from Europe, Asia and Afri
ca, and its consequent inability to re
plenish supplies on this side of the At
lantic, which are now depleted at the
close of the old-crop season. America
produces few drugs and allied commod
ities of any consequence outside of cas-
cara, sagrada bark, fir balsam, saw pal
metto berries, golden seal root, senega
root, ginseng root, peppermint, spear
mint and tansy oils. In addition to hav
ing its supply of foreign-grown drugs
cut off, the United States is now una
ble to ship these few drug products of
its own to consuming countries in Eu
rope and Asia. Already inconvenienced
greatly by the difficulties attending the
shipment of Mexican vanilla beans,
chicle, jalap root, Tampico sarsaparilla
root, and the so-called “American” saf
fron flowers from Mexico, because of
the continuance of revolutionary activ
ities in that country, the drug market
of the United States has now sustained
a “knock-out” blow by being deprived
of both import and export facilities.
About the only drugs which can now
reach the United States are those which
arc shipped from Japan, China, India
and other Oriental countries across the
Suez canal. Although the canal will
probably remain open for a long time to
come, shippers of drug products in
northern Africa, Arabia, Syria and I’er-
sia are afraid to risk their cargoes in
the Mediterranean sea; and, in faet, the
fear of seizure and confiscation of all
curgoes, even on the high seas, is grow
ing to such proportions as to curtail
shipments from all parts of the globe.
Unless, therefore, somo arrangement is
speedily made, through Congressional
enactment, for the American registry
of foreign-owned ships, traffic in drugs
as well as other marine commerce, is
likely to come to a standstill.
^ntil cabling and shipping facilities,
which ure now withdrawn, have been
at least partially restored, the United
States will therefore be deprived of new
supplies of many leading drugH. Al
though this shutting off of the supplies
has occurred too quickly to permit of
extensive speculation by domestic drug
handlers in foreign stocks, it is ex
pected that considerable speculation in
existing supplies here will take place
before all American-held stocks are ex
hausted. Meanwhile, extraordinary and
well-nigh prohibitive prices will proba
bly prevail. At the moment, it is im
possible to name a price for any of the
foreign-produced drugH which will hold
for an hour, as market quotations for
ill such articles are being advanced ev
ery minute.
London and Hamburg are the two
great drug markets of the world.
Thomas W. Hardwick.
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 5.—Hon. Thos.
un W. Hardwick, Georgia’s newly-nomina
ted Senator, is one of the youngest Sen
ators who has ever represented Georgia.
Mr. Hardwick is only II years of age,
and has teen in Congress for the last
10 or 13 years.
Another interesting fact about Billy
Hardwick, as he is known to his friends,
is that lie has never been defeated for
political office. He went into politic*
shortly after he became of age, run
ning first for the Legislature from his
home county of Washington. He served
two terms in the Legislature, where he
was the author of the first negro dis
franchisement bill that was ever con
sidered in this State. The first time it
came up before the House of Kcpreaen
tatives it received only three votes
And yet this was the measure upon
which Senator Hoke Smith made his
first race for Governor and won it.
This measure also was at leaBt the pre
•axt upon Whiotl Tjjos. E. WatBon sup
ported Senator Smith in that campaign.
Although it remained for others to car
ry it out, it may be truly said that
Hardwick was^the father of negro dis
franchisement in this State.
When Mr. Hardwick left the Legisla
ture he went into the race for Congress
in the Tenth district, where he has had
several of the toughest Congressional
fights Georgia has ever seen. He won
out in all of them.
There never was a politician in Geor
gia who had more loyal and more stead
fast friends-than Billy Hardwick. He
had friends who stood by him through
thick und thin, and who would have
gone to the ditch with him in his fight
1 hey were at all times eager, earnest
and enthusiastic. They had no second
choice. It was always a question only
of what Hardwick wanted to do to
strengthen his campaign, and they did
it. Sim T. Blalock, of Fayetteville,
dropped into Hardwick headquarters
casually one day when the Hardwick
managers were talking over finances in
connection with the Senatorial race.
“What’s the trouble, boys?’’ lie ask
ed.
“We are just wondering how we are
going to meet the pay-roll,” was the
reply.
Mr. Blalock said: “Toll me how much
you need.”
They figured that it .would take
something like $2,500 to straighten
things out.
“Well, I suppose $3,000 will cover
everything, won’t it?” Mr. Blalock
asked. He was told that it would, and
promptly handed out his check for the
amount. It was an act of friendship
pure and simple. Mr. Blalock’s only
interest in Mr. Hardwick was that Mr
Hardwick had been a staunch and stead
fast friend of himself and family. In
asmuch as Mr. Blalock’s name has been
quoted in the Washington dispatches
as having contributed $3,500 to Mr
Hardwick’s campaign fund, there is, of
course, no special secrecy about this in
cident.
While other friends of Mr. Hardwick's
did not contribute anything like so ex
tensively to his campaign, they were
just as loyal in other directions and
fought for him valiantly whenever the
opportunity arose. It was throughout
a game of politics, and they played it
to the limit.
It is anticipated that Mr. Hardwick
will go in us United States Senator al
most immediately after the forma
State election, which will be held, un
der the new law, on Tuesday, Nov. 3.
If Congress remains in session right up
to December, Mr. Hardwick will go ir
as soon us his commission can be issued
following the State election. ThiB wil
be somewhere along about Nov. Stole.
If the session is not continuous, but an
adjournment is had in October, he wil
take his scat in the Senate when Con
gress convenes the tirst Monday in De
cember.
His entrance into the Senate will
mean, of course, his immediate resigna
tion from Congress, and Carl Vinson, of
Milledgeville, will make the race at once
for the unexpired term in Congress.
Mr. Vinson was nominated for the reg
ular term and following his election ir.
November, would have gone to Con
gress for the firHt time on March 4.
next. His friends, however, anticipate
that he»will have no difficulty in being
elected for the unexpired term. They
believe that this will give him a decid
ed advantage in the matter of commit
tee appointments.
Piles C ured in 6 to 14 Days
Ynnr _ druggist will refund money if PAZO
OINTMENT fail* to cure any caae of Itching,
Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Pile* in Sto H days.
The first application give* Ease and Kelt. 60c.
Acute Indigestion.
”1 was annoyed for over a year by
attacks of acute indigestion, followed
by con tipation,” writes Mrs. M. .1
Gallagher, Geneva, N. Y. ”1 tried
everything that was recommended to
me for this complaint, but nothing did
me much good until about four months
ago I saw Chamberlain's Tablets ad
vertised and procured a bottle of them
from our druggist. I soon realized that
l had gotten the right thing, for they
helped me at once. Since taking two
bottles of them 1 can eat heartily with
out any bad effects.” Sold by all
dealers.