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ESTABLISHED 1877
Official Newspaper of the County
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GEORGE M. NAPIER
(For the Napier Nutate)
N. C. NAPIER
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Democratic Nominees
For Governor
HOKE SMITH
For Congress
GORDON LEE
For Judge Home Uircpit
JOHN W. MADDOX
For Representative
H. F. THURMAN
For Clerk
K N. DICKERSON
For Sheriff
A. Q. CATRON
For Tsx Receiver
C. B KZELD
For Tax Collector
KOBT. MARTIN
For County Treasorer
JIM DECK
For Couuty Surveyor
W.O. BAGWELL
For Coroner
U. M MALLICOAT
For Oonnty School Commissioner
R. D. LOVB
For County Commissioners
JOHN B. HENDERSON
J. M. RANSOM
R. B. SHAW
J. C. YOUNG
J. V. JOHNSON
ANNOUNCEMENTS
For Congress
Oartersvilla, Ua., Ang. 8, 19)0.
To the Voters of the Seventh Con
grestnonal District:
‘ I hereby annonnco myself as a candi
date for representative from the Seventh
Congressional district subject to the
election to be held in November of tne
present year.
If elected I pledge my every effort to
wards the material development of this
district through governmental aid.
I solicit your consideration o! my
oandidaey and will earnestly ask for
yoor support.- Walter Akerman.
Far Representative
To the Voters o! Walker Caouty:
1 hereby annonnoo myself a candidate
for the legislature from Walker oonnty,
subject to the October geueral election,
IWIO. I earnestly solicit the support of
every legal voter. If elected. I will
earnestly endeavor to represent the in
terest of all the people of the county.
Good roads and good schools will be a
pu:t of my platform.
Respectfully,
FRANK A. CRUTCHFIELD
For Sheriff
l hereby announce myself a candi
date for sheriff of Walker county.
James Loughridge, of Rock Spring dis
trict, will be my deputy. I will ap
preciate the snptwrt of every Voter in
the couuty. Election Got. 6, 1910.—R.
W Coulter.
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Now for the Comity Fair.
The cyclone passed bat it came
from a direction different from what
had keen predicted.
While good min were de'eated for
county othac, good men were elected
aui the affairs of the county will be
m safe and capable hands.
With something like 20.'5 voters
participating iu the primary out of
a regulation of 2WX), it would
seem that tne old county is safely
democratic,
Tbnt 1153 majority given Gordon
U*e must spell that road from D.ivis
X roads to La Fayette. And those
east side side iuij iritiea must mean
that those counties have faith in
Lee and the Johnstou-Bherman high
way.
The Messenger regrets that Hon.
G. R Hutchens of J’olk, was not
re elected as prison 0 <mn issioner,
for we feel that his labors on the
commission deserved an en iorsement
and wat- a; p iuted to an
uot spire 1 term we thought i e had
sn additional claim to this honor at
tLc hands of tie people of the state.
Dairy Products as Food
The products of the d»iry are
perhaps the most useful articles in
clude 1 in tie human diet. A meal
made up of dishes into which no
product of the dairy cow enters
would not be such as to inspire “the
turnpike road to people’s hearts I
find lies through their mouths, or
I mistike mankiod." Take away the
butter lor the bread, the cteam for
the coffee and the porridge, the
shortening in the crust and the bis
cuits, the milk in the gravy and in
the puddings, the cream for dessert
and the various kinds of cheese
which please and satisfy, then take
away the cup of milk for the little
one and the meal that would be left
would be neither tempting nor nu
tritious.
The health of our people depends
so much upon an adequate supply
of pure dairy products that even a
scarcity is always attended by suf
fering and death.
Butter is sometimes referred to as
a luxury. This is a mistake. Butter
is not a luxury but one of the neces
sities of life, and its composition is
such that nothiog can take its place
and perform the same functions. It
is nature's product compounded in
the maternal organism and the pro
cess is in accordance with nature's
law, a law which mao can imitate
but oaDnot understand. Man cau
manufacture from various fats and
oils a substitute for butter but it
cannot take the place of nature's
product because man cannot under
stand the needs of the human Lody
as nature understands them.
The animal body is developed
best when nourished by foods which
have been little manipulated by man
and machinery. Dairy products are,
as a rule, consumed neaily as nat
ure produced them. This is particu
larly true with milk upon which the
growing body must depend. In the
case of butter only a smail percen
tage of other products are added to
the fat extracted from the milk.
Man only manipulates it in order to
put it in convenient shape for use
It can still be termed a product of
nature designed as only nsture can
design for use as food by the human
body.
The Sort Qf Immigration We
Need
We are of the opinion that tho
South does nat need more laborers.
We already have too many for the
work there is done. In fact, one half
the men who do farm work could do
more than all now do if properly
equipped and directed. We have too
many laborers and too many “bosses"
and overseers ADd idle proprietors
already. What we need is more work
ing owners; men who will own land
and direct the farming of it them
selves. We need more farming in
person and less by proxy.
We need men with some means
and much industry who will buy
land, give it their personal attention
and build comfortable rural homes,
but before these will come in large
numbers there must come a change
over public sentiment as represent
ed by the most prosperous of our
white population. The farmers with
small means who are going by the
thousands each year into the Cana
dian Northwest are not going to the
cold climate of a foreign land in pre
ference to the hospitable Southern
climate of their own country, for any
other reason than that the spirit
which always attracts immigrants
calls them. It is that spirit which
says to the desirable citizen: Gome
among us. become one of us, share
fully with us the rights of American
citizenship, and join hands with us
in developing and building up our
common country." The desirable
immigrant respond* only to the call
which assures him a full share and
equal part in all that constitutes the
life of a prosperous and homogeneous
rural people. There must be no
I "strings" to the proposition, no re
servations, and no assumption of
j prior or superior rights on the part
of any class or part of thfc popula
tion.—Raleigh (N. C.) Progressive
1 Farmer and Gazette.
Walker County Messenger, September 2, 1910
CONGRESSMAN LEE
(Chattanooga Time*)
The people of the Seventh Georgia district have reaffirmed their con
fidence in and eßteem for the Hon. Gordon Lee by rending him back to
congress for another term by a complimentary majority. The significance
of Mr. Lee’s victory is heightened by the fact that he was opposed by so
good a man as Hon. Moses Wright, an elegant gentleman and a conscien
tious public servant, and by the further fact that be had agreed two years
ago that he would not voluntarily become a candidate at the time. A
great many people, of course, voted for Judge Wright because of Mr.
Lee’s agreement, but a majority of them took the view that he had no
right to make such an agreement, and voted for him notwithstanding.
As a matter of fact Mr. Lee should have made no such agreement,
and probably will not do so again. He has made himself invaluable to
his constituents and it would have been a public loss to have substituted
a new man for him, just at a time when several matters of prime
importance are demanding the attention and influence of a seasoned mem
ber. This is probably tne consideration influencing tbe people in their
vote.
Judge Wright gave a most CDmmeudable example of public virtue
when be surrendered his commission as a judge before entering a political
race and we have no doubt the people of his section will hold his action in
favorable remembrance for future reward.
Mr. Lee is one of tbe section’s valuable congressmen. He is in sym
pathy with all the progressive projects suggested for the benefit of his
district, chiefly in respect of his advocacy of a nationvl highway between
Chattanooga and Atlanta commemorative of Sherman's historic march,
and of effective efforts in behalf of a brigade post at Cbickamauga park.
Chattanooga, as well as Njrth Georgia, wil 1 , therefore benefit by Mr.
I-ee’s re election.
RELIEVED
The primary last week relieved the suspense of hundreds of the peo
ple of Walker and gave answer to a question that kept us on the anxious
seat for many days.
You know Walker countv people are born politicians. And they
know it down in Floyd county, for when the Hoke Smith men cast about
for a man to head the Hoke Smith club, whom should they select but
Frank Copeland, the same Frank that Walker once claimed and LiFayette
owned. The Brown men were just as determined to keep Floyd in the
Brown column and to lead them to victory they chose as their captain none
other than Walter Brown Shaw, also a Walker countian bred and born,
lured off to Rome by glamour of city life.
Now tbe suspense of the people of Walker began when Captain Shaw
issued an address to his forces declaring that victory was surely theirs and
all'that remained forttiem to do to possess the promised land was to walk
to the polls on the 28rd and overwhelm their adversaries. To counteract
the depressive effect of this announcement on his forces, and to keep up
their courage, Frank Copeland also proceeded to prognosticate to the effect
thst Floyd was for Smith by an enormoas majority and that he would,
prove it on the 2flrd.
Thus was the issue joined. And what worried the people of Walker
was whether Walter Brown Shaw, who had always been a truthful boy,
had departed from the George Washington ways in which he had been so
carefully nurtured; and if so, then what wonderful influence in remarkable
Rome had reformed Frank Copeland as we used to know him in the old
d»ys. Ia other words, if Frank CoDeland should be right and correct in
his statement, what had happened to Walter 8., and agiin, what had
happened to Frank W.
The election has passed and Floyd went for Brown by a small major
ity, which leads us to say as a word of consolation to the friends of these
two barristers that if city life has not done them any good, it certainly
lias not done them any harm.
THE ELECTION
The democratic primary has passed and the Messenger would not say
one word that would add to the snug of defeat of any candidate; we only
want to speak briefly of the men whom the people have selected as their
choice for different offices.
Mr. Lee's splendid majority over the district and especially in his
home county must tie deeply gratifying to him, as we know it is to his
friends. As the Messenger 3aid at the beginning of the campaign, the
people of Walker regretted that they had to choose between voting for
their fellow-couutian and their former judge. Mr. Lee, however, -had
done so much for Walker county, and there remained so much we wanted
him to do for us in congress, and believed he could do, that he was our
choice overwhelmingly. Mr. Wright has accepted the verdict of the peo
ple in the right spirit and has pledged his hparty support to the Demo
cratic nominee and his aid in rolling up a rousing majority in November.
In county offices, the will of the majority baa picked good men. Mr.
Thurman has had a number of years experience in the assembly and has
always served the people faithfully and conscientiously. The election
seems to further prove the invincibility of Bob Dickerson, and that the
people want him to have the office as long as he wants it. Mr. Catron
should make the county a good sheriff, and while it will be difficult for
any man to come up to the mark of Bob Garmany, we are confident that
he will make the county a splendid official. Ezell, Martin, Deck are
capable men and their administrations are sure to be satisfactory to the
people, while R. D. Love, nominated for school commissioner, is a young
inau of wide experience as a teacher that should equip him well for his
work.
The nomination of.four members of the old board of county commis
sioners is approval by the people of the policy they have pursued in the
past of putting a bridge at every dangerous ford and also of making spe
cial appropriations for road work in different sections of the county, this
work lieiug doue from count; fund and being in addition to the road
fund going to each district. The commissioners are competent and pro
gressive men aud the county affiirs are certainly safe in their hands.
A SUGGESTION
Bifore another couuty primary shall roll around, we hope our execu
tive committee will work out aome plan whereby the county will be di
vided into five district!, each of these districts to nominate one man for
oounty commissioner, thus making out the full board.
lu Walker this would be easy of solution, because there are fifteen '
districts in the county aud three districts could be grouped together for
each division.
The Messenger has no criticism to make of the personnel of the board
as nominated in the primary; they are good men and able men, yet the
I plan we suggest would assure that each of the five general divisions of
the eonuty —the southern section, the western section, the eastern section,!
i the central section and the northern section—would have representation
on this important board.
There is plenty us time for this idea to be discussed by the people of
, the county and the citizens of Walker are invited to give expression to
I their views of this plan through the columns of the Messenger.
We are continually adding new lines
of goods to our stock and want
you to know that we are in
better position to
you than we havew .x —
ever been >—
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Market, Phone No. 55. Prompt Service and correct weights.
Hicies 33oixgIb_1j
We buy dry and green hides of all kinds. Highest Market
Price. . Bring us your hides.
Spencer Bros.
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