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HUD COM™ ESTABLISHED 1877 Official Newspaper of the County Published Every Friday —BV— GEORGE M. NAPIER (For the Napier Nutate) N. C. NAPIER B'.iutoh an»M anaumh Subscription Kates One Tear fl 00 Hit Month* . 00 Three Months. .. 00 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. ~ ■■■ - 1 . "*— l 1 - ■ —— 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 >— before * r A VARNELL I HARDWARE COMPANY I Corner Main Street and Rossville Avenue | O g On Account of ♦ S REMOVAL ! O _ TT 4 owe Have Some Snap Bargains o V A * in . « * * | Studebaker Wagons I I Babcock Buggies ! s and Harness ! * at $ o o 5 Our New Store o 1009 Market St * o Chattanoooga, Tenn. o I Gillespie=Ford Company | I _THEJBUSINESS*1 1 M The Business of our Out- ■ m of-Town Patrons receives I m our most cordial attention. ■ I [AVENUE BANK & TRUST CO. I \ W “THE BAM THAT FUT SAFETY FIKST ’ I 1 ml Street BrancN—RoaavMa. Ge.-Tsnn. > ■ ICE 0 Phone your orders for ice in any quantities to Spencer Bros. 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. FRESH MEATS OF ALL KINDS LaFayette - - - * - - Qeorgto American Fie/a Fencing 4l inch fabric 21-4 mesh I2c It. j r Tf ft ft X ' 35 teh fabric 2 l-4 mesh lie It. ] | |j m 30 inch fabric 21-4 mesh 10c ft. i —H —[t| i— -I—j—|—|—|—|- —p..L. All kinds of Iron and , Wire Fencing and Gates ----- --f or all purposes; also Sharpies Separators and Cycle Hatchers. T. W. BROWN - <& BRO. 1135 Market St. Chattanooga, Tenn.