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VOL 22
Carswell Enters Race
For Term As
State Secretary
Having been appointed bv Govern
or Hardman to fill the unexpired term
of the late Colonel S. Guyton McLen.
don as secretary of state, George H.
Carswell, of Irwinton, Ga,, one of the
best-known figures in the public af
fairs of Georgia, has announced as a
candidate for the office subject to
the state-wide Democratic primary
to be held September 12.
Mr. Carswell has served several
terms in both branches of the stale
legislature and for two years was
president of the senate. He is a
prominent member of the Georgia bar.
Announcing his candidacy, Mr.
Carswell indicated his desire and in
tention to seek improvements in the
existing system and method of col
lecting the motor vehicle license tax
so as to facilitate the distribution of
license tags and insure uniform state
wide observance of the law.
His forma] announcement as a can
didate for secretary of state follows:
"Governor L. G. Hardmad having
appointed me to fill the unexpired
term of secretary of state, following
the death of the lamented Hon. S. G.
McLendon, I shall offer for nomi
nation and election to the office in
the September primary and the gen
eral election in November.
"While wholly mindful of the great
importance and dignity of the office
of secretary of state, the volume of
work connected with the office is,
of course, in the proper operation of
Statement of Condition of
IRWINTON BANK
Irwinton. Ga. at close of business March 31, 1928
As called for by the Superintendent of Banks
Resources
Loans and discounts 88,719 45
Certificates of indebtedness
and bonds and stocks ownd 500
Banking house and lot 2,500
Furniture and fixtures 1,740 50
Other real estate owned 7.964 37
Cash in vault and amts due
farm anproved reserve agts 24,243 44
Overdrafts 1,808 23
Total 127,475 99
Georgia, Wilkinson County.
Personally appeared before the undersigned, an officer authorized to ad
minister oaths in said coumy, N. H. Bacon, whb, on oath says that he is the
Cashier of the Irwinton Bank, and that the above and foregoing report of
the condition of said bank is true and correct. N. H. Bacon. Cashier.
Sworn to and subscribed before me. this sth day of April 1928.
R. H. Butler, N. P.
We, the undersigned directors of said bank, do certify that We have care
fully read said report, and that the same is true and correct, according to
the best of our information, knowledge and belief, and that the above sig
nature of the Cashier of said bank is the true and genuine signature of that
officer.
Geo. H. Carswell, I. F. Billue
Directors of said Bank
ANNOUNCEMENT
On account of the demand for Georgia Power Company
$6 Preferred Stock, the Company announces that, v effect
ive immediately, the price is increased from $1 (V sto $lO6
per share plus accrued dividend, and the maximum num
ber of shares which may be purchased for cash by any
one individual has been reduced from 100 shares to 25
shares. The 25 share limit under the time yayment plan
and other terms and conditions of purchase remain un
changed.
Further information may be obtained from any em
ploye of the Company or from Investment Department,
Electric & Gas Bldg., Atlanta. ;
the motor vehicle division, through
which practically §>4,000,000 annually
is handled in collection from the peo
ple of fees for automobiles, truck
and other motor vehicle tags.
"Through my long service in both
branches of the general assembly,
during the period of construction of
the present motor vehicle laws and
the creation of the system of col
lecting these funds, I have a thor
oughly complete technical knowledge
of their purposes and intentions, but
my more recent observation and con
tact with their practical operation in
dicates that the present system is
perhaps not perfect in consideration
of universal equity of facility and
convenience to all the people in all
parts of the state.
“d'hat. some improvement, in the
existing system and methods will bet
ter serve the people as a whole is
my present impression, and it is my
purpose to favor and recommend to
the general assembly such changes
in the present laws as will more equal
ly facilitate the distribution of motor
tags to the general public, more ac
curately insure the use of proper
tags on all automobiles and trucks
operated in the state, and to guard
against the imposition upon those who
respect and comply with the law by
others escaping their share of t his ob
ligation to their state government.
“I want to take this opporunity to
express my grateful appreciation to
the many friends throughout the state
arid to the press of the state, for the
numerous commendatory comments
upon my appointment to the office
of secretary of state. I shall be
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Liabilities
Capital stocl 15,000 00
Surplus fund 3,000
Undivided profits 4,617 36
Dividends unpaid 16
Cashiers checks 1,200 03
Demand deposits 66,61$ so
Time certificates of deposit 37,623 80
Total 127,475 99
THE BULLETIN
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equally grateful for their considera
tion of my candidacy for the nomina
tion in the approaching primary in
September. ”
Speech Made
Alexander Boone
In Public Debate at Young Har
ris. Ga., Feb. 4th 1928.
Mr Chairman. Honorable
Judge, Gentlemen of the opposi
tion, Ladies and Gentlemen:
The question for debate this
evening is a very inportant one.
Resolved that the next Conven
tion cf the Democratic Party
should nominate Governor Alfred
E. Smith of New York for the
Presidency of the United States.
This question is being discussed,
argued, and debated from the
snow capped mountains of
Canada to the sunkissed lands of
Mexico, from the weather beaten
coast of the East to the balmy
waters of the Pacific.
As a representative side of
this important question, I will i
help prove to you that the s
illustrious and accomplished
Governor of New York should be
nominated by the dynamic forces
of the Democratic Party.
First, what are the principles
of the Democratic Party? these
principles are: first, equal rights
to all men, second; Political
Tolerance, in that the minority
must recognize the rule of the
majority, while the majority
must recognize the right of the
minority to think, write, speak
and worship as it sees. fit. third :
Cooperation in the development
of natural resources and indust
ries for mutual benefit. Fourth:
Peace and friendship to all
nations, so long as that peace
and friendship can be maintain-
ed with self respect. Fifth: the
supremacy of Civil Anthority
■ and sixth: that the surest way to
preserve the Union is for thb
Union to recognize the rights of
the States which form it.
Does Governor Smith adhere
to these principles? He has
shown in his administration as
Governor of New York that he
is an adherent to these principles
and a true democrat in every
sense of the word.
Governor Smith has been
elected Governor of New York
four times. The man who can
have the Chief Magistracy of the
greatest State in the Union at
will, the man who can evoke
majorities for or against an
amendment to the State Consti
tution by speaking in favor or
opposition, the man for whom
many republicans cheerfully
throw overboard their lifelong
allegiance to party, the man
whom hostile legislatures cannot
circumvent, when he carries his
case to the people. Such a man
possesses instinctively the art of
government and is a priceless :
servant of the popular will. j
Governor Smith’s administra-
> tion as Gdvernor of New York
> has been one of tae most brilli
ant in the history of New York,
; even eclipsing that of Governor
. Samuel J. Tilden. The brilliancy
of his administration has not
been due to its radicalism, but to
a kind of supremely good humor
ed intelligence and practical
imagination about the ordinary
run of afiaris.
Governor Smith is a glutton
for detail and a master of it. He
is a politician who deals with
persons and facts and ideas, so
correctly and so simply, that he
can preach the eternal verities,
without sounding stale or trite
or verbose.
Around The Year
December is about the same as May
with us in the matter of being deeply
interested in giving our customers the
best service possible.
Dry Goods, Millinery, Groceries,
Hardware, Fruits and Candies.
We can give you famous Goodyear
quality at a bargain price-a bigger
bargain than you will ever get by
shopping around. Before you buy
next time, investigate our prices on
Gas. Oil, Parts. Also Case, Barber
Shop, Rest Rooms in one building.
Drinks from our new Frigidaire are always cold.
E. Johnson
) He cannot be attacked as an
’ alien bent on destroying
> American Institutions or even
i like a revolutionist like the elder
’ La Follette, for example, who
would undermine The rights of
s property and power of the
; Courts.
i Al Smith is not identified
■ with any of the radicalism,
; which causes the American
Defense Society, to shiver so
-volubly, He is not a Pacifist, and
not, what the more ignorant
members of the Senate call an
internationalist. He is against
Prohibition and for Free Speech,
but so has been every
Democratic President from
Jefferson to Wilson and every
Democratic Candidate except
Bryan.
The worst that can be said of
him politically is that he is a
product of Tammany Hall and
that, cannot be said very fiercely
or very sincerely in this genera
tion, which knows that Tammany
is a political machine, no worse
certainly and in some respects
much better than other political
machines. ।
Great cities with their con- :
1 trasts of riches. and poverty,
■ have produced class hatred the
world over. They have done so,
in America. Cheap politician^
of course have sought to capita
: lize this hatred, and if you look
1 at the big cities you will find in
almost either Hearst himself or
an imitation of Hearst, his
nenchman represent the nearest
thing to a bolshevist spirit which
the comparatively benign
American Scene has produced.
The, spirit is denatured, clown
ish and bereft both of the in
tellectual dignity of the hard
dogmag of Lenine and of the
personal courage which Lenonson
implies. It is a kind of squalid,
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i shuffling meanness, composed of
; envy and ambition.
i In New York City the spokes
■ man of this spirit was Mayor
> Hvlan. For seven years he con
ducted a dull, suspicious, hyster
ical and foolish kind of class
war, there was no power in New
York that could stop him until
Smith took the field. Smith al
one could reach the people.
Hylan could reach: Smith alone
could face and return the fire of
the Hearst Press. That he chose
to do so was a supreme test of
his quality. It was proof that
he does not represent a barbarous
uprising, but a social movement
that is reputable in its own righ'.
He holds these crowds as no
man could hold them, He holds
them without the promise of a
millenium, without a radical
program, without appeals to
their hatreds and without bribes,
and doles and circuses, How
does he do it? It is no answer
to say that he has magnetism,
for then you must ask what
there is about Al Smith that
magnetizes the people of all the
cities. The answer is that they
feel he has become the incarna-
tion of their own hopes and pride
, he is the man who has gone as
they would like, but do not
quite dare to go, out into the
great world to lift from them the
secret sense of inferiority. For
Seventy-five years they have be
longed to a secondary order of
citizenship. Perhaps, he will
breach the walls, they have been
tolerated but not accepted.
They have no particular notions
about what Al Smith might do
as President of the United
States, but they have a very
deep sense that their own self
respect depends in some measure
on the admission that Al Smith
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