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The Pembroke Journal
F. O MILLER EDITOR
and First District Press Association
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Entered at the Poetoffice in Pdmbroke,
Oa., as mail flatter of the second
class, under Act of Congress, March
2,1879.
Official Organ of Bryan County and the
City of Pembroke.
Published Weekly at Pembroke, Ga.
Talmadge Will Be
The Man To Beat
We can’t say who will be
Govenor, of course we have our
idea who will win in the primary
this fall, but there is nothing sure
about that.
But we will bet our bottom
dollar, and that is about all we
have left, that the next Governor
will be Eugene Talmadge, or that
Talmadge will come so close to
getting it that it will not be com
fortable for the man that does
win.
Unless something out of the
ordinary happens, we do not see
how they can keep "Gene” from
winning in a walk.
There is no doubt but that
Columbus Roberts would make
the state of Georgia a fine Gover
nor, in fact an outstanding one,
but whether he can b« elected
with public sentiment favoring
Talmadge like it does, is more
than we can say.
We would like to see Roberts
as Governor.
There are others that would
make the state a good Governor.
One of them is Abit Nix of Athene
but we do not believe he has a
ghost of a show.
Jim Gillis would make a go^d
Governor, in fact he is the only
one connected with the pt esent
administration that we could sup
port at all. As for John Spivey?
Roy Harris or Deen, they just
don't look like gubernatorial tim
ber to us
Lint Miller is a good man, but
we think he is a better small
town banker than he would be a>
Governor of the great state of
Georgia.
In fact the people have just
about become fed up on Miller
and Rivers both. The quicker
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both of them get back to a nor
mal life of a small town lawyer
and a small town banker the bet
ter it will be for the people of
Georgia.
A Great Georgian
Lest we forget some of the thing
that we should know about a real
man, not because of the historical
crisis with which he was so closely
, connected from its beginning to
its close, but beause of the man
himself, let us review briefly the
life and career of one of Georgia’s
greatest men. Not that I shall
try to memorialize him here, but
that we may be inspired to turn
back the pages of history some
sixty or seventy years and reread
for ourselves and catch a new
vision of this man who had the
courage to live on and to stick to
his philosophy, reaching upward
to higher and better things.
The man that is here being con
sidered is not to be remembered
because of his peculiarities, not
because he twice challenged men
to duels, not because he was a
• bachelor son of a great state, not
for his philanthropy, not for his
i dynamic mind, but the way he
used it. How heroically he stood
to the last man striving with cool
ness of mind, clearness of vision,
forcefulness of argument to avert
a great crime against scoiety, to
save the newly settled country
from internal strife, from sorrow
from regret, from wa , from ulti
mate ruin.
He was almost a skeleton of a
man, never knowing anything a
bout life without suffering men
tally and physically. His weight
never topped a hundred, yet he
lived and worked three score
years and ten for the continuity
of his country.
He loved America and constitu
tional government as few mea
dare to boast. He served in his
State Legislature, in the Congress
of the United States, in the Vice
Presidency of the Confederate
States, lastly in the Governor’s
chair bf his own State.
The man that we are thinking
of was a physical san of Georgia,
but first in his heart he was an
American, secondly a Georgian,
thirdly a Confederate. He was
in the Congress of the United
States while the battle of seces
sion were being fought. It was
his purpose to mollify the wounds
of the contending parties and to
prevent the terrible act. In this
fight he was a“Ca tor unsupport
ed by his Pollux". His collea
gues were all against him Whil«
he was a champion of constitutio
nal local government he could
not see tha South in all its glorv
perpetuated under a separate
government from the United
States, but he saw on the heels
of it what came in its devestating
and ruinous power- war.
But with ail his eloquence he
was unable to prevent his beloved
State from following her sister
States of the South from the
Union. The delegates are on
their way to Montgomery to
form a separate government. On
the special train that is belching
its smoke into the air over a
happy but blinded Southland is
this venerable Georgian. While
the delegates know that he was
opposed to the secession of the
Southern States from the Union,
they are unanimous in their ef
forts to have him become the
President of the Southern Con
federacy. But he said to them—
" Gentlemen, this is the child of
your braiu, I have been opposed
to secession, have fought it with
all my power. You have wanted
it pleaded it and worked for it.
Now that you have it you must
nurse it.
I will not accept the Presidency
of the Confederate States."
After reaching Montgomery all
the delegates from the States that
are now succeded want him to
be President, but still he refused
A separate government has a
risen and fallea now. This mas
ter mind of Georgia is again in
the Congress of the United States.
It is only a short time since he
was released from a Federal pri
son but he is working now with
ail his might to bring order out
of chaos.
Then there is a special session
of Congress for a special purpose
A valuable painting of Abraham
Lincoln has been presented to the
Congress of the United States.
The speaker selected for this oc
casion was this Georgiau. The
whole assembly, iucludit!^ the
gallery, were deeply touched by
bis ringing appeal foa liberty and
for the Union.
When he made the acceptance
address in behalf of the Congress
of the United States he was an
invalid. He was rolled onto the
Senate floor in his rolling chair
but be is the Governor of Geor
gia now, still an invalid.
An invalid because he attempt
ed to open a heavy iron gate that
would not swing. He placed his
hand on it, gave a pull and the
gate fell on him injuring his hip.
He died while he was Governor.
His last expressions conveyed to
those about him that his subcon
scious mind was in Congressional
entanglements. Who was this
great Georgian? He was Alexan
der H. Stephens of Crawfordville,
Georgia.
H. G. Va > Brackle.
BIDS WANTED
Bids will be received by the
County Commissioners on the re
gular second Monday in April
1940, for the following articles, all
items are given in approximate
amounts desired, but in submitt
ing bid it is agreed that more or
less are to be purchased at the
same prices, and the commission
ers reserve the right to reject any
and all bids, reject any item or
items in the bid submitted and to
purchase any one or all articles
from one bidder. Only articles of
cl he quality specedifiare to be re
eived, no substitutes accepted.
500 pounds D. S. Bellies No.
30-35 lbs.
3 bbls flour Standard Patent
2 cases Tomatoes No. 2
1 case of tall pink salmon
1 case Sardines
1 case Pork and Beans
3 sacks of whole grain rice
100 lbs Sack of Salt
1 sacks corn meal.
1 sack of Black Eyed peas
1 sack of Baby Lima Beans
25 lbs Cup Quality Coffee
2seven lb.caddys B.M. tobacco
6 dartons of Buglar tobacco
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GEORGIA’S STORY WINGS ITS WAY I
OYER ALL THE WORLD < I
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7 OPIES of GEOBGIA on Ihe MARCH’
have Miccn sent do deus of thousands in every
state in <he I nion and do thirty foreign coun
tries ... from Palestine Io Puerto Rico. Vene
zuela to Renmark. from Africa to Yugoslavia
More than 60.000 copies of our 48-page,
profusely illustrated booklet, “Georgia On
the March,” have been printed to supply
the demand of Georgia people —for their
own use and for th?ir frierds in other
states and countries.
'A ithin one week after we had offered to
send it to names which you sent us, it had
been mailed, in increasing numbers, to
every state in the union and the District
of Columbia, Hawaii, Alaska, Cuba, Mex
ico and many points in Canada. Since then
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it has gone —at your request —to people
in Australia, Brazil, Africa, New Zealand,
Canal Zone, France, the Philippines, Eng
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Venezuela, Holland, Germany, Denmark’
Switzerland, Sweden, Scotland, Colombia’
Yugoslavia, Japan. Newfoundland. Straits
Settlements.
Requests are still coming in—books are
still going out — thanks to your fine co
operation in this effort to help keep
Georgia on the inarch.