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. VOL. 27
Sam Pendley, of Jasper, spent
last week in Spring Place.
Guy W. Adams made a busi¬
ness trip to Tilton Saturday.
J. T L. t Robinson d 1 • and v wife, .. spent ,
Sunday 03 wail ,, her , p«ent . a ,n ■ *5,., W
u n
Hon. Knox Ramsey was up
from Atlanta the first of the
week.
W. T. Swanson was an appre¬
ciated visitor at our office yes¬
terday.
Hon. P. McGhee was an appre¬
ciated visitor at our sanctum
Tuesday.
Mary and Willie Maddox are
here visiting their grandmother,
Mrs. Keister.
Will II Steed of Ringgold.
0t k!l " C " k
Miss Duck Mauldin of Trick
urn, has been visiting
and friends here.
Prof. Bryan is spending several
days in Spring Place in rlie
terest of the Macabees.
Mrs Anniee Temple of (Move
land Term., visited Spring Place
friends during the week.
Kenner and Clifton,
of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Henry, are
both quite ill with fever.
The hall game here last Sat¬
urday resulted in favor of Spring
Place by a score of 9 to 7.
Col. John Edmondson, of At¬
lanta, was tpingling with his host
of friends at the farmers’ picnic.
Hon. Gus Fite was here at the
picnic, shaking hands with his
old friends and making new ones.
George Chain blue and Lewis
Thompson spent Sunday night at
the home of Don Ethridge, near
Dunn.
Berry Carder and daughters,
of Tilton, visited his daughter,
Mrs. Clark, in South Spring Place
Sunday,
Senator Charlie King and Col.
L. F. Peeples, came up from At¬
lanta and spent Sunday with
their families.
E. W. Jordan A Co. and Geo.
R. Wheaton, both, placed large
orders for job printing with Thk
News this week.
Misses Nettie Rembert and
Fannie Leonard, of Dalton, vis¬
ited friends and relatives in the
city Saturday and Sunday.
Mrs. Jennie Steed and daugh¬
ter, Nettie, are here from Catoo¬
sa Springs visiting at the home
of her son, Dr. J. II. Steed.
Sheriff Bill Groves has been
cleaning up the court room, pre¬
paratory for the approaching
term of Murray superior court.
Clerk George Arrowood lias re
turned from a short vacation at
Colmtta Springs,, his health be
ing materially benefited by the
trip.
Hill Ktrshuri ,,„1 f« m iiv nul
^ZnH < W % of Wfn'emL vis t
*,!d relafivfj i , c V
ai a f»\v da vs of (lie
pasrwoek.
Sam Kelly is put tang in a se
lect line of dry goods, at his store
on the corner, which will add
materially to his already
heftsive stock.
Charlie Brown, one of Angus
fa’s “finest”, is here with
family visiting Mrs. Brown's
mother, three miles south
Spring Place
S^SYeVd'T,,;: «o, n.,^r Tilton Co x,;3' i«
,
tliose of hi. neiglihors wlio are
not subscribers during the ensu
mg twelve months.
< diver Steed came down from
Chattanooga and took in the big
picnic. Oliver now holds a re
sponsible position with the South
era Express Company.
Misses Annie Lou Rerubert and
Jessie Leonard, or Dalton, were
visiting the families of Judge R.
M. Gudger and J, E. Johnson
during the past week.
Commissioner . . Sapp, of ..
field county, was a visitor at the
Murray teachers' institute last
Thursday and delivered an elo
quent and interesting address.
\i; aa Timmie Cole has been
circulating an article of agree
ment. f and aii a proposes nmnoses takimr taking no up a a
““[f IhnnId " P Monday if next week
the imcessary number of
subscribers be secured,
THE MURRAY NEWS.
SPRING PLACE, MURRAY COUNTY, GEORGIA, JULY 21 , 1905.
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with her parents in Spring Place. |
T„e Ciiatsworth Undiom-n,
wants fifteen laborers with axes
to . meet , them ., at . ,,, t hatswnrfch . on 1
......„ lly
wages to men willing to work.
Much interesting news is crowd-T
e d out of this issue in order to
make room for Hon. II o k e
Smith’s letter and the minutes j
of the Murray Teachers’ Institute j
Don Ethridge, his little daugb -1 j
ter and Pole Bates, of Dunn, took
their departure this week for a!
short visit to relatives at Gaines
ville, Texas, and other points in
the west. j
Rcv ; \\ ood, who has been vis-;
>f.n*: Sam V Moss am J^miiy- j
r T^i
baptist church Sunday, morning,
evening. i
Willard and Virgil Pendley. of
Hanson, I. T., and Lexington 1
arrivedliere! ,
( respectively, j i
j^-iday () f ] as t weo <y j t| response !
to a summons advising them of 1
the critical illness of their father
but were agreeably surprised
find him doing much better than
toi .....».......
Slight Increase In Taxable Values.
1 lie taxable values in M uri ay j
county for 1005 aggregate the sum
$1,265,111, as against, $1,157,701, ••
a net increase of $107,407 over,
the yeaf i904.
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Date for Cemetery Improvement.
Beginning with this year, Fri-j
day before the first Sabbath in |
A u gust will be annually observed ;
fur the purpose ot cleaning j
and otherwise improving 1’ieas
ant Valley cemetery, i hose m-.
terested will please govern them
selves •accordingly. !
o. I*. JACKson, lrusiee. |
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The News Brings Results. I
Money spent for space 111 'THE !
News never fails to-.m.luee swift. 1
and advertisement sure results. Not appeared long since In j
an Foley’s j
these columns concerning |
proprietary medicines, stating j
that Kelly’s they store. were on Fp sale the at next, Sam |
to
Mondey morning Mr. Kelly had j
received more than a dozen calls i
for it from persons who had read
the ml. Send in your copy.
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Mr ' F ' Vonberz Died Monday
A . haifanooga,
o'"I u ‘ J " ( ...
awa^last ,, Monday , ""Ilfs . Sb I 1
tion had been critical for several :
weeks and the family was not
unprepared . loruieend. , . .... ll(>
, I j 1 ; .
ferment occurred at Die laimiy j
! ot 111 t h< “ W'uetery at t us l> ace,
1 aesday aiiernoon . - pung lace
i *’• “ A * uav mg citaige.
J Besides Die lneuds immihisand ;
the adjacent section pay mg Heir t
reS!)e S F L, "‘fi^ve. Die loilow
g !T , ‘ eH a,i<1 rom J
n, ha< Z™t .
.
, v^n"' v" T M ' i’
Hattm and Nellie \ onheig, JL
A. \ on berg. Mrs. hint A mow
son and Guy Keister.
: Attempted Jail Delivery.
I g.sttD-duy about one o’clock
jglary, j-jart Silver, charged with bnr
broke jail and had Sheriff
Groves not been at homo at the
time he would have made good
his escape. Silver was confined
liu a portion of the jail which L
I seldom used, and was in a cell to
r «r.i, tl,- ..illy rt-ii.-oii tl,,
|'jt ^ ,T'f.i“1
, vvaBHe e Ur ed with a smalt padlock,
and he broke this in some way,
] ea p e dt hrough a window and was ,
n() very grea t rush when the
s j K . r j(f apprehended him some 1
f ew hundred yards away. Si
ver’s escape proved to have been :
however fo/whea 1,0^^
put behind the bars an exam ilia
tion of the large cells was made
and it was discovered that the j
prisoners had cut the bolts on a
h t <)f t!ie top portion for a!
,^ of near f our feet and all
j t } mt j ay between them and free
j d w ' g a favorable opportunity,
! f or they had al«o broken one of
the heavy iron doors from its
hinges and with this as a lever it
would \ u be a simple l matter to -Jj' pry
. tw ,
rivets had been loosed. There
[whites are seven occupants in jail-four 1
and three negroes.
SPENCER DID NOT
ENDORSE EOR HOKE SMITH
Refused , to , D represent , Southern C .1
Railroad . , . in Case .... Where „ Road ,, Cause ,,
s
Was Against State's Interest.
In the last issue of The N'nws vve challenged Hon. Hoke Smith
make explanation in his speech here last Saturday concerning
tai,i publications, alleging that he had negotiated a loan on AVall
for $50,000, it being charged that Samuel Spencer,
the Southern Rattfoad company signed the notes as security.
j$ y reas < m 0 f the fact that I lie ( -otton Growers Association is a
-politieal institution, Mr. Smitheouh! not make.a political speech
lh, ^ Dn*. in «,;.y fc .he printed ...... in
I hk Nk\\s, he ga\ e us the follow mg intomew .
“While l would be entirely justified in ignoring the slander
attacks which have for the past twelve days been made upon
in the Atlanta Constitution, I desire that the people of Georgia
know the exact facts.
“During the past nine years, with a pract ice, including a large
of cases in which I have represented the interests of citizens
railroad companies, 1 have only been employed in t wo cases
which 1 have represented railroads or railroad officers (Jut of
fees collected by myself and my tenner partner, Mr. I. ( . j
r&ursstts
solely for cases in court.
“Soon' after 1 resigned from the cabinet, 1 was retained by Mr.
Spencer to appear as one ot the couu.se i tor the Southern
Railway company in litigation connected with the interest, held by
,Southern in the present Georgia Southern ami Florida Railroad
My employment: was limited to the right of the South- ;
to | l( ,(d an interest in the present Georgia Southern and Florida
Railroad company. '
“The Georgia Southern and Florida ran through middle south
Georgia to Pnlntka, Florida. ■
“This holding was ia my opinion legal. counsel
k » Mr .-Spencer, in November, 1896, sought to retain me as
p )r j j 1(> Southern in connection with its rights to hold stock in the
Central of Georgia Railway company. The following letter from
me j - 0 j,j m explains my attitude on that subject:
\ti,anta, o«.. xov.«, uws.
.
„ v ..« «■-,* i„ Atlanta.ami your
holdiuus in the Central raikoa«(, 1 beg to say; that I have gWcn the subject cardul consideration,
\s \, [ i stilled ^u.io.i lovou, t,. v <..i. if tr 1 t could .:o»i<i reach rwu-h tin- tin conclusion .-aioiusioti that that it it »-as»'«#northe w as Fegal of fot the Soil southern them would to lo.iioiaits hold he.pleased its stock stock to
tn the Cent ml, and that it was not detrimental to the interests the Stale, 1
appear fts its counsel if the letter, certainly ,
“After a most careful investigation _ I an» convinced _ that, not
the spirit, of ibe constitution of file state is violated by this Sodding of tfie Southern, and
t cannot cwxtpo the r-oucluston that the interests of the state will be promoted by the separate
.viine i iituy ‘‘!>!»« .'ii. mL
I has - reached, accept it.
"With assur.ince.s of niy regard, 1 remain, very sincerely yours, “IIOKI*; SMITH,”
t i in January, 1898, t was shown certain agreements which dis
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,.J 0 8ed the fact t hat 1 he Georgia ('entral’s stock was not held by the
Southern Railway Relying “ ’ upon the “ written ; instruments -......
company. the subject, and the
shown me ns being all of the writings on upon
statement 'if' Mr. Spencer that there was no agreement of any kind
p y vv hich the Bout hern Railway company, at any time or in any way,
was to have an interest in the Georgia Central’s stock, I advised
1,jm that there was nothing on fhe the part part of of the the Southern Southern Railway Railway
company, in this matter, involving any violation of law, and I then
accepted employment us counsel in the Dunlap Hardware suit,
pending in the Fnite.il States circuit court at Macon, against the
s t) .without limiting my employment.To the Georgia Southern
'
«"<' TLrida branch of the cu:m.
k i An exam it at ion of the answer filed July 27, 1898, in the 1'nited
States Court for the Southern District of Geoigia by the Southern
Railway company will show that, the Southern Railway company
honied‘that there was any contract, or agreement, or any had,
Ktaiu}ing ()y w |,i c i, * t he Sout hern Railway company lias now
' right, interest control in pf
j )U ^ ()] . i(S e n titled to have any or or Co.’
( )( , rt % francliise or stock of t he (’entral of Georgia Railway
“-j’i,j K answer was shown to Mr. Spencer-on July 26, 1898.
“The question involving the right of the Southern Railway
t . ))m y t() | 10 ]<1 stock in Hie Georgia Southern and Florida
( . ()in p U ny was decided in a case which came up before the
supreme Georgia court of the slate in a bill filed against the Central of
Railway company to prevent it from holding, under aeon
tract of purchase, tlm Middh- < ieofgia and Atlantic and Katonton
, )r . ||]( , h ,\s i )m decision of litis case would settle the right of the
_ Florida
S()||t | |f , rn , l( j )s j Ill( . m i ! K . Georgia Southern and
R :i j|n, a <i company, 1 appeared in the supreme court on account of
my employment in the Dunlap Ihir-dw are company case, and argued
t-h’ime questions of law which were involved Southern in the right and Florida of the |
Southern to retain its interest in the Georgia ;
Railroad company. j
“Jp fJiaf amiment, a copy of which I furnished Mr. Spencer,
i «.»>(] ‘ the fnllnwitl? Ian?uasre* ,’3? ’ constitute
tl ... '* 1 , t0 W i. j tines f in Oeonria nlaces i
where u the constitution would he violated if consolidations take
' place, 1 answer that the Central is a competitor of the Southern,
mvl thc sreal b „| k Of business of Ihese two roods is competitive,.
and lhc “ nslilulio " iorl > i<ls lhcir mmn -
“The decision of the supreme court of Georgia sustained my !
construction of the constitution. of the
“Nobody understood better tban Mr. Spencer'my views .
provision of the constitution of the state which forbade the
idation of competing railroad lines, and nobody knew better than
l>e that I could not be employed by the .Southern Railway company
in any litigation which was in conll.ct with my views ot the consti
"" ‘“Tim ilunlalf Iliniwam ea-e was he dis.uissed’ above without referred a trial, to,
After the supreme court ruled in t case
was clear that the Southern had t tie right to hold an interest in the
Georgia Southern and Florida, and as the Southern denied holding
interest in the Central of Georgia, and supported tins denial
with proof, the parties bringing this actum against the
dismissed their case.
“This is tiik oxr.v cisk i.v wmcix i have ever been hmpi.ovkd bv
7 oi tijekx iuhav.i v compa Sf v, and no position I to < in it conflicted
witl the views which 1 had jefore urged in the thinta
which I still maintain. officials ,
pimininent railroad . .
“Three years ago a mnnber of were
indicted in the ( mted .States court m Atlanta for violations ot the
\nti-Trust Act. The indictments were found ut them
stance of certain cotton merchants. The defendants employed
with other counsel to represent them. These were criminal cases
individuals, not civil cases, against corporations. How ab-
surd it is to suggest that, a lawyer who appears in a criminal ease
approves the act with which his client is charged. The differences
between the railroads and the cotton merchants were amicably ad¬
justed outside of the courthouse, and the cases have been nol
pressed by the court.
“I took no position in these matters at all inconsistent with
the attack which ! now make upon the Southeastern Freight As=
sociation.
“In tlie fall of 1898, more than two years after 1 resigned from
the cabinet, 1 owed in the banks of Atlanta $40,000, for which I
was paying 8 per cent interest. Money was much cheaper in New
York, and l requested Mr. Spencer to suggest to me some person or
hank with whom I could place loan in New York city at a lower rate
of interest. 1 ottered collateral worth four and a half times the amount which
I wished to borrow. (On examining my records I find that I put upas
collateral stocks worth over $150,000 and also $40,000 of life insur¬
ance policies.) He found for me a lender and I got the money at.
5 per cent. I was at the time representing Mr. Spencer in the
Macon litigation.
“The original loan was for twelve mouths with the understand
ing that it could, be extended for twelve months longer if I desired
U. i‘P°n payment of interest 1 exercised the right of extension,
\t
made, I sold a part ot the collateral for nearly four times as much
as the amount of the loan, and on the 16th day of April, I960, l
paid off* the note, which had been sent with the collateral to the
Atlanta National bank at my request. I paid the note in full at.
the Atlanta National bank with money realized by the sale of a
portion of the collateral which had secured the loan,
“Between the time I borrowed this money and the time at
which l paid it off, I never received one cent from the Southern Railway conn
pany or any other railroad company.
appreciate the kindness of Mr. Spencer ill this matter. He
**« safe one. «* I he loan was made solely «»*coi^i-* upon the collateral a. furnished **.
by me. Mr. Spencer did not endorse my note.
“[ saved $1,800 by the transaction, for I reduced interest on
^.|0,0iJ0 for one ami one-half years from 8-100 to 5-100.
“Any suggestion that this transaction affected the course of
the Allan (a Journal , or myself ,, IS . false. ,
“It has also been falsely stated that l paid oil this loan in part
by a fee collected in connection with the failure of the old Georgia
Southern and Florida Railroad company.
“I represented, with Messrs. Dessau Baltimore, and Bartlett, TheMercan
cant ile Trust, and Deposit company, of trustee for the
n rst mortgage bondholders of this road. The litigation lasted about
four years. It ended in 1895. Our fee was $60,000, paid by agree
ment with clients. Not, one cent of it came from local stockholders
or f rom property which would have gone to them had the fee not
been paid. The road was placed in the hands of a receiver by con
tractors. l/i aGLUift. v/ut Our t employment minuy ihgjii had nothing to do with placing the road
t.l»« hands hillluS of of a cl reCBlVCT. receiver. My part of the fee was collected amt
spent _______ ^ before 1 t ..... T 1 resigned from the cabinet, and three years before 1
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obtained the loail ill New York.
“Neither the Southern Railroad company nor Mr. Spencer had
any connection with this litigation. The litigation was terminaled
and the fee paid before I had any business relations with either
Mr. Spencer or (he Southern railroad.
“In 1888-89, Mr. Olive, of Oglethorpe, introduced a bill in
the Georgia legislature, seeking to pass legislation to more fully
provide-for the enforcement of that section of the constitution
which forbids the consolidation of competing lines of railroads. A
similar bill was introduced in 1890-91 by Mr. Berner, of Monroe,
[ supported both these bills earnestly in The Journal. The The Rich- Rich
mond mond and and Danville Danville railroad, railroad, which which had had absorbed absorbed the the old old East East Teu- Teu
uessee, Virginia and Georgia railroad, stretching from Chattanooga
to Brunswick, was at that time seeking to control the Georgia
Central railroad. The object of these bills was largely to prevent
this misconduct by the Richmond and Danville. The bills were
The Richmond and Danville obtained control of the
property, and the property was wrecked.
“I have never changed the view which l entertained when the
Olive anff Berner bills were pending held in the stock legislature, in the and The
Atlanta Journal during the time 1 paper never
expressed tv view out of harmony with its previous position on this
subject, prior to 1896 there had been special
“For several years no oc
for agitation with reference to the provision of the constru¬
tion on the subject of competition between railroad companies, and
The Journal, as well as other state papers, had been practically
silent on this subject lor several years, both before my employment
i„ the Dunlap Hardware company case and before the loan in New
York to urn.
“In 1898, when Mr. Berner was a candidate for governor, and
while I was representing the Southern railroad in the case at Macon,
The Journal took occasion to commend that part of his platform
which demanded the enforcement of thevyrovision of the constituton
preventing the consolidation of competing lines of railroads,
“1 would be now excused from denouncing the numerous slan
dermis charges made against me during the past two weeks in the
Atlanta Ooustitutiou, but 1 pietci^. to let tlie^ tiuth carry its own
condemnation ot those who have unjustly assailed my peisonal and
professional Although charac.or. I have taken to make these facts die, 1
occasion pu
asSUn ‘ onr ,r ‘ end8 tlu ‘ t :l T l,n \ V IT 'IT
!ny purpose to present upon the stump, < face < to face before the peo
pie, the issues of the present campaign *
Id'SSi” 41 .
—i’Lton, WeLtor romity, July »IUi.
“Camilla, Mitchell county, July 25th.
“1 will make other appointments to speak from time to tune.
[ again invite Mr. Clark Howell to be present at any and all of my
appointments. I will divide time with him.
“As to the charge that 1 own a saloon. 1 do Own a one*third
j n hj fes t in the Piedmont hotel blit that bar is operated under my
ingt the sa!e o{ whiskey ani j wi ii be fill [ die. 1
do not get one cent from that bar and never will and never will any
member Of my family be profited by the sale of whiskey. Iheac*
C() „ n t s 0 f |hat bar are kept separate from the aCCOUIltS of the hotel
, J reqU h est and every penny that Comes to me from my interest
-
me Dar is giveii iu uwruy.
"1 shall attack, from one end of Georgia to the other, the rail
road ring which dominates this state. 1 shall expose their methods.
1 shall urge the people to assert their power and to resume control
their affairs, that the burdens from which they sutler may be
removed, but 1 will do this without stooping to slander or abuse.”
Prominent .... among the ,, Dalton T ,
who came over to picnic last
Saturday wore Frank Hardwick
and wife, Sheriff John Johnson,
NO. 32
L Join r Bryant, „ , T> 1 aul , B. ,, T Trammell, ,,
Charlie Evans, Capt lom lee
piesh Andrew Mclntire, John L
libbs^nd Kirk L r .