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3. ED. JOHNSON, KOI TOR.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
For Representative.
I hereby announce myself a candidate’ for
Representative and will appreciate the support
of the voteraof Murray comitv. If elected I
will discharge my duties a* your reprcscnla
five, to the very beat of my ability, always look¬
ing to the welfare of our county.
J. C. MclCNTlUtt.
To the voter* and citizens of Murray County;
I am a candidate for the office of Representa¬
tive and respectfully solicit feel your grateful. help awl I sup¬ will
port, for which I will ever discharge of
promise to be fstitltful in the ray
duties. If elected I will be subject if to the action
of the Democratic primary, SAMUKI. any...... I„ TRIMMIKK.
To the Voter* of Murray County: eanutdate for
I hereby announce mvself a (
Representative at the next etisuiitj! election,
cubtect to the Democratic usages, 1 shall appre¬
ciate vein- support, ami if elected will discharge
my duty to the best of Respectfully, my ab lity.
AUSTIN.
FOR COUNTY TREASURER.
To the voter* of Murray County:
I hereby announce myself a candidate for
County Treasurer of Murray comity, if subject elected to 1
ttie action of the Demo-ratic party the
will serve the people of my native county to
best of my '‘’’’^YciIARD r. SPRINGFIHI.D.
To the Voters of Murray fo the Comity: office of county Tr
I am a candidate r primary, eas- and
urer, subject to the Democratic influence.
will appreciate your support and
Yours very truly, BATkS.
OWEN K.
FOR TAX RECEIVER
To the Voter* of Murray myself Comity: ea,ululate tor
I hearby announce a l ax
Receiver of this county, subject of each to the primary, ill the
ami 1 solicit Ole support voter
county. If elected, 1 shall discharge shall my duties
to the best of my ability and try to give
satisfaction to all. Respectfully.
FOR TAX COLLECTOR
I hereby announce myself as a candidate for
rc-.-lection to the office of Tax Collector, will subject dis¬
to the Democratic primary. If elected,
charge my duties to the best Of ni^atiiUty.^
This weather makes a fel¬
low want to go a fishing.
Let’s all go in together
and buy a few hundred gal¬
lons ef paint, and apply about
two coats to our oouses —ev¬
erything else is taking on a
new coat.
A few of the town cows
have formed a society known
as the foraging club and new
members are being added ev¬
ery day. Their object is to
demolish everything that
looks green and they are get¬
ting a very good start. Two
or three will hold down a
young tree in the court house
yard while a like number will
eat the top out. This is true
and can be proven by a num¬
ber of witnesses.
What are you going to do
about this cotton business,
dear farmer ? Are you going
to plant fifty acres and get 7‘k
cents a pound or are you go
ins to plant ' -liT/l 9 c acres and «* "l e t
.) . cents. 11 •-) *• 1 one 0 f ' lc 4
above would be the most
ieal? You are bound to win
out — there is nothing on earth
to keep you from it if you
stick to the latter proposition
and all the world can’t
you losing if you follow the
former. Common sense will
teach you to reduce your acre
age and vve believe you wifi
do it.
This ballot business ’ ,\i n ’t
it a sight how j-oti read about
it in the Atlanta Journal? The
Howell men are too conserv
ative to fool with such things,
They will have enough to look
after in the way of voting
when the real thing comes
around, let alone all this foul
ishness. According to
in the 1 Journal 1 , r from ,• time to
time within the last three
months there has been at least
a thousand elections held in
different parts of the state and
Hoke Smith received about a
hundred thousand votes
told to Clark Howell’s
sand a hundred to one
least. Rut then you mustn’t
taken newspaper for what it
says every time.
A Y(.H su friend of ours had
a habit of reading these little
two-for-a-nickel, hair-raising
blood-and-thunder, wild*and
vvooly west novels. I le had
nbotit , decided , to go west , and ,
have some thrilling experi
ences of his own. He read one
one day that did not turn
exactly to his fancy and
caused him to reflect on what
he had read, and he told a
friend confidentially that he
had decided that there was
not more than half of them
the truth. Believe about as
much , about . . pol ,. tics . a, our ... r
young friend d.d about
novels and you will get irv the
neighborhood of right.
THE TWO-EDGED SWORD OF DIS¬
FRANCHISEMENT.
There are two dist inct phases
of the alleged negro disfranchise¬
ment issue that its most eloquent
champions approach in a spirit
even more evasive and indefinite
than that which characterizes
their utterances on the danger¬
ous question of “subterfuges”
and “qualifications.” Briefly,
they are the train of events that
may be expected when the
“grandfather” and other flimsy
devices expire hy limitation,
throwing the ballot of uneducat¬
ed white and negro out of the
box with rigid impartiality; and,
in the second place, the manner
in which a law of this nature must
inevitably demoralize the
situation in the agricultural
tions of the state and that ,*itu
ution, it must be borne in mind,
is already none of the best.
In Nor Mi Carolina,for instance,
the grand fa tuer clause is t-lu*
main device by which the iliiter
ate white voter is permitted' to
retain his franchise riglits, while
the illiterate negro is disfran
chised. Hut the grandfather
clause” is not of perpetual oper
ution. It expires in etlect lie
cember J, 1908. After that date
the educational qualification will
be the sole test of the right to
vote, whether applicable to black
or white. After that date, if a
white Carolinian cannot read and
construe a section of the Consti¬
tution, he loses his right to vote,
lie can stand to one side while a
negro who may have, through
wealthy Northern aid, enjoyed
superior educational advantages,
comes to the polls, stands the re
quired test and deposits bis bal
lot.
Now, if it were possible
every white resident of North
who wili comeof voting
December 1, 1!M)S. to
obtain an education between the
present date and that one—the
arrangement would he beautiful
its simplicity. But who iin¬
a K' nes Biafc there will not be a
^ lua,, - v thousand illiUrate
thp cksg not piotected by the
0 , 1908'? Every one of them will
lose their votes; that stands as a
proposition, conceding even
for the sake of argument that the
Fnited States supreme court does
not, iu the meantime, smash (he
whole law by ' declaring it
Yet we have had this same
“grandfather clause” glibly pa
raded before the people of
gia, as the most effectual plan
preservingThe illiteratewhite
vote wliUe disfranchising the il
literate negro vote. It it is
.
adopted, it must expire 111
' n fi, e course of a fewvears—; *
and where will . H . leave , the white
voters who have been unable to
qualify under its shaky provis
We are told that this threaten-i
ing fact will be a powerful iu-
THE MULtRAY NEWS, FRIDAY, APRIL20, 1000
centive to the young white men
0 *' ■“'aerifiec every -
t l,iu * for au ^hicatiou, in order
. they can qualify for a voice
in the government of their native
state.
The incentive works both ways.
If is already working in Georgia
such fashion that attendance
on negro schools for the current
year has taken a big jump,on the
strength of mere agitation of the
What will be the re-J
stlIt if } he | usv is ***** an ' 1 * 1,e '
educational qualification t be
^ 1)pc „ tive ,
simply this.
The negro farm hand, in
creasing numbers, will leave the
apd come to the town
the city, where* he van give his
the advantages
cation.
lie is out of politics today—and
hard enough it is to keep him
the plow under even this
Finn. From all over the
tiie cry - for labor is ascending,
# ..... .
)m eyep< it will !)ea
j () q ruw himself, his
jand his children out of the fields
into the schools. In the end
will be a solid array of educated
negroes, defying the “grand firth
er clause” or any other
Don aimed at their political ac¬
tivity.
The “incentive also works in
another direction. As t lie negro
farm-hand and his children leave
the plow and the cotton fields,
the child of the white farmer
must forego his education, and
and take (heplace between
handles left vacant, by the do
sorting negro.
The farmers of Georgia need
no extended argument along this
line. They know of bitter expe
Irieuc.e the scarcity of labor, and
the demoralizedoimditionof even
t | H> snui U jere’entage they can
Yet they are
aa i{ed to multiply their own trou
j \jj eg —expense of their own
eliildren. They are asked to en
j dorse a proposition which holds
.Unger .if ovenUialb UP
franchising worthy white
I( is hardly conceivable that
they wi j) ] en d their aid to a
HC heme rich in such infamous
jyossibillties, when under our ex
j s ting legal system not a single
wJ)ite vote is endangered and the
j t) egro is safely eliminated as a
politicill factor.—Atlanta Consti
Sunflower Philosophy.
When a mother can find work
she can do sitting, that is her
way of resting.
When you bury the hatchet
with some men, for your own
Lection sleep on its grave.
Perhaps one reason why
many people marry is that they
are never called upon to honestly
explain why.
We have seen many a woman
iron a man’s shirt as if she were
wishing she was using the iron on
him instead.
Whenever as many as three
worms get together in secret ses
sion, it is decided unanimously
that men are all better to those
wives who treat them like dogs,
At any rate, equal stiff rage
will never be carried to this
tent; No man will ever sit and
mend nig wife’s clothes
after she is asleep in bed.
Probably one reason
r miniseehees are more interest ,
ing than Mother’s is, if mother j
exaggerated and boasted of the
daring t hings she used to do, her
family wouldn't speak to her.
Everybody seems. to know the
^,,> 1 , gamblers, card enthusiasts
a nd church members meet when
it comes to card playing.
Kvery man talks in an impor
Sundays to
get B G Mail; he hates to leave
town because he misses His Mail,
and all tliere is in it is a bill or
two and a circular advertising a
minimi scheme. 'h If he chances
t( , lw ut 0 me when he opens it,
•*jj us j 1 y t | ie mother will tell
t he children; “don’t disturb
father while he is reading
His Mail.”—Atchison (Kan.)
Globe.
WE
Witt Pat
$6.50
Per thousand
locust pill blanks
delivered at OUT
* - $ .
mill Of! IllC
road at Mollv
Creek' Pecks > bridge.
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BldtlKS . tO DC , OI
(jOOd* SOUfld, a c Spll f
’ '
Black LOCUSt
tlOl SITIflllCr
tllcin . ,
1
*5 4 » .
I = iflCHCS .
16 1-2 inches.
on uOOSIi , u0« «
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J. W. SHELTON, Sup’t.
Fort Mountain, .. P. o O.,
jyj urra y County, G S orgi a
STATEMENT
OF THE CONDITION OF
BUNKING CO.,
LOCATED AT SPRING PLACE, (i.A.
From January 2tth to April fifh, lOOfl
RESOURCES.
Loans ami Discounts lt£78M
, Fur nit fire an A Fixture •isH.lty
Due from Banks and Ra nkers in the State,
Due from banks and hunkers iu other states IHI&H
ennenev i 100 00
'T”'.
Total 2S,a?v».4i
LIABILITIES.
: Cai>i(illsl(K . k ,. ait , m , 15,000.00
in<Vn-K»naihni.ject i- ci>e •). Y2,K bM
hiterest and Discotmt, F-TUH
j Totl< >. i'S.STP.-L*
OF C 5 ' ;<:K ';! A ; C, "’T.' M,1 “ ’ V
tin-cnhutia Bankingo.. »-h.>bcin }; .iniy*«•n.
^u, a t« h; -.n«x-e««iforw-.a.-in
j i)(J „ k>ul - lUt - iM «„.i p,.„,e
) Siwmi A1 to »K >1 *ul»cri*«:4 before mr. Uii* KBi
• ' ’ IH
„ A1;KmV(IO!1 clerl . , s t .
His Reiigion.
Notion's ago, says Harper’s
Weekly, a certain elegyman from
the West was called to a church
in Jersey City. Soon after
the divine’s wife made
the usual visits to the members
of the parish, One of these a
plumber’s wife, was asked by
the-good lady whether the fain-'
dy were regular churchgoer-,
whereupon the wife of the
plumber replied that while she
an d her eliildreii'wore attendants:
a t divine service quite regularly,
Jjer husband was not.
“Dear me,” said the minister’s
“that’s too bad! Docs your
husband never go to church?”
“Well, 1 wouldn’t say that he
went,” was the reply,
“Occasionally Y ill goes to the
Unitarian, now and then to the
Methodist, and I have known
him to attend the Catholic
church. ?5
A look of perplexity came to
the face of the visitor. “Per
haps your husband is an aguos
tic,” suggested she.
When there is nothing for him to
do at one church, there is very
likely sometning for him at one
of the ot her s."
a A Lucky UlK> Postmistress
is Mrs. Alexander, of Gary, Me.,
who lias found Dr. Kings New
Life 1 ills to be the best remedy
she tia- ever tried for keeping
the Stomach, Liver and Bowels
in perfect order. You 11 agree
with her if you try these painless
purifiers who infuse new life.
Guaranteed by 0. C. Cole. Price
2oc.
USE THE BEST
FERTILIZERS!
it, ia of vital importance that the planter and fin mot
shmiid know uhat ingredient; constitute the Fertilizers
that lie lmvs, who has not only the amour.! o; money he invests
in Ins fertilizers, but his year's labor, his crops, and further
more, the support of his family; alt dependent on the resuit ot
fertilizer used.
IT DOES NOT PAY
To invest in a Fertilizer because it i- low in price ami
cheap. There are Fertilizer, on the marset made of cheap
ingredients that have very little Plant hood qualities,
ami at any price—costly, it pays to buy honest Fertile
zers, made (ft honest ingredient, even tlimi^,** h U1 ‘ 1J cos ^
a littW more than the cheaper Fertilizers ottered to you.
Buy reliable Fertilizers, made front slaughter house
prolu. t- , a.O,- 1.1 ...... i„„H,™. ! -»ll matter ingre
dients, that will stand a long siege of drouth and give
sustenance to thn plant when it most needs a hfe-sustain
ing element. Fertilizer* made from Dried Blood, Bone
and Meat Tankage have lasting qualities and permanently
enrich the soil,
Swifts Fertilizers
Are made from ingredients received from large packing
houses of Messrs Swift >.v Co., and the results of their use
by thousands of farmers in the South prove that SYVhl -S
FERTILI/ERS are the best plant food on the market. It will
pay you to give them a trial if you have not already done so.
rtica. Miss., October 11. 1«04.
Swift 1’cUiliz Work- Ailiintn. C.a.:
I have three acres of land here within the corporate l in Us that l
have been experimenting with for the past four years ami trying d ffer
eiit fertilisers I used your fertilizers two years ago and made three
hales of cotton on the three acres: the other lira gears I used other tertili
revs and made two to two find one-hhlf Viates on the same land. This
V eir I am iisiue your OOI.DHN' HARVEST and inakinn five hales on the
same three acres’, i liiitv a nvmlier of reliable farmers in this section are
wnt-hitiK niv pulch preltv close this w ar and they are well pleased
with it. Yours truly, A. K CURiUK.
You may not do as well as Mr. Currie, but after thor
oup:!i investigation we believe that Swift’s Fertilizers will
do more for you than others.
NOTICE.
We offer, as premium, for best 100 pounds seed cotton
displayed at Whitfield County Fair this faii, Two Sacks
Swift’s Hagle Guano. For best bushel corn, One Sack
Swift’s Special Corn Grower, and for best Irish Potatoes,
One Sack Swift’s Special Potato Grower. Cotton, corn
and potatoes to be grown from use of Sw ift’s Fertilizers.
McWKins Bros.
AGENTS,
DALTON 1 GA ’Phone 116.
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.
THORNHILL WAGONS
Are The Best wagons in litis Section.
,
if you need a good wagon and want it very
cheap, be sure and see me before buying.
THOMAS J. BRYANT I
DALTON, GEORGIA.
JOHN
All * I iTOtl c UraV JaCK, Sired by the
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Howard Jack, will stand the
S-vdSOn ell 111 V ULI(Tt, tN\ O 111 11CS
hprillg . PiaCC.
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M} Mv DrifP pilCe i« IS civ SIX Hnlloec GOllarS per SeGSOO ,,
-^ £.13 o|ijv 0 ’ **•* tl G tl ilN V t 1 H 11 i Ill tT ^ r- yOll Gaoc 11631
the COntraTV 1 u IS l,:5 ft ci IHIMalYC.
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M. L. GRICE