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BROWN CLAIMS STATE
BY 10,000 MAJORITY
1^‘ge Counties ol State Have
Gone Overwhelmingly tor
Brown.
Returns from all parts of the
a tat 3 received up to the hour of
going to press, indicate prac¬
tically, beyond a doubt, that
Joieph M. Brown ban been nom¬
inated for governor by a majori-'
ty approximating 10,000 votes.
Just what will be Mr. Brown’s
actual majority over Governor
Smith it will be impossible to
state with anything like accu¬
racy until liberal reports have
Lien recei ved from official count.
The counting of the ballots
began at 7 o’clock last night,
with the closing of the polls, but
even at a late hour official re¬
sults had beeu received only
from preciucts where the vote
was small and from a small pro
p irtion of the counties.
There was a heavy vote cast
a'l over the state, and the
8 >unt is proceeding slowly.
All surface indications,
ever, pointed at an early hour
last night to the overwhelming
election of Mr. Brown, and the
dispatches conveying these,
which are presented below,
speak for themselves.
Reports indicate that Mr.
Brown has carried every one of
t le three representative counties
i i the state, with the exception
of Thomas.
Fulton has been conceded to
Brown by the Smith leaders, and
friends of Mr. Brown, with the
official count in progress, place
his majority in this county at
up wards of 2,000.
Reports from Bibb, Chatham,
Muicogee, Richmond, Floyd and
other large counties indicate
that they have been carried by
Bruwn by majorities ranging all
the way from 200 to 2,500.
These figures are, of'course,
unofficial, but are based on the
most careful and
estimates of those who
watched the progress of the elec
tion in these counties, and
feel assured of the soundness of
their predictions. official returns will be
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THE MU . V I- AY NEWS.
SPRING PLACE, MURRAY COL'TTY, GEORGIA, JUNE 5, 1908.
$ 10.00 REWARD! m $10.00
Arrangements have been made for he payment of a reward of $10.00
for information that will lead to the conviction of any man using: or at=
tempting to use money fo influence votes at the Thursday Primary.
Under the rules adopted by the State Committee no man will be declared
nominated if it be made to appear that he has used money or other things
of value to employ workers at the polls, or in advance of the Primary, or
that he engaged in buying votes to secure his nomination. This provis=
ion applies even where the use of money is done by friends of any candi=
date^ith his knowledge.
$10.00 REWARD! $10.00
late in coming in, and reports in¬
dicate that in many Counties
where a large vote was cast, it
will not be known until some¬
time this morning.
The Brown managers claimed
the result last night by over
80,000 votes.
So intense has been the inter¬
est m the race for governor, and
so great the eagerness to get the
vote in that race, that little or
no attention has been given the
contests for other state offices,
and few returns of any value re¬
garding these had been received
up to a late hour last night.
RIVER BEND
The farmers are busy working
their crops and all seem to enjoy
these pretty sunshiny days.
A number of our people at¬
tended the funeral of the late
Mrs. Zona Teasley at River Bend
church, in Whitfield, Sunday.
The funeral being conducted by
llev. O, G. Maples,
Luther Ilenton, of Whitfield,
w'as in the Bend one day last
week.
Misses Etta Hill, and Georgia
Glass, of Pine Grove, attended
the funeral of Mrs. Teasley Sun
da/f^
Miss Florence Teasley spent
Sunday afternoon with Ava and
Francis Biassingame.
Misses Mattie Teasley and
Fannie Williams spent .Sunday
evening with the Misses Hug¬
gins.
Mr. Whitmire, wife and chil¬
I dren and Mrs, Oalahan visited
relatives in Whitfield .Sunday.
Manard Slate and Sam Biassin¬
game visited relatives near Cen¬
ter Hill one day last week,
Mrs. Bartenfield and children
spent one evening last week with
Mrs. Biassingame.
John Moore and John West
visited the farmers parents in
Whitfield Sunday.
Miss Rosa Bartenfield spent
Sunday with her aunt, Mrs.
| Henry,
Frank and Samrnie Blassin
game called on Grover Teasley
Sun(Jay afternoon,
James, Chester and John
Harden were in our burg one day
last week.
The Vote in Murray County in the
Primary by Districts
The primary election in Mur
rev '. i( i?d i»(l very qui/nY, M.or
being less rowdyism than was
ever before known in Spring
Place, yet there was a good deal
of the fiery liquid around.
While there were over two
thousand registered veters in the
countv the vote did not reach
fifteen hundred, the candidates
forjudge receiving the largest,
vote polled, 1,270.
lloke Smith received a major¬
ity of 46; Fite, 188; Maddox, 27;
Brown, 424.
Just before going to prees, a
Town Ball Eighth Bull Doolittle McDonald Shuck Tenth Alaculsy Doogan Total
Candidates Ground Pen Pen
For Governor
Joseph M Brown |S x' C2 25 .: 85 zn too - * CO ol
jlloke Smith SS O 51 S 156 OC <tQ lO -r~ <50
‘Gordon For Congress ■
Lee 278 105 133 71 q 201 i—i L ■ C» C*1 1180
For Judge th gig S i- VJ —
A. W. Fite 192 56 71 2$: . 18*2 30 3 __S
R, J. McOamy 105 51 62 44 114 cn Cl CM oc t - is Tfi o
For Solicitor
3, P. Maddox 1561 53 53 OT J *21 CO co 3 COlS" l».i© -J cv
J, T. For W, 0. Representative Milner Austin 143 m 65 53 86 96 86 43 OtSS w t— 118 85 Cl iccig. ^ __ Si r-t< oo pi
8. A. Brown 178 82 45 45 QFt 200 CO I — —< CO
John Ilenton attended services
at Tilton Sunday,
Riley Huggins and Henry
Teasley was riding through our
burg Sunday afternoon.
Easton Teasley, wife and chil¬
dren visited the latter’s parents
Sunday.
Carl Henton and Tom Holland
are numbered among those who
are on the sick list, but I think
they are improving very fast.
A number of our young people
were out walking Sunday.
Carl and Oleve Bartenfield
were in the Bend Saturday af¬
ternoon.
Miss Belle Moore visited at
j mew-age v$xiH«*ius was received waajarity from Judge fol
.. as
lows: Bartow, 1,050; Gordon,
820; Murray, 188; Catoosa, 85;
Dade, 80.
A message also came from P.
B. Trammell placing McCamy’e
majority in Whitfield at about
400 or*00.
It is estimated that Milner got
1,8X) majority in Bartow; 600 in
Gordon and a small majority in
both Catoosa and Dade, while
Maddox carried Whitfield by a
majority of about 400.
Murray’s vote follows:
the home of Mr, Beach Sunday,
Manard Slate dined with Sam
Biassingame one day last week,
Bonnie May,
CMATSWORTH
The Ice Cream Festival was
a success owing to the crowd and
everything went off so nice.
Mr. and Mrs. Hardy Rhyne
visited relatives in Canton last
week.
Mrs. R. N. Bruce is on the sick
list.
Mr. and Mrs. Cleve Gregory
are the proud parents baby over the
arrival of a line girl.
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Roach are
the happy parents of a daughter.
Miss Ethel Ohamlee, of Spring
Place is visiting at, DeSoto this
week.
, Misses Mattie Hauna and Etta
Harris, of Sumach, visited
iA-vmvj Reo. the<-latter part ..of
last week.
Jim Henley is in Etowah,
Toon., this week on business.
Jim Jackson, of Waleska, Ga.,
visited liagon Barnett Monday.
Our Sunday school is progress¬
ing nicely now. There were 78
present last Sunday,
Dr. and Mrs. J. M. Gregory
have gone to Temple Grove,
where they will spend the sum¬
mer.
Several of our people attended
the closing exercises of Eton
school, last Friday night.
Miss Eula Edmondson, who has
been teaching at Canton, Ga.,
arrived in Chatsworth Saturday
night and spent a day or two at
the DeSoto before going to her
home in Spring Place.
Mrs. J. B. Kelly and son,
Clinton, spent Sunday in the
citv. •
Mines. Lance and McAllister
and Little Misses Dimple and
Bert Johnson were guests at the
home of Mrs. Stafford last Sun¬
day.
D, O. Ogle, of Rome, was m
the city on business last week. |
George Jackson and Miss Ella
Peeples visited Spring Place
Sunday afternoon.
Mr. Grom and wife, of Dalton,
spent Sunday night and a portion
of Monday at the DeSoto.
Jean Vac Jean.
PENNY POSTAGE
ON OCTOBER 1
Between United States and
Great Britain and Ireland.
Washington, June 3.—Post¬
master General Meyer announced
today that an agreement had
been reached with the British
government providing for a letter
postage of 2 cents an ounce be¬
tween the United States and
Great Britian and Ireland, to
become operative October 1,
1908. He stated further that
the British postmaster general,
Sydney Buxton, was making a
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] like announcement to the house
of commons today.
The matter of a “penny
postage” as it is called in
!■ ngland, has been under con
sitferatiwn for some time and as
far back as last July President
lioosevelt approved Mr. Meyer’s
course in urging a “restricted
union with England.” .
On October 1, 1907, the uni¬
versal postal union, which gov¬
erns the international postal
transactions of the various civil¬
ized countries, reduced the rate
of letter postage from 5 cents a
half ounce Hat to five cents first
eunce, and 3 cents for each ad¬
ditional ounce, which is the pres¬
ent rate between the United
States and Great Britian, with
which we have direct steamship
communication, and is also the
rate between the United States
and countries with which we
have to pay an additional charge
to countries through which it*
passes in transit. Under the
articles of the universal union,
however, any two states can form
a restricted union. Examples of
restricted unions are those now
existing which permit a 2-cent
an ounce letter rate between the
United States anti Cuba, the
United States and Panama and
the United States and Canada.
Postmaster General Mey< r
believes that this reduction in
the rate of postage to the United
Kingdom ultimately will result
in an increase in receipts, be¬
cause it has always been found
that a reduction of the letter
rate resulted finally in increas¬
ing the revenue. He is also of
the opinion that a lower postage
will lead to a freer commercial
intercourse.
Manufacturers, he says, are in¬
creasing their sales in England
and must rely to a great extent
upon the mails for orders and in
crease of trade, “Further,” he
said, “this will be a great boon
to our adopted English-speaking
citizens, particularly those of
limited means, as it will enable
them to keep up correspendence
with their relations and friends
in the old country at domestic
rates of postage.