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KDAY, JULY 87. 1901.
[PRIZE MELONS.
The Herald's offer of oash prizes for
the l trgest and beet watermelons grown
in Nffiithwest Georgia this year is now be.
1m; heard from. In tho.early part of the
seasou it lookod like the melon growors
had either overlooked thn offer or else
didn't think they had any good melons.
Mow. however, tho melons arc coming
lu daily. The cash prizes to be awarded
are:
For the largest melon grown in
Hmthwest Georgia PlO 00
For the second largest 6 00
For the sweetest and best melon,
iiuaiity and not size to be con
sidered t 0 00
Thn oontost will close and the award
of prizes made on tho first of August.
Tlie Sooond Congressional district has
not yet sprang a candidate for governor.
Word comes from Manila that Agul-
naldo Is growing rostlvo under prison
ev.rvrllanoe.
HOW ABOUT THI8I
The notion of the Ohio convention in
lndlreotly repudiating Mr. Bryan and
in making no referenoe to the Demo
oratio platform on whioh the party went 1
before the people of the ooontry in the
lait pretldential campaign has given
rise to an early and perhaps premature
discussion of issues for 1904. Demo-
orats who either snlked or bolted in the
two last presidential campaigns on so-
ooont of the ktand of the party and its
leader on the money qnestion are at*
taohing great significance to what was
done and not done by the Ohio oonven
tion, and are not only olalming its as a
reactionary vindication Jof themselves,
but as an angary of what the party
Hill do In 1004.
The Olevelnnd-Pa'.mer and Bnokner
onltseem to think they are going to
take charge of tho Demooratlo party
now and shape Its policy for the next
campaign, aud that the six and a half
millions of loyal Democrats who stood
by tho party and voted for Bryan are
not to be consulted.
Bat when the repudiation business
begins, where is it going to end. and
what will theso now party leaders give
ns for a platform of party principles?
Bryan must go overboard, of coarse.
Bat when It oomes to ripping np tho
Kansas Oity platform, what then ? Of
oonrse the free silver plauk must oome
up first.
Very well; let ns consider that as
overboard or in the dnrap pile with
Bryan.
Mow, then, before we go any fnrther,
what about the nionoy qnestion? Can
1 it be ignored ? Oertaiuly not. Tho re
publican party will not permit it. Shall
tho new Demooratlo oreed say thn single
gold standard 1b right? Shall a declara
tion for the single gold staudnrd bn in-
corporatnd Into tho rovlsed Democratic
platform ? If so, then tho Republicans
will say It Is theirs and that all the
credit belongs to them. A positive gold
declaration has beou made by the Re
publicans aud will be made again, and
the Demooratlo party iB going toliave to
meet it. How shall it. be done ?
If those Democrats who oonld find
nothing good in the Kansas Oity plat
form and who refused to support Bryan
are given the job of oonstraoting a new
platform under the namo of Deiuooraoy
what manner of thing will it be?
Tho Savannah Press has spoken, and
its voloo is for Hon. Henry G. Turner
tur governor.
Hon. JoeTorrell is saying less than
any of ’em, bnt It is soto to Infer that
lie's sawing wood.
Gen. Clement A. Evans is again be
ing mentioned in tho list of probable
gubernatorial candidates.
Mow's the time foi the different ooun-
tles to bring out their "favorite sons"
for governor.
Tno Angusta Herald says that "if
Georgia will leave the gate open long
enough she will soon have a yard fall of
candidates for governor."
The people of Kansas and Missouri
are in trouble and have turned to ths
Lord. They met in their ohur hes yes.
terday and prayed for rain.
Congressman Griggs has gone to Gum-
herlaud Island with his family. Jim
is not much of a fisherman, bnt he's a
mighty good fellow to have along
The season is baokwnrd and the thing
was late in starting, bnt the Herald
uow receiving watermelons daily in
competition for the cosh prizes offered
by this paper for the largeet and best
me one. .
Brooks is Hon. Henry G. Turner'
home county, bnt tho Quitman corres
pondent of the Savaunali Morning Mews
wires that paper that Col. Estill will re-
oiete the "enthnBiastio support'
Brooks, Berrien and Lowndes counties
The Valdosta Times was one of tho
principal sufferers fiom tho fire that
visited that town on lust Thursday
night, aud the publishers have been
compelled to Bond ont only a small sheet
to preserve the reoord of the paper for
more than twenty-five years of meeting
eveiy engagement with the people. Bat'
the Times will soon be Itself again. It
one of the established prosperous
newspapers of the Btate, and, ei/on
thongh its plant wore entirely destroyed,
the name, franohlse and good will
would still be valuuble property. And
right here we have an illustration that,
the plant of an established newspaper
constitutes the minor part of its real
value as a property. 'Within the next
week The Times will have u new press
ind other neoessary material to take the
pjaoe of that destroyed or materially In
jured by the fire and will he doing bnsl-
ness as formerly and serving Its patrons
as It nothing had happened.
BBANTLEY IN THE BACE.
It requires no eye of prophesv to see
that Hon. W. G. Brantley, the brilliant
and popular representative of the Elev
enth district in Congress, will be in the
race for governor. Indeed, while he
has made no formal announcement him
self, friends who are dose to him have
already placed him in the race aa the
South Georgia candidate. It is also safe
to predict that Mr. Brantley will have a
strong following in North Georgia.
Since the retirement of Mr. dnBignon
his friends in the upper part of the state
who concede that South Georgia is en
titled to the honor of furnishing the
next govornor are looking with
favor upon Mr. Brantley. The. Her
ald violates no confidence by saying that
Mr. Brantley is being strongly urged
by men of well-known political in
fluence in North Georgia to enter the
gubernatorial race. So far as we know,
no other Bonth Georgia man yet men
tioned in the same connection has snch
assurance, of support from North Geor
gia as are boing given to the Eleventh
district congressman. The Herald
does not pretend to be authorized to
speak for Mr. Brantley, bnt we don’t
mind registering the predlotlon that he
will soon be squarely in the race for
governor.
An Atnerloan army officer who has
jnst returned from Cuba says that thn
political parties of that that island “have
the propensities of all Latin races. That
is, thoy cannot have a two-sided fight,
but instead divide np into three or fonr
factions. Thus in Havana there are
fonr parties, each with a different shade
of principles and a different leader.
Among Latin races, as I have studied
them in South Atnerioa, it appears to be
a question of leaders more than of prin
ciples. A now tnan oomes to the front,
with an engaging personality, proclaims
himself a lender and a man of dPBtlny.
and the orowd falls in behind him. The
idea of a battle of principles or of Issues
as brought to them from the United
States is new to tho Cubans, and I be-
lleve it will take them many years to
aooostom themselves to it."
The editor of the Herald was "in
clover" yesterday. Peace and plenty
surrounded him for one day. He had
peuclies, watermelon, grapes and toma
toes, all of which had been sent in by
kind and thoughtful friends. Million
aire Rockefeller or J. Piorpont Morgan
may have had all these things, and
more, hut we donbt whether they en
joyed them as mnoh or got half as mnoh
pleasure out of their existence and sur
roundings ub this humble Southwest
Georgia newspaper man did out of l.is.
Anyhow, we wouldn’t leave Albany
and the good people of this oity and sec
tion to exohange plaoes with either of
them. .
The stationary firemen whose strike
olosed down many of the Pennsylvania
mines several days ago have had their
oolors trailed in defeat. After u con'er-
enoe with the executive board of the
United Mine Workers yesterday, it was
decided that the striking firomen would
return to Work Immediately under tho
old terms, if the oonl companies would
accept -them unconditionally. The
stationary firemen were doomed to fail
ure from the first., for there are too many
men in the country willing and able to
fill their plaoes for them to have any
ohanoe of winning.
of
Thu United States government has
decided that the watermelon is a fruit
aud not a vegetable. The dooision was
made by a general board of appraise
ment cm a case arising upon the right to
import melons as vegetables. The board
declared that "tlie melon is known
technically, popularly and oommeroially
as a trait and therefore dutiable."
With this decision the United States
Department of Agriculture coin
cided, a ad, of oenrse, muskmelons and
cantaloupes enjoy the same general dis
tinction.
Hon. Charles A. Towne gives Provi-
denoe the oredit for settling the silver
queetlon. He says in an Interview
“Oar position on free silver In 1800 and
1900 was misunderstood. We were not
demanding more market and profit for
the silver mines, bnt more money for
the oountry to keep up prioes. God, in
His wise provtSenoe, has provided a vast
increase in the snpply of gold and today
there is moie money in the couutry
than there would have been if the gold
supply had remained stationary aud the
mints had been opened to the free coin
age of silver. So long as tho present
ooudition continnes or the supply of
gold continues to iucreuse there cun be
no suooeesfnl or serious demand for the
free ooinage of silver, aud oertainly that
demand cannot again be made no issue
in a national campaign until there is a
big ohange in industrial or financial
conditions."
Hon. J. L. Sweat has token time by
the forelock and announced that he will
be a candidate for Congress to succeed
Hon. W. G. Brantloy in the event of
the latter's resignation to beoome a can
didate for governor.
Gubernatorial mushrooms yet unborn
will melt away in the next spring thaw
tog.
IS THE GEORGIA WATERMELON
DETERIORATING!
Is the Georgia watermelon deteriorat
ing? That is a qnestion we have heard
asked many times daring the last few
years, and one that usually receives an
affirmative answer.
Without doubt tho melons now raised
throughout Southern Georgia for ship
ment and for home consumption are In
ferior both in size and quality to those
produoed in years past, when the finest
speeimens In the world were raised
heroabont.
The late Primus Jones, of Baker
county, was the original mammoth
watermelon man of this seotion. Hede-
veloped on his plantation the "Jones”
melons, whioh beoame famons through*
ont the country for their great size and
inootp parable flavor. Ho distributed the
seed over many states, and for several
years Join's melons were the delight of
trackmen and small farmers. The rind
was too thin, however, to permit of their
shipment to the big markets.
Bnt during the lust three years fine
watermelons have been at a premium.
The time is well remembered when
there passed through the streets of Al
bany wagons loaded with dozens of
melons weighing from 85 to 59 pounds
each, and sometimes even more. They
were in great demand and commanded
fanoy prices; bnt we see them no
more. Even the melons that are raised
for shipment grade up awuy below those
that formeily went North front South
Georgia points.
Why is thiB? Various reasons are ad
vanced. One is that growers no longer
pay to fertilization that carofnl atten
tion which its importance demands, bnt
uso either commercial fertilizer or sta
ble manure with indlsoiiminate reck
lessness, paying too mnoh attention to
the saving of a few dollars uud the
hastening of the crop's maturity. It is
well known that unless watermelons
are fertilized properly their quality will
be poor; and qnulity is something to
whioh growers are paying less attention
than to early maturity.
The time has ootue when onr intelli
gent farmers and melon growers will be
obliged to turn their attention to the
improvement of thfi grade of the Geor
gia watermelon. It is too important to
bo allowed to deteriorate. That it oan be
improved is certain, aud it is impera
tive that the matter be not neglected.
Care in planting, fertilizing, cultivation
and last, bnt not least, in the selection
of seed must be observed. We can't af
ford to let the Georgia watermelon “ran
down at the heel."
HON. H. 6. TURNER FOR GOVERNOR.
From last Friday's Herald.
Tho Herald gives prominence this
afternoon to a communication from
Oapt. John A. Davis, of this city, sug
gesting that, in view of the retirement
of Hon. F. G. duBignon, the people of
Sonlh Georgia nnite on Hon, Henry G.
Turner, of Brooks, as their candidate for
governor.
There are thousands of good people
throughout Georgia who will agree
with Capt. Davis that the retirement of
Mr. Turner has been a Btate and
national loss, and that the time now
seems ripe for bringing him out from
that retirement.
People all over the state recognize the
faot that South Georgia ib entitled to tho
honor of furnishing the next governor,
and if the people of this part of the
st ate wonld unite on such a man as Mr.
Turner hiB nomination and election
wonld be assured. No Intimation haB
ever come from Mr. Turner that be has
any deaire to return to public life. So
far as even his closet friends are aware,
hi is entirely content to remain in the
private walks of life into which he vol-
n ntarily retired several years ago. It is
also well known that he is a man who
has high regard for the ' ‘proprieties,
even lu politics. It neod not, therefore,
be expocted that he coaid be induced to
enter into anything like a scramble for
the governorship or any other office
within the gift of the people, bnt, at the
same time, it is not probable that, in
view of existing conditions, he would
tarn a deaf ear to the call of the people
who have honored him in the past. It
is, therefore, for these people to say
whether Mr. Turner shall emerge from
his political retirement and become a
candidate for governor or not. It is
Bate to say that if Bonth Georgia is to
name the next governor there Is none
who would givo more eminent satisfac
tion to the people of the state at large
than Mr. Turner.
The inflnenoe of tho oratorioal feature
of the Georgia Chautauqua, inaugurated
at the instance of Col. J: W. Walters
last year, and since made permanent, is
spreading. We see that at the teachers'
institute reoently held at Plains by the
teachers of Marion, Snmter, Macon and
Suhley counties, an oratorioal assooia.
tion was organized for the purpose of
onltivating the art of oratory.
Daring the stir precipitated by the re-
tlrement of Hon. F. G. dnBignon from
the gubernatorial race the newspapers
have been nnable to reaoh Hon. J. Pope
Brown and get an expression from him
on the situation and aa to yyhat his own
intentions are. The Maoon News got a
hearing from Mrs. Brown yesterday,
and it read; "Mr. Brown is siok iu
bed."
Iu Kansas everything is subservient
to the harvest. At Oolby a harvest
hand was convioted of a crime whioh
carried a jail sentence. His employer
appealed before the judge and said that
as he needed the man's servioee in the
wheat field he would l'ke to have the
sentence deferred until the September
term of oourt. The employer's request
was granted.
The Washington Post says; "We
are glad to know that Aguiualdo’s ef
fort to corrupt tho Demooratio party
met with snch un iguominions failure.
It is most gratifying to feel that the
gentlemen who were in oharge of the
Bryan campaign last year wonld rather
be pore than be pap peddlers.”
Shall the people of South Georgia get
together and name a winning guber
natorial candidate at u time when those
of the balance of the state seem willing
to have them do it?
Oapt. Evan P. Howell is after the
members of the city council of Atlantu
who appear to have been qneered on the
snbjeot of franchises for street car lines
in the Capital Oity with a sharp stick.
When yonr nncle Evan gets stirred np
be says things and oalls a spade a spade
One advantage which Hon. W. G.
Brantley has over any of the other gen
tlemen in Sonth Georgia who are being
mentioned in the gubernatorial race is
that the politicians of his dlstriot who
want his preseilt job will do all they
can to shove him along.
Judging by what little experiment
has been made on that line, we are
oiearly of the opinion that if we could
be visited by more of the Onban leaders
and have a chance to wine and dine
them the Cuban question would soon
be settled.
Before the Herald chooses between
the gubernatorial, candidates who are
beginning to champ on the hits in an
tioipatiou of next year's race, it wants
to make sure it has one that will "stand
hltohed.”
General Gomez is saying kind things
about the Americans since his return ?o
Cuba from his recent trip to New York
and Washington.
The Demooratio party oan't be
strengthened by abusing Bryan and
ridlouling the millions of loyal Demo
crats who voted for him.
RATE THE HAY.
Southwest Georgia farmers will do
well to save all the hay they possibly
oan this season, as the indications are-
that there will be ready demand for it-
at good prices.
The following press dispatch will give-
an idea os to the prospeots for a hay
crop in the West:
St. Lonis, July 21.—Norman J. Col
umn, former secretary of agriculture,
who has been receiving for the last
week fnll reports ou the hay crop from
all the agricultural sections of Missouri
and Kansas, asserts that this is the most
disastrous time that has visited the
oountry for generations.
He has advised the various farmers to
begin sowing at once a second grass
crop, which, it is recognized, will be de
pendent on the drenchings of a long
rein. The advice carries with it the
significance of his statement that the
first grass orop has been totally elim
inated, ;
Farmers of Missouri are feeding
wheat to their stook in some pf the most
prosperous sections of the State. They
say they have found this oheaper than
r.-sorting to the Bupply of oats in the
present extremity.
Large stook hwners in Missouri have
been shipping their horses and cattle
across the: river into parts of Illinois
which have£escape(? the worst of the
wave of heat.
The season has, so far, been very fa
vorable for hay thronghont Southwest
Georgia, and onr farmers should make
the best of it. There will he a ready
market for all the hay our farmers oan
make, provided It is properly cured and
paoked into merchantable baleB.
Tho Timos-Rocordor loiiriw from 11 reliable
source that Hon. W. (i. Brantley, of the
Rleventh District, will be groomed Houth
Georgia's candidate for governor, now that
Mr. dnBignon is out of the race.—Americas
Timos-Hoonrder.
The Herald got this same tip two or
three weeks Hgo in connection with the
fnrther information that- Mr duBignon
wonld decide by the middle of the pres
ent month whether he would enter the
race or not, bnt-it- came in snch a way
that we did not feel at liberty to make
nso of it. We would not he at. all sur
prised to see Mr. Brantley enter the
race!
But what now of the Estill boom? We
see that the friends of the distinguished
president of the Savannah Morning
News have gone to work for him, and
that he says he is willing to accept the
nom'nation if it is tendered to him.
Savannah and Brunswick are rather too
close together for Ool. Estill and the
brilliant young congressman from the
Eleventh district both' to enter the race
without getting in eaoh other's way.
-Bnt now that Sonth Georgia is adver
tising for a candidate, it is to be expect-
ed that every county in the wiregrass
region will have a "favorite son” to
offer, and when they get to scrambling
some fellow from Middle Georgia or
North Georgia will grab the bait and
run off with it.
Save Hay.
The Pelham Sonth Georgia Home
gives this timely advice:
The Home wonld press upon onr
farmers the importance o( saving every
pound of liuy possible tl.i) fall. And by
all means to be economical In nsing their
grutn crops.
Nows from the West, tho great, grain
and hay producing section of the Union,
is foe merely unfavorable, but aotoally
distressing. The latest reports from
there say that soareely anything will be
made. The long aronth and hot winds
have parched all manner of vogetation,
and thojpeople tremble at the desolation.
Our farmers must look ont for their
supply of hay aud grain this year for
next, for the West will not be able to
supply it. And what an occasion it is
for saving some extra for market and
realizing handsome prioes for it
Here are the presumably offloial fig
ures for population in several countries:
China, 05 to the square mile; Spain, 90;
tru, United States, 21; France, 180;Ger-
iiitity, 203; Italy, 289; United Kingdom,
339; Holland, 411; Belgium, 072. It is
suit that the most densely populated
patch ol ground in the world ie one of
the tenement Hooks in New York,
where there are 10,000 inhabitants.
Plenty of time yet for a Sonth Geor
gia man to get into the race for gov
ernor.
And it also looks like G«-or«iu is going to
hovo u freo-silverloMH gubonmt oriel campaign.
—Atlanta Journul.
That depends. If those who bowed
down to the golden calf in 1898 and 1900
and were not heard from except in de
rision of the party platform and party
leader don’t got- too gay and do or say
some fool thing to stir no the re
sentment of the groat majority of
the party who believed in free
silver and voted accordingly, and are
not yet ashamed of it, there will be no
disposition ou the part of real Democrats
to revive free silver as an Issue in Geor
gia’s gubernatorial campaign. Bnt the
free silver Democrats are not going to
do the penitential act nor be dictated to
by the goldbngs, as such, and it might
as well be said right uow as later on
that the least the few newspapers .and
politicians iu Georgia who have been out
of touch and out of line with the party
for five or six years past on account of
the money qnestion have to say about
free silver, and the less they abuse and
deride Bryan and the national Demo
cratic platforms adopted at Chicago and
Kansas Oity, the better.
Remember this; The people will
have their say in the Democratic prima
ries before the convention meets next
year to nominate the governor and
Other statebouse officers.
The republicans and their assistants
who aided in the defeat of Bryan in
18°0 and 1900 are greatly disappointed
oyer the Nebraskan's treatment of the
Ohio demooratlo convention and hie
refusal to give countenance to the
bolters.
The twenty-fifth annnal session and
exhibition of fruits, plnuts and vege
tables of the Georgia State Horticul
tural Society will be held at Millegeville
Wednesday and Thursday, August 7th
and 8th.
Flem dnBignon probably didn’t know
what a stir his announcement was going
to bring on in the politiaal oircles of the
state, or he might have held it book for
cooler weather.
One thing that we feel thankful for
it advance of the gubernatorial cam
paign iu Georgia is that the Democratic
party of the state doesn't have to be
"saved.”
If there iB not some jobbery going on
in connection with street car franchises
and eleotrio power franchises in Atlanta
appearances at this distanoe are deceiv
ing. '
Tho Augusta Chronicle thinks that
many a man who thinks he loves Ids ene
mies feels oalled npou to chasten whom
he loveth.
Diversified farming is beginning to
make a showing in Georgia, and it will
eventually make the state one of the
richest In the Union.
The strike of the steel workers is cost
ing the trust $200,000 a day and the
strikers over $150,000 a day.
The strike of organized labor has
about succeeded in closing np all the
steel mills'of the Trust.
Wm. J. Bryan, according to Mr.
Bryan himself, is neither a - candidate
for office nor an issue in politics.
Are there not others?