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VOL. XXIV. NO. 2G.
LEGAL BLANKS.
The HERALD office keeps on
hand, for sale, a full line of
\uiks
Warrantee Deeds t
BondsJor Title t
Mortgages on Ileal Estate ,
Mortgage on pers'alproperty
Wo iver Notes ,
Crop Leins t
Notes reserving title,
Summons of garnishment
’ Forth-coming Bonds,
Justices Summonses ,
Constables' Sales t
Subpoenaes and Fi-Fas
I«“ Letter-Heads and Envel
opes supplied to order.
* GENERAL BLR EC WRY
SUPERIOR COURT.
N. L. Hutchins, Judge.
R. B. Kussell, Solicitor General.
The Superior court meets the first
Mondays in March and September.
county officious:
K B, Whitworth, ordinary,
X> T < ai n, t ,'lerk S. 0.
T A llaslel t, Sheriff,
W ,1 Tribble, Dept. Sheriff.
S V Martin, Tax Collector,
1) C Hawthorn, Tax Keceiver,
A \V M oore Treasurer
it N Matfett, Surveyor,
JT Hadaway, Coroner.
county commissioners.
J l> Spence, chairman, J T Lain-
Kiu, J S Dobbins, .) T Jourilan, S
L Hinton
COUNTY SCHOOL COMMISSIONER :
,W T Tanner.
town government:
Sam .1 Winn, Mayor,
A N Robinson, Marshal.
CHURCH DIRBCTORY :
Methodist—Rev. W A Parks pastor
Services first, and third Sundays.
Baptist- Rev. J B S Davis, pastor-
Services 2nd Sundays
Presbyterian—Rev. R C Flynn pas
tor. Services every fourth Sunday
PROFESSIONAL (‘ARBS
T. K. MITCHELL. T. B. BUSH.
TJRS. MITCHELL and BUSH
Physicians and Surgeons.
Lawrenceville, .. ■. Ga.
a. Promtp attention given to
•alls, day or night
•-18-94-ly
gAM J. WINN,
ATTORN BY AT LAW,
Lawrenceville - - - - - Ga
Negotiates Loans on Keal Estate
A M WINN, M. D.
Lawrenceville, Ga,
F. F. JUHAIT L. F. M’OONALD
juuAN a McDonald.
„ Attorneys a! I, aw.
Will practice in all courts of the
State by contract. Advice given to
representatives of estates. Collec
tions a specialty. Due attention
given to correspondence.
zj* M. PEEPLES,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Lawrenceville,
Practices in the State courts! Spe
cial attention given to the winding
up of estates.
JJR. J A PIKKLK r~~“
Physician and SukokoW
Auburn
Surgery A Specialty,
Prompt attention given to all calls
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Atlanta, Ga.
The Gwinnett Herald.
THE MAIDEN’S MISTAKE.
“Something in blue? Why
certainly 1 ”
The clerk says, with a smile.
For, oh, the very lovelist girl.
Is standing in the aisle 1
And, though the clerk is some
times cross,
He is so charmed by her
That he unrolls piece after
piece t
Without the least demur.
At last the maiden cries: “Oh,
my!
Now, isu’t that too sweet?”
And, looking in her eyea, the
clerk
Says, “Yes, that can’t be
beat.”
“Now, how much shall 1 need?
she says,
“To make a pretty dress?”
And he replies: “Just seven
yards.
You couldn’t do with less.”
“Seven yards,” she says, “ten
fifty, then,
All right. Please send it
out.”
And then she wonders what the
clerk
Is so amused about.
“Excuse me! Seventeen yards
in all,”
He says. “The style de
ceives.
You’ll need the seven yards for
for the dress
And ten more for the sleeves. ”
—Louisville Journal.
FOR THE GWINNETT HERALD.
ORGANIZATION OF GWIN
NETT COUNTY.
Chapter No, 1.
I propose to give through the
Herald a series of chapters on
the organization and early his
tory of Gwinnett county, with
scenes and incidents of pioneer,
life occuring in its earlier and
later settlement.
lam prompted to the task,
from the fact that the unfortu
nate burning of the Court House
two years ago, and with it the
records and papers, which fur
nished our county history to a
large extent, are now lost. The
loss of these records will make
my undertaking much more la
borious and difficult, and I may
fall into errors which access to
them would iiave prevented.
All due allowance I hope will
be made by my readers for inac
curacies—if any should occur —
as they must know that I am to
rely for my facts and data upon
tradition, and the memory of a
very few old men —whom I may
consult —yet living amongst us,
and upon my own recollection.
I shall claim in these papers
a large liberty in detailing and
delineating character—inci
dents, and anecdotes peculiar to
these early times.
The boundary of Gwinnett
county was designated and pro
vided for, by an act of the Leg
islature assented to 19th Decern
her 1818. It is made out of the
territory purchased from the In
dians, at a treaty made with
them at a Cherokee Agency on
the Bth day of July, 1817. This
Territory is designated us fol
lows: “Beginning at the High
Shoals of the Appilachee It ver,
and, from thence along a line
designated by the tre'aty made
at the city of Washington the
14th day of November, 1805,
Ulcofouhatchi, it being the first
large branch or fork of the Ok
mulgee, above Seven Islands;
thence up the eastern bank of
said branch, by the water’s
edge to where tipi path, leading
from the High Shoals of the Ap
palttchee to Shallow Ford on the
Chattahoochee —(this is the
Hightower old Trail) —and
trorn thence up the Chattahoo
chee river, by the water's edge,
on the eastern side, to Suwanee
old town; thence by a direct
line to the head of Appalachee;
thence d«*wn the same to the
place of beginning.”
Subsequently to this, another
purchase was made called the
“Four Mile Purchase,” ext.end
froin the head waters of the Ap
palachee to the Cmrahee Moun
tain. the exact boundary of
which I am not prepared to give;
out of these purchases were
made the counties of Walton*
Gwinnett, Hall and Habersham.
The Appalachee River, up to
the time of this Treaty was the
boundary line between the
whites and Cherokee Indians •
Jackson county, primarily laid
out, extended to the Appalachee
and when Gwinnett was laid out
a part of the territory of Jack
eon —starting at Jug Tavern,
thence by the late residence of
Jesse Osborn, and along a road
to Winn’s Ferry on the Chatta
LARENCEVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4th 1894.
hoochee, to a designated point!
was added to Gwinnett, and
this line was made its eastern
boundary, the Chattahoochee
its north-western, and the Old
Hightower Trail the southwes
tern .
As before stated—the county
was laid out by the act of 1818,
and named in honor of Button
Gwinnett, who came to Georgia
from England in 177—, was a
lit) pr. from Georgia to
Congress 1776, was one of the
signers of Declaration of Inde
pendence—afterwards a member
of the State Convention to
frame a constitution for the fu
ture Government of the State,
in 1777, and afterwards Gover
nor of the the State. Shortly
after this time he fought a duel
with Gen. Locklin Mclntosh,
near Savanah—was wounded
and died.twelve days after the
combat. ,
By the said Act of December
1818, it was provided: “That,
until suitable Court Houses
shall*be erected iu the four new
counties thus organized, the
elections shall be held in the
county of Walton at Easly’s
Cow Pens —in the county of
Gwinnett, at the house of Elisha
Winn ; in the county of Hall,
at the house of John McDuffy;
in the county of Habersham, at
the school house near Walter
Adair’s.”
The first election was held, as
the act directed, at the house
of Elisha Winn, one mile east
of Appalachee—probably in the
early part of 1820 —and the first
Superior Court was held in his
barn, with John M. Dooley as
Judge.
At that election the following
persons were elected as the first
county officers: Wm. Blake,
Sheriff, with James Loughridge
as Deputy; James Wardlaw,
Clerk of the Superior Court;
Thomas A. Dobbs, Clerk of the
1 Inferior Court; and Elisha
j Winn, Wm. Flowers, John Culp
George Reid and Joseph Morgan,
Justices of the Inferior Courfcf
The first jury empaunelled for*
the Inferior Court, were Daniel
Harris, Henry Mathews, George
Brogdon, V\ illiam Tumlin, John
Gaddis, Samuel Baker, GadwelJ
Pearce, Benjimeu Baker, Isaac
Towers, Barton Abbott, Obediab
Glasgow, and Willis Roland.
In the year 1820 the county
was surveyed, first by laying it
off into three land districts,
number 5,6, and 7. The sth
was surveyed by Wm. Allen, the
6t,h by , and the 7th by
Hezikiah Luckie, Each district
was laid off into square lots of
250 acres, with fractional lots
on each boundary line. The
sth and 7th commencing near
the present residence of Thomas
I). Mathews and extending to
the Appalachee, and the Gth as
the Walton line, embracing the
Western part of the county and
extending to the Chattahoochee.
The square lots, and all frac
tional lots containing as 'much
as 160 acres, vvere drawn for in
1820 or 1821, and with less than
that number of acres were after
wards sold and the money placed
in the the State Treasury.
These surveyors wto ap
pointed by the Legislature on
Joint Ballot, and were required
to enter into bonds, with se
curity, in the sum of ten thous
and dollars, Their compensa
tion was fixed by the Legisla
ture at four dollars for each
mile surveyed, out ot which
they wore to pay their chains
men, axe-men and incidental
expenses.
Every male citizen 18 years
old and upwards—who had re
sided in the State three years —
all voluntees or drafted men in
the late Indian wars —all Rev
olutionary soldiers who were in
digent or invalid—all widows or
orphans whose husbands or
fathers were killed in the late
wars with Great Britain, and
the indians, Ac., &., were en
titled to a chance. Some one,
sonte two, and some three
chances, according to circum
stances. R. D. W.
——
While a little boy in Maine
was ringing a neighbor’s door
bell as a joke, lightning struck
the house, ran down the bell
wire, burned his hand, stipped i
off one shoe and stocking and !
loft him the worst scared boy in
the state.
DESERVING OF RE-ELEC
TION.
The four years of Judge N. L.
Hnthins’ present term ,d office
willlexpire next December. Ib
is a candidate to succeed him
self, 1 and there are several com
petitors striving to displace
hiui. The next legislature will
elunose between them.
If the feelings of our immedi
ale people, or this Judicial
Circuit, could be taken as a
criterion and guide, there would
be virtually no race. At pres
ent no competitor, of whatever
personal popularity or profes
sionial reputation could defeat
the presedt learned Judge o|
the Western Circuit. The peo
ple! of Walton county would
vote to retain him ten to one,
and the sentiment in the entire
circuit would be hardly less
favorable. This home atrengtn
will, we think, be certain to ac
complish the re-election of Judge
Hutchins by a handsome vote.
Besides, his friends are legion
in almost every part of the
State.
To those who know Judge
Hutchins on the Bench, his
popularity is no enigma._ His
ability as a lawyer is pre-emi
nent. No Superior court judge
m Georgia is more thoroughly
versed and skilled in the law
than he is. This is shown by
the fuct that he is seldom re
versed by the Supreme Court.
So fixed has this reputation
become, well-informed men in
every part of the State take
part in increasing it. Among
judges and lawyers it is as fami
liar as a household word. A
■most valuable feature about
J udgje Hutchins’ executive work
is tide painstaking with which
evert cause is heard. In courts
of justice, more than anywhere
else,! perhaps, the rule, that
whai is worth doing is worth
doing well, should he followed.
Indeed, justice can scarcely be
dispensed without employing
Rjgu*iwrSnd care at every step
tin: huge The casual
onlooker has but to become a
litigant or the accused, to
fully appreciate the worth ol
well-considered rulings and
careful progress in the trail ol
cases.
Without any flourish of trump
ets, the work of clearing the
dockets in this circuit goes
smothly and rapidly on. Tin
dockets are not more 'closely
cleaned up in any judicial divi
sion of the State. And in the
regulation of matters pertain
ing to jurors, witnesses and
parties, the same purpose seems
to govepu jii Judge Hutchins’
courts —maintaining the digni
ty of the law according to the
highest standard of legal learn
ing, but never unuecesarily re
sorting to an iron rule of pains
and penalties.
All admire Judge Hutchins
for the manner in which In
tempers judgment which mercy.
Learned, just and upright, tie
law and the law-breaker are
alike dealt fairly by.
Judge Hutchins has steadily
grown in public favor and popu
lar esteem during his tenure ol
the high office of judge. In
him meet in peculiar poise ai.d
happy effect, the acumen of the
great lawyer, ripe scholarship,
tiie attainments of the highest
type of gentleman our country
has ever known, and the probi
ty of character yvhich orna
meuts the office and conserves
the interest of the common
wealth .
When the time comes for
Judge Hutchins to lay aside
the ermine, another may be
within call of the people who
who can acceptably fill bis
place; but as yet the prople are,
not willing to she him go. And
it is safe to say his spendid
reputation and universal popu
larity will serve to continue
him in the office which he so
completely adorns.—Walton
News.
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tiie press excursion.
By request of the editor of the
llkrald, we attempt to give a
brief description of our trip to
Now York with the Georgia
Weekly Press Association. In
this sketch we shall only at
tempt to relate the; most inter
esting points, as we had not ex
pected to write anything upon
the subject, and consequently
left our note book and pencil at
home. Yet on a trip to the
Nation’s capitol and the Metro
ropolis of the continent, there
are many tilings that will leave
their impression on one’s mem
ory, especially if that person
lias never before been outside
the limits of his own state.
On account of a misunder
standing as to the time of meet
ing, we did not have the pleas
ure of joining the Association
in the historic old town of Mill
edgeville, where the Bth annual
session was held on the 7th of
August, but met them in the
Kimball House after they had
come to Atlanta, and where a
business meeting was held on
Wednesday, the Bth.
At noon the entire party—
about 120—boarded the Sea
board Air Line train, which,
with three extra sleepers pro
vided especially for us, made
the trip a pleasant one.
Arriving in Washington City
Thursday at noon, we were mot
at the depot by Senators Gor
don and Walsh, and other prom
inontGeorgians, who took charge
of our party and made every
thing as pleasant as possible for
us. We were then shown thro’
the capitol and grounds.
The writer visited the House
of Representatives alone, and
on going into the gallery asked
•i gentleman seated beside us
what bill was finder discussion.
We received the following re
ply : “Oh, its nothing-but a
little appropriation bill for s
little exposition in one of the
towns in some state away down
.South, somewhere; Atlanta, I
believe.”
At the capitol we employed a
guide at a salaiy of ten dollars
an hour, who showed us a good
many interesting things.- Not
ably, a Bible 1800 years old,
printed in Hebrew, (I didn’t
Iry to read it) ; the exact spot
where Coxey attempted to make
his speech, and the grass he
tramp d on, for which he was
arrested.
We were tendered a banquet
at night, by Senator Walsh, a*
the Metropolitan Hotel. Hoke
Smith presided, and responded
to the toast proposed by the
editors. All the Georgia con
gressmen were present and made
speeches, except Crisp, who was
■ilisent on business.
On Friday President Cleve
land departed from his usual
custom of not receiving visitors
on Cabinet meeting days, and
sent us a special invitation to
call at, the White House at 11
o’clock. We were introduced
to the President by Hon. Hoke
Smith, in the private office, af
ter which we spent an hour or
two strolling through the build
ing and over the beautiful
grounds.
Later in the day we were
taken in charge by Claud N.
B unett and shown through the
Army, Navy, Interior and Treas
ury depaitments. In the latter
we were shown the large vaults,
where the silver and gold coin
is kept. The longest is 90 feet
long, 55 wide and 20 high. It
contains 108 million silver dol
lars, put up in sacks, and pack
ed from In ttoni to top. The
smaller vnult contains 48 mil
lien silver dollars, and 4 mil
lion dollars in gold coin. There
are eight vaults in all, and con
tain *816,861,968. The esti
mated weight of this coin is
5,000 tons. The door of these
vaults is made of Bessemer
steel, is about 18 inches thick,
and weighs 15 tons. By means
ol' a combination time-clock it
ini", be opened only at eleven
o’clock and closes at three, ev
ery day.
We next visited Washington
Monument, which is 555 feet
high. It is 85 feet square at!
the base, and is builtof marble.
There is an elevator in it, and
we ascended to the top, from
which we could see for miles j
around town and down the
smoothly flowing Potomac.
'(he next place of interest w as j
the historic old Mt. Vernon,the
home and death-place of the
great and noble George Wash
ington. It is fourteen miles
down the Potomac river, and
is reached after an hour’s travel
on the steamer. Here is the
house in which our first presi
dent lived; there is the lied on
which lie died; there are the
window curtains, the spinning
wheel, the old loom, the chairs,
tables, desk and other articles
of furniture just as he died and
left it. It belongs to the gov
ernment, and is guarded -by
government officials, whose duty
it is to see that visitors do not
touch anything.
Tiie Smithsonian Institute
and the National Museum, con
taining old relics, such as cook
ing utensils used by Washing
ton during the Revolutionary
war, were the next places of in
terest. Here we saw the first
printing press used hyßenjamiiu
Franklin. It is quite a signifi
cant piece of mechanism coin l
pared with the large presses
seen in the Herald building in
New York, nevertheless It is
not devoid of interest.
The Bureau of Engraving and
Printing, the Pension Bureau,
the Census Building and the
Navy Yards were visited, bu*
space forbids a description.
We spent a day in the Press
gallery of the House, listening
to the debate on the tariff hill,
which was at the most heated
lipint of discussion. The speech
of Turner, of Georgia, in reply
to Reed, of Maine, made us
proud of the fact that we are
Georgians, and prouder still
that we are Democrats. Just
here we want to say (hat we had
the pleasure of meeting our own
Congressman, Hon. Carter Tate.
A gentleman told us that he
(Tate) had never been absent
at a roll call, and had never
failed to be in his seat when a
vote was taken, on any question,
since his election.
On Saturday morning we left
for New York, via the Penn
sylvania road, going through
Baltimore, Wilmington and
Philade’phia. The finest farm
ing lands in the Union are in
Maryland and New Jersey, the
land being level and in a good
state of cultivation. The prin
cipal erupt are corn and wheat.
A very noticable feature of the
farms there is the nicy residen
ces and good barues of the farm
ers. All the houses are of mod
eru architecture, bettor than we
see in towns in Georgia. Large
haystacks, wheat straw pens
and other forage, and along
with them large herds of fat
cattle, were to be seen on all
sides. As these beautiful fields,
indicative of happiness and pros
perity were presented to virw
our thoughts turned hack to
our own dear sunny Southland,
and tiie question kept coining
up, “Why can’t we do as well
with all our superior advant
ages ?”
The country, betweey Phila
dolphia and New York is a con
tinuation of villages, so that
one would appear to lie going
through a town all the time.
The distance from Washing
ton to New York is 290 miles,
and was run in 6 hours.
Arriving in New Cork at two
o’clock, we registered at the
Metropolitan and proceeded to
“take in the city.”
Central Park, which contains
800 acres and the tluest menag
erie in America, Gould’s resi
dence, Fifth Avenue, Grant’s
tomb, were the places first vis
ited.
On Sunday we crossed the
famous Brooklyn Bridge, going
through Brooklyn and Green
wood cemetery, where lie en
tombed 268,000 bodies, one of
of which is that of Henry Ward
Beecher.
We ought not to tell it on
him, hut it is too good to keep:
While in Brooklyn one of our
party suggested that we visit
the Brooklyn Tabernacle and
hear Dr. Talmadge preach.
In the afternoon we took a
trip down to Coney Island and
across Long Island to Manhat
tan Beach. This place is in
habited mostly by foreignees
who run llying-jenies, Ferris
wheels, games of chance, and
other kinds of deviltry. From
this place we got our first sight
of the Atlantic ocean, and had
the pleasure of tasting some of
the biiuy wati^^H^Breliniua^
1.00 PER ANNUM, IN ADVANCE
1 lighcst of all m Leavening Power—Latest U. S. Gov’t Report.
Royal
ABSOLUTELY pure
of Liberty, just at the time it
is lighted up, six o’clock.
Monday w'as spent in driving
over the city, in company with
New York Press men, who show
ed us every possible couitesy
and made our stay pleasant.
Returning to Washington we
stopped a day in the Nation’s
Capitol, and then hoarded the
Richmond A Danville train for
home, passing on the route the
bio dy-staiued ground of old
Manassas, where so many of our
noble Southern hoys bled and
died for the cause they thought
to be right. We are proud of
these heroes who struggled for a
victory which alas! came too
late. We are proud of the
South’s progress since those
dark days. We are proud of
Georgia, because we believe she
is the best State in the Union.
C. E. Brand.
AFTER MANY YEARS
MRS. ALEXANDER FINDS HER HUS
BAND WHOM SHE RELIEVED
WAS 11DAD.
Athens Banner:
A few days since Mrs. Elisha
Marion Alexander came to Ath
ens, on a mission of investiga
tion.
And now she rejoices in hav
ing found her husband whom
she has believed for many years
to have been dead.
Mrs. Alexander lives six miles
from Atlanta and her story is
one of thrilling interest.
Since the war Mrs. Alexander
has resided at her present home
six miles from the city. There
she lived a quiet life, hearing
little that went on on the out
side and devoting herself en
tirely to her domestic cares.
Prior to the war she lived in a
different section of the state
and just a few years precoeding
the beginning of the conflict
she was happily married to Mr.
Elisha Alexander.
He went to the field with one
of the bravest regiments that
left Georgia and made a record
as a line soldier. In one of the
blondest battles of the war he
was desperately wounded, cap
tured by tho enemy and carried
away to their hospital. There
he developed lockjaw, and a
few days later the news came
home to his wife in Goorgia
that he had died.
This tragic news completly
[iroke up the little home, and
►hortly afterward tho exigencies
of war compelled the young
widow to leave her home and
move to a different part of the
state. The next few years of
her life were hard and hitter
ones. She mourned her hus
band as lost and tried to forget
her sorrows in her daily work at
home.
A few days since Mrs. Alexan
der went to the Union depot to
take a (rain for her home just
outside Atlanta. The train had
gone and she was forced to wait
for another.
But while waiting impatient
ly for the next train to leave
s he found joy and happiness
that well paid her for the de
lay.
She was talking to a lady who
told her she was from Athens.
During the conversation this
ludy found out that her name
was Alexander.
“Are you any kin to Elisha
Alexander ?” asked the Athens
lady.
With great emotion she told
her she was Elish Alexander’s
wife and that he had lost his
life in the war.
“Oh, no,” said the Athens
lady, “he is living and was in
Athens a few mouths since.”
It did not take Mrs. Alexan
der long to get on the train and
come to Athens.
She wont to Ordinary Herring
ton’s .office and was informed
that her husband lived in New
ton county, about five miles
from Covington, and had been
there for quite a while.
lie buil b< >.'ii looting
■Lulhttu tailed to get
Baking!
Powder
I any trace of her at all.
Mrs. Alexander at once took
the train for Covington, and
yesterday there was a happy re
union in that Newton count
home .
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COMMENTS ON THE VAIII EFFORTS
OF NORTHERN PATERS TO
ANNOY HIM
Northern republican news
paper* that are now running a
side show called the A. I*. As
continue to notice me withtheir
spleen because 1 made a few
remarks they d< not like. They
•end me a sample copy with
the spleen marked all round so
that 1 may not fail to see it
and read it, and then feel sorry
for myself. The last comes
from Boston, “The American
Citizen, ” and says : “Bill Arp
has made an attack on the A.
*E, 1 hat is his business,
He writes just what will pay
him best. Give him *lO and
he will write on the other side.
Within a year the politicians
of Georgia will he at the feet of
the A. I*. A. begging for votos
and she Atlanta Constitution
will jump the fence,” etc. Well
I don’t care anything about
this, for lam too far off for
that editor to know my price,
but the same paper says that
“Joe Howard will write just
what he is paid for, irrespec
tive ot his own convictions.”
This is hard on Joe, for he lives
in Boston.
But it is a waste of time to
make any more war upon the
A. I’. As—the dog is dead.
Thousands who were drawn in
are drawing out all over the
north and within a year you
will hardly find a man who
ever belonged to it. Republi
can schemers have got hold of
the order everywhere and its
true character has cropped out
early. It won’t last as long as
the alliance and ought not, for
the alliance had good intentions
in its infancy and hut for its
going into politics would have
done a great deal of good. It
was smothered by demagogues.
And now comes the one-third
party with Ocala, and Omaha
platforms that demand the rail
way and telegraph and a sub
treasury that will build a pump
kin barn in every naborhood.
It is not even a sideshow to any
party, but is a wood’s colt—a
mule colt at that—with no
pride of ancestry. But it can
be rid and goesjalong right gent
ly until bucking time comes.
A farmer who joins the one
third party, expecting to get
something, is like Judge Aldri
dge’s man who wus driving a
cow and her young calf home,
ar.d they got mixed up with
with]some other cattle in the
road and the calf mistook an
old steer for its mother and ran
oft with him. The feller ran
himself nearly to death trying
to separate them, hut he could
ent. Ho he stopped and used
had language and wound up
with “Go it you darned little
fool—go it—but you’ll find out
what’s what when sucking time
comes.”
The leader of these seoret,
oath-hound political organiza
tions are after office or money,
and some few of them get it.
They ride in on the mule and
then take the bridle oft and
turn him out to make his own
living. Bishop Hagood, whom
the south honors for his spot
less integrity of character and
his fearless publication of the
truth as ho sees it. says “Liber,
ty dies hv the organization of
oath-hound societies. Such
oath-hound leagues not only
make men slaves hut they make
them children—wards without
right to thiiik--slaves without
right to choose. A man is for
ced oftentimes to do what he
does not wish to do and is fro
zen out if he refuses obedi
ence.”
There is corruption enough
[CONTINUE* ON i^JIHPAOE.j