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ROCKDALE BANNER.
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T. D. O’KELLEY, Editor and Proprietor,
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FOR GOVERNOH:
NON. W. J. N 0 RTHEN
OF HAN000K
FOR COM. OF AGRICULTURE:
COL. R. T NESBITT
OF 00BB.
We hope that the people of our
county will be a little patient with
our contemporary as he makes
rash statementsand hurls the “lie”
around when any one sees fit to
find fault with his guardian angel
Judge Henderson. They must re¬
member that should Judge Hen¬
derson not be elected, then “Othel¬
lo’s occupation is gone.” So he
is interested to the amount of $15,
00,00 a year; that is if he does not
feel under obligations to pour a
part of that back in the jug.
Wonders will never cease, it
seems. The man in our county
who weeps most over the poverty
that pervades our farmers, who
says that he will do anything even
sacrifice principle itself for their
interest, draws out of these same
farmers $1500,00 a year for five or
six months’ work. The myth that
the crocodile weeps over its prey
has lost its prestige in these days
of the modern politician. What
farmers most need in this country
is the ability and inclination to do
their own thinking.
Brother Marcus DeWitt, Irwin
calls the Banner a disgrace to
journalism” because it allows the
“boys” in the office to run a “guess
who” column. We wonder if he
would not also scoff at the W. C.
T. U. column, had he only the
courage to do so. Our neighbor
should romember that non solum
de gustibus non disputandum sit,
verumetiam inter et
stultum lata distancia sit, and al¬
low other people the same privil¬
ege he takes himself. If he choos¬
es to advertise the Old sleuth Li¬
brary and take his pay out of the
slum, that is his business. If he
publishes two and three cplumns
of Mr. and Mrs. Bowser for a pe¬
riod of six months and we run a
“guess who” column, that is just a
difference of proceedure, you see.
The points to be considered are
(1) the good that may be accom¬
plished, and (2) the interest taken
by one’s readers.
T. J. LYON’S LETTER.
CartersVille, Ga., June 9, ’90.
Messrs. E. W. Jeter, M. W. Da¬
vis, Dr. Glenn, A. M. Helms and
othere, Conyers, Ga., Gentlemen:
Your favor of the 9th inst. to
hand and carefully noticed. You
ask me if A. F. Woolley, one of
the Inspectors of the Department
of Agriculture, ever told me that
his salary was increased from
$1,200 to $1,500, and that he gave
the Commissioner, J. T. Hender¬
son, $125. As you request of me
what I know as to the facts, I
will state that Woolley told me
that his ealary was increased $300
and that he gave J. T. Henderson
$125. This he confessed to me
since he wrote the article that he
was not required to pay back any
of his salary to the Commissioner
of Agriculture. These are the
facts and will not be denied by
Woolley. Yours truly,
T. J. Lyon,
Pres. Bartow Co. Alliance.
This morning we received a
card from Camp Richmond at
Augusta stating that the
Volunteers were all O. K. we hope
the boys will enjoy tkei r recreation
We hear that our boys are having
better fair than any other company
in the camp. The thoughtfulness
of our merchants in sending the
“boys” provisions is highly com
mendable. Three “cheers and a
tiger” for the Volunteers.
AUiancemen Speak.
The following are the names of
a few of Rockdale County Alli
ancemen who were present at the
meeting in Conyers the 7th jpst.
and have said that the account Ban¬ ^cf
proceedings as given by the
ner in its issue of the 10th of June
is correct.
J. M. B. Goode, Secretary
County Alliance; E. J. Argo; Dr.
J. J. W. Glenn; M. W. Davis;
Grier Quigg; H. L. White; w.
R. Stewart; J. W. Almand; W. F.
McDaniell; Joe M. McDonald; It.
J. Guinn; A. M. McElvany; J. P.
McDaniell; John W, McClung,
and others. Also all of those
gentlemen, except two or
three, who signed the Solid South
article entitled “Falsehood Refut¬
ed,” have said that our account of
the proceedings were substantial¬
ly correct.
And furthermore, we have yet
to find a man who says that the
proceeding as given by the Ban
ner were incorrect.
The article is as follows:—
Mr. R. T. Nesbitt is the man
who will we think next occupy the
tnrejifthe^andoidstate offiteor
gia. This lsjust as it should be.
Judge J. T. Henderson is not the
proper man to succeed himself;
and foY the people of Georgia to
in mTnd twoumleffied and° unde
niable facts. Suppose the char
ges about his inspectors, increased paying
him a part of their wa
frferSA'wWcrhrslnti'U
manipulate to suit himself, about
asking men to sign receipts paid for for
more than they had been
choice seeds, etc. etc., are all false,
these two facts, remain, viz: (1)
He has held the office eleven years
(2) he tried to browbeat Rockdale
County Alliance into an endorse
ment of himself in their meeting
a^ Conyers last Saturday the 7th
“
According to the usages of the
Democratic party eleven years
are a long time to hold a small
state office, the governor not being
allowed to hold his but four years.
Last Saturday, according to a
call of the president, the County
Alliance of Rockdale met to at
tend to some important business;
and it was understood that this
oU
fices. Judge Henderson, we have
evei-y reason to believe, so under
stood it. He came down from
Atlanta on the 9:17 train, and
kept When close to the courthouse. din
the Alliance met after
ner, before (there dinner) being he public went speaking in with
and took his seat beside
the president the faces where of all ho the coulcl house. see
into in
him When it candidate was proposed for commission- to endorse
as
er, he still remained untj} asked
*,? retire, which lie remetantly
him by the president. When
outside he remained near the door
till the members came out. The
motion to endorse him was not
renewed; but had it been, it is
the common belief that he would
not have recieved more than one
tenth of the votes in the house,
Now add to thi^ the fact that he
is not properly eligible Alliance, to being mem
bership in the
neither a farmer, a farm laborer,
teacher^Ucounty minister of the gospel; “physiciaru and fur- 'nor
a
ther that, instead of joining the
sub-alliance nearest to him ac
cording to the rules of .the order,
!duiarorSkar u ctx
and we have a series of facts un
deniable that should shut him out
from-j-e-election.
♦ •
Mra. Nannie Hill from Fayetteville visited
her cousin lastSunday, Mrs. Jesse W. Jones.
Mr. D. M. Almand and wife will leave next
Friday to go to Dahlonega where next week
they will attend the commencement exercises
of the North Ga, Ag. College and see their son
Eddie H. take bis graduating degree.
H. W. Hammock has been men¬
tioned to us as a suitable man to
represent Rockdale county in the
next legislature. We have no in¬
timation that Mr. Hammock is the
least inclined to run and we believe
he is not; but we are just as confi¬
dent that should he get his con¬
sent to make the race and be elec¬
ted, he would make a most faith¬
ful and able public servant.
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M. R. Stewart, Druggist
Falsehood Refuted.
THE LITTLE SCHEME OF THE BANNER
GIVEN THE BLACK EYE.
Vindicated!
A campaign rose nipped in the
bud!
A telling refutation of an un¬
warranted assault.
Comment is unnecessary. We
could have added a hundred to
the list below, but for the incon¬
venience of seeing them.
TO THE PUBLIC.
We the undersigned alliance
men were present at the meeting
last Saturday and saw what oc¬
curred. We, in simple justice to
Commissioner J. T. Henderson,
desire to say that the editorial in
the Banner of the 10th saying that
he tried to “brow beat Rockdale
county alliance into an endorse¬
ment of himself” is untrue. He
did not ask the meeting to en¬
dorse him.
G. j. Hollingsworth,
G. W. Warren,
D. F. Clotfelter,
D. T. Vaughn,
j-j- g j Q owan
Hollingsworth,
R. Christian,
G. B. Almand,
z. T. Almand.
_ So lid South of June 14.
“Behold! the mountain hath la
bored and brought forth a mouse,
From the heading of the above
wonderful document, an unsus
peering person might think that
s<> me onG liad risen to make a re
mark; but, the anticlimax ends in
nothing but wind. The good
men wko were induced to sign the
, ‘ , T 1)ou , ht , ,, ‘W
• S were
that Judge Henderson ought not
to be accused of trying to brow
beat Rockdale county alliance into
an endorsement of himself,” be
cause “he did not ask the meeting
to endorse him,” and this they did
without having read our article
f or themselves. Only two of the
° tlemen take om . paper \ 1 .
He also . says . he could .. . have
added a hundred to the list, but
for the inconvenience of seeing
them.” Shades of hades! We let
.p^kdclc know better cornty answer Clicnce.ccn for them- wlK;
selves.
We will not call hard names but
we ask ^ j s honest, or fair play,
to , induce . , to . artlcle ,. ,
men sl S n an
vliich contradicts the whole of an
article when they think they are
disagreeing with only one state
men t in mat article?
^ ® state , upon the .. authority of .
the signers themselves, that the
document published has quite a
different meaning from the one
they thought they wore signing
^ kas often been in the past
that a man has signed a heartless
mortgage to his home, when he
bought he was signing a simple
promissory . note . How „ „ long i i lie
fore men will do lheir own think
ing!
~~—— - 1 ----,
R° w a Beautiful Hymn Was Written
One day Mr. Wesley was sitting
by an open window, looking over
bright and baautiiu. fields,
Presently a little bird, flitting
about in the sunshine, attacted
bis attention. Just then a hawk
came sjveeping down towards the
*»*"«***,
much frightened, was darting here
and there, trying to find some
place of refuge. In the bright
sunny air, in the leafy trees, or
the green fields, there was no¬
hiding place from the fierce grasp
of the hawk. But seeing an open
window and a man sitting by it
the bird flew, in its extremity, to
wards it, and, with a beating
heart and quivering wing, found
refuge in Mr. Wesley's bosom. He
sheltered it from the threatning
danger, and saved it from a cruel
death. Mr. Wesley was at that
time suffering from severe trials,
and was feeling the need of refuge
in his own time of trouble, as
much as did the trembling little
bird that nestled so safely in his
bosom. So he took up his pen
and wrote the sweet
“Jesus lover of my soul,
Let me to thy bosom fly.
While the waves of trouble roll.
While the tempest still is high.”
Mr. J E Maddox has been urged by his
to make the race for representative of Rock¬
dale county Should he run, ho wil*. make
thing* lively for the boys:
A hailstorm and waterspout in Baldwin
county yesterday morning.
A MEMBER
OF THE ROCKDALE LLIANCE SPEAKS
EIGHT OUT.
Does any one know what is the
matter with the editor of the Sol¬
id South?
Has a bee stung him? or is
Judge Henderson paying him to
run his paper for his'special ben¬
efit?
Or is he quarreling just to be
in opposition to the Banner? It
would seem the latter from the
way he is continually scraping up
any thing which he thinks sharp,
or cutting, to say about the Ban¬
ner or its editor.'
Mr. Editor, if you are as ‘green”
as that knowing man (the editor
of the Solid South) says you are,
I reckon you are glad you have
stock law in Conyers else you
might get eaten up. Dont be dis¬
couraged, however, if your “guess
who column” is the only proof of
your ignorance; for your friend,
the aforesaid editor, is green
enough to condemn your columu
(after having been informed every
week since it started that it w?£s
run by the boys in your office),
and in the same paragraph start
one of his own on his oivn hook,
and leave the people to “guess
who” you were.
He also shows that he is either
green himself or thinks his read¬
ers are, when he pretends, by a
card of “refutation,” to prove the
untruth of the statement in your
last issue, but instead of doing so
simply swears to something, which
he can not he supposed to
know anything about, i. e., “that
Judge Henderson tried to brow¬
beat the alliance into endorsing
him.” Now, no one under heaven
except Judge Henderson himself
can know whether that was his
intention or not; we do know how¬
ever that he did not do it.
But we must not be too hard
upon the editor of the Solid South;
probably if we had had a good
paying position under Judge
Henderson, and did not expect to
be fortunate enough to secure it
under another commissioner, we
would be in favor of his election
too.
“If self the wavering balance shake
It’s rarely right adjusted!—Burns,
We over here would like to
know when and by what lodge or
lodges the Solid South was cho¬
sen as official organ of the Alliance
(We ask for information having
never heard of such a thing till it
was announced in that paper a
few days ago) If that has been
done we would humbly beg leave
to say that we think the valuable
space of that mammoth weekly
could be filled with something
more important to the alliance
than a rather (to say the least),
personal quarrel with the Banner.
A Member of the Alliance.
The grave of a libcle son of the
late Jefl’ersou Davis in Richmond
is decked with flowers every day
by and old gentleman of that city.
55
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moment.
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