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Conyers, Ga.,Jandaby 19, 1900.
EDITORIAL NEWS
AND COMMENT.
The Standard is the name
of a new paper now being
published at Lithonia, Ga .,
It is a bright paper and is
ably edited by Mr, J. S.
Mills.
Gov. Candler has offered
a reward of two hundred
dollars for the apprehension
a j i p ^ nf Enin v Loilil
who shot and killed 8 ^ 1
R, M. Hogan of Walton
county.
—-
Monroe .has a handle fac
tory—It is these small in¬
dustries that has made the
north rich ; the south is poor
because it neglected to de¬
velop its resources. Let
Conyers fall in line with her
sister towns and have
little on this
One of our exchanges takes
the floor to remark that next
year we expect to read some¬
thing like the following in
the daily papors: ‘‘About
ten o’clock this morning a
horseless wagon loaded with
cowless milk collided with a
brainless rider on a chainless
wheel. The luckless wheel¬
man was badly injured and
being homeless, he was taken
in a horseless cab to the Lome
for the friendless, whore his
death was painless in an hour
or less.”
If there is any one thing
which recent happenings on
the cotton exchange should
teacli a reasonable man it is
that there is obsolutely no
confidence to be placed in
Price McCormick & Oo.,—
noted cotton bulls. Just be¬
fore the break in prices in
December they flooded the
country with telegrams, say¬
ing that cotton was going up
speedily. Since Christmas
when cotton had a fair chance
to rise, they tried to
pede the market by
everybody to sell. In
of their effort cotton goes
Such false friends are to
shunned. Let them alone;
all they want is your
Y
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r”
“SwMt Bells Jangled
Out of Tune and Harsh."
sands ShakaapauVi of description They tits thou¬ des¬
pondent, women. are cross, burden
sioklv, their nervous—a families. Their to
.uemselves end
sweet bells, dispositions are gone, and they, Uke
the seem sadly ont of tana. But
thereto a remedy. They can use
McELREE’S
Wine of Cardui
it health to the womanly
organism, well poised and health there meant
It nerves. calmness, strength.
It womanly vigor and power,
up the nerves which suffer¬
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the most perfect remedy ever devised
to restore weak women to perfect
health, and to make them attractive
and happy. Ji.oo at all druggists.
For advice in cases requiring spec¬
ial directions, address, givingaymp
toms, “The Ladies' Advisory De¬
partment,*' The Chattanooga Medi¬
cine Co., Chattanooga. Tenn.
says^My BBT. 4. W. SMITH, Camden, S. O,
wife nsed Wine of Csidui at home
for falling at the womb and it entirely cured
PROHIBITION.
(Senator McGehee’s speech before the
Georgia Senate, continued from last
week)
Now, let us discuss this bill on
its merits. The senator from the
Twenty-eight, in his discussion
yesterday, found great trouble
with the bill upon the idea
it w'as unconstitutional. At
1 thought that was his objection,
but in the course of his remasks I
found out that he was such a j
sfcrong prohibitionist that this bill
was not strong enough lor h im -|
He actually opposed it because he
though drug stores would abuse
it, and sell intoxicants as a bever
age. If that is the objection of
the senator, I will strike out that
clause in order to get his support,
because he is an ardent probibi
tionist and in hearty sympathy
with the bill and is a great ad\ o
cate of temperance (!) Now, Mr.
President, the senator, O’l wa y 09O
fair, not only fair in form and
but fair in argument, re-
sorted to an argument, yesterday
that was not exactly right m the
discussion of this bill. He spoke
about the Maine law, and com
it with the Georgia
jq 0Wi the only place this that d t| le
Maine law can have in IB
cusaion is to*throw light upon the
question whether or not prohibi
tion will prohibit. That is all.
But what did he do? He spoke
of certain men in Maine who are
obnoxious to our grand old south ;
men whom we do not love possi
bly as much as we ought, and ap¬
pealed to thin senate, through
sectional hatred, thereby
ing to create prejudice
this bill. I say it was not fair.
But does prodibition prohibit?
Gentlemen, if you put it on that
ground, I tell you caudily there is
no law on the statute books of
Georgia that does prohibit. If
you repeal a law because it does
not prohibit, then you must re¬
peal every ciminal law in our
code. That, is not the question
whether it prohibits or not; the
( question is, is the thing it seeks
to stop right, or is the thing it
seeks to stoq>| wrong? That is the
only question. Now, let’s see:
does the law against arson prohib¬
it in Georgia? There are now
seventy-five in the Georgia peni¬
convicted of arson.
do away with your law
on arson and turn the men loose
to destroy pronerty. Senators,
for attempt to rmider flier/ are
two hundred and thirty now serv
ing in the Georgia penitentiary.
That does not prohibit, therefoie
do away with your laws for as¬
sault with • intent to murder.
There is another crime, which I
will not mention, for which one
hundred and one are now serving
in thejpenitentiary of the state of
Georgia, because law' does not pro¬
hibit. Will you pull down the
strong protection that we throw
around the virtue of our women!
What say you to the local option
argument when applied here?
The senator from the twenty
eight- stated yesterday that fig¬
ures and statistics as to to crime
should be taken from adjoining
counties, and from all over the
state, out of oue county here and
there. I have done that, and
that the senators will give me a
careful hearing. In 1890 the
BUS says that Fulton county had
population of 85,000. There arc
in the penetentiary two hundred
and sixty-six, a ratio of one to
three hundred and nineteen. Let s
take the next county. DeKalb right
next- to it. DeKalb had a popu¬
lation of seventeen thousand.
Twenty are in the penetintiary,
one to every eight hundred and
fifty. DeKalb is a dry county,
and the ratio of crime in Fulton
is three times as much as it is
DeKalb. Dees prohibition pro¬
hibit? Will you answer it, sena¬
tors, by saying that the people of
DeKalb county aie three times
more moral and three times bet¬
ter than in Fulton county? \V ill
the senators from this district
say that he can explain it, on the
ground that, the citizens of De¬
Kalb county are three times as
moral, that they have three times
as much Christianty? as the peo¬
ple of Fulton county? Let's see
Gwinnett is the next one in line.
This county had nineteen thous¬
and inhabitants, six in the qieni
tentiary; one fca every ihree thous¬
and and thirty three. The fur¬
ther you get from the center of
liquor the less crime there is.
Why? Because they cannot de¬
luge a distant county like they
can the one right by it. Let ub
try Bibb. The county of Bibb
had forty-two thousand popula
tion, one hunered and eeventeen
in the penitentiary; one to every
three hundred and sixty-two, just
about on a par with Fnltou. Hous
ton had twenty-one thousand and
it is a dry county, twenty-four in
the penitentiary, one to every nine
hundred. Three times as much
crime in Bibb as in Houston. Now,
in all fairness and can
tell me if it is not strange, if
is not passing strange, that this
just accidentally happens to
be that way wherever liquor is sold
an( q where it is not? Now', isn't
B j ran g e ? You say it is none of
our business how many criminals
y OU have I say it is our business,
^y bfcQ y OU f,]] U p the state peni
tentiary from Fulton, we are inter
^ted, because we are taxed to pay
£j ie eX p eDfie Every county in
Q eor g; a j B taxed to keep uq> that
institution. Money is taken from
in ypocket, from every Whiteman’s
p 0C ^ e t in Georgia, to pay for the
crimihalff who go from these conn
ties, which must be sustained by
[)ulllic But you say
( q oeg uot prohibit? Why does it
!)0t prohibit? Why, gentlemen,
it,dees not prohibit, what
, you so alarmed about? If prohi
bition does not prohibit, why all
this stir among the brrweries
the United States, from north to
south and from east to west?
What is the matter? They don’t
stir when is in the
What does all this mean? It
means that they are powerfully
afraid it will prohibit. That is
true. Now, let’s see. In 1898, in
Macon, the state and town licenses
issued for bar-rooms were sixty
four, the internal revenue licenses
were one hundred and thirteen.
Now you take sixty-four from one
hundred and thirteen; it leaves
forty-nine “blind ^tigers ) 5 in Ma
con. Well, gentlemen, bar-rooms
don’t prohibit. You have the bar
room and you have the “blind
tigers” both Bar rooms don’t
kill out “blind tigers.” In the
city of Atlanta there were one
hundred and four licensed in 1898;
two hundred and eight revenue li
censes, one hundred and four
“blind tigers,” just as many ‘blind
tigers” as bar-rooms.
local option means this : It
to have local saloons and to
local “blind to have
As a gentleman has said, “the
great trouble about local option it
is too local and to optional.”
Nmv, I come to Home, the home
Q q a H( ,,| !l ( <)r on th j y fioor, for
w hom I have the greatest respect •
In his own beautiful city the rec¬
ord showed that last year them
were ten bar-rooms and ton “blind
tigirs.” I have it from undispu¬
ted authority, from the senator
himself, that they had prohibition
in the county of Floyd under the
local option law, and it did not
prohibit. Why? Because in the
adjoining county, just fourteen
miles off, there was a bar-room
which sold sixty thousand dollars
worth of liduor in the county of
Floyd in one year. What does
that mean? It means that the
people of Floyd county, by local
option said, “We don’t want li¬
quor,” and another county right
by stepped in and with a grog¬
shop set aside the wishes of that
county and nullified the law that
those people had endorsed. You
tell me Floyd county has no
rights? You tell me counties
may do as they please? You tell
me that when my county has
voted local option, that a liquor
county has a right to deluge my
county? If one hundred and
seventeen dry counties have no
right to say liquor shall not be
sold in the 20 wet couuties, then
tell me what right those twenty
counties have to deluge the him
,lr„i on,! oc.-nuon dr, count,«
with liquor, when they have said
by local ption they don’t want
whiskey? But does prohibition
prohibit? I have letters here
from public men who are known
in Atlanta, real estate men, men
of business, men who have been
for and against prohibition, who
testified that the prosperity under
prohibition decreased when the
bar-rooms came back to the city,
and physicians state that- they
could not collect their bills and
merchants their accounts after
bar-rooms were re-instated. Is
that not a fair test and fair ar¬
I don't know about!
Balbwiu county, but I will read i
I responsible *
you. am uot lor it. I
I give it for what it is ort “. j
Prohibit ion prohibited in the
of Balbwin. An article
on November 28th, from the Un
ion Recorder at Milledgeville, in
speaking cf the representative who
fought the Willingham bill in the
House, represents him as saying:
"I tell you that the jails of my
county and the police barracks
overflowed with prisoners during
the reign of prohibition.” This
paper says that in 1887, the first
year of prohibition, there werefif-
ty-one cases before the mayor, in
1888 forty cases, in 1889, fifty
cases, and in the three years iru
men lately following, which had
oar-rooms, the docket shows in
1897, two hundred and seventeen
cases, four times as many as dur
ing prohibition, and in 1898, two
hundred and sixty-two cases, and
in 1899, up to Thursday, the 28rd
day of November, two hundred
and twenty-fonr cases,
Senators, you may talk about
men and you may talk about conn
ties. That is merely to draw the
attention from the issue. The
question is, is the sale Gf liquor in
our beloved state right, is itbless
ing our hom^s, is it bringingpros
perity or ruin, is it bringing sor
row or sadness, is it, bringing life
or death, is it- bringing peace or
crime? Those are the questions
for us to solve, ai d I tell you they
should burn into our souls. Now.
let’s see, For fifteen years the '
people of Maine tried prohibition
after that they voted it into
their constitution by a vote of
three to one. Let me beg you in
all candor to deal fair with the ar¬
gument; if the state of Georgia
after trying the bill, if it were
passed, for fifteen years, would
turn around and vote it into her
constitution by one hundred and
fifty thousand for it and fifty
thousand against it, would you
not say, as honest men, that i
was high evidence that the law
worked well? Would you not,
honest, now? Why not be can¬
did about Maine? Let’s deal as
fairly with Maine us we would
with Georgia. State lines make
no difference; it is the principle.
I dare say there is not a man in
this house but who, if he were up
north and met Senator Bacon, or
Senator Clay, or Governor Candler
and asked how the prohibition law
in your state is, and they were to
tell you it is a great success, would
you believe him. Now, I say to you,
that tiie statement of senators,
governors and representatives
from the state of Maine who
that it is a grand success
reduced to the minimum, should
* hI
Fry, United States amatol from
Maine, said in answer to a letter
in 1892: “Thelaw is not a fail
ure. It has been, on the other
hand, a wonderful success,” ami
he goes on to say that the people
*” S "*?: ^ “ u ’“! r h le “ “•
our senators and onr governors
eim.Sli r'-ition* \vlv noT'deal M
fairly ,yit]i ni -n who occupy
have a number of letters here,
will read one in reference tv- Ivan
fills, from John J. Ingalls, in which
he says: ‘ , ; . ’
‘
as extinc “ , , ’ S “'
ccs. the a drunkard k is lias a phenomenon. |
bar up • Mined th
troubadours aid the crusaders •
the breweries and the distilleries
and the bonded warehouses are
known only to the „»hcolo*i,t«.
Tho conBiiinption of intoxicant. P
consequently decreased; ft conser
vative estimate shows the reduc
tion to be 90 per cent; it cannot
bo l ess than Toper cent.” Now
piemen. I ask you candidly, as
fnir-mindod nu-n. if Co, o-os-rnon
Crisp> a , nan W | M i, :: .. v
phuH . in every G u-i.-iV Juv.rv
whiIe in Hfe hudv.d . a Y V ,
York that a aw hr. ■ n-' d .
Georgia and that A' it
rtCtU aHy decrea hI th vrlir
was directed :i*aind flj j .w
wuW you not believe it was pro
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hibitin g ju3t a little hit, jrsta lit
tie bit. gentlemen? Would you
not admit that it was worthy of
'
at least some consideration?
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1900 (jREETMH
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Stationery,
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All kinds of Smoking Tobacco,
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Carriage and Waggon Paints
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ffi TH JJb K W. miu, H
THE ELECTION OF
JUDGESHIP.
This is the year in which oc
curs the elections of Judges and
Solicitor Generals of tho differ
• it circuits and which elections
will be made by the people of the
entire slats.
Tho Stone Mountain circuit
have a vacancy in both Judge j
Solicitorship. A successor to;
Judge Candler and Col. Kimsey
must be elected by voters of all
the state.
But by nominations the matter
will be settled long before the elec*
tion. The democratic conven
tion will nominate the democrat¬
ic candidates for these qdaces. If
the convention meets without
having any public expressions of j
choice 01 from the different circuits,
]>owm-of electing these tunc
mon and tlun « B v ' in 11(di be im *
n*. ^ fe some
'p 1 * of “ 0iui "“ k, ‘‘ in the oh
Jn *n **icle headed Let the
People choose,” the Walton News
Messenger strikes the key
not f and 8entiment
™ hear It bruited^about
fOH «*>• ^ ^ » -
tain 9 nai ' ter8 not to ; suba llt ' this
the “Lpootoo j
ourt house during the Springaud
-'-at it U unalterably^ opposed
i to this mefchod - We whlc!l ure °PP 0S ® be d
any Bystem ? an
" mdled by 11 sl,ck set of coart ’
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| house manipulators. A
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I t-ho deumerut, of the county
! ' ” exe H refl9 the11 °P lul0n8 * " e
i “ " e the P e0 P le ot tht
—^ generally wfl! mke tae mat
t 0 r up and discuss it, and see to it
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b ly of State offices
comnlis , ioQs he ld by in the
Volunteers empire, Febuary
and by virtue of an
tbQ Armory Ga.'Vols, of Co—G.. *8rd.
R e gt„ Inft, on the first
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THE
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RAILROAD
The following Lamed Agents are
prepared to furnish full reli -!e
information regarding all t 1
ules and rates to all pointsK., a,
South, East and West-.
Infrmation given regarding all jwj.
r,9s both as to Passenger s:id
Freight.
Communicate with either of A
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G. A. G. P. A
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