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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. WEDNEHnAT, JCNE S". I*K. Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday by THE GEORGIAN CO. at 25 V. Alabama Street, | Atlanta, Ga. F; • ■ rut aa second-els aa matter April 26, 1106, at tb* PiatoftM at Atlaula. Ga.. under act of congrcae of March l 1619. him lo be anything hut straightforward in all hla deal- j tin eaiimate | n g g . J Btudonta wh And he cannot discharge the high duties assigned to him without experience. The system which made these offices a part of the spoils of political war prevented any man from becoming highly efficient, particularly In the consular departments. He no sooner bocame familiar with the language and manners and cuttoms of the country than he was brought home to give some other man a Job. This, we are told, la to end, and men are to be pro moted from one grade to another on'a system of merit. The value In dollars and cents to this country will be very great, but It Is no less Important that they will occupy a stronger position in the esteem of the country to which they are accredited. THE GEORGIAN COMES TO GEORGIA AS THE SUNSHINE "Liber' restraint." exists in proportion to wholesome —Daniel Webster, An Individual Defense of Savannah. We publish today, at his own request, an open letter from Mr. G. P. Whatley, of Savannah, jirotestlng against ti ■; recent criticisms of the Savannah municipal election, a 1 seeking to lay upon the shoulders of the Hon. Pleas tu| A. Stovall and the Savannah Press a large part of il <i responsibility for the published reports of the buying d selling of votes and the political scenes which hi >ught the cry of shame from the state upon the 8a- nnah primary. We publish Mr. WhaUey'a article because, whenever v have felt called upon In the Interest of right and of ■ ' public morals to criticise, we hare never.felt Justified In « hholdlng a hearing to those whom we bare assailed. Mr. Whatley will bear In mind that the editorial com- u -its of this paper had no reference whatevpr to the sini of any particular club or faction lo Savannah. We di-i not know when we wrote, and we do not know now Hi- >n which aide the burden of this political Iniquity should rest. We spoke of It ae a general thing, and pro tested It aa a general thing, In the Interest of civic Integ rity and of representative government, without regard • a the source from which thla wholesale bribery found Its Inspiration We note that Mr. Whatley today concedes the exist- race of thla bartering of ballots In the mart, but claims some mitigation of the offense In the fact that there lees of It than there had been In previous elections. We are not disposed to discuss this matter wltb lr. Whatley, because he doubtless knows more of the lure end magnitude of the offense than we do. IJut, we ' feel and'do repeat that thla bartering of ballots In en and ahameless Impudence and defiance of public law and public morality In Savannah, and In one or two ntliur cltloa of the state, whether It be In larger or smaller degree, ought to come under the prompt and fearleaa ban of public opinion and public condemnation, and that while the offenae la freah the condemnation ahould be lining and general throughout' the state. The Hon. Uoykln Wright, of Aufcusta, moved perhapa by some expertencea nearer home to him than 8avannah. lies prepared a bill which wo alnoerely truat will not only i-as* the Qeorgla legislature, but will moat vigorously and fearleaaly be enforced In ovary city in which the law i- mocked and public decency la defied by the ahameleaa traffic of ballots In these primary and other elections. With one phaae of Mr. What’lcy's letter wo have a minment. It would be difficult to persuade tbe people of <;. orsla. who have known and honored Pleasant Stovall lor so many years, that he would willingly lend himself to any form of public or private corruption, or that any consideration of perianal spleen or venom would move him to a reflection upon his people that was not. In his honest opinion. Justified by the fact;. F Wc can do no leu than believe that Mr. Whatley Is j- sincere In bis protest against the aspersions which have l-een left upon bis city. We have no other conclusion than that he himself was not responsible for these tnon- &. (trout perversions of civic Integrity, and that ho was i iraself a proteatant against them, but we must protest | to Mr. -Whatley our unwillingness to believe that any thing less than clean, honorabje, and patriotic can come from Plouunt Stovall In tho public or tho private func tion* of his life. We trust that both Mr. Whatley and Mr. Stovall will Join their united and potential voice* with the chorua of l -.test which la going up all over the state, and that Savannah may have not only the restraining voice of Its trlends abroad, but the strong and fearless protest of Us sons at home against any repetition In the future of _ Scenes, which, however Justifiable In the tulndi of par- |» titans and however modified In degree by more conaerva- tlvoi statement* of the Incidents themselves, are far from Justified In public Integrity and In public policy/ and should be unhesitatingly condemned. A Measure of Consular Reform. While the consular reform bill, which has recently , bun enacted Into law, Is not all that Its moat devoted advocates could desire, it Is a long step forward, and Its practical operation will contribute In no small degree t-i the Improvement of that Important branch of the pub- 11* service Our consuls and commercial agents abroad are not placed strictly under the civil service, and the reform ■Bvtn not be complete until they nre, but n policy of pro- motion on the grounds of merit has been tacitly OS S' tabUshed. and so long as a president remains In power » 1 1 favors this efficiency plan the system will work well. A few days ago President Roosevelt appointed 6l H consuls. Fifty-nine of these were In reality piomdtlons F from one post to another and higher one, and In the two ■L^stances where this was not done the men who^ re- h, retved the appointment had been for a long time Identl- I' *u with work which peculiarly qualified them for the ■ ber of to which they were assigned. n ngs t Is hoped that the good work will continue. J ‘“fhe'Vhc nature of our consular system was for a long it wll* serious reflection upon this great country. The "|jj r assigned to fill theac offices were pets and favor* j All i of the administration which happened to be In jjfjjjfce. and the personal character of many of these untutn made them proverbs of profligacy and Incapacity. Such men are gradually being weeded out and men pet) a higher stamp of manhood are being placed In office, rully seems that the time Ja coming when diplomacy ■ay become a recogntxed and desirable career open to aaen of ability. Tbe very nature of diplomacy hat changed from tbe sinister days when a diplomat was de scribed as a man "spat to II- abroad for hla country." Chicanery and deception are no longer a part of the du- Hk ties of the diplomat. He to expected to re a man of cul- IB tare and education, with a working knowledge of Com- I: Hr The Pennsylvania Situation. While prominent leader* of the Republican party hare been In Philadelphia, celebrating tbe golden Jubilee of that organlxatlbn, the eyes of the country have been turned upon the crystallisation of policies which will af fect the future of the state of Pennsylvania, and Inci dentally of the entire country,-to h greater extent than anything that baa happened In many a long day. Comment waa made In theae columns some time since upon the fact that Ihe regular Republican party had nominated a practically unknown man by tbe name of Stuart for governor of the state, and that this waa done at the dictation of Senator Penrose, the creature and disciple of Ihe late "easy boaa," Matthew Stanley Quay. That Penrose Is an adept In the art of political manipu lation there can be no doubt, at least on the part of those who say, like the lamented Josh Billings, “1 never argue agin a success." It was demonstrated that he had the regular ma chine as much under bis thumb as ever Quay had It Perhapa It waa not the wise thing to make this fact tod manifest at a time- when the entire people of Penn sylvania bad become aroused against bosslam In the state and In the city of Philadelphia. Mayor Weaver's triumph over tbe ring was too recent and the people are too strong In their determination to carry the crusade against the machine to the point of annihilation. But the fact remains that he did It. The Independent, or Lincoln, Republican* of the state refused to accept Stuart, and nominated Lewis Emery for governor. This faction of the Republican party, to pledged to the overthrow of the machine, and the rehabilitation of the party and the state. It has a large following, and will be a power at tbe next election. But now comes a proposition from the Lincoln Re publicans to Col. J. M. Guffey, the picturesque leader of the Democratic party In the state, to Indorie their candi date Instead of putting one of their own In tbe field. Speculation It rife as to what Colonel Guffey will do. Ue haa hla enemies. Indeed, It has been said of him that "those who woultt flatter him, call him a fool." Juat what they would eay If they Intended to speak unkindly of him we are left to Imagine. But there Is a Democrat by tbe name of Berry whose strength Injects a new element Into the calculations. Laat year be turned the Republican plurality of half a million for Roosevelt In 1906 Into a plurality for himself of 80,000 when he ran for the office of state treasurer. Thus, up there where tho Dutch have been In possession of Holland, ao to speak, from the foundation of the re public, a Democrat was actually choaen by an over whelming plurality. The Democrats took heart of grace and have had their eye on Berry ever since. Derry has already been nominated by the Prohibi tionists, who poll a solid vote of 50,000, and If the Democrats Indorse hla nomination there seems to be no reason, according to the knowing ones, why he should not also poll hla full party vote of 500,000. In short, the Indications are good that a Democratic nominee will be elected governor of the great state of Pennsylvania this year, whichever course may be pur sued. The atate has always gone Republican In national election*, and a Democrat has been elected governor of the atate only twice since a period before the civil war. So It will be a notable event Indeed If a Democratic nominee—whether he be techlnacily a Prohibitionist or a Llncolnlte—should be chosen to the chair of* the chief ex ecutive. Tho Important consideration Is that It would mean the overthrow of the machine which Boee Quay built up with ao much labor and aatutenesa, and after that there Is no telling what the Democrat* may be able to accomplish In Pennsylvania. Chancellor Barrow All Right. Thero will be found no man In Oeorgla to protest the selection of David C. Barrow aa chancellor of the State University, and there will be found thousands to rejoice In it with unfeigned heartiness from the moun tains to tbe sea. The Georgian la one ot those who had nothing to do, even by way ‘of suggestion, wltb the selection of Chan cellor Barrow. We have heard from the beginning that he did not wish the place, and we had only mentioned him Incidentally among thoee whose names wsre held In the balance ot Judgment by the trustees. It seems now In the light of events, that It waa sim ply stupid not to have teen that Clean Barrow waa the logical man for the poaltlon, and perhaps In all the mentioned Hat. the very best man that could have been choaen. If there 1* nothing essentially dashing or ab normally brilliant about the new chancellor, there la everything which la absolutely sound and perennially safe. The one transcendent quality which the new chan cellor possesses, and there Is no better fact In executive station of leadership, to the possession of the absolute lore and confidence of the student body which surrounds him- There are two things which The Georgian In nil its discussion of university and college affairs, and of the men who hold executive stations In these great Institu tions, has claimed to be necessary. We have always hsld that wherever It was possible, a teacher should be selected for promotion to the high places In the schools of the state. We have insisted upon this In every particular In which the public voice could participate In tbe deliberation* of school affair*. The reasons for thla fact do not need to be repeated here. Encouragement to teachers. Inspiration to effort, and training and equipment, all combine to make this principle dear. Chancellor Barrow embodies lo hlmaelt this principle ln*he highest degree. He has been for twenty-nine years a teacher or tutor In the university, and hla promotion .comas normally, naturally and nobly from rank to rank of usefulness to this high station tn his alma mater now. The other great requisite for success In a chancellor to to be able to command the unbounded confidence and affection of the students who are under hla authority. The young republic of letters has its own creeds and Its own Infallible judgments of measures and of men. and no malurer manhood to ever quicker and more Infallible in if the worth and merits of a leader than the'entera upon hla work with a promise of happiness and i come In dally rontart with him. sureeaa which few men have ever carried to the pre- It 1b safe to aay that no man In or out of Georgia ' aiding office of our state university. When to this Is could command more perfectly and more universally! joined the amplest scholarship and the loftiest char- tbe confidence and love of tbe stadent body of tbe uni- acter, the most thorough absorption of the traditions and versify than the new chancellor, who for twenty years j Ideals of the university for more than a quarter of a has been endeared to tbe university graduates and un-1 century, the close personal touch and affection wltb der-graduates by the affectionate soubriquet of-“Uncle I tbe people - of Athens, and of Ihe state—with stalwart Dave." They believe in him to tbe uttermost, they would | health and comparative youth, It would seem very clear trust him wlthojt questioning In any statement or In any decision he might make, and there Is not a man whose name has been In touch with the university for two de cades who would not deem It almost a sacrilege to ques tion either the sincerity or tbe Justice of any ruling which the beloved new chancellor would make. He Is the embodiment of good character. Upon the broad basis then of these two essential qual ifications, it may safely be said that the new chancellor A LETTER FROM JUNIUS. To the Editor of The Georgian: Mr. Bryan can’t be elected president of the United States two yean hence. The great fight—the earnest fight, the fiercest. political combat ever waged In this or any country, In this or any ags—will be between capital and la bor. Mr. Bryan to not radical enough for the labor party, and hla Integrity and patriotism leave him entirely out of the question as a candidate for the syndicates, trusts and money power. Corporate freed doesn't want him; wouldn’t have him; couldn't use him. He la not sufficiently "safe and aane“ for their purposes. Hr wouldn’t—hs couldn't—work In their harness. The is occupies makes It t Impossible for him to be elected trusts and money syndicates, from the Standard Oil down to the least malo dorous of thess, all would oppose him stronger. If not more violently, than In the past. They know the difference between Mr, Bryan and the Socialist! Is In degree, not In kind. They know, as far aa he goes with reference to public ownership of the public services and of nature's bounties, he Is parallel with their principles. They know that auch a man la as certain to advocate the right of every man to the undl vlded fruit of Ids'Industry aa thq stnra are to pursue their course. They know that Mr. Bryan haan't become suffi ciently advanced In political compre- henalon to object to that great politi cal "aermon on the mount," "the Dec laration of Independence." They know that Marx and Debba and Rebel and Upton 8t. Clair and B. O. Flower, of “The Arena,” and Bryan all hold this superb expression of truth and courage In equal esteem. They know that Mr. Bryan would not come down to the front of the atage at the beginning of a contest between Right and Wrong —between the robber and the victim, fire off hla “hoaa pistols" with a whoop of defiance that said to the people, "Who but I?" and later, when the whole fight had been won by another In the Internet of the people, hide be hind the amoke and noise of his foot- light performance and anatch the mea ger but hard earned vantage away, and give It to corporate greed. No. the respectable element, the con trolling element, “ “ ‘ * *' the Democratic party,'beginning with Mr. Belmont, In Wall street, and ending with the great aubsldlsed press that fought him open ly In 1896 or "damned him with faint praise" and lack of help In 1900, bear the aame relation to their greed, to their wealth, and to Mr. Bryan through their lust for wealth and power, they did then. These men, this Wall atreet Dsmocratcy at the head of the Demo cratic party, with Ua organised wealth, and the Republican party are one. One In Interest, one In sympathy. In love. In hate. In greed, In wealth. In being. In everything except In name. Mr. Hill used to say on every occasion, and as nobody could understand how It could be, there was always occasion for him to say It: "I am a Democrat." And the present Democratic party, organ ised os I have stated It, and as It real- jy l«. ought to go Mr. Hill one bet ter—“I am two parties at once, either at a time or the whole thing." The la boring man has begun to mix his brain with his brawn. He Is waking from the slumber of ages. He to aroused to life, to a consciousness ot his power, from the spell of years. The awe In which he has been taught to hold wealth has changed with his new vis ion of things to a respect for the great, patient, tolling myriad; who produce t. He knows that while he holds the Egyptian laborer In contempt for building pyramids of stone for fowl sufficient one day to enable him to serve.hla master the next, that he, here In America. Is building pyramids of gold and furnishing the gold through hla labor that he may eat food and continue this profitless toll ot heaping plla upon pile of wealth through all ils dreary, hopeless life. Verily, verily, thla man of whom It ever might have been, said," Vox pop- ull. vox del." has learned Indeed whoae voice Is meant and he 16 aa sure to ralae that voice till It achoea around thla greed-cursed earth aa tho- eternal sun to sure to pursue Ua wonted course. The geographic line that made this former beast of burden a Demo crat has faded from his awakened •yea. The local prejudice that mad# him a Republican haa vanished from his enlightened mind. The universal brotherhood of man, that he has aver been taught to hate end despise; and his brothers beyond certain Imaginary limits that he has been brained and drilled In the moet terrific enginery of death-dealing destruction to dsatroy, are the cause for which his party has Its being. No longer does he. or will he consider killing or maiming ihe un fortunate laborer of another clime, a sign of patriotism. Terrific explosions, combined with the hardest, harshest, most unyielding materials of the earth, hurled at other unfortunate laborers hired or forced to be In their way; aa hs Is—no longer charm a savage In stinct tn his breast. The bounties of nature—the fruit, the substance of the earth—yea. the full ness thereof with the means of pro- th.se bounties _ _ ___ ightera of men are his high and lofty purpore The Orientals have a tradition that the shadow of a dog shall not fall upon tbe surface of the great world beyond. « will not be long before the great voice of the people shall declare that the shadow of a stare, the shadow ot one man tolling that another may have, sowing that another may reap, shall not be cast upon the earth. Samson has learned hie strength. His hand to reaching for the pillars of atate. Strong hands, kind and steady and true: his eyes are as clear, aa calm, aa unsullied by temper as the stare of haaven. His mind Is as loyal to tha right as the needle Is to the pol*- These pillars will be tom asunder. They will be made stepping-stones tn better things. The edifice will not fall and crush. There Is naught but lore, universal for hu manity. In Its removal It was built by- Samson the blind, at the behest ot greed. With eyre of love and light he will build on the fatherhood of Ood and tha brotherhood of man. and It shall be bread enough lo shelter and protect the human rare. And the North and the South, and the East and the West, and Antipole and Pole may asy. "It Is mine, and It Is mine,” and It shall hr theirs. All humanity's—In Joy. In love. In triumph. In peace, la brotherhood. In sisterhood, forever U shall be their*. - JUNIUS. that all thoughtful friends of education are In a position to most heartily felicitate tbe university upon the wise and prudent choice which-the trustees have made for a chancellor to preside over Its future work. And The Georgian, yielding nothing to any man In the state In the* matter of personal affection and admira tion for the new chancellor, sends to Chancellor Bar- row the assurance of Its rejoicing approval, and the pledge of Its earnest cooperation with his official work. CHOLLY KNICKERBOCKER O Gossips About People and Other Things l\y rilOIXY KNICKBDBOC KEK. o .••......••.••■...a. iMt.f By Private Leaped Wire. New York, June 20.—The woman suf frage movement getr small comfort from Pope Plus X. In an Interclew with the noted Austrian suffragist and writer. Mme. Camilla Eeltner, hla ho liness Is quoted as saying: ‘Women ought not In any case to mix ihemaelves In public affairs. Thsy will be neither electors nor elected, men have enough troubles already In agreeing among themselves; thsy do enough to bring disorder Into parlia ments.'' That thla will bring down upon hla head the anathema maranatha of the women who believe there should be no eex In the rights of cltlxenehlp Is cer tain. and even though the pope ex presses full, sympathy In the advance ment of women In other lines than pol itics. He aays: All that tends to raise the moral and Intellectual level of humanity la worthy of our encouragement, always provided that It does not violate Chris tian laws. It Is well that women are freeing themselves from the heavy yokes that society has Imposed on them -for centuries. It Is well that they are able to master their own means of existence. "For my part, I see nothing to pre vent them from being lawyers, or doc tors; doctors especially, so that they can give proper care to their children, which In all times has been their natu ral avocation. "Education Is also one of the pro fessions which suits them best. Are they not first teachers of their chil dren, and thus of all humanity?” Miss Helen and Mrs. -George J. Gould have been granted the privilege of an Folly of Life Insurance Investigation. To the Editor of The Georgian: What a great calamity and hardship to policy-holders does all thla investi gation entail! Former presidents and ofilcers of theae great Insurance companies have stolen and grafted until they were all rich men—had all they wanted. Now new men are In who have little, who are poor men, with only a million, and need eight or ten. Thsy will now start In to work to graft and get It from the poor policy-holders and the whole mess to go over again In a decade. Why not leave the old regime aa It waa? Policy-holders will be robbed more than ever before, for the trail haa been biased, legislatures, courts and all re straint muaaled. Once upon a time, long time ago, reads the fable: A rail road superintendent called a conductor of a passenger train Into hla office and bald: "I am going to discharge you, for I find out you have been taking cash fares. 1 am going tq put a freight conductor In your place.” Tbe pas senger conductor said: "Don’t do It, for It will cost you more. I have made now about all I'll ever need out of your road and this new man haa never had the chance, and now he will have to get hla pile out of you." The moral Is obvious. There Is now about 12 to 26 paid out to life Insurance companies In premiums to every St paid back In death claims There Is no reason on earth why any man ahould take out a life Insurance policy, for If he can't, by provident means, In vest or save during hi* lifetime, can he audience with the pope. Archbishop Farley presented the distinguished American women. William B. Leeds will be called upon to show cause why he should not pay an 'additional duty of $100,000 on a magnificent pearl necklace he recently bought for hla wife tn Paris, and for which he la said to have paid $400,000. On pearla the United States govern ment levies a duty of only 10 per cent of the value. But let thoee same pearls be strung Into the length of a necklace, or aet, and the law, as Interpreted, en titles the collector of the port to de mand 60 per cent of the valuation. But the pearls bought by Mr. Leeds and brought to this country by M. Cllroen. a member of the Cartier firm, are said to be the most magnificent string ever assembled. The justices of the court of special sessions have decided. In a test case, that the negro organization of Elks, the "Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World," may It- gaily wear the badge Inscribed "I. B. P. O. EL” without Infringing on the white order. Mias Jane, daughter of Randall Mor gan. traction magnate of Philadelphia. Is now a. New York bay pilot. She already holds a license for navigating oceans, obtained from the local boan of steam vessel Inspectors In this port, Now she has a license for navies " the waters of New York bay as fa Fort Washington point. She passed a nearly perfect examination. Mlaa Morgan holds a certificate a* matter of her father's yacht, which once belonged to Emperor Francea Jo seph. She also haa a license for Phila delphia waters. WHATLEY RESENTS REFLECTIONS CAST Replies to “The Press” in Open Letter to -the People. SAYS CHARGES MADE BY LOT OF SOREHEADS Deplores Vote-Buying,' But D«- dares There Was Less of It Than for Many Years, THIS DATE IN HISTORY. JUNE 20. 1542—Ferdinand DeSoto, explorer, died. Born 1496. 1532—Charter of Maryland received by Lord Baltimore. 1719—Battle of VlllafranCa, Sicily. 1781—Richmond, Va, evacuated by Lord Cornwall la 1701—Flight of Louis XVI from Paris. 1824—John T. Morgan. United States senator from Alabama, bom. 1837—King William IV ot England died; succeeded by Queen Vic toria. 1862—City of Mexico surrendered by the Jaurists. 1574—New conference currency bill la passed by both houses of con gress. 1876—Santa Anna, president ot Mexi co, died; born February 21, 1795. 1886—Prince Lulppold made regent of Bavaria. 1893—Lizzie Borden aequlted of tbe murder of her pa rente in Fall River, Man. .span, 1895—Baltic ship canal opened. 1897—Queen Victoria began the cele bration of her jubilee. 1698—United States troops reached Santiago de Cuba. 1003—Cardinal Vaughan died. Born April 16, 1123. produce a family who could save or j 1005—Herbert W. Bowen, minister to Venezuela, dismissed by Presl keep a fortune left In life Insurance after his death? In other words, on the face df It. by their own figures, life Insurance companies condemn themselves for they show that for every dollar they get they rarely pay back 60c. Does that look good to a work ing man? N. K. SMITH. Acworth, Ga.. June 17, 120$, About Foreign Immigration. To the Editor of The Georgian: In your Issue ot June It there ap- >eared two vary forcible articles on orelgn labor coming Into the South. Like very nearly every point of Issue, there are two sides to It. Thera Is really no dearth of tabor In the South at present. It Is not a question of quantity, but quality. The main reli ance for manual labor, especially on the farms, has been, and Is now, the negro. This hss become very unrelia ble and la getting more so each year. There Is 'a great Inclination on the part of many classes of working people to congregate In cities and towns and congest tbs labor market. It appears now In Atlanta that there are enough Idle negro men (and many poor whites) to till evsry farm In Georgia. A negro paper recently editorially commented on the worthlessneee of the average negro laborer. And, sad to say, educa tion seems to aggregate this condi tion. The foreman of an Industry In your city recently stated In an Inter view that he had often employed 68 and 108 negroes to work and no more than half would report for duty. Many would quit work without notice, some not even coming for their pay. What the South needs Is small colonies of Norwegians, Swedes and Germans to come over and be divided Into sections and go out on the farms and tend the crops. They are willing and able to work; they know hard work and don't shirk It. They are reliable, thrifty and honest, and will make Ideal farm laborers. Very few Industries thrive without competition and the negro laborers seed competition, not to run them out nor to eliminate them, but to awaken them by want and poverty, to realize their danger and depart from their shiftless way. They are getting en tirely too Independent. They will work two days and rest three, because they know If they lose one Job thev can get another In an hour. This condition has got to change or be changed. The South Is prosperous and increasing In population. Increasing In laborers, but of the aame shiftless, useless, unrelta- dent Roosevelt. ble kind, both white and colored. Thla to of no benefit, thla kind of Increase to calamity. Why on earth a white man or a ne- gro will go to a city to earn a living Is a puzzle. They are constantly leaving the healthy surroundings of the Coun- 1 try. where they have few expenses and ran raise their children morally, and coming to the grinding life of the cities, where labor Is high, but the coet ot living reduces thslr prospect of laying a penny by to the minimum. Recently a blacksmith left North Georgia for Atlanta. He had In the country plenty of work, a good home, garden, cattle and waa prosperous. He gets to town; gets more wages, has to live In a squalid den, taxes and coat of living so Increased that Instead of saving money he Is In debt and can't get back to his old home. A merchant told me recently In a smaller town that he had several cus tomers who had been farmers, whom he sold on credit, as they made good crops and wsre honest. When they came to town and they put their fam ilies In a cotton mill, he kept on selling them on account, but In a short while found out that l)« would lose every penny he sold to them and that they had become utterly unreliable and dis honest. In tha country today there are two Jobs for avery laborer; In town two laborers for every Job. In the country are. comfortable homes, gardens, vegetables, a cow and hogs tor every family, few expenses, health and happiness. And If the con- gestlon of tbs cltl«s Is not relieved and the dearth of compatent labor sup plied In the rural districts, then foreign labor la bound to come and spread all over tbe South and take advantage ot the glorious opportunities now exist ing for them. A great cry la going up all over tha South now for tabor- help! help! comes the cry. and those near by hear It and harken not; soon this cry will be heard beyond -the ocean and men and women will come and take up these homes with com forts and Joys they have never Itnown and draw from the bosom of Mother Earth In this Southland untold riches and power, and the shiftless Idlers, who now spend their time loafing around the saloons and corners of dark alleys. In citlaa end towns, will see too late what opportunities they have lost for ever. N. K. SMITH. Acworth, Oa., June 17, 19*8. To the Editor of The Georgian: It seems The Savannah Press, through Ita hired correapondents. has been very active In sending broadcast throughout Georgia, reports ot whole sale buying and selling of votes at our late primary election here, and equally oa active In collecting together from Its exchanges adverse criticisms on this election, and placing the same In a double-column header In The Press of Saturday laat. No one deplores vote buying and selling at the polls more than the writer, or for that matter, than the average, upright, honorable citizen of Savannah, anil tn view .if tbe fact that there wsui no neceselty for It In th» contest referred to, It la still more to be deplored, so far as the members of the winning aide were con cerned, aa the vlctorywas bo decisive and overwhelming, that the only posit- ble excuse for It must be attributed to the work of a few enthusiasts In their zeal to still swell the majorltv, and forever bury out of sight a crowd of political corruptionists, harpies, gratt ers, gamblers and Sunday liquor sell ers, the equals of whom no city In Georgia haa ever been disgraced with In the annals of our fair state. The Press was frank to acknowledge In Its com ment on this election the next day that It was the first time Ih the history of Sa vannah that wealthy men, counting their money by the hundreds of thous ands. some of them, millionaires, were found standing In line early In the morning. In a pouring, drenching rain, waiting their turn to vote, and did vote before they left It, and before 9 o'clock It was generally conceded by boih aides that the election had been won. Chaffing Under Defeat Unfortunately, Mr. Stovall,, the edi tor of The Press, and the Citizens’ Club candidate for state senator, went down with his ticket. Chaffing under his humiliating defeat. It was only nat ural that hla paper, through Its corps of correapondents, ahould send out this charge of buying and selling votes. Everybody well knows that If the Citi zens' Club ticket and Mr. Stovall had won, there would have been no report of vote-buying and selling, or any oth er Irregularity, no mattes- how fla grantly and unbluthlngly It may have been committed. . This Citizens’ Chib, brought Into ex istence here about twelve years ago, with the open and avowed declaration to reform, upbuild and nurture the best moral, social and financial inter ests of this city, has had a record of crime that la without parallel In the annals of Tammany in New York or of the Mafia Society of New O/leans. It haa cursed this town with more open and notorious gamblers and Sunday li quor sellers, protected by the sworn officers of the law, than can be found anywhere. It has brought untold sor row to the Innocent, destitution, starv ing and rags to the widow and orphan, wrecked lives to our young men and corrupted morals on every side. Abusa Borne For Years. After groaning under this gruesome state of affairs for these long years, with a patience and submission to which only a noble and long-suffering people llko those of Savannah could or would submit, to It at all to be wondered zt that an outraged people should rise up and put them out? . In the name and on behalf of the good people of this city of my adoption, where I have lived for the past quarter of a century, where I have raised mr children, where I have tried to live the life of an honorable man and upright citizen before Ood and man, I deny thle wholeaale Indictment agalnat tnj- peo ple and agalnat the fair name of this city. It haa been conceived In envy, bom In vengeance and sought to ne nurtured at the expense of Justice and ,ruth - . . Thla to Ihe whole story. Aa to tn« buying and selling of votes, the num ber waa less, for thq large vote polled, than at any election In the history of Savannah. Let the people of Geor gia, therefore, not be deceived In this abortive effort to traduce our fair name by a lot ot soreheads, defeated at the polls, whose only aim Is to wreak pri vate vengeance at the expense of the truth, and especially at the expense -d the fair name of the city of Savannah, before the people of Georgia- O. R WHATLEY, savannah, - Ga., June 18, 1908. GEORGIANS IN GOTHAM- By Prlrate Leased Wire. New York, June 20.—Here are some of the visitors In New York today. ATLANTA—H. P. Mitchell. R *■ Daniel, H. Cohen. B. Goettlnger. SAVANNAH—W. & Evens, J. c- Fleming. NOT BECOME CANDIDATE FOB THE GOVERNORSHIP Special lo The Georgian. Jackson, Miss., June 20—T. V. fis sion, district attorney of the Fifth dis trict, haa tendered hie resignation to the governor, effective July 1. ... Four candidates are In the Bates, of Calhoun: Lamb, of W *b»tsr. Penson. of Choctaw: Turner, of vat f jixdgd Frank A. Crttx. of West Point, has Issued an address to the Democ- tacy of the atate saying he has d» elded not to become a candidate t- governor. CONDITION OF BANKS WANTED BY BIDGELY By Private Lsm6 Wire. Washington. June 28.—The controller or the' currency today Issued e call for tha condition of all the national banks at tbe dose of business on June 19,