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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. "^sssssTroSir The Atlanta Georgian. JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor. F. L. SEELY, President. Subscription Rite*: One Ye»r $4.50 Six Month! 2.50 Three Month! 1.25 By Cirrier, per week 10c Published Every Afternoon Except Sundiy by THE GEORGIAN CD. it 25 W. Alabama Street, Atlinti, Gi. hint? but MrnlKhtfor' ard In all hla deal- Its estimate of the worth and merits of a leader than the I enters upon his work with a promise of happiness and Entered ss second-class matter April M, 1*06. at the Postoffice It Atlanta. Ga.. tinder act or eoneress of March t MU. 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 fetter from Mr. O. P. Whatley, ot Savannah, protesting against the recent criticisms of the Savannah municipal election, and seeking to lay upon the shouldere of the Hon. Pleaa- ant A.* Stovall and the Savannah Praia a large part of the reaponslblllty for the published report! of the buying Rnd aelllng of votes and the political acenea which brought the cry of shame from the atate upon the Sa vannah primary. We publish Mr. Whatley'a article because, whenever wo have felt celled upon In the Intereet of right and of public morals to criticise, we hare never felt justified In withholding a hearing to those whom we have assailed. Mr. Whatley will bear In mind that the editorial com. monts ot this paper had no reference whatever to the sins of any particular club or faction In Savannah. We did not know when we wrote, and wo do not know now upon which aide the burden of this political Iniquity should rest We spoke of It aa a general thing, and pro tested it as a general thing, In the Interest of civic'Integ rity and of representative government, without regard to the source from which this wholesale bribery found Us Inaplratlon. * We note 4bat Mr. Whatley today concedes the exist ence of this bartering of ballots In tho mart, but claims some mitigation of the offense In the fact that- there was lass of It than there had been In previous elections. We are not dlspoeed to discuss this matter with Mr. Whatley, because ho doubtless knows more of the nature and magnitude of the offense than we do. nut, we do feel and d6 repeat that this bartering of ballots in open and shameless impudence and defiance of public law and public morality in Savannah, and In one or two otber cities of tbe atate, whether It be In larger or smaller degree, ought to come under the prompt and fearless ban of public opinion and public condemnation, and that while the offense la fresh the condemnation should be strong and general throughout the atate. The Hon. Boykin Wright, of Augusta, moved perhaps by some experiences nearer home to him than Savannah, liaa prepared a bill which we alocerely trust will not only pasx the deorgla legislature, but will moot vigorously and fearlessly be enforced In every city In which the law la mocked and public decency la defied by tbe shameless iraffle of ballots In these primary and other elections. With one phase of Mr. Whatley’s letter we have a comment. It would be difficult to porsiiado the people of Georgia, who have known and honored Pleasant Stovall for so many years, that he would willingly lend himself to any form of public or private corruption, or that any consideration of personal spleen or venom would move him to a reflection upon bla people that was not. In hla honest opinion, justified by the fact:. We can do no less than believe that Mr. Whatley Is sincere In hla protest agnlnit the aspersions which have, been left upon hie city. We have no other conclusion than that he himself wae not responsible tor these mon strous perversions of civic Integrity, and (hat ho was himself a protestant against them, but we must protest to Mr. Whatley Mir unwillingness to believe that any thing less than clean, honorable, and patriotic can oome from Pleasant Stovall in tbe public or the private func tions of hla life. We truat that both Mr. Whatley and Mr. Stovall will join their united and potential voices with the chorus of protest which U going up nil over the atate, and that Savannah may have not only the restraining voice of It* friends abroad, but tho strong and fearless protest ot Ita sons at home against any repetition In tho future of acenei, which, however justifiable In the mlude of par tisans and however modified In degree by more conserva tive statement* of tbe Incidents themselves, are far from justified In public Integrity and. In pubjlc policy, and should be unhesitatingly condemned. A Measure of Consular Reform. While the coneular reform bill, whleh has recently been enacted Into law. Is not all that Ita moat devoted advocates could desire. It la a long step forward, and Its practical operation will cbntrlbuta In no small degree to the Improvement of that Important branch of tbe pub lic service. Our consuls and commercial agents abroad arp not placed strictly under the civil service, and tbe reform wUl not be complete until they are, but a policy of pro motion on the grounds of merit baa been tacitly es tablished, and so long as a preildent remains In power who favors this efficiency plan the ayetem will work wall. A few days ago President Roosevelt appointed 81 consuls. Fifty-nine of these were In reality promotions from Me poet to another sod higher ooe, and In the two Instances where this was not done the men who re ceived the appointment bad been for a long Ume Identi fied with work which peculiarly qualified them for the poet to which they were assigned, v It Is hoped that the good work will conUnue. The nature of our consular system was for a long Ume a serious reflection upon this great country. The men assigned to fill these offices were pets and favor ites ot tbe admlolstmtlM which happened to he In office, and the personal character ot many ot theee men made them proverbs of profligacy and incapacity. Such men are gradually being weeded out and men of a higher stamp ot manhood are being placed In office. It really saems that the time Is coming when diplomacy may become a recognised and desirable career open to men of ability. Tbe very nature of diplomacy ha* changed from tbe sinister days when a diplomat was de scribed as a man "sent to It- abroad for hla country.” Chicanery and deception are no longer a pert of the du ties of the diplomat. He la expected to ta a man of cul ture and education, with a working knowledge of com merce and International law. There la no occasion (or him to he nn Ins*. And be cannot discharge tbe high duties assigned to him without experience. Tho 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 became familiar wltb tbe language and manners and cuttoms ot 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 ono grade to another on a system of .merit. Tbe 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 tho esteem of the country to which they are accredited. The Pennsylvania Situation While prominent leaders of tho Republican party have been In Philadelphia, celebrating tbe golden jubilee of that organisation, the eyea of tbe country have been turned upon the crystallisation of policies which will af fect tbe future of tbe atate of Pennsylvania, and Inch dentally of tbe entire country, to a greater extent than anything that has happened In many a long day. Comment was made In these columns some time since upon the fact that the regular Republican party had nominated a practically unknown man by the name of Stuart for governor of the state, and that tbla was done at the dictation of Senator Penrose, the creature and disciple of the late "easy boss,” Matthew Stanley Quay. That Penrose la an adept In the art of political manlpu- latlon there can be' no doubt, at least on tbe part of those who eay, like the lamented Josh Billings, “I naver argue agin a success." It was demonstrated that he had tbe regular ma chine ns much under hla thumb at ever Quay had It. Perhaps It was not the wise thing to make this fact too manifest at a time when the entire people of Penn sylvania bad become aroused against bosslsm in the state and In tbe t clly of Philadelphia. Mayor Weaver'i triumph over the ring wae too recent and the people ere too strong In their determination to carry the crusade against tho machine to the point of annihilation. But the fact.remains that he did It. The Independent, or Lincoln, Republicans of the state refused to accept Stuart, and nominated Lewis Emory tor governor. This faction ot tha Republican party Id pledged to tho overthrow of the machine, and tb'e rehabilitation of tbe party and tbe state. It has a large following, and will be a power at tbe next election. But now comes n proposition from the Lincoln Re publicans to CoL J..M. Ouffey, the picturesque leader of tho Democratic party In the atate, to Indorse their candi date Instead of putting one of their own in tbe field. Speculation Is rife aa to what Colonel Ouffey will do. He has h|s enemies. Indeed, It has been said of him that Ihoso who would flatter him, call him a fool." Just what thoy woutd say If ftiey intended to apeak unkindly of litm w<> are left to Imagine. But there Is a Democrat by the name ot Berry whose strength Injects a new clement Into tbe calculations Last year ho turned tho Republican plurality of half a million for Roosevelt % ln 1804 into a plurality for himself of 80,1)00 when be ran for the office ot atate treasurer. Thus, up there where the Dutch have been In possession of Holland, ao to apeak, from the foundation ot the re public, a Democrat was actually chosen by an over whelming plurality. Tho Democrats tftok heart of grace and have had their eye on Berry ever since. Berry has already been nominated by the Prohibi tionists, who poll a solid voto of 50,000, and If the Democrats indorse his nomination there seems to be no reason, according to the knowing ones, why be should not also, poll his full party vote of 500,000. In short, tho Indications 'are good that a Democratic nominee will J>o elected governor of the great state of Pennsylvania this year, whichever courso may be pur sued. The state has always gone Republican In national elections, and a Domocrat has been elected governor Ot tbe state only twice since a period before the civil war. So it will bo a notablo evont Indeed if a Democratic nominee—whether be be tcchlnnclly a Prohibitionist or a Llncolnlte—should bo choson to the chair of tho chief ex ecutive. The Important consideration la that It would mean tbe overthrow of the machine which Boss Quay built up with so much labor nnd astuteness, and after that there la no telling whnt tho Democrats may be able to accomplish In Pcmisylveuu Chancellor Barrow All Right. There will be found 1 no man In Georgia to protest the selection of David C. Barrow as chancellor ot 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' (« one of those who had nothing tq do, even by way ot ingestion, with the selection of Chan cellor Barrow. We bare heard from tbe beginning that be did not with the place, and we had only mentioned him Incidentally among thosa whose names were held In the balance of judgment b£ the trustees. It aeema now In tbe light ot events, that It was sim ply stupid not to have seen that Dean Barrow was the logical man for tha position, and perhaps In all the mentioned Hat, the very beat man that could have been chosen. If there le nothing essentially dashing or ab normally brilliant about the new chancellor, there Is everything which Is absolutely .sound and perennially aafe. "rtie one transcendent quality wblcb tba new chan cellor potiesaee, and there Is no better fact In executive station of leaderehlp, la the possession of the absolute love and confidence of the student body which surrounds him. * There are two things which The Georgian In all Ita discussion of unlrerstty and college affairs, and of the men who hold executive stations In thesa great Institu tions, has claimed to be necessary. We have always held that wherever It wae possible, a teacher should be selected for promotion to tbe high places In the echools of tbe state. We have Instated upon this In every particular In which tha public voles could participate In the 'deliberations of school affaire. The reasons for this fact -do not need to be repeated here. Encouragement to teachers. Inspiration to effort, and training and equipment, all combine to make this principle clear. Chancellor Barrow embodies In hlmaelf this principle In the highest degree. He Ijaa been for twenty-nine years a teacher or tutor In the university, and hla promotion comes normally, naturally and qobly from rank to rank ot usefulness to this high station In bla alma mater now. The other great requisite (or success In a chancellor It to be able to command the unbounded confidence and affection of tbe atudenta who are under hie authority. The young republic of letters has Its own creeds and Its own Infallible judgments of measures and of men, and no maturer manhood Is ever quicker and more Infallible In students who come In dully contact with him. It Ih safe,to say that no. man In or out of Georgia could command more perfectly- and more universally the confidence and love of the student body of the uni versity than the new chancellor, who for twenty years has been endeared to the university graduates and un dergraduates by' tho affectionate soubriquet of "Uncle Dave.'* They believe In him to the uttermost, they would trust him without questioning In any statement or In any decision ho might make, and there Is not a man whose name has been In touch with tbe university for two de cades who would not deem It almost a sacrilege to ques tion either tho sincerity or tbe justice of any ruling which the beloved new chancellor would make. He Is the embodiment of good character. Upon tho broad basis then of these two essential qual ifications, It may safely be aatd that the new chancellor success which few men have ever carried to the pre siding office of our state university. When to this Is joined the amplest scholarship and the loftiest char acter, the most thorough absorption of the traditions and Ideals of tho university for more than a quarter of a century, tbe close personal touch and affection with the people of Athens, and of the state—with stalwart health and comparative youth. It would seem very clear that nil thoughtful friends of education are In a position to most heartily felicitate tbe university upon the wise and prudent choice which tbe trustees have made for chancellor to preside over Ita future work. And The Georgian, yielding nothing to any man In the state In the matter of personal affection and admira tion for tbe new chancellor, sends to Chancellor Bar- row tbe assurnnee of Us rejoicing approval, and the pledge ot its earnest cooperation with his official work. WHATLEY RESENTS REFLECTIONS CAST A LETTER FROM JUNIUS. To the Editor of The Georgian: Mr. Bryan can't be elected president of the United States two years hence. The great fight—the earnest fight, the fiercest political combat ever waged In this or any country. In this or any age—will be between capital and la bor. Mr. Bryan la. not radical enough for the labor party, and bla Integrity and patriotism leave him entirely out of the question as s candidate for the syndicates, trusts and money power. Corporate greed doesn't want him; wouldn't have him; couldn't use Mm. He Is not sufficiently "safe and sane" for their purposes. He' wouldn't—he couldn't—work In their harness. The position he occupies makes It utterly Impossible for him to be elected. The trusts and money syndicates, from the Standard Oil down to the leaat malo dorous of these, all would oppose him stronger. If not more violently, than In the past. They know the difference between Mr. Bryan and tbe Socialists Is In dtgrer, not In kind. They know, aa far as 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 such a man Is as certain to advocate the right of every man to the undi vided fruit of his Industry as the star* are to pursue their course. They know that Mr. Bryan basn't become auffi rlently advanced In political compre henslon to object to that great pcilltl cal "sermon on the mount," "the Dec laratlon of Independence,” They know that Marx and Debba and Bebel and Upton St. 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 stage at tbe beginning of a contest between Right and Wrong —between the robber and the* victim, fire off his "hosa pistols" with a whoop ot defiance that said to the people, "Who but I?” and later, when the whole fight had been won by another In the Interest of the people, hide be hind the Sm6ke and noise ot hts foot light performance and snatch the mea ger but hard earned vantage away, and give It to corporate greed. No, tbe respectable element, the con trdlllng element, of the Democratic parly, beginning with Mr. Belmont. In Wall street, and ending with the great subsidised press that fought him open ly In 1896 or "damned him with faint praise" and lack of help In 1900, bear he same 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 street Democratcy at the head of the Demo cratic party, with Ha 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 aa I hava stated It, and as It real ly Is, ought to go Mr. Hill one bet ter—"I ant two parties at once, either at a time or tho whole thing," The la boring man has begun to mix hla brain with hi* brawn. He la waking from the slumber of ages. He Is aroused to life, to a consciousness of his power, from the spell of years. The awe In which he has been taught to hold wealth has changed with Ms new vis ion of things to a respect for the great. a of things to a respect ror tne great. ,_tlent, tolling myriads who produce It. He knows that while he holds the Egyptian laborer In contempt for building pyramids of stone for food sufnclent one day to enable him to serve his master the next, that he, here In America, la building pyramids of gold and furnishing the gold through hts labor that he may eat food and continue this profitless toll of heaping pile upon pile of wealth through al ils dreary, hopeless life. Verily, .verily, this man of whom It ever might have been said. "Vox pop- ull, vox del,” haa learned Indeed whoee voice I* meant and he Is a* sure to raise that voice till It echoes around this greed-cursed earth as the eternal aun Is sure to pursue Ita wonted course. The (oofrtphlc Une that made this former beast-of burden a Demo crat haa faded from his awakened eyes. The local prejudice that made him a Republican has vanished from his enlightened mind. The universal brotherhood of man, that he haa ever been taught to hate and despise; and Ms brothers beyond certain Imaginary limits that he has been brained and drilled In the most terrific enginery of death-dealing destruction to destroy, are'the cause for which his party has Its being. No longer does he, or will he consider killing or maiming the un fortunate laborer of another dime, 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 he Is—no longsr charm a savage In stinct In his breast. The bounties of nature—the fruit, the substance of the tanlfc—yea. the .full ness thereof with the means of pro ducing and extracting these bounties for all the sons and daughters of men are Ms high and lofty purpose. The Orientals have a tradition that the shadow of a dog shall not fall upon the surface of the great world beyond. It will not ha long before the great voice of the people shall declare that the shadow of a slave, the shadow of one man tolling that another may have, sowing that another may reap, shall not be cast upon the earth. Samson has learned his strength. His hand la reaching for the pillars of state. Strong hands, kind and steady and true; his eyes are as clear, aa calm, as unsullied by temper as the stare ot heaven. Hla mind Is as loyal to the right aa the needle Is lo the pole. These pillars w ill be torn asunder. They will be made stepping-stones to better things. The edifice will not fall and crush. There Is naught but love, universal for hu manity. In Its removal. It was built by Samson the blind, at the behest of greed. With eyes ot love and light he will build on tha fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. and It shall be broad enough to ahelter and protact the human race. And the North and the South, and the East and the West. an<f Antipole and Pole may say, "It Is mine, and It Is mine." and It shall be theirs. All humanity’s—in Joy, in love. In triumph. In peace. In brotherhood. In ulsierhood, forever It shall be theirs. JUNIUS, CHOLLY KNICKERBOCKER TE O Gossips About People and Other Things Hr CHOLLY KNICKERBOCKER O f.a.......t....t.i.M.i By Prirste Leased Wire. New York, June 20.—The woman suf frage movement gets small comfort from Pope Plus X. In an Interclew with the noted Austrian suffragist and writer, Mme. Camille Eslmer, his ho liness Is quoted aa saying: “Women ought not In any case to mix themselves In public affaire. They will be neither electors nor elected, men have enough troubles already In agreeing among themselves; they do enough to bring disorder Into parlia ments." , That this will bring down upon hla head the anathema maranatha of the women who believe there should be no sex In the rights of citizenship Is cer tain. and even though the pope ex presses full Sympathy In the advance ment of women In other line! than pol itics. He says: All that tends to raise the moral and Intellectual level of humanity Is worthy of our encouragement, always provided that It does not violate Chris tian laws. It Is welt 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 ot 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 haa been their natu ral avocatlonr "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. Oeorge J. Gould have been granted the privilege of an audience with the pope. Archbishop Farley presented the distinguished American women. William B. Leeds wlU be called upon to ahow cause why he Should not pay an additional duty of 2100,000 on a magnificent pearl necklace he recently bought for his wife In Parts, and for which he Is said to have paid 1400,000. On pearls the United States govern ment levies a duty of only 10 per cent of the value. But let those same pearls be strung Into the length of a necklace, or set, 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 cessions have decided. In a test case, that the negro organisation of Elks, the "Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World,” may le gaily wear the badge inscribed "I. B. P. O. E,” without Infringing on the white order. Miss 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 board of steam vessel Inspectors In this port. Now she has a license for navigating the waters of New York bay as far as Fort Washington point. She passed nearly perfect examination. Miss Morgan holds a certificate as master of her father’s yacht, which once belonged to Emperor Frances Jo seph. She also has a license for Phlla dolphin waters. Folly of Life Insurance Investigation. To the Editor of The Georgian;' s What a great calamity and hardship to policy-holders does all this investi gation entail! Former presidents and officers of these 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. They will now start In to work to graft and get It from the poor policy-holder* and the whole mesa to go over again In a decade. Why not leave the old regime aa It was? Policy-holders will be robbed more than ever before, for the trail haa been biased, legislatures, courts and all re straint muxsled. Once upon a time, long time ago, reads the fable; A rail road superintendent called a conductor of a passenger train Into his office and said: "1 am going to discharge you, for I find out you have been taking cash fares. I am going to put & freight conductor In your place.” The 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 has never had the chance, and now he will have to get hi* pile out of you.” The moral la obylous. There is now about 62 to $5 paid out to life insurance companies In premiums to every 21 paid back In death claims. There la no reason on earth why any man should take out a life Insurance policy, for If he can't, by provident mesas, In vest or save during hla lifetime, can he iroduc* a family who could save or ceep a fortune left In life Insurance after*his death? In other words, on tho face of 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, Os., June 17, 1696. THIS DATJ3 IN HISTORY. About Foreign Immigration. To the Editor of.Th* Georgian: In your Issue of Juno it there ap- •eared two very forcible articles on orelan labor coming Into the Bouth. Uke very nearly every point of Issue, there are two sides to It. There la really no dearth ot labor 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 la now, the negro. This has become very unrelia ble and la getting more eo each year. Thera la a great Inclination on tha >art of many claasea of working people o congregate In cities and towns and congest the labor market.' It appears now in Atlanta that there are enough Idle negro men (and many poor whites) to till every farm In Oeorgla. A negro paper recently editorially commented on the worthlessness of the average negro laborer. And, aad to say, educa tion seems to aggregate thla condi tion. The foreman of an Industry In your city recently atated In an Inter view that he had ofteir employed 60 and 109 negroes to work and no more than half would report for duty. Many would quit work without notice, some not evdn coming for their pay. What the South needs la smalt colonies of Norwegians, Swedea 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 end honest, and will make Ideal farm laborers. Very few Industries thrive without competition and tha negro laborers need competition, not to run them out nor to eliminate them, but to awaken them by went and poverty, to realise their danger and, depart from their shiftless way. They are getting en tirely too Independent. They will work two days end rest three, because they know If they lose one Job they can get another In an hour. This condition has got to change or be changed. The South la prosperous and Increasing In population. Increasing In laborers, but ' the same shift leas, useless, unretla- JUNE 20. 1542—Ferdinand DeSoto, explorer, died, Born 1496. 1632,—Charter of Maryland received by Lord Baltimore. 1719—Battle of VJJIafrenca, Sicily. 1781—Richmond, Va., evacuated by Lord Cornwallis. 1791—Flight of Louis XVI from Paris. 1824—John T. Morgan, United States senator from Alabama, born. 1837—King William IV of England died; succeeded by Queen Vic toria. 1862—City of Mexico surrendered by the Jauriate. 1874—New conference currency bill Is passed by both houses of con grass. 1876—Santa Anna, president of Mexl co, died; born February 21, 1795. 1888—Prince Lulppold made regent of Bavaria. 1893— Llssle Borden acqutted of the murder of her parents In Fall River, Mass. 1894— Severe earthquake at Yokohoma, Japan. 1895— Baltic ship canal opened. 1897— Queen Victoria began the cele- brat Ion of her Jubilee. 1898— United States troops reached SanUago da Cuba. 1903—Cardinal Vaughan died. Bom April 15, 1612. 1905—Herbert W. Bowen, minister to Venesuela, dismissed by Presi dent Roosevelt, ble kind, both white and colored. This Is of no benefit, this kind of Increase I* calamity. Why on earth a white man or a ne gro will go to a city to earn a living Is a pussle. They are conetantly leaving the healthy surroundings of the coun try. where they have few expenses and can raise their children morally, and coming to the grinding life of the cities, where labor 1s high, but the cost ot living reduces their 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 was prosperous He gets to town; gets, more wages, has to live In a squalid den. taxes and cost of living so Increased that Instead of saving money he le In debt and can't get back to his old home. A merchant told me recently In a ■mailer town that he had several cus tomers who had been farmers, whom he sold on credit, as they made good crops and were honest When they came to town end they put thetr fam ilies In a cotton mill, he kept on selling them on account, but In a abort while found out that he would lose every penny he sold to them and that they had become utterly unreliable and dis honest. In the country today there are two jobs for every laborer; In town two laborers for every job. In the country, are comfortable homes, gardens, vegetables, a cow and hogs for every family, few expenses, health and happiness. And If the'con gestion of the cities is not relieved and the dearth of competent labor sup plied In the rural districts, then foreign labor Is hound to come and spread ell over the South and take advantage of the glorious opportunities now exist- Ing for them. A great cry Is going up all over the South now for labor- 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 lip these homes with com forts end Joy* they have never known end drew from the bosom, of Mother Earth In this Southland untold riches and powtr. and the shlftlesa Idlers, who now spend their time loafing around the saloons and corners of dark a]lets. In i-ltle* and towns, will see too late whet'opportunities they have lost for. •r- N. K. SMITH. Acworth. Go, June U, 1998. Replies to “The Press” in Open Letter to the People. SAYS CHARGES MADE BY LOT OF SOREHEADS Deplores Vote-Buying, But De- dares There Was Less of It Than for Many Years. To the Editor of The Georgian: It seems The Savannah Prmq through Its hired correspondents, lias been very active In sending broadcaat throughout Georgia, reports of whole- sal* buyfng and selling of votes at our late primary election here, and equally as active in collecting together from Ita exchanges adverse criticisms on thla election, nnd placing the same in a double-column header In The Preen of Saturday last. No one deplores vote buying and selling at the polls more than the writer, or for that matter than the average, upright, honorable cltlxen of Savannah, and In view of the fact that there was no necessity for it In the contest referred to, it is still more to be deplored, so far as the members of the winning side were con cerned, a* the victory was so decisive and overwhelming, that the only possi- ble excuse for It must be attributed to the work of a few enthusiasts In their seal to atlll swell the majority, and forever bury out of sight a crowd of political corruptionists, harpies, graft ers. gamblers and Sunday liquor sell ers, the equals of whom no city la Oeorgla has ever been disgraced with In the annals of our fair state. The Pres* was frank to acknowledge In its com ment on this election the next day that It was the first time In the history of Sa vannah that wealthy men, counting their money by the hundreds of thous ands, some of them, millionaires, found standing .In line early In 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 both side* that the election had been wc Chaffing Undsr Defeat. Unfortunately, Mr. Stovall, the edi tor of The Press, and the Cltliens' Club candidate for state senator, went down with his ticket Chaffing under hla humiliating defeat, it was only nat ural that his paper,' through Its corps of correspondents, should 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 aelllng, or any oth er Irregularity, no matter how fla grantly and unblushing!)' It may have Men committed. . Thla Citizens' •Club, 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 crims that Is without parallel In the annala of Tammany In New York or of :he Mafia Society of New Orleans. It taa 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 haa 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. Abuse Borne For Yeare. 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 like those of Savannah could or would submit. Is It at all to be wondered al that an outraged people should rise up and put them out? In the name and on behalf of the good people of thla city of my adoption, where I have lived for the past quarter of a century, where I have raised my children, where I have tried to live toe life of an honorable man and upright cltlxen before God and man. I deny title wholesale Indictment against my peo ple and against the fair name of this city. It has been conceived In envy, born In vengeance and sought to ne nurtured at the expense of Justice and truth. . . Thla le the whole story. As to the buying and selling of votes, the num ber was less, for the large vote pollen, than at any election In the htston «■ Savannah. Let the people nt w«; gin, therefore, not be deceived In thil abortive effort to traduce our fair n*™J by a lot of soreheads, defeated at the polls, whose oMy aim Is to wreak pri vate vengeance at the expense of tne truth, and especially-at the exp*"** '* the fair name of the city of Savannah, before the people of g«$fc TLET . Savannah, Ga., June 1*. l*#»- GEORGIANS IN GOTHAM. By Private Leased Wire. New York. June 29.—Here are some of the visitors In New York today: ATLANTA—H. P. Mitchell, R » Daniel. H. Cohen, B. Goettlnger. SAVANNAH—W. E. Evans, J ^ Fleming. NOT BECOME CANDIDATE FOR THE OOVERNOK Special to The Georgian. Jackson, Miss., June 20.—T. V. •Ion. district attorney of the Fltth trlct, haa tendered hla resigns' 1 " n the governor, effective July I, ... Four candidates are In the den- Bales, of Calhoun: Lamb, of Webeter. Pennon, of Choctaw; Turner. ■>( 1 " Judge Frank A. CrlU, of West has Issued an address to the D' 11 ’. racy of the state saying he h« elded not to become a candidate Tovemor. CONDITION OF BANKS WANTED BY RIDGELY I Private Letsd Wire. Washington, June 29.-Th* conlr«h*v the currency today Issued a call • t condition of all the national ban-* the doe* of business on June !»•