THE
ATLANTA
GEORGIAN.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 21. iy«t.
The Atlanta Georgian.
JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor.
F. L. SEELY, President.
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Atlanta. Ga.. unlrr set of coagrtaa of March A UTS.
The Reign of Terror for Southern
Women.
f The appalling crime attempted and partly executed
on Monday almost within the limits of Atlanta brings to
• focus the recognition of a torrid wave of lust and fiend-
Ishness on the part of the negro criminals of the state.
It Is difficult to discuss’with any tranquillity or with
Any reason a crime like this. The mere suggestion of
the fllghtest familiarity on the part of a black and filthy
negro with a refined and gentle woman of the Cau
casian race Is enough to stir the blood to fever heat, but
the monstrous and unspeakable horror of the more seri
ous nnd brutal assault, simply wakes to a frenzy and will
always stir to frenzy the Caucasian blood.
In the discussion of this great question la times
past, the editor of The Georgian hns passed through
all stages of feeling from reason to hysteria, nnd we
have thought enough and seen enough and left enough
of this fearful shadow tj|>on our civilization to have
aome Ideas that arc distinctly definite nnd that ought
to be essentially practical.
The iieople of this great republic who are disposed
to criticise the South scarcely realize that Its people
are living in a state of constant siege anil danger. The
Women of this Southern country to whom no age or civil
isation has ever produced a superior and scarcely an
equal, are prisoners to danger and to fear. The women
In the North and in the East may walk after nightfall
from street to street and almost from township to
township without an escort and without alarm. Rut It
baa come to pass in the slow process of this Increasing
terror that there la not a woman, wife, mother or sister
who would he permitted In the South to walk after sun
set unattended through tho quiet streets of suburban
towns. And even in midday,’ men who leave their homes
unguarded, leave with apprehension nnd provide every
means of protection and self-defense which care nnd ap
prehension can devise. • • ’
This state of affairs is frightful nnd appalling nnd it
cannot nnd must not endure any longer In these states
which have won the right to better things.
Here for Instance In the very center of the South's
beat civilization, right In the heart of progress and devel
opment, In tho open suburb, of Georgia's capital city, and
the metropolis of the South, we have had five open
and monstrous attempts at rape within the Inst four
weeks. No dark region, no benighted portion of the state,
no swamps nor morasses to hide the offender, no turpen
tine camps or sugar plantations to gather tho lawless and
to develop the criminal Instinct, but right here under the
ehadow of Georgia's caplto) and In the very honrt of
the South's highest intelligence these monstrous crimes
have had fast and frightful recurrence.
Every one of the fiends who has bfen apprehended
. has been dealt with awlftly and sternly liy an outraged
society that could not and did not wait for the slow pro
cesses of tho law. Every rnpls^that has been caught
has been shot or hanged without hesitation and without
remorse.
And yet wl(h the open blnzon of tMs swift and fear
ful punishment the crime has been repeated or attempted
almost before the echo of the last outrage had died
•way!
Does lynching prevent rape? It would seem not.
Within twenty days after the burning of Bam Hose at
Newnan, Ga., (here wero three attempted assaults with
in a radius of nn hundred miles of Ills monstrous crime
and Its swift nnd awful punishment!
It becomes evident that we must find another rem
edy than lynching for the suppression of these outrages
upoh the women of the 8outh.
Now mark you, the crime of rape Is confined almost
exclusively, If not exclusively, to the negro race. The lust
of the white man makes no menace of vlcsmit expression
toward the women of tho South. The negro has a mo
nopoly In rape. If the negro were no longer a pnrt of our
population, the women of the South would he freed
from their state of alege and would be at liberty to go
where they pleated and when they pleased. Rut under
the black shadow of the fiendish passion of these ebony
devils our women are as completely slaves ns If they
were In bondage to n conquering foe. They do not dare
to enjoy on foot or nn horseback thu liberty of move
ment and freedom of action to which they are entitled
under the great and progressive civilization In which
they live.
What can we do then to halt this tnrrlldn and appall-'
lag crime? What reaionable experiment can we trjr
to put a atop to the mad career of thtae Infernal flenda
who haunt every sequestered nook and corner around
our cities? Killing, shooting, burning has ceased to ter
rify them. Rut we have never tried any other remedy.
We have never experimented with nny other mode of
punishment
Why can we not establish then some new form of
punishment whose very spectacular method and terror
will eliminate the foulest crtmlnsl instincts of our time.
In the past the editor of The Georgian has advocated the
personal mutilation of the rapist as a deterrent force, and
wa believe yet resolutely and foarlesd.’ that the ex|K-r;-
ment It worthy of a trial. - Let It be understood In ad
vance that every negro who commits this crime will a i
treated to this punishment and let us see at least for
a twelvemonth what effect the near punishment will
bate upon the old and frightful of-.iso.
We have suggested In time past thnt some new and
mysterious mode of punishment—the passing over a slen
der bridge Into a dark chamber where In utter durk
ness and In utter mystery the assallan tof woman's vir
tue would meet a fate which his friends would nevet
know and which he himself would never come back to
make them understand. Darkness, mystery, uncertainty
have always been deterrent Influences upon the minds of
this Ignorant an] a'-iyeratltlous raWe insist that thl
experiment la also worth a trial for what It la worth—to
be perpetuated If It la successful and to be abandoned
If It does not accomplish its purpose. Heaven knows
thqt a desperate disease demands a trial of every des
perate remedy which tact and theory and sclf defenso
can dictate to a people who have borne too much and
borne too long the horrible shadow which rests upon
Our society an! upon civilization. $ .*
Bat at tots time and In this hour we'coite "Torward
earnestly and. intensely to arraign the leaders of the
negro race, tbelr preachers and their public men that they
bare not themselves cooperated to suppress this crime.
They have met In conventions, they have passed resolu-
tlcns, they have orated fiercely aho-it inch law anJ they
hare denounced Soutbtrn men at* methods, but they
hare been shamefully and criminally allent In making
their voices heard In stern and persistent denunciation
of the crime that produces lynching. Many men and In
dividual members of the negro race who magnify the
lawlessness of lynching above the crime that produces
It, have even aided the confessed criminal «gainst the
virtue of our women by secreting him Rom the officers
of the law. by providing change of clothes and by eon-
hiving in every way to aid In his escape from the out
raged agents of society. Upon this basis we arraign the
leaders—the teachers, the preachers, the bishops nnd
the editors of the negro race as partlceps crimlnia and
co-crlmlnals with tho rapist when they fall .to, co-operate
fully and freely witii the white race In the swift pun
ishment of this awful crime. *
Until the negroes are taught from the pulpit, from
the teacher's chair and from the printed page to help
the white man to hunt down the scoundrels and the crim
inals of their race, they are themselves guilty In part of
tho crlmeB which we revenge. They make the negroes
think that every black criminal who Is lynched Is a mar
tyr to the prejudice of race. They Inflame the minds
of the Inferior race by their fierce diatribes and pro
tests against lynching. Rut neither their pulpits' thunder
nor their presses' spout preachmenta against the crimi
nal and the crimes which make lynching possible.
We are getting tired of these one-sided Jeremiads.
We have no patience with such hypocrisy. The negro
must help the white man to intimidate the negro crim
inal. " ! ,
Here then we get down to the core of the matter.
I.et us have le^s of these fierce denunciations, of^ho mob
and let the negro preachers and the negro editors and
the negro teachers get busy with the vigorous use of
their lungs and their lead pencils against the crime
which, If not suppressed, will ultimately destroy their
race.
For there Is growing steadily In the minds of the
Caucasians of the South a stern determination to be freed
at any cost from this element of terror which covers
the women of our people. We have bought with our
blood and with our brains a continent which we have
redeemed from the wilderness and made the greatest
nation under the sun. We have built out of the ashes
and desolation of wur a country that In beauty and devel
opment has come to be a wonder and the admiration of
the world. We are doing our part In all of the great
movements that make our country glorious and the age
Illustrious lit achievement. And we are rapidly reach
ing tho |iolnt where we will not permit ourselves much
longer to endure In this Southern country a siege In
which our women nre the prisoners and In which every
Southerner Is nn nnxlous sentinel at the outpost of his
fireside and the shrine of his home.
If these negroes who are making themselves so bla
tant In their public speeches and conventions—It the
leaders, front Rooker Washington down to the bishops
and the preachers and the smallest editor would lift
up the banner of a great united crusnde against the
Infamy of rape nnd would pledge themselves to bunt with
even fiercer vigilance than the white man, the dospoiler
o' our homes and the deadliest ant-ny to the hop’s of
the negro, then wo might hope to wlmeas a change In
these conditions and a suppression of these, crimes
which provoke that fiery terror, which, however lawless
and however deplorab’e. Is the only deiu.rjrt of the rapist
and the chief defense-of woman.
There la no excuse for apathy here. Time and
again tho appeal has gone forth for co-operation along
these lines. And in the memory of theso unanswered
appeals we sternly a-reign the resp.-.-s.ule memo art rf
the negro race for the silence and Inactive apathy which
they have shown.-
For the future we refuse to heal their protests or to
consider their statements until they get thomselves busy
along the only practical line on which they can be of
service to themselves and to us.
It they do not do this and If all other expedients
fall, ss they nre falling, tho time may come when the
dominant nnd triumphant civilisation of the South will
rid Itself of this awful terror lu n more radical and a
more revolutionary wny.
Pstlonco Is growing frazzled In Caucasian hearts.
And after patience cornea the deluge.'
nursery, at least, will refute to be comforted now
that the Island of J[uan Fernandez, ’’sinks, like seaweed,
Into whence It came.” ■ •
Jacksonville, Fla., seems to be rich In citizen Charles
L. Booney. of the board of tarde, and of the Half-a-Mlllion
Club. From all appearances be la a live and vital force
and the Inspiration, of much of the beat work done In
Jacksonville.
Robinson Crusoe’s Island Destroyed.
Among tho Incidents of the recent earthquake
which wrought such linvoc along the conat of Chile, ac
cording to ro|torts which have Just been received, was
the destruction of the Island of Juan Fernandez.
From a sentimental point of view, this Is the great
est of nil the end features of the disaster. The struc
tures of Itrlck nnd mortnr constituting the cities de
stroyed will he replaced on a more splendid scale; even
the death of the Inhahltatits will chiefly affect their
friends and relatives, who will find consolation aa the
years go by. But the civilized world will for all time
deplore the fart that Robinson Crusoe's Mand has stink
Into the sea from wltenco It came.
This Island was the largest of a group of three
known to be at volcanic origin, and differing greatly in
fauna and flora from the malnlnnd of Chile, 350 miles
away. It was sparsely settled, even at the (Into of ita
destruction, and while the soil and climate were fertile,
tho Inhabitants made but Uttlo effort to develop It. To
all appearances It differed but little from what It was
when tho buccaneer Scotchman, Alexander Selkirk, was
put ashore there 200 years ago.
Selkirk had quarreled with the captain of the pirate
vessel on which he sailed and at hla own request was
left alone on the Island. Here ho spent four years and
four months, tn tho beginning of the eighteenth century,
and hero he underwent those experiences which furnish
ed the basts of tho most universally itopular story In the
English language. He was rescued In 1708 by Captain
tVoodes Rogers, of the Increase prize-ship, and nfter-
wards rose to he a lieutenant on H. M. S. Weymouth,
on board of which he died In 1723.
Four yeara after Selkirk's rescue Captain Rogers
published his "Cruising Voynge Round the World" and
In the same year apitcared Captain Cook's "Voyage to
the South Sea." From these two books Defoe drew the
materials whlelt were woven Into the fadeless story of
Robinson Crusoe."
Whnt child lias ever grown to man's estate with
out becoming familiar with the life and ndronttires of
Crusoe and his man Friday, his Imagination kindling at
the patience, the resourcefulness and the unfailing cour
age of the castaway and his one lone companion. And
what youth, on an appropriate Friday afternoon, has not
declaimed that equally Immortal ballad. "I am monarch
of all I survey?'*
There were not ntauy pilgrims to this Island shrine.
In the boeom of the Pacific, lint It was a satisfaction to
know, that It still existed, practically aa it was when
C/lfSoc'kcpC bis Weary Vigil for a friendly tall, and the
Remember the Issues, Forget the Men.
As our five armored political candidates are about to
sleep on their arms for the that time before the stern and
eventful battle of our fire-barreled Democracy, we real
ize that the time for preaching la over. The time for
exhortation la done. The argument la exhausted and the
appeal now goes to the ballot box.
Once more In the quiet, which Is the calm before
the storm, we desire to Impress both the candidates and
the voters with the fact and with the expreaalon of our
filth that Georgia will never tolerate another campaign
like this. The revulsion of the people against the scan
dalous personalities of this time Is settling steadily Into
a stern determination to nip In the beginning In another
campaign this expression and ;o put the heel of disappro
val upon any candidate or candidates who come seek
ing our suffrage under the song of Abuse or the Jargon
of vituperation.
When The New York Evening Post speaks of Geor
gia aa “the Pennsylvania of the South," when It de
clares that Georgia makes the alums of New York hang
Its head In shame, when It asserts that the .candidates
in this Imperial state of the South have ‘‘broken the
records of all billingsgate and familiarised the infant
voters of the commonwealth with volleys of vituperation
and epithet which they never knew before, It la time
Indeed for men who love the state and who are proud r,t
Ita Ideals, to Join steadily and firmly and sternly In the
determination that they will use their ballots to rebuke
the aspirant who seeks their favor under such disrepu
table phases of ambition.
For the rest, we stand now face to taca with the
ballot and with the Issue. And to all free and Intelligent
men the issue at least Is clear. The things upon which
Georgia will vote on Wednesday or.cern our economic
Interests as they are wrapped In our transportation lines
and In our soda! and political future as It Is thwarted
and handicapped by the negro race.
Never were issues clearer and never was necessity
greater for a definite and decisive answer from the peo
ple to the ballot box.
The regulation of the railroads and of the corpor
ations la a recognised civic duty from Maine to Califor
nia. From the senate -and from the house, from the
national government at Washington through each of the
states and to each congressional district, there la not
a man who does not know that the public opinion of these
times positively demands that every Independent and self-
respecting state should pronounce a definite verdict upon
this question at the polls. There is no demagogy’ In this
claim because It Is too urgent and too self-evident and
general In Its recognition. It la a vital necessity that
the people should tell the railroads kindly and firmly
that this Is a itopular government and not a corporate
government, that It Is a government of the people, by
the people and for tbe people and not a government of
the corporations, for the corporations, and by tbe corpora
tions. Thl* laaue It evident to every man who la Intel
ligent enough to vote. And the population of Georgia
which has never failed to rise to the measure of It*
duty and Its opportunity ought to answer this question
in the right and proper way on Wednesday.
The question which la higher even than this eco
nomic one f: the great sdcial and Rational Issue whose
menace and whoae terror receive a fresh and emphatlo
emphasis with almost every day that we live. It It were
not. for the Imminence of the election we would be dlspos
ed to aay that the present agitation of the negro's
rights and privileges, and the apparent alignment of a
large faction of our people upon hla ride of this ques
tion has had a full part and share In the Increased ag
gression and In the Increased crime of tbe negro at the
present time.
Once more we assert without hesitation and with
out reserve that the supreme necessity of this, ballot la to
let this commonwealth speak In thunder tones Its ver
dict upon the question of a permanent white supremacy
and of a permanent black subordination. That issue Is
up, clear, distinct and thrilling. It cannot be answered
in a half-hearted way. If It Is answered so It might as
well not be answered at all. The only way In which It
can be safely met and answered In this campaign Is to
put It definitely, clearly and emphatically before the
people and to the full comprehension of the Inferior race,
that this la a white man’s government and that by all
hazards and by any means the white race la going to
rule It untrammeled In tbe preservation of the sanctity
of ita homen and in the purity of Ita politics.
Georgia has never fronted an election, like this. She
has never stood face to face since the war with an Issue
so ciear, ao thrilling and so vital ns these which
front her In the election of tomorrow. Beside these
Issues all personalities crumble, all prejudices fall and all
personal prejudices should be trampled under foot. The
Issue should be supreme and tho man should be forgot
ten. And, the Georgian, standing as It does today steadi
ly and consistently upon a platform on which Its editor
planted himself fifteen yeara ago, and to whose principles
he has pledged himself In season and out of season,
North and South, appeals to the honest, thoughtful and
liberty loving people of this great commonwealth to
vote for railroad regulation and for the negro disfran
chisement as their highest duty to the present time and
the best hope of the future of the state.
That great exponent of Addisonian English, The New
York Sun, concludes a recent editorial with the follow
ing:
“'TIs not In nature to command success;
But we'll do more, Sempronitis, we'll deserve it.’’
Of course, every school boy knows that Mr. Addi
son's Cato says: "’TIs nqt In mortals to Sommand suc
cess,” etc. But the Fountain of Light prefers to bo Its
own Addison.
I GOSSIP
By CHOLLY KNICKERBOCKER.
By Private I .rated Wire.
New York, Aug. 21.—Mrs. Stuyvea-
ant Fish Is arranging a quiet little din
ner for Saturday night tor about too
of her friends. It will only cost about
*1.000, so it can be seen It Is .only a
small affair. It Is reported that Mrs
Fish has cornered the Newport lobster
market tor the time being. r
Whether this refers to clawed or
clothed lobstsrs does not appear.
American society people now form no
inconsiderable portion of the passen
ger lists of Incoming steamers. They
are coming home with many new and
Interesting Ideas tor the approaching
season. *
Ralfah, the royal Bengal tiger pet
of the little folks at tbe Bronx zoo.
Is to be treated as no other captive
man eater has ever been. He Is to
have regular exercise to regain hla
health and strength. A famous i.'ht-
cago naturalist examined him a tew
days ago and said exercise was the
only cure for his drooping spirits.
The too directors have hit upon a
plan which Is to be carried Into effect
tor the first time next Sunday. Ral
fah has been measured for u steel muz
zle. fitted with strong leather straps.
Immense leather boots with toe clips
of steel will also be made to cover his
wicked claws. A stout collar and sixty
yards of steel chain will complete the
equipment for the exercise. A spot
has been selected In Bronx park, where
there Is plenty of grass and shade, and
If the tiger takes kindly to the fresh
air cure the outings will occur dally.
Armed guards will be nn duty while
his highness suns himself.
Thirteen of the best known men In
Dej-by, Conn., nre . congratulating
themselves upon having eseaiied death
by drowning In the llousatpnlc river,
while returning from a pleasure cruise
on Long Island Sound. They owe their
lives to the coolness of two women nnd
their companions In another launch
which happened to pass shortly after
they had all been thrown Into the river.
Their launch struck a submerged
tree trunk nnd wns wrecked. Their
cries attracted the attention of .Mr. ami
Mrs. Frank C. Thornton and Mr. nnd
Mrs. George Meehtcrshelmer, who were
In a launch. One of the women op
erating the launch, started It In the di
rection of the cries at full speed nnd
they were soon alongside of the now
thoroughly exhausted men. One after
another they were all pulled out of the
river and then the little launch, weight
ed almost to the gunwale*, etarted for
the city.
In the home of William E. Harris, at
Trenton, the oddest of double weddings
took place. Miss Clnra May Blntch-
fnrd nnd William Kenugh, of Cam
bridge, Mass., were married. After the
ceremony the best man. Walter Blatch-
tord, and the bridesmaid, Grace E.
Kenugh. decided to get married and did
Growth and Progress of the New South
log attention.
Houth which deserves something more than pass-
How The Georgian’s Views Impress Canada.
The Information furnished from time to time, In this department, il
lustrating the growth and progress of the South, Is attracting wide
spread and favorable attention. The echoes have been coming In from
various sections of the South, and now cornea one of the leadlhg papers
of Montreal, Canada, which makeione of these strides tbe text of a
leading editorial.
The facta which have given rise to this significant editorial are ot
•nch Importance that we make no excuse (or reproducing them hore. In
aummary. They are an Inspiration to the people of the South and show
a degree of progress which the mind can hardly comprehend..
It was shown that tho increase In the manufactured products of tbe
South, taken year by year for the fifteen yeara from 1890 to 1905, aggre
gated 16,000,000,000; that the Increase In tbs value of farm products in
the South, taken year by year for the same period, aggregated $4,000,000,-
000;- that the permanent value of farm lands In the South Increased $1,-
500,000,000, while the deposits In banks and trust companies Were $600,-
000.000 greater in 1905 than In 1890. These Increases show a grand aggre
gate of more than 111,000,000,000, which la more money than there Is
In the world!
As s record of fifteen years of prosperity In the South tbe figures
are almply beyond comprehension.
In a subsequent article we showed that whllf the amount of capital
invested In the United States during the first -five years of the present
century showed an Increase of 42 per cent, that of the South alone
showed an Increase of 65 per cent; that while the Increase of tbe coun
try's products during the same period was 31 per cent, that of the South
alone was practically 44.5 per cent, and that no other section ot the coun
try could show any such marvelous Increase.
These were telling figures. They made every reader alt up and
take notice. The fact that tho capital Invested In the South had
Increased sixty-five per cent while that of the country as a whole
Increased only forty-two per cent showed how far behind we were
leaving the New England states which were once the home of the manu
facturing industries Of the country. . This led one thinking man to
make • notable and absolutely Irresistible deduction, viz., that the South
was thus prospering beyond the dreams of avarice under a system of
fnm trade. It was not tbe free trade of which we are acustomed to think
Jfltat is to say, tree trado between this country and other countries, but
free trado between this section and other sections of our own country.
Mr. J. J. Doollng, who wrote the communication to The Georgian, pointed
out that Industrial New England was not falling to undersell us on any
sentimental grounds; she was simply unable to compete with us In our
magnificent Industrial development.
A robfier tariff exacted tribute from the oonsumer on the ground that
the poor down-trodden Industries of the United States had to have pro
tection In order to compete with tbe other commercial countries ot the
world, though In point of fact these American Industries were able to
ship their products abroad and still sell them at less than they could
be made for over there. " -
The fallacy of protection was brought home by the fact that Southern
Industries, without any protection against the old and well established
Industries of the East, were prospering and underselling these concerns
In tbelr own territory, without any bounty or protection of any kind, and
If the South could thrive on such competition aa against other sections of
the count ry there was no reason why the whole country could not
thrive without protection as against the competition of other countries.
All these tacts appear to hare come to the attention of The Mon
treal Dally Witness, one of the largest and mast Influential papers in
Canada, and arc characterized by that patter as "sledge hammer logic."
Commenting on the argument, The Dally Witness says:
"The free South wants to be freer. Originally there was a sort of
compact between tbe South and New England that each would respect
the other's peculiar institutions. Free trade was at all timet admitted to
be to the Interest ot the South, but that section consented to protection
on the understanding that slavery would not be Interfered with. The con-
dittona on which that early bargain waa baaed have tnng passed away, and
the South, which has always been an advocate ot free trade, la beginning
to renew Its demand tor It We have over and over again shown that the
United States has prospered because of fi'ee trade, and not because of
protection, aa United States producers possess the greatest free-trade mar
ket In the world. Wo find a writer In The Atlanta Georgian Insisting up
on the same facts with sledge-hammer logic. He premises that some of
the readers of the paper may fancy that the 8outh la prbapering under
protection, Instead of which it Is actually prospering under free trade.
Factories and mills are springing up everywhere thronghibut the South, nnd
Southern Industries are said to be multiplying as If by magic. The fact
Is, the writer declares, the Sonth Is thriving undor free trade and In
full competition with the highly-organized, aggressive and unsentimental
industrialism of the North. He emphasizes the term unsentlmentallsm to
mark the fact that Southern Industries are not thriving because of the pity,
indulgence or toleration of their rivals. Certainly no Northern manufac
turer saya:
'■ 'The poor, struggling Southern manufacturer Is ray fellow country
man. I will not undersell him.' Protection In this case, at least. Is abso
lutely lacking. Tho North Is able to undersell the English manufacturer In
his own market and yet is protected from him In the American market.
The South thrives In competition with the North, and yet is presumed
by protectionists to need protection against the manufacturers of Europe
who are undersold by tho North In tbelr own markets! To show the re
markable recent activity of the South, The Georgian says that the
nmount Invested In manufacture* has Increased by 65 per cent and the
value of manufactured products more than 44 per cent during the past
five years. There are abundant signs. The Georgian declares, that freo
trade versus protection will be one of the leading feature# of the next
presidential campaign, and that the people throughout the country nre
awakening to the truth that protection la merely a machine to make the
rich richer and to giro birth and nourishment to trusts and monopolies.
Anyway, If the South can actually beat the North in open competition
without bounties or protection to her Infant Industries, and If the great
steel work* and other enterprise* can compete In Europe, selling their
products actually cheaper than they are sold at home, surely, as The
Georgian concludes, protection is a fraud.”
TO VOTE 18 A RELIGIOUS DUTY.
To the Editor of The Georgian:
On Wednesday, the 22d Inst., the
Democratic voters of Georgia will have
the privilege of participating In one of
the most important primary elections
In the history of the state. I say that
advisedly because of the Issues In
volved nnd the Intensely active nnd
bitter campaign which has been waged
In every county of the state the past
ten or twelve months.
No one can truthfully, aay that the
Issue has not been Joined. On the
hustings and through the columns of
newspapers every phase of the "para
mount Issue” of the day ha* been pre
sented tn the electors.
On Wednesday, the severat guberna-
GEORGIANS IN GOTHAM.
tty Private Leased Wire.
New York, Aug. 21.—Here nre some
of the visitors In New York today:
ATLANTA—S. Berner, W. B. Hud
son, C. F. Cantrell, C. R. Collier, Mis*
1. Schane. M. Slattery.
AUGUSTA—W. H. Barrett, W. J.
Hollingsworth, E. A. Pendleton, F. R-
Clorr, Jr.. J. P. Dill.
MACON—M. Lasarus, T. J. Wright.
SAVANNAH—J. Paulsen, G. C.
Schwara, I. Stoddard, H. D. Twlgg.
IN PARIS.
torlal candidates will give place to the kpeels! to The Georgian.
»- 'v Pan... Aug. 21.—Miss Eleunor Hhot-
qualified voter*. The latter are to de
clde the content between the five dis
tinguished gentlemen who are ambi
tious to be governor of the great state
of Georgia. The men who are quali
fied to vote have interest*, more or less
Important, at Htake. They are to exer-
ctae a franchise the greatest known to
American cltlxenshtp. * They are to
name a mnn who will become not only
governor of a state, but governor of a
great utate—one of the greatent In the
American union. Let each voter bear
thnt fact In mind while he 1* preparing
hi* ballot, then caat it according to the
dictates of hi* calm judgment, with an
approving con*clence.\ The exalted
privilege he will exercl*e when he ca*t*
hi* ballot demand* thl* of him.
There Is still another view of the sit
uation I would respectfully present. It
I* this: It I* the patriotic, the relig
ious duty of every qualified voter that
he nhould vote. No cttlxen ha* the
right, on a great occasion such a* will
occur on Wednesday, the 22d Inst., to
refuse or neglect to go to the p4>ll*
and cast his vote for the candidate
whose election he sincerely believes
will he for the best Interests of all the
people of the commonwealth. No citi
zen ha* a right to abstain from voting
on the plea that he I* not a politician
and that he wants nothing to do with
politic*. Thl* 1* a government of the
people and In the truer, higher sense
of that term, every good citizen I* and
ought to be a politician nnd ought to
take an active hand In politic*. When
thl* policy is observed, the people will
be said to rule.
MARTIN V. <’ALVIN.
Augusta, Ga., Aug. IS. 1901.
ter, of Savannah, Ga., and Ml** Mnr-
garette Klrkculdlc and Ml** Anna B.
McLeater, of Atlanta, Oa., registered at
the office of the European edition of
the New York Herald today.
THIS DATE IN HISTORY.
AUGUST 21.
15*17—Hr. Francis ireHalc* liorn.
1777— Aniortcrm raid from New Jersey lute
Htnten Island.
IV.iV-Mnruhiil Bernadotte of France cb«wS
prince my*I of Sweden.
18.71—Insurrection In Tortuga! in favor of
the queen.
18&-Ko*» itb, the Hungarian pntrlot, «.*•*
«nH I mm Austria.
IWl—Orent riot In New Orleans. growing
out of the t’ulton expedition.
lSGS—Tho historic t’linrter flak, Hartford*
(’mm., fell ilnrlng « storm.
1863—Goners I Uosecrnit* arrived In front of
t'tinttsnougn. Tciin.
1W—Marriage of «*otnraodqre Vanderbilt
nnd Miss Frai
idn.
Frank Crawford, at Loudon,
1882—British occupied Tort Hnld nnd closed
Hin»* ennui.
1888—Htorm nnd IIimnI created great dnm.ig*
In Went Virginia.
18P0— Interest ou money In New York raa
np to 12 |**r cent a month.
1W3— Lincoln statue lu Edinburgh unveil-
