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the best interest of the whole people
0 f the county.
Purity of politics; purity of the bal
let box, and clean administration of all
places of public trust. Only paper In
county. ,
r. F. TATUM, Editor.
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is UP TO MOTHERS
Ihrough Them Alone White
Face Can Be Perpetuated
50 QUOTHS ROOSEVELT
President Makes Strong and Pointed
Talk at White House to Delegates
• * Congress on “Wei*
‘lepuWc ana child.”
rhe lon special says: The
w n house was the scene Tuesday
of the formal opening of the first
jiifi mutional Congress on the Welfare
of the Child, which is being held un
(]<T tlm auspices of the National Moth
ers C ui- 1 ress. The two hundred del
e-at‘-s. representing all the states and
tern eries, and a dozen or more of the
leading countries of the world, were
receiv <! at the white house during the
afternoon when President Roosevelt
delivered an address to them, saying,
in part:
“Tie- successful mother, the mother
win* il ; h r part in rearing and train
ing aright the boys and girls who are
to h* the men and women of the next
generation, is of greater use to the
comma: ity and occupies, if she only
won id realize it, more honorable, as
well a a more important position
than anj successful man in it.
“Nothing in this life that is really
worth having comes save at the cost of
effort. No life of self-indulgence, of
nr re vapid pleasure, can possibly, even
in the one point of pleasure itself,
yield so ample a reward as comes to
the mother at the cost of self-denial,
cf c ' rt, of suffering childbirth, of the
Ion?, slow, patielnce-trying work of
bringing up the children aright. No
scheme of education, no social attitude
can b" right unless it is based funda
mentally upon the recognition of see
ing that the girl is trained 'to under
stand the supreme dignity, the su
preme usefulness of motherhood.
“Unless the average woman is--a
good wife and good mother, unless she
hears a sufficient number of children
an that the race shall increase and
not decrease, miles she brings .up
thm - children sound in soul and mind
and body—unless this is true of the
average woman, no brilliancy of ge
nius. no material prosperity, no tri
umphs of science and industry will
avail to save the race from ruin and
death. The mother is the one su
preme asset of national life; she i3
more important by far than the suc
ce.'sful statesman or business man,
artist or scientist.
' I abhor and condemn the man who
is brutal, thoughtless, careless, self
ish with women, and especially with
the w imien of his own household. The
birth pangs make all men the debtors
of ail women. I'abhor and condemn
the man who fails to recognize all
his duty. But the woman who shirks
her duty as wife and mother is just as
heartily to be condemned. We despise
her as we despise and condemn the
s "ldi< r who flinches in battle.
“because we so admire the. good wo
man. the unselfish woman, the far-
P! -ht< and woman, we have scant patience
w ith her unworthy vister, who fears
to do her duty; exactly as, for the very
reason that we respect a man who
doe- his duty honestly and fairly.
' 1 want to ask your assistance for
two or three matters that are not im
mediately connected with the life in
’-ie family itself, but that are of vital
eon "aiience to the children. In the
place, in the schools, see that the
school work is made practical as pos
-51 Uor the boys I want to see
training provided that shall train them
toward and not aWay from their life
"ori ; that will train toward farm or
hop, not away from it. With the
Siil see that it is not made a matter
of mirth that the girl who goes to col
' 1 comes out unprepared to do any
n| * tlm ordinary duties of womanhood.”
are FILIPINOS NEGROES?
This Question May Result in a Lively
Debate in the House.
A heated debate over the race ques
aay be precipitated in the house
w 'h°’a the military committee reports
:i 1! to allow the president to ap
poi r seven Filipinos to be educated at
iin i'nited States Military Academy
at West Point. It is stated that the
n ■ , ure will he vigorously opposed by
Q ' ! iin democrats, who insist that Fil-
11 iiito3 are negroes and should not be
a itted to the West Point academy
* or this and other good reasons.
hughes gets endorsement
Of New York State Republican Commit
tee for President.
The republican state committee of
New York Saturday put its seal of ap
proval on the candidaay of Governor
Hughes for the presidential nomina
tion by unanimously adopting a reso
lution naming him as the choice of
his party in the state before the repub
lican national convention at Chicago.
OPENSSECOND CAMPAIGN
Gov. Smith of Georgia Makes Initial
Address, as Candidate for Re-Elec
tion. in DeKalb County.
Governor Hoke Smith of Georgia
opened his second campaign for gov
ernor Monday morning in an address
before an audience of between 200
and 300 citizens in the DeKalb comi
ty court house at Decatur.
He read from the platform on which
he made his first race two years ago
and said he would confine himself to
showing what had been done towards
carrying out his pledges and what
still remained to be done.
The most striking subjects treated
in Governor Smith’s speech were the
following:
The railroad commission has been
increased and its powers enlarged.
While the commission has no hostility
to railroads, it requires them to fur
nish better service.
The law requiring public service
corporations to secure the consent of
the railroad commission before issu
ing additional stock prevents the fur
ther issuanse of watered stock.
Passenger rates have been reduced
to a point which saves the people of
Georgia $1,000,000 a year.
One million dollars more is saved
in the reduction of freight rates.
Free passes have been abolished.
The last legislature passed the law
disfranchising the ignorant and illit
erate negro, and the people will en
dorse their action at the fall elec
tions.
(The date for primaries should be
fixed by law, and should be as late
as posssible preceding the regular
elections.
The public school system of the
state should be perfected.
Laws regarding the examination of
state banks should be amended so as
to make the examinations more search
ing and more valuable.
The Western and Atlantic railroad
should be ultimately extended to the
sea.
The prohibition question should he
taken out of politics, and the present
law should be allowed to stand. Such
amendments as may be necessary to
perfect tbe law should be made by
the friends and not the enemies of
the measure.
The sum of $950,000 cannot well be
paid to Confederate veterans in a
lump sum at the beginning of eash
year without a constitutional amend
ment permitting the governor to bor
row as much as $600,000.
Reaffirms that port rates should be
made effective.
Declares that attempts have been
formerly made by tbe combined ef
forts of railroad and liquor corpora
tions to secure control of legislative
power.
People are warned that efforts arc
being made to secure the election of
undesirable legislators.
Milton H. Smith, president of the
Louisville and Nashville railroad, is
declared to be the leader of “railroad
control.”
Referring to the removal of Hon. Jo
seph M. Brown as railroad commis
sion, the governor said:
“I would have removed him as soon
as I was inaugurated, but the law re
quired that I should report my action
to the legislature with my reasons for
doing so and the legislature would
then have been called upon to pass
upon my report. There were many
questions before the legislature, and
it was evident that they would not
have time to complete their consider
ation before adjournment, and I did
not wish to inject this question which
would consume additional time and
hazard the passage of important leg
islation.”
CALL FOR LABOR COUNCIL
Issued by President Gompers of Amerl
. can Federation.
The far-reaching character of the re
cent decisions of the supreme court
of the United States affecting labor
organizations has led President Gom
pers of the American Federation of
Labor to issue a call for a meeting of
the executive council of the federation
in Washington, March 18, “there and
then to consult and take such action
as the importance and merits of the
subject herein dealt with may be con
sidered and determined as setting forth
the position and demands of labor-
COAST LINE SETTLES TROUBLE.
Wage Scale Satisfactory to All Parties
at Interest Agreed Upon.
The general committee <,f adjustment
of the Brotherhood of Locomotive En
gineers on the Atlantic Coast Uno sys
tem adjourned its biennial sessions m
Wilmington, N. C., Saturday, at which,
incidentally, was also taken up the pro
posed reduction in the wage scale. The
engineers stated that the conferences
with the railroad officials were entire
ly satisfactory. _________
Non-Opposed Treaties Ratified.
A Washington special says: The
senate ratified six of the thir
ten treaties negotiated at the inter
national conference at The Hague. The
conventions adopted are those to
which no opositlon has hen made.
CARY NOW SENATOR
Elected by Carolina Assem
bly to Succeed Latimer.
THE CONTEST STRENUOUS
Result Was Reached on Eighteenth
Baltot, After Deadlock of Two
Days—Brief Sketch of New
Senator.
On the eighteenth ballot, the South
Carolina legislature, in extra session,
at Columbia, Friday, elected Frank B.
Gary of Abbeville, United States sen
ator to succeed the late Senator A. C.
Latimer.
The deadlock continued two days,
and Mr. Gary was elected on the
fourth ballot Friday, receiving
votes. The legislature convened in
special session March 3 for the pur
pose of electing Senator Latimer's
successor.
The claim is made that the nomina
tion of Sheppard caused a break to
Gary along former factional lines. The
four votes Friday were as follows:
First bafiot: Gary 67, Walker 23,
Coker 24, Nash 14, McLeod 14, Maul
din 8, Wilie Jones 4, Ira B. Jones 5.
Second ballot: Gary 70, Walker 28,
McLeod 11, Mauldin 7, Lever 7, Ira
B. Jones 4, Wilie Jones 4, Coker 10,
John C. Sheppard 15.
Third ballot.: Gary 75, Walker 14,
Coker 2, Sheppard 34, Mauldin 7, Le
ver 10, Ira B. Jones 4, McLeod 3, Wilie
Jones 1, McKeithan 1.
Fourth ballot: Gary elected; secur-
ed 81 votes.
Frank Boyd Gary was born March
9, 1860. He is a nephew of the late
Gen. Mart W. Gary. He graduated
from Union college in 1881, and is a
lawyer by profession. In 1890 he
was elected to the house of represen
tatives and served as a member of
the constitutional convention in 1895.
In 1896 he was elected speaker of the
house, and served in that capacity for
five years. He was a candidate for
governor in 1902, being the first to ad
vocate local option as between prohi
bition and the state dispensary.
Mr. Gary comes of a distinguished
family, having one brother, Eugene B.
Gary, on tbe supreme court bench of
the state, and another, Ernest Gary, as
a circuit judge. He is a nephew of
the late General Mart Gary, a famous
confederate general.
Mr. Gary is a supporter of William
J. Brjan, stating that he believed the
Nebraskan would be nominated by the
Denver convention. His strongest op
ponent, LeGrand G. Walker, favored
the candidacy of John A. Johnson of
Minnesota.
Mr. Gary will not stand for re-elec
tion, his term expiring March 4, 1809.
Senator Gary’s w'ife was formerly
Miss Evans of Florence, and she is a
member of one of the most promi
nent families in Carolina. Ihey
have only one child.
Senator Gary stated Friday night
that he hhd appointed Cecil Wyche, a
graduate of the South Carolina Mili
tary academy, as his private secre
tary. Mr. Wyche rn now teaching
school in Newberry county.
GEORGIA POPULISTS CALLED.
State Executive Committee to Assem
ble in Atlanta, March 24.
A call has been issued from Atlanta
to the populists of Georgia by Chair
man J. J. Holloway and Secretary J.
E. Bodenhammer of the state populist
executive committee, asking, all who
believe in populist principles to meet
in the chamber in Atlanta at
10 the morning on March
24, next, for the purpose of selecting
delegated to the populist convention,
which has been called to meet in St.
Louis on April 2. Chairman Hollo
way states that he e'xpects a good
attendance.
SLAYER OF PRIEST ON TRIAL.
Giuseppe Alia is Facing a Jury at
Denver, Colorado.
A jury was found at Denver Monday
to try Giuseppe Alia, charged with the
murder of Rev. Leo Heinrichs, the
priest, who was shot to death at the
altar of St. Elizabeth’s Roman Cath
olic church February 23.
The session of the court was taken
up in the examination of the thirty
three talesmen before Judge Greely
Whitford.
MRS. EDDY DENOUNCED.
Rev. Dixon Declares Head of Ch .ls
tiati Scientists is “Degenerate."
“She is a degenerate woman. You
can read her book backward as well
as forward. You can take a steno
grapher in a lunatic asylum and write
just as good a book." These were
the most striking excerpts from Rev.
A. C. Dixon’s opening sermon at the
tabernacle in Atlanta Thursday night,
the first service of the Bible confer
ence, the sneaker referring to Mr*.
Eddy, head of Christian Science.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF DADE COUNTY.
TRENTON, GA.. FRIDAY. MARCH 13, 1908.
JAP AND CHINK GROWL.
Complications Over Seizure by China
of Jap Vessel, with Contraband
Arms Aboard at High Tension.
Advices from Pekin, China, state that
Japan’s ultimatum in the case of the
Japanese steamship Tatsu, was pre
sented to the head of the Chinese for
eign board Friday, and Saturday the
board took the matter under consider
ation. The Tatsu was seized off Ma
cao on February 7 by Chinese customs
cruisers on the charge that her cargo
of arms and ammunition was intended
for Chinese revolutionists, although
consigned to a merchant of that place.
The steamer is now being held at
Whampoa, the Canton river.
The irreducible minimum of the
Japanese claims is the restoration of
the steamer as well as her cargo and
the payment of a full indemnity. Ac
tion is demanded within a “reasonable
time.”
In case of default or postponement,
Japan, according to the terms of her
ultimatum, will “take immediate ac
tion.” *
Japan expects a reply at once.
She will not tolerate China’s offer to
investigate the case; she insists upon
aii apology for hauling down of the
Japanese flag on the Tatsu Maru and
she will not accept mediation, affirm
ing that China is In error and that
the facts are incontrovertible.
Baron Hayashi, Japanese minister to
China, in delivering the ultimatum,
made reference to Japan’s sympathy
with China in the matter of the contra
band traffic in arms and explained that
China could not expect mediation so
long as she did not admit the partici
pation of the Portuguese.
Besides the trouble over the seizure
cf the Tatsu, China’s activity to recov
er full sovereignty in Manchuria has
aroused the Japanese to opposition. Ja ;
pan has raised the standard of her post
offices, increased the effectiveness of
her postal system, which Is one of the
Japanese g 6; ment’s special inStruc
tions of aggresttbn, and Is harassing
the imperial Chinese by other means.
Japan refuses China certain postal
prviileges on the south Manchurian
railways to which she is entitled, has
broken open Chinese mail bags, secret
ly confiscating one mail bag and con
tents and conducts a parcels post over
her railways, while refusing to carry
the parcels of the Chinese post.
A Tokio special says: There were no
developments through Sunday or Mon
day in connection with the Tatsu af
fair. Meantime Japan is undoubtedly
preparing for eventualities. The entire
decision in the case rests with Premier
Saionji and Foreign Minister Hayashi.
There has been no indication of the pe
riod of time that Japan will await Chi
na’s reply.
Some reliable figures are now to
band showing the present strength of
the Japanese navy as compared with its
strength when war with Russia broke
out. Details are appended, but the to
tals may be freely stated, viz.: 157 ves
sels of ail descriptions, representing a
tonnage of 263,742 tens, before the war,
and 204 vessels and 515,082 tons at
the pres;fit day. 1
KNICKERBOCKER TO REOPEN.
Marks Progressive Period in Era of Re
turning Financial Confidence.
Marking the advent of another pro
gresive period in the era of reconstruc
tion in the financial and industrial
world was the order granted Saturday
by Justice Clarke in the supreme coiaH
Staten Island, for the reopening <®
March 26 next, of the Knickerbock®
Trust company, whose suspension la
October, following a run, involvingJH
savings of nearly 20,000
caused the suicide cf the pr?siden®fj
the institution, Charles T. Barney,
precipitated such an unsettlemeni^®
resulted.
WU TiNG FANG- OPENS UP.
Wary Chinese Minister “Interviews"
Newspaper Men.
Minister Wu Ting Fang, who has re
turned to the United States as China’s
diplomatic representative after several
years of absence, arrived in Washing
ton Saturday night.
He was escorted to the Chinese le
gation, where he received the repre
sentative of the press. As of old, he
was the interviewer, particularly when
the questions approached the subject
of the present trouble his country is
having with Japan over the seizure of
the Tatsu Mam, on the charge of smug
gling supplies into China for the sup
posed benefit of revolutionists.
SCHMITZ GIVES HEAVY BOND.
Released from Jai! in ’Frisco on Pre
senting Bail of $150,000.
Eugene E. Schmitz was released
from jail in San Francisco Tuesday
night after presenting bond in the
sum of $150,000. His bondsmen are
T. H. Williams and W. J. Dingey. The
charges of extortion against him, on
which he had not. yet been tried, were
diernUeed.
PRITCHARD DEFIED
By State of South Carolina
Through Attorney General.
WILL DISREGARD ORDER
Muddle Over Dispensary Affairs Reach
es Serious Climax in Appointment
of Permanent Receivers by
i Federal Judge Pritchard.
Federal Judge Prichard at Ashe
ville! C > Satur(ia y decided to ap
poind permanent receivers of the
South Carolina dispensary fund of
$600,000, and named Judge Joseph A.
McCullough, C. K. Henderson and B.
F. Arthur as receivers.
In. the order the receivers were di
rected to take charge of all the per
sonal property now in charge of the
commission appointed by the state to
wind up the dispensary affairs, includ
ing the money in banks, and to give
bond In the sum of $25,000 each. The
members of the committee were di
rected to turn over such property to
the receivers, and all persons were
restrained from bringing any suits to
enforce claims or in any way to Inter
were with the possession of the court’s
agents.
When Attorney General Lyon of
South Carolina was shown the dis
patch from Asheville announcing. Jos.
A. McCullough’s acceptance of a re
ceivership of the dispensary at the
hands of Judge Pritichard, he said:
“I .regret exceedingly that there is a
person in the state of South Carolina
who!’would accept the appointment of
receiver at the hand} of Judge Pritch
ard.”
Then taking up the general situa
tion, Mr. Lyon said, in part:
“So far as Judge Pritchard’s under
taking to enjoin any on-" from bring
ing suits to in shy way interfere with
the fund involved is concerned, I will
state that I have instituted a proceed
ing in the supreme court of South Car
olina for the purpose of compelling the
commission to disregard Judge Pritch
ard’ injunction and to pay into the
staU treasury for the u-e of the at
torney general’s office the sum of $15,-
000 which was appropriated for tl. I
purpose of certain criminal proceedings
and prosecutions of persons connected
with the late state dispensary.
“Judge Pritchard’s order will most
certainly be disregarded by me if it un
dertakes to in any wise restrain or di
rect me in this or any other proceed
ings I may deem it advisable to insti
tute.
A special of Sunday from Asheville
says: The attack made on Judge
Pritchard by Attorney General Lyon
and published by the morning papers,
created a profound sensation in the
city, the judge’s borne. It is stated
that representatives of some of the
suitors will call the attention of the
court to the attorney general’s attack,
and ask Judge Pritchard to attach him,
the attorney general, for contempt of
court.
A Columbia special says: When At
torney General Lyon was shown the
press dispatches Sunday as
threatened attempt to have
{ached for c. niempt on
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ABYSSINIAN PRINCE EXPELLED.
Germany Tires cf Ludwig Menelik a
Undesirable Foreigner.
Prince Ludwig Menelik of Abyssinia
has been expelled from Germany as an
undesirable foreigner. The prince is
a near relative of the king of Abys
sinia and a negro. For a long, time
past he has been making unsuccessful
efforts to organize companies for the
exploitation of mines, rubber and cot
ton in the kingdom of his relative. He
has been charged repeatedly with
drunkenness and disorderly conduct.
WHY V/ AGE REDUCTIONS?
Is Question Asked of Georgia Roads
by the State Commission.
The Georgia railroad commission has
propounded to the Western and Atlan
ti crailroad in particular and other rail
roads of the state in general, the ques
tion as to why they have made or pro
pose to make, as the case may be, re
ductions in the wages paid their em
ployees.
Georgia Briefs
Items of State Interest Culled
From Random Sources.
Ban Lifted from F. O. B. Road.
The railroad commission has issued
an order modifying its recent order pro
hibiting the Fitzgerald, Oeilla and
Broxton railroad from running its
trains at a speed greater than ten miles
an hour until the track Is put in
repair.
* * *
Candidates Favor Annual Payment of
Pensions.
Expressions upon the question of
whether the payment of the pensions
of confederate veterans should be
made annually or quarterly are being
made by the various nominees and can
didates fer the legislature all over the
state. With a remarkable unanimity
they declare themselves as in favor of
a return to the plan of annual pay
ments.
* * *
Heavy Reward Offered.
The executive department has offer
ed a reward of $250 for the arrest with
proof to convict of the unknown ne
gro who murdered Pawnbroker Jacob
Hirsowitz, at bis place of business, on
Decatur street, in Atlanta. With the
S3OO raised by the friends of the de-|
ceased and SIOO offered by the city
council, the total reward for the ap
prehension of the slayer of Hirsowitz
will be $650.
# * *
Baker County Gets Railroad.
• The Camilla and Newton Railroad
company has been granted a charter
by Secretary of State Phili^^Cook.
rruet a li;i ' ten miles in
Camilla, where it. will eon nee®
the Atlantic Coast Line, to
the county seat of Baker
only South Georgia county
not a single mile of railroad.
* * *
Forty-Four Paroled by JudgCT®
Forty-four persons, indicted for r3
tailin.gr/quor without first paying thS
government tax, pleaded guilty in
United States court at Savannah a
few days ago, and were released upon
parole of henor, which they signed in
open court, and by the terms of which
they promised to pay the government
assessment and to surrender their li
eens,„\lo the city of Savannah, and
never again to be connected with a
locker club.
* * *
Ryals Sentenced to Hang.
Neal Ryals, the alleged assailant of
Mrs. Lizzie Overstreet, last September,
was found guilty in court at Baxley,
and sentenced to be executed on March
31. The state proved a strong case
by circumstantial evidence, upon
which the jury, after consinerable de
liberation, wrote'its verdict.
Ryals taken to Brunswick to
await the day of execution, as is
a strong feeling existing in
and vicinity over the affair.
Officer Sent for Thornpson^HggJii
An officer bas left
bring back from New Jersey ®H®
Thompson, the absconding treasHH
of the Palmer Hardware company.
IjThompson has been arrested there, and
papers have been asked
®®ompson was a church leader and a
■Hr of prominence in Savannah for
fcfny He has left with the.
company a
that he is
jysHffn his accounts, and it is said J®.
co to $20,000. P®
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lUMK of the Western and Atlantic
claims in the omnibus claims
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f This is the claim of the stare of
Georgia against the government for the
use of the state road during and just
after the civil war. Restitution in the
sum of $600,000 is asked. The claim
will be referred to the court of claims
for adjudication. When that tribunal
passes upon the case the amount of
their findings will be paid by congres
sional appropriation. This moai]f|pjM|
amount will unquestioi^^j®|
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Charter of Trolley Road AmeilSl
The Atlanta and Carolina Ra®
company has secured from Se|®
of State Philip (’oak an anvuuaHß
its charter, under which it. H|
the right to construct its line
counties than those named inJ
original petition.
Under the annndiiKMit
socks, and is granted the rigl®
struct into or through the c|H(j-„‘:
Newton, Walton. (Vonoc. • >jfl
Clarke, Wilkes, McDuffie,
him bin and Ku ond. ami ;
its track on certain streets uHH|
which r.ro nn*.;!i m<’d in ■
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