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SOME POLITICAL HISTORY
To the Voters of Chattooga:
Judge Fite is doing much howl
ing because he couldn’t work the
Congressional Committe to fur
ther his own political scheme.
I stated to the committee that
any date which they thought
most suitable, so it did not occur
on the date of the state primary,
would be acceptable to me. May
3 was the choice of the majority
of the committee.
In view of the fact that Judge
Fite says he wrote letters two
years ago favoring April 20 as
the proper date, he shouldn’t
complain now. Rather than say
things to the injury of the party,
as Judge Fite and W. J. Neel are
doing, I had rather put the blame,
if any there is, on the committee.
Judge Fite thinks you should
vote for him because the com
mitte acted unwisely in calling a
primary for May 3. That is about
as good as any other reason he
offers for you to vote for him.
What I insisted on was a con
gressional primary, in which Mr.
Lee and Judge Fite would go be
fore the people, each on his own
merit alone, neither . receiving
from nor giving to another by
trick, trade or deceit, a single vote.
In this the committee concurred,
and “that’s what’s the matter
with Hannah.”
On the morning of our meeting
Judge Fite presented us with a
“card” in the morning papers.
When we adjourned he sent a
“card” after us, and he’s been a
“carding” and in a weaving
way ever since.
In fact, if in the last twenty
years he had carded wool as he
has people, he would have had
enough wool rolls to furnish
socks for every man woman and
child in Georgia.
And Billy Neal is no slouch at
“carding-” Billy sold his beau
tiful home amid the hills of
Rome, presented farewell cards
to his neighbors, cards to his
trees, cards to his birds, and left
the sweetness of them for a more
congenial clime of card writers.
If when Gabriel blows his
trumpet, Billy and Gus are
upon the earth, with
arm about each others
necks, they will approach the bar
of judgment, Billy with a “card ”
charging Gabriel with snap judg
ment, andGusw’itha bill of in
dictment for libel against the
keeper of the book in which is
recorded the deeds of men.
Now let me give a little politi
cal history of ten years ago,
which is yet fresh with many. I
was a candidate for the Senate.
But let John Cain in issue of May
13, 1896, Chattooga News, tell the
story:
“a shrewd scheme is
NEATLY NIPPED IN THE BUD”
“What is known as a Senatori
al Convention for the 42 district
was held in Rome last Thursday,
ostensibly for the purpose of
electing a Senatorial Executive
Committee. A call to this effect
was published in the Cartersville
News and the Rome Tribune last
Tuesday, just two days, remem
ber, before the meeting was to
beheld.” (Billy, don’t that jar
you?) "It should be remembered
further that no notice, whatever,
was sent to The News for publi
cation, or to Captain Cleghorn,
Chairman of the Executive Com
mittee of this county, or to any
one else. The significance of this
fact will appear a little later on,”
(Billy, wasn’t it this committee
meeting, called by Judge Fite
through T. J. Lyon, you referred
to when you said they didn’t have i
time to “shave and put on a clean
shirt?”)
“In order to get a better under
standing of what is to follow, it
should be stated here that Col. I
Fite is a candidate for Judge. He I
is opposed by Mr. T. R. Jones of
Dalton, formerly a citizen of this 1
county and a brother of Messrs.l
R. D., S. E. and J. A. Jones. Ow-j
mg to this strong relationship in
the county, Col. Fite has reason
to believe that if Mr. Shropshire ‘
should be nominated his vote!
would probably go to Mr. Jones,
his opponent.
“Col. Fite was not satisfied
with this state of affairs, however,
and while in Summerville recent
ly stated that he did not intend
to submit to the nomination of
any man who would not support
him for Judge. To defeat
the nomination of the
only candidate now in the
field, he outlined this sort of plan
He claimed Chattooga county had
no right to make a nomination
even when it was her time to fur
nish the Senater according to the
rotation system, but that the
Senatorial Convention alone had
the right and the power to make
the nomination. His idea as ex
pressed here was to have a com
mittee elected who would control
this matter in his favor; that if
a man was nominated from Chat
tooga that was opposed to his in
terests, (and named the man who
is is now a candidate) he would
have this convention reject and
repudiate the action of the coun
ty and have them to make a nom
ination that was agreeable to Bar
tow, or to him, which to him
meant one and the same thing.”
(Chattoogans, how do you like
that mustard for the 3rd of May?)
“In pursuance of this plan, T.
J. Lyon, Chairman of the last
Senatorial Convention, called the
body together to elect a Senatori
al Committee. As stated before
only two days notice was given.
No notice whatever was sent by
the Chairman to this county to
be published, nor w T as any notice
given the Chairman of the Demo
cratic Executive Committee, J.
S. Cleghorn. By the merest
chance a gentleman of this town
happened to discover this call as
published in an out of the way
corner in the Tribune and know
ing Mr. Fite’s little scheme, went
to work at once to defeat it. ”
(Chairman Bunn, you may be a
little speedy in calling a commit
tee together, but even ten years
ago Judge Fite could throw dust
in your eyes. At this time noth
ing should satisfy him but the
telephone. You at least got all
the committee fairly notified, and
every county was represented.)
After describing the organization
and the failure of Judge Fite’s
scheme, Cain concludes:
“Never before in the history of
the 42nd District has any such
bold, unscrupulous attempt been
made to rob a county of its right
to name its candidate in its own
way. There is absolutely no
precedent for any such action.
It is w’holly unwarranted in
practice or custom.” (Billy, af
ter ten years that’s hot yet.)
“The conventiontion that is usu
ally called to meet after a county
puts out its Senatorial candidate
is simply to ratify .the nomination
so made, and any attempt to dic
tate or control the action of the
county by the convention has
never before been heard of. It
wasan exceedingly subtle scheme
and would do credit to the ser
pent that trailed its shiny length
through the garden of Eden.”
(Billy, are you listening?”) “The
members of the Floyd County
Convention were not aware of
the real purpose of the meeting
until within a very short time of
its occurrence (and some of them
not then) but as soon as they
learned the real facts in the case
they stood by Chattooga to a man,
and vindicated and substantiated
the right of a county, in turn, to
name its candidate for Senator
free from outside interference or
dictation.”
The call of this convention was
so plain, it seems that the Judge
•would have put “his fine Italian
hands” in his pocket, but when
that convention met the Judge
was on the ground. This was
enough, we knew something was
going to “drap” by his very pres
ence and su re enough it did. His j
scheme was to file a contest in be
half of Floyd delegates receiving
it is said oh an average of 127
votes as against Floyd delegates
receiving on an average of 1350
votes and holding credentials
from the proper county authority.
THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS, THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1906.
It worked greased tor awhile.
I The chairman ruled out the Floyd
delegates leaving Chattooga two
votes to cope with Bartows’s four
votes. At this Judge Bellah read
the riot act, and knocked the
stuflin out of the whole scheme.
Judge Fite again fell down in his
dirt. Os his conduct in this John
Cain, after writing it up in issue
of June 24, says.
“A. W. Fite, who was present
and seemed to be engineering the
matter, very frankly outlined his
little scheme after it was all over.
His object as he stated was in
the end to seat enough of the con
testing delegates in Floyd—the
crowd who had got 127 votes—to
give the Bartow delegation a ma
jority. This being accomplish
ed it was intended to
have the convention instruct
Mr. Shropshire to vote for Fite
for Judge. Comment on such
conduct as outlined above is need
less. There are quite a large
number of people in this section
of country who Relieve in old
fashioned honesty Jfidsquare and
fair methods and they will con
demn in the strongest manner
any such reprehensible methods
and especially when practiced by
any one who is seeking to fill the
honorable and responsible posi
tion of Judge of the Superior
Court, a position of gredt impor
tance and of very grave responsi
bility. As stated above comment
is needless. A plain presentation
of facts is all that is necessary.”
Dear Billy, you were one of
the parties to that famous con
test. I had forgotten it Billy,
and as I ran over my old scrap
book and stumbled over you amid
these old fantastic ghosts of the
past, it really hurt me. And I
promise to forget it again, if you
will lay down those dirty old
sticks you borrowed from Judge
Fite and quit “carding” me.
Judge Fite is not only a great
“carder,” but apt in conversa
tion, and he seldom goes away
from a conversation with anoth
er who opposes him, without re
porting things which the other
denies. Now, if there be a citi
zen in Chattooga who is willing
to risk the Judge with the inter
ests of Chattooga, go vote for him.
Wesley Shropshire.
CASSEL’S ART COLLECTION.
Purchased Mainly With Gold Paid For
Hessians Sent to America.
Cassel is perhaps the only town
in Germany with a distinctly Amer
ican chapter in its history, and yet
it is seldom visited by Americans.
Once upon a time there lived in
Cassel the Landgrave Frederick 11.
of Hesse. He seemed to have been
a very amiable sort of prince, with
a level, practical head on his shoul
ders. lie loved his capital city, ly
ing in the mountain cradled plain,
and he could look out of his palace
windows any fine morning over the
waters of the Fulda, which wound
its lazy thread under the city walls.
He divided his time between improv
ing the town and amusing himself.
In Cassel broad squares were laid
out, cut and buildings erect
ed, while up on the hills at the cas
tle of Wilhelmshohe the landgrave
held court, where ladies fair and
gallants bold united to do him
honor.
So all went merry as a marriage
bell until the year of our Lord 1776.
Then from over the seas came news
of wars and rumors of wars. The
American colonists, impudent ras
cals, had revolted against the
king of England, and the land
grave pricked up his ears. At
last one line day Frederick If. in
Cassel received a communication
from George 111. in England, and
the result was that several thousand
foval Hessians were hurried off to
aid the British in America, and the
landgrave received a neat little con
sideration in the shape; of several
millF a dollars. And then —
Many of these lie ians made the
long voyage only to be surprised one?
night as they lay on the banks of
the Delaware and taken prisoners
by a colonial general named George
Washington, and Cassel became the
owner of an art collection which,
though small, is one of the finest in
Europe, and which was purchased j
mainly with British gold paid as
hire for the Hessian soldiers sent to I
America. —Grace S. 11. Tytus in St. ■
Nicholas.
Bears the tad Yoa Have Always Bought
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IMMENSITY OF THE HEAVENS
A Peep Into Space That Dazzles the
Imagination.
If our sun were removed to the
Pleiades it would hardly be visible
in an opera glass, with which nearly
100 stars can be seen in the cluster.
Sixty or seventy Pleiades surpass
our sun in brilliancy, Alcyone being
1,000 times more brilliant, Electra
nearly 500 times and Maia nearly
400. ’ “Sirius itself takes a subordi
nate rank when compared with the
live most brilliant members of a
group, the real magnificence of
which we can thus in some degree
apprehend.” If we seek to know
the dimensions, not of the individual
stars, but of the cluster itself, we
are met with many difficulties, but
on the assumption that it is approxi
mately spherical in shape we can
calculate its diameter to be over
40,000,000,000 miles, so that light
would take seven years to pass from
one extreme to the other. If we
think of the dimensions of our solar
system by themselves or in relation
to terrestrial matters they appear
stupendously enormous.
Neptune, the most distant known
member, has an orbit over 5,000,-
000,000 miles across —a distance
that a ray of light would travel in
seven and a half hours —but the so
lar system is to the Pleiades but as
a Lilliputian to a Brobdingnagian —
is but as a microbe to a mountain,
for a sphere the size of the solar
system would, if it were spherical
and its diameter that of the orbit of
Neptune, be relatively so minute
that it could be contained more than
400,000,000,000 times in a sphere
the size of the Pleiades. In other
words, the limits of the Pleiades
could contain 150 solar systems as
many times over as (here are miles
between Neptune and the sun.
It must not be forgotten that, al
though there arc 2,300 stars in the
cluster, yet with such dimensions
for the entire group vast distances
must separate the stars from one an
other. In fact, 2,300 spheres, each
with a diameter of 3,000,000,000
miles, could be contained in the lim
its assigned to the group, and, as
suming equal distribution of the
stars in the group, each would be at
the center of a sphere 3,000,000,000
miles across, and therefore a light
journey of 187 days from its near
est neighbor.
Where Fat Is Beauty.
Os the elevating influence of wo
men in the American sense Morocco
knows nothing, according to Budg
ett Meakin, author of “Life In Mo
rocco.” There they are. in fact, so
many goods and chattels. That a
woman should be fat and comely is
the highest thought a Moor has on
the position of women. If a girl is
to be married and is thought to be
too thin, she is put through a course
of “stuffing,” just as if she were a
turkey meant for the Christmas
market. “This consists of swallowing
after each full meal a few small
sausage shaped boluses of flour, hon
ey and butter, flavored with ani
seed or something similar. A few
months of this treatment give a
marvelous rotundity to the figure,
thus greatly increasing her charms
to the native eye.”
Truly Rural.
The seventeen-year-old daughter
of a certain Wall street man recent
ly visited for the first time the fine
farm in Dutchess county for the
past year owned by her father. The
girl immediately became greatly in
terested in the prize cattle that are
the special pride of her parent, and
she asked many questions relative
to their breeding, etc.
One evening just at dusk as the
girl was standing on the veranda of
the farmhouse talking to the man
ager there came the low, mournful
note of a cow.
“Just listen to that poor cow,”
said the girl to the manager, “mew
ing for her colt.”—Harper’s Week
ly-
Not So Silly.
Weary from the chase, the ostrich
of the desert had stuck his head in
the sand.
“You silly bird,” said the hunter,
coming up. “Do you imagine I can’t
see you?”
“You mistake my purpose,” re
plied the ostrich, with dignity. “Os
course you can see me, but you mis
erable, feather stealing, egg hunt
ing land pirate, I thus relieve myself
of the necessity of seeing you.”
h.'6nscious that he had the better
/NAhe argument, the ostrich yielded
worth of plumes without a mur
mur.—Philadelphia Ledger.
To Study the Real.
Mrs. Crossly—John, that gentle
man with the long hair and big
black tie is going to write a series
of stories on “Wild Animals I Have
Met.”
Mr. Crossly-—Well, what do you
mean by inviting him to call at this
house so early in the morning?
Mrs. Crossly (sweetly)—Why, I
thought he would like to see you
when breakfast is a few minutes
1 late.—Chicago News.
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