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K XXXII—No. 34
Governor brown’s message
10 THE GEORGIA LEGISLATURE
(“Little Joe” Sends Brief Btt
Masterful Message to Legis
lative Assembly
LanTS to amend
REGISTRATION LAW
Biennial Sessions of Legisla-
I ture and Prompt Payment of the
Teachers— Raps Railroad Commis-
sion. «
Atlanta, Ga., June 22 —Governor
LJoseph M. Brown delivered his mes
sage to the General Assembly of
(Georgia this afternoon, it being in
(part as follows:
h'o the General Assembly-
Through the blessings of a bene
kvent Providence the past twelve
Lnonths have been replete with pros
perity for our people. The husband-
Lnan has received a gratifying re
ward for the fruits of his toil; the
laborer in the city has found employ
ment at remunerative wages, and
lku>se in other avocations have reaped
■ e than the average allowance of
rtTie enjoyment of life.
It is especially gratifying that the
asperities which had marred the re
lationships with each other of many
of our citizens have been softened or
Entirely allayed and that peaceful
pleasures are now the happy lot of the
generality of Georgians.
It is to be sincerely hoped that this
rest from political agitation will long
Continue and that our people will co
operate in friendly accord in all en
deavors to build up our common
wealth and to perpetuate mutual tol
eration and good will.
In this spirit I commend to you the
kindred hope that in pur conduct of
the people’s governmental affairs we
bnay hold ever in mind that the hum
blest is entitled to the same consider
ation as the highest, that equality
is the standard by which we must
pleasure all and that fair play is the
Roman's right.
W Registration Law.
With the desire to protect, there
fore, the rights of the people of Geor
gia, I respectfully call your attention
to the serious defects and unneces
sary barriers in the registration law
passed by your immediate predeces
sor, and repeat the recommendation
made in my first message regarding
the provision which closes the books
six months before elections.
In addition to the reasons I ad
vanced in that message, I will add
others that have been demonstrated
to be valid, together with data that
have been collected. The operation
of the above provision of this law,
when taken in connecteion with the
registration and subsequent elections
m various municipalities in the state,
proves that it directly and flagrantly
1 iscriminates against the residents of
the country districts and in favor of
Ue residents of the cities and towns.
S>t is well known that the avowed
purpose in fixing the excessive time
limit of six months between the
‘losing of the registration books and
the date of the election was to purify
the ballot by shutting out the “venal
voter,’ the “hobo,” the “ward heel
(r - ’ and the like. These nafarious
flasses were represented as being
mainly residents of the large cities.
p| - we find Atlanta closing her regis
tration books only eleven days before
“’ting on the question of binding
herself to the payment of $3,000,000
ln bonds, an amount equal to almost
THE DALTON ARGUS.
LEADING PAPER OF NORTS 1
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half the public debt of the State.
Therefore, while it has bfeen the
current belief that the “venal vo
ters’’ and other obnoxious classes,
whom this law would debar from the
ballot box, are the dwellers of the
city slums, or are temporary impor
tations thereto, the law itself, by its
operation, says that these “venal
voters” and the like are confined al
most entirely to the country dis
tricts; for as I have shown, one great
city can vote an enormous issue of
bonds and another can transform
country people into city people—the
most' radical changes in our system
of government—on a few days’ no
tice, while the country man must reg
ister six months before election day
so as to give the registrars sufficient
time in which to examine carefully
each individual’s status, to purge the
lists and throw out all who are “ve
nal voters” or “ward-heelers” or
“hoboes.”
I respectfully submit that this in
evitable logic of the law is an uncall
ed for and unjustifiable aspiration on
by far the greater portion of the elec
torate of Georgia; and it places them
under a discrimination as needless as
it is unmerited.
It is superfluous to argue that
there are not 100,000 “venal voters,”
“hobos,” “ward heelers” and other
objectionables among the white citi
zenry of Georgia, as those who con
tend for existing restrictions would
by inference intimate. In several
countie| where the effect has been
most glaring in depriving white cit
izens of the constitutional right to
vote, negroes sufficient in number to
easily hold the balance of power in
case off a close division of the whites/
have qualified.
I hold that the white citizenry of
Georgia is honest, intelligent and re
sponsible, and that each unit of it
should have available the power to
protect his rights by the freeman’s
weapon, the ballot.
I, therefore, recommend that the
time limit between the close of the
registration books and the date of
elections be reduced to thirty days.
The ends of good government de
mand that the person who makes
venal use of the franchise shall be
denied the privilege of voting, but
because he is per sea voter is no
ground upon which to base a suspicion
of venality. The law should be aimed
at the criminal and not at the hon
est man. It is not fair to disfran
chise possibly 50 good citizens in or
der to catch one venal voter.
Prompt Payment of Teachers.
In my first message to your honor
able bodies I also called attention
to the propriety of devising some plan
for the prompt payment of the
school teachers of the state, and sug
gested that there be an amendment
to the constitution authorizing the
issuance of about $600,000 of bonds,
the proceeds of which to be used to
create a permanent loan fund for
the payment of teachers’ salaries to
be returned to this loan fund in De
cember when the taxes are collected.
Railroad Commission.
The sovereign people of Georgia,
in the election which chose your hon
orable bodies, adopted, through their
representatives, a platform which
contained the following expression of
their will:
‘ “We are opposed to unnecessary
offices which levy additional taxes on
the people: and we ask the legislature
to scan carefully Georgia’s pay-roll
to the end that ’all sinecures be cut
off. We especially favor a reduction
in the membership of the present
railroad commission from five to
three, and the abolition of the office
i J ALTON, GA., THURSDAY, JUNE 23, (910
Dalton Booster’s Trip
TnesdayandThursday
More Than Fifty People in a Dozen Autos W ill Make
Trip Tuesday and Thursday, June 28 and June 30
Taking in All the Towns in the Surrounding
Territory.
FOURTH OF JULY CELEBRATION
WILL BE WELL ADVERTISED
Large Sum Subscribed for Prizes for the Big Event—Automobile Party
Will Carry Advertising Matter and Souvenirs of Firms in Dalton—
Nearly Half a Hundred Towns Will Be Visited.
Everything is in readiness for the Dalton Booster’s trip, which has
been planned for next week, the date having been changed from that
first suggested.
The party of fifty people or more will make the trip in a dozen or
more automobiles, and will make two days —Tuesday, June 28th, and
Thursday, June 30th. This is done in order to allow the parties a day be
tween trips to look after their business affairs, and at the same time it
would be inconvenient to find quarters for the large party to remain over
night.
The object of the trip is to boost Dalton and a number of the wide
awake firms and business men of Dalton will take advantage of the oppor
tunity, and the autos will be loaded down with advertising matter and
souvenirs. Particular attention will be given the advertisement of the
Fourth of July celebration, and posters, programs and other matter ad
vertising the big day in Dalton will be distributed. The autos will carry
displayed banners advertising the celebration and the respective business
represented by the autoists.
Dalton has subscribed a large fund for the celebration on the Fourth
—s2so of which will be Used for cash prizes Tor congest? and races of
many kinds.
Booster’s Trip, Tuesday, June 28th.
Itinerary of Dalton Boosters, leaving Dalton Tuesday, June 28th, 1910,
at 7 o’clock, a. m.
Arrive at Rocky Face 7:30 o’clock.
“ “ Tunnel Hill 8 o’clock.
“ “ Bandy’s Store, 8:20 o’clock.
“ “ Ringgold, 9 o’clock. *
“ “ Catoosa Springs at 9:30 o’clock.
“ “ Kirkpatrick’s Mill. 9:45 o’clock.
“ “ Cohutta, 10 o’clock.
“ “ Varnells, 10:30 o'clock.
“ “ McGaughey’s Chapel 11 o’clock.
“ “ Beaverdale. 11:30 o’clock.
“ “ Gregory’s Store, 11:45 o’clock.
“ “ McCrosky’s Spring, 12 o’clock —Dinner.
“ “ Crandall, 1:30 o’clock.
“ “ Eton 2 o’clock.
“ “ Chattsworth, 3 o’clock.
“ “ Spring Place, 3:45 o’clock. *
“ “ Fashion, 4:15 o’clock.
“ “ Norton, 5 o’clock.
“ “ Dawnville, 5:15 o’clock.
“ “ Dalton 6 o’clock —“Home, Sweet Home.”
Thursday, June 30th. 1910.
Arrive at Five Springs Church, 715 o’clock.
“ “ Tilton, 8 o’clock. '>>’
“ “ Resaca, 8:30 o’clock.
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“ “ Craneater, 9:30 o’clock.
“ “ Redbud, 9:45 o’clock.
“ “ Sonoraville, 10 o’clock.
“ “ Farmville, 10:15 o’clock.
“ “ T. M. Owens’ Store, 10:30 o’clock.
“ “ Adairsville, 11 o’clock.
“ “ McDaniel, 11:30 o'clock.
“ “ Calhoun, 12 o’clock —Dinner.
“ “ Plainville, 2 o’clock.
“ “ Reeves’ Station, 2:30 o’clock.
“ “ Oostenaula. 3 o’clock.
“ “ Sugar Valley, 3:30 o’cclock.
“ “ Hill City, 4 o’clock.
“ “ Carbondale, 4:30 o’clock.
“ “ Dalton, via Dug Gap, 6 o’clock —“Home, Sweet Home.”
of special attorney of the same.”
I respectfully renew the recommen
dation made in my first message that
this mandate of the people be made
effective. The present number of
members of the railroad commission
and the consequent increase in its
• expenses are out of proportion to its
usefulness and the tax-payers should
be relieved of these superfluous bur-
BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM IN PIEDMONT SECTION.
dens.
Biennial Sessions.
Another matter to which I call your
attention is that of biennial sessions
for the General Assembly. Only
about one-half dozen states in the
American union now have annual ses
sions of their law-making bodies, and
the sentiment of the people of Geor
gia appears positive to the effect that
FOURTH OE JULY CELEBRATION
WILLBEBIGGEST EVER HELD HERE
LEGISLATURE
IN SESSION
Day Devoted Manily to Hearing
Governor’s Message —No Ex
citing Fights on Program
Atlanta, Ga., June 22 —Both branch
es of the legislature convened prompt
ly this morning. The first day’s pro
ceedings are largely formal and devot
ed mainly to hearing governor’s mes
sage and bills.
No exciting battles are on the pro
gram, but they may come off later.
An attempt to pass a new registra
tion law may start a fight.
AUTOS DEVISED TO HAVE
PROTECTION FROM WEATHER
Atlanta, Ga., June 22—Automobile
men here are interested in the latest
addition to the White Company’s
constantly growing line of steam and
gasoline cars and motor trucks in the
shape of a new type of closed car,
known as the White Gasoline Coupe.
The coupe is designed especially for
those who desire the pleasure of
driving their own cars, but wish pro
tection from the weather. The steer
ing wheel operating levers are
'located within the closed body and
the operator, as well as the other pas
sengers, is thus afforded protection
from the rain and cold. At the same
time all the exhileration of an open
car may be enjoyed by lowering the
windows into the wainscoated panels.
This coupe is particularly adapted
to the use of physicians and it is at
tracting unusual attention among wo
men, to whom it especially appeals on
account of the protection afforded
from bad weather. In this car wo
men can make calls or attend the
theatre in rainy or winter weather
without exposing themselves to the
rain or cold, and the ease and safety
with which this car can be handled
commends it to the use of women ope
rators.
COLORED TEACHERS AT
TUSKEGEE SUMMER SCHOOL
Prof. C. D. Green and wife left
Monday for Tuskegee, Ala., where
they will attend the summer school
conducted at the Booker Washing
ton institute. They will be gone a
month.
this state should be freed from the
expense of yearly sessions, which are j
calculated, also, to burden the people I
with unnecessary laws.
Departmental Reports.
The reports of the State House offi
cers and of trustees of colleges and
public institutions and of onr other
boards are or soon will be before you.
I respectfully commend them to your
attention as containing much useful
and creditable information with many
worthy recommendations too mimer
ous to mention here.
Repairs in Legislative Halls.
Acting under the direction of your
honorable bodies, I have had the halls
of the House of Representatives and
the Senate renovated, repaired and
re-carpeted. The work was let in
two contracts, one for repairs and
decorations and one for carpets.
Each contract was let by bids, suit
able advertising being made and full
opportunity offered all who desired to
make estimates. 1 ■
One Dollar a Yea r
Many Prizes for Events Will Be
Given —Committees at
Work.
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HILL-CLIMBING CONTEST
FOR AUTOS A BIG FEATURE
Auto Parties From Cleveland. Chat
tanooga and Other Places Will Be
On Hand—Monster Procession of
Juniors, Floats, Fire Department
and Autos Will Take Place.
The biggest celebration in the his
tory of Dalton will be pulled off the
4th of July. In a short time Friday
afternoon, the business men of Dalton
subscribed $250 which will be award
ed in prizes for the various contests
Among the features planned for
the day is an exhibition by the fire
department, automobile hill climbing,
base ball game, grand rally of the
Junior Order of north Georgia, music,
parade, boxing contest, baloon ascen
sions and various contests and races
of all kinds.
It will be, without a doubt, the
biggest day of its kind ever held in
North Georgia. Many auto parties
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from Cleveland, Chattanooga and
other places have signified their in
tention of coming, and it is estimated
that Dalton will entertain no less than
five thousand visitors on that day.
The several committees are at
work making preparations for the
program and other arrangements, and
nothing will be left undone to make
the event a big success.
Among the prizes to be awarded,
which w’ill total $250 in cash prizes,
will be $25.00 for the winning base
ball team; $25 silver cup in auto
climbing contest; SIO.OO for winner
in boxing contest; SIO.OO for foot
races; $7.50 best lady driver; $5.00
for best fiddler; prizes for many other
races and contests, A prize of $7.50
will be given to the party bringing
the biggest wagon load of people to
town; also a prize will be awarded
to the Junior Orders, who will take
part in the program, joining in the
parade; the merchants will also be
invited to participate in the parade
with floats or any other way they
may desire to advertise their respec
tive lines. #
Several manufacturers and business
men have signified their intention of
joining in the parade and making the
best display possible, and with the
fire department, the autoists, the
Junior Order, and the Dalton concert
band, which will head the procession,
' along with the people in the town
and country who are invited to take
part, the procession will be made a
big feature of the day.
SHE HAD RATHER DIE
THAN TO RETURN HOME
Atlanta, Ga., June 22. —Declaring
amid tears that she had rather die
than go back to Chattanooga, and pro
testing that she would surely commit
suicide if an attempt was made to
send her back pretty Clara Louise
Plath, aged 18 years, is being held
at police headquarters. She was ar
rested in a local boarding house by
a call officer yesterday morning, the
technical charge being vagrancy, as
it appears she has been here in the
city for three weeks without having
any relatives here and without work
ing. It is believed the girl is of a
good family.