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JUDGE FITE
REPLIES TO
ANJDITORAL
ANOTHER CHAPTER ADDED TO
THE GOSSIP GROWING OUT OF
THE CRITICISM OF JUDGE RUS
SELL BECAUSE HE CLAIMS
THAT CRIME IS GROWING IN
GEORGIA.
Judge A. W. Fite of the Cherokee
circuit, came to the front yesterday
with another statement concerning
the colloquy between himself and
Judge Russell, candidate for governor,
concerning the latter's position with
reference to the prohibition question.
In this statement Judge Fite takes
exception to a recent editorial in The
Atlanta Constitution attacking both
himself and Judge Russell for running
for office while sitting on the bench.
Judge Fite’s statement speaks for
itself and follows:
Cartersville, Ga., Sept. 16, ’ll.
Editor Journal, Atlanta, Ga.
My Dear Sir: —The editor of The
Atlanta Constitution having failed
and refused to publish the following
communication, I respectfully ask that
you publish it, and oblige,
Yours truly,
(Signed) A. W. FITE.
Cartersville, Ga., Sept. 15, ’ll.
Editor Constitution: —My attention
has just been called to your editorial
■“Two Judges Right and Wrong,” of
this date, in which, as usual, you hit
me below the belt. Your reporter has
treated me fairly in that he lias quoted
me correctly, but you come up “With
smooth dissimulation skilled to grace”
and purposely leave out of your edi
torial what T did say as to why Judge
Russell should resign; being a epita
tion of the treatment you accorded me
when you omitted from the report sent
out from Dalton my reason for attack
ing the editor of the Dalton Citizen
for contempt of court, and then re
fused to publish my reply thereto, al
though you wrote me a letter stating
that it was not your fault, yet refused
to correct it in your paper.
This is what I said as to why Judge
Russell should resign; being a repita-
purposely left out of your editorial.
“The fact is T thought very well of
his candidacy until he made the liquor
question an issue of the campaign, and
began criticising and condemning our
prohibition laws, which he. as judge,
is sworn to uphold and enforce; I
criticise him for doing this without
resigning the judgeship, and therefore
repeat: ‘He should either resign from
the court or get off the stump.’ ”
I did say, and still say, “that an
official, even a judge, has the right to
run for another office without resign
ing, if he can do so without neglect
ing his official duties; but if he can
not, then he should either resign or
not run.” Speaking of this you say
that I have stated a correct principle,
even if you must accept the qualifica
tion which I attached to it; and then
you say: “Judge hjite violated this
pinciple when he sat on the bench of
the Cherokee circuit and at the same
time stumped the Seventh district for
congress.” Suppose this is true, what
has it to do with the controversy be
tween Judge Russell and myself?
Nothing, and you know it. but you use
it as a pretext to attack me, which you
never fail to do when you have the
slightest opportunity, either with or
without cause; but I would not mine
your attacks if you would only tell the
truth, the whole truth and nothing but
the truth. If you mean to say that I
neglected my official duties while run
ning for congress you state what is
untrue, and the people of the Chero
kee circuit know it is untrue. You
know that the primary for congress
was called in April, while Whitfield
Superior court was in session, which
was the last of the spring riding, and
I did not take the stump until after
B the court had adjourned and all of my
courts were over, and then had only
about 1G days in which to stump the
FUN AT THE
EXPENSE OF
YOUNG COUPLE
A BRIDE AND GROOM THE VIC
TIMS OF SOME FUN-LOVING
FRIENDS—THE COUPLE NOW
VISITING FRIENDS IN WHIT
FIELD COUNTY.
Sunday afternoon just before the
three o’clock Western and Atlantic
train pulled out of the union depot
in Chattanooga a young man passed
through the train and distributed the
following type-written note to every
one:
Dear Frieds ad Fellow Passengers:
This will introduce to you Mr. and
Mrs. Paul Gibbs, who were married
at 2 p. m. today.
They are now on their wedding trip,
with Tilton, Ga., as their destination.
We trust that you will make their ac
quaintance; be congenial, and do not
let them forget that they are married.
Yours truly,
MUTT & JEFF.
An Argus representative, being on
the train, went, back and took a peep
at the blissfully happy Paul and his
bride with a view to in
terviewing them, but, actuat
ed by a life-long habit of never at
tempting to disturb people in their
wakeful or happy moments, desisted
and left them alone. Some fun-loving
friends of the couple had made a large
sheet iron heart about one foot in
diameter, painted it red and printed
the following legend on it in very
arge letters: “One heart to beat for
two and two hearts that will beat as
one.” This replica of that “bit of
phosphorus” said to be possessed by
all, was locked to the two suit caseS
of Cupid’s new victims with an im
mensely large lock which had been
done over in gilt and with a chain
almost as big as the ordinary log
chain. Mr. Gibbs lived in Dalton
for a long time and is well and favor
ably known here and will receive the
heartiest congratulations of a world
of well-wishers.
Saving It.
An old Yankee farmer lay on his
deathbed says the New York Sun. He
was so far gone that the doctor told
lis daughter that she could indulge
lim in anything he might crave in the
matter of food, to the end of making
lim happy if possible, as nothing could
delay the end and nothing could really
iasten it. The daughter asked her
father if there was any particular
thing his appetite fancied.
“Yes,” whispered the old man, “a
bit of fine cake with lots of nuts and
currents in it.”
A woman neighbor, who heard the
old fellow express his desire, had a
fine fruit cake made, rich enough to
produce an attack of acute indigestion
in a wooden Indian.
The doctor was not pleased with the
old man’s choice, but he inquired the
next day how it suited the patient.
“Well, sir,” the daughter replied,
“father hasn’t had a taste. It was
such a perfectly lovely cake that we
hadn’t the heart to cut into it; and
so we are just keeping it for the fun
eral. ’ ’
district, although I had made a speech
or two in the fall before outside of
my circuit, and when my courts were
not in session.
No truthful man who knows the
facts will say or intimate that I have
neglected my official duties, either for
political or personal reasons.
I don’t expect you to agree with
me on the prohibition question, or
that Judge Russell is wrong in criti
cising our prohibition laws while on
the bench or off it, and therefore I am
not surprised at your cunningly de
vised editorial attack on me.
Respectfully,
A. W. FITE.
THE DALTON ARGUS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1911.
NUMBER OF BALES OF COTTON
RAISED IN THE SOUTH
Cut Out and Paste Over Your Desk
THE VALUE OF THIS STAPLE AN D WHAT IT HAS AMOUNTED TO
IN THE PAST TWELVE YEA R PUT DOWN IN DOLLARS AND
CENTS—AN IDEA OF THE R ESOURCES OF “DIXIE.”
The present condition of the cotton crop and the prospect for fifteen
cents or more and the fact that The Argus has several times been asked the
amount of cotton raised this last year it points the following figures, taken
from the current issue of the Baltimore Manufacturers’ Record, which has
made a specialty of anything that looks to the general,good of the South.
It would be well therefore to cut this out and paste it up for future
reference.
Year Ended Aug. 31 Bales Number Value Including Seed
1900 9,436,4165415,773,874
190110,383,422 571,567,585
190210,680,680 496,014,689
190310,727,559 560,770,282
1904 10,011,374 701,501,548
190513,565,885719,195,359
190611,345,988 ’ 716,720,435
190713.510,982 797,352,000
190811,571,966 759.285,093
190913,825.457 775,794,494
191010.609,668 902,894,095
191112,120,0951,030,133,527
T0ta1137,789,492 $8,447,002,981
NEW ELECTkIC LIGHT PLANT
TO BE READY BY OCTOBER Ist
THE BUSINESS DISTRICT OF THE CITY WILL HAVE INDEPEN
DENT LINE AND WILL BE OPERATED DURING MOONLIGHT
NIGHTS—PLENTY OF LIGHTS FOR COUNTY FAIR.
Daltonians will walk in darkness
the remainder of the month of Sep
tember.
This fact is due to the change now’
being made in the lighting system of
the city.
The electrical contractors are busy
at w’ork so that by October first the
new station out near Crown Point
will be put in commission and w’hen
that shall have been accomplished
Dalton w’ill have a plant any city
should be proud of. The new plant
will have three circuits so that in
case of a break only one will be tem
porarily out of commission at a time.
HOKE SMITH THINKS IT WILL
BE HARMON AND WILSON
DENIES THAT HE GAVE OUT ANY INTERVIEW BOOSTING HAR
MON FOR THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE, BUT THINKS THE
OHIAN WOULD MAKE A FIN E CHOICE.
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. IS—Denying
that he had committed himself in any
inteview to Judson Harmon for dem
ocratic presidential nominee and
Woodrow Wilson for the vice-presi
dency, as reported from Spring Lake,
N. J., where he attended the House
of Governors conference, Governor
Hoke Smith yesterday made the fol
lowing statement as to what he thinks
of the presidential situation as a re
sult of his trip east.
“Governors Wilson and Harmon
were naturally the center of interest.
In the discussion of democracy’s can
didates for the presidential nomina
tion, attention settled around them.
Some were surprised at the aggress
ive attitude taken by Governor Har
mon along the line of preserving the
rights of the states in the supervis
ion of transportation and public ser
vice companies, so far ag interstate
business was concerned. In several
different private gatherings I ex
pressed myself in very complimentary
“So you don’t are much for life
in a large city.
,‘‘No ’ ’ replied Farmer Corntossel.
“The population of a large city is
composed too largely of folks who wen
there with money an’ had to stay there
’cause they were broke.” —Washing-
ton Star.
Another good feature of the new sys
tem w’ill be that the line in the busi
ness districts of the city will be run
during moonlight nights and not be
cut off as heretofore.
The contrctors assure the mayor
and city authorities the work will
be completed by October first. At
any rate by the night the county fair
opens. However, the fair officers are
assured that if anything should hap
pen to the new system the old plant
will be in statu qou and lights may
be had from it for the fair. It is
hoped that lights will be tunned on
all over the city as soon as possible.
terms with reference to Governor
Harmon and stated that his attitude
upon the preservation of the power
of the states and their duty to regu
late and supervise transportation and
public service companies was no sur
prise to me. More than once I also
expressed the opinion that Wilson
and Harmon or Harmon and Wilson
would make an admirable ticket for
democrats to support in the next con
test. I gave out no interview express
ing a choice between the two, and in
deed I did not express in any sense
my preference as to which should
head the ticket. I suppose the' in
terview attributed to me, must have
been the work of some newspaper
man who heard part of some one of
my conversions and did not hear all
of it.”
Governor Smith arrived in Atlanta
Sunday from the east. He left Spring
Lake on Thursday, spending Friday
in New York and leaving there for
home Saturday.
“Yon, there, in the overalls!”
shouted the cross-examining laywer
. “how much are you paid for telling
untruths?”
“Les than you are,” repodted the
witness, “or you’d be in overalls, too”
j A handicap often comes in handy
I as an excuse.
AFFINITY.
THE INEVITABLE
TRIANGLE
THAT MAKES FOR DIVORCE
AND BREAKS UP SO MANY
HOMES.
Atlanta, Like Other Big Cities, Comes
to the Front With the Usual Case
of Affinity.
There was heard in the police
court yesterday morning that cry from
a woman’s heart which is born of a
love and trust that withstands the
most violent assaults that can be
made upon it by the husband says the
Atlanta Constitution.
“He is mine and I love him,” ex
claimed the wife of H. A. Campbell,
of 530 West North Avenue. Camp
bell was on trial and it was charged
that he had neglected his wife and
two children because of his infatua
tion for another woman—a one-eyed
woman, the police stated. There was
evidence, and it was admitted by both
Mr. and Mrs. Campbell that Camp
bell had invited the other woman to
his home and had tried to compel his
wife to permit her to remain all night.
One of the neighbors stated that he
heard Mrs. Campbell say that her
husband told the one-eyed woman to
beat her. This was denied. Another
neighbor stated that Mrs. Campbell
told her that she had been cruelly
neglected.
Then Mrs. Campbell, in a voice
choked by sobs, cried out:
“He is mine and I love him. Some
things they tell on him are lies, but
no matter what he has done, it is no
body’s business but mine and I don’t
care. I want him and I beg the judge
to let me take him back home with
me.”
This loyal and pathetic appeal from
his w’ife melted Campbell into tears
and he exclaimed as he wept:
“Judge, for God's sake let me go
home to my wife and children and if
you will I promise you upon the word
and honor of a man never to wrong
them again.”
The recorder, after giving Campbell
a lecture on a husband’s duty and
telling him he ought to be ashamed
to wrong such a loving and loyal wife
as he had, decided to place the man
on probation and turned him over to
the tender administrations of Officer
Coogler.
TRAMS
IN RACE
WITH DEATH
A LITTLE GEORGIA LAD, HORRI
BLY MANGLED BY TRAIN WAS
RUSHED TO HOSPITAL BUT
DIED ENROUTE.
Just as a flying freight train, carry
ing the mangled form of 4-year-old
Claude McGough Jackson yesterday
afternoon drew into the terminal
yards where an ambulance waited to
to rush the injured boy to a hospi
tal, life became extinct, says today’s
Atlanta Constitution. Claude had
been run down by a freight train
near his home in Fayetteville, Ga.
Seeing that the boys’ life might be
saved, the crew of the train that
struck him placed him on a freight
car and started for Atlanta at full
speed. At a high rate of speed the
freigh traced with death, but just as
the terminal station w’as reached, the
injured boy died.
The body was removed to Patter
son’s undertaking parlors and will
tomorrow be taken to the home in
Fayetteville.
EIGHTEEN
BALES OF
JI
WERE BROUGHT TO DALTON
AND SOLD TODAY—-THE P Rlce
SECURED WAS 11.10— MANY
ARE HOLDING FOR 15 CENTS.
As predicted in The Argus a f ew
days ago, when the first bale of cot .
ton was brought in, it would not be
long until the streets of Dalton would
have the old time appearance when
the “fleecy” would be rolling i n i n
great quantities.
The vanguard of that view was here
today. There were about 18 bales all
told, brought here and they received
11.10 per pound. So far there are
not a great many in this section who
will hold all their cotton for 15 cents.
However, those who have brought it
to market today were those who had
bills due and wanted, like honest men.
to discharge obligations. It is expect
ed and believed that the market will
go to 15 cents before long and the bulk
of the crop will be sold at that price.
There was not much trading as plant
ers are waiting for colder days to buy
winter and fall goods.
FULLER
RESIGNS
PASTORATE*
OF MOUNT RACHEL BAPTIST
CHURCH AND WRITES EPISTLE
TO THE NORTH DALTONIANS.
Dalton, Ga., Sept. 14, 1911.
The Dalton Argus:
Dear Editor: —Please give spate
in your paper for a few words. I
have tendered my resignation as pas
tor of the Mt. Rachel Baptist church
to take effect September 24. I feel
that w r e have done some work as pas
tor and people since my coining here
to this field, although there is much
needed yet to be done. The greatest
need of our people today in church
work is they need to be educated to
their duties. We have so many peo
ple who do not contribute to the ex
pense of the church in any way. If
our people here would do their best
they could keep a pastor full time and
support him well an dthen let him
work in this field to develop it that
the greatest of good may be done. Fe
have here in this church 228 members,
and none so poor but what could pay
$2.00 per year and many $5-0° an „
some $lO and a few could pa,'
without any trouble, and I certainly
feel that if this church will secure a
sound-minded wide-awake pastor th
will come to this field and take t
work up just where I leave it- ? rea
good may be done. I am sure Ikn
what this people can do. I have ta e
stock of the whole field by making ‘
pastoral calls in 167 difierent he
Now, my plans are not yet
known but I have many calls for
services. We may just live j
and take work in reach of town- J
have already more work in reaen E
Dalton than I can take, 1 1 .
that the greatest good my " l ”
this church and her new pa t
main as ever, Yours in sei' ~a'
J. 11. fuller-
Got a Bine Ribbon.
Mrs. W. E. Mann was awar ®
blue ribbon at the Appakwh .a
sition the past week t m ], ra ss
of her splendid collect ■'
house ornaments and ' ■ ' Iro j re cl.
lamp shade was the m" wer e
Three other Georgia !a ‘ ie " ar t j
awarded blue ribbons il,i
work.