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WILLINGHAM 1$
AGAINST POPE BROWN
details some political his
tory OF GEORGIA.
Says Pope Has Been Against Prohi
bition in Every Raqj for the Past
Several Years —How He Stood.
Bartow S. Willingham, of Forsyth
Ga.. one of the foremost prohibi
tionists in Georgia and the author of
the Willingham prohibition bill, in
one of the most withering and sen
sational political statements recently
given to the press in Georgia, tells
why he has repudiated the candida
cy of J. Pope Brown, says The At
lanta Constitution.
Reviewing the prohibition move
ment for the past twenty-five years,
this consistent advocate of state
wide prohibition says that Hon.
Pope Brown has invariably been
found on the side of the opponents
of prohibition, and aligned with the
local optionists. He tells of the var
ious fights in the halls of the state
legislature and accused Pope Brown
of having given aid and comfort tc
the enemy.
Mr. Willingham’s statement is in
reply to a letter of inquiry written
by Benjamin F. Perry, of The Golden
Age. to Mr. Willingham in which Mr.
Perry asked what position Mr. Wil
lingham would take in case Gover
nor Brown’s suggestion was adopted
that the settlement of the liquor
question be submitted to a vote of
the people.
The stateme"* is addressed to Mr.
Perry as “pv’disher of the Golden
Age.” though the latter is also one
•of Colonel Brown’s campaign mana
gers and is associated with him in a
business way.
As to Colonel Brown’s record as a
prohibitionist, Mr. Willingham de
clares that in 1896-7 Colonel Brown
as a member of the legislature, re
corded his vote against the bill by
•ex-Governor Boynton, “which struck
down the manufacture and sale of
liquor in Georgia.”
He asserts that in 1896, when Robt.
L. Berner ran for governor and had
in his platform a plank calling for
the abolition of whiskey in Geor
gia, Colonel Brown “jumped clear,
•over it and repudiating his south
Georgia patriotism by refusing to
support Spencer R. Atkinson from
Brunswick, landed on the local op
tion platform of Hon. Allen B. Cand
ler.”
“Again in 1898-99,” says Mr. Wil
lingham, “I led the prohibition forc
es in the legislature . . . The
representative from Pulaski and the
senator fro nithat district opposed
the bill and it was defeated in the
senate. A word from Mr. Pope
Brown at that time would probably
have resulted in giving us their sup
port, but it was never uttered.”
Again, says Mr. Willingham, when
Hon. DuPont Guerry made his race
for governor on the prohibition plat
form, Colonel Brown at that time
supported the opposition.
“Oh, where was Roderick, then?”
asks Mr. Willingham, “one blast
from his bugle horn were worth a
thousand men. Tell me if he was not
lined up with Mr. Fstell?”
Then in reply to Mr. Perry’s query
as to “where he will stand,” Mr.
Williamham declared:
“I unhesitatingly tell you I shall
stand where I have always stood, with
such men as Joseph M. Brown. . .
where he has stood In every prohibi
tion contest and where I am sure he
will stand with his vote if the matter
is ever submitted in Georgia.”
Mr. Willingham declares that he
has never considered prohibition an
issue in this race and that as a pro
hibitionist he will never consider pro
hibition has been repudiated if Pope
Brown is defeated.
“For,” says Mr. Willingham,
“when he states his position he does
so in an apologetic way, regretting
that Judge Russell has taken the
stand he did, but since he has done
so, Pope Brown would espouse the
, cause of prohibition; intimating very
broadly that if Judge Russell had
taken that position he would have
WAS DEAD, NOT ASLEEP.
Man Whose Body Was Found on Cal
May Have Been Murdered.
Savannah, Ga., Nov. 11 —A brick
thrown by a railroad man at the re
cumbent body of a man apparently
asleep on top of a freight car that
had just arrived from the south on
the Atlantic Coast Line, failed to
arouse the man and led to the dis
covery that he was dead, apparently
having come to a violent death.
The head, which appeared to be
badly battered, was resting in a pool
of blood. It was not clear, however,
wheather th man had been murdered
and his body placed on top of the car
or wheather his head had struck an
obstruction while he was riding .
Papers found in the man’s pocket
indicated that he was George R.
Boatwright, a soliciaor in the employ
of the Atlanta Constitution. The
police are investigating.
Richmond, Va., Nov. 10—Denounc
ing the Elson history as prejudical to
the south and abounding in misrep
resentations, the United Daughters of
the Confederacy, in convention yes
terday unanimously adopted a resolu
tion condemning its use in southern
schools and colleges. It was char
acterized as “too wilfully wicked and
slanderous to go unchallenged by the
Daughters.”
Another resolution was adopted call
ing on the United States government
to substitute the term “war between
the states” for civil war” and war
of the rebellion” in all official refer
ences to the struggle of the ’6o’s.
The other feature of the second day
meeting was the report submitted by
former secretary of the navy, Hilliary
A. Herbert, of Washington, D. C.,
chairman of committe in charge of
the erection of a monument in Arling
ton National cemetery, at Washing
ton, D. C., to the Confederate dead.
He reported that $26,000 already had
been collected by the Daughters for
this object and that $25,000 more was
needed for its completion. This a
mount, he said, must be raised within
the next eighteen months, by which
time the monument will be eady for
delivery.
Chicago, Nov. 11. —Poison found in
te viscera of two more of the ten per
sons who have died mysteriously be
neath the roof of Mrs. Louise Ver
milya made more tangable the sus
pisitions and accusations made
against the woman. At the county
jail hospittal, where she lies ill from
attempts to take her own life, she
was not informed the new evidence
the police will bring.
Toxicologist Haines communicated
his report to the corner’s office.
The finding was that arsenic was
present in large quantities in the vis
cera of Conductor Richard T. Smith
and of Frank Binkham the latter
being Mrs. Vermilya’s son.
Tn the case of Frank Brinkamp,
Mrs. Vermilya’s son, the fiancee of
the boy introduced an investigation
of the possibility of his having par
taken of the “peper box” poison.
The corner announced that he would
ask the state attorney to ask an in
dictment charging Mrs. Vermilya
with having crimal knoweledge of
the causes of the deaths of Brink
amp and Smith. Coroner Hoffman
said he was disposed to open still
more graves of those whose deaths
had occurred beneath Mrs. Vermilya’s
roof. There was at least three others
whose death, he said were recent en
ough for poison to be apparent if they
had so died. Wheather he will go
into those case, he said, depended
upon advice of the state’s attorney.
Mrs. Vermlya was near death
during the day. She js suffering of
valvular heart disease.
Mr. Julian McCamy’s chickens took
quite a few valued prizes at the Au
gusta fair this week.
Mr. McCamy Thursday received a
telegram showing his chickens had
won as follows:
First and fourth cockerels; first,
second and fifth hens; second, third
and fourth pullets, and first pen. He
also won the special $lO in gold for
the best display of Barred Rocks.
His money prizes amounted to S2O
THE DALTON ARGUS, DALTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER if, 1912.
GOV. PATTERSON
IS INTERVIEWED
THINKS LOCAL OPTION BEST
THING FOR TENNESSEE.
The Question Far Too Reaching and
Menacing for the Democratic Party
to Dodge—All Factions Must Unite
Governor “Ham” Patterson, of
Memphis, in discussing Tennessee's
state issues and particularly the re
uniting of democratic forces says
among other things the following:
“What do you thing should be the
attitude of the party on the liquor
question?” The governor quickly
answered that it should be what the
party stood for before the prohibition
law was passed: that is, it should
stand squarely on the doctrine of lo
cal option. “One thing is true,”
said the governor, “and that is. there
should be a democratic policy settled
and agreed upon by all the demo
crats, the will of the majority gov
erning. My position as a citizen is
what it was as governor, that prohi
bition without local consent is a mis
nomer, in that it is impossible of en
forcement, and the results of a prohi
bition law without the consent of the
people are uniformly most corrupt
and degrading. I believe there are
now many persons, with the number
constantly increasing as they become
acquainted with the facts, who vio
lently opposed my views on the liquor
question and who are now in their
inner consciousness, willing to admit
that T was right. They are now as
much in favor of a change in the pro
hibition law as they were formerly in
favor of the adoption of the law. This
question is too grave, too far reach
ing and menacing for the democratic
party to dodge. Tt Is now, and has
been for more than three years, the
great issue which has called for a
right solution and men who recognize
responsibility will not. seek to evade
it.
“I am as much opposed,” said the
governor, “to the lawless saloon as I
am to the prohibition law. The li
quor tariffs should be regulated and
restrained by law and this can be done
not by outlawing it, to spread unre
strained throughout the state, and es
pecially in the larger cities, but to re
strain and control it by the power of
the law. Local option, high license,
segregation and strict regulation arc
the only practical ways of dealing
with this problem.
Gadsden, Ala.,Nov. 11. —With their
heads split open with an axe, their
blood and brains oozing out upon the
floor of their home, and with their
saving of years gone, the bodies of
Jocob C. Lutes and his wife were
found late yesterday afternoon in
their home, as what is known as the
Mill place, near Gallant. Sheriff John
Lister and County Coroner E. G.
Woodliff are making an investigation.
Although undiscovered until late yes
terday afternoon, it is believed the
couple met thei rawful fate Tuesday
night. He was about 70 years old
and she was 60. Ljites was a mon
ey-lender in the community ever
since the days of the war and was
supposed to have a large amount of
money in the house. Empty pocket
books were found in the death-cham
ber and the rooms were in great dis
order. The first intimation of the
crime came yesterday when neighbors
failing to find the old couple about
bouse, held a boy up to the window
and he saw them weltering in
their blood. The community has
been thrown into a state of wild ex
citement, and several hundred men,
many of whom are armed, are at the
scene of the crime.
A Hefty Corporation.
“The National Negro Compact Emi
gration Commercial Navigation Steam
ship Company of North America ” re
gistered with the secretary of §tate
I yesterday. Headquarters at Damas
. cus, Early county, capital $20,000.
, with A. M. Waters as president. In
the way of a name this is about the
GOVERNOR SMITH
PARDONS PREACHER
REV. J. A. KIMMONS, OF GILMER
COUNTY, CONVICTED OF MUR
DER IS NOW A FREE MAN, EN
JOYING EXECUTIVE CLEMEN
CY.
Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 11—With less
than one year of his eight-year sen
tence served, the Rev. J. A. Kimmons,
convicted of killing Carter Linger
about a year ago, was pardoned by
Gov. Hoke Smith. The killing of Lin
gerfelt occurred in the yard of Mount
Pisgah church, C.’mer county, Geor
gia. after Lingerfelt and several of
his friends had disturbed the services
by shooting piste’s about the build
ing. After the meeting Kimmons and
his brother met the disturbers in the
yard, and in the quarrel following Lin
gerfelt was killed.
In granting the pardon the governor
says:
“According to the evidence, the de
fendant or his brother, whichever did
the firing, shot under circumstances
where they w r ere not legally entitled
to shoot, but it is at least a question
of doubt as to whether they would not
have been seriously injured had they
acted otherwise.”
The time was long past midnight;
“What was that terrific noise up
stors, darling?” exclaimed the ner
vous young man.
“I think it must have been papa
dropping a hint,” she replied.—Phil
adelphia Record.
(From The Daily Argus, Nov. 10.)
The suit of the State of Georgia to
compel the lessee of the Western and
Alantic railroad to enforce the ref
erence to freight rates from points in
Georgia to and from Chattanooga
Tenn., will be filed inthe Fulton supe
rior court Saturday.
Attorney General Thomas Felder
and Judge J. K. Hines, special attor
ney for railroad commission, have
been engaged in the preparation of the
suit for several days, and it would
have already been prepared had Judge
Hines not been engaged with other
duties before the railroad commission.
The suit will call upon the lessee to
enforce the provisions of the contract
with reference to the rates mentioned
whereupon the court will issue an or
der calling upon the lessee to sow
cause why enforcement should not be
required.
Washington, D. C., Nov. 10 —The
decrease in the production in crops
this year as compared with last year
is being compensated to the farmers
of the country by the higher prices
they are receiving as shown by figures
given out yesterday by the depart
ment of agriculture. The aggregate
production of crops in 1911, it is esti
mated, is approximately 7.9 per cent
less than the crops of 1910 and about
4-10 of 1 per cent less than the aver
age production, preceding five years.
Corn was worth 12.1 cents more per
bushel on November 1 than on the
same date last year; wheat 1 cent;
oats 8.9 cents; barley 29.6 cents; rye
11.5 cents; buckwheat, 7.1 cents, and
potatoes 20.6 cents, while the value of
hay was $2.66 a ton greater. Flax
seed, the only grain in which an in
crease was reported this year, is 19
cets cheaper this year than last.
“The production of other crops in
1911,” says the report, “expressed
in percentage of the average produc
tion on the receipt years (not com
pared with full crop) is estimated as
follows:
“Apples, 126.3; pears, 110.8; water
melons, 105.1; grapes, 102.7; canta
loupes, 101.8.
“Peanuts, 99.3; asparagus, 97.7 al
falfa, 96.1; beans, 95.1; kaffir corn,
95.00; cranberries, 94.0; tomatoes, 93.9
cabbages, 93; raspberries, 91.
“Onions, 89.7; millet, 87.2; straw
berries, 83.6; raspberries, 83.5; clo
ver seed, 82.6; millet seed, 82.1;
peaches, 80.3; hemp, 78.2; clover, 68.1;
Yield per acre, compared with the av
erage yield: Sorghum, 102; sweet po-
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Under the Virginia law, peddling of
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