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I f OT Candidate to Win He Must Have
124 Units.
Under the county unit plan work-
I out by the state democratic execu
tive committee, two delegates for each
representative in the legislature un
' der the 1910 apportionment, there will
be a total of 368 votes.
In order for any candidate to win
he must have at least 124 units, a plu
rality over hi stwo opponents, and it
will probably work out so that at least
150 votes will be necessary since there
is not much probability of a very close
race between the three candidates.
The men receiving the highest vote
in each county will get the vote of
that county, according to the plan
adopted. It will not be necessary for
him to receive a majority over his two
opponents, and the committee assumed
that this would eliminate any possi
bility of a second primary.
The popular vote will really play
practically no part in the contest —
that it is possible for a candidate to
receive the popular vote of the state
as a whole and still lose the nomina
tion. On the day following the pri
mary, December 8, the county execu
tive committee will meet at the court
house, consolidate returns, declare the
winner and take cognizance of any
contest which must be filed at this
meeting. Then the county chairman
sends his returns to the state chair
man, W. C. Wright, who brings them
to Atlanta on December 12, when the
state committee will assemble at noon
in the senate chamber, capitol, to con
solidate and declare the winner.
It will be seen that it is a matter en
tirely in the hands of the state com
mittee, there being no convention to
express the public will in the general
issues.
TILT! LDITOR.
(By Howard L. Rann, in Sidewalk
Sketches.)
Allegorically speaking, the editor is
a happy medium between a soupbone
and a porterhouse steak. Nobody ever
saw a rich editor and on the other
hand no one ever encountered an edi
tor who didn’t head every subscrip
tion paper in circulation with a dona
tion of four bits and a stub pen. The
■editor is said to belong to the fourth
■estate because that is the only kind he
ever leaves. He is also one of the
most cheerful and overworked prevari
cators now posing as legal tender. He
has to be. Whenever a girl 'with a
face like a cream puff marries a man
who never earned a dime outside of a
shooting gallery, the editor has to
paint the bride as a radiant vision of
blushing beauty and the groom as one
■of our rising young business men or
else disappoint an expectant circle of
delinquent subscribers. If the editor
fails to spread a two-column obituary
over the death of a prominent citizen
who never paid a grocery bill outside
of the justice court, he is liable to be
waited on by some two-fisted relatives
of the deceased with an injured air
and a punch in either hand. It has
been libelously reported that the edi
tor’s diet is confined mainly to sight
drafts and summer squash taken in,on
subscription, but he appears to be as
resigned to his lot as a man whose
wife has gone to the seashore and the
only thing that can cause him to
change his occupation is a sheriff’s
sale or an untimely death. Few edi
tors go to the case nowadays and set
up their editorials in long primer with
a three-point lead. Modern machin
ery does everything but meet the pay
roll and pay the hired girl. The edi
tor is the most cultured person in the
community. He is the only man in
the village who can tell ‘ ‘ Barriers
Burned Away” from “Grant’s Me
moirs” and get away with it, and as a
result he outranks the principal of the
high school as a litterateur.
Howard L. Rann.
Dr. B. L. Kennedy, who recently
came here from Birmingham to enter
into the practice of his profession,
has secured rooms with Miss Maggie
Bard for himself and family.
Dr. Kennedy has rented the office
formerly used by Mr. Jeff Thomas
and has had it fitted up with furni
ture and can be found there when any
oe is in need of his services. Dalton
extends a cordial greeting to them and
hopes they will be immeasurably
pleased with their new home and en
vironments.
(From The Daily Argus, Nov. 16.)
The local officers of the Dalton
chamber of commerce received their
first installment of furniture yester
day afternoon.
As was compatible with the plan of
this body the purchase was made in
Dalton of Dalton-made goods which
consisted of eighteen chairs made by
the Duane Chair Company.
President Tyler was induced into
the executive chair by the secretary
elect and presented with a sledge
hammer, not that any knocking will
be done but that President Tyler might
call the first meeting in its new quar
ters with the hammer and forever
after throw’ the hammer away.
Elsewhere in this issue of The Argus
will be read the announcement of Mr.
Jack McKnight for city recorder.
Quite a number of Mr. McKnight’s
personal friends have urged him to
make the race and after having can
vassed them thoroughly, he has de
cided to make the race.
If elected Mr. McKnight promises
to run the office in a strict manner,
tempering justice with mercy. Mr.
McKnight says he has not forgotten
that “the quality of mercy is not
strained, but comes like the gentle dew
from Heaven.” Ever since his an
nouncement his friends have been re
ferring to him as “Judge McKnight ”
but it is a safe bet that Jack will make
a fine recorder.
The following special sent to the
Albany Daily Herald is significant to
say the least. The Herald is not es
pousing the cause of any particular
candidate, only printing the news fair
ly, though we believe it is inclined to
be a prohibitionist:
Atlanta. Ga., Nov. 14—The way
good prohibitionists are lambasting
each other in the present guberna
torial campaign must prove very
pleasing to the local option and liquor
people, said to be solidly behind Judge
Dick Russell.
In some ways the present war be
tween the prohibition forces is amus
ing. Such well-known men as Judge
W. R. Hammond, former president of
the Anti-Saloon League; Dr. G. A.
Nunnally, of Rome; Mr. Willingham,
of Forsythe; Judge Freeman of New
man; Ben Perry and others are slam
ming each other in long cards.
Dr. Nunnally, Judge Hammond and
Mr. Willingham are taking the posi
tion that the prohibition and local op
tion business has no part in this cam
paign and are standing by Ex-Gover
nor Brown in the fight. Judge Free
mi and Ben Perry are with Pope
Brown.
So this distinguished group of pro
hibitionists and Georgians, some of
them arguing that the liquor question
has no part in this campaign, are
making it THE issue by their wordy
war with those on the other side, in
the effort to prove liquor has no place
in the contest.
So after all, the unconscious humor
is the real thing just now in the three
cornered scrap, which comes to a :on
clusion at the polls in three weeks
from Thursday.
A rather remarkable statement was
made by a Pope Brown follower yes
terday. He predicted that under + he
present apathetic condition and with
the prospect of a light vote being pol'
ed, Rusell stood the best chance. Ask
ed why he figured it so, he replied that
the Russell following was one that
would turn out and vote regardless
of conditions, and with apathy 5. fil
ing both the following of Joe Brown
and Pope Brown, they would both fall
behind the appellate judge.
“And I say so with regret.” he
added, “because I would rather see
either of the other two nominated than
Russell. But that is the way the land
lies, as things are going now. The
hope of the two Browns is in arous
ing the lethargic voter and getting
them out to the polls.”
(From The Daily Argus, Nov. 17)
Mr. Amos Keith Quite 111.
Word was received in Dalton last
night that Mr. Amos Keith, of Mur
ray county, was quite ill with pneu
monia.
Dr. Rollins, of Dalton, went over
there yesterday to see him and re
ports that he was very low, but hope
is entertained for him.
THE DALTON ARGUS, DALTON, GEORGIA. THURSDAY, NOVEMBE E 23, 1911.
(Continued on Last Page)
The Argus is in receipt of the names
of the prize winners in the Boys'
Corn club of the Seventh Congres-
i MOf) -UOJJ xq paiayo ‘pujsip jbuois
don Lee, congressman for the dis
trict. They are as follows:
I. Ben Leath, Walker county; yield
214, profit $182.00.
, 2. M. T. Allison, Walker county,
yield -173; profit $155.00.
3. Paul Bentley, Gordon county,
yield 15 ; profit $131.00.
C. Summerlin, Haralson county;
4. Ellis Eaves. Polk county, yield
140; profit $106.50.
5. C. Summerlin, Haralson county;
yield 137: profit $109.00.
6. Paul Nichols, Polk county, yield
136; profit $106.00.
7.7 Hugh Knight, Gordon county;
yield 117; profit SIOO.OO.
8. Rube Pruett, Polk county; yield
123; profit $97.00.
9. Zeph Shellnut. Haralson county;
yield 121: profit 98.
10. Bryan Cole, Paulding county;
yield 115; profit $95.00.
11. Dallas White. Whitfield county;
yield 111; profit $93.00.
(From The Daily Argus, Nov. 16.)
Tim Argus has spent quite a bit of
lime and almost exhansed its patiem**
in attempting to get al the bottom
>•!' the heal cotton sifoa'ion wih es
pecial inference o the alleged combine
among the local buyers and the state
mi ’.hat other neighboring towns are
paying higher prices for cotton than
Dalton.
Recently The Argus attempted to
show that there was no combine and
I hat ti e quality of the cotton brought
to town rnd the sma’lness of the
bales affected the price. To this
statement exception was taken by
some of our friends in the country.
The Argus man again this morning
had the matter accidentally brought to
his personal observation. A farmer
brought in four bales whose weights
were as follows: 315, 369, 407 and
393. One of these bales, by virtue of
its quality and weight, brought the
top ot the market; the others under
the market.
Another local buyer had an order
from the Elk Mill for 50 bales, the
total of which was to weigh 25,000
pounds. In order to get it the buyer
had to buy 25 bales in Calhoun whose
total weight was 13,125, for which he
paid 11 cents. He then took 25 pal
ton bales which weighed 11,212 and be
cause of the smallness of the hales
brought only 10 3-4 cents. Then by
combining the Calhoun overweight
cotton to the Dalton underweight cot
ton he got the average required by the
Elk Mill not, however, without de
ducting $2.85 for the excess tare on
the Dalton bales. This transaction
was done in the manner described in
order to fill the order. He literally
w
sold Dalton cotton on the merit of the
size and quality of the Calhoun cotton.
Another co’ton buyer said that this
condition would continue just as long
as the ginner gave free bagging and
ties in order to get cotton to gin. He
said that the cotton farmer who
thought that he could sell bagging and
ties at cotton prices was badly mis
taken UNLESS the bales weighed 500
pounds or more, as the spinners will
not take bales under that weight with
out reduction for tare, which as they
know injures the price of the staple
itself. This certainly looks reason
able.
(From The Daily Argus, Nov. 16.)
At the meeting of the board of di
rectors of the local chamber of com
merce yesterday afternoon Frank T.
Reynolds was elected secretary on a
stated salary.
Mr. Reynolds began actively to
“get busy” last night on some plans
he has had in view for some time in
the interest of Dalton. Some of
these plans he laid before the board
and they were approved. Mr. Rey
nolds’ friends have been busy today
congratulating him and the chamber
on the selection.
Diogenes was serching for the hon
est man.
“Find one who acknowledges he
doesn’t take a cold plunge in witer,”
we advised.
Herewith he took alog his tub for
a test. —New’ York Sun.
Dalton is going to have a personal
representative at the great Chicago
Land Show which opens November
30th and runs ten days.
This has been decided upon by the
local chamber of commerce. On that
occasion the chamber will have its rep
resentative furnished with two thou
sand copies of the Daily Argus’ spe
cial booster edition which will show
all of the resources of Dalton and
Whitfield county.
The representative will be possess
ed of all the facts and figures—liter
ally having them at his finger ends —
and hand literature and talk to the
tens of thousandswho attend that big
event i norder to find out locations for
the future. The Chicago Land Show
is one of the biggest yearly events of
the great northwest and great crowds
of western and middle western farm
ers and prospectors attend it so they
can get in personal touch with the con
ditions they demand or may take a
fancy to. This show has been the
means of taking thousands of well-to
do farmers out to the Pacific border
and intermediate territory and the re
sult is that the south has not been get
ting its share. This year nearly every
section of the South will have some
literature, but Dalton proposes to go
directly after the business with a cap
able man.
The Argus special edition will show
everything worth showing, including
the maps of the big hydro-electrical
plants which are building cables now.
Every farmer in the county who wants
to sell his land should come in and
join the chamber of commerce and get
bis land listed so that the represen
tative will be enabled to talk it and
thereby make a sale. The project is
a big one but it is one that is bound to
be of great benefit and profit to Dal
ton and 'Whitfield county. Many far
mers have too much land and may
want to sell off part. This will be the
opportunity. It will cost him but the
membership fee of the local chamber
and a body he should belong to wheth
er he has anything to sell or not. The
farmer can be of great help to him
self and to the coqnty if he will join
the chamber and help correct many
evils that legislate against profit-tak
ing on his products. They should not
wait to be asked to join. It’s his
duty to himself and his county and
his state. The Argus special Chicago
Land Show edition will be printed on
Thanksgiving day. Get in your ad
vertising copy early. It will help you.
You can send in and get extra issues
of that paper by notifying The Ar
gus office a few days in advance. This
will be the best opportunity Dalton
ever had to boost itself. Nearly every
town of importance in the state will
have a page ad in a special edition in
an Atlanta paper, but none but Dalton
will have a representative on the
grounds.
Both the Southern railway and the
Louisville and Nashville railway have
offered the Dalton chamber of com
merce a booth at the land show for
its representative to occupy and dis
tribute literature and talk Dalton and
Whitfield county. Take advantage
of this opportunity. It means much
to you and to this section.
The busiest little fellow in this bai
liwick is that rascal Cupid.
He never sleeps and is always on the
job. He’s one of the best friends of
the pencilpusher.
One of the recent affairs in which
he has been minister plenipotentiary
and envoy extraordinary was the Har
buck-Humphries nuptials which were
consumated last night at the hospit
able home of Reverend and Mrs. J. S.
McLemore.
At the goodly hour of nine last
night Mr. McLemore, in the presence
of Mis Geneva Wilson and Mr. George
Haralson. Mr. J. L. Harbuck. mana
ger of the loi’al office of the Western
Union Telegraph company, was united
in the holy bonds of matrimony to
Miss Beulah Humphries, who has been
the chief operator and bookkeeper of
the Daltpn telephone exchange.
After the ceremony and congratu
lations the happy and popular couple
went direct to their future home on
Depot street. They will spend their
honeymoon the guests of friends Tor a
few days. Tn the meantime, Mr. Har
alson will have charge of the telegraph
office.
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