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The Marietta Journal
AND
The Marietta Courier.
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The Marietta Publishing Company
JOSIAH CARTER, - - - ~ - - EDITOR.
JOSIAH CARTER, Jr.,
Business Manager.
MRS, ANNIE L. CARTER,
Associate Editor.
SUBSCRIPTION $l.OO PER YEAR.
Entered ai the Postoffice at Marietta,
Ga., as Second Class Mail Matter,
Official Organ of Cobb County.
MARIETTA, GA.,, MAY 15, 1914,
POLITICAL GOSESIP.
Considerable stir has been created
over the State by several cards of
Chairman Wm. J. Harris calling
attention to provisions in the Prim
ary rules which may cause much dis
satisfaction with the work of the
Convention.
Colonel Harris thought the Demo
cratic Committee should meet and
staighten the matter out, but the
members are unwilling to do so.
There is a posibility that the Con
vention will get into a row at the
start. It is almost certain to be
dead-locked.
The rules have set the Democratic
party back to the old days of Con
vention nominations which almost
split the party about thirty years
ago.
% > * *
Most people attend to their busi
ness and let politics go hang. That's
where they are smart, but at the
same time it keeps them from ge:-
ting on to the curves of the politi
cians.
So, I will explain what the row is
about,
On the 19th of August the peopi»
will vote for one governor, two Sen
ators, Judges of nearly all the courts,
Congressmen, members of the Legis
lature and other officials too numer
ous to mention.
The Constitution of the State pro
vides that in the regular election in
October the voters shall vote directly
for the man who is to be governor
and that he must receive a majority
of all the votes cast in the state. If,
several years ago, when three men
were running, Gov. Brown had re
ceived 100,000 and Hoke Smith had
received 99,000 and Mr. Walker had
received 2,000 it would not have elect
ed Governor Brown. The matter
would have been thrown into the
Legislature and the Legislature
would have elected whichever of the
two highest it preferred. Now that
is the law. It is the Constitution of
the State. A candidate must receive
a MAJORITY of all the votes cast,
else the Legislature elects.
* * - *
The present Primary election sys
tem is an evolution. Just after thoe
war every election was a farce. 1
voted numbers of times before 1 was
twenty-one. Everybody did who
cared to, and the man who could buy
the most niggers carried the election.
When we got sick of that sort of
thing and the white people began to
get together, first in county conven
tions, Court House rings ran things.
The crowd that got into the Court
House first carried the election——
sent up its delegates to the State
Convention to make the nominations.
The man who presided over the Court
House meeting knew what he was
there for and no matter how the
vote was he declared the result to
suit himself. I've seen it with my
own eyes,
* IS * *
But as the people got tired .f
the rotten work with negroes who
were paid for their votes with money
or whiskey or both, so they got tired
of the corrupt court house mass meer.
ings and adopted the Primary, 1t
was rotten too in spots, but for years
the effort has been in the direction
of the clean and honorable thing be
tween the white men of the stato,
* * * *
The tendency has been in the di
rection of meeting the requirements
of the Constitution of the State, that
the man who serves as Governor shal:
have received, not merely more votes
than any other man running, but at
least half of the total vote. The idea
is that a man who serves as Governor
must be tlie choice of a majority of
the people. In the campaign of 1904
there were five candidates and if
the vote had been anything like even
ly divided a Governor could have
been nominated who was the choice
of but one-fourth the people,
* * A -
It is not to ve expected that the
rules provided at the meeting of the
State Committee in Atlanta on April
4th will be changed. What 1 am
writing is merely to explain those
rules.
When the peopie vote on August
19th there may be half a dozen can
didates for Governor. The one who
gets the most votes out of the half
dozen, even if he receives only
one-fourth of the votes cast, will
get the votes of the county. That
is, he will name the two, four or six
delegates to the Convention, accord
ing to the size of the county.
The Convention will consist of 372
delegates. If Randolph Anderson
carries Chatham he will name the
six delegates. If Judge Harris car
ries Bibb he will name tie six dele
gates from that county. If Dr. Hard
man carries Jackson he will name
the two delegates from Jackson. If
Judge Holden carries Clarke he will
name the delegates from Clarke. If
Col Bill Harris carries Polk he will
name the delegates from Polk. If
Hugh Dorsey carries Fulton he will
name the six delegates from Fulton,
and so on.
It will take 188 county delegate
votes to nominate.
You can see how easy it will be
for no candidate to get a majority of
the delegates but the rules provide
that *““those entitled to receive a maj
ority of the unit votes for the nomi
nations sought shall be declared the
nominees.” Can’t you see that it is
likely to be a ‘““Convention nomina
tion?” TUnless some man is stronger
than all the rest it is sure to be that
way.
Well, I saw the Colquitt and Nor
wood convention split over a dead
lock caused by the two-thirds rule.
but the effect was just the same,
Convention nominations of men
who get minority votes from the peo
ple would in time Kkill the white
primary.
* ¥ 3 *
But here is the joke of it all. Two
United States Senators are to be
nominated and they will not have
a thing to do with the selection of
delegates. Slagon, Hardwick, ¥Felder,
Cooper, Brown (if he runs) Hoke
Smith, John R. .Cooper and Ralph
Cochran will have no more to do
with the selection of the delegates
from the counties they carry than
the man in the moon. Every dele
gate will be selected by the candi
dates for Governor who carry the
respective counties.
Now does anybody believe either
Felder, Hardwick or Slaton will get
more votes than both the others put
together? It takes a majority to
nominate. What then? Log-rolling.
Log-rolling for the Governorship;
log-rolling for two Senatorships; log
rolling for Commissioner of Agricul
ture; and log-rolling for everything
where log-rolling will do any good.
* * » *
Am I kicking? Not a bit. What's
the use? I rather like the prospect.
I have an abiding faith that the peo
ple will stand just so much of a
thing and no more and I am patient
and can wait. In the clear, white
light of 1914 the voters of Georgia
are going to see some sights at
Macon when the Convention meets
which they will remember. Maybe
they will also learn in the course of
time that one white Democrat in
Georgia is as good as another ani
treat them all alike.
JOSIAH CARTER.
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MARIETTA JOURNAL AND COURIER
FAIR MOVEMENT GETS
A HIGH ENDORSEMENT
Marietta May 6, 1914.
The Editor of Marietta Journal:
As a citizen of Cobb County and
interested in its development I de
sire to commend the article recent-
Iy published in your paper encourag
ing the County Fair movement.
I happen to know that the citizens
promoting this worthy enterprise are
working purely from an wunselfish
motive and are doing their best to
provide a means of putting before
the world the splendid agricultural
resources of Cobb County. We all
know that Cobb County has made
wonderful progress within the last
five years, but one thing is lacking
and until we get this thing the out
side world will never know what
our County reaily contains. This
County Fair will provide the means
and afford an opportunity which will
make our best farmers come together
in the fall of the year and exhibit
the best their soils will produce an:
enter into a friendly contest for
supremacy in the production of crops.
I can see where this County Fair
will not only stimulate the younger
farmers to greater efforts and af
ford them an opportunity of becom
ing educated in the newest and best
methods of preparation and cultiva
tion, but will undoubtedly result in
educating them up to the point whero
seed improvement will be uppermost
in their minds. It will not only help
the young farmers but it will cause
the older ones to wake up to the
splendid opportunities that lie before
them by the adoption of better ways
and more up-to-date systems,
I understand that the Association
has leased the Reynolds property be
low Fair Oaks on the Atlanta Elec
trie line, public road and W. & A.
Railroad and this will be a most
ideal spot for holding it and on
which is accessable to all of our peo
ple and if Cobb County brings out
the display that I think it will this
fall, you are going to see large
crowds from Atlanta come out on
this line to see our Fair,
We desire to encourage those be
hind this movement and commend
them for their work and the good
farmers of Cobb ought not to stand
back to be solicited to subscribe for
the stock in this Association, but
on the other hand they should come
forward eagerly and ask that they
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be numbered among its shareholders.
This will show the proper spirit of
appreciation and will make the move
ment a greater success. It is only
by co-operation that we can succeed
in any great undertaking and
with the co-operation of the class of
people we have in Cobb County, noth
ing would be too great to expect, or
accomplish,
Let's all pull together for the
County Fair. It will do more good
for Cobb County and all its citizens
than anything else that I know of.
The newspapers are to be com
mended for their support and splen
did interest in the movement and I
can see no chance cr earth for a
failure to be made where it has such
a backing.
Very respectfully,
B. G. BRUMBY.
In Other Days.
Spooning parlors were not thought
of for churches in days gone by. Fur
thermore, a young man could not look
eweet at a girl without being observed
through the fingers of some deacon
who had assumecd an attitude of pray
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Podophyllin (May Apple Root) does.
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Liked Thelr Viands Sweet.
Pineapple chunks and roast beef as
a dinner dish sounds like a return tc
the habits of the forefathers, who al
ways wanted something sweet witk
their meat. Sir Walter Besant tells
aow in Tudor days most people’s
teeth were black on account of theis
diet. Honey was poured lavishly over
the beef and sugar employed to give
fillip to the poultry, and even the
wine had to be much sweetened to
please the palate of the medieval
gourmet. To this day Englishmen
add current jelly to mutton, apple
souce to pork, and in Germany stewed
pears form ‘“the usual trimniing” ot
chicken.
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