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- The Marietta lournal
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The Marietta Courler.
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_JOSIAH CARTER, -- - - - - EDITOR.
JOSIAH CARTER, Jr.,
Business Manager.
! MRS. ANNIE L. CARTER,
Associate Editor.
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Official Organ of Cobb County.
lARIETTA, GA., AUG, 14, 1914.
POLITICAL GOSSIP.
The Primary election will be held
2oxt Wednesday. In Cobb the inter
¢st will center around the State Sen
atorial fight between Mr. E. 2,
T obbs and Mr. John D. Perkerson.
Col. Chas. H. Griffin has with
drawn from the race. At first it
Iroked like a contest between Mr.
Naobbs and Col. Griffin, but when
Vr, Perkerson announced the situa.
tion became such that several well
tnown citizens held a conference to
cnsider what should be done. The
result was the withdrawal of Col.
Griffin, whose card appears in this
week’s issue of the Journal.
That Col. Griffin has quit the race
% il be a disappointment to his host
1 friends in all parts of the county
#xho would have been delighted to‘
2st their votes for him. Mr. Dobbsl
and Mr. Perkerson are both well
sunown and the contest bhetween
loem will be spirited.
8 4 &
Hugh Dorsey has been announced
16 speak in Marietta next Monday.
i* is supposed he will fill the engage
ment, although he failed to fill an
rngagement in Albany Monday. Mr.
I'orsey went to the South Georgia
roetropolis to deliver an address but
tnere was no crowd to hear him and
tae speech was called off. Promi
rent citizens of Albany took him
aitomobile riding until the time for
n's return to Atlanta.
‘Mr. Dorsey’s speeches have not
~eated the interest that was expect
« 4. He had quite a large crowd at
“dinesville where his first speech
was made but the attendance has de
reased with each succeeding ora
tion., It takes him two hours and
iorty minutes to say what he has tol
sdy and as his voice is not strong‘
it many can hear him. The speech |
vals almost entirely with the guber
«torial campaigns of Senator Smith
a 4 issues that have long been dis
vosed of. He says President Wilson
cught to throw Senator Smith over
“eard but on that point the Solicitor
General and the President had not
agreed up to the hour of going to
D 7 eSS,
% * & By
Mr. Dorsey jumps on Senator
smith for granting pardons while
he was Governor.
{t is true that Senator Smith par
‘rned quite a number of convicts.
During his first term as Governor
)¢ found that the Prison Commis
sion, which is the Pardon Board,
had failed to look fully after that
feature of its work and hundreds of
zses had been neglected. Among
searly five thousand convicts there
were many who were old, many who
were helpless and incurably diseas
#& and all these were a burden on
the tax payers. As a plain business
proposition it was to the interest of
(e State to clear the Penitentiary of
‘*he halt, the lame and the blind,"
(e consumptives and others who
were a dead weight.
The Governor was a business man
and that was one thing that was on
his mind. What could a man, dying
with consumption, do with a pick
on the public roads? It was Hoke
Smith’s policy to release such per
#cns if they had friends who would
care for them till they died, and he
did not wait for applications to be
filed in all such cases. He sent a
man to the various camps to investi-
Zate and he cleaned out a water-
Tvgged system as far as it could be
Jlene.
Any taxpayer got any kick about
7}l?{'.'?
* 6 8 &
1 am not going to work up any
veeps on the sympathy side of this
woposition, though [ could describe
any heartrending scenes of old la
¢B, wives and mothers,"who haunt
the Governor’s office, pleading
pardons for their loved onles who
battle with a mother’s love on one
side and duty on the other. I am
sorry for any Governor who has to
say ‘“No.” And yet he is there, be
tween the woman and her son, be
tween the convict and liberty, be
tween the culprit and the scaffold,
and his word is law. It is where
one man has the power of life and
death over another,
> e e
One day there came into the big
reception room a woman. I shall
never forget her sweet, sad face. Her
husband had murdered a helpless
girl with whom he had become in
fatuated. Five bullets had been
fired into her body. He was a wild
fellow, and a man who knew him
well had said to me if he were put
into the penitentiary he would
brain a guard and make his escape.
He was to be hanged the next Fri
day and this wife, whom he had dis
honored, had come to plead for his
life.
There was absolutely no ground
for clemency—no more than there
would be in the case of the murderer
of Mary Phagan. :
And yet there stood the gentle
creature whose pure, sweet heart
was bleeding, and there the Governor
who must crush her last, faint hopes
of saving the man with whom she
had stood at the altar. Do you
think, my friend, that you would
like to stand between a wife's pray
ers and the gallows? I saw the
strong face of the Governor and its
agony. I saw the woman wipe
away her tears.
God pity us all, even Governors,
for they 100 must pass through the
fiery furnace of duty and will as
long as the fierce tumult of passion
rages in human breasts and the
stern law demands its penalty.
Speaking about pardons I don’t
mind if I tell about Governor Smith’s
last night in office after his defeat
in 1908,
As is well known, he is an inde
fatigable worker. His last full day,
which I believe was a Friday, found
the floor of his private office abso
lutely covered with pardon papers—
not simply the applications, but the
evidence, the court records in the
cases. o
It was a task for Hercules. Supper
time came, He never stopped. Ten
o’'clock, and he was still working.
Eleven and he was still poring over
records.
Midnight came and Atlanta for the
most part was in slumber, The con
victs had been asleep for hours, the
unknown, the friendless, the misera-1
ble fellows chained to the walls were
in their bunks while the Governor
of the State was rushing through
their appeals, lest the noon of the
next day should find him powerless
to do them justice tempered with
mercy.
A while after midnight tired and
sleepy I left the capitol and as I
walked down Hunter street I looked
toward the room where the light was
still burning and saw the figure of
the Governor at his desk and the
next day another secretary told me
he was there until two in the morn- |
ing—the Governor, defeated and)|
going out of office, working till thoi
wee, small hours for unhappy con- |
victs who could mean no more toi
him than the dried leaves of thei
winter,
And yet, they cuss him about
pardons.
JOSIAH CARTER. |
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LAND, FARMER'S SECURITY
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NO LONGER BLACKLISTED
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AT THE NATIONAL BANKS
In ‘the course of am attack on the Regional Reserve Banks, established:
under the Democratic Currency Bill, published in.the newspapers of July 31,.
ex-Governor Joseph M. Brown says:
“However, the law does not force the-borrowing banks to loan
money to farmers, and recent developments have proven those
latter banks are ‘not in the market for farm loansa,’ hence the
Regional Bank system IS A NULLITY SQ FAR AS RELIEF TO
THE FARMERS IS CONCERNED.”
It wouild. be absurd to suggest that the law stiould force a bank to lemd:
money to any individual, but the law passed by the Democrats DOES.
PERMIT national banks outside Central Reserve Cities to lend money on
farm lands, a privilege which for more than. fifty years has been denied
them under the Republican law. For half a century farmers and farmers’
organizations have complained that their security was blacklisted by the
National banking law. But farm lands have: been taken off the blacklist
by Section 24 of the new Currency law passed by the Democrats and signed
by President Wilson on the 23d of last December, as follows:
“Sectiom 24. Any Naional banking association NOT SITU
ATED IN ACENTRAL RESERVE CITY may make ioans secured
by improved and unincumbered farm-land, situated within its Fed
eral Reserve District, but no such loan shall be made for a longer
time than five years, nor for an amount exceeding fifty per centum
of the actual value of the property offered as security. Any such:
bank may make such loans in an aggregate sum equal to twenty,
five per centum of its capital and surplus, or to one-third of its
time deposits and such banks may continue hereafter as hereto
fore to receive time deposits and to pay interest on the sama™ |
It isB expected that there will be twelve Reserve C(ities: New York,
Boston, Philadelphia, Richmond, Chicago, Cleveland, St. Louis, Kansas City,
Minneapolis, San Francisco, Dallas and Atlanta. Banks in Central Reserve
cities will not be permitted to make five-year loans because they will be in
cities where thousands of other banks will go to get money when it is needed
for commercial and agricultural purposes. But every other bank in the
United States is free to lend money on farm lands, which the National banks
were prohibited from doing until the Demoeratic law was passed. i
If the man referred to in ex-Governor Brown's card who made applica
tion for a loan by the National banks of Atlanta, had read the law, he.
would have known that the Atlanta banks, expecting to be in a Central
Reserve city, which will be the money reservoir for several States, could
not, under the law, be “in the market for farm loans.” Then: it' might have
occurred to him to apply to ex-Governor Brown’s National bank, which has
authority te make farm loans and which can be “in the market” for them.
Read the law quoted above and see if this is not true.
The farmer’s land is no longer blacklisted by law at tha National hanks
scattered all over the country as was the case until last December, and
that, certainly, is a step forward for the farmer.
Before the Currency bill was imtroduced Senator Xoke Smith intro
duced a bill permitting National banks to lend money on farm lands and
this plan, proposed by him, was incorporated in the Currency bill and is |
now a law. |
Dr. H. E. Stockhridge, editor of the Southern Ruradist, upon seeing the!
attack on the farm loan feature of the currency law, wrote to forty-two
country national banks in Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama and Florida,
asking if they would make farm loans under the terms of the new law, and,
without exception, they replied that they would. Qme bank stated that it
was already making such loans. ‘,l'heso letters ars on flls in the Ruralist
offica in Atlanta, and ths statemsnt herein made will be substantiated byl
Dr, Stockbridge. 4
HOKE SMITH CAMPAIGN COMMITTER,
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