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WEDNESDAY. JULY 8.
Congressman Hardwick's Reply
to Gov. John M. Slaton's Card
Mr. Slaton’s card of yesterday indi
cates that his friends realize that his
campaign is once more sadly in need
* >f a ‘>ttle "ginger.” So it is. It has
ousted at both ends and is sagging in
. ie middle. True, his first attempt at
Newspaper "ginger," with much ad
' anci- advertising, was disastrous, and
a tter ingloriously retreating from the
rial short-range debate that his con
duct and card invited, he even fled
the battle ground he had selected,
leaving his card-writing campaign to
hirelings and subordinates, whose ir
responsible effusions he knew I could
not afford to notice.
But, after a painful silence of five
weeks, the situation grows so desper
ate that he is forced to return to the
charge, and since he cannot quite
screw his courage up to real debate,
face to face, be again rushes into
print, in the newspapers.
All right, since I can get no better,
FORSALE
At 1003 Chaffee Avenue, we offer a modern
cottage of six rooms and bath. This place is <ve!l
improved and in good repair. Lot 50xhalf way
through. Lots of fruit and fine vegetable garden.
Convenient to schools and churches and the
highest point on this street.
$3,500.00 takes this place, and we are ready
to show it.
Jas. R. League & Co.
No. 1 U. S. Bank Building. Phone No. 176.
NOTICE
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If you intend buying on The Hill, I will sell you
practically your own price, and on your own terms,
lots on Glenn Avenue and Highland Avenue.
FOR RENT
New House of ten rooms. Possession at once.
Three Furnished Houses on Hill for summer. Pos
session at once.
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JOHN W. DICKEY
DON’T PAY RENT
Buy your own home and let the rent pay for it.
I have a pretty 5 room bungalow, located on
Craig street, that can be bought at a reasonable
price, and on any terms you. wish.
'This place is brand new, conveniently ar
ranged, gas, electric lights, and nice bath. The
house faces the city which means a shady piazza in
the afternoon.
Sei; me and name the terms you wish.
On Central Avenue, right near the top of the
Hill, I have a beautiful 7 room home, \<Tiich in
building was given all those finer touches that go
to make a home beautiful, cozy and comfortable;
down to the most minute detail this home was
carefully planned by the owners who intended it as
their permanent abode, but for certain reasons they
will now sell and at a very low price.
There is always a good breeze on Central
Avenue —any one who lives there will vouch for it
—and this houje, because of the nature of its con
struction, is one of the coolest on Central Avenue.
Price $5,500.
GEO. A. BRIGGS
Phone 1551. 417 Dyer Building.
I will debate with him in the news
papers.
Mr. Slaton resents the charge that
he Is the one and only original "bar
becue-statesman” of our common
wealth, and undertakes to side-step
the charge by a defense of the real,
social, non-political Georgia institu
tion, known as the barbecue, where
simple, old-fashioned hospitality reigns
and rules, and selfish motives and
plans and purposes are conspicuous by
their absence from the festal board.
The barbecues that Mr. Slaton has
so lavishly promoted during the past
ten or twelve years of his public ca
reer have been different affairs, in
purpose and in motive, in object and in
plan, from the plain, old-fashioned in
stitution that he hastens to defend, in
such valorous fashion, and with such
reckless courage.
I know very little of what has hap
pened in Washington society in the
past ten or twelve years. My duties
and tastes have not let me to par
ticipate in it. But if the people who
do participate really regale themselves
on peacocks’ tongues and champagne,
as Mr. Slaton says they do .still 1
doubt if their most elaborate functions
could equal some of the Slaton par
ties and barbecues, while the political
career of Mr. Slaton was in the msC -
ing, or the marring.
Nobody objects to Mr. Staton being
a good-fellow. 1 like that, and claim
to be one myself, though 1 cannot rival
the artistic accomplishments, in that
line, of my worthy competitor. What
the people of Georgia do object to is
the proposition that they shah give
one of Georgia's seats in the Wnate
to a man who is nothing else on earth
but a good fellow, and who stands for
no more than that.
During the many years of his legis
lative career, both his wisdom and his
parliamentary skill must have been
great Indeed if front its bounteous
stores he has supplied the ignorant
and lowly among his legislative col
leagues,—the "new” members, especi
ally from the country counties, I sup
pose he means, who could not draw
hills or make motions without his aid,
but his reference to his superiority in
these matters is hardly good taste, and
if true, is hardly complimentary to
the counties that sent such Ignoram
uses to the legislature. For that rea
son, 1 am inclined to question the ac
curacy of his statement.
Mr. Slaton Is utterly mistaken as
to what I claim about the tolls fight
In the house. I do not claim that l
alone whipped Clark, Underwood, Mur
dock, Mann, et al, in that fight; not
at all. The great bulk of loyal demo
crats in the house, aided by a few
high-minded republicans who put the
right above partisanship, whipped that
fight. As some was remarked after
the smoke of battle had cleared away,
"While we lost our generals, thank
heaven we saved the army intact." I
have said, however, and do insist that
my colleague, Judge Adamson, and
myself would not have been trusted
to lead this fight, when the regular
leaders of the party had quit us, if we
had been men, or if I had been a
man, without influence and standing
and power in the house, as Mr. Slaton
falsely charged.
Nor have I claimed that I was en
titled to all the credit for passing all
(he great constructive and progressive
legislation that I have voted for, dur
ig the many years of my service in
the house, but surely when Mr. Slaton
wishes to place on me the full respon
sibility of helping to pass bills for
which X voted that he professes not
to like, such as the salary-increaso
hill, then the same rule works the oth
er way, and I am entitled to the credit
of helping pass the bills I did vote
for, of which he approves.
I am glad that Mr. Slaton can tell
a joke, even in the newspapers, if
he keeps on improving, possibly we
may be able to get him to tell one on
the stump before the close of the cam
paign. His “Private Moriarty” joke,
though old, is good, but a man like
Mr. Slaton can never appreciate the
importance and usefulness of the “pri
vate” in the ranks who uses his gun
with regularity and deadly effect, and
is in reality a much more useful and
necessary part of the army than many
of the mighty officers who are clad
in gilt-lace and wear clanking swords
I guess I will have to stand for Private
Moriarty, after all, and Mr. Slaton can
Richmond Terrace
Well, the men with nerve, business capacity
and quick grasp of a good proposition availed
themselves of the first, and best opportunity, of
one hundred lots. lam going to offer one hundred
more in the same tract, not at the same price or
on the same terms, but at price and terms unequall
ed by any local suburban proposition.
REMEMBER the lots are 50x150 feet each;
city water, no city taxes, no lots sold to negroes;
titles all right. Price for inside lots, TWO CENTS
per square foot; for corner lots TWO AND THREE
QUARTERS CENTS per square foot. Can you af
ford to miss this? Will make satisfactory terms.
If you want a farm,or residence, call me up.
J. Hardwick Jackson
Phone 3446. 409 Dyer Building.
A Man from Charleston
Said to us, recently: “Your Stevens Crook devel
opment, the new Empire Building, and other unus
ual improvements will cause Augusta to have in 10
years a population of 100,000.”
This means increased values of rc-al estate, so
begin now to salt your money down.
A very desirable home in a popular section of
The lUII, is offered this week at $10,500. It is
is up to date. See us.
Buy No. 1322 Woodlawn Avenue, a beautiful
f> room two story home $4,500.
No. 503 Walker street, fine 6 room 2 story
home ,$4,500
Next to comer of Walton Wav, 6 rooms,
2 story $3,000
Central Avenue, 5 rooms .. . $3,500
Lot, on Broad street .. .. $1,250
Ix>t on Green street, $3,200
Lot on Monte Rano Avenue .. . $1,400
Lot, on Central Avenue $l,lOO
Lot on Walton Way, 100x200 $4,000
Martin & Garrett
137 Jackson Street. Real Estate—lnsurance.
Rental Agents Empire Building.
THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA.
6tand for the gold-lace, silk-stocking
officers.
I like the remarkable modesty with
which Mr. Slaton compares himself to
the huge mastiff, and me to the tiny
t'iee, but it seems to me, hard-pressed
as he is, the time has about arrived
for the aforesaid huge mastiff to come
out of the back yard and eat up tlio
little fellow, who Is awaiting him,
ready to he eaten.
Passing on, to more serious matters.
Mr. Slaton charges that the disfran
chisement bill 1 offered in the Georgia
Legislature in 1899 was a mere copy
of the bills offered In the states of
Mississippi and Alabama. The extent
of the governor's ignorance on this
and many other public questions is
lamentable. The bill I offered In
Georgia was entirely different from
the law that Mississippi had then
passed. The law provided for a
straight educational test, with no pro
vision for saving the votes of a great
many worthy and virtuous white
voters, whom the poverty and hard
ship resulting from the civil war had
deprived of an education. The Ala
bama law was neither introduced no
passed until many years after 1899.
Governor Slaton ought to Inform him
self before lie undertakes to Inform
others.
Mr. Slaton knows full well that dur
ing all the years that Intervened be
tween 1899 and 1908, when we finullv
passed the disfranchisement bill, I
fought everywhere and all the time
to accomplish what he finally claims
to have acquiesced In after it became
strong and popular, lie knows full
well that the bill we did pass differs
in no important principle, certainly
neither in result or purpose, from the
one I first Introduced. Why, then,
should he seek to mislead the people
in this matter?
Mr. Slaton insists, with great gusto,
that 1 was opposed to the general par
cels post. He is simply threshing out
old straw again. I took my position
on this question before the people of
the tenth district In the heated elec
tion of 1910. In an open letter to the
people of that district, Hated May 36,
1910, and widely distributed among the
people, I said:
“I favor parcels post limited to the
rural routes upon which the parcel
originates. In this -form there is no
valid objection that can he made or
urged to the parcels post. Certainly
our local merchants cannot object to
it, for thus conducted it would be a
great benefit to the local merchants
as well as to the farmers, giving to
the one a cheap, convenient, and reli
able way of delivering packages to his
rural customers, and giving to the
other the same facility for sending
vegetables, fruits and other small par
rels to his town customers. So con
ducted It would he a blessing to ev
eryone, and could hurt no one. It
would certainly make life In the coun
try more pleasant and more conveni
ent.”
The general parcels post seemed to
me to be open to several serious ob
jections, and 1 think so yet.
Ist. 1 do not consider that it is any
part of the business of the govern
ment to engage in the business of a
common carrier, to transport either
persons or property for hire. 1 am
unalterably opposed for many and ob
vious reasons, to the government own
ership and operation of railroads, and
I have always thought and still think
that for this government to undertake
to carry goods, up to a large weight
limit, through the malls, was a tre
mendous step towards the govern
ment ownership of railroads.
2nd. We had conferred on the inter
state commerce commission, by the
Hepburn hill, full power to regulate
the charges and practices of the ex
press companies, and it seemed to me
this was the real way to control them,
just as we control the railroads.
3rd. 1 feared that if we installed the
system, in as large a country as ours,
something might happen just about
like what the senator from Florida
(Mr. Bryan) recently claimed has hap
pened, or is threatened: ”\Ve get our
mall by freight and our freight uy
mail."
1 am not at all afraid of my posi
tion in this matter. I stood for sound
governmental principles, and policies,
as 1 saw them. I stood after the elec
tion just where l told my constitu
ency before the election 1 would stand,
11 any candidate for the senuteu ished
to raise this issue with me. 1 not only
do not shirk it, hut J welcome It. 1
believe, however, Mr. Slaton's record,
his views, his associations, his envir
onments and his affiliations are not
such as to enable him to successfully
don the sheep's clothing of the pro
gressive, and then pull off the usual
stunt of the wolf.
on the county-unit matter, Mr. Sla
ton's memory Is short, or Is purposely
had. Must I again tell him that nettli
er 1 nor my friends had anything to
do with the rules of the congressional
contest in which I defeated Mr. Flem
ing- Those rules were framed by a
committee that was solidly against me,
save the one member from my own
county,
I have never believed the county
unit system was right or fair, and
have never stood for it. Mr. Slaton,
lis present champion, had much hot
ter explain why his secretary, Mr,
l lm, opposed it, of course, without his
knowledge, when the state committee
made the present rules, and on what
basis Mr. Hutchens, one of our oppo
nents. is going through the stato
charging Mr. Slaton with a covert at
tempt to murder that very county
unit rule that he now publicly ex
tols.
Mr. Slaton contends that there were
newspaper rumors two years ago that
I might oppose Senator Bacon, and
cites that to show that I did not then
value experience and training as I do
now. How weak must he tin. cause
that will rest a contention like this
on mere newspaper rumor, that I did
not inspire, and for which 1 was not
responsible.
The same thing is true about Mr.
Slaton s pitiful attempt to arouse re
sentment against me among Senator
Bacon’s friends from another angle,
by stating that he is "informed" that
1 was earwigging politicians to gain
their votes for Senator Bacon's place
before that gentleman, for whom 1 had
the greatest respect and with whom I
wa s on terms of the closest friend
""IP. could he buried. Let him give
the public the name of his inform
ant. 1 deny It absolutely and un
equivocally. it is untrue, to use no
harsher word. Again 1 am not re
sponsible for newspaper statements
or publications that I did not author
ise or inspire 1 did not announce for
the senate until after Governor Slaton
had gone through the miserable fiasco,
the Punch and Judy performance, that
resulted in the appointment of Sena
lo" West, an appointment that had no
other purpose, as 1 believe, than to
provide someone to hold the hag for
Slaton.
My assault on the new tax law rests
on three grounds, and there is noth
ing in my round or the hill 1 offered
that Is Inconsistent with any of these
contentions, if there was, 1 should
cheerfully and frankly concede that I
was mistaken fourteen years ago, for
1 am certainly right now.
Ihl. The plain and patent purposa
°l Ha passage was to evade the con
sutulionaj limifalion of five mills on
taxation. The motive of which it was
born i s thoroughly discreditable.
2nd. The assessment principle ought
not to he applied to the plain felkH
ol Georgia, and th© voluntary system
of returning taxes he left in force for
the corporation* who still make their
voluntary returns to the comptroller,
livery person, high or low, rich or
poor, natural or artificial ought to lie
ted out of the sume spoon, and teated
alike.
3rd. Before the assessment system
in applied full and Mpeclfic machinery
tor the uncovering and bringing to the
tax books invisible and Intangible
prperty should lie provided. That w-i»
not done in this hill. The inevitable
lesidt was bound to be, as i can show
it has been, to largely Increase the val
uation of land, ot realty generally, of
all visible and tangible property, while
the invisible and Intangible property
still escapes.
For these reasons, I have opposed
and do oppose Slaton’s tax law, as it
now stands, and is now being tn
lorced.
Mr. Slaton’s charge as to negro mail
clerks In the tenth dlstriet Is puerile.
In the first place his information is
Incorrect. There Is no unusual num
ber of negro mall clerks In our dis
trict, and not one of them Is there Dy
toy nomination, approval, or consent,
as Mr. Slaton well knows. Nor were
any of them "ocnfirrneil by the sen
ate' as lie ought to know. They were
appointed under republican adminis
trations and hold under civil servt.e
laws. 11© Dope to get rid of them all
some day, but when wo do, If we may
judge by i’ostmaster Jones' experience
In Atlanta, the movement will be
stout resisted by Mr. Slaton’s luw firm
of Kosser-Brandon-Slaton &. Phillips.
Within tho last sixty days, my at
tention having been directed to the
matter, X did succeed In preventing th«
trail Hi or of an Atlanta negro mail
clerk t]ro my dlutrlct, and 1 expect that
most of them that we now have came
from Atlanta. Mr. Slaton may rent
ensured that when 1 go to th« senate,
unless the present ruled of that body
are changed, no more negroes will hu
confirmed by It.
Mr. Slaton Instate that Mr. Kelder
has deserted the state, if so, the only
difference between Mr. Kelder and Mr.
Slaton Is that Mr. Slaton also Is will
ing to desert the state If he can, even
If his desertion puts the state to the
expense end trouble of an extra elec
tion. But, however willing Mr. Sla
ton msy be to desert, I do not believe
that the people are going to let him
do It.
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25-lb. Bag 93c
With SI.OO Worth of Tea or
Coffee All This Week.
We give Stamps with Sugar.
r lOlir 24-ponnd bag Oj&C
Self Rising, Jersey Cream, RClr*
Brand, 24-pound bag OL/C
Hanu&Z 19c
Eggs S from . theC T try .’.. 25c
Surety Brand, pure
UUllCf and sweet, pound
Lemons 17c
Cheese S d c "" ,D ’. 22c
Potatoes, new, peek .. 58$
Rice, fancy Japl l, 10 pounds 45$
Breakfast Bacon) pound 24$
Cantaloupes. 40c dozen.
PURE LARD
Size 5 75$
Size 10 $1.45
Size 20 $2.75
Snow drift Compound
Size 5 50$
Size 10 $1.05
Size 20 $2.10
Jelly,’ Bull Head, 3 glasses .-25$
Jam, any kind, 3 glasses 25$
Catsup, Bull Head, 3 bottles ,-25$
Olives, stuffed or plain, 3 bottles .. 25$
Peanut Butter large jars ~23$
CEREALS _U
Oat Meal, in tins, 2 eaus —2ss
Puffed Riee, 2 packages *-27^
Puffed Wheat, 3 packages ~27$
Corn Flake, 3 packages 23$
Post Toasties, 3 packages 27$
LAUNDRY SOAP.
Sal Soda, 3 packages 10$
Celluloid Starch, 3 packages lU$
Argo Starch, 7 packages 25$
Potash Lye, 3 cans 25$
FISH.
Fresh Mackerel, large 15$
Fresh Mackerel, 6 for 25$
Salmon, Pink Alaska, 3 cans 27$
Codfish, B. and M., 3 cans 27$
CANNED VEGETABLES
Tomatoes, No. 3, 6 cans for 55$
Tomatoes, No. 2, 6 cans for 45$
Lima Beans, No. 2, 6 eaus for ..70$
Sugar Corn, No. 2, H cans for 48$
Sweet Potatoes, No. 3, 6 eaus for .. .. 55$
Okra and Tomatoes, No. 2, 6 cans for 50$
Pork and Beans,'No. 2, Sunbeam, 6 cans for . 50$
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COFFEE
Rio, pound .. .20$
E. C. I)., pound
Surety, ]>ound 35^
For Iced Tea Use
J B. White Special
Blend, Gunpowder,Oey*-
lon, English Breakfast,
Oolong and Japan Teas,
all tK)c quality, for 50$
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