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THE WEATHER
F orecsst.
Georgia Sunday and M«»n
dav, t rolwtbly lo« il thunderahowevs.
South Chi oUimi : Partly cloudy Hun*
day and Monday.
the new county nuisance.
With every session of the Georgia
legislature the now county nuisance
reappears At a recent evasion their
were nine new counties carved out and
admitted This w»e done at consid
erable expense, the expense of send
ing opposing delegations to Atlanta,
building new court house*, and fur
nishing a new lot of office-seekers
with Jobs.
Some little fellow has an ambition
to Vise and shine. Unwilling to
achieve greatness between the plow
handles on Ills father's farm, he »s
--plres to he chairman Of a building
committee of a new court house and
|all. and after It Is built, he hopes to
have a court house Job. when he will
become a man of great Influence and
a man among m«n.
He goes to work to organise a llllle
court house click and the agitation
for the new county Is begun. Bung
town Is to be the county site, and It
i must he admitted that Its vast poa
* slhillties for growth and expansion
were itrtMnnl of before. Nip off Dw
ron Jone*' cow pH»ture from nn«
county find Ltndiy Woolwy a cotton
patch front another, urtrt them tc»
pop's farm and there's your new
county.
It don't hurt Pop, because >e sells
the land for the court house rind be
sides. ain't his son John Anderson,
going to gel a good Job? The Incon
venience resulting from disturbing
tounty lines is not considered nor Is
the fact that the whole area of the
proposed new county wtll be put un
der bondage for years taken Into ac
count The legislature ts stormed and
ths required amendment to the con
stitution ts voted for without the peo
ple knowing or caring for the merits
of the case.
Oeorgla has already more counties
than any atale In the Union. has
more than the great slate of Texas,
which has many limes Georgia s
area She hss more counties than the
great state of New fork, which hns
many tlif** Georgia's population. If
thla new county business keeps up,
the cspitot st Atlanta will not be
large enough to hold the representa
tives and there will he another Job for
thfi building committee amt the peo
ple to pay for.
CONFIDENCE SHOULD BE
STRENGTHENED.
Instead of looking upon the Euro
pean win situation as the cause for
everything going to the demnatlon
bow-wows, the South's confidence In
herself allould be strengthened. A
country whose enormous resource*
enabled her to exist and carry'on the
greatest war the world ever knew 50
years ago ought surely to be able to
not only maintain her equilibrium
during these piping tlmea of peace at
home, but to go ahead and prosper
Be It remembered that during the
wax between the North and Houth ev
ery Bouthem port was closed and the
Immense Invading armies systemati
cally destroyed everything so that "a
crow flying over would have to carry
his rations" And yet, under stub
adverse circumstances tha South was
able to protract the struggle for four
lone yoars
Th* ni* European nation* now in
volved In war Utk> M per cent of the
South* cotton crop. The *ame na
tion* export annually rollon roo<l* to
the amount of 1(70,000.000 or 77 per
cant of the world'* total export*
Th* South * cotton crop amount*. In
round number*, to 14.000,(too hale*, or
•? par cant of the world* consump
tion Amartoan mill* nrniunw 8,7*4,
000 hale* and export cotton (toed* to
th* amount of 140.7*0.(11 aaainet a
total value of IlSI.&d.tl: exported by
all foretan conn trie*
It will he *een from th* above that
while America produce* (I per cent of
the world a aupply of colton ahe aell*
the artater portion of It In a crude
atate. the export bf manufactured
col ton good* beln* einall In oompnrl
•on with th* world* export business
Thu* th* golden opportunity for th*
expansion of Ih* American cotton
food* trad* la pre**nted.’
The American cotton Interest*
ahould b* equal to the emergency. If
American colton mill* should run to
their full capacity they could reduce
the surplus from 1 (00.000 to *OOO,OOO
bale*, of th# T. 500.000 bale* of crude
cotton that Kuro;»ean countrlc* usual -
ly tae
There seem* to he no reasonable
doubt but that th* markets abroad
wauld readily take tht* addttotnal
quantity of manufactured cotton
■pete or more. In view of the fact
that their own Industry must be crip
pled to a considerable extent Tht*|
VeulJ leave MifO.UOV bale* to take
INDOOR SPORTS - - By Tad
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csre of, or about 40 per cent of tho
crop.
In order to save the crop from
financial disaster. It Is necessary for
the oilier interests to co-operate with
the cotton growers. On the hankers
of the Houth will rest the main re
sponsibility, And they are now In
better shape lo take care of the situa
tion than ever before.
II la the proper function of the
hanks In case for the producers of tho
great staple that forms the world's
greatest export and with the dispo
sition of the government, already
manifested to aid them in furnishing
the requisite amount of currency, the
faith Is strong ivlthln us that tho
necessities of the case will he met as
they arise
A gentleman who represents a large
Interest In the Houth capitalized at
1a0.000.00n and which is directly con
nected with the production of cotton,
remarked to The Herald yesterday:
"\V« are not pushing anybody and wo
are not worrying. Everything la go
ing to work out right, and we are the
boys that fear no noise."
GERMANY WARS WITH THE REST
OF THE WORLD.
Japan's notice to Germany brings
Into play another powerful factor In
the world wide war that Germany has
evoked. It Is Inconceivable that Oer
many tan eventually win against tiie
forces that she has arrayed against
herself.
Germany will undoubtedly Inflict
heavy Injuries upon France. She mn>
win her first big battle. She may
even lake Paris, hut the forces against
her sre too big and too powerful for
her lo win In the end.
Russia, England, France and now
Japan nmke a combination too strong
for ths Oertnali* ever to hope to
eventually win. The sooner the end
comes the sooner peace can be re
stored. the better for all parties. May
It come quickly Is the hope of the
world.
FARMERB, ATTENTION.
Don’t be worried and don't rush
your cotton to market. The heat
place for cotton Is safely stored
on the farm until the trade chan
nels are open and until American
and foreign mills begin to bid for
supplies The mills must have
cotton. Hold vour cotton until the
mills begin lo bid for It.
And here’s another thing. The
surplus of this year's crop must he
carried over. Make up your mlnda
to carry thla surplus over. Don't
let It come Into Bight. Into market,
and be used as a dub to heat down
lhe price of the cotton the world
want*, must have and for which
they ought to pay 11 cents a
pound
Hold your cotton on the farm
this year. You'll make money on
every pound you hold and you’ll
make more money on e\ cry pound
you sell.
WHAT BEAT JOE BROWN.
The Macon Telegraph satya It was
the European war
others declare It was his fight on
the lalavr unions
Others think It was the too frequent
ordering out of slate troops when
governor.
others say It was Jack Riston
However, a good many seem to think
It was Hoke Smith after all.
THE LAST OF THE COUNTY UNIT.
With the decisive defeat of Joe
Brown, let us hope that we have heard
the Iset of the county unit system In
Georgia along with other things This
thing of puggltng the popular vote of
the state In terms of convention votes
as shown by the county units ?» un
democratic and absurd. It Is unjust
and unfair to the voters.
In s state wide primary one man's
vote ought to he worth as much as
any other man's vote—not 2 or 8 or
10 times as much.
It's high time the Rrown-Vstson
combination, with the votes of a few
email counties In their vest pocket
should he made to realise that such
politics cannot dominate the state. In
a state primary, a vote should he a
vote everywhere In Georgia Irrespec
tive of county line, nor a full vote In
one county, a 1-1 or 1 1-5 or 1-10 of a
I vote In another county.
SPEAKING
TIE PUBLIC
lIND
Stockholders of Augusta.
To The Herald:
Would it not prove “very Interest
ing" to the stockholders of tho “Cor
poration of Augusta" to find how
many voters are not on the tax di
gest? No alook, no vote.
"Taxation without representation
la tyranny.” Representation without
taxation Is—" Rotten."
Yours,
TAXPAYING STOCKHOLDER.
No Work for the Inexperienced.
To The Herald:
Why it Is that employers in August*
will not hire an inexperienced man?
How Is one to gel experience If not
given a chance? 1 have applied at
many places hut am always told to go
get experience. How am I to do it?
NO EXPERIENCE.
A Book for Young People.
To The Herald:
1 wish to suggest a hook, "The
Heart of the Rose," by Mabel A. Mc-
Kee (pißvlished by the Fleming H.
Revell Company. Chicago, at 26c), for
everyone and especially for boys and
girls, 15 to 15. It takes Juat about ten
minutes to read it. The simple, beau
tiful way In which the book presents
a vital truth impresses me greatly
and the more l read It —for l have
read It over and over again—the more
it aeema like a true friend, one who
Inspires us to a higher ami nobled life
and one whom we wish other lives to
come in contact with. E. S.
A Tyrannical Husband,
To The Herald:
What can a woman do when her
husband refuses to let her make her
own spending money and still never
gives her a cent? He must know
whst becomes of every nickel. He
never thinks of letting me go to see
my folks and always has a bad word
for them. If I even mention a visit
to them he gets mad. In hia opinion
a woman has no right to say anything
about what shs shall do.
DOW N HEARTED.
Is Slaton ths Second Choice?
Thera is something new under the
sun after all. A brand new theory of
popular government Is being promul
gated by one of the candidates for the
short term senatorshlp, by which
theory It la shown that the delegates
to the atale convention are in honor
hound to name said candidate al
though a large majority of the voters
have declared at the ballot box that
they do not want him The argument
!:■ ilke this: Richmond Founty gave
Hardwick 1,766 votes and Slaton 1,222,
the other candidates receiving 325.
Therefore, says Mr. Slaton, he was the
second choice of Richmond County,
and should get Ills six votes sfter they
have been cast for Hardwick perfunc
torily a few times. Rut how does
Mr. Slaton know that he is the sec
ond choice of Richmond County? The
choice of the county means of course
the choice of the majority or plural
ity of the voters In the county. In
Richmond County the majority of the
voter* voted for Hardwick. He Is
therefore the choice of the county.
The second choice of the county would
naturally mean the second choice of
the majoritw or plurality of the
voter* Rut the voters have had no
opportunity to register their second
choice To say that because Mr. Sla
ton ts the first choice of a respectable
minority, he ts therefore the second
choice of the majority, It to talk fool
ishly. And until It is shown that he
I* the second choice of a majority or
at least of a plurality It cannot he
claimed that he ta the second choice
of the county.
DEMOCRAT.
THE PEOPLE HAVE VOTED
OVERWHELMINGLY
AGAINST SLATON.
Editor of The Herald.
That wa* an adroit editorial tn Sat
urday'* Chronicle on the ahort term
senatorshlp race The argument waa
shrewdly put and doubtless Is being
systematically used throughout the
THE AUGUSTA HERALD. AUGUSTA. GA. '
1 state Slaton’s crowd are dying hard
j and in their extremity are grasping at
I straws.
The Chronicle tells us that Slaton
| got 61,644 votes, Hardwick 55,469, Fel
der 30,820 and Hutchens 31,654. These
votes totalling 169,587, represent the
I expressed wishes of the voters of
tleorgia. Of these 107,913 have said
| that they don't want Slaton and only
■ 61,644 have said that they do. He has
| onfy 36 per cent of the popular vote.
| Is he the choice of the people of Geo
gia?
The 107,942 voters of Georgia had
a full opportunity to canvass the
merits of the respective candidates
and then to vote their choice. They
voted against Slaton and I suppose
would do it again If they got a chance.
What rhyme or reason therefore Is
there In saying, that when a delegate
lo the convention findß that “the sen
atorial candidate for whom his county
cast a plurality of its votes" has no
longer “any reaaanble hope of win
ning," he Is In honor bound to vote for
the candidate who received the next
largest vote. To obey this Slaton rule
of honor, would be to express not the
wishes of the voters of his county, but
of a mere minority thereof, or rather
of one of the minorities thereof. What
becomes of the majority In the county
if this rule Is applied? They are
practically disfranchised and tb the
second man's mere minority is left the
selection of a senator. The majority
Is not alone shut out, but as well the
two or three other minorities.
If the voice of a majority in a coun
ty is Ineffective must they be -utterly
Ignored, when the delegate seeks a
new miu»~ to vote for? No, the dele
gate represents his county, the ma
jority and the and the sevaral minor
ities After the plurality candidate Is
eliminated, he should consider the
views of all his people and then vote
as he thinks a majority would vote in
a second race, it there was one.
The people (not the delegates), have
said they don’t want Slaton. Nearly
108,000 were against him and only
62,000 for him. He is not the choice
of Georgia and if we had the South
Carolina system of a second race he
would evidently he overwhelmingly
defeated. Why, therefore, should he
be nominated?
The delegates to the convention
should vote for the winner in his
county as long as he has a chance and
then should vote for the man he thinks
would be most acceptable to all his
people, and merely to one of the min
orities of them. No. this well organ
ised, statewide campaign to delude the
people won't work. They are on the
job and Jack and his crowd can't fool
them.
WM. T. SHEA.
August 22, 1914.
THE SENATE RACE.
To The Herald:
The "Slaton Press" is making an
effort to convince the public that the
candidate who ran second In any
given county should receive that
county's vote whenever they nhandon
the candidate who ran ahead. Is this
logic?
1 say no. These delegates represent
a plurality of the voters—eventually
the majority. Their first duty to this
plurality of voters Is to consider who
would have been their second choice
and not who Is the first choice of the
minority. Unfortunately for Governor
Slaton In this contest he made It a
paramount Issue during the campaign
that a vote for Hardwick was a
"Hardwtek-Kelder" vote and a vote
for Vctrter a "Felder-Hardwick” vote.
According lo hi* own contention
therefore he is at best third choice of
80,000 voters and first choice of only
61,000 voters.
Surely there Is no "moral obliga
tion" on the delegates to disregard the
will of these 86,000 voters.
Very respectfully. •
"NOT A POLITICIAN.”
August 21, 1914.
GREATEST WORK FOR AUGUSTA
TO SECURE HONEST ELECTIONS.
To The Herald:
Already charges of bribery and
other forms of frsud are rife over the
city in connection with the election
Just held It ts stated freely that
large sums of money were used by
different candidates tn the purchase
of votes; that the buying places were
It: active operation throughout the
day; that there was repeating: that
efforts st repeating were frustrated;
that there were fraudulent counts
which were detected and corrected,
etc. etc.
In other words, it ts very evident
that public opinion hss reached that
stage In Augusta where it hss no con
fidence in the honesty of any elec
tion.
This Is a deplorable state of affairs.
When men believe that elections are
stolen regularly from white men by
white men, from prominent men by
prominent menj, and that there can
not be an honest election; that can
didates and men prominent in political
end business (circles unhesitatingly
contribute money year after year to
bribe the elctorate, and to therwise
corrupt the ballot, in order to pre
vent the votes of honest citizens from
being effective, we are undoubtedly
approaching a condition bordering on
anarchy.
The question Is: What is to be done
about it?
After every election there is a great
deal said and written denouncing the
perpetrators of these frauds. But
that is the end of It. No public of
ficial ever turns his hand to obtain a
conviction for a violation of the elec
tion laws. The people merely sit and
await another season of election de
bauchery.
In the opinion of many the only
thing: that will ever break up the
practice of bribery, and other fraud in
elections in Augusta is a determined
campaign, prolonged as far as necs
sary, to obtain the conviction and
punishment of the men who are in the
habit of furnishing the money and
brains to promote the bribery and
other fraud.
How will such an effort be started?
Are there not enough honest men in
Augusta to make It too warm for
these men to continue their false
practices? Has not society, have not
the chyirches, have not the schools,
raised up a sufficient number of men
who are honest enough, brove enough
and patriotic enough to make real
legal war on the large and growing
class of contributors to bribery, bribe
givers, election tricksters and ballot
box thieves in the city?
For years there has been little prog
ress against dishonesty in elections
in Augusta, except that the secret bal
lot has been obtained which is a sign
of great encouragement. The bribery
continues. Cannot another bold stroke
be made in thd direction of fair elec
tions? A certain class who believes
in bribery, who have the money, who
can get It, who are willing to debase
themselves and degrade and criminal
ize the community by regularly
tempting as large a number of the
voters as possible to sell their votes,
continue their practices.
Thee* men. *om* of whom claim to
be patriotic business men, are the
worst enemies this city has ever had.
They are educating as large a part of
the population as possible to crime—
those who will sell, that it is right to
commit the crime of selling; those
who do not sell that it is right to sell.
They are doing harm to the city,
morally and commercially. The sons
of educations and refined mothers
and fathers are taught that election
fraud is all right; that it Is right to
bribe voters; to stuff ballot boxes, to
steal ballots—to steal, just so it is
votes and elections that are stolen.
The result Is that Augusta Is In al
most a constant state of panic;
stricken through with lack of confi
dence; with distrust—not discord but
distrust. It la difficult to get up any
public enterprise. People will sub
scribe their money to nearly any out
side project that comes along, rather
than trust their money to home man
agement In the midst of so much
fraud in elections. That is the simple
truth.
It 1* not only against the plain law
to bribe voter*, to Insert fraudulent
votes In bslot boxes, to promote false
counting, and the men who are guilty
of such practices —those who contrib
ute and those who expend—are law
breakers. and therefore criminals
under the law. but it Is against all law
and common decency.
The man who steals a vote Is a
thief. There Is no question about
that. What else It he? Those who
employ other men to do this work or
who furnish the money for It are as
guilty *e their agents. No matter
with whet sophistical arguments they
endeavor to console themselves that
thl* Is '•M the case. And they are
morally responsible for these acts as
sure as they live.
It Is not probable that the prac
tice of bribery *nd other election
frauds In Augusta win ever be broken
up until enough people agree to be
gin to proeecute and punish the in
fractor* of th* law. For this purpo**
It *eem* that a non-partl*an. Honeat
Flection league, an Flection Prose
cution League, or some suoh organi
sation should be formed, to he direct
ed hy a responsible executive qom
mlttee. to whom annual contribution*
New Neckwear—
the nobbiest we
have ever shown
Harmonious groupings
of tints woven into in
tricate beautiful de
signs.
Ravishly riots of col
orings in startlingly
weird effects.
Neat traceries of pat
terns to please the
most conservative.
50c to $2
DORS
Good Taste Apparel
ICE ICE
22 12-lb. TICKETS FOR SI.DO
FRUIT
Choice)ripe Fruit of All Kinds.
VEGETABLES
Fresh Vegetables,/ always on hand at Lowest Prices.
GROCERIES
We can sawe you money on your Groceries,
both staple and<fancy.
Telephone us*before buying. Free delivery-to
any part of city. * &
J. L. RADFORD
Phone 1846. 15 East Boundary.
Kodaks, Films, Supplies, Etc.
Developing & Printing, Waterman’s
Fountain Pens, Writing Tablets,
Pens, Inks, Pencils.
RICHARDS STATIONERY CO.
■1 ■inni - 2 JlHlf
IF you have something that is
intended for your eyes only, put
it in one of our Safe Deposit Boxes
Fire cannot reach it—burglars cannot get it and you will
have absolute privacy because all our Safe Deposit Boxes
ara fitted with Yale Locks which cannot be opened
unless you help. These locks have double mechanism
that requires two different keys to unlock. You have
one key and we hold the other—and both must be
used at the same time or the box cannot be opened.
jj. ©<gn*j|
should be turned over by all clttaens
' who will co-operate In this manner
for the regeneration of the city: this
committee to expend this fund in any
I manner It secs fit—ln the collection
!of evidence of fraud, prosecution of
. the cases, etc. If punishment can
! not be obtained In this county, to get
an act enabling the cases to be car
ried ot another county for trial. Evi
dence to be collected and prosecutions
mads in a thoroughly non-partisan
manner. Argument Is useless. Xoth
. ing but prosecution and punishment
I will stop the wholesale fraud.
If there has been fraud In th# re
. cent election, iu> mater by whom or
I what *lde. It should be. if possible.
. brought to light. If any friend of
1 good government can obtain auffldent
j evidence to carry a case into court,
SUNDAY. AUGUST 23.
AUGUSTA HERALD.
JULY CIRCULATION.
DAILY AND SUNDAY HERALD.
The circulation of The Daily and Sun
day Herald for the month of July, 1914.
was as follows:
July 1 11,023
July 2 11.276
July 3 11,271
July 4 11,748
July 5 10 871
July 6 11,218
July 7 11,181
July 8 11,122
July 9 11,181
July 10 11.219
July U 11,762
July 12 10,915
July 13 11.270
July 14 11,42
July 15 11,453
Julv 81
TOTAL JULY 358,343
DAILY AVERAGE 11,494
The Augusta Herald, Dally ajid Sun
day, has a circulation In Augusta ap
proximately twice as large as that of
any other Augusta newspaper. Advei
tlsers and agencies Invited to test the ac
curacy, of these figures In comparison
with the claims of any other Augusta
newspaper.
FORD
IS THE
CAR
The Wife and Boys and
Girls can drive as well
as the .men.
See Lombard.
Read Herald “Wants”
UNION SAVINGS BANK
Corner Broad and Eighth Street*
Depository United States Court,
Northeastern Division South
ern District of Georgia.
let him do'it, and carry it to a prose
cuting officer, or make It public. If
the evidence Is unimpeachable. If any
office has been obtained by fraud the
people should know It and realise It;
the scat will then, at least, become too
hot for the man who occupies It. The
greatest work that'ean be done for the
real Augusta Is to secure honest elec
tions.
H. C. MIDDLETON.
Pat—Yls, »orr, wur-rk Is scarce, but
ni got * Job list Bmndsy that brought me
solve dollars.
Mr Goodman—What! you brok* the
Sabbath?
Pat (apologetically)—Wail, *orr, twee
wan av ua had t’ be broke —Boston
Transcript.
July 16 11,450
July 17 11,440
July 18 12,0611
July 19 10,99(1
July 20 11,666
July 21 11,700
July 22 11,770
July 23 .....11,735
July 24 11,477
July 25 12,042
July 26 11.405
July 27 13,300
July 28 11,605
July 29 11,524
July 30 11,592