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Entered at the post-oiUoe at Willaeoochee,
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II. I'KIT.
TONE CITIZEN AND THE
ATLANTA GEORGIAN.'
Recently during a meeting of
Attlhsyta’s City Council that au
gust body was considering a re
solution introduced by a “re
fawm” Councilman requesting
the State Railroad Commission
to reduce' Street railfbad fares, a
native citizen or,that city, by the
name of Lee, entered the follow
ing protest: /
“I am hero in beh'i i. of the
working people of this city. 1
h ive always been •with organized
labor and have never lost an op
portunity to say a word for the
wage-earner. I am no special
friend of the street car company
or the gas company. But' I do
not care to see that crowd at the
State (Japitoi which has already
done much to injure us, meddling
with the street car system of this
city. It will mean more of an
agitation w hich has so far resul
ted in having workingmen lose
the.r jobs, while the capitalist
gjat more for his goods. The St ate
Railroad Commission should take
time now to undo the evil it has
already done, instead of being
given an opportunity to do more
harm.”
Immediately the self-appointed
prgan of “refawm,” the Atlanta
Georgian, picks up the qudgel in
defense of the reform (?) wave
now shaking the state from cen
tre to circumference, and utters
the following phillipics:
‘ ‘For the general principle which
seems to have been assailed by
the inspired lips of Citizen Lee
The Georgian has only to say that
Mr. Lee does not speak the sen
timents of the common people of
Georgia.
We make this assertion duly
and modestly and yet firmly over
the protest m toe* by Mr. L e end
' his new-found i*rie4ls"t£3?he dues
pot speak for the common people.
We make bold to remind the
people of Georgia that the voice
of the common people was ex
pressed in the last elec: ion. The
uhparalleld majority given to the
. governor of Georgia in that elec
tion could not have come from any
s dect fevt, from the classes, or
f nm the politicians; for they are
n >t enough if their numb i s were
sexteplcd to approximate the ma
jori’.y he received. Nor was this
majority the blind and unthink
ing mass. It was the great body
of i he people following definitely,
not so much a man in the person
of Governor Smith, but the meas
ures which ho distincfl.Vt definite
ly, persistently and everywhere
proclaimed as iho policies which
should move his admmistrrt on.
. “it is too lute for a single citi
zen so soon after a great election
to claim to represent the common
people or the state when the com
mon people have so recently spo
ken in such thunder tones of em
__i|)hasis and majority as they spoke
in the August ot 1906.”
f‘A man is known by his asso
ciates;” tie absorbs their every
thought, word and action. Mr.
Lee, whom the Georgian con
temptuously calls the “Lone
Citizen,” frankly admits that he
has his existence among the
horqy-handed sons of toil, who
compose fully three-fourth of the
voters of the state/ His utter
ances is a fair index as to what
the real voters of Georgia are
thinking and talking about, and
how .“hey will vote when the time
few action shall arrive.
If the Georgian insists that the
result of last year’s gubernatorial
campaign was the voice of wide
awake and thoughtful voters, it
will wake up after the primary
to find itself floundering in a gulf
pf error, Last years ballot was
the vote of blind fanaticism, born
of prejudice to railroads and ne
gro enfranchisement, fanned in
to a white heart by the present
executive in his camp ai g n
speeches and for the single pur
pose of self-a ggrandizement. The
people were not their normal
selves. Gyoxpopuli, vox dei”
is not always true. The reform
(?) governor of Georgia, last year
sowed to the wind pf popular pas
sion, but next year he will reap
the whirlwind of popular indig
nation.
The Georgian may cry as loud
l.y as it pleases for the per pie to
await the final results ot' the re
form movements before making
gp their conclusion, but when
people have met fare tu face with
stubborn facts, when they begin
to experience resulis -natural in
evitable results--they become in
exorable. The toilers in every
line of industry have discovered
their mistake, and will make
haste to undo it.
The Sun wants th - light turn
ed on from every w point so
that all the people < n form their
own conclusion, unhampered - by
place-hunters and p;t| -suckers,
who seek solely their own welfare
or their lionCfrmen. Here is a
man, in the incident* under re
view, brofessedly from the ranks
of the industrial masses who has
the temerity to speak in the At
lanta City council the sentiments
of his class, perhaps sent there
with this message, who must be
jumped upon by this paper,
whose editor shows himself tube
the thi T so-called
reform anministratiOu, and de
nounced as an interloper and
liar. \ ..
“Reform” isia’good riling, but
“justice” is better and should
prevail. The Sun has not a word
to say against the regulation of
railroads by the State through its
railroad commission, the preven
tion of discrimination and abuses
by all public utility corporation,
but it will now and ever protect
against the confiscation of corpo
rate property, whether it. be done
by fixing votes of transportation
or otherwise. The refusal ot the
Georgia Railroad Commission to
listen to the unanimous request
of the railroads “for a 2.V cents
flat rate v with milage books at 2
cents” was unwise. It is true it
was to be a temporary arrange
ment, but it would have shown a
spirit of fairness. The ends of
both justice and reform would
have been met, and the people
saved the present antagonisms
between State officials and the
railroads as well as the expensive
litigation that surely confronts
them. Mutual cofctessions would
have been fa/ lifter thSn ay hi c*
rary antagonisms.
Unless all signs fail it will be
Brigadier-General Clifford L. An
derson, of the Geergia National
Guard.
Another honor has been thrust
upon our Senator, George W.
Deen, oi Waycross. He has been
chosen a representative of the
State board of the American Mo
tor League.
As opportunity offers Ho n.
Hoke Smith is making speeches
throughout the State this year,
but he hums a different song
from the one he sang in 1900.
He is explaining to the farmers
what he meant by saying that
here would be a bumper cotton
:rop in Georgia this year. Didnt
somebody say something about
“hot air” from a “gas bag.” It
they did, it will forever conclude
the controversy, and Hoke can
go way back and set down.
Hurrah for W. B. Merritt! Be
fore he will be a party to a re
form movement that takes i.o
thought of the school teachers of
Georgia, he resigns as state
school csmiinssiouer and will go
into the timber business in West
Florida after January Ist. 1908,
He wil l be succeeded by Prof J ere
M. Pound, of Milledgeville.
Judge Horace M. Holden has
taken the oath of office and en
tered upon tlie discharge of his
duties as Justice of the tiupreme
Court of Georgia.
An exchange, commenting up
on the Governor’s appearance at
the various county fairs this fall,
remarks that he has a right to
oe there and is quite an attrac
tion, but failed to state to what
class he belonged. It is unkind
to leave the reader to conjec
tures.
Letter to l has. L. Moses.
Dear ebr: Here’s anomer problem for
those arithmetic and-agebra scholars:
If Devoe is worth .76 a gallon, and
spreads a half f rtr than avera e
paint ana wears twice a > long, what i»
average paint worth a gallon put-o: ,
painters, wages being $1.60 a day arm
a day’s work a gallon of paint. <
The snswer is mi, u 3U.75 a gallon
That is: you could alrord to paint with
iverage paint if somebody gives it to
you and pays half ihe painters, wages.
/< urs t -uiy
2 I F VV DEVOE & C O
p. S. McClure! Paulk & Cb., sell out
paint. I
Pioneers Passing.
Mrs. Mary Meeks, relict of the
late Simpsor. Meeks, departed
this life last Saturday October
sth, 1907, at the advanced age of
72 years, at the old homestead in
this county near Spring Head
church. The interrflent ocurred
at Antioch the next day, Rev.
Daniel Roberts preaching the
funeral, which was attended by a
large concourse of friends and
relatives.
Mrs. Meeks was born and rear
ed in Coffee county, was married
at an early age and was the
mother of ten children, nine of
whom are still living, to illustrate
the care, example and training
of a Godly mother, viz: Mrs. M.
J. Paulk, Tv Ty, Ga. C. W.
Meeks and John Meeks, Peacock,
Ga. Gray Meeks, Willaeoochee,
Ga. Mrs. Sarah Ann Guldens-
Kirkland, Ga., .T. M. Meeks,
Mrs, J. H. Morris, Pearson,
Mrs. R, L. Bradford, Albany, Ga,
and Mrs Harris Paulk’ of Clinch,
Ga.
She was converted and became
a member of the Methodist
church when quite young and
lived a consistent Chris'taiu life;
was among the members who or
ganized Fafford (Spring Head)
church many years ago. She
was a good woman, spoken well
of by all who knew her, and her
life has been a benediction in the
community where she lived dur
ing the many years of married.
Her husband proceeded her to the
grave about a year ago.
Among the recent deaths that
remind us of the passing of the
pioneer citizens of Coffee county,
was that of Hon. John M. Lott,
of Douglas, last Sunday night, at
the advanced age of 78 years.
He also was born and reared in
Coffee county, add at the
his death, was among the
and b'-*st known men
CV.
He was “a t'u iLjii ul
•the Methodist church
Masonic fraternity, which order
conducted the funeral services
Monday afternoon at the city
cemetery. Coffee Superior Court,
which convened Monday morning
was adjourned by Judge Thomas
A. Parker at noon until Tuesday
morning, in order that the offi
cials and attendants upon the
court might attend the funeral if
they so desired.
“Uncle John,” as he was fam
iliarly known, had a large family
connection, scattered over fonr
cr five counties of south Georgia
all of whom are prominent and
influential in their several coun
ties. His children had all gone
out from the parental roof years
ago, married and made homes of
their own; so that, in the even
ing t f life, he and his faithful
wife, “Aunt Mary Jane,” were
left, as they had begun, to walk
life’s journey together and alone.
For years their hospitable home
has been thrown open to guests
and they were never without com
pany and especially during court
time when the court and visiting
members of the bar stopped with
them.
“Uncle John” had accumulated
a competency, so that his even
ing of life was one of plenty,
comfort and contentment. Peace
to his ashes.
Trying to do business without
ad\ ertising is like trying to slide'
up a hill on a sled.
DON’T THROW AWAY
Anything That Can be Fixed,
I can fix up and make same as
new. your small wagons, large;
wagons, baby carriages, buggies,;
road carts', shoe your horse orj
mule, fix up and upholster your
old wornuut cb urs and lounges
o you wouldn’t know but wliatj
it was just out of the fact ry.
I can fix any thing from a small
wagon to a It. rge log cart. Just
try me.
H. FRANKLIN, i
At Nobles old Shop’
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T T <>w about subscribing for The '.Vi'
aco.. h o Sun.
p -pj a p “TJ §“
tta 110 for I lie raimer
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Anything in the line of planters Hardware such
the Mitchell Wagons, and the best line of Bug
gies you ever saw, also a complete line ot fine Har
ness and Saddles. The Favorites Stoves and
Ranges "Best in the World.” We still sell that fa
kious Devoe Paint.
s'
Jk are Prepared to 1 ttie Wants el h Farmer
We Have a Line of Plows That’s Hard to Beat
w (Mtanoop I ami 2 Horse flows
We handle a complete line of Keen Kutter Ra
zors, and Pocket Knives.
There is nothing that we enjoy half so much as
'selling the right kind of Hardware, which, of course
is the best, and we are still at the old stand, ready
at all times to attend to the wants of ojir friends.
Call and lets talk it over.
' IrfJiP "Paulk H P.n
liiu yILiI &p. & Clu I!\ Vx UUi
Willacooehee, Ca.
SI So lake Advantage of the Below Prices
Have you been reading my advertisement in former issues?
Yes; of course you have, then why not take advantage of the low
prices, I have been offering. You still have a chance at themand
get your money ready and turn your head towards my store and
don’t stop till you get there.
Lawn’s worth 12£c at..... 9c
Silk Mull worth 30c up at 18 to 20c
Winter Dress Goods ....15 to 30c
Gingham 9c
Bleaching , ; 9c
Calico 5c
Shambray 8c
Laces and Embroideries.'.3 to 5c
I have a full and complete line of Groceries, fresh, Fancy and
Family, and full stock of Sage, Spices and Teas, at the lowest prices.
Give hie a trial, you will be satisfied and I will appreciate your trade,
even though it be a small purchase, and will prove it by low prices
and courteous treatment.
■ 1.8. illlS,
A. Corbitt’s old Stand Willaeoochee, Ga.
BE ALWAYS
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Prepared to show your customers how much they save by trad
ing with you, and don’t let the saving be ail hot talk.
It is only b t the value and service I give that I expect to hold
your patronage.
W. S. LEWIS,
’PHONE Nc* 67, The Store on the Corner.
Flannels 7c
Men’s dress Shirts from 30c to $1
Overalls from 30c to $1
Children’s shoes 25e to 80c
Ladies’ Shoes 75c to $3
Men’s Shoes $1 to $4
Rice 22 lbs for SI.OO
Sugar 16 lbs for SI.OO
Other Groccaie According.
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