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The Sun Company ! PUBIiISHEJSS OF ffibe HUiiiacoocbcc Sun. OFFJCIA L OR: rAN OF TOWN OF VVILLAUOOCHEK. HENBY fIJTREUL, Editor antTlVPg’r. § JUSUmPiION .... ONE DOLLAR A YEAR TEj.-WFHONE NO. 12. Entered at the post-oiUoe at Willaeoochee, ,Ga.. as second-(Jiy-ss mail matter. 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’ •j T T <>w about subscribing for The '.Vi' aco.. h o Sun. p -pj a p “TJ §“ tta 110 for I lie raimer % J 0 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 "" ' "'* 1 • 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. t wwaaacjMaaat nil I will in n - SC I Lb the CO UGH j '«a CUKE tm* LUtifiSi wr ™ Or. ling’s I i m Bmpmtf • f w Colios 3 AN3 At L THROAT AKS LUfIG TROUBLES. GUARANTEED SATISFACTORY* °RISONKY REFUNDED. j You get all the latest news in the Villucooebec Sun.