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PEARSON ® TRiB UNE
VOL B—NO. 19
NEWS OF OUR NEIGHBORS.
Gleanings from All Sections of
South Georgia.
The public schools of South
Georgia are opening for another
year's work. Judging from the
preparations making it, is preeep
tible that larger and better schools
and work is expected. Give the
children an education and they
will have an inheritance that can't
be taken away from them.
Monday, October 2nd., has been
decided upon as the date for the
beginning of the Waycrpss Trade
Week. Judging from the boosting
given to it in advance a good trade
and a jolly good time must be ex
peeled. The merchants are forced,
in some way, to recoup their big
losses occasioned by the railroad
strike.
The Tifton tobacco market clos
ed August 31st. The season's
operations are shown by the follow
iug figures: Sold 436,174 pounds,
for $106,619.32; average price, $24.-
44 per hundred pounds. It was
excellent as compared with last
season with the following record:
Sold 780,178 pounds for $74,743.77
or an average of $9.56 per hundred
pounds.
The Miller interest in the Mill
town Airline railroad has been
sold to Mr. R. B. Carter, w'ho be
comes practically the sole owner.
Mr. Carter seems to succeed with
all his investments, why not he
succeed with this railroad. ♦Mr.
Carter’s oldest son will have the
general supervision of this proper
ty. He is a live wire and will keep
the road in public favor. So long
as he does this the road will be a
success.
The Eleventh District A. & M.
School, at Douglas, began its six
teenth year last Tuesday morning.
Growing ideal men and women is
the aim of the school, and it is
succeeding admirably in its task.
The ideal man is a successful farm
er and an ideal woman is a success
ful home maker. They beget God
fearing and God-serving citizens
and lends inspiration and improve
ment to their environment and to
their communities. The country
has too few of this kind of citizens.
If there is a territory anywhere
in Georgia or out of Georgia that
needs the help of a Miseionary —
one who knows God, become ac
quainted with His son, endowed
with the Holy Spirit, and a pas
sion for the safety of the souls of
men, it is that occupied by the
Smyrna Baptist Association. How
long this territory has been with
out the services of such a servant
of God and man the Tribunedoes't
know, but it can't afford to be
destitute longer; and one should
be put in the field by the churches.
That a Negro can get justice in
Georgia courts is illustrated in the
ease of Mace Giddens, who slew
Constable Giddens when trying to
arrest him without a warrant in
Worth county. There was a war
rant for the defendant for a misde
meanor, but it w r as not in the
Constable's possession at the time,
nor was the offense with which de
fendant was charged committed in
the presence of the Constable. The
Supreme Court of Georgia says
that a conviction of the Defendant
for murder under this evidence is
error. The reason assigned is that
the officer was endeavoring to make
an arrest in violation of the law\
which requires that he must have
a w arrant in his possession, see the
offense committed or the Defend
ant must be trying to escape. The
court says that under the evidence
furnished in the case the Defend
ant is guilty of manslaughter if
guilty of anything. The jury
rendered a verdict of “Guilty of
murder without a recommendation.
Georgia law and courts guards the
life and liberty of her citizens no
matter bow black they may be.
Watson Restates
Campaign Stand,
(From The Atlanta Constitution.)
Thomas E. M atson’s statement
in a telegram to Major C. E. Mc-
Gregor, of Warrenton, that "Gov
ernor Hardwick and Hoke Smith
are trying to build up a political
machine that will put, them both
back iu the United States senate”
and that Governor Hardwick had
broken promises he had made to
Senator Watson, is only iu line
with previous declaration by the
senator in his periodical, The
Columbia Sentinel, it was asserted
Tuesday by Joe Gaston, Clifford
Walker's campaign manager in his
campaign for the governorship.
In commenting on the telegram,
Mr. Gaston referred to an article
in The Columbia Sentinel of Janu
ary 9, 1922, in which Senator Wat
son said:
“personal, specific and final.
“It is about time that I was say
ing something definite about T. W,
Hardwick.
"I am now 7 going to say it.
“It, would not, perhaps, become
tne to speak of the forlorn condi
tion in which llarkwick found
himself at the end of his term in
the senate.
"Most people in Georgia can re
member how down-and-out lie was.
“President Wilson had not al
lowed him to dictate iu all matters
of Georgia patronage, and he had
turned against his president.
"Never did any candidate for
office make more promises than
Hardwick made in the campaign
of 1920.
“Never did a governor, elected
on unequivocal promises, go back
on them so quickly after his in
auguration.
KILLED REPEAL BILL.
"Hardwick worked against the
repeal of the infamous tax assess
ment law; threatened to veto a re
peal of it; and thus killed the
repeal bill.
“Had he not i romised the peo
ple just the reverse of this, he
could not have been elected.
“Other pledges, equally positive
and specific, have been broken;
and Hardwick has done things
which prove that his whole cam
paign was one of premeditated and
comprehensive deception.
“His betrayal of our state rail
road to the Louisville and Nash
ville is the most perfidious official
act since the Yazoo fraud.
“His repeal of the act which de
voted half the rental of the road
to the education of the children
would seem to prove that he, had
control of the legislature.
“Half a million of your money
has been thrown to lawyers and to
the fiscal agent of the L. &N.
system.
“There w r as no money for free
elementary schoolbooks, but there
was plenty for the L. & N. banks,
and for the special attorneys who
steered the sham law suit.
PICTURE IS TAKEN.
“The sacrifice of the state’s best
property was considered such a
fine bit of statesmanship, that a
picture bad to be taken of Hard
wick in the act of signing the
papers.
“This picture ongbt to be cut
out of The Atlanta Journal and
saved for future inspection.
“Somebody ought to now photo
graph the new broom.
“It is sweeping fast enough, but
it is sweeping away your best as
sets —property which the people of
Georgia had come to regard as
sacred.”
“Your State Road is gone; your
executive mansion will go next.
“Your taxes have not been low
ered; useless offices have not been
abolished; no sane program of con
structive legislation has been out
lined.
"Useless offices have been re
tained, and useless men put into
them.
“No Watson men have been re
cognized as fit to hold places of
real importance.”
Official Newspaper of the County of Atkinson.
PEAHSOX, GEORGIA, FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER S. 1922
HARDWICK IS REPUDIATED
Farmers, Business Men and Real
Georgians Denounce Him.
The white Democratic voters of
Georgia will go to the polls, Sep
tember I.3th, to nominate their
next governor. One of the men
seeking their suffrage was elected
by them two years ago. The other
candidate was among those reject
ed.
In 1920 Thomas W. Hardwick
was heralded from the mountains
to the sea as the man of the
hour. He was ardently support
ed by Senator Thomas E. Watson,
that staunch exponent of Jefferson
ian Democracy, by the working
men of Georgia, a large number of
farmers and the business men It
was then tint Hardwick promised
to support and carry to a conclu
sion issues in which the people
were vitally interested.
In 1922 this same Thomas W.
Hardwick has come before these
same voters asking to be sent back
to the eapitol for another term.
All that, he has to offer is excuses
for poor stewardship and more
promises.
XXX
In 1922 Hardwick has come be
fore the people for re-election ab
solutely repudiated by Senator
Watson,' who charges him with
breaking every promise he made.
He also has lost the support of
prominent men all over the state,
whose rally to the standard of liis
opponent is made distinctly notic
able by reason of their ardor for
him in 1920.
None of those farmers w 7 ho voted
for him in 1920, when he promised
to ease their tax burdens, are to
be found in his ranks. The labor
ing men who pinned their faith to
him are now opposing him because
he deserted t hem in a critical time
when he believed he could further
his ow'n political interests by so
doing.
Real Georgians, men and women
with a proper love for state and
home, are not with him because
they are convinced that lie is un
scrupulously promoting selfish po
litieal ambitions with no thought
for those who aided him once he
had no further need for them in
his scheme to get back to the
United States senate by way of
the State House.
All Georgians remember the
“pay as we go” policy voiced by
Hardwick in his inaugural address
on June 25th, 1921. We heard
his promises to wipe out the state
debt and once more place Georgia
on a solid financial basis.
And now he comes back seeking
re-election with the state more
than two million dollars in debt
and future revenues reduced be
cause be already has spent the
lease rentals of the Western and
Atlantic Railroad for five years.
Hardwick has been kiting the
state debt, a practice which has
sent numberless banks and busi-
ness concerns into financial ob
livion!
X X X
"A short while ago some big
dogs who are trying to bolster up
Hardwick’s campaign came out
with the statement to the effect
that the state was in a better
financial condition than when
Hardwick went in as Governor.
They praised Hardwick’s adminis
tration from a financial standpoint.
They showed him up to be a wizard
at finances —on paper.
"These big dogs are not telling
these things in ignorance. They
know better. If they were ignor
ant of the facts, such statements
could be excused. They are not
ignorant of the facts, but, on the
contrary, they know the facts and
they know the facts to be exactly
to the contrary.
“In other words, to be right
plain about it. they arc simply
lying to the people of Georgia to
get Hardwick elected for another
term, and they know 7 they are
lying.
"When Hardwick was elected
Governor, the indebtedness of the
state at the time of his inaugura
tion was $2,297,586.21.
"When he was a candidate for
Governor, he knew the state was
badly in debt, and he was elected
Governor on a platform to retire
that indebtedness by reducing ex
penses.
“As soon as he took office in
June of last year he proceeded to
retire this indebtedness of the
slate, not by reducing expenses,
not by economy, not by reducing
appropriations; but how did lie go
about it? \
“lie bad the Legislature pass a
law selling the income of the
state’s railroad for five years iu
advance aud the amount received
for the use of the state’s railroad
for the next live years w 7 as $2,297,-
586.21. He took this amount of
money and paid what the state
owed, and when his crowd gets out
and says that they have retired
the state’s deficit they are lying,
they know they are lying and are
doing it to deceive the voters of
the State of Georgia.
“The state will get; no income
from its railroad for five years and
is short that amount of revenue,
“lu addition to this he reduced
the expenses of the state to a
still further extent by leasing the
Governor’s mansion for a period of
fifty years, and, in addition to
this method of reducing expenses
he had them put a tax of one cent
a gallon on gasoline.
x x x
“When he was a candidate for
office he did not tell the voters
that he was going to have a tax of
one cent put on gasoline, lie did
not tell them he was going to sell
the state’s railroad for five years,
he did not tell them he was going
to lease the house in Atlanta that
the taxpayers had bought for him
to live in for a period of fifty years.
"He told them he was going to
reduce expenses and also re
duce appropriations.
“Ho told them he was going to
sweep out all the useless officers,
abolish useless offices, and put the
state back on a basis of economy
“He did not do one single thing
he promised to do!
"Just as soon as he had the
Legislature play all the havoc set
out above, he proceeded to visit
all the State Fairs and make
speeches to the Reubens who w 7 ere
paying there good money to see
the sights and exhibits.
“Hardwick was the biggest ex
hibit in all the fairs. He was
drawing the salary to be Governor
of Georgia when he ought to have
been drawing it from the fair as
sociations.
"While exhibiting himself at
the county fairs he proceeded to
advocate an income tax. He did
not get enough money by selling
the state’s railroad for five years,
by putting a tax on gasoline, by
leasing the Governor’s mansion
for fifty years, and had to have
more money and hence an income
tax.
“Hardwick has had the best op
portunity to do something for the
common people of Georgia than
any Governor has ever had. The
state was in distress. It was in
need of some real statesmanship
and leadership. The taxpayers of
the state xverc being ground to
death. The people wanted relief.
They demanded that waste and
extravagance be stopped and that
economy be exercised -instead.
Hardwick knew the temper of Un
people of Georgia. He took ad
vantage of it. He went before
them with the very promises that
they wanted. Just like a sewing
machine agent or a slick stock
salesman be made the voters be-
PERSONAL ANB IMPERSONAL
Short Stories About People and
Things of Interest.
lion. John F. Stone, another one
of the Tribune’s long-time friends,
has announced his decision to be
a candidate for Commissioner of
Pensions. lie would make an
ideal officer and has many friends
in this section of the State who
will stand for his election.
Vote for Judge It. C. Bell for
Court of Appeals. Recently ap
pointed, his official record justifies
atrial. The only former Superior
Court Judge runuiug. Never fail
ed iu any trust. His qualifica
tions commended by all who kuow 7
him. Retain him for the full
term. —Advertisement.
lion. A. O. Blalock, candidate
for State Commissioner of Agri
culture, was in Pearson Thursday
afternoon. He found no one politi
cally enthused and he soon escap
ed to other and, perhaps, better
pasturage, lie called to see the
Tribune man, took notes of the
situation and made himself very
pleasant.
Prof. W. A. Little, as the Trib
une suspected when he declined to
continue his contract with the
Douglas board of education, has
accepted a Professorship in the
Florida School for Women at
Tallahassee. No doubt the situa
tion promises more pleasure than
the drudgery and untoward en
vironment at Douglas.
Chairman Jolm N. Holder, by
an Act of the late legislature, was
given unlimited powor, when the
Highway Commission is not in
session, to manage road affairs ac
cording to his own sweet will.
John has the opportunity to build
un the biggest political machine
in Georgia, but he is lulling the
populace to sleep by saying he
would not use such authority and
—John thinks that will be his
program.
Dr. .1. B. G. Bliteh, a son of
Elder S. E. Bliteh, aud well known
in this city, on Saturday, August,
26th, was the victim of a serious
misfortune. He lives at Beach
and had made a professional call,
was crossing the railroad in his
car when a freight train backed
upon and demolished the car,
broke one of his legs and other
wise injured him. He received
surgical attention and is now re
covering very rapidly.
lieve that he knew what they
needed and that be would give it
to them.
“Hardwick says that the Legis
lature did all of these things and
that he is not to blame.
“The Constitution of the State
gives to the Governor the power
of veto, aud not one time did
Hardwick use his veto power to
prevent the Legislature from bleed
ing to death the people he had
sworn to serve and represent.
“Not one office did he ask them
to abolish. Not one commission
did he ask them to abolish. In
not a single instance did he try
good old time economy with state’s
affairs. He himself has been ex
travagant. He has been just as
extravagant as the Legislature—he
drew the salary to be Governor
and then furnished amusements
by exhibiting himself at all the
country fairs. After he had finish
ed up all the fairs, he went hunt
ing and when he came back he
was so badly run down that he
had to go to Florida for a long rest
but all the time he was drawing
his salary as Governor of Georgia.”
—Political anvertiseinent.
Moral suasion having failed to
curb the industrial disturbers, the
injunction now will be tried; and
if that fails it is gratifying to be
assured that the goverumentstands
ready to try something else. —At-
lanta Constitution.
§1.50 A YEAR
Holder and His Job.
(From The Atlanta Constitution.)
During the confusion on the
last night of the recent session of
the legislature a bill was passed
which virtually empoxvers the
chairman of the state highway
commission to make all appoint
ments in the state highway de
partment and to fix the salaries of
the appointees it was discovered
at the capitol Thursday.
The bill as originally introduced
by represenative Smith, of Meri
wether, purported to be a bill to
abolish the position of special
counsel for the state highway de
partment. Somehow in the house
or senate an amendment was tack
ed on to the bill which clothes the
chairman of the highway depart
ment with authority to name all
engineers and others connected
with the department. Under the
law creating the department au
thority to select the district
engineers and other employees
was vested in the state highway
engineer.
An investigation of the matter
in which the amendment was tack
ed on was made Thursday and no
information could be obtained as
to how it was passed. It is signed
by the sneaker of the house, the
president of the senate and the
governor but the bill does not show
on its face who introduced the
amendment or when it was passed.
Through the passage of the
hill control of the patronage
of the highway department
passes virtually to the gover
nor. The governor has the author
ity to name the chairman of the
highway department and the chair
man has the authority now to ap
point all engineers and employees.
John N. Holder, appointee of Gov
ernor Thomas \V. Hardwick, is
now chairman of the state high
way department.
The amendment provjdes that
the highway board shall be em
powered to make the appointments
and when it is not iu session such
authority is vested in the chair
man. The board meets only at
infrequent intervals and this virtu
ally gives authority to make ail
appointments to the chairman of
the state highway board.
Canada has only one citizen to
each thirteen in the United States;
also, Canada sent fifty per cent,
more of its man power into war
service, as compared to this coun
try. Yet Canada has been taking
care of its former Service men for
more than three years, and has
many thousands of them located
on farm homes furnished them by
their Government. Compared with
this country, Canada is poor. The
difference is, Canada has the will
to do. It is not so completely do
minated by things like Standard
Oil, the Steel Trust, Wall Street,
and other elements fighting veter
ans’ adjusted compensation.—Tif
ton Gazette.
The time is near —very near —
when the question whether the
country is to have its transporta
tion lines kept open must be de
finitely answered. There must
come an end to all postponements
and delays. The public must
know whether it is to receive the
commodities it requires, and must
know, also,, what stands in the way
of the free movement of freight,
passangers and mail in the event
they fail to move. Are the strik
ers to blame? Are the railway
heads to blame? It is a question
over which there is much present
difference of* opinion, but the an
swer —the satisfactory answer —’
must soon .be forthcoming. The
public will demand to know, ami
when the public demands anything:
in as loud tones as it is capable of,
the answer is apt to be forthcom
ing.—Albany Herald.