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E. H. BO. & PUB.
VOL. XXXVII.
STATE CONVENTION RAVISHED
RIGHTS OF THOMAS E. WATSON.
Allowed Bully From Hancock to Ring
I Their Noses Red.
(From The Savannah Hawkeye.)
The action of the Dorsev parti¬
sans in howling down the appeal of
Mr. Watson in the State Conven¬
tion last week, is one thing over
which we will have an accounting
two years hence.
The Wilkinson county steal, rep¬
tile like, has crawled’ into the
Dorsey political household, and has
colled itself and Is ready to strike
the weakling ingrates who are cring
intr in its shadow.
Had It not been for Watson, Hugh
Dorsey would be to day a second
grade practicing attorney in the em¬
ploy of The L. & N. Kailway.
Any common justice court lawyer
in the state could have convicted
Leo M. Frank,
Public sentiment is what did that
job.
The biggest job was to prevent a
lynching during the trial.
We have said it before:
There is nothing to Hugh Dorsey
outside of a reputation gained in the
trial of the Frank case,
A state wide delegation of Dor¬
sey’s own choosing hissed Mr.
Watson’s name in The State Con¬
vention, and refused to hear his
appeal.
Their action is an endorsement of
the Wilkinson county election steal.
It can’t bo oonstrued in any other
light.
Bull Bill Burwtjl acted as the
^Tiiof er ecuUoue..
There may bo bigger rascals in
Georgia than bushy headed Bur
well, but we seriously doubt if there
is another li8lf so rotten.
When old llushy Head began to
shape his porcupine locks over The
Convention the Dorsey weaklings
began to run to cover.
He made ’em slap the face of the
man who made Dorsey Governor.
They were tike c ay in the pot¬
ter’s bauds.
He molded ’em to’l tt his own
vessel. i
Outside of Bunvell, it was the
weakest delegation that ever as¬
sembled on a similar occasion in
Georgia.
They were about on a par with the
man whom they nominated fur the
United States Senat >.
Lots of good cLiver fellows In The
Convention, but The State would
have been just as w\ 11 off if they had
stayed at home.
There to fill space and do what the
WATCH OUT, VOTE-BUYERS!
Washington, D. C.—President
Wilson today expressed satisfaction
in signing the Gerry Bill, making
. it A FEDERAL OFFENSE to
bribe voters in the election of sena¬
tors or rcpieseutatives.
His pleasure was expressed in the
following letter to Senator Gerry,
made public today ;
* My Dear Senator :
I have taken real satisfaction in
signing Senate Bill 343, which
makes it a federal offense TO AT
TEMPT TO INFLUENCE ANY
VOTER BY BRIBERY,* EITHER
AT A PRIMARY OR AT A
Lieutenant Brewster Killed In France
Atlanta.—Lieut. Eldon F. Brewster,
son of Col. P. H. Brewster, has been
slain ln battle, this information reach¬
ing his father in a telegram from the
war department, stating that Lieuten¬
ant Brewster was killed Jn France ln
action on July 18.
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Entered as Second Class Matter Every Friday at the Post-Office at Harlem, Ga.
HARLEM, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER l. 1918.
bosscss told them to do.
Governor Dorsey has either d<
serted his best political friend, or
Ills own bunch have no respect for
his wishes.
They can run on after old porcu
pine headed Btirwell if they want
to do so, but'‘they’ll iimi out who
their m n mm in is when
tune cotiles. , ,,
Burwell didn't want the lid puli
ed otf of the Wilkinson county
c.ictit u wti,,n n steal.
Me knew that the embers of those
, bmned , . ballots ,, , at , T Irwin ton , contain- , .
ed evidence sufficient to 1 fill'll ten
the distance , between . , his . man Bn- „ .
day, and Washington, D. C. for a
, hundred , million miles, a chasm , too
wide for Carl Vinson to leap.
Bushy ' Head knew that the elec
tion steal , . '1 he Tenth ,,, , would , ,
ill not
bar looking into
It It mioht might if-ml send some enmn nt of i ha - , bench- u
men to a place \ V, where the dogs *
couldn , . ,. t . hark at'em.
Couldn’t stand in the light of a
foursquare and impartial invcsii
‘Nation
Bent It back to the Tenth District
Congressional Executive.
To the Committee that was mold
ed iu Carl Vinson’s partisan con
volition.
,, Created , , , to serve his political .... , ends, , .
Whose highest ambition is to
.hound at the heels of Tom Watson.
right of '
wrong i ’’
bore „ sworn and , fore , prejudiced. ■ .
Watson wataim would would get net about Ml.,>nt the the same same
degree of comfort before this tri
. bunal . as an angel , would , , in . turning .
up the charred and soot bedraggled
pillars of hell looking fora pitcher
of ice water.
One would be as unthinkable as
the rueomei. other
Old Bushy called on The Conven
Hon tion to to scratch eenteh diit li.-t „„„ over ,<•„ t..e Tnn.l, tenth
District steal, and they did as he in
structed , , , them , , to do. .
If Mr. Watson will take the ad«
vice of his friends he will run u lot
of political ingrates to cover some
two years hence.
“Vern .Yeio hddled fiddled while Willie itonu Rome hum burn
ed.” At The State Convention
.. the a\er.igedelegate , , . trembled , , , , while , ,
Burwell howled
„ Bur.vell evidently .. .. called ,, , out'1 , he
Wilkinson Countv Fire Deonrtmert ^ 'I -
or he never could have lrigh e’ied
tile me delegates ueit„(Uts into in.u siuuny stultifying ing t iiiem hem
sel ves.
GENERAL ELECTION FOR
SENATOR OR REPRESENTA¬
TIVE IN CONGRESS. I uui
sorry to say that such a bill was
vety much needed. Experience in
;he , last , election , and , . that
m many
preceded it i had . demonstrated , . . . only ,
too clearly the importance of pul
ting the federal power iu commis
sion against the prosesses of
ruption at elections. The depart
ment . of r justice . will this .
use power
to the utmost limit and legitimate
exercise and I want yon to
how much I appreciate your per
soual connection with the measure. ”
Kaiser Owns Liberty Lean Bend.
The kaiser owns a Liberty Loan bond,
purchased for him by Gustavus Rem
nk, Jr., Phtla ’ *lphla attorney. Eemak
was closing up a German estate and
found $60 due the Imperial German
government. He placed $50 In a Lib-
1 / bond, to be used against Its own-
0. H, WILLIAMS, OF DUBLIN, ANNOUNCES
CANDIDACY FOB UNITED STATES SENATOR
.0 TUTS PEOPLE OP GEORGIA
I «m a cahdidate for the United
States Senate to succeed T. W. Hard¬
wick and to defeat W. J. Harris.
in a letter to Clark Howell, Presi¬
dent Wilson asked the people of Geor¬
gia to vote for Harris. In a telegram
’ W. ,1. Harris. President Wilson as¬
to
sured the people of Georgia that the
Government would not interfere with
our cotton and upon this political and
moral contract the people of Georgia
nominated W. J. Harris for U. S.
Senator, well knowing that he was a
> weak man indeed for this high office,
and was not the choice of the people,
but the fiasco of the President.
We, had faith in President Wilson’s
promise to protect cotton planters
acainst the spinners and foreign speculation
cf the North and of coun
tries, but in three days after Harris
wa- nominated on this issue, Presi
dent Wilson on the Hth day of Sep
WuYo
cotton situation, stabilize grades and the
distribution, and if necessary in
opinion cf this unfriendly fix board of
Yankees to the South, to the price
cf cotton and place it under Govern
nM , nt control
Cotton dropped from 35 cents to 29
cents tier pound; millions were lost
to us a nd thousands of people have
been bankrupted sacrificed'ami ruin
ed. The political and moral President contract Wil*
made with Harris ar.d
,f,een P ie of broken Georgia fndTvoid, now and'the free to act
are
and her vote as they please in the Novem
election for a United States Sen
atcr. If tlle President had kept faith
with us ou this promise all the pao
pie in Georgia world'be glad to carry
the Pre.-Hlent if, did l not « e t keep his pnim.
lse he made m that telegram to Har
SsloyVte Fh^Im*®tUrVc
tion i( (hey do not resent it and elect
5P. Independent Senator: and fight
this umust raid outrageous move on
f h® P aia ot the Administration to sac
fmefrn tr^e ai d "unfrienffiy interesL
'* f p r 0I '?- oppose it with all
Ttfe termite cf G^rlut arTwith me
an< * the l°ud-mouth politicians, un
scrupulous lie newspapers will and fool powers
to c.an not and not them
» on the first Tuerday in Xovem
. Mr. WHspn Is a, “»* great. nre?i< f befl , etm l A<.
? r t *. l v ? d L inc e tu t J le *(? i ays of
v. the w Baptist, ,, He holds , , the reins ,
£ the as oth /' r ’'>»
has ever held them When > pops
the whip the wheels tun^ ;j£ the
traces break, and we are with him
whole soul and body in the winning
1 war; ^ no ws *w°^i n £ 9*
the cotton conditions in . the South. 4
He should not hurt us now if he
right ? to ot dictate J? e , lp . us J the n 1914, local and politics has no of
Georgia against our judgment and
our interests, if President,
Wilson . has not made another politi
cal promise with the powers to be to
sacrlflce 0U S c ° t t° t } for political pref
erence in . doubtful sections for the
November election, and cares for the
!r- ter ® st ° f the people of Georgia and
the South who have served him and
his party as faithfully as a slave
could serve his master for fifty-three
years, why don’t he settle this cotton
one day and save us millions of dol-
8 a ?u vexation of spirit.
All . n the world knows this Admtnis
’ s ®S a > ns t the cotton market,
The farmers of the South are being
made philanthropists of to finance
tIle cofton heed oil mills and other
great There is interests but one reason unfriendly for this—wo to us.
have been solid for one party until
have no political standing in na
tional affairs. Shall we keep our
“ eads in sam<i yoke? If so, we
deserve no better. ,
No farmer in Georgia has been able
to sell a ton of cotton seed since the
September primary. They are scat¬
tered from the gins back to the farm¬
ers, the thousands, piled in heaps all and are rotting of by
on account un¬
just discriminations against the farm¬
er' at the most critical time in the
history of our being and the protest
of Democratic Senators seems to be
of no avail.
The Macon Telegraph and some
other newspapers in Georgia that
either know or care nothing of these
conditions, the have continually advocat
ed price fining of cotton, but after
1 made my announcement on this is
sue, John W. Bennett, of Waycross,
in preparing ‘‘Little Willie’s’’ speech
of acceptance at the Macon conven
tion had "Little Willie" to say for
the first time that he was opposed to
Government price flxiug on cotton.
J ° ? n f gS? &
b u h
^ t S^llll? but !e ^ h thta h, tart*lKSS
day- he did not say that he op¬
posed 'on as the instructed Goverrnment by President stabilizing Wilson cot
in the Official V. S. Bulletin of Sep
tember 24th.
anything the President favors? op
pose Jonnto. 4e°ap
cott«f 8taHliZinS
^c^mlV^lppo^d^y^TTl ministration In connection with
cotton and cotton the
depress seed is being used
to the price?
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L'/’Y * ;
Dally Thought.
I go on with what I am about as if
there were nothing else In the world
for the time being. That is the secre*
o| all hard-working men.—Kingsley.
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G. H. WILLIAMS,
Of Dublin, Ga., Candidate For
United States Senator
You know and all the Administra
Uoll knows tllat it is the common ta lk
and daily statement in the hotels and
corridors at Washington, in the Cot
tn „ Rvehnnire nf Yew York nmt Yew
^’fo^gn^coumrie^ffiaV^f S
Koes above 35 cents the Government
w ;u take control of it and fix a price?
flon * t vou kr0 that th « CQm mittee
appointed by the Administration to
that 18 contro,ling cotton
of cott.'m mill men, cot
| 0I1 seed oil men, and cotton exchange
^"donTkn^w ffiT'get the Of
ticial U. S. Bulletin issued September
24th. You will see this is true Wash
< n „ ton j, o.ii fnreian »eenu Yew
KnM spinnersand Wallfetraet
of this the 1aV'°ohalrK2
and next crop of cotton,
and - incredible as it now seems, there
are some newspapers and paid agen
cies right here dirty in Georgia advocat
j Ilg the same deal; and, I want
to tell you in no uncertain terms, that
unless the Southern ueonle »qsert
themselve in the most vigorous terms
R will be done.
And when this is done we will be
at the mercy of the spinners and for
e ign agents, just the as we are now at
the mercy of cotton seed mills.
Cotton seed is congested and depress
ed now- cotton win be depressed and
congested then. You can raise no
money on seed now; you could raise
no money on cotton then. You have to
wait on seed mills cotton’ now; you would
have to wait on mills (hen.
Southern banks cannot advance uion
ey on seed now; they tauld not ad
vance money cn cotton then.
jf you had one hundred tons of
seed today and had to pay one thou
to pay the debt, and the same prin
ciple and control will apply to cotton if the piice
is fixed. These conditions
would demoralize all business, wreck
and ruin the South?
Do you know that we live in a free
country and have a right to serve God
according to the dictates of our own
conscience and to vote for what and
for whom we please?
The interference with the rights of
the people by taxing tea and the Hos¬
ton disturbance was a mild eneroach
m ©nt of the people’s rights compared
to the present interference with eot
ton.
Just why the spinners and gamblers
should be protected from the effect
of the fourth disastrous crop am! the
exporters for foreign countries se¬
cure cotton at the expense of the
Southern planters I can not see. Brazil
looks after the planters of coffee, and
not the consumers of coffee in Amer
ica.and Europe.
Hut the Democratic party owns the
South by a proscriptive title, and un¬
til the bonds of this peaceable posses¬
sion- are broken and we show some sec¬
tional independence, we will have no
recognition in national affairs, and
will De bartered as weaklings for po¬
litical preference North, East and
faithful West, regardless of our rights or
service to one party. If it is
so now and we bare our backs to
the lash that is being laid on in this
outrageous cotton situation, how much
worse will it be when this world war
iB over and each section must fight
for its respective rights. We will need
business men with guts and gall, grit
and grain to stand for the Interest of
the South and he in position to de¬
mand what is right. If we have a
weakling in the United States Senate
trailing Democracy, only whipped in the into banner line of by solid
judlcal sentiment and Ignorance, pre
will the harvest that wo
reap of same
contempt of barter and sale for politi.
cal preference in more manlv sec¬
tions. If I am elected to the United
States Senate as an independent Re¬
publican, I will have the help and sup
Ad /ortiseme it.
Natural.
’Jqver notice that when a girl is
mcn " r f° R llly?
And tb< n sh ? « oes nnd RCts up to ex
pectntious.—Mciniihls Commercial Ap-
PRICE ONE YEAR $1.50
port of that great national organiza¬
tion in looking after the interest of
the people of Georgia, and 1 promise
you now that if 1 don't do more in
one year than Harris could do in six
years, 1 will resign my job and put
my Let salary back into the treasury.
us see what it costs under the
present conditions to make and mar¬
ket cotton-.
I have one farm of thirty-two plows,
run by twenty-four tenants or crop¬
pers. Eighteen of them while families
and six colored- there are 12S people
in the twenty-four families. It will
cost at the present prices $20.00 per
month each to feed, clothe and in ev
erv way support these people, or a
7°20 BI On'the r W systemVe*
cro pper UimL
lord furnished the land, the stock aud
their feed, the tools and one-half the
fertilizer. He gets one-half that is
made. These thirty-two plows, twent
this ly-four families or 12S people i^aae
year as estimated, 297 bales of
cotton. It takes lhe seed to pay for
^ SrffltS
at 40 cents per pound would be $200.
00 per bale or a total of $59,400; the
nOTJS one half or ° r $29,700. If it ,' has vould cost bl ;
them to live, $30,720, we must get
something out of the pigs, chickens
and vegetables to make good this dif
SM thisWat uS h°i f gh C p°K e d
times, if you pay them less than 40
cents, somebody will and must do
without, while the great majority of
the favored class wallow in the lap
of plenty. Shall this great Democrat
ic Government protect the spinners
whose profits are fabulous and at the
same time depress the producer,
whose burdens are already more than
he can bear?
Our great President has been mis
ied and we are being sacrificed to the
advantage or the New England mills
and Wall Street gamblers. Fifty
cents for cotton today would not be
equal even to the pav of other labor
In the South.
Do you know that a common la¬
borer who worked on a farm in 1914
at one dollar per day of twelve hours
is making $y.00 per day of nine hours
on Government work? Do you know
that negro firemen who worked for
one dollar and fifty cents on rail
ronds in 1915 for twelve hours a day.
are roads now $185.00 being paid by McAdoo’s rail
hours per It'- month for eight
fiS’sr&fff per day? v ou know that all
the campaign of their r.buBS." sira
daten? Do choice candl
mills you know that the cotton
have made 100 per cent since
1914, and the Bibb Manufacturing Co.,
a cotton mill corporation in Georgia,
has increased Its capital stock from
one million to five million dollars
you mffilon know with that surplus the 5 Georgia and profits? ^
Ct farmers
^e a ? 0 f tL* a brow e ind bre r^ses y the
cotton to clothe the world is the only
class that has not made money out
0, t y® war J
T i'«rm.-r'Titt^a , , ... "hlm'fred
end. I am a
plows, raising all the supplies 1 can
to help win the war. I paid more war
tax than any man in my Concession
al District and I did It willingly I
have given more to the Red Cross and
Y. M. C. A. than any man in my coun
bonds* 1 of“evefry^issue
more. I allowed my nineteen
year-old son to go to ’ France and
fig t for b l s country before lie was
called n J and , he is still there doing Ills
bit. I simply mention these things to
show that 1 am no slacker.
if President Wilson needs our cot
to welcome victorous "to take itVe^ra ffiln
not a been shown conclusion, it hut it has
and can not be
necess jry to do this
needs soon this^small the end Tmton of the cro'p^anT'as
as war is in
sight, high this crop of cotton will bring a
price and we will for the first
time In forty years make some money
to pay our debts and improve our
condition, if President Wilson allows
the spinners and gamblers of America
and the European powers, who arc*
anxious for cotton, to take it from us
at prevailing prices, or if he allows
Baruch and his speculative commit¬
tee dent to keep badly talking it down, the Presi¬
is misled or does not ap¬
preciate our interest and faithful ser¬
vice to him and his party. The dam¬
age has already been done, the fight
must be made and neither men nor
narty names should be considered.
Men and parties may come and go,
but principles must stand forever
Let the newspapers have their say,
and the old party leaders abuse me
all they may. The world Is fighting
ror freedom, Georgians must do so,
too, and they must do it from now un¬
til the November election or leave
the yoke of oppression upon their
children s necks for another half cen
tury.
Price fixing of cotton and^wllMntrt
seed will helu the North
the South. The Administration should
not allow the financiers of the North
to levy an indemnity upon the South
fifty years after we have surrendered.
Any man In Georgia who refuses to
vote his protest aftainst this outrage
is a political coward, and should leave,
-Georgia or be disfranchised.
Respectfully. H WILLIAMS.
G- -
Dublin. ~ k,. Ga., „ October „ 12, 1918.
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True and False Freedom.
There are two freedoms —the' false,
where a man Is free to do whut In
likes; the true, where a man Is ?r
to do what lie ought.— Charles King*
ley.
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No. 6.
mm troops
SMASH AUSTRIANS
AIDED 3Y BRITISH FORCES. THE
ITALIANS HAVE CROSSED
THE PIAVE RIVER
GUNS AND PRISONERS TAKEN
Germans Are In Retreat Before The
Army Of General
Debeny
New York.—While both Germany
ami AiMatria are seeking to secure a
cessation of hostilities and Turkey
also is reported to be favorably dis
posed toward peace, the entente allied
,rool ' s on a11 ,lle bat " < ‘ troB \ a al ' 1 ' giv ‘
in S no heed , to peace proposals, but are
continuing without mercy to drive
their foes before them,
And in all the battle zones the al
lies are meeting with marked success.
in France the German battle line is
disintegrating under the vim
u '«ce of the allied offensive; in north
era Italy the Austro-Hungarians are
being forced back by the British, llal
- aDtl , French with , heavy , losses
lans in
men, killed, wounded or made prison
er; near the shores of the Adratic in
Albania the Italians are driving the
Austrians toward the Montenegro
frontier, while in Asiatic Turkey, both
in Syria and Meseopotamie, the British
are fast clearing , . the Turks ... from their
former strongholds,
Although the; Germans in France
and plander , * are s,j11 .... strenuously , , re
sisting the allied attempts to break
their line, they are giving way stead¬
5 UIUlel , th uu unce 01 ,, attacks, ... . in ,
"'e , other theaters there apparently is
not the same disposition to offer stub
born denial of the right of way, except
possibly in the mountain region of
Italy, where an attempt is being made
by the allied forces to open the back
door to Austria.
South of Valenciennos in France,
Field Marshal Haig’s forces, notwith
standing stiff nonoslHon l have lave ,lU -id
vaheed , Hbeir at. line ^ gen eral op
cration zip <
* '-t
waid Mims and Mauheuge In the gen
eral converging movement that is go
ing on bteween Belgium and the re
gion north of Verdun.
P,anB Com a eted For Cam *> Bennin <>
Columbus.—Colonel Games, com
ot Camp a nn 0U " RRS
reservation will include . , 120,
000 acres. Selden Brock company of
St. Louis has been awarded the con
,ract ’ and work wUI beg1n at once ’
° ne bi 8 camp designated as “Fort Ben¬
ning” and two smaller ones will be
constructed. Colonel Eames stated
that , 31 000 men wil1 comprise person
»
nel of the cantonment. Twelve thou
nd 19 - 000 officei T" - s *** a "d f U enlisted T! T™ men.
Tlle school of small arms at Camp
Perry has been absorbed by the in
fanttry school of arms here. The fir t
contingent of „ Camp Perry troo-ps uas
reached here. Colonel Muma and his
S ' aff ma<1 ° the trip through the coun¬
lry ln an autoniol,il(> - The Columbus
infantry school of arms will be by far
the cream of cantonments established
in Araerica ' off ' wl ' s llere t,tate th at
<!ie contract calls for an initial expen
uiture of over fifteen million dollars,
The cantonment is well named “the
West Point of the South.”
FOLKS WE ALL KNOW
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CHgacfS
Gangway 1 The flrebell has Just
Itung and the Volunteer Fireman Is
en route from the Barber Chair -to the
Fire with his Shave only tinlf done.
After he helps drag the Hosecart and
rains his Clothes at the Fire, he will
have Nothing to Do but come back-and
get the Rest of his Shave.