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4 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. r- (i saassss^ ♦ ) 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? _____ 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. ■ -M ■ M ' V ' i. ™ 4 k SJV. Bp „ ; m v ii Pi: I " /! I M « • wm 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. T~ 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. % ? l\ 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 l z Ff i -c f LX\ / L _ J < 0 ? 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.