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<5 Mm U 5 ,-4*sst£ 1 s* f : Ml y : ! < 22 mm _ __ THOS. E. WATSON, FOUNDER. 1HE COLUMBIA SENTINEL. Issued Every Monday at Thomson, Ga. Entered in Post Office at Thomson, Ga., as Second Class Matter, Under Art of March 3, 189T. SUBSCRIPTION $1.50 PER YEAR; when sent in clubs of five, $5.00 RATES TO NEWSDEALERS—Three cl*, each, Cash to accompany order. GROVER O. EDMONDKOnTRAWoe ALICE LOUISE LYTLE, Managing Editor. THOMSON, GEORGIA, Dee. 4. 1022. The Senate is no place for a millionaire’s son— nor the millionaire himself. Lots of us found time to he thankful that things hadn’t been any worse for us. Short skirts to stay in Haiti, says news item. Yep; and they will sliil be made of (grass, as per usual. * # * # The world will lend a willing car, any (Jime. to any one proposing a plan to “lessen the cost of living.” * # Vf The book written by the former German fairer German ^ is money selling is at commanding. the same low mark the * Air. Newberry loaves his seat in the Sen¬ ate with a more intimate view of himself than Id bad when he entered it. . .... .. those who didn t vote for her. , tM be wedding ... ot ..... Miss V oote , Air. w .Jump, to bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, last week was probably a high stepping affair. firms ought to make bids for the name. Mr. Obregon, of Mexico, is the spread of Bolshevism in his country; fJ inks his own brand should suffice the Root f lexers , Convention . passed strong solutions of sympat'hj for tile defeated A Distend- for to lum they owe their wealth. * ’ * The trouble with so many of those mat ii monial wrecks is: what looked like “temnera jronl ” l.fd'mv I,; ‘ m .,, P i ' ' v’ ’ ' 1 * <l ° ni l ,0I arterwaid. . | Isn’t it iptcer how mad some of us gel when wc hear that somebody has said of the very thing wc meant to say of that ' MK both .’ In South Dakota even the jurii arc “snorts”, A deck of cards was *‘(' 111 ,” r0 eeytlv by one of them, to determine the sen tom ■' in u nuirdet ease. l-n t m ueet how soiiH 1 of the former “ty iaiii.ie.il i n.eus arc succeeded by reformers "’’ * '! :i1 , ’ 1 *: Biriner 1. R. s three ways troni tlm nmhllo alter less than six months of ruling? Senator La I’ollette, in his proposed pai ty, will evidently find it composed of al most an even 50-50 proportion of tin- two old parties- and the same old rows will go on imder the new mime. Yer> serious article came nmler our eye tiie cutjtli'd: “Right to Existence Earned by Dog.” And ninety-nine and a half, per cent of ii,s agree that some dogs have more right to Unit existence, than some men. THE COLUMBIA SENT»v*L. THOM'OV, GEC~OTA. A LITTLE MORE OF THE SAME. Last week this department was devoted to a sort of warmed over discussion of several matters relating to politics generally, and the effect some of the things would have on the country women particularly. This week I would like to make the of the County Unit Plan loom as large as pos¬ sible to those of you who live in the country, or in districts other than cities. We must not forget, when we think of pol¬ ities “in bulk”, that city people arc more or loss indifferent*to State ollicials; most of the icily dwellers are not tax payers, as we country people are. They live in rented houses; they | cat canned food; they buy ready-made clothes, mostly (and a sight of ’em, it seems to the average country woman), and the only really aggressive political women, are the club wom¬ en, who are able to give so much of their time to dub affairs, because of the lightness of . their household duties. 1 have lived in the country, and I know what it is to: Get my week’s wash out on the line before dinner on Monday; I Get in wood from a wood-pile that suited the man who put it at the spot it was placed, but who had not measured the distance from iny cook stove; Drawn water from a pump that was placed with the same consideration (ho woodpile was; Laten the things wc had tamed until I hated the sight of a sweet-potato, or an egg, and wanted to choke the chickens, because I wanted a piece of fresh beef, for a change, and could not afford to buy it; Made over, turned, dyed and otherwise furbished my drosses until I knew better than tbo man who wove the goods, how many tbreads ,, , there ,, wmc, , w«i\, .• in the , • stud , , V on.' i ; Made hats by patterns from the Ladies Home Journal than widen nothing braver he cited of a woman; Taken snubs and pity—even though I had a college degree tucked away iu a I wa- poor and countrified. And DOW, if you country wc 5 lc will all haiid together, we can “get ov 2 U for tlungs 1 . have I limned—and . , which i every one ot .. >ou has sntiered. Once t went to a convention of Danes whose sole claim to fame was, they had num bored among their aneestoisome who were ot the same country class so many Georgia men and women are; these dames wore decoration: and pins, and badges, but they had gotten (long wav from the simple manners of the an cestors who were the basis of their member . • ,s J, B And this convention wasn’t held in Cana¬ da, either. One woman stood as much of it as she could, and when she rose to speak, this is what she said: i i I’m sorry I hadn't any grand fathers or great grand fathers that would give me the right to join vour association; I had some rein but j ainl over , )(;e n able to get a reduction of imv taxes, or the cod of the school books for children, and I’ll bid you all good cvenin > , ’’ ' -md she left That describes to me, just what many WASHINGTON MOTES OF INTEREST. By Fred Pace. Washington, D. ('.— When Thomas F. Bayard, Democrat, look the oath of office as Senator from Delaware on November 20, for I the short , term oxmrinfi- MarHi ,1 4 mwf i> ha V ' ' iu vn , u .„ a ,j *• n 'm-HoHtv’to . r *\ T^he , t‘on»re^ional ” ' majontj anne arrive at Hit ' b. d ;^ H . , en 0i J K ^ R , 301 ’ , * , f ‘!' JU J 111 i • ® 11 , tl,e ^bilH-mHiioziaire, . . Coleman I da Pont, was serving by appointment, and also I for the long term of six years. He defeated ( ] u j n a close race Incidental! >. Bayard was the sixtl member 1 of his family ( (biited St tes Sen c serve as a & a tor from Delaware His wife was a du and they have had their senatorial connection in iTeent years. Both Henry A. du Pont and T. Coleman du Pont have served in the Senate i and the wives of Senators Willard Saulsbury and T. Coleman du Pont were both du Pouts and also sisters. The duPonts, as is well known, head rival factions of the Republican party in Dela -ware and when one faction does not nominate the ticket, it goes over and llfllps elect the Deni ocratie candidates. This year F. B. duPont ,. oll t r ibuted $(>,100 to Bayard’s campaign fund, j which was all but $25 that he received. A\ T lien Bayard took his seat, the Senate Be publican majority went down from 24 to 22 and after March 4 will go still lower and |tial haps vanish entirely after the next Presiden election. The Democrats and progressive Republi cans at both ends of the Uapitol are wearing smiles since Congress reconvened. Senators Pomerene and Hitchcock were the only Demo crats to lose .their seats in the election but | party made so many gains, their defeats the efforts of the women’s gatherings amount to. It is a splendid thing to print histories of I what our forebears did, but it will be even a ' better thing to keep on doing—or make possi to do—the things those forbears ai*> re¬ membered for having started. So—especially you country women, make a careful study of the County Unit Plan; see] whflt fU it means nlt in Hl the 1 one 0111 matter maUel of or leeishitinn- legislation, rememher , that , each , county interested in is every Bill that passes your State Legislature;* remember that every woman’s vote now, isj exactly the same worth a man’s vote is—but remember also, that you can do even better: than voting, h} keeping uj> with all the tions of (he day, and seeing how many of the improved things arc needed for your State, gnd then “talking it over with your men folks. I I We have assurances now from many bigli, sources, that free school books will he more warmly endorsed at the next Legislature, than the past one had time to do; that’s a good promise. How can you get at the man who forgets, when the Session is called? Get an intimate ami thoroughly intelli gent view of the Initiative, the Referendum and the Recall; what thev liowj j sec cover; see t |,r> will affect the man who has held political office for lerm alter term, and will continue to hold it, drawing magnificent pay from your tax money, unless you get the habit of asking questions and insisting on the answers. * When wc “raised” our children, overv mother of us remembers what a hard matter it Was p, ina iio Jolinnv ‘ wash his asn’l' neck “and be j ]jp Uf ' ] ,. ars » »* ,, v ou V jf y j l0 W wasn i going -oing to 101 j Ulmreh , or school, , , and there was not company at the house. , The average politician and office holder keeps that same state of mind, oilCC he has gotten into office—or gotten the man he want into office. < l I He thinks wo forget—just as Johmiv hop- 1 W( . would ndsome^landed forget to look at the neek iml ’ u ' * 11,11 " u,llc liuintu anu narritu moineis would forget, or get tired with the ever lasting ipreachment of “wash-your-noek-and-baek-of * * your-ears. But unless we do keep Oil preaching, and watching, and making the things appear on politi-j the! political “> deck that were promised on the a i platform, we are going to keep on seeing* Sorry country school houses, and big -cliool book bills- ' I ' High taxes, and . nothing ... . the of , . in way in-: nrovemeats for the country people; j Low prices for farm products, and high Cotton still the best gamble Wall Street ever welcomed — and protection to every one connected with it — but the farmer who raises it; The country counties still leading in illit numbers. So—this will be sufficient ground for you ] to fight to retain your Count v Unit Rian, aud] I to tight to get, the Initiative,'Referendum aiid Recall. A. L. L. not dampened the general joy of the Demo crats. ,, ? m , . ^ enators , 1UoC ra u * Up‘ T Presidential . . liglitning* , # rods if. they t6r l;U(1,>rW00<1 can. lias Sena ° r Alabama always his bglitnmg rod up and Senator Robinson of Ar-| kansas ia expected to receive at least favorite j non instructions. Pomercne’s defeat of course )mnclum1 his pres ‘ i d ontiaI boom Senator-elect , , , Ralston , of , Indiana, a former .Governor , of the State, who defeated ? teml, e “ ator Beveridge, the is expected to he a ( ;on-! '. v invention as a sort .of a vcv,vai of llle , <:i eveJand type. Then with all ’./ B( JjJ is ^ v'illill ’ ’’ t y ° lected » Other Democrats beside Senators will he pushed at the next national convention. W’jl bam Gibbs McAdoo and former Governor jCox of Ohio have friends all over tlm country to push their claims. The Michigan Democrats will probably instruct for Henry U°rd, who let it he known tliat lie was Senator 1 own,send, hence his defeat by former Governor Ferris, a Democrat, Then Tara aiany will do anything within its power for denominational Gov.-elect _“A1” Smith, cannot who, probably, the for reasons, get nomi nation. The Republicans will probably have to swallow Harding. The Old Guard will continue j to control the nominating machinery and cannot repudiate Harding and nominate ''Iso, even though he may have about as much enthusiasm for a second term nomination as Mr. Taft, who, as has well beeu said, went out of office by unanimous consent. Senator Newberry, whoso elect mu The Sniffles Are Busy, Again . Sire. A. L. Lytle, Managing Editor Columbia Sentinel, Thomson, 'Dear Ga. Madame: Are you following in the foot¬ steps of Mr. Watson to the extent that you will pub¬ lish the letters of his admirers and followers as he die. when he was with us? If you are, will you please an¬ swer the following questions: Why did Mr. Edmondson absent himself as a member of The Sentinel force? What caused the “strained relations” between Mr. Watson and Mr. Edmondson? Did Mr. Edmondson use the former office as Sec retary to Mr - Watson to promote his (Edmondson's) g(lins t0 6UCh an extfint that Mr . Watson had to repudi ate him? What was the matter with Mr. Edmcmdson when he had to stay in the hospital for weeks at the time? ls.it not a fact that Mr. Watson helped Mr. Squad- Ed mondson socure the position with the “Flying ron 10 get rld of him? run ,, publish these questions and answer them and we, Watson's followers, will believe you are sin¬ cere to his principles. Very truly, T. H. CRAWFORD. P. S. The daily papers will publish the facts if you don’t caro to do it. T. H. C. MR. EDMONDSON'S REPLY. Thomson, Ga., Nov. 24, 1922. Mr. T. H, Crawford, Galontoii, Georgia. Dear Sir: Your <letter to the Managing Editor, received. You ask us to publish your questions, and it gives us pleasure to let your letter appear in this paper, in the same column with my reply. While your letter bears all the car-marks of per SO nai animus and private grievance, I nevertheless an swer your inquiries in all good temper and will try to relieve your curiosity, In the first place, there were no “strained rela (ions" between Senator Thomas e. Watson and the writer °t this letter, and the article to which you refer f , * tactl f stated “ mi ' ch - and dUoted of the last ® tters that Senator Watson wrote, in which he ox p ‘ ain ® d to mo t! * e c ° ra P laint of M r - Rose of Atlanta. My reason for leaving Washington City was be cause the Prohibition Department gave me a position with twice the salary of my Secretaryship. As soon as I received the commission, I took it to 11,6 Senate, and gave it to Senator Watson to read. ,le read u * and a s ree( i with me that r ought to accept it; for one year - Y °" r Motion that I atempted to use my posi ,.' tl0U Wlth 8enator A ' atson to advance my personal nm You haven ’‘ the 8,,ghtest proof t0 support the charge, and if you did not youraelf Invent it, an enemy of mine did invent it, and he knew that it was utterly false. Your charge that Senator Watson aided me in ob tal! »lng the Prohibition appointment, is equally false, From what source do you obtain your information? That ls a P erllneiu inquiry, and as I am treating you fairly ’ why dont yo11 ,urnish “ e the name of y° ur ' &enator w»* Watson was not on good , , teima with ..... the Prohibition De^tment, due to a disturbance at Sa vannah, and he ccuid not have aided me, and he did not know that the Prohibition Department had my " a “® m uu ^ er lh con l si ^ ati g 0 t n t UIlt i 1 I . t took the commlMlon Going back to Mr. Rose, who is Internal Revenue Collector for Georgia, 1 will furnish you the whole truth about the incident, and Mr. Rose will bear me ° ut in every statement l make about It, One of Mr. Rose’s enemies, in Atlanta, called his lady Secretary, by telephone, and reported to her that Grover C. Edmondson was talking. The impersonator informed the lady that she knew certain secrets of the office held by Mr. Rose and that the Columbia Sentinel desired those secrets. The lady reported it to Mr. R° se . und he took it for granted that the impersonator told tho truth . und bc then believed that the man who la,Ked t0 hls tlerk was G rove1 ' c - Edmondson. Mr. Rose wrote to Senator Watson and requested him to withhold any attack on his department until Mr. Rose himself couid see the Senator. Acting on the -mpulse of the moment, Senator Watson published the short notice you saw in this newspaper. Ab soon as Mr. Rose learned that I had been mis¬ represented, he wrote a second letter to Senator Wat¬ son and informed him that a mutual enemy had cooked uq the conversation over the telephone, and that both himself and hls lady secretary had beep deceived, and that I liad beeu grievously wronged. ° n the same da >' that Mr. Rose’s explanation ‘-cached Senator Watson, ho wrote me a personal letter in which he ex » ressed e ieat sorrow for tbe wror >s perpetrated upon me by the Atlanta crook whose place ° r hid,ns is In tbo Candler building, At To r’ T enemies in the Candler building, and they were using outrageous methods to injure Mr. Rose personally and discredit upon his administration of the office of CoUcctoroflnternai Revenue. dse ^ 1 my was name, m bavan and , nab knew at nothing about T .u it until Mr. Senator Watson's letter is in my possession, and you can see it for yourself anytime you are here in Thomson. •j As to the charge you bring against me for having to 8 i’°» d a couple of weeks in a Washington hospital, 1 wi " Kay that 1 was therc for treatment for aa internal di#order fr T whi cl ’, 1 8Uffered bofore soins t0 Wash - - 8 a ZLTJJ 1 S 'LJ,' ™ ™T* 0D W,,gW * ° f Au> ’ • If you gain any satisfaction from tha l'rovidenUal misfortunes of a fellowman, who has done you no harm, and who has never ceri you, you are welcome to it, and you can make the most of it. Ues,)o.:t(uUy, GROVER C. EDMONDSON. -votes cost his friends, Senators Townsend, Kellogg and Poindexter, their seates, has “re signed” his seat, in the Senate. With this resignation, Harding loses an other friend. The Michigan Senator w$s a frequent caller at the White House and the President stated last winter when the effort was being made to unseat Newberry, that ho thought “very highly of Mr. Newberry.”
