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THE RECORD.
Entered at tlie nostortlce at Wrights¬
ville as second class mail inntter.
THE RECORD PUBLISHING CO.
OFFICIAL ORGAN JOHNSON CO.
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$ Months 50c. 5 Weeks 10c.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
Bt H. P. Blount.
Elsewhere in those columns will
be found an article anent small
cotton mills, which should be care¬
fully road and digested by every
citizen of this county. There is
plenty of wealth in Johnson county
to build a2,000-spindlo cotton fac¬
tory nnd not he folt by the invest¬
ors in tho enterprise from the very
start.
To this could ensily he added
the necessary machinery for mak¬
ing oil from tho cotton seed, and
the meal therefrom would find a
ready sale at home for fertilizing
the next crop.
Hosiery is now manufactured in
Georgia, sold to Northern dealers,
and by them resold and reshipped
to Georgia merchants. I am reli¬
ably informed that they are sold
in Wrightsville.
Let’s call a meeting at once, and
organize a stock company, and get
to work at once upon the building
of a cotton factory in Johnson
county. We have the means and
a surplus of business talent. Do
we lack the required energy?
A holocaust of accidents and vio¬
lent deaths were recorded in the
columns of Wednesday's papers.
Ex-Congressman David G. Colson,
a prominent Kentucky politician
and a colonel in tho Spnnish
American war, shot and killed
three men and wounded a fourth
one in a shooting affray in Frank¬
fort, Ky., on Tuesday.
Capt. J. W. Murphay, whom the
editor has known for forty years,
shot and killed P. T. Shutze head
bookkeeper of the Third National
bonk in Columbus, Ga., and then
committed suicide. Captain Mur
phey—Wes. Murphey, as his inti¬
mate friends called him—was cash¬
ier of tho same bauk, and was at
cue time nssistnnt state treasurer
of Georgia.
Wrecks nt sea, fires, drowning,
oxplosions, otc., ad nauseam, and
one wonders what tho old world is
coming to.
A meeting of the stockholders of
the chatauqun association was held
Wednesday evening aud it was
definitely decided that a chatauqun
will he held, President Cook says
the enterprise will be pushed vigo¬
rously and that it is meeting with
enthusiastic Enpport. He will an
nouuce his appointments on the
following committees next week:
Mnsic, Programme, Transporta¬
tion, Talent, Advertising, Institute
work, Homes aud Reception.
The Dalton Herald is, without
question, one of the best populist
papers in Georgia, and should be a
regular weekly visitor to every
populist home in the state, and it
would do the republicans and dem¬
ocrats a world of good to read and
digest its ably written editorials.
The Franklin County Press, pub¬
lished at Carnesville, Ga., by Edit¬
ors A, B. Pierce and R. B. Smith,
is a wide-awake populist paper and
a credit to its bright editors, We
need such a paper in a hundred
Georgia counties.
I have a letter from a friend in
Havana, Cuba, in which he says:
“ Cuba is the richest, healthiest,
and best country to live in on the
globe.” ‘ Anybody would know
that mau has never lived in Wire
grass Georgia, or he would have
modified that statement.
We call the attention of our
readers to the new time table of
the Wrightsville and Tennille rail¬
road which appears in this issue of
The Record.
We need direct legislation by
the people to correct the abuses of
representative government. In
some countries of the world they
have long had a systom of this
kind. They cni! it Initiative and
Referendum, meaning that the
people shall in certain emergen¬
cies have'tlie power to initiate leg
islation and shall have the power
to have legislation that already
oxists referred to a vote of tho peo¬
ple, This system has worked mar¬
vellously well where it has been
tried, and “ Wo must have a politi¬
cal pnrty in our country with suf¬
ficient devotion to free institutions
and democratic government to es¬
tablish it here,” said Gwv, Aitgeld
in his speech in New York last
year. It is not a question to spec¬
ulate ab<5ut, It is not a chimeri¬
cal idea. It ; s simply a qnestiou
of self-preservation.
The fierce commercialism of the
age, which has tended to enthrone
the dollar and enslave the man,
has lowered tho standards and has
covered the land with corruption
until corrupt concentrations of
money, wailded by unscrupulous
men, have acquired such a com¬
plete control of tho governments—
municipal, state and national—
that tho people are almost help¬
less. Laws destructive of their in¬
terests are passed by bribery, and
law* necessary for their protection
ase kept off the statute book by
bribery. To meet this new and
unfortunate condition it is neces¬
sary that the people he given the
power in certain emergencies to
legislate direct, either by popular
vote lo put specific acts upon the
statute book, or to declare certain
specific actB already on the statute
book to be null and void. This
would destroy the business of bri¬
bery, because it would render the
fruits of bribery worthless. No
corporation wcmld buy a legisla¬
ture or a city council if the acts
of that legislature or couucil could
bo nullified by the people.
Spanish soldiers aro said to be
offering their services to England
to do battle against Boer liberty.
Spaniards have always opposed
liberty in every form. After the
licking we gave them it would ap¬
pear that they might “ lay low and
say nothing” for awhile.
Matters in South Africa have
turned out very differently from
what was expected. The civilized
world looks askance on the British
resort to dum-dum bullets, while
the “ ferocious ” and uncivilized
Boers have surprised the world by
their humanity and courtesy lo
their enemies.
Ye editor has been sojourning at
tho Lovett House siuce coming to
Wrightsville, and Mrs. Lovett fed
him so mush aud finely that he
succumbed to the effects of over¬
feeding. Mrs. Lovett combines
rare ability as a hostess with her
many geuial graces of mind and
heart.
The editor spent last Sunday at
the hospitable home of Hon. and
Mrs. C. S. Meadows, Mr. Mead¬
ows is building a residence on his
property at Donovan station, and
contemplates moving into it dur¬
ing the present year.
A scheme to operate all the ice
plants in the Southern cities by a
powerful syndicate is being per¬
fected. Gentlemen, it is simply a
question whether you, the people
—the public—will owu the monop¬
olies or allow the monopolies to
owu you. Which shall it be?
Twenty per cent, advance in the
price of hosiery was made by the
knitting mills of the South in At¬
lanta on Jaunary 11th. There
were 22 mills represented, and if
we had a mill, as we should have,
we could be sharing the profits on
stockiugs and socks instead of
having to stand the loss.
Atlanta will submit the question
of issuiug $500,000 of bonds to a
vote of tb# people—Referendum—
at an early day.
The 1896 vote m Georgia was
266,000, while those who refrained
from voting numbered 237,000.
Total, 503,000. About one-fifth of
the voters of the state elected
rulers, and yet we are told by de¬
signing politicians and papers that
Georgians are governed by majori¬
ties. It’s false! We are not gov¬
erned ; we’re ruled by corrupt mi¬
norities.
It seems really providential that
when ati inferiror race—like ihe
Boers and Fillipinoa, for instance
—needs lacking after, a superior
race always turns up to undertake
the job.
The author of “ The man with
the Woe ” says he knows a woman
with 100 pairs of silk stockings.
He should now write “The woman
with the Hose.”
The democratic journals are a
good deal exorcised over the part
Hanna will take in the campaign
this fall. The more apposite ques¬
tion is, what part does he want?
There is talk of Schley for vice
president with Teddy Roosevelt as
a counterbalancing war hero on
the old party tickets.
The Richmond, Va., Times is dis¬
turbed over the question of the pc
litical independent and puts forth
tho following wail:
“ We believe that the independ¬
ent voter is getting to be more and
more a factor in all elections—na¬
tional, state and local. Americans
are a thinking people, and every
year the list of those who follow
their own convictions, regardless
of party dictum, grows larger.
But this is peculiarly true of mu¬
nicipalities. City residents have
learned that a municipal corpora¬
tion is largely a business affair,
and that tho voters are as so many
stockholders.”
That editor doubtless made that
discovery through a losi of sub¬
scribers. When a man gets inde¬
pendent of political bossism he is
apt lo crave something better to
read than the bosses furnibh him.
Tho following from the Boston
Post concemeng elections in 1898
is worthy of preservation :
“ The western elections ought, to
open the eyes of the trust promo¬
ters and the magnntes of industrial
combinations to the real facts of
the situation. What gave Carter
Harrison his great majority , in
Chicago? What elected Mayor
Jones, of Toledo, running inde¬
pendent against regular nomina¬
tion denied him through the influ¬
ence of corporate combinations?
What enabled the Pingree faction
to carry Detroit? What today is
ngitatiug the great state of New
York and overshadowing all other
legislation at Albany? The de¬
mand of the people that all corpo¬
rations enjoying public franchises
shall pay a tax on such privileges.”
Which reminds us to remark
that the demand is still being re¬
iterated by the people and the Peo¬
ple’s Party, notwithstanding their
political reverses and the wars be¬
gun and still being prosecuted to
distract public nttentiou from the
real questions at issue between the
people and plutocrats.
Hi
The Pittsburg, Pa., Post has this
to say of Socialism: “ Socialism
aS it is making rapid progress in
American cities is not of the shag¬
gy haired and ankempt character
so often allied with anarchy—in
fact, our socialism is the opposite
of anarchy. It mear.s the wider
exercise of the powers of govern¬
ment rather than the wreck of all
government. As coming to the
front in our oities it stands for the
doctrine that the municipality or
the state or the nation should own
and operate certain public utili¬
ties, such as street railways and
electrio power iu light, heat aud
transportation.”
Well, well, well 1 and we have
thought all these yeras, ou account
of what Tom Wataou and other
wise(?) meu have said, that So¬
cialism was a hydra-headed mou
ster with cloven hoofs and a dag
der-pointed tail, going about “ like
a roariug lion seeking whom it
might devour.” How ignorant we
smart folks are, to be tore!
Send in 10 subscribers and $7.50
and get The Record for yourself a
year free.
SHERIFFS SALES.
GEORGIA— Johnson Co.
Will be sold before tlie court house
door in the town of Wrightsville, Ga.,
on the 1st Tuesday in Febrnary, 1900,
between the legal hours of sale, one
lot of land lying in the town of
Wrightsville, feet Ga., measuring forty-five
one way and thirty-five feet the
other way, adjoining lands of Lee
Warthen on the north, of J. W. A.
Crawford on the east, of public street
on the south and of V. 11. Robinson ou
the west. Levied on as the property
of T. J. Brantley & Bro. under and by
virtue of a justice court fl. fa. in favor
of W. C. Tompkins & Co. vs. T, J.
Brantley & Bro„said property pointed
out by defendants in fi. fa. Legal no¬
tice given defendants Levy in 0. fa., this,
Jan. 4th, 1900. made and re¬
turned to me by J. W. Williams, L. C.
of said county.
V J. W. Rowland, Sheriff J. C.
GEORGIA— Johnson Co.
Will be sold before the court house
door in the city of Wrightsville, John¬
son county, Ga., within the legal hours
of sale on the first Tuesday in Feb.,
1900, the following property, to-wit.:
1,500 pounds of lint cotton, levied on
as the property of D. M. OutlRW to
satisfy one mortgage fi. fa. issued from
the superior court of Johnson county,
Ga., in favor of R. T. dfc E. A. Lovett
vs. D. M. Outlaw. Property pointed
out in said fi. fa. This, Jan. 9th, 1900.
J. W. Rowland, Sheriff J. C.
GEORGIA— Johnson County.
Will be sold before the courthouse
door in the city of Wrightsville, John¬
son County. Gn„ within the legal hours
of sale on the first Tuesday in Febru¬
ary, 1900, the following property, to
wit.: 75 acres of land lying and being
in the 1203d district, G. M., of said
county, bounded north by S. M. Norris,
east by James Tbarpe, Levied south and west
by L. S. Powell. on as the
property of 8. M. and J. W. Norris, in
favor of G. W. Cochran and L. C.
Woody vs. S. M. and J. W. Norris, this
Jan. 9.1900.
J. W. Rowland, Sheriff J. C.
GEORGIA—.Johnson County.
Will be sold before the court house
door in the city of Wrightsville, John¬
son county, Ga„ within the legal hours
of sale on the first Tuesday in Febru¬
ary, 1900, the following property, to
wit.: Fifty acres of land, more or less,
lying in the 55th district,G. M., bound¬
ed as follows: G. F. Orr on the north
and east, Charles Wheeler on the west
and W. R. Holder on the south. Lev¬
ied on as the property of G. W. Tapley
to satisfy a justice court fi. fa. issued
from the justice court of the 55th dis¬
trict, G. M., of said county in favor of
Arline & Daley vs. G. W. Tapley, and
written notices given the defendant in
fl. fa. Levy made and returned to me
by Charley L. Claxton, L. C., this Jan.
10th, 1900. W. Rowland, Sheriff J. C.
J.
GEORGIA—JOIINBOS COUNTY.
Will be sold before the courthouse
door in the city of Wrightsville, John¬
son county, Ga., within the legal hours
of sale, on the first Tuesday in Febru¬
ary, 1900, the following property, less, to- ly
wit: 19 acres of land, more or -
ing in the 55th District, Georgia Mili¬
tia, bounded as follows: North by
Uolton’a creek, south by lands of Hen¬
ry Claxton, west by lands of J. M.
Anderson, east by Henry Claxton’s
land, levied on as the property of O. S.
Spence, agent for wife, to satisfy one
tax fl fa., issued from the tax collect¬
or’s office of Johnson county in favor
of 8. J. Moye, tax collector of said
county for the year 1898. This Janu¬
ary the 10th, 1900. Rowland, Sheriff, J.C.
J. W.
GEORGIA— Johnson Countt.
Will be sold here the court house
door in the city of Wrightsville, John¬
son county, Ga., within the legal hours
of sale on the first Tuesday in Febru¬
ary, 1900, the following property, levied to
wit.: Four bales of lint cotton
on as the droperty of D. M. Outlaw to
satisfy a landlord’s lien in favor of R.
Walker vs. D. M-. Outlaw. This, Jan.
10,1900. J. W. Rowland, Sheriff J. C.
Ordinary's Advertisements.
Georgia Johnson County.
Whereas, Elizabeth Powell, adminis¬
tratrix of Bennett Powell, represents filed
to this court in her petition duly she has
and entered on record, that Powell’s
fully administered Bennett
estate, this is is, therefore, to cite, all
persons concerned,heirs and creditors,
to show cause, if any they can, why dis¬
said administratrix should not be
charged from her administration and
receive letter of dismission on the first
Monday In April, 1900. Tbis, Jan. 1st,
1900, J. E. Page, Ordinary, J. O.
Iaw3m
GEORGIA— Johnson co.
Notice is hereby given that James
Cave, as guardian for his minor chil¬
dren, has made application following to this
court for leave to sell the
real estate of his said minor children,
to-wlt.: Sixty acres of land lying G. M., and
being in the 1301st district, of
said county, adjoining lands of R. T.
Williams on the north, Wm. Oliver on
the west, C, T. Bray;on the south and
Mrs. S. M. Cochran on the east. Said
land to be sold for the purpose of edu¬
cating, supporting and maintaining that if
said minor children, and no
good cause be shown to the contrary
leave will be granted said guardian to
sell as prayed for on the first Monday
in February, 1900. This,Jan. 1st, 1900.
J. E. Page, Ordinary J. C
GEORGIA—JoIlNSON CO.
Whereas Jacob HisKs, administrator
of Louis Arline, deceased, represents
to the court in his petition, that he duly has filed ful¬
and administered entered on record, This
ly said estate. is
therefore to cite all persons concerned
kindred and creditors, to show cause,
if any they can, why said administra¬
tor should not be discharged from his
administration and receive letters of
dismission on the 1st Monday in April
1900. Tbis, Jan. 1st, 1900. Ordinary, J.
J. E. Page, C.
Lett all get together in an effort
to build some cotton factories in
Johnson county. What say you?
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T.J. ARLINE, IJ. E. COOK, W. W. COOK,
Pres’t., Vice Prest., Cashier.
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Surplus 4 . 282 . 45 .
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