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THE ENTERPRISE
VOL. 14.
Edwards r swers Overstreet's Card;
Class u ife Wrong, Says Edwards
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Says Overstreet is the Farmers" Friend for
Political Purposes Only—Requests Him
to Publish Letters Reseted to in Card.
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HON. CHAS. G. EDWARDS
“The Man ‘on the Job’ in Washington.’-’
Appearing in Some of las- week’s
papers is a curd from my oppon
ent. It is the rrnkest effort to ar
ray one part of our people against
the other that I have ever read.
It ie the basest appeal to prejudice
that I have* seen in many a day
He starts out “blowing his own
horn” and winds up the Same way
He recites that he has made a
number of speeches. We all agree
that he has. He states that they
have “taken well.” That’s his
side of it and I guess he really
thinks they have. If h has con
vinced no one else with his “hot
air” and “class strife” speeches
that he ought to go to Congress,
he seems to have convinced him
seif. Now, it is a well known
fact that Hon. .1. W. Overstreet
suppcrtrd me for Congress in 1908
against a “co mtrymau” from
Screven county. He then told
people in Bulloch and other coun
ties that “Edwards is a country
man.”
I am the same now as in 1908.
“You can take the man out of tue
country, but you can’t take the
country out of the man.” Every
body in the district knows that I
was born and reared on a farm. I
am proud that my lot was so cast
My father and practically all of
my people are farmers. I own and
run a farm. Practically ail I
have and the interest of al', my \
peop e is in farm lauds and farm-.
A gr* at part of my life work has
be«n to help improve conditions!
for the farmers of the country, i
My recoid shows that my sympa- i
thies are with the great toiling!
masses. Wnile all this is true,l
PEMBROKE, BRYAN COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY MAY 29, 1914.
; yet I would rather suffer Ji-feat
ten times over than to resort to a
■ Campaign that means class strife,
class hatred and n division of our
people, as my oponent is doing.
! Such is not good for our people.
It is not good for our section. We
(.should stand together and pull to
gether for the upbuilding, devel
opment and progress of our sec
' (i .n,
I can hardly believe that my op
' ponent is sincere in his position in
this regard. There is umpiestion- ;
ably more selfishness than sincerity i
on his part. A man who will!
’ build his own political fortune »t(
trie expense of the public good is
certainly not, out to advance iha
pu lie welfare. Overstreet would
' promote his political ambitions by
J bitterly arraying one class of our
people against the other. Now
let’s see if he is sincere. When
he ran against E. K. Overstreet
where did he make his head
(quarters? You will recall that
! the fight was so warm that they
agreed to take up headquarters
out of Screven countv. WeP, E
K. went to Millen and J. W. es
tablished his headquarters in Ba
v.nnah and conducted his cam-
I paign from there. He is in Savan
( nah every *eek and seems to have
! a pretty eood time in the eld town (
and with the people of the city !
yet he goes away and “cuss s ’em •
blue.” There is not an ounce >f!
^sincerity in a ton of his dema
(goguery about “country against!
i the city.” He means it for cam
j paign purposes only. His whole
( record has been on this line. In
(the days when many good men |
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differed with their Democratic
brethren and went into the P >pu
list-party, J. AV. Overstreet was
one of those who bitterly de
nounced them as “fools” “rag-i
tags” and “deserters M That is
one reason why there was so much
bitterness in Screven a. d other
counties, on account of hot headed
men like Overstreet who had
“axes to grind’’ and were not wil
ling to concede to the other fellow
the right to have an opinion of his
own. If you want J. W’s record
on this score you can get it from
almost any Screven county citizen.
He refers to letters written by
certain business men. He puts it
“The Antwerp Naval Stores Co.”
and another “Naval S dies Co.,’’
etc. He knew full well that the
letters he refers to were not from
the companies. Why didn't he be
fair about it! Why did t he
publish the letters? h will
publish the letters you will see
that one is from Maj. W. E.
Coney, a Georgian, and from the
First district, now in Pensacola,
Fla., and is not from, the “com
pany,” as Mr. Overstreet says.
The other is from Mr. J. A. G.
Carson and net from -his ‘‘com
pany.” Both Messrs Coney and
(.’arson are well known and good
business men who hav- tiv n,ter
est of the country at ’’“lit They !
in harm.'"' Tin y hone tl e rgnt to'
write their friend'd Mr Over
street’s friends are' very busy ini
his behalf. If he will publish the'
1 tters to which he refers you will
find there is noti word that would
indicate any attempt to “dictate”
how people should vote. I invite
him to please publish those let
ters. That’s b-en Mr. Over-\
street’s tactics all the way in this
campaign. He has gotten my
record and everything pertaining
to the campaign twisted and has
made many glaring misrepresenta
tions. It is not fair. It is not
right.
Hi- quotes Lincoln, that “You
can’t fool all the people all the!
time.” I am glad that he has
■ found that out and he will find;
lout that he is not going to “fool i
many of the people much of the
time. ”
Now, it is a well known fact |
that Col. Overstreet was a railroad I
lawyer until he got into this cam
paign. N'>w be is a farmer and I
spells it with a big “F,” but he
still swings to that annual pass No. I
426. Do you know of any farmer
except “Free Pass Fet” who are I
riding around on annual railroad
passes? The conductors don’t call
him “Farmer Overstreet,” they
call him No. 426. Ask him to
explain that back salary business,
which is a part of his congressional
record. He has been attacking
and abusing me for eight months!
ior a year. I shall not reply ini
kind for then J would be “s ing-
|ing mud,” too.
I luve been det Jned here at the :
I post of duty and have not had p
;an opportunity to be heard. I ex-1
pect soon to issue an answer to ;
his various unfounded attacks.
He says “too long service often i
renders one careless and m gleet-1
(Continued on Last Page.)
Heavy Investments Being
Made In The Southeast
Columbus, May 28 —The Indus
trial Index says this week:
“The great and mowing pros
perity of the southeast and the
u approached desirab’lity of this
section as a place of residence and
in which to invest and engage in
business is demonstrated forcibly
by developments of the past few
days.
“Florida cities and towns have
voted and sold nearly $2,000,000
of bonds for municipal improve
ments. The banks of Atlanta
have shown the greatest increase
in their clearings for any week in
their history . The banks of Bir
mingham, Ala., have gained more
than $15,000,000 in their clearings
in a year These are but some of
the things that show prosperity in
the Southeast. The president of
the association of Alabama bank
s ers declares that this section is on
the “very morn of a prosperity
never dreamed of before,” and
states facts upon which this
opinion is based.
“The great diversity in con
struction and industrial under
takings and in the development
of resources of the southeast is il
lustrated in the news this week.
Five new corporations formed
with minimum capital st- cks of
! SIOO,OOO each will engage in the
: following lines: Mining, cotton
Vgoodsmaiiufai'tnrije..', and sale >f
Y ea/eMaY. ''arm^nd mweir ri -. y
I “A company has been organ G.-j
.at Birmingham, Ala., with capi
| tai stock of $300,000 to establish
gas plants at various points in
this section
“The new corporations for the
week number twenty-one, with
minimum capital stocks aggregat
Ing $1,061,000.
] “Among the items of construc
tion work to be done as reported
this week are:
“Church buildings, Sanford and
Passa - Grille, Fla.; apartment
houses, Atlanta, Ga., and Daytona
Beach, Fla.: paving, Athens, Ga.,
Decatur, Ala, and Bradentown
and Hastings, Fla ; jail, Emanuel
i county, Georgia; bridges, Troup
county, Georgia; club house, Mo
i bile, Al->.; factory building, Jack
sonville, Fla.; railway freight de
pot to cost $200,000, Mobile, A a.;
!office building, Birmingham, Ala.;
I telephone building, Savannah, Ga.;
! waterworks system, Phoenix City,
| Ain., and Daytona Beach, Fla.;
I sewer system, Cartersville, Ga.;
I paving and sewer and waterworks
systems, South Jacksonville, Fla.;
I school building, Boswell, Ga.; rail
I way passenger and freight station,
LaGrange, Ga.
“Construction contracts have
b en awarded as follows:
“Culverts and bridges, $12,275,
Hillsborough county, Florida;
hotel building addition, Tampa,
I Fla.; steel bridge, SIO,OOO, near
I Reynolds, Ga.; high school build
| mg. darion, Ala.; apartment
! house, Atlanta, Ga ; church build
ling addition, Adel, Ga; sanitary ,
1 sewers,sls,44o, and storm sewers,
$23,348, Bradentown, Ala.; ware
house. Columbus, Ga.
“Industrial plants will be estab-
I lished as follows: ’
l “Gas plant, Griffin, Ga.; gin
nery, Ocilla, Ca.; machinery plant,
Tampa, Fla.; woodworking plant,
NUMBER 33
List Os Qualified
Candidates In Race
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Candidates qualified for county
offices of Bryan county:
For Tax Colledor
C. J. BASH LOR
CHAS. B. JONES
( Vote for one)
For Sheriff
GEO. F. HAYMAN
ROBERT (DUFF) PARISH
L. N. VANBRACKLE
M. P PATRICK
HAKTRLDGE HARN
MANNING E. ENGLISH
E. L. JONES
M. A. GIBSON
(Vote for one)
For Clerk Superior Court
W. E. B. PRIESTER
Eor County Treasurer
W. B. SMITH
J. M. MONTCRIEF
J. H. SIKES
J. H. FRISBEE
C. W. PATRICK
ISIAH CASEY
RUFUS R. GEIGER
(Vote for one)
For Receiver of Tax Returns
W. D. SMITH
W. H -VISE
J. S. McGtASHAN
. ' > . SELMAN .
. ~t< lUhjtiCK'*/.. i-<v'NN
W. A. VANBRACKLE
RY AIS L. MORGAN
W. JACOB SMITH
‘ S. B. SHUMAN
( Vote for one)
For County Surveyor
E. L. FUTCH
JOHN D. HARN
(Vote for one)
For Coroner
D. W. WALLER
Ground To Death
Under Pullman
Tuesday morning as the ea?t
bound train pulled out of Pem
broke someone noticed hanging
under the rear end of the PiHlman
car what appeared to tie the boßy
of a man, and after the train had
gone the track was examined and
several pieces of bones a id a part
of a man’s scalp was found on the
ground between the rails.
It was said that the remains of
the body was taken from the car
at Lanier. No indentity as to who
the victim was has been learned, as
the body had been tern to pieces
before it was discovered, and if
there were any papers of any kind
in the pockets of the clothes they,
too, were scattered along the rail
road. It is supposed that it was
someone trying to steal a ride, and
that he had slipped and got
caught under the car.
Tuscaloosa, Ala ; power plant and
lighting system, Ball Ground,
Ga.; oil Mill to be enlarg d, Bir
mingham, Ala ; mining, Birming
ham district and near Helen, Ga.
Charter has been granted a compa
ny organized to build a railway
between Washington and Lincoln
ton. Ga.”