The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-05-30
BILL ASIs q XHhHSCHS TO

BILL 4hs u TO THE
The twelfth annual meeting of the Geogia
Press Association convened in Cartersvillo
On the 14th Of May, with full representa-
tion. The welcoming words were spoken
by Major G. H. Smith (Bill Arp Of the
Atlanta Constellation staff, as follows:
"Uartersyilie," he said, receives you
gladly. She feels magniied by your pres
ence. Always :hospitable to tho humble as
a peculiar pride on this occasion, for while
her pompous ncighbors have been spread
ing wide their philacteries over conventions
of teachers and preachers and loechers and
railroad intriguers, she ranks them all in
the quality of her guests. CApplause. r
The editorial brain is the lever Of Archim-
edcs and the press is the fulcrumH More
than million souls arc domiciled in our
State, and the power that moves them,
trains them aud directs them is now before
US. The press is par excellence the public
educator. II gives more incentive to study,
more direction to thought and more food
for mental digestion than all other powers
combined 1t establishes the convictions O.
masses upon all subjects which they are
capable of comprehending. What won
derful power And yet how silently it
works its mighty engine; how seemingly
unconscious of its strength how unassum-
ing. As We look into your frank and open
faces we are almost ready to cxclaim, How
child.like aud bland7 [Laughter.]
"When the generous host meets his well
come guest upon the threshold their kindly
greetings follow in quick succession, Us it
we'll with thee, my friend2 Is it we'll with
thy wife and childY' Your presence and
your serenity indicate that it. is we'll, and
now, in our tune, we respond to your kind
solicitude, and answer that it is also we'll
with us. Our hearts beat happily and are
warm with that abouuding hospitality which
charactcrizes suburban villages. Unpre-
tending towns feel all the greater honor
when visited by the giants and the notables
of the land. Like the country farmers
wife when visited by her city cousins, the
first impulse is to kill every kid and lamb
and turkey and fat shoat in the neighbor-
hood. The cook k:book is ransacked for
something rich, spicy and peculiar. Lem
ons. gelatino and favoring extracts are laid
in store. The good housewife fondly aspircs
to entertain her guests after her own
princcly fashion, and if furnished with their
usual bill of fare would duplicate it if she
could. 1t may be, however, that you will
not object to slight variation from your epi.
curian diet, for the immortal Marccllus has
demonstrated that even quail on toast is not
acceptable as daily dish [laughter], and
your rural brethren can tell you exactly
how long an editor can live on bacon and
greens without picking quarrel with one
or more Of his contemporaries. Laughter
and applause.]
But Curtersvillc has another reason fol
feeling specially honored on this occasion,
for, according to high authority, this is not
q city of brotherly love, nor the abode of
angels, nor the gate of paradise but is on
the confines of the internal regioas-nigh
unto the Plutonian shorc-and the very
air VIC breathe is odorous of fire and brim-
stone. Laughter.] All these pcrils you
have breaved to visit us.
Into the jaws of death,
Into the mouth Of hell
Rode the one hundred!
Laughter and applause.1
The Ex-Governor is with US now, and we
arc told that when "honors are easy" with
him his forgiveness begins. We hope so
and that better feeling will soon be brought
about between him and this little bantling
Of the Western and Atlantic Railroad. 1t
was born Of her progress, and grew up as
ono Of hor children. Her mother-ths
good old town of Cassville-died 10
giving her birth ; that good old town that
nursed and cherished the lamentcd Aiken
and Trippe, and those other stars not yet
gone out-Judge Underwood, Judge
Wright, Gen. Black, Gen Wofford and the
Demosthenes of the mountains, who is now
professionally engaged in treating the rag.
ged edge Of jenkins ear. [Cheers and
laughter. When his Excellency Joe Brown
first become our Governor, he become god
father to our little town, but she soon grew
saucy and Independent, and tie old gentle.
man turned her adrift upon the cold char.
tiles Of way station schedule. laugh
ter. Then Cartersville retaliascd in a
manner that was un6lial and unbecomns
and the old gentleman quietly told her to
60 to-Pluto's home. Laughter 1t
seems now that he had thought she had
done so, as he puts off all travellers here
who are seeking that tropical region
Laughter. But she didn't 20 there, gen.
tlemen, and still lives to welcome her
friends and defy her foes. If she is little
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