Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-05-08

of everything else from gambling down
to stealing, il is more of habit than any
thing else with most of that tribe: with
Joe Terrell lined up with Frank Potts. and
neither he nor Frank Potts will deny it.
could not would not vote for him IN
less, perchance. voting my convictions in
the white primary obligated me to vote
for him. and the only sin 1 have commit
ted would be the chances that / took in
trying to nominate the man who repre-
sehted my convictions on that subject.
This is a history-making period. in Geor-
gia. We have got to the turning point;
we must go to the right or to the left
The whisky forces are gathering. and un-
less they are cheekmated our III dry
counties will soon be honeycombbed with
saloons or debauched with dispensaries
And can Georgia or any other southern
state feel safe an hour with all these
counties flooded with whisky? The col
ored population, who love it almost to a
man, when sober are in the nam bear
able element in our midst, but when full
of whisky and that whisky bought with
money that ought to have bought bread
and meat, then they are ready for arson,
for rape, for your smoke house at night.
/ say, a white man or a negro who spends
his all upon whisky has got to look out in
some other direction for meat and bread
for his family. We have as peaceable, law-
ClllL6uS among the CUiOIcu pcOpAE
of Barlow county as any county in the
state This has been a prohibition county
for eighteen years, and so far as my
knowledge goes there has been but one
case of assault upon a white woman in
this county in all these years, with bur-
glary and stealing down TO fine point.
/ know the soberer a white man lives the
better citizen he Is. l know that the less
whisky a negro drinks the better citizen
he is.
Now food this state again with whisky
and in ten years from today we viii have
a state Of things that will make us throw
up our hands in horror. You have but to
read the proceedings of Judge Broyles'
court every day and you have some idea
of what heli's half acre means in Georgia.
If this is a white mans primary let
every white man come out and vote. and
let every candidate say that he can only
depend upon the white vote OF this state,
and that voter shall be unmolested at the
polls If he is qualified by having paid his
taxes and registered, no matter what his
past aff1liation may have been. Can Tom
Watson vote? can Lon Livingston vote in
this coming primary? Can Sam Small?
Can Ex-Governor Northern? Can Seab
Wright? and lastly but not leastly. can
Sam Jones?
What was the Farmers Alliance of
Georgia but a sprout that sprung up out
of the ground that afterwards became the
Populist tree? No, brother Democrat.
come down of your perch. white man
is a white man for all that. for all that"
Now while we are discussing other
things, let's come to this: Shall the Pop
ulistr of Georgia (and no better citizens
live in this state than they, vote in the
coming primary? II amt a question of
trusts, combines and mergers, IL is not
question OF monopolles with me- for as
God is my judge I fear dirty officials a
thousand times more than fear combines
and trusts. Talk about high beef. Steers
in Chicago market are quoted in The
Journal OF today, May 2 at 1-2 cents
pound on foot, and the farmers getting
every dollar of that money and then the
beef trusts selling the dressed beef at ten
cents a pound TO the butchers. Who is
getting that money. gentlemen? Why. the
little butchers around through Georgia
who buy our Georgia cattle at three and
four cents A pound have hoped up in
price to fifteen cents a pound for beef
and I'll tell you there amt a little fell
low in this country who wouldn't run
thing up II he could We are after all we
can get, that's the rule humanity is run
ming by. No farmer Is kicking because he
is getting seven and a fifth cents a pound
for his steers on foot. and then dressed
beef at ten cents pound. and Il the