The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-09-23

SENATOR BEN IILI4MAN !ectureu III
cambridge Friday night and gave the
people their moneys worth. Inc
Views of the pitchfork man are those
of nine-tenths of the white people OF
the south, but not all of them have the
courage to say so.
COMMISSIONER STEVENS thinks Ed
itor Hearst is not bad piece of presl-
Dental timber. To say the least of it.,
he has always been loyal to the party
and friend of the south. There are
a great many Georgians who share Mr.
Stevens view.
ALABAMA is TO have reproduction
of the Calvin vagrancY law. This law
has made more busy people in Georgia
than anything that has ever happen
ed, and neigh boring states are anxious
to try our recipe for promoting indus
try.
EDITOR JOHN N. HOLDER has IN
creased the size of his Jackson Herald
to an eight-page paper. Mr.. Holder is
a most estimable gentleman, and pub
fishes one of the best and most success
| full newspapers in north Georgia.
EDITOR STOvALL has at last found
one thing on which he agrees with
Mr.. Bryan. He has Joined the Ne
braskan in throwing cold water on the
German presidential boomlet-or
boomerang, just as YOU please.
THOSE patriotic Georgians who are
already running for president of the
senate and speaker of the house in
1905 should have preached long and
deep before starting. They will need
wind, and heap of it.
Now it is said that Georgia needs a
new home for the governor. The News
knows a number of GeOrgians who
would be Tucked almost to death to oc
cupy the present home for period of
four years.
SIR THOMAS Upton has been feel
lux OdQly3 anu CLIihCbO pm 1oiOAobC
have announced that his trouble is
appendicitis. If Sir Thomas values
his life he will sail post haste for Eng !
land.
IT has come at last. Sam Jones has |
had fist fight in Gainesville with |
one of the victims of his yituperation.
Sam is perhaps the only preacher"
who would try TO slug salvation into
a sinner.
IRWIN county is To have an election |
between saloons and dispensaries on
October 5, and the spectacle is pre-
sented over there of several ministers
openly advocating the saloons.
THERE are one or two Georgia edi-
tors who keep their stink-pots on duty
all the time. For the relief of their
readers they should open their joke
pouches occasionally.
FARMER WILSON, the national Sec
rotary of agriculture, seems unable to
keep cotton down. He'd better look
out, or the business interests" will |
take his official scalp.
SOUTHWEST GEORGIA got touch of
that western snOwstOrm and blizzard
Friday. From shirt. sleeves to over
coats was an unusual transition for
this time of the year.
THE Press says Savannah must
have thirty feet of water. Wouldn't
thirty feet of punch, alias chicken
salad" be more appreciated by the
true Savaunahian?
How those Wilcox county folks.
who will have to pay a tax of thirtv-
odd dollars on the thousand this fall,
must envy the fortunate and serene
citizens of Terrell
VALDOSTA is strutting and feeling
proud of itself over new paid fire de-
partment. Dawson has had a paid fire
department for several years, aud
good one, too.
THIS Is the way the Albany Herald
puts it: "The president has the hap
ply faculty of saying little in much"
THAT'S saying much in little.
THAT'S a bold Salvation Army who
has marched on the feudalists of the
Kentucky mountains. Salvation ia
the last thing they want.
If John Temple Graves should get
into the gubernatorial running the
Bookerites would have a bad half
hour.
MACON is INDUCING in an official in
vestigation. and in disgust has cried
enough" That's usually the way.
THAT new twenty-thousand.dollar
aohnot hOusa will he hirr foatbor in