The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1906-07-20

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at hand too. Don't count the pictures but
count the whole IiSt Of the names. Take
out all that Clark claims Hoke appointed
VIXEN he is pinned to brass tacks by the rec
ords. Note the fact that he says Negroes
that drew fat salaries under HolIe Smith
whsn Georgia People were making cotton at
Four cents. He don't say that they were
not there b5fore, or that Hoke Smith APP
pointed many. Re2d each mans name as
listed separately, Remember that $50 in
Washington is about equal to a common
wage HANDS pay in Lee County, because 1t
takes more to pay house rent, fire wood, and
living is higher Remember that most OF
these NiGGERS were porters as their pay
shows, or he would have told you different.
(and he put it in small type too and yon
VIII see tnat Mr.. Clark Howell could not
TOOL Hoke into signing a paper that gave
himself the lie [For, h had said all over
Georgia that they naed Niger spittoon clean
ers and portees. And rnere were 1900
white people under him and Clark with all
his search has found less than 4 hundred
even ifyou take in the Niger Hospital ap
pOinteeS and all the Transfers and SplttOOn
CLEANERS. Hoke had to sign all or none.
Lo.k out Comfy Commissioners, you
hire janitor for Lee. He is black. We |
don't blame you it's right. We hire when
we have to pull our presses heavily ne
gro to do 1t. It saves tyfesetting force, and |
leaves it ready TO mould few more bullets
to show the people Of Lee that the trusts
arc fighting them. That Betty and the baby
don't get fair show when the hard earned
dollar is paid out for a thing that if we had
Justice would eost US Is cents,
That Betty and the baby don't get a fair
show when jor long years they sold their cot
ton seed for SEVEN CENTS i bushel less
than NORTH ga. People, Figure yourself.
Leo raises from 10000 to 1900 bales how
much loss. At even - 90 !, bale. Until we set
them thinking and ae got new firm to
come into the field. Deny it we will prove
it. C.ttOn seed vent Up to 20 cents a
tushe in a day or so. We are here to tell
them Betty and the baby dom get fair show
when-Only short while ago lc2 could be
delivered la our old home town at II cents
from Augusta, 64 miles off car load. Cost
Of Ice IS cents, cost Of freight II cents.
When the f.vered tongue Of the stricken
child down this way cried Mama. Mama
lie water, lite water, perhaps the grief
stricken mother did not know or care that
She was paying about the neighborhood from
two to two and !. half times this price at
IS or 10 cents hundred.
Perhaps you built your chimney and tried
to buy brick. We did, price $3.50 per
thousand here in Lee. Through deception
per.apS, We bought them a hundred miles |
further of and delivered them at $500 a !
tnousrnd, and In all these cases there was
tne inevitable Lee county belongs to such |
and such territory VIZ can't ship there.
Boys, Betty, Polite, SalIIe, and the ba-
bieS don't get fair ShoW-Your present dy-
nasty instead of ordering the states whole
force TO give each poor man a chance to live,
Contents itself in sending in a regular Rose
Ceramic Message and says that the state
is prosperous.
1t has been DID unless we get men
bold enough to follow even the COMMON
LAW and give us poor folks chance. All
lnIS folly about northern trusts is hum bug
compared to what we suffer at home. Viz
guna is prosecuting her great big GuanU
concern. What Is GEORGIA dong about
III Nothing. It simply gOugeS deeper ana
uees 81 lAto every bale Of Cutton you make
II will take q ma. like HOke Smith to l,uit
5eadln., in these LlI.e I<Ose Oeranium bUu-
quet Messages. All the uuStS knoW it.
Csn come os, openly ana say ii, but are
all "Agin Hoke."
Beys lis the hard sweat Of your brow, that
is beng wrung lrUm you. 1t - the Sllimpmg
and saving to make the white dress Tor tn,
kId at home even alter all lRUSl protls are
taken Oh VI tae Shm crop-lrlS Dregd for
IN. children ana books iur their schooling
For the pld lady ana the kids at home you
are fighting il you pleaSe-EUr combined capl-
tai is 1lgnting your candidate. And combined
capital aAd !ingS are lighting your candidate.
Lee has 5Sl white YV,elS. How much ma
iorty can Sh. give for the good Of Betty and
the babes?
Lee had last year ISL white Poll Tax
payers on her digest. Lee last year collec-
led from her negro poll tax payers nelly