The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-03-07

would put lump of sugar IN your
coffee" The difficulty is not so much
in digging the dirt as in carrying II
away. When the steam shovel mas
filed q dump car, which it does IN
three bites, you cannot say that this
amount of earth is ey~avated. The
dump car must deposit its burden far
away from the canal, out where, by
no possibility, will it ever be washed
or slide back into the canal. 1t must
be hauled down hill.
THE Golden Age, a weekly newspa-
per of Atlanta, with Mr.. Will ID. Up
shaw as editor, is just out with its
initial number The first inside page
shows a fine group picture OF the
stockholders and staff members of the
publication. The group includes some
of the best known names in the south,
and would seem to insure fine imam
cial as well as literary basis for the
publication.
How things do change politically.
Here is the Macon Telegraph saying
that Senator Tillman has more grit
than any man now in American pub
lie life" and that she is an exceed
ingly useful member of the senate,
wherein he sometimes does things the
other members wish to see done, but
are afraid, or for other reasons de-
cline, to do themselves.
NORMAN E. MACK, of Buffalo, n.
Y, member of the national democratic
executive committee for many years,
and who supported both Cleveland
and Parker declares that William j..
Bryan is the logical democratic can
didate for president. Mr.. Bryan has
been consistent, the New Yorker says,
and his maturity will make him more
formidable than ever.
REPRES TALBERT of
Amite county has made himself the
most popular man in his state by in
PRODUCING an act ito regulate and en-
courage matrimonial alliances and to
discourage race suicide in the state of
Mississippi. Should the bill be
passed Mr.. Talbert's name will imme-
diately be placed in the Hall of Fame
in the new capitol.
THE Albany Herald informs us that
the visiting congressman will be given
something more than artesian water
to drink while in that city. We sus-
pected as much all the while. And
there are none who can mix and en-
bellish it so delightfully."- as the hos
pitable and warm hearted Albanians.
The president of the Savannah re-
form political party confesses that he
plays poker and drinks whiskey. Just
so. The reformer is too often a hypO-
critic. The greatest difference between
him and the ring politician usually is
that the latter is in Office and he wants
to get in.
JUDGE GRIGGs, it seems, will be
called on again to lead the democrat
ic congressional campaign. Well, if
there is anybody who can reverse the
republican Landslide of two years ago
jim s the man.
ALL of the counties around Terrell
Sumter, Lee, Dougherty, Calhoun and
Randolph-will hold their primaries
in the next few weeks. Some of them
will vote this month, and the others
early in April.
The Perry Home Journal hopes the
smoking car and hotel corridor votes
now being taken for governor will not
entirely displace the democratic pri-
mary it is proposed to hold later.
ATLANTA continues to grow. About
two hundred more federal prisoners
will soon take up their abode there,
and the building will have to be en-
larged for their accommodation.
YOUR Uncle Joe Hall has lit at last,
and is no longer flying around in
space, In speech a few days ago he
declared for Brother Nunnally for
governor.
THE ear, notes a contemporary,
seems to have desisted in his effort to
force political freedom and self-gov-
eminent upon his unwilling subjects
THE Atlanta News is just as bright
and prosperous as ever. The fact is,
that family fuss seems to have helped
our red-headed con&emporary.
THERE'S nothing the matter with
Macon's local pride. Her loyal citi-
zens are Dragging on the clty's fine
changing headquarters.
THE pure food bill discussion re-
vea1S the fact that there is water in