The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-06-27
THE NEW RING.
RY LAS. CALLAMAY.

and solicitors general were elected Oy
the legislature huge ring was built
up in Georgia. There was incentive
for it. At times some judges would
adjourn superior court to HE them
selves to Atlanta to pull for friends.
This hocking to Atlanta became
odlous. So offensive it grew that a
change was demanded, and now the
people elect judges and solicitors.
Thus the great ''ring" was destroyed.
Atlanta was no longer drawing
card. This change left the governor
of Georgia with few appointments and
little power.
The railroad attorneys continued
their practice of going to Atlanta, but
when the legislature passed the fran
chise tax" and the Occupation tax,
two pet measures of Governor Ter
rell, then the corporation lawyers
also ceased to flock to the political
Mecca, and during the past two ses-
sions of the legislature they were con-
Spicuous by their absence.
"But it was 'ring" out the old and
''ring" in the new. A new ring" is
formidable, and is composed of the
Atlanta Freight Bureau and its at
torneys The old ring had in view
Office and personal aggrandizement-
a lift into Office and a continuance
| therein. But the new ring, of Atlanta
organization, stands for trade and
for territory. The dollar allures
their avaricious eye. New England
for years dominated congress in the
interest of New England trade; all
other states had to pay toll to New
England. The Atlanta Freight Blu
reau is the New England of Georgia,
and proposes to dominate Georgia in
like manner in the interest of Atlanta
The facts show it, What are the facts?
| In 1902 this bureau demanded of the
| Spencer Atkinson commission the
power to control the trade between
| Atlanta and the sea. 1t had the other
Two years later the request was re-
peated. But the commission both
times refused to make Atlanta
port" as it would be unjust and
ruinous to towns between Atlanta and
the sea. But the demand in April,
| 1905, was turned down by Joe M.
Brown, on the ground that towns like
Dawson, Cordele, Albany, Americas,
Dublin, Cuthbert, Triton, Valdosta,
etc, were entitled to run wholesale
| houses. Griffin had requested the At
lanta Bureau to withdraw its petition
for special advantage and join Griffin
| in a demand for horizontal cut for all
| towns between Atlanta and the sea.
This proposition was rejected by the
| Atlanta bureau and its attorney as not
meeting Atlanta's purpose to extend
her trade to the sea. The Hon. Pope
| Brown, so long the candidate OF the
! Atlanta bureau and the Journal and
| Hon. HOke Smith, was discarded
without ceremony, except confer
| ence" by them, but not by others, the
very dav he declared for the Griffin
proposition-for a general cut pre-
| serving trade relations of the towns
/ he was stabbed in Atlanta, not Geor-
gia. mn
See more of Atlanta history. The
Atlanta freight bureau was unwilling
for Savannah and Brunswick, by the
sea. to sell stoves and hardware and
hollow ware brought by water route,
and demanded exclusive sale for At
lanta. The commission granted this
to Atlanta and Savannah protested,
and the case went before Judge Cam
known as "The stove rate case. "
Turned down in it's demand for
special advantage in all goods over
the piney woods section by three COM
missions from 1902 to 1906 Atlanta
now resorts to new tactics. 1t is to
| do it by retail or piece-meal. The
latest demand is for port rate on all
crude material for fertilizers, so as to
let Atlanta invade Dawson, Ameri-
Gus. ALBANY, Cordele, Valdosta, Pei
ham, and cripple the wholesale deal
ers there-tbeSe plants making no ef-
fort to invade Atlanta's territory.
The new ring wants to seize Georgia.
and is to be dreaded more than the
old political ring, which was content
with Office and Otfice-holding, and
made no effort to undo the trade re-
lations of Georgia towns. To such
extent is Atlanta bent on being "a
nort'' that the Hon. Hoke, Smith
tyitted Clark Howell before an At
lanta audience with being lukewarm
towards the purposes and objects OF
the Atlanta bureau, declaring Howell
was not sufficiently imbued with the
"Atlanta spirit that demanded At
Ianta to be "a port" with right of adj
vantage in all towns between Atlanta
and the sea.
The Atlanta Freight Bureau and its
attorneys had dropped Pope Brown
as lacking in the full! meaning of the
Atlanta spirit" as his 'proviso"
Droyed-a clause for protection to the
pinev woods towns. Had Joe M
Brown Welded in 1905 to the Atlanta
demand for advantage then the true
status had been revealed, and Albany,
Dawson, Americas, Cordele, Hawkins
Vile. etc, would have "Aocked'' to
Atlanta before the supreme court to
save them from the "Atlanta spirit"
as manifested in the new ring more
dangerous to all southern Georgia
than all the other rings since the war.
Save us from "our friends, - so called.
THIRTY-SIX NAILS IN STOMACH.