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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-07-29
At the Talk of Candidate Taft
Carrying Georgia.
IT AMUSES HIM VERY MUCH
He Says No Man in His Senses Be-
Heves Any Such Thing. Macon
Congressman Was interviewed by
n Reporter in Washington.
BY JACK M'GEE.


WASHINGTON, D. C.-"Jedge"
Bartlett of Macon, born in Monticello,
Mystic Shriner, en- route home with
his dress suit and stocking cap,
stopped over in Washington last
night. Even though he was nomi-
mated by an uncomfortable margin in
the recent primary he is feeling good,
and he deigned not to refuse to make
remarks while here upon the ma
tional situation. Judge Bartlett is
always accommodating to newspaper
men and they like him, as do most
of the members of the house, al~
though there are scarcely more than
one or two at a time in that body
who agree with him.
He says all this talk about the re-
publicans having chance to carry
Georgia is the merest nonsense, as It
is nonsense to talk about the repub-
licans carrying any of the southern
states. ut amuses me-" he said,
this talk about Georgia going re-
publican. How can any man In his
sense believe any. such thing! Do
| you think reasonable democrats or
! afy Other sort, as for that matter,
would consider supporting a republic
can ticket with such miserable plat
form as that they formulated at
Chicago?"
And continuing he discussed the
reasons why neither Georgia nor any
other southern state would think of
supporting the republican ticket.
Said he:
NO sensible southern democrat
will vote for a party with a platform
which, in effect, declares for a reduc-
| tiOn of representation in the south,
and that is what the republican plat
form does Why, there is no more
chance of Taft and Sherman carrying
Georgia or any other southern state
than there is of Bryan carrying Yer
mont or New Hampshire. Talk
about Georgia going republican! It's
absurd. Roosevelt never lived there.
His parents did, but Georgia Is be-
yond the sentimental stage in poll
tics. The south will go sOiidly dem
ocratic for the ticket nominated at
Denver. I think it is the best ticket
that could have been named, and it
will be elected. 1t is a winner-a
winner, I say.
What do I think of the republic
can ticket? / think it is the easiest
ticket to beat that could have been
named. If we cannot beat that tick
ct we ought not to try to beat any.
Personally, l am very fond of Jim
Sherman. He is a fine fellow, but,
politically, do not think he will add
any strength to the ticket We are
going to fool a lot of fellows this
year We are going to win"
The Judge left for home today.
He would not discuss the prohibition
question. Coming back from
Shriners meeting was not exactly an
appropriate time for such a thing.
Besides he said that prohibition was
an experiment in Georgia so far, and
he thought it better to walt before
telling whether it was a success or
not.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-07-29
BLUSHLNG BRIDE APPEARS IN SHEATH
GOWN TO JOY OF Alta NTTC cry

ATLANTIC CITY, N. Mrs. Jas.
P. Munyon, the three months bride
of the millionaire patent medicine
man, appeared on the boardwalk in
sheath gown last night and created
a sensation. Before she had been on
the walk five minutes the promen-
aders clustered so thickly about her
that the walk was blocked.
Prof. MunyOn, who was with his
bride, urged her to walk faster, in
the hope of understanding the
curious throng. The crowd followed,
continually increasing. The young
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-07-29
THE WHITE MANS WEEDS.
Troublesome Plants Which Follow
the March of Civilization.

Troublesome Plants Which Follow
the March of Civilization.
1t is strange how many worthless
plants follow the march of civiliza-
ton. Every step that the farmer
takes into forest or over plain is fol-
lowed by number of weeds which,
like certain animals, the rat for ex-
ample, are at once the friends and
foes of civilized man.
There is the plantain which the
Indians used to call the white man S
footprint" because whenever the
white man appeared in the wilder
ness and built his cabin the plantain
sprang up in the clearing and at once
made itself at home. The beggar's
ticks, the cockleburr, the thistle, the
shepherds purse, the nettle, smart
weed, the dock, the pursuance
score of others might be named that
appeared on the Atlantic coast after
the English settlements began and
have steadily marched west until now
they are found from the Atlantic to
the Pacific.
No doubt many of them came in
the packages of flower seed which
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-07-29
TERRELL CAMP COMPLINIENTED
One of the Few to BE Praised by the
Investigating Committee.

1t is gratifying to know that in all
of the acts of gross neglect and cru
city that have come to light in the
investigation of the states convict
system the Terrell county chaingang
has escaped criticism, and the treat
ment of the inmates praised
Mr.. Young of Troup county, who
headed the legislative committee that
investigated the Terrell county road
camp, has testified before the inves-
tigating committee that the cOnvicts
are treated in a humane, decent,
kindly way; are good clothes and
good food, and their wants carefully
looked after"
He thought the misdemeanor con-
victs in Randolph county were even
too kindly treated. There convicts
were working side by side with free
negroes, and all appeared to be on
the same basis.
In reply to a question he said
that he never heard of religious exer-
cises being held at convict camp,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-07-29
TWO MORE SHOT IN CALHOUN.
Fell Out About Work and Argued
With Guns.

80 ~A''"N~e YIN anu AZ StlNh
With Guns.
The Edison News reports that two
negroes engaged in a duel on the
place of Mr.. c. H. Tanner in Calhoun
county, and as a result both are in
a serious condition, one of them, Bill
Clark, being shot in the face, and
the other, Charlie Sims, receiving a
load of shot in the hip anu lower
part of his body.
The difficulty arose over the mat
ter of a half days work. 1t seems
that the two negroes had agreed to
exchange work, and Bill had given
Charlie a half days work and want
ed him to return the favor, but he
had not done so. Saturday after
noon Bill went to Charles house to
see about it, carrying his gun. AS
soon as Charlie saw Bill coming with
a gun he secured his own shooting
iron, and it is said that only a few
words passed BEFORE both began
shooting, with the result above stat
ed.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-07-29
PEOPLE EATING FODDER.
Every Vestige of Food Swept Away
by Flood in Louisiana.

Every Vestige of Food Swept Away
by Flood in Louisiana.
According to a Lake Charles. La.
dispatch conditions along the Red
river are pitiable. The floods have
swept away practically every YES
.tige of anything with which to sus-
tain life, and in numerous instances
the people are facing starvation.
Some of them are foced to eat fod-
der, ears of raw corn or ANYTHING
they can PICK up that will furnish
the least particle of nourishment.
Breaks in the levee in Red river.
above Alexandria, caused the water
to flood fully 100000 acres of land.
This water found its way to Bayou
Rapids, which passes one side of the
city of Alexandria and enters Red riy-
er at that point, and as a consequences
everything is under water along that
stream on the side opposite the city
Of Alexandria,
Pineville, on Red river, directly on
posite, Alexandria, has suffered great
loss. The only means of communica-
ton now between Alexandria and
Boyce, a distance of 25 miles. is by
launch.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-07-29
EXTRAVACANCE
Heaviest Expenditures Ever
Made in Time of Peace.
1000 MILLIONS A SESSION

TIE Annual Tax for Army, Navy and
Pensions Alone Is $3.50 on Every
Man, Woman and Child in the
United States.
Official figures compiled bv the
clerks of the house and senate COM
mittees on appropriations show that
expenditures aggregating s1,0OS,-
397,543.56 were authorized at the
last session of congress. These are
the heaviest appropriations ever
made in the time of peace.
When the country was astonished
at the spectacle of a billion dollar
congress Speaker Reed could offer no
excuse except plea that this had be-
come billion dollar country. But
under the Roosevelt regime we have
attained the two billion dollar con-
gross, which appropriates a thousand
millions at each annual session. The
appropriations during the last four
years of RoOseveltism have amount
ed up to $3,428,0OO,OO0, or $685.
100000 more than during four years
of civil war.
In recent statement to the World
representative James \. Tawney,
republican chairman of the house
committee on appropriations, assert
ed that almost SIS per cent. of the
governments revenues, exclusive of
postal receipts, is today being spent
to meet the cost of wars past and an
ticipated. In an article prepared for
the anniversary number of the World
Senator Allison, the venerable repub-
lican chairman of the senate commit
tee on appropriations, showed that
since 1888 there had come an annual
increase Of 100000 in expendi-
lures for the army, an annual in
crease Of 100000 for pensions,
These three items alone represent a
total of 1881, 100000 in the appro-
priations authorized at the recent
session of congress.
This is an annual tax of more than
$3.50 on every man, woman and child
in the United States for army, navy
and pensions alone 1t represents an
average of $3.50 for each family, or
more than half the average months
earnings of the American laborer in
the period of highest prosperity
Mr.. Roosevelt has been president
of the United States for nearly seven.
years. Who can recall single bill
that he ever vetoed on the ground
of extravaganza? Who can remem-
Der single instance in which he
firmly protested against the unnea-
essary expenditures of public money!
Who can recall a single message in
which he took a strong, uncompro-
missing position in support Of pubic
economy?
His has been the most reck-
less spendthrift administration ever
known in time of peace, and while
the democratic platform properly
denounces needless waste of the
peoples money" the declaration is
less aggressive than the facts de-
mand.
There never was a better time for
the democratic party to raise Mr..
Tildens most effective issue of re-
trenchment and reform
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-07-29
PETTER ARMED AND MORE AGGRESSIVE
THAN EVER BRYAN STARTS BATTLE.

threatened the destruction Of the bull
warks of society.
This time no gold telegram from
Esopus to vex the party and split 1t
into warning factions.
And no government ownership or
railways finds place in the creed.
Bryan set out deliberately to steer a
middle course, and despite all temp
tations, despite all the efforts Of his
more radical friends to lead him
head long their way, he has adhered
to his policy 1t is for this reason
his representative here feel great
confidence that he has framed vote
winning pIatform-one which will
wear well before the country and
perhaps attract waverers and scat
terers from the frontiers Of the other
party"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-07-29

!" some Convention Aftermath, "
,''eu from Denver to the Chicago
'scoTd-Herald, Walter Wellman sizes
oFyan's strength and chances as
!. mat Bryan enters upon his third
we for the presidency better
9u' carrying fewer weaknesses,
open to serious attack, more ag-
h. ,s',e than in either of his pre-
b. h, contests is not only the belief
70 '9 friends and representatives
kse az Dut a majority of the neutral
ro atlS time no free silver, that
.aega eater revolution.
|,rr ms time no attacks upon the
vs. which in the eyes of millions
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-07-29
PAXTON FAvORs sUFFRAGETTEs
Worth County Legislator Also FavOrs
Women Lawyers.

Representative Payton of Worth
county has introduced in the legisla-
ture a bill extending the right of suf-
frage in Georgia to women.
The committee to whom the bill
was referred will probably put It in
the pigeon hole.
Mr.. Payton has also introduced a
bill to allow women to practice law
in the courts of this state It may be
that the committee will find time to
take this bill up for discussion, and
hear from those who have arguments
to offer in it's favor.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-07-29
DID NOT FLOURISH BOTTLE AND
ASK SENATE TO TAKE 4 DRINK
THAT BODY OF LEGISLATORS GIVES THE THE STORY
ABOUT TIGER STATE HOUSE.

The Georgia senate has passed a
resolution declaring the story sent
out from Atlanta to the effect that
blind tiger existed inside the capt.
toll of the state an unqualified false
hood.
1t referred to the Houston Post as
having printed it.
The statement was printed in an
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-07-29

woman was very much embarrassed
ana blushed deeply at the comments
.of the closest on-lookers.
After walking several blocks with
the throng following Prof. Munyon
lea MS bride into a confectionery
store which was Immediately be-
selged. The Munyon's waited pa
tlently for the crowd to dispense. and
the crowd waited just as patiently
outside for Mrs. Munyon to appear
FINALLY the pair slipped out side
door to carriage that had been
called, and We're driven back TO tbe
hotel where Mrs. Munyon changed
her gown for one more old-fashioned
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-07-29
GAVE FISH TIME OF THEIR LIVES
Finny Ones Only Ones to Profit BY
Dispensary Agents Seizure.

Finny Ones Only Ones to Profit by
Dispensary Agents Seizure.
When State Dispensary Agent Lo-
zier emptied thousands of gallons of
contraband liquor into the sewers of
Guthrie, Okla, Tuesday he took pre-
caution that there should be no repe-
tition of the scenes which occurred
at a similar occasion when the state
destroyed nearly $4,000 gallons of
beer by turning it into the cutters.
At that time scores of persons SCOOP
ed up the foaming beverage in cans
and buckets or any available recep-
tacle
Great crowds gathered Tuesday
following the announcement that sew
eral thousands gallons of liquor
would be destroyed. But there was
nothing but disappointment for them.
Instead of pouring the liquor into the
cutters Inspector Lozier and his dep
uties dumped the kegs and barrels
of good cheer" directly into the sew
er man holes.
There was one contingency, how
ever for which the inspector did not
provide He overlooked the finny
tribe of the Cottonwood river, and
as a result great quantities of fish
were enable to have the spree of
their lives. But, like man, they paid
the penalty of their over-indulgence.
In their intoxicated condition the
fish floated to the surface, where they
were gathered by the armful by the
scores of persons who were attracted
by the unusual spectacle.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-07-29
is "CHAWING EN- SOME"
Uncle Sans Chewing Board is Spit
ting Puddles of Red.

A Washington dispatch says about
twenty samples of chewing tobacco
are being tested by the chewing board
in connection with the proposed pur-
chase of 100000 pounds of the
weed, which 1t has been found nee
essary to obtain in addition to the
regular annual supply for the navy
for the present fiscal year. The
prices range from Sc to AZ cents per
pound and the aim is to obtain
brand of tobacco best adapted for the
use of sailors.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-07-29

article about five legislators having
been caught in a poker game at the
Kimball House.
In the article condemned it was
stated that a senator was drunk on
the floor, 1ourishing a quart bottle of
whiskey, and calling on all to take
a drink, declaring at the time that
he had purchased the intoxicants
within the state house.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-07-29
TURNER'S PLEA FOR NEW TRIAL
Will Be Heard by Judge Spence on
on First Monday in August.

Mr.. A. w. Turner of Macon has
been in Edison consulting his attor-
neys in the interest of a new trial for
his son, Mr.. Allen Turner, who was
tried for the murder of jim Casey at
the June term of Calhoun superior
court and sentenced to life in the
penitentiary. The motion for a new
trial will be heard by Judge Spence
at Camilla on the first Monday in
August
Young Turner has been removed
from the jail at Morgan to the Bibb
county jail in Macon that he may be
near his relatives.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-07-29
LIGHTNING STRUCK STOVE FLUE.
Once Before 1t Hit Same House and
Muddied Water in the Well.


Muddied Water in the Well.
Last Saturday afternoon during an
electrical storm at Benevolence light
ming struck the stove flue of Mr.. H.
u. Keese's stove room and complete
ly demolished it. There was no dam
age done to the building Three or
four years ago lightning struck a
chimney to this same house, ram
shacked the building, killed three or
four hogs in a lot about fifty yards
away, and caused the water in the
well to become muddy. Also on the
same afternoon and in the same com
munity while a negro boy was driv-
in a cow home lightning struck the
COW, killing her instantly, and also
shocked the boy right badly.-Cuth-
bert Liberal-Enterprise.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-07-29
FIRST BALE AT SHELLMAN.
Was the Second Bale in State, and
Brought % Cents a Pound.

Shellman, Dawson's hustling little
neighbor, received it's first bale of
new cotton Thursday. The cotton
was grown by Sam Green about four
miles south of SheIlman on w. X.
Curry's plantation. This is two weeks
earlier than last season. The cotton
brought % cents per pound, and was
shipped to Savannah by express.
1t was the second bale of new cot
ton marketed in the state.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-07-29
DIRECTOR OF MUSIC
At the States Academy for the Blind
i'm Macon.

in Macon.
Prof E. II. Mcneil, brother of Mr..
o. L. Mcneil of near Dawson, and
who has been at the head of the
Mcneil School of Music in Americas
for the past two or three years, has
accepted place as director of music
at the Academy for the Blind in Ma
con. He is a talented musician and
successful teacher, and has a host
of friends who are interested in his
welfare
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-07-29
STX YOUNG WHITE MEN IN JAIL

Peach Season in Houston County.
The Home Journal says there are
six young white men in jail at Perry,
only one of them a citizen of Hous-
ton county. One is charged with
forgery, four with larceny, and one
with cheating and swindling. Five
of these young men went to TT. VAL
ley to help harvest the peach crop.
and there committed the crimes that
caused their arrest
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-07-29
Half of Body Found.

Half of the body of young Lovett
was found Thursday.
The lower portion of the BODY.
with both feet eaten away, washed
up against the sea wall at Fort
Screven.
The remains were found by com
panlons and friends of the lad who
had been ceaselessly patrolling the
beach since the tragedy. The condi-
ton of that portion of the body re-
covered seems to indicate that it was
shark which attacked the young
man while he was trying for a long
distance swim.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-07-29

from ten o'clock until far after mid
night men patrolled Tybee beach
on horseback, afoot and in vehicles
hoping that the lads body might be
washed ashore by the tide
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-11-17
FELL 2S5 FEET
Ten Men in Mine Gage Fell
to Bottom Of Shaft
and Live

Pittsburg, Pa, NOV. 1s.six men
We're injured, another was danger
ously injured and three Others had
narrow escapes from injury Or death
IN mine cage accident at Ellsworth
mine Number one, located In wash
ington county, late today. The mine
ds owned by the Ellsworth Coal COM
pany of this city.
Because OF a break In the machin.
cry the cage occupied BY the men,
somewhere near the top Of the shaft,
plunged down to the bottom Of the
shaft. q distance OF 2S5 feet.
Six Are Dead. y
y Pattsburg. Pa, Nov. 16-Six Of the
men have since died as a result Of the
accident. as follows:
N. y. Walsh, age 90, civil engineer.
Eugene g. snyth, aged Is, civil en-
gineer.
4 2. Newcomer, aged "a, eivil en-
gineer.
Three foreigners, known BY numb
sers only. e. &:
The injured: Harrison Randolph
drilling machine operator, struck On
head BY timber.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-11-17

The Grand Forks Herald thinks
the present manner Of selecting
senators illogical, and want law
enacted that will permit each party
to nominate a senator at the pri-
maries, and that all the people may
have an opportunity to vote for the
direct election of candidate, max
ing the ratification by the senate
merely incidental and to conform
ito the requirements of the federal
constitution. 1t is doubtful if any
law can be passed that will make the
ratification by the legislature a mat,
ter of course, since the legislature
has the sole power to elect senator
and can elect whomever majority
of it's members chose. AS to the
nomination without any requirement
as to the percentage of the vote
he shall have, it is legal that the
presence of six or eight candidates
in the field might result in the
nomination of senator by barely
fifth of the total number of per-
sons voting, which is an objection Of
some weight, and the one that proba-
bly, occurred to the trainers Of the
present primary law in requiring
that a candidate have forty percent
to be entitled to the nomination at
the June primaries. If the real
popular election of senators is to
come, it will come in satisfactory
manner through an amendment to
the federal constitution, and until
such an amendment is passed, meth
DDS of reaching the end without
changing the means, are bound to
fall short of giving satisfaction.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-11-17

several counties, the law requiring
them to meet within fifteen days
from the date of the election. The
result of the official canvass will
be filed with the secretary Of state,
and will be canvassed by the state
board next month. If the county
auditors of the state will make their
returns promptly to the secretary of
state, we will be able within a week
or ten days to discover what the ma
jorities in the state were for the sew
eral candidates. A good many of the
returns obtained from counties i'm
mediately following the election were
limited to the contests in which
there was particular interest - the
governorship and United States SEN
atorship. The total vote for Taft
and Bryan in the state has so far
been only appropriated. No report
has been made Of the vote cast for
the other candidates, which are in
teresting only as showing the real
strength of the socialists in the state
and of that element of the Prohibi-
ton party which believes that pro-
hibition is an issue more important
that the economic issues upon which
the two old parties made their cam
paign. r-. y
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-11-17
MRS.T. A. HILLYER
IS SEVERELY BURNED
Wife of MayvilIe Normal School Pre-
sident Seriously Burned During
Entertainment.

Mrs. Hillyer, wife of President T,
A. Hillyer Of the Mayville State Nor
NAL school, was severely burned
about the body Friday night and
Professor Thompson of the normal
school had his hands so severely
burned that the flesh fell from them,
when a candle was accidentally over
turned during an entertainment at
the presidents residence
4 President and Mrs. Hillyer was
entertaining the faculties Of the
normal school and Of the city schools
and the house was profusely decorat-
ed for the occasion. Part of the
decorating scheme was large NUM-
Der of candles and one Of these was
overturned, and caught the inflama-
Bile material which Mrs. Hillyer was
wearing, and in an instant she was
La pillar Of flames.
Professor Thompson and others
who were near her rushed to her res
cue ana sne was rolled in rugs and
curtains. and the flames were ex-
tinguished, but not before she was
terribly burned about the lower part
Of the body. Fortunately the flames
did not reach her face, and she will
recover, but she will be confined
to her bed for some time.
It was in putting out the fire In
Mrs. Hillyer's clothing that Profess
Isor Thompson was SO bodily burn
! ed.
A large amount Of furnishings In
the home were ruined by the fire, In
Icluding some valuable portiers. and
rugs. No damage was done TO the
building.