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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-04-08
GEORGIA'S FUNNY POLITICS.
From the Dublin Times.

FROM the Dublin Times.
To a man up a tree the political
situation in Georgia is one of the
funniest things imaginable outside of
an Old-time mistrel show.
That circumstances alter cases"
and cts altogether according to
whose OK is gored" are trite but ex-
tremely applicable sayings now in
sizing up the situation.
Less than two years ago a certain
element of Georgia democrats were
INVITING another element for allowing
Tom Watson to come into the inner
councils and participate in the cam
paign for governor. The former ele-
ment was told by the latter that Tom
Watson was a good democrat, and he
had just as much right as anybody
else to take part in the primary.
The primary was held, Hoke Smith
was elected as the nominee by ma
iority that is painful to many people
to even contemplate, and the new
governor was inaugurated.
After he had been in Office only a
few months Tom Watson began to
find fault, and he has lambasted Gov
ernOr Smith and his administration
to the queens taste. Conditions have
switched around in such way that
Mr.. Joe Brown believes he sees an
opening to defeat the governor, and
everything now is guess work with
the politicians.
But the really funny part is to be
related.
Tom Watson is the man of the
hour What attitude is the McDufie
statesman going to assume? Many
of the former strong supporters of
Hoke Smith have become disguised
with Mr.. Watson on account of his
criticisms of the governor, and are
saying all kinds of ugly things about
him The anti-Smithites are coming
back at the other side and asking
Did you not tell us in 1906 that
Watson was a great man and was en-
titled to all the privileges of demo-
crat just as if he had been a demo-
crat all his life? Wherein has he
changed during the past year and
half?"
Until Mr.. Watson shows his hand
definitely the supporters of Brown
will say a great many nice things
about the populist leader. If he
should declare himself for Brown
and take the stump or use his pdbli-
cations in the interest of the Marietta
mans candidacy he would immedi-
ately have as his admirers thousands
of Georgians who two years ago could
not find enough words to express
their contempt of him. And he would
be called all the bad names in the
English language by those who well
coined his support two years ago and
who would have hard time electing
their man without his assistance.
Georgia has long been noted for
strange freaks of weather and strange
politics. The present complexion of
| politics is about the limit.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-04-08

A current magazine takes up some
valuable space discussing the subject
of ''Why men never tell the truth to
women"
That's easy enough to answer.
A man never tells a woman the
truth if he can help it because he
hates a scene, and he knows he will
get one if he hands her out the plain
unvarnished truth without "a little
pink string around it to make it
look pretty.
Why does a woman tell a man the
truth?
Because she knows he will make a
scene when she does it, and that is
the very thing she is after.
Men hate heroics.
Women love them.
The best woman on earth would
rather fight with her husband than
sit still and look pleasant while he
reads his paper and forgets all about
her.
The meanest man on earth would
rather smoke his pipe in peace and
think about the fish he didn't catch
last summer than quarrel with any
woman who ever breathed.
If l had husband who wouldn't
quarrel with me good and hard once
in awhile, just to show that he cared
whether I was cross or not, I'd d.
vorce him and marry Bengal tiger
to get excitement into life.
A woman doesn't hate to hear the
truth from the man she loves any
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-04-08

The passing of the Palestine of the
Bible is an event in which the TWEEN
tieth century has a greater interest
of sentiment perhaps than in any
other. 1t is now taking place with
no possibility of stopping it. Con-
quests by Babylonians, Greeks, Ro-
mans, Arabs, Crusaders and Turks
left it Palestine still, still Asiatic
with customs which go back of writ
ten history, remaining fixed through
centuries of change. With the open
ing of the first railroad the interest
of Europe and America in its ancient
life showed itself in making it part
of the contract with managers of
specially conducted tours who guar
antee the comforts of civilization to
their touring parties. Naturally the
modernism thus brought to bear was
expected to put the ancient life of
Palestine to the test, but here was a
possibility that the Immortality of
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-04-08

There is more Catarrh in this section of the
country than all other diseases pu' together ana
until the last few years was supposed to be in
durable. For "A great many years doctors pro-
nounced it a local disease AMI prescribed local
remedies. and by constantly failing to cure With
local treatment pronounced it incurable. Science
has proven catarrh to be a constitutional disease
and therefore requires constitutional treatment
Halls Catarrh Cure manufactured by F. J. Che
ney Il Co, Toledo. Ohio, is the only constitution
al cure on the market. 1t is taken internally in
doses from 10 drops TO a teasp spoonful II acts di-
rectly on the blood aud mucous surfaces Of the
system They 7offer one hundred dollars for any
case it fails to Send for circulars and test
monaS. Address F. ]. Cheney & Co.. Toledo. o.
Sold bv Druggists 75c
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-04-08
JOURNALISTIC .sTINKWEED. !"

From the cambridge Search Light.
The Macon Telegraph very aptly
applies the term of "stinkweed' to
number of Georgia newspapers
whose editors look upon themselves
as being the embodiment of honor
and fidelity, while all who would dare
oppose their favorite views are either
subsidized ingrates ~or downright
fools The Telegraph is correct. We
do not believe that the newspaper
men of Georgia are bribable; neither
do we believe that they are going to
be muzzled by these righteously des-
ignated "stinkweeds" to which the
Macon paper refers We have al
ways noticed one thing: that it does
not require brains to criticise or"villi-
fy and abuse those who may honestly
differ from, you.
Down with the "stinkweed!"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-04-08
WANTED: A CANDIDATE.

1t is stated that the question OF a
republican state ticket in Georgia
this year will hinge largely upon the
success or failure of the efforts OF
the leaders of that party to get a
strong man to accept a gubernatorlal
nomination.
Among the republicans of influence
and high business standing who are
being considered and sought in this
connection are Colonel Robert j..
Lowrey, the prominent Atlanta bank
er: Major J. F. Hanson, president of
the Central of Georgia railroad; }.
M. Wilkinson, prominent railroad
man and promoter of south Georgia,
whose home is in ValdOsta; j. Il.
Peterson, a banker and capitalist of
Fort Gaines, and DR.. C. w. Arnold,
a prominent citizen of Albany
Mr.. Peterson, who is a near neigh
Dor to Dawson, has twice been the
nominee of the republican party for
congress in the Second district, and
has just completed term as mayor
of Fort Gaines, his fellOw-citizens
having wiped out party lines for the
time. and honored him with unan-
imous election to the office.
The republicans will meet in state
in Macon on May 14th.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-04-08
THE TROUBLES OF THE RICH.

From the Savannah News.
A news dispatch says that Mrs.
Harold Mccormick is preparing to
flee from and abandon her home in
Chicago, driven thence by terror.
During the past several months she
has received a number of anonymous
letters threatening the safety of her
self and four children. They are call
ed BLACK Hand" letters, and the
writer's of them demand large sums
of money, threatening kidnapping
and even death to the children if the
money is not forthcoming. Natural
ly the letters have worked upon Mrs.
Mccormick S nerves. Detectives and
postoffice inspectors have endeavor-
ed to run down the writer's of the
letters without success. The menace
the hidden, horrible menace-has
continued to torment the mother of
the children until she feels that she
must leave her home for the safety
of her offspring.
Since Pat Grove kidnapped the
Cudahy child wealthy parents in va
rious parts of the country have been
the victims of villains who have de-
manded money from them on pain of
having their children taken away and
possibly murdered. The recent case
of the little child in Louisiana, who
was not only kidnapped but actually
Killed, goes to show that the letter
writer's are sometimes so lost to pity
and mercy that they will carry their
terrible threats into execution if they
are denied their demands. Such in
cidents have served to increase the
apprehensions of rich parents who
may chance to have been selected to
be victimized. Several of the state
legislatures have passed severe laws
directed against kfdnappers; but pass
ing law and putting a stop to out
RACES are quite different things.
Mrs. Mccormick is the daughter
OF John D. Rockefeller, and her hus-
band is the son of the inventor of the
grain reaper. Mrs. Mccormick re-
ceived wedding gift of $1O,OOO,OOO
from her father. Her husband is
worth probably as much more They
are very rich people, and therefore
shining marks for BLACK Hand" op-
orators. At the same time they are
human beings with sensibilities Just
like those of other persons. Mrs.
Mccormick mother-love is not one
whit different from that of the wife
whose husband earns only a dollar a
day, and Mr.. Mccormick is a man
and a father before he is a million
aire. A blow to them through their
children is not in the least softened
by reason of their wealth. 1t is a
great pity that they are called upon
to suffer annoyance and anxiety for
their children through no fault of
their own, but by reason of the Grim
inal cuDidity of envious and unscrup-
ulOus dastards
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-04-08
oIrr OLE HIS OWN SPOON.

When the Colorado river burst its
boundaries and began flooding the
Salton sink the Southern Pacific rail-
road and the government agreed upon
a scheme of cooperation for stopping
the overflow and preventing the mum
dation of thousands of acres of farm
lands. The railroad was to do the nee
essary work and the government was
to pay it's proportion of the cost. Re-
Gently there was presented to con-
gress a bill of the Southern Pacific
for 81 100000 as the governments
share of the expense. Immediately
there was a move on the part of con-
gressmen to scale the amount by
100000. Objections were raised
1t was pointed out that scaling and
rebating were practically synonymous
terms under the circumstances, and
that rebating was in violation of the
law; that by demanding a rebate
Uncle Sam would put himself in jeop-
ardy of a jail sentence. The matter
is still pending.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-04-08
Why He Lies to His Wife.
BY WINNIFRED BLACK.

more than man hates to hear the
truth from the woman he loves-he
only hates the results worse-that' S
all
The only time a woman ever does
hear the truth at all is when some
man tells it to her-her father, her
brother or her husband.
The rest of the world joins in the
conspiracy of fiattery that sends many
poor silly goose peacocking through
life under the impression that she's
a swan of royal bearing at the very
least. For a good sensible woman,
with no nonsense about her, COM
mend me to the woman with broth
erS.
She's heard the truth about her
self often enOugh-you may depend
upon it.
Me? Do I like to hear the real
upright and downright nO-nonsense-
about-it truth?
Well, er-a-yes, when I'm feeling
just like it.
At all other times | like to have
the people love say to me in spirit,
See here, | love you so much, let's
pretend think you are beautiful and
wise and charming and kind" and
the first thing I know I'll be trying
my hardest to be all the things we're
pretending.
Why don't men tell the truth to
women?
Because they dassent.
They might get a dose of truth
in return.-New York American.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-04-08
THE PASSING OF PALESTINE.

Asia would Sustain itself in spite of
this continually growing pressure.
The possibility no longer exists, ac-
cording to specialists who return to
America after studying popular man
ners in Palestine as they are now
with the life of David and Solomon,
of Job and Abraham still surviving in
its everyday customs. Palestine is
soon to be no more unless those who
see what they think the worst of the
present are mistaken in concluding
that it must soon mean the worst pos
sible This, of course, is modern inn
provement, with telephones in the
houses, talking and singing machines
grinding American music and moving
picture shows under French and
American management in every viii
lage. All other conveniences of civil
ization will follow in due course as
the result of modern education over
coming antique simplicities.-St.
Louis Republic.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-04-08
THEY CAN DO BOTH AT ONCE.

ii
According to the Lexington
Echo there is in one section OF
Oglethorpe county kind of RI
valry among neighbors as to who
will grow the best crops and
raise more of the same product
on the same amount and about
the same kind of land.-Daw-
son News.
This is the best kind of con-
test, and Terrell has some fine
land and some tiptop farmers.
But Just to think of hearing the
old war horses" of Terrell re-
turning to their plowshares and
grubbing potatoes instead of
making governors. - Savannah
Press.
For the information of our contem
porary The News will state that the
Terrell county farmers are the best
on earth. There are none others like
them, and they can attend to the
two little jobs of making governors
and grabbing potatoes at the same
lime, and then not be any too busy
And they generally do both well.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-04-08
Save Your Bank Account.

Have your painter use the L. &
M. Pure Paint, because L. & M. guar
antee the L. & M. paint, and thus
guarantee your painter work; it's
double insurance. 4 gallons L. &
M. Paint and gallons linseed oil
make gallons PANT at cost of $1.20
per gallon. j. M. Clifton Hardware
Co., Dawson, Ga, L. & M. Paint
agents.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-04-08
Oh. WHY Mention IT?

We miss Clark Howell's name on
the executive committee of the Fulton
county Hoke Smith club. Yet didn't
Clark tell the governor he was the
best friend he had in the state and
his most loyal Griffin
News and Sun.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-04-08
Not Hot in the Collar.

From the Savannah Press.
This paper does not propose
to get hot in the collar over the
gubernatOrial campaign now in
progress. We will print the news
without fear or favor, and let
them scrap it out.-Dawson
News.
1t is just as well to keep cool. In
the last campaign, however, Terrell
county was a storm center, and Ed
itor Rainey was one of the minority.
This time everything is very quiet
over there, and the editor is in the
serene air of a neutral zone.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-04-08
Notice Of Business hange

The firm of Howell q Jordan, at Sasser, Ga.
has been dissolved, j. /. Howell retiring. The
style of the hrm is M. S. Jordan Il Co. the men,
bers being NJ. S. Jordan and r. B. Jordan. The
business will be continued at the same old stand
in a clean and up to date manner and with stock
consisting of dry goods, notions, millinery cloth
ing, shoes and fancy groceries, We ask our old
patrons to continue to favor us with their trade
and invite new ones to come to the Star Cash
Store and cut their bills down by getting more
goods for less money. We are strictly conr-
teous to everyone. and rely on the quality Of
our goods to do the rest Respectfully,
NJ. S. JORDAN Il co
Sasser, Ga, April l, 1908
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-04-08
FOR STATE TREASURER.

To the Democratic Voters of Georgia: | am a
candidate for Treasurer of this State subject to
the Democratic primary on June 4th My can
ddacy is based upon my former service 10 the
people in thus office covering period ofs more
public scrutiny and which has never been i'm
pugned. II elected promise the same faithful
attention to the duties of the office that marked
my previous administration. Yours truly
WIN. J. SPEEER
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-04-08
ANNOUNCEMENTS

(The price of announcement for office is $500
in advance. The cash must invariably accom-
pauy the copy. No exceptions will be made to
this rule.)
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-04-08
Well, Why Not?

Great guns The Rome Tribune
Herald calls it the Atlanta Evening
ACCOMPLISHMENTS Chronicle.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-04-08

Nor for the Hot Winds"
The peach crop wasn't killed, and
so Hoke Smith cannot be blamed for
that.-Darien Gazette.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-04-08

Hon. w. D. Scott, Moultrie's may
or, says Colquitt county will give
Griggs two to one over Roddenbery
The politicians are for Roddenbery
and the wool-hat boys are for Griggs
is the way he sizes it up. That has
been the case ever since the present
congressman from this district has
been in public life. His strength has
always been and is now among the
plain people.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-04-08
FOR STATE SENATOR.

| will he a candidate for Senator of the EIev-
enth Senatorial District before the next Demo.
cratic primary. II elected I shall appreciate the
honor. and will endeavOr to serve the public IN
terest with fidelity. Respectfully,
JNO K IRWIN
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-04-08

Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt passed
through Georgia Saturday, and a
number of Atlantans, with accustom-
airy eagerness to be in the limelight,
rushed down to the train armed with
flowers and speeches, only to find
that she was not receiving" The
flowers were deliveded by the con-
ductor, but nobody delivered the
speeches.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-04-08

Editor Beazley, who was nominal
ed for the legislature last week, an
nounces the suspension of the Lee
County Journal. AS strenuous as he
is these two jobs were too much for
him to undertake at the same time.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-04-08

Governor Smith spent most of last
week campaigning in south Georgia,
and was enthusiastically received by
his friends.
~
The Atlanta Georgian seems to be
a little Brownish.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-04-08
Notice to CITY Voters.

The books of registration for the primary cleo
ton to be held on May 11rh are now open. Please
call and register on or before May 1st p m
the day on which said registration books will
close This March 18th, 1908.
r. E. BELL, City Clerk.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-04-08

Travelling men who cover the state
report a feeling of deep interest in
politics and the sentiment by far not
all one way The spirit of unrest is
noted by practically all drummers,
railroad men and others whose bust
ness takes them into the villages,
towns and country.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-04-08
Sold In Dawson by the Dawson DRUG Co.


Do not forget that 1 am yet here
and can give you better satisfaction
than any other in your town on
female complaints. Come and see
me. MANDY CARTER.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-04-08
Notice to Creditors.

All parties holding claims against the estate Of
o. S. Pace are requested to file same with the I'M
dersigned within the time prescribed by law, prop
erIy made out. THIS March 10th, 1903.
r. f. BELL. Admir- Estate of o. s. Pace.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-04-08

In the Clay county primary Friday
Hon. Ben Turnipseed, prominent
young lawyer of Fort Gaines, was
nominated for the legislature over
J. L. Hurst. Mr.. Turnipseed's father
was for many years prominent in the
politics of this section, and at one
time represented this district in the
state senate.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-04-08

DR.. Dupont Query of Macon has
coined a happy phrase, prohibition
lists pro tenn" And there are sights
of them
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-04-08

How time flies! Soon it will be
four years since we read daily tele-
graphich accounts of Judge Parker
morning swim in the Hudson, says
the Columbia State. One day he
went up Salt river, and but little has
been heard of him since.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-04-08
GENDER. NOT GRAMMAR.

We wish to thank The Dawson
News and the cambridge Seach
Light for calling our attention
to some grammatical errors in a
few issues ago of the News. The
only apology we can offer is that
we are kept busy jumping the
counters in one of the largest
stores in southwest Georgia
Coleman News.
Our esteemed contemporary is mis-
taken about this paper having criti
cised it's grammar. We have never
had any complaint to make about
the entertaining manner in which il
sings the queens English. We did
however, correct it in matter Of
gender, it having referred to our big
contemporary the Albany
Herald, as her" That was too much
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-04-08
The Camilla Enterprise smells a
mouse. 1t says:

mouse. 1t says:
The college on Wheels has
finished it's tour of the state,
lobbying with the people for the
University. Now look out for
greater appropriations for the
the University lobbyists at the
next session of the legislature.
The parties who footed the bills
for this trip expect to be re-
imbursed.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-04-08

They claim to have unearthed
the skeleton of Eve in Ohio, and say
it is seven feet high. No wonder
Adam did as he was told, says Editor
Stovall, who is himself married
man
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-04-08

Another Smith has part in the
Smith Brown race He is j. R.
Smith, a prominent merchant and
business man of Atlanta who is cam
paign manager for Brown.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-04-08
Farm Loans.

am still negotiating loans on farm lands. II
YOU need money see me- JNO. r. IRWIN.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-01-10
Mind Your business,

II you don't nobody will. II Is
your business to keep out OF all the
trouble you can and you can and will
keep out of liver and bowel trouble
If you take DR.. Kings New Life Pills.
They keep biliousness. malaria and
jaundice out of your S|yJn. 25c a,
all druggists. NY q.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-01-10

After that it was staged regularly
and it just happened to go. had
a stipulation as 10 the usual look in
on the royalty proposition and it GER
tainlv looked good to me-"
The Hoosier author Is in Washing
ton 10 aid the fight for a bill pre-
venting manufacturers of phono-
graphic records from using copies OF
songs or music without paying the
full royalty.
I've ought to have these royalties
said Mr.. AIDE. you people here il
the east have no idea of the phouo-
graph business. Out in the corn belt
where ] came from the farmer comes
in at night, kicks off his boots and
hangs his feet ON the kitchen stove
as he shouts turn her loose, boys.
They turn her loose and the thins
plays until 10 o'clock. What does
the author ofithese things get? Not
a cent. Just because some fellow
punched a few dents in a piece OF
rubber and says he Is not producing
the originals is absurd. Every au-
thor should have his royalty just the
same as when the thing is printed Oh
paper"