The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-02-16
William Chas. Adamson, Of Georgia
BY sAvoYARp.

The west borderland midway. be-
tween Tennessee and Florida Is the
Fourth congress district of Georgia,
composed of ten counties. extending
from Carroll on the north to Marion on
the south, and having a population in
1900 of 1926. There is no fairer land,
no better cline, in our hemisphere.
The soil is generous, and there is pro-
duceo in prolific abundance corn, cats,
many of the grasses, cotton, veseta-
bles, fruits and melons 1t abounds in
springs, some fresh. some mineral,
some hot, some cold, and when the vir
tues of these waters shall be we'll
known TO the wealthy classes of our
entire population the Fourth Georgia
district will become a perpetual health
and pleasure resort during each and
every season of the year. 1t can be
made an immense game preserve,
while the tens of thousands of springs
of pure, fresh water, form rivulets,
brooks and creeks, Astounding in game
fish of many species. There, too the
flowers are from Christmas to Christ
mas. 1t could be turned into vast
dairy farm. surprising anything of
that kind in New York or Wisconsin,
Illinois or Iowa. And yet the land
would be valuable in New England for
its vast deposits of granite and marble
If the soil were absolutely barren.
Why the farmers of Iowa emigrate to
Canada and voluntarily become sub
jects of Edward VII rather than go TO
Georgia and acquire cheap lands sus-
ceptible of more diversified crop rota-
ton than even Iowa affords is a mys-
terry. for the northern counties of the
Fourth Georgia have even a smaller
percentage of negro population than
o. he Of
| about Cairo. The Georgia peach and
the Georgia watermelon attain TO their
highest excellence there. ard there's
millions in them.
Again, the white population of the
Fourth Georgia can show greater
percentage of pure English FLOOD Than
any other constituency in America, or
in old England itself. That IL why the
cotton they produce is the very ocst
long staple, and that accounts for the
fact that the Fourth Georgia grows its
own corn and fats its own PORK. More
over, every pound OF cotton grown in
| the ten counties is fashioned into the
finished fabric i'm mills within their
| borders. the capital stocks of which
are owned at home.
The Fourth Georgia is the native
land of Bishops Warren and Chandler,
eS
Breckenridge, Broaddus, Thompson and
Purcell. David B. Culberson. the Texas
giant, was a native of Troupe county.
Ben Hill. the Ajax at the bar and the
Achilles in the forum, lived foc many
years in the Fourth Georgia. That
other typical southerner and Georgian
| of the purest English strain. lanes
| NJ. Griggs, man of many sides and
| many gifts, was born at La Grange.
| Churches. schools and colleges abound.
and in no other community is there a
greater percentage of church members.
| In the old days what is now the
Fourth district furnished many more
members of congress than her nu-
merical population justified, some
| times as many as four. 1t
| was the home of Seaborn
Jones. HARRISON and Tours. 1t was
| here lived the COluuitts. Affords. Coo
per, Holt, Hoisey, Foster, Chappell,
Dent. 1verson and the Warmers. The
/ district also gave TO the state judiciary
many of the ablest judges. Henry r.
Harris. vet remembered in Washing
ton as one of the ablest men of nu-
| merous congresses of the double de-
cade, 1s70-90 was from the Fourth
Georgia. / believe he is yet living in
retirement. Henry Persons was also \
| representative of that constituency.
Later Thomas w. Grimes. Charles L.
Moses and Hugh Buchanan represent
ed the district in congress- George
| Foster Peabody and Oscar StrauS, now
of President Roosevelt's cabinet, are
natives Of the Fourth Georgia Several
members of the present house from
other states went from the same sec
| ton.
| The present member is William c.
AdamSon of Carroll county. He was
| born on farm, the sixth of nine chill
dren. and his father and two elder
brothers were soldiers of the confe1-
| eracy, volunteering when the future
| congressman was but years # age
and John. his Oldest brother. 10. The
labor in the fields of these two lads
produced the food and supplied the
clothing for the family until the end
| of the war. When peace came their
| father sold a small quantity of cotton
they had grown at the phenomenaily
high price of 1866. and with the pro-
ceeds bought a stock of general mar-
chandise and opened a store.
The boy Charles was given a good
English education. and was graduated
from Bowdoin College in 1874 at the
age of twenty. Though a farmer, we'd
ded to the soil of his nativity by ties
er of sunny France. young Adamsor
| studied law and came to the bar In
1875. but he never ceased to be a farm
er. practical farmer. and yet delights
in agriculture.
His success at the bar was rapid and
| substantial, due mainly to a common
sense that unerringiy taught him tho
strong point of his own case and the
weak point Of his adversary's; but this
was not all, and not enough. Adamsor
has a mind that engages in forensic
combat like bulldog in dog fight He
seizes on the material issue, casting
away everything not vital and clings tC
it with a persistent energy that will
take no denial This 1t was that gained
him success In the state courts, superior
and inferior, and in the federal courts
Adamson, like all southern gentlemen
took a keen interest in politics. The
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