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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-10-21
SEND THEM IN.

Since we forwarded the contribu-
lions to the democratic national cam
paign fund received up to a week ago
number of other democratic dol
lars have come to The News, ana
these will be sent forward in the
next few days. Every loyal democrat
is urged, in the meantime, to make
a contribution of some amount, as
there will be need of all the money
3hat IS likely to be contributed to
continue to meet the necessary legiti-
mate expenses which will be incurred
during the remaining days of the
campaign Hon. Herman Ridder, the
treasurer of the democratic national
campaign committee, in a letter to
The News requests that the final re-
mittance be made not later than DC
tober 28th MIR. Ridder also says he
believes we will achieve a great
national victory and it is hoped every
democrat will do his full part in con-
iributing toward making it sure
Send in the dollars.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-10-21
"THE OLD RELIABLE"

Mr.. Pendleton has sold a block of
the stock of the Macon Telegraph to
Mr.. w. T. Anderson. and a large
double-deck press and other addition
al equipment will he installed Mr.
Anderson will have charge OF the
general affairs Of the Telegraph, and
Mr.. Pendleton will devote his entire
sine to editorial work. which means
that the editorial page OF the Macon
morning paper will be made still bet
ter, if that is possible. The Macon
Telegraph is the only daily newspa-
per which reaches Dawson in the
morning that carries the full news
reports of the day before. 1t is sell
dom that it doesn't scoop" the twi-
light editions Of the other morning
papers that reach here on the same
train with It.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-10-21
A PLAIN MANS TALK TO THE
PEOPLE.
From the Savannah News.

| From the Savannah News
Governor-elect Browns address
to the people of Georgia is an excel
lent pen picture of himself. He is a
modest and sincere man who fully
realizes the responsibility of the
great Office to which he has been
| chosen, and who intends to discharge
he duties of that Office to the best
of his ability and with an eye single
to the welfare and happiness of the
people. He means to do what is right,
and he has the ability and the
strength of character to do it.
He will enter upon the discharge
Of his official duties without feelings
Of bitterness against any individual
or faction who opposed him in the
recent political campaign. He will
begin his official life with no purpose
to punish anybody, and with a de-
termination that his Office shall not
be used to favor one individual, one
class or one section over another
He means to be governor of the
whole people, to meet every one on
an equal footing and to use what
ever power he has for the promotion
OF every legitimate interest.
Mr.. Brown intends to visit differ
ent parts of the state, in accordance
with a promise he made before his
election, in order to come into con-
tact with the people and learn from
them their views and wishes respect
ing matters upon which depend their
happiness and prosperity and the up
building Of the state He wants it
al ~
plain man who wants to know the
people and get close to their hearts.
That is why he invites them to con-
fer with him freely and make known
their wishes in respect to matters in
which it may be in his power to as
sist them. The fact that he is soon
to be governor isn't a bar to the
freest and most friendly intercourse.
One of the reasons why Mr.. Brown
was so successful in his candidacy
was that the people recognized his
sincerity. They were satisfied that
he didn't seek the office of governor
as a stepping stone to another posi-
ton, and they were certain that, if
elected, he wouldn use his office to
favor one class as against another or
W p OA4IOCC O1C luIclS SI 10 the injury
Of another.
And the people are going to find
they made no mistake in choosing
him as their chief executive. He is
one of them and is IN sympathy with
them. For that reason he will take
deeper hold on their confidence and
affections as the character of his ad-
ministration is revealed If there
are any who think he will permit
himself to be used by designing poll
tlclans or that he will soon lose his
popularity they will find themselves
mistaken. The contrary is more than
likely to be the truth. He will grow
in the esteem of the people, and will
be stronger politically at the end of
his term than he is now. The people
will be loyal to him il he is loyal to
them, and there is plenty Of evidence
that he will be loyal to them.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-10-21
One of the Greatest EpiLs of the
Present Day: Crazy About Clothes
From The GAINESVILLE Gazette.

An article in another column by
a valued contributor calls attention
forcibly to one of the prominent evils
of the present age-that Of extrava-
ganCe in dress. With the men the
fad is bad enough, but it must be
generally admitted that with the wo-
men it is far worse, the consuming
passion with many of them seeming
to be to spend every dollar they can
get for dress and headgear, the SUI
preme ambition in many cases being
solely to Outdress some other woman.
This desire for show in dress starts
with the baby in the cradle and ends
with the shrOud with which the body
is covered for laying away in the
grave. In fact in this degenerate
age IN this particular, this ambition
to Outdress somebody else, starts be-
fore the baby is born, and on Gossip
street it is a matter of common re-
port that Mrs. So and So has the
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-10-21
BIENNIAL SESSIONS.

The idea OF a session OF the Iegis-
lature once in every two years is tax
rag hold OF the people, and growing
IN favor. The Savannah News was
the first newspaper in the state to
lake up the question of biennial ses-
sions of the general assembly, and
SO earnestly and consistently has it
urged the change the past several
years that many other papers have
fallen in line and are speaking out
for it. 1t is q genuine reform that
we believe is not a great ways off.
The CordeIe Rambler makes these
strong points iu favor of fewer SEES
slons and less legislation:
The Macon Telegraph has an
editorial on the subject of less
government being the better
government. and suggests that
our legislature should meet only
once in two years, which would
= mean not only less expense to
the taxpayers. but that we
would also escape lot of freak
and harmful legislation. All of
the great democratic leaders in
the past. Jefferson, Benton, Til
den and others, urged this prin-
ciple OF government, advocating
the repeal of all useless and I'M
necessary legislation.
Their position has always
been that laws which were not
upheld by public sentiment were
usually dead letter, and in
many instances their presence
on the statute books were really
harmful. even though these
same laws might be good for
other people and other commu-
mites.
The Rambler believes in the
above doctrine, and would be
glad to see our legislators get
back to business sessions.
We have too many laws and
too many courts already.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-10-21
The Wall Street Newspaper Organs
Significant Vfe0O Of the Campaign.
From The Wall Street Summary (Rep.)

Mr.. j. J. Hill tells us that, in all
his experience, he has never seen
party lines so thinly drawn as they
are at present, and, consequently, an
estimate of the political situation is
impossible. We believe this to be the
opinion of many Independent think
ers who do not permit impulse or
partisanship to sway them. Mr.. Bry-
an is UNNECESSARILY stronger now
than at any time heretofore. He will
run better in the west than in his
previous candidates.. His trip
around the world, chautauqua lect-
ures, and writings in the last eight
years have contributed to the forma-
ton generally of a better opinion of
him among the people at large His
platform save in regard to bank de-
post guarantees and labor injunc-
tiOns is harmless if vacuOus, while
his theoretical radicalism is not be-
lieved by many to approach the act
ual performance of Mr.. Roosevelt.
He is, and always has been, very
much in the public eye" and his
chance of leading to the polls har-
mOnized democracy is fairly good.
All these things are in his favor. On
the other hand, Mr.. Taft is regarded
in many quarters as a secondary
figure, merely proxy of President
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-10-21
Uncle JOe's" Landslide.

From the Dalton Argus.
Anyhow, the campaign is evidently
costing Uncle Joe Cannon a whole
lot of money. He has just sold Sac
600 worth of his Nebraska farm lands
and is offering for sale still other
property he owns in Eastern Nebras-
ka The farm Cannon has just sold
contains 700 acres, and sold for $40
an acre. The market price for lands
OF the same class in the vicinity is
$50 to $50. Mr.. Cannon purchased
this land years ago, when lands were
going at a song. He is reported to
own thousands Of acres of land in
eastern Nebraska, right in the heart
of the corn and wheat belt.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-10-21
THE JINGLE OF THE GUINEA
HEALS THE HURT"
rom the Augusta Chronicle.

Judge Ellis of the Atlanta circuit
decided the near beer act" of our
last, dear-departed Legislature con-
stitutional The decision will be ap-
pealed to our supreme court, which
will, of course, sustain it. 1t is al
most an accepted doctrine in Geor-
gia that whatever gets a majority of
votes in the legislature is constitu-
tional.
Our liquor legislation is, there
fore, now, as Caesar said Gaul was,
in three parts. First, there is the
prohibition act, which prohibits
everything about liquor except get
ting drunk. Then there is the locker
law, which allows liquor if you pay
the state its price. The bargain by
which the prohibition members in
1907 sold out this privilege to tony"
town and city clubs, while rigidly
cutting off the farmers of the coun-
try and the workmen of the towns
from their little nips, has never been
ventilated, nor will we now lift the
lid.
The third branch of our liquor
legislation is this near beer act" If
you pay the price you can sell near
beer, and in consideration of your
coming down with the dust literally
the schedule being from 5000 to
$500-the powers that be will not
give themselves nervous prostration
by enquiring too closely how near
you get.
Looks as If somebody had gotten
our good old state in the position of
Truepenny in the novel, who would
do almost anything for a consider
alton"
Five hundred dollar clubs and
two hundred dollar saloons make
one think that if you raise sufficient
ly the limit almost anybody can get
permit to drink almost anything.
There is a thirst for drink and a
thirst for revenue, and it does seem
as if we were shaping up to a bar
gain whereby if you stake the latter
you will be allowed to quench the
former. The jingling of the guinea
heals the hurt that prohibition feels.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-10-21

The democratic national campaign
committee has given out a state
ment of the contributions to the cam
paign fund OF 500 and over. The
total contributions amount to 1884
567.55. The number OF contributors
is estimated at fifty thousand people,
and about a hundred thousand dol
lars of the whole amount contrib
uted came from the democratic news
papers. Georgia is represented on
the list by a single contribution OF
as much as 500. and it was from
Governor Smith. who gave $3.50.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-10-21

The work of rebuilding the Metho-
dist church in cambridge, which was
burned during the Griggs-R odden-
berry jaw exhibition last spring, has
been suspended for the want of
funds. The Search Light says quite
a number of the large and loud con-
tributors have not paid a cent. The
adage that lit is more blessed to
give than to receive" is all right.
And it is sight easier to subscribe
to a fund than to pay.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-10-21

most and finest baby clothes ever
before heard tell of in the commu-
nifty. The husband may be in the
most moderate circumstances and
working at break-neck speed to pro-
vide the means for putting his bust
ness on its feet, but that matters lit
tie to foolish wife. This baby must
have all the necessary quantity and
quality of apparel to meet the ap-
prevail Of the leader of the local
400" In many homes it is said the
chief theme Of conversation from one
days end to another is about dress.
and therefore the children are
brought up with this as the most i'm
portant thing on their minds. Wo-
men and children, and men, too. are
crazy about fine clothes. The pity
of it! Great men and women do not
grow out of such surroundings and
environment. 1t is time for the peo-
pie to come to their senses in this
matter.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-10-21

Roosevelt, who concentrated on him
self the attention of the entire coun-
try until few days ago by the con-
tentious correspondence which he
carried on with various gentlemen.
supposedly in the Taft interests, but
concerning which not a few have
viewed his efforts with alarm and
misgivings. 1t was Bryan and Roose-
welt; it has never been Bryan and
Taft Despite the splendid attain
ments of Mr.. Taft, his honorable and
justly distinguished public service
record, he has not had a 1.-THE of the
publicity given Mr.. Bryan. His cam
paign has been anaged-shame-
fully mismanaged, in our opinion;
and, to make matters worse, some
republican states are labOring with
party dissensiOns. This is notably
the case in Indiana and Wisconsin,
and in New York, and probably in
Ohio the outlook for republican sue
cess would be stronger if the loyalty
of some party leaders was above sus-
picion. Disregarding totally the
handicap of the panic, which by the
unemployed and Disconnected is laid
at the republicans door, the situation
passiOnately reviewed is hard to
unrayel. At the most it is an equal
fight, and that augurs badly for Taft.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-10-21
APPRECIATES 1T.

Our neighbor, the Cuthbert Lead
err, appreciates what this paper had
to say of the man on the fence. We
are glad to have given our brother
comfort, and to assure him that we
really do believe the fence rider is
sometimes a good and useful citizen
"a kind OF balance wheel as it were.
The Leader says:
The Dawson News, in its last
issue, has an article in defense
of the man on the fence We
remember, not many months
ago, that Editor Rainey criti-
cised us for occupying that very
attitude in regard to the con-
gressiOnal race. The only rea-
son we refer to this ancient his
tory is to remark that we are
glad to see that Brother Rainey
is becoming broader in his
views"
The trouble with our Cuthbert
neighbor in the congressional cam
paign was that he tried to make him
self believe he was on the fence when
he wasn't.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-10-21
Mr.. BTyan's Public and Private
Integrity.
From the Atlanta Georgian.

From the Atlanta Georgian.
No one-nOt even Mr.. Hearst. with
his purloined letters-has ever been
able to cast the shadow of a doubt
on Mr.. Bryan's purity of purpose
and his public and private integrity.
His administration would be honest,
his efforts would be directed toward
helping the greatest number. His
party is not so nearly dominated by
unwholesOme interests as is Mr..
Taft's. Mr.. Bryan is right now
stronger than his party; Mr.. Taft is
weaker than the republican party.
And the only administrative tri-
umphs the republican party has won
in the past four years have been the
execution, after a fashion, of Mr..
Bryan's lOng-standing ideas. Mr..
Roosevelt, defying his own party, put
some of those ideas into effect, and
by so doing achieved his greatest
popularity with the people, and his
greatest unpopularity with Cannon
and Aldrich and Plat and the rest
of them.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-10-21
The Happiest of Cusses.

From the Meigs review.
We south Georgia editors ought
to be the happiest cusses on earth.
Nothing to worry us except work,
the grocer, the rent man, the pay
roll, a gasoline engine, delinquents,
close-fsted merchants, paper manu-
facturers, the woodman, the milliner,
the devil, and few other little items
in the daily routine-and the coun-
try full of cane patches, pinder fields
and potato hills. Pshaw! A sugar
boiling and a INCONSISTENCY night con-
stitute as good a substitute for
Heaven as anybody could want.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-10-21
The Town CrOaker.

In very town you find some men
who always croak and growl; their
chief amusement seems to be to snarl
and whine and howl. Of course they
do not prosper well-such people sell
dom do-and so they strive to make
themselves and all their neighbors
blue. If strangers come these men
endeavor to get them off alone, and
while they speak in doletuI tones tell
them how the town is dead and
passed away, and hasn't any enter
prise that half begins to pay; how
real estate is very low and taxes
very high, and every improvement
scheme is sure to wane and die. The
good book says a day will come when
all must pass away and swap for
wings and golden harps this tene-
ment of clay; the earth will burn
with fervent heat, the sun go out in
gloom, and every living, breathing
thing shall find real tomb. When
that time comes the croaker who
drives against his town, and tries to
drive good men away and breaks
their efforts down, will be declared
a victim for a special dose of flame
ten thousand years and he will be
roasting just the same.
Meantime the energetic man who
labors for his town, always works to
build it up instead of tearing down,
will ride from earth to heaven in a
Pullman palace car, and will dwell
in peace forever where the first-class
angels are.-Monroe Tribune.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-10-21

Who says the factions in the dem
ocratic party are not getting togeth-
er, and harmony being rapidly re-
stored? The Hon. Joe Hall, chair
man of the Bibb County Democratic
Club, invited Governor Smith to ad-
dress the democrats in Macon, and
he will do so tonight 1t will be
made an occasion of more than or
binary interest, and will be an old
time party rally with Mr.. Smith as
the chief whooper up.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-10-21
THE HONIENyARD CALL.

For a ripping river wanders
Through the fertile valley lands
Through the meadows and the corn
fields
Where an old gray farmhouse
stands;
And waits there for my returning
Mary with her eyes of blue,
With her face so sweet and gentle
And her heart so pure and true.
Through the long, glad days of child
hood
We played by the rivers side;
And when childhood's days were over
She became my promised bride.
But ambition fired my spirit,
And l left the scenes I knew.
Left the old familiar faces,
Left my sweetheart, fair and true.
Here amid the city's hustle,
Where the night glows like the
day,
| am toiling, straining, striving.
wearing youth and life away.
mere l dream faint stars are shining.
And the distant hills are blue:
mere waits Mary in the gateway,
And her heart l know is true.
should [ win in this mad struggle
All the things that lured me here.
otlIl my soul would go on longing
For the old life, sweet and dear
cold mas dazzled pride misled me,
But my folly now is through;
| am going back to Mary,
And the heart 1 know is true
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-10-21
Seven Years of Moral Leanness.

From the Sparta Ishmaelite.
Thank the Lord, less than six
months remain of the official life OF
Theodore Roosevelt. The future can
have nothing worse in store for the
country. There is hope of the return
OF the people to the methods of the
early and better days of the repub-
lie, if they have not Deen hopelessly
corrupted by the seven years of
moral leanness through which this
presidential Pharaoh has led them.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-10-21
Welcome the New Family.

From the Darien Gazette.
The Marietta Journal very sensibly
remarks: Don't wait month, or
a week, or a day before you welcome
the new family who moves into
your neighborhood. Give them the
glad hand the first chance you get.
Show them that they are welcome.
and thus make a kindly feeling to
you and the town spring up in their
hearts. 1t is not necessary that they
become bosom friends-that is a mat
ter for future consideration; but
make them feel like neighbors, any
how"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-10-21

The Court OF Appeals has handed
down another decision just bullying
with wisdom 1t has solemnly i'm
parted the information that lager
beer is Intoxicating. Not a great
while before this tribunal did a
freak judicial stunt by holding that
a man who mailed certain kind OF
literature in Tennessee committed a
crime ia Georgia.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-10-21

Mr.. Bryan is cheerful and conf
dent, and tells democrats to keep up
their hopes and the fight Mr.. Bryan
is making a wonderful canvass, and
let it be hoped his strength will hold
out to the end.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-10-21

Columbus and Savannah are dis
putting as to which has the cleanest
and prettiest streets. There is no
danger of Dawson getting into a con-
troversy OF that kind
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-10-21

The Georgia State Fair will opea
at Macon next Tuesday. Get ready
to spend a day or two enjoying the
great event 1t will be a credit to
all Georgia, and a benefit, too.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-10-21

Browns majority in the election
was the largest ever given a candi-
date for governor in Georgia. The
Oglethorpe Echo thinks that as a
joke he grows in magnitude
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-10-21

We see it stated that the microbe
population of a twelve-ounce piece
of cheese has been estimated at s.
O0O,0OO,000 And it wasn't limberg-
er, either.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-10-21

The Cuthbert Leader says either
there are blind tigers in Cuthbert, or
our citizens import much booze these
days"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-10-21

Governor Smith is right when he
says that the election of Bryan
would mean "a broader, fairer and
purer conduct of national affairs,
with less extravaganza and a greater
! regard for constitutional and moral
N19htg "
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-10-21

COmpIete-A complete and up to
date line of machinist and carpen-
ters' tools. The best and largest as
sortment in Dawson. Prices guaran-
teed. ]. M. CLIFTON HARDWARE
CO., phone 173.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-10-21
Corked Up the Hot Air.

From the Oglethorpe Echo.
Bryan must indeed be a great man.
He is the only one yet found who
could make Teddy shut up.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-10-21
FOR SALE IN EARLY COUNTY

The following lands: One
hundred and twenty-five acres
OF land without improvements
price $1,000; fifty-acre tract on
public road with new four-room
framed house, otherwise unim-
proved, price $3.50; seventy-five
acre tract with fre-room frame
house, rough, one acre cleared
otherwise unimproved, price $500
All OF these tracts outside stock
law, and accessible to schools
and churches. Address
X. I'll. SHEFFIELD, BIakely, Ga.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-10-21

Governor Smith is not only the
largest Georgia contributor to the
democratic national campaign fund,
but he is in the thick of the fight
in the doubtful states speaking for
Bryan and the democratic cause
And that covers multitude of sins
in the eyes of The News.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-10-21
PROMIsCUOUs REFLECTIONS.

A poet says that in this life one
must be either anvil or hammer. Lots
of us, however, are only bellows.
A decent man will always carry
life insurance. 1t gives his wife's sec
ond husband such a good start.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-10-21

The present year has seen a no.
ticeable decrease in immigration, and
the figures for July-the most recent
obtainable-show that the decrease
continues. The number Of immi-
grants during that month was 81
500 against 97,132 in July, 1907, a
decrease of Y per cent. And those
two or three shiploads for Georgia
every month are not arriving, either.