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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-09-22
RAILROADERS ON THE FENCE.
State Brotherhoods VIII Not Declare for
Bryan or TAFT Until October.

Legislative Delegate John j. Morey
OF the Order OF Railroad Conductors Of
New York State, who is also president Of
the State United Railroadmen's Organi-
cations, said before leaving the city
yesterday to attend the convention of
the Workingmen's State Federation in
Rochester:
mo definite action will be taken by
the railroad brotherhoods in this State
as to whether they will support Bryan
sentatives of all the Ave railroad brother
hoodeof the State is held early in October
A lar &c number Of delegates from
A. F. OF L. unions have gone from this
city to the w~orkingmen's convention.
viii be made by the followers Of Presi-
dent Gompers Of the A. F. Of l.. to get
the convention TO pass a resolution sup
porting him in declaring for Bryan.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-09-22
No Political Banners Across Brooklyn
Streets,

President Bird 8. Coler Of the Borough
OF Brooklyn has refused to revoke the
ediot he issued three years age. forbid
ding the hanging Of political banners
across the streets. Various political
organizations have made applications
banners, but in each case he has turned
them down.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-09-22
FORT TO SPEAK IN IOWA.
Governor Of New Jersey Accepts visit.
ing Governors Invitation.

ing Governors Invitation.
AsBunr PARK. N. j.. Sept. 2i.-Gov.
Cummins Of Iowa, who has been visiting
friends In Asbury Park. was taken to
Spring Lake yesterday. where be was
introddced TO Q Fort Of New Jersey;
In Iowa?F said Gov. Cummins. coming
directly to the point.
Two OF them II you wish.' wal the
reply. -.
The dates were not Get, but they will
be a. sooa. - .Gey. Cummins gets homo.
He stsrtedbaek this morning. .
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-09-22
P~iano-players of the
future will come to
the EIectrelle idea.

the EleCtrelle idea.
They will do away
with the f~oot.pumping
which tires the per-
former, distracts his
thoughts, and takes away
half the pleasure Of the
music.
They will be as ar
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the Electrelle is now, so
that you can hardly dis
tinguish the performing
from accomplished hand
playing.
They will 60 inside
your own piano without
marring the case or inter-
If%eringwith Manipulating.
All this Is true n0W
Of the Electrelle.
II you wsnt a piano.
player that possesses
the advantages Of players
for years to come, the
Electrelle Is the only
piano player that will
satisfy you.
Call at our New York
headquarters opposite
the Waldorf Astoria and
have a demonstration Of
this wonderful instru.
ment.
Write for descriptive
book.
E~LECTRELLE COMPANY
West Thirty-third ST., New York
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-09-22

n. Altnra11 & On.
MEMS AND WOMEN TWIlLED SILK UMBRELLAS
20 AND % INCH SIZES. WITH HANDLES OF NATURAL
WOOD, SOLD USUALLY FOR $500 & $3.50.
WILL BE ON SPECIAL SALE.
THIS DAY TUESDAY, .. AT $500 EACH
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-06-24
The Passing of the Sheen.

From the Triton Gazette.
The Moultrie Observer notes that
the wool growers in the northern
part of ColQuitt county, the Nor
mans, Monks, Newtons and 9TH
ers, are selling off their sheep;
that where there were formerly
nearly 10000 head there will soon
be practically none. They are being
sold to buyers for markets in Allan
ia, but a good many are shipped to
Tennessee, and some have been
shipped to Mexico, where the ranges
are said to be good and prices fair.
One grower estimates between ten
and fifteen thousand sheep have been
shipped out of Colquitt in the past
few weeks. The prices obtained will
range frOm$1.50 to $40 per head.
The price of wool has steadily de-
creased, and sheep raising in that
portion of COlquitt is a thing of the
past What focks are left are very
small and the wool crop. which has
averaged in the past over 10000
pounds in that county. will drop to
almost nothing within the next
twelve moths.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-06-24
CANDIDATES. SPEECHES.

From Watson's Weekly Jeffersonian.
Examine our list of presidential
candidates and see how few of them
made stump speeches.
George Washington made none.
Thomas Jefferson made none.
John Adams, John Quincy Adams,
James Madison, James Monroe made
none.
Neither did Andrew Jackson, nor
Martin Van Buren,, nor General Har-
rison, nor James K. Polk, nor Frank
lin Pierce, nor James Buchanan.
Henry Clay made stump speeches
when he was a candidate, but could
never win enough votes over the
wiser men who guarded their
tongues.
Daniel Webster made speeches in
the interest of his candidacy, but
could never even secure the nomina-
ton.
In 1850 all the candidates took
the stump, and the great democratic
party was talked into chaotic con-
fusion. Lincoln, the minority candi-
date, slipped into the white house
If somebody could have muzzled Yam
ICY, DOuSl dSS dllu L OOulUS, WuIl6 the
management of the party was con-
fided to a council composed of such
men as Alexander H. Stevens, Rob-
ert NJ. T. Hunter, ex-President Tyler,
and Judah P. Benjamin, a demo-
cratic president would have been
elected, and there would have been
no civil war The slavery question
would have been settled without
bloodshed, just as it was settled in
every other land where it existed.
General Grant made no speeches,
nor did Tilden-and Tilden was just
as certainly elected as was Grant.
Cleveland put forth written state
ments only, while Blaine, his oppo-
nent, made brilliant oratory so COM
mon that it ceased to dazzle.
Harrison made speeches and was,
in his turn, beaten by the silent
Cleveland.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-06-24
Wrong and Unreasonable.

From the Fitzgerald Enterprise.
Candidate Roddenbery spent 81
240.55 trying to beat Congressman
Griggs in the Second district. Repre-
sentative Griggs' campaign cost him
$1,77S.55. All Of which is all wrong.
The $4,000 expended in that cam
paign is an unreasonable, unjust and
unnecessary tax. The office of con-
gresham ought to be attainable by
men who haven't so much cash to
spare.
In the race for governor it is
claimed that Governor Smith spent
about $25, 900, and that Mr. Brown S
campaign cost him or somebody else
nearly that amount 1t may be ar
gued that man might be so popu-
lar and strong with the people
that he could be elected without ex-
pense to himself over a man less pop
ular who might spend large sums of
money, but that does not strike the
keynote. The wrong that effects the
people is in the fact that a man, by
the expenditure of large sums of
money. may defeat an opponent more
worthy and capable and popular with
the people.
The use of money by candidates
for office to procure their election is
wrong in theory and disgracefu1 in
practice. 1t is certainly a weak
place in the American system of poll
ticS
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-06-24
WHY SHE LEAVES SOCIETY.

From the Savannah Press.
Mrs. LindenbOrn is leaving society
to return to the stage.
She was three weeks on the stage
and had been eight years in society
incidentally she mas 10 get rid of her
husband in order to set back to her
first love. When Mrs. LindenbOrn in
formed her spouse that she wanted
to return to the professional life
her husband who is an art dealer
answered, Not except over my dead
body" The lady then informed him
to lie down and die, for she was go
ing-and she went She is repre-
scented as a tall and handsome wo-
man with wavy brown hair, bright
eyes and piquant features. Her stage
name was Bertha Martin. This was
her maiden name. She was once a
chorus girl with De Wolfe Hopper.
She fell in love with her husband
at first sight He was a widower
twenty years her senior, and lived in
a beautiful house on West Thirty
fourth street. Mrs. Lindenborn's
reasons for her decision are para
phrased this way:
| had eight years of society,
and | could not stand it any
longer.
| drink but very little. Society
requires it's votaries to drink
much.
l never gamble. Society re-
quires that its members gamble.
Bridge whist is the favorite
amusement. 1t was against my
principles.
| got tired Of dressing and
gossiping and strutting about
and trying to think myself hap
Ply. l wanted something to do.
My mind must be employed. |
had eight years of this sort of
thing, and l was sick and tired
of it.
Society is empty. Both the
men and women who constitute
Society with a big IS are idle
and useless in the world.
That reminds one of the reason
which an old maid gave for not get
ting married why should l want
husband" she said, when l
have a parrot which swears, a cat
which stays out all night, a monkey
which chews tobacco, dog which
growls when l feed him
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-06-24
Hear TO Hear Talks.
BY EDWIN A. NYE.
Copyright. 1908, by Edwin A. Nye.
A LIGHT IN THE WINDOW.

In the pauper's graveyard at COT
teyville, Kan, lies the dust of a man
who wrote the song, There's a light
in the Window for Thee"
Rev. Edmund Dunbar wrote other
popular songs, but the one mentioned
above is pathetically associated with
his erratic career in life.
Dunbar spent three years in the
Minnesota penitentiary for bigamy.
and then became a wanderer on the
face OF the earth, vagabond. He
turned up at COffeyville, and applied
at the city Jail for food and lodging.
He died the same night. Letters on
his body identified him. He was bur
led in the potter's field, and his body
was recently taken back to the home
of his childhood
Factory boy, sailor, student. min
lister, convict, tramp-tkat was the
crescendo and dimenduendo in the
theme of Edmund Dunbar, a theme
constituted mostly of minor chords.
When he was a lad working in
factory late at night his mother al
ways kept light in the window for
him.
When he went to sea on a long
cruise his mother still kept the light
burning, and when she died before
he came back her last words were
these:
Tell my boy I will keep a light
burning in heaven for him"
Therefore the song.
On the stormy night of his death
in common calaboose did his spirit.
as it beat its wings upon the battered
cage of a worn and weary body,
see light in the window? Maybe
so. At any rate his story illustrates
again StevensOn's immortal tale of
DR.. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde"
Dunbar was at one time a brilliant
minister, an evangelist of unusual
power who always struck a sure note
Of pathOs. But there was a bad
streak in him somewhere. He was
sent to prison for promiscuous mar
rying, and afterward went to pieces,
degenerating into a common tramp.
There are those who believe that
genius is ALTERATION. Anyway, this
is true of us all, genius or otherwise.
We are all doubles We are both
Or, Jekyl and Mr.. Hyde.
In man are both brute and angel.
1t is only the angel that sees the
light in the window.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-06-24
A CANDIDATES. EXPENSES.

From the Augusta Herald.
Among the defeated candidates in
tho recent primary was Judge S. A.
Roddenbery of Thomasville, who
made the race for congress in the
Second district against Hon. James
NJ. Griggs.
Judge Roddenbery has just filed
with the congressional committee
his statement of campaign expen-
ses. 1t is sworn to and itemized,
and in this form is an Interesting
contribution to the history of polit-
ical campaigning. -.
TIE total expenses of his cam
paign, as per this statement, from
July Is, 1907, the date On which
his announcement YVES made, to June
8, 1908, the day before the primary,
was $4,240.55.
The items of the expense account
include the candidates fee assessed
by the committee, typewriter and
other supplies, bought for the cam
paign, stamps and newspaper wrap
pers, registration lists, and county
maps, printing and mailing of cir
culars outside of Thomas county,
and telegraph tolls, livery and team
hire, hotel and restaurant bills, rail-
road transportation, StenOgapher and
clerk hire, express charges, cigars
and soft drinks, and donations to va
rious good causes lin excess of usual
contributions to such causes. "
This account shows that the cam
didate was a very methOdiCal man,
and it will give those without cam
paign experience an idea of how ex-
pensive it is to run for office where
there is opposition, and it will serve
as a guide to future candidates, who
may prOfitably study the schedule
of expenses as presented by him.
1t is the last item which furnishes
proof not only of how conscientious
ly careful Judge Roddenbery was in
making up his expense account, but
illustrates also how a candidate has
his leg pulled by people who repre-
sent a good cause and are quick to
take advantage of every opportunity
to help it. For donations to schools,
churches and benevolent causes in
excess of usual contributions to such
purposes Judge Roddenbery gave
during this campaign $16O.5O. What
he gave as his regular contribution
to these causes is not stated, and
was not necessary to state. 1t must
be inferred he contributed to such
before and during the campaign such
amounts as he believed it his duty to
give. These donations are expected
to be credited by the recording an
gel But with a care that is surpris-
ing, because so rare, the judge sepa-
rated what was given in excess of
this amount, and charged it to his
campaign expense account, to which
it clearly belonged.
Judge Roddenbery's campaign ex-
pense account is to be commended as
a pattern for such accounts.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-06-24
THE EVENT AT CHICAGO.

The republican national cOnven
ton finished it's work at Chicago or
Friday after the nomination of Will
liam H. Taft of Ohio for president
and James S. Sherman of New York
for vice president.
Mr.. Taft, who is the secretary OF
war and withal a very capable and
excellent gentleman, is erhaps best
known to the country asa Me Too
Of President Roosevelt. There were
"favorite son" in abundance from
many states, and they yearned for
the high honor their party could
give them, but the movement in be-
half and toward the War Secretary
was too strong to be stemmed. 1t
had it's origin at the White House,
backed by the strenuous will of Mr.
Roosevelt, and what is more the
movement was en- rapport with
present day tendencies and ideas of
the party in power.
Mr.. Sherman, the nominee for
vice-president, lives at Utica, N.
Y, and has been a member of con
gress for eighteen years. He is the
president of a trust company, and
anything the political bosses say is
always good to him.
The party declarations-the plat
form-are well in line with the views
and policies that have brought the
president more than once in sharp
clash with the more conservative
element of his party. There is,
however, nothing startling or spec
tacular in it, or anything that will
give more than ordinary interest to
the campaign.
All in all it was a tame and unin-
teresting convention, as all similar
affairs necessarily are when
dominated by one man and cut
and dried programme has been
arranged in advance. 1t was the
reflex of one-man power, and was
just as Roosevelt wanted it.
But there is a campaign after the
convention. and later on an election.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-06-24

A newspaper dispatch was head
ed: Fate Wins a Double-Header. "
When Fate starts out to win just
kiss yourself goodbye.
Those two first" bales of cotton
from Texas are mighty early, almost
too early it seems to US.
As a Me Too" candidate Mr..
Taft isn't to have smooth Sailing to
the white house.
The Georgia legislature gets on
the track again today for sprint of
fifty suns.
A successful man will hit it lucky
already in spite of home and high
water.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-06-24
GRAVES GLEANINGS.

Mrs. Ed Breedlove gave her Sun
day school class an entertainment
Wednesday evening, and all who at
tended report nice time.
Miss Mary Lizzie Commander and
Miss Mary 0. Commander are on a
visit to DOerun and other places.
Mrs. B. M. Breedlove and little
daughter visited at the home of Mr..
John Smith Sunday.
Mr.. Walter Smith is on the sick
list this week. We hope to see him
out again soon.
The farmers around here were
glad to see the rain Sunday night.
Mrs. Mary Bussey is visiting at
the home of Mr.. Ed Breedlove.
Miss Zuleita Clay visited Graves
last week.
Mr.. Roy Smith visited homefolks
Sunday.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-06-24
POOR KING!

The German Emperor, as king OF
Prussia, wants to have his salary
raised. He is not getting enough
pocket money, and has demanded
more.
Most of US have repeated the old
nursery rhyme: 1t must be nice
to be king. And doubtless it is,
sometimes. But it must be horrid
to be king and not have enough
money to spend. One does not easily
imagine king nowadays not hav-
ing all he wants, especially a king
of a leading European country.
But so it is. In other words, the
kaiser is hard up. He has admitted
it. At present he receives from
the state $500, 900 as German en-
poror and nearly 100000 as
king of Prussia. The last increase,
which amounted to $3.50, 900, was
made in 1889, in the second year of
his reign, still it is not enough.
An income exceeding four and a
half million dollars a year is not a
despicable sum, even for Kaiser
William.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-06-24
NOT ALL GOOD NOR All BAD.

The last session Of the present
general assembly and the last year
of Governor Smith administration
viii begin today
Those who condemn all that has
been done by Mr.. Smith S admins
tration, as well as those who APP
prove all that has been done, have
fallen into dangerous error, and if
either side could influence the pub
lie mind toward its purpose the peo-
pie would be led far off on false is
sues. Some things that Governor
Smith and this Legislature did are
good, and other things they did are
bad. Informed and patriotic citi-
zens on both sides of the questions
now before them should agree that
the good should stand approved,
and that the bad should be duly
corrected.
There has never been an admin :
1stration that did not make mis-
takes, and it is but fair to recall
that the legislature at its last SEES
sion was burdened and torn by the
state prohibition bill and by other
diversions and annoyances aside
from the far-reaching and radical
reforms it was led into without sui
Rcient or wise consideration. Some
allowance should be made for the
extraordinary conditions and diff
,culities that confronted members Of
the legislature on their appearance
at the state capitol. The Smith ad
ministration undertook entirely too
much, and this was the more unfor
tunate because of the extraordinary
hindrances in the way.
The thing to do now is to take VI
the work at hand without preiudic,
or partisan bias, and get out of /
the best possible results. In Orde
TO do this the contention that it i
all good as well as thesscontentiol
that tits all bad must be abandoned
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-06-24
Cheer In.

Cheer up, my friend, when you are
dead
Kind words a plenty will be said
OF you, and flowers, too,
Upon your grave we'll haste to strew.
So cheer up, friend, cheer up, l say
Kind words and flow 'rs-some day,
some day.
When you are dead We'll eulogize
And praise and laud you to the skies.
A loving tribute we will write.
And carve on your stone your virtues
bright;
So cheer up, friend. cheer up, say
A saint you'll be-some day, some
day.
Florence w. Brantley in Telegraph
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-06-24
High Aims.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Miss Popinjay!" he cried.

From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Miss Popinjay!" he cried.
She froze.
"Arabella," he whispered.
She melted
He kissed her hand.
She withdrew it hastily and gazed
reproachfully upon him.
He raised his eyebrows.
Il didn't think it of you" she
said almost tearfully. Il had al
ways considered you a young man
with ideals, and
II am sorry" he stammered,
eff I have offended. I"
well, j" she said bitterly, 81 GER
tainly expected you to aim higher!''
Whereupon he took heart and the
hint.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-06-24
Dawson win BE Glad to See You.

From the Shellman Sun.
Tho Dawson News announces a
big day in that old town on the 26th
inst. There will be a wheelbarrow
race, a greasy pole climbing and a
game of baseball between the fats
and the leans. Now. there is fun
enough mapped out to last a month.
Lots of people should spend the day
in Dawson.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-06-24

The Macon Telegraphsscalls atten-
ton to an interesting coincidence in
Georgia politics. 1t is the close APP
nroximation of the majorities of
Joseph E. Brown for governor in
1857 and Joseph NJ. Brown in 1908.
The majority Of Brown, the father,
was 1O,767, and Of Brown, the son.
1o.857-a difference of 80 votes.
Fifty years ago the elder Brown.
running as Democrat, polled 81,
888 votes against Ben Fl. Hill
Know-Notbing, 46,731.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-06-24
Familiar Faces.

This whole state has its attention
Drawn to that Atlanta convention.
Oh. what a meeting it must be
After being two years "at sea" H.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-06-24
Board Wanted.

Board IN nice family by couple willing to
pay E(l a go"a price. Address L. NJ D., care The
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-06-24

The Washington Herald thinks !
will be hard fought campaign.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-06-24

Which Bill will be big Bill" after
November?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-06-24
Lost.

A brooch with gold spokes, every other one
oIue and opal setting. Also gold stick min with
pearl IN middle. Finder will deliver to me and
oe rewarded R. M. STEWART
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-06-24
Lost.

on the streets of Dawson a pair Of nose glassp,
with gold frame. Return to me and be rewarded
X. S. WORTHY