The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette., 1910-08-06
"What's The News?"
SOMETIME there has been talk of con-
II solidation of a great number of cotton mills
By CLARENCE POE.

"OR SOMETIME there has been talk of con-
II solidation of great number of cotton mills
- in different parts of the South, among the
alleged promoters of the scheme being the Dukes
who organized the Tobacco Trust which has rob-
bed the American tobacco farmers of their inde-
pendence. Last week such a merger of thirty
two Massachusetts and New York mills was eff
fected, their annual output being worth SIS, ,OOO,-
900, the product of 10000 employees. Another
development in high finance last week of interest
to cotton growers the announcement of plans
by Daniel J. Sully, John Hays Hammond, and a
London syndicate to form a gigantic system of
warehouses for storing cotton, covering the en-
tire cotton-producing and cotton manufacturing
States.
We not better summarize the result of the
recent Texas primaries than by quoting the fol-
lowing from the Springfield Republican:
The leading issue in the Texas primaries
was the question of the submission of pro-
hibitory amendment to the State Constitution
and the proposal was so emphatically in
dorsed that the amendment will probably be
carried in due The fact that Mr.
Colquitt, who won the Democratic nomina-
tion for Governor is opposed to prohibition,
signifies no contradiction in the action of the
voters, for the prohibition vote was divided
between Cone Johnson and William Poindex-
ter, who second and third, respectively
at the polls and who were both pledged sup
porters of the prohibtory cause In far
as Senator Bailey an issue, he appears to
have gained no great success He supported
Mr.. Poindexter for Governor, but Mr.. Pon-
dexters vote was less than the vote for Cone
Johnson who has been of the Senator's
most uncompromising foes. Senator Bailey's
effort to defeat Congressman Randall in the
Fourth District complete failure. The
Governor to retire, Governor Campbell,
is expected to contest for the Senatorship
with Mr.. alley when the latter's present.
term expires"
The contest between Hoke Smith and Joseph
Brown for Governor of Georgia is not SO bitter
and heated as their last campaign but what
warmth is lacking here is more than atoned for
by the red-hot fight which the earnest Democrats
are making to prevent the denomination of the
group of Georgia Congressman who deserted
their party and to the support of Speaker
Cannon and the Republican machine at time
of crisis. These deserting Congressman are swift
to invent many and varied excuses for their mys-
terous action. but the people very slow to ac-
cept them.
The New York Evening Post which has always
opposed Mr.. Bryan. has this to say Of his recent
defeat in the Nebraska Convention:
"No defeat ever became Mr.. Bryan better
than the he has just suffered in Nebras-
ka At the risk of his political life he stood
for what he believed to be moral issue
the county-option system of controlling the
liquor trafic-and the party which had for
twenty years accepted his leadership in all
his successive vagaries, repudiates 1t.
OF the effect his political for
tunes, he was perfectly we'll aware, yet he
played the part of man without dinching."
On account of the nearness of the election to
settle the question of negro suffrage in Oklahoma
the Government, for the information Of the pub
lie, announces the population figures of that