The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1911-09-21

mo man, you know, would run
away from the presidency Of the uni
ted States" said Governor Harmon
81 Ohio. when asked If he was a can
didate for the Democratic presidential
nomination.
Governor and United States Sena-
tor-Elect Hoke Smith OF Georgia, be-
fore leaving the conference Of cover
nors for home, announced the next
Democratic national ticket as Har-
mon of Ohio and Wilson of New Jer-
sey, for president and vice president,
respectively. The burden Of the
thought of Governor Smith was that
the meeting Of governors perhaps has
resulted in a solution Of the Demo
cratic situation.
improvements Of distinct nature
is indicated in the cotton crop during
the past week in Texas and parts Of
Oklahoma. Elsewhere the improve
ment was irregular and not general.
To central and northern and western
Texas, 1t is said that the recent rains
have been very beneficial and that
with delayed frost the last crop will
be large, although in southern Texas
there are sections where the bulk
Of the crop has already been picked.
In South Carolina rains almost daily
following the storm Of two weeks ago
have damaged open cotton and kept
pickers from the field.
James j. Ward, the young aviator
who started from Governors Island,
New York, In the race to the Pacific
coast for the William r. Hearst
prize of $4,000 landed here less than
20 miles from his starting point. He
had planned to make Midtown, N.
", his first stop, but he lost his way
twice and encountered adverse wind.
The twenty miles separating Govern
or's Island represents very probably
one.third OF the distance actually trav-
eled by Ward.
Twelve-inch guns roared repeatedly
at Sandy Hook as twenty-six COVER
nors of the states stood on the ram
parts Of Fort Hancock as guests Of
the United States government and
watched thousand-pound projectiles
whistle 10000 yards over the water
at fragile canvas target. A system
of employees liability insurance, con-
Quoted by the state for the benefit Of
working men, was advocated by Gov.
Woodrow Wilson.
Germanys counter proposals to
those submitted by France regarding
the settlement of the Moroccan diff
Guilty reached Paris. Me De Zelves,
the foreign minister, after taking cog
nizance Of them, Immediately carried
the document to Premier Caillaux.
Revised returns on the question of
the repeal of constitutional prohibi-
ton reduced the majority against re-
peal to 295. The total vote stood:
For repeal, 60,216; against repeal,
60511. Most of the towns yet to be
heard from have been unofficially re-
ported with small maiorities favoring
retention of the prohibitory amend
ment in the constitution.
Gov. Woodrow Wilson of New Jer-
sey and Gov. Emmett O'Neal of Ala
bama measured swords over the mi
tiative and referendum before the
conference OF governors at Spring
field, N. ]. Governor Wilson, as chair
pion OF the measures, replied to Gov
ernor o'Neal, who had previously de-
nounced them as an insidious popu-
lar vagary," and the Southern execu-
tive was on his feet in a moment with
an impassioned defense Of his posi-
ton. Governor O'Neal spoke vehe-
mently for ten minutes, bowed and
without a word walked through a
easement window to the piazza front
ing the ocean.