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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-07-03
ARE OUT OF ORDER.

Since 1881, when Sam Ellis OF
Warren county, Ohio, began raising
hogs, he has sold $137,829 worth OF
them. From a part of the profits he
has built a farm house of thirteen
rooms. with modern heating and
lighting plants and other conven-
fences and furnishings to match.
Keep in mind that Ellis has always
lived on a farm.
Jokes about ''rubes" and Jays
don't go well any longer. This is
not alone because of the changes
which better means of communica-
ton and transportation have made
in country life. 1t is as much be-
cause experiments and modern meth
DDS of present-day agriculture have
given people of the cities a new re-
spect for the amount of expert
knowledge and the good judgment
necessary to make money on farm
It is also certain that the better
understanding which now exists be-
tween the country and the city have
raised the farmers estimate of city
folk.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-07-03
THE COUNTRY OWES TAFT
A DEBT OF GRATITUDE
From the Savannah News.

i 4O0 lOO O0F &hA0A 4NNW
President aft secured a renomina-
ton and has the satisfaction of hav-
ing defeated the man who made him
president and who, because he would
not submit to his dictation and step
aside in his favor, attempted to pre-
vent him from getting an endorse
ment of his administration. That is
very considerable satisfaction, but
it will give place to bitterness in
November when the people deny him
a second term.
Thinking people the country over
rejoice at his success at Chicago,
since it removes the Roosevelt peril.
If there ever was doubt of Col.
RooseVelt's fitness for sane rule and
leadership it was removed at Chica-
go. He showed bad taste in going
to the convention, and his behavior
there proved beyond question that he
is lacking in the qualities of a lead
er and of a statesman. He has the
power to sway the masses, but not
the ability to direct the affairs of a
nation wisely. He is prolific in ideas,
but lacking in judgment. And in
many minds the question is ever
present whether he doesn't lack real
patriotism. His desire for power is
so great that he is willing to sacri-
flee everything to gain it.
Mr.. Taft will fail of getting Sec
ond term, but the whole country
owes him debt of gratitude for his
part in checking the third term move
ment. Had Roosevelt been nominal
ed and his nomination been followed
by his election there is reason for
thinking that he would have endeav-
ored to keep himself in power dur
ing life. He would have felt that
he was called to rule the country
pretty much as he pleased, and he
would have had but little regard for
the constitution, the laws, congress
or the courts.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-07-03
President Taft Says Issues Before Republican
Convention More Important to the Country
Than Those Between the TzcO Great Parties

President Taft, after receiving the
news of his nomination by the re-
publican national convention, made
the following statement:
"a national convention of one of
the great parties is ordinarily i'm
portant only as a preliminary to a
national campaign for the election
of a president. The Chicago conven-
ton is much more than this, and is
itself the end of pre-convention
campaign presenting crisis more
threatening and issues more import
ant than those of the election cam
paign which is to follow between
the two great national parties.
THE question here at stake was
whether the republican party was to
change it's attitude as the chief con-
Servator in the nation of cOnstitu-
tiOnal representative government
and was to weaken the constitutional
guarantees of life, liberty and prop
erty and all other rights declared
sacred in the bill of rights by aban-
doning the principle of the absolute
independence of the judiciary, essen
tial to the maintenance of those
rights.
Can Breathe Easier.
THE campaign carried on to seize
the republican party and make it
the instrument of reckless ambition
and the unsettling of the fundament
al principles of our government was
so sudden and unexpected that time
was not given clearly tC show to the
people and the party the dangers
which confronted them. 1t was
sought to break the wise and valua-
BILE traditions against giving more
than two terms to any one man in
the presidency and the danger from
it's breach could not be measured.
The Importance of the great victory
which has been achieved cannot be
over-estimated. All over this coun-
try patriotic people tonight are
breathing more freely that a most
serious menace to our republican in
situations has been aVerted.
ct is not necessary tonight to
speak Of the result in November or
OF the issues which will arise be-
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-07-03
DOES THE COTTON
FARMER NEED HELP?

From the Macon Telegraph.
The Telegraph spoke yesterday of
the need of the city men aiding the
cotton farmer in marketing his crop.
1t is claimd by authorities that cot
ton costs IL cents to grow, and that
it has sold for many years at an aver
age of 10 cents pound.
Another evil is pointed out by cot
ton growers. The present system OF
sampling takes from each bale pro-
duced an average of ten pounds. The
farmer gets no pay for this sample
cotton. On last years crop the farm
ers lost 800, 900 bales in samples,
which at 10 cents a pound was $16,-
900, 900 absolutely lost to them.
Whatever hurts the farmer hurts
those who live on him Who, then,
is immune from this loss?
The agricultural department at
Washington is endeavoring to work
out a plan whereby the government
will appoint weighers and samplers,
to be stationed at public ginneries
throughout the cotton country.
These men, according to the plan,
are to attend to the sampling and
the weighing, and place upon the
bale a government mark which will
stay by it as official and correct until
it is finally delivered to the spinner.
This plan, if worked out, will stop
tremendous loss to the farmers.
They get no money for all this sam
pie cotton, and in addition to this
it is sold charged to the worlds sup
ply as additional yield, termed the
'city CROP" using it to bear" the
market.
Does the farmer need help, and is
it the duty of the city man to aid
him?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-07-03
PRICE OF PAPER ADVANCES.
ALI Kinds of Print Goods Are COSTING
the Printer More.

the Printer More.
The News and other printers
throughout the country have receiV-
ed the following announcement from
the wholesale paper houses:
THE necessity for an advance In
the prices of paper mas been apparent
for some time. The cost of raw ma
terials has been largely increased
and the mills are obliged to put on
three shifts of workmen where for
merly two sufficed, thereby effecting
a fifty per cent. increase in this one
item alone.
Prevailing conditions compel a re-
vision of prices. An advance is I'M
mediately effective and orders receiv-
ed after this week will be filled at
average advance of from 10 to 20 per
cent. over the net price list.
1--WE anticipate another advance
soon. A revised price list will be
sent as quickly as it can be prepar-
ed"
And this is another reason for the
High Cost of Living"
This is the second advance in price
on paper since last fall. The ink
houses have also advanced their
prices.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-07-03
NOTICE OF ELECTION

Notice is hereby given that an
election will be held on the 14th day
of August, 1912, at the court house
in Dawson, Ca, in the manner pre-
scribed for city elections, for the
purpose of allowing the voters of
the city of Dawson to determine the
question of granting a franchise to
the Southern Bell Telephone and
Telegraph Co., as set out in the or
dinance this day duly approved by
the City. Council of Dawson. The
ballot at said election shall read as
follows: For the Franchise or
Against the Franchise" This June
Attn, 1912. j. M. BELL, Mayor.
R. E. Bell, Clerk.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-07-03
BIRDS IND INSECTS.

The birds destroy enormous guam
titles of insects. A conservative eSti-
mate of the number consumed by each
individual insectivorous bird is one
hundred day.
The figures for Massachusetts
alone illustrate what birds can do.
According to Our Dumb Animals, a
publication that is devoted to bird
and animal life, "a careful estimate
gives five insect-eating birds to the
acre, making a total of at least z5,-
500 600 for the state. These birds
consume daily, between the first OF
Nav and the end of September, g.
$50, 100000 insects, or 21,OOO bush
els of them. The total for the season
is about 36O,OOO,OO0,OOO insects, or
100000 bushels. If this bird popu-
Iation could be increased one bird to
the acre it would mean the ldestruc-
ton of 100000 more bushels of in
sects during the five months. Can
we, therefore, afford to sacrifice the
life of even one of these industrious
servants?"
The legislature of Georgia, which
is now in session, should strengthen
the laws of the state for the preser-
walton of birds, and should give some
attention to the matter from the
standpoint Of the farmers welfare
andAnot entirely for the benefit OF
the city sportsman, who murders
birds in large numbers for the mere
fun Of it,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-07-03

1t is said that unless immediate
action is taken the loss in Georgia
from the army worm may amount to
millions of dollars. Prompt meas
ures are being used to warn the farm
ers against the pest, and circulars
advising how to protect the crops are
being sent to all parts of the state.
The worm has 50 far confined its
operations to the lower sections of
Georgia. 1t has not appeared in Ter
rell and adjoining counties.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-07-03

Senator LaFollette, who was flying
the progressive flag for the republi-
can nomination, is not in a very
amiable mood over the way in which
he was pushed aside by Roosevelt,
and the latter need not expect any
help from him in organizing third
party. The Wisconsin aspirant is out
in a bitter attack on the movement,
and charges that Roosevelt used an
enormous amount of money in fran
tic pursuit of the nomination.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-07-03

tween the republican and the demo-
cratic parties in the presidential
campaign to follow. 1t will be time
enough to do that after the action
of the Baltimore convention. 1t is
enough now to say that whatever
may happen in November a great
victory for the republican party and
the United States has already been
won. The party remains as a great
powerful organization for carrying
out its patriotic principles as an
agency of real progress in the devel-
opment of the nation along the con-
stitutional lines upon which it was
constructed and has ever been main
tanned, and is future opportunity for
usefulness is as great as its achieve
ments in, the past
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-07-03
A DITTY HUMMED BY JACK.

From the Madisonian.
Only two candidates are before
the peOple-Hon. Jack" Slaton of
Fulton and Hon: Joe Hall of Bib
The average voter cares little for the
race; and while the former is enthu-
siastically ''hoeing his own row" he
quietly huns an old dirty learned on
his mothers knee, which runs as
follows:
Jump a little, Jack,
June little, Joe;
Nothing to do
But keep 1t up So"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-07-03

Governor Brown is wasting his
time in recommending the reduction
of the railroad commission from five
to three members. 1t is very easy to
get the legislature to create offices,
but difficult to get 1t to abolish them.
The reason is that the people are
Indifferent while those who want Of
fees and their friends are active and
aggressive. Most OF the members of
the legislature are politicians Of
more or less prominence, and they
are responsive to those who want po-
litical jobs.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-07-03
0UR REGLSTRATION LII ".

The Savannah Press, Wnlch has al
WAYS supported the candidates op,
nosed to Governor Brown and III lUS
columns championed the policies ao-
vocated by them now agrees with the
Governor in his criticism of the pres
ont cumbersome registration law
which it is necessary to nave nearly
every lawyer in Georgia to explain
and construe every time an electlon
is to be held.
.Anotber point upon which we
heartily agree with Governor Brown
message" says the Press in an eol-
rial in discussing this feature OF IT,
"is the one he makes against the
obstructions which now surround the
registering system in Georgia. Inc
governor thinks our registration laws
are not only unnecessarily stringent
hu+ that the result is practically dis
franchising numbers of good and IN
telligent citizens. AS illustrating the
damaging effect of our bad reglstra-
tior law Governor Brown cites the
rosult az shown in Fulton county.
The last census shows 35,S61 white
men of voting age in Fulton, but the
total registration in 1912 amounted
only to 14,701. The registration law
which as it's practical result disfran-
chises citizens on such wholesale
scale. is very certainly a mistake.
This law was originally designed
with the object of obviating the cor
rupt balloting which a large class OF
floating and purchasable voters al
lords. It was argued, with reason, at
the time it was passed that by requlr-
ing the voters to register long IN ad-
vance of the balloting opportunities
for buying up voters, paying their
taxes and rushing them to the polls
On the final voting contest would De
abolished.
That is a good argument in theory
but. like many other good theories,
it is bad in practice. The Press
shows that the results of the present
registration law trend sadly towards
placing governmental power in the
hands of the scheming few rather
than leaving it in the hands OF the
common people. For instance,
continues our contemporary, when
special interests take part in politics
they are strictly ON the job, so to
speak. They are not caught mapping
as the average citizen may be. Their
plans are formed, their campaign is
mapped out, their wires are laid and
their traps set long in advance OF the
actual election. The average busy
citizen, absorbed in his regular bust
ness or work, can scarcely be expect
ed to be so alert in matters pertain
ing TO his state and city government
as is the one who has some special
axe to grind Therefore, the average
citizen who is supposed to be given
a chance at seh-government Is, In
reality, handicapped in the contest,
while those who want to govern him
after their own particular advantage
have the cards stacked against him.
ga reform in Georgia's registra-
ton law is of great Importance and
is one of the things that this assem-
bly, should set about. 1t is an inevi-
table truth that when the process of
government becomes involved and in
tricate the people give it up and the
special interests take it in hand.
mo law is going to be a success,
from a democratic standpoint,
which multiplies difficulties for the
man who has the right to vote"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-07-03
STOP HATING EACH OTHER.

From the Savannah Press.
That was most sensible and time
ly advice handed out recently to
an audience in Augusta by patri-
otto and hberty-loving citizen OF
that city: Let us stop hating one
another so much, even though we
differ in politics. Griffin News.
If there was less steam rolling in
politics differences would be less
ate-provoking.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-07-03

A press dispatch states that re-
Gently in New York, at the Wander
bilt hotel, in the Chinese room there
sat down to luncheon eight Chinese
dogs and eight American women.
We can only hope hope these women
are as thoughtful of children as they
are Of dogs.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-07-03

The Times-Recorder wants Sumter
to follow in the footsteps of Terrell
and have a county fair next fall.
Sumter is a good county, and can
have a magnificent exposition If her
people will get behind the movement.
And they should.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-07-03

Mr.. Bryan has helped the republi-
can prospects wonderfully. His bad
treatment of Speaker Clark and in
suit to the New York democracy
means more votes against any man
whose nomination he may dictate.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-07-03

The democrats should not take
too much for granted in the cam
paign that is now opening. The
wicked republicans, we have observ-
ed, have a way of getting together
when the voting time comes, and they
may be expected to keep up the
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-07-03

First cotton blooms made their
appearance last week in Greensboro,
Jackson, GAINESVILLE and Forsyth.
Down here in Gods country we are
looking for the first boil any day
now
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-07-03

Our democratic nominee must
beat Taft on his own and the record
of the republican party, rather than
by the indirect aid of Roosevelt. And
Mr.. Taft and his party both possess
vulnerability to degree that ought
to inspire strong hope of democratic
victory in November.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-07-03

And now the office of state dog
warden is proposed. His duties will
be to collect the dog tax, and receive
nice salary Anything to dig a
scoop into the state treasury.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-07-03

The democratic executive commit
tee has been called to meet in At
lanta July 9Th for the purpose of
fixing a date for the state primary.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-07-03

Did you ever! Here are the legis-
lators wanting to increase their pay
$500 a day. Just why nobody but
themselves knows.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-07-03

Those made to order demonstra-
lions in national conventions could
Just as well be cut out.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-07-03

The Georgia delegation at Balti-
more hasn't exactly covered itself
with glory, according to our idea.
There is no reason why they should
have let their prejudice against Mr..
Bryans resolution putting the con-
vention on record as opposed to the
nomination for president of any man
who is the representative Of or I'M
der obligations to Morgan or others
of his kind. It is sentiment any
good democrat can subscribe to, and
we are satisfied our Georgia friends
feel that way about it, though what
they did does not indicate it.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-07-03
nT RECEIVED,

A complete line OF evening slip
pers in all the different shades.
DAVIS-DAVIDSON CO.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-07-03

CLARK Howell voted against Bryan
in Baltimore. Most of us remember
how glibly Clark jumped into the
band wagon of the peerless one after
that crown of thorns Speech" says
the Savannah Press. Most of us re-
member, too, that some of the men
who are now worshipping at the
shrine of the Nebraskan then de-
nounced him as an unsafe and dan
gerous political buccaneer who was
little better than an anarchist, and
gave sympathy and encouragement to
the independent ticket Of Palmer and
Buckner. Verify times do change,
and men with them.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-08-12
MASTER BAKERS or OKLA
H0MA WILL MEET AUG. 2l

The Fifth Annual convention of the
Oklahoma Master Bakers associa-
ton will be held here Aupust - aud
- at the lone hotel
The convention viii be called to
order at p. m, Wednesday, August
y. by President William Ri2haupt.
of Guthrie. The address of welcome
viii be delivered by Mayor j. Il. Mss.
ley Of Guthrie, and the response VIII
be made by J Buhrer. of Oklahoma
City eXpresidont OF the association.
The remainder of the afternoon sos
sion will he given oyer to the trans.
action of routine business aud am All
Gress by + II Hohengartcn Of st
Louis
As matter of fact IL Roosevelt
Eutch lunch will be served at the
zone hotel at which W u. Thompson.
OF Edmond. will act as toasimaster
Dr. w. c. Mahr state commission
er of health, will address the gather.
,rq Thursday on Pure Food and San
itary Bake Shops other speakers
for Thursday viii be T. H. Gilkey, of
ralas. Hon. J w McNeal OF Guth
lie, John Goloble, of the Oklahoma
Printing COMPANY and Il f. Nye o.
Hobart
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-08-12
MANY PROFESSIONAL PEACH
PACKERS ARE HERE

Professional fruit pickers and
packers make big wages S. to $40
per day At the present time there
are not less than thirty of these eX-
pcrienced packers in Guthrie. They
make a business of following the
crop from one end of the fruit belt
TO the other and they are employed
aboul ten months Of the year in the
fruit bu-iness. They travel from
onc Gulf 10 the lakes ana from coast
10 coast as the fruit season de-
mands they start in the south and
work north and northeast. then west
20 the coast They are usually good
spendcrs and leave the greater p RI
of their earnings in the community
where they do their work rhns the
local concerns profit from an angle
usually overlooked. The buyers for
.4e large commercial houses also are
salaried men and spend lots 9t
money while here buying the crop
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-08-12
CHARGED
WITH KILL
ING WOMAN
81 RlOUS CHARGE AGAINST
AN OKLAHOMA CITY
DOCTOR

oklahoma CITY Aug l2-J z
pollan the doctor wanted in con
nectiOn with the death - Mrs H. II
Malvern. who died following Il
criminal operation at the home OF
her brother in Packington July -.
ls In the county jail where charge
of manslaughter in the frst degree
has been registered against him.
Polhn denied that he had
ing at the home OF his brother IN OF
tiwa county. seven aud a hau miles
east OF Grove. by Deputy sheriff
Austin Burkebyle, and lrought 10
Ohlahoma City early Sunday morn
lng.
Polan has so tar declined to dis
cuss the case with the officers and
has not intimated what his plea VIII
be- When placed under arrest he
did not ask any questions and lndi'
Gated his willingness to go with the
OH before the warrant specify
ing the charge against him. was read
by Deputy Burkebyle. From what
little he did talk with the officers IL
was learned that he probably w5uld
make plea Of being the victim OF
plot laid by the women in the
case TO throw the circumstantinl
evidence against him by calling him
IN just at the time Mrs Malvern
death occurred
Chase Across State
Pollan denied that had he had
seen lodging the officers although he
been chased from one end OF tho
state to the other during the twu
weeks since the commission Of the
crime ,luste how long he had been
ia Oklahoma Cily before the diScoE-
cry OF tie crime is not known. II
IL believed however that he came
here the day before The tragedy and
lclt Immediately following AIRS
Malvern death
'rhc arrest Of Pollan was made af
ter Il ch lasting for more than
Two weeks during which Deputy
Sheriff BurkcbyIc Travelled approx
mately l.591 miles in Oklahoma and
Missouri The country in when Pol
Ian was arrested was where he lived
about fourteen years ago and he was
widely known IN making the arrest
Deputy sheriff Rnrkebylc had The
assistance OF pave Grlgg, deputy
constable of Grove When Gregg
learned who the man was that was
wanted he became Interested in
bringing about his arrest
Man Of Family.
Pollan is about 90 years old lie
is married and has wife and eight
children who live on his farm near
Clinton, Okla PoIan is believed to
he the one who performed the oper
alton that led to Mrs Malvern's
death Mrs Elizabeth Powell sis
ter Of the dead woman, who was
charged with completely in the
crime. killed herself by drinking
carbolic acid a few days 'ftor the
tragedy and Mrs Paris the other
woman implicated IA the case. +
out on BAH