The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-09-10
JUICE PARK VERSUS THE
INDIGNATION MEETING

In writing this article my sole pur-
pose is in the uphOlding of due pro-
cess of law in Georgia. The majority
of the men, whom | know, that COM
posed the indignation meeting are
perOnal friends of mine, but Dellev-
ing them wrong | dare to tell them
so, knowing that when the sober sec
ond thought comes to them they Will
think right. The first indignation
meeting of record was held by the
malcontents in the Tribe of Israel,
who wanted power and seized on the
pretext of Moses long absence on
The Mount as a foundation for the
call Listen: Make us Gods, for
as for this Moses we wot not what
has become of him" And Aaron
needed the voice of the mob with
the dire consequences of death to the
ring leaders and forty years OF wan
dering to the rank and file. The
next is recorded in Judges, when
Gideon tore down the altar Of Baal
and erected the altar of Jehovah
(Judges 9Th chap. 28th verse;, but
the mob was defied by two men, and
Israel was delivered from her enc
mics, The next was at Ephesus,
when the rallying cry against Paul
was: Great is Diana of the Ephe-
slams" But Diana is dead, her re-
ligion has come to naught, and the
principles which Paul preached nave
become the dominant rule OF the day.
In my own person I have experienced
INDIGNATION meetings" In 1899
backed by Capt. R. Hobbs, Capt. S.
P. Salter. Jno. P. Fort, Esq, Albert
Jackson. Esq, and Jordan Walker,
ESQ, old Hamp Peterson, a negro,
and myself signed a petition and
presented it to the board of roads
and revenues of Dougherty county
praving that license be refused one
Stalnaker to sell intoxicants at Duck
err Station, and when the license was
refused a mob led by StalnaFer wait
ed on Hamp and myself and threat
ened our lives unless we took our
names from the petition. Hamp bar
ricaded his house and | took my
double barrel shot gun and dehed
them to enter the depot, where |
was living. Two days later an in
dignation meeting was held at Walk
err Station, presided over by strong
personal friend of mine, and petit
ton was drawn and forwarded to my
railroad superintendent asking my
removal as agent. Then Capt. john
A. Davis, general agent of my rail-
road, took a hand, and the petition
went into the waste basket. Albany,
some years since, became indignant
and carried to the supreme court the
father of her good roads, w. w. Wat
son. but Watson was sustained, and
Dougherty cOunty's system of road
building today is model for South
west Georgia. Some years since,
when Gabe Wright was appointed
Judge of the superior court, system
of concubinage prevailed in Dougher-
tv county, but after his first charge
to the grand jury certain wealthy
bachelors moved their domiciles, and
the practice gradually dropped out,
and Dougherty progressed to Chau-
tauuuas, and from them to CONNER
ciai pre-eminence, but in doing this
she has, as a natural sequence, took
with her some so-called metropolitan
ways, and such a man as Judge Park
is proving himself to be is necessary
to call her back to her duty to main
tain law. For should Judge Park
fail, in the language of Mordecai to
Esther, "For if thou altogether hold
est thy peace at this time then shall
there be enlargement, and deliver
ance arise from another place; but
thou and thy Fathers house shalt
be destroyed. And who knoweth
whether thou art come to the king
dom for such a time as this?' May
God help Judge Park to quit him
self as a man. Very respectfully,
ANDREW P. RIVES.
Cuthbert. Ga, Sept. 6, 1912.