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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-15
CLOSE LINE ON REGULARS
AND "SUBS'' OF THE NATIONALS
Manager Griffith Has Reached No Definite
Decision, But Players Stand OUT
for Different Positions.

and afternoon, and there was not an
idle moment. Batting practice is the
principal thing INDUCED in. All the
pitchers get chance to work out against
the batters, who, after hitting, circle the
bases to benefit their legs as well as
their bellows. Griffith has his squad di-
vided in two and works them an hour
apart. Long runs have been entirely
eliminated. There is plenty of exercise
in running bases and chasing flies, while
the inf1eld practice is fast and has a
firing effect on those who indulge in it..
One inffeld is made UP of Foster at third,
Mcbride at short, Cunningham at second
and Flynn at first, while the other has
at second and Spencer at first. A half
hour of fast practice is telling on these
players, and especially when they are
forced to do it twice day. The out
fielders, too. are divided and are chased
for similar period until they are so
tired that they can hardly drag them
selves to their dressing rooms.
The more one sees of Bill Cunningha
the stronger grows the conviction that
better form this spring than he was the
fall he Joined the team. That condition
has made this wonderful change in Cum
ny goes without saying. There is not a
player on the team who is faster on his
feet He fields his position beautifully.
and while he lacks a little in the matter
of covering the bag, according to Crit
fifth, he is learning rapidly, and unless
he has a batting slump no one will be
able to take his job away from him.
Though he has been a professional base
ball player something like fifteen years,
Herman Schaefer is having the novel ex-
perience of being taught to play a new
position this spring. Griffith Is de-
| termined to make him an outfielder and
with this in view he has taken Schaefer
under his personal charge in an effort to
| teach him the fly fielding art. Griffith
bats the ball. Schaefer chases 1t, and
he does 1t we'll. y Griffith had him out
in right field for an hour yesterday and
Schaefer covered many mile during
that time chasing fly balls. There is al
ready a marked improvement in his work
He believes that by the time the season
opens he will have mastered the position
but 1t is unusual that a player of so many
years of experience has to return to the
recruit class and be taught to play q
position.
| Maths and Sheer. the two ailing re-
| cruits, made their first appearance in uni
| form Yesterday. The two kids are q
| likely looking pair. but 1t was plainly evil
dent that the other players have adj
vanced considerably while they are idle
There never was a pair so absolutely
confident of making good with the team
They are also determined and expect to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-15
HARVESTER SOLD.
Billings Buys Noted Trotting Stall
lion-Price Kept Secret,

CHICAGO. March 15.-C. II. c. Billings
of New York has purchased The Har-
vester. POI, thefamous trotting son of Wal
nut Hall and the champion stallion OF his
class, from the August Uihlein estate. it
was made known Wednesday night. The
exact sale price was not made public. but
was said to be lin excess Of 5000
1t Is said that The Harvester will be
shipped to Russia with the rest of the
Billings string. among which are Uhlan
and Lou Dillon. in a few weeks. Charles
Tanner of Cleveland will take the horses
abroad.
The Harvester which is now seven
years old, has been under the training OF
Ed Geers for four years. AS a three
year-old he sold for $1,000 to Uihlein. At
that time he was not broken to harness.
and Geers put in six weeks breaking him
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-15
EASY FOR BURNS.
frankie Hammers Kendrick and Es-
capes Unmarked.

NEW ORLEANS, March 14-Frankie
Burns of Jersey City gave Jem kendrick
Of England a severe drubbdng in ten
round fight here last night, before the
Orleans Athletic Club. Kendrick was
bleeding from the nose and mouth in the
fourth round, and Burns landed almost
at will from the seventh to the end or
the bout. Burns was unmarked.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-15
WASHINGTON BOWLERS
ARE STILL LEADERS
Krauss and McKneW Still
Hold Second Place in
TW0-Man Events.

The mark made by the two Washington
bowlers in the big carnival in Chicago,
day before yesterday was equaled last
night by a team from st. Paul. The
mark set by Krauss and McKnew was
not broken, and the Washington men are
still among the leaders. The two ST.
Paul men were twice winners of the
national tournament and second place
holders Of the middle west tournament
last fall.
Nick Bruck of the OLeary Club, Chi
cago. shot $50 on the last shift of singles.
for fifth position. Ned Nelson a one
armed bowler and individual champion OF
Chicago, was second in the singles with
616- Five leading scores in each event
follow:
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-08-16
WILL TURN ON THE LIGHT.

Before it adjourned the lower
house of the legislature adopted the
senate bill to require state house OIL
GERS and appointees who are COM
pensated under the fee system, to
keep a daily account Of fees received
and make a sworn statement to the
comptroller general. The bill was
fought every inch of its tedious trav-
Ell, from the senate to the house
but was finally adopted.
This measure was the result OF the
resolutions that bobbed up in both
branches of the legislature calling
for an investigation of the offices OF
the secretary of state and the comp
troller general, and which brought to
light the fact that the latter official
receives in addition to his salary OF
$4,000 fees greater than the salary
that is paid the governor Of the
state.
The fee system-state, county and
muniipa,-is indefensible. 1t Is
doomed, and the action of the legis'
iature this week is the beginning o.
the end.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-08-16

half of his fitness to hold the office
he seeks. Each page Of every chap
ter of that service is as readable as
the sun at noon. To the man that
is unbiased-and the time has come
in Georgia to strike bias if We are
to have effective government-no item
in any one of the chapters of Jack
Slaton's service can be challenged.
Not one has been attacked or CRITICS
ed by his bitterest fOes-if he has
any real foes.
ASK THOSE WHO KNOW HIM.
Scattered in every county of Geor-
gia are men of worth and reputation
who have served with and under Sla-
ton in the Legislature. These men
came from and returned to the PEG.
pie Ask them about Slaton. ne Is
WILLING TO abide their verdict.
John NJ. Slaton has conducted a
STRAIGHTFORWARD campaign. Ignoring
the politicians as such, he has gone
direct to the individual voter. His
candid method-the same he has al
way pursued in politics-has proved
successful again. Instead Of making
a stilI-hunt, as a few bilious citizens
accuse him, he has done quite the
opposite. He will be under no obllqa-
ton to any man or set Of men Nhh
selfish interests to serve.
HIS PLATFORM.
The platform, in its particular fea
lures. upon which he has made the
race Is the sanest and soundest YET
proposed.
He stands for
The preservation of the West
erp and Atlantic Railroad as
property of the State.
The development of our swamp
lands.
Improvement of educational IA
ciities until every tow-headed
| child may receive sufficient edu-
| cation 70 enable him to success
fully meet modern competition.
The protection OF the states
credit
Strict regulation of public serv-
ice corporations.
The enforcement of all laws.
He is Opposed to
ANY move that might endan
ger the Western and Atlantic
Railroad as a property
Any increase in the States
bonded Indebtedness.
A too liberal use of the pardon
ing power.
Any move calculated to bring
the Judiciary, the Executive, or
anv other branch of government,
when competently and honorably
conducted, into disrepute.
The above is a summary of the IN
portant pIanks. His position on pull
| lie questions in general, as take
mon nearly every conceivable on
during his service in the Legislature
is SO well known that it would b
superauous to re-state it in deta
Hers are some of the questions Wit
t which the next admInistratio
will have to deal
The refunding of three millions
- and a half of bonds.
The disposition Oh the oCdIe
railroad for at least another gen
/. Grafton
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-08-16
A PROCLAMATION

GEORGIA;-By Joseph NJ. Brown,
Governor of said State. Whereas,
official information has been receiv-
ed at this department that on the
oath day of June, 1912, in Terrell
county, some unknown person did
kill and murder Mrs. Lou Johnson
and burned her house and escaped,
and is now fugitive from justice,
have thought proper, therefore, to
issue this my proclamation, hereby
offering a reward of one hundred
($1OO.00) dollars for the apprehen-
sion and delivery of said unknown
person, with evidence sufficient to
onvict, to the Sheriff of Terrell
county and state. And I do, more
over, charge and require all officers
in this State, civil and military, to
be vigilant in endeavoring to appre-
bend the said unknown person in
order that he may be brought to
trial for the offense with which he
stands charged. Given under my
hand and seal Of the State, this 18th
day Of August, 1912.
JOSEPH NJ. BROWN, Governor.
BY the Governor: Philip Cook, Sec
rotary of State.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-08-16

Atlanta, Ga, August 1.-THE gu.
bernatorial campaign in Georgia will
practically close with the present
week. Indications now are that John
M. Slaton will be nominated by over
whelming vote. Reports from all the
counties indicate that the opposition
to him is in large measure negligi-
BILE
Mr.. SIaton has made clean fight.
He has placed his candidacy BEFORE
THE PEOPLE without regard for fac
ton, class or station
Knowing that it is easy, but not
always honest, to make idle promises,
he has confined his platform pledges
to what he means and what he be-
lieves he can accomplish. He has
proffered no unredeemable political
promissory notes on which to kite"
himself into office-then to be ig-
nored. His campaign has been free
of denunciation or anything partaking
Of villif1cation.
His nearly eighteen years of serv-
ice to the people of Georgia in a
practically non-paying capacity. is
the GUARANTEE offered on his be-
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-08-16

The reformation of the States
fiscal system and the rehablllta-
ton of the States finances.
The above are the BIG questions
which will have to be served.
THE BEST EQUIPPED MAN.
Mr.. Slaton Is well equipped by ex-
perience and native ability to handle
them. They are matters of too much
Importance to be trusted to an I'M
practicable theorist or visionary
propogandist. They call for the ap-
plication Of practical business sense
of tried craftsmanship. Mr.. Slaton
has both.
He offers the people no Utopia, but
efficient and effective service. HIS
record shows that he may be trusted
to render that which he proffers.
Twice has he been Speaker of the
Houee-elected each time without op-
position. both of his opponents
voted for him.
Twice has he been President of the
Senate-chosen unanimously on each
occasion by a bipartisan vote.
Though he has presided during
many crucial battles not once has
ruling made by him been reversed.
On frequent occasions have his fell
lows-including his opponents-1olned
in paying voluntary tribute to his
fairness, his ability and his integrity.
MANHOOD HIS STANDARD.
Jack SlatOn isn't given to judging
! people by label or prejudice. His
criterion is that of simple, upright
Georgia MANHOOD. For example ::
Perhaps the first speech of length
ever delivered by him in the legisla-
~. in of
Populist who had been honestly elect
ed. Many of the Democrats, acting
from partisan motives, wanted to I'M
seat him. SlatOn said, mo; this man
received a majority of the votes and
should retain his place, regardless OF
his party affIiation.' He said fur
Their: NO PARTY SHOULD EVER
BE AFRAID TO DO RIGHT" He
won his point
The incident is mentioned to show
Slaton's inherent sense of fairness
and for the consideration of few
who have growled because the ex-
Populists, who are the original pro-
gressives, are supporting him.
Above party or faction, Slaton is,
first of all, fair-minded, and believes
in, and insists on, square deal for
every one.
Ali factions know they will get a
square deal from him. That's why
they have declared a truce, so far as
the governorship is concerned, and
are joining in choosing him as dis
tinctly non-factional Governor.
It accounts for the support he is
receiving from progressives, as well
as conservatives, from ex-Populists az
we'll as old-line Democrats. from
Smith men as we'll as Brown men.
The public men of the State are
! almost unanimously for him.
| The newspapers, with the exception
of four or five, out of nearly $50 in
the State are advocating his candi-
dacy.
Less than a score of men in the
present Legislature, of which both his
opponents are members, Will vote
against him. Less than fifty Of all
the twelve hundred ex-members who
have known him are for either Of his
opponents.
| And the farmers, the workingmen,
the artisans and the business men are
| so far as can be determined equally
as strong for him.
And those who know John NJ Sla
ton personally know that no one OF
the thousands who will vote for him
on next Wednesday will have cause
to regret the act.
For he is not only going to be Gov
ernor. He is going to make a GOOE
| GOVERNOR.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-08-16
GRAVES GLEANINGS.
News Notes and Personal Mention of
That Splendid Community.

News Notes and Personal Mention OF
That Splendid Community.
Misses Kathleen Grimes, Mary
Lena Newman and Sue Brown and
Messrs. Sank Grimes Will Kimble
and Bert Newman went on horse
back ride Monday morning, and on
Monday evening Mrs. Florence
Grimes and Misses AmOrette and
Douglass Burge chaperOned them to
Melton's mill to a picnic in honor OF
Miss Brown of Cincinnati. Each one
reported a nice time.
Several of our boys are enjoying
stag house parties. They say 1t would
be rather lonesome if telephones
were not in existence.
Mrs. w. H. Dismuke and daugh-
tiers, Lois and Gladys, and Miss Thel-
ma Grimes are on visit to relatives
in Macon and Atlanta
Mrs. Mcbride and daughter, Mat
tie, of Columbus, are spending few
days with the formers daughter
Mrs. |. H. Kimble.
Mrs. G. M. Maloye and children
have returned home after spending
month with relatives at Fort Gaines
and Climax.
Mr.. Wallace Wall of BrOnwood
came down Sunday with Rev. Dick
erson, and drove his car for him.
Rev. j. l.. Smith returned home
from Sumter City Sunday, where he
had been helping in a revival.
The many friends of Mrs. B. w.
Breedlove will be glad to learn that
she is able to be out again.
Mrs. J. A Ferguson and children
have returned from a visit to Mrs,
Hammond at Enigma.
Miss Thelma Hammond of Enigma
is the guest of her cousin, Miss Allie
Dean Ferguson.
Miss Nellie Breedlove and brother,
Johnnie Will, are visiting relatives
as Morgan.
Miss Louise Harvey of Dranesville
is visiting her cousin, Miss Alberta
Crawford.
Miss Sue Brown of Cincinnati, o.,
has been the guest of Miss Kathleen
Grimes.
Miss Mabel Jennings of Sasser is
visiting her brother, Mr.. Tom Jen-
nings.
Miss Susie ChambleSS spent a rev
days with relatives at Midway last
week.
Mr.. Allen Tyson of Shellman was
over Sunday rushing" one Of our
girls.
Miss Bessie Smith is spending the
week with her grandmother at Mid
way.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. C. Hill are visit
ing Mr.. Henry Hill at Springvale.
Miss Nell Smith is visiting her
brother, r. ID. Smith, in Dawson.
Mrs. Sim Edwards of Meigs is Wis
iting her son, Mr.. Elan Heisler.
Mr.. and Mrs. |. H. Kimble are on
a trip to Savannah and Tybee.
Miss Carrie Curington of Herod is
visiting Mrs. w. ]. Crawford.
Mr.. Walter Smith called on his
best girl at Midway Sunday.
Mr.. Gene Brown has returned
from trip to Dothan, Ala.
Miss Grace Jolley of Florida is a
guest of Mrs. T. f. JOlley
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-08-16
PASS 1T ON.

The friends of prohibition
Were in a bad position
They had no one to lead that
righteous cause.
Toe Hill was out, and Slaton,
But thousands still were Waitin
For one they knew was friendly
to such laws.
We now. have a commander,
His name is Alexander,
And they tell me he is surely
running some"
Though he was late to enter
He's now the stages center,
And he will hold that place for
days to come.
It's true he has no money,
But telephone your honey
To telephone the people on her
line
So they can understand 'er
That Hooper Alexander
Is bearing high old Georgia's
white ensign.
And all good people love it,
No other flag above it
Can wave unchallenged in this
| state of ours.
For manhood's climbing higher
| And victory's drawing higher,
And We shall see it in a few more
days and hours.
When \. came out the papers
Cut up some mighty capers;
They called him everything tina
they could think.
But that man Alexander
Didn't finch from made-up SANDER
Then all the politicians took thu
wink.
They ali began to worry,
> Then they began to hurry
They saw that Alexander caugh
n the crowd
LOT Georgia's level-headed,
And that was what they dreaded
E. They knew that meant their CO
lie fin and their shroud.
Dawson, Ga. W. I. HORNAD
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-08-16
THE OTHER FELLOWS OPINION.

1t is a good and wholesome thing
to discuss public questions, but 1t
is not necessary to fall out with your
friends about it. One good friend is
of more practical value to you than
a whole regiment of self-seeking pol
1ticians. To have a good neighbor is
of vastly more importance than to
have a man in the governors chair,
or some other office, of whom accl-
dentally you became an admirer. In
some way or another, likely by inner
itance from our fighting ancestors,
we become contentious, stubborn
and unreasonable when somebody
disagrees with us about politics. We
seem to assume that loyalty to our
own convictions demands that we
get our bristles up and act like a
lunatic.
We must concede that our neigh
bor's motives are ordinarily just as
disinterested and patriotic as our
own, and that he has the same in
terest in vthe preservation of liberty
and the attainment of prosperity and
happiness as we have.
Let us, therefore, cordially grant
TO Others all the rights we claim for
ourselves. and remember that, after
all. our neighbors are more valuable
to us than any government func-
tionaries whatsoever.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-08-16
MORE MOB LAW IN COLUMBUS

In Columbus Wednesday a few
minutes after a seventeen-year-old
negro boy had been convicted of
crime and sentenced to a term of
years in the penitentiary a mob of
thirty men took the prisoner from
the court room and riddled his body
with bullets. Its parallel in defiance
of law and contempt of court has
seldom been known except in Mus
cogee county, where a similar out
rage had occurred before. In fact,
there have been more disgraceful
lynchings in Columbus than in any
other city in Georgia that The News
has any recollection of, and if the
people there will not put a stop tc
1t the governor should take vigorous
steps to do so.
The invasion OF the court ROOF
by mob bent on lynch law is a di:
grace to the good name of the stat
and a speedy lesson should be mad
Of the guilty parties.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-08-16

The News will receive and for
ward subscriptions to the Wilson
campaign fund. Every loyal demo-
crat should feel it a privilege to
HELM the cause in this manner. The
democratic managers must depend
largely upon the patriotism of the
masses to defray their expenses, as
they cannot and would not call on
the fairfield trusts to finance their
campaign. The larger the contri-
hutton the better it will be, of course,
hut send along something, no matter
how small
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-08-16

Judge George Hillyer announced
4bot he would retire from the rail-
road commission on account of his
extreme old age-aboye 80 years
and reonsidered at the request OF
the Atlanta Freight Bureau. He
nav therefore justly be said to be
Tho candidate of Atlanta, which, in
tho mast few years, has seemed to
nresume that the commission was es-
+oblished for its especial benefit,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-08-16

Hay fever and asthma make Au-
gust a month of intense suffering to
many people. Foley's Honey and
Tar Compound gives prompt ease and
relief, and is soothing and healing to
the infamed membranes VIM. NJ.
Merethew, N. Searsport, Me-, says:
"a few doses of Foley's Honey and
Tar Compound relieyel me IT Sc
we're attack of asthma and less than
a bottle caused a complete cure. "
Refuse substitutes. Dawson Drug
Company.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-08-16

is submitted for ratification or rejec-
ton to the voters of the State quail
fled to vote for members of the
General Assembly at the General
Election to be held on Wednesday,
October 2, 1912.
JOSEPH M. BROWN, Governor
By the Governor: Philip Cook,
Secretary of State.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-08-16
A BRONWOOD PICNIC PARTY.

A delightful day was spent by a
few friends and visitors at Wright's
bridge, near Brentwood, Thursday
Those present were Mr.. and Mrs. A
C. Allen, Mr.. and Mrs. P. H. Gam
mage. Misses Belle Powell, Matte
Sapp. Mary Allen, Essie May Allen
Lillian Shipp, Mamie Shipp, Mary
and Edith Miller and Messrs. Frank
Stewart, Will Tucker, Frank Ship
John Allen and Sam Williamson. The
chaperones were Mr.. and Mrs. P. H
Gammage and Mr.. and Mrs. A. c.
Hen
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-08-16

Hon. las. ]. Flynt, former presi-
,dant Of the state senate and one Of
49, .n,ost mon in Georgia, will speak
- dawson next Monday in the in
+arast Of his candidacy for railroad
roroissiorer The people of Ter
,elI county should turn out and give
him an attentive hearing,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-08-16

They tell US that all the towns IN
rarraII-on lines of railway-are
Going to be cracker-jack markets for
eotton this year, and make Dawson
90 tho mark in that respect. That's
ou right There will be prosperity
Gov all and are We not all home
o,Ioq That's what we are, and
NO petty envy in the game.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-08-16

Soon the cotton fields of South
west Georgia will be white with
opening cotton and the gala days of
the cotton pickers, thousands in
number, will be here. There will
be plenty of cotton TO pick, fair
prices for the work, and prosperity
for farmers and workers. And when
the farmer prospers we all prosper.
The News wants TO commend the
legislature for repeating the dog law.
The state is hard put for money
when it resorts to such method Of
raising revenue. There would be
just as much reason in taxing the
family cat.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-08-16
Brentwood Personals.

Mrs. P. H. Gammage, who has
been spending several weeks in At
lanta and Senoia with friends and
relatives, has returned.
Miss Belle Powell, who has Just
completed a course at business col
lege5 in Atlanta, is visiting her aunt,
Mrs. P. H. uammage. She will also
visit her sister in Americas before
returning to Atlanta.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-08-16

Some people act foolish and then
get sore because others notice it.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-08-16

a waycross preacher wants to be
policeman for thirty days-he does
NOT know what he is bucking up
a0oins+ He'd give up the Job in ten
Ssps thinks the Rome Tribune