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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-02-06


of Review for the purpose of ex-
planning the conflicts and deciding
what really is the law. Abolish the
Court of Appeals and create a Su-
preme Court of nine members, divid-
ing it into civil and criminal
branches.
The Superior Court should be
held in each county every three
months, making the terms quarterly,
instead of semi-annually.
Each county should have a solicit
tor general, paid on a salary basis,
instead of the fee system. This would
abolish the office Of solicitor general
of circuits.
The damnable city court system
should be abolished for all time to
come.
The Infamous fee system should
be abolished, as it fosters malicious
prosecutions, prosecutions of petty
offenses and frequently a machine of
graft.
In civil case a vote of to in
the jury room should make the YER
dict of the jury, thus preventing the
expense Of another trial. In the
grand jury room both sides of every
case should be heard. When a charge
is preferred by a prosecutor, the de-
PENDANT should be given an OppOr-
tunity to appear with his evidence.
If such a procedure governed in the
grand jury room many worthless in
dictments now returned would not be
found. The grand jury should be
furnished with an official stenog-
rapher, and all evidence before the
body should be written down and
filed with the clerk of the Superior
Court
The jury in a criminal case should
be the judges of both the law and
the facts. This provision should be
emphatic as it preserves that sacred
guaranty that a person charged with
crime is given a fair trial before a
jury Of his peers and no judge should
be allowed to tell the jury what law
they must apply to the facts, but
should read them certain statutes
bearing on the particular crime
charged, and leave it to the province
of the jury to say what statutes ap-
ply to the particular case they are
considering.
The county unit system should be
forever perpetuated in the funda-
mental law, thus protecting the
country counties from the prepond-
erance of the big cities. We should
dedicate positive declaration in
new Constitution to the preservation
of this grand principle Of representa-
tive government.
The Homestead and Exemption
rights were made for the protection
Of the poor and unfortunate. 1t is
wise and just safeguard for those
in needy circumstances, and should
be preserved inviolate and the Con-
stitution should prohibit any waiver
of homestead exemptions, The pres
ent law allows the benefit of the bulk
of this protection to be waived. 1t
is unwise and unjust, if not vicious
in it's natural consequences. It de-
prives the poor and unfortunate of
the protection intended for them to
receive.
The regulation of the right of
franchise should be radically chang
ed.
The educational system should be
brought up to date. The State should
be required to furnish all text books
at the actual cost of publication, just
as lawyers are furnished working
materials. The expense of govern
ment can be lessened by the abol-
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-02-06

ton. The demand is State wide; all
political factions realize the necessity
for new Constitution
[ would have it known that this
movement is not the work of any
political faction in Georgia. The So
called 'Progressives'' and "Standpat-
ters" have peculiar ideas of their
own, but in this cause we find en-
listed the intelligence of our citizen
ship; the advancement of our State.
bringing the fundamental law UP to
present conditions; eradication of
prevailing evils, fixing a certain and
positive form of Constitutional gov
eminent, adapted to the needs of
this generation. 1t is the necessity
for an actual Constitution instead of
an outworn and threadbare docu-
ment, patched beyond recognition by
seventy meetings of the General AS
sembly.
These are the controlling reasons
why we need a new Constitution.
The people must assemble in con-
vention.
No partisanship or political
schemes can be said to actuate this
movement.
Since the Civil War no State in the
Union has exceeded Georgia in ad-
vancement
An editorial Arch Light who is
found editing a country weekly in
South Georgia-who happened not
to know that Georgia had such a
thing as Constitution until he read
the recent agitation-has made the
following laughable argument.
Said Arch Light vehemently de-
clares:
''The statesmanlike document
Of Toombs, Hill, Stephens and
Cobb should not be destroyed
by the reckless ambition of in
experienced politicians
This editor really believes that
Ben Hill, Alexander H. Stephens and
Howell Cobb were members of the
Constitutional Convention in 1877.
We know that he believes it, because
he says so.
He doesn't know that Ben Hi
was elected to the United States Sen
ate on January 8, 1877, and was not
a member of said Convention, and
did not participate therein. Alex
ander H. Stephens was in Congress
and not member of said, Conven-
ton and Howell Cobb had died in
1868, three years after the war and
nine years before said Convention,
making it physically impossible for
Cobb to have served in the Constitu-
tional Convention held in Atlanta in
1877.
This editor-our most recent ex-
ponent of Constitutional history
dispenses his wisdom in the follow
ing tenor and effect:
''The people are not capable
of knowing what is best for them
when it comes to making Con-
stitution."
Is he comprehensive enough to
realize that the patriotic people Of
1877 voted for the ratification of
the present Constitution, which he
declares to be "a statesmanlike doc
ument?" Toombs dominated the
Convention and aided by other pa
triotic Georgians made the instru-
ment, yet the people of that genera
ton voted for the adoption of that
Constitution. The final creation of
the Constitution was by the people
themselves. Does the Arch Light of
Constitutional history mean to de-
clare that the citizenship of 1913 is
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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-02-06
The Necessity For a New
Constitution Is Imperative
BY Grover @. EdmOndson.

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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-05-02
FOR A PROTECTIVE TARIFF
The Massachusetts Legislature Adopt
Resolutions at the Request of
Governor Foss.

BOSTON.-In accordance with a
request of Governor Foss expressed
in a special message both branches of
the legislature today adopted a res
olution memorializing congress in
support of the principle of protect
i've reduction through reciprocity in
all tariff making"
That the policy of opening the
markets of the United States to the
unrestricted competition of the rest
of the world, advocated by the pres
dent in his message and the pending
bill, which is a long step toward the
complete establishment of that poll
cy. appears to the legislature to be
in direct contravention of the wishes
of the voters of the United States
and especially of this commonwealth
as expressed in the last election"
1t is urged that any tariff legisla-
ton should be based upon the pro-
tective principle
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-05-02
HAS GEORGIA LARGEST TREE?
THE QUESTION HAS BECOME
ONE OF SCIENTIFIC INTEREST.
Smithsonian Institute Will Send EX-
pertS Here to See Giant Oak %
Feet in Circumference.

ATLANTA, Ga.-Whether or not
Georgia has the largest oak tree in
the world has become a question OF
such scientific interest that experts
are going to be sent down from the
Smithsonian Institute this spring to
ascertain the fact. Geography will
tell you that the largest oak trees
in the world are to be found in Cal
ifornia, and one is mentioned in
the Sacramento Valley which has a
dimension of % feet and one inch
in circumference. This tree has
long been supposedly the largest
oak in the world; but Hon. w. H.
Sharp, member of the Toombs coun-
ty board of education and a prom
inent Georgian, has called attention
to the fact that in the southern sec
ton of that county on the farm of
S. P. Smith, there is giant live oak
that measures nearly % feet in cir
conference. 1t is said to be not
quite so tall as the height ascribed
to the famous California oak, but to
make up for that the branches are
more wide spread and the foliage
is more luxurious.
Georgia's only distinction at pres
ent in the physical geography is the
fact that in Stone Mountain she has
the largest single granite boulder in
the world With the formal vertical
ton of the measurements given by
Mr.. Sharp, the oak tree in Toombs
county may take its place as world
wonder side by side with Stone
Mountain.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-05-02
MANIGAL PLANS
CHANGE HIS MAP
Confessed Dynamiter Will Change
Phiz by Surgery When Leaving
Prison at Early Date.

LOS ANGELES, Cal.-Ortie E.
McManigaI, confessed dynamiter,
plans to have his appearance altered
by surgery when he is released. 1t
is reported his release from the
county jail may be granted at any
time, and MECHANICAL hopes to so
change himstlf that no one will know
him as the man whose testimony sent
the Mcnamara brothers and more
than a score Of union labor officials
to prison. Detectives say the time of
release will be kept secret, to aid
him, according to a statement pub
lished here today.
McManigal fell from a moving
wagon while a child and a wheel in
flicted an injury on his head and left
a long scar across his forehead. The
mark aided detectives who traced
him after the destruction of the Los
Angeles Times building by dynamite.
Doctors have told McManigal that the
scar can be removed and he plans to
have it done as soon as he gains his
freedom.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-05-02
WILL BE SOMEWHAT UNIQUE
No Commissions Will Be Paid For
Placing the Stock of Continental
Trust Co., Atlanta Institution.


ATLANTA, Ga.-The new Cont
mental Trust Company, Of which Jo-
ell Hurt has recently been elected
President, will be somewhat unique
among the big financial institutions
of the South, in view of the fact
that no commissions are being paid
for placing the stock, nor is any
other expense being incurred except
the limited and necessary expenses
for organization. This company is
intending to conduct a business not
only in Atlanta and the State of
Georgia, but to extend its opera
tons into other states and foreign
countries. 1t is an institution in
which leading Southern financiers
are interested. The trustees are
Boiling H. Jones, Hugh M. Willet,
J. X. Orr, Thos J. Peoples, Louis
Hewett, T. P. Hinman, c. A. Horne,
M. M. George, R. F. Shedden, Joel
Hurt, E. Bates Black, w. j. Bla-
lock, J. J. Haverty, John c. Hall
man, Porter Langston, Clarence Ha-
verify, w. F.. Winecoff and A. B.
Sims.
Boiling H. Jones is President of
the board of directors, Chas. A.
Bickerstaff has been chosen temper
arily to act as secretary, trust Off
Ger and treasurer.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-05-02
SOME RATTLESNAKE
TALE IS THIS ONE
New Yorker Awakes at Night to Find
Big Reptile ON His Chest, Where
1t Lay for Several Hours.

OAKLAND, Cal.-Charies Carrere,
a business man of New York city, IS
at the St. Mark hospital, recovering
from the a narrowing experience ne
underwent IN lockwood canyon when
he awoke shortly after midnight to
fad a large rattlesnake coied on Ills
breast ready To strike.
Cdrrere with John Connors OF Van
couver. b. c., was driving to Oak
land through the canyon when their
automobile broke down in an isolat-
ed part of the road, and they decided
to camp out fer the night. Connors
stayed in the tonneau of the car, but
Carrere, rolling himself in a blanket,
laid down on the ground to sleep.
In telling of his experience today
Carrere said he did not dare III ;ue
dark to make a move to draw his
revolver, for at the slightest motion
of his body the reptile would hiss an
grily. With the coming of daylight
the snake seemed to doze. With a
quick movement Carrere says ne
drew his weapon and shot off the
head of the rattlesanke before it
could strike.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-05-02
PORK BY MAIL
FROM ENGLAND
Mrs, Cline Yearns for an Old FASH
Toned Pork Pie Like She
Used to Eat, and Gets 1t.

SAN FRANCISCO.-There SEEM
ed to be only one thing lacking to
make living in Southern California
one long dream of happiness to Mrs.
Fred c. Cline, and that one thing
was an old fashioned, homemade
pork pie, the kind she used to eat
when a girl in her English home
in Retford-
In a letter she sent to her cousin
at Retford Mrs. Cline made mention
of this. and the other day a some
what bulky package was deposited
at the Cline home by the postman.
1t bore postage amounting to 2
shillings and 3 pence, of the equiv
aIent of "a cents in American mo-
ney. and snugly packed inside were
one pork pie and five old fashioned
English mince pies.
The package had come from Ret
ford by parcel post, and was deliv-
cred in excellent condition.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-05-02
A SHAFT TO GOV. GAMBLER
MEMORY OF RUGGED OLD COM
MONER TO BE PERPETUATED.
For Many Years Was a Picturesque
Figure in Georgia Politics, De-
feated Speer for Congress.

Figure i'm Georgia Politics, De-
feated Speer for Congress.
A handsome marble monument to
the memory of the late Governor
Allen d. Gambler, the ''one-eyed pillow
boy of Pigeon Roost," twice Chief
Magistrate of Georgia, and three
times a Representative in Congress,
is to be unveiled in Gainesville on
June 8, Jefferson Davis birthday.
The stone will mark the late Gov
ernor's last resting place, and it
will be paid for by about one hun
dred of his appointees to Office when
occupying the executive chair of the
State.
The idea was conceived by Pension
Commissioner Lindsey and his APP
peal to the former Office holders un-
der Uncle Allen was responded
to readily and gladly. The sum of
$500 was quickly raised and with
this a modest and fitting memorial
will be secured-just such as the
late Governor himself would approve
of, no doubt. 1t will be presented
to Mrs. Gambler on the birthday of
the great Confederate chieftain, Da-
Wis, with simple and entirely unos-
tentatious ceremony.
Governor Gambler was one of the
best beloved of the long and dis
tinguished line of Georgia Chief
Magistrates. He was Democrat
of the old school, and first came in
to prominence by defeating Judge
Emory Speer, then an Independent
Representative in the national Con-
gress. 1t was during that fierce
campaign that he came by the nick
name that stuck to him ever there
after-''the one-eyed pillow boy of
Pigeon Roost!"
This appellation was hurled at him
in derision, but it acted as a BOOM
erang upon those who launched it.
1t very greatly endeared him to the
masses of the plain people, with
whom he ever was particularly
strong in his public life.
After serving three terms in Wash
ington, Governor Gambler was elect
ed Secretary of State for Georgia and
served in that office many years, I'M
til called to the governorship. He
was a plain, old-fashioned, outspo-
ken sort of person, rugged in his
honesty and uncompromising in his
high ideals His portrait now adorns
the way of the governors reception
room in the state capitol This like
ness, which is a fine one, shows in
every line what manner of man he
was.
Allen d. Gambler was one of the
most picturesque men who ever oc-
cupied the Governors chair in Geor-
gia. and one of the most genuinely
popular. He was the last of Geor-
gia's ex-Confederate Executives.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-05-02
RAIN SAVED TEXAS CROPS
THE WORST DROUTH KNOWN IN
YEARS WAS THREATENED.
People Had Begun. to Assemble in
Churches and Offer Prayer for Re-
lief. Rejoicing Is General.

WACO, Texas.-Just in the nick Of
time to save the oat crop and help
along the corn, cotton and garden
truck a rain ranging all the way from
an inch and a quarter to two and a
half inches fell over a considerable
portion of Texas Tuesday, Tuesday
night and Wednesday morning,
bringing joy and satisfaction every
where The rain will be worth many
millions of dollars to the state.
1t was the most general downpour
that has fallen in this state for the
past several years, East Texas being
the only portion of the state from
which reports of general precipita
tion have not come, and even in
many places in that section good
rains have fallen.
South Texas was threatened with
a drouth, such as it had not known
in years; West Texas was so dry
that the people had begun to assem-
BILE in the churches and offer special
prayer for relief; while North Texas
was beginning to suffer, and the oat
crop of Central Texas looked as if
it would go up in a flash. All of
these unfavorable prospects were
blasted by the generous showers,
however, asd in addition to reviving
the grain and growing crops the rain
fell in sufficient volume to fill the
ter supply that has been deficient in
many sections of the state for sew
eral months. The cattlemen of Texas
are rejoicing eioDg with the farmers
and all other classes of people.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-05-02
BEES KILL 200 PULLETs.
Honey Gatherers Also Give an Auto
mobile Party Hot Time.

A Porterville, Cal, dispatch says
two hundred pullets belonging to a
poultry raiser in the Plano district
were stung to death when a swarm
of bees attacked them. The bees
which belong to a land company are
brought to this district every year
during the orange blossom season.
Besides the chickens which were
killed, several score of others were
so badly stung that they will also
die.
After the bees had attacked the
chickens they continued down the
road and attacked an automobile
party The bees were SO thick that
after the car had emerged from the
swarm the tonneau was covered
with thin.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-05-02
FOLLOWED WIRE IL MILES
Lightning Played Queer Prank on
Man Who Was Long
Distance Away.

YORK, Pa.-Lightning hunted II
miles to find a victim, after striking
a telephone wire at Gettysburg dur
ing brief electrical storm.
At Hanover, G. A. Leach, line
man for the Bell Company, was
strapped to his safety belt to the
ton of a pole. He was holding one
wire and another was pressed up
against his body, forming circuit.
The lightning came along and
knocked him into state of uncon-
seriousness and he would have fallen
tn his death, had not the belt held
him until he recovered and was able
to descend. 1t was not until some
hours later that the cause of his I'M
pleasant experience was learned.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-05-02
NO PROHIBITION IN ATLANTA
GRAND OPERA CROWDS BEWIL-
DERED AT WIDE-OPENNESS.
Everything to Drink From IA Cock
tail to Champagne Could Be
Had Freely by Visitors.


ATLANTA. Nothing that has
ever occurred in Atlanta has served
to demonstrate the undemOcratic
futility of the Georgia prohibition
law more strikingly than the grand
opera season just closing.
Strangers who thought Georgia
was really a prohibition state are
bewildered, for so far as the crowds
who constitute grand opera goers
and singers are concerned, no city
could be more wide open than At
lanta.
All the singers, of course, have
cards to the leading clubs; all the
guests at principal hotels have
cards to clubs where they can get
everything they want to drink from
Manhattan cocktail to champagne;
nine-tenths of the visitors from out
of town who have come for grand
opera have friends who are men,
bers of one or more Atlanta clubs,
and they, too, of course, have cour-
tesy cards.
From outward appearances Allan
tans do not want prohibition,
Whether the State as whole
wants it will be threshed out again
at the coming session of the legisla-
ture, for there is not the slightest
doubt at present that the Tippins
bill will be introduced again.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-05-02
HAS FODDER 81 YEARS OLD
LOwndes Farmer Says 1t Is Better
Than Amy Saved in Recent Years.
Sween 81 Years in Use.


VALDOSTA, CA. R. Wisenba-
ker, one of the enterprising farmers
Of LOwndes county, has 1000 pounds
Of fodder in his barn that was placed
there thirty-four years ago. He has
1900 pounds that are twenty-seVen
years old and few bundles of fod-
der from almost every crop that he
has gathered since then. In several
Instances he has as much as LOCO
pounds that he has kept one season
to another for twelve or fifteen
Years
His oldest fodder, he says, is the
best he has He says that his stock
can tell the difference between it
and new fodder and that they will
leave the new fodder to get to it.
Every now and then he gets out
bundle of the old fodder and gives
it to his stock.
MI Wisenbaker also has a twelve
inch sweep which he has been using
Tor thirty-one years and was plow-
ing with it yesterday when he left
his field to attend the Memorial ex-
erclSes here. Mr.. Wisenbaker is
sucker for taking care of his farm
ing implements and for looking af-
Ter the small details of his farm.
1t is in this way that he has made
a success of the business.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-05-02
THE U. S. EATS MOST SUGAR
Average Per Capita Consumption is
40 Pounds Each Year, According
to Bureau of Commerce.

WASHINGTON, D. C.-There are
more sweet toothed" persons in
the United States apparently than in
any other country of the world, it's
average per capita consumption Of
sugar each year being almost forty
pounds, as shown by data gathered
by the bureau of foreign and domes-
tic commerce and made public by
Secretary Redfeld. The report shows
that in Great Britain the per capita
consumption was about three pounds
more, but this was attributed to the
large amounts used in fruit cam
ming and preserving for export.
About one-fifth of the worlds SUI
gar is eaten in this country. In 1909
and 1910 Americans consumed s.
2S5,77 tons, while the United King
dom trailed second with 1,707, 956
tons, Russia following with 1,199,
3S9 tons and Germany fourth with
1,116,315 tons.
In 1909-10 the United States and
it's possessions produced 1,232,015
of a world total of S,294,334 tons of
cane sugar In the six years from
1904 to 1910 the European produc-
ton of beet sugar increased Sc per
cent. while that of this country in
creased 113 PER cent, although Its
total was still less than one-tenth
that of Europe.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-05-02
FORMER DAWSONIAN DEAD
Barlow, Florida, Paper Reports That
G.. p. Freeman Died Suddenly
of Acute Indigestion.

Va <NSuOC AAOlesN6OAODs
The Barlow, Fla, Courant re-
ports the death of a former citizen
of Dawson who may be remembered
by some of our older residents. 1t
says:
"Mr. George P. Freeman died last
Tuesday evening about 1890 O'Clock
from a severe attack of acute indi-
gestion. He was taken ill about
10 o'clock and Mrs. Freeman went
across the street to get some medi-
cine, on her return Mr.. Freeman
was gasping and expired in few
minutes.
Mr.. Freeman was born at Daw-
son, Ca, and spent his early life in
that community. He came to Barlow
thirty years ago and Immediately
opened a photograph gallery and had
continued in the business ever
since. He was one of the best art
lists in this section of the state, al
ways keeping fully abreast of the
times and taking a great pride in
his work.
He was married to Miss Roberta
Dunlop of Messy Greek, Va, in De-
cember, 1898, who survives him. He
has no near relatives at all, being
an only child, and having only one
uncle who died years ago. He was
in his 55th year, and a member of
the Presbyterian church"