Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-14
The Country Home
BY MIS- w III IlEI NON
Primary Election Day

When 1 woke up this morning
september 81 the clouds hung eavy
and forecasted a wet day. Inside of
! an hour the rain began to fall. Tn
very crowded communities like New
York Or Chicago a rain on election
day is serious setback and gener-
ally means small vote at the polls.
In the south, down in Georgia" it
generally stands for full vote, es-
pecially with outdoor laborers, who
tasks. If there is nothing doing to
make wages then they are ready
to participate and vote.
AS the campaign for the United
States senate and for governor has
been a heated one, the day promises
to be stormy in more ways than
one, Some of us will be glad when
this primary is over with. 1t is
likely to Leave many wounds, no mat
ter how it goes. Also it will have its
etfec. in the November election. 1t
will cut a wide swath in the election
for national offices.
The primary of today will virtually
settle the state election, but the
real election on November 2 is still
an open forum for voters for two
months to come.
Unless today's primary is perfect
ly fair at and around the. ballot box
there will be opportunity for protest.
The heat, fury and unlimited abuse
of candidates will not tolerate any
fraud or stuffed ballot boxes. This
is a so-called white primary.
1t demands clean handling and an
honest county: Otherwise there Will
never be another such primary IN
the state of Georgia under Demo
cratic rulings.
Controlling the colored vote is one
thing, suppressing white mans
ballot privilege is another. You
know that. So do L.
The time was, when I was much
Younger than today, that it was con-
sidered smart tactics to manipulate
ballot boxes on election day l lived
then, and still live, in a congression-
al district where the grossest frauds
were perpetrated on election day,
condoned under the plea of white
sowed the seeds of discord and be-
smirched the perpetrators.
In conclusion, I am hoping that
Georgia in 1920 has an honest set OF
men to count the ballots cast by
white men today. l am hoping also
that there will be no disorder at inc
polls. Bloodshed among humans IS
a bad thing, no matter where 1t IS
exploited. I am hoping that liquor
will be suppressed, but 1 am told tnat
my county is full of 1t, and SOLO IN n
Coca-Cola bottles at So.oo nal cs
pint. 1 went in person to our snerlll
and so informed him. If he was cor,
~act when he told me ait was so, and
couldn't be helped I am afraid our
law enforcement against liquor Is
dead letter.
WHAT ABOUT THIS JUMPING
COTTON MAEKET2
The newspapers informed us on
Yesterday that Cotton jumped seven
dollars bale. When pale
weighs 500, and jumps a cent I
pound it means SIS per bale. mere
a half cents on each pound OF MD
ding cotton. 1 have discoYered tnat
cotton traders went nearly VIA
when the bears hammered COTTON
down to 35 cents. They bought an
in sight and in reach. If they sou
price yesterday, they have tull
labor to show for the profit.
Of course they had anxiety. me
gambler at Monte Carlo-has anX-
iety-but he continues to rake III
the cash-eh!
more out of that rise of 81
than the producer will make, who
owned the land, plowed the soil ana
maid all expenses in preparing the
staple for the sale.
Thus the World Ways
Thus the big fish eat up the lit,
tie ones. Thus the many are placed
in serfdom, to the powerful rev.
who can bull and bear the cotton
market-and all other staples that
1t has been so since I have known
the world. 1 guess it will always
be so, so long as human nature is
what it is.