Our young orators who are going on the
stump in tho present campaign will do well
to think of these things. If they can drive
an argument home with a joke it is all
right, but they will mnke a mistake if they
push their jokes to the front and leave their
arguments in the background, l.et them
sptak only when they are sure that they
have something worth saying, and then let
them speak the words of truth and sober
ness. If they start out as humorists they
w ill have cause to regret it, just as Tom
Corwin and Sidney St >Wh lived to r< <ret it.
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A •»:ii»ii s t M« loi»-<;r<»\»c r«i.
The Albany News and Advertiser prints :r
letter from the editors of the Quitman
(Brooks county) 1b:.,-!, in which it is
stated that tin y liar e b, en requested by tlie
melon, fruit and vegetable growers of that
county to call a convention t>r tho t-th of
August. Dougherty, I ce. Baker. Mitchell,
Thomas, Decatur, I.ow tides and otb.er coun
ties Interested are invited to hold similar
convcutiw.s for the pur] osc of sele'Cling del
egates to attend a g< neral convention of the
melon, fruit ami vegetable gruweis of
Georgia.
This is the b< ginning of a very important
movement, and if it is managed with judg
ment and discretion, its results will j.rove
to lie of inestimable bcm tit to the fruit and
vegetable growers of the southern and sxillh
western sectivus of the slate. It is to be
THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION: ATLANTA. GA.. TUESDAY. JULY 31, 1888.
