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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN.
itOVriAr, RKPTEMBEH *.
The Atlanta Georgian.
JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor.
F. L. SEELY, President.
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Atlanta. Ga.. under set of congress of March S. 2179.
he paper that “alv
gives the farts," distinctly mis
Our Cotton Exports.
In a newer and more eubatantlal aenae than we have
ever realized before. Cotton la kina, and the people of
this country are paying willing tribute to the royal ata-
pie.
The balance of trade In our favor has been dwelt
upon time and time again. It amounta to aomething like
half a bllllozi dollara, which la bo much money that the
average mind cannot even comprehend It. But It may
come aa aomething of a aurprlae to moat people to real'
lzo that the amount which our exporta of cotton contrib
ute to thia balance of trade la, for the flrat time In our
history, more than MOO,000,000.
When we reflect that the value of our breadatulfa of
all klnda exported for the flacal year Juat ended was only
$188,000,000, those of provisions only $211,000,00d and
those of Iron and atcel manufactures only $101,000,000, we
get aomething of an Idea of the pre-eminence of King
Cotton In the magnificent export trade of the country.
According to the report of the department of com
merce and labor, the value of cotton exported baa In
creased very rapidly during the past few years. It was
not until 1901 that it croaaed the $300,000,000 line, and
In a short five years period it has grown to more than
$400,000,000, or an Increase of about 33 per cent.
This growth la due In part to an Increase In the quan
tity exported, but In part, also to the advance In price,
since the quanUty exported In 1906 was about 700,000,000
pounds leas than In 1905, white the value was $21,000,000
more than In 1905.
The exportation of manufactured cotton was also
larger In 1906 than In any earlier year, aggregating prac
tically $53,000,000, against $50,000,000 In 1905 and $22,-
500,000 in 1904. The growth In manufactured cotton has
been quite as striking as that of raw material.
Europe Is, of course, our principal customer for raw
t .-Jan. The United Kingdom took last year $117,000,000
qfcjKh, Germany $101,000,000, France $45,000,000 and Italy
about $27,000,000, whllo the other countries of Europe
took about $32,000,000 worth. Japan la also a customer
for our raw cotton, but very Irregular In the quantity
bought, since she only buys largely of American cotton
when prices are low, relying upon India and China In
ypars when American prices are high. The value of cot
ton exported to Japan In the fiscal year 1906 was, In
round terms, $8,000,000; In 1906, $17,000,000, and In 1904,
less than $3,000,000.
In manufactured cotton China Is by far our largest
customer. The total value of all cotton manufactures ex
ported In the fiscal year 1906 was, aa above Indicated,
$53,000,000 In round terms, of which about $30,000,000
went to China. Practically all of the cotton goods sent
to China was In the form of cloth, the total value of cot
ton cloths exported to Chinn In the year being $29,641,-
188, and of other cotton goods $172,887. The 'exports of
cotton cloths to China lu the fiscal yeaV 1906 exceeded
both in quantity and value those of any other earlier year,
the value In 1906 being about two million dollara greater
than In 1905. China's rank as a purchaser of American
cottons la Indicated by the fact that of the 711,000,000
yards of cotton cloths exported In 1906. 498,000,000 went
to China, while about 133,000.000 yards went to the
American countries south of the United States, and
twenty-five millions to Asia other than China and
Oceania.
How the Great Journal Works It.
Atlanta Men Invite Bryan to Georgia Pair.
(8pecla! Dispatch to The Journal.)
New York, Aug. 31.—William J. Bryan was
formally Invited to attend the Georgia slate fair In
October by n committee of AUantans headed by
President Alex W. Smith Thursday afternoon. The
other members of the committee present at the In
terview with Mr. Bryan were John Temple Gravos,
Mayor Woodward. John S. Cohen, Nytn McCullough,
Joseph E. Maddox and others.
Mr, Bryan said he would be glad to come to At
lanta In September, but was nfrald he could not
come In October. Ho promised, however, to take the
matter under consideration, and President Smith Is
quite hopeful Bryan will Anally accept.
It was with great difficulty that an audience was ar
ranged. but Mr. Smith pooled Issues with Governor
Jelka, of Alabama, and Governor Glenn, of North
Carolina, and the Joint Invitation was extonded to
visit the three states during October.
Tho pressure on Mr. Bryan to accept la strong
and the matter will again be preisod to his notice.
This Is a special dlapatch from New York to The At
lanta Journal. The Journal'! special representative In
New York on that occasion was Its managing editor. He
and be alone was personally acquainted with the Inci
dent! of the invitation to Bryan from Atlanta. The In
ference la conclusive that he sent It.
The matter le trivial, but the spirit manlfoated la the
dispatch Is so curious and suggestive that we cannot for
bear explaining it.
The editor of The Georgian without his foreknowl
edge or request was made chairman of the Georgia dele
gation to receive Bryan and to present to him the Invita
tion to the fair. The editor of The Georgian Immediately
suggested that he should Introduce to Mr. Bryan Presi
dent Alex W. Smith, of the fair association, and that .Mr.
Smith should present the Invitation. Mr. Smith promptly
declined and urged that the chairman of the delegation
should present It, which was also urged by the commit
tee and agreed upon.
In the andden whirl of Mr. Bryan's arrival and the
•oormous crowd pressing upon him the Georgia dele
gation became separated and only the editor of The
Georgian. Mr. Smith and the managing editor of The
Journal were able to get together. The managing editor
of The Journal Is perfectly aware of the fact that during
that long hard push against the crowding aisles and cor
ridors, the editor of The Georgian fulfilled his commission
at great parsons! discomfort—that the editor of The Geor
gian alone arranged the combination with Governor
Glenn, of North Carolina, and Governor Jclks, of Ala
bama, by which the three managed to almost force an
audience with Mr. Bryan, and that the editor of The
Georgian himself, with Mr. Smith and the managing ed
itor of The Journal just behind him. did present the
Invitation and hold the conference In behalf of the At
lanta fair.
And yet in the face of personal knowledge of these
states the actual occurrence, and for no other ostensible
reason than that the chairman of the delegation hap
pened to be the editor of a friendly competitor at home.
And almost in the very hour In which this brilliant
piece of Journaltitle rivalry was put on the wires, the
staff of The Georgian were publishing Interviews with
the editor of The Journal and exploiting his political
views and opinions with perfect freedom and unbiased
generosity.
There isn't a thing In the Incident The editor of
The Georgian deserves and desires no credit for so sim
ple a thing aa presenting an Invitation to Mr. Bryan. But
we cannot forbear to contrast the methods of a real news
paper with the methods of ''Special Managing Corre
spondent."
The Day We Celebrate.
This Is the annual festival devoted to the cause of
labor/ There are many occasions which bring out a
greater amount of pin wheels and red Art, but there
are few which more distinctly reflect the sturdy grand-
eur of the American republic than this peculiar day
which la devoted to the cause of bone and alnow.
It has become altogether too mnch the fashion to
deprecate that little Incident In the Garden of Eden
which made It necessary that man should eat bread In
the sweat of his brow. Tbe sybarites and the Idlers
have dwelt upon tbe fall of Father Adam aa entailing
a curse upon-mankind. But In point of fact It would be
difficult to reallxo how we ever could have got on with
out that exerclso of thew and sinew which that same
fall entailed.
It Is almost Impossible to restrain one's self within
reasonable bound! when undertaking to assign the place
devoted to labor In the progress of the world. It la
natural and gratifying to allude to the fact which scien
tists have brought out that the lifting of the little- finger
literally shakes the world, and that hence no labor,
In whatever channel It may be directed. Is entirely lost.
Tho man who carves cherry stones with that high type
of labor which is known as patience—the man who has
tbe Infinite capacity for taking pains In small matters
as well aa
“The hand which rounded Peter’s dome
And groined the aisles of Christian Rome,”
all work to the same great end and Illustrate to
the world that labor, like beauty, Is Us own excuse for
being Us own excellent reward.
To tbe less recondite It Is Interesting to realise that
the great cause which this holiday celebrates Is progress
ing all over the world. The moBt conservative' of men
are rapidly aloughlng off the ophidian opinion that organ
ised labor means antagonism to the established institu
tions which capital contributes so much to support. We
honestly and frankly-believe that the time Is passing
when the man who Identifies himself with the cause of
labor, the man who believes in and contends for the
prlnotple of employers' liability, for shorter hours and
a more wholesome environment wherever he msy work,
must at the same time be Identified with the followers
of Ktrl Marx and his school of socialism
And those who look forward hopefully to the achieve
ments of organlxed labor are glad to realise that the
civilised world recognizes more and more, as the years
go by, that the labor sentiment has come to stay. What
It has achieved In our own country Is patent and apparent
to all men, and He Iron hand In the velvet glove was
felt In the last session of the fifty-ninth congress. It will
make Itself even more manifest In -tbe second session of
that congress and in future assemblages.
It Is no more than tbe simple truth to say that no
single movement In the world politics of recent times
haa attracted more attention, and has mora justly at
tracted the attention It haa received, than the recogni
tion accorded to the cause of labor In England. We are
a greater and In many respects a more progressive peo
ple than our English cousins across tbe sea,, but the fact
remains that whatever tendency may be manifested In
their own institutions Is reflected In the growth and prog
ress of our own!
And what haa been the history of the labor move
ment in England within the past few years?
We find Mr. John Burns with a position In the cabi
net of the liberal government. He haa been In parlia
ment for a long time, but even twenty years ago It would
not have been believed, if any one had aald that a man
who had so decidedly sprang from tho common people aa
did John Burns would ever attain to the. eminence and
Importance he now enjoys.
It la trivial, and yet It la Illuminating, that a few
weeks ngd, at a levee held by the King of England, a
feminine member of tho aristocraoy meeting Mrs. Burns
decided that It was the proper thing, In view of the pres
ent political tendencies, to show some special considera
tion tor the wife of the great labor leader In parliament,
whereupon she Indited a dainty little billet doux to Mrs.
Burns saying:
''It Is so far from Belgravia to Bayswater that t have
never had tbe opportunity of calling upon you, but If you
will accept an Invitation to be present at my fi o'clock
tea on Tuesday afternoon, I shall be happy to see you.”
To this polite missive Mrs. Burns sent tho succinct
and highly significant reply;
‘T have been looking at the map of London and I find
that It is exactly the same distance from Belgravia to
Bayswater that it Is from Bayswater to Belgravia."
This spirited reply on tho part of Mrs. Burns has
placed her In a now light before the court ladles and the
snobbish aristocracy of England. It Is entirely on a par
with the now dignity and Importance which the labor
element has ncqulrod In politics and In economics.
It was almost a revolution when tbe liberals came
Into power after a long period of exile and was paralleled
only by our own Democracy. But undoubtedly the most
notable Incident of the landslide was the fact that for the
first time In English parliamentary history the catiao of
labor acquired the balance of power. This la really true,
for there, among tbe representatives of the third estate,
sit fifty members who are chosen without regard to their
conservative or their liberal predilections, but solely be
cause of their devotion to the Interests of labor.
He who overlooks the same tendency In our own
political situation gravely and seriously misreads the
signs of the times. As we have said before, the time has
passed when the cause of labor Is Identified, even In the
minds of the most superficial, with socialism and that rad
icalism which finds support from so many political here
tics. So long as the cause of labor remains pure In Its
purpose and lofty In Its alliances, having no ulterior mo
tives except that of the laboring people, bolding Itself
aloof from Republicans and Populists and Socialists and
even from Democrats, if need be, ever ready to throw its
strength with the party which promises most effectively
to bring about the reforms which the time demands—so
long will the cause of labor remain a powerful factor in
our political and economic life.
The exemplars of Its Interests and of Its ifurposes
here In Atlanta are men of the highest type of ability
and Integrity.
No man could Impugn the high purposes which ant
with something more than perfunctory pleasure that we
greet them today with a cordial “All hall" and bid them
be of good cheer as to the reforms which lie before them
and the noble purposes which are to become concrete
facts In tbe days that are close at band.
Announcement Is mjde thst Benjamin H. Hill Is a
candidate for a seat on the bench of the court of appeals.
The elevation of this able and distinguished citlxen to that
position would reflect the highest credit on that branch
of the judiciary and by almost common consent he would
be selected as a man to whom such honors properly be
long. He comes of a family which ranks high In tho
Judicial annals of the state. His father was one of the
most eloquent and gifted men the Sonth has ever pro
duced. It would be In the nature of the entire fitness of
things for such a man as 61 r. Hill to be elevated to the
position for which he has been proposed, and It would
lend dignity and strength to the recently established
court of appeals.
GOOD ROADS PARAMOUNT.
To the Editor of Tbe Georgian;
In 1870 Atlanta numbered the fifty-ninth city of
the United States. In the census bulletin of the Wash
ington government for 1904 she Is numbered forty, a
gain of nineteen place?, and showing she Is outrunning
most of the other cities North and Sonth. Memphis and
Nashville have merely maintained their relative posi
tlons. Birmingham and Macon, like Atlanta, have gone
forward, but the other cities of tbe South have fallen
back. Baltimore lost one place, which was taken by
Boston. Jacksonville lost two places. Montgomery three.
New Orleans and Louisville each six; Norfolk eight.
Other southern cities have dropped hack 42, 54 and 64
places, but It would be unkind to name them.
Tbe cities of the United States which have made the
most progress are those* which have enlarged their areas.
Issued large amounts of Improvement bonds, constructed
parks and boulevards, extended their public works and
made themselves attractive to the outsiders. If a city
depends only upon its birth rate to make It great. It will
not succeed. Public spirit from within and additions
from without push a city to the front, Atlanta has an
excellent reputation over the country for Its energy,
which Is a great asset. If a city Is physically attractive
It will draw both rich and poor. In New York—tbe
largest city in the United States—Interest rates are low
and wages are high. In small and unprogressivo cities
the Interest charges are high—so arc taxes—and wage3
are low. The many, many advantages of living In a
big city, are being so well understood by laboring peo
ple that country help Is a scarcity. Unless a country Is
opened up by first class roads hnvlng easy transporta
tion to and from the city Its primitive condition will be
a millstone about Us neck. Good roads'. Good roads'.
Good roads! Very sincerely, CHARLES S. BONNEY.
Jacksonville, Fla., Aug. 30.
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MANY DELEGATES
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A TAR'S PHANTASM
(Dedicated to Rear Admiral for valorous deeds as mate of the Lancet In
her victorious maneuvers In Bibulous Bay, Starch 15, 1906.)
1 dreamed that I dwelt on an Isle of cracked Ice
In the midst of a lake of champagne,
Where bloomed the mint Juleps In meadows of graen,
Amid showers of llthla rain.
I reclined on a divan of lager beer foam.
With a pillow of broth for my head,
While the spray from a fountain of sparkling gin fizz
Descended like dew on my head.
From faraway mountains of crystalline Ice,
A zephyr, refreshing and cool,
Came wafting the Incense of sweet muscatel
That sparkled In many a pool.
My senses were soothed by the soft, purling song,
Of a brooklet of pouase cafe
That rippled along over pebbles of snow,
To a river of absinthe frappe.
Then, lulled by the music of tinkling glass
From the schooners that danced on the deep,
I dreamily sipped a high ball or two
‘ ^ And languidly floated to sleep. '
And then I awoke on a bed full of rockg
With a bolster as hard as a brick,
A wrench In my neck, a rack In my head,
And a stomach detestably sick.
With sand In my eyes and grit In my throat,
Where the taste of last evening stilt clung,
I felt a bath towel stuffed Into my mouth.
Which I afterward found was my tongue.
And I groped for the thread of the evening before
In a mystified maze of my brain.
Until a great light burst upon me at last;
I’m off of the wagon again!
ENFORCE VAG.
TO
Li
New Grand Jucdrs Will Se
lect Successor to Judge
Walter Ormond.
CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
WILL OPEN TUESDA Y
Supt. Slaton Expects
Attendance of
1J,000.
Tuesday, September 4, marks the
opening of the public school year In At
lanta, and Indications point to the
largest attendance In the history of the
public school system of the city. Lust
year there was an attendance of 18,200,
and this year Superintendent Staton
expects to ass at least 16,000 names
registered.
There will not be so many to enter
until the first of October.
Monday should be the regular on
trance day, but on account of the fact
that the first Monday In September le
Labor Day, the opening la always post
poned until the following Tuesday.
The first day will be devoted to or
ganisation and the Issuance of lists
of books and supplies needed, and rou
tine work will commence In earnest
Wednesday morning.
Drop Vsrtloal System.
Tho moet Important change In the
system of teaching will be the dropping
of the vertical system of writing, nnd
the return to the slant system, which
was the only one known to our fathere.
On account of Its apparent greater
legibility nnd simplicity the vertical
system was some years ago adopted,
and the return to the old style comes
as a result of complaints from the busi
ness men of the city that the vertical
eystem was much the slower and no
more legible. Professor J. H. Smith,
who has charge of the business depart
ment of the Boys' High School, will
have charge of the change in the sys
tem, and will give necessary Instruc
tions to the teachers.
The department of drawing will be
In charge of Miss Elisabeth Getz, who
comes from Charleston, S. C„ where
ehe has had a large measure of success.
She will devote her entire time to the
Instruction of the pupils of tbs gram
mar grades.
Principal Slaton will have charge of
the classical department of the Boys'
High School, while Professor C. S. Cul
ver has been promoted to the head of
the technical department. Graduates
of the high schools are now given full
credit at the University, Tech and oth
er higher Institutions of learning In the
state. The graduates of the technical
department are fitted to enter the
eophomore class at the Tech.
3,500 New Pupils Register.
Up to Monday morning there had
been more than 2,600 pupils who had
not been In the public schools last year,
and while Superintendent Slaton would
give out no predictions as to the en
rollment for this year, he stated that
everything pointed to a record-breaker.
The county schools will not open un
til September 24, but this year all the
schools In the county will run for the
full term of nine months. This le a
distinct advance, os In the past very
few have continued the term longer
than the five months, for which the
state provides.
There are thlrty-nlna schools In the
county, of which twenty-four are white
and fifteen colored. Superintendent
Brittain, of the county schools Is very
enthusiastic over the prospect for a
larger attendance than the county „• , , -- - --
schools have ever known before, and ! ‘ , } , l' I c ne £ n j* I° rb ld-
also Increased, Interest In education, as | ^ Pf.
"A man must labor enough to keep
good full stomach. A vagrant is a person
who does not, when he could, make
enough to support himself through his
own efforts. If a man can make a dol
lar and a half a day and works only
one day In the week he Is not earning
a bona fide support. A man who Is
hungry Is of course more likely to'
commit a crime than one who Is well
fed. If a man works only one day in
seven he should be made to stay at
home the other slx> There Is nothin?
so conducive to crime as Idleness, and
It Is your duty to break It up so far as
In your power lies.
This Is the way Judge Pendleton
changed the grand Jury In the superior
court this morning. He reminded them
further that this matter was very 1m
portant at this time. He told the Ju
rors that they should magnify their
office, which,he said, was equal In Im
portance to that of the governor of
the state.
In speaking of the recent appoint
ment of a committee to urge upon the
grand Jury the necessity for the en
forcemen.t of the vagrancy laws. Judge
Pendleton said:
"So far as I know, thsre has never
ben any failure on the part of a Fulton
county grand jury to enforce the law,
and come squarely up to their duties."
"No Exouse for Gaming.”
In charging tho Jury on gaming, for
which crime he said there was
earthly excuse, the Judge said that, so
far as he knew, and so far as he had
been able to learn from the officers of
the law, there was not at present sany
open gambling establishment In Fulton
county. He said some houses had run
for a time on the quiet before being
located, but that as soon as they were
found the law had been enforced and
they had been broken up. For this
state of affairs, he said, tho county
was to be congratulated.
"A man who carries a concealed pis
tol," said the court In dealing with
this portion of his charge, "will find
that, even If he Is not arrested, he
will In the course of a year's experi
ence have more trouble than If he left
his weapon at home. His knowledge
that he Is armed emboldens him to per
haps pick a fight where he would not
do so otherwise.'
Judge Pendleton called the attention
of the Jurors to the laws forbidding
the selling of liquor to drunkards and
to minors or In the vicinity of
churches, compelling railroads to keep
fresh water on trains, requiring a II-
shown by tho longer term which Is es
tablished, he hopes, permanently, This
Is the first time that all of the county
schools have run the full nine months
CUBAN GOVERNMENT -
DETERMINED TO FIGHT
Turns Down Offer of
Veterans for Ami
cable Settlement.
By Private I-oesed Wire.
Havana, Sept. 1.—General t'ebreco,
representing the Cuban veterane, has
had a long talk with President Palma
with a view of arbitrating the differ
ences between the government and the
rebels. President Palma told the gen
eral that the veterans were welcome
to confer with the rebels atid persuade
them to lay down their arms. In which
case they would be free to leave the
country or return unmolested to their
homes by virtue of the recent offer of
amnesty. But, he added, If the vet
erans took this course, they would act
only as private cltliena.
When General Cebreco left the palace
he met General Mlco, the chief dis
bursing officer of the army of libera
tion, who, on seeing Cebreco'a downcast
face, said;
“Didn’t I tell you that the old man
would not listen even for the country's
sake?"
General t'ebreco answered sadly:
“You were right."
This kills the lust hope of an arnica
the sympathy of vets.
General Mlco, who was one of the
most prominent generals In the war of
liberation, succeeding Mnceo when the
latter was killed, said: "The govern
ment’s act In not recognizing the vet
erans Is apparent. Cubans such as
are now In the field can hold out In
definitely by breaking up In numberless
parties of 40 or 60 men. Spain's ex
perience should have taught the gov
ernment officers better, but they are
not the men who fought In the war for
Independence. X could take a few ne
groes and defy all the forces the gov
ernment can raise.”
General Cebreco said, after leaving
the palace, that he dreaded the task of
telling the veterans the answer he re
ceived from President Palma.
It was learned today from a source
ordinarily so reliable'as to be believed
by all that the government had achiev
ed a tentative understanding that If It
was unable to curb the revolution by
September 15, It would ask for the as
sistance of the United States,- but
when this was broached to members of
the government tl was met with such
on emphatic denial as to leave no room
for doubting that whatever the govern
ment may have discussed. It has de
cided to see the thing through by all
the force of arms It can command and
III abide by the results.
facts "The Journal's Special Correspondent," writing to i mate them iu whatever they may undertaka, and it la I and probably will cost the government Herald today.
IN PARI8.
Specie! to Tbe Georgian.
Paris, Sept. J.—Mrs. G. L. Frost, of
Macon, Ga., registered at the office of
hie settlement of the recent troubles | the European edition of The New York
medical colleges. He told them of their
duty to look Into the various depart
ments of the county government and
see that they arc being run properly.
To 8elect Ormond's Successor,
The Jury was told to select a succes
sor of the late Walter'T. Ormond, no-
tary public and Justice of the peace,
and two members of 4he county school
board. In the selection of the
ter he advised the Jurors to see, so far
as possible, thnt all parts of the county
were represented on the board.
The grand Jury selected Colonel A.
J. West ns foreman. The other mem
bers are J. R. Nutting. John M. Green,
F. J. Paxon, Alonzo Richardson, dames
M. 1'mlper, Ernest Woodruff, Albert
Steiner, W. H. Kiser, Deinps Perker-
son, S. C. Huff, B. M. Blount, Benja
min F. Boyd, Edwin Klngsbcry, Joseph
Thompson, H. L, Haralson, Wllmer I.
Moore, Frank Ilawklmi. and William J.
Davis. Several other members will be
added tomorrow.
Roby Robinson, John Temple Graves,
Henry A. Inman, George E. King and
i'lark Howell were among those ex
cused from servlco or out of the city
One petit Jury and a part of a sec
ond were selected. The court adjourn
ed at 1U o'clock until Tuesday morn
ing.
WILL WORK CONVICTS
ON COUNTY ROADS
Special to Ttie Gporgtau
Balnbrldge, Ga., Sept. J.—The coun
ty commissioners have deemed it ad
visable to work the county convicts on
the public roads. Instead of hiring them
out to private parties, as has been done
for some time. The county convicts
at present are worked by Hodges &
Powell, turpentine operators, at Gyrene.
They will continue to work the women
and children, but beginning Monday
the men will be worked on the public
roads. The scarcity of labor In the
county was the occasion for this action
on the part of the commissioners. It
Is thought that the rood work will be
carried on much faster than It has
been with the convict labor.
Session To Be Brief, Prob-
ably Lasting Only a
Few Hours.
8|hcIh| to The Georgian
Macon, Ga„ Sept. 3.—The delegatti
are beginning to pour Into the city o,
every train for the state Democratic
convention, which will convene In the
city auditorium here tomorrow n
noon. None of the lenders have as y e (
arrived on tho grounds, but they art
expected this afternoon, and will j,.
vote the afternoon, night and tomorrow
to getting the lines In good shape (or
the work of the convention.
Session Will be Brief.
It Is not thought that the convention
will last more than two or three hour*
as everything will be run off accord.
Ing to a schedule. The delegates have
all been selected by Mr. Smith, and arc
presumably In full sympathy and ac.
cord with his Ideas of how the con-
ventlon should go.
Decorating Hall.
The auditorium Is being.handsomely
decorated today. The central piece ot
the decorations, will be a great picture
of Hoke Smith directly over the cen.
ter of the front of the stage, and the
national colors will be draped from It
to different parts of the great hall. The
decorations will be so arranged as not
to Interfere with the ventilation. Elec
tric fans will add to the comforts ot
the delegates and all manner of re
freshments will be on band for the
gentlemen.
Entertainment of Delegates.
The hotels and restabrants of the
city have made ample preparations to
attend to the entertainment of the del
egates, but no stress Is expected under
this head, as many of the members of
the convention will come Into the city
In the morning ant] leave on the late
afternoon trains for their homes. There
will not even be a quarrel over the
personnel of the officers of the con
vention, as all this has been settled Is
advance.
Judge Miller Will be Chairman.
The chairman of the convention and
the state executive committee will be
Judge A. L. Miller, with Congressman
T. W. Hardwick as vies chairman.
Messrs. H. H. Cabanlss and E. L. Mar
tin will be the secretaries.
The news of the day Is the selection
of James R. Gray aa chairman of the
committee on resolutions and platform.
As , Mr. Gray Is very pronounced In
hls views on certain matters, some
very plain statements can be expected.
It Is generally thought that the planki
on disfranchisement, railroad control. .
and popular government will be very
strong.
May Adopt 8. C. Plan.
It Is Intimated that the South Car- ;
ollna plan of nominating all officers .
by a direct vote of the people will bo
adopted and that the Macon conven-
tlon will be the last one of any Impor- ;
tance held In this state. One date (or i
all state and county primaries will be '
selected by tho convention.
The .Democratic convention of the
Sixth congressional district meet hen
today and nominated Hon. Charles L
Bartlett for his seventh term as repre
sentative from this district. Strony
resolutions were passed Indorsing the
course of Mr. Bartlett since he has
been In congress.
THIS DATE IN HISTORY.
8EPTEMBER 3.
llKl-Innugoratlon of Illebard I at West-
minster.
1642—British defeated the Irish at the bat*
tie of Llsoarrol.
HKiS—Oliver Cromwell died. Born April S,
1560.
British marched upon Philadelphia njw
Americans retreated across Urn nay*
nine.
1783—Treaty of peace, acknowledging Inile-
peiidciice of l?nlted States, sinned wltn
-Kln" t K!IIgI‘ 1 ciup*ror uf Chinn, do
throned. .
1850— Itnehel, the great French actress, minis
her American delmt In New \«rk.
1877*-!.onI* A. Thiers. French historian,
died. Horn April It, 1797. .
19K—Kd ward Kggleston, author of ,, Htwsl#
Schoolmaster," died.
WHEN WE HAVE 8AID GOtJD-BYE.
me iieni .
Shall he by faint and tender breete caress*
When we have aald good*bye.
Tin* fragrance of the jessamine will swnsa
Through the still ulght; Its rich perfuial
will vie
With honeysuckle and magnolia bloom.
‘Til morning route, ns ours for os, t«w « ,, os»
When w«* ha vs said good-bye.
Across the vault of hearen In lace-like f
The star-shine of the Mltky Way shall li«j
chittigeles* thing of comfort, wucu »
mam
nr from a wormwood mockery of home,
Ami we have wild good-byy.
tin's *U!ia on the sonth shall he *•
..right, .. ,
As green shall Ik* the wheat Helds nnd ts«
Idle’ tiie loug lanes shall wait for of
Ijedtgtit „
With ferns ami flowers and soft suniiusr
light.
When we have said good-bye.
Yes, for ns. nil these things shall beucef«»rtl
Hern through a mitt of tears, with
Fait wt5l I know your own heart, tcidagiy.
Shall feel the stab of myriad memory.
When we have said good-bys.
Vain, now, my wnrnlng and reproachful
tears: __
Go! l»rlde sufflceth: ami your hitter cry.
When you have shed the ssporstltlou*
That wrecked our pure Arcadia of the
And hade you soy good-bye.
The woven fabric of our lives lo twain
Is rent. To what avail? For we so **a
IUh*t lie n
Where nevermore the snnsbtne or the r*i*
lay nee us. laughing, hand lo band af* ia>
When we have sub! good-bye.
Ah. love, tbe years* oncreeplng will b*
Without you. liuntb wltn grief 1 long **
die.
.but. dead. I tuny forget I let you go.
And never wake. In weary palu. to kn«*w
That we have said gvod-by*. .
‘—Grace KlrXlaiii