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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN- WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 5, lMt The Atlanta Georgian. JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor. F. L. SEELY, President. Telephone Connections. Subscription Rstes: Published Every Afternoon Except Sundsy by THE GEORGIAN CO. st 25 W. Alsbsms Street, Atlsnts,' Gt. Entered «« eecnad-eliae matter April S. tin*. tt tb* Poeteffloe St Atlanta. Os., under act of consreca of March A Ult. One, Year $4.50 Six Months....... 2.50 Three Months ..... 1.25 By Cirrler, per week IOc Unjournalistic Methods. It Is the Intention of The Georgian to preserve Its news Integrity even at the rlak of being regarded leas enterprising than Its contemporaries. It is the Ideal and the aim of The Georgian to coniine ita statements to facts. Certain Atlanta newspapers of Tuesday afternoon set new journalistic standards by announcing as an ac complished fact the nomination of Hon. Hoke Smith by the convention at Macon hours ■before the event hdd taken pla&. These newspapers also printed the nomi nating speech of Hon. J. L. Anderson and Mr. Smith's speech of acceptance two hours before they were deliver ed at the Macon convention. These speeches were not prefaced by the atatetnent that they "would be deliv ered." Their introductions contained the assertion that they "were delivered.” Every reader of thoee newspapers In Atlanta and many outside, therefore, .were informed that things had happened two.hours before , they really did happen. The nominating speech of Hon. J. L. Anderson was begun at 4:40 o’clock. The speech of Hon. Hoke Smith accepting the nomination waa begun at 5:10 o'clock. One of the newspapers In question appeared on the streets at S:45 o'clock with thta statement spread across Ita front paga: “Hoke Smith Nominated for Governor Amid Scenes of Wildest Enthusiasm.'' The Interesting event, with Its attending scenes of enthusiasm, took place Just one hour and twenty min utes later. It need hardly be said that The Georgian had In type the speeches of Messrs. Anderson and Smith— which were given, ns to the other papers, w|th the un derstanding that they were not to be printed until de livered. But The Georgian saw no reason to betray Ita Ideals or Its readers. established, that perpetuity Is In danger of having a pe riod writ largely to IL That la, as long as we have men who make grandstand, plays. We don't believe the courts will decide that the Boa- ton millionaire has a perpetual cinch on the gas business in Atlanta. But If they do, let them decide right away. The people are tired of being gouged. They will aet to work to create a bit of perpetuity for themselves. It will take the form of a gas plant Maybe fWe can be found enough men willing to make grandstand plays to take hold of the matter. We believe there are loyal, patriotic, honorable men In Atlanta who are willing to give of their time and brains and energy that the people of this city may be relieved. The Georgian has a few suggestions that It la going to make from time to time. They will be In reference a municipally owned and municipally operated gaa plant. We won't recommend the high, medium or low systems of pressure. We will outline a plan whereby the people ean construct their plant, operate It, own it and use the profits to reduce the tax rate, send their children to school and Improve the roads. Grand-Stand vs. Hidden Plays. The Atlanta Gas I.lght Company la a corporation which does business In Atlanta. It la owned by another corporation known as the Georgia Railway and Electric Company, which also does business In Atlanta. The Georgia Railway and Electric Company It owned by a millionaire who does business In Boston. A man named Hammond la attorney for the Atlanta Gas Light Company, which la owned by the Georgia Rail- wny and Electric Company, which la owned by the mill, looalre who does bualneaa In Boston. Mr. Hammond ta reputed, to be a fairly good attorney—as attorneys go. Also he la a native Atlantan. At one time he waa member of the city council. He represented the people of this city. After that he waa—And Is—a member of the legal staff of the corporation which la owned by tho mil lionaire In Boston. Now he represents the gaa company. Mr. Hammond la said to be a very well paid attor ney. That must be true, and for two reasons: First, he would have to be an attorney worthy of good hire, oth- erwlie the Boston millionaire would not want him. Bee- ond. he would have to bo well paid, otherwise ho would not—being a loyal Atlantan—consent to represent the In tereats of the Boston millionaire as against the Intereat ot the people of hie native city. James L. Key Is a young man who Hammond says Is trying to make n grand stand play. Mr. Key la an at darman. He la chairman of a special committee appoint ed to look. Into the history of a franchise granted by the state In 1850 for gaa to he manufactured and sold in the city of Atlanta for Illuminating purposes. The Boston millionaire owns that franchise. He clalma he has perpetual right to do whatever he pleases In the way of the manufacture and sale of gaa In Atlanta. He has emjfioyed the lawyer named Hammond to defend his claim. As we said before. Hammond muat be well paid- wo don't know how well. Key la not well paid. We know his salary. It la )25 a month. From Mr. Ham- mood's point of view, there may be some foundation for hla assertion to the effect that Mr. Key la maklpg a grand-stand play. Mr. Key admitted that he liked tq win the plaudits of hla fellow dtlaena—and hla own conscience. He might havo added that he waa working In a cause which. It accomplished, would command the plaudits of hla fellow citizens. Hammond knew that Key was working In a good cause, otherwise Key could never win the plaudits ot anybody—unloaa It waa the corporations, and be waa their hireling. Mr. Key made Ihe mistake of displaying some heat. Ho should have realised that Mr. Hammond waa trying to ridicule him. As wa said before, Mr. Hammond la evi dently a pretty shrewd dllten. Aleo he muat have done some grand-stand playing In hla time himself. Knowing theao thfngs, he knew that to charge grand-stand play ing was likely to dampen the ardor of a leas manly man than Jim Key. No one Itkee to be charged with playing to the grand stand. We rather approve of grand-stand plays on the part of city offlctqls. There has been too much ot this behind the scenes bualneaa. Any play made In full view of the grand stand muat be honest. Also It muat be good; otherwise It will be delected and win a storm of hlaaes. The special committee of which Mr. Key Is chairman held a meeting at City Hall Tuesday morning. Attorney Hammond was on hand, as were other of the Boston mil lionaire's hirelings. City Attorney Mayaon. a very excel lent city official, who probably wants to win the plaudits of hla fellow citlient, as he la grossly underpaid, waa also on hand. He made a recommendation to carry the question of perpetual franchise to the courts and have the matter • eclded. There Is a member of council named Patterson. He It a member of the committee of which Key la chairman. We don't know whoee plaudits Mr. Patterson hoped to win, but be decided he didn't want the city to get mixed up In a lawsuit with this gaa company which la owned by the Boston millionaire. What objection la therd to trying the matter In the courts? It the gaa company has a perpetual franchise, why not establish the claim to perpetuity. What la the use of bolding the matter np? Until the claim Is clearly The Georgian Wins Its Fight, On another page In this Isatm appears a letter from Dr. Walter A. Taylor, chairman of the apodal commit tee appointed by council to Investigate the meat situa tion In Atlanta. In this letter Dr. Taylor, speaking for council and for the ipeclal committee. Is good enough to express his cordial appreciation and that of hla associates In council for the work' which The Georgian has done tn bringing about a healthier condition in the slaughter houses of Atlanta. The ordinance just adopted by council la a far-reach ing and efficient one. It provides that workers In the slaughter houses muat have health certificates stating that they have no contagious or Infectious diseases. The workers muat wear sanitary clothing. The floors of slaughter houses muat be built of concrete, properly gut tered and graded. All animals must be Inspected before and after being killed. The slaughtering muat be done In the presence of an Inspector between the hours of a. m. and 8 p. m. The minimum weight of calves muat be fifty pounds, and for hogs fifteen pounds, and for sheep and goats twelve pounds. In every abattoir there muat be steam equipment for cleaning purposes. The maximum charges Axed for slaughtering are, 11.25 for cat tle, 36c for hogs, and 30c for sheep and goats. No meat from outside sources can be sold In the city unless It boars the government stamp and has been inspected on Ita arrival In Atlanta. These are the salient features of the new ordinance which baa been adopted by council. The Georgian takes particular pride In the part which It has .played In bring ing about this much-needed reform. It was through in formation gathered by The Georgian several weeks ago that the Inveattgatton waa drat set on foot. From that day until now, having before us the beat Interests of the entire community, we. have fought this battle for the peo ple and have Insisted that such an ordinance as that passed yesterday should be adopted. The special com- mlttee of council ia entitled to the thanks of the entire community for the part which it has played In this work. Dr. Taylor and hla associates have been zealous and perslstont In their efforts to ferret out all Irregularities In the matter of slaughtering and marketing meat In At lanta and to provide a sufficient remedy for the future. Their wisdom and foresight waa embodied In a municipal statute yesterday and has already became effective. This la a long step forward In the matter of reform. And once more we express our gratitude to the members ot council and others who have upheld our bands while The Geor gian made thta tight for the people. The Atlanta Art Association. What we may call the civic conaclousneea Is slowly but surely awakening. Above the din of great cities a still, small voice may be heard by the few,- prompting men and women to work for the Common good; from the desolation of our stone, and brick and mortar, and from the hideousness ot olir-congested districts, Is born many a vision of the city beautiful. Even In smoky Pittsburg, In Dayton, Ohio, In Hopedale, Maaaachuaetta, and In other great Industrial centers too numerous to mention, art and beauty are no longer abetract terms. They have been made concrete and manifest In the civic life. In public parks and buildings, In galleries and museums, and often In art schools whose Influence upon the city and state la direct and beneficent. Atlanta la to be congratulated that within her gates a body of earnest men and women, organised as the Atlanta Art Association, la working toward civic Im provement and advancement. Under the auspices ot this organisation an art exhibit, which brought to Atlnnta the works of the beat artists, and made them accessible to the public at a very low price of admission, waa held last fall. A second highly creditable exhibit has been planned for November next. The moat Important enterprise yet undertaken by the Art Association, however, la the establishment of an art school. As la well known, the instruction afforded tn the arts and crafts by our Southern schools la absurdly Inade quate. We hare no trained artists and few trained arti sans, so that what little work Is done In the South along these very Important educational lines muat be done by teachers brought from the North. Skilled craftmanshlp not only gives moat joy to the producer, but la that upon which the highest commercial value la aet, and yet our state offers to our children no opportunities to learn the crafts. The Atlanta Art Asso ciation la working to alter this condition, and It ta sig nificant to Georgia's educational advancement that tho art school which la to be conducted this winter by the association will offer Inducements to public school teach ers who desire normal training. On Thursday a meeting of the Atlanta Art Associa tion will be held for the purpose of electing a president In American and European cities In which art Interests are In any degree advanced, thta office la invested with the hlgheBt honors. The president and director of an art Institute and museum Is not necessarily an artist, but Is always a man of ability and of broad culture. Under the able management of Mrs. Isaac Boyd, the Art Association has become a well organised body with aoveral Important enterprises well under way. By her unselfish devotion to the Ideal of civic advancement which la the underlying principle of the organisation, the retiring president has won golden opinions. Just at this Important period of Its development, It la earnestly to be hoped that the association will be wise In Its choice, and that U will bestow the office upon the man or woman who can most powerfully stimulate public Interest In art matters. Rev. J. Grant Walker, Ihe well-known Pittsburg re form minister, has accepted the call to (he Hough Ave nue church. Cleveland. Ohio, to begin hla work there early In September. He la a graduate of Franklin and Marshall college. JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES MAKES EARNEST PLEA FOR PLAIN DEMOCRACY Editor of The Atlanta Georgian Predicts Victory For Party If Clear-Cut, Popular Plat form Is Adopted. By Private Leased Wire. Chicago, Sept. 6.—In hla apeech last evening at the Auditorium hotel at a banquet given to William Jennings Bryan by the Jefferson Club, Horn John Temple Graven of Atlanta Oe.. editor of The Atlanta Georgian, made an ear- neat and eloquent plea for a clear-cut, popular platform end a definite De mocracy. He said: I count myself happy, gentlemen of the Jefferion Club, to be your guest tonight. Wherever else the spirit of our party may have waned or weakened, It has been militant and unfailing here. Por whether the Jefferson Club has led a forlorn hope against the Rooeevettlan avalanche, or whether It has bojne the banner of municipal ownership to an eventful victory, the quality of Us Democracy has been as undiluted as It has always been unterrMed. 1 am fortunate especially In that your hospitality joins me here with that Incomparable American whoee vast renown was bom In the air of this marvelous city. For who that Is living can forget one fateful and Illus trious day when In a Chicago hall the name of a Western congressman leaped In one lightning hour of electric speech from a political platform to a matchless leadership which has filled the fair earth with the fame of Wit Item Jennings Bryan? Future For Democracy. Crowns of thorns have pressed upon many a laborer’s brow since then Crosses of gold have borne the broken bodies of many a victim of remorse less greed. But the shadows are lift ing from the night of our slavery. The stone Is being rotted from the tomb In which the mercenaries have laid our liberty, and In the confident morning which bathes the brow of ita stainless leader, our brave Democracy finds the prophecy and promise of a certain definite and triumphant resurrection. 1 am set upon your program to the sentiment, "The South and a Definite Democracy.” I am glad of that. Both the section and the adjective are enti tled to respect. You will permit me to say that In the cataclysm of two years ago, when the storm of the bnl- ots was spent,- the Bouth was surely ell that waa definite, and In fact, all that was visible of any kind of Dem ocracy. Two years ago the Democracy wee a sectional fragment. By the rec ord of that November day the Demo cratlc party wae the solid South— with Maryland hanging by a hair— with Weet Virginia gone, and Missouri swept from the moorings of over 60 years.' And even the South, proud and pathetic In Its splendid Isolation, remained loyal not altogether In the compulsion of conviction, but as well In the sheer stress of danger and ne cessity—held In line by nn ethnologi cal terror—forced by conditions, nnd solidified by the eternal shadow of a race problem under which there haa been marshalled the most motley host of divergent convictions that ever fol lowed and fought under the compre hensive banner of Democracy. South Helds Fast. The South has been for two decades the saving remnant of the party. Its faith Inspired by Its necessities haa made the rendeivous of defeated and the renaissance of Imperishable prin ciples. The South has been the little leaven that will leaven the lump. It ha* held fast tho elements which Jef ferson bequeathed as a sacrament to liberty, and the blood of the South In the veins of the president haa pulsed his sympathies In such power toward the people that more than once In the grapple of conviction end the wrestle with monopoly the grandson of Archi bald Bulloch, of Oeorgla, has seemed to say to the son of Thomas Roose velt, of New York, “Almost thou per suades! ins to be a Democrat/’ And this will account for the polit ical garments which Mr. Bryan missed In London, and later discovered upon the person ot the president of the United States. Mr. Chairman, ths presidential elec tion of 1904 was the most Instructive lesson that the times have taught to our Democracy. We have always fail ed and will always fall as a party ot negation and a party of opposition. We fatted then because we were unfaithful. We failed because we trimmed and hesitated anil straddled. We foiled be cause we compromised with the ap- K irently successful doctrines of the epubllcan party and surendered to men whose Interest* and convictions are so near akin to our political op- lonents that they ought in common tonesty to espouse the organisation to which they belong. We failed because In our political hunger for victory we Imitated the platforms and pandered to the powers of the opposite party that held the government. People Repudiate Straddlers. The Democratic party haa not won In fifty years a national triumph upon platform of hesitation. Imitation, apology or compromise. Every strad dling makeshift ot the century has been repudiated by the people at the polls, nnd the only real and tangible victory which hoe crowned our modern Democracy was when one brave and splendid leader spurned the suggestions of expediency, defied the timid leaders and the time-serving politicians, dared the doubts of his own cabinet, and con sented to be burled for a time with the brave body of tariff reform In order share Its full and Inevitable resur rection. And the Democratic party owes a deathless debt for a dauntless triumph and a noble lesson of suc cess to the definite policy, the unfet tered conviction, the direct language and the bold Andrew Jackenn courage of the tariff message sent to the fifty- drat congress by Grover Cleveland, of New York. "The Democratic party tn It* name. Its history and tn It* mission, stands for the pleln people of America—the great majority—the greatest good of the greatest number. So long as It holds fast In lip and life to this align ment, It preserves Its Integrity and commands the confidence of the peo ple. But whenever It sella out to the enemy—whenever It begins to enter competition with the Republican party for the favor and applause of the vest- Ibteresta of capital -whenever It coquets with grasping corporations— whenever Its campaign fund goes a- whoring after the fat of the trusts and the favor of the syndicates—then It Is spewed out of the mouths of the people by eome two million majority—a* wee two years ego. Lessons of Damoeraey. "We have got to come back to the mission and meaning of the party. We have got to come back to the faith the fathers. We have got to withdraw our worship from the golden calf August Belmont and sit once more the feet of Jefferson and Jackson and Bryan to relearn the lessons of the old but ever young Democracy. If any. man doubts that the South stands for a definite Democracy, let him read the returns of our state elec- tlons Just concluded. Braxton B. Co mer has swept ghe ballots of Alabama upon a straight platform of reform, and In my own Georgia Hoke Smith, upon the clear-cut Issue of compelling the corporations to do right, has car ried 123 out of 146 counties, leaving only 22 counties to divide a scattering vote among four candidates of indefl nlte conviction. The South Is conaerv attve, but the South knows what wants and Is bold to speak Its wishes at the polls. Our national Democracy Is rich Just now In a leadership that neither trims nor straddles. The echoes have not yet died upon the candid eloquence of our great Nebraskan speaking tn Mad- leon Square. He haa not feared to speak upon the housetops the civic con victlons qf his secret soul, and he may be sure that the responsive fervor of the people Is not to be measured by the timorous apprehensions of pottttcal expediency. They will follow him against any citadel of privilege which he storms, and If the government can not control the railroads they will march with him in unbroken rank to own them. Praise for W. R. Hearst. Yonder In New York and Boston and here In Chicago and the West we have that dauntless and tireless editor whose eight great newspapers have vied with Bryan's tongue In educating the masses to liberty, and whose fearless Injunc tions have loosened the grasp of more Iniquitous trusts than the entire con gress of the United States. We refuse to credit any charge of his apoatary to Democratic creeds. He has always been the strongest prop of Bryan and he will be the strongest prop In the great battle of 1(08. Bryan and Hearst—sent, both of them, by the better angels-of Democ racy—the tongue and the pen, the evangel and the executive of our creeds —to quicken the criminal apathy of a plundered people and to Inspire the courage and resistance ot an omnipo tent party. Bravest of Democrats. With all Its heart the definite De mocracy of the solid South ‘wants Bryan and Hearst to have free course that they may be glorified and the cause of the people advanced. We are not afrakl to follow In the path which Is being blazed by the two best and and bravest Democrats that this gen eratlon of Americans has known. Be tween advocacy and execution there Is always the saving grace of time and rettectlon and expediency. Things that were radical In 1896 have grown con servatlve now. Things that were revo- lutlonary then are held reasonable now. Charges that were credited to anarchy In '96 have been vindicated now In ex posures that have shocked the republic and startled the world. The eyes of the people are wide open, the courage of the people Is high, and the extremity of the trust Is the heaven sent oppor tunity of the Individual cltlxen. I am just as certain as I am that . live, that a bold, definite platform of popular rights and public honesty will sweep the ballots of 1008 Into a Demo cratic avalanche. Roosevelt Is the only Republican who has a hold upon the people. All that Is good about the president la Democratic and all that Is Democratic in him his party protests. He Is held aloof from the leadership by his solemn pledge and by an even more solemn precedent. His party convention would never build a plat form that Roosevelt could honestly mount, nnd any paltform of privilege or evasion will fall beneath the battle axe of Bryan and the ballots of (he people. Platform is Battleflag. I am not an oracle. 1 have no clalma to leadership. I hold no office and- bear no representative commission. I am one of the people—nothing more. I am a high private tn the rear ranks, and 1 know what the people usk and de mand because I am one of them. First and above all things the people Bouth and North want a definite Dem ocracy. They want a platform that means something. They are weary of platitudes and straddles. They want a platform expressed In sentences and not In pragaraphs. They want ex plicit declarations and they do not want cumbrous platitudes. They do not went too many Issues, but with all their hearts and with all their ballots they would like to see vital Issues single shotted and central truths made brief and clear. A platform is not a blanket. It Is a battleflag. It Is not a symphony. Is a bugle call. The people want a platform that will embody their principles without useless words. It the tariff Is robbery, say so, and let it go at that. If the criminal trust Is an Iniquity, say so, and chal lenge the people’s ballots tor vindica tion. If we can't regulate the railroads of the country then It is high time to own them. Go to the hustings for your elaboration and explanation. Sprinkle your argument In pamphlets, and rea son In literature, but fulminate your cardinal creeds In sentences, and give us a platform that every American vot er can paste In his hat. Reform Robber Tariff. 1. Reform the robber tariff. 2. Regulate the criminal trusts. 8. Equalise taxation If It takes an In come tax to do It. 4. Object to the taxes laid upon the people to pay the watered stock of corporations. 6. Control the railroads tn the Inter est of justice or get ready to own them. 4. Shorten the hours and Improve the surroundings of labor. T. Keep Infant children out of the factories. 8. Arbitrate the wrangles of labor and capital. 9. And put in stripes any man who buys or bullies an American ballot. Growth and Progress of the New South Under tbit head will appear from time to time Information Illustratin'* tv. nnrieiitn iiapdinnmant r\t th<» Smith which deserves something more tbas r Four New Railroads. The announcement of the organization of a 36.000.000 .corporation for the development of the magnificent water power of Anthony Shoals, i n this state, and the Increase of the capital stock of an Alabama steel com- pany from (14,000,000 to (26,000,000. ars notable Indications of the stupendous Industrial development that Is In progress In Georgia and Alabama, and tit other sections of the South. But great as are these undertakings, they do not overshadow the smaller enterprises, large and numerous end diver sified In character, which are being Inztltutcd dally tn this section, a* an Illustration of this, the Georgia and Alabama Industrial Index, published . at Columbus. Ga., tells In It* Issue for this week of the projection of four new railroads and applications for charier* by two railroad companies pr». vlously organised In the two state*. * . The- Index give* advance Information of two new banks, two brick- making plante, canning factory, compress, twenty-three corporations, twe Ice factories, three saw-mills, machine shop, three mining companies, ntr. Igatlon company, saw works, varnish plant, five warehouses, (76,000 en largement of steel plant, paving plan* In three dries, sewerage systetx, water-works and seventeen business bullrings, Including four banking houses, hotel and two railway passenger depots. Three new churehit are reported. The awarding of ten Important contracts Is announced. These figures and fact* form an Interesting chapter of ths story which The Index tells each* week. Go to the country In nine ringing sentences, and If the country does not sustain you, then there Is no merit tn honesty and no virtue tn the people. The Republican party can have no lasting claim upon the confidence and support of the American people. It can not satisfy the wants and the aspira tions of the American masses, and In the very hour of Ita power and exalta tion we fling Into Its face the confident prophecy of Its disintegration and de feat. We are going to fight It as we have never fought before. G. O. P. is Party of Privilege. The Republican party la the spawn of federalism. It was born of an Idea and an organization that waB always set to monarchy and not to liberty. It sprang from a leadership more English than American, more aristocratic than democratic. It was ever a party of privilege, always ready to subordinate the masses to the classes. It Is the party of a robber tariff that wrung tribute from the poor to prop the for tunes of the powerful. It Is the party the criminal trusts that holds the commodities of ' life In an Iron and arbitrary grip, and beyond economic necessity or business law- holds up the people with a coal trust In winter, with an Ice truet In summer, nnd a meat trust all the rime, and In solently answers to every protest, "You can pay our price* or you can freeze or starve." Mr. President, the Democratic party never had a clearer mission or a bright, er promise than today. Defeat Is dis cipline and disaster te education. Out of the wreck of our fortunes we will build a nobler and more enduring use fulness. The Democratic party Is go ing to be reborn, reformed and recon secrated to the constitution and to pop ular rights and liberty. We cannot af ford any longer to be a party of mere negation, a party of opposition, or a servile Imitation of the party In power. We are going to believe something and we are going to do something* We are going to be a party of creeds asd not merely a party of hungry desires. We are going to quit crawling on our bellies before the juggernauts of pow er, and we are going ta quit truckling like cowards to the shadow of a merely temporary success. We are going to And and to follow real leaders If we have to smash every state and anni hilate every politician that has fatten ed upon our suffrages for forty years. Wc are going to make a platform that will be an open opposition and a bold challenge to the Republican creed ev erywhere. Dtmoeraoy Won't Die. The Democratic party will not die, because Its principles are eternal and It wa* not bom to die. It has survived the wreck of all other parties and will eerve a* pallbearer to as many more. Other parties have come and gone, but the Democratic party does not die. The old Federal party, proud with It* afflu ence of Intellect, came and want: the Whig party, rich In Illustrious names anil boasting a history hallowed by pa triotism, cam* end went; the Repub lican party, obese In spoils and wrap ped In selfish privilege, will surely go, but the old Democratic party will live on forever, because Its principles can not die. Men may fall like leaves when the wind walks through the forest on Its way to meet the roar of the climbing waves, but principles are as eternal as the granite hills. And tho principles of the Democratic party, written In government and pledged In the rights and liberties of the people, will he young, fresh and tri umphant when the Republican party, wrapping the mantle of Its sins about it, shall fall by the pillars of the con stitution that It has etalned forever 1th Its history. GEORGIA NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS THIS DATE IN HISTORY. SEPTEMBER 5. 1664—rnraiwetl's Drat parliament nsnouihled York, headed an expedition against the Swedish colonies on the Bela, ware river. 1774—First continental eongrevs nFaemtded 'nrpenter's halt. Philadelphia. 1 engagement off ........ between the I fleets. 1613— United States brig Enterprise rap lured British brig Boxer off Segtilu. Both rommniider* kitted, lfS2—Confederate army ernssed Potoniae river and entered Maryland. 1906—Japanese and Busslan envoya signed treaty of peace at Portsmouth, X. II. INDOR’SES THE GEORGIAN. Tn the Editor of The Georglefi: I heartily Indorse all you have writ ten In regard tn the negro question. One thing I would like to add and that thing Is a law that will chalngang every white man that causes the race rhange Its color, and I believe this ould go a long ways toward correct ing the evils of the negro. May God speed the day when white men will not be allowed to dish nut whisky to the negro and make film drunk, for he Is beastly enough when lie Is sober. Yours truly, W. A. BENNETT. Logenvllle, Ga. Drug Business Changes Hands. Hpeelat to The Georgian. Monricello, Ga., Sept. 6.—The Furse Drug Company has changed hands. Dr. R. L. F.tfse having sold hU Interest to Mr. James Pittard and O. A. Tucker. New Hardware Stars. Hpeelnl to The Gcorgtsn. Monricello. Oa.. Sept. 6.—J. D. Har- eey has purchased a lot on Oreen street and will begin work In n short time a large store for his immense turd- ware stock. Negroes Make War on Vice, Hpeelat to The Georglnij. Rome. Ga., 8ept. 6.—Rev. W. Gatnrg colored, Is circulating a petition calling a mass meeting to be held at St. Paul'! A. M. E. church at 1:30 o'clock p. m. on Sunday, September 9. for the pur- pose of organizing an association to make war on Ignorance, vice and im morality among negroes In Rome. Negro is Murdered. . Special to The (k-orgtan. Rome, Ga.. Sept. 6.—Henry Evans, a negro about 20 years old, was struck over the head with a heavy club late Saturday afternoon by Richard Col. qultt, another negro, several' ml north of Rome, and Instantly killed. Jr. O. U. A. M. Stete Union. Hpeelnl to The (ieorglau. Rome, Ga., Sept. 5.—The state union of the Junior Order will convene at Augusta next Tuesday, September 11. Those who will attend from Rome will be State Chaplain Rev. A. E. Sansborn and Dr. C. Hamilton. Booming Judge Henry. Hpeelnl to The Georgian. Rome, Ga., Sept. 6.—Since" Jud|t John W. Maddox has emphatically stated that he will not be a candidate for one of the Judgeships of thfc new appellate court, the many friends ot Judge \V. M. Henry are urging him ta announce his candidacy for one of the places. Judge Henry occupied the Ju dicial bench of the Rome circuit far several years. i Dead Negro is Found. Hpeelnl to The Georgian. Columbus, Ga., Sept. 5.—The body at a negro man was brought to the city yesterday on the C. of Ga. train from Birmingham. It was picked up five miles from here by the train crew ly ing beside the track - with the skull crushed. College Begins Term. Special to The Georgian. Wrlghtavllle. Ga.. Sept. 5.—The fall term of the N. L. W. College will be gin today with a large attendance. To Open Department Store. Hpeelnl to The Georgian. YVrlghtsvIIle, Ga., Sept. 6.—J. Fried, man, of McRae, Ga.. will open a lar(e department store here In one of the Kennedy stores on Bradford street Sep tember 8. Cotton Receipts Short. Hpeelat to The Georgian. Wrlghtsvtlle, Ga.. Sept. 6.—The cot ton receipts for this place to September 1 was about 300 bales, which Is far below the receipts at this rime last year. House Famine In Brunswick. Special to The Georgian. Brunswick, Os., Sept. I.—The demand for dwelling housen In Brunswick II far and away beyond the available supply. All the real estate coecerne of thle city state that they are overrun with Inquiries from people wanting houses, nnd that they- are unable to supply anything like the number de- aired. Concrete Pile Driving. Special to Tho Georgian. Brunswick, G*.. Sept. 6.—The Fori Rivers 8hlp Building Company, which has the contract for the terminals ot the new Brunswick Steamship 1 ' om ‘ panj . Is putting down concrete piling* for foundations for the seven pier*. The success which has attended tn* driving of these concrete pilings nai attracted considerable attention among englneera and pile-driving concerns t» various parts of the country. Company it Reorganized. Hpeelnl tn The Georgian. Columbus, Gn„ Sept. 5.—The M. w- Kelly Company has applied to the su perior court for a charter, the enmpanr consisting of M. W. Kelly. Zeke Kelly. John Kelly and G. W. Owen. The cap ital stock Is 360,000. and the Arm » a reorganisation of the old one of *. W. Kelly tt Co. Cotton Damaged by Rein- Hpeelnl to The Georgian. Covington, Ga., Sept. 6.—On account of the abundant rainfall through™ Newton county this year, the cotton crops are not up to the usual of last year, although a fairly good >- rJ » Is hoped for. Prisoner Breaks for Liberty. Hpertgl to The Georgian. Tallapoosa, Ga.. Sept. 5.—Tuesday « noon when Chief of Police L. L. < wan attempting to place James < . T *' bert In the Jell here, charged drunkenness, Talbert broke loose from the ofllreif and ran up the main etc** with the officer In close pursuit. flri"» a pistol, which created considered excitement. Concrete Block Plant. Special to The Georgtnn. Balhbridge, Oa., Sept. 5.—The Bain- bridge Cement Block Company ha* about completed It* plant for the n'*“ ufaeture of cement blocks for bull-1 in* purpose*. The plant Is located In Vit-‘ Batnbrtdge and wa* erected at a cue* of about 16,000. Ten-Csnt 8tore Opened. Hprvlal to The Georgian. . Wrlghtavllle. Oa, Sept. 6.—D. ® Blount has opened a ten-ceot store ■ one of the Lovett stores on Elm eire* 1 -