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— THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. WED.VEdniV. SEPTEMBER £L The Atlanta Georgian. JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor. F. L. SEELY, President. Telephone Connections. Subscription Rstes: One.Year........ $4.50 Six Months ....... 2.50 Three Months 1.25 By Csrrler, per week 10c Published Erery Afternoon Except Sunday by THE GEORGIAN CO. at 25 W. Alabama Street, Atlanta, Ga. ■etered aa second-class matter April 21, IMS. at tb» Postofflce at Atlanta. Ga.. naSrr act of congress of March a 117*. Unjournalistic Methods. It la the Intention of The Georgian to preserve Its newi integrity even at the risk of being regarded less enterprising than Its contemporaries. It.la the Ideal and the aim of The Georgian to coflflne Its 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 had taken place. 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 statement that they "would be deliv ered.” Their introductions contained the assertion that they "were delivered." Every reader of those uewspspers In Atlanta and many outside, 1 therefore, were Informed that things had happened two hours before they really did happen. The nominating speech of Hon. J. L. Anderson was begun nt 4:40 o'clock. The speech of Hon. Hoke Smith accepting the nomination was begun at 6:10 o'clock. One of the newspapers In question appeared on the street a at 3:46 o'clock with this statement spread across Its front page; "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, as to the other papers, with the un derstanding that they were not to be printed until de livered. But The Georgian saw no reason to betray Its Ideals or its readers. Grand-Stand vs. Hidden Plays. The Atlanta Gas Light Company Is a corporation which does business In Atlanta. It Is owned by another corporation known as the Georgia Railway and Electric Company, which also does buslnsss In Atlanta. The Georgia Railway and Electric Company la owned by a millionaire who does business in Boston. A man named Hammond is attorney for the Atlanta Gaa Light Company, which is owned by the Georgia Rail way and Electric Company, which Is owned by the mill ionaire who does business in Boston. Mr. Hammond Is reputed to be a fairly good attorney—aa attorneya go. Alao he la a native Atlantan. At one time he waa n member of the city council. He represented the people of thii city. After that he was—and Is—a member of the legal staff of the corporation which la owned by the mil lionaire In Boston. Now he represents the gas company. Mr. Hammond la said to bs 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 erwise the Boston millionaire would not want him. Sec ond, he would have to be well paid, otherwise he would not—being a loyal Atlantan—consent to represent the In terests of the Boston mllllonalrs ns against the interest of the people of his native city. James L. Key la a young man who Hammond saya la trying to make n grand-stand play. Mr. Key Is an M derman. He Is chairman of a special committee appoint ed to look Into the history of a franchise granted by the state in 1850 for gaa to be manufactured and sold In the city of Atlanta for Illuminating purposes. The Boston millionaire owns that franchise. He claims he has a perpetual right to do whatever he pleases In the way of the manufacture and sale of gas In Atlanta. He haa employed the lawyer named Hammond to defend his claim. As we said before, Hammond must be well paid— we don't know how well. Key Is not well paid. We know his aniary. It Is |25 a month. From Mr. Ham mond's point of view, there may be some foundation for his assertion to the effect that Mr. Key ts making a grand-statul play. Mr. Key admitted that be liked to win the plaudits of his fellow cltlsena—and hit own conscience. He might have added that he waa working In a cause which. If accomplished, would command the plaudits of his fellow citlsens. Hammond knew that Key was working In a good cause, otherwlso Key could never win the plaudits of anybody—unless It was the corporations, and ho was their hireling. Mr. Key made the mistake of displaying some heat. Ho shonld have realised that Mr. Hammond was trying to ridicule him. As we said before Mr. Hammond Is evi dently a pretty shrewd dtlten. Also he must have done home grand-etand playing In hia time himself. Knowing these things, he knf.c'that to chargo grandstand play ing was likely tr dampen the ardor of a less manly man than Jim Key. No one likes to be charged with playing to the grand stand. We rather approve of grand-stand plays on the part of city officials. There has been too much of this behind the scenes business. Ally pity made In full view of the grand stand must be honest. Also It must be good; otherwise It will be detected end win a storm of hisses. The special committee of which Mr. Key la 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 his fellow citizens, as he Is grossly underpaid, was 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 la a member of the committee of which Key is chairman. We don't know whoae plaudits Mr. Patterson hoped to win, bat he decided he didn't wsnt the elty to get mixed up In a lawault with this gaa company which Is owned by the Boston millionaire. What objection Is there to trying the matter In the courts? If the gas company has a perpetual franchise, why not establish the claim to perpetuity. What Is the tue of holding the matter up? Until the claim Is clearly The Georgian Wins Its Fight. On another page in this Issue appears a letter from Dr. Walter A. Taylor, chairman of the special codimlt- tee appointed by council to Investigate the meat situa tion In Atlanta. In this letter Dr. Taylor, spehklng for council and for tho special committee, Is good enough to express his cordial appreciation and that of his associates In council for the work which The Ooorglan has done In bringing about a healthier condition In the slaughter houses of Atlanta. The ordinance just adopted by council Is a far-reach ing and efficient one. It provides that workers In the slaughter bouses must have health certificates stating that they have no contagious or Infections diseases. The workers must wear sanitary clothing. The floors of slaughter houses must be built of concrete, properly gut tered and graded. All animals must be inspected before and after being killed. The slaughtering must be done In the presence of an Inspector between the hours of a. m. and 8 p. m. The minimum weight of calves must be fifty pounds, and for hogs fifteen pounds, and for sheep and goats twelve pounds. In every abattoir there must be steam equipment for cleaning purposes. The maximum charges fixed for slaughtering are, |1.35 for cat tle, 35c for hogs, and 30c for sheep and goats. No meat from outalde sources can be sold In the city unless It bears the government stamp and baa been Inapected on Its arrival in Atlanta. These are the salient features of the new ordinance which haa 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 Tho Georgian several weeks ago that the Investigation was first set on foot. From that day until now, having before ua the best Interests of the entire community, we' have fought this battle for the peo ple and have Insisted that such an ordinanco as that passed yesterday should be adopted. The special com mittee of council la entitled to the tbanka of the entire community for the part which It has played In this work. Dr. Taylor and his associates have been zealous and persistent 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 was embodied In a municipal statute yesterdny and hat already become effective. This Is a long step forward In the matter of reform, and once more we express our gratitude to the members of coupcll and others who have upheld our hands while The Geor gian made this fight for the people. The Atlanta Art Association. What we may call the civic consciousness Is slowly but surely awakening. Above the din ot great cities a still, small voice may be heard by the few, prompting men and women to work for tho common good; from tho dosolatlon of our stone, and brick and mortar, and from the bldeousness of our congested districts, Is bom many a vision of the city beautiful. Even In smoky Pittsburg, In Dayton, Ohio, In Hopedale, Massachusetts, and tn other great Industrial centers too numerous to mention, nrt and beauty are no longer abstract terms. They have been made concrete and manifest In the civic life, In public parks and buildings, In galleries and museuma, and often In art schools whose Influence upon the city and state Is direct and beneficent. Atlanta Is to be congratulated that within her gates a body of earnest men and women, organized at the Atlanta Art Association, Is working toward civic Im provement and advancement Under the auspices of this organization an art exhibit, which brought to Atlanta the works of the best artists, and made them accessible to the public at a very low price of admission, was held last fall. A second highly creditable exhibit has been planned for November next. The most important enterprise yet undertaken by the Art Association, however, la the establishment of an art school. As Is well known, the instruction afforded In the arts and crafts by our Southern schools Is absurdly Inade quate. We have no trained artists and few trained arti sans, so that what little work Is done In the South along theso very Important educational lines must be done by teachers brought from the North. Skilled crattmanahlp not only gives most Joy to the producer, but Is that upon which the highest commercial value Is set, and yet our state offers to our children no opportunities to learn the crafts. The Atlanta Art Asso ciation Is working to alter this condition, and It Is slg- nlflcdnt to Georgia's educational advancement that the art school which Is 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, this office Is Invested with the highest honors. The president and director of an art Institute mid museum la not necessarily an artist, but is always a man of ability and of broad culture. , Under tho able management of Mrs. Isaac Boyd, the Art Association has become a well organised body with several Important enterprises well under way. By her unselfish devotion to the lAcal of civic advancement which ta the underlying principle of the organization, the retiring president has won golden opinions. Just at this Important period of Its development. It Is earnestly to be hoped that the association will be wise In Its choice, and that It will bestow the ofllce upon the man or woman who can most powerfully stimulate public Interest In art matters. [ establish*), that perpetuity la In danger of having a pc-1 J/~\ f TAT 'T’T? il /! DT T? D ATflTCI riod writ largely to It. That Is, as long as wo have men [ JOjlvl lL-jtli \Jl\li.V whq make grand-stand plays. J We don't believe the courts will decide that the Bos ton millionaire haa a perpetual cinch on the gas business In Atlanta. But If they do, let them decide right away. Tht people are tired of being gouged. They will set to work to create a bit of perpetuity for themselves. It will take the form of a gas plant. Maybe there can bo found enough men willing to make grand-stand plays to take hold of the matter. Wo believe there are loyal, patriotic, honorable men In Atlanta who are willing to give of their time and brains nnd energy that the people of this city may be relieved. The Georgian has a few suggestions that It Is going to mako from time to time. They will be In reference to a municipally owned and municipally operated gas plant. We won't recommend the high, medium or low systems of pressure. We will outline a plan whereby tho people can construct their plant, operate It, own It and use tho profits to reduce tho tax rate, send their children to school and Improve the roads.- MAKES EARNEST PLEA FOR PLAIN DEMOCRACY Editor of The Atlanta Georgian Predicts Victory For Party If Clear-Cut, Popular Plat form Is Adopted. By Privats Leased Wire. Chicago, Sept {.—In hls speech last evening at the Auditorium hotel at a banquet given to William Jennings Bryan by the Jefferson Club, Hon. John Temple Graves, of Atlanta, Os., editor of The Atlanta Georgian, made an ear nest and eloqusnt plea for a clear-cUt, popular platform and a definite De mocracy. He said: I count myself happy, gentlemen of the Jefferson Club, to be your guest tonight Wherever else the spirit of our party may havs wansd or weakened. It has been militant and unfailing here. For whether the Jefferson Club has led a forlorn hope against the Rooseveltlan avalanche, or whether It has borne the banner of municipal ownership to an eventful victory, the quality of Its Democracy has been as undiluted as It baa always been unterrlfled. I am fortunate especially In that your hospitality Joins me here with that Incomparable American whose vast renown was born 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 wil liam Jennings Bryan? Future For Democracy. Crowns of thorns have pressed upon many a laborer's brow since then. Crosses of gold have bornq the broken bodlee of many a victim of remorse less greed. But the shadows are lift ing from tho night of our slavery. The stone la being rolled from the tomb In which the mercenaries have laid our liberty, and In the confident morning which bathes the brow of Its 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 bal lots was spent, the South was surely all that was definite, and In fact, all that waa visible of any kind ot Dem ocracy. Two years ago the Democracy was a sectional fragment. By the rec ord of that November day the Demo cratic party was the solid South— with Maryland hanging by a hair— with West Virginia gone, and Missouri swept from the moorings of over B0 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 an ethnologi cal terror—forced by conditions, and solidified by the eternal shadow of a race problem under which there has been marshalled the most motley host of divergent convictions that ever fol lowed and fought under the compre hensive banner of Democracy. 8outh Holds Fast. The South has been for two decades the saving remnant of the party. Its faith Inspired by Its necessities has made the rendezvous of defeated and the renaissance of Imperishable prln clples. The South haa been the little leaven that will leaven Ihe lump. It has held fast the elements which Jef ferson bequeathed as a sacrament to liberty, and the blood of the South In the veins of the president haa pulsed hls sympathies In such power toward the people that more than once In the grapple at conviction and the wrestle with monopoly the grandson of Archi bald Bulloch, of Georgia, has seemed to say to the son of Thnmaa Roose velt. of New York, "Almost thou per- suatlest me to be a Democrat." And this will account for Ihe polit ical garments which Mr. Bryan missed In Iomilon, and later discovered upon the person of the president of the United States. Mr. Chairman, Ihe presidential elec tion of 1904 wns the most Instructive lesson that the times have taught to our Democracy. We have always fail ed nnd will always fall as a party of negation and a parly of opposition. We failed then because we were unfaithful. We failed because we trimmed and hesitated nnd straddled. We failed be cause we compromised with Ihe ap- coquets with grasping corporations— whenever l(* campaign fund goes a- whoring after tho fat of the trusts and the favor of tho syndicates—then It Is spewed out of the mouths of the people by some two million malorlly—as " was two years ago. Lessons of Democracy. "We have got to come back to the mission and meaning of the party. We hare 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 nnd 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 Mm read the returns of our state elec, tlons just concluded. Braxton B. Co mer haa swept the 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 121 out of 145 counties, leaving only 22 counties to divide a scattering vote among tour candidates of Indefl ntte conviction. The South Is conserv atlve, but the South knows what wants and Is bold to speak Ita 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 n our great Nebraskan speaking In Mad leon Square. Ho has not feared ti speak upon the housetops the civic con vlctlons of hls secret soul, and he may be sure that the reeponslve fervor of the people Is not to be measured by the timorous apprehensions of political 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. Praiss for W. R. Hsarst 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 hie apostary to Democratic creeda. He has always been the strongest prop of Bryan and he will be the strongest prop in the great battle of 1908. Bryan and Hearst—Bent, 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 of an omnlpo tent party. Bravest of Dsmocrats, 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 afraid to follow In the path which la being blazed by the two best and and bravest Democrats that this gen eratton of Americans has known. Be tween advocacy and exedutlon there Is always the saving grace of time and reflection and expediency. Things that were radical In 1896 have grown con eervatlve now. Things that were revo. lutlonary then are held reasonable now. Charges thnt were credited to anarchy In ’98 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 tunlty of the Individual cltlsen. I am Just as certain as I am that . live, thut a bold, definite platform of popular rlghtM and public honesty will sweep tho ballots of 1908 Into a Demo cratic avalanche. Roosevelt Is the only Republican who has a bold upon Ihe people. All that 1s good about the president Is Democratic and all that Is Democratic In him his party protests. He Is held aloof from the leadership by hls solemn pledge and by an even more solemn precedent. Hls party convention would never build a plat form thnt Roosevelt could honestly mount, and any paltform of privilege or evasion will fnll beneath Ihe battle nxe of Bryan and the ballots of the Rev. J. Grant Walker, the well-known Pittsburg re form minister, has accepted the call to Ihe Hough Ave nue church. Cleveland. Ohio, to begin hla work there early In September. He Is a graduate of Franklin and Marshall college. parently successful doctrines of the Republican party and aurendered to men whose Interests and convictions are so near akin to our political op ponents that thsy ought In common honesty to espouse Ihe organisation to which they belong. We failed because In our political hunger for victory Imltated the platforms and pandered to the powers of the opposite party that held tbe government. Peopls Repudiate Straddlers, The Democratic party has not won fifty years a national triumph upon platform of hesitation, Imitation, apology or compromise. Every strad dling makeshift of the century has been repudiated by the people at the polls, and the only real and tangible Ictory which has crowned our modern Democracy wns when one brave and splendid leader epurned ihe suggestions of expediency, defied Ihe timid leaders and the time-serving politicians, dared the doubts of hls own cabinet, and con sented lo be buried 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 Jackson courage of the tariff message sent to the fifty- first congress by Grover Cleveland, of New York. "The Democratic party In Its name. Its history and In Its mission, stands for the plain 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 nnd commands the confidence of the peo ple. Rut whenever It sells out to the enemy—whenever It begins to enter competition with Ihe Republican party nnd capital, for the favor and applause of the vest- 9. And put In stripes any man who | ad Interests of capital—whenever It I buys or bullies an American ballot. people. Platform is Bsttlsflag. I am not aa orach. 1 have no claims to leadership. I hold no office and bear no representative commission. I am one of the people—nothing more. I am a high private In the rear ranks, and 1 know what the people ask and de mand because I am one of them. First and above all things the people South and North want a definite Dem ocracy. They want a platform that means something. They nre weary of platitudes and straddles. They went a platform expressed In sentences nnd not In pragnraphs. They want ex plicit declarations and they do not want cumbrous platitudes. They do not want 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 hattleflag. It Is not a symphony. Is a bugle call. The people want a platform that will embody their principles without uieleas words. If the tariff Is robbery, say so, and let It go at that. If the criminal trust Is an Iniquity, say so, nnd chal lenge the people's ballots for vindica tion. If we can't regulate the railroads of the country then It Is high time to own them. Go to the hustle,gs for your elaboration nnd explanation. Sprinkle your argument In pamphlets, and rea son In literature, but fulminate vour cardinal creeds In sentences, and give us a platform that every American vot er can paste In hls hat. Rsform Rebbsr Tariff. 1. Reform the robber tariff. 2. Regulate the criminal trusts. 2. Equalize 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. 5. I'ontrol the raltrnnds In the Inter est of justice or get ready to own them. 6. Shorten the hours and Improve the surroundings of tabor. 7. Krep Infant children out of the factories. 8. Arbitrate tho wrangles cf labor Growth and Progress of the New South Under tbti hond will appear from time to time Information UluttratlB* remnrkaMe development of tbe South which deserves something mors than Four New Railroads. The announcement of the organization of n 25,008,008 corporation to the development of the magnificent water power of Anthony Shoals u this state, and Jhe increase of the capital stock ot an Alabama steel coni pany from 218,000,000 to 225,000,000, are notable Indications of the stupendous Industrial development that Is In progress In Georgia and Alabama, and In other sections ot the South. But great gs are these undertakings, they do not overshadow the smaller enterprises, large and numerous and diver, silted In character, which are being Instituted dally In this section, an Illustration of this, the Georgia and Alabama Industrial Index, publishes at Columbus, Ga.. tells In Its Issue for this week of the projection of f 0#t new railroads and applications for charters by two railroad companies pr». vlously organized In the two states. The Index gives advance Information of two new banks, two brick, making plants, canning factory, compress, twenty-three corporations, two Ice factories, three saw-mills, machine shop, three mining companies, nav. igatlon company, saw works, varnish plant, fivo warehouses, 175,000 en. largement of steel plant, paving plans In three cities, sewerage system, water-works and seventeen business building*, Including four banking houses, hotel and two railway passenger depots. Three new churchei nre reported. The awarding of ten Important contracts Is announced. These figures and facts form an Interesting chapter of tho 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 In honesty and no virtue In the people. The Republican party can have no lasting claim upon ihe confidence end support of the American people. It can not satisfy the wants and ths aspira tions of the American masses, nnd In the very hour of Its power and exalta tion we (ling Into Its face the confident prophecy of Its disintegration and de feat. We are going to fight It os we have never fought before. • ' G. O. P. is Party of Privilege. The Republican party Is the spawn of federalism. It wsb born of an Idea and an organization that was always set to monarchy nnd not to liberty. .It sprang from a leadership more English than American, more aristocratic than democratic. It was ever a parly 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 of the criminal trusts that holds the commodities of life In an iron and arbitrary grip, and beyond all economic necessity or business law holds up the people with a coal trust In winter, with an Ice trust In summer, and a ment trust all the time, and In solently answers to every protest, "You can pay our prices 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 Is 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 nnd 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 and 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 to quit truckling like cowards to the shadow of a merely temporary success. We are going to find and to follow real leaders If we have to smash every slate and aunt hllate every politician that has fatten ed upon our suffrages for forty years. We are going to make a platform that will be an open opposition and a bold challenge to the Republican creed ev erywhere. Dsmoeraey Won't Dla, The Democratic party will not die, because its principles are eternal and It was not born to die. It has survived the wreck of all other parties and will serve aa pallbearer to aa many more. Other parties have come and gone, but the Democratic pprty doe* not die. The old Federal party, proud with Its afflu ence of Intellect, came and went: the Whig party, rich In Illustrious names and boasting a history hallowed by pa triotism, came and went; the Repub lican party, obese In spoils and wrap- >ed In selfish privilege, will surely go, >ut the old Democratic party will live on forever, because Its principles enn 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 the principles of the Democratic party, written In government and pledged In the rights and liberties of Ihe people, will be young, fresh nnd 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 stained forever tth Its history. GEORGIA' NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS 4 PHS j THIS DATE IN HISTORY. SEPTEMBER 5. 1651—Cromwell's flrst parHami-iit assembled nt Westminster. 1855— peter Htnyresant. governor of New Vork. headed mi expedition ngnlnst tbe Swedish evlonles on the Dels wore rlree. 1774—First continental congress assembled In f'nrpenter's hull, I'hllndettibls. 1791—Nnvnl engagement off the Virginia •npes lietween the Rrlilsli ninl Freneli ISIS— lintli comma odors killed. 1862—I’on federate nriuy erossed I'otmnae river ninl entered Maryland. 1905—.lapnnese nnd ltnsslnu envoys signed treaty of peace at Portsmouth, N. 11. INDORSES THE GEORGIAN. To the Editor of The Georgian: I heartily Indorse nil you have writ ten In regnrd tn the negro ouestlon. one thing I would like to add amt, that thing Is a law that will chuingnng every white man that causes the race to change It* color, and I believe this would go a long ways toward correct ing the evils of Ihe negro. May God speed the dnv when while men will nol be allowed to dish out whisky lo ihe negro and make Idm drunk, for Is beastly enough when he Is sober. Yours truly, W. A. BENNETT. Loganvllle, Ga. Drug Business Changes Hands. Special to Tbe Georgian. .Montlcello, Ga., Sept. 5.—The I'urse Drug Company hnn changed hands, Dr. R. L. F.t'se haring sold hi* Interest to Mr. James Plttard and a. A. Tucker. New Hardware Store, •pedal to The fleorglnn. Montlcello, On., Sept. 5.—J. D. Ilar- sey has purchased a lot on Green atreet anil will begin work In a abort tlnu* on a large atore for hls immense’ hard ware stock. Negroes Make War on Vies. Special to The'Georgian. Rome. Ga„ Sept. 5.—Rev. W. Oaln«, colored, Is circulating a petition calling a mass meeting (o be held at Bt. Paun A. M. E. church at 2:80 o’clock p a on Sunday, September 9, for the pq r . pose of organizing an axsoclatlon to make war on Ignorance, vice and Iq. morality among negroes In Rome. Negro it Murdered. Special to The Georgian. Rome, Go., Sept. 5.—Henry Evang a negro about 20 years old, was sinick over the head with a heavy club late Saturday afternoon by Richard Tn]. qultt, another negro, several mllti north of Rome, and Instantly killed. Jr. O. U. A. M. Stats Union. Special to The Georgian. Rome, Ga., Sept. 5.—Tho state union of the Junior Order will convene at Augusta next Tuesday, September n. Those who will attend from Rome win be Str-.e Chaplain Rev. A. E. Sansbora nnd Dr. C. Hamilton. Booming Judge Honry. Special to Tho Georgian. Rome, Ga., Sept. 5.—Since Judgi John W. Maddox has emphatically stated that he will not be a candidate for one of the judgeships of the new appellate court, the many friend* o( Judge W. M. Henry nre urging him to announce hls candidacy for one of tho places. Judge Henry occupied the Ju dicial bench of the Rome circuit for several years. Dead Negro is Found. Speelnl to Tbe Georgian. Columbus, Ga, Sept. 5.—The body cf a negro man was brought to the city yesterday on the C. of Ga. train Iron Birmingham. It was picked up 8ro miles from here by the train crew lr- Ing beside the track with the skull crushed. - ■ j. '■ College Begin*'Term. Special to The Georgian. Wrlghtsvllle, Ga.. Sept. 5.—The fall term of the N. L. W. College will b*. gin today with a large attendance. To Open Department Store. Special to Tbe Georgian. Wrlghtsvllle, Ga., Sept. 5.—J. Fried man, of McRae, Oa, will open a large department (tore here in one of tho Kennedy stores on Bradford street Sep tember 8. Cotton Reeolptf Short. Special to The Georgian. Wrlghtsvllle, Ga, Sept. 5—The cot- ton receipt* for this place to September 1 was about 200 bales, which Is far below tbe receipts at this time iaal year. House Famln* in Brunswick. Speelnl to The (leorglnn. Brunswick, Ga, Sept. 6.—The demand for dwelling houses In Brunswick la far and away beyond the available supply. All the real estate concern* of this city slate that they are overrua with Inquiries from people wanting houses, nnd that they are unable to supply anything like the number do- sired. Concrete Pile Driving. K|a*cl,il to The Georgian. Brunawlck, Ga, Sept. 5.—The Fort Rivers Ship Building Company, which has Ihe contract for the terminal* or the new Brunswick Steamship i»' pany, Is putting down concrete pH nn for foundations for the seven plera. The success which has attended ir.t driving of these concrete piling* ba* attracted considerable attention among engineers nnd pile-driving concerns is various parts of the country. Company Is Reorganized. Special to The Georgian. , Columbus, Go, Sept. 5.—The M. »• Kelly Company has applied to the su perior-court for a charter, the company consisting of M. W. Kelly, Zeke Krilf. John Kelly and G. W. Owen. The cap ital slock is 250,000. and the firm » n reorganisation of the old one of a. W. Kelly St Co. Cotton Damaged by Rain. K|MH*!nl t«> Tbt» Georgian. CotlBI Covington, Go., Sept. On nccoum of the abundant rainfall through^ Newton county this year, the cojt«n crop* are not up to the usual of la*t year, although a fairly goo<l crop la hoped for. Prisoner Breaks for Liberty. Hpeoliil to Tlu» Georgian. Tallapoosa. Ga, Sept. 5.—Tuesdej ai noon when Chief of 1'ollce L. L < w ns attempting to place James < • >* bert In the Jail here, charge.! drunkenness, Talbert broke loose the officers nnd ran up the main sir* with the olfieer In c)os* pursuit, firing a pistol, which created consider* 0 excitement. Concrete Block Plant. Bpeefnl to The Georgian. Balnbrldge, aa. Sept. 5.—The Bai»- bridge Cement Block Company about completed Its plant for the njj* ufacture of cement blocks for bullm™ purposes. The plant ts located In >'* Balnbrldge and was erected at s c0 * of about 25,000. Ten-Cent Store Opened. Special lo Tile Georgian. , Wrlghtsvllle, On, Sept. 5.—D Blount has opened a ten-cent »i°re ' i one of the Lovett stores on Elm