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THE ROME TRIBUNE.
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Let us Have Fair Play.
The plan of campaign adopted by the
friends es Mr. Atkinson in certain coun
ties is not making him votes. In Ter
rell county an infamous slander on Gen.
Evans was circulated, but it was re
buked by a crushing majority for the
General. In Coffee county a mass meet
ing was held on a few hours notice and
elected Atkinson delegates. In Oconee
a meeting was held to elect an execu
tive committee and no notice was given
that delegates were to be elected. It
resolved itself with 33, cooly pocketed the
delegation for Atkinson. This, of course,
■will not stand. The Telfair trick of
holding the primary 17 miles from the
county seat was rebuked by defeat, and
Saturday’s victory showed clearly that
people of other counties did not endorse
such methods. All General Evans asks
is fair play. , The only fairway to select
delegates is by primary, and the Atkin
son court house rings seem to have a
strange aversion to primaries.
There is no surer Jplan to disrupt the
party than to resort to unfair methods
in nominating candidates. It weakens
the nomination and gives excuse for de
fection in the ensuing election. If we
are going to have harmony ‘hereafter,
we must have fair play. Further than
that, any unfarness id our own ranks
makes a powerful weapon for the enemy.
It is time to stop this snap con
vdntion business.
A Revolution in prices
One cannot read the advertisements of
enterprising merchants without seeing
that there is a great fall in prices of sev
eral important lines of goods. The
causes of this are various, and the gen
eral depression, following the panic of
last year, undoubtedly has much to do
with the reduction along the line,but the
fall in certain kinds of goods is much
greater than in others, and must be due
to some special and unusual cause. Let
us look at one or two lines of goods and
see if we can'see.what cause is operating
to bring down prices.
First, there is thegeneral line of cotton
goods, of which the manufacturers of
this country hold a monopoly. No for
eigners can compete with the United
States on cotton good therefore the tariff
does not enter as a factor into the gen
eral reduction of cotton.
Woolen goods, on the contrary, are
directly and largejy affected by the tariff 1
and the heavy reductions already made I
in their prices seem to be in anticipation I
free wool, Other imported articles, i
•like China mattings, selling now’for half |
heir former value, seem to indicate a '
permanent reduction in the scale of
prices very soon. The same thing is true
of a long list of gooda—of the kind 1 kely
to be imported , and we can not help
thinking that in these reductions,
coming events cast their shadows
before.”
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The Meriwether Vindicator complains
that the Tribune published a notice of
some letters written by Mrs. W. Y. At-!
kinson to citizens of Floyd county, as
•‘A new kink in the campaign,” and
goes on with a lecture as long as the
moral law, referring to a simple
news article as “derision” and “criti
cism.” Brother Revill knows better than
this. He cannot lay his finger on a
word of criticism or derision of the lady
in any article which has appeared in the
Tribune. We merely recorded this new
kink, of which her husband is already
boasting on the stump. We have not
said half as much about it'as he did. The
only difference is that he seeks to make
capital of it by saying that his wife is
his campaign manager, while Gen.
Evans has a campaign club of men in
Atlanta. In saying that, Mr. Atkinson
forgot to tell his hearers about the court
house rings which are working for him
all over the state.
‘Agin’ The Government.’
Editor Tribune: In an editorial which
appeared in a recent issue of your valua
ble paper, you in your earnest defense of
the present administration and its
financial policy, claim Mr. Cleveland to
be the greatest president since Jefferson.
You also attempt to show that Cleveland’
and Jackson’s positions are identical.
Now sir it will not lie denied, that
Grover Cleveland is a greater man (in
bulk) than Andrew Jackson or for that
matter any other man, who ever tried to
fill the presidential cha'r.
But in the light of history and recent
events lo king at thelaets, character and
the achievements of Andrew Jackson
and Grover Cleveland, it is feared you
have not only forgotten history but the
teachings and traditions of the demo
cratic party as well.
It would jbe a gratuitous insult to
the memory of Andrew Jackson, to try
to prove, that in character and achieve
ments he was as great a man as the
present encumbent, and it would also be a
waste of words to enter into an argu
ment, to show that Grover Cleveland in
his democracy and attitude toward his
party and the party, is as little like An
drew Jackson as any man who had ever
been president of this republic.
But Mr. Editor, it might be admissable
to say, in this connection, that Andrew
Jackson was a noted lawyer, an able
jurist, a distinguished member of con
gress, a senator and the greatest soldier
of his time, long before he was the demo
cratic president of this republic. He was
an able and accomplished politician, and
Thomas ReSd says *' a states nan is a
dead politician.”
You glory in the fact, which all ad
mit, that your hero is not a politician.
Was he a noted lawyer, an able jurist,
a distinguished congressman, senator or
great soldier? If you can even show that
he was a great financier, before his elec
tion to to the presidency, it would in
spire greater confidence in his adminis
tration.
You have not given ns the specification
to show that Mr. Cleveland was the
greatest president since Jefferson, but
you claim that his financial policy was
identical with Jackson’s. Cleveland you
say like Jackson stands for ‘ ‘ liard money”
but you forgot to say that Jackson ad
vocated hard gold and silver money and
Cleveland wants hard gold money only.
In this great fight against the national
banks and the money power during His
administration, Jackson was on the
side of his party and the people. Al
though he was confronted by the most
powt rful political combination ever form
ed in the government, led by such men
as Clay, Calhoun and Webster in the
interests of the banks and the money
power, yet Jackson stood firm for the
interests of the people, put down the
banks, and distroyed a power that then,
as now, not only threatened the liberties
of the people, but was a menace to the
very life of the Federal government
itselt.
The same great fight is joined again.
The democratic party and the people on
one side, the banks and the money
power on the other—the creditor class.
On which side is Mr. Cleveland?
If you can show that he is on the same
side as Jackson’was, hisjpolicy, and his
administration, will receive the cordial
and the hearty support, of every loyal
democrat in the land.
It is not necessary to harshly criticise
the president to show on which side he
stands, and a history of his acts, if.they
can be explained •as sound|democracy,
would greatly relieve the situation. You
say, ‘ ‘Mr. Cleveland urged the repeal of
the Sherman act.” The party and the
platform demanded the repeal of the
Sherman act. The banks and the mil
lionaires demanded the repeal of the
purchasing clause only. Mr. Cleveland
almost “single handed and alone with
heroic courage” forced the repeal of the
purchasing clause only.
The party and the people demanded
the coinage of silver. The banks and the
money power opposed it, and Mr. Cleve
land vetoed the democratic bill, to coin
the seignorage.
The party and the people condemned
the proposed issue of bonds, were op
posed to an increase of the public debt.
The banks and the millionaires demand
ed bonds, and Mr. Cleveland issues bonds
and proposes to issue more bonds.
The party and the platform demanded
the repeal of the state bank tax. The
banks and the money lenders oppose it.
Mr. Cleveland is as dumb as an oyster,
on the issue, but it is well understood,
that he stands with the banks and the
money lenders. The party and the plat
form demanded a bimetallic currency.
The banks and the money lenders want
ed a single gold standard and Mr. Cleve
land by the aid of republican votes
forces through congress a measure that,
in connection with his policy, gives us
absolutely a single gold standard.
The party and the people favored an
income tax. The banks and millionaires
opposed it, and Mr, Cleveland is opposed
to the income tax except (God save the
mark) on ‘‘soulless corporations.”
The party and the people demanded
that he should “turn the rascals out,”
yet the first act of his administration
was to put an unrepentent republican at
the head of it; a life long republican;
one who had endorsed every infamous
act of the republican party during
Grant’s administration. One of the im
mortal 306 who w ore the collar of Caesar
in the convention that tried to nominate
Grant for a ‘‘third term/’ and never
wavered in his allegiance to his rotten
party, until Benjamin Harrison defeated
him for its nomination for the presi
dency. Then he never called himself a
democrat, but refused .the nomination
of the third party only for want of funds
to make the campaign (see his letter de
clining.) He saw the rising tide of
democracy, voted for Grover, and
straightway, he is called to the highest
seat in the synagogue.
Mr, Cleveland has been in office now
more than a year, and thousands of re
publicans still enjoy fat offices under
him.
A volume could be written on this
line to show how our president has dis
appointed the hopes and expectations of
the democratic voters, but it is now in
order to ask his partisans to show, what
he has ever done for the benefit of the
people who elected him or for the party
that lifted him from obscurity? What
great measure has he advocated for their
relief? What has he ever done to
strengthen and harmonize the dem
ocratic party, state or national? In what
way has he showed his wisdom and
statesmanship, that should entitle him,
to be the sole construer of democratic plat
forms? In what school has he learned
finance, that his utterances are all sound
and those of all the tried and trusted
democratic leaders unsound?
His worshippers say, “look at his first
message on Tariff Reform.” Well, that
was an issue of the democratic party,
before Mr. Cleveland was born. It is
said “by his partisans that he has, by
his great courage, saved the threatened
credit of the Government” — Did it
ever occur to you, Mr. Editor, that the
Government credit was not questioned
until after Mr. Cleveland’s election?
The bankers and the money lenders,
then questioned it, for a purpose, fright
ened our president to the belief that there
was danger of a depreciated currency
and inspired that celebrated axiom in
finance, that will go down to posteritry
with Mr. Cleveland’s name and fame
that ‘‘money must be made so good that
people will not hoard it.” This is start
ling. Did any people ever hoard a de
preciated currency?
THE ROME TRIBUNE, TUESDAY MA? 15. la« 4
How did he save the credit of the gov
ernment? Under democratic construc
tion of the laws now in force, silver cer
tificates are payable in gold or silver coin
at the option of the government. Silver
under this construction is a money of
final payment under Mr. Cleveland’s
single gold standard idea, silver certifi
cates are payable in gold.
To preserve the parity, under the pres
ident’s policy, the silver coin must also
be redeemed in gold if the holder so de
sires.
In other words, Mr. Cleveland has
saved the credit of the government, by
doubling its liabilities and reducing its
assets for under the democratic construc
tion the gold certificates and treasury
notes were alone redeemable in gold.
Under the present policy gold certifi
catis, treasury notes, silver certificates
and silver coin are all redeemable in
gold at the option of the holder. The
large amount of silver owned by the
government as a basis upon Which the
certificates* were issued becomes practi
cally worthless as an assset, for their re
demption. The gold reserve has not
been increased by the sale of bonds, but
the gold debt of the government has
been more than doubled by this splendid
financing.
In toher words, if the government’s
credit was questioned when it had one
hundred millions for the redemption of
six hundred millions of its paper, how
has it been improved when the gold lia
bility, is now twelve hundred millions,
and the gold in the treasury has not
been increased?
Increase the debt, destroy the assets
to preserve the credit. Is it business?
The truth is, Mr. Editor, it was a
conspiracy to “get the government by
the leg,” and Mr. Cleveland tells Col.
Oates, that Wall street bankers can now
pull it. He admits they can ‘ ‘draw out
the gold reserve in forty-eight hours.”
The issue of bonds does not increase
the reserve to any extent for the gold
can be drawn from the treasury for
silver certificates or silver coin and the
government has to take for its gold bonds
its own currency which it has discredited.
The Wall street bankers and million
aires are able financiers for themselves.
They are infallible when it comes to
dictating a policy in their own interest,
and as they alone have the ear of this
administration and all the great trusted
democratic leaders are ignored, they
have Mr. Cleveland, the government,
and people “by the leg” and will pull
it for all it is worth.
Mr. Cleveland may be a great and a
good man. He may be greater even
than old Andrew Jackson. With his
worshippers, he may be greater than the
democratic party, and the only great,
infallible interpreter of the democratic
platform: all other trusted leaders may
be fools or even populists, if you please.
Their ideas may be nonsense and Mr.
Cleveland’s wisdom, but all the same
Floyd county and the State of Georgia
wil Irepudiate the financial policy of
this administration for no such heresies
receive the the endorsement of
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ANNOUNCEMENTS.
Editor Tribune: Please announce my
name as a candidate for the next legisla
ture, subject; to the action o the dem
ocratic party at the primary election to
be held on May 25th.
Very respectfully, R. T. Fouche.
I announce myself a candidate for the
legislature,subject to the democratic pri
mary, John H. Reece.
I hereby annouce myself a candidate
for the legislature subject to the demo
cratic phrimary. C. W. Underwood.
We are authorized to announce that
Mr. Moses R Wright will be a candi
date for the legislature, subject to tho
democratic primary. May 26.
We are authorized to announce the
name of Rev. W. C. Bryan as a candi
date for the legislation, subject to the
democratic primary, May 26.
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