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Ohio and Illinois have gone for free
silver. It looks as if the thing was
going to be almost unanimous.
With the elimination of fraud and
violence from elections the hoodlum
will disappear from the political
arena.
The wiregrass counties are mostly
for gold. They would not reject
shinplasters, however, at this stage of
the game-
General Evans illustrated his high
and noble nature in his defense of
Governor Atkinson in regard to the
veterans of Americus.
The crown jewels of Russia are
worth $11,000,000. There are at least
a dozen millions of the Czar’s subjects
in a chronic state of starvation.
Maj. McKinley will be formally
notified of his nomination June 29.
He will be informally notified of his
defeat a little later on in the shank
of the year.
The State Bar association, which
meets at Warm Springs, June 30, will
discuss the subject of lynching. It is
a fruitful subject. The remedy is to
eliminate the cause.
Maj. J. F. Hanson has been syste
matically snubbed by the republican
machine since he turned over. His
fate should be a warning to all dis
gruntled democrats.
Editor Stovall is writing some inter
esting stuff about West Point. Won
der if the genial Pleasant is studying
military science in anticipation of a
Spanish invasion at Tybee?
Hon. Charles P. Hansell, of Thomas
ville, has entered an active canvass
for the secretaryship of the state
senate. Col. Hansell is the worthy
son of a distinguished sire.
The country breathes a great sigh
of relief since a question of great
moment has been settled by the St.
Louis coiivention. Everybody knows,
now. “What’s the matter with
Hanna.’’
Maj. E. B. Stahlman, proprietor of
the Nashville Banner, has gone over
to the republicans because the demo
crats are likely to adopt the 16 to 1
measure as a part of the national
platform. This is wrong Maj. Stahl
man should have stood by his party
as is the duty of every true Southern
man at this crisis.
WORK WELL DONE.
The Democratic State convention
has done its work and it was well
done. Now the rallying cry is “On
to Chicago!” The success or defeat of
the party depends upon whether
there is harmony or discord in that
momentous convention. We have the
utmost confidence in the Georgia del
egation and feel assured that it is
made up of men who will do their
duty.
We must have, as candidates for
president and vice president, nomi
nated by the Chicago convention,
men on whose wisdom, honesty and
fidelity the people can place the
utmost reliance. Without these re
quisites the campaign will be a half
hearted one from its first inception
and defeat and humiliation will await
us in the end. We want the very
best men for our leaders.
It is most deeply desirable that the
several factions of the party will be
able to harmonize and decide upon a
candidate for president whose influ
ence will be sufficient to carry the
party through in the great contest
that is to come. The republicans
took up a man who had never openly
announced his views on the financial
question because he appeared to be
the strongest man in the party.
They are determined to succeed if
money and hard work will secure
success. They have gone to work
to organize their forces for the cam
paign. Teller and his contingent are
creating small comment because the
republican leaders realize that they
have matter® of more importance to
attend to and they will postpone their
party quarrels till they have more
leisure to devote to them.
Organization means eyerthing to the
democratic party. It must begin in
every community and spread all over
the nation until the democrats are
thoroughly inspired if we hope to
succeed in keeping the party in
power. This is a crucial year with
both parties and the leaders realize
most freely what defeat means to
either party.
Instead of quibbling over differ
ences of opinion let us all shuck our
coats and roll up our sleeves and go
to work in the good old democratic
way. Indifference is disastrous and
no man can afford not to be interested
in the result of the contest. If we can
arouse the old time ardor and enthu
siasm we will prove victorious next
fall. Otherwise there is danger of
defeat.
IN A LOGICAL VEIN.
The press and people of the country
seem to be in perfect unity as to one
thing and that is for the restoration of
the institutions that gave us pros
perity or for the substitution of some
thing that will take their place. In
our present chaotic condition we can
not hope to enjoy that freedom from
anxiety which seems to permeate all
classes. Says a recent writer on these
questions:
“We must start on as nearly an
even basis with other commercial
nations as the means within our
control will place us before we can
hope togain more by competing with
them than we will lose in our con
ditions at home. Therefore, what
our industrial interests, our entire
interests, need for them once again to
find a condition of safe prosperity,
and with greater to follow, is. first,
and at once, to ease our credit, home
and abroad, and, secondly, to get on a
basis for an even start with the world
for its trade. And the way to get
what is needed to be done is open to
the whole people in the coming elec
tion.
“The president who has his party
solidly with him, and each individual
member of congress, a!re the prime
factors in accomplishing anything.
The schoolhouse and trading-room at
Washington must go. It is time for
congress to get down to business. The
theorists, the traders, the straddlers
and all such dawdlers have had their
day since the inception of the Sher
man compromise measure, and at a
cost to the country comparable only
to a great war. In their place must
go men who have qualified before the
bar of public needs, who know what
to do and agree to do it.
“If such is the result of the elec
tions, we shall have the uncertainty
of this condition cleared away and a
condition of fact only to meet. If the
basis of our credit is restored, we shall
move onward with renewed vigor and
perfect safety, and need have but little
fear that capital will become a ple
thora here; for, while our fields for
investment have been losing ground
during-the last three years, new and
attractive ones have v developed in
other countries, notably Australia
and Africa, and this fact, in addition
to our laws, or lack of them, for the
protection of capital invested in our
railroads and land mortgages, will
tend to prevent such an unusual ease
of credit as to give rise to more swin
dles and unstable enterprises than are
natural to be expected.”
THE tiOME TitIBUNE, FRIDAY, Jt)NE 26, 1896.
SONGS AND SCENES.
Only to s<?e Thy Face.
As shines the first fair star of even
Illumining the shrouded heaven
Transfiguring- the shades of night
■With hopeful smiles of living light,
So bears my soul the tender trace
Only to see thy face.
Hath seen on sunless summer eves
The sheen upon the trembling leaves
Reflected from some source unknown?
Thus on my life, so dark and lone
Thy love memory spanneth time and space
Only to see thy face!
No matter where my footsteps rove,
Through flowery field, or gloamy grove;
On feathery hill, or verdant vale,
Or o’er the watery wastes I sail;
My one desire in every place,
Only to see thy face!
I feel that I could welcome death
And smiling speed the parting breath
If I might know, oh, dream of bliss,
That in some brighter world than this
My recompense might be the grace
Only to see thy face!
—Montgomery M. Folsom.
The Opening.
When 1 was a little boy I used to get
so tired, bo tired!
I recall, even at this distant day, how
my little legs used to ache and my
knees almost refuse to support me up
the long ridges.
There are no hills in that country.
Simply undulating ridges alternating
with sloping hollows.
Houses were far apart and my father
used to take me with him on long jour
neys afoot. I would go in spite of all
the terrors of weariness and I know that
he used to have a time with me.
The broad stretches of monotonous
piney woods were very lonely and as we
trudged along I used to watch for ‘ ‘the
opening. ’ ’
You see where a man had cleared up a
few hundred acres the removal of the
trees would cause a break in the contin.
uity of the forest growth that could be
observed quite a long distance away.
That is what we used to call “the
opening.” At first it would be dim and
ill defined, hardly apparent.
But as we approached nearer and
nearer, we could see the open space ex
pand until the building and fences ap
peared.
I would trot along for the first mile or
so, pretty well contented, forgetting my
weariness in the anticipation of a good
time.
Then we would start up one of those
long slants and m y legs would begin to
grow weak and weary.
On and on I would toil, shunning the
places where the sand was deepest, till I
would get to the crest and then start
down the other slope.
It was then that I began to look for
the opening in the distance far beyond.
But before me lay the unbroken ranks
of the pines and I toiled on through
their dreary solitudes.
Slowly but patiently I would pursue
my journey, growing wearier and more
weary as I took my tiresome way
through that lonely land.
At last, far beyond, where the con
verging lines of the pine trees met and
seemed to bar the road, I would begin to
see faint streaks of light.
Brighter and brighter they would
grow as I went until they would de
velop into broad bands seen between the
dull grey columns of pine trees, crown
ed with their dark green canopy, that
shadowed the earth beneath and seemed
to reach half way to heaven.
I would then feel a new strength and
courage, and down the slant I would
tramp and climb the other with more
alacrity.
By the time I would reach its crest I
could begin to distinguish the houses
and fences and familiar objects.
A little further on and objects become
still more distinct, and if some of our
kinsfolk lived there I could begin to dis
tinguish their figures and faces.
How comforting and hope inspiring
was the sight of the blue smoke curling
upward and framed in the humble door
way the face of some beloved relative or
friend.
Then lifting the latch I would enter
the gate and half way down the walk
I would be met a warm and friendly
greeting and a hearty grasp of the hand.
It was passing sweet inside I would
soon forget the weaGoess of my tired
feet in the enjoyment of rest and good
cheer.
I think those experiences came typical
of my future career in life and in my
journey now I catch myself looking and
longing for “the opening. ”
All around the world seems dark and
dreary and I grow tired, oh so tired and
long to pause by the wayside and rest,
but I know that I must push onward.
And then I am not familiar with this
road. I have never gone this way be
fore, I shall not pass this way again.
Ever and anon 1 see ahead “an open
ing. ’’ My heart takes courage and I
dream of rest. But when I ascend to
the crest of the next ridge I find that I
had been deluded.
What I took for the first faint streaks
of breaking light turned out to be only
a thin space in the sombre scenery.
Then darkness redoubled by the new
disappointment, settles down upon my
path and my lagging hopes fall lower
and lower as I move onward.
Sometimes I reach some little emi
nence and pause and look around with
the hope of discerning some inviting
prospect.
But as far as the eye can reach there
is no opening. The dull continuity of
toil and care stretch away, shadowing
the earth and shutting out the hopeful
heaven.
Then I grow lonely and the chill of
regret and wild longing came like a blast
of autumn rain and I know that lam
alone in the wilderness.
I wonder if some day when I approach
the last stream, the river that these tired
feet shall never cross if beyond its tur
bulent tide Ishall seo“The Opening?”
M. M. F.
A Hartford, Conn., man has been
fined SSO and sent to jail for thirty
days for attempting to kiss a woman,
A man has no right to attempt such
a caper unless he has the grit to suc
ceed. He deserves his fate.
Mr. Walter C. Snodgrass, of the
Thomasville bar, is a candidate for
solicitor general of the Southern
circuit. He stands well in the front
ranks of the bar and has the endorse
ment of that sterling democrat, Col.
John Triplett. With such a showing
he ought to make a good race.
So far as we can see there are but
four papers which are with the veter
ans. They are the Savannah Morn,
ing News, the Macon News, the
Atlanta Commercial and The Herald.
Only a few of us, but worth a whole
train load ot some of those who oppose
the boys who wore the grey.—Ameri
cus Herald. You are mistaken, my
brother, we are with the grey jackets,
first, last and as long as there is one
left to answer the roll call.
CLIPPINGSAND COMMENTS
Do not attach too much importance
to the silence of an acquaintance
about whom you know that un
pleasant statements are being made.
It does not follow that he has done
wrong. He may not even know
that there is any question of his rec
titude. If he does know, he may be
holding his peace for the sake of some
one else. Or, in the consciousness of
innocence and the assurance that
time cannot fail to establish the fact
of his integrity, he may be going
quietly about his ordinary business
untroubled in spirit, trusting in God
to care for his good name. Sometimes
it is a duty to defend one’s reputation
promptly when it has been assailed.
But quite as often the silence of Jesus
before his accusers suggest our wisest
course. Give your friend \ our prayers
and confidence.—Marietta Journal.
A man must accept what his em j
ployer pays him pay out what other
men charge him, put on the under
wear his wife puts out for him, eat
what she spreads before him and
sleep in the bed the wry she makes it.
Still occasionally there is talk of a
man being free and independent.
Censorious critics may quibble
about imperfections in the rhymes,
but what of that? The campaign poet’s
sentiment is sincere, and if it is not
easily apparent how his “protection
train” is going to collide with what
the poet gracefully calls the “free
trade scow” without coming to grief
itself, it must be remembered that
all poets have a special campaign
license. Besides, the public should
be prepared for such outbursts. The
poetic spirit is working this year like
yeast.—Chicago Record.
Have Charity.
Be not ready to condemn him,
Though he early fall from grace,
For sooner you might be condemned
Were you in the sinner’s place,
For the fallen have forgiveness,
Learn to live and to let live,
As you hope to be forgiven
Let your inmost heart forgive.
Stop and think before you scorn him,
In your haughtiness and pride,
Has your life been perfect,
Have you nothing you would hide?
If your hidden thoughts were printed
On the pages of a book,
Think you they would bear inspection?
Would you ask the world to look?
When you stand before your Maker
Looking on the path you’ve trod,
Will your record then be purer
Than the sinner’s before God?
Is your soul so pure and spotless?
Is your heart so free from guilt?
Are you sure from never sinning.
Is your house so strongly built?
When we’re casting stones at others,
Let us think before we aim.
Ere the stone may reach another
We may find ourselves in shame,
While we long for heavenly mansions,
For that woi Id so bright and fair,
Without charity for others
We may never enter thero.
—Masonic Herald.
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