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CONVENTION
AFTERMATH
North Georgia Got the Lion’s
Share of Offices.
ROUTINE WORK WAS HARMONIOUS
Sut On the Outside There Were Many Bit
ter Fights—The Course to Be Pursued by
the Populists In the Next General As
sembly—Work of the State Technologi
cal School—Meeting of Cotton Mill Men.
[Special Correspondence.]
Atlanta, June 27. —We hear much
talk of the harmony that prevailed al
the recent Democratic state convention
at Macon. So far as the routine pro
ceedings went, the convention was as
remarkable for harmony as for poor
speeches—and that is saying a great
deal. But there were heartburnings,
plots, counterplots and marplots on the
outside. It was the old story of more
candidates than positions. As usual,
South Georgia got the crumbs. Even
■a consolation prize was denied. When
a pan is in hard luck at play or politics,
all the cards seem to run against him.
But recurring to harmony, there was
jbo much of it that the convention never
had a rollcall. The only list of dele
gates which have been utijjzed at
a moment’s notice, was one published
in the newspapers. Everything was
fixed beforehand. Even the opening
prayer was read from manuscript and
some of the delegates wondered if it had
been adopted by the caucus. It was not
a part of the caucus proceedings, I am
sure, because it invoked a blessing on
“the president of these United States.”
That was the only reference in the whole
proceedings to Mr. Cleveland, and a
dozen silver men told me they would
have objected to that if it had come up
in the caucus. Everything that was
supposed to be fixed beforehand, how
ever, did not go. The financial plank
of the platform was an instance. A
rather verbose and argumentative plank,
nicely typewritten, was drawn out in
the room of the platform committee.
The plank had already been published.
But the committee wanted something
terse and clean cut. Boykin Wright of
Augusta wrote a new one, declaring in
direct language for 16 to 1. It was short,
unmistakable and was promptly sub
stituted for the cut and dried plank.
The presence of Chairman John
Cunningham of the Populist party, at
tracted no little attention, but he was
smooth and covered his trail right well.
He had some conferences, looking to
the course of the Populists in the next
general assembly in the senatorship.
The wires were laid to play the Popu
lists and Cunningham appeared to con
sent, but he got to see the hand of the
other fellows before he would nego
tiate. The Populists hope to elect Tom
Watson to the senate. Failing in that,
the thing next closest to their hearts is
to defeat Judge Crisp. They will go to
some other silver Democrat, but never
to the ex-speaker, they say. And unless
he has a clear majority in the general
assembly over all other candidates, dark
horses and all, he will be thrown down.
The game has taken that turn and it is
no secret any longer.
Like the Old Maid.
There must have been 100 candidates
at Macon for one thing or another,
while prospective members of the next
assembly were few. One of the non
commital fellows told all the candidates
for judge and solicitor the same thing.
“Are you for me?” a candidate would
ask.
“I’m like the old maid” he replied,
"who, when asked by the preacher if
she was on the Lord’s side ? ‘Well, I
aint got nothin’ agin him.’ ”
Boies was the favorite for the presi
dency.
Clark Howell will have no opposition
for re-election as Georgia’s member of
the national executive committee.
A Point on Private Secretaries.
A prospective new member of the
next congress was asking some old
members for points, particularly in re
gard to a secretary.
' “Don’t you give that job to any one
to pay a political debt. If you do Re
\¥s££eSz
will loaf and you will have to do the
work. Hire a professional stenographer,
or get some one whom you absolutely
own, who will mail your public docu
ments, your seeds, answer your corre
spondence as well as you can yourself
and be discreet in every particular—in
short, a man who would not give you
away—even to your wife. ”
The old member smiled significantly,
but the other one looked shocked.
“You don’t appear to see the point
now, but you will before your term is
out,” added the old member.
“Uncle Bob’* Is Not Sad.
“In 1984 Georgia will be out of debt—
not owe a dollar to any man,” said Un
cle Bob Hardeman, the state treasurer,
to me coming up on the train after the
convention. “Georgia’s bonded debt
now is a little over $8,000,000. Provis
ion is made each year to pay off a part
of the indebtedness, and in 40 years it
will all be discharged.”
Every bond of the state of Georgia
now outstanding bears the signature of
R. U. Hardeman, treasurer. He has
held the office 14 years—since 1882. On
Thursday he declined renomination by
his party, and he says that he is glad
that he will soon be out of the office.
“It is unjust to require a treasurer to
give $200,000 bond and pay him only
$2,000 a year salary. It became too great
a responsibility for me.”
Colonel Hardeman will be in the next
legislature from Newton county, and in
1898, if he is alive and well, he will
probably make the race for governor.
He is not on the slgte for that office, but
he is a good politician and has an im
mense following all through Georgia.
While on politics, here is something
of interest in the Seventh district. The
Populists will not indorse Mr. Rankin,
the independent candidate, nor any oue
else, unless he accepts the party nomi
nation as a Populist. There will be no
fusion between Populists and Republi
cans in the state ticket, either, unless
the Republicans do the fusing. The
Populists are willing to receive the Re
publican votes but claim all the offices.
This is the Populist position as stated
by one of its most representative men.
Mr. Rankin asked for the the Populist
indorsement in the Seventh, but was
answered that he would have to get on
the party platform first. The Populists
will hold their state convention about
Aug. 5.
How Acquaintance Counts.
A candidate for any state office of con
sequence is at a great disadvantage if
he has never served in the general as
sembly. The men who were at Macon
this week and did not possess this ad
vantage realized it. Acquaintance and
personal popularity count wonderfully in
a race for an office before the legislature.
And even in the contests for positions
purely of honor, such as delegate to the
national convention, or elector, a wide
acquaintance means half the battle.
You have to know the representative
men of the state to accomplish much
outside of merely community politics.
There are 100 men in Georgia who, if
they merely indorse a man, will give
him sufficient strength to win an ordi
nary fight. But there are times when
too close an acquaintance hurts. To il
lustrate this take the following case :
Three candidates for solicitor general
in different circuits were discussing
their respective races the other night at
Macon. One prominent member of the
last house, who will be in the next also,
was mentioned casually. Then each
candidate told of having written to this
ex-representative with whom all three
had served. Each man complained that
he had received curt and unsatisfactory
replies to letters which they had writ
ten to him asking for his support. All
three had counted certainly on getting
the gentleman’s vote,-in return for past
favors. Why he had written to them
such unexpected letters, they could not
understand. Later I learned that he
had promised to support two other can
didates, one of whom he did not know.
Investigation showed that the member’s
knowledge of the habits of the respect
ive candidates influenced him. The
first three referred to belonged to tho
set that will dissipate and monkey with
poker. The other two neither drink nor
pla/. And that was the secret of it.
The men who were known too well
lost a vote, while the unknown one made
THE NOME TiiIBUNK, SINDAY. JUNE £B, 1896.
Training tbe Boy..
The State Technological school is do
ing a great work for the boys of Georgia.
Young men who have gone through it
are now filling good positions in a num
ber of states. Some of them are getting
large salaries. The star piece of work
on exhibition this week was a naptha
launch made by one of the students
named Egan, from Charleston, S. O. It
was just as good a boat as could be
bought for $2,200 and it was made in
extra hours. The youug man made ev
erything except the engine. Egan
worked on his boat from the opening of
the school year, Oct. 1, up to commence
ment this week. The Tech trains for any
character of skilled mechanical work.
Several of the graduates are electricians,
others are assistant managers of large
manufacturing plants.
The practical side of this institution,
which the state sustains, is seen in what
the graduates are capable of doing.
Each county is entitled to six free schol
arships. Board and other expenses will
run from SIOO to $l5O a year. That
keeps many a poor boy out, but for those
who are able to spend so much money,
the Tech offers a rare opportunity for a
skilled manual training, with an aca
demic education to reinforce it The
school is not allowed to take contracts
for work, as that would interfere with
hired labor, but the boys can go ahead,
make anything they wish, and then the
faculty sells it, the proceeds going to
the institution. All kinds of wood and
iron work are done. Some of it is as
near perfect as can be made.
Looking to Foreign Markets.
The meeting of cotton and wool man
ufacturers to be held here on next Tues
day is to see what can be done in the
wav of opening up new markets. Man
ufacturers do not believe that overpro
duction is so much the cause of the de
pression in their business as restriction
to the home market. For the time be
ing there is underconsumption in the
United States, owing to the great num
ber of idle people and low wages, but our
mills ought to be selling cotton goods to
Mexico, Africa and Asia. England has
five times as many spindles as we have
in the United States and has come to us
for the raw material. A conference of
southern manufacturers was held here
a few weeks ago, and they talked over
this very matter. They argued, as was
mentioned in this correspondence at the
time, that they ought to sell to the ex
port trade. We have a little business
with other countries, but the United
Kingdom actually sells them 20 times
the amount of cotton and woolen goods
that we market there.
Since the conference the manufactur
ers have been thinking over this and now
they are to get together again. One se
cret of England’s great trade with South
America and Africa is, that the English
furnish the capital for the development
of these countries. Our capitalists want
from 6to 10 per cent. The English are
glad to get 3 per cent, hence our neigh
bors borrow and buy from Great Britain.
The Übiquitous Myers.
If Will Myers keeps in touch with his
old home he must be amused at the
weekly reports of his capture. The first
of this month Deputy Sheriff Will Green
traveled to an interior Missouri town to
see a man whom the rural detectives
were positive was the murderer of For
rest Crowley. This week Green has
gone to Texas, and he wires that the
prisoner is not Myers.
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GEORGIA, Floyd County.
Whereas J L>. O’Bryan and others have
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ol the public r ad commencing at the bridge
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Mimmeivide Ko d, and the District < on>mie
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Citation—Leave to Sell.
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To all »horn it may concern:
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