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THE DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
FOR PRESIDENT,
WILLIAM J. BRYAN, of Nebraska.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
ARTHUR SEWALL, of Maine.
FOR CONGRESS,
JOHN W. MADDOX, of Floyd.
FOR GOVERNOR,
W. Y. ATKINSON.
” for secretary of state,
ALLEN D. CANDLER.
FOR TREASURER,
WILLIAM J. SPEER.
FOR ATTORNEY-GENERAL,
JOSEPH M. TERRELL.
* FOR COMPTROLLER-GENERAL,
WILLIAM A. WRIGHT.
FOR COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE
ROBERT T. NESBITT.
FOR STATE SENATOR,
WESLEY SHROPSHIRE, of Chat
tooga.
FOR REPRESENTATIVES,
FELIX CORPUT,
J. H. REECE,
W, H. ENNIS.
FOR ORDINARY,
JOHN P, DAVIS.
, FOR CLERK SUPERIOR COURT, v
W. E. BEYSIEGEL.
FOR SHERIFF,
j. p. McConnell.
FOR TAX COLLECTOR,
V. T. SANFORD.
FOR TAX RECEIVER,
? R. L. FOSTER.
FOR TREASURER,
J. B. HILL.
FOR SURVEYOR,
J. T. MOORE.
FOR CORONER,
F. H. SCHLAPBACH.
FOR COMMISSIONERS,
C. N. FEATHERSTONE.
r’. B. McARVER,
D. W. SIMMONS.
G. W. TRAMMELL,
W. CrNIXON.
The campaign button is all the rage.
The Tom Watson variety should be
made of brass to be consistent.
The corn cribs and smoke houses of
North Georgia are run on the 16 to 1
plan with regard to the cotton crop.
Tom Watson probably expected a
chromo along with his notification.
That acounts for his disappointment.
Tom Watson is a sort of knot on
the political log and he is laboring
under the delusion that the knot is
longer than the log.
There have been heavy shipments
from'the United States arsenal in Au
gusta and the Chronicle wants to
know the meaning of them.
Hon. Hoke Smith’s Dalton speech
was a manly statement of his position
and has won for him the admiration
of true democrats all over the coun
try. _
We always knew that Sam Jones was
blessed with plenty of strength of jaw,
• but “chewing up ballots after mid
night” must have taxed even his
powers.
Go and register for the November
elections if you failed to get in time
enough for the state elections. Your
vote will count one more for Bryan
and Sewall in November.
The September issue of the Masonic
Herald is out and is one of the most
interesting numbers that has ap
peared. Editor Meyerhardt is prepar
ing for a big grand lodge edition in
October.
If California misers continue to drop
off and leave wills in favor of their
impecunious benefactors, there will
soon be a bran new crop of million
aires in the state of magnificent imagi
mtion.
Augusta people are grumbling about
the character of their water. It is only
used for bathing purposes, there, but
it is so strongly impregnated with red
mud that the population is being
literally painted red.
Genial, generous hearted Tom
son is dead. He breathed his last in
tar away Beyrut, beneath the Syrian
sky. Like the lamented John Gorman
he died while in the discharge of his
duties as a representative of the gov
ernment. The news of his death will '
carry a pang to the hearts of thou-!
sands who knew, admired and leve l I
him for his manly character. In his
death Georgia lost one of her noblest
ions.
LET IT BE FINAL.
Go to work democrats. Let the de
cision of the ballot on October 7 be
final. Populists half whipped are
not whipped at al). Put them to rout
horse, foot and dragoon. Tl e present
populo-prohibivion following is made
up of the fag ends of factious imimical
to democracy. It will not do to en
courage that crowd by giving them
any showing at all.
They will have no chance to cry
fraud for this is going to be a fair,
square and open election. On the
other hand, the democrats will have
nothing to fear on the score of fraud
ulent practices by the populists in the
counties where they are strongest.
The rule will work both ways. The
people of Georgia are fair minded
folks and they want to’see justice done
though the heavens fall.
All this show of turning state’s evi
dence on the part of Rev. Sara Jones
will Lave no <ff c% Theie are plenty
oi good democrats in Georgia as hon
est as Rev. Samuel, and who can
show records equally as clean as the
celebrated evangelist. This cry of
fraud is used for effect and everybody
understands it.
The thing to do is to roll up such a
majority in October as will warn the
populists that they need not hope for
any consolation in November. Popu
lism has ruined Kansas and Colorado
and the influences that are stirring
up strife in Georgia|have set the state
of South Carolina back at least a de
cade.
Earnest, honest, progressive people
are tired of these cantankerous politi
cians who care not how much dissen
sion or disorganization follows so that
they can reach their own selfish ends.
Let us go to work and weed out these
pernicious influences and restore the
reign of reason and common sense.
Georgia is a conservative state. Let us
see that it so remains.
If every democrat in Floyd county
will do his duty we will elect the regu
lar nominees by a large majority. If
every one in the Seventh district does
his duty Judge Maddox will not be
worried by another populistic contest.
It every member of the party in Geor
gia will do his full duty we will have
a democratic government, legislature
and congressional representation un
excelled by any state in this broad
union. .
A SACRED CAUSE.
Thb cause of temperance is sacred
to the hearts of true men and women
all over this great state of our. No.
body disputes that fact. We, would
be less than human if we did not be
lieve in the doctrines of temperance,
and would fall short of our most
sacred duty if we did not try to incul
cate its principles in the minds and
hearts of those who are to come after
us.
Therefore let us look carefully into
the motives that actuate those who
are doing their best to overthrow our
present institutions, hallowed by the
devoted and sanctified labors of some
of the greatest and best men and
woman that this or any other state
ever produced. In speaking of our
existing laws regulating the sale of
liqor, Senator John B. Gordon, in a
recent address, said:
“In every section of our state are to
be found the glorious trophies of vic
tories achieved under that law by
the friends of reform. Beyond our
borders in every section of the union.
I find Georgia recognized in the cause
of temperance; and the crown of lead
ership was placed upon her brow by
local option. Why seek to change it.
Reform is born of conviction, and
unless the convictions of the people
sustain it every effort at reform is
futile. Neither temperance, nor re
ligion. nor any other righteous cause
can live and flourish except by popu
lar approval. Law itself would be
defied, liberty would die and the
republic be doomed if they did not
live in the hearts of the people. Did
you ever analyze the causes which
rendered the Maine law ineffective? It
failed. Why? Because the people were
not behind it with their sympathy
and power. And to the calamity of
failure was added the crimes of eva
sion and deception with their attend
ant demoralization.
“The South Carolina method failed
to achieve moral reform. Why? Be
cause the sympathy and support of
the people were not behind it, and its
brief history is a dark chapter of dis
content, of resistence accentuated by
■charges of corruption in high places
and by unsavory official records. The
Georgia method has not failed. It is a
glorious—a monumental success.
Why? Because the people of every
community that adopts it are neces
sarily behind it with their voluntary
support, their sympathy and co-opera
tive power.
“My fellow countrymen, the story
of the dog catching at the shadow in
the stream and thus losing his lusci'
cous bone is threadbare from long use,
but it is full of suggestion in this con
nection. Still more so is that inspired
injunction. ‘Prove all things and
hold fast to that which is good.’ I
■ warn you, therefore, to beware lest in
THE ROME TRIBUTE. WEDNESDAY. SEPTuMBEii 23. 1896.
catching at a shadow which has
proved delusive in the past, we let
slip the glorious sub.-tance, which at
present we possess. In the name of
the great cause I conjure you to hold
fast to your ‘local option,’ which has
already been tested and proved to be
good. ’ ’
Are the people of Georgia behind
this agitation? The result of the vote
on the seventh of October will show
that they are not. Some of the most
prominent temperance workers in the
state are not in sympathy with the
movement,. They doubt the wisdom
of the present agitation. They foresee
that it will tend to set back the true
canse of temperance in Georgia. Even
the populo-prohibitionists aie begin
ing to see the handwriting on the wall
and it is to be hoped that the dissen
sionists and disruptionists will be
buried under an avalanche of ballots
beyond resurrection.
SONGS AND SCENES.
Love’s Vanished Dream
Farewell, then —the dream is over;
Thou the loved one, I the lover,
Bonds I thought no hand could sever,
Broken now and gone forever I
I the stricken sufferer only,
Through gray days and nights so lonely!
Ihou the loved one, I the lover;
Farewell now—the dream is over!
Farewell since the dream is over—
Thou the loved one, I the lover,
Starless skies are bending o’er me
Lenghthening shadows stretch before me;
All the light of life departed—
Solitary,broken hearted!
Thou the loved one, I the lover—
Farewell now the dream is over!
Farewell, dear, the dream is over,
Thou the loved one, I the lover,
But my heart beats as sincerely
As of yore, I love thee deariy !
How could my unselfish spirit
Such a cruel ending merit?
Thou the loved and I the lover,
Farewell love, the dream isover.
Farewell, since the dream is over,
Thou the loved and I the lover,
. On thy careless ear unheeding,
Falls the burden of my pleading!
Mine is but the sad, sad story,
Love and love’s departed glory !
Thou the loved and I the lover,
Fare thee well, life’s dream is over.
—Montgomery M. Folsom.
Dallas Tarnei’s Pumpkins.
Last fall Dallas Turner grew a crop of
pumpkins on his farm on the Coosa
river bottoms that was startling. They
were so big that the negro fisherman
split them open and used the bowls for
dug outs in crossing the river. Dallas
lost an old sow and shotes early in the
fall and thought that the goblins had got
them. Just after the first frost he was
walking through the field one day,
when he chanced to carelessly kick one
of the biggest ones.
With a rush and a roar the old sow
and her litter ran out of the pumpkin,
the shotes in splendid condition. They
had spent the entire fall in the pump
kin. He never attempted to market
any of them because they were too
heavy. The only way they could be
managed was to punch a hole through
them, run an axle through and roll them
like they use to market tobacco hogs
heads in the old days.
This year, by some means, a seed was
dropped in his front yard,. and just for
curiosity Dallas permitted the vine to
stand and kept it watered. The result
has been the most miraculous pumpkin
vine that ever tried to outrun a bicycle
in Floyd county. There ate six mon
ster pumpkins lying in his front yard
now that look like young elephants en
joying a siesta.
He has had to drive stakes on the hill
side below them, which slopes down to
South Broad steet to keep them from rol{
ing down and killing the school children.
He trained the vines to run in the di.
rection of the range of hills to the west
ward and the main vine disappeared
over the crest of the ridge about three
weeks ago and ne has no idea how far
the blamed thing is by this time.
Dallas thinks that he conld utilize the
smaller pumpkins for flour barrels by
getting the meat out of them and put
ting stout iron hoops around them, but
he hasn’t tried the experiment yet. He
has made a careful estimate and has fig
ured it out that there is meat enough in
the crop of that vine to make a pie us
ing Floyd countv for the bottom crust
and covering it, criss cross fashion,
with Polk and Haralson.
The vine grew so rapidly that it kept
the neighbors awake at night, as it
ripped through the shrubbery, tore down
palings scattering things promiscuously
in its mad career. Lots of the imma
ture fruit was lost in this wise as the
young pumpkins were dragged off by
the rapid growth of the vine. Had he
permitted it to run toward town it would
have been away out in-the Flatwoods by
this time.
The young people enjoy climbing on
top of the full grown pu-npkings by the
aid of ladders whence they get a good
view of Lindale and John Porter's
premises on Silver creek. Last year the
frost tried to bite those in the field cn
the plantation, but the job was more
than was bargained for and it was given
up as a bad job. Jack Frost had bitten
' off more than he could chew.
Dallas prizes his crop very highly and
if he could just make a deal with west
ern capitalists to sell them for cyclone
pits, he would soon become very rich.
The only trouble would be in transport
ing them. The only possible chance
’would be to raft them down the Coosa
river during the winter when the water
is up and thence by water to some port
on the Texas coast.
Once there the job would be compar
atively easy as they could be rolled
across the open prairie by the aid of
traction engines One of those pump
kins would be a safer retreat from the
ringtailed Kansas cyclone than any pit
that was ever dug. As they lie they
will afford him ample protection from
the cold north winds this winter, at any
rate. M. M. F.
We guess the reason John Temple
Graves didn’t enter the Presbyterian
ministry when he had the presbytery
called together in Marietta for that
avowed purpose several years ago,
was that he thought he couldn’t
“purify politics” and preach too. But
John Temple needn’t to have given
up the idea on that account, for it
looks like some of the preachers
think their mission is to go into poli
tics at all hazards in this day and
time.—Marietta Journal.
Rev. Sam Jones seems anxious to
get into politics, and, in a long silly
letter offers some advice to Chairman
Clay ought to suggest to Rev. Jones
that he will resign and allow him to
come down to Atlanta an.l take charge
of the democratic campaign for him.
He seems to be conceited enough to
think he can run everything.—Ma
rietta Journal.
As to Northern farmers in the
South, for ten years or more colonies
and individual settlers from the North
and West Lave been moving io the
South in constantly increasing num
bers, and today scattered all over the
South there are many thousands of
prosnerous and happy Northern fami
lies living well and making money.—
Southern States.
The cotton crop has been harvested
practically speaking, in this section,
and is the cleanest and freest from
stain of any crop every gathered in
this section. There Is one consolation
about the shortage. The farmers are
becoming less dependent upon it
every year.
John M. Palmer has rounded' off
his long and eventful career by re
ceiving the nomination for the Presi
dency of the United States, but the
height of the glory is not so great
that he and the rest of us cannot see
certain defeat ahead.—Peoria 111. Ga
zette.
Free Silver in a Free Nation.
There’s a gathering of hosts again on Old
Columbia’s soil.
There’s a rallying of the armies of the sturdy
sons of toil,
There’s a forming of the forces from which
foemen shall recoil
From Pacific to the further coast of Georgia.
Hurrah! Hurrah! We'll sound the jubilee.
Hurrah! Hurrah! Our silver shall be free:
And the dollar of our daddies shall be as it
used to be
Before the crime of Congress in the year of ’73
In the land bordered easterly by Georgia.
There’s a conflict with Old England, boys,
again on Western shore,
There’s a battle with the nation that our fath
ers fought of yore,
And we’ll sweep her and her Tories as our
fathers did before
Off the land bordered easterly by Georgia.
Chorus-Hurrah! Hurrah! Etc.
The men of Old Columbia for a century have
been free.
The basis »of their conduct is to do as they
agree.
But they will not be remanded to a state of
slavery
In the land bordered easterly by Georgia.
Chorns —Hurrah! Hurrah! Etc.
Ye men of Northern firmness and ye men of
Southern fire,
Ye men of Western daring—all ye Nation’s
sons and sires,
Let us once again teach England not to rouse a
nation’s ire
From the West to the further coast of Georgia
Chorus—Hurrah! Hurrah! Etc.
The Hand of Devastation, boys, again has
crossed main,
Witholding compensation for the toil of arm
and brain,
And demanding that all debits shall be doubled
to its gain
And we’ll hurl it o’er the waters east of Geor
gia
Chorus—Hurrah ! Hurrah! Etc.
H. S Goff, Minneapolis, Minn.
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