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THE DEMOCRATIC - TKKEfI
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,
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. C. NIXON.
The newest form of emotional and
dangerous insanity is called Tillmania.
If you have not already done so,
go and register for the November elec
tions.
They call him Thomas Eruption
Watson, now, since he has broken out
in the West.
Sardines are a drug on the market,
but suckers are as much in demand
as ever.—Augusta Herald.
The prows of the United States
warships should be turned toward 8
Havana instead of Constantinople.
Depsite a short crop Southwest
Georgia farmers are making more
money off of bay than cotton this
year.
There is danger of a rise in the price
of ink because the populist campaign
orators are monopolizing the world's
stock of gall.
Joshua Levering, the prohibition
candidate for president, has gone and
made a speech, but the effects are not
likely to prove in the least serious.
Editor Cherry ip happy. In the last
issue of his bright Albany Penny
Press he announces that sugar cane
is ripe and “sugar bi’lin’ time” is at
hand.
Here are some registration figures;
Floyd 4,639, Bibb 3,207, Sumter 1,585,
Clarke 1,270, DeKalb 2,972, Spalding
1,343, Muscogee 2,700, Richmond 6,740,
Lumpkin That’s a pretty good
showing for us.
In his picturesque peripateticism
Rev. Samuel Jones is only equalled
by Hon. John Temple Graves in his
pyrotechnic propagandism. Both are
perilously puffed up witti populistic
platitudes,
The New York World has figured it
out that we will have either to build
more school houses or build more
jails. Rome has taken the initiative
in turning her former court house
into a school building to accommodate j
the increased attendance of pupils in
the city schools.
The republican organs are making a 1
great noise about the shutting down 1
of the protected woolen mills. The
thoughtful voter, however, will not
fail to take note that contemporane
ously with their shutting down ail
kinds of woolen goods are cheaper
than they have been in a generari io.
• The dependent industries are not.
missed when they are closed.
CAUGHT IN THEIR OWN TRAP.
The populists of Georgia digged a
pit and then walked right into it.
They kept up such a persistent howl
of fraud, and were so importunate
in their demands for a fair and free
ballot, that the democrats grew tired
of the racket and determined to grat
ify them to the ’fullest extent of their
desires. Bo they went to work and
passed an iron clad registration law
that certainly covers the entire
ground
It is so strict that it will be next to
impossible for a man to vote illegally
in the coming elections. .County after
county is granting the request of the
populists for representation at the
ballot boxes in the state elections.
They can ask for nothing more. Now,
when they see the majority that will
ba rolled up by the democrats
they will be sorry that they said any
thing. They will not be able to cry
fraud and will be at the end of their
row.
The democrats, as a rule, have reg
istered a heavier vote than they have
since the war, and many of the popu
lists being able to comply with the
requirements of the law, will be left
out in the cold. In cases of this sort
the fellows who yell the loudest are
generally least able to help the party
materially. The registration law will
work alike for the just and the unjust.
It could be hoped, if such a thing
were possible, that the howl of the
malcontents would be silenced alter
they see the fallacy of their efforts to
disrupt the government of the state,
but they are full of resources and
they will raise a hue and cry about
something else. The dirty work of
the populist campaign committee
ought to stimulate every democrat to
do bis full duty.
If they resort to such methods to
obtain control of state affairs, what
might they not do should they, by any
miraculous means, get into power.
Nothing short of the miraculous can
defeat the complete triumph of dem
ocracy on the sixth of October. How
any democrat, from personal feelings
or any other motive whatsoever, can
give his support to that party of mal
contents and dissensionists, is more
than we can understand.
The conduct of the populist man
agers of the campaign within the last
two or three weeks ought to disgust
every self respecting man and cause
him to use all his influence for the
success of the party of law and order.
If this last and master stroke of all,
the secret circular business, does not
rouse every good citizen to a true ap
preciation of the personnel of that
party, we fail to see the reason why.
Georgia has never been disgraced by
such dirty methods before in all her
history, not even excepting the dark
est days of reconstruction.
THAT SECRET CIRCULAR.
For several days reports have been
industriously circulated that the dem
ocratic state executive committee has
been sending out secret circulars to
catch the negro vote by hinting that
Governor Atkinson would wink at
certain crimes which might be com
mitted by negroes and holding up the
Adolphus Duncan pardon as an
example. Os all the infamous politi
cal schemes of the campaign this is
the worst. Verily, the populist man
agers will have much to answer for.
In a manly, conclusive and c< n
vincing letter Governor Atkinson has
placed the responsibility for the first
circular where it properly lies, with
some zealous, though thoughtless
person or persons, who were innocent
of any intention to cater to the negro
vote by any such infamous innuen
does. But who shall answer for the
distortion of the circular and its
further dissemination for the purpn e
of dragging the good name of the
governor of*the state into disrepute?
Whoever has been guilty of such a
piece of inexcusable infamy should
be exposed freely so that the righteous
indignation of an outraged public
should be heaped upon his head. The
simple suggestion that Governor At
kinson or anybody else, for that mat
ter would think of palliating such
crimes as these by sparing the per
petrators is enough to make the blood
run cold. The negroes themseb e <
would rise up against such a recre
ant.
It is the duty of every self respecting
populist to publicly express his con
demnation of such a transaction. The
man or set of men who could
circulate such a circular would
be-equal to any task, no matter how
dirty, to gain votes. There will come
a day of reckoning for these men and
j retribution will be swift and sure for
such as they. When the facts become
I known self respecting men will ask
I themselves in what sort of company
' they have been placed.
During his entire term of office
Governor Atkinson has shown him
self a hiirb minded Christian gentle
man wit li only the good of his state at
heart. That he could be capable of
throwing out any such bait to catch
the negro vote no one, not even his
. bitterest enemies, can conscientiously
j believe. He would be beneath the
THE HOME TBIBUNE. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1.96.
respect of the vilest vagabond of crea
tion were he capable of such a thing.
Ever since lhe campaign opened
the pupuliat leaders have tried, by
every means in their power, to ca t
all sorts of slurs and stains on his fair
name. One after another these
charges have been met and refuted.
And now comes this last, the worst of
all. It is a dangerous piece of busi
ress to even hint at such a thing, and
we 'hope that the foul plot will be
fully exposed and that those respon
sible for it will meet with that con
demnation which they so richly
deserve.
SONGS AND SCENES.
The Deacon and ibe Billie Goat.
Mary had a billie goat
With whiskers on his chin
And when he got his dander up
That goat could butt like sin.
He followed her to church one day
And walking down the aisle
Assumed an air of gravity
That made the people smile.
The deacon tried to drive him out
Which raised old Billie’s ire,
He chewed his cud right viciously
And both his eyes flashed fire.
He stood upon his hinder legs
And fetched a mighty bleat
That to the deacon sounded like
The trumpet call of fate.
Then all the congregation rose
No time had they to lose,
For Billie kept the racket up
And cleaned out all the pews.
And then be took a header and
The deacon would have fled
But Billie struck him in the rear
And stood him on his head.
The deacon called him evil names
In language harsh and then
To every savage
The parson cried “Amen !”
—Montgomery M. Folsom.
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Clothing The Naked.
Charity should begin at home. That
is what my wife says, and-if I doubted
the assertion I should not dispute it. I
am a lover of peace. My materal grand
father fought for peace all his life and
now that he is no more, if he knows
anything at all about it, he has the sat
sfaotion of knowing that one of his
prosterity is strictly peaceable. Then
the proposition is a just one. If a man
provide not for his own honsehold he is
worse than an infidel, says Paul or Silas
or some of those reverend writers.
Meditating on this theme I watched
my hens, Queen Anne and Madame
Renaisance, walking gingerly through
the chill dew and Prince George follow
ing them and stepping high. The
thought occurred to me that such high
bred fowls were not accustomed to face
tne rough elements and that they de
served more considerate treatment. I
was more fully convinced after the ap
pearance of an egg in the boudoir of
Madame Renaisance, in my hen palace.
Since its appearance my baby has spent
half her time counting that egg.
I have done some figuring myself,
and I have calculated that if it should
be my lot to outline Madame Renaisan e
that I will inherit a-rich legacy from her
prudent and industrious habits. Sup
pose she lays an egg every other day for
365 days, there will be 182 eggs, throw
ing in the odd day for good measure-
Those 182 eggs will hatch out 182 chicks
putting the double yelked ones against
the few that addle. In six months half
of those chicks which is a reasonable
percentage, being pullets, will each lay
an egg every other day, or 91 eggs all
told. For the remaining six montbs
that will be 8,281 eggs, or 8,463 all told
for the year and a half.
T hat is giving them all the margin
that even a populist office seeker could
rfequire. But hold on. Dy the end of
the second year those 8,463 eggs would
hatch out that many chicks, and —but 1
would have to move out into Cbulio, by
that time, to find standing room for my
fowls. Many a meaner man than 1 am,
however, has thus made a fortune rais
ing poultry on paper. The other suc
cessful method is to raise them from the
roost after the family has retired. Poor,
ignorant colored people pursue that plan
most successfully.
But to come to the point of my story.
Seeing that the cold dew was likely to
affect the circulation of my hens in the
same manner that my cold due bills af
fect the circulation of the local curren
cy, I then and there resolved to amelio
rate their condition. A happy thought
struck me. They have the bloomer wad
dle in their walk, and bloomers it shall
be! Prince George shall have knicker
bockers and Queen Anne and Madame
Renaisance shall be clad in bloomers of
the latest pattern.
I shall have the garments marked so
that I can tell the hind part from the
front for they say that our dear sisters,
when they first begin in bloomers, are
frequently troubled to determine
whether they are going somewheres or
coming back b'-cause of gettting them
on wrong side in front. I think that
Prince George in knickers will look just
too cute for anything. They will tend
to divert criticism on his lack of a tail
that can be safely repeated. My only
misgiving is that I fear that they will
want a bicycle built for three.
Nevertheless, 1 had rather they would
acquire the bicycle habit than that
Prince George should edvelop a propen
sity for cigarettes. 1 believe that it
would crush my proud spirit if I were to
see him burning those joss sticks on the
alter of dissipaiion. I had rather he
would shoot craps and the Lord knows
I’d hate to see him do that. Madame
Renaisance has, if I am any judge of
physiognomy, a bicycle face. She has
that anxious, yearning look that the
scorcher wears when he is chasing hie
attenuated shadow over a road which is
languishing because of over tacksation.
As for Queen Anne she is still young,
never having cackled over her first egg,
yet, and her character is still unsettled.
But the determination indicated in her
square set jaws justifies mein the feel
ing of confidence that if there was one
grain at stake she would-get there by a
scratch. I must inquire of my oldest
born if it is customary to match the ma
terial of the bloomers with the color of
the eyes and if so I shall go to my friend
Mr. Tom Woodruff, at Fahy’s, and get
him to assist me in selecting the cloth.
He is matchless in that line.
As for the knickers for Prince Georga
I shall purchase poker dot plush with
Bryan buttons at the knees and tassels
made of sixteen silver and one gold
thread and I just know that he will look
like a democratic rooster sure enough.
On the day that Bryan is elected lam
going to have him stand on the postoffice
steps and crow three cheers for Bill Wy
att and the unmitigated democracy. I
will have his spurs silver plated and let
his bill run up just as high as he chooses
and darn the expenses!
M. M. F.
Editor Majors, of lhe Carrollton
Times, hits straight from the shoul
der when he says, “Any man who
tells a willful lie on a candidate, or
repeats one, is a sneak and a skunk
and would do anything to accomplish
his purpose. It seems that some peo
ple take advantage of that greatest of
all liberties, the right of free speech,
and say anything they please about
any candidate or any candidate or
any man who occupies a public office.
The democrats of Carroll county are
getting tired of being accused of fraud
on all occasions. The pops have al
ready commenced to accuse us of
fraud. Fraud and rascality are all you
hear them blow about from early
morn till dewy eve; but in the election
of two years ago the fraud seemed to
be on the other side.”
India’s cotton crop for this year will
be the largest she ever raised. Last
year she produced 2,296,000 bales c f
400 pounds each. A significant fact is
that of this crop her own manufacto
ries consumed 56 per cent, and only
44 per cent, was exported. India cot
tm manufactures are largely exported
to Asiatic and African countries.
There is a good suggestion there for
the Southern planters.
There is little chivalry in Massachu
setts jurisprudence when the court
denies a woman a divorce on the
ground that her husband tickled her
feet and incidentally extends to him
tle right to snore. No wonder that
woman suffrage has so many adher
ents in Boston.
‘ I’ll do W hat I c. n.”
Who takes for his motto, “I’ll do what I can,”
Shall better the world as he goes down life’s
hill.
The willing young heart makes the capable
man,
And who does what he can oft can do what
he will.
There’s strength in the impulse to help things
along,
And forces undreamed of will come to the
aid
1 f one who, though weak, yet believes he is
strong,
A nd offers himself to the task.xinafraid.
“I’ll do what l can” is a challenge to fate.
And fate must succumb when it’s put to the
test;
A heart that is willing to labor and wait.
In its tussle with life ever cornea out best.
It puts the blue imps of depression to rout.
And makes many difficult problems seem
plain;
It mounts over obstacles, dissipates doubt,
And unravels kinks in life’s curious chain.
“I’ll (Io what I can” keeps the progress ma
chine
In go d working order as centuries roll,
And civilization would perish, I ween,
Were not those words written on many a
soul.
They fell the great forests, they furrow the
soil,
They reek new inventions to benefit man,
They fear no exertion, make pastime of toil
O, great is earth’s debt to “I’ll do what I
can.”—
—The Independent.
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