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THE ROME TRIBUNE.
W. A. KNOWLES, - Editor.
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THE - DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
FOR PRESIDENT,
WILLIAM J. BKYAN, of Nebraska.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
. ARTHUR SEW ALL, 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.
FOB 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.
J net one week more and then eometh
the harvest.
Populism is on the wane; democracy
is on the win.
The democratic nominees are going
in with a rush.,
Populism flashed and faded with
astonishing, lapidity in the Seventh
congressional district this year.
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The campaign is drawing to a close,
and the democratic banner waves
cheerily above the smoke of conflict.
After the smoke has cleared aw?y
the independents will find themselves
out of the party, out of the fight and
out of soap.
There are some unemployed men,
says the Washington Post, who would
rather have a 53-cent dollar than no
dollar at all.
The Sunday Rome Tribune was a
mainifise, t sixteen page paper. The
Tribune is always bright and breezy.
—Acworth Post.
It’s funny, bqt some of the populist
stump speakers are getting treed.
Some of them are stump-speakers
and some stump-suckers.
Bryan certainly deserves to win, for
no man ever fought through a polit
ical campaign more fearlessly nor
with greater odds against him.
Seab Wright need not disturb him
self. The “blatant demagogues’’ will
not “cajole the the people” in this
year of grace.—Augusta Herald.
Fall openings are at hand and the
business men of Rome are beginning
a]c impaign of business that will be of
far more interest than the political
campaign has been.
Judge Maddox won many a eompli
ment from hishearsers last week with
h:s speech at the park. He is the
man for the place and he will be re
turned to congress.—Dalton Citizen.
The cause of Editor Dana’s discov
ering so many strange things in the
democratic party is due to the quality
of his liquor. That is probably why
he adheres to the gold cure so per
sistently.
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The campaign of Hon. John IV.'
Middox has been one of the most
phenomenal in the history of Georgia
politics. It has been a campaign of
solid and effective work and Chairman
Clay says that he hears from Judge
Maddox oftener than any of the rest
of the campaign speakers.
ONE MONTH LATER.
Let all who are pining for a day’s
sport with dogs and gun bear in mind
that the shooting season has been
curtailed one month by the action of
the last genera) assembly and it will
be November 1 before it will he law
ful to shoot game birds in Georgia.
This advice is thrown out fortheben
efit of those who are possibly unaware
of the recent change in the law and
who might unwittingly violate the
statute by trying their hands on the
toothsome quail in advance of the
season. Here is the full text of the
amended law:
Be it enacted by the general assem
bly of the state of Georgia, and it is
hereby enacted by authority of the
same. That from and after the passage
of this act, entitled an act to amend
an act to protect game in the State
of Georgia during certain seasons, and
approved December 20th, 1893, so as
t > more fully protect game in the
State to make said act amended uni
form, to prohibit sale of game in cer.
tain seasons, to prescribe penalties for
the violation of this act, and for other
purpose, be amended by striking out
the word “October,”!'in, the twelfth
line of section first of saidjact Jand in
serting in lieu thereof the word
“November,”/ soj that [section, when
amended, shall read as follows: “Be
it enacted by the general assembly of
Georgia, That the above recited act
be, and the;same is hereby amended
by striking out all the" sections and
provisions of said act occuring after
the words ‘authority of the same,’ in
fourth line of first section, inserting
in lieu of said stricken section and
provisions as follows:
That from and after the passage of
this act it shall be unlawful for any
person to shoot, trap,kill, ensnare, net
or destroy in any manner wild turkey,
pheasant, snipe, patridge, or any in
sectivorous or singing bird, except
English sparrow, crows, larks, rice
birds, wheat birds and doves in any
county in the State between the Ist
' day of April aud the Ist day of No
vember of any year; and as to doves,
it shall be unlawful for any person to
trap, kill, ensnare or destroy any dove
in this State between the loth day of
April and the 15th day of July in any
year; and it shall be unlawful for any
person to sell or offer for sale any wild
deer, [wild turkey, pheasant, snipe,
partridge, or other game birds killed,
destroyed, caught or ensnared in th:~s
State within the date aforesaid in vio
lation of the provisions of this act.
Be it further eßhcted, That all laws
and parts of laws in conflict with
this act be, and the same are hereby
'repealed. Approved December 2,1895.
BREEDING DISCORD.
The persistent efforts of the popu
lists, to drag the rave issue into the
present campaign is one of the worst
features i/i the campaign. The race
problem which Northern fanatics
spent so many years and wasted so
much breath in trying to solve, is
about solved in Georgia and in the
solution both white anß
ple will be benefitted. The negroes
are doing very well and should be let
alone. The Albany Herald says on
that line:
“We have in Dougherty county
quite a number of negroes who own
their own farms and are out of debt.
And there are some who own more
than one good farm and are adding to
their real estate holdings almost
yearly. And what is true of this class
of negroes in Dougherty county is
true of the same thrifty class through
out the state.
“The intelligent negro farmer really
has some very material advantages
ver the white man when it comet too
living at home and farming in the
richest part of this section. Nature
gave him most of these advantages
and his ‘previous condition of servi
tude’ did the rest. He can live and
enjoy good health the year round in
the swamp regions where the lands
are richest and where the best returns
are to be had from their cultivation.
“Wherever you find an industrious
farmer in Southwest Georgia who
lives on his farm and makes farming
a business, there you will find pros
perity; for there is nothing which
pays more certainly in the long run in
this part of the country than farming.
“The negro farmer lives at 1 ome and
not only works himself, but makes
his family work. And these sober,
industrious negro farmers are accu
mutating more and more every year.
They bad to rent lands and give lienp
on their crops at first, but many of
tnem have passed that stage and are
now independent—own their own
farms and stock and are out of debt.
It is only a question of time when we
will have some very wealthy negroes
in Southwest Georgia.”
In the face-nt such prospjrity any
attempt to breed discord and create a
condition of unrest among these
peaceable people should meet with
the condemnation which it so justly
deserves The negro is an element of
our population and a fixture and as
such should be protected in his rights
and encouraged in his efforts to
better his condition.
THE ROME THURSDAY. OCIOBcR 1. 1896.
The time has passed when designing
politicians can lead the ignorant eol.
Orel man b ’the nose and by working
on his symparnie’s array him against
the government of law and order under
which he is thriving and prospering
as no other race in a similar condition
ever did before. The negroes have
learned enough about politics to begin
to think and choose for themselves
and the efforts of the opponents of
democracy to lead them astray will
prove abortive in this campaign.
SONGS AND SCENES.
The Coining of Autumn.
There’s a cloud on the brow of the mountain,
A mistiness hangs on the vale;
A filmjdulls the flash of the fountain,
There’s a sob in the sigh of the gale,
All the brightness the summer king brought
them, "
Is dimmed by the sadness of Autumn,
The pensive forebodings of Autumn !
The golden rod bloometh in splendor,
The sumach’s rod banners float free
And the rich purple meadow weeds render
The woodlands most wondrous to see,
With the glories the season has wrought them
Rich dyes for the mantle of Autumn,
The glamot and glory of Autumn.
A wail that is piteously thrilling.
And sad as a lover’s last words,
Is heard in the tremulous trilling
Farewell of the lingering birds.
Sad lays that the chill winds have taught
them,
To chant at the coming of Autumn,
The plaint and the pathos of Autumn !
The harvest fields shriveled and sober,
The unfruitful fallows all brown,
Have yielded to solemn October
Their jewels to weave in her crown,
With a grasp of a miser she caught them,
To weave in the diadem of Autumn,
The costly crown jewels of Autumn !
In the distant abyss of dark heaven
From the pitiless glittering eyes
Os the stars cheerless glances are given
Earthward from the cold dreary skies
Not the guardian spirit we thought them,
But the slavish magicians of Autumn,
Os the magic and mystery of Autumn I
And faded the hopes that I cherished
Since summer’s full pulse beats are stilled,
With the dream of the summer they perished
And its promises all unfulfilled ’
Ah! vainly in sorrow I sought them
’Mid the wreck and ruin of Autumn,
The dark desolation of Autumn !
Oh God, how 1 clung to my treasures.
With devotion deep, passionate, wild;
From a heart that is wilful and measures
Its desires like an unreasoning child,
But I knots, now, how drearly I bough t them.
Like the life-purchased pleasures of Au
tnmn
The death doomed enjoyments of Autumn
—Montgomery M. Folsom.
Suggestive Memories.
Among the notable things about the
recent Woman’s Edition of -the South
ern Argus I noticed the assertion made,
that it was printed on the press on
which the old Rome Commercial, sacred
through its hallowed associations with
the lamented Grady, was printed. What
memories come trooping forth from the
shadowy past as one remembers those
olden, golden days when the youthful
genius was struggling with poverty and
privation in his efforts to win his
way in the world.
How often has he listened to the rat
tle of that press in the la;e hours of the
night as it ground out the product of the
grist of his brain and hand. How often
at such times must he have sat aud
J dreamed of a glorious future which was
to come and which he was just begin
ning to fully realize when the ruthless
reaper cut him down and stilled forever
■ the brave young heart that beat with
I such high hopes and soaring aspirations.
Alas, for the vanity of human expecta
tions!
1 have before me a mutilated file of
the old Rome Commercial, from Jan
uary to September, 1871, ‘‘Grady Bros.,
and Shanklin, publishers, ” now in the
possession of J. T. Crouch. It is Vol
ume 1 and is a four page seven column
sheet, the front page of which is devoted
almost exclusively to advertisements.
On the second page is an average of two
columns of editorials from one half to a
column in length, averaging about three
quarters and a «olumn of “News by Tel
egraph.” There is about two columns
of local stuff on the third, and a column
or so usually of miscellaneous matter on
the fourth page
Will S. Grady was the manager and
Henry W. Grady the editor while
Shanklin, a job printer, published the
sheet.
Looking backward across the momen
tous years of his meteoric career, one
wonders that in this boyish venture,
that there are not more indications < f
coming greatness in the arbitrary efforts
of the juvenile genius, but alas, the edi
torial page is about as dull and common
place as the average provincial sheet.
In the laconic locals there is some
trace of the spirited style that marked
his masterpieces in maturer years, hut
the paper as a whole is very ordinary.
The young editor had a penchant for
versifying in tho -e days, aud in his lo
cal columns for several months appear
at intervals, verses from “Katie Dar
ling,” addresses to her "Henry,” both
varieties of which were evidently writ
ten by the same dilatory hand, and
more abominable slush has never passed
current, but then the editor evidently
intenled them for a comic feature.
It is lamentably true, however, that
they were just solemn enough at times
to be taken seriously, and betwixt the
effort to look gay and the predisposition
to be serious, they fell into innocuous
desuetude.
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Tne paper shows a very good adver
tising patronage at the published rate of
one dollar per square first insertion and
senenty-five cents for each subsequent
insertion with the usual discount for
longer contracts.
The subscription rates are in accord
ance with the inflated times, ten dollars
per annum for the daily aud three dol
lars for the weekly edition of the • ‘South
ern and Commereial.” which was an
eight page paper made up of selections
from the daily which appeared every
day except Sunday.
As I turned over the time stained
pages of that old file I thought of all the
hopes and aspirations of that boyish
heart in those halcyon days, ere those
dark eyes had drunk in the glories of
the earth from the pinnacle of fame,
ere the light that illumined them had
gone out forever!
When I recall all the pleasant remi
niscences connected with our associa
tions and as a fitting finale, my eyes
fell upon the beautiful lines, “Livin g
To Purpose,” near the end of the old
file, so suggestive of his life work.
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Those were the times that tried men’s
souls, when the ship of state was strug
gling through the shoals and breakers of
misrule into the ealm and smoother wa
ters of good government, and the edi
torials are punctuated with the fiery ut
terances of the future leader of the
young democracy of the rehabilitated
South.
But who would predict, in the merry
utterances of the budding journalist the
power stored up in that intellect which
was later on to electrify the nation?
M. M. F.
Seven days until election—till Seab’s
tongue goes to rest; seven days of
“woods afire” and eandidatorial
quest; seven days till the fight is over
and the democrats win again, and
Epistolary Samuel lays aside his
mighty pen.—Brunswick News-Ad
vertiser.
The New York Sun, which is such a
stickler for good English, allows a
correspondent to call the adult seals
“bulls and cows” and refers to the
young as “pups.” If that is not a par
adox, what is it?
The Long Tailed Coat.
I love this long-tailed coat, although its style
is old,
And hints of ancient fashion lurk within each
crease and fold,
And though the carping critic might comment
upo n its fi r ,
The heart beneath its worsted front beats true
beats true —to it.
I love this long-tailed coat of' mine that hints
of distant Jutes
And walks beneath the arching trees and un
der silver moons.
With her soft hand upon the sleeve—or when
we stopped to rest
Her little, drooping, golden head, reclining on
its breast.
I love this long-tailed coat of mine, this friend
forever true.
Associate of joy—of—-grief—when it was bright
and new:
I wore it when she promised we should wed
like birds—in spring;
I wore it when she gave me back the letters
and the ring.
I love this long-tailed coat of mine; I hold it
more than dear,
For it is sfanch in poverty as it was true in
cheer;
It guards me now when fortune has most bit
terly assailed.
And hides the patch which would obtrude if it
were shorter tailed.
—Chicago Record.
Fifty Years Ago.
President Polk in the White House chair,
While in Lowell was Doctor Ayer;
Both were busy for human weal
One to govern and one to heal.
And, as a president's power of will
Sometimes depends on a liver-pill,
Mr. Polk took Ayer’s Pills I trow
For his liver, 50 years ago.
Ayer’s Cathartic Pills
were designed to supply a
model purgative to people who
had so long injured themselves
with griping medicines. Being
carefully prepared and their in
gredients adjusted to the exact
necessities of the bowels and
liver, their popularity was in
stantaneous. That this popu
larity has been maintained is
well marked in the medal
awarded these pijlg at the
W orld’s Fair 1893.
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