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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.
REPRESENTATIVES,
FELIX CORPUT,
J. H. REECE,
W. H. ENNIS.
FOR ORDINARY,
JJOHN P. DAVIS.
C 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.
Send in your matter early for The
Sunday Tribune.
Better get you a bright and breezy
ad in The Sunday Tribune.
Judge Maddox receives the most
encouraging reports on every hand.
Come out and hear Governor Atkin
son and Colonel Hammond Monday.
Read every line in The Tribune
tomorrow and see that your ad appears
in its columns.
So long as the sale of liquor is
legalized by taxation it should be
protected by law. ZS
Tomorrow’s paper will be a very
interesting one and will be read by
thousands of people all over the
country.
There are thirteen candidates for
president and vice president, up to
this writing. Look out for the unlucky
number, Tommy Watson,
Recently printed statistics show that
the people of the United States spent
$20,000,000 last year for chewing gum
and $70,000,0000 for bicycles.
Counterfeiters still find it profitable
to make bogus silver dollars in spite
of the assertion of the gold bugs that
the dollar is only worth fifty cents.
There are now 970,678 names on the
pension list. The total expenditure on
pension account for the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1896, was $138,214,761.
Some people think that Tom Wat
son is fishing for the next populist
nomination for governor of Georgia.
Who said that there was going to be
any?
Monday will be a great day for
Rome and Floyd county. Everybody
should be here to hear democracy ex
pounded by its brightest representa
tive leaders.
Mr. Wright says he would rather
be at home with his wife and children
than to be the governor of any state.
Very well, Mr. Wright, you will have
the pleasure of doing that very thing.
—Acworth Post.
Having given Mr. Seaborn Wright
thg calm respectful hearing that a
gentleman of his ability is entitled to
the vast majority of our citizens will
on election day cast their votes for
William Y. Atkinson, the Democratic
nominee for governor.—Ellijay
Courier.
FACTS ABOUT ADVERTISING.
The strongest argument in favor of
persistent and judicious advertising is
that the most successful business men
of this day and time are those who ad
vertise most largely. Take a single
issue of The Sunday Tribune and you
will find that it is an almost complete
business directory of the city of Rome.
The best houses in the city are rep
resented in its columns in a manner
that reflects credit on the city and
keepe it in the front ranks.
You pick up a paper published in a
place with which you are unacquain
ted and you do not scan its columns
to find out the events of the day but
you turn to its advertising pages and
see if there are many men doing busi
ness there in your own as well as in
other lines. If the showing is not eat-'
isfactory your estimation of the char
acter of the place is lowered imme
diately. If others have not found it a
profitable town you do not care to try
the experiment of investing your
means there.
In the pioneer days men sought
new fields in which to try their for
tunes, but it is different now, and
men prefer to go where there is an
established trade and where the peo
ple have displayed some degree of
progress. The field has been pretty
well canvassed and investors have dis
covered the profitable points in which
to locate. Missionary work is all very
well, but it takes a long time to edu
cate the public.
Every dollar invested in good,
healthy, legitimate advertising is a
bid for outside capital and the larger
and stronger your own town ‘grows
the better are your chances for Jin
creasing the scope of your business
operations. In The Tribune the peo
ple of Rome have an advertising
medium that is second to none in the
state and it speaks well forthecharac
ter of our business men that its col
umns exhibit such a display of attrac
tive advertisements.
HIS EYES ARE OPENED.
It is altogether probable that had
Tom Watson known as much of the
true inwardness of the populistic
party prior to his acceptance of the
nomination for vice president as he
knows now that he would have con
sidered the proposition more carefully
before accepting the nomination. It
really looks as if the populistic mes
siab and his party had become hope
lessly estranged during the course of
the present campaign.
He started out after the manner of
most reformers with a grand flourish
of trumpets to redeem the political
world whether the world desired re
demption or not. He did not .stop to
consult the world but took matters in
his own hands and now he finds, by
bitter experience that the world is
principally out for power and boodle.
He has learned that his innocent
lambs have developed some very
wolfish propensities during the scram
ble.
He is disappointed in finding out
that they are disposed to combine
with the old parties whenever ,and
wherever they think that they can
further their own ends regardless of
the exclusive doctrines of the “Middle
of the Readers” and that the party
has developed strong symptoms of the
same old influences which he has so
persistently decried in the parties of
the past. In a recent communica
tion to the New York World he airs
his views.
It is plain to all who have read that
rather salty arraignment of the
methods of his own followers that
Tom is sadly disappointed in the party
that he has held up the view as the
party of purity and uncompromising
integrity that was to reform politics
and redeem the world. His power is
on the wane in Georgia and he feels it
most keenly. He sacrificed more than
all the rest of his followers put to*
gether for the sake of the party and
now it is preparing to side track him
before he has been able to accomplish
anything. -’
THREE QUESTIONS TO MR. WRIGHT.
Mr. Wright, asks the Columbus
Ledger, if you had been governor of
Georgia and the Adolphus Duncan
case had come before you as it did be
fore Governor Atkinson, will you
kindly tell the public whether you
would have pardoned the negro, or
whether you would have suffered him
to hang?
Mr. Wright, if you had been gov
ernor of Georgia and the Hinton case
had come before you as it come before
you as it came- before Governor At
kinsog would you have pardoned Hin
ton, or would you have suffered him
to hang?
Mr. Wright, if you had been gov
ernor of Georgia several weeks ago
when the young man Hanye stood on
the threshold of eternity and thou
sands pleaded for his life, would you
have commuted his sentence to lifu
imprisonment or would you have had
j the courage to let the law take its
course? The public, Mr Wright, be
cause you have blamed Governor At
kinson for his course in ail three of
these cases, have a right to ask what
IHE ROME IRIBUNE. SATURDAY. OCIOBc.R 3. 1896.
you would have done under the cir
cumstances.
You and your friends have thrust
an issue into this campaign which
were better for you if it had been left
out. Op the one hand you have
claimed that Governor Atkinson wa 8
using the pardoning power, which is
given him by the humane laws of our
cizilizatlon, for political ends. On the
other hand you have censured him for
not exercising that power. There is
an inconsistency, Mr. Wright, which
threads its way thoughout your entire
campaign, and shows as plainly in
other things as it does in this matter
of pardons.
SONGS AND SCENES.
Nochalula.
Oh, fair Nocbalula, thou gem of the mountains
Thou wild dream of beauty and grandeur sub
lime; ‘
Thy crystalline waters from free flowing
fountains.
Thy grey rocks deep worn with •h; foot prints
of time;
Thy silverine deeps where bright rainbow
slumbers,
While sunbeams are flashing thy waters along
And I catch the soft cadence of Symphonic
numbers,
The rythm of thy waters that sounds like a
song 1
Oh bright Nochalula, what legends and stories
Enchanting are woven around thy fair name,
Traditions aud tales of thy long bygone glo
ries
That ne’er have been breathed by (the loud
trump of fame.
The dark Rhododendrons, the green laurel
bushes
The rock pines ontlined against heaven’s deep
blue, .c
The delicate ferns and the low bending rushes
Might strange tales impart conld they tell al l
they knew. rum
Oh, quaint Nochalula, thou Eden of lovers
Os dreams more than mortal thy bright waters
croon;
While romance mesmeric and mystical hovers
> round thee enthralling my soul in thy swoon.
Ah, deep have I drank of thy sciutillant spleu*
dor
Thy lights and thy shadows, the gloom and
gleam,* .
That oft shall awake recollections full tender
Like some fragrant memory born of a dream!
Nochalula, Nochalula, where’er I may wan
der,
Portrayal of Nature and ground work of art,
On thy quaint suggestions and scenes will I
ponder.
So deep are thy fancies engraved on my heart!
Nochalula, Nochalula, thy picturesque glories
Shalt live while the warm blood of lifethritls
my soul,
And Fancy shall weave many magical stories
While the dream bells forever thy memories
toll!
—Montgomery M. Folsom.
In a Strange Land.
I have just been out to Keeley Ins
titute and to Oakland Place. I go
out there every once in arwhile for the
benefit of my health. It is a mighty
good place to go to when you feel a
little jailed.
Dr. Gus Wright and Miss Lizzie
always make a fellow feel brighter
and lighter hearted with their merry
conversation and genial bonhomie.
Then Major MacDonald drops in and
has a word of cheer for those who visit
the shrine of the immortal Keeley.
As for Oakland Place there is no
lovelier home in the state of Georgia
than that Major and Mrs. MacDonald
know just how to make their guests
feel at home and are the very soul of
hospitality.
Then Miss Grace Steele and Miss
Allie MacDonald and winsome Nellie
are three of the most charming young
people thr.t I know, and if I were only
as young as I feel and not otherwise
engaged—but that is another story.
Miss Allie was at home to her friends
last evening and 1 don’t know of any
thing more enjoyable than one of her
at homes. The beautiful house and
grounds are just suited to merry mak
ings and the young people enjoy them
so much.
They and their guests enjoyed the
evening to the fullest extent, and
those present will not soon forget the
pleasant experience of their evening
at Oakland Place.
One thing is lacking, however, at
Oakland Place. A gloom bangs over
it that no amount of merriment and
innocent revelry can quite dispel.
Jerry MacDonald, the faithful retain
er, is no more.
Jerry was a feature of the MacDonald
house that was unique and original,
and his like will not soon be seen of
men again in this dark vale of tears.
Jerry was a little aristocrat and first
saw the light in the dominion of Can
ada. He was of British ancestry and
was born under the English flag. His
pedigree was something to be proud of.
He was the especial pet and the
pride of an indulgent mistress and he
was brought up with the feeling that
every taste should be gratified and
every desire fulfilled so be gave no
thought for the morrow.
And yet Jerry was in nowise puffed
up by his importance. He was of
the truly aristocratic bree, satisfied
of his own position in society and
mver asserting himself nor claiming
any accomplishment in which he was
incapable of sustaining his position.
I do not think I ever met with in
individual who blended more strength
of character and dignity of bearing
With a gentler disposition than did
Jerry MacDonald.
I®
Fifty Years Ago.
this is the cradle in which there grew
That thought of a philanthropic brain;
A remedy that would make life new
For the multitudes that were racked
with pain.
Twas sarsaparilla, as made, you know
By Ayer, some 50 yean ago.
Ayer’s Sarsaparilla
was in its infancy half a cen
tury ago. To-day it doth “be
stride the narrow world like a
colossus." What is the secret
of its power? Its cures! The
number of them I The. wonder
of them! Imitators have fol
lowed it firom the beginning of
its success. They are still be
hind it. Wearing the only
medal granted to sarsaparilla
in the World’s Fair of 1893,
it points proudly to its record.
Others imitate the remedy;
they can’t imitate the record:
So Years of Cures.
He. was not of the blood of the bouse
but he always conducted himself as if
he considered himself safe in his posi
tion as a member of that family whose
Scottish ancestry dates back farther
than the Crusaders.
His was a very unselfish nature and
although he was quick to resent an
insult or any presumptuous interfer
ences with his rights, he was never
officious nor bigoted.
He was growing old, however, and
his age had begun to tell on him. He
was very agreeable to all comers, but
one could see that he preferred qui
etude to the noise and confusion of
public functions.
His death was somewhat tragic. He
was the victim either of his own
indiscretion or of the malice of others
and partook of a deadly poison which
caused his death.
Alas, poor Jerry ! I miss his genial
though homely face when I visit Oak
land Place. I miss his pleasant greet,
ing and the look of welcome in his
benignant brown eyes.
He died with the dying summer and
the winds of autumn chant a requiem
around his grave. And this tribute
is to the memory of Jerry, loyal and
true and faithful unto death.
M. M F.
Prof. John H. McPherson, of the
State University, at Athens, has just
published “The Government of the
People of Georgia” and bound in the
same attractive covers is “The Gov
ernment of the Nation,’’ by Prof.
Frances Newton Thorpe, of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania. The book is
a valuable addition to our school liter
ature as well as an invaluable acces
sion to every private library.
Every man who participated in the
last primary is as much bound to vote
the democratic ticket next Wednes
day as he would be if he had gone be
fore a justice and sworn to do so. —
Dalton Citizen.
We hope the coming legislature wifi
re-elect Judge W. M. Henry of the
Rome circuit. He is able, just and
thoroughly liked by all, and deserves
the place.—Dalton Citizen.
Th9 Patter of the Shlngt'e.
When the angry passions gathering on tuy
mother’s face I see,
And she leads me in the bedroom, gently lay s
me on her knee.
Then I know that I will catch it, and my flesh
in fancy itches
As I listen to the patter of the shingle on my
breeches.
Every tinkle of the shingle has an echo and a
sting,
Anda thousand burning fancies into active
being spring.
And a thousand bees and hornet’s neath my
coat seem to swarm, I
As I listen to the patter of the shingle oh Iso
warm.
In a splutter comes my father, whom I suppos
ed had gone.
To survey the situation and tell her to lay it on
To see her bending o’er me as I listen to the
strain,
Played by her and the shingle in a wild and
weird refrain.
In a sudden intermission which appears my
only chance,
I say “strike gentiy. Mother, or you’ll split
my Sunday pants.”
She stops a moment—draws her breath—the
shipgle holds aioft.
And says. *T had not th< ught of that, my son
just take them off.”
Holy Moses! oh, ye angels, cast thou pitying
glances down,
And thou, oh family doctor, put a good soft
poultice on
And may 1 with foolsand dunces everlasting
ly commingle.
If I ever say another word, v hen my mother
wields the shingle.
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