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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.
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The man who steps into the coal
hole can boast of having conducted a
large fall opening.
One thing is settled. Populism is
dead in Georgia—and for keeps at
that.—Savannah Press.
The season’s speech crop has been
enormous. The variety grown on the
stump is the most popular.
Charleston is to have a gala week.
If we are ever to have one we must
hurry up before the Atlanta young
men carry off all our gals.
And now Ben Tillman suggests that
Tom Watson retire. Neither Ben nor
Tom are of a very retiring nature but
a motion to adjourn on the part of
both would be in order.
Hartsell’s Jimplaee Sprinklecute has
so many advertisements that they
have crowded out his bright scintilla
tions, but private advices state that
he continues to sin till late.
Judge Branham will make a mag
nificent race for a seat on supreme
court bench. He is a man in every
way qualified for the position and
those who vote for him will do honor
to one of the noblest of Georgians.
The third party is a scab on the po
litical arena, anyhow. Elect Maddox
to congress. Nobody accuses him o f
trading and trafiicing in party pledges
and principles for a few-measley votes.
It would be a lie if they did.—Spring
Place Jimplecute.
A very curious circumstance hap
pened recently. William McKinley
died at Portland, Oregon. He was a
second cousin to the republican candi
date for president bearing the same
name. It is a curious fact that he was
‘•laid out” and his body prepared for
the grave by William J Bryan, a sec
ond cousin of the democratic nominee
for president and his namesake. A
Kentucky contemporary comments
on this as follows: •‘Will history re
peat itself in November? Will the liv
ing McKinley be prepared for (pol »i
--cal) burial by the living Bryan?”
KEEP UP THE LICK.
We have just demonstrated most
emphatically and unequivocally that
the honest democracy is still in the
saddle in Georgia. The increase over
the last majority indicates that dem
ocracy is largely in the ascendency
while populism is correspondingly on
the wane. Now. what we need to do
is to keep up the lick. Keep the peo
ple interested in our success.
If we fail to elect a democratic con
gress we can accomplish little by elect
ing a democratic president. It would
have been less dangerous for the state
for the people of Georgia to have
ejected a populist governor than to
have put in a populist legislature.
The general assembly is the law mak
ing power of the state while the gov
ernor is but the executive hdad to
execute the will of the people as ex
pressed by the legislature.
It is the same way with congress
and the president. If we want finan
cial reform we must look to congress
as the power to make the necessary
c langes and to enact such salutary
liwoae shall benefit the people and
at the same place at the head of affairs
a man who is in sympathy with these
reform measures and who will carry
oit the policy of our national repres
e atatives. Georgia will give Bryan an
overwhelming majority.
But suppose local [issues were to
cause the election of a majority of
populistic or republican congressmen
from Georgia. That would nullify
the influence of the state in national
legislation. It is absolutely essential
to our well being that we elect a solid
delegation of democratic congress
men who will represent Georgia as a
unit in all the important measures
which shall; come up for discussion
and final action before that body. We,
of the Seventh district, have suffered
much from the bane of populism
Let us go topwork and elect our re[>-
resentatives ;by such a majority as
shall preclude all danger of a contest
on the part of his opponents. The
suggestion has been thrown out that
Massey is to withdraw and throw his
influence in favor of McGarrity. We
must be prepared to meet such a move
on the part of the enemies of democ
racy. We are amply strong to put to
rout the combinedinfluences of popu
lism, republicanism and independ
eutism if, we but do our duty.
Let us bear these facts in mind and
work for the success of our nomine?,
Hon. John W. Maddox, who has set
us the example through his diligence
duringjthe present campaign. L?t no
feeling of indifference or over confi
dence preventour pollingthefull vote
of the democratic party at the na
tional election November 3. If we
are to retain our supremacy in the
councils of; the nation we must send
none but democrats to the next con
gress. _________
MARK HaNNA’S CONFESSION.
The Central West, it seems, accord
ing to all reports in the anti Bryan
newspapers, is safe for McKinley.
Illinois, we learn from unprejudiced
observers like Mark Hanna, will surely
give that statesman 100,000 majority.
Indiana and Ohio are quite as em
phatic in their approval of the candi
date of the syndicates, while lowa,
despite rumors to the contrary, posi
tively gives no sign that its people
know of Mr. Bryan’s candidacy, says
the New York Journal.
Indeed, as nearly as may be judged
from the daily bulletins emanating
from the Hanna headquarters, the
whole thing is settled now and there
is no reason why the community
should not turn its attention to affairs
other than politics. This being the
case —and of course we cannot doubt
it—why should Mr. Hanna and his
associates go to the heavy expense of
sending an army of orators out to
devastate these states, which it ap
pears have already surrendered to the
combined forces of McKinley and
Hanna, of high taxes and low wages?
We learn from an evening newspa
per warmly devoted to Mr. Hanna’s
cause that “some of the men of na
tional reputation who will make
speeches for McKinley and sound
money in the West during the next
two weeks are ex-President Benjamin
Harrison, Speaker Thomas B. Reed,
Bolonel Robert G. Ingersoll, General
Joseph B. Foraker, the Hon. Charles
Emory Smith, Congressman Charles
A. Bouteile, the Hon. Theodore
Roosevelt, the Hon. J. Sloat Fassett,
Senator John M. Thurston, of Nebras
ka; the Hon. Lee Fairchild, of Cali
fornia; General Charles H. Grosvenor,
of Ohio; General Russell A. Alger, of
Michigan; Congressman Henderson
and Hepburn, of lowa, and the Hon.
John Dalzell, of Pennyslvania. ” Nor
are these all the visiting statesmen
by whom the ears of the hapless West
| erners are to be vexed and their reason
' confounded.
I “At least one hundred other speak
ers, whoin this great fight a-e classed
simply as sp llbinders,” are also to be
dispatched into this country which
Mr. Hanna, General Clayton and their
associates tell usisalretdy conquered.
These gentlemen do not come cheap.
Colonel Ingersoll, for example, knows
THE BOMB TBIBUNB, TUESDAY, OCIObEM 13, 1896.
his value as a speaker in behalf of the
party of God and morality, and ex-
Speaker Reed is not in the habit of
making extended political tours purely
for the benefit of his rivals in political
ambition.
It seems very strange that the busi
ness like Mr. Hanna should be spend
ing large sums that these people may
give a region which he says is already
convinced a surfeit of argument.
Actions, says the old saw, speak
louder than words. The action of the
republican national committee in
hurrying into Illinois, Indiana and
Ohio this army of glib-tongued poli
ticians shows that Mark Hanna is
convinced that the situation is des
perate in a region which is all essential
to McKinley’s success.
SONGS AND SCENES.
Marguerite, my Lady.
Again the world with life and hope
Ir all alight, my lady;
The the dewy slope.
Blithely bright, my lady;
October's brow so lightly kissed
Shows crimson through her veil of mist,
Marguerite, my lady!
Earth is glad when love is young,
One by one, my lady, ,
Each tiny creature finds a tongue
In unison, my lady;
My happy heart is ringing, too,
I smile and sing and think of you,
Marguerite, my lady!
Each late blown flower beneath my feet
Looking up, my
With many a promise rare and sweet,
Fills the cup, my lady;
Anticipation’s low refrain— ,
“Soon shall I see your face again,
Marguerite, my lady!”
With'swift, impatient steps I come
Soon to meet my lady,
Lips with heart full joy grown dumb
I come to greet my lady!
And I shall see those tender eyes
And all the love that in them lies.
Marguerite, my lady ! ,
Awake each slumbering joy that sleeps
In their beams, my lady,
And let me have their golden deeps
For purest dreams, my lady!
And I will hold that gentle hand
In mine and we will understand,
Marguerite, my lady !
In fond affection’s tenderest tone
I will tell, my lady,
This tale to other ears unknown,
“I love you well, my lady!”
With mists and shadows cleared awav
We’ll live again one perfect day,
Marguerite, my lady!
Though false the fitful fires that glow
All may prove, my lady,
The faithless world can never know
How I love my lady !
Though sorrow hold my heart in thrall
You are my light, my life, my all,
Marguerite, my lady!
Montgomery M. Folsom,
Gathering Ginseng.
Away up in the mountains of North
Georgia, the ginseng root, so highly
prized by the Chinese, grows in profu
sion. It is not improbable that the box
presented to Li Hung Chang, an account
of which appeared in the Tribune, was
filled with the “magic roots’’ dug from
the slopes of the Cohuttahs, right here
in Georgia.
The business of gathering the roots is
confined to the poorer class of cracker
mountaineers whose scant subsistence
is wrung from the rocky hills in a hand
to-mouth manner which is the very op
posite of luxurious living.
A family a dozen, there are always
children in abundance, probably on the
idea that misery loves company, will
manage to live and thrive in a cabin
15x20 feet, built of rough pine logs and
doubed with mud from the bed of the
nearest stream.
The roof of the cabin is of clapboards,
riven from oak timber, and laid on raf
ters of oak poles, and confined by small
logs laid longitudinally weighted down
with rocks, Not a nail nor piece of nail
of any shape enters into the construc
tion of there rude huts, pegs driven in
the wall and wooden hinges on the doors
where the proverb bial latch string hangs
out to ail comers.
The squatty chimneys are built of
rough stones, the chinks danbed with
clay, and hardly ever reach as high as
the comb of the roof. In there chim
neys, in Summer time, the oocupant 8
stick their fishing poles, and the gaont
mountaineer has to stoop to enter the
door of his domicile.
From a spring nearby the women se
cure the supply of water and the tink
ling mountain stream furnishes ample
facilities for laundering the scanty
wardrobe.
The bedstead is a one poster, the other
ends of the two poles used for railings
being thurst into cracks of the walls,
and on that frame make a shuck mat
tress furnishes lodgment for the old
folks, another in the opposite corner
answering for the grown up daughters,
the boys and smaller children sleeping
on an omnibus pallet on the floor.
Benches or stools take the place of chans
and the cooking utensils consist of a
skillet, an oven and a kettle, for coffee
is a luxury as necessary as the mountain
dew distilled from the native corn or
the big russet apples.
Every hut is surrounded by a small
clearing of an acre or two, planted in
corn, sorghum. Irish potatoes, cabbagt s
and other course vegetables, and apples
are almost indigenous to the soil. These
are the staple productions, and with th j
produce of a few halfXvild cattle and
long legged, razor hogs, constitute
the articles of diet-that stand between
the hardy crackers and wo’fish famine.
The mountains abound with small
game and occasionally a deer, turkey or
even a bear, may be shot by the skilled
hunter. In the streams are to be found
the delicious mountain trout, so that by
hook and by crook the mountaineers
get along quite comfortably. Their
wants are fewer than most of people.of
civilized races and their powers of endu
rance are phenomenal.
In the early summer the ginseng
plant sends of its attenuated shoot in
shady places where the forest growth is
heaviest, and in June and July the
starry blpssoms can be disooved flashing
through the dusky aisles arched over by
the tall hemlocks and purple plumed
rhododendrons The mountaineers are
constantly prowling about with rod or
gun, in search of some savory morsel to
increase the bill of fare, and they spot
the places where the “sang,” grows
most abundant. .
It is not of much value until the flow
ing period ft past and the stalks are died
up. For that reason they do not dig it
out of season.
Along in September the roots reach
the proper stage of maturity, and then
the entire family starts out in search of
“sang.” Every one is armed with a
sack and a painted stick, or some broken
farm imple nent and they sciur the
woods, thusting their sticks under the
roots, flirting them out of the loose soil,
and transferring them to the sacks
which they carry.
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After the work of gathering the roots
is done, they are taken to the brook, if
the mountaineer has sufficient energy to
go through with the extra labor, and
they,are scraped, washed and sorted in
different sizes. Many of the more care,
less “sang” diggerscarry the roots to
the nearest country store and sell them
in the rough, receiving about one dollar
a pound in coffee, Salt, tobacco and
cheap calico. A pound a day is a fair
average.
_ *
The more thrifty diggers clean and
assort the roots which sell according to
their size and general appearance.
Some lots brought to Rome, sell as high
as turee and four dollars a poupd, but
they are of extra quality and are care
fully scraped and dried in the sun.
The season ends along in the latter
part of November, when the rough
weather sets in, and then the merchanis
ship the product of the harvest to their
factors in New York, whence theroots
are exported to Ch : ua. M. M. F.
Now that we have succeeded in de
feating the populists in the state and
county election, let every member of
the democratic party go to work with
a will to give Hon. John W. Maddox a
good majority on the 3rd of Novem
ber. Eternal vigilance is the price of
victory. Let every opponent of popu
lism who has not registered, do so be
fore the 13th inst., and go to the polls
and vote for Maddox. —Dallas New
Era.
The Hon, Thomas Watson is coming
North after the Georgia election, and
a warm October may be looked for.
For Mr. Watson continues to be im
passioned, and is so earnest that he
cannot see a joke. There ought to be
fun when he comes. He is a type of
the picturesque, eboutjng populist,
and his very hair suggests choler and
flame. He will illuminate and warm
the North.—New York Sun.
Those who failed to register in time
for the state election have one more
day in which to register lor
the presidential election on the
first Tuesday in November. Don’t
neglect it again. It should be under
stood that parties registered for the
state election, are not required to
register again for the national elec
tion. In fact it is a violation of the
lav.’ to register twice.
♦
L'inging.
Os all the myriad moods of mind
That through the soulcame thronging-,
Which one was e’er so dear, sokind.
So beautiful as longing;?
The thing we long for, that we are
For one transcendent moment,
Before the present, poor and bare,
Can make its sneering comment.
Still, thiough our paltry stir and strife,
Glows down the wished ideal,
And longing molds in clay what life
Carves in the marble real;
To let the new life in, we know.
Desire must open the portal
Perhaps the longing to be so
Helps make the soul immortal.
Longing is God’s fresh heavenward will
With poor earthward striving;
We quench it that we may be still
Content with merely living;
But would we learn that heat’s full scope
Which we are hourly wronging,
Our lives must climb from hope to hope
And realize our longing.
Ah! let us hope that to our praise
Good Gtd dot only reckons
■J he moments when we tread his ways.
But when the spirit beckons—
That seme slight good is also wrought
Beyond self-tatisfaction
Whed we are simply good In thought,
Howe’er we fail in action.
I —James Russell Lowell.
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