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THE DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
FOR PRESIDENT,
WILLIAM J. BKYAN, of Nebraska.
* FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
ARTHUR SEWALL, of Maine.
FOR CONGRESS,
*JOHN W. MADDOX, of Floyd.
Right thinking people
have always commen
ded the course of . .
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WhenWatsoc is sick a Bryan man
he would be. When Watson is well
the devil a democrat is he.
The tidal wave that swept the At
lantic coast the other day was an in
dication that the briny deep had gone
democratic.
Every effort should be made to run
down the incendiaries who are respon
sible for these midnight fires that
have become all too frequent in Rome,
Now that a jury of expert lunatics
have established the lunacy of Bryan,
let them be conducted back to their
cells.—Memphis Commercial Appeal-
Major J. F. Hanson and his brother,
Mr. Henry Hanson, had charge of the
Macon Telegraph in its palmiest days.
They know exactly how to conduct a
first class paper.
The grand Lodge Edition of the
Masonic Herald will be a beauty-
Some of the most eminent men and
Masons of the county are among the
contributors. It will he out in a few
days.
Last Sunday’s edition of the Au
gusta News was one of the cleauest>
brightest and most metropolitan look
ing dailies that has reached this office
in a long time. Hal Moore is gel ting a
move on himself.
The populists of Floyd county have
called a meeting for next Friday with
the signified purpose of issuing a
manifesto “>o Watson, no Bryan”
The question arises, what are they
going to do about it?
And now Julian Rogers, another
bright newspaper man, of Macon,
has entered the Baptist ministry. We
wonder if Dr. Headden’s Cherokee
Messenger is not already having its
effect ou his brother journalists?
Mark Henna is realizing that he
cannot deliver the goods that he has
promised. The bosses who were to
turn frtrarover the votes of their em
ployees have found that tiiey are
likely to be short on election day.
That’s what’s the matter with Hanna.
HOW IT STANDS.
The following table shows the
results of the state elections thus far
held this year.
FOB GOLD.
Electoral
Sta’e. vote,. Mijoriiy
Vermont 4 -6 000
Maine 6
Total 10 70,000
FOB SILVER.
Alabama 11 41,000
Tennessee 12 000
Oregon 4 17,000
Arkansis 8 57,900
Georgial3 x 09 900
Florida 4 26000
Totals 4 218,000
Thus it will be seen that there are
10 electoral votes and 70,000 majority
for gold, and 53 electoral votes and
218,000 votes for silver. The gold
states are in the extreme East, and the
silver states are scattered over the
South and West, and are therefore
indicative of a much greater territo
rial sentiment. Chairman Jones, who
is now at the national democratic
headquarters at Chicago, gives It out
that the democratic managers take
great comfort from these returns.
This gives Bryan a good start and
the recent reports from all over the
union indicate that he and his cause
are still in the ascendency in quarters
whence we have been taught to expect
nothing but republican it, victories-
Bryan’s campaign has been one of
hard and earnest work for the educa
tion and enlightenment of the people
and no man ever more honestly de
served success.
In a telegram to the New York
World Monday Tom Watson repu.
diates the charge that he has ever
advocated the “No Watson, no
Bryan” policy. He disclaims any in
tention of trying to bulldoze the dem
ocrats into dropping their regular
nominee and entering i£.to any fusion
or coalition to securefhis support.
This is a more liberal construction
of his actions during the campaign
than the expressions of some of his
fire eating followers have led us to at
tribute to him and we hope that he
will fight it out on this line. Watson
has plenty of brains and at the head
of the right sort of a cause he would
make a valuable leader.
We trust that the democrats will
not be deluded by any specious prom
isee, but will adhere to the straight
democratic ticket throughout so that
we may come out with flying colors
on the day of the election. Let this
be the biggest, democratic] triumph
that Georgia has experienced in many
a day. If our populist, friends will
join with us in this battle for the
righ f , we shall rejoice in granting to
them the proper acknowledgement of
their share in the triumph. We hope
that they will do so, and if they do
not it will be theirs and not our loss
A CREDIT TO GEORGIA.
The State of Georgia thus far has
expended twenty-seven thousand
dollars on the State Normal School,
which is now closing its second term.
Seven thousand dollars of that
amount is represented by the new
dormitory while the remaining twenty
covers the expenses of the school for
two years, says the Athens Banner.
So much for Georgia’s outlay in this
particular; now what has she received
for the investment of that sum?
She has received a Normal School
with a faculty of unquestioned energy
and ability. The attendance upon
the school when it opened was seven
teen; the attendance daring the first
year was one hundred and seventy
eight; the attendance now is over
two hundred and forty; the attend
ance during this entire session was
three' hundred and fifty. When the
school started two years since its
attendance was restricted to teachers
from a very few count)as in Georgia;
today there are in attendance at Rock
College school teachers from more
than one hundred counties in the
State.
Two years since there was plenty of
room in the old Kock College building
for all who came; at the end of the
first term it became necessary to add
to the new dormitory; today both
dormitories are filled and outside
room has been secured by President
Brad well paying for it out of hie own
pocket. There is now scarcely
room for recitation halls and every
thing.is in a cramped and crowded
condition. The school is now accom
modating more than it can conven
iently accommodate and yet the
teachers of Georgia are clamoring by
the hundreds for admission next year
Under President Bradwell’s able
and economical management the
school is enabled to furnish, on the
co operative plan, board, fuel, lights,
servant hire, laundry and all neces
sary living expenses at the rate of
seven dollars per month, which puts a
noimal school education within the
reach of every school teacher in
Georgia. Thus with the use of a
small sum of money during the last
two years an institution has been
founded that is scattering knowledge
through the rural districts of Georgia
ai d by gh .ug the teachers a splendid
THU ROMS TRIBUNE. WE DNSS DAY, OCIObER 14, 1896.
normal training is uplifting the com
mon school system of Georgia.
It with the legislature of
Georgia to say what the future of this
school shall be. If that body desires
the att> ddnnce of this school to in
crease from I hree hundred and fifty to
six or seven hundred next year, let
them provide a building suitable for
dormitory’ purposes and give more
recitation room. Then let them ap
propriate enough to pay the expenses
of the school and that number of
Georgia teachers will gladly avail
themselves of the opportunity thus
afforded them to secure a good normal
training. '
SONGS AND SCENES.
The Democratic Male.
“Ho ho.” cried Tommie Watson,
“This mule is surely blind;
With Bryan in the saddle,
Why, I'll get np behind.” ,
His hand was on the crupper.
He’d flung one leg across,
When he heard somebody yelling,
“Here, that’s my seat, old boss!”
Lo, it was Arthur Sewall,
The sailor lad from Maine,
To judge from Tom’s expression
He felt a stomach pain.
“Say, who are you, my laddie!
Do you take me for a fool?
And don’t you know my family
Has half interest in this mule?” ’
“Not so, my son,” quoth Sewall,
“You think that mule is blind,
’Tistrue, he may tote double,
But three, he takes unkind.”
“Well, you stay there,” said Tommie,
“And let me ride the race.
’Twill make but little difference
If I just take yout place.”
But that mule had one good eye,
He blithely backed his ears.
And all the laughing audience
Buist in a milion cheers.
Tom could not have been flatter
If hoisted by a bomb,
The mule had gently kicked him
Out into kingdom come!
Montgomery M. Folsom.
A Christian Gentleman.
Often, in my younger days, when the
word "gentleman” meant so much that
a man who aspired to such an honor
tried to live np to it, I have heard the
expression, “He is a Christian gentle'
man.”
It always sent a thrill through my
veins to hear that remark made about
a man. It carries with it the highest
mark of gentility to my mind.
But the term should be used advis
edly. Not every man is entitled either
by birth or breeding or by his daily
walk and conversation to that soubri
quet. I wish tha£ there were more of
them.
Take my courtly friend the genial
Judge Branham. There is no man in
all the wide 'range of my acquaintance
that is more justly entitled to be
a “Christian gentleman” than he, by
birth, by breeding and by his position
socially and professionally.
I have known Judge Branham for a
dozen years. I have been thrown in
contact with him socially, profession
ally and as an official of both the state
and the city.
In every situation I have found him
the same higbtoned gentleman, broad
and liberal, abounding in generosity and
that beautiful charity that offendeth not
the sensibilities of the humblest in dis
pensing his bounty.
A man of broad information, profound
scholarship and possessed of an inex
haustible fund of legal and literary lore,
there is no man from whom I have de
rived more comfort in my daily associa
tions with my kind than from this peer
less Georgian.
He reminds me often of the men that
1 remember in days gone by, but who
are as rare as the lofty landmarks of the
forest that are left when the storm has
passed.
He is a man such as I would select as
a model for my boys to pattern their
conduct after. Affable without effu
siveness, dignified and yet easy of ap
proach, learned and yet not pedantic,
accomplished yet devoid of vanity, clean
of heart and pure of soul and a man
made in the image of God who has not
suffered any negligence to spoil the su
perb handiwork of bis Creator. An
honor to his profession, an ornament to
society, beloved by his associates and
admired by those afar off for his splen
did traits of character.
To be a man such as Judge Joel Bran
ham one must possess character. Then
he must be blessed with brains and
gifted with goodness of heart.
All the training and erudition attain
able in this world will not make a gen
gleman out of a natural boot*. All the
lack of accomplishments that binder
and hamper some unfortunates can hide
the true instincts of gentility in a being
that hungers and thirsts for righteous
ness.
lam not a p ilitician. This assertion
you may deem superfluous, as nobody
has ever accused me of beiug one. I
am absolutely indifferent to the works
and ways of polirioians.
I love my friends and hate my ene
mies just as the majority of people do,
and I take no pains to hide either trait
of character. But I do think that if
ever a man deserved to be raised to the
highest and most-honorable position
within the gift of his fellows that my
friend Branham merits our considera
tion.
I want to see him raised to a seat on
the supreme bench of Georgia where
bis richer gifts of mind and heart can
reach their highest usefulness. He is
one of the men, such as I occasionally
meet, that I can look up to.
I want to see North Georgia rally
around the noblest Roman of them all
and cast their ballots for him in the
election in December. I want to see
him go in by a rousing majority.
When it comes to supporting such a
man for such a position, I feel it my re
ligious duty to lay aside my supreme
contempt for politics and political ma
chinery, and to call upon my fellow cit
izens to lay asiae all private or personal
feelings, and vote for, one man whose
honesty has never been assailed and
whose integrity is irreproachable.
It is not often that we have an op
portunity of honoring such a man, and
now that we have it in our- power to
show our appreciation of a man of such
sterling character, 1 feel that it is our
bounden duty to do so. Some day my
boys will remark, "Father might have
erred in many things, but he was not
behind hand when Judge Joel Bran
ham was elevated to the supreme court
bdneh.” M. M. F.
Montgomery M. Folsom, the sweet
singings poet and fearless journalist,
has commenced a series of articles in
the Masonic Herald, published at
Rome, Ga. His first contribution,
“Between Succoth and Zeredathah,”
appears in the October number of the
Herald, and is a beautiful piece of
word painting, descriptive of tae two
places, together with the names of
the persons connected with them,
that makes the hallowed spots sacred.
Folsom’s knowledge of history and
clear expression of ideas, makes his
pieces more interesting. They are well
worth reading.—Elberton Star.
The Liquor Dealers Association of
Augusta have taken in hand the mat
ter of Sunday violations of the liquor
law and other violations of laws regu
lating the liquor traffic. The associa
tion has employed detect! ves, or has ar
ranged to do so. The detectives will
be charged with the duty of ferreting
out violations of the laws, especially
these which forbid the sale of liquor
on Sunday. Where violators are de
tected the association intends to be
come the prosecutor, using money
from its treasury for that purpose.
This is good policy.
We don’t know just what will be
the result if the chairman of the Pop
ulist State committee 'in Georgia
should persist in hie determination
not to concede the victory of the
democrats. We trust some way will
be found out of it; at any rate, it is
our dutj’ to hope for the best.—Mem
phis Commercial Appeal.
The enterprising Frenchman is not
behind the rest of the world after all.
The dates of some of the ‘‘rare old
books” recently offered for sale in
Paris would indicate that they were
published before the invention of
printing. The next thing we hear
they will be offering a translation of
Noah’s log book.
Mr. Watson’s delay in writing his
letter of acceptance muet not be con
strued into a possibility of his declina
tion. The letter of notification, it
will be remembered, was considerably
delayed, and Mr. Watson „does not
wish to display any unseemly haste in
accepting the empty honor which
was so tardly communicated to him. —
Augusta Chronicle.
Editor Christopher, of the Buena
Vista Patriot, did noble work, for the
democratic party in the state cam
paign. He is a fearless democrat and
an outspoken journalist and his paper
is one of the staunchest weeklies in
Georgia.
The Trxgedy.
The same weird spot at the edge of the clover.
With silence itself asleep in the air;
And the phosphor glows where he slew her
lover
Like moonbeams broken and scattered there.
In the forest the cricket still lonely hammers
Ona fairy anvil in a fairy shop.
And the grass-edged spring, as an eye tha
enamors.
Looks up as if tempting an angel to stop.
But never in all of the years of forever.
Whether they’re many or whether they’re
few.
Will he come to her signal from over the river
“Soo, Bess. soo. Bess, s-o-o, s-o-o, s-o-o!”
Echoing always and dying out never—
“Soo, Bess, s-o-o, s-o-o-1”
He recalls the tight grasp of despair’s weird
fingers
On his heart when they met in their guilty
love: —
A score of years and the bitterness lingers—
For some pains groweth no green turf above!
A«d screeches the owl in the woodland hcT
lows.
While mutters the ghost of a love long fled;
“God pity the heart that remerbrance follows!
God pity the soul when its faith li:-s dead! ’
But never in all of the years of forever.
Whether they’re many or whether they’re
few,
Will become to her signal from over the river
’ “Soo, Bess, soo. Best,s-o-o, s-o-o, t-c-u!”
. Echoing always and dying out never—
“Soo, Bess, s-o-o, s-o-o!”
—WillT. Hale.
RY HARD DRIVING j
At the cost of production, we have been
enabled to reduce prices to a point where
the purchaser of lumber and general
building woodwork has many advantages
which he certainly never had before—
advantages which he probably does not
realize —special advantages which we are
offering and would like to tell him about.
The Prices Are Reduced
But there is no reduction in the quality
of our goods, nor in the alert service
which we grant as an attractive feature
of our business.
O'Neill Manufacturing Company
ROME. GEORGIA.
t Doors, Sash. Blinds, Turned Work,.
Scroll Work, Lumber,
Shingles, Etc., Etc.
New Jewelry House,
NO. 218 BROAD STREET. '
I have just opened up a New Jewelry Establishment at the!
above location, and while making a specialty of 1
Watches, Clocks and Diamonds,
SILVERWARE AND JEWELRY.
A Beautiful Line of Cut Glass. \
and Eye Classes Fitted to the Eye.g<-
I carry a large and well selected stock of all kinds of goods that are
usually kept in an establishment of this kind. In tact, I carry a stock
that will compaie favorably with the stocks usually kept in much
larger cities.
WEDDING PREESNTS in Steiling Silver, and fancy goods of all
kinds. I also make a specialty of Repairing Watches, Clocks and Jew
elry of ail kinds, and guarantee all work. I also do all kinds of Engrav
ing on goods that I sell without ixtra chabge
I invite you to call and examine my stock whether you buy or not.
Polite attention. Very respectfully,
o, szsfzieks
Chattanooga Normal University
will Sustain the following departments:
Preparatory, Scientific,
General Teachers (Normal Course Proper), Special Mathematic?,.
- Commercial, Special Language,
Courses. Shorthand and Typewriting, Special Science,
. Elocution, Classic.
Tuition io the above departments will be S’.<’•> per wpek, payable a term in advance.
SPECIAL COURSES;
Telegraphy, Kindergarten, Art, Normal Kindergarten (for Training ot Teachers.
- A COMPLETE CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC.
Tuition in the above departments will depend up >n the amount of work taken.
Room rent from 50c to 75c per week | Term opei s January sth. ISST
Boa. dins’, in University rat!. $1.50 per week. I Students may register after December 2,ith.
Io private families, from $2 to $3 pec week. I Car laru, on rvorthside line, 21-2 c.
For additional information address. DR. H. M. EVANS, Chattanooga, Tenn.
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