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tlFdemocratic ticket.
for president,
WILLIAM J. BUY AN, of Nebraska.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
ARTHUR SEWALL, of Maine.
FOR CONGRESS,
JOHN W. MADDOX, of Floyd.
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NEW YORK. MANAGER.
The Times-Recorder thinks that the
fate of slanderer should be the same
as that of the rapist.
Fitzgerald has received and adopted
its charter and begins its corporate
existence as a dry town.
If you fail to put in a bid for the
public patronage you are in danger
of losing your share of it.
Patronize your home merchants
and when you have a dollar to spend
put it in circulation at home.
The Jews of Badad have brought
the site on. which stood Babylon, the
exalted. They were not quite able to
bag dad, but they bagged Babylon.
The way to keep the supreme court
up to the highest standard of dignity
and ability is to elect men on their
merits rather than on their popularity
as political bosses.
Mr. Seaborn Wright carried his
home county by 268 majority. Mr.
Wright is a good man, but he ran
with the wrong crowd to be elected to
the governorship of Georgia.—Albany
Herald.
Women are entering all lines of work
these days. One has just been en
gaged by an Augusta undertaker as
an embalmer. She is the first woman
toengage In that particular line of
work in the South.
Bowdre Phinizy, of the Augusta
Herald, has been elected to a position
on the board of education in Augusta.
A gentleman of Mr. Phinizy’s learning
and experience is a valuable accession
to any educational body.
These men are of undaunted cour.
age, they are able lawyers and, above
all, have not been standing candi
dates for every office in their respec
tive localities. We nominate Hon.
Thomas M. Norwood of Chatham,
Hon. Joel Branham of Floyd, and !
Hon. W. A. Little, of Mu<cogce. '
These gentlemen are well known
t hroughout the State and will serve
Georgia with distiction in her loftiest
tribunal of justice.—Brunswick Cal .
MONhY IS THEIR WEAPON.
Whatever else may be said of the
Cincinnati Enquirer, it is fearless and
unequivocating when it comes to de
fending the South and West against
the tyranny of the gold barons of the
East. The Enquirer has taken a firm
and aggressive stand in the present
campaign and its assaults upon the
strongholds of the money power are
well calculated to keep the democratic
party in its contest for a more liberal
distribution <.f the capital of the
country.
The great political battle of the
year—and the controlling one —will be
fought on the 3d day of November
when the people vote. It is of the high
est importance to our cause that the
tactics of the enemy should be under
stood, and that their resources not be
underrated. The men who would
profit by a gold standard are few in
number compared with the whole.
There are a few hundred men to whom
it would be given advantage too great
to be estimates. At the head of these
few hundred'is J Pierrepont Morgan.
The men he represents carry with
them all who can be deceived, and all
who can be coerced.
Great corporations obey Mr. Mor
gan, as European governments obey
the Rothschilds, because they cannot
borrow money if Mr. Morgan frowns.
He is the gold king of this country.
He has recently indulged in the luxury
of keeping a political party for his own
private use, and he has enlisted as his
chief political swashbuckler, Mark
Hanna, of Ohio. By the aid of the
venal press and a number of cheap
writers and orators, large masses of
the republican party, just as they did
before it became the mere instrument
of Mr. Morgan. With Mr. Morgan as
the boss political banker, and with
Mark Hanna as the boss party man
ager, it becomes a simple question of
arithmetic with both of them as to
how much money will.be needed to
carry the election by the buying of
votes in blocks.
The boast that money will elect
McKinley is being made as insolently
and as openly as was the boast, just
before the Chicago convention, that
free coinage would be beaten by the
use of money in that body. The En
quirer then called attention to the
desperate methods openly threatened
by the gold power. The same was
done throughout the West and South
by the journals friendly to the cause.
The result was that the people were
put on their guard and made more
careful in the selection of county de),
egates. County conventions were
made more careful in the selection of
state delegates, and the State Conven'
tions trusted only the truest and the
staunchest of silver men to be sent as
delegates to the Chicago Convention.
It is now the duty of the friends of
the people’s cause to warn them
against the attempt that will be made
to carry the election by the use of
money.especially in the large cities. It
is a state prison offense to offer a
bribe to a voter. Every honest man
can be a detective on his own account.
Bryan clubs can organize committees
of their best men to watch all bad
characters in their several localities,
and secure evidence of any attempts
at bribery. Arrangements for the use
of money have been made before elec
tion day, and if the friends of an hon
est ballot are as alert aijd watchful as
the tools of corruptionists, some of
these wretches can be brought to light
and made a terror to evil doers. We
must not wait until the horse is stolen
before we close the barn door. Watch
the door and watch the known
thieves.
FURNITURE MAKING IN THESOUTH.
The Southern Field, a periodical
devoted to Southern development and
published by the Southern Railway
Company, is doing a great deal of
good for this section in the way of
encouraging the location of manufac
turing industries in this section and
in pointing out the advantages of the
South for such enterprises. Here is
an editorial that recently appeared
in the Field on the subject of furni
ture making in the South:
Go among the furniture-makers in
the South and one will hear, “We are
doing all the business our present cap
ital will permit.” That speaks well
for the industry in the South, and we
might here note the fact that in gen
eral the South is today in better con
dition industrially than any portion
of the country. We venture it is only
a question of time wheh these South
er j factories will compel the manu
facturer of the North to abandon cer
tain markets on account of the com
petition, which is getting bigger and
bigger daily. Our advice would be,
come South, and either build a factory
or take an interest will) some of these
fellows just getting started South.
A few years ago the cotton manu
facturers of New England remarked,
‘They cannot affect us with mills in
the South.’’ And today we find the
mills on c. arse goods in the North
must either close down or move South.
By and by the finer grades of goods
will be made South, and on that they
THE BOMB TRIBUNE. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 18H6.
will have to follow in the same manner
as they are now doing on coarse goods.
So it is with the furniture manufac
turer. We in the South are starting
in on low priced goods. Our people
are rapidly learning how to make and
sell them. Later on the mills of the
North will find our immense factories
will tower up aud our stock go right
into the North in effective competi
tion.
The Northern manufacturer will
then say, “Oh, they can make cheap
furniture, but we will make the high
grade.” Just wait the turn of affairs;
the South is filling up with the intel
ligent, progressive, experienced arti
sans of the North; it is only a question
of a reasonable period when it will
turn out the cheapest and best furni
ture upon the markets. Why will this
change be wrought? The plain, prac
tical facts are:
1. The South affords an abundant
supply and a great variety of the de
sirable furniture woods, which are
obtainable at far below prices paid
by mills in the North.
2. Desirable mechanics.
3. A great and rapidly increasing
local market. More people will find
homes in the South during the next
decade than elsewhere, which means
an increased business.
4. Railway facilities are now a con
dition to offer liberal rates to manu
factures and shippers and the great
lines furnish ample facilities for trans
portation.
On this line the editorial continues
showing why this section should be
the best adopted of any part of the
union for manufacturing purposes.
Right here in Rome we have resources
in that line that will some day be de
veloped and will place us in the front
ranks as a manufacturing people. V A
few individuals are taking advantage
of this fact are investing now, but
many will come later who will be com
pelled to bid high for sites that they
could now secure on moderate and
easy terms.
SONGS AND SCENES.
Memories.
I sit and watch the dying- day
Lean shadows, one by one,
Steal o’er the autumn wdodlands gay
That clothe the mountains far away
While cloud wracks gather cold and gray
An und the setting sun.
In quivering trillsand doubtful tropes
The wild bird n-ails below,
A ’mid the desolation gropes
Along the drear, deserted slopes,
And dark with summer’s withered hopes
The winding rivers flow.
And gazing where the waters meet
My sad heart turns, to thee;
The patter of thy dainty ieet
Each witching wile each new conceit,
To others but a trifle, sweet,
But all the me!
Recalling all the.hallowed past
Those hours of joy divine!
Ah, day too full of light to last,
I bear the moaning of the blast
The somber night is falling fast,
Their memories are but mine!
Montgomery M. Folsom.
The Life of a Reporter
I was impressed with an article that I
read in the Augusta Herald, the other
day, signed by “G. W. R.” in refer
ence to the life of a reporter. There are
few who understand how an act of a
newspaper man may be unjustly criti
cised. His many kindnesses are tasen
as matters of course by the recipients
who never take the trouble to evtn
thank him for them, while some little
error or act for which he is -not respon
sible, is bitterly resented. The repor
porter’s life is not an easy one but it is
the most fascinating in this world.
Here is the article that I speak of:
Perhaps the many who spend at least
fifteen or thirty minutes (it is hoped
more) every morning and evening in
persuing the columns of the daily press
may like to take a peep behind the
scenes and find out how the different
items of news that claim their attention
for the above mentioned time, are ob
tained.
The majority of them will, no doubt,
say to this statement that they under
stand that matter easily enough, repor
ters get the news and write it up for
their respective sheets. It is then setup
in type and the almost human and gi
gantic presses of today do the rest. All
this is undoubtedly true, but this is not
all. Did you ever think, gentle reader,
what trouble and work it is to get those
items that are so quickly read by you?
It is dollars to doughnuts that the
thought never entered your bead, and
most likely, after reading the piece of
news, yon wondered why the reporter
had not given more of the facts of the
uccorence which you have imagined
should have appeared in the type.
Few people have any idea what news
gathering means. They little realize
what even a three or four-line piece of
information in a newspaper may repre
sent.
Let us read between the hues and sea
what its real value is. It may be a
most important matter that has been
picked up just before going to press and
had to he considered in as few words as
possible, and yet that same item may
have caused some reporter trouble to ob
tain. It perhaps means that several
miles have been walked in the hot sun
or pelting rain by this knight of the pen
cil and no end of disagreeable things
gone through with before it could be
authentically put down in the scribe’s
note book to later be given to the pub
lie through the paper’s columns.
Perhaps it is a matter that some one
may want suppressed and is not any too
well pleased to find a reporter after him
or her for the details, although it may
be a most important bit of news matter,
which the paper in justice to its readers
must obtain and give to them for what
it is worth—and give it to them before
it is cold, so to speak. It must be ob
tained in some way or other or the re
porter is to blame, for it should be under
stood that “in the reporter’s vocabulary
there is no such word as fail, ” at least
that is the way city e lltors look on the
matterand “excuses” for reportersnot
sitting on to any news of importance
don’t go at the office.
Varied indeed is tne daily life of one
of those “pencil pushers.” Today he
may be in the midst of some gay gath
ering, note book in hand, while he laughs
and listens to the jokes of some jolly
good fellow who sees only ' the bright
side of this cold old world.
Tomorrow the scribe must drown nis
laughter and put away his smile, for be
is seeing the other side of life. No doubt
he is obliged to enter the sacred portals
of a bouse of mourning in quest of some
data concerning a death—what a differ
ence from yesterday!
He must intrude himself upon the
mourners and learn the particulars, un
welcome as he knows he is at this time;
still the news must be learned and an
eager-reading public will look for a full
account of the death in the paper, which
to illustrate let us say was that of a
prominent man.
Perhaps an accident has occurred and
some poor mangled creature is hovering
between life and death, a ghastly sight.
The manjot the note book and pencil
must view the heart-rending scene and
find out all he can as to how the catas
trophe occurred, name of injured party,
his history, and a hundred more little
details that would take too long to men
tion.
Thus the bright and the dark sides of
life are looked upon by these newspaper
men daily and volumes could be written
of what is witnessed.
These men become naturally adopt
students in human nature, being thrown
so constantly with ah kinds of charac
ters and dispositions. They must learn
how to read a man’s thoughts, to a large
extent, and know just how much to say
and when to keep a silent tongue, for
while reporters, as a rule, do most of
the interrogating they must not overdo
the matter.
Character after character is met by
them. Men who are most gratified to
give a piece of news and others who look
upon the newspaper man as a kind of
snake and shut up like a clam when he
heaves in sight. If the latter kind of
man is to be interviewed, great tact
must be employed, and the reporter,
nine cases out of ten, gets the desired
piece of information almost before the
clam-like individual knows he has given
it away, and before he has time to real
ize his indiscretion, as he may call it,
the interview is over and the hated
newsgatherer gone.
Happily these kind of persons are
very few and far between and it gives
the writer pleasure to state that ninety
nine people out of every hundred are al
ways glad to give to a reporter any piece
of information desired and will put
themselves out to do so if necessary.
Were this not the rule the newspapers
would have an uphill road to trav el and
their news-gatherers would lead a life
of anything bat pleasure.
In almost every kind of business there
is a time when the employee throw their
work to the wind and think no more
about it until next day. Not so with the
reporter His work, like the woman’s,
as an old saw has it, is nevtr done for
even when his paper has gone to press
and is being read by the publio he is by
no means through for the day. for he
must over be on the look-out for “sto
ries,” to use a newspaper term for the
next day and should anything turn up
in the way of a sensation he is there,
happen when or where it may, and at
what remote spot. It fact, he must to
a large extent be like a feline in respect
to having nine lives, for very often he
must be in as many places at once.
Still taking it all in all, the life has its
fascination, and as clever a set of good
natured fellows as you can find in a day’s
walking are to be found in the newspa
per office. Somewhat Bohemian, and
hardened to a certain extent by being
thrown in contact with so many phases
of this life, perhaps, but nevertheless
as good-fellows as you would care to
meet.
As we said before, there is a certain
fascination in the work, and there are
advantages experienced by these “pen
cil pushers” that one outside of the
‘ ‘profesh ’ ’ cannot realize.
The public looks upon them as a some
■what inquisitive, prying set. which,
perhaps, is but natural, but it should al
ways be remembered that this is their
business which they are paid to do and
that did they not poke their inquisitive
noses in all affairs as much as they do,
the columns of news you, dear reader,
look for every day would be conspicuous
by their abscence.
A reporter, like a lawyer or physician,
does not inquire into people’s affairs for
his own personal gratification but for
the sheet he represents aud he no doubt
forgets all about them after he has turn
ed his “story” in at the office. Enough
about this personage for the present.
He will turn up again, no doubt, in
these pages. M.’M. F.
RY HARD DRIVING
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
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
HOME, 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 atth&
above location, and while making a specialty of ‘
Watches, Clocks and Diamonds,
SILVERWARE AND JEWELRY.
A Beautiful Line of Cut Glass.
-*§Spectacles and Eye Classes fitted to the Eye.@<-
I carry a large and well selected stock of all kinds of goods that are
usually kept in an establishment of this kind. In fact, I carry a stock
that will compaie favorably with the stocks usually kept in much
lamer cities.
WEDDING PREESNTS in Steiling Silver, and fancy goods of al
kinds. I also make a specialty of Repairing Watches, Clocks and Jew
elry of all kinds, and guarantee all work. I also do all kinds of Engrav
ing on goods that I sell without fxtka chabge
I invite you to call and examine my stock whether you buy or not.
Politt attention. Very respectfully,
O. STEFHEITS
W. P. SIMPSON, Pres. I. D. FORD, Vice-Pres. T. J. SIMPSON, Cashier
EXCHANGE BANK OF ROME.
JFLOTVrjn, GEORGIA.
STOCK, SIOO,OOO
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Board at Director*.
A. B. SULLIVAN, J. A. GLOVER,
C. A. HIGHT, I. D. FORD,
W. P. SIMPSON.
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