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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.
Right thinking people
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TWENTY PACES
Vote for Maddox and sound demo
racy is the slogan in the Seventh.
When it comes to poultry raising
the swiftest race is run by the colored
horse.
It is to be hoped that this legislature
will not have to undo more than it is
able to do.
In the Bryan Sewall-Watson squab
ble the democrats have the best two
out of three.
The autumn moonbeams on the
greenback!, of the leaves is turning
them to silver.
Judge Sam P. Maddox offers for
the solicitorship of his circuit. He will
be hard to beat.
The socalled “national democracy”
has good grounds for a damage suit
against Breckenridge.
Some of the judicial circuits seem
to have caught on to the 16 to 1 idea,
16 candidates for one solicitorship.
The Chicago women "ho were hus
tled out of the pool rooms probably
went there to play the maiden races
“Feast in Ohio,” reads a headline
in a McKinley organ. There will be
a breeze out at Canton about Novem
ber 3.
Scientists have discovered that the
moon emits cathode rays. Perhaps
that is why love grows lunatic in the
inoonsh ne.
Judge W M Henry has no opposi
tion, so far, in his race for re-election
as judge of the Rome circuit. He has
filled the position so admirably that
the people are entirely satisfied with
him and look for bis rt-electlon by
the legislature as a certainty. The
circuit never had a more upright or
conscientious man in that responsible
position than Judge Henry.
HdC WILL BE MISSED.
The death of Judge Crisp leaves a
vacancy in the ranks of our leaders
that will be very hard to fill. The
people of Georgia had learned to look
upon him as one of our safest courcil
lors in every emergency. He was one
of the brightest lights in the body
politic and bis large experience,
breadth of knowledge and thorough
capability to grasp any subject that
might come up for settlement in tho
management of public affairs ren
dered him an ideal leader.
The people of Georgia relied upon
his chivalrous courage, his fearless de
votion and his strength of character
to guide and direct them in all the
emergencies of politics and state craft.
He was a good fighter and a magnan
imous foe and his integrity of charac
ter commanded the respect of his an
tagonists as well as the admiration of
his friends. The South has produced
no more superb character in public
affairs than that of Charles Frederick
Crisp.
We trust that the mantle which he
wore so worthily will fall upon equally
deserving shoulders. Somebody will
have to take up the work that he has
laid down. The lives ctf such men as
Judge Crisp are necessarily incom
plete because they close in the midst
of their work and the task of carrying
out their aims devolves on others.
What he did was well done but there
is much left undone.
A man could not live long enough
to carry out all that he purposed.
New conditions are constantly arising
that demand renewed exertions.
There are plenty of men of high abil
?ty left in the state and while bis loss
is irreparable we hope that a substi
tute may rise up who will display the
same zeal and devotion to the public
welfare as characterized the life and
work of the great Georgian who has
gone to his reward.
THE SUPREME COURT.
Never before in the history of the
state have the people been permitted
tj directly choose the members of the
highest judicial tribunal in the state
by popular vote. This they will be al
lowed to do in December and it is es.
sential to the well being of the state
that only tho very purest and most
capable men-should be selected to oc
cupy those high positions of honor and
responsibility, as justices of the su
preme court.
It is to that court that we must look
for all decisions involving the lives,
liberties or rights of the citizens under
the constitutional provisions and stat
utary laws governing the common
wealth. The functions of that court
are the highest of any in the state and
it should be as far removed as possible
from all fear, favor or affection to any
individual or corporation within the
body politic.
The people cannot be too careful
in the selection of these men who are
to wield such power and to assume
such responsibility to those whose
votes shall elevate them to their posi
tion as arbiters of the lives and prop"
erty of their fellow citizens. Let us
choose them with view to their-ability
an d integrity and not because of any
feeling of personal affiliation or obliga
tion of any kind whatsoever.
There are plenty of good men from
among whom we may select such as
are best fitted for the position and we
cannot afford to take any risks or to
try any experiments when it comes to
voting for associate justices of the su
preme court. We hope that the state
committee will adopt such measures
as will secure a fair and free expres
sion of the will of the people in the
election of these men and that only
the best men will be chosen.
THE COMING CONFLICT.
As the time of the national election
draws near the enemy are redoubling
their efforts to defeat the party of
good government. They will leave
no stone unturned to prevent the elec
tion of Hon. John W. Maddox to con
gress from this district. Unless we
turn cut and give him the full support
to which he is entitled there is danger
of another wearisome contest on the
part of the opposition which seems
determined to harass him as much as
possible.
Dr. Felton, his old antagonist, has
gone over to the republicans and will
give them all the comfort and en
couragement that his influence can
possibly render. We cannot afford to
take any risks in the coming election.
The man who stays away from the
polls is but little better than the
man who casts his vote in oppo
sition to the regular ticket, provided
the voter is not providentially de
tained. We need every vote in the
district so that there will be no pre
text for a contest.
Judge Maddox has done his full
duty towards the party in the present
campaign and he deserves the support
of every democrat in the district.
Even the populists could not secure a
better representative of their inter
ests in congiess than Judge Maddox
for be is in perLctsympatby with the
measures of reform which iheyhave
advocated ever since they strayed
from the ranks of democracy.
We hav<- no tears of his rolling up a
big t - jst.)"> ity but we desire to see this
t he largest majority ever recorded for
a congressman in this distr.ct. Let
nothing hinder yon from voting for
Maddox on that day.
THE ROME TRIBUNE. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25. 189€
OUR TWENTY PAGE TRIBUNE.
Did you know that Rome is the only
city in Georgia, outside of Atlantr,
that boasts a twenty page Sunday
paper? Weil, it is a fact. Since the
season fully opened we have been giv
ing our readers a paper of twenty
pages, every issue of which is an ad
vertisement- of the prosperous condi
tions of this lively city and its ener
getic inhabitants. It has placed Rome
in the front ranks of Georgia cities
and has done a great deal of good
abroad.
The big Sunday editions of The
Tribune have become a matter of
comment ail over the country and all
eyes are turned upon Rome. Business
men at a distance are impressed with
such evidences of progress and the at
tention of capitalists everywhere is
directed toward the city that shows
such a condition of enterprise and
commercial success. We feel proud of
our beautiful Sunday paper and are
striving to improve it with each issue.
In its pages you will find displayed
attractive advertisements of the lead
ing business men of Rome today.
Read their advertisements for that is
what they are intended for. You may
rest assured that every line of adver
tising in The Tribune is inserted by
live business and professional men
who mean business when they place
their advertisements with us. Our
space is too valuable for a man to put
in something “just to fill up.”
Read everything from the big page
advertisements down to the tiniest
local in this issue for there is
something that you ought to know in
each and every one of them if you
want to keep thoroughly abreast of
the times and do not wish to miss any
business opportunities.
THE GREATER ROME.
We are glad to note the fact that
our friends in the municipality of
North Rome are going to meet and
discuss the propriety of being annexed
to the city proper. There is no good
reason why we should not all join
hands in the work for the greater
Rome. It is bound to come some day
and the quicker our interests become
identified the better it will be for all
parties concerned. We will all be
mutually benefitted by such an ar
rangement.
Many hands make light work. If
we all pul) together for the general
good our efforts will be much more
effective than if we are divided. Or
ganization is the great secret of suc
cess in this day and time and very
little can be effected without com
bined effort. The citizens of North
Rome have called a meeting for Mon
day night to discuss the matter and
we hope that they will decide on
annexation.
We hope to see Rome assume such
proportions as will entitle her to rank
among the foremost cities of the state
in points of area and population as
she already does in enterprise and
public spiritedness. Everything indi
cates the beginning of an era of de
velopment greater than we have ever
known before and if our people will
come together and pull together the
scope of our achievements is unlimited
with the immeasurable resources at
our command.
North Rome ought to build up very
rapidly so soon as the municipality
becomes merged into the eity proper.
There are so many advantages to
be gained by such a movement that
we are surprised that it has been de
layed so long. Our interests should
be identical and what is good for the
people of one corporation should be
equally good for the other. We
trust that our neighbors will
dtcide to j< in with us for the upbuild
ing of the greater Rome.
THE MASONIC HOME.
The Grand Lodge of Georgia meets
in Macon on Tuesday. Representative
Masons from all over the state will be
in Macon during the session. Among
questions of importance that will
come up .for discussion will be the
Masonic home for the widows and
orphans of Masons in reduced circurn
stances, and for indigent Masons de
pendent upon the charity of the craft.
Rome leads the list in holding out
inducements for its location. Hon.
W. A. Wright and Mr. Seaborn
Wright offer a tract of twenty acres
of land, two miles from the court
house worth from $3,000 to $5,000 as
a site for this great benevolent insti
tution and the Masons and business
meh of Rome will back up dona
tion with a liberal subscription to the
fund for its maintenance. ■
We trust that the Grand Lodge will
see its way clear for the building of
the home and we feel confident that
no city can offer superior inducements
to those offered by Rome for its loca
tion. We have an agreeable and
healthy climate,there is anabundance
of mountain springwater easily avail
able to supply the home, the site is in
the midst of a fertile section and there
are ample ; railroad facilities.
It is peculiarly adapted for ti e-lo
cation of such an institution anu we
hope to see the clay come when the
home will be established on that
beautiful location and endowed with
a fund sufficient to keep it in a flour
ishing condition perpetually. It will
be one of the greatest charitable insti
tutions in the South.
WSONGS AIWSCENKt
SSEgSBSaffiESd
So Loiely. Toelghr.
I am lonely tonight aifd the lights are all dim
In my soul and the hopeluller, happier hymn
Is hushed in my heart aforebodings a e
rile
With the anguish and woe of the old pain cf
life;
And I crave a kind word or a tender caress
To brighten the gloom of this drear loneliness
I envy the stars that are shining so bright
While my heart is so lonely, so lonely, to
night!
I am lonely tonight and I’m kissing the rod
For I know it is all between me and my God;
With a thousand anxieties wearied and worn,
With conflicting emotions I’m tortured and
torn,
The hope that I cherished a lingering spark
That may vanish and leave me alone in the
dark;
Olt, to rend the dark curtain and let in the
light
For my heart is so lonely, so lonely, tonight!
I am lonely tonight and I cry out in vain
For the joy that will come to me never again.
Fot what have I labored these long weary
years
Beset with misfortunes and failures and fears
If I must pass out at life’s final extreme
Like the aimless mischance of a shadowy
dream?
Will reality never my labors requite—
Oh, my heart is so lonely, so lonely, tonight!
I am lonely tonight for the glance of an eye
And a smile on the lips and a satisfied sigh
From a heart that I cherish all treasures
above
And for which any task was a labor of love I
But the glance is averted, the red lips are
sealed
To my hungering heart and the sigh is con
gealed
Till it leaves all the blossoms of faith cold
and white,
And my' heart is so lonely, so lonely, tonight I
Far away, far away, are the things that I
deemed
Within reach and the beautiful dreams that I
dreamed
Were like apples of Sodom, in askes they fell
On nty lipa and I woke from the mystical
spell
But to find that no effort their joy might re
call
And the trail of the serpent is over them all!
Oh, the gloom of despair shrouds my soul like
a blight
And my heart is so lonely, so lonely, tonight!
Montgomery M. Folsom.
a Personal L s«.
In common with all Georgians I felt
the great and irreparable loss that we
had sustained when the wires flashed
out tfie tjdings that Charles Frederick
Crisp was no more. But deep down in
my heart there was a pain that was
keener than any sense of public bereave
ment could engender. He was bound
to me by tenderer ties than the more
feeling of public benefits derived from
his patriotic life work. He was my
friend in all that the word can convey.
In the golden days a-zone when the
shining vista of the future accomplish
ments was just being revealed to my fas
cinated vision his was the kindly voice
that bade me hope for higher things
and his the strong hand outstretched to
aid me in every laudable ambition others
admired his brilliancy, respected his
strength of character, esteemed him for
his matchless gifts, honored him for his
high and noble attainments. I loved
him for his generous soul.
As he climbed from height to height
through tne power of his genius I
watched his career with a feeling cf
personal interest and though my feeble
voice was drowned in the applause of
the multitude, he knew that I rejoiced
iu his every triumph and gloried in
every achievement. He was one of
those who appreciated true friendship.
There was nothing selfish nor sr rdid
about his nature. He valued his friends
not for their influence but for their fi
delity.
I remember so well one night in
Americas in the long ago. It was a
night in November and the national
election of 1884 had occurred that day.
He had come home to cast his vote for
Cleveland and democracy and we mem
bers of Mechanics Fire company bad
just purchased a new reel and had se
lected that auspicious occasion for its
christening. Judge Crisp bid been in
vited to christen it as it bad been named
the “Charles F. Crisp” in his honor.
There was a jolly crowd of as present
and the speaker bad just begun his ad
dress aud held a bottle of champagne
iu his hand ready to break it over the
wheel when Henry Storey, then city edi
tor of the Americus Recorder, rushed
into the engine house with a telegram
in bis baud. “Hurrah for Crisp!” He
cried “re-elected by au overwhelming
majority!” Os c nrse we all set up a
yell but Storey’s voice rose above the
noise ‘‘Grover Cleveland is elected
president by a sweeping majority!”
Ob, the news was too good to be true.
Down came the wine bottle across the
wheel and iu a twinkling half a dozen
sturdy firemeu had the speaker in their
arms hustling and jostling their way
aud yelling themselves hoarse as they
lifted him to the platform. He tried to
speak but his voice was drowned in the
tumult. Somebody dragged a couple cf
auyils into the stieet and for hours they
kept-up a roar with their extemporaue
ous artillery.
Ah, me! Those were the halcyon
days of his splendid career. From there
W HARO URIVIMG -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 ad vantages
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’Neil! Nanufaeterrng Company
ItOME. GEORGIA.
t Doors, Sash. Blinds, Turned Work,
Scroll Work, Lumber,
Shingles, Etc., Etc.
he went back to the scene of new tri
umphs aud the star was then in the as
Cendant paused not until it blazed iu the
zenith in undimmed splendor. The con
fidence which he had inspired in the
hearts of his friends at the beginning
grew and increased in strength as the |
years rolled by until they saw him the
leader of the great democratic party
and the undaunted champion of the
South in the councils of the nation.
He was ever to be found in the front
ranks of the conflict aud his loyal yeo
men followed where he led. Like Hen
ry of Navarre wherever his white plume
fluttered in the breeze it was a synonym
of victory. There were tears in my
heart when I grasped his hand in his
room at the Armstrong a few short
weeks ago for 1 saw that the grim de
stroyer had set his seal on that nol le
brow that never blanched at the sight,
of mortal foe.
He was a martyr to the cause of pure
government. Had ho retired from the
field he might have rested oi his well
earned laurels the peer of any Ameri
can But bis loyal and chivalrous soul
could not brook the thought of with
drawing from the ranks while a single
foeman raised -his proud crest and he
preferred to die with his harness on and
hisfacetothe foe. But he is no more
and the Chevalier Bayard of the South
has gone to his reward, sans peur et
sans repr iche! M. M. F.
Judge Joel Branham has announced
his candidacy for the judgeship of the
supreme court of Georgia to fill one
of the vacancies recently made and
just ratified by the people of Georgia
in the last election. No one will
question Judge Branham’s ability
and fitness to don the judicial ermine
it goes without saying that his popu
larity will give him an enormous
support in North aud Middle Geor
gia.—Trion Echo.
Frank Reynolds, of the Dalton Cit
izen, has become city editor of the
Rowe Tribune, ( and will doubtless put
the sparkle of his own peculiar genius
into irs columns. Frank is a horn
newspaper man, and the Tribune is
to be congratulated on securing him
-Calhoua Times.
■ •
The biggest and mostexpeit liars in
the country have been employed by
the McKinley papers to “Write the
truth about Mexico” during the pres
ent campaign.
Your Uncle Bob Hardeman is profii.
inently mentioned as a candidate for
governor in 1897. He will sweeo the
state if be decides to run.
The question that is agitating the
newspaper artists is whether or not
to draw Tom Reed with a moustache. ’
With a democratic majority in con- ■
gress it will make little difference for 1
the breeze will wander either through
his whiskers or across the waste places
where they used to grow anyhow.
In less than two weeks we will have
heard the last of Wall street, Lom
bard street, calam'ty howlers, boy
orators, corrupt syndicates, bloated
bondholders, tyrannical trusts and all
the category of political epithets for
at least four years. What a relief.
Judge Branham is receiving very
flattering mention in all parts of the
state. His election to the supreme
bench will be an honor to North
Georgia and an honor to the whole
state.—Calhoun Vimes.
There need be no fear that Georgia
populists will defeat Bryan. Such
perfidy as their leaders are charged
with contemplating would destroy
them, not the people’s candidate
Chattanooga News.
An exchange remarl s that you can’t
keep women away from weddinj 8*
You don’t want to What would a
wedding amount to if there was no'
woman there? —Albany Herald.
A Kentucky orator had three teeth
knocked out with a brick the other
day. “By gum! That was a jaw
breaker,” he remarked and went on,
with his speech.
Mr. Hobart’s niece went and got
mariied but Mr. Bryan’s niece went
and eloped whereupon the silver
ticket found itself still ahead on score
of enterprise.
A new book is out on the boyhood
of Shakespeare. Donnelly will now
please try to prove that Shakespeare
was never a boy.
Sun Down.
When wand’ring winds have sunk to rest
▲nd griefs hang’ heavy on the breast
And sun down glories fade away
Our hopes die with the dying* day.
Around the heart dark shadows drawn j
Darkness that knows no kindling dawn;
Our tears fall as the night dews weep
O'er dead leaves where the blossoms slee *
Yet in the present hour of woe
Anticipation sends a glow.
Time shall obliterate the pn«t
Willi recompense of peace at last.
For but a season have wo here
The smile of joy. the saddening tear,
And G ’d bath willed that we shall wait
His smile the Golden Gate
And then wbe'r. Earthly cares are ».*• r,
Bv cares and i ains beset no more
H * hath prepared a home above
Br.gLteiHd by His eternal love!
—Mary Frances Lindsay* *