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THE ROME TRIBUNE.
W. A. KNOWLES. - Editor.
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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
have always commen
ded the course of . .
THE TRIBUNE
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THE ROME TRIBUNE,
ROME. GA.
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The bucking broncho travels the
pace that kills.
The people and not the politicians
will say who shall be the supreme
court justices.
Atlanta is the cynosure of all politi
cal eyes today, and no one short of
being Argus-eyed can tell where he’s
at.
It is universally remarked by visi
tors and traveling men that Rome’s
streets have a busier appearance than
any city its size they go to. And it’s a
fact.
The judges and lawyers will soon be
relieved from their suspense and all
■will be serene with the bench and bar
of Georgia.
The dominant party in Georgia is
the democratic party and under its
beneficent rule the country and the
people have prospered for a quarter
of a century.
A bill will be introduced in the com
ing legislature to make women eligi
ble to the office of State Librarian.
Miss Ellen Dortch the present assist
ant State Librarian will be a can
didate.
In the Macon Telegraph Hon.
Dupont Guerry makes a strong appeal
for democratic harmony. There are
only a few days 16ft in which the
weak kneed may consider their ways
and fall into line.
How would it do for Rome’s mtr
chants to get up a trade day foi about
the fifteenth of 'December and make
a liberal reduction for cash in order to
work up a big Xmas trade with out of
town buyers? We know of a city who
has done this successfully for the past
few years. They make about a ten
per cent reduction where purchases
amount to ten dollars and more. Thi
railroads, for tliese tHde days, make
a good round trip rate and for many
miles arotlnd buyers Huck in and find
that the saving in the reduction
offered by mirchants more than pays
for the railroad fare: We merely thri w
out tht se hints.
THE SENATORIAL CONTEST.
Despite efforts to force Gov. W. Y.
Atkinson out of the senatorial race he
has Announced his [candidacy. The
field belongs to no one. Precedent has
been set aside. It now remains for
the strongest man to win. Capt.
Evan P. Howell is in the race and has
opened campaign headquarters at the
Kimball. Hon. Pat Walsh is in the
race, and so is Hon. A. S. Clay and
Col. J. W. Robertson. Candidates
are developing so rapidly that by the
time this reaches our readers Hon.
Hal. T. Lewis, of Greensboro, and
Major Joseph B. Cummings, of Au
gusta, and perhaps others, may have
positively announced.
The great cost of a gubernatorial
election in this instance is merely a
straw man set up for politicians to
knock down. A governor can be elect
ed at the same time with the supreme
court judges, December 18th, without
any additional cost. There is neither
statute or reason why either of the
above candidates, so far as the people
are concerned, should come out of the
race. The only possible objection
The Tribune could have offered to
the situation is that it precipitates a
heated contest within democratic
ranks in the face of the National elec
tion at which time our congressmen
are to be elected. It may serve to
take away the interest that should
now be centered upon the congression
al districts. Every [influential demo
crat should be at home working for
his congressman, especially in the
districts where the populists are num
erous and active, instead of being in
Atlanta working for his favorite for
senatorial, gubernatorial and other
honors consequent thereto.
If Governor Atkinson should be
chosen senator on the 11th of Novem
ber the president of the state senate,
as is required by law, could be sworn
in any day up to the 15th and imme
diately issue his proclamation order
ing the election of a governor within
thirty days, which would then call the
election for the same day as that for
the supreme court judges. Briefly
stated, this is the situation.
THE WEEKLY TRIBUNE.
Tomorrow we will send out to many
a happy home within the territory
contiguous to Rome The Weekly
Tribune, a handsome sixteen page
family newspaper containing a choice
lot of reading matter such as is found
in few of the papers that reach those
living in the rural districts. It con
tains all the cream of the news for the
past week and its editorial page is
brightened by readable articles of a
pertinent nature on the topics of the
day.
W hen we began issuing The Weekly
Tribune two years ago under the pres
ent management we set out with the
idea of giving the people of North
Georgia and North and East Alabama
the best paper that they had ever bad
at a price so reasonable as to be witbin
the reach of all. The Weekly Tri
bune at one dollar per year comes
about as near filling the bill as any
paper that has ever been published in
this section of.the country.
Our subscription list we are pleased
to say has grown and increased con
stantly until there are few families in
this country who do not read and
profit by the information and enjoy
ment rendered through the medium
of this great home institution which
is conducted solely for the pleasure
and profit of the people whose pros
perity, progress and development we
have nearest at heart. We feel very
proud of the record of the past two
years.
From time to time we have added
new features of interest to the paper
and it is our aim and object to make
of it a regular vade mecum for the
public whom we are endeavoring to
faithfully serve. In its adverdsi g
pages will be found bright and attract
ve display advertisements of the beau
tiful goods offered for sale by the busi
ness men of Rome and we advise our
readers to watch those advertisements
carefully and profit by the informa
tion gained.
No family can afford to be without
a bright first class newspaper for as a
factor in the education and enlighten
ment of a family of children it is worth
ten times more than the subscription
price to any publie spirited head of a
family. The quality of the literary
contributions that appear in the pages
ofSTHE Weekly Tribune is of the
very highest order and our contribu
tors are among the most prominent
writers of this country.
Os course, the home paper is of far
more interest to the reader than a pa
per published at a distance and when
the paper combines all the superior
features of a first class periodical with
the additional attraction of giving
the local news in attractive form with
the vast variety of information con
tained in the columns of The Weekly
Tribune its value is greatly enhanced.
Read it and show it to yoar neighbor
so that he may become a subscriber
if he is not so already to the best
family newspaper ever published in
North Georgia.
THE HOME TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28. 189 b.
TURN OUT AND VOTE.
One week more and the great ques
tion of democratic or republican
supremacy will be settled at the polls.
Never, even in the momentous years
that imuiediately preceded the civil
war has there been a contest of deeper
interest io the great masses of the
American people. The condition of
the country has been such for the past
few years as to appall the stoutest
hearts and shake the faith of the most
optimistic believers in our time hon
ored institutions.
The reform 'party with Bryan at its
head has made a brave struggle and
the outlook is fair for its success in the
final issue of this notable and memor
able campaign. So far as we are con
cerned here in Georgia there is no
doubt but that we will be able to roll up
a great and overwhelming majority for
Bryan and Sewall in spite of all the
machinations of the allied enemies of
democracy and the opponents of good
and righteous government.
But there is another question in
which we are vitally interested. That
is the election of a solid delegation of
steadfast democrats to represent the
state in congress and to help fight the
battles of reform in the national leg
islature. The election of Bryan would
avail us little if we failed to secure a
congress in sympathy with the execu
tive for all measures looking toward a
rehabilitation of the finances of the
country must necessarily emanate
from congress.
In the Seventh congressional dis
trict we have a man who is in every
way capable both by ability and ex
perience to represent the people on
all questions that may come before
congress. Hon. John W. Maddox has
served the party lone and faithfully
and has never failed in the discharge
of a single duty or hesitated to speak
out on any question which concerned
the iucerests of his constituency or the
welfare of the country at large.
He has made a race so far that is
comparable with that made by Bryan
in his phenomenal canvass of the
country and in every community in
the district he has raised his voice for
democracy and now it is due him that
every democrat within the limit of the
Seventh congressional [district should
lay all other business aside on Novem
ber 3rd and turn out and cast their
ballots in favor of re-electing him to
the seat which he has occupied so ably
and honorably.
Let us give him such a majority as
will forever settle the question as to
the sentiment of the people of the
Saventh district, flis opponents are
hard at work striving] to consumate
his defeat solely because of his pro
nounced democracy. It is then in
cumbent on all democrats to sustain
him in his hour of trial and to see that
he is not defeated by any clique or
combination of republicans, popu
lists and independents. Bear this in
mind and cast your vote for Maddox
on the day of the election.
SONGS AND SCENES.
In Sympathy.
Life hath no grave and grievons wrong
That time may not see righted;
But oh, the anguish deep and strong,
The deathfess pain, the mourning long
When fondest hopes are blighted!
We weep o’er many an honored bier
Where sleeps some friend we fondly cherished
But constant flows the silent tear
For those our heart bound treasu res dear,
Fair half-blown blooms that perished !
We bow before the will of God
Through many a night of sorrow,
But while we kiss the chastening rod
We think of those beneath the sod
And many a cheerless morrow !
The flowers shall bloom as they have blown,
Oft ’neath the budding willow,
And birds shall sing in blithest tone;
For us the winds forever moan
Above life’s sunless billow!
Yet well we know beyond the night
Os earth their eyes are beaming,
Beyond the strain of mortal blight
Our sinless ones in robes of light
The dreams of heaven a?b dreaming.
—Montgomery Al. Folsom.
A Queer Cross.
Leonard Todd is a young man who
deserves to succeed in every undertak
ing. He has developed an inventive
capacity that entitles him to the biggest
Bryan button on the card.
Some time ago he began to study the
affinity between Pekin ducks and pop
lar root potatoes, He was convinced
that with care and attention the two
communities might be a source of un
told wealth to the people of this feitile
region.
He secured a few slips of genuine pop
lar roots from Mack, at Coosa, and he
purchased a pair of Pekin ducks frcm
Ike Gailliard, and began his experi
ments. He first tried grafting the po
tato vines into the crams of the ducks,
but they nibbled off the young shoots
as fast as they grew and the crop was a
failure
But he was not discouraged and al
though it was late in the season he
phsced a setting of the slips under the
duck when she got into the notion to
go to setting.
About a week after she took her nest
that rainy spell set in and Leonard for
got all about his duck's nest and it was
a fortnight before he thought to inves- 1
tigate. To his surprise he found the
duck elevated abont' four inches above
the level of the nest.
Gently lifting her off he beheld the
fruits of his patience and ingenuity.
One of the potato slips had started to
growing and had grown to nearly the
size of the duck.
It was an exact counterpart of the
duck, with a long neck, a well formed
head, set a little on one side as if prog
nosticating on the state of the mother,
and a bunch of sprouts in the rear an
swered for the tail feathers.
The thing looked so much like a duck
that Leanard poked it to see if it would
quaok. It did not quack, but it looked
as intelligent as the average ward heller
the day after the election.
Ho took the potato duckling and sat
it in the sun to mature and now it is
fine a specimen as yon ever laid eyes
upon. He brought it down to the store
and it occupies a front seat on the show
case. Every time the weather turns a
little “givey,” like it was going to rain,
the neck of the hybird stretches nearly
straight as if it were catching the rain
like a real duck.
It is a great curiosity and next spring
as soon as the sap begins to rise, Lea
nard is going to put the potato in an
incubator and try again. He is con
fident that it will reproduce a real
breed.
One good thing about the potato
duckling is that it will make the most
masterful custards that were ever
heard of, you know that all potato cus
tards should have eggs in them and Pe
kin duck eggs are of exceptionably fine
flavor. Os course this variety of pota
toes will prove all the richer albumi
noids of the duck egg and the combina
tion will be a fine one. The young in
ventor can make a fortune out of that
one article of diet.
Then the possibilities for potato pud
ding with a duck egg flavor will be just
too delightful for anything. Good, old
fashioned, Georgia potato pone will
come in for a share.
And then the slash pies that can be
manufactured ant of that variety of
taters will surpass anything ever pro
duced in the culinary department.
They would make the mouth of a wood
en Indian water with anticipation.
Mites will not trouble this variety of
potato-duck as they sometimes do with
the feathered tribe, and they may be
left out in the weather with impurity.
People living in rural districts will I e
able to get even with the hawks on this
proposition.
A hawk will never strike one of those
taterons ducks but one time. It will
disgust a hawk with any sort of a duck
after the first trial.
•
But the biggest bansza will be in de
coy docks for the use of sportsmen. All
the hunter will have to do when he fails
to bag any game and gets a little hun
gry, will be to build up a fire and roast
one of his decoy ducks.
It is a great ..institution and must be
seen to be ’ appreciated. The hybrid is
destined to revolutionize poultry raising
in this section. M. M. F.
Editor John Triplett says that he
has swallowed all that he can and
that he is not going to stand much
more from the politicians- Nobody
need ever fear that Editor Triplett
will go back on hie democracy.
A Cedartown man invited his friend
to take a glass of root beer and gave
him a gla v s of gasoline by mistake.
Hediscoveied the mistake before tie
took a second drink.
Judge Maddox is makinga systema"
tic canvass in Polk county. He needn't
trouble himself about Cobh. His
friends here will look after his elec
tion, —Acworth Post.
JERVK&WMGIIT
DRUGGISTS
Corner Broad Street and Fifth Avenue,
ROME, GA
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But there is no reduction in the quality
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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 at the
above location, and while making a specialty of
Watches, Clocks and Diamonds,
SILVERWARE AND JEWELRY.
A Beautiful Line of Cut Glass.
and Eye Classes fitted to the Eye.&-
I carry a large and well selected stock of all kinds of goods that are
usually kept man establishment of this kind. In fact, I carry a stock
that will compaie favorably with the stocks usually kept in much
larger cities.
WEDDING PREESNTS in Sterling Silver, and fancy goods of all
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 extra charge
I invite you to call and examine my stock whether you buy or not.
Poiltt attention. Very respectfully,
O_ -tr’ZEHZ
THE ROMECOAL COMPANY
MINE AGENTS
DEALERS IN
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HENRY G. SMITH, Manager.
Down Town Yard Cor. 2d Ave &E. 2d St. ) Dnmo
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Rome Coal Co..
Office 11 Broad Street. H. G SMITH.. Manager
W. P. SIMPSON, Pres. I. D. FORD, Vice-Pres. T. J. SIMPSON, Cashier
EXCHANGE BANK OF ROME.
KOTVIin, GEOROIA.
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