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THE ROME TRIBUNE.
W. A. KNOWLES. - Editor.
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THE DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
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FOR PRESIDENT,
WILLIAM J. BRYAN, of Nebraska.
FOR vice PRESIDENT,
ARTHUR SEWALL, of Maine.
FOR CONGRESS,
JOHN W. MADDOX, of Floyd.
i Right thinking people
have always commen
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Look out for anonymous circulars.
The rise iij wheat means lighter
loaves of bread.
Tom Watson’s real sufferings arise
from an ulcerated ambition.
Democrats be on guard, give no
heed to circulars without signature.
When a coward wants to injure a
man he prints circulars over no signa
ture.
Assassirs stab a man in the dark-
Lookout for circulars that stab Judge
Maddox.
A sneak will write circulars but is
afraid to append his name. Lookout
for such things.
A Chicago man fired point blank at
a street car and missed it, so they put
him on the police force.
There will be more politics in Geor
gia during the next few days than has
ever been crowded into the same short
space of time.
After next Tuesday Mr. Tom Wat
son of Georgia will appreciate fully
what is meant by maladroit delay and
innocuous desuetude.
The way the enterprising citizens
of Rome are patronizing The Tribune
shows that they appreciate a good
paper. Now is the time to subscribe.
The republicans claim that the sil
versmiths are for McKinley. The man
who can catch the plain, every day
Smiths is the fellow who will get
there.
Both candidades McGarrity and
Massey seem determined to stay up
for congress Well it’s a matter of
only a jjpek longer before they will
both be down.
Who is the Georgia legislator that
will win fame by submittine a peni
tentiary re organization scheme, in
cluding a provision for good road
building, which will really solve the
convict problem and prove acceptable
to the general assembly?
A WORD OF WARNING.
Look out for the anonymous circu
lar. Two years ago the Seventh con
gressional district was flooded with
them just before the election, when
Judge Maddox had no opportunity to
reply, and it is probable that this cir
cular will make its appearance again
on the eve of the election. The people
are warned against these anonymous
effusions. The author is a sneak and
will not dare make his charges openly
and over his own signature. Judge
Maddox is on the stump daily and
ready to meet all comers, and refute
all charges.
The man who will make chargee in
an anonymous circular that he is
afraid to make over his own signa
ture, is an assassin and a coward. It
is believed that the day has passed
when our people can be misled or in
fluenced by such dirty methods.
Judge Maddox is conducting a vigor
oue, manly and dignified campaign.
He is making two speeches daily and
meeting the people face to face in all
parts of the district. His record as a
public servant challenges criticism. It
has not been and cannot be success
fully assailed by fair methods; but the
midnight assassin has no regard for
fair methods and strikes in the dark.
The circular that was P* out
against Judge Maddox two years on
the eve of the election was proven
afterwards to be a tissue of falsehoods.
It will probably make its appearance
agaiu in some other form, and the
people are warned against it. The
Tribune has information that a cir
cular is now being prepared and will
doubtless make its appearance the
last of this week, when the irrespon
sible and anonymous author thinks
there is no time to answer it. Should
it appear, all honest voters may be
sure it is a lie out of the whole cloth.
The fact that it comes at the last mo
ment and without signature condemns
it as absolutely unworthy of credit.
Out with the anonymous circular!
Down with such dirty political
methods'. Let the people rebuke such
practices by giving Judge Maddox the
greatest majority he has ever received
in the Seventh district next Tuesday.
PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION.
The recent speculative fever is at
tributable, according to the general
opinion, solely to the efforts of the
manipulators of the McKinley cam
paign. The cry of over production is
one that can be used most effectively
by the’ shrewd speculators at such
political crises and they have their
object in creating a panicky feeling
of unrest among the producers of the
country. Those whom they canno
bulldoze they try to frighten.
Nobody has ever argued before
that there was any mysterious con
nection existing between the nrices of
wheat and silver which would neces
sitate their rise and fall exactly in
proportion to each other. The argu
ment is simply that the prices of the
two principal commodities have fallen
in the same proportion as .. silver
through a long period of years in the
history of this county. As an offset
to the howl raised by the McKinley
itee the New Orleans Times-Democrat
says:”
“If the gold monometallists, when
they talk of the overproduction of
farm commodities, were to substan
tiate their talk with something more
real than mere words, they might
possibly have something of a case;
even although it is obvious, to any
one who thinks for a moment, that
consumption for an article, that is to
say, if it be marketed successfully,
there is plainly no over production of
that article. Only when an article is
produced in such quantity that it is
unsalable and has to be destroyed, is
there overproduction of the article.
And we have not heard yet that agri
cultural products, wheat and corn for
example have been produced in such
quantities that the farmers couldn’t
sell them. The overproduction asser
tion. therefore has no weight.
“The average annual production of
wheat and of corn, it is true, is con
siderably higher in the quinquennial
period ending December 31,1895, than
it was in either of the quinquennial
periods preceding; but when we place
alongside of the increased production
of wheat and corn in these years the
increased population of these years,
we note a very different story. The
average annual production of wheat
per capita of the population in the
quinquennium 1876 80 was 8 48 bush
els; in the quinquennium 1886 90 the
average production per capita was
7.39 bushels, and in the quinquinnium
1891-95 the average production was
only 7 33 bushels.
“Thus we see that, instead of there
being an overproduction of wheat
from 1875 to 1895, to account for the
continuous fall in the price of wheat,
there was a steadily diminished pr -
duction It is the same thing-with
corn. The average production of thi s
cereal per capita of the population in
the five year 1876 80 was 30 5 bushels;
while the percapita production of corn
had fallen lu the live years 1891 95 to
25.9 bushels.
“Ciearl.., therefore, the “overpro-
THE ROME TRIBUNE. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1896.
duction” reason for the fall in the
price of agricultural products will not
hold water; as far as the production
of wheat and corn since 1873 is con
cerned, the price omtht to have gone
up, not down, for there has been less
produced per capita of the popula
tion. The gold mouometallists will
have to cudgel their brains for some
better reason than that; and, when
they have found the real reason, it
will be the demonetization of silver in
1873 —that and nothing else.”
SONGS AND SCENES.
Tt mpt Me Not.
Nay, tempt me not! If God forgive
The past and only let me live
Half up to my ideal, then
I’ll walk among my fellow men
As one who, though of all bereft,
Has something yet to live for left.
I’d rather from this world depart
Than wear that shadow on my heart!
Nay, tempt me not! The woes of wine
That strangle every thought divine
Have tortured me through days of dole
And burned their horror in my soul,
Till valueless the labored breath
That held me from the jaws of death,
The agony of its baleful spell
Os hafrits terrors cheated hell!
Nay. tempt me not! For I have felt
Such memories as well nig i meet
The adamantine thews of earth,
Despair, delirium and dearth
And all the poignant pangs and pains
Os souls that bear Plutonian chains
That awful feeling ne’er forgot,
And so, I pray you, tempt me not!
Nay, tempt me not! But rather leave
Me in some solitude to grieve
Forevermore and then to pass
Like some sad sigh breathed on a glaSfe!
Go, drag yon calm corpse fro.h the grave
And with his chains rebind the slave
Return the felon to the rack,
But tempt me not to once turn back!
Nay, tempt me not! But rather bid -
Me creep beneath my coffin lid
And cry farewell to every hope
Sustainingon time’s treacherous ope!
Or, if you love me help me now
• Forget the mark upon my brow
And be what I have been before
And go my way and sin no more!
Montgomery M. Folsom.
The Im ffab’e Name.
On being brought from darkness into
light for the second time, nothing im
presses the mind of a contemplative
man more than the unfolding of the sa
cred mystery surrounding the Great
”G.” Advancing along the dim corri
dor that leads to the door of the Middle
Chamber, my eyes beheld that illumi
nated letter that fascinated my faculties
beyond description. 1 felt like Moses
of old, that I should put off my shoes
for I was treading on holy ground. Out
of the darkness it shone in unearthly
splendor, shedding its lustre about the
All Seeing Eye tbat never sleeps, and I
felt that God Himself was there.
No wonder that the true Mason who
has evolved the rudiments of the sacred
teachings out of the inner consciousness
of his own heart feels that along the
pathway of human life, though check
ered with good and evil, he may walk
and fear no danger when inspired by
such lofty ideals of Him who guideth
the stars in their courses and who bold
eth the waters in the hollow of His
hand. I felt tbat the light and lore of
all ages gone before were being revealed
to my dazzled intellect, and in the ech
oes of the solemn organ peals I heard
the still, small voice of God!
And then the romantic revelations of
that splendid symbol of divine grandeur
grace and glory! The first letter of that
ancient Anglo Saxon appellation of the
Deity. Io days of old when the devout
Children of the Covenant regarded it as
a word that was not to be even whis
pered by lips profane, Masons used the
first letter as a symbol of all tbat was
highest and most holy. Only once a
year was the high priest permitted to
pronounce that sacred name, and that
amid the sanctity of the Holy of Holies
with the most solemn sacrificial sur
roundings. Then alone, after days of
bodily and spiritual purification, he
stood before the vast assemblage and
reverently uttered the Name in adora
tion and invocation on the Day of Atone
ment when all the congregation fell
prostrate upon their faces as unworthy
to stand in the presence of the Living
God!
When Masonry was instituted in Brit
ain and the countrymen of the Great
Alfred were brought to behold the
Light in the East, it became necessary
to adapt the ritual and its symbols to
the rugged Angle-Saxon speech, as
there were few scholars of that day who
could speak or understand the melodi
ous Hebrew tongue. “Yod,” the first
letter of the Ineffable Name, had been
used among the ancient Hebrew breth
ren, and in the substitution “G,” the
first letter of the Anglo-Saxon “God,”
was chosen, and has remained the sym
bol of all that was most sacred in Ma
sonry unto this day.
How it grew upon me at' nry fancy
swept over the dim centuries of the past
and groped in the twilight of hoary an
tiquity, when Masons were forced to
meet beneath the canopy of heaven, in
the depths of secluded Himalayan val
leys or on desolate plateaus of those
•lofty ranges so as to avoid the annoy
ance of cowans and eavesdroppers.
From the presumptuous walls of the
Tower of Babel to the aspiring sum-
mits of the Pyramids by the Nile; from
the starlit plains of Mesopotamia to the
shores of the Mediterauean, where the
white winged ships of the illustrious
King Hiram lay at anchor beneath the
stately battlements of opulent Tyre.
Still the sacred light, like the star of
empire, westward took its way until its
lustre fell radiant upon the sanes of
learned Atbens. and later on illumined
the towers and domes of imperial Rome.
Thence the dawn crept onward over the
vales of Helvetia and penetrated the
depths of the shadowy solitudes of the
forest of the Elbe and the Rhine, and
the yellow haired clansmen by the blue
Danube and all the Trans-Alpine tribes
to the seagirt frontiers of farthest Gaul
were taught the mystic.signs and sym
bols of our sacred order. Northward
the light radiated subduing the turbu
lent spirits of the wild wanderers of the
Baltic shore, and the bearded Norse
men were brought to reverence that
sacred name.
What a revelation it must have been
to the warlike Britons who dwelt
among the mighty ruins of those old
Druidic temples where the blood of men
and maidens had been offered in expia
tory and propitiatory sacrifices to the
sanguinary deities of pagandom. And
then in after years the enlightened rays
clove the mists that shrouded the wes
tern sea, permeating the uttermost re
gions of the New World, and continu
ing in its pervading course, spanned the
broad Pacific, shedding its beneficent
influence upon the remote isles of the
sea, until every tribe and every tongue
have learned to revere these most sacred
of all obligations.
How beautifully does it illustrate the
universal acknowledgement of the
brotherhood of man and the fatherhood
of God. Men of every creed and every
faith, whether enrolled under the ban
ners of the crescent or the standards of
the cross; whether the disciples of Py
thagoras or Confucius; Christian. Mo
hammedan, Jew or Gentile; meet on a
common level, plumbed and squared by
the laws of Masonry, and cemented by
the trowel of brotherly love. The white
apron of the humblest entered appren
tice is more potent than the embroid
ered and. jeweled oriflame of the proud
est potentate of the most powerful na
tion of all the world in its influence for
the guidance and betterment of man
kind.
And thus it came to pass as I stood
beneath the blessed beams falling in
comforting hopefulness from the illumi
nated “G,” I bowed my spirit in meek
adoration and reverential awe before
Him who has promised that as thy days
arc so shall tny strength be. The di
vine precepts of our ancient, time-hon
ored and history-hallowed order were
impressed upon me in all .the ful.iess of
their wisdom, Strength and beau'y, and
I felt like crying out, as did the old
philosopher when he had discovered the
Forty-Second problem of Euclid, ‘‘Eu
reka!” And even more, fori had dis
covered the Scource of all Lighten
throne- “ |t D- h gh -st heavens in whom
ther 421 11 nor shadow turning.
M. M.F.
As an election for supreme court
judges must be held December 18th,
we see no objection to electing a goy
ernor at the same time. If Atkinson
should be elected senator the law is
such that there would be no difficulty
in electing the judges and a governor
on the same day, so that the people
would be.subjected to no additional
expense or trouble. A seperate elec
tion would be a hardship on the
people.
Hon. Hal T Lewis of Greensboro
has announced his candidacy for the
senatorship, as was forshadowed in
yesterday’s Tribune. Mr. Lewis
bears the distinction of having nomi
nated W. J. Bryan at Chicago, and
would make as able aud couscientious
a senator as either of the other candi
dates before the legislature.
The initials ‘-O K.’’ were first used
by Jacob Astor, the founder of the
family of millionaires, and were thus
marked on bills that were presented
to him for approval or credit. He
thought he was affixing the initials of
“All Correct,” but a neglected educa
tion led him to tbiik of the words as
“Oil Korrect.”
Five days from today, and then
comes the political tug of war. The
campaign will virtually end Saturday
night. Sunday and Monday may well
be employed by some of the politi
cians in looking for soft places upon
which to fall Tuesday night.
Hon. John P. Shannon of Elberton
is a candidate for a judgeship on the
supreme bench. Should he be elected
he would make a capable and upright
judge. His people have unanimously
endorsed him.
The Milledgeville Union-Recorder
puts it on record that the merchants
of that city who are doing the busi
ness are the advertisers. It is the
same everywhere.
The people of Covington, Ky., may
be good financial critics, but thtii
criticisms should not take the form of
the visible supply of convalescent
eggs.
wam mine 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
HOME, GEORGIA.
t Doors, Sash. Blinds, Turned Work,
Scroll Work, Lumber,
Shingles, Etc., Etc.
—V! 1 — i■■ ii
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 Hie 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 compare 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 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 cill and examine my stock whether you buy or not.
P-.litt attention. Very respectfully,
C. STEFHEITS
THE ROMECOAL COMPANY
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DEALERS in
Best Steam B Domestic Coal
HENRY G. SMITH, Manager.
Down Town Yard Cor. 2d Ave &E. 2d St. 1 DAmo Po
Up Town Yard Cor. 6th Ave & Broad St. J llUillvj Vld«
BUY YOUR COAL NOW I
WE can supply you with the BEST BRANDS
WE can furnish you with ANY QUANTITY.
WE have TWO YARDS centrally located.
WE give you LOWEST PRICES.
Now IS THE TIME to buy. Send,in your orders at once to
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.
ELOIVIJ3, GEORGrIA.
STOCK, SIOO,OOO
Accounts of firms, corporations and individuals solicited. Special attention
given to collections. Money loaned on real estate or other good securities.
Prompt aud courteous attention to mstomers.
Board ot Director.,
A. R, SULLIVAN, J. A. GLOVER,
C.2A. Hlbnx, 1. D, FORD,
W. P. SIMPSON.