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THE ROME TRIBUNE.
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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.
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ded the course of .
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ROME, GA.
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NEW YORK. MANAGER.
Mr. Bryan continues to draw great
crowds. ,
Atlanta is noted for its slate facto
ries these days.
Get your advertising matter in early
today for The Sunday Tribune.
Now the season for smashing the
chrysanthemum bang has arrived.
The American flag will probably
give Hanna the cold wave next week.
It is thought that the sultan is get
ting ready for the Autumnal massa
cres.
The Sunday Tribune will be a
hummer. Get your advertising matter
in early.
The word “nit” has been sadly over
worked this season, and is threatened
with paresis.
A prophet is often without labor in
his own country, especially if he is a
financial prophet.
It is hard to imagine what Tom
Watson will feed his appetite for gab
on after next Tuesday.
Boston is fretting over an over-pro
duction of rain. Our supply appears
to have tarried at the East.
Judge Maddox is still making it hot
for the opponents of democracy in the
Seventh congressional district.
November 3 draws nearer and the
last and mightiest efforts are being
made by the contesting parties.
The Sunday Tribune will be
brigher than usual. Get in your ad
vertising matter early and secure
good space.
The republican seems to think that
it depends entirely on the politics of
the man at whom the old colonial egg
is thrown.
Now is the time to get in your ad
vertising matter. If you have goods
to sell let the public know it now by
advertising in The Sunday Tribune.
THE GOVERNOR’S MESSAGE.
Governor Atkinson, in his message
to the legislature, touches upon sev
eral points that are of interest to the
people of Georgia. His ideas on the
.support and encouragement of the
educational institutions of 'the state
are good. He mentions the good being
done by the State University at
Athens, the Normal and Industrial
school at Milledgeville and the School
of Technology as well as the branches
of the University at Milledgeville and
Dahlonega.
All these institutions should be very
near the hearts of the people of Geor
gia and the words of encouragement
coming from the governor are most
timely and opportune. The more
money spent on educational institu
tions the less will be required on the
jails and prisons. The hope of the
country is in her educational institu
tions and we hope that the legislature
will see it in that light.
Governor Atkinson also approves of
the efforts being made to purify the
ballot in Georgia and his comments
on the registration laws are very
timely and appropriate. The quicker
we reach a point where the floating
vote will be controlled by honest
methods the sooner will we get rid
of the reprehensible methods of the
ward heeler and the election manipu
lator.
The only hope of good government
rests in the purifying of the election
laws and throwing around the right
of suffrage every safeguard that can
insure a free ballot and a fair count.
Let the laws be rigidly enforced in
that particular and we will have
better government and a higher class
of official dispensers of the laws.
Governor Atkinson also advocates
public hangings on the idea that
when persons who are guilty of crimes
that deserve such punishment are
given a fair hearing and are con
victed properly, they ought to be
made examples of to evil doers every
where. He believes that a return to
public hanging would prove whole
some and salutary and would tend to
reduce crime.
But perhaps the most radical
change suggested is that the heirs of
persons who have been lynched shall
be entitled to sue the county where
the lynching occurred and secure
judgment in a sum not less than SI,OOO.
All these recommendations are set
forth in lucid and logical style and
the message is,’ upon the whole, a
very strong and forcible document
that will be read with interest all over
the state an,d will excite considerable
comment outside of Georgia.
A CORNER IN GOLD.
On July Ist 1896 the treasury de
partment reported that the total gold
coin of the United States was $567,-
931,823, and that the gold bullion in
the country was $323,268,955. Since
then $48,211,129 in gold coin and bul
lion has been imported making the
total gold of which the treasury de
partment takes cognizance, not all of
which is necessarily in this country,
$648,411,907. The gold which has been
sequestered by New York banks in
two months amounts to $23,211,129.
This amounts to over 3 and 3| per
cent of the money on which tbsf gov
ernment depends to make good its
notes. This is a startling aspect of the
gold situation, showing that in a few
months, even if importations, con
tinued at the present rates which they
are not likely to do, but are more ap*
to be reversed and an export move
ment set in the banks and their allies
could by getting control of so much
of the. available gold seriously cripple
its efforts if not bring on bankruptcy.
The weekly statement of the New
York associated banks of August 22nd
showed that they held $46,796,600 in
specie mostly in gold. The statement
of October 17th showed that they held
$59,136,400 or a gain in less than two
months of $12,339,800. Since the
gold movement set in this direction
$48,211,129 has been imported of which
$35,000,000, has been deposited in the
United States depositories from which
$10,000,000, has beep withdrawn leav
ing in the government reserve
$25,000,000.
This, with the increased holdings of
the banks, leaves to be accounted for
$lO 871,329, which has disappeared
from sight. That means that this
large amount of gold has been diverted
from its proper channels and is being
hoarded in the various banks of the
interior and in the safety deposit
vaults of the big moneyed institutions
that are able to sequester the circu
litiog medium of the country and to
keep up the stringency in the finan
cial world.
Much capital is being made by the
republican newspapers out of the
gold imports as showing a prosperous
condition of the country and the suf
ficiency of the single gold standard to
carry on the business of the commer
cial institutions of the United States
and to enable the government to meet
its obligations an’ time that it is called
upon to do so. But the above show
ing is anything but reassuring to the
t ■ n Jitful man.
1 These figures are all the more sfgui-
TdE ROME TRIBUNE. FRIDAY, OClOnElf 30, 1836.
ficant when it is remembered that the
banks and other moneyed institutions
already hold the greater portion of
the available gold. There is nc escape
from their grasp except through the
adoption of the double standard and
the placing of silveron a parity with
the metal which they now hold under
►their exclusive control to the constant
detriment of the business of the coun
try and the welfare of the govern
ment-
SONGS AND SCENES.
Divio’ An’ Forgivin’.
Ain’t you glad that you’re a livin’,
All forgotten’ an’ forgiven’?
Now the old year has departed
An’ the new year, happy hearted.
Looks not on our fault an’ failin’s
With eternal rants an’ railin’s;
But forgiven an’ forgivin’,
Aint you glad that you’re a livin’?
Ain’t you glad that you’re a livin’
An’ the gifts o’ God receivin'?
Each bright day refills the measure
Os new hopefulness ah’ pleasure,
And the driftin’ clouds are driven
From the shinin’ face o’ heaven,
All the fear o’ life relievin’—
Ain’t you glad that you’re a livin’?
Ain’t you glad that you’re a livin’,
Errors o’the past retrievin’?
No reproachin’, no reprovin’
From the fond lips o’ the levin’,
Ev’ry sun bright hour confessin',
God’s forgiveness, mercy, blessin’,
An’ His love your soul reprievin’,
Ain’t you glad that you’re a livin’?
Ain’t you glad that you’re a livin’,
O 1 the joy’s beyond conceivin ’!
Let the dead past its dead bury,
In God’s gladsome light make merry,
There's a sweet, sublime contagion
In the mirth o’ true religion,
With no cant o* care deceivin’
Ain’t you glad that you’re a livin’?
Montgomery M. Folsom.
7he Night Hawk.
Ah, the rain, the rain, the rain!
Blinking through banks of somber
cloud the summer sun went down, red
eyed with weeping.
The rain, the rain, the rain!
As the murky twilight deepens the
storm drivels itself into a slow, monot
onous dripping of rain from the frayed
edges of the clouds that still shut out the
stars.
Calls are frequent and Black Maria
is wearily rumbling back and forth on
the stony streets, bringing in the vaga
bonds that are caught by the patrolmen
on their rounds.
Policing is no joke on a rainy nigbt
in Atlanta. It is a painful reality of dis
agreeable duly.
About nine o’clock there is a shuffle
of wet feet and a rustle of oilskin and
rousiag up, jthe night hawk asks, me
chanically, the question that is ever
uppermost on his mind, •‘What is the
news?”
“Mighty rough case tonight.” It is
Curtright, the tall sergeant, and there
is a look of sadness on his face.
‘ ‘What is it, sergeant?”
‘•Man crushed by the cars. Trying to
steal a ride and he was thrown ->ff and
the wheels passed over his legs.”
‘‘Will he die?” »
“He’s as good as gone now. He was
away out on Whitehall, at McDaniel
street crossing, you know, and it took
the patrolman on the beat ever so long
to get him to the hospital. Oh, how we
do need and ambulance service. ”
“And a hospital?’’
“And a hospital. We had to first
hunt up a telephone and ask some of
the private hospitals permission to carry
the wounded man there. That caused
long delay, a delay that might at any
time prove fatal where the life of a hu
man being is at stake.”
“How did you get him to the hospi
tal?”
“Had to go and hire a dray. The wag
on was out when we telephoned here,
and something had to be done at once. ”
Ah, Atlanta, Atlanta! With all thy
-beauty and thy wealth and thy glorious
past, thy promiseful present and thy
splendid future; here is a blot on thy
fair escutcheon!
How long will the Levite pass by on
the other side?”
When may we hope for the good man
of Samaria, who will take upon himself
the holy task of providing for the wound
ed and distressed within thy gates?
The rain, the rain, the rain!
These gloomy nights seems fraught
with horrors.
It is nearly midnight, when a ring at
the telephone disturbs the quiet of the
station house.
‘ ‘Send the wagon quick to the corner
of—”
“Phew!” shudders Call Officer Ham
ilton. “Away out yonder toward the
old barracks.”
“What is it?”
“They say there is a sick man lying
in the street.”
“Dangeous?”
“Dying.”
The big horses are soon bounding
away, and the nighthawk huddles up
besides the driver to avoid the drizzle
which drives in thejr faces.
It looks more like a bundle of rags
than a human, brt it is a man. He is all
in a heap, there in the alley, where he
fell down exhausted with hunger .wasted
with disease, dying of neglect
Dying alone. Dying in the chill, black
night. Dying in the rain.
The ashen palor of death is on his
sunken cheek, and in his listless, film
ing eyes the light of the earth is fading
fast away.
Who is he?
Ask of the night winds that wail
across the commons. Ask of the sobbing
rain that grieves, and grieves- and
grieves! J
Peihaps they will answer you.
If not,|you need hardly inquire fur
ther, for the man himself has ceased to
reck what or whom his fellows called
him.
God knows. He was once a stout
and sturdy fellow, and he walked erect
and cared neither for the blaze of the
summer sun nor the drench of the night
rain.
That was long ago. Despite the fact
that those matted locks, gruesome and
uncanny and damp with the rain, are
matted with the mire, there was a time
when tender bands smoothed the clus
tering curls and praised their lustrous
beauty.
Almost impossible to imagine that,
though, for the old beggar has got lost
in the world, and there is little of the
God-like left about him. Only the soul,
and that is drifting away toward those
dim shores of which we dream when
God is with us.
‘ ‘How long since you discovered him?”
“It has been over an hour, I reckon.
You see it was raining and everything
was closed up. By accident I stumbled
upon him, attracted by a groan as I
passed the mouth of the alley.”
These words were written several
years ago. The outcome was the Grady
hospital and an ambulance service.-
Can we not have such institutions in
Rome? God grant that we may right
speepily. Work for the general hospital.
M. M. F.
Maine and Vermont in state-elec
tions went republican. They have 10
electoral votes. Georgia, Alabama,
Arkansaw and Oregon went demo
cratic in state elections, they have 40
electoral votes, 10 1. Next Tuesday
the.votes for Bryan and democracy
will be 16 to 1.
There is abundant reason to believe
that the majority of voters in every
county in this district are against Mc-
Garrity and Massey. Proper efforts by
the friends of Judge Maddox in these
counties will record this .fact next
Tuesday.
The talk of Hon. Bob Hardeman
for governor to succeed Governor At
kinson in the event of the latter’s
election to the Senate, seems to be
fruitless from the fact that as a mem
ber of the Legislature he is inelegible
to any office in Georgia.
Free silver republican farmers of
the West are rallying to the support
of Bryan and Bewail. They are all
coming over and the sentiment will
sweep the country like a gieat tidal
wave on November 3.
Mex'eo will buy ten million bushels
of corn this year and Mobile has air
ready shipped six thousand bushels
to Tampico. It is good to see the ex
port trade picking up in our South
ern cities. *
Governor Atkinson’s message de
nounces lynchings but proposes to
make the penalty for assault with
intent to rape the same as the graver
crime.
It has been discovered that Major
McKinley plays on the piano. He will
have plenty of time to indulge in that
sort of recreation after November 3.
If Cuba should become a republic
Weyler could find out how dear he
was to the people by running for
president.
The nt-
Oh, dark and dismal feeling*.
Through my tired brain now stealing,
* by dost thou come to torture me
In this, my hour of pain?
Why must I rudely waken \
From a dream of bliss unshaken.
By a single care or sorrow, to this
Weary world again?
Why must I live to suffer
All the ills you have to offer?
Why must I bear this burden through
My sorrow laden years'; K
Can’t I even in a measure
Partake of earthly pleasure,
Or must I live forever in this
Dismal vale of tears?
Just as I reach out, eager
Forsome earthly treasure meagre,
*Tis then my highest hopes are dashed
From sunlight into gloam.
And, in deepest melancholy,
Now I loudly curse my folly.
For I’ve smashed my wheel while scorching,
▲nd I’tn twenty miles fiom home.
J ERVIS&WRIGHT
DRUCCISTS
Corner Broad Street and Fifth Avenue,
HOME, GA
Drugs and Druggists’ Sundries,
Our line of Drugs and Patent Medicines
is complete. Our stock of Combs, Brushes.
Toilet Articles, Extracts. Purses, Carii
Cases, etc., is as complete as you will find
anywhere. See our goods and prices.
Prescriptions Carefully Compounded
DAY OR NIGHT.
l( ,vr Telephone 121.
fli BMP DRMG 1
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 Manulacluring 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
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 fact, I carry a stock
chat 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 ixtra charge
I invite you to c*ll and examine my stock whether you buy or not.
Polite attention. Very respectfully,
CL STEFUEITS
THE ROMECOAL COMPANY
MINE A-GENTH
DEALERS IN
Best Steam s Domestic Coal
HENRY Q. SMITH, Manager.
Down Town Yard Cor. 2d Ave &E. 2d St. ) Dzxrvxzx Fo
Up Town Yard Cor. 6th Ave & Broad St. J ilOlliv, Mu.
BUY YOUR COAL NOW 1
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-
Olficell Broad Street. H. G. SMITH, Manager.
W. P. SIMPSON. Pres. I. D. FORD, Vice-Pres. T. J. SIMPSON, Cashier
EXCHANGE BANK OF ROME.
FIOME, GEOFLOIA.
CAPITAL STOCK, SIOO,OOO
Accounts of firms, corporations and individuals solicited. Rppcic.l att< ntion
given to collections. Money loaned on real estate or other good securities.
Prompt and courteous attention to customers.
Board oi Director*.
A. R. SULLIVAN, J A. GLOVER,
C.’A. Hlu al. 1. D. FORD,
W. P. SIMPSON.’