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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 Electors of President and Vice
President of the United States :
JAMES W. ROBERTSON,
of Habersham.
JOHN J. HUNT,
of Clayton.
PHIL P. JOHNSON,
of Burke.
JOHN A, WILKES,
of Colquitt.
GEORGE BRIGHT,
of Pulaski.
JESSE J. BULL,
of Talbot.
LUCIUS L. MIDDLEBROOKS,
of Newton.
ROLAND ELLIS,
of Bibb.
ROBERT M. W. GLENN,
of Walker.
JAMES M. SMITH,
of Oglethorpe.
WILLIAM I. PIKE,
of Jackson.
EPHRAIM P. DAVIS,
of Warren.
ALEXANDER F. DALpY,
of Johnson.
For Representative in the Fifth-Fifth
Congress of the United States from
the Seventh Congressional Dis
trict of Georgia:
I JOHN W. MADDOX.
of Floyd.
Tom Watson’B campaign bomb
seems to have been all fuse.
Every year the business men of
Rome add to their territory.
Coxey’s army wili soon break up
from its autumn Cantonment.
' Get your advertising matter in early
today for The Sunday Tribune.
Autumn day was a great success at
the Rome public schools yesterday.
The Sunday Tribune will be a
hummer. Get your advertising matter
in early.
No matter which side wins Uncle
Sam will have to pay the Bill which
s 150,000 a year.
The Rome Tribune is making a
record of splendid Sunday issues.—
Savannah Press.
The man who] advertises his busi
ness never has to bold an auction
sale of shelf worn goods.
Inspite of the political turmoil The
Sunday Tribune continues to speak
for the interests of Rome.
After Tuesday the republican jaw
and the Watsonian lungs will be able
to enjoy a much needed rest.
This is a great year for the boys. A
Kentucky judge has had one of bis
decisions overruled by his son.
Look out for The Sunday Tribune
and see that you are Jproperly repre
s anted in its attractive columns.
The Sunday Tribune will be
brigber than usual. Get in your ad
vertising matter early and secure
good space.
If you want to keep posted as to
who is doing the liveliest business in
Rome watch the pages of The Sun
day Tribune.
Now is thp 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.
■ ■ • ■ •
Mr. Frank T. Reynolds, who was so
well known as the popular editor of
the Dalton Citizen, is now the
city editor of The Rome Tribune
The Tribune is one of the best papers
in North Georgia, and continues to
get better.—Paulding New Era.
THE LAST STRAW.
The last straw that has been added
to the burden of the present campaign
has been furnished by the populist
leaders. Ov.-r the signatures of a
number of t ieir head men they have
had prepared a circular for secret dis
tribution, advising their followers to
vote for Massey, the republican can
didate for congress, because they
claim that they have nothing to ex
pect from Judge Maddox and that
their own ' leader, McGarrity, has
withdrawn from the contest.
We are pained and surpi ised at such
a proceeding on the part of men
whom we had been led to believe
more sincere in their protestations for
reform. We do not believe that the
rank and file of the populist party
will follow the advice of such leaders
who are simply misguided by their
own prejudices. Hon. John W. Mad
dox is in thorough sympathy with the
very measures of reform which the
populists have so strenuously ad
voeated.
He is a true and tried representa
tive of the very class of men needed
iu congress “to help carry out the
measures to which the people are
looking for relief from the present
oppressive influences. On the other
hand Massey represents the party
that is] bitterly opposed to every
measure of reform and fought
so persistently every attempt to im
prove the condition of the masses cf |
the people.
We trust that well thinking men
who have heretofore voted with the.
.populists will consider this question .
well before casting their votes. This I
secret | circular has been sent out ’
broadcast over the Seventh congres
sionaljdistrict and should stimulate
every democratic voter in the thirteen
counties to turn out and vote on Tues
day next and help to counteract the
work of this combination.
The populist leaders whoAign this
circular openly express the opinion
that their only chance now to defeat
democracy is to vote with the repub
licans. Let the honest democracy of
the Seventh district teach them that
even with their combined forces they
shall not control the politics of this ■
country nor pervert the will of the 1
people in their efforts for reform and
honest government.
LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE.
These are the days in which to keep
the light of your business interests
shining brightly. The year is draw
ing to a close and you have but two
months in which to round up the
worn of the year. It all rests within
yourself whether you make of it a
year of success or otherwise. There
are ample opportunities if you will
only take advantage of them.
The Tribune has been persistently
setting forth the advantages of Rome
as a trade center for this section of
country as well as a place for profita
ble investment to those having capi
tal to put in paying industries. The
results are apparent to all who will
observe the great volume of business
that has accrued to Rome and the
rapid development and upbuilding of
our industries.
Let us keep up the good work. We
offer you attractive and profitable ad
vertising at very reasonable rates for
we are determined to show our faith
by our works in giving our full share
of all the time, labor and expense to
keep cur beautiful city in the front
ranks of progress. No other city or
town in the state possesses superior
advantages for business men.
Therefore let your light so shine
that others seeing your good works
will profit thereby. Keep your name
and your business prominently before
the public. Miss no opportunity of
advertising yourself and your city.
Let the people know what you have
to sell and how cheaply you will sell it.
Keep up the lick and you will enjoy
the happiest New Year you have ex
perienced in a long time.
THE CLOSING DAYS.
There are but two more working
days left in which the leaders of the
great opposing parties may exert their
influence and powers of eloquence to
turn the tide of, victory. There bae
never been, in all the history of this
country. Such a battle of giants. The
republicans with the money power
behind them have made a desperate
struggle for supremacy during the
past few months.
But they have been met by the
democrats with all the chivalry and
sentiment of right, truth and justice
and that incomparable leader, William
Jennings Bryan, as the undaunted
leader. The fight is nearing a close
and Tuesday night will tell the story.
The hearts of the great muss of Amer
ican people have throbbed with more
anxiety over the issue of the contest
than ever before during the years that
have passed.
; If we , are not btdly deceived the
result of tlie/count <■! the ballots will
. show that Bryan and free silver have
> won by a great and unprecedented
majority. Then, with a democratic
! c< ngrees at his back, we may expect
THE BOMS TRIBUNE. BATLBDAY, OCIOdEic 3), 1886.
the beginning of an era of reform that
will give us a greater amount of hap
piness and prosperity than we have
ever known. The outlook is fair for
such a glorious result of our labors.
Georgia has done her full share in
the mighty contest and is more en
titled to the proud distinction of being
exiled the Empire State of the South
thafa ever before. Such has been her
solid and unflinching attitude that
the enemies of democracy have felt
that it was almost useless to spend any
money in Georgia. No matter what
direction others may take our com
monwealth preserves the integrity of
her motto, “Wisdom, Justice and
Moderation.”
SONGS AND SCENES.
Goodbye!
Thou cam’st when the spring of my life was
expanding,
Thy face like a star shed its light through
the gloom;
And all the sweet summer a new understand
ing
Made radiant my heart withits beauty and
bloom,
▲nd now that the tenderer romance is ended
And chill winds of winter regretfully sigh,
With hope and despair and devotion all
blended
Reluctant I bid thee a tender goodbye!
Goodbye! May the angels of God who have
crowned thee
With charms that outrival the daughters of
men,
With every protection and comfort surround
thee
Thou queen among women, sweet flowei of
Coden!
▲nd I through the distance of sad separation,
Will treasure each luminant glance of thine
eye
And blend with the burden of each invocation,
A prayed for rich blessings upon thee, good
bye ! i
Thus kindly, with smiles on my lips as I
leave thee,
Such anguish as mine is tco deep for all
tears,
For never with sorrowing glance would I
grieve thee
Nor shadow thy soul with forebodings or
fears.
I’ll pluck thee a rose of sirace that is loyal,
A token of friendship’s unperishing tie
That binds unto thy heart a heart that is loyal
And bid thee a lingering, loving goodbye!
Goodbye! All the beautiful years that have
perished,
Since first to thy feet I a wandeter came.
Are filled with the wonderful dreams that I
cherished, e
There is nothing so sweet as the sound of
thy name!
Giodbye! May no shadow of sorrow and sad
ness .
Ever darken the realm where thy pathway
shalt lie;
Bit beam with the grandeur and glory and
gladness
Os God’s benedictions, My Lady, goodbye!
Montgomery M. Folsom.
My Friends, The Birds.
Here right recently one of those beau
tiful birds that are to be found in the
old plum orchards in the fall of the
year, has taken up his quarters among
the yellow leaved peachtrees in the rear
of my home on the hill.
The sotg that he sings carries me
back to the old life among the pines.
Fancy reverts to the old plantation
homeaudlfind myself dreaming over
the dreams of childhood’s brighter day
as I listen to his cheery note
This morning I awoke and heard his
sing and I thought that I was once
miredown among the pines with the
Southwind hymning a symphony in my
eirs.
While he was still carolling his ma
tutinal lay I beard the noisy chatter of
a pair of jay birds among the boughs of
the rock pine chat stands on. the hill
above my cottage home, a sort of re
minder of my youthful experiences.
And immediately my mind ran back
to a recent trip which I made to the old
country. I saw the flash of tho scarlet
maples and the gold lace of the cypress
leaves, and I heard the moaning of the
wind among the solitudes.
It was just at dawn when I arrived
there and instead of finding all well as
I was wont to find it, there was my
poor, old father, weak and ill, and bed
ridden.
• ——
All day long I hung around his bed
side and talked over old times and did
my best to cheer him up, I know, of my
"own experience, how much a kindly
word of cheer goes to help one when he
is so weak and prostrated.
I think that my visit did him good
for he was more hopeful and even ral
lied sufficient to tell me some of the
good stories that he had heard since
last I saw him.
Poor old man! For many winters he
has kept up a brave heart and has tried
to do his duty to God and man and I
want him to live now to enjoy all the
fruits of his toil and oare and devotion.
And when I heard the birds singing
this morning I offerad up a prayer to
heaven to send him the same sort of
sweet comforters in his illness and de
spondency to warm his aged heart.
It is altogether different with one in
whose veins the hot blood of youthful
ambitions is still throbbing and whose
pulses are still keeping time tn the me
lodies of hope.
Youth is so heedless and so occupied
with the contemplation of its' own
dreams and aspirations that it is too
prone to neglect the old and infirm who
are no longer able to participate in the
conflict of life. j
But I hope - when I turn my face
toward the South again I shall find
things brighter and more joyous. I
hope to feel that I shall meet the old]
man hale and hopeful with the glint of
October on his brow and the light of
manhood’s Indian summer in his eyes.
Then I shall be able to join in the song
of the winds aud the carol of the birds
and my heart will be filled with joy.
Life has grown very sweet to me dur
ing these later years. Its opportunities
are constantly unfolding their finer
prospects to my kindling vision. Feel
ing that there is so much good that I
can do in the world, I want to be up and
doing with a heart for any fate. Al
though my journey was a sad one I shall
take heart from the sorrowful part of it
and strengthen my spirit to endure.
Sweet monitors! Theresia nothing
higher and holier among created things
than the inspiration of the bird notes.
I am glad that they have taken up their
abode around my home. So long as I
listed to their songs I can bear up under
the toils and trials of the day with more
fortitude. And when I hear their sweet
songs I can think of the wan, worn face '
of the aged man in his far away home
with more hopeful feelings and the
mists of regret will not hang so heavy
on my heart as I hear their hopeful
chanting. M. M. F.
The populists of Bartow county will
not follow Dr. Felton into the ranks
of the republican party. The princi
-ples on which McKinley and Hobart
stand means everything to which
they are opposed and there can be no
sort of consistency in any one (going
over to them. If McKinley and
Hobart are right the populists have
all along.been wrong and a vote cast
for them means this and nothing
more nor less.—Cartersville News.
There is going to be no walk-over
Tuesday, and the side which can
bring out the biggest vote will tete
the torches in the procession. Let
the democrats remember what they
have at stake.
Only 6,264 women registered under
the new Illinois election law in Chic
ago. Probably the size of their feet
prevented the balance of them from .
securing standing room.
There is no dearth of candidates for
the supreme court, but of all we do
not think there are any better men
announced than Judge Branham
Paulding New Era.
The campaign button will cease to
be of value save as a souvenir, after
Tuesday and a great many quietly
disposed people will feel more at ease.
A Voice In The Rain.
O summer rain I O sobbing-rain!
What grief has crept from its dim lar.
And seeks to find a voice in thine—
Wlxoms uurden thou must bear?
The sun is wrapt iu clouds of gray,
The earth lies still and cold;
My fancies winder through thy mist
Forlorn as sheep without thy fold.
O summer rain! O sobbing rain!
Methinks thy voice of woe
Is that of souls whose tarnished scrolls
Os deeds hath brought them low,
The«r summer days are sad and gray.
Their mist wrapt sun is cold;
They’re doomed to wander here always,
Forlorn as sheep without the fold.
And, making moan in undertone,
1 hear thy voice in thine
O Bummer rain! O sobbing rain!
1 feel their grief is mine.
. —Edna Cain.
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proval as at the pres
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man in North Georgia
possessed of intelli
gence and means reads
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ROME. GA.
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. NEW YORK. MANAGER.
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The Prices Are Reduced
But there is no reduction in the quality
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* 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 Glasses 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
chat will compaie favorably with the stocks usually kept in much
larger cities.
WEDDING PREESNTS in Steiling Silver, and fancy goods of alt
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 cxll and examine my stock whether you buy or not.
Polite attention. Very respectfully,
a.
THE ROME COAL COMPANY
JMCXraXJ A-GtJSJXTTSI
DEALERS in—
Best Steam I Domestic Coal
HEvfRY G. SMITH, Manager.
Down Town Yard Cor. 2d Ave &E. 2d St.) Pnmo Po
Up Town Yard Cor. 6th Ave & Broad St. J llUlllvj UCL
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..
Office 11 Broad Street. H. G. SMITH, Manager.
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W. P. SIMPSON, Pres. LD. FORD, Vice-Pres. T. J. SIMPSON, Cashier
EXCHANGE BANK OF ROME.
ZFLOIUHEJ,
STOCK, SIOO,OOO
Accounts of firms, corporations and individuals solicited. Special att> ntiou
given to colleCtipns. Money loaned on real estate or other good securities.
Prompt and courteous attention to customers.
Board oi Diroctor».
A. R. SULLIVAN, _ J. A. GLOVER, *
C. A. HIGHT, 1. D. FORD,
W. P. SIMPSON. ;