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THE DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
FOB 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. DALEY,
of Johnson.
For Representative in the Fifth-Fifth
Congress of the United States from
the SeventhjCongressional Dis
trict of Georgia:
JOHN W. MADDOX,
of Floyd.
SIXTEEN PACES
A vote for Maddox will be another
brick in the wall of solid democracy.
Ave November, October! The
sign of Indian summer is drawing to a
close. •
Hanna’s barrel and Felton’s flop
will not figure in the closing contest
Tuesday.
Turn out and cast your vote for
John W. Maddox and honest democ
racy Tuesday.
The electien of Bob Berner as presi
dent of the senate will meet with the
approval of the people of Georgia.
The populists leaders are trying a
very slick dodge but “the best laid
plans o’ mice and men gang apt aglee.”
John W. Maddox can continue to
write M. C. after his name for the
next two years.—Ringgold New
South.
Nothing should prevent a demo
cratic voter to turn out and cast his
vote for Hoi,. John W. Maddox on
Tuesday next.
No crown of thorns, no cross of gold,
no president to Hanna sold, is a cam
paign song that will appeal to every
true Georgian.
One more day and then comes the
election. Let every man who favors
honest government turn out and vote
for the democratic nominees Tuesday.
All eyes are turned on the Seventh
district. We have fought a good
fight against fearful odds and now let
ns round up with a ground swell for
democracy. •
The Tribune goes forth on its mis
sion of good works for the people of
Rome and the democracy .of the
Seventh district today. Read every
line in its news, editorial, society, and
advertising columns.
•Postal card or no card the Hon.
John W. Maddox will be the next
congressman from ths Seventh land
any man who expects to be the bene
ficiary of his able and influential ser
vices should not allow his friends to
cheat him out of this service. Let
eveny man be just and honest with
each other. —Buchanan Banner.
THE SENATORSHIP.
The ambition of any man to occupy
a seat in the United States senate is a
perfectly laudable one. As to the
qualifications of the applicant for
such an honor the people must be the
judges. Governor Atkinson’s masterly
leadership in his two campaigns cer
tainly entitles him to the highest rec
ognition on* the part of the people of
Georgia and his career has stamped
him as a leader among men.
None will gainsay his reputation
as a fearless, painstaking and patriotic
leader. He is in such a position of
responsibility before the people of the
state that he should be able to deter
mine as to whether his race for the
federal senatorship might work good
or evil to the democratic party. If
there is danger of its proving detri
mental to the cause be is, of all men,
in the best position to judge and can
govern his actions accordingly.
If, in entering the race, his candi
dacy will work to his own as well as
to the public good then by virtue of
his re-election to a second term as
governor of the state he is in the
direct line of promotion. The sena
torship has been made vacant through
the retirement of Senator Gordon
and the lamentable death of Hon.
Charles F. Crisp, the brave and loyal
leader who had been selected by pop
ular vote as the man for the position
and whose election would have fol
lowed had he lived.
If the candidacy of Governor Atkin
son will not jeoperdize the interests
of the democracy of Georgia then he
is justified in the feeling that he may
as well receive his promotion now as
later on. The exigencies of the sit
uation must be well understood by
him and we believe that he realizes
their full significance and feels that
he is not violating any trust or obli
gation resting upon him to the people
of Georgia in entering the race.
OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS. "
The report which will be represented
to the Georgia legislature by State
School Commissioner Glenn is one
that deserves the most careful con
sideration. There is no question that
will come up for discussion before
that body that will be of more im
portance to the public at large than
that of giving a generous support to.
the country schools. The hope of
our future lies in the advancement of
the cause of education.
It must be apparent to every intelli
gent citizen that if Georgia is to keep
abreast of the other states of the union
her children must have all the advan
tages of a school system that is as
good as the best. The public schools
of the state are far from being what
they should be. In some counties
the condition has been vastly improved
but in the majority of them the old
slip shod methods of poor school
houses, low grade teachers and an
insufficiency of text books still pre
vail.
Commissioner Glenn proposes that
each county shall levy a local tax for
the support of the schools and he be
lieves that the great majority of the
people are in favor of such a law. The
counties which have good schools
maintain them in this manner and a
small pro rata tax added to the money
that is now received from the state
would be sufficient to support the
schools for at least six months in the
year.
In our opinion it would be a good
plan for the state to furnish the books
as well as to assist in paying the
teachers. Better schools would invite
immigration and value
of property would be more than
an offset to the in the
rates of taxation and the rural dis
tricts would soon possess the advan
tages now enjoyed by the towns in the
way of higher education.
A SPLENDID CAREER ENDED.
When Colonel Charles Iverson
Graves drew his last breath yesterday
morning a splendid and striking ca
reer was brought to a close. Notwith
standing the long and arduops ser
vices rendered to his country, his in.
nate modesty shone out superbly and
no man ever heard him boast of a sin
gle achievement in his life of vicissi
tudes.
To his friends he was loyal and true
and to His family he was the soul of
gentleness and devotion. Those who
enjoyed an intimate -acquaintance
with him hardly knew whether most
to admire the soldier,! respect the
scholar or love the man. His was a
many sided character and every curve
and angle reflected the sunshine of
his faith in God.
During the heyday of his youth he
ploughed the seas as a valiant and
liberty loving American, ambitious
only for his country’s good. In bis
later days he unbuckled his sword
and ploughed the soil of his native
land With the same patience and for
titude that, he had ever displayed on
flood and field.
His was a remarkable life and the
simple recouufal of his experiences
would have been as fascinating as a
fairy tale. He lias gone to bis reward,
full’of years mid honors, and the
friends who mourn his loss will re
joice in the blessed revelations that
» re in store for him beyond the stars
cf heaven.
THE BOMB TBIBUNE. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER J, 1896.
THE CLOSE OF THE CONTEST.
Next Tuesday will mark the closing
of one of the most memorable politi
cal campaigns that this country has
ever experienced. On that day the
people of the United States will select
a president and vice-president by vot
ing for the electors from each state as
provided for in the constitution. The
names of the democratic electors for
Georgia will be found at our masthead.
But a matter of fully as much im
portance to the people is the election
of the congressman which occurs on
the same day. Here is the Seventh
congressional district it is a matter of
vital importance since we are menaced
by such a conspiring combination of
the opponents of democracy and hon
est government. If we fail to elect a
man in sympathy with reform meas
ures the consequences will be disas
trous.
With all their boasted ideas of re
form and their persistent advocacy of
the free silver doctrine the populists
have forsaken the principles on which
their party was founded. and their
leaders have-gone boldly into the re
publican camp with the avowed pur
pose of defeating the democratic party
al any sacrifice. They are doing this
solely through their prejudice against
the democratic party.
We trust that every democratic
voter and every adherent of any other
party who is not blinded by malice
and spite will go to polls and cast his
ballot for Bryan and Sewall and for
the Honorable John W. Maddox as
representative from the Seventh dis
trict. The man who fails to do his
duty <,n that day will fail in the most
sacred allegiance which he bears to
bis party, his country and his people.
THE SUPREME COURT JUSTICES.
It seems that a good many people
are laboring under the mistake that
the supreme court, justices are still to
be elected by the legislature. At the
last state election, Oct. 7, an amend
ment to the constitution was voted
upon and carried, making a radical
change in the manner of electing the
justices as well asinthenumber which
will constitute the court hereafter.
The election will be, by popular
vote, on the third Wednesday in De
cember. which is the 16th day of that
month. Hereafter there will be two
judges of the Supreme court elected
every two years by the people at the
same time with Governor and State
House officers, so as to leave at all
times, four experienced judges on the
bench. Under the new law the court
will sit in two divisions, each- having
full and equal jurisdiction, and when
necessary the whole cpurt will sit to
gether.
Under the constitutional amend
ment just adopted three new judges
will be elected, and also a fourth
judge to fill the vacancy caused by the
expiration of Judge Lumpkin’s term
as a member of the old court. The
three new judges will cast lots to de
termine which shall have the short,
the intermediate and the long term.
One of them will therefore be eleete'd
for two, one for four, and the other
for six years.
Under the resolution of the State
Executive Committee passed October
19, each county will on the 14th of
November, in mass meeting or pri
mary, as the County Executive Com
mittees mqy decide, appoint two dele
gates for each representative in the
lower house of the legislature to a con
vention to meet in Atlanta outbelStb
day of November, to nominate four
candidates for judges as above stated.
THE GUBERNATORIAL SITUATION.
In case the Georgia legislature de
cides to still further honor Governor
Atkinson by elevating him to a seat
in the United States senate, which
seems to be not improbable at this
writing, we trust that General Clem
ent A. Evans will be chosen by the
democratic party of the state as the
candidate for governor.
There is no man in the state who
deserves more at the hands of the
people and the party than this loyal
citizen. He has displayed his patriot
ism by acquiescing in the decision of
the majority on every occasion and
has given his unfaltering support to
the chosen leaders of the party in
every emergency without a murmur.
When other men of less chivalrous
natures would have sulked in the
camp or gone over to the opposition
he remained steadfast to the faith and
fought for the preservation of the
principles of the party with all tbe
ardor that he displayed during the
civil war in the service of his country
on many a bard fought field.
We believe that the great majority
of the people of Georgia will join
heartily in any movement that shall
tend to confer honor and distinction
upon this valiant soldier and public
spirited citizen who has endeared
himself to them by his disinterested
devotion to his country in every po
sition in which he has been placed.
Judge Branham is receiving very
flattering mention in all parts of the
state for a place on the s ipreme
bench.—Acworth Post.
I S9N6S ANO SCENES|
A 8-*ng Os Gra-Fg,.
Take courage, oh, thou soul of mine,
Leave off thy vain foreboding.
Why o’er the painful past repine
'Neath memory's constant goading?
Hast thou not read in skies above
In every star a sermon?
And quaffed from rippling springs of love
Sweet as the dews of Hermon!
The steadfast heart is often'tried
And through each\rial chastened.
And through each weakness purified
And its redemption hastened.
Forget the errors of the past
Efface the cruel story
No shadow of this earth shall last
Through God’s eternal glory.
The world is filled with woes and wrongs
No life is purely stainless,
From deepest sorrows come the songs
That make death nearer painless.
The summer sun will shine again
When we no more remember
Thetaddening drip of dreary rain
On deal leaves of November.
In life the few unfailing friends
Steadfast in every trouble
In consolation make amends
For.many a vanished bubble.
For thou and I, oh, burdened heart,
By storms of sorrow riven,
Some day the shadowy veil shall part
That hides the dawn of heaven I
Montgomery M. Folsom.
The Closing Days.
October is no more. The glorious
dream of Indian Summer is ended and
the wild winds of November will soon
wail out the requiem of the dying year.
Sweet have been the dreamful days and
the starry nights of this autumn time
and I have revelled in their resplendent
loveliness, but the glory is departed and
as I wander among the woodlands I feel
as one who treads alone the banquet
halls of Nature all deserted and the
spirit of melancholy is deep upon me.
Oh, why should I be so accursed? I
who have been given eyes to see the
glory of the Creator in the works of His
mighty hands must suffer more keenly
than they who reck not of the beauty
of the treasures of earth! It is a legacy
that I have inherited from my youth up
and which will haunt me all the days
of my life. There is no escape from it.
Though I flee to the uttermost parts of
the earth its presence will haunt me
still.
Not all the wealth and fame and
glory of this world can compensate for
the wild heart hunger that wrings the
lifeblood from the bosom of one on
whose path the shadow of a great sor
row has fallen. And when I contem
plate the dying year all the depth of the
tragedy yawns before me. The heri
tage of melancholy has embittered my
existence and I shall go down to the
grave with a sigh of relief that the agony
is over. The saddest part is that life is
so beautiful.
I love the violets of springtime for
their purity and beauty and I rejoice
in the hopeful glint of the morning glo
ries ot cummer for their gladsome pres
ence. Even the rich tints of autumn
quicken my pulses and the dead leaves
of winter appeal to my sympathies for
my life is filled with the withered petals
of flowers that bloomed too late and
with the blighted fruits that promised
so much and failed to reach the matu
rity of fulfillment.
Out yonder lie the everlasting hills
unmoved by all the commotion and un
rest of mortality. How I envy them
their quietude and peace. I, poor child
of the night, must go up and down seek
ing rest and finding none. Yet I have
dreamed golden dreams of a higher and
nobler existence than this. I have had
glimpses of high ideals and noble aims
and I have rejoiced in their ineffable
grandeur and glory in days that are no
more.
But lam glad, after all, that I have
bad these aspirations. Maybe they will
come again in renewed strength and
beauty for the glory of God is not like
tbe evanescent splendors of this world
So I will pick up my staff and plunge
again into the wilderness of work. That
iff-my salvation. My dreams must he
my luxuries and the realities of life
must fill my waking hours. If I make
mistakes I will ask Him to forgive me
and I will not doubt His power and
goodness toward tbe sons of men. ,
Sometimes I get to thinking of tbe
fierce spirit of David of old and how his
life was one long straggle against foes
without and foes within and bow, in his
melancholy moods he wailed out his
.woes in despair and anguish, and yet
millions of those who have come after
him have found comfort and consola
tion in those sorrowful songs. The
sweetest psalms of life are written with
the very heart’s blood of the singers.
That is one of the mysteries of provi
«■
deuce.
If singing breath or echoing chord
were given to every hidden pang such
streams of melody would be ponced
forth that would prove as sad as earth
and as sweet as dreams of heaven. Let
the cowardly spirit ufinge before its
trials. It remains for tbe fearless heait
to face every foe and to come out a con
queror in the end. A man would never
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be able to prove his courage who had
never been put on trial. One who is
truly "brave will not give up to regrets
for the pastor forebodings for tbe fu
ture. ,
Wail winds of November! Your
moans will not always find an echo in
my heart. My soul shall live wnere
your repinings are heard uo more.
Farewell, sweet season of Indian Sum
mer. I know not whether it will be for
these weary eyss to gaze on your splen
dors again. But come weal, come woe,
I shall endeavor to do my duty and ths
rest I will leave to Him who gnardeth
the sparrow in bis flight, My soul is
sad for the touch of a vanished hand
and the sound of a voice that is still.
But there is plenty of work to do. Ave
November, vale October! M. M. F.
—
You are going to vote for Hon. John
W. Maddox for congress—but what is
your neighbor going to do? Talk with
him about it, and see that he votes
right. Hon. John VV. Maddox has ,
been true to his constituents, and has
faithfully represented them iu con
gress. He will be re-elected by a
largely increased majority.—Cedar
town Standard.
The Americus Times-Recorder be
moans the untimely death of the
great and gooci Crisp which has
caused such political anguish and dis
traction. This sentiment will find an
echo in every heart in this great state
of ours.
The Philadelphia Times still persists
in calling Georgia a doubtful state.
And this with a conceded majority of
60,0C0 for Bryan! It will take half a
century for the Philadelphia papers
to catch up with the procession.
Tuesday is the last day in which
you will have an opportunity to ex
press your loyalty to the principles of
true democracy by casting a ballot for
the Bryan electors and John W.
Maddox.
Tbe populists leaders who have
gone over to the enemy will live to
regret the step they have taken.
Democracy and honest government
will continue to rule in Georgia.
The State press seems to be a unit
in favor of devoting the time usually
taken up in discussing the dog law to
the careful consideration of tl e
Australian ballot.
The Georgia legislature is getting
down to business and the senatorial
race is still the leading issue. It is to
be hoped that- a conservative course
will be pursued.
Georgia will send a delegation to
congress this time of which any state
might be proud. I’ will be made up
of the picked men of the democratic
legions.
The Old Whiskey Bolt’e.
flow sad to me now, seem the press of my
boyhood
When a drink now and then recalls them
a pain
The sewers, the pulleys, the dark dreary pine
wood
And every hated spot, which afforded me
pain
The wide open pate and the tree which stood
by it
The efforts I made to pet in by myself
My bed in the corner, the fireplace niph it
And even the old bottle which sat on the
shelf
The old w'hiskey bottle, the corn whiskey bot
tle
The half empty bottle which sat on the she’s.
The half empty bottle I hailed as a treasure
For often at nipht when returned from the
* field
I found it the source of an exquisite pleasure
The saddest and bitterest that nature can
yield.
> ho* ardent I seized it with hands that were
plowinp
And quickly lost consciousness even of self
Then soon, with the spirits all over me flowin p
And stag’rinp with drunkness, I went from
the shelf,
The old whiskey bottle, the corn whiskey bot
tle.
The half empty bottle which sat on the shelf..
How sweet from the uncorked bottle to receive
it
As p ised in my hand, it inclined to my lips
Not a full blushing goblet could tempt me to
leave it,—
Even yet I remember, how eager those sips
But now. far removed, from the awful situa
tion
A tear of regret, for the poor little elf,
As fancy reverts to my drunken condition
Recalling the bottle, which sat on the shelf
The old whiskey bottle, the corn whiskey bot
tle
The half empty bottle, which sat on the shelf!
R. J 8.
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