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It was a hard fight bnt a glorious
victory.
Walsh oh Howell is all right, but
how about Howell on Walsh?
It is claimed for the battleship Mas
sachusetts that she has no superior
in the world.
The Cuthbert
is for Branham,(Shannon and Kiddoo
for supreme court justices.
Tom Watson ,has managed to get a
large amount of advertising, but the
contracts are rapidly expiring.
Hurrah for Maddox! Let the glad
tidings roll from the’ Raccoon moun
tains to the Chattahoochee fiver.
There is one consolation. The $50,-
000 spent by Hanna in Georgia could
not have fallen into better hands.
The pops and 'rads of the Seventh
district can now help themselves to
tle warm crow of the democratic
roosters!
The minstrel troupe should be
dubbed the museum for the collection
and preservation of indigent and in
firm jokes.
The New York Sun can now lake a
header over the name of Hut Jenkins,
speaker of the Georgia house of rep
resentatives.
Macon had two circuses;at the same
time yesterday and.a lot of Maconites
thought that they had woke up in the
corridors of the Kimball house.
The lightning has been striking
with such frequency In Georgia Os
late that the lightning rod venders
have retired from the business.
It is claimed that piles of gold are
hoarded in old stocking. In some Os
the new fall styles of hosiery there is
something more precious than gold.
Richmond county wants a reforma
tory. We knew that Charlie and Hal
and Pat .were rollicking youths, but
we had no idea it had come to that
pass.
Clay may be the name of the next
senator bur about half a dozen dis.
tiogiiished cil izens will be known by
the name of Mud within the next ten
days. ,
Since the opening of the game
season the Macon rounders have
brushed up their packs and counted
their chips and are ready for all
comers.
MADDOX A WINNER.
The Seventh Congressional district
has redeemed herself from every taint
I of populism, republicanism and inde
pendentism and John W. Maddox is
re elected. He is not only re-elected,
but by a bigger majority than he was
given in 1894. There is no ground fcr
a contest this time and the federal
government is $2,000 better off on that
score.
It is not the fault of the opponents
of honest government that he was
not defeated. They concentrated all
their engeries to encompass his defeat.
But they found in him a foeman
worthy of their steel, a man without
fear and without reproach, who met
them at everj point and defied them
to do their worst.
No champion of true democracy
ever had a harder fight on his hands
and none ever went into the fight
moreTearlessly nor sustained himself
more courageously in the cause which
lie represented. He felt that he was
right land bold and undaunted he
threw down the gauntlet and met the
enemy as it had never been met
before.
We congratulate Judge Maddox on
his great victory. He has nearly, if
not over, doubled his previous maj
ority which shows that the people of
the Seventh Congressional district are
ready to recognize true merit and to
reward those who deserve their con
fidence. It is a signal rebuke to the
malcontents who were ready to sacri
fice everything to consummate his
defeat.
To Hon.JWilliam J. Neel, chairman
of the congressional committee, and
those who supported him in the glor
ious work which he has done in this
campaign, we offer our sincerest con
gratulations and they are entitled to
a rising vote of thanks for their acti
vity and untirizing zeal for democracy
and the common cause of good men
all over’the country.
The struggle is ended and although
it looks as if the national republican
ticket may have, we are still gratified
to know >hat old Georgia is everlast
ingly democratic, and if McKinley is
elected there will be a solid democra
tic delegation of congressmen from
Georgia to help defend rights of the
plain people of the United States
against unwise or inimical legislation-
Three cheers for John W. Maddox
and the democracy of Georgia!
A BRIGHT FUTURE.
No man who has been mentioned in
the senatorial contest has a brighter
future or a clearer record than Hon.
Hal T. Lewis, of Greensboro. He ha ß
been a staunch and unwavering sup
porter of democracy all his life and at
the opening of the present campaign
he achieved more prominence than
ever by the part he took in the Chic
ago convention which caused the
country to ring with his name.
If the members of the Georgia leg
islature should see fit to honor him
by electing him to fill the position
occupied by Hon. John B. Gordon,
and virtually vacated by the death of
Hon. Charles F. Crisp, the mantle of
statesmanship could not fall on worth
ier shoulders and we feel assured that
he would fill the position with all the
dignity and ability requisite to his
exalted station. *
flis work during the present cam
paign has endeared him to the democ
racy of Georgia and he stands today
the peer of any man in the state in
point of fidelity to his party and his
people and on the score of ability and
sound judgment, he has no superior
in Georgia. No man can predict what
sort of a turn affairs will take in
Atlanta but within the next ten days
somebody will be chosen.
The contest has been a hot one and
grows warmer as the time for the
election of a United States senator
draws nearer. All sorts of influences
are at work among the politicians to
secure the choice of their several
favorites. In case Colonel Lewis
should be chosen there is one thing
well assured and that is that the state
will be well represented in the senate
during his term.
The state needs good, honest rep
resentation by men of courage and
ability and who are in full sympathy
with the measures of reform that
have been advocated by the party
during the present campaign There
should be no division of sentiment
among our senators and representa
tives in the iiational legislature, but
they should i o there as a unit for the
good of the country at large and for
their native state in particular.
Colonel Lewis has time and Again
been offered positions of honor and
trust, but ins loyalty to his friends
and to what he considered the best
interests of his partv, has caused him
to decline on every occasion these hon
ore unsought arid spontaneously
offered. Bis loyalty and unselfish
patriotism commend him to the peo
pie and the immense pleasure brought
to bear upon him by his friends has
induced him to enter this race. But
whether he win or lose, he has a bril
liant future before him and there is
no honor within the gift of the people
to which he may not justly aspire.
THIS HOME TdIBUNE. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMbEIi 4, 18»6.
SONGS AND SCENES.
One Night Id Rome. 9
Your eyes are bright, your step as light
As on that we*] remembered night
When on yon gras-yliank above
In accents low you whispered love;
The young moon on her gilded throne,
The sky with starry jewels sown,
Irradiating heaven's blue dome
That night in Rome, that night in Rome!
Earth has no bliss as rare as this,
The rapture of that first warm kiss
Heaven hath no blessed joy supreme
So exquisite as that wild dream.
The years may come, the years may go.
Yet ’mid love’s embers burning low
I still recall, where’e I roam,
That night in Rome, that night in Rome!
I knew not yet when thus we met
The pleasure, pain, joy or regret.
And so as waters seek the sea
My life's wellsprings flowed out to thee;
▲nd still remains the channel wide
Although the springs of hope be dried,
Held sacred through the years to come
The memory of that night in Borne!
When sleepy swoon the days in June,
When strange heart-haunting breezes croon
When soothing southwinds softly sweep
Each vague and distant mountain steep,
And on the billowy waves there lies
The glamour of the summe r skies,
yind leaping waters flash and foam,
I call to mind that night in Rome,
The stars may shine in skies divine
When earth and heaven their charms com
bine,
But nevermore roy soul shall thrill
With joys like those, and may the chill
Os sorrows pain, for broken vow,
Your heart as mine is aching now,
Lone wanderer afar from home
Still dreaming of that night in Rome!
Montgomery M. Folsom.
My Friend, the Ra’nmuk'r,
The favorite toast of the true blue
Scot is “Here’s to oursel’san’ there’s
nain like us!” That is just the way
I feel about a certain friend of mine.
“Here’s tothe Rainmaker and there’s
none like him!”
'I hat fellow actually went down to a
wire grass town and lighted and wa
tered the city on his own responsibility,
and to understand the magnitude of the
undertaking you just ought to know the
town as 1 used to know it.
When he landed in the town, iu re
sponse to a postal card, he found that
the people had for a long tim® wan
dered in darkness and that they wanted
light.
They were not content with the light
wood knot torches that they had carried
ever since three months after the cam
paign of 1838, when they learned, by
accident, that Andrew Jackson had been
elected president. By the .way, they
stillwote for him down there.
True, the wealthy owners of two
room houses had learned to use tin kero
sene lamps, sparingly, bnt some towns
man had been elected to the Georgia
legislature and arrived there afoot,
along toward the shank of the session,
and the electric lights took his eye.
When be got back home he called a
solemn smoke feast and he and his fel
low citizens decided with great unaim
ity that their happiness would never be
complete without electric lights, and so
the scheme was adapted by a rising vote
and a refilling of pipes.
Then uprose the learned legislator
and harangued his hearers like they do
in Atlanta when they want something
that some other fellow has got. He
told them that the blind tiger and
“peep-hole and-three-knocks” business
was on the wane ajd that the quality
of the sorghum was not what it used to
be, and proposed that they try water
awhile.
Some of bis hearers turned pale for
they had heard about all those people
being drowned in the flood and they
had a constitutional dread of water, so
they compromised on voting to build
the water works first, and if they looked
all right, they could try for water after
wards. If not the water works would
make a splendid sorghum dispensary.
My friend the Rainmaker is a genial
man and a thorough gentleman, bat
when he lauded in town and was asked
to build an electric light plant with not
a streak of electricity nearer than
heaven, and to construct a system of
water works on a sand ridge as dry as
the throat of a Josh Levering ward
heeler on election day, his mind mis
gave him.
“You build the water yrorks, ’’said
they, ‘ ‘and if they look all- right, we
can get the water. There’s a lot of it
about 350 feet below us and we can tap
the fountains of the earth if we think
that it will do.”
Well, the Rainmaker, went to work 1
on the two plants. That was away back
iu the spring when the catfish were bit
ing like Gordon county moonshiners at
a horse swappia* convention and the
fox squirrels were chasing each other
over the young barn in the piney woods.
The Rainmaker is the most energetic
man imaginable and the, persistency
with which he declined all offers to at
tend the smoke feasts and catfish skin
nings of the natives and poshed forward
the work surprised them. Tney had
not expected such enterprise as it takes
them ten years to settle a hog stealing
case iu a justice court in tha t land of
ease and comfort.
When tbe autumn leaves began to
turn red and yellow on the possum haws
r, : ■’
and the scarlet bamboo berries flashed
through the lacery of the cypress trees,
the thing was complete. In the mean
time all the bores in tbe town bad set to
boring and a continuous stream of arte
sion, or “artistic” water, as they call it
had been secured.
At an appointed day the natives from
up the creek and the coon hunters from
across the river, were invited to attend
a great smoke feast and rosin chewing,
to see the two plants put in operation.
“Them’s the ourusest plants that uver
I seed,” said one coon hunter as he
changed aides with his rosin, * ‘did they
jist come up an, grow so?”
“Oh, no Mr. Rainmaker, from Rome,
Georgy, planted ’em,” replied the ex
lawmaker, “and they’s jist the[dadblas
tinest crap that was nver raised on san
dy land.”
And then they all tasted of the water
and smelt of the ends of the carbons to
see if there was any fire and brimstone
about them, and a smile broke over
their solemn visages that was heard out
to Danville.
Dudley Hughes was invited to make
them a speech and he dwelt on the vir
tues of water for lavatory and laundry
purposes and told them that it
would not injure their constitutions to
take a little internally occasionally.
I am waiting anxiously for the Rain
maker to return and relate his experi
ences. The last time I saw him he said
that there were the finest people aid had
the most thriving and prosperous town
in the state outside of Rome, but I fear
he has contracted the water habit down
there.
A private message from Macon has
just been handed me which reads:
“Macon, Ga., Nov. 3—The town
you bet on for Bryan gone for Levering
unanimously. Fault of your Rainma
ker. Taught people to drink water.
Contracted habit. All is lost.
Kennedy.”
That is no more than what I<j pe it
ed. Since these Rome pen Jei h ve
learned to drink water tbe V 1 ite 3 ar
Line of steamers has had a hi: d tim > of
it and I fear Captain Seay v 11 re n irk
“Ye gods and little fishes,” abox this
time next year when he fir de ad his
imported bass with their fins turned
heavenward in the dry bed of the Oos
tanaula. M. M. F.
Cap Joyner is about to sever his
connection with tbe Atlanta
fire department and there is
weeping and wailing and gnashing
of teeth. Rome has no need to
be jealous Jof Atlanta or any other
city on that score for we have as good
a chief and as fine a department as
Mr. Anybody.
Col. James Hamilton Lewis, of
Georgia, will be tbe next congress,
man from the district of Seattle,
Msishington. Georgians are like
Irishmen, always at the front, the
wide world over.
In Alabama they offer a standing
reward for any one caught cheating
at the election. What an opportunity
for tb° Atlanta detective agencies to
accumulate wealth was lost yester
day.
The hunting season has opened and
tbe amateur city sportsman hieth
himself forth at dawn and shooteth
tbe clay colored pig in self defense
before the going down of the sun.
The neatest piece of work that has
been done in Georgia is the naming
of young Charles R. Crisp to serve out
the unexpired term of his distinguished
father in congress.
It was announced from London a
few days ago that the stock of foreign
wheat in the principal British ports
was not sufficient to feed the country
a fortnight.
That O'd Frat rnlty Pin.
I’m a plain old business plodder who don’t
give a rap for frills.
And I’m worried less by fashion than I am
bv Mocks and'bills,
Though my wife insists that in me Nature
planned a perfect man.
I’m afraid that I’m not building in accord
ance with that plan.
I have never owned a watch or worn a chain,
or fob, or ring,
And, in fact. I’m out of sympathy with all
that sort of thing.
I indulge no taste for baubles. Yet what
thoughts come thronging in
When I see some college youngster “flash’’
my old “frat” pin!
At the sight of that old emblem I forget that
I am gray
And my pulse beats just as strongly as upon
that far-off day
When a band of student brothers taught me
mystic grip and sign.
And I rode their goat in triumph—and that
shining badge was mine.
Father Time has not been idle and those
“boys” of long ago
Now are scattered far and widely, and their
beads are crowned with snow;
Butffieir hearts. I know, beat warmly, for
they keep alive within
All the principles embodied in that old “frat”
pin.
How my thoughts go flying backward to
youth’s iridescent day,
When the world lay all before me and Hope
beckoned 01: the way 1
Now another generation claims the center of
the stage.
While I’m ready to write “finis” at the bottom
of my page.
I’ll confess a strange emotion sets my very
sonl aglow
As I greet again by proxy those old “boys” of
long ago
How it starts my nerves a-tingllng! How it
warms my heart within
When I couple past and present with that old
“frat” pin. —Frank S. Pixley,
11! MM DRIVING -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 lie Reduced
But there is no reduction in the quality
of our goods, nor iu the alert service
which we grant as an attractive feature
of our business.
O'Neill Manufacturing Company .
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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.
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I carry a laige and well selected st< ck of ail kinds of goods that are
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larger cities. •
WEDDING FREESNTs in Steiling silver, at d f «ncy goods of all'
kinds. I also make a spe. iahy <>f Repsirh g Watcles, Clocks and Jew
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