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Tuesday’s election was not a walk
over. It was a slop over.
There is one thing certain. We can
stand it. if the rest of the country can.
I -- ■ ■ ....
Hon. John W. Maddox made a
splendid race and has beat'lhe record
in the Seventh.
The Americus Herald has gone Fish
ing of a supreme court justiceship
and its Fish 8 a big one.
The queen has sent a message of
sympathy to the famine sufferers in
India. Thanks, awfully.
Chairmen Jones and Hanna staked
out their claims, but Billie McKinley
camped on hie reservation.
The South Georgia papers declare
that if it is to be Atkinson for the
senate it must be Evans for governor.
There is one consolation We will
not have to read any more free sil er
poetry in some time. It is an ill wind
that blows nobody good.
Col. Azmon Murphey threatens to
keep on running in the Sixth district
until he wins a congressional race. He
must count on breaking the longevity
record.
The press of the whole state has
paid some touching tributes to Col.
Charles Iverson Graves. He was a
brave and courtly gentleman.—Au
gusta Herald.
Editor Stovall’s sixteen page Savan
nah Press was a beauty. His articles
on official trading in Atlanta are vivid
pen pictures es the pitiable political
conditions existing in Georg a.
The Southern railroad authorities
stated some time ago that if McKinley
was elected the company would build
a SIO,OOO passenger depot in Rome,
Bring on your depot, Mr. Spencer.
The latest fad among bicyclists is
the overtaking and stopping of run
away horses by wheelmen. It would
have taken some lively scorching to
have overtaken Tom Watson’s run
away mule Tuesday.
The report comes from Macon that
Editor Charles R. Pendleton, so long
the presiding genius of that sterling
democratic paper, the Valdo 11 Times
ha< accepted an edi'orial position on
the Telegraph. In all the wide range
of Georgia journalism a better selec
tion could not have been made 'and
we shall look for still brighter work
from his. trenchant peb iff his new ar d
broader field
AFTER THE BATTLE.
The result of Tuesday’s election
shows that the republicans have won
in the national election. While that
is a very regrettable result, the peo
ple of the South are better prepared
to accept the inevitable than those of
any other section. Ours are a loyal
people and true. We fought a good
fight, did our duty, and as we did in
that dark era a third of century ago,
so we will do today, push forward
with an indomitable courage and
strive to make the best of the situa
tion.
Our country is one abounding in
natural wealth and immeasurable
rasources. We have naught to fear
so long as we keep up the steady
stride that has marked our progress
and development for thirty years.
The country is full of young men of
spirit and enterprise and we are not a
people to weep over defeat or to be
daunted by disaster. We still have
the solid South, solid as the founda
tions of the everlasting hills for pro
gress and improvement.
We have elected a delegation of'
fearless and free born democrats from
Georgia to look after our interests in
the national legislature. They are
men whom any people would delight
to honor and in whose probity and
good j udgement we may rely implicitly
while we strive to better the condition
tion of our country. We have passed
through the darkest era of financial
depression and we are a great and
free people ready to meet any emer
gency.
It is folly to sit down and grieve
over the failure to realize our antici
pations. Let us go to work with re
doubled energy to bring about an
era of fairer prosperity. What we
purpose we are able to perform. We
have had a good crop year, our farm
ere are in easy circumstances and our
towns are filled with the evidences of
healthy* business activity. There is
no morbidity in the atmosphere of
the South. We have had to face worse
things than the present defeat.
Mr. Bryan fought a good fight. His
work for reform was heroic and the
end ot his career is not yet. There is
a brilliant future before him. He had
to contend against the money power
of the world "and millions of dollars
were required to secure his defeat. He
is a greater man today, in defeat,
than his opponent in the full flush of
victory. He is young, filled with zeal
and ambitious for the good of his
country and he will be heard from
again in the councils of the nation.
Let us keep up a cheerful counten
ance and the same indomitable spirit
of pluck and perseverence that has
sustained us in every hour of trial
will bear us up In working out our
own salvation. We have the happy
consciousness of duty well done and
the prospect of a bright and prosper
ous future. Therefore we have noth
ing to fear if we continue to move
on in the good old way and show
ourselves worthy of the inestimable
gifts that have been bestowed upon
us by a beneficent Providence.
RAILROADS IN THE SOUTH.
Now that commercial and industrial
prosperity are once more apparent in
the South the eyes of capitalists are
being turned in this direction as a
place for profitable investment. There
are untold resources here awaiting*
development and one thing that
retarded the development of this sec
tion is the inadequacy of the facilities
for transportation.
In the recent report- of the Inter
state Commerce Commission some
figures are given relative to the rail
road mileage in different parts of the
country, which show how the South
has been handicapped in its develop
ment by lack of proper transportation
facilities in many of its most fertile
sections. It is remarkable how this
section has so increased in population
and so prospered, keeping up with
most of the Northern(States, although
so poorly supplied with railroads as
compared with other parts of the
country.
The following table shows the num
ber of miles of railroad to each 100
square miles of area in the first col
umn, and to every 10,000 inhabitants
in the second column, of the Southern
States, and constitutes very instruc
tive and suggestive reading just at
this juncture:
Alabama 7.18 22 24
Arkareaa 4.80 20.51
Florida 5.63 69 74
Georgia 8.66 25.24
Kentucky 758 14.16
Louisiana 4.64 17.12
Maryland 13.19 11 35
Miseiaslppi 6.41 17.67
North Carolina 7.08 19.32
Stuth Carolina 8.74 2«.83
TennesseeX 7.43 '6.91
Texas 3.57 38.14
Virginia 8.91 19.13
West Virginia 8.09 23. 8
The State of Massachusetts has 26
miles of railroad to every 100 square
miles of territory, and 861 miles per
10,000 inhabitants Kentucky has but
7.58 miles for each 100 square miles
Illinois has 19 02 miles to each 100
squire miles. The very sma 1 per
centage-of. mileage to the area is a
proof in itself that railroad constru:-
THE ROMK TRIBUNE. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 18H6.
tion is not by any .means overdone in
the South and that many opportuni
ties remain to promote new enter
prises of this chara< ter. In Texas,
for instance, the proportion of mil
eage to area is but 3 57 in 100; in Mis
sissippi it is but 5.41, while Arkansas,
one of the richest states in mineral
and Agricultural products and other
resources, has but a very small mil
eage, 4.80 per 100 square miles.
All this goes to show that there is
room for investment of a lot of sur
plus capital in railroad building in
the South and there is no reason,
with proper management, such as has
been in evidence in regard to the
Southern railroad in the last two or
three years, that railroad investments
should not pay handsomely in the
South.
SONGS AND SCENES.
Under The Maple Treee.
Do you recall that summer night,
Under the maple trees,
High in the heavens the moon shone bright,
Translucent shadows fringed with light;
Lay on the placed brow of night,
Under the silver maple trees?
A peaceful hush lay on the earth,
Under the maple trees,
The wild birds ceased their songs of mirth,
The flood of joy o’er young love s birth
Quenched in ny soul life’s dreary dearth,
Under the silver maple trees!
The murmuring river rolled below,
Under the maple trees,
Such music as the south winds blow,
Your whispered accents sweet and low,
And in your eyes love’s tenderest glow,
Under the silver maple trees!
Yon towering hills reveal that scene,
Under the maple trees,
Though pallid now, then living green
And uulled the waters silvern sheen
And deep the shadows drear and lean.
Under the silver maple trees!
Again I stand where once we stood,
Under the maple trees,
A 11 desolate in weary mood.
While moans the night wind through the wood
And o’er those hopes that perished brood,
Under the silver maple trees!
N j more those kindling eyes divine,
Under the maple trees,
Like k : ndly stars in splendor shine,
Cheering my heart like new made wine,
No more I’ll hold that hand in mine,
Under the silver maple trees!
—Montgomery M. Folsom.
How Kingston was Lost
Nobody outside of those present will
ever know what a terrible struggle
there was at Kingston on election day.
Had it not been for Colonel Davidson
and Captain Cheek the thing would
have gone sheolwestern winding for
McKinley. Those two noble champi
ons saved the town from the prestige of
a republican white wash. Ah, it was a,
terrible struggle and Austerlitz, Mar
engo, Waterloo and the battle of Brushy
creek were tame compared with that
mighty contest.
■
The day broke leaden and grey over
the plains of Kingston. Sullen and
somber were the low flying clouds
whose .skirts blurred the new coat of
paint on the red house on the hillside.
The Rome Express pulled in with a
clanging of bells and a jangling and
spluttering and Conductor Turner no
ticed that his caterer had not put but
one egg in the lunch for two and had
sweetened the can of coffee from Mc-
Kinley’s barrel, and his heart misgave
him.
•
A little later on Captain Allen came
dashing in with a single passenger who
had got on at Woolley. He knew that
his passenger was one of Fleetwood’s
converts by the cut of his eye, and be
went to work to try to win him ovi r
to Bryan, but the passenger smiled a
cruel smile and refused all his over
tures. Hanna had sent him a compli
mentary j. ass over the Allen line from
Woolley to Kingston and return, and
be had sworn to support the paity that
gave him the first railroad ride he ever
had.
The polls opened as silently as breaks
the November dawn over Salliquoy
mountain and the lone voter from Wool
ley walked up and cast his vote for Mc-
Kinley and Hanna. Colonel Dividson
and Captain Cheek were watching the
polls with the keenest anxiety and se
curing an empty Allen line baggage
car Colonel Davidson begun to make a
fervent appeal to the yeomanry of King
ston to stand by their colors.
Fervently and with deep emotion he
pictured the distress and desolation
that would result if the country went
over to the yankees. He explained to
them how they would have to return to
long sweetenin’ in their coffee because
of the tariff on sugar. Fearfully he re
called to their minds Sherman’s march
to the sea when his soldiery stele half
the potatoes out of the banks and then
ruthlessly marched off and left the door
open so that the pigs could go in and de
stroy what was left.
In the meantime Captain Cheek
stood guard at the polls. Three men
were seen walking down the rtilroid
tiack. They bad the slouching g; it of
populists bent on devilment. He stop
ped them and offered to compromise
with them, but they heeded him not
and their three votes swelled the list to
four for McKinley. Then he and Col
onel fiaividson grew desperate.-and sent
twd telegrams, one to Gus Fite and the
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other to Jake Moore and John Vandiver
jointly. “Come and help us save the
town for democracy. Davidson and
Cheek.’’
It was nearing noon when three more
men rode into town. They were un
masked but looked ferociously Hanna
istic. The two champions set upon
them and urged them for the love ot
heaven, home and country, to vote the
democratic ticket. They told them
that dispatches indicated that the vote
was close and that the result at King
stun might turn the scale. But the
three men voted all one way and the
wrong way. It yvas only three hours
till the closing of the polls and they had
been voting at the rate of three and a
half every three hours and all for Mc-
Kinley but I’s a ’publican.
Then the vote became scattering un
til fifteen minutes to three o’clock
when thirteen votes had been cast for
McKinley and there was nothing for
democracy and Josh Levering’s name
had not been even mentioned. Then a
negro who stepped high and showed the
whites of his eyes through the drizzle,
was seen strolling across the field. The
democratic leaders met him and offered
to s r t him up to a lunch of fried chick
en it .w would vote for democracy. He
scratched his head, dug his toe in the
sand, spat drily, once or twice, and re
marked, “Boss, I’ll tek yo’ up on dat
proper sit ion. ”
Just as he cast his ballot the polls
closed with a snap and then one of the
jhampions remembered that in his
z lal for the party he had forgotten to
vote himself! And that was how the d ay
was lost at Kingston. Fourteen votes
polled and twelve majority for the dem
nition republicans! Late in the after
noon a horseman was seen urging bis
steed across Dykes’ creek. It looked
like Terrell Speed and as he dashed over
the brow of the hill and into Broa
street in Rome, he swung his het and
yelled, “Kingston gone republican by
twelve majority! Carry the news to
McKinley!”
M. M. F.
John A. Moon will shine as the re
presentative in congress from the
Chattanooga district while the Tal
ladega, Ala., district sends a Plowman
who is not a populist, to the national
legislature.
Slumber Song.
Slumber, slumber, little one, now
The bird is asleep in his nest oa the bough;
The bird is asleep, he has folded his wings,
And o’er him softly ihe dream-fairy sings:
Lullaby, lullaby—lullaby!
Pearls in the deep—
Stars in the sky.
Dreams.in our sleep;
So, lullaby!
Slumber, slumber, little oue, soon
The fairy will come in the ship of the moon;
The fairy will come with the pearls and the
stars,
And dreams will come singing through the
shadowy bars;
> Lullaby, lullaby—lullaby!
Pearls in the deep—
Stars in the deep—
Dreams in our tl ep;
So, lullaby!
Slumber, slumber, little one, so;
The stars are the pearls that the dreamfairies
known,
The stars are the pearls, and the bird in the
nest,
A dear little fellew the fairies love best;
Lullaby, lullaby—lullaby!
Pearls in the.deep
Stars tn the deep—
Dreams in our sleep;
So, lullaby
Frank Dempster Sherman.
Several varieties of good wheels that I
h ve reposessed will sell from $lO up. Call
and see them. E. E. Forbes.
Iff HARD HHIV NG \
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,
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JOHN H. REYNOLDS, President, B. I, HUGHES, Cashier
P. H. HARDIN Vice President.
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Office 11 Broad Street. H. G. SMITH, Manager..
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.
-sgSpectac’es and Eye Casses Fitted to the Eye.§<-
I carry a large and well selected stock of all kinds of goods that art
usually kept in an establishment of this kind. In fact, I cafrv a stock
that will compaie favorably with the stocks usually kept in mud’
larger cities.
WEDDING PREESNTS in Sterling Silver, and fancy goo<* s of all.
kinds. I also make a spe- ialty of Bopairirg Watches, Cocks and Jew
elry of all kinds, and guarantee att work. I also do ail kinds of Etgrav
ing on goods that I sell without ixtha chaisge ~
I invite you to call and examine my stock whetiier you buy ornot .
Pohte attention. Very respec fully, ■
ufiu. C. SIEFHEI7S.