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THE ROME TRIBUNE.
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Lynching in Chicago is “Justifiable
Killing I ’—that’s all.
Watermelons and canteloupes are
almost as cheap as eggs in Rome.
“Rome (Georgia) rebuilt, replenish
ed and, again the art center of the
universe. ”
“Mr. Joel Hurt has,’’ according to
the Atlanta Journal, “granted him
self a transfer. ’ ’
Why don’t the New York Journal
and New York World get up a little
war of their own ?
A New York paper says only the
male mosquito bites, but how can a
person tell which is which in the dark.
All air castle builders are invited to
compete with that gorgeous picture of
Rome published on the second page.
There is more money to be made in
intelligently operating the bauxite
mines of Floyd county than in an ex
pedition to Klondike.
The New York Journal says it will
save the Cuban girl, Miss Cisneros, in
spite of Wey ler and the World. Hearst
has got the money to do it.
The Chicago lynching is spoken of
by the Times-Herald as a “Justifiable
Killing,” but lynching in the south
these northern moralists call a crime.
Savannah is not the only city in the
state which shows an increase in per
sonal tax returns. Rome’s increase
for 1897 in personal returns exceeds
that of 1896 by over $600,000. .
Prince Henri Watterson has for
mally accused Count Charlie Dana
of inconsistency. This is like charging
a professional gambler with gam
bling, says a Memphis paper.
The lurid imagination of the writer
who describes the climate of Rome
in counection with Parisian Art col
ony says it is “almost artic in win
ter.” The poor fellow evidently had
the Klondike fever.
With the Cuban and the Greco-
Turkish affairs quieting down the
Journal and the World will have a
hard time in getting out lively and
sensational issues in New York. We
suggest that each hire one hundred
reporters equipping them with most
improved guns and cannon and let
them see which could whip. Pulitzer
and Hearst should be in command of
their respective companies.
Give Rome redit,
Under the headlines “Big Tax
Hain in Savannah’’ and “Only City
in Georgia Showing Increase in Per
sonal Returns,’’ the Atlanta Journal
publishes the following:
“Savannah, Aug 20.—The city tax
returns of personal property for 1897
just made up show a healthy increase
over those of 1896. The total amount
of personal taxable property is $lO.-
630,730.
“Savannah is the only city in Geor
gia showing an increase in personal
tax returns for this year.”
This publication does Rome an in
justice. Savannah is not the only
city in Georgia which shows an in
crease in city tax returns of personal
property.
The personal xeturns in Rome for
1897 show an increase of more than
$600,000 over last year.
Floyd county led the state in the
amount of increase of total returns,
and we believe it, also, leads in the
increase of the personal returns.
Let Rome and Floyd county have
due credit for this.
Gorman Won't Do.
The suggestion of Senator Gorman
as the possible nominee of the demo
cratic party on a “compromise plat
form” in 1900 will hardly meet with a
warm response from democrats of any
class. Horman is a type of the politi
cal boss who, by controlling a ma
chine, can keep a grip on the Mary
land democracy, but outside the pale
of this machine influence he is not
held in high esteem and could com
mand no great strength in a national
convention.
If the next national convention
goes in search of a compromise man
for a nominee, it will not be the Ma
ryland senator. The Nashville Sun
says that if nothing else precluded
such an idea, the fact that he has
shown himself to be one of the depen
denotes of the sugar trust in the sen
ate would do so. The emasculation
of the Wilson Tariff bill in the senate
in 1894 is chargeable more to Gorman
than any other man, and that one aet
was a revelation of his true character
that precludes the possibility of his
ever being a national democratic
leader.
It is three years yet before the dem
ocrats will nominate another presiden
tial candidate. A great many things
may happen within that time, and it
is rather early to consider any man’s
chances of receiving the nomination,
but the Gorman boom, which some
inconsiderate admirer of the Mary
land “machinist” may have started,
will die in its incipieney. It may be
set down ks a fore-ordained fact that
the national democracy will not ac
cept him as their leader.
Utopia for Artists,
Rome is discovered at last!
A dreamer whose imagination, in
‘‘seven hued fancy,” arched over the
metropolis of Northwest Georgia, has
founded, planned and laid out this
new Rome—“the art center of the
universe.” He says :
‘ ‘The present members of the colony
besides American girls are Danes,
Swedes, English and Scotch.”
We don’t know, cannot know and
never will understand why he did not
put in German and French girls.
This writer further declares: “Boxes
of statuary have already arrived and
great cases of pictures. ”
It is a wonderful story. Baron
Munchausen and Joe Mulhatton are a
good pair to draw to, but they are
eclipsed in this Rider Haggard sketch.
Luckily the story is not one which
will do Rome any harm, and every
body can indulge in a good laugh.
"Justifiable Killing,"
' On the lynching of the tramp for
assaulting a woman in a suburb of
Chicago we have been interested to
know how the newspapers of that
city would treat it.
From the Chicago Times-Herald
under the heading “Justifiable Kill
ing,” we clip the following:
An unidentified man, presumably a
tramp, made a murderous assault
Thursday afternoon upon Mrs. Pau
line Fenske, the wife of a German
farmer residing near Manneheim.
The woman was beaten into insensi
bility and left for dead in her cottage.
Regaining consciousness shortly after
ward, she succeeded in giving an
alarm, and a number of farmers who
were engaged in threshing near by
immediately organized a searching
party and started in pursuit of the
tramp. He was overtaken in a corn
field and refused to surrender. When
an attempt was made to capture him
he opened Are upon his pursuers with
two revolvers, which’ he frequently
reloaded.
In the meantime the posse of far
mers had been re-enforced and sev
eral of the newcomers brought fire
arms with them. A running fight
ensued, which lasted until a bullet
struck the tramp and laid him low.
This in brief is the story of the oc
currence in Leyden township Thurs-
TBE ROME TKIBUNE. TUESDAY. AUGUST 24. 1897.
day. Without attempting to palliate
or to excuse this outbreak of mob
violence, it may not be amiss, in sim
ple justice, to point out the fact that
it differs widely in many important
particulars from the lynchings with
which tfie public of late has grown
too familiar. In this case the primary
object of the attacking party was not
to wreak summary vengeance upon a
malefactor, but to take him into cus
tody or to prevent his escape. The
latter elected to fight for his liberty
and began a fusillade, which invited a
return fire and resulted in his death.
The farmers were not to blame in
the least, for in the beginning they
were only doing what the law com
mands all good citizens to do, arrest
a man in the commission of a crims.
The assault had been committed al
most under their eyes, the criminal
was fleeing and the woman came out
in her pitiful condition and pointed
him out. They sought to arrest him
and he refused to surrender. There
could be but one termination to the
encounter.
The Philadelphia Press calls upon
the men of the east to go south,
pointingout that in this direction
lies the chance of making a fortune.
Here are undeveloped resources of
wealth, and here industry will be
sure of its reward.
It almost gives one a nightmare to
read the offensive and disgusting yel
low journals of New York.
The Magnificence of a Dollar.
(From the Lumpkin (Ga) Independent)
A man came in the other day and
actually paid us a dollar on subscription,
a new subscriber, and came volunte-ily;
we did not pursue him with a shotgun
or Winchester, nor did we waylay him
at night in some dark ally with a blud
geon or sandbag—his coming was free,
voluntary and unexpected. It was a
real dollar he paid us, a silver dollar,
j ust such a one as is quoted as worth
only 43 cents—but, O Jehoshaphat!
what a dollar it was! It was four inches
in diameter, half an inch thick and
weighed a pound avoirdupois. The
eagle on it was big enough to fly across
the Gulf of Mexico aud light on the
summit of Popocatepetl with a tea
pound baby in its talons. It is heavy
enough to anchor Professor Andree’s
balloon at the foot of the perpendicular
north pole; at the same time its ar
geuteous scintillations would eclipse
tne sanguineous glare of aurora borealis.
Talk about the Klondike! No, sir ee, we
are just going to wait some more.
Remove Delay In Law,
(Chattanooga Times)
Mrs. Felton denies that she
favored lynching for the “peculiar
crime.” She only said in her speech at
Tybee, what every good man and
woman will say: "I would greatly prefer
that the law should tie the rope about
the rapist’s neck; but if the law hides be
hind its delay while my child or my
neighbor’s child perishes in its misery
and ignominious condition, then I say
there shoud be a home-made, law to
meet such a case, and, after that is done,
then make haste to correct the delay by
removing the delaying administrators of
law from the bench and by putting abler
and more courageous men in their
places. ” So we say all. The safety of
woman’s honor must be secured, at any
cost. But it will be most thoroughly
assured when the law is swiftly and
regularly executed on the despoiler; and
this Mrs. Felton fully recognizes.
Same Invitation to Georgia,
A wagon passed through Northern
Kansas recently bearing this inscrip
tion: "Colorado and irrigation, Kansas
and stagnation, Populistic administra
tion and abomination. I’m going to
my wife’s relation and make no demon
stration. ’’ The foregoing prompts the
Talladega Home to make the following
answer: “They ought to come to
Alabama, where they need no irrigation,
and a man with education can engage
in speculation, bring along his wife’s re
lation, have good times and free salva
tion, with no danger of starvation. This
is worth consideration.”
Quoting From Newspapers,
A newspaper likes to be quoted, not
because of the publicity, but because it
is an evidence that its editor has been
able to say something worthy of the con
sideration of the public. Next to this is
the pleasure of seeing yourself quoted
without credit being given. This is an
evidence that you have been able to say
something worth stealing, and it is the
highest form of compliment that one
newspaperman can pay to another.—Ex.
Flanagan Should Hang,
(Dalton Argus)
Col. Bill Glenn made exceptions be
cause one of the Flanagan jurors had
formed an opinion before the- trial. The
Argus believes Col. Glenn would find it
difficult to get a jury of twelve men in
the State of Georgia who had not formed
the opinion that Flanagan was a diaboli
cal wretch, who ought to be hanged for
the good of law and order, to create a
little respect for the courts, and because
all such-bloody murderers should swing.
Had to Have a Real Cottage.
She put her arms around his neck and
looked into eyes.
“Yes,” she said, “I believe in love in
a cottage. I know that I could find
happiness there with you,”
“My darling! ’ he exclaimed raptur
ously.
“But,” she persisted earnestly, “you
must not. get it into your ..head that I
am not an expert on cottages. You
musn’t think that you can palm off a
cabin or a shanty on me and make me
think it is a cottage. Many a dream of
bliss is wrecked through a misunder
standing of the meaning of the word
‘cottage.’ When you have one that you
would like to show me I will be glad to
pass upon it. There must be room
enough* you know, so that love won’t
be crowded on to the back steps every
time one of us wants to turn around.”
As he stalked moodily away in the
gloaming he realized that he could not
play the slim-slam game of love on her.
—Exchange.
The Tribune Knows Good Poetry,
(Brunswick Times)
The Rome Tbibune reprints the
pretty lines “To A Beauty,” by “F.
du B, ” recently published in The Times.
The verses also appear in the current
number of Littell’s Living Age, a maga
zine noted for the critical discrimina
tion of its editors in choosing only the
very best matter for its pages.
All for One Melon and 43 ct. Piece.
(Heflin, Ala., New Era)
Our best friend, M. J. Evans, was in
town this morning with a load of fine
melons and of course gave us a large one.
He also very kindly helped us with a
very large silver dollar. If we knew
how to thank him we would sho’ do it.
Let Northern Moralists Rave.
(Thomasville Enterprise)
A man was lynched on Thursday in
one of the suburbs ot Chicago.
Same old crime.
And this didn’t happen in the south,
mind you.
We Don't Grow Whea*.
(A Cotton Man’s Lament)
They say that times are brightenin’
An’ purty hard r beat, ’
An’ wheat has gone ter glory,
But—
We
Don’t
Grow
Wheat!
It's jinglin’ in the country
An’it’s tinglin’on the street;
It’s out o’ sight an’ goin,’
But—
We .
Don’t
Grow
Wheat!
An’ wheat is all the story (
On the lips o’ folks you meet;
It’s landin’ some in glory,
But—
We
Don’t
Grow
W heat!
—Frank L. Stanton.
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