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THE ROME TRIBUNE.
W. A. KNOWLBS, - Editor.
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Rome. Ga.
The Rome* Tribune
THe Official Organ of
The City of Rome.
, The Sheriff.
The Ordinary,
The County Commissioners,
and publishes regularly all legal
advertisements emanating from
these officials,
“It’s me, or Seth”-Henry George.
Rome has 1,242 children in its public
schools. How many has Athens?
Gotham’s seven up game—Van
Wyck, Low, George and the Tracey.
Henry George is running under the
emblem of the rooster. He expects to
crow.
We do not believe that story about
Dalton ladies presenting Bohannon, the
the car robber, with roses.
Rome is maintaining its reputation
in paying highest market prices of any
place in Georgia for cotton.
Wine, candy and gold will liberate
not only Evangelina Cisneros, but
nearly every body else from Cuban jails
The divorced busbands of Amelie
Rives and Lily Langtry are in insane
asylnmns. Are not Lillian Russell’s
ex-spouses frightend?
The Disorganized Order of Gorillas
are to give an entertainment in Atlanta,
The missing lynx might be called in to
complete the menagerie, says the Au
gusta Herald.
The state of Pennsylvania will have
to pay $94,254.42 for the services of
the Third brigade of Philadelphia
troops at Hazleton during the riot.
This does not include the cost of
transportation, subsistence, etc.
One of the latest ramors about the
bicycle is that excessive riding weak
ens people and makes them more lia
ble to “infectious disease.” Is this
the experience in Ocean Springs and
New Orleans?, asks the Savannah
Press. ,
The average Augusta man, after
reading all that his own papers say of
the municipal campaign in that city,
and then reading up op the greater
New York bedlam, finds the shades of
night are falling fast and is ready to
seek his excelsior.
' A chromo is deserved by Editor
Hook, of the Augusta Chronicle, for
the best paragraphic suggestion on
the principal topic of the day. He says:
“The Cisneros romance should end
with a marriage. The editor of the
New York Journal is a bachelor,”
I
Here is the way the New Orleans
States sums up the fever record:
“Yellow jack made 49 basefiits and
five errors yesterday.* Game called on
account of darkness.” And to this
add that one pupiiist kills another at
a charity benefit, and you have a rare
picture of reckless brutality.
There is no wolf barking at Mr.
Bryan’s door. He recently attended
the State Fair at Wichita, Kas.. and
for his share ip the exercises was
handed a check for Dearly $2 500 He
remarked to the committee that he
had never before earned so much in
one day, and that the amount was
more than was guaranteed.
At a Seth Low meeting in New York
one of bis zealous supporters predic
ted that if he were elected mayor he
he would be the next president. Mr.
Lew is an avowed, outspoken, free
free trader and no freetrader will ever
be nominated for president by the
republican party. He is for a gold
standard and that will prevent the
democrats from nominating him. He
will be nominated by neither the
populists nor the prohibitionists. As
a presidential candidate '.he is out of
the question.
Athens Not a Rival.
The Athens Banner publishes the
following.
The Rome Tribune exults over a
showing made by a compilation of
figures from rhe reports of the South
eastern Car Service association, and
says Rome received 904 solid cars of
freight during the month of August,
’•while Columbus had 803 and poor
little Athens 357.”
To start with the figures as to Ath
ens’ cars of freight are not correct as
the entire business of the Seaboard
Air Line railroad is left out, it not
being in the Southeastern Car Service
association.
This test ol commercial supremacy
set up by The Rome Tribune ie a very
fallacious one. Rome may have re
fl ,ived 904 cars of solid freight, and the
majority of the freight may have been
pine wood or brick,so far as we know.
One car of freight received here might
have been Worth as much as ten cars
received in Rome, so far as the record
shows. The car service for Septem
ber or October may show a greater
number for Athene than for Rome
and yet that would prove nothing.
The cars reported to this association
take no account of local freights
which are extremely heavy in this
city,
, There are other tests of a city’s bus
iness worth more than the test pro
posed ;by The Rome* Tribune, and
much better tests. We do not attempt
to belittle the commercial progress of
Rome, as The Tribune seeks to do
with Athens. Rome is a progressive
city, but she is not mistress of the
world as the ancientJßome was-
While speaking of the business of
the two cities, it might be well to in
form The Tribune that a city may
conduct other business than that of
receiving freight. Why Athens has
one insurance company that can put
all the insurance companies in Rome
into its waste basket and have plenty
of room left. She has wholesale’gro
cery stores that do business by the
side of which none in Rome can com
pare favorably. She has one firm that
supplies groceries for a town within
twenty miles of Augusta, and another
firm that sells its goods under the very
shadow of Atlanta. She has schools
of higher and common school grade
beside which none in Georgia can be
compared favorably. The tax returns
of Athens are larger than those of
Rome and she has a larger population
both according to the census of 1890,
and the facts of the present day.
We were, perhaps, a little ungra
cious in the way we worded our ref
erence to our highly cultured neigh
bor, and classical city. It was only
oar intention to show that Athens was
in no sense a commercial rival of Rome.
It may have-been that years ago—per
haps, twenty—Athens was a rival of
Rome, but we have grown and pros
pered so that we have left the North
east Georgia town far behind. It is
not in the same class with Rome.
We proclaim these facts to Georgia
and the world since the Banner has
invited it.
(1) Bulk Freights—A further inves
tigation of the solid carloads of freight
received as shown by the Southeastern
car service association reports is as
follows:
Athens Columbus Rome
July 292 ’ 693 737
August 357 803 904
As Athens complains that the Sea-
board Air Line is left out and we were
unable to get those figures yesterday
we might suppose that she received as
much over that one line as she does
over her other three railroads, and
she would not even then eqtial Rome-
But this supposition, perhaps,is twice
as great as facts warrant.
Rome has two navigable rivers, the
Oostanaula and Coosa, receipts from
which are not included. Two new
steamboats were recently launched to
ply these rivers for the increased trade.
The above carload figures are, we
are informed by railroad authorities'
maintained in the same proportion the
year round. /
As to valuation of freights we
scarcely think the claim of Athens
worth noticing when Rome receives
more than two cars to its one.
It is scarcely necessary to answer
the statement about selling goods.
Rome merchants ship large amounts
of goods through Atlanta to points
in Georgia and as far west as Opelika,
Ala. They sell goods in Austell
within eighteen miles of Atlanta.
Rome manufactories ship the Athens
Hardware company the plows, stoves
and scales they sell.
(2) Population Compared—The cen
sus of 1890 shows that Floyd county
has 28,391 people to Clhrke county’s
15,186. Our population since then
has increased between 5.000 and 10,000
people. The Massachusetts cotton
mills (600 hands) and Rome iron com
pany (furnace) and other manufacto
ries established since then increased
the population many hundred. Ath
ens biggest- ciaim ot population has
never been over 11,500 (Commissioner
Nesbitts book.) Rome claims 15,000
and has them according to post
office statistics. Since 1890 the sub
urb of South Rome with over
2,000 people has been annexed.
(8) Tax Returns—The tax returns
of the city of Athens we have been
unable to get, but the counties which
are a fair index show as follows:
1896 1897
C)a , ke •s6,Blo 665 $6 379.415
F10yd......... 7,548,014 8,910,145
If the Banner will give us the fig
ures of the city of Athens we will
make the showing even worse for it-
In conclusion we wish to say that
it is not our purpose to “belittle”
Athens. We-wish Georgia and the
TH® BOM® TRIBUNE. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15. 189?.
world to know the strides that Rome I
has made in the last few years despite
the financial depression. Our Indus
tries have been running on full time
and our teitile agricultural lands I
yielded great harvests. Our people
owe no debts they cannot quickly
pay. Rome is the best and most
prosperous city to its size in the
Athens is a nice and pretty town,
but it is not in the same class as
Rome.
We repeat that Rome ranks fifth
in commercial importance among the
Cities of Genro-le.
Don't Befuddle The Issue.
It is a condition and not a theory
which confronts Georgia in the dispo
sition of the 2,300 convicts at the ex
piration of the present lease system.
We are glad to note that the press
of Georgia is at last getting down to
the facts in the case. It is their duty
not to befuddle the issue with multi
tudinous plans and suggestions, but
to help the legislators to dispose of
the great problem in the wisest
manner.
We have held all along that the At
kinson-Turner plan as outlined in the
Hall bill was the subject before the
public, and the best plan which has
been presented. The governor and the
principal keeper of the penitentiary
have studied the question from every
standpoint. They have visited other
states to look into their penitentiary
systems. They now offer a plan which
they consider is the very best Georgia
can adopt.
Let us confine our discussions to the
provisions of that bill, and be for, or
, against certain sections and sentences
of it.
The Tribune has stated that it does
not believe the tax payers of Georgia
would be willing now to stand any
very large expense to build and equip
a penitentiary. The administration
plan is to do this gradually. It may
be that this plan will be carried out,
and while it has some objections yet
it is freer from them than any yet
suggested. But we repeat what we
have said, before that we believe a
boys’ reformatory and woman’s build
ing will be erected, and the able bod
ied convicts again leased but under
state control.
— \J
Would Vote it Into Georgia
The Savannah News publishes an in
teresting editorial treating the question
of Chattanooga being in Georgia most
seriously, and compliments its pro
gressivenees‘most highly. It says the
people of Chattanooga favor the re
moval of that city into Georgia. In re
plying to this the Chattanooga Times
says:
“A referendum of the question to the
people of Chattanooga, however, would
result in astonishing the conservative.
There are a great many citizens of this
town who would vote “yes” on the
proposition to join Georgia—possibly a
majority, but we doubt that.
“Disgust and resentment at the failure
of reform and progress in state govern
mental affairs, are very deep and strong,
in Chattanooga. Any doubter on this
point can easily set his doubts at rest by
mixing and talking with the thoughtful
people of the town. We have been as
tonished, by some expressions we have
heard, by men one would not expect
were ready for so radical a change as a
new state jurisdiction would be, to get
rid of state legislative and executive
abuses. Our people are weary of living,
governmentally speaking, on the glories
of the past, while paying very dear for
every cheap and mean state administra
tion. A great number are thoroughly
worn out, and ready for almost any ex
periment that promised even partial re
lief.” .
GOV, ATKINSON'S PLAN
Some Interesting Discussions of
Georgia's Convict Problem,
(Savannah News)
From present indications a portion of
the members of the legislature will sup
port the’governor’s plan or a plan simi
lar to it, and another portion will insist
upon continuing the leasing system. In
view of the fact that the governor would
veto a bill authorizing a continuance of
that system the probabilities are that
that system will be abandoned, but it is
mot certain that the governor’s plan will
be adopted, plans which have not yet
been made public will no doubt be pre
sented for consideration, and some one
of them may be regarded with more
favor than that of the governor. The
convict question is likely to occupy a
large part of the legislative session.
That would not be a cause for regret if
a settlement of it should be reached.
Desires it Discussed,
(Atlanta Journal)
These are the main points in the
governor’s plan. While we are not pre
pared to endorse it in all its details, we
must commend the ability with which
the governor-presents his recommenda
tions.
We desire also to approve heartily the
wisdom he has shown in giving to the
public his views on this question in ad
vance of the session of the legislature at
RE4DY MADE CLOTHING
Fresh-from the Biggest Manufacturers in the
United States at Hard Time Prices.
Never before in the history of this store ha\e -goods been '
bought so low. Our entire stock was purchased before the ad
vance in prices and we propose to sell
Clothing, Hals, Underwear, Shirts and Hosiery ;
Cheaper than it can be bought elsewhere.
li/r UAVC PAMf in QTIIY and we realize that fake adver- -
WC llniL UUlflL lu uIHI tismg win never bring lasting re
sults, therefore we prefer not to advertise rather than advertise fakes*
Our Entire Stock Was Never in Better Shape.
Counters and shelves loaded down with new, fresh, clean
goods bought right and priced right. NO CUT THROAT BUSINESS
IN THIS STORE. Men’s suits in all styles, colors, qualities and
makes. Boys’ and Childrens’ school and dress suits in Double-brested
suits, Vestee suits and Junior suits.
BIGGEST STOCK OF HATS IN NORTH GEORGIA
On one side of our store the shelving is filled with nothing but-
Hats and Caps from front to back. Full Tine of Knox and Stexson hats
Our stock of Furnishing goods is the biggest and best selected in the
city. Big line of Shirts Neckwear, Underwear, Hosiery, Gloves, Sus
penders, E. & W. Collars and Cuffs. Manhattan Shirts and Shaw Knit
Hosiery. Come to see us, your call will be appreciated and we will save,
you money-
J. B, WATTERS 4 SON, '
Leaders of Low Prices.
242 and 244 BROAD ST. - - ROME, GA.
which it is to be by far the most impor
portant subject for consideration. The
governor shows that he has given the
penitentiary problem careful study and
we have no doubt that he would be glad
to accept any suggestion which would
improve his proposed plan.
The Journal hopes to see this great
question fully and fairely discussed,
and invites those who have (studied ft
and matured their views of its proper
solution to lay them before the legisture
and the public through the medium of
our columns.
A Modified Lease System-
(Thomasville Times)
It is not unlikely that the present
lease system will be modified and adop
ted, in so far as the able bodied convicts
are concerned. The modifications will
likely be short leases and more im
mediate and direct control of the con
victs by the state. The probabilities are
that a central penitentiary, with farm
attached, ;will be the home of all con
victs not convicts not considered able bod
ied, and of juveniles and women. These
latter, of course, to be confined in separ
ate buildings—if not in a separate place.
The latter would be better.
The discussion on the subject will
take a wide range when the legislature
meets. There is a great diversity of
opinion as to the best solution of the
problem. But some plan will be evol
ved.
Lines to a Young Man.
With your honor make a plight, " 'SS
Cleave to virtue and the right,
Do your duty with yonr might
Firm and true;
Let the inetincte of your heart
From your conscience never part,
Caring naught what subtle%rt
Tries to do.
Sin will rear its cunning head
In your path at every tread,
And by smi'ing pleasure led
Often court you;
But remember well, my youth.
Naught will humor it forsooth
But a sacrifice of truth
And of virtue.
If you fix your honest gsze
On the stars of truth whose rays
Consecrate the passing days
With their splendor,
You will earn a title free
To earths’ true nobility.
And your heraldry will be
' “Truth’s defender!”
—Charles Brabson Soule.
Thos, Fahy says he needs
money hence must sacrifice
his immense stock of Dress
Goods, Flannels, cotton wash
fabrics etc, at actual cost.
O’Neill Manufacturing Co.
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Contractors and Builders I
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