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THE ROME TRIBUNE. W. A. KNOWLES. - Editor. OFFICE-NO. 387 BBOAD STREET. UP STAIRS. TELEPHONE 78. Souvenir • and > Trade Edition OF The Rome Tribune Will be issued in OCTOBER This issue of The Tribune Y j will be one of the best yet printed; will be handsomely )) illustrated and will contain the choicest specially written ! W articles (in addition to all the ■ (GYdr" can b® P fC P The superiority of Rome as a trade center, its prosperity, past history and the present attractions and advantages of Rome, Floyd County and North Georgia will be set forth. Descriptive, Statistical, Industrial and Biographical. Watch for it No labor will be spared to make the Souvenir and Trade Edition of The Tribune the finest ever issued here and a credit to Rome and North Georgia. Advertisers should endeavor to get copy in as early as possible to get their advertisements artistically set and properly placed- The Governor’s Message In Full We publish the full text of Gov. Atkinson’s message this morning. It is a very comprehensive docu ment and seems to fully cover the ground. The reference to the con vict question has already been treated of by The Tribune. On the lynching subject he reiterates some statements made by him early in the summer. We shall have some comments to make on it later. In the meantime all those who wish to be well informed on the subject should read it. Hanna is in a bad plight. •. Atlanta has 23 cases of small pox. sMark Hanna is gnashing his-bi cuspids. Gov. Atkinson and the legislature have locked horns. The Tribune over a month ago pre dicted a modified lease system. Politics is more infectious than yel low fever, or small pox in Atlanta. In the legislative fight with the gov ernor it is 215 to 1 that the law makers win. The Savannah Press “pooh-poohed” the idea of convict reform. It has a long head. •‘Secret Service,” Gillette’s new play is being roasted for showing up the south in a false light* Atlanta and Savannah are both talking of municipal ownership of electric light plants. Any Roman who goes to Atlanta, cannot go to Cbattanoog', or enter Alabama for ten days. To quote representative Stone * ‘The 2,8000 convicts in the Georgia legisla ture” do not favor reform. Who shall say henceforth that this is a cruel world, since Lily Langtry is getting back into society. The occasional advertiser seems to forget the fact that most people have short memories.—Copy Hook. Let the female convicts remain on the Maddox farm. Lease them again. Do not put them in cow sheds near our great and well managed lunatic asylum. They are all desperate negro women with one exception and the majority are serving life sentences, Editor McWhorter gets out an Ex cellent paper in the Trion Factory Herald. We were forced to him a hard lick some time ago, but ail is now forgiven. We have decided not to raise any sea cows, or farm any convicts on sea islands. Trion butter milk is good enough for us. Will Not Veto It As early as Sept. 25, The Tribune predicted that the end of the conviot reform movement would be a modi fied lease system. The action of the penitentiary committee shows that our prediction was correct. This com mittee in itself is a quorum of the house and the legislature will not likely change many of its recommenda tions. Scarcely a shred of the Hall bill is left. No land will be bought, or pen itentiary erected, and only SIO,OOO is appropriated for building stockades on the sterile land which the state owns near Milledgeville. On this the women and boys may be put. The state cannot do otherwise than lease the convicts without a large penditure. The Tribune does not wish to see the lease system per petuated, but it is inevitable. Even with the action of the committee we have taken a step towards conviot re form. In five or seven years we can prepare and take the radical reform so universally desired. The Tribune has said and repeats it that Gov. Atkinson will not veto a bill passed by the legislature to lease the convicts again, but under state control. If he should do so the present old lease system will be con tinued instead of a new one which can be made far more advantageous to the state. Let Georgia prepare now to build a model penitentiary and take charge of the convicts on April 1, 1904. Non-Partisan Folly, The Tribune is a partisan demo crat. There is nothing of the mug wump in our make-up. While Seth Low who desires to be mayor of New York is a learned and estimable gen tleman yet he is the candidate of no party. Tbere has never been an im portant public official in this country who amounted to anything or who achieved great good or a lasting name who was not responsible to some party for his office and for his official acts. There is not in the entire list of American statesmen a single man who was not a party man, The New York News makes these sensible observations concerning non partisan candidates: “The objection to ‘non-partisan’ organizations in pol itics is that they are sure to misrep resent true public opinion, and that they are invariably unjust and in their working hostile to the interests of the laboring class. The doctrine of ‘direct responsibility to the people, without the intervention of organized party, ’ which Seth Low preaches, is a fallacious and deceptive one. The very position that he occupies proves this assertion. He is no party’s can didate, he says, but he represents cer tain ideas of government, though it is not clear what they consist of. Suppose him elected and called upon to apply those ideas, and suppose he refuses. He is responsible to nobody, and nobody can hold him accounta ble. If he had a party, he would be compelled to consult it and to act ac cording to its platform, or he would be punished for the abandonment of its principles. But he will be chosen, if at all, because he will not say what, as mayor of New York, it is his intention to do, A candidate running, as be is, at his own expense and with absolute leadership in his own faction, must come from the great capitalist class. He cannot belong to any other. Identified with millionaires, it is not natural that he should have any par ticular sympathy with the masses of the people, for inherited wealth is not accustomed to waste emotions upon them. His policy in public affairs, his appointments to office, his entire administration, will necessarily belong to his own class. In this man ner, as we|have seen in Mayor Strong’s list of patronage receivers, only a small portion of our citizens would have any connection with the city government. Party organizations go far toward correcting these things. They reduce men to a centain level, they give better opportunity for am bition, for respectable energy and wholesome civic activity. They are the necessary machinery of govern ment in a free country. Only by their means can representative institutions be advantageously carried on.” Do Not Quarrel About It In discussing the proposed textile department to be added to the Geor gia School ofJTechnology the Charles ton News and Courier says: “There is some controversy among the Georgia papers as to which o f them first suggested the establishment of the school as a department of the Technological school at Atlanta, but they will all find on investigation, we think, that the suggestion was first made in fact by the News and Courier. We offered it several months ago, at any rate, and warmly advocated its adoption, on the obvious ground that the school was already in successful operation, and was well equipped for a large part of the instruction re quired of a textile school; that the local cotton mills would afford the THE ROME TIiIBUNE, THUBSDAY. OCI’OBEIC 2«, JB9 . students the opportunities they would need for observation and practical work in connection with their train ing, and that Atlanta was readily ac cessible to students from all parts of the south bebause of its central loca tion.” The esteemed N. and C. is mistaken in saying there is any controversy among the Georgia papers as all have given The Tribune credit for its sug gestion. The New and Courier and the Macon Telegraph were advocating a separate textile school until The Tribune made its suggestion, and even after republishing it they held out for a big school. But they deserve credit for their persistent work in bringing the textile school before the people. We heartily agree with the News and Courier in the following: It is not a matter of much conse quence, however, who first made the suggestion. The important thing is to have it carried into effect at the earliest practicable day, and in the best way. We can all agree on that point. The suggestion we have to offer now is that the papers and the cotton mill interests of the three states shall unite their efforts to have the enterprise established on so broad and strong a foundation that it will serve the needs and interests of the whole south and fully accomplish the great and important work for which it is designed. It should not be a mere substitute or “apology” for a textile school, but should take rank from the outset with the best institutions of its kind in the country. “A small appropriation from the state” of Georgia will not put it in that rank. It will require substantial and liberal aid from the city of Atlanta, and from the repres entative mills in all the three states. The city of Lowell, Mass., gave $25,000, we believe, to establish the school at that place, and the local cotton manu facturers and manufacturers o ma chinery, etc., contributed generously toward its equipment. We shall cer tainly not provide such a school as we need, at Atlanta, if we have to de pend alone on a small appropriation from the Georgia legislature for all its purposes. Atlanta is the best place for it, and it can conveniently and profitably be made a part ora depart ment of the great technological school in the city. But a large amount of machinery materials and money will be required to establish and equip and sustain it. Let us make no mis take, if we would avoid the humilia ting failure of our plans and expecta tions. It is strictly a “business” un dertaking, and a most important one for the south, especially for the three states immediately interested in it. We must deal with it in a severely business way. Where is the “plant” and the money for the school to come from? Yellow Fever Liar, We most heartily commend the fol lowing from the Birmingham News: The most contemptible creature in the world is the yellow fever liar, He is the worst species of the calamity how ler. He views with alarm everything that comes within the scope of his per verted vision. To his mind every ail ment under the sun contains symptoms of yellow fever. He needs no founda tion for the rumors which he circulates, and if verification is demanded he promptly shows the coward’s white feather and endeavors to saddle respon sibility for the report upon some one else. He is too mean to live among de cent people, and should be boxed up, fumigated and shipped to Patagonia or Zululand. Hugo in The Schools, (Nashville American) The Board of Education in Philadel phia, after mature deliberation, has so far rescinded its order excluding Les Miserables from the course of French classics in the girls’ higb school as to permit its use in "expurgated form.” Commenting on this decision the Phail delphia Times says: "It is not at all unlikely thatja very great ;>nany of the Hecker’s Goods. I have a fine assortment of this old reliable brand of farinacious , gcods Rolled Oats, Rolled Wheat, Cracked Wheat, Wneaten Grits, Wheat Granules, Pearl Flakes, Oatmeal, Farina, Flapjack Flour. Fancy Celery, Cape Cod Cranberries. B, S. LESTER, Old Postoffloe cor. /ROME, GA. Overcoats, Hals, Shirts, Men’s Suits, aspO? Underwear, Boys Suits, BF W Hosiery, Children's Suits Neckwear. Divide Perhaps you think that’s a flight of artistic imagination! t It isn’t. The artist is right as far as he goes, but he doesn’t go quite far enough. When you split a thing in two it doesn t always happen that you cut it exactly in the center, and we are not dividing our profits in the middle. On the contrary the division is overwhelmingly in favor of the purchaser. Our entire stock of Mens, Boys and Childrens Suits, Overcoats, Underwear, Shirts and Hosiery. For the fall and winter was purchased before the advance in prices, and we are going to sell it cheaper than it can be bought anywhere in Rowe. Hats. Hats, We own the biggest stock of Hats of any retail store in North Georgia. This is a big assertion, nevertheless it is true. Full line of Knox stiff Hats and Stetson soft Hats. Our stock of FURNISHING GOODS. Is the newest and best selected in the city. Every article new, fresh and up-to-date*. Big line of Shirts, Neckwear, Underwear, Hosiery, Gloves, Suspenders. E. & W. Collars and cuffs, Manhattan Shirts; Eclipse Shirts and Shaw knit hosiery. Come to see us, your call will be appreciated and we will save you some money. J. B. WATTERS < SON, Leaders of Low Prices. 242 and 244 BROAD ST. - - ROME, GA. high school girls whom certain hot headed members of the Board of Educa tion were so aggressively anxious to keep from reading Hugo’s immortal work, improved the first opportunity, permitted by sufficient pocket money and a visit to the nearest bookseller’s to purchase and read ‘Les Miserables, ’ and that not in ‘expurgated from.” Beyond doubt the advertisement that this masterpiece of French fiction has received by the action of the Philadel phia board has created a sort of Hugo renaisnce, not only in the Quaker city, but over the entire country. The high school girls and many girls not of the high school have not only read it in un expurgated form, but they have made diligent search for those passages that shocked the school board. Evil ideas have been suggested that would never have otherwise been presented by an ordinary reading of the book. GEORGIA EDITORS, If there is anything more farcical than the present quarantine system in the south it hasn’t been produced on the stage.—Brunswick Times. Miss Edna Cain thinks that women who want to go to the state university are wandering after a strange god dess —Augusta Herald. Alabama, in the Indian vernacular, means: “Here we rest, ” They don’t al low any one to stop and rest in that state now- Trains go whizzing through the state with doors locked and win dows down.—Thomasville Enterprise. The Atlanta Journal is responsible for the statement that it took less time to fumigate the effects of forty chorus girls who arrived in Atlanta yesterday than those of one drummer.—‘Macon News. Almost every night the woods along the banks of the beautiful Thronateeska are ringing with the mellifluous music of the bonny ’possum honnd who has been tied up all day and is eager for the night hunt, and happy voices of those who are alway anxious to follow him all night can be beard echoing along the banks of the river, and over the hills and dales.—Albany Press. The registration for the mayoralty election in Greater New York is 570,749. This would, according to the usual esti mate of five persons to each voter, give Greater New York a population of 2,853,- 745, asks the Augusta Herald. O’Neill Manufacturing Co. MANUFACTURERS OF ♦ SASH, DOORS AND BLINDS. ALL KINDS OF MILL WORK. LUMBER Lime and Cement, HAMMAR PAINTS iff: ‘ i we sell everything needed in house-build ing. Flooring, Ceiling, Moulding, Shingles and Laths, Glass, Builders’ Pa'oer and Material. Contractors and Builders I We take contracts for all! kinds of build ings, large or small. 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