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W, A. KNOWLES,
General Manager,
The Augusta Chronicle remarks
that “Thanksgiving turkey will be a
democratic bird.’’
The very kindest things are being
said—and justly said—of The Rome
Tribune these days.—Augusta Herald.
Ruth, Esther and Marion and the
boy to be called “Dick.” He ought
»p have been named Adam, or Grover
11.
At any rate the democracy had
Hanna on his knees in the sixth round,
comments the Memphis Commercial-
Appeal.
That was a beautiful and touching
tribute paid by John Reese, of The
RomeTribunb to his dead friend, Von
Gammon. —Summerville News.
The Atlanta police force will prove
themselves very poor officers if they
do not prove the guilt beyond doubt
of the murderer of Policeman Ponder.
Sam Jones wore a swallow tail coat
at his last anniversary and a few days
ago Hetty Green appeared in satin
and bedecked in diamonds. What
next?
There must be hard times in
Atlanta. The saloon keepers say they
are not making a living and the At
lanta Journal prints 53 columns of
city marshal’s tax sales.
The Birmingham News thinks from
the returns at hand the casualties of
the present football season promise to
be greater than those of the Cuban
war for the same period.
The Columbus, Atlanta and Macon
boards of trade have all endorsed the
Knowles resolutions providing for the
United States marine hospital quaran
tines in Georgia. The Rome board
of trade should do likewise.
What would ths Georgia legislature
be without Joe Mansfield? asks the
Savannah Press. He is one man who
blurts out bis teal feelings without
regard to political ambition. Joe is a
son of the Emerald isle and a child of
nature sure.
Mr. Bryan has a very happy faculty
of condensing his ideas. In a recent
campaign speech he used this expres
sion: “The* gold standard was con
ceived in avarice, fastened upon the
people by stealth, continued by fraud,
and ith high priest is Hanna.”
Hold your cotton. Mr. Waiter T.
Miller, treasurer of the New York
Cotton Exchange, who returned from
Europe a day or two ago, expresses
the opinion that theie will be an ad
vance in the price of cotton just as
soon as the cotton farmers reach a
point at which they can afford to hold
4heir cotton.
Possibility of An Extra Session.
While the legislature has been quite
busy during the first sixteen days of
its session yet it has riot accomplished
much, and one third of its time is
gone. „
Certainly the most important ques-'
tion the present session has to con
sider is the disposition of the convicts
and we hope when they take up this
bill next Tuesday they will let noth
ing stop them untii they dispose of
.the question. It is said that there is
a flood of local bills to com* before
•the bouse. This being so it is all the
more important for the big is,ues like
the penitentiary affair to be settled
before the minor matters are looked
after. It is suggested that there is
the possibility of aa extra session
being held. We do not believe this
will be necessary if the house and
senate is delinquent in passing upon
measures before it.
But by all means let everything be
sidetracked until some bill disposing
of the convicts is passed.
It Would Be Foolish.
The legislature would do a foolish
thing to abolish the geological de
partment. We scarcely think they
would do so if they looked at the mat
ter rightly.
It would be especially inopportune
to take such action now when Geor
gia’s mineral wealth’has not begun its
proper development. While some
mines and quarries are being worked
yet we have not touched some of the
richest. As the Atlanta Journal says,
“It can be shown that the department
needs reorganization and should be
reorganized at once and made effec
tive, but its abolition would be a step
backward and would impede the in
dustrial development of the state.”
The Journal then goes on to say
“There is a great deal of valuable
work now in the various stages of pro
gress which would be lost if the de
partment Js abolished. The reports
now being prepared on artesian wells,
on gold and on clays will embody the
results of much
and when complete would be of great
practical value. Almost every day
there are inquiries concerning Geor
gi’s resources which these reports an
swer satisfactorily. Never before have
Georgia’s resources attracted so much
attention; never before has there been
so much prospecting of mineral prop
erties in this state or such bright
promise of their large and speedy de
velopment. The geological depart
ment can add immeasurably in this
development and can in the next few
years be made of vastly more value to
Georgia than all the money that has
been or may be spent in its support.”
We heartily agree with our contem
porary in this matter.
That Flank Movement,
Editor S(ovall has been sounding
some of the politicians, and reports as
follows:
“I asked a shrewd politician just
after the elections the other day if
he thought free silver would control
the next presidential election. ’I
doubt it,’ said be. ‘I am a free silver
man, but I think probably the fight
will be transferred to some line of
currency reform. Silver as a solitary
and a winning issue has had its day.
Populism would not fuse with democ
racy again upon Bryanism. I realize
that. But I tell you one thing. Free
silver will control the state election
next year'in Georgia. We should
stand on the last national platform
till we have another, even though I
am convinced that the presidency in
1900 will oe fought out on different
lines. The next governor of Georgia
must stand for silver.’ ”
The Augusta Chronicle says there
is much talk of this kind, and some of
it comes from men who call themselves
“free silver advocates.” There will
be a combination formed of “strad
dlers, dodgers, and harmonizers,”
based on a mere party spoils system.
Although David B. Hill didn’t put in
an active appearance during the New
York election he bad a baud in it,and
worked by proxy. Watterson, Croker,
Gorman, Smith of New Jersej', Carter
Harrison probably, Hoke Smith, Har
rity, and possibly McLean, of Ohio,
are said to be the moving spirits in
this campaign of “dropping silver,”
and substituting something else. The
Springfield Republican shrewdly
noting this attack on “Bryanism”
says:
•‘lt is too early to venture predic
tions, since much will depend upon
the events of the coming year and the
congressional elections of 1896 Judg
ing by the elections of last Tuesday,
however, the outlook is not exactly
promising. The fly in the ointment
is in the results elsewhere than in
New York Gorman was beaten on a
straddle. The silver passion in Vir
ginia, representing the south, and in
lowa and Nebraska, and representing
the west, showed no signs of weaken
ing, whatever partisans may say. It
must be remembered by those who
wonld figure coldly in these matters
that Nebraska, an old republican
state, gave silver about as large a ma-
THE* ROME TRIBUNE. FRIDAY, NOTEMBBR 12, 1837.
jorlty this year as last, while in lowa
the democrats, after a eampaign on
the silver issue, polled within 30,000
as many votes as in the presidential
year, or a total which was the largest
in their history in state eleetionr.
with one exception. These results in
lowa and Nebraska must be viewed
in convection with the faet that they
are wheat-growing states. The r>se
in wheat and the prosperity to the
farmers, therefore, which was ex
pected Co seriously cripple the silver
movement, absolutely failed to dam
age Che silver cause in the prairie
commonwealths. Was there anything
in Tuesday’s elections more surprising
than that one fact?
“Now, next year wheat will be down
again in price, and how are the dem
ocratic harmonizers to capture the
party in the west and south, which
furnished the delegates who made sil
ver the issue and Bryan the candidate
in 1896?”
Commenting on the above state
ment the Augusta Chronicle says:
“These are clear and forcible pre
sentations of the case, and they come
from a paper favorable to the gold
standard, but eminently fair and
courageous. We advise thejeombines,
if they be really plotting, to await
events. We do not count on their
being able to control the next na
tional convention on such lines as they
are accredited with, but they will bear
watching.
“Perhaps, in selecting a candidate
for governor of Georgia next time, a
man who is disposed to straddle in
1900 should be kept in retirement-.”
Gossip of Georgia Editors,
Editor Jack Majors is not creating
the “hot time” in the Carroll County
Times that he has always dc.ne in his
other papers. He seems to have lost his
editorial grip.
* * »
The Griffin Call wants the people to
elect the United States senators.
* * *
The Sparta Ishmaelite calls football
“the game of death.”
* * *
Editor Eldridge, of the Americus
Herald, has the hysteria worse than
some others he is hinting at. He wants
bicycle riding prohibited; the public
schools, the university and everything
else abolished except the pay of the
Blalock investigating committee and
the legislators in general. But he will
get over the attack soon.
* * *
According to Tom Loyless the early
frost catches the germ.
» * *
Editor Hook is writing some red hot
political stuff for the Augusta Chronicle"
It is creating a stir, too.
* * *
The Sunday edition of the Albany
Press is a double size issue and is a neat
and well edited paper.
* * *
Editor Lambright is going to give a
meteor party in Brunswick. Be will
invite his friends to sit up all night with
him Nov. 19.
* * *
Editor Carlton in a two column edito
rial flays Bai'iy to the queen’s
taste. The only regret is that so much
publicity had to be given to the "‘Tank
kee” skunk.
Death's Favorite Game
Three lives h ve been sacrificed to
the brutalitv of football, as played by
the American college teams, thus far in
the season of 1896, with three weeks of
the hardest play to come. An incom
plete list of causalties on tbe field show
nearly fifty cases of serious injury.
Minor injuries are so numerous that no
count can be made. A feature of the
public bulletins of the game is the stereo
typed line, “Man hurt,” and it is shown
at regular intervals not more than three
minutes apart during the progress of
tbe great university games All of this
is the result of the system of “massed
plays that has come into vogue of late
years. “Bucking the centre” is the
slang of the field. Football under this
system becomes a question of the weight
and mere brute force of the opposing
team. A Cornell professor says that the
football championship could be settled
on scales, and much suffering thereby
averted.—New York Journal.
An yet there are a few editors in
Georgia who defend this game of maim
ing and manslaughter, as “needed
physical exercise,” “scientific athletic
development,” and similar tommyrot.
Violent death comes all too often now,
to rob fond ones of those nearest hud
dearest to them.. Let us refuse to allow
it to disguise itself under tbe name of
“sport” and to shock us with homoeide
while we are enjoying a holiday.—Bruns
wick Times.
Treat It as a Crime.
(Memphis <’ommercial Appeal)
The fooball returns are coming in
rapidly, tbe latest victim is Edward
Miller, son of one of the tutors at Yale.
Ina game at Ansonia, Conn., a few
days ago Miller who is 19 years old, par
ticipated, and was brutally kicked in
the back by one of the savages on tbe
other side, and received severe internal
injuries, from which for a time it looked
as if he would not recover* It is said
now that with close attention he may
live, out the chances are that he will be
1 crippled for life. It is high time that
the law was taking hold of this particu
lar form of manslaughter misnamed
sport and putting a stop to it. Football
can be played without murdering promis
ing young fellows, and if it is not played
in a civilized manner it ought to be
treated as a crime and suppressed.
Where it Cornea From,
The source of yellow fever is, as usual
the island of Cuba, at least 90 per
cent of cases of yellow fever imported
into the United States from which ep
idemics have resulted have been intro
duced from Cuba. The last great ep
idemic was that of 1878-79. It cost
this country many thousands of lives
and $200,000,000. That, amount added
to wbat the present affliction will en
tail, would be more than enough to
buy the whole island. A complete
system of sanitation in Havana is the
only means to prevent importing tbe
disease into the United States. Amer
ican methods of sanitation could erad
icate it from Havana. Tbe attitude
of the Spanish government with re
gard to the malady lias always been
that of criminal indifference. With
Havana as a constant and unregener
ate source of infection, and the shot
gun quarantine as a familiar and fav
orite means of protection, we do not
seem to have made much real prog
ress since the great epidemic of 1878.
Gorman's Defeat.
Oscar Oleomargarine Stealey, the
Washington correspondent of th®
Courier-Journal, says Gorman’s defeat
will be a great loss to rhe democracy.
Excuse us for failing to see how. When
the democratic tariff measure went to
the senate in 1894, it was Gorman with
two other democrats who threatened to
join with the republicans to defeat the
measure entirely unless certain protec
iim was afforded tbe sugar trust and
other Doling infant industries. So far
as the tariff bill was concerned, Gorman
betrayed his party and was to all intents
and purposes a republican.
The bimetallic commission has or
ganized a fillibusrering expedition,
engaged the boat “Silver Heels,” and
will endeavor to land in this country,
says the Memphis Commercial Ap
peal.
An exchange says that judging from
tbe tenor of Marse Henry Watterson’s
various remarks last week he seems
to have over-lingered at tbe still house
on his way back from the open grave.
In Red and Gold,
(New York Tinies)
How sweet she looked; I did not see
The. glint of sun on changing tree,
My eyes were fixed u< on the glow
On her fair cheek; I did but know
That she was standing nigh to me.
But she, in silent ecstasy,
Drank in the color and the glow
Os that fair scene, nor seemed to know
That (all its beauty lost on me)
I gazed on her, and could but see
How sweet she looked.
“In red and gold,” She sighed ( “how fair
The coloring of those maples there!”
But still, my eyes did but behold
The beauty that did her enfold.
For, with that vision standing there,
In dnll red gewn and golden hair.
Small care had I what beauties rare,
’Vhat other wealth that wood might bold,
In red and gold.
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