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THE ROME TRIBUNE. - W. A. KJiOWLES. - Editor. OmCK-NO. M7 BROAD BTRKKT, DSP STAIRS. TKL.EPHONK7&. BITES SUBSCRIPTION (Dally, Bxcept Monday.); One YearS6.oo . One Month •“ Six Months3.oo One Week-. 12 Three Months.... 1.80 | Weekly, per year. .1 00 Delivered by mail or by city carriers free oi Charge. All subscription strictly in advance. Ths Tbibunb will appreciate news from any community, ata small place where it has no regular correspondent, newn re parte of neighborhood happenings from a ay friend will be gratefully received. Communications should be addressed aid all orders, checks, drafts, etc ■ made p lyahie to THB ROME TRIBUNE, Rohb, Ga. W Is Thus spoke the man whose adver/ tisement was being regularly read in thousands of households where THE ROME TRIBUNE is considered to be the authority for their purchases as well as their news. For the field cov> ered by The Rome Tribune is a wide one, and an advertiser nient in its columns every day is sufficient to make business good anywhere, The Official Organ of The City of Rome, The Sheriff. The Ordinary, The Countv Commissioners, and publishes regularly all legal advertisements emanating from these officials. Write for estir mates to 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. Aseptic. An impure plaster may be a source of serious danger from infection. To guard against this there should be a guaranty of asepticity. Allcock’s Porous Plaster is strictly aseptic, and thus can be used freely for all sprains, bruises, or conges tion of the chest or throat. 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