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Attention is called to article on the
first page of today’s Tribune about the
unfair representation in democratic
congressional and other political con
ventions in Georgia.
The “all cotton folly” will min the
south if kept up.
A 50 day's session of the Georgia legis
lature costs $70,000.
- ‘Are clubs tramps?,” asks an Ala
bama exchange. You . bet they are in
Georgia,
Atlanta is trying very hard to get up
a murder mystery to equal the Gulden
suppe and Luetgert affairs.
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“ft is the spankless child now who
is sharper than the serpent’s tooth;’’
' says the Birmingham Ledger.
That southern states cotton growers
convention to be held in. Atlanta, Decem
- her 13, can accomplish great things if it
gets on the right line. <
Says the Augusta Chronicle: “Joo.
v much ; son-jn law killed poor Mr. Peiky.
: ~ lt.-wae an English-sen-in-lawy and so
(Jeorgiais not to blame-”
The South Carlolina dispensary sys
tern fs said to be in a hoie/atfd there is
talk, of getting Senator Ben Tillman to
run for Governor’to pull it ont.\’
■ Three men are running for commis
sioner of agriculture in Georgia and
’ three more foi attorney . general.—Sa
vannah Press How many did you say
are running for governor?
f - If Mr. Mudd of Maryland succeeds in
‘ breaking into ti|e Unitid States senate
the New York. Journal believes “he will
have no trouble in arranging a pair
4 ..With Mr, Clay, of Georgia.!’
‘ The Sparta Ishinaelite Bays it will
never support sot any office within the
gift Os the people of Georgia, whether
nominated by the Democratic party or
■- 1 not, any man who speaks of the late
. , war for Southern independence as'“the
war of She rebellion.!’
The Colhmbus Enquirer-Sun repub
lishes the. description of Miss Till
> man’s Dinner carriers’ school written
' for The Tribune by our request. The
Enquirer Sun does this for the pur
pose of “enlightening to some of our
own people, as comparatively few
have interested themselves in this im-
- portupt ~WQrk4’”, If the Columbus
«£Hfoi*T<auld read The Tribune daily;
' .and publish m live a newspaper they
would enliven their sleepy town.
The Doom of Football,
The game of football is doomed.
The New York Herald, the New York
World and other great newspapers of
the country are condemning it in the
most unmeasured terms. They have
collected statistics showing how inimi
cal it is to life and limb. The Tribune
published yesterday an extract from
the New York Herald showing the
number .of deaths from the brutal
game.
We have endeavored as far as pos
sible recently to cease to reprint the
hundreds of notices of the Von Gam
mon tragedy. Yet the fact is that
the young Roman was the martyr
who has roused the nation to the
necessity of the protection of its col
lege boys in this “game of death.”
The subject has become one of such
widespread interest that The Trib
une has been forced to print mueh
about it. The action of the Geor
gia legislature has brcugnt the subject
to national attention and so strong is
public sentiment against football
that it will never be played another
season with the brutality it has this.
It will be prohibited in many states,
and the game of football is doomed.
In a very strong editorial the Mem
phis Commercial Appeal condemns
much of the college athletics of this
day as “Insane Exercise,” and says:
That a moderate amount of athletic
exercise in conjunction with collegiate
studies is beneficial no one can deny,
but it seems proper to remember that
the main object of a university course
is the development of the mind, and
that the development of the body can
be obtained at the gymnasium at one’s
home. A perfect healthy man may
be little better than an idiot. Au in
valid may be a genius. Charles
Lamb had hanging over bis head
throughout life the specter of insanity
’Milton was blind. George Elliot was
an almost daily sufferer from head
ache. John Randolph, of Virginia,
was ill all his life. Pope was a
chronic sufferer. Robert Louis Ste
venson always traveled with con
sumption for a companion. And so it
goes. On the other hand, Shakespeare,
Goethe, Schiller, Tennyson, Thomas
Jefferson, Daniel Webster and Bryant
were men of fine physique- A nor
mal amount of exercise taken judic
iously is needed by the body, and
when the body is in good condition,
then the person owing that particular
body is apt to be physically happy.
But this state is to be obtained not
by allowing the bodily functions to
become sluggish any more than it is
by subjecting them to the strain of
injudicious exercise, and a sound body
can be obtained better by observing
the laws of health and by guarding
one’s self from over-indulgence and
exposure, and warding off the shafts
of worry than by spending hours giv
ing an unnatural hardness to one’s
muscles.
We have had something to say of
late about the brutality of football ,and
have cited several instances going to
show that unless the game is radically
amended It will have to be treated
as any other form of homicide. Since
our last observations on this subject
more returns have been received, and
the sum total is sufficiently alarm
ing to call tor. lUfther mention. Bo
far as reported this season in the
United States, four young men have
been killed, five probably injured
fatallyeand 125 have been severely in
jured, having had their collar-bones
broken, shoulders dislocated, clavicles
fractured, backs strained, arms bro
ken, and ligaments severed. It is a
pretty well understood thing now
now that one team will often go into
a game with the deliberate intention
of “disabling” certain crack players
in the other team. The prevalence
of this spirit deprives the game as
mow played of all claims to friendly
consideration. Deliberately fouling
is now one of the features of nearly
every game, but where a dozen or
more youths are all struggling to
gether it is almost impossible for a
spectator to distinguish and locate
the ~ deliberate brutality. Unless,
therefore, a change comes over the
spirit of the sport and that pretty
quickly, it will become the duty of
the criminal law to come into the
game and consign it to the same dis
repute enjoyed by bull fighting and
gladiatorial combats.
“Too Sperty, Ye Gods!" No.
The University of Georgia is just
now a lively topic in the state
The Albany Herald publishes a
lengthy editorial under the caption
“The trouble with the state univer
sity” and It is interesting reading to
say the least of it.
It goes on to say, and most truth
fully. that the institution is not so
popular with some people of the state
as it should be and then it looks for
the reasons why this is the case. After
stating several minor reasons the Her
ald ask the following:
“What is it? Why is it that so many
fathers in the state who have boys to
educate are as raid to send them to the
State University?
! “The tendency of the university at
Athena and the influences that sur-
THE ROM* TRIE UN It. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, IBH7.
round it are too “sporty” and aesthetic
to suit the common people of Georgia.
Too mueh football and baseball and
“swell” society! There’s the trouble'
with Che (State University that we
have at Athens today.”
The Americus (Herald comments
facetiously on the “Too sporty” idea
and then gives its opinion as follows:
“If the true reason as to why 'pa
rents do not send their sous to the
university is wanted it is because the
university has not the support from
the state which is due it. The Her -
ald wants the university to succeed in
every possible way, but it cannot do
so unless the state will help it. As
soon as the legislature sees fit to do
the proper thing by the beet institu
tion in our state and plaee it on a par
with other first class colleges, just
then will our people be only too will
ing te send their sons there for their
education.”
Both our contemporaries miss the
point. The Tribune can sta+e the
whole trouble and prove it beyond all
reasonabledoubt in these words as
follows:
TOO MUCH POLITICS.
Weary of Law’s Delay,
The supreme court of United States
has decided to issue immediately -a
mandate in the Durrant murder case.
This will hasten the execution of the
arch fiend. The people have grown
very weary of the law’s delay in this
case. Durrant committed in San
Francisco two of the most brutal and
revolting murders ever recorded in
this country. The crimes occurred in
April, 1895. The trial took place about
six months later. The evidence was
convincing.
Durrant was a medical student,with
an alleged 'pious turn of mind His
victims were two young ladies. Blanche
Lamont and Minnie Williams, with
whom he was associated in Sunday
school and at other places. It is al
leged that he criminally assaulted and
then murdered them in a church.
Everything that money and influence
could do was done to save the mur
derer’s life. His ease passed through
every court in California, and to secure
further delay was finally taken to the
United States Supreme Court, which
tribunal on Nov. 8 affirmed the sen
tence of the state courts without even
so much as thinking it necessary to
give the reasons for its action. Now
it has decided to issue a mandate for
the hastening of the execution of the
law.
The Philadelphia*Times, tn com
menting on Durrant’s case, well says
that if criminal law is to be adminis
tered with any sort of effect, it is
necessary that it be administered with
reasonable promptness. Appeals to
the higher state courts give more
than enough delay; there ought to be
some means of preventing motions
for delay that can have no other end
or purpose. There is also the scandal,
in these appeals to the federal courts,
that they >re made by lawyers only
for the sake of fees and open only to
criminals who can command money,
while the poor man is hanged by due
process of law. While it is not easy
to suggest a.statute that would exactly
cover this ground, it is certainly pos
sible for the United States Courts,
which always reach the same conclu
sion, to declare it promptly and per
emptorily. The sentence on Durrant
ought to havo been executed at least
a year and a half ago.
GOSSIP OF GEORGIA EDITORS,
Chronicle has a medical
expert on its staff He writes learnedly
about "Cirrhosis of the Liver,” serpent
cures, “The Floating Kidney. ” Hemor
rhagic Fever, “The Deadly Mush
room” and like topics. Is Editor Hook
about to desert his profession for medi
cine?
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Editor Loyless thinks that the leading
question in the Augusta municipal cam
paign is whether Macon, or Augusta
beer is the best? As Pat Walsh is for
the home product, of course, he has the
best of it on this point.
The entire Georgia press seems de
termined to marry Douglas Glessner off,
meanwhile, Brer, Glessner, he lay low
and say nothing.—Americus Herald.
Echoes Still Heard.
(Marietta Journal)
The Rome Tribune’s Souvenir and
Trade ’Edition, of forty pages, beauti
fully illustrated, was a most excellent
production and a credit to journalism.
It advertised Rome in a manner that
will be advantageous.
Federation of Women’s Clubs.
, (Columbus Ledger)
The Georgia Federation of Woman’s
Clubs has been invited to hold the next
annual congress in Columbus, and it
will no doubt be the occasion of much
social gaiety well as intellectual pleas
ure. The Federation works for the
broadening of ideas and the advance
ment of education and culture and for
the growth - and practical exercise of
philanthropy. It is a noble aim. %nd
the women hold .*o great a part of tfie
responsibility of the Well being a*’*
ciety upon their own shoulders, no mat
ter how averse sOine may be to acknowl
edging it, that it is well for them to
think of it and realize what a power for
good rests with their influence.
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AUSTRALIAN BALLOT SYSTEM,
Georgia will take a long step forward
if the legislature shall give us the best
form of the Australian ballot. It is one
of the most important measures, if not
the most important, now before that
body. The best political reform that can
be vouchsafed to the people at this time
is ballot reform of the right kind.—Ma
con Telegraph
Wherever the Australian ballot has
been adopted—and all but a few states
have adopted it—it has worked great re
forms. It has come nearer giving se
curity to the voter than any other sys
tem. It has driven from the polls, to a
great extent, the ward heeler, the bold
intimidator and the corruptionist.
Georgia needs such a law, and she
needs it at once. Let this legislature do
creditjto itself and to the statejby mak
ing Mr. Felder’s bill, or one on the same
line a law.—Columbus Enquirer-Sun.
Georgia will soon adopt the Austra
lian ballot system. That is a step up
for Georgia—Birmingham Ledger.
Georgians will be glad to know that
the general assembly is making an hon
est effort to give the state the Australian
ballot.—Savannah Press.
Lunatics to Displace Legislators,
The Brunswick Times is getting ex
ceedingly sarcastic. It suggests that the
homeless lunatics at Milledgeville be
sent to Atlanta to act as substitutes in
the legislature.—Americus Herald.
One-third of the fools in the country
think they can beat the lawyers in ex
pounding the law; one half think they
can beat the doctors healing the sick;
two-thirds think they can beat the
ministers preaching the gospel, and
all of them think they can beat the
editor running a newspaper, truth
fully says an exchange.
The Chattanooga News wants every
southern congressman to go to Wash
ington loaded fora national quaran
tine law.
What's the Use.
What’s the good of always fussing
About something we cannot enre?
As if growling and complaining
Could n-ake our troubles fewer.
Suppose all things don’t go our way,
Grumbli g won’t change them much;
But, instead, make everything seem wrong
That we may chance to touch.
Let’s q nit comp'ainlug about the way
That thts old world is run—
Instead of a'wrys finding fault,
Let’s mix in a little fun
And we’ll find that half our troubles
Never really did exist;
But, when warmed np by a light heart.
B< come a transparent mist.
—Coosa River News,
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