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Honestly now. didn’t Nat Hammond
lay them out? asks Editor Stovall.
Flanagan says be desires to be
hanged. Has he asked Col. Glenn’s
permission?
All the towns in Georgia have their
troubles, but only Macon is afflicted
with theosopbists.
The Ice Berg is the appropriate
name of a weekly newspaper printed
at Winterville.
Savannah proposes to have a big
thanksgiving jubilee because it did
not have a single case of yellow fever.
Augusta has rolled up nearly 9.000
registered voters on the list. This is
way ahead of Savannah and Atlanta.
All the ministers of New Orleans re
mained at their posts during the fever
epidemic. Several had the fever and
several died.
Mrs. MyHok denounces co-education
as a woman’s club fad, and ajs presi
dent of the Woman’s Press olub of Geor
gia utters an official protest against it.
Editor Eldridge, it is rumored, ex
pects to become a Spanish matador
and introduce bullfighting in Georgia
since his pet game cannot be played-
Mr. John Addison Porter, secretary
to President McKinley, is reported to
be a candidate for the governorship
of Connecticut in the next election.
The New York Herald says the Sun
was paid 110,000 for writing boom
articles about prosperity. The Her
ald declares it refused an offer of
• 110,000 for doing this same work.
~ Hall Caine has been ordered by bis
physicians to leave of all intellectual
work for the present. The New York
Sun thinks this will not prevent Mr.
Caine from finishing his new novel.
The basis of representation should
be changed to conform to reasonable
ness in our conventions. One delegate
to every one hundred votes in the
last national election should be the
rule.
The house finance committee refuses
to by a |5 bible for the state library.
Possibly they thind the new librarian
wouldn’t know what to do withit.—
Griffin News. “Judge not that ye be
not judged.
With foot ball prohibited and ’pos
sum hunting limited the boys will
now be forced to the necessity of run
ning for the legislature < whenever
they want to have a little harmless
recreation.—Macon Telegraph.
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The People Demand It
The Ringgold New South says:
“The Rome Tribune thinks that
in the Seventh congressional conven
tion Floyd county should have 21|
votes, and Catoosa five. It wont hurt
the people for any paper to entertain
wild and visionary 'ideas, this season,
because it is an off year.’’
Editor Bankston should know that
The Tribune not entertaining any
“wild, or visionary ideas” on this sub
ject. It is simply fairness and equality
which we demand.
As a fairminded man Editor Bank'
ston must admit that the basis of rep
resentation of one delegate for each
one hundred votes cast at the previous
national election is more just than
the present system. If he does not
admit this be will show that he has
no idea of fair methods. He wants
the earth and everybody else to have
only standing room.
This new basis of representation is
sure to prevail, sooner or later. W«
expect it to meet with opposition
from a certain class. Off years are
good seasons to settle these questions,
and that is one reason we have brought
it out. We doubt not that a very
hard fight will be made on it from
certain quarters, but in the end jus
tice will prevail.
Let Editor Bankston reflect, change
his mind and get on the winning side.
The people who stand for right and
for fair play in the Seventh congres
sional district are in the majority,
and demand this change.
An Unreconstructed Newspaper.
If there is one newspaper in the
south which is still unreconstructed,
and is still fighting the war of thirty
and more years ago, it is the ably
edited Charleston News and Courier.
It printed on its front page recently a
dispatch from Chattanooga about the
dedication of the Pennsylvania mon
uments in Chickamauga National
park and beneath it this comment:
“The speeches on this occasion were
sent in advance, but their publication
can serve no good purpose. Northern
army men und o rstand neither the
southern people nor their feeling for
the lost cause . Thia is plainly shown
by the following extract from the
speech of Gen. H. V? Boynton, who
evidently tried co be as compliment
ary and conciliatory to the south as
he knew how. This is the significant
extract:
“‘There is no element in all our
work which glorifies the lost cause.
Even those who upheld its tattered
banners do not seek that.’
“It was the cause for which we
fought that hallowed our valor. With
out such consecration our bravery
was no more than that of the hired
soldier who fights to make a living,
or of the wild Indian who fights be
cause he loves fighting. Every true
Confederate will glorify the lost cause
until he joins the ever glorious host
beyond the river.—Ed The N. and C.”
The News and Courier is for the
south first, best and all the time, and
defends Dixie land as no other paper
does.
Don’t Worry,
Don’t worry about something that
you think may happen tomorrow, be
cause you may die tonight, and tomor
row will find you beyond the reach of
worry.
Don’t worry over a thing that hap
pened yesterday, because yesterday is a
hundred years away. If you don’t be
lieve it, just try to reach after it and
bring it back. Don’t worry about any
thing that is happening today, because
today will last only fifteen or twenty
minutes.
Don’t worry about things you can’t
help, because worry only makes them
worse Don’t worry about things you
can help, because there is no need to
worry. Don’t worry at all. If you want
to be penitent now and then it won’t
hurt you a bit to go into the rack-cloth
and-ashes business a little; it .will do
you good. But worry, worry, worry,
fret, fret, fret,-why, there’s neither
sorrow, penitence, strength, pen&noe,
reformation, hope, nor resolution in it.
It is merely worry.
Senator Bacon Commended,
Senator Bacon of Georgia is making
an effort to have the national govern
ment investigate the gold fields of Geor
gia and Alabama and North Carolina
and have experts devise a metnod of
saving the gold from our ores. No doubt
all the senators and congressmen from
those states will join in the efforts so
greatly demanded by our gold fields.
The vast deposits oi gold in Alabama,
Georgia and North Carolina has been
known for years, but no one has made
any considerable amount of money out
of ft. The gold is there. It can be seen
with the naked eye. Enormous quanti
ties of ore are in sight.
Why then ijytnqtprofitable tq wwk
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the ores? Simply because the ores are so
refractory that it costs fully a dollar to
get a dollar out of them. If an expert in
ores, or a skilled chemist could discover
a means by which the gold could be got
ten out and saved a vast source of
wealth would be opened to the three
states most interested.
For many years the Alabama mines
have been worked by fits and starts, but
nobody has made a fortune out of the
business. Several men have made a liv
ing for years in the Alabama fields by
their own labor, but it has not been
profitable to put in any machinery.
If Senator Bacon can devise means to
make tnis wealth available he wul be
worth more to the south than many
political senators.—Columbus Enquirer-
Bun.
Give Us Ballot Reform,
The Savannah Press says:
It is to be hdped that the legislature
is in earnest about the Australian ballot
law for the state of Georgia. We have
needed this ballot reform for several
years. Georgia is one of the lew states
which has remained with the old worn
out forms of elections. The secret bal
lot, which enables a voter to approach
the box unaccompanied by heelers and to
cast bis vote unattended and untram
meled, is a great improvement. It
should have been inaugurated long ago.
The party which sea-s to put in the
Australian, or secret ballot, system is
not worthy of being trusted with power.
We shall not assume that democratic
managers are fearful of the result of the
reform ballot system. Northern and
southern states alike have passed Geor
gia, in their efforts to adopt improved
and enlightened ballot methods. It
should not be said to tbe discredit of
the general assembly that they have re
fused to give the people this first and
most important reform. Tbe people are
ready for ballot reform and have asked
for ibis new system for several years.
Let them have it by all means.
New Game Law.
Book agents may be killed from Oc
tober 1 to September 1; springs poets
from March 1 to June 1; scandal mon
gers all the time; umbrella borrowers
August 1 to November 1, and from
February 1 to May 1, while every-man
who accepts a paper two -years but
when the bill is presented - says, “I
never ordered it, ” may be killed on
sight without reserve ;or relief from
valuation or appraisement laws, and
buried face downward, without benefit
or clergy.—Ex.
Tbe Australian ballot is aimed at
vote buying, tbe most evil tendency
of modern politics. - But the question
is can it accomplish the defeat of tils
tendency, were the system adopted.—
Madison Madisonian. Why certainly
it would. You cannot trust a man
who would sell his vote. The pur--
chaser, or his benchman must see it
cast. Under the Australian system
nobody except the judges and clerks
cau go nearer tbe polls than fifty feet,
aud the voter goes into a little closet,
or booth.
There is ripping and tearing and tear
ing and tearing and smarting around
the State University. Mercer and Ox
ford are making merry War on it.
—Gainesville Eagle. Where has Mercer
shown, or said the least thing against
the University of Georgia in the pres
ent controversy? Put all the blame
on the Blalock committee and the
politicians where it belongs.
Mayor elect Van Wyck spent |150.72
for his election, Tom Platt, who was
not a candidate, epent thousands.
That is the reason the bill to require
successful candidates in Georgia make
sworn statements about campaign ex
pease is useless. It only makes men
commit perjury, and can accomplish
no good.
The Macon News says that “Pope
Brown is running for governor on an
agricultural platform; Joe Terrell, on
convict reform; Flena dußignon on
party loyalty; Allen Candler, on free
dom from political trickery and Hut
Jenkins, on tbe State University, but
that a winning issue would be tbe
fight on railroad monopoly.’’
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