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THE ROME TRIBUNE. W. A. KNOWLES. - Editor. OrrtOK-NO. 887 BROAD STREET, VP STAIRS. TELEPHONE 78. RATES 41* SUBSCRIPTION (Daily, Except Monday.); One Tear J6.00.0ne Month .50 Six Months 3.00 One Week -.12 Three Months.... 1.50 | Weekly.per year.,l 00 Delivered by mail or by city carriers free of Charge. All subscription strictly in advance. Twe Tkibunb will appreciate news from any community. It at a small place where it has no regular correspondent, news re ports of neighborhood happenings from any friend will be gratefully received. Oommunioations should be addressed and all orders, checks, drafts, etc, made payable to THE ROME TRIBUNE, Roira. Ga. |s Wipe! Thus spoke the man whose advert 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 < ir . is a wide one, and an advertise-* meat 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 County Commissioners, and publishes regularly all legal advertisements emanating from these officials. Write for estu mates to ■W. A. KNOWLES, General Manager, 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. »!-,*£. *<• •* ■*»' » * • 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 /188 >#»]» 18W. 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.’’ — y. 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