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iTpages.
Christmas weather reigns.
And congress convenes tomorrow.
Rome has had a wet spell. We
needed every drop of it.
. - .
Every epithet from imbecile to
thief has been applied to the legisla
tors. '
To Speaker Jenkins:
Lay on McDuff
And d—d be ke who first cries enough.
Judge Branham opposes the hang
ing of woman, and favors giving them
all rights. \
We favor the Georgia legislature
recognizing the belligerency of the
Savannah political factions.
‘ <Do not forget the Australian bal
lot bill, gentlemen of the general as
sembly,” says the Savannah Press.
Solicitor General Osborne says he
was not playing poker in the Kimball
house. We are glad to publish his
denial,
“A Georgia weekly said a kind word
about the legislature and the Consti
tution reproduced it as a curiosity,”
remarks the Augusta Herald.
There are supposed to be men with
with millions of dollars walking
around in Atlanta crazy to put it in a
new paper. What fools these mortals
and millionaires be. —Savannah Press.
Editor Shaver, of the Dalton Argue,
thinks that an example should be
made of Willie Osborne, the poker
playing solicitor general of Savannah.
A great many other people are of the
same opinion.
The Tribune understands that
considerable interest is being taken
in the cotton movement to decrease
the production in this section. A
meeting of Floyd county farmers is
called to be held at the court house
next Saturday to elect delegates to
the Atlanta convention.
Mr. G. C. Matthews, the excellent
correspondent of the. Macon Telegraph
at the capital writes as follows: “The
co education billjlanguisbes, but Chair
man Thomas says he will secure a vote
as soon as he can secure a full house.
The bill, b, the way, only admits to
the university young women who
have graduated at other colleges.”
A certain cynical New Yorker—a
man, of course —has just announced
the discovery that although, the
term “angel” is never applied in
a mundane affair to any but women
or chlldrn, but in the Bible, when the
sex of an angel is referred to or im
plied, it is invariably male; in no case,
so he says, can he find a reference to a
feminine angel. That is curious, to
sav the least, and it is stranger still
that it has taken all these centuries to
find this out, despite the plentifulnees
of cynics and misogamists in every
age.
•‘Favorite Son Racket"—Political Trick
In Seventh District,
The Dalton Citizen prints the follow
ing: <
‘‘The political friends of Col. T.
R. Jones are urging him to make the
race for congress from this district,
and should he consent to do so he
would doubtless gain the victory and
Whitfield would be represented in the
next assembly of that body. The
slim-slam game, of Representative
John Maddox to patch up his vote in
the convention is reacting against
him before the people, and his race
will not be strong outside of bis own
county. Col. Jones is solid with the
voters of the district and ought to go
before them. The people want a
candidate who represents democratic
votes and this cannot be said of Mr.
Maddox, whose constituency has been
a general mixture.”
In replying to the above from tbe
Dalton Citizen it should be stated in
the first place that the name of T. R.
Jones, jr., appears at the masthead
as one of its editors. It is well known
that he has charge of.the local columns.
The above article does not appear in
tbe editorial but local columns. This
would be a sufficient explanation of
the above, but as Congressman Mad
dox’s record is attacked we will, say
something further.
A few weeks ago we prepared and
published some figures which we
thought then and still think would be
a much fairer plan of representation
than the one at present prevailing in
our conventions. The Ringgold New
South, the Cedartown Standard and
the Dalton Citizen are the only three
newspapers in the district which have
objected to the plan, and they did not
dare republish the figures which to a
fairininded man speak for justice. It
is scarcely necessary to say that Judge
Maddox has not now and never has
had any interest in The Tribune, di
rectly, nor indirectly,and has nothing
to do with the policy of this paper.
Tbe idea that Judge Maddox does
not represent the democratic vote in
this district is absurd and ridiculous.
By looking back over our files we
find that the following resolution was
passed by the congressional conven
tion which assembled at Ringgold last
year when Judge Maddox for the
third time was nominated:
“We place the seal of our unquali
fied approval on the course of our rep
resentative in Congress, Hon. Juo. W.
Maddox,bis integrity and consistency,
and his unfailing fidelity td opr people
in all his votes and acts on public
questions, and present him to the
people of this district for re-election.
“His course in congress has been
entirely consistent with old and true
democracy. His unswerving fidelity
to the interest of silver demands tbe
respect and confidence and support of
all true friends of silver. His re-elec
tion will be no experiment. He has
been tried and found faithful as a
custodian of high trust” »
This the democrats spoke through
their representative in solemn conven
tion after his service of four years in
congress. Now go back to tbe con
gressional convention of 1894 which
assembled at Dalton when the same
Col. T. R. Jones was a delegate and it
is found that he introduced a resolu
tion which was unanimously adopted
as follows:
‘ ‘That we heartily endorse in its en
tirety tbe record of our present dis
tinguished representative, Jno. W.
Maddox, and commend him to tbe
people of tbe district for re-election. ’ ’
Again, in the above effusion it is
asserted that tbe people want a can
didate who represents democratic
votes and that this cannot be said of
Judge Maddox whose “constituency
has been a general mixture.” In the
last congressional election there were
three candidates in the field as the
regular nominees of the democratic,
republican and populist parties. Judge
Maddox as the democratic nominee
received 10,719,v0te5; Mr. Massey, re
publican, 5,087; Mr. McGarrity, popu
list, 4,258. The charge made in the
above article is that Judge Maddox
does not represent democrats. Now
we would like to know who does rep
resent the democratic vote of the dis
tricts if be does not.
The slur cast at the ten thousand
voters who supported Judge Maddox
is an insult and a reflection upon their
integrity, and we would like to in
quire if these voters who supported
Judge Maddox are not democrats, who
and where are the people with whom
Col. Jones is .so solid. They must be
the Massey and McGarrity crowd.
But any way just trot out Col. Jones
and let him attack the democracy of
Judge Maddox and bis, “general mix
ture” of constituency, and if Col.
Jones don’t think that a cyclone has
struck him before be gets through
with the job, we are no prophet.
But the people understand this
present racket in tbe Seventh district.
They saw it worked when the same
tactics were resorted to for defeating
Gen. Young. Col. L. N. Tram
mel was nominated. The district
was torn with dissensions that put
tbe democrats out of power for a
number of years. Now when we pro
pose a method that will give every
democrat an equal voice in the con*
vention they call it Aim flam. Why?
Because they cannot work their
schemes under fair methods.
Tbe truth of the matter is that
there Is no man in Georgia whose
record as a demoorat had been more
THE SOME, tfBlfeUNE SIJNDAY. DECEMBER 5, 1897.
consistent than Judge Maddox, and
no man has ever represented a people
with more loyalty to party pledges
than be. and the people know it.
Tbe members of congress recognize
him as ope of the strongest democrats
in that body. He is a member of the
committees on banking and ourrency
and Indian affairs. He is also a mem
ber of tbe democratic congressional
executive committee. But tbe milk in
tbe ooooanut in this matter is the
result of tbe conspiracy among cer*
tain politicians in “this district to
retire Judge Maddox. In order to
accomplish this they expect to resort
to what is known as tbe “favorite
son racket”—to run as many candi
dates as they can get out in different
parts of the district, hoping by this
policy to capture the convention, ele
vate themselves and defeat the will of
the people.
The Blessed Rain,
The past three days have been the
longest wet spell Rome and North
Georgia-have bad since last February.
The rain was needed, and it is doubt
ful if it is enough.
Up to 7 o’clock yesterday morning
Capt. W. M. Tower’s rain guage
showed 2.57 inches of rainfall. Possi
bly one-fourth of an inch fell up to
the time tbe rain ceased last night
which would make in all less than
three inches.
Tbe extremely dry condition of the
earth, and tbe extended period over
which the dizzling rain fell, will
prove of great benefit to the farmers.
It will get tbe ground in condition
for the coming crops.
The total average rainfall for the
year in Rome is about 48 inches. We
are behind for this year about ten
inches, and ahead for this month by
about two inches.
With the snowfall and zero weather
over tbe northwest, and the freezing
weather predicted for North Georgia,
we are likely to have our first winter 1
weather.
Inappropriate Music ; i
What is termed a “swell wedding” ,
occurred in McKendree church, Nash
ville, a few evenings ago, and the Nash
ville Sun says that “after the ceremony,
when the reverend divine had invoked
his final heavenly Messing upon the
young couple, the great old organ began
to peal forth ‘ ‘There'll be a hot time in
the.old town tonight, my baby,’and ‘Be
my man or I’ll have no man all,’ and
to the inspiring strains the marriage
procession marched jubilantly out.”
The Sun adds that “a number of Nash
ville’s orthodox church people have ex
pressed themselves as more or less pro
voked at the musical finale.” The mu
sic was enough to provoke them and
to disgust them as well.
As might be expected the affair has
created a great sensation in the centen
nial city. The contracting parties to the
wedding Mr. Jackson and Miss Richard
son belong to two of the most promi
nent families in Tennessee, but be
cause they, belong to “swell society” is
no reason why they should have any
such musiu played,
Beer and dance hall music is not only
hoard in private parlors, to tbe credit of
nobody concerned, bnt rather to the
discredit of young ladies who choose
such music for the entertainment of
themselves and friends, -but music dis
gustingly like it is too often heard in
devotional exercises. Recently in the
Methodist Cnroh Congress in Pittsburg,
Dr. Atchison* of Illinois, declared that
in some branches of the church sacred
music had degenerated into a caricature.
He said: “We all know that the style
of music tolerated by tbe average revi
val meeting, camp meeting, Sunday
school and Epworth League conventions,
is unworthy of the history and genius
of Methodism,” The Washington Post
says of this statement:
This rebuke is severe, but it is well
deserved. It has become the rule rather
than the exception, not only in the
Methodist, but in other churches, to in
flict upon the pupil of the Sunday school
tbe veriest trash, both as to rhyme and
music. In one Sunday-school in this
city tbe children were taught to sing a
most irreverent and jingling lot of dog
gerel to the tune ot “There’s a Little
Old Log Cabin in the Lane” and this
combination was considered divine wor
ship. The element of fitness seems to
be entirely overlooked, for in another
school a score of tiny tots in the primary
class, sweet babies of five and six years
of age, were given a song of which the
refrain was:
“I have left the path of sin,
That I long have wandered in.”
The trouble is that this Sunday-school
music is machine-made. It is ground
out to meet a demand, but it would
seem that those upon whom the responsi-
Dility of selection rests are either ignor
ant or indifferent. The songs that are
included in the Epworth and similar
collections are not quite so bad. but
they are far from being satisfactory.
There are some exceptions, of course.
We oould name a few tunes that seem
to have been inspired, that speak from
heart to heart, and that aid materially
in imparting a proper spirit to any re
ligious gathering. But these are few,
too few. They are cases in "a dreary
desert of pure balderdash and rot.
Early Methodism being the outcome
of a revolt against the formality of the
English church and music being one of
the principal forms of ritualistic wor
ship, it wae quite natural that the
Methodist) should have paid little or no
attention to the purely melodious side
of their service. They distinctly avoided
the beautiful chant, the gloria, and the
“Te Deum.” Notwithstanding this, the
criticism of the Sunday school and revi
vals music does not apply to the church
service proper. There are some grand
old melodies in the Methodist hymnal,
including “Duke | Street,” “Federal
Street,” “Woodworth.” “Missionary
Chant,” “Retreat,” and a hundred
others which oould bo named. There
seems to have been some intelligence
and discrimination exercised in oom-,
piling the hymnal, but in all the other
song books there is a mass of puerile,
trashy, inappropriate stuff that is a dis
grace to progressive and sensible Chris
tianity.
Youngest Candidate for Governor,
Tbe Americus Times-Recorder pub
lishes the following: x
Mrs. Myriok declares that her name
must not be used in connection with the
governorship. But Mrs. Myrick might
not objeet to becoming mistress of the
governor’s mansion.—Baxley Banner.
We are sure that if she ever should, she
would grace the executive* mansion as
its mistress as few women have ever
done. She would gojdown in history as
the “Dolly Madison” of Georgia.—
Rome Tribune.
The editor of The Times-Recorder
takes kindly the above jollying from
press friends, and returns thanks to
The Rome Tribune, for this beautiful
compliment, but takes this opportunity
to remind the boys that ws have just
one chance to “grace” that mansion,
and that opportunity will only come
when tbe press and the people of Geor
gia recognize the ability of the editor’s
son, Mr. Shelby Myrick, and elect hl n
governor. Do this, boys, and there will
be a welcome for you all in the ‘ -man
slon.”
Some Selected Sayings
About Women! y Women.
The society of ladies is the school of
politeness.—Mbnfort.
Remember,, woman is most perfect
when most womanly.—Gladstone.
Earth has nothing more tender than
a pious woman’s heart.—Luther.
All I am, or can be, I owe to my
angel mother.—Abraham Lincoln.
No man can either live pious, or die
righteous without a wife.—Richter.
Disguise our bondage 'as we will, ’tis
woman, woman rules us still. —Moore.
Women need,not;look to those’dear to
them to know their moods.—Howells.
Even in the darkest hour of earthly ill,
woman’s fond affection glows.—Band.
Eternal joy and everlasting ’love
there’s in you woman, lovely woman.
Otway.
Heaven will be no heaven for me if I
do not meet my wife there.—Andrew
Jackson.
Don Almond.
' ‘Here is Don Almond, a grandee from
Spain,
Some raiains from Malaga came in hia
train;
He has a twin brother a shade or two
leaner,
When both come together we shout
Philopena!”
Just received Edam Neufchate!
cream and Limburger cheese, orange
marmalade, figs, raisins, currants,
citron, nuts, prunes, evaporated
peaches and apricote. jams, pre
serves and peach butter. Ferris
hams and breakfast bacon. Home
made mince meat, at
LESTER’S
Old Postoffice Corner, Rome, Ga
The Best Work.
We guarantee the best work in
the shortest time of any laundry in
the city. Try us, ’Phone 158.
MODEL STEAM LAUNDRY,
No. 502 Broad St., Rome, Ga.
send fob mt catalogue or
CHRISTMAS NOVELTIES
in STERLING SILVER.
If von are contemplutin* purchases for tbe
HOLIDAY SEASON.
Charles W, Crankshaw, Jeweler.D
whiteball st.. Atlanta- ga.
W. M. GAMMON & SON.
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,Dealers in everything a man or boy wears.
Art and Precious
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Are striking combined in my stock, Collected in the art centers of"
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Silver
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and 1 extend a pressing,invitation to my friends and customers to exam*
ine and buy,
-A.. O. Stephens,
Jeweler, 218 Broad Street, Rome, Ga..
Beautiful Line
Bridal Presents and
Fine Cut Glass at '
J.T. CROUCH & CD’S.
Finest toilet goods, Huyler’s candy, choicest
perfumeries. Our extracts are the best and
purest. Our stock of
Pure Drugs and Patent Medicines
are strictlv first class and up-to-date. In our prescription
department our Dr. Davis is ever ready to fill your wants,
night or day. Prescriptions are compounded accurately
and delivered to any part of the city. We are carrying the
best line of fancy articles in Cut Glass. Our line of per
fumes is the best the market affords. Ladies can find just
what they want for bridal presents at prices which cannot
be duplicated outside of New York city. A fresh supply of
Hujler’r candy just received; also Huyler’s liquoric; drops
for cotighs, colds and soie throat. Call on us and you will
find the best of everything Our line of Cigars and Tobacco
has never been so full and with such brands that delight
tne taste. Try our 5 cent cigar.
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uaranteed-,
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