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W, A, KNOWLES,
General Manager,
“Forty six absentees’’
Alack and alas! They did not let it
pass.
$75,000 is paid out by Georgia tax
payers for legislation worth 0000000000.
“The Fifty Days Farce” is what the
Brunswick Times calls the Atlanta
show.
There were 4,286 cases and 446 deaths
during the recent yellow fever epi
demic.
Os course, our egotistical governor
thinks he knows what laws the people
of Georgia need better than 219 legis
lators.
Hon. J. H. Reece is to be commended
for his vote for the convict bill in the
legislature. He has made an excellent
representative.
If some of the legislators in Atlanta
do not catch the smallpox, they are
liable to catch something else when
they get home.
O Woman, Lovely Woman! Hadn’t
you better flee from Atlanta to avoid
falling into the clutches ot those hor
rid physicians with the “ vaccinate”?
asks the Columbus Enquirer-Sun.
The southern newspapers favoring
the gold standard make “milk and
water” comments —at. least most of
them do—on the president’s message.
A few speak out, and condemn its
weakness.
The last line of the Macon News
criticism of the piesident’s message is
as follows:
“ythnt eee ztb(arnsuidr htrararo
dodd.”
Many people will indorse it.
Representative J. B. Nevin voted
against the convict bill because he
thought it conflicted with the inter
ests of free labor. He has given close
attention to his legislative duties, in
troduced several bills and answered
the roll calls with great regularity.
The London Daily Chronicle des
cribes the message as “weak and col
orless compared with the vigorous
handling of public question to which
Mr. Cleveland accustomed us.’’ It
says: "The explanation of this is
simple. Mr. C leveland was in fiont
of congress; Mr. McKinley is behind
it. The president’s comments on the
currency issue are positively child
like in their simplicity.”
“The farmer who raises his own
bread, meat, rice, molasees.'peas, pota
toes and plenty of milk and butter,”
says the Dillou, 8. C., Herald, “is
never hurt by low-price cotton. It is
the fellow who raises the cotton to
buy these articles with. It is the fel
low who has nothing after he sells
his all-cotton crop that has to beg for
credit.” The Cotton Acreage Con
ventions might sit for a week and pass
preambles and resolutions by the
yard, and they could not describe the
situation better or indicate the remedy
’for it any plainer.
Legislature Must Pass a Bill,
HST The oonviot P rob ‘
“ lem like many otffir
evils is still with us.
JR Our silly and frol-
Icksome legislature
bas u p *° d ®
V 3 WirS shown its utter inca-
q pability of hand
L ling the subject.
While we are aware that some
weak-minded fellows had managed
to get into the legislature we have al
ways believed there were enough
brainy minds to control proper action
on measures of vital interest.
The present session, of the legisla
ture must do something toward con
vict reform. The different members
cannot and should not expect to get
a bill passed which will suit their va
rious views in all respects. They mnst
pass a bill, or else allow the taxpayers
to continue toi.be robbed under the
present lease system.
We are glad to know tnat the bill
which was killed for lack of a const!
tutional majority was reconsidered
yesterday, and we hope that in the
seven days of the session which re
main the legislature will pass a bill.
We confess that it looks doubtful now.
We heartily agree with the Atlanta
Constitution when it says: "For the
house to pass no bill at all will be to
subject a democratic legislature to
such criticism as will have disas
trous effect in the state campaign of
next year. It will be a confession
of incompetency, from which a dem
ocratic administration should be
spared; and the adversaries of the
party will be prompt to seize upon this
inviting opportunity for an attack.
Worse than that, the humiliation of
such a result will leave the party prac
tically defenseless. It is true the con
vict question is not a party matter,bnt
it is equally true that a democratic
administration will be held to strict
accountability for any legislation on
this very urgent question. Failure
to legislate will render the party even
more liable to criticism, for it will im
ply a declaration of incapability and
imcompetency.”
The convicts plead for the passage
of a bill; the people demand it.
The main purpose of the present
session of the legislature was for the
purpose of disposing of the convict
problem and if it fails to act it will
adjourn in disgrace.
"Best Rome Ever Had,"
It is very gratifying to The Tribune
to receive daily praise, orally and
written, that it is the “best newspa
per Rome has ever had. ” Our edito
rial stand for what we believe is right,
is also strongly endorsed by people from 1
whom we had not expected it. We
are appreciative of these kind words
and hope to publish a better paper ,
than ever. i
Self Preservation First,
“Congressman Hepburn, an lowa ,
Republican, says it would never do to j
adopt the currency reform schemes
suggested by those who would begin ,
by retiring the greenbacks. ’Why,’
he says, ‘if we should pass a law on
these lines at this session lowa would
not return a single republican con
gressman next fall, and the republi
cans would lose a senator from that
state. ’ ’
If this is true of lowa it is equally
true of other states, says the Augusta
Chronicle, and the opposition of Con
gressman ’ Hepburn will be echoed by
republicans from every quarter. It is
fortunate for the people that republi
can congressmen.believe their political
safety would be sacrificed by retiring
the greenbacks, for their retirement
and the substitution of interest bear
ing bonds to go into the coffers of na
tional bankers would be a sad misstep
in the way 'Of currency reform. But
as this is the first step in - the plan of
the gold men it is improbable that
they will agree upon any scheme of
reform that does not contain this fea
ture. As the congressmen are sure
not to pass any plan that does con
tain this feature the probabilities are
that all will be done to relieve the
financial embarrassment the country
labors under.
The result will be the same as
that which befell a recent democratic
congress of fragrant memory which
did not have (the courage of its con
victions and which was very properly
wiped from the face of the earth.
Should the republicans follow the
same plan of inaction they will meet
the same fate at the hands of the
people next year. The democratic
THE BOMB TBIBUNE. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9. 18SH
party will be returned to power with
a tidal wave in favor of silver coinage,
' and possibly by that time the deipo
. cratic party rill have attained through
chastening the courage to go ahead
and do what it believes to be right.
i Three Chapters on the Legislature,
• Sept. 22. The Tribune said:
TALK, TALK,
TALK, TALK.
penitentiary committees convene in
ATLANTA.
Nov. 20. The Tribune remarked:
WELL, WELL,
WELL, WELL.
THE LEGISLATURE IS PLAYING THE D— L.
Dec. 8. The Tribune declared:
WORDS. WORDS.
WORDS, WORDS.
ALAS! THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE LACKS
THEM.
Kind of Banks We Need,
(Charleston News and Courier)
The recommendation that the national
batiks be permitted to issue notes up to
the face value of the bonds they have
deposited to secure circulation, and the
further recommendation that national
banks be permitted to organize with a
minimum capital of $25,000, would af
ford larger banking facilities to the
country; but the establishment of
national banks in all the smaller villages
and agricultural regions of the country,
without the privilege of banking upon
the resources of these villages, and agri
cultural regions, would not afford the
kind, and volume of currency to meet
the commercial requirements. What the
agricultural regions need is not more
banks under national control, but larger
facilities of credit, the employment of
local resources for local needs—the
actual resources of the country against
the mere pledge of the Government.
While the president’s recommendations
would probably afford an increase of
circulation, the establishment of more
banks and smaller banks would fail of
the desired object unless it would make
the curreency elastic as well as abun
dant. What we wish that the president
would suggest is a plan of currency re
form that would take the government
out of the banking business.
The Defeat of the Convict Bill,
(Macon Telegra pb)
The convict bill received a large ma
jority in the house yesterday, but it
failed to pass by ten votes for the want
of a constitutional majority.
While no one supposes that the bill is
perfect—that it is little more than a
makeshift—still we are of the opinion
that it ought to pass. It will be very
unfortunate if it has to go over for two
years, and legislation forced upon the
very heels of the expiring lease, when
no time will be bad for arranging to
carry a new system into effect.
i,The large majority for the bill will
be sufficient to reconsider the action
taken yesterday. If need be meet the
objections, by amendment, of a suffi
cient number of the minority to secure
its passage, if it can be done without
destroying the main features of the bill.
At best any legislation on this ques
tion is in the nature of an experiment.
It will be so two years hence. Let the
experiment begin now. Let the work go
on.
So far as competition with free labor
is concerned, it will be impossible to
make the prisoners self-sustaining with
out coming in conflict with free labor
in some way.
The legislature should hold the gen
eral good in view.
Dr, Candler for Bishop,
(Augusta Herald)
A number of influential ministers and
laymen of the Methodist church are ar
ranging to advocate Rev Dr. Warren
A. Candler for elevation as a bishop.
The General Conference of the Metho
dist church will be held in Baltimore a
few weeks hence, and it is then that
they intend to present bis name.
No man in the Methodist church has
a greater number of warm friends than
Dr Candler or a measure of ability which
more thoroughly qualifies him for the
duties of the higher position for which
he is urged. Dr. Candler is a man of
executive ability and deep scholarship
and one of the most eloquent pulpit
orators in the country. He is held in
especial esteem here, where he was loca
ted as a pastor for many years.
His elevation will not require him to
discontinue his work as president of
Emory College, where he has been par
ticularly successful. It will merely en •
large the sphere of his influence and
usefulness.
All Georgia would rejoice if. there
General Conference saw fit to confer
this signal honor on one of the state’>s
worthiest sons, and we wish every suc
cess to the zealous friends who have
taken up the matter.
“The money clause is not clear
enough to comment on and congress
will have to interpret it,” says the
Birmingham Ledger.
Women Oppose This Equality,
(Augusta Chronicle)
The protests that are made by women
against the execution of Mrs. Nobles
would indicate that women want to be
on an equal footing with man in the
winnings, but not in the losses. If Mr.
Nobles had murdered Mrs. Nobles in
the same brutal and heartless manner
that this wretched woman murdered her
helpless old husband there would not be
this hue and cry for clemency. Women
have no more right to murder their
husbaqds, than men have to murder
their wives though they may have more
excuse for it
The Atlanta Journal properly com
mends Senator Bacon for endeavoring
to “prevent discrimination against the
use of Georgia marble in building the
Washington postofflce. ” Unfortunately
the Georgia state capital, built of In
diana limestone, rises up in the path
of Senator Bacon, like a spectre, says
an exchange. Yes, it was a great mis
take that it was not built of our state
marble, but it does no good to cry over
spilt milk.
“Little
Miss Peanut.”
“Little Miss Peanut from North Caro
lina,
She’s not aristocratic, but no nut is
fim r.
Sometimes she’s roasted and burnt to a
cinder,
In Georgia they call her Miss Goober
or Pinder.”
The ladies know wheie to get
nice things for Christmas and get
the best attention, all clean and
nice, very fine teas and coffees, fresh
erkes and crackers nice spices and
extracts, Ferris Hams and breakfast
bacon, Edam, Club House, Neuf,,
chatel and full cream cheese, pickles
and preserves to please the people.
French boneless and plain Sar
dines, nice cranberries, nuts &c.
<fcc. At.
LESTER’S.
Old Postoffice Corner, Rome, Ga.
Go to
Roark, the Jeweler,
FOR
Up-to-date
BRIDAL
AND
CHRISTMAS PRESENTS.
317 Broad St, Rome, Ga,
sc. COTTON
• NOT IN IT
Compared With Our Extreme
ly Low Prices,
T. W. McCORD,
I am selling Staple and Fancy
Groceries,.Country produce confec
tionaries, Fruits Etc , at the lowest
possible prices. When you need any
goods in this line call and see me.
It will pay you.
T.W. McCord
Under Beuna Vista Hotel.
536 Broad St,, - Rome, Ga.
The Best Work,
We guarantee the best work in
the shortest time of auy laundry m
the city. Try us, ’Phone 158.
MODEL STEAM LAUNDRY,
No. 502 Broad St., Rome, Ga.
(END FOR MY CATALOGUE OF
CHRISTMAS NOVELTIES
in STERLING SILVER,
If you are contempluting purchases for the
HOLIDAY SEASON.
Charles W, Crankshaw, Jeweler.
33 WHITEHALL BT.. ATLANTA GA.
15 CENT TRANSFER,
We deliver trunks to any part of
the city promptly for fifteen cents.
'Phone 103 Central Hotel
Rome Baggage Transfer,
W. M. GAMMON & SON.
Men’s Fine Cloves.
W. M. Gammon & Son
have for this season the hand
somest and most complete
line of men’s fashionable
gloves they have ever shown.
Silk Lined 'Paris made kids
in all the new shades. Per
rin’s French kids in latest
styles. Mocha kids in all
sizes. Buckskin driving
gloves. Buckskin gauntlets,
Dogskin driving gloves, Fur
Lined combination gloves for
cold weather. Fire proof
Hogskin gloves for railroad
men; Boys’ gloves in all styles
—in fact we have everything
in gloves that is new and de
sirable; prices reasonable.
We have what you want in
everything that a man, boy
or child can wear. No old
goods. If you want a glove,
hat, suit, shoe, tie, under
wear or neckwear, recollect
we have the thing you
want —standard goods, latest
stlye, of best quality, at a
price you can afford.
Good goods kt reasonable
prices are what you need,
and we have them*
W. M. Gammon & Son,
Dealers in everything a man or boy wears.
*
Largest Display Imported Bisque Dolls
IN ROME AT
CURRY-ARRINGTON COMPANY’S
These goods were bought with our wholesale line and at manufac
turer’s prices.
We will give our retail customers the benefit of all the dis ounts.
In addition to our hue of dolls we have on sale the largest and most
varied line of French Bevel Mirrors, high grade Cutglassware, Bisque
ware, Photograph Alums, etc., that we have ever offered to our patrons.
This speaks volumes in itself as our reputation for best goods at lowest
prices 31 e permanently fixed in the minds of the people. Call before the
stock is broken.
'i
Curry-Arrington Company’s.
Beautiful Line i
Bridal Presents and
Fine Cut Glass at
J.T. CROUCH & GO’S.
Finest toilet goods, Huyler’s candy, choicest
perfumeries. Our extracts are the best and j
purest. Our stock of
Pure Drugs and Patent Medicines ■
are strictly 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 ate carrying the
best line of fancy articles in Cut Glass. Our line of per
fumes is tbe 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 coughs, 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
the taste. Try our 5 cent cigar.
J. T, CROUCH & CO., 300 Broad St,, Rome, Ga.
Tyner’s Dyspepsia Remedy cures indigestion, Bad
Breath, Sour Stomach, Hiccoughs, Heart-burn.
(^“Guaranteed.
Men's Fine Shoes.
The handsomest
styles, the most
beautifully finished
and most durable
and elegantly fit
ting shoe yet pro
duced is
Edwin Clapp’s
Fine Hand Sewed
Shoes.
r a ■■■
f i tiww - r -°
W. M. Gammon & Son have
them in all the new and
stylish shapes. As Stetson’s
name stands for the finest
hats. Edwin Clapp’s stands
for the finest shoes in Amer
ica. We are agents for both.