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W. A, KNOWLES,
General Manager,
The holiday trade is oh.
The Augusta Herald calls it '‘A Wise
V eto. ’ ’
A May day tumbled into December
yesterday.
It took the legislature 43 days to get
down to business.
The south favors that portion of
President McKinley’s message on the
national quarantine.
Populist Yancey Carter says the
country is going to h 1 wards, but
we know how to take him.
Gov Atkinson says it would cost the
state $500,000 not to pass a convict bill
this session of the leglisla’ure.
Congressman Maddox is proving
himself to be be the democratic leader
of congress. We have the best rep
resentative in the south.
Mrs. Myriok gives the august mem
bers of the supreme court a piece of her
mind. .She will meet them according to
her challenge at any time, or place.
The tone of Mr. McKinley’s message,
says the St. Louis Republic, is: “Please
don’t get angry with me if you don’t
like what |l’ve said, and I’ll try to
please you the next time. ”
The lieutenant governor of Ohio
gets SBOO a year; the lieutenant gov
ernor of Pennsylvania gets $5,500.
■ Any man out for the stuff would
rather be lieutenant governor of the
latter state.
No man ever elected to the mayor
alty of a southern city recieved more
congratulations in telegrams, letters
and newspapers than Hon. Patrick
Walsh. They are still shouting for
the popular mayor of Augusta.
“We congratulate the legislature in
not passing too many bills. We
have plenty of laws on the statute books
that are not enforced now. Remedy the
convict lease, adjourn and all will be
forgiven, ’’ says the Marietta Journal.
Georgia wants fewer, simpler and
plainer laws, without so many surplus
whereases, wherefores and therefores.
The multiplicity of laws; many of them
couched in language susceptible of more
than one construction, is the bane of
the state. —Thomasville Times.
Ex-Governor Northen, says that he
is in favor of four reforms in the
state—first, textile training schools;
second, any policy which will teach
scientific farming; third, good roads,
and, fourth, a reformatory prison for
the detention of youthful criminals.
—Augusta Chronicle.
Even the New Englanders who favor
annexation do not pretend that the
Kanakas and the balance of ten
elevenths of the population of Hawaii
are fit to or ought to be allowed to vote
or hold office on the islands. Yet
they make a loud fuss, says the Chat
tanooga Times, when a southern
state applies the Australian ballot or
other methods to limit the voters to
those who can read and write, regard!
less of color.
Newspaper Influence,
The Literary Digest has been trying
to find out why newspapers have lost
their influence with voters. The Di
gest thinks as everybody does that the
result of recent election in San Fran
cisco, Detroit, Chicago and New York
demonstrate clearly that Che influence
is lost.
All the great papers opposed Carter
Harrison, and he was elected, all the
great papers opposed Pingree and he
was elected, all the papers opposed
Van Wyck and he was elected. All
three were overwhelmingly elected.
Why.was it?
The Birmingham Ledger correctly
answers the question as follows:
There is just one answer, and that
is that the people did not believe what
the papers said, 'lhe papers in each
case descended to the lowest slanders
and the most deliberate falsehood. In
each of the three cases cited they
charged that the man they opposed
was an anarchist, a plunderer and
totally unfit for the office he sought..
All these assertions were false and
unworthy of belief and people did not
believe them. The returns showed
that. The people had known these
men in their daily life and knew that
ths papers were slandering them. We
do not mean the low class papers, the
very best papers in those cities pub
lished the meanest slanders every
day.
If the people had believed the pa
pers. Pingree, Harrison and Van
Wyck would have been defeated over
whelmingly. Knowing the charges to
be false the voters paid no attention
to them. The people have come to
believe that even the most respectable
papers would slander any opponent
For 'instance the New York Post’
which claims to be in a perpetual state
of sanctification, told the most bare
faced stories of corruption about Van
Wyck and Tammany and did not
change one vote by it.
It was not the desire of the people
to vote for bad men. The people did
not, in either of the three cities, for
a single instant think they were vot
ing for bad men, for anarchists, for
socialists, for corruptionists, or even
for incompetent men. They knew
the candidates were in each case en
tirely fit for the places they sought
and they put ajside the slanders and
voted as they desired. It was a harsh (
criticism on the papers, but it was de
served.
Reform the press, stop the slanders
of opponents and tell the truth, or
say nothing. Give the news and not
bear false witness, then the press
would .again have influence in elec
tions. Honesty is the best policy.
Tillman on Hawaii.
Senator Tillman gives some sound
reasons for opposing Hawaiian annexa
tion, even if his language is vigorous
and rough. He says: “I am unalterably
opposed to annexing Hawaii. We now
have more Indians, Chinese and ne
groes in the country than we can take
care of and make citizens of without
bringing in Kanakas. McKinle. ’s
recommendation to annex Hawaii is for
the purpose to secure governmental in
dorsement of the steal of these islands
by the sugar planters who fiilibustered
and captured them and now want to
bring in sugar free of duty. Aside
from a consideration of morals which
should govern a great country like this,
I am opposed to any more colored races
getting into our population.”
Reed, the Czar.
Whatever may be thought, or said
of Speaker Reed, the bully and boss,
bls monumental power and nerve
must attract a certain hated admira
tion. Here is a man who has the will
power and force to drive congress to
do his bidding despite the oceans of
abuse and vituperation poured upon
him. He says he does not know what
congress will do this session.
Mr. Reed’s opinion of McKinley is
not for publication, but It is pretty
well known. He entertains for him a
contempt which he can not altogether
conceal. He regards him as a weak
man who is under the influence and
direction of others and who by reason
of hie plastic nature and pliable quali
ties was taken up and nominated for
president in preference to a man of
stronger will, character, and intellect.
As to his declaration that he doesn’t
know what congress will do it contains
a suggestion that he doesn’t care.
The Chicago Chronicle thinks this is
his feeling, and says: “Mr. Reed,
partly through the stress of party
exigency, partly through tempera
mental tendencies, has played the
part of a parliamentary slave driver—
a bulldozer, a partisan despot. It is
in this light that be has come to be
regarded by a large majority of the
peopleof this country. They look
upon him as a mere bludgeon wielder,
a field overseer for the republican
party. Yet such an estimate of Thomas
B. Reed is grossly unjust. He is a
man of parts, an orator, a forceful and
polished writer, a statesman of large
views. In point of brains and intel
lect he is easily first among the lead
ers of the republican party. In intel-
THE BOMB TRIBUNE. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16 181st ;
leetual stature he towers above the
Hannas and Forakers, the Culloms
and Thurstons as Popocatapetl dwarfs
an anthill. Yet be has seen himself
passed over in favor of political pyg
mies. He has felt the bitterness of
defeat at the hands of men whom he
regarded with pitying contempt.
Grown gray in public life, he has seen
himself ignored and party leadership
usurped by a man of whom eighteen
months ago no one outside of his own
county had ever heard. Today, con
scious of bis own powers, alive to the
pettiness and incapacity of the leadeis
of his party, he is shut out from its
councils, ignored as a political force
and relegated to the position of a party
drudge—an instrument to execute the
will of the political parvenu, Hanna.
He is a Gulliver in Lilliput, and like
Gulliver, the Lilliputians, are making
a slave of him. Is it to be wondered
at that a map of Thomas B. Reed’s
masterful temper and intellectual
power should view this situation with
sardonic indifference, content to let
the pygmies work their will and
awaiting with complacence the party
shipwreck that is sure to follow?”
Worthy of Consideration.
(Savannah Press)
The Constitution favors a change in
the present method of electing judges
and solicitors and so does Governor
Atkinson, but he suggests a method
which, while differing slightly from
that proposed in the senate bill, will
reach the same general end by a less
objectionable route.
Under the senate bill every circuit
will elect its judge and solicitor. There
are several circuits in the state in which
the populists predominate, and if the
senate bill becomes a law it will mean
several populist judges and solicitors.
The governor proposes that each circuit
nominate its own candidates for judge
and solicitor and that the people of the
whole state chooso from the nominations
so made. He gives his reasons for the
proposed modifications and they are
well worthy of careful consideration.
There is no doubt that the present
method of electing judges and solicitors
should be changed. This work should
not be a part of the duty of the legisla
ture, and if the present legislature
wishes to please the people it should
take advantage cf this opportunity to
do so.
The Atlanta Constitution calls att in
tion to a brief interview with Got e* .or
Atkinson, in which, as a democrat, aid
not in his official capacity, he discusses
the pending measure to elect judges and
solicitors by the people.
Miss Cain Should Be Appointed,
(Calhoun Chronicle)
The interest in the fight for the
assistant librarianship is growing daily,
and all eyes are turned to Mr. Brown
the newly appointed librarian. The
press of the state is unanimously in fa
vor of the appointment of Miss Edna
Cain, of Summerville. She is in every
way qualified for the place, and there is
no logical reason why it should not be
given her. Miss Ca nis a rarely gifted
young women, with that aggressive
energy which brooks no deft at. As a
newspaper women she occupies a front
rank of Georgia journalism, and is a
well read, cultured, brainy and capable
of gracing any society. Leaving all
questions of mental capacity, for that is
a self evident fact and has already been
proved, Miss Cain should be appointed
for the reason of her executive ablity,
her energy and her own, sweet self.
Autumn Tints.
Robert J. Burdette contributes these
verses to the fall tints:
AU the golden-rod is gon*.
Tidy dam;
And the dead leaves on the lawn,
Lumpty ttim;
Tell me that the summer's fled,
And the buttei flies are dead,
And the tennis days are sped.
Tidy dum.
Chill November’s dreary skies.
Cold and gray,
Seem to turn de dab surprise,
Tumti day.
And the sobbing of the brook
In that tai de de di nook
Brings the tra, la, la, la crook
By the way,
When life's Summer-time is spent,
Here below,
▲nd its lum.to turn is b'ent,
Ho. ho, ho.
Winter skies fal lai dal clear.
For the ta de da is near,
And the rum to turn appear
Soft and low.
It appears that Mr. Hurst of the New
York Journal is determined to out
jPulitzer Mr. Pulitzer, of the World, at
every point. It is now announced that
Mr. Hurst will build for his newspaper
an office which shall be not lees than
three stories taller than the great gilded
pepper box from which Mr. Pulitzer’s
paper is sent out.
Clever swlrflilere'Ceptured.
Chicago, Dec. 9.—David Oliver and
L. F. Booth are under arrest here on a
charge of passing a forged bank certifi
cate for $350 on the Mechanics’ bank of
Rochester, N. Y. When Oliver was ar
rested a bank certificate for $250 on a
bank in St. Joseph, Mich., was found in
his possession. The prisoners are said
to be clever swindlers.
_ I
“Little
Miss Peanut.”
“Little Miss Peanut from North Caro
lina,
She’s not aristocratic, but no nut is
finer.
Sometimes she’s roasted and burnt to a
cinder,
In Georgia they call her Miss Goober
or Pinder.”
The ladies know where to get
nice things for Christmas and get
the best attention- all clean and
nice, very fine teas and coffees, fresh
crkes 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,
IFOR
Up-to-date
BRIDAL
AND
CHRISTMAS PRESENTS.
.1
317 Broad St, Rome, Ga.
sc. COTTON
NOT IN IT
Compared With Our Extreme* l
ly
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,, - Rothe, Ga.
Why not
Buy a Piano
At Home
Where you are in position to
get one at the lowest possible
price, from one of the largest
dealers in the South. The
E. E. Forbes Music House
is enjoying one of the most
prosperous year's in the history
of its exis' ence, and is better
prepaired than ever to trade
with you in away to save you
money. Call on or wri e them
for prices on
CONOVER, KARNICK & BACH,
BEHR BROS, KNABE,
CCHBERT AND KINGSBERRY
PIANOS
Found at
327 Broad St.. Rome, Ga.
S. P. DAVIS. Manager.
The Rest 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 FOR MY CATALOGUE OF
CHRISTMAS NOVELTIES
in STERLING SILVER.
If yon are contemplntinx purchases for the
HOLIDAY SEASON.
Charles W, Crankshaw, Jeweler,
as WHITEHALL ST.. 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,
Practical, Useful
and Economical.
Almost everybody wishes to be
economical and practical in the
selection of their
CHRISTMAS+PRESENTS
Almost at your own prices is the
way you can buy them at
W. M. GAMMON & SON.
Just received fresh stuck
Imported - Woolen - Underwear,
Noqby Neckwear,
In Puffs, Ties and Bows.
Silk Lined Kid Gloves.
Silk Mufflers.
New and Stylish Hats.
Best Line of Shoes in America,
Swell Sults and Overcoats.
More quality given you at our store
than anywhere in the city for the
price. We will sell you as cheap as
the cheapest. Come and see what
we are doing.
W. M. Gammon & Son,
Dealers in everything a man or boy wears.
* - ... -
Economy Is The Road Io Wealth!
Another route to Klondike!
By having your
Buggies, Carriages and Wagons
BUILT BY
H. J. KLASING’S.
Repair work done promptly. If your horses don’t travel right, give him a
call.
Beautiful Line
Bridal Presents and
Fine Cut Glass at
J.T. CROUCH & CO’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 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 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 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.