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About The Macon news. (Macon, Ga.) 189?-1930 | View Entire Issue (March 9, 1898)
4 THE MACON NEWS. ESTABLISHED 1834-. NEWS PRINTING COMPANY, •PUBLISHERS. R. L. McKENNEY, Business M<r TOM W. LOYLHSS, Editor. THE EVENING NEWS will be delivered by carrier or utail. Ver year, *6.00; per WMk, 10 cent*. THE NEWS will be foi mu«* en truiua. Correspondence on live ■abject* solicited. Kcal name of writer should accompany same. Subscriptions payable in advance. Failure to receive p*<.er should be reported to tbe business •Clue Address all communication* to THE NEWS. Office*: Corner Second and Cherry btreeta. . . THE STATE TICKET. lor Governor, ALLEN D. CANDLER, of Hall. 1 or Secretary of State, MARK A. HARDEN, of Bartow. 1 or Comptroller-General, W. A. WRIGHT, of Richmond. For Attorney-General, J.OSEPH M. TERRELL, of Mor liwclhor. J or Treasurer. W. M. EPEER, of Fulton. Fur Cominlsioner of Agriculture, O. B. L'l EVENS, of Terrell. For School Commissioner, G. R. GLENN, of BiLb. The business outlook continues to look bright— to tile-pub'll can newspapers. Watch the Macon Telegraph discover to night that B.jan is not an orator. 'l’l.. Tilir.rajh remains discreetly silent till.-, iiiurniug. Thia is not the Telegraph’s put. _ The Cochran Tub grain is willing to bet uis pll.- that Atkinson won’t carry Iris own congirational district. We’ll lake half the bet. If Mr. Bryan had known that there was such a paper in Macon as the Telegraph h< might not have had the temerity to coinc hire. General Coxey seems to. experience no difficulty at all in restraining himseK from thrashing Spain, notes i he Chicago Times llerald. It would doubtless afford Gen. Miles em inent satisfaction to be able to conscript a i< w paragraphers tor war, thinks tbe Chattanooga News. The Spaniards have roJocd Cuba and the insurgents have harried and burael it. (Niitinr side deserves to rule it, declares the Memphis Scimitar. If Senator Proctor really saw a genuine light between Spaniards and insurgents in Cuba he has seen something that no other credible witness ha-, seen, thinks an ex change. The Ohio senate has just passed a bill authorisin', the governor'to apoint women as notaries public. This is too 'bad. Think of a man swearing in the presence of a woman. If Mr. illryau has to pass in the neigh borhood of the Republican headquarters, 'northeast corner 'Mulberry and 'Second stri > ts, let iiim look out lor mines and tor pi Urns and .things. Savannah announces that in case of war with Spain sir.' r an furnish a bicycle corps that ian make a hundred miles a day. Will this ought, to be fast enough to en spre safety. Says the Thomasville Times-Entreprise: “There is one characteristic of Allen Candler which appeals very strongly to the ; < c.ple. V.'e rcfia to the rugged honesty of t. e man. He is not a triuMucr.” In the bills, o: taro of a New York res taurant a black line has been drawn through the item “Spanish onions.” This ’ imply shows bow strong is the jingo spir it among the frequenters of New York i estaurar. ;s. At the last meeting of the American Bankers' Association a committee was ap 'polnteil to take up the work of informing j'cople as to “AVhat is a ißank.”. The an swer Is easy as regards some banks not so far off—they are pawnshops. In 1873 there were 238,411 pensioners on the rolls. Since then 321,485 pensioners have died, and there are now on the rolls 1170,014 pensioners, of whom 733.527 arc survivors of the war. Now the question is can the county stand it if they keep on dying?”’ A Chicago pplicqman was indicted by the grand jury for highway robbery. Un der pretense of arresting two men this policeman robbed his prisoners at (the pa trol 'box and then told them to vamoose or get run in. Well, hasn’t a policemen as many rights as an aiderman?” Mark Hanna took a run from Washing ton to New York the other day and in formed Wall street that there would be no war, and immediately stocks went up, mentions the Americus Times-Recorder. On other occasions also it has been forci bly demonstrated that this has degene rated into a government of Hanna, by Hanna, for Hanna. \ singular chronological coincidence is that which rules between the year 18S7 and the present year. An almanac for the year 18S. will lit this year, all the phases of the planets and the days of the week occurring on the same days of the month they did in 1887 will occur in this. Such a coincidence will not occur again until the year I! 15. Rut this will be too late to do us any good, so we had best get all ■we can out of the present coincidence. Georgia marble is now being shipped to two northern states to be used in the con struction of their state capitals, ineompeti tion with the world, as to beauty and ele gance. i U addition to that which is being used for a half dozen other large Eastern bundings. nates the Brunswick Times. Yes. but Georgia’s own capital building is constructed of Indiana sandstone, and sim ilar material has been and is still being used in other public buildings in this state. “ IS The Athens banner reads the Augusta Herald a temperate and at the same time a clear and forcible lesson on fair politics and proper journalistic methods. We have always been on good terms with the Her ald and we sincerely like many connected with it. but we have not been able to ad mire its tactics in the present gubernato rial campaign. They have been too much on the “peanut” order—too much like the Rome Tribune’s methods. Therefore, we can heartily agree with the Athens Ban ner when it tells the Herald that “if the Herld desires to pursue such a course in the present gubernatorial campaign, as it seems to indicate, then let it mike all it can out of its chosen policy, Colonel Cand ler and his friends will try and hold up their end of the contest without resorting to the Herald’s methods, and will fear not the result.” Wiiiiam Jennings Brjan, When William Jenuiags Hryau stood on tae in tiie CX>avta;»ua in ; ixi iiiiti cltvLi liitd van auuiebve, up of oratufs, UlLll lat UiOXri, OlaaiUfli. *LtU Gi U'dj, UUlk.l. liiGae wmdft UUicp IkiVfc Uvtii tilt £k*olto of iaiAig.GUd CiZ lAjui- iiks “Aiit-y &&a«l **<><. upon tat b*u.. ol la our Lu.k ciu*u v*. —t&vy ixivill XiGt, l. uu *■* </L tjuitl, la<l iiixia a turtixtti v taat v» -Luat v«uul<l lux- tver i*i aRe xiaaU a Itauti aitil. Al lual t.UU: be aad little vi bt- comiag a tauuidate lai the bieatai iiuao** in tbe u* tiiib, tae axxi pruuu- eet aatii/ii on cartii, auu waeu iue cGuvca lion ioee a* alxavei a feaxrgle wuu and nt ciaixu ibat be shouaia it.au vat i*.io force* in ti»e corning election lor tae selec tion of a presiueut vi these Ln.ltd tjtates, none in »tbe Union, wnu were waiting aux- v muoiy io hear who woulu -be nom.uaud, a Lit ai*ui c aurpi'i3e<A tiiau ut, xlt \»us uu known, and a. taat -time u.isou & ni -by u»e people. jlvoa of gold s »'ep'i away lai mvc tor a u it_at mail am, a -great cause, uoeiasity can voles fur those wiio v.cre u’oie lo coiitiui it, ami .me cause, which in tai- iic&> ,aui the wcrkiagmiu uml the pimu, noucai people waa 'ucheini to i»e tin iigai one, w-a defea.ii'd. but gold will not uga.n Lave lire mastery in controlling ilit led oi tbe £ion osi voter, a.id *n Ijjvu wbun William Jennings Bryan sounds tile car cry ot "No clown of thorns or cross of gold,” ihe reaction will -be one hat will sweep everything bdore it, and he will 'm. made ine luul of i.-.us piutiu nation. lie is me uiau or tae hour, d; la not that Cl;i hour met the piace nave made lac niuii, Lui simplj that we nave a conspic uous example cf the right nian in the light place. Great opiiurtuiiit.es come only io those who are gnat without iirem. U Uliam Jennings Bryan is a man w;lii a spleiiuid rtc-oid ut the past, and .1 grand iuture lor Ul ui is in sight. Everywhere he is honored, and nowhere is he moxe in thusianticaily received Chau in 'tae iSuuta, and in 'Macon. He is here, as every where cist, a gicat man for a greaa cause. There i* a special significance in the coming of Bryan to the fcJouih further than ihe tact that he is working in the interest of Lae party v.hieh as placed its trust in him. Though it would not be necessary for aim 'to come into this section to carry it overwhelmingly for the Democratic cause, he comes lo show the people who loyally stood by him in the lust contest that their loyalty is deeply appreciated. Though lucre are hundreds who differ with him on the vital question upon which Che last contest was made, there are none who arc not convinced itlr-at they could not have made matters worse by adopting the silver platform. Macon hails the chieflan and feels the honor of his visit, and from the outer wails at the city hangs triumphant ban ners in prospect of his victorious leader ship in 1300. Tonight the same voice that elcctriiiled the great convention at KJhicago, giving vent to such noble sentiments, will be heard under the big tent on the corner cl 'First arud I’oplar street. > .j.,,,. • The Danger That Thieatens. There is no danger of a conflict between this country and Spain if the two govern ments—those in authority representing the two governments—could be left alone to deal with the -situation calmly.arid con servatively. Nothing has been said or done by the two governments that can, by any process of reasoning or exaggera tion, be construed into a casus belli; and ■ it is itat likely that there will be any vol- on the part of either govern ment that can be so construed. The leal danger lies in the irresponsible, uucou'Hoiled, uncontrollable public senti ment of the two countries. ''That public sentiment can, without rhyme or reason, force war has been abundantly demonstra ted. And it is the only thing that can do so in this case. When public sentimen'i is fanned by sensational newspapers and nothicly seeking demagogues -it becomes a, dangerous, thing,_ and even presidents, and legislative bodies cannot hold cut against it. The American public—and the same, is true of the Spanish—have, in a certain sense, be’pome stampeded by inflamatory utterances and false publications, until now i< almost seems that they will sweep all before them, and make war inevitable. War, costly, bloody, wicked, deplorable war. The stampede seems to be headed that way, and it may be considered doubtful if either McKinley or Sagasta can cheek it. Both, as reasonable, thinking men, with the responsibility for such an under taking resting upon their shoulders and their consciences, would, no doubt, like to avoid such a conflict, but public opinion seems to be forcing them to it. ■Nor is i't the thinking, conservative, the really- patriotic public spirit of the country that, is doing this thing. It is the careless, reckless, hot-headed public opinion that makes a lot of ihoise and does naught else. It is public opinion that emanates from those who have the few responsibilities upon their shoulders, and to whom war carries no meaning except as an exciting diversion from a hitherto dull time. Will the governments of Spain and of the' United States be able to overcome this irresponsible, irrational clamor? A few days or weeks will determine. A Party’s'Platform No Test. The Atlanta Constitution proposes to put a new gaglaw on Democrats. It wants no Democrats to take part in white primaries this year who does not accept the Chicago platform. The Chicago platform is a dead issue now.—Savannah Press. Is it? Who made it so? Has the .party so declared it? How can it 'become a dead issue until the party which promulgated it formally abandons or changes it? Docs the mere desire of the Savannah 'Press and the Macon Telegraph and a few othei\ gold'bug newspapers make it a dead issue?' ■Does the mere wish of Mr. Teller and a few other Silver Republicans maite the St. L-ouis platform a dead issue? Certainly not. It is the party, law of the Republicans and it must s'tand for nearly three yeais longer as a guide for the .McKinley admin istration and a test for all Republicans. So also must the Chicago .platform re main the law of the Democratic party. No individual, nor set of individuals can change it in the least until the party has again assembled in a national caucus. Much less can they wipe it out entirely and declare it a dead issue. 'Moreover, the Chicago platform is not equivceal. It says what it means and it means what it says. No man who refuses to “accept” it can, by any process of rea soning, be considered a Democrat. Nor can he claim the right to participate in party councils. So long as he refuses to “accept” his party’s dqctrine he is as much* outside tbe party and as much an enemy of the party as if he were an avowed Repub l.can or Populist. By such rules is religious heresy deter mined; why not, therefore, determine po litical heresy by the same process? If the Chicago platform is not the measure of a Democrat, then what, in heaven’s name, is Democracy—and how are. we to prove it? It is becoming more and more evident that Spain will not have to go begging in case of war with the United States. She already owes the nations of Europe enough to give them a friendly interest in her, and it is not likely that her creditors will stand by and see their property Sestroyed. 55 hile none of them may be willing to give Spain their active support, it is already evident that some of them —France, for instance—will, at least, give her .secret , support. And the secret support of fin other nation will be of no inconsiderable I value to Spain just at this time. I Macon's Need For an Auditorium. The Savannah J4tws says “Albany is Building an auditorium which would be a credit to a city of ten times her population, while Savannah is merely talking about what a good thing it would be to have one.” Same here.—Augusta Chronicle. And tae same here in Maeoa. Nor is ibis a uad tinje to tail attention to the fact. The vis., of William Jennings Bryan to Macon emimasiits tae need for an audito rium tn this city, litre we are torced to l-( a circus tent in order that half as many people as wish to hear this distin guished leader may be accommodated. The Svate Epworth League Convention, to be iicbi here next month, is a ease r. point. It has been necessary to buy a tent tn which to hold the meetings. And so it is every year. 5Ve are constantly recogniz ing the urgent need for an alditorium, and yet we are doing nothing to get one. Ma con must make an active effort in this di rection, else she will eontined to be em barrassed cn occasions of this kind. Two Fools Well Met. The Augusta Tribune, in trying to prove that the editor of the Macon Telegraph is not a feci, .roved itself to be a begger fool than the other. The man who objects to the coinage cf silver, because its coinage will benefit the silver mines, is as big a icol as the man who would object to the use cf wheat far bread because its use would benelit the grower.—Atlanta Commercial. A Washington court has officially recog nized that the sale of newspapers upon the streets is a legitimate business and a pub lic necessity, and that persons who are en gaged in it are entitled to the protection of the police, it is held that newsboys may enter street cars for the purpose of serving papers to passengers, and that the conduc tors have no right to eject them from the cars as long as they conduct themselves properly and leave the car as soon as their business is finished, it has cost one ot the sVashi.ngton street car companies $5,0i0 to learn this new princi ple in civil lights. One of the conductors of that road took the trouble to kick a newsboy off his car. It was shown that the boy was not trying to steal a ride, but was pursuing his vocation in a peaceful and proper maner. His leg was run over by a car coming from the opposite direc tion and had to be amputated. The jury gave him $5,000 damages. ’ EDITORIAL POT-POURI. “I have here,” said the caller, “a poem advocating peace.” “J suppose,” said the ed'tor, ‘that you sincerely and honestly desire peace.” “Yes; sir.” “Then burn the poem.”—Philadelphia North American. V. itness,” said the cross-examining lawyer, ‘are you willing to swear that the prisoner yas smoking a pipe at the time?” “No, sir,” replied the witness. “I never swear, but I am willing to bet you $lO to ?5 that he was.” , 4- u^or —How do you like my new play? Critic-—lt s simply great._ The robbery in the third .act is the most*realistic piece of work I ever saw on the stage. Author (pleased)—Do you really think so? Critic — Os course 1 do. sVhy, even the words spoken by 'the thieves arc stolen. “And was it for this, oh, Chris, that with all of my spare jewelry I did thee endow?” —Shade of Isabella. Mrs. Quiverful —Do you know, dear, that I think the baby sometimes cries in her sleep ? Mr. Quiverful (savagely)—l don’t know about that, but I know that she often cries in mine. Little Edward—Papa, what is an ag nostic? Papa—Your mamma is an agnostic, my dear. 55 r hen I come home at night and tell her what I have been d«.ng, she doesn’t exactly disbelieve —she doesn’t, know.— Cleveland Leader. An exchange insists that Hanna has put a time lock on Secretary Sheinnau. She—‘Great heavens! You say your lips were frost bitten once? He (laconically)—Yes—kissed a Boston girl.—Harlem Life. “A woman cuts magn .ines leaves with a hairpin and a man -cuts them with his thumb,” mentions tire Chicago Record.- An exchange 'is charitable enough to thi’ik that t'ho man who said “'blood is thicker than water” had never seen the Chicago river. • “Fonetiq.” We shouid Dever accustom ourselves to saying that an article was “mad in Jermani’’ or “mad in Trans.” Nor is it necessary that we should. -I have al ways thought tho spelling reformers mistook the conditions of tbe problem. Our spelling may be erratic, but tbe priutc d word is a kind of v isual counter. We learn to recognize it and to spell it by the eye. How often do we feel that a word looks wrongly spelled? Words have to' be taken en bloc, and it would be exactly the same with the “fonetic” monstrosities proposed as their substi tutes. In reading we never get at the sense of a word by spelling it, and “cough” and “plough, ” although theo imtically anotnaio.is and incongruous, present no practical difficulty. Still, spelling might in certain cases be sim plified with advantage.’ “Program’' and “jewelry” are better than the accepted forms “programme,” “jewellery.” At present English ik like# luxuriant garden ruining wild. It needs trim ming and weeding.—Academy. Chased Up U Tree and Tiled on Possum. A negro, being hotly pursued by degs that were guarding a farmhouse in th>3 owner’s absence, fled to a swamp ami climbed a tree for safc-ty. In telling about it afterward he said: “Yes, sub, I wuz in a tight place, I tell you. Up dut tree I went, an dar I staid fer two dajs an nights, wid dem dugs keepin guard at do foot. When dcy’d git tired, dey’d relieve each yutber, but dey wuz always a couple ei dem cn duty all de time, so dar I wui an fluid ever’ minute ’ud bring de farmer wid bjs gun.” “And you had nothing to eat all that time?” “Oh, yes. ‘•uh; I wuz well fix in dat rcspec’. I lived high, so ter speak. ” “And what did you live on?” “Well, sub, ter make a long story short, der wuz a possum ug xiat tree likewise, an, bless God, he wuz ez ’fraid er de dogs ez I wuz!”—Atlanta Consti tution. Frosa Her Point of View. A lady who saw that her servant girl seemed to take a certain interest in the objects cf art iu her parlor said to her, “Which one of those figures do you like best, Alary?” “This cne, mum,” said Alary, point ing to the aimless Venus of Alilo. “And why do you like tbe Venus , best?” “Sure, it’s the aisiest to doost, mum,” : answered the girl.—Harlem Life. His First Duly. “What is the first duty of a war cor- I respondent?” asked the managing editor ; of cue cf the “new” journals. “To have his picture taken showing how he looks when equipped for his ' work in the field.’ —Chicago Post. Until recent years our bakers had not improved upon tbe methoel used in the ’ bakeries of Pompeii—viz, by burning wood in the floor of the oven itself un- ■ til the proper temperature had been reached, then cleaning out and intro ducing the loaves. Nowadays our large bakeries are fitted with ovens heated with flues, gas or steam. You can talk to 10,000 every day through j the columns of The News. MACON NEWS WEDNESDAYSVENING, MARCH g iBgB. ' ► SHBHKSBaHBi < e■' ' 1 ► K; I | 3 « S ™| | 1 1 < ► I The Only Democratic Newspaper f I i Published in Macon. r ©©sees g©©®® j ■ /■ H i i | Blow Your ' ’ I Own Horn! / 1 I ’ ~ 1 Z It is proper to blow your own horn, if j | 1 you have something whiich is worth blow- ft ji .4 'j- — —1 r ing about. And every energetic, wide- / w— _ . ' r awake, progressive merchant certainly has “ i C something. | C To Brigham Young is attributed the re- 'll a I 5 > mark: “If a man blow not his own horn. Z V' I1 r‘ f7'7 ! ■ ! J w | ' « I by whom shall his horn be blown?" If , ®W" 9 i I* J < 't'he shrewd old Mormon really did say it, 1,1 4/V Oley r?' fey - <■ c ’ A jv Ow S Ki i J he might have added pertinently .that the 1 j Uli ■ jJ ( j C operation can best be performed through | '* ' $ F'W C the columns of a widely circulated news- /■ »A(Ci -U-t! aS .1 < i sbi | c Ihl I ? | Th. rn.rets.ht. of M.eou knew thl. L H I I'il | fabt. and they use the News’ columns to OMS | ten th. pur.ha.lns eta what They have - WM 1 X T'''TV' I ’ * | in the why of bargains. They know that i > the News has by far the largest local cir- 1 ywWII- 1 > tmlatlon—laud, after all, the lumie people . bh r are those who buy 90 per cent, of the goods- I |l* ;j dj\\ I Vv.Q < ? sold in Macon. 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