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THE STATE TICKET.
For Governor,
ALLEN D. CANDLER, of Hall.
For Secretary of State,
MARK A. HARDEN, of Bartow.
For Comptroller-General,
W. A. WRIGHT, of Richmond.
For Attorney-General,
JOSEPH M. TERRELL, of Mer
riwether.
For Treasurer.
W. M. SPEER, of Fulton.
For Commisioner of Agriculture,
O. B. STEVENS, of Terrell.
For School Commissioner,
G. R. GLENN, of Bibb.
Say what you please, but Atkinson isn’t
bolding a light for Berner.
We do not say Judge Atkinson is think
ing about retiring from the race—but he
should be.
Some one suggests that perhaps Joe
Blackburn’s paralytic stroke can be traced
to the use of water in christening the bat
tleship Kentucky.
Statistician Hyde, of the Agricultural
Department, says American farmers got
$130,000,000 more for the grain crop of
1897 than they received for their 1896 crop.
A Madrid newspaper says that nothing
could prt vent Spain from planting its sol
diers m Florida. Yes, and she may have
to plant a few thousand in Georgia, if they
euccecd in getting this tar.
Chicago is agitated over the question of
how to keep Chicago people in Chicago.
Statistics show that $130,000,0000 worth of
property in that ci'ty is owned by people
who live in New York City.
Who would believe it? Yet is is a fact.
The author of “Little 'Lord Fontleroy ’
sued his papa for a divoce and then ran
away just like a man coward would do.
Another ideal gone to smash.
The meanest men in the world live in
Indianapolis, where a coterie of them have
begun a movement to require women to
remove their hats in church. And Easter ,
is only two weeks off, comments the Birm
ingham News.
If any body should ask you. The eagle
first appeared on the seal o's the United
States in a design submitted to Congress
by William Barton, of Philadelphia, in
1782. The device was adopted June 20th
of that year.
On April 13th will be celebrated the one
hundred and fifty-fifth anniversary of the
birth of Thomas Jefferson. At that time,
no doubt, discussions of the life and prin
ciples of the man, by a majority probably
considered next to Washington, as the
greatest the country has produced, will be
frequent.
The Spanish ministry desires to arrange ;
a treaty with the United States in reci
procity of commerce. It is said that Spain
would be willing to give the very best of
terms to us as the “most favoiable na
tion." The suspicion is mere than appa
rent in this movement. Spain would like
to divert America's attention from the war
clouds now obscuring the horizon.
Miss Lillian Bell, who is visiting Eu
rope for the first time, recording her im
pressions and observations in the Ladies’
Home Journal, writes from Berlin to the
April number of that magazine, that “it
would be utterly impossible for the
American girl to be more exquisitely mis
understood than she is by the French and
Germans.’ To be “exquisitely” misunder
stood one can readily believe, is a rare
experience.
On Saturady, March 20th, twenty-one car
loads of provisions and $9,033 in cash for
the staving Cubans of Mantanzas were
shipped from Kansas City. On the same
day a performance at the Tacon Theater
at Havana, for the aid of the fund for the
Spanish navy yielded over $30,000. The
Spaniards spend their money for warships.
wh ; le Americans spend theirs to rel’eve
the distress which the Spaniards have
caused in Cuba.
The Newnan Herald and Advertiser
makes this timely explanation:
The Herald and Advertiser has been
subjected to a good deal of chaffing by our
brethren of the press because of the simul
taneous appearance in our las-t issue of
two local items—one complimentary to
Hon. O. B. Stevens, and the other refer
ring in equally fulsome terms of Hon. R.
T. Nesbitt. Both are candidates for the
office of commissioner of agriculture, and
both good men; but the Herald and Ad
vertiser announced some time ago its pre
ference for Mr. Stevens, and has backed its
choice by such active support since as
■would leave no doubt as to its position.
In explanation of the appearance of the
contradictory paragraphs referred to it is
perhaps necessary to mention the fact that
our senior, Brother Whatley, is a personal
friend and supporter of Mr. Nisbett, and in
a spirit of fun he wrote the Nisbett para
graph to fly-blow ' the Stevens item. It
was a mean trick, but we have since con
doned the indiscretion, and all is now se
rene on the Herald and Advertiser house
hold.
Intervention is Inevitable.
| Notwithstanding the professions being
made in official circles, the fact cannot be
denied that intervention in Cuba is* now
; absolutely necessaiy—even at the price of
I war with Spain. Al hough President Mc
' Kinky favors peace, he dare not favor a
I temporizing policy any longer. and,
* though favoring peace, he iuus. now
' chose war if war mutt follow oar inter
! vention in Cuban affairs.
The impression is well fixed on the pub
i lie mind that it is new cur duty to inter-
I sere, and leave it »o Spain to resent our
interference, with armed force, if she de-
■ sires. ‘
A writer in the April Review cf Revi- ws
brings out very clearly our duty to Cuba,
I and in ■the course of an editorial on the
subject says:
“Quae regardless of the responsibilities
for the Maine incident, it is apparently
true that the great majority of the Amer
ican people are hoping that President Mc-
Kinley will promptly utilize the oe-asion
to secure the com; lete pacification and in
dependence of Cuba. There are a few peo
ple in the United State’s—we should not
like to believe that more than one hun
dred could be found out of a population Os
seventy-five millions —who believe that the
United States ought to join hands with
Spain In forcing the Cuban insurg-nts to
lay down their arms and to accept the
Spanish sovereignty as a permanent con
dition, under the promise of practical
home rule. It needs no argument, of
course, to convince the American people
that such a proposal reaches the lowest
depths of infamy. It is much worse than
the proposition made by a few’ people in
Europe last year that the victorious Turks
should have the countenance and support
of the great nations of Europe in making
Greece a part of the Turkish empire. For
the Turk had fairly conquered the Greeks;
and if Europe had kept han Is off. Greece
would have been reduced very quickly to
the position of an Ottoman province. But
in Cuba it is otherwise. The insurgents,
with no help outside, have held their own
for more than three years, and Spain is
unable to conquer them. The people of
the United States do not intend to help
Spain hold Cuba. On the contrary, they
are now ready, in one way or another, to
help the Cubans drive Spain cut of the
western 'hemisphere. If the occasion goes
past and we allow this Cuban struggle to
run on indefinitely the American people
will have lost several degrees of self
respect and will certainly not have gained
anything in the opinion of mankind.”
A Deception.
The Macon Telegraph, .a paper that takes
neither candidate’s part in the race, has
'this to say of Colonel Candler’s refusal to
meet his opponents, 'and the statement
that he is “personally anxious to do so.” —■
Columbus Enquirer-Sun.
An Atkinson organ introduces an edi
torial from 'the Macon Telegraph with the
above introduction, as showing what a
“neutral” paper thinks, etc.
This only shows‘what a dishonest fight
is being made on the champion of pure
politics and honest methods. In the first
place, the Enquirer-Sun knows as well as
it knows anything that the Macon Tele
graph is not “neutral,” but is fighting
Candler for all it is worth. It knows, too,
that the Telegraph, being in bad cdor poli
tically, dare not espouse Atkinson’s cause
openly, lest it do him more harm than
good; so that in pretending to be neutral,
and at the same time hitting Candler and
boosting Atkinson at every opportunity, it
is really giving Atkinson the only sort cf
support it can give him or that he can
afford to accept.
It is true few newspapers would be will
ing to adopt these bushwhacking methods,
but the Telegraph is to some extent ex
cusable on the ground that this is the only
part it could possibly take in a Democratic
campaign. It is not excusable, however,
for the Enquirer-Sun to try to deceive the
people as to the Telegraph’s attitude. It
knows, of course, that to say the Tele
graph is “neutral” will give its utterances
some weight,—which they would not other
wise have —but is the Enquirer-Sun will
ing to resort to such deception?
Why, even the Rome Tribune, as un
scrupulous as it has been during this cam
paign. has not gone so far. The Tribune
has repeatedly admitted that Mr. Atkin
son has the Telegraph’s support, and has
placed it in the column of Atkinson or
gans.
It is all right for the Enquirer-Sun to
reproduce from the Telegraph as much
abuse of Candler—and of Bryan too, if it
likes —and as much praise of Atkinson as
it may desire, but it should, at least, be
honest enough with its readers to tell
them that the Telegraph is not “neutral”
—although it pretends to be. And for
further proof of it, the Enquirer-Sun can
refer 'to the Telegraph’s statement to the
contrary.
Report of the Nava! Court of Inquiry.
As was to be expected, the naval court
of inquiry has failed to fix on the Spanish
government responsibility for the Maine
disaster. It has decided that the explo
sion was from without, caused, it is said,
by a mine under the ship, but further than
this it does not go. So that the matter is
now left for the President and Congress
to determine.
The failure of the naval court to fix re
sponsibility for the disaster need cause no
surprise or disappointment, for the sim
ple reason that the court was net sent to
Havana to determine responsibilities, which
the diplomats and heads of the government
will locate, now that facts of the explosion
are laid before them. All this country
wants from the court is the facts. The
President and Congress will then deter
mine where responsibility rests and will
apply the remedy.
We are still of the opinion that the
Spanish government is innocent of any
connection with the affair, although Spain
may be held blamable for the occurrence,
and. very properly, asked to pay damages.
As we have all along contended, however,
the Maine disaster is not a causus belli,
but a mere incident in the stirring events
leading up to the struggle which now
seems inevitable.
Cessation of hostilities in Cuba is the
real issue, and the United States is pre
pared to enforce such a demand. If Spain
is also prepared to oppose it, then war
must come.
Let Lee Lead Them.
If war must come, the United States
government could do no more gracious
and, at the same time, sensible thing than
to place General Fitzhugh Lee in charge
of an army of volunteers in Cuba —in the
event, of course, it becomes necessary to
send volunteers to the island.
It goes without saying that no man is
better equipped, or even so well equipped,
to command such an army in Cuba. Not
only is Fitzhugh Lee a fighter with a re
cord, but he has shown his patriotism in a
way that cannot be doubted. Indeed, he
has won the applause of this whole nation,
MACON NEWS MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 28 1808.
; regardless of past sectional feeling, by his
courage and devotion to duty in the face
of extreme peril.
But net alone would the government's
interests be best served by placing Lee in
command in Cuba on account of his well
known qualities of generalship and knowl
edge of the island and of the situation in
general; such a gracious act on the part of
this government would arouse more enthu
; siasm, more patriotism than any one
thing that could be done. The entire South
would rise en masse to follow this gallant
leader, and this means that the struggle
would not be of long duration.
I; is now thirty-odd years since the men
under Lee surrendered. Since that time
we have been burying the hatchet and re
uniting almost incessantly. But it is a
fact that the South has been allowed to
do most of the burying and reuniting. It
is proper, therefore, that the United States
government should seal the compact cf
brotherhood by now recognizing one cf the
chieftans of the Lost Cause, and through
him those who followed him, by placing
him in command of a branch of the army.
We repeat that such an act cn the part
of this government would do more to re
unite forever the people cf these United
States than all the patriotic speeches and
.reunions uttered and held since the recent
conflict between the states. Besides serv
ing the interests of the nation better than
. they could otherwise be served.
full report
I OF COURT.
(Continued from Ist page.)
■
1 the after part of the ship -was practically
: intact and sank in a very few minutes
! after the destruction of the forward part.
The following facts with regard to the
forward part of the ship are established
by the testimony:
That part of the port side protective
deck which extends from about frame
thirty to about forty-one, was blown up aft
and over to port. The main deck from
about frame thirty to about frame forty
one was blown up to aft and slightly sea
ward, following the forward part of the
middle superstructure over on the top of
the afterpart. This in the opinion of the
court, was caused by a partial explosion
of two or more of the forward magazines
of the (Maine..
PLATES BENT INWARD.
At frame seventeen the outer shell of
the ship from a point eleven and one half
feet from the middle line of the ship and
‘ six feet above the keel when in normal
I 'position, had been forced up so as to be
! about four feet above the surface of 'the
water; therefore, now about about thirty
four feet above where it would be had she
sunk uninjured. The side bottom plating
is bent into a reverse in a V shape. The
•after wing, which is about fifteen feet
broad and thirty-two feet in length, is
doubled back upon it self against the con
tinuation plate extending forward.
At frame thirteen the vertical keel is
broken in two and the flat keel is bent
into an angle similar to the angle formed
by the outside bottom plating.
This break is now about six feet below
the surface of the water and about thirty
feet above the nomal position.
In the opinion of the court this could
have been produced only by the explosion
of a mine situated under the bottom of
the ship at about frame eighteen, and
somewhat on the port side of the ship.
COURTS FINAL FINDING.
The court finds that the loss of the
.Maine on the occasion named, is not in
any respect due to the fault or negligence
on the part of the officers or crew of the
said vessel.
•In the opinion of the court the Maine
was destroyed by the explosion of a sub
marine mine which caused the partial ex
plosion of two or more of her forward
magazines.
The court has been unable to obtain
evidence fixing the responsibility for the
destruction of the Maine upon any person
or persons.
(Signed.) W. T. Sampson, Captain United
States Navy; A 'Marix, Lieutenant Com
mander United States Navy, judge advo
cate.
The court having finished the inquiry it
ordered made, adjjourned to await the ac
tion of convening authorities.
(Signed.) ‘Marix.
The proceedings and findings of the court
cf inquiry in the above case are approved.
Signed.) ‘Montgomery Sicard,
Rear Admiral and Commander in Chief of
United States Naval Force, North .At
lantic Squadron.
THEY ASK FOR MERCY.
King's Daughters Telegraphed a Petition
to the Governor This Morning.
This morning the King’s Daughters of
Macon. telegraphed to the governor a peti
tion in behalf cf Mrs. Nobles, and asked
that her sentence be commuted.
The petition was signed by a large num
ber of the most prominent citizens of the
city, and all of the names attached to it
were sent.
The ladies feel that the decision of the
governor will depend a great deal upon
what the women of the country think
about the case, and they have been work
ing heroically for the past few days.
• Bucklin’s Arnica Salve
The best salve in the world for cuts,
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever
sores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblains,
corns, and all skin eruptions, and positive
ly cures piles, or no pay required. It is
guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or
money refunded. Price 25 cents per box.
For sale by H. J. Lamar A Sons’ drug
•tore.
Miss Green has her spring and summer
millinery opening Wednesday and Thurs
day.
You can talk to 10,000 every day through
the columns of The Newa.
Burr Brown’s
Select Library.
REMEMBER, We will rent you
any book in the store, new or
| old. You can get all the latest
and best books right here.
WE KEEP POSTED.
WE ARE BOOKSELLERS,
And know our business,
WATCH THIS SPACE.
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MEET MACON
Big Excursion to Be Brought
Here by the Chamber
of Commerce.
IHMS ARE GOING OUT
The City Will be Thrown Open and
the Visitors Will be Entertained
in Most Royal Style,
On March 12th a large number of the
representative business men of Moultrie,
Ga., will visit Macon as guests of the
Chamber of Commerce for the purpose of
establishing closer relations with the bus
iness men of Macon, and to get a part of
the trade which is now enjoyed undivided
by Savannah.
The invitations for the visitors are in
the hands of the printer now, and will be
sent out as soon as they are completed.
The Georgia Southern and Florida Rail
way will bring them to Macon on a special
train free of charge. They will be met at
■the depot by a reception committee ap
pointed by the Chamber of Commerce.
They will be taken to the Chamber of
Commerce rooms where a delightful lunch
will be served them.
The invitations will offer to the visitors
the privileges of all the social clubs of the
city, and also free passage over all the
street railway lines. During their stay in
Macon the city will be turned over to
•them, and they will be carried and intro
duced to every wholesale merchant in the
city, and a big banquet will be served be
fore they leave at which time all of the
business men of the city will meet the
guests and a closer relationship will re
sult.
The whole entertainment will be under
the auspices of the Chamber of Commerce,
and it is hoped to get at least one hun
dred of the representative business men of
Moultrie to come to Macon.
Business men of other cities will be in
vited to Macon later on and an effort will
be made to establish trade relations with
them. A splendid program has been pre
pared for the visitors from Moultrie and
they will enjoy the best that Macon has
when they get here.
Tomorrow’ the Wall Street Bar will sell
deviled crabs at 10 cents each, and the en
tire proceeds will be given to the Hospital
fund.
RESOLUTION
Endorsing the Action of the Council in En
dorsing the Directory.
At the regular meeting of the Typo
graphical Union of 'Macon, held yesterday
afternoon resolutions were adopted endors
ing the proposition to get out the Macon
directory in Macon instead of abroad, as
was done in the case of the last directory.
Resolutions endorsing the action of the
mayor and council in their endorsement of
the directory were passed.
These resolutions were as .follows:
Whereas, The Macon Chamber of Com
merce and the mayor and council of the
city of Macon have given their official en
dorsement to the new city directory, to be
published by the Georgia Directory Com
pany, Jemison & Cherry, managers; and
Whereas, They have made it a condition
of such official endorsement that all work
on said dierctory -was to be done by union
printers of Macon, and no work on same
was to be done outside of Macon: there
fore be it
Resolved, That ’Macon Typographical
Union No. 93, do hereby extend our thanks
and grateful acknowledgements of their
recognition of our trade and home indus
tries; and, be it further
Resolved. That we commend their cause
and urge all business men to place a sim
ilar condition upon all work that may
come before them for their aid; be it fur
ther
Resolved, That a copy of these resolu
tions be furnished to each of the newspa
pers of Macon with a request to publish.
BIKERS ARRESTED
For Not Complying With the Ordinance Re
quiring Use of Bells.
About twenty-five wheelmen of the ci>ty
were before the recorder this morning on
the charge of violating a part of the city
ordinance relating to the putting of bells
on all wheels rode through the streets of
Macon.
The ordinance has not been strictly en
forced for the past few months, and some
of the wheelmen have become careless,
and considerable complaint was made to
the authorities, and they decided to have
the ordinance enforced.
The police were put on notice yesterday,
and commenced summoning all wheelmen
who did not have bells on their bicycles.
About twenty-five were summoned and ap
peared before the recorder this morning,
and upon the promise that they would put
bells on their wheels they were released.
The Wall Street Bar will sell deviled
erabs tomorrow’ for benefit of Hospital
fund at 10 cents each.
|^®k Mar !2 n I
fe idea of it: I
(3 '%s!/ “Pome years ago I sketched the crest of the average Amer-
Z **s7 lean-born housewife. It whs a bare, lx?ny arm. b.«i dit-diac •
X t a fr ying pan.”— Marion Harland.
® That was in the time when the frying pan was always
filled with Before healthy shortening and frying 5
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® / J Harland declared that
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J' v P urer » more healthful and S
jT w economical than lard.” §
■*.’ Genuine Cottojene Is sold everywhere in one to ten jxiund | ! | /J'
q yellow tins, w ith our tntde-inarks—“Cbt.'olfne” and
head in cotton-plant wreath— on every tin. Not guaran- n • / S
0 teed if sold in any other way. Made only by ' ’^o3/ 5
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It May Concern:
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of the swellest lines of
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Consisting of Stripes, Plaids, Checks and all the
latest weaves that were ever shown. It will be to
your interest to inspect our line before you buy.
All the Swellest Hats of ’9B Can De Found Here.
$ - rf*
Refrigerators.
h— ij Tile best line in tlie city to close out
WBoWWC at cost.
Front S 3 to S 8 Saved to You.
| General line of
China, C ockery Glassware,
Tinware, Stoves and
Housekeepers Noveties.
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y Here It
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im JEWELERS, 352 Second Street.
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