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4 THE MACON NEWS. ESTABLISHED I 884-. NEWS PRINTING COMPANY, PUBLISHERS. R. L. McKENNEY. Bualnen Mngr. TOM W. LOYLESS. Editor. THE EVENING NEWS will be delivered fey carrier or mall, per year, 55.00; per week, 10 cents. THE NEWS will bo for •ale eo train*. Correspondence on live •übject* solicited. Real name eC writer •houdd accompany camo. Subecrlption* payable tn advance. Failure to receive paper ahou-ld' be reported to the bualneas efftca. Addrea* all oommunioatlona to THE NEWS. Offices: 412 Cherry Street & JNIbN BtU- An Unwarranted Slander. We find the following in the Savannah Journal: V “Commenting upon the fact that in Ma con ‘the antis nut red dresses on negro •women and decorated them with red rib lx>ns in opposition to the best women in 1-hf land, who were wearing white’ the Col quit County Courier makes this pertinent comment: “We wish to warn Macon; onlv a few years since Wilmington, N. C., was as free from riot and bloodshed as Macon, but we assert that like begets like, and Macon in the near future mav be compelled to imi tate Wilmington. God forbid! but we can nee nothing else in store for the fair city of Macon.” All of which goes to show wha-t an im pression has .been created throughout the state concerning the recent prohibition election held in this county. How do you like the picture? Leaving prejudices and prohibition views a/ide, is it a fair one? For our part, we are prepared to as sert the contrary, and to inform our Col quit County eon temporary that its solici tude is wholly out of order, -n the firct ipl .ee, it is a base slander to say that anti prohibitionists “dressed negro women in red” or “decorated them with red stream er ” or otherwise offended the deceny of the community after the manner indica ted. That seme negro women wore red badges on the day of election is -probably 1 rue, just as some wore white badges, but 10 say that they were “used” in such a way as to give offence or provoke critic ism is worse than an exaggeration. The election in question was one of the irw, if not the only one, ever held in Bibb < ounty in which colors were used to desig nate the views of the opposing factions, and it would have been remarkable, in deed, had these colors not been misused t , n the way stated; but certainly not at the suggestion, nor even with the permission of those in charge of the campaign, to whom, no doubt, such misuse of their colors was as distasteful as to anyone 'else. The fact that the negro vote was an im portant factor in the prohibition election ■fans led to all sorts of exaggerations along this line, although it has often been more a factor in former elections hold in this '•ounty. Heretofore, however, the white 'voters have been able to divide the negro vote somewhat more evenly between their opposing sides, hence no great objection -was made to the negro's use of the ballot though invariably recognized as being in o lage measure a bought ballot. The News has not seen fit to defend the •methods pursued in the recent election, for the reason that they were too much like former methods, like the methods in | vogue all over Georgia, to suit us. The only innovation with reference to the | negro vote, so far as we could see, was the daily and nightly appeals made by -a cer tain faction to the “brother in black.’’ who was urged to “demand his rights,” encouraged to believe that hs was as good : tis anybody” and all that sort of thing which we considered decidedly more dan gerous. though certainly more' legal, than the time-honored, or dishonored, practice of appealing to the negro in a more direct way. The methods invariably pursued by honorable Democrats in their effort to de feat other honorable Democrats in the absence of a party primary. We know these admissions do not look well in print for either side, or for Georgia (politics as a whole, but it is the truth, and we all know it, whether we like to hear it - or not. With these facts before us. it is not a difficult task to form a rational idea of what the recent prohibition election in this county was like. The negro figured in it, to be sure, just as he has always figured in Southern elections, where there was no primary action. Except, as stated, that he was appealed to in a rather dangerous way by those who departed from the cus tomary -plan of reaching the negro. He voted as strongly and as solidly as he ever does when in the hands of experienced : workers. He may have voted more than once or he may have forgotten his own name for the time being, all of which ihas been known to happen in former elections, though, we are inclined to think, on a somewhat larger scale than was true of I the recent prohibition election. In fact, whatever abuses occurred in the I last election held in this ebunty are, as | we almost admit, the direct outcome of i lax election laws and still more lax meth ods which custom has established so strongly that nothing short of a new hal lo- law will ever eradicate them. 'Abuses first inaugurated by our people as a whole for the righteous purpose of preventing negro supremacy in the South, and next by opposing factions of whites for the pur pose of defeating each other. We may envelgh against them as much as we please. but they are abuses of thirty years standing, and not peculiar to the Bibb county prohibition election. Savannah has witnessed a hundred times worse and only c. few days ago the opposing Kerr and Walsh factions in Augusta proved the truth of The News’ statement that the negro is simply used by one faction against the other—though we apologize for men tioning the Bibb county prohibition con test in the same breath with that round up of negro voters in Augusta at $5 per bead. • We have seen quite as bad in some other towns in Georgia, but never in Macon, and we are proud to say the recent prohibition election does not deserve to be compared with the Augusta affair. If the negro figured in it to any considerable extent, he did so by virtue of our present ballot law. And, by the way, our prohibition friends did not armear. before the elect lion. averse to receiving hie support, though it le. perhaps, an entirely different matter, as of course it is, when he votes the other wav. This much, not in defense or criticism of either faction, but in simple justice to Macon and Bibb county, whose traducers have not stopped to establish facte before advertising this community far and near as having succumbed to negro domination —another Wilmington. N. C., where negro women are arrayed in red streamers and paraded by white workers in apposition to re»pectable ladies. -We resent -this, and all like slanders, and we call upon all who love Macon to correct such misrepresenta tions wherever they hear them. If, however, this agitation results in se curing for Georgia a new ballot law that will take the use of the franchise away from the ignorant and vicious and place it in the hands only of those qualified by nature for.the trust, then some good i have come out of evil, after all. ‘ The next time Atlanta invitee the pres ident of the United States to ibe her guest, she should see that everybody albcut the state house is pacified. Jin Execrable TaSfe< A story has been sent out from Atlanta to the effect that Secretary of State Phil Cook caused something of a sensation at the capital on Monday by refusing to let a picture of President (McKinley be placed over the door of his department along I with other decorations that were being put up in honor of the President’s viait to Georgia’s capital. If the story is true. Secretary Cook has made a very foolish mistake, to say the least of it. His conduct on the occasion referred to -will not be approved by the people of Georgia, regardless of their par ty affiliations. Such action as he is said to be guilty of is certainly unbecoming in a man who occupies so exalted -a position, it is both surprising and annoying in view of the happy feeling that is everywhere manifested between the men of the north and the men of the South. Republicans and Democrats; it is especiall out of place on the very eve of a celebration such as is about to take place in Georgia’s capital city, with the object of Secretary 'Cook’s spleen the guest of honor on that occa sion. We admire Seeretaray Cook’s Democra cy, and we concur with -him in his oppo sition to negro office holders; but we can not approve either the time or manner of his criticism. His Democracy and -loyalty to Southern traditions have ever been rec ognized by -all who know' him, but he is no better Democrat for having offered this offense to the President of the United States almost at the hour of his arrival as Georgia's special guest. For McKinley the partisan, we have no more, admiration than is entertained for him by Mr. -Cock, but for McKinley the President, we have all dire respect, and we are prepared to relegate politics while doing honor to the natibns’s chief executive. And.if this is not the spirit that actuated Atlanta, Savannah, 'Macon, Augusta and other cities in inviting him to be their guest, then they have been guilty of gross deception. We are quite willing at the proper -time to make Mr. McKinley’s ap pointment of negrtes to office in the .South and issue, but our duly as hos'ts makes any ■.illusion to the matter improper while he is Georgia’s guest. We cannot cry down the bloody-shirt politicians of the North when we have state house officials who make the Presi dent’s politics, or even his official acts, an excuse for insulting him while our guest. It is hardly necessary, however, to em phasize the fact that Secretary Cook is practically alone in his position—'the peo ple of Georgia as a Whole are too broad for such things. In no state of the Union are Southern traditions more sacred or racial lines more rigidly fixed, but in no state of the Union is there a more liberal spirit displayed over the issues that once divided us. The reception that will be ten dered President McKinley and -party in the four chief cities of the state will fully es tablish this fact. Ex-Governor Ncrthen made an able and timely defense of the geological depart ment before the senate finance committee, and it is to be hoped that his effort will save this most, important department. Los Like Persecution, When a. New York prosecuting attorney gets hold of a case that the papers show a disposition to “feature,” he never turns loose. The more of the sensational he manages to furnish the papers the more they advertise him, and he soons becomes famous. These considerations seem to have actuated District Attorney -Mclntyre, who is making great professional capital out of the now* famous Moore case, in which a former Atlanta girl is involved. But to a mind that was somewhat prej udiced against iboch of the defendants at the outset, it begins to look like Attorney ■ Mclntyre is overdoing the thing. In [ Moore he undoubtedly has a very slick | customer, though probably not a profes sional swindler and hardened criminal, as he is trying to establish. But in Mrs. Moore, formerly IPet Strahan, of Atlanta, he is evidently mistaken, at least in the theory that she, too, is a professional of the most dangeious type. In New York they assume a great deal; if you are ar rested, either by mistake or otherwise, you are guilty until you have proven your self innocent —and you are given precious little opportunity to do that. In the case of a woman, if she is bad, she is wholly bad; her best points are construed to merely accentuate her badness. To the po lice she becomes at once a study in crim inology, and to the newspaper reporters ever eager for a sensation, she becomes a sort of “pay streak” for unlimited epace work. Such seems to be Pet Strahan’s predica ment. Indiscreet, she has. undoubtedly. i been; just enough so to enable the news papers to magnify her every act into one of wantoness and criminality. All of which will probably serve to wreck her character, even though it be no worse at the outset than that of thou sands of others who still move in the society from which she has fallen—or been ! pushed. It is not always good policy to appear as the apologist of a woman who has erred, but to us the heartless, ghoulish manner in which the sensational newspapers of New York have pounced upon a defense less young woman and have sought to tear 1 her character, (possibly not above re proach) to shreds, is not only pitiable, but infamous and cowardly in the extreme. New York justice is indeed of a strange kind, especially if it is aided and abetted by the yellow journals. Pet Strahan, in ■ discreet as she was, whose life was fur ‘ ther marred by an unfortunate marriage, lis the latest victim. The fact that they ' found such a victim somewhat out of the i ordinary walks of life causes them to gloat 1 the more over their devilish work MACON NEWS WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 14 1898- His enemies are mad because Colonel Bryan refused to hie himself to the jun gles of Cuba to do poStce duty. If he were not a very important factor In American polities, his resignation would not disturb them so. IA finer body of troops than the Seventh I Cavalry, now stationed here, never de fended any flag. Their soldierly bearing ! dew-s credit to the brave commander who I fell while leading them at the Little Big I Hom. Representative Hail, of Bibb, has met with considerable success in smoking out the tools *and agents of the railroads who occupy seats in the Lower House of the Georgia Legislature, In attacking General Wheeler’s right to a seat in congress Babe Bailey is simply engaged in pulling the hole in after him. Babe Bailey’s snarl at General Wheeler brings to mind the old story of the little dog that tried to bi&e General 'Lee’s army, Macon is broad enough to receive the president of the United States without giving thought to his party affiliations. The opportunity is still open for some future -legislator to make fame by securing the -Passage of a dog law for Georgia. When as -good men as the four who were ■ elected to council yesterday offer for office, I it is difficult to arouse opposition. To think tha-t General Wheeler survived Santiago only to fall a victim of Babe Bai ley’s maudlin mendaetiy. And now ex-Governor Atkinson should appear before the senate committee and try to save the “meJish.” lA-tlanta is arranging -to have her popula tion counted again during the Peace Jubi lee celebration. The expansionists in the United States senate would probably like to pull down their Vest. There is just this difference between Sa vannah and Atlanta hospitality—slo a plate. Secretary of State Phil Cook is evidently an anti--McKinley Democrat. POLK MILLER. IF YOU WANT TO HEAR THE STO RIES AND SONGS OF THE OLD SOUTH, COME OUT TO WESLEYAN , CHA-PEL THURSDAY NIGHT. POLK | MILLER 'AND MACON’S SWEETEST ! SINGERS WILL BE THERE. ADMIS- ■ SION 25 CENTS. STATE NEWS AND VIEWS. Rev Sam Small has returned to Georgia and is preacheing in the interior. Is he preparing to rejoin Mr. Jones in the ! Bi- Sam combination?—Savannah Press. The new mill which the Forsyth Manu facturing Co. is building at Forsyth, Ga., is nearing completion and -will soon be ready far business. It will contain 6,000 spindles. This will give the Forsyth mills 1'2,000 spindles on hosiery yarns, warps and plied yarns. Five thousand dollars in revenue stamps were placed on a deed in Columbus, Ohio, the other day conveying gold mining property around Dahlonega, Ga., to cer tain parties in Ohio. Referring to Colonel Bryan’s resignation the Albany Herald says: Colonel Bryan is believed to have had the matter of re signing under consideration for some time and on his recent trip home he is sup posed to have consulted his friends as to | the course he would pursue. It is nat urally to be inferred that his real friends j have advised him to resign. There is no i reason why he, the recognized leader of the Democratic party of the country and the logical candidate of the party for the presidency in 1900, should go to Cuba to do garrison duty. There is important work for which he is pre-eminently fitted for him to do at home. There is a plen titude of colonels to do the garrison duty that is to be done in Cuba, but there is but one Bryan for the important work that has already been cut out for the next leader of the Democratic hosts in our next campaign. When General Fitzhugh Lee left Ha vana at the outbreak of the war he gave notice that he would go back again. Yes- 1 terady he sailed for Cuba, and on the Ist J of January will enter the city and raise over Morro castle the American flag which he brought away from his headquarters as consul general. This time he will be the commandant of Havana, not a suppli ant for the commandant’s favors.—New J York World. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Arp, of Cartersville, I Ga., will celebrate their golden wedding , March 7, 1899. They have already received 1 some wedding presents. Their six sons 1 and four daughters will be with them on this important occasion. The Sunday Jubilee edition of the At lanta Constitution was a magnificent pro duct of the brains, energy, enterprise and mechanical excellence of that wide awake journal. It contained fifty-two pages of matter, much of which was inspired by the aoproaching jubilee, and all of which afforded excellent reading. Theliquor men of Macon having whipped the prohibitionists are working for lower license. The Macon News thinks that they are making a mistake.—Savannah Press. The Lumpkin Advertiser is now under management of Mr. Lucius Kimbrough, which is an assurance that the pa-per will be a success. The football season is over. Very few players were killed this season, which is a fact to be regretted.—Rockmart State. Percy, the 16-year-old son of E. E. Pon- 1 der. who lives nine miles east of Louis- : ville, suicided Friday morning by shooting j himself in the right side of the body with a shotgun. Fearing punishment from bi< father, he stayed in the cotton house all night, and when found in the morning by his brother-in-law, Mr. Cater, him self. He lived after the shooting about an hour and a half, dying before surgical aid could be had. Before dying he begged his father to kill him to relieve him from his suffering. The troops at Americus have received their month’s pay and according to all reports are spending it freely.' POLK MILLER. IF YOU WANT TO HEAR THE STO RIES AND SONGS OF THE OLD SOUTH, COME OUT TO WESLEYAN CHAPEL THURSDAY NIGHT. POLK 1 MILLER AND MACON’S SWEETEST ! SINGERS WILL BE THERE. ADMIS- I SION 25 CENTS. RoYal Baking Powder Made from pure cream of tartar. Safeguards the food against alum. Alum baking powders are the greatest i tnenacers to health of the present day. •OVA*. BAKIN© FOWOEA ea., NEW VOAx. WITH THE EXCHANGES. General Joe Wheeler is about the only war hero who has not been mentioned for the presidency.—Columbus Enquirer. Mr. Hugh Gill, a prominent citizen of Columbus, died Monday.—Columbus En quirer. We wonder If the reduction in the school fund appropriation will disband the uni versity football team? —Griffin Call. Colonel Bryan has broken the bottle in which he was bottled up. How much he cut himself in doing so remains to be seen. —Augusta Tribune. They have settled the Atlanta depot problem again—on paper. This is nine teen thly. The next settlement of the question may expected some time next yar.—Thomasville Times-Enterprise. Griffin News: There are always more or less of that class known as “kickers” in every community who are never pleased with anybody or anything, not even them selves. Brunswick Times: In disputing General Wheeler’s claim to retain his seat iu con gress while holding his place in the army Babe Bailey has rendered indisputable his claim to imbecility, bad taste, worse judg ment and several other little trifles of that sort. The Macon News is apologizing to the soldiers for the beastly weather prevailing there. When General Gordon’s brigade comes to 'Savannah there will be fine weather. —'Savannah Press. A boys* department of the Young Men’s Christian Association will be organized in Savannah. A Moultrie merchant, Mr. Chisholm, is said to overcome 'a dull grocery business by engaging a flat car and stocking it with groceries. In this 'he travels up and down the railroad looking for customers and finds plenty of them. His headquar ters are at Moultrie, but when his railroad customers are too busy to go to him. he goes to them. The Carnival edition of the Macon Eve ning News is a thing of beauty. Jt is a book wrought in the highest type of the printers’ art and. gotten up in a style which reflects much credit on talented Tom Loyless and his able assistants. — Ameri cus Ti me« - Recorder. The election to congress from 'Utah of a man with four wives has raised a serious i-s-sue in the national legislature. 'Con gress has the right to pass upon the. eli gibility of men who are elected to serve in that body and should not commit itseif to even a quasi-indorsement of polygamy. The state of Utah should be informed that she must send a more acceptable repre sentative if she decires him to be seated. —Augusta Chronicle. PGLK MILDER. IF YOU WANT TO HEAR THE STO RIES AND SONGS OF THE OLD SOUTH, COME OUT TO WESLEYAN CHAPEL THURSDAY NIGHT. POLK MILLER 'AND MACON’S SWEETEST SINGERS WILL (BE THERE. ADMIS SION 25 CENTS. SPECIAL NOTICES. DIED In this city, December 14th, Charles Stewart Findlay. Funeral services will be held from his late residence, Forsyth street, Vineville, Thursday morning at 11 o’clock. Friends of the family are invited Interment at Rose Hill. ®Th NdUcb. Tax payers are notified that the fourth installment of the city tax is now due. Pay and save tax execution. A. R. TINSLEY, Treasurer. Dec. 1, 1498. Tailor Made SUITS at home. 520.00 AND UP. F. W. GO ETTE, 153 Cotton Ave. Academy of Music. THURSDAY, DEC. 15. DIRECTION OF JACOB BLITT Marie Wainwright. In the Big New York anti London Success. SHALL WE FORGIVE HER. Two Years at the Adelphi Theatre, Lou don, England. Regular Prices* For Asthma use CHE NEY’S EXPECTOR ANT. FINANCIAL. t You Don’t Have to Wait for your money wtien you get loans from us. We hare it always oo baud. GEO. A. SMITH, Gen. Man. LquitaWe BulWiag and Loan Association, Macon, Gb„ 461 Third Strcnt. I I B. T. MALLART, 8. N. JELKS, Preaident. Vice-Preaident. J. J. GOB®, Cashier. Commercial and Savings Bank, MACON, GA. General Banking Business Transacted. |5.00 wil rent a box in our safety de posit vault, an absolutely safe plan in which to deposit Jewelry, silverware and securities of all kinds. UNION SAVINGS BANK AND TRUST COMPANY MACON, GEORGIA, Safety Deposit Boxes For Rent J. W. Cabaniss, President; 6. S. Dunlay. Vice-President; C. M. Orr, Cashier. Capital, 1200,000. Surplus, 130,000. Interest paid on deposits. Deposit your savings and they will be increased by in terest compounded semi-annually. TH4S EXCHANGE BANK of Macon, Ga. Capital 1500,000 Surplus 150,000 J. W. Cabaniss, President. S. S. Dunlap, Vice-President. C. M. Orr, Cashier. Libetal to its customers, accommodating to the public, and prudent in its manage ment, this hawk solicits deposite and other business in its line. DIRECTORS. J. W. Cabaniss, W. R. Rogers, R. E. Park, H. J. Lamar, N. B. Corbin, S. S., Dunlap, L. W. Hunt, Sam Meyer, W. A. Doody, J. H. Williams, A. D. Schofield. KST&BjLISUJSX) 1868. K. PLANT. CHAS. D. HURI CmNit. I» C, PLANT’S SON, BANKER, MACON, GA. A geoara! banking business trmnssct®* and fell consistent cortesie* cheerfully ex tended to patrons. Certificates el dtepM) Saaued bearing interest. FIRST NATIONAL BANK of MACON*, GA. The accounts •£ banks, eerps»rations trnu and individuals received upon ths most favorable terms consistoat with eea ssrvntive banking. A share of year tors (mm respectfully sellcitet. B. K. PLANT, President. George H. Plant, Vice-President. W. W. Wrigley, Cashier. We will have at our disposal during November $75,000 to loan on Georgia farms or city property. We are offering money at low nates. THE GEORGIA LOAN AND TRUST CO., O. A. Coleman, General Manager, 355 Second Street. , ■■ . i I HEADQUARTERS FOR Heal Estate Loans We have large quantities o' money sub ject to sight draft for loans on city, farm or suburban property. Straight Interest loans Annual payment loans. Monthly payment loans. Security Loan ana Hbstract Co. 370 Second St., Phone 82. T. B. WEST, Secretary and Attorney. Money. Loans negotiated on improved city prop erty, on farms, at lowest market rates, business of fifteen years standing. Facili ties unsurpassed. HOWARD M. SMITH Second St, Macon, Ga. MILOELLANEOUS cfekTW • : W= Men’s Top Coats. The road to style leads right through • our shop. From here a man can start out correctly appareled. Our methods of meaa i uring, fitting and furnishing are pains taking and the goods are of extra good value. Look at the line of Covert Cloths, Black Cheviots, Black Unfinished Worsteds and Oxford Vecunas. We make up very band some top co-ats from these at very moder ate prices. GEO. P. BURDICK & CO., Importing Tailors. Hacon’s Only Picture Frame Store. That is what we are. We guarantee you that we can show you four times the as sortment and four times the amount of stock shown by any other firm in Macon, And Our Frames Are Made Not thrown together. Call and see us. W. Lamar Williams, 422 Second St. We have received the English Lawn Grass Seed for winter lawns. H. J. Lamar & Sons 416 Second Street, next to Old Curiosity Shop. C. A. Harris. W. J. Hopper. mecnanics’Coalco Phone 122. Red Ash, Jellico Always on hand. We meet all competition and take Periodical Tickets. D. A. KEATING. —■* JL&r Vt. X ~ Genoral Undertaker and Kmbalmer. OPEN DAY AND NIGHT. Caskets, cases, coffins and burial robes; hearse and carriages furnished to all funerals in and out of the city, telephone 4SB. 322 Mulberry street, Macon. Ga. macon Screen Co. Manufacturers of the best adjustable wire window* screens and screen doors. Your patronage respectfully solicited. Es timates furnished free es charge. J. D. Newbanks, manager, 215 Cotten arenas, Maeen. Ga, Henry Stevens, Sons & Company. H. STEVENS’ SONS CO., Macoa, Ga., Manufacturers of sewer and railroad cul vert pipe, fittings, fire brick, clay, etc. Wall tubing that will last forever. Macon Refrigerators. MUCKETS Improved Dry Air Refriger ators. he beet refrigerators made. Manu factured right here in Macon, any size and of any material desired. It has qualities which no other refrigerator on the market possesses. Come and see them at the fac tory on New street For Whooping Cough use CHENEY’S EX PECTORANT.