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ballon. W. H. Felton,
on the I.4'h of Novom-
Nearly twenty years have passed
this great stitesman delivered
prophecy contained in those
■burning words; but each day has
■ added proofs of his sagacity, and
r over all the land is the woe and wan
( he predicted.
We say’ it in no blasphemous spirit,
- that Jeremiah himself never more
vividly pictured the future desolation
* of his people than Dr. W. H. Felton
in the inspired eloqence, with which
he withered the gold bug, Chitten
den, of New York.
Where are the New York Demo
crats today?
Still plundering the South and
West by infamous class legislation.
Where is Dr. Felton today?
Rising above all infirmity of body
to take into his fearless hands the
banner of those who are leading the
revolt against the laws he denounced
m 1877!
Honor to this great man!
Georgia never produced a states
man who stands better than he does
hat severe judgment which bases its
estimate of ability upon what was
• >edicted and what came true.
< In the first issue of The Daily
’’/khss, we published the unanswera
ble speech of Hon. Alexander H.
[ Stephens upon the Silver Question.
In presenting the address of Hon.
W. H. Felton upon the contraction
policy which now strangles this coun
try in its remorseless grasp, we have
given to our readers the companion
picture.
Look upon them both ; then look
around you and verify by actual facts
what these great Southern Statesmen
loretold, and then decide whether
you will blindly follow a party which
has still further contracted the Cur
?er.oy by stopping the Coinage of
Silver, and which has still further
increased the burdens of the people
by issuing bonds in violation of law’.
Evans mid Gordon at Barnesville.
After much blowing of trumpets
and beating of drums the great
Barnesville meeting came off, and
Generals Evans and Gordon ad
dressed a rather slender gathering of
the people.
We have looked over the report
of General jfrvans’ speech and are
< i d l istingu is h. • d
hp-.iu.r s got 1
id ii a;
wfind
vivid that afforded by
Gen. Evans’ Barnesville speech and
Mr. Atkinson’s Greenville harangue.
By the way, if General Evans
mentioned Atkinson’s name any
where in his address, we have failed
to find it.
General Evans evidently classes
Atkinson among the undesirable
“members of the church.” He is
willing to fight for the church, but
not for Atkinson.
He can say a great deal for the
democratic party—but not a word
can he say for Atkinson.
b To a man up a tree this looks very
I significant.
I General Gordon made the same
speech which wo have all heard so
often : “Appomatox,” Southern Con
federacy,” “Tariff Reform,” “Free
Silver,” “Glorious record of demon,
racy,” etc.
General Gordon has been absent
so much from the Senate that we
can hardly expect him to explain to
the people how it was that the Sugar
Trust hypnotized the whole outfit.
He is quite sure, however, that
the offices should not be taken away
from the democrats.
He has reached the conclusion
that such a step., would ruin the
country. 1
The General made no reference to
Tallapoosa or to the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad, nor to the Tay
lor county farm bonds he sold John
Inman at the time he sold the Geor
gia State Bonds.
General Gordon thinks it would
burst up the government to have
Congress buy the railroads.
He did not say what he thought
of the evils of the railroads buying
up Congress.
It might possibly hurt the country
to have Senators buying up the rail
roads for the good of the people
tbut it certainly is a cause for serious
Kiris when we see the railroals
up the Senators for the use
the lailroads.
F The Revolt Against “The Men Who
Control.”
Constitution last Sunday pub-
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This Is Big Enough And Good Enough For Any Honest Man, 1 Sharpest Way To Sidetrack The Real I riends Os Silver Is
To Get Them To Talking About “Parity ” And A Change Os Ratio.
one in Bulloch county and one in
Loundes.
■While it seems that here and there
democratic influences can induce a
colored man to support the party
which is opposed to a free ballot,
and a fair count, how is it with the
white voters? We published yes
terday the letter of Hon. John Tem
ple Graves to the Constitution. That
letter shows where the men of Geor
gia stand, who regard the honor and
welfare of the state as of greater
import than the success of a party
We published also a letter from the
color bear in one of General Gor
don’s regiments, which haves no
doubt as to where the old veterans
stand in this fight between the “men
who control” and the people.
Today we reprint letters from one
of the leading ministers of the South
Georgia Conference, which show that
the uon-partisans are aroused to the
inioniiy of the present rule, and wiU
throw the might of their influence
upon the side of the people. So far
Jas the state campaign is .concerned,
it is a weighty revolt of the people
against the domination of the “men
who control”—against the rule of
the slate fixers who parcel out the
offices among themselves without re
gard to fitness,' and who, in their
mad desire to hold on to office, trail
the judicial ermine in the dust, and
pollute our courts of justice. It is a
fight for purity and honor in our
state government; and upon this is
sue all good men can unite in their
support of Judge James K. Hines
and the populist ticket, men whose
spotless record gives assurance of a
clean administration.
The Rome Hustler.
“Tom Watson’s Press goes its full
length in advertising “Tom Watson’s
Speech at Douglasville for 10 cents,”
“Tom Watson’s Campaign Book,”
and Tom Watson’s people’s party
paper, The Press, at so much per
month. Tom may be a statesman,
but he certainly has an eye on the
sheckles “while he is educating his
followers” on campaign literature.
Did Alex Stephens ever do this kind
of junketing business in his cam
paigning, Tommie?”
Shoo! buddie, you don’t know
what you are talking about.
Mr. Stephens wrote a book called
“A Constitutional History of the
War Between the States.”
Having written this book, he
thought it no crime to desire to
sell it.
Desiring to sell it, he thought it
no crime to ad-vertise it.
Therefore, the book was duly ad
vertised and duly sold.
Didn’t know this, did you, Hust
ler?
lie also wrote a book called the
“History of the United States;” also
another called “A School History of
the United States.”
These books were duly advertised
and duly sold.
Therefore in writing books and in
selling them we are not doing any
violence to the precept or the exam
ple of Mr. Stephens.
There is no law compelling Popu
lists to buy our books. We state
this *bec«use the Hustler seems to
be under the impression that there is.
If we had thought of it in time we
might have made a deal with Have
meyer of the Sugar Trust, and
Rockefeller of the Standard Oil
Trust, by which we might have got
from the Congress just what
they got—the power of taxing
every home in the Union for the
benefit of our private property.
But we did not think of it in time
and hence we can only sell our books
to the voluntary victims who are
willing to buy them.
Have one, Hustler ?
Same old price ; same old stand;
one for half a dollar, or three for a
dollar. By the way, Hustler, where
were you raised “at,” anyhow?
The Railroad Question, dis
cussed by Thos. E. Watson
is now ready for delivery.
Price 10 cents per copy. Ad
dress DAILY PRESS, Atlanta,
Ga.
Facts for Tax-Payers.
Raise your hat from off your
brain, honest Georgia democrat, and
if you are a true friend to yourself,
your neighbor and your state, care
fully consider the following indis
putable facts:
You did not know that the admin
istration of Governor Northen’s last
term of office was more expensive
than the last term of Governor Ru
fus B. Bullock, did you?
Yet it is a fact.
You do know that the people of
Georgia revolted against Rufus B.
Bullock and the “men who con
trolled” in those days, and changed
the administration from republican
to democratic.
As a tax-payer, have you been
benefitted ?
What was the rate of state tax in
1870?—Answer: 40 cents on the
hundred dollars.
What was the value of taxable
property in the state m 1870?—An
swer : 8210,000,000 m round num
bers.
What political power had “control”
of the state and who was governor?
Answer: The republican party. Ru
fus B. Bullock.
What was the price of cotton,
your chief staple, in 1870—? Answer:
23 cents per pound.
If the farmer averaged 6 bales to
the plow, and “lived at home,” how
much money did 6 bales give him?—
Answer: 8690.00.
What was the rate of state tax in
the fiscal year, 1893?—Answer :
46 1-10 cents on the hundred dollars-
What was the value of all taxable
property in 1893?- Answer: 8447,-
000,000, in round numbers.
What political party had “control”
of the state in 1893, and who was
governor ? Answer: The simon
pure-rock-nbbed democratic party —
W. J. Northen, the individual who
gave utterance to the impious and
unmanly sentence, “Strike your wife
who in early life gave you her maid
en name; strike your child who at
eventide kneels with folded hands to
jisp its prayer; but for God’s sake!
for God’s sake! don't strike the dear
old democratic party.”
What was the price of cotton in
1893? Answer: Six cents per
pound.
How much money did the six
bales give the farmer that year?
Answer: One hundred and eighty
dollars.
You sold six bales of cotton in
1870 and got 8690, from which you
could easily pay your taxes.
In 1893 you sold six bales of cot
ton and gok SIBO. Not quite so
easy to pay tax as it was iu 1870,
was it?
What arc you going to do about
it?
Cleveland’s Social Equality.
Sec. 1. Ths colored schools
in the city of New York, now
existing and in cperation.shall
hereafter be classed and
known as ward schools and
primaries, with their respec
tive teachers, unless such
teachers shall be removed in
manner provided by law, and
officers in the respective wards
in which they are located in
the same manner and to the
same extent as other ward
schools, and shall be open for
the education of pupils for
whom admission is sought
without regard to race or
color. New York Law, chapter
2-18, page 307, passed May 5, 1884,
and signed and approved by Grover
Cleveland as Governor of the State
of New York.
.Weaver, the Populist Candidate For
Congress, Nominated Also by
the Democrats.
“The democrats of the Ninth con
gressional district. at their convention
held in Council Bluffs yesterday, Au
gust 8. by a more than two-thirds
vote, endorsed and nominated Hen.
James 11. Weaver as their candidate for
Congress. ”
General Weaver had already been nom
inated by the People’s Party Convention
of the same district.
General Weave.- is the same gentleman
whom Hon. Hoke Smith and the balance
of the democratic bosses accused of being
a thief, anarchist, and South-hater in
1892.
See the change I
In 1892, Democratic insult and rotten
eggs.
In 189-1, Democratic nomination to Con
gress.
Mr. Watson’s Appointments.
Rome, September 1.
«I udge Hines’ Appointments.
Washington; Wilkes, Thursday,
September 13.
Hines’ and Watson’s Appointments.
Ringold, August 30. t
Trenton, August 31.
Hou. W. L. Peek’s Appointments.
Blairsville, Union county, August
31st. i
Irwinville, Irwin county, Septem
ber 3d.
Speaking commences at 11 a. m.
Capitol Chat.
Representative Brosius, speaking
to al’ost reporter yesterday of some
odd literary idioms that have be
come quite standard in our language,
said :
“Judge Cobb, of Alabama, a
genial and able gentleman, who has
been the butt of a good deal of
harmless fun on account of the odd
expression‘Where am I at?’—now
become a household one—used by
him one afternoon in'a debate in the
house, has quite the advantage of Jiis
critics, for he did not use the expres
sion unadvisedly. He can vindicate
the literary form of the expression
under authority that is absolutely
classical. The judge evidently knew
where he was at in a literary point
of view, for he has no less an au
thority than Thomas Carlyle. In
his life ’of Cromv.ell, commenting
upon soma acts of the English gov
ernment, Carlyle says: ‘What are we
arriving at?’
“A good many odd and perhaps
ungrammatical expressions have be
come standard because of the au
thority of a great name. Alter all
there is no more authorative standard
in matters relating to language than
the use of the best speakers and
writers, and Judge Cobb has not
transgressed any literary canon by
following so distinguished a leader as
Thomas Carlyle.”
Spalding County Populists.
Have nomiuated Hon. b. N. Miller
for the house. He is a strong rnan and
a. thorough populist, and will ba in At
lanta when the legislature meets.
Citizens of Early County Say It Is a
Lie.
At a meeting of citizens held at
Arlington, Ga., August 17th.,Messrs
C. W. Simmons and T. J. Lanier
were appointed a committee to in
vestigate the accusations made in
the Atlanta Constitution of the 14th
about third partyites riding in Early
county and terronizing the negroes-
They forward us the following re
port :
“We the citizens of the Damascus
district of Early county whose
names are hereunto attached, con
demn in unmeasured terms the arti
• clo that appeared in the Atlanta
Constitution of the 14th inst. charg
i ing that ‘thirty-third partyites rode
at night and threatened the negroes
with dire vengeance if they voted in
the democratic primary to occur the
following day, and riddled the negro
shanties with bullets as they rode
away.’ ”
We allege and charge that the ac
cusation is a malicious falsehood, and
that the correspondent of the Con-
I stitution knew it be such.
Signed, Allen White, Reese Minis
tre, Bill Chester, (col.), A. H. Metts,
S. M. Phillips, H. A. Coleman, Z. T.
Webb, C. W. Simons, T. J. Lanier
and many others.
The Daily Press did not be
lieve such an incident as described
in the Constitution of the 14th oc
curred, and so stated in our com
ments at the time. The people of
' Early county have cause to thank
. these gentleman for sifting the mat
ter and branding it as it deserves—
“a malicious falsehood—campaign
: lies.”
Judge Hines Threatened With Eggs.
Eatonton, Aug. 24.—(Special.)—
It was to be hoped that third party
■ doctrine would come to an end after
I the departure of Tom Watson, but
11 we are to be dosed again on Satur
i day, September 8, by Judge Hines.
Third party speakers are beginning
to be a little bit too numerous in our
/ city, and already the price of eggs
has gone up in anticipation of this
event.”
The above clipping we take from
the Macon Telegraph of Saturday.
We can hardly find words to ex
press our surprise that the Telegraph
should allow any such threat against
Judge Hines to appear in its columns.
We had supposed that by common
consent we were to have a campaign
which would not disgrace the state
with a repetition of the scenes of
1892, but if responsible newspapers
like the Telegraph give apparent
sanction to such suggestions as that
contained in the Eatonton dispatch,
we will soon reach a point where ’
violence and passion will prevail, and
the Weaver episode in Macon, and
the howlings down in Atlanta and
Augusta will be repeated.
Such a situation is to be avoided
by all possible means. Such a fury
of political hate would be most al -
horrent to every decent citizen. No
estimate can bo made of the injury
the strife so engendered would do to
the business interests of the whole
state.
To rotten egg General Weaver in
1892 was one thing; to rotten egg.
Judge James K. Hines in 1894;
would be quite anothei*thing. Let
no man dream - that it can be done I
without the most serious results.
Let the law-abiding element of
both parties recognize the necessi.y
for conservatism and mutual for
bearance. Let the responsible men
restrain the irresponsible disturber
of the peace. Let each speaker have
his say, unmolested. This is a free
country, and free speech is the right
of the humblest.
We refuse to believe that any in-*
suit will be offered to Judge Hines
when he goes to Eatonton on Septem
ber Bth. We refuse to believe that
the despatch in the Telegraph prop
erly represents the sentiments of the
respectable democrats of Putnam.
We believe Judge Hines will be
received there with respect, list
ened to with attention, and treated
with the courtesy which reflects
equal credit upon the community and
upon the visitor.
Consternation Reigns.
It seems that in a recent issue of
the Talbotton News, Rev. J. B. Mc-
Gehee, in relating observations and
incidents of an extended trip, among
other things mentioned the fact that
numbers of democrats were going to
vote for Judge Hines.
This latter statement provoked a
reply, in which au anonymous writer,
without disputing a single statement
made by the reverend gentleman,
showered upon him unmeasured
abuse. To this iu turn Rev. J. B.
McGehee replies in a card in last
week’s issue of the News, and after
pointing out the cowardice of the
anonymous attack, he concludes as
follows:
We are glad our letter was copied.
Strange and startling as the truths are
they are truths ‘‘many Evans men are
going to Judge Hines” —and i* is the
knowledge of that fact that is filling
Georgia with campaigners from tills
state, other states—even going so far
as to hire the northern negro, Ross.
As 1 said, “they are going in Atlanta,
Columbus, Macon, smaller towns, villa
ges and country'— and the leaders
know it, and “Weary Citizen" knows it
and did not deny it. It was much
easier for him and, maybe, gratified a
personal spleen fdr him to dodge all
that and “go for” me.
To his fling at “congenial company”
wc simply say we pick our company,
and find gentlemen and patriots in all
parties, We shall continue this course
until parties put away corruption, re
gard their pledges and do something
for the country. High corn and meat,
low cotton and the blooming prospect
of increased taxation, poorly prepa-e
us to continue even ancient corpora
tions when once we suspect that they
are run by “state fixers” and county
satraps.
In conclusion we submit to our con
cealed friend the following : Throw off
your mask. Prove your identity and
respectability. Select any statement
in my letter, name day ami place and
I will prove all I have said. From Co
lumbus, Macon, Atlanta, villages—
even in old Talbot—l will bring Evans
men who arc going to vote for Judge
Hines. Mark me, I do not propose a
political speech beyond the points
covered by letter. In the meantime,
my friend would do well to surrender
all prejudices against “my favorite,
quotation,” "render unto Ctesar the
tilings which are Cmsar's,” Wc fear
that in common with thousands lie has
left off loyalty and service to Ca-sar,
and is surrendering himself soul and
body and pantaloons to the bossing,
bidding, dictations and doings of "the
grand old party.”
-I. B. McGehee.
Pullinau’s Prince.
Miss Pullman’s engagement to
Prince Somebody, of Austria, must
have cost the Duke a couple of mil
lions. If her children are to be re
ceived as legitimate by the Austrian
court, the Duke will put up another
gold reserve to assist Austrian circu
lation.
At Pullman there is distress which
next winter will turn to starvation
unless the charity of Chicago goes to
the rescue.
Pullman deserves expulsion from
America. He does not appreciate
his privileges here. lie is a con
temptable flunkey in Europe and an
oppressor here—vulgar in both. A
man who pays for the legitimacy of
his grand children is the sort of man
who would be insensible to the cries
l of more honorably born children
I nearer by. Debs almost produced a
[ revulsion of opinion in the duke’s
| favor, but the investigations at Pull
! man, while they do not whitewash
i Debs, make the magnate out worse
than we ever thought he was.
Pullman has assumed a paternal
function toward his employees, lie
might, give to relieve their distress a
small percentatie of what he paid for
h s daughtei e prince.—St. Leu s Re
public (Dem.)
Sketches of Roman History, by Hen.
Thos. E. Watson, sold at this office
A Tnist Administration’s Record up
to Date.
May 6—Secretary Carlisle, with
ti e knowledge and approval of Mr.
Cleveland, draws up a sugar sched
ule giving the sugar trust until Jan
uary 1. 1895, to import raw sugar
tree of duty; also giving the trust a
scale of duties much more profitable
in themselves than any tai iff had
been, ami raising the price of sugar
two cents a pound. Total extra
profits of the trust under this man
. genaent, from fiftv to one hundred
millions of dollars in two vears.
July 2 Pre idee* Cleveland
writes a letter to Chairman B ilson
denouncing the deinociatic senate as
guilty oi "perfidy and dishonor ' for
imposing duties >n coal and iron ore,
but declaring in the most positive
erms that the sugar duties, burden
some to the people, but enormously
uerative to the trust, must be re
tained.
August. ].'' A prospect appearing
that a free sugar bill might pass the
senate, Secretary Carlisle writes an
official letter asserting that the pass
age of such a bill would bankrupt
the government, and demanding that
he Sugar Trust duties shall stand.
I'his statement.'from the secretary of
the treasury kills the free sugar bill.
August 24—President Cleveland,
having spent a week out of Wash
ington, while the Sugar and Whi?ky
Trusts, speculating on the enact
ment of the Trusts’ tariff bill, were
reaping a profit of about three quar
iers oi a million a day by rushing in
raw sugar and taking whisky out of
bond, intimates that ho proposes to
mt the bill become a law without his
signature. This insures the Trusts
ten full working days in which to
accumulate a bonus of from 87,000,-
000 to 88,000,000 iu addition to the
profits which they would ' ave made
from the bill if the president had
signed it promptly.
Is it. any wonder that democrxtUjM
congressmen anxious for rc electifiDj.
are abashed as tley
piling of scandal upon
shame upon thaino?— New Y<MM
Press.
Even the Democrats Laugh at the
New Tariff Bill.
Washington Post.]
The democrats themselves are be
ginning to tell some racy stories
apropos of their experience in tariff
tinkering. One of the best was re
lated by one of Mr. Wilson’s party
associates, for the special benefit of
Mr. Reed, who tells it to his friends
with a succession of unctuous
chuckles. This democrat said the
result of the tariff fight reminded
him of a negro who had captured a
’possum and prepared himself for a
'possum dinner with potatoes and
gravy. While the ’possum was
baking and almost ready to be taken
off the fire, the darkey, who had
grown drowsy with watching the pan,
stretched himself out in the shade
of a tree close by, and ere long was
fast asleep. Along camo a second,
more enterprising gentleman of
color xvith a weakness for baked
’possum. Seeing the other asleep, be
lifted the cover and saw that the
feast was ready for the table. He
filled himself full of ’possum meat
and sweet potatoes, picked the bones,
and then rubbed what was left of
the grAvy on the sleeping darky’s
mouth and fingers. This done, he
walked away.
By. and by the owner of the ’pos
sum awoke, and to his dismay dis
covered only the picked bones of the
feast. He looked at his hands, tast
ed the gravy on the edge of his
mouth, and suddenly exclaimed :
“Well, bress my soul, yere's my
fingers full o’ ’possum an’ sweet ’ta
ters, an’ 1 kin taste ’possum an’sweet
’taters on my lips,” (here ho smacked,
his lips with an imaginary relish),
“but 1 deular, dat’s de most ousatis
factory ’possum I ever did eat.”
How the President Helps Trusts.
New York Tinies, (Dera).
For some time the sugar trust has
been increasing and hastening its
imports of raw sugar, desiring to
bring into the country as much raw
sugar as possible before the imposi
tion of the duty of 40 per cent. The
imports in June exceeded 500,000,-
000 pounds. If the imports in Au
gust are at the rate of 600,000,000
for the month or 20,000,000 per day,
the duty per day at 40 per cent
would be about *8200,000. If the
new tariff was now in force the gov
ernment would be collecting this for
the treasury instead of permitting it
to be collected in the near future by
the trust from the consqnn rs of re
fined sugar. The whis... trust is
taking out of bond every dav targe
quantities of spirits in order bit it
may escape the payment into the
treasury of the additional tax of 20
cents a gallon on spirits so with
drawn, and collect it hereafter for itr
own benefit in the increased price.
How to Save Your Gins.
For 82.00 per gin I will send in
structions that will save you the cost
of filling your gin brushes every sea
son and make them do as good work
all the time and last ten times longer.
No more expense exce - a litt^&4
work. Address, D. 1‘ Hbabn, '
I’almetto, Ga.
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