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The action of Mr. Cleveland in
appointing negroes to represent this
government at some of the most im
portant consulates was a slap in the
face to every Southern man who
voted the Democratic ticket. It was
an insult to the Southern people
antagonistic to social equality. It is
a disgrace to the government and
something which no Republican
President, with ill their love of the
negro, ever had the temerity to
attempt. Mr. Cleveland, by this act,
has lowered himself in the opinion
of all right-thinking people.— Greens
boro Home-Journal.
-I 1 y
girls of YWSinson countyfTTa most
pleasing reminder of the last day of
our iourneyings.
“ ME AND CLEVELAND.”
Since the 4th day of July we have
led the dear old Democratic Party
a gay dance. Now if Cleveland is
willing to it, the old lady can breathe
awhile. She needs time to collect
her scattered mind. “Me” and
Cleveland have pretty well worried
the good woman’s life out of her
frail body. Say, Grover, let’s call
off the dogs, and allow the old harri
dan to rest a hit! She needs it.
TWO GOOD LIEUTENANTS.
THE FIRST ONE.
Who ever had a better comrade
than Charley McGregor? Always
ready, always willing, always patient,
always brave, always considerate.
David had no truer friend in
Jonathan than we have had in Mc-
Gregor.
Never any more gets tired than
the law of gravitation does; never
any more gets downhearted thana
cyclone does; never any more gets
empty of ideas and resources than
the winter clouds do of moisture ;
never any more loses his nerve than
one of Krupps’ Cannon’s does.
Shall we ever forget the Sunday
morning when we were traveling in
Alabama after a terrible weeks work
in Georgia, and this individual com
pletely knocked up? We were on
our way to Columbus. We had
talked Tariff till our head was sore
our throat dry, our lips blue, our
heart weary, and our lungs humiliat
ed and disgusted.
Put on the cars at Cuthbert by
our kind friend Dr. Baldwin, we
curled up on a quiet seat, closed our
eyes and prepared to rest and snooze
to the lullaby’ of car wheels. It was
under these circumstances that Mac
got a fresh grip on his thinking appar
atus, and began thus : “ Tom, what
do you think of treating the Tariff
question.”
Here human nature broke down,
and the sufferer said something like
this: “Mac. this is Sunday:—for
heaven’s sake let us think about our
sins, and-Jni the Tariff goto .”
. J nail we forget the broken
hearted look that settled on Mac’s
face the day w.F en f onr thousand
human beingsjve're eating _to the left
of him, to the right of him, to the
rear of him, and in front of him—
and by some odd mischance he bad
not been invited to pull out his ap
petite and whirl in ? Never.
It was a look in which unutterable
anguish was mixed with heroic en
durance.
For Mao’s eating qualities, you
must know, are fully equal to his
other sort. He can eat walking, run
ning, standing still, or lying down;
eats anything from stewed cow down
to fried chicken; can go to bed and
sleep like a child while his gastric
juice manipulates cake, pickles, sau
sage, beef steak, chicken - salad,
hard-boiled eggs, and a nice, thick
hunk of fresh pig.
Yes sir! For an all-round cam
paigner, Mac. can’t be beat.
THE OTHER ONE.
Is a fat, heavy-headed self-wor
shiper, called Grover Cleveland.
Since the 4th of July he has helped
us all he could.
Didn’t go to do it, you know; but
he did it just the same. Wherever
we have given the Democratic Party
a shove, Cleveland has given it a
push.
Wherever we have given it a
punch, Cleveland has given it a
kick.
Our purposes were different, our
methode were different, but tne re
sults were exactly the same. Be
tween us, we have got the dear old
Party where it can scarcely grunt.
If Grover just keeps it up a little
longer, it will not be necessary for
us ever to make another speech.
“ BURN THIS LETTER.”
So said Blame to Mulligan.
Did Billy Northen say that to
Cleveland? It seems so. Grover’s
letter was promptly published, but
Billy’s went under the wood-pile!
Fetch it out, Willyoum !
We want to know what you said.
Did your letter have anything in
it about “strike your wife ?”
Did it say anything about those
mixed white and black schools iu
New York which Cleveland ap
proved ?
Trot out that letter, Billy!
We think it may do us “rag-tag
and-bob-tails” almost as much good
as your “calling out the troops” did
! at Washington.
The
Willyoum, is that you have not got
any sense.
The next great trouble with you
is that everybody knows it.
VIOLATING THE LAW.
Senator Luois Davis, of Georgia,
is still holding his place in the State
Senate ; also a place under the Fed
eral Government.
This certainly violates the spirit,
if not the lettei of the law. Is con
trary to the uniform practice hereto
fore. Yet these Democratic Bosses
who hold two offices at the same
time are the very fellows who vili
fied the Populists for “wanting
office.”
Why does not the Governor order
an election ?
Because he fears the Populists
will win that seat, just as we did in
Whitfield.
Ain’t the dear old Democratic par
ty in a nice mess, when it has to fall
back upon such methods as these ?
How can any decent man defend
the action of Senator Davis in this
caso ?
The State of Georgia never before
witnessed such a thing.
A State Senator holding on to the
State office, and yet grabbing a Fed
eral office.
And now holding on to them
both!
BRYAN AND WATSON.
Congressman Bryan is now wrest
ling with the problem that threw
statesman Tom Watson out of a
job.—Washington Post.
Just so. We told Bryan, about a
year ago that he would have to aban.
don his principles or leave the Dem
ocratic party.
The “problem” he is now “wrest
ling with” means that, and nothing
else. We hope this brilliant young
man will choose principle evan
though he lose office by it.
There is such a thing in this life as
paying too much for office.
The man who sacrifices principle
to win political station has paid more
than the whistle is worth
Some of these days Charley Moses
and W. J. Northen will both under
stand this proposition.
WE ARE NOT JEALOUS.
Editor Tom Watson, of the Peo
ple’s Party Paper, ought to sue the
Atlanta Constitution for damages for
infringing on his patent methods of
abuse of President Cleveland and
the Di mocratic administration—At
lanta Journal.
By no means. Let the boys fall
into line. Wo don’t dislike people
for adopting The more
they used to abuse us for holding to
certain doctrines, the more we feel
tickled when our opponents surren
der to those doctrines.
Mad with the Constitution! Not
at all. We are not even mad with
the Journal.
The Journal, you know, is the pa
per which printed that infamous lie
which was hatched up after we left
the Sparta Hotel, last summer;— a
lie which represented a “burly negro”
as endeavoring to go into the hotel
to see Mr. Watson.
A few months have passed since
the hot wrath the Democrats felt on
account of this imaginary occurrence
made the scowl of hate follow us
wherever we went.
Now what? Mr. Cleveland ap
points a “burly negro” to go to
Bolivia, ami another “hurley negro”
to go to Spain.
To go into the Hotels? Yes
sirree!
blot only that, but to go into the
palaces of the officials of those two
countries, and to sit in the parlors
and to eat at the tables thereof!
And the Atlanta Journal says it’s
all right—for Cleveland did it ?
No; we don’t get mad. Its too
funny to get wrathy about.
Go it, boys! Last year you taught
us that the world was round.
This year, you swear its flat. Last
yeAr you swore that white was black.
This year, you swear that black is
white.
How could we be mad with men
so hopelessly mixed and tangled as
you all ?
BLAND AND BRYAN.
The Democratic minions of Wall
street seem determined to drive hon
est Representatives from the South
and West out of the Bank-ridden
party. Read this from the Wash
ington Post:
The news that Congressman Bry
an, and his silver views had been
turned down by Secretary Morton’s
friends at the Nebraska State Con
vention, and that the brilliant young
orator contemplated a race for Sena
tor Manderson’s seat on the Popu
list’s platform was discussed with
great interest in the House yester
day. Some of the Democrats were
inclined to say that Mr. Bryan had
always been a visionary in his views
on economic questions, with natural
Populistic leanings.
The third party men seemed elat-
bi oHB
1 "w*?
i Msg
•I am not
comment of (:<>ll
Democratic
financial doctrines have beetufaith
fully followed by Bryan. “It is what
is going to happen everywhere, if the
Democratic party takes the same
stand. The people are going to make
this fight for silver. If the Demo
cratic party will make it for them, all
right. But those in favor of it are
going to get together somewhere.”
BOLIVIA KICKS AND SOUTHERN CON
GRESSMEN GROWL—TAYLOR'S APPOINT
MENT IS POLITICAL IPICCAC—GOT TO
STAND IT THOUGH, FOR CLEVELAND
SAID SO.
It is said that aside from the op
position made to the confirmation of
Charles H. J. Taylor, as minister to
Bolivia, by Southern members, the
nomination is antagonized by the
representatives of the government to
which it is proposed to accredit him.
The Bolivian legation in Washington
is understood to have conveyed to
the Senate committee having the
nomination in charge a strong inti
mation that the government of Bo
livia does not desire to receive him.
Taylor says that he was not a candi
date for Bolivia, and that the Presi
dent himself selected the place for
him. He asked for a mission, but
did not specify to which country he
desired to go, Friends of the Pres
ident say that when Mr. Cleveland
examined the papers he found letters
from hundreds of the most promirent
Democrats, North, East and South
indorsing Taylor for a mission in
terms so strong that he could not
resist the conviction that there really
existed a desire in the Democratic
party to see this representative of
the colored race given a high posi
tion in the foreign service, and upon
this conviction selected the Bolivian
mission for him.— TPizsAiwi/ton Posi.
RAILROAD ACCIDENTS
Are growing more frequent every
day.
Why?
Because the Corporations are
working their men to death.
The human machine is not made
of iron. It has its limitations. When
you require more work of a man
than nature ever intended, he gives
out.
An engineer who is compelled to
work sixteen hours on a stretch, col
lapses. The conductor who has to
run every night and part of every
day, and who has to do the work of
a train-hand in addition to the work
of a conductor, will soon get into a
condition which renders him incapa
ble of performing the best service.
The cutting down of tram crews,
the lengthening of the hours of ser
vice, the putting of additional work
upon each employee, brings about
a state of things in which accidents
are sure to increase.
Then, again, the engines, cars and
road-bed are all allowed to run down
and the trains become more difficult
to manage. This is no fancy sketch.
We have been over every Railroad
>n Georgia this summer, and we have
been greatly impressed by these facts.
What brings about this ruinous
situation ?
The ravenous greed of the Wall
street speculators who thirst for divi
dends upon watered stock. Where
ever a passenger or train-hand is
killed in a wreck caused by the con
ditions we have mentioned, it is a
clear ease of murder, and such men
as Gould, Vunderbill, Brice, Thomas,
Calhoun and the balance of the gang,
ought to be held responsible for it.
In no other country but ours would
Railroad Corporations be allowed to
treat their men in this way.
The only remedy lies in Govern
ment ownership.
CONGRESS
Is still grinding out chin music. The
Senate is debating Silver, and the
House is talking about a frazzled and
decayed scare-crow called the “Force
Bill. The empty seats are being
bombarded with some very fine ora
tory upon these two questions.
Congressman Kyle of Missippj
made a handsome, all-around bust
upon the Force Bill issue. He was
asked, in effect, if the negroes in
Mississippi should have the right to
vo te; —the right to “manhood suf
frage.” He answered in the nega
tive. Mr. Kyle is a Democrat.
What Mr. Kyle had the untutored
candor to admit, many other Demo,
crats think, but they hardly ever say
it, as Kyle said it.
The admission got jostled out of
Kyle during the debate before he
seemed to know what he was sayinjj
PRACTICAL CHRISTIANITY,
News conies from India
heathens have been treated toJHL;
er wholesome dose of real
Good-Samaritan ism.
The Assistant Coniiniinle^g--
English Army brutally
i iihn /oil
I m ii.i , l>i- m . .
officer was shot by the com
the soldier.
Jggne natives became guilty of
their English mas-
‘ From our standpoint the natives
are heathens, and the English are
Christians.
The heathens shot down an Eng
lishman who was shamefully abusing
one of their comrades.
How did the Christians set the
matter right?
By taking eleven of those benight
ed heathens and shooting them from
the cannon’s mouth.
Here is the cool manner in which
he London papers narrate this be
nevolent occurrence:
FROM THE cannon’s MOUTH.
London, Oct. 7.—The Calcutta
correspondent of the Times says:
“Lahore advices state that there
was a serious disturbance in Cabul
before the arrival of the British Mis
sion, under Sir H. M. Durand, on
Monday. Malik Jan Kan, Assistant
Commander-in-chief of the army,
abused a Sepoy belonging to the
Herati Regiment, whereupon the
Sepoy’s company fired a volley, kill
ing Malik.
“The mutineers fled at once, but
were caught on the same day.
“Eleven of them were blown from
the cannon’s mouth.”
In this manner do our Christian
rulers aid our Missionaries in con
vincing the “poor heathens” that we
are devoted followers of the “Meek
and lowly Jesus.”
As long as the heathens of India>
Africa, Siam, and China know the
people of Europe only as a rapacious
and remorseless gang of plunderers
and thieves, the huge sums of money
spent on Missionary work will hear
no adequate results. T. E W.
Reform in the Olden Time. How
the Land Question and the Money
Question Swayed the Destinies of
Rome. Caisak and the Gracci as Re
formers their Great Work and
WHAT IT COST THEM. IF YOUjWOULD UN
DERSTAND THESE MATTERS BUY A COPY OF
SKETCHES FROM ROMAN HISTORY.
BY THOS. E. WATSON.
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GOVERNOR NORTHEN’S LETTER
Atlanta Constitution.
The Washington Gazette is some
what in the dark in regard to Gov
ernor Northen’s letter to President
Cleveveland, but it cannot refrain
from the following general com
ment:
“We should like to read Governor
Northen’s letter to the President
giving an account of things in Geor
gia. This called for the President’s
letter. The Atlanta Constitution
has read and commends it.
“We have the highest confidence
in Governor Northen’s honesty of
sentiment, and do not believe he has
a particle of factious spirit. Still,
the Governor made a statement
about matters in regard to which
there is a good deal of difference of
opinion and a large number of the
most intelligent and substantial busi
ness men, farmers as well as mer
chants, disagree with the Consti
tution. * * * There is disaffec
tion and division in Georgia.- When
the tariff question comes up, when
cotton sells for a good price, the
ranks will close up again and the
Populists receive a final and crush
ing blow.”
Our contemporary labors under a
mistaken impression. We have not
read the Governor’s letter, nor has
the substance of it been communi
cated to us, except in such a manner
as we could get it from hearsay.
We are satisfied, however, that its
statements concerning the situation
here in Geoagia were characterized
by that conservatism which appears
in almost everything that emanates
from Governor Northen’s pen. If
the letter called attention to the im
patience manifested m the Demo
cratic ranks over the unnecessary
delay in redeeming the pledges of
the Chicago platform, the Gazette
must admit that the facts of the case
justify the Governor’s anxiety. The
: result of various recent county elec
tions in Georgia shows that it is im
peritively necessary to convince the
masses that the promises of our plat
form will be speedily carried out.
Our Wasington contemporary pre
dicts that when the tariff question is
settled and cotton sells for a good
price, our ranks will close up and the
Populists will meet with a crushing
defeat. But when will Congress
dispose of the tariff? Why not do
something with it, instead of wasting
valuable time in the committeee
room, listening to the appeals of the
protected manufacturers ? Congress
has been in session two months, and
practically nothing has been accom
plished. There is no excuse for this
delay in getting rid of a protective
tariff which the party has authorita-
be unconstitu
i p or i /. e
pledges' in SR*.-
better seivic<^ i e ad
ministration de-
mand of the
tion of every made
at Chicago.
D. H. Dougherty & Co.
Our readers and friends will be
gratified to see the advertisement of
David H. Dougherty & Co. in tnrf
issue of our paper. The well-known
and deservedly popular firm has, per
haps, the largest and best dry-goods
emporium in the South. It will be
remembered that the head of this
great firm is the patriotic gentleman
who signed the appeal bond of Mr.
J. B. Osbern, who was recently
fined the extreme limit of the police
judge’s power for attempting to
speak at the artesian well in the city
of Atlanta upon the “Christian
Aspects of the Labor Movement.”
THOMSON MEETING CHANGED TO
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20.
To accommodate our Warren coun
ty friends, who are interested in the
Warren County Fair, we have agreed
to postpone the Thomson mass meet
ing one week.
October 20th is the Day.
Remember it yourself, and tell
your neighbor.
No more changes will be made on
any account whatever.
Friendly papers please copy.
Thos. E. Watson.
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