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SHTWBBKOiID.
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STORM FOOD.
Visitors to the Stricken Districts Who
Went Not to Save But to Plunder.
Robbing the Sufferers.
New Orleans, October 7. The
storm’s total death list is now esti
mated to be 2,275. Distress is so
great among the survivors that the
Board of Health has concluded to
send out and appeal for help.
Ever since Monday people have
been arriving from different points
at Cheniere. They represented they
came upon a mission of relief and
were received with open arms, but
instead of coming to save, they came
to plunder. They ransacked the
ruins and little piles of belongings
which the survivors had saved. They
stole clothes and money and any
• .other articles that they could lay
their hands on.
An arriving schooner at Biloxi re
ports that many bodies are now
floating on the shore at Cat Island,
Ship Island and Chandeleur Island.
Not less than seventy were counted
on Cat Island alone. They had been
buffeted by wind and wave and are
being buried as rapidly as the relief
parties are able to dig graves for
them in the sand of the beach. Be
fore the storm of Sundaj' there were
one hundred crafts anchored in and
around Biloxi. Only three survived.
Many of those who escaped are
starving. It is reported that men
and women, driven to desperation by
hunger, are feeding on dead animals.
A large number of bodies have al
ready been thrown into trenches and
covered up, but those still lying ex
posed to the hot sun are rapidly
decomposing, adding further peril to
the situation. The revenue cutter
Seward, reported lost in the Gulf of
Mexico, is safe in port.
LIVES LOST IN ARKANSAS.
Little Rock, Ark., October 7.
A terrific storm swept over Arkansas
Thursday night, leaving death and
destruction in its path. One death
from fright is reported.
In Union county several houses
were blown down, four women were
killed outright and several persons
were seriously injured.
In the vicinity of Preston, Faulk
ner county, the storm blew over a
number of houses and killed two
persons.
‘NOT YETS” AND OTHER THINGS'
Atlanta Herald.
“ Not yet.”
“Do you know what that is ? ”
A Southeast Georgian, a promi
nent politician, says that his section
of the State is full of “ not yets.”
in Atlanta, I
think, but if ’ K tni political vocab
ulary to stayM It’s significant. It
expresses exactly a new condition, as
perhaps no other word can do.
At any rate, you’ll hear the word
often in the near future, and an ex
planation of it now may be timely.
Somebody had asked about the
condition of the Democratic and
Third parties in the country about
i Brunswick, and the reply was:
I “Jit’s hard to say just now. The
country is full of ‘ not yets.’ There
are more of them than of Democrats
and Third partyites together.”
“ Not yets!” chorussed the audi
ence. “ What is a 1 not yet ?’ ”
“Why,” was the surprised answer,
“ don’t you know what that means ?
The word applies to people kept in
the Democratic ranks by a sort of
protest, relying on promises for the
last time, drifting into the Third
party but not yet cut loose from the
Democracy—going, going, but not
yet gone.”
“You say there arc lots of them ? ”
“ Stacks and cords of them.”
“ What are they doing ?”
“They are going, going, but not
gone, I tell you. They are watching
for the fulfillment of these Demo
cratic promises. They are waiting
in the hope that the Democratic par
ty will redeem its pledges, determined
to go out if those pledges are not re
deemed.”
“You say they are going?”
“Yes—almost gone. The general
impression among them is that the
Democratic administration is repudi
ating the Democratic platform.”
Even so staunch a Democrat as the
war horse from Douglas is talking
“ ifs and ands ” these days.
“ Something’s got to be done,” he
said yesterday. “There have been
five counties to act since the last gen
eral election. Four of those county
’ ‘elections resulted in favor of the
Third party. The other one don’t
count, for a man like Milt Candler
would be elected in almost any coun
ty on almost any ticket. But even
counting DeKalb as a straight Demo
cratic victory, on a square issue, it’s
four to one against us.”
I have been surprised to find how
many people have read Governor
Northen’s letter to Mr. Cleveland and
the President’s answer.
They are learning that correspon
dence by heart out in the piney woods
and up in the mountains, and they
Ire thinking about it.
Hoke Smith may be only a minori
ty candidate if he runs for Senator
is a Democrat. It isn’t a dead cer
tain thing that even a solid Demo
jratic vote in the Georgia Legislature
rill elect a. Senator always.
The Governor’s letter is universally
regarded as at least a pertinent in
|uiry—a proper and timely one.
He asked exactly what the peop®
of Georgia wanted to know.
It does seem to me that
has come when people are no
“ Democrats, of course,” at leaSS
in this one State of the South.’
They are beginning to demand a
reason for being Democrats—to think
of political parties as one would think
of rival grocers, and would prefer
the grocer that gave the best meas
ure at the most modrate price. It’s
a matter of business and common
sense, of individual opinion and per
sonal preference.
One Democrat, with good reasons
for being a Democrat, is worth a
dozen “ Democrats, of course.” The
point I make is that the Northern
wing of the party, if they expect the
South to continue Democratic, must
furnish good reasons why the South
should be Democratic—good, busi
ness-like, common sense reasons.
The name—the mere name—has
lost its charm and its power with
some persons.
It was the countersign once at the
outgates of white supremacy and
honest State government. The war
is over; the lines of battle are gone,
and the regiments disbanded; the
breastworks are plowed under and
are white with cotton—white su
premacy and honest government are
matters of course.
Who says countersign now ?
The Democratic party must live,
but it must live and will live for rea
sons good and sufficient.
THEY WORRIED MR. KYLE.
Mnrrry and Boutelle Asked the Missis
sippian Embarrassing Questions.
Washington Post.
Mr. Kyle, of Mississippi, who de
fended the election system of his
State against the attack upon it by
the minority of the Elections Com
mittee, in the course of the Tucker
bill debate yesterday became very
much rattled, as the baseball cranks
say. Representative George Wash
ington Murray, the colored Republi
can of South Carolina, aided and
abetted by Mr. Boutelle, was the
cause of Mr. Kyle’s discomfiture.
Questions were asked the member
from Mississippi which he did not
see hie way clear to answer consis
tently, a state of affairs which the
Republicans and the galleries soon
detected, demonstrating their amuse
ment by applause and loud laughter.
Mr. Kyle finally declined to make
any attempts at reply, resuming the
thread of his speech as soon as his
opponents would permit.
Mr. North way, of Ohio, who is a
new member from the Nineteenth
district, made a good impression in
his first speech. He supported the
constitutionality of the laws, accused
the Democratic party of inconsisten
cy, analyzing its dissensions on the
silver question, and closed with a
peroration which won for him much
applause.
Mr. Kyle, who followed him, orti
icised the minority report from the
Committee on Election of President
and Vice President, and he denounc-1
ed the statement made in that report
that Mississippi had the most perfect
ly operating system for fraud yet de
vised in the South. Incidentally he
criticised the systems of those States
from which the minority members of
the committee came.
Mr. Murry interrupted Mr. Kyle
in the course of his argument with
the question as to whether in a gov
ernment like ours suffrage should be
one of manhood, inasmuch as that
suffrage was the only defense of the
poor man.
Mr. Kyle was about to pass the
question oyer, when Mr. Boutelle in
his vigorous manner called for an
answer.
Mr. Kyle (not exactly understand
ing the question and believing that
Mr. BopteHe did not either) asked
the gentleman from Maine to repeat
it, remarking that another Daniel
had come to judgment.
Mr. Boutelle declined to do so,
saying that it was a question pro
pounded by the gentleman from
South Carolina. At his request Mr.
Murray repeated the query. In reply
Mr. Kyle said that suffrage was
whatever the State made it.
“That not answer it,” ex
claimed Mr. Boutelle. “No Daniel
ever came to judgment in that way.
We will have to rename you if you
cannot answer it better than that.”
“I will answer any queston that
the gentleman from Maine wishes to
ask,” replied Mr. Kyle, “ but Ido
not yield now. I think you had
better take your seat.”
“It is better for you, I think,”
was Mr. Boutelle’s retort.
“ I think it is better for you, too,”
was Mr. Kyle’s rejoinder.
“ I did not understand the answer
to my question,” interjected Mr.
Murray, rising again.
Mr. Kyle replied that (not com
prehending exactly what the ques
tion meant) he would answer “no.”
He said that he was in accord with
the constitution of Mississippi, to
which he had taken his oath.
Mr. Boutelle What about the
oath you took to the United States?”
[Laughter].
Mr. Kyle The same way.
[Laughter.] ,
Mr. Powers,,/Republicanf of CalV
fornia, sarcastically denominated the
election laws as a “ frightful spectre,”
and then went into a dissertation
upon the rights of settlers on South
ern Pacific Railroad lands
Hale's Weekly, a strong Demo
cratic newspaper, says :
“The people were told last year to
vote the Democratic ticket and the
men who represented Democracy,
from the President down, if they
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DemocrMW principles, and they will
never follow knowingly men who
advocate a single gold standard and
other un-Democratic measures to
which Cleveland & Co. seem wed
ded.”
TWO MORE OFFICES GONE.
Watkinsville, Ga., October 4.
There was an election here today for
the purpose of filling the vacancies
caused by the deaths of both treas
urer and coroner.
George E. Griffith, Populist, was
the only candidate for treasurer, the
Democrats not running a candidate.
Samuel Fielding, J. S. Graves,
Democrats, and J. P. Elder, Popu
list, are in the race for coroner. J.
P. Elder will, in all probability, be
elected. The Drmocrats are mani
festing no interest whatever. No
fight is being made on either side
and the vote is light.
Griffith is elected to succeed the
Democratic ’ treasurer who was
elected last January. It will be re
membered that in the State election
last fall this (Oconee) county went
for the People’s party candidate by
nine majority. However, the tide
turned shortly after at the general
enthusiasm over the result of the
national election, and when the Janu
ary elections came on the Democrats
found themselves entrenched again
and in better spirits than they had
been for years.
But matters in Washington and
the general dissatisfaction at the ad
ministration’s financial policy have
apparently knocked things into a
cocked hat once more.
STOLE $10,000; PAID BACK $20,000
A CONSCIENCE-STRICKEN DEFRAUDER
MAKES RESTITUTION TO THE GOV
ERNMENT.
Secretary Carlisle yesterday re
ceived two letters, each postmarked
New York city, September 20, ad
dressed in the same hand-writing.
One envelope contained eight SIOO
bills, about which was placed some
white paper; and the other contained
seven SIOO bills wrapped in a letter.
This letter, written on a page of
foolscap paper without a signature,
says:
“This money is the balance of
$20,000 which I have refunded to the
Government in the last thirty years.
During the war I defrauded the Gov
ernment of SIO,OOO, and now I have
returned double the amount. Dur
ing Mr. Wanamaker’s being in office
I sent him money twice-once, $2,500;
but have never heard whether it
went into the proper hands or not. I
can assure you that this refunding
has cost me more then pen can tell,
and I pity the thief, because I have
experienced wlrat he/nust feel, either
here or hereafter. Would to God
that He would now pardon my sin
and let me go free. Don’t you think
double refunding sufficient ?”
United States Treasurer Morgan
received a letter from the same per
son. It reads:
“This money belongs to the Gov
ernment. It is part of $2,500 sent
this day. I have notified Secretary
Carlisle of sending it to you. Part
was sent to Secretary Carlisle, part
to the Assistant Treasurer at New
York, and part to you.”
Treasurer Morgan received six
SIOO bills with this letter.
CLEVELAND MAKES THEM SICK
ATLANTA HERALD AS GOOD AS SAYS THAT
B. M. BLACKBURN WAS “TREATED
WORSE THAN A NIGGER.''
Mr. Blackburn was a Cleveland
champion at a time when others who
have obtained office were flirting with
the “ western man,” and as a Cleve
land presidential elector did earnest
work in the campaign. Mr. Cleve
land knows him intimately but for
reasons yet to come out Mr. Black
burn has been side tracked.
It does seem that a Democratic
president who appointed a negro
like Charles H. J. Taylor to a $5,000
place as Minister to Bolivia, a white
man’s country, could find a better
place for a Georgia elector than a
yellow fever station in Cuba or a
home among the blacks in the West
Indies at half Taylor’s salary.
Editor Murphy, writing to his pa
per, the Augusta Evening Herald,
says: . ,
“Speaking of Mr. Cleveland’s let
ter to our Governor reminds me of
the general interest in Washington
in Governor Northen’s letter to the
President.
“That letter, it will be remem
bered, was not given out for publica
tion, though the national executive’s
reply to it was.
“It goes without saying that the
document written by Mr. Northen,
purporting, as it did, it is supposed,
to give the real situation in Georgia,
politically, would create a sensation
if it appeared in print.
“There was, too, in Washington
inuch speculation as to what effect
the publication of the letter from
Mr. Cleveland would have on the lat
ter’s candidacy for the United States
Senate’- There was a great deal of
talk on this line.
“Ther e ma . v 3 demand on Gov
ernor Northen, before a United
States Sefl ator to succeed Mr. Col-
the letter
he
THE FEYER AT BRUNSWICK
THE CITY IS DESTITUTE AND MUST
BE HELPED.
Pestilence Sinks Its Yellow Fingers
Deeper in Her Throat Eeach Day.
The Picture Is Heartrending.
Brunswick, Ga., Oct. 10.—Bruns
wick is in dire need.
Five thousand human beings are
hemmed in there by a shot-gun
quarrantine.
They are on the verge of starva
tion. Unless replenished, their sup
plies will be exhausted on Sunday.
Then they will slowly starve. Geor
gia has not realized how desperate
is the situation of the unhappy peo
ple. When the first appeal came
the State responded generously and
then forgot.
Succor must be sent speedily.
Every village and town should give
something. The greatest need is
provisions.
With the commissary destitute,
women and children crying for
bread, the incidents of the last few
days in Brunswick appalled the
stoutest hearts.
Around the commissary the poor
people gathered, their empty baskets
hanging lightly on their arms, while
their eyes in mute agony viewed the
commissary’s empty shelves.
Would help never coms?
Have the people heard our cries
for support ?
Were the people, penned in for
the sake of the outside world, to die
like dogs in the gutter ? their bones
devoid of flesh from hunger, literally
rotting in their wasting bodies?
Was there not a God above to
awaken the world to our wants ?
Surely he had not forgotten us.
These were the thoughts that
haunted all that witnessed the scene.
At last it seemed that hope would be
exhausted.
For three days’ rations one could
only get one-fourth pound of bacon,
one quart of flour and three quarts
of meal, for the rapidly decreasing
supplies would not warrant wider
distribution.
Distress on every side was appar
ent in its worst form and when the
last vestige of remaining hope was
aapidly passing away the message of
the Consfiitztion and the World
came, inspiring every man, woman
and child.
Saved! Saved! was the thought
and faster and faster, as if on the
wings of the wind, the news was
carried. Help was in sight.
The ConstiiMtimi’s appeals would
not be in vain and tonight the bless
ings of a stricken multitude are given
out to those who help us in our dir
est hour of
Mr. Cleveland has written a letter
to Governor Northen that knocks the
last prop from under those who have
been claiming that he would be in
favor of coining silver after the re
peal of the Sherman law. He stops
all controversy as to what he would
do, by saying that he is opposed to
any silver coinage except such as
comes on the basis of international
agreement only. Mr. Cleveland de
clares himself to be just what the
Times-Recorder for eighteen months
has claimed that he was—a gold-bug
of the straightest sect. Should the
Sherman law be repealed, and a sil
ver bill of any kind, at any tratio,
passed by Congress and sent to him,
he would veto it, for he says: “I
am opposed to the free and unlimited
coinage of silver by this country
alone and independently,” which
clearly means that only by the con
sent of England and other European
countries will the President permit
the Democratic platform to be car
ried out.—Mmericiw Times-Recorder.
reform in the olden time, how
THE LAND QUESTION AND THE MONEY
QUESTION SWAYED THE DESTINIES OF
ROME. C2ESAR AND THE GRACCHI AS
REFORMERS. THEIR GREAT WORK AND
WHAT IT COST THEM. IF YOU WOULD
UNDERSTAND THESE MATTERS, BUY A
COPY OF
SKETCHES FROM ROMAN HISTORY.
BY THOS. E. WATSON.
Illustrated by splendid engraving
of the author. Price, 25 cents. Per
dozen, $2.00.
Os Senator Gordon’s letter to Mr
Trammell, the Madisonian says:
“In this letter Senator Gordon
states that he was in favor of uncon
ditional repeal before he left Geor
gia, and so expressed himself on
divers occasions. At least he says
he told Trammell that, though we do
not remember of having heard that
such was his position until he an
nounced himself in the Senate a few
weeks ago.
“We do not think that Senator
Gordon’s explanation will be in order
at the next election. He is a brave
man in many ways, but, like certain
other great men, he has made a ter
rible blunder on the money question,
and should be held accountable for
it. His constituents are not gold
bugs, and they have not been repre
sented as they are in the speech of
Senator Gordon.
“The speech has been made of
record, and no amount of soft soap
can heal the breach. What is spoke
is spoke; we would it were wor
thier.”
I : • if he did wish to do it,
d He ? ”
tin- wouldn’t be
' .wars old. would it ?”
’ I '"' father was kind of floored,
in and carried the youngster off to bed
“He wdtiffl not want toTan that, . , , ■ ’ , •
m , son „ ’ and made him say his prayers.
iTdodgSertyTco.
Wish to call the attention of all those who buy
Dry Goods
TO A FACT WORTH MONEY.
They have the LARGEST and
I TEST 1 assorted.stock of all classes
of Dry G oods
IN THE SOUTH.
They never allow anybody to sell Goods
Cheaper than they do.
THEY OWN TO-DAY THE LARGEST STOCK OF
Dress Coods &, Cloaks
EYER BROUGHT TO ATLANTA.
When yon go shopping be sure to see their Stock before
you buy.
46, 48 and $0 Whitehall street, Atlanta, Georgia.
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For Low Prices Honest Goods and square Dealing.
BROWN & FRANKLIN Co.
Have in their new two-story brick Store at
TENNILLE, GEORGIA.,
THE BEST LINE OF
DRY COODS,
SHOES & CLOTHINC
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FOR THE COMING YEAR WE RESFECTUULLY SOT.TOira.
THE PATRONAGE OF FARMERS EITHER FOR CASH OR ON
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WE PAY THE HIGHEST PRICES FOR COTTON AND COTTON
SEED, AND KEEP PLENTY OF UNCLE SAM’S MONEY AL
WAYS ON HAND TO PAY FOR IT.
Best brands of Fertilizers sold in season.
Our terms are easy and we can save you money on any
thing we sell.
WE ESPECIALLY SEEK THE .TRADE OF THE FARMERS
AND CATER TO THEIR WISHES.
BROWN FRANKLINOO,
Tennille, Georgia.
_ ___2j ESSE THOMPSON
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