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Work of the Week in House
and Senate.
THE SENATE TACKLES PROHIBITION.
Turner Substitute for Bash Bill Defeated
aud Da'er Revived—Child Labor Bill
Killed—Other Measures of
General I ate rest.
Executive Appointments.
Governor Atkinson has appointed
. Spencer R Atkinson as Railroad Com
ending Oct. 15, 1903; James
Brown as Libra-ian ending Sep, 25.
and tendered Judge Samps Bar
of Coweta county, the associate su
preme judgeship to be vacated by Judge
Atainson. These and the nominations
below w“re confirmed by the S-na’e:
W J. Pearsall, Solicitor county court
Colquitt county; A M Deal, solicitor
Bulloek county court; F. F. Julian
so'icitor c.ty c urt Gwinnett county;
J W. Harris, judge city court Bartow
county; W. E S eed, judge Taylor
county court. G- F Johnson, so ieitor
Jasper county court: E J. Wynn, solic
itor city court of Columbus; R. W. Rob
erts, judze Baldwin county couit; J.
A. Wilkes, judge Colquitt county court;
W A. Wray, judge Liberty county
court; E K Overstreet, judge Screven
county court; S. W. Sturgis, solicitor
Pierce county court Hon. Warner
Hill will probably be appointed to fill
the Coweta judgeship.
The Blalock Report.
The Blalock Committee’s report has
been read. The committee found the
offices of the Secretary of State and
Attorney General in good shape It
could not report on the State Treasur
' er’* of no provision for
an expert to examine the books. Build
ing and Loan Associations are report
ed as not making annual returns ac
cording to law. The shortage of 84 000
to SO 000 for fees collected by the late
Treasures Hon. Robt. U Hardeman
from Bui’ding and Loan Associations
under the act of 1890 and not turned in
by him into the treasury was noted
and the legislature recommended to
take steos to protect the state; a
change in assessment of advalorim and
J sp c al taxes is advised. Returns show
that from 1891 to 1896 taxable values
have decreased $51.000 000; discrepan
cies were noted in the returns to illus
trate the evils of the present system.
Bank returns show discrepency of ST -
000 000; committee recommends a board
of tax a se«sors in each county as such
a plan would reduce the rate at least
66 2 3 per cent Reports that when the
Comptroller General’s attention was
called to the failure of presidents of
banks, railroads, etc , ’n paying the
special tax of $lO imposed upon them,
that officer sent out a cireular letter
" kna'upwards ot $s we was brought'.hid
the office, committed 1 recommenced
Comptroller General be required to
audit all accounts before presentation
to the G wernor.
The Agricultural Department.
Regard'rg the office of Commissioner
of Agriculture, committee reported
findmg deplo-able a sence of any sys
tern of bo< k-keeping by which it could
obtain satisfactory information as to
workings of that office No reco’d*
found of tags for fertilizers sold 1890 91
and to date; state now pays 40 cents
per thousand for tags whereas it paid
$i 25 b-fore the investigation; oil in
spectors’ salaries now $125 per month,
recommended be cut to 866 D’screp
ancies were found in some inspectors’
accounts. Recommended that this
office be filled by the government. In
reference to guano, recommended 3
grades, high, standard and low, high
being 14 per cent at d over of plant
food, standard 12 per cent and low 10
percent, salary of Chemist be cut to
$2,400 and his assistants increased to
$1,300
The Geological D« partivent.
Board meetings held irregularly, no
books kept showing receipts and dis
bursements and little fle d work done
in past ten months; appropriation for
1898 should be withdrawn; stem'gra
pher and secretary for board at 8100
per month considered useless and fa 1
ure of present management to pu-h the
work induces -ecommendation to abol
ish the office.
Other Officers.
The State School Commissioner’s
books were found all right and well
kept Os the school fund, SSO pe
month for stenographer was unauthor
w-~ized.
State Librarian’s books and library
in good condition.
Commissioner of Pensions compli
mented for accuracy of accounts also
action of that officer in paying S3O each
to all pensioners instead of 860 to a
limited number, the amount allowed
by law.
The salaries of Supreme Court Sten
ographer fromslsoo to s’2oo and Sher
iff from slslO to SI2OO be reouced; also
railroad and penitentiary commission
ers $2500 to 52000
State Institutions
State lunatic asylum visited; name
be changed to Georgia State Hospital;
management complimented. Blind
Academy and also school for the Deaf
well managed. Regarding G orgia
State Industrial College for n-groes,
that Chancellor Boggs be not paid the
ext-a salary as he is now of S6OO to
S9OO per year to look after it.
School of Technology complimented,
bo k keeping being complete ano
thorough; Georgia Normal and Indus
trial College accounts correct but re
commend that state treasurer recewe
all funds and pay out upon proper
vouchers all expenses A special ap
propriation of $6,000 was asked for
this school last year f rnew eouipment
and defeated and another effort will
be made this session for the appropria
tion- Commitlee calls attention th«t
the equipme- t has already been paid
for out of funds for the institution.
The Agricultural College.
State Normal School and University
of Georgia management commended.
state Agricultural College makes no
effort to teach mechanical arts, in ae
c rdance with land scrip law. Trus
tees and faculty take no interest in
agricultural branch, students have
avoided practical part of education
surroundings not congenial to young
men who want an education along
agricultural lines. President of college
stated not his intention to endow a
chair of pract’cal agriculture and the
school a mere pretense and not in com
pliance with the laws of congress.
Committee sees no hope of having such
a college. The “Model Farm” is a
sham; no diversified crops, no care dis
p'ayed and pronounced by all a failure;
not visited for years by trustees, sac
ulty nor students ; therefore the claims
in University cat ah gue are fictitious;
committee recommends college be es
tablished, separate from University to
comply with congressional laws to
maintain good fa th and located at or
near the present experiment station
aud in connection therewith; experi
ment station complimented. Commit
tee recommends a purchasing agent
be appointed for purchase of sup
nhes for departm-nts and also that all
officers be required to keep books
showing receipts and vouchers for ex
penses. Recommends all offi ers make
quarterly settlements with comptroller
genrral; minority member Mr. Little
made a report
To Regulate Messages.
McLarty of Douglas, introduced a
bill requiring telegraph and telephone
c mpanies to give al messages origi
nating with another or competing line
the same attention as its own.
Other Bills Offered.
A dispensary for Blakely: public
schools for Mcßae; repealing the act
making permanent the income of the
State university. This repeals the
funding act of the land scrip fund;
abolishing the state geological depart
ment; reducing the salaries of oil in
spectors in the department of agricul
ture; reducing the salaries of railroad
commissioners; reducing salaries of
supreme court stenographers; provid
ing for the uniform auditing of all
state accounts; selecting eleven men
one from each congressional district in
state, with authority to divorce the
agricultural college from the state
uniuersitv and establish it elsewhere,
if in their judgment that would be best
for all the interests involved; repeal
ing the law which permits Chancellor
Bos-gs, of the State university, to re
ceive 8900 for the Savannah colored
college; settling the alleged claim of
the state against Hardeman estate;
to give the state and defense an equal
number of challenges in murder trials;
amending the code so as to allow a
defendant in any indictable offense to
be sworn as any other witness; pro
viding penalty for tax defaulters; Es
tablishing a new citv court in Carroll;
creating a prison commission for Geor
gia ; appropriating $4 917 43 for the
expenses of the Sweat Reese investiga
tion to nxamino
ers’ places in higher tHudes; providing
for division of surplus wate- from mills
and factories ; to organize a new judi
cial circuit of the superior court of the
state to be composed < f the counties of
Carroll, Heard and Troup; to make
football and all similar games a misde
meanor in Georgia ; to prohibit and
punish any attempts to damage any
lend of buildings; making penal the
purchasing or dealing in contracts by
coun y school commissioners; allowing
farmers to mortgage their crops before
the same shall be planted; requ ring
the state memoral board to make an
investiga’ion and report on confeder
ate cemeteries; preventing the keeping
of bee s’ands within fifty feet of pubbe
roads; memorial from 2,600 DeKalb
citizen* asking that the court house at
Deca'ur be not removed; authori'ing
school commissioners to buy books ami
furnish to pupil* a' cost; making run
ning ex ursion trains on Sunday a
peal offens ; for a straight lease of
peni entiary convicts and election of
principa’ keeper by the people ; mak
ing misdemeanor to wear or disp ay
about »he person any badge or device
used as an insignia of membership by
any order or obtaining aid without the
authority of the order ; reqnir ng com
missin merchants to keep a register
showing from what transportation com
panies produce is received and to whom
s Id; exempting county school com
missioners from examination after
passing once.
Bill* Passed.
Allowing Hawkinsville to vote on
b nds for $40,000 to build waler work*
and electric lights ; allowing any rail
road with Jess than 3 mil-s of track in
this state to operate freight trains on
Sunday; forbidding under penalty,
shoo’ing at or maltreating any domes
tic fowl in sport or on wager; author
izing condemnation of property by
' parties erecting power plants to fur
nish elect ical po ver to railroads ana
1 other enterprises; a joint committee to
1 investigate what the State Normal
School has done with the $21,500 appro
■ priation ; prohibiting sale or making
of liquor in Harris county ; providing
> lunauy trials of criminals convicted of
• capital offenses by a court of equa
dignity with the convicting court:
doing away with trial by < rdinary and
s jury d r awn by sheriff ; requiring judg
; ments recorded in county where rea'
1 estate is situated before they become
f liens agvinst innocent third parties
1 makb g landlord’s liens superior to la
, borers liens.
Three Day* of Grace.
3 To abolish the 3 days of grace allow
ed on notes introduced last session
’ Meldrim of Effingham and Knowles ol
Fulton, supporting same. Killed bj
small vot >.
National Quarantine Law.
r Knowles of Fulton introduced a bil
declaring in favor ot a national quar
r antine law. Pending such a law bi
t congress all local and state author!
1 ties shall acc'-pt all certificates dub
signed by the marine hospital service
t New Court Circuit.
1 Moore and Cole ot Carroll introduce
a bill splitting he Coweta ci r cuit an<
making a new court circuit of Carroll
y j Troup and Heard. Bill will pas
L. | bringing new judges and solicitors.
Jeff Davis’ Birthday.
Jeffe'son Davis’ birthday was made
a legal holiday.
I Hogan* Sarcasm.
‘ By privileged resolutions various
parties have been admitted to the floor
' of the house. Hogan of Lincoln sar
' castically offered a resolution Friday
: allowing all citizens of the state now
i in Atlanta to be admitted without
> further special resolutions. This hit at
■ the popular and lax custom may be
. effective.
i Items of the Work.
• The house passed the anti-foot ball
• bill Monday by almost a unanimous
I vote.
Representative Felder of Fulton, in-
> trod need a bill making attempt at rape
I punishable with the death penalty.
Blalock’s bill to authorize the state
1 treasurer to borrow $400,000 to pay
1 school teachers salaries next year when
their quarterly salary became due was
passed. This allows the governor to
use the money from other funds.
Tuesday, Nov 16, is fixed for the de
bate on the convict question.
Meldrim of Chatham, in waging war
against the Savannah citizens club, has
had passed bills abolishing the fire,
water and police commissions and
board of tax assessors all being now
filled by members of that club. The
Liberal club ; s now in power and the
clash between the two factions result
ed in an appeal to the legislature
. Senator Geiger of the Senate will fight
: the bills in the Senate. If the bills
pass in the Senate, every office in Sa
i vannah will be cleared of its present
occupant.
The library bill providing for a com
mission of 5 who shall work to improve
the libraries of the state was killed.
Two bills passed interest lawyers.
They allow a man to appeal a case by
making an affidavit he cannot pay the
cost and by giving a bond separately
A bill making it criminal to race a
horse with others out its class was
killed,
A bill finding ministers or others who
fail to return marriage licenses was
passed.
Representative Swift's bill repealing
the funding act of the State University
was favorably reported.
Boifeuillet of Bibb, introduced bill
appropriating SIO,OOO for a textile de
partment in the Technological school.
This is to teach the construction use
and management of all machinery and
material used in cotton manufacturing
The Hall bill providing for the care
, and employment of state convicts was
defeated in the committee and the
joint committee’s report will be repor
ted favorably to the house. This
favors a new lease.
The school book commission has re
' ported ad’erselv on the plan of uni
form school books One of the com
missioners, J. C. Beauchamp, made a
minority report, showing the cost of
school books in Kansas and Georgia,
the cost in Kansas being in nearly
every instance only one half of the
t-i 1 tufaS -ux'..., xx x ,OVv CU,x- |
several million dollars would
be saved annually to parents by the
unif irm system. The msj irl’y report
, recommends that counties be allowed
to buy books and rent to the children
’ to cover first cost and ordinary wea r
j and tear and that such counties as wi*h
' to be allowed to adopt the free school
book system.
A bill has been introduced and favor
ably reported providing for a constitu
tional con ven’ion to be held the first
Wednesday in July, 1898 composed of
ten delegates from each congressional
1 district, who are to serve without pay
a id expenses
The vote of 98 against 39 killed the
' child labor bill, against which there
has b 'en cons’derable lobbying. The
bill proposed to prohibit employing
of children under 13 years. Various
amendments were offered one of which
excepted cotton factories This was
j adopted and later the bill vas defeated
( The etate geologist’s department will
be reorganized and put under the con
troi of a biard if the Little bill passe.
’ the house. The B aloek report recom
mends abolishing ’he office.
The joint resolution which has passed
the house recommending that the peo
pie e eet the U. S. Senators is now in
[• r
the senate.
’ M Far! and has introduced in the
senate a bill forbidding the sale of
r cigarettes or cigarette paper in the
state.
Drs. Candler and Nunnally addressed
the legislature Tuesday favoring the
i repeal of the appropriation for the
• University and advocating common
schools.
Bil s introduced to allow confederate
J veterans to conduct any business ex
, cept selling whisky without license; to
pay ail school commissioners a per
centum on sums paid out; authorizing
p L tgrange to build water works; raising
- pay of justice court jurors to 82 50 per
1 verdict instead of $1 25; prescribing
o penalty for sehool commissioners fail
■l ing to pay out school funds to the
’ several sub school populations accord
g ing to the last school census.
g The Gray bill is in special order Tues
'f d ay.
k’ Bills introduced in the senate, regu
; lating inheritances, publication of ver
d diets of juries; a new system for regn
’- lation of v iters; providing for return
i* for taxation of life insurance policies.
e
A Law Maker.
j. Y. F, Bagby has been justice of the
peace of Wild Cat District, Forsyth
c >unty. for 52 years, and in that time
has failed to hold court first Saturday
in each month, but one time Squire
’• Bagby cannot read or write, but what
ever he says is law and goes as law.
’- y Where he doesn’t know law to fit a
particular case he makes it.
H Populist Meeting Meeting Postponed.
r Owing to the busy crop gathering
)V season in this section it was decided
by a number of active Populists
l y assembled at the court house on
October 23d, to postpone our county
mass-meeting to the fourth Saturday,
27th day of November, 1897; when
‘d every genuine reformer is expected to
’d be on hau a at the court house at 11
o’clock, a. m., sharp.
BS P. H. Larky.
Sect’y Ex. Com., Bartow Co.
“EQUAL RIGHTS TO ALL; SPECIAL PRIVILEGES TO NONE”
ATLANTA, GEORGIA: FRIDAY NOVEMBER 12, 1897.
HERE IN OLD GEORGIA.
Doingsofa Week Gathered in
Brief Paragraphs.
SOLID NEWS FOR A SOLID PEOPLE.
Happening* of General Interest From
Many Countie*—Crimes and Crimi
nals—What the Other Fellow
Saw Aud Tells You About.
E. S. Lowndes, a colored attorney,
has opened a law office in Macon.
James Johnson, a farmer living near
Cecil, has patented an improved car
coupler.
Dr. Ed. Overstreet, of Bvxley, while
intoxicated last week, killed a negro
preacher by the name of McCabe.
More than 250 dairymen from all sec
tions of the state will be in Macon on
17th inst., in attendance upon the
fourth annual convention of the Geor
gia Dairymen's Association.
A negro by the name of Lord Duke
was found dead in a field near Sand
Hill, in Carroll county, Sundev, with
two loads of shot in him. The coro
ner’s inquest found that he came to his
death at the hands of unknown par
ties
Hollywood cemetery at Atlanta wa«
sold for the second time bv Receiver C.
M. Curran Tuesday It wus knocked
down to J. W. Smith of Gainesville,
and J. B Redwine of Atlanta for $5,-
300. This was only about half of the
price realized at the former sale, which
was $10,200.
There will be no more foot ball at
the university at Athens. Action has
been taken by the students and they
have declared that they will give up
the game. This action of the students
will be final. The facu’ty, which h»d
the question under consideration, will
not be forced to act.
Mrs. Ma-y I. Carlisle, the mother of
Will H. Carlisle, who received injuries
which caused his death in the collision
on the Atlanta railway last week ha
brought suit against the company for
S2O 000. Mr Carlisle was 23 years old
and was an expert stenographer and
boik keeper.
The farmers of Butts county have
been preparing to organize a union, or
alliance, for the purpose of reducing
the acreage of cotton. It ia more ag
gressive than the Cotton Planters’
Protective Association, and has some
strong and binding provisions in it.
Each member of the alliance must
agree to not plant more than one ace
in cotton to every three in cultivation.
A row occurred at a negro meet ng
several night* since at New Salem, in
Banks county. Three bullets were
fired into the body of George Sanders,
one tubing effect in the leg and two in
the breast. Tne negro was thought to
(i- —fr-: — 1 p bo
was still alive. Joan Prickett, ane
g'o, who did the shooting, is under ar
rest.
Saturday night, on I. J Slaughter’s
place, near Starke, in Butts eounty,
there was a negro frolic and the merry
makers all got drunk. A general riot
occurred and several pistol shots were
fired. When the smoke of battle
cleared away it was found that Elijah
Wimbish, a notorious negro, who was
foremost in the disturbance, had been
killed. No one seems to know who
fired the fatal shot.
National New*.
Montana had an earthquake shock of
seven seconds duration last week
Mtny people were shaken out of bed,
chimneys fell and plate glass was bro
ken.
Capt. W H. Briggs of Emporia, Va.,
a promi' ent citizen and late deputy
collector, committed suicide by shoot
ing himself Thursday. He placed a
gun to his right temple and used a
walking cane to pull the trigger.
A New York woman is suing a rail
road company for 816 000 damages for
spoiling her temper. She alleges th a’
before she fell from the company’s car
she was genial and pleasant, whereas
she is now ill natured and cross.
Col, John S, Ford, known through
out Texas as Colonel “Rip” Ford, the
Indian fighter, has died at his home
after a week’s illnesp. Colonel Ford
was stricken with paralysis on Oct 1,
since which time he gradually sank
The deceased wa* 82 years of age and a
native of South Carolina, from which
state he emigrated to Texas in 1836.
The 1776 stone house at Tappan ha°
been blown down bv the wind. This
is the house where Major John Andree
was imprisoned and from which he
was taken to his executi n on Oct. 2
1780. It was owned by Dr. Stephens
of Tap pan, and has been visited by
people from all over the world.
A Mysterious Murder.
Officer J. M. Ponder, of the Atlanta
police force, discovering the door of L.
■ Steinau’s wholesale whiskey house
• open < n Monday evening entered the
. place. He was fi-ed upon and ki led.
[ The police arrested Steinau. the pro
, pri tor, Simon, his brother-in-law who
operates a saloon next d >or and
O'Qainn, the bar tender in Simon’s
>. place, also Jul e Wylie, whois interested
i in business with Steinau. Three negro
j employees in the bar were arrested
r Steinau’s keys were found close by the
s safe, which had been opened Only
- Steinau, O’Quinn and Simon knew the
. combination. Steinau had failed a few
1 dais previously and charges of fraud
were on file agamst him.
A Valuable Trademark.
j In another column will be found the
s advertisement of Studebaker Bros.,
j Mfg Co,, of South Bend, Ind. The
y name “Studebaker” will be found on
the best class of Wagons in any county
a in the South and West.
0 A long record of high grade hones!
1 work has mads the name the most val
uable of all wagon factories in th<
world. Try a “Studebaker” and yot
>. will be pleased.
KILLING THE BUSH BILL.
The Georgia Senate Complete* Its Work
on this Line.
Senator Turner in the Georgia Senate
last week offered a substitute bill for
the Bush bill. One section prohibited
the-making or sale of intoxicating liq
uors in the state for any purpose.
The substitute was voted on twice,
the bill by title was passed and on
vote on first section was defeated. This
insures the defeat of the Boynton dis
pensary and other anti-barroom *meas
ures.
The vote stood as follows : Ayes 18—
Democrats, Atkinson, Brinson, Everett,
Flewellen, Gray, Kilpatrick, McFar
land, Starr, Stewart, T. D ; Thompson,
Turner, Walker, J. Y. Whitcher, Woot
en and Culver. Populists, Brook,
Flvnt and Kemp.
Nays, 23—Democrats, Battle, Blalock,
Comas, Cook, Dunwoody, Golightly,
Ham, Hopkins, Hudson, Mann, Red
wine. Sheffield, Shropshire. Stevens,
Stewart, Westmoreland, Wilcox. Van
Buren and Walker. Populists, Carter.
Go’din, Strother. Republican APen.
The opponents of the Bush bill unit
ed in getting th’s measure before the
senate and voted for it on the passage
of the title defeat 1 ng it on the vote on
the second section.
another temperance bill.
The Gray bill preventing the sale
of liquor in less quantities than a half
pint and prohibiting the drinking of
it on the premises where sold, was
brought up following the defeat of the
Turner‘substitute. On a vote the bill
was defeated by 23 to 18, Senators
Geiger and Castleberry being absent.
Upon the vote being announced Sen.
Gray intrcduced another bill providing
liquors shall not be sold in less than
one pint quantities and in original
sealed packages, not to interfere with
present local option laws no.w in force
and abolishing drinking saloons.
In the Senate, Monday, Senator
Turner secured a reconsideration of
the vote on the prohibitory amendment
to the Bush bill and wi’hdrew it. The
vote stood ayes 14, Brinson, Brook.
Culver, Everett, Flewellen, Hop
kins, McFarland, Starr, Stewart,
J. D., St-other, T rner, Westmore
land, Mit hell and Wooten. Nays, 12
Battle, Blalock, Carter, Comos, Dun
woody, Goldin, Golightly, Ham, Mann,
Redwine, Sheffield. Stewart. J. A.
WANTS A BIGGER ARMY.
Gen. Mile* Recommend* One Soldier to
Every 2,000 Population.
Major-General Miles in his report to
the Secretary of War, says that the
army, although inadequate in point of
numbers, was never in a higher sta’.e
of efficiency.
He recommends the establishment of
at least three military posts in Alaska
to support the civil authorities in the
of trouble with the Indians and
to afil generally in maintaining law
■ - ' .*■ ■’ ?
Resirring to the fact that approxi
mate y i 26 iOO 000 has been appropri
ated fsr coast defenses, G»n. Miles says
that this is nearly one-third of what is
required to put the country in a safe
condition.
Among the fortification appropria
’ions recommended are: Portland, Me.,
•1,173 0 0; Boston Harbor, $1 347 000;
Narragansett Bay $833,000; defenses
of Long Island Sound, $1,070,000; east
ern entranee New York, $489,000;
southern entrance New York, $1,419,
000; approaches to Philadelphia, $441 •
000; approaches to Baltimore, $499,000;
aiPproaches to Washington, $604 000;
Francisco, $1,336 000; Columbia
Ri’er, $605,000; Puget Sound, $1,140,
000; Lake Champlain, $46,000
Gen Miles urges s»ro gly an increase
of at least two regiments of artillery.
He says that by Die 31, a number of
positions will be armed in part or fully
with modern apollances and that no
troops to occupy them will be available.
. There are twenty-five of these positions
named, among them Great Gull Island
and Plum Island, eastern entrance
Long Island Sound, N. Y.
The necessity is also urged of adding
five infantry regiments to the army. It
is recommended that Congress fix a
standard of strength on a basis of total
popu'ation. This, Gen. Miles thinks,
should be a maximum of one enlisted
‘ man to every 1,000 population and the
’ minimum one soldier to every 2,000
I population.
To Populists in Populist Counties.
An experienced newspaper man been
t running Populist papers ever since the
19th of Aug. ’92—desires to locate a pa
per in a county where he can do the
‘ official printing. Will either take
1 charge of a paper already established,
5 or move his outfit there. Is an attor
’ ney-at-law also. Can give best refer
ences. Write and state facts. Box 43,
3 Thomaston, Ga
r ■
There are only three clashes of men
who are opposed to Populism: The
Money lords or Plutocrats, the party
slaves who admit that the People’s
v Pirty is right but who are too coward-
• ly to comi out and join us, and the
s party pvrrots who can only repeat
3 what the bosses place upon their
• tongues. Do you belong to either of
- these classes? —Advance Guard.
3 "
j Populist Ma** Meeting.
There will be a Popu’ist mass-meet
j ing held at the Court House. Carters
-0 ville, Ga., on November 27, 1897, at 11
o’clock, a. m., sharp. Immediately
e after transaction, of business the meet
v ing and public will be addressed on the
e issues of the dav by General Wi liam
v Phillips of Marietta, Ga , Hon John I.
[j Fallwood Polk Ci., Ga., and other
able and eminent speakers.
The public are cordially invited to
attend.
By order of Executive Committee,
e P. H L.aki;y, Sec.
’ Call for Haborsbam Populists,
e
The Populists of Habersham county
a'e requested to meet at the court
y house in C’arkesville, Ga., on the 16’h
of Ni v 1897, a 1 12 o’clock, to reorgan
it ize and ti ansact other important busi
i ness.
We cordially invite all who are dis
-10 satisfied with the present state of po
u litical affairs to attend.
J. J, Kimsey, Chm.
SAFE IN OLD MEXICO.
<
Mrs. Reed Writes Entertaining- .
ly of that Country.
THE PEOPLE FEAR THE LAW.
Diaz’ Master Stroke With Rural Police '
and What it Has Done for That
Country—Attempted Assassi
nation and its Result.
Since coming to M exieo ten months
ago, we have been in receipt of numer- :
ous letters from friends and strangers
making inquiries as to the safety of i
life and property in this, and other
mining and agricultural regions, of
Mexico.
Here in the mountains of Guerrero, i
which are sufficiently remote from, and i
inaccessible to, the Metropolis to war- ;
rant apnrehensions as to the security
of foreigners among a race of half-civ ,
ilized Indians, we unhesitatingly sav i
we feel quite as secure in both person
and property as when we were living
in a sober little town in Wiregrass
Georgia.
Who shall say we are not safer, even,
when it is considered that we enjoy :
immunity from the danger o* railroad
travel, are quite out of the reach of •
doctors or a drug store, are visited by ,
neither cvclones nor earthquakes and
have nothing to disturb an ideally
healthy existence save the disorder and
distress columns of our home newspa
pers.
We are not in. love with onr neigh
bor, the Pinto, but we certainly are
not in the least afraid of him. In the
first place, he is only too glad to get
the fifty cents a day we pay for his
indifferent services, to say nothing of
the remunerative market our camp and
mine affords for his beans, potatoes,
cheeses, chickens, etc.; and in the sec
ond place he has had some experience 1
with his master. Porfirio Diaz, and
knows that a theft or an assault would
make him a prisoner, quickly, surely,
and with small hope of soon regaining
his freed >m.
The ordinary Mexican does not mind
being mean, but he loves his liberty
above all things.
The Laws in Mexico appear to the :
visual organs of her present inhabi- 1
tants in capital letters, for they are as
unyielding as those of the Medes and
Persians
One shudders to think what Diaz 1
must have done in the early years of
his presidency, while he was re-making
his turbulent and lawless country, to
have thus succeeded, within less than
twe ty years, in imbuing all classes,
even to the remotest fastnesses, with
such a wholesome fear of, and respect
for, the laws.
' Diaz' first master stroke in this line,
was the organ’zatiin of “The Rurales,”
wiping out asJLdid in a tISY vg3«Llh£,
C UitgaiiuS biitfcu uiauw vrSVBI
through Mexico something mure than
dangerous.
This ru-al police force, twelve regi- 1
ments strong, is said to be the best
mounted and most . ffifient body of ir
regular troops in the world, and thev
are justly the pVide of Mexico. They
look picturesq le, imposing menacing,
each man like a brave Indian warrior
in his yellow leather uniform aud like
a Spanish grandee on his maznificient
ly caparisoned horse. The officers are
chiefly wealthy planters, while among
the intrepid privates are many of the
old banditti to whom Diaz made the
remarkable proposi'ion to become
either law enforcers or to be shot as
law-breakers.
As in any large city, the metropolis
of Mexico offers opp irtunities for the
perpetration of crime, and here where
the thief, the swindler, the g*mb er
and the midnight assassin ply their
trades, it behoovescitizensand visitors
to exercise prudence.
The police are ceaselessly vigilant,
and strange ordinances, that apparent
ly invade the cherished domain of per
sonal liberty, hang over the heads of
her citizens. Fires in that city of
stone are rare, but if even the lamp
explodes or a flue bums out so that
flames are seen by the watchful polic *,
very inmate of the building finds
himself under arrest pending an in
vestigation. The n'ght, policemen are
1 requirt dto try every window and door
of the ground floors on th- ir beat to
discover if any careless householder
has left his bouse insecurely fastened,
and a friend of ours with a broken
lock on his window shutter was made
, to appear at the offending aperture
. three times in one night by three dif
ferent watchmen, and was officially
notified in the morning to have the
lock repaired. After all it gives an
American a co nf irtable feeling of
security in the darkness of a strange
city to know that there are friendly, if
prying, eyes that never sleep.
’ A policeman on whose beat an of
' sense is committe 1 goes ignominiously
3 to jail for lack of vigilance, Su that it
’ is often the watchful eyes of the
“official de policia” and not the thief
1 who pounces on the careless wearer of
diamond shirt studs in dangerous local
s ities, and the stern mandate is to con
ceal such a bait sot thievery or accom
pany the officer to police headquar
ters to sign an exoneration of the
police should he lose his valuables,
[ Under the gentle flap of the Ameri
z can eag ewe have of course the privi
lege of imperiling our property and
even our lives, at wilt
i Justice is a goddess whom we Anglo
. saxons reverence above all people's,
r and in the fear of injustice to eve-' the
lowest criminal, our courts proerasti
o nate. The precious scales of justice
are in danger of getti'g rusiy while
the judges ponder and the lawyers
talk, the people who suffer from Un
law's delay grow impatient and lynch
law becomes a feature of the most ad
vanced nation of our day 1 In Mex co
h are practical laws sharply enforced, a
i- large police force under military dis
i‘ cipline and a standing army of fifty
thousand well trained soldiers, an ’ the
’■ result is less crime o the population
>' than in our more civilized country —
and no lynchings.
This statement calls for a word on
the mcuh written-about assault on
President Diaz last month, and the two
quickly resulting tragedies. The blow
the president of Mexico received from
ths lunatic and unarmed Arroyo, natu
rally created dismay and indignation
throughout the republic, for the maker
of modern Mexico is loved and admired
by his friends and valued even by his
one-time opponents. Mistaking the
excitement of the people over the in
dignity offered the head of the nation
for a desire to see the insult wiped out
in blood, the young Chief of Police,
Velasquez, ambitious to win favor with
the government, ordered the assassi
nation of his helpless prisoner. It
makes one pity the really great man of
Mexico that he should be made to
suffer the shame of an homage so re
volting and insulting, but it gives us
renewed faith in the man and the na
tion that they should both have so in
stantly and effectively repudiated the
crime and brought the perpetrators of
it to justice.
And so with the suicide of Velasquey
ei'Hs the first case of »o called lynching
of modern times in the land of the
Aztecs.
What Mex’eo will b"Cime when this
master mind that directs and this iron
hand that controls, is gone, no one can
prognosticate, but while Diaz lives he
is Mexico’ and Mexico is the most rig
idly and successfully governed nation
that ever masqueraded under the name
of a republic.
Emma L. Reed.
Hon. T. N. Pool.
A paper read by Mr. N. C. Edwards
and published by request of the Ep
worth League before whom it was
read, as will be seen by the resolutions
published herewith :
Whereas, The Epworth League has
heard with pleasure the paper on the
life of Hon. T. N. Pool, written by Mr.
N. C. Edwards at the request of the
League.
Therefore be it resolved, That we
ask the Warrenton Clipper to publish
’he same, as we think it will be of
worth to the reading public.
Memorial Services Before the Kpworth
L-at"*, Warrenton M E Church,
Oct. 22, 1897 By N. C. Edwards.
Hon Tillman N. Pool, the subject of
this sketch, was born Aug. 18, 1821.
He j >ined the Methodist church nearly
57 years ago. Early in his life he was
deprived of all edu 'ational advantages
Few men who never went to school a
dav and were born and reared in pov
erty have ever made such an impres
sion upon the people of bis own and
adjoi ing counties.
No doubt the early impressions in
favor of temperance upon his youthful
mind came from having a drinking
father. We have often heard him say
the last puni-hment his father gave
him was when he sent him to a near by
grocery to get two gallons of corn
<»hi«key and he let the jug get broken
This youth made up his mind that he
would devote his life to fighting the
<l - . .. r—».-L— jj,
hood. As far back as fifty years ago
when an opportunity was given him to
speak in Agricultural Conventions
Sunday Schools or gatherings of any
kinds, he never failed to devote at least
one third of his sp u ech to the of
intemperance, and cried out with a
loud voice against whiskey. On one of
th- se occasions, whenjie had made *
speech against whiskey, more than 40
years ago. one of his intimate friends
apnroa hed him and said : "Bro. Pool
you are worrying the life out of your
self about the sale of whiskey, do you
ever expect to live to see the day when
whiskey won’t be s"ld in Warren coun
ty ” Bro Pool, with all the sincerity
of his heart, and with a faith that
takes no denial, answered: “No, I
do i’t expect to live to see whiskey run
out of Warren eounty but my children
will see it driven out of its borders ”
Less than fi’teen years from th- p-< ph
ecy of that day the people of Warren
coun'y selected him as their rc-presenta
live in the State Legislature’ where he
introduced, and had passed, a bill to
prevent the sale of whiskey in Warren
county, and was the author of the first
law looking towards prohibition in
Georgia. A member of the Legislature,
who was present when Bro. Pool made
his famous speech on the passage of
this bill, said he never saw such an
effective scene; men who were not
given to tears wept when this great
man crying as if his heart was broken,
pleading for the women and children
of Georgia.
As a speaker before the common
people, he always regarded himself as
one among them, he had not a superi
or in Georgia. He was honest, sincere
and fearless in his denunciations o'
wrong. The people had confidence in
him an 3 leaned on everything he sa’d
with faith, and trusted him as a leader
whom it was safe to follow.
He never w»nt into a county as a
prohibition speaker but what the coun
ty went dry In 1889 he made five
speecbess in Taliaferro county in one
week ; that county which was consid
ered overwhelmingly for whiskey
went dry by 52 maj i’ity. Two years
later, in another election, in which he
took no part, the county went for
wh’skey by 103 majority. The las r
event of h’s life as a prohibition rpeak
er was the memorable battle fought
for prohib tion in Morgan county lasi
year He made eight speeches in differ
ent parts of the eounty. With a regis
tration of 1000 whites and 1600 negroes
toe outlook for the cause of prohibitior
in that county was gloomy, but Bro.
Pool had co’ fidence in the right; he
never lost faith, and the closing weeh
of that campaign was such a scene as
■ is rarely witnessed. The Ch-istiar
women of that county with thousands
■ of prohibition badges worn over theli
i true hearts, and pianf-d upon the
i breasts of 1500 men who loved God a c
• county better than they did whi key
i Th s sight inspired Bro Pool, and witl
tears streaming down his honest face
i we never heard such a plea to do awaj
i with barrooms. God gave him the bat
- tie, and Morgan county went dry bj
• 512 majo 'itv.
! Hon. Tillman N. Pool was to Warrer
1 and adjoining counties what Neal Dov
was to Maine. There was great simi
i larity in their lives, and there was i
Morgan’s Buzz Saw One Year fja *
Free and The People’s Party M. I
Paper to Jan. 1,1899, All tor y) |
ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR.
WHOLE NUMBER 373
\ ED DURANTS OILY JOB.
State Employe Gets S4O Hour
in Agricultural Department.
AN EYE OPFNER IN SUPERIOR COURT,
.
A Sensation Produced by Mr. Ed Durant’s
Testimony—He Gives a Sample of
How the State Lavishes Its
Money on Sinecures.
A small-sized sensation was caused
; in Bibb county’s superior court room
yesterday when the court forced Mr.
Ed M. Durant, an oil inspector of At
lanta, to divulge one of the secrets cf
the agricultural department.
The evidence was to the effect that
for forty-eight hours’ work the state
, pays an oil inspector 81.900, or $39.47
an hour.
This startled the court and jury, as
well as the people who were present in
the court room, because men who en
joy such a snap are not to be found
every day, and because it would be
hard to ma'<e the average Bibb county
ei’izen believe th: t Georgia pays such
magnifi-ent salaries to oil inspectors
when able lawyers can be found in
erreat abundance who are glad to work
as judges want hours more than that
for almost the same amount of money.
Judge Felton fl nched, and thought
how mean it was of the state to make
such distinction among her faithful
servants, and those who remembered
■ Judge Ross’ bill to increase to $3,000
i the salary of the judge of Macon’s city
court thought this a pretty strong ar
gument in favor of the increase, be
i cause the city court judge has to work
eight hours a day for about eight or
ten months in the year and draws only
i ?2 000 for his services.
But Mr. Durrant did not not, willing
ly give away the agricultural depart
ment’s secret, and the court room
would have been spared the sensation
but for the persistent and qnick-vritted
i work of Mr. T. E. Ryals, who was
cross-examining the witness.
It was during the hearing of a civil
' suit, in which it become necessary to
know how Mr. Durant employed his
time. The oil inspection job was trea
ted by him in testiminy only as a side
issue, and the opposing side, represent
. ed by Mr Rvals, was insisting that
the duties of the office must require a
■ g od of time and attention. But
it was important for Mr. Durant to
prove the contrary.
“Well,” said Mr. Ryals, ‘‘just tell the
court and jury how much time it re
quired.
Mr, Durant promptly objected to the
• question, saying that he didn’t see
what bearing it could have on the case.
Mr. Ryals argued to the court that it
had considerable bearing, and Judge
■ Felton »howed that ht was of the same
• opinion by ordering the witness to an-
> “I cfon’t decline to answer because I
> ” ant to protect myself,” said Mr Du
rant ‘‘Out because I want to protect
the state.”
This was the fi'st startling state
’ ment, and it prepared the au'Henee
i for something rich, as Mr. Durant
' showed by his manner that he wa*
i capabl of deciding what are and what
i are not family seereta The court told
, him to go ahead and tell about the
I time he devoted to the work of inspect-
■ ingoiL
“About four hours a month,” said
i the witness.
After this he was asked about the
’ salary for the w >'k.
i “About one thousand nine hundred
[ dollars a year.” was the reply.
i This was the eye-opener. It was
i nothing short of what had been ex
’ pt eted. All saw in an instant what it
- meant that the agr cultural depart
i ment was paying an eno- mously fat
salary for an astonishingly small
s amount of work. In other words, that
j an oil inspector's job in Georgia is
i about as fat as that of Brer Rabbit
t when he got “dollar minit” for wateh
i ing Brer Fox's persimmon orchard.
, The general comment was that steps
i should be taken to have oil inspectors
f given a reasonable compmsation for
i ti eir work, and let the balance of their
t present fat salaries go to supplement
t the niggardly salaries of some of the
, other state officials.
i Mr. Durant’s is probably not the
only Klondike job in the gift of Com-
B missioner Nesbitt. There are quite a
8 number of others perhaps.—Macon
. Telegraph
,• noted coincidence in their death ; Bro.
a Pool died Oct Ist, about midnight,
d Neal Dow died Oct. 2nd before the sun
r rose to kiss the eastern sky. Uncle
Tillman got to Heaven about six hours
in advance, and no doubt they have
a met and wondered if men will ever be
1 true enough to themselves, God and
e count-y to vote whiskey out of our
e bo ders.
I’ During the last illness of Bro. Pool
? the good people rose up in Hancock
8 coun'y and put their heels upon the
e serpent. When a friend wrote him a
r note that Hancock had gone for prohi
’• bition, this man who had given nearly
60 years of his life to the cause of tem-
I p rance, sa’d with panting breath:
“Thank God, my prayers have been
p " answered, Hancock is dry and that
3 ‘ means more effective prohibition for
!S Warren county.”
II H > loved his native county with all
’• his heart He has drne more for the
e cause of temperance than any man in
k t.
18 The world is better for his living.
n His memory ought to be perpet
ls uated in gran te placed in the court
l r horse square by the citizens of Warren
ie county, but should we fail in this he
d wll live in the hearts and memory of
7 his people who will tell the coming
11 generation about him a hundred years
9 > hence.
y
. Attention Populists.
,y The Peop e’s Party Paper wants the
names of 5 Populists in each t wnship
,n wita their address sinlo va Ohio, Illi
w nois, Indiana, Miss- uri, Kansas. Ne
j. braska and Minnesota. Send them in
a on a postal card at once. Do not delay.