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DAILY ENQUIRER - SUN: COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY MORN,NG, APRIL 1888,
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It is stated that President Cleveland
has said that he would not appoint a
member of his cabinet, nor an old man,
to the position of chief justice; and now
lit is further stated that the apDointee
will not come from the south. The field
is gradually growing narrower.
The republican meeting in. this city
yesterday, was solid—in color. Not a
white man participated. When it is
remembered that this meeting repre-
nented a county with over 30,000 inhab
itants, the fact is significant. It does not
.look like the democratic party in Geor
gia is disintegrating as rapidly as the
organs of the “grand old party” had
hoped.
T he grave of Gen. A. P. Hill is un
marked, even by a slab. A movement
:is on foot to erect a suitable monument
to bis memory, and a sum, in cash and
subscriptions, deemed sufficient has been
raised. We are glad that be is to be
remembered, even tardily. From the
beginning of the war to his death on the
battle field he was ever where the fight
was fiercest. No braver or truer man
ever lived.
In a republican meeting held in this
city yesterday one of the speakers said:
“I do not believe that there is a true
white republican in Georgia to-day.”
This seems to be very near the* truth
when it comes to voting, but when the
republican party had the dividing out of
the loaves and fishes, in this state, a lot
of white men were there and very hun
gry, and they always managed to get the'
larger part of the fe_at. The colored
people ought to have learned by this
lime that the republican party has no
use for them except for voting purposes.
The joy the republicans are expressing
over carrying Rhode Island is funny.
They are certainly cheerful people. It is
likely that they will be jubilant alter the
next presidential election because they
have carried Pennsylvania. It must be
remembered that Rhode Island has gen
erally been republican by as much as
five thousand majority, and in the last
election the majority was only about
fifteen hundred. If the republicans were
not so cheerful they might exclaim with
Pyrrhus: “ A few more such victories
and I am ruined.”
Cleveland’s re-nomination. Not a man
representing any district or the state at
large who does not heartily endorse bis
poeition on tariff reform. The only man
in the whole crowd who does not go as
far as the president in support of tariff
reduction is an ex-officio member.
The committee fairly represents the
democrats of Georgia on the great ques
tion which divides the two parties.
Twenty-four twenty-fourths of the mem
bers are tariff reformers. The rest rep
resents that great and progressive ele
ment in the south so numerous, so rap
idly growing, and so friendly to the
monopolists and free whisky. If Presi
dent Cleveland feels badly because he
receives the hearty endorsement of only
twenty-four twenty-fourths of the party
the fact may be taken as some indication
that he is a man of slightly melancholy
disposition.
This committee did have an icicle, but
it was not given to President Cleveland,
but to the two executive committees
that tried to forestall the action of the
conventions it was their sole business to
call, by themselves passing on the ques
tions that these conventions would meet
to decide. The committee, while unani
mously holding to an opinion, felt a
delicacy in expressing it because it was
not their business to do so, and this may
be construed as an opinion that other
similar committees •should have kept
quiet.
These committees, however, knew
that their views against tariff reform
would go unexpressed if they waited for
the chosen representatives of the demo
cratic party to express them. It was
“now or never” with them. The execu
tive committee of Georgia could well
afford to wait for the democratic conven
tion of the state which, they knew,
would give a hearty endorsement to the
democratic president and his democratic
principles.
A Kind Word for Columbus.
The Abbeville Times re-produces our
editorial which appeared in last Sunday’s i vention that meets in St. Louis will show
Cleveland aad His Duty.
The high tax theorists have little hope
of success against the democratic party
with Grover Cleveland loading it In a na
tional campaign for tax reform on the
sound end patriotic principles of hie mes
sage. They have no hope of preventing
his nomination, unless he can be persuad
ed that he ought to refuse to be re-nomi
nated. They are now endeavoring to force
such a refusal from him. Their
most effectual work is done
through Messrs. Samuel J. Randall and
Charles A. Dana. They may possibly have
the co operation of a senator, who is sore
because he has not been allowed to be a
dictator of appointmeata in the civil ser
vice, and of another senator, who owns a
convict camp in Georgia, and wants it
“protected.” Their public operations are
carried on through the New York Son,
which is even more reliable as a Blaine or
gan than the Tribune. They hope to make
Mr. Cleveland believe that he is pledged not
to serve a second term, and, to this end, his
letter on . second terms is published, re
published and published over again with
“damnable iteration.” In that letter Mr.
Cleveland gave a public expression of his
private views, and he, no doubt, holds
these views still. He has a right to them,
but they are not the views of his party, or
of a majority of the American people. It
is not at all a personal question. He Is an
instrument for the achievement of ends
which must be achieved for the good of
the people. He is universally considered,
and with the best reason, the
most fitting instrument; and he
is asked to give four years more
of his life to the work. He deserves
the honor of re-election to the presidency,
but it is not a question of honoring him.
It is a question of using him. It is be
lieved that he is necessary to the success
of his party and to the good of his coun
try. He ha* no right to set his private
views against this opinion; no right to
prefer retirement and domestic happi
ness to the worry and drudgery of the
public service. He has no right to
shrink from the calumnies and misrepre
sentations of his enemies; no right to leave
the post of public duty until he is re
lieved or discharged. His party has the
right to command his service, and the con-
edition of our paper, and endorses it as
follows: “Every word that Brother
Hanson says above, is so, and one has
only to go to Columbus to fall in love
with the place. The city is growing in
popular favor with our people of this
section, who say everybody treats them
courteously and seems to take an interest
in them which makes them feel at borne.
Columbus has too many attractions not
to some day have a population of
100,000.”
We thank Brother Grouby for these
kind words and promise him that if he
will visit Columbus he will meet with
the warmest welcome.
We ghe in another column, Collector
Crenshaw’s reply to the Atlanta Consti
tution’s Washington correspondent, who
accused him of misrepresenting the posi
tion of the members of the Georgia dem
ocratic executive committee in reference
to the endorsement of President Cleve
land and his message. Mr. Crenshaw has
received letters from the members of the
committee, and every one agrees with
the statement made a week or two ago
in the Enquirer-Sun that the committee
is a unit in favor of both, and that the
members at their meeting so expressed
themselves without a dissenting vote.
The Work the Weekly Papers are Doing.
There was never a time in the history
of Georgia when the weekly papers were
doing the work that they are doing now.
Their work is showing all over the state
in the interest the people are manifest
ing in political questions that concern
their welfare.
The time was when the weeklies de
voted their Attention almost exclusively
to local affairs. In this sphere they
have done a great deal of good. They
have worked for the advancement of
their sections and the improvement of
their people, and they have, as a rule,
succeeded better for others than for
themselves.
Without neglecting this work, but
rather in addition to it, the weekly press
of Georgia and Alabama and of the
whole country, is taking a live interest
in national politics, and the result is the
people are taking interest in important
questions and are better prepared to vote
intelligently than they ever were before.
The time was when a man could be
elected to the senate by a democratic
legislature, who would vote to tax the
people uselessly and exorbitantly. The
time was when men could represent the
people, and vote to rob them in the
interests of the few. That time in Georgia
and Alabama and the south, is past and
past forever.
Why was this? The people of this
section were never in favor of a protec
tive tariff. And yet they did not take
-enough interest in the subject to be
watchful of their rights. They were
negligent, and they have paid for their
negligence.
There is scarcely a county in Georgia
now, that has not in its weekly paper, a
vigilant sentinel on guard over the
rights of the people. From all parts of
the state, the cry is going forth for the
people to assert themselves, and the
people are asserting themselves. We
have no fear of the result Unjust taxa
tion ir doomed, and the time for it to
pass away is nearpt hand.
Who the Icicle Was For.
The editorials in the republican papers,
which commented so gleefully over the
imaginary icicle the democratic executive
committee gave Cleveland and tariff re
form, would be funny reading now if
placed side by side with the views of the
xiembers of the committee expressed at
the time, and expressed now, over their
own signatures. Not a man on the com-
ttee profess as opposition to President
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.
The fight for low tariff is the people’s
fight. President Cleveland is on that line,
and he ought to be re-nominated. In
order that this may be done, the people
should be careful to send to the Atlanta
convention men who are unmistakably in
favor of tariff reform.—Thomas ton Times.
The Atlanta Constitution is mistaken;
the Republican is not dissatisfied with
Georgia. The convict camp crowd is not
Georgia by a very large majority. If, in
stead of being an excellent and well-
behaved state, Georgia were an excellent
and well-behaved dog, they would repre
sent the fleas on it.—Missouri Republican.
The democrats of Oregon, in tbeir state
convention, speak out for the true doc
trine as to revision and red iction of the
tariff. Take again the ringing speech of
republican Congressman Nelson of Min
nesota, the other day for tariff reform.
These be straws showing that the great
west is determined to have tariff reform.
A campaign that tries to ignore It will
not lack features of picturesqueness
and destructiveness.—Indianapolis News.
Bobtailing the Chipmunks.
The overthrow of Senator Colquitt, if it
be accomplished, will not be achieved in
open daylight. Many honorable men
naturally would desire to ascend to a seat
in the senate, bnt we think that most
honorable men consider that the position
is already capably filled, and that for reas
ons like these we have given it is beet to
retain Senator Colqnitt where he is.
Others less considerate and less prin
cipled, we fear, would accept Sena
tor Colquitt’s seat on any terms
except those of an open and manly cam
paign, In which nothing less than annihi
lation, we think, would reward them. In
such a contingency the democratic voters
of Georgia have a duty to perform that
does not justify an hour’s loss of watchful
ness or a voter’s waste. They must send
democrats to the legislature—notblack-
and-tan or tan-and-black aspirants.
If you don’t know that the man who
wants to be a statesman is what he
ought to be, keep him home, and hide
him away there under a vote high and
heavy as Tar pi®’s shields. This is a year
for Democrats in Georgia, or it is—not!
Remember that,
Meanwhile, let the weekly press ot the
State—the palladium of Georgia’s demo
cracy (the Atlanta Constitution's so-called
bobtail), look into every fence-hole and
log-hollow for political chipmunks, and
let os smoke them out!—Greensboro Her
ald and JonrnaL
Move On In the House.
Monday, the 16th instant, has been fixed
for the consideration of tariff revision and
revenue reduction in the house. It is
none too soon; it is later by months than
should have been fixed, bat the past is
past, and ail that the country can hope
for now is that the bouse will reeolutely
move on in revenue legislation at the time
named, and continue to move on until the
question is disposed of.
We take no stock in the intimations that
Mr. Randall, chairman of appropriations,
has purposely delayed the appropriation
bills, or that he has been needlessly tardy
in their preparation. In view of the earn
est and next to universal demand of the
oountry for revenue legislation, any sys
tematic hlndranoe of such legislation
would utterly destroy any public man, and
Mr. Randall will not be so faithless to pub
lic duty, or expose himself to suspicions
which would be fatal.
The appropriations must be ready now;
the delay of the revenae question to the
16th was for the purpose of giving the
necessary time to consider them, and all
must see that, with the appropriation
likely to delay revenue legislation if not
promptly disposed ot, responsibility must
rest somewhere if the appropriations
delay tai-iff revision and revenue reduc tion-
No method of obstruction will be ap
proved by the oountry in revenue legisla
tion. All parties are pledged to it; ali
leaders are pledged to it; the whole nation
demands it; and while bad legislation
would be condemned, those who hinder
legislation by obstructive methods would
invite the universal contempt of the peo
ple. Move on in the house; the country is
impatient; business Is in suspense, and any
possible revenue legislation would be bet
ter than none at ail. Move on.—Philadel
phia Times.
him his duty. His part is to continue to
do it in the future as strenuously and faith
fully as he has in the past.
He can not decline a re-nomination with
out jeopardizing the success of his party.
It has fully accepted his leadership and
he has carried it into a fight which most
be decisive for or against it. He can not,
he must not, he will not fail to do his part
like a fearless and conscientious American
democrat.—Missouri Republican.
The Next General Assembly.
The people throughout the state appre
ciate the fact that the next general assem
bly will be the most important that has
convened for years. Many question? of
paramount importance to Georgia will
come up for consideration by it. The
most prominent of which, and the one of
most vital interest to the people of the
state, is the disposition of the Western
and Atlantic railroad at the expiration of
the present lease. This magnificent prop
erty, which not only promises to
be a source of increased revenue
to the state’s treasury, but
has, and ever should stand, as the
basis of Georgia’s credit in any market in
the world. Then, too, along with the
question involving the sale or lease of
the road, comes the claim of the present
lessees for bettenneDts, which will ap
proach a million or more dollars.
To deal with these questions the people
realize the importance of selecting their
strongest and most responsible men. They
cannot afford to experiment. Too much
is at stake. Men must be sent to the next-
legislature in whose ability and integrity
the people have confidence, and whose ex
perience will make them useful.
When issues involving the disposition of
millions of dollars worth of public proper
ty are to be considered, the members find
tempting opportunities for selling their
influence and votes, and the weak and
corrupt usually yield. Often the wishes ot
the people in legislative matters have
been thwarted, and their rights bartered
away by irresponsible representatives in
whom they had entrusted their interest.
Hence, we say, that it behooves the peo
ple of Georgia, at the ensuing election, to
pnt forward their safest, wisest, and meat
experienced men.—Cartersville Courant-
American.
That Bounty Proposition.
The sweet proposition to repeal the
duties on sugar, and then to give the
American producers a bounty out of the
treasury, does not catch any flies down in
Louisiana. The people of this country
have never taken kindly to the bounty
system, which is only a more open method
of extortion than the tariff. They take
greater pleasure in being plundered by the
occult and clandestine process of levying
protective duties on imports. By this
process the tax upon commodities
is so completely absorbed in the
price that they cannot tell how
much tax they piy, and some of them
have actually been induced to believe the
silly pretense of tariff doctors, that the
tax comes out of the pockets of foreign
manufacturers and importers. But there
is no snch illusion abont the bounty sys
tem. If the present congress, in order to
extricate itself from the tariff dilemma,
should put a bounty npon sugar to com
pensate for a repeal of the duties, the
chances are ten to one that the next con
gress would indignantly abolish the bounty
and refuse to restore the duties. Senator
Sherman and his republican associates
could make no bargain that
would be binding upon the next
congress. If this be as good a scheme, why
does not the Ohio statesman propose to
repeal the duties on wool and give a
bounty to sheep growers T Why does he
not take the medicine which he is so eager
to recommend to other people ? Because
he knows how precarious his bounty
would prove. But the Louisiana sugar-
planters are quite as wide-awake aud
astute as he is. Besides they do not wish
to go to the treasury to sue for aims in
forma panperis. The indirect tariff sys
tem, on the other hand, has become re
spectable by custom.—Philadelphia Record
In timber for railroad can than is
nothing equal to it. Sills, inside and oat;
platee, studding, and, in fact, every part of
a oommon freight car, except transoms
and sheathing, can be made from ,iL In
studding for passenger cars I see no reason
why it might not be used, for many times
the ash from which they are made is not
half as strong as southern pine selected
especially for that work. Vertical grain
southern pine I consider is much stronger
and firmer than most of the studding used
in passenger coaches. For frames of
houses it has no equal for strength and
durability, and every part of the house,
from garret to cellar, can be economically
made from this wood. Even for finish
there are selections from it that equal in
beauty any kind of wood that grows.
Shingles, bnt no person in city residences,
no matter how small and insignificant,
ought ever to use shingles for roof cover
ings.
Railroads are using it extensively for
ties on iron bridges, and in the general
construction of wooden bridges where iron
is not used. I consider it the best and
most economical timber for ail kinds of
work where wood is used. There need
not be an ounce of waste in a cargo of it.
The small pieces make the best kind of
door saddles (thresholds) either inside or
out, and wainscotlug one-half inoh
thick is as good generally as seven-eighths
inch stock of any other kind of wood.
Mnch more might be said in praise of
this wood, that a large part of the coun
try builders know bui comparatively little
ab >ut.—W., in Wood-Worker.
A PLAIN MATTER IN PLAIN WORDS.
The Oppressions O nr People are Sufferiug.
The Remedy in Their Own Hands.
When heavy taxes are collected from
articles that people have to buy in order to
live, there is not much sense in a demand
for free whisky; but recent events in con
gress have shown that such a demand is
either idiotic or deceptive. It is either in
tended to mislead the uninformed, or else
it is fool’s work. We may be sure it is not
the latter in this state.
We base these plain statements upon the
plainest fact in current politics, namely,
no one in congress or the white house
seriously proposes to make whisky free.
No law-maker expects it will be made
free. No party or section of party is will
ing to endorse such a proposition. The re
publicans love protection as well as Sena
tor Brown or the Atlanta Constitution, but
they cannot be induced to shoulder free
whisky. The little Randall clique says the
whisky tax may be reduced, but must not
be abolished, while the tax on beer
must stand as it is. The democrats in con
gress say that reductions should be made
on the necessaries of life, but that whisky
shall not be relieved of taxation. The
proposition to abolish the internal revenue
laws is practically unknown in congress,
and yet Gov. Brown and the Atlanta Con
stitution reiterate it as if it had real life in
<t. It has none whatever, and no one
knows this better than Gov. Brown and
the esteemed Constitution.
What Georgia wants—this want will
soon be made so plain that he who runs
may read—is relief; first of all, from pro
tection prices upon articles that enter into
the daily lifa or the people—not so much
from the taxes that go to the treasury,which
are unreasonably heavy, but more particu
larly from the taxes, many times greater,
wbich, under our protective tariff, go to
enrich and strengthen the trusts,
and to fatten the greedy manu
facturers in the east. The farmers of
this state are so taxed, in and out the cus
tom house, there is scarcely a dollar of
profit left when a bale of cotton is mar
keted and the proceeds applied to present
needs. Articles of food and clothing,
medicines, building materials and tools are
in many cases doubled in price by the op
erations of the tariff. Let the farmer make
a list of the things he buys during a year,
and then let him demand as he votes that
most of the articles named be placed on the
free list, and that the rate on the remain
der be largely reduced, and he will have
a simple and just method oftariff reform.
This is practically what President Cleve
land and the democratic party are trying
to do, under great difficulties. The obsta
cles in the way are the tariff monopolists
themselves, the republicans who back
them and the Randall crowd, with whom
our senior senator and the Constitution
train, who are assisting the repub
licans. In the long run, however,
the democratic party will get there,
—not all at once, of course, but by
degrees, and the selfish schemes of the
monopolists will be defeated and the peo
ple will rejoice. They will see a thousand
articles go down in cost as quinine went
down when the duty was removed.
Let the farmers of Georgia demand as
they vote the placiog of many articles of
every day use on the free list, and then
let ns all demand a reduction of the aver
age tariff rate from 47 per cent to about
20 per cent. At this figure every manu
facturer who does not want the earth with
a nickel-plated fence around it would
have all the protection he would need—all
that the consumers can afford to give him
without crippling themselves, as they are
now doing. If a bounty of twenty per
cent is not sufficient protection to a home
manufacturer, he should go into some
other branch of business; bnt it would be
sufficient.
“ But,” the Constitution would say,
“this would increase the surplus.” Op-
insinuating
HOW THEY STAND.
Southern Pine.
The va'ue of southern pine cannot pos
sibly be over-estimated, for where can yon
find a place where timber for building
purposes is better adapted? From the
hovel to the palace, there is no place but
that it can be used to give strength, sta
bility and ornament. Then to these quali
ties we must necessarily add another, per
manency. It lasts while most other tim
bers fail and have often to be renewed.
Its strength is second only to the oak, and
it is Cast working its way into the place
where oak used to be used exclusively.
Many of our finest vessels are now tim
bered and planked, inside and out, with
yellow pine. The size and length of tim
bers which can be sawed from it make it
the moot available for timbers for build
ings of ail kinds.
In the construction of trusses for heavy
roc ft, there is no timber so well adapted,
and the lengths we oan get without splic
ing peculiarly adapt it to this special pur-
pressed with an intricate and
system of taxation, the people
of Georgia are not caring very
much about the surplus, ex
cept to see it is not wasted in the various
schemes that the protectionists are de
vising, bnt they are caring a great deal
about the tariff prices they are daily com
pelled to pay out of cotton field earnings
that are not swelled an iota by the tariff.
The surplus is available to-day for the re
duction of the public debt if congress will
f ive the word. There is no trouble about
he surplus. We wish it were large enough
to enable ns to offer reasonable terms for
the redemption of the entire issue of 4J per
cents at once. These bonds fall due in
about three years.
A material and real reduction of the
tariff wonld, it is true, interfere with the
profits of the trusts, and they might be
dissolved. But what they loss the people
would retain. The plan we have outlined
would not be apt to inflate Senatof
Brown’s iron and coal interests, or Judge
Tompkins’ Sheffield interests, bnt it
would boom agriculture in Georgia, and
make the farmer’s cotton money go so
far that he wonld be astonished at the
change, and justly indignant over past ex
actions of the tariff ring.
Our classical senator says he is not a pro
tectionist per se. He is a protectionist for
everything else. He is a protectionist
when iron ore, pig iron products or coal
are before the senate, and ne never fails to
log-roll with other tariff interests. Now
why should the cotton farmer of Jones
county be compelled to pay Gov. Brown a
bounty whenever he buys a pound of nails,
a stove, or an implement of any kind?
What does Joseph E. Brown of Dade
county, give in retnrn to the farmer of
Jones county, whose sole cash crop is
cotton? What? This question is not an
swered when a demand is made for the
repeal of the internal revenue act. It is
not even answered by the esteemed Con
stitution when it presents its patent
conundrum about the surplus. The truth
is it is never answered by the monopoly
crowd. The trnth is the Jones county
farmer is systematically robbed to cram a
pocket already overfall.
The people of Jones county and of all
the ether counties in our tax-ridden, but
still independent state, will have some
thing to say on this subject in May.—
Macon Telegraph.
ENDORSING THE PRESIDENT AND HI8
MESSAGE.
View* of the Members of the Georgia
Democratic Executive Committee.
They Are Solid for Cleveland
and Tariff Reform.
United States Internal Revenue,
Collector’s Office, District of Geor
gia, Atlanta, April 5,1838.—Editors Con
stitution: In the Constitution of March
25, and in the Augusta Chronicle of the
same date, and in various other papers
throughout the country, appeared specials
from Washington, each of which told
about the same story as the following, pub
lished in the Constitution, under this cap
tion.
“Collector Crenshaw goes off half-cocked
again. The dry grins caused by the truth
when it came.”
Then as follows:
“I learn to-day that on Wednesday, as
soon as Senator nankin offered his resolu
tion in the democratic executive commit
tee of Georgia, endorsing Mr. Cleveland’s
message, Collector CreDshaw wired Com
missioner of Internal Revenue Miller that
they had passed upon its reception. Mr.
Miller, with the message in hand, rushed
over to the white house to inform Presi
dent Cleveland that the representatives of
the state of Georgia, in committee assem
bled, had passed resolutions endorsing his
policy, and showing that the Constitution,
the Chronicle, Senator Brown and Messrs.
Candler and Clements were misrepresent
ing the people of that grand old state in
stating that they did not agree with the
president’s message, and were in favor of
repealing the internal revenue laws. Both
were highly pleased, and celebrated the
occasion in a degree commensurate with
their high official positions. How
ever, when the Constitution came
yesterday and showed that the
resolution did not pass, but was thrown
aside without a vote, Mr. Miller, and oth
ers who owe their official positions to the
internal revenue system, felt as though
they had been gored by a bull, and jubila
tions quickly ceased. To-day Mr. Miller
is vigorous in his remarks about Mr.
Crenshaw, for sending him a telegram
conveying false information.”
I should have replied to the fulmina-
tions of these idiosyncratic correspon-
pents sooner, but in order to demonstrate
to these knights of the quill their owu ver
dancy, I have postponed noticing them
until I could get replies from all the mem
bers of the democratic state executive
committee who were present at the meet
ing on the 21st ult., whose answers were
delayed on account of the recent flood,
which demoralized the mails.
The publication of this card would have
been unnecessary were it not for the fact
that in the special dispatches referred to
my veracity was questioned. Being un
willing to pose before the country as a
sensationalist, I have adopted this method
of giving to the public an unquestionable
statement of the acts and doings of the
democratic state executive committee.
I now propose to present' all the facts
connected with this matter, in order that
the public may know that my telegram
was based upon the truth, and was not
premature. Here is my dispatch :
“Atlanta, Ga., March 21st, 1888.—Hon.
Joseph H. Miller, commissioner internal
revenue, Washington, D. C.: At a meeting
of the democratic state executive commit
tee, held to-day in Atlanta, a resolution
was introduced, and unanimously passed
upon the adjournment, heartily endorsing
the administration of the president ana
his message to the Fftieth congress. Every
congressional district will send delegates
to St. Louis for President Cleveland
against the repeal of the revenue laws,
and for a reduction of the tariff. Even the
members of the committee from the
mountain districts voted to endorse the
president’s message.
“Please convey this information to
President Cleveland.
“Thomas C. Crenshaw, Jr.”
I now submit the following statements
from every member of the state executive
committee, who was present on the 21st
ultimo, which conclusively establish tbe
fact that a resolution, known as the Ran
kin resolution, was passed upon tho ad
journment of the committee, heartily en
dorsing the president and his policy on the
tariff. , . ,
From Hon. Benjamin H. Bigham chair
man of the committee:
“I am the chairman of the democratic
state executive committee. I was present
at the meeting on the 21st of March. Im
mediately upon the adjournment thatday
the members were requested to remain in
the rooms of the committee, which they
did. The Rankin resolution endorsing
President Cleveland and his message to
the Fiftieth congress was put and unani
mously adopted. I favor the re-election
of President Cleveland, and endorsed his
policy on the tariff.
“Benjamin H. Bigham.”
From Hon. W. D. Ellis, secretary of the
pommittee: “I am the secretary of the
state democratic executive committee, and
a member or said committee from the Fifth
congressional district. Mr. Rankin showed
me tbe resolutions endorsing President
Cleveland’s message before the committee
met, and they received my cor
dial approval. I then expressed some
doubt about the propriety of the commit
tee’s acting on them, but said I would vote
for them if acted on. After the regular
routine business was over, Mr. Rankin of
fered the resolutions, and every word said
on the merits of the resolutions was favor
able, but a good deal of doubt was ex
pressed about the propriety of the action
of an executive committee on such a mat
GROW BULLFROGS FOR MARKET.
Arkansas' Queer Industry—One Crop Hops
Away Before Quite Ripe.
There is a town in Arkansas called At
lanta, at least there is a post office by that
name, aud some bouses are scattered
promiscuously through the miry vicinity.
Atlanta nestles snugly in the midst of a
charming swamp, where snakes r.nd toads
are wont to congregate, and where such a
thing as soil bears the same relation to
reality that an algebraic equation bears to
a known quantity. The inhabitants doubt
not but what there is soil under Atlanta,
but tbe trouble is to get beneath the
superficial stratum of swamp and reach
the great depth at which it is supposed
soil might be found. The Arkansas agent
of the Ealv Mercantile company was asked
to send iu' a report on Atlanta. He has
just sent it, and in it he brings to light a
new industry. The swamp being unsuited
to the growing of grain, the inhabitants
have suited themselves to the circum
stances, and now grow bullfrogs for mar
ket. They have excellent seed, and the
growths have been magnificent until last
vear, when the whole crop hopped
away before. it was ripe. This was
very discouraging, but when the
time came another crop was put in, and at
last reports it was doing well, though
there are indications that the precedent
set by the last crop may be followed this
S ear, as several of the more mature frogs
ave begun peregrinating abpuf the
swamps already. When the yield does
not take unto itself legs and hop away, it
is sold. Ealy’s agent is endeavoring to
make a contract for one thousand bushels
of frogs, to be delivered out of tbe first
crop that can be detained until it thor
oughly ripens.—Chicago Herald.
So He Came Back.
Omaha Dame—“I suppose you traveled
all over Europe?”
Returned Tourist—“Very nearly; the
fact is, I became disgusted, and returned
before my projected tour was completed.”
“Disgusted with Europe?”
“Yes. Wherever I went people asked
executive committee of Georgia. I was
present at the meeting on March 21st. Im
mediately npon the adjournment that day
the members werereauested to remain in
the room of the committee. The Rankin
resolution endorsing President Cleveland
and his message to the Fiftieth congress,
W as put and adopted, without dissent. I
favor the re-election of President Cleve
land, and endorse his policy on the tariff.
Hamilton McWhorter,
“Eighth District.”
Atlanta, Ga., March 21,188S.—“I am a
member of the democratic state executive
committee for the first congressional dis
trict. I was present at the meeting ot the
committee in Atlanta on March 2Ut, but
left the room immediately on the adjourn
ment of the committee. I approve the
sentimen's expressed in the resolution of
Mr. Rankin endorsing President Cleve
land and his message to the Fiftieth con
gress. I favor the re-election of.President
Cleveland, and approve his policy on the
tariff, George A. Mercer,
“First District.”_
“I am a member of the state democratic
executive committee. I was present at
the meeting on March 21.1S8S. The Ran
kin resolutions were withdrawn solely
for the reason that it was thought to be
inappropriate for the committee to act
upon such question.. My recollection is
that all who spoke upon the question were
in favor of the resolution. I did not re
main in the hall to vote upon the resolu
tions after adjournment, being pressed for
time to meet the train. Had I been pres
ent, 1 should have heartily voted for the
Rankin resolutions. I favor the re-election
of President Cleveland, and endorse his
policy on the tariff as the only relief for
our suffering people. H. B. RIDLEY,
“Sixth District.”
The following members of the commit
tee were not present: Hons. R. D. Spald
ing, R. B. Nesbit and Henry Persons.
State at large; Hons. I. F. Shumate,
Seventh district; T. E. Winn, Ninth dis
trict; T. J. McElmurry and J. A. Robson,
Tenth district; A. S. Giles and W. H. Kim
brough, Third district.
I addressed each of these absent mem-
b T™A!Gl!?!larch e 26,lSSS.-Dear Sir: ! Niagara
questions; 0 * y °“ *° answor the folloWing j vritey.SheRo“ky^ mouutoins- the^Thou-
1. Are you in favor of the re-nomination
of President Cleveland.
2. Do you endorse the following:
“Resolved, That in the message of
President Cleveland we recognize the wis
dom of common sense, the details of com
mon justice, the impetuousness of moral
sand isles, and dear knows what all, and
just because I couldn't answer them, the
fools thought I was a London adventurer.”
No Good.
Two Pennsylvania miners played toss
and catch with a dynamite torpedo. It
may rest as a solid and safe platform, em
bodying, as it does, the time-honored
principles and doctrines of the democratic
party. In the person of President Cleve
land we have a leader worthy of the con
fidence and support of the party whose
principles he so boldly and conspicuously
maintains.
3.—Do you approve the message of
President Cleveland to the Fiftieth con-
Aml English, Too.
Wife ^ho has had the foreign language
“spasm”) John, do you know I am getting
on splendidly with my French? I am
really beginning to think in the language.
Husband (interested in his paper—Is
that so? Let me hear you think a little
while in French.—New York Sun.
You will greatly oblige me by an early
answer. Very respectfully,
Thomas C. Crenshaw, jr.
Hon. R. B. Nisbet, member at large, an
swers first question:
“I am in favor of the re-nomination of
President "Cleveland.” Second question:
“Most heartily.” Third question: “I do.”
Hon. R. D. Spalding, member from state
at large, answers:
First question: “in common with all
democrats of whom I have any knowledge,
I favor the re-nomination of President
Cleveland.” Second question: “I endorse
the resolution offered by Hon. W. R. Ran
kin.” Third question: “I approve the
message of tbe president.”
Hon.
answers
question—“Yes. 1 ’ Third question
dorse the bill of the ways and means com
mittee.”
Hon. T. E. Winn answers first question
— “I am, most emphatically.” Second
question—“I do, heartily.” Third question
—“I do.”
Hon. T. J. McElmurry, Tenth district,
answers first question—“t am in favor of
the re-nomination of President Cleveland.” ,
Second question—“I heartily endorse the
resolutions offered by Mr. Rankin at the
meeting of the executive committee.” i
Third question—“I approve the message j
of Mr. Cleveland to the Fiftieth congress,
and hope that it will be the platform of
the St. Louis convention.”
Hon. J. A. Robson, Tenth district, an
swers first question: “I do favor the re-
lage oi ine presiaem,.
>n. E. H. Crawley, first district,
vers first question—“Yes.” Second
tion—“Yes. 1 ’ Third question—“I in-
IPDOTIHS
Absolutely Pure.
swers Ui-Sfc quesuou; j. uu i»v«r is- i This powder never varies. A marvel of purity,
nomination of President Clevelaua. He is strength and wholesomeness. More economical
Rich in Gold.
From North Carolina through Georgia
and into Alabama, there is a gSld territory tne meeting on tne mat oi Marcn. imme-
of a richness now equal to the mountains diatoly upon the adjournment that day,
hi, the members were reouested to remain in
ter. which in the opinion of several ought
to be left for the convention. Nobody
expressed any opposition, but on the line
of propriety Col. Rankin withdrew them.
Just after the committee adjourned, some
member ot it asked all to remain, and so
for as I know, all did remain. A vote was
then taken and it seemed to us that every
member voted “aye.” Nobody voted
no,” but one or two may have refrained
from voting without attracting my atten
tion. -o D. Ellis,
“Sec. Georgia State Dem. Ex. Com.”
From members of the committee who
were present:
“I am a member of the democratic state
executive committee. I was present at
the meeting on the 21st of March. Im
mediately npon the adjournment that day
the members were requested to remain in
tbe rooms of the committee, which they
did. The Rankin resolution endorsing
President Cleveland and his message to
the Fiftieth congress, was put and unani
mously adopted. I favor the re-election
of President Cleveland and .endorse his
policy on the tariff.”
Signed by the following members:
Fifth district, T. L. Gantt.
Ninth district, R. H. Baker.
Sixth district.J. A. Hunt.
Seventh district, D. B. Hamilton.
First district, H. H. Cabaniss, member
by proxy.
Fourth district, Charles A. Redd.
Mr. Redd adds after his signature:
“While not voting on the question, I don’t
think Col. Walsh favored the tariff senti
ment of the resolution; though favoring
the nomination of Cleveland.”
“I am a member of the democratic state
executive committee. I was present at the
meeting on the 21st of March. Immedi
ately npon the adjournment on that day
the members were requested to remain in
the rooms of the committee, which they
did. The Rankin resolution, endorsing
President Cleveland and his message to
the Fiftieth congress, was put and unani
mously adopted. I favor the re-election of
President Cleveland and endorse his policy
on the tariff. I was going out of the room
when the motion was put, and voted for
the resolutions heartily, bnt did not turn
around to see whether the vote was unani
mous. I did not hear a dissenting voice.
With this explanation yon can use my
name to the above facts.
“U. B. Wilkinson, Foarth District.”
“I am a member of the democratic state
executive committee. I was present at
the meeting on the 21st of March. Imme
of the west. Within a year, there has
arisen a new interest in these gold fields.
To-day there are men from tne western
states and territories in every county of
Alabama, where the gold is found, dig
ging. washing, and searching for the
precious metal. There is plenty of
S old all through the hills of Talla-
ega. Clay, Cleburne, Randolph, Coosa
and Tallapoosa. It can be seen with the
naked eye, and good wages can be washed
ont of the placer mines with an ordinary
piok and pan, but larger experiments have
not yet been very remunerative, except
at one mine. This year ail the improved
machinery will be fried, and there is no
further doubt about the Mils being robbed
of their pred|k>us hidings at once.—Griffin
News.
Tinman Nature— “How much do you
want for that dog. in cash ?”
“You can have him for nothing.”
“Well (reflectively), I guess I don’t need
him.”—Lincoln Journal.
the members were requested to remain
the rooms of the committee, which they
did. The Rankin resolution, endorsing
President Cleveland and his message to
the Fiftieth congress,was put, and adopted
without a dissenting vote. I favor the re-
election oi President Cleveland, and en
dorse his policy on the tariff.
“W. R. Rankin,
“Member State at Large.”
“I endorse President Cleveland and bis
policy on the tariff, and would have en
dorsed the Rankin resolution had I been
present. O. B. Stevens,
“Member from the Second Eistrict.”
“I am a member of the democratic
state executive committee. I was present
at the meeting on March 21. I endorse
President Cleveland and his message to
the Fiftieth congress, and fiavor his re-
election, endorsing his policy on the tariff.
“J. P. Tilley,
“Member of Dem. Ex. Com., Fifth Dis
trict.”
“I am a member of the democratic state
the right man in Dhe right place.” Second
question: “I do endorse the sentiments ex
pressed iu the attached resolution.” Third
question: “I do approve the message of
President Cleveland to the Fiftieth col-
f ress. I think it oue of tbe ablest papers
ever read, and the true solution of the
treasury surplus and tariff question.”
From the foregoing, it will appear that
my telegram to Commissioner Miller was
literally true, and that the state executive
committee are a unit for the president aDd
his policy as laid down in his message to
the Fiftieth congress, and it is equally evi
dent that the sentiment in Georgia is over
whelmingly with Mr. Cleveland. I am
clearly of the opinion that the members of
this committee, who are representative
men from all portions of the state, reflect
the sentiments of the people upon the
people upon the tariff. That the democ
racy of Georgia are well-nigh unanimously
with the president on his tariff policy is a
question that does not admit of cavil.
Very respectfully,
thos. C. Crenshaw, jr.
“ Chop Up Dagou."
It has been related in missionary annals
that once upon a time a heathen cook who
was strongly attached to the ancient faith,
having informed his converted mistress
that there was no wood with which to get
dinner, was quietly told: “Chop up Da-
gon!” The discarded idol could not have
served a better turn. It was with a feeling
of horror somewhat akin to that of the
cook at tbe suggestion of his mistress that
Judge Kelley and the other high priests of
protection listened when Representative
Knute Nelson of Minnesota, stripped off,
one after another, the false pretenses in be
half of the high tariff divinity. He showed
not only that the claim that the tariff en
hances tbe wages of labor was not true,
but that the effects of the system has been
to diminish the earnings of workingmen
by increasing the cost of the necessaries of
living. In answer to the absurd preten
sion that the country’s prosperity has been
due to an exorbitant and exhaustive sys
tem of taxation he pointed out the real
sources of national progress and greatness.
The Minnesota member closed Sis speech
with the declaration that three-fourths of
the republicans of his state cordially
shared nis views.
The high tariff advocates in congress
have frequently witnessed the exposure
of the evils of their policy, and they have
responded with the usual appeals to
party prejudices and class interests. Had
this speech been made by a democratic
representative they would have deemed
no other reply necessary by a sneer at
“British free trade.” But this is the utter
ance of a representative who entered Con
gress with 40,000 republican votes at his
back. The fact is one of the many sig
nificant s:gns that the worship of the
tariff mumbo-jumbo is rapidly declining
in its foriher strongholds. It will not oe
than the ordinary kinds, and cannot be sold in
competition with the multitude of low test, short
weight alum or phosphate powders. Sold only
in cans. Royal Baking Powder Co., 106 Wall
St., H. Y. feb21dly
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long, at the present - rate of progress, until I tat> TT/~ 1 C YTT'TlTr’TYl.’i*
it shall be trundled off to the lumber UllLuO, -ILo,
house of outworn superstitions. Com
pared with it Dagon was an honest idol. !
When he ceased to be an object of worship
he served, at least, to cook a Sunday din- ]
ner.—Philadelphia Record.
Amounted to Nothing.
In the office of a partisan newspaper, i
Managing editor (to editor)—another
shooting affair in the south. Ah ! Order ;
2000 words. Political complications.
M. E.—Yes.
E.—Better order 3000 words. Negro
victims.
M. E.—Yes.
E.—Order 4000.
M. E.—Four negroes killed.
E.—What! Order 5000. High-spirited
gentlemen who killed them, I suppose.
M. E.—No, they were killed by negroes.
Got into a fight over a local election
and—
E.—Let it go. Don’t amount to any
thing.—Arkansaw Traveller.
CIGARS.
TOILET ARTICLES,
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Another Crisis.
The treasury department uses 18,000
towels a month, and yet the surplus is not
wiped out.—Puck.
Seems as if using as many towels as that
ought to diminish the ‘‘soap”—does it
not ? But perhaps a financial crash is nec
essary.—Boston Commercial Bulletin.
Horse of Another Color.
Telegraph editor (to chief)—Here is an
interesting dispatch about Albert, the
Prince of
Editor-in-chief (irascibly)—Kill it; I’m
sick of Albert, the Prince of Wales.
Telegraph editor—But this dispatch is
in reference to Albert, the prince of pe
destrians.
Editor-in-chief—Oh, pat a big heading
on it.—The Epoch.
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