The Butler herald. (Butler, Ga.) 1875-1962, April 29, 1879, Image 2
THE BUTLER HERALD ,!ble fi>r that state of affairs,the Re-j
publicans wi)| elect the next Pres-
W..N* BENN8.
Edttar ami Pullsher.
tfcjuoCAiiTioM Taxes $1.00. Pam Ammu*
TUESDAY APRIL 89th 1879.
PRESIDENT MAKING.
We reprint in this issue of the Hek-
Ai.n an article from the New York Sun
on the subject of “President making,”
and which we regrot to say) we believe'
Is in the main just and true. Both
parties are obnoxious to the charges
preferred by the 8uu but not to the
same extent; for, the Democratic party
been forced into its present atti
tude by the course of the Republicans.
The Democrats in Congress propos
ed to repeal the law authorizing the
use of the army at elections. This was
and is resisted by the Republican par
ty and denounced as wrong and revo
lutionary. This of course forced tbe
Democratic party to deny the charge
and defend its course and show that it
was and is just, proper, and constitu
tional. Had the Republican party
been willing to leave to the people the
making oi a President, as was the case
in the better days of the Republic, all
the Appropriation bills could have been
passed into laws, in one month’s time>
and Congress could then have adjourn
ed and restored quiet to the country.
Indeed, had it not been for “President
Making” there would have been no ex
tra session of Congress. But the Re
publican party evidently is unwilling
to risk a fair and free election, and
therefore wish the President to retain
the power »f using the army at the
polls and thus being able to name his
successor as President Grant actually
did two years ago. Hence all tbe an
gry debates of the prescut session of
Congress.
Not only does the spirit of President
making prevail in Congress, but it per
vades all the high departments of the
Federal Government; and nine-tenths
of the appointments to office are made
by them with this purpose in view.
For instance Secretary Sherman desir
ed to be President, and therefore ap
points men to office not on account of
their qualifications to discharge the
duties of the offices to which, they are
assigned, but because they are able to
aid 1dm in his political aspirations.
One of his latest appointees is ex-Scn-
ator Conover, who was doubtless ap
pointed for his supposed influence in
Florida.
We trust the time will come when
the making of Presidents will be left
^bere ^sirn^rly. belongs, namely,
withhe people. When that day ar-
| if it ever does, there will be a
thorough reform in the political econo
my of this country,and we may reason
ably expeot that peaces and quiet which
the people of all sections so greatly
ident by ao overwhelming majuri-
ty aud re tain power for ut least
the next decade of years.
We trust that our leaders in
Congress will not fiom the dictates
of prudence and modeiatioa aud
not allow their course to be influ
enced by passion or the taunts of
their opponents. We regard the
present crisis as the turning point
in the fortuuea ot the Democratic
party for years to come. We trust
its action will bo such as to secure
the confidence and approvul ot the
country.
about something lika substantial reform
of the moot flagrant abuses. Unfortu
nately, their leaders, like those whom
they antagonise, are selfish and ambi
tious. They are not content with the.
opportunity to do good, but dmuaud
the first place and tha highest h mors,
to say nothing of the spoils.
While these rivals are contending
for ascendency, the depression of all
industry continues. It is boasted that
the sale of the four per cent loan, the
last part of it at a premium, which has
itreo risen remarkably, is a great
ichievemetit. No man engaged in bu
siness, or who has to carve out his. for
tune l»y industry aud enterprise, can
rejoice at any such conversion of bonds,
except to tlm extent of the reduction
in the rate of interest. It proves con
clusively that while there is abundant
capital for every need, confidence does
not exist to employ it; and it seeks in
vestment at a rate of intorest unknown
to our experience in any normal con
dition of affair*. This grinding system
may he pleasant to the bondholder; to
syndicates, to the banker, to the broker,
mid to those who have assured incomes,
but to the millions who have built up
this country by their brains and mus
cle, and who depend upon a healthy
condition of industry aud business for
their success, it means ruin and suffer
ing.—New York Sun.
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item, ATONIC
Pr.p.rallM 61 WON .M CAUIAYA BARK. I. umMMtLn .116 16. P6...I.I.,
Endanod by the Medical Ptofusilon, and recommended by them for Dyipeeala, General Debility, Fe.
male Dlaeaeea, Want of Vitality.Ac., Ac.
Vaiatketared the Dr. Harter Kedlelae Co., Re. SIS N. Hall Street, St. Leelat
Tho following la one of tho very many testimonial! we are receiving dally
ago I began the,use of Da. Hartbr'S Irqh Tome, epen the advlod
». 1 wa» Buffering from general debility to «uch an extent ‘ ’
OrnlUmtn:—Somo throe n
■ come aleo a.clearness
-‘id with double this ease. With the tranquil nerve and vigor of body, has
thought never before enjoyed. If the Tome has not done the work, I know
•redR. Most gratefully yours,
Tatar, O., Jan. 1,1878. J. P. Watsow, Taitor Christian ChpNh, Troy, (X
fer Rale by DfegfUU aad Seaeral Dealers fiverywleere.
BUTLER
We learn from the Sandersville
Courier that a terrible fire occured
mi the premises of Mr. W. H. Par
sons, ab ut. one mile we4 of that
city, on Friday night, which re
sulted in the burning and total
destruction of a largo, new three-
story barn, together with six head
of horses, four cows aud calves,
five hundred bushels of coru, a
large quautity of fodder, hay, pens,
chains, ground pea*, and all his
hamcd:* aud farming implements.
Tlu* barn was sixty by sixty-six
feet, And was considered the finest
in the county, Mr. Parsons esti
mates his loss at forty-five hundred
dollars. No insurance. The Cour
ier says “the wails nnd groans
of the burniug stock and cattle in
the ugou.es of a terrible death
could he heard a long distance, and
were heari-reudering aud sickening
in the last degree.” The fire is
supposed to h ive been the work of
an incendiary.
USE THIS BRAND.
Congress.
The army appropriation bill has
passed both Honsee of Congress
and gone to the President for his
actioD upon it, and before another
issue of this paper goes to prese
we will know whether it is to be
come a law or not.
It has been strongly intimated
by the frieods of the President that
the hill will be vetoed; while we
truet th.se predictions or intima-
tions will prove to be withoot foun
dation, we greatly fiar it will be
otherwise.
In the event Mr. Hayes shall
veto the bill there will be a great
responsibility npon the Democrat
ic party. 1 Suppose in the event of
a veto the Democrats shall recede
fiom their demands, the country
will hold them respon ible for all
the trouble and bad' feeliog result
ing from extra session of Con-
greee; tor,-me hill could have been
passed in the last Congress had
the Democrats ceased to demand
the repeal of the law allowing the
iMe of the army ah elections.
On the ether hand, .if the Dem
ocrats persist in their demands,
there will b? ni money ini the snr-
port of the army after next June;
and, shonldlh^people believe that
She Democratic: party is responsi-
President Making.
Congress 1ms now been in session
more than a.month, without disposing
of either of the Appropriation hills
that rendered the extra session neces
sary, and without an attempt to dp
anything else practical or useful. This
valuable time has been used by both
parties —for one is equally culpable
with the other—fti preliminary work
for the Presidential campaign of next
year. Th& whole debate in the Senate
and in the House of Representatives
has been directed to that single point.
Every move oh the board 1ms had that
object in view, ami nothing else.
The stagnation in business and the
distress in every industrial pursuit,
the absence of enterprise and tho pa
ralysis of trade, seem .to make no se
rious impression on Congress. On Mon
day last, tho greatest number of hills
ever knowu to be presented on a singl*
day were referred in tliu House of Rep
resentatives. Most of them looked to
relief from burdens in one form or an
other, nnd to that extent gave voice
to the suffering all over the country.
The groat hulk of these hills will tinvcr
einerge from the committee room. Tludr
authors intended or expected them .to
be huiicd there. This is the stone
which the hungry constituent gets for
bread; and when called to account, the
sharp politician tells him the rules of
the House stood in the wuy, hut his
bill will surely puss at the next session
Meanwhile, the member is casting
about for the most likely candidate fi r
President, and devotes ivliutever abili
ty he may have to advancing his nomi
nation.
Politics and President making have
come to l>e the chief business of Con
gress. Nearly every measure-proposed
on either side has a partisan aim or
bearing. The great public interests,
and what may he called a national pol-
ioy which looks to tho gtmcrul good
with no sectional preference, have few
if any representatives in either House.
And when the whole matter is stripped
of its disguises, and the shams of dem
agogues are cast aside, tho contests
between parties is resolved for the
most part iuto a scramble for tho offices.
The professions of plutforms are
mere catch words, which have little
significance after they are uttered. Re
publicans and Democrats alike have
falsified their pledges. They both seek
possession of the Government and of
the vast patronage arising from
hundred millions of yearly recoipts and
expenditures, and more than a hun
dred thousand officers to manipulate
this immense machine. The struggle
for possession is the bane of our poli
tics, and if continued on the present
line, will become one of the most *eri-
ous dangers to free institutions.
The sectional crusade which is now
waged so fiercely, and is used to alarm
the timid and thoughtless, is tbe out
come of this desperate desire to hold
on to the administration and its patron
age, by which the managers are made
powerful and rich. There are leaders j
who shout loudest on this subject, who, j gTOSS&SgJfe
like the Roman soothsayers, cannot C* A, ' 1,, “ ull!t ' 8 “ l
look in each other’s faces without laugh-'
ing, ftfter an exhaustive effort to prove! Notice * or Leave to tell Land
that the South, with its minority of I GEORGIA-Taymii Counts :
population and representation, ss a ** Arl
menace to the great North and West,
united in one race, constantly growing,
and certain after the next census to
hold the destinies of the Union in their
handa against all comers and combina
tions.
If the million of voters who last fall
stepped outside the jines of the parties,
because neither satisfied them, were
wise, they might dictate terms to one
or the other in such a way as to briug
AND
AllAti NViTii HAMMERBRND. 99*
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BEST IN THE WORLD.
BETTER THAN AiY 5ALARATLS.
One tcaspooiiful of this Soda used will
milk equals Four tenspoonsftils of
of the best Raking Powder,
saving Twenty Times its
cost. See package lor
valuable infor
mation.
If the teaspoonful is too large and
does not produce good results at
first, use less attewards.
feb.4-tf.
ceased, bus Applied tor f*i\ve to sell nil Un
real ty belonging to the ««Isle ot M<id deet
ed. dll parties cnucerned • are hereby re
quired so slioa cause il any they cun, on <
before the lirsi Monday in .May mu!, wl:,
leave should uni h* ur.iutud Raid Adminis
trator to M-il said land.
Given uuoi r my hand un official signature.
This 31ut March 187U
iprl-w4w.
JAMES D, FUSS,
Ordinary.
The next session of this Institution will- oj en January 15
1879. • ' ,
The rates of tuition will be as follows:
Primary department. —*•— -— $1 50 per month.
Academic, —— * 2.50 “ “
Higher —»— 2 &0“ “
Incidental Fee 1 .75 per Session.
have made a liberal deduction on our past ra»w. Instruct inn will h« tburmtgfi
and discipline striot. All tho cVparmieht.1 will bo tided with competent teat turn Tbs
President will give special attention to the• control or tho *«itotxI rooms. Tl* primary
Ic-partinent will bo visited morning and sltcruon by him n<m the other depurtmt-au at
least once every day.
The sobool room will be made comfortable and every facility afforded tho stadt-nt* for
rapid progress. Good recitation* will be required aud no utudenl yiU be allowed tQ puss
over a lesson until be understands it.
We earnestly usk the continued support of our patrons and promise to niuTce *v*y
i ffort to deserve their support, Fer six years we havo tfio undivided support of
this community and we mentinu this as our best fecomm«udrttior lo Him* winning a
•jood school for their children,
lioard and tuition combined enn bo had for less than *12.00 per month. Lih*r»*. dis
counts will be made for payments in ndviinec. For further information a rid ran*.
JAIMES T, WHITE, President.
I hate the pleasure of informing my friends and patron,
hat I am now receiving my
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