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HOME JOURNAL.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22. 1886.
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FOR CONGRESS.
HON. 11. H. CARLTON,
OP CI.IRKI COUNTY.
POINT BLANK.
No sane, just and sensible man
in the South objects to the working
men of this section organizing
themselves into any peacenblo and
orderly association for legal redress
of the real hardships of powerful
monopolies, for the protection of
honest labor rights or for mutual
advancement in all respects. We
have been in favor of these peace
able accretions for another reason,
that they tend to create under
standings between apparently con
flicting interests, and agreements
as to a general high grnde of work
manship. But we wish the labor
systems of the different sections,
which do not and cannot conflict
with each other because they are
diametrically npart in method and
management, to be adjusted within
the sphere wherein the contracting
parties—the employers and the
employed—have their interests lo
cated.
We nre opposed to the interfer
ence of the Northern or national
idea of adjustment, because the
Northern workingmnu at his homo
in the North knows no more about
labor in the South than he does
about locomotion in the moon.
We are unalterably opposed to
the foisting of Northern Knights
of Labor expedients upon the South
ern idea of labor settlement, be
cause the Northern scheme is an
archical and political.
We are opposed to the needless
interjection of disturbing elements
iuto the Southern labor system be
cause the local condition is either
one of coutentment or it is accessi
ble to relief and remedy by local
treatment.
More than all, we are opposed
to the interference by and influ
ence of Mr. Powderly and his par
ticular following at the North upon
our domestic labor concerns, be
cause it has been plainly shown by
the behavior of certain of his com
bination iu Richmond, and by its
indorsement by the Northern body
at large, that these men are inimi
cal to the political, domestic and
social habits and customs of the
South, and that they have leagued
together to regulate the local ethics
of the Southern people.
In proof of this wo need hardly
recall that the actions of the
Knights of Labor in Richmond,
Va., were characterized by a
studied design to insult the social
convictions and principles of the
whole Southern people, aud that
they no doubt selected the city
which had been the centre aud
Capital of the South as the most
effective aud favorable place to
give their gratuitous wound the
greater smart and deeper gash.
They first attempted to foist a
negro into one of the prominent
hotels on terms of complete equal
ity with the white patrons. They
next deputed this same negro to
introduce their immaculate spon
sor to the Governor of Virginia.
They then forced this same negro,
at the head of eighty men, into the
most fashionable place of amuse
ment, where under their protection
he occupied a seat which had al
ways been reserved for the use of
white people.
Now, these men of Powderly’s
party knew that these acts would
arouse an indignant storm in the
South, and they intended that they
should. Out of this natural tu
mult a sympathy would spring
up among the negroes of this sec
tion for the Knights of Labor, and
the negroes would flock en masae to
the fold of their new emancipators.
Would this ameliorate the condi
tion of the negro ? No ; but it
would alienate him from his em
ployer ; it would disconcert his re
lations with his industries; it
would discontent him with his daily
toil and his accustomed circum
stances, and it would iu another
year force him into a formidable
union against the white (icopla
among whom and for whom he
worked, and IhU smtdd tut id;/ rr
thVr Ihr Jiuditul jinrtl/ in thr South
and in tlur tiuu mtuhi destroy lU
Jhuim nitit mJidity (/ (hi* art turn.
Any other interpretation of the
acts of I'owdorly's Had id*! pio-
Hi Jiiiftitf in blind aud
etupid.
That thee# men iu tbeir ardor to
Are (be iniue should bate picwa
tarely revealed the true inward
ness of their enormous scheme,
was their misfortune, but will be,
if properly viewed and utilized,
of inestimable benefit to the peo
ple of the South.
Our people, from the era of Os-
sawattomie Brown, the patron saint
of every fanaticism at the North
then and since, have been warring
for domestic peace. Our chosen
methods of domestic life have sel
dom in the last quarter of a centu
ry been free from attempts at gra
tuitous censorship and insurrec
tionary interference. Since John
Brown’s base surprise and bloody
onslaught on the unsuspecting
Virginians, however, the Southern
people have been quick to fathom
to its deepest depths the very first
intimation of mean and scheming
plotters at the North. If they have
seemed too suspicious, it isbecause
these outrageous designs have been
too transparent.
The Knights of Labor at the
North care naught for the laboring
mun iu the South. In truth, there
is no contact, no cohesiveness, in
the two systems, and they cannot
conflict because they do not em
brace similar needs and do not oc
cupy the same territory. There
can be no competition when com
modities are apart by widely sepa
rated markets. In point of fact,
the wage-earner South is a thou
sand per cent, better off in the ab
stract than the workingman in the
North. There are a thousand de
mands for Mr. Powderly’s inter
vention among his own people
where there is a single need in the
South; and we grant that Mr.
Powderly may do just as he
pleases with his own people. But
if Mr. Powderly imagines that any
power short of the Infinite will be
permitted to Radicalize the South,
he might as well return the money
to the pockets of the bnmboozled
laborers who are toiling to pay for
his junket, and discontinue his
effort in despair.
We assure Mr. Powderly that
we can continue to manage a sys
tem older than his great-grand pa
rents and far less understood by
him. Mr. Powderly says that the
uegroes here are too ignorant to
demand higher pay. That might
be true, Mr. Powderly. But the
negroes here do know one or two
things. They know they are not
mudsills. 'They do not need to
sleep in sewers and cellars nor to
eat from soup . benches and fish
stalls. Reform your own labor,
Mr. Powderly. If you had attempt
ed to foist a Southern negro into
an unwelcome seat at a theatre,
Mr. Powderly, he would have re
buked you by telling you that he
did not wish to be put where he
knew he was not wanted. The
Southern negro, Mr. Powderly, is
far superior to millions of North
ern white men in the ordinary
ethics of politeness. Still we do
not propose to ride rough-shod
through your country to compel
our ideas of politeness to be prac
ticed by them. Once more, Mr.
Powderly, there is not a cornfield
negro in the whole area of the cot
ton States who is not happier in
his labor and reward than are his
would-be reformers at the North.
The South is at peace with its
working class, Mr. Powderly, aud
the man who voluntarily under any
guise undertakes to disturb its con
dition or to endanger or disrupt
these relations, even for so noble(!)
au end as the rehabilitation of the
Radical party in the South, will
be regarded as an enemy to society
aud must expect the usual process
of extinguishment. Your social
ism has asserted itself in the West
with bombs. We recall that the
last invasion of Georgia was by
"bums.” Just keep off your dogs
from us, Mr. Powderly, and let
them devour each other, for all
that we shall object. Meanwhile the
lynx eye of a sleepless Southern
press is upon yon and your so
called Knights of Labor. If you
shall really thiuk to Radicalize
the South by seditiously, iusidious-
ty and emissarily spreading the
gospel of a wur fur Radical rosur
rectiou among the uogroes by
openly attacking our social princi
ples am! customs, then we pla
cidly admoish you aud your revolu
tionary lieutenants to maintain an
olwcure place very far from the
vau of vour impending aud impos
ing reform proeesaiou.
We predict that it will tie many
a long day before ambitioua aud
irrea|H>uaitde men or combination*
will have the hardihood to propad
face or liedkeal issues into n cam*
in UlMl cHHI uly.
GEORGIA HOME JOURNAL: GREENESBORO, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22,1886.-
EXECUTIVE NERVE.
Homo of the very newspapers;
which have been chorusing their
discontent at Mr. Cleveland’s gen
eral policy are now the first to ap
plaud bis recent revocation of cer
tain treaties with Cuba and Porto
Rico because of their violation by
the parties of the second part.
Slowly but surely the vast ma
jority of the people of this country
are coming to realize and recognize
that we have a President “every
inch a President.” This is not to
say that certain unappeasable mal
contents and certain dyspeptic
newspapers will ever yield their
candid and conscientious praise
and approval to Mr. Cleveland.
The material ont of which Ameri
can Presidents are made will need
to be recast over and over again,
and the experimental results will
have to be submitted to their mi
croscopical inspection before they
will admit that there are no flaws.
In other words, the American Pres
ident will have to be moulded
after a pattern whose patent is the
special contrivance of the malcon
tent and his organ ere we shall
ever have an Executive whose com
position is integrally five-eighths
angelic and three-eighths humanic.
As these proportions are thus far
unknown to fallible mortality, it is
as much as to suspect that the
carping critics of public men, and
particularly of American Presi
dents, will continue to twaddle.
For our part, we confess that
Mr. Cleveland has not in all re
spects pleased us. We confess, too,
that we have a vague suspicion that
he was not chosen especially to
meet our vagarious notions. We
don’t suppose Mr. Cleveland is
altogether pleased with us, either.
But we recognize him, as Presi
dent, to embody the triumph of the
Democratic party in the country.
We recognize, too, that no other
Democrat could have been elected
save Mr. Cleveland. We recog
nize, fuither, that no other Demo
crat, at least no other Democrat
now before the people, can be
elected in 1888. We know what
the election of a Republican means
to this section. We know what it
always meant. We therefore de
sire the continuance of Democratic
ascendancy in the whole country.
We believe that every thrust
at the Democratic President by
a responsible publication of the
Southern press is a deadly stab at
the only effective friend the South
now has, and we believe that stab
to emanate in the house where
every tenant ought to be Mr. Cleve
land’s friend. So believing, it shall
never be the policy of this paper
to ignore his good works, to insti
tute or acquiesce in captious an
tagonisms for the sake of tickling
any man’s or set of men’s disgrun
tled or bigoted spites, nor to hold
up whatever of his shortcomings to
the ridicule or revenges of ma
licious or disappointed political
trimmers or placemen. If Mr.
Cleveland has his faults, so have
we, and, it is not too muck to fear,
so have his critics. The hopes and
needs of the South—her peace,
her progress, her destiny—require
the domination of the Democratic
party in this part of the country.
No word of ours shall tend to di
lute or retard the splendid senti
ment which is crystallizing in fa
vor of Mr. Cleveland’s being his own
successor in the next Presidential
contest.
A YEAR OF DISASTER.
That class of persons, large or
small, who superstitionsly regard
the fifth day of the week as in some
way being associated with ill-fate
and disaster, will be sure to recall
tbat 1886 entered into date on
Friday and tbat it will departs
that day. In truth, the present
year has been thus far almost un
precedented for the character, va
riety, degree and thoroughness of
its manifold calamities. So fre
quently have they followed, one
upon the other, that many of the
earlier happenings have been
crowded from attention and even
memory by recent catastrophes.
The chronology and uecbrology
of this yoar will exhibit startling
figuroa aud fatalities.
Within the recent months mon
strous visitants have appalled, pain
ed aud devastated whole cities.
Earthquake, flame aud flood have
vied in aw ful power for the destruc
tion of hurnau hope aud life, llow
have their irresistible forces mock
ed the frail artifices and contriv
ances of mau! The preae of the
whole country teems with the
i tidings of disaster. The burden of
I every tongue is the tale of woe and
| despair. It is a tiaie w h**n every
beat! must turn trustfully to tiod.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
V.S.&&.A.HA.LL
Earthquake Rumblings
ARE HEARD ELSEWHERE!
BUT THE RACKET YOU HEAR IN GREENESBORO
PROCEEDS FROM THE GRAND
OPENING OF FALL GOODS
AT OUR GREAT HEADQUARTERS .
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We Can’t Knock Down Prices Without Making a Noise
Hence, when you hear Loud Thunderings look out for a Tumble in Prices!
GENERAL ME&CIAN&IBE,
DRY GOODS, CLOTHING, GROCERIES, BOOTS,
SHOES, HATS, OVERCOATS, ETC.
-A-ll and TTe xy Clxea,p.
TO WHICH WE HAVE JUST ADDED A SUPERB BTOCK OF
Wagons Buggies, Harness, Leather and Hardware.
We have marked our prices to suit the times, and solicit an inspection of our goods
and prices. We mean business. It will pay you to come early and make selection.
V. S. & G. A. HALL, Greenesboro, Ga.
A . Stores !!\a
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\IMMENSE STOCK /
PRICES TO SUIT THE TIMES A&
J | ATHENS, 111
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EXCELSIOR!
QUICK. SALKS
AND SMALL PROFITS !
To meet the growing demands of a first class trade, I have made large additions to my
EXTENSIVE STOCK in every department, and as my facilities for purchasing to the
best advantage are unsurpassed, lam able to sell at lowest living prices. I have just
received a full and carefully selected stock of
Mil iWIPISI!
for the Fall and Winter trade. I have a larger stock of Ladies Dress Goods than ever
before. All grades of Repellants, Cassimeres and Jeans, Bleaching, Flannels and Do
mestics in abundance. A large stock of BOOTS and SHOES. A Clothing Department
which is full and complete in quality and ptice. A stock of
Mats and Caps !
in which we can suit and fit any man, boy or child who may favor us with a call. An
extensixe GROCERY DEPARTMENT in which will be found the choicest Family
Groceries and Plantation Supplies. Hardware, Tinware, Glassware and Crockery cheap
er than ever.
WILL BUY COTTON 2
I will pav the highest market price for cotton. All kinds country produce bartered for.
To the many friends who have so generously patronized me I return siucere thanks,
and hope by continued fair dealing to merit and receive a continuation of their favor.
RANDOLPH TAPP AN,
WDlte Plains, - Georgia
H* , W. T'tiomas,
85 WHITEHALL ST., ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
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DEALER EfcT
* FURNITURES
NEW STOCK, NEW GOODS AND NEW PRICES !
10 Per Cent Saved. Call early before Sets are broken.
A. R. ROBERTSON,
, —— Manufacturer and tuwortor of
Granite and Marble Monuments
AMD TOHBtTOn*.
A large lot of tinianed work on hand ready for lettering. The erec
tion of a monument is the last act of respect which we pay to the
memory of departed friends, It is a custom which ha* been followed
from the remote"! ages of antiquity, To give them Christian burial
is simply a duty -to cherish and perpetuate their memory are marks
ot esteem. For handsome Monument* aud Tombstones call on
**ll6 A. R. ROBERTSON. A THEN**. UA.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
X. C. LEVY’S
GREAT TAILOR-FITTING
aaesaasH© aot/sa 3
NEED SOME NEW CLOTHES, DON'T YOTT
YQU DON’T WANT TO BE CHEATED, DO YOU
YQU r .WANT YOUR MONEY’S WORTH, DON’T YOU
YQU HAD BETTER COME HERE THEN, HADN’T YOU
YOJJ SHOULD SEE OUR STOCK, IT WILL PAY YOU
YO JJ CAN SELECT CLOTHES TO PLEASE YO U
YOU:: ...WILL NOT BE URGED TO BUY, WE ASSURE.... YOU
VOTT WILL find olr suits stylish, durable, econom- VHTT
x ICAL AND EXACTLY THE SIZE TO FIT IvU
You will FIND OUR PRICES T 0 BUIT YOU
YOU' • SHOULD READ > CONSIDER AND ACT AS WE ADVISE. YOU
We guarantee a FIT in every respect. A First Class Tailor in Store
to make any alterations desired free of charge.
I. C. LEVY, 836 Broad St., AUGUSTA, GA.
SGOFIELB’S HOB WOBKS.
ADJOINING PASSENGER DEPOT, MACON, GA.
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Manufacturers of the old'and well known
SCOFIELD’S PATENTED EMPIRE PREMIDM COTTON PRESS
The most substantial, beßt built, and fastest Packing Cotton Press on the market. Pack*
by hand,, horse, water or steam power. Portable and Stationery Steam Engines and
Boilers, all sizes and styles—4 to 100 horse power. Shafting, Pulleys, Hangers, Mill
Gearing and Machinery a specialty. Hancock Inspirators, the best boiler feeder known
and acknowledged standard. Iron Pipe and Fittings, Engine Trimmings, Brass Valves,
Whistles, Lubricators, Rubber and Leather Belting, and everything pertaining to Foun
dry. Machine and Mill Supply business. Address
SCHOFIELD & SON Proorietors, Macon, Ga.
M. m. TURNER & CO.
IXSEE BLITB SXCKLT
FREE ADMISSION !
THE BIGGEST HIT OF THE SMI!
Hours for showing 7a.m.t09 p. m. Don’t you fail to come.
Dry Goods at Half Price!
IS THE BENEFIT WE ARE GOING TO GIVE THE PEOPLE AT LARGE.
Because we bought the stock of Smith & Turner at half price, and are going to give our
customers the benefit of this purchase. The stock consists of the latest style in Dress-
Goods, Hosiery, Table Linen, Towels, Napkins. Flannels, Blankets, Shawls, Cloaks,
Jerseys, Ladies’ and Gents’ Undervests, Gents’ White and Colored Shirts, Notions, etc.
Don’t take our word for this, but just come and see for yourself. We are satisfied we
can please you or we would not ask you to give us a call. Quality of goods guaran
teed in every case.
CsT The greatest bargains in Black Silks and Cashmeres ever offered in the city.
THE BLUE SIGN, 33 PEACHTREE ST., ATLANTA, GA.
M. M. TURNER cfc CO.
ATHENS FOUNDRY AND MACHINE WORKS.
ATHENS GEORGIA.
Iron and Brass Castings, Mill and Gin Gearing, a full line of the Celebrated Osborn?
Reaping and Mowing Machinery, Cotton Presses, Cane Mills, Evaporators and Mill Sup*
plies of all kinds. We are now
Offering Special Bargains
in Steam Engines and Circular Saw Mills, Turbine Water Wheels and Bolting Cloths at
short notice. Hancock In- ■ A
spirators, the Great Boiler j M g| *6 •
Feeders, Elberman Single 1 ■
Hand Injectors, j i JH 0
and none better. Piping,
Valves, Fittings of all kinds,
I’a. UniL-.Sii ami ; v~t ••••; .
Glasses, etc., etc. . iITATS R
Let us know what you
want, and gel our prices lx - f*TUScSewoSK?BiAN!pffSSBIsF ! IiMHHfi
fore buying, ji
Address, I ■. •., W ‘
BAILEY, Agent, Athens, Ga,
PURE DOMESTIC WINES
SOLE AGENT IN GEOIiUIA
Cullmann Wine Company.
CULLMAN, ALABAMA.
IWgs to Inform hi* inanv friend* and imtrous that ha I to, removed his wins mom* from
7 Karl Almlnmub otrwl to 10 Whiiviiall nnul, where ha wilt cotiliuuu to oall para wins it
(ha follow ina low print. 1
Hiiiorl r (Marat,. Quanta per hutlla. I rmieurd or Ifc>Uwarr MU nrtil* iwr bolllt.
11m,t0..1*, Hurt, *.. tor lin ,! tt t.u and m upi. im, 40 mu! wiilMUe
Alt iliiAii miim §i|i it it , w> * . *' " *
until Al.lH.lt f MTAI It, Id 1 14 WltuiiulJ Hu, Hmw'i old rtttti. All Jl AT A# 04.