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About Georgia home journal. (Greenesboro [i.e. Greensboro], Ga.) 1873-1886 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 10, 1886)
HOME JOURNAL. , FRIDAY. DECEMBER 10.18 M. TOO MUCH ADVICE. Editor Watterson of the Louis- Tiile Courier-Journal indites a long! “preambulary" screed setting forth the need and desirability of a Dem ocratic President succeeding Mr. Cleveland, and then he erects cer tain props on which he holds that Mr. Cleveland could erect a platform on which he would be come his own successor. This platform is, of course, a very differ ent one from that on which Mr. Cleveland is now conducting his administration, and, indeed, a very different one from that on which he was chosen President two years ago. According to Editor Watterson’s idea of a Presidential platform for 1888, the administration must pub licly admit that it has been an egregious blunder from first to last, and it mnst promise Editor Wat terson "not to do so no more.” Then Mr. Cleveland must openly confess in eflect that Editor Wat terson is a better President than himself, and that Editor Watter son, in short, knows it all. From what the people thus far know of Mr. Cleveland it is easy enough to see that b< will do just anything Editor Watterson wishes, and from what the people know ot Editor Watterson it is also eas.v to see that the greatest blunder of all was that he was Dot. plumped bodily and peremptorily into the chair where Mr. Cleveland now is seated. Some people will readily agree with Editor Watterson iu the umiu, for there arehundreds of thousands of Americans who never did and never will agree with Mr. Cleve land. These Dever did and never will agree with the Democratic party. Bnt there are one or two persons who will disagree with Ed itor Watterson, first, as to the pro priety of his suggestions, and then as to their practicability or value. These few dissentients will recall the fact that Mr. Watterson’s eccentric Democracy helped to lose Louisville, Mr. Watterson's politi cal capital, to the Democratic par ty just one month ago. Editor Watterson’s home is in the hands of the enemy. In view of this lit tle incident, Mr. Watterson’s labor ed editorials on “How to make Presidents" are something like the scribblings of a prisoner on the walls of bis duDgeon, in which he sets forth how his friends outside might easily reach and rescue him. Another point will probably be made, and that is that Editor Watterson is not President, and that Mr. Cleveland is. DON’T DO IT. During the late war there were many thousands of the patriotic people in the North and West who sympathized with the Southern Confederacy, and there were hun dreds who carried their sympathies into active channels and aided, as best they could or as far as they dared, the Bchemes of the Confed erates. No proclamation or Con gressional enactment of amnesty, of course, was operative as to or intended to reach this class, who through long and constant years of doubt and peril were denominated as "copperheads” by the press of the North. Their escape from dis covery and from persecution and penalty depended solely then, ns it will ever depend, upon the honora ble secresy of those on the Confed erate side with whom they were as sociated iu the varied plans for the succor or rescue of Confederate prisoners of war und for other de vices that wouid benefit th- South ern cause It is now said that the Southern Bivouac is going to puti.i-h ail the facts iu relation to these confiden tial matters and that it will supple ment its accounts with the names eud the correspondence of the dif ferent peroou* involved. We predict that the very first publication of these confidences be tween the Southern people and their Northern friends will provoke n storm of just indignation ail over the country, and particularly in the Mouth, which will fore# the Houthern Bivouac, bow a very ored- Held* and annepteUe print, out ol raapantaMe circulation j and for auab • summary and unenviable terminal ton of tie career lie Mouth era ibroues uilJ have Itself to , uumaa* j POLITICAL NOBODIES. We have not anywhere read of a •ingle defeated Democrat in the re cent Congressional scramble who haa had the candor or manlineea to admit that he was squarely shelved oo his own and nobody else’e ac -1 count. Tet that was the case eve rywhere. Morrison and others of his ilk are parading themselves through the press as the victims of President Cleveland’s policy. These men clearly know better, and they insult the intelligence of the Amer ican people when they attempt to pack any such stuff into the void where the truth belongs. If it were really a fact that Dem ocrats were slaughtered because of the policy of the administration, then the argument wonld bo timely that a candidate must have been very nearly a “nobody” who allow ed outside issues to belittle bis personal relation to bis own elec tion. Thus it is that, when one of the class of which the Democratic par ty is growing weary is snowed out of sight, it is useless to ask him how it happened. He will tell you anything but the truth. He will probably fail to see, however, that when he attributes bis defeat to matters in which the people really take very little interest be is giving himself away as a nobody—so to speak. In truth, some fewer Democratic Congressmen were relegated to ilio privacy of life than ought to have been. Too many functiona ries of the turkev cock persuasion got back into their old places at the late election. Some of these oracular states men are now en route to the na tional capita] with desigus ou the President aud his policy, whom and which they propose to handle without gauntlets or hound with ucrid drivel. Such "statesmen” as these will do well to paste in their hats the following patriotic remind er from the Atlanta Constitution, and have the lesson "by heart” when they reach Washington City: “The development of the re sources of the South and the in vestment of Northern capital are of a great deal more importance to our people than the controversy over the civil service policy of (he Democratic administration. The Southern Democrats cannot help but remember that the caution and conservatism of the President have given the capitalists of the North confidence in Southern invest ments. “We take the liberty, therefore, of saying that the South is not only solid for itself aud the Democratic party, but that it is solid for Mr. Cleveland. Those who are now carping at the President will find that this is the way the matter stands.” STRAINING AT A GNAT. There is a childish bill before the Georgia Senate which is silly and iusignificant. It will prob ably be frowned upon by every member who realizes that he is not purchasable or persuasable at the price of a free pass. The bill prohibits the “acceptance of com plimentary passes or free tickets from any railroad corporation do ing business in this State by any member of the General Assembly, the Governor or State House of ficers, or officers of the Executive Department, the members of the Railroad Commission of Georgia, and the Judges of the Courts of Record iu this State.” The bill provides that a legislator aecept 'ing a pass shall surrender to the State his mileage, and be expelled by the two third vote of the house to which he helougs. Other officers are liable to impeachment. The serious discussion of such a measure would he an arrant aud nn paidutiable par dy on legislative debate. When the Legislature de scends to trivialties such as this, Ihe people of Georgia are perfectly willing that they shall accept free rides or any other ready incaim of Retting back home. The Athena Uauuer pertinently aud suuuibly says : “We hardly think the matter worth legislation. I'u-ae* arc ! granted Me a convenience and oiirle*y- not as a bill*-, Hail roada are often r*<|U*t*d to fur* uiah them. It hi rather a matter 1 foi individual* to act U| am accord ing to their ova la*t<* or lhair own uuMocleUfie*. House ui#ud-r* i will u<t a wept (raa puaaua. Mouia I oka them and never no# them. Horae i*fms to accept mileage iflola U*a State uhiie uaiug theae GEORGIA HOME JOURNAL: GREENES BORO, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, ltib6.~ElOHT PAGES. tickets. Each member should bo free to do as be likes. Members who accept them do not regard them as likely to influence their public acts, lbtilroada have no such idea in furnishing them. It is not at all probable that men who are elected to the legislature by the people ou account of their ability aud integrity should feel it necessary to hedge themselves about with prohibitory or penal legislation iu the matter of free passes.” CENTRAL. With the lights before us, we are convinced that a change in the management of the Central Rail road is desirable and will result in advantage to all concerned. At this age, when the iron lines are penetrating and permeating every available mile of new territory, it is unnatural that a valuable plant like the Central should be content to nestle within its own shell or to move forward with the trepidation and*caution of a cooter. We do not say that this is really the case; bat if it is abreast of its means and pretensions—if it is indeed widening and extending its possibilities—where is its showing? Thirty points below par is not the place for the stock value of an enterprising and wealthy corpora tion. On the other hand, if it is enlarging its powers and its grasp, such a low price would seem to in dicate tardy, doubtful or incompe tent control. We know that there are those who will say that “conservatism’’ should be the cognomen of great concerns. Not so. The history of business the world over denies that conservatism, with toddliDg aud timid steps and halting and hesitant, methods, ever promoted great riches or produced marked prosperity. We know, too, that others are ready to declare that railroads, in their greed for wealth and monop oly, will sometimes discriminate against certain localities in favor of others. This is nonsense on its face. Suppose that a grocery man or a clothier were to carry out such an idea as between his customers —how long would his business prosper him.? A railroad is con ducted just as is a bank, a broom factory or a button mill. Their success depends largely upon im partial regard for all alike; their fortune, upon the spirit of enter prise and energy at the head., POLITICAL IDYSPEPSIA. The Augusta Evening News says of its morning contemporary, the Chronicle, that it never misses a chance to belittle President Cleve land and to sneer at his public acts. It says, too, that this sort of business belongs to the Radical newspapers. The Chronicle is ranked by some of its readers as a gastronomic (or, shall we say, a “digestive”) organ, and it seldom “misses a chance” to insert somewhere among its short editorial essays one or more hygienic hints as to approved cuis iuary methods of preserving health and temper, or of prolonging life. "You do not know how mar velously bracing and beneficial it is, Mrs. Salaam, to bathe bodilv iu a swash of snow on a bitter winter morning!” “In a swash of snow ! Mr. Ba laam ?” “Yes—why ?” “Did you ever bathe bodily in a swash of snow on a bitter wiuter morning, Mr. Balaam?” “Of course not.” “But you said I did not know how braciug aud beueticial it was 1” “Well—do you ?’’ “Of course not." "Neither do 1 P It would seem at this distance I 'hat, whether or not the Chronicle breakfusts or dines ou the uieuts ami entremets it recommends to | others, the result is the same to the Cbrouicle. The Cbrouiule has chronic political dyspepsia. NEVV ADVERTISEMENTS. JAMFS U. JACKSON, BROKER. So. 2MHKAUY HUI LDING BONDS AND STOCKS Itot'uMT ANliaol.li OXT OCMMZMZOK, t v tlMIKsh ih I iKMI'K Mi iMt'iT |;|i, A**t for atu a.Mitt. ter it* Mel* ut Uts Mejeii ft ftievb lio.4*l* ll*llr***l Hliaf M"P loftoK • jms ,m.i poNIMI tw.pl *4O I*l. |4it,l| Ui aU ‘ 11 I* u ftu* ftt, Alot a) A, *ft NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. T. C. BLIGH IMPORTER AND JOBBER OF IttlM Mil tUtttttUl S'-tri. BBA.CKHTS. < Chandeliers and House Furnishing Goods. ALSO A FULL LINE OF (jfiutq (Stunts for the gotittags. 840 BROAD STREET. - AUGUSTA. GEORGIA. Smith 8? Crane. GROCERS ! . 906 BEOAD ST., AUGUSTA, GA. Have on hand a large and complete stock of STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES which they offer to the public at the very LOWEST PRICES and on the most LIBERAL terms. All goods warranted to be as represented. The patronage of tbs public is re spectfully solicited and satisfaction guaranteed in fair and courteous dealing. decß J. I. 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