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Thursday, April 15, 1897.
A Byrd in hand
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in—school.
is worth two
Dalton gave the “Black Trilby
;ompany” the black eye.
Active opposition in business
makes some men soreheaded.
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Plate matter is cheap, but in
some papers it is the best feature
they use.
The growth of the Citizen con
tinues with a delightfully pleasant
regularity.
If Greece pulls the pin feathers
out of Turkey’s tail it will not
hurt this country.
Democratic papers feel very
much encouraged over the election
results of last week.
If we were inclined to be pro
fane we would call the Dingley
bill the d—nly bill.
r : >; 44 It is the ear.y bird that catches
the worm,” and the hustling paper
• that gets there, Eli
J. P. Atkinson is very much
like his father, the governor—he
has a head of his own.
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Judge Fite is certainly a jewel
on the bench. Some folks think
•' .. .. he comes mighty high.
Jerry Simpson, sockless Jerry
of Kansas, didn’t doji t’ing to Torn
Billybard Reed, did he?
Some people are too good to
edit a secular paper. They may
fly away some day, no telling.
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Will Meyers, the Atlanta
murderer, has been captured again.
^ This time at Boise City, Iowa.
All Georgia, except the Macon
Telegraph, regrets to learn of the
Kentucky is a great State, but retirement of Evan P. Howell from
the newspaper field. He has di
rected the destinies of the most
successful newspaper in the south-
lan^ior-ar- score-
the aggregation now at Frankfort
not adding much ro her credit.
The - ' mlir^ ot~ the—Whitfield
; "County Superior Court grinds ex
cerdingly fine, but makes good
time.
Frank Reynolds is showing
the people of Rome a thing or two
about a newspaper. The Tribune
was never better than since oppo
sition caused it to hustle.
Let us all pull together foi the
upbuilding of Dalton and Whit
field county. Bury the little dif
ferences that may exist. Be a man
and success will reward your
efforts.
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Several of the State papers
seem to think Flem duBignon has
a cynch on the governor’s office
two years hence, 8uch a decision
strikes the CITIZEN as a trifle pre
mature.
There are some good republi
cans, just as there are some bad
democrats, but in either case they
are in such a small minority that
they must feel awfuRy lonesome
at times.
One of the brightest exchanges
that reaches the Citizen office is
the Daily Argus, of Rome. The
first issue of the paper was bright,
spicy and newsy, and every ad
ditional number grows in bright
ness and value.
Some people have misconstrued
the position of the Citizen. We
would rather publish good news
than bad v , but it proposes to give
the news fearlessly and freely, re
gardless of how it may impress
some people. Let somebody do a
good deed, and we stand ready to
procla m the fact throughout this
great country.
Dalton Growing'.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. John El
rod, a son. _
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Born to Mr. and Mrs. W. G.
Tankersley, a daughter.
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Born to Mr. and
Vance, a daughter^
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Born to Mr. and
Sanders, a daughter.
Mrs. G. M
Mrs. J. E.
President McKinmjy has been
surveying Salt river, where his
party’s boat wili cast anchor four
years hence.
The changes that have been go
ing on at the Constitution office
indicate something, but just what,
we know not.
.The bad boys agree with State
School Commissioner Glenn that
the rod is often out of place
the school room.
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We sed where Evan P. Howell
is right. If we had $100,000,
what in the d 1 would we want
with a newspaper ?
The Cartersville amateurs, in
the vocabulary of the yellow kid,
are the peachiest actors that ever
came down the pike.
Republicanism in the north is
not the most beautiful thing in the
world, but when it attacks a South
ern State it seems to take on new
hideousness.
ars,A Jiis
mantle of ability falls gracefully
on the.; Shoulders of his gifted son,
Clark Howell, and the Citizen
expects to see the great daily ably
occupy the same field of useful
ness in Georgia. The Constitu
tion will continue to set the pace
in southern journalism. T .
TEMPOBIAIXY EMBAKASSED.
Talks About Our Pike Road and
Public Building.
POSSIBLE CHANCE FOR BOTH.
He Admires the Enterprise of the “Cit-
izen,” and Thinks Pluck and En
ergy Will Win.
The news flashed over the
wires Monday night that Hon.
John W. Maddox, our congress
man, was in Rome.
Tuesday morning I boarded the
Southern train for the Hill city.
Arriving in Rome I immediate-
The large crowd in attendance
at the memorial exercises in honor
of the late Trammel Starr shows
how much he was loved by those
who knew him best.
Cartwright Brothers are Forced to Close
Their Doors.
In the early hours of the morn
ing pf May 8, 1896 the flames de
stroyed the stock of goods of Cart
wright Brothers, of Dalton. /;/
A few weeks after settling with
the insurance companies, they
were established in the Farrar
building.
Soon after the Dr. Fann build
ing was repaired they put in a nice
line of general goods at their oid
stand and also continued the one
in the Farrar building, and every
body supposed they were doing-
very well until last Thursday af
ternoon April 7. 1897, at 4:85
o'clock when they tilled a bill of
assignment in the clerk’s office of
Whitfield county.
Col. S. P. Maddox was named
as assignee. ~
The firm of Cartwright Bros,
consisted of A. J. and I. F. Cart
wright.
Since the above was put in type
understand that neg-otiations
The pleasant weather of the
past week has inspired the horny-
handed sons of toil to go to work
with a will. The grumblers must
now shut up or go to predicting an
early drouth.
of Judge Maddox, which, by the
way, is a very pretty home. He
was not in, and I went up town to
find him.
He was neither at the custom
house nor court house and it was
by accident I found him standing
on the comer of Broad and First
streets. He was swapping yarns
with some horny handed son of
toil, who remarked just as i came
up that the “ Damney bill ” was
a sin and a shame.
I soon informed Judge Maddox
of my mission to the city with
seven hills and a daily paper for a
majority of them.
We went to the first stairway
on Broad street and sat down for
a good old fashioned democratic
talk. While we were sitting on
the stairsteps a half hundred dif
ferent people stopped to tell Judge
Maddox howdy, and the majority
of them had a suggestion to make
as to how the government should
be run. - • ' - ;
Between interruptions I man
aged to secure the following in
terview on what I thought would
be interesting to the people of
North Georgia.
“ Well, Judge, seeing that you
have just returned from Washing
ton, I thought 1 would run down
and interview you for the benefit
of the readers of The Citizen.
How long do you expect 10 be
at home? ”
“ I am not certain as to that.
When the house convened on Sat
urday last, Mr. Bailey asked Mr.
Dingley what the purptx 3 of the
majority was as to further legisla
tion? He replied-that the session
n called for the specific
purpose of raising revenue for the
government, and nothing more
would be done except to pass up
on the appropriation bills when
they come back from the senate,
unless the majority choose to re
verse this policy, and that he had
no idea that they would, and that
meet and continue
of adjourning for
three days at a time, whereupon I
paired with a republican and ob
tained leave of absence and will
remain at home until I am needed
in Washington. I have been
away from home almost contin-
ously for five years and you un
derstand how anxious I am to be
with my family, long enough at
least to get acquainted with my
children/’
“ Well, what do think of the
Dingley tariff bill, will it bring re
lief to the country?”
“ The Dingley Bill, I believe,
averages some thirteen per cent
higher than the McKinley Bill,
and should it become a law, will
prove a great burden to the peo
ple and will only add an addi
tional load to the shoulders of the
toiling masses of this country.
How additional taxation, without
providing additional means to pay
the same, in a country that is al
ready taxed to death, can re
store prosperity is a question that
I cannot understand/’
try is the basis of its prosperity
Something must be done to give
them proper remuneration for
their capital invested, and the la
bor done by them. They are the
great consumers. You must first
give them something to purchase
with and the mills will start up
without the aid of a McKinley
Bill or a Dingley Bill. What is
the use of starting up more mills
when the people cannot purchase
the goods that are being manufac
tured now? There is nothing
that you ever heard of that can
not be bought now if you have
the money.”
“ Well, what do you think of
our pike road from Ringgold to
Dalton? The people are quite
Judge A. W. Fite Has Got Them
on the Run.
CASES DISPOSED OF THIS WEEK.
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aine party i 8 §95 *
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months i n
retail
ly made my way to the residence anxious to have this road built
they would
this method
and want to know whether you
will introduce a bill on this line
and urge its passage, and what do
you think of the probability of its
passage ? ”
“You can say to the people
that 1 will introduce the bill when
congress meets in regular session
in December next. It is useless
to introduce such a bill now as we
have no committee appointed to
consider these matters, and will
not have until the regular session.
I will not only introduce the bill
but will use my best endeavors to
have it passed. You need not
send me any memorial, I will do
all that can be done without that.
Now you ask me as to the proba
bility of its passage. I can’t tell
about that, it is always best to be
candid with the people. There
are many difficulties in the way.
The first and leading one is this:
How can I show congress that
this road should be built to the
exclusion of hundreds of miles of
other roads over which the armies
fought and marched during the
war? If it is built from Ringgold
to Dalton, why not from Dalton
to Atlanta? If to Atlanta, why
not to the sea, etc ? But there is
no celling what can be done until
you try. Mr. Dingley says he is
going co fill up Che treasury, if he
does I shall do my best to have
some of it turned this way. They
will appropriate it for some pur
pose, perhaps not near so deserv
ing as this. I will ask for it, con
tenff for it. If we get it, we have
gained so much, if we fail, we
have lost nothing.”
“ Well, Judge, what J about our
public building, do you think that
you will jpass it? ”
“ I have reintroduced the bil.
that I presented to the 54th
The Court is Strictly Business and Ev
erybody Around Here Will Testify
to the Fact.
There will be a scarcity of blind
tigers in this county after the
present term of the Whitfield
county Superior court adjourns.
Judge A. W. Fite has decided
to weed them out of his judicial
circuit, and he is doing it to the
queen’s taste.
The color of the blind tiger
makes no difference in the sen
tence, white and black are treated
fir st onenceisl
and cost and three month>
chain Bgang. The
against the
costs and three
chain gang.
There is a little diff ereilee
the price of wholesale and
indictments.
In fact all the folks that K-
rubbed up against the pres J'
court have found it strictly *
ness, but space forbids our ^ ^
anything else than the
just now. They include all C J!
not reported last week i tl j
Citizen, up to the hour of J**
to press to day. 3 ^
Lake Street Mfg Block Co
Alex Taylor, defendant, andOlh*
May, claimant. Verdict, in f ay
of the claimant.
W. B. Callahan, plaintiff, V8 S
C. Coll mu. defendant, H E. c 0 {
.JUDGE W. FITE, OF THE CHEROKEE CIRCUIT.
con
gress. When the committee
we
are pending for a satisfactory set
tlement with their creditors, and
it is to be hoped that matters will
be so arranged that these energetic
young men cau continue in busi
ness. If the compromise is not j
effected, in our next issue we will j
give the schedule of their assign- j ■ th e other end of the line
“ You do not believe then that
the opening up of the mills will
bring prosperity to the country ? ”
“ I do not. I think we must
meets I shall go before thdm and
urge a favorable consideration
As to whether I will pass it or
not is a different question, I will
do my best. I don’t know of
town with so small a population
that can boast of a public building.
I do know of several in Georgia,
from two to three times the num
ber of inhabitants of your city
that cannot boast of one, but this
wont deter me in the least,
have seen the time once when
could have passed a bill if I had
had the bill before the house.
That time may come again, if it
does I will be ready. We have
got to ask and fight for what we
get in congress.”
“ I see you got Beauxite on the
protection list.”
“ No, that is a mistake. 1 made
a speech in the house on the Ding
ley bill, following Mr. Evans, of
Kentucky, who had extolled the
bill as being entirely nonsectional.
I attacked the bill as sectional,
took up the petition presented by
those interested in Beauxite to
the committee, showed the com
mittee that it was an infant indus
try and was competing with the
pauper labor of France and Ire
land. I went into the details of
this matter, and then said this in
dustry is located in Georgia and
Alabama and is found no where
else in the United States. I
showed them so plainly the injus-
ment and a list of all creditors. the agricultural interest of a eoun-1 tice they had done these people,
that the committee announced
that they would place a duty on
this material and they offered an
amendment to their bill and it
was allowed. I am not a protec
tionist in any sense of the word,
but I believe in the Democratic
doctrine of a tariff for revenue,
with such incidental protection as
would naturally follow, if the pro
ducts of the foreigner compete
with the products of our section,
why not place a revenue duty up
on them as well as the things
that compete with the north? ”
An old lady passing along the
street, recognized the genial con
gressman and stopped long enough
to ask him if he had any more
cabbage seeds in his pocket like
he sent her old man from Wash
ington. If he did she wanted an
other paper. The Judge felt all
around in his pocket but did not
find the desired seed.
At the conclusion of the inter
view Judge Maddox said let us
have something to drink and I ac
companied him to the soda fount
at Dr. Crouch’s drug store and
two glasses of coca-cola was the
order. I noticed Mr. Maddox
blew the foam off of his coca-cola
and thinking that was the new
style in Washington, I would not
let him think I was not up-to-date,
so I followed suit.
Dr. Crouch asked Judge Mad
dox if he had seen a certain Ro
man since he reached Washington.
“ I have seen nobody else since
he reached town,” wittily
replied the Judge.
Before meeting Judge Maddox
I had accepted an invitation to
dine with clever John A. Webb,
the former proprietor of Catoosa
Springs, who, with his charming
wife, is stopping at the Central
Hotel, so I declined other invita
tions to partake of the repasts of
the Romans.
The invitation I accepted proved
very pleasant, and after dinner I
called on several former acquaint
ances and newspaper friends, and
found them all social and prosper
ing.
Judge Maddox will be in Dal
ton tomorrow or next day.
W. Trox Bankston.
Verdict in favor
Two cases with
lum claimant,
of the claimant,
same result.
James Woods, plaintiff vs Levi
Gunter, defendant, and Le wis Ev
ans, claimant. Verdict in favor
of plaintiff . -
D. J. Oxford vs’H. H. Ware.
Verdict for plaintiff.
Dalton Building and Loan As
sociation vs I. Hallman. Verdict
for plaintiff.
Frank W. Stanley vs Hiraiu
Sholes. Verdict for plaintiff.
D. M. Peeples vs Mayor and
Aldermen of Dalton. Judgement
against plaintiff for cost.
Dalton Building and Loan As
sociation vs D. Puryer. Verdict
for plaintiff.'
Jennie Brown vs Samuel Brown.
Verdict total divorce.
Benjamin Boyd vs Sam Spen
cer et al, non suited.
State vs Henderson Barksdale,
selling whiskey; verdict guilty.
Fined $50 and cost and three
months in chain gang.
State vs Ed Whitaker, same re
sult.
State vs Will Brown, assault
with intent to murder; verdict as
sault and battery. Fine same as
above.
State vs Ed Whitaker, selling
whiskey, second case. $25 and
cost and three months in the chain
gang.
State vs Henderson Barksdale,
second case, similar offense, same
result.
State vs Henry Zuber, selling
whiskey. 850 and c«»st and three
months in the chain gang.
State vs Jabe Brooker, misde
meanor. 825 and cost.
Mary E. Houston vs H. T. and
H. I. Redwine consumed Monday
and a portion of Tuesday, result
ing in a verdict for the defendant
State vs Earnest Cobb, not
guilty.
State vs J. W. Todd, larceny
from the house; plea of guilty-
Fined $50 and cost.
State vs John Isenour, misde
meanor; plea of guilty. $15 aud
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State vs John Steward, second
j case for selling whiskey; verdict
in both cases guilty.
State vs Tom gKidd, selling
whiskey; verdict guilty. $25 and
three months in the chain gang-
A Few Kxtras. r
T. J. Peeples for contempt 01
court, $10.
Sheriff Johnsou ft
a straw bond, $5. Remitted.
Col. Jesse A. Glenn for con
tempt of court, $1. Remitted.