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MONDAY. JUNB 9. l«i
The Hon Joe Hall and the Atlanta de
pot we atm have with us.
South Georgia should begin now to
groom her candidate for 19*.
It is believed that the Hon O. B. Bte
nns also carried a few Alabama counties.
Isn’t it strange how many more friends
a man has after being elected than be-
The cessation of hostilities tn South Af
rica will. we hope, make diamonds
cheaper
Now that It is all over we don’t mind
telling you that we knew how it was go-
L tng to be all along
k. President Spencer may now takexthe lid
oE of that depot problem without any
I further misgivings.
What we want to know Is. does the
Hon. Tom Wataon consider himself vindi
k gated or revenged?
Cuba seems to be lacking In at l*ast one
essential for a successful republic. It has
no -Father of His Country.”
A man named Tongue has beet* elected
; to emigres* from Oregon. He ought to
feel perfectly at home there.
England has won a victory in South
Africa, but k will be some Ums before
she gets through paying for It.
Colonel Estill probably meant that he
had aramged for 52 counties. But only 30
were delivered In good order.
We knew all along what was going to
happen to that Bibb county machine when
It ran Into the Hon. Joe Hall.
A Kansas man has put up a sign: "Jim
Smith, Physician and Undertaker.” He
catches ’em a ‘cornin’ and a ‘gotn’.
Had ft not been for volcanic disturb
ances. says a distinguished scientist, men
would have been fish. Some men are.
The railroads have made cheap rates
for the convention of Brigham Young's
descendants to be held at Bait Lake City.
We take It for granted that the Hon,
Joe HIB Hall's first legislative act will be
to ask permission to explain the vote in
R Bibb.
Uncle Mark Hanna Is getting so close
to the people that he Is now willing to
admit that ho Is opposed to the "bad
trusts t
A rich New York woman announces that
her fifth husband is missing. She has evi
deotty been very careless with her hus
bands.
Every gubernatorial esmpaign seems to
develop that queerest of ail political cota
pounds—the fellow who vote* one way and
talks another.
By the way. had you thought of it—that
this is the first gubernatorial race in many
ywars where the candidate's war record
wasn t the chief issue?
We are at least gratified that the cam
paign Ims come to a close without those
Macon politicians making good their
threat to compare "jag records.”
The Chicago Tribune reports a serious
row at the milkmen's ball. The fuss was
Started by some fool asking one ot the
men if hs brought his pumps along.
We will have to insist that all water
mekon poems sent to us this year be ac
companied toy a watermelon fresh from
the vine, aa evidence of good faith.
"Hill and Harmony " appears to be thC
slogan of the New York Democrats. We
know who Hill is. but Harmony appears
to be a new one in the Democratic ranks.
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Strange what fixes a man's social
’ standing in this world. People who pick
ed the winner in Thursday’s election will
now be getting Into the Panama hat set.
The Indiana at the Rosebud agency de
clare that they would rather starve than
Work. Th*re are lots of people just tike
that tn Georgia, and they are not Indiana,
either. '
A Kentucky preacher. In an outburst,
the other day called upon God to "rain
men like President Roosevelt for a year.”
Anything seems to be preferable to water
in Kentucky.
If we were to see a 200-pound man cut
ting up a* England is doing because he
had managed, after so long a time, to
whip a ten-year-old boy, wouldn't we feel
lather disgusted?
According to the Kansas City Star. Sen
ator Clark, of Montana, has an income of
*0,000.0* a year from his copper proper
ties alone All of which he makes by min
ing his own business.
A ecletu 1 fie person of the name of Jacas
ea is reported to have perished as a re
sult of bis temerity in venturing too close
to Mont Pelee in Martinique. Her* is one
man who died right up to his name.
King Edward has conferred the Order of
the Garter upon two more of'his distin
guished male subjects. We had always
thought until now that the Order of the
Garter eras strictly a feminine decoration.
Colonel Estill still Insists that there is
a mistake tn the count. And some people
are mean enough to suggest that perhaps
the number of votes credited to him
don't tally with the stubs in that check
book
We are reliably Informed that Hon. K.
'.' L. Rainey, of The Dawson News, propos
es to introduce a bill in the next house to
prevent the drinking of liquor on the cap
ital premises. He bolds to the opinion
that a man who doesn’t like liquor well
enough to walk down town for a drink
oughn't to have it.
The message of President Palma to the
Cuban eongreas was published in Havana
the day before it was delivered, and In
violation of a sacred pledge. Thia should
create a bond of sympathy between Gov
ernor Candler, of Georgia, and President
Palma. The former has had some experi
ence with that sort of thing—and with
his own hand organ, too.
THE RESULTS OF THE PRIMARY.
The Democratic stage primary has passed after a campaign that was remark
ably free from popular passion.
The equanimity of Georgia was never disturbed during the canvass, and the
election was a quiet and dignified assertion of the will of the majority. As The
Journal had no candidate in this contest it is able to take a perfectly equable
view of the result.
We conceived it to be the duty of this newspaper to open its columns to the
advocates of the claims of all the aspirants, as they were all true Georgians and
all maintaining themselves creditably tn an honorable contest.
The nomination for governor, which went to Joseph M. Terrell by a clear ma
jority. Is an honor of which any man would have cause to be proud, especially
as It was won over two conspicuously able and well equipped opponents. It
was also a recognition of the faithful and efficient services that Mr. Terrell has
given the state In both houses of the legislature and as attorney general.
The people of Georgia appreciate a record such as Mr. Terrell has made in the
performance of the duties to which they assigned him, and are slow to cast aside
one who has served them ao well. Georgia looks for a clean, strong administra
tion from the governor-elect, and this is a perfectly logical expectation in view of
the public knowledge of "Joe” Terrell.
Colonel J. H. Estill, who comes second in the race for the governorship, made
a remarkable campaign. He was known to the people as one who had achieved
signal success in the management of his own affairs, and they regarded him as
well qualified to conduct the state administration. He knows nothing of profes
sional politics, but is a high type of the business man. He appeared only two or
three times on the hustings, and then addressed his hearers with a calmness and
good sense which were truly admirable.
Mr. Guerry is one of the readiest and beat equipped public speakers tn the
state. He spoke to the people of a great majority of the counties and drew large
audiences wherever he went. He certainly had a fair hearing, and even his oppo
nents must admit that he argued his case with marked ability.
Upon the basis of expressions which we heard frequently during the canvass
we are authorised to say that there were many citizens who regretted that they
could not vote for all of the candidates for governor.
Everybody must admit that the policy of the state in regard to the liquor
traffic was the overshadowing Issue of the campaign.
The question was whether Georgia ahould cling to local option, under which
the cause of temperance has been ao splendidly advanced, or adopt state pro
hibition. the effect of which, to any the least, must be problematical.
The fraue was as clearly drawn as anybody could desire that it ahould be.
Mr. Guerry Btood for state prohibition; Mr. Terrell and Colonel Estill contended
for the continuance of the local option system.
The people had both sides fully and ably presented to them, and by an over
whelming majority declared that Georgia should not disturb her present policy
ot liquor traffic.
The two gubernatorial candidates who led in the contest were equally op
posed -to state prohibition and equally emphatic in insisting that local option
should remain in operation. Their combined vote shows what an immense ma
jority of counties and the popular vote are on that line. There are now only 22
counties of the 137 of Georgia which permit the sale of whisky, either in bar
rooms or dispensaries. The masses of the people of this state, including a very
large number of prohibitionists, are convinced that th® liquor traffic is better
regulated under tbs present law than it could be by any legislative decree for
prohibition throughout the state.
x, For thia reason they voted in no uncertain way on the prohibition question
Thursday. v "***
After thia unmistakable proclamation of the will of Georgia we hope that
the agitation of the state prohibfton question will cease. To renew it can
only disturb the state without the slightest possibility of changing the existing
system.
The defeat of State School Commissioner Glenn is sincerely regretted by a
host of friends who felt that .he was entitled to re-election on Ms'record.
Prof. Merritt, who is tg succeed him, has established a reputation as one of
the leading educators in Georgia.
The re-electton of Mr. Stevens, the commissioner of Agriculture, and Mr.
Eason, prison commissioner, was predicted by almost everybody, but is none
the leas gratifying to their supporters and will be well received throughout the
state.
At times during the campaign there have been some sharp passages and some
displays of feeling on the part of an interested few, but these we are sure left
no lasting sting.
Georgians are all together once more and there will, we believe, be no more
loyal supporters of Governor Terrell than Colonel Estill end Mr. Guerry who so
vigorously opposed Candidate Terrell.
A GREAT HOPE.
Now that It is pretty well conceded that
tuberculosis is not necessarily fatal
great interest is taken in theories and sug
gestions of methods for its treatment.
The scientific study and treatment of
this disease in the last few years have ac
compllshed results of undoubted value and
on them great hopes are based. The tu
berculosis congress held tn Berlin drew
together a large number scientists who
gave the world the benefit of the wisdom
and experience which they had acquired.
What they then set forth stimulated re
search and experiment so that we may
expect to have many valuable results
from the United States Tuberculosis con
gress.
It will be very largely attended and out
of this multitude of counsel wisdom may
come for the help and healing of millions
of afflicted human beings. In what is con
sidered a permanent advance of treatment
of consumption very little medicine is
used.
Not long ago persons who were known
to hat's been attacked by tuberculosis
and even those who were believed to be
in Imminent danger of it Were vigorously
and variously dosed with many kinds ot
medicines, some of which possibly helped
them and some of which probably worked
harm.
But faith in the efficacy of medicines
to do anything more than retard the rav
ages of consumption has fallen very
feint.
There is still strong confidence in the
possible work of suitable climate for sav
ing the victims of this direful disease.
Almost the only other treatment resorted
to now consists of hearty feeding, the
Introduction of germicides directly into
the blood—carbolic acid, arsenic and for
maldehyde—or attacking the bacilli from
the outside of the patient's body with
electricity or electric light.
This treatment will certainly be one es
the principal subjects of discussion at the
American Tuberculosis Congress.
Many other phases of the general sub
ject will, of course, be considered there.
The medical profession and a great host
of more or less hopeful men and women
wifi watch everything that may be said
and done at this great gathering of learned
men who are beetowing so much study to
the possibility of winning a complete vic
tory over tuberculosis.
AN INCREASING URGENCY.
In all parts of the United States the
demand for stricter immigration laws is
growing very perceptibly.
Congress was expected, to take some
action on this question at its present
session, but we have started on the month
of June with a great mass of unfinished
business upon the congressional calendars
and a decreasing prospect of legislation
upon this matter of great concern and
alarm to many of our people. The immi
gration record of the first five months,
especially that of May, has served to
emphasise the Importance of the reform
of our present laws designed to protect
tbe country from the dangers of a pro
miscuous in-rush of elements which have
been found the source of mischief and
irritation.
Up to this year the greatest immigra
tion into the United States during any
one month was in May. 1893, when the
figures went up to 73.000.
The May just closed beat that record
badly, more than li.MO.
The four preceding months of the pres
ent year brought us immigrants in the
following numbers: January, 18,243; Feb
ruary. 31.519; March. 57.175; April. 73.567;
May. 88.500. Total for the five months,
257,104. While It is certain that the number
of our immigrants will be much larger
this year than it has been since 1892, it
will probably fall below the record for
that year and very much below the rec
ord of 1882, which was th* highest of them
all.
In 1882 788,992 immigrants came into this
country. The number In I*2 was 523,084.
We may look out for more immlgmnta
THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, MONDAY, JUNE 9, 1902
during the present year than we have
received in any one of the last eight
years. The main reason why the opposi
tion to promiscuous immigration Is grow
ing so fast in the United States is indi
cated by Immigration Commissioner Wil
liams, who states that 53 per cent of the
immigrants now come here are non
producers; have no trades and depend
upon casual and incidental occupation.
Os the 47 per cent classed as producers
about one-haif are farmers, who go at
onee to the lands on which they have ar
ranged to settle. Twentj’ years ago more
than one-half of all our immigrants were
farmers and stuck to farming after com
ing here.
This class did much to settle the mid&e
west, where the great bulk of them be
came good citlsens.
The large majority of our
during the last ten years have been a
very different cfkss.
The objectionable elements are becom
ing more numerous every year, the decline
in the number of the most desirable set
tles from Europe becoming notably
smaller year. This is one of the
most difficult problems now before the
statesmanship of our country.
THE FOUNDER OF GEORGIA.
It Is gratifying to know that the success
of the movement to erect in Georgia a
heroic monument in memory of James
Oglethorpe seems assured of success. A
design has been accepted and the commit
tee having the enterprise in charge has
resolved to make increased efforts to raise
within the next few months enough money
to carry to Its necessary proportions the
subscription list that has been growing
for more than two years.
The address recently issued to the peo
ple of the state generally by the patriotic
citizens who have lead In this movement
embodies an appeal which should call
forth a ready and generous response.
It is a reflection upon the state which
General Oglethorpe founded that a worthy
mem<srial in recognition of Georgia's debt
of gratitude to him has not been erected
long ago.
As Georgians we all be proud that
we live in a state which grew out of his
humane and heroic efforts.
Oglethorpe did many noble and memor
able deeds. He was one of the noblest
Englishmen of his time, a brilliant soldier,
a clear-headed statesman, a benefactor of
both the old world and the new.
But his greatest service to humanity
and his highest title to fame are to be
found in the record of his work for the
formation and establishment of the young
est of the thirteen colonies which grew in
to the United States of America.
The name of a more uevoted and unsel
fish statesman cannot be found on the
roll of those who builded better than they
where they made possible the estab
lishment of those colonies.
History holds a clear and inspiring rec
ord of Oglethorpe’s part in this great
achievement, but there should be placed
on Georgia soil a permanent attest of it
as evidence of the gratitude and honor in
which the people of th.s state hold the
memory of this great and good man.
It is prftper, of course, that the Ogle
thorpe monument should stand in that
part of Georgia with which he was most
Closely associated, but the movement for
its erection should receive liberal support
from every section of the vast territory
which he obtained from the crown for the
colony and in which the little settlement
of 170 souls effected by him was the begin
ning of this proud commonwealth with its
nearly two and a half million people and
its well-won title of Empire State of the
South.
GEORGIA’S ICE RECORD.
A recent bulletin of the census bureau
gives an Interesting nistory of the arti
ficial ice industry which has been of im
mense benefit to the world.
Nowhere has it been more useful than
in the United States where much more Ice
is used than in any other country, and
where, perhaps, it costs less to the con
sumer.
Many persons in Atlanta can remember
when five cents a pound was the regular
retail price of ice in this city. That was
during the first few years succeeding the
civil war when natural ice brought from
a great distance was/ our only depend
ence for that luxury. At that time a
production of artificial ice for general
use would have been considered supreme
ly ridiculous. It was known that water
might be congealed by a scientific pro
cess, but to do so then cost many times
more than it was worth.
Diamonds way be made out of carbon,
but it is so expensive to do so that no
diamond is ever produced by science ex
cept for purposes of experiment.
Modern ice machines have reduced the
price of ice to a fraction of a cent a
pound, and placed it in tne reach of al
most everybody. An immense amount of
money was expended in fruitless efforts to
make a practical ice machine for general
use, and it is a fact not generally known
that the first demonstrated success In
that line was achieved in Columbus, Ga.
One of the Iron works in that city en
gaged a Frenchman who insisted that he
could make an ice machine. He produced
many models and cost the company so
much money that it was about to give
up the enterprise and pocket its loss,
.which had come to be quite heavy. The
experimenter, however, begged to be
given another trial, and it was reluctant
ly granted. That time he succeeded.
The machine he made then was sold, put
into regular operation in a western city,
and turned out a great quantity of ice.
It is stated on good authority mat this
was the first ice machine ever made in
the United States, and one of the first
in the world. The company at whose
works It was made reaped a rich reward
for its faith in the Frenchman who
proved at first so expensive. The con
cern became one Qf the largest manu
facturers o t ice machines in the country,
sold them in all parts of the United States
and in a number of foreign countries.
It is still prominent in this business.
To Georgia undoubtedly belongs |he
honor of making a practical success of the
Ice machine in this country, and Georgia
enterprise should have had this fact put
in the census bulletin on artificial ice.
A GREAT RATE OF PROGRESS.
Some very impressive statements and
predictions are made in the thirty-second
annual report of the New York Cotton
Exchange by President S. T. Hubbard. He
says that cotton manufacturing interests
in the south are advancing so rapidly that
at the present ratio of increase the mills
of the south will soon consume as much
cotton as those of the north.
We are much nearer that point already
than most persons imagine.
Up to May 30th the total domestic tak
ings of the last cotton crop were 3,406,677
bales, and of this amount the southern
mills had taken 1,423,579 bales, or nearly
42 per cent. It is a confident prediction
that the southern mills within the next
two years will consume fully half of the
cotton manufactured in this country, if
not more.
j But while the mills of the south already
take almost as much cotton as the north
ern mills, the product of the southern
mills represents hardly one-third of the
value of American cotton mill production.
In this fact there is a suggestion which
the progressive cotton manufacturers of
the south are beginning to heed.
It is that the great opportunity for
them lies in making finer grades of goods.
have made notable advances on this
line In the last few years, and we shall
see in the next decade a production of
Immense quantities of fine codton .fabrics
in the south. The obstacles that were for
merly supposed to stand in the way of
the success of the south were either pure
ly Imaginary or easily removable.
The idea that the climate of the south
did not contain the humidity requisite to
the finer grades of cotton manufacture
is disposed of by the fact that cotton mills
depend upon artificial instead of natural
conditions for their desired degree of hu
midity, and therefore the southern mills
are at no disadvantage in this particular.
The argument that the south has not
the skilled labor required for the manu
facture of high class cotton goods will
not stand, because skilled labor will go
wherever the demand for it is sufficient.
The supply of that class of labor is in
creasing steadily in the south.
The Georgia School of Technology, with
its textile department and similar insti
tutions in this section, give the assurance
of a home supply of educated superintend
ents, designers and artisans which will
be of incalculable value to vs.
The south will not be long content with
the line of cotton manufactures which she
now mainly pursues. She Is not satisfied
with her undisputed lead In coarse cotton
goods, but /will challenge all competitors
in the higher grades with the certainty
of holding her own there, or doing even
better. '
PROGRESSIVE NEW ZEALAND.
It has not been many years since New
Zealand was generally regarded in Europe
and the United States as a savage land,
and, in fact, it was nearly so. But the
great Island has made marvelous progress
during the last half century, especially
in the last ten years. It has a government
that is modelled, to a great extent, on
ours, and is about as free and popular.
New Zealand Is part of a great colonial
federation to which Great Britain has
given independence in almost everything
but name, and where the people are in
tensely loyal to the mother country.
The New Zealand tariff law contains one
provision that should be adopted by our
governmefiF.' It would prove a powerful
preventive and an effective cure of trusts
here, as it is there. Where evidence is pre
sented to show that a particular duty has
caused, or Is leading to, the formation of
combinations or trusts it shall be imme
diately suspended and the article or arti
cles which it protects placed on the free
list.
This is precisely the anti-trust provision
which was proposed by John Sherman ten
years ago, and which is incorporated in
the Babcock bill, now held back from the
house of representatives by the ways and
means committee.
All the protected interests are in league
against it, of course, as it strikes at the
special privileges on which they have
fattened and by means of which they are
levying enormous tribute from the peo
ple.
While they are enabled to do thia- by our
tariff laws, nearly all of them are selling
their products in foreign lands cheaper
than in the home market.
If our government would protect the in
terests of the masses of the people as New
Zealand does, this iniquity and outrage
could not be continued. The New Zealand
tariff system has at least one provision
that would be a great thing for this coun
try.
After careful consideration we have
come to the conclusion that Thomas Jef
ferson writes a better declaration of in
dependence than he does a bible.
OLD AND NEW METHODS
OF POLITICS IN GEORGIA;
FORMER GREAT POLITICIANS
* * BY F. H. RICHARDSON.
HE state primary through which
we have just passed showed how
marked a difference there is
between the present methods ot
T
conducting our political campaigns and
those which were formerly in vogue.
Politics are more on a business basis
than they were in the time of our fathers.
A political campaign to have any pros
pect of success now must be planned a's
carefully and with as much attention to
details, must be watched at every point
as closely as a campaign on the field of
actual war.
Personal popularity always counts for
much, but its effect when the contest is
before a large constituency is not com
parable with that of thorough organisa
tion. Throw into the scale with larger
personal popularity, superior ability,
greater readiness and power of speech
and in most cases better organisation will
still be the heavier quantity. Mr. Hoxley
said it would be as foolish to send an
army for an invasion along the Rhine
without the latest designs of armament,
offensive and defensive, as to put a man
in the great conflicts of modern thought
without thorough technical training and
expect him to be victorious. Politics in
their evolution to their present Intensely
practical character have only followed the
trend of industry, commerce, agriculture,
and even religion.
Romance has not gone out of life en
tirely, but a great deal of it has been
lost..
The old style of seeking the suffrages
of the people possessed a charm which
the new has nothing to match, and we
shall never see it return. <
The practical politician is the man of the i
present and his sway is likely to grow
n-ther than decline.
The Politicians’ Art Not New.
But there were masters of the art, of
politics long before the exact science of
political organisation and management,
as we now know It, was invented.
In those« times, however, the personal
factor was proportionately stronger than*
it is now. because communities were
smaller and their members closer to each 1
other.
John Clark was the first Georgia poll- >
ticlan who demonstrated the force and
effect of organisation. To it he owed a
great part of his success and influence,
but when he seemed to be at the height
of his power he was overwhelmingly de
feated b/ his famous antagonist, George <
M. Troup, whom Alexander H. Stephens 1
considered the greatest man Georgia had 1
produced. Troup depended little upon or
ganisation and proved more than a match
for the lest political organiser of his time 1
in this State. i
The great quartette. Robert Toombs,
Alexander H. Stephens. Benjamin H. Hill
an Joseph E. Brown, Jived in the transi- 1
tion periou of Georgia politics. 1
During their lives ana in the period of <
their public service the most important i
Issues that have divided the state and the <
country were settled or laid aside and new 1
issues arose to provoke a long and fierce i
contention that has not yet passed entire- j
ly away. 1
These great men also lived under the
regime of both the old and the new 1
political methods. i
When they were youngsters honors and I
offices were contended for mainly on the
hustings. There was np other way to 1
reach th® masses of the people. News- 1
papers were few in number and the aver- t
age citlaen rarely ever saw one. 1
The custom of nominations and plat- <
form declaration by party conventions'
was well established, but the complexion
of those conventions liras often very un- ‘
certain until they met, and even until
they had organized and ballotted. Such
a thing as a primary was not dreamed
of. Delegates to conventions were chosen i
at courthouse mass meetings, a system I
that during the two decades succeeding i
the civil war came to be so grossly abused 1
TALKS ABOUT THE JOURNAL.
Great is The Journal.
(Cedartown Courier.)
The Atlanta Journal has recently purchased
and put up a two-deck double supplement
press. It prints in three colors, pastes, folds
and counts the papers and cost 145,000. Orest
is The Journal, of Atlanta!
Best In the South.
(Charlotte Observer.)
The Atlanta Journal, the best afternoon pa
per in the south, has begun the publication of
an edition every day. a Sunday morning issue
being added to the present splendid evening
service.
One of the Best in the U. S.
(Hartwell Sun.)
The Atlanta Journal has Just put in another
fast two-decked press in its office that will
print three colors at once. It weighs 100 tons,
cost 145,000 and prints, pastes, folds and counts
72,000 4, 6 or 8-page papers in one hour. With
its quadruple press, The Journal now has a
press capacity for printing 90,000 12-page pa
pers per hour. The Journal Is one of the best
newspapers in the United States and is in
creasing its circulation and influence at a
wonderful rate.
A Great Paper.
(Brunswick News.)
The Atlanta Journal*has begun the publica
tion of a Sunday edition. The Journal is a
great paper.
A Shining Example.
’ (Knoxville Sentinel.)
The Atlanta Journal, not satisfied with at
taining a circulation of- 38,000 copies a day, or
nearly twice as many as any other paper in
the south outside of Louisville, is going to start
a Sunday newspaper. The Journal is a signing
example of the successful afternoon newspaper.
The combination of afternoon and Sunday pa
per is growing In demand.
Only Color Press in South.
(LaGrange Reporter.)
The Atlanta Journal announces that
beginning with June Ist it will issue
a superb Sunday edition with many new
and modern features. It will include a colored
supplement and bo printed on the only color
press in the south.
A Paper To Be Proud Os.
(Montgomery, Ala., Journal.)
The Atlanta Journal has just started a Sun
day paper, and it is a Sunday paper to be
proud of. The first issue appeared yesterday,
and it is one of the best editions ever publish
ed by a southern newspaper. But The Atlanta
Evening Journal Is one of the beet newspapers
in the south, morning or evening, and has
treble the circulation of any southern morning
newspaper.
Credit to Southern Journalism.
(Augusta Herald.)
The Atlanta Journal is a credit to southern
journalism. The first Sunday edition consisted
of fifty-six pages and every page was a good
one. The men who own and make The Journal
are newspaper men from the ground up. They
know their business and are not afraid to risk
big money on their enterprise. Hera's hoping
it will grow greater and be the success finan
cially that it so richly deserves to be.
Leading Paper in South Atlantic States
(Augusta Tribune.)
The Atlanta Sunday Journal has made its
appearance, and of the initial number it may
be said that it fully met all expectations, high
as these were. The Atlanta Journal has become
the leading paper of the South Atlantic states,
and its past achievements inspired confidence
to expect when it entered the Sunday morning
field that it would “get there.” The Journal
has been one continuous success from the be
ginning. and every step in advance has been
a consummation of plans so carefully consid
ered and matured that when It takes a new step
forward the public expects success. When The
Journal announced that it would begin the
publication of a Sunday morning issue great
things were expected, and the largest expecta
tions have been fully realised. It consisted of
fifty-six pages in five sections and is the finest
regular number of a paper ever Issued in the
south. In its news reports it is complete and
in its special features it is equal to the best
of the metropolitan Sunday papers. The whole
south glories in the success of The Journal,
evidenced in the initial number of its Sunday
Issue.
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that the people rose ara/hst it.
In compliance with their will the present
pianos primary elections was instituted.
Revolt Against the Mass Meeting Sys
tem.
Dr. W. H. Felton was one of the first
to attack the courthouse or “ring” rule
mass meeting plan, and his philippics
against it are remembered as the greatest
efforts of his life.
To Dr. Felton more, perhaps, than to
any other man is due the primary Plan by
which nearly all candidates are now
nominated.
That system very soon became unre
liable and corrupt, as the old courthouse
plan had been, but not to such a degree.
Then came the reform of subjecting pri
maries to the general election law.
The primary plan has been improved
immensely since its introduction, but it
needs o’he other amendment. Some doubt
has arisen as to whether the buying and
selling As votes at primaries is punish
able. x The legislature should remove all
doubt on this point by a distinct enact
ment for the better protection of the pri- I
mary ballot.
Four Very Different Great Men.
It would be hard to find in even J
larger community than was the Georgia of
the last generation any four men more
different in nearly all respects than were
Toombs, Stephens, Hill and Brown.
Being so unallke as men, they were
necessarily widely different as politicians.
Not one of them ever conducted a cam
paign like any one of the others. Each
of them used methods of his own and all
of them succeeded on lines that were
far apart.
Toombs and Hill paid leas attention to
what all candidates now consider abso
lutely necessary’ methods of organizing
and canvassing than did Stephens and
Brown.
And yet Mr. Stephens in a memorable
instance defled the Democratic organiza
tion of his district when it was about to
exact a pledge of him which he would not
give. He practically told the executive
committee of the Augusta district that
he was able and ready to “tote his own
skillet” and would do so if the party ,
preferred a more subservient candidate
than it eould make of him. The commit
tee and the great majority of the poli
ticians in the district looked at this one
title man, heard what he said, considered i
it a little while—and backed down.
It is nevertheless true that Mr. Stephens
had during his entire political career a 1
large cotiere of close and confidential ad
visers whn kept him well posted and never i
failed to call his attention to any part i
of his "fences” that needed repairs.
Whenever politicians threatened him he 1
would exclaim, like Lord Palmerston,
"Let me get to the people!” And he never
appealed to them in vain. 1
It was the proudest boast of
Joseph E. Brown that he was i
never defeated at a popular elec
tion. The only time he ever met defeat
was when he was a candidate for the
United States senate in 1368 when Joshua i
How The Journal Forecasted Result
of the State Primary a Week Ago
One week ago today The Journal fore
casted the result of last Thursday's pri
mary—and that forecast was Terrell by a
safe majority.
The Journal gave this forecast in the
same spirit of neutrality that it had main
tained throughout the campaign—simply
as a piece of news.
In order to be perfectly fair to all the
candidates The Journal devoted more than
two weeks to a careful study of the cam
paign. weighing the conditions in each
of the admittedly doubtful counties and
securing reports from the most reliable
sources.
The net result of this investigation gave
Terrell 86 counties and 208 vptes. The
consolidated returns show 81 counties for
Terrell with 198 votes.
The Journal's estimate gave Guerry 25
counties with 72 votes. The consolidated
returns show 23 counties with 66 votes for
Guerry.
Colonel Estill was given 17 counties with
44 votes; and right here is where The
Journal was deceived by the surface in
dications, the consolidated returns giving
Colonel Estill just double the number of
counties and double the number of votes
conceded him—34 instead of 17 counties
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
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» (New York Press.)
The bird of paradise is the stork.
Insophisticated Innocence is paler than skim*
med milk.
One way to get square with people Is to get
around them.
Honesty is the best policy for the man you
are honest with.
There is no use in trying to love any woman
by a fixed rule.
The surest way not to find trouble is not to
go looking for it.
Milliners wreck bank accounts and disfigure
marriage certificates.
Platonic love is like gambling in the stock
market—too one-sided.
Usually the man who is at the head of the
house is at the foot of the family.
There is too much briar-stitching In the
mantle which charity lends to others.
A woman never wants to forget her first love;
she never wants to remember Tier last.
Good, hot biscuit are a stronger argument
for domestic peace than many sermons and
much exhortation.
Some men are so naturally enthusiastic that
they can fall In love with a woman who wears
short bicycle skirts.
If a man could understand one woman In
the world he could understand them all. but
he stops at the first.
The first time a bride has a quarrel with her
lord and master she asks him to forgive her;
after that she asks him to ask her to forgive
him.
An Insinuation.
Chicago News.
Softleigh—“When I stand on my
the blood rushes to my head, doesn r t it?’*
Hardleigh—“Sure thing.”
Softleigh—"Now. when I stand on my
feet why doesnn’t the blood rush to my
feet?”
Hardleigh—“Probably because your feet
are not hollow.”
Ministers should bear tn mind that short
sermons are the most popular in summer—as
well as in spring, autumn and winter.
, Hill was elected over him by a fusion
of Democrats and bolting Republicans.
Robert Toombs knew nothing of the
> machinery of politics. Those who relied
i upon it were distasteful to him. He
I triumphed over the shrewdest political
i wire-pullers of his time and was so im
| perlally self-confident that sometimes he
i paid no attention to their machinations
I though his friends were alarmed.
Ben Hill’s Great Self Reliance.
No man ever rose to prominence in
I Georgia politics with less assistance from
politicians than did Benjamin Harvey
1 Hill. He literally fought his way up and
i never held an office which he did not
go into absolutely untrammelled. He
i liked nothing better than to charge upon
a whole squadron of his enemies who
were conspiring to wrong him in any
way. He was absolutely incapable of any
sort of combine, or any concession which
he thought involved the slightest sacri
fice of principle.
From one point of view his superb
speech to the Georgia legislature in 1876.
which undoubtedly won the United States
aenatorship. could not have been sur
passed in actual result by any effort or
design of the adroiest of politicians. But
that speech bore no tinge of demagogy.
It was a merciless exposure ot the false
hoods and tricks of those who had slan
dered him and endeavored to crush him.
It was an appeal to the representatives
of the people of Georgia which for elo
quence and power touched a point that
has rarely been reached in the memory*
of Georgians now living.
Two Invincible Georgia Politicians.
There have been no two more steady
winners in Georgia politics than John B.
Gordon and Alfred H. Colquitt. Neither
ot them was ever defeated. Both held
the two lilghsst offices in tbe state and
were elected to them by popular majori
ties and on waves of enthusiasm which
no skill of organisation could have with
stood. .
Nobody who ever saw Colquitt or Gordon
handle a crowd or move through the
rough-and-tumble of a campaign can
wonder at the unbroken series of tri
umphs which they both achieved. There
is no record of the politician who under
stood better how to approach the free
American citizen, whether in hostile,
friendly or doubtful mood. The chances
were always that under the magic ot the
Colquitt or Gordon handshake, the spell
of a few words, a look into a handsome,
soulful face that recalled heroic memories
and suggestions, the determined foe of
the candidate would relax his hostility,
the doubtful would be converted and ths
serene supporter would bloom out into
the ardent enthusiast.
Neither Gordon nor Colquitt ever made t
a canvass in which the fascination of
his personality did not assert itself to a
remarkable degree.
The organization jnd the well laid plans
which Contributed to the victories won
by these men were less their own work
than that of their friends. But as can
vassers among the masses, as spell-bind
ers and vote-getters, it is doubtful if their •
equals are to be found in the list of
Georgia politicians. In that list are many
men of rare gifts, men who -excited re
markable control over the minds and
actions of their followers, men who helped
to make Georgia great nanaes
are written in gold on the pages of her
history./
Among them were those who illustrated
almost every variety and of honest
and honorable politics. Some who have
very rarely equalled for shrewd judg
ment, cool deliberation and consummate
skill in the management of men. There
have been others who compelled the Ad
miration and support of their followers,
who could either convince or beat down
opposition, as the occasion might require,
men to whom might have been applied
the words written of Sir Phillip Sidney:
"He was the tongue of Suada in peace
and the arm of Bellona in war.”
and 86 Instead of 44 votes. This shows
that Colonel Estill carried five of the nine
counties which The Journal put down as
very doubtful, and that he also managed
to take twelve others from his opponents.
Politicians throughout the state, how
ever, have remarked on the accuracy of
The Journal’s advance estimate, it being
the first time in the recollection of the
oldest politicians tlpit a paper has been
able to so correctly forecast the result a
week in advance.
While The Journal's estimate missed Mr.
Terrell's vote by only 10, as shown by the
consolidatedreturns.it is barely possible the
final returns from Glynn and Camden may
give him four more votes, although these
are not counted on nor are they needed.
It appears, however, that in Glynn, which
county went for Estill by only 11 votes,
on* Terrell precinct was accidentally left
out of the consolidated report. This may
give the county to Terrell. Camden, while
a very doubtful county, has as yet sent in
no official vdte; hence that county may
yet fall in either column.
When The Journal gave out a week ago
detailed information to show that Terrell
would carry the state with 208 votes many
charged that the estimate was a partisan
and prejudicial one. .Results, however,
have demonstrated its Accuracy and value.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
Chicago News.
A reformer is a man who, if wise, begins on
himself. '
Experience that is given away is seldom ap
preciated.
Many* man of principal tries to get unlaw
ful Interest.
It is easier to stand prosperity than it is to
get a chance to try.
Demagogues govern some communities and
demijohns rule others.
When the day breaks some men are too lazy
to make use of the pieces.
If a spinster isn’t as tall as she would like
to be she should get spliced.
When your health runs down you should wind
up some of your bad habits.
Only the man who knows he is in the wrong
can afford to lose his temper.
In order to appreciate youth one must get
over on the shady side of forty.
Before marriage a man iyearns for a woman;
after marriage he earns for her.
If a senator cannot fight his oy n battles he
is nardly fit to battle for his constituents.
Girls who make the greatest exertions to
catch husbands are usually last tn the race.
Neither adversity nor prosperity ever changes
a man; each merely brings out what there is
in him.
When a man finds a button in his salad he
should bear in mind it is only a part of the
dressing.
Many a bachelor who plans a happy fireside
of his own eventually bumps up against a sc
called furnace-heated flat.
You can never tell what a man is until you
get into an argument with him. If his opinion
doesn't jibe with yours he is a crank.
Could She Play? Well—
Chieago-Record-Herald.
“Can you play 'Down In the Valley?" ”
he asked.
“I should say I could,” she answered.
“I got down there in two strokes this
afternoon, and then astonished the crowd
by making a six-yard put as easy as roll
ing Into a sand-pit.”