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SOUTHERN RECORD
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tection to us.
M. T. Perkins’ majority in the
31st senatorial district is 142. Re-
turns from Franklin and Hart raise
his majority from first figures.
Our Devil, Davis Henderson,has
taken unto himself a wife; we sup¬
pose a printers’ Devil has as much
right to starve a woman as any-
body.
Taking it For Granted.
Our esteemed contemporary, the
Atlanta Constitution, is back at her
old tricks in politics.
Nearly every day since the elec¬
tion it has had something to say
about the race of Chas. S. Northen
for Secretary of the Senate and
enlarging on its witicisms that Mr.
Northen will have no opposition.
The Constitution, as we stated
above, has simply gone back to its
old game, and that, too, which has
taught the people of Georgia to ask
for further evidence before believ¬
ing “everything” of a political na¬
ture which is published in its col¬
umns.
The Constitution, of course is for
Mr. Northen, as it has a perfect
right to be, but, Mr. Geo. P. Er¬
win, of Habersham county, is deci¬
dedly in the race and will go to the
Senate with more strength than
both Mr. Northern and the Consti¬
tution can muster.
Mr. Erwin comes from a family
of democrats, prominent in the par¬
ty councils, and from a democratic
section of the State, as well, and
from that section which has always
helped others but never asked for
anything. He is. fully competent,
and if elected will make an officer
that the people of the State will be
proud of.
The office of Secretary of the
Senate is one that is large enough
for two sections of the State, and
has been filled in that way for many
years, the man for the first place
coming from South Georgia and the
assistant from North Georgia.
All of the patronage going to
North Georgia has been taken up
by Atlanta; Mr. H. H. Cabiness
serving for seventeen years and Mr.
Northen for four years.
Now, while we do not question
Mr. Northen’s ability, should
not some other portion of North
Georgia, at least occasionally,hold
the office?
Mr. Northen has had the office
of assistant Secretary for four years;
Atlanta has had the same place for
twenty-one years. Now let the
people change both, by electing Mr.
Erwin from North-east Georgia,
and in so doing reward a worthy
young democrat, as well as give
North Georgia, outside of Atlanta,
her just dues.
Mr. Erwin will have a very
strong vote in both branches of the
next legislature, and one that Mr.
Northen can never overcome.
At this time we merely mention
the fact that the race has two
contestants, and while the Constitu¬
tion is a large paper, Atlanta a
large town, and Northen a good
man, “there are others.”
The democracy of Georgia, as
shown on several occasions hereto¬
fore, do not use the Constitution as
its prayer book, and probably will
not do so now.
Let the people demand of the
Constitution that if it undertakes to
Btate the news and give facts, that
all the tacts should be stated, and
not try to leave the impression that
its particular candidate is the only
.
one in the field.
Bibb’s Little Vote.
iFrom the Atlanta Journal.
What is the matter of the good
old county of Bibb in which is lo¬
cated the good old city of Macon ?
It learned , 3,500 votes were reg-
is
tstered for the state election and
that out of these only 248 were
polled. f AS it is, Governor Cand-
ler , s majority ... win ... 100c p
70,000 votes in the state, and the
populist r r representation r in the leg-
1
islature has been cut down from
thirty-two to nine.
This is well.
Iiut suppose that every county in
Georgia had cast only about one-
fourteenth of its registered vote in
the gubernatorial election, as did
the good old county on the Ocinul-
gee, how small would Governor
Candler’s majority have been? and
how much would the populist
strength in the general assembly
have been reduced?
Xow, we are not reading the vo-
ters of Bibb a lecture, but we are
simply suggesting food for anxious
thought. What is the matter with
Bibb? It cannot be said that her
voters were too busy getting ready
for the great Macon Jubilee carni-
val to deposit their ballots, because
in the prosecution of this good
work nothing would have been
er than for them to pause at the
polls in the midst of this labor of
love. It will not do to aver that
the voters are too busy fighting
mosquitoes . their quiet , homes to ,
1 in 1
turn out and exercise the sacred
right of sovereigns,because with the
advent of autumn the Macon mos-
quitoes have llow n southward to
spend the winter in the Everglades.
It would be folly to urge that the
ballotteers of Bibb, were water
bound on account of the great storm,
for everybody knows that not even
the tail of the West India cyclone
touched the beautiful city of Macon.
No, one must look deeper for the
cause of the extremely small vote
of the good old couaty of Bibb. It
was undoubtedly due to the fact
that the intelligent voters dowrn
their way did not think that their
ballots would be needed to pile up
the majority of Governor Candler.
This will never do, for over-con-
lidenc.e has lost more battles than it
has ever won, and if thirteen-four¬
teenths of the registered voters in
every county in Georgia had failed
to vote, Governor Candler might
not have had any majority at all.
We trust that the good old coun¬
ty of Bibb will ponder these things
well and in future resolve to cast a
number of registered votes so great
that it will bear a fair proportion
to her large and still growing pop¬
ulation and to the immense crowd
which is sure to attend Macon’s
royal jubilee carnival.
General Aguinaldo.
From the Atlanta Journal.
Aguinaldo and his party repre¬
senting the Filipinos, will soon be
in Paris, preferring their plea to
the peace commission.
It is interesting to note what
Aguinaldo has told them to insist
on, for of course he is the
spirit and has stuffed them for the
occasion.
Their first great wish is that the
treaty of Paris shall provide that
Spain must give up entirely
Philippine Islands,and in the
place, they desire that the experi¬
ment of self-government may
tried by the people of the
with the assent and assistance
the United States. That is well
put in.
Agoncilio will tell the commis¬
sion that his people are capable of
the self-government for which they
are seeking, but will add “that
in any possibility it turns out that
he is mistaken, his people will be
willing to be guided by the United
States to any other just solution of
the important problem of govern¬
ment which will arise upon the ex¬
tinguishment of the power of
Spain.”
Whatever else may be said of
Aguinaldo and Agoncilio, it is clear
that they are not fools. The Uni¬
ted States has whipped Spain and
therefore is in position to dictate
what shall be done with the Philip-
pines. The Filipinos have, for
years, been fighting to free them-
selves from the Spanish yoke. They
will now come forward and ask the
peace commission to put Spain
aside and give them local self-gov¬
ernment.
This is a plausible P P plea ’ P
ly when made to Americans. . But
the ques tion arises, are these people
capable of governing themselves?
The reply will be, “If experiment
nroves proves eh that it we »e are arf* not not, fh#»n then weire «re are
S 3 .VC Vrtlir I Olll money.
One box ‘ of Xlltt’s Pills will save
many dollars 111 . doctors bills
They willsurely Cure all diseases
OI of the mestomacn, Stomach liver HVer or °r bowels DOW eiS.
NO RCCKieSS ASSertiOfl
For sick headache, dyspepsia,
mal malaria aria » constipation constination andbilio and blllO-
usness, a million people endorse
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willing for the United States to
guide us in the solution of the prob¬
lem.”
The decision of the commission
connot be anticipated, but it is
probable that if the United States
determines to hold the Philippine Is-
lands, she will either give the Fil-
ipinos the chance to try the experi-
inent of local self-government under
her immediate protection, or else
hold these islands as a colonial
possession, and give them territori-
al representation at the proper
time.
If America concludes to do this,
it will not be many years before a
democratic speaker of the house at
Washington will be recognizing
the ‘‘Gentleman from the Philip-
pines.”
The peace commissiom has a
very knotty problem in this Philip-
pine matter and had better go slow
in solving it.
The heavenly Meeting.
Tell, oh! tell me, Book of visions, ’
Bright with . sweet . with
promise, prayer,
shall I know the angel faces
That are waiting over there?
Shall I find my little children?
Will my gentle mother lay
lfeniearluimlupon my forehead
In the old, earth-loving way?
Father, keep them as I loved them!-
Or, if changed to other guise,
May the Heavenly transformation
Dawn but slowly on mine eyes.
Let me take them to my boson,
Once upon that shining shore,
As I saw them when we parted,
In the love-lit days of yore.—
James Buckham, in the Ladies’ Home
Journal.
The Bee Hive Restaurant is
open for business.
The Southern Railroad Company
is putting up a 50,000 galon tank
for furnishing water to the stands
at the depot, where the engines
take their supply. The tank is be¬
ing erected on the hill opposite the
compress.
Had there been as many votes
polled at the late election as is usu¬
ally polled in Georgia, Candler’s
majority [would have been more than
100,000.
Election By the People.
The people won in the election
just over; hereafter they will vote
for solicitors and judges of the su-
erior courts of Georgia ; the politi¬
cians were generally against the
bill, but the steady yomanry of our
grand old commonwealth voted for
their political rights, and won.
The following,which w r e endorse,
is from the Sparta Ishmaelite :
The tendency is torward the elec-
ion of all officials by direct vote of
the people, and it is right. In
Georgia the judges of the highest
court are elected by a direct vote of
the people, and there is no reason
whatever why the judges of the
lower courts should not be elected
in the same way.
Whether a fact or simply a
theory, it is the claim that the peo¬
ple rule in this country. Whether
they do or not, they certainly have
the right to rule. It is the theory
of the government and they ought
to make it the practice. This can
be done in no other way so surely
as by asking into their own hands,
without the intervention of agents
or intermediaries, the election of all
their officials, from President and
Governor down to the lowest.
There is no official who comes in
contact with the people, and who
exercises the slightest authority
over their persons or their property,
who should not be directly responsi¬
ble to them for his conduct in of¬
fice. The further removed an of-
ficial is from direct responsibility
to the people, the less likely will he
be to have an eye to the interests
of the people in all his public con¬
duct. Make him directly responsi¬
ble to them, and their rights and
interests will acquire an additional
j sanctity in his. eyes, To him the
people will become something
\ more than “the common herd, 5 9
They will become in fact,what they
are in theory, the sovereigns of the
country,
Let T the • good , work . until
go on
every official is elective bv a direct
vo,e of the P^P 1 '- ThwiU **
both change and improvement.
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There are few men more enter-
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| R. Davis & Co., ^ who spare P no pains P
^ ^ ^ of e emhin in
rneir their line line ior for their meir manv many^customers. customers
They now ha\ e the \ aluable agency
for Dr. King’s New Discovery for
ConsumDtion Couehs and Colds
This is the wonderful remedy that
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Bronchitis,Hoarseness and all
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Guaranteed to cure or price refund-
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Price of Cotton is Too Low ior
Merchants to Sell Many
Goods.
Our Loss is Your Gain
Cash is ^ When
it Comes tO
Buying*.
We are overstocked on Dry
Goods, Shoes, flats, etc., and
we MUST and WILL SELL
regardless of cost. We have
CUT prices on every piece of
goods in our store. If you
will bring the cash you can
buy goods here 20 per cent
lower than at any other store
in north-east Georgia.
Below we name some prices
that are in keeping with the
hard times:
7 Ounce Wool Jeans, worth 20 c
a yard, our price. 12 l-2c a yard,
it Ounce Wool Jeans, worth 30 c
a yard, our price is 18 c a yard.
Best Heavy Drilling, worth
(! 3 - 4 c a yard,we offer at 5 cents.
Good cotton checks worth G cts
we ask only. 4 cts
Good calicoes, usually sold at
6 cts, our price............... 4 c
We have 5000 yards of cal¬
ico remnants, -f- to 2 yards in
length, which we sell at 20 cts
a pound, which is only 2 cts
a yard.
150 pairs of good Cotton
blank^s, worth $1 a pair, we
are closing them out 39c a
pair. Better lay by a few
pairs,for they’ll come in migh¬
ty handy this winter.
Our clothing is the best and
nobbest to be found in this
section. Men’s all wool, fast
color suits at $5; they are
cheap at $7.50, but they must
go at $5.
We have an extra line line
of Ladies Capes, from 50 cts
up to $12. All marked in
plain figures, but at this sale
we’ll discount them 10 per
cent for spot cash. They are
rare bargains.
Our wool dress goods are
all marked in plain figures,
and marked low, too, but in
order to move them faster, we
have cut them 10 per cent.
We have a first class line of
winter underwear. Ladies’
cotton ribbed undervests at
15c, worth 25c; others 25c
$1; all grades and sizes for
children, in wool and cotton.
We have the celebrated
Wright’s Health Underwear
for gentlemen. Will prevent
the contracting of cold; the
price is $3.50, but that is 50c
under regularity prices; see
them before you buy else¬
where .
Every staple shoe in the
house to go at cut prices. We
1 ha\ „ Cut „ . all 11 GUI 1.50? vl T *75 ^ _
e vp
and $2 men and women shoes
to „ pair. . W sell n the ,
g>1.20 a e
fomous r __T7> Lagle 1 shoes 1___ toi la-
dies at $2.50 J and $5.00. Red
Seal ^ and Selz Royal * Blue are
finr IOl gentlemen crentlempn * , ail nil mVes* sizes , cor- eoi
rorf rect st\ie ‘sfvle ana qnrl first-rlass mat Class nual- qudi
- t * J t L nrire ^ is Si and
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VOU S et better shoeS at that
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pnee nrice man than orners Others sell sen at at $5
YOU can buy hats and Caps
here at our store 20 per
lower than others ask ; 50 lbs
"
good . patent flour lor $1 ;gold , .
eyed J needles at IC a paper; rt J
crood ^ DinS IC a paper: Coats'
°°1 , thread, , . dozen .
S P 4IC a ;
bargains in towels, table linen
and counterpain S . Good
doth A window shades ' for 25c. 5
Don , 1 £ i° r g et those 2C Kem- „
nants nor those 29c 10-4 blan-
k k
nAIVT/^C UAilwC Ok £• IVIEUU niY
Doctors Agree
on One Thing
on
i f V
I 9 V "VS -
'In
^ le va ' ue purity and full
strength in drugs and medicines,
The sound and true old saying is :
“In medicine, quality is every-
thing.” We are very careful about
the freshness and perfect condition
of all the drugs we use in com-
pounding prescriptions, and equal¬
ly careful that these are filled accu¬
rately by a skilled and competent
pharmacist only. We do nothing
of the “cheap” and dangerous sort
in this department; but in the bus¬
iness end of our store, among the
proprietary and general toilet and
fancy articles we can give you some¬
thing in the way of bargains. Try
us.
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