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Banks County Journal.
OFFICIAL OIIC AN OF
BANKS COUNTY.
WALLACE L. IIaRDEN.
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Editor, HANKS COUNTY JOUi.NAL.
“THURSDAY, FEB. 10, 1898.
FOR GOVERNOR
Allen. D. C andler i
OF HALL COUNTY,
for secretary of state,
Mark A. II ARUIN.
K)R CONGRESS, 9th DIST.
HOWARD THOMPSON
Of IIALL.
Notwithstanding the great amount
of excitement over the proposed, and
now almost assured exemption of mu
nicipal tax upon manufacturing estab
lishments law; and notwithstanding
the great amount of support the plan
appears to be receiving; and the very
satisfactory and benefiting appearance
the movement has at first glance and
without serions thought. We desire
tnat it be distinctly understood that
we are teeth and too nail bitterly op—
posed to such absolutely unnecessary
and uncalled for and unlooked for
step being taken, because we plainly
see, and believe you will ( after very
careful investigation) see that the ex
emption of manufacturing establish —
ments from paying taxes is the most
terrible of all blows that has yet been
directed toward the already downed
laboring class of our people. There
are numerous bad effects that will be
sure to follow the enactments of such
ideas into laws, and they will surely
be enforced if they are passed.
Such plans as are being pushed to
active operation by the crowd of ban
kers that apear to be fathering this
movement are known to be men who
do not go a 1 anything without coming
out with the lion’s share of all there is
good in su Ji movements.
Beyond that crying of “encourage the
manufacturers to come south” there is
a deep laid plan that will undoubtedly
cause injurious effects upon the south
and gracious knows we are not in the
positition that will enable our people
to stand much more oppression.
So look out! Friends, this move to
elive the already rich and greedy set
of manufacturers from helping to pay
their share of/he cost of running the
municipal governments; and at the
Raane time crying for “Income Tax” is
bo inconsistent that it is beyond the
comprehension of many.
There are a great many prominent
members of the Populist party in this
county, who, we believe know very
well tnat there is no possible chance
for them to find a more satisfactory
person in theirown ranks to 'ead t'icm
through a most trying period, than
Hon. Allen D. Candler; therefore
they will not only vote for and work
for the “Plowboy of Pigeon Roost,”
merely for the sake of returning to
the old and reliable Democratic party
because they relize that it has not
been the fault of the party, that the
condition of our country has for sev
eral years been growing worse; And
now, that they know that all of the
responsibility for this terrible misrule
must be plaeed upon those in whom
we put all of our confidence, and in
whom wo have been only too badly
disapnointed.
It therefore only remains for us all,
to concentrate our strength in ono
old time-true-and tried Democrat, in
whom all parties have the utmost
confidence, and who they know will,
to the very best of his ability never
fail to look after the interests of the
masses, and not those of the classes.
Such a man is to be found in the
“One Eyed Plowboy of Pigeon Roost.’
Hon. Allen I>. Candler. He is one
who w ill guard the interests of all of
the people in sueh a way as it hasn’t
been guarded in many years, and he
will be one goternorot whom every
person in Georgia may well feel a just
pride.
So, with such a man as Candler in
heading the democratic ticket in this
State you can just counton that very
popular ticket coming out in the next
electnon, in October, with such a
majority as you never saw in your
life cast for one man in Georgia.
And you will see that the Populist
bi etherin by the thousands will come
home to the democratic party, never
to desert it again; and of course will
very greatly assist in runnirg Allen D.
Candler’s majority away beyond the
100,000 mark. See if they don’t.
ALLEN D. CANDLER ON KISSING,
“Colonel, I want to intsview you.”
The secretary of state held up u warn
ing hand.
“ politics,” he was assured, and then
Colonel Candler looked more pleasant
ly upon the reporter,
“It’s simply a question of kissing
which lias or has not become a fad in
Atlanta, What do you think of the
practice?” “It’s an institution of
which lam very fond,” replied the
colonel smilingly, “provided the party
|of the second part is good looking
i That’s all I know about it,”
“It reminds me,” lie continued, “ol
Connecticut girl’s definition of kiss
ing. She asked me:
• "Colonel, why is a kiss like crea
tion?’ ”
Colonel Candler didn’ whether he
ventured a guess, but he gave the
Connecticut girl’s explanation.
“ ‘Because, colonel, it is made out of
nothing and God knows it's good,”
State treasures Speer strolled into
the room about this time and he, too,
ventured an opinion.
“I think kissing is a good thing if tte
parties can agree,” he said conserv.
lively- “It won’t do to farce such mat
ters. I think people ought to be very
careful.”—Atlanta Journal.
“When a pair of red lips are uptumd
to your own,
With no one to gossip about it,
Do you pray for endurace to let
them alone?
Well, maybe you do, but I doubt it,
AS TO THE LETTER “J”
From the Chicago Record.
The New Englad member of congress
who is preparing a bill providing that
the letter ,j” be eliminated from the
alphabet, so far as government publi
cations are concerned, is to be thanked
not cnly because he hasa fforded one of
the amusing features of the congress
ional session but because he calls at
tention to a noteworthy peculiarity of
the English alphabet. The New En
gland member bases Uis objection to
the. letter “j” upon the ground that it
is “useless, troublesome and a geneial
nuisance.” This puts the case too
strongly, but it is .undoubtedly a fact
that “j” holds its position in the alpha
merely by sufferauce.
In the event the letter “j’ should be
done away with what would become of
all the Johns, Jims Janes Jennies and
Julias?
County Politics.
Banks county reminds us Tory
much of a steamboat boiler with its
fires bauked and ready and rcaTy to
only be stirred up a little in order to
soon see political steam escaping
from the safety valve.
Politics here are almost at a “Pop
ping off pressure.” '1 he power that
is being confined under a veiv thin
sheet which we will name “Quiet” is
something that will astonish many
when it becomes visible to the gen
era! public of Banks c unty.
So do not become alarmed when
we have told you that the woods arc
]U st full of candidates for the several
offices in this county.
We have already learned the
names of a large number of office
seekers, who are at present working
hard to get the advantage of any
opponent that may be doing likewise.
Upon inquiry you will find several
wanting and working for these offices.
But, of course, are working on the
dead quiet. But don't care if the
news does get out.
T- 3 e state politics are now’ boiling
over, and if you could see all that is
being said in the news papers, maybe
you would believe that everything is
about to spoil, get burnt or turn to
clubs.
Since lion. Allen D. CanJler has
made his announcement as a candi
date for governor of Georgi i, it looks
like there is going to be a club in
every county in the state. Well!
that is allright in one sense, but
what is the use of such organizations?
If you wall look the situation square
ly in the fuce, you will see that
Georgia will appear in November
next as one great big cl.ib and will
surely have for its leader Allen D.
Candler.
Hanks county will stand near the
top of the list of Candler counties, if,
indeed she does not lead the entire
state in this respect.
JOHNSON AND THOMPSON.
Tlie.se Candidates Recommended
By the Grand Jury of Hall
Special to The Journal.
Gaisesville, Feb. —The recent
session of the grand juiy of this
county recommended Colonel Howard
CLAY’S CALL.
STATE DEMOCRATIC EXEC
UTIVE COMMITTEE TO
MEET.
Washington, Feb. s.—Chairman
A. S. Clay, of the democratic state
executive committee of Georgia, an
nounces that he will call a meeting of
the committee to be held in Atlanta
during the first week in March, this
being the usual time of meeting the
sessions of two and of touryenrs ago
having been held at a correspon ting
date.
Chairman Clay will mail members
of the committee the formal call for
the meeting.
In speaking of the meeting of the
committee this evening, Senator
Clay said:
This will be my last official act
in connection with the state eenimit
tce, for I will unber no circumstances
be a candidate for re-election as
chairman. I would have resigned
the chairmanship when I was elected
to the senate had it not been for the
fact that the committee practically
finished with the close of the last
state campaign, the work for which
it was created, and there was nothing
for me, as chairman, to do but to
issue the call for the next meeting of
the committee, at which meeting
is to be done to issue the formal call
for the next state convention ”
This will be done at the meeting
of the committee to be held in Atlan
ta during the first week in March.
My service as a chairman of the com
inittee has t een particularly pleasant
to me, and if I have met the expec
tation of the party in fulfilling the
duties required of one placed in so
responsible a position, I am moie
than satisfied. As to the chairman
skip for the next two J-ears, that is a
matter for the state committee until
his successor is chosen,”
Thompson for congress from the
Ninth district and Colonel Fletcher
At. Johnson for solicitor-general of
the northeastern circuit, the place
now occupied by Air. Thompson.
SA.UNDEKS CONFESSES.
Denies, However, that lie Sent
the Mysterious Package.to...
the Express Cos
Atlanta, Ga., Fen. 3—Although
Lucius L. Saunders is in jail and has
confessed he stole the $4,000 iroru
the Southern Express Company, yet
the return of the $3,700 to the coin
pany still appears to be a profound
mystery. Pleading guilty to the
charge against him, the prisoner at
the same time maintains with a frank
ness in keeping with the honesty' of
his confession that he does not know
who sent it. He tells a story which
is as remarkable and interesting as
the man’s filching of the money and
his subsequent arrest and confession.
Owning that he took the four pack
ages of SI,OOO each from the express
car, he then states, with a candor and
positiveness which makes his asser
tion bear the vejy mark of truth,
that he hid the money after lie took
it and that when lie went back to
look tor it it was gone. Somebody
had taken the money from the hiding
place and that person must have
been the one who sent the $3,700 to
the company.
Saunders’ arrest was brought about
in truly sensational fashion. Six
months ago he was transferred to
Cincmnatti, where, at his hoarding
house, he met and made friends with
a baking powder man To this man,
whom he thought to be a fast friend,
he confided his crime, and secured
from him a promise to stick to him
(Saunders). His friend asked per—
mission to aceompang Sauneers to
Georgia, paid all the expenses ot the
journey, together with a guard lu
the hotel.
When he reads this article Saun
ders will receive his first intimation
that iiis friend was one of Pinkerton’s
shrewdest men, who never left Saun
ders’ side until he was safe in the
custody of the Walton county officer.
Saunders failed to give bond and is
now in jail. His trial will be held, at
tne February term of court, begin
ning the 21st.—Atlanta Journal.
.Residence Destroyed by Fire.
Jefferson, Ga., February 6.
The residence of W. I. Pike was de
stroyed by fire at an early liour last
night. Cause of fire unknown. Loss
$2,000. This is the third time Mr.
Pike’s home has been burned in the
iast five years.
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Perhaps Spain might buy np a Cuban
general or two Jo torn traitor to the pa
triot cause, butt what -then? The Brit
ish did that- kind of thing in case of
Benedict Arnold, yet it stopped not for
a moment the progress of the American
Revolution and piled- ignofniny upon
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Observation, by Cardinal Vaughn:
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erwise it most come to a oataclysm. ”
A REPUBLICAN-ANTITRUST
BILL
ALBANY, FEB.’Z;—. .Mr. Malby,
Republican, introduced in the Senate
to day a bill which if enacted and
enforced, should, it would seem,
knock out the trusts' In brief, it
prohibits the officers of or.e concern
from directing tne operation of an
other or from transferring its stock of
another coinpany,
Section 40 of the Stock Corporation
law, which enables corporation J and
trusts to evade the intent of the law,
is amended by the Malby bill to read
as follows
“ The stack of evrey slock corpo
ration shall be, represented by certif
icates prepared, by the directors and
sigrie&by the president and secretary
or treasurer, and sealed with the sea]
of the corporation, and shall be trans
ferred in t|ie manner presented in
this chapter -and in the by-laws. No
shares shall be transferable until all
previous ehMsHberetyn shall* have been
fully' paid Ju.
The bill also provides that no stock
corporation shall acquire the stock of
any- otjjgr,.corporation except when
anth ori aedi&o, to do by the law under
which it is Organized; nor shall the
stockholders,'-.directors or other offi
cers Q.r employees be eligible as direc
tors or any corj oration whose stock
may have -'heretofore . beAn lawfully
acquired bY suclistsek corporation.
Senator: Malby says that he will
make a sincere attempt to pass his
bdl. He admitted that his amend
ments to the Stock Corporation law
are not as radical at they might be,
but he. expresses willingness to
strengthendhem by absolutely prohib
iting the transfer .of the stock of one
company-to the control of another
engaged in the same line of business,
which is now permitted.
To make his bill really effectiva it
would be,necessary to do this. But
it is not very probable that a bill so
constructed will be passed. The op
portunity to serve the pebole in this
way is an excellent one, but the
Republican programme does not eon
template auy such philanthropy just
now.—N. Y. World.
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Tho killing by Spanish soldiers of the
Cuban general, Nestor Aranguren,
comes strangely soon and sudden after
the event that first brought him promi
nently before the public eye—the execu
tion of Captain Ruiz. That execution
seemed harsh and terrible, yet when it
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itary usagos it appears justifiable and
will so be regarded in history. The pa
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; Cotton Strike.
The deplorable consequences of labor
and capital looking on each other as
mortal enemies are once more witnessed
in the strike in the New England cot
ton mills. The old warfare will un
doubtedly go on in all the ranks of labor
till the contestants mutually discover
that their interests are one and the
6amo. Then some system will be devised
which shall protect both.
The 15,000 cotton operatives who
went out at the various New England
mills struck because of a threatened 10
per cent reduction in their wages, which
they declared were already too. small to
enable them to live comfortably. Work
ers in the New Bedford mills struck
against a 10 pi r cont reduction in tbo
summer of 1895. The matter was com
promised by their finally returning to
work at a reduction of 5 per cent. But
they declare they found their concession
circumvented by a system of fines
whereby the owners quite made up the
6 per cent which they had yielded from
their original cut. The operatives rent
their housos from the companies, and
they declaro these houses and flats are
unfit for human habitation. This, too,
Is one of the grievances cf the cotton
workers.
Mill owners on their part affirm that
the prico of cotton goods is so low in
the market that they cannot get enough
for their product to pay former prices.
This state of things they attribute to
overproduction of cotton weaves, par
ticularly owing to the establishment of
mills in the south, where labor and all
the raw material needed are so cheap
that New England manufacturers can
no longer compete at the old price to
their operatives.
Some who have studied the situation
carefully assert that markets could be
found throughout the world for all the
cotton goods made in New England if
the mill owners would bestir themselves
and find thesf markets abroad. Amer
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the mill owners ought to uso all dili
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round. They could then pay their faith
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TUITION in the regular De
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two weeks.a due bill will be issued for
the time lost, good for any future
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DIPLOMAS. To any one
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mentioned, a dip|oma will be issued
indicating the workd one.
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efore we have no set rules.
We desirethe attendance of ladies
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them as such. We are willing to ad
vertise in regard to the conduct of
students’ and the privilege of asking
ilie withdrawel of any one who does
not conform to the usual deportment
of a lady or gentlemen.
EXPENSES. It is an object of the
school to impress practical economy in
every department. Good board can be
had fri m $1.50 to $2.00 per week and
room rent from 50c to 75c per week,
thus making the entire cost with tn
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low rates it is absolutely necessary
that all bills be paid a term in idvan
ce. We will refund money paid for
board or room rent, but charge lOcper
week additional tor thetiiiie, if less
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IION. HOWARD
THOMPSON
ANNOUNCES FOB CONGRESS.
Places Himself Before The
People of The Ninth
District, as A
FULL FLEDGED CANDIDATE*
“To the Democrats of the Ninth
Congressional District-
At the solicitation of friends through*
out the district, and to gratify an hon
orable ambition, I announce myself a
candidate for your nomination to th e
fifty-sixth Congress of the United
States.
Having boon honored by you as one
of your delegates to the late national
convention whieh assembled at Chicago,
and which promulgated your principle*
ane nominated your candidate. Ho, W.
J, Bryan, and having taken part in the
deliberations of that body, I deem it
useless to further express my viewa in
this announcement. Time has dem
onstrated the wisdom of that platform,
and I stand now, as I did then, on every
plank thereof; and should I receive the
nomination, and the same should be
ratified at the ballot box, I will do all in
my power to enact into law the declara
tion of principles therein enunciated;
believing ti.at the only hope for general
prosperity und the happiness of our
people
lies in the triumph of tbe democracy,
aiu tho successful promulgation of its
principles into such enactments as that
the masses may be able to earn, with
industry, an honorable competency for
themselves and families, Good gov
ernment can never come to our homes
and our .firesides through any other
source.
Hoping that my candidacy may meet
with such consideration at your hands
as that of a co-worker in your ranks de
serves, I remain, with great respect,
Your obedient servant,
Howard Tiiompsok
Gainesville. Ga.,Jan, Bth 1898.”
IIAS CHALENGED MR. TATE-
For joint debates any wqerc in this
district. Mr. Thompson’s letter to
Mr. Tate is as follows:
“Guiuesville, Ga., .Tan. 8,1898.
Hon. F. C, Tate, Washington, D. O,
My Dear Sir: —
I have this day formally announced
my candidacy for the Democratic nom
ination for Congress in this district.
1 shall proceed at once to make an
active canvass of the district, and will
address the people in behalf of my ccn
didaey.
1 respect!’ ully ask that you join me
in a series of debnteg at such times and
places as nitty be mutually agreed upon
by respective friends selected for that
purpose.
I herewith enclose you a copy of my
announcement.
Your early response will greatly ob
lige, Very respectfully,
Howard Thompson.
A NUB, * N TE * cures Dyspepsia,
flpiVy' Constipation and Indigestion.
Jr' Regulates the Liver. Price, Mo.
Where
I>o You buy your
Noap and so forth?
We do not sell
solortJi but we
now have in stock
the lmiulsfoincHt
line of
Yoilet Soup on
the market,
“Sweet Maiden”
Soap is the
slickest thing out
for five cts a cake
L.C. Hardman & Bro
HARMONY GROVE. GA.
A STEP BACKWARD,
“The Loud bill to regulate second
class mail matter, which ts now un
der consideration by Congress, is
distinct step backward, and it is t® be
hoped that no self respecting legis
lator will give his vote for a measure
which is bound to work detriment to
the educatioeal interests of the peo
pie Mr. Loud proposes to make the
Postal Departmeet self sustaining by
raising the rates of postage for alt
orms of complete books which now
pass through the mails at one cent per
pound and to abolish the privilege
which publishers now have of sending
sample copies at the same rate, The
result of this will be an increase in th
price of books, which are so cheap
nowadaos that the poorest working
man may secure a nice little library of
his favorite works, A bill that raises
the price of books, pats a premium oil
illiteracy, and should nos be passed.
Th°i\; are better ways of lurking the
Postal Department, self-sustaining.
For instance, why not make the rail
roads carry the mails as eherply as
they carry the shipments of the exprefs
companies? It has been estimated that'
ibis alone would accomplish the object,
we give in another column an article
upon this subject which will repay
careful reading. Our readers will do
much to defeat the bill by a posts
card protest, us suggested.”
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