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With no public place of amusement but
the artesian well, our citizens find timo
hanging hcirUHy on their hands when, lay
ing aside business fora time, they go out for
a stroll.
This conclusion is forced, not by the
pressing need of our citizens, lint for the
absolute need of the city. It has been the
desire of Albany for years to mnljp this city
n winter resort. Without adequate hotel
facilities, it lms_ never attracted the large
crowds it otherwise would. That we will
at some future time, have increased hotel
facilities and will become a popular winter
resort, is an assured fact.
The tide of Northern tourists is swelling
every winter. Albany has already been
placed.on the tourist rntc sheets of many of
the large Northern roads. This will result,
at some time, in a large hotel at this place.
l)iirsuppose we do have a large hotel, and
plenty of Northern visitors, what arc we
going to do with tfiera—how are we going
.to entertain tjiem ? -Arc we simply to fill
tiieni'ijp witli arteslqtf wat'er* nnd^et
lay nrountt the hflttuf' '■
To invitc.Northcrn visitors, and to insure
thair coming, we must hnv^ something more
than hotels. We must have some place of
amusement or resort where they can go for
idcasure, and break the monotlny of a quiet
jonrn in the Artesian City. -
Uut avein of selfishness 'also actuates us
We ne?d this placc of resort 1 'for .our own
people, for our little boys and girls, for the
young people, nud Uie old people to wnndcr
through its avenues or lounge on its lawns,
gathering happiness and pleasure.
If some citizen wishes to perpetuate his
mcipory among tills people, let him donalc
the city a hundred or two acres of accessible
group# for park , purposes. Then let the
city take it in thud, nnd, by the judicious
expenditure of niiincy, make -it' “a tiling of
beauty and a joy forevjr.” . - . . '
But in cose no one Is so generously in
clined let the city make the necessary ex
it are -jiiiy thq property, if 0)
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will come afterwards.—Aerrs "ml Aderrtiier.
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The above eminently correct view
of patks suggests food for thought lor
our people. It is, without doubt, true
that Thomasville is indebted for her
popularity, as a winter resort to her
noble natural parks—her vast pine
forests, which ofier an asylum to the
delicate invalids ol ihe North, who
come with a view of inhaling the heal
ing balsam ol the pine, and our own
-Paradise Park has had no little to do
with bringing many thousands to
Thomasville. In truth, no city can
get along without a park. They are
on’c of the cssentia's; and the sooner
Albany, and Thomasville, too, recog
nize that fact, the better it will be for
them. It may be now within the
range of possibility to provide, ade
quate parks for our young cities A
few years hence it would be, while a
greater necessity, still a much more
expensive necessity, and hence we can
give no better advice than to at once
provide parks. Thomasville fortu
nately is blessed in this particular
We have Paradise Park within our
grasp, and it can be made one of the
most attractive parks in the South.
The sooner i*. is ’commenced the bet
ter.
Sait.’-
Bayonet Rule Recommedeil-
One Dudley ought to be enough,
even for the Republican party, but
recently Mr. L. Edwin .-Dudley of
Massachusetts has h6bbed,njv into a
notoriety which is calculated to arouse
the jealously of his Jjtdiananamssake.
The Massachusetts Dudley was com
missioned by a set of; Massachusetts
republicans, who feel that the salva
tion of the oountty is incumbent on
them, to spy out the land- of South
Carolina, to ascertain why the re
publican party has disappeared from
that part of the earth, and, 'if possi
ble, to discover some - method by
which it may be re-established there.
Mr. Dudley went, saw, returned
and reported. His observations and
recommendations have been - publish*
ed. They present'soipe interesting
points. Mr. Dudley's description of
the condition of the remnants of the
Republican party in-South Carolina
is probably accurate. He; - says;
“Very few! white mien of any promi
nence or'standing in-the state are iden
tified with the Republican party, and
these few arc simpjy the -men who
held federal offices under former ad
ministrations and who are How look
ing to hold them again.” Jtr. Dud
ley found scarcely a single white man
of any social - standing identified, with
the -South Carolina SBphblicans.
They keep up, the semblance of party
orgauization, it is true, but. he says
they have done nothing for thirteen
years except to send delegates' to na
tional conventions and make claims of
federal patronage. One of the things
that pained Mr. Dudley most was the
discovery that many of the negroes in
are, woweditod active
democrats. Dike most pooplcf In the
North ho had supposed that every uc-
establiab, the domination of ignorant
negroes, led by' such white men.. ns'
could be bought with promises of fed
eral patronage.' Thiscontestlm- been
had once in South. Carolina and the-
result proved th^ inevitable tJUtcome
of all such trial# of strength between
the higher and |be lower element.'.
The ignorant add irresponsible can ‘
not, though backed by bayonets, rule
the virtue, wealth and intelligence of
the community. If Mr. Ditdley lacks
the common senso to see the certain
kesult of; the policy ho advocates, he
has only to refresh his memory of re-
ceut history in the South to see to
what results it would.' lead. One
reason the South is solidly deraocratio
now is.tQ be found in the folly and
shame of the reconstruction policy,
Free Passes.
The Georgia railroad and the At
lanta and West Point railroad deserve
special recognition and approval by
the people for not complimenting the
members of the Legislature with free
passes. Thoir example could be fol
lowed by the other railroads of the
state with wholesome effect. If the
members did not have free passes,
there might not be so many adjourn
ments nod so many leaves of absence.
It is possible, too, that the length of
the sessions might be curtailed.
We are opposed to the dead-head
system. ^ It ought to be abolished in
loto. It is all wrong. The fact of
giving a free pass is based on the id-
of something in return. The fact of
receiving one implies an obligation.
The Springfield Republican, common- It is upon the idea of you tickle me
ting on the plaJjf- suggested by Mr; and I will tickle you. It suggests and
Dudley, slys: “Any political combi-
pation or ottt&iization that- counts
upon tke ignorant vote eti bloc is pro
damned.” J.L
While Mr.J Dudley’s report will
hardly provokf any practical attempt
to carry out the plan ho reentnmends,
it is,' in a' sens#,, usefbL It demon
strates the bouplessness.of any effort
to build up thf Repnplican party in
the South at this time.—Telegraph.
Mi" w
gro is a republican ns a matter of
We an: glad to sec our able contem
porary, the Augusta Chronicle, has
found one-article, salt, that it is will
ing should be put ou the free list.
Isn’t it about time the people were
having some protection, as well as the
monopolists? The salt combine opens
up an inviting field for action by the
next Congress; but the republicans,
who control the house, arc so deeply
steeped in the doctrine of protection
that it is not likely the people will
get any protection from them. To
the democratic party, alone, can the
people look with any degree of confi
dence for relief. In the language of
a great railroad magnate, the republi
cans say: “The people be d ■■■■d.”
These little matters will come up for
re-adjustment in ’92. ,
Parnell voted with the government
tlio other day, when the question of
an allowance for one of the royal
princes was up. And so did Mr.
Gladstone. “Vic” may knight Par
nell* yet, *
course, and was not prepared to see
five negro democrats in tho legisla
ture. In Charleston he was surprised
still further to sec one negro lieuten-
aut and seven negro patrolmen ou tho
police force, and to lenru that they
had been democrats bofore their ap
pointment to these positions. Mr.
Dudley says: “The white people ore
prevented from uniting with the pres
ent republican organization in the
state because of a dissatisfaction with
its record and character, and a disbe
lief in its ability to command tho re
spect and confidence pf a sufficient
number of people to place it in con
trol of the state at any time in the
future.” And yet Mr. Dudley is sur
prised at the determination of the
white people “not to he ruled by ig
norance and vice” and at the frank
ness with which they justify extraor
dinary preventives of suclt a calamity.
He does not consider it worth while
to try to build up the Republican
party in South Carolina on the rem
nants of its former organization; these
lie considers too poor for any use. He
would start a new organization of
whites and negroos on the basis of an
equal share of federal patronage and
would make the chief test of party
fidelity adhesion to the policy of a pro
tective tariff. He thinks he discerns
signs of dissatisfaction in the ranks of
the democracy which are favorable to
the success of such a scheme. Rut
there is one pre-requisite to the build
ing up of an effective republican or
ganization in South Carolina, with
out which Mr. Dudloy intimates very
plainly all other pfforts will be in
vain. It is “that congress shall en
act some law, and back it up with
federal authority, to control elections
in the state and help tho independ
ents, by its interference, to get into
the returns all the votes that—bq;
cause of the machinations of an all-
powerful party—are at present either
not cast or not counted.” In other
words restore in South Carolina the
regime of rccomtuction. Ho admits
that there is hardly a white man of
social slauding to be found among
the republicans of that state and
and that some of tho more in
telligent negroes are democrats, and
A Big Street Car Deal.
’ Chattanooga, Tenn , July a8.-
Messrs. Charles A. Lycrly, Ed Watkins
and 8am W.? Diven, who own and
operate the im&v electric railroad sys
tem in th : s cij^, which has been suc
cessfully operated for about a month,
have closed t|a -trade with; the city
railway compwy for a controlling in
terest in that Jfy.stcny The dcitl was
about $450,000. The city street rail
way company owns and operates about
twenty-four miles ol -street railway,
using thirty-five cars and operating
five different lines running into various
parts of the city. The new company
will discontinue the use of horse power
as soon as possible and adopt electpi
city on all the lines. Ten milts ofex-
tension ol the two lines are already un-
impliea that one good turn deserves
another. There is reciprocity at the
bottom of it, and when men ih public
station receive free passes it means
that they ore in position to grant pub
lie favors. t '
The fVee pass system should be abol
ished. Editors and members of Con
gress, legislators and judges, and other
public officials, should be mnde to pay
their way on railronds, just like ordi
nary mortals hnve to do. The whole
thing is vicious, and should be done
away with,—Augusta Chronicle,
The South of the Future.
Some of our exchanges are repro
ducinga' 1 remarkablo prophecy mode
by Wendell Phillips not long before
hjs death. The Now England orator
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HTKfi handwriting is Iso plain op
'tfcWT'mnte-bntaTool trwtfr
mistake it. New England is doomed,
just as sure as natural laws will pro
duce fixed results. Now England has
no soil worth mentioning, and her
wealth lias been derived from her
manufactures. These are gradually
leaving her, aud .eventually thoy will
nil go; some to the west; the most to
the south, where the advantages for
PRICES!
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der contract and are being pushed to
completion.
Take the Bridle Off.
Mr. (ire-is is endeavoring to build a rail
road from llawklnirillc to Irwinvillc* For
the sake of the people of Hint section who
will lie bonefitted by the road, we trust that
tbc West l’oint Terminal company will not
crush out the enterprise after the plan sug
gested by its president nnd published in
another cqlnmli.—Atlanta Journal.
The effort of the big roads to crush
out smaller nnd .competing lines,
should receive tho full measure of
popular indignation. What right
have these big railroad Trusts to say:
“You shall not build any more roads,
they will compete with us?”
profitable manufacturing arc all lo-
Oklahnma’s Sooners.
The decision of the land office, oust
ing the “sooners,” ns those who entered
Oklahoma before norm of April 22,
are called, is causing excitement
Two hundred men were in line yes
terday morning, waiting for the land
office to open, a large majority of
whom were waiting to file ou claims
already cutcred by “sooners.” The
effect of the decision will bo felt every
where throughout the territory, and
endless trouble seems in store,
thought by many that in equity, the
same ruling must apply to town lots,
when GOO or 700 persons in Guthrie
alone will he affected. If it does not,
then when other parts of Imjiau terri
tory are opened whole cities may be
oxpected to spring up before the
opening day. _
The Cutbert Liberal plainly and
pointedly says: “The Liberal is ex
pected to blow ihe town, blow its
schools, blow for new railroads, blow
for everybody, while " there arc plenty
of business men in the town who
could buy everything ihe proprietors
of the paper own fifty, times who
never use a line of advertising nor
otherwise patronize them to the exteut
of a nickel, outside of the subscription
ho would invoke the bayonet to | price.
catcd. The coal and iron in the
south arc easily gotten nt nnd inex
haustible in nniount, nnd the jron
mills, the foundries and machine
shops can go to them better than they
can be carried to the shop.;. Then the
cotton nnd woolen mills must go
there, for the raw materials are, and
arc to lie, produced there more cheap
ly, uniformly nnd better. Then look
at the advantages of the extra hours
of daylight in a year’s run. This of it
self is no small matter. Ab the .South
grows stronger anti stronger, the
wealth, culture nml power of the
country will be centered there, until
she will become not alone the mistress
of America, but the central empire of
the world
The case of the Florida man who
had his love letters read in court not
long ago is attracting considerable at
tention—at least the love letters arc.
In a post-script to one of the letters lie
oflered to deliver 1,000,000,000,000
kisses to his best girl. The Boston
Globe thinks the contract was a very
big one, and it says: “Whoever will
take the trouble to figure it out will
It is / ltu l that even if this amorous south
erner should give the lady 15,000
kisses a minute (aud we affirm that no
person could hope to do more than
that), aud even if he could keep up
this rate of osculation twcuty-four
hours a day, never pausing to cat,
sleep or take breath, working 365
days every year, ’ it would take him
more than 100 years to complete the
contract. And by that time, it is
painful to reflect, the ardor of his love
may have cooled. Evca. at the end
of 100 years, counting 15,000 kisses a
minute, there would remain an unde*
livercil balance of more titan 200,000,-
000,000, a number which in itself
might well appall the most indus
trious.”
Ilowrcn is making Rome howl.
“Wet” or “dry,” is the question.
Our Mr. Levy is now
in New York making
Fall purchases, and
he has sent us word
to KNOCK DOWN
PRICES on all sum
mer goods, and make
room for our immense
Fall and Winter stock
that is coming. So,
from now on, a 11
Spring and Snmmer
goods go at old
“Knocked Down
Prices.” *
Remnant table full
of choice bargains
every week.
JLievys
Dr; Ms House
Mitchell House Corner.
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