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T11OMASVILLR, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 50, lS!to,
$5.00 PER'ANNUM
Change - of - Venue
CLOTHING
This week instead of
DRY GOODS.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.
The News of the Day Told in
Brief—Personals, Etc.
ATTENTION
MEN,
Keep your eve on the Augmta
road.
Yesterday was a good day to stay
at home.
Keep your hand on the rain gun
Mr. llondurant.
It looked rather stormy at times,
yesterday.
Guyte McLendon threatens to have
the first tomatoes of the season
Law
YOUTHS’
Gus Hurst is hi nself again,
breakers will take notice.
Mr. S. H. Morgan, of Lee county,
was in town yesterday.
Rubber coats and umbrellas were
in demand yesterday.
There are only two prisoners con fin
cd in jail at present
Mr. \V. R. Flood, of Virginia, is in
the city.
Dr. Taylor went over to Mctcalte
yesterday to attend a patient
Mr. A. \V. Peeples, of Valdosta,
| was in the city yesterday.
A considerable damper was put on
I shopping yesterday. Very few ladies
I faced tne elements.
Messrs. A. McAdams, of Ohio, and
I A. McAllister, of Savannah, are at
| the Stuart
Mr. Tom Dickinson, the well
I known commercial man, is stoppin
| at the Stuart.
Capt W. M. Hammond returned
I yesterday from Valdosta, where he
has been attending court
No. e, the morning train from Sa
vannab, brought down several cars for
the excursion horn here to Jackson
ville today,
Messrs. T. J. Dali & iJros.’ new quar
ters will soon be ready lor occupancy.
It is being conveniently and hand
somely fitted up.
Mr. ><eo. R. McRae, of Valdosta,
1-buttoil Cutaway Suits Worth [ was registered at the Gulf yesterday,
.... I enroute from the melon growers con
81G.U0 tor !?12.00.
AND BOY;?.
LOOK -A.T
QUOTATIONS,
Reflect and Act.
NO BAITS,
NO CLAPTRAPS.
NO MISREPRESENTATION,
M<
Black Corkscrew
A K. K. K. Notice.
Charles Rice, you had better settle
up and leave this town, for the ne
groes are after you ; you have stolen
their money and their school property.
You can’t live in Tliomnsville ; this is
your warning. We give you .'10 days
to make those deeds hack to the peo
ple. Tf not, you shall not he able to
do it. We will not allow you nor
other black rogues to come here nnd
steal from us that way. Take warn
ing, we mean what we. say.
K. K. K. You D—B-S.
Editors T[.mi«-Enti:i:i'risi:, and the
public:
I wish simply to state, that on yes
terday evening, a little while alter I
topped out of your office, Prof. Rice
called me to stop ; he walked up to
me, apparently in very had humor,
and remarked : “What do you want
to do about Clay Areet school ? they
tell me von are going all round here
prying after it.” I told him there
were a good many talking about it.
He drew from his pocket a K. K. K.
notice, of which the above is a copy,
verbatim ct literatim.
This act reflects on every colored
man in this community, aud is an
irretrievable disgrace. I condemn the
let, and I hope the citizens will call-a
meeting and stamp upon the act their
indignation. I don’t believe there is
a K. K. in our city. The party has
committed malicious mischief, and
hould he punished to the full extent
of the law.
If Prof. Charles Rice, or any Prof.,
ommiis theft, we have a law, and by
it let him stand or fa’l. Let. the col
ored citizens come to the front, and
there stand as firm as the Rock of
iibralter against K. K. K.’s and
every other illegal course of punish-
' crime.
J. W. Cartf.k.
May 20, 1,S| 10.
We give place to theahovc in order
that '.vc may add our own comlemnn-
-ion to the sending of the so-called K.
K. K. notice. There is no room in
the south for such work, aud still loss
necessity. As our correspondent says,
the law is amply aide to punish
crime, nnd there is no apology forgo
ing outside of its pale.
MR. R. TURNBULL'S ADDRESS
Before llte Alliancemen at Metcalfe.
enterprises are not forced on towns.
Hear this in mind.
vention held at Albany Wednesday.
Moll s Black Colksciow I If you want anything you must work
Stick Suits wort h 815.00 for| forit - In this day, railroads and other
812.00.
Mi ll’s Fancy Cassimcrcl IfThomasvillc gets any more roads
~ .. ., - AA | manufacturing establishments, or oilier
Suits worth $lo.00 for *10.00. . • , . , .'
* v enterprises, site must work for them.
Moil’s Fancy Cassimore I The time for talk has passed,
Suits worth 812.00 for $8.00.1 Mr - A. H. Ainsworth left yestirday
morning for Dawson. <o work for the
Men’s Fancy Cassimere
Suits worrit S10.00 for 80.50
Youths wool suits worth
87.00 for 3.50.
Georgia Fledge Compiny, in that sec
tion.
It will not do to simply turn tip
plates and wait for the dumpling:
rain down; we must hustle, if new
Youths' wool suits worth I enterprises are wanted.
Dr. T. S. Hopkins, accompanied by
his two! grandsons, Jimmie Hopkins
suits worth I and Frank Mallard, left yesterday for
a mouth’s visit to Brunswick, Darien
aud St. Simons.
worth
80-00 for 5.50.
Youths wool
$ 10.00 for 0.50.
Youths wool
812.00 for 8.00.
suits
The Guards had a rousing big meet
iug nnd drill on Wednesday night.
The boys are enthusiastic over their
Boys fall suits trom 81,50 proposed trip to Augusta, anil will go
to $0.00. with ful1 riluka -
Boys knee pants from 35 T1 *° Alumni of 1,10 8tat0 Uuiversi -
I ty will meet this afternoon at four
cents lip. o,clock, at the office of the Messrs.
The best unlaundrieci shirts Molntyrc. Every member should be
in the world for 50 cents.
We always do what
promise. Try
present.
132 BroiulIStreet.
There is enough capital in Thomas-
" c | villc to start half a dozen new enter
prises, if it was properly pooled. Gome
together, gentlemen, and you will he
strong; stay apart and yon will break.
Nothing is truer than this.
Clear-headed, able business men,
[ and good financiers, are looking alter
the Augusta road. The gentlemen
[ who are watching and managing the
interests of the town in the matter
j are wide-awake to the importance ef
their trust.
The Augusta Road.
Anything touching the progress and
prospects of this road is read with in
terest by our people. This is natural,
for they have pledged $50,000 to the
road—when it reaches Thomasville.
The Augusta Chronicle of Wednesday,
speaking of the road, says:
“The Augusta nnd West Florida
road, though little bragging has been
done, is being steadily pushed on to
ward completion.
“At present there are but 100 men
and 64 mules at work. They are di
vided into three gangs, grading at as
many points between the cit> and
Bradwell’s mill.
“In a few days, however, the forces
will be more than doubled, and it is
possible the increase will be even
greater than that.
“Mr. Thompson is very sanguine of
the future of the Augusta and West
Florida and is eminently capable of
making it a grand success.”
The road will receive every possible
encouragement here. Hut there is one
tiling which should be borne in mind :
it takes work nowadays to secure a
railroad. They are eagerly sought
for by all towns, and Thomasville
should be wide-awake and leave noth
ing undone to secure the completion
of this ling. It will put Thomasville
in an independent position.
Last Friday the Alliancemen, nnd
citizens, generally, had a big picnic
at Metcalfe. A friend has furnished
us with a copy of Mr. R. Turnbull’s
speech on the occasion and we sincere
ly regret that our limited space will
not permit its publication in .full,
He took occasion to refer, in eloquent
terms to the fact that Grover Cleve-
aml had endorsed the Alliance. His
arraignment of the professional poll
tician was severe. His position on
tlie tariff and silver question met
with a hearty endorsement. The
McKinley bill was shown up in its
true light. We make room for the
following extracts, regretting that we
cannot insert the whole address. Mr.
Turnbull, iu opening his address, said:
We are confronted to day with a
grave industrial problem, upou the
proper solution oi’ which depends the
prosperity of every business man aud
every farmer throughout this broad
land. That agriculture is greatly
depressed, and that it brings 110 re
ward to those engaged in it, is so
plain, that “a way faring man
though a fool can see it.”
Some, of the smart Alecs of the coun
try, who pose as political economists,
say that this depression is owing to the
laziness of the farmers, and his in
attention to business ; and that if he
worked as hard as other men engaged
otiier industries, his fields would
blossom as the rose, and he too would
pile up wealth
()n the other hand, when he appeals
for relief in his object aud pitiful
helplessness to the men who liav
been elevated to power through his
suffrages, he is told in grim sarcasm
that tiic “dead of all his woes'
caused by his having worked too
hard, and made ton much, that in
tore, working through nature’s <i
inn smiled loo beneficently upon
fields, giving him too bountiful liar
vests thus, causing over production !
Is it any wonder that the farmers
of this country, tints cajoled and
marched in their calamities and fooled
by those holding governmental posi
lions, are stirred to their profoundest
depths with righteous wrath,'and I’au
line indignation.
No class of men work so bar
the cold of winter, in the heat of
summer, live so hard nnd get so little
reward from their toil as the farmers
of this country. Is it over produc
tion ? what do statistics say? In the
year 1888, !) j. bushels of wheat wore
produced to every man, woman and
child, which brought on an avera
of
A Tribute to Judge Hansell.
81.15 per bushel. In 1880 only
71. bushels per capita was received,
and yet it brought only 70 eta. per
bushel.
What about the cotton crop wo
received the past season ? AH through
the marketing season, the samo old
rascally cry of the monumental liars,
and organized robbers, circulated far
and wide by a subsidized press, was
heard, of over production, over pro
duction ; and yet we behold, in our
chagrin and disappointment, a spec
tacle to make angels weep 1 Our
7.000,000 hales no sooner gone from
our grasp than it lias become enhanc
ed in value to the amount of 870,-
000,000,00 not only robbed of these
millions that should have gone to
brighten and make happy and pros
perous our wives and children, hut
that which is infinitely worse, gone to
swell the pile of other millions that
will he used to rob us of the profits of
j the crop we have just put in
interest of 7 per cent, requiring, even
to pay the interest on these farm mort
gages for one year about 500,000
bushels more than the entire net crop
of wheat.
Facts and figures tell the tale of
steady decline for more than 80 years
past in agricultural values. The
farmers of the United States in 1850
owned 70 per cent, of the total wealth
of the country, in 1800 about one
half, and in 1880 oue third, while
now they own a fraction less than one
fourth of the entire wealth of the
country.
What makes it worse, while this
appalling decay in agricultural inter
est was going on all other enterprises,
commercial, financial and manufactur
ing, had unexampled prosperity anil
development. Free coinage of silver
is one of the remedies for the present
depression in agriculture proposed
and now advocated by our legislative
committee at Washington.
The monopolists, the enemies of the
bill, predicted that it would reduce
the price of the silver dollar, and yet
what has been the result ? The sim
pie agitation of the question in con
gress has advanced the price of silver
to 100, higher than it has been for
years. So it is with the price of cot
ton, the agitation of the question,
together with the organization of the
farmers, lias undoubtedly had the ef
fect to give it an upward tendency.
A republican congress is just now
trying to rub sand into the eyes of
the Western wheat farmers by pro
posing to put 11 duty of 50 per cent,
upon all wheat imported into this
country. Well how much wheat was
imported into this country the past,
season ? The enormous amount of
1910 bushels—and that only brought
in it is said to improve the quality of
the seed.
, o ■ - the
llte Southwest Georgian has this to | ground
say of Judge Hansell’s golden wed- i Another remedy .for our diseased
: 1 agriculture they say is a diversity of
“Judge A. H. Hansell and wife cele-1 crops. The state of Michigan is a
brated their golden wedding in Them 1 conspicuous instance of diversified
asvillc on last Tuesday. A wedding j fanning. It is said upon good author-
such as theirs is an honorable one in- j ity, that no state of the Union culti-
deed. Fifty years of married iife that | V ates so great a variety of crops, and
have gone to the uplifting of humanity w hat is the result? There are to-day
worthy to be | mortgages resting upon their farms
record that
copied.”
amounting 81-10,000,000 at au average
Of late, for nearly three years it has
been my privilege to travel in 5 of
the Southern states, and to mingle
freely with the men who guided the
plow from the sen-hoard to the moun
tains, nud with hut few exceptions,
I heard the same sad old story, “from
men who felt that in spite of them
selves their affairs were going wrong
of free and equal citizens, who felt
that they carried unequal burdens—
of toilers who felt that they reaped
not the just fruits of I heir toil, ot men
who felt that their labor enriched
others while it left them poor, nnd
that the sweat of their bodies, shed
freely under Gods command, went to
clothe the idle and avaricious in purple
and flue linen.”
My heart bled ns I looked upon
their care worn, weather beaten coun
tenances, and listened to their stories
of unrequited toil, nnd looked upon
their wives, some of them young in
years, hut old in a hard and hitter
struggle to make both ends meet, aud
resolved that when 1 returned home
to <lo what I could to aid my brother
farmers to regain their old time pros
perity.
We see the power ot organization
illustrated in a handful of pot-house
politicians in almost every county,
completely dominating the polities of
tlie county, putting men in office who
waste '.lie people’s money nnd pile tip
their taxes mountain high. Tho old
time methods of the democratic party,
the convention, with its two-third
rule, has become to he so completely
manipulated by political tricksters
and loud mouthed professionals that
the Alliances everywhere have heeu
constrained to ildviso the people to
go back to primary methods, in order
that they may have the opportunity
to vote for the men of their choice.
Fellow farmer’s, let me say to you
in conclusion that never, at any time
in our history, were our skies so bright,
our seas so smooth, inviting us to put
on every inch of canvass, that we may
catch every favoring breeze, and that
nothing hut one folly in taking on
board too many of those who arc
unfriendly to us, can prevent our
reaching in safety the coveted haven
• ot all our hopes aud aspirations.
AT LEVY’S.!
100 dozen Ladies’
Jersey Ribbed Under
Vests just received.
The same are being
offered to close out at
18c each, or 3 for 50c.
They are worth dou
ble the price we ask
for them.
LEVY’S
Dry Goods House.
AT LEVY’S
100 dozen Ladies’
Jersey Ribbed Under
Vests just received.
Tho same are being
offered to close out
at 18c each, or 3 for
50c. They are worth
double the price we
ask for them.
LEVY’S
Dry Goods House.