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vol. ii— :;o. i5. 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.