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THE ATHENS. BANNER; TUESDAY i
EU MARCH it ISM
ATHENS WEEKLY BANNER
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Remittances may oe made by express, postal
dressed to the Business Manager
dents and with every appointment
common to tLe greatest Universities
ofth* land.
When the day comes that will
bring to the youth of Georgia a Uni
versity education as free as the air
that we breathe, as the water that
we drink, then will the Empire State
move oo with unretarded strides in
the advancement that comes with
higher education.
Because young Mu. Heabst has been
left a fortune of $20,000,000 the suspicion
is abroad that he is going to start a
newspaper in New York. And the
Boston Herald thinks that is just about
the price of that sort of an experience.
A Texas editor who is given to
speculation of all kin Is remarks: We
have 15 cents and half a dozen peewees
to wager that the tough whom Gov.
Hill refused to turn over to the Con
necticut authorities is a Hill man.
Athens has no overflows. The Oco
nee occasionally gets a little too big for
its breeches, but perched on her tow
ering hills the Classic City can look
down on such routings and laugh in de
fiance.
Thebe are people all over Georgia
who are anxiously waiting to hear
something more of the Jefferson Davis
fund. They were patriotic enough to
subscribe liberally to the fund and
would be interested to know if Mrs.
Davis has got their little miio.
The Charleston Wold calls the little
excitement over the Alliance caucuses
in Atlanta “a civil war in Georgia.” It
does seem that tLe World might leave
the Georgia Alliance alone especially as
it lias had so much to do in keeping up
with the gubernatorial campaign just
ended in the fiery little State of South
Carolina.
THE COMMON SCHOOL PROBLEM.
Much is beiug said in the news
papers lately all over the Stale abu
sive of the system of common schools
in Georgia, and it cannot be denied
that crilicism is dnly provoked by
the inferiority of very mauy of the
schonls of Georgia.
It may be stated here and now
though, that the people of Athens
are not tairly ia a position to ob
serve the glaring delects of the gen
eral schools, because of the careful
guidance given to their own city
schools But go to the small towns
and out in the couutry districts and
you will find that the youth of our
land are being sadly neglected, de
spite the fact that this great and
good old State is expending annually
more than a million dollars on its
common schools.
The Stale'School Commissioner
lias ol served these deficiencies and
has" urged that they be supplied
more thau ou<fc but so far nothing
seems to have been adopted either
by the Department of Education or
by the legislature to coirect the evils
of the system.
One thing doth appear, however.
And that: the schools* are not all
presided over by competent teachers
How aftej is it true iu the country
school when a bright young tai mer’s
boy stumps bis teacher and goes
back to his desk with a hard sum
half-finished on his slate, triumph
ant in his heart that he is smaiter
than hie. teacher, and boasting the
fact to his schoolmates at recess and
to his parents when he goes borne at
night. The demoralization that grad
ually creeps into a senool from such
causes as this—and they are fre
quent causes—can easily be im
agined.
A strong feeling of distrust arises
between scholar and teacher, the
teacher ieels keenly and continuous
ly embarrassed, while' the scholar
loses that dignified respect for the
teacher that is essential in any school
room.
Now, what is the remedy ? It js
clear. Tbeie is a crying demand
for advanced teachers in Georgia.
The schools aie out-growing the
teacher whose limit ie reached on
the last pagesof the blue -back-spell
er, of the primary reader, the arith
metic and the like. Higher educa«
tion is slowly in the ascendant, and
the curriculum of the common
schools mast be raised. The sons
of farmers are becoming of scientific
mind, and the age requires that they
must know more about the profes**
sions than formerly.
HERE. HBR£ LARRY!
Now, what’s the matter with our
good friend, Larry Gantt again ? Is
he so happy in the great work for
t »e Farmers’ Alliance of Georgia
,hat he is doing as to envy the fee-
ole but willlDg licks that The Ban
ner is patting in for the good of the
order ?
The last issue of the Southern Al
liance Farmer prints the following :
“Tiie Athens Banner, under its
sew management, professed to con
tinue its support of the alliance
cause. When it published, witbont
editorial condemnation, the speech
of Gazaway Hartridge, one week,
and on the next branded a defense
of the principles of our order as an
“onslaught, * we mast say that Geor
gia is fi led with each journalistic
defenders (?) of the alliance eause,
and we are not anxious for any more.
We want to see The Banner pros
per ; but it mu9t not utile with the
enemies of our order, unless it wants
to get a lick from the rough side of
our pencil.”
The trouble is Larry talks and
writes so fast that he forgets in the
moment his best friends and some
time-! lets out a word that does in
justice to his own good-heartedness
as well as to his friends.
The Bannbu did publish Mr.
Hartridgo’s speech, giving a humor
ous side to the Senatorial contest
witbont editorial condemnation.
None was needed any more for it
than for Larry’s own satire about
Senator Gordon’s initiation into the
Alliance. They were both good.
The Banner spoke of the “on
slaughts” between the Southern Al
liance Farmer and Governor North-
en simply as a fight to the finish on
both sides, and the farmers down
this way know it was a bit of pleas
antry.
It has always been the way of The
Banner to go about its work for the
farmers with that sincerity of pur
pose that makes its labor open and
trank, unstudied and tearless. Now
Larry, all of us down here are betting
on yon in your labors for the Alli
ance. Don’t lose time by turning
seLsitively around to shoot off un
warranted enmity against jour old
friends.
Coine to see as when yon ion over
to Athens, and tell us all about iu
We warrant you a pleasant call if
Athens is a dry towr.
TALK OF THE EDITORS.
YES, LET’S HAVE IT.
Brunswick Times.
Higher education is to be measured,
not by the knowledge it imparts, but
by mental power. Let’s have higher
education.
WE HOPE BO TOO.
Rome Tribune.
The Ouio farmers are having a tri
umphal march through Georgia. It is
to be hoped that they will decide to
obliterate thelast vestiges of Sherman’s
march.
NONE OF THAT KIND.
Savannah Times. -
The Atlanta Journal’s correspondent
tries to make it out that Judge Crisp
dodged the vote on the Reed resolution.
We were not in Washington at the time,
but, along with everybody else in Geor
gia. we know that the congressman is
not that kind of a man.
DIVORCES IN SAVANNAH. *
Savanuab Morning News.
Contemporaries who are shuddering
in agitated amazement at the large out
put ul divorces in Savannah do not take
into account that nine tenths of the
applicants are uegroes, and that negroes
are excessively fond of exercising their
constitutional right to make the law
operate just to see how it is done and
what it costs.
BLAME THE <J. O. P.
Solnrubu- Enquirer-Sun.
- If the establishment of a state colored
university iu Georgia is indefinitely
delayed, the ooloredT people will be in
debted to the g. o. p. for the circum
stances. The action of the Legislature
in providing for such an institution was
based, in a large measure, on the expec
ted receipt of the Federal agricultural
appropriation. This fund was to be
J unrated between the whites and blacks
n the proportion that, in the wisdom
of the state authorities, seemed fair and
equitable.
AT HELL’S HALF ACRE.
A Pitched Battle to Settle a Kentucky
Feud.
Special by News Telegram Association
Louisville, March 14.—A regular
pitched battle was fought by a number
of desperate men at a place called
The secret of it all therefore rests “Hell's Half Acre,” in Virginia, near
with the teacher of the common' Cumberland Gap, last evening, with
SCOO.,. H„ roost bo givoo . better SS:SKrb“be^ina H cbS,, J Sli:
education. He. must be a graduate' ed outright; Garrett Sothern, shot
•< a University .here bone bu, echol M gS'ggS “Tot
irs graduate. The Univeisily of live; Shelby Gibson, shot in the leg; a
ergio must be elevated, most be , ‘ b “^ *
up by the State with appro* The first two were arrested last Octo-
piiatious sufficient to furn’sh it with heron suspicion of being the men who
* . . had shot Morris Wills, a young En-
every apparatus necessary, with spa* glishman. The fight originated by
clous bui lings, with d.rm. lories of these men. who sought revenge against
,e,.„outy.v«*»mod•
THE BOYS OF 91.
THEY CELEBRATE THE PLANTING
OF THEIR TREE.
A Happy Hour Spent With the ’Varsi
ty Boys Over on the Campus Yester
day—A Poetloal Address by Mr.
John Boston.
The Senior Class of the Suite Univer
sity planted its tree yesterday on the
college campus.
There was a large crowd of spectators
assembled on the campus to witness the
interesting celebration, and every de
tail was very much enjoyed.
The members of the class marched
upon the scene at 4:30, bearing the tree,
which was a small water oak with
promising life and vigor in its green
limbs.
When the tree was placed in the deep
hole prepared for it, the boys gathered
around it and Mr. Smith, president of
theclass, introduced Mr. John H. Bos
ton, the poet of the day, who delivered
an address as enteitaining as was ever
heard on the campus around a class
tree.
Mr. Boston is possessed with pdletical
talent that has more than once been
made known in bis beautiful verses, and
both his address and song were ap
plauded loudly by the crowds yes
terday.
THE CLASS POEM.
Following is the address delivered by
Mr. Boston:
OUR FUTURE.
My frierdv ai d Fellow Collegians:
ii is wish timid longue Him I to-day,
Attempt to sp ak, tor wlrnl I Have to say,
Time uonoteil custom has decreed, a as!
l’luti 1 should frame my feeble tbougLt m
~ Verse.
So doubly bard iny present task I find,
To narrow bounds of rythntic words ab
stain d;
And baffled thus, I yet most rashly vie
The tick « uiuse—l still cont> nd—-I try.
But here one sad, oppoeiug, thought oc-
ewe.
What t louub I wiu a poet’s ha d—earned
8;.UI» ?
What ihouiib I should d serve a poet’s
name?
What honor would that bring to me, what
fame?
Tueir duys nave passed, their happy time
is o’er.
Their up asured words are to be praised
no more.
They seem “a simple race,- they waste
their ion,”
And ju t ‘For the vain tribute of a snide,
S • naught is my rewind, the toil I waste,
Iu wriiiau this, is’rn mg my losses plic’i'.
But »s 1 hive within ute, beating here,
A heart that sigh. f«r every p»assng can
And leaps with joy tor every triumph won,
That beats with love ami loyalty—aim
one
Of those emotions which infest my sou),
Are stronger than those with which 1 extol
My hiiilia telass—1 could not once desire
Reward ot Iter, 1 no not work for hire.
My time is Iters, my energy, my all,
re ever hers, and subj ci to bet call.
And now as names to all new things we
give
So evety die comae must a auhj-ct have
Though I not ofi can coming things fore
see
My thi in lathis—WhatS.mil Our future
Be?
I am no prophet, as I said before,
Nor dues my theme demand such mystic
lore.
(t only takis an ordinary mind
To see at once, tint lying just behind
The sable clouds which hide the future’s
lace,
There must exist a bright at d beauteous
place
For “Ninety One,” We do not simply guess
When we assert that she win have success
tier qualities we car fully inspect
A<id reason on from cause to L$ eff-ct.
Three years ago with her I cast my lot,
I teem'd with verdure, but still 1 was not
So green as I looked, and I had iu store
Ambition then, into my very core
It burned its way. First honor was my
tf y one Jraire, the apple of my eye;
But wheti I came to know my class-mates
well,
To know their mude, my aerial castle
fell;
Down with a crash, it crumbled iu the
dust,
Despair to me 1 my dearest hopes were
lost!
I had self-confidence enough 11bought.
And dauntless courage too, which went for
naught
When knights like these have couch’d
their lanct-s dire
In competition, from the same de-ire
That caused m - lu-r-, to enlist in the field
Of intellectual combat Fore, d to yield,
My “South Sea bubble" bursting in tbe
start
I have since b<en trotting behind the cart,
A« a wayfarer's dog, outdone in fight,
Will skulk behind to dodge his maat.-rs
sight
An active energy these men displayed,
Combined with longmg.forknowledge po
frayed
S » well, by wearied camel’s thirstiness
F.>r limp d waters from an oasis.
Wi'h aspirations h fty and sincvie.
And bounteous inborn brilliat c? they steer
Their course, and with unflinching zeal
proclaim
Tueir motto—“H mor to Old G -orgian’s
N :ine.*
TUou-h from the various towns they have
come
Etch man of theme claims Georgia as his
home.
To this reservoir of wisdom, they came
A .ddipp’d thiir eager minds, to quench
the flame
Of ignorance. S» faithfully they f< ugbt
This dreadful flame, that happily they
wrought
Some great results which will in fame
days,
Piove Georgian's good, and meri Geor
gian’s praise.
4ucli notile traits as thestv do not ilsclose
Their brat results in youthful days, bnt
those
Wuohave them,in thefiu-' o' mandoodreap
Their richest trails, with suiit-fac: on d< ep
Sncti is the cau.-e I base my reason on,
When I predict success for “Ni-iely One.”
A close observer never fails to find
A strong inclination in all mar kind
To praise everything which he calls his
own;
I ’apartol bis nature, juat as the bone
Is part of his body. His cbU’Cb is best,
AM its poor sinners are sure to be blest;
Tbe town of his borne, in great enb rptise,
Excels most towns of double its own size;
Hm counity, is to him, in soil- and clime.
Tbe grandest found in all annals ot time;
So natuial ’ns, that you should declare
My piai e exuavagant, I am aware;
But a-k those men whose learned lips
emit
The golden words of knowledge ss we sit
la yonder classic halls, you’ll find that
they
Will land this class, as I have done to-day.
deed we are favored, in this world
O' rushing b s ness we will soo > be hurl’d
jFitii rigor o' promising yimtu; mu*
crown’d
Wt 'li great advantage over those around.
Baik opportunity prey let us seiz-, -
And put forth over i very effott to please
Our dear benefactor-, aud be descried
Ere shill a decade pa-s,—our country’s
pride.
Let not the ties of affection, w ich bind
Class-mate to c as-rumte, here be con
signed
T-i fast de« ay by Tunes destructive band;
M e Georgians are, and though we aoou
disband.
Our motto still let us jointly uphold,
And all be patriots o: noblest mold.
Consolidated may we ever b*\
E .cb brother in his cause we’ll aid, that he
Miy better aid our common cause. To
Ti e noble words of an immortal Greek—
“By mutual confidince and mutual aid.
Great deeds are done and great discov
eries made,
The wise new prudence from the wise
acquire,
And one brave hero fans another’s fire.
My c ass-mates, we have met to-day to
pant,
As we all hope, a living monum- nt
To our mernoiy, wk.cb ilmvee as it re
ceives
Warm kisses from sun rays upon its
tarns.
May gentle showers at.d sparkling dew,
Its ft.Huge keep ot a verdai.t hue. ■'
And tbon. old Campus, whose picture we
bold
And cheii8b in our hearts, with joy untold,
Upon wh .se classic bosom here we spend
Our intellectual infancy; bl-ud
Gratitude with our love for thee, and
grant
To us one gracious boon Nonri&b onr
plant
With all thy cboiciest nutriment, and
spread
Its branches strong and- broad, that they
instead
Of future students, may catch the heated
rays
Of burning summer’s sun; and may its
days
Be countless as tbe stars, and it as fair
As any maiwhile gt-mh- Zephyrs stir
Its tumbling leaves, and at the years shall
p.ss.
M»ku it a monument worthy of our class.
Amt, my class-mates, may nevi r an a nd-
ver.-e fate
Your prospects mar, M.,ks men such as
your s'ate
Need? most, and then, may cvirjs Geor
gia’s 8'D,
Es eem and love the boys of “Ninety One.’,
id
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tail Druugists.
MISS CONNELLY DEAD.
She was Drowned In Augusta Yester
day.
Miss Louise Connelly is dead.
She waa drowned in lake O.instead,
near Augusta yesterday.
A private telegram was received to
that effect last night.
This is sad news to her many friends
She has visited Athens and was loved
by all who knew her.
Exactly how her death.Occurred is
not known, nothing save the simple fact
that she was drowned.
M.ss Connelly numbered her friends
tfy tbe bunJreds all over the 8. qte aud
porticularly in Athens where she was
so well known.
Her lovable traits were so many and
her faults so few that even auquain
tmees will feel her loss keenly.
That she is dead is a terrible truth)
that she is now in a fairer and more
peaceful world a beautiful truth.
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FROM HARMONY GROVE.
Items of Interest From Our Neighbor-
Ing City.
Miss Jessie Poiner, a popular young
lady of Crawford, Ga., returned home
this morning after a very pleasant visit
to Miss Jessie Rhodes, of this place.
Messrs. Jule Hudson, T. E. Key and
R. S. Cheney spent yesterday in Banks
county bird hunting. They bagged 34
partridges and didn’t half try.
Col. John Gordon, a prominent at
torney and an astute politician of Dan-
ielsville, passed through the Grove this
morning en route up the Northeastern
ou professional business.
Mr. John Wilhite, a prominent, prac
tical and prosperous planter of this
couqty, is in the Grove today circulat
ing among bis manv friends and ac
quaintances.
A very bold attempt was made at rob
bery in this plaoe last night. The
would-be robber or robbers used a brace
and bit upon the doors of tbe hardware
store of L. G. Hardman and tbe jewelry
store of C. M. Wilson, but failed to ef
fect an entrance. It seems that bis in
tention was to bore holes through tbe
doors, prize off the catch or lock and
thereby open the door, but fortunately
a complete failure wa3 made in each
ease. This attempt was exceedingly
bold, as the doors are upon the most
I ublio street of our • town. The robber
or robbers evidently became frightened
at the near approach of a passer by, as
they ran off leaving the brace and bit in
front of the hardware store. The job
was evidently the work of a no. ice.
No clue to the perpetrators as yet. We
trust they may soon be caught aud
brought to justice.
Tomorrow Night.—The Juvenile
Missionary society will hold one of
their dime parties at Mr. R. L. Moss’ on
Friday night. A great many will be in
attendance and it will no doubt be a
success. This is a splendid way for the
young people to raise money.
The Clarke Rifles—The Rifles drill
now regularly twice a week and are in
fine practice. Athens has one of the
best companies -in the state and she will
probably be represented in the' inter
state drills. If dora. Athens ariU
lipid the cln myipnabip ne*t year.
I heard a young man talking yester
day about women, young ones He
has had a somewhat varied experience
with the better hair of the world’s pop
ulation. He is rather tired of mo
notony.
.**
“I think I will have to take a short
trip” he said, between puffs of his
cigar, and he watched the smoke in a
lazy way. “I am tired to death, not
from over work though. I am tired of
looking for what I can’t find in Athens.
That’s fast girls.
“Oh, you needn’t look at me that
way, I wouldn’t marry one of them for
w rids, the Lord forbid, only you know
(hay are a great deal of fuu.
*%
“No, I don’t believe I am either
thoughtless or depraved. I just know
a thing or two. I like a reasonably
fast girl just as I do desert after dinner,
good enougb for a time, but for a reg
ular thing’’—and he shrugged his shoul
ders as be went out of tbe office.
«*•
This man in all reality “knew a tbiog
or two” and I dou’t believe I have evei
heard a more sincere or merited compli
ment paid to the women of Athens. He
had given up. Unable to find what b<
wanted.
The most ardent will wisher of this
place can hope for nothing better that'
that he or any other man may alwayr
find Athens tbe same way.
***
I am not a reformer, a reformer i.-
generally a crank, but I heard some
thing- the other day that made me an
gry, almost ashamed that 1 was a man.
Why You Should Patronize the Banner Job Office
When one has work of an artistic nature to be executed, he natural!
ries it to the very best artist convenient. Of course, an expert workm **
skilled mechanic has the latest and best machinery to enable him to a,S
(he most satisfactory results. No one wishes to patronize a workman
not keep abreast with the improvements of the day, for it is an impossihn?*.^
him to turn out a novel and artistic job. In printing, styles are constants i **
ing. Typo faces that were popular last year, are now rarely used. Bette
are seen by the most casual observer. r
OUR TYRE RACES ME ALL
- In ThE Banner Job-Office there is to be found tbe largest selection
and artistic type in Northeast Georgia. If you have a Poster as large as a « ***
per to print, and want it executed in an attractive style—in a style that wim* ,f *‘
the eye”—The Banner office is the place to have it printed. If you have C1Wl
vita tion card that you wish to appear as if it were lithographed, send it to an ^
fact, we qave the best selection of type for any kind of work that is print -d*' ^
THE BANNER JOB PRINTERS.
No matter how good material a shop may have, without skilled nicci-
the best results cannot be obtained. It is even so in a printing office \v-• ^
the most artistic and skillful printers to be obtained. We refer you to samu! U3v *
onr work for proof of this assertion. After all, one’s work is the best v-
which to judge his ability. We have no “cubs" to “butcher” work WI,J “1
•4I0UR PRESSES.^
Without good presses, it is impossible to turn out first-class work y-
jobs, which are otherwise artistic, are spoiled by poor press work. i n y*
Banner Job room there are live of the finest presses made—Adam’s Patent R >
Press, The Cottrell & Babcock Cylinder Press, two of the latest improved r ,
Presses and Golden’s Pearl. ' ur, ‘ (
WE PRINT ANYTHING
That can lie printed. Our Stationery is the very best, and our prices are s-m •
ingly low. If. you wish the very best results, don’t wait ’till your statiX""
gives out, but send your work in now, so that we may have time to m:ik» a"
truly artistic job. ‘ 1
I passed a sweet
the street and asked
knewwhoshe was.
“That is Miss
looking
a lady
girl on
whom 1
she answerer
“but she doesn’t go in the best set, s-
of course tbe young men don’t go to sei
her, although she is one of tbe bright
t st and best girls in town.
“You don't see why she should be let
alone? Welt, I don’t exactly see my
self but she is. One or two of the youn£
men went to see her but their young
lady friends raised such a row about i
they bad to quit.”
***
That made me angry. I had thought
better of tbe young men. They are go
ing to let a modest and altogether
charming young girl severely alone be
cause her father cannot wear a dres?
suit every night and cannot afford t«
pay out money for expensive ball
dresses for bis daughter. That is the
plain and simple truth of the matter.
#**
I am angry, I repeat it. Of all th«
cold and ab-olntely heartless “signs oi
the times” this is the worst. I havt
heard and seen it in tbe North but hac
hoped it would never get to the South.
***
I hope this was an exceptional case.
I am almost sure It was. When that
sort of things is wide spread I am going
to emigrate and there will be many who
will feel tbe same way.
***
Money is a good thing, a very good
thing, and tbe man who makes it hon
estly deserves respect, but be who hon
estly fails to make it is not deserving of
censure. Because be has no money is
no reason why he or his family should
be ostracised. I know that all self re
specting people. if they think about it
in the least, will agree with me.
The Lounger.
NO MORE OF THE REED RULES.
The Falsity of the Claim That They
Expedite Business Exposed.
8peciol fcy Nears Telegram Association.
Washington, Marcn 11.—The first
thing the next House of Represeuta
tives will undertake after organizing
will be the undoing of the Reed rules
Mr. Mcviillio, of Tennessee, a promis
ing candidate for the Speakership said
today.
“ l’bere will be no such rules in tbe
next Congress. 1 cannot conceive it
possible that tbe Democratic party,dom
inant in the next House, fortunately
for the country, wonld adopt the extra
ordinary methods in legislation which
were the practice of the Congress
which has just folded its tent.
There is a great deal ot
unnecessary gabble on the subject oi
tbe efficiency of this House in tbe
transaction of busineess. No House
evt r adjourned leaving so large an un
finished calendar. No House that ever
assembled,-so far as 1 know, took seven
teen or eighteen of the days set apart
for the consideration of tbe private cal-
ander in order to get through its busi
ness.
“As to the efficiency of the methods
adopted, that can be questioned without
rashness and disputed within truth.
As an illustration the second session of
this congress was engaged continually
in patching up the rents left
in the McKinley bill. There
was the tobacco rebate clause, tbe bind
ing twine paragraph, the chocolate
clause and the overriding of the Haw
aiian treaty. It will be remmembered
that Texas, the greatest State in this
Union, was legislated in this congress
out of existence and put in the Territo
ry of Oklahoma.
“To cap the climax of the supreme
blundering that resulted from precipi
tate action. Congress during, its,.last
hours had to amend the bill for the re
lief of the Supreme Court by adopting a
paragraph which saved the su
preme Court docket from abolition
and prevented chaos in the judiciary of
the country- It is a fact, though it
does not seem to have become generally
known, that if the bill, had not been
thus amended the bupreme Court
would have been divested ot jurisdiction
in every one of the civil cases upon the
oalomlar. This would have expedited
business with a vengeance, but it
would hardly have suited the country.”
Asked what rules the Democrats will
adopt. Mr. McMillin said: “They will
a'low the transacting of business with
out imitating the methods which' the
people have so thoroughly condemned.
I do not fear that tbe Republicans will
attempt to take any advantage of the
fairness which our rules will show to
the minority. Fortimitely, their will
not be enough of them in the next
House to offer a very prolonged op
position to any meritorious mearure
even if they should keep in there seats
all the time. My observation has beeu
that a prolonged filibustering can
seldom be kept up in any house except
against & measure that is decidely
j vicious or^ of exceedingly qucstioaabjj
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