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THE VIENNA PROGRESS, SEPTEMBER 13,1900.
Entered at the Tout of flee in Vtenn ic. (tv.,
.Second Claes Matt Metier
Official Organ Dooly County.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY.
'll. l». SMITH, Krt. and **ul>.
The population of Greater Now
York is officially announced as 8,-
437,202.
Thoro are a groat many other, pub
lie men besides Mayor Woodward
who linger over the flowing bowl.
Hon. Arthur Sewell, W. .J. Bryan’s
running mate in 1896, died at Bath,
Mo., of apoplexy Wednesday morn
ing last. •
It seems pretty oortain that the
next federal house of representatives
will bo democratic.
Mrs. Editor Myrick gives this ex
cellent advice. “Never taunt your
wife with her ignorance; you would
probably bo single today were' she
-otherwise.■’
Whore is the oivil government
whioh President McKinley’s peace
commission was to havo established
out in the Philippines by the first of
September ?
Joel Chandler Harris, “Uncle Re
mus,” has resigned his position as
editorial writer on the Atlanta Con
stitution and will dovoto his entire
time to literary .work.
Hanna told the truth when he
-said ho was too busy to speak, Han
na’s boodlo barrel will play a bigger
part in thiB campaign than all the
republican spell-binders put together,
What is the Future of King Cotton
When Carl Sohurz gets after a
fellow ho usually lays him out, Sec
retary Gage’s soalp is the latost addi
tion to Carl’s string of controvorsal
trophios, and it was taken “dead
•easy.” . ,
The democrats and populists of
Minnesota in their stato conventions
•named a fusion ticket on Btato officers
and an electoral ticket Thursday last,
and the whole thing endorsed Bryan
and Stevenson.
Thorp are'already three candidates
for the legislatiyo postoffioe. Mrs.
Armstrong, 1 Mrs. T. R. R. Cobb, of
Atlanta, and Miss Marion Sniith, of
Cartersvillo, daughter of Maj. Cjias.
-A. Smith, (Bill Arp).
>BUhop II. M. Turner has notified
Governor Candler that he will stump
•the state for the democratic tioket,
•both state and national. Ho also no
tified the national democratic com
mittee of his intentions, and his ser
vices have been accepted.
Riohard Olnoy, seorotary of state
•under (Cleveland, is out for Bryan.
He,thinks triumph of the democratic
tioket would be the best outcome of
the presidential oontest. He criti
cizes the McKinley administration in
•the Philippines, and looks for even
bigger trouble in China.
The comparative tameness of
Roosevelt’s recent speeches showB
that some one having authority has
been talking to him.' Teddy is not
nearly so hard to boss as he pretends
to be and there is an old man with
a bull-dog jaw out in Cleveland who
-can do the job every time.
The pripe of cotton lia« put pro
ducers nnrl spociilitor« to trnesjing
how long the tendency will bo up-
wnrd. Some of the planters are
puzzled to know whether nr not to
hold for still higher prices, but as
u rule in the lower market they are
turning it loose as fast as they can
got it to town, going on the pre
sumption that a bird in the hand is
worth two in the bush, und that
supply and demand do not always
regulnte the prioe of cotton, and
that 9 and 10 cents is a very good
price.
In speaking on this subjeot Sat
urday to a reporter of the Macon
Telegraph, Mr. Harvie Jordan,
president of the Georgia Cotton
Growers’ Association, said :.
“While the present pride of oot-
ton, ten cents per pound, has reach
ed the mark I predicted ninety days
ago, yet our market is not respond
ing properly to the reoentheavy ad
vance in Liverpool. Liverpool quo
tations today are 13£ cents on mid
dling grades, a margin of sixteen
dollars and a quarter per bale over
prices offered in our markets here.
It costs about 1£ cents per pound
to deliver cotton in Liverpool, in
cluding all tha fixed ohnrges, such
ns freights, handling, insurance, eta.
This will still leave a difference of
ten dollars in favor of Liverpool
over our market. If our market
would respond to Liverpool offer
ings, spot cotton should sell freely
nt 11' cents. The trouble seems to
be, that our big expoi’t. buyers will
not come actively into the market,
restricting purchases largely to our
home mills, and Fall Rivor mills. 1
cannot explain this move on the
part of our export buyers, unless it
be that they made large contracts
last spring for October deliveries
at 8 oents per pound, and will only
come into our market at present
prices when to do so. If our people
cannot reaoh the present Liverpool
prices through our export buyers,
it appears to me that central points
like Maeon should employ buyers,
cable Liverpool for orders,-and get
for our people the higher prices of
fered in that market.: New York
has apparently dropped her market
to that of a small flag station nt
interior points. The cotton buyers
at Monticello are ‘ paying better
prices today for spot cottop than
New York quotations. We notice
that European and American mills
are getting together for the pur
pose of effeoting, a general shut
down for thirty or sixty days.whioh
is intended to. bring trade to a
standstill and heavily reduce the
present prioe of cotton. It is a big
game of bluff, to whioh our people
should not submit.
“The fight will soon be on in
earnest, but I feel assured that our
southern press will continue to aid
the producers by presenting the
true situation and encouraging
them to stand firm for high pri.ces
whioh all conditions justify at this
time. There is a cotton famine,
and the producers are entitled to
their share in the profits which will
be credited up to the present short
crop before another harvesting
perion.”
Political and National.
The Louisville Courier-Journal
says: “The powers are having almost
as much trouble getting out' of Pekin
-as they had in getting in, the essen
tial difference being that their en-
tranco was blocked by the Chinese
• army and their withdrawal is ham
,pered by.their own jealousies.”
A negro woman at a still near Tif-
ton got furious with a pistol and was
wounding everything in sight till a
man orept up from one side and shot
her down. .
The New York Herald office fur
nishes a straw to indicate the direc
tion of the political winds. A can
vass of the composing room to ascer
tain thp presidential preferences of
the men resulted as follows: Bryan,
106; McKinley, 16; Woolly, I.
Four years ago the vote in the same
room was: McKinley, 64; Bryan, 37.
Insteud of the full dinner pail,
the republican party should select
tlie full canteen as a campaign de
vice. It might be placed rampant,
over a device of a soldier bayonet
ing a Filipina.
***
If Spain can find another island
or two in the Pacific, might it not
be well to offer to trade those we
have' for it? If Spain won’t take
them, we could go to war and com
pel her to do so.
V .
Secretary Olney evidently has
made up his mind that he will not
be an innocent bystander and get
it in the neck this year, whatever
Tom Reed and Grover Cleveland
may decide to do.
. >.*'
Teddy’s voice Beemed to be all
right in his Labor Day speech. Can
it be that his recent silence has
been due to a remonstrance—a for
cible remonstrance—from Mr. Han
na, instead of to any real trouble
with his vocal cords?
V
Hanna has raised $600,000 in
Philadelphia alone and is now mak
ing the roundb reaohing out for
contributing elsewhere. The trusts
and contractors can be depended
upon to put up a tithe of what they
havo profited by republican rule.
V •
Isn't it funny that McKinley
should talk so loudly in favor of a
peaceful solution .in China and then
should kick so hard when Russia
offers to take him at his word?
Tho czar iB to be thanked for call
ing the bluff of such an arch hypo
crite.
V
Six thousand new offices are offi
cially stated to have been created
by the last congress and about seven
millions additional .have been ap
propriated to pay these and the
expenses of the commissions of
President McKinley. Imperialism
comes high.
V
Colonel Charles Denby, who has
received three fat fees | from Presi
dent McKinley for posing as demo
cratic member of various commis
sions, has now declared that he
must abandon his life long democ
racy and vote against Bryan. It
has been a good many years since
Colonel Denby had any democracy
to abandon.
V
Democrats believe that there is
a great moral question involved in
this campaign and that the fate of
the nation for all time is at issue.
At such a moment they can afford
to sink minor differences in regard
to silver and other things and work
together to save the country from
Hanna money-bags and the Mo-
Kinley soldiers.
* *
The republicans are harping on
the Tammany Ice trust in New
York. No one denies that demo
crats may be members of a trust.
Human nature is weak and few
men are proof against the chance to
make big meney within the’forms
of law. But the democratic party
is opposed to trusts no matter what
a few individual members of that
party may be, and this is more
than can be said of the republicans.
V
Like Alger. Secretary Hay is now
suffering from the ingratitude of
his imperial master and the exigen
cies of politics. McKinley found
that the pronounced Anglomania
of his secretary of etate was losing
him toO many votes and, it is Baid,
has practically retired him until
after the campaign. Meanwhile,
the assistant secretary will run
things so as to pursuade the coun
try that Great Britain is nothing
to Muc Until after the election
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premiums to the five nearest guess-
ersto the total number of votes for
governor this year, as follows:
For the nearest guess,. $20 !
“ “ second and third nearest guesses, each, 10...
“ “ fourth and fifth “ “ “ 5
* Total, 1
As a basis we have scoured from the Secretary of State the vote
in each eleotion for governor since 1884, whioh is aB follows:
Vote for governor in 1884 — 119,880
1886 ...101,582
1888 122,000
- • 1890 -. 102,757
1892....,.., 202,701
1894. 121,625
■1896 ..' 123,668
.1898 ...-. : 117,455
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