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TH K yi KN1\ A PROGRESS. SEPTEMBER 20, 1900.
THE WORLD AKIN.
Entered at the Potto/Jlce (it Vienna. Go., o*
Second Italt Mail Matter.
'-Official Organ I>ooIy County.,
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY.
II. D. SMITH, r.cl. anti Pub.
A lone highwayman held up a
Burlington train the other day and
secured $000 in cash and about twice
that amount in diamonds and watches
The New Jersey democratic con
vention Wednesday last choose can
didates for presidential electors. The
platform denounces imperialism and
■endorses Bryan.
“Teddy the Terrible,” had no ter
rots for the Chicago workingmen.
When they passed in review of Labor
Day they ignored him and cheered
William J. Bryan to the echo.
Jaok Cohen has been appointed
managing editor of the Atlanta Jour
nal. Mr. Cohen is one of the best
newspaper men in the country, and
we welcome him back into tho ranks.
Hon. John 'T. Boifeullott, of Ma
con, clerk of tho houso of represent
atives, has been invited to mako cam
paign speeches in Maryland and In
diana for tho democratic party next
month,
Fulton county's tax rato was low
ered 4 cents oh the $1,000 by the
board of county commissioners. Tho
rato for this yoar is $3.70 on tho
thousand, as against $8.74 on the
. thousand last yoar.
While walking down the railroad
track, one day last week, returning
home from her work in Griffin, Miss
Mattie Bullard was run over and in
stantly killed by a passenger train on
tho Southorn railway. ,
Many may dare to do in crowds
-what they would not dare to do as
individuals, but tho moral, character
of an aot is not. determined by the
number of those who join it. Force
can defend, a right, but force lias
never yet created a right.—W. J.
Bryan.
Tho Philadelphia Reoord says that
iif President McKinley had ondod his
letter of acceptance with the first
sentence ho would have done better.
The long and labored dooument can
not fail to impress its readers as hav
ing been written by a man who tad
.trouble in his mind.
'Thomas Peterson, tho first negro
‘to exercise the right of suffrage un-
■der the Fifteenth amendment, in
Perth Amboy, If. J., will vote for
Bryan, His reason is that he thinks
Mark Hanna, who is not the presi
dent, has too much say in determin
ing the policy of the MoKinley ad-
.ministration.
The Southern Hosiery Yarn Spin-
mere’ association met in Atlanta last
week, There were representatives
from twenty yarn mills of different
■ southern states present, and the con-
vention was considered a sucoess.
This was'the first annual convention
■of the association, its organization
.having been effeoted only' a year.
Naturally the German voters are
•anti-imperialistic and will support
the democratic party, the party of
anti-imperialism. They came to the
United States that they might find a
home for themselves and their chil
dren after them, where they would
be free from the evils of imperialism
and militarism. They do not want
to see built up in this country a sys
tem of government which they cross
ed the ocean to escape. .
The American people are not all
selfish and unsympathetic. With all
of the present day spirit of selfism—
of regarding one’s own interest and
happiness to tho exclusion of others—
there is still within the breasts of the
people of this* great country that
chord of human sympathy which
needs only to be touched by the hand
of human misery to make the world
akin. They are not all - deaf to tho
wail of distress and the cry for aid,
but they are ready at a moment’s
notice to shed tears of sympathy for
the bereaved and to loosen their
pursestrings for the. relief of the
needy.
Tho recent Galveston horror is a
notable and striking example of this.
Thousands and thousands of persons
who only a few days ago were living
in comfort and happiness in their
homes hi the lovely gulf city were
suddenly, without a moment’s warn
ing, plunged into the deepest gloom
and direst distress. Their homes
were destroyed, their dear ones killed
andtholr all taken from them. Noth
ing was left to them to comfort them
and sustain them. , When they were
thus visited—while in tho dark hour
of their distress—the great, throb
bing, generous heart of the American
people wont out to t]iem in messages
of love and sympathy to comfort
them, and their purses were opened
wide to relieve their wants add
necessities.
Probably suoh prompt and imme
diate, snob universal and generous
responces were never made before to
tho cry of distress. The whole na
tion, as one man, seemB to have risen
up and endeayored to give succor
to the needy. Great is the civiliza
tion, great 1b the generosity and
great is the sympathy of the gfeat
Amerioan people. They have a
heart of gold.
Dairyman’s Association.
We kindly call attention of the
farmers of Dooly county to the
Seventh annual meeting of the
Georgia Dairyman’s Association to
be hold at Griffin, Ga., October
81st and November 1st, next.
This promises to be an intensly
interesting .meeting in many ways.
Many dairy farmers will address
the meeting, an(l the exhibit of dui-
ry products will he fine. The mem
bers will be taken over the state
experimental farm.
The association has alroady done
much toward developing the dairy
industry in the state, but it needs
the co-operution of all interested to
accomplish much more.
The annual membership is'only
$1.00, and any white person in Geor
gia interested in stock-raising or
dairying to any extent is eligible to
membership.
The railroads have gonerously
offered through the secretary to
furnish, passes to all members at
tending this meeting, but applica
tion muBt be made by October 10th
to M. L Duggan, secretary, Geor
gia Dairymau’s Association, Spartu,
Gn,
Another Lie Nailed.
Knowledge has come to us that u
prominent citizen and high official
of Abbeville is going uround over
the state telling that the Abbeville
voting list which is in the posses
sion of the friends of Mr. G. V.
Gress is a forgery. This same man
was overheard to tell a crowd of his
friends that they had to deny the
list. The list is as genuine as a
gold eagle. The gentleman can see
it if he desires. We warn him and
hll others that misrepresentation
will not avail the ballot stuffers. It
is known who they are and the
proof is at hand.—Rochelle New
Era;
PRESIDENT JORDAN SAYS THE
FARMERS ARE SAFE.
Greenwood, S. C„ Sept. 12.
In u reply to a telegram from the
Atlanta Jotirnul at Greenwood, S.C.,
asking’ my views on tho contem
plated shut-down of southern, east
ern and European mills on the
ground, that present prices for raw
cotton are too high, will say that
the mills have two objects in view.
One is to advance the present price
of cotton goods by restricting de
mand to stocks on hand, und the
other is to parulyze the spot market
and force prices for raw cotton
down.
Press dispatches of yesterday
'morning state advance already in
many lines of cotton goods, and
with trade becoming active aB re
sult of short crop now being con
ceded by experts in all parts of the
world.
Oombinod action on the purt of
the spinners a,t this time will be in
effective in securing ainy heavy re
duction in prices of spot cotton
this season. If prices drop it will
be only temporary, as the produc
ers all over tho ‘south are fully
posted on the situation and south
ern bankers are r.eady to advance
money on cotton in storage to help
the planters.
I expeot a continued advance in
price of cotton goods. Even at
present prices tho mills can well
afford to pay gbod figures for raw
cotton and declare fair dividends.
I look for a strong fight in the
near future between the spinnere
and producers with both sides ful
ly informed and all the chances of
success in favor of the producers.
The cotton growers of South Caro
lina will be in convention here to
night, at which time the situation
will bo fully discussed and arrange
ments made to meet every emer
gency.
Georgiu and Alabama farmers
are already safe', and the states
west of tho Mississippi river Will
■stand firm against every effort to
reduce' prices of cotton to a low
figure. j
The mills cannot afford to shut!
down long, and with cotton goods
already advancing in price I look
for matters to soon become prop
erly adjusted, with all the mills
running on full time and the prices
for spot cotton to continue high
throughout the season.
Haraey. Jordan.
A special to the Augusta Chron
icle from Madison, Ga., says a. cy
clone struck there Friday night de
stroying a number of negro cottages.
Two people are reported killed.
• Bryan on the Full Dinner Pail. <
“The gentleman asks me to say
something about the dinner pail.
The'republican party is trying to
escape a discussion of its .attack
upon the foundation principles of
government, and when a laboring
man accuses the republican party
of an attempt to destroy the decla
ration of "independence the only
answer is that you have got a full
dinner pail, and while you have got
plenty to eat you should be satis
fied.. I want you to remember in
the first place that you cannot sat
isfy a man by giving him plenty to
eat, and. in the second place, I
want you to take the cost of what
you have to buy as’ a laboring jnan
and measure it against your wages
and see if the trusts have not raised
the price of what you buy more
than they have your wages. The
republican party has no plan for
the betterment of the permanent
condition of those who toil, but it
W permitted, the great branches
of indii-try to be monopolized by a
few.”
Governor 'Candler and his entire
staff will attend the Athens carniva ,
on the day of the “Battle of Flow
ers,” October 4th.
The second democratic primary of
South Carolina is a thing of the past
aqd Benjamin Ryan Tillman's get,
the dispensary, has scored another
victory,
Jlayor S. M. Jones, of Toledo, O.,
who polled 105,000 votes in, the race
for governor of Ohio as an independ
ent, is out in a strong oard declaring
for Bryan.
The State Poultry Fanciers’ and
Breeders’ association has deoided to
hold its annual meeting in Maoon on
the 27th and 28th of September
during the show of the street fair.
Armorside Corsets for 90o at
B M Wood’s.
Liberty Bell Tobacoo two' pounds
for 76c. at B M Wood’s.
• A nice line of Stick and Fancy
Candy at B. M Wood’s.
Dress Goods at B M Wood’s,
cheapest in town.
A nice lino of shirts just received
'at B M Wood’s,
Dick Pet Tobacco at B M Wood's
at 86o. per pound.
The American Anti-Trust League,
with headquarters .at Chicago, has
issued a public address officially in
dorsing W. J. Bryan for president,
and Adlai E. Stevenson for vice
president, and pledging them the ao-
tive support of the league.
Gov. Pingree, of Michigan, is an
gry with MarksHanna and declares
the trusts are ruling and ruining the
republican party, but he will vote for
MoKinley, and says it is a bitter pill
and he will hold his nose as he oasts
his ballot on November 6th.
The county board of eduoatio'n of
Houston county last week re-eleotod.
George W. Smith county sfhpol com
missioner. There will be no further
contest and Mr. Smith will enter up
on his duties at once.
Coffee, Sugar, Rice, Meal, Meat
and all’ other Groceries at rock bot
tom prices.
Jeans Pants from 50o. to $1.25 at
B M Wood’s.
Cashmere Pants from $1 to $3 at
BM Wood’s. * ■
Lowest cash prices atB M Wood's.
Go to B M. Wood’s and buy for
cash and save money.
Trunks at B M Wood’s, all sizes,
very cheap.
Shoes at all prices at B M Wood]
Now if you want to save money,
call on me and get prices before you
buy and be convinced.
Wood.
$50 In Premiums.
THE VIENNA PROGRESS
Will pay $50 in
premiums to the five nearest guess-
ers to the total number of votes for
governor this year, as follows:
For the nenrest-gues-, $20 ..... _ ..$20
•“ “ second and third nearest guesses, each, 10 20
“ “ fourth and fifth “ •< «• 5 ."10 ■
Total, $50
As a basis we have secured from the Secretary of State, the vote-
in each election for governor sine* 1884, which ie as follows:
Vote for governor in 1884...... | ......119,880
1886 101,582
1888 122,000
1890 i 102,757
1892........ 202,701 .
‘ 1894 : 121,625
1896 1 123,563
1898 • 117,455
Every guess must be written and will be filed in this office until
the first day of January for reference in case of dissatisfaction.
Cut out the following coupon, fill it out und send it with $1:
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