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AT.TON B. PABKKr.
THE LINE UP FOR THE PRESIDENCY
All Parties Have Made Their Casts, but Democ
racy’s Popular Drag Net Will Catch Voter.
w y Vf K v nriouH parties arc now lined
11?) for the groat political battle
* of 1904. The conventions have
met. platforms have been adopt
ed. and candidates for president and
vice president have been named. The
I 'S-iidist parly was the earliest in the
Belli with its platform and catfdidutes.
It met in Chicago in May and nominat
ed Lugene \ ietor Debs of Indiana for
president and Benjamin Hanford of
New York for viei> president. The So
cialist party. which in the last presi
dential election hove the title of Social
Democratic party, cast K7.KJ.J votes In
that election. The next national political
convention was that of the Republicans,
who met in Chicago on .June 21, nom
inating for president Theodore Roose
velt of New York and for vice presi
dent Charles Warren Fairbanks of In
diana. The Republican vote In 1900
was 7,207.923. The Prohibition party
met in Indianapolis June 30 and nom
inated for president Rev Dr. Silas Coui
fort Swallow of Pennsylvania and for
vice president George \V. Carroll of
Texas. The Prohibition vote at the
last general election was 208,914. The
People’s party held its national conven
tion at Springfield, 111., July 4, and
named for president Thomas Edward
Watson of Georgia and for vice presi
dent Thomas 11. Tribbles of Nebraska.
The People s party was divided In the
election of 1900. one part indorsing the
Democratic ticket and the other sup
porting Wharton Barker for president
and casting a vote of 50,373. The Dem
ocratic national convention, wtdeh mot
in St. lamia on July , nominated on
July 9 Alton Brooks Parker of Now
York for president and Henry <}. Davis
of West Virginia for vice president.
The Democratic party cast a vote of
6,358,133 in 1900
\ The Democratic Candida !e frr pros!
dent, Alton Brooks Parker, lives :t
pus, N. Y., where he h:.s an e::.: ::..:vo
farm. He loves to forget the car; sof
professional life in the u',)jO:".tiou of
agricultural pursuits.
His birthplace is Cortland. N. Y.. r.r. '
the day of ids nativity >'::y 1!. 1
He was brought up on a farm and ed
ueated in the common schools, t'.i
Cortland academy and Cortland Nor
mal school. For several years he t in dr
school and thus earned enough money
to take a two years’ course in the A
bauy Law school, from which beg’ sd;:
ated tn 1872. and, being admitted to tin
bar, began the practice of the law , .
Kingston. He was elected sr.rror
of Ulster county In 1877 and sers.v
until his appointment to the bench ol
the supreme court of the state by c
ernor Hill in 1885. On the treat: •.
the second division of the state <v
of appeals In 1889 be was ues.gna;. i.
a member of it, and on its dis.vohuit
in 1893 be was appointed to the gw:'"
al term of the supreme coturt. in 1- •
he was promoted to th.e appellate di
vision of the same court, and a jw
later was elected chief judge of tin
court of appeals on the Democrat!)
ticket, receiving a majority of ovei
60.000. Hp was married !xi IFT' tv
Mtss Schoonmaker of Rorhester. N. Y..
and his wife is a charming and nopular
woman. He has two grandchildren,
of whom lie is very fond.
The nominee of the Prohibition party
for president. Rev. Dr. Silas Comfort
Swallow, who has achieved the title
in his native state of Pennsylvania of
“the fighting parson,” was born in
Wilkesbarre in 1839. He is a Metho
dist and has been a presiding elder
and a delegate
to the general r“““" ——————
his church. For ':
some years be
this connection I
tol buildings
at Harrisburg DR s c BWALLO * w .
took fire and
burned up. What occasioned the
perhaps never be known.
But in J.is paper Dr. Swallow charged
certain state officials with having
caused it in order to destroy documents
believed to contain evidence of official
corruption. He was tried for libel and
convicted, but the episode* led to his
nomination for state Measurer by the
Prohibitionists in the following au
tumn. He received much Republican
and Democratic support and his vote
reached 119,000. The next year he was
nominated on the Prohibition ticket for
governor and obtained 132,000 votes.
The candidate of the Socialist party
for presilient, Eugene Yietor Debs ol
Terre Haute, lud., is a labor organizer,
lecturer and writer. He was born in
- Terre Haute in
j'
— has been an of
EI'GKXE V. BEBS. ficei* in tDC
Brotherhood of
Locomotive Firemen and In the Amer
ican Railway union. He was the nom
inee of the Socialist party for president
in 1000.
The nominee of the People’s party
for president, Thomas Edward Watson
of Georgia, has had a stormy career.
He was born in Columbia county, Ga.,
Sept. 5,185 ti, educated in the public
schools and at Mercer university, Ma
con, where he spent two years, being
unable to finish
the course for
lack of money.
admitted to the
Thomson, Ga. '
the Georgia leg
islature and a tiiomas e. watson.
few years later
was sent to the house of representa
tives at Washington.
Watson ran for re-election to con
gress on the Populistic ticket in 1892
and in 1894. but was each time defeat
ed. He claimed to have been counted
out by his opponents. lie was nomi
nated for vice president by the People’s
party in IS9O. the ticket being headed
by William .7, Bryan. For the past few
years he has devoted himself to litera
ture.
Ex-Senator Henry Gassaway Davis,
Democratic nominee for vice-president,
is known as financier, statesman and
philanthropist. He was born at Wood
stock, Md., Nov. 16, 1823; was edu
rated in the village school, worked on a
farm and at twenty became a brake
man on the Baltimore and Ohio rail
road. After fourteen years in rail
road work he established the firm of
Davis & Bros, and engaged in the
development of the bituminous coal re
sources of that section. He became a
millionaire and is a bank president and
president of two railroads. Entering
politics in 1865, he served several terms
in the legislature of his state and in
1870 became a member of the senate
of the United States, serving twelve
years. He was a delegate to the pan-
American congress of 1901. In 1853
he married Miss Kaft* A. Bantz, by
whom he had four children.
The Money Order Business.
Over $1,000,000 a day is being
paid into the postoffiees for money
orders, if the average time between
the purchase and the cashing of a
money order is ten days the govern
ment holds an average balance of
$10,000,000 of the people’s money—
a balance with an earning power of
about $500,000 dollars a year.
Till-: NEWS AND CCURANT, CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, JULY 28, 1904.
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HEX BY CAS3AWAY DAVIS.
Eastern Funeral Rites.
Some curious details have just
reached Paris concerning the funer
al ceremonies of .Norodom, the late
king of Cambodia. Immediately
after death the body was placed on
a bed of state, while eannpn boom
ed to warn the populace to shave
their heads. Next day the body was
embalmed, according to ancient cus
tom. The face was covered with a
gold mask studded with diamonds
and other precious, stones. On the
head was placed the ancient crown,
and even the slippers on the feet
glistened * with rare jewels. Then
the liodv was placed in a kneeling
posture and incased in an upright
sheath of gold and was scaled up in
a massive casket of solid gold. Thus
it will remain in the throne room,
with bonzes praying night and day
until the completion of the sanctu
ary in which the body will be cre
mated. Only after this ceremony
will the new king be crowned.—
London Globe.
The World’* Population.
According to an exhaustive sta
tistical work by a German, the pop
ulation of the world today is 1,503,-
300,000. The average density of
population is about twenty-five per
sons to one square mile, and the
distribution among the continents
is as follows: In Europe, 392,264,-
000 people, or 100 inhabitants for
each square mile; in Asia, 819,556,-
000 inhabitants, forty-five to a
square mile; in Africa, 140,700,000
inhabitants, thirteen to a square
mile. North America, including the
West Indies, Mexico, Central Amer
ica and Panama, as well as the
United States and Canada, is cred
ited with 105,714,000 inhabitants,
thirteen to one square mile.
Cow* on Bennett’s Yacht.
When James Gordon Bennett’s
yacht arrived from Europe recently,
the persons who went aboard were
astonished to see two cows.
"What in the world does Mr. Ben
nett have cows on his yacht for?”
one of the visitors inquired.
“He does not like condensed
milk,” replied one of the officers,
“so he carries his milk supply with 1
him when he goes to sea. When
he reaches port the cows are taken
ashore and put out to grass. When
we sail we carry enough fodder to
supply the cows for a long voyage.
The cows are of the finest grade and.
give an abundance of milk.”
Flogging In England’s Navy.
Learning that boys up to eighteen
in the British navy are still sub
jected to flogging, a committee of
the Humanitarian league has re
quested that the admiralty give it
permission to take photographs of
the punishment, stating that it in
tends to placard the walls of Lon
don and the chief seaport towns
with the pictures to enlighten the
public on the subject.
Paper Kettle*.
In the Japanese army every sol
dier carries with him kettles which
are made of paper, the invention of
one Daiju. The kettle? is made of
ordinary thin Japanese paper. It
is tilled with water, and then water
is poured over it. It is hung over
the fire, and in ten minutes the wa
ter is boiling. The kettle can be
used eight or tea times, afld the cost
of it is about 2 cents.
Jokai and His Critic.
Some critics, especially the writer
Gyulav, asserted that Jokai was in
capable of writing a good novel ac
cording to the rules of the novelist’s
art, and Jokai at the latest Hunga
rian census took a humorous revenge
by answering the question, “Can
you write?” with the word, “In my
opinion, yes, hut Gyulay says no.”
We Show Over 3,000 Feet Floor Spat
Over 150 Styles of Rooters and Chairs and More Than 150 Patterns of Bedroom Soils.
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ELDER BROWN S BIG HIT.
Pa and ma are Methodists, and all us children, too.
And pa’s a pillar in the church, and owns a whole front pew.
And pa and Mr Watkins, who’s a big, bald-headed man.
Go round with little baskets getting all the cash thev can.
The preacher always talks with pa when meeting is dismissed.
And when there’s extra doings pa’s invited to pssist.
And our Presiding Elder, Reverend Ebenezer Brown.
Most always stays at our house every time he conies to town.
I used to be afraid of him. He seemed so big and tall
And kind of sad and solemn-like, I couldn’t smile at all.
We children hardly dared to speak when he was in the house;
But everyone just slipped about as quiet as a mouse.
Ma said we needn’t feel afraid, that he was just the same
As pa or any other man, except a bigger name;
But we all feared that he could see just everv thought we had.
And so we kept a-trying not to think of something bad.
But one time in the morning, when the family was at prayers
And Elder Brown and all of us kneeling by our chairs,
We heard old Rover—he’s our dog—begin to whine and growl,
And then old Tabby—she’s our cat —well, she began to vow!.
Twas ’way out in the kitchen that the two commenced to spat,
But in a minute here they came a-tearing, and the cat
Ran right up pa’s bent back until she reached his shoulders, where
She stopped and said to Rover: “You just touch me if you dare!”
We knew that there’d be trouble. Rover is so very proud
And sort of overbearing that he never has allowed
A r**at tn dare to ho** 4l hinr so lie made n Kio- lopn
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And he and pa and Tabby they all tumbled in a heap.
Oh, say, but it was awful! I saw brother Henry grin, ,
And sister Lucy snickered; but it seemed a dreadful sin.
Till Elder Brown laughed right out loud to see the funny fuss—
And since that time we’ve liked him, ’cause we know he’s jus?;
like us.
—Nixon Waterman, iu St. Louis Republic M agazire.
Healthy Mothers.
Mothers should always keep in
irood bodily health. They owe it to
their children, Yet it is no unusual
sight to see a mother, with babe in
arms, coughing violently and ex
hibiting all tire symptoms of a ern
sumptive tendency. And why should
this dangerous condition exist, dan
gerous alike to mother and child,
.hen Dr. Bosehee’s German Syrup
would put a stop to it at once? No
mother should be without this old
and tried remedy in Jthe house —for
its timely use will promptly cure any
lung, throat or bronchial trouble in
herself or her children. The worse
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It makes expectoration easy, and
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