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HOUSEISONFIRE
Stand of a Good Democrat—Formal Statement by
Hon, Don M- Dickinson, Postmaster General in
Cleveland’s Cabinet-—Reasons Why He Will Vote
for McKinley.
Since the adoption of the Kansas
City platform, and his nomination,
I bare never entertained a thought
of voting for Mr. Bryan.
I confess, however, that in
common with very many demo
crats, I hoped, for a time, that I
might with a clear conscience stay
awaj from the polls. But Mr.
Bryan’s speeches, particularly his
later ones, have destroyed that il
lusion and convinced me that I
must vote at the coming election.
I criticise no man of different
views who can reconcile himself to
the other course, but as for me,
with the light I have, lain forced
to the conviction that I would be a
recreant American, false to my
country, &nd false to my party as
well, if I should take to the woods.
A DEMOCRAT WITHOUT ANY PREFIX.
I am a democrat on all the fnu
damental issues on which our party
joined battle in the past with the
republicans, the whigs and the
federalists —a democrat without the
prefix “gold,” because my party
has been the party of sound finance
frojn Jefferson to Cleveland.
f could not be a republican if I
would, and I say the creed of dem
ocracy with all my old-time siucer
ty and faith.
But I recognize scarcely a ves
tige of democratic principle in
either the Chicago or Kansas City
platforms. The organization is in
the hands of the populists, and by
these the livery of the true demo
cracy has been stolen ia which to
serve all the devils that make for
social disorder.
Mr. Bryan is preaching the gos
pel of hate. Voicing that, he ap
peals to the envious, the discon
tented, the improvident, the incom
petent and the unworthy idle. The
words of the Prophet Samuel were
aptly quoted in Gen. Bragg’s speech
the other day as applying to Mr.
Bryan and his following:
“And everyone that was in dis
tress, and everyone that was in
debt, and everyone that was dis
contented gathtred themselves un
to him, and he became a captain
over them.”
BRYAN PREACHING THE GOSPEL
OF HATE.
But worse still, he endeavors to
set friend against friend, neighbor
against neighbor, family against
family, section against section, and
nation against nation.
He makes the always dangerous
appeal to the evil to human nature.
His postulates are Boxer, and
his prop,granda is Boxer.
He speaks no encouragement to
the unsuccessful, but tells him to
lay the blame at the door ©f his
more fortunate neighbor, and that
his sole remedy is to attack him. |
He invariably speaks of creditors
as “merciless creditors,” and to the
debtor he teaches that his friend
who has loaned him money or
trusted him is his enemy.
When a man fails and becomes
despondent, he does not seek to in
spire him with the American spirit
of preseverance; he does not appeal
to him to be up and doing and to
try again, but he tells him to stop
trying, and that the remedy is to
pull down the more successful.
Where is the intelligent citizen
who believes in his heart that
bis republican neighbors are not
as good Americans and as good
patriots as himself? And yet in
connection with his making a
charge that the republicans de
manded a larger aimy (an increase,
by the wav, that was voted for by
the Bryan men of the senate, and
•arried in the house with a major
ity vote of but thirty-three) he has
repeatedly said in his public
speeches, as he said at Indianapo
lis:
“Why do they want it? So that
they can build a fort near every
large city and use the army to sup
press by force the discontent that
°ught to be cured bv remedial leg
islation!”
This from a candidate for' the
presidency of the United States,
Using all the power of his eloquence
to carry conviction, especially to
°ur foreign born workingmen,
"hose votes he solicits.
OUR POLICY IS PEACE.
W hat intelligent citizen lo\ ing
bis country, with a stake in home,
1,1 family or in 'property, however
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 1. 15100.
great his sympathy for the unhap
py Boers, would if he could, have
had his government aggressively
interfere for their protection at the
risk of war with Great Britain?
Our policy is peace. We seek
no more wars. We want the
friendship of all nations. But
now, as ever, we stand “at peace,
but ready,” to battle with any of
them for the integrity of our ter
ritory, the nonor of our flag, and
the protection of Americans every
where. Who that seriously attacks
this policy is a safe man to trust
with power in this country ?
Imperialism? The theory of our
government, fixed in organic law,
cannot be changed in form or in
substance unless our congress,
with its house fresh from the peo
ple, and the Supreme Court of the
United States, are parties with the
executive to the treasonafle con
spiracy. With a written constitu
tion, the unique feature of our sys
tem of government, and its sheet
anchor, is that great court at
Washington, removed by the law
of its establishment from partisan
conflicts and from the influence of
popular clamor, udiose chief and
exclusive function it is to construe
that constitution and its distribu
tion of powers, and which can sav
to congress ‘‘thus far and no far
ther,” and to the chief executive
“thus far and no farther.”
TALK ABOUT DESPOTS NOT NEW.
This talk about “despotism” and
“despots,” and ‘‘airs ot eastern
potentates,” the exercise of “royal
powers,” “governing without the
consent of the governed,” “King
George the Third,” and the like is
not at all new in respect of the
government of unorganized terri
tories of the Unite * States. All
these phrases and epithets were
used and applied to Jefferson and
aud his administration of the newly
acquired Louisiana purchase under
the bill signed by him and drawn
by Madison.
The same is practically true of
Florida, when following the Jeffer
son precedent, its government was
debated. An amendment provid
ing that all the principles of the
constitution be “declared to be ap
| plicable to the said territory as
paramount acts” was voted down,
Webster indorsed the same theory
as to Florida in 1828.
But these Populists and Boxers
set up a sort of Joss, and then des
ecrate our saints calendar by label
ing it St. Jefferson.
The Philippine question is a
problem to be solved by the con
gress so far as the whole territory
is concerned. It may be determin
ed to withdraw the flag, as in
Cuba.
But in no place on earth must
that flag be hauled down under
fire.
FINANCIAL SOPHISTRY.
On the finance question two or
three respected friends use this
logic substantially:
“It is true that the Kansas City
platform declares for national and
commercial dishonor by the ‘imme
diate’ free coinage of silver at 16 to
las legal tender, It is true that
the candidate who stands upon it
has said: ‘lf there is any one who
believes a gold standard a good
thing, or that it must be maintained,
I warn him not to cast his vote for
me, because I promise him that it
will not be maintained in this coun
try longer than I am able to get rid
of it.”
“It is true that the same candi
date made it a condition of accept
ing the nomination that the declar
ation for free silver should be in
serted in the platform. Neverthe
less, by reason of republican legis
lation and a republican senate, the
candidate we support cannot ac
complish the result he declares
for.”
Even if it were true, which I
deny, that Mr. Bryan, if elected,
could not order the payment of the
public obligations in silver, or that
the mere election of such a plat
form would not destroy confidence
in the credit and honor of the na
tion, and before inauguration dm e
gold out of the country and into
hoarding places; nay, even if it
were true that such a declaration
indorsed by the American people
would not entail individti 1 and
commercial demoralization, as w r ell
as financial distress, stil withal
deference to men whom I respect
this logic seems to me the baldest
sophistry.
DANGEROUS POLITICAL ECONOMY.
It may be admitted that the man
who proposes to have the nation
make a debtpaying dollar, or labor
paying dollar out of fifty cents of
silver and fifty cents of vacuum, is
sincere in his views of political
economy. So is the anarchist
sincere, and his physical and moral
courage (though perverted) cannot
be questioned, when taking his
life in his hand, he adopts assassi
nation as a proper political method.
Suppose in order to get the an
archist vote the platform had in
dorsed assassination as a political
means, and suppose the friends of
the candidate appealed to us for
votes on the ground that although
the declaration for assassination
was in the platform, yet in fact it
could nevei be made effectual be
cause the republican police
protection was too perfect. Would
we listen to the proposition? Yet
the logic is the same, and the anal
ogy should not offend, for the tur
pitude of llie two declarations would
differ little in degree in the opinion
of the two or three men who are
endeavoring to so reason them
selves into voting for Mr. Bryan.
RECENT HISTORY —GREENBACKISM
If there are any who while differ
ing radically from Mr. Bryan in
these things, yet from political ex
pediency think that they should
vote "with the organization.” let
me call their attention to a tit of
recent history, inculcating anew' an
old lesson —sadly learned even by
Mi. Webster—that “political hon
esty is political expediency.”
Memory in the northwest need
go back less than two decades to
recall the time when greenbackism
dominated the democratic party.
Within the same time we have
witnessed the struggles of mem
bers of our party to escape their
then records as greenbackers. In
every case the man with political
ambition, of prominence, on whom
could be fastened the greenback
record, has passed, protesting, into
private life.
While the republicans are respon
sible for many evils that beset us
in our domestic economy, the crisis
is such that this is no time to dis
cuss them.
FIRST, PUT OUT THE FIRE.
The house is on fire. We must
help our fellow-occupants to put it
out, however much w’e may have
differed from them on the policies
of housekeeping, and although
against our protest they had per
sisted in the policy of using kero
sene to start the kitchen stove.
Let no democrat be influenced
by false reports as to the attitude
in this crisis of any man whom we
have trusted, who pointing to his
record to speak for him now',- may
deem it unnecessary to speak again.
We should never lose faith in
the stability of the w'orksof God —
least of all in the noblest of them —-
an honest man.
I take my plaice proudly by the
side of Abram S. Hewitt, under
whom I fought in the great battle
for Tiden and democracy in 1876.
Waiting in confidence the call of
men like him to gather for the re
organization of my party, like him,
I conceive it to be my solemn duty
to vote against Bryanizing the
democratic party and to rid the
party and country of Bryan ism,
and so like hi >11, in the ranks of
Are Von
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FREEMAN& HALL
| true democracy, I shall go to the
! polls and cast my ballot for Presi
dent McKinley.
Don M. Dickinson.
TAX DODGERS
Representative Jordon’s Remedy
Against Note Holders.
Representhtive Jordan, of Jas
per, is after one class of tax dodg
ers with a sharp stick, He thinks
the best thing the legislature could
do would be to pass a good tax
bill, if it did nothing else.
The member from Jasper thinks,
however, that the most persistent
and successful tax dodger is the
note holder—the man who loaus
his money out at good interest and
salts the note down in his sockets
and forgets all about it when the
time comes for making returns of
taxes.
Mr. Jordan proposes as a remedy
for this evil what he regards as a
sure and safe plan, because the bill
ho will introduce will strike at the
legality of the contract. In other
words, Mr. Jordan proposes to
make all notes non-collectable in
the courts that dp not bear the
stamp of the tax receiver that they
have been returned for taxes. This
would apply only to the notes
bearing date prior to March 1. The
noteholder who fails to make a re
turn of the notes held by himself
on the first of March and afterwards
tries to collect the same in the
courts, under the provisions of this
proposed measure cannot do so.
Mr. Jordan says that he expects
much opposition to his bill but
that he cannot see how they can
meet him in the argument, as cer
tainly a man who takes up a good
portion of the court’s time in the
collection of his claims should at
least pay his part of the burden of
maintaining the courts,
TURTLE SWALLOWED HEfc RING
Miss Beatrice Harridan Had a Mov
ing Experience Recently-
A dispatch from Susquehanua,
Pa., says: “Thirteen years ago
Miss Beatrice Harridan and a party
of other Philadelphia young ladies
spent the summer at Oquaga lake.
One day while bathing Miss Harri-
dan placed her diamond engage
ment ring on a log to prevent the
water from injuring the setting.
“When the party had completed
their diversion the ring was miss
ing. There was consternation in
the delegation, and Miss Harridan
refused 10 be consoled. She offer
ed a large reward for the return of
the ring, but it was not found.
‘‘This week another party of
Philedelphians and some women
from Chester visited Oquaga lake
and went fishing at the place where
Miss Harridan lost the ring. In
crossing the meadow the party
found a big snapping turtle and
carried it in a triumph to the farm
house when they stopped. Arriving
there it was proposed that the tur-
It- be served up in soup.
“In dissecting the creature Miss
Harridan’s lost engagement ring
was found in its stomach. Miss
Harridan is now married, but it
was forwarded by the proprietor of
the farmhouse to hex preseut Ger
mantown address.”
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ODD HAPPENINGS IN WHINE-
Flew of Honev From a Fireplace—
Lubc' Puzzllntr Weather.
Bangor, Me., Oct. 30.—When
the cold weather came a week ago
a fire was kuidieil 14 a fireplace of
a bouse in Baugor that had not
beetx occupied for some time.
When the fire had been burning
for half an hour something sur
prisi g happened. The master of
the house happened to go into the
room, found the floor covered f wo
inches deep with a sticky substance
more of which was flowing out of
the fireplace. It was found that a
swarm of bees had made their hive
in the long unused chimney and
had stored there a large qunntity
of honey. The fire softened the
honey which poured down in a
sweet flood into the room, covering
the carpet and everything witnin
reach. The householder says he
got about $4 worth of honey and
lost S6O worth of carpet.
In the town of Lub.-c, Me., the
people have almost lost run of the
seasons. Last week a man picked
a mess of string beans from his
garden, and the next day he lamed
his back shoveling snow. This is
true. Two weeks ago in Bangor
the mercury was down to 22 de
grees, and there was a smart snow
flurry. This week the mercury
has been up 70 degrees and people
have suffered more from the heat
than at any time since the hot spell
of spell of August.
ALVOBD SHOWS NERVE-
Faces Crowds on Hts Way to Court
and Return* Their Stare.
New York, Oct. 30. —Cornelius
Alvord, the defaulting teller of the
First National bank, who was
brought here last night from Bos
ton, was arraigned in court this
morning. He was remanded until
3 o’clock this afternoon to allow
the magistrate to determine
whether it was a state case or one
for the United States courts.
Alvord walked to and fro from
the court room accompanied by
two detectives and his counsel,
Jacob H. Miller. The portly de
faulter was net handcuffed and
talked and laughed, An u uisuaily
large crowd watched Alvord leave
the jail and another throng await
ed him at the eutranceof the court.
Alvord did not shun curious
eyes, but returned the crowd’s
stare w’th a quiet, surprised look,
which did not become a man who
had lifted nearly $700,000. The
man takes his arrest with unusual
coolness.
He admits he is at the end of his
rope and is preparen to stand pun
ishment.
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Roll of Honor.
The foil >wing is the honor roll
ot the Cartersvijle public schools
fbr the month <0 October, 1900:
WEST SCHOOL.
First Grade —Naomi Tedder,
98.2; Helen Clyde, 96.2; Herman
Smith, 96; Robert Trammell, 65.8.
Second Grade —Frances Akin,
100; Frank Bealer, 99 4; Bula Hall,
97,7; Amy Tomlinson. 96.9
Sixth Grade —Maybell Jones,
98.4; Kittie Conyers, 97 33; Sarah
Rogan, 97.25; Frame Matthews,
97-
EAST SCHOOL.
First Grade—Gertrude Smith,
98.6; Evelyn Jordon, 98-4; Caroline
Knight, 98.3; Eugene Dunahoo,
98.7-
Second Grade —Willie Satter
fiel 1, 98; Ruth Ray, 96.4; Maybeth
Bentley. 94; Tom Webb, 93.
Third Grade —Leonell Moon,
98.3; Allie Stephens, 98.2; Minnie
, Spence, 97.1; Pearl
Fourth Grade —Pearl Dunahoo,
98; Josie Dunahoo, 97.7; Emma
Fleming, 97.6; Roberta Wylie,
97- L
Fifth Grade —Leon Lawhon,
98.3; Susie Smith, 96.2; Sallie Fan
nie Stephens, 95.8; Lena Matthews,
95-5-
HIGH SCHOOL.
Second Grade —Lizzie F0rd,93.5,-
Etiza Neal, 93.5; Florida Fi*e,92.d;
Walter Daves, 92.4.
Third Grade —Loulie Laurpkin,
92.2; Rees Marshall, 92.2.: Isabel
Ray, 92; Effiie Hendricks, 61.3.
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The Goat.
Originally the common or domestic
goat was a native of the highlands of
Asia. Naturalists generally regard it
as having descended from an animal
found ifi the Caucasus mountains ami
the hill country of Persia, called in
the Persian language the pesang.
Among the Greeks and the Romans
the goat was sacrificed to Bacchus be
cause of its tendency to iujure grape
vines by eating the young tendrils and
leaves. All the species of goats are
natives of the old world. The Rocky
mountain goat, so called, of North
America really belongs to the antelope
family.
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