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BAINBRIDGE, DECATUR COUNTY, GEORGIA FRIDAY OCTOBER 31, 1902.
$1.00 YEAR IN ADVANCE
©ttiuai ©roan of Secatur County ant> the Citp of KalnDrtOge.
Calendar of Events.
^^Opeiation has not yet
the mines on account
' nr l £ as accumulations in
- i t .,vi 11 be some weeks
■he mines are in condition
|orked.
j s reported as having
truing
the bunkers of
Itlcship Oregon
for three
breaks down on t he
lithe close of a political
jin Indiana.
| s tcr Ojida, the new Span-
jibassador presents his cre-
to President Roose-
reported that seventy
mills will be in the great
| planned by John Fries.
Ipital will be $30,000,000.
— Bandit holds up
[ern Pacific passenger train
ill engineer; rifle the mail
low. open safe and made good
(cape. S5 000 reward is off-
• his capture dead or alive.
: Engineer in chief reports
lorably upon the use of pe-
Im as fuel. He declares it
(more expensive.
j * *
It 25.—Woodrow Wilson is
llled as president of Princeton
lersity.
(Governor Johnson of Ala-
leaves Birmingham for
achusetts and Connecticut
le he will speak in the inter-
p Democracy.
In English clergyman creates
|ement in London during the
procession by having gun-
jder on his person. He is a
fious enthusiast and intended
par the peace of the process-
I sea fight rages between the
|imb;an cruiser Bogata and
I gun boat Padilla,
prders are issued by the Eng
governmen prohibiting the
Macturers from shipping arms
famunition to Ireland. The is-
1 of the Shamrock appears to
I'n a state of practical upheaval.
John Redmond the Irish leader
> is now in America has been
Joly attacked by Mrs. Dicken-
sister of the late Charles
hart Parnell.
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ct. 26.—Elizabeth Cody Stan-
i great advocate of Wom-
s Suffrage dies at her home in
York.
n a collision in New York be-
een an automobile and a trolley
twenty-two persons are in
ch
crops in the Phillipines
abou t to be wholly destroyed
ccount of the advent of 1 o-
s.
The Boer Generals decide not
Vl5:t America. From Europe
y sail back to their S( uth Afri-
noroes.
'-^airman Griggs ot the Demo-
lc Patty declares that the
1
c lances for a Democratic Con
gress are very bright. *
Three men fall from a swinging
scaffold on 1 chimney in New
York and are dashed to pieces on
-he pavement three hundred feet
below.
Wu Ting Fang former Chinese
: minister to the United States has
been appointed Commissfoner of
Commercial treaties of negotia
tions.
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Oct. 27—Minister Wu Ting
Fang has been cabled.-to return to
China'immediately.
It is announced that Gen.
Miles will retire on account of age
next August and that General S.
B. M. Young will be the next Lt.
General.
Showers of ashes fall in many
of the towns of Southern Mexico,
hiding the sun. The inabitants
are in a state of consternation.
The Sultan of Turkey is in a
desperate straight. He cannit
return diplomatic courtesies be
cause his last war-ship is held for
debt and has no way to send his
envoys.
***
Oct. 28.—Hon. W. J. Bryan
barely escapes death in a wreck
near cripple Creek Colarado. The
Bryan Special crashed into the
rear of a freight train as the latter
went into a siding.
The odds drop on Odell in Wall
Street and the chances that Bird
S. Coler will be the next governor
of New York, are much bright
er.
Guards are placed around the
White House to prevent the pub
lic from learning‘the waste and
expense of repairing the massion
of the chief executive.
The raih of ashes in Southern
Mexico continues and the country
people are wild with fright. The
fall of the ashes is accompanied
by rumblings of the earth.
The Rebels yield to the govern
ment forces of Colombia and ten
cannon, 2500 rifles and 300,000
rounds of ammunition are surren
dered.
The Government is working 0 )
an extradition treaty to be sub
mitted to the Cuban government
as that island is fast becoming a
sink hole for American crimi
nals.
The Grand Lodge of Masons
convenes in Macon Ga.
Gen’l Clement A. Evans is
unanimously re-elected command-
of the Georgia division of Con-
Veterans.
0ct , 9 _The French mine
iers are obdurate. They will
treat with the miners nor will
submit to the govern
-s plan of arbitration,
greatest of the State Fairs
ICI13 in Valdosta.
Brigadier General Joseph A.
er after an extended tour
European continent returns
home in Alabama.
er
tederate
Oct.
owners
not
they
ment
The
opens
Wheeler
on the
to his
The Democratic Prospects.
The chances of democratic suc
cess in the elections of Tuesday
next have improved vastly in the
last ten days "lhe drift of voting
sentiment in all parts of the coun
try towards the democratic candi
dates has been so patent that the
j saner class of republican newspa-
| pers now (rankly admits the fact,
j but they still hope that the tide
will not be strong enough to en
tirely wipe out the republican ma
jority in the lower house of con-
| gress.
New York is looked upon as
the pivotal state of the campaign.
Q here the democrats are united
and have made one ot the strong
est campaigns within twenty years
past. The only fly in the demo
cratic ointment is ex-Senator
Hill’s plank for government own
ership of the coa ! mines. While
it is distasteful to conservatives
that effect is apparently more than
balanced by its immediate popu
larity with those plain psople who
have suffered froip the exorbitant
coal strike prices of fuel. Present
indications are that Coler will get
a maturity for governor south of
the Harlem river that the up-state
majority for O.lell cannot over
come. Gains in congressmen are
also expected in spite of the re
publican gerrymander of the new
districts. If these democratic
successes are actually realized on
Tuesday, the inevitable result will
be to give New York again her
old commanding influence in the
party and inevitably put Hill to
the front for the presidential nom
ination.
In Pennsylvania the Quay ma ■*
chine is up against the peril of its
life. Pattison, the democratic
candidate has twice before beaten
Ouav candidates for governor and
this year is making a strong and
hopeful third effort to repeat the
beatings. Once more, as evidenced
by the resignation of Dr. George
E. Reed, state librarian, and his
declaration tor Pattison, the Meth
odist vote os the state—always
tremendous in numbers and usual
ly republican—is likely to go
strongly for Pattison and insure
his election. In the face of this
fact it is not strange that Quay is
alarmed and has personally taken
the stump to save his ticket from
impending defeat.
Massachusetts is giving the re
publicans trouble on tariff lines:
the social democrats of Connecti
cut are helping the regulars and
Homer S. Cummings for con
gressman at large is slated to win;
Delaware will elect a democrat in
place of Congressman Ball; West
Virginia will probably put in a
couple of democrats; Marylaud
two and Michigan seems good for
two. Indiana and Illinois are
doubtful, but no democratic loss
in either is looked for. Nebrrska
is expected to break even.
So that, taking a perfectly cool-
headed view of the situation as it
is today, the reasons are greater
for expecting a democratic than a
republican majority in the next
house. Such a victory would be
helptul to the party throughout
the nation and put it in splendid
spirit for the campaign of 1904.—
Atlanta Constitution.
Thaoks(ivia^ Day Proclamation. j
The following is the annual j
proclamation of the president, set
ting aside a day for general thanks
giving for the blessings of the
year.
This is one of the few customs
in which the United States gov
ernment recognizes the n uv r and
the goodness ot the givet of ail
things.
“According to the yearly cus
tom of our people, it falls upon the
president at this season to appoint
a day of festival and thanksgiving
to God.
“Over a century and a quarter
has passed since this country took
its place among the nations of the
earth, and during that time we
ha^o had, on the whole, more to
be thankful for than has fallen to
the lot of any other people. Gen
eration after generation has grown
to manhood and passed away.
Each has had to bear its peculiar
burdens, each to face its special
crisis and each has known years of
gritn trial, when the country was
menaced by malice, domestic or
foreign levy, when the hand of the
Lord was heavy in it with drouth
or flood or pestilence, when in
bodily distress and anguish of
soul it paid the penalty of folly
and a froward heart. We have
struggled onward and upward.
We now have abundantly enjoyed
well-being af d unde? the favor of
the Most High we are striving
earnestly to achieve moral and
spiritual uplifting. The year that
has just closed has been one of
peace and of overflowing plenty.
Rarely has any people enjoyed
greater prosperity than we are
now enjoying. Eor this we ren
der heartfelt and solemn thanks to
the Giver of Good, and we seek to
praise Him not by words but by
deeds also. '
‘!Nbw, therefore, I, Theodore
Roosevelt, president of the United
States, do hereby designate as a
day of general thanksgiving
Thursday, the twenty-seventh of
the coming November, ancTdo rec
ommend that throughout the land
the people cease from their ordi
nary occupations and in their sev
eral horns and plac.s of worship
render thanks unto Almighty God
tor the manifold blessings oi the
past year.
"In witness whereof, I have
hereunto set my hand and caused
the seal of the United States to
be affixed.
"Done at the City of Washing
ton, this 29th day of October, in
the year of our Lord, one thous
and nine hundred and two, and of
the independence of the United
States the one hundred and twen
ty-seventh.
(Seal) “Thkodoke Roosevelt.
“By the President: John Hay,
Secretary of State.”
Gen. Wood asserts in London
that Cuba is doomed unless the
United States giants reciprocity.
Secret government investiga
tions reved the fact that there is
corruption in the immigration ser-
ice on Ellis Island, New York
' harbor,
The Supreme Issue,
“In my judgement," said Hon.
Adlai Stevenson in the course of
his speech in New York last night,
“the tar ff is the supreme issue in
this campain. Other questions
may be of the hour—they will pass
with the occasion—but this is ever
with us." In this view the dis
tinguished Illinoisan is in perfect
accord with Mr. Cleveland and
other leading men of the party
who have been quoted lately
The silver question is either dead
or sleeping so soundly that it will
cut no figure in the campaign.
Imperialism seems to have lost its
terrors. Militarism no longer
frightens children at night with its
hideous mffcn. But the tariff and
its attendant evils are ever pres
ent. On every side is to he wit
nessed the springing-up and
growth of trusts and monopolies
which threaten the very founda
tions of the government. The
people's food and filel and clothes
and tools of trade are controlled
by trusts, which exert their gigan
tic power to extort the last penny
from producers and consumers.
The trusts dominate both the
markets and the earning power of
the people, and manipulate the
former so as to absorb practically
all of the results of the latter.
"Notwithstanding our boasted
prosperity and the individual for
tunes that have been suddenly ac
quired,” says Mr. Stevenson, "the
sad fact icmalps that to to the
mass of the people this oft re
peated boast of prosperity is but a
sad mockery.” While prices of
the necessaries of life have been
steadily advanced by tt c trusts,
the prices of labor have not cor
respondingly advanced. The
trusts keep wages down, in various
ways. Thus the dollar of the
worker will buy considerably less
now than it would Furor five years
ago, and the average worker is
getting no more dollars now than
he was getting then. It was
stated in Chicago the other day
by a committee appointed for the
purpose of making an investiga
tion, that in five years the cost of
living had advanced between 2$
and 33 per cent., with no appre
ciable advance in wages. In - al
most every instance the increase
in the cost of the necessaries of
life can be traced to the influence
of the trusts. And these trusts
are the creature of the Republican
tariff policy. “The tariff is the
mother of trusts,” said Mr. Have-
meyer of the sugar trust. High
protection is vicious class legisla
tion, in favor of the few at the ex
pense of many. The Democratic
party has always set its tace
against class legislation. Its
greatest victories have been won
on the principle of tariff reform.
Its wisest policy at this time is
strict adherence to that issue,
leaving minor and side issues to a
more propitious season, when the
great question shall have been set
tled in the right way.—Savannah
Morning news.
The last day of registration in
Porto Rico is marked by bloody
riots and several inhabitants are
killed. _
