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fNlMBIER 7.
BAINBRIDGE, DECATUR COUNTY, GEORGIA FRIDAY NOVEMBER 7, 1902.
$1.00 YEAR IN ADVANCE
©fftctol Oxm of Decatur Count* anO the Clt* of SatnbriOge.
Calendar of Events.
r 30—Ex president Gro-
[veiand in a speech before
rf jersey democrats declares
Lion of the tariff to be the
fcunl issue in the present
|g n
I entire coffee belt of Guate-
L been destroyed by an
Lof Santa Mana.
riots continue in Porto Rico
irsons are killed by the mob
■ce.
[arbitration committee goes
Ih the coal mines of Penn-
|ober 31—It is asserted that
begin Monday on a 600.-
lepot for Atlanta. Samuel
[er of the Southern Railway
k head of it.
Ivor Tom Johnson strikes a
lican officer in Cleveland,
tiling him a liar.
k president decides to aban-
■is trip to Mississippi and al-
legoes the pleasure of bear
Ing in the Delta.
Ilineux takes the witness stand
sown defence. This man ac-
1 of the murder 01 Mrs. Ad-
iron nerve in the cross
Bination.
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fcvember 1st.—A thousand
lie fall when a grand stand col-
pd in Chicago. Thirty two
fie are injured. The grand
I was a temporary structure
led to accommodate the crowd
pe Michigan and Wisconsin
[ ball game.
woman of Richmond Va.
ling her son was a burglar
| in to the darkness and killed
be corner stone of the Winnie
[is memorial HaM is laid in
lens with appropriate ceremo-
[ovembe r 2—The fast mail
1 New York reaches Atlanta
lehedule time on its first trip.
j' vo persons, a negro and a
J te man are found dead near
Isnnah. No clue has been
W by which to identify the
[derers,
father in Kentncky strikes
s °n on the head with a stone
1 kicks him to death in a fit
e "se,ess anger.
1 m ad dog bites a number of
l5ns at a dance in a Wisconsin
?• The town is in a state of
ic.
1 cold wave strikes El Paso
as ’ Snow falls and many
: P a re frozen to death.
deranged assasin blows up
°me of a Chicago man and
°f the occupants who were
e P at the time are killed.
* a result ot a wreck on the
- L near Elm City N. C. the
neer is killed and four others
I injured.
November 3—Ellis H.. Roberts
United States Treasurer in his an
nual report of the condition of
the treasury says the magnitude
of the available cash balance and
the unprecedented holdings of
gross gold are the striking features.
The Elks carnival opens in
Americus.
The Cuban Congress convenes
President Palmer’s message is
very optimistic in tone.
Bishop Hugh M. Thomson of
Mississippi is reported as dying
with cancer.
B. A. Jones of Ashburn Ga.
commits suicide.
Le Baudy Bros, of Paris make
a successful trial with a dirigible
balloon. Its construction is se
cret.
It is reported that thousands of
natives on the North West coast
of America ar dying with measles
the percentage being 25 per cent.
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November 4—Allen Mason, son
of a prominent and wealthy Bos
ton man is taken in custody by
the police of Caimbridge on the
charge that he was involved in
the fifteen cases of assault that
have occured in that place recent
ly. Mason has been in the insane
asylum once and it is believed he
is still affected.
Two brothers assasinate their
sister’s lover near Columbus S. C.
A terrible explosion occurs in
Madison Square Garden and six
teen persons are either killed or
badly wounned,
It is said that the-yield of the
orange groves this year will be
500 000 boxes.
Odell wins the governorship of
New York by 20.000 majority.
The 28th congress will be repub
lican.
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The republicans have held their
own in the middle and far western
states. While it goes without say
ing that the south his, an almost
solid democratic representation.
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In Delaware the democrats gain
one congressman.
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, The republican senators of Ken
tucky and Maryland are to be suc
ceeded by democrats, making a
gain of four in the upper house
for the latter.
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Walter Johnson the republican
candidate for a seat in the Senate
from Georgia, received only three
votes on the fourth. Senator Clay
will again represent us in the up
per house,
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November 5-™ree men are
killed in a shooting affray in Or
ange county, Texas.
A fourteen year old boy of Co
lumbia, Neb., shoots his father and
with the assistance of h»
brothers 8 and 10 years old, cre
mates the body.
OBORQIA HISTORY.
A bill has been introduced in
the legislature providing a method
of compling all the colonial and
confederate records of Georgij
and having them printed. It is
to be hoped that the members of
the general assembly will not look
sligtingly at this bill, for it is a
fact which is much to be deplored
and of which we ought heartily *0
be ashamed that the student of
early Georgia history can not get
his material in his own state but
must go to the colonipl depart
ment of the library of Wisconsin
or some of the other northern
states for his information. Sure
ly our state history should be as
valuable to us as it is to the peo
ple of the north west! It is aston
ishing how little the majority of
the people of the state know of
its history. It is not taught in
the public schools and we venture
to say that nine tenths of the chil
dren in our schools know three
times as much about the history
of England and of France as they
do of the history of Georgia and
we do not believe that the major
ity can tell you anything beyond
the fact fhat Georgia was settled
in 1733 by Oglethrope.
Let us gather the material at
hand, place it within the reach of
every student and in due ti me we
will have a worthy historian of a
grand state. In the mean time
we beg the educators to place in
the common schools a history of
Georgia and make its study one of
paramount importance as it should
be.
At the Pollt.
Odell wins from Coler in the
gubernational race in New York.
The majority was very small how
ever. Greater New York went for
Coler by 120 000 but the rural dis
tricts and the up state vote more
than overcame this majority.
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In the race between Penny-
packer and Pattison for the seat
in the Pennsylvania state house
the former, the Republican can
didate, was victorious. The dem
ocrats made great gains in most
of the districts of the state how
ever.
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Tom Johnson the democratic
candidate for the governorship of
Ohio was snowed under on Nov. 4.
A J. Pass, a prospetous farmer
near Rome, commits suicide.
The entire town of Calhoun
Falls, S. C., is sold at auction.
A great riot shakes the negro
republic of Haiti.
The republicans are charged
with fraud in the recent guberna
torial race in New York.
Rev. W. C. Role, of Omaha,
Neb., and a young friend are
asphyxiated.
The murderer of the white man
and the negro in Savannah the
first of the week proves to be a
negro who was employed to do
the deed by a white man named
Sapp.
Leon L, Strause, a tobacco
dealer of Richmond, files a peti
tion for bankruptcy. His liabili
ties amount to $300,599-95-
The House of Commons votes
for $40,000.000 to aid the Trans
vaal and Orange Free State dur
ing the fiscal year.
The Election.
Despite the bright hopes that were held out to the democrats, the
country went'^epublican on the fourth. The hopes of the democrats
were based on the surmise that the people of the country had grown
weary of the high tariff and its accompanying trust misrule. But it
seems that the people who really care for its welfare have aroused
themselves too late and during their lethargy the trusts have out
grown the power of the laws of right and honesty and they now con
trol elections.
It was also hoped that the recent disastrous coal strike with its
accompanying fuel famine, would place the republican party in dis
favor. But it seems to have had the opposite effect. Both parties
were using the varied incidents ot it in the campaign. While the
democrats held that it was caused by the republican protected trusts
the other side held that it was settled only through the instrumen
tality of republican leaders.
But for the effect that this recent defeat will have upon the inner
circles of democracy itself, we cannot sec that any great loss has been
sustained
If the ranks of democracy do not become disorganized or disheart
ened then we believe that for the sake of the 1904 election it is bet.
ter for us after all. Our reasons are these; If the democrats had
charge of the lower house while the republicans held the senate and
the executive chair, any measures which might be introduced in the
lower house would be promptly turned down by the senate or vetoed
by the president and the status of affairs would bs similar to that in
the administration of Martin Van Buren when thd government was
divided against itself, no laws could be passed and the entire session
was spent in ceaseless wrangling.
Since this would be the case, the democrats and republicans would
split on even the most necessary appropriations and acts of legisla
tion and we would be apt to have a "measureless congress.’’
The majority of the people of the country would not understand
the status quo, and as the country would be in a worse position with
out any legislation than with some kind no matter what, the blame
would be placed on the democratic party; and to carry the president
tial election in 1904 would be almost impossible.
It the republican party sticks to its principles of "High Tariff’
and the "Favoring of Trusts,’ the outlook for 1904 will be very bright.
The following is the result of Tuesday’s election, so far as repre
sentation in the 56th Congress goes:
Congressmen. Republican. Democratic.
Alabama,
9
9
Arkansas,
7
7
California,
8
6
2
Colorado,
3
3
Connecticut,
5
5
Delaware,
1
1
Florida,
3
3
Georgia,
11
II
Idaho,
1
1
Illinois,
25
18
7
Indiana,
>3
9
4
Iowa,
11
11
Kansas,
8
S
Kentucky,
II
1
10
Louisiana,
7
7
Maine,
4
* 4
Maryland,
6
4
2
Massachusetts,
14
11
3
Michigan,
12
11
1
Minnesota,
9
9
Mississippi,
8
8
Missouri,
16
2
6
Montana,
1
I
Nebraska,
6
2
4
Nevada,
1
I
New Hampshire,
2
2
New Jersey,
10
8
2
New York,
37
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18
North Carolina,
.10
1
9
North Dakota,
2
1
Ohio,
21 *
16
5
Oregon
2
2
Pennsylvania,
32
25
7
Rhode Island,
2
2
South Carolina,
7
7
South Dakota,
2
2
Tennessee,
10
2
8
Texas,
16
16
Utah
1
I
Vermont,
2
2
Virginia,
10
10
Washington,
3
3
West Virginia,
10
IO
Wisconsin,
11 .
II
Wyoming,
’ -.1
1
Total,
386
204
182
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