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S. RUSSELL ERINSON.
mono* »mo Mtor.
OFFICIAL ORGAN
DEOATUR OOUNTY
AMO SAIN SRI DOE.
BaiakrUK*. Oa., Jssssry 4, IfM.
SHOULD WORK FIRE PROTECTION.
The saying that it is an iii wind
that does not blow good to some
holds true even in the horrible in-
stance of the Chicago fire.
The daily papers have been
filled for days with the accounts
ot the most heartrending castro-
phe of the time and the notoriety
and publicity given to the affair
have been far-reaching in influx
ence. As is always the case, af
ter exhausting all the incidents
connected with the fire, the edi
tors have delved down into the
cause of things and in seeking and
finding the cause of the accident
have been the means of providing
safety, in a degree at least, for the
multitude of theater goers.
The law requires that certain
precautions to guard against fires
be taken in every building of this
kind and the investigation which
occurred as a result of the dev
struction of the Iroquois proved
that not only this, but at least
nine-tenths of the others in Chi
cago were inadequately provided
with safeguards and preventives;
even the precautions which the
law demanded had been neglected.
In consequence the theaters have
been closed and will not be opened
until the evil has been remedied
and the buildings considered safe
from the ravages of fire.
The horror in Chicago has
awakened the authorities in other
cities and a wholesale examination
ot public playhouses is now in
progress. This investigation
should not be confined to theaters;
if the law were rigidly enforced it
would doubtless be discovered
that a number of public buildings
are unsafe and if continuously
neglected will prove even as did
the Iroqouis, a veritable death
trap,
QENERAL LONGSTPET.
The death of General Long-
street at his Gainesville home the
other day removes one of the few
grand actdrs of the war drama of
the sixties. He was known as the
"old war horse of the confederacy,”
and perhaps in point of military
ability he ranked next to the great
Lee himself. His soldiers had
the most remarkable confidence in
him, and he it was who could in
spire them to deeds of valor un*
paralelled. At times since there
have been those who have at
tempted to cast aspersions on his
illustrious name, saying that he
disobeyed Lee’s orders at Gettys
burg. A timely article has just
been published, and curiously in
the same paper that conveyed the
sad intelligence of his death, from
the pen of Mrs, Longstreet, pre
sumably composed with the aid of
the general in his last feeble days,
that answers completely and satis
factorily all charges of stubborn
ness or disobedience at that fam
ous battle. It is a pity that so
great a soldier and military genius
should not have been allowed to
have worn the laurels of so many
peerless campaigns undisturbed
and without envy. Now that he
is dead his memory should be en
shrined in the hearts of a grateful
people for whose cause he did bat
tie, and the remembrance of his il
lustrious deeds should be handed
down to future generations as
those of the knights of the round
table.
HANNA AND ROOSEVELT.
That there will be a division in
the republican ranks this year
over the nomination of their can
didate seems assured. Roosevelt
wants it and is doing all in his
own peculiar way to get it that he
can, Hanna says he does not
want it but he is armed with hi«
pole just the same and reaching
out to knock down the much cov
eted persimmon.
The antagonism of these two
political giants is becoming very
interesting. Hanna has undoubt
edly arrayed that monster known
as the money power against the
rough rider and will use it for all it
is worth for his own aggrandize
ment.
Roosevelt is too shrewd to be
intimidated by the big man’s
power and friends. His entire
public career has proven him to
be a man ot action. His enemies
have always feared him and
sought to get rid of him in some
fashion. He was first sent to
Cuba as a rough rider to get him
out of the way of designing and
ambitious politicians. But their
purpose was not accomplished and
their consternation must have been
great and their wails loud when
they beheld him returned from
the war an idol of the public and
by them hoisted into the govern
or’s chair of New York state.
Again they tried to sidetrack him
by having him elected vice-presi
dent of the United States.
His indomnitable luck, which
has never failed him, elevated
him to the presidency on the un
expected death of McKinley. Now
independently of them all he is of
the opinion that he can leap over
the heads of the powerful coterie
of enemies and trusts and money
into the presidential chair of a sec
ond term.
Roosevelt’s attitude in aiding
and abetting and recognizing the
secession of Panama is considered
a bid on this part for public favor.
It he can secure the good will of
the class Lincoln called the com
mon people by some grand stand
plays to them he may be able to
over-ride his big party boss men,
and secure the nomination. We
believe that Roosevelt will be the
easier man for the democrats to
beat and it is to be hoped that he
will succeed in winning the nomi
nation ot his party.
John Skelton Williams has re
signed as president of the Sea
board Air Line railway, and J. M.
Barr has succeeded him as presi
dent. Mr. Williams will remain
with the Seaboard as chairman of
its board of directors.
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