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THURSDAY. MARCH 15, 1900.
The Populist pc ty is taking on now
life and energy all over Georgia and
our state convention in Atlanta will
bo largely attended.
Col. Peek addressed the people of
Franklin county lrst week at Cerues
villo and Canon. At both places he had
a large and enthusiastic hearing.
The National Convention of the Pop
ulist party, which meets at Cincinnati,
Obio, on May 9th, vvill be the biggest
and most euthu iastio convention ever
held by our party.
The Faribault Jeffersonian has the
following: “The girl who seeks and
obtains a position that men are wont to
fill is to that extent aiding to make an
other man a bachelor and herself, or
some other girl, an old maid.”
Is this worth thinking about? The
Standard Oil Company is capitalized at
$ 100,000,000 and its net earnings each
year arc $80,00.),000. The farmer who
will not go to tliiukin' and vote for his
own interest, with such facts before
him, ought to be forced to plant h’s
whole crop in cotton ani not be allowed
over one oeut per pound for it.
Judge Russell’s Candidacy.
Judge Russel!, of our city, is promi
nently mentioned as a candidate for
United States senator in opposition to
seuator Bacon. This being a democrat
ic fight, The Economist, perhaps, has
no right to say anything on the subject;
but if we are to have a democratic sen
ator to succeed Major Bacon, of course
Judge Russell would be our preference,
as he is our personal friend aud a citizen
of Winder. We hope that the Populists
can elect a majority of the next legisla
ture and retire Major Bacon and keep
Judge Russell ou the bench, where he
to ably presides, but if we cant do this.
Judge, then we would be glad to see
you retire the Major by being elected to
fill his place.
For State Senator.
It is Jackson county’s time now, ac
cording to the well-reoognized rotation
system, to furnish a State senator for
this district. And while Jackson fur
nishes the man, it is the privilege of
Hall to suggest what man of the many
of her good citizens Jackson shall fur
nish.
As oue qualified in a high degree for
the position, aud a man eminently
agreeable to a majority of the people of
Hall couuty, we suggest the name of
Col. W. I. Pike. He is a mau of excep
tional talents aud exalted character aud
possesses a well-seasoned legislative ex
perience, having served many terms in
the Georgia Geueral Assembly. He is
noted for the bad legislation he has
helped to kill as well as the good legis
lation be has furthered.
Wo hope the people of Jackson will
give us Col Pike.— Gainesvile Eiglo.
I TANARUS; is Economist cau bo allowed
to st to its democratic friends, it
would say that Editor Craig’s choice oi
Col. W. L Pike as their caudidate for
the next state senator from this district,
is the best selection they could make—
that is if they consider bram aud fituess
as any requisite for the mau they sup
port. The only thing about Col. Pike
being their candidate with us is that we
would have more regret over beating
him than most any man they can run.
Promise Them Something
During the recent democratic com
mittee meeting in Washington, Clark
Howell, the head of the party in Geor
gia, told the committee what he thought
of the politica' situation in the follow
ing words:
“We’ve got to put enough silver iu
the plattorm to save the Southern
States, for that’s about the laot hold
toe Democratic party has on our people.
They have not yet tasted enough pros
perity to win them away from free coin
age. They still think we need more
money and that a silver dollar is just as
good as a gold one, but they are almost
unanimous for expansioM, and if we
should declare against expansion and
fail to renew the demand for free coin
age we would lose several of the South
ern States. My proposition is to frame
our expansion plank very much in the
form of the Teller resolution about Cuba
that was passed by the Senate two years
ago, promising life, liberty and happi
ness to the Filipinos and home rule just
as soon as they are fitted for it. It may
be for years or it may be forever, but
nevertheless we ought to promise them
something. ”
The abjve ought to be an insult to
every honest and intelligent democrat
iu Georgia who has stood by the party
and conscientiously belived it a pr"ty
with honest convictions and advocat
ing the great principles it candidly felt
uo be right. Mr. Howell, however, tells
his national committee that deception,
that telling the rauk and file 6i„his par
ty they are in favor of certain measures
which if they get in power they will op
pose is the ouly way to save them from
defeat. We sometimes wonder what
the Almighty thinks of such men and
of the large class that follow them
blindly and are so prejudiced will not
even stop for a monmeut to consider.
Mr. Howell, remember, says mako
thorn promises if we never fulfill them
WE ought to PROMISE THEM SOME
THING.
Tho charge made by the Populists for
the past eight years was that the dem
ocratic leaders would promise the peo
ple anything to get in Dower, never in
tending to carry these promises into ef
fect. The record of the party has sus
tained us in this charge, and now, to
more fully emphasize the truth of our
allegation aud prove beyond the shadow
of doubt we have not misrepresented
them, Clark Howell, the head of do
mocracy in Georgia, boldly throws off
the mask aud acknowledges that his
party can be saved from defeat only
through deceiving the people and
PROMISING them SOMETHING they
do not aim to give.
What Caused Populism?
“There seems to be a general impres
sion in eastern newspaper offices and
eastern political headquarters that the
western aud southern Populist is a
long-whiskered, ignorant, fanatical aud
impractical mau, who wants to remedy
social conditions, but does not know
how to go about the task. These mis
taken estimates of the Populists would
be speedily removed if some of the edi
tors and politicians from the east would
come west or south and undertake to
hold joint dsbates with the Populists of
Nebraska or Georgia, whose hands are
calloused aud whose skins are tauued
by the western and southern sau and
wind. It is not hard to find proof that
hard times and short crops had little or
nothing to do with the growth of Popu
lism in the west aud South. The Popu
list party made its first grea' showing
in 1890, and the year before tho west
aud south had good crops aud fair pri
ces. , The Populist party won in the
Nebraska elections of 1894, 1898, and
crops were good in these years aud the
prices up to tho average of a series of
years What, then, caused tho growth
of Populism?
By their fires des dtri> g thts long
winter evenings tho farmers of the
south and west read and Studied poli
tical history.
They noted the coustaut aud steady
driftmg away from the old landmarks;
they noted the steady drifting of power
naturally belonging to the people into
the hands of money grabbers
They read history and compared the
principles laid down by the founders
with the principles being acted upon by
the men who had assumed control of
the government, and by the comparison
they saw the dangers ahead. Like pat
riots, they protested, and when no heed
was given to their protests
ized and sought to secure at the ballot
box and return to first principles. True
it is that men looked 'upon as fanatics
joined the ranks of Populism, but time
•vas when William Lloyd Garrison,
Wendell Phillips and John Brown were
regarded as fanatics. The “fanatics
of the Populist party were living a few
years ahead of their time. Every day
brings its vindication to their course.
Populists are not Populists because their
fathers were Populists. They are
Populists because they have read and
studied and thought. Ten years ago
the founders of the Populist party poin
ted out the advantages of municipal
control of public utilities. They were
laughed at by the men who are today
the staunchest advocates of municipal
control. It is time that men should
realize that Populism is something
more than the out growth of hard times
and drouths and mortgages. It is the
out growth of study and endeavor
of patriotism and a desire to secure the
greatest good to the greatest number”
—“A Democrat.” iu Omaha World
Herald
The above as will be seen is taken
from the “Omaha World —Herald,” the
leading democratic paper of Omaha,
Nebraska. It is not ouly good reading
matter for eastern newspapers and
politicians, but appiies as well to South
ern new~p pars and r c'itical demigogues
of a certain stripe who have tried to
make the same impression “A Demo
crat,” who wrote the above and Gover
nor Candler, of our state, are the only
two men who have had the manhood to
represent Populist in their proper light
and to admit their intelligence honesty
and patriotism. The above writer says,
Populism is the outgrowth of study
and endeavor of patriotism and a desire
to secure the greatest good to the great
est number. Could any movement be
grander than this? Could any man be
more manly than “A Democrat” who
wrote the above concerning a party to
which he does not belong?
Governor Candler not long since in
the Atlanta Constitution, in speaking of
Populists, said they are as HONEST
and SINCERE and as PATRIOTIC
as you or I, and are seeking to remedy
evils, the existauce of which las fully
recognize as they; and evils of which
they complain are real, not imaginary.
It is manly in Governor Gaudier to
make this statement aud we admire
him for it. How different it is to the
misrepresentations of the little one—
horse politicians of the south for the
past eight years. The man who will
read the above letter of “A Democrat,”
and what Governor Candler says about
us, is forced to boa stronger populist
than ever before, and we fail to see how
any man who has opposed us cau read
what they say with out at once being
converted to Populism.
Avoid The Danger.
It is now apparent that the cotton
crop of 1900 will sell for 8 cents per
pound or more. Thi9 encouraging out
look for our producers brings with it a
danger to men of most every walk in
life. The danger is tni, going in debt
on the strength of the prospect of a
higher price of cotton. The safest plan
is to live just as though we expected to
sell the crop for 5 cents. There is a
dangerous risk to run in going in debt.
Reverses may come and you would fail
to meet your promises. The moment a
man becomes insolvent, he enters upon
a life of dissatisfaction, if he is a con
scieucious man. Men get in debt from
various causes. There is the philan
thropic fellow who feels willing up in
his bosom a desire to do a great work
for humanity. Ha hr.~ confidence in
his fellowmau and is fool enough to be
lieve that all he has to do is to give his
time, labor aud vitality to the service of
humanity aud the dear people for whom
he ii laboring will attend to his needs.
For a while lie has plenty of friends aud
admirers who are loud in their praises
of his brilliencw aud he finds every thing
lovely aud th> goosp haugs high; but
when the time comes when someth.ug
besides praise aud inthusiasm are ueed
ed, it is conspicuously absent. When
bills come due and no money to pay
them , those brethren who have been
most iuthusiastio in singing peans of
praise are the last to come to the res
cue. Then it is that we begin to real
ize that all is not gold that glitters.
Then there is the fellow who has been
made of Providence a keeper of a family
hospital and his time and means have
been taxed very hbaviiy to provide nec
essary comfort for sick loved ones. And
there is another who hustles all the
time, but some how manages badly and
just can’t make ends meet. Last of all
there is the dead head who jast simply
intends for the other fellow to keep
him up. He toils not neither does he
spin but he lives well all the tame. 1
believe that there aregfew of this latter
class. Whatever may be the cause of a
man’ indebtedness the world snobs him
as a “hard case” and he must live un
der a shadow, however honest his in
tention may be. Any way you take it,
debt is a bad master. It robs life of its
sweetest joys and casts a shadow of sor
row around the fireside. It destoys
manhood and makes the young grow
prematurely old. When it becomes
kuown that a man is insolvent, no mat
ter how came him so, one by one erst
while friends begin to drop off and give
him a wide berth and a cold shoulder,
uutil, at last all have forsaken him save
a few loyal hearts who estimate a man
for what he is and not for what money
he has. The wisest plan is to keep out
of debt if possible. Friends can help
you in mighty easy, but you will have
to get out the best way you can. If you
owe money, and can break full handed
the world will honor you, but if you
have nothing to break on the world re
gards you as a rascal. Keep out.
R. W. H.
Bethlehem, Ga.
It is very hard to stand idly by and
see our defir ones suffer while awaiting
the arrival of the doctor. An Albany
(N. Y.) dairymau called at a drug store
there for a do tor to come and see his
child, then very sick with croup. Not
finding the doctor in, lie left word for
him to come at once on his return. He
also bought a bottle of Chamberlain’s
Cough Remedy, which he hoped would
give some relief until the doctor should
arrive. In a few hours he returned,
saying the doctor need not- come, as the
child was much better. The druggist,
Mr. Otto Scholz, says the family has
since recommended Chamberlain’s
Cough Remedy to their neighbors and
friends until he has a constant demand
for it from that part of the country.
Forsale by Winder Drug]Co.,
An Honest Lawyer’s View.
Hooper Alexander, in Dekalb New Fra.
If the State of Georgia would estab
lish its own priutieg house and sell
school books at a profit of ten per cent
above tne cost of production, the price
of the books would be reduced one half
to the children. The profits earned by
the State would at the same time be
sufficient to do all the balance of the
State printing—now paid out of taxes.
At the same time there would be saved
to the people of the State between SSOO.
000 and $1,000,000 per annum now sent
beyond our borders for school hooks.
All school books are controlled by
Trusts. Our newspapers and politi
cians talk glibly about trusts but their
talk is sonud and fury signifying noth
ing. They are ignorant, uucandid and
wanting in*courage when it comes to
the trust question. There is but one
answer to the trusts and that answer is
Public Ownership. Let us begin by
national ownership of interstate rail
wavs, municipal ownership of public
utilities and State pub ication of school
books. Away with the tribute that
Greed puts on Intellect by the consent
of political charlatans!
Money To Lend.
We have made arrangements with
parties through whom we are able to
place loans, secured by mortgage on im
proved farm? f 5 years time, payable
iu yearly installments at 8 per cent,
interest. Shackft vord & Cos.,
Athens, Georgia
Saturday and Sunday
Excursion
Effective this date the Gainesville
Jefferson & Southern Riilroad’will put
on sale a week end and a Sunday ticket
for the benefit of its patrons who may
desire }0 sp9ai Saturday aightjor Sun
day at some of our local stations.
The week end ticket wili be sold at a
rate of four oeuts per mile, ono way.
for the round orip aud wili be good on
all trains passing station after 12 o’clock
noon on Saturday. Returning,they will
be good on all trams scaeduled’to arrive
at destination before 12 o’clock, noon,
Monday after date of sale.
The Sunday tickets will be sold for
all trains between all stations at ono
fare for the round trip, limited, both
going and returning to date of sale.
Samuel C. Dunlap Receiver.
THE MUTUAL LIFE IHSDRIHCE
COMPANY OF NEW YORK
RICHARD A. MCCURDY P SESID
„ STATEMENT
For the year ending December 31 Ison
According to the Standard of th /, '
Department of the State of
income
BeceUed for Premiums . tIJ .
I rom all other Sources . ' *fM*Ml* M
*— 1 va
disbcrsements ,58,890,0;j si
To Policy-holders for Claims br
To Policy-holders for
meats, Dividends, etc. - in-..,.
For all other accounts . . IS’J 3 ®’ 0 #? 1
- u
assets ,38 > 59 b4irii
United States Bonds and other
First Lien Loans oa Bond and* 3,180,4ei
Loans° and other Se’ * 4,;94 > Ml
Loans on Company’s Policies . lift'
Beal Estate: Company’s 12 Offlce ’ 66
Buildings, and other Proper-
Cash in Banks and Trust Com" ‘ s ’ ,B6 ’ si * M
panie* • • ■ , ai®
Accrued interest, Net Deferred 02
Premiums, ete. . . .
liabilities * 301,8i4,M7 5i
Policy Reserves, etc. - . S2SI 711 aoa
Contingent Guarantee Fund . S!
Available for Authorised Divi. ,Ja “’ o4B 91
dends * * - * • 8,150,000 op
*301,844,537
Insurance and Annuities in
force ’ - - • - $1,052,065.211 61
I have carefully examined the foregoing State,
ment and find the same to be correct; liabilities
calculated by the Insurance Department.
Charles A. Preller Auditor
ROBERT A. QRANNISS Vice-President
Walter R. Gillette General Manager
Isaac F. Lloyd Vice-President
Frederic Cromwell Treasurer
Emory McClintock. Actuary
R • F. S HEDDEN, General Ageuf,
Atlanta, Ga.
Honey To Loan.
I am now iu a positiou to loud money
on butter terms than ever heard of be
fore. I have an unlimited amount of
money to lend oil Ten (10) years time
with the privilege of paying the whde
or an part of principle at any time.
Call on r me at Jefferson aud I will be
glad to accommodate you. I will be iu
Jefferson every Friday aud Saturday of
each week. Wili bo found iu office
with Col. J. A. B. Mahaffey.
C. C. Chandler.
To secure the orginal witch hazel
salve, ask for DeWitt’s Witch Hazel
Salve, well known as a certain cure for
piles aud skin diseases. Bewaie of
worthless counterfeits. They are dan
gerous. G. W. DeLaPernere.
STATHAM,
Don’t forget that Wednesday, March
21st, is Arbor day. Every one is invited
to come aud bring a few shade trees to
plant in honor of some of their friends.
The yonng should plant trees in recog
nition of the ob'igations they owe to
those who planted trees tor them. The
old should plant trees to illustrate their
hope for the future and their concern
for those who are to come after them.
Misses Ella and Eddie Dickson, two
of Jefferson’s most popular young ladies,
visited our town Saturday and Sunday,
Rev. S. P. Speigel filled his regular
appointment here Sunday, preaching
two very interesting and instructive
sermons.
Mr. M. C. Rhodes and Mr. J. W.
Arnold visited Jefferson Sunday.
Col. Jas. M. Smith, Oglethorpe’s big
farmer, passed through Statham Sun
day. He was on the lookout fer some
convicts that had escaped from him.
Sheriff Stephens and Col. Ayers, of
Jefferson, were here Monday.
Mr. W. E. Autry, of Winder, was in
the city Monday.
Lots of guano is being hauled out of
Statham this week.
Mr. J. B. Thornton, one of Atnens,’
business men, was here Tuesday.
Mr. Chamberlain, of Ohio arrived
here a few di.ys ago and will spend 3
few months here for his health. M
Chamberlain seems to be a very nice
clever young man and we extend h m a
cordianl welcome. He is stopping vv ‘
Mr. Grim Wood who is also a native of
Ohio
The sociable at Mr. James Maieoui’ =
last Saturday night was greatly enjoy
by the large number of young p-‘ : P- ■
MiS3 Nelia Hewitt, of Hign •* ’
vi-ited relatives here Sunday-
School at this place is in a flourishing
condition with Miss Sallie Dickson
teacher.
Rev. W. E. Sitzer, W. Caton, N-J”
writes, “I had dyspepsia over . . QeS
years, and tried doctors and , t 0
without benefit I was P er L. Wped
nse Kodol Dyspepsia Cure and it he #
me from the start. I believe „j t
panacea for all foims of„in^(?t^raPdr
digests what you eat. G. w •
riere.