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The Fort Gaines Sentinel
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PUBLISHED EVERT FRIDAY.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OP CLAV COUNTY.
JOSHUA JONES, Editor and Publisher.
FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 18548.
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LEGAL ADVERTISING.
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for official notices, nnd In • number of instance*
bnve been unable to collect at til Thin rale will he
strictly adhered to. nnd to avoid delay and trouble
all interested ibooM, In tha fntnre, »end the caab
with the copy for auch advertisements.
Operation of the Kagle and Phoenix
mills will be resumed on May 1st.
Texas alone will raise. 5,000,000
hales of cotton this year—enough to
supply half of this country.
x~— R. Fitz¬
Members of the (i. A. at
gerald, Da., draw #720.000 in pensions
annually, or #80,000 per mouth.
Hon. W. C. Sheffield has announeed
his intention to make the race for the
state senate from the ninth district.
The total coinage, for the month of
March was: gold, #1,540,555; silver,
#1,08.1,550; minor coin, #48,817, and
yet this is a goldbug era and silver is
discriminated against.
The Columbus Enquirer-Hun came
out in a handsome new dress Sunday.
\\v arc pleased to note this and other
improvements in 'our staunch old
fKcud under its new management.
No obstacle, says an exchange,
should be interposed against Senator
Tillman's threat to holt the demecrat
ic party. The ScnAtor is in the wrong
pew now, nnd the sooner he vacates
the better.
Mr. (nsp has had , much . to . say about . .
Hoke Smith’s position in 1892. The i
uatural inference from this would be
that Mr. Smith has learned more senee
since then while Mr. Crisp has been
less progressive.
Mr. Crisp says he favors trying free
silver coinage, and if the experiment
bankrupts the country the law should
be repealed. This is like advistug a
fellow to hang himself until dead and
if it fails to agree with him not do it
any more.
Quite a number of counties have de¬
clined to take snap judgement on the
senatorial matter on June ti. This will
work destruction to Mr. Crisp’s little
scheme, as the expression of a few
counties cannot he accepted as the
voice of the state.
The Atlanta CmuttRution. At great
length, pmades the view* of hanker
II. W Reed, of Brunswick, In advoca¬
cy of the. free and unlimited coinage of
silver, hut omits to inform it* readers j
that Mr. Reed was formerly a Repub-1
limn and is now a Populist. !
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A Pensacola man thus states his ti- ;
nancial policy: “When I have plenty
of gold I am a goldbug; when 1 have
plenty of silver 1 am a silverite; when
1 have plenty of greenbacks I am a
greenbacker, and when I have no
money 1 am a Populist.”
There fe not a particle of argument
zette. 1 o which the NS ayrross Herald
replies: “ Nobody does it but the At
lanta I’onstitution, and no sensible
person in Georgia believes what the
Uonstitution says.”
In 1870 cotton sold for 18.05, and
the p*r capita cim.l.tiun of money
"”*17.50. The tot^ crop wee
154,940. In 1894 it sold for as little
as 5 cents, yet the per capita circula
tion was #25. The crop was
T«. Wes. Wne it the .vent of money
m 18545, or too much cotton?
M'e bear of several free silver dein
ocrats in this section who say they will
quit Ihe party rather than support sound
money. Gentlemen, if you have made
up your minds not to abide the action
of the democratic party, you should
go out of it now. Become Populists
at once—you haven't got fur to go—
hut for decency's sake don't go in a
nomination, get licked, aud bolt.
Early County News.
A VIEW FROM THE SEN.
The Hon. Charles F. Crisp, of Oeor
gia, speaker of the last democratic
house of representatives, says the New
York Hun, showed, in the course of his
debate with the Hon. Hoke Smith, how
inexorable is the monometallic law.
lie also gave to his intellectual sources
an aspect whiejj those who welcomed
him to his high place in the democratic
councils could scarcely believe to be
possible.
“For seventy years,” said Judge
Crisp, “France maintained the ratio
between gold and silver at 15 to 1, and
the commercial ratio and coinage ratio
were practically the same throughout
the world. If France could do that,
why'cannot the United States do it
alone?” In the first place the
ment is not true, and before reaching
it Judge Crisp had himself explained
why France was not able to maintain
such a ratio and why the United States
had bceu and would be unable to main
tain* this or any other ratio.
When the United States, says the
Sun. began coining gold and silver at
the ratio of 15 to 1, the ratio of France
was 15 1-2 to 1. “Cold did then, as it
always d »e.x,” said Judge Crisp, speak¬
ing with unconscious contraction of all
bimetallic buncombe, "and went
where it could get the most for
itself; it went to France, and left the
silver with us. Gold disappeared from
the curreucy.
“Then our friends said,” continued
this advocate of free silver coinage in
the year lHIMi, “wc want some gold in
circulation, aud we will change the
ratio so as to get it back. Our fore¬
fathers changed the ratio to 18 to 1 in
1854, and gold went where it could get
most for itself and came to the United
States.”
Here were two instances in which
the mighty flat of the United States
congress, signed by the president,
couldn’t keep gold and silver on a
“parity” in value at a fixed ratio, or
keep them both in circulation. It was
monometalism every time. Yet the
free silverites, joined by Judge Crisp,
himself in the close of this identical
speech, plead that the United States
can maintain what they call “bimetal
isnf by / starting ° alone on free silver
coinag atl6 t0 L u V v c are living, we
are moving, in a grand and awful
time.”
The Albany Herald is one of the
staunchest domociutic newspapers in
Georgia. It is chasing the free silver
ignis fatuus, 'tin true, but U is consci¬
entious and sincere in its opinions. It
is the first paper on that side of the
fence to tnlk like this: “Georgia Dem¬
ocrats are badly divided now on the
currency question, and the differences
which distinguish the advocates of free
silver coinage from the goldbtigs are
very decided, hut, whether we he free
uilverites or goldlmgs, we must not
forget that we are Democrats—Demo¬
crats first. Let us do our lighting with¬
in the party lines, and when the Dem¬
ocratic conventions shall have acted
let. us be ready to take off our hats to
the victors anti then doff our coats,
roll up our sleeves aud go to work to
elect them.”—Ex.
Is there a free silverite or calamity
howler who has the gall to deny that
the farmers of the South, under the
operation of the single gold standard,
are now nearer out of debt and in a
more prosperous condition than they
have befit in years? There are, we
regret to say, many such; but theirar
g ume nt is of little effect with those
who take the trouble to post them
Se lves. They also pretend to believe
that the laboring class is a much abused
people, while the fact is the most re
, wblc Btn tistics, substantiated by one’s
„ t ea(iily increased until now the gencr
;tvera g e over 50 per cent,
th)<n u wa8 |n 1880 Such lhc fa i_
hu . v of free silver argument .
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The Savannah News says that the
nd' l S“t"!'* m"‘
H™.
Uitdoti, ofTlton.es eountv, to con
gres8> That Ml . Mc j A . D< j 0 n would
ab ly represent the district there is no
duubt , but no man is more entitled to
, hc nn.nine.ion, both on the ground
j ability and telling, self-sacrificing
work for democracy than Captain W.
lUnntond ; »>»oofTh„n,n S
voiumbus Enquttcr.
j i Mr. duBignou virtually opened his
campaign with a ringing sound money
speech at Homerville yesterday. Sound
money argument, says the Columbus
Enquirer, however.is not needed down
in the wiregrass. for the Populistic Aid
Society amounts to hut little in Cou
’ gressman Turner's part of the state.
If Col. Dick Clarke, nays the C'hat
tanooga Timex, has done anywhere
near »o well iw hi» enemies admit he
lias done, it is a great victory for sound
money. If Johnston gets the nomina
i tion it will he by a small majority—
and he cannot get there by any large
j margin. We have regarded Alabama
a« being (he worst poisoned of any of
the “Southern states by the silver virus,
One after another of its sound money
{ men were driven out of place, or forced
| to betray the cause in order to remain
in office. The two senators have been
about the worst cranks in the free sil
j ver contingent. Clarke stood alone of
bis state's delegation in the house for
the general views aud policies of the
j national administration. That Clarke
has not been deep snowed under,
smothered, quite destroyed and elimi
nated from the public life of his state
and country, is a proof of his earnest
ness, the soundness ol his cause, no
1 leas than of his personal prowness as
a canvasser on (lie hustings and
among th'e people. Another thing he
has shown: That the masses of
people only need to be properly in¬
formed to insure their going the right
way and doing the right thing, and
still more it shows what one earnest,
plucky, brainy man may do, when he
puts his wtiole mind and all his powers
into the work.
The report comes from Washington
that Senator Tillman will shortly an¬
nounce his candidacy for the demo¬
cratic nomination for the presidency,
and that if he cannot get it he will en¬
deavor to get the nominatiofi of the
populist national convention. In case
Populists will not nominate him, the
report continues,he will try to form an
independent silver party and get a nom¬
ination from it. It seems that he is
determined to run for the presidency
if this report is correct.
No one who understands the situa¬
tion in Alabama will accept us a fail
expression oi the sentiment of the
sentiment of the democratic party the
result of the recent primaries in Ala¬
bama, in which the Populists were the
balance of power that gave Johnson
the victory.
& (Juliiepper’s large
stock of lleautifui Spring Dress Goods
is a thing of beauty upon which the
ladies delight to gaze. All are cordial¬
ly invited to call and sec it. You are
sure to find what you want at prices
cheaper than the cheapest.
4 4 The melancholly days
have come, the saddest
of the year.” It is also
the season when humani¬
ty is more than ever af¬
flicted with “the fever
lurks"—that tired and in¬
dolent feeling that ren¬
ders existence a dull drag.
An ice cold glass of spark¬
ling beer, or perhaps a
more stimulating bever¬
age, would rejuvinate his
being, dispell his languor
and produce an Eli
motion that would sur
prise old Eli himself.
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But it is purest
brands of beers and liq- j
I-rsthat bring about this
happy l.lVlgor atKHl ^and
not leave an after effect
“ than
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