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LETTER OP ACCEPTANCE
Or Rev. A. B. Finley, Candidate for
Congress.
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(j ;ntl<*m 'ti i> c the n itifieation com
mittee. J. F. Shearer, (i. Meeks, W.
H. Mathews, and S. S. Sellers I am
in receipt of your letter, notifying 1 me
of my ULiaiiimons nomination to the
.THlie Congress of the United States,
also your request of my acceptance of
the same.
I am deeply sensible of the high
honor conferred upon me by the rep
resentatives of your Party in Con
vention assembled. I accept the nom
ination, with solemn realization of the
obligation t..at I assume And did I
not feel myself equal to the occasion
I would not under any circumstances
accept the nomination, and in so do
ing 1 desire to thank the Convention
through you, for the high honor thus
c- nfered upon me, in taking me from
the humble walks of life, and placing
me in the high and exalted position
as your standard bearer of the party
of the people, and should the action
of ypur Convention be ratified at the
polls on Nov. the Bth, 1904, I shall be
mindful of the fact that I am not the
servant of a party, or a faction, hut
of all the people in toio. We need to
he represented in Congress. We have
had men there, but they have never
represented us 1 Our interest have
been ignored, not one enactment of
law has yet been placed on the stat
ute books for the benefit of the far
mer, not one. They go there, stay
there, send them a few seed, draw
their pay, and come home, and their
friends endorse their course. Now,
Fellow Citizens 1 think it is high time
that we begin to cast about and look
for some one to represent the interest
of the laboring classes iu the South.
1 thought that my Honorable Oppo
nent would say something in his let
ter of acceptance that would induce
his friends to want to return him to
the s ( )th Congress, hut he steered
clear of everything hut Tariff and
the extravagance of the Republican
Party, forgetting the gloomy days
of his own Party in 1893, with 12,242
business failures, aggregating 5350,
000,000, with two million tramps in
festing our land from center to cir
cumference, begging for a little crust
to eat, the Bond Syndicates loaning
President Cleveland gold to pay run
ning expenses of the Government,
and the Farmers in the South getting
4 ct . per lb. for cotfon, and nothing
for hides, and about the same for
wool. Corn in the West down to 14
cents, wheat down to 30 cents. Oh,
those memories of gloom and des
pondencies, Talk about Tariff, and
extravagance, it takes money and
trains now to run this Government,
vhen she wore knee pants it didn't
ike m ch to clothe her, hut she is a
iatu now, the sun never sets on our
o&sessions. Talk about extrava
ance, bosh. As a proof of the ex
aordinary sound financial condition
the nation now. instead of follow
ing: up the Democratic course in such
matters, and throwing- the burden on
posterity by an issue of Bonds, we
were able to make all payments out
right. aud yet have in the Treasury a
surplus of y10C,000,000. Moreover,
we were able to pay out-right SSO,
000.000, out of hand for the right to
cut that ditch over in Panama, with
out causing tiie slightest disturbance
in business conditions. We have
’■euadted a tariff law under which dur
ing the last few years the country has
attained a hight of material well
being never before reached. Wages
are higher than ever before, also the
price of farm products, and every
one fvho ' v '" work can get work to
■■nyfkttd about his own price for it.
Latestlt*t>orers never thrive when fac
closed. Manufactures fail
go into the hands of
receivers, Banks fail, and farrnei s j
suffer whenever the doors arc swung
wide open for the influx of the
products of foreign pauper labor.
Nevertheless, our actual importations
increase with our Prosperity. It is
not the rate of duty so much as it
is the capacity of the American
people to consume that fills the pub
lic treasury. Our friends on theother
side may complain that there is a
surplus now, and the Democratic
press may criticise that policy that
“robs” the people, that imposes an
unnecessary tariff, and accumulates
a great surplus. The rate of tariff
is not the cause of this surplus so
much as the amount of consump
ti >n on the part of the people. Our
deffeit in 1894 was in rouad num
bers $90,000,000. Why? Because we
did not import. Why did we not im
port? Because we did not consume.
And why did we not consume? Be
cause the very energies of the people
were frozen with fear when there
; was ratified at the polls that old
Democratic doctrine that prtoection
is both unwise as a policy, unconsti
tutional as principle.
But it is clearly demonstrated that it is
t,lie only wise and safe policy fur this
country to pursue, and those opposing it
j. at this time are sure to go down in the
| most overwhelming defeat e er recorded
! nil the fair pages of history, and the Bth
jof November will so demonstrate. And
j should 1 he elected to the 53th Congress
and fail to cause the farmer and laoor
ing men of the 11th congressional dist.
to realize annually, over forty s x
j thousand dollars, extra on cotton a'one,
| and eleven thousand on wool and hides,
j then I will agree to resign and foot it
home as old as I am. I shall also ask
fur appropriations for various purposes,
twenty thousand dollars for the various
harbor surveys, one hundred thousand
dollars for harbor improvements where
most needed, one hundred thousand for
opening and straitening the Ocmulgee
river, thirty thousand for opening the
Alapaha river from Micco to the Suwa
nee river, thirty thousand for light Ship
purposes, for Brunswick and the Ocmul
gee river, thirty thousand for draining
the low lands of Clinch, Echolls and
Ware, I shall favor the enforcement of
the civil service law. I shall oppose
foreign emigration. I shall favor a
high protective tarilf to protect our la
borers against the pauper labor of other
countries. I shall favor a higher im
port duty on wool and hides. I shall
favor the chartering of a Rail Road
from the North west, to Brunswick,
Ga., so as to obtain a lower rate of
freight. 1 shall lavor the pensioning
of all soldiers of the civil war, both un
ion, and confederate. I shall favor the
improving of our navy, to the equal of
any navy in the world. I shall favor the
establishment of a detective corps for
each state in the union. I shall favor a
sound monitary system (gold standard)
and the issuing of money sufficient to
meet any emergency that may arise. I
shall he mindful to look out for the best
interest of my constituents, and exert
j my best energies to that end.
| Had George Washington surrendered
; to Lord Cornwallis, instead of Cronwallis
| surrendering to George Washington, then
I it would have been altogethei different.
I We would have been the pauper sub
J jects, and they the master and dictators,
i the seat of Government would have been
I on the other side, instead of this side of
! the sea. Edward the seventh might have
| been crowned lord at St. Louis, and Car
! ter Harritton might have been Duke of
j Chicago, and a protective Tariff would not
j have been necessary, but from the days
| of Henry Clay, and John Quincy Adams,
i the great Whig doctrine was protection
to American Industries, and for more
i than a half a century past the Ilepubli-
I can Party has advocated the same thing.
It is the foundation of our hope of con
tinued growth, and Prosperity. It is the
! only means of protecting our laborers
against the pauper labor of other coun
tries, its advantages have been discussed
and re-discussed, and it would he useless
to thrash the old straw again but for the
fact that the Democratic Platforms of to
day endorse and atlirm all previous plat
forms in declaring for Tariff for revneue
only. The question of protection or free
trade, is therefore, as much an issue now
as it was in 1 when the voters swept
I from the earth, those(revenue reformers)
who had brought so much disaster upon
our beloved Country. Knowing that we
will be drawn into the issues and as this is
the most important, we desire to draw the
contrast ami let the people judge for
themselves.
In is '2, in th?ir National Platform, the
Democrats promised a reduction in Tariff
duties that should open the door to free
l trade and bring great prosperity t) this
i fair land of ours. The history of the first
' two years of President Cleveland's ootid
! administration is a history of such disas
ter as was never before in all fite world
visited upon a Nation through the lolly of
j its rulers, and the fact that the people
were the rulers does' not lessen the stu
-1 pendousness of the folly. Stocks and
Bonds depreciated in value to the extent
■of more than hfclf the cost of the Civil
| War. Capital lied affrightened to its
! strong boxes, each month brought an in
| crease of the general distress. No coun
try was so rich as was ours in 18P2: in
every element of national Prosperity; and
no country was ever so menaced with j
universal ruin i-s was ours in W.).'!.
Every movement of President Cleveland’s
administration was a mistake, and every
‘mistake was a disaster. An attempt was
made to throw the American market open
to the world. They failed in the attempt,
but the menace of their promise dis
couraged American manufactures and
aided to close factories, foundries, and
saw mills, the merchants discharged their
clerks, the manufacturers discharged
their workmen, the price of farm pro
ducts fell, and the golden fields were
blackened and withered with the siroc
cos of mortgages, the interest of which
could not be met. The doors of mills
were closed, and the chimneys of furnaces
were smokeless, and the furniture of the
workingman went to the pawn shop, or
to the auction block. Bankruptcy perch
ed upon the ledgers, dispair sat upon the
hearth-stone, and there was hunger in
all our homes from Dan even to Beer
sheeba. Hides were not worth the skin
ning, wool was not worth the shearing,
lumber was not worth the sawing, mills
were noiseless, carf side tracked, such a
thing as freight would have scared an
agent.
During those gloomy days we helped to
feed women and children at Leliaton,
Ga., but praise the Lord they could feed
us now. Messrs Gray and Gatchel of
Ldiaton, Ga., deserves more honor than
th y get, for the care they took of their
workmen, and their families.
And, now, fellow Citizens, and especi
ally you Farmers, you are the bone and
sinew of our land, to you we all have to
look for all we eat, drink, and wear.
Your rights have never been consider
ed, notwithstanding, to you all classes
have to look for all they get. The man
that makes his millions labor must pro
duce it. Much lias been said about the
man behind the gun, but we propose to
champion the cause of the man behind
the plow, and the throttle, by advocating
that protection that American industry
is entitled to. For without him the
American Eagle would cease to squall, or
even flop. The eleventh Congressional
District is the banner long staple Cotton
District in Georgia,* but the importation
of foreign cotton and the boll 'weevil
combined, with no effort on the part of
Southern Representatives in Congress to
Btop either, the Farmer lias but little to
hope for, so long as a Democrat repre
sents us in a Republican Congress, One
Democrat in Congress is just as good as
another, and any school boy could, and
would do just as well as Hon. \V. G.
Brantley. Had the South beeh represented
by men who were in accord with the Par
ty in power, the South would have long
since been what she is destined to be, the
garden spot of the World, factories and
foundries would hav e been as thick sa
politicians in, well, you know where.
Democrats prefer to cut off tlieir nose to
spite their face, while the civilized world
is protecting itself, they would have us
set idlev down, and allow other nations
to dump their surplus off upon us, and
force our manufacturers out of business,
our people out of employment, and the
poorer class into abject slavery. Never
invite disaster upon our country again,
by electing another Democratic Presi
dent.
And now, fellow Comrades, 1 am a Con
federate soldier, was in the War from
beginning to end, was captured twice,
was in prison twice, was wounded once,
lost an eye, am drawing a pension from
the State of Georgia, atn (l> years old, have
been in the ministry 315 yea's, am a life
long citizen of the Eleventh Congress-
District. My record is here, and by it l
propose to stand, or tali. I pledge my
honor not to use any intoxicating liquor,
or any other ungodly means to obtain my
election. Soliciting your sufferage, I am
yours to serve to the best of my ability.
Your humble servant.
A. B. Finley.
Korean Seesaw.
Korean girls are fond of playing
at seesaw. A bag full of sand
about a foot in thickness is placed
on the ground. Across this is placed
a plank, and stretched alongside at a
proper height for the children to
grasp and steady themselves is a
rope.
The Koreans do not sit
down, as English and American
girls would do, but stand erect on
the ends of the plank. One gives an
upward spring and as she alights on
the board gives the other a skyward
toss, who, as she alights in turn,
throws the first girl aloft a little
higher. And so the sport goes on
until in their upward flight each girl
is thrown two or three feet into the
Frequent rests are necessary,
but the pastime is the occasion of
much merriment.
How to Make a Flute.
A little flute from which a good
deal of amusement may be derived
can be made by wrapping a piece of
paper around a pencil to make a
tube. Paste the edge fast, and to
one end of the tube fasten a trian
gular piece of paper somewhat lar
ger than the opening. To play the
flute draw in your breath through
the open end of the tube. The dif
ference in pitch will depend upon
how hard vou breathe.
Handicapped.
“What,” he asked, “is your idea
of a manlv man, Miss Snippleigh?’
“Oh, 1 * can’t tell you offhand,
without anybody near to point to as
having at least a lew of the quali
ties I should expect a manly man to
possess. I’m such a poor hand at
describing things which are wholly
imaginary.” —Chicago Record-Her
ald.
. Quite Necessary.
“Yes,” chuckled the president of
the get rich quick company. lam
shearing lambs.”
“Indeed!” replied the friend.
“Then you must be a shepherd.
Where is vour crook?”
“Oh, he’s in the other room—my
partner, you know.” —Philadelphia
Record. _____
Still Pulling Hair.
Yeast —You say Easimark is |
growing a beard ? j
Crimsonbeak —Yes; you see, his|
wife got all his hair out, and now,
she’s making him grow a beard so |
she can handle him properly when,
she’s displeased at something.— |
Yonkers Statesman.
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Douglas Foundry and
Machine works.
DOUGLAS, - - GEORGIA.
i| jgs Carry a full stock
| Mill Supplies, Steam
Fittings, Leader Iti
- - j- jectors, Belting, Pul-
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2 Special attention
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Household Hints.
Never hang a mirror where the
sun’s rays will fall upon it. The
sun acts upon the mercury and
clouds the glass.
It is not generally known, hut to
prevent cakes from burning place a
little bran at the bottom of the
tins. This will save a lot of grum
bling and vexation.
To clean forks quickly take a
thin piece of firewood, damp one
end with water, then rub in dry
brick dust. Rub the forks well with
this, which will remove any stains
instantly without soiling or hurting
the hands.
Save the Housemaid’s Knees.
Better than bits of old carpet or
bagging to save the knees of the
housemaid or to place under a pail
are soft hand knit rugs. These
can be made of old aprons, gowns
that have outlived their usefulness
and even discarded underwear. Cut
into strips, join “flat” by letting the
ends overlap and knit or crochet
with big bone needles. This makes
admirable pastime for children on
rainy days, when they have tired of
toys and books, or, failing such as
sistants, one can keep a bit of such
knitting on hand for odd minutes.
Coffee a Disinfectant.
“Drink plenty of coffee if there
is sickness around you,” said a phy
sician. “Coffee is a good preventive
of typhoid fever and cholera.
“This has been proved. Cholera
germs and typhoid germs have been
i thrown into coffee and the aromatic
drink has not once failed to kill the
! germs within an hour,
i “Hence amid, contagious condi
j tions do not neglect, among other
j precautions, to drink three cups of
strong coffee at each meal.”
Kitchen Apron.
An excellent kitchen apron is
made of unbleached muslin. This
is superior to the ginghams and
seersuckers more generally used, for
the reason, that it can be thoroughly
boiled and thus disinfected of all
possible microbes. A few washings
give it a snowy whiteness, which
adds very much to the daintiness of
the cook’s appearance.