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VOL. XVI.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
The Ger g’a Cracker did up the
democratic s.ate convention in ao ar¬
tistic manner. It is a tig top pub’ -
cation any way and the equal of any
of the New York humorous papers.
It would be as easy^to run a powder
mill in the nether region, Sunset Cox
tb’nks, ?s it would be to run a gov¬
ernment with honest official ana a
p’efchoric treasury.
A negro woman in Putnam county 1
gave br.wh to triplets last week two
boys .and a girl, all doing wel 1 . Put
ram was not satisfied with the award
at the Piedmont expo itlon last year
asfd sho-proper-eg to intake its injustice
apparent to all the world.
Up in Maine there is a very suc¬
cessful little nairow guage railroad,
the two rails being just ten inches
apait. The coaches are neatly as
large as those on our 36 inch narrow
guage, the C. & R., and, strange to
say an accident has never happened
on the road, although it is fo r .y miles
long and traverses a mountainous
country.
It is pretty generally conceded, ex¬
cept by the*Uosest fiiends of the lead
ing candidates for the republican
nomination for the presidency, that
Blaine will be the nominee of h’s
party. It r; Lad that we must thrash
the same straw over again, but with
Cleveland as our leader we can do it.
In fact ive see every reason to be¬
lieve that it will be done much more
thoroughly than it was before.
An application has been filed with
the secretary of the state, under the
general law, for a charter for the Sa¬
vannah and Columbus railroad. The
road is to run from Savannah or some
point in Chatham or Effingham ccun-,
tie3to Columbus, via Americus, w.th
a branch to Dublin and another to a
point on the Chattahoochee river in
Quitman county. Gen. Alexander
and others are namad as directors
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and the capitol stock is to be one
million dollars.
t'OSIPH L.DENN.S,
!*'.CPPlETOr.
Brother Revill thinks that if he
were not ~o wedded to the hope of
becoming Governer of Georgia lhat
this would be a splendid opportunity
for him to stand for congress in the
fourth district. There is an old prov
erb to the effect that the farthest way
round is sometimes shorter than the
direct way through. Some men have
used a seat,in the lower house of
congress as a stepping stone to
thing higher and we charge our es¬
teemed brother nothing for the hint.
Rabroad building was ^o unumaUy
active in tips country la c year that it
was thought that the present year
wouhi show a falling off. The figures
for the first three months of 1888,
however, show the number of miles
of new track lard to have* been 56
miles greater than for tlie correspond
ing period o' 1887. The number of
mi'es laid ot new road'was 1096,most
of which, of course, was in the south,
the summer and early fall being the
only time when the north and west
can lay track. Georgia leads the hst
with 113 miles, Texas comes second
with 112, Kentucky follows with 72,
Louisiana 60,Tennessee 50, Alabama
48, North Carolina 19, South
lina and Florida 15 each, West Vir¬
ginia 10 and Virginia 6.
The Southern Empire, published
monthly by the Georgia Bureau of
Immigration, and ably edited by Mr.
W. L. Glessner, is doing a good work
for Georgia. Tn calling attention to
the many inducements we offer to
immigrants, it will naturally cause
our people to see and appreciate
more fully the advantages they pos¬
sess and lead them thereby to labor
more to develop the country’s re¬
sources. In doing this it wiH stop
the tide of emagratiun that has en
riched already half a dozen states west
of us with our best blood and brawn,
The reopU. of Georgia ought to be
proslerour fie and happy and if they are
not responsibility is with them
alone; nature has done her pait
that with no laggard hand.
The gist of the following paragraph
which appeared in the Journal last
week, hinged upon the spelling of one
HAMILTON, GA„ MAY 25,1888.
word. That word we wrot$ “seenlei’’
and our intel ,; gent proof reader made
it “centre.” It was was a poor pun
and we do not rcpublLh it except for
the purpose of showing that an item
which might have been construed as
a slur at Chipley or nonsense of an
editor, was designed as a harmless
bit of pleasantry. The item as it was
,
j written was this:
The large number of prospective
railroads heading for our enterprising
neighbor,Chipley, as enumerated else¬
where by our correspondent makes that
little town the leading railroad scenter
of the south. We make no excep¬
tions in favor of the Columbus En
quirer.
The New York Hera’d predicts
great things foy cotton manufacturers
in the south. It recognizes the nrt
urai advantages of the mills in this
section over those in the east. The
Herald says: “During the next twen¬
ty or thirty years the south will give
us a pretty lively shake up. Befoie
the war, you know, they never dream¬
ed of stripping for a lace, and we had
it all our own way. But »he times
have changed with them. Now,what
with their iron mires, and their coal
mines, and their new method of agri¬
culture, and their shrewd enterprise,
and their commercial daring we shall
have to draw our belts a little tighter
and strike a livelier gait,or--weil, what
of it ? I iiis is a free country, and a
big and rich country, and there is
room eno ugh for generous rivalry to
get a good deal of exercise and make
a good deal of money. Arc you
ready, gentlemen? Then go.”
The republicans are publishing a
paper showing the difference between
! the pay of labor in this country and
in England, which shows that the
raiey b ere <ue f rom 5 ° 150 percent
j highei than they are lli^re. Now, if
a majority of life people of this coun
, trades
j * r y were engaged in thc or
j manufactures this tab.e might prove
the beneficence protect.cn. But
as fully three fourth* of our popu.a
non are engage! in agriculture and a
j large number in mercantile pursuits,
it follows that if these workmen are
not greatly beittr than Englishmen
ONE DOLL AH AYOR,
S»»RtOT'-Y ..> ACVAPCE.
in the same callings, thereby greatly
reducing the labor cost of their prod
ucts, the farmers and merchants are
taxed to pay these higher wages.
That the many are taxed for the ben*
efit of the lew. The table should
show the excess of the profits of the
American manufacturer over those
of the English and it would be a per¬
fect refutation of the protection falla
cy.
Mr. Blaine admits that his health
is a^ righ*, asserts that he will make
an active canvass for the republican
nominee, but refuses to be interview
ed upon the subject of his Florence
letter. It is very generally admitted
that he will be the republican nomi¬
nee. The republican speeches in the
tariff discussion in Congress very
clearly point to him and have gener
ally been modeled after his grandilo¬
quent letter of acceptance of 1884.
The address of Mr. Heed, last Satur¬
day, was in its entirety but an adap¬
tation of Mr. Blaine’s epistle to the
occasion. The republicans are con¬
tent with the present tariff and would
have preferred to fight this fail upon
the oid war issue, but President
Cleveland has very adroitly foiled
their plans and the approaching fight
they will make for the tariff as it is,
with all the sectionalism that they
can inject into the discussion. The
chances are in f vor of the democ
racy, but 3s we have said before,
( ] c f ea ^ ln an open fight for an honest
t-nd, is better than victory by doubt
ful ways in a fight only for the spoils
of office.
When President Cleveland was
young in office and before he had
made himself strong with the people
and consequently strong with his par¬
ty, there were not wanting among
his opponents those who asserted
that he had not sagacity enough to
use the patronage he had to advance
the ends he would accomplish. Now
lhat he has shown himself even
stronger than his party and its great
^ i ea <] er his T great and growing pop
ulamy a „ (1 lh< suc<:e , s o!
^ ^ ^ Jc(orm are atmbutef ,
^ lhtfSc sjMwe opponents to his a I
run use of patronage. In point of
sagacity he has grown wonderfully in
then eyes.
NO. 21.