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i : Tk tk m A , ■f V ji'/1 );C. ™ ■ I * . » ■ * '* < . # WHS « s • » * • 1 , i a ■* * V * / . ft r.. J •4 -*• r *+ ■«*» .s'* \ '"V £ UbU | I ■ J FC Williams 4 % ♦ 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 # 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.