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VOL. XVI.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
It’s a bad state when church mem¬
bership is a test for office, and equally
bad when a man’s morals is not.
Those folks who thought that we
were not going to have any fun in
fussy Fourth this year seem to have
been mistaken.
Let us not fret, Worry wears
more than work. It is the easiest
running machinery that does the
nicest work and the most of it.
The Harris county fair is now an
assured fact, There is not a better
county in the state than Harris and
a proper effort upon the part of our
citizens will convince the world of
this truth.
Hard work is the best and cheapest
anti fat remedy, The man who will
plow five or six hours a day, if his
conscience is clear, will have a good
digestion, will sleep well, and will not
have much surplus flesh.
The New York Graphic proposes
to publish all the original poetry sent
it. The task is herculean, and if
only the contributors subscribe for it
the circulation of the Graphic will be
the largest in the world.
President Cleveland continues to
review the private pension bills pass¬
ed by congress and vetoes them just
the same as if he was not a candi
date for re-election, He is earning
his salary and growing in popularity,
if Americans esteem virtue.
The Butler Herald admits that the
selection of delegates to represent
Taylor county in the congressional
convention was not exactly regular,
but is opposed to having another con
vention to appoint them regularly.
The delegates named favor __ Mr.
Grimes.
The Georgia Weekly Press met in
convention at Gainesville on the 4th
and were entertained in a royal man
ner by the good people of that grow-
JOSEPH L.DENNIS,
PROPRIETOR.
ing city. The Journal regrets that
it was not able to be with the breth
ren, but hopes for better luck next
time.
Recently Governor Gordon adver¬
tised for bids for $1,900,000 of new
state bonds, to mature $100,000 an¬
nually after ten years, bearing inter¬
est at 41 per cent, There were a
number of bids, the best being 104^
for the lot, which was accepted. No
state has a finer credit than Georgia.
In advocating the claims of Hon.
W. R. Gorman for Congress, before
the massmeeting in Talbot last week.
Captain Henry Persons said that the
fact that 80 per cent, of the people
of Georgia are farmers and that they
have not one representative of their
class in congress, showed the great
noGfssity for farmer^ alliances.
A gentleman remarked in our
presence the other day that he was
surprised to find so many men who
looked to to the morals of a candi
date before they gave him their sup
port. He ought not to he. If the
source is not pure, the water cannot
be. Pure laws cannot be expected of
impure men, nor will bad men faith
fully administer a public trust.
The Journal has added a long
list of names to its subscription book
the past week and it greets its many
readers, after a week’s rest, with its
best smile. It enters upon the second
half of an eventful year with bright
prospects, fully determined to devote
its energies more fully than ever to,
advance the material interests of the
people of Harris and to bring them
to a clearer appreciation of their ad
vantages and opportunities.
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In the vortex of county politics
and an exciting congressional cam
paign, please don’t lose sight of the
fact that Hon. W. T. Revill, of the
county of the Meriwether Vindicator,
is our candidate for Governor. We
are not unmindful of the distinguish
ed services of our present chief ex
ecutive—great in war, great in peace
j and great in the hearts of his coun-
HAMILTON, 13,1888.
trynien—but his place is in the I ni
ted States Senate, with Colquitt. Joe
Brown ought to resign to make room
for Cordon and ltevill.
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premium list of the Chattahoochee
Valley Exposition. It covers many
valuable premiums for farm, home
and factory products, many of "which
can by proper offort be carried off by
Harris county. Write to the Secre¬
tary for a copy and read it carefully
to see if there is not something you
have or can make that you can get a
premium upon. A little effort upon
your part will bring credit to your
county and put money in your pocket,
as well.
The Atlanta Constitutitution says
that Dr. Strickler, of Atlanta, who
/lias just been elected Chancellor of
the University of Georgia, will not
accept. Senators Brown and Col¬
quitt and Governor Gordon voted in
his favor at the meeting of the board
of trustees Monday when he was
elected. It is hoped that he will be
induced to reconsider the matter and
accept. His friends say he is emi
nently fitted for the position, and no
minister stands higher in the esteem
of southern Presbyterians.
Editor Persons is built after the
fashion of the latest improved loco
motive, the dummy, and goes hack
ward or forward with equal grace,
He thus gracefully reverses his course
in the congressional race, leaving the
public in doubt whether he was run
ning backward or forward before he
changed, He says: •/ “Editor Brown
of the Newnan Herald, twits us for
prophesying Mr. Grimes’ nomination
on the very day that Talbot endorsed
Mr. Gorman. Well, you see, Mr.
•J
n rown , circumstances alter cases,
therefore we whooped one way and
vo ted another.”
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When the Indians were removed
J from this part of Georgia, Harris
county was settled as by magic. Our
people caine from the older counties,
Monroe, Putnam, Jasper, Henry and
other counties in middle Georgia fur-
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR i
STRICTLY IN ADVANCE.
nishing perhaps eighty per cent, of
our first settlers. Men of sound
judgement, whose memories are a
sacred treasure, the fathers of the
present generation, pronounced the’ in
tills most emphatic of wavs sup.
rior advantages of our virgin soil.
Middle Georgia is in advance of ns.
now, because of superior railroad ad¬
vantages, but now that we are upon
an equality on this score, we shall
hope to establish the wisdom of our
forefathers.
The approaching presidential elec¬
tion is one of the most important
ever held in this country. It is the
first campaign since the war when the
issue was not entirely sectional. It
is to he determined now if the policy
of the government shall be to sup¬
port, not infant industries but giant
monopolies, at the expense of the
pewple, under the £iiise of lev yiug »i
tax for the support of tin* govern¬
ment. If money can purchase votes
enough, the success of the republican
paily is assured, for the men who
profit by the hundreds of millions of
dollars wrung annually from the
pockets of the people in the name of
protection, have money to spend and
they will spend it freely. But we have
an abiding faith in the integrity of a
great people, who have heretofore
shown themselves capable of self
government, as well as faith in an all
wise providence that guides the des¬
tinies of nations, and we cannot
doubt that victory wil* he for Cleave
land and reform.
Col. John Hall, of Washington*
I). C M has discovered a deep seated
conspiracy, It crops out in th»*
wilds of Troup county, permeates
the Farmers’ Alliance of Georgia,
taints the custom house at Atlanta
and even involves within its folds the
immaculate President, Cleveland
himself. The purpose of the con¬
spiracy is to defeat the wishes of the
people of the fourth district, by de¬
feating Hon. Thomas W. Grime*. It
is to l>e done by getting Troup for
Traylor, getting up a dead lock in
the convention, compromising on the
Hon. Henry R. Harris as the nomi-
NO. 27.