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VOL XVI.
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EDITORIAL NOTES
The Harris county grange meets
here next Tuesday to enjoy a grange
fruit festival and to discuss grange
matters. The body embraces
some of the best farmers in the
county and the grange meeting will
be interesting and profitable.
The Meriwether . Vindicator puts
Harris county down as the pivotal
county in the congressional race. It
is entirely too soon to determine this.
Grimes must get four and possibly
six votes from above the mountain.
This puts the pivot higher up than
Harris we think.
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Keep cool. Don’t get excited.
The nomination Saturday is hut to
.determine the popularity of a few
men. You may he called upon to
assist in electing the very man you
most bitterly oppose. It behooves
you therefore to avoid bitterness.
Party interest must he above person
al preference. The less you say, the
less you may have to take hack. I he
weather is warm, hut you must keep
cool. If you can’t keep cool, keep
as cool as you can.
The tariff reform measure, gener
ally known as the Mills hill, passed
the house Saturday by a majority of
thirteen. Three republicans voted
for it and three democrats against it.
It is a very mild measure, not radical
in any of its features, but it puts the
people on notice that the policy of
the democratic party will he to take
no more from the pockets of the tax
payer than the government econom
ically administered demands, and that
this shall he raised by a tax on lux
uries, rather than upon tne recessa _
ries of life, Such is not the policy
of the republican party and it is op
posed to the tariff hill because of its
tendency to curtail the superfluous
revenues.
The river and harbor bill appro
priates $22,000,000. A much less
objectionable bill than this was ve
toed by President Cleveland two
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years ago and there is a feeble hope
JOSEPH L.DENNIS
PROPRIETOR.
that he will do so again. Does any
body suppose that a congress made
up of first term men could concoct
such an enormous steal ? If Harris
county pays her share of the federal
taxes—and unfortunately she pays
more—then the levy for this item is
just $5,000, and not one cent of it
touches the county, It is time this
foolishness about improvements by
the general government was at an
end. Leave the money with the peo
pie and wherever work is needed pri¬
vate enterprize will meet the emer
gency.
The Mills bill places cotton ties on
the free list. This is as it should he.
The bulk of our cotton is marketed
at Liverpool. The difference then
between the cost of bagging and ties
j iel . e and their market value in Liv
erpool, represents the loss to the cot
ton grower. It is an item in the cost
0 f production, just as planting, plow
ing, 0 r ginning is. The demand for
the staple fixes the price; the cost of
production determines the profits of
the grower. Hence to buy in a pro
tected market an article that must he
so ld in a free trade market, is mam
festly unprofitable, and a law that ex¬
acts this of the agricultural class is
unfair. Agriculture needs fostering
by the government much more
manufacturing does. The fallacy in
the cotton tie and bagging question is
that seemingly the producer gets as
much per pound for these items as he
Joes for his cotton and that there is a
profit to him in the transaction. But
the price paid him is for the amount
of net cotton in his bale—the price
per pound is reduced so as to ful y
cover the loss on bagging and ti( s.
Both items should he on the free list,
together with all articles needed in
making or marketing a crop.
for lbs H imiltoi* Journal.
CURRENT EVENTS.
The Mills bill reducing the
passed the house, after a heated
test, by a vote of 167 to 143.
done!
The foreign mail subsidy hill failed
to pass and the jobbers complain.
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Hon. M. W\ Fuller has been
HAMILTON, GA„ JULY 27,1888.
j firmed Supreme as Court Chief by Justice 20 majority. of the U. S.
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Judge John W. H. Underwood, of
Rome, died on the 19th, aged 74.
One of the bright lights of Georgia
has gone out and one of the land¬
marks in history disappears.
The oldest living graduate of West
Point military academy is Gen. W.
C. Butler, of St. Louis, who was in
the class of 1820, and is now 89
years old.
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A recent census gives Baltimore a
population of 416,705, of which
65,569 are negroes.
There are 100,000 chinamen in
California. The “yellow invasion”
is worse than the gold fever, with
nine heathen temples.
The Georgia State Agricultural so¬
ciety meets in Thomasville August
1st, 2nd and 3rd.
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Jay Gould lias purchased the Mc¬
Kay submarine telegraph for eleven
million dollars.
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MitcheU county has voted proliihi
{Jon by a large majority. Let the
good work go on. The saloons must
go.
A correspondent of the New York
Tribune is not complimentary in his
notes of the northern watering pla¬
ces. He says that Newport is a pro
longned dinner party, Saratoga a
continued horse race, and Bar Har¬
bor a summer school of flirtation.
None good.
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Catterpillars have made their ap¬
pearance in great force in Mitchell
county and in west Florida, and great
damage is being done.
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Glynn county is the only place in
Georgia where grows the olive from
which is made pure olive oil.
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At aldeck, Germany, a P ers ‘J u
addicted . to intemperance . cannot ob;
tam a license to marry, the law
| bidding It. This ought to be the law
everywhere. .-***“
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It is believed that Mexico will be a
large market for Alabama coal, with
high prices. Large shipments are
made there now\
The Chattahoochee______ J v jck i Compa- _ 4
ny has taken the contract to build
ONEDOLLARA YEAR,
STRICTLY IN ADVANCE.
the railroad from Buena Vista to
Columbus, 33 miles.
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The date palm at Fort Myers, Fla.,
planted by Gen. Hancock more than
thirty years ago, bears this year for
the first time. Reaper.
THE DOUBTFUL DELEGATIONS
That was a very manly letter from
Congressman Grimes declining tu
come home to fix up his fences. It
was a short sighted friend who asked
him to come yet, he declined in an ad¬
mirable way. It’s bad for him to be
away now but it would be worse tor
him to leave his post to come home.
The letter was manly and we beleive
he meant it. But all of Mr. Grimes’
friends are not as open and honest as
he is. Some of them want to claim
Talbot county for him, in thy face of
the fact that the meeiing was admit¬
tedly three to one in favor of re con¬
sidering its action in appointing
Grimes delegates when it was known
that Mr. Gormon was a candidate.
If Mr. Grimes thinks a majority of
the voters of Talbot prefer him to
Mr. Gorman let him or his friends
ask that the question be re-opncd.
It is not too late. Honest Tom
Grimes we know would not accept
the vote of 'i albot if given him upon
a quibble.
Then his friends, while admitting
the informality of the appointment of
delegates in Tayloi, object to elect
ing them formally. Now informality
is all right until somebody objects,
but the humblest member of the
democratic party has a right to ask
that established precedents shall be
followed in naming the candidates he
shall be caMed upon to support, and
this only is the price of his fealty.
There are many who say the pe< i/ie
of Traylor should say in pnmary
next Wednesday who should represent
the county in the convention. If
twQ delega ,j ons come up f rorn T ay
, one e | etted by . a convention cal
]e( , , Q do some ,hing else and called
for that only, and another elected
b) the party in district primaries,
would Honest Tom Grimes
accept ihe nomination if he
could only get it by turning the
latter delegation out and seating the
former ? If so he is not the man we
take him tu be or what his ft lends
claim that he is.
NO.