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THE GAZETTE: TIFFTON GA M FRIDAY,MABCH 27, 1895.
The Tifton Gazette.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
Tift Gazette PablisMng Cob^uij, Proprietors.
pffleU). organ City of Tifton.
TERMS or SUBSCRIPTION:
Ode Year 1 »l<x>
Six Month* M
Three Month*. 2®
tXVABIARhV I» APVAXOi.
Entered at the iioitoflce,at Tilton, Georgia, a
mall matter of the second dau.
THE YAL.D9STA TIMES.
Our steamed contemporary pastes
two columns of its valuable apace In
taking us to task because we have
said some deservedly good things
about our friend Judge Griggs. Now
the trouble with tho Times is, that
it looses Bight of the fact that this
fight on the financial question is en
tirely within the party lines, and a
fight between honest, sound, patriotic
democrats on both sides, anxious for
the common weal, and lighting for
their own ideas as to the surest and
best road to its attainment. Now,
should one of those gentlemen fail
COMPARISON PROVES.
In his speech at Nashville during court, Col. Hammond accused
Judge Griggs of plagiarizing from Hen Tillman. Below are two, re
ports of his remark from Hammond papers:
“Why, his perforation, the most eloquent part of his speech, his visit to the
New York Stock Exchange, to Washington statue and Hamilton's grave was pit-
fared verbatim from a recent letterof that prince of blackguards,Renjamin Tillman!"
—Extract from Morning Newt' Report of llammond's Speech.
"Why, his peroration, the closing sentences and the strongest part of hia entire
speeph; that part of It about his visit to lha New York Cotton Exchange, Washing
ton’s statue ond Hamilton’s grave was rtipbed bodily and verbatim from a recent
speech of that prince Of lilac wards, Ben Ti I Iman,'Extract /Tom Valdosta Times'
Jleporl of mmmmFs bpwtt. "
These authorities do not agree. One says “letter," the other
“speech.” Hammond said “speech,” but we learn that he afterwards
said the plagiarism was from a letter to the New York World. The
JN t 9WS reporter doubtless heard this admission. Another portion is in-
correct! Hammond did not say “pilfered," or “filched,” but “taken,”
which conveys an entirely different meaning.
Presuming Col. Hammond wished to stand by the uncorrected asser
tion in his speech, we have searched the Congressional Record for a par
allel instance in any of Tillman’s speeches, but failed to find it. Then
taking the other statement, the letterof Tillman, we searched it thor
oughly, with like result. Below we give, in parallel columns, the
closing of Griggs’ speech, and the only portion of Tillman’s letter to
the World, which, by any stretch of imagination,CoJ. Hammond could
possibly have had reference. We invite a careful reading and compar
ison of them ;
EXTRACT FIMIf I.KTfZIl OK HRS TIM.MAS
Vv.\v tore would.
A ft-w hundred yards up llroadway from Rat- j
tory Park, wIh.tr tin* historic ('astl« Harden,
now transformed Into a public aquarium, atilt
standa, I* Trinity (liurcdi. In the amall tfrave-
yard surrounding it repose the hones of Alex
ander Hamilton, ('apt. I^iwrence, of “Don’t tfivn
i it fm;„ », „ up the »hlp!” memory, and other jrreat hiatorlc
to agree with (lie l lines, he is not u
v |When a imte I, struck In Trinity's chimes It Is
ill, go(.H Oil IIH DIttCK list, carried into every cilice and Institution in the
Wall street. district, for that district in ho small
that from Trinity's spire It appears to lay directly
The oflice of Huasell Hago looks rl^ht
democrat
relegated to its own little political
hades.
Tho Times should take a lesson in
candor, and give an honest construc
tion to its quotations from the Ga
zette, instead of seeking to twist and
warp them into something that was
not intended, and foreign to their
real meaning.
The ideu that wo intended to ex
press, and we think we succeeded,
was that it should be the mission of
a newspaper to educate, and if not
capable handling a question with at
least a fair knowledge of it, it would
ho hotter to let. il, alone. Hut that
does not keep it from having an idea
of its own, and expressing it for
what it. is worth.
Before the congressional conven
tion meets, democrats will have for
mulated their platform, and silver
no longer be an issue within the party.
For this reason, it is better to sup
port a man known to be capable and
worthy, though differing in opinion
on some points, to acandidate astride
tho fence, or to sitting down and
waiting for one to corno along who is
perfect in all things.
Now, Bro. Times; suppose the
national platform (should call for the
free coinage of silver on u basis of
10 to 1; how will you vote?
Suppose that the democrats of the
Second, in convention assembled,
Bhoulcl nominate an uvoweil free sil
ver candidate; will you support him?
Would it he democratic; would it he
party fealty, to continue the fight?
We presume from your present ut-
itudo that when they cease to get
inspiration and ideas from tho Times’
sunctuin, that paper will withdraw
its nll-poworful support, anil the
party will go out of business.
The Times Iwgan the discussion
with u confession of blindness. We
nre anxious to learn, hut prefer
neither to be taught by an extremist,
or led by the blind.
A crawfish lias two eyes—can see
cleurly and travel with alacrity. The
flounder tins but one eye, tlmt on the
wrong side, and cun see and travel
beneath,
out over the old burying eroui
oMIco it is, in a dingy building, where this one
of the threat money feints or America sits and
cuts Ilfs coupons and calls his bl^h-rato loans,
(’anting their shadows on Trinity when the morn
ing sun rises in the east stands flic tfreat oflice
buildings, running over twenty stories in height
in Home cases, in which some of the gres^t trust
companies and banks have Invested portions of
their enormous surplus and in which they ha>e
their homes.
Directly In front of Trinity’s bronze portals-the
tflft of an Astor opens Wall
I street proper,
i than one tldrd
a nar
row, asphalted thoroughfare, less
of a mile long and Hanked oil either side witli
massive stone structures, some of great
height. One of theta is the Stock Exchange,
which alto has entrances on Broad street and
New street, a block or two of which streets may
lie included in the Wall street district, as can a
block or two of Nassau street, where a large
number of the richest hanks and trust companies
in the land have their headquarter*.
Jn«t across from the Nsw streat entrance to
the Stock Exchange stands the Consolidated Kx-
ehange, where a stock-gambling game of the
same character i* carried on, hut on a rather
smaller scale. Within easy gunshot of both,
were It. not for tile obstruction that the build
ings oKer, are the Produce ICxchauga ami the
Cotton Exchange, where the products of the
country, representing tho toil of millions or
farmers and other workers, are tossed up of
flown in price acc«Ti»ing to the whims or inter
ests of the gre* «'■ '/amblers.
Strange l>» • ,. .. mu.f Inslgnlhennt of all
the structure.* on \v' at*mo. nroner,—-or at
least the lowestone which wo.u I be tlio most In
significant were it not for its » i.iARlvemms -Isthe
Hub-Treasury of the United rttate*. at Wall and
Rroad streets. In front of it stands tho bronze
GLOSING I’AUTOjr .JUDGE OIt 10GS’ SPEECH.
Not long since, In company with a distinguished
Georgian, 1 stood in tho gallery of tho New
York Cotton Exchange, that great gambling hell
wherein men who never saw a stalk of cotton,
gathered dally to lix the price of our great staple,
while there we saw tho price of cotton fiuctaate
twenty-five points, a quarter of a cent, all on
account of orders to buy and sell imaginary cot
ton and not by reason of tho great law of com-
merco, the law of supply and demand. We loft,
and as wo walked up the narrow, dingy street
toward If road way, I saw standing in lront of tho
Sun-Treasury, the statue of the “Father of his
Country,” upon the very spot where he took the
oath of office as the first president of this Re
public. Seeing him tnerc, as I did, with such
surroundings, my mind went involuntarily hack
to him, who nearly nineteen hundred years before,
filed unon the cross between two thieves. Wo
visitor! old Trinity Church yard, at the head of
that, narrow home of gamblers, and there 1 saw
tho humble crave of Alexander Hamilton, the
Aide of Washington aud tho first secretary of
tlie Treasury. I thought then,my followcitizens,
of the day when Washington took command of
the Continental Amy at Roston and 1 could hut
exclaim “oh, for the spirit of hold indenenence
that characterized that little hand of intrepid
sjdrits, who had resolved on liberty or death.”
There was patriotism for yen ! There was loy
alty to principle l
figure of Washington, on the very snot where he
took the oath of office when sworn In
President of the United .State*.
“Bodily" means in a muss, or the whole; “verbatim” word for
word. Is there’ll bodily, verbatim or any other comparison between
tiie above? The Gazette does not agree with the arguments advanced
by Judge Griggs, but it does believe in fair play, and feels assured that
the people of Berrien county believe in the same. The attack on an
opponent who had no chance of replying was unfair and unparliament
ary, to say nothing misrepresentation.
The Gazette does not believe that Col. Hammond was presuming
upon the ignorance of his audience, or wishing to play upon their prej
udice through that ignorance. It prefers to think that lie was honestly
mistaken in the matter, as his position and well-known reputation leads
one to believe.
As a champion of sound money, there were countless arguments
at his command witli which to have rebutted the preceding speech,
without the unfounded charge of plagiarism, or the ridicule and vitu
peration of the free silver advocates, which is calculated to widen the
1Trench instead of harmonizing the conflicting elements in the party.
The Gazette lias been criticised bc-
eaiiHu its account of tho speaking at
Nashville did not agroo with that of
tlui .Morning Nows and Valdosta
'I'iines. In justies to ourselves, wo
publish in another column a compar
ison of the Tillman lettor aud Griggs’
speech, m order that all unprejudiced
minds may read and judge for them
selves. In regard to the other pointn
of the two speeches, wo challenge-
imy one present to show a single in
cident related by us that was not in
strict accordance with facts.
Grisswell, one of the men charged
with wrecking the train at Stoney
only in one direction. Is it tho creek, on the Southern railway, has
province of tho flounder to - teach
other (lull to see ami swi
mr
confessed that old man Shaw
The Gazette apologizes to its read
ers for giving so much space this week
to congressional politics, but promises
not to transgress so much in future.
We believe nothing is to be ganied
by unprofitable controversy, and had
no intontion in the beginning to take
an active part in the campaign.
But “self perservation is the first law
of nature,“ and when attacked wo
must dofend ourselves, and when
misrepresented, set ourselves right.
his non Tom farced hint to draw the
Dr. T. II. Howe has resigned his T'L’s f r °ni the rails at. tho muzzle
presidency of Wesleyan Female Ool-1 0 ^ 11 S 1 " 1, developments
lege, and liev. John I). llnmmond | iu t,u ' ,lrp c '*H'cte(h
has been elected to tho vneanov. Tit
Those papers over in the Eleventh
that are longest and loudest in crit
icising the Gazctts for thinking
Griggs the ablest man in the race for
congress in tho Second, have no harsh
and | words for the free silver men in their
own district who arc supporting Tur
ner. When men of ability come to
the front, party quarrels go to tho
rear.
Tltr
,, ..... grand jury of Coffee county
resignation was caused by the hoard i endorso Col. John W. Bennett for
of trustees abolishing the lease sys- solicitor of the Brunswick circuit.
n * I" the case of the killing of llov.
Crisp mul lloke Smith will speak McDonald, a bill for man-
•in Albany April Kith instead of tho "bmghter was returned, but found no
11111, us previously announced, in or- i ^^ against J. J. I ’inkeen as accessory,
dertoget at vantage of Chautauqua j The Tifton Gazette tTone"'of the
best weekly papers ever published in
•fudging from its vote for bonds, Georgia; hut that is .probably plagiar-
90 to li, Moultrie must be a sound >Km, us it has been said so often lie-
money state. | fore.—ItomoTribune.
Alex I*- >** rumored tha Judge Bower will
Gov, Atkinson Ims givep
Carr a thirty days respite.
Spring
Opening,
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Look! Look!!
Next issue will give full
line of prices and De
scription of Spring and
Summer Goods.
II MB k li PISS.
Largest Line ot Millinery Goods that has
ever been in Tifton. An experienced Trim
mer will have charge of this department who
will be prepared to supply the wants and
wishes of ail. See Opening of 16th. Inst.
L.S.SHEPHERD&CO,
PROPRIETORS OF—
The ISTew York Store.
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OF THE CITY MARKET.
Choice Western and Georgia Beef always on hand.
We sell for cash and can sell cheap on these terms.
Groceries, Tomatoes, and everything kept in
a general market. p
When you have LITTLE MONEY, Come get LOT’S OF BEEF. '
v5n2fl-tf.
IVIitcliell Graskins,
—Dealer In—
Dry-Goods, Notions, Clothing,
Bats, Shoes, Groceries, Hardware, Crockery, Woodware, Etc.
Country Produce Bought and Sold.
Goods are all fresh and firstclass. Low prices, fair dealing, prompt
and polite attention guaranteed.
Paulk Building, TIFTOISJ", GA.
The Gazette is in receipt of several
fine specimens of political poetry
whisli wo are obliged to leave over
for lack of space. Bear gently with
us, boys; we’ll got there after awhile.
McKinley will doubtless bo the
republican nominee for president, al
ready having a majority of the con
vention delegates.
Seven divorces were granted at
the lust term of Coffee superior court.
Was the new woman in it?
FOR I THE#JDG#TRADE,
SLOAT BROS.,
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department, who give rarefnl attention to customers, mall orders, etc., promptly. We have the I
largest store room In South Georgia. ' j
OUR PRICES are as low as the high quality of goods will permit. We buy in large quantities!
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convinced that wo are the leaders In our Sine. ann De l
resign from tho bench.
Editor Faek'icr is to move his Stir
to Willacoochce this week. The Star
seems to be a comet.
OUR FORCE:—Our olllcc is In the hands of Mr. W. T. McAloin. who his ... _
of rears, and ia alwaysgiad to sec hi, friends. Oar shipping department is InVharem o?
Mr .M. M. Caswell, whole many friend, will ever flndldm ready and w lll g Eo
servo them to the liest of his ability. '
MAIL ORDERS Wo '“jT ial atlcmlan »« orders hy mall audV
same goodsT.r tliclr money that tli-v would gia ir'h ^i^’ncmon
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