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LaGrange. Ga., July 17, 1900
TELEPHONE NUMBER OF EDITOR
OF GRAPHIC IS 25, 3 CALIX.
Thunder must be either fruit
or vegetable by the way it drops
its pea lings around.
July seemed to lie a strong
prohibitionist for the first few
days, but she forsook the party
last week.
r rhe Philadelphia Record says:
“It is estimated that S7,(MX),(XX)
was expended in the United
States for lire works on the
Fourth of July.” We have
money to burn.
It is a curious fact that on
-cloudy and rainy days the July
fly hasn’t a word to say. It is
only when the sun has invited
the mercury to come up higher
that the July fly lifts up his
voice in protest.
Mr. Bryan savs his wife is
“one of the best and most level
headed politicians in the coun
try.” She helps him revise all'
his speeches and it is even al- i
leged that she could write a
good one, if occasion required.
And she’s a lawyer, too. And
a mother. And a thorough
housekeeper. And a typewriter
And a woman who can make
her “best” gown herself. And
she’s a Democrat. And this
time next year she’ll be keeping
the White 1 louse in order. Mrs.
Bryan is surely a multi-woman.
Mr. 11. 11. Cabaniss, of the
Atlanta Journal, was last week
elected president of the Georgia
Press Association. There could
not be a better one. The follow
ing is the complete list of offi
cers recently elected and the
Association never had a stronger
set:
H. H. Cabaniss, Atlanta,
president; John 1 riplett, Ihom
asville, first vice-president; W.
A. Knowles, Rome, second vice
president; Benjamin F. Perry,
Canton, recording secretary; C.
H. Johnson, Atlanta, corres
ponding secretary; J, h. Ander
son, Covington, treasurer; R.
N. Grubb, of Darien, J. N.
Chapman, of ashington, 1.
B. Russell, of Cedartown, W.
A. Hemphill, of Atlanta, and S-
T. Blalock, of Fayetteville, ex
ecutive committee.
is too pretty a
town not to have a public |>ark
for the pleasure and recreation
of her people and the summer
visitors within her gates, A
park near in, with a fountain or
two, plenty of well-kept grass,
shade trees, walks and drives
'and flowers and tennis
[courts, eroquet lawns and a
music pavilion, would be a tiling
of joy and a beauty forever.
Why can’t we have it? There
are ideal locations in abundance
and a pretty pleasure-ground
like this would be a sort of but
ton-hole bouquet on IjaGrange’s
lajiel.
LaGrange needs some other
things too. Foremost among
them is a new court house, and
a new, handsome First Baptist
'Church. A new church would
put new life into the denomina
tion ami also to the North side
lof the public square. Strangers
visiting a town are always im
pressed by its substantial, well
kept and up-to-date public
buildings.
Where, (J where are ours?
We have some, it is true, and
very handsome ones they arc.
The two colleges, the First
Methodist Church, the big cot
ton mills, the jail and the stand
pipe are very creditable looking
public institutions, but we need
others. LaGrange isn’t finished
and fenced in yet by a good
deal. She has room enough to
grow as big as New York, if
people and push would just join
hands and begin to build and
expand.
IjaGrange is such a fine town
she ought to spread over the
face of the earth. This is warm
weather, when things spread
easily, and if the building would
just begin now, there’s no tell
ing where it would stop.
Ix-t us retire the old court"
house and plant a new one. I>et
the Baptists realize the inspira
tion that a new house of wor
ship could not tail to bring
about, and let our town grow in
modern beauty and splendor
until it will be known as the
perfume and color to the rose ot
Georgia.
Japan has put on her fight
ing clothes, airayed her army in
similar attire, and is dispatching
fifty thousand soldiers to China.
It is believed that a much
smaller force would have been
amply sufficient to end the Chi
nese troubles, but Russia and
Germany each desires to possess
a new set of China, as it were,
and so Japan prudently sends
an extra army to let the two
ambitious powers know that she
means personal business. In
case either power should try to
help herself to China, Japan
would have troops enough to
hold down the celestials and
jump on the Russians or Ger
mans at the same time.
Mocha and Java Cost’s fresh-
K • ’ ’ ’ '•
ly parched only 25c pound at
Swain & Edmundson.
GREAT BRITAIN’S LOSS.
A cablegram from London,
bated July 10, says: “During
the week ending July 7, there
were killed, wounded or cap
tured 15 officers and 180 men;
accidental deaths, 2 men; died
of disease, 4 officers and 194
men; invalided home, 72 offi
cers and 1,300 men. The total
casualties as a result of the war
are, 48,188 officers and men.”
TO ASSASSINATE MR. McKINLEY.
A plot was unearthed a few
days ago to assassinate President
McKinley. Cuban and Spanish
conspirators had planned to put
Mr. McKinley to death, but
one of the band gave the plot
away.
The president is ls*ing closely
guarded by detectives, at Can
ton, while the setheme is lieing
investigated by prominent New-
York politicians.
WEDDING OF HON. CLARK HOWELL
ll<Jn. Clark Howell, Jr., edi
tor of ’l’he Atlanta Constitution,
was married in Savannah on
July 12, to Miss Annie Comer,
eldest daughter of the late Hugh
M. Comer, president of the Cen
tral of Georgia Railroad.
Mr. Howell and his bride
are now en route to the Paris
Exposition and will enjoy a
tour of several months in Eu
rope.
How Mr. Bryan Looks.
Clothe a handsome figure in
a black tail-coat, and under the
awning of a black slouch hat
p«i( a low-cut vest, with two
sluds fastened through the front
of a white shirt; tie a black
string tie, the inevitable neck
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gear of the young lawyer of ten
years ago, Minder a lay-down col
lar; modify the chill atmosphere
of the bar by the breezy amia
bility of a St. Louis shoe drum
mer, repressed, while he sells a
Methodist deacon a bill of goods
and the gentle reader may have
a fair idea of how Bryan looks,
acts moves and has his being
when be is not before an audi
ence. —William Allen White in
McClure’s.
Merciful Methods.
The following from the Boston
Transcript, is both Christians
and opportune:
“The jealous watch on each
other of the powers to prevent
the ostensible punishment of
China being converted into the
confiscation of the Chinese em
pire for the benfit of one of their
number, is the only hope that
statesmanship may be able to
stem the rising howl through
Europe for a slaughter that would
be as unchristian and as senseless
as China's own, and yet Chris
tian countries are apparently ex
pected to gloat over some such
bloody international reprisal.
“Through all the shocking
outrages which accompany the
anti-foreign rising in China and
all the shocking appeals to blind
rage and fury in revenge which
we hear from crowned heads of
Christian nations and even from
I missionaries, there is a conscious
ness ou the part of the western
world that, horrible, misled and
misdirected as may be its slrug;
gle, it is tee •ft >rt of a great
people to ass rt its national in
dependence. China stems at
last to have cme-to some nation
al self-consciousness The pres
ent rising is no sjwiradic out-*
breiK of the ha’red of foreigners
for which China has in illfame. |
though such hates are mistaken i
for pEtiiotii-m in other countries;
it is rather the deliberate attempt ]
of an a wakening people to en-,
force its right to independent:
existence. The first act of every I
people, when.the moment of self-'
consciousness dawns, is to throw
off the yoke of foreign domina
tion. The birth of the great na
lions of modern Europe has been I
marked by aggressive resistance \
to outside dictations. Tbi pres- .
ent movement in China, wild and
barbarous us are its min'festation
no doubt represents a normal;
and inevitable stage in the evolu- (
tion of the Chinese people—u-pon ;
some such lines as J tpan has |
cently shown the elder Asiastic
civil'z ton she must follow. The'
Chinese are slow, clumsy and (
heavy handed compared with
the Japanese, “the Greeks of
Asia,” but there are those who
know both intimately who put
the Chinese racial character
above that of the Japanese ’’
If we are to make good in the
eyes of the bar bar'an and pagan
the superiorly of our civilization
and religion, it must be done by
merci!ul methods and the rever
sal of revenge.’’
The Democratic Platform.
The National Democratic
party in session in St. Louis last
week, adopted the following
platform, being condensed:
We demounce the doctrine that,
connot derive powers from con-!
stitotion and connot exercise law- i
ful power beyond it. Tyranic&l .
government will lead eventually j
to tyrany at home.
We assert that no nation can
long endure one-half republic
and one half empire.
The war ended two years age i
and peace was restored. The
Republican party holds domina
tion over Cuba and allows carpet
baggers toplunderaround at. will
Wo demand honest fulfillment of
the promises to Cuba.
The republican party seeks to
control. The war crime aggres- I
sions against the Philippines has
already cost more than the profit
in year yet to come. The repub
lican party imposes on Porto
Rico. Taxation without repre
sentation when extended at the
price of liberty is too high. 1 1
We are opposed to the acquisi- 1
tion of entside territory for citi
zens. The citizens cannot be
governed outside of the country.
Imperialism is the paramount is
sue of this campaign.
Military is what millions of our
people have fought over. This
country is no place for vast mil
itary estates.
Trusts are fostered by republi
can law and protected by republi
can contributions in return for
campaign contributions.
We demand the restoration of
National bank notes, amd as soon
as government notes and silver
can be substituted for them.. To
reform bank laws are schemes
fostered upon the people*
We re-affirm the principles of
the democratic national platform
adopted in Chicago in 1896. We
demand the immediate res tor a*
tion of the free and unlimited
coinage of silver.
We favor construction and con
tinuance of Nicaraugua canal by
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the United States. Denounce
Pau nee forte treaty. ’We extend
our heartfelt sympathy to the
heroic burghers in their struggle
for liberty, We oppose the ac
cumulation of surplus secured by
the uo longer necessary war tax.
We’denounce action of the re
publicans in failing to provide
states in Now Mexico and Okla
homa. We promise statehood for
the territories. —Marietta Jour
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nal.
To, Rieiive
Georgia’s share of the mili
tary appropriation from the fed
eral government was apportion
ed on July Ist and is between
$28,000 and S3O; Oft)© or more than
twice as much as was ever be
fore received in one year.
The a J jutant-general of the
State has notified the war depart
ment that the Georgia militia in
cludes l.uyß men. This is under
stood; fio be the best showing
made by any state in the south
below Virgina.
With the increased federal ap
propriation, Governor Candler
will complete the work of supply
ingthe troops with new uniforms;
forty men to a company having
already been provided with uni
forms by the state. —Butler
Herald.
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