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they will die hard.
The Day of Retrenchment i« at Hand
for Political Trick iters.
So it seems that the repudiated noli
lioiano of the party, who are deeply
chagrined at the almost unanimous
uprising of the people, are holding
secret conferences in and about the
state capital for the purpose of finding
a candidate for governor to be support
ed by the disaffected element. *
Since the day William Yates Atkin
son returned from his Mexican'junket
to find that his political right-bower,
the Hon. Joe Terrell, bad positively
balked and refused to be driven into
the gubernatorial race (and all because
be realized that be would have to carry
too much weight—placed upon him
by Governor Atkinson) he has been
bolding daily and nightly conferences
of his touts and jockeys with a view to
grooming another horse.
The scattered remnants of the At
kinson clique have acted with a baste
born of desperation; for they see in
this great uprising of the people in
favor of Allen D. Candler the complete
overthrow of their own little political
dynasty. They realize that the day of
the peanut politican is numbered if a
man of Allen D. Candler’s calibre and
integrity is placed in charge of the
state administration.
And, as has been well said, they are
men who had rather “rule in bell than
to serve in heaven.” It is easy to
comprehend the jealousy and malevo
lence with which they are now actua
ted when they see a man of the people
rise up to snatch the eagle from their
banner without any apparent effort.
As thick-skinned as they are, they
do not fail to understand, (and how
bitter is the thought) that the upheaval
of public sentiment which has concen
trated on the political opposite of these
peanut statesmen, is the direct out
come of their past four years reign. Is
* it any wonder that they are sore? Is
it strange that envy, jealousy, vanity
and selfishness resent this victory of
the people?
With them it is now door die. They
realize that their own political star
will set when the people are once more
enthroned. Hence the activity that is
now seen in the camps of tho “pea
nuts.” Runners have been sent into
every section of the state, and every
hanger-on of the Atkinson regime has
been warned to “wait.” They have
been told that things are transpiring
in Atlanta which may put a different
phase on the gubernatorial situation.
The “governor” card up
his sleeve. The action of his friend
Joe Terrell somewhat upset bis plane,
but now that he is back from his Sun
day bull fight in Mexico, he is prepared
to make the most of what is left him.
He will marshal his demoralize! heel
ers once more and make a stand—for
political life or death.
Promptly have the disaffected con
tingent begun to sow seeds of discord-
As if by magic, the cry has gone forth
“state candidate,” “Atlanta ring,” “cor
poration influence,” “deal.” As some
one has pointedly said “it is the thief
crying stop thief.”
Not one of them would dare face the
old soldier, Democrat and statesman
with such charges, but they can allow
their tools and hangers-on to make
insinuations with impunity
This is the year, however, when the
people are not to be fooled. Fortun
ately, Allen D. Candler has a record, a
life-long record of personal and political
purity, of ability and integrity—and
that record is a sufficient answer to all
the insinuations of disaffected element.
Fortunately, too, the people (by whom
Allen D. Candlgr has been placed in
this race) recognize in ,him a “slate
breaker” and a “ring beater,” and they
are not to be turned aside by the dis
honest crier of the few politicians who
aie menaced by bis elevation to the
governorship.
Those people who know Alien D.
Candler or bis record know that no
man who ever served Georgia in any
public capacity was ever freei of polit
ical taint. They know that be cannot
be controlled by any political ring—if
he could be, the “peanuts” would be
for him, instead of against him. He is
absolutely untainted by corporation
influence—if he were not, The News
would be the first to oppose him. He
M not the candidate of any Atlanta
netvsjfeper. because fifty newspapers in
different parts of the state, unbought
•nd unsolicited, endorsed him before
any Atlanta paper ever spoke a word
in bis favor. It re the people, the hon
est, old-fashioned Democracy, who are
behind his candidacy—and this is
what troubles the politicians of the
state.
It has often been said that no man
can be elected to office in Georgia
without the consent of the politicians.
Allen D Candler is going to forever
dispel that delusion. He has been put
forward by the people and the people
are going to elect him.
But the people must be on their
guard. The latest advises from the
Kimball House indicate that tbe de
moralized bands of political marauders
have taken courage since Governor
Atkinson’s return, and have about in
duced a gentleman of tbe same name
—Judge Spence R—to carry their
banner to defeat So it is about set
tled that Candler is to have opposition,
and it goes without saying that it,
would be the most aggressive kind.
Because the “peanuts” will die hard.
. But die they will, if the people only
remain on their guard. They must
not listen to the cowardly inuendoes
of those who are prepared to sacrifice
everything in order to rule Georgia.
If the people would rule, through a
servant who is close to them and in
whom they can place implicit trust,
they must turn a deaf ear to the mach
inations of the peanut politician. This
is an uprising of the people in rebellion
against the politician and bis methods
and every right-thinking Georgian has
an individual duty to perform. It is
to make it “Candler and a hundred
thousand majority.”—Macor Evening
News.
Women in Saloons-
Are those Atlanta preachers who ad
vocated giving women the right to en
ter saloons crazy ? They ought to be
expelled from tbe ministry. We
heartily endorse this protest from the
Atlanta Commercial:
“We confess to a surprise and a sin
cere sorrow as well, at the position
some of tbe ministers of the city are
taking upon the equal rights of women
with men to enter and drink in a sa
loon. Such a position will serve to
weaken their influence by a suspicion
of puritanical bigotry that can but be
damaging to their capacity for good.
In their zeal against the saloon they
would make it as revolting as possible,
merely to present an object lesson, and
in order to disgust men they would
prostitute and debase women. This is
the plain English of their logic and it
is damnable.
“If to enforce their example of de
bauchery and to make the lesson more
impressive, why not go further and
open the saloons to children, little
boys and girls, and turn this city open
to a b.ichanalian orgy? There is just
as much sense and propriety in our
proposition as in the other.
“Ever since the days of old Noah
men have drank spirituous liquors,and
some of them get drunk. All the
preaching in the universe, nor all the
laws that can be enacted, cannot stop
it. The part of wisdom, then, is to
regulate it and make the evil as light
as possible. That evil could not be
minimized by opening tbe saloon to
women. Our ministers have overshot
the mark and such extreme utterances
will have but one tendency—to weak
en their influence.”
Verdict Rendered.
The jury in the case of Douglas
Cooper, charged with the murder of
Claude Dunson, in LaGrange, render
ed a verdict yesterday afternoon. The
verdict was involuntary manslaughter
while in the commission of a lawful
act.
At the time of the killing it was
thought the case would be far differ
ent. He was sentenced to one year’s
imprisonment.
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GRIFFIN, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 4, 1888.
The Barden of Federal Pensions.
The pension expenditures for the
fiscal year 1899, thirty-four yean after
the close of the war, will reach $150,-
000,000. What does that mean?
It means the interest at 3 per cent
on a debt of $5,000,000,000, which is
more than any rfutional debt io the
world except that of France.
It is more than tbe combined ex
penditures for all purposes of all the
states in the union That is to aiy, if
the money spent for pensions were
divided among the states, all taxation
for state purposes could be dispensed
with.
It is more than eight times the com
bined revenues of all tbe universities
and colleges of tbe United States, and
almost as much as the cost of all the
public schools.
It is more than what we are accus
tomed to call the "crushing burden”
of any army in Europe.
It is enough for fortifying our coasts
impregnably in eight months and for
building tbe finest navy in the world
in two years.
If we spent for pensions twice as
much every year as Garfield said over
twenty years ago would be tbe highest
amount ever required, the difference
between that and the sum we are pay
ing now would clear off our entire
bonded national debt in ten years.
After that it would more than pay the
interest on the bonds required to give
the government control of all the rail
roads in tbe United States.
Our pension outlay for six months
would build tbe Nicaragur canal, and
in another six months it would dupli
cate the Western Union telegraph
system for the benefit of the public.
If tbe pension roll had been confined
to double the Garfield standard we
should never have had a deficit in a
single year, and instead of issuing new
bonds to make both ends meet we
should have exhibited to the world
long before now tbe remarkable spec
tacle of a government out of debt and
reducing taxes to cut down its surplus
revenues.
As long as the pension leak con
tinues at its present dimensions it will
lie useless for Secretary Gage or anys
body else to formulate financial poli
cies with tbe idea of relieving tbe
distress of the treasury. —New York
Journal.
There is more Catarrh in this section of
the country than all the other diseases put
together, and until the last few years was
supposed to be incurable. For a great
many years doctors pronounced it a local
disease, and prescribed local remedies, and
by constantly failing to cure with local
treatment, pronounced it incurable.
Science has proven catarrh to be a consti
tutional disease, and therefore requires
constitutional treatment. Hall’s Catarrh
Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney &
Co.. Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitu
tional cure on the market. |lt is taken in
ternally in doses from 10 drops to a tea
spoonful. It acts directly on the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system. They
offer one hundred dollars for any case it
fails to cure. Send for circulars and tes
timonials. Address,
F. J. CHENEY & CO.,
Toledo, O.
Sold by druggists, 75c.
Hall’s Family Pills are the best.
We noted tbe other day the en
trance of the injunction into the social
field, in the case of a father who sued
out a writ to prevent a young fellow
from eloping with his daughter. At
the time the opinion was expressed
that more would be heard of the in
junction as an instrument with which
to govern marriages. The expected
has happened. Tbe other day in lowa
a young man sued out a writ of in
junction to prevent a father from in
terfering with the marriage of his
daughter and himself. The legal pa
per had the desired effect, “and they
were married and lived happily ever
afterwards.”—Savannah News.
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Still Leading.
A. K. Hawkes received the gold medal
highest award from the great Exposition,
superior lens-grinding and excellency
.n the manufacture of spectacles and eye
glasses. This award was justly earned by
Mr. Hawkes as the superiority of his
glasses over all others has made them
.amous all over the country. They are
now being sold in over eight thousand
cities and towns in the IT. 8. Prices are
never reduced, same to all.
J. N. Harris & Son have a fall assort
ment of all the latest styles
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Hon. Fleming G. dußignon-
Hon. Fleming G. dußignon has de
clined to enter tbe gubernatorial race.
Thousands throughout the state
would have gladly given tbe Chatham
statesman their support and his refus
al to make the race will bring disap
pointment to a host of personal friends
in Georgia. There is no more popu
lar man in the south than Hon. F- G.
dußignon. His broad mind and
matchless generalship has more than
once made him a target for the lesser
lights who cannot even hope to enter
where hie genius shineth. Fleming
G. dußignon is a native Georgian to
the manor born ; he has never and
will never stoop to the methods of a
designing political demagogue. His
professional and political career is
marked by the maeler strokes of hon
or, integrity and party fealty not
equaled by any Georgian living today.
All honor to tbe gifted, brilliant young
statesman who has demonstrated that
a man may remain quiet and gain a
national reputation without holding
office.—Americus Recorder.
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on substitutes. Try the long tested and
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For sale by Druggists.
A BAD CASE CURED.
Three years ago I contracted a blood
poison. 1 applied to a physician at once,
and his treatment came near killing me.
I employed an old physician and then
went to Kentucky. I then went to Hot
Springs and remained two months. Noth
ing seemed to cure me permanently, al
though temporary relief was given me. I
returned home a ruined man physically,
with but little prospect of ever getting well
I was persuaded to try Botanic Blood
Balm (B. B. B.) and to my utter astonish
ment it quickly healed every ulcer.
Z. T. Hallerton, Macon, Ga.
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lam prepared to pasture your dry
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