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Vol IX. No. 150.
COL. FLINT ANNOUNCES.
ANOTHER RICHMOND IN THE
FIELD FOR OFFICE.
Says He is After the Emoluments of
Office and to Keep Jack
asses Out.
The following annoifnceinent of Col.
T. W, Flynl, of Spalding, for Gubeina
torial honors will be read with a smile
by the Colonel’s many friends, whether
they vote for him or not.
When the Colonel becomes tired
and weary over his we feel
sure he will retire and vote for Col-
Candler and be happy.
Read bis announcement:
To All of the Governor Makers ;
In making this announcement for gu
bernatorial honors, and the emoluments*
too, for with my present income I will not
despise the small emoluments, it may be
necessary to explain this belated manifest
ation of self-sacrificing patriotism to satis
fy the people why I have delayed such im
perative duty fill the once proud and
grand state of Georgia has got into such a
devil of a fix under a reign of small mem
My reasons for the seeming delinquency
are many—too many to cram down a peo
ple—that Lave long been unused to reason
> at one time. But my first and chief reason
is that I was born and lived in that period
of Georgia’s most prolific production Os
great men and statesmen, and it was not
»the custom then for everybody to try to be ;
governor at the same time.
And the office of governor was then con- i
sidered an honorable and big thing in i
Georgia—nothing higher in the United <
States except that of the presidency. ;
While the electors of the state were intel- ;
ligent and patriotic, and there was then no t
danger of a demagogue or even a second
rate man getting into the office, for it 1
would not near go round for all of the i
first-rate men, and many of us did not feel
it incumbent upon us to run for the office l
of governor every time there was a chance c
when there were hundreds of our contem- i
poraries that would furnish good material, t
such as the Lumpkins, the Crawfords, the i
McDonalds, the Cobbs, the Johnsons, the <
Jenkinses and Hills, and hundreds of oth- <
era no less great, if less distinguished. <t
These things justified my course then, e
and later I did not know that there had f
been such a dearth in the production of t
statesmen till I heard the cries of my peo- I
pie, and looked and saw that the walls of
honor around my state had been pulled 1
down and the temples of justice destroyed, j
and when I looked about for the men that c
used to guard them, they were gone, alas ! 1
gone, and the people in great affliction and t
domineered over by the Sanballats and I
Tobiahs, and like Nehemiah of old, I have <
determined to rebuild the walls and the <
temples, and lam going to do it—if I don’t c
fail. And I purpose to keep my sword
buckled on while I am at work. c
lam forced to this work because none i
of the rest of my generation are left to do c
it. They may have foreseen the humiliat- t
ing reign of asses and died out of it. I e
prefer to see the asses die. They don’t c
make good governors. It was a serious
joke to try them.
It not only degrades offices and corrupts j
rule, but degrades the people and creates <
contempt for authority ; which I propose f
to restore to the respect and confidence of i
the people as soon as I get to be governor
—which I have no doubt about, if I can I
manage to keep the Constitution and Sam r
Jones from espousing my cause. i
For Sam is mad now, and there is no i
guessing what fool thing he will do next, i
Sam’s disappointment is great, for he t
expected his hint at running for governor i
would set the whcle state in a blaze, but
the match snapped. t
The people did not believe that little
“fish story” about twenty-five thousand a v
year for preaching, for they knew that the a
gamblers and barkeepers are not flush like
they used to be, and could not pay high t
for the desecration of the pulpits. Besides e
the career of assininity is about ended, as t
well in state as in church. The public has I
been cloyed, nauseated. c
And the Constitution, I am. afraid, as v
soon as it learns that my services can be t
obtained, and a great majority are for me,
and that its “little pigeon-roost, one-eyed t
plow-boy” is dead, will throw its mighty g
influence for me, and if I am vulnerable
slay me as it has slaughtered Candler and c
every man it has championed i
There is no denying the fact that the 0
powers of the Constitution are mighty
when it uses the Samsonian weapon, but r
with it it slays more friends than toes,and I 0
hope it can find some other candidate it
likes better after it has finished its pigeon- r
roost friend. . s
Foor Candler! His last utterance should 8
be, “save me from my friends 1”
Candler’s chances are dead. Whether 1
or not, as thousands say, the Constitution 1
killed him, or whether he suicided by go- 8
ing back on a truth hje told when mad and •
didn’t go to do it. I
And Bob Berner is too superstitious,
even for the rings to trust, snd is in bad
order with the better class of democrats
who want to make some show of decency ’
4
1, in politics. Bob trusts nobody and in
spires the same in others towards himself;
loves nobody and nobody loves him;
S would make the poorest of a poor lot of
governors, but shall never prove nor dis
prove this declaration, for the only chance
for him to do so would be for all of his
competitors to get disgusted and quit the
race, and then a populist would beat him.
But I think he will have sense enough to
get out of the way when he learns that I
am running and reflects that the most of
the people do not place vanity above
brains.
1 And as for Spencer, he can’t expect to
be governor, just because he wants it, and
knows that he is the equal of the other At
kinson that did get it, for the people are
tired of that sort of thing. Spencer wants
everything he sees going whether he has
any room to put it or not. It is his na
ture, and he has taken the chances at ev
erything in sight. He use! to remind me
of the dog that lost his bone and got a
ducking by being so greedy as to try to
take a bone from his own shadow in the
water, but I will bet beer for all of the gu
bernatorial candidates, ex-candidates and
prospective, even unto Sam Jones, that
Spencer don’t let loose the bone “again
anymore” till he has got fast hold on the
other dog’s bone.
MT PLATFOBM.
1. I favor a constitutional amendment
making all jackasses ineligible to the office
of governor of Georgia, and that if any
candidate shall announce as such more
than two years in advance of the election,
or shall claim that he has been solicited by
more men to become a candidate than
there are voters W the state, or shall steal
any other party’s'platform. and claim that 1
his own party platform is perfect, and '
then make a new) platform of my own long
er than the Pentateuch and ask his party to
elect him as a tru\ exponent of his party’s
principles—all or hny of which acts shall
be held as conclusive evidence that he is ,
an ass, and ineligible to the office.
2. I am in favor of abolishing and anni-
hilating the public school system in the '
interest ol education. ‘ 1
A thing that was forced upon Georgia 1
by carpetbaggers ana scalliwags, under re
construction rule, and besides being dis
honest and violative of individual proper- J
ty rights it is running over with agrarian- <
ism, communism and paternalism and
detrimental to general education and in- ,
dividuality and independent thought, by ,
training diversified mentality to run in the
same channel, destroys diversity of genius J
and generates monotony of thought and
action that makes a segacious people and
prepares them for slavery. '
Education is an acquisition, capital, i
property, and there is no more right and i
justice in making one man educate anoth- ,
er man’s children than in making him (
feed, clothe and furnish them with a home (
after they are educated, but it is every
body’s duty to feed and clothe and edu
cate poor children, whose parents are
dead or unable to work, and in no other
cases.
3. lam opposed to creating any more
offices, and favor that fully one-half that
we now have shall be destroyed, and a re
duction in the salaries and perquisites of
the balance till men-will cease to lie and
steal and baibe to get them, and then re
duce the taxes accordingly.
Tillman Willis Flynt.
P. B.—l am running for the office of j
governor, not for permission to run, and (
don’t want any votes of men who have not .
got sense enough to know that my plat
form is right '
I care nothing about methods—it is votes
I want, but none but “clean” votes of clean 1
men. I want to test the strength and
number of the righteous and the wicked I
in Georgia. I shall get all of the good, and ]
if the majority are wicked, democracy says
they must rule, and the Bible says the ]
people shall moan.
I
I want no jackass for governor, -and I
want no jackasse’s vote.
Now all of you fellows who want to ad- 1
vertise yourselves as asses by voting for I
asses walk up and vote against me.
I am determined that Griffin, the biggest
town of its size in the state, shall no long
er be put off with a few judges and solid- *
tors and an occasional congressman, sim- -
ply because we have been perhaps a little 1
delinquent in doing our share of lynching 1
when we had no governor to encourage us
to duty.
We refuse to be longer responsible for 1
the legislation of the state till we have a ■
governor to dictate it.
Not like Bob Berner, we invite foreign <
capital to our town free of taxes, and then 1
if we don’t get more out of it than it does
out of us, let Bob say we are not smart.
We have got factories and we are getting •
rich out of them and they are getting rich ■
out of somebody else. ' 1
And we want more, for we want to get
richer, so we can build a college for the
station in place of the one Athens has (
stolen from it.
And we want a governor that will have ’
bull fights at home and not have to go to
Mexico to get them to entertain his con- *
stituents secund-handed.
. But, like Riinzi, divide the fun with the '
people. T. W. F. ,
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SRIFFIN, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 1, 1888.
ARSON AND BURGLARY.
1 These are the Charges Booked Against
Marshal Porter.
Sooday mornidg’s Call gave an
account«.{ tliH doings of J. R. Porter,
the (own marshal of Sunny Side, ao<
suggested that be was probably respon
sible fur the firing of Prof. Brown’s
home, in that place, nn Friday night.
Yesterday a preliminary hearing
was had before Justices Sorrel, Beck
and Brewster, upon the charges of
burglary from the house and arson,
and the evidence brought out in the
investigation was so strong, on both
charges, that he was remanded back to
jail, without permission to give bond,
to await an investigation by the grand
jury, *
Tbo good people of Sunny .Side are
very indignant over recent develop
ments, and censure themselves soundly
for having taken up a perket stranger
and placing the safety of l heir town in
bis keeping.
No one knows anything about Por
ter, further than that be dropped down
in their midst a short time since and
securing a position in a blacksmith
shop, and was soon thereafter made
marshal of the town.
He says he entered Prof, Brown’s
home and carried off the articles found
in bis room after be left the town, but
says be did not fire the building. The
evidence brought out yesterday against
him, however, was very damaging
A Fine Attraction-
Robert L. Lorentz, the advance
agent of Frank B. Rhode’s “Merry- ■
makers/' spent yesterday in this city
making arrangements for the appear**
ance of his company at the Olympic
for three nights, beginning next !
Thursday.
The Montgomery (Ala.) Journal of
Feb. 15 contains the following notice
of this attraction :
“Rhode’s ‘Merrymakers’ opened a
week’s engagement at the Montgomery
theatre last night, playing 4e a lavg*
audience. The opening bill ?as the
‘Great Diamond Mystery,’ and while
the play has sailed under different col
ors in these parts during the past two
seasons, it has been touched and re
touched, weak parte made strong, so
much so that one must need be a close
observer to detect that the play had
ever been produced. That the audience
was an appreciative one was evidenced
by the repeated encores. The compa
ny is composed of specialty performers
and well deserves the name given
them.
“This is one of the best popular
priced attractions on the road and will
no doubt draw good houses.”
Death of Mrs Simonton.
Saturday night at 10 o’clock one of
the saddest deaths that has occurred
in Akin district for many years was
that of Mrs. Hatlie Simonton, wife of
W. E. Simonton, and daughter ol J. F.
Ogletree.
Few women had more or 'truer
friends than had Mrs. Simonton. She
wai a devoted wife and mother, a pure
hearted Christian woman,and to know
her was to appreciate and admire.
A busband and three children are
left desolate—one a tender babe just
one week old.
The remains were buried Sunday
afternoon at the family burying
ground of her father.
Advertised Letters.
List of letters remaining in the Griffin,
Ga., postoffice, week ending Feb. 26,1898.
Persons calling will pleae say “advertised”
and give date. One cent must be paid on
each advertised letter.
MALE LIST.
John Eoges, John Gillman, *J. H. Gib
bon, Sandy Gordon, R. M. Hargage, Ruben
F. Jackson, Stephen Jackson, Pitt Kim
bell, Marshall Lester (coL), Messrs. Logan
& Co., W. J. Lewis, Daniel Morries, Mil
ton Martin, J. H. P —, J. N. Roarks.
FEMALE LIST. v
Miss Jenena Bond, Miss Alice Harris,
Miss Roasler King, Mrs. Earea Mangham,
Mrs. Clifford Cooper Neal, Mrs. Fannie
Scandrith.
David J. Bailey, Jr., P> M.
Ths Modern Way.
Commands itself to the well-informed, to
do pleasantly and effectually what was
formerly done in the crudest manner and
disagreeably as well. To cleanse the
system and break up colds, * headaches,
and fevers without unpleasant after effects,
use the delightful liquid laxative remedy,
Syrup of Figs. Manufactured by Califor
nia Fig Syrup Company.
To Care Constipation Forevei.
Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic. 10c or tte.
ts C. C. C. fail to care, drugsiats refund mousj.
Raya! makea the food para,
wheleooaM and doMotaaw.
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ROVAI BAKINQ POWMR CO., HEW YORK.
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Johnny, Got Your Gun!
Yes, Johnny, ren along and got your
gun, says the Toledo Bee. Polish up
your armor. Paqk your haversack.
Pit on your bullet-proof cbest-protech
tor and a few porous plasters. Get
your .'corns trimmed for marching.
Load your canteen to the very neck.
Kias your sweetheart goodby and re
port instanter, if not sooner, at the
Blade office.
For (he Toledo Blade has declared
war. Spain must come off the perch.
So get ready below there! Draw the
draw-bridge! Let fall the porticullia!
Close the windows and shut all the
doors! Hoist the poop-deck to the top-
nt jib-jabber! Ship the rudder
and make fast the anchor to the hur
ricane hatchway"! Reef the roof, haul
aft the belaying pin, but let the flying
jiblet stay!
Now, every man to his bitohing-poet!
: list not a dastard duck or dodge! The
Hade has declared war. So, Johnny,
get your gun!
<MS9 ENJOYS
Both the method and results when
Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and acta
gently yet promptly on the Kidneys,
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys
tem effectually, dispels colds, head
aches and fevers and cures habitual
constipAtion. Syrup of Figs is the
only remedy of its kind ever pro
duced, pleasing to the taste ana ac
ceptable to the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial m its
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substances, its
manv excellent qualities commend it
to all and have made it. the most
popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50
cent bottles by all leading drug
gists. Any reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will pro
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it Do not acceptany
substitute.
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO.
UK FRAHCI3CO, UL.
LOUMVIUE. KT. NEW rONK, ML
Fresh Garden Seed!
Buists, Landreth’s, Mays. We are
selling them cheap.
Eastern grown Seed Irish Potatoes.
N. B. DREWRY & SON.
IT IS TRUE,
IF YOU SEE IT 1
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IN MY ADVERTISEMENT!
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Every article of Winter Wear at absolute
cost for the next two weeks.
I WILL BE ABSENT, VISITING THE WHOLESALE MARKETS AND
PURCHASING THE NOBBIEST LINE OF CLOTHING EVER SHOWN IN
i GRIFFIN.
In the Mean Time ..
rr WILL PAY YOU TO BUY ANY THING YOU MAY NEED
IN WINTER GOODS, AS YOU WILL GET IT AT ABSOLUTE
NEW YORK COST, FOR THE CASH.
THOS.J.WHITE
Clothier, Furnisher and Hatter.
R. F. Strickland S Co,
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New Spring- Goods.
THIB AND SHOW YOU MANY
ABOUTHERK TTRACT1VB Trn^GS THAT we can not tell you
BLACK DRESS GOODS.
M “ y piK “ jM ‘ r,Mi ” d “ d p™" *“
NOVELTY DRESS GOODS.
40-inch Novelty Suiting only 25c., worth 40c.
Fancy Suiting ß in broken plaids, very new, 50c,
40-inch all wool Suiting in braid effecte, 50c.
Printed Duck Suiting ß , 10c. and 12}c,
SILKS, RIBBONS AND CHIFFONS.
New Taffeta Silke, guaranteed not to split, 75c.
Plaid and striped Silks for shirt waists.
All popular shades of Satin only 50c.
Black Satin, 27sinch wide, 75c. to 81.50. • R®
44-inch Mouselin, all shades, 75c.
New stock of Satin Ribbons. New stock of Sache Ribbons.
NOTIONS AND WHITE GOODS.
It is impossible to enumerate the many things in this line, but our
reputation for correct styles, good qualities and low prices makes this the
best shopping placs in Griffin. *
li. I . vriui K i.\ mi & m
Mranpf sale
OF—
HARDWARE!
Having bought at Sheriff’s sale
the entire stock Hardware, Stoves,
Tinware, Farming Implements, etc.,
of 0. H. JOHNSON & SONS, we
are determined to close it out with
in 60 days.
Such bargains in Hardware as
you will find in our store have never
before been offered in Griffin.
W. D. Davis X Bro.
Ten Cents per Week