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VOLUME 17
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CAMPAIGN
IB NOW OPEN!
THE GRIFFIN NEWS
Is in the fight, and should be read by every
TRUE DEMOCRAT!
who desires to keep posted on the points of the greatest political struggle ever known in
this republic, in which not alone party supremacy is involved, but in the language of the
President “We struggle to sceu-e and save cherished institutions, the welfare and happi¬
ness of a nation of free men.”
The main battle grounds of this conflict will be New York and Indiana; and the News
has made special arrangements to present lrom time to time theprogress of the campaign
in the Empire State of the North, as viewed from the most absolutely trustworthy Demo¬
cratic standpoint, and will also have special service from Indiana, Appropriate and point¬
ed political cartoons Will appear from time to time.
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PRESS OPINIONS.
THE NEW YORK PAPERS ON TOE
SITUATION.
The Republican Ticket Good
Not Strong—A Bad
Platform,
In viewing the main battle ground
of New York State, the attitude of
the New York City press assumes
great importance, and we condense
some expressions made upon the Re
publican nominations and platform.
The World (Dem.) says: Mr. H>r
rison is available without reference
to the honorable positions occupied
by his aecestors. In the first place
ho is a prominent citizen of a donbt
ful State, and ho had the support of
its delegates all but unanimously.
He has a good soldier record, having
gone into the war a Second Lienten
ant of volunteers and having come
oat of it a Brevet Brigadier General.
He is a thoroughly equipped lawyer
and has experience as a statesman,
having served creditably for six
years in the United States Senate.
He has always acted as a straight
party mac, and his honesty has never
been questioned. Moreover,Jhe has al
ways been a practical civil service re
former and an extreme protectionist,
and when in Congress he favored
tax reduction by tho abolition of in
ternal revenue duties.
The Sun(Ind.) says: Gen. Harrison
is a first rate lawyer of tho second or
third class. He has served six years
in the United States Senate, where
he proved himself a substantial, firm,
high minded, and independent man.
While lots of great meu were voting
in favor of the Jaw to exclude the
Chinese from the United States, Har
rison voted against it This shows
that he has his own ideas and is not
afraid to act upon them whether they
are popular or not It may now
lose him votes in California and Ore
gon, but it will gain him votes else
where. He is a straight Republican,
yet involved in no factional animosi
ties. Everybody who has ever be
longed to the Republican party, can
support him. Stalwarts, half breeds,
Blaine men, Conkling men, all can
take Harrison without any sacrifice
of feeling. It is a respectable ticket
all through.
The Herald (Ind.) savs; The two
Republican candidates, Messts. Har
rison and Morton, are like the Demo
cratic candidates, nprighl and honor
able moD. That fact is a great gaix
to the country. There can be no ex
case on either side for a mere person
al canvass, and, fortunately, the po
sitions of the two parties on the
question of taxation are so radically
opposed that the canvass can be
made, and will be made, we believe,
mainly on this question.
The Tribune (Rep.) says: With a
man so strong and worthy the Repnb
lican party has a right to look for a
popular uprising not unl.ke that
which swept Martin Van Boren from
power in 1840. He bad been sue
cessful through arts of the dema
gogae; he had prostituted the pnb
lie service to his private ambition;
and the people found four years of
Democracy more than enough. They
elected Harrison to pat an end to
the prostitution of the pnblic ser
vice, and this year the election of an
other Harrison would bring the
same result. The needs of the na
tion will be felt in the comiDg strug
gle far more than the personality of
candidates. Threatened industries
the robbery of the people’s rights in
the South and in Indiana, the de
bauchery of the public service,
should make the Republican cause
irresistible.
The Times (Mag.) says: For the
working out of the reform which the
Times believes to be the chief issue
of politics, the Democratic party,
with its present candidates, is the
better “instrument,” to use Mr. Til
den’s expression. Its candidates are
incomparably superior to those of
the Republicans, and the
ment of purposes with which it
the contest is more satisfactory, and
' »o Tuspeet to the dominant issue
firmly right, when the other is hope
lesaly wrong.
TheEvening'Post (Mug.) say* The
ticket nominated at Chicago after
such prolonged agony is not of a
kind to excite much enthusiasm, but
is, nevertheless, a very respectable
one, and for this we retnrn thanks
without reserve or stint to the Re
publican Convention and the Repnb
lican party. Mr. Harrison is not
stronger than bis party, bnt he is
not weaker than his party. His
nomination leaves the field open for
the freest discussion of the princi
pies which divide the American peo
pie. Mr. Cleveland is stronger than
his party, bnt not so mnch stronger
that the issues are likely to be ob
senren. It will be the merit of the
coming campaign that it will be
fought more distinctly on principles
than any ether since the first elec
tion of Gen. Grant, which determin
ed the recon sanction of the South
era States.
The Commercial Advertiser (Rep.)
says of the Chicago convention: The
platform adopted is astonishing in
its proposals. It is, as we have said,
nnrspnbtioan and un'•American. It is
a platform in direct contradiction of
the history, the principles, the teach
ing and the oft^reiterated promises
of the party in whose name a con
spiracy of unscrupulous politicaus
has put it forth. Lincoln would have
repudiated it with disgust and loath
ing, because it antagonizes individual
liberty and the rights of the people
in the interest of a favored and
wennl-be aristocratic class. Henry
Wilson would never have assented to
it; Salmon P.Chase would have scorn
edit; Garfield, Grant,McCulloch,and
Folger left words on record which
condemn its most vital parts, and we
mistake the character and temper of
intelligent Republicans to-day if
many thousands of them do not con
demn it with their ballots, as their
representative newspapers have
through many mouths condemned
its suggestions in advanve.
In another article headed, ‘<What
Are We Going To Do About It?”
the sarno paper says: “What are w®
-—we, the people of the United
States—goiDg to do about it* We
will tell you plainly, gentlemen mon
opolists, who desire to tax us
for your enrichment, and to
make of y jurselves oar aristocratic
rulers. Wo are going to enforce
the American idee, which all great
parties in this country have bithero,
respected, and to which only cranks,
anarchists and communists have ven
tnred to oppose tbmselves. We
are going to stand by th®
American doctrines of individual lib
erty, personal equality of right, the
economical administraiion of a Gov
eminent, and the right of a people
to be relieved of taxation, when the
Government has no legitimate need
for the pioeoeds of taxatioo. We
are going to contest your right to
make use of our Government for
oar oppression and your advantage.”
A Local Ticket.
Col. T. W. Thurman’s grandfather
and Allen G. Thurman’s iatner wore
cousins, both living in Virginia.
During the war Colonel Thurman
was laid up in Virginia and received
much kindness from the Thurmans
there. His ticket is Harrison and
Thurman.
Dr. J. R. Cleveland and Grover
Cleveland are also distant connec
tions. Thus we have the full ticket
of Cleveland and Thurman right
here in Griffin, and local pride
should cause us to give in a large
majority.
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REMINISCENCES OF HARRISON.
“Hefto, There ! Isn’t He the Man
Who Did Thit?”
New York Herald: How sharp
the people’s memory is! They for
get nothing, and in a hot political
campaign forgive nothing. If a can
didate’s record is weak m any part
nis only safety is iu obscurity. If
he keeps still, everybody else keeps
still also, and he glides along on
der cover of the general indifference.
If he begins to ask the favor of an
office, however the, microscopes are
whipped out, telescopes are brought
o bear on kis past life, and dissece
ing knives are groand with a rough
edge for rough work.
Harrison’s name was no sooner
mentioned than certain long memori
ed folk cried out, “Hello, there! Isn’t
he the man who did this and that and
the other thing?”
There are the Irishmen who clung
to Blaine through thick and thin.
They aro even now ready to follow
the Flumed Knight through thick
and thin, but Harrison, never! Those
‘•Know Nothing” speeches of years
gone by are as hard to swallow as a
Mi bone. You can scarcely expect
a man to vote for you if you tell him
that he had no business to come to
this country in the first place, and
the sooner he gets out of it the bet
ter. As one broth of a boy sang
yesterday with lugubrious gutterals
while gazing at the Herald balletin
board.
Of all sad words of tongue or pan,
What’s to bacomaof Blaine’s Irishman?
But worse than all is the case of
the laborers throughout the country.
They have been having a tough fight
with monopolies and combines, and
now recall the time when Harrison is
said to have organized a company for
the purpose of putting down a strike
with buckshot and bullets. If that
is the kind of protection theory he
represents they have a decided pref
erence for another sort. Protecting
a man, they suggest, by putting him
oat of barm’s way under ground has
the charm of novelty, but will never
become popular among wage earn¬
ers.
We print a large number of in
terviews this morning, which will in
dicate the popular feeling. They
are worth reading as signs of the
times.
One of the labor men managed to
get the situation into a nutshell
when be said: “The grandson of
his grandfather—and Cleveland will
be elected,’’
Ran Over by the Train.
Quite an excitement was caused
yesterday afternoon by tho Georgia
Midland train backihg into an Albino
youth, named Willie Evans, one cat
passing over him and mutilating him
terribly. According to some versions
be was standing on the track at the
Hill street crossing looking at the
Central train, while others as positive
ly assert that he was trying to jump
on the car but failed and fell under
neath. In either case it should be a
warning to the negro boys who as
sembie at every train without auy
basinets; but it is a warning th.t
will not be heeded. Ho blame c*u
justly attach to any one.
One of the boy’a legs wae taken
off, and at lam accounts be was rest
ing very well.
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NUMBER-184
t»UR PUBLIC SCHOOLS. *
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The Faculty fer Ike Enaaler 1 mu*
Other Matters. T -
The most important action of the
Public School Board at ita meeting
Thursday night was the selection
a superintendent in place of
Prof. A. J.M. Bizien, resigned to
into other business. After ex
the claims of several appli
the board had invited Prof.
Graham, principal of the
schools, to appear be fore the m ;
being satisfied of hia qualifies
they elected him at their meet
Mr. Graham is a South (Volin
by birth, thirty-five year* of
and with fourteen \ trs expert
in teaching. He ’ * family of
and will move t! re soon.
The other teachers «..wv.ed for the
street acbool are:
1st Grade—Mrs, E. M. Drea ry,
2d “ —Miss Annie Flanagan.
3d “ —Miss Rosa Layton.
4th “ —Miss Mattie Corbin.
5th “ —Mias Mary Gratan.
0th “ —Miss Annie Stark.
1st Supernumerary, Miss Louise
2d Supernumerary, Miss Modi*
White.
The high school will be taught by
the superintendent.
The Broad street (colored) acbool
be taught by J, L. Bowden,
Miss Nora Pitts as assistant and
Lizzie Manley as sapernumer
The salaries of the teachers remain
heretofore.
The scholastic year will consist of
thirty six weeks instead of forty as
and will bogin on the
Monday iu September.
The matriculation fees were re
from $5.00 to $3.00 per year,
semi-annually. This is to
it as light as possible on beads
families, and should increase the
The year is closed with flattering
and the next one will oom
mence under the brightest auspices.
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