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. %- TttCMffln V% Daily 4 Dews. ft I VOLUME 17 « AN N ©UN CEMENT. ” 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. In State affairs and the politics of Spalding and surrounding counties, the people will be kept fully posted both by editorial utterances and by special correspondents, being better prepared to do this than any other paper in this section. The News is the official organ of the State in this county, of the eounty itself and of the city of Griffin., and enjoys the fullest confidence of the party and its leaders, With all this, the News recognizes that there is something besides politics even in a po¬ litical year, and will be as bright and newsy as ever. Renewed attention will be paid to attracting Immigration, in co-operation with the great Democratic newspaper of tbs Me¬ tropolis, the New York Star. The most eminent of Southern statesmen will be invited te discuss the political aspects of the South; iis most successful business men to portray its industrial conditions and demands. In this, the News should receive the substantial aid and encouragement of every citizen of this seotion. The farming department will appear regularly as at present and illustrated each week. Illustrated novelettes will also continue to be an interesting feature. The price of the News places it within the reach of (he humblest voter, wlule its charac¬ ter is equal to that of papers three times the price. The Daily News will be sent frem now Until January 1st next for $2.50, from August 1st to January 1st for t'J.10, from Septem bee 1st to January 1st for $1.70, and from October 1st to January 1st for §1.25. The Weekly News will be sent one year for 50 cents, sir months for 35 cents. Call at the office, or subscribe through your postmaster or any of our many correspondents; •rough Judge R. H. Allen, our Pike County Editor, or through DOUGLAS GLESSNER, Publisher, Griffin, Ga. BET YOUR NEIGHBOR TO SUBSCRIBE. GRIFFIN GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 30 J888 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. Distilled from tbo richest Malted Barley Chase's Barley Malt Whisky la full of nutr Best, mild and excellent and absolutely pore. George <fc Hartnett sole agents for Griffin, Ga. BBS Honey! Honey!! We have line lot Pare Country Honey. 100 Frieib Melons. ~ Try Gordon’s 4 A Tobacco. C.W. CLARK & SON. 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. ; a f Sfin NUMBER-184 t»UR PUBLIC SCHOOLS. * ' 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. © * 4 KlH* POWDER Absolutely Pure. This Powder never varies. A marvel <* strength and wholesomnaas. Mora than the ordinary Kinds, ami cal he sold in oompeti ton with the m aintai n Powders. low test, BoldonJyteeaaa. short weight, slum BeraPUnwi or phosphate Co., 106 Wall Street, Haw Tar* art*.**.,,: PAI HAIR li WDERCl