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KnfFU Q 1 THE NEWS* EstiblishedWlK” jhlY SEAB DOESN’T ■> -RENT HIS WHOLE BLOCK FOR BAR ROOM PURPOSES. U is Because the Other Party Did Not Accede to His Proposition s * t* Ho So. The Rome Hustler of Sunday interesting article about. k J the life and character of Seab Wright, rt candidate for governor on a prohibi tion- dispensary- populist- independ ent-or-any-other platform: In view of the fact that Hon. Sea born Wright, of this city, the popro hi candidate for governor of Georgia has found it necessary to publish in the Atlanta Constitution, the follow ing card, the Hustler of Rome has a little timely data to submit to the careful consideration of the public. But first, here is candidate Wright’s card: “Editor Constitution—Will you permit me to say through your pa per to the people of Georgia that the report now being industrously circu lated in the State that lam renting houses in Rome, Atlanta or else where to liquor dealers or for other disreputable purposes, either for myself or any one else, is an infa mous lie. “As to the other statement that I am president or director or own stock in any national bank I have only to say I regret it is not true. Seaborn Wright.” It will be seen by this remarkable card that Mr. Wright admits certain “regrets” in the last paragraph, but more of this anon. The- data that the Hustler of Rome wishes to submit, pertains to Mr. Wright’s denial of ownership of any property from which liquor is soid. It will be remembered, and it is a well-known fact in this city, that Mr. Wright’s staunchest supporters claim that while he may change base in politics, tliat he has always been consistent on the subject of prohibi tion, and that he has in all these years led a consistent prohibition life. Right here, and right on this line we quote from his wnderful speech of acceptance, made before that wnnderously constructed political body that, nominated him. Mr. Wright is alleged to have said in that speech: “But, gentlemen, there are duties which no true man would shirk. I was a candidate only once in my life. Twenty years ago, when but a mere boy, I was a candidate for the legislature. I was elected as an independent Democrat. After serv ing a term I went back to my home, and when my friends rallied around me and asked me to run again, I said to them: “Never, so help me God, will I be a candidate for any office until the chief plank in the platform on which I run shall be, ‘Down with the liquor shops.’ (Applause.) “I am no fanatic on this subject. I have no personal ill-will against the men who are in this business. I am against the system. They are not responsible. But before the bar of their conscience and before the bar of their God, the men who vote to sustain the infamous traffic will be held responsible. (Applause.) Now all this reads very fine and must have, when delivered m Seab’s tragically eloquent style completely swept the delegates from their hope less political state of feeling., But, let’s see how much of the above is chaff and how much is grain. COURT HOUSE LOT. \ W. ist. St. CHAMLEE’S BAR.] /////// Liza ZZZZZZZ Turner /////// /Open / a § z/'zzzzz I zzzzzzz < w g o a t to £ 5 2 « 03 & > x £ « Q £ O No. 429. J Broad Street PLAN OF THE WRIGHT BUILDING, COR NER BROAD AND FIFTH AVENUE. In the first place Hon. Seab Wright was elected to office the first and only time he ever stayed in a feade until the polls closed, as an in dhpindent candidate to the legisla tufieland was.’-jf memory serves us righrt elected by* the saloon influ- nd negro element. Buftto move on down over his checkered and floppy career to dates more recent and events yet fresh in the annals of his unwritten autobi ography Mr. Wright will remember that he and his brother, W. A. Wright own the brick buildings Nos. 429 and 431, on Broad street and the corner, of Fifth avenue and running through to West F’rst street—facing the new court house He wiR remember that Lowry Bros., druggists, occupied both the Broad street and corner store rooms, and that Aiderman Sam Lowry, head of Lowry Bros., wanted an open space in the rear of 429 covered over, and that store connected with the building occuppied by Liza Tur ner as a restaurant on Fifth avenue, thereby giving Mr. Lowryls dry goods store a Fifth avenue entrance. Perhaps he will remember that workmen were called in to figure on these changes. But for some reason or other these changes were not made aed eventu ally Lowry Bros, moved out. Then it was that the building on Broad street was left vacant for some months. Mr. Wright will remem ber that during this time he one day was standing in front of the drug store and that John Chamlee was sitting in front of the Central hotel and near his (Mr. Chamlee’s) Cen tral saloon. Mr. Wright will doubt less remember that he called Mr. Chamlee and that they met in the middle of Broad street. Now, Mr. Wright will remember that Mr. Chamlee at that time was operating the Fifth avenue saloon on the corner next to the new court house, same building belonging to Seaborn and W. A. Wright, brothers. Mr. Wright will also remember that he, then and there, standing in Broad street on that occasion, made Mr. Chamlee a proposition, and that proposition was that he, Seab Wright, would cover over the said open space between 429 Broad street and connect 429 Broad with the side rear ot Mr. Chamlee’s Fifth avenue bar, and that if Mr. Chamlee would move his Central bar across the street and into No. 429 that he could “straddle” through the opening made between the two saloons and operate both bars under one license from the city. Mr. Wright will also remember that he proposed to use his influence with the city council (and W. A. Wright was a member of that body at the time) to get them to consent to the license for the two saloons if Mr. Chamlee would rent No. 429 Broad. If Mr. Wright fails to remember the facts as set forth in the above statement of this particular case the Hustler of Rome will undertake to refresh his memory. As to his de nial of these facts, he will hardly do so. The Hustler of Rome has known of this “proposition” for quite a while, but as we did not care to drag such affairs into the public prints, refrained from using it. However, when Mr. Wright publishes such a card as the above we feel that the time lias come for the submission of evidence and put it in for what it is worth. The Hustler of Rome submitted the above statement of facts to Mr. Chamlee yesterday. Mr Chamlee wassuprised, but, in admitting them to be true stated that he was not in politics and preferred not to get into any controversy. As far as John Chamlee is con cerned, everybody who knows him knows that he is a quiet, orderly, courteous gentleman, whose w’ord is as good as his bond. His commer cial rating is gilt-edge and his friends are numbered from every walk of life. ' As to the Hustler of Rome—this paper is prohibitionist from princi ple but loves fair play. The Head of Georgia Democracy, Monroe Advertiser. Mr. Clay has expressed his opinion in reference to the demand made by Mr. Cunningham to allow the Popu lists to run the polls and he stands firmly by that opinion, notwith standing the gratuitous admonition of Rev. Sam Jones. Mr. Clay has a head of his own and does his own thinking and the Decraocracy of Georgia stands ready to back him up. _ Another Middle of the Roader. Rome Hustler. Hon. Seaborn Wright could plead guilty to the charges of standing in the middle of Broad street and plan ning to secure a bar-room renter for his vacant house and then make the point on the Pops tliat he was a middle-of-the-roader. To Cure a Cold in One Day Take laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund the money if it falls to cure. 25c. GRIFFIN, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMRRR 18, 1896. THE POPS NOMINATE A CANDIDATE FOR SENATOR FJROM THIS DISTRICT.- I / J. M. McMichael, of Butts, Who Was De feated for the Legislature Two Years Ago, ia the Man. Wednesday a tall, black whiskered man was pointed out on the streets to the News and Sun as one who had predicted that Butts county would be carried by the Populists this year and cast its vote for Wright. No significance was attached to this at the time, as several Populists have been seen in this Neighborhood this fall and they have ceased to be an object of curiosity. Later in the day, however, it de veloped by the testimony of Col. T. W. Flynt"that this black whiskered gentleman from Butts was the main stay of a convention that met Wed nesday and put in nomination Hon. J. M. McMichael, of Butts, as a can didate for the State senate from this district to oppose Hon. Alex At kinson. Mr. McMichael is an excel lent gentleman who resides near Jackson, and we put the prefix “Hon. ” to his name because he had the honor two years ago of being beaten for the legislature by Hon. T. J. Dempsey. After the drubbing that he will get from Mr. Atkinson he will be entitled to the prefix of Right Honorable. There was something rarer than a Georgia Populist in town yesterday, and that was a real, live Hannacrat— a supporter of Palmer and Buckner. He was young but full grown, and had voted for Cleveland in 1888 when he was only 18 years old. He insisted that there was not the shadow of a showing for Bryan’s election. He had been all over the State and mingled with “business men, ’ ’ merchants, bankers, lawyers and doctors, and found them all for gold. Bryan is losing ground every day. There is nothing in his speeches, which sound like an empty wagon running down the road. : Possibly free silver was right, he concluded, but it was not right to go against the moneyed classes, who would eat us up if Bryan is elected. Oh, he was the hot stuff, this young goldbug—almost as great as Alex Hull, of Atlanta. The following handbills are print ed and ready for circulation by the Republicans of this county: “A grand rally—The 6th congres sional district committee will meet at Griffin, Ga., September 21st, at 10 o’clock, and every man in this county is requested to be present, as a big gun will be fired from the mouth of Col. H. L. Johnson, and everybody should be in reach of its echo. ’ ’ Congressman Bartlett will speak at Locust Grove on the 25th instant and at Forsyth on the 23d. Jones county will turn out to hear him tog night at Haddock station. Mr. Bart lett does not believe that he will lose a county in the district. He feels confident of carrying even Pike, the home county of Mr. jMurphey. Par ties from Jones say he will win in that county by 4t)o majority. There can be no dodging in the ap proaching elections. A man is either an organized Democrat or he must be a disorganized one. If he fails to support the organized Democracy this year, and two years from now is not allowed to participate in our Democratic primaries, he will have no one to blame but himself. If you are a Democrat, you must be one, and prove that you are by sup porting the nominees of your party. There is some talk that the sup porters of Wright in this county will try to get the registrars to change thie ruling of the board in the elec tion last year and declare that voters who were not qualified at the time of registering can not qualify after ward. The law is very plain on the subject that a voter may qualify up to the time of making up the final lists, and it is hardly probable that Spalding’s registrarswill override it for the benefit of a few malcontents who want to reduce the Democratic majority. Following is the registration in this county when the books closed at 6 o’clock last night: White. Col. Total. Africa 179 26 2Q5 Akins 126 43 169 Cabins 126 77 203 Griffin 550 152 702 Line Creek... 59 3 62 Mt. Zion 72 49 121 Orrs 89 48 137 Union 142 27 169 Totals 1343 425 1768 Those members of the Democratic club whose business it has been to I keep up. with the registration ha A done good work to bring it up to these figures, which make a very good showing fop this county. They figure that nt the lowest estimates Spalding should give over 500 ma jority for the Democratic ticket. The oard of registrars, composed of C. A. Cooper: M. O. Bowdoin and S. M. Wayman, will meet at 8 o’clock this morning to organize and get ready for work. Hereafter they will meet at 9 p ■clock. Their work will be comparatively light because of the registration had last year, which will serve for a- basis. — Ventures. VauAhn, G vtSept. 16.—Dr. J. L. Gable, of Brooks Station, was here Monday. t J Miss Pearl Kendall is visiting Mrs. C. O. Bradbury, at Griffin. Miss Jennie Bledsoe, of Zetella, was the guest of Miss Willie Vaughn Saturday and Sunday. Mrs. G. H. Steele and Mrs. F. J. Freeman spent Monday in Griffin, the guests of their sister, Mrs. C. O. Bradbury. Mrs. J. L. Gable and Master Fabe, of Brooks Station, spent Sunday with J. W. Vaughn’s family. John Galhouse. of near Griffin, was here Sunday. Ad McLeroy, of Jackson, spent Saturday night with E. T. Kendall’s family. Mr. and Mrs. Clare Deane and children, of Griffin, visited Mrs. J. L. Vaughn Sunday. Mrs. E. W. Hammond, of Griffin, was the guest of Mrs. B. J. Reeves Sunday. Quite a number of our young peo ple took in the annual singing at Providence church Sunday. The Misses Smith, of Sunny Side, visited Miss Lemma Head Sunday. I. H. and E. T. Kendall attended the quarterly meeting at Hollonville Saturday and Sunday. Will Dorsey, of Sunny Side, visit ed friends here last Sunday. Mrs. J. L. Vaughn and children spent Monday at Brooks Station, the guests of Dr. J. L. Gable’s family. Mrs. N. E. Kendall and Misses Lora May and Mattie Lou Steele are spending • KKu.y.in Griffin. Miss Mollie Patton is visiting friends at Griffin this week. Rev. E. W. Hammond closed a several days meeting here Sunday and much good was done. Five were baptized who joined last meet ing and one more was added Sunday. Takthe Griffin News and Sun if you want all the news. Calling Off Watson. Savannah Press. All is not lovely with the Populists if we are to judge from the temper of Marion Butler, chairman of the national committee. Marion Butler wants Tom Watson to come back from the West. The honorable Thomas seems to have been kicking up too much dust out there and leading Populists fear that he will injure the party. Mr. Watson’s references to Arthur Sewall are held to be in bad taste. His references to Mr. Bryan are doing the silver candidate no good. Marion Butler evidently fears that Watson is speaking for Watson and not for the party. Mr. Butler is not a great admirer of Mr. B”tler. Probably he fears the ascendancy of the young Georgian. But the Hon. Thomas E. is a hard man to handle. It is easier to put him up than to pull him down. It is easier to send him out than to call him off. In the light of Marion Butler’s dis gust, the send off which the People's Party Paper gave to Mr. Watson when he left Atlanta for the West sounds pathetic. Here is wfliat the editor said: “Let not Tom Watson comeback to us with his heart crushed and bleeding, realizing that he has toiled and suffered for an unworthy love.” A Wife Heater. We are informed that Wednesday afternoon, H. C. Marvel, who is employedin the office of the Os born & Wolcott Mfg. Co., had an altercation with his wife over a dose of medicine, that he pur- i posed giving her, and which she declined to take, and proceeded to administer punishment in the shape of blows, and tearing : her clothes half off, etc. He also kicked her down the back steps, i dragged her back by the hair of her and afterwards choked her. Her cries for help were heard for some j distance and neighbors iuterferjd as soon as possible and put a stop to the affair. The police were notified and a case will be made to-day. What makes the matter more out rageous is the delicate condition of Mrs. Marvel. All parties are white. Highest of all in Leavening Power,—Latest U. S. Gov't Report. Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE GREAT INCOHONEE SPEAKS WORDS OFWISDOM TO THE WHITE MAN. J udge Daniel Says Bryan Worild Sweep the Went To-Day, Including Mc- Kinley’s State. Jk 16 “I tell you, gen to tiemen, Bryan ! i. would sweep the fry country if the elec lagalltgpJ* tion were held to morrow.” Such were th® words of the Great Inpohonee of the Red Men Monday, and f they are words of observation and] sooth. Judge R. T. Daniel returned Mon day morning from hfs trip to Minneapolis, where he was elected to the above exalted office by the Grand Council. This body is com posed of about a hundred and fifty representatives from the different States, who were well qualified to sjierik, as observant citizens, of the political phases of their different localities. Judge Daniel, who has always been much interested in pol itics, like all true Georgians, con versed with many of the delegates on the subject, and became intimate, with a member who went to partic ular pains to get the political news from all of them. “They were almost unanimously of the opinion,” said the judge, “that Bryan already has the election sure if he can hold it. Massachu setts will hardly be carried by him, one delegate from that State assured me; but the work that is being done ■ in tnaiSta i eisshowp by the fact that in ond ward in Boston wheh: there was onlj’ 63 iiemocratfc votes cast in the last election, there is a f|»yan club of 250 members. New York is in doubt, with a large silver senti ment in the country, but the city vote will lie largely the other way. Bnt ?. 1 eheve that Bryan will carry Ohio, I am assured that be will car ry I’ (liana by a large majority and Illi: ois is likewise regarded as cer tain. .Minnesota will go for Bryan if the country can overcome the gold majority in the cities. All the cit ies will go for gold, but theiN/untry is almost solid for silver, as I found oy conversing with different peiqile on the trains.” He visited the headtjnarters of the Natiinal Silver and par ties in Chifagoand f’>und everything regiirded there as favorable to a I sweeping victory. The only dread was that the gold men might luuy up the election with large sums of money at the last hour, (ffiicago he found a vast hive of fKdities, with meetings and disrmssions every street corner. BourkeCbeluran | for the gold side Saturday aft. -m«>n i and the auditorium was jacked to I hear his oratory. It is generally [ believed, however, that Cockran gets ! $1,500 a sjs-iuh. so it has little efiksct upon his audiences. Judge Daniel goes to Dallas, Ttrx- r as, next week, as one of t Georgia's three rejwesentatrres ’ to the Sovereign Grand Ixxlge [ of Odd Fellows, and will have i further opportunity to find our. f what the “middle of the roatlers” a re doing. He rey>orts Popoltet fusion ' as complete in the West and nobody i paying any attention to Tom Wat- f son’s course or fate. ' Internal HomMlty. “I hate, ” said Mr. Tolliver, as be vainly tried to get his straw hat over his head, “to g»< miser- I able hats wet. They shrink no. ” Mrs. Tolliver looked up from the breakfast table. ■ -There was no ram last night,” I she freezingly remarked. Then Mr. Tolliver hastily perched his hat on the top (A his achi ig i head and hurried from, the house. | The Home of the Great laeohmaee. Monroe Advertiser, i Judge R. T. Daniel. o< Griffin, was > elected great incohonee at the eon- ' vention of Red Men held at Indian apolis recently. This makes the genial Judge one of the most protni- ! nent secret order men in the United t States. The of the great council which have heretofore i always been in the north will be to- ! rated at Griffin, the home as the great incohonee. THE SUN, Established 1877. SPENCER MAKES A REPLY. The nf WriUtt ut OfHin fsetler t« Mt. Atlant*, Sept 15.—Freddent Sarmxei Hpenor of the Southern Railway com pany ha* written an open letter, taking Vice Prerideut St John of the Meaboonl to task. Mr. Spencer** letter ia nt< addre* ed to Mr. St. John, tmt to Coi onol L X. Traininoil, chairman of the Georgia railroad contmwri'ni, La«t July Colonel Trammell a«ldre»*ed letter* to Sir. St. John and to CommDHdmser H. 8. Baine* ot the Houther* States Freight aes. ciation, notifying them that if through rates were cut by the road*, local rate* wonld be reduced by tfaa conimtMion. In reply, Mr. St. John wrote a lengthy letter to Chairman Trammell, Mating that the rate was » tlefenmve measure undertaken by the Utritlxnita to protect its interests. Mr. Hpencer was in Europe at that time. It wa* stated at the time tliat fas would bare something to way after to returned. This letter tc Colonel Tram m hlm the fird official statement from tiic Hodthem, It takes up the question of the Southern** interest in the Ora tral railway of Georgia awl oilier roads it: the sourh and ways that Lie South erri'st contr of variora projwtrtiew is strictly within the law. Aw to the Cen tral. Mr. Sie ncr-r states that the South ern haw already “a contingent beneficial inter--st in either that wtoek its pro ceed*,” Mr, Spencer talt'“» op the earn, ingw of hi* road and of theSeauoard; he d-m,.. mat the boutheiii » defeating r-om ,-ruion at any p ant or lias raised rate* anywhere. HorO>, K ret: ref mH. t iJ'j’.r 4;>kk. ?>ei»t. 15, Champ tout Jrsfc- Kilrain wa«s k» <«ke<i by Frank P. Slavin at rne -100. The Eal timoTe heavyweight wa*little more than a pare-hing lane ■’< ttie Aa-tiafiaa, and it t «wk Mitt i/ttt two awi a Quarter min ute* it, pot the tot'Chamiwm K»i ratn h very fat, awl it was evidenb when fee apjieami io the ring that' ise was in nocf-nditjon tows'* t ffcarin, who ' waw trairr'-'i to rhe hour. Ki rain’a weight was anw<asnc«S aw 250 temnds. Imt fee toaued at least 15 poauus heavier. C »tAf« Is What We Stake ft “ Life in is what ffeu husi nctw man make* it. The Iramnem man whomtw down anti Ix-moatti* the bard tim««ha# no fife in his lius ine*4. This Irasine*- man who fe* alive and who is rb/ing a live bom newt fe» telling the jieojje all abtrak it and what he lias tliat they want. It do~fn't i*»y tn *it st IB and cry “Bwffinese « dull awl there’* a lack of confidetM:*',” Tin- five teiGjiews man show# that he has eonfidence tn himwelf awl his bamnrm. and doesn’t wait for Mane other man to start the r*,nfid<>we bwnnesw. Thaw he mtqnmt frini'hiiiee m the con sumer. An irridr-nee of the Imsinewi man'weoriridefa-*- L* ween in the jpl vertisrngwJMma*'/the newspapers, A lack of c*/Dfi''l«diee has it>s greatewst effect upon the maw*. An evi rlrmrsr of mtM lie shown them also. It ssneedl***- almost, to add that the bwdnwt man can find ar» better medsnsri for showing few ! conffife-tice to the imames than 1 through the eohonna of the News. t A Fortsuiw Waltfaig. R, A. Gordon, «A this (dace, lias ■ r»*orvol a litter from Stowe & ' Htr>we, ErKfals'iig, making I inqnhieK into Im relatioisdrip with t r>,-rtatn of the SwAtadh Govdcns, aay i mg that an immeiwe fortsme is i awaiting dnstribniion among the heirs and that tiwjiartieular branch. will get abont half a rafllk® dollars. Mr. Gordon'* grs..odfa;ther cmuoe I directly to the UiKtea fitates from * Scotland and was a member of the | Heado® Lian,” famoro in and 1 story; and it s» probable that there set ssmnethimg more than a mevehojes of the fortune coming this war. Awarded Highest Honors—World’s Fair DIV w F CREAM BAKING POWDffl MOST PERFECT MADE ‘ A ferv Oape Craara cffTwtw Pawden Aassa, Afara « wy ixhts >aw 4? VSASJ BP.