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Up to a late hour last night, New
York had not yet instructed for Par
ser.
The Newnan Herald is the latest pa
per that the Parker racket has driven
into the Hearst camp.
If the ‘ Parker” clubs in Georgia are
samples of Democratic harmony, spare
us more of them, pleads the Tifton Ga
aette.
The opposition to Hearst in this State
is mainly because he i* regarded as
being too good a Democrat to be presi
dent.
The Atlanta Journal suppressed the
information that South Dakota had
instructed for Hearst. If you want all
the n?WK, don’t look for it in an organ.
An exchange suggests that Hard
wick of the Tenth may have a •‘close
shave,” as the Republicans have nomi
nated a negro barber to make the race
against him.
First they damned Hearst for his pre
sumption in being a candidate without
any party support in New York. Now
they are damning Tammany because it
is suspected of being for Hearst.
The Carrollton Free Press notes that
“Hon. Judson M. Strickland, of Grif
fin, la receiving much encouragement
in the race for prison commissioner
Ills many friends are sure he will be
the winner.”
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President Roosevelt, announces that
he will take no holiday trips this sum
mer, but insteui will attend strictly to
business until the election is over
This reminds the Birmingham Age-
Herald that -‘That is the way the of
fice boy does when the boss talks of
making a change.”
The most guileless and unsophistica
ted farmer in this State is without
doubt Uncle Obe St< vens. He says he
is willing to trust Editor Pendleton in
politics because he found him a good
assistant in getting the farmers to cul
tivate wheat. Now, how would you
like to put your dough on that pair!
The Cedartown Standard says:
‘■Hon. Judson M Strickland, of Grif
fin, who is a candidate for prison com
missioner, was shaking hands here
Thursday with the people He is a
clever and agreeable gentleman, and
speaks very confidently of his race. He
has strong friends in Polk county who
would be pleased to see him elected ”
Amid the noise and confusion of the
" two Parker Clubs of Georgia in Atlan
ta, tlie Georgia Democratswill not lose
eight of the fact that two States have
held their Democratic conventions—
Rhode Island in the East and South
Dakota in the West—and both have
elected Hearst delegations. Total
votes for Hearst so far, 14; total for
Parker or anybody else, 0.
According to the reasoning of some
the national Democracy depends upon
New York State, New York State de
pends upou Tammany and Tammany
depends upon Murphy. And there
you are. Therefore, in the hollow of
one man's hand rests Democratic vic
tory and Democratic supremacy. But
they say Murphey favors Hearst, while
it is known that he is opposed to in
structing for Parker.
“Hon. W. 8. West, candidate for
president of the senate, was present at.
that star chamber meeting of politic ians
which met behind closed doors at the
Piedmont Hotel last Saturday. It may
be that the people will take a hand in
the election of the president ‘ of the
senate, as they sometimes do, and put
the politicians to thinking,” says the
Americus Time^-Recorder. Well, Bud
Blalock’s brother was there, too, so one
has little the advantage of the other.
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THE CLEVELAND MASQUERADERS.
The organizers of that second
Parker Club in Atlanta have done
more harm to the Parker boom io
Georgia than anything that the
Hearst forces could possibly have
done, ard th? light between the
two club ’ promisi s to be one to the
finish The p r ess comments on it
B r«-11 oon way- except that verv
limited part of the press in the
movement,
The Albany He; aid well puts it :
“The Cleveland masqueraders,
led by the Atlanta Journal, Macon
Telegraph and Augusta Chronicle,
who have organized that Parker
Club No. 2, have made a mess of it
sure enough. Instead of accom
plishing their real purpose, they
are causing men to get on the
Hearst bandwagon who, bad it not
been tor this masked effort to run
in a Cleveland delegation to the na
tional convention, would have at
least remained inactive.”
And the Thomasville Times En
prise, which is for Parker, but not
crazy about him, thoughtfully adds :
“Editor Henry Mclntosh says
that the second Parker club is com
posed of a crowd of Clevelandites,
masquerading is adherents of the
New York judge. He backs up this
suspicion with interesting argu
ments. ”
The Americus Times-Recorder,
inclined to be for Parker and against
Hearst, expresses its opinion in
these two paragraphs:
“The people of Georgia are not
going to be Jed and dominated by a
secret organization of politicians
effected behind closed doors, with
newspaper reporters excluded.”
“The Cleveland masqueraders
who form their second Parker Club
iu Atlanta don’t tool the people of
Georgia. No ; yon cannot work this
rabbit, foot any more, Mr. Hokus
Pokus Smith.”
The Macon News contributes this
important information:
“The gentleman who informed us
that if he were elected a delegate to
St Louis he would nominate Grover
Cleveland for president, is a prom
inent member of the (No 2) Parker
Democratic Club of Georgia ”
And the Rome Tribune shows its
realization of the situation in this
characteristic paragraph:
“Isn’t it inspiring to watch the
old Cleveland crowd making ‘Peace
Be-Multiplied-Unto-You’ signs
from over tne head of Judge Alton
B Parker, Club No 2 ”
The Columbus Ledger sees it,
bat refuses to believe it. It says :
“We do not believe that the gen
tiemen back of the Parker move
ment hive any idea of sacrificing
the Now York jurist in the way in
timated. in fact, such a thing
would hardly bo necessary, for it
would be easy for the men back of
the measure to get a Cleveland del
egation as it will be for them to get
an instructed delegation for Par
ker.”
That’s what Judge Duncan
thought, but the other members of
this Cleveland conference thought
it best to mask their intentions.
It is a great plot, but the dis
guise of the conspirators is too
easily penetrated
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RADICAL EOR THE RIGHT-
“How shall it profit a man if he
gain the whole world and lose his
own soul?” is a question that is as
pertinent in this presidential elec
tion os in any other crisis. What
shall it profit the average Democrat
ic voter if the Democratic ticket be
elected, while Democ-atio principles
are not maintained? One experi
ence of that kind in recent years has
been sufficient to teach the barren
ness of such a victory, the bitter
ness thereof being tenfold worse
than a defeat.
The cry of “conservatism” is
now, as almost universally, that of
tne place-hunter and the plutocrat
—the man who wants office at any
price and the man who fears that
radicalism may set right abuses by
which he profits. In this connec
tion, the language of a New York
member of congress is very perti
nent.
“It creates a widening circle of
weariness in my neighborhood to
hear all this talk of a conservative
candidate for the presidency on the
Democratic ticket, when the aver
age man does not know what he
means when he uses the word ‘con
servative’ in his connection,” said
the Hon. it tank E Shober, a mem
ber of congress from the Harlem
district. “If he means by ‘conserv
ative’ that the man must have
brains sufficient to understand
what would it jure the real business
interests of the country and steer
clear of it, then he does know
what the word means and I quite
agree with him. If, on the other
hand, he means that the candidate
must be a namby pamby. milk and
water, wishy washy, negative and
alt ogether colorless man who stands
for nothing and who has never ut
tered a word that can be construed
into his position on any public quee
tion now agitating the people of the
country, then I am unalterably op
posed to him and his kind of a can
didate I cannot understand bow
men. who pretend to know anything
about the game of politics, oau ad
vocate that sort of a candidate in
the present circumstances. That
manner of candidate on the Demo
cratic ticke t in competition with the
present occupant of the white house
and who will undoubtedly be the
Republican candidate, a man who is
the very apothesis of strenuosity,
positiveness, aggressiveness, bull
headedness, a man full of color who
fills the public eve, would have
about as much show of winning as
would a one-legged man at a kick
ing match, and the man who advo
cates that kind of a candidate on
the Democracic ticket knows
about a» much about politics as
a hog knows about navigating
a ship. To attempt to defeat Rcose
velt with that kind of a candidate
would, in my opinion, be like trying
to atop a cyclone with a quit t
closet prayer. What we want and
need is not, conservatism of the
mushy kind, but radicalism of the
right sort. We wart a man who is
radical for the right, radical for
equal justice for all and special
privileges to none, radical for tho
enforcement of all laws on the
statutes regardless of individuals,
radioil for the uprooting of the
criminal trusts ot the country and
for legislation that will insure the
just and proper distribution of the
wealth ot the country, radical for
honesty, radical for a proper re
vision and reduction of the tariff
schedule of the present iniquitous
law that gives shelter tn tne trusts,
radical for proper reciprocal treaties
for foreign countries, radical for
economy in public expenditures and
the proper conservation of internal
improvements, radical for Jeffer
sonian simplicity and pure democra
cy, radical for all that stands for
good government and that will best
conserve the best interests of the
business men of the country who
are within the pale of the law.
“With a man who is radical in
those things, a man whodoes things
and who is not afraid to come out
every day in the year and proclaim
that these are bls ideas and he
stands for them and is radical for
them and will press tnem on the
the Congress of the nation if he
should be elected, we can win.
With such a man we can hold every
Democratic vote m ard
draw to us the votes of millions of
men who have hitherto voted the
Republican ticket, to wit: the work
ingmen of the nation.
“The last congressional election
taught us that the democracy must
go to the great labor centers of the
country it it wants to make gains
in the election this year.
“There is where we made all our
gains in that election and the man
who can hold all that labor vote in
the next election is the man who
will win. The great majorities he
will roll up in the great centers of
labor will more than overcome the
normal Republican States ant the
victory will be ours. The only man’-
in my opinion, who can do this and
who is i adicul in siandirg for the
above is the Hon. William Randolph
Hearst, of York.”
IF FOROES UNITE IN HARMONY-
Sou hern Democra ts should deter
mire to go to St. Louis in a deliber
ative frame of mind, interested in
the party welfare rather than in
any particular individual. As the
Cincinnati Enquirer says : “If the
South will come up with delegates
solid in favor of harmony and the
dropping of questions that are not
truly current now, and a union on
the best. Democratic traditions and
the immediate questions of the
moment, the North will in all prob
ability do the same. There is not
much difference between people,
after all is said and done, North
and South of the Ohio River. A
properly behaved national conven
tion can adopt a platform on which
all the people who are worth hav
ing can unite, and can ncminate a
first-class man for president.
There is an abundance of timber.
Simply leave a free, open limit and
not kill off all the good urn in ad
vance by abuse and captious objec
tion. A groat deal of the present
talk about candidates amounts to
nothing that should dwell in the
Democratic mind. The crucial mo
ment of the Democratic campaign
has not come. An nubought and
u trammeled national convention
o>n take up the whole matter as a
primary proposition and send the
Democratic party of the Union hope
fully and enthusiastically along the
road to victory. Too much trying
to fix things up in advance fre,
quently produces the worst results.
Let us have a good set of delegates.”
Not Sweeping the Country.
Sparta Ishtnaelite.
Meantime, it doesn't appear that the
Parker campaign, whether running on
its own hook or really as a ( leveland
dummy, is sweeping any great number
of States . Dave Hill has run political
booms into the ground before this. His
being the great Parker leader, so called,
is not calculated to give the masses any
confiience in either the principles or
the running qualities of his selection.
Mr. Williams, the democratic leader
of the house, declares that Roosevelt
must be defeated. He laughs at the
idea that Roosevelt is a trust buster,
and says that the trusts have long since
found out what a harmless alligator
Teddy really is. Mr. Williams asser
ted that the business interests ot the
country did not regard Roosevelt as a
safe man. Business mm thongnt the
administration entirely too theatrical.
Mr. Williams pointed to many incidents
in the R->osevslt administration, which
justify their apprehension, “that on
some strenuous occasion, Roosevelt is
liable to go off too suddenly and too in
cousi eratwly, in some of the graver af
fairs of the government.” Mr. Wil
liams remarks were aplauded. by the
democrats.
A Thoughttul Man,
M M. Austin, of Winchester, Ina
knew wh.it to do in tLe hoar of need
His wife had snoh an unusual case
of stomach and liver trouble, physi
cians could not help her. H'i
thought of and tried Dr King’s
New Life Pillsand she got relief at
once and was finally cured. Only
25c, at Carlisle & Ward and Brooks
Drug Store.
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dangerous, while DeWitt’s Witch
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and cures. Sold by Drewry Drug
Store.
Chicago's Oldest Hack Driver Dead.
Chicago, April 2. —Charles Blair, the
oldest hack driver in Chicago, in point
of years as well as service, is dead.
He was 80 years old. For nearly
half a century he had been a Jehu in
this city and during that time had
driven some of the most prominent
persons in the country.
Robbed the Grave.
A startling incident is narrated
bv John Oliver of Philadelphia, as
follows: “I was in an awful eon
dition. My skiu was also yellow,
eyes sunken, tongue coated, pain
continually in bacx and sides, no
appetite, growing weaker day by
day. Three physicians had given
me up Then I was advised to use
Elec ric Bitters ;to my great joy,
the first bottle made a decided im
provement. I continued their use
for three weeks, and am now a well
man. I know they robbed the
grave of another victim.” No one
should fail to trv them Only 50
cents, guaranteed, at Carlisle &
Ward and Brooks Drugstore.
Good for Child t-u.
The pleasant to take and harmless
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Croup and LaGrippe because it does
not pass immediately into the atom
acb, but takes effect right at the
seat of the trouble. It draws out
the inflummation, heals and soothes
and cures permanently by enabling
the lungs to contribute pure life
giving and life-sustaining oxygen
to the blood and tissues. One Min
ute Cough Caie is pleasant to take
and it is good alike for young and
old. Sold by Drewry Drug Store.
A Cure for Headache.
Any man, weman or child suffer
ing from headache, biiliousness or a
dull, drousy feeling should take one
or two of DeWitt’s Little Early Ris
era night and morning These fa
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they are a tonic as well as a pill
While they cleanse the system they
strengthen and rebuild it by their
tonio effect upon the liver and bow
els. Sold by Drewry Drug Store.
Telephone Company Can Use Streets.
Cincinnati, April 2. —Judge Nippert,
of the Probate court Joday decided
that independent telephone compa
nies have the right under statutes ot
the states to use the streets of Cincin
nati. This decision doubtless will be
carried to the higher courts.
How’s This?
We offer One Hundr;J Dollars Reward
for any cast--of catarrh that cannot be
cured by Hall’s ( at.a-rh Cure.
F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O.
We, the undersigned, have known F J.
Cheney for the last 15 vears, and believe
him perfectly honorable in all business
transactions and financially able to carry
out any obligations made by his firm.
Walking, Kinnan &Makvin.
Wholesale Druggis’s, Toledo, O,
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally,
ac Ing directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces of the evsttm. Testi
monials sent free. Price 75 cents per bot
tle. Sold by all druggists.
Take Hall’s F nr.ly Pills for constipa
tion.
Too Young to Know Crime.
Chicago, April 2.—The three Polish
boys, who two weeks ago set fire to
the Holden public school, destroying
it have been released by Judge Tut
hill. He held none was old enough
to know tht extent of his wrong do
ing.
America Rules the World.
The United States is now recognized as
the world’s lea ;er in the production of
natural w’al’h. We also lead in sclen
title discoveries. Take medicine, for in
stance All scientific research has failed
to produce a better remedy for the
stomach, liver and bowels than the
famous American remedy Hostetter’s
Stomach Bitters in the spring ft Is es
pecially good, tuning up the system,nurl
lying the blood and promoting round
sleep. The nerves, too. are strengthened
and the llv r stimulated. Men and wo
men everywhere -hould take a few doses
In the spring, in order to protect their
health It also cures bloating, eramps,
vomiting, headache, biliousness, indiges
ti n, dyspepsia and lagiippe The genu
ine has our Private Stamp over the neck
of the bottls.
GREAT ANXIETY IN
FLOOD DISTRICT
If Big Reservior Breaks Great
Damage Will Be Wrought.
WHOLE TOWNS ARE SUBMERGEti
Preparations for General Alarm la
Made in Case Big Lake Breaks over
Dam to Save Those Living Below.
Funeral Conducted from Housetop.
St. Marys, 0., April 2. —The water
in the Grand reservoir., or St. Mary’s
lake, commencing to fall gradually
this morning, and it is now believed
all danger of a break in the banks will
be over within ten hours.
The banks are being pitroiled by
scores of men and at the least break,
the people will be notified to fly. Hun
dreds of men are working today iff
strengthening the banks, and fanners
have lent their aid.
Great alarm was caused here about
noon by a strong southwest gale which
sent the waters against the eastern
bank of the reservoir in its weaiter.t
places. The water has broken through
the banks in several places, but not in
any uncontrollable manner. Every
able-bodied man in the vicinity is em
ployed along the banks of the reser
voir. Preparations were made at noon
for a general alarm on an instant’s
notice, as this city would be over
whelmed with the water from the 30,-
000 acre lake in event of a break.
Cincinnati, April 2. —Floods in the
northwestern and central part of Ohio
today broke all records. The damage
from Findlay south through Troy., Pi
qua and other points as far as Hamil
ton, is estimated at $2,000,000.
Four lives have been lost. Twen
ty towns are without natural gas. Sev
eral cities are without power, water
works, electric light or gas or trolley
cars.
At Columbus the Scioto is within 2
feet of the highest point ever reach
ed, and nearly all the factories along
the river are flooded. A portion ol
the state penitentiary there is flood
ed and part of the embankment at
the Toledo and Ohio Central tracks
has given way.
Celina, 0., April 2.—The reservoir
had not broken up to fl o’clock today.
As the St. Marys river is going down
rapidly it is hoped some water can
be let into it from the reservoir witii
safety. It is thought now that the
worst has been passed.
The Cincinnati, Hamilton and Day
ton tracks are washed out for two
miles near Merder, this county. Un
der influence of a high west wind,
which rose today, the east bank is be
ing eat out badly. The canal has been
drained to carry off the water if a
break comes.
Vincennes, Ind., April 2. —The first
word from Russellville, 111., for three
days was received today when John
Hill and Allen Gallander arrived in a
boat after a desperate fight with the
current. They said that during theii
entire nine miles trip from Russell
ville, they found but one house that
was not under water and that one
was sheltering ten families.
The town of Russellville is all un
der water.
Indianapolis, Ind., April 2. —White
river against crippled the street cat
system today and drowned out the
north pumping station of the watei
works. The city is without adequate
fire protection. At Alexandria twfl
bridges went out and Scottown, a sub
urb, is entirely cut off. State Mine
Examiner Epperson says there is gen
eral damage to coal mines all over the
state.
Indianapolis, April 2. —A funeral was
held at St. Francisville today on boats.
William Christy’s wife died Thursday
and since the waters have entered the
house to the second story. A hole
was cut through the root and the
funeral to St. Rose cemetery, on high
ground, was in boats.
Recognition of American Schools.
Constantinople, April 2. —United
States Minister Leishman had a spe
cial interview with Foreingn Ministet
Towfik Pasha on the subject of thp-df
ficial recognition of the American
schools, hospitals and charitable instf
tutions in Turkey. Mr. Leishman up
gently pressed the foreign minister foi
a speedy settlement of the matter, de
manding that those American estab
lishments be given the same status at
is granted to similar institutions ol
other powers.
Big Street Car Strike In Cleveland.
Cleveland, April 2. —The entire sys
tem of the Cleveland and Southwest
ern Traction company was tied up to
day by a strike. It was caused by a
refusal of the company to remove
General Manager Nicholls, who is
charged by the men with making rules
held to be unfair to them.
Explosion Kills Man.
Meadville, Pa., April 2. —An air tank
in the Erie Railroad machine shops
exploded today killing one and injur
ing many more. The building was
badly wrecked. The man killed was
John Frederick, a gang foreman. Six
others were injured, some of whom
will die.
SCOTT’S EMULSION
is for babies and children
who are thin and pale whet
they ought to be fat and
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who are weak and delicate
when they ought to be strong
and hearty —for all who are
not getting proper nourish
ment from their food.
Poor blood, thin body, open
the door for disease. Scott’s
Emulsion bars the way.
Makes the blood richer, pro
duces healthy flesh and above
all provides nourishment.
Avoid these so-called
wines, cordials and extracts
of cod liver oil that are pre
pared for the taste only, con
tain none of the value of cod
liver oil and which contain
a large percentage of alcohol.
Scott’s Emulsion has been
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a century.
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HELD BY POSTAL MEN.
Alabama Man Charged With Sending
Obscene Letter in Mail.
Montgomery, Ala., April 2. —William
P. O’Connor, a white man of this city,
is under arrest by the federal author
ities charged with sending an obscen »
lewd and lascivious letter through ths
mail to a young lady resident in Mc-
Rae, Ga.
The case was continued until April
11 to give the state time to get wit
nesses here from Georgia. O’Connor
made a temporary bond of $250. It is
understood that a relative of the young
lady is prosecuting the case. It is
said a number of letters written by
O’Connor are in the hands of United
States authoroities and that they are
of the vilest nature.
NAVAL OFFICER SUICIDES.
Chief Engineer of Battleship Maine
Kills Himself.
Pensacola, Fla., April 2. —Lieutenant
Commander Edgar Townsend Warbur
ton, chief engineer of the battleship
Maine, now in this harbor, suicided in
his cabin on board the vessel today.
A bullet from a 38-caliber revol
ver was sent crashing through the
brain., and death resulted within 40
minutes afterwards.
The executive officer of the ship
was passing the door of Commander
Warburton when he was startled by
the report of a revolver within.
The bullet passed through the brain,
came through the door and struck the
rail of the ship, barely missing the
executive officer.
NOT WELL VERSED IN BIBLE.
Out of 80 Students Only One Recog
nize Scriptural Quotations.
Baltimore, April 2. —President Rem
sen and the faculty of Johns Hopkill
university have examined 80 of the
students of the University on their
Know edge of the Bible, bringing out
the fact that only one student could
identify two (notations from the scrip
titres.. and he is studying for the min
istry. A newspaper editorial was cho
sen which contained two Biblical ref
erences. one re terring to the Tthopian
shang'ng his skin and the other the
shadow moving backward on the dial.
The editorial was read to the class
an 1 its membets were asked to tell
whence the quotations were taken,
with the result noted.
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Big Rewards Offered for Robbers.
San Francisco, April 2. —As a reward
for the capture of the Redding train
hold-ups the Southern Pacific offers
$250, Wells-Fargo S3OO and the state
S3OO. The railway and express com
panies are expected to increase the
amounts offered by them.
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