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DOUGLAS 6LEBBNEB, Ed- and Prop-
“The Georgia legislature killed
about sh many good bills as It passed.”
says the Columbus Enquirer-Sun. It
did well if it broke even.
Judge Parker and Mr. Davis having
at last accepted the nominations, it is
now up to Tom Taggart to get out ar.d
hustle for votes to elect them.
The Savannah Press observes:
“When it comes to the scratch in
Georgia, Australian ballots and boards
of tax assesors have never been popu
lar. They don’t catch on.”.
“A man, a cart and a pale gray jack
ass are going to make the trip from
Colquitt, Ga., to St. Louis. How will
they know which to hitch up? ’ asks
the Thomasville Times-Enterprise.
Torn about would be only fair.
The Telfair Enterprise urges that
the counties be given more authority for
local legislation so that the legislature
will be relieved from consideration of
the mass of local bills that now con
sume so much of its time.
New England reports indicate a
strohg Parker feeling springing up
there. It is proable that Republican
majorites of the past will be considera
bly reduced and that Connecticut will
come back into tneDemocratic column.
Says the Savannah Press: “A Val
dosta poultry concern won $3,000 last
year in prizes, and is just shipping out
a two car-load exhibit to the Sr. Louis
exposition. Yet some people claim that
South Georgia is not a poultry coun
try.”
The Gainaviile Eagle is not oppsed to
the Populist party assuming new vigor
in Georgia. It claims that the Demo
cracy needs a vigilant foe to prevent it
from becoming apathetic or corrupt. ‘ It
would assist us materially in keeping
honest,” it says.
Editor Rose thinks that the verdict
of the jury of inquest will be that the
Russian navy committed suicide.
The seven-up editor of the Rome Tri
bune writes that the Japs have car
ried Hi Cheng, low < heng, jack and
the gameski.
The Atlanta Constitution is thankful
that the railroad commission at last
has a member who does not part his
name in the middle.
The Washington Post say ‘‘the fact
that the president now weighs 209
pounds, is encouraging some demo
crats to believe tnat he is rapidly ap
proaching the ex-presidential size.”
Following is a list of the presidential
candidates this year: Republican,
Theodore Roosevelt; Democratic, Alton
B. Parker: Populist, Thomas E. Wat
son; Prohibition, Silas W. Swallow;
Socialist, Eugene V. Debs.
It is said that the Democratic nation
al committee has Mr. Cleveland’s
promise to deliver two speeches ;n
New Jersey this fall. It is under
stood, according to an exchange, that
they will be delivered just after the
close of the fishing seasen, and just
before duck shooting begins.
AS FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS-
The Dawson News has written an
editorial which we fully endorse and
reproduce below. We might have
written a similar one, though pos
sibly not as good, but it would not
fit the case in this county any bet
ter, so we are glad to find this one
ready-made. We do not know that
the advice given is really necessary,
since there is every indication that,
the policy suggested will be carried
out without it, but it can not hurt
anything.
Editor Rainy says:
“Terrell county has just ahead of
it an election on the whiskey ques
tion. A petition asking that such
an election be called will doubtless
soon be filed in the office of the or
dinary, anO within the next few
weeks citizens will register their
votes on this issue.
••It is the hope of the News that
the campaign necessarily entailed
will not be fraught with ill-feeling,
but that we may pass through it
with full respect tor the opinions ot
others. This paper, always loyal to
Dawson and Terrell county and
having their interests at heart, has
its con victions in this matter, and
it concedes to all others a perfect
right to theirs There are a num
ber of good citizens who think that
prohibition would be the best thing
for the county ;on the other hand,
there are many who believe that
prohibition is not practical, and that
the dispensary system Is the wisest
and the best policy that can be
adopted in dealing with the whis
key problem. Let every man vote
as his light leads him. It is his
right and his duty.
“There is no use of infusing one .
particle of rancor or antagonism I
into the campaign Let us pass
through it in perfect gcod humor
and good will—as friends and
neighbors, and citizens of the best
county in Georgia.”
PVTS BLAME ON ROOSEVELT-
The Thomaston Times, tn a col
umn editorial, puts tne blame of the
whole horrible Bulloch county crime
and Its terrible punishment on the
head of Roosevelt, the preacher of
negro equality and the exciter of
negro depravity. It says ;
“The negro race as a whole has
so degraded itself in the last decade
until now it has reached an ebb of
moral depravity lower than the
framers of our constitution ever
dreamed. Uau the white people of
the South solve the reason? It we
are left to answer, we declare with
all the force at- our command ; that,
based upon facts and observation,
depravity ot the negro race today
has been brought about almost en
tirely by the appeals to its prejudice
and ignorance made by the Republi
can party. Since the present Re
publican administration began its
wild and unreasonable career, more
crime, (we bellevn statistics will
verify) has baen committed by mem
bers of the negro race, than in the
same length of time during any
other period of our country’s his
tory.”
In another paragraph, the Times
says:
“We yet have some good negroes
in the South, but if Roosevelt’s ad
ministration had never darkened
the pages of American history we
would have many more, and no
doubt the Hodges family would
now be living.”
There is a great deal to sustain
the position taken by our oontempo
rary.
PIE IS GREAT-
The Troy (N. Y ) Times warmly
sustains the position taken by the
editor of the News and Sun in a
recent address in regard to the
greatness of pie.
Most Americans take spells of
being ashamed of their native pie
They go to banquets sit, through
course after course of screwed up
little dishes with fancy French
names, but no pie Tbsy eat sparing
ly and properly, while the magnifi
cent waiters stand behind them
watching every mouthful that en
ters their lips. Theysay about two or
three o’clock that they have had a
good time. They sing “Auld Lang
Syne” or “We Won’t Go Home Til
Morning, "as the case may be,and ad
journ. Then they go home and sneak
softly down to the pantry and take t*
huge slab of pie to stay their hunger
before they go to bed.
No winder the Troy Times exalts
pie. The following noble sentiments
from its pages will find an echo in
every true American breast:
“The truth is that the American
pie, whether of pumpkin, mince,
apples, berries or any other material,
is indigenous to the soil and cannot
be successfully imitated elsewhere.
The foreigner must come here in
order to learn how to make pies
And every American is born with an
appetite for pie. The foreigner in
our midst, and the immigrant, as
slated or otherwise, has to acquire
it. His Americanism, in fact, may
be tested by his taste tor pie. He is
not a good citizen and fully qualified
for all the responsibilities and duties
of a voter until he has learned to
love pie like a native. And his wife
and daughters must learn to make
pies. Not the monstrosities that
sometimes pass by that name—the
sodden, heavy, half baked abomina
tions that fill the eater with homici
dal and suicidal tendencies—but the
rich, rare, racy and healthful con
fections which every well trained
American housewife knows how to
prepare."
Loyal to Bryan
Lee Fairchild tells this story about
John Drew, one of tho Alaskan del
egates to the Chicago convention
Drew found it- necessary to come
to New York and send a substitute
to Chicago. While in Manhattan he
asked a eon of Erin whom he would
vote for, thinking to ascertain the
opinion of the manual toilers
“Billy Brovan," said the Irish
man.
“Why would you do that? ’ asked
Drew.
“St re, I voted for him whin he
run before, and we’ve had good
toimes iver since,” was the answer.
now's Hits’.’
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transaotlotis. and financially able to car
ry out any obligations made by his firm .
WALDING. KINNAN & MAKVIN,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O.
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acting directly upon the blood and mucous
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Druggists.
Take Hall’s Family Pills for constipa
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Ob, well; they burn them up in
Fairbanks’ State also, and they mob
them in Teddy’s.
OUR NEGRO POPULATipN
The number of negroes in the
United States, Including Alaska,
Hawaii, and Porto Rico, is shown
by the final bulletin of tLe Census
Bureau to be 9,804,531, perhaps a
larger number thm. is found in any
other country outside of Africa.
The report indicates that between
eleven and sixteen per cent, of the
negro population have, or are be
lieved by the enumerators to have,
some degree of while blood. The
centre of the negro population is in
DeKalb County, Alabama, about
four miles from the western boan
.dary of Georgia, having moved
thence from Dinwiddle County,
Virginia, 476 miles northeast, since
1790. Almost ninety per cent of the
negroes in continental United States
are in the Southern Staten and
three tenths of them are in Georgia,
Mississippi, and Alabama.
The was an increase amonngihe
nogroes of 1,345,318, or eighteen
per cent., in continental United
States, but the rate of increase de
clined steadily through the nine
teenth century. The death rate ap
proximates thirty per oent., while
that of the whites under the same
calculation is seventeen per cent.
The district in which the propor
tion of the negroes is greatest lies
in the Mississippi alluvial region
along both banks of the lower Mis
sissippi, where five-eighths of the
population is negro, the maximum
being in Issaquena County. Missis
sippi, with more than fifteen negroes
to each white person, Negroes form
one-third of the population in the
South, both in cities and country
districts, whil- in the North they
are about one fortieth of the city
and one-nineSieth of the country
population
The largest number of negroes
living in compact, masses are found
in certain urban counties, severa
of which lie outside the great cot
ton growing States The four each
having over 75,000 negroes are:
District of Columbia, coextensive
with Washington ; Shelby County,
Tennessee. containing Memphis;
Baltimore City, Maryland, and Or
leans Parish, Louisana, co-exten
aive with New Orleans.
Half the negroes in the United
States are under nineteen years of
age, this median age being four
years below the whites.
SOME FIRST-GLASS SPEAKERS-
Chairman Taggart his announced
the names of some ot the orators he
will put in the field Among them
are:
John G. Carlisle. William J
Bryan, Judson Harmon, Hoke
Smith, Melville E. Ingalls, General
Patrick A. Collins, Charles S. Ham
lin, Senator Joseph W. Bailey,
Senator John W. Daniel, W.
Bourke Cockran, Charles A. Towne,
David B. Hill, Senator E W. Car
maok, John Sharp Williams, James
H Eckels, Senator William Joel
Stone, Benjamin F. Shively, John
W. Kern, Carter Harrison and Ed
ward M. Shepard.
These, Chairman Taggart explain
ed, have all volunteered their servi
ces, and they show the character of
the men who are to take the stump
for us. We nave a long list of vol
unteers of the first class. We are
going to have a great deal of speak
ing, and the first of it will not be
gin until after the middle of Sep
tember.
A Peculiar Line of Reasoning-
Thomasville Times- Enterprise:
It would be of interest to know
Xvhat peculiar line of reasoning
could convince the Georgia legisla
ture that it is wrong for the justices
of the supreme and superior course
to accept free passes, and right for
the legislators themselves to hav
them Surely the judges can be
trusted as ranch as the legislators.
Surely the average of character is
as high among judges as legislators.
Can it be that a heart covered by
the judicial ermine yields easier to
the seductive temptation than does
one concealed by the legislative to
ga? Oh consistency tbou art a
el.
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Mrs. Winslow ' Slothing Syrup has been
used foi over sixty years by millions of
mothers for their children while teething,
with perfect success. It soothes the child,
roftens the gums, allays all pain, cures
wind colic, and is the best remedy for
Diarrhoea. Is pleasant to the taste. Sold
bi druggists in every part of the world
Twenty-five cents a bottle. Its value is
incalculable. Be sure and ask for Mrs.
Winslow’s Soothing Syrup, and take no
other kind.
The Albany Herald declares that
while the cotton crop in that section has
suffered serious reverses the man who
|is farming on the “hog, hominy and
hay plan” doesn’t hare to worry.
WILL MAKE FULL INQUIRY.
Governor Terrell’to Investigate States
boro Affair.
Atlanta, A ugu. : 19. —While the re
port of CcptL ; R. Hitch, who was
in command of t..a troops at States
boro, reached the office of Adjutant
General S'. W. Harris yesterday, no
action has been taken regarding the
situation nor will anything be done
until the return from St. Louis of Gov.
ernor Terrell.
Governor Terrell will roach Atlanta
Sunday or Monday, so it will be the
first of next week before the Question
will be considered. The adjutant gen
eral’s office has been instructed to
have a full report of the Statesboro
affair, so far as the military are con
cerned, prepared for the governor
when he reaches the city.
This evidently means that the gov
ernor intends to have a full investiga
tion made of the action of the militia.
Reported interviews with the governor
from St. Louis indicate that it is his
intention to go to the bottom of the
matter and see where the blame be
longs. Whether there will be a cour!
of inquiry or courtmartial or just what
form the investigation will take, can
not be told now, but it is quite proba
ble. according to reports at the capitol,
that there will be a military investiga
tion of some sort, and there seems to
be every reason to believe a board ot
officers will be appointed for the pur
pose.
Sheriff Kendricks’ Statement.
Statesboro. Ga., August 19.—'Sherifl
Kendricks has made the following
statement in reference to the States
boro lynching affair:
to the charges made
against me and certain of my bailiffs
by Captain Hitch, and one or two ot
the Savannah soldiers who were on
guard here at the time of the Reid
and Cato lynching, it becomes my duty
to state that the report that I opened
the door for the mob that was after
Cato and Reid, or that I. in any man
ner, cleared the way or aided the mot
to get the prisoners, was absolutely
untrue, and the statements given out
by these Savannah men do me and my
bailiffs a great and serious wrong.
“When I discovered that the mob
was about to overpower the soldiers
stationed on the stairway, I saw that
something must be done if possible to
get the prisoners out of the reach of
the mob. I had planned to rush them
up into the roof through a scuttle hole
in the ceiling of the solicitor’s room
which adjoins the prisoners’ room, il
such an emergency should arise. 1
at once ran to the door of the prison
ers’ room, unlocked it. went in, closed
the door . and ran as quickly as possi.
ble to the solicitor’s room, thinking
to be in time to get the prisoners out
of the way and up into the roof.
"I had almost succeeded, and in on«
more minute they would have been
landed there, but the mob broke in on
me before I could carry out my plan.
The mob found the door closed and
broke it open. I deny that I pointed
out either of the men to the mob.”
DEATH FROM MOSQUITO BITE.
Farmer of Starke County, Ind,, Con
tracted Blood Poisoning.
Chicago, August 19. —August Ander
son, a farmer of Starke county, Indi'
ana. is dead in a Chicago hospital from
the bite of a mosquito.
Anderson suffered a slight injur?
which caused an abrasion of the skin
on his right hand.
A mosquito bit him in the abrasion
and a few days ihter Anderson began
to suffer intensely. He came to Chi.
cago for treatment but blood poison
Ing resulted.
ATLANTA LAWYER KILLED.
Was Run Down by Train While Cross
ing Tracks.
Atlanta. August' 19.—Edward Bur
rington. a lawyer, with law offices at
223 Kiser building, was killed at 'he
Central avenue crossing at the real
of the union depot at 25 minutes to 1
o’clock.
Mr Burrington was attempting tc
go across the railroad track, when ar
eng :i • of the Central railroad ran ovei
him and 1 • was almost instantly k’ll
ed. Mr ’ iirringtcn was GO years old
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ot which our little ad. men- »
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ceived during the last week
more new Fall Goods that we
cannot mention in this space.
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this week.
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POPULIST CANDIDATES.
Watson and Tibbles Notified of Their
Nominations.
New York, August 19. —Thomag g,
Watson, of Georgia, the people’s party
candidate for president, and Thomas
E. Tibbles, of Nebraska, the candidate
for vice president, were formally
fled of their nominations last night at
Cooper Union.
The big hall was crowded when the **
two candidates, accompanied, by
fred G. Boulton, of Brooklyn, chairman
of the meeting, appeared on the plat,
form. There was much cheering.
Chairman Boulton introduced Jufigg
Samuel W. Williams, of Indiana, who
made the speech officially notifying ,
the candidates of their selection. -
In addressing Mr. Watson Mr. (
Hams said the convention that noml.
nated him was made up of unselfish,
self-sacrificing patriots who attended* ■
and participated in its deliberations
solely through a high sense of duty.
Mr. Watson, it is understood, has
made up his mind to push the cam
paign as he has never pushed one be
fore and declares that he will make ft
a point to visit as many cities in the
the south and to talk to as many as
semblies as he can reach.
Mr. Watson’s speech opening the
campaign will be made in Atlanta. The
Broughton Tabernacle will probably
be used for the occasion. i
Five thousand people attended the
barbecue at Hawkinsville given to
those who attended the convention of *
the State Agricultural Society. This
shows that farmers will organize suc
cessfully for some purposes at any rate.