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Americus Recorder.
PUM.ISIIKD 1IY
W. Xj. GliBaSlVEH.
OFFICE ON COTTON AVENUE,
PROFESSIONAL & ItUSINESS CARDS
LAWYERS.
L. H. CARTER,
ATTORNEY AT LA W,
Amf.iuci's, Sumtkk County, : : : : Ga.
Office, oM Kir-t National Bnnk.
Prompt attention given to nil l>usint'S8yn trusted.
Collection* u specialty nod prompt attention
- —« dec23tf
guaranteed.
C. It. McCRORY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
. RLLAVIIXK, GA.
TERMS—All claims from $80 or under, $8;
from #Wto SROO, ten p ‘
DOCTORS.
Dr. 0. B. RAINES,
SURGEON AND PIIVSICIAN.
Blurs hia proteaslonal services, with an uperU
once ol 20 years, to the people of America* and
vicinity, office over Davis Ac. Callaway’s Store. Ilea
denco at corner of Jackson and Church street*.
Calls will receive prompt attention. laii’itlil
DR. C. A. BROOKS,
AMERICUS, GA.
... I be found at night at the
residence of Col. 8. H. Hawkins, corner Lee nn-l
Colledge streets. may B 3m.
MISVEL IjANEO US.
TSToll Pioliett,
TALUOTTON,
- GEORGIA
Will do Pla-UTiiix, Brickwork (in.. Housework
CnlMtinino a specially. Repairing done. Order,
promptly .trended to. . oct«tr
TPresD Meats
—AND
COUNTRY PRODUCE!
I Hin now prepared to furnish the | ublle with
l.,Ice meats, such as Beef, Pork, Mutton, nnd
Kid. I also have on hand nt all Umov chickens
nnd Kgg<. C.»me around aud try me. Hou'.l, side
Cotton Avenue, neat door to V. B. William*.
Fund Itf W. V. MARK.
GIN WORK.
I would reaped fully stale to the public that
REPAIR OLD GINS!
After ha vim; had an experience of seversl
fours ill the largest gin nnnuffictories. I know
that I can give satisfaction. All work gueran
teed. I am located with mv futheron Jrderwm
street, in roar of Oliver A Oliver’s shop. Work
solicited. |inay28 5m| P, A. CAMERON.
Eilwunl J. MiHer. G, Hotnco McCall.
Monumental Marble Works,
MILLER & MrCALL, I*r«i|irl< : li.rs,
Southwest Corner of the Public Square.
AMERICUS, GA.
Monuments, Tombs, Etc., Etc.
of tho best Italian and American Marble.
ou llalltuff for Cemetery Kucloa-
urn, a Specialty.
A. A. Hal tic’s $3.00 Men’s Shoes.
tSTA
r~\ Ouaranlec from tho ManufacturerJZ\
Tdalm that these shoes are ma le of tlm lust
leather that can Ik? pioduced. ’I hero is II" shoddy
hi them; they w ill wear eau»l to any custom mad.
Slice that would cost y.-tl live doHnne. I do a large
business, buy und sell for cash, and th reloro I am
itithied to defy competition. I have taken this
.. . .■„„ .1.!. Il1.n. there 1:4
let hod ,.f introducing this Uloi? >
o be stitched with tin- best of silk, and the but.
tons are sewed on with the b*st of Barbour *
thr#*d, which is imported fiom Scotland. These
shoes are made on the latest Improved la-ts, ar.d
you will Und them an easy tit, alter you have tred
I.ue pair you will wear none thst is not .«tamp«'‘i
.11 lI h« boUom, ‘‘A. A. Bit tlr., K ® s V N
uiwm, sale In Americas nt the BARGAIN
■8TOHK of 8. M. COIIKN, Cotton Ave. uia8m8
266tli EDITION. PRICK OXLV $1.
KNOW THYSELF.,
A Brest Medical Work on Manhood.
hillty I’r
Youth, sod the untold miseries re*ulti»K from|m-
dlM reilon or excesses. A hook {or every man
young, middle acre and old. it contains 124 pre
script!->u* for till acute and ^chronic diseases, each
one of which Is invaluable. So found b? the au
thor, whose i-xiwrlencc for 23 years Is such as
prob ibly never In fun, fell to the lot of any physi
lt jiam * bound in taauufnl French li
j, full gilt, fUBiaiiteed to be
work In every reuse—mechanical, literary and
professional-than any other work Mild In this
country for |2.S0, or the money will »m* rs*fuud»si
in ewnr ms'sue*. Price only |l by mail, jK»*t
paid, lllustraiivef sample 6 cents. Send uow
Hold medal awarded the author by the National
Medieal Association, to the officers of which Ik*
refer
book will not be unful, whether youth, p>
guardian, inairu-loror clergy man.-A nc«i~‘
“ J - — ■ • Medical tnr -
Address the ivatudy Medical Institute, or Dr.
W. H. Parker. No 4 Bulflneh Street, fBoatoo,
Mass , who may be consulted on all duegses re
quiring akdl and experience. Chronic nod obsti-
uftte diseases lint have baffird lbc|J C A I ‘ k, “
of all other physician* a specirl tHUalty.
Hack treated successfully wlthfl-l VQFI P
out bo instsucs of (allure. IrlYOtl-r
BUTch.WAW
POWDER
Absolutely Pure.
Ti i» powder never vatic.-*. A marvel of parity
strength and wholssomencs. More economical
than the ordinary kinds, ami cannot Ik, Bold in
.. pet ton with the multitude of low test, short
weight, alum or phosphate powders. SoUl only
tin ca <m. ROYAL BA KINO POWDER CO, 1
Wall H» rect. New York. octUlyl.
■miBI I s THE TIME I
NIIW TO CORE I
Biy BB SKIN HUMORS.I
TT is at this season when tho Pores open freely
L andthol'erspirslio.. is abundant that Di-dig-
■irdiK Humors' Humiliating Eruptions. Itching
Tortures. Salt tlheiiin. or Kcxeiua. Psoriasis. Tel-
. Ringworm. Uaby'ilu
IT IS A FACT.
jtura'iw' - e J 1 * ir *«jSiS
opha'uI.
nally. an
GREATEST ON EARTH.
y *wouui nave
md head wen
tiling relieved
lured until i used the CUTICUIIA ltKHOLVKNT,
din.l f.
»red U for"th
or cured until k u»u ...» ...
internally, and (Allli'mt* ami Oi.THTB* So.
•xternally. J. W. Adams, Newark, t
GREAT BLOOD MEDICINES.
The half has not been told a* to the great
CURE IN EVERY CASE.
ya ■■§ ja a ■■■■%/For Sunburn,Tan nnd
DC.AU I T tlrenny Skin, Black-
Meat MarKet
' AND
PROVISION STORE.
W. H.&T.M.C0BB
Having purchased from Hare A Cobb the Mel
Market and Provision Mto.c on
COTTON A.V33NITH
keep on hand the Very best cuts of
IIEEF, FORK, KID A.\D SAUSAGE,
and also a full line of
Green Groceries nml Provisions,
.'inl.r. it.k i.ll li**. •>( V.e. t .I.I.-B end PrylU |n
,1—1,. (''inni'd Goods, etc. It Is their aim
to keen a llrst class estnblielilneiit, ami give thsir
i'ii.-tinner* good good* at tin* lowest prices.
gSjr I Ugliest price nild for Cattle, Hogs, and a
kinds of country prodnet*.
Americus, Dec. 15, INHi.lf
Elam Johnson, Son & Go.,
ATLANTA, GA.
WIIOXjBSAIjia
ItfSIicclIilllj- Solids Consignments of
MELONS, CAM’ALOI PES, IIO.VEV,
Atnl Country Produce Generally.
Also, Orders for Anything the Atlanta
Market Affords.
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PEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.
ItUI'UIILIUAN FALSI. PROMISES
EXl'OSKO.
AN ADMINISTRATION OP UOOD
GOVKRNUBNT (IIJTI.INKD.
The plntlorm of the Democratic
party of tho United Stales, through
its representatives, m national con
vention assembled, recognizes that
as the nation grows older new is
sues are horn ot time and progress
and old issues perish, but the foun-
dameutal principles ol Democracy,
approved by the united voice of
the people, remain, and will ever
remain, as the best and only secu
rity for the continuance of free
governmcnt.MTbe preservation of
personal rights, the equality of all
citizens before the law, the reserv
ed rights of the States and the
supremacy of the federal govern
ment, within the limits of the con
stitution, will ever form the true
basis of our liberties and can ucver
be surrendered without destroying
that balance of rights and poweis
which enables the continent to be
developed in peace and social or
dcr to bo maintained by means of
local self-government. But it is
indispensable for the practical ap
plication and enforcement of these
fundamentnl piinciples that the
government should not always be
controlled by one political party.
Frequent charges ol tite adminis
tration is of necessary as constant
recurrence to the popular will.
Otherwise abuses grow and the
government, instead of being car
ried on for the general welfare, be
comes an instrumentality for im
posing heavy burdens upon the
many, who are governed for the
benefit of the few who govern the
public servants, thus become arbit
rary rulers. Tills is now the con
dition of the country. Ilcucc a
change is demanded. The Repub
lican party, so far as principle is
concerned, is reminiseense in prac
tice. It is an organization for
enriching tlioso who control its
machinery. The frauds and job
bery which have been brought to
light in every department of the
government arc sufficient to have
called for reform within the Repub
lican party, yet those in authority
made reckless by long possession
of power, have succumbed to its
corrupting influences and have
placed in nomination a ticket
against which the independent por
tion of tho party arc now in open
revolt. Therefore, a change is de
manded. Buell change was alike
necessary in 187G, but the will of
the people was then defeated by
fraud, which can never bo forgot
ten nor condoned. Again, in 1880
a change demanded by the people
was defeated by the lavish use of
money, contributed by unscrupu
lous contractors and homeless rob
bers, who had bargained for un
lawful profits or for high offices.
The Republican party during its
tenure of power has steadily de
creased in moral character and
political capacity. Its platform
promises are now a lisi, of its past
failures.
Itdcmrnds a restoration of the
navy. It has squandered hundreds
or millions to create a navy that
does not exist.
Il culls upon Congress to remove
the burdens under which American
shipping has been depressed. It
imposed and lias continued these
burdens.
It professes the policy of reserv
ing the public lauds for small hold
ings by actual settlers. It has
given away the people’s heritage
till now a few railroads and non
resident aliens, individual and
corporate, possess a larger area
than that of our farms between the
twojseas.
It professes a preference for free
institutions. It orgauized and
tried to legtiize the control of
Mates elections by Federal troops.
It proposes a desire to elevate
labor It lias subjected American
working men to tho competition
ot convict and imported contract
labor.
It professes gratitude to all who
were disabled or died in the war,
leaving widows and orphans to be
left to a Democratic House ol
Representatives for the first eflort
to equalize both bounties and pen
sions.
It professes a pledge to correct
the irregularities of our tariff. It
created and has continued them.
Its own tariff commission confess
ed Lite need of more than a 20 per
cent, reduction. Its Congress gave
a reduction ot less than four per
cent.
It proposes the protection of
American manufacturers. It has
subjected them to an increasing
Hood of manufactured goods and
hopeless competition with manu
facturing nations, not 0110 of which
taxes raw materials.
It proposes to protect all Amer
ican induatries. It has impover
ished many to subsidize a few.
It professes the protection of
American labor. It lias depleted
the returns of American agricul
ture, an Industry followed by half
our people.
It professes the equality of all
men before the law, attempting to
fix the status of colored citizens.
The acts of its Congress were over
set by the decisions of its courts.
It accepts a new duty, that of
leading in the workjof progress nnd
reform. Its caught criminals arc
permitted to escape through con
tinued delay or actual connivance
in the prosecution. Honey combed
with corruption, outbreaking ex
posure no longer shock its moials,
since its honost members, its inde
pendent journals, no longer sustain
a successful contest for anything
in its counsels or veto upon bad
nominations.
"That a change is necessary is
proved by an existing surplus of
more than $100,000,000, which has
yearly been collected from a suffer
ing people, unnecessarily taxed by
unjust taxation.
We denounce the Republican
party for having failed to relieve
the people Irom the crushing war
taxes, which have paralyzed busi
ness, crippled industry and depriv
ed labor of employment and of its
juat reward.
The Democracy pledges itself to
purify the administration from cor
ruption, to restore economy, to re-
vlve respect for law and to reduce
taxes to the lowest limit consistent
with regard to the preservation ol
the faith of the nation to its credi
tors and pensioners, knowing full
well, however, that legislation af
fecting the occupations of the peo
ple should be cautious and con
servative in method—not in ad
vance of public opinion, hut re
sponsive to its demands.
The Democratic party Is pledged
to revise the tariff in a spirit of
fairness to nil interests, but in mak
ing a reduction In taxes it is not
proposed to injure any domestic
industries, hut rather to promote
their healthy growth. From the
foundation of tills government the
taxes eolleeted at the custom bouses
have been tho ohief source of Fed
eral revenue; such they must con
tinue to he. Moreover, many in
dustries have come to rely on leg
islation for successful continuance,
so that any change ot tiie law must
at every stop he regardful ol the
labor and capital thus involved.
The process of reform must ho sub
ject in execution to the plain dic
tates of justice. All taxation shall
lie limited to tho requirements of
an economical government. The
necessary reduction in taxation
can and must lie effected without
depriving American labor of the
ability to compete successfully
with foreign labor, nnd without im
posing lower rates of duty than
will bo ample to cover any increas
ed cost of production which may
exist from the higher rate of wages
paid in this country. A sufficient
revenue to pay all the expenses of
the Federal government, econom
ically administered, including pen
sions, interest and principal of ihe
public debt, can be got under the
present system of taxation from
the custom houses ou fewer import
ed articles, hearing heaviest on ar
ticles of luxury anil bearing light
est on articles of necessity. Wc
therefore denounce the basis of the
existing tariff, subject to the pre
ceding limitations, and wc demand
that the Federal taxation shall be
exclusively lor public purposes aud
shall not exceed the needs of the
government economically adminis
tered.
The system of direct taxation
known as the internal revenue is a
war tax, asd, anil eo long as the
law continues the money derived
therefrom should he sacredly di
rected to the relief of the people
from the remaining burdens of the
war, be made a fund to provide for
the support and comfort of worthy
soldiers disabled in the line of duty
in the wars of the republic and for
the payment of such pensions as
Congress may from time to time
grant such soldiers, a like fund tor
sailors having been already provid
ed, and nay surplus shouldjbe paid
into tho treasury.
We favor an American conti
nental policy, based upon more in
timate commercial relations with
the fifteen sister republics of North,
Central and South America, but
entangling alliances with none.
We believe in honest money, the
gold and silver coinage of the con
stitution, and a circulating medium
convertible into such money with
out loss.
Asserting tho equality of ail men
before the law, wo hold it the duty
of tho government in its dealings
witli the people to meto out equal
and exact Instice to all ' eltl
sens, of whatever nation, race, col
or or persuasion, religious or polit
ical. Wo believe in a free ballot
and a fair count, nnd wo recall to
tho memory of the people the noble
struggle of the Democrats in the
forty-fifth nnd forty-sixth Con
gresses, by which the reluctant Re
publican opnositon was compelled
to assent to legislation making
everywhere illegal the presence of
troops at the polls, as conclusive
proof Hint n Democratic adminis
tration will preserve liberty with
order.
Selection of Fedeial olllccrs for
the territories should be restricted
to citizens previously resident
there.
Wo oppose sumptuary laws,
which vex citizens and interfere
with individual liberty.
Wc favor an honest civil service
reform nnd tho compensation of all
United States officers by fixed
salaries, tho separation of church
and State and the diffusion of free
education by common schools, so
that every child In tho land may
be taught tiie rights and duties of
citizenship.
While we favor all legislation
which will tend to the equitable
distribution of property, to the pre
volition of monopolj’, to tiie strict
enforcement of individual rights
against corporate abuses, wc
hold that tiie welfare of society de
pends upon a scrupulous regard for
the rights of property as defined by
law.
Wo believe that labor is best re
garded where it is freest and most
enlightened. It should therefore
he fostered and cherished. Wo
favor the repeal of all laws restrict
ing the freo action of labor and tho
enactment ol laws by which labor
organizations may be incorporated
and ol all snch legislation ns will
tend to enlighten the people as to
the true relation of eapitnl and
labor.
We believe that tho public lands
ought as far as possible to be kept
as homesteads for actual settlers;
that ail unearned lands heretofore
improvidontly granted to railroad
corporations by tiie notion of tho
Republican party should ha restor
ed to the public domain, and that
no more grants of lands ahull he
made to corporations or he allowed
to fall into tho ownership of alien
absentees.
Wc uro opposed to all proposi
tions wbioh upon tiny pretext
would convert the general govern
ment into a machine for collecting
taxes to bo distributed among the
States or citizens thereof.
In re-affirming the declarations
of tho Democratic platform of 1856,
that the liberal principles embodied
by Jefferson in the declarations ot
independence and sanctioned in the
constitution, which make ours the
land of liberty and the asylum ol
the oppressed of every nation, have
aver been cardinal principles in tiie
Democratic faith, we nevertheless
do not sanction tho importation ol
foreign labor or tho admission of
servilo races unfitted by habits,
training, religion nnd kindred uh-
sorption into the great bulk of our
people. American civilization de
mands that against the immigration
or importation of Mongolians to
these Bhores our gates should be
closed.
The Democratic party insists
that it is the duty of the govern
ment to proteot with equal fidelity
and vigilance the rights of United
States eitizens, native and natural
ized , at home and abroad, and to the
end that this protection may bo as
sured, United States papers of nat
uralization, issued by a court of
competent jurisdiction, must be
respected by the executive and leg
islative departments of our own
government and by all foreign
powers. It is an imperative duty
of this government to effectually
protect nil rights of persons and
property of every American citizen
in foreign lands, and demand and
enforce full*reparation for any in.
vasion thereof. An American citi
zen is only responsible to bis own
government for any act done in bis
own country or under Ids flag, and
only can lie tried therefor on her
own soil and according to her laws,
and no power exists In this gov
ernment to expatriate an American
citizen to lie tried in any foreign
land for any such act. This conn-
try “has never had a well deflned and
executed foreign policy eave under
Democratic admlniatratton. That
policy has ever been in regard to
foreign nations, so long as they do
not act detrimental to the interests
of the country or hurtful to our"
citizens, to let themnlone. As the
result of this policy, we recall th*
acquisition of Louisiana, Florida,
Calnfornin and the adjacent Mexi
can territory by purchase alone,
and contrast these grand acquisi
tions of Democratic statesmenabip
with the purchase of Alaska, the
solo fruit of a Republican adminis
tration of nearly a quarter of a cen
tury.
The Federal government should
care for and Improve the Mississip
pi river and other great water way
of tho republio, so as to seenre for
tho interior states easy and cheap
transportation to tido water.
Under the long period of Demo
cratic rule and polloy, our merchant
marine was fast overtaking and on
the point of outstriplng Great
Britain. Under twenty years of
Republioan rale nnd polloy onr
commerce has been left to British
bottoms anil almost tbe American
flag 1ms been swept off the high
seas. Instead of the Republican
party’s British policy, we demand
for tho people of the United States
an American policy. Under Demo
cratic rulo nnd polloy, our mer
chants and sailors, waving the stars
aud stripes in every port, success
fully searched out a market for the
varied produots of American indns-
try under a quarter ef a century
of Republican rule and polloy, de
spite our manifest advantages over
all other nations, highly productive
labor, a favorable climate and teom-
ing soil—despito the freedom of
trade among among all these Unit
ed States; despite their population
by the foremost races of men and .
an annual immigrationol theyoifng,
thrifty and adventurous of all na
tions; despite our freedom here from
the inherited burdens on lile and
industry in tbe old world monarch
ies, tbe costly war navies, their vast
consuming, non-producing stand
ing nrmios; despite twenty years
of peace, Republican rule and poli
cy have managed to surrender to
great Britain, aldng’witb onr com
merce, the control of tbe markets
of the world. Instead of tbe Re
publican party’s British polloy,
wc demand in behalf ol the Ameri
can people an American policy.
Instead of tbe Republican party’s
discredited schemo and false pro-
tense of friendship for American
labor, expressed by imposing taxes,
we demand in behalf of tho Demo
cratic party freedom for American
labor by reduoing taxes, to tbe
end that these United States may
compote with unhindered powers
for supremacy among the nations
in all the arts of peace and fruite
of liberty.
With profound regret, we hive
been apprized by tho venerable
statesman through whose person
was struck thai blow at tho vital
principle of republics, acquiescence
in tbe will ot tbe majority, that he
cannot permit us again to place in
his hands Lite leadership of the
Deuiooralic hosts for the reason
that the achievement of reform In
the administration of the Federal
government is an undertaking now
loo heavy for his age and wiling
strength. Rejoicing that his life
has been prolonged until tbe gen
eral judgment ot onr fellow coun
trymen Is united In the WIbU that
tho wrongs were righted in his
person. For the Democracy ol the
United States, we ofler to him In
his withdrawal Irom public cares
not only respectful sympathy and
esteem, but also that best homage
to a freeman, tho pledge of our lie-
votiou to the print iples and cause
now Inseparable in the history of
this republic from tbe labors and
name of Samuel J. Tilden.
With Ibis statement of the hopes,
principles and purposes of tbe
Democratic party, the great Issue
oi reform and a change in the ad
ministration is submitted to tbe
people in calm confidence that the
popular voice will pronounce' In
ravorofnew men, new »dd more
favorable conditions lor the growth
of industry, extension to trade and
tbe employment and due reward to
labor and capital, and the general
welfare of the whole country.
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