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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. jonegstf A BUREAU AGENCY I am now locateil temporarily hi iHwxon, Lav* , M bt«u ol-Ujal lo a.. ~ sull'S t.|Sal> l.illo, bealtb of 1.1, in -ib-r, »bo nod. « »ll tun,, my p.r«»ii»l ■'t-oi.on, I w.ll op.» • burfu. f r b. collection ol a-bu, leeldrt I an **.M for •II ^>^ul.r book.. ...a will iwWt. lOUcrlptlon. oa c w.n.f—r.. lydicw la coull bouw. ;W. K.-MUttflRT. Oman, Qb, A;.rll I, 1181. If 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. A CARD. 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