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THE AMERICUS WEEKLY TIMLS-RECORDER: FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1891
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THK TIMES I’CHLISHIN'O
I’KESIDENT McGKATH’S LETTER.
A matter which lias attracted a great
deal of attention
a great deal mori
dent Me(Irath. of the Kansas A1
calling upon southern alliancoiii
join in a distinct and third party.
Perhaps no man in the South is:
qualified to speak upon this 8ubje<
representing the sentiment of the
TIIK ALLIANCE AND POLITICK.
It is to be feared that the predictions
one which w ill attract j may too soon be realized concerning the
is the letter of Presi-: trouble in the ranks of the Farmers 5 Al-
inee. liancc on the question of politics,
u to While the southern alliancetnen real
ize that the social and moral salvation of
* well this section depends upon the absolute
, as solidity of the white people in one
Alii- party, under whatever name it may go,
a nee of this section, as Colonel L. K. the different conditions in the West do
Livingston. not emphasize (his necessity so strongly;
He was found at his room at the Mark- and the farmers feel disposed to cut
liaiu yesterday, and asked what lie j loose from both parties and form a third
A.mcricus, Ga., April 24, 1891.
thought of it.
He read the dispatch in the Constitu
tion carefully, and then wrote his an
swer—framing the question in his own
Suitki.y, with such a representative as
Tiik Timks-Rk< ordkk, Americas ought
to flourish like the green hay tree.—
Trihune-of-Rome.
JrnoK (’risk's candidacy lor speaker
seems to he winning favor every day. 1 for the affiliation of Southern alliance-
lie has gained wonderfully in the last men in the committee convention, which
ten days.—Augusta Chronicle.
Learned men tell us that in Latin tin
party to carry out Alliance principles.
Trained from childhood to hate the
name of Democracy, and feeling a thor
ough disgust for the present tnanage-
ords m, ut of the Republican party, they see
This is the result. no alternative hut to go outside the
A PIhIii Question—A Main Answer. party lines as now organized, to seek
VVliat of the call by trank McGrath f or relief that they think cannot he ob
tained otherwise.
Hence, while Southern leaders like
third Col. Livingston announce their purpose
make their light inside the lines of
United States it in
like blazes to get
Marietta Journal.
•mind
•at.—
Gov. Noutiikx will attend the teach
ers’ convention, to he held at llrunswiek
April JO. He and State School Commis
sioner Brad well will both deliver ad
dresses to the teachers.
is a declared effort to constitute
party?”
“I have not seen the call. Southern Hie Democratic party
aliiaticomcn will not participate in that
convention. This whole question was
carefully considered at Ocala last De
cember. and a con’
from the several fa
gauizatious in the union wa
February 22, 1892.
If Mr. Blaine or Mr. Depew hail <
agreed
the tw<
hicli the Alli
ance really controls so far as it desires,
the drift of the Western alliancemen is
decidedly towards the organization of a
of delegates third party, and unless they can induce
and labor or- Southern Democratic alliancemen to
jailed for endanger the safety of Southern state
governments and social institutions by
At this convention the demands, as a desertion of the principles of Demoe-
icy it looks like a split in the ranks of
ipon, were to he
political parties,
mbmitted to
and in the n, e Alliance is hr
rowing. Such an event
along with the president, and made j event neither of them should agree to . WO uld ho deploiable, and some strong
some little speeches about reciprocity,
the presidential tour might have been
followed by great results.
Mai.vkrn Him., located about twelve
miles below Richmond, the scene of one
such a policy as demanded, then
ond convention should he called.
“1 do not know by what authority tho ossary to I)revent Bllc |, a dlnastera
Cincinnati convention is called, hutcer- j a split would bri[l!{ abollt .
tainly McGrath has no right as president
and active work by Southern alliance-
men with their Western brethren is nec-
such
Levi Dumbauld, chairman of the
of the most famous battles during the " f ‘ 10-S . tat ® Al “ nC ®° f Kilnsas to cn ‘ j Farmers' Allianec state central commit-
late war, has just been sold to William | ‘ U f 1 V " r t ° ' “ tce . has an address to tlio people
II. Hale, of New York city.
Thk Brunswick T
oyster commission at its late session in
policy as indicated in the Associated i„ reply to that recently issued by Frank
I I>,oss re P ort » f'”"" 1 in to -‘ Ia y’" Const!- McGrath,president of the state Farmers’
t »at t le , tution. j Alliance, who claimed that unless the
“Such a course of conduct would do f armer s of the south deserted the Dorn-
tliat city “did nothing but attend to bus-1 |, an „ a i| along tlio line. The Ocala con
iness.” That’s just what Tiik Ti
Recorder predicted they would do
* ocratlc party the farmers of tho north
would go to the Republican party. Mr.
• I vention has provided the remedy for cn
j forcing our demands-and upon that OumbaTild denied Mr. McGrath’s state-
Monday’s metropolitan papers con- ° ,,r people are largely agreed. i ment and adds: “The people’s party in
tain a column of baseball news concern- ’ ^ tldnl ui.iy become .a neccssi- Kansas | H } (1 tlio field to stay and lias no
ing Sunday games played in all the lead-1 ^ 1“enforce our demands, hut certainly intention, under any circumstances, of
i until the two parties now in existent*
ing northern and western cities. And j
yet this is suppn
country.
ed to he a Christian i re ^ use our people any encouragement or
abandoning the third party movement
and returning to the old party line. It
It is astonishing to observe what a
world of gratification the Republicans
derive, or pretend to derive, from the j nortllwe8t among the’ aUiancetncn to
.•cognition, an attempt to create a third 8w |j t |iy j n favor of the overthrow of both
ary, hazardous and un
party is unnecessary, Hazardous ana un-i oftheo i d pa rtie 8 without any its and
Wlse * huts, and its delegates will go to tho
There is quite a prejudice in the Cincinnati convention of May 19 for the
solitary free-trade feature of the Mc
Kinley bill, namely, the removal of the
duty from raw sugar.
Thk Ncvy York papers claim that tho
problem of street sweeping about which
such a howl has been going up, has been
practically settled by the ladies, who are
sweeping tho streets with the long skirts
of this season’s dresses. Thus these ar
ticles of feminine drapery are useful as
well as ornamental.
Tiik World’s Fair coni ini turn of the
State Agricultural Society was to have
met in Atlanta Wednesday, but only
President Waddell and Col. Livingston
atliiiating with either party.
“Whether this can be overcome is a
question for the future, and chiefly de-
purpose of assisting to organize the
third party national campaign of 1892,
ready to clasp hands with all who will
join that movement for tlio anticipation
pciHls upon the action of tlio lifty-sec- ; of tho laboring classes. Hesitate or
halt, who may, the people’s movement
must go inarching on to tlio final victo-
Let nono lose faith or falter. For-
ond congress, which is largely Demo
cratic.
“If the congress now elected should
refuse tlio relief demanded, or a reason- j w “ ard cn mass0 ovor a u opposition,
able substitute therefor, then in my
opinion, the northwest will he clamor
ous for a third party, with far more
BLAINE AS A CANDIDATE.
Thk Timks-Rkcordkr has always
sympathy in tho southern states than j boasted of tlio intelligence of all its
readers; but it seems that some mental
our Allianco * reservation will need to be exercised
now calculated upon.
“Wo cannot expect
friends of the north and west to accept j hereafter ln speaking of the attainments
anything short of an assurance that tlio
I of some few* of them.
Agricultural Society don’t give itself
much concern about tlio Chicago affair.
were present, tho committee failing to j controling polit ical party will at least! Recognizing the ability of Mr. Blaine,
show up. Evidently the Georgia State , endeavor t0 so Bhapo le({U , at , 0II as to i and tlio greater credit it would be to the
meet the emergencies tlmt now are so j cotl ntry to have him for president, if by
embarrassing to the farmers and labor-j a,, y mi * ha P tl10 Republicans won in
Guthbcrt lias a new paper, the Leader, ers of this country, and a failure to do so * 1,15 Timeh-Becoiidkii nominated
by Joseph X. .Stanford, In view of the j might drive the hulk of the southern at- I J 1 *” 1 as Republican ^candidate, “sub-
dcstrnction of tlie fruit crop and the j liancemon to their assistance.
‘I have all confidence that tlio Demo-
lateness :>f garden truck, to say nothing
of the slim prospects for blackberries, j cratic party will give us the relief we
it is difficult to see where Editor Stan- j seek. The northwestern alliancemen
ford expects to get the
mill grinding until s\
roasting ears come In.
5oru to keep his
eet potatoes and
Thk Times Kecordkk desires this
morning to submit to every business
man in Americas the idea of the estab
lishment of aboard of trade. This ques
tion is merely suggested now, to he
more fully discussed and urged later on.
Americus must have a board of trade;
and the movement to establish one can
not too soon he inaugurated.
have no such confidence in the Demo
cratic party, and more than in the Re
publican party. That is tho difference
between us now.
is right.”—Constitution.
Liki rkvant-(Jovkuxok Jone-
New York, “pays the freight,” but don’t | e | LM .t tliei
pay blackmail. One Rettenhouse, w ho
figured as PresidentJPolk’s private secre
tary, and was relegated to tho rear by
the Ocala Convention, tried to get Jones
to “pay the fieight” on a b*g hatch of
• | imaginary 'otes that Rittenhousc offered
Judge Cuisuhas had to deny the false j h> deliver, with tho result of an expos-
e of his scheme to President Polk, and
reports put in circulation by his <
mics that ho was not a tariff reform I the denouncing of himself by Editor
Democrat. His record speaks for itself j Dunning, of the National Economist, as
and shows ho is in full accord with peo
ple in all measures of tariff reform.
His enemies are trying to heat him for
speaker by despicable methods, hut they
will not Succeed.—Marietta Journal.
The Amkiihjus Timks-Rkcokoi:::, the
consolidated paper, comes to us bright
as a new silver dollar. It is a credit to
Americus and should be liberally sus
tained. Wo are glad to know our friend j
Glessner still retains editorial conncc-1
tion with the paper. Mr. B.iscom My-
rick, the edltor-iu-chief, ha.* shown J
great aptitude for newspaper work.— i
Marietta Journal. i
Among other foolish measures that
failed of enactment in the Minnesota Democratic house returned in plac
legislature was one to compel every ar
ticle in every paper published in that
state to lie signed by the waiter. A
more nousensic ’ idea was never before
shaped into a hi.I. The name* of the
writer- of every article that now appear
can he had whenever legal or personal
redress is demanded of the publisher.
jeetto the action of the Democratic party
at the polls.” This was misconstrued
by the aforesaid solans into the putting
up of Mr. Blaine for tlio Democratic
nomination subject to the action of the
Democratic convention.
All candidates of either party are sub-
Time will show which i eot to 11,0 actiol ‘ of the othor I’ art >' at
the polls; and in suggesting Mr. Blaine’:
name, Thk Timks-Hkcoiideii merely
stated that if the Democracy failed to
own candidate in 1892, the
| next best that could happen to the
i country would he that Mr. Blaine be the
i man, rather than Harrison, Alger, Sher
man, or such narrow minded and par-
i tizan politicians as they arc.
I Tiik Timks-Rk<oiu>kk wants any dc-
| cent Democrat in preference to any Ke-
! publican, but if wo must have a Repub-
i Bean let it he Blaine.
| This is the sentiment of all Democrats
j who leally wish their country well, and
! feel any national pride in a successful
administration under whatever party
! may be in power.
The Augusta Evening News is respon
sible for the following:
Governor Tilinan, of Mouth Carolina who
was made governor of that utatc as a repre
sents ive of the farmers, speaks out against
the sub-treasury scheme:
• I do not he lev ” said Governor Tllman,
“If the Farmers’ Alliance were polled In this
s'me. one-half would support the sub-treas
ury scheme. My guide in making up my
opinion Is to observe the results in the con
gressional districts where, by vote, this has
been tested, ami I believe that the Alliance
of the entire south would repuJUte It.
a Some lead* rs may favor it, but the rank end
of file—the thinking, reading members-utterly
tile Itei’d-riilik'ii body just adlonrne.1. j refllllc tlH ' “ bMlriJ l”“ v "‘ | on«of t"e Mheme."
which squandered a thousand million DoimjeCity has only three grades of
dollars. The civil service fraud is thus society, according to a recent arrival
directly responsible for the billion <1**1- from the West. The first, or “aristoera-
i scoundrel from A to X.”
If any vain-glorious man thinks that
the “woraen-rigliters women” are going
to he relegated to a condition of “in
nocuous desuetude,” he is badly mis
taken. Col. Plm*be Cousins is secretary !
of the executive committee of the ladies’ ,
department of the World’s Fair: and I
what is more, she purposes to remain !
such, and run the whole institution to
suit herself regardless of tho protests of
others of tlio committee.
If Cleveland hadn’t run the civil
service fraud into tho ground to the dis-1
gust of the Democracy, and the strength
ening of the Republican ofliee holders,
he would have been re-elected, and a
OPPOSITION TO MB. CRISP.
The editor of the St. Louis Republic
has been very nicely knocked out in his
attempt to fill the heads of the people
with the idea that Congressman Crisp is
a protection Democrat and not in ac
cord with the principle of tariff reform
for which the Democracy is now bat
tling. The efforts of the editor of the
Republic to defeat Mr. Crisp for the
speakership has disgusted the leaders
of the party in all sections of
the country; and the result J
Crisp is stronger to-day than lie lias ev
er been, and his splendid record is be
ing laid before the people with excel
lent effect hv his colleagues in Congress,
who are determined that he shall not be
done a gross injustice.
The distinguished Georgian in the bat
tle for tariff reform has always been in
the front rank, and as Congressman
Outliwaite, of Ohio, truly says, it was
Crisp who made one of the most power
ful and convincing arguments in favor of
a reduction of the tariff that was ever
hoard on the floor of the Fifty-first Con
gress, and that he was always in the
lead in the fight against the McKinley
hill. The general impression is that the
Republic is either misinformed as to the
record of Mr. Crisp on the tariff question,
or that it has a favorite for tlio speaker-
ship and is trying to prejudice the can
didacy of that gentleman by leading the
Democratic Congressmen-elect in the
Western states to believe that he is not
sound on the tariff question.
There is not a truer or more loyal
Democrat in congress than Mr. Crisp,
or one who is better equipped to ho the
speaker of the House, and tho fact that
he is an earnest advocate of tho reform
of the tariff is evidenced by the hearty
support for the speakership which he is
receiving from tho Boston Herald and
other leading independent journals of
the east which have taken issue with
tho Republicans on the tariff question.
Mr. Crisp’s speech in Boston in favor a
reduction of tho tariff, won for him a
host of friends in New England and
helped the Democrats of Massachusetts
to victory last November, and we are
quite sure that the Democratic mem
bers of congress from that state will
show their appreciation of his services
by voting for him for the speakership
in which position he will reflect credit
on his party.—New Orleans States.
Tiik Minnesota legislature has ad
journed, and one of its last acts was to
defeat by a decisive vote the hill to com
pel the pretty chorus girls to wear long
dresses on the stage. No insignificant
piece of legislation has caused such an
uproar and produced more comment as
this “anti-tights” bill, and its death
knell was really sounded last w eek when
a dramatic company in St. Paul bur
lesqued tho hill in tho presence of the
whole legislature, by having all the bal
let girls appear in bloomers, and the
legs of the chairs and pianos also mod
estly draped to avoid shocking the deli-
cato sensibilities of the legislative
prudes. So great w’as the ridicule heap
ed upon the bill that it was laughed to
death like all attempts at reformation
by legislative enactment will he, when
not backed up by a healthy public sen
timent which demands tlio law. It is
safe to say that as long as “the human
form divine” sees fit to display its lines
of feminine beauty and grace upon tlio
stage in stockinet, just so long will any
attempt to legislate against it he a waste
of time. The present .ago is swinging to
the opposite extreme from the ascetism
and puritanism of the former genera
tion, and until tho pendulum of time
starts hack again nothing .can stop its
progress.
In spite of the peaceful utterances of
the Government officials, everybody
knows that Russia is making extensive
preparations for war, and that her rivals
are on their side m iking counter-prepa
rations for a great struggle, which must
sooner or later come. Russia has been
spending enormous sums in the con
struction of strategic railways and ar
rangements for the transportation o;
large bodies of Russian troops to the
Austro-German frontier are almost com
plete. This movement of the Russian
forces toward the frontier of Germany
and Austria, would four years ago, have
required six months time, hut by the use
of the new strategic railroad, a month’s
time is all that is necessary for the <
ccntration of troops which is looked for
ward to as likely to occur in the near
future.
PREMIER BLAINE.
Now that Mr. Blaine’s last official
note to Minister Rudini is made public,
it is seen that he occupies the correct at
titude on the question now at issue be
tween the United States and Italy.
Whatever may be said of Mr. Blai
political record and methods, there can
he no question that he has more states
manship than any man in the Republi
can party, if not in the whole country.
Political prejucice should not blind our
eyes to the great ability of this man,
who for a quarter of a century has been
one of the most conspicuous figures in
American history.
Thk Ti imks-Rkc ordku believes him to
he by far the best, ablest, most honora
ble and honest man in the Republican
party of his prominence, and there does
not appear to he any just grounds for
the fear that if he readied the presiden
tial chair, his administration might in
volve tho country In trouble with foreign
powers. His sagacity, and resources
are second to those of no man in public
life, and while like other men ho lias
his faults, it is doubtful if any one could
give more general satisfaction to the
people irrespective of party than Mr.
Blaine.
If we must have a Republican presi
dent. let us have Blaine.
The country is tired of such milk-and-
water figure heads as Hayes and Harri
son in the chair of Cleveland, Lincoln
and their distinguished predecessors,
and the sentiment is daily gaining
strength that a mistake was made in set-
Blaine aside for the late lamented
Hayes and the present lamented Har
rison.
Mr. Blaine should by all means be
given the nomination for 1892; so that if
by any mishap, the Republicans should
w’in, the country can still have a presi
dent of whose administration she need
not ho ashamed on acsount of its weak
ness and inainty.
Thk Timks-Rkcokhkk nominates Mr.
Blaine, subject to the action of the
Democracy at the polls in November 1892.
If the Democracy don’t get Cleveland,
then we want the ablest man in the Re
publican ranks, James G. Blaine.
Major J. F. Hanson, one of the
brainiest and most progressive men of
Georgia must feel awfully lonesome as
the only protectionist in Georgia. He
can probably come nearer making the
worse(ap?ear the better reason than any
man who will speak at the banquet of
the protective tariff league in New York
next week. It is a pity that so able s
man and so eloquent and forcible speak
or should ho wasting his energies light
ing againt the inevitable. If there is
any one thing upon which the large ma
jority of the American people is deter
mined, it is tariff reform, as near al ap
proach to free trade as can ho accom
plished, with the necessary expenses of
an economically administered govern
ment to bo provided for out of the im
posts. Tariff reform is the watchword
now, and any man who opposes the cur
rent is fighting against hopeless odds.
HARRISON AND 180‘L
President Harrison’s tour in the South
will have an effect in 1892 That effect
will he in Mr. Harrison’s favor, so far as
the Republican nomination is concerned.
If the tour was undertaken with a po
litical end iu view the scheme was a
wise one; otherwise it was a lucky
stroke, ftr. Harrison is in the South as
the President of the Union; is welcomed
as such; is listened to with that degree
of respect that)is due to the chief magis
trate of the nation. Party politics are
ignored to a very large extent—certainly
to the extent that both Democrats and
Republicans unite in paying honor to
the man at the present time foremost iu
the nation, and listen respectfully to
what he has to say.
Personality is frequently a potent fac
tor in politics. Whatever of potency
there may he in Mr. Harrison’s person
ality appears to be in process of devel
opment in his present tour. While he
may not ho winning votes for his party
in the South lie is bringing himself into
close * relationship with the rank and
file of his own party in that section.
There Is no question in tho minds of
the well-informed that it was the design
of President Harrison and lus party-
managers to “fix” the southern states for
the nominating convention in 1892. The
president recognizes tho superiority of
Blaine, and is taking advantage of the
prestige of his position to lay his wires
so nicely now, as to give him the advant
age when the convention meets.
Whatever advantage Blaine may have,
if any at all, in the nominating conven
tion must he the result of tho sheer pre
ponderance of brains and statesman
ship. If he cannot come in like a
cyclone and dash away the fabric now
being erected to corral the southern del
egates, he will stand no chance against
the little man now in the white house.
lar steal.
Do* roii Tai.mau
astonished the nati
f Brooklyn, has
j cutting off his
mown side whiskers. Monday's
York Herald gives it as a most
leaders iu Kansas are paving the way for j sensational piece of news under quad-
the return of the Alliance to the Repub-1 ruple headlines. His resemhleuce to
It is said that prominent Alliance j * > ' evv
lican fold. They say that they will go ■ Henry Clay is
into a third party movement if the al- i * n respects,
liaticemen of the south will go with
them, but that they will not lead a third
party movement merely to elec: a Dem
ocratic president. If they have to choose
between the existing parties, they will
go to the Republicans.
• said to be complete
Thk grand jury of Chatham Superior
court brought in an indictment for man
slaughter against Byrnie Murphey and
Prof. Gus Myers for the killing of
Robert K. Willink, in a sparring match
at the theater on the night of March 20.
ey,” is composed of those who put out
their washing. The “middle class”
does its own washing, and the “lowest
class” is that which takes in washing.
This is the most simple and complete
distinction yet known, only it leaves one
large class unaccounted for—those who
think washing an unncccessury luxury.
—Boston Post.
Fatimrh Ingalls is now writieg pas
toral and bucoic poetry. The colic-y
feature of the dyspeptic statesman’s poe
try was caused by the dill in the pit of
the stomach given him by the Farmers
Alliance in the senatorial election.
Thk press of Georgia is unanimous in
condemning Torn Watson for his “bad
break” in announcing Ids opposition to
Judge Crisp. Some depreciate, some
reason, some expostulate, and some rid
icule, but there are no two opinions as
to tho injustice of Mr. Watson’s atti
tude on tho question. About the only
result is that Mr. Watson has gained a
a good deal of notoriety, i thing he was
no doubt seeking from the first.
Editor Bhamiam, of Rome, calls upon
Maj. Glessner, president of the Georgia
Press Association, to hold the annual
meeting of the editors in Rome just at
the time of the military encampment at
Chickamauga, so that they can run over
from Rome for a day and get a sight of
the whole Georgia military array, includ
ing the staff of lieutenant colonels that
surround the commander-in-chief of the
army and navy of Geoigia.
John Jeems Ingalls has demon
strated the wisdom of the Farmers’ Alli
ance in setting down on him, in that he
has dropped into pobiry. When an old
political reprobate grows poetical it’s
high time he was relegated to a state of
“innocuous desuetude.”
Conghessmax Dunxkll, who is on
friendly terms with both President Har
rison and Secretary Blaine, says: “Blaine
is positively not in the nice for president
in 1892. Ho thinks it would not be
right for him as Secretary of State in the
Harrison Cabinet to originate or to coun
tenance any movement looking to his
own nomination for president. Ho will
be true to Harrison, as ho would have
been true to Garfield. But there is an
other and deeper reason—that of family
wishes. The Blaine family, having lost
children so recently, and seen other
misfortunes in their home, do not wish
to pass througu tho ordeal of auothcr
presidential campaign. Mr. Blaine, too,
is aging rapidly in body, though his
head seems as young as ever. Tho nomi-
neo of the convention may he Alger or
Rusk, but will prouably be Harrison.”
Tiik Timks-Rk< oudku never could sec
the consistency of turning out a Repub
lican president to make room for a Dem
ocratic one on the broad platform that a
change of administration was needed to
save the country, and yet stopping the
work of reform just at the point where
it was firstly begun. The same princi
pie that calls for a change of presidents,
demands that the work of reform go on
down to the janitors and spittoon clean
ers. “To the victors belong the spoils”
is sound doctrine, the disregard of which
defeated Cleveland in 1888, and retarded
the purification of the Augean stables a
quarter of a century.
Oi»kha girls refuse to go to Minnesota,
where the law indicates that the poky
men don’t care to see how shapely they
are. Minnesota gives them no show
they say, and they will give Minnesota
no show. Possibly all this obtrusive
virtue conies of having the state so much
under the influence of St. Paul. Lots
of people in this world have heard of St.
Paul who don’t know anything about
Miunesota. —Savannah News.
Ex-Skxatok Ingalls is now devoting
much of his time to the cultivation of
a farm of thirty acres, and to the culti
vation of the good will of the Farmers’
Among tho numerous “isms” that
take root and llourish in Boston the
latest is said to be Buddhism. A con
vention of theosophists is to meet there
soon, and the Herald in explaining why
Boston is so enthusiastic over the new
“ism,” says:
The truth Is a Boston man wants some-
thlnu a good <t*-al proton ruler than Christi
anity for Ills mighty Intellect to wrestle with.
Bu ldha can enmesh him In the webof Intel
lectual ecstasy, can tc*l him weird, ghostly
stories of a thousand reincarnations in the.
past and pro nlse him a thousand more In
time to come. Therefore Buduha is warmly
welcomed. He Imho full of mys ery that If
you attempt to understand him you totter
on the delightful h-lna of insanity, and get
so mixed up that you can’t tell whether you
are the wisest man that ever lived or a drive
ling idiot. For thei>u reasons he U full of
fascination—better than the dreams ofopium
or the hysterics of hasheesh,h perfect legtao-
gler, so to speak. Boston Is rubbing Its mul
titudinous hands in high antlclpa lon, and
its chuckle over Its good fortune Is like the
chime of many l>ells.
Alliance. By the time lie has grown his
first crop of potatoes he will be claiming
membership in tiie Alliance, and then
his star will begin to rise. Who knows
but he may be working to become the
alliance or third party candidate for
president in 1892?
Let Cleveland announce as his plat
form for 1892: “To the victor belong
the spoils,” “Turn the rascals out,”
and he will sweep the country against
any man the Republicans can put up.
Sinc e Mr. Ingalls lias become an hon
est farmer ho is telling some ugly truths
about the party in which he was lately a
bright and shining light. Ho says that
the Republican party’s solicitude about
negro suffrage was purely for political
purposes, and that its onslaughts on the
South were merely for effect, to keep
the Republicans from dividing and to
keep the West and South from uniting
politically. The statement, except as
coming from him, will hardly surprise
any one.
Editor Bramiam, tho Tribune of the
Roman people, who has lately Seen
pouring hot shot iuto tho school teach-
s for their ignor.ance of English|as she
is spoke and writ, makes use of the
word “infinitesinible.” The long suffer
ing Romans will next be treated to sm li
high llown words as “gollypoesle.”
“sculduggcry,” “ohattngansy”
“hunnyfuggle.” Let Editor Branham
beware lest he he indicted for assault
with intent to murder tho Queen’s Knjr-
l'sh.
The announcement is made by friend-
of Mr. Mills in Kentucky, that he will
not be a candidate for re-election after
this term of service in tho lower house,
hut that if his constituents want hi-
services they must send him to the Sen
ate. This sounds rather apochryplmh
as Mr. Mills’ closest friends are pushing
him for speaker, a fact wholly inconsist
ent with tiie idea of an early retirement
from the house.
The Michigan Republicans are dis
posed to urge Gen. Alger’s nomination
for president by the next National He*
publican conrention. This announce
ment will bo gratifying to the colored
delegates to the last convention, who
found Alger had a “barrel,” ami that the
agents of the general thoroughly under
stood practical politics.
Tiik equilibrium of nature is preserv
ed. Valdosta turns out twenty acre- °
cucumbers, and the Atlanta Medico
College about four score doctors. H l, |
while the one is supposed to counter:**
the other, what if both got in their " or
at the same time on tiie same patient
State Senator Ellington has written*
letter withdrawing from the race to
president of the State Alliance. | ll>
said Mr. Searcy, who is now in
will do the same tiling. This will
Col. Livingston an open field, and 118
election is a foregone conclusion.
President Harrison is taking the
wind out of Blaiue’s sails on the rev>1 ^
rocity question by claiming the cre< * it
the Premier’s skillful work in £ et 1 ^ .
reciprocity treaties with our **^ u
American neighbors.
Col. W. II. Howahd, one of the
prominent and wealthy citizens o *
gusta, is dead, aged 85. He was n° I
for his benevolence and charity.
