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I 1 THE AMERICUS WEEKLY TIMES-RECORDER: FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1891. THE TIMES-RECORDER. Dally and Weolxly. The Amkuicus Recorder Established 1870. The Auzriouj Times Established IS90. CONSOLIDATED, Al'HIL, 1891. SUBSCRIPTION.- Daily, Ohm Tear, >8 Daily, One Month, . - Weekly,OneYear, - • 1 Weekly, Six Months, Tor adrartlslDg rates address Bascok Myrick, Editor and Manaser, THE TIMES PUBLISHING COMPANY, Americas, Oa. Americus, Os., July 24, 180X. Tbere was no third party talk in the •peaches of the ailiancemen in Americua last Tuesday. Tiie American people are very much pleased at Nina Vanzant’s marriage, be cause her husband is going to take her out of the country. The senatorial districts of Georgia will not bo disturbed by the present leg islature. That body lias indicated that it is best to let well enough alone. ' The bounty on maple sugar alone will cost the government $5,000,000 this yecr, but Mr. McKinley in his brags about cheap sugar to the people of Ohio will fail to make any mention of that fact Tom Watson will not resign. But if he should, as some of his people want him to, and go before them for re-elec tion upon his Atlanta platform, his veto would come up several thousand short of the returns of last year. The Hon. Tom Watson got his foot into It when he unburdened himself in bis Atlanta speech. Ho has gone farther than any other public npoakcr In the state, and is justly censured and rebuked by the press and tho people. It is said tbat Mr. Clarkson It to bo sfent to Ohio to manage the campaign for the republicans tbere. Tbere is also a campaign on in Mr. Clarkson own state of Iowa just now, and it seems that his services would be required "there. The Cincinnati Enquirer has swung into line, and will give Gov. Campbell its support In the canvass against Mc Kinley and high tariff. The Cincinnati gang who opposed the ro-nomlnatlon of the governor will be found in the right placo when the time comos to vote. The Itev. Sam Small has reformed again. Ho jumed from the press to the pulpit, from the pulpit to the lecture field, from the latter to tho school house, and now has returned to bis first love, and again enters tho newspaper field. Sam’s experiences have not been profit able. It appears that baby culture is a lost art in certain parts of Connecticut. In what is known as the White Hills school district a child has not been born in nine years, and in consequenco the schools have run short of material and will Lavo to closo until a new crop of scholars has boon raised. e The Koine Tribune predicts direful results from the alliance rallies hold in Georgia tho past-week. But the Tribune has always been an alliauce fighter, and helped Dr. Felton in Ills hallohujn licks agolnttbe democratic party last fall, simply bccauso the alliance captured the nomination. Goon nows comeB from Iowa. From! nent Republicans, men of intluence in fiuenco In tho state, aro Hocking to the standard of Gov. Boles. a Oue of these, Maj. Richmond? of Council Bluffs, a prominent member, too, of the Grand Army of tho Republic, predicts that tho Democratic nominco will be re-elected by 25,000 majority. The dohiocratic vote of Hamilton county is about one-eighth of that of the entire stato of Ohio. It would be a serious loss to tho party if this vote shonld bo turned over to McKinley,' but that la not possible. It Is the political leaders in Hamilton county who aro dis affected, and tho fact that they wero sat down on will win the party more votes than thelt disaffection can loso it. The St. Louis Republic says that tljo next congress will Investigate the Key stone Bank scandal with the view of Impeaohlng Postmaster General Wana- maker. There is no doubt in tho minds of the people that Wanny was mixed up In the general steal and swindle, hut while he is awfully piqus he is also shrewd and slick and it will be a diffi cult task to get evidence against him to make a republican senate consent to im peach him. The investigation, however, is abandoned for this reason, because it 1s sure to bring out a great deal of his rascality and enable tho America^ peo ple to viow him in hir true light. Democratic primaries held in a num ber of counties in Mississippi last week indicate that United States Senator George has a big lead In his candidacy for re-election. Out of forty-seven democrats who have thus far been nomi nated for the legislature, forty are for George. Major Barksdale has secured only sevrfh. The latter is making his canvass on the sab-treasury platform, bat this does not take with the Missis sippi democrats, and most of the coun ties that have acted have denounced it in the strongest terms. Despite his declination, the indications are that Senator Walthall will be chosen as his own successor. KEYSTONE politics. Pennsylvania was once a Democratic stronghold; It gave Harrison about 80,- 000 majority in 1888, and went for the Democratic candidate for governor in 1800. It would he a very remarkable circumstance if it should go Democratic in the coming election and come into politics as a doubtful state in 1892. Yet a great many Keystone Democrats and some Quay Republicans anticipate this as the outcome of the political situation now in existence in tbat state. The Hon. James Kerr, chairman of the Dem ocratic State Central Committee, rays that his forces are in better shape and are more hopeful than they were at any time preceding the election of Novem ber, 1890. Success in that election may have aroused undue confidence in the ranks of the party, but it is not wholly improbable that tho Democrats tbere know more of the conditions surround ing them than is apparent to outsiders. Senator Quay's telegram, sent out after dark on the day of the last election, an nouncing that his man had been elected by 30,000 majority, occasioned no aston ishment among Democrats* save as to the smallness of the supposed Republi can majority. The -eturns astonished everybody. Perhaps something similar Is iu store now. Wanamaker, Bnrdslcy, Quay and tiie rest of the gang make a nauseating' dose to cram down the throats of the peo ple, and there is already a great deal of gagging going on among the Republicans of delicate sensibilities. Those gentle men are threatening to revive the old in dependent organization of 1882, which mado it so warm for the Camerons. Tne purpose of the revival is to defeat Quay by putting up candidates in all the dis tricts pledged to vote against his re-elec tion, and this means war to the knife; for Quay can not suffer defeat without suffering political death, and he will not tamely submit to a homicidal attack. He is at the head of the organization and has all munitions of war under bis con trol; he can therefore cooduct a lively defense and at some points will be able to assume the aggressive. The Demo crats can symathize with the indepen dent organization and fight the Republi cans without indulging in a personal campaign against anybody. Governor Pattison has made a good record and it Is said that be has some Presidential aspirations. The prospect of success will inspire bard work, and there is an abundance of material for manipulation. The republican officials have made the mistako of allowing themselves to be caught misappropriat ing $1,000,000 of the state funds, and this sort of thing has become so com mon in Pennsylvania that the people of that commonwealth have began to hold the culprits responsible. The private soap theory of public office is becoming obnoxious, and the better classes of re publicans seem determined that It shall no longer bo applied in Pennsylvania. They cannot stop its application while Quay is general manager of the party, and lie will not voluntarily retire, so tlioro appears to bo a reasonable hope that the democrats will again elect their ticket, and if tlioy do elect it thoy will turn up lu the convention next year with the claim that they are entitled to some consideration in the selection of tho can didate.! Whether this claim will be allowed or not is another matter, but it may havo a very material influence upon tho action of tlio convention, and the possiblity of Its being presented make tho contest In Pennsylvania more in teresting than contests in that atate usually are. It is much to bo hoped that tho Keystone state will lid herself of tho domination of tho set of political trick sters now In control there, whatever her resulting political status may bo. The negroes, It is stated, aro in open rovolt against President narrison in In dianapolis, and they declare that they will not vote for him If ho is nominated, because of tho systematic manner in which he has ignored them when tho pie was passed around. President Harri son when ho heard of tho state of affairs among the colored brethren sent tho negro Bruce, of Mississippi, who is a chronic ofiicolioldor under republican administrations, to fix things, hut tho presence of Bruce had no more effect than to add fuel to the' tlames. They regarded him as a party hack who al ways came in for tho spoils, and told him ho could not fix anything, and that tho best thing he could do would be to go back to Washington, and ho wont. Mr. Harrison will now havo to come and straighten out his Indianapolis negroes, and judging from what has occurred in the past, If he commands them to step up to the rack, fodder or no fodder, they will step quick. The official report of the physicians present at the four executions in Sing Sing must prove a death blow to any at tempt to repeal the new law and silence all prating about “cruel and unusual punishment." “The experience of the day,” concludes the report, “has proved to our satisfaction that this method is superior to any other yet devised.” Ollier states have doubtless been watch ing the result of this experiment in New York with a view to the adoption of the reform. The execution of Kemmler left the matter in dispute. But now that the superiority of electricity over the gallows has been folly established we may expect to aee the reform taken up by the legislatures of other statee the coming winter.—New York Herald. HOW TO HAVE EASY MONEY. To The Times-Recordeb:—As it is in order for everybody to try their bands in telling how the financial pressure on the country may be relieved, I will with your permission tell you what I think about it; for though I am not a leader of anything or anybody, I am in a position to know the sentiments of capitalists, and can explain just what needs to be done for money to becomu as plentiful as could be desired, and at rates of six to eight per cent, per annum. While I am not opposed to silver coin age and an increase of 'the volume of currency, I fail to see what good, coin ing more money will do the tolling masses, unless they have something to sell in exchange for it, or unless they can give the security necessary to bor row it at low rates. There are thousands of millions of English, German, Scotch and American money seeking for investment; these people are glad to get three per cent per annum; and to them five per cent, is enormous, and six per cent, a bonanza. Why then doesn't some of this Idle capital come South, or to Georgia for Investment? Why is money so hard to get here, when our people don’t mind paying six times the highest rate these capitalists are now getting? Why do English and American capitalists take three per cent year after year, with such chances as are daily presented in Georgia for trehlo their present returns; There must be some potent reason for this curious state of affairs; and the reason is as simple as it is powerful There would be one hundred million dollars, or an average of five hundred dollars a pioce for two hundred thousand farmers In Georgia, sent right into this stato to be lent inside the next six months at eight per cent, and lmlow, If the capitalists could bo satisfied with the seourity. But what is the matter with the se curity? Are not the lands of Georgia the very best security in the world? Then why don’t the capitalists accept them? Now comes the point of the whole business, the veritable “cat in the meal tub;" mark these words, for they ex plain the poverty, the hard times, pan ics, the alliance demands for relief, and everything else that causes the country to groan and pray for better times: The exemption and collection laws of Georgia virtually destroy all the securi ty tho farmqr can give; and he cannot borrow money at reasonable rates, and often not at all, because be is in effect legally atopped from giving security. Abolish all homestead exemptions, amend the collection laws so that the lender can get his money out of a tract of land as promptly,and by the same pro cess tbat be could out of a United'States bond; and there is no doubt but that tho farmers of Georgia could borrow what ever they really needed e« ery year at tho logal rate of interest, and below. Even if a borrower now has moro property than tbe $2,000 that be can smuggle up under a homestead, ho can keep it in law for yoars, while tiie lend- or is trying to collcot, and hence tho lat tor cither charges nn onormous premi um for the risk he takes, or most gen ernlly keeps away from farmers and lands entirely, and puts his money in threo per cent bonds. Nothing liko tho pvosent hardships Would bo ondurod, if theso changes wero made, for tlion nobody would borrow beyond his moans, when ho know that all lie had was bound for tho debt; and while an occasional case of hardship and luin would arise, tho greatest good for tho greatest number would be brought about by wiping off our statuto books overy vostigo of our present exemption and collection laws. ' Let our farmers’ Logislaturo do this, for thoy alone can do it with impunity; and thoy will then have done what is bettor than, and will take the place of roduotion of tariff, free coinage, third party,sub-treasury and all other round about attempts to accomplish an end that can only bo accomplished by going straight to tho root of the evil, Fooy. The clergy of tho city of St. Paul are trying to prevent tho “world’s cham pionship fight” from being fought there to-day. They appealed to the mayor of tbe city, but ho gavo them notice that he had no power to act In the case; they appealed to tho governor of tho stato, but ho assured themthat there Is no law andor which the fight can be nrevented. Tho Episcopalian Bishop appealed to the athletic club to relievo itself from responsibility In tbe premises, but that organization was deaf to ills appeal. As a last resort the clergy of St Paul de termined to preach on tbe subject and yesterday they delivered anti-pugilistic sermons, tho intluence of which has not yet been reported. It is a hard battle that the clergy of St Paul have waged; and yet for all that, to.day’s fight ti very sure to bo fought The Georgia legislature Is figured out as opposed to an appropriation to the World’s Fair at Chicago,’and If the state is represented it will bo by Individual effort Who will start the ball? ■ GROW LESS COTTON. The South Caroliha farmers have taken the lead in a movement having for its object the reduction of cotton acreage. They recommend that a con vention be held in December, at which the situation shall be considered and some plan agreed upon for effecting general reduction In next year's acreage of cotton, say to two-thirds of the pres ent acreage. The Farmers' Alliance will be looked to as the instrumentality for carrying so extensive a scheme Into effect. It Is a herculean undertaking, for It Is evident that in order io be suc cessful the plan mutt be adopteu very generally, and it is well known that nothing is more difficult than to induce a large number of persons to unite on a common plan of action when their per sonal interests are involved. A convention may be held, and it may be agreed unanimously that the aceage of cotton must be reduced one-third. That will bo the easy part of the scheme, None of the delegates will feel bound to reduce the size of their own cotton fields unless there should be a general reduction. It may bo possible to in- duco all the sfib-al'iances to subscribe to the plan. All the individual members may be convinced that it will be to their interest to adopt and adhere to the plan. It is manifest that it would cost < much less to produce 9,000,000 than 9,000,000 bales, that six million-bale crop would he likely to command prices which in the aggregate, would prove more re munerative than the low prices which a nine million-hale cl op would be sure to bring. So far the sclicmo may be worked out according to programme without much trouble, but when it comes to the prac tical feature a great many farmers will be found planting as much as ever in order to take advantage of the high prices expected to result from a short crop. And so many will obey this self ish impulse that tbere will actually be no great reduction in acreage. While it is not probable that any or ganized effort of this sort will amount to much, it certainly is desirable that the acreage of cotton should be largely reduced. Such reduction and greater diversification have been urged by the papers for a great many years. It Is hard for the farmers to be convinced when they reach tbe limit of profitable production. They will cling to cotton long because it is a money crop. It is only wbon convinced that they can em ploy their labor more profitably on other crops that they will give less attention to cotton. * The Augusta Herald declares that If Tom Watson has renounced the Demo cratic party be has no right to take hia seat in congress as the representative from the tenth district,' The Columbus Evening Ledger is ad vertised for sole, as Editor Byington wishes to devote his entire time to an- I other publication. NOT BUItPRISING. A dispatch from Lncern states that Henry M. Stanley and his wife, the es timable English lady who linked herfate with his only a year ago,have separated This is not a surprise. The lady has probably discovered Stanley's truo char acter, and is no longer dazzled by the romance that attached to him becauso of his adventurous journey through tho wilds of Central Africa. Stanley never was true to any person, country or cause, and it was not to bo expected that ho would remain constant in his affection for his wife. lie has not even been true to himself, for the namo he bears is a borrowed one and is not that which he inherited from his father. Ho ran away from his family when a mere lad, and lid them for years to be lieve that lie was dead. He began the late war with the con federates, and tho close found him fight ing on tho federal side quite as vigorous ly as lie had formerly fought on the other. Ho made all the reputation lie had as an American, and was fitted out and supported in tho search after Livings ton by an American newspaper, but when it became advantageous to him to declare himself an Englishman ho had no hesitancy in shaking off all allegiance to this country. lie lias ostentatiously styled his Afri can expedition, “the rescue of Emin Boy,” yet by no man is he more hearti ly despised than by this German savant and explorer. The expedition, while a daring, and In some respects successful undertaking, was productive of cruelties which a really great commander ought to hare been able to havo kept down. But tho English mado a great lion of Stanley on his return from Africa, and his marriago with Miss Dorothy Ten nant was celebrated in Westminister Abbey with much eclat. It has been short and doubtless unhappy union, and wo lepcat, the result Is no occasion for surprise. Gov. Campbell says the silver ques tion will not enter largely into the Ohio campaign. The people will want to hear something of tho silver question, but after tho canvass Is two weoks old you will hear almost nothing outside of tbe tariff. If some great silver man had been nominated on the Republican ticket then the silver question would be dis cussed, but Maj. McKinley stands for prolection, is tho great champion of the system, and that issue will crowd all others to the wall THE COTTON MOVEMENT. When it comes to the question of mov ing tbe cotton crop, Southwest Georgia has an advantage that is worth thous ands of dollars annually, and the farm ers here are not slow to perceive it and get the benefit of ft. Tbe crop movement begins in this section of the South several weeks earlier than elsewhere; and a month to six weeks ahead of portions of the cot ton states. As many as eight thousand bales have been received in Americus In August; and September is often tbe heaviest month. From this it will be seen that the farmers of Southwest Georgia can mar ket twenty-five to fifty per cent, of their crop before the movement is large enough elsewhere to affect the price at all. There is always an eager demand for tho first few thousand bales of the crop by the mills who don’t carry large stocks, and tbat Bection which can furn ish the cotton ahead of others reaps the harvest at the highest prices. Thus it was tbat last year early cot ton brought 10| cents in Americus, while other southern markets came along only in time to catch prices a cent, or more lower, two months later. The sooner therefore the farmers of Southwest Georgia can send in the early part of theircrops, the more certain they will be to get the benefit of opening prices that are likely to be much higher than later In the season. This is why Southwest Georgia is more prosperous than most other cot ton producing sections, for the differ ence in returns is about ten por cent in the pockets of the seller, as between August sales and October sales. The plan therefore that the farmers here will most likely pursue Is tbat fol lowed in former years; whatever may bo tbe need elsowhere of holding back the October and November crop so as not to break the market. Conditions here differ from those that prevail in the South generally; and what is best for the farming population of sections whoso crops mature a month later, is not necessarily good for South west Georgia. “The early bird gets tho worm" here, Moral: Come to Southwest Georgia to raise cotton; and you will be happy and prosperous, while elsewhere tbe people get left. ' A bill has passed the state senate to place the names of grand jurors in the traverse jury box, so that the latter may be drawn from the whole number of ju rors of the county. The bill also pro vides that should a grand juror be drawn for both juries, another name shall be drawn to take hia place on the traverse jury. The object of the bill is to improve the traverse juries. GO SLOW. No greater danger exists than that of too much legislation, especially railroad legislation, in this State. A general law, administered In wisdom and justice is worth scores of special laws of unequal or conflicting application. The clamor of “Railroad Monopoly” is likely to mislead some people Into tho idea that certain stringent laws are im peratively needed to keep tho railrxids from devouring the public; whereas, tbe railroad commission, even with its present limited and restricted powers has so far proven wholly competent to prevent all injustice or oppression. Witness tho recent caso of the reduc tion of the coal rate. With certain additional powers, there seems to bo no doubt that our commis sion can handle all questions affecting tho interests of tho public, without the aid of any wildcat legislation, the main object of which would seem to bo to promote the local political prospccls of certain so-called “champions of the people.” Let the Legislature go slow, as they have heretofore done. We havo been blessed so far with conservative legisla tion by tho farmors who control our law making body, let them not now depart from tho wisdom of their way, to tako up hasty, or all advised bills, aimed against railroads. Tho pcoplo of Georgia want the rail roads to prosper under proper and just restrictions, for the prosperity of the roads and of tho people go hand in hand. Giro the commission what additional powers they ask for, and lot them work out the problem to the satisfaction of tho stato and the roads as well. The Times-Recokder does not bo- llove in a compulsory 2 cent rate, for instance; leave that discretionary with the commission, and if conditions of business warrant, tho proper reduction will be mado in due time. MOLASSES FOR FUEL. With the progress that has been made in the manufacture of sugar in LouUi ana it has come about that molasses u now regarded almost as a waste product Tbere is no market for the lower grades of whleh tens of thousands of galloui' are thrown away. Many planters ia, t year gave It away to anyone who would furnish the barrels and pay the freight while othen stored it in large reser. vois, hoping that the price would rise so that they could afford to ship i t This year the product will be greater than ever before, tod it is to be expect, ed tbat the prices will be lower than ever and th# waste greater. Anyone who can show the planters how to utilize this product will be a benefactor. The Planter, a journal published at New Orleans In the Interest of the sugar growers, has advised a use for the waste molasses, which would be the last to oc cur to most minds. It is simply to use the molasses as fuel, just as the Iowa farmers have at times used corn for fuel. According to the Planter tho molasses burns with a high heat in combination with wood or wood fiber, and by sprint ling it on dried bagasse (the refuse of cane after the juice has been pressed out) an excellent fuel is obtained. If only half of the molasses produced is used for fuel, it is estimated by the Planter that a substitute will be furnish ed for 75,000 or 100,000 tons of coal, which is more than enough for the man ufacture of all the sugar of Louisiana. It Is expected that the cane grown in Louisiana this year will yield 550,000,000 pounds of sugar and 300,000,000 pounds or 700,000 barrels of molasses. The lowest grades of vacuum pan molasses contain from 20 to 25 per cent, of sugar, which cannot be extracted- by any pro cess thus far fnventod. Such molasses is estimated to be worth only from 1-11 to 1-5 cent a pound. Pittshnrg coal at the sugar house costs 1-5 cent per pound. Such data form the basis for the Plant er’s calculations. The use of bagasse itself is an important economy. In mills like that at St. Cloud It Is dried by waste heat from tbe furnaces. Perhaps the Planter’s idea will not prove practicable in extensive use, but it ought at any rate to be thoroughly tested. Nsxt to the nomination of Gov. Camp bell the best thing the Ohio state demo cratic convention did was the squelch ing of the Hamilton county toughs who have so long disgraced tho party and disgusted tho decent people of that state to tho great injury of the democra cy. There is reason to believe, now that the democratic party has mado 1% quite clear that it will no longer suffer the dictation of the Cincinnati ward leaders, that it will be stronger in Ohio than It has ever been. The democrats of that state are to be congratulated on the fact that they havo sent to the rear the men whose base treachery defeated Allen G. Thurman for re-election to the United States senate and caused the retirement from publlo life one of the grandest, ablest and purest democrats that this country has ever known. Now let the legislature beware how it tampers with the free pass business, for if the commission should, under the en larged powers sought to be given it, ent off the free pass of the Georgia editor, there will be a revolution that ail the Lieutenant Colonels on Got. Northen’s staff will b« wholly; unable to squelsh. WHAT OPPRESSES THE FARMERS Calculating on Commissioner liaum's I assertion tbat he is “going to dump1 350,000 original cases upon the various I pension agencies of the country before] the year Is out,” tbe New York Herald] figures It that “a neat little income of] $25,000 per day will be divided oat] among the wolves that prey on the old] Boldiers." This calculation is made on the buis] of $10 per case which the statutes allow] pension attorneys on “original cases,"I and allowing 140 more working days foil the remainder of the year. It is mathe-| niatically correct. It is that sort of thing that is creating] so much unrest among tho farmers oil tho country. They are literally taied| to death to support other classes. Tho farmors are tho sub-strata, I ground work of all industries and call-1 ings, nnd consequently they pay the! greater part of the taxes. They are taxed enormously for pensions, taxed to pay bounties to manufacturers.! Wlmt tho farmers need is what t Democratic party proposes. Let this class legislation be wiped o There must bo an end to pension grabs and bountios to favored classes, a then the farmer will not feel that i times press on him so hardly, CnAlRMAN Trammell of tho Railroad Commission doesn’t want the regulatioi of express companies tacked on td the] present duties of that Board unless s expert expressmnn is given as clerk. Col. Trammell is right, for life >1 too short for anybody not trained up in the devious ways of s express company’s methods, oven to f at the truo Inwardness of the system b which they skin the public. There s no express companies in Europe in t American sense; the railroads haul < press matter as regular freight, chargioj according to value; tho difference bei"l merely a matter of classification, the Legislature give tho railroad com mission a half dozen clerks, If thereb| tho present extortionate rates can modified. An Alliance judge out in Kansas **j a man'to jail for contempt w*o was ‘ ing under the dtreotion of the BU P r( ® court. The supreme court ordered prisoner discharged but the man was" sooner released than the Alliance J“ fl had him re-arrested. The fra’^J will be arrested and carried before supreme court for contempt. Gov. Noutuen is quoted as s»J* j that there is more corruption and ro ness in the politiots of Georgia tbs"! any period of her history. The ops opponents must be making 1 '?.] worm for him, to bring outs"'"] expression as the above. In Plain English. Unquestionably considered of lable consequence in correcting " sti tu tlonal contaminations, Is Dr. ‘ Golden Hedleal Discovery. Can •cientiouily commend it to •■deration, confident of It* 00 5jj| n ti! in all controllable chronic I The “Golden Medical the result of much research ana . pericnce, by a practical pW** J world-renown; Its formula embrM-T most potent restoratives of vegetable kingdom. 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