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THE AMERICUS WEEK!/ TIMES-RECOh DER: FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1891
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Americus, Ga., August 28, 1891.
What has become of Volapuk? Can’t
Editor Gantt use it in his new pa
per, and thus carry on his campaign of
education in philology as well as in
politics?
Mn. No km ax of Liberty county tried
to get a hill passed to prohibit tie use
of text books in the Georgia schools
which speak of us as ‘‘rebels,” and as
engaged in the “rebellion.” The bill
was defeated.
The Macon Telegraph says that Gen
eral Gordon came all the way from New
York to Atlanta to sec Col. Livingston
investigated; and the boss Allianceinau
turned the tables on the senator by hav
ing a resolution passed calling upon
him to define his position on the Ocala
platform.
Who would have thought that Geor
gia could got up a regular Rube Bur
rows express robbery within thirty
miles of Macon upon the* Central rail
road, in the heart of Monroe ‘county?
Now let Alabama and her Burrows gang
stand aside and give Georgia a chance
for distinction.
After Governor Northen’s term ex
pires, Hayti presents a good field for
the military talents of the Lieutenant-
Colonels who compose the staff. Down
there the officers have everything all
their own way; in an army of 0,500 there
aro J3,500 officers. Just think of ten
thousand Georgia colonels nil in one
body ’■
The State Alliance convention sat
down unanimously upon the “stay law”
abortion. This “unanimous” vote in
cluded several delegates who in their
local Alliances had voted in favor of a
stay law resolution. Having voted on
both sides; the interesting question now
is; “Upon which side do they really
stand?”
* Investigations regarding the pro
pensities of nickel, steel and manganese
bronze,made by Thomas Harrington, of
Pittsburg, Pa., has resulted in the dis
covery of a new metal. The metal at
tains a very high strength, is indestructi
ble by corrosion, beiug impervious to
acids, and it can be wrought Into spikes,
nails, etc., while either hot or cold.
The bill to provide that the state take
the Confederate home is going to create
a stir. The farmers are generally op
posed to it, and in a quiet way they are
making a tight ou it. They say the sol
diers would not occupy the home If the
state owned it. If they are to be pro
vided for by the state, said a farmer,
they would prefer a pension and be al
lowed to live in their own homes The
building is a credit to those who built it,
but it looks now as if they budded it for
nothing.—Telegraph.
A NICE MIXTURE.
Editor Gantt has retired from the
Southern Alliance Farmer and will start
the “Free Lance” on Sept 1, which is to
be a redhot pointed third party Alli
ance weekly.
The rock on which Mr. Gantt split
was the control of the policy of the Al
liance Farmer by a committee of the
State Alliances consisting of President
Livingston, M. V. Calvin and Senator
Ellington. Besides this, it seems that
Mr. Gantt is not in accord with Pres.
Livingston on the railroad question,
they having apparently parted company
since they both supported Mr. Calhoun
for senator last November.
It is very hard for one who has not
the grip, grand hailing sign, or pass
word of the Alliance to know just how
matters do staud; *n short, there appears
to be quite a mixture, Mr. Livingston
remaining apparently the only consist
ent man in the whole crowd.
First, Larry Gantt comes out strongly
for Mr. Calhoun for Senator on the Al
liance platform, swallows the Terminal
Company and all, and asks for more Ter
minals to swallow.
Then Senator Ellington nominates Mr.
Calhoun in the Senate as the Alliance
candidate.
Now Larry is to “jump on the Termi
nal with both feet” in Ids new paper,
and Senator Ellington is the right bower
of Tom Watson, who is doing the jump
ing act as regards railroads all over the
state. And yet the attitude of Mr. Cal-
hound and the Richmond Terminal is
the same now that it was last November
when Gantt and Ellington were working
heart and soul to elect Mr. Calhoun Sen
ator on the Richmond Tcrminal-Ocala-
sub treasury platform.
Watson and Ellington and Gantt are
now howling anti-Terrainal citizens of
the deepest dye, the two latter having
apparently become very sudden converts
uuder the ministry of the former.
Mr. Calhoun stands on the Ocala
platform and believes in the sub
treasury principles, though he does not
advocate the crude methods of applying
the sub-treasury doctrine favored by
some Alllaucemen.
Yet Alliancemen Gannt, Ellington and
Watson will jump on Brothers Living
ston, Harry Brown and Calhoun, and
the sub-treasury platform will have to
stand aside while these giants fight it
out on the railroad question.
As Col. Livingston is pluperfectly
solid with the Alliance, and Senator El
lington didn’t get tho vice-presidency
which he asked for; and Editor Gannt
was given to understand that the stato
Alliance proposed to run the Southern
Alliance Farmer their way, that ho
might retire, it looks like tho Watson
anti-railroad faction had been set down
on pretty vigorously; and that under tho
lead of Col. Livfngston a conservative
and sensible policy was to be pursued
with regard to the railroads.
Anyhow, this is how the situation ap
pears to an outsider. Wo shall see what
e shall see.
COMMUNISM IN GEORGIA.
It might seem to the public that It
was a considerable draft on the I magi
nation of a writer who would state that
communism and anarchy were being as
publicly and strongly advocated by citi
zens of Georgia to-day, as was done by
the Chicago anarchists just before the
Haymarket massacre.
To those, however, who heard Tom
Watson’s speech before .the legislature
and the Alliance convention in Atlanta
on Wednesday night, no surprise will be
conveyed by the heading of this art!
cle.
In plain English, Watson advocated
communism and anarchy, and that he
had the sympathy of a good many of
his hearers was made manifest by the
rapture with which his incendiary ut
terances were received.
His speech was a demagogic appeal
to the ignorance and prejudice of his
hearers; and was in all essentials similar
to the appeal which a shrewd and un
scrupulous advocate makes to an igonant
jury in a murder case; any argument is
used to carry the point—the end justi
fies, Jthemeans.
His attack was upou railroads, per sc:
he was against them because they repre
sented wealth and capital; and his prop
osition, stripped of its mask, was to
confiscate the railroads and let the state
take charge of and operate them for the
public benefit.
Ills so-called “cold facts” were a tis
sue of misrepresentations, and artfully
distorted and disguised truths; among
his numerous other misstatemeuts beiug
that the Central railioad had £10,000,000
of “water” in its stocks and bonds, the
actual cost of all this vast property be
ing really but £4,000,000; a statement
known by every intelligent man in his
audience to be wholly incorrect. This
was a fair sample of his “cold facts,”
with which he sought to stir up the
wrath of the people against the corpora
tions, who were grinding the public into
poverty by collecting freight and passen
ger tariffs on millions of dollars of wa
tered stock, instead of upon the actual
cost of construction.
A more dangerous enemy to the pub
lic peace and prosperity dpes not live in
Georgia than this same Watson, the
least of whoso offenses is his doubtful
Democracy, and his attacks upon the
Democracy of such men as Judge Crisp.
That he should deliver such an ad
dress in tho halls of the capital of Geor
gia, and be cheered to tho echo by
scores of legislators and auditors, does
not augur well for the safety of republi
can institutions; for ranker heresy, sedi
tion, communism and anarchy were
never preached by Spies or Most in their
palmiest days.
The Times-Record eh feels that it
does Mr. Watson no injustice when it
names him the “Herr Most of Georgia
politics.”
Last November Editor Gantt pub
lished a pamphlet in advocacy of Mr.
Pat Calhoun’s candidacy for the senator-
ship entitled: “Every vote for General
Gordon for United States Senator is a
nail driven in the Alliance coffin.” Those
who liavo preserved these pamphlets
will please erase the name of General
Gordon wherever it occurs and substi
tute tho name of Mr. Calhoun, notify
Mr. Gantt, and get a year’s subscription
free to the “Free Lance.” Now Is tho
time to subscribe, especially if you l\avc
one of these pamphlets.
Brunswick got tired of waiting for
the mill of the empty United States
treasury to grind out the money to
deepen her bar, and so a few enterpris
ing citizens—Messrs. Goodyear, Church
ill aud others—fixed up a scheme of
their own to deepen their channel; they
simply blowed up the sand bar with
dynamite and let the tides wash it out.
The success of this plan has stirred up
Fcrnandinn, and that city will send up a
delegation to investigate and try the
same experiment. Hurrah for Bruns
wick and her live people.
There has just been completed at the
general shops of the Chicago A Alton
railway, in this city, an improvement or
combination of improvements upon a
passenger locomotive of tho Alton line,
which will attract the attention of rail
way managers and machinists through
out the country. The two ends to be
achieved by these improvements are,
first, tho saving of fuel by more perfect
combustion, tho doing away with the
back pressure in the cylinders caused
by the contraction of tho exhaust tubes
at the point of discharge into the smoke
stack, in order to produce the blast for
draft, and the abolition or partial aboli
tion of the smoke nuisance;and, second,
the complete lighting of the locomotive
and Its signal attachments by electricity,
Dot only giving a much clearer and
brighter light than oil, but an illumina
tion that Is perfectly controllable in all
parts and in every way by the engineer
and fireman.—Chicago Times.
LIFTING THEM ALL IN.
It seems that the doors of salvation
are at last to be opened to tlie outside
heathen by the Alliance elect, if the
following from The Constitution is not
a fake:
Shortly before the Alliance convention
adjourned, a resolution was adopted
that all persons who are in sympathy
with the purposes and principles of the
Farmers’ Alliance—whether lawyers,
preachers, merchants, doctors, bankers,
railroaders, newspaper men, mechanics
or any other sort of citizen—be given
the privilege of forming “citizens’alli
ances.”
This comprehensive action will, it is
believed, largely augment the numeri
cal force of the Alliance, for while the
members of these proposed citizen alii
ances w ill not be in reality farmers’ al-
liaucemen, yet they will be active pro
ponents of the order and living exemp
lars of its principles.
The resolution did not specify the
manner in which these citizen’s alliances
shall he organized, but leaves large
scope to the organizers. The funda
mental requirement, the supreme test,
the sine qua uon will bo an endorsement
of the Ocala platform, and an adherence
to the basic principles of the Alliance.
“IIow will citizens proceed to form
these societies?” was asked Mr. Ivey,
Mr. Brown and Colonel Hammond, and
other well-known Alliancemen.
“Any way they please, I suppose,” an
swered Mr. Ivey. “No plan is fixed, and
I presume if any citizens desiro to or
ganize, all they will have to do will be
to call a meeting, adopt a platform and
elect officers.”
“Can all classes and members of all
professions join Jliese city branches?”
“There is nothing in the resolution
which excludes anybody who is in sym
pathy with the Alliance, and subscribes
to the Ocala platform.”
it is understood that out* of these citi
zen Alliance societies w ill be started in
Atlanta shortly.
From present appearances Governor
Campbell will be compelled to como out
squarely against the free coinage aud
graduated income planks in his platform,
or Wall street will|refuse to put up any
funds. This looks bad for Campbell,
since he must have money in order to
make the contest. Wall street knows
its own business, and will consent to no
bargains in which it does not become
the ultimate beneficiary.—National
Economist
HON. W. A WILSON.
While tho action of the State Alliance
Convention assembled in Atlanta, in
electing as Vice-President Maj. W. A.
Wilson, of Sumter county, was not un
expected, it was no less an agreeable
event to the friends of that gentleman,
and to the people of this part of the
state generally, because It is an honor
worthily bestowed.
By reason of Col. Livingston’s absence
In Washington after December 1, the
vice-presidency assumes more than the
nominal importance usually attaching to
such an office, and It was In view of the
duties and responsibilities to devolve
upon that officer, in this instance, that
the choice fell upon Maj. Wilson.
He will in effect become the active
executive head in Col. Livingston’s ab
sence In congress, and those who know
him feel that the Alliance has made no
mistake in their selection.
Maj. Wilson has bcon a citizen of this
county for thirty three years, having
moved to Sumter from Putnam when a
young man Ho is a gentleman of cul
ture and rofinemeut, and has enjoyed a
widespread reputation as an educator,
as tho president of tho Madison (Ga.)
Female College and the Furlow Masonic
Female College in this city.
Maj. Wilson is a forcible and pleasant
speaker, a man of brains aud of good
executive ability, and it is doubtful
whether there is a man in flic body from
which he was selected who possesses in
a higher degree the all-round qualifica
tions which fit him so well for the place.
It is an omen of the success of the Al
liance to see it put forward men of such
sound sense and conservatice character
as Maj. Wilson in tho line of leadership,
for the public generally will feel confi
dence that his administration of affairs
will be wisely and conservatively man
aged.
The Times-Rkcorder congratulates
the Farmers’ Alliance on the wisdom of
Its action, and wishes for Maj. Wilson
the fullest measure of success in the im
portant and responsible duties he w ill be
called upon to discharge.
THE INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS OF THE
SOUTH.
The Manufacturers’ Record of August
22 says:
While midsummer usually brings a
oertain amount of dullness everywhere,
the signs of the times all point to a busy
and prosperous fall and winter. The
certainty of enormous grain crops
throughout the country and a heavy
foreign demand "give assurance of a
general business prosperity which will
prove of great benefit to tbe south.
Abundant wheat and corn crops will
largely offset the low price of cotton,
and the south will be prepared to main
tain its position in tbe great industrial
advance of the whole country. Many
great enterprises, including railroads to
open up mineral and timber regions of
vast wealth-creating possibilities, iron
mining and manufacturing concerns,
steel works, cotton mills, etc., are
beiug put into shape for active
construction work in the near future.
Tho development of Florida phosphate
interests attracts increased attention, and
heavy investments are being made for
the purchase of phosphate lands and the
building of phosphate works. Large
tracts of mineral and timber lauds are
being secured by capitalists, who are
wise enough to see that now is the time
to buy, and in every line of progress
there are indications of renewed activity
so soon as the world’s financial interests
are in good shape. Among the enter
prises reported in this week’s issue of
the Manufacturers' Record are the or
ganization of a £1,000,000 company by
some of the leading capitalists of New
England, who recently purchased the
water-power canal at Columbia, S. C.,
for tho purpose of building largo cotton
mills; a £1,000,000 phosphate company
in Florida; a £1,000,000 coal and iron
company at Chickamauga, Ga. ; a £100,-
000 electric light company iu Wheeling,
W. Va. ;a £1,000,000 development com
pany at Middlesborougli, Ivy.; a £500,000
development company at Anniston, Ala ;
tho sale of 12,000 acres of timber land in
Sevier county, Tenn., for development;
a £500,000 improvement company and a
£300,000 mining company in Kentucky;
a £20,000 ice company in Newport, Ky.;
a company to mine ore aud build fur
naces in Tennessee; a £75,000 fertilizer
company in Darlington, S. C.; a $100,000
fire-brick company at Bessemer, Ala.;
£100,000 cottonseed-oil mill company in
Louisiana; £25,000 lumber company and
£50,000 palmetto manufacturing com
pany in Florida; *100,000 ice and electric
light company in Louisiana; £200,000
town bnilding company in West Virginia.
This list shows, notwithstanding sum
mer heat and the troubles that have fol
lowed financial stringency in this coun
try and abroad, the south is pushing for
ward vigorously in establishing new en
terprises to create wealth out of its
abundant natural resources.
GEORGIA LEADS THEM ALL.
From best authorities the number of
cotton spindles in tbe south as compared
with 1870, is as follows:
1891.
S:atis No. or
Spindles,
Alabama 102 >19
Arkansas 10,625
Florida 1 SOU
Georgia. 481.9S3
Kentucky 47,287
Lou I sin r u 6;,10$
Maryland 175,5JU
MisstUsipp! 57,120
North Carolina 434,192
South Carolina 463,424
Tennessee 124,911
Texas 86,2:H
Virginia 01,700
J8s -.
No. of
Spindles.
49,132
2,015
M6
125,700
18,568
92,385
82,334
35,736
2,948
41,310
HOW WE STAND.
While our people grumble and talk
hard times, have they ever stopped to
think how Americus stands in compari
son with other cities in this broad land?
This has been a year of stringency,
panic, suspensions and failures. In the
East and West, in the North and South,
the number of mercantile failures has
been much above the annual averages;
while banks have closed their doors,
railroads have gone Into receivers’ hands,
factories and shops have shut down, and
many enterprises have languished and
struggled for existence.
In tire midst of all this, Americus has
gone along on the even tenor of her way,
paying all her debts, providing for her
liabilities, building her hotels, stores,
railroads, and dwellings, while her
banks have done more than has been
done by those of other cities to provide
the farmers with means to make their
crops, and the merchants to handle their
big trade.
Where other cities have had failures
and stoppages, Americus has paid out
her hand cash as the emergencies have
arisen, ami to-day stands on the eve of
another year's opening trade as solid as
the everlasting hills upon which she is
built.
We have reason to feel proud; not re
joicing that many of our neighbors
have fared worse, and have been over
taken by disaster aud ruin; but that our
people have been fortunato enough and
conservative cnougli to weather in first-
class condition tho financial gales that
have so sorely pressed others.
Americus is solid to-day, because she
lias always been so; and as long as the
level-headed financiers who have con
trolled her affairs remain in charge, she
may be expected to retain her present
strong aud conservative, though pro
gressive position.
Now that the strain is over,and the in
coming of another bountiful crop marks
the turning of tho tide once more to
ease and plenty, it is befitting that we
take courage for the future, and push
forward in the good work so auspicious
ly begun and so faithfully carried for
ward uuder the adverse circumstances
which checked so many of our less for
tunate neighbors.
Eighteen hundred aud niuety-one
was a year to shake down aud
settle values upon a firm foun
dation for future building; the
benefits of stringency will show them
selves in the near future, in that all
featuros of speculation and wildness
havo been eliminated from our ntlairs,
and all our enterprises both public and
private rest upon a firm foundation.
Total 2,13),S23 0#7,V>I
Thus, since 1SS0, tbe south’s cotton
manufacturers have more than trebled
Iko number of spindles, showing an in
crease from 007,000 to 2,130,000. Geor
gia leads in tbe number of spindles,
having 484,983, closely followed by South
Carolina with 403,424, North Carolina
being third with 423,102. Those three
states, says tho llaltimore Manufactur
ers’ Itccurd, havo paid inoro attention to
cotton manufacturing than any others,
and havo developed a great industry
that is steadily adding to their pros
perity. Other southern states should
follow their example. Tim south, which
produces tho cotton, must manufacture
it The total number of spindles iu tho
United States is 15,407,302, against 14,
457,024 in i860, and 13,470,081 in 1S87.—
Augusta Chronicle.
It takes ail sorts of people to make up
Atlanta, and among them is a gentleman
in charge of the mule motors of the
street cars, who has abolished 'whips,
ami proposes to keep tho mules up to
schcdulo time by “moral suasion." llut
the language that will bo used by the
drivers to tho mules, and the passengers
against the company, will not be of the
style of “moral suasion’’ used in Sunday
schools; but will be a brand-new, red-
hot variety that would be calculated to
corrupt the mules’ morals if they under
stood that branch of the English lan
guage as she will be spoke.
O.nk of tho most gratifying results of
tho recent Stato Alliance convention was
tho “squelching” littlo Tom Watson re
ceived at the bauds of that convention,
lie camo to Atlanta to take possession of
that body and run it his way; but (lie
long-headed Leonidas stood in the “Im
minent doadly breach" and headed oil
tlie would-be marplot. His advocacy of
Senator Ellington caused tlie rallying of
tlie conservative Alliancemen around
Maj. Wilson for vice-presidency; and Tiik
Timks-Kkcohdeu has it from good Al
liance authority that but for Watson's
advocacy of Mr. Ellington, tho latter
might havo beaten Maj. Wilson. Tho
Ilcrr Most of Georgia politics opened
his mouth so wide that ho got into it
with both feet. Ho will now probably
write a card explaining how he didn't
elect Mr. Ellington president, vtcc-prcsl-
dont, or anything else.
SHALL WE PLANT LESS?
The Farmers' Alliance is about to an
swer this in the affirmative, steps being
already taken in South Carolina and else
where by some Alliances to bring tlie
question of a reduction of acreage before
tbe general body and secure the co-oper
ation of all non-Alliauce farmers through
out the South.
The Georgia Stato Alliance is going to
take up the question of limiting the
acreage; and if harmony prevails on this
important question, and a reduction is
agreed on now, a very material effect
upon the prevailing price of the present
crop would be produced at once.
It is not too much to predict that if
the solid Alliance sentiment docreed a
reduction for next year of one-third tbe
present acreage, prices on this crop
would at once advance one cent per
pound.
Brunswick is having a jubilee over
dynamiting herself into doep water; and
the Times says: “No more important
news has ever been heralded from
Brunswick than that which the Times
carries, in a special edition of twelve
pages, to its readers to-day.
“It is news not only of Brunswick’s
pluck and energy, but of the commer
cial advantage which these havo ob
tained for Brunswick in deepening tlie
channel across tho outer bar to such a
depth as to afford accommodation for
deep draught vessels,
“The Times has refrained from any ex
tended mention of this work as it lias
been progressing, preferring to await re
sults aud let it bo definitely settled that
the work was accomplished.”
The Now York Central railroad is
testing, on its lines at six different
points, an Ingonions device for inform
ing engineers how many minutes ahead
of him is tho last train that has passed—
provided tho time be less than fifteen
minutes. Tho machine is stationed be
side the track, and it comprises a dial-
face on which a hand moves from zero to
fifteen. This hand is regulated by
clock work. When a train passes it
inov.es a spring which sets the hand at
zero. Immediately tlie clock work is set
in motion and the cngincerof the follow
ing train reads on tho dial tlie exact
number of minutes which have elapsed
since tho preceding train passed.
Look out for another storm wave the
last of August and warm weather until
the middle of September. Theu there
will be a decided change, with frosts and
an early and hard winter. So Foater,
the weather expert, bays.
One of tho funniest things j ot come
to light is the righteous wrath of the re
ligious mugwump, Dana, of tho New
York Sun, against the “blasphemy" of
Sam Jones, who said in a recent sermon
that Grover Cleveland was tlie bravest
president this country lias ever had
and that Mr. Cleveland’s backbone is as
big as Ben Harrison’s hat. Editor Dana
has boycotted Kev. Sam’s sermons from
tbe truly pious columns of tbe Sun of
righteousness “that shines for all,” and
the country is infinitely amused at Ed
itor Dana’a keen Insight Into the con
stituents of blasphemy.
DIVIDE THE LOSS.
In view of the low prices cotton u
now bringing, a writer in the Mon*
gomery (Ala.) Advertiser urges a cheap.,
handling of the staple. He suggests th
commission merchants and warehouse'
men reduce their charges; that the rail
roads lessen the transportation rates
that those who gin charge less p er bah
than heretofore, and that the price of
picking be lessened. In further expl ana .
tion and enforcement of his proposi-
tton the writer shows that, while the net
proceeds of a five-hundred-bale of
cotton at 0 cents per pound is 830, the
cost of the picking and marketing i,
815.00, leaving the farmer 814.40. Oat
of this total of 830, one-quarter goes fox
rent, If a tenant. In this is included
nothing for the trouble and expense ol
making tlie cotton up to the picking
point. To make one bale,the average ol
land used is at least three acres. The
Advertiser takes it that the figures pre.
seuted are accurate, and the showing is
certainly one that warrants a call for the
cutting off of all possible cost and ex-
peuses.
In justice to tlie producers, upon
whom all the burden of low prices must
fall, this suggestion should receive
proper consideration at the bands of the
general public through whose hands cot
ton must pass from the field to the mill.
A slight reduction by each, tho picker,
ginner, factor, banker, railroad, and
commission cotton merchant, would pro-
dtice an advance in the price to the
farmer of the south that would amount
to 81,250,000 on this crop; and jet would
be only a few cents per bale off the
revenue that each person handling the
cotton would get.
As quoted above, the total expense of
handling a hale is 815.1)0; ten per cent,
deduction from this, say 81.50, amounts
to a million and a quarter dollars saved
to tho farmers on tho whole crop; a cut
ting off of expenses that everybody in
terested can easily stand, and which
helps largely tho class upon whom the
bulk of the loss falls anyhow.
Let everybody show a helping spirit
and take a million dollars of shrinkage
off the shoulders of the producers in the
manner suggested.
Tiik newspapers have been making it
warm for some of the Sapp-beads in tbe
Legislature, and one of them who is
Sapp from head to foot, including the
contents of bis bead, kas concluded to
assail tho liberty of the press by , intro
ducing a bill which makes editors of
newspapers responsible for all cards or
communications appearing over a nom
de plume. Any editor who allows any
card or communication to bo published,
which either directly or indirectly re
flects upon the character or business of
any over a nom de plume, is made guilty
of a misdemeanor, and will havo to un
dergo the penalties proscribed In section
4310 of the code. Then another would-
be statesman from DeKalb, Holbrook by
name, and wholebroko in the upper
story, lins a bill to make it unlawful for
any public gazette or newspaper in this
state to publish any opinion or reportof
its own, or others, concerning the inno
cence or guilt of any defendant in any
criminal case, contrary to the sworn evi
dence in said case. But the world will
rotate on its axis the same as if these
Solons had nover lived, and the newspa-
f iers will continue to enlighten the pub
ic just as before.
Although the editor of the Now York
Sun has said that “anything the Al
mighty allowed to happen was fit to go
into ids columns,’’ he cannot bring him
self to print Sam Jones’ “sermons” ver
batim. lie alludes to Jones as “the
Georgia cracker,” and announces that
he will not allow his discources to he re
produced in tho Sun without eliminat
ing what ho regards as blasphemous
passages. Hence the Sun’s reports lack
tho spicy flavor so characteristic of
Jones’ utterances, and all this because
Sam praised Editor Dana’s bote noir
Grover Cleveland, saying that ho was
one of tlie bravost of mon. An archangel
could ruin his character in Editor Dana’s
oj’cs if he saw anything good in Mr.
Cleveland.
Gkxebal Gordon didn't get the let
ter from the Stato Alliance Convention
asking him to define his position on the
Ocala platform, until that body adjourn
ed. It took three days for it to go
about 300 yards, and when tiro general
did finally get it, lie was much “sur
prised,” aud his reply is: “My speeches
and letters published prior to the late
senatorial election plainly demonstrate
my position to be in entire accord with
a great majority of tho demands of tlie
Ocala platform, while I do not approve
of others. My views were so distinctly
announced ou these and kinrded sub-
jets that I could scarcely hope to make
myself more clearly understood now."
Lecture ou l oots. Admit One.
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