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THE AMERICUS DAILY TIMES-RECORDER: FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1892,
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Editorial Room-. Siler T o'clock p. in
Tslepbone J*.
Amorioue, Ga., Juno 10, 1892.
Tom Watson Ia gatUog just what lie
likes beat next to bolding an office—noto
riety.
DoroiiKiiTv county l» somewhat ex
cited over a eplcndid, near court bouie
tbejr’re going to build.
Ur order of General Superintendent
Wad ley the name of Cxmpbellton on tbe
Port Royal road, baa been changed to
Palrtlx.
Thk Near York Herald tella in a col
umn "hoar clama are dug ” What moat
enterprising |>eople want to knoar la boar
to kill clama—Home kind of clama
Ati.a.\ta'k city hall la no better than
oura. Atlanta'a coart houae lan't aa
g,Mhl aa oura. Al,I Atlanta’a Jail aim-
ply doean't compare with Sumter'* near
atructure.
The Sear York Time*, a prcaumably
iude|>cndent Itepiildlcan paper, appear*
anxiou* to dictate a jiollcy for Demo
crat*, and to foice u|ron them the nomi
nation of Mr. ( leu land.
Korn: ha* lo»t her “lotd", and while
there may be no aching void* In the
pcoplu'* heart* cau»cd by III* nbacnce,
there certainly la In koine pockctbooks
and bank account*.
THK POLITICAL OCTLOOK.
Never in the blatory of the Demo
cratic party baa tbe outlook for aucce**
at an approaching election been brighter
than It la to-day. In the firat place the
Democratic party la tbe only party in
tbe country arbicb truly repreaenta tbe
people. In 1888 it proclaimed an o|ien
war agaln»t monopollea. claaa legisla
tion and political corruption. It baa
peraiatently and conaiatently proaecuted
tbla war until tbe honeat, Intelligent
voter* In every party have become thor
oughly convinced that tbe Democratic
party la In earneat and that tbe war will
lie continued until the people are re
leased from thia unjuat burdena iropoaed
upon them by the rulnou* pohciea of
tbe republican party.
While the leader* of the Alliance party
will be able, |>erbapa, to keep up an or
ganization and atanding aa a political
party, yet it ia evident that the thou*
and* upon thousand* of Democratic
voter* who have acted with that party
will join in and help t > win the Demo
cratic victory. Men aa a rule act from
reaeon, and It ia now apparent that the
Democratic party ia the only political
organization in this country through
which tho people can obtain relief from
the national Ills and national wrongs
which tbe Alliance party condemns.
For instance, the Republican party,
for the sole purpose of enriching tbe
few who contribute to it* campaign
fund, has In time of |ieace fastened upon
tbe country a tarllf of 00|>er cent. Here
is one of the piiacipal wrongs the Re
publican party I* pledged to perpetuate.
The Democratic party ia pledged to
right this wrong, but in doing »o it does
not pro|«we to rush to the other ex
treme Any violent change in the poli
cies of n uation, however much a change
I* needed, will neceaiarily injuriously
atfect certain classes and certain locali
ties. Iu older to protect all classes the
change should he brought about grudu-
Ati.anta people anil some Rome ]-Co
yle are putting on a decidedly dry atnllc
aa they tell how they refused to listen to
"Lord" Ileresford'a oily tongue. It'*
hard to own tip sometime*.
Ten Inches of snow ate reported to
havo fallen In Ninth Dakota Sunday
This weather Americas is having Isn’t
*o hud after all. All tlilnga are good In
their season, even hot weather.
1.NOAI.I.S, In a speech on Memorial
day, s.ilcl he “kellofed the Colifederiitus
thought tlioy were right." llu wu* snfo
In thinking Unit. Men generally think
they mo light when they •acrlllce their
lives nml their property In n cause.
The safety id Hie people I* the
supreme law,. When negro lynchers are
eauglit and hung society Is simply pro-!
tecilng Itself ugnlnst tho worst form of I
ally.
In view of this fact, the Democratic
party, in eilectlng a reduction of the
tariff, would proceed cautiously, con
servatively, aud in such maunur as to
not Injuriously alfrct any industry in
this country. It would Drat remove the
tnx on such articles ns lumber nml wool.
It would also gradually reduce the taiilT
ou articles of necessity iu common use
among the people. It would tints con-
limit- this policy until tlie desired relief
is secured, and Id tliir way it would not
shuck the business Interests of Shecoun-
try or do Injury to any class of citizens,
Iu oilier words, the Democratic party-
lias declared that a <>(' per cent, tail IT III
times of peace Is unnecessary and un
just, and that It must go. lint Domoc-
rncy would not out olT 1 lie head of the
patient to euro the disease Hint causes
Ills suffering,
It Is this couservutism, embodied In
the Democratic tin Ilf pulley, which so i
omspeintes the tuiill combine,
In 187:1, for tile ox pies, pur)
ASHAMED or THE PLATFORM.
This a very painful story which comet
up from tbe South that tbe platform of
the People'* Party, or rather of tbe
Labor conference at SL Louis, at which
the People'* party was dominant, ia
circulated in the Sojth in a mutilated
condition, a plant oeing omitted which
la supposed to lie ill adapted to gain
votes in that particular section.
The platform adopted at SL Louit on
the 21th of February, 1802, was a magni
ficent specimen of lnrid rhetoric. Thia
remark mppliea especially to the pream
ble, which absolutely bristles with aba pea
of horror and specters of abomination.
The old parties are painted in all the
colors that can Inspire hatred and mis
trust, and so held np for public execra
tion. "We meet,” said the preamble,
“in the midst of a nation brought to tbe
verge of moral, political and material
ruin.” “Corruption dominates the bal
lot-box." “The newspapers are subsi
dized or muzzled; public opinion si
lenced.'* There was a good deal more
of tbe same sort, and it was all tbe fault
of tbe two old parties: tbe one .that bad
been out of power, somewhat illoglcally,
being held equally responsible with the
one in power.
It w as tbe mission of tbe new party to
change all this, even as tbe physician in
Moliere changed tbe place of the heart
in the human body. It called itself tbe
“firat great labor conference of tbe
United States and of the world,” and it
began its jeremiad by "invoking upon
Its action tbe blessing and protection of
Almighty God.” Here, we are given to
understand, was to start on its triumph
ant mission a party as absolutely pure as
any well known baking powder. A new
star hail ailscn to illuminate our night,
a day dawn from on high to dispel the
gloom which lay around in chunks. In
tho glad sunshine of the world's new
spring, this paity was to walk trans-
arent like holy thing. (This is
poetry, of course, hut the Courier-
Jourual is not primarily responsible for
it.) It was expected to loathe practices
of tbe old parties, to repudiate tbeir
methods, to wear none of their dis
guises. There was no guile in its
mouth; what it wanted it demanded in
plain words, without concealment, with
out evasion. Its wants, to be sure, were
few ami modest, being limited to a few
billiuii dollars iu baud and whatever the
country bad left in reversion.
Rut among the things that it
wanted, wanted badly, wanted tit
once, was "that tbe Govern
ment Issue legal tender notes to pay the
Union soldier the difference between tire
DIRECT TRADE. Ml. R.
Everything encourages this movement
of direct trade, and shows It desirable,
practicable and backed by promise of
universal help.
Say* Colonel Stovall, w ho is engaged
with me in tbe enterprise: "lam con
stantly demonstrating immigration prac
ticallv. I have made two visit* in
week to my settlement at Adams Dark,
twenty miles below Maeon, to receive
immigrants who have come to locate
there with money to invest, some of
them Germans, who do not apeak a
word of English.''
A day or two ago I met Mr. McNIcbola,
a Scotch gentleman, visiting Mr. Millar,
one of our successful real estate men.
Mr. McNiclrola lives In Scotland and haa
bought a place in Florida, where he
spend* bis winters, on account of some
pulmonary tendencies, which that mild
climate corrects. He comes over in the
fall by way of New York. He said earn
eatly:
“You can say for me that I shall be
delighted when you get a line of passen
ger steamers from England to the South
direcL and enable me to avoid two or
three day* of bleak cold on tbe New
foundland coast in the sharp days of tbe
fall, and also save the expense of the
trip from New York to the South by
rail, and enable me to be landed direct
at a soft climated Southern port, after a
mild voyage down tbe gulf stream."
lie then went on to say that numbers
of tbe citizens of Great Urltalo would
come over to the south direct, that In
valids will prefer to southern Europe, so
overrun with people, our own golden
Florida, as a tropical resort, with Its
wealth of oranges and other fruits, and
its hospitable and cougeniul people, anil
all of these seekers after southern attrac
tions of Icllmate and healing would re
turn by tbe same route, nud a great
travel would be built up this way.
The tratiic manager of the greatest
western railway system thus writes
Col. Stovall and myself Iu a letter re
ceived to-day.
"That your project is feasible then-
can be no question, aud ivc are glad it is
being pushed so vigorously. < Ur rela
tions with the south are very intimate, a
portion of our vast system being wholly
within tbe Southern States, anil what
ever tends to develop business 111 and
through the South ncccssatily is a Irene-
fit to these roads, and we will gladly
join our eastern connections in miy
efforts they may make to carry out your
project. Of course the loads reaching*
the seaboard must take the Initiative in
tills matter, hut we will co-operate with
THE SPLIT IN NEW YORK.
We believe the Syracuse oonreiiUon'a
contesting delegation will widen tbe
breech In New Tork. We had hoped to
see the factions get together In Mr.
Cleveland's state, but the situation now
Is not encouraging.
This convention met as a revolt against
the mid-winter "snap" convention
which elected tbe seventy-two Hill dele
gates. Its action means a tight at Chi
cago and renders impossible quick and
united action by the National conven
tion.
A wrangle seems Inevitable.
We start with the assertion that New
York Is necessary to the Democrats
We follow that with tbe statement that
the Democrats who went Into the mid-
winter convention are necessary
Democratic success in New Tork. We
believe that Cleveland'! nomination baa
never demanded a contesting delegation.
Wa believe that bit Interests could bnva
been better served by a policy that
looked to harmony at Chicago. So we
think the action of the Syracuse conven
tion was not wise.
But It can’t be hel|>ed cow. It Is •
clear case of fight between rival politi
cal factions in a pivotal State, and un
leu tbe national convention can snub
some mum into these wranglers, New
York will go Republican. We cannot
win with a divided Democracy, and It
looks like war.
New York present* tbe name of Iflll
with one delegation and Cleveland with
another. Both sides demand seats. The
glitter of the knives Huh In both crowds,
and the advice of neither Is worth a con
tinental when tbe question of a nomina
tion comes up. The great party will
have to act on its judgment, regardless
if what these warring faction* say.
There arc those who ex|>ected to rely on
the.counsel of the doubtful states, Imt
New York is In no shape to give that
advice —Atlanta Herald.
price oi 1 lie depreciated money in which I them to the extent of our ability.
he was paid ned gold." Conscious of
the rectitude of its intentions, upon
which it hail already Invoked the divine
blessing, it demanded this In the words
vo lmve quoted.
Will it he believed rhat into the- i.-inks
of this pious party sons of Bulbil have
inly intituled, and that these .m>act-
tills order. Lynch law is never lonely, | txoucfitiDK the millionaires of this conn- ^ u illy publishing in Kentucky, and prob-
lint It comes In sometime
to clear t! e air.
like a storm
PllltslliKNrCOMKU experts to do all
the talking for newspaper men, on Cen
tral affairs, for the future lie may,
however, llnd tint, like United Mates
.Wonators, Ids director* cannot lie wholly
nyat the expense.of tliu people, the Ri
publican party demonetized silver. Th
evil results of this ctiniinal action at
fasteneu upon the country, aud the Hi
- j ably lliioegiiout the South, expurgated
o ■ editions of this gieat and eloquent plat-
l-I form, which contain no hint or sugges-1 summer at
■ tiou of the billion or two of dollars that foreign vi
Could there be a stronger practical en
courage ment limn this! 1 Anil with the
concentration of Southern and Western
efforts can the project possibly fall 1 . 1 In
Iu the fall, after tho summer has been
used to arrange tin line, the cotton crop
comes to furnish freight the entire win
ter, the cotton autid-ucd and relufotecd
by the great volumes of coin, wheat,
meat and innumerable other products
from tbe west. And next spring and
witness tlie Inundation of
Iro
Europe to
publican |arty Is pledged to perpetuate are wanted to supplement the present
them. The republican leaders talk modest |n-nsiun list of a hurdled and
about correcting this wiong by some In-1 titty millions a yiat:’ There is too good
muzzled, or escape the problr." of H r tcrnatioual agreement which they ex- j reason to fear that such is the case.
press.—Augusta Evening Herald.
pect to make. This is all talk to pacify Soveral pa| ers have been furnished with
the vuteis and to hide the rial motive expurgated editions amltliis conid hard
Ml'S Anna Dii kinsii.n is still seeking and policy. The Democratic party
pay for the services alto tendered I’resl- j would and will right this wtong. It
dent IIarih.uu on tlie stump in the cam
paign of 181-8, hut the pay Is not forth
coming. Wansmaker, Quay, Clarkson,
Dudley nnd others, have received their
reward while |»oor Anna mourns for the
cash that never rame.
Thk windows to be placed ia SL Paul's
church in Richmond In memory of Gen.
R. E. Lee arrived In that city n few day*
ago. The window* are tbe gift of tbe
Misses Stewart of Brook Hill and were
made la Munich. They will probably be
unveiled October 12, tbe annlveraary of
the death of General Lee.
Thk demand which tbe rank and Hie
of tbe Republican party la making for
tbe nomination of Blaine la causing a
great many Republican politicians to
tumble out of tbe Harrison band wagon.
When Tom Reed jum|ied they thought
it was about time to follow him, and
they are now deserting In droves to tbe
dismay of the men who imagined, a
short time ago, that the president would
have no opposition.
Thk smashing of the big corner iu
corn at Chicago and th* failure of the
firm of Coster A Martin, for an Immense
sum of money, was tbe largest sensation
In trails circles that has occurred In a
long time. It Is (caret!, However, that
the collapse ot 'the big ileal alter the
price of corn bad been run up to ft a
bushel, and the sudden (all In price to I want II.
would aud will restote silver to the post
tlon It uc.'Upicd in this country from the
beginning of the government up to 187:1,
when It was demonetized by the Repub
lican party. But the disease has become
thoroughly fsstcued, and It canuot he
safely removed by any violent or fanati
cal action. It will require wife and con
aervatlve action to return to tbe freo
coinage of silver without Injury to cer
tain classes and without giving to other
daises an undue advantage.
And so It Is with all of tbe great
wrong* and oppressive policies of the
Republican party. Tbe Third party
leaden, lu tbeir efforts to remove these
wrong* would blindly rush to tbe ex
treme, while tbe Democratic party
would adopt conservative methods anil
constitutional legislation to effect the
same end. Reason will prevail, and
hence thousands of so-called Third party
voters will, at tbe next presidential elec
tion, vote for tbe nominees of the Chi
cago convention.
DID NO UUOII.
The recent Democratic convention of
Georgia in its platform demanded a State
bank currency.
This was to capture tliFtarir.ers.
Well, It lies not worked.
The Southern Alliance Farmer has
jun>i>ed on the State back currency aa
wildcat money and says the people don't
80 cents a bushel, will be used In Con
gress a* an argument In favor of tbe
paaaago of tbe Hatch anti-option bill,
wblcli is now landing In tbe House.
Tiik next president must be n Demo
crat! Bear this in mind, and remember
that with tbe Democracy measures and
principles stand More men. It Is n
matter of very alight consequence—this
selection of a Democratic presidential
candidate, provided be Is honest, capable
aad available, and • genuine Demoemt.
Wave not limited to any one men or
any two men, and If their candidacy
tends to make the party inharmonious
It Is dearly our duty to ualte upon a
ticket that will rally our legions around
Tbe Herald does not believe that the
United Mates will ever allow any money
Issued except uuder supervision of tbe
govcrnmcnL That endorsement is di
rectly opposed to the State bank idea,
and makes tbe money national instead
of local In IU character. We favor
money that will pass for It* full face
value anywhere In the United Mates,
convertible Into gold or silver that will
pass for Its face value In tbe ma. kets of
tbe world.
The farmers have been detnagogued
for live yean and to no purpose. We
are opposed to teaching them to hope
for tbe impossible—and tbe State bank
idea, a local currency wltboot tbe en
dorsement of tbe governmenL i> as far
off as judgment day.—Atlanta Herald.
ly bail- happmed by ucciileut.
Thus perishes the loud hope that we
were alsnit to have a party "iu the
midst" of tht* ruined nation that could
be expected to tell the whole truth aud
not try to mislead the people. Thus
vanishes another golden vision: “’Twas
bright, "twas beautiful, but ’tis past.”—
Louisville Courier Journal
SOl'THKKN LYCH1NOS.
The people of tbe South have no
patienca with tbe self-named pbilaa-
tbroplsta and in reality unqualified—or
qualified if you use dashes—fools of
some sections who denounce os for pro
tecting our women, and making quick
examplea of those who dare Imperil the
aafety of a peaceful and quiet life.
We of this section know why such
lynching* occur, and we know that tbe
law Is really aided and protected. And
people of other sections. North or East
or West, under tbe same circumstances
are wrought with the same feelings.
With tbe exception always of tbe afore
mentioned fools.
The Anglo-Saxon race is characterized
by its reverence of womankind, and tbe
people of tbe North would and do keep
up the barrier of aafety with almost tbe
same zeal of their Southern brethren.
Here the circumstances are different,
but when cases of a similar nature arise
there, the action is tbe same.
Tbe fair minded and honest know
this, and it's only from tbe asses and
knaves that we receive abuse.
Here's a little editorial from tbe Phil
adelphia Record that shows the feeling:
The (teres spirit of revenae which In tbe
Mouth sprlnas Into vigorous life when the
honor and safety of women are concerned
exists In no less degree In Northern commu
nities as Indicated by the summary lynch
lac of s negro at Port Jervis, N. Y. When
such hideous crimes as his are In question
th* demand for Instant retribution tran
scends aud momentarily obliterates all re
gard for tbe forms of law. In this regard hu
man nature lisa been unchanged through all
»!»*-
Wtuld's Exposition at ( lioozu, able to
come or go by Hie North or Mouth, and
return tho other way aad see both conn
tries
So palpable arc the possibilities and
advantages of this project that the
Southern seaports are all showing the
advantages of thi-ir special points as t-n
titling them to this remarkable anil
enriching privilege of luring tho tom iuul
port of this ocean line.
The prospects never looktd so blight
for direct trade for the South.
I. W. Avery.
Chief Justice I’etku Tirxet will
ba th* next Governor of Tenaevtee. He
will not resign from tbe Supreme bench
till be takes the oath of office as Gov
ernor, when he will nominate hit own
eucceeeor.
GRAIN HARVEST.
Much of tbe grain planted at the
South, each as oats and rye, ie now being
harveeted. In epite of drouth laet
month, tbe crept around Augusta are
very good, and. In some Instance*, splen
did. It ie a fine eight to tee s firat-clasa
modern reaping and banretting machine,
drawn by a powerful team, cut tbe grain,
gather it in bundles, tie end depeeit It
thus sheafed on tbe ground. There Is
some rivalry between machine* of dif
ferent makers, end this competition has
reduced their price one-half. Tbe Ameri
can harvesting implements ere conceded
to be the best in the world, by actual
and repeated teste. Even If we bad free
trade, no man on this aide of tbe water
would buyn foreign machine of that
kind. We believe that, at no distant
day, by some electrical device, whether
by storago battery or traction, tbe crops
will be gathered without the aid of ani
mal power. This will be a great benefit
to the farmer and hi* stock. If plough
ing, harrowing and ao forth can be done
by steam, harvesting can he accom
plished by either steam or electricity.
We learn, too, that by electric Illumina
tion, the immense grain fields of tie
Northwest are worked at night just ai
they are in the day time.
Farmers are learning something evety
day in the economy of force and time.—
Augusta Evening Herald.
Tue Atlanta Constitution bits tbe mat
ter about right. The real issue betwetn
tbe parties Is sectionalism. Free silver
and tariff reform do not weigh much at
the north when the goepel of bate ie
revamped.
Mn. Cleveland should write one
more letter, and this one devoted to re
pudiating tbs Syracuse convention.
Senator Hill probably feels like thank
ing God for tbe friends Mr. Cleveland
bee made.—Birmingham Age-Herald.
A LESSON FOR COLORED MEN.
Experience* of the past quarter of n
entury has demonstrated to many of
Hie better class of the colored popula
tion, and the more intelligent, that their
ln-st Interests tun subserved by good
Itizcnsblp In the South. They have
greater opportunities here. More ave
nues of wotk are open to them, and
among the people of the South they find
their truest and best friends. Thous
and* lmve learned this nnd hnve been
unmoved by the spccloux pretences Hint
better treatment Is accorded them in the
North, that they lmve greater privileges
and more consideration. During tho
past year thousands of negroes from va
rious parts of the South haiu gone
North In the belief that they could ob
tain more remunerative employment,
anil their experience In the majority of
cases has been bitter
It In best for these people to u-iunin
where they are, go to work on the farms,
keep out of the cities, obey the laws ami
make good citizens. The following spe
cial dispatch from Utica, X. Y., which
we find in the New York World, Is a
sample of many occurrence* of similar
ch-vncter In dlff. rent section* of the
North:
I'hsr ly I'leik I'ouruU list pul ni-aily
'iuotn railway laris since work t-i-aau on
tl.-. Wci.h's road. Not a <h.y |.«.»is wlll.oi.t
tits heluit i-aitcil up- u by So il hern negroes.
Iieunllessnnd wltlout bsxl, who begt..be
sent home. These met! are sent on to (tie
next rlly h: <1 the iKsirmsstsis of the cities
tietween lore end tlie trig tew us In tlie Mouth
are railed upon to pass tlie men list k to their
old homes. Tennessee, Xor.hCarolina. Ken
tucky, Georgia, Luulsluua, Florida and Ala-
laiiuaow* New York sevsrnl thousand dollars
on scroti ill of pcormssti-rso- this Mtste Issu
ing railway tlrkets to darkeys who rente
Nor.h to work In the Adirondack*. Most ot
them ram* from Tennessee, aud when tl.s
legislature of Hist Mate meets It will
ealled upon to appropriate a large turn for
transporting negroes homeward.—Columbus
E q-ilrer-Bun.
It was unfortunate for tba negrophll.
late of tbo North, who ot Into have boon
condemning tbo lynching of negroes in
tbo South for criminally nssaulting white
women, that tbs neck of s black bruts
was broken tbe other day by a mob, at
Port Jarvis, X. V., for tbe same crime.
As n matter of courts tbe Republican
organa will bars very little to asy about
tbe affair, but It nevertheless shows that
The Timkb-Hecoudeu was correct when
it remarked a abort time ago that the
white men of the North would be as
quick to lynch negroes as tbe white men
of the South, were criminal assaults on
white women as common above as they
are below tbe Mason and Dixon line.
The speedy lynching of tbe negro at
Port Jarvis demonstrates that wherever
tbe Anglo-Saxon resides ho will not hesi
tate to retort to extreme measures to
punish a crime that is far more revolting
than murder.
May :10th wax the day fixed by the
Afro-American Society for negroes all
over the country to hold meetings and
prey the Lord to put an end to the
lynching* and th* alleged outrages on
tba negroes in tbe South. It would be
much better were tbe negroes to ask
Providence to gnido them In the path of
rectitude nnd morality, to Implant In
their hearta n desire to obey tbe law* of
tbo land in which they live, nnd to help
them to Improve tbeir moral and pbysl
cal condition. They should not expect
God to protect them In tbe commission
ot crime, and the sooner tbe negroee
learn tbla aad mend tbeir ways tbe bet
ter It will be for tbeir race.
The Amebicc* Times-Recordeb I*
on* of the truest and most aggressive
Democratic papers In the States.—Ath
ene Ledger.
LET |7S HAVE PEACE.
Dear Timea-Recobdbb:—Ever «t DC(
tbe result of the Georgia Democrat"
convention held on the 18th, I have ben
impressed more and more each day wltl
the Importance and wisdom of us all
remembering that “we be brethren."
Naturally of pronounced opinions,
perhaps too free ia expressing them, es
pecially when unfortunately and unwii.
lingly drawn up to tho wrangle, 1 f,. r
one, am ready now to taka tbe conies,
atonal, and admit that I wax one of the
many who said nnd thought things that
party Unity and party conversation
abonld not have allowed ire to do.
I can say this tbe more readily, be
cause tbe convention was largely tLe
way I hoped It would be.
I am sure I am an enemy to no one o*
earth; and I trust, white all are not n>y
friends, none of your readers are my
enemies.
Since my terrible sickness in mid-win
ter, followed by constant suffsrlng since,
I have bad no time or inclination to dls.
Ilka people.
But, let ua have |>eace. Let us
Georgia, let us of tbe South remember
that we are more than Democrats, mute
than Third partyltes, more than taritt
reformers, more than advocate* of free
silver—we are Anglo-Saxon men with
Anglo-Saxon mothers, wires, slaters and
daughters.
It la a well known fact In human
experience that in times of greatest dan
ger men undergoing it, whatever theii
previous conduct, Instinctively turn to
each for help, for comfort, for safety,
that always Ilea In unity ol action.
There Is a calamity that threatens u*
of tbo South far more than the failure ot
tariff refurrn or free silver coinage. It
la the Damoclean (word of tbe force hill
held above our brads hy only the slemln
thread ol it moat doubtful contest f. i
control of the national government.
Two-third* of the governmeu' is now in
Republican hands. Unless we can h.-ld
at least the other third the South is
doomed. The Gorgan head of the four
bill will bo raised over us. and uo end
of sub-treasury plans, no per centum ol
tariff reduction, no unlimited coinage ot
silver can do us any good, for our fail
laud will have been turned to buiu-u,
tcnautlesa, lifeless stout-, and » cruel sd-
vetsary nnd an alien race will laugh to
see It so.
There Is no time or occasion for stiilc
or bitterness among us. on economic
question* wo fare all ageud iu nut
i.iitUnnl point Wu know what
the disease is. We kuoW we suiter
for flnunclnl relief. Tlie sole
question I* it* lo the prujmr remedy
Whether tho sul>.treasury, tariff reform
and n more economical administration id
tho government,'or freo coinage will m-
coiopllib It, lot us consult and wliat Is
decided at Chicago iu Juno nlddo hy,
nnd heartily support the leader ax-lei ted.
It Wu do this victory is almost a-sitred
If wo do not, detent lx efirtaln.
Let us use harsh epithets ng.iin-
neltlier 6f the randlilatcs nor their ad
In-rent*. •
A good Democrat cau ho fur Clt-ic
land without l*-lnq “u Ch-n-bid
shilelur," or lie may be for Hill with
out being a “Hill booster," or he n r
believe it bad policy to n urinate either
without being n fool.
Let us not do or say anything belon
hand Hurt would weaken or liampci ou.
support of tlie nominee, should he no
he our individual choice.
I respectfully offer this gratuitous ad
vice because 1 so keenly feel what I -ay
and because with this say, I shall bare
no more to say until tbe polls o|>cn In
November, when 1 expect to he one of
the first to vote for whomever Is nomi
nated. Edgar F. Hinton.
Tub class of 1802 at tbe United Mates
Naval Academy received their diplomas
from th* hands of Secretary Tracy oc
Saturday. The cadets were addressed
by Bishop Qulntnrd of Tennessee,
member of the board of visitors. 1
class numbered forty members. Joseph
E. McDonald, Jr., the grandson of tbe
late Senator Joeept K. Me Donald.
Indiana is the first honor mas
Thus another young crew
been launched. Before them
tbe wide expanse of a restless, dance:
ous tea. Only constant vigilance and
zealous effort can make their life crime
successful and satisfactory. The p
lion of a naval midshipman Is by
meaus a soft snap.
bx»
Oex, Willian C. Yoi'ng Is tbe <■!
living gradate of West Point. He gr*'
luted from the military nendemy in I'
ll* liven la New Tork and will be
yearn old In Novnmber. General Yotini
does not know bow tig come by tbe tit,
of general aa he never ranked blgber
tbe service than second Ueutens"
John C. Calhoun wan secretary of
when hs entered West Point. Tbe no
oldest West Point graduate is
Georgs 8. Green. He graduated iroi
tbe adademy In 1823, standing second
bis olass. He was born In Rhode l* lu
In 1801, and now lives In Morristov
N J.
Her First Cake.
Mil# measured Cut lb* batter «Hh * "
solemn sir; tl
Tbe milk ami tu*ar also: *ml ►>"' ,o0
greatest rare , „
TO count the s«f* correctly amlt0* JJ *'
U
Of baklag powder, which,you k»°*
nsrs on omit,
Then she stirred Hall tofteber s»J
full an boar;
Bat she never quite forgave berseu
lag ost the Boor.
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