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the general assembly OF GEORGIA. THE PEOPLE'S CHAMPIONS. A Brief Sketch of a Few of Our FOJPf'N' V.,. n < 0r s Jill (1 IJpjtrespiil til ives. J a »> 1 1 ’ *• $ 4! i j K\i \ < % \ y . 7/ z SENATOR W. McOARTTY. The Thirty-eighth Senatorial Dis¬ trict, consisting of the counties of Polk, Haralson and Paulding, elected the Democratic camlidute by 1,000 majority in 1892. In 1894 the Populists nominated J. W. McGarity, of Paulding county, and elected him Senator by 456 majority. Senator McGarity was born in Pauld¬ ing county in 1854, and was a straight faced Democrat until 1890, when, be¬ coming disgusted with the failure of the so-called Democratic party to en¬ act Democratic principles into law, be affiliated with the Populist party. As al lianee lecturer of the Seventh District for the past, four years ho line done a noble work for the reform cause. The following bills introduced by Senator McGarity were voted down by a strictly partisan Democratic vote: A bill to elect Supreme and Su¬ perior oourt Judges by the people. A bill to elect County School Commis¬ sioners by the people. A bill to allow farmers to plead failure of considera¬ tion when a worthless fertilizer is put 3 ff on them. A bill to tax the millions of dollars invested in paid up life in¬ surance policies, just the same as the farmer’s mule. He has secured the passage of a bill amending the contest law so as to give fifteen days for tak¬ ing evidence instead of five days asun¬ der the preset ’ w. Also a bill to amend the medi i-'tj H” law so as to give applt, bVt t l trtf.a one member of the examining board, thereby saving time and expense to the medical fraternity. He has introduc¬ ed a bill to give local option to the counties of this State as to the manu factors of spirituous liquors. A bill to prevent the manufacturers of commercial fertilizers from selling more than one brand made from the same formula. Also a bill requiring the State Chemist to publish the brands of fertilizers analyzed by him under the Ellington Act, that fall below the standard, so the farmers may kuow what brands are worthless. At the Oartcrsrillo convention in 1892 Senator McGarity only lacked one vote of being nominated for con¬ gress. He might have received the Congressional nomination for the Seventh District at Home in 1894 had he not conceived that the interests of the party would be advanced by the nomination of the Hon. Wm. II. Fel ton. Senator McGarity is an active far¬ mer, successful business man, fully alive to and careful of the affaire of his constitueuts. ->**■ «• J 1 A f«!$ m V & f JfP : Vr fZFT&rn \ m 7 / \ 7 m % SENATOR B. H. BROWN. Hon. B. IT. Brown,of Forsyth coun¬ ty, the present senator from the Thir¬ ty-ninth Senatorial District, composed of Forsyth,Milton and Cherokee coun¬ ties, was born in Gainesville, Hall oounty, Georgia, A. D., 1839. He was a member of the Democratic Executive Committee, and with forty other men first organized the reform party in Forsyth county, being forced with much regret to sever all relations with the Democratic party, from the fact that the leaders of that party w-ere untrne to the people’s interest. In 1893 Mr. Brown was elected to fill the unexpired term of Hon. AY. J. Pirkle in the House. In 1894, receiving the nomination for the Senate on the Populist ticket, he was elected by the 1 andsotne ma¬ jority of 276 votes, reversing a large Democratic majority at the election two years previous. Senator Brown has secured the pas¬ sage of a bill providing for third-elan* roads, and to extend the privilege of peddling without license to crippled persons unable to work, His bill to abolish the fee system and put Solici¬ tors General on salaries, was voted down by the Democrats, who seem by their votes to prefer to guard the in terests of the .Solicitors to the inter ests of the people. The Senator from the Thirty-ninth introduced a bill to relieve photogra¬ phers from the special tax of $10, and a resolution providing for a committee to look into state salaries and expen¬ ses, with u view to u general reduction all along the line, but the Democrats, ever watchful of their pets, voted it down; also a resolution asking nation¬ al aid in the education of the colored shildren of the South. Senator Brown is a life-long farmer, a quiet, unassuming, conservative man, well worthy of the trust commit ted to him by bis people. (r I 3 iC % : i //M Wi i Js m 1 \ v'r R. E. DAVIDSON. Greene county could not do better than to keep jolly, good-hearted Bob Davidson in the Legislature as her Representative. Bob says he staid in the Democratic party until it got too corrupt for an honest man to endorse its rations. He was born in Greene county, Georgia, in 1854 ; was defeated on the Populist ticket for the Legislature in 1892 by 285 majority; rnado the race again on the same ticket in 1894 aud was elected by 426 majority, shoeing an overwhelming condemnation of the Democratic party and its methods by the good people of Greene. Mr. Davidson is a successful merch¬ ant aud farmer; is thoroughly in touch with the people, and believes that salaries and the expenses of our government should be cut down iu proportion to the reduced inoomes of the people. He lias advocated the eloo lion of judges and other officers by the people, the entting off of every superfluous expense and voted for every measure in keeping with the promises of the Populist platform no matter by whom introduced. Ever watchful of the interests of the noopl faith)-.1 to hut every "rom , ffisdc to them before his election, is the tale the Journal of the House tells on the Hon. R. E. Davidson, of Greene county. k fa m w : & ' M M V 7m s? i m 77 J. R. HOGAN. Hon. J. R. Hogan, of Linooln county, has fought the payment of the Hayes-Scott bonds which have already been paid once, ever since he has been a member of the House. These bonds were repudiated by the convention of 1877 aud by every Leg¬ islature since, except when Gov. At¬ kinson was speaker. introduced lti 1892 he an income tax bill, which was defeated by the Democrats, but this measure has been incorporated iu the Populist platform and passed by a Democratic Congress. Also a bill to wipe out all back tales aud start anew, so as to enfranchise the poor people of the State who are debarred from voting by reason ol their inability to pay back taxes, which was defeated by Democrats who stated that they were not in favor of the negroes voting at all. Mr. Hogan was an organized Demo¬ crat until 1892, when he became con¬ vinced that we could not get the Alli¬ ance demauds through the Democratic party. the elections Being a member of committee, he is thoroughly famihai with the Democratic methods of turn¬ ing out Populists who were duly elected members of the House and has iu every instance gallautly cham¬ pioned their cause on the floor of the House. Air. Hogan was born-, A. D., 1850, in Lincoln county, where he has been all his life engaged in farming. Iu 1890 he was elected as an Alliance Democrat, receiving the People’s Party nomination; iu 1S92 he was elected over all opposition by 600 votes, and again in 1894 by 700 votes. Mr. Hogan has many friends in the House aud Senate, regardless of party lines. He is one of the be*t posted men in the Georgia Legislature and lie has made many gallant defenses of he people’s rights upon the floor of House. ’ 111 % M Mi A : ; u ■ m 'I (1 i m HON. J. T. HOLBRO >K. The present Representative 'Frank lin county, Hon. J. T. Hoi ok, was bori » Franklin county, Georgia, 1839, graduated from the A a Med ' oft l Gollege in 1869, and s high ‘ n «*« medical fraternity. This is his second term louse as a Populist, his major 70 in 1892 was increased to 1894, which clearly shows tl t uklin county endorses his .recort i Leg islature. Dr. Holbrook was a life- Demo¬ crat until the corruption o* t party drove him to espouse true i> locratio principles and the cause of a people by joining the Populist par The present widow’s pe ion law applies only to native bon. s Georgia women. Dr. Holbrook, kno ag that many widows of Georgia’s' onored dead,born in other states wer <n need of aud justly entitled to help, intro¬ duced a bill to extend the pension law to this class of widows,but thp great(?) party which poses as the frie*d of the widow and orphan defeated the meas¬ ure. He is thoroughly conversant with the desires of his pet'pie and grievous burdens laid upon tkh masses for the benefit of the classes, Ikis voted against, and fought every exGavagant and useless appropriation, a«si every bill which tended to remove t j.e power of government further away :om tha hands of the people. 5 * ~x 1$ Ml s Pi & v. f I tr HON. J. R. BAGGE1H Hon. J. R. Baggett, of Laurens county, was born in Jeffersota county, Ga., was proud of the fact that he was a bourbon Democrat until 1842 when their actions convinced him that the Democratic party was unworthy of the trust reposed in them by the people. He accepted the Populist nomination for the House in 1894, was opposed by a colored Republican and a white Dem¬ ocratic candidate, but downed a for¬ mer democratic majority of over 300, and was elected by a handsome major¬ ity of over 160 votes. As a large majority of the people of Laurens county aro in favor of abolish¬ ing their city oourt, Mr. Baggett in¬ troduced a bill to this effe&t. Also a bill to require Sheriffs and ttdicitors to turn over to the county treasurers all monies from fines and forfeitures so that it might be prorated among the officers and witnesses who are entitled to pay for their time, defeated' by the Democrats who seem to stand in awe of the Judges and Solicitors of this State, and are afraid to vote for a fail division of costs. Mr. Baggett has made farming hi* life-long study, and has been very suo cessful in his chosen calling. He is a forceful speaker and on eeveral occa¬ sions has eloquently defended Populist principles upon the floor of the House. His record in the House will stpjw that his vote was always cast against bills that were inimical to the interests of the people aud contrary to the Popu¬ list platform and in favor of every bill, no matter by whom introduced, which tended to advance tha cause of the people. i' $ K/ i rf m % V A a 7 v\ V J. H. BOYD. Hon. J. H. Boyd, Jr., is a prosper¬ ous farmer and a resident of tho famous Tenth, or Watson’s district, as it is often called. He was born in Mc¬ Duffie county 1858 and supported the Democratic party until 1892, when he rau for the Legislature on th- Popu¬ list ticket and was elected by 385 ma¬ jority and again in 1894 by double tb s previous majority. In 1802 Mr, Boyd introduced a bill to famish school books free to the public school children. This bill, like many others in the interest of the common people, was defeated by the Democrats, but met the approval of PopulistB to such an extent that it was incorporated in their Btate platform. Boyd This bill was introduced by Mr. again at the present session, but has gone down under Democratic opposi¬ tion. The indigent pension bill which is now a law was first introduced by Mr. Boyd. The Democrats afterward in¬ troduced a similar bill and thus stole the credit of the measure from the Populist par*" He believes no me rule, and intro¬ duced a bill to make it a felony to im¬ port foreign detectives into this State. Mr. Boyd was appointed on a spe¬ cial committee by the Speaker of the House in 1892 to visit the World’s Fair. He refused this honor and its tempt¬ ing perquisites of special cars, wine linners, etc., because the object of the jommitteo was to obtain a large appro¬ priation from Georgia for the World’s Fair, and he opposed a lavish expendi ;ure of the people’s money for this purpose. Mr. Boyd’s votes during hiB terms in the Legislature will be found re¬ corded for economy and the retention of the power of government in the hands of the people. The Populists of McDuffie county »nd the State of Georgia may well be proud of the record of the Hon. J, H. Boyd, Jr. »N I i U \ VI a I / V % 7 / / / w G. D. BENNETT. Jackson county has two representa¬ tives in the Legislature, one of whom, the Hon. G. D. Bennett, was born in Jackson county in 1864, where he has been actively engaged in farming for the past twenty years. Mr. Bennett, while an office-holder in the Democrat¬ ic party, became disgusted by their broken promises and failure to legis¬ late in the interest of the people, and accepted the nomination for the House on the Populist ticket in 1892 and was elected by 170 votes over his opponent, overcoming a Democratic majority at the previous election. Hon. G. D. Bennett introduced a bill, which was defeated by the Demo¬ crats, to reduce the pay of Sheriffs, Tax Collectors and Receivers. In connection with his colleague, Hon. L. F. Sells, he attempted to abolish the city court of Jackson county, which has in two years in¬ creased jail fees $300 and other ex¬ penses $3,200 without lessening the expense of the Superior Court. His opponent did not dare to endorse this oourt in race against him, yet the Democrats of his county secured the defeat of this bill in a Democratic House and saddled this unnecessary expense upon the people of Jackson county. Mr. Bennett has been eleoted chair¬ man of his party. He was cut all to pieces and almost assassinated by a Democratic tough in 1894, He is as good grit as they ever make ’em, and we would that every county ia Geor¬ gia was full of just such men. ZjW -V, H r Ss HON. J. R. HENDERSON. Hon. J. R. Henderson, of Forsyth county, enjoys the peculiar distinction of being the only renter in the pres¬ ent House, never having owned a foot of land in his life. Mr. Henderson is an eloquent speak¬ er and was chosen by his people to represent them on account of his pow¬ er of speech and ability to present their demands in an eloquent and for¬ cible way. He has secured the pas¬ sage of a bill to prevent the obstruc¬ tion of streams in his county; intro¬ duced bills to elect Superior court Judges by the people, pay Solicitor Generals a salary, and to give each po¬ litical party a representative on the board of managers of elections. These bills, which embody principles that are demanded by a large majority of the people of Georgia, were voted down by a strictly partisan vote, the Populist members voting for and the Democratic members against the bills. Mr. Henderson was an organized Democrat until 1891, when that party left him by departing from its time honored principles of “a government of, for and by the people.” He was born in Lumpkin conuty, Georgia, in 1854; is a practical and successful farmer, and ia destined by nature to become an able and eloquent champion of the cause of' the great commofi people of this State. *■ iSr j. mm m AS i 47 H. G. EDENFIELD. Rev. H. G. Edenfield, the present Representative of Screven county, is a Baptist preacher, and was born in Barnwell county, South Carolina, in 1845. He was Assistant State Alliance Lecturer for several years; was elected to the Alliance Legislature in 1890. Convinced that the Alliance demands would never become law through the Democratic party, he accepted the Populist nomination for the House in 1892 and was defeated by 200 votes. Again in 1894 he was nominated by the Populists and was elected by over 400 majority—an overwhelming vindica¬ tion of his political judgment by his people. Georgia The rice mills of have been charging all the way from one-eighth to one-fourth toll. Mr. Edenfield in¬ troduced a bill to make the toll uni¬ form at one-eighth, but the Democrats sided with the mills versus the people and defeated the bill. He also intro¬ duced a bill to allow County Court Bailiffs the same pay as Sheriffs for the same work performed, but it was also defeated by Democratic votes. Mr. Edenfield, true to his principles as a Christian and a minister, introduced a bill to prevent the railroads from run¬ ning excursions trains on the Sabbath day. This bill was also defeated by the party which so many Christians (?) ministers in Georgia preach for and vote to sustain. He is a consistent Christian, true gentleman and faithful representative, in whose hands the in¬ terests of the good people of Screven are carefully guarded. Cut this out and save it, for these are facts written upon the pages of Georgia’s history by native Georgians. Personally cognizant of the tact that the Democratic press of the State has refused to do justice to Populist Sen¬ ators and Representatives,and that the reform papers have been unable to get at these facts, the above records are presented to the public for the purpose not alone of doing simple justice to these senators and Representatives,but in order that all men may know that every Representative of the Populist party has been faithful to his trust and to every promise made by the party of the people. Lack of space prevents the publica¬ tion of all their records in this issue, but each week, as fast as space will ad¬ mit, they will appear in the reform press of the state. From a personal and intimate ac¬ quaintance with their every bill and vote, I can say that no true man can help but be proud of each one’s re¬ cord. In nearly every instance were they born and bred among the very people who elected them—Georgians, born on Georgia soil, in whose breasts the love of freedom, justice aud native land will never die! All honor to these men, true to every right so dear to freedmen, who have and, if need be, will again shed their blood for Georgia’s sons and daugh¬ ters and their native land. John I. Fullwood. A Wonderful American Road. Henan C. < ooke aud C. A. Fauble, who are exploring 8au Miguel Mountain, near San Diego, were reported some days ago to have found an ancient roadway and tunnel to a gold mine. They say the re¬ port as to the tunnel was a mistake, as f was shown by further excavation into the hillside. Their deception was due to the fact that a slide of rock and earth down the mountain side had made a deposit, in a natural way, having the appearance of a tunnel debris They firmly believe that a gold mine is there somewhere, and intend to continue their search. They have found ore ledges and have filled locations on three mining claims, all showing good prospects. graded Their description of the old roadway naturally leads to interesting speculation as to who constructed it. They say it can easily be seen that a dirt road over the crest of the Hog-back, ris¬ ing from the Sweetwater river well up the mountain side, was first traveled exten¬ sively. But later travel was diverted over a part of the distance to a level shelf, and this new road is the one that creates won¬ der and astonishment. The grade is so perfe t that Cooke and Fauble firmly be ] ; eve it was established by the best of sur¬ veying instruments. The solid rock has been cut out so deep that powder or some other explosive must have been used. The fills on the lower side have been made on true lines, and a distance of 1,000 or more feet of this kind of work shows educated workmanship. A Scottish Custom. It is frequently the custom for merchants in Scotland to buy potatoes when in the ground a.ul to undertake the lifting and carting. For this purpose they often communicate with a man in Ireland ca led a “goffer. - who takes a gang ol Tontig women over to a-s st. as the Irish w m are - me of the best workers in Use fie.d. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Copenhagen, Denmark, boasts paper telegraph poles. Alma Tadema, the painter, says that bright blue has a depressing effect. Scientists believe that all salt,wher¬ ever found, has come originally from the sea, in some way or other. A flowing well of petroleum was dis¬ covered in the Olympic Mountains in Washington recently. The oil if said to be identical in character with that of iho Eastern wells. Professor Willis Moore, head of tha Weather Bureau, is taking observa¬ tions in the upper strata of the atmoS" phere with kites aud expects to im« prove his forecasts very much. A Philadelphian has invented a sys¬ tem of telegraphing which will send, he claims, a thousand words in a min¬ ute over a single wire. Actual experi¬ ment with it has given 940. The first fossil insect ever found in the southern coalfield of Pennsylvan¬ ia, according to Naturalist W. Victor Lehman, of Tremont, Penn., was sent by him to the Smithsonian Institute. Plumbago brushed over the face of a medal or other metallic object—an electrotype copy of which is desired in intaglio—will prevent the copper or other metal electrically deposited from adhering. Field magnet cores, for ring ma¬ chines, should be 1.66 times the di¬ ameter of the armature core, if of wrought iron, or three times if of cast iron. For drum machines the figures are 1.25 and 2.3. Ohio stands at the head of the States in clay manufacture, its product being valued at $10,668,000, or over sixteen per cent, of that of the whole country. Illinois comes next with, with thirteen per cent., and Pennsylvania stand third with eleven per cent. Venomous snakes are slow in doing mischief. The cobra di eapello, the toy of Indian jugglers, retains its fangs, but never uses them except to resent injuries, and then, opening its crest and hissing violently, it darts on its victim, who has notice to escape. Austria-Hungary has 174 paper fac¬ tories, 120 pasteboard factories and thirty-four pulp factories. The yearly production is about 350,000,009 pounds of paper, 20,000,000 pounds of pasteboard and 150,000,000 pounds of pulp, worth more than $20,000,000. Fortunes in Melodramas. The history of melodrama in the United States for the past twenty years has been somewhat peculiar. It may be said that its first great impetus came with the production of D’Ennery’s “Two Orphans.” It is estimated that $400,000 was made from this one drama alone. Then came the “Lights o’ London,” “Romany Rye,” and a host of others so thick and fast that it was not long until the public became surfeited. However, while many fortunes were wrecked by adventurous speculators who desired to repeat the “Two Or¬ phans’ ” success, not a few made money. Mr. Shook, of Shook & Palmer, retired worth a fortune of $500,000 from melodrama. “The Fatal Card,” in part of one season, netted a profit of $50,000. But the greatest modern day success in the way of profits has been “In Old Ken¬ tucky,” which is an American play purely and written by au American author. After its first production two years ago, no less than six companies were for a long time touring the coun¬ try, and in the New York run alone there was a profit of $80,000. It is estimated that the piny has made over $250,000, the author alone receiving in royalties $100,000. Since the enor¬ mous success of this play many others have rushed into the melodramatic field, and while, as stated here, three plays have made over $1,000,000, it will probably be a long time before there will be another winner like “In Old Kentucky.”—Pittsburg Dispatch. ERorts to Abolish a Superstition. The French cutlers established in the town of Langres are determined to call attention by every means in their power to the absurdity of the superstition about presents of knives “cutting friendship.” The belief, they allege, no doubt with some show of reason, is injurious to their trade. Among the wedding gifts presented to a newly married couple, for instance, one never sees any knives, although metal articles of other kinds are never wanting. The Langres cutlers have, thorefore, begged the French Minister of Public Works, M. Dnpuy-Dutemps, to accept a little present of two fancy knives and a pocket knife of fine workmanship. M. Dupuy-Dutemps has graciously accepted the gift with¬ out sending the traditsonal penny or half-penny in exchange with which the superstitious ordinarily seek to disguise the nature of such a trans¬ action.—London News. Hater Supply by Wooden fipes. Several towns and cities in Oregon and Washington have lately obtained an excellent and adequate water sup¬ ply in an inexpensive manner by the use of wooden pipes. The pipes are made from common pine logs, ten in¬ ches in diameter, hollowed ont with a six inch bore. It is claimed that the wooden pipes last as long as iron pipes. One town has a line of pipes seven miles long that, with all connec¬ tions, cost but $2000. A Novel Revenge. A novel revenge for;his discharge was takeD ty an elevator boy in a big furniture store in Portland, Me. When every one else had left the store he changed the price tags on all the fur¬ niture in the place, marking some things down in a startling way, patting high prices on common stock, and nopelessly mixing np things general¬ ly. —New York Sun.