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SCHLEY COUNTY NEWS
DETOTED TO GITIX6 THE NEWS, ENCOURAGING THE PROGRESS AND AIDING THE PROSPERITY OF SCHLEY COUNTY.
R. E. ELLIOTT. Editor and Buiiness Manager.
THE STATE ELECTION
Georgia Democrats Carry the Day
Without Any Great Effort.
CONTEST AN UNUSUALLY QUIET ONE
Majority I* In the Neighborhood of (10,
OOO—Little Attention Paid to Con
stitutional Amendment.
Georgia’s state election Wednesday
passed off quietly, notwithstanding
here ami there a bitter contest for
county control was envolved.
Returns show that the state is Dem
ocratic by a majority exceeding GO,000.
The incomplete estimate Thursday
morning of the votes cast in tho state
election was accurate enough for the
conclusion that the Populist nominee
for governor did not receive more than
half the votes cast for his predecessor
in defeat two years ago.
In 1893 Hogan’s total ran up to 50,
000. Estimate of the most conserva
tive character places the number of
votes received by Traylor in Tuesday’s
contest at less than 25,000. In the
county of his life-long residence,
Troup, where he was admired by all
alike for his worth as a man, the Pop
nlist nominee was literally buried un
der the weight of Democratic ballots.
Such a majority as that which ushers
Governor Allen D. Candler in upon
his second administration was unex
pected, not only by that official him
self, but by the state committee. The
election was looked on in every section
of the state as one in which the Dem
ocracy had no opposition, but from all
indications the force of habit carried
enough Democrats to the polls to work
a 60,000 majority result.
One of the most significant returns
sent in by any county was that from
Irwin, where a majority of 3,000 votes
was recorded for Governor Candler
and the state ticket. Bibb, with a
population entitling her to three mem
bers in the legislature,'comes to the
front with a majority of 900, while
Irwin, with a scant population that
barely gives her one member of the
bouse, is credited with a majority of
3,000.
The general falling off from the
Popnlist fold is fairly shown in Clinch,
where 50 per cent of the men who
voted for Hogan two years ago are
reported to have gone over to tho sup
port of the Democratic ticket.
The early indications w ere that the
counties of Haralson, Glascock, Frank
lin, Forsyth,Chattahoochee, McDuffie,
Oconee and Lincoln had gone Popu
list or partly so. In these communi
ties as well as in scores of others, the
real battle for party supremacy was
fought and for every one carried by
the Populists where the issue was in |
doubt the Democrats captured two.
Perhaps the bitterest campaign in
tbe state closed with the election in
Flovd P A hard and determined fight
was made by LataBt independent a backed by ,
PomiliBtB lay the Democratic
2Xr nominees for collector, sheriff and
of tlie
Tn Fulton the maioritv of 4 000 votes
for tho ticket is explained to some ex
tent by tbe independent opposition en
countered bv one nominee on the
Democratic ticket. The experiment ol
S to “mediate futoe.
Remarkably little interest was taken
by the voters in the constitutional
amendment placed before them. In a
large number of precincts the amend
ment was almost entirely neglected in
spite of the fact that in one light its
success means aid to the widows of
confederate’soldiers, and in another
light it proposes to add something like
a quarter of a million dollars to the
annual pension appropriation of the
state. Very few votes were cast against
the amendment iu any of the counties.
BRITISH 30VING OX TAKU.
Two Armored Cruiser* Sail For Chinese
Town at Short Notice.
A cable dispatch from , Wei Hai Wei,
province of Bhan Tung, Monday,Octo
ber 1 says: “The British first-class
cruiser Terrible and the British sec
oud-class cruiser Arethusa, with the
transnorts havinc on-board, the Third
hrigud. of British Indian troops,start
wd-for Taku-tpday at short notice.”
ELLA VILbE. GA.. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 11, 1901).
DEMOCRATIC CLUES
Meet In Quadrennial Convention
at ,ndi anapoiis With a Large
Attendance.
The quadrennial convention of the
National Association of Democratic
Clubs was called to order in Tomlin
bod hall at Indianapolis Wednesday
afternoon.
The programme for the opening ses
sion of the convention as officially an
nounced, was changed just prior to
the hour of meeting. President W.
R. Hearst was expected to be present
to preside, but telegraphed that he
was ill and unable to attend. The con
vention was therefore called to order
by Senator James K. Jones, chairman
of the Democratic national committee.
Mayor Taggart was introduced ami
made an address of welcome which
was briefly responded to by J. R. Rice
of Canton, Ohio.
Senator Jones, in opening the con
vention, said:
“In the absence of President Hearst,
who has been unavoidably detained
from this meeting, I have been re
quested to call this convention to or
der and I do so now. During the last
two or three weeks clubs have been
organized and have been reported to
headquarters at the rate of over 500 a
day, until there are now by actual
count 7,352 Democratic clubs with an
average (applause) membership of more than 200
already organized in all the
states of the uuion. With »u organ
ization of this' kind, consisting of
more than two millions of members
thoroughly organized and thoroughly
awake to the necessities of the situa
tion at work in their localities every
where, there can be no reasonable
doubt in the result next November.”
Organization was then effected by
electing Thoinas r J aggart temporary
chairman; F.H Ihmsen, New York,
secretary , XV. J. Pollard, bt. Louis,
reading clerk, and Myron D. King,
at arms.
At this juncture Adlai E. btevenson
was escorted into the hall by a band
aud his appearance sent the convention
mto a pandemonium of applause. 1 he
demonstration continued for some time
after Mr. Stevenson had taken his seat
on the rostrum and while he had not,
intended to speak, he finally yielded
t0 “My'feUow
thfs Democrats, I thank you
for cordial greeting. I would not
undertake now to address you, but at
a later time, in accordance with the
programme, I will have the pleasure to
address some remarks to my fellow
Democrats of the United states. Ap
plans.,) T can only say to you now
that I bring you w^ords of good cheer
from the great Democratic state of II
linois.” (Applause.)
The next speaker was Mayor Samuel
M. Jones, of Toledo.
At the conclusion of Mayor .Tones
address, James Hamilton Lewis, of
The convention at o o cioca took took • a
recess till after the parade at night.
The parade ended at 9:30 o’clock
and Tomlinson hall was thronged with
those who had participated m the joli
fication. The meeting was called to
order by Senator James K. Jones, rvho
introduced Captain Patrick O’Farrell,
of Washington D. C. Captain O’Far
rel denounced the uar in the I hilip
pines and condemned a standing army.
He was followed by Hon. Sigmund
Zeisler, of Chicago, who spoke in op
position to ”.mper„l.»m
ONLY OBEYED OKllERS.
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Chinese Non Com.ni**ioi.ed officer Make*
a startline Admi«ion.
Official advices received in Berlin
f roul Pekin assert that a further ex
amjuation 0 f the Chinese non-com
missioued officer accused of Baron
Kette l er ’s murder resulted in this
Btatement:
<‘On June 1 we received orders from
tbe pr i n ce to shoot foreigners wher
ever we came aC ross them.”
Tbe accUBe d appears decided that
tl der was to shoot a minister or
the German minister. He declared
himself Lve unable to say which prince
b the order.
American Bankers Meet.
The . of .... Tv a , lk
session
ers Association at Rich me
day morning was devoted largely to a
call of states as to the conrlition o
business. Responses were and madeiirom tbe j
ports three-fourths most of encouraging. the state., re- j
were
COAL PITS TIED UP
Strikers Have a Mammoth Parade
And Demonstration at Lattimer
MANY WOMEN AND filRLS TAKE PART
Worker* Are Overawed By the Hosts ami
Vailed to Show Up When Colliery
Whistle* Blew.
A special from Hazleton, Pa., says:
Nearly 2,000 strikers, with fifty wo
men and girls, marched into Lattimer
early Saturday morning and complete
ly tied up the two collieries of Calvin
Pardee – Co., located at that place.
It was the greatest march that has
taken place during the present strike,
The crowd was made up of strikers
from McAdoo, Audeuried. Jeanesville
and Hazleton on the south side and
from Harwood, Ebervale, Free Land
and Upper Lehigh on the north side.
The women and girls came from the
now famous borough of McAdoo.
Sheriff Harvey and a handful of
deputies were at Lattimer when the
strikers arrived, and they and the
marchers were instantly on the move,
There was no disturbance at any time,
Tha men and the women were well be
baved.
It was the most exciting day Latti
mer has had since the tragedy three
years ago. The strikers from the south
side concentrated on the back road to
the place. They had left their homes
at
The women, including “Mother
Joues, were conveyed in wagons,
while the men walked. It was a little
before 6 o’clock when the 1,000 south
side men eu t er ed Lattimer, headed by
a fif e and drum CO rps, and the women,
The leader of the females, who was a
pretty Polish girl, carried a large
American flag. They marched and
counter marched on the .Lattimer pub
jj c road unt jj 7 0 ’ c look, when the whis
tie blev/ for the starting of work at the
collieries.
a great shout went up from the
crowd as it saw that no one responded
t o the call. Shortly after this a faint
c heer was heard in tho distance, and
Buddenly a crowd xvhicli proved
T ^hotad tlT gathered on the^ppoStfside
ihe b
tbe further end of the company’s
Ecame T abou , ba , f a “n mi ie away
streaming by the bn -
down the company’s
property then across aidetorceoTZ the strippings
south
public road on the very spot where
the twenty-two marchers were shot by
the deputies in 1897.
The combined lorces, after a short
rest, formed two by two and with the
women and girls in the lead, started
on another parade through the town,
women marchers called the Latti
mermen black-legs and other hard
names, whole those thus assailed re- '
mai ned mute for fear of being attacked.
This was kept up until 8 o’clock, when
the marchers began to leave for their
wioUB home towns.
8bro , ndo « h witnessed tbe big
f„ ges t demonstration ever held within
... ...... . Saturday. Over 5,000
striking idle mine workers marched
,h r0 „gh the streets and up to soldiers’
ulon „ ment I)ark , Locust mountain,
where they Lei., a mass meeting and
listened to word, of encouragement
u°„”e, M^workers ofl^rL° £
strikers came from all section, of the
anthracite coal regious, those from
nearby points marching in a body
headed by bauds, while those from
remote points went in trolley cars.
President Mitchell spoke briefly and
was frequently interrupted by cheers.
His most important statement was one
informing the strikers that they would
soon meet in convention. He saici.
“I wish to announce today for the
fi rst tin j® J hat ia » few days a conven
tion will be called. Every mine will
be requested to send delegates. If
yon believe a net advance of 10 per
cent in your wages is enough, then
y°’ ir vote8 wlll ll « c ‘ de tbe ! on -
If you prefer t that u the strike , shall go
on, Mitchell will be with you In this
strike we must all win together or go
dowa t«g^her.”
jyj- r< jyjitghen a g a i n took occasion to
deny tbe charges that the strike was
broug ht on for political reasons, and
that the bituminous coal operators
aonnectetl wil h it.
AMERICANS QUIT PEKIN.
Our Troops Were Withdrawn on
September 3d In Conformity
With Orders issued.
According to dispatches from Pekin
the withdrawal of the United States
force from the city began Wednesday,
October 3d. The marines, Major Will
iam P. Riddle, commanding, marched
to Tien Tsiu and the Fourth infantry
regiment followed them closely.
The American garrisons at Ho Si
Wn and Pei Tsang will also be with
drawn.
Most of the allied generals are
opposed to the campaign of revenge,
which it is supposed the Germans
have in view.
The Germans are planning a move
ment east of Tung Chow to capture
the arsenal.
General Gaselee claims that the
British, from tho gunboat. Pigmy,
were first to receive the surrender of
the Shan Rai Kwan forts. j
The persecution of Christians has
been revived in the province of Shang
Tun.
By imperial orders, by Chinese
troops, artillery and stores which
would regularly follow the grand
canal, are now diverted to Shen Si
province by the way of Han Kow.
It is reported from Chinese sources
that the imperial court has already
been removed to Si Ngnau Fu.
1IANNA WAS TARGET.
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Some Miscreant Throw* chunk of ice
While Speaking in Froere**.
Senator HanQft was thfc target for a
ten-pound chunx of ice . Thursday
night at a Republican meeting in Chi
c^go. The missile was dropped
through reJtlv ove^he^neake^^ au ammrture in Btaid.lt the tent <li
did
I no t miss Mr. Hanna’s head over two
*
inclie g pnd b(kd it etrnck him WO uld
h ave knocked him down and probably
f tre d his skull.
Tb e olice wb o surrounded the
speaker’s stand were astounded for a
momen t an d then made a rush for the
street Senator Hanna retained his
comP o Sure and seated himself while
Congressman l making Mann went on with the
ee ch
The P 0 * ic ® ooald f et uo tr ^ e of th °
. . r
li Hannl lefl teTescort ornery
henatol Hanna lett the the tent escort
"UV * l,0 ’tries “ f't rOW of‘“HowCulTZ of .P° ‘? e ' .
S “ ke ! ‘° ^re b * cries of How M “ would k ? yon
TWO NEGRO *--' REPRESENTATIVES
will Hold Seat* in th« Next Georcia Ue«
i*iatur« a » lte*uit of Election.
As a result of the Georgia state
election on last Wednesday there will
be two negro representatives in the
hon«iwhen that body is called to or
der this month.
They are from the counties of Me
Intosh and Liberty, in both of which
a natural negro majority prevails and
where the Democratic white candi
dates were beaten without trouble.
Fuller returns indicate that Governor
Candler’s majority £ and that of the full
state ticket will to 70,000.
Half a score of counties that have
for years maintained a Popnlist ma
Jonty go over to the Democrats, while
in only two, Haralson and Paulding,
out of the entire 137, are any populist
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APPLY FOR CONVICTS.
* ew cmmtyOa* in Near Future * r
The Georgia Coal and Iron company
d i od application with the state
J commission for the right to
ub . leaile fifty y peniteutiar y convicts to
Chickarna uga g Coal company, P y ’ which
P iH tQ he [u the ope rati o n of a
n0 coal mine in Walker countv in
i diate *
mme future.
The t fo be mind in Walker
COUQt _ ig tbat adjoining the Chicka
mauga * Coa ^ i and Coke company P / and is
oq th 8ame v ei asthe
company. P 7
Havana’s Fever Report.
The yellow fever situation at Havana
is not improved. During the month of
September 257 cases were officially re
ported, with a mortality of 25 per cent.
Eighty-four cases are under treatment,
and twenty-eight new cases reported
within forty-eight hours,
.
VOit. X. NO. 41.
FRANCE’S SOLUTION
Hor Representative, M. Delcasse,
Proposes Disposition of China.
A BIO INDEMNITY TOE MAIN FEATURE
Interdiction of Arm* Shipped Into the
Country I* Demanded—ICuiala Ap
prove* of Such a Scheme.
A Washington special says: Propo
sitions of a far-reaching character con
cerning China are being presented in
rapid succession to this government.
The state department had no sooner
disposed of one of these propositions
Thursday by delivering a response to
the German government than it was
confronted by an even more important
proposition submitted by the French
government, and within half an hour
-miaHy seconded by the Russiun
government.
The answer to Germany covered the
subject of punishing Chinese offenders
and P i ade known that the United
states had instructed Minister Conger
along the lines suggested by Germany,
These instructions look towards se
curing the names of the persons de
serving chastisement, also whether tho
punishments accord with the gravity
Q f the crimes committed, and finally,
in what manner the United States and
the other powers are to be assured that
satisfactory punishment is inflicted.
Aside from these specific purposes of
the note, it is regarded as important
chiefly in establishing the most satis
factorv relations between the govern
men k a t Washington and Berlin,
The Franco-Russiau proposal takes
a much broader scope and submits a
program under which the negotiations
for a complete settlement can be car
ried forward. The French charge, M.
Thiebaut, handed the proposition to
becretary Hay Thursday and held a
brief conference concerning it. Half
an hour later M. DeWollant, the Rus
siaa charge, arrived at the state de
and handed to Mr. Hay a
note expressing Russian approval of
the propositions just submitted by
TEXT OF PROPOSITION.
The Franco-Russian proposition is
” der ^ ^ T'K
Jnt w'T erdlction \ of f guilty the sh,pment parties of second arms
into China! third, payment of indem
"W 0 tb ° P ,°"T' Th '
cieut guarantees for the future. I ,
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e es a ) is lmen . o a permanen
of the 1 aku forts * P6 ^ and f f foi ° r tke main- /?
tenauce of a line of communication
)e ,p! een e lu an
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6 im P re ® slon ** 8 8 ?
.
^ 9 ft ° vernment* ' is ,‘y ^ha^thev con 8
not eMentiftl unfitting them
. , ^ nf consideration in a
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final settlement. The difficulty . which ...
* 8 ® imitations i 6
P ; p upon the scope of
^ hea f. ^ rpi • '• P«*.cular.y .. , - true
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Imps, » f of s “ that f f of 0 indemnity Still aa .
i 1 ^ lor toelt
<• 1 .- DefrwsT’1
[ e “ , ' £3 ‘ ,0 “’ ’while J /“J” likely to
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bi dtag torm , av , )e
“« to h »« 8 ,8ir
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Germany mat not appbovb.
As to the interdiction of arms, tho
Btate(3e P artmentahead y haa intimat -
tliat tl)ere t)e a question . a s to
wisdom thero u is reason to Go
*eve aiso that Germany will not view
that particuJar feature with approval,
But there appears to be good reason to
expect that a middle grotind will be
reached by confining the interdiction
? f ? TW to a specified period, possibly
Cliina hx « within ® ( ^. b y which time to pay re the ^ ul T mdem- e< J by
nity. The chief injection to theprop
osition is in its being permanent in its
P re8ent form ’
Conventions Held In Hawaii.
Advices from Honolulu state that
the Republicans aud Democrats each
held their conventions on the 24th of
September. Each party named a ua
tive Hawaiian for delegate to Wash
ington. The independents will act
later on.