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COUNTY J PICKENS PROGRESS. VOL. X 1 Y. GENERAL DIRECTOR? United States Commissioner Jons F. Simmons. Superior Court. Fourth Monday in April .-met >.m Judge,—Gco. S'. Gober, Maristt*. Solicitor,—T lios. Hutcherson, Gs.u:< t. County Officials. Ordinary ;— Calvin J. Cornelieoi., Sessions hold llrst Monday in each mom I Cleric Sup. Court, and G. W. Owen. COUNTY TREASURER. Sheriff,—C. T. Wliceler. Tax Collector,—J ohn H. Di.i>ar«.»n. Tax Hkobiver,—M. O. WIIbor. County Surveyor,—B on. Mulllni. Coroner,—L. U.Blackburn. MUNICIPAL OFFICERS. Mayor, J. K. Simmons. COUNCILMBN: P. C. Richards. C.J.Wliceler, A. Mcli n, E. Henning, Walter Rnylie, Religious Services. M. it. CHURCH, SOUTH, PRrsipiNO Elder.—R ev. X. R. Co«.k. Pastor.—R ev. J. It. IJttlc. Servici s first and third Sunday, aad r -iMiay aights in each month. Sunday School,9.30, a m. B. H. Simmei s.Su* BAPTIST CHURCH. Pastor, Uev. G. A. Bartlett. Servicesf, foutli Sunday, in every month Sunday School 9.30, a. m. Jno. W. Ueriey Supt. Board of Education. Eber Wofford. J. G. Faulkner, M. Morrison, DavidAndei son Geo. W. Little, Commissioner J. W. Henley, This Column ""ufopen for business and profes si on rJ cards . You will sey here by all progressive and thor ouh going business and profession al men of our town and country. Look out for them in next issue. Rates made known on applicat ion. Jasper Tho town of Jasper is ben itifnl for citnation, crowning the t< p of a mountain about 1700 feet above sea level and has one of the most beautiful mountain sconerya in the world. We want to say more about Jasper and its advantages in a future issue. Let Jasper rally to every public interest, the Paper will do all in its power to li Ip. p OTASH gives c >/<•■?', flavor and fir nr: is to all fruits. No good Lull can be raised without Potash. t- 1 containing , • • .I . fertilize r:, _ a s tc-l? . 8 to IO/f of Potash wiii ylrz best results on all fruits. Writs for our {>:iTHph!ets, which unjjht to bo in cvery former's ! rtry. They are sent free. GERMAN KALI WORKS, 93 >Lsiau Hi., New York. The Wood Monument. Reckivkii by thk Pkoorkss. Miss Aurora MclJan Pickens County Progress 1.00 Athens Wofford 1 . 00 . LV. F. C. Richards 1 . 00 . G. W. Owens . 25 . Senator A. S. Clay 1 . 00 . U. G. Wheeler 1 . 00 . Received by Judge Gober. Dr. Tatum 1 . 00 . G. F. Gober 1 . 00 . Received by Miss Aurora McHan. W. B. Stovall 1 . 00 . Clias. Wofford 1 . 00 . C. J. Cornelisou 1 . 00 . Mercer University Faculty 5.00. George Brown 1 . 00 . Mrs. G. M. Brown 1 . 00 . K. O. Hopkins 1 . 00 . Mrs. R. O. Hopkins - 1 . 00 . Will Watts 1 . 00 . A. McIIau 1 , 00 . Mm. A. J. Luvelady 1 . 00 . Mrs. Kate MclJan 1 . 00 . Will Garwood 1 . 00 . <’. W.McIlan 1 . 00 . W. F. McBride 1 . 00 . T. \V. McIIan 1 . 00 . Raymond Fowler . 50 . Miss Uomae Garwood 1.00 E C Coffey 1.00 Ben Cowart 1.00 W. L. Wood 1 . 00 . Mrs. Martha Wood 1.00 Iieo Capo . 50 . Dr. M. N. Wood 1.00 Mi-s. Ida Wood . 50 . Received by J. W. Cagle. David Anderson 1 . 00 . W. B. Thompson 1 . 00 . J. N. McDaniel 1 . 00 . W. F. Slagle 1 . 00 . C. W. Holmes 1 . 00 . C. C. Pettett 1 . 00 . J. W. Cagle 1 . 00 . Mr. S. B. Keeler 1 . 00 . George Felix Taylor 1 . 00 . H. K. Wood 1 . 00 . Henry Grady Wood 1 . 00 . lteliglou of Presidents. It is rather remarkable that the Baptist church, one of the greatest religious denominations of this coun try, has never had a representative in the white house. No president has ever been connected even by marriage with this church. No o'Wer reason than it has just happened that way is known. The Baptist are the most Demo cratic of ail tiie religions sects. It ; s said that JefTersi n got many of tlu* principles for our great govenment from a little Baptist church m Vir ginia. But he was riot a member of that denomination. Washington was a common cant of the Episcopal church, and had long been one before he became pres ident. Both of the Adameses were Unitarians, as was Yliliord Fillmore. Jefferson was not an attendant at any church, but some of his later writing support Ins daughter’s asser tion to the effect that he died a believ er. Madison, Monroe, W. II. Harri son Tyler, Zachary Taylor and Arthur were one and all Episcopalians. Jackson, Polk, Bucharinan, Lincoln. Johnson, Cleveland and Harrison were Presbyteriai s. Van Buren attended a Dutch Reformed cnurch, Pierce was a congeralionaiist, and Garfield wa* a preacher of the Church of Diciples The Methodist sent to the white house, Grant, Hayes ami McKinley.—Athens Banner. Copies of this paper may be found on file at Washington in tiie office of our special correspon dent, E. G. Siggers, 918, F. Street N. W., Washington, D. C. ltubbed the Grave, A startling, incident, of which Mr. John Oliver of Philadelphia, was the subject, is narrated by him as follows: J was in a most dradful condition. My skin was almost yellow, oyos sunken, toting and coated, pain continually in back sides, no appetite—grid wily growing weaker day liy day. Three physisans had given me up. Fortiiua'cty, a friend advised tr. ing ‘Electric Bitters;' ami to my great joy and suprise, the first, bottle made A decided impaovernent. leontin their use for three weeks, and am now- a well man. I know they saved my life, and robbed the grave of another vioiini,” No one ffhmihi fail to try them. Only 50c., guaranteed, at Tate* Simmons A Go. K. G Siggers, Patent Lawyer, ^ iisumto", l>. ( ., win -scad, appears iii oin columns, publi-hes a vabnable !■■■; yrighted book entitled ‘•How to Obiain Patent, Caveat, Tia-ie Mark an<! Copyright Protection, with De cisions in Leading Parent Cases.’ 1 A copy will be sent free to any address. Jasper Georgia, Friday^ January 19, 1900. Judicial Elections. From the Atlanta Constitution. We are pleased to observe that there is a tendency on the part of our state exchanges to discuss the matter <>f nominating the judges and solicitors of tiie superior courts ot the state. Tilt discussion is very timely, especially in view of tiie fact that there seems to be a tendency in some quarters to use the fact that these officals are to bo elected by the people as an excuse for nominating them by some other method than a primary election. There seems to be a sort of smothered desire on the part of some to nominate judges and solicitors by conventions com posed of delegates from the counties of each circuit. Thus, it is hinted; that the "-on lilies of each circuit could hold their own conventions a'd pro ceed to nominate the officials. It is haidly necessary to say that such a procedure as this would not carry out the letter and spirit o" the constitutional amendment by means of which the choice of judges and solicitors was taken out of the hands of the legislature and restored to the people. There are 219 members of the legisalure, representing every count; and senatorial district, and therefore every judicial circuit of the state They are elected for two years, and they bear the burdens of respon sibility to that extent. But with all this, the people were not satisfied that these 219 Sven should choose the judicial officers of the st ate . There j i were rumors of trading and juggling, and it was suspected that oftentimes the fitness of the candidates was not so much thought of as the ability of their fri. mis to make deals and trades. Whether this situation existed is a question that need not he discussed. It w\os possibip and the possibilty gave rise to grave suspicions; and, at last, in order to leave no room for doubt, and suspicion in a matter so delicate and important, the election of judicial officers was taken out of the hands of the legislature. One of our exchanges, commenting on the statement that the democratic state executive comm ttee will meet early in March, according to tin., honored custom, betrays yuruft import ance. it says that the committee ‘•should have airanged to meet the present month,’’ and it adds that “the candidates for solicitor generais are especially deserving of consideration at the hands of the committee.” Why? Are they any more deserving of con sideration than the candidates for judgeships? Arc they as deserving ot consideration as the people? Candi dates of all kinds come and go, rise and disappear, but the people and the people’s interests remain. What spe* cial claim has a candidate of any kind whatsoever on a body i epresenting tile democratic party, the party, that, in Georgia, represents the people? Does the mere feci that a citizen as plies to hold . n office make him morn iuipoi taut (bail ilic rest of bis feliow citizen-? it should be remembered heie that the various offices by means of winch the people’s government is carried i n were established for the benefit of the people, and not for H e benefit of tho-e who in iv aspire to fill -hern. Tlie claim that any ca-inlate his «>" iin: state executive commilt-c is one Oi COU! j ; ’ but the claims of the people strike deeper and go farther. Both the letter and spirit of the constitutional amendment should be strictly carried out, and tho nominQ. tion vt ttie judicial officers, which in this stf ta is equivalent to an election, siieiil^ l»e placed in tho hands of tho people. A n iniinating convention representing a judicial circuit would be oorjjfosed jfJ not more than twenty the outside. Would these delegates le any freer from a ten dency to trade and juggle than the 219 members of the legislature? Woul l they not, indeed, be better able to car y out a deal o: an arrangement than ;iierubers of the general assent bly? , it eir responsibility would be for a day only; they would bo able to make my kind of a “combination,” and tic re would be no way to call them to account. T.' tiaople, in adopting the consti tutional amendment, have shown what their desires are. Indeed, the whole (purse of political history in Georgia} luring the past few years shows J irresistible ten ioncy on the part of j:ie people to take into their own lianfis powers and responsibilities which belong to them, but which htve heretofore been exorcised by tho politician. As no journal has done more to bring about this wholesome reform t han The Constitution, we propose to keep on pegging away at it. Especially in this case do wo deem it important that tiie people should exei i; - the fullest and completest HUM '■ L i igui luce Pas Obeii' re stored to them by the constitutional amendment placing the choice of the judiciary in their hands Interpreted by this view, the new constitutional amendment means tiie. nomination of judges and solicitor* by the voters at the primaries, tho people of each judicial circuit vot.ng for the candi dates of their choice in their own circuit, the candidates receiving a ma jority <.f tiie votes to be accepted by the static convention and their names to be placed on the state ticket. That is wTiat an election by the people means in Georgia. Here, where the democratic party has no opposi tion to s'pikk of, a nomination means an election. The people appreciating this fact, and following the cue «f such newspapers ns The Constitution, have gradually eliminated so-called “ma^-Wectirigs” and courthouse con ventions, and by means of primaries at which the polls are opened as at regular elections, have taken the nomination of candidates into their own hands. '1 he result is all that could be desired. Even the United States senators are practically elected by a popular*vote m Georgia. Theso things being so, the state executive committee has but one course before it. That course is marked out not only by the general reform that has taken place in Georgi t, but by tho constitutional amendment, which is tiie result pf that reform. IaR the people of i ,-ii’h judicial eircuit norni "Sle their jtujgs and solicitor at a •,ii it-, -n . elrrtinii, the result in each u.mntv; t If certified by tho county emeut've cdT. rnittee, and the names of the candidktes receiving the largest nullity? of votes to be sent to the state convention for ratification, lh this way the people of each cir cuit will have iheir judicial affairs in the hands of nen of their own selec tion—men gr ^horn they have confi* | demMl> T|tm •„ to -arry Ule democra tic prin-pie cf self-government to one of ii| m >»t legitimate an-l import ant eorejH‘ions. I OUR WASHINGTON LETTER. From our own Correspondent: The defence offered by Secretary Gage to the Sulr.er resolution, lms taken away tlie breath of lus best friends. Before it was submitted, it was taken for granted by them that he would at least have some ex cuse to offer for Ids extraordinary custom house deal. Instead, lie really confesses that he entered into a conspiracy to deprive the city and state of New York of the taxes on the property, puts forward a pitiful evasion m regard to the rent question, and finally excuses his di rect violation <>f tiie law in treating national bank depositories p-'it of j tiie Treasury Department, by v sting J that H has been customary t«> so re gard them, although a recent as well as ancient, dicisiou of the Supreme Con t states that are nothing of the kmd. The act authorizing the sale of the custom house provided that the mon ey received therefor should be cover ed into the Treasury, but the Secre tary attempt to lead tho country to believe that tho sale was made under the gcnoral act ot 1804, according to which the right to deposit the proceeds might possibly be inferred by those strongly partisam to that view. He has the assurance to add that his action in regarding deposit ones as part of the Treasury, is sup ported b ; decisions of Supreme Court, •*$, does not venture to to 1 * by what decisions, and entiiely evades the fact that tiie court, speak ing through Mr. Justice McCenna, on November 20 last, reaffirmed, in strongest possible terms, a former decision by Chief Justice Waite, declaring tiie exact opposite. The Secretary says that no rent has been paid f r the building because Cong re ea has not appropriated for that purpose, He is careful not to say that no agreement for payment Inis been made. He father admits that., despite this agreement to pay rent, part of the purchase price was held hack by the bank witii his approval, so as to free it from any liability ;.s to taxation. And the searidel is made worse by the dioovery of a let ter written to the Secretary by the Vice President of the National City I bank, appealing lor favors on the ground that its directors are men who “have great political claims in view of what was done in the cam paign” The witnesses on the ship subsidy bill who have appeared so far before the Senate Committee on Commerce seem to have been carefully limited to the represenatives of the proposed benficiaries of the till. So far no one has appeared against the measure, de spite the bitter oppotilion of the country generally to this form of granting nmn< y to favored classes. There are, however, some members of the committee who seek to bring out the facts by cross examination of the witnesses who do appear. Among » former Senator Edmun., who a„peared „ attorney for the steamship lines. He was asked why discriminating duties would not have the same effect bounties, whereupon he replied that other nations would also discriminate and that nothing would be gained, This argument, of course, will be No. 19 demolished when the proper tune comes, by simple reference to the fact that other nations also give subsidies, thus neutralizing those given by the United States. As a matter of fact, both systems have been tried in the United States, For yeais before the civil war, a reduction of duties on imports in American bottoms was granted, and resulted in the building up of the greatest merchant marine in the world. This was destroyed or (led to the protection of the British ilag dur ing the civil war and has never been re-established, though it undoubtly could be by proper discriminations in its fav.,r. On tile other hand, everyone will remember the oxpen ment in the way of bounties made oy Mr. Blaine some years ago and its disastrous failure. It resulted only in adding half a dozen tubs to the country’s marine and filling the cof fers of tiie steamship companies. The present scheme is the worst that has over been proposed; it would result only in adding to our fleet a lot of foreign tramps with nothing American about them but flag. Mr. Bryan lias just started east on his tour through the “enemy’s coun try.” He will first visit Kentucky, where matters are at a boiling pitch, then go to New York, where ho will be the guest of O. II. p, Belmont who has wee senatorial av’ then con ,. to 'Vashingt he Gridiron dub. After this, lie will visit New ^ England, reaching . there about the on i of the month. Mr. Sulzer, of New York, who also has aspirations for the vice presidency, in speaking ot the approaching visit, said: “Mr. Bryan will find no enemy’s country to invade this time. He is a popular idol all through New York and New England, and the masses will pour out to see him. The people are for him and lie will carry Now York and be elected this fall. One of the eln if objections urged by the anli-impenalisl to the acquisi tion of out-lying territories, inhabted by a race not trained in self-gover rnent, lias always been that it would strain American honesty to the hieak ing point. That is to say, they be lieved that the offices there would be tilled for political reasons by men who had “pulls” and would he ex ploited by them just as they were exploited by Spa n for so manv years. This argument has recently receiv ed unexpected corroboration from Gen. Otis He recently issued a pro clamation co .tabling the following language: -‘Alleged cases of bribe taking, of the acceptance of gifts from inferiors and of like misconduct by persons holding positions in tiie mili tary or civil service have of late been brought to the attention of these headquarters. The commanding gene ral is constrained to the belief that these reports, which are in the nature of general complaints and do not re late to specifice offenses, have a more or [o „ n(l ltion . The c „ rl ,, | „ inK 3n „ far .,. eath . its effects, appears to have reached a stage which renders its suppression with strong , hand , imperative.” . „ If a tLw SOil of , }ling j, l]OW going on in , the Philippines, the anti-imperialists are apt to consider their position# j justified by it. - ------- m-