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CLARK HOWELL'S
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Why He Overwhelmingly
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Atlanta, February 22.—I came up to
Atlanta yesterday purposely to see the
farmers of Georgia in general assembly
to organize the Georgia section of the
Southern Cotton Growers' Association. I
knew that tiie.se representative men
from *311 Sections of the state would be
able to furnish some valuable intima
tions concerning current politics in their
several sections of the commonwealth. 1
was anxious to meet and talk with such
of these men as are accustomed to know
and voice the sentiments from Dade to
Chatham, and from Richmond to Musco
gee. I was sure that in this way 1 centd
get a pretty fair notion as to the guber
natorial situation at this stave of the
game., I mingled freely with many of
theae old friends, some of whom I have
knofivn In political intimacy for more
tljan thirty years.
I may as well say frankly to begin
with that after talking with perhaps a
hundred of these gentlemen, 1 found a
gjrevaillng opinion among them that the
race for the governorship next year, no
matter who may enter it meanwhile,
will settle down to a final grapple be
tween the friends of Hon. Clark Howell
and such other candidate as may appear
to be his strongest opponent.
As to whom that strongest man will
toti, there are wide divisions of opinion.
Berne say it will be Colonel Estill, of Sa
vannah; others that it will be Hon. Pope
Blown, of Pulaski, and yet others hang
upon Jhq. possibility of Hon. Joe Hill
Hall developing a strong following by
his actions in the next session of the
general assembly. So strong are the
representative partisans of each of these
gentlemen in their personal favoritism
for their candidates that even now it U
growing apparent that it w-ill be impos
sible for them to get together upon one
compromise candidate or consolidating
into a cohesive body the voters who, ror
one cause or another, are not initially
favorable to ihe nomination of Clark
Howell.
It is equally apparent from the opin
ion expressed among these farmers, mer
chants and others gathered in the con
ventlon that the leading candidate over
all others at this time is Mr. Howell. All
that Is said to the contrary is by men
who have simply a personal preference
for another candidate or who think their
sectional bias should lead them to sup
port some man from their own division
of the state.
At any rate, 1 think It safe to_ say
that if the nomination for governor had
been made yesterday by this convention
Mr. Howell would have received that
nomination by a three-fourths vote of its
members.
These discoveries among the delegates
and the reasons given by them why they
favored Clark Howell's nomination, lead
me to review liis record as a public man
in Geo?gi" % in i ■ fder to discover the basis
of his strength as a claimant upon the
governorship, and I am satisfied that it
will prove Interestfrrg to the readers of
The Journal to know what are the ele
ments of his strength.
I remember very well that when he
was elected to the legislature for the
first time In 1886, which was nineteen
years ago, he was then a very young
man, just returning from the University
of Georgia, and not thinking at that hour
of prosecuting any political ambition. Be
cause there was a confused condition in
Fulton couniy politics at that time lie
nas nominated for tlie house of repre
sentatives without his knowledge or con
sent. However, he entered into the
race with his native faith and energy.
and not only led the ticket in that first
venture, but as well In three succeed
ing races for the same place, He serv
ed the county with great skill and learn
ed rapidly the art of legislation, His
university training had prevented his
dropping into provincial or sectional lines
of thinking, and his immediate experi
en c ps in the house of representatives
dealing with men und measures from all
paits of the state, eonf-r.ed him in those
feelings of state-wide patriotism that
since have distinguished hi; whole polit-
1cal career. So that now it is a matter
of mental and psychic impossibility for
Clark How-el] to put himself under the
pig tail and Into the pinched wooden
shoes of a Chinese sectional brand of
statesmanship.
During his first two terms in the leg
islature tho farmers' movement began to
grow in Georgia, and finally took shape in
the Farmers' Alliance. It grew and
eventually dominated, the politics of ths
state, so that when the legislature of
1889-1890 met it was found that it had
in its membership more farmers and
fewer lawyers than any legislature that
had ever before assembled in the state
of Georgia. Of its one hundred and
seventy-five members, there were, as I
recall it, not more than a dozen or so
who were lawyers.
Yet it was tiiat legislature. having
Clark Howell s record of four years’ leg
islative service before them, that elect
ed him the speaker of their house of rep
resentatives. It seemed a singular thing
for them to do. but farmers, as a rule,
are more generous and grateful than tho
common run of men. They recommended
that The Atlanta Constitution, with
which Mr. Mo well was connected edi
torlally, had always shown sympathy
with the farmers and given an undivided
support to their interest in every event
of commercial or political stress!
glao knew that Clark Howe!) himself,
1 during the preceding four years on the
; floor or the house, had stood manfully
for the farming people of Georgia, find
had supported effectively all of their
| righteous demands, Thfe'y looked upon
: him as a fair ami sympathetic friend,
whose alignment was always on the peo
ple's side, and hence they elected him.
practically without opposition, to preside
over a house. Of representatives in which
they had undisputed control.
A Unique Precedent.
It we* In ibis Farmers’ Alliance legis
lature that Mr. Howell established a
I Unique precedent. In making Up the
various committees of the house it oe
came necessary, because there were so
few lawyers in the body, to appoint a
part of the judiciary committee from
among the ranks of the farmer mem
bers. It had been usual from time im
memorial to nil the judiciary commit
tee with lawyers only, but in this case,
and in response to request of many
farmer* ih the body, Speaker Howe.l
put several of the strongest farmers in
the house on this purely law cotnmit
tee. This was not because they us
sumed to be rp in the details of law
and litigation, but because in making
laws for ai] the people the farmers are
fis much interested in their nature and
application as are the people who are
afterwards to construe and execute
those laws It is Just as possible for a
laiiner to understand and be Interested
in the general principle of the law. and
foresee the possible result of its appli
cation and enforcement, as it is for law
yers. judges or other intelligent laymen
to do such things; and the farmers of
the state have not forgotten this proper
recognition that was given them in de
termining the legislation during the life
of that general assembly.
As to the record of that general as
stmbly itself, which was popularly
known as the "Farmers' Alliance legis
lature,’’ it may be recalled that it im
posed the lowest tax rate of any general
assembly from its time until now, cover
ing a period of sixteen years. That of
itself is a great fact to its credit.
It will be remembered that it was gen
erally predicted by others than the
farmers that when the alliance legis
lature got into power the first thing it
would do would be to attack existing
political and Industrial interests in the
state, and substitute for them radical
and fanatical alleged reforms. But
what diq it do? It was the first legis
lature in Georgia to make an annual and
permanent appropriation for the support
of the Georgia state troops, It estab
lished for the first time an annual
maintenance appropriation for the Uni
versity of Georgia, It was exceedingly
liberal, also, to all the other state edu
cational institutions, including the public
schools, and in these, and many other
respects, made a most unique legislative
record, In the accomplishment of ail
these tilings the farmers had the intelli
gent, progressive mind and skinful guid
ing hand of Clark Howell, their speaker,
and to his influence can be truTy at
tributed much of the credit of these wise
and enduring acts of legislation, The
farmers of the state, at least, have not
fc rgotten his early loyalty to their in
terest and scarcely ever refer to their
absolute regime in Georgia lolitics with
out applauding the cooperation and lead,
eiship of Speaker Howell.
A Complimentary Abrogation.
Mr. Howell did not offer for reelection
to thfe house to serve a fourth term, be
cause of the death of Henry W. Grady.
He was called upon to succeed that la
mented editor and orator in the future
conduct of The Atlanta Constitution, but
his fellow citizens would not allow him
to remain out of the public harness. He
was taken up over his protest and elect
ed to the state senate, serving two
terms, covering a period of five yetirs.
apd during all of which time he served
as president of the senate. It was in his
senatorial district, and in his case, that
for the first time in the history of tne
state a senatorial district abrogated the
rotaton system in order that its senator
might succeed himself and continue his
presidency of that body. He lias been
president of the senate for the past five
years.
Something has been said since tha
gubernatorial question came up with tha
view of Identifying some of the candi
dates with or against the railroad inter
ests of the state. In that matter I think
Clark Howell’s record will be found un
assailable by any candidate or voter.
I recall that in the last senate he ap
pointed aa chairman of the judiciary
committee Judge H. H. Perry, of the
Gainesville district. Now, if there was
in the senate any man who stood out
conspicuously as one unidentified with
corporation interests, it was Judge Per
ry, the man who Introduced and fought
for a bill to sibolish the free pass sys
tem in Georgia.
Tlie gallant fight that he made for
that measure is not forgotten, nor will
he permit it to be forgotten, since he
has already said that he will vigorously
prosecute this same abolition measure in
the next session of the general assembly,
ite is absolutely without any corporation
interest, not under any domination, but
generally always regarded as the open
opponent of anything affecting adverse
ly the people's interests. For chairman
of the railroad committee, President
Howell appointed Senator Henry A. Mat
thews, of Houston county, who is the
man whose entire alignment has been
regarded as on the other side from the
railroads in any issue raiseu between
them and the interests of the common
people. Henry A. Matthews’ "character
is such as to give assurance that a fair
ueal and an honest, patriotic decision
may be expecte-d by the people when
their side of extreme railroad proposi
tion demand that it should be upheld.
So that, at least, no successful criticism
can be made of President Howell’s se
lection of men *To head the committees ot
the senate that had most to deal wu-i.
vital interests of the people.
■Unassailable Record,
Mr. Howell also has an unassailable
record in favor of progressive public
school legislation, and for the fair treat
ment of teachers of the state. He
fought for the Girls’ Normal at Mil
ltdgeville, and the State Normal at Ath
ens, and the promoters and managers
of both of those Institutions frankly
acknowledge their high indebtedness to
him for his powerful support, As a
trustee of the stale university he is the
liberal and outspoken champion of every
proposition that will expand the plant
and increase the efficiency and popular
ity of the university and its faculty.
While being a consistent friend of the
university, it has also been well known
that he has been one of the leading ad
vocates for years of the exemption from
taxation on the endowments of sectarian
institutions. It was under his direction
that that bill passed the senate. He
was waited upon by Bishop Candler and
other clergy representing the sectarian
colleges of the slate, and urged to help
them in this legislation, He did so, and
secured its passage by the senate.
Railroad County Tax Bill.
1 find that representative men from
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nearly all the counties In the state,
through which railroads run, admit their
obligation to Mr. Howell for the part he
played personally, and through the col
umns of The Atlanta Constitution, in ee
curing the passage of the famous Glenn
bill to give to all such oouhtles the right
to tax railroad properties lying within
their borders. That bill had once been
defeated in the house, but when Mr.
Howell became chairman of the railroad
committee of the house, under Hon. A.
S. Clay, as speaker, he got back of the
bill, not only personally on the floor of
the house, but editorially in The Const!
tutlon, and that bill, which nearly every .
lawyer and railroad man in the state
pronounced unconstitutional and pre
dicted would not be constitutional passed, was passed
ih 1889, declared by the
courts, and has brought more annual
oash returns to the counties of the
state than any one measure that has
,-en enacted in Georgia since the civil
war. The receipts from it have run
into millions of dollars, and the writer
knows that the author of the bill, fa
miliarly- known as Bill Glenn, of Whit
field. often made public declaration that
Clark Howell’s help did more t 0 pass the
bill than any other one influence in the
state. It is scarcely to be presumed that
any of the railway phobiacs will hold this
up as an evidence that Mr. Howell can
not be trusted to stand for the people’s
interest in any division between them and
the railroad interests of the state.
The Franchise Tax Bill.
But if any one of them should so
presume, I would like to hand them
this large chunk of bear meat to chew
and digest. Look at the matter of the
railway franchise act. That legislation
will yield more to the state in taxes than
any other one act that has been pu»t upon
the statute books in Georgia in two score
years. It has increased the taxable prop
erty of the state from this source alone
from £20.000.000 to S30.ooo.ooo per year.
It passed the house and came to the sen
ate while Clark Howell was president of
that body. I will remember that every
body among the common people be
lieved that it would not pass the sen
ate, and the friends of the railroads
predicted that when it got through the
house it would never be heard of again,
For a while it did drag in the senate, but
Clark Howell took the matter up with
Comptroller General Wright, learned the
necessity for the bill from that officer.
and took active hold of it personally and
through The Constitution and through his
efforts it passed the senate to the sur
prise of the entire state.
I took occasion to interview Comptroller
General Wright with reference to this
calendar measure. He told me that if
it had been defeated it would have laid
a heavier tax rate on the people of
Georgia, and that the present easy rate
in this state is almost entirely due to the
enactment of the franchise tax law. And
as to that law he said that if it had not
been for Clark Howell’s taking hold of it
in the senate and securing a committee
to confer witn him as comptroller gen
eral, as to the necessity for the bill, he
doubted if the bill would have been
passed at that session of the general
assembly. He frankly avows Mr. How
Su c™ measurT 1 ^ ******* °‘
On more I may say that in the last
session of the senate there struggled
for its life a certain bill in which the
whole of south Georgia was greatly in
terested, especially those who are con
cerned in our immense lumber traffic. It
was a 'bill requiring all railroads carry
ing lumber to equip their cars for that
purpose at their own expense, the same
as for carrying other commodities. Up
to that time our lumber shippers were
the only ones who had to equip their own
cars.
The bill came into the senate from its
committee with an unfavorable report..
Ex-Senator Lemuel Johnson, of Way
cross, and Captain H. H. Tift, of Tift-on,
were on the committee of lumber dealers
from south Georgia, who came to Clark
Howell and urged him to assist them in
securing the passage of that bill through
the senate. Mr. Howell not only sup
ported the measure in the newspaper,
The Constitution, but came down from
the president’s chair ontp the floor of
tlie senate with the bill which was there
under an adverse report and made such
an argument in its f.vor that the report
was disagreed to, and the bill was
passed b'y the senate.
Now- I aiu a man up a tree, and per
haps that is why it seems to me that
Clark Howell’s sympathy and voting on
all critical occasions has been on the side
of the people. Wh°n 1 consider his con
!Stant Interest in our public institutions—
the state sanitarium at Milledgeville, the
School for the Deaf and Dumb at Cave
Spring, the School for the Blind at Ma
eon. the North Georgia Agricultural
•college—and remember that all these in
stitutions have for* years relied most
strongly on Clark How-ell as legislator
and the editor of The Constitution to aid
them in their causes before the general
assembly and the people, I do not see
how any of those who are at all disposed
to be fair can assail bis attitude as a
4rue, loyal, unsectlonal and unselfish rep
resen tat ive Georgian, He is familiar -with
the legislation of the state for the past
nineteen years, and no one can doubt his
qualifications to be a free and independ
ent governor of tills state.
It is in the atmosphere not alone in
Atlanta, but in that which has been
blown in by this state convention of
farmers from every county of Georgia,
that the popular sentiment is now strong
ly with Clark How-ell. When everybody
*ays that nobody can be governor of
Georgia next time who is not able to
beat Clark Howell in a poll before the
people, it must be so. s. w. s.
IN HONOR OF SENATOR BATE.
Both Houses of Tennessee
and Supreme Court Adjourn.
Both nouses of the Tennessee gen
eral assembly took appropriate action
Thursday morning on the death of Sen
ator Bate and adjourned until after
the funeral out of respect to his mem
ory.
The supreme court of Tennessee also
adjourned.
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Repeal of a Statute by Legislature
Makes Nevada a Wide Open State.
A special from Reno, Nevada, says:
The bill compelling all gambling to
be conducted on the second floor has
been repealed. The measure practi
cally makes Nevada a state where
gambling can be carried on in any
place, either on the street or in the
house, so long as the gambler pays
the license.
completed in detail. It is larger than
any ever sent out by the Macon Fair
Association; its premiums are so se
lected and arranged that they will be
taken up by displays and not remain
over as an asset of the association.
All the departments foot up a total
of over $10,000. For the best agricul
tural display a premium of $1,000 will
be given; for the second best, $500.
and for the third best, $250. For the
best agricultural display from a one
horse farm a premium of $300 will
he given; for the second best, $200,
ttnd for the third best, $100. Libera!
premiums for individual displays of
r heat corn, oats and cotton are also
offered.
In the department of cattle, hog*,
sheep and goats, nearly two thousand
Collars is offered in premiums, and io
ill the other departments the offers
of the association are fully as liberal.
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Nearly All Counties Organized.
Georgia is showing up to great ad
vantage in the organization of the
counties under the Southern Cotton
Association. Secretary H. C. Hill of
the Georgia division reports 115 coun
ty organizations out of a total of 137
counties. This speaks exceedingly
well for Georgia, and it is doubtful
if any other state in the south has
such a following for the Southern Cot
ton Association.
President Johnson, Treasurer Walk
er, Vice President Bostwick and Sec
retary Hill of the Georgia division hayo
left no atone unturned to perfect the
Georgia organizations.
President Johnson of the state organ
ization will make a tour of the state
in a few days, and will go into every
county where there is an organization.
Instead of appointing a state organizer,
as other states have done, Mr. Johnson
will probably undertake this work him
self.
AH indications point to a big suc
cess for the mo-vemeit, as the farmers,
business men and merchants in all sec
tions seem to be thoroughly organized.
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New Railroad for Atlanta.
Atlanta is to have a new railroad.
It is tbe Atlanta, Birmingham and At
lantic Railroad company, which will
extend from Atlanta to Birmingham
and from Atlanta to the Atlantic
coast.
The advertisement for the charter of
the new road is now appearing in the
newspapers of the affected counties
and will be granted by the secretary
Of state.
The new road is to be an extension
of the present Atlantic and Birming
ham, a railroad which extends from
Brunswick to Montezuma, with branch
roads to Fitzgerald and Thomasville.
The extension will be from Montezu
ma, kith branch roads to Fitzgerald and
miles, and the Atlanta connection wV*
be from the Georgia capital to a point
near the Alabama line, a distance of
about 80 miles.
The money for the new road is be
ing supplied by H. M. Atkinson, Cap
tain W. G. Raoul and S. M. Inman of
Atlanta, Gordon Abbott and T. Jeffer
son Coolidge of Boston,Percy R. Payne
of New York and George Dole Wadley
of Way cross.
ENORMOUS LEGAL FEES.
Three Lawyers for Indians Awarded
Sum of $750,000 for Services.
The secretary of the treasury has
issued a warrant for $750,000 in favor
of Mansfield, McMurray and Cornish,
lawyers residing in the Indian Terri
tory, as fees for services rendered by
them to the Choctaw and Chickasaw
Indians. The secretary of the inte
rior declined to approve the claim on
the ground that it Is excessive. Con
gress, however, directed the payment
on the showing that it was regular and
in accordance with the contract with
the Indians.
NET EARNINGS FROM CONVICTS.
Stale ©# Alabama Receives Handsome
Sum from That Source.
In his quarterly re-port, which was
*ent to the governor of Alabama Tues
day afternoon, President J. M. Car
michael of the state board of convict
Inspectors shows that during the past
four years and six months the depart
ment has made $812,151.77. The
gross earnings for the time Were $1,-
469,287.02.
BILLS SIGNED BY THE PRESIDENT
His Signature Attached to Total ol
1,842 Enactments.
During the session of congress which
closed on the 4th instant, President
Roosevelt signed 1,842 measures pass
ed by the senate and house of repre
sentatives. The footings of the enact
ments have just been completed by
Colonel William ML. Palmer, assistant
clerk of the senate committee on en
rolled bills, and Mlorris A. Latta, en
rolling clerk at the white house. .
TREATY FAVORABLY REPORTED.
Dominican Convention Settled in Com
mittee on Strict Party Lines.
The senate committee on foreign re
latlons Thursday agreed to report fa
vorably the San Domingo treaty as
amended. The vote was on party lines,
every republican voting for the treaty
and every democrat voting against *.
All members of the committee were
yresent and the vote stood seven to
1 fiv«.
j ^GEORGIA NEWS
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j ; Epitomized Items of Interest
Gathered at Random*
State Fair Work Booming.
The work for the coming state fair
to be held in Atlanta is moving along
| in the most satisfactory manner. Sec
j retary Weldon is writing and receiving
hundreds of letters from all parts of
| t jj e gtate The number of inquiries he
is getting is keeping him busy, and
shows the interest that the farmers
are taking in the movement to make
the fair the greatest that the state has
ever held.
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Central Records Bond Issue.
The Central of Georgia Railway has
just recorded ‘with Secretary of State
j Phil Cook an issue of $462,000 wortn
of 4 1-2 per cent gold bonds. Tbe bonds
have been Issued by the company for
the purpose of purchasing equipment.
Thirty-three of the bonds, each rep
resenting $1,000, are payable on the
first day of each July and January,
the first payment to be made on JQly
1, 1905.
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. Sale of Car Works Not Confirmed.
| 5n thg United States
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Savannah declined to confir „
court at
the sale of the Georgia car work to M.
I A O’Byrne and others for $32,500. The
trustee :ll ■ bankruptcy, the Savannah
j Trust Company, showed that the
plant was worth more money than
it had brought, Mr. O’Byrne said he
would not object to a resale, as he
did not consider that he and his asso
ciates had secured the property at a
bargain.
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i Ancient Stockade Unearthed.
j the foundations of
j In digging out
the new court house at Blakely, there
were found signs of the old stockade
which was built upon the public square
.
during the Indian troubles of 1836.
! Miany of the old timbers were not yet
completelv rotten,
i Many families of the immediate sec
tion refngeed to this stockade during
the Indian troubles, and General Jack
j son and his soldiers camped within its
confines on their return from Florida
| during the Indian war.
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Schools Can Retain Guns.
Apcording to a Washington dispatch,
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the war department will not insist
up ° n having the ° ld S ’P ringfleld rifleS
HOW in the possession of schools in
J Georgia and several other southern
! states, turned over to the Augusta ar
senal before the 1st of July.
This will enable the schools to have
guns for drill purposes during the bal
ance of this scholastic year.
After that it is presumed there will
be an open opportunity for the schools
i to secure these or other arrangements
either by purchase at nominal cost
from the general stores or through the
department in some other wtV*.
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Wright Appointed Judge.
Hon. Moses Wright of Rome has
been appointed by Governor Terrell
to the judgeship of the superior court
of the Rome circuit, Judge W. M.
Henry having sent his resignation to
the chief executive, with an urgent
request for its immediate acceptance.
The governor complied with the re
qest with reluctance, immediately after
which he appointed Mir. Wright to suc
ceed to the position, Judge Henry
will leave the bench on April 1st and
Judge Wright will assume the duties
of the office at once.
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Office Holders Ar e Guessing.
The news which came from Wash
ington that Hon. Carter Tate, for 12
years member of congress from the
ninth Georgia district, has been ten
dered the position of United States
district attorney, to succeed the pres
ent incumbent, Hon. Edward A. An
gier, is a theme of state-wide discus
sion. That such an appointment may
be the prelude to a general shape-up
of the southern situation, is admitted
on all sides. Mr. Tate is, and has
been all his life, a staunch democrat,
while Mr. Angier has been equally as
loyal a republican, and the fact that a
republican should be succeeded by a
democrat of the regularity of Mr. Tate
under a republican administration,
causes a lot of conjecture as to the
intention of the president.
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Pension Fund Deficit Grows.
Additional reports received by Pen
sion Commissioner J’ W. Lindsey in
dicate that the deficit in the pension
fund is greater than was at first ex
pected and announced. It is believed
that the shortage will amount to $115,-
540, and it. is the purpose of the com
missioner to ask the legislature for
an appropriation of $20,000 to make up
the discrepancy.
Practically all of the deficit fills
upon the counties of Berrien, Telfair,
Thomas, Montgomery, Dade, Mitchell
and Walker,‘principally because of thb
failure of the ordinaries of these coup.
ties to present their claims before the
: fund was exhausted. There are a few
pensioners in other counties of the
state, however, who have not yet been
paid, and who will have to wait until
the legislature makes the required ad
ditional appropriation.
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Premium List for Macon Fair,
The premium list of the Georgia
Farmers’ Fair and Live Stock Ex
position u he held in Macon, has been
SLAVS ESCAPE NET
By Bold Strategy Kuropatkin
Saves Remnant of His
Army.
LOSSES MOST APPALLING
Russian Dead, Wounded and Captured
Estimated at 150,000 Men, Besides
daps Secure Enormous Amount
of Ammunition and Stores
of Incalculable Value.
Offlcial information from Russian
headquarters in the field, supplement
ed by dispatches from the Associated
Press correspondent with the Russian
army, show that General Kuropatkin
after suffering by far the most severs
defeat of the war, lias succeeded, as he
did after the battle of Liao Yang, i B
extricating the remnants of his army
from a position military experts. 24
hours before, believed would result in
annihilation or surrender.
After fighting for nearly three
weeks, losing in killed, wounded and
missing, probably a third of his army,
or nearly 150,000 men, a fourth of his
artillery, Kuropatkin gathered what
was left north of Mukden anu began
taking them towards Tie Pass through
a rain of shrapnel, which was thrown
from right and left.
The retreat commenced Friday
morning and as the Japanese forces
on the east, which were to join hands
with the western army and cut off the
retreat, did not cross the Fushun
Mukden road until Saturday morning,
the Russians had a full day’s start of
their pursuers, and, having no guns
or baggage to delay them, seems to
have made good their escape.
There Is still a chance of General
Kawamura’s army taking a hand in
the battle, and, should they strike the
Russians at Tie Pass, or cut their
communications to the northward, the
disaster to General Kuropatkin’s once
fine army may be complete.
What part of his army the Russian
general has saved Is apparently not
known at the Russian headquarters.
All dispatches Indicate that part of
his force has been cut off. General
Kaulbars seems to have extricated his
corps, likewise Bilderling, but not so
with Linevitch.
Over 100,000 Russians Slain.
Field Marshal Oyama, reporting to
Tokio Sunday, says:
•‘The armies on the Shakhe quarter
reported up to Sunday morning the
following approximate figures, which
are still increasing:
‘‘Prisoners, over 40,000, including
Major General Nakhimoff. Russian
corpses on the field, 26,500; other Rus
sian casualties 90,000; trophies, two
ensigns, sixty guns, 60,000 rifles, 150
ammunition wagons, 1,000 army wag
ons 200,000 shells, 25,000,000 shots
for rifles, 74,000 bushels of grain, ma
terials for light railroad for 46 miles,
three hundred wagons for light road,
two thousand horses, twenty-three Chi
nese cartE full of maps, 1,000 Chinese
carts full of clothing, 1,000,000 portions
of bread, 150,000,000 pounds of fuel.
223.000 bushels of horse allowances,and
125.000 pounds of hay. The report
from the Singking quarter has not yet
been received. ’ •
a War to the Bitter End. rf
A St, Petersburg special, under Sun
day’s date, says: The immediate an
swer of the Russian government to
the defeat of Miukden is the announce
ment that a new army w-ill be raised
and the forces in the Far East i'"'
ganized; that Vice Admiral Roje&tven
sky will be ordered to sail on mu
try conclusions will be prosecuted with Togo, to and the T bit- | iat
the war
ter end.
This is the .present temper of
Nicholas and his dominant a
peror official an
visers, voiced in a firm
nouncement. that the position of ^
sia is unchanged and that the im
tive for peace can only come from
pan.
BODY OF BATE IN NASHVILLE.
Remains of Dead Senator Lay in State
and Viewed by Many Thousands
Under the shot-rent powder-stained
battle flag of the Second Tennessee
Confederate regiment, which he^ l e
at Chickam-auga, and with the Star*
and Stripes floating at half mast frora
the dome of the capital building. 1 ie
remains, of United States Senator Bate
lay in state at Nashville Sunday
Twenty-five thousand people, it is e 9
timated, viewed the remains and other
thousands massed about the
were tfi
building awaiting their turn, when 0
doors were closed for the nigh!
JAIL BREAK THAT FAILED
Sixteen Prisoners at Hot Springs
Stopped in Flight by Cold Lead
Sixteen prisoners made a desperat®
dash for liberty from the jail at Hot
Springs, Ark., Sunday morning, One
of them, Silas Love, was shot dead
The others were all captured in a short
while after the outbreak. Among tho
prisoners attempting to regain their
freedom was Houston Hooker, 11111
death sentence for murder.