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THE DAWSON NEWS.
Bv E. L. Rainey.
(ENERAL EVANS SPEAKS.
HE MADE A THRILLING ADDRESS
AT GALNESVILLE.
An Floquent Plea for the old Demo
cratie Party, He Demands Noth
ing But the Affections of
His People.
The following is a part of General
Evans’ speech at Gainesville ;
«] take up the liquor question for
mere statement with the entreaty that
we do not degrade this great moral and
cconomic issue by bitterness and strife.
Upon the immorality of drunkenness
and of whatever promotes it there can
pe no dispute. No party in Georgia
champions the dispensing of liquor by
the jug trade, nor the blind tiger, mor
any other dispensary that promotes
drunkenness for revenue, either public
or private. The churches, Jewish,
Catholic and Protestant, are all against
it: woman’s potent influence is aga#inst
it: Georgia is against by local option
at the ratio of 105 to 137 counties, and
by general statutes which apply to ev
ery county in the state, The people
do not favor it and the politicians of at
least two parties now seem eager to de
nounce it. Itis time, therefore, when
humane and wise men may get togethy
erwithout partisan feeling and legj
late concerning it. Ae
“Several plans are proposed.
churches, the state, the prohi)xOn
committee, the people’s party a/ g
democratic party offer plans, wie the
«t shall
people are called on to say w
be done. This is the prese gunete!
attitude of the liquor ques'n’
~ “Asto therelation of chu.rch -
the drinking and sale of 108 s
jt:sainly can take no oth ground. yash
that of opposition geoth. It ,wm -
peal to conscience. *'} en.force e r.ules
nd will stir N“gassenbunenta}gamst
the evils of lio” It duty ieplamn
and whoeyer “li¢s its right is against
kiie church Zainstreligion and his po
sition w* Dbe understood. Church
ember Will speak, vote and make
laws li¢ other men. They will ap.
eql * legislatures, judges, grand ju
ja City councils and citizens in all the
«(e to suppress crinie, vice, poverty
1 disorders of every kind, and in do
gso they will exercise the rights of
eemen whichnone will dare to deny.
hey will insist upon the principle that
isthe duty of the state to favor every
elpful business and to discourage ev
urtful trade, and that the hand of
00d government is on the side of the
oral institution and against the im<
oral institution, Such is the mor!
pect of all questions as they are yi:W
by the church. :
“The state prohibition comuittee
resents the Bush bill to the legslsture
examine, perfect and pass jfo)f=oiy
ing better. No reasonablc #an can
bject to this procedure, for ¥ violates
0 {aw or custom and if Geol/'/{a chooses
extend local option 1/ the whole
ate as a unit by.some fpm of the 1311-_
ativeand referemfifp“o fair objection
n be offered, f
“The people’s pary On its part has
tstate prohibitin in direct issue.
have sincere reggtt for the promi-
Nt Georgians yip are its candidates
the nationa] Ad state tickets. I
spect their int Aigence, their patriot
n and thejr fmoral character. My
e of discuss?n, however, does not re
ire me tg efogize men, nor can I be
duced to g/into a campaign of smut.
he pe()pl(yéal‘by of Georgia are an
norable P4y of democrats who went
to thefselves a few years ago be
use thff Wanted reforms which they
id dePcracy would never secure.
ut aftf five years of this embarrass
g segration the nationa) democracy
sacpted the Georgia platform and
mipted such a good man for
e foresideacy that the people’s
ar / cuufessed judgment and
'yan on their shoulders to
rfflhocracy bear him to the presi
. i:\;;:fl\', then, I will ask what
i L LEaere for creating another,
:;:t;“-\‘@ ol democratic policy whed
“N'l;ati: I>fonf that the masses of the
party have called a halt on
Areat, Progressive, moral refsrm?
"0} believe that the sudden pre-
Zatff)xl of this ‘question as a party
Will stop the march of reform, but
l-:/'e ti:::: column has been obliqued
s under orders which were not
¥ Its commander and confusion
Dawson, Ga., Wednesday. S¢ptember 16, <896.
has ensued. It may be possible that
partizan zeal, mixed with prohibition,
will inure to the good of the state, but
for one I distrust that method and
wish that the assurance of a true and
permanent reformn might come to all
the people of Georgia, by all its people,
white and colored, through the enlight
ened political conscience of all the par
ties—democratic, populist and repub
lican, b
“The democratic party is committ
to restrict the eivls of the liquor try/
§ d
as far as possible. It standscom ot ‘
to take no backward step, and ; bls |
believe that the state may ref -~~~
| . Alon to
‘expect from democratic leg lot. th
‘ put down the abuses of the/- .2 “1€
{ e evils of
tricks of the politician, :
: the convict
lynching, the errors
: egro race and
lease, complaints of t
: 4 .. /pon a plan that
the liquor immorali .
s ; e moral senti
will be sustained by
. #ned people.
ment of our enlig H ivid G
“We thus see Y 9 1) 1M woor
: i barroom dispensary ;
gia champions . g :
2 .4 the Carolina dispen
no party des :
sary; no p proposes to interfere
ey aws already adopted. We
with coun
seemed t/2Ve come to an agreement
hn maigles until the question *“Who
. the offices?” loomed up to
shall
thih the peace of the state.
«Aother statement I desire to make
. At the liquor question affects all
},gple to such an extent that all par
es must agree to justlegislation which
will be supported by settled public con- '
victions. Wemust look to the officers
of the law, the judiciary, the bar of
Georgia, the physicians, the educators,
the ministry, the women and good citi
zens to enforce the laws we have in or
der that something better may be
done. There is complaint that the laws
are not enforced, There is complaint
frora the dry counties that they are
kept wet by blind tiger dispensary and l
the jug trade; that farming and other
interests still suffer, although they ‘
yote their counties dry and ask for lo
cal option relief from the blind tiger
dispensary and jug business. I do‘
think that the liquor trade should re
spect these wishes and honor the law.
It is not fair to rob lecal option of its
privileges. Let thrpeople be just in
dealing with the Yiquor men, and let
them be fair in ¢ealing with the peo
pie.
FUSION.
“T am frenk to declare my objection
to a bargrined fusion for a temporary
object,/ It is better to have a genuine
union®©f men who in the main agree on
pripiiples and are in Jcommon oppo~]
sigbn to another body of men who cof
gnd for a general contrary poXcy.
Such is the attitude of the demgératic
party against its ancient foes, Democ
racy has stood for over a century for the
constitution, for a fair tarif, for econ
omy and for general liberty, as against
federation, consolidation, unfair tariff,
sectional rule, trusts, monopolies, con
traction and the like, Its principles
are simple, its party is accessible to
poor and rich, to white and colored.
Its aims are the security of liberty and ‘
the pursuits of a common happiness..
Such a party deserves to be kept in
power, free from corruption, from dis
honor and from defeat, The democrat
who hopes for bimetallism through in
ternational agreement or any demo
crat who believes in general democra
cy but has been pursuaded to favor the
perpetual single gold standard should
not aid the radicals in breaking down
his party, The populists wao revolt
from radical republicanism can come
into it. The people’s party democrats
have no home but at i hearth. It
has a great mission to fulfill besides
the conservative settlment of the sil
ver question, and long after this agita
tion is over and the agitatorsiare gone
your children will need demaocratic
union, Destroy it! That cannot be
‘done! Should the heavens fall; should
political chaos come as the work of the
‘mad power of = concentrated greed,
democratic idess will shine on as fixed
lstars to relli\%\b a recognized govern
ment of libety.
/ CONCLUSION,
“r haX spoken my mind with the de
sire tobe fairand without fiattering
mysel that my views are of good val
ue, /I have no desire for office, or re
wasds. lam not and will not be a can
ddate and demand nothing from you
dut your affection as far as I deserve
it. Go and consider my countrymen
who suffer and look to their welfare.
If you have plenty put yourself in the
place of him who is distressed and vote
for his case. Put yourseif to the troub
le to register; go to the polls and vote
once and allow no man to vote twice.
Buy no ballots; corrupt no freeman,
count the ballot fairly and make true
returns. Vote the democratic ticket,
and while in the party mend all its eyil
ways, mind all its gaps, suffer with it
in defeat and share in its iriumphs,
May God defend the right.”
SPELLBINDW ARE SCARCE.
LOTS OF MISES BUT TOOO FEW
i PERFORMERS,
ChayAo Clay May Make a Black LSt
hose Who Offer Their Servifs
and Then Fail to Keep Appent
ments, Said Living
ston Would Head
The List.
An Atlanta special to the Savannah
News says: The most serious aspect of
the state campaign just now is the lack
of speakers to cover the state properly,
Chairmain Clay of the state democratic
committee, upon whom the burden of
supplying speakers falls, is put almost to
his wits ends every day by the difficulty
he experiences in supplying speakers to
fill all the demands that are made upon
him. The party leaders appear to think
there 1s no use tc make a hard fight, be
cause the early indications were that the
democratic state tickei, as well as tbe
national ticket, would sweep the field by
one of the old time majorities.
While there has not been in the mind
of Chairman Clay and the others who are
taking an active part in the manage
ment of the campaign anything lately to
disturb this confidence, yet the fact that
speakers are slow to take the stump is
becoming a serious matter. ;
The populists are holiing weetings
every day in every part of the state,
which is in strange contrast with the
democratic campaign. Chkairman Clay
wants to stir up the democratic speakers,
80 that they will realize the necessity of
getting down to business and keeping the
, populists on the run, At the outset
it seemed that there would be no trouble
about getting all the speakers that could
‘be accomodated. Ia fact, it looked as if
there was going to be a regular cyclone
of dewmocratic eloquence turned loose
upon the state, from the uumber of
prominent men who sent in Jetters to the
chairman tendering their sérvices on the
stump. But strange as it may seem,
only a few of these have come up to the
rack when engagements were given to
them by the chairman, and not s few of
them have faiied to keep appointments
which had »e2n made for them.
This foature of the campaign has be
come #0 annoying that the cha'iman is
considering the advisability of establish
ips a black list of those who break their
¢ngagements. If he should do this Con
gressman Livingston would probably
head the list.
It was stated at populist headquarters
today that Rev. Sam Jones would take
the stump for the populist state ticket
When Seabern Wright spoke at Carters
ville he was coached by the Rev. Mr.
Jones, who sat upon the platform and
| rendered a fervent amen every time he
made a lunge at Gov, Atkinson’s admin
istration,
Chairman Cunningham of the popu
list committee has issucd a manifesto di
fécting the populists to circulate peti
tions, copies of which he enclosed, de
manding a division of managers next
month. He wants the populists to get
the democrats to sign these documents
‘also, if postible, and have them present
ed to the ordinary or county comwmis
sioners on September 22nd. It is then
agreed to publish the names of the coun
ty authorities who 4gree to grant a di
visior, ‘
| $1,000,000 ON HIS PERSON.
Yet No One Molested Him Along His
Trip. |
A unique character is Colonel J. H.
Burns, who, with $1,000,00 in his
charge, made atrip from Chicago to
Yew York city last week, says a San
Francisco paper. He was in charge of a
Wells-Fargo express car, in which
$1,000,000 in gold and a trifle of $45,000
in silver was packed to transfer from the
sub-streasury in San Francisco to the
sub-treasury in New York. T.D. War
wick helped Colonel Burns guard the
money. At no time during the trip, the
schedule and time table of which was
carefully kepta secret, were the pre
cious contents of the ecar lack'ng their
vigilance.
Colonel Burns has guarded so much
government money in its transit across
the continont that he couldn’t count it
in a lifetime--not if the sixty-five years
he has already spent on earth were cer
tain to be doubled. In the years 1885.:86
be guarded over $40,000,000 fn coln
transferred from swl ' 4 ’f; :
ington—s4,ooo,ooo in gold and $lO,-
000,000 /0 silver— weighing in all 360
tons g 4 involving forty-nine shipments.
The« forty-nine trips across the couti
net and back again are far from being
ue extent ot the colonel's travelsas a
guard of treasure. For thirty years,
more or less, he has been in charge of
mouey in transit, |
He was for a long time chief of guards
for the Southern Pacific railroad pay car,
which traversed Arizona and other bad
lands, where train robbers abounded,
carrying uearly always from $500,000 to
$BOO,OOO. “Did the robbers ever bother
you?"’ the colonel was asked. ‘I never
lost a cent of all the money entrusted to
my care,” said he in a quiet sort of way
—not with any suggestion of self-lavda
tion, but in tone simply intended to let
the fact be known, °
MEAN, AS WELL AS CRIMINAL.,
Onpe Negro Robs Another ¢f His Cloth=
ing.
Saturday night two negro men left a
freigkt train coming into Americus from
Savannah on the Georgia and Alabama
‘road at the iron works, ore mile owut,
one telling the other taat they wounld be
arrested if they rode to the depot. Af
ter they left the train one who was gen
teelly dressed was held up by the other
and made to disrobe, taking every ves
tige of his clothing, with shoes and
socks, then telting him to *‘hit the grit,”
shot at him as he ran. ‘
By crying “murder’” the nude negro.
was able to attract persons living near, l
wheo telephoned for the police, who pro
vided him clothing and took a descrip—{
tion of the othernegro and of the clothes
taken. Next day the highwayman was
found playing the gallant with some
dusky damsels, wearing the suit of
clothes /aken from his comrade the
night before. He is now in jail under
threecharges: highway robbery, carry
ing concealed weapon aund shooting at
agother. |
| CROPS IN BAD SHAPE. \
Most Discouraging Report of the Year Has
' Just Been Issued,
The weekly review of the crop condi.
tions in Georgia has been issued. It de
‘clares that the cotton crop is too far ad
vanced to be benefited by rains, even if
they should come in proper abundance
and fall in every section of the cotton
"veki where needed.
More than half the crop has opened
and many of the correspondents express
the belief that the yield this year will
not be very much more than half what
was expected at the opening of the sea
son.
! It has been unusually dry during the
| past week, which, coupled with the four
weeks of oppressively hot weather in
July and August, has caused the water
in many of the streams of the state to
dry up considerably, leaving the streams
very low.
The forecaster sends out the most dis
covraging report of the year.
SPAIN’S POOR SOLDIERS.
They Get Only One Meal in Twenty-four
Hours.
News from along the Spanish trocha
in Cubais of a most dismal character,
from the Spanish point of view. It is
said the soldiers along the line are dy
ing of disease in as great numbers as
was the case during July and August,
The heat has not moderated, and the
raing contirue to be t-rremtial. The
men who arenot ill or dying scem to
have lost all humati ways, aécording to a
letter from Havana. They are limited
to one-third rations, which means ong
meal in twenty-four hours, and are not
always sure of that, The result is that
tiov gre extremely brutal, eyen towards
one austher,
LI WAS TOO INQUISITIVE
And Wanted to Be Lugged Around in His
Sedan Chair.
Li Hung Chaung didn’t create a very
favorable impression on tke American 1
people. He insisted on knowing the ages
of the ladies he met, wanted to know
how much salary each official drew, and
last, but aot least, wanted four Irish po
licemen to lug him around in his Sedan
chair, Oneof the last named gentlemen
said he’d throw up his job before he’d
g 0 “toting the blasted yaller naygur
around town.”
e “n»:-m"h boys,” ;:; oun can't af
the green apple season by baying
Witt’s Colic and Cholera Cure in_the
Yol 153 --No. 5.
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WANTS TO FIGHT A DUEL.
JUDGE TWIGGS’ PRETTY WIFE
CAUSES A SENSATION.
Her Name Involved With That of a
Prominent Man. A Tell-Tale
‘ Letter Found on the
‘ Streets, ~
\
- A press dispatch from Dublin tells of
a sensation in which Judge H. D, D,
Twiggs, his pretty wife and a promi
nent man of that section are involved.
Judge Twiggs was engaged in ap im
portant trial in Terrell superior copx®
last year, and is remembered b¥/fiany
of our people. The story ig «5 ToHows:
Mrs, Fannie Twiggs 18 the young
and beautiful wife ! Judge H. D, D,
Twiggs. Her p/ie has been involved
with that «f George M. Brinson, a
wealthy # Cal estate owner, and now the
nomiwte for representative on the dem-
goratic ticket in Emanuel ecounty.
Brinson and Mrs. Twiggs have been in
correspondence with each other for sev
eral weeks. Yesterday Mr. Brinson
visited Collins, a small station on the
Georgia and Alabama railroad. He re
mained till evening. On going to the
station to leave town he pulled his
handkerchief from his coat, and a let
ter dropped to the ground. Some men
picked it up, and before they could red
turn it; to the owner the train left.
The men read the missive. It was
from Mrs. Twiggs, inviting Mr. Brin
son to goon a pleasure trip to Tybee
Isiand, a summer resort near Savan
nah, and also asking him to bring
along a friend, as she had a young wo
man friend who would accompany her.
The letter was mailed to Judge
Twiggs. He was very angry onread
ing it, and a scene ensued when he
confronted his wife. He then sent a
challenge for a duel to Brinson and re
quested an immediate reply. Brinson
studied the situation and declined to
participate in such unlawful proceed
ings. Judge Twiggs then sent him
word that he would kill him on first
sight. The matter stands in this way
at present.
A CHURCH SENSATION.
Preacher and . (engregation Suspend Ser.
vices and Row About,Politics.
There was almost a riot in the acade
my of music in New York BSunday
morning while Rev. Thomas Dixon, Jr.,
was delivering a sermon on “The Politi
cal Crisis,’” Many persons in the con
gregation taking offense at the preach
er's red-hot denunciaiion of Bryan and
!his supporters, rose and left the hall.
Many others who sympathized with the
?free silver candidate gave vent to their
’disapproval of Mr, Dixon's attack in
‘hisses, cat calls and noisy demonstra
tions. The lie was passed between the
preacher and his hearers, and the out
look became so threatening at one time
that it was feared it wou'd be necessary
to call for the police.
Those who came to pray and remained
to scoff were clearly outnumbered by
those who approved of Mr, Dixon’s sen
timents, and the hisses that broke in on
the preacher’s vigorous sentences were
drowned by the cheers and applause
that greeted the preacher’s denunciation
of what he termed political dishonesty.
THE SUN’S SARCASM,
What It Sald of Mr. Watson’s Texas
Trip.
The New York Sun contained the fol
lowing reference to Mr. Thomas Watson,
of Georgia: ‘The Houn. Tom-tom Wat«
son, fire-topped and fire-tongned, opens
the campaign in Texas today, and mill«
ions of plutocrats cower in apprehen
sion. Today he is expected to make the
greatest effort of his life except two or
three dozen. Big asthe skate is, he
counts up~n filling it, and he is sure to
give the atmosphere a hard day's work
with his vibrations in honor of Bryan
and victorious populism. Then Hon.
Tobe Scrutchins, the Hon Pitcorn Sass,
Col. Cool Crank and other unterrified
Bryanites will drink in the words of Mr.
Watson even as the camel drinks after a
long excursion,”
St ol PRt N
Mr. Reuben Martin has been in the
general merchadise business at Barnitz,
Pa., for almost fourteen years. He says:
‘I have neyer sold any medicine u{at‘
gave such universal satisfaction as Cham~
berlaic’s. I sell every b ttle on a guar
S S
am oftea, troabyed’ Wit bowal sguiareiat
andiwould oot thiok of icaving home