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THERE ARE SAID TO BE MANY WHO‘
WANT TO BE GOVERNOR. 1
i :
judge 6riggs Is Mentioned Among the
possibilities. Some Interesting l
gossip at Long Taw. 1
«Go away from home to learn the
pews” is an old saying, which is
cerified by 8 special the Savannah
press prints from Washington about
georgia politics.
A great deal of what the Press spe
cial £BYB should be taken with a large
grain of salt, but it is interesting nev
ertheless, and for that reason alone
The News reproduces it below: |
According to the political pregnosti
cators of the Georgia delegation in the
nouse here { Washington) there will be
po dearth of candidates in the guber
gatorial sweepstakes two years hence.
According to the delegation the candi
iates will be as follows:
J. H. Estill, Clacrk Howell, J. M.
Griggs, Boykin Wright, W. G. Brant
ey and pessibly others.
While the delegatien is not taking
soy stock in the campaign it is easy to
see that they believe Colonel Estill
will stand the best show to win. They
sav that his race of last year was only
go'od training for hitn, and that instead
of weakening him it has had the oppo
site effect.
One north Georgian says there is no
doubt that the governorship will go to
south Georgia, but says it will be a
mighty good idea for Savannah to get
over the idea tkat it is all ©f south
Georgia.
“If you Savasnah people will get it
out of your heads that vouw are the
whole thing when south Georgia is
meotioned, and will cultivate in a po
litical way your neighbors, I am satis
fied that you c&n have the governor
ship next time,” said this gentlemsn.
“Colonel Estill’s experience in the
campaign of Jasu vear was good for
him, and in my district, though it
went against him, nothing buf the
kindest of feeling is maintained for
him. I am setisfied that should he
ruo again he will stand a good show to
win, and I base:my prediction on what
I have heard -6f the feeling for him
from vther congressmen.
TERBRLL- VS. BATON.
“The campaign of 1904 will probably
be the warmest Georgia kas ever seen,
asit is confidently expected that Gov
ernor Terrell will seek te defeat Seaa
tor Bacon in the primaries, and, it is
reliably stated, is shaping mattere to
that end. The oppositien now appar
ent in the -corgressionzl races, the
race for the gevernorship and the lo
cal fights in each county ought te be
te means of causing Georgians gexer
ally not to suffer from pelitical eraui
in 1904,
PINE TIES FOR NEW YORK.
Nerthern.Firm Buys 2,000,00€ of
Jacksonville Dealers.
M. W. Conway, of New York city,
while in Jaci-sonwille purehased 2,000,
00 erossties of dealers. These ties
are 16 be used in the construction of an
¢lectric railroad from Catskill to Oak
bill in the Catskill mountains, New
York, which i= too be eompleted by
July I, next, and upon which several
tlousands men are at work. He savs
Lefound yellow pine heart crossties
the best made. }
WERE CALLED DOWN HARD BY SENATOR CLAY
Some Georgia Smart Alecks Who Requested Support for a Certain
Bill Made to See What Simpletons They Are.
Senator A. S. Clay “called down’’ a
lmber of Georgia Smart Alecks a
few days ago, and he called them down
barg,
S 0 hard did they *‘hit the ceiling”
that nothing has been heard from
Yem sipce .
During the closing days of congress
Senator Clay was fighting the Aldrich
francial bill 80 strenuously that it was
foung impossible for a republican sen
ile 0 pass it. So effective was his
%position that extreme means were
"orted to by friends of the bill to
lorce him to change his attitude. Itis
Wd that rinancial men of Georgia
¥ere urged by eastern men who would
Pofit by the Aldrich bill to wire Sen-
Yor Clay to support the measure.
The result was that Senator Clay
Tceived at least fifty urgent messages
Uking him to change tront. To test
e sincerity of the requests Senator
th, itis said, sent to each of the par-
U 3 in Georgia the following replv:
‘Wire at my expense terms of Al
“fich bill and reasons why I should
*udport it,”?
And Senator Clay had to pay no tel
THE DAWSON NEWS.
LONG PUBLIC CAREERS END.
Many Who Have Worn Toga a
Long Time Doff It. ‘
The session of the senate Wednes
day was interesting, not alone by the
official proceedings (on the floor of the
chamber, incident to the last day of
congress, .but by many occurrences
which were parely social in character,
due to the fact that the day marked
the close ot many careers in the sen
ate,
Of 30 senators whose terms expired
when the presiding officer’s gavel fell
at noon 13 failed to secure re-election,
either through defeat or through their
own | refusal to enter contests in the
various states.
Senator Jones of Nevada, who re
tired Wednesday, has served in the
senate for 30 consecutive years. |
Senator Vest of Missouri, with 24
years’ service, too, lays aside his toga.
Of the seven democratic senators
who retire four are succeeded by re
publicans, and of the six republicans
who go out four are succeed by demo
crats. All the changes in favor of the
republicans are in the northwest and
three of those in favor of the demo
crats are in the southern or border
states.
Besides the senators who retired,
more than a hundred members of con
gress* quit the halls of legislation
through the varying fortunes of poli
‘ties.
' FATHER KILLED SON,
Would Net Let Child Who Had
Plague Leave His Home.
A Mexico City dispatch says the
plague at Mazatian was responsible
for agtragedy in that city Richard
Torrerro Topete, an employe of the
cvstom houwse, shot his son, who was
afMicted with the plague, when the
health offieers came to take the boy to
the hospital and then killeé himself.
Torrerre had made every possible
-effort to cenceal frem the authorities
%hat plagee existed in his house, but
the case was discoyered by the guards
and an order was issued 1o take his
son to the hospital-at once. The young
man was in the advanced stage of the
disease, valthough the father argued
that the disease was of a differeet na
ture. '‘Finding that arguments were
of no a%ail, and that the officers were
about'te remove the patient, hedrew a
pistol-gud killed his sen and himself.
As aresult of tke tradegy, Mrs. Tor
[rerro, who was removed to the obser
vatioe:station, kas become insane.
t The plague is gaining a footheld with
the seidiers of the Eleventh lafantry,
statiozed in that city. Four soldiers
‘of the battalion have been sent to the
obserration station, and two were is
olate€ at the military hospital.
} ABSURD, SAYS MR. BRYAN.
Nebraska Woat De Like His Pre
decessor on Democratic Ticket.
Witliam J. Bryan, in an interview,
denies that ne will lead a revolt from
the democratic party in case the gold
demeerats captere the national con
ventioa, sas was reported from New
York. It was said that he would bolt
the cenvention aad lead an independ
ent mevement. Rir. Bryan said that
not only had he not made any such.
statemeant, but that the -contemplated
action was improbable and that he did ‘
not discuss improbabilies. ‘‘Never
will you find gold democrats capt,uring{
any democratic convention of national
importance, the very idea of itis ab
surd,’’ he said.
egraph toll, because the Georgians
who wired him to support the bill
knew nothing concerning that which
they were asking him to do. Not one
of them probably had eyer read the
Aldrich bill. They simply assumed
that what their eastern friends wanted
was right and they wired Senator Clay
requesting that he ease up in his oppo
sision to the bill.
It is strange why people will as
sume to know something when they do
not know.
BUYS ANOTHER RQAD.
Brunswick and Birmingham Is
Still Pushing This Way.
The Brunswick and Birmingham
railroad has bought the Ocilla and Ir
vinville railroad, built from Ocilla to
Iryinyille by the Ensign Oscamp Lum
ber company of Irwin county. The
line is twelve miles long and connects
at Ocilla with the Brunswick and Bir
mingham, which will soon be complet
ed to that place. The deal was closed
with Mr. W. P. Oscamp in New York,
and the property transfer has been
made.
Dawson, Ga., Wednesday, March llth, 1903.
" FIGHT CAUSED BIG ADVANGE
EGYPTIANS' FI D D
Their Exciting Covering of Short Contracts Said to Be Responsible
for Rise in Price of Cotton. Terrific Storms in Texas Have
Aided Fight of the Bulls. Greater Advance Predicted.
The advance of cetton toward 11
cents, says a New York diepatch,l
diselosed the fact that a clique of
Egyptians is at work in the American
world.
It was their exciting covering of
gshort centracts that caused the sensa
tional rise. But undaunted with the
loss they promptly sold again at the
top prices.
Daniel J. Sully apparently has the
market at his absolute command. At
every attack by the bears he merely
smiles wnd increases his holdings to
‘whatever extent the bears choose to
‘venture. He refuses to admit that he
gells any long cotton, even in the cov
ering movements.
When Sully put spot cotton up to 10%
cents the traders were ready to admit
him the master. They jumped in and
followed his lead without hesitation,
paying no attention to Theodore H.
Price, who advised all his friends to
unload on the Sully pool a 8 quickly as
possible and thus escape the crash
that he said was sure to follow.
Because Price is understood to be
operating for what might be termed
the Standard Oil contingeat in the
market, spot houses that had stock far
below the market let it go.
Bull operations haye been aided by
terrific storms in Texas. In the Pan
kandle there has been two feet ofl
snow, while at San Antonio the rain
has been three inches in thirty hours.
Destructive floods have made it impos
gible to get more than a few bales of
cotton to market.
From all parts of the south selling
orders are coming from persons who
know of cottor they can get to market
when the weather is favorable. It is
believed by bears that that there will
be such a rush to market that a severe
reaction canuot be prevented.
The market is said to be honeycomb
ed with step-loss orders, and for that
reason the bulls are foreed to keep it
steady lest too many stops be uncover=-
ed by a break.
o] am tOO much worn out with my
‘work to-talk,” said Mr. Sally, “but the
price is not at the top yet. I won’t
say where the top may be, but it will
go higher.”
“T would not be surprised to see it
sell for 12 cents,’” said Mr. Weld, the
CONGRESS HAS COST TWO BILLION DOLLARS.
Representative Livingston Is Amazed at Extravagance of Republi
can Administration and Compares It to Foolish Young Men.’
Representative Livingston of Geor
gia, the ranking democratic member
on the house committee on appropria
!tions, makes a rough estimate that the
total amount of money apprepriated by
the .coaugress which ‘has just closed
reaches & minimum figure of two
{ billion dollars.
- «] have not the complete figures at
‘band yet,” said Mr. Livingston, “but
I judge that the total amount will not
be less than $2,000,006.000.
«#This is a remarkable fact upon
which the country caa well afford to
ponder. It means that the expendi
tures of the government are far great
er than the growth of the country
warrants. Of course, allowance must
always be made for growth, but the de
velopment is being exceeded by the
total of our disbursements.
“The fact is this republican adminis
tration is iollowing the same course of
an extravagant person who finds his
pocket full of money and who does not
know what to do with it. A man ex
travagantly inclined who does not
know what to do with the money in his
purse always manages to get rid of it
and in most instances great proportion ‘
of it goes to waste. Such is the case
SHOWS HER CLAWS,
Mrs. Catt Says She Has Evidence
to Send Many Men to Jail.
] haye sufficient evidence in my
possession to send 10,000 men to New
Hampshire to the pentitentiary if the
testimony could be taken and an hon
est grand jury be found to indict
them,” vehemently declared Mrs. Car
rie Chapman ¢Catt at & woman's suf
frage mass meeting in the opera hLouse
at Doyer, N. H.
The speaker made a stir by her bhit
ter attack upon the alleged corrupt
methods in vogue in New Hampshire
politics. Mrs. Catt says she had been
behind the political curtain, and had
been struck with horror at the reve
lations. She said she understood that
the New Hampshire legislature was
always for sale, and that bribery ex
isted to an alarming extent.
manager of Weld & Co., the house
through which the Sully pool is oper
ating.
“Even 15-cent cotton is possible, bu
that price would surprise me. The
consumption i 3 increasing while the
erops have decreased. There is no
corner nor any idea of making one.”
“No,"” said Mr. Sully, ‘‘there is
merely a famine in cotton. The public
is not awake to the fact yet, but it will
realize it when the prices are higher
up. Spinners have kep: delaying
about purchases, as they are not fa
miliar with 10-cent cotton, but they
will have to buy it above that price
later.
Mr. Sully, who has mastered the
great staple of the south, is a resident
of Providence, R. 1., and has hand
some residences there, both in the city
and the country. He is married to the
daughter of the greatest spinner in
America, and has considerable wealth
of his own. He spent several years in
the south making a personal study of
the cotton markets, and is considered
one of the most reliably informed men
on cotton in the world. He made a
great speculation in Egyptian cotton
some years ago.
His present campaign ia cotton wasi
begun two months ago at 94 cents after
Theodore H. Hrice had ended a move
ment with 500.000 bales on hand. It
is understood that Price has unlo&ded‘
this 500,000 bales or the Sully pools
besides putting out short contracts for
that much at top prices. :
The bears in their search for com
fort point with glee to the fact that
the New York banks have the greatest
loaas in history. They also note that
cotton mill operatives in lLowell and
Fall River have demandad an increase
of 10 per cent in wages, threatesing a
strike if it is not granted.
The rain in the south seems isterm:-
nable, and they hope it will preyeat
the planting of corn in Texas, thus
making larger acreage for the next
crop of cotton.
“Once the present excitement is
ower,”’ says Mr. Price, ‘it will be
found that there is a very limited
speculative public willing to buy ten
cent cotton.”’
But the Sully people are ceafident,
and outwardly betray no weakness.
with the management of the gowern
ment. There is now a surplus of about
$477,000,000 in the treasury, and the re
‘rublicans don’t know what to do with
it. ‘T'hey must spend iv, however.
“Tkerein lies theevil. There should
be nosuch gigantic surplus. The re
publiean protective tariff is respoasi
‘ble for the situaticn and I believe that
with & tariff for revenue only volicy
we could manage the affairs of the;
treasury much better, obviate the big
surplus without injuring the state of
tinances, and thuseliminate any chance |
for extravagance. I believe that this
is the solution of the probiem and t.hat.‘
the true democratic tariff policy would *‘
conduce largely to wise economy.
“#With a 82,000,000 congress sturingl
us in the face, it is time to cut down
appropriations, A few years ago the
country was astounded to find chat it
had just witnessed a billion dollar con
gress. Now two such congresses have
combined. That is, we have a billion
dollar congress eyery year instead of
every jtwo years. Ido not favor a
cheese-paring policy, but I think the
appropriations of this congress are far
in excess of the amount they should
be.!”
~ NEEDED AT WHITE HOUSE.
Atlanta Judge Told White Man
Who Kissed Negress.
An Atlanta special says: John Stone,
formerly of Chicago, but now a
draughtsman in an architect’s office in
this city, was arrested yesterday after
noon for kissing a colored girl in a
restaurant and fined this morning $50.75
for the offense. Stone kissed the negro
girl on parting from her at the cell
doors yesterday afternoon.
When asked this morning if he had
any race prejudice hesaid he had none.
Judge Broyles asked if he would object
to marrying a negro woman and he
eaid:
**No objections.”
The recorder said:
“Stone, you are vut of your section
of the country. You should go back
up north; they want you at the white
house.”
NOT ENTIRELY SUCCESSFUL?
Some of Lorenz’s Bloodless Sur
gery Has Not Effected Cures.
It appears that not all of the blood
less surgery operations performed 1n
Chicago by Dr. Lorenz, the Viennese
specialist, were successful. The plas
ter casts have been removed from
three of the patients in whose cases
the treatment seems to have been
more or less a faillure. In one case the
knee was found to be dislocated and
another operation will haye to be per
formed.
In another case the dislocation of
the hip had not been reduced, and the
child is virtually in the same condi
tion she was before Dr. Lorenz operat
ed. In the third case it was found
that while the bip bone had been
placed in the socket and remained
there the bone is very awry and the
child is still a cripple. In the case of
the little Armour child, for the treat
ment of which the Viennese came to
this country, the plaster cast will not
be removed until next week. The
child is able to walk and even run,
and there are hopes that she has been
cured. .
FAST BECOMING CIVILIZED.
Poor Lo Shows That He Is an
Apt Pupil.
Not only is Poor Lo capable of grasp
ing the white man’s ideas, but his in
genuity in putting some of them into
practice is notaworthy. A case in
point occurred in South Dakota the
other day, where a local election was
held. Indians were permitted to vote.
Bucks and squaws dress exactly alike
in South Dakota, with the result that
all Indiaws of twenty one vyears or
there-abouts look alike to the white
man. The Indians took sideson the elec
tion in question. When the ballots had
been counted it was ascertsined vhat
the side supported by the Indians had
won. Then it came out that a coneid
erable number of squaws had not only
voted but repeated at the ballot boxes.
No wonder Sznator Quay has such high
admiration for the Indians.
A BOTTLED MESSAGE.
Drepped Into the Hudson River;
Picked Up in Holland.
This is the story of a glass jar which
was shrown overboard in the Hudson
riveec by \William H. Macombe.
A party left Greemport for West
Poiat on August 28, 1901, among them
beiag Mr. and Mrs. Macombe. When
they had eaten their lunch Mr. Ma
combe wrote the following on the back
of a Pan-American cireular:
“Mr. and Mra. William H. Macombe,
Greenport, Suffolk eounty, N. Y.
Finder of this jar will please write to
Mr. Macombe, Street Commissivoner,
Greeuport, Suffolk county. N. Y.”
L'hey placed the circular in the jar
and, screwing the cover own, threw it
overboard into the Hudson. 1
Mr. Macombe has received a letter
with an Amsterdam postmark inclos-l
ing tke Pan-American circular and
saying: :
“ILAREN HILVERSEEN, HOLLAND,
February, 10, 1903.—An echo from the
Pan-American. Picked up in the
Zuides Zee a ‘jar containing the inclos
ed. No doubt vou will be surprisedl
at its recoyery here. The facts lre!
briefly as follows: The jar was picked
up by fishermen and given to me tc de
cipher a few days ago, they thinking
of the possibility of some great disas
ter. Hoping this note will give you
pleasure, I am yours,
*“JOoSEPH X. IMHOF.”
RESULT OF THE WORK OF THE LATE CONGRESS
The Important Measures Which Went Through. The Army, Navy
and the Philippines Are Mostly Affected. Other Measures.
Thre last session of the fifty-seventh
congress came to a close at noon last
Wednesday.
Among the acts of the session was
that creating the department of com
‘merce and labor and adding another
cabinet officer to the president’s offi
cial family. The bill creating this de
partment contains provision for inves
tigating corporations. Awnother im
portant piece of legislation enacted
at this session was the anti-rebate act,
commonly known as the Elkins law.
Another bill was passed which enables
the attorney general to expedite suits
brought under the Sherman anti-trust
law.
One of the first acts of the seesion
was the removal of the tariff on coal of
all kinds coming from any -foreign
country. Legislation of importance to
the army and navy was enacted. A
general staff corps has been provided
for the United States army.
The militia bill, introduced by Rep-!
resentative Diek of Ohio, and which
passed the house during the first seo—l
sion, passed the senate during the last
ises‘sion and became a law.
The naval appropriatios bill, which
Number Twenty-Five.
4 Y
LITTLEFIELD’S LIST OF
\
EIGHT HUNDRED TRUSTS.
REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN HITS HIS
PARTY A BACK-HANDED SWIPE.
He Puts in the Shade Any List That
Has Been Published By Democrats.
Capitalization Represents Billions.
It will be difficult for the republicans
to run away from the trust issue in
the future, or to deny, as did Senator
Hapna in 1900, that there are any
trusts. One of the leading congress
men, Hon. Chas. E. Littlefield, of
Maine, whom the administration last
year selected to present the only Si
mon-pure~anti-trust bill in congress,
has settled this discussion in his par
ty. Mortifield, perhaps, because his
bill was shelved by the trusts which
controlled his party, he resolved to
hitthem and their agents in congress
a back-handed swipe which would
make them gasp for breath. He get
together and published in the Con
gressional Record a liet of trusts—not
corporations simply, but real trusts—
which fills more than six pages of
that publication. He says of this
list that it contains the grand to
tal of nearly 800 trusts, with a total
capitalization of nearly fourteen bil
lions. These totals are fully 33 per
cent larger than those of any other
list hitherto published.
This list puts in the shade any list
published by the democrats or in any
almanac or year book. It musv make
Senator Hanna’s hair curl to see this
list put into the Record by a great re
publican. Had the list contained rail
roads, practically all of which are now
merged so that they do not compete
with each other, about $11,000,000,000,
more of capital would have been added
making .a total ot $25,000,000,000 of
capital in trusts and monopolies.
As the total wealth of this country is
about $90,000,000,000 and about two
thirds of all is in real estate and Im
provemente and farm animals, imple
ments and produets, it is eyident that
the trusts have nearly completed their
work, so far as the manufacturing and
natural monopoly industries are con
cerned. Hereafter, they must turn to
the farms, the water and the air if the
trusts wish new worlds to conquer.
We now understand why the cost of
living is going up and is greater than
ever before at this season of the year
—according to Dunn’s ‘“‘index num
ber’’ of commodity prices for February
’l. The trusts are gradually puttiog
on the pressure and giving us all we
!(:an stand. They have the power and
‘could screw prices up higher, but they
prefer to proceed cautiously and ju
diciously. Give them time and they
will squeeze the last dollar out of us
and haye us mortgaged 8o heavi
ly that our children—if they submit as
meekly and supinely as we do—will be
hopelessly bonded and compelled to
pay tribute to the truste, which will
own all on, above and below the sur
face of the earth.
We do not need a field glass to see
that Littlefield’s 800 trusts bang like
an ominous cloud on eur political and
industrial horizon.
$l,OOO FROM SIXTEEN ACRES.
A farmer near Pelham planted six
teen acres is sugar cane last year, and
after defraying all expenses cleared
$l,OOO.
xpas;éd both houses, provides for a ma
| terial increase in the personnel of the
navy to meet the growing demands tor
officers and men; also for an increase
in the number of warships.
Measures of great importance to the
Philippines were aaopted. An appro
%priatiou of 83,000,000 was maae to re
lieve distress and suffering. A cur
rency has been provided. Anpother
‘act promoted the efficiency of the
Philippine constabulary, and still an
other provided for extradition of ¢rim
inals.
The anarchy bill, providing for the
protection of the president, failed of
passage.
CAR LOAD OF GEORGIA MEAT
Houston County Farmer Ships
23,000 Pounds of Bacon.
The first car of home-raised and
home-cured meat sent to Macon siace
the war arvived in that eity Thursday
and was sold 10 two local merchants.
The meat was raised on the plantation
of John G. Brown 1n Houston county.
The meat weighed 23,000 pounds and
, brought & cents.