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NOTIFYINGRZACH. TAYLOR
The Stirring Scene Is Described
by an Eye-Witness.
SURPRISED IN- A GRAIN FIELD
Sturdy Oid General Was at Work in
His Farm Clothes When Notifica
tion Committee Arrived and Gave
Him the First News of His Nomi
nation for President.
There is at least one instance on
record where a presidential notifica
tion committee really brought to the
nominee of a great political party
his first knowledge of the honor con
ferred upon him. Today the cere
mony of notification is hardly true t<
name. A committee of one delagate
from each state travels to the home
of a candidate and amid demonstra
tions of great enthusiasm officially
notify the modest recipient of a na-
tion’s .favor of a fact which he had
known from the very first. It is
ludicrous, but grown-ups, as well as
children, sometimes need amuse
ment. The effort is not all wasted,
however, as the occasion is seized
upon in each instance for the oppor
tunity it affords to deflate the poli
ticians. Great speeches are made by
members of the committee and by
the blushing candidate. It costs
thousands of dollars to carry the
news ito ‘‘Billy’”’ for instance, but
campaign managers like to have the
first gun well loaded; and notifica
tion day is really the official begin
ning of the great quadrennial scrap.
In the old days though a notification
meant just that and nothing more.
Capt. Wilson H. Daniel of Jasper,
Ind., inventor and author, now near
ly 85 years old, recently recalied his“
experience of 1848, when he was)
present and witnessed the notifica
tion of Gen. Zachary Taylor, which
took place in the latter part of June
or the first part of July of that year.
i The Captain's Story. |
The national convention of Whigs
met in Philadelphia some time in
June, 1848, and on the third ballot
nominated Gen. Zachary Taylor,
*“Old Rough and Ready,” as their
candidate for the presidency over
Henry Clay, Daniel Webster and Gen.}
Scott. , And some time later, during!
oats harvest, while that frontier col
onel, who had not voted for 40 years,
was working in his oat fied and talk
ing to Capt. Daniel of old days and
of happy days he had spent at Camp
Salubrity the notification commit
tee, aboard the Major Ringold,
landed right near where *“Old
Rough and Ready” was working and
talking, and really notified him, that
is, gave him the first information he
had -of his nomination.
“In the summer of 1848 1 was a
passenger on board the Alhambra,”
said Capt. Daniel in relating the story
of his experience. “Before landing
I had been told by the captain that
we would land at Taylor's plantation
just below the town of Rodney, in
the state of Mississippi, to take on
wood. We were there for several
hours, and as soon as I landed I saw
Gen, -Taylor, with whom [ had got
acquainted at Camp Salubrity some
Years befcre, just across the road
in an oat field, where he and several
negroes were at work cradling and
binding oats.
‘““The general wore a broad
brimmed, low-crowned white felt
hat, blue blouse, no shirt and blue
pants. His feet were encased in
home-made hoots. His hands and
face were covered with dirt and black
from oats. When I called and said
‘Hello, General,” he at once recog
nized me, and as was his custom,
hailed me by saying, ‘Hello, Wheels
man.’
“He canie over to the fence and
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for quite a time we talked of the
days we spent together when Taylor
was stationed at Camp Salubrity and
of the second day of Jul¥, 1846, in
particular, when we broke camp and
I. as pilot, or wheelsman, on board
the Yazoo, began steering Gen. Tay
lor's entire garrison, heavy artillery
and ammunition from Grandecore
(meaning high bluff) landing to the
famous battlefield of New Orleans,
six miles below the city, from which
point sea-going vessels conveved the
soldiers, artillery and ammunition to
Powder Horn, then a landing near
the Rio Grande, in Texas.
! Gen. Taylor's Surprise.
“It was while we were sitting
there on the fence recounting our
many experiences that a large boat,
all decked in holiday attire and fly
ing flags and bunting, rounded into
sight. As it came nearer we heard
the band playing and Gen. Taylor re
marked that it must be a circus boat.
As it approached a salute was fired,
the band struck up ‘The Star Span
| gled Banner,” the bell began to ring
]land the steamboat, which was the
Major Ringold, began rounding to
land.. When the general and I saw
the boat was going to land we got
down off the fence and walked across
‘the road to witness the landing,
neither of us knowing or even sur
mising the mission of the boat and
its ecrew.
‘““When the landing had been made
and the stage plank run ashore the
people by the score began crowding
out.. - The vast crowd was led by
James Guthrie and George D. Pren
tiss, of Louisville, Kv., who were fol
lowed by a Mr. Bluford. No sooner
had Guthrie and Prentiss introduced
themselves to Gen. Taylor than Blu
ford, who had been a former school
mate of Taylor's, shouted, ‘Hello,
Zach,” and with an oath or two ran
up and embraced ‘Old Rough and
Readyv,” who recognized Bluford with
delight.
Most Impressive Scene.
“When invited on board the ship
Taylor begged to be excused on ac
count of his dress and appearance,
but Bluford, Guthrie, Prentiss and
others, with loving arms around the
sweaty old general, hurried him
aboard, where he was officially noti
fied, in his every day working attire,
that the Whig party in convention as
sembled had nominated him as its
candidate for the presidency. He
made a few remarks, thanking the
committee for the honor and assur
ing every one that if he was elected
he would do right as God gave him
the power to see the right.
“A reception was then held and
the dirty toiler of the oat field was
introduced to the hundreds on board
of the beat. One of the features
which impressed me most forcibly
was the fact that every woman, re
gardless of her silk, satin and jewel
ry, wanted to kiss the dirty-faced
oid warrior.
“Before the reception was over the
bell on the Alhambra rang and the
150 or 200 of her passengers who
were aboard the Major Ringold had
to leave the festive scene and hurry
back to the Alhambra. That boat
was soon on its way north, leaving
the presidential candidate of the
Whig party enjoving the musie and
refreshments which the committee
had brought along.
“This,” said the captain, “was the
‘most impressive scene of my whole
life. Truly it was one instance of
‘the nomination seeking the man, and
one instance where the notification
committee really notified, the steam
boat being then the fastest mode of
travel as well as the fastest means
of communication, the telegraph not
‘having attained general use. Gen.
‘Taylor, who had not voted for 40
years and who very probably did not
know that a convention had been
'held, was thus officially notified, and
lin the campaign and election whieh
followed was triumphantly elected,
lhut died July 9, 1850.”
MADE ROTTEN MONEY GOOD.
Owner Got Back $£9,975 Which Hadl
Decayed While Buried. ‘
Of $lO,OOO in decayed greenbacks
sent to the treasury department at
Washington for redemption ny ) b
Earl of Morrillton, Ark., all but $25
have been identified and a check for
$9.975 was mailed to Mr. Earl.
?‘ Fearing the banks were unsafe Mr.
Earl buried his savings in an old pail
'in 1904. Recently he dug up his
‘treasure only to find that the bills
iwero so decayed that he could not
(discern their numbers. All that was
left of the roll was a bunch of paper
lresomhling a package of dried leaves,
’with here and there the torn end of
1a note dispalying a figure.
| Mrs. A. E. Brown, the burnt money
’.oxpm't of the redemption division,
lwus given custody of the unrecogniz
!uhle mass, when Mr. Earl forwarded
{ What was left of his fortune to the
;troasury department. After much
{ tedious work she has succeeded in
tidentifying most of the money.
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THE LEGISLATURE MAY SIT JUST
AS LONG AS IT LIKES.
Not Likely to Adjourn Before Mid
| dle of September, and Will Cost
\ Forty Thousand Dollars.
An Atlanta dispatch to the Sa
vannah News says many members ex
press the opinion that there is little
likelihood of the general assembly,
which has met in extra session for
the purpose of taking action relative
to the disposition of the state's con
victs, getting through with its work
under three weeks, which will bring
adjournment about the middle of
September. Some of those who have
taken foremost interest in the conviect
question set Sept. 15th. as the date
of adjournment.
It looks as if it is going to be a
fight between the Holder bill, which
passed the house at the regular ses
sion, and some other bill—almost
any other bill—to prevent the Holder
bill from passing.
Holder Bill and Its Opponents.
On one hand it is charged that
Chairman John Holder and his com
mittee are suffering from too much
committee pride in their measure;
on the other it is charged that Sen
ator T. S. Felder of the Twenty-sec
ond, and a few others are opposed
to the enactment of any law without
their names on it, if there is any
pessibility of getting them there.
The two weeks recess hetween the
regular and the extra sessions did
not serve to clarify the atmosphere
to any great extent. The committee
which has been investigating the
penitentiary system has made its re
port, but the general assembly
knows little if anything more as a
result of it than it knew some two
weeks before the regular session ad
journed. The inquiry at that time
had brought practically all the facts
to light.
More Bills to Come Up.
Another thing which has served
to clog up the situation is that dur
ing the brief vacation a number of
members have been at work on their
pet ideas for solving the convict prob
lem, and have in many instances em
bodied them in the form of bills
which cannot, of course, be ignored.
The house is considering these
various measures in committee of
the whole instead of referring them
to the penitentiary committee, the
object being to save time. But go
ing into committee of the whole
takes the bridle off of debate, and as
this is the last chance the present
members will have to hear them
selves talk they are making the
most of it.
No Legal Limit to Session.
There is no limit wupon the time
during which the general assembly
may remain in session, and as Gov.
Smith has taken the responsibility
for the extra session there is, of
course, no special reason why the
legislature should hurry. The lim
ited scope of its work and the nat
ural desire of many members to have
a finger in it will undoubtedly, it is
thought, have the result of prolong
ing the extra session beyond the time
at which it might adjourn if it got
right down to business with a de
termination to finish as quickly as
possible.
The prediction made by certain
members, therefore, that the session
will hardly adjourn bhefore Sept.
15th. appears to be a reasonable one.
The expense.to the state at that rate
will probably be somewhere hetween
$20.000 and $40,000.
. The day after the extra session
convened a resolution providing for
a short session was voted down.
THE GEORGIA LEG. ;
Savannah Press: The Bainbridge
Democrat says ‘‘the only prohibition
legislature Georgia ever had is dead:
and when shall we ever see its like
again? A mighty long time, we very
much fear. Requiescat in pace!”
Daries Gazette: It would be a
graat tdfng if the legislature would
abolish itself.
No Need to Make Speeches.
From the Savannah News.
Of course Candidate Brown of the
democrats is not going to engage in
a joint debate, or any other sort of
debate, with Candidate Carter of the
Independence League. Mr. Brown
was able to defeat Gov. Smith——who
was a hundred times stronger than
the Independence candidate—without
making a speech, and he doesn’t
need to do any speech-making now.
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'Hca]th Officer Trying to Determine
| What to Do With Him. Is
' From Nerth Carolina.
~ John R. Early, a leper, is held
prisoner in a tent at an isolated spot
in the outskirts of this city, says a
'Washington dispatch.
- Early arrived in Washington ten
days ago and was discovered to be
suffering from the disease while liv
ing at a Salvation Army lodging
house on Friday.
The health departmenf officers
have written to the authorities of
North Carolina to obtain permission
to remove the leper to liynn, N. €,
his home. The Public Health and
Marine Hospital Service is co-operat
ing with the local authorities. If the
North Carolina authorities refuse to
take care of Early he probably will
be sent to the leper colony in Louis
lana.
Early has a wife and child, a moth
er, two sisters and a brother living
in Lynn, N. C., from where he went
to Washington to attend to his pen
sion. He served in the army for
nearly nine years, and is supposed to
have contracted the fatal disease in
the Philippines.
Early is 35 years old, and the
health officers say he has had the
disease for over a year. In that time
he has been employed in various
stores and mills, and was actively en
gaged in Salvation Army work in
numerous cities in New York state.
Among the places in which he has
lived since he was discharged from
the army at Blattsburg, N Yie'in
November, 1906, are Winchester, a
suburb of Boston, Mass.: - Tiaw
Granville and Oswego, N. ¥.- Al &
last two places the symptoms of lep
rosy first became pronounced. From
Oswego he went to Canton, N. C.,
in May of this Year and was em
ployed in a pulp mill employing 800
hands. Later he went to Lynn,
whence he came to Washington.
SHEEP-SKINS REQUIRED.
.
Legislature Says Horse Doctors Must
Have Them Hereafter,
A state board of veterinary ex
aminers will be named by Governor
Smith in a few days, in accordance
with a bill which recently passed the
legislature.
Heretofore the legal restrictions
on veterinarians, or ““horse doctors,”’
have been rather lax in Georgia.
Hereafter none will be allowed to
practice the profession until he
stands a satisfactory examination be
fore the board to be named. unless
‘he has a diploma from a college of
'good standing where g three-years’
course is required or had been prac
ticing in the state for a pericd of
three years at the time of the en
actment of the law.
The board will be composed of
five, and the first members will be !
named for terms of one, two, three, |
four and five vyears. to be de- |
termined by lot. After this vear one
will be named each year. They arei‘
permitted to charge a fee of $lO for |
conducting each examination and thel‘
funds arising will pe used to defray,
the expenses of the board. ;
TED THE MEDDLER. 1
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From the Macon Telegraph. |
We fear that President R«,msm‘olt,!
in spite of his temperamental op- |
tiimism, will be forced to the con- |
clugion that republics are ungrateful. !
Hare are the farmers, whom he has |
appointed a commission to nplige
refusing to be uplifted, or at any |
rate commenting on the new com- |
mission in a flippant and disrospoct-{
ful manner. They say they can get!
along without the help of commis-|
sions to inspect their condition, and)
' they point to their bank aocmmts.'
their telephones, maggzines. news- |
papers, comfortable homes and broad i
and productive acres as proof that!
they have already uplifted them- |
selves. i
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iil e ‘ Next session opens Sept. 30th.
g\ : For further information address K. G.
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Begins at the Savings Bank. Patiently and regularly a small
portion of the income is added to the Home Building Fqnd,
so, figuratively, the building process goes on at the .Savmgs
Bank before the brick layers and the carpenters begin their
work.
| The Dimes and the Dollars ‘
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as they are added to the fund represent so much of brick,
lumber, plaster and paint, which will eventually take Fhe
material form of a cozy home. A great advantage in using
the Savings Bank as the depository for the Home Building
Fund is that the savings are drawing interest all the time.
Another is that small amounts—sl.oo and upward—may be
deposited-»»wvokly, monthly or at any time desired. Interest,
ccmpounded quarterly, paid on all deposits.
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IT'S WHAT YOU SAVE, NOT WHAT YOU EARN, THAT
MAKES WEALTH.
This table shows the vesult of steady, systematic saving of
small sums for only Five Years.
oL Dy Mg B Aesae Interest Total
Five Years Deposited Earned Ar unt
5 cents per day.....| § 9195 $ 10.66 ‘ § 10191
10 cents per day..... 182.50 21.82 203.82
1o cents per day. .. .. 27376 31.98 305.73
20 cents per day..... 365.00 42.64 407.64
20 cents per day... .. 456.25 53.30 509.65
30 cents per day..... 547.50 63.96 611.46
40 cents per day..... 730.00 85.28 815.28
50 cents per day..... 912.50 106.60 1,019.10
75 cents per day..... 1,368.75 159.90 1,628.65
$l.OO per aay. ..., 1,825.00 213.20 2,038.20
1.25 par day. ..., 2,281.25 266.50 2,647.75
1.50 DEE day. ... 2,737.60 319.80 3,0567.30
1,96 par gav.: .. 3,198.75 398.10 3,666.85
2.00 per a8y.....| 8,650.00 | 426.40 | 4,076.40
The above is on a basis of 4 per cent. per annum,
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J. MERCER BELL, Pres, L. C. HILL, Cashier.
J. E. MORRIS, Asst. Cash.
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