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THE MACON WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 30,1887.—TWELVE PAGES.
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A Hint to the Negro Leader,.
The Boston Advoo ite, a negro paper, pub
lishes an article upon the situation In Geor
gia end closes it as follows
Brown was beaten by only 2 000 by the I ari'l bring n P the question on its merits, and I Right View of the Glenn Bill.
' J J ' .. a a >L. na.a. 111 _ t_I.J a- I Dhlledalnbla lln^Ar.i
regular Demoeratio nominee, in a oily that
has easily 15,000 Demoeratio majority.
It may be safely assumed that Mr. Cowan
Let
just
Race Pride and Race Derelopinent.
It does not seem strange that the negro
Yaoe has produced no leader, when it ia re-
inembtred that there is no race spirit among
(hem. So-called leaders have sprung up,
anon like Bruoe and Douglass, who, by their
personal success attracted the attention
trad enyy of their people, but none bare
iracoeeded in rallying any lalgdaU&eci
around them. They were not lenders, but
creatures of polltioal creations, results of a
game played by others. Until this race
apirlt is born, until men who are negroes
are proud of the fact, the progress of this
people, the development of any moral and
consequently lasting foroe must be slow
and fitful, dependent npon extraneous
circumstances, the tortuiions results of
philanthropy, or accidents of polities.
Whygahonld not the Jnegro bo proud of
his raoe? True, he has passed through an
cii of slavery and poverty. So passed the
Jew3. So passed most cf our ancestors
who as peons, or vassals, or retainers, or
feoffs were practioatly in slavery. It may
be assumed without violenoe to history,
and the theory of raoe development, that
every distinct race has at sometimo, suffer
ed restraint it not bondage in the hands of
a superior power. Who will say that the
foot detracts from the proper reepect due
by every man to himself, or that it has
not bad somewhere npon these
races s beneficent effect? There is about
even tho untamed African tf the jangle
something to admire. He is physioslly
strong; he is a mighty hnnter; he is brsve
in battle; he is often pstriotio, and he is not
altogether ignorsnt of family responaiblll
lies. Moreover, he has a tribal pride that ia
dtrong and enduring. Common oeuse end
condition, color and experience have made
a tribe here In our midst oomposed of the
desoaudanta at many tribes. Indeed they
constitute ■ distinct raoe, for the typical
Ametloan-African now resembles no
native typo in mind or body.
'The centuries of his misfortunes, if
the term is not too strong, have been
to him e school of learning. He standi
generations ahead of hit blood kin in the
dark continent; he hoe learned the humbler
arte, trades end soleneee, has reached a
comfortable stage in the jonrney toward
civilization sad has within himself germs
and e oapaeity which, it stimulated by self
xeepect and pride of raoe and their netnral
off spring, ambition, might make him a
great place in history. Bat bow osn men
who have no reepect for themselves as men,
hope to enjoy the reepect of others? Can
the negro, who resents the very name of
negro, and olings to a mere adjective de-
neilp'.ion of the shade of his skin, expect a
white men to admire him? Whet e propo-
filtion! And yet this is just what
tho average negro bopce for and wait* for.
If he does not expect 1L Thiels what falsa
fritndaand political schemers promise him
by legislation, and whet a few female John
Drowns, by mixed schools, are trying to
bring about. He is to ba admired and re
spected end made much of, until convinced
•that he may with rieaon and justice admire
himself.
Keif-respect comes from an Inner con
uciouineas of tho men, and rase pride is
tbs consciousness of men of kindred blood
who reapeot themselves and each other, and
their put It oannot exist npon a fiction
nor upon oonditions bestowed. Philanthropy
and legislation may pave tho way for action,
hut the aotion moat oome from the raoe It-
aelt To our mind, the moat discouraging
features of the negro question is the fact
iuat though tw«siy-tws years have passed
nines the war, during which the white race
of the South has sprung back to its lead
again, as a fine blade to its line, the bene
fits that have accrued to the negroes
have been showered upon them,not by them
wrought out: that while tho O uouian race
bars is prepared to admire without regard
to raoe, ootor, or previous condition men
who are honest, pure, capable, industrious
srad moral, who are firm in good causes
and who guard aiul preserve
< euc’.ity of their family alien, there are
•o few negroes who coma within this circle
that they are oontpiououe in every comma
oily where they exist.
Why are not these principles and facts
taught by the inatruotore and advanced rep
resentatives of tho negroes? Why do they
wait for white people to point out that
boa moat be sharply drawn between two radi
colly different people because not only of
too# pride, but of natural lavs that should
ba equally caorad with both? When they
are so taught, then will the settlement of
this vexed and ever recurring question ba
easy, but tha negro race must lint de
velop a pride of its own.
Too while men ot Georgia go on, the otopplng , b as no t acted without duo consideration,
ptac. 1. ahead and we doubt that It would errata I nfl j conngel a tha ind dent
wit great sympathy or astonishment to hear some ® , , , ,
fine day that H.jtr. laat mode o( warfare with the “is psrty, who have for years been
French hee been adopted by the rlfhleouely lndlg- honestly and earnestly striving to throw off
nent colored men of the 8outh In a Inal struggle tho yoke of ring rale, represented by Sen-
for Julies. ator Gorman, Higgins, and Thomas.
Commenting upon this, the Atlanta Jour- This is the most serious part: Mr. Cow.
nal, whose bold, uoiquivooal stand in be- an and bjg gggoemtjs are not disgruntled
half of the Caucasian race of the South is offic9 -seekers. They are composed of the
fast winning it an army of friends not only mo st cultured and wealthy oitizens of Bol
in Atlanta, but iu the 8tste generally, says: tjmore, and 0 j ihe State. No impure mo-
The slave of the Aside now nandi with tne mat- tives can be assigned, and their influence
Ur at the ballot box. an equal arbiter of the Imuea mnat therefore be aU the greater. The Be-
of State. Ho alto upon tho pUtformo of political ... . . . ,., , ,
meetings. n.enterVth. conn try’, court. a. juror, I Pecans have nominated able and clean
attorney and judge. He haa already become a nien, who have the respect oi all Demo*
■tateeman, and in lose than half a decade from hla crata as well as the united
farewell to the cornfield, he aite m legielatiTe and | BU pport of their own party. Not only are
congress balls to deliberate upon gave conetltu. thoHe Derate exasperated at the long
tlonal questions. He hsa even entered, u an equal, - ,.. B
the highest arena of Inwlleot known to tho world, oominanoy of a corrupt city ring, but they
representing In the American Senate are justly aggrieved at Mr. Cleveland's stub-
the virtue end intelligence of tho born ignoring of their just and supported
greet State In which he wee once a .lave. Upon bis oomplaints against Higgins and Thomas
educational, financial, Industrial ud morel devel-1 p reaidcnt may h ave backbone, but if
opment, all Motions of tho country hang with In- .........
tereat, and North. East. West and South holplng eveT 7 State the kind of backbone he
hand* art kindly stretched out to make him has shown in the coses of Higgins and
smarter, richer and better then he la. The people Thomas, as has the Maryland Demooraoy,
of tho South contribute to hls churches, aid hla j t „jjj ba badly broken f or bim.
school!, encourage hie Industries, end In the or— 1
A Dangerous Suggestion,
Alluding to the proposed visit of Mr. I ^ xroold be the people of Pennsylvania
Cleveland to Atlanta, the HawkinsviUe jf their social condition should be similar
News ssys; to that which p-evuila ip Georgia. The
We wonld respectfully enggeet thlt It would be e colored people of Georgia are no more
fitting trihat. to this noble grand representative of friendly to mixed schools than are the
Democracy for the old Confederate veteran, that "Mh* The 7 t . h »7 a «»■» Privilege, and
have organ teed throughout the South to boon hand advantages with the whites in matters of
education, and that contents them. The
and enter the procession In y. Glenn aot only gives statutory foTce to pub-
Every man in this section will agree that li0 Ben timent on this snbjeot. If
the old Confederate veterans should have attempts should be made in
the post of honor on all occasions. They I the absence of this legislation to
receiv. no pensions and little else except
praise from those who remember trad ap- bo th races. In th« conflicts that would be
precUto their glorious services and sacri* engendered the schools wonld be deserted
fices. It is improbable that they will ro- by both white and colored children, and the
raiw “"p. more than this. II Uiej d*«ite wISdIrflh'ecol'ored'psop'lB*,!*!,
to goto Atlanta to be reviewed by Mr. 8ontb fully understand this antipathy to the
Cleveland well and good, but what will Mr. social mingling of tho two races in schools,
Cleveland say of this himselt? What will in yielding to it trust that time wiU
those "prominent Democrats” who are try-1 •" unreasonable . Prejudice °f «*?•
of Atlanta and Jackionvlllo at leaat, throw opon
without money and without price thalr own exposi
tion grounds to the exhibit of hla industry and ad
vancement. • * • • * •
Haring all thing* alee, all of right, of privilege, of
consideration, of klndneas, that government and tonni&l.
Tlie New Know-Nothing Party.
The new Know-Nothing party proposes
to hold a convention in Philadelphia daring
the celebration of the constitutional oen-
The proposed platform as out-
people can give him, tha servant or twency-ivo i lined contains ouuio interesting and imper
year. ago. now wlahea to cut tbroata. and burn Unt features, infact in embraces polygamy,
dwelling., and scatter dynamite, because hie former
muter will not allow him to all et hla privets table, P rohibit ion and almost every riling else, ex-
»o put hls arms around hla eons at school, and to °®P* ‘ tB0 trade. We take it that the refer-
mingle the slave's black blood with the Caucasian once to protection to American citizens
stream flowing in hla own velna l everywhere, must he interpreted into pro-
Thl. is tho "justice” for which ho le now making tectlon for them at home.
Ko«w-Holhtog p^j Caring it,
don* not live la hls memory-the biewlngs and earl y days made some astonishing bucccsscs,
privilege# which nurroond him he ignores In mon-1 But for its religious tent, it is not too
■troua ingratitude. He wants amalgamation, and much to say, that it would have
th, pr,c * ot | seizod the political power of the country,
and this might have changed its destiny.
and tho dagger!
Shall ho have It?
There is but one answer to this pertinent
query. This is a white man's country, and
while it is not anticipated that other than
The Invitation to those expeoted to join is
almost os broad as the platform embracing
the following organizations:
The Patriotic Order of Sons of America,
eooasiooal violenoe will be provoked by this of Cnlted ^ Mechanicg ;
race question, It may os well be understood ^ Jnnlor 0rder 0 , UniU)d Mo .
that the Caucasian raoe in Georgia and other
„ i chanies, the Order of Deputies, the Sons of
Southern States will protect itself at any 1 „ , t, .... .
v.... —a I Revolutionary Sirea, the Political Alliance,
ooet. There is no enmity hare toward the Unlted Mntfl ^ e TatJon8 80cle ’.
negro, but on the contrary a friendliness 1
7, . ?r . ties and all other orders and organizations
!c3 “ JgSa °t Th# t » b o.e principles and sentiments will enable
race i. helped end encouraged as no other them WQtk , n Amerlcan lt on the
in the history of the world nnder anything f
like similar ciroumstancea has been.' K
alone,
itself
lt
to
will perfectly
the new order
This will prove one of the most interest
ing features of the constitutional centen,
nial, and it is safe to say that future devel-
thing, and become a yet more opmfate wiu be watc hed with unuraal in-
factor in the development of the oountry. 1
Stirred to strife,'it will suffer aa It haa suf
fered before. It is bare in our midst now
teres!,
because in its troubled pest it strove with
stronger people. The Boston editor ehould 1 this item:
drop the history of Hayti and look up the! J-UcaF*a^of U,.UnlUdBuw.8« P r,m.court.
African records.
Dividing a State.
Floating about in exchanges, we notice
the people of the State will be enabled to PhUadelvhia Uncord,
seo and understand who is responsible for „ Partisan outory over the Glenn law in
Georgia has not provoked the excitement
which its authors seem to haveVmtidpated.
The pe .do of Georgia are hostile to the co
education of the races in mixed schools. So,
the delay in this matter.
THE COUNTRY PRESS Is R .,.
BRAVELY TO ITS CAUSE' S °
, - - , . .. , . . The alternative presented is in separate
ing to defeat the Glenn bill think schools or no schools st all. While senti-
of a demonstration that will be oalcnlated mentalists may declaim against this opposi
to fire the Northern heart as it were and h?. 0D tojnixed schools as an unjust pr.ju-
will furnish food for campaign orators i.
1838. Tho Telegraph does not cato for all j jg B social question in which the people of
this. It is not managing a campaign, and Georgia have the chief concern, and partisan
does not desire to use old Confederate vet- ?W nB - therefore, will notsucceed in raising
erans for political purposes. It does not 1 1 toa ua on 18ane '
measure its conduct nor its utterances by • Spirit of Nationalism,
what the North may think or say, but to Bo *5° n ...
those who do the suggestion of the Haw- to^Xplfytogtolf'dloJe^ Si dviSSS
kinsvilie News may furnish food for ] world. A few years ago a wide aoceptanoy
thought. It will be remembered that Mr-1 was given to the thoory that all men were
Cleveland refused to go to St. Louis on ac* I brothers, and innt oarnen uotween nations
the Grand Army of the Repub- a t the present time seems to be that the peo-
lio touching a proposition to return pie of each country should ba the exclusive
oaptured Confederate flags. When ho possessors of its advantages. The ere
a™. i. _,jii ,1,. i_ „« ... is: Amenoa for the Americans, Ireland
does go it will be at the invitation of the f or tb e Irish, Buss'a for the Russians,
citizens of St. Louis to attend a fair. There France for the Frenob, and so on.
will be many Confederate veterans to greet This theory of nationalism has already
him, but we doubt if there will be a special uk «" > D »rghtl»tion In Uusela Germa-
\ M . r . I ny, Austna, and, so far &8 tho Chinese are
parade of old Confederate veterans, whom eoicerned/the United States. That there
General Sherman styles "paroled prison- will be still further developments of the
era." eamo theory in the near future is highly
If the suggestion of the HawkinsviUe Probab o. The intensity of feelrag that has
. T . , . ... .. recently led French workingmen in one of
News shonld be accepted, and in the rapid tbe towns of France to wound and even to
and tawdry eloquence which will be oertaln kill Italian laborers can hardly faU to find a
follow, reference ahould bo made responsa in the Frenoh Legislature; while
when the Confederate veterans
are passing in review that I the direction of vigorously restricting i£mi
the ocoasion shonld be compared to the | gration.
resurrection of Easter morn, we may expect
thinks tbs division of California Into two BUtss Is
certain to occur before long. - *
The authority quoted for the statement is
Some store Revision Needed.
But a little whUe aince Editor Watterson h '8h. Jndge Field Is thoroughly acquainted
found it neoeesary to disclaim a nulliflca-1 arith the people of California, and what he
tion leader written by one of hls yonng Ba J B l* untitled to grave consideration,
men; In feot, Mr. Watterson was so lm- 11 ls hut a question cf time when Texas
pressed with the Importance cf tho matter K‘U be divided Into States. Looking et the
that be disclaimed it twice, hand running, prcaont situation of affairs it if to be ra
il Editor Watterson does not derire to en- gutted, perhaps, thai when the general
Into the disolaiming business government drew tho sword and dtumem
a regular employment, ho had best bored Virginia, it had not done some severe
vacate the free trade headquarters In the »“<* deep cutting elsewhere. Tho two coun-
Everett House,,New York, and return to his «<*> of Delaware ot high tide and the three
poet. The young man has broken loose I *1 l° w might have been annexed to Mary-
again. A cablegram having notioed the fact *»od end Rhode Island oonld have been
or nunor, that there was renewed activity as Riven to Ma.saohu.etU or Connecticut, or
to tho Confederate bonda, in the London divided between tho two. In this connection
market, Mr. Watterson’. young man IH i» not out of plaee to refer to a atetement
oharges this up to the oredit of Mr. Blaine, I given to ns by a very reliable and in trill
as a shrewd polltioal move. The Courier- B«nt gentleman a few days sinoe. Ho states
Journal says editorially: ‘hut during a recent visit of several Gsot.
To make anra of tho vote ot tome Southern gia politicians to Washington, one of the
tttat,. Ur. Maine knowa bo will have to bay it. and I number publioly threatened that if Middle
ba prefera to maho rack porebaaoa with tbo montj and Bontb Georgia did not cease Imposing
SJfSSSJStyrSSErz » t^inf -mruon! „ r
•manclpetad .la, re. her, a new SUte would be formed out of
It 1b difficult to imagine greater eilllneu North Georgia, a portion of Tennessee and
than thie. If Mr. BUlne were fool enough * of North Carolina.
to attempt to purchase the electoral vote ouardln* Railroads,
of a single Southern SUte by such a pro- The many fatal accidents on railroads
position he would lose every Northern L lthln a {#w we cks have drawn pub-
SUte abaolnUly. If the North is solid I u, attention to the dangers that those who
against one thing more then another it ia traTe i b y rail ara exposed to. The subject
the payment of ConfedoraU bonds end b as attracted the attention of our Legtala-
remnueration for slave*. As to the bond tureSi and t hU from the Railway Age may
business Mr. Blaine eonld capture few b . read with interest:
Southern votes in this way. lb. cost cf this night watchln, reama a comldar-
Uost people have long since I abl, aapanre to add to tbe opar.Umg chargre of
dlepoeed cf their ConfedoraU bonda and road which la perhaps bavins a bard time to make
money In various ways. Gieat blocks of l both * 0<u m *®*' bnl 11 l *, ,UM , tlo “ bl * wh ** h “*
. , .... , . . , I avan In aucb a care, than la not economy In tbe
each may be held by Indtviduri. here and , nd tna ^esunt. uut can b. avoid* .rea
there, but the v*Uu at largs Lavs ss inter j though they assy fc« bat miner ec-s. Oea ic.b?
eat in them. I ttm, for every alx milt, of road at, «y. tl.M
But human nature is pretty much the »*' nl S ht would b. I'M per year p«r mile ot road.
earns ail over the world, and if Mr. Blaine « V ‘ >00 ° u » =>“« hm« t-r year.
,. .1 . _ , ■ 7 . The condition* of danger are. a. a rale, sore
could assure the Southern people that he aua .roa, than a few year, ago ,v» on
would pay them for their, negro property, the poorer read,. More trains have to be rento
which was guaranteed them by the coniti-1 earn the ism, amount of money; they ara brevier,
tution of the country. It U quite sate that I and. u a ruU. ran farere.botbre regard, paaren
be would make every lively camprign In SSSSSSl
sever si Honthern 8titd I on® or two minor aceldiou 7®®rij will so fsr
It will not be forgotten that Virginians I toward meeting the increased expense, while a
locking out for a pro#pact of unloading carealty tuck aa has Jut occurred wonld ovar-
their heavy debt and oonseqnent taxation. bcl “ >c * •“*> “twau for a aeon ot yean. It to a
•honied themselves hoarse for John Daniel ««•“*» “iad. wheth.r thisprerenuon can
1 safely be dlepenred with os any ro*
The “Spoils System.”
a furious fusillade along the lino of tho LonUvllla Courier-Journal.
Republican press. There is soon to be an Now, if what tnese reformers say about
occasion which may well call out thaattond- the "spoils system” is correct, there was no
Mice of old Confederate veterans. During ^^^^Vtlxtrto
Mr. Cleveland’s visit to the South, Virginia Rathet flRI ftom thistle* end a system so
will lay the cornerstone of a monnment to corrupt surely could not fill the public offi-
General Lee, around whose memory ding CM with honest, faithful and competent
the affections of all old Confederate veto- se R * t nt t b, te(ormcr9 ars lood iQ their C om
rqps. It will not be, in any sense of tbo points because the President has removed
word, a political occasion. No one can a third cf these officers in three years,
take exception to the presence of old Con-1 They assume that he has abused his Priril-
... . , T , .. ... _ ... I eges; that he is removing faithful and effi
federate veterans. Indeed, it will afford tho cleut 0 fjj<. era on political grounds solely,
last opportunity for many of them to meet Now, if these officers aro faithful end
again, in this world, and surely they can I honest how did they get there? If they ore
never meet at a bettor time, a more appro-1 no -p.,! rby ^! lou '^J iey * )B rem0Ped?
... . ., * Either the publio service was not as bad
prlato place or for a nobler purpose. I .. has been ascribed, or else President
, Cleveland has been rather moderate In the
The Ohio Idea. exercise of tbe constitutional rights.
Tbe Augusta Gazette Is sanguine of the Either the "spoilt system" filled tbe pab-
THE STATE FAIR.
Macon Doing Her Share to Advert,
Fair—Laurens and Monro.VoTou,
aro Actively at Work-A St*.'
con filerebant’a Letter.
The movement of the people of u
to advertise the State fair is being ^'Jt**
very favorably by the State prL*T*
know that when Macon pledges h.r
may be relied on; and fear SJg It
sanguine thnt this year’s fair U boIoo.^
excel all predecessors. 80 10 [ »r
The Macon oommitte to raise fora ,
advertising tho fair, is aotivriv .t -
The liberal contributions for the^Piia*”^
exposition, from every class of mti?! 01011 *
Atlanta, published in theCouatituUon'^ 0 *
put the people generally of Macon°on
mettle. The foot has awakened no rinl»
nor jealousy, but it has proven a wortblT 1
ample. It has also frupealeri tn ^
of MacoDites. Toe indications aretbat’S*
contributions will be liberal. TheftreS
that every one sees the neoewity ani
greet value la getting up a larce {“ d
will retuseto do his part
) that the citizens are thotonri?
alive to tbe interest of advertising th»r 1
thoronghty, the following letter from, m?-'
u'given:* 10 * ‘‘ b6r,J con ‘ri«n“oB
"Macos, August 24.—-Editors Telco sre a .
Don t you think that everybody ,«„f:
subicribe their mite and join in the JSS
effort to outstrip anything ever before., 11
tempt* in this State? Don’t you thLkit
will redound to the credit of our b«2
and prosperous city, and add weahh to th.
onffere of our merchants and busiaeu B ! a i
pout jou think .the night >xuibitxronli
give our working population a chanc re
view that whioh would otherwiss be mu
tically denied them? Don’t you think tboL
who would be prevented from attend,„!
duting the day, would hail with delight thi
opportunity of visiting the frit ground.*"
"Can’t the people of Macon wake note
the imiwrtance of making this the gtsnd-it
fair on reoord? The committee apuoiaul
by the Board ot Trade are doing then dut,
now let’s see what our citizens will do.
"Obsxsvu.''
lauekxs couirrr heakd fcou.
Tbe State press is taking right h
the fair with hearty good wifi. Ytstu.
Dnblin Post has tho following editorial-
••If thi
hold of
are ia any ono thing In panicnl»-u„ t,,..
oaara relbtwa it Is falre iutrm.nn, mhwiS:
success of the Democracy in Ohio, and ho offices with competent officer*, and
bases its hopes npon the Ohio idea in the I he changed, or it filled thc,.o
1 p ? T : ■ places with incompetent personal and polit-
present campaign, whioh to but a counter- feal retainers, who should be removed as
pjrt of the Kentuoky idea, that has just re-1 rapidly os the publio service will permit,
solved a.ignal discomfiture. It says: The Return of th. Rattle Flag.
It is ftilagnlAr fact that whenever th® Democrat# Q 0me Courier
csrrUd Ohio during this reign it «u brought about | Lionel Magrnda ywtordiy reoeired by
Um and •blowing.* Th® charsetsr of thU ugni
dearer than th® sucr®M of any •nterprUrVm
therefore, when we tell our readers that theiuu
f»ir this jeer will ecllpre any fair of recent jm?
they msy rely upon it.’* '
We clip the above from the TiLKoiAri, tad *•
believe the Ust sUtement is not too strong H»
\V, J. Northen, of Hancock, (the recently slsctid
president of the Oeorgl* Agricultnrsl Assodstloe
says that th# exhibits this year will b® moreiS
ous and attractive than ever before, tad ws fee.
confident that he dora not over state the csss.
Lsnrena county ahonld certainly take so setin
part In the Btste fair. Lying rlmoet st the fat o'
Macon, lt ls but natural that Laurens should poni
out her varied resource# into the lap of that city
to whom the le by right tributary.
We ahould demand our share of attention by mik
ing an exhibit of our reeource® calculated to it
tract attention, and to bring additional capiUl n
terprlse and brain Into our midst.
Our Interests are varied, and Laurens oonld mill
creditable display of her extended natural rt
•ouroeo and many valuable producta.
The naval stores Interests in our county an of
considerable and growing Importance, aeddsmud
recognition from th® outside world. V# bars
of the best farming counties In Oeorgta, sad v «
farming interests should certainly be rtpreoeotsd.
Xneo, besides these, we might make exhibit! of
leather, sho®s, blacksmith work« and a thoum,
and one produ ta of farm and garden as well u o
feminine skill.
Mr. Lewie 0. Brecham’s anpsrb team of rt.
matched male®, attached to a timber wagon with
on® of Launrens county's largest long leaf pi&M
suspended b«ne®tb. would attractively llloitnu
the growing importance of the timber bnslnsM
our section.
Should Messrs. Stanley and Kea pot some of thill
Auejkoga on exhibition they would surprise us
of the fanciers of improved porcine stock wki
know of no varieties raised here except tbs rt
br an adTanred idre embodud in th. PUtform, the flTg of the old Eighth Georgii
which caught the Demoeraoj and wax conUglon. I pi| men t, which he loaned three or fonr
with tbe people of the counter afterward,. yea[3 ag0 to Dr. Chester, of Michigan. Dr.
Let na look into this. Ohio politlolanB Chester, who was in delicate health, spent
have been prolific of ideas that were to re-1 a oonple of wintess in tbia city. He was
turn the national Demooraoy to power. «hown the flag of the above regiment, and
t Toou „ V , - he became very anxlons to borrow it for tho
In 1808, the Idee was Greenback) and I par po, 0 0 f putting lt on exhibition at a mil-
dating the National Convention of that I itary celebration at Cedar Springs, Michi-
year, New York waa crowded with Buck- K“- After a good many entreaties Col.
ton. 00# ot whom «m va.y nol,,. | [elnlEw l .Iltt Ihc cel.br.tioD, Fo, K>m«
and olad in a brown linen duster, with a reason this was not done, and tho Colonel
Gree baok badgo pinned upon his manly I it through the agenoy of promt-
bresst The Democrat) were defeated, nont ma,ona ttt tiprings.
and where is the Greenback idea now? Senator Colqnltt Fat on Nolle,.
In off years the Democrats have encoeed-1 Ath,n a Banner-Watchman,
ed in carrying Ohio threo times, in Gnber- Th ® AtUata Constltntion has pnt Gsn-
, . . , f. „ , , era! Colquitt and the State on notice that
natorial elections. Once they marchod to the contest for the United States Senator-
power noder tne leadership of "Old Bill I ship in Georgia In 1888 will be no walk-
Allen” to the inspiring tone of over for the present inenmben •. A cum-
“itiseuD wun-am Aiu-cn her of prominent men in Georgia are men-
And com. along with m,." u ® n ‘ d , ‘he plaee, »nd the Senator,
M, AU,.™.,
and bis kinsmsn, Senator Thnrman, was tioned wonld moke as good a Senator as he
gerionsly damaged for yean by this con- does. Coming from a paper which espoused
te*t, I General Colquitt's cause In 1882, against
n ,. k . , . . some of the very men who are now men-
Juat bow Dick Bishop got in U not of j donod against him, this got of tho Coniti 1
mnoh more consequence than Diok Bishop I tution ia significAnt.
himself. There was not much of an idea A
1 Why Georgia Booms.
known “r*sor<b*cb.'
Mr. W. W. Robinson could make sa sttncttTi
display of horn® usd® aho®® and exhibit sob* I
•Ample# of l®®ther.
And w mar ottun might exhibit the prates
of tb.tr aeurprlaa and w,U directed labor la i-.'
‘ way re to axclte atterntton and saa.ra- Intt.-w.
Thao, to crown It all. If w, bad "tncte IpF
takachargaof Lanren.' exhibit and her honcr,'
might rret aamred that w. wonld bare so caw
blush for onr county or bar products
Let na conn out Into tbo world and ihnv o ti
what we hare and are. We bare bren bom) I
long In oblivion.
in the whole concern.
and silently voted for Billy Cameron. Mr. Blgh , ^ ud „ auntuta toto y,. ^ m4
Watterson shonld retam home and revise I damage account on any ordinary 'reed will, we
bis yonng man. I
Democratic Defection in Maryland. I Tbo Olenn IUII,
The action of Mr. John K. Cowan, alcad- After haring passed the Hotue with bnt two
ing Democrat and prominent lawyer of dissenting votes, slumbers in the eommittee
M.noxa baa a five eolamc address in the
Richmond Dispatch, reviewing tha Demo
cratic platform ot Virginia, Wall, anyhow,
tha apaaa ccenpiad ehowa that tha Bapnb-
I wans of Virginia at least bavaoom, money.
Baltimore, in appearing on the floor of the
Maryland 8tate Republican convention, end
pledging to tbe Republican ticket tba sup
port of tbe independent Democrats of
Maryland, is e slap is the face of the ad
ministration for keeping Aggies and
Thomas in office, that will very likely have
a serious national effect.
Mr. Cowan in tbe last mayoralty election
in Baltimore, led the independent Demo
crats in their tfforte to elect Hon. George
Wm. Brown mayor. Whilst ha was not
successful, it u very significant that Ur.
of education in the Senate. The chairman
of that oommittee, lt U stated, is not at his
post, bnt ia absent on other business.
Tbe bill itself U short end plain, end
cannot possibly require mack time for con
sideration. The white people of the State
expect a report npon it If this report ia
not made within a reasonable time it will be
entirely competent and altogether proper
for gome fnend of tha maasora to move to
discharge the committee of education from
Ite further conrIteration and to refar It to a
committee with Instructions. This motion
I Angnata Chronicle.
Then came the Ohio Idea during the I The Chronicle’* correspondent from
Hayes administration which was to "aipe Greenville tells some wonderful tales of a
out all wsr legislation." It bronoht on a I Carolina Lula Hurst, and the Athena Ban-
,, j net haa discovered that the water at Henry
partisan debate and an extra session of 8pring , makea an elegant dye. The South
Congress. General Tom Ewing, one of the U aurily on the boom. bIo has e magic
ablest men in Ohio, e distinguished Fed- city, gas and oil wells, electrio women, coal
oral general, was nominated for mine., marble beds, and, last bnt not least,
rx n ..«,o. ..a . an everlasting spring of water that makes
Governor, end a one-legged soldier, Amer- an ,1,^ dya . * T he delightful climate end
lens Ric>, the patron of the arrears of pen-1 the wonderful rtsonree, of the Sooth are
slotis bill, as lieutenant-governor. Calico I attracting the attention of Northern and
Charley Foster defeated them, downed the I "’•*‘* rn capitalists to the Sonth.
idea and mode way for the subsequent dc-1 Tbe City Man ax a Farmer,
feat of General Hanoock. I Onr Country Home.
Then came Governor Hoadly, an aspi
rant for the Presidency himself. Finally
Ohio had get hold of a sensible Idea, Sen-
ator Payne wrote a platform, acknowledg
ing the principle of protection and pledg
ing the Democratic party to restore the
duty on wool. Governor Hoadly was
elected, bnt tbe Demoeratio per-
ty violated the pledge and
Governor Hoadly (a now practicing law in
New York. Really the record of Ohio ideas
ia a disastrous one. We shall soon know
the fete of this last Ohio idea, which is op
posed to the repeal of the internal revenue
system. Virginia has already taken ground
against this; North Carolina is aa solid aa
Virginia, and Georgia and the other Sonth-
en States will not have it. If tha present
Ohio idea wins, there may be promise end
hope In U. If it is defeated, then the
doubtful content of 1888 becomes mors
doubtful still.
CSMTSL STOCK rin.1T T1SB.
O Conceit
O Money,
o Farm.
o Practical knowledge,
o Experience.
rirnii stock kxd or tkx tkass.
o Conceit
o Money,
o Form.
O Practical knowledge.
O Experience.
What He Wants to Know.
Boston Advertiser.
The Macon TxLnoaspn wants to know
what tree trade country ever tendered its
bondholders prepayment of interest is
order to get rid ot a supine in the treesn:
And we ehould like to know whet free tra_.
oonnUy today baa a surplus in its treasury
that ia really embarrassing.
““gPe 1 "** ■*». turn bands, shoals aenr be
EJfJ* “S?'*' tuvalnabia in earn of ac-
clAreU. tor nu. kani* wounds, .aala*, bsetes
Monaon cot’KTT to thi rose.
The Monroe Advertiser is one of then
sggreeslve journals that when it advocate
anything, does it because it know) ilk
right; and it never lets ap until soomh bn
crowned its efforts. Here's its editorial:
coming But* fair will bo a ■uccoaa.SiW
any fair In tbe magnitude ud number of tna
Mbits hitherto held In Otorgla. From nponi M
Ing circulated we gather tbelde* that every teen
mont premiere to be fully up to tbe stsndxn! «f»
eirellant fair.
■How tho question Is, what are tbe people of X*
i# doing touching their pro pored county nb>
■ tbe fair) We know that some of Mourosiyw
pla are working well ud nobly In this 11 sate
I Hut are tba psoplt, all the people, lulecsstWtt**
selves In this matter? A few mu ud voeue «j
not do what nates to be dona eftmtefl
do nil that ahonld be done in Ibis matl>r.H
ilf they eonld. It le unreeoonable to expect ik»'
do It. Every mu ud womu intba conaty k-l
personal Interest In wtuterer good remits «.?••
will grow out ot n successful county exhibit U a
Hut* fnlr In October, ud each and areey me**
lb* the beneficiary ofwbstgoodwillaccraeJJ
from. And cortslnly no rensonsbl*. preJenl tkw
Ing mu will deny that benefits will seems *> **
roa'a people by makings splendid couty
on that occasion. Tbe people of other coea»
I which have entered the contest for the prl» <**
bflfli rounkw Ithlhlf atsa U.'Gir •
treat county exhibit are besttrlaf tbemselns*
moving up la tbia matter. And wo bare owntej
Out If klonroe'o people win do bhonlu«,3
wUl Interest themselves and conttlbuMIlbirehJl
iwbalovor they may have that will osrvU <•*
reumamve?. UltiJ Uti• O UaSt M
county die play at the fnlr. they note hsreM w
that yon nrlll contribute a portion
hare. Our good woman all over tbe ooenty.
know no ouch word aa "fall," can do muck no
th* county display. _ „
Tbo fair U coming: 'Ua bnt n ftw wooko
opening. LottUtbo pooplsIbroogkonttkeww
evnarafiy wakt np on this .object and
when tbe call U mad* for thorn, to rend 1*
liberal contrlbnttono to tba conety oahlki
contant yonreelres to 1st n few «*• •»*
the eastern part of theeonnty do all ti* *•**-.,
all tbo harden, ud you ahare with tkemtkopre^
bnt rather let each and every one oom* tjej;
ud .qnarely np to the mark, ud ear I
■hare in the work: I aa ready k> halp
harden, bm le my contribution freely
will sacceen bo eorutn. ud good wfll ^
Armagomute will bo mndo to care (o'. “
everything contribntad. .
Tho Camming Clarion doe* not eV®
bnt it drive* a apike at thi* one hio*- .
"The State tair at Macon in
promises to be a grand enceeea
Sap.rate SchooU North and Bontb.
Washington Poet.
Attention is called to the fse“r*V(
nccticnt did not aboli-h separatefc-- ^
whit* and colored children nntil
not nntil 1855
tern done ewer with in »**» c “"F"al*3
not until 1887 in Ohio. It may
that if there were a* many negro --
these States in proportionFj, a
ree nxttea in proporuu- v, —
uin the District of Colombie.J-'^
Georgia, eeparaf e echools wonld b»
tinned to this day.
Addrereesl to Odr Lady KenJ*^
MilledgevlU* Peloa Bteoedee.
On# band In the dongb U * orts ‘