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THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY* AUGUST21—TWELVE PAGES.
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tive committee in each county of the State
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address to the undersigned at Savannah.
J. H. Estill,
Member of the National Democratic Com
mittee for Georgia.
The goad sews from Florida continues.
There is reason to believe that the worst
is past—and it was not very bad.
The telegraph reports that ‘‘General
Harrison had a quiet day,” and really
there is no reason why anybody should
distqrb his quietude, now that Blaine is at
home.
Judge-Henry Hilton, who owns an
interest in many mills, is an ardent tarifT
reformer, and says that the policy out
lined by the President’s message is “the
only true and safe policy for the country.”
Every man, woman and child in Great
Britain bought last year ten dollars’ worth
of American products. This is the trade
which our protectionist friends say is not
worth consideration.
It is said that many members of Con
gress are of tbe opinion that the present
session will continue right along until
December and merge into the second ses
sion. The very possibility is terrible.
Congressman Greenman, of New York,
one of the four Democrats who voted
against tbe Mills bill, has decided not to
try for re-election. What an opportunity
for “vindication” is here missed!
Hadji Hossein Kouli Khan Moham
med el Vesare will represent Persia at
Washington hereafter, if fie is not tired to
death by his name on the long journey
rom Teheran. He started in July.
Congress recently passed a bill pension
ing the heirs of one Barnes, on the ground
that he died of a disease contracted in the
srmy. The President voiced it, tccA„«
be had proof that Barnes was hung. Com
ment is hardly necessary.
President Cleveland’s tariff message
has Dot frightened the Indiana capitalists
who statta to invest in manufactures
Within tbe act seven months more than
$9,000,000 has been invested in new indus
trial enterpiises in that State.
Senator Colquitt's tariff speech is one
of the most popular campaign documents
on the Democratic list. It has already
been extensively circulated in every State
of the Union, and the national Democratic
committee continue* to receive frequent
demands for it.
M. - mile Chevalier, an eminent
French economist, says in a recent work:
The English workingman has obtained la fifty
years an iucreaae of from 50 to 10J per cent. In
hla money wagta and a diminution of 2 per
cent, in tbe duration of hla daily work; be haa
therefore, made an advance in round numbers
of from 70 to 120 per cent.
Countries which have stuck to “protec
tion” can show no such rapid advance in
the condition cf their working people.
The Negro’s Friend.
The accession to the Democratic party
of a considerable part of the more intelli
gent negro vote of the country is calcu
lated to disturb those benevolent persons
»bo look upon the negro as tbe political
slave of the Republican party. There
are many Republican leaders who regatd
ntgro enfranchisement as a great mistake,
and who would gladly deprive the negro
of the ballot if they could. The real
trouble is that the gift of suffrage to the
negro greatly increased the political power
of the South. After a few years of ex
perience with carpet-bag adventurers who
preyed upon him, with polit
ical deadbeats who used his
vote to gain fat offices for themselves, and
with a Freedman’s Bank, which stole his
scanty savings, the negro came to the con
clusion that the “white folks” among
whom he had been brought up were his
best friends. He recognized the fact that
the respectable white men whom he had
known all his life had never swindled or
deceived him, and that when he was in
want or distress they never failed to come
to his relief. Tbe negro found that poii
tics did not pay, and he therefore settled
down to business. He went to work with
a better will than he bad, wlteD in tbe (lush
of his new franchise, his mind was
absorbed in tbe mysteries of politics, He
began to acquire lands, to build homes and
to make provision for his children. The
tax receiver fouud him year after year a
larger land-owner, and he prospered in the
cotton field as he had never prospered in
his most glorious political campaign. Be
cause the negroes ceased to march up to
the polls like sheep and vote mechanically
the ticket which some adventurer placed
in their hands, the Republican party be
gan to complain. More than one leader
of tiiat party has expressed the opinion
that the ballot should be taken away from
any class of citizens who habitually failed
to use it.
About a year ago Senator Ingalls said in
a public speech that negro suffrage had
proved a dismal failure. The Senator
would probably be glad if he bad the
power to correct this failure by depriving
the negro of a privilege he is, in the fcenn
tor’s opinion, unworthy to exercise.
A few days ago the St. Louis Globe-
Democrat, the leading Republican paper
of the West, contained this editorial para
graph :
A Southern newspaper says "the surest was
to break tbe solid South la to break the solid
negro vote." Well, who wants the ‘‘aolld negro
vote?” Certainly not the Republicans. If four
out of every five of the negroes of tbe South
should Join tbe Democracy to-day the Republi
cans would not put ou mourning.
A gieat many Republicans bold the
opinions of Senator iDgalls and the Globe-
Democrat on the question of negro suf
frage, but do not express them bo boldly-
Because the negro ceased to be tbe reliable
political slave of the Republican party
Senator Ingalls concludes that he should
not b? allowed to vote. Btcsott tho ssgro
can no longer be controlled by shams of
the “forty-acres-and-a-mule” variety the
Globe-Democrat grows sulky and declares,
in effect, that tho negro may go to the
Democratic party and the devil too so far
as it is concerned.
Our colored friends may be surprised to
find such expressions coming from
one of tbe chief organs of a party
which in its fornfal declarations
professes such an intense affection for the
negro. However, it is probable that the
negrops of the South will know very little
of this matter and will care absolutely
nothing about it. Most of them are busy
about this time with the ripening crops
which give promise of plenty for them ar d
their families. 1 hey find the crop’ busi
ness more agreeable and, in the long run,
more reliable when it, and not politics,
is their chief concern.
But it is a hopeful sign that theeducat-
od negroes who take an active interest in
politics arc beginning to think for them
selves. Many of them have come to the
sound conclusion that their interests are
involved in the general welfare, and that
because President Cleveland has given the
country an honest, just and able adminis
tration he is entitled to the confidence and
support of every race and condition.
“Trusts” are private arrangements, with
which nobody has a right to interfere,
Mr. Blaine says. Yet nine-tenth? of them
owe their exi tencejand their power to ex
tort to the self-sacrificing generosity of the
people in taxing themselves for tlieir sup
port. Even now one of llie chief argu
ment! in support of protection is that by its
aid domestic competition will reduce prices
to their natural level. Without the hope
that such would be the result, the system
never could have been established; yet,
now, after a quarter of a century of heavy
taxation, Mr. Blaine says nobody can pre
vent the beneficiaries by the public’s sacri
fices from combining to rob the people of
the blessings of that competition forwhich
they have paid a very large price in ad
vance. Mr. Blaine is wrong. It is the
President’s business—it is everybody’s
business—to see that the men who liavo
grown enormously wealthy through special
favors given i hem at the public expense
shall not, through a “private” ar
rangement, deprive the people
of the benefits which were
promised them as the result of their gener
osity.
Mr. Blaine points to the fact that thercare
“trnsts” in free trade England as refuting
the charge that American trusts owe their
origin to the high tariff. There is a differ
ence between them, however, to which he
does not allude. The Queen’s government
does not lend its strong arm to British
trusts. The British people are not taxed
for their benefit. In whatever thing they
deal they must Bell it ais low or lower thin
the rest of the world. Their power to ad
vance prices is limited by the ability of
other nations to produce cheaply,
Arne, lean trusts are quite a different
thing. The check on them is not the rela
tive cheapness with which other people
an produce, but the highest limit of the
tariff. They are combinations to extort
the last cent of tbe tax laid primarily for
their benefit, but which it was promised
domestic competition should constantly re
duce.
Miss Winnie Davis is the guest of Mrs.
Joseph Pulitzer at Bar Harbor She has
received many distinguished attentions at
that fashionable resort. Last Friday
evening a reception and ball in tier honor
were given by Mrs. T. B. Musgrove, of
New York. Miss Davis will remain at
Bar Harbor until the first of October.
vide the
country.
She
will
liave
a displacement of
4,413
tons
a
speed of
nineteen
knots
an hour
Regulation of the Telegraph.
It is somewhat surprising that a bill to
ubject telegragh companies to substan
tially the same regulations as those on
railroads Bhould have passed the Uni'ed
States Senate without discussion,^objec
tion, or division. This is wk‘
when driven by 15,000 horse power, and
carry four 8-inch and six 0-inch breech-
loading rifles. She will be constructed en
tirely of steel, and thougii unarmored will
not be an antagonist to be despised. Her
speed will be a greit element of safety.
There is hardly a question of public
policy upon which all parties are so near
ly agreed as upon the wisdom of res ,r-
recting our navy from the shameful mate
of inefficiency into which it has fallen,
Whatever amount can be economically ex
pended in that direction will be cheerful
ly voted by Congress, but money will not
be given to be wasted on worthless ves.
sels. A great deal, therefore, depends upon
the performances of the Baltimore and
Mr. Whitney’s other vessels now nearly
completed. If they shall prove to be as
fast, as staunch and as well suited to the
branches of the service for which they were
intended as hoped for, then the work of
building tbe new navy will go forward
with renewed vigor.
Good luck to tiie Baltimore.
There is a very general curiosity to
know how many of the thirty-two trunks
and twenty bags which Mr. Blaine brought
home with him were tilled with the pro
ducts of “the pauper labor of Europe.”
.Surely Mr. Blaine would not patronize
any but Ike protected industries which he
praises so loudly, and yet he brought back
four or five times as much baggage as he
carried away.
Mr. Itlatnc anil Triml..
were VI-:' 1 . 1 ',' 1 ,
last Friday. The bill-'.s-MW. K..B,
ment to the Inter-State commerce k .. It
is a separate enactment, though it places
telegraph lines under the supervision of
the intcr-State Commerce Commi-sion.
The bill provides against discrimination
in every form and declares that telegraph
tolls shall be "just and reasonable.” It
makes it illegal for any telegraph
company to agreo with any
other tel'graph company to
divide the aggregate or net earnings of all
or part of their lines.
The Inter-State Commission is given full
power to inquire into the busin ss of any
telegraph company, to demand full annual
reports which shall be a full statement of
tbe company’s business, giving the value
of the property, tbe improvements that
have been made since the last report, gross
and net earnings, funded and floating
debts, and the interest thereon, salaries of
employes, etc. The bill clothes the com
missioners with even fuller power over
telegraph lines than it now exercises over
railroads.
The act is to take effect the first of next
November. Its final passage be’ore that
date, however, is extremely improbable -
Its unobstructed passage in the Senate is
an indication that some such measure will
be agreed to by tbe House, but new legis
lation of Buch importance will not be un
dertaken at this late hour in the session,
when the mustering of a quorum is a mat
ter of difficulty. The Home is pretty suro
to amend the Senate bill in some particu
lars, and these may be a repe
tition on a brief scale of tbe
wrangles which went on during session
after session between the two houses as to
the terms and limitations of the inter
state commerce act.
But that legislation made the way com
paratively easy for the advance to the
regulation of the telegraph. The question
of governmental right and policy settled
for railroads is also sett cd for telegraph
. companies. This i* an easy and natural
Mr. nia.iie isnnextremely slirewd pol- , tcp . Wm federal rcgulalion of com .
inerco Btop here? This is an important
question
itician and knows where the strength of his
party lies. In his first set speech since
his return from Europe, made at Portland,
lie proceeds to set himself right with the
“trusts.’* “I wi 1 not venture to say,” he
is reported as saying, “that they are alto
gether advantageous or disadvantageous.
They are largely private affairs with which
President Cleveland nor any private cit
izen has any particular right to interfere.”
Mr. Blaiue revi.es his speeches very
carefully before they are allowed to get
into the newspapers. The above is, there
fore, a deliberate utterance, and
puts the country and the
“trusts” on notice of what they may ex
pect should tiie party of which he is the
“uncrowned king” come into power. It ie
evident that Mr. Blaine has come to the
conclusion that it U better for his party to
It is hanl to imagine how it
can constitutionally be carried further.
Schwab, one of the Chicago Anarchists,
whose sentence was commuted by Governor
Oglesby is now trying to obtain a pardon
on the plea of ill health. The quality of
mercy was badly strained when Schwab
was excused from going to the
His present request shows how i
is the gall of an Anarchist.
The Now Navy,
It is announced that the cruiser Balti
more will be launched in a few days, fahe
will be the first vessel oi the cruiser class
to reach the water the , lan> of which were
adopted by the present naval administra
tion. The gunboat Yorktown was launched
The New York Tribune speaks a good
word for Cleveland. Discussing his ve
toes of private pension bills, it says:
“This is a penny-wise administration.”
We all know the old adage that if one will
take care of the pennies the pounds will
take care of themselves. Therefore Mr.
Cleveland is doing well for his country.
Feeding the Fugitives.
Every train that cornea into Macon
from the direction of Florida is laden
with people who arc fleeing from the dis
trict threatened with an epidemic of yel
low fever. Many of these people are very
poor. It is about all that some of them
can do to raise enough money lor railroad
fare. Several instances have been report
ed in which whole families passed through
Macon without any destination, almost
penniless, and sadly in need of assistance.
When these facts were brought to the at
tention of Mayor Price he determined to
help the refugees to the best of
his ability. He lias made arrangements
by which they shall be supplied with food
as they pass through Macon. Last even
ing a party of Florida gentlemen who arc
now sojourning in Macon, met the East
Tennessee train. They found on board
about Beventy refugees. Some of them
ere in actual need of help, having not
tasted food since they left St. Augustine.
The entire number were liberally supplied
with sandwiches and coffee by tiie kind
hearted gentlemen who took this benevo
lent work upon themselves. Today Mayor
Price will have his arrauge-
.v.'-iits . • | .erf«T 1 te.i for supplying food
to the * reVugees.* * 're"
confident that tbe people of Macon will
not only approve the action of the mayor
in this matter, but will npplaud the
promptness with which lie has undertaken
this service to our unfortunate n.ighbors.
Let ho refugee from Florida lack for food
in Macon.
If protection makes high wages, why is
it that in I860 tho wages of spinners in
New York was $7.50 a week and in Utah
$24. Both had the same protection. Per
haps the secrot of the differet cc lay in the
fact that labor was plentiful in New York
and very scarce in Utah.
The Farmers* Alliance.
Next Tuesday the Georgia State Alli
ance will meet in Macon.
It will be attended by farmers from all
parts of tiie State, and will be the greatest
demonstration that has yet been made of
tbe proportions and power of the Farmers’
Alliance in this State.
Tiie organ zation has grown with won
derful rapidity, and has acquired a power
ful influence in this State. The meeting
next week will take very wide scope, and
will discuss various questions which af
fect tho interest of the fnrmer. One of the
organs of the Alliance declares that
“there has never been a meeting of farm
ers in Georgia before whom so many ques
tions of great importance aro to be
brought.”
One of the chief causes of complaint by
the Alliance is the power of monopolies
and trusts, and this lias been recently em
phasized in the eyes of Georgia farmers by
tho arbitrary advance of the price of cot
ton bagging. One of tho great aims of the
Alliance is to protect the farmers from
such squeezes. At the same meeting next
week there will be some interesting dis
cussions on the question of how the farmer
can best protect himself. The proceedings
of the convention will be observed with
great interest by ail classes of the people.
According to the Postmaster-General,
tbe business of his department shows “an
unprecedented incrcaseof postalrevenues.”
Tilts is pretty good evidence that the busi
ness of the country is not going to the
demnition bow-wows on account of the
tarifl agitation.
Georgia. It is safe to predict that there TnE Atlanta Constitution f
will he from twelvo to twenty counties to refers to Major McKinley as °« s'* 01
contest for the $1,000 premium, and these Republican in America”
alone will make a varied and interesting men, come now. That i e ’ **
display of the State’s resources. The don’t you think so?
number and scope of individual exhibits
will be much larger than usual. Under
the efficient management of President
Northen and Secretary Nisbet we are con
fident that Ma:on and Georgia will wit
ness the largest, most complete and best
conducted fair ever Held in the State.
In tbe Blaine procession, which tramped
.get
a little
Cotton statement
From the Chronicle’s cottoL arti-i
August 17, the following facts are catl, *
relative to the movement of the cron
past week. 8 oi
For the week andmgthisevening
17, tho total receipts have reached la
bales, against 9,915 bales | Mt ’
administration.
some time ago. The Baltimore marks i
gain the enthusiastic support of the trusts | very sharp advance in speed and arma
and monopolies, even if some risk must be ; ment over any vessel heretofore lmilt for |
taken of offending the people subject to . our navy, an.i may be regarded as tl
their exactions. It is a surrender to the : of the swift and powerful fleet with whicl
I rnonejr power. Congress seems to hate deter mined to pro- I far ahead of anything ever before seen in
The Coming suite Fair.
Yesterday the delegates who represented
Bibb county at the State Agricultural
-allows. Convention returned. Among them was
limited jf r , ip. \. Nisbet, the newly elected secre
tary of the State Agricultural Society,
J who will at once enter upon the discharge
of his official duties. The delegates to the
late convention, over three hundred in
number, came from all parts of the State,
and from everywhere brought encour
aging reports of the interest which tbe
people urc tiking in the coming State
Fair which will open at Macon on the 10th
of October.
President Nerthen says the outlook has
The Difference.
The New York Press compares the suc
cess in making money of Mr. Carnegie and
Mr. Pulitzer, and says that tiie iron manu
facturer’s business is no more open to criti
cism than that of the newspaper man.
There is a very plain difference, however.
Every individual who contributed to Mr.
Pulitzer’s wealth did so voluntarily, be'
lieving that he got the worth of his money
when he bought the World. He could
not have bought more for the same sum
elsewhere. In Mr. Carnegie's case his cus
tomers did not buy of him from choice.
He did not offer them as much for their
money as they could get elsewhere,
and they only took his goods
because the government would put
heavy fine upon them if they ventured
into a cheaper market. This threat of
the government enabled Mr. Carnegie to
sell the product of his mills at a price so
high as to enable him to clear $1,500,000
in a single year.
There is no room for ill. will toward Mr,
Carnegie personally in this matter, but it
is absurd to say that his wealth, made up
of involuntary assessments, stands upon
ihe same footing as that of Mr. Pulitzer,
for every cent of which the latter has
given a fully equivalent value in a volun
tary transaction.
The Russian government is about to
spend $60,000,000 for a canal which will
save only one hundred miles of sailing. It
will connect the Sea of Azof and the Black
Sea and the project owes its importance to
the fact that it will enable Russia to con
centrate her naval strength in those waters
in time of war.
Convicts* Studios.
In the Elmira (N. Y.) penitentiary, the
New York Tribune says, the convicts are
compelled to study political economy. It
will occur to some people tljat in the form
of punishment clioser. unnecessary liarsh-
•Dessf i* »avplieiJ,<fl' r jji thqugh it, bp intended
to reform. But another question arises in j
this connection. -Many very good pcopl
insist tha* the theories of political econo
my favored by the R-publican Legislature
course of study, when put iu practice, are
robbery, and they must therefore look
upon them as the last things in tho world
which should be taught to men convicted
of vulgar thefts, burglaries, etc. The
good people who entertain these views are
perhaps supersensitivo, but they are enti
tled to some consideration.
It lias long been a matter of complaint
with Republicans, however, that in tho
uuiveisities and colleges of the country
free trade, or at least anti-protection, doc
trines are generally taught, and it is not
unnatural, under tiie circumstances, that
they should set up a rival institution.
about New York last Thursday night, one : 0,384 bales the previous wi-ek- ”'
of the transparencies bore the motto: | bales three weeks since, makir.' d' '
“Let well enough alone.” This is excel- j receipts since the 1st of September' *^
lent advice, and the people will remember , 5,620,960 bales against 5,223 097 (V*
it when they come to vote on a change of the same period of 1886 ' s! ■
increase since September 1 iS
303,863 bales. ’ W *
The receipts of all tho interior t 0 „
for tins week have been 3,413,571 b .
Last year the receipts of the same
were 11,050 bales. a
The old interior stocks have decrei,
during tbe week 4,499, and are nJJ
2,150 bales less than at the same roll
last year. The receipts at the same ton
have been 1,558 bales more than the j
week last year, and since September 1
receipts at all the towns aro 106,6 q b a V
more than for the same time in 1886-7
Among the interior towns the receipt!
Macon for the week have been 13 h*
Last year tbe receipts for the week ««
10 bales. This shows an increase fort!
week of 3 bales.
The total receipts from the plantation
since September I, 1887, are 5,519,3)
bales; in 1886-7 were 5,198,028 bales'-
1885-0 were 5,369,310 bales. ’
Although tiie receipts at the outporU ti
past week were 19,449 bales, the an
movement from plantations as only 15:
bales, the balance being taken from
stocks at the interior towns. Last
the receipts from the plantations for thi
same week were 8,668 bales and for 18Ji
they were 7,814 bales.
The imports in continental ports thi
week have been 20,000 bales.
These figures indicate a decrease in thi
cotton in sight to-night of 320,331 bales,
compared with the same date of 1887, a dt
crease of 253,535 bales as compared will
the corresponding date of 1886, and a d<
crease of 273,304 bales as compared will
1885.
The Chronicle has the following to
of the market fluctuations for the wnl
under review:
Tho speculation In cotton tor future .lelin
at this market continued this week totul
inlhicncc of the corner on August contnco
and the course ot values was unsettled, will
som j Irregularity. A featuio was the hearj
gross receipts at this port, amounting for tti
no. Monday add Tuesday, to about 1 - w
b*ic$- Including.about MCA) I^hI.w f-omjji
pool, making an ImpprIanT”iic9.fit5d to 0
stocks.' 1 Auothcr feature was the fill of rain
Texas and the Southwest, quite heavy At ie
tine and New Orleans, abating somewhat t
spprcheii-tons (rom drought, and lau.lsg
rlmi pdecline uu 1 utausy, when iiiey wctciunrj
tioned In the government weather reporn: hid
on Wednesday It was asserted that these raid
were merely local. On Thursday there wu
a dull, unsettled market. To-day there wu
a sharp decline In August contracts, esld to him
been conceded for the purpose 0! checkls* 1 **
shipments ot cotton to this market, and the
next crop wao tyenk under improved crop pr»
pect>. Cotton on tho spot advanced 1-ite. oj
Tuesday. The usual back report 0! a large busi
ness tor export was made on Monday, but tettu!
clearances liuvc continued on the smallest avia
It was asserted on Wednesday that parties who
would agree to take the cotton outot the mu'
ket could buy He. under the nominal quoit-
tlohi. Tho closo ts easy and nominal at UK* foi
middling uplands.
The death of Mr. Samuel Noble is a
severe blow te the city of Anniston, which
stands as a monument to his public spirit
as well as his business sagacity and enter
prise. The whole State of Alabama will
feel his loss. Mr. Noble was one of the
first men who appreciated the wonderful
mineral resources of Alabama and Geor
gia. He did more than any other man to
attract attention to the rich region in
which Birmingham, Anniston, Decatur
and other prosperous cities have risen like
magic. He was a man of re
markable sense and his judgment
was almost infallible. Tiie value of such
a man to a community and a State is be
yond computation and his death must be
considered a public misfortune. His life
was well and faithfully spent and he leaves
an enduring record of bis labors.
A Very Small Uuslneu
The method taken by certain Georgia pspm
to vent thetr spleen at Senator Colquitt If about
the smallest sort of political warfare ever car
rled on by disappointed men. It reminds v»
of a picture in one ot David Livingston's boon
concerning African travel—a troop ot yelling
anil naked tavsges shooting little arrows, iup
jiosed to tie poisonous, Into the sides of a grew
elephant. WiththUdlffereuce the arrowstotj
tured the great beast; as manly a man as Alfred
Colquitt can bnt feel contempt for the impotent
sneers and Inuendos of papers that can ouf
make war In this small way.
Rut what 8enator Colquitt may not care
citizens of Georgia, for the sake ot tbclr si*
may resent and despise. We are Just told.1
Senator Colquitt declined to invite a du
guiahed Republican to make a protective u
speech In Georgia, and a great ado
made. We have editorials on lntoleran
papt rs that have fought with all weapon*
could the .Republics. », their views and
men. Because Senator Colqnitt did _
proper to invite a Republican to speak in
gla at somebody's request, he Is written 0
as narrow and sectional. ...
In a few day. wc are told that SenatorColqui
did not decline to make the inviullon^^)^
Outrage* la Lfiiilstaiin.
If Governor Nicholls is the man we „ , ,
take him to be be will lose no time
bringing to justice the men who committed f tora mil..Republican paper* sneering
the cowardly murders at Freetown, and tor Colquitt urc printed from day to fay* ^
those who lynched a negro for stealing h‘*ton correspondents, InsteadlofiP ^
money from a -lore. Tbe whole country, “"rvefinj'cct "inwr. and
the couth as well as the Nonh, will watch ; eunceruing the Senator’s declining to
pipers they serve. Inject sneers and in
concerning the Senator** declining to 0
the course of justice in these cases and if t he did not decline to do. ^
Louisiana fails to do her duty she must! What sort ot man l* be who pub
suffer in the eyes of all honed men. Buch j ^ *•£
crimes arouse the indignation of all good | receiver of stolen gopds better than the »
o u*e* another's slender better t
_ . . . in inveoi ^
citizens whether they be in Louisiana or. Is be who
Massachusetts. There is but one way in
inventor of It? I* It not braver to
original falsehood than to use another *•
which the community w herein they occur | jXa.Um » - **
can clear itselt of the stain and stigma of t| ve indeed, but in the wrong direction- ^
such outrages and that is to visit proper I rlgaldcant that those who do such thiol*
.. . .. ... . * ...|....,„„I,I not bare th«r"'
punishment upon the guilty. We sincere- j to thu5 f,^.°°?ro,« 0 were aatsgoo^
ly hope that this may be i
and done without delay.
1»uii.duuiuui U£»VJ|| hil ^iiiiiy. ttCBlIll’Cre* * • . .. •ntSgO“ l
ly hope that this may be done in Louisiana,! feutor ColqnlU'a *«“ lMr
accept tho verdict of the people.
•<... . r..ir rhsoce and AM, .
feated after having a fair chance and
have themselves with resignation-
John Moer, in his evidence before the
Congressional investigating committee,
said that he obeys the laws, though he ad
mitted that obedience was greatly against
his will. It will strike most people that j and manly politic*? .senator
law* are made especially to control those knows not the writer of this protest
who do not want to obey them.
modesty. . bT tkJ*
What do they propose to accompli*;n r ^
small warfare upon one Ui.orgla n° . (
I will honor? What can they ray to the £ .
the Senator nor th
make out of each other in
James R. Keene is reported to have j written by a citizen n<
# M.M made $2,000,000 within the last two weeks, i Georgian
firat j never before been so promising. The com- I Mr. Keene's facility for making money 1 f or ^ ^tain If they w<
petition for the county premium will be j very fast is equaled only by his aptitude ^tor Colquitt or any othcrpublh
for losing it a little fatter.* ' flght fairly. *
thief *
politic*.'
cr Id
Georgian weary with pettiness io wbst i • ^
rdentative Southern Jo
ot to Of® 1
n an. !•