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m gjcnitd and ^tltierfiiicr.
Newnan, Ga., Friday, June 15, 1888.
CLEVELAND AND THURMAN.
The St. Louis Nominees and the
Platform Upon Which They Were
Nominated.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
The public career of (inner Cleve
land presents a career of public success
probably unparalleled in the history of
public men. Before his election as
Governor of New York St ate he had
held no higher office than that of Mayor
of Buffalo; but his triumphant victory
over Charles J. Folger, Secretary of the
Treasury in 1SS2, placing him at the
head of the Empire State by a majority
off nearly'two hundred thousand votes,
gave him prestige which placed him in
the proud position which he now tills
as President of the United States, and
for the second time the standard-bearer
of the Democracy.
President Cleveland is a native ot
New Jersey, born at Caldwell, Essex
county, March 18, 1837. 1 Us fat her was
a minister, and he lias living re!ati\es
prominent among t he protcstant clot g\,
not to speak of his numerous denial
ancestors. After receiving such in
struction as was procurable from the
common school in various places of the
paternal residence, young Cleveland
was sent to the academy situated at
Clinton, Oneida county, N. Y. Upon i century of
leaving this seat of learning he went to | renown
New York city, where lit; tilled for somt
He has kept up the practice all his life.
As he always uses a red silk handker
chief he is sometimes facetiously titled,
“The Knight of the Red Bandana.”
The old lawyer and statesman, whose
health is sound and vigorous, solaces
his more exacting pursuits by Reading
French novels. Problems in mathe
matics still have the fascination for him
that they had when at school he was
known as “Itight-Angled-Triangle”
Thurman. He loves whist, played
with the “rigor of the game,” and is
price of nearly everything they buy is
increased by the favoritism of an une
qual system of tax legislation. All un
necessary taxation is unjust taxation.
It is repugnant to the creed of De
mocracy that by such taxation the cost
of the necessaries of life should be un
justifiably increased to all our people.
charged thereon into the federal treas
ury, but the great majority of our citi
zens who buy domestic articles of the
same class pay a sum at least approx
imately equal to this duty to the home
manufacturer.
It is not proposed to entirely relieve
the country of this taxation. It must
Judged by Democratic principles the in- ! be extensively continued as the souiee
terestsof the people are betrayed when j of the government s income, and in t te
by unnecessary taxation trusts #nd j readjustment of our tariff the interests
combinations are permitted to exist,
which, while unduly enriching the few
<, aid to be impatient of stupid pretend- that combine, rob the body of our cit-
ers to the practice of the noble recrea- | izensby depriving them of the benefits
tion It may not be generally known j of natural competition. Every Demo-
that he is a nephew of “Fog Horn” Al-1 cratic rule of governmental action
len, tiie eminent politician.
the platform.
The Democratic platform of the Uni
ted States, in national convention as
sembled, renews the pledge of its fidel-
itv to the Democratic faith, and re-af-
firms the platform adopted by its rep-
is violated when, through unnecessary
taxation, a vast sum of money far be
yond the needs of an economical ad
ministration is drawn from the people
and the channels of trade and accumu
lated as a demoralizing surplus in the
national treasury. The money now ly
ing idle in the federal treasury, resulting
resentatives in the convention of 1884, J f rom superfluous taxation, amounts to
and indorsees the views expressed by | more tban $125,000,000, and the surplus
President Cleveland in his last, earnest j collected reaches the sum of more than
message to Congress, as the correct in- . §^000,000' annually. Debauched by
pretation of that platform upon the ^ immense temptation, the remedy
question of tariff reduction, and also j ^ Republican partv is to meet and
indorses the efforts of our Democratic | exhauafc by extravags
representatives in Congress to secure a
reduction of excessive taxation.
Among its principles of party faith
ft
ine’s
;ant appropriations
and expenses,whether constitutional or
not, the accumulations of extravagant
taxations. The Democratic policy is to
are the maintenance of an indissoluble j enl - 0rc0 frugality in public expense and
union of free and indestructiDle States
now'about to enter upon the second
unexampled progress and
Devotion to the plan of government,
time the position of clerk in an institu- regulated by the written constitution,
tion of charity. He is next heard of strictly specifying every granted power
in iking his way West, in company with and expressly reserving to the States or
an enterprising young man, with Cleve
land, Ohio, as his objective point; hut
visiting, while on his way, an uncle
residing in Buffalo, he was induced to
remain in that city as clerk in the store
of Ins relative. He was IS years old at
t he time, an ambitious young fellow,
possessed with a desire to become a
successful lawyer. His uncle favoied
this aspiration, and we soon find him a
clerk in a prominent law firm and at
the same time enjoying the comforts of
a good home at his relative’s house.
He was admitted to the bar in 1851). llis
iiist political office was as assistant dis
trict attorney for the county of Erie,
under C. C. Torrance. He held the
position three years, until theend of his
superior’s term of otlice, when he was
nominated for district attorney on the
Democratic ticket, but was defeated.
In 1870, live years after this failure, he
was elected sheriff of Erie county, and
in November, 1881, was elected mayor
of Buffalo, by a decided majority. His
incumbency, of the otlice was successlul
and popular. In the fall election ot
1882 Mr. Cleveland was elected Gover
nor of New York. His administration
gave great satisfaction, avowed without
stint, by the best men of both political
parties. In 1884, he was the successful
candidate for the Presidency, defeating
Mr. Blaine in perhaps the hardest
fought political campaign recorded in
American history. He was married to
the charming mistress ol the 4Y bite
House on June 2, I860.
.*■ ALLEN G. THURMAN.
When, on March 3, 1881, Allen G.
Thurman’s second term of service as
United States Senator expired, the vet
eran went hack to the practice of law
and to his studies. About three years
ago lie moved into a new residence at
Columbus, the city where he has lived
since 1850. To obey the call of his
party, he is willing to enter politics
once more, although seventy-five years
of age.
It is needless to state that Allen G.
Thurman is held in the hightest esteem
by both political parties, as a statesman
of learning, experience and lofty char
acter. He is a native of the State of
Virginia, and was born at Lynchburg,
November 13, 1813. Mr. Thurman’s
father was a Baptist preacher, who,
when his boy Allen was seven years
old, moved from Lynchburg to Chilli-
cothe, Ohio, and there taught school
and started a small woolen manufac
tory. Shortly after this there came to
Chillicotlie a fine-looking old French
man named Gregoire, with a daughter
about the age of young Allen, and
Allen’s mother took the little French
maiden into her house to live on condi
tion that the father should teach young
Allen French. She did not understand
a word of English, and Allen did not
understand a word of French. They
played together and with the teaching
from the Frenchman and the practice
with the daughter, the hoy soon be
came quite a French scholar. He re
ceived a thorough education, studied
law and was admitted to the bar when
twenty-two years of age.
After having practiced law for some
years at Columbus, Ohio, he was re
turned as a Representative to the thirty-
ninth Congress. In 1851 he was elected
a Judge of the Supreme Court of Ohio,
and was Chief Justice of the same
Court from 1854 to 1850. He was a can
didate for the Governorship of that
State in 1867, but was defeated. A year
later he was elected United States Sen
ator, and took his seat March 4, 1808.
He was re-elected in 1874, and his sec
ond term expired March 5, 1881. John
Sherman succeeded him in the I nited
States Senate.
Mr. Thurman lias been a Presidential
quantity at recent Democratic Comen
tions. At that held in
friends wore as their colors a red ban-
handkerchief, and their cheers
the people entire the ungranted residue
of power.
Encouragement of jealous, popular
vigilance directed to all who have been
chosen for brief terms to enact and ex
ecute laws, aijd are charged with the
duty of preserving peace, insuring
equality and establishing justice.
The Democratic party welcomes the
exacting scrutiny of the administration
of the executive power which four years
ago was committed to its trust in the
election of Grover Cleveland as Pres
ident of the United States, and chal
lenges the most searching inquiry con
cerning its fidelity and devotion to the
pledges which then invited the suffrages
of the people. During the most critical
period of our financial affairs, resulting
from over-taxation, the anomalous con
dition of our currency and a public debt
unmatured, it has by the adoption of a
wise and conservative course, not only
avoided disaster, but greatly promoted
the prosperity of the people. It has
reversed the improvident and unwise
policy of the Republican party
touching the public domain, has re
claimed from corporations and syndi
cates, alien and domestic, and restored
to the people nearly one hundred mil
lion acres of land, to be sacredly held
as homesteads for our citizens.
While carefully guarding the interests
of the people and remaining true to
the principles of justice and equity,
it has paid out more money for pen
sions and bounties to the soldiers and
sailors of the republic than was ever
paid before during an equal period.
It has adopted and consistently pur
sued a firm and prudent foreign policy,
preserving peace with all nations,
while scrupulously maintaining all the
rights and interests of our own govern
ment and people at home and abroad.
Exclusion from our shores of Chinese
labor has been effectually secured un
der the provisions of the treaty, the
operation of which has been postponed
by the action of the Republican major
ity in the Senate.
Honest reform in civil service has
been inaugurated and maintained hv
President Cleveland, and he has
brought the public, service to the high
est standard of efficiency, not only by
rule and precept, but by the example
of his own untiring and unselfish ad
ministration of public affairs.
In every branch and department of
the government under Democratic con
trol the rights and welfare of all the peo
ple have been guarded and defended,
every public interest has been protect
ed and the equality of all our citizens
before the law, without regard to race
or color, has been steadfastly main
tained.
Upon its record thus exhibited and
upon the pledge of a continuance to the
people the benefits of the Democracy it
invokes a renewal of popular trust by
the re-election of a Chief Magistrate
who has been faithful, able and prudent,
and invokes in addition to that trust the
transfer also to theDemocracy of the en
tire legislative power. The Republican
party controlling the Senate and re
sisting in both Houses of Congress a
formation of unjust and unequal tax
laws which have outlasted the necessi
ties of war, and are now undermining
the abundance of a long peace, deny to
the people equality before the law and
tke fairness and justice which are their
right. Then the cry of American labor
for a better share in the rewards of in
dustry is stifled with false pretense,
enterprise is fettered and bound down
to home markets, and unjust laws can
neither be properly amended or repeal
ed. The Democratic party will con
tinue with all the power confided to it
the struggle to reform these laws in ac
cordance with the pledges of is last
Chicago his platform indorsed at the ballot box by
the suffrages of the people.
to abolish unnecessary taxation. Our
established domestic enterprises and
industries should not and need not be
endangered by the reduction and cor
rection of the burdens of taxation. ()n
the contrary, a fair and careful revision
of our tax laws, with due allowance for
the difference between the wages of
American and foreign labor, must pro
mote and encourage every branch of
such enterprises and industries, and by
giving them assurances of an extended
market and steady and continuous
operations.
In the interests of American labor,
which should in no event be neglected,
the revision of our tax laws con
templated by the Democratic party,
should promote the advantage of
such labor by cheapening the cost of
the necessaries of life in the home of
every working man, and at the same
time securing to him steady and
remunerative employment. Upon
this question of tariff reform, so
closely concerning every phase of our
national life, and upon every question
involved in the problem of good gov
ernment, the Democratic party submits
its principles and professions to the in
telligent suffrages of the American
people.
In order to explain the full force of
the Democratic platform just adopted
at St. Louis, the tariff plank of 1884 in
full and the suggestive extracts from
the President’s message on the tariff
are given below:
THE TARIFF PLANK OF 1SS4.
The Democratic party is pledged to
revise the tariff in a spirit of fairness to
all interests. But in making reductions
in taxes it is not proposed to injure any
domestic industries but rather to pro
mote their healthy growth. From the
foundation of this government taxes
collected at the custom-house have been
the chief source of federal revenue.
Such they must continue to be. More
over, many industries have come to rely
upon legislation for successful continu
ance, so that any change of the law
must be at every step regardful of the
labor and capital thus involved. The
process of the reform must be subject
in the execution to this plain dictate of
justice—all taxation shall be limited to
the demands of economical govern
ment. The necessary reduction in tax
ation can and must be effected without
depriving American labor of the ability
t0»compete successfully with foreign
labor, and without imposing lower
of American labor, engaged in manu
facture, should be carefully considered,
as well as the preservation of our man
ufactures. It may be called protection
or by any other name, but relief from
the hardship and dangers of our pres
ent tariff laws should be devised, with
especial precaution against imperiling
the existence of our manufacturing in
terests. But this existence should not
mean a condition which, without re
gard to the public welfare or a natural
exigency, must always insure the real
ization of immense profits instead of
moderately profitable returns. But
i the reduction of taxation demanded
should be so measured as not to neces
sitate or justify either the loss of em
ployment by the working man nor the
lessening of bis wages; and the profits
still remaining to the manufactur
er, after a necessary readjustment,
should furnish no excuse for the
sacrifice of the interests of.his em
ployes, either in their opportunity to
work or in the diminution of their com
pensation. Nor can the worker in
manufactories fail to understand that
while a high tariff is claimed to be ne
cessary to allow the payment of remu
nerative wages, it certainly results in
a very large increase in the price of
nearly all sorts ot' manufactures, which
in almost countless forms he needs for
the use of himself and his family.
The farmer and the agriculturist, who
manufacture nothing, but who pay the
increased price which the tariff im
poses upon every agricultural imple
ment, upon all he wears, and upon all
he uses and owmis, except the increase
of his flocks and herds and such things
as his husbandry produces from the
soil, is invited to aid in the present sit
uation, and he is told that a high duty on
imported wool is necessary for the ben
efit of those who have sheep to shear,
in order that the price of their wool
may be increased. They of course are
not reminded that the farmer who has
no sheep is by this scheme obliged in
the purchase of clothing and woolen
goods, to pay a tribute to his fellow-
farmers, as well as to the manufacturer
and merchant.
When the number of farmers engaged
in wool growing is compared with all
the farmers in the country, and the
small proportion they bear to our pop
ulation is considered; when it is made
apparent that, in the case of a large
part of those who own sheep, the ben
efit of the present tariff on wool is illu
sory; and above all when it must be
conceded that the increase of the cost
of living by such a tariff becomes a bur
den upon those with moderate means,
the poor, the employed and unemploy
ed, the sick and well, and the young
and old—and that it constitutes a tax
which with relentless grasp is fastened
upon the clothing of every man, woman
and child in the land, reasons are sug
gested why the removal or reduction of
this duty should be included in a revis
ion of our tariff laws.
Under our present laws more than
four thousand articles are subject to
duty. Many of these do not in any
way compete with our own manufac
tures, and many are hardly worth at
tention as subjects of revenue. A con
siderable reduction can be made in the
aggregate by adding them to the free
list. The taxation of luxuries presents
no feature of hardship, but the neces
saries of life used and consumed by all
the people, the duty upon which adds
to the cost of living in every home,
should be greatly cheapened.
The simple and plain duty which we
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RHEUMATISM
Paine's Celekt Compoundpurifies tna
blood. It drives out the lactic acid, which
cauBt.'H Rheumatism, and restores the blood-
making organs to a healthy condition. It is
the true remedy for Rheumatism.
KIDNEY COMPLAINTS
Paine’s Celekt Compound quickly; restores
the liver and kidneys to perfect health. This
curative power, combined with its nerve
tonics, makes it the best remedy for all
kidney complaints.
dyspepsia
P line’s Celekt Compound strengthens the
stomach, and quiets the nerves of the diges-
tive organs. This is why it cures even the
worse cases of Dyspepsia.
CONSTIPATION
Paine’s Celekt Compound is not a cathar
tic It is a laxative, giving easy and natural
action to the bowels. Regularity surely tol-
lows its use.
Recommended by groftsBiona^and business
Price $1.00. Sold by Druggists.
THOMPSON BROS.
NEWNAN, GA.
FINE AND CHEAP FURNITURE
- AT PRICES-
THAT CANNOT. 6E BEAT IN THE STATE.
Big stock of Chambei suits in Walnut, Antique Oak, and
Cherry, and Imitation suites.
French Dresser Suites (ten pieces), from $22.60 to $125.00*
Plush Parlor Suits, $35.00 and upward.
Bed Lounges, $9.00 and upward.
Silk Plush Parlor Suits, $50.00.
Good Cane-seat Chairs at $4.50 per set.
Extension Tables, 75 cents per foot.
Hat Racks from 25 cents to $25.00.
Brass trimmed Curtain Poles at 50 cents.
Dado Window Shades, on spring fixtures, very low.
Picture Frames on hand and made to order.
SPLENDID PARLOR ORGANS
Low, for cash or on the installment plan.
Metallic and Wooden Coffins ready at all times, night or
day.
THOMPSON BROS.,
NEWNAN, GA.
FURNITURE I
rates of . duty than will be ample to
cover any increased cost of production '
which may exist in consequence of the I owe the people is to reduce taxation to
higher rate of wages prevailing in this ; tbe necessary expenses of an economi-
country. Sufficient revenue to pay all | cfd 0 p era ti on of the government, and
the expenses of the federal govern- J t0 res tore to the business of the coun
men f economically administered, pen-; try t be money which we hold in the
sions, interest and principal of the pub- j p erve rsion of governmental powers,
lie debt, can be got under our present Tbese things can and should be done
system of taxation from custom-house i vvdb safety to all our industries, with-
taxes upon fewer imported articles, : out danger to the opportunity for re
hearing heaviest on articles of luxury, j mun erative labor which our working
and bearing lightest on articles of ne- j men ne ed, and with benefit to them
cessity. We, therefore, denounce the ; anc j a ]} our people by cheapening their
abuses of the existing tariff; and sub- i means 0 f subsistence and increasing
jeet to the preceding limitations, we j tbe measure of our comforts.
demand that federal taxation shall be j ——
exclusively for public purposes, and* He was an old timer,
shall not exceed the needs of the gov
ernment economically administered.
I buy and sell more FURNITURE than all the dealers in-
Atlanta combined. I operate fifteen large establishments. I
buy the entire output of factories; therefore I can sell you
cheaper than small dealers. Read some of my prices:
A Nice Plush Parlor Suit, $35.00.
A Strong Hotel Suit, $15.00.
A Good Bed Lounge, $10.00.
A Good Single Lounge, $5.00.
A Good Cotton-Top Mattress. $2.00.
A Good Strong Bedstead, $1.50.
A Nice Rattan Rocker, $2.50.
A Nice Leather Rocker, $5.00.
A Strong Walnut Elat Rack, $7.00.
A Nice Wardrobe, $10.00.
A Fine Glass Door Wardrobe, $30.00.
A Fine Book Case, $20.00.
A Good Office Desk, $10.00.
A Fine Silk Plush Parlor Suit, $50.00.
A Fine Walnut 10-Piece Suit, $50.00.
A Nice French Dresser Suit, $25.00.
I respectfully invite everybody to examine my stock and get
my prices before buying your Furniture. I have the finest as
well as the cheapest Furniture in Atlanta. Write for prices.
A. G. RHODES,
85 Whitehall St., Atlanta, Ga,
He had eom-
j menced in early youth at hard cider
i and had graduated in all the liquids up
! to straight alcohol. He was in town
i this week, and went into a drugstore and
picked up a bottle, poured out a full glass
of something, and swallowed it down,
! thinking it was spiritus frumenti. The
FROM THE PRESIDENT S MESSAGE.
When we consider that the theory of
our institutions guarantee to every
citizen the full enjoyment of all the
fruits of his industry and enterprise, , d ist noticing him with the empty
with only such deductions as may be i ?]ags j n haild rushed back exclaiming,
“My God, man, you have drank aqua
his share towards the careful and eco-,
noinical maintenance of the govern
ment which protects him, it is plain
that the exaction of more than this is
indefensible extortion and a culpable
betrayal of American fairness and
justice.
It must be conceded that none of the
articles subjected to internal revenue
taxation are, strictly speaking, necessa
ries. There appears to be no just, com
plaint of this taxation by the consumers
of these articles, and there seems to be
nothing so well able to bear the burden
without hardship to any portion of the
forte
‘Was it?” says he.
pve me a little aqua fifty.
MICKELBERRY & McCLENDON,
WHOLESALE GROCERS,
PRODUCE AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
NO. 15 SOUTH BROAD ST., ATLANTA, GA.
Hay, Oats, Corn, Meal, Bran, Stock Feed,
Onions, Feathers, Cabbage, Irish Potatoes
Dressed and Live Poultry, Meat, Flour,
Lard, N. O. Syrup, Dried Beef, Cheese,
FRUITS AND ALL KINDS OF PROVISIONS AND COUNTRY PRODUCE,
people. But our present tariff laws,
Of all the industrious freemen of our j the vicious, inequitable and illogical
‘ Tnr “Old Snuff” as they affection- lam! ;.n immense majority, including ; source of inequitable taxation, ought' 1;l .^ c : i; U U. Ev-ry nr.rU warrant e.,i.
^IvcSled hin leant; even till r of the soil, gt ini no a Ivan-; to be at once revised and amended. * ' ■ — » —-
ateiy cauen nmi. ±.. . . ... . i 0 „. 0 K,,r Hw* ! Thnco wlm tnv nnv (
ed
to take snuff from M. Gregoire. i tage from excessive tax laws, but the j Those who buy imports pay the duty .
Well
just give me a little aqua ntty. That
last was kinder good, but I want Knne-
tliing a leetle stronger.” The druggist
collapsed.
Tlieir Business Booming 1 .
Probably no one tiling lias caused
such a general revival of trade at A. J.
Lvndon’s Drug Store as their giving
iiwav >.o tlieirCustomers of so many
free*trial bottles of Dr. King’s New
Discovery for Consumption. their:
trade is simply enormous in this very'
valuable article, from the iaet that it
always cures ami never disappoints.
Coughs, Colds. Asthma. Bronchitis,
Group and all throat and lung
quickly cured. You can test
buving by gettin
81. Every h<
For sale, a iso, by J. L. Askew,
met to: G. W. Ciowet, Gruutvilie.
Consignments solicited. Quick sales and prompt remittances,
age. Excellent facilities for th^care of perishable goods.
Good, dry, rat-prool stor-
Judge Tolleson Kirby, Traveling Salesman,
KMf~ References: Gate City National Bank, and merchants and bankers of Allan!a
generally.
diseases
it before
bottle free
Insure your houses against
Tornadoes and Cyclones,
with
H.C. FISHER & CO., Ag’ts.,
Newnan, Ga.
The safest- Companies and
lowest rates.
View Ctbpcrtisements.
Sold by Tarrant & Co., -V Y.,
and Druggists everywhere
__ Bring yoctr TqbWop.k toMc-
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i SiT" \;1 kinds of Legal Blanks for sale by
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