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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 (eiety ©mjjound [ URES Nervous Prostration, Nervous Headache, Neuralgia, Nervous Weakness, Stomach VpsiTTd Sf'S.SrfX'WELLS, RICHARDSON &CO. Prop's WEAK NERVES - SB8*,2SB£’8SffiSSaaja| Coca, those wonderful nerve sfamulantB, it speedily cures all nervous disorders. 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- Clk>: ; ox Co., nfavxax, Ga. i SiT" \;1 kinds of Legal Blanks for sale by McCjlj£X.dox & Co., Newnan, Ga.