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Itt* gerald and' gdufftiay. Jfewnan, Ga., Friday, July 6, 1888. BOW CHICAGO WAS PAINTED. Pen Pictures of the Convention Nominated Harrison and Morton. New York Herald. No man in America probably knows more politicians of all sorts and sizes than Phil McDowell. He has just re turned from Chicago. He went out there just as any one would go to a spectacle, though he is a Democrat, bred in the bone. Phil describes what he saw and heard and felt with a characteristic verve, and with a wealth and strength of vo cabulary which could only be possible to one born and brought up a New York boy. Yesterday he was seated for most of the afternoon in front of the famous Fog Horn Tavern, in west Twenty- third street, of which lie is mine host, and an interested group gathered about him to hear the story of his adventures. “A big guessing party, that’s what it is,” said Phil, as the key-note of his discourse on the national Republican convention. “Those fellows up to Sat urday didn’t know a thing as to which way they were tending. They knew no more as to whom they would finally vote for than I did—perhaps not as much. The New York delegation Friday was all at sea. N o one cont led it. Everybody was asking body else, ‘Who do you guess it will be?’ And everybody at some time or other would say, ‘Well, I guess it will be so and so.’ And tjien the next min ute, maybe, he’d guess somebody else. Of course, Blaine’s name was in every body’s mouth. About every hall min ute you’d hear among the New York ers, ‘Let’s spring Blaine on ’em! Let’s spring Blaine on ’em!’ And then when this talk grew a little too loud, Steve Elkins would step in, amd he’d wave his hand with the impressive air of an undertaker who had a corpse lying in the next room waiting for the wake, and he’d say, ‘Psh-sh-sh! Psh-sh-sh!’ And then you’d see a scattering of the talkers* and Steve would explain to somebody in whom he affected to con- tide, in awfully mysterious tones, that the Blaine boom mustn’t be resurrect ed just yet. The time had not come. It was funny how the thing was repeat ed over and over. The delegates seem ed lo suspect that they were really there for Blaine, but for the life of them could not be sure of that or of anything else. “J tell you there are two men whom the best men in the convention are afraid of, and they are Foraker and In galls. Blaine is bad enough. Blaine is a lighter, but these men are worse. Get ’em in power and there is no telling what foreign trouble may come upon the country. I’m just giving you an idea of some of the talk I heard among delegates, and it’s time, too. It’s well to know what the Republicans them selves think of their leaders. Gres ham’s standing as a statesman and a citizen was not criticised. He’s a good man, and Chicago is mad right straight through at the way in which the dele gations from other States have treated him. “Blaine? Why, of course, that was the law with the fly managers from the start, though they kept the common delegates in the vagueness of uncertain ty as much as they could. Why, they were bound everything should be just so. There was a story that even the the way I got ahead of ’em. Other wise every man who jenew me would have struck me for a loan. As it was, I had to tell a good many of them that I w T as just going to ask them the same thing. There was one man I saw in the Grand Pacific hotel, also, who went a around with a card pinned to the lapel of his coat. It was like this: BROKE! For God’s Sake Don’t Ask Me for A LOAN ! 4 “Everywhere was the greatest demor alization. You can’t say anything about the situation that would be too strong. A starched collar would not retain its stiffness five minutes in the convention hall A couple of peddlers’ wagons came along Clarke street loaded high up with cheap gingham shirts and jack ets. Dozens of delegates rushed up to them and in a jiffy had obtained new outfits. The first-class stores in the vi cinity of the auditorium or of the hotels did not derive much trade from such of i the delegates as were unprovided with | ample changes of linen, for the reason ; nanie( j * v j]j ,j je the principal that the latter wanted the very cheap est stuff. Strapping negroes from the Southern districts would stride into a high-priced gentlemen’s furnishing shop or an elegant dry goods store, and shoving their way to the front would ask for 3-cent collars. The sidewalks in front of many of the finest business control- places were the lounging places of Hie every-3 strangers, and were frequently covered witli tobacco juice. “You haven’t an idea of what the real wild, back country delegate is un til you see him. Buffalo Bill’s Indians aren’t a circumstance to him, and to name that convention rightly you will have to call it the ‘Wild West Show.’ The business men have gone almost crazy. “Some of the places where the dele gates slept are worse than are common ly provided for immigrants. One of these was a meeting room over a stable, and white and black men occupied it together. A keg of beer with a block of ice on it was on tap in a narrow closet, and a champagne basket on the floor was filled with meat .and bread. The best barrooms were simply in a horrible condition. The bartenders were exhausted. Men were employed to do their work who had never done it before. They could not find time even to wipe off the counters. The floors were just flooded. Luckily for me, I was well lodged in the house of a friend, so I did not suffer- with the others, but I am glad to get home.”' that the Democrats will carry Indiana, especially as Cleveland’s popularity has steadily increased since the day he was inaugurated. But if the Republi cans should carry Indiana, they will still need 4 electoral votes. Connecticut is a very close State. The Republicans carried it in 1884 by a slen der majority—less than 1,300. No doubt they will make an extraordinary effort to carry it this year. Campaign literature and money will not be want ing, and it would not be surprising if they should canvass it more thoroughly than in any previous election. Of course if the Republicans should carry all the States that they did in 18S4, and in ad dition to them Indiana and Connecti cut, they would elect their ticket, but, as above pointed out, it is by no means "certain that they will carry both, or even one of these doubtful States. The Democrats will not let them have ev erything their own way in any of the doubtful States, and they.are likely to strengthen rather than lose their hold upon these States. The prospect now is, however, that the two States above battle ground of the campaign. But while the Republicans are put ting forth all their efforts to carry In diana and Connecticut, may they not neglect those States which are now classed as Republican, and which are bv no means as firmly bound to the Republican party as that party would have the country believe? The Pacific coast delegates to the St. Louis convention said that if Mr. Thurman were put on the ticket for vice-president they were sure that that ticket would get the vote of the Pacific States. Mr. Thurman is on the ticket and his popularity, together with that of Mr. Cleveland, ought to be suf ficient, under the circumstances, to place those States in the Democratic column. There is thought to be a chance for the Democrats to carry one of the Northwestern States, but it is too early in the campaign to get any indi cation of how great that chance is. The population throughout the north west favor tariff reform, and the strong declaration in favor of the protective system which the Chicago platform contains may make many votes for the Democratic party there. thousands of them do not condemn it with their ballots as their representa tive newspapers have through many months condemned its suggestions in advance.” He Soycotted the Bandana. St. Paul Globe. Last Sunday church-goers in a small town in the western part of Minnesota were not a little surprised when they had settled in their pews to see staring at them from the wall back of the preacher’s desk the following card, written with charcoal on a piece of white cotton cloth: Members of this church will refrain : from wiping their foreheads with red ban- : danas during services until the next pres- : idential election, as such an act would en- : courage Democrats present to cheer for : Grover Cleveland, and prove a serious in- : terruption to the divine service. George Sqvip.es, Pastor. . _ ./ifj/1/From the debilitating effects of summers IF ALL RUN Z?f?flWhe»t;ifjoncn’t»le,p,h*«»<>»PI ieUle ' 1 * C ambition, and are alnaya tired, yon •»“ much in need of tnedicine a. if sick abed. You need Fain* Celery “ season, when the whole system is debilitated by the wear an tear o w ° .. . the extreme heat. Can you afford the time and cot of a vacaUon? Pa,n* Ce -T Compound will remove the need of one. I. is the only hot weather tome that ha. t™ medicinal value. Compounded from the formula of a successful phystento, a, a general invigorator it has no equal. When all run down front heat or overwork, re member that Paine’s Celery Compound WILL BRACE YOU UP. A Remarkable Showing- For B. B. B. Against Other Remedies Putnam Co., April 29, 1SS7. I have been suffering for most thirty years with an itching ancl burning all over my face and body. I took eigh teen bottles of one blood medicine and it did me no good. I commenced last January to use B. B. B., and after us ing five bottles I felt better and stout er than I have in thirty years; my health is better and I weigh more than I ever did. The itching is nearly ceas ed, and I am confident that a few more bottles of B. B. B. will cure me entire ly. I am sixtv-two years old and can now do a good day’s work in my field. I consider it the best medicine I have ever seen, for it certainly did me more good than all the medicine I have ever aken. I had, in all, nearly a hundred risings on my face, neck and body. James Pinkerton. Sold by all druggists, $1 a bottle. Six for 85. WELLS, RICHARDSON & CO., Proprs, Burlington, Vt. ig * clergymen who opened each session with prayer had to write what he had to say and submit it to a committee be forehand, and that he had to swear to it, too, before a notary public. That only shows you the spirit of the thing. They didn’t want any more of old Bur- chard in theirs. “Well, the Republican convention will disgust its own party, and that’s the truth. It’s enough to turn any one’s stomach, this week of wrangling, and grabbing, and lying, and conspiring, and wire-pulling. Chicago has had enough of that crowd, and don’t you forget it. Talk about a national con vention bringing business to a town The only people benefited by it at all are the hotel-keeps, the liquor dealers, and the barbers. A fine party that is to talk of high license and temperance. Why, just about the whole convention is drunk and has been the whole week. When it gets sober .some of the men who are in it will set to thinking very hard about what it has done. “Why, it was hard to find anyone who was really in his right senses out there. What with bad food, rum taken in fifteen minute doses, and live times as often when the convention was not in session; what with utter lack of ven tilation, crowded sleeping quarters and the frightful heat, it's only a wonder that delirium tremens and fever did not carry a lot of them off. The big hotels? There wasn’t room or anything else to be had in them unless it had been en- gagedTnonths ahead. “Excitement? Why, around the Pal mer House you’d think that they had General Grant’s dead body inside, and it. was going to get up and make a speech. Poor devils. Hundreds of them were in a deuce of a plight. They had come expecting to stay a day or two, you know, and wnen the conven tion hung on and hut n on they found themselves without clean clothes with out money, almost without .,nj thing. Credit? Lucky was the man who had it. Nearly all the New \orkeis weie broke. Why, it got so I'd never meet one, but I’d yell out first, don’t you know, The Principal Battle Ground. Savannah News. The two great political parties' are surveying the field and getting ready for the campaign. In a few days the letters of acceptance of their candi dates will be given to the public, and soon afterward the campaign commit tees will begin work in earnest. Then the voices of the stump orators will be heard throughout the land. A ques tion which naturally presents itself is this: Where will the principal battle ground be ? Of course, the campaign will be conducted vigorously in all the States, but attention will be directed chiefly to the doubtful States. The Republicans assert, of course, that there is no doubt about their car rying all the States that they carried in 18S4. These States are California, Col- orada, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont and Wisconsin. These eighteen States have 182 electoral votes. It is conceded that the Democrats will carry Alabama, Arkansas, Deleware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia. These fifteen States have 153 electoral votes. The doubtful States of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Indiana have 66 electoral votes. There are 401 electoral votes and the successful ticket must therefore have at least 201. There is not much proba bility that the Republicans can carry either New York or New Jersey. Mr. Cleveland is stronger in both of them, in fact in all the States, than he was in 1884, because his administration has been clean, conservative, safe and economi cal. The Republicans, to win, must get nineteen electoral votes more than their ticket got in 18S4. Where will they get them? There are strong reas ons for thinking that they hope to get them in Indiana and Connecticut, The former State has fifteen electoral votes and the latter six. If the Republicans should carry these two States, they would have two electoral votes to spare. What are their chances of car rying them? No doubt one of the rea sons for nominating Harrison was the belief that he could carry Indiana. The Democrats carried it in 1884 by a major ity of over 6,000, but it must be remem bered that Hendricks, who was on the ticket was an Indianian. and was very popular in his State. In the election there were over 8.000 greenback and 3,000 prohibition votes cast. There will be no greenback vote this year, but it probable that the prohibition vote will Dissatisfied Republican Organs. Savannah News. The leading Republican newspaper of the West, the Chicago Tribune, doesn’t like the Republican ticket. It says: “It would be sheer hypocrisy to pretend that the convention placed in nomination the strongest candidate before it. The general belief is that the convention was not influenced by the question of availability to any perceptible degree. The managing men and railroad attorneys, having widely different purposes and views, made the bulk of the convention think that the whole campaign would turn the two parties’ respective plat forms, and that the merits of the can didates would be obscured and almost lost to view, and hence that it matter ed comparatively little what the can didate’s record or fitness might be, as the platform adopted would elect any body. These views were adroitly im pressed upon the mass of the delegates by the managers, who sought to de stroy all the candidates put forth by the granger States, and it must be con fessed that they accomplished tlieir end skillfully.” The Tribune was on the ground, and ought, therefore, to be pretty well in formed respecting the influences which dictated the nominations. It is certain that it is not pleased with the ticket, and will hardly give it an enthusiastic support. It is also certain that the far mers of the West are not pleased with it, and it will be difficult to arouse much interest among them in its be half. Some of the representatives of the workingmen have expressed their opinion of it and they are opposed to it. Neither Harrison nor Morton is in hearty sympathy with the working men. There are a good many things in Harrison’s record which will be used with effect during the campaign to alienate the labor vote from him. The statement is being widely circulated that on one occasion, in a public speech, he asserted that $1 a day and two meals were enough for a workingman. With the vote of the workingmen agaiust him. what chance has he of being elec ted? The Tribune has very good rea sons for shrouding its editorial utteran ces in gloom when speaking of the re suit of the convention’s deliberations. The two ablest and most popular Re publican papers in New York city, the Times and the Commercial Advertiser, repudiate both the platform and the nominees of the Chicago convention The Commercial Advertiser says: “The platform is astonishing in its proposals. It is, as we have said, unre publican and un-American. It is platform in direct contradiction of the history, the principles, the teachings, and the oft-reiterated promises of the party in whose name a conspiracy of unscrupulous politicians has put it forth. Lincoln would have repudiated is it with disgust and loathing, because it mtagonizes individual liberty, and the THOMPSON BROS. NEWNAN, GA. FINE AND CHEAP FURNITURE -AT PRICES— THAT CANNOT BE BEAT IN THE STATE. The Tallapoosa Journal wants a can ning factory established at that point, and thinks an enterprise of that kind would pay. Don’t Experiment. . You cannot afford to waste time in experimenting when your lungs| are in danger. 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