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What’s the Matter With Silver? <«f brains to do his newspaper I..—— work and pays magnificent salaries The superintendent of the mint to some of them, it is true, hut he at Denver is quoted in the press has not only proved to the world dispatches as saving that the price that he directs these men of brains, of silver is rising steadily and will hut that he is capable of going he- reach 76 cents per ounce before a fore the people in a rough and- Hunnicutt-Dempsey. great while. tumble way in a heated campaign What’s the matter with this and taking care of hirr.self against metal called silver, anyhow? In 1896 there was nothing on earth more discredited, despised the assaults of all comers. No man of ordinary ability could have made the campaign that and denounced than silver. Any- Hurst has made single-handed body who thought that silver was and alone in New York. He has good stuff to make real money was not only proved himself to he a ( ••scribed as a silver lunatic, a re- man of brains hut one with plenty piuiiationist and financial hoss- of moral and physical* courage. thief! (odd was the god of the hour and the world at large. Gold was herald d ns the only immutable, always reliable, stable and sound stofl for money purposes. The wage earner was t.night that ".1 Albany Herald. Mr. Peary and the Pole. Mr. Peary' holds the record for North Pole hunting. He has pene trated a number of miles closer to gold dollar is always a dollar; the p than any previous explorer. He man with a salary or fixed income lacked something like two hundred was convinced by the goldbugs miles of actually reaching it, but to that "a gold dollar will always be have gone “farthest North" means worth a hundred cents; and the something. It is a monument to pensioner was furnished with the endurance, courage and rcsolu moral affidavits that a siver dollar tjon 0 f that leader and his little was a fifty cents and still tailing company, and even if Mr. Peary dollar, and Ins pension gold dollar ^jves up Arctic exploration with would be an everlasting non- this attempt he has accomplished shrinkable dollar! much. For years finding the Mut how about thatfgold dollar North Pole has been the greatest now?— that “stable measure of achievement in the field ol adven- vulues" and “unchangeable yard- turc open to mankind. Thousands stick of measures?” of dollars have been spent and Within the past six weeks the 1 hundreds of lives lost in the at- secretary of the treasury has had tempt. Years ago there was a to stand a raise of two cents per m yth, a dream of a "Northwest ounce—from 69 to 71 cents, in Passage," but this faded away long fact for silver bullion purchased and sent to the United States mints to be coined into money at the historic ratio of "iG to 1." At that rate of increase of price it since, and the search for the Pole took its place. There was a time when the theory was advocated by some that there was a vast open sea around the Pole—another the A pretty wedding last night was that of Miss Georgia Page IIun- nicutt and Rev. Flam F. Demp sey, of Jackson, Ga„ which took place at the bride’s home on Wash ington street, The ceremony was performed by Dr. W. L. C. Hunnicutt, of Miss., an uncle of the bride, and Mr. T. ,1. Dempsey, Jr., of Jackson, Ga., brother of the groom, was best man. The bride was given away by her brother, Mr. Thomas Hun nicutt.and she had five attendants. Misses Knnly and Lyda llunni cutt, her sisters; Misses Sarah and Kleanor Hunnicutt, of Athens, her cousins, and Miss Nancy Lee Shell, of Turin, Ga. They wore dainty white gowns anrl carried pina chrysanthemums. The bride was lovely in white radium, and her boquet was of white chrysanthemums. Miss Flaine Waltz played the wedding march, and Misses Hilda Waltz and Susie Wailes presided at a bowl of delicious fruit punch. Other appropriate refreshments were served after the ceremony. Rev. and Mrs. Dempsey went to Washington on their bridal trip, and returning to Jackson, Ga., they will be at home for a while with the bridegroom’s father, Rev. T. J. Dempsey. The bride is an attractive young woman, talented and popular, and her many friends here will regret her'departure from Atlanta, while the bridegroom is a young minis ter of fine qualities and reputation. Thursday’s Constitution, Nov. S. will require, within two yeifrs, ory hud it that therfi was a region #1.29 in gold to buy an ounce of of tropical climate, vegetation and silver and 16 to twill be with us tertility there but it has long once more—sec 1 since been conceded that the Pole The price ol silver is now 20 , s rca ||y nothing save a certain rents an ounce highei than it was S | K)l m the midst of a deathly dr one year ago, and the demand lor solation of ice and snow. There it is gienter than can he answered, would he little ef real value to I*.very metal used in arts and in mankind in the actual penetration dust rie.s has increased largely in to the Pole by an exploring party, prices since McKinley beat Hryan j\ successful adventurer would in 189(1, except gold. I hat god- finally reach a spot which his in- like metal has continually gone strunients would indicate as the down in purchasing power since exact location of the Pole. He 1896. I oday it takes from 25 to would stand at a spot where there 100 per cent more, gold to buy was no North, Eust nor West. He other metals than when McKinley would be standing on Here; every- was inaugurated the first time, where else would be South. It I he gold dollar will, lor the aver- would he rather cold there; rather age bill of necessaries of life for ,| ai k and extremely lonely. Such the home, buy only two-thirds now apparent movements of the heaven- of the quantities it would buy ten | y bodies as he saw would be years ago. horizontal! The sun would peer The prosperity of the masses is purbltndly above the horizon and always measured in the goods they then circle. Probably his own need and can have, and not in dol- emotions would be so congealed lars and cents. So that they get that he would not be especially less goods for their wages now prom i 0 f bis achievement. He than when silver was knocked out cou ld ( | 0 nothing but turn back and the gold dollar became our | an ,| fight his way to the world of national savior. Sclah! Atlanta light and terra hrma again. He N pws - I could not even get a splinter or a ' chip as a souvenir. True, if he lived to get back, he could lecture —and Geographical Societies Hearst’s Campaign. Anyhow, William R. Hearst has would give him medals—and the not only defied all the political magazines would pay a good price bosses of all parties, but he has tor articles. It is certain that Mr. given the Republicans a good Carnegie would create a Pole scare as well. Although he lost | M^dal and bestow it upon him— out in his race for the governor ,and then best of all when he died ship of New York State,he carried be would have some fine chiselling every borough in New York City, upon his tomb; but the discovery This alone makes him a factor in of the Pole would not affect the New York politiesand in national markets of the world; the Trust Octopus would not be scotched a wee bit; and the servant problem would roll on just the same. O, for a man to discover how to keep a cook; or invent a conscience for the gas meter!—Golden Age. State Baptist Convention. |H)litics as well, for some time to come, or until he shall have done something to cause his following to forsake him. Under all the circumstances, with all the trusts, combinations and the money pow er of New York fighting him, Hearst’s campaign has been a most remarkable one. One thing that Hearst has dem- The Baptist Convention of the onstrated beyond all question in State of Georgia will 'meet in this campaign is that he is a man eighty-filth annual session with the of no ordinary ab'lity. It has been Carfersville Baptist church on the custom of his rivals in the Tuesday, November 20th, 7:30 p. newspaper business and of nis m. The introductory sermon will political enemies ever since he en- be preached by Elder John E. tered politics to allude to him as a White, or his alternate, Elder John sort of simlin-headed fellow with- D. Jordan. out either brains or force of char- The Southeastern Passenger As- acter, and the cartdbnists of rival sociation has authorized a rate on newspapers have so held him up the railroads of one fare plus 25 mercilessly to the public. cents for round trip tickets. But no fair-minded man can say Tickets will be on sale on Novem- any more that Hearst "thrives on i ber 19th, 20th and 21st, good for hired brains.” He employs men j returning till November 26th. Fools and Cranks. The title oL a legislative act must set forth the entire subject matter included in the bill, but I will not ptoini.se that the above title expresses all l may write about in this article. This government is called a re public, and some cal! it a demo cracy. Let us see how Webster defines the word, Democracy,noun. (Greek, democratic, from demos, people and cratco, to possess, to govern). Government by the people; a form of government, in which the supreme power is lodged in the hands of the people collec tively, or in which the people ex ercise the powers of legislation. Such was the government of Ath ens. Well that is clear, concise and pointed; democracy means that in affairs of government the peo ple—Sam, Jack and Willie—irre spective of class or condition, are to be heard, and their protest against a measure respected. Now comes in the fools,the men who are always waiting for the other fellow to do the kicking, or who are ready to howl themselves hoarse for some partisan wiiose plausible manner and honeyed speech tickles their fancy. These fellows make me think of a thoughtless kitten playing with the tail ol an adder. The sleek partisan come around and talks glibly, perhaps (conceitedly, of the dear old party, declares that it can not err, and all the hope of salva tion for the dear people lies in their strict adherence to the party, no matter where it mav lead them. The poor fools never stop to think; they just fall in line and follow the name, regardless of cost to them selves. If the adder does not turn and bite the kitten, it may glide safely over a precipice and lead the foolish kitten on to a fall, or into a brake of brambles, where the kit ten only will suffer. Cranks, crooked or twisted in dividuals, whose minds are only susceptible to one idea at a time, and who feel constrained to per suade or compel everybody to think and act on their one idea. Cranks are always busy, either chasing the foolish kitten, warning them of their peril or waiting at the bramble brake, to gather the fur. Cranks may be partisans and allies of the politicians, or they may be selfish degenerates, looking only for their own welfare, or the welfare of a particular class. A crank may not be a bad man; he may even advocate an idea or principle that is good and whole some, and shortf of its extrava gance, would be truly democratic; hut his over-zealous demands and fierce attacks on opponents, render his ideas nil. Yet cranks have been ruling the United States, aided by fanatics and financed by shylocks, for forty five years. Now, if we could convince the fools, straighten the cranks and restrain the shylocks, we might get about establishing democracy. The first step would be to kill the adder, drown the kitten, then hang the crank with weights to his feet, to get him straight, and lastly, search shylock for stolen goods, and then drop him into the crater of a volcano. With tools, cranks, politicians and shylocks fiddling with our institutions, democracy has a poor show. Fools and cranks founded the republican party, and laid the train that exploded the tranquility of our once peaceful country. They freed the negroes and gave them civil rights they could neither un derstand nor appreciate. They also delivered the government over to the moneyed interests, taking it away from the people; hut they were led by the slick politician, who knew how to agree with cranks, humor fools and make obeisance to the shylocks. The moral of ail this is: Don’t follow any party that is not demo cratic, and sift every man’s record, and use good common sense in all' things and you will not have to go to New York to find a democrat j to model after. Now if you are wise you can read between the lines, and may be you can get some of the kinks and crooks out of you before they hang the weights to your feet. If you belong to the fool class, I pity you, for you can never he reclaim ed; you will go on sporting with the political adder until you are drowned. If you belong to the guild of politicians, if lightning does not strike you, you will con tinue to cater to fools, twist with the cranks, and share the spoils with the shylocks until the final doom. But if you are a good democrat, you will take time to think before you accept any inno vation that you do not understand thoroughly. Remember this is a crank producing age, and some of the smartest men are decidedly cranky. If they twist the right way, it is all right,but most cranks twist too far, and get the fools into the brambles, with the help of the politician. Sitting down on a crank does not straighten it, fleec ing a fool does not cure him, and searching a thief does not make him honest. Recent events prove the above assertion to be truth. Observer. Dr. Taylor Wants to be Presi dent of Senate. Former Grand Master J. W. Taylor of the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Georgia, represents the Thirty-sixth Sena torial District, composed of the counties of Campbell, Coweta, Meriwether and Douglas, in the next State Senate. On his recent visit to Macon in attendance on the annual session of the Grand Lodge, Dr. Taylor was asked to support a certain candidate for the presidency of the Senate. Dr. Taylor replied that he could not do so, as he expected to be a can ! didate himself for the office. This statement will be a surprise, as it is not generally known that Dr. i Taylor aspires to preside over the higher branch of the Legislature. There are seven candidates for president, namely: John W. Akin, j of Cartersvdle; T. S. Felder, of Macon; J. J. Flynt, of Griffin; L 1G. Hardman, of Commerce;*J D i Howard, of Mi Hedge vilfe; W. C Martin, of Dalton; and J. W. Tay-! lor, of Luthersvilie.—Macon Tele- ; !graph. Norman-Shell. Mr, and Mrs. J. B. Shell, of Turin, have issued imitations to ; the marriage of their daughter, Miss Nancy Lee, to Mr. Clifford Pierce Norman, the marriage to take place at their home on Tues day, Nov. 20th. mat You. 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