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THE IIMPLECETE A *
J. C. HEARTSELL, EDITOR.
Offlcial Organ of the County
Advertising Rates Reasonable
Our Washington Letter.
The people of the United States
have a strenuous President in tb®
Wkite House, and he also is a costly
proposition when you come to count
the dollars he has cost the tax payers
of the country since he entered the
mansion of the chief executive of the
nation. Aside from the half a mill¬
ion dollars it has cost to repair and
refurnish the building during the
past year, the cost of maintaining
the establishment has increased enor¬
mously. There was $65,000 spent
on a presidential office building, di¬
rectly to the west of the White
House, and members of Congress
who have expressed an opinion of it
say that it looks like a stable. It
certainly is about the orneriest look¬
ing affair for the office of the chief
executive of a great nation to have
cost so much money that any man
ever saw. On first beholding it
nearly every man says to himself
l,bat if that little cheese box co«i
$65,000, then some man certainly
got in bis graft good and hard.
Then th$re are other expenditures
that the people of the country never
fjeard, ip connection with Roosevelt’s
short occupancy of the White House.
There has been an increase in the
rnbntng ekpedses of the White
House, since the Roosevelt advent,
of over $25,000 a year; new furnitu re
and fittings for the “Mayflower” (the
piesident’s yacht) ovet $100,000;
the cost of keeping the “Mayflower”
|t| commission for two months last
yeqr, about $15,000; repairs and re¬
fitting' the “Mayflower” last year
about $34,000; repairs and refitting
the “Mayflower” this year about
$30,000. All this with the half mil.
lion dollors spent on the White
House makes approximately about
$750,000 that the strenuous presi¬
dent has cost the taxpayers of the
country more than he or any other
man in bis position should have cost
them There were a few thousand
dollars left over from the appropria¬
tion to fix np the White House
unexpended after the work was fin¬
ished, aud plans immediately were
put iu operation to get rid of this
amount before the end of the fiscal
year, June SO, next. A iattioe work
screen was elected to hide the
fioobevelt family wash from tbi*
gar gaze, a double tennis court is in
progress of preparation, although the
President never plays tennis, and by
tbe time it is finished the Roosevelt
/children will all be over at Oyster
Bay for the summer. Fine imported
green bay trees costing over $3.00
each have been placed on top of the
.past entrance to the Whit House
until it resembles nothing *•*
much as a beer garden mi 3 -no 4 in
the height ol .1 season Great beds
of high-priced flt.wtr> of many kinds
will be set out and that part of the
White House -grounds used by Hie
Hooem fir ftriiifv at n *heir ?>; > b
V* Ui LU W i i. 1 ; i> i iviii t tin
troijiu ••Tln-i'e uim 3 goin’to lie no
\W< \
dent gcln through with that appro
priation. It will be “all in” and the
people will have paid a pretty penny
to gratify *be aesthetic tastes of the
Strenuous 1’resident. The Presi
ffehi’it ytcht, toe “Mayflower,” is the
most gorgeous craft that ever sailed
iu salt water. It was built by drs
Offden Qoelet and wa about cum
,h. c ,i.i !,..u«b.
it tor $430 with 00tf at the time war was
M Span). It i. oBoUBy
Classed as a cruise# and in about
the .. sue . of - the . “> .. irc><'n»tt . ;>» or r n the
“Boston.” In the It* si^bmwiit /ff
sh ‘P 8 of the navy she appears “on
g P <c * a ^ service ” She is really at the
disposal of the President at ail times,
and was fitted np at enormous ex
pense for his enjoyment. The King
of England or the Emperor of Ger
many does not travel in
imposing style than does Mr. Roose¬
velt when be is aboard his private
yacht, for the “Mayflower” is nothing
less than that. As I said before the
refittings and f u r
n j 6 |jj D g 8 C08t pot j e8g than $100,000,
an d a par t of this was for solid roar
ble baths that cost and' i‘2 000 each
Presidents Ole.el.nd MoKinlej
were ere satisfied sati bed to to ride ide on on the the «Svlnh” sylph
or the “Dolphin” when they wanted
to go out to sea, but alongside the
Mayflower they look like cheap tags.
If the people of the country want
the aristocracy 7 of wealth instead ^ of f
intellect iD the White House they
should by all means keep Roosevelt
there.
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The decision of the Supreme
Court, recently banded down, on the
Alabama election franchise case, acd
which declared in effeat that a state
has the right to determine who
shall be entitled to the ballot, has
created much interest here in polit¬
ical circles. Of course, theie are
divergent opinions. Among southern
democratic members of Congress the
opinion is univers.liy approved on
constitutional grounds, while some
of the northern republican members
say that no state has a right to dis¬
franchise any class of its citizens.
The decision of the court is a victory
for stales rights. It virtually says
that any stale may do as it please* in
a sovereign matt-r o f this character,
and the decision will tend to clarify
the situation respecting negro suf¬
frage in all the sta es of the South,
and probably will put an end to other
tpst casps, so, it is helieved here
that it will have a far-reaching ef
feet for good in the whole country
and go far tow-aid the settlement of
the so-called negro problem. It
simply means that the Southern peo¬
ple are the agency through which the
question of the negio’s future cap be
solved and that the first step towaid
satisfactory settlement is to be found
in disfranchisement. It moans that
the negro must first be eliminated
from Politics. That accomplished
the white people of the South can
seek, by industrial development, the
betterment of the black race, which
shall not only redound to the advan¬
tage of the colored people, but the
whites ol the South at well.
The written opinion of Mr Jus¬
tice Holmes contains a discussion of
the question how far a court of equi
ought to go in attempting to
redress political wrongs, and it ar¬
rives at the conclusion that such a
court properly has no such power—
that for the court to undertake such
jurisdiction would amount in the end
to the administration of the govern¬
ment by the court, and puls the
whole question up to Congress.
Some people here believe that this
decision will be an incentive for
(’rnmpu-ker and ot hers of hi* ilk to
g. t .bus again and einL-av ,*r t-» have
(hell pet. measure put through ie
during the representation of the
stales t (he South which have our.
>si t Uu u gr.«'» vote. If the* do it
wtu piuve a precious boon to the
d'-inocraoy in the next great battle
of Use ballots. The people <d the
country simply will iku stand for it,
as was. evidenced by the sweeping
democratic victories in 1874 and
after the attempt to put
through the f«uce (nits. T’lie repuh
licatis are not looking for that kind
of an issue.
4
Whenever the trusts want my
u.ing -»-}• .<**•» «»«•* >»
other direction, x U**> wanted the
EIki “ biU “ ,h » lMt "'" on
of Congress, and that is why they
s Ip! c r ‘ ip ? 3 to tbe Senate
that , it be Jtilled. A neyAnew ,
that would do the trick. That is
why, at this time, they are giving
out the impression that they do not
want Roosevelt nominated or elcct
ed. They know that the people will
give them what they do not want,
Watch the game,
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Attorney General Knox is in a
fl oandar y- ‘ 8 i>ke the fellow
wbo wa8 drnnk and was hu ^"g »
lamp-post. If he let go he would
* nd on would
freeze - Mr Knox has shown that a
8ucce88 ^ ul prosecution of the trusts
“ »nduoted, wd he doe.n't
want lo in i are the lru818 They are
Ures f lbe republican j.. party,
an ,e paity is their creatures. If
tbe P ar, i' ‘ 8 g°* D g 10 turn »gai«»t its
friend ® lhere * 8 g°i°g to be trouble.
Mr -Knox does not go on the pco
will make life a burden for him, and
lf if be h does „ go on ,, the trusts , . wi.l smash ,
him. Ana thats what the matter
with Knox.
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One effect that • the
router ess in
public office under republican admin¬
istration is going to have, is that it
will revive the necessity for a dem¬
ocratic platform next year modeled
af er that of 1876, on which Samuel
J. Tilden was nominated and elected.
That platform called for reform in
almost every paragraph. There is
as much necessity for reform now as
there was then, and it seems to be
tbe consensus of democratic opinion
here that the cry of reform will be
one of the issues in the next cam
pa>gn. If the honest men of the
nation, regardless of politics, could
be /nade to understand the condi¬
tions here in many of the depart
ments, they would sweep the
republican party out of office on the
cry of reform alona and with no
other issue in the campa gn.
Cuaklks A. Edwards.
PETERSBURG PIPINGS.
PRTKRHnuRO, May 20—Will Hol¬
comb, one of our prominent mer¬
chants, made a business trip to
Dalton Tuesday.
Misses Ellen Davis and May Tay¬
lor spent Saturday night at Boone,
guests of Miss Sallie Poarch.
Earnest and W. H. Taylor have
gone into the mercantile business;
we wish the boys success.
E. P. Taylor and daughter, Miss
Horter.se, spent Sunday night in
Dalton.
Mrs. Jacob Deal died early Satur
urday mor; ing. Her death was not;
unexpect'd as she had been very;
low for some time. Her remains
were interred at Hope-veil Sunday
afternoon.
Babe Deal and family, of Holly-,
attended the burial of his mother at
Hopewell Sunday,
Tom Elrod and wife, of Murray
county, are visiting the latter’s rela
tives at this place. Kill Arp,
DO YOU GET UP
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Almost everybody who reads tjjg news¬
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Jt Ijj I and the great kidney, liver
’I jjs ti bladder remedy.
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h/CLl p|i taeolh century; dis
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! Kilmer, the emi-;
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- - - der specialist, and is 1
wonderfully successful in promptly curing - !
tame afiaSriyht’s back, kidney, bladder, uric acid trou- •
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cramendcd , Dr. Kilmer's tar everything Swamp-Root but if is have not rec- kid-! j
liver you
ney, or bladder troub.e it will be found
just the remedy you need. It has been tested j
practice, tn so many ways, the in hospital helpless work, in private j
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every case that a special arrangement hss |
been made by which all readers of this paper
.
who have not .already tried it, may have a!
sample bottle sent free by mail, also a bock
When writing mention reading this generous
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Dr. KUmer & Co.,Bing
aamton, N. Y. The
[regular fifty cent and Home of swamp-Root
dollar sizes are sold by all good druggists.
EPICUREAN
EDIBLES.
We are the only exclusive Grocery merchants in Spring Place,
Our whole attention is directed to the one idea of filling our shelves
with choice as well as substantial dainties for the inner man. Prices
Dor, - .'«* »» J-" »•“«"<* 1903 *«;■«• shall ■»'* full »«* of staple »'•
n ? «»e y ear we carry a stock and fancy
Groceries . and Hardware, the prices of which will be right ail the time.
The glock wiJJ embrace flour and meat, sugar, coffee, best kerosene for
lamps, soda, canned goods, such as pie peaches, California peaches, to
matoes, apricots, pears, sardines, oysters, potted ham, Libby’s celebrated
ham loaf and chicken temale, Vienna sausage, mince meat, cocoa nuts,
and I hundreds of other articles.
lour *«*'*?* always fanc >’ faeries hano. We a full also supply of nice the selection celebrated of Gold Medal
p on carry a notions, con
aiming of pants, suspenders, sox, toilet articles, perfumes, 1 underwear,
ties, etc. Your custom will be much appreciated. Respectfully,
W.T.&J.RJOriNSON
Pendley & Thompson
SPRING PLACE, GA.,
carry a full line of Coffins, Caskets, Burial Robes, Slippers and all other
accessories necessary to the obsequies of our dear departed—in fact they
are the only up- to-date
*£2^3§5S&a
in Murray county and earnestly solicit your patronage;
After transition it devolves upon those in authority to at once sura*
men a competent undertaker to make preparations for and attend to the
burial. These matters tnay be intrusted to us with confidence The nec¬
essary services are rendered with promptness and genuine courtesy.
We have purchased an elegant Hearse which we expect to arrive in
a short time and will then be tfhle to serve our patrons yyjtli many more
convent-noes than has ever beep afforded tl-em by any home dealer ip
these goods. Nothing is too good for our patrons and we int- nd to sup¬
ply all our patrons with the very best the mat ket affords cheaper than has
ever before been done in Spring Place.
We cordially invite the custom of the people of Murray and sur¬
ronnding counties
charge. Calls cheerfully answered at any time of day or night without extra
PENDLEY & THOMPSON,
Spring Place, Ga.
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