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THE JIMPLECUTE.
J. C. HEARTSBLL, EDITOR.
Official Organ of the County.
Advertising Rates Reasonable
Our Washington Letter.
The people of the United states
have a strenuous President in the
White Home, and he also ia a costly
proposition when you come to count
the dollars he hae 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 buil ling, di¬
rectly to the west of the White
House, and members of Congress
wbo 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 "f ibe 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
that if that little cheese box cost
(65,000, then some man certainly
got in his graft good and hard.
Then there are other expenditures
that the people of the country never
heard, in connection with Roosevelt’s
short occupancy of the While House.
There has been an increase in the
running expenses of the White
House, since the Roosevelt advent,
of over $25,000 a year; new furniiu re
and fittings for the “Mayflower” (the
piesident’s yacht) ovei $100,000;
the cost of keeping the “Mayflower”
in commission for two months last
year, 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 doltorB 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 his position should have cost
them. There were a few thousand
dollars left over from the appropria¬
tion to fix up the While House
unexpended after the work was fin¬
ished, and plans immediately were
put in operation to get rid of this
amount before the end of the fiscal
year, June 30, next. A lattice work
screen was erected to hide the
!{-nSevclt family wash fr«un tin vul¬
gar gaze, a double tenuis court is in
progress of pieparatiou, 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 $300
each have been placed on top of the
east entrance to the Wbit« House
until it resembles nothing so
much as a beer garden on a root in
the height of a season. Great beds
of high-priced flowers of many kinds ;
will be set out and t hat part of the
While House grounds used bv the;
Roosevelt familv ai o their friends
wih bio o> wi> h the Utsum t *,« Ntliif
tropics. “There aim a goin'to be no
cere to tins apple* when the resi
dent gets through with that appro
priation. It will l>e ‘ all in” and the
people will have paid a pretty penny
t' ^tify the sesthetic tastes of the
Strenuous President- Tbe Presi
dent’s yieht, the “Mayflower,” is the
most gorgeous craft that ever sail; J
in salt water It was built bv Mrs
Oudei* Goelet and wa about c- oi
pletefl When rid verntn - ■ bought
It tor $430,000, at the time war was
declared with Spain. It ia fficiaih
classed as a cruiser and is about
the size of the “Cincinnati” or the
In Hi. *»*»«»»* **
ehip8 0f the n,vy Bhe a PP ear9 “ on
special service ” She is really at the
disposal of the President at all times,
and was fitted up at enormous ex
pense for his enjoyment. The King
of England or the Emperor of
many does not travel in more
imposing style than does Mr.
velt when be is aboard his
yacht, for the “Mayflower” is nothing
less than that. As I said before the
refitting* and f u r
nisbings cost not less than 8100,000,
snd a part of this was for solid
ble baths that cost 82,000 each
Presidents Cleveland and McKinley
were satisfied to ride od the
or the “Dolphin” when they wanted
to go out to sea, but alongside the
Mayflowor they look like cheap tugs.
If the people of the country want
the-aristocracy of wealth instead of
intellect in the White House they
should by all means keep Roosevelt
there.
*♦*
The decision of the Supreme
Court, recently handed down, on the
Alabama election franchise case, and
which declared in effect 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 universally 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 states rights. It virtually says
that any state may do as it pleases in
a sovereign matter o f this character,
and the decision will tend to clarify
the situation respecting negro suf¬
frage in all the states of the South,
and probably will put au end to other
test cases. If so, it is believed here
that it will have a far-reaching ef
feet for good tn the whole country
and go far toward the settlement of
the so-called negro problem. It
simply means that the Southern peo¬
ple sre the agency through which the
question of the negro’s future can be
solved and that the first step toward
satisfactory settlement is to be found
in disfranchisement. It means that
the negro must first be eliminated
from Politics. That accomplished
the while 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 ot the South at well.
The written opinion of .Mr Jus¬
tice Holmes contains a discussion of
the question how far a court of equi¬
ty 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
Crumpu-.ker and others of his ilk to
gi t busy again ami endeavor to have
their pet uitasure put through te
ducing the representation of the
states of the South which have our.
tailed the n g»o vote. If tlu-x do"it
>v}; { tinn if X tiri
democracy hi the next great bau.ie
the ballots. The people of the
country simply win not stand for it,
as was evidenced by the sweeping
democratic victories in 1874 and
1890 after tl>« attempt to put
through the force bills. The repub
lioans are rot hxiking for that kind
of an is-id
*+*
Whenever the trusts •vmt my
thing they begin wot king in the
other direction. They wanted the
Elkins bill passed at the last session
of Congress, and that is why they
sent those tel.-gr ms to the Senate
asking that it fee killed. They knew
that wotd d d ° the trick. That is
why, at this time, they are giving
out the impression that they do not
want Roosevelt nominated or elect
j ed. They know that the people will
give them what they do not want,
| Watch ibe game,
***
Attorney :
1 General Knox is in a
quandary. He is like the fellow
wbo was Hronk and wa * hu ggi n g *
j lam P po *t. If be let go he would
j Iree J aI, » * * e nd *”r. '* b Knox ® held has on shown h * that would a
‘
i • occ * ,iful Prosecution of the trusts
can be conducted, and ho
want t0 i 6 j ar * the trusts They are
J creature “ of lhe republican party,
l * nd tbe P a,t y ’ a thair creatures. If
the party is 8 oin * 10 turn ®g aiu8t iu
,nend8 there ia S oin S trouble,
^ Koox does not go on the peo
will make life a burden for him, and
if he does goon the trusts will smash
him. And that’s what the matter
with Knox.
* *
One effect that *
the rotUeness in
public office under republican admin,
istration is going to have, is that it
will rerive the necessity for a dem¬
ocratic platform next year modeled
af<er that of 1876, on which Hamnel
J. Tiiden was nominated and elected.
That platform called for reform in
i almost paragraph. There
every is
as much necessity for reform now as
there was then, and it seems to be
the consensus of democratic opinion
here that the cry of reform will be
one of the issues in tbe next cam
pa.gn. If the honest men of the
nation, regardless of politics, could
be made 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 alone and with no
other issue iu the campa;gn.
CiiABtKS A. Edwards.
PETERSBURG PIPINGS.
Pktkrrburg, May 20—Will Hol¬
comb, one of our prominent mer¬
chants, made a business trip to
Dalton Tts^day.
Misses Ellen Davis and May Tay¬
lor spent Saturday night at Boone,
guests of Miss Sallie Poarch.
Earnest and VV. II. Taylor have
gone into the mercantile business;
we wish the boys success.
E. P. Taylor and daughter, Miss
Horter.se, spent Sunday night in
Dallou.
Mrs. Jacob Deal died early Satur
urday morning, Her death was not
unexpect'd as she bad been very
low for some time. Her remains
were interred at Hopewell 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. Bill Arp.
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EPICUREAN
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We are the onlv 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
an< M ^ ow as y° u will find elsewhere and service much superior.
' During the year 1903 we shall carry a full stock of staple and fancy
Groceries and Hardware, the prices of which will be right all the time.
Ibe stock will embrace flour and roeit, 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 chiekeu teraale, Vienna sausage, mince meat, cocoa uuts,
and hundreds of other articles.
Besides fancy groceries a full supply of the celebrated Gold Medal
Hour always on hano. We also carry a nice selection of notions, con¬
sisting of pants, suspenders, sox, toilet articles, perfumes, underwear,
ties, etc. Your custom will be much appreciated. Respectfully,
W.J.&J.E. JOHNSON
Pendley & Thompson
SPRING PLACE, GA.,
carry a full line of Coffins, Caskets, Burial Robes, Slippers and ail other
accessories necessary to the obsequies of our dear departed—in fact they
are the only up- to-date J
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After transition it devolves upon those in authority to at once sum¬
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burial. These matters may lie intrusted to us with confidence The nec¬
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