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THK WEEKLY TELEGRAPH AND MESSENGER, FRIDAY, MARCH 21,1884.
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Opening of the Campaign.
The chairman of the State Democrat
ic executive committee lias called upon
that body to assemble in the city of
Atlanta on the 7th day of April next.
This may be regarded as the initial pro
ceeding of the coming campaign. The
committee will 1)0 compelled to decide
upon the time for holding the conven
tion to select delegates to represent the
party at Chicago, and the,other conven
tion to select an electoral ticket and to
nominate a candidate for Governor. Ai
to the basis of representation in these
conventions that is a matter which has
long since been satisfactorily set
tled. It will be necessary to
have two conventions, for it
would be so manifestly improper to
select an electoral ticket before a nomi
nation has been made, as not to require
argument or illustration. • The State
campaign must of course he inaugu
rated and organized upon a basis to it
self.
The only serious question then to en
gage the attention of the executive
committee is as to the date upon which
the two conventions shall be held.
There should he no Kurry about as
sembling the convention to send dele
gates to Chicago. At present the
Presidential situation is chaotic and un
satisfactory. The party should be al
lowed the longest time to arrive at a
conclusion most likely to produce satis
factory results. Congress is in session
and will probably remain in that
position until the first of Au
gust. The action of the Chicago
convention will depend in a great
measure upon the action of Congress.
Tho National Democratic Executive
Committee decided to shorten the cam
paign. This action was wise, and if
the matter had been sufficiently die'
cussed, tho convention at Chicago
would not have been called before the
first of September. There is no reason
why we should be in a hurry in this
matter. Georgia should act with all
possible light before her, and her dele
gation to Chicago should not be
chosen at a dato sooner than will allow
it time to conveniently reach the scene
of its duties. It would be improper to
Is Immigration Practicable?
The convention which assembled at
Nashville the present week for the pur
pose of dovising means to encourage
immigration to the Southern States,
was engaged in a laudable undertak
ing. The South Is very much in need
of good, reliable labor, not only on the
farms, but everywhere. Tho more
artisans and mechanics we have, the
more work they will have to do, and
the better the home market for all sur
plus supplies from garden, orchard and
field.
Hut with regard to immigration, a
serious difficulty presents itself at the
threshold. This difficulty was suggest
ed to us in a conversation with tho late
William M. Wadley. It was his opin
ion that we could never hope to induce
considerable numbers of foreigners or
Northern people to emigrate to Geor
gia, for example, unless we could fur
nish them lands in large bodies suita
ble for colonies, or a number of small
farms contiguous to each other. For
eign emigrants especially do not quit
their homes nor settle in new places
singly, bnt in companies or colonies;
and in order to indace them to come to
the South we must offer them cheap
land in large bodies, or a sufficient
number of farms in the same neighbor
hood. This is quite natural, particular
ly if the newcomers do not speak the
English language. They desire com
pany, companionship, society, and
prefer in their changed circumstances
old friends and associations to stran-
a rural rhymester who addressed to liim
some stanzas of doggerel.
Public men in England and on the
continent, as a rule, out-last our states
men. Mr. Gladstone is still chopping
trees ami ruling the British Empiie.
Mr. Stephens rests in his grave. Kaiser
William can sup on a pot of sanr krout
and wash it down with a keg of beer.
A cracker and a glass of sherry
wine would give Mr. Tildcn
an attack of niglit-mare. Bismarck
does the mind work of the German
Empire. Mr. Tilden acknowledges
liis physical inferiority, and pleads it
in bar of his candidacy. The sooner
the Democratic party entertains and
accepts the plea, the better for i*nnd
the country.
It is worse than nonsense. It is
criminal upon the part of a squad of
paid agents to attempt to dragoon the
party into the support of a man who
has to be fed and nursed as a child.
‘‘Reform,” he replied “Reform should be
the Issue. After a misrule of twenty years,
the people will stand by it. The party has It
In Its own hands, if it bnt take advantage of
It. ‘And if you are ronstdered tc be the one to
save it, you ahoubl not resist its call.' ‘I
should have to. I have aerved it faithfully,
until I am now unable to undergo the exer
tions which, in cue in of myelectton, I should
have to make. It can be done without me.
could not stand the physical efrort. 1 would
not disappoint my party. My name must not
be considered.' “
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Editor Dana bus had his “say” alK)ut j l>«t «P a dclcgafion-weeks beforehand
the candidates and lie ia now engaged in 10 ,M! tt " n0 >' ed >>>' the nvftl candidates
doing his thinking. for tho Presidency. The Illinois State
» convention, for this purpose, will not
Bismarck ought to be proud of tho mcct unU1 the , lrat weeU in j„i y .
trichinm that now fnf«t Germany a. they There sho uld be the fullest time allowed
are unquestionably of tic \ aderland va
riety.
for the farmers and country people to
discuss this matter before assembling
The Conttilution went to sec Mr. Tildcn I in primary conventions,
and found him In a fearfully mixed comli-1 The same masoning will lie
tion. He was “feeble” and "vigorous,” I applicable • to the convention
“wUUng” and "unwilling," “retiring" and I , hich mugt aelect an c]cctora ,
“advancing.” But he gate the Constitution I . . , . . «
hU picture. It is an era in the history of »nd nominate a Governor,
tiio country. There should bo nothing in the shape
j | of undue haste, but every thing com*
It i. strange, as a matter of business patible with rt intcrcgtg gh ould bo
that any sensible Northern man should |\ . . * „.
wish to see tho triumph, to the South, of done to shorten ^our pol tical campaigns,
the negroes and thorn white men whoflock wl,ic ?> Bre unnecessarily long and dut-
with them. This is especially the caso as trading.
regards business men, who ought to know | We Like it that the early call of tho
With the exception of the pine dis
tricts, we have no largo unoccupied
tracts of land in Georgia. There may
be a score or more of small fanners in
a single county, who are ready to sell
their homes, hut it is not probable that
so many could bo found in the same
vicinity or district. Thus it will lxq
seen that the way is not so clear ns we
all would desire.
Tais difficulty, Mr. Wadley thought,
would always interfere witli any move
ment which sought to encourage immi
gration upon a large scale. A different
condition of things exists in tho North
western a id Pacific States, and in the
Territories. There lands can be had
at cheap prices, and in tracts of any
size, from a mile square up to twenty
miles square. And it is for this rea
son principally, that emigrants from
the older Northern States, and especial
ly from Europe, seek new homes in
that direction.
Perhaps we should add that the pres
ence of the negro in the South is also a
serious check upon immigration. This
check will continue to exist as long as
the negro continues to abide with ns,
We must look, therefore, for an in
crease of population to slow but natural
causes, and only incidentally to the
voluntary movements and changes of
people.
that there is nothing to gain from calami
tous happenings to the South.
Tnxaa are some cunning men to Geor
gia of the political persuasion. They don't
object to bolding high offices; and
when there is a specially Juicy one In light,
they peep out, get their Instruments to or
der, and take alt the bearings. If the land
lies level and the wind la convenient, the
State committee by Chairman Jackson
is an indication of his purpose to retire
front his present position, n step that
is rendered so necessary by his attitude
as a Congressional candidate, os to de
stroy tho regret that would otherwise
follow it.
Missionary Effort In Washington
Rev. Clement A. Evans, a well
patriot sails Into the contest like s con-1 known Methodist minister of Georgia,
quering hero. If the land be seemingly writes a letter from Washington City to
already occupied, and the wind he con- the Augusta Ereniny Newt, from which
trary, the cunning roan aubsldes without wc make the following extract;
a note of warning or a sigh of regret—or I It is a curious Inquiry why a certain hamlet
the lose of a nickel. I of two or three hundred population, lylua
— I within the light of this great capital, for more
Tog House committee on the Judiciary than half a century haa had no church until
bag directed Repreeentatlve Tucker to re- | now. The Church Extenslou Is about to put
port favorably a bill to make the
as well as civil proceedings
States courts conform as near as practica
ble to the practice of the State courts In
which they are altuated, and to provide
that the charge of the judge to the jury
ahall always be to writing. It Is to be
hoped that so .rise and judicious a bill may
become a taw daring the present session of
Congress. Witli such a taw upon the-
A Winter Hotel Needed.
Elsewhere a Macon correspondent
has something to Bay upon tho building
of a large winter hotel in this city.
While hU figures aro somewhat star
tling, it is only because few pooplo of
this section have brought themselves
to seriously consider the facts of tho
cose.
Macon needs, next to tliu narrow
gauge road, a grand hotel to receive
the constantly Increasing flood of‘ win
ter visitors South; and tho sooner her
wants In this respect are supplied, the
more rapid will bo her growth. It is a
great mistake to suppose that tho win
ter tourist from tho North is, as a gen
eral thing, consumptive. Probably the
of i
of I
te criminal .hon« Of worship on the vacant spot. But proportion of visitors utUictcl with this,
of ITnital ,loMr l* It tlml there are these waste placet lu | 1 1 . ,,
.I* .the midst o( the churches? I suppose Ills the scourge of the. ago, is not 2 per
tuppotc
well remembered that Yallaforro comity, In
Georgia, yraa without a Metluxliat church un
til a few yeara ago. Ami I suppsse alio that a
great many churches in many clttca cant the
loug shadows of their steeples over purllcua
where they never aen«l the light of the Gospel.
apropos of that, the evangelisation of this
city has not taken hold of the hearts of the
cral statute book, citiaem of the Southern |‘' rh *P* wc »< «h« southern
* — ‘ branch have been too poor or thought our-
■elves to be too Impoverished to attempt to
Btatea will have some protection against I
the arbitrary proceedings and rulings of I
the Federal courts. The Banks county I
sustain vigorous missions at the capital. But
had we cutered this great field fifteen years
boyfl could not have been convicted if their I ago as missionaries to the poor,tho result of our
counsel could have appealed to such a pro-1 labor* would have been seen in more churches
Tision as this. I than one. I am sure that no city lu all this
I land offers a more Inviting field or deserves
the
The Senate very wisely sounded a truce I more aid from missionary and church extern
until Monday after the fearful bombard-1 »lon fund.
meat of Fita-Jokn Vovtei by Jobs Logan. It is not improbable that there ia a
Two other great engagements occurred I wide Held for honest missionary effort
about the »me time. At Back-Ninh the I in the Federal capital. There U pro-
ground was strewn with pigtails, wooden I bably work enough in this country for
■ > W®’ Intenpenjed with I a)1 wll0 ar0 d i gpoted to devote them-
gaudy uniforms and white | gelvea to tho religioua enlightenment
tetore Suato^ - the “ ltd ot thelr fellow creatures, without going
coeta of the British grenadiers were 'min- l< > ChiQ »- Burmah or Af rica. Be this
gled with the belt naked bodies of the fol- «* ““y.know of no minister in
lowers of Osmsn Digna. On the floor of I Georgia who is better equipped for the
the United States Senate, the cuspidors I work in Washington than Gen, Evans,
overflowing with tobacco juice, heedless I A man of winning address, of fine
write end dislocated adjectives and scat- abilities and of unquestionable piety,
'P«* L h *»“ ®»>y «*> Pi*'"- he might, if assigned to the duty, ac-
sja^ca555sr'hr? , ‘."SK‘ ? r
1 districts to which he alludes.
We trust we ahall bo pardoned this
The Convict Lessees.
Unpleasant rumors continue to reach I suggestion, since we observe that Sena-
witli regard to the action of the I tor Colquitt, quitting hits seat in the
cohvict lessees. We reproduce, for the Senate ohatnlter, luts volunteered to
benefit of all concerned, the following I undertake tho work of looking after the
extract from an editorial article, which moral ami religious welfare of Wash
we printed in the Teleorapr and I ington and other neighboring
Messenger of the 17th of January last: I cities. He has devoted himself
The lease to a profitable one to the leaaeea, I alternately to planting,
and they at course desire that It should re-1 politics, the life insurance business
stain undisturbed. It has bees moss than
suspected that In place of relying npon their |
own good and bamane management to i
mend the system to right-thinking people,
the lessees have endeavored to I
cent. The great majority of people
who come South do so from choice and
for pleasure, and not from necessity.
Nor is it true that Florida furnishes
winter homes for tho majority. Flor
ida is tho centre of interest, hut
the majority of people who go
there in tho winter, spend
tho greater portion of their holiday
outside of the limits of the State, going
and coming. The country south of
Chattanooga, from the Atlantic to Tex
as, is to-day the resting place of thou
sands of these profitable visitors, who
come early in the fall and stay late in
the spring, some even lingering in the
highlands throughout the summers, and
eventually finding permanent homes In
our midst.
Macon should make every effort to
secure a large number of these annual
pleasure-seekers. Situated among the
hills, with as pure air as can be fonnd
on the continent, the best of water, and
educational facilities unequaled in the
South, this city presents exceptional
advantages. ' Unfortunately, however,
we can present no accommodations tor
tbc class of people who come among
on pleasure bent. A hotel to i
commodate this class should
upon the hill, commodious, fitted up
with every luxury and convenience, and
well kept. Such a hotel wc believe
would pay a handsome dividend, even
though costing $300,000. Let our en
terprising business men look about
them and see what con be done in this
respect for what Mr. Beecher lias ex
tensively advertised as the “prettiest
city in America.’’
Sumlay-schools, trade, railroading and
campmeotings—with what success the
reader, it a Georgian, will be at no loee
to determine. Recently he has-been
. in
Tsars Not a Necessary Weakness.
An enthusiastic and somewhat
sane admirer of Mr. Tilden writes
follows:
Mr.TIMen la younger and stronger than
Thiers, who brought liberty and lew out
Louis Napoleon's work. Ho la youuger than
The Presidential Question.
The chief interest tho Southern peo
ple have in the approaching election of
President centers in tho nomination of
a Democrat who can be elected. We
have our choice among the eminent
men who have been named in this con
nection, but the election of any one of
tjiem will be received at the South with
great satisfaction as compared with the
election of a Republican nominee.
The preservation of our institutions,
and the recognition of the supremacy
of the white man in this ill-judged and
little understood section of the country,
is the chief stake the Southern people
have in tho conflict of national parties
With'our accustomed frankness, we
have printed our views witli regard to
tho proposed nomination of Mr. Tilden,
the most eminent and probably the
ablest man in the Democratic party.
We have expressed the belief that it
would bo unwise to the last degree to
nominate him as the Democratic can
didate for the Presidency; and yet
should he be selected as the standard
bearer of the party, he will receive
the support of the party in the
South, as being under any probable
circumstances a more desirable Presi
dent for ns than any man who is likely
to .be selected by the Republicans.
The nomination of Mr. Tilden in 1876
was a wise and proper thing for the
party to do. His nomination in 1880,
though attended with much serious
risk on account of his bodily condition
would probably have resulted in the
sucecss of the party. But his nomina
tion now, when he is comparatively
physical wreck, and when he declares
himself that he is unequal to the duties
of tho'office, and will not consent to it,
is one of those unaccountable things in
modern methods and modern politics
that can only bo explained on the hy
pothesis that a huge fraud on tho party
in process of incubation.
Whether the ultimate object of the
movement is the nomination or defeat
some other man, or the securing
delegations from certain State* that
can be played at the convention as the
gambler plays his cards, or placed to
the credit of this or that candidate for
pay in offices or in shekels, remains to
be seen.
But let us see what Mr. Tilden has to
say on the subject himself. Mr. J. It.
Randall, of the Augusta Chronicle and
Conititutionaliit, a gentleman of Intelli
gence and character, in a published
letter from Washington, says:
A veteran politician just from New York on
tonr of observation, says the Tilden boom Is
assuming huge proportions, but that Mr. Til
den himself 1s a mere wreck and In charge of
keeper or major domo. He says that the men
who manage this movement may be described
commercially as “for Cblcsgo and a market."
They do rtot expect to nominate Mr. Tilden,
but they hope to command the convention for
tbclr owm"usufruct." 1 naked this Informant
what waMho Immediate mcanlngof tbeTIblea
boom, lie answered: “It Is a vigorous effort
kill off Flower." -I queried further:
case loth Tilden and Flower were sup
planted, whom do you thtuk would
next most available candidate?' 1
He replied: “In my Judgment, Stephen
Field would come to the front,
give you this conversation as It occurred.
In a recent interview aa late as last
Wednesday, which we find in the At
lanta Constitution and the Louisville
Courier-Journal, Mr. Tildcn confirms
all that is reported by Mr. Randall in
regard to his shattered health. This
interview la reported to have been ob
tained by young Mr. Howell, son of
one of the proprietors of the Constitu
tion, and no doabt gives the true con
dition of Mr. Tilden as late as the 13th
instant. Mr. Howell says:
I sat near him as he spoke that I
might catch his words, for his utter
ance was feeble and scarcely audible at
a short distance, through some trouble
with the throat.’’
The reporter referred to the desire to
nominate him, whereupon Mr. Tilden
said;
With such recent utterances as these
by Mr. Tilden himself, thoughtful men
will be at a loss to understand the late
movement to force the nomination
upon him. Tho same line of argument,
as the reader will remember, was re
sorted to last year to bring the people
of Georgia to consent to the nomina
tion of Sir. Stephens for Governor. He
might have been alive to-day, and oc
cupying his accustomed seat in Con
gress ; but lie is now in his grave, hur
ried thither by some of the same influ
ences that arc now striving to foist an
other old and feeble man upon the
country. Should they be successful
now as they were then, the party will,
we fear, have another funeral on its
hands, and should be careful whom
they select for the second place on the
ticket.
favor a ^eduction of the revenues of
the people from whom he derives his
own.
Aside from Mr. EstiU’s tariff views,
however, it cannot be denied that he
is in some respects a shrewd business
man. The free trade argument now
circulated in connection with his name,
is an advertisement worth at least
$1,700; so that it may be said his gains
in the late transaction stand as fol
lows ;
By amount saved la the purchase of
an English press 44,300 00
By amount wrung from the type mau-
...... v sooo ^
-00 00
By advertising In the f elegr'af'ii'and
Messenger 1,000 00
Total amount saved >0,000 00
As Mr. Estill was looking fora$6,000
press, it will lie seen that he has made
$3,000, besides getting his press free. If
the American type manufacturer’s first
bid was $3,000 and he knocked off that
amount to keep Mr. Estill from going
to Europe, why then Mr. Estill got his
type and press free of cost, and made
$6,000 clear.
Tho most prominent fact in the entire
transaction witli its history annexed, is
the generous assistance rendered Mr.
Estill’* paper by the Telegraph, since
the Newt in the salt water districts is,
to some extent, a rival. Tho Tele
graph, however, does not claim to ho
over reckless in the handling of such
largi advertisements. Its main idea is
to let the interior Georgia editors know
how to heat the type manufacturers,
and how to get presses dirt cheap.
Perhaps, too, Mr. Estill may be en
couraged to raid the paper and ink
men next.
Evidently the main expense of the
coming publisher will he postage.
Ito
’ESSEXT**'*** I «« A* United State* Senate,
It would b* difficult to conceive of the I an<1 wfU require *11 hi* time an.l *11
trouble nod eoib-rrasameat that would follow | hi* attention, even with attch help ft* , ,
thsthrowlwg of the conviris hack npon tho |, e may receive from FenatorBroke, Gladstone, whoso genius yet guide* the
hands of the autoload of the roctal and poUL I .. dischsre* satisfactorilv th* dntlaa of I tau »* Britain. He Is far younger than
leal consequences: bat we ars free tosey. and I” , Btl '““Issmii— -a -ut
take this occasion to do so, that we shall stand | *' ,B ‘ '‘HP* office, tte submit, there-
ready to jam In aa Inquiry as to whether some f" r o._that it wiU be best for him and
better system may nos be devised, if
mrs. mu u win ue neat tor turn and
l*-*t£f‘,rhig constituents, to confine him-
I in debauching men and demoral-
Ixingpabtl/v sentiment. It would require s
trained msd accomplished casuist to deride
which would to Ito (faster evil to the Cute.
Ito trisaw of etwnr convict sow lu chains, or
0 government run by the creatures cf a,
»>c* .
he leave the missionary field to be
workesl bv one who i* better fitted for
it, and whose vocation ami calling it is.
Aosxti should not fail to see our
offer of premium* elsewhere in this ta
ll
William, whoa* hand atUI snaps tha empire
of Germany.
Mr. Tilden is not so old a* M. Thiers,
but the Utter never saw Ute day when
he wa* physically and mentally so frail
a* Mr. Tildcn ha* been these four years
past. Mr. Tilden i* younger thar. Mr.
Gladstone or the German Kaiser.
This b about the unfortunate argu
ment used by Mr. Stephens in reply to
Yea, *nd I appreciate It; but I will not al
low the use of my name. 1 know that I re
formed the politics of New York ten yean
I was more then than now. It would be
an herculean task to undertake to reform mat
ters now of the general government after
twenty yean of misrule and mismanagement.
Corruption has become Used, and the most
vigorous efforts will be necessary to eradicate
It. I do not feel that my condition would
allow me to oope with it. In my letter four
yean ago I stated why I would not allow
the use of my name. It waa discredited for
tbs same reasons I now urge. They have be
come stronger, for I am four years older, and
am more Infirm now than then. I would nrge
that the Idea be dlacontlnued, for It la not
right that I should undertake to do that which
I am pbyalcally unable to do."
“Whom, then, do yon consider the most
available man for the Democracy?"
He slowly shook his head aa he replied:
“Well, I don't know. Iloadly la a good man.
lUaatrength with the Western Btatea would
odd greatly to hta chances of success. With
the German voter he is very popular, and he
would prove generally acceptable. Payne
would be strong and could make a splendid
nee. Ant Randall Iran admirable man and
who would serve bis parry and country faith-
tally."
“Where, In your opinion, will the Republi
can nomination be placed?"
“On Blaine or Arthur, I suppose.”
“What, Governor, do you think wtU or
should be the leading Issue of A* Democra-
We print an interesting article in
another column this morning on the
comparative excellence of seedling
peaches and those grown on budded
trees. We should lie glad to hear from
other orchardists and nurserymen on
this question.
The production of early fronts and
vegetables has assumed such propor
tions in the South Atlantic States, and
particularly in Georgia, as to render it
a matter of general interest to the peo
ple. Along all our railway lines from
Savannah and Thomasville to Chatta
nooga and Toccoa City, gardeners and
fruit growers meet with ready sale for
their surplus products, and each year
finds them setting out new trees and
experimenting with fresh varieties of
vegetable seeds.
With regard to the peachtree, there
is a growing disposition in some
quarters to question tho modern prac
tice of discarding the seedlings and
adopting the budded varieties. It is
contended by the advocates of the for
mer that seedlings are longer-lived,
suffer less from cold ami frost, produce
more perfect frait, and that the fruit
though mnturingsomewhat later, comes
at a season when tho supply of vegeta
bles ltavi ng been meosnrahlyexhausted,
the peach gives the greatest pleasure.
They contend also, that the desire for
new and early varieties lias proceeded
to Bitch length as to render it difficult
now, if not impossible, to procure the
better kinds of seedlings, except possi
bly at remote points in tho
interior not yet penetrated by the mod
em nurseryman. Indeed, the fear is
entertained that the choicest varieties
of the seedlings have been lost, and
that it will be impossible to reproduce
them.
On tlie other hand, it is claimed
that the same improvement has been
made in the quality and variety of tho
poach that is observed everywhere in
vegetables, grapes and flowers, and
that it would be as unwiso to go hack to
the old seedling peach, however good
in Its time, as it would be to seek our
grapes in the forest among tin fox and
winter varieties, or to return to the
little marble-sized tomatoes of the last
generation, or to the inodorosn country
rose to which tho ladies of that day
were restricted. Tlie fruit industry
has become an important item of trade
within tho post few years, and tho de
mand for early and improved varieties
of peaches particularly, Is imperative
and widespread. This want, the nurs
erymen contend, can only bo supplied
by orchardists who select tho trees
that mature their fruit earliest,
and later on in such regular
and well ascertained succession
as to cover the period of profitable de
mand. An orchard constituted of
trees that ripen their fruit in continu
ous succession from May to October, is
a valuable adjunct to tlie farm,and more
profitable and desirable every way, in
the opinion of nurserymen, than an
orchard of the best verities ot seedlings
can possibly be. Admitting that the
latter last longer and suffer less injury
from cold, they still claim that the bal
ance of both profit and pleasure ia tn
their favor.
We are without the necessary ezpe
rience to justify us in venturing on
opinion on the subject. Whilst the
facts and argument seem jo he on the
side of the nurserymen, we shall be
glad, nevertheless, to have the views
of others who may feeldisposed to dis
cuss the question in articles of reasona
ble length.
against the treaty was Senator Brown
of Georgia. Senator Colquitt was ab
sent, but if present he would doubtless
havo voted the other w»y, as he did
when the vote was taken on a former
occasion. The treaty admits sqgar and
other Mexican products free, and this
it is feared, will lie a fatal blow to the
sugar interests of Louisiana.
We do not know on what grounds
Senator Brown bases his opposition to
the treaty, but it is understood that he
is opposed to free trade, and in favor 0
protection of home industries an<
American labor. This, if true, as we
have no doubt it is, will account satis
factorily for his voto against the ratifs
cation.
Wo refer to the matter for the pur
pose of making an inquiry of our con
temporaries in Georgia, who are muc]
given to finding fault with the T*u
oRAPti and Messenger for its views on
the tariff question. Many of them are
friends and supporters of Senator
Brown, who entertains tho same views
on the subject that wo do. Wc wish
to know what they arc going to do
about it? Theiraltacks on this joumil
arc rather amusing—especially since it
is plain tliat a majority of them will be
on our side in a few years. Has not
the Atlanta Conttilulion itself, but re
cently the uncompromising champion
of a revenue tariff, strnck its colors and
come over to us? But what will those
free trade journals that still remain
without the fold—warm advocates and
supporters of your undo Joseph—wh»t
do they propose to do with him for vot
ing against their pet theory of free
trade?
We pause for their reply.
The WhlppInR Post.
For years past Republican journals
have busied thetnselves with frequent
denunciations of the whipping post as
a “relic of barbarism.” Delaware, a
State that very wisely flogs her smnll
and mean criminals, comes in for very
heavy denunciation whenever the sen
tences of her lower criminal courts aro
executed. For tlie reason that some
of the States of the South desire
to escape the heavy expanse and
the waste of time attendant upon the
trial and punishment of small offenders
by tho establishment of tlie whipping
post, the negropliilists of the North
have been aroused to loud indignation.
From nowhere have the howls come
louder and more frequently than from
the State of Massachusetts. But even
Massachusetts is still capable of learn
ing something.
On Tuesday last the House of Rep
resentatives of the Massachusetts ‘Leg
islature, passed a hill providing that
wife beaters should bo publicly whip
ped, after conviction. It should he
passed by the Senate. There is no
meaner or more cowardly offense
against human and divine law than
wifo beating. It is an amnsement very
popular among the colored statesmen
of tlie South, and one that entails
heavy expense upon the body politic.
When Massachusetts goes to whipping
the white brutes who maltreat helpless
women in that State, she may be con
vinced that the whipping post is a most
ready and efficacious remedy for small
offenses, and tlie practice clang to
courageously and tenaciously by little
Delaware may yet become general in
its appliance.
Allen D. Candler.
Replying to tho inquiry, whetherXl.
Candler will be re-elected to Congress,
the .Villon County Democrat answers:
Certainly he will, because his friends desire
It, Ills enemies dread it, and tho Democracy ol
the ninth Congressional district, never un
grateful, will support him oven more strongly
than it did In his former election.
Political Straws.
The MUledgeville Union says 1830 was
the time to renominate Mr. Tilden. It is
now too late.
All the leading dally papers In Georgia
are opposed to the nomination of Tilden,
except the Atlanta Conttitution and the
Augusta Chronicle. The Chronicle is not
enthusiastic about tt, however.
The Rome Courier says there are thirteen
daily papers in Georgia,only three of which
support Mr. Tilden, and that of the one
hundred and fifty weekly papers in the
State, twenty-fiv* can't be named that an
helping tn blow tho “hnhhls” that was
‘bubblingover" for Uncle Samuel.
There are hardly any Tilden men hi
South Carolina, Florida. Alabama. Missis
aippt, Arkansas, Texas or latulsiana. There
seems to*be a few about Atlanta and some
In Augusta. The S»uth will bs saiil
against the old man this time.
CeorRla Patents.
Mr. H. N. Jenkins, solicitor of patents,
Washington, D. C-. officially reports to the
TfLaosArit and MasszNoan the following
complete list of patents granted Gcorps
Inventors for the week ending March U,
1884: Wm. E..Elsm, Antericu". temii
ry binders; David C. Camp. Athens,
cnnnit-al motor ;'John T. Forty, IatGranpc
ortahle counter; D. A. C. & J. F. Funder-
• mrk, Ilninbrldge, plow; Ii. C. Locket,N.
W. English and J. W. Murphy, Atlanta,
Irick-drying kiln.
Makinq Love to bias. Siddons.—Talley
rand asked if Fox lmd not been "fresse
enpe dr Mine. Siddons." "Oil, no." said
Brougham, “that was not ;>o-dblc; oat
might os well have thought of loving the
sea, os Siddons. She was of far too tiigh
The Color Lins In Uborla.
The tendency among the negroes is
to draw the line between those of pure
blood and mnlattoes. They ltnve had
trouble of this kind in Hayti, and it
crops out here in tlie South to a greater
or lesser extent during every political
campaign. It lias become the con
trolling issue in tlie politics of the Re
public of Liberia. The constitution of
that republic erects a Ixtr against all
men of white blood. They cannot
hold office and are restricted
in thoir rights of citizenship. Tho
black negroes new propose to bar out
the yellow ones.
J. J. Roberts, Liberia's first
president and the Georgo Wash
ington of that country, was defeated
when ho last ran for office on
the color issue. Ho was very fair, al
most white, in fact, and a native of this
country. Tlie Liberians now have a
black president, who is a native of Af
rica, and tho colored or mixed people
are given to understand that they arc
not wanted. Very few colored people
can now be induced to go to Liberia,
tho disposition being to let Liberia he
purely a black republic.
an order of beings to inspire lore. TEa
East India company might perhaps hast
dared to love Iu-r—nothing short of that''
—Letter! from thrf/iay of limey Q ■
A Cood Tim* Coming.
Every now and then some astute
provincial editor discovers a mares
nest in connection with the protective
tariff policy of Ute government. The
latest sensation brought to our notice
is the assertion that Mr. Estill, of the
Savannah Nttei, concluded to purchase
a new $0,000 press, and was enabled to
get one from England $4,300 cheaper
than in America,counting in the freight,
custom duties and drayage; also that
Mr. Estill concluded to purchases
large lot of type, and when he threat
ened to order it from England, the
American manufacturin', evidently to
savehimaelf from ruin, immediately
knocked off $3,000 from h!§ first hid
secured the order and made Mr. Estill
a free trader beyond the possibility of
reform or hope of redemption.
That is, Mr. EatUl was made a face
trailer beyond the possibility of reform
or hope of redemption, except in the
matter of rice. Rice is a leading pro
duct in Mr. Ettiil’s Wiwick, and
would be expecting too much of poor
human nature to require Mr. Ettill to
Or* KEokiurf u th« real tMtof a tobacco
Ii ! • :• <f t. v .»> f ml- *u..r k.iti .-ft
more dirvctljr at Uie flayer anti fr«*ra*ce.
You taka the cooler, an<l the tonic
dataller and safer. 1*1 j o unokinf Is
► :• i... It"* ftt.«- art
Th* mot* the Qtimlon of aanlters^l
Iteeu on tho attention of
iketnbU It
' prsdaely what yon
tobacco fores* i
U Dhcfciisir* B*> Ditto 1bdMhT»
I I baeeo yon have s ifiJartntte,
hlwray», that it H Nature’*
ownunc.lulteraU'sli r duct
IU frBaranets flat- r, ar. 1
i.imiri juahty.are 1-
In the Hands of Friends.
If we may believe the reports sent in
by the members, the engineer corps
engaged upon the survey ot the Macon
and Florida Air-Line railroad hove
been captured bodily by the good citi
zens of Quitman. Upon their entrance
into that enterprising little city, the
engineers were seized and entertained
in a most hospitable manner. Every
want was supplied, and the members
of the corps were not allowed to spend |
a cent while in the limits of the cor-
poration. Moreover, after a dcpar-1 t—
tore hail been effected, the generous <C
boots followed them into camp and set I CC
up a bountiful aupper. . jJ
But that we have every confidence r*^
In tjie level-headed men who arc en
gaged upon the survey, we should be |
disposed to think thathoweverstraigbt
the line may be elsewhere, it must zig-
in the neighborhood of Quitman.
C LAO^iSMLU bs, 1
MERRILL’S
INFALLIBLE
Free Trad* Organs In Coorgla.
The proposed Mexican reciprocity
treaty has been ratified, aa was stated
in these columns some days ago.
Tlie treaty allow* the exportation
and importation of certain raw materi
als and mannfactnres of either country
free of duty. Southern Senators di
vided, some voting for ant! some
against the ratification. The same is
true of Northern Senators.
Among the members who voted
cncwnrra ion