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THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH AND MESSENGER, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19. 1884.
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H. C. HANSON, Mnnger,
Macon, Georgia.
C^ir.i
IfErDEMCAN polltici brought a North
illna editor to rum and then suicide.
Caries Harrison ia billed for a number
of “yawps" in Ohio. Who will care for
Illinois now ? -,
Joint Looar continues to bombard the
^English language and to wave the bloody
shirt simultaneously.
It is charged that Lula Hurst and Joe
Harris-are cousins. Now we know where
Lula got her fatal beauty.
Eirmtci BuLL is going to Europe to pose
ms a hero. Well, Grant passed for a hero
in Europe, why not 8. Bull?
The bill boards and cool nights betoken
the coming «f winter, but the sun reminds
ns that summer is with us still.
Loess's moustache Is in a dilapidated
condition. He is not the first man to lose
hair in a hard fight.
Our gun club has borne off the honors
and prises at Brunswick. It may be un
derstood that Macon is on the shoot.
Frost and a killing one has appeared as
low down as West Virginia. A good rain
may bring un early one to this latitude.
Now thahtbe baseball season has doled
a British crank proposes to have a little
hall play aMfisgara. (There will be a lost
hall.
The’Civilisation of the red man grows
apace. .An Indian brave has just died in
Texas from the fashionable complaint,
BrigUPs disease of the kidneys.
The political ennuebs of Washington
City have ratified the nomination of Cleve
land and Hendricks. This may beimport
ant, bat it reminds one of a deaf man at a
musical entertainment.
Oua Bibb county farmers will do well
■to keep a. sharp eye on the enterpris
ing Grangoraof Cobb. The farm product
premiums oi -Blbb should remain at home.
Cobb and other counties can struggle for
blue ribbons.
Kino Hoxlekt goes like an angel of
mercy among his suflering people. Tb«
prieet who accompanied him has been
stricken down by his side. The prayers o(
good peofAc follow after the stricken priest
and the braveLjig.
Col. MaQL.xx,of the Philadelphia Timet,
warns Blaine not to take the stump, for
the reason >that soch action will certainly
defeat bln. A -supporter of Cleveland
onght to help'Blaine on every stomp in
the land.
tA yellow ivxzwo makes os wondrous
kind” when we know that the feUoyt- who
docs the feeBng iasipt to hold afatofflocat
his disposal. Now, despite hi* politics,
alwayc did eqy that Blaine was magnetic.”
—B. F. Butler.
Gxoeoe W.-Gaels is charged with being
In favor of social equality. This will ad
mit George to the love feast annually held
in “Uncle Tout'a Cabin,” bat it may result
in his.beiog kicked.cat of every white
mtn'sdocrin ilicSouth.
"Jim Blaise to -the Front" is the name
of the net. campaign song. The idea ia to
give Jim a showing. He was in the rear
during the wor, when, the favored few
were making reputations, and his friends
now demand that hebe given a chance.
0 or country cousins from Atlanta, Au
gusta, and other rural places, can enjoy s
treat by coming to eee our new Opera
House ntxt week. Come along. The by
. ciders is’.aii net run u««r you, and w<
won’t let the street sprinklers throw water
n you. »
Kit Waasmt srakee up Tennessee jour-
caalism by assuming control of the Chatta
nooga JkwwcnU. JVe congratulate the
Mcmocrat and return our acknowledgments
that Kit'e -first work embraces kind and
juat words forth. Macon TxLiuaarH and
Kessexuer. a greatly feared and muchly
sanllgDed journal.
Col. Jorci,.the Blaine poet laureate, is
aocuted ol stealing a poem from Ella
'Wheeler. As the Colonel eerved a term In
tliepeniteniiiry. it is not bard to believe
that hie old bahitscliqgtohlm. But what
punishment could be sufficient for any
one who would steal a poem from Col.
Joyce or Ella Wheeler?
JohkJIcllitan, the slugger, has retired,
ami proposes to turn his attention to poli
tics. Boston will perhaps send him to
Congreee. Mr. Gnliy.apriu fighter, sat
in the English parliament, and John Mor-
rissy represented a New York district in
the American Congress. John Logan—
well, John Logan has slugged his mother
tongue.
The New York Telegram sends out a
picture of Miss Moroaini, the young lady
who eloped with her father 1 ! coachman. She
is laid to be a fine musician and appears
with a violin at rest. The picture presente
her as a fice looking young woman. If the
old man refuses to corns round, the coach
man cau drive an electric oil wagon, and
ids wifs can play the fiddle. Then's
money if not millions in ft.
And now U appears that the Hon. Ham
ilton Kish, of Grant's cabinet, the gentle
man whom Doo Piatt was wont to call
“I’r-rerved Fish,” cannot tnut the Demo
cratic party, and will vote for Blaine. The
business men of the country hare not been
willing to trust the Democratic .party for
theae several years, on account of its un
certain attituds towards economic quee-
tioni.and hence it has been unable to reach
power.
IHeneas In the Lowell of the South,
For more than a year we have been
-engaged in repeated efforts to awaken
public interest to the dangers that
threatened our cotton factories. But a
few days since we called attention te
the fact, that this interest was in such
unsatisfactory condition that sufficient
machinery was idle to reduce the con
sumption of cotton 2500 bales per day.
Simultaneously with this the an
nouncement was made that the Enter
prise Factory at Augusta had suspend
ed work. But a day elapsed when the
further announcement is made that
th%John P. King mill will stop Mon
day and the Augusta factory as Boon as
the stock on hand is worked up.
The general reader may pass over
these items without noticing them, but
they are ominous of trouble. They tell
the story of a widespread and universal
depression, the end of which may so
stun and cripple this important indus 1
try in the South as to postpone for
years its farther development.
IVe -have been told by enthusiasts
and impracticables that our advan
tages were so great that we had noth
ing to fear from any policy, times or
competition upon -which we might fall,
When warnings were given that the
highest skill and energy were requisite
to enable us to successfully compete
with -the older cotton manufacturing
States, men were found who were
ready to question their truth or patri
otism.
The present situation, however, will
impress all thinking men that we have
been grossly deceived by those who
have furnished the statements upon
which our false and enthusiastic calcu
lations have been made.
No argument is required to prove
that manufacturing in and around
Augusta lias been as ably conducted
and has paid as well as at any other
point in the South. The dividends of
the Augusta factory, Graniteville and
Langley mills for fifteen or twenty
years, compared with the records of
mills at any other point, will settle this
question. Here the mills have been in
charge of practical men whose abilities
will compare very favorably with the
best mills of New England, to say
nothing of the South. The presidents
ol the Augusta companies, who have
disposed of products and managed and
controlled the finances of the different
corporations,- have been, without ex
ception, men of experience and
ability.
-We conclude reasoning thus; That
when Augusta,-with her cheap and
efficient water power, her high
grade of manufacturing talent, and the
ability that marks her business men,
who are at the head of her cotton mills,
shuts down for want of paying demand,
there is no place in the South where
the manufacture of cotton goods is on
any better basis.
We fail to discover any evidence that
the mills of New England are in worse
condition than thoee of the South. If
this is truo the inquiry is pertinent as
to our .boasted advantages in cotton
manufacturing. If we have them we
have not yet demonstrated that we can
utilise them.
It might be well to investigate this
question with a view to gettingdownto
bottom facts. Experience is a bitter
school, but its instruction is generally
impressive and permanent.
Ths Irish Vote of the South,
A special dispatch of the Fhiladel-
phia JVssi, purporting to he sent bom
Augusta under date, of the 0th fast.,
says that “thore is quite a commotion
among the Democrats of Georgia over
the late letter of Mr. Walsh.”
It farther says: “The great bulk of
the Irish voters of Augusta and Savan
nah'will .vote for Blaine, and boldly
say so in public places.”
if .there has been any-commotion it
has failed to arrest our attention. Mr.
Walsh was criticised by -a journal or
two, hut lie very speedily and effectu
ally silenced them by a couple of edi
torials. The thinking mon of Georgia
recognise tlieoituation as described by
Mr. Walsh as correct. They recognize
the fact that ho is a c-uul, osreiui and
intelligent man, and that he wax fully
informed before giving expression to
his views. It is,but natural that Irish
men in Savannah and Augusta and
everywhere else should resent the
treatment bestowed upon Joba Kelly
and his fellow-meuliers of Tammany.
They recognize him and them as Dem
ocrats of veteran service, and de
plore the folly that would seek
drive them out of the
party at the instance of the New York
Herald, the New York Timet and or
ganizations that are and always have
been Hostile to Tammany.
Their indignation may have (bund
rent in strong language, for Irishmen
generally are given to speaking
plainly.
But we speak by the card, when
e say that we have not
encountered better Democrats than
the Irishmen of Augusta and Sa
vannah, nor those who have given
more freely of their means and
personal efforts. Now that John
Kelly ami Tammany are about, it is
claimed, to indorse the national ticket,
the great cause of grievance is likely to
be removed. Any defection among the
Irish from Cleveland must be ascribed
to other causes, the unfitness of the
candidate himself ora platform that is
all things to all men. But within our
observation, which embraces the State,
we desire to state that Mr. Walsh and
the Irishmen are all right with the
Democratic party, its true principles
and its real leaders.
Protactlon and Machinery.
The Courier-Journal teems to be
upon tho verge of a protection policy,
though a little clouded yet as to the
relations of the tariff, to machinery
and labor. We quote:
It If the improvement end rapid lntroduc
Ion ol machinery which !■ dole* the work ol
reduction in every department ol induitry.
Machinery li improving textile fabrics, iron In
all Hi branches and wood working of all kinds
If there is any sound argument In protection
—and It is fallacious all through—then the
government ought to go a step further and
prohibit or discourage labor-saving ms.
cblneiy.
Having made this exceedingly simple
and foolish statement, the Courier-
Journal furnishes an answer:
But there Is one surprising thing about
machinery, and that is, taking it In period*,
the greater improvement In machinery the
better wages become. This is true not ooly In
time; it is true in countries. Where we have
little machlnety wages are loweaL India
lacks even the rudeit agricultural Implements;
with Russia, and yet men in those countries
are worth little, laboring In the fields for
about ton cents. Indeed, labor Is so chsrp
capital cannot afford even to pay present
prices for machinery which will do the work
of ten men
And again:
New machinery opens new avenues ol In
dustry, and we have calls for more men, their
wages advance, and this stimulates Invention
and Improvement. When wages are high It
pays to have a machine to do tho work of two
men. though when low It Is bettor to pay ten
cents a day for hand work. So high wages
lead to the IntroducUon of now machinery,
which In turn stimulates wages.
Let us examine all this. Here are
several assertions in the nature of ad
missions :
(1) Improved machinery has affect
ed a reduction.
(2) The greater the improvement
in machinery the better wages be
come.
(3) Wages are lowest in agricul
tural countries.
(4) New machinery opens new
avenues of industry, calls for mqje
men, advances their wages, stimulates
invention and improvement.
So then, to machinery, improved
machinery, is due the prosperity of this
country; the country must be prosper
ous because we have as fine machinery
as the world affords; it is this machin-
ery that opens up new avenues of in
dustry, calls tor more men and gives
better wages. But where did the ma
chinery come from ? Did we sit down as
an agricultural people and buy it from
England? After buying it could we
have paid higher wages and competed
with England? And without these
high wages could invention have
been stimulated and improvement
have occurred? Hardly. But when
protection assured the manufacturer
that he-would reap a profit upon his
products, and the inventor that he
would be paid for his idea, manufac
tories sprang into existence, and ma
chinery home made became cheap.
Protection is the parent of American
improved machinery, and accepting
the Courier-Journal’s theory, is there
fore grandparent of our grand pros
perity. ■
A Democrat In Missouri has triplets in
the family and has given two of them the
namea of Cleveland and Hendricks, hut ia
puzzled about the third, TbeMiaaouri
gentleman ought to aeek to heal thedifl.r-
eneea with the remafaingyoungiter. Why
not call him Kelly.
The Pardon Power Again,
An editorial in these columns a few
days since, based upon the pardon of a
negro desperado caught in the act of
committing a violent crime, has drawn
out a semi-official declaration from the
Chief Executive through our Atlanta
correspondent.
It appears that in the case cited the
Governor -was grossly imposed upon—
by whom it does not exactly appear, or
rather it is not altogether clear upon
whom the harden of blame may rest.
But it is fair to presume that similar
eases have occurred and will occur,
for the opinion is expressed that the
pardon power cannot be restrained by
legislation.
It seems that the business of procuri ng
pardons is active one, participated in
by judges, juries, law officers and the
people generally. The result is that
tliq public is the sufferer. Convicts
who have been insufficiently punished
are turned loose upon the community
to murder, burn and plunder again
perhaps to commit other very grave
offenses. .
The complaint against the people
who sign petitions for the pardon of
criminals is just; it is particularly so
against judges, juries and selicitor-
genezals. Theae officers are selected
and paid to become the conservators
and guardianaot the “peace, good order
and dignity of the State.” Nothing
short of a very plain and extreme
case of injustice should move them
into the pardon-business.
It ia given out that tiie remedy tor
the great and growing evil ia in the
hands of the people themselves. This
is partially true. Criminals would not
be apt to escape punishment for their
misdeeds if men would not aign peti
tions asking tor clemency for them.
The sacred right of petition is much
misunderstood and greatly abused.
The citizen has aright to petition
against abuses in government and leg
islation and to pray tor celief from bur
dens that are not the results of his own
lachesse or defiance of law. But it was
never meant that the citizen
should sign every petition on all sub
jects that may be presented to him.
And yet such has become the rule.
Men will take desperate chances upou
limb and Ufe. They will fight, they
will' jump on and off rolling trains,
They will drink any kind of whisky
and take all kinds of patent medicines
Some will mount wild horses, others
roller skates and some bicycles. There
ia no deed of desperate daring that can
make a large number of men pause and
reflect. But there is not one out of a
million that can summon sufficient
courage to refuse to aign a petition of
any kind under any circumstances.
The consequence is that petitions
tor the moat port are more worthless
tlian the paper upon which they arc
written, tor any purpose, and are not
entitled to serious consideration from
any man who bolda a place of respon
sibility.
The people may keep criminals from
being turned loose upon society
again by refusing to sign petitions, but
this they will not do. Every man is
ready and willing to unload all respon
sibility upon his neighbor. There is
still another remedy.
The Governor of the State is to a
certain extent made a guardian of the
lives and properties of the people. It
is claimed that he is imposed upon by
the people. It is a settled
fact that popular petitions
are not entitled to the reading. The
people would be safe and would feel so,
if they knew that they had a Governor
with sufficient nerve to do with peti
tions what stern editors do with spring
poetry—throw them into the waste
basket. Something must be done to
arrest a great danger. Society will
soon fall before a practice that sets
aside tho judgment of a court and the
verdict of a jury and swings ojien the
gates of a prison upon the petition of
the general mob.
Canada’s Choice.
Recently the Telegram had occa
sion to discuss the plan by which the
British Scientific Association proposes
to boycott the United States into a free
trade policy. The paper was prepared
and read bp Mr. Stephen Bourne, and
led to a remarkable scene. The asso
ciation held its meetings in Montreal,
and as soon as Mr. Bourne had con
cluded his remarkable plea for a strict
union of British colonies us against
the States, he was sharply criticised
by Canadian members, who- stated
‘‘that free trade was not fair
trade, that England's trade was
decreasing under its policy, that the
people of Canada were related to those of
the United States in feeling and in inter
est, and that if Canada should ever be
forced to enter into close commercial re
lations with Great Britain or the United
States, the,would have little to lose by
choosing the tatter."
Theso frank statementsfrom the Can
adian scientific contingent almost re
sulted in a riot among the loyal free
trade eunuchs of Great Britain pres
ent, and it was necessary for tbe pres
ident to state {that he did not sympa
thize with the Canadian idea.
England’s selfish commercial policy
is as well understood in Canada as in
India. Thoughtful men yet remember
how under a free trade policy the Can
adian industries went out of existence
and how again protection revived the
sleeping mills and moved the great
wheels throughout theprovinces. How
tong will it be before, to all intents and
purposes, Canadians w It become
Americans in the Yankee sense of tho
word?
' The Campaign.
For a year past we have in season
and out of season admonished our
readers that the Democratic party
could not carry the doubtful States
upon anything approaching a free trade
platform. If any doubt yet lingers in
their minds upon this point, it should
now be removed. The New York
World, appreciating the damage that
would come to Governor Cleveland by
reason of the statement contained in
a letter, written to the Boston Herald,
by Speaker Carlisle's private secretary,
to the effect that Cleveland was In sym
pathy with the Morrison bill, and
wrote letters to New York Congressmen
urging them to support this measure,
denounced the Speaker's secretary as
liar, and asserted that of its knowlodge
Cleveland did not write any such let
ters. Not satisfied with this Governor
,Cleveland permits the World to publish
A denial from him coveringiubstantial-
ly the same ground.
The reasons for this action on the
part of the Democratic candidate and
his recognized organ in the doubtful
States, are apparent to those who are
reading up both aides of this cam
paign.
The New York Tribune uni the^I’hil
adelphia Press, both of which circulate
largely in tbe States of New York
New Jersey and Connecticut, have not
let an opportunity .pass to alarm the
people of these States with reference
to the purpose of the Democratic par
ty, touching the tariff. The speeches
so far made by Republicans have dealt
with eameit effort and powerful effeet
upon the position of the Republican
party as the party of proteettou. Even
at this distance from the scene it is
plain that -tliia work ia doing Cleve
land great damage. The World, with
the best of facilities for gauging public
aentiment, acted promptly and vigor-
oesly In tliia matter. The fact thgt
Governor Cleveland saw proper to fol
low the World’s denial of the charges
against him with a formal denial over
his own signature, is the beet evidence
that he understood that he .could mot
permit it to go unchallenged.
There never was a doubt that the
Chicago platform admitted of two con
structions in reference to tbe tariff.
Though this was stoutly denied by
leaders of both the free trade and pro
tection wiogs of the party, it was early
seen and pointed out in these columns
that they could not agree as to what
tbe platform meant or taught. To pre
vent the humiliating spectacle that
now presents itself of a free trade can
vass in the West, under Mr. Hendricks,
Carlisle, Morrison & Company, and
of a protective policy fa the
East under the national committee,
Mr. Randall and, for aught we know,
Governor Cleveland, it was urged that
the latter, in his letter of acceptance,
shouldconatrue the platform plainly, to
as to leave no doubt as to his under
standing of its doctrines, or what his
policy would be in case he was
elected.
That this was not done is now ad
mitted to have been a great mis
take. A tow words then to the
effect that tbe revenues to maintain
the Federal government should be de
rived exclusively from import duties, so
distributed as to protect American
capital and labor, would have settled
the question of what tbe Democratic
candidate for the Presidency favored.
This would have sounded the keynote
of the campaign. It would have de
prived the Republicans of their only
aggressive weapon and would have
left them without campaign thunder
and place l them squarely upon the de
fensive.
As it is the whisky ring in the West
is openly proclaiming that tbe platform
means free trade or it means nothing.
They have captured Mr. Hendricks,
and in defiance of the national com
mittee, in opposition to tbe wishes and
convictions of Governor Cleveland as
per his statement in the World, in the
face of every prudential consideration
for ihe safety of the party in the
doubtful Statos.they have precipitated
a crisis that Cleveland’s organ intim
ntes is for the purposeof accomplishing
his defeaL
Another Batch of Mulligan Letters.
We present in another column the
correspondence between James G.
Blaine and one Fisher, in regard to the
Fort Smith railroad bonds. These let
ters have not been before made pub
lic, but are a part of the correspond
ence, with which the people are famil
iar, known as the Mulligan letters.
They are published just after the
Maine election and at an important
crisis in the present campaign, and the
publication was doubtless intended to
affect the prospects of the Republican
candidate.
We give them in full as part of Un
interesting details of )ha contest Ev
erybody can read them and form their
own conclusions. ’
They do not, in our mind, establish
any more conclusively the relations be
tween Fisher and Blaine than the cel-
brated Mulligan letters, but it may be
said that Uiey strengthen the effect of
tho first series. There can be no doubt
that Mr. Blaine, by the use of his of
ficial position and power, made money
in this transaction. It also fully ap
pears that he was exceedingly desirous
that it should not be used to his disad
vantage at Cincinnati in the Presiden
tial campaign of 1876.
The wires inform ns that Mr. Blaine
expects these letters to be largely pub
lished and read, and in this expecta
tion he is not likely to be disappointed.
The main question is what effect the
publication of these letters are calcu
lated to have upon his Presidential
prospects. We doubt the loss of a
vote. Tho letters give nothing new;
they affix to him the stigma of no
wrong doing with which his party and
the people are not familiar.
As much was known when Proctor
Knott as chairman of a Congressional
committee uncovered the Mulligan epi
sode, as is known now. There is no
new offense charged, though it may be
said that anothercount has been added
to the indictment.
Mr. Blaine has continned to be the
leader of his party, and to he a grow
ing one. Though he lost the Presiden-
tial nomination at Cincinnati by the
inopportune turning off of tbe gas, as
it is charged, he was subsequently
made Senator from Maine and the pre
mier of a Republican administration
The Democrats charged then, as they
do now, that lje was unworthy by rea
son o( official malfeasance or corrup
tion, but his party disbelieved in his
guilt or condoned his offense.
The reasen of this is apparent. Their
leaders were all tarred with the same
stick. Republican leaders had all
grown rich within a few years. The
Shermans, Harlan, Robeson, Carpen
ter and a host of others had bloomed
from impecunious politicians into
bloated bondholders. Even Garfield,
who profiled but little in money, was
smirched from head to foot. He did
not have righteousness enongh to spurn
the lobbyists, nor nerve sufficient, like
Blaine, to strike them deep.
In tbe-ethica of the Republican party
such things as these do not constitute
crimes, and the Northern people will
not cast down their political idols at the
instance sf the Democracy.
What votes Mr. Blaine may lose from
his party ranks havo already gone
under the leadership of George William
Curtia and others, but the.mass of his
party stand close and fast behind him.
The man who has driven his great
rival, Conkling, into private life, and
tins secured the leaderahipof his party,
will not be beaten by the Mulligan
letters.
His fall .can alone be accomplished
by Democratic votes of tbe doubtful
Elates, in our judgment. *
official, and implacable hatred of the
Southern people as the motive that in
fluenced the ( appointing power. To
this we have submitted in silence, be
cause we were powerless. To the
Democracy we have appealed tor re
dress of this great grievance. To its
implied promises to give us relief when
it should come to its own is to he at
tributed the “solid South.”
The IForfd may know of engagements
of which the South ia ignorant. It
may he a party to promises of positions
and honors to Republicans in case
Cleveland is elected that are withhold
from the public. Be this as it may, we
here and now enter our protest against
this treason to the section of tbe coun
try which has felt, as no other
acction has felt or can fee), the necess
Ity tor change. We arecalled upon for
one hundred and fifty-three of the two
hundred and one electoral votes neces
sary to Cleveland's election. We will
do all that is required of us without the
contribution of a cent, the making of
a speech or the firing of a gun. We
will make this record in memory ol the
wrongs of Republicanism, known
to ns through Republican Fed-
era! officials. and with the
hope that Cleveland’s election
will bring ub relief from twenty years
of indignity and oppression. Without
this vote his election, or the election
of any Democrat, is impossible. We
do not intend that our strength shall
be utilized and our right? ignored, or
that the main purpose for which we
are struggling shall be defeated when
the party, through our support, shall
come into power.
The World may as well understand
this. Mr. Cleveland cannot disregard
the universal demand of the Southern
people that Democrats who vote for
him shall fill all Federal positions in
the South.
We ask no pledges of him in refer
ence to this matter, but if this is de
filed us we will have lost all we ex
pected to gain from his election, and it
can then he written that there wilf he
no more “solid South” forever.
A Cain of Perhaps.
Itis not often that evening journals
are quoted upon economic questions;
evening journalistic ta!e"t runs more
to news compilations and sensations
than to public questions. Occasionally,
however, upon dull days, these iter
dinner gentlemen forage in strange
fields and furnish tiieir readers with
queer statements. The Telegram, the
pink-eyed evening daily of New York,
has just produced the following humor
ous addition to the tariff discussion;
The t-utli o* the free trade theory li desn-
onctra-ed, mt onl- byadentiSc deduction,
but by . ractlce. No more comple e proof of
it>t.-uth could b; asked tor tbautti working
between our own Statei-aomemanufactuiln;
communities othera ajlcultural: aeme I
highly civilized u any European country,
othera (till in a primitive Induitrlal. toga.
It would be worse than useless to go
into an argument to show that this
country is enabled to trade freely with
in because of the tariff against outsid-
ere. Nothing is accomplished after an
evening contemporary is convinced.
Bat there can be no seriona harm in
inviting onr pink-eyed friend to take a
view of the beautiful situation present
ed by the reciprocal conditions of tho
manufacturing communities and the
agricultural. Perhaps he will observe
that the manufacturing communities
are bloated bondholders as compared
with the agricultural. Perhaps, also,
it may occur to him that when this en
tire section of the globe was, before
protection, agriculturally Inclined or
rather compelled, England was a fat
manufacturing community, and might,
under like circumstances, become so
Again.
Cl.v.tana'. Federal Appointments.
The New York ItorMcomplains that
the Cincinnati Enquirer, “in the face
of Mr. Cleveland’s letter of acceptance,
is informing its readers that Democrat
ic success in November means the ex
pulsion from office of eveiy Republican
Federal officeholder in the land.”
Well, what of it? IVe know nothing
at the plans and purposes of Mr. Cleve
land touching the Federal appoint
ments in case he is elected. Many of
them have be/n settled by so called
civil service reform. For this
as it stands, like all other
reforms that exist only as cheap
cstohphrsscs tor small political dema
gogues, we cherish profound contempt.
The Republican party has fattened on
twenty years of power. Its members
have filled the Federal offices through
out the land, and have constituted, tor
that period, the larger part pf the ma
chinery employed by this party to per
petuate itself in power. The wrongs
and infamies that have been perpetra
ted upon the people of the South
through the agency of Republican Fed
eral officials cannot be forgotten here,
while this generation lives.
We have seen a system of appoint
ments based npon malice and igno
rance as the only qualifications of an
A Onll for ths Foolkiller.
As the campaign grows in warmth
the political doctrinaires and partisans
begin to exhibit something of a boat of
temper, that is by no means coculated
to inspire faith in the final result.
The Galveston News utteis a vicious
call for the foolkiller, who seems to
have been idle during this campaign.
Itsays;
The suggestion la again urged that the Dem
ocratic national committee ihouhl appoint a
foolkiller, an there la undoubted need of him
iu tbe World office. Cleveland baa more cause
to fear hii foolirh friend* than his relentless
enemies.
Tho Nashville American has this ob
servation to make:
If such fellows as Nelson are to become Wit
nesses. they may beat Cleveland by immitlga
ted lying.
Tbe Courier-Journal holds its ground
as may he seen by the following: .
Men who favor a continuance of protection
will vote for Butler or for Blaine; the only 1
hope for electing Mr. Cleveland Is In getting
or him the vines of those who favor revenue
reform. The tariff Issue must ms be dodged
In this campaign. It ought to he put to the
front ami tho tight made on the line hud down
by Mr. Morrison. If an attempt Is again mado
to change front in the face of tho enemy, the
results may again prove disastrous.
And the Mobile Register unloads
this;
Wattcrson's folly caused the defeat of Han
cock In isso, and If it does not cause Cleve
land's defeat in last ft will not be his fault.
We submit that this is not a promis
ing showing. The liner are not prop
erly drawn and tbe voters must anil
will straggle under tho divided coun
sels of their leader*. It is true that
the extracts given are from Southern
journals, and the South la safe in any
event tor the ticket, but the variance
thus expressed has its counterpart in
tho Democratic presses North, East
and West likewise. We havo no ob
jection to the demand that the national
committee shall turn the foolkiller
loose, armed with his proverbial club.
But it will occur to almost any one
that there ia some uncertainty as to
whom he should and will hit. There is
no danger that he can make a greater
mess than already cxiits. Turn him
loose. The gentlemen of the bond will
please furnish a lively air.
Llchtnlng.
The electrical conference which hu
just closed UK session in thacitj
Philadelphia, tackled lightnh
last day. %'fcis not meant
the conference
ths
this that
leal with elec
tricity during every day of its session
but it saved tho beat for the last. ’
It was decided that “lightning rods
were essential to the safety of building,
in latitudes linhle to stormB.” Tk
lightning rod man will smifo at this*
load up his wagon and ste(! ’
tor the rural districts. But th 6
average citizen will take
little comfort from the conclusion^
the savans, as lightning still pl ays th
deuce with houses already protected
with rods. It is claimed that th ese
rods ore not properly made, attach-
ed nnd buried, and this is perhaps
true, though tho belief had become
general that metallic roofs afforded
the best protection.
Some years since in a publication
indorsed by Prof. Henry, of tho Smith-
sonian Institute, himself a distinguish-
ed electrician, it was given out, that
from gathered datu and statistics it
was impossible to say whether light
ning rods afforded protection or not.
It was fitting that an electrical con
gress should sit in Philadelphia, the
city of Benjamin Franklin, the man
whose experiments with electricity
awakened interest in tho subject.
What strides have been made in this
interesting study may be gathered from
the fact, that many new inventions
were examined and discussed, that'
electric lights shone around, in a city
whose municipal government, it is
said, once ordered all lightning rods to
be taken down, during a severe drouth,
because it was thought that ly s#ne
subtle and unknown process of absorb
ing electricity,they prevented rain.
A Pernicious Practice.
The Chronicle and Constitutionalist
observes:
There ere some Atlanta men who appear to
take delight In furnishing sensational specials
to Eastern and Western journals, much to the
detriment ol this State.
It is at least remarkable that oar Au
gusta contemporary has so long over
looked a very pernicious practice.
For sometime back these “specials”
as they are called, which creato sensa
tions, exaggerate facts and misrepre
sent and defame individuals, have ex
cited the contempt of a large number
of people.
It is safe to say that none of the
Northern hirelings sent down SoHth,
not even Iloward Carroll, have done
such dirty and defamatory work as
contained in some of these specials. It
is a surprise that decent journals toler
ate them, much less pay for and pub
lish them. They invito tho attention
of the law. If it shall be found to be
impotent, the rawhide will bo com
pelled to try its efficacy. The liar and
slanderer will sooner or later bo brought
face to face with proper punishment.
Journalist nnd Politician.
The Newberry (8. C.) Obterver sayB:
A ne wipe per should be entirely and abso-
lute.y free from the influence of any and every
man who hold* office or aspires to one. It Is
an Acknowledged fact that a newspaper which
becomes the organ or mouthpiece of a politi
cian U unworthy of public confidence. A
newspaper that cm be hired to AdvAnce the
aspirations of a politician It despised And dlt-
trusted. Doe§ It change tho principle when
the newipuper belongs to the politician, and
he cao use It with hire?
We reproduce it, to givo it a fervent
and emphatic indorsement. A news
paper that is tho organ of any man or
set of men cannot be independent in
the formation and expression of its
opinions. It cannot in gucIi a contin-
tingency stand as between tho people
and the politicians to do j isticotoboth.
The Coachman.
N. Y. World.
The prejudice against coachmen is evi
dently a peculiarity of American patri
cians. Tbe other day a distinguished par
ty of Frenchmen sat down to a dinner in
Paris, and it was discovered that there
were thirteen at table. It was necessary
to overcome that fatal predicament, and
a coachman was brought in. Uc sat next
to a cabinet minister and proved to be not
only a polite and. intelligent gentleman,
but the life of tho party.
Can This be True, Too*
Cleveland Plaiodealcr.
In the event of Mr. Cleveland's election.
hl« daughter will preside over the White*
Hi>um.
Newest J.tck-Stones for tho Little Jacks
New York Evening Poet.
The newest “jack-stone*” forcbildren’s
u*e are made of tiny bag* of silk, about an
inch and half long, tilled with rice or shot.
A Social Regulation Oo-n In Teins.
Nacogdoches New?.
According to etiquette, a young man
should not ait in tho window when be
goes to see his sweetheart.
Bucklen'e Arnica Salve.
Th«' hej-t salve in the world U>r rut-,
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever
sores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblains,
ruptions. and p<
corns
ly dll res piles <>i
guarantee to gi
money refunded
For -u l»* by I .am
X y t
Itis
kitfaction or
nts per box.
A War Worn Veter
Another holder r.f i
“ dr *
Surprised.
rt of ticket
Fizxci makes way with the Chinns i
tatlly ou land as on water,
. , ne 175,000 August IS, in the
Ixraiaiana .Stale Lottery, collected his
money yesterday. Mr. fx>uis Seymour
presented his ticket, drew his check and
wn^ perfectly ccci and pieusant. lie is, a
native «,f Memphis, wai at the battle of
wider < i eii era I i:. I ; r , ir ,i n 4
health, impaired in tho army, was much
worse and became here to benefit himself
amlhe.hs* worked on the world's fair
buildings In New Orleans. He has stuck
to It steadily for nearly fire month*. He
believed In luck, and n»\*r failed to pur-
ebaa* • ticket in tbe Slfit lo^
tfry.—Aar Ofloim I’icttyunc,
A Desperate Lover.
Clevilahd. O., September 17.—Last
night Leon Fry made a proposal of mar
riage to Mrs. uarman, a widow, of Ilerner
Centre. Being rejected, he drew a revolver
*nd shot Mrs. Carman, inflicting a severe
but not necessarily fatal wound. Suppos
ing lie had killed Mrs. Carman, Fry went
to a neighbor's, procured a shotgun, and,
nutting tho muzzle to his mouth, blew hi*
head oil.
That Surplus.
Memphis Avalanche.
No use bothering about that one hundred 1
millions surplus In the treasury. The Mis
sissippi river commission can caiUy ipend'
It ou willow mattresses.
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