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THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH AND MESSENGER, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19. 1884. THE TELEGRAPH & MESSENGER. Dally and Weekly. The Teixoraph and Messenger Is pub. lisbcd every <ta; except Monday, and weekly CYcry Friday. The Daily la delivered by carrier* fci the city or mailed postage free to subscribers at si per mouth, 12 so for three months, to tor six mouths or 110 a year. Tre Weekly (i mailed to laUicrlbeTS, pos tage Iree, at *150 a year. 75c. for six months. To clubs of five a year, and to clubs of ten »l per year, and an extra copy to getter up at club of live or ten. , , Transient advertisements wilt be taken for netJAiLY at -1 per square of ten lines or less for the Orbt insertion, and fifty cents for each anbtequent insertion; and for the Weekly at gl per square for each Insertion, Liberal rates to contractors. ... . . Rejected communications will not be re- s'nrresnondenee containing Important news ns .li,.11--i.■! s of living topics, Is solicited, aut must be brief and written upon but one «de of the paper to have attention. Remittances should be made by Express, Honey Order or Registered Letter. Agents wanted in every community in the State, to whom liberal commissions will be • -paid. Postmasters are especially requested AUcommunlcatlonsshould be addressed to 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. 1*31. Avffuxt