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Thank..IvinK Day. j lie makes :l -n
It has been said that only war can After referring
stion
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heavy re-1 p
• sufficient to say .
operty cannot b<
Tbs* It is an i spitty 'tis, 'tis true.-J. A.
In Boston lliey have been trying the cor
porate limits.
Eoitob Watterson is as elastic as a pa
tent election bulletin.
Now all hands turn In and help elect the
New Orleans Exposition.
John A. Loo ts has the privilege now of
spitting upon the returns as they come In.
Tub secret wires of the Republican party
must be put under ground. So say the
people.
Nbw Hampshire reports an earthquake.
qy e believe there has been something of a
shaking up.
AVuo are these valiant men in New York
shouting *‘By the eternal,” and where were
they in 1876?
General Gordon has been killed again.
The eccentric Englishman seems to have
as many lives as a eat.
Willie Waldorf Astob resigned the
ministership to Rome as soon as he heard
■« ni the election,
the ream.
Some say Mr. Beecher did it, and some
•ay it was Mr. Barchard. The preacher ie
n strong man in politics.
‘ Lamas costumes on the banks of the
Nile," is the way a headline artist puts it;
but why the "a” on “costume”?
There are not Unking symptoms'of a
lively racket in the future. The mention
ot Randall’s name for a cabinet position
stirs the bile of tho free traders.
The Galveston Newt desires tho Morri
sons and Carlisles tu lord it over the
Bandnlls and Pulitzers. Possibly the lat
ter may have something to say about it.
The Republicans are very much dis
tressed over the war talk of certain Demo
cratic leaders. Poor fellows; they cannot
understand how anybody can jest at inch
n time as this.
Even New Yorkers cheered when the
magnificent new Cunarder, the Umbria,
floated into the harbor a day or two since.
She Is the largest vessel afloat, the Great
Eastern excepted.
Casl Schobtz may be excused lor occa
sionally besprinkling his Motart music
with frajmeDte of a fandango. The old
man haa not yet been thoroughly robbed
down and wiped off
It will be observed that all the threats of
war come from New York. The Southern
man now does not even carry his plug to
bacco in his hip pocket, lor fear his mo-
tiona may bo misconstrued.
The cases ol two murderers sentenced
0 be lr snged emphasizes the fact that law
yers and courts and Judicial trials fail to
find highly Important evidence that come*
to light Just as the gallows is bnllt.
Loan r>» Oset, while bunting alone recent
ly on the Yorkshire estate of lord Rlpon,
UUed 308 partridges In a single day.-KnglUh
P *Kr*n a nobleman will shoot birds on the
gronud when hunting alone.
Osc* more has Kbartonm fallen I Again
has Gordon perished 1 Bat isn’t this all
getting to be altttie monotonous? Give ua
a man at the other end of the cable whose
Imagination is a llttleraoro variegated so to
*aj- .
Iv there is going to be a row in New
York, Senator Brown ought to send on a
carload of his pike, to the Democratic
.»i.. u i* seme; to ** r . l h« Spw
Yurk Ripublicans must be abaolutely an
nihilated. ^
Pan Butler h'is g me down to Washing-
ion. As Ben will not have any use for his
palatial residence there this winter, he
probably desires to have tho fences mended
nrd the steps scrubbed In time for the
rentingseason.
A CurfAOi . J ' r inis inherited, fortune
In EnilY>J vaiu- <1 i 1 <> (COOM It lakes
ft 1.1 ’ Sinn t • dreg ,1 Cote IT ■ id tor out cl
,1,-rn ii.Ui. b it | i-rp'e .ilinotcr ticUe
iiniu ni I’rosidiii e. Tie
•llsient.
this (
worn-
Til* Sin hi i‘« Uinta great deal of fun
. remains a'ei'. There is meat in this.
When the ri'al e| pbcants for county post
cHlcis login io come in to entertain their
faithful Urngreisional representatives, lire
circus will Indeed open,
It is said that there never has been seen
gfich a panic among the department clerks
as now exists over the election of Mr.
ffjScievelsnd since it was reported that the
• Block Horse cavalry bad reached the
scuth end of the long bridge.
The artesian well at Leesburg, Florida,
his reached a depth of 450 feet, and tho
jjl ile press unanimously reports that the
d!ill has not yet gotten through llie Demo
cratic majority. When a patty la buried
In Florida it la buried to slay.
Dividin') the offices is what will relieve
the South of the idiots and incompetents
thit have misrepresented her. Thedisap-
imintcd ones will tear down and trample
the fellow whom the rural editors describe
as the able, eloquent and Incorruptible
statesman,
Many prominent Ropubiicsns threatin
to sell out and Jump the country since
i •; velnnd Is to he President This is ail
l„>,h. Most oi IheprominentRepublican
h.re already been sold ont, and few hav
»u mey enough left to jump anythin*.
keep a people excited to fever beat for
more than twenty-four hours; that
when a night has en’ed and a day de
dined, tiro danger point has been
passed. History will give to this
proverb the lie direct. For four days
the American people have been shaken
as the leaves of a forest in the hurri
cane’s grasp, not by war, rumors of
war, nor yet by bloodshed, hut over
the rosult upon which hangs the vote
~f the pivotal State in the late election
Hope and fear underlie all human
action. Until to-day, the possibility of
victory has sustained both political
parties of tho republic; the possibility
of defeat, depressed. Between these
conflicting emotions the people have
been tossed and torn until violence
seemed probable, revolution not un
likely. Ferhaps it is well that the fi
nal result was suffered to foreshadow
its approacli for many hours,
On yesterday morning anxiety, not
merely party, hut patriotic anxiety
was a marked feature of pub
lic thought. No people better
understand the power for evil that ex
ists in a commune; no people have in
their midst a more inflammable, irre
sponsible element than those of the
United States. To those who hung
breathless over the turbulence which
threatened with violence the republi
can spirit of our institutions the sud
den edict of the President appointing
a day of thanksgiving came like apro-
clamation of peace. The danger point
was passed. Men regained self-con
trol. The impending struggle vanished
and conflict took the hne of impossi
bility. The public mind at once sank
to its normal condition. Although the
final result of the hot political fight re
mained unannounced, the great wheels
o’business quickened again, and the
people moved on to work, convinced
that the country was strong onough
not only to bear any decision that
might be made, but strong onough to
make that decision just and righteous
There are those who have never
faltered in their belief that
this Union has adeatlny yet unfulfilled,
a place among j he nations not attained,
a glorious future scarcely dreamed of.
Its birth, its steady growth, its tri
umph over had statesmanship, its de
fiance of arrogant power and royal as
sumption, its vitality and recupera
tive energy, mark it as the instrument
of God in a grand purpose we may
but half define. In the flashes which
have from time to time swept
the nights of her despair,
this purpose has been re
vealed unto us in part. We have seen
howfreedom, civil and religions, brood
ed over the new found dominion; how
supernatural strength armed tho weak 4
how on the land and sea, the winds,
the waves, the equal courage of une
qual force have favored it; how poli
cies that retarded its growth have per
ished ; how opposition has boon an in
strument to advance it; how energy,
industrial, physical and mental, have
been stimulated; how invention haB
enriched it. Aye, more; how
in the gradual unfolding of tho
plan of Providenco, slavery perished
and the system which threatened dis
ruption became tho evidence of a su
premo intention. Wo are Southern,
but we know that to-day tho South,
sharing in the popular government,
with its rights secured, its people free,
its State laws recognized, its people
employed, is nearer its greater future
than the old and well-boloved South.
What human power and a desperate
courage that thrillod the world could
not accomplish by force of arms, be
cause It then threatened the plan of
Providence,to-day lies within the hands
of tho Southern people, won without
the sword; bought without blood. And
as they grasp it with new-found hope,
the prize is dearer, brighter, grander,
in that with the full consent of Frovl
deuce it was won; and the winning
means tho purifying and preservation
of the Union. There is an apparent
element of cruelty in the beliof that
God makes a hero’s fall and failure the
stepping-stone of success. Ho lies,
who says that the blood of the patriots
who fell in tho late internecine
struggle was sited in the wrong.
Tho Creator’s purpose is n?|
bounded by the limits oi human
life. No man can fight upon tho wrong
side who does his duty; and not in
vain falls he who (aits in the discharge
of that which his belief makes liis
duty. Tito friouds of the brave who
sleep in blue or gray have nothing to
regret.
How easy then to say of <hc party
now upon the threshold of tho govern
ment buildings, “Go in peace. Your
i* ended. We, too, are
but instruments in the fur
therance oi a purpose. Wtien
our mission is ended, whether
wo will or not, the power that placed
ns here will declare our seats vacant.”
lie who believe* in the glorious des
tiny of this Union will not find it hard
to say this nor to ttinnk Providence for
tile blessings iqjilch made the belief
possible.
Auctions mado in traffic rate* by the! prevent income if people who own it
commissioners, which were followed get anything upon their capital,
by still further reductions during tho
PrtsM.nt Raoul's Annual Report.
Through the courtesy of President
Raoul we have been furnished with
advance sheets of his forthcoming
annual report to the stockholders of
the Central railroad, for the year end
ing on the 1st of September last.
We regret to note that there has
been a falling off in the earnings of the
road us compared with the previous
year. After submitting the figures
that developed this fact, Captain
Raoul proceeds to point out
tho causes that have con
tributed to it. Briefly summed up,
they are, decreased traffic, owing to
failure of the last cotton crop, and re
duced rates, from the operations of the
railroad law of the State. At this poinl
period covered by this report, lie sug
gests the dangerof estimating the traffic
of a road by the business done in pros
perous rears and the fixing of rates
upon this basis of business, that must
be arbitrarily followed in years of de
pression and light business. While
it is clear that under depressed
financial conditions the pnbiic need
more than in seasons of prosperity
the advantages of low rates, it is also
equally clear that a railroad company
doing business for minimum rates on a
large amount of traffic must lose,
money when the volume of business
is largely reduced, without correspond
ing advance of rates.
There can ho but one business-like
method of dealing with the difficulty
here presented. It is not the part of
wisdom or good policy to reduce the
roads to the necessity in years of light
business of lowering their condition in
point of efficiency to furnish transpor
tation for tho commerce of the State.
It would be equally unwise to force an
advance of rates when the business of
the State could least afford to he
burdened by it. Tho policy, and
the only policy that is sound and wise,
the one that every prudent individual,
firm or corporation observes, is the put
ting by of a fund in years of prosperous
business to assist in bridging over bad
years. Fluctuations in trade will come,
and this will influence the earnings of
every class of individuals and property,
and all adjustments dependent upon
its vicissitudes must in sound policy
be predicated upon average results.
We do not understand the treatment
of decreased earnings of the road by
President Raoul in the nature of a crit
icism upon the railroad commissioners
nor their action. It is, however, a clear
and forcible presentation of the dangers
that threaten the railroad property of
the State, and i» festive 01 a%eeded
change of policy to meet the con
ditions we have indicated. It was
necessary to inform his stockholders of
tho condition of their property and the
influences that affect its earnings.
This report disposes umy effectually
of tho idea that has oReii been ad
vanced, that the roads have been bene
fited by State control. It is shown
that while there was improvement in
the first years under the railroad law,
that this was due entirely to the reac
tion in business generally, that occurred
about the timethe law went into effect.
This reasoning is perfectly legiSmate,
and the proof of its correctness is at
tested by the experience of every man
familiar with the- advance and de
cline in trade that have taken
placo since this law has' been
in operation. It would be pre
posterous to assume that the railroads
would liavo prospered less if the comv
mission law had not existed.
There are periods when railroads, as
well as individuals, are- willing to sac
rifice profits in order to keep alive tho
great agencies and industries upon
which not only tho prosperity, but the
life of commerce nndindustry depend
Evidences of this disposition and pbl
icy have been numerous during this
year of depression and disaster. But
with uniform purpose touching this
policy conditions vary as between in
dividuals and small corporations on the
onohanil, and gigantic railroad cor
porations on tho other. With the
first, calculations can be more
safely made in reference
to contingencies affecting business.
Precautions arc also more easily
adopted with these, because as a gen
eral rule their business is in such shape
that a few weeks or months of extra
effort will place them in asafo position
to meet a crisis.
Not so with our railroads. Fromthe
necessity of the case they are, almost
without exception, large borrowers of
money. They aro mortgaged on this
account. The item of interest becomes
one ol importance in the way of annual
expenditure. The promptness and
regularity with which it is paid de
termines the question of credit. Upon
ties of* tho roads for improve
ment and tho budding of new linos is
also dependent, and upon these com
bined tho public must at last roly for races
its railroad facilities. Whatever policy
renders a railroad company incapable
of meeting its obligations promptly even
in a financial crisis, jeopardizes tho capi
tal invested, as well as the advantages
the public derives from first class facil
ities, an.l these aro rarely soen on
baukiupt roads.
It does not m -ct the caao to say thr.t
railroads ahouM lie built by the capital
of the companies, witliou borrowing.
This is not practicable! to any such ex
tent as will render possible tho build
ing of roads to meet presnu demands.
It is difficult to obtain sufficient capital
on issues of stock to answer as a mar
gin required by capitalists as basis for
salable binds. If we wait lor capital
to be put up on stock issues, we will
see but few railroads built for along
time to come, and sections ot the State
without railroad facilities will be de
prived of them, except in instances
where communities, for branch roads,
are willing to lose their cost for the
sake of their convenience. The earn
ings of the Central and its leased lines
in Georgia, including those from the
bank and investments, yield a surplus
of only $88,610.86, after paying rentals
and other fixed charges, equivalent to a
dividend upon its capital stock of about
118-100 per cent.
The gross earnings of the Central and
Southwestern combined h tve decreased
as compared with year bofora last
$376,864.09, and the net earnings have
been leks than 2J i per coni. We eliai I
have occasion to refer to oilier points
suggested by this report. At present
TRs Negro To-Day.
Wo are informed that throughout tile
country tho negroes aro uneasy and in
some sections actually terrified by the
fact that a Democratic President has,
been elected. They have been made
the’dupes of Republican emissaries to
such an extent that they actually be
lieve slavery will he re-established and
violence become tho order of tho day.
It was even rumored that the young
men who recently painted the town red
used blood Instead of paint, ns more
suggestive of their intentions toward
the negro.
It is useless to address any remarks
to the ignorant members of the race,
hut the more intelligent can under
stand a very simple explanation of the
position the negro occupies in the poli
tics of the day.. The South lias in Con
gress an increased representation by
reason of the negro race. These arc
Democrats. To deprive the race of the
ballot would he to sacrifice n consider
able number of Congressmen and per
haps relegate in the next election the
Presidency to the Republicans. Tho
policy of tho Southern Democrats is
therefore to keep the negro secure from
any assaults that may be made upon
the political privileges of his race.
But precisely the same cause which
makes the Southern Democrat the
negro’s friend would in tho next few
years make the Northern Republican
his open enemy. The nogro disfran-
OhiSCd, the South would perhaps he in
the minority. The negro as a voter
having been abolished, the Republican
element in the South would ba free to
develop and the p'pople free to divide
upon business and political questions.
Because the disfranchisement of the
negro would establish the Republican
in power, it becomes good Republican
policy to disfranchise him. But
the same reason it is good Democrat.' 6
policy now to sustain and defend him.
The South has proved herself the ne
gro’s friend when the political skies
were dark, and every effort was being
made to influence the race. Now that
the ruling party is that in which the
South is so conspicuous, this friendship
will not grow cold. But let it bo re
membered that all along, even in the
face of paid oppressoTjand hostile bay
onets, tho principle that this id a white
man’s country, to bo ruled arid gov
erned by white men, Was laid .down
and adhered tov It will hardly be ex
pected that it wHl be abandoned now.
The negro is- a labercr. His
place is the workshop and the
field. He is mentally, mor
ally and physically inferior to and
weaker than the white race. His old
masters are still his masters in a gene
ral sense; but he has the benefit of the
law which applies to all free men . Ho
need notrexpect to rulo-fn high places
nor to sit in judgment. He has only
to fill his sphere and obey the laws.
As long as ho does this he need have
no fears tor his safety; but if ho for
gets the lessons that for twenty years
have been impressed upon him, ho is
responsible for tho consequences.
These aro plain words.but they arc
kindly meant. They are not bom of
the new administration now assured;
they have been uttered by this journal
at intervals for fifteen years. They
are just as important now as at any
time in the history of Georgia, and as
worthy of porusal.
The negro- has been taught evil les
sons by designing emissaries. lie has
been cajoled, defrauded and robbed,
Ho lias been the tool of politicians
for' twenty years. Men have told
him that tills fair South with Its rich
gifts of nature, its magnificent oppor
tunities, its bright future belonged to
him; that tho race of men who inhab
ited, the people who had built tho re
public,designed its laws, administered
its aftairs, fought its battles, and glo
ried its' history were woak, indo
lent and unworthy of their inheritance;
that he might wrest it all from them
and be sustained in tho onjoymenl of
his spoils. Poor, simple soul. lie
k»i;p V m1 it for awhile, and when be
lief wavered, hoped against hope and
battled with his fate. It was only a
poor, brief struggle—this conflict of the
races. Ignorance has no shield that
may withstand the bright sword of the
miufi, nor darkness depths to hide tho
flash. When on her great excalibar
the South laid hand, the centuries thun
dered, the fight was over.
The negro and tiie white man may
he friends. Why not? Never have
we heard a Southerner express antipa
thy to tho race. There is work for all
in the fields where they learned to
labor; happiness for all in the
free open country life. Statistic*
show that disease which is now ho r.ip
idly thinning out their rank- is en_.cn-
dered by city life, crowding, irregi.lsr
habits, dissipation, tho want of pr «;.-r
fond and medicine. Nuvvth »t the vai't
promises which drew the race away
from its simple, happy, healthful homes
have ceased and their fulfillment be
gins to appear, as it always lias been
utterly impossible, we say to tho negro,
go back to your cabin and
your fields. team there habits
of sobriety; learn to bo industrious
and economical; learn morality and
strive to make your family tho type of
the republic in law and in order. In
this way yon will become a valuable
citizen of your State, necessary to its
welfare and one of the people. Thus,
too, may yon gain that whicli will do
more to sustain your political and do
mestic blessings than all the amend
ments that can bo attached. to the
country’s constitution, the respect ol
the people among whom you live and
your children aro to remain.
Belva Io»xtruer,,!.t-1 unvoted received
four votes for tie lro»l loncy in Georgia.
Small Honors.
Our amiable and patient corresp-
dent at Atlanta, mildly as is his cus
tom, hut rightly, protests against the
Legislature voting away tho privileges
of the floor. The balls in which the
Senators and Representatives sit were
provided in order that tho publio busi
ness might bo properly attended to.
Each house makes its own rules for the
transaction of business, and takes con
trol of the floor. This is proper. The
public should not he permitted to inter
fere with legislators in tho discharge
of their duties.
The dignity and decoram of a delib
erative Jiody should always be pre
served. In order to pay honor to those
who have exceptionally distinguished
themselves in civil or military life, or
who have done the State some service,
it has grown to bo a custom to invite
such person to a seat on the floor. The
real honor and compliment rest in the
infrequency which should mark the
invitation. It was never intended that
politicians should pay off their elec
tioneering debts by what lias become a
small piece of flattery.
If Adam Tadpole comes down to
Atlanta (we refer to this impersonal
personage as Adam Tadpolein deference
to our evolutionary friends) to get a
copy of a land grant or to have his jug
filled, this Is no reason why'a repre
sentative should immediately movo
aresolution inviting him to tho privi
leges of a scat on the floor. Col. Tad
pole may bo a man of mark in his
county. He may bo a good father and
husband, an excellent provider, a
man who never lends money at over 10
per cent.
He may cut hair and pull teeth for
all tho neighbors. Ho may even draw
a plain deed. These accomplishments
make him a worthy citizen and per
haps a lovable man, hut they do not
entitle him to a seaton the floor. Even
if added to the graces already enumer
ated, he had been sheriff and hanged
two negroes, that he raises the tune in
chnrch and has five grown sons who
\lways vote the straight Democratic
ticket, still we contend that armed
with these powerful adjuncts, they
all comb'i ne< t do not entitle him to a
seat on the floor. There are hundreds
of Adam Tadp-oles in Georgia. Tho the
ory is that a neat the floor is a high
honor and we must SO treat it, though
in fact anybody goes on the floor that
desires, and nobody but a deaf and
dumb man ccrtld be male to sit there
long.
The writer, without any Invitation,
has' often wandered about the floor
daring a session, and some years since
noticed a newspaper reporter Voting on
a division of the House. A seat on the
present floor is not a big thing for the
honor has been fearfully cheapened by
use, or we should say misuse. But
still the theory of dignity re
mains and our Legislators
should sustain it. Vfe cut up pretty
high, when Fatty Harris invaded tho
privileges of our house, and tallied
wildly about the sovereignty and
rightsof the people, there represented.
The best sentiment of the country was
rudely shocked, when- General De
Trobriand, of the United States army,
dispersed the Legislature of Louisiana,
nt the point of tho bayoDet.
These wero Invasions of tho dignity
of the House, and so aro the numerous
invitatiens to tho Adam Tadpoles to
soats on tho floor.
Men of sense and character do not
appreciate them, for nobody appre
ciates what is so common as not to ho
noticeable. This miserable practice
grew up with others during the two ad
ministrations that loaded Georgia with
shame and a demoralization that af
fected the government, business and
society.
If the people can bestow honors, if
it is an honor to sit J.with their repre
sentatives, then guard this honor prop
erly. Sustain the dignity of tho State.
A long night of oppression, together
with a debased ballot, has lowered the
tone of the people. Restore it. Gen
tlemen of the Legislature, you liavo
caught on to the new born era of reform
and have mado admirable exhibitions
of your purpose in somo of the recent
elections. You cun do ranch to rein-
vigorate the people o! tho State and to
renew their respect for honored and
h storable customs. But do not for-
;i«t that even Adam Tadpole may de-
Hpi rn the inviiatli.1 of a seat on the
floor of a l>sly. t!i».t has the power to
prevent h it ;> omits u drunken rabble
to sunnpe.l ■ i:.
I slender stocking a legend of the pasl. I d .
tion of Vital, nay national, importune
that the diet be not changed. Or was j Legislature power to
ImaroHnx ihs CPI*.
A gentleman who has spout years
abroad returns, and after a brief but
satisfice iry survey of tho human tides
in America, smilingly tells tho papers
that Im has discovered a wonderful and
gratifying fact: tho American girl is
fur (alter and plumper than bIio was
say a ilecado since.
When tha universal joy which this
Rnn-mncement must Create lias sub
sided, tire sclontists and editors will
begin their labors. It U a great poLnt
■.-lined, this Increase in the national
avordupois; and it is worthy of
torchlight procession that the feminino
mid not the male division has been
bettered. Our voters are all fat enougli
now; what the country really needed
was more solidity about tho domestic
contingent. It needed more rouud
rosy, romping, buxom girls to stimu
late the admiration of tho rival sox,
increx-e R» ambition and stop
the uiolesi suicides which idle
and discouraged young men liavo been
accomplishing. Can any masculine
American from now henceforth and
forever contemplate suicide since it has
liecoine evident that ove.y incoming
crop of girls is to bo heavier than its- over sc
1-r heessor? Hardly. The atrlfe now
wi 11 lie between those who seek to out
hve their tiroes, and behold the hour
in which all girls are plump, and the
these men know of flnM i
The test of the scientist and the edi- What f- ' ■ eVolut! '
r is a difficult ....
rnipany drill-
I'my know of , U I
| ' I ‘ rl -‘‘*1 and discipline
become so corpulent; for it is a ques-1 and’inefficient U Geo^S*® ^ '***
but plea?in„
They must determine upon what meat 1
theseourseizershavefedthatthey have I,
m. , , —i— — military
care for tho mil;.
indeed a diet? Why may it not have
been tho dress? Why indeed! Well,
now, the TELaaaAPit is inclined to as
cribe it to two causes. The American
girl began to fatten about tho time Jer
sey butter came on the market and tho
sticky paste that the old folks used be
gan to dlsappor. With the introduction
this butter, came the increased
avordupois; and we recall the fact that
no one has ever se6n a chromo nor oil
painting setting forth the beauties of
the Jersey cow, but that somowliere in
the neighborhood an hitherto impossi
bly plump maiden divided the honors
with her.
But not to Jersey butter alone is due
tho honor. It was the butter and tho
roomy, expansive, uncramping, free-
flowing “Mother Hubbard” combined.
Boom and a stimulus lias added to the
national wealth invested in our girls.
Ths covernor and tho Pardoning Power.
Attached to the message of Governor
McDaniel is a list of the convicts whose
sentences have been commuted or To
liom pardons have been granted.
This duty is require^ of the Governor
by the constitution and laws of tho
State, and we take this occasion to
commend him for its strict perform
ance. We do not believe in a general
commondation of public officers for a
performance of sworn duties.
They are elected by the people to
perform tlieso duties and it is expected
that they will regard their oaths and
respect the laws.
But in this case the commendation
merited, more particularly from the
fact that olquitt, while occupying the
office of Governor, had neglected this
specific and important duty and up to
this time has successfully defied the
constitution and laws of tho State.
The contrast between McDaniel and
Colquitt is so wide that the conduct of
the former when compared with that
the latter is worthy* of special in
dorsement by the people.
Colquitt, in his annual message, said
the Legislature that he had complied
with the constitution and law in tills
particular. Tho Legislature, ’ by sol
emn resolution, immediately declared
that he had not. Either Col
quitt or tho legislature published
the people of this State a falsehood.
The matter was referred to- a commit
tee and this was the last of it. Such’
was the potKical demoralization of the
times that no representative of iho
people was bravo and unselfish enougli
probe this ofllcial lachess* to the
bottom. A committee-failed to'do it,
and to-day the people of Georgia have
no explanation from Colquitt why he
turned so many convicts loose upon
the community, and a constitutional
duty ot tl\e highest officer of the State
remains undischarged. A more pitiful
disregard of tlie rights of the people, a
more shameless defiance of law docs
net disgrace tlie history of any govern
ment, State or federal.
Wo recur to this subject to commend
Governor McDaniel: that ho has been
honest nnd conscientious in- tho dis
charge of this duty, and further, to
show to the present Representatives
how their predecessors failed and neg
lected to perform their duty. •
It is not expectod that any puni-h-
mont can rcacli Colquitt. But the
State of Georgia still needs to lie
vindicated. Ilerconstltution and laws
havo bcon violated and defied by a man
clothed by the votes of the poople with
the highest office in tho State. Tlie cal
endar of-her convicts Is Incomplete.
Nobody knows why the penitentiary
wore easily and frequently opened, to
the danger of society. Many people
believe that money and votes opened
them, and the conduct ot tho-man who
guarded thonr, in leaving his position
without explanation, lends i. ecu to the
belief. Is thero no man in the Legisla
ture who dans to stand up few tl"-i «,Yr of : ••
pie ani to have thia record made clear V j '“jj” 1 * - r . r ‘UStV' 1 *«i •
Is the hopo of political advanojiaent I ,,j; r at I ,rj Arundel'- «<
and personal favor strong crii -i/i to ] n- -l.t »(-••< - - i
stifle in every Representative tho de-1
sire to do his duty?
It gives it authority to "e auin „
as well as arm the soldiers. sLi.
tents and all tlie paraphernalia r 'i
camp life are part and parcel of in l-\
equipment. It gives the Legi s!at Z 1
authority to pay and sunport tl leTI ,
when in active service. Surely th* I
Governor may annually order the re,- '
panics into camp far active, service
***** °t “mp life is worth mo»T
to a soldier than a year 6f armory arf.
Street drill under the present ey.tC '
It is to be hoped that the 8tat« vd,
deal liberally with the soldiers at thi,
time. Pay the soldier’s actual ex-
pcnscs and once every year put bin
completely in the power of his office*
for two weeks. This is all that needs]
to be done to place the military udob.
firm footing. P " 3
The Next Cons*eBB.
In the next House of IlepreseDtstire,
tho Democrats havo 180 members an l
thef Republicans 145. This shows a
Democratic loss, the Republicans bat
ing gained heavily in California oj I
Pennsylvania. As between section?
tlie relative Congressional strength of
the parties is: ,
Western States
Southern State*
Pacific States
Tho Republicans have also increased
•heir majority in tin- »■ it Ihe |
vote twing now 43 to 34. But with i
President and 35 majority in the ]
I tlie I),-n i.-r r- «ili ... ni,;,. I
give the peoplo’ good government for I
four yean aileaah The control of the [
government, ns Liras it lies within the I
'"'■IT' >>f ll>-' 1'irly, i- . iv.igt- i„ ,i, e |
hands of the South.
“violation cf.thi* Proprieties,**
The wont TioUtlon of the proprieties yet 1
reported in the Democrat io rejoicing wu tk* I
parade through iho Itrceta of Georgia iai I
body, not of the Legislature only but rf the I
judge* of the Supreme Court ai well-Pho*. |
delphia Chronicle.
In times of great rejoicing and pollti al |
• v It* if« nt men do thi: vs! - ■ • ;1
moments they willingly forget and ibel
public charitably overlook. Among these,!
perhaps, should be classed the alleged!
parade of the Georgia Legislature and!
Supreme Court. H it tS act! >••. <
crowd ltd by men who ought to haye an-j|
i ' I 'I-I'.v tl’f folly of HU; , . ■
entering tlie legislative !: .'1 and for 7I
adjourning the State'* /r.*at legitiaUTM
body was Inexcusable ami -?h >uld re * IvJ
the condemnation of every law-abidinj
cUizen.
A StiBbt Mu
Wh«
Itc:
"Bridget, if Mr. Wilkina comes adial|
him. Mr. Johnson may come. It.’
his night, but he ha«been very aTt ! :i»'l
lately, and he’s hist in the itato of mladtf
ma e a mistake. '
Mr. Johnson rings the lxll.
"Missis is sorry, but theenytashoY
ain’t your night.”
Puternitr Extraordinary.
rail Mall Gx/o.'t* •
\Cr,»a Vre^fobaldi, Florence, fifty*.
1570. ,1
David Wilson, Indiana, forty .seven cbil
dren, year 1850. _ |
Mr. GreenhiJI, Abbots Langley, Ilfrti
ine children.
D. Krskuis, Scotland, tbirty-th
child n
thirty
cbildri
• 170).
Joe Aecept* Hi* Defeat."
You don’t hear Joe Malbatton j
about crying fraud. There is acandiU
inducted his campaign in
freshing and altogether -i'lsfacti
in r. We believe he hu >n't p««i
lie was put in nominal! >n. II
known it win going to have thatelVc
him wc would have moved S r l.
nation long ago.
C^e Tell Bettor-Later*
Chicago
mr|
party d«*s th<
nn I tell till. I*
stealing? ’
Stayer*
Pall :
uost remarkab'.Q r ' : 1
eco amend* .1
V . i'--. wl-o ebev
I . i 1 ■
j itiuiirere liftzu o-.mt tor
Ilia.to btthopsd that no osc *«
li- l-ilC.
—.V daughter Ol alarm nil
- ... . - i
-i'rn . • - r -- iiot p*V-
at in live
Th. Ceoraln MJItla. . J ,.
_ „ „ _ I —InBostsa tbe; Wi * r- ’- 1 ?
Tlit- Teleorai’U and Messemubb » ;„k »tory to the effect that E»> •
pk-twil to note tho vigorous movement JCnyran, whil* pl«yi»* lh«|T' j 1 * 1 ,
In Khali Of suiio aid for Georgia ' .
military. As i-oiutod out lime and | that it be used theasxt tin* °'i*.
ngnin, tlie (ieoiyiu militia is desperately
conditioned ntul uw di tire S’nto’s f«s-
terinq ram to rc<cuo it fr-m dtm >r..Ii I
ailion and dikoict-r. /* ststid io I
Govern ir McD.i id in liU recent mefav
age, tho amount needed is not laryo, {
aid it should lie applied to insuring th<
proper core of nr.us and equipments
improveddiseipliiio nnd tho encourage
ment of tho Boldiery. IVlint tin
Governor means by bis concluding
tonco “without stimulating Hie mlli
tary spirit in time of peaco" is diffi.-ul
to understand.- Nothing so need,
equate
j A<tv *!so &howj
I abe hav
— b Riven i
d sisters In
lei* ml -1-io tis:"
too iiiosir 1 ” "•
[ New York 1>4
stimulation new aa tho military
of this State.
We are eonvltic 1 that one
greatest disadvauta - ;s under wbl
Georgia militia labors is tlie coi
isolation ot tlie various c nm
The companies ought to bo b
together at least once
year. Competitive drills,
sectional pride would greatly
ulate each to labor for porfi
thus encouraging the efficient
usefulness of the t
ns it may appear,
that not half tho
pose tlie military
since 18<
men wt
further
,iru ,
of the
lob the
id they invariably
Jnzs'Ai
i./,./1>.
I
n-cr.vl'';
ami thf
isMverth.