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0. R. PENDLETON, President
THE TELEGRAPH IN ATLANTA.
Th* Tsl**r«ph oan b« found on oalo
at tho Kimball Houso and tha Pied
mont Hotel in Atlanta.
poratlons, although tha latter, we may
he well assured. Is no inconsiderable
factor.
MACON'S ORATOR OF THE DAY.
The Sidney Lanier Chapter of the
Daughter* of the Confederacy could not
have been happier In the selection of
an orator befitting the occasion of the
celebration of the Lee centenary than
when they aecured Col. James Arm
strong, tlia silver-tongued and silver-
haired orator of tho South Carolina me
tropolis, to oerro It In that capacity.
Oal. Armstrong is in ovary raapect the
embodiment of tho peculiar qualities
Chat have made Mo native mother
land. Ireland, famous la history, song
and atory, and which have made her
•one and descendants transplanted to
America, taka so kindly and genially
to her frea and gaierous soil. The
gallant captain of a gallant Irish com
pany, who saw eervie# throughout the
war, ho te known to be as modest as
he Is bravo, and but for the ract that
his mother wit and native eloquence
makes him sought for at all genial so
cial gatherings In Carolina an# its
chief elty, his fame and the splendor
of Me eloquence might never have
been known beyond the confines of his
State. Ts'rrw that Macon has heard and
made the acquaintance of Col. Arm
strong and Col. Armstrong has met
Macon face to face both are to be
congratulated on the new ties of
friendship that have been cemented.
POLITICS, POLITICSI
It la truly a remarkable state of af
fairs when a Republican President Is
virtually put on trial by the members
of hla own party and finds his strong
est defenders among the Democrats.
Aa Senator Carmack said on Wednes
day, If the charges of Republican Sen
ators are true, the President’s action
In the Brownsville case Is so utterly
without Justification and excuse that
Impeachment ought to follow swift
and sure " The Senator from Tennes
see went on to say:
''No other punishment can be
adequate for a man who wantonly
and recklessly, on an unfair and
prejudiced Investigation, without
the sanction of law and In fla
grant contempt of the evidence.
Imposes a harsh and brutal pun
ishment upon men who have a
record of honorable and heroic ser
vice and who have done no wrong.
That Is practically the charge that
the Senator from Ohio makes
against the President.
"The Senator tells us that MaJ.
Bloeksom cannot be trusted to
make a fair and honest Investiga
tion and tell the truth because his
futher. forty years ago, was a
Democrat In Ohio. It la a divine
law that the sins of the fathers
shall be visited on the children,
but I question the right of the
Senator to pronounce the Judg
ment. He may be tha God Al
mighty of the Republican party of
Ohio, hut he does not yet sustain
that relation to the universe.
'My personal Intercourse with
the Senator has shown him to be
fttnial. generous and obliging, but
I remember when I had a different
Impression of him. I remember
with what frantic energy he used
to wave the 'bloody shirt.’ a shirt
stained blood-red with the crimson
current of his own rhetoric. I can
remember when he used to go rag
ing over tho land, a bifurcated, per
ipatetic. bob-tailed volcano in per
petual eruption, belching forth Are
and smoke and molten lava from
his agonised and tumultuous borw-
els.
"We can all remember when It
was nothing short of treason for a
Democratic Senator to question
the accuracy of any statement pro-
A reeding from the Executive depart-
• went with respect to the conduct
of American soldiers. Rut no
flharge ever has been made by any
Democrat In the flrecest partisan
debate, equal in gravity and se
verity to the charge which the
'Senator from Ohio has made. If
the Senator can convict the Presi
dent on that charge then he will
have placed him on an eminence
of Infamy from which no man t an
'take him down."
Seeking the real motives for the
Republican attacks on the President.
Senator Carmack touched on the trans
parent and self-seeking designs of
foraker, and adds: "The President
made the mistake of compelling his
party to violate its traditions. He has
forced the great corporations to rec-
ognlte that there Is such a thing as
law In the government of tjiis country.
Helpless under the compelling force of
public opinion that Is arrayed behind
him. his party leaders have yielded
reluctantly, but biding their time for
an opportunity to strike back. This
attack on him Is an effort to put the
party back into its old position, to
make peace with Its old friends and
renew Its covenants with the plunder
ers and oppressors of the American
people.”
The dispatches Indicate that Mr.
Carmack's search for the motives of
the Republican attack on the President
ended here, which Is surprising, for
this is not the whole or the matter. If
Indeed It be the half. The President's
most serious offense, as It appear* to
ue. ts that In his desire to punish mur
derers ami protect soeiety he has put
the Republican party’s possession Of
the negro vote In peril. The larger
cau»e of Republican displeasure la to
be looked for In the threats of the ne
gro politicians of the close Stated
rather than In the complaints of. oor-
TURN OF HISTORY'S TIOE.
The address of Charles Francis Ad
ams, Sr., of Boston, head of the Mas
sachusetts Historical Society, at Lex
ington, Va„ yesterday ofi the occasion
of the Robert E. Lee centenary cele
bration, may not be epoch-making, but
1: marks the ebb-tide and receding
waves of the prejudice and sectional
ism that have heretofore prevented the
great war between the Stales and Its
causes being treated In the light of
truth and Justice. It Indicates the final
verdict of history and that that verdict
as enunciated by a former foe qualified
to speak for those who had antago-
! nlzed us is that the South's only
j crime was the lack of success and that
of all the great men the war developed
none rose or fell so pure of offense as
the chieftain of the Southern
cause—this is glory enough to sat
isfy any people. In view of
the importance and historic sig
nificance of Mr. Adams’s utterances,
extracts from his address will be free
ly given here. Addressing himself to
the charge which, he sabi. was still
"most commonly made against Lee in
that section of the country to which
I belong.” that "he was false to his
flag," Mr. Adams said:
"Coming directly to the point. I
maintain that every man in the
eleven States seceding front the
Union Jind in 1861. whether he
would nr no. to decide for himself
whether to adhere to his State ot
to the nation; and 1 finally assert
that whichever way ho decided, if
only he decided honestly, putting
self-interest behind him, he did
right.
•'But this, it will he replied,
though true of the ordinary man
and citizen, should not have been
true of the graduate of the Mili
tary Academy. :he officer of tile
Army of the United States. Win
field Scott and George G. Thomas
did nor so construe their al
legiance: when the Issue was pre
sented, they remained true to their
flag and to their oaths. Robert
E. Lee, false to his oath and flag,
was a renegade! Tho answer is
brief and to the point—the condi
tions i% the several cases were not
the same—neither Scot: nor Thom
as Was Lee. It was our Hoston
Dr. Holmes who long ago declared
that the child's education begins
about two hundred and fifty years
before it is born: and it is quite
Impossible to separate any man—
least of all. perhaps, a full-blooded
Virginian—from his parental tra-
dilions and living environment.
From them be drew bi« being: in
them he exists. Robert E. Lee was
the embodiment of those condi
tions. the creature of that environ
ment—a Virginian of Virginians.
“To ask Lee to* raise his band
against Virginia was like asking
Montrose or the MarCellum More
to bead a. force designed for the
subjection of the Highlands and
the destruction of the clan*. Where
such a stern election is forced
unon a man as confronted Lee. the
single thing the fair-mfnded in
vestigator has to take into account
is the loyalty the slnsrle-mltided-
ne<*i of the election. Was it de
void of selfishness—'Was it free
from any baser and more sordid,
worldly motive, ambition, pride,
jealousy, revenge or selGinterert?
To this ouestion t>'Pre can, In the
case of Lee. he hut one answer.
When, after long and trvirg men
tal wrestling, he threw in h1s fate
with Virginia, he knowingly sac
rificed everything which man
prize* most—his dearlv he'eved
home. h1s means of support, his
professional standing, his asso
ciates. a brilliant future nssured to
him. Rorn a slave-holder in a race
of slave-holder*, he was himself
no defender, much less an advocate
of slavery: on the contrary, he did
not hesitate to pronounce it in his
place “a moral and political evil."
Later, he manumitted his slaves.
He did not believe in seeession:
as a right reserved under the Con
stitution, he pronounced it ‘idle
talk:’ but. ns n Virginian, he also
added, ‘if the Government is dis
rupted. I shall return lo my native
State and share the miseries of un
people. and save In defense will
draw my sword on none.' ’’
Such was Lee the patriot. Of Lee
the soldier and strategist Mr. Adams
furnishes the splendid appreciation
contained in the following:
will accord and assent to this
somewhat self-complacent convic
tion t« open to ques ion. On the
contrary, it may not unfairly be
doubted whether a people pros
trate after civil strife has often re
ceived severer measure than was
inflicted on the so-called recon
structed Confederate States during
the years immediately succeeding
the close of Strife. Adam Smith
somewhere defined rebels and her
etics as 'those unlucky persons
who, when things have come to a
certain degree of violence, have the
misfortune to be of the weaker
party.'. Spoliation and physical
suffering have Immemoriaily been
their lot. The Confederate, it is
true, when he ceased to resist,
escaped this visitation in its usual
and time-approved form. Never
theless, he wae by no means ex
empt from it. In the matter of
confiscation, it has been computed
that the freeing of the slaves by
act of war swept out of existence
property valued at some two thou
sand millions: while, over and
above this, a system of simulta
neous reconstruction subjected the
disfranchised master to the rule
of the enfranchised bondsman.
For ;> community conspicuously
masterful, and notoriously quick
to resent affront, to be thus placed
by alien force under the civil rule
of those of a different and distinct
ly Inferior race, only lately their
properly, is not physical torment,
it is true, but that it is mild or
considerate treatment can hardly
be contended. Yet this—slave con
fiscation, and reconstruction under
American rule—was the war pen
alty imposed on the States of the
Confederacy. That tin: policy in-
§ Ired at the time a ‘ feeling
of hitter resentment in the
South was no cause for wonder.
Upon it time has already recorded
a verdict. Following the high
precedent set at Appomattox it Was
distinctly unwnrihy Conceived in
passion, it ignored both science
and the philosophy of statesman
ship; worse yet. it -was ungener
ous. Lee, for Instance, again set
ting the example, applied formally
for amnesty and restoration of
civil rights within two months of
his surrender. His application
was silently ignored: while-he died
'a prisoner on parole.' the suffrage
denied him was conferred on his
manumitted slaves. Verily, it was
not alone the base Indian of the
olden time who 'threw a pearl
away richer than all his tribe."’
Thus IS the saying that “truth
crushed to earth will rise again" illus
trated. and out of the mouth of one of
worthiest of our foes issues the testi
mony that confirms the justice of all
the South claims for herself in the
greatest, most eventful war of modern
times.
WH I"!' l"H~l-d-l-h*i"i l I I H' H-M-+
Caught on {
FALSE BRANDS AND ADULTER
ATIONS. ;
Consul D. I. Murphy, of Bordeaux, j
furnishes a report containing facts re- I , ,
gardln^j the adulteration and mis- | I the Wing i
branding of oils and wines received in | 1 I 1 t H 11 ‘H-H-H-t-
By JOHN T. BOIFEUlLLET.
i I have been reading a Bulletin re-
! cently issued by the United States Gov
ernment on the manufacturing indus
tries of Georgia, from which I ob-
the United States from France, and of
the extensive use of fictitious names in
Connection with importations that will
startle the unsuspecting public and
create astonishment in business cir
cles. It Will be observed that fictitious
names are authorized by the laws of
France, and that in many instances
their use is directed by American im
porters. The consul writes:
The use of fictitious names, or “con-
tremarques.” is common throughout
France. The law of June ’3, 1857,
protects the French manufacturer in
tlieir use and authorizes him to em-
| ploy such trademarks as lie pleases,
| provided he has them duly registered
I at the Tribunal of Commerce in- the
| district where his business is carried
| on. It is a common thing for manu
facturers and exporters to label olive
oil of secondary or inferior quality
with fictitious names or trademarks,
reserving their own proper names for
their highest grade of goods. Many
large American concerns order oil from
the packers here with directions for
special labels Bearing some particular
names or trademarks of their own.
That there is adulteration of wine
rained some very interesting Macon
statistics appertaining strictly to the
true manufactures, showing the num
ber of wage-earners, men, women and
I children, and the annual amount of
: their wages,** and the value of the
products turned out by them yearly.
The statistics embrace only certain
specified industries, sixtv-one in num
ber, aud do not include many of the
smaller industries and hand trades. In
the sixty-one manufactories there are
! employed 3,661 wage-earners, as fol
lows: Males, sixteen years and over,
3.714: females, sixteen years and over,
; 39S; children, under sixteen years, 349.
. The wages for the year amounted to
' $1,200,690, as follows: Males, sixteen
years and over, $l,033p 1 5j _ females,
sixteen years and over. $117,784: Chil-
■ dren. under sixteen years, $49,896. This
show’s that the females and children
take an important part in the indus
trial life of Macon, and as wage-earn
ers cilt no small figure.. The value of
the products turned out during the
year by the wage-earners was $7,297.-
347. The sixty-one manufactories have
' 39S salaried offciatS and clerks who
1 are paid $357,098 annually. There are
nearly 300 industries of till kinds
... ... 'Macon and suburbs, and when we cou-
goe.-, without saving, but to state the j ; idel . thtlt the a bnve enthusing statis-
extent of or point out the parties en- | tics are of only sixty-one of them, we
gaged in it is a difficult proposition.
A PRISON ROMANCE.
In the Federal prison in Atlanta
there is a former resident of Provi
dence, R. I., one Marcus Crahan. who
received a fifteen-year sentence for j
counterfeiting. It appears that up to I
the time that Crahan conceived the ;
get-rich-quick scheme of issuing coun- j
terfeit $20 gold certificates he carried
on a large photo-engraving business in
Providence and was earning from $2,500
lo $3,000 a year. Therefore rtoney-lust .
was the only excuse for his crime. He 1
is said to have made plates and printed
as good a counterfeit of a genuine bill
as the Treasury Department officials
have ever seen. He Issued these at
race tracks in New York and St. Louis,
and was finally arrested in the latter
city.
Crahftn deserved all he got and his
It is known that certain unprincipled
dealer^ or brokers buy tip the entire
output of some of the vineyards where
good wine is produced, and with the
addition of alcohol and water multiply
the output many times over. On this
subject in a recently published state
ment Mr. Guillaume Chastenet, one of
the members of the “Groupe Viticole"
In tho French ‘Assembly, declared the
"overproduction of wine from which
the wine districts of France are suf
fering is mostly due to fraud." He
further declared that it might be sup
posed the great wine crop of 1905
would*make fraud a poor paying bus
iness, but such was not the case. The
growers were suffering because of this
fraudulent increase in the wine crop,
and the manufacture of artificial wines
had developed prodigiously. ‘'Today,"
said Mr. Chatenet, "the consumption
and production of wines might balance
begin to realize something of the mag
nitude of the manufacturing interests
; of this csrnrnunity, and to appreciate
; tt-c ract tit at the wage-earner is one
of the fulcrum powers that moves the
city onward and upward.
Under the rotation agreement be
tween Mercer University, Emory and
the Btate University this is Mercer’s
year to send a student to the Univer
sity of Oxford, England, as tho re
cipient of the Cecil Rhodes scholarship
from Georgia. I wns asked yesterday
what is this scholarship. An authority
gives the following explanation. Cecil
Rhodes, statesman, who died at Cape
Town, South Africa. March 36, 1902.
directed in his will, dated July 1, 1S99,
that a part of his fortune, estimated
at $10,000,000, should be applied to
the creation Of a fund for the support
of a certain number of scholarships
covering a three-years’ course at the
University of Oxford. He directed
that the selection of the recipients of
this gift should be made two from each
Btate and Territory of the United
States, or one hundred in all, fifteen
from Germany an'd from one to pipe
fropi each of the Rriti«h colonies. The
scholnrshins are awarded on marks
only, three-tenths whpreof shall he
riven to a candidate for his "Literary
if it were not for the fifteen or twenty and Bcholastie” attainments, the re
mainder being for his love of outdoor
■millions of hectoliters (396,255,000 gal
lons to 528,840,000 gallons) of sugar
wines, or manufactured wines of all
kinds, made with the lees and sul
phuric acid.” Examination of the mat
ter leads me to believe with Mr. Chas
tenet that among the growers there is
practically no fraud. The trouble is
with Certain dealers or brokers who
practice what is called “mouillage” or
adulteration with water and alcohol.
COTTON SITUATION At SHANGHAI
Concerning the great congestion of
athletics and sports, for strong manly
aUhlHIes. such as courage, generoMty
and kindness, and tor high moral
character, and especially for ambition
to serve and lead in large public af-
fah-s.
.The cohfitttnns regulating the award
of Scholarships in the American States
provide that the candidates shall have
satisfactorily completed the work of at
least two years tn some college of !1V
eral arts and sciences. Excent under
extraordinary circumstances the uttoer-
age limit must he twenty-four years
at the time of entering unon the schol
arship at Oxford. To ho eligible the
candidate must he a citizen of the
United States, nr the son of a citizen,
and must be unmarried. Eanh student
only claim to sympathy was that he that t0 send in an V yer y optimistic re- J to par his colle-re fees and necessary
was loved by Miss Sarah McCormi.- * 1 e ^ er1!,r ” , • As th * ****** ,s
a young school teacher, to whom, by
his order, $4,000 were turned over after
his affairs were settled up. For four
years this plucky young woman has
worked for Crahan, endeavoring to se
cure a shortening of his term, and she
has finally succeeded in inducing the
President to commute the sentence to
six years.
Two years, instead of eleven years
hence, Crahan will be released and it
will then be in his power to reward
Miss McCormick by a ilfe time of de-
vrition. It is said that her confession
that she loved Crahatl and would
marry him excited the President’s pity
and caused him to grant Miss McCor
mick's request.
ports as to the situation there would | nnt nvAmh ^ unt „ Mfr1e ttfrtb after the
be misleading. He writes: j arrival of the student he should go
After seeing the stocks on hand and '■ •' ,H ™ad with one nr two hundred dol-
interviews with the leading merchants,
dealers and bankers, it can be stated
that If no further goods are thrown on
the market the stocks on hand will
gradually ease off until they get down
to a weight that can be handled. The
foreign importer at 'Shanghai is called
the “merchant,” while the Chinese
merchant, to distinguish him, is usu
ally deferred to as the "dealer." Most
of the American goods come to Shang
hai and are resold by the Chinese
to
men
snme-
ludi-
and
"Napoleon ie alleged first
hRve remarked that ‘in war
arc nothing: n man Is everything.
As a former soldier of the Army of
the Potomac, T now stand appalled
at the risk I unconseinuslv ran
anterior to July. 1863. when con
fronting the Army of Northern
Virginia, commanded as it then
wns and as we were. The situation
was in fact as had with us in thr-
Army of the Potomac as it was
with the Confederates in the
Southwest. The U’Toftunete Pem
berton there wns simply not in the
"'imp class as Grant' and Bher-
mnn. to whom lie found himself
Opposed. Results there followed
accordingly. So. In Virginia. Lee
and Jackson made an extraordi
nary, a most exceptional combina
tion. They outclassed
times terribly, someth
erously: always Hopelet
results in that case nls.i followed
accordingly. That we were not ut
terly destroyed constitutes a fiat
and final refntnl of the truth of
Napoleon's aphorism.”
Rut 't is to the stately, self-contained
man in defeat that Mr. Adams finally
pnys. as every one must, the tribute
of his highest admiratlcffi He says:
"Speaking advisedly and on
fuller refici-'lon. I say that of ail
he great characters of the Civil
War. >nd 1! was productive of
ma”v xvh-se names and deeds pos
terity wtl! long beer In recollec
tion. there was not one who passed
ntyiv in the serene atmosphere and
with the gracious hearing of Lee.
From beginning to end those part
ing years of his will bear closest
scrmlny. There was about them
nothing venal, nothing oneruious.
no’h'ng 'n nuv w"y sordid or dis-
annoln'inr. In his <ns<* there Was
no anti-climax: for those closing
years were dignified, patient, use
ful: sweet In domesticity, they in
all ‘hires commanded respect.
‘•rto'-ouse no blood flowed on the
scaffold and no trmflseafinn of
fiousd* of Isfids mar>«*d the close
of our War of secession, It ha* al
ways h»en te-sumed hv us of the
v'c’^rtotis tiortv that extreme, in
deed unprecedented, e'emenev was
*hn«xn to Ike vanquished. and that
subsequently thev hsd no good
ground of complaint or sufficient
oiuh tot restiveness. That history
Julian Hawthorne does not like the
President's English and describes his
latest message as “a jumble of mis-
begotteh and inopportune adjectives. I
adverbs, intensive*, extensives and 1
similar redundant, forci'ble-beeble and
exasperating verbal rubbish which
hang and crawl about his compositloft
as beetles and cobwebs crawl and hang
about the rafters of an empty house.”
If this is a fair sample of Julian's btst
English, some folk, if compelled to
make a choice, will be likely to vote
for the President's.
“outside” or "country dealer*.” The
most encouraging factor at present is
the fact of the rising price of goods in
America, due to the cotton situation
£T7<^
'BLIECSIRKiPMII 1
By BRIDGES SMITH.
Ttlil - IIk
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American cotton piece goods at Shang- ; receives an allowance of $L500 a year,
■ , i payable In quarterly installments,
hai, Special Agent W. A. Graham says j which is iii*t enough to enable him
I Jars in his possession.
I In rho't of the States the selection
is made by a committee a Anointed by
| representatives of the colleges: in «nme
. the annointments are made in rotation
* by the lending colleges.
1 At the beginning of the October
term* 1904. there entered Oxford sev
enty-two Rhodes sehoiars: fortv-three
. were Americans, tw-entv-fmir colonials
! and five Germans. In' 1996 the fu'l
number, one hundred and ninety In ell
were In residence, and thereafter this
numher will he maintained, the vacan
cies be’pg^ oiled as men complete their
three-yenfc’ course. The examination
in the United Btates for this year is
.. _ . , , , now being held. There will he ex-
dealer there to Chinese merchants at aminftfions ttlsfi irtlSas. 1910 1011. lm?.
other points, who are referred to as 1914. and so on. omitting everv third
I year. The examinations are not com-
j petitive. hut Qualifying. Inquiries as
to particulars hv intending candidates
| may he addressed to any college. In
formation about Oxford. Its colleges
I and course of studies, should he ad-
• The Atlanta Constitution will be for
sortie kind of protectorate over Cuba,”
reads a dispatch from Havana cabled
while Mr. Clark Howell and other
Georgians were sojourning there.
' Snine kind" of protectorate over Cuba
has been actually In force since 1898
and was formally provided for several
year? laier by the provisions and re
strictions of the Platt amendment.
It was announced that Richard
Cheatham, secretary of the Southern
Cotton Association, would not stand
for re-election. Jt 1* suspected that
the association would not "stand for”
It either.
Neither does Tillman’s revival of the
oid "Know Nothing” Cry of "America
for Americans” appear to be in accord
with the special effort hts State is Just
now making to attract foreign Immi
gration to her soil.
The managers complain that so many
telephone girls marry that the service
is crippled. It is not strange that they
should want to make permanent con
nections.
Senator Tillman discreetly declined
to offer any remedy for the face situa
tion. A remedy for it is the last thing
he ia looking for.
outside dealers at ’Chefoo, Tientsin,
etc., through the merchants cheaper
than the dealers were willing to sell
from stock at Shanghai.
THE HAUNTED PALACE.
and the report that a good many mills dressed + o F. ,T. wYHn. the Oxford .aacnt
are changing from the heavy export ! Rhotles tru9 * e es. 'Oxford, Eng-
goods to lighter-weight goods for the
horn* market. A few months ago the Anther v^Ulam*. the well known
, „ _ , ,, former bank official, VtVidjv remembers
dull market in TSew York and the rising i this month and period thirty years
value Of the purchasing power of the j asro - This entire country was in a
,... - „ . . . . , . state of excitement, and especially was
tael, due to higher exchange, was such | t n e ghuth in a condition of Ihdlgna-
that goods could be imported by the ! G° n f° r the Republican party was en
gaged in the unholy effort to steal the
Presidential electoral votes of the
States of Florida South Carolina and
Louisiana from Tilden aiid deliver
them to Hayes. Mr. Williams at this
time was an operator in the Western
Union office in MScon and received the
press dispatches that came from Wash
ington concerning the acts of Congress
regarding the fraud and the proceed
ings of the Electoral Commission,
which latter body by a vote of 8 to 7
lost the Presidency to Tilden. By rea
son of his position Mr. Williams was
in a hot bed of excitement for the Ma-
cr*l populace thronged around the
Western Union to hear the exciting
news, it was exactly thirty years ago
that the joint committees of the Senate
and House reported to Congress a hill
proposing plans for counting the votes
for Tilden and Hendricks and Hayes
and'Wheeler. Therefore would it not
he appropriate now to give a little of
the history of that stirring epoch? The
twenty-tli'rd Presidential election was
held on November 7. 1876. Tilden re
ceived 293 votes of a total of 369. 185
being necessary to an election. This
vote of Tilden’s included the votes of
Louisiana Florida and Bouth Carolina.
Immediately the Republicans set to
scheming. Zarh Chandler, chairman
of the National Republican Executive
Committee, on the day following tile
election telegraphed from New York
to the Rttuhlicnn Governor of Florida
as follows: "Hold Florida for Hayes
and Wheeler. Money and troOpS will
be sent you.” This was the starting
of the diabolical p.'ot which ended in
the fraudulent seating of Haves and
Wheeler. Republican returning boards
canvassed the returns in Florida and
Louisiana, giving those States to
Hayes. The Democrats maintained
that such a result could only be reach
ed by fraud, and their electors cast the
votes of those States for Tilden. mak
ing thus two returns from which Con
gress must choose. Returns by two
electoral colleges were also made from
South Carolina and Oregon.
By Edgar Allen Poe.
In the greenest of our valleys
By god angels tenanted.
Once a fair and stately palace—
Radiant palace—reared its head.
Tn the monarch Thought's dominion—
It stood there!
Never seraph spread a pinion
Over fabric half so fair!
Banners yellow, glorious, golden,
On its roof did float and flow.
(This—all this—was in the olden
Time long agol.
And every gentle air that dallied,
In that sweet day,
Along the ramparts plumed and pallid.
A winged odor went away.
Wanderers In that happy valley.
Through two luminous windows, saw
Spirits moving musically
To a lute's well-tuned law.
Round about a throne where, sitting,
(Porphyrogene!)
In state his glory well befitting,
The ruler of the realm was seen.
And all the pearl and ruby glowing
Was the fair palace door.
Through which came flowing, flowing,
flowing
And sparkling evermore,
A troop of Echoes, whose sweet duty
Was but'to sing.
In voices of surpassing beauty.
The Wit and wisdom of their king.
But evil things, in robes of sorrow.
Assailed the monarch’s high' estate.
(Ah. let Us mourn!—for never morrow
Shall dawn upon him desalatelt
And round about his home the gh
That blushed and bloomed
Is bnt a dim-remembered story
Of the old time entombed.
riory
And travelers, now. within that valley.
Through the red-littPn windows gee
Vast f OrmS that move fantastically
To a discordant melody.
Whit" like a ghastly raiiid river.
Through the pale door
A hideous throng rush out forever
And laugh—but smile fie more.
In looking back over the happenings
of twenty-five or thirty years ago. I
find that those with a touch of humor
in them have found more secure lodg
ment in my memory than others. The
tragedies are forgotten, while the com
edies. are still fresh. The mysterious
murders in Macon have no charm for
me whatever, but I can revel In the
funny things other people forget.
One of the most amusing things that
ever happened in Macon was Mr. E. D.
Irvine’s 4th of July celebration in 1SS0.
With is public spirit. Ed was always
patriotic, but on this particular occa
sion his patriotism ran riot. He reek
ed with patriotism. His idea was to
get up a celebration that would startle
the entire North, with fireworks enough
to light up the entire union, and till the
universe with glory. His rockets were
to be set off at Central City Park,
burst over Boston, and the stars would
fall over all New England, and be seen
from Maine to California, and that his
bombs would be heard wherever waved
the stars and stripes.
• • *
Col. Nat Harris was then, as he is
now, one of the leading lawyers of the
State, and was much in demand as an
orator. If there was any speech-mak
ing to be done, Col. Harris was called
upon. He has, in his time, made more
speeches of welcome and more* presen
tation speeches, and college speeches,
than am- man in the State. He was in
his prime, ready with eloquence, a fine
address, and a voice that could reach
• the last circle of a sound wave. Mr.
Irvine secured his consent, after con
siderable coaxing, to read the Declara
tion of Independence. The bloody shirt
was being waved in Congress, the
bloody chasm was a by-word, and the
echoes of the reconstruction period
were still rumbling through the South.
Mr. Irvine thought that if a gallant
ex-Confederate would take part In the
celebration of the 4 th of July, the
bloody shirt would he sent to the laun
dry. the bloody chasm would be closed
forever, and the reconstruction echoes
would be hushed into eternal silence.
1 And being a man of peace, Col. Nat
was won over.
It was to he no ordinary celebration.
There had been attempts to celebrate,
but they lacked snap and patriotism.
Years previous, before all the swords
had been turned into plowshares, the
genial and gifted O. A. Loehrane had
read the Declaration of Independence
to a crowd down at the old cemetery
at the foot of Cherry street, but tho
celebration was a tame, one-sided af
fair. What Mr. Irvine wanted was a
real, live, genuine celebration, with lots
of people. Excursion rates on the rail
roads were secured and. there is no
doubting the fact, the people came.
The program promised many things.
In addition to the rending of the De
claration by Col. Harris, the Macon
Volunteers, under Capt. W. W. Carnes,
were to give an exhibition drill by the
light of bombs imported from Ger
many, and they were really magnificent
things. The city was at that time
lighted by gas. On each street corner
was an iron post with a glass-framed
lamp, in which burned a sickly yellow
flame. It was the joke of the town that
one Would have to strike a match to see
if. a lamp was lit. Electric lighting
had been heard of, but never seen in
Macon, and the program called for an
exhibition of an electric lamp. It took
Ed Irvine and George Payne, who was
a leading druggist here then, some two
weeks to rig up batteries and colls and
all that sort of thing to produce this
wonderful electric light. The program
called for a salute of thirteen guns
from Vic Menard's famous cannon, a.nd
also a brilliant display of Chinese fire
works. Very few fireworks were made
in this country then, but both Irvine
and Payne had read up on their man
ufacture. and they made worlds of col
ored fire powder and arranged some
set pieces, one of them being a por
trait of the lamented Tom Hardeman,
tnen a candidate for Governor.
That night Central City Park was
crowded as it was never crowded be
fore, and Ed Irvine was happy. But
in the midst of his preparations a sus
picion struck him with the force of a
brick between the eyes that to admit
such a crowd the gatekeepers must be
working overtime. So he dropped
everything, to find that the gatekeepers
•were rather suffering for want of work
than otherwise. The discovery that
many of the crowd, in fact a very largo
many, had avoided the gates and had
used the fence, over, under and
through the cracks, put a crick in Ed’s
patriotism, hut the show had to come
off, gate receipts or no gate receipts.
As a debater, orator and attorney,.
Col. Harris had faced many audiences,
but this was the limit. The great ma-
Commission) was passed by the Sen
ate. 47 years to 17 nays, and the House
passed the measure on January 26.
. 191 to S7. The Senate was Republican
and the House was Democratic. The
commission consisted of five Senators,
! five Representatives, and five judges
i of the Supreme Court, to which the
: contested points were to be submitted.
Their decision was to be final, unless
the Senate and House agreed to order
| otherwise. Eight members were Re-
! publicans and seven Democrats. The
1 decision was made on party lines, and
• gave the disputed States to the Repub-
| Means by a vote of eight to seven.
The Senate and House could not agree
to change the decision and. by the
compromise law it was so recorded, to
the dissatisfaction of the Democrats,
who believed that investigation would
establish the fact of fraudulent action
by the returning boards, and give the
election to .Tilden. The Republican
majority of the commission decided
that a re-examinatlon of tho State re
turns by Federal authorities would
trespass on State independence; the
Democratic majority held that elec
tions of the Federal executive were a
proper subject of Investigation by the
Federal Congress.
, Jorlty were jubilant over their Tree ad
mission, some were really patriotic. atiJ
i some were in for a night of fun. They
1 didn't want any Declaration of Ilide-
! per.dence, but one of our modern tttid-
ways would have tickled them to
death. But the Declaration had to be
read. He got as far as "there is a
tide in the affairs of men," when there
arose from tho crowd in spots sttclf
ejaculations as 'pull down your vest."
! and “chalk your chin." and "come off
i your roost," and “where did you get
that hat." and other utterances calcula
ted to disturb a veil-behaved De.'mr-
atir.n of Independence. Ignoring the
unseemly interruptions, and ihltikin-:
the crowd would quiet down. Col. Hat 1 :
ris proceeded, but no one understood
i a word, until finally; in desperation, he
i came down from the music stand.
I It must he understood that in such
a vast crowd there were people who
appreciated the splendid rending of tho
Declaration. And another thing, to
the pan taken by Col. Harris In this
celebration must be attributed the rap
id healing of the wounds mode by the
war. By that act he did as much to
ward bringing the sections
I ter understanding of the sit
i closer together as any oth
the South. But Col. 'Harr!
today that :lie readlhg of
ration of Independence on this
! was the hardest day’s work of his ltie.
J It was right here that the elements
’ took pant in the proceedings. For a
few minutes tliore was on awful st tm
In which thunder, lightning and rain
electrified and drenched the entire
crowd. After it was over the next
; thing i'ii the programme was the firtn.r
j of the salute of thirteen guns. One mar.
: was sent to hunt Vic Menard’s cannon
to a
bet-
[uatlon
atn?
ier tnai
i in
!? will
tell
the Dr
!Cla*
its deen
si on
and another was sent for the powder
while Ed Irvine and George Payne
looked after the wonderful electric
light. The man sent after the cannon
reported that it could not be found, and
the man sent after the red fin* pel hogs
containing the powder brought them
in, but the powder was so wet that
the bags sagged. This Caused -Itu
electricians to leave their Vtbrlc fot
alvhlie to hunt for the eannnn, putting
a neero to watch the batteries. One
j lest lingering flash of lightning* caused
' the negro to fly for his life, nod ill
' thus flying he overturned the batteries,
and another strong feature of the am-
gramme was cut out. thus preventing
the peonle from seeing what an elec
tric light was for several years.
Blit the fireworks were safe, and
the display wns so fine that the crowd
who had paid admission, were sn'is-
fied. The drill of the volunteers, then
a company of a hundred or so men,
by the varl-colored lights of the fire
works, was a beautiful sight. The
company went through the manual of
arms like Clock-work, and in their
white and grnv unjforms presented an
I appearance thnt did more to stir up
i a patriotic thrill than all else.
! There are many people In Macon
who will remen-ber this celebration,
not as a great affair, but one accent-
nantefl hv more mishaps than any oth
er. and yet voted a stieerpg. for ir
spite of everything, including the ""ea-t
number that went in over the Tence.
Mr. Irvine cleared seven hundred n>id
fifty dollars, and he deserved ever.'
cent of it.
' Tn the TelegraArties of last SttnOny
I said that Julian Prlre. one of the
: amateur minstrels, had passed away
| This T find Is a ml'Vake. He is living
' the Ilf” of a farmer down In Lee Coun
ty. When the dav's work Is done tbe
I stock watered and fed. the rows m 1 1 k n ,d
| and the simper over. T wonder If he
i ev°r gives that gnld°n voice full swax*
: with the old songs. A Knot of RHie qnd
! Orax- and Nanex* Lee. both hist suited
, to b(s x*oice. were his favorites in the
old days, and If he sings them now down
j on his planta'ton, I enx-v the lis*en|pg
j trees. I x-erilx- believe that If tho
, xx-ickedes* nf ps could honr that quar-
. tette. Banks Winter, .Tnllnn T '*-1ee. .-\r-
■thur Findlax- and Arthur Wood sing
j a few of the old songs, we would be
a thousand times better in ex'ery way.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
i From the Chicago T^ews.
i Poets are horn, but good husbands
] are made.
Criticise yourself today and others
tomorrow.
I Large fortunes from small graft?
soon groxx-.
Other men’s ideals are not always
square deals.
: The man who looks for trouble is
seldom disappointed.
| Silent watches of the night are those
J we neglect to xvind.
i Opportunity doesn’t bother men who
j take beauty sleeps.
i Unless a man has money he can’t
| afford to be eccentric,
j Sax-age dots have caused many a
■ to travel for his health.
An elex’ator sometimes enables a mar.
, to rise to the occasion.
! Too many lawyers make a specialty
‘ of handling beer cases.
I BACHELOR REFLECTIONS
; From the New York Press.
| Tt’s a long honeymoon that has no
I return .to sanity.
I If it’s only a stickpin it’s jewels when
I a woman loses It.
! Money may be the root of ex-11, but
i lack of it is the full-groxvn tree,
j Sometimes women play cards at a
card party if there is nothing to talk
; about.
| The reason a girl like? to haxe you
j squeeze her hand is because she says
; she doesn’t.
| When a man Joins the church ho
thinks he’s going to die or he’s going
Into politics.
A man has got to he a Imro about
| something if it’s only a boil his grand
father once had.
Hardly anybody is such a fool as to
Imagine girls like him because he goes
to Sunday school.
On January 25. 1877. thirtv years
ago, the compeoniiea law (Electoral
The Republican Senators on the
Electoral Commission xx-ere Edmunds,
Morton and Frelinghuysen. and the
Democratic Senators were Thurman
and Bayard. The Democratic Repre
sentatives were Payne. Hunton and
Abbott, and the Republican Represen
tatives were Garfield and Hoar. The
Democratic judges were Clifford and
Field, and the Republican judges were
Miller, Strong and Joseph P. Bradley.
The country has never forgotten
"Aliunde Joe."
The Democrats did not want cix-il
war and accepted the Electoral Com
mission measure in the interest of
peace. I bellex’e that William E. Smith
xvas the only Georgia Congressman
that x-oted against the bill. Notxx-ith-
standing the fact that Florida. Louis
iana and South Carolina Were stolen
from Tilden, even then his plurality
xote was 250.000 more than Hayes’. In
October, 1877, President Hayes visited
Atlanta, ftcompanied by Mrs. Haves.
Secretary of State E\*nrts and Posi-
master-General Key. The party were
riven a great ovation and Governor
Colquitt tendered them a brilliant re
ception at the executive mansion.
POINTS ABOUT PEOPLE
Theodore Gill, the world’s greatest
authority on fishes, works for tho
United States Government for $1 a
month. He is a rich man on whom
many unix-ersities hax-e conferred titles
and degrees.
Lord Cork, who has entered his 4fith
year, enjoys txx-o earldoms, two xis-
countcies and three baronies in the
peerage of Ireland but he has no s°at
in that country and is himself of Eng
lish descent.
The King of Italy has decorated F.
A. Perret, of Brooklyn, well known ih
scientific circles, with the Cross of
Cavaliere Offieiale for his conduct and
services to humanity and science at
the time of the eruption of Mount Ve
suvius last April.
Mrs. Lew Wallace, dex-oted to th4
memory of her distinguished husband,
has kept everything in the library
where he wrote in exactly the condition
in which he left it. Even the book
which he was last reading lies open
at tha page as he laid it down.
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