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FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 1907. THE TWICE-A-WEEK TELE GRAPE FEDERAL FUNDS FOR ELECTION EXPENSES. Among the v»rl«ui alld tor-r“.-.r efforts of the President. to regulate natloca! eiec- > appropriate funds .from Treasury to cover all the such elections.* This, the it- declares. Is the the crazy Ideas conceived Executive's mind. central! tlons, and to «■ the Federal Tr< expenses of sut New Orleans P craziest of all t? in' the Chi I would r»-a': : Crum appointme remind Southern idem 1 record the Ini i. and I >p!e that We have none of the details of the proposed plan, but, of course. It relates only fc the election of Presidential electors and member.* of the House of Representatives, but -the greatest dan ger of such & method lies in the fact that it might be construed to cover in some way the election of legislators who choose the United States Senators. But what are election expenses? For what purpose are our large campaign funds raised? Until some publicity is given to the expenditures of such funds wo have no means of knowing how. where or for what purpose they are needed, Much of the literature sent out by both the Democratic and Repub lican parties is furnished by Senators and Representatives through the Gov ernment Printing Office at Washington, and is mailed under frank by these same gentlemen. Heretofore speakers could, especially officeholders, travel on passes and their only expenses were those of a hotel or a personal charac ter. Brass bands, fireworks and thousand and one other novel' apd in terest-stirring devices of course draw heavily on the campaign war-chests in the larger cities and closely contested States. Experience has shown that most ot the money la spent for speak ers. When these are candidates them selves there is no allowance made for them, and many of the leaders of both or all political organizations give their time and talent for the "good of the cause," but many more of the spell binders are paid, and hansomely, too, It is said that Carl Schurz. in the Hnyes-TIIden contest of 1876, received $500 per night for speeches In Pennsyl vanla, and In the end received the In terior Department portfolio. Yet Col A. K. McClure, who was chairman of the Pennsylvania State Central com mittee during the Lincoln campaign of 1860, says the total expenses in that campaign In that State were only $2,000! With printing bills and speak ers' expenses eliminated, the balance may bo divided between clerical ex penses and the corruption <or vote buying fund. The four sources of ex penditure enmernted are the principal uses for campaign funds. How much Is apportioned to each it is difficult to sny, and we perhaps would bo sur prised If wo were to know. The great est evil of the campaign fund Is in Its collection, not dispersion. As to the novelty of the Idea, under tho laws of many of the States and municipalities,‘all the expenses of the elections, including the printing of tick ets (the only legal ones) are borne by tho public treasury. One of the most advanced forms or this method Is that prevailing in one of the Dakotas, where nhe initiative and referendum are used. When either of these are resorted to to 6ecuro new or approve existing legis lation, the Secretary of State Is author ized to have printed at the State's ex pense a pamphlet containing the pro posed law and the arguments for and against it Each campaign committee is authorized to have five articles pre pared presenting its side of the case. These pamphlets are mailed within a certain number of days of the election to every qualified voter in the State, and nlso furnished to such other per sons a$ the committee may direct Whether tho President's idea carried mt in detail would prove a success Is extremely doubtful. To secure abso lute purity of elections It is only neces sary to know how the funds are raised and expended. Appropriations from the national Treasury, if turned over to the campaign managers, would not secure the latter aim, and if expended by Government officials would be linbie tb be used to the advantage ot the party In power. It may be necessary after a'.l for the young giant of Democracy to take a lesson In tho matter of honest and pure elections from the "effete monarchies” of Europe or from Australia, where publicity Is the law, and where a vio lation of It means the nullification of tho election. o' the llaaola would : Pres- ,-elt at Arlington ceme- Confederate soldiers' graves in sight of him. had con demned Southern soldiers to exe cration by describing them as no better than anarchists. Of all Dem ocrat.- to suggest the nomination of Roosevelt in the Democratic na tional convention a Southern Dem ocrat ought to be the last” A little dirt that the Georgian throws at The Telegraph is unworthy of no tice. Eng- I HITCHCOCK’8 SOUTHERN MISSION First Assistant Postmaster-General Hitchcock was surprised on his return to Washington to learn that the news papers had given a "political signifi cance" to his trip South and that some of the Northern papers had gone so far as to say that "he was on a mission for the President to ascertain at first hand regarding any new direction in the Republican sentiment of the South." “Mr. Hitchcock denied with emphasis that the President directed his movements,” says the Associated Press dispatch. However, he admits that in his flying trip through South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, he did find that "the Republicans are In hearty accord with the Administra tion:” that "they are Roosevelt men through and through." At all events, we may fairly assume from this report that Senator Foraker did not direct Mr. Hitchcock’s "movements. But how did he learn so much about Southern politics in a brief trip which was "prlmarfly an Inspection tour of Southern postoffices” and without "po litical significance.. "It Is true," he ad mitted, "that while the visit was pri marily one of Inspection and which I had planned months ago, I discussed politics to some extent. This was only natural as I was called on by many Southern Republicans officially con nected -with the Government and oth erwise interested. I saw no evidence to justify published reports of disaf fection in the ranks of some of the Re publicans In the South, such as organ ization of opposing movements and that sort of thing which we have been hearing about for some time.” The first assistant postmaster-gen eral must have been looking for these things since he tells us he did not see any "evidence" of them. But a doubt suggests itself, of the value of his re port, in view of Mr. Hitchcock’s pub lished itinerary and the confinement of his observation to the po3toffices and to representations from "Southern Republicans officially connected with the (government.” The disaffection that is talked of In the South, if It exists at all. Is to be found in the ranks of the negroes, who constitute the voters of the Republican party In this sec tion, while Mr. Hitchcock, in so far as we could observe, failed to connect with any of the representatives of the race in or out of office down this way. He skirted South Carolina without calling on Collector Crum, and tarried just long enough in Greenville to rein state John G. Capers, the deposed white Republican referee, or "boss,” in that State. He was not reported as calling on any negro officeholder In Georgia and we don’t know of any ne gro postmasters at the points in Flor ida he touched in his tour. That Republican officialdom in tho outh should be solid for the Admin- tration goes without saying. But what we would like to know is what ure, if any. the Brownsville "shoot- up” will cut in sending Republican del egates to the next Republican national convention. The Southern people are everlastingly grateful to President Roosevelt for his stand in that matter every element of th" people of land lent its aid. The point seized on the Che-ap.-ake was so strategic that every important revolution that come since that day has been fought out there. "On the 20th day of December. 1606. | after many prayers; and sermons in va rious churches, three small vessels, the Sarah Constant (of ’ one hundred | tons). Captain Christopher Newport, admiral; the Good Speed (forty tons), Captain 'Bartholomew Gosnold, vice- admiral; and a pinnace, the Discovery (twenty tons). Captain RatcUffe, dropped down the river from London, with sixscore souls on board, besides] some fifty -odd mariners, on their way to southern Virginia. They carried j with them the destinies of nations. "On the ISth of February they were j still in sight of the English coa.-t, hav ing spent the intermediate time blown up and down the channel, or anchored in the Downs just off the coast where | lay their homes, where their courage was sustained by "Worthy Master i HunL* the first Protestant clergyman | who ever set foot on these shores. "On the 26th of April, battered and worn, with at least one of their coun cil under arrest for mutiny, they sailed J into the Chesapeake, and dropped an chor in the Virginia waters. How rav ished they were by the spring verdure j structure of our dual form of State and the clear streams running through an< * Federal J3o\ eminent, to obliterate the woods, their earliest reports re- ^UU e lines and form a consolidated re cord. Even an attack by Indians, in Public, at a single stroke, is to adopt which two of their company were se- I an< * carry out the initiative and riously wounded, could not damp their referendum scheme. The powerful ardor. Their instructions were to find J States and the t\ eaker. States, New some commodious river running up into J an d Delaware for example, are the land where the^ might readily en- now CQual In the United States Senate, trench themselves, and so prevent tho but under the direct ’ popular Gov- Spaniards from pulling them out, as ernm ent of the initiative and referen- Menendez, the Butcher of Florida, had I dum Delaware would be equal only to done the Huguenots. And having dis- I s * n £* e New York county of AI the American good nature in the matter of sighing petitions. For in stance. the W. C. T. U. gets 13 per cent of the voters to petition Con gress for a national prohibitory law and draws up that law. Con gress must submit that law to the people. That Is the inlfiative. Con gress passes a law for the Federal ownership of the railroads. If that and every other law passed * by Congress has to be submitted to the voters you have the "obliga tory” or required referendum. If a petition of a certain per cent of the voters is required to secure submission of a law to the voters you have the "optional” or elective referendum. As the Federal judges themselves will be elected—this is part of Mr. Bryan’s dream, we believe; at any rate, it is indispensable for a really “direct" popular Government—laws will be made directly by the “peo ple.” that is. by powerful Individu als, coteries, “interests” working upon the people. Congress and the Supreme Court will have lost their powers. Theoretically a popular majority will make the laws. Ini tiative and referendum will be com moner than cranks or mosquitoes. The people, voting in comparatively smnll numbers now on such rare and important referendum.* ns con stitutional amendments, will nat urally come to take a very list less Interest in these perpetual votings. A lovely scheme for pre venting “popular” Government, for putting the community at the mer cy of demagogues and bosses, for bringing "popular” Government into confusion and contempt. In other words, the way to destroy The initiative and the referendum is j the sacrifice is no longer a question the latest "Ism” Mr. Bryan has chucked for discussion. We leave that for na- | tions to decide In the future. That it demanded—that they fought nobly into the political caldron. That man i v . as can cut out more trouble in a minute for Democracy than the party can patch together in a generation. covered a noble river pouring its wa ters into the inland sea, they sailed up the stream with the title until the 13th day of May. "The manner of their going is inter- bany, their populations being about the ! same. The States of the South would be [ shorn even of the limited power In the [ nation that Is now theirs, and certain esting enough, told in the quaint and more powerful Northern States, virile Elizabethan English: ‘Leaving with theIr Immense foreign and for- ten men as centinel at tho river's 1 eign-born populations would virtually mouth,’ ‘after much, and weary search control everything. To illustrate—In (with their barge coasting still before, t * le four States of New York, as Virgil writeth Aeneas did, arriving Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois ^ cast in the region of Italy called Latium, *'935,000 votes, or more than half as upon the banks of the River Tyber) in many as the other forty-ono States, the country of a Warrawance called] "'hid 1 cast 8,588,518 votes. These Wowonchapuncha (a ditionary to | ^ our States would thus have more than Powhatan) within this faire River of one_third ° r the Power, and to secure Pasplheigh, which we have called the j more than one-half, or complete con- King's River, they selected an ex- j * ro '‘ ^ would be necessary to add only tended Plalne and spot of earth which I *wo or three more populous Northern thrust out Into the depth and middest ® tates t0 the combination, of the channel making a kinde of | initiative and referendum chersonesus or Peninsula. The Trum- j sc bemes jg i n a sense democratic but In pets' sounding, the Admiral strooke j no senso Democratic. Tho historic salle and before the same the rest of | P a ri>' ot Thomas Jefferson has ever the Fleet came to an anchor, and here j s ^ ood f° r fbe people, but always for to loose no farther time the colony | t * le P e °Pl e ln *bis organized capacity as disimbarked.' ’And thereupon a cer- States as the best and surest means tain canton and quantity of that little I of secur * n £ lmme rule, self-government half island of ground was measured J and individual liberty. These inesti which they began to fortifle, and there- j mable blessings. would in a large on in the name of God to raise a For- I measure disappear under the inltla' tresse with tho ablest and ■ speediest tiv ® and referendum scheme, which meanes they could.’ [ would put the controlling influence ln "The landing on this spot that day of the han ds of a small group of populous that little band of no less than six- I Northern States, score seawora men (not counting fifty or sixty seamen), and the planting of tho British flag, was the true date of the capture of this continent for the English-speaking people. To employ their own phrase, they ‘brake the ice and beat the paths,’ and all who came after them found it easier. For, as Lord Bacon says: 'In kingdoms the first foundation or plantation is of more noble dignity and merit than all that followeth.’ "Time falls to go into the vicissitudes and struggles of this' little colony, which, like the Spartan band, held the Mrs. Hetty Green, the richest woman ln the world, who has always had her office rent free, is kicking because she is now required to pay rent. If she were a man now she could carrv her office in her hat. Women's hats are not built that way. Col. Henry Watterson says he has placed away a “Paris Mutual” at 100 to 1 that Governor Hughes will be the nexff President. The colonel h.-e been abread so much that he now does his betting in French. Secretary Taft declines to get ex cited over Ohio “machine” politics. That man has some of the dignity a President ought to have. nnd fell holy sacri.T t upon th( ;r country’s altar, and ave entitled to the country's gratitude, none will deny. “The proud banner under which thov rallied in defense of the holiest and noble’t cause for which heroes fought, or trusting women prayed, has been furled forever. The country for which they suffered and died, has now no name or place among the nations of the earth. Legislative enactments mav not be made to do honor'to their memories but the veriest rndfical that over traced genealogy back to the deck of the May Flower, could not refuse us the siple privilege of paying honor to those who died defending the life, hon or and happiness of the Southern wo men.” A writer says. "The proposal of Mrs. Williams found favor with the Northern ns well as the Southern people, and the ceremony, if not tho date, is now observed in every State of the Union. In the South the occasion is known as Memorial Day. nnd ih the North it is railed Decoration Day. Out of Mrs. Williams' suggestion have grown La dies' Memorial Association throughout — I the entire South. This glorious South- President Roosevelt believes in pub- ern woman "also conceived and start- >« h. „ no. „ *,!- demand that Cortelyou and Bliss open the books of his last campaign fund. If that Pullman porter who tackled Tom Watson was looking for a tip he'must have been more than satisfied when he got a slug. Whales may come and whales may go. .but “the Charleston shrimp crop never falls.” If there are any Jonahs in Charles ton they may now come out of their holes. Certainly, a Southern candidate for the Presidency could not make a worse mess of it than we have now. The "Old Dominion” Is several notches ahead under tho "unwritten law.” ■f-I-W-l-I-'H-I-H-I'-I-'I-l-H-l-I-I";-!' I'H'I. Caught on | the Wing I •i-H-i-M-I-t"!' I-I-I ■l"I"H-i-i--H-H-I"H"i' By JOHN T. BOIFEUILLET. April 26 is observed as Confederate Memorial Day in the States of Ala bama, Florida, Georgia and Mississippi. The occasion Is commemorated on May 10 in North Carolina'and South Car olina; In Tennessee on the second Fri day in May; In Virginia on May 30; in Louisiana on June 3, Jefferson Davis’ birthday. The only secession states not included in the above enumeration are Texas and Arkansas; I do not know when they observe Memorial Day. The beautiful idea of a Memorial Day for the Confederate dead was conceived by Mrs. Mary Ann Williams, of Columbus, ‘Wayside Homes’ for soldiers, that did so much good during the war." On April 15. 1874 Mrs. Williams died in Columbus. She now "among the angels dwells Inform so pure that she appears a living star.” In accordance with Mrs. Williams* proposition a Ladies’ Memorial Asso ciation was formed in Macon in 1868. Mrs. Thomas Hardeman was president. On April 26, 1S67, occurred the first decoration m this city of tho graves of Confederate soldiers. The Ladies' Me morial Association was permanentlv organized in 1S6S. with Mrs. Isaac Win- ship as president and Miss Kate Fort, secretary. Mrs. Winshlp was noted for her loving and unceasing labors In behalf of the Confederate cause, and when the war was over she rendered noble service in caring for tho graves of the fallen heroes. She was verv instrumental ln helping to have erect ed more than one monument In the South to the Confc-dernto dead. She left a precious memory. The Legislature of 1866, Thomas Hardeman, of Bibb, Speaker of the House, appropriated $5,000 for the pur pose of gathering together tho bodies of Confederate soldiers that were scat tered about and properly marking their last resting place. This action on the part of the General Assembly was tak en at the request of the women of Georgia, headed by Mrs. Ann Wiliams, of Columbus, and Miss Mary A. Green, of Resaca. Several very eloquent and patriotic speeches were delivered by members of the Legislature in support Of the proposition. There arc 603 graves of Confederate soldiers In Rose Hill cemetery In this city, all of which will be beautifully decorated today by loving and patrio tic hands. lion dr slderati lous s. ($1,000,000). hen a ?on- t is derived from vnr- hich Is added to the schoo! fund. p< rhap; of a million dollars mo there is half of th Railroad, amount tax. hire of convb tax, fees of oil inspet tors and some other taxes. There are between ten and leven thousand teachers, and more than a half million pupils. rental o-qr [0 000' shot Previous to the Civil War there was no public school system in Georgia. In some cities there were free schools, nnd private schools and academies abound ed. In 1783 “the poor school" systenl' was established. The Cyclopedia of Georgia thus explains it: It gave the Governor the power to grant upon proper application. 1.000 net '' of land in each county for the support of free schools. iBy the act of December 21. 1821, an equal .division of $500,000 was made between tho academies and p” >r schools. Two years later provision was made for the permanent investment of the poor school fund and the income was to bo distributed among tho cotm> ties in proportion to the white popu lation, for the education of poor chil dren. This system placed within the reach of every child ln the State tho means of obtaining the rudiments of an English education, although It con tained many defects and was open to :evere criticism. Pride on the part of the poor parents frequently Impelled them to keep their children out of school, rather than to be regarded as objects of charity. Concerning the Educational Society Doctor Wilson said: "The most Im portant enterprise ever entered Into by any ecclesiastical body in the State had its inception at the session of Hope- well Presbytery at Thyatlra Church, in the spring of 1823. This was the f >r- mation of the Georgia Educational So ciety. Out of this enterprise arose tho whole movement of denominational education in the State. To it wo trace the existence of Oglethorpe University. Emory College and Mercer University." The annual meeting in this city to day of the Georgia Educ-fion&l As sociation brings to mind the fpet that the present public school system of this Slate was Ci.-nt-c' as |h- result of the action of the Georgia Teachers’ Association at a meeting held in Ma con in November. 1.869. As we all know, the State constitution of 1868 provided “for a thorough system of — v „ lulllu „ ai general education, to be forever free widow of Colonel C. J. Williams, the to all children of the State." A eom- gallant commander of the First Geor- I mittee was appointed in August,1869, and it would no doubt help to swell the I £ atea 'ay of the sea against the seem- chorus among the disaffected Southern ! Jn F ! J' overwhelming forces which ever Democrats for a Roosevelt third term ] pressed on and on. if the President should be unexpectedly Discussing the consolidation scheme entitled the initiative’ and referendum, the Washington Post pertinently in quires: "Where would the South stand? She would be as powerless in the grasp of the masses of the North as she was under the bayonets of re construction. Will the intelligence of America' submit to the slums of our great cities for review the statesman ship that results from the deliberations of the representatives of the people?” One would not think so. but it begins to look as though the masses of our pople will do anything that a popular | j?f r ^ asb , an( ? ,vas at tbe troat ' battling ' OT liberty, iiome and her. she sent her Roosevelt or ‘Bryan tells them to do. \ only son to the war at the tender age of fourteen years. On the death of Col. gia Regulars In the Confederate army. He died in the early part of 1862 from disease incurred while bravely serving his country In Virginia. Colonel Wil liams was very prominent in politi cal affairs in Georgia, at one time be ing Speaker of the House of Repre sentatives. He saw service in the Mex ican War of 1846, as Major of the "Georgia Regiment of Volunteers," to which command the Macon Guards. Isaac Holmes, captain, belonged. This regiment went to Mexico with 910 men of whom 145 died during the one year’s campaign, among this number being the illustrious Maconite, Captain Holmes. Death and sickness had so depleted the ranks of tho regiment that there were only 450 regularly mus tered out of the service on leaving Mexico. Just before the regiment left Columbus for Mexico a beautiful Unit ed States flag was presented to it by Miss Mary Ann Howard, who was at that time engaged to be married to Major C. J. Williams, and whom she wedded on his return from the Mexi can War. She was the daughter of Maj. John H. Howard, a well known railroad president, and also noted in politics. Mrs. Williams was a noble Southern Voman, of sublime heroism and pat riotism. She was devotedly attached to the Confederate cause, and while The Michigan Senate almost ri'es to I Williams, he was interred in the ceme- "But on that May day three hundred j the J„.,„ Tcu.pto Oruv., .Uudurd | S i&filSgu,' placed in the position of running again i > ears a &°. tthen the company of those when it “resolutes” that Mr. Roosevelt : the cemetery and placed flowers upon or of denying the unanimous call of his ships disembarked and made their j is “the peerless leader and voung gi- i P 1 ? sleeping hero. It is ^ ri » . . .. - j ■” * rsistGu tticit, soon dttcr ttiG wdr ndu final landing on American soil, they I an t of the Western world.” The New closed “one day tho little girl asked faced every peril and danger that the j York Sun rises even higher when it ber mother's permission to put flowers country to the post of patriotic duty. But where does Mr. Taft come in? Ho was perforco compelled to side with tho President in that matter, if he did human mind can imagine. “This small band was the "REPUTATION” AND NOTORIETY. The editor of tho Atlanta Georgian declares that The Telegraph should "go and get a reputation" before it talks baek at him any' more. not naturally agree with him about it. ! hope of volunteers sent to seize a con- But the vital question with him is j t,nent - They made the breach and held whether Foraker or the Administration I i£ a £ ainst a H odds, and it is to the last- shall control the negro delegates in the ins renown of the English race that. Republican national convention, and we ; *l thou oh ot the first seven thousand and odd settlers who came over In the early years, more than six thousand fear Mr. Hitchcock's report throws no light on that question. OPENING DAY AT 'JAMESTOWN. Three hundred years ago it proved „ _ * . on the graves of other soldiers burled says: Why Western only? His near by and this incident suggested to fame folds in this orb o' the earth. He tb e mother the idea of having one day ... .. ... ,, ... in the year devoted to decorating, with i- t*-'— Giant of the whole world; and it • appropriate ceremonies, the graves of is altogether too dwarfish for him. He ! the Confederate dead.” Accordingly, needs more worlds in his business." sh f. a dressed the following communl- . cation to the Columbus (Oa.) Times, The Sun, however, is more merry than suggesting the memorial day custom. Grave. I "Columbus, Ga.. March 12. 1866. j “Mes-'rs. Editors:—The ladies are now and have been for several days engag- by the Georgia Teachers' Association “to report upon a school system adopted to the condition and wants of Georgia." The committeemen were Professor Gustavua J. Orr. of Emory College; Bernard Mallon. superintend ent of the Savannah public schools: John M. Bonnell, president of Wesley an Female College; Martin .T. Calvin, of Augusta, and David W. Lewis,pres ident of the North Georgia Agricultu ral College. r„t Dahlonega. Chairman Orr prepared the report and the same was submitted to the executive com mittee of the Georgia Teachers’ As sociation, composed of H. H. Tucker, president of Mercer University; Prof. Leroy Browne, of the University of j Georgia: Prof. Alexander Means of I Emory College; W T . D. Williams.yrin- J clpal of the Georgia Academy for the Blind; Professors Mallon and Orr. Many hours were spent in considera tion of the report and finally It was adopted ns it came from the pen of Chairman Orr. The report was then submitted at the meeting of the Geor gia Teachers' Association which was held at Macon in November. 1869. as already stated, and was diacuoscd at length’ and adopted without a dis senting vote. The first public school law. passed by the Legislature in Oc tober. 1870* and approved by Governor Bullock, obtained its main provisions from this report. Governor Bullock appointed Gen. J. R. Lewis State 'School Commissioner, and general or ganization xvas effected. The public schools laws of Georgia have been closely followed by numerous States in framing their educational systems. Macon has alawys been the seat of learning in this State, and It was nat ural that the public school system should have been given Us start here. And it will be noted that the heads of three of her leading educational institutions had an important part in putting the movement under way, namely: President John M. Bonnell of Wesleyan Female College: President Henry H. Tucker of Mercer University and Principal W. D. Williams of the Georgia Academy for the Blind. At tention might also be drawn to the fact that not only did the public school system of Georgia get Its flrrit real definite start In the city but there is in oneratlon in Macon the best local The annual meting of the Royal Arch Masons of Georgia in Macon today sug gests the interesting mention that Con stantine Chapter, the first chapter of Royal Arch Masons ever established in Macon, commenced work under a dispensation granted at Washington City on June 21, 1838, by General Grand High Priest Poinsett. On September 14, 1838, at ‘Boston, a charter was granted by the General Grand Chapter of the United States. The total mem ber of the order- is about 270,000. It may be information to some to hear that the next triennial meeting of the Arch Masons of the. United States will bo held in 1909. at Savannah. The first high priest of Constantine Chapter was te late Dr. Ambrose Baber. This form-' her eminent citizen was also the fl‘ : t worshipful master of Macon Lodge. No. 5, of Free and Acceptt'd Masons, which body commenced work under a dispen sation granted on July 28, 1824, about seven months after the incorporation of Maoon as a town. The members o f Macon Lodge participated in a recep tion to Lafayette on his visit to this city in 1825. Worshipful Master ‘Baber delivered an eloquent address to which the famous ‘French general made a beautiful response. Tho large number of Masons ln Macon today may be in terested ln reading the following ex tracts form the speeches of Baber and. Lafayette, spoken elghty-two years ago. I find the addresses recorded In Btn- let’s history of Macon. In concluding his remarks Baber said: "Amidst this Jubilee of feeling, per mit me to offer you again the grateful rejoicings of my associates and breth ren of the society of Free Masons in beholding you among us. Royal tyran ny may condemn, ignorance may re proach and blaspheme the holy mys teries of our institution, yet With La fayette for her support, the sold ^ of Masonry will con/’nue to illumine and harmonize mankind to endless ages. Gratitude must have fled from the breast of man. ’humanity lose its seat ere the virtuous deeds of the generous, amiable, distinguished and exemplary Lafayette shall ‘he forgotten.” Lafayette replied as follows: "The very grateful reception I have met among my brethren demand- u’ me an expression of ray most sincere and affectionate acknowledgement. Per mit mo t-o derlnre to you particularly and the brethren Of your ledge nnd un feigned obligation for the very flrmc- ing vvorda you have been pleased to speak of me. “The science of Free Masonry, to which I have for many years been in humble votary, is wonderfully calcu lated to alleviate the many dlstreses and calamities to which mankind nt-e exposed in their variegted and mnl- fold duties in society, and when t re- . cur to those scenes to which y ui have pleased so delicately to allude I.am constrained to acknowledge how much I have been cheered, sustained and ani mated in the various vicissitudes of m; life by the holy precepts and example: of our institution. That you and you lodge may be blessed with prosperity and harmony, that the rising ar.d im proving town of Macon may confirm' In its successful advancement, that Masonry man flourish, and the c.ilz enjoy all the social and intellect blessing- it so eminently inculcale.s, i, pray you, sir, to accept as my most 5 sincere and ardent wish.” There are aonry, to-wit: veral The ranch: regular if Mn- order Ancient Free and . iccep'.eri Masons: Scottish Rite Mas. ns: Royal Areh Masons: Royal and Select Masons: Knights Tem pin r: Sovereign Sano- tuary of Ancient an d Primitive Fr-e. masonry Nobles Of the Mystic Shrine. It is estimated there are ah iut 7 300,nno The Augusta Tribune takes issue cd ln the sad- but pleasant duty of I public"‘scooi system In the State," It died in ‘the seasoning,’ as fast as their j with the statement of The Telegraph ! ornamenting and improving that por- j j s ideal system for a progressive numbers failed they were replaced. On that Mr. Bryan's Initiative and refer- ‘ ^e^y^of^on/^llSt Ton^ed^lte I ° nd intelligent community, their maintaining their position hung endum for the control of the National dead, but we feel that it is an unfln- j when the Legislature the fate of North America, and possibly Government is “impractical and non ‘ of the world.” INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM. Col. Henry Watterson returns from nations of the earth will populate with ! an absence of several months in Eu- of 1870 ished work, unless a day be set apart j passed the public school law it nlso . annually for its especial attention, appropriated $327,000 as a school fund sensical. The tribune can see noth- we cannot raise monumental shafts 1 f 0r the first year, but this money was ing “impractical or nonsensical” in it. and inscribe thereon their many deeds ) diverted for other purposes and at the Does this not Drove eondnslveiv of heroism - but we can keep alive , c tose of the year 1871 there were no t— not P oa conclusively vv.aat tbe mem ory of the debt we owe them. ! funds with which to pay teachers and we said? j by dedicating at least one day in each j defray other expenses connected with ! year to embellishing their humble j the oneratlon of the schools. More Senator Penrose's effort to get the 5. r f" s T ! 1 . crefore ', "' e I than $300,000 wore due to the school a difficult matter to get one hundred people located at Jamestown, Va., and when they were they died off like flies There is a difference betweon “rep- ,n wlnter - Today a magic city of pal- utatlon” and notoriety. The Telegraph j accs cro ' vns th c peninsula which the enjoys the one and the editor of the ! : ’ ations the carth wll > P°P uIate j an absence of ^’ eraI in Eu- Senator Penrose's effort to get the asslstance of the preS5 and the , ^cerVand teachers. The outlook was G. orglan seeks the other. | un c° u ”-ted thousands while their na- rope to find with surprise, and not j Pennsylvania Legislature to indorse ladies throughout the- State to aid us exceedingly gloomy for tho public The Telegraph enlnv* ih,> .vies ride at anchor in Hampton Roads, with pleasure, that Mr. Bryan is boom- : Roosevelt for a third term is spoken in *be effort to sVr apart a certain day i school system. It looked as if a death ■ . .. .njoy. -rn reputation . . ... . ^ , , t , , , . . , „ '.to be observed, from the Potomac to : blow had been given to the public among sane people of being sensible j -t e ' en£ commemorated Is well wor- : mg the initiative and referendum, j of as a trick to embarrass the Pre-i- ; the Rio Grande, and be handed down schools at the very outset. As a result an.l rational. This is worth more to a tay this s P !en did gathering. It is in : With reference to Mr. Bryan’s alleged I dent. Probably It would have been i through time as a religious custom of no schools were opened in 1S72. But >cr-i,.- newspaper than all the noto- celebration of the first permanent foot- i threat to drive out of the Democratic much Jess embarrassing if it had sue- ] ^ SSSied®dSTB^^W^and ' Hghrdawned^nTh^East^Demoemey riety uMr. John Temple Graves can ac- i ho!d secured on the shores of the New j party every man who is not willin ' ‘ - _ - ~ ' According to Col. Watterson, the 'r.gue and flippant pen. If. tion” idem llo, drive out of the Democratic j much less embarrassing if it had suc- ^ ceeded. . - •; World by an Anglo-Saxon people. From ; stand with him for this new imported this settlement has grown a nation ot J “ism.” Mr. Watterson Is quoted as say- 'Democratic reputa- S£, ' 0CI() ' 00i) People, and the opening up ing that Mr. Eryan is a good driver. is necessary to proclaim Pres- i of a hemisphere to the bursting popu- i as is shown by the thousands of Dem- ; conventlon nest yc3r ' for th e country la tlons of the overcrowded lands of the ' ocrats whom his policy has forced out I wil1 refu3c to elect .Bryan and the por- l Old World was thus succesfully begun, of the party during his career of lead- l * refuse tv nominate anybody j A number of unsuccessful attempts • ership. ; Democratic party may as well hold no a Democrat wort a third-term nomination by the national Democratic convention. Telegraph will leap at the Xprfelt that “reputation.” emotive Hay. of the Graves b of The R. rr t>ble banco to 1 had bpen Previously made to plan I English colony in the New World. Virginia I eluding that of Governor White a hen he I “I w • >ut!x I’llO 'I 'u—a IRoosev United tneir ( pa, .Iv in tile ould recall to them Tthe rn poopU 1 that a negro teach, r—Booker Washing* - recognized by President eli has superior claims of it: .n as an adviser to the Fli:cs Senator? acting in vr.siitutional advisory ca ns is shown conspicuously cases of Alabama and Ohio. which set out for "Croatan" in the Governor’s absence, and left not a trace behind which, from that day to this, has ever been discovered. The history of the Jamestown colony is treated by Thomas Nelson Page as follows in Collier's for April 27: "The time was ripe for their coming. It was necessary to seize this country to block Spain forever, and to the work "What and why is 'initiative and referendum’?" asks a correspondent of!, an Independent contemporary, and re- j ceives this illuminating reply: j ty will refuse tv j else. The colonel is unhappy and - has I cause. Down in Cuba the people are dis cussing the prospects of “home rule" we propose the twenty-sixth (26th) ; was once again day of April as the day. Let every J Governor James M city, town and village join in the pleasant duty. Let a 5 ! alike be re membered. from the heroes of Manas sas to those who expired amicL the death throes of our hallowed cause. Well crown alike the honored resting places of the immortal Jackson in Vir ginia, Johnston at Shiloh. Cleburne, in Tennessee, and the hosts of gallant privates who adorned our ranks. All did their duty, and to all we owe our gratitude. Let the soldiers' graves, for that day at least, be the Southern Mec ca, to whose shrine her sorrowing wo- the saddle, with Smith riding at the head of the rejoicing procession. T>v the direction of the Logislatare of 3872 a tax;was levied for the payment of the past due claims of the school officers and teachers, and provision was made for the operation of the schools in 1873. ar.d from then until now the common schools of Georgia have been operated without interrup tion and have steadily increased in numbers, importance and influence. Their growth has kept rare with the w -nderful progress of the State along i 'jlus trial, commercial and all ma- Cite a case? We can cite only a supposed case. Suppose that the smaller States, now protected by their equal representation in the Senate, have waived that protec tion; that Congress has been made not a representative legislative body, but the puppet of the ma jority of the hour. A certain per centage of the voters petition Con gress to submit to the people a cer tain measure. Everybody knows I just like the Irish have done for a men like pilgrims, may annually bring terial lines. Under the administratl , T . „ | their grateful hearts and floral offer- of the present State School Commfs- hundr^d year.-, and Lncle Sam now , , ns?s s And when we re memher the sinner. W. B. Merritt, the system is swells out with imperial proportions ; thousands who were buried “with their enjoying remarkable prosperity, and is martini cloaks around them,” without in a condition of the highest excellence. Christian ceremony of interment, we i I have not the exact figures by me, would invoke the aid of the most thrill- hnnre cannot give accurately the total ing eloquence throughout the land public fund for the current year, and to inaugurate this custom, by deliver- for the same reason I am unable to ing on the appointed day this year, a state positive number of teachers and eulogy on the unburled dead of our | pupils in the system, but I can furnish Southern army. They died a reasonable estimate. I know that . for their country. Whether this eoun- ! the Legislature makes a direct appri-- 'try had or had not the right to demand j priatlon from the treasury of one mll- almost like John Bull himself. Ambassador Bryce says Chicago Is destined to be the m'ost beautiful city in America. Those interested in Chi-. cago’s purpose are cordially invited to 1 glorious visit Macon and learn how. Freemasons, The only fraternal or ganization which exceeds too Masons in number Is the Odd Follows. It is stated there are more ;hnn 1.5 r| l,000 persons in iho ranks of Odd Fellow ship. In Georgia It is believed there are more Masons than Odd Fellows, though there is not much difference. There are over 25.000 Masons In this State, and the Odd Fellows are not 1 far behind, if any. I learn from the Cyclopedia of Georgia that the history of Masonry In this S'ate dates from the year 1735. when Lord Weymouth, the grand master ot the Masons of England, issued a warrant to Roger Lacey :o open a “particu! m" !od:re fn Savannah. This was named King Solomon’s lodge, of which Lacey serv ed as ma-'tor until 1757. Among Its members were Noble Jones Grey El liott and Gen. Samuel Elbert, who fig ured prominently In the Revolution. There is a story to the effect that the first lodge of Me-'ons I" Georgia was held under a large live o*k tree, at Sunbury. and that Gen. James Ogle thorpe presided as master. The tree died about 1870 and from fh° *imber Masonic tools were made and distri buted among various lodgc-s. where they are preserved ns relics. A chair of iive oak made from this old tree is in Solomon's Lodge at Savannah. At the close of the Revolution two lodges. King Solomon's and Hiram, held a convention at Savannah, in December, 1787, and elected grand lodge officers. Although these two lodgp? were char tered by two different authorities, the brmer by the grand lodge of England and the iatfer by ‘he provincial grand lodge of Pennsylvania there were no dissensions between them, however, and the grand lodge thus established became the supreme Masonic authori ty for the State. It further recorded that in 3820 the lodge records were destroyed by the great fire in Savannah and conse quently but little is known of its transactions. The proceedings from 3.820 to 3850 are out of print, with the exception of three or four year*, and .