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Tight-fisted fellows—Prize A ers. After the waiter feeds you he ex pects to be feed. It takes an ur.blushipg damsel to court notoriety 1 The railroads built on paper are tied with a string. Shorthand folks can handle long speeches better tha a long hand ones. Close-fisted people make you knuckle down during a business trans action. B ght Ben Bussell seems to be getting there in the Second.—Savan nah Press. It your wife is a typewriter she will stand dictation and allow you to have the last word. Those who use hearts for toys, doubtless Imagine they can be mended when broken. Travelers aboard ship are compan ionable, as they come in close contact in the companionway. Some specialists believe base ball will beneAt the insane. It will remind them of old times, at all events. The people are delighted with Ben Bussell wherever he goes. This is be cause they love good Democracy. What’s become of Jerry Massey. Wonder if he b trying to work up or under another Florida exchange. Winter of watermelon and dog- farm fame, of Thomas county, will soon be out of a job. Poor fellow. Pugs are supposed to Aght to a Anish. The Anish, like the Patti fare well tour, goes marching on, however. The day of little Tommie Mclutyre has about dwindled in Thomas county. HU corrupt methods have found him out. A green-haired, rosy-cheeked girl has arrived in New York from the Green Isle. She carries the green above the red. Hon. W. M. Hammond of Thomas has been making some strong speeches in his district in favor of true Democ racy.—Savannah Press. George Agubtus Sala has written up a soap works for an English maga zine. It must have been a costly “paid local,” add contains a good deal of lye. “Third party Stevens” is out on a still hunt, so his people say. Let him hunt Ben Bussell is in his wake talk ing Democracy to the people. Ireland’s bogs may be her salva tion. There’s gold in the peat they hold, but something else besides poli tics will have to be used to bring it to the surface. Whilhblm evidently intends to make enough out of Koch’s lymph to pay the expenses of. keeping up the German army. It will undoubtedly fatten his treasury. Fido Jones, of Thomasville, now soars up into the eternal regions of the Third party and is baying at the Dem ocratic moon. Poor Fido, he want’s, to he a big dog mighty bad. The nomination of Hon. “Billy” . Wooten for the senate will result in a shower of congratulations upon one of the most popular young men in Geor gia politics.—Savannah Press. The nomination of Hon. W. E Wooten i’or the State Senate from the Albany district is a deserved compli ment to a brilliat young man. He has the happy faculty of making friends pf all who meet him, and is a ready 'de- bater and a first-class lawyer. A fu tare of success to him.—Dawson News. Caft, Ben E. Bussell is. a straight- out Democrat, a pure and patriotic citizen, an elcqueut speaker and an able man. He is making the race for the Congressional nomination in the Second District against Ocalaite. The straightout Democrats are rallying to the support of Bussell.—Brunswick Times. B n Bussell and Col. Hammond may be teaching pure Democracy as they go through the district encourag ing and urging division and discord among the white voters, hut if this is pure Democracy God deliver us from it.—Cuthbert Liberal-Enterprise. Messrs. Bussell and Hammond are doubtless doing what they conceive to be their duty. The situation in the Second seems to be a little mixed.— Savannah Press. And the Democratic party might very appropriately say God deliver us from such butters as W. C. Gunn, who edits ihe Liberal-Enterprise, Hon. Ben E. Bussell, cendidate for congress from this district, passed through the city Sunday en route home from a trip in the upper part of the district. Ben Bussell is talking simon pure Democracy wherever he gees and the Democrats are Aocking to him. It is ssid that he has a very strong following up in the upper end of the district. He is an able man, a good Democrat and would represent the district in congress with credit to himself and his -constituents.—Thom- asville Timea-Enterprise. THE PBECEDENT. During the present Congressional campaign a great deal has been said about the action of the District Execu tive Committee. It is a well-known fact that the committee recommended that all the counties in the district hold primaries on the same day, and set a3 that day the 30th of July. At once there was a great hue and cry raised by the Stevens organs. The committee was roundly abused and nothing was too mean for the organs to say about the committee. The action of the committee was condemn ed as being dictatorial and without precedent. In the consciousness of being right the committee has gone ahead and stood by their action and refused to retract what they have done. They claim it as their right, and. have al ways maintained that delegates elected under this requirement were the only ones entitled to a seat in the conven tion. In this connection the proceedings of a previous congressional convention may prove of considerable interest. On the 25th of August 18SG, the convention met at Camilla. In the News and Advertiser of the morn ing of the 26th the full proceedings were published, signed by H. M, Mc Intosh, chairman, and C. P. Hansell and J. L. Underwood as secretaries. We make the following extract: At 3 p. m. the convention re-assem bled, and was called to order by Hon. M. O’Neal. Mr. Beck, chairman of the committee on organization, sub mitted the following report. “We, your committee on credentials, rules and organization, beg leave to make the following report: 1. Wo recommend as permanent chairman of this convention Hon. H. M. McIntosh, of Dougherty county. 2. We recommend as ‘permanent secretaries C. P. Hansell and J. L Underwood. 3. ' We recommend that the delegates whose names are hereto attached be admitted to seats in this convention. 4. We recommend that this conven tion adopt the majority rule to govern them in the nomination of a candidate for congress. Bespecttully submitted. J. J. Beck, C. B T witty, Chairman. Secretary. The report then says: Mr. McLendon, of Thomas, offered the following as a minority report for the fourth recommendation: We, the urdersigned constituting a part of the committee of organization, credentials and rules, beg leave to sub mit the following minority report: We recommend as a substitute for the majority report the following reso lutions, and respectfnliy recommend and urge their adoption: Besolved, 1. That the two-thirds rule shall be enforced in the nomina tion'to be made by this convention. 2. That each county composing the Second Congressional district, in selecting delegates to the convention to assemble in 1888, be requested to ex press its choice as between the major ity and two-thirds rules as a law governing nominations by the Demo cratic party of this district. Besolved further, That we recom mend the permanent enforcement of the rule receiving the endorsement of a majority of the counties as herein provided. Besolved further, That the District Executive Committee he requested to bring this matter to the attention of the district in calling the next con vention, and that the district.commit- tee recommend a day on which action shall be had in all the counties. S. G. McLendon, H. C. Sheffield, - J. M. Griggs, Clarence Wilson, W. W. Choney, J. W. Walters, W. E. Gay, Jr., James Mullegan. The two-thirds rule mentioned in Mr. McLendon’s report was lost, and the majority rule-maintained. •The report then again says: - The other resolutions'offered by Mr. S. G. McLendon for the_minority of tho committee were amended by add ing. on motion of Cpl. Wright, of Thomas, at the end, “by primary elec tions;” and adopted unanimously. w these extracts are taken from the proceedings of a congressional con vention and are vouched for by many people who were present as being cor rect. This shows that under a precedent already established that the committee had a perfect right to do as it has done. At the time the previous con vention adopted the rale no objection was made and never has been made until Mr. Stevens saw it would do his weak cause no good and he immediate ly had his henchmen raise a great fuss about it. Will they have the honesty and fair ness to give their readers these cold facts ? They may hut we doubt it, as it will not suit their purposes ot abuse and gross misrepresentation. BAKES COUNTY DEROCRACt, A primary election will be held in Baker county, at each precinct on July 30th, 1SD2, for the purpose of naming Baker’s choice Bepresentative in the United States congress, to be present ed to the nominating convention of the Second congressional district, to meet in Albany on August 17, 1892. Can didates for congress will be voted for direct. None but Democrats adopting the Democratic platform put forth by the National convention at Chicago J une 21st—23rd, 1S92, will be entitled to vote In piimaries. The candidates securing the highest number of votes will have the right to choose his own delegates to represent him in the Albany convention. By order of Democratic Executive Com mittee Baker county. K. B. Odom, Chairman. Newton, Ga., June 29, 1892. A HIBED DEMOCKAT. The fool of all fools who edit3 and publishes a Democratic paper at Way- cross under contract, while at heart is a vile Bepublican, has this to say of affairs in the Second district: “Over in the second district Mr. O. B. Stevens has “got the drop on the boys,” and is carrying things in the Democratic primaries his own way. He is opposed by the Third party sec tion of the allianceand by the straight- out Democrats, but he appears to be carrying the Ocala idea on one shoul der and Democratic votes on the other very successfully. There are lively times ahead in the Second. We wouldn’t be surprised to see Hon, B. E. Russell, the gifted and versatile Ben, go “agin” him in the convention, and failing there, run an independent schedule for Congress,” Now the above is rather lresh, and shows utter ignorance of the writer, while it does Mr, Bussell an unjustice of no small degree. In the Arst place the contract Dem ocrat at Waycross doesn’t knew what he is talking about when he says that Third party Stevens has the three drop on the boys. Mr. Stevens has only six out ot the Afteen, which shows very conclusively that he hasn’t got the “drop on the boys.” Secondly: Mr. Sussell is a Demo crat, and a true one. He seeks the Democratic nomination, in accordance with Democratic usuages, and if he fails to get tho nomination under a tair management of affairs,' he will be the last man to bolt the action of bis party. The News and Advertiser hurls the false insinuations against bright Ben Bussell back into the teeth of Waycross’hired Democrat and stamp such insinuations as base as base can be. STEVENS IN BAKER. We And a special in a late issue of the Macon Telegraph from Newton. . That special is ot considerable, in terest to our readers and we give it as follows: Hon. O. B. Stevens, of Dawson, was in town this week. He kept so quiet and discussed politics so little that one of our citizens asked him the object of his visit. Was it for the interest of his warehouse business; and he replied that he was looking at the crops and attending protracted religious services. Mr. Stevens is not the choice of our connty. The people are anxious to have Ben Bussell to come here and discuss the political situation of the day. It will result in much good. The Third party of Baker county are stronger than a great many people be lieve that they are, and will support Stevens, believing that as soon as Mr Stevens is nominated he will declare himself for them. So it seems that Tobe has given up his political canvass and gone to at tending religious meetings. This is a good idea, because Tobe stands about as little chance of going to congress as any Third party man we know of. Ben Bussell has struck the popular chord and the people are clamoring for him and will send him as their ntxt representative in congress. The peo ple recognize in Ben Bussell a Demo crat true and tried, and a man that will always remain truj to the princi ples of Democracy. MARRIAGE UNDER DIFFICUL TIES. An Englishman married an Ameri-. can not long since, and, as they were both in Borne, it seemed most expedi ent to have the ceremony performed there. When they marry again, they will choose another city. Their ar rangements were all made, when it became necessary for the groom to go to England, which he could easily do before the appointed time. But when he returned, he found that the Italian law insisted that three weeks’ resi dence before the ceremony be contin uous, and the consular influence of the two contracting nations could not persuade the Italian authorities to re gard the Englishman’s brief absence as less tban a change of residence; the three weeks, accordingly, had to be lived over again from the date of his return, and to the utter disruption ol their plans. When the day arrived, the ceremony, they found, must take place at the capitol. The bride leii sure that the ghosts of Marcus Aurel ius, Q. Curtius and the cackling ot geese would make her lorget her re sponses. But she found herself more' awed by the throne-like preparations for the ceremony. ■ But when the mayor dressed himself in his red and white scarf, and Bhe felt that the; were only, waiting for the brass band lo go, out on parade, she became s hysterical with laughter she could scarcely keep to the matter in hand. When the vows were exchanged, the mayor was by no means done with them, for he delivered to them a long address in Italian about their various duties to one another, and told the wife that she must now expect her husband to support her, but if he should fail sick or anything happen to him she mast go to work and sup port him. This, she says, she would have done anyway, but was rather surprised to be lecture! with such s- - verity by a stranger. After the : d« dress, they were tailed upon to sign paper until her arm ached. Never, she writes, did she imagine marriage could be such an arduous, complicated aAair, and she feels that it would be perfectly hopeless to ever try to get a divorce. _ SOME QUESTIONS. They Are Faiatefl tin*! are Intended JFar an linr.T. Below we print a letter from a prem inent citizen of Dawson. It was sent to Mr. E. L. Raney, editor of the DawsonNews, and he refused to pub lish, but the News and Advertiser gives it freely: Dawson Ga., July 11. 1892. Mr. E. L. Rainy, Editor News, Dawson, Ga. Dear Sir:—Believing you tobe a genuine simon pure Demo crat, and will be one of the last to ad vocate any political division within our ranks, at this critical time, think yon would not hesitate in giving space in your columns to a few simple ques tions touching the congressional race now pending in this, the 2nd congres sional district; though I will assure you that I am not writing in the in terest of any particular man, and only for the sake of peace and harmony and the succps« of Dawson. There seems to be two parties in the Democratic ranks, viz: A “Stevens’ party and an “anti-Stevens” party Now let ns lay aside all prejudice and take a common sense view of the situa tion. Mr. Stevens says that he is a simon pare “Jeffersonian Democrat” and that he will not accept of a nomi nation for Congressional honors, only as such, which I so much admire in him. He also says that a large ma jority of the counties composing the Second district are Stevens counties. Then, if this be true, why should or bow can he object to all the counties of the district holding their primaries on the 39th inst. and electing their del egates, and, then, if Mr- Stevens is tho choice of the people, let us all pull for him like a band of brethren and put him in Congress. But if the peo ple want some other gentleman let “Mr. Stevens” pull with us and help elect him. Now, sir, this is easily done, and have no strife, by which, if continued, it would place a Bepub lican from the old noble Democratic Second district in Congress. The National Democratic Conven tion has done its work, and we think did it well, and has placed its platform before the people, So, alright, sir, bow broad and how conservative the same is, and, then, by this, onr Con gressional conventions can act wisely and put out no man that is willing to stand upon the same. Mr. Stevens can very easily address a letter to the chairman of the executive committee of each county agreeing to a primary on the 30th and then see, and the public see, his standing before the people. This is just, right; fair and Democratic and we cannot see how he could object. This Third Party movement is all bosh, and we think rotten, and this object is to burst a solid south, thereby giving the election to Harrison, which amounts to the Force bill and this to a sight of other trouble unnecessa ry to name in this communication. Now, will Mr. Stevens answer the communication through your columns aud oblige one who is anxious for equal justice to be meted out to a concerned ? Respectfully and truly yours, Incognito. I \ \ Some of The Leading’ Hoiiseswho Desires your Consignments Con. ) suit These Columns, S F. J. SPRATLING. g gf F. W. FOSTER. F. J. SPRATLING & CO., 9: commiion PRODUCE. | M EEC H NT. Corner Jackson and Ellis Sts., Augusta, Ga, FRUIT AND A Horrible Tiling-. ' It is a horrible thing that in one of the greatest industrial communities of the United States a question of wages must be debated with Winchester rifle and cannon. It is the communi ty which is the center of the protected industries. It is pointed to as the community in which may he seen in the fullest development the blessing of the system of protection—a commun ity in which workmen are well boused, well fed, well dressed and happy. Yet it is these workmen who are now fight- ing dseparately, killing and being killed in an iffirt to prevent them selves from being red ced to a state which they compare, with that of the “pauper” laborers of Europe. Is it pcssib’e that the glowing word pict ures which iiave so, often been printed of the happy surroundings of the Penn sylvania workingmen were drawn from imagination? The dcubt is raised by the recollection that it was in this same community in 1877 that he bloodiest and most destructive riot ever known in this country oc curred. That riot also had its origin in a quarrell between workmen aud employers. locking Backward. The truth is, that the Bepublican party of late year3 has developed a surprising tendency to magnify dead issues. Jtff Davis is dead, Bob Toombs is dead, so-is slavery, so is the Confederacy, and so is the greenback idea, and yet the Bepublican leaders reckon for no small amount of their support upon these same dead issues— lead so long that thev have lost all interest and influence among thinking people. If there was ever a party with its face turned persistently and irrevocably backward it is the Bepub lican paity of today.—Manchester (N. tl.) Union. By the law governing the politics ot he District, no delegate is entitled to i seat in the August convention, ex cept those who go in accordance with the recommendation of the Dis trict Committee. Yonr shipments of Fruits and Vegetables of all binds, respectfully solicited. 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