Albany weekly herald. (Albany, Ga.) 1892-19??, November 05, 1892, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextV ■ . Editor ud Proprietor, ..... . Editor. p.m. ft week i or 45 cent* a « ft 00 aw 1 25 tiAVAbln in advances no ex- rule in ia fAVor of anybody. autirtwi.^ RATM akasomablk, and made known on Application. Omcx up Rtalm, woat aldo of Wnuhlngton aircet, opposite the Commercial Bank. 1 at the poatofflee at Albany, Ga., aa ‘1 matter. SATURDAY, NOV. B, 1892. 1 Ii’» Governor Northen now for an other two years. Ilere’a to his health. hi n. Russell could not have made a better canvass of tills district if lie bad tried. Make up your mind now that you are going to go out and vote for Cleve land on the 8th. 'I Ex-Senator T. M. Nor.woon has contributed an sble Democratic docu ment to the campaign. A votm for Hand is s vote for Har rison. But we are all Democrats down here, so It won’t count. ■>' m: The State Fair at Macon and the Chattahoooheo Valley Exposition at Columbua are both drawing good crowds. Railroads, taxes, education, and the Soldiers’ Home are the all absorbing topios before the present General As- •eaibly. ■ Tuntts hundred and nine thousand eight hundred and thirty votes are regiitored in New York olty against *86,04^ In 1888. $- a’ ,: - Dehooratio suooesa is now assured All Third Psrtyltea sliould jump Into the band wagon or they will be too late to see the fun. Tub foot that, the Democrats are on top in tho campaign should not lead to ovor-oonlldonoe. Over-oonddenoe ts bad pulley at any time. Tua “fat-fryers" of the Republican party have obtained $600,000 to add to their corruption fund from the Car. negle Steel Worka alone. Tnos. It. Rkkd. of Maine wants to coerce el a veil or twelve Btates In order to establish liberty and, of oourse, Re publican rule. Subversion of tho will nf the people, however, Is not a defini tion of liberty, although It is a very gqod one for Republican rule. Albany W MHlnu.ly t.lklns about or.tending her olty llmlu. Albany Is a |iieil,v big olty nl w»dy.—Tbnniunv'.lle Tinioi-EnUu pi lac. Yea | she haa outgrown the dress that was out out far her nearly half a century ago, and those of our oitlzens who believe In keeping up with the $ times think It time to let out a tuok, A lktteu from a prominent New Yorker, heretofore a Republican, but who will this year vote for Cleveland, to a prominent gentleman of Albany, says .that as a oiose observer he li confident that Cleveland will carry Mew York State by 10,000 majority at the lowest estimate, Tux contest betweon the students and trustees of the University of Geor gia about Intercollegiate athletics atill goes on. Only the students are taking a hand in it, however, and It looks as it they were going to have no Inter collegiate games this season at least, In the meantime athletios at the Uni verslty Is dying out. 1 m taste( It seems that Georgia Is to have of force bill this year. Watson some of his followers have patf. ned for Federal supervisors at the Augusta preolnots, and Judge Pardee of the United Btates Circuit Court has issued instructions to Chief Bupervl of aor Beckett in Savannah to hold him pelt in readiness. The revenge Tenth district’s Democrats on t he 8th will be a sweet one indeed. I It’s funny enough when a promt nent man deserts the Republicans for Democracy, to hear the Republicans cry “It signifies nothing," and to hear the same g. o. p. say of a political vag abond who says he will vote the Re publican tioket this year for the first time, that what this rasoal says Is snore to the point. But that’s the way with the Republicans. To quote their Vloe-Presldcntlal candidate, “In poll tics everything goes,” ■SenatorQuay, who was preiailed upon to go to New York to devise some scheme for Republican success, lias given up in disgust, aud has left, the National Republluun campaign to work out the puzzle for Itself, lie reported as having said in an inter view that New York State was lost Harrison beyond redemption. This the most serious blow the Republicans liave reoelved during the campaign. Ed Bakuett, of the Constitution, is giving some good ideas of how the campaign is going, through that great ournal. The latest is from Dallas, 3as,and tells of the bad split in the mocratic party there. Hogg and Clark are the two Democratic candi dates for Governor. The politicians favor Hogg, while the business men and newspapers are arrayed on the side of Clark. The National tioket in that State is safe enough, and it is the general opinion that either candidate would make a good Governor. n. f .TVAT.OJ L t 1 TnB TENTH. The situation In the Tenth district now bears no other than a Democratic -outlook. Tom Watson’s suicidal polioy, car ried out to its logical conclusions, will leave him snowed under a larger ma jority of Democratic ballots than that which Peek was defeated In that distrlot but a few weeks ago. [is incendiary utterances at Stella- le were followed by his self-in flicted martyrdom at his home in Thompson when be surrounded his home with a band of armed men, claiming that hia life had been threat ened, though he could’ never satisfac torily explain by whom. More incen diarism followed upon this, for he and his followers who spoke at Thompson advised the Third Party voters and the Negroes, too, to arm themselves on eleotion day for protection at the polls. Watson Is getting to be a danger and a menace to civilized soolety. His inoendlary actions sprang out of his desperation at his oertalnty of defeat wbioh, after Ootober 6th, stood staring him in the face. The mental strug gles and physical efforts through whloh he has forced himself, have well nlgb unbalanced his mind, and it. may be that his auocessor will have to be appointed by the Governor before his present term expires. In his extremity of desperation It will be noted that hts followers have petitioned for Federal supervisors for the Augusta precincts under the law whloh allows this in oltles of more than 90,000 Inhabitants. It Is prob able that their petition will be granted, and when the Richmond county ma jority overwhelms him with defeat, he will have no ory of fraud to fall baok upon. Altogether, the oampatgn In this dis trlot is one of the most notable, as well as notorious, whloh Georgia has seen In many a day. Tlni defeat of Watson will, without doubt, restore quiet and peaceful elections, All i rrnr IN TUB I.EGM1.ATOHE TESTED- DAY. Prom Satnrilar’A Evsnino Hssald. Senator Reuben Jones was sworn In yesterday morning. Two more bills were Introduced In the Senate to repeal the act creating a board of equalization of taxes. Evi dently, this measure has proven very unsatisfactory In some loealities. The Atlanta Journal says: “The Senate Committee to conduct the In augural ceremonies to-morrovt Is pre sided over by the handsome young Senator, Hon. W. E. Wooten, who hss with him Senator Edwards." In the House Mr. Fleming intro duced a bill providing that the second session of the General Assembly be held in July Instead of Ootober. This bill merely amends the eode to that effeot. Gov. Northen was inaugurated this morning at 12 o'clock, the oath of of- floe being administered by Ohief Jus tine Logan E. Bleckley. The proces sion started frbin the Governor’s of- floe at 11 itiOo’clock, with Gov.Northen and Senator Wooten In the lead. The inauguration took place in the hall of the House of Representatives. Georgia’s Demooratlo majority in the eleotion on the 6th of Ootober was 71,602, as shown by the official count made by the General Assembly in joint session on Thursday. The total vote of the State was 209- 482. Governor Northen received 140,402. Col. Peek, the Third Party candidate, reoelved 08,990. I.BT TUB TICKETS ALIKE. BB It is important that all tile Demo oratio tiokets voted in the November eleotion be printed exactly alike. The form of tioket as recommended by the State Executive Committee appears at the mast-head of to-day’s Herald. We desire to oall espeoiai attention to the way Mr. Russell’s name ap pears; so that all t'okets printed for the Seoond distrlot mny agree. “Benja min E. Russell” is the way to put It, Air. ricmlSK’a Withdrawal. From Augusta Nows: Hon. Wm. H. Fleming’s withdrawal from the speakership race was n sur prise here at home, and may have been suoh to his friends in the capital who only observed the battle from the baloontes, but to those friends who went down Into the real oonfliot for and with him It was clearly evident that our gallant and meritorious cham pion was engaged in a fight againBt one of the biggest political eomhtna, tlonsever made up in Georgia. IN TUB I.BalSLATVRE. Whnl «he I.nvMalmru Did Ymlerdnr, Prom Friday's Kvkninu IIsuaui. Most of the seoond day in the Legis. Isture was consumed In reading the Governor’s annual message. In the Senate the rules of the last Senate were adopted. Senator Wright, of the First distrlot, Introduoed n bill to repeal the aot providing for a board of equalization of real and personal property. This measure is being fought with determined effort. The annual message of the Governor was reoelved and read. In the House the very first bill In troduoed provided for abolishing the board of equalization of real and per sonal property, the same measure that had been Introduoed In the Senate. Hr. Johnson, of Fulton, Introduoed a bill to repeal the Twltty law, passed by the last Legislature, whioh prohib its the oolleotion of the 10 per oent. at torney’s fee from defendant when notes are sued. This measure waa bit terly opposed by the lawyers in the last General Assembly, but the farm, era, In whose interest it was drawn predominated and it became a law. At the request of the board of direc tors of the Confederate Soldier’s Home, Mr. Fleming,of Riohmond, introduced a bill providing for its acceptance and maintenance by the State. A resolution was introduced by Judge Mershon Indorsing the direct trade movement. The Governor’s message was then read. The House and Senate then meet In joint session to begin the work of tab ulatlng the returns for Governor. Oun legislators will have to hustle matters somewhat now. There quite a difference between fifty and one hundred days. Giioykh Cleveland spoke the other night to the Germans In New York, The fact is, most of tile foreigners In that city are with him. to i is Gen. Weaver says he expeots carry thirteen States. He should make It fourteen. Thirteen is an unlucky number, especially in politics. m THE OFFICIAL COUNT. DEATH OP ©Of,. RECUR* JOltBM. THE DEMOCRATIC From Monday's Even'ng Herald. The sudden death of Col. Reuben Jones, of Baker county, which is an nounced In a special In another col umn of this evening’s Hkbald, re moves from Southwest Georgia one of the most prominent and useful citi zens of this part of the State. Col. Jones was a man who was ex tensively known throughout the State, and wherever he was known the news of his death will he received with sin cere regret; but his loss will be felt most by hia own county. Indeed, his death is a calamity to the county of Baker, and the place that he oceupied in the ohuroh, In soolety, In polities and. It may be said, in all the material affairs of the people amongst whom he lived, cannot well be filled. He had just entered upon a term in the State Senate to which the people of the Ninth distrlot had,nlmost unan imously, elected him, and his place In tile capaolty of a legislator, in which he was not without experience, having been In the Senate before, will be bard to fill. * Baker eounty has lost her most dis tinguished oitlzen, and the loss will be felt throughout Southwest Georgia, The Public Schwli. As soon as it is praotloable, Hon. W. E. Wooten, who is representing the Tenth district in the State Senate, will have a bill passed authorizing the establishment of a system of publio schools in Albany. As the readers of the Hxeald know, this is aooordtng to instructions from the City Council of Albany,' issued at their last meeting. A bill of this sort was passed several years ngo, but was rendered invalid by tho failure of, the oity to take aet'on within the time specified. Therefore, the bill that Sen ator Wooten will Introduce will be in the shape of an amendment. And just as soon as the act is passed Albany owes it to hereself to put a system of publio schools in operation. Albany Is a large enough plaoe to support good publio sohools,and noth ing oan result In more good to all her oitlzens. roll CAMPAIGN IN TUB SECOND ■low ll I. Praarc.lug uud What the Spnlnn urc Duiux. HOW THE ECBCTOBAI, COI.I.EOE WIIX PBOBABLY STAND. Clereluud Sun uf 890 Out uf the 444, With And ©hnaces ia Three Other Hiatea, Either Oaeef Which Will Elect Him. AFTER aOMTOiTl W—B———— HE BOUNDS. *'i It is a mighty enoouraging sign to see such a paper as the New York T'meB figuring on the approaching Presidential eleotion in a way that seems to leave no doubt about the suc cess of the Demooratlo ticket. In its Issue of the 26th inst., the Times publishes the following; Russell and Walters are keeping the campaign In the Seoond pretty warm. l--on Mondut’A Evening Hc;u , d. The credit foj- the large Demooratlo majority whioh will he rolurned from tills district will be largely due to the efficient services of Hon. Ben E. Rus sell and Col. J. W. AValters. During the past few weeks they have bent their entire energies to the work, and their efforts have met with sub stantial sucoess wherever they have appeared. They Have just completed a cam paign ill linker county where they en gaged in joint debate with Dr. Hand at Milford. Mr. Russell opened, then came Dr. Hand, who slinked away ns soon as he had finished spenk- ing, not oaring to remain to hear his arguments knool.ed tu flinders by Col. Jesse Walters who concluded cite de bate. That day’s work was a walkover for the Democrats. Only three or four Third Partyltes were found in the crowd, and when the speakers went up to Newton, they could find nothing but Democrats anywhere on the ground. Laker’s Demooratlo majority will be much larger than it was in the State election. Mr. RusBell spoke at Cairo, in Thomas county, on Saturday, and todny is canvassing Miller. Hu will spend a day or two Inand around Bain- bridge keeping up party enthusiasm in his home eounty and oil Friday next he nnd Col. Walters will speak at Moultrie, over in Colquitt eounty. On Saturday these two able campaign ora tors will wind Hp the campaign at Camilla^ in Mitchell, and tlien it enn he safely put down that there will not be a county in the Second distriot but what will oome up with a good Demo oratlo majority on the day of the eleo tion. All honor to Russell and AValters. The Electoral College will this year oontain 444 members, and a majority Is, therefore, 229. The candidates who can get that^number will be elected. If none of the candidates can do so the election will go to the House of Rep resentatives, whloh, as at present con stituted, would elect Mr. Cleveland. The chances of suoh an outcome are, however, very slight. The following States we believe to be safe for the Democrats so far as present Information goes: Alabama 11 New York Arkansas 8 New Jersey Delaware 8 N. Carolina Florida 4 8. Carolina Indiana 16 Tennessee Georgia 18 Texas Kentucky 18 Virginia.... Louisiana 8 AV. Virginia Maryland 8 Mississippi 9 Total 220 Missouri 17 Under the Miller law in Mlohigan, tlie constitutionality of wliioh has been sustained by the Courts, the DemO' orats are Bure of a portion of the elec tors. Tlie smallest number that has been allowed them by those familiar with tlie facts is 4, whloh would give Cleveland and Stevenson a majority in the Electoral College. There are, of course, still other votes of whloh the Democrats are reasonably certain, and which they are very much more likely to secure. Tlie 6 votes of Conneotiout, the 4 of South Dakota, the 4 of Wash ington, are in this class. On.the other hand, .the only votes that we think can safely and positive ly be claimed by the Republicans are as follows: California 9 Pennsylvania... 82 Maine ;... 6 Rhode Island... Ohio 28 Vermont 4 Oregon 4 AVyoming. What TMBb Said About That Sear aw 1 Geaeral Gordoa’e Face. I There are few people in Georgia/' who have not heard of the remark which the that General Robert Toombs made about General John B. Gordon and the scar whloh the latter wears on his. faoe. The story, started nearly twenty years ago, and now we find it as follows in the Indianapolis, (Ind.) News. It doesn’t read like the same story that we have heard so often here in Georgia, and, aB it is brief, we glvaj as taken from the Indianapolis paper as a fair illustration of how suoh things get adulterated and perverted as they travel from one person or pa per toanother: “Apropos of tho popularity in Geor gia of Gen. John B. Gordon, nnd of the great scar on his oheek, whloh-ls due to a saber wound, they till this story: The late Robert Toombs was jealous of the General and onoe re marked : “If that soar were on the back of Gordon’s neck Instead of on his face, he wouldn’t be so popular.” Gordon heard of this, and a few days later, while addressing a political atherlng, retorted as follows: “If . oombs had been where I was when I got that scar, it would be on the baok of Ills neok Instead of his face.” The names of former Republicans who will support Cleveland this year would fill a good size volume. It is the duty of every Demoorat to go to tne polls and vote hiB party ticket on the Bth of November, and every good Demoorat will do his duty. Sam Small has about played out in Georgia. Even the Third Party con tingent of the Fifth Congressional distriot has grown tired of him and would like to get rid of him. Georgian, That brilliant young John Temple Graves, has gone to New York, where, hy direotlon of the Democratic oommlttee, he Is billed for a speech every day next week, In printing the Demooratlo tiokets for the Seoond Congressional district, care should be taken to have Mr. Rus sell’s name appear Uiub : “Benjamin E. Russell, of Decatur.” Uniformity In Uniformity In nil the counties of the district in this par ticular is important. hon- Capt. AV. E. AVootkn has been ored by being made Chairman of the Senate Committee, whioh took promi nent part in the Inauguration of Gov. Northen this morning. He and the Governor headed the Inaugural pro cession. The Issue on the Soldier’s Horae question is now squarely out. AVhat The Chattahooohee Valley Exposi tion and the State Fair at Macon are now well under way. The election oecurs on Tuesday, No vember 8th. Be ready to go and vote for Grover and Adlai. Thebe seems to be no doubt now about Alabama falling Into the Demo oratlo line with a large majority. Laboe rewards have been offered for the Third Partyltes who intimidated the Negroes in Chatham county. It Is said that Tom AVatson’s reek- less oourse and mad oareer have left him almost a physical and mental wreck. The Legislature will not get down to business until the elections are over and the candidates and their friends go home. The Democrat who stays at home on election day and doesn’t give his party the benefit of his vote, is a very poor Democrat. Tom Col. Bob Lewis has called AVatson a liar. If Col. Bob don’t look out lie’ll be the sub|ect of an incendi ary speech. The Inhabitants of South America aud the AA’est Indies are rather hot blooded. There is another revolution going on in Hayti. will you do with it, Representatives and Senators? Remember that useless discussion over tlie measure last year cost the Siate more than a year’s sup port of that institution would have done. Many people are under the impres sion that, the National election ocours on AVednesday. This is a mistake. Tuesday Nov. 8th is the day. Kvkky report from the political bat tle ground presages well for Demo oratlo victory. AVhere there is so much smoke there's bound to be a blaze of some kind. The farmers want a representative on the board of Railroad Commission ers, and a bill providing for that ohange has been introduced in the General Assembly. Albany lias few rivals among cities of its size as a cotton market, situated, as it is, in the heart of the wiregrass region. Close on to 12,000 bales have been received here by rail and more than that much more by wagon. Cotton is billed from this point to many foreign ports, much of it going to Liverpool, and markets in Germany aud Russia. In consideration of the fact that the crop has been rath er short in this section especially, the receipts here, this year, have been re markable. The Third Party 111 the Fifth now announce that Sam Small Is their reg ular nominee for Congress. All others are requested to withdraw. Senatok Hill is making some cam paign speeches in Virginia. There is no apathy among the Democrats that State at least, for A’irginians were never more enthusiastic in their re ception of a public speaker. It is said that Matt Quay has evolved a deep laid scheme to save New York to tlie Republicans. This doesn’t sig nify anything, however, for Republi can losses are deeper than any scheme a Quay could evolve. The policy of “withdrawing” devel oped early in the present session of the Georgia Legislature. AVell, it’s better for a candidate to withdraw in good order than to stay in to the finish and find himself badly defeated. Mapcr Gilbert Ale Peaaals and Oillaea , Crlue Had Ike Colic. Citizen Mr. Cine was in a bad way this morning. He and Dr. Strother met in Gilbert’s drug store, and a Herald scribe ohanoed to be there at the same time. “How are you this morning, Crine?” asked the Dootor. “Veil, sir, I’m not veil. I didn’t rest veil lahst nighd. I see dot fellow (pointing to Mr. Gilbert) eading- dose peanuts, und yestherday it gif me der colic.” “AVhat? It gave you the oolio to see Bill Gilbert eating peanuts?” asked the scribe in astonishment. Total 85 The Republican organs olaim Kansas, but there Is a chance that it may go to Weaver. They claim also Minnesota and-Nebraska, but Nebraska is nearly certain for Weaver, and Minnesota is doubtful, with four votes pretty sure lor Weaver. Illinois, on the strength of the registration in Ohioago, Is by no means sure, nor is Massachusetts. But if we give to the Republicans 8 votes in Mlohigan, 10 in Kansas, 9 in Min nesota, 8 in Nebraska and 15 in Massa chusetts, they still have but 186 and laok 80 of a majority. If again, we surrender Conbetlcut, 6; South Dako ta. 4; Washington, 4; Iowa, 13; Mon tana, 8; Nevada, 8; New Hampshire, 4; North Dokota, 8, and Wisoonsin, 12, even these make but 187. In other words, there is no possible combina tion by whioh a majority can be fairly figured out for Harrison without both New York and Indiana, and of these the Democrats are as sure as they oan be of any State until the votes are oounted. A PRIZE FIGHT. “Dot’s vat it did; I tell you I didn’t rest none lahst nighd hardly,” was the reply. A man with suoh sensitive diges tive organs must have to be very oare- ful. THE NEW DEPOT. All Bnalneu Belas Wound Vp la Gel it Headr For Fee. From .Saturday's Evening Herald. Capt. Geo. AV. Haines, Superinten dent of the B. & AV. road, and chair man of the Board of Control of the new depot, arrived in Albany yester day afternoon to take Steps towards the winding up of the business con nected with the new depot. He was busy this morning inspect ing it and determiningwhat was to be done In order to arrange to enter it as soon as possible. Bids for restaurant privileges have been received but it has not yet been decided to whom the contract will be let. Arrangements were also made in regard to lighting. The depot will be lighted with several aro lights sup plied from the Albany Eieotrlo Light, AVorks. The B. & W. and the S., F. & W. are all ready to use the depot as soon as the furc Itiire and fixtures, whioh have been ordered, arrive and can be put in place. It Is said that work on the otb* tracks necessary will be begun at once and the whole matter will be finished up as soon as possible. Theobjeetof Capt. Haines mission was to close up the whole matter at r onoe, and get the depot ready for use blf by the traveling publio. a The Steir ef Which Hii JTuat Leake* Oat. - A few days ago while oourt was In session two Negroes, Charley Green and Henry Pace, met each other fin prize ring, at the dead hours of night In Hall’s warehouse. Pace owed Green $30, and Green was suing for the amount. ’*”iey agreed however, to let a regular oid time prize fight deoide the matter instead of the courts, and accordingly made prepara tions. Pace was urged on to tlie fight by gentleman who offered him $10 if he won. About midnight the ring was measured off and they went at it in good fashion. They are both big, heavy built Negroes, and their work told each other. A 'ter lighting for a solid hour nnd bruising each other up to a considerable extent, Pace failed to come to time, and Green was declared the winner. Thus Pace lost his suit and the $10 besides. The police have just obtained the particulars of the mill, but no arrests were made, ns no witnesses to the af fair could be obtained. It is rumored that they will cross lances with each other again next week, and test again their respective merits as pugilists. Pace is anxious to win his side of the case, as it means $30 to him, but the officers are on to them and it will doubtless be stopped short. They went about the fight in a busi ness like manner, however, having ob tained the services of a prominent at torney here to draw up their contract for them. The German Emperor has decreed- that no Ambassador of his shall be al lowed to marry an Amerioan. The Emperor doesn’t know a good thing when he sees it. The Ambassador in question who was the subject of the deoree will probably resign bis posw tion. m The Republican organs are trying to give credit tb the MoKInley bill for the bountiful crops that the country has made this year. The rain and sunshine of_a kind Providence and-., the toil of the farmer are not taken into account by the average Republi can organ. Some of the newspapers of the State, and notably the Atlanta Constitution, are beginning to discuss Tom AVat son’s sanity, or rather, his insanity. Judging him by some of his recent ut- 4) "vrances and antics, they Beem to think hat he has gone daft. The Herald doesn't share these fears or suspicions. It’s more pure cussedness, aggravated by the relentless aggressiveness of the Democratic press and speakers of the district, than anything else, that makes Thomas flounder so. The Atlanta Journal says: “There is talk in Albany of reviving the old j Southwest Georgia Fair Association, I which seven or eight years ago used to play an important part in the indus trial development of that section.” It would he well if some strenuous efforts could be made in this direction. There is no section of the State iqhich could show up its industrial advantages with better effect than could the wire- grass region. A local fair held peri odically, would attract people from every section of the country, and the magnificent display suoh as AViregrass Georgia would furnish would lead many of them to locate in this part of the country. It is an enterprise worthy of consideration.

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Albany weekly herald. (Albany, Ga.) 1892-19??, November 05, 1892, Image 4