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' SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1898.
Democratic query at Washington—
"Let's sea?" '
Thk fire-works have been stnrted at
Washington with a lurid dare.
Thk Constitution Isn’t leaving any-
|f'rt body In the dark about where It
stands.
Cot. Jjshby Simpson ouglit to write
Mrs. Lease and secure her hook of
“don’ts."
AnotiT ' the only appointments at
Washington Just tinw are between (lie
politicians.
A Washington special says Speaker
Crisp Is mum—“extra” dry, Congres-
slonnlly speaking.
“Bettkii
jp. “Bkttkii times In Georgia" Is the
ory from all over tile State—rather the
laugh than the cry.
K,r !
En. Baiuiktt says these are squally
times at Washington, wliloh accounts,
y no doubt, for tlm troubled silver wave.
?:1:.
If there were as many platforms ns
u
a, there are different Democrats tile
y present, muddle wouldn’t be In It at
all. } /'
Thk newspaper correspondents nt
Washington have to stir their slumps
these dnys to keep up with the politl-
, clans.
Onk of the most notable evils at
Washington Is Hint every politician
tries to he a bigger dog than the other
follow. '
TiiKAtlnnta Constitution Is rights
President Cleveland “IioIiIh hlniself
and Ills views above the Democratic
party.”
■ r''; ,. ’ ' T " — —
'flip. New York banks have raised
■ t|i«lr Interest rates to 12 per cent, per
annum. And thus the out-throating
goes on.
The wise man rarely “loses his
head,” and can generally be relied
uppn to. exercise common sense in
times and on-occasions when the
ninety-nine other fellows are in a
state of excitement and demoraliza
tion, '
Most men can keep cool and keep
their mental 'faculties under almost
any circumstances if they will only go
about it right. Arid now Is a mighty
good time for every man to constitute
himself a committee of one to tnke
care of his own hend and protect It
from the demoralizing influences of
the sensationalist and the calamity
liar.
■lust now the country Is depressed
and In a state of unrest ovor the fliinn-
clnl situation. Solvent business men
and solvent banks have been ruined by
the sensation monger and the calam
ity liar, and others nre falling victims
to those same reckless and irrcsponsl
hie human agencies every day.
And now right upon the heel of the
great financial strain Under which the
country has been struggling for
months,rumorsof pestilence nre heard
on every hand. Rumors of cholera
come from the East and North, and
the appearance of that other dread
disease, yellow fever, is reported from
the South ‘Atlantic coast.
With reference to the sporadic out
breaks of cholera and yellow fever in
this country, It may ho said that there
is no eanse for nlarin. It, is well that
every possible precaution should .he
taken to prevent thusprend of the dis
ease, but the wild stampeded that
have been made by people In the two
cities. where sporadic and isolated
oases of the yellow scourge have been
discovered has not only been useless
but, senseless. The people who have
thus been put to flight by the mere
rumors of disease, ami when it is yet
an open question ns to whether the
isolated oases reported .are genuine,
have simply, “lost their heads.”
Now Is n good time for every sensi
ble man In every community to keep
sober, keep oooj and—“keep Ills head,”
Politically speaking, Washington
Is agitated.
Watbon continues to make speeches,
and the crowds grow smaller. Tom Is
on a well-beaten, but an extremely
lii,, ' eold, trail. _ _ > > - ,
gjjf‘ Hon. ,J. O. Watidbl, President of
the Georgia State Agricultural So
ciety, Is mentioned ns n gubernatorial
probability.
jwpfc Suon foolishness ns that now going
on among the Democrats of Ohio Is
on among the
I not calculated to strengthen the party
lit, that State.
. The. Havanpith News prints a long
editorial disclaiming the popular be-
lief that a large fortune cannot be ac
cumulated by honesty. Concluding
the news says: “Examples Of immense
fortunes built by honest Industry
are plentiful. There was John Steph
enson, the car-builder, who died the
other day. lie began life working for
$1 a week, and died a multi-million
aire; yet no breath of suspicion could
possibly attach to John Stephenson
Thomas A. Edison Is another million
aire who 1ms made his millions hon
estly. George W. Childs lias amassed
millions during his lifetime, and there
Is not a person who would impute to
him an impure motive, muolt less a
dishonest act. These, howover, nre
but instances illustrating the possibil
ities of the age. There nre, ns a mat
ter of fact, thousands of very rich men
In this country whose wealth Is the re
sult of intelligent and honest indus
try. In America to-day a man’s for
tune Is limited by his ability and by
opportunity—nothing else.”
Herbert,
The Brunswick Evening Call Is
guilty of this truthful observation:
As yet there is no Indication of the
great rush of foreigners that was
promised and predicted for the
World’s Fair. Nor do they intend to
come. It takes the American to go
abroad and “blow in” his wealth.
The Constitution on the President's
message: ? ? ? ! I !*—*—! ! ?
Atlanta Journal.
Albany’s hustling neighbor, Colum
bia, Ala., is keeping up with the pro
cession. Last week’s Breeze says:
The days are brightening with the
on-coming of fall. .The nearer it np-
"iroaehes the more cheerful every one
eels and looks.
The Savannah Press makes a query,
and then tells the readers to answer
it themselves. Here’s how it’s done:
"Where nre we at” now? Bend the
President’s message and find out.
Tub rumor that Secretary
was soon to wed Miss Sallie Brown,
daughter of ex-Sehntor J. E. Brown,
of Georgia, has been denied by that
young lady’s family. Shu Is snld to
be worth only $ 10,000,000. Pretty
good grounds for love nt first sight.
In
Thk gold “reserve” found now
the treasury at Washington is report
ed to be nearly $4,000,000 excess over
the $100,000,000 “reserve." Even tile
excess over the reserve now in the
trensury would go a long way to,
ward relieving the country of the
present money stringency If It were
in the hands of the people where it
could he thrown Into the chnnnHs of
trade, hut the Government must hoard
It ns a basis of “confidence.” There is
something wrong—radically wrong—
with the flnnriolal system of a govern
ment whose confidence and integrity
are measured by thu number of gold
dollars it has locked up in the vaults
»f its treasury.
Thk average failure, these dnys, Is
not so hard, but so regular. ^
Mayiik President Cleveland used n
had sliver hud on Ills Inst fish.
Na nov 11 a n ks—t he horse—wl 11
deavor to “out-do” herself to-day.
Tiikhm has been lots of Sherman re
peal law hack-sliding since this time
Inst year.
I'i’UK attention of his nobs, Judge At
hlon W, Tour gee, is called to the fact
ij that Northern Republicans would Iiqt
H »lt by the South Carolina Negro Con-
s '
i gressman.
,,.... TUky say Shonmtn actually laughed
*1 his Bleevo when he read the mes
sage, and that, In order to nssure him
self that he was not dreaming, had
some oi)o to read It nloud to him.
It Is estimated Hint the South’s cot
ton orop this year will bo worth $200,-
900,000—and in gold, too. Cotton is a
Tory good king after all, and will do
to mix along with hog and hominy.
Wilt, some wise goldolntor please
tiseand tell us wherein John Slier-
ainn anil President Cleveland dill'cr
on the motley question? If they are
not agreed, wherein is the difference?
blit
Mr
A woman who had been a bride
two mouths prooured a divorce in Su
perior, Wis., the other day, because her
Hubby refused to scratch her hack.
It’s getting to be so a married mail—
well, we nan’t he too particular and
obedient-
“Thk Man 1 will not Marry” was
the subject of dehate at a meeting of
young women in Harlem the other
day. No t hought or attention appears
to have been given to the horrid fei
sty lows who do not, ask them.
BBS). Those who have been arguing that
fev President Cleveland had experienced
/V a change of heart on the money ques
:tloi), or that he would certainly not
fail short of the Democratic platform
'Which he accepted and upon whie.li he
:.was elected, cannot feel otherwise
p;‘
than disappointed after reading liis
message to Congress. The President
. was nqt a silver man “before taking,”
and hia message shows that he is not
iane “after taking.”
This Congress has proven nil extra
ordinary one already—almost before
it started.
To mu Democratic Congressmen:
Dress silver and gold ns though they
were twins.
Strict quarantine regulations nre
being shoved in thu face of Florida’s
Yellow Jack.
Uoq-nnd-hominy Southwest Georgia
isn’t losing much sleep’over Hie Presi
dent’s message,
Thk Central continues to lay off its
employes, while the lawyers continue
to “lay" on the Central.
Comparatively speaking, these arc
what might he called cool nights in
August, if not cold days.
Alton' thu only people who wish
for a long extra session arc the Wash
ington boarding house Keepers.
would
The limn who said Congress
he in extra session only three weeks
hasn’t been heard from of late.
One-hour Senate and House sessions
will never accomplish anything. But
the politicians will have their “fun.”
It is olnimed that President Cleve
land has lost $r.0,000 on account of
stock depression. My—n whole year’s
salary 1
a eonfl
sliow-
Thk Democrats might set
deuce lesson for the people by
ing a little of it among themselves and
stop lighting.
THE MESSAGE.
WHAT “MAStV »KN OF HMt
MINDS” THINK OF IT.
OpIslM. of RfpnarulallTS Newspapers
And Well Known Hen on Ihe
President's Hessngs.
The President's message to Con
gress is the leading topic of the day
throughout the country, and the fol
lowing opinions of representative
newspapers and public men, gathered
at random from our exchanges, will
be read with interest:
A good many people are insisting
Hint tile question as to who shall be
the next Governor of Georgin, and
who tile next Senator should be set
tled by the middle of next week. Sup
pose we wait, gentlemen, and give the
whole people an opportunity to settle
tile question next year. Of course we
shall not Insist upon this course, bill
merely throw out the suggestion.—
Thomnsville Times-Eiiterprise.
The bright, cherry Brunswick Even
ing Call Is forging to the front. It’s
worth several of anybody’s 58-eent.
dollars.
The Thomnsville Tlmes-Enterprlse
dishes out the following sound nd-
vice:
Don’t he content to stay down in the
Valley of Despond. Get up on nil ele
vation where you can see beyond your
nose.
The hard times and the panic have
struck Editor Byrd, of the Hustler of
Rome. This is his latest wall:
We are nil alone in tile world !
Our wife, in order to keep up with
the fashion, has lost confidence in us.
We nre all broke up, prlnoipnlly, fliinn-
oinlly. Now is the time to subscribe.
The Atlanta llernld believes in con
dense! ng matters as much us possible.
Reporting a recent sensational news
item, the Herald says: “Dug Hustle-
ton, a burly Negro, attempted an as
sault on Mrs. Hicks, a farmer’s wife,
near Carrollton. Results ns usual.
Notloe to subscribers: To save space
wo shall—maybe—hereafter adopt the
following code of signals: * Negro
not caught. ** Negro caught. *»*
Lynched pinln. *t* Hung and riddled
with bullets. *t*tllung, riddled and
burnt. Flense paste tills ill your hat.”
Tom Flatt has again announced
that he Ims retired from active poli
ties. Such announcements have been
made by him before, hyj he'Is prob
ably hi earnest this time, ns the Re
publican machine In New York lias
become bankrupt and there is no
patronage available to Republican
bosses and managers in Hie Empire
State for the next four years.
It Is announced that tile Governor
of Illinois is contemplating calling nn
extra session of the Legislature to
consider the fltinncial depression. It
doesn’t require nn extra session to do
that.
Now Editor Myriok is reproduc
ing his anti-Cleveland editorials, ns
they appeared ill the Amerious Tunes,
Recorder in the early pnrt of last,
year, and saying, “I told you so!"
Commenting oil the action of At
lanta in throwing upon its gates to
the yellow fever refugees, tile Dalton
Argus says Atlanta is probably pre
paring to tnke a new census.
Now that the President Ims his set
of books out at Washington, he pro
poses to go hack to Buzzard’s Bay,
where he can fish nwny unmolested, so
to speak.
South Carolina’s dispensary busi
ness is' losing money. At the same
time Gov. Tillman is losing ground
and some of his detectives nre losing
blood.
The gold-bogs say that the Presi
dent’s message struck at the root of
the present trouble. -It remains to be
seen whether lie hit it.
If the Democrats arc afraid to re
peal the Sherman law and put gold
and silver on a parity they are in the
wrong pews—that's all. <
It is claimed Hint - there are three
kinds of panics. The one that’s on
now seems to have,a pretty good lead
on the others, however.
Congressman Amos .1. Cummings,
of New York, sized up President
Cleveland’s message in very few words
when he said, “It is a gold message.’’
There nre several Democrats at
Washington who have conflicting
Editor Robinson, of the Blakely Ob
server, one of Georgia’s best weeklies,
mnkes this announcement:
The whirr of machinery, and clatter
of the carpenter’s tools show that the
spirit of progress is abroad in Blakely,
ami some of our best citizens are work
ing for the material Improvement of
our town.
Editor Allen’s Worth County Local
showsup brighter and brighter ns the
weeks go by. It is among the very
best in the State.
The Cuthbert Liberal-Enterprise
comes right up to the mark of gospel
truth in the following:
The (South can stand a panic better
than any section of this country. We
can “live nt home ami board at the
same place” more satisfactorily than
any people oil the globe.
Tile Georgia newspapers assert that
they have dropped Tom Watson, but,
it seems ns if they will never get
through making the assertion—Ocala
Capitol. ■
But we nre not uneasy. He will drop
himself in a little while.
The Savannah Press lias run up oil
the following interesting hit of news
paper gossip:
The Constitution recently printed a
page or more of letters from editors
of weekly Georgin papers giving their
iial Situation.
vievfs on the financial situation. Trox
Bankston of the Ringgold New South
now publishes a copy of the letter sent
by him showing that the Constitution
pruned it into a semblance of consist
ency with its own views. If all the
letters were treated like Bankston’s
the page was far from reflecting tile
views of the country press.
Editor Shaver’s Dalton Argus has
been having a lively experience of
late. The last issue says:
We come out with another issue
this week, despite the hard times. Our
devil is keeping the sheriff at bny
with a shot gun, while our foreman
chases delinquents witli two six-shoot
ers. Delinquents who are wise will
slip in the back door and pay ns be
fore our foreman sees them, as he is
out for cash or gore, and is very fond
of gore.
Here’s the Herald’s views about the
matter, succintly put by the Ocala
Capitol:
Men who were elected to Congress
ns Democrats, but who ignore the
financial plank or any other plank in
thsk nnrtv’o nliiH'orin sliniilil ho rtlninlv
the party’s platform, should be plainly
marked for political slaughter at the
earliest possible moment.
Here’s another Shaverism from the
Dalton Argus:
The man who is forever kicking is a
very small man in every respect, ex
cept fuss making. The world would
be better off, if every kicker ill Amer
icaWas buried to-morrow.
ideas as to the size of their feet and
the party plntform.
Zimmerman is no longer the live-
mile champion bicyclist. J. S. John
son, of Indiana, beat him Wednesday
by five feet, in 12:41.
Rust and caterpillars bid fair to cut
off the cotton crop of Southwest Geor
gia considerably.
The Sunday Atlanta Herald
regular feast of good things.
The Southern Base Ball League has
given up the ghost.
to
The President’s message seems
have dazed half the members of Con
gress.
They are having knock-down and
drag-out dispensary fights in South
Carolina daily.
It is said to he a difficult matter to
get a quorum of the Congressmen at
Washington. That doesn’t look like a
shortextr* session.
GEORGIA CONGRESSMEN.
Senator Colquitt—“It is a deolara-
tluu in favor of the single gold stand
ard. It maka the issue unavoidable
between the single gold standard peo
ple and those who favor that currency
and bimetallism. Ilis argument is not
a new one. It has been repeated time
and again by the monometallic press.
It is very satisfactory to the money
centers in this country aud abroad,
but will not, in my opinion, be ac
ceptable to the great masses of labor
ers and producers in this country.”
Senator Gordon said he Intended to
be heard in the Senate on the financial
question, but preferred not to express
an opinion on the message now.
Colonel Lester, of the First—“Mr.
Cleveland argues from false premises,
lie assumes that the present depress
ion Is caused by the Shermnn law.
That follows if we admit his premises.
The result of his conclusion will es
tablish monometallism beyond a doubt.
I do not think Hint a good plan. It is
better to bear the ills we have than to
fly to others we know nothing of.
Congress 1ms no power to do anything
but to coin money and flx the value of
it. When the government has done
that, then it will have established oon-
lldence so far ns it is able to establish
it. I am a bimetallist. The evil 'o be
feared from putting our country on a
monometallic standard is greater than
anything we can apprehend if we have
n double standard.”
Mr. Bussell, of the Second—“The
message like all of Mr. Cleveland's pa
pers, is well expressed, however, I do
not agree with the President. 1 am
in favor of free coinage and shall ad
vocate the adoption of measures to
that end.”
Mr. Turner, of the Eleventh—“Like
his other messages this is’ clear and
forcible. I would have been glad if It
had been fuller in one or two other di
rections, but it is nevertheless In keep
ing with characteristic methods.”
Judge Maddox, of the Seventh—“I
confess I am disappointed. As a Dem
ocrat I had expected that he would
speoillcally recommend llnanoinl legis
lation in ocoordauoe with the plntform
on which he was elected and which
tlie Democratic partf stand pledged to
carry out. I am more thoroughly con
vinced now than eyer that if the Sher
man law be repealed without substi
tute, the further demands of the pint-
form in regard to silver,and the re
peal of the 10 per cent tax on the issue
of the State banks, will be removed
But 1 admit that the message is an
able, strong and skillful presentation
of the single standard standpoint.”
Mr. Moses, of the Fourth—“Mr.
Cleveland’s remedy is simply to repeal
the silver purchasing section of the
Sherman law. The Democratic plat
form demands also the free coinage of
gold and silver. We must redeem our
pledges to the people.”
FROM OTHER STATES.
Representative Bourke Cookran—
“Admirable; most admirable.”
Representative Bland, &f Missouri—
“As nearly as I could make out, it was
a plea for a single gold standard, be
cause England maintains it. If Eng
land would coin silver, probably this
country would do so. We seem to
have lost the spirit ef 1770.”
Senator McPherson—“It is the
strongest presentation of the case pos
sible, and the arguments advanced
meet every obstacle that can be put
forward.”
Senator Teller—“The simple asser
tion of the President that the present
financial condition is due to the Sher
man law does not make it so!”
Senator Peffer—“Tile banker will re
gard it as perfection, the farmer and
workman will see in it a further re
duction of the produot of their farm
and their labor.”
Senator Jones (Nevada)—“1 think
the message is utterly illogical, and
does not analyze the situation at all.
The Sherman law has nothing to do
With the present condition of affairs.”
Senator Quay—“In so far as the mes
sage touches upon the repeal of the
purchasing act of the Sherman law,
I give it my cordial indorsement, and
think it is a good state paper. It will
help the cause of repeal, but, for one, if
I cannot get absolute repeal, I am
willing to take the next best thing
that I can get.”
■ Representative Jere Simpson—“It ia
the weakest message ever presented to
the country. ‘Weak as dish water,’
does not express it. The President’s
reference to the labor question is' the
veriest rot.”
Representative Bryan (Neb,)—“It
very forcibly represents the opinions
of those who believe in the uncondi
tional repeal of the Sbermftn act.”
mistakable gold standard paper. It is
n direct conflict with the platforms
and declarations of the party for the
past twenty years. It is the argument
made by Sherman and the money
power. It makes the sliver forces,
more determined.”
Representative Amos J. Cum
mings—“The message is a gold mes
sage.”
SOME NKWSr.lPER OPINIONS.
Atlanta Constitution—Mr. Cleve
land’s message favors and endorses
the Republican policy of repeal and
entirely ignores the Democratic polioy.
If he is right the Democratic party is
wrong, and has been wrong for twenty
years. If he is right, John Sherman
and his Republican colleagues are
right, and it is eminently tilting that
force bill champion nod gold mono-
metalist, Henry Cabot Lodge, should,
as he did, assume charge of the mes
sage in the Senate, and moved its ref
erence to a committee with instruc
tions. The duty of Democrats ill Con
gress is plain and easy. They are not
in a position to ignore the Democratic
policy put forth in the Democratic
platform. Speaker Crisp, in his
speech to tile nominating caucus, out
lined Democratic duty ill one blunt
sharp sentence: “We must redeem
our pledges.” Mr. Cleveland’ holds
himself and his views above the party.
He may he, ns ills intimntes have
claimed, “a platform unto himself,”
but Democratic Congressmen oannot
hold themselves above their party.
The party in the South must be held
together. It must continue to present
a united front, but it cannot be held
together if the people become con
vinced that the financial polioy of the
Democrats is identified with that of
John Sherman and the Republican
party.
Philadelphia Record: — President
Cleveland’s messnge goes as straight
as an arrow to the one purpose of the
extra session. Without the slightest
ambiguity or circumlocution, he rec
ommends the immediate aud uncondi
tional repeal of the provisions of law
authorizing the purchase of silver
bullion. He has no compromise nor
suggestion of legislation to offer as a
substitute for tills act of repeal.
Savannah News:—There is not a
fair-minded man In all this broad land
who, having an understanding of tile
subject that Congress has been con
vened to consider, will not linve a
higher appreciation of the President
after reading his message. It is n pa
per that shows honesty, courage and a
high ($lcr of statesmanship. It Is
a clear, intelligent and comprehen
sive statement of the linaneial situa
tion, and the cause of the existing
financial troubles, together with a rec
ommendation of a remedy for these
troubles. It is wholly free from par
tisanship and deals with the subject
in hand as one in which every citizen
is deeply concerned. So plain n^e its
statements and so logical Its conclus
ions that even those who have not
given the subject it discusses much
thought cannot fail to understand it
fully.
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THE FLOOD OF ORATORY.
From the Atlanta Herald.
“The debate in the liouso will continue for
fourteen days.”—News Item.
In. the self-same day, which was
Friday, entered Bland, and various
and sundry sons of Bland, and Wilson
and all his folks, into the ark, they /
and every beast of his kind, and aJL
the strange cattle after his kind, and
every creeping thing that creepeth
upon the earth that thinks he knows
it all, after his kind, and every fowl
of the air and bird of every sort, Re
publican, Democrat, People’s party,
greenbacker silverite, gold-bug, and
other insects—all into the ark, two by
two, the what-you-may-call-it and the
kangaroo. And the rains fell and the
fountains of the great deep were bro
ken up and the flood was upon the
earth fourteen days and nights.
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They were drawing for seats at
Washington the other day. Ever
since, they have been withdrawing.
The Brunswick papers say ttyit yel
low fever could not rage in that efty,
as the sanitary condition is the best
known in years.
REST AND CATERPILLAR*!.
Gelling
Enemies of Colton
Their IVork.
Caterpillars ami rust!
Both have attacked the cotton in
Southwest Georgia.
A few caterpillars made their ap
pearance in this county three or four
weeks ago. They were found only in
spots, however, and it was not thought
then that they would do much dam
age; but they are now appearing in-
increased numbers and are stripping
the cotton to an extent that is mate
rially damaging.
The cotton in the bottom lands, or
wherever the plant is of rank growth
and green, is being preyed upon by
the caterpillars, while that on the
gray or sandy lands is being attacked
by the rust, causing it to shed anil
open prematurely.
Upon the whole the rust is perhaps
doing more damage than the caterpil
lars, there being .very few fields that
are entirely exempt from it, but the
two together are going to affect the
orop more than previous reports havet
Judge Bell (Col.) said—“It is an un- 'indicated.
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