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SATURDAY. JULY SO,
rv-jjjrt'.iiiswe—ra -
1901.
Thla 1« evidently not going to lie
siuidMii for big watermelons.
Tim backbone of llie hot wave was
effi-fltuaby broken In tills bailiwick last
jiiglii. ___________
Havana has one newspnpor, La Lnohu,
that favors annexation to tho United
States. __ ,
People ont 111 Kansas and Missouri
have gone to holdlug prayormootlngB
gnd praying for rain.
The strikes throughout tho oonntry are
delaying work on the now warships for
the ITultod Stall h navy.
The Herald Is proud of the faot that
Albany has not yet booome a mendicant
for anv part of Mr. Carnegie's millions.
Oolouel Bryan confirm^ tho story that
Agnlnaldo offered to ooutrlbnto »100,-
000 to the Demooratio national oampalgn
ftind.
The pension grabbers uever will for
give Ponslon Commitstoner Evans for
turning that $6,000,000 snrplns back into
tho treasnry.
The newpapers that are abusing
Bryan now are the same ones that either
sulkrd or desorted the Demooratio party
in 1000 and 1000.
Governor Honied, of South Dakota,
hag appointed A. B. Klttrldge to All
the unexplred term of tho late United
S ate* Senator Kylo.
Poor old man David Nation, husband
of tho said Carrie, the smasher, has gone
to live with his daughter and "spend his
deollnlug years in peaoe."
A movement is on foot fortbe curtail
mem. »f the ontpnt of Southern yarn
mills In order to avoid overproduction
and a deorease in the price.
The St. Louie Poat-Dispatoh says
that nearly every patient taken to the
otty hospital In that plaee, prostrated by
the heat, is a steady drinker.
Ex-Governor Richard Bennett Hub-
bnrri, of Texas, died at Tyler ou Friday
last. He was a nativo of Georgia and a
graduate of Mercer University.
Clmnnney Depow is now in Paris and
is, of coarse, still talking, and thoro are
newspapers on this side that are willing
to pay cable tolls on his sayings.
The Boers uro not only harrassing tho
British troops in South Africa, hot are
compel! .ag the British government to
borrow money to keep the war going.
Tile hot wave appears to extoud pretty
well over- the entire country, but the
Sooth is having fewer prostrations and
deaths from it than any other section.
The Augusta Herald says that the
Chicago woman who offers $1,000 tor an
honest, man has a safe proposition If she
loses, provided museum privileges go
along.
Ohsucoey Depew says that money
making is a microbe, and Andrew
Carnegie soya it U a gift Those of ua
who have neither don't know whloh
fpthority to believe.
A QUESTION OF POLITICS.
In the Macon Telegraph of yes
terday we And an article from
Mr. J. L. Barnett, of Leary, criti
cising the Hrrald for the position
taken by thie paper in a recent editorial
on the subject of a Southern man for
president. The artiole with which Mr.
Barnett takes Issue has been extensively
published, a number of enr exohanges
having reprodnoed it, and his Is the A ret
unfavorable comment we have seen
upon it.
We reproduce Mr. Barnett's artlole in
another oo<amn and would have gladly
published it if he had sent it to ns direet,
The oolumns of the Herald have never
been oloeed to those who differ from it
and want to take Issue with Its views
on questions of pnbllo interest or party
polioy.
Mr. Barnett is badly mistaken when
he aoonses the Herald of "ridionliag
the idea of a Southern man for presi
dent." From our position and view
point the snbjeot is not one for ridicule.
It Is a question of politics—polltios of
the cold-blooded, practloal sort, at that,
and one whloh had os well be divested
of all sentiment and considered with
dne regard for existing conditions. Tho
conditions are not of onr making, nor
are they such as we would have 'f we
had any ohoioe In the matter. And
right here is the only real difference
that wo soo between Mr. Barnett and
tho Herald. He takes his hearings and
views tills question of practloal politics
from oundltions ns he would like to Imvo
them, while the Herald looks at It and
considers It with the conditions that
really exist and which mnst be met.
Whoro principle nlono is involved, we
oan be content to contond for wlmt we
oonootvo to bo right, and lose without
beomning discouraged. Indeed, we
liars been fighting and losing on this
lino ever siimo the war betweou the
North and South. Bat great political
lssaea and questions of party polioy in
onr national polltios nro settlod by con
ditions—roal conditions, not Imaginary
onos. In the War Botwoou the States
the conditions favored tho North, and
tho North won. If the South had been
vlotorious in the great straggle between
tho two seotious in the Sixties we would
have taken tho constitution and the na
tional capital and then it would have
been tho North that would have had to
"uome hack" into the Union, and tho
reconstruction that followed would have
boon ou different lines from those tliut
were laid down. Bnt there were
more of tho Yankees than there were of
us, and there are mnro of them yot.
And so long as they oan out vote as
they are not going to elect a Southern
man to the presidency.
"The war is over,” on paper, at tho
big industrial and oommerolal conven
tions and at the reunions of the old
soldiers, bnt it is still on in natlonnl pol
itics, and the time has not yet eome, In
our humble opinion, when the Demo-
orals would have a ghost of a showing
with a Southern man for their presiden
tial oandtdato. The South lias plenty
of men worthy and oapnble, and the
Herald repeats that the South Is today
the oltadel of the constitution and the
stronghold of the best type of American
oitlseushlp. Bnt the people of the
North are not yet ready to admit this
nor have they yet reached the point
where they oan rise above sectionalism
and the prejudices of the past and honor
a Sonthern man by eleotlng him to the
presidency. That Ohloogo paper whloh
Mr. Barnet quotes tells ns the oandld
troth, and it 1b useless for us, in the
weakness of onr numbers, however
righteous our oause may 1 e, to try to
fool ourselves with the idea that the peo
ple of the North are going to give us
anything in the way of political honors
and emoluments that they oan reserve
for themselves.
The only possible chance that the
Democratic party has of electing a pres
ident is in ohosing a candidate who oan
carry some of the populous Northern
states whose votes amount to something
in the eleotoral oollege. All of these
states, suoh as New York and Illlnios,
for iustanoe, are doubtful in a national
campaign, even when a Northern man
or one of their own oittaens Is nomi
nated by the Democrats, and with a
Southerner for its pandidate the Demo
oratio party would not oarry one of
them. This la politics; suoh are the
conditions. Had we not then, viewing
the matter as a question of polltios—
and that's what It la—better be content
to take a Northern man with a fighting
chanoe to win?
The
fellow who invented
straw hats for hones and mules is
probably getting rich. The hate an
■eonon the dray and hack bones and
mules in every city in the oonntry.
A Sonthern Man tor President.
From tho Macon Telegraph.
To the Editor of The Telegraph: A
few days ago we read an article from
the Albany Herald ridlouling the idea
of a Sonthern man for president. The
argument of the Herald in anpport of
this position was self-contradictory.
The Herald says: "We are as 8onthern
as anybody in all that the general ac
ceptation of the term implies, and would
like to see a Sonthern man eleoied to
the presidency, but when it comes to
politics we have learned to look at
things and conditions as they are rather
than as we would like to have them.”
While it is true we mast learn to see
things os they really are, it does uot
necessarily follow that we are to accept
things just as they are. We wonld then
challenge all right to progress. We are
frank to say that the South can furnish
as true and patriotic statesmen as any
seotlon of onr great country. We have
as good presidential material as the
North, East or West. We agree with
the Herat that "The Sooth Is today the
aitodel of tho constitution and the
stronghold of the best type of American
citizenship. It 1h also true that the
Sooth is tho heart ot the Democratic
party. ”
Now, it does seem that If the above
qnotatlou be trne that no seotlon of onr
country could claim the right to en
gineer the Demooratio party bnt the
South. The Herald says the North and
the Wost could not be rellod upon to
support a Sonthern man, and conse
quently we coaid expoot nothing bnt de
feat with a Sonthern man at the head
of onr tloknt. We might saggost that
since the war we have generously given
oar support to the North, and with
oao exception the ticket has
gone down in dofeat. Wo Sonthern
pooplo have not been manly enough to
commaud the reaped of the other sec
tions of onr country. If we are going
to acoept "conditions jnst ns they are,"
at tho same time wc surrender all hope
for independent political thought and
action. In other words, we surrender
ourselves unconditionally to the rale of
tho Northern wing of the Democratic
party.
Wo quote ugniii: "With a Southern
Domoornt as tho nominee, sectionalism
wonld at otiop bo revived at tho North,
and tho same old Hob that have been
told on ns for thirty-odd years in a Bpirit.
seo.louallsm for political purposes wonld
he told again and a great majority at
the North would believe them because
they want to believe them."
Ever since tho war betwoen tho States
wo have been grossly insulted time after
time by Northern newspapers, Northern
statesmen, and Northern officials, ami
even today, we uro told by Northern
people that wo are very mndh lacking
in Industry, intelligence, and business
sense. They toll us wo are Ignorant,
iazy, slothful. This point Is nicely
brought on*, in an uddress delivered Dy
Rov. O. H. Purkhurst, . . before his
Madison Square congregation, New
York City. Bnt with a great deal mor»
force by a Democratic paper of Chicago
of last November. This dipping was
taken from Wednesday’s Telograph :
"Without nrroganco, withont malice,
without departure from tho truth in the
smallest degree, it should bo said and
said plainly that the people of the North
are better fitted by character, by intelli
gence and by industry than those of any
other seotlon to rale this government
They have rated It for forty years and
nothing is more impressivoly written In
the book of fate than the faot that they
are to rale it for many generations to
oome.-
"Tho people of tho North have their
faults, as every people mast have, bnt
suoh as they are, with the light given to
them,' they are the people to whoso
judgment all questions of polities must
be referred and to whose deoisian all
parties must bow.
"In the mala these people are honest,
jnst and generons. They are pre
eminently progressive, energetic and
ambitions. They are sagaoions and far-
seeing. They are self-reliant They
are prond. They are Ailed with a
mighty faith in themselves in their
oonntry. They are brave and high-
spirited. They may be grasping, they
may at times be avaricious, they may
on occasion forget and Ignore the rights
of others, but they are well grounded in
all that is best in the civilization of their
time. They are uot afraid of any re
sponsibility wliioh rightfully falls upon
them.”
Saoh quotations as the last, although
it be from a Demooratio organ, is enough
to almost curdle the blood in every true
Southerner’s veins. We are Southern
ers in every sense of the term. We
wnut to see a Southern man head the
Demooratio tioket, and if we go down
iu defeat, lot it he said that it was a
Demooratio defeat, and not a Demo-Re-
pnblioan defeat, nshered down by the
Populists.
We sincerely believe that suoh action
would develop the strength of the pnrty
in every seotion. It wonld oloar the
party of a number of Repnblioans who
stay in it for office only. It would
reooncile the South and West into one
solid Demooratio phalanx, wipe Popu
lism off the earth and fit the Demooratio
party for clean and fair fighting, on
purely Demooratio pnnoiples from now
till "dooms’ day.”
When there are harsh things to be
said about the South, we feel that the
North should say It and not the Sooth.
We do not believe that the Herald
meant to torn the book of its hand on
its own aeotion, bnt the Inference par
taken of that nature.
J. D. Barnett.
Leary, Gft.» July 12,1901.
lira. Jefferfon DuTis is ill at Fort*
tend. Me.
THE GROWTH OP POPULATION IN
CITIES.
A bulletin just issued by the census
bureau contains sortie interesting infor*
mation relative to the urban population
of the country. It shows that of the in
habitants of the United States, 28,411,-
008 people live in cities of more than
4,000 popnlation, or 87 .3 per cent, of the
total. In 1890 the urban popn ation was
only 82.9 per cent., there having been
in ten years an increase in favor of the
cities of nearly 5 per cent.
£ About one half the urban popnlation
is contained in cities of more than 100,-
000, thirty-eight cities having a com
bined popnlation of 14,208,847. Of the
per centage of population in cities,
Rhode Island leads with 01 0, and In
dian Territory is at the foot of the list
with 2,5. Georgia’s percentage is 18.0.
In 1880 there were in the United StateB
580 places with more than 4,000 popn
lation. There were 889 in 1890, and
1,158 in 1900.
The Colombia has again beaten the
Oonstitntion. That gives each of them
two races to her credit. The Columbia’s
wins were by small margins, while the
OouBtitntion's were .large ones. It ap
pears, therefore, that while the new
boat shows np a shade the bettor, that
shade is not yet conclusive. The Inde
dependence, too, has got people guess
ing again by her improved sailing, not
withstanding she has been beaten in
every race. Some days ago It was
hinted in a dispatch from London that
Sir Thomas Lipton was having the
Shamrock II held back in her races with
Shamrock I, so as to keep her real speed
hidden and thus "fool the Yankees.”
May it not be just i ossible that the man
ager of the Constitution is having a lit
tle jockeying done with that craft, so
as to "frol” Sir Thomas Lipton?—Sa
vannah News.
The Knights of Pythias are after the
officers who have committed offiuses
against, the endowment runk of the
order with a sharp stick. The supreme
lodge, in spssion at Chicago, has ac
cepted tho resignation of John H. Hin-
sey, who was president of the endow
ment. rank, and has directed the supreme
chancellor and hoard of control to prose
cute civilly aud criminally all persons
who may be responsible for the present
unfortunate status of tho endow ment
fund. The Kuights of Pythias declare
their intention to stick together and
place tho endowment fund again on the
strong basis it formerly occupied.
An ordor of the war department pro
vides for anotlur increase of the
artillery under the last army law. to
take effect on the first of the fiscal year,
.Tnly 1. The arrangement provides that
the increase shall be made as fast as the
enlistments are completed. For con
venience, the total iucreaso is divided
intosixths. The new order, authoriz
ing an increase on the first of this
month, is for one-sixth, amounting to
abont 1,800 men. As the increase is
made in tho nntr.ber of enlisted men
there is also an increase in the number
of otfioers, and a number of promotions
of artillery otfioers will resnlt.
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The Herald's hog, hominy and hay
campaign has given the editor a noto
riety as "an authority on hay" that is
getting to be a hit tronblesome. Letters
oome from nearly all over the South
from (armors who want information
abont hay-mnking. It requires consid
erable time and labor to answer all
snoli letters that coma to the Herald.
Next, year tho Herald intends
! to have a "gross patch’.’ of its own.
We will make it a sort of experimental
hay farm and publish a report on it, 1
giving the mode and expense of prepar-!
ing the ground, the yield, the number
of cuttings, cost of harvesting, baliDg,
eto.
The trampling on Bryan's picture at
the Ohio Democratic convention appears
to have been onpremeditated and un
intentional, bnt some ot tho ultra gold-
bug and republican papers are trying to
attach some significance to the incident.
If it had been done intentionally, or if
it was done intentionally, it was a very
uncalled for pleoe of dirty work and
should forever damn the Demoorats of
Ohio in the estimation of the party.
The registration and lottery plan for
the division ot the Oklahoma lands
among settlers seems to be a great im
provement over the method heretofore
employed by the government ot throw
ing the tend* open tor • general rash of
homeeeekers. ,
The vagaries of lightning have often
been remarked upon und discussed by
learned men, bnt probably the most pre
posterous vagary of any holt of light
ning on record waB that of the one
whioh attempted the conqnestof a Ken
tucky negro's head, nearLexingtcn, the
other day. The negro was standing un
der a large oak, for shelter from the
storm. The lightning strnok him
sqnaroly upon the top of the head, rico
cheted nud hit the bole of the tree,
which was rent in twain. The negro
was stunned for abont two minutes,
then got tip, rnhbed his pate and asked if
anybody had thrown a brick —Savannah
Press.
Tho Philadelphia Record says that
Boar marksmanship has convinced the
British war authorities that swords,
lances and bayonets are of little nse as
weapons of modern warfare, and that a
soldier who can’t shoot straight is en
tirely useless except as a target for the
ballets of an enemy whose soldiers can
shoot better. Hereafter the British sol
diers will be drilled in long distance
marksmanship as the most essential item
ot their military training. Sword, lance
and bayonet exercises have been abol
ished, and the soldier who can shoot
will be the soldier of the fntnre. It has
taken a long while, and cost a heap of
money, to get this sensible idea throogh
the British cranium; bnt the idea is
evidently there to stay at last.
The Louisville Oonrier-Jonrnal says:
"Gen. Gomez says the Unbans jnst want
to feel freedom a while before annexa
tion to the United States. Bnt why,not
oome into Unole’s Sam’s family and feel
freedom permanently? There is not a
state in the Union whioh is not free—
certainly none which is not freer than
any of the so-called republics of Span-,
ish America.”
While those who were unfaithful to
the Democratic party in 189(1 and 190(1
are chuckling over the "Bryan incident”
at the Ohio convention and congratu
lating themselves, if not the'Demooratio
party, upon the platform adopted, hero
is what Dr. R Reum'in, president of
the Ohio Association of Democratic
Clubs, says about it: “Ohioago plat
form Demoorats will not stand f or what
the Democratic convention did. One of
two things must occur—either a Demo
cratic ticket mus- be placed in the fleid,
or we will vote the Rapnblioau tioket.
When Bryan was dragged in the dirt,
it was a principle millions of Demoorats
held sacred that was defiled,"
The trustees of the Christian En
deavor societies presented a silver loving
eup to President Clarke, the founder of
the organization, and drank his health
iu water. This tame performance dis
gusts the Atlanta Journal, as witness
this comment: "Think of drinking
water ont of a loving onp. Bnt, aB for
that matter, think of drinking water!”
Judge Day, of Ohio, the president’s
close-friend, says that the Bryan in
cident at Colnmbns will cost the dem
ooratio party in that state many votes,
and help make repu' lican success cer
tain. It was a silly and unbecoming
performance.
Lord Kitchener states that he is abont
to forward to the war ofiloe sworn
siatesments of British officers and men
to the effeot that wonnded British sol
diers were ruthlessly slain by the Boer*
at Ylookfontein and other plaoee.
What the Alabama constitutional con
vention seems to be driving at is to dis
franchise everybody who can't be de
pended on to vote the straight Demo
oratio tioket.