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• • -SSHS ■r. JOHK H. HODGE8, Propr. DEVOTED TO HOM| II^MESTS, f S?OCRE«S AND CUtTW^E, #1.50 a^^ar in Advice. ■ •' - VOL. XXX, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21,190 U WASHINGTON LETTER. BRYAN EXTOLS JEFFERSON. Our Regular Correspondence. The overwhelming flood of spec ial pension legislature will soon force Congress to take some means of damming it. Even Republi cans express the opinion that the scope of Congressional action in such matters has been ' overstep ped entirely, and that under the present practice a pension bureau had been established under the dome of the capitol. In the pres ent Congress there have been 2,- 288 special pension bills in the Senate and with the general bills' and House bills, the Senate Pen sion Committee had been asked so far to take up about three thou sand bills. One Senator has in troduced 162 bills and another 145. The business is already as large as the committee can han dle well and there is little doubt it will be doubled in the next Con gress. This is due to the fact that the pension attorneys are advising soldiers that it is easier to get their pensions through Congress ional action than through the Pension Bureau. Reference was made in this correspondence some time ago to the almost openly avowed inten tions of the Republicans to resort to gerrymandering in the states receiving increased representation under the new census, especially in any of which they had obtain ed temporary control by the re sults of the last election. Few people, however, know how far this method of securing members to which the Republicans are not entitled has already gone in the northern states, rivaling in its ef fects the most wholesale disfran chisement of negroes for which the south has ever been responsi ble. For instance, consider the following statement prepared from official records by a Demo cratic member of the House. “I find, he said, that a great discre pancy exists in the population of certain districts in the United States as compared with those for other districts. I will give you some figures to illustrate what I mean. The Fourth district of California contains 147,642 peo ple, compared with 228,642 for the Fifth district; New York Sev enth district, 114,766, and Fif teenth, 228,888, a difference of 109,072; Wisconsin, 286,107 in the Fourth district and 113,445 in the Fifth, a difference of 122,648; Connecticut, Second district, .248,- 542, and Third, 121,892, a differ ence of 126,792; Pennsylvania, Third district, 129,764, and Fourth 809,986, a difference of 180,282 Illinois, Third district, 307,792, and Seventh, 130.128, a difference of 178,849.” Republicans are feeling rather blue over the continued failure of the legislatures of Delaware and Nebraska to choose Senators, and are beginning to fear that no elec tions will be had. In this case, what with the animosities engen dered by the contests, there is, they think, much danger that the states may go Democratic at tHe : next election and four Democrats may be chosen from to the Sen ate. All party and personal in fluences possible to be exerted have been brought to bear on the Republican members of the two Legislatures to reconcile their dif ferences and send four men here to reinforce the Republican side of the Senate, but unless : some very unexpected developments oc- . cur, belief is now prevalent these appeals will not have the desired effect. Persons here from the scenes of both Senatorial con flicts report there is no prospect that either Addicks in Delaware 1 or 'Rosewater in Nebraska will permit an election unless; he is ene of the Senators. The Republi cans will have a large majority in the Senate after March 4th, and really do not need the,. Nebraska and Delaware men, but the elec tion of four Democrats would be a heavy counter-balance even to Extract from speech f* Rumbus, o.; their great majority ^ever has this nation been more , It is something of a question . 1 ° i nee f t 1 han ifc ? I al L earn - | whether the War Department will j est and thorough revival of Jefferso dare to sustain General McArthur i man P riQC ipl® 8 in his action of banishing Editor j appearmef at amerent crises Rice for maligning an army of- ’ QT> ficer. The article on which the action was based has been receiv ed in this city and contains abso lutely nothing that the most ar dent advocate of Lese Majeste sould consider “treasonable.” It simply criticized the action of the port officer and charged him with corruptions-a charge punishable, if false, as criminal libel. Sena tor Teller has secured the adop tion of a resolution calling on the Secretary of War for information on the subject. Speaking of the matter, Mr. Teller said that he did not wonder that Rice was de fiant, knowing that there was no law justifying his expulsion. He did not know whether Rice’s pa per had been suppressed, but he had been credibly informed that four newspapers had been sup pressed in Luzon by the military authorities. Mr. Teller spoke of the proceeding as one of impor tance to all, for Mr. Rice was a citizen of the Unitet States and an offence-against him was an of fence against every other citizen of this country. STANDARD OIL A BONANZA. The Standard Oil Company de clared a dividend of 20 per cent payable March 16th. This is at the rate of 68 per cent since March 1, 1900. The Standard Oil thus will have distributed among its stockhold ers $68,000,000 within the space of one year and fifteen days. Of this sum John D. Rockefeller will have received $21,080000more than $55,000 a day,or about $40 a min ute. Mr. Rockefeller’s wealth has piled up so astonishingly that even the great money kings of Wall street are marveling. His available cash has become such a factor in Wall streer that, accord ing to one of the best judges of the market, all chance has been entirely eliminated from transac tions on the stock exchange. Mr. Rockefeller can put up stocks or put them down as he chooses. No combination is strong enough in Wall street to defeat his plans.—Ex. Had To Conquer Or Die. “I was just abobt gone,” writes Mrs. Rosa Richardson, of Laurel Springs, N. C., “I had consump tion so bad that- the best doctors said I could not- live more than a month, but I began to use Dr. King’s New Discovery and was wholly cured by seven bottles and am now stout and well.” It’ s an unrivaled life-saver in Consump tion, Pneumonia, La Gfippa and Bronchitis; infallible for Colds, Asthmai Hay Fever or Whooping Cough. : Guaranteed bottles'i50c:and^L00;; Trial bot tles free at H. M. Holtzchiw’s drug store, The California orange crop of the present season, it is believed, will be much larger than has here tofore . been stated. .. More oar loads had been shipped from the southern portion of the state up to the lhst of January than ever before during a corresponding pe riod, and other sections of the state were keeping up to their average- of Shipments. The diffi culty being, experienced now is m getting cars to move the fruit. While other states- j appearing at different crises! and meeting the responsibilities of j their respective times, have made; partial application of democratic. principles, Jeffersen >s the only one who has formulated a democratic code applicable to all times, all situ ations and all people. Though the champion of the com mon people, he was born among the aristocrats and was intimately ac quainted with the members of the house who have, as with those who struggled to meet by daily work their daily wants. He was called a demagogue by his enemies, and yet he exhibited a moral courage which none of his de tractors has ever possessed, and in behalf of a righteous principle he would oppose the world. Two years before he wrote the Declaration of Independence he pre pared a summary view of the rights of British America, which was a bold repudiation of the authority which England claimed. This was not the work of a demagogue. He attacked the laws of primo geniture and entail and saved Amer ica from a landed aristocracy. This was not the work of a demagogue. He condemned slavery when the system was popular in his state and in the nation, and he did it three- quarters of a century before eman cipation crowned Lincoln with mar tyrdom and immortality. This was not the work of a demagogue. He organized the democratic par ty and by the strength of his leader ship overthrew an opposition in trenched in power and bulwark by the business and social forces. So successful was his administra tion that his re-election was practi cally unanimous, and for years the executive chair was filled by men unto whom he had beeiLg Gamaliel. At this time, when the money- changars are m absolute control of the government and are shaping the nation’s financial policy to their own interests, without regard for the wel fare of the people at large, we need to recall Jefferson’s arraignment of those who demanded the surrender into their hands of the sovereign functions of government. He pointed out that the safety of the people lay in a policy that would drive the banks out of the govern ing business. At this time, when corporate mo nopoly is fast extinguishing indus trial independence, we need a revival of the Jeffersonian spirit, which de mands a government administered according to the doctrine of equal rights to all and special privileges to none. At this time, when commercialism is searing the conscience of the na tion, when the worship of mammon is leading the people to ignore in alienable rights, when the ideals bought with blood and sacrifice are to be bartered away for the specious and delusive promises of empire—at this time, I repeat, we need to have our faith in man as man and our love for man as brother rekindled by the memory of this mighty patriot, philosopher and democrat, whose brain comprehended the height and depth and breadth of govern ment and whose heart embraced the human race. Recent experiments show that all classes of food may be com pletely digested by a preparation called Kodol Dyspepsia Cure, which absolutely digests what you eat. As it is the only combination .of all the natural digestants ever devised, the demand for it has be lt has never fail- . _ „. .. come enormous. The Best.^Prescription for 31 i ». Clire the very worst cases of ■ indigestion, and it always gives Holtzc aw’s Drug- Gbillsand^feer-iaia^ffiQtkffi Grove’s Tasteless Chill Tonic . j ng £ an £ relief It is simply iron and-quinine m a gtore> tasteless form. No cure—no pay Price 50c. Come and see SUIT in e Burnett & Goodman, 454 THIRD STREET. KESSLER 414 & 416 Third St. MACON, GA- iOF:- ©OB Winter Clothing, Winter Shoes, Heavy-Weight Dry Goods, Overcoats, Mclntoshes, &c.—in fact every article of WINTER GOODS in our store must be sold within 00 next six weeks. Wejhave to have the room. There's worth of it. You ask how are we going to sell all these goods in so short a time. Well, we know how |to do it. Make the prices right—that mOves ’em. From to-day every article in our store wi 1 he sold AT AND LESS THAU NEW YORK GOST until our Entire Stock of Cold-Weather Goods is sold. And remember that this stock is one of the most staple in the city of Macon, consisting of Dry Goods, Shoes, Cloth ing, Hats, Millinery, ^Notions, &g. In fact you can find here everything that you need to wear. You cannot afford, to miss seeing us when you come to Macon. 414 and 416 Third Street, MACOST, GA. B.—We have bought the stock of Mr. M. Elkin at about 25 cents on the dollar, and from this stock you can get staple goods for almost nothing. . Now is the time to have your JOB WORE done 1 The Rome Journal u Subscribe for The Homs Joubxal. i prepared to do it in a neat and artistic manner at reasona ble prices. Satisfaction guaranteed. Faros Ws Wits Foss Oboes,