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PBICE, $1.50 A YEAS, IN ADVANCE,
Published Eyery'Thursday Morning.
no.3. IIODG-ES, Editor and Publisher
Perry, Thursday, September 19.
Copies of this paper may be found on
file at the office of our Washington cor
respondent, E. G. Siggers, 918 F. Street,
N. W., Washington, D. C.
This country should be made
extremely unhealthy for anarchists.
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The court of inquiry decision may
mak^ a presidentiat candidate of
Admiral Schley.
Two new bugs, destructive to cot
ton, have been sent to the agricultu
ral department from Clayton county.
Mr. George B. Turpin, one of the
most prominent citizens of Macon,
Ga., is critically ill in New York city.
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both papers $2.50.
Czolgosz, the assassin, has been
indicted for murder and placed on
trial in the County court of Buffalo.
Judge Edward K. Emery presiding.
He feigns insanity.
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By agreement the great strike of
the Amalgamated Association of
Iron and Steel Workers, begun in
June last, is at an end. Reports say
the steel corporation made no con
cessions.
The Dead President, and The Living.
The general opinion is that Roose
velt will be honest and just in the
perform ance of his d a ties as presiden t,
though less subject to the advice of
republican leaders than his lamented
predecessor.
Editor Bryan will hereafter de
vote special space in The Commoner
to the editorial opinions of “coun
try” editors on political subjects.
We cordially approve the purpose,
and believe the results will be good.
The governor of New Jersey says
there will be a law enacted that will
prevent anarchist assemblages in
that state, and throughout the
Union there is a demand for legal
authority to prevent the immigra
tion of any anarchist.
At the first meeting of the Schley
court of inquiry, last Thursday, ob
jection was made to Admiral Howis-
son, it being charged that by his
own words he had shown himself
unfriendly to Schley in to matters to
be considered by'that court. After
hearing the evidenc, Howison was
declared ineligible.
Georgia people are not waiting
for any particular candidate for gov
ernor, nor for anything else political.
They are not waiting at all, but de
voting themselves wilh earnest ener
gy to the management of their busi
ness affairs. Next spring they will
devote a fair share of their attention
to politics and the selection of can
didates.
Hon. Chester Pearce of Houston,
for four years a Representative of
the county in the Georgia legislat
ure, is a candidate for the position
of Messenger of that body, to fill
unexpired term of F. M. Durham,
recently deceased. Mr. Pearce’s
•qual-fications are undoubtedly most
excellent, and we endorse his appli
cation withon reserve.
Senator Wellirgton of Maryland,
- a republican, has been expelled by
the Union League of Baltimore,, a
republican organization, political
and social, because of unseemly ex
pressions concerning the shootuig of
President McKinley. His expulsion
from the TJ. S. Senate has been also
suggested, but it is declared there
can be no legal authority for such
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The assassin of President McKin
ley declares that the speeches and
writings of Emma Goldman, called
the Queen of Anarchists in America,
influenced him to adopt the creed,
and then to assassinate the presi
dent. The woman has been arrest
ed, but so far avidence sufficient to
bold her f6r trial has not been se
cured, Doubtless the next congress
will enact a law banishing and ex
cluding anarchists from the United
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President McKinley is dead, and
the whole world sorrows, except a
comparatively few people of the class
of the wretch who caused that death.
When the shots were fired at about
4 o’clock Friday afternoon. Septem
ber 6th, just and true people through
out the world were electrified with
horror and anger.
Later favorable reports created
and sustained hope, and when that
hope was highest, Thursday evening
last, an unfavorable bulletin was is
sued. Directly after 11 o’clock Fri
day morning the wires declared “the
president is dead.” But that report
was incorrect, and hope was revived
somewhat. This hope, however, was
unfounded, and at 2:15 Saturday
morning, September 14th, the be
loved president was dead.
The history of the crime is famil
iar to the people throughout the
country.
The private and official character
of William McKinley, man and pres
ident, has won plaudits throughout
the world, andYven those who dif
fered with him cannot withhold ex
pression of highest esteem for his
words and actions of truth and jus
tice.
Of the wretch who caused all this
sorrow, and the fiendish creed that
impelled him to murder, the world
knows with abhorrence. That the
one must be punished with the ut
most vigor of the law, and the other
banished from this free land, is im
peratively demanded by all senti
ments of truth and justice.
This assassination recalls the fact
that within 36 years two other pres
idents have been assassinated.
Within a theater in Washington
City on April 14th, 1865, at 10
o’clock p. m., President Lincoln was
shot by John Wilkes Booth; death
ensued at 7:20 next morning, Booth
escaped from the city, but several
days later he was discovered in a
country barn, shot and killed.
On July 2nd, 1881, President
James A. Garfield was shot by C. J.
Guiteau, as the president was wait
ing for a train at the Baltimore &
Potomac depot in Washinton City.
President Garfied so far recovered
that he was carried to Long Branch,
but there he grew worse, and on
September 19 th,he died just 80 days
after he was shot. Guiteau was tried
convicted or murder and hung.
Theodore Roosevelt is now presi-
deet of the United States, succeed
ing thereto by virtue of his election
and service as vice president. The
term of the office to which he thus
succeeds will expire on ths 4th of
March, 1905.
There may be changes in the cab
inet and other high appointive offices,
but it is reported that all these have
been|requesttd to continue in their
respective offices at least until con-
gressmeets next December.
„ Yice President Roosevelt left Buf
falo Wednesday under the convic
tion that the full recovery of the
president was assured. Friday an
urgent telegram found him in the
Adirondacks on a hunting expedi
tion. -Hastening to Buffalo, he at
tended the bedside of the dead pres
ident, and at 3:35 p. m. Saturday he
subscribed to the oath of office as
president of the United States, at
the home of Mr. Ansley Wilcox, in
the presence of five members of the
cabinet, and others. He declared
that he would continue unbroken
the policies of President McKinley.
His first official act, after a confer
ence with the cabinet officers, was
the issuance of a proclamation ap
pointing Thursday,* September 19th,
when the burial of President Mc
Kinley will take place, as a day of
mourning and prayer, requesting the
people to assemble for that purpose
in their respective houses of worship.
The body of the piesident was
kept in Buffalo until Monday, when
it was carried by special train to
Washington, remaining in state
there until removed to Canton, Ohio,
where the funeral ceremony will be
concluded Thursday.
From all sections of the country,
regardless of political affiliations,
messages were received 1 expressing
abhorrence of the dastardly deed,
tender sympathy for the bereaved
wife and relatives, deep regret that
the country had suffered so great a
loss, together with sentiments 'of
highest esteem for the deceased as a
true man and eminently worthy
president. From all foreign coun
tries messages of like import were
received.
The expressions concerning the
new president show that he has the
confidence of the people, generally.
Can’t “Place” Them Now.
“Word comes from all parts of the
state that the people are waiting for
Mr. Turner’s announcement.”
The above is the opening sentence
of an editorial in the Valdosta Times,
having reference to the governorship
of Georgia.
There may be a considerable num
ber of men in Georgia thus waiting,
but an exceeding great majority are
giving no thought at all to the sub
ject. They are busy now, and have
no desire to think of or discuss, poli
tics.
In our presence last Monday, a
distinguished citizen of a neighbor
ing county was accosted with the
declaration:
“I see your county is said to be
for Brown.”
“Yes,” said* the judge, “and you
will also hear that it is for Guerry,
that it is for Terrell, and I say that
one claim is equally reliable as eith
er of the others.”
The people generally are not une-
quivocably “for” either of the an
nounced candidates, and will not
permit themselves - to be bothered
with the subject. They know that
there is plenty of time and that the
candidates can’t go ahead and take
the office without going through the
usual form.
Therefore it would be well for the
impatient candidates and their urg
ent friends to do a little waiting on
their own account. L The office won’t
run away, and the people are likely
to be in the neighborhood when
campaigning time really comes.
If you try to “place” them now,
they may become displaced within
the next six months.
You Kaow What You Are Taking
When you take Grove’s Taste
less Chill Tonic because the for
mula is plainly printed on every
bottle x showing that it is pimply
Iron and Quinine in a tasteless
form. No cure, no pay. Price 50c
A feeling almost of incredulity
has been aroused by the dispatches
announcing that the G, A. R. is de
manding more pensions on account
of the civil war. With a pension list
constantly increasing on account of
that war at the present day—thirty-
six years after it was ended, and an
annual expenditure for it of $140,-
000,000,more than one-fourth of the
total revenue of the government—
common decency might seem to de
mand at least that no further de
mands should be made on a patient
people. But probably a universal
cataclysm would not prevent the
Grand Army of the Republic from
demanding more pensions and de
nouncing every official of the gc v
ernment who insists upon an honest
administration of the laws.—Wash
ington Correspondence.
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Catarrh when neglected often leads to
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454 MULBERRY STREET,
lv£acori,
Greoxgia.
DRY GOODS, CLOTHING, SHOES, HATS,
TRUNKS, VALISES, NOTIONS, ETC.
I take pleasure in announcing to my friends and former
customers of Houston County that I am now in the large
store, No. 454 Mulberry, Street, Macon, Ga., where I
have just opened a large and complete stock of Dry Goods,
Clothing, Shoes, Hats, Trunks, Valises, Notions, &c.
Everything Fresh and New.
No Old Stock.
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And I am prepared to jsell to my friends at rock bottom
prices. "When visiting Macon come and see me, and I will
save you money on anything in my line.
♦ Your old friend,
Marx Zarks.
P. S.—I have large back yard and stable in the rear of my store where my
country friends can place their teams free of charge when in Macon.
W. A. DAVIS.
BEN. T. RAY.
EDWIN 3. DAVIS.
W. A. DAVIS & CO.,
COTTON FACTORS,
405 & 407 Poplar St.
MACOH, GEOKGIA
Unsurpassed facilities for handling cotton.
Money advanced at lowest rates.
Prompt attention to business is our motto.
We charge only 50 cents per bale.
The Best Sellers of cotton in the city.
There is One BEST in Everything.
IN TONICS IT IS
THE ACME MALT TONIC,
BREWED BY THE
ACME BREWING COMPANY, MACON, GA.
For sale by all druggists. If your druggist does not
handle this health-giving tonic, write us for prices.
Acme Brewing Company.
R. L.
CHEEK,
ILvdCstcoan., O-a.,
WITH...
BENSON & HOUSER,
The Cp-to-Date Clothiers,
Extends ajeordial invitation to his'friends ahd ac
quaintances to come in and make themselves at
home when visiting the city.
We endorse the invitation.
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BENSON & HOUSER,
The Up-to-Date Clothiers.
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