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Published Every Thursday Morning.
Jno.H. lEODOSS, Editor and Publisher
Perry, Thursday, May 22.
Two weeks more of the state cam
paign.
Claim a majority always, and work
for everything in sight, is the nr otto
of every active campaigner.
During a campaign each man es-
tiraates the strength of his favorite
candidate as he hopes it will be.
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A cyclone at and around Goliad,
Texas, last Friday killed ninety peo
ple, injured about 100 and destroy
ed much property.
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An effort is being made to secure
a part of the government exhibit
now at Charleston for the Btate fair
at Valdosta next Ootober.
Another cotton mill company has
been organized at Griffin, with a
cash capital of $200,000, making
five ootton factories in that city.
Robert T. Baptist, a negro of
Galway, N. Y., has given $1,000 to
the oolored institute at Tuskeegee,
Ala., to found a permanent sholar-
ship,
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It now Beems almost certain that
oongress will appropriate $125,000
for a new public building at Maoon,
or for the enlargement of the pres
ent building.
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Wu Ting Fang, the Chinese min
ister to the United States, will de
liver the commencement address at
the military college at Milledgeville
next Wednesday.
The Seaboard Airline railroad has
purchased the East & West road,
from Cartersville, Ga., to Pell City,
Ala., and will complete the connec
tion to Birmingham.
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8 Dr. J. L. M. Curry was the spe
cial envoy of the United States at
the ooronation of Alfonso XIII,King
of Spain, and with the representa
tives of other nations received a
royal deooration.
The state military enaompment
for rifle praotioe will begin at Ma
con on June 7th, and oontinue one
week. Each company in the state
will be required to send a team, not
exceeding five men.
Cuba is now among the independ
ent republics of the world. Presi
dent Palma was inaugurated at Ha
vana Tuesday, May 20th, and United
States control was formally relin
quished. AH hail to the new re
public.
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East week the Virginia-Oarolina
Company purchased the properties
of five extensive fertilizer companies
in Alabama, involving the payment
of fully $1,000,000. Next year the
farmers will sure-enough be “up
against” the guano trust.
The June number of the Woman’s
Home Companion contains some un
usually strong fiotion. Cyrus Towns
end Brady, Albert Bigelow Paine,
Julia Truitt Bishop and Angela
Morgan are contributors, and their
names promise a high quality of
work.
It. seems that the objection to
Guerry in his canvass for the gov
ernorship of Georgia is that he
makes charges, not that the charges
are untrue. If the charges are un
true, they should be refuted; if true,
Guerry is right in making them and
Bhould be upheld.
The young King of Spain, Alfon
so XIII., was crowned with brilliant
ceremonies last Friday at Madrid.
On that day a plot to assassinate the
king was frustrated by the arrest of
six persons alleged to be parties to
the conspiracy. Several dynamite
cartridges were secured.
Announcement has already been
made to the state fair authorities at
Valdosta that there will be at least
six county exhibits at the fair next
October. Work is to begin at once
on the enlargement of the agricul
tural building, giving space of 60x25
feet for more than fifty county and
individual exhibits.
The Closing Campaign.
Just two weeks of the campaign
for the nomination of Houston coun
ty and state'officers remain, and it
is practically certain that a large
majority of the citizens have de
cided for whom they will vote.
So far as the candidates are di
rectly responsible, we have heard of
nothing improper in their efforts to
secure suffrage in their behalf.
We are told, however, that the
candidates have been “pulled” to a
greater extent by a few voters than
over before. We use this slang word
because it is more expressive than
any other that occurs to us just now.
Several of the candidates have been
importuned for the loan of money to
meet ah urgent necessity, or for
money to repay expenditures made
to secure votes for the candidate in
question. It is said a man came to
Perry several days ago and repre
sented himself as a friend of every
candidate he saw, asking each for
money to be used in the campaign.
We make this statement without
any personal knowledge of any indi
vidual that has engaged in the
“pulling” process, but we desire to
say that it is a most reprehensible
practice, deserving severe condem
nation. As before stated, , we are
glad that comparatively few men
have thus injected into the cam
paign a feature that they would be
ashamed to acknowledge as person
al to themselves.
If any candidate has used whis
key or money to influence support,
it has been done so secretly as to
escape detection, and no suoh report
has oome to our ears.
For the county offices, including
those for the legislature, there are
26 candidates, with no announce
ment for the office of surveyor.
There are fourteen offices to be
filled. Thirteen candidates must be
defeated.
Besides these, the contest for the
office of solicitor general of this Su
perior court circuit has attracted
more attention than some of the
strictly county offices. Of the'three
candidates, two must be defeated.
Ohoioe rests with the people, and
they are competent to choose,know
ing the candidates as they do. Wnlt
many the choice will be between
friends.
Whatever the result, there should
be no ill-feeling or bitterness engen
dered. The contest has been open,
and the method of choice fair. The
successful candidates may rightfully
feel jubilant, but the defeated ones
need'not feel humiliated in any de
gree.
In good feeling, with the measure
of merit joined to personal friend
ship, the honest choice will not be
unjust, no person will be swindled
and the county will be well served.
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John JB\ Gaynor and B. D. Greene
were parties with Captain Carter in
the frauds committed against the
United States in river improvements
at Savannah. Carter is serving sen
tence, but for several months these
men ha\e been fugitives from jus
tice at Quebec, Canada. Efforts to
seoure them by extradition failed,
but on Wednesday of last week a
warrant for their arrest was secured
at Montreal, and it was successfully
executed by a Canada officer in con
junction with U. S. officers. Gaynor
and Greene are now in custoday at
Quebec awaiting the outcome of
legal proceedings. District Attorney
Marion Erwin of Macon planned the
capture.
In the Georgia state convention,
to be field in Atlanta in July, there
will bo 85$ delegates, and 176 votes
will be necessary to nominate. Each
county is entitled to twice the num
ber of delegates as it has represen
tatives in the legislature. Of the
137 counties, six will have six dele
gates eaoh, twenty-six will have four
delegates each, and 105 will have
two delegates each. By districts the
delegation will be: First distrtct 32;
second, 36; third, 32; fourth, 30:
fifth, 24; sixth, 26; seventh, 34;
eighth, 28; ninth, 40; tenth, 28;
eleventh, 40.
The Next House.
As a consequence of the artistic
game of politics that has occupied
the attention of the members of the
“House of Representatives especially,
and all politicians generally, Bince
the opening of the present session
of congress, the democrats hope to
make material gains in the elections
next fall.
Generally the republicans are
shrewder politicians than the demo
crats, being more unscrupulous, but
they have been on the defensive
since the last presidential election,
and have not met the arguments of
their opponents frith convincing
logic.
Republican selfishness and disre
gard for the rights of the people
have become more apparent than
heretofore, and the people are talk
ing as well as thinking.
.Republican saheming, however,
makes democratic success more diffi
cult by obstacles raised by congress
expressly for that purpose.
On this line the Macon Telegraph
says:
“In calculating the make-up of
the Fifty-eighth congress, it is well
to recollect that independently of
the expected turn of the tide, the
republicans will make gains as a re
sult of the new apportionment of
members. There will be an increase
of twenty-nine members in the next
House over the present House, ten
of whom will be elected by southern
states and nineteen by northern
states. Colorado is the only north-
state with an increased representa
tion which gave its vote to Bryan,
but West Virginia, a southern re
publican state, offsetts Colorado with
a similar increase. The republican
states, therefore, will have an in
creased representation of nineteen,
to an increased representation of ten
in democratic states. This will give
the republicans an advantage of
nine tu start with.
“The expected democratic turn of
the tide must dispose of this new
nine as well as the present majority.
The indications are that it will do
so.”
Gov. J eft Davis, of Arkansas, who
recently pardoned a negro criminal
on condition that he would go to
Massachusetts and stay there, is
pleased with the experiment. He
now says he is going to send as
many negroes as he can to New
England, and hopes the'other south
ern states will join him in the enter
prise. We second the motion, but a
howl of protest will soon come from
that “land of refuge.”
The dispatches tell us that Dr. J.
I/, M. Curry, our envoy to the coro
nation of Aiphonso XIII. in Madrid,
has been placed ou practically the
same footing as foreign princes of
the blood, and is treated with great
er honor than other extraordinary
envoys, with the exception of the
envoy of France. He has a house
to himself, servants, a French cook
and a royal carriage, with a coach
man and footman in the royal livery,
whereas the other envoys are lodged
at hotels. Now, won’t the yellow
journals grit their teeth and growl!
—Maoon Telegraph.
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Rev. A. J. Beck has retired from
the contest for the office of state
school' commissioner, leaving three
candidates in the field: Commis
sioner G. R. Glenn, Dr. Mark John
son of Baldwin, and Commissioner
W. B. Merritt of Lowndes.
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The Georgia Grand Lodge Knights
of Pythias was in session at Valdosta
Tuesday and Wednesday.
Laxative Chocolates cure chronic
constipation and liver trouble. Pleas
ant to take. Purely vegetable. Guar
anteed, at Cater’s Drugstore.
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fcow Rates via Central of Georgia
Railway.
Grand Lodge I. O. O. F., Atlanta,
Ga., May 27-29, 1902. One fare for
the round trip (minimum rate 50'cts)
from all ticket stations in Georgia.
Tickets on sale for afternoon trains
May 26, all trains May 27, and for
trains scheduled to arrive at Atlanta
during forenoon of May 28, with fi
nal return limit May 30, 1902.
Georgia State Educational Asso
ciation, Tybee, Ga., June 19-21,
1902. Tickets one fare for round
trip (minimum rate 50 cents) from
all ticket stations in Georgia. Tick
ets on sale June 17, 18, 19, with fi
nal return limit June 23, 1902.
For further information ask the
tioket agent.
$100 Reward, $100.
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are hereby notified that
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