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THE GEORGIA CRACKER. Published' Every Wednesday Morning. BY HAM & BLAT8. k. W. J. HAM -—Editor. JOHN BLATS ."Baaine** Maupr. Gainesville, Ga:, February 14. 1894. Subscription Price—One Dollar a Year last year, and whsre? Our good fri«nd of the Cleveland Progress, mistakes the motto and mission of This Uracker. Brethren of the Press, we greet you. It is eleven years since we laid down the quill, but the har ness seems to fit and feel as natural as of yore. THE GEORGIA CRACKER. As announced in the last issue of the Industrial News, The Geor gia Cracker succeeds to the plant, good will-, subscription list, and business of that publication, and to-day issues the initial number under the new name. The name has been changed because the How many speeches did General present proprietors aspire to make Evans make in the tenth district a distinctive newspaper, something — If "you receive a copy of the Cracker, please tako it as a per sonal request to subscribe for the paper. Send us a dollar and you will receive it for one year. I,et every Democratic newspaper demand the last thing before going '.VU 1 Jl lliulr^pirtbe first thing ' when they get J At the tion -carry out’ •platform. m 6 C morning JO administra- Democratic Will each of our friends of the press, who may receive a copy of this issue in a sample copy wrap per, do us the kindness to take it as a request to put the Cracker on their exchange list, and attend to it before they lay the paper down. The Cracker takes great pleas ure in acknowledging its obliga tions to the managers of the great Louisville & Nashville system for the usual press courtesies even in advance of its first number. The Cracker will, as soon as they are received, print regularly the sched ules and announcements of all the great railroad systems of the South. Thr Cracker gives all hail to those democratic Journals which are instant iq season, and out of season in .demanding that the dem ocratic administration carry out the democratic platform in all its parts. And the Cracker proposes, providence and the weather per mitting, to make a full scholar along the same line, and cry aloud and spare not. out of the beaten track of the average weekly journal. The South and the State of Georgia are distinguished for the high char acter of their weekly papers, and though The Cracker may not hope to surpass many of these in the general excellence of matter and make-up, yet it hopes to be, in some sort, different and distinct ive in character. While it hopes to cover fully its local field it aspires to reach beyond it, and be a paper worthy to find a place in homes throughout the whole country. While it will always be foremost in all efforts to upbuild its city, section, and state, 4t will essay to have an interest aJ broad as the Union,' and be worMiy of the name cif an American nAvspaper. There is a senafment of which we are not ashamed in The Geor gia Cracker. He, the true Cracker, is every inch a gen tleman, as true a patriot ever disdained to bow to a tyrant’s cap, with a chivalry as noble as ever set lapce in rest. Some of the grandest names that ever il lumed the historic page of the re public’s progress and prowess have been Georgia Crackers, and if we may but measure up to the high standard they set when they made •his name and fame we shall be content. The Georgia Cracker gives the top of the morning to the Georgia Crackers. We are proud of the fact that we were bom a Georgia Cracker, and our tenderest love is given ever to the old sod. But the Georgia Cracker will reach out and kfiva fun with the folks fa; beyond the confines of the Em pire State. Our ambition is as broad as the Union. It is a serious mistake for the owner or editor of a newspaper to accept”or hold government office. However honest, courageous and patriotic he may be two things are liable to happen. His views are almost sure to be biassed by his personal connection with the questions he may discuss, and even if they are not the public will in sist on putting salt on his utter ances. A CRACKER VALENTINE. We take it as a good augury that the first number of the Cracker should appear on that soft sweet day when dainty missives filled with all manner of kind words and gentle loving tenderness are flying to and fro throughout the land. We hope every reader, even those who are not regular subscrib ers and receive only a sample copy will take it as a personal valentine bearing the good wishes of editors and publishers and breathing a fervent hope for their well being and prosperity. We are not much on poetry of “the rose is red, the violet blue, su gar is sweet and so are you” vari ety, but the Cracker’s heart heats gentle, true, and warm for all that is beautiful, good and pure. Its sympathy goes out to the unhappy poverty stricken and oppressed of the land, and its charity is as broad REPEAL OF THE TEN PER CENT TAX. We are not given to criticising anybody in advance of opportunity to do the thing about which com- plaint is made, and so have pre ferred to hold to the faith that the Democratic administration was determined to carry out the Demo cratic platform—all of it, just as the people intended and com manded. But we do not like the outlook for the repeal of the ten per cent, tax on Stgte Banks. It looks as if it was going to be defeated Major Black does not hesitate to say straight out that it will. It is hoped to get it up in tlie house as an amendment to some other bill, but in the wire grass vernacular this “is a long shot, and a bad chance.” Its defeat in the committee is charged to the Hon. John De Witt Warner of New York. We sat oh the platform of Tammany Hall with Mr. Warner just before the presidential election and heard him most eloquently appeal to the thousands before him to stand by the Sumocratic platform i and Democratic nominees. fi'hoy cheered him roundly. Their opin ions have not changed since. They want now what they wanted then, and they are going to make it warm for the man or men who balk their wishes. -The repeal of the Sherman law was a Democratic demand. It was done, but the confidence we heard about did not come. The reform of the tariff was a Democratic de mand. It is well under way. The' income tax was a Democratic de mand. It has passed the House and must pass the Senate. The repeal of the ten per cent, tax is a Democratic demand as great as either of the others. It must come. Democratic law must not be obeyed in part and violated when it suits individual or section al interests. We have not given up hope of the repeal. But we sound a note of honest Democratic warning. The masses of the people arc very wide awake, and very much in earnest. They intend to have the Democratic platform, all of it, not the parts which suit sectional- rep resentatives, the administration ot anybody else, but all of it, car ried out to the letter and woe is that man, or the set of men, high or low, who seek to delay or thwart their wishes. The State bank tax must go! ... WE DON’T SEE IT. We .are, in receipt of a circulaT letter from some young gentTemen in Atlanta, calling themselves Young Men’s Central Evans club of Atlanta, requesting us to send them our paper complimentary, suggesting that we boom General Evans . for Governor, and- send them marked copies “fronmrhich extracts can be made for campaign uses.” .■* The first we'must respectfully decline tb do, and the second like wise, This newspaper is published for business, and is not booming anybody. The subscription price rs one dollar a year. For tTTissum it will be sent to any address, with out this, or some part of it^it will not be sent to anybody. But the “extract” suggestion throws a flood.of light upon the methods by which booms are built. We ,<lo not wish to bite. Our friends of tlie Central E^#*,s club will have to continue to depend upon the “Bowden Intelligengfr. the Beuriqa Vista Patriot'll ‘ ‘Spring Place J implecuti tracts” so far ns we We know of no re, quires us to Throw rq'> ourTiat, paw the air ami raise sand in in’bntest between individuals over the honor of a party nomination. When the party speaks we shall thj^.he for its nominee. Meantime wo do not care to make a mistake and climb up on the neck of the man who may be the choice of the folks, and have to sit down and eat a whole lot of things we have i'rftnur un timely zeal for the other individ ual said about him. We have got an idea that the people will attend to this business without any dictation from us or the Central Evans club. We have got another idea. It is that the Old State will rock along, THfe sun willYise and set, and tlitr^eiisons follow each other in their bourses if General Evans does not" happen to be nominated for Goy-v^nor. With no enemy front, rear, or flank, we must decline to obey the order to “load and fire.” STRAW MEN. Did you ever notice wliat an easy thing it is to knock down a straw man? It is a favorite pastime with some folks.. There is no dan ger in it. But it excites the con tempt of manly inen. We drop a kindly word in the ear of our friend General Evans. Stop your friends from setting up and knock ing down straw men. For instance, every day or two some one rears back in fino frenzy and denounces the man who oppose General Evans on “the Old Sol dier racket,” and declares no true Southern man will object to a man because he is an old veteran. This is true, hut as nobody opposes General Evans on that ground, down comes the. straw man with a dull thud. “Out upon the man, anathemas upon the vile miscreant who dares to say General Evans is not a true democrat,” yells another over zeal ous champion. “So say we all, the Georgia Cracker, foreman.” But as nobody lias said General Evans is not a democrat, another straw man goes helplessly to grass. “General Evans is im-iW prime of life and vigorous manhood, and the man who says he is too old to be Governor insults the gray hairs of every veteran who wore the gray,” yells another in fiery indignation. True for you, most noble and puis sant paragrapher. But as no one has said anything of the kind, this man of straw rolls over iii the dust. Gentlemen stop it. It is un worthy the high character of your chief. He is a man of honorable instincts and such horse play must pain and mortify him. Gen. Evans is every inch a man, too chivalrous to wish to profit by such flapdoodle. He can afford to make his race on his merits without descending to THE I.VtECM PI.ATFORH. Hems About the Men Who Amuse nnd Instruct. S. M. Spedou.of Chalk Talk fame,flie man who talks and makes pictures and the folks roar all at the same time, has been making -ifffsiiiess tour of the South ern Slates. He is the editor of Talent, a spicy publication devoted to news of the lecture platform. * * * Sam P. Jones has gone regularly on the Lecture platform, under the management of the Southern Lyceum Bureau. He has just gotten out handsome—that is as handsome as a true picture of Sam could be—wiudow lithographs and circulars. The Bureau cannot fill nert all I he dates for which they have requests. * * * Hon. John J. Ingalls, the “Statesman out of a Job,’’ as he calls liimse'f, is fill- inf; a limited number of engagements in the South He was at Knoxville last week. By the way, Mr. Ingalls allowed ptinled last week tile first lithographs and circulars of his face and spectacles ever sent out. He has always said he didn’t believe in “Jack bills and Snipes," but he had to come to it like .-11 the rest of us. Hon. John Temple Graves is filling a series of good paying dates in the East. He is growing in demand every day, and do ing a great work. He will shortly lec ture in Washington for the benefit of the new Georgia Club. POLITICALLY. emocratic paper every day in the week and Sunday. But it will as the earth. It gives greeting on honest and fearless, rather than this gentle valentines day to all its friends, and as it has not yet had time to make any enemies tl)is will include everybody. The lovers will freight the air to-day with tender missives, the birds will choose their mates, and warble new songs. So the Cracker with love for all goes forth to win its way to the hearts and homes of the folks. The Constitution says Atkinson has “adopted the declarations of his competitor” on National issues. This is real funny. Away last year office, and many other things too TO-DAY’S ISSUE. Our paper to-day is not all we would like it to be. We have ex perienced, of course, the confusion incident to the placing of new ma terial, the rearrangement of our Atkinson and the gallant young Georgians who labored with him were out ‘adopting’ the Democratic platform all over this State, but we do not recall General Evans as having attaint'd any particular numerous to mention, but notwith standing all this we flatter our selves we have nothftig to be ashamed of in the typographical appearance and general character of the paper. It is, however, only prominence in that connection at | an earnest of what we hope to that time. make it when all our arrangements are completed, and everything or ganized End in working order. We have no apologies to make. We are satisfied as far as we have gone,“hut there is more to follow. The subscription accounts of the Industrial News have been pur chased by us. All paid up sub scribers will receive The Georgia Cracker for the full time for which they have paid. Subscribers in arrears must settle amounts due, and advise us if they wish the pa per continued,: Failing to do this the pajier will be stopped and the accounts placed in the hands of an officer for collection.- Last week the Senate passed the bill repealing the odious Federal Election laws. Thus another plank of the Democratic platform has been carried out. Let’s give the administration a chance before we swear at it. We believe that every pledge of Democracy is to be re deemed. Silver may be a little slow, and Mr. Cleveland may set l ack in the breeching but it will have to conic. Our department of Northeast Georgia News, which we propose to make a sjAicia! feature of The Cracker, has been crowded out this week by the heavy pressure of local aiid other matter. We hope our friends of the Northeast Geor gia press w ill not fail to place The Cracker promptly on their ex change list, ns we shall depend entirely upon their local column* for the news which we hope to serve up in attractive shajie with due credit to -the papers from which we take it. The first journal coming to our table in a Georgia Cracker wrap per was Orth Steins new Atlanta Looking Glass, Stein is one of the brightest fellows on the Georgia press, and has done some wonder fully clever work on the Constitu tion in the past few months, albeit few people know it. He it is who made the marvelously accurate reports of the famous Redw ine and Hill trials, and from his pencil came the life-like sketches which brightened the text. His new paper is full of the giager of go, and At lanta should liro his lingerie with lucre. It is enough to say of it typographically that it comes from Chas. P. Byrd’s big printing house. ■ -JJ Will Mr. Cleveland pardon if the Cracker ventures to call attention to the fact that there are a large number of very violent nnd un sympathetic Republicans drawing good fat salaries, and what is of muc.i more moment holding places in which they can embarrass and nullify all efforts toward reform which the people commissioned the democratic administration to bring about, Since we come to think about it, we do not care whether Mr. Cleveland pardons us or not. We intend to say it, and keep nn saying it right out loud. partisan, and will criticise party platforms, policies and leaders whenever they fail to follow the pillar of cloud by day, and of fire by night, of true Democracy. Secondly, it will wear no man’s collar, nor is it dedicated to the personal service of any body in contests for party honors. It has no enemies to punish, nor friends to reward. Any discussion of in dividuals will be solely from the standpoint of availability and fit ness to be chosen as the servants of Democracy. Thirdly, political opponents will be accorded the same liberty of opinion we reserve to ourselves, and will be treated with courtesy and fairness in all discussions. Our tents are pitched on high ground and there are no mud pudtfies in our neighborhood. In short—and finally—this pa per will be conducted on a high plane, absolutely independent of everybody and everything save the principles of true Democracy, and the obligations which are laid upon every citizen to he loyal to all that is pure, moral and uplift ing to the individual, the State, and the whole country. GUYASCUTISES AND EGGBUSTERS. The following item 'appeared in the Rome Tribune of t Iff-Jlh inst., from the pen of that scholarly and erudite editor, Dr. Walter G. Cooper: We respectfully call the atiqjityln of our genial friend, H. W. J. Hap, lb the genus poiiticus. egghuster, and We invite a comparison of this Northwest Georgia animal with the snollygostus m^nificus of Hall and the Guyascutis momVCus of Habersham. We wouKTlike tqffifve the opinion of so emineutfa natiyrajah asjjjiy he Cracker will be first rtf nil ",? v tru t that hi- will write it out lij-imeTorm vv'ftil a scientific analysis. Under the heading, “A Scientific Opinion,” the same journal of the 6th, says: The following communication from Prof. H, W. J. Ham, the distinguished naturalist anil specialist in the genus hoi: o, will be read with interest: - Gainesville, Feb. Gtli, ’94 Editor Tribune: In reply to your let ter of recent date calling my attention to a hew species of the genus homo, namely, the egghuster poiiticus, I beg to thank you for bringing before me so original and interesting a type. I had flattered myself !hat I was famil iar witlHWl existing species of tile genus homo, but tills discovery opens up an entirely new field. I have not had time to make a careful analysis of Ibe char acteristics of this animal, but from a hasty survey I think it comes nearer to the hypothesis of Darwin's inisging link than anything I have yet It lias some points in common with M Snolly- gostris Magnificus and the^Guys.u’i Horribiiis, hut in many respects it diff.rs widely from both. For purposes of accurate and scientific classification, I would like to have the animal itself b.-fore me. I have great confidence in the accuracy of your de scription, but experience teaches me that ilie puiposes of science cannot be at tained except by a minute inspection of the subject itself If you call c-toli one alive and send it by express I will cheer fully pay all charges. In the mean lime please enlighten me as to the habits of the animal. Is it gregarious o% does it flock'by i self? You neglected to say whether its teeth were incisors or grin ders, but from some of its recent actions I judge that it is carnivorous. H. W. J. Ham, F. R S. Since the above was written we have recalled another f^ct or two concerning peculiar political phe nomena. And even though a lit tle late perhaps we must protest against the location oOlie SnolW- goster in Hall, and ty^JyascrAis iq Habersham exclusively’. They are a most multifarious breed, and these two good Nortlv-wtst Georgia comities are not nearly so severely afflicted with them as some other sections of And Dick Grubb—glorious, old Dick, friend tried and true from boyhood’s golden days—sends a postal card to say that he waifts the very first number of the Cracker. All right Dick, old boy, she goes herewith*. By the way Dick has been appointed Deputy Collector of the Port of Darien. This is the sort of thing that rec onciles to many short-comings in a Democratic administration. Our plaint is that more of the boys of his stripe are not allowed to tackle the teat. Hon. Louis Garrard of Colum bus, is out in an open letter to.the peopje of Georgia announcing his candidacy for (lie United States Senate. Mr. Gatrgrd js one of the sterling young Democrats of 'Geor gia who has rendered signal ser vice to his party and for one we wish to see this class of nmn come to the front. The sooner the Dem ocratic party unloads some of the “has-beens,” “was-onces” and “fossilised remnants” of its pre historic age, and gets up abreast of the hustling, wide-awake to-day, the 1 letter it will be for the party and the country. the State and country. Our friend, Dr. Cooper, is welcome to a monopoly of the Egghuster poiiticus. We have enough and to spare of political frerrcs. The truth is that this monstrosi ty business is growing entirely too numerous and superdoogerous so to speak. Here is the Snollygoster offending decency all over the coun try. Last year the Ratnrackers and the Ringstcrs waged bloody war in Augusta; just before that the Ar cadians and the Practicalians had it out with each other, Up i' 1 an Indiana city last week we dropped right down in the middle of a ruc tion between the Poddcrhunteiv and the Purifiers, and now here comes Dr. Cooper and startles the country with his bran new discov- Fifty Thousand Dollars! Wishing to give our entire time and attention to tlie manufacture of Slioes and Leather, we Slave deeided to retire from the mercantile busi ness at tlie expiration of our lease on the store we now occupy, Oct. x. WE OFFER FOR CASH OR ON TIME Fifty Xlumsand Dollars worth of Dry Goods, Notions, Clothing, Mats, Shoes, Trunks, Valises, Umbrellas, I2ic., Etc. To May 15th We will Sell Meat, Flour, Coffee, Sugar and other Gro ceries for Cash, or in exchange for Produce. Coi n, Hides, Tallow and Tan Mark. After May 15th we will supply our customers with Groceries on time. OUR DEEP CUT PRICES Col. L. F. Copeland, of Harrisburg, Penn., is one of the most popular ami hard working lecturers on the platform. He filled o\er two hundred dates last season and derives a princely re enue from his profession. And success does nol spoil him either. He is the prince of j GiVCll UlC tx*cSCle fKJSS. fcSml HHlI Wifllcr will COZ1- good fellows and despeuses a lavish hos j tilSUC tlSllil tllC last Clo2lar*» WOrtll Of ll£«S llCeil pitalily as we know from having tested it j disposed of. in the bosom of his family during last j - , , , . , ,,, , Christmas tide. It is said Sain Small has started a paper in Oklahoma. If this is true, and Sam devotes his whole time to it, the platform will lose one of its brighte t ami brainiest talkers. Bill Arp made a big hit in Louisville ill his Lecltfte to the veterans, dropped iu Afterward to see the folks at the South ern Bureau, ami then took a severe attack of his old comp aint, modesty, and slip SPECIAL FOR NEXT WEEK : Two Hundred Barrels Music Floar $1.48 per ICO pounds, $2 90 per barrel. Two Hundred Barrels Lion Patent $1.75 per 100 pounds. $3.5) per Barrel. J. G. HYNDS M’F’G CO., Gainesville, Georgia. the cheap claptrap of cross road j P ed out of town Be foie they could taik politicians. He is a man who will recognize that this is a free coun try, that any man has a perfect right to contend against any other man for the honor of party leader ship, that many veterans will na- turally oppose him, that they have the right to do so, and lie will think none the less of them for it, that every Southern man and woman honors every man who wore the gray, that these people who fought thirty years ago have their faces turned toward the morning of the new day, are rebuilding their for tunes and gilding with flowers of hope and faith and trust the grand to-day, and the greater future. That any man who would lead,; them, must he a man of to-day, and if he be a hero of the past so much the better. All these tilings General Evans is great enough and broad enough to know, and lie would care little for any honor which came to him on any narrow er platform. And so we are sure he must be pained and grieved by business witli him. * * * Gen. Gordon is receiving enthusiastic ! ovations everywhere he delivers his lec- j ture on the last days of the Confederacy, j Atlanta put the big pot in the little one j last Thursday night, and the Grand could hardly hold the folks. * * * The Southern Lyceum Bureau at Louis- ; ville is doing a great work for the South, j They pioneered the Southern field, and < their business is growing at a most satis J factory rate. They are giving the South ; ern people opportunity to see and hear the finest platform attractions at most , reasonable rales, and progressive commu- ! nilies everywhere are organizing Lecture \ courses and securing their services. They i are the Agents for our Georgia Lecturers, 1 Gordon, Groves, Jones, Ham and Bill ; Arp. This column We shaft endeavor to make a feature of the Georgia Cracker, ami live items are solicited. We wish to keep in touch with our platform co'leagues. j WE DO FIRST-CLASS WORK. We do it as Cheap as Anybody. WE DELIVER IT PROPdPTLY. We want your Business! Dr. Sanford, the Traveller, gav his delightful lectures iu the course of Atlanta a few day n , gave one of il;“ C A Tlie Georgia Cracker Steam Printing House, J. M. Coldwvll, secretary and treasurer! of the Southern Lyceum Bureau, now has ! dates eight nights iu the week with a bran GAIN EtSVI FEE, GEORGIA. the men who ‘are engaged in the j new ® ir1, slle w . e 'K l,s tcn P oun '' s has “a voice of rare power and sweet ness”—for catnip tea, and other mild child’s play of setting up and knocking down straw men. MR. HAM'S ENGAGEMENTS. Many letters and personal en quiries have come to the editor of The Cracker enquiring whether beverages. EMULATE YOUR MASTER, DOCTOR. | Dr. Dixon lectured in Atlanta j some days since. Dr. Hawthorne, with his general commission to at tend to everybody's business, pro ceeded the next Simdsiv from the cover of his pulpit, the bulwark | from behind which he does all his hting, to pay his respects to the , , . „ ., . . ,-^verend lecturer, and lacking the stump speakers in North Georgia, in con- \ nectiou with John Blais, the old husiuess t<> .‘lit ark Hid l»y null ir, manager of the Eagle, have purchased veilrd his sarcasm utiilcr tlie thill the p'ant of the Industrial News, and will I guise of criticism of ail lecturers. \Y< KIM) WORDS. Before They Have Seen the First Number. have received a publication from a campaign club in Atlanta called “The People’s Will." Proba bly refers to Will Atkinson. Gwinnett Herald: Col. H. W. J. H the inauguration of the enterprise j kaowl1 as l 'ie present able representative j (i will interfere with his public en- fro '" H “ 1,cou ty ’ ami one ofllie fi,RSt gageinents. In reply we beg to say that it will not. Mr. Ham will continue to fill all his lecture en gagements as heretofore. He leaves next Sunday for Kentucky, where he fills a week of dates, and goes from thence to Arkansas and Texas for the month of March. He is now being dated for the Northwestern Chautauqua* at which ho will fill a line of engage ments during July and August, and is already under contracts in the East for September and Octo ber. But during his absence his pen will not be idle, and the readers of The Cracker will riot only have regular letters from him wherever he may be, but lie will furnish edi torial matter as well, and a regu larly organized staff will keep every department of the paper up to the high standard which we have set for it. * I i Rb, ■in Rvt exactly «s ti.nch Coal or Wood as Mill want at Chas. ' Yard, at G . j. & s. dcpoi. Gaelic C|M E tr ache, on Iy scveie ’ll, liver ar l 1 We have found our old friend M. H. Collins. He is one of the editors of tlie Rochelle Solid South, and sends word that he wants to exchange with the Cracker. The Solid _ South is a rattling good weekly paper, and it goes on our list with pleasure. A sight of old Collins would-be good for sore eyes, and bring back many a pleasant memory of tlie old War ren ton Clipper days when he used to toy with the old Washington hand-press far into the wee small hours of the night working off the publish a Demociatic paper in Gaines- ! ville. The name of this new candidate j j for public favor will be the Georgia! Cracker. Roche’le Solid South: Hon. II. \V. J. j Ham, well and favorably known through out this and adjoining States, has again j entered journalism, having recently pur chased the Gainesville News. Col. Ham ; is a fluent and fearless writer, and his ; county should be proud of him as a eiti j zen and as its representative in the gene- ' ral assembly. Cleveland Progress: Col. H. W. J. H im and Mr. John Blats, of Gainesville, have bought the Industrial News o f that place. They are both experienced newspaper men, and wiil make the paper a hummer They will change ils name to ‘‘The Geor gia Cracker.” and we suppose its motto will l>e: “Devoted to the ejection of the snollygostei to congress from the ninth district.” Darien Gaze't e: Hon. II. \V. J. Ham is a newspaper man again and all the boys are glad. “The Georgia Cracker” is the name of the new paper and it is pub lished at Gainesville. It is a hummer and don’t yon fiiil lo remember it. saying among otlx-r tilings that "the modern lecture platform has become contemptible in the eyts of thinking and reputable people.” Inasmuch as the doctor has tried his hand on it without achieving a conspicuous success some people will think that this is why lie thinks it. so bad. Others will say that he was only striking blindly in bis effort to get even with I)r. Dixon who last year christened Dr. Hawthorne and some others who acted with him in an effort to belittle hint sanhedrim of sacred asses.” Oth ers yet will suggest that if the doctor is iso anxious to preserve the sacredness of tlie ministerial calling he ought to hav' had il in mind when he was booming the Florence Land company and get ting his. Baptist brethren lo buy the stock and bonds of tlie great Baptist University at Florence in re now Constitution: Ham’s paper, Tlie Gc «ia Cracker, will fill the liifi and have a! which the bats and owls balance over. Tile far f.imvil “Snolly.j , 10 l,l in g Jugfi carnival, coster” is “a learn" in a newspaper office. , , , .... , And while all this is being said, Augusta Chronicle: It is reported that 1 ., , , . ,, , . '<Si.ollygo.ter" Ham will soon l>e K i,. the t,M * * f00,I> hoUest ' Do,l-tearmg poo- publication of the Georgia Cracker at! l’R‘> hl'd trusting C hristians will Gainesville. It will be a success from the I bleed inside and suffer and wonder jump. why God’s ministers do not follow Rome Tribune: “Syoll.vRoster” Haul is j n j he trac k„ of t j, e Dm Ile Mastei going to edit “The Georgia Cracker,” at . , , , , Gain.,ville, Ga.. formerly the Industrial | wh ° WUS “ m, '* k » ml News. Ham and Blats are a team anil | sorrow and acquainted witil grid will make a readable paper in every re- | lUltV full of that charity whiell suf- ?P ecL I fereth long and is kind. , Clarke.vllle Advertiser; The Industrial! lmmonse circulation ot Unit lively j Hews 0 f Gainesville, has been purchased; One of tlie funniest things we •hri*ti by H. W. J. Ham and John Blats. It will j have seen in a long while is lion. hereafter he published as the Georgia I, pj ckt>Us accmlnt <(f Cracker. Under the inananemeiit of two! „ , , . . ,, , , , . , such able newspaper me,, the Cracker is “»twalddnp published in the bound to be a booming success. ! Kllijfty Courier of .Inn. 25th. Ac- Dablonega Signal: Messrs. Ham and Cording to the lion. Julius he “tls- Blnls have pur.-li iscd the Gainesville In- aistod iu taking tlie lend” in about diistrial News. It will hereafter appear everything'that was dontt ill the mid he known as the Georgia Cracker, last Legislature. Just think what , Both these gentlemen have much expert-! would have happened if the Hon. Where is this thing to t-lemen, with whom it is a pleasure , e i, ce j,, ;hi* |j„ e „f business and an ev- Julius had only turned loose a j to have business dealings. | celleut paper maj lie expected. moment to spit in his hands, We believe it will be generally conceded by the traveling public that the Richmond it Danville is one of the best, if not tlie very best managed, of the great passen- ery of the Egghuster Poiiticus. W« j ger systems of the count ry. More- arc alarmed for the future of lb* I over, the officers are courteous gen- Republic. stop? ■finausm. I! 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