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THE GEORGIA CRACKER.
Gainesville, Ga>-» April 16, 1898.
Ail work together for Gainesville.
The churches of Gaines vie are
•being greatly revived. Let the
good work go on.
Spanish cruelty must stop in
Cuba, says Congress. This is the
people’s view of the situation.
The delegates to the State Sun
day School Association will be giv
en a hearty welcome to Gainesville.
The
Chautauqua program will
be a fine one. .Some very fine
talent has already been engaged.
The Gainesville “melish” is
ready for war. The officers com
missions were received this week.
The Augusta Chronicle says the
war question is a big kaleidoscope.
Every turn presents a new coinbi-
tion.
n
Write your friends about the
Gainesville chautauqua. Tell
them to come and enjoy the fine
program.
McKinley’s message to congress
was a lengthy document. As a
writer of war messages he is not a
howling success.
Don’t be backward about it;
just come along and plank down
a dollar and we’ll send you The
Cracker for one year.
The regular army
of the United
States is now limited to 25,000
men. An effort will be made to
increase it to a much larger num
ber.
If the Georgia boys take part in
the conflict with Spain “there’ll
be a hot time.” They will make
it warm for the Spaniards without
a doubt.
Main street needs some substan
tial improvement. As it is the
principal thoroughfare the city
would do the right thing by put
ting it in the best possibl suupe.
THE WAR WITH SPAIN.
Congress has decided that the
United States shall intervene in
the war in Cuba between the insur
gents and the Spaniards. This was
done after mature deliberation and
after lengthy debate in both
houses of congress pro and con.
Spain’s inhuman war of cruelty
and the destruction of the United
States battleship Maine which re
sulted in the death of 266 Ameri
can seamen, were regarded as suf
ficient reasons for this country to
resort to arms and stop the inhu
man barbarities and avenge the
death of American citizens in
Spanish waters.
Nobody wanted war. The cru
elties are too well known for free
thinking Americans to have plun
ged headlong into a combat with
Spain; but it was believed that
the United States had suffered in
dignities enough, had hesitated
long enough before coming to the
rescue of an almost defenseless
neighboring republic and to de
mand a cessation of hostilities on
the island and its freedom; and
an apology and an idemnity for
the murder of our seamen.
The demands w T ere unheeded by
the government of Spain, and
there was no recourse to the Uni
ted States but war—and war has
come. Around the chief executive
of the United States the people
will rally patriotically to support
him in the impending crisis. Sec
tional lines, sectional strife, and
sectional hate have been wiped out
of existence and there is no North,
no South, no East, no West—but
one common flag, our country’s.
Colonel Howard Thompson, the
doughty young statesman, is mak
ing a vigorous campaign for Con
gress. In him the people of the
district will have an able represen
tative-.
There is considerable diversity
in the current spring planting in
the South. Torpedoes and mines,
as well as cotton seed, are being
put in. facetiously
Savannah News.
Unfortunately for the candi
dates the war talk completely ov-
vershadows them. They either an
nounced at the wrong time or the
war scare came up too soon. At
any rate it is a hard matter for
them to draw the people’s atten
tion to tbeir respective claims un
til the war question is settled.
FORA BETTER SERVICE.
The receipts of the Gainesville
postoffice are now more than $6,-
000 a year while the expenses do
not exceed $3,000, leaving a net
profit to the government of $3,000
per annum. An office of such im
portance should give to the people
of the city a very prompt and sat
isfactory service. This it does in
almost ever}' respect save one,
viz: that of the prompt transmis
sion of mails to and from the
trains. The service being given is
in accordance with the pay of the
contractor.
If the government would re-ad-
vertise for bids, the contractor to
furnish a special vehicle or mail
wagon to be used exclusively for
mail and put the pay upon such a
basis, the patrons of the office
-would? receive a service to which
the importance of the office en
titles them. Such a move -would
meet the approval of the present
contractor, and the people, and
would be appreciated by Postmas
ter Farrow, who is now somewhat
remarks the hampered in giving a satisfactory
service on account of the poor fa
cilities for the transmission of
mails to and from the trains.
General Debility
and Loss oj Flesh
Scott's Emulsion has been the
standard remedy for nearly a
quarter of a century. Physicians
readily admit that they obtain re- , ,
suits from it that they cannot get j straD S er one 6tl11 15 that on the
APRIL A WAR MONTH.
April is the month of war,
and this fact has created consid
erable comment since the recent
complications with Spain. It is a
fact that April has witnessed the
beginning of nearly every impor
tant struggle which the United
States has been directly engaged
in. It was during the month of
April that the first blow was
struck in the war of the revolu
tion, and again, nearly a century
later, April saw the first shot in
the war between the states. These
strange coincidences, but a
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ideal one and checks the
wasting tendency, and the
patient almost immediate
ly commences to put on
flesh and gain a strength
which surprises them.
Be sure you get SCOTT’S Emulsion. See that the
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thirteenth of April, 1865, General
Lee surrendered to General Grant,
and on the thirteenth of April,
1898, thirty-three years later, the
Congress of the United States de
clared for war against Spain. All
previous wars have been of long
duration. Will the war, begun in
April, 1898, last as long?
“Reconcentration adopted avow r -
edly as a war measure in order to
cut off the resources of the insur
gents worked its predestined re
sult. As I said in my message of
last December, it was not civilized
warfare; it was extermination.
The only peace it could beget was
that of the wilderness and the
grave.”—From President McKin
leys war message to Congress last
Monday.
WHY MISREPRESENT HIM?
The Pickens County Herald
wants to know who nicknamed
Col. Howard Thompson, “Slick.”
Why his family and friends called
him this when he was a child and
he got his nickname as all other
children do, and it has naturally
followed him up to his present
age. The Herald says it under
stands the Kimball house politi
cians dubbed him “Slick” because
of his smooth ways. This state
ment is in keeping with the Her
aid’s references to Colonel Thomp
son in that that paper’s mission is
to misrepresent him m every pos
sible way and try to prejudice the
voters of the Ninth Congressional
district against him. The Cracker
repeats that unless Colonel Tate’s
organs can secure his nomination
by fair and decent campaigning
without slander and misrepresen
tation, it were better that he be
called down.
Colonel Thompson is working
for the nomination by a fair and
square deal, by an open, clean
campaign upon the issues between
his opponent and himself, and is
not stooping to the misrepresenta
tion practiced by his opponents
friends, or to the deception being
used by some of Tate’s personal
organs.
He has no backing in the con
test save the people of the Ninth
Congressional district who want
him to represent them in the halls
of Congress. As solicitor general
of the Northeastern circuit he has
been thrown with the majority of
the people, of the district who
know him and appreciate his abil
ity and his worth. As he has
dealt fairly with those who have
been before him and has faith
fully discharged the duties of his
office while solicitor, so will he
represent the people and faithfully
and conscientiously discharge his
duties in Congress.
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Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50
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•‘BARKIS IS WILLING."
Messrs. Atkinson, Berner and
“Your Uncle Allen” Candler, can
didates for the democratic nomi
nation for governor, and Messrs.
Howard Thompson and Farish
Carter Tate, candidates for the
democratic nomination to repre
sent the 9th Congressional District
in the 56th Congress have been
extended a cordial invitation to
meet in joint discussion in the
good old county of Habersham at
Clarkesville, Cornelia and Toccoa.
This invitation was extended by
the Executive Committee of the
county.
The Cherokee Advance, a “hot”
supporter of Mr. Tate is on the
eve of having a “conniption fit”
on the idea that Mr. Thompson
will not respond to the invitation.
Keep cool, Brother Perry, and
don’t get excited. The Cracker
has just come by to tell you that
Mr. Thompson is not only ready !
and willing but is exceedingly
anxious to meet your “patient” in
joint discussion provided von can
induce him to come up to the
“lick log” and take his medicine.
Now what have you got to say
Speak out
and don’t be bashful.
Don’t Miss our Special Spring
SOLDIER. STATESMAN, PA
TRIOT.
General Fitzhugh Lee, the gal
lant ex-Confederate soldier and
distinguished Southern statesman,
is the toast of the country’s pa
triots. As the representative of
the United States in Cuba he has
shown himself to be equal to the
emergencies in the trying times
through which he has passed, and
has done his country honor, and
covered himself with glory by his
course.
A story illustrating the esteem to this Mother Perry?
andffionor in which Gen. Lee was
held even before he went to Cuba
is told by a gentleman living in
Gainesville who was in Washing
ton at Cleveland’s first inaugura
tion. General Lee was marshal of
the day and followed the presiden-
tal party in command of the troops
in line. General Lee rode a beau
tiful horse and was elegantly uni
formed. As he passed the crowds
lining the side walks he was given
a greater ovation than the presi
dent himself, and everywhere was
cheered as a conquering hero.
General Lee landed in Key West
Monday morning and at every
point he stopped in the United
States enroute to Washington he
was given an enthusiastic ovation.
In him the president and the peo
ple have the greatest confidence,
and in the event there is a conflict
with Spain the people want it to
be conducted under the direction
of General Fitzhugh Lee the sol
dier, statesman and patriot.
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BACKED AT PROPER TIME.
“Do as you please” may be con
sidered Mr. Tate’s words to the
joint committee which met in
Atlanta recently when they asked
him what they must do when the
time arrived for his representatives
(on that committee) to act; and
of course his representatives knew
and appreciated a good opportu
nity to back down squarely from
putting Mr. Tate up to discuss
matters with Mr. Howard Thomp
son ; and, it goes without saying
that those friends of Mr. Tate
knew when to avail themselves of
the first good opportunity to carry
out orders, and they did so.—
’Banks County Journal.
CAN’T CARRY HIS OWN
COUNTY.
The Cherokee Advance intimates
that Hall county is one of the
doubtful counties of the Ninth
Congressional district. This is
far from being true, but it is a
fact that Pickens county, the
home of Congressman Tate, has
never been known to go demo
cratic but piles up a republican
majority at every election. Broth
er Perry knows full well that Hall
county is democratic, has always
been democratic, and will always
be democratic. Howard Thomp
son lives in a democratic county,
though his opponent must admit
he hasn’t got influence enough in
his own county of Pickens to
wheel it into the democratic
column.
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MANY GUBERNATORIAL ELEC
TIONS.
Georgia is not the only state
that has a gubernatorial race on
its hands. Twenty-six of the
states of the union w ill elect gov
ernors this year. Those states are
New York, New Jersey, Massachu
setts, Alabama, Georgia, Colorado,
Connecticut, Idaho, Kansas, Mich
igan,Maine, Minnesota, Nebraska,
Nevada, New Hampshire, North
Dakota, Oregon, Pennsylvania,
Rhode Island South Carolina,
South Dakota, Tennesso, Texas,
Vermont, Wisconsin and Wyo
ming.
The department of the x Gulf,
with headquarters in Atlanta, is
getting down to business and in
case of war with Spain wfill be
rea4y to do effective service.
General Graham is in command.
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