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About The Rockdale banner. (Conyers, Ga.) 1888-1900 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 29, 1896)
01 CAPITAL. SK' vs and notes j ,jNGT0N ^otbrbst. franspioHS at Uncle * D4ib rters Hi’s Hea< 1 qm» jj It qiiar Lamoat. Will®, Of Monroe, '^Harrison's ,lt secretary administration, of agncnl ^Friday ,?,Lent from night. office, He been has, it attorney in Washington. I be r£gth L#.», e District r l<i0e of Attorney Se ”‘* or L w ho was retired. tug Dauntless, which has wnl of filibustering pro¬ sheeted and has been detained at to has been ! ent tothe onvilie, Fla., miles down .-tine station, seven and where j, er for fnmigation, days. ill remain for seven president bas appointed Julius . / 0 f the District of Columbia, l,t Windsor, Ont.; Samuel M. on. of Texas, consul at Piedras " and John F. Veils of MfI „ Mex., lisianfl, co nsul at Matamoras, | toe appointments being . promo , to fill existing vacancies. saeral Fitzbugh Lee, consul gen at Havana, has given up his d visit to his home in jinia, which he had expected to e within tbe next few days. The imination to remain at his poet ib erstoodto be due to the reports ent in the United States that he dissatisfied with his instructions desired to be relieved. ■on.G.W. Julian, who in spite of age ■ imperfect health, made a recent Itch K, for the gold standard democ has received a letter from Presi ■tdeveland. Tbe letter is written ■sell t as signed by the president’s Bimends hand. The president warmly the speech and concludes Hlows: “I cannot but believe that lb Be expositions of true democracy will the effect of calling vast numbers lour party back to the support of ■ninedemocratic principles.” ■r. Carlisle may remain in Ken lij Id until after the election. He that he would not return to ■Bbiugton lister if he found that he could and vote. He is in doubt as [whether is home has he has been a right with to Mr. register, Heury pen of Covington, and Mr. Queen amoved into another precinct, and t. Carlisle does not know whether can still claim the same house as jshome. to A telegram Covington. of inquiry has ten tent If he can igisler he will go to Covington and itefor Palmer and Buckner. Farmers Made Wealth. Tiie farmers of the United States made richer by $40,000,000 f the recent rise in the price of This amount represents a con futive estimate of the increase in * selling price of wheat now in the of the farmers. As a matter of rea- 10 the price began to go up soo n ’he crop had been harvested and lara3m have realized proportion ^ 1!iS oa the portion of the crop I " citravagant to estimate the to of the farmers by the rise in ** lnce the close of the harvest at , r 000,000. ft-* is whs* Secretary of Agricul * orton has to say the subject: on - ?. e ork f i8e wheat in Chicago and markets daring the last 60 J* "°P " abo of «t ±5,000,000 20 cents a bushel. This 9 * ,’>000, bushels makes J and at least 200,000,000 im ft* 6 w °T heat American are owned by and Tim* farmers. 11 688 taan day* has asdsf *•* P ro d«oers about $40,000, <Mi n ar M?8 the ifcida aC^two , same period silver cents an ounce. The j] Ter - s jj^hip proved.” of prices for wheat and f *ood Year at West Point. *mIfl- lita 7. acRdem y* t Weat Point to the 0nn ! bin 8 condition, according .„ re Petmo P or t to the war de kaieni' c °lonel Ernst, enperin ** *r& r,r° m Provement, “ y ‘ i4 is parsing far through its 4jj fr.jij E _ so as 1 aDd outward physical con ’ erallt ?? ncerne d, due to the »Hrj " yof congress in recent Th tL'. nctl ‘‘ ‘ ain both theoretical and pri e 58 tbe ’ 'fierif-n’ resu tt of many yer.rs’ adapted fu d bas proved itself well fc. 410 the objects of the inatitu 9l . iJi ae , num her of C2Ukt * this year 332 —wu* on* 6 f ‘ orei & n er receiving ’ in- ’ v e Pecial 3^ - he largest authority of 1(1 th« ever belonging ””y a t oDe time. The is renewed that a -lowed to appoint two cadets at large from each state thereby increasing the number of cadets. The health of the command daring the year was far from satisfactory. There were epidemics of influenza, malarial fevers, measles and whooping cough. There were several cases of appendi¬ citis and other desperate diseases. Only one cadet died. An abundance of good, healthy food in sufficient va¬ riety was furnished at an average cost of 53 cents per man per day. Cloth¬ ing, books and other articles were se¬ cured at low rates, except the case of drawing instruments each cadet had to purchase. These cost $23.05, or more than half a month’s pay. Colonel Ernst says: “The instruments are imported, none of suitable quality being made in this country. The duty upon them is 35 per cent. Neither the quantity nor quality should be reduced and the price is as low as it can be made if the custom house duties are paid.” Legislation is recommended remitting the duty. SOUTHERN PROGRESS. The Industrial Situation as Reported for the Past Week. The weekly review of southern in¬ dustrial conditions oompiled from re¬ ports received from prominent manu¬ facturers and business men of the south, notes no especial change since the last report. Trade in all lines continues conservative awaiting the result of the election. Almost an in¬ novation in trade circles is the number of contracts conditioned upon the elec¬ tion. If they are placed business gen¬ erally will be very active after Nov. 3. The tone of the iron and steel market is strong and a gradual rise in prices is expected when the financial question is settled. The demand for pig iron continues aotive, some specu¬ lative buying being noted in Bessemer pig. The market for finished material is not strong aud low prices are being made in nearly all lines, where the orders are for prompt delivery. The calls for plate are numerous aud some good orders have been placed. The lumber business is only fair, though manufacturers report more favorable indications, and in some sec¬ tions the volume of trade is already increasing. But low prices rather than a dull demand keep many plants idle or running on short time. The export trade is steadily improving, and the mills working on orders of this class have all they can do. Among the new industries reported for the week are the following: Acid works to cost $400,000 at New Orleans, La. ; railroad shops and round houses at Fort Smith, Ark., approximate cost $100,000; the Legnite, Eggette and Coal company, capital $100,000, char¬ tered at Rockdale, Tex., and the Tex¬ as Briquette aud Coal company will build a $45,000 plant at Rockdale. A $65,000 peanut factory will be built at Norfolk, Va.; the Richmond cotton mills, capital $200,000, have been in¬ corporated at Manchester, Va., and the Monroe Lumber company, capital $15,000, at Fort Washing, Fla. Wood¬ working plants will be established at Judsonia, Ark., Moultrie, Ga., Owens¬ boro, Ky., and Amarillo, Tex.— Tradesman (Chattanooga, Tenn.) WILL HAVE CANDIDATES. Populists Intend to Nominate Men For Supreme Court. The populists of Georgia will have candidates for the vacont positions on the supreme bench. Mr. H. W. Reed said when asked about the matter: “We will undoubtedly have candi¬ dates for the supreme bench. It is impossible at this time to say who they will be. Judge James K. Hines has been mentioned, and so has Walter B. Hill.” “Will yon call a convention to nom¬ inate them?” “I can’ say. We will call a meeting of the state committee to determine.” From another source it is learned that a strong fight will be made, and the populists hope with the help of the republicans to elect some of their men. There is much interesting specula¬ tion as to the course the populists will pursue in the event of another guber¬ natorial election. Mr. Keed^ was ask¬ ed about this aleo and replied: ‘Tn that event we will have a can¬ didate for governor and will make a good race. The populist party is stronger today than it ever was. “Who will be the candidate?” “Personally, I am in favor of Seab Wright. I would like to see that race again. ’ I run over It has been learned from various sources that Tom Watson would be a strong possibility, and the party would insist on his making the race. MURRAY WINS IN CAROLINA. Congressional Contest Is Decided in His Favor. The republican congressional cam paign committee at Washington has issued an address to the voters of the First district of South Carolina an¬ nouncing that thecommittee has found that George W. Murray is the regular republican nominee anu that W. C. Coben has no claim to tbe nomination. Murray is a colored msn and has served in congress. NEW CONDITIONS TO BE CONTENDED WITH IN THIS YEAR’S VOTE. In Cass of a Landslide the Result Will be Known Early. The presidential election of Tues¬ day, Nov. 3, will be held under con¬ ditions which have never before pre¬ vailed, and which will render the official count a matter of difficulty and unusual delay. Since the last presidential contest almost every state which had not then adopted the Australian ballot system has by state enactment prescribed some form of secret blanket ballot, either based on the Australian plan or closely resembling it. The exceptions are Georgia, Louisiana,North Carolina and South Carolina. In the first three states named the old open ballot system pre¬ vails. In South Carolina there is what is called a “reform ballot” the avowed purpose of which is to restrict the votes of illiterate negroes. In nearly all the other states blanket ballots will be cast, and in many of them the count will be complicated by the fact that state, legislative aud county nomina¬ tions are printed on the same ballot with the names of presidential electors. Connecticut has an envelope system, and New Jersey prints each party ticket upon a separate ballot. In states like Nebraska, for instance, where, according to conservative opin¬ ion, there may not be a margin of 5,000 votes either way, it may be im¬ possible to arrive at a correct judg¬ ment until all the back counties are heard from. The polls in the cities close at 4 p. m., but in the country districts keep open till 6 p. m., and with a governor, a legislature and county officers to elect, all ou one ballot, it will take at least six hours to complete the count. Some idea of the general trend of the votes in Ohio may be obtained from the result of the counties in which Cincinnati and Cleveland are respectively situated, and these results will probably be known comparatively earlier. The doubtful points are Hamilton and Cuyahoga counties. Chicago will control Illinois. There will be no doubt of the outcome when tbe vote of Cook county is recorded. But in other doubtful states, like In¬ diana, Michigan and Kansas, where state and legislative tickets also com¬ plicate the ballots, there will probably be no keynote from which the result can be definitely determined until Tuesday night unless it should prove a landslide. In that case midday may give a clear idea who are the victors and who are the vanquished. Other¬ wise there moy be many hours of anx¬ ious suspense. The last presidential elections have beeu singularity free from uncertainty. It was known by lip. m. on election day in 1888 that Mr. Harrison had de¬ feated Mr. Cleveland,and it waa known with tqual certainty at 11 p. m. on election day in 1892 that Mr. Cleve¬ land had defeated Mr. Harrison. But in the election of 1884, when Mr. Cleveland defeated Mr. Blaine, the official result hung in doubt over the vote of New York for days. Fusion May Cause Delay. The fusion ticket will add a further element of difficulty in the president¬ ial count this year. Fusion has been arranged between the populists and the democrats on the electoral ticket in every democratic state but Tennes¬ see, Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama, Florida and Texas. In several of the southern states, while there bas been no formal fusion between the republi¬ cans and populists on state legislatures and congressmen, local arrangements have beeu made that amount to fusion and will have more or less to do with the result. The following state* will elect gov eruors ou November 3: Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Idaho, Illi- < nois, Indiana, Kansas, Massachusetts, (seven vacancies), Michigan, Minne¬ sota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, South Da¬ kota, Tennessee, Texas, Washington. West Virginia, Wisconsin and South Carolina. The following states will elect legis tnres: Callifornia, Colorado, Connec¬ ticut, Delaware, Idaho, Illinois, Indi¬ ana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky (seven vacancies,) Michigan, Minnesota, Mis¬ souri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New YorK (part), North Carolina, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Vir¬ ginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin aud Wyoming. Consul Lea Will Not Come Home. Advices from Havana are to the effect that the report that Consul General Lee would return for a time to the United States on account of ill health is incorrect, He has not been sick since his arrival in Havana, and he has no intention of leaving bis post of duty at present. Thb man with a secure income doesn’t worry much about the out¬ come. HANNA CONDEMNS COERCION. He Issues a Companion Proclamation To that of Chairman Jones Chairman Hanna of the Tepublicau national committee, has giveu to the press the following announcement: silver “The manifest policy of the democratic managers lu this campaign as set forth by their candidate for President shortly after his nomination, has been to create tbe belief in the minds of the workingmen that they were being coerced by their employers to vote contrary to their convictions. The chairuiau of their national com¬ mittee, the Hon. James K. Jones, has emphasized this policy in a proclama¬ tion, in which he boldly charges the employing classes of the country with having entered into a conspiracy to coerce their employees into voting con¬ trary to their opinions. This is a very grave charge, aud it has now' assumed a form that justifies giviug it some at¬ tention. To coerce a voter is a crime against Messrs. the laws of the land, and if Bryan aud Jones know of coer¬ cion they make themselves accomplices of the criminals by not informing the proper authorities and taking steps for prosecution. While we cousider the charge absurd, and believe that Amer¬ ican workingmen aud employers are too independent and patriotic either to be coerced or to coerce, the Repub¬ lican national committee will do any¬ thing in its power, to protect work¬ ingmen in the free and untrammelled exercise of their rights as citizens, and will cheerfully nuite with national Democratic committee in any move¬ ment having that object in view. Co¬ ercion of voters is not only an unamerican, unpatriotic and despotic usurpation of the rights a free citizen, but is a a that will inevit recoil upon its perpetrators. It is an arbitrary use of power that is in direct conflict with the principles of cur government. The civil compact of the majority rule means free majorities, for whose protection all constitutional powers should be used, and without which a political victory would be barren of results worthy of a great party. This com¬ mittee will spare uo pains to secure to every citizen, whatever his politics, the right to cast his vote according to his convictions, and to have his vote honestly counted.’* REV. JONES’ VIEWS. On the Present Scramble for tlie V. S. Senators hip. Rev. Sam Jones was asked by a press representative what he thought of the senatorial contest. He replied: “If there is a disgusting sight in this world it is to see a family of vag¬ abond children who have been pen¬ sioners on their father’s bounty and whose prinoipai vocation has seemed to be waiting for their father to die so they could pounce upon whatever was left of his estate. “When I read of the deathof a wor¬ thy and noble man like Charles F. Crisp, vacating the office of United States Benator, it disgusts me to see the little vagabond politicians administering the estate before he is laid away. The death of Mr. Crisp has thrown the politicians of the state into a whirli¬ gig. Sure I am that the people of Georgia would like a little time on this subject, and if there is a choice between evils, certainly they want the lesser. “In religion my creed is, as between two evils, to take neither, but in poli¬ tics I will take the lesser evil. Mag¬ nanimity and patriotism if they were to speak out would as certainly give the senatorial position to General Evans as that effect follows cause. He is worthy and well qualified. He has been side-tracked and tbe main line given to lesser lights and leas worthy ones already. “We certainly don’t want a pot pol¬ itician or pap sucker made United States senator. That is a big job, and Georgia will be on exhibition at Wash¬ ington when she trots oat her nag. We do not want another gubernatorial election, but if we must have it, some of us don’t want the slate carried ont. If another gubernatorial election is precipitated upon us the democrats had better be careful whom they nom¬ inate, or they will find elections too thick for them.” BRYAN IN "HOOSIERDOM." His Record at Speechmaking Is Kept Up In Indiana. The Indiana committee evidently does not intend to allow William J. Bryan to keep very far behind hiB re¬ cord as a speechmaker on his trip through Hoosierdom. Nineteen elec¬ tion speeches were made in the 24 hours ending midnight Wednesday night, and 17 were in the itinerary for Thursday. Chairman Martin, of tho state committee, who has charge of the train, is attending to it that Mr. Bryan receives more rest and is doing his best to save the nominee from the too affectionate crowds of admirers. The first speech of the morning o’clock. was at Decatur shortly after 8 Several thousand people listened to Mr. Bryan for more than a quarter of an hour, and tbe people who heard him did not hesitate to give boisterous approval of his utterances. The crowd was made up for the most part of farm¬ ers and artisans,and Mr. Bryan’s speech was made for farmers. TO “ WORKINGMEN ” LABOR LEADERS ISSUE A PROC¬ LAMATION. I he claim That They Favored the Democratic Ticket Refuted. The following proclamation wim is¬ sued from Peoria, III., Tuesday and 1ms created a sensation in labor cir¬ cles : “To the Workingmen of the United States: “To refute a false statement, as we sincerely believe it to be, and to cor¬ rect an impression that onr friends aud acquaintances may have formed concerning onr signature to a cam¬ paign document going the rounds of the press and circulated broadcast on the streets, eutitled 'Proclamation,* in which it is made to appear that we are in favor of free silver at aay ratio and substantially the establishment of two standards of money contradictory as the terms may be, we wish to lie re¬ corded by all who are interested in our position, as being emphatically and unequivocally against such a scheme but are for the souud money plank promulgated by the republicau con¬ vention at St. Louis. “Onr signatures were secured near¬ ly three years ago to a document pre¬ tending to be a ‘memorial to con¬ gress,’ then in session, which in our belief and memory was a much milder paper thau the ‘ Proclamation’ re¬ ferred to. No matter what our opin¬ ions may have been on the money question at the time of our signing the memorial, nearly three years ago,, we have learned enough since on this subject to warrant us in denouncing the attempt of free coinage of silver at 16 to 1, believing it to be directly agaiust the interests of labor, and also believing that under a condition of free coinage this country will be sub¬ jected to one of the most frightful panics that any country in this world has ever seen. 4 l Our belief in this statement is strengthened by an admission made by William J. Bryan, the candidate for president, in a recent speech in the northwest wherein he is reported to have said that he thought that a free silver condition would tiring for the present stagnation and panic, but from which in four years we would re cover. We do not believe that this country needs an additional four years of ery aud distress, and are, therefore, opposed to the sentiments in the aforesaid ‘Proclamation.’ respectfully, P. M. A (Signed) 4 4 nruoH, “Grand Chief Brotherhood five Engineers. “F. P. Sa lout NT, “Grand Muster Brotherhood tive Firemen. “F. W. A knopjj, “Grand Secretary and Treasurer Broth¬ erhood Locomotive Firemen.’’ SCHOOL LVW DEFECTIVE. Florida’s “Anti-Dllscogenation” Act Unconstitutional. The law passed by the last Florida legislature making it criminal to teach negroes and whites together, popularly known as the /‘uuti-miscegenation law,” has been held to be unconstitu¬ tional by Judge Rbydon M. Call. The test was made at Green Cove Spring in the case of the state of Flor ¬ ida against B. D. Rowley, teacher in the school of the American Missionary Society at Orange Park, where it was alleged that negroes and whites were taught by tbe same teacher, m the same class, at the same time. It was held by the judge that tbe title of the net waa not broad enough to cover the contents of tbe bill. The title of the act is as follows: “An act to prohibit white ami aegro youth from being taught in the same school. ” The act says that white aud negro persons shall not be taught in the Mine building, in the same class, or at tbe fame time, by the same teachers, it punishes whoever teaches in or pat¬ ronizes such a school by a fine not ex¬ ceeding $500 nor less thau $15^, or imprisonment less than six months. The ruling was made upon the mo¬ tion of attorneys for the defease, to quash the indictment. The case, there¬ fore, did not go before a jury. State's Vttorney ifartridgo says tnat the de¬ fect in the title of the bill may easily be rom“d>*> 1 l,v the next legislature. NO WITHDRAWAL. Mr. Watson Says tbe Georgia Populiat Electors Wilt Stay On. Mr. Watson left Atlanta Wednesday morning for Birmingham, where he spoke at night. Regarding the report that the populist electoral ticket for the state of Georgia would be with¬ drawn, Mr. Watson denies that there has been any action of the committee withdrawing the electors, as the fol¬ lowing received from him shown: “Bikminoham, Ala., October 21. —The Georgia electors will not be withdrawn. The convention named them and they accepted the trust. They owe it to popnlism in Georgia and elsewhere to Btay in tbe field. “Thomas E. Watson.”
