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About The Rockdale banner. (Conyers, Ga.) 1888-1900 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 17, 1898)
The Rockdale Banner. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. W. S. WARD LAW. SUBSCRIPTION KATES. One Year..... $ 1.00 Six Months .. .50 Three Months .25 When paid in advance The Banker will be sent to any address one year for 75 cents. Special rates given to clubs. Advertising rates are strictly ONE PRICE. Rate card will be furnished on application. Correspondence solicited from all parts of the oonnty and neighboring towns. Com¬ munications must bear the full name of the author, no;, necessarily for publication, but ts a guarantee of good faith. Write only on one side of paper. injected MMS. will not be returned unless accompanied by postage to cover mailing. Special terms to agents. Entered at the postofflee at Conyers, da., as second-class mail matter. CONYERS, GA., FEB 17,1898 Editorial Comment. I)e Lome Will go home No more to roam. Atlanta sassiety is just now discussing the kissing prob¬ lem. Some of the papers are saying that McKinley ought to apologize to DeLome. “Burn this letter” is a famous political expression which, it seems, DeLome never got onto. Both Candler and DeLome acknowledge the are* letters and ask: “What you going to do about it? I I An exchange significantly remarks that there is no duty on the wool the candidate pulls over the eyes of the vo¬ ter. Thsre will be about 16,000 candidates for office in Geor¬ gia this year and everybody is reading the papers mighty clos?ly. Ex-Minister De Lome and Colonel Allen D. Candler have been prominent before the public within the last few days as letter writers. Senator A. O. Bacon says the outlook for the democrat¬ ic party was never better. He predicts an overwhelming democratic majority in the next Congress. Georgia will he well repre¬ sented at the Omaha exposi¬ tion. The commission hav¬ ing the matter in charge are doing some hard work just now, and it is expected the results of their labors will he highly gratifying to the peo¬ ple of the state. From the present outlook the coming summer will be so full of politics that there will be no time to find out whether the weather is hot or not. Those who, like Sam Jones, might despite a dull time, as well prepare for the fun that is coming. The strike situation in the New England instead states grows A worse of better, general strike has been or¬ dered and the operatives in every mill in that section will walk out. Another “strik¬ ing” evidence of McKinley’s promised prosperity. JS “I." 0 kinson for president. both Bryan Herald has seen and Atkinson lately and thinks there is better mate¬ rial in Governor Bill than Billy Bryan. Of course,every body has a right to their own opinion. Gentleman (?) Jim Cor¬ bett has announced that he will retire from the ring and adopt the stage as his pro¬ fession. His friends assure him he will win fame as an actor, but we hardly think the American theatre-going public will go wild over this playedout prize fighter. Ex-Minister DeLome is quoted as saying in his letter that McKinley was “weak and cattering to the rabble ■){• -if - ■Jr a low politician who desires to leave a door open to me and to stand well with the jingoes in his own party. 7 7 If De Lome had only stopped there t the future relations between this country and Spain would not have needed to undergo any change be¬ cause of the personal indis¬ cretion of the Spanish rninis ter. That Candler letter has been the. subject of much comment—favorable and un¬ favorable—during the last few days. It is claimed by many that Candler has great¬ ly injured his chances of reaching the gubernatorial chair,while on the other hand it is asserted that the letter places him in the proper light before the people—the die is clearly cast—and he will win in a walk. At any rate, it has had the effect of Judge Spencer Atkinson an¬ nouncing his candidacy for the governorship, and the prospect seems to be that a lively race, and one full of interest, is now on, and things will be kept humming for the next few months. Political Tracts. The abuse of the franking privilege by our national leg¬ islators, who annually flood the mails with a vast amount of political literature under the guise of “Public docu¬ ments,” is one of the chief causes of a deficiency in our postal revenues, If Con gressman Loud is sincere in his desire to make the De¬ partment self-sustaining, why not restrict this vast and useless volume of post-free mail matter instead of plac¬ ing a tax on the people’s reading matter- as proposed in his bill now pending in Congress? And while pur¬ suing this subject, would it not he well to ascertain how much of the Government’s money is expended these in print¬ al¬ ing and preparing documents. leged public saving might be Perhaps a other departments made in on the same line. Candler Resigns Colonel Allen D. Candler lias resigned the office of sec¬ retary of state, to take effect March 23, and gives his rea¬ sons for so doing as follows : “State of Georgia, Office Secie tary of State, Atlanta, February 12, 1 S 98 .— His Excellency, Wil¬ liam Y. Atkinson, Governor, At¬ lanta, Ga. Sir: Having consented to become a candidate for gover¬ nor of Georgia, and believing it improper to hold one office while seeking another, and to even seem to use it as an aid in securing an¬ other, I beer to tender this my res ienation of the office of secretary of state to take effect on the 31st proximo, when t desire to be re¬ lieved. Trusting that this will afford your excellency ample time in which to select a suitable suc¬ cessor, and that the public servi* e may in i o wise suffer by the change, I have the honor to be your excellency's obedient serv ant, All m D. Candler. The prompt resignation of Colonel Candler and his dec¬ laration that he believes it “improper to hold one office while seeking another,” has led to much speculation will as do to what Judge Atkinson about his state house job He holds a position on the railroad commission that will not expire for six years, the annual salary being $2,500. A rumor has been circulated that he would not resign the position on the railroad com¬ mission to wage his guberna¬ torial campaign, but this is merely conjecture, as the judge refuses to discuss the matter whatever. A great many people say Uncle Allen lias dropped his candy, which fact remains to be seen. It is the American privilege to cuss our own rulers, if we want to, bat. we will cot permit for eigners to exercise the same right. Senator A. S. Clay, chairman of the democratic state executive committee, announces that he will call a meeting of the committee to bo held in Atlanta during the first week iu March. We have still got our nickles on the Burke county boy in the race in the 6th. Tom Felder is going to make your Uncle Lon Living¬ ston hustle, and cease not to keep your memory green concerning the shadows of approaching events.—Waynesboro Citizen. Nothing Dr. Bull’s removes humor Pills from the blood so nicely ftnd gives the complexion such a clear, clean appear¬ ance as Dr Bull’s Pills. But get only the genuine, Dr. John W. Bull's Pills. Price 10 and 25 cts. 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