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About The Rockdale banner. (Conyers, Ga.) 1888-1900 | View Entire Issue (May 19, 1898)
Mr. Bran Calls Atteioi lo He Voters ol l&s Filtl District to Existing Fads, ai Ores Thus to Con sifler Wall tie Present Snrroonflings Belore They Cast f&eir Vote lor Mr. Lirisetoa, Who Has Servefi in Congress lor Eight Years, and Leaves It to the People to Say Whether ! Mr. Branan says ‘I believe that the masses of the Fifth district do not be lieve in ‘monarchial government,’ that is, that a lawmaker should be retained in office to make laws to gov ern the people perpetually, particu¬ larly when Mr. Livingston advocated that four years in congress was enough for any man, referring to Judge John I). Stewart, that honorable gentleman whom Mr. Livingston opposed in 1890, and defeated by making prom¬ ises to the people which lie knew he could not accomplish, and Judge Stu¬ art told him in so many words. The Atlanta Constitution fails to give the people the facts; that is, the people in the seven other counties carry 18 votes in the convention, and only one county has acted, but leaves the impression that “we, the Atlanta (Constitution) says Mr. Livingston is the next congressman.” The people want a man in congress to represent them, and not a man who is closely allied to The Atlanta Consti¬ tution, which paper, it is a well known fact to everyone who investigates their surroundings, will say there are facts that go to show-that they are identifi¬ ed with the corporations, not only lo¬ cally, but throughout the state. Mr.Stahlman.the well kuown railroad lobbyist in congress and by the way one of the shrewdest politicians in the United States, appeared in Atlanta just previous to the primary in Fulton and boosted up Mr. Livingston’s can¬ didacy as much as possible, and if any one will read what he said in the pa¬ pers in reference to Mr. Livingston, and give it proper thought, will say that lie is an old hand at the business of ‘pulling wool’ over the eyes of the people.” in reference Now, says Mr. Branan, to the early primary in Fulton, “Not only did I say to Judge J. J. Hunt that I did not favor an early primary in Fulton, but preferred a later date; and I stated to Captain W. H. Broth erton, who bandied the iron-clad reso¬ lutions as to making rules governing 'the candidates in the primary (and by the way, these iron-clad resolutions, I believe, were drawn up by a man closely identified with the Atlanta Constitution). I stated in the presence of the sheriff of this county that the Executive Committee had no right to call a primary to act on the congres¬ sional candidates until the Congres¬ sional Committee met and ordered a primary and named a date for the con¬ vention. At least put the primaryjar enough ahead that the Congressional Committee of the Fifth District might meet and allow them to concur in their actions.” Mr. Branan says: “I asked a well posted man on politics the other day the following questions: What was the State Democratic Executive Com¬ mittee for? He answered by saying it was for the purpose of protecting the Democratic party organization, make rules and name the date for the primary. Would the County Execu¬ tive Committee have the right to call a primary for governor and statehonse officers without a meeting of the State Executive Committee first? He re¬ plied by saying, certainly not. Then I asked* what was the Congressional Committee for? He said it was for the purpose of making rules and naming the date for the primary of congressional candidates. What is the Democratic County Executive Committee for? He said it was for the purpose of naming the primary for county officers and making rules to govern same aud carry out the instruc¬ tions of the State Executive Commit¬ tee and also the Congressional Execu¬ tive Committee? Then I asked that Fulton couuty had no right to call a primary to select candidates for Con¬ gress until the Congressional Commit¬ tee met, name the date and rules gov¬ erning the same? He answered by saying, certainly not, no more so than the people at large had a right to call a Democratic primary without the en¬ dorsement of the Democratic Eexecn tive Committee.” Captain W. II. Brothertou is the next man Jo Mr. Albert Howell, who is chairman of the executive committee, and possibly a bigger man when it comes to handling the “machine,” was a strong Livingston man, and worked at the polls all day loug, aud I desire to ask when he and his co¬ workers on tlie executive committee ever protested against au early prima¬ ry in Fulton comity? And if any one will investigate the income directly or indirectly through the “fee system” for county officers in Fulton they will understand why Captain Brcthertou worked the “machine” to defeat me. This “fee system” which I fought in the legislature of 1894 and 1895, and which system is taking annually from fifty to seventy-five thousand dollars from the pockets of the people of Ful¬ ton county, only to be divided up among the men who has the “pull.” Mr. Branan, believ ng that it was nothing but right to file his protest in behalf of the straightforward Democ¬ racy of the Fifth district, he wrote the following letter at a called meeting of the congressional committee on May 3rd. “Atlanta, Ga. , May 3d, 1893. ToJcdoeJ.J. Hunt, Chairman Congres¬ sional Committee Fifth District: Dear Kir—1 protested against calling the primary- in Fulton county for the 21st of April, both on account of the date and on account of the fact that your committee had not met. I suggested that they name a date satisfactory to Mr. Livingston, which could have been done if the many friends of Mr. Livingston on the committee had urged the matter. Now, I desire to say to your committee personally, that the 6th of June would satisfactory to me, but I am anxious that no date shall be named that will in any way re Mf ' Livingston ’ s rights in thc matter I therefore urged the committee to name a date for all the counties,including Fulton, to act aud let the date be satisfactory to Mr. Livingston and his friends. Yours very truly, Chahles I. Bhanan.” Mr. -Branan says “I state the above that the people of the Fifth dis¬ trict might know the facts, aud believe that it will be very plainly seen that Mr. Livingston’s friends called the early primary in Fulton county, there¬ by giving him an opportunity to sing out ‘snap judgment,’ in case he lost Fulton county, then go before the peo¬ ple in the country and try to‘pull wool’ over their eyes, and toll them his tale of woe like he has done before, but the Atlanta ‘machine’ did their work well, and I suppose he is satisfied.” Mr. Branan says “I stated in a cir¬ cular to the people that Mr. Livingston did not vote on the war question, which is a fact, but it seems that Mr. Living¬ ston has been trying to explain in some way why he didn’t vote. I have his explanation copied from the Con¬ gressional Record, and every expres¬ sion of it shows political shrewdness on the part of a politicians aud word¬ ed to suit the occasion after he knew what the action of the house was in reference to the resolution; and the Record shows that Mr. Hitt was ab¬ sent and bad a friend to say that he was sick. Why did not Mr. Living¬ ston have a friend to say that he was sick, instead of pairing him off on a measure which is not a party measure aud therefore needed no pairing.” THE FOLLOWINO IS HJ8 8HKEWD EXCUSE: “Mr- .Speaker:—I learned this morning for the first time that I was paired, and i so appears iu the Record. I was absent yesterday on account of a nervous sick headache. I got information from the For¬ eign Affairs Committee that the matter would not be concluded yesterday, and so was not present. I see I am paired, but it was by the kindness of some friend. Had I been present, I should have voted for the minority resolution. ADd, that being de¬ feated, I should have voted for the majority resolution.” “I desire to say the minority resolu¬ tion which was voted for by seven Georgia congressmen, and who voted against the majority resolution, said that the minority resolution al¬ lowed the Cubans w ho had been fightiug three years to gain their own independ¬ ence, aud the said resolution recog¬ nized their independence, aud that the majority resolution not only did the insurgents an injustice, but gave the president too much authority to carry on the war, and that the minority res¬ olution would cause Spain to be the aggressor, while the majority resoln tiou will possibly force the United States to pay the $400,000,090 of bonded indebtedness of Spain, which they had pledged Cuba’s sources to redeem, aud would place Cuba under a ‘carpet-bag’ government dur¬ ing the reconstruction.” .Mr. Brauan said, “I noticed Mr. Livingston put himself in the attitude of the old mau who allowed his wife to kill the bear, by offering a resolu¬ tion thanking Commodore Dewey for his valued services and great victory, for he was anxious to say that we did so and so, w hen he did not have the courage to be present aud vote on the war measure. Therefore, he was the wrong mau to have the gall to offer ! v\ / m & ft Vi SI, m ri ‘7/ V' 'F ■ \l ? l> % !%; f Dihl k fk mrnm /m l III l ft / # Vi X 7 / HON. CHARLES I. BRANAN, Candidate for Congress from the Fifth District—The People’s Friend. such a resolution.” Mr. Brauan says “I notice that he requested through the Washington cor respondent , ol , the , Atlanta Constitu tiou that I read the Congressional Rec ord, notwithstanding that I had read the Congressional Record before I said in the circular that he did not vote on the war measure, but I have read them since and find iu a dialogue between lie he and another congressman that was very careful to see that some pen¬ sioner’s pension should be raised from twelve to twenty-four dollars per month, and watched carefully that the senate did not change the body of the bill. This causes me to call the peo¬ ple’s attention to the fact that Mr. Livingston is on the appropriation committee, and it is through this com¬ mittee that the pension frauds and the pension list has been increased to $150,000,000. Notwithstanding the New York papers have called con¬ gress’ attention to the specified frauds in the pension list, no effectual action has ever been taken by the appropria tion committee. Wherein does the Congressional Record show that Mr. Livingston ever sent in a minority re¬ port on pensions or called the ayes and nays, whereby it is possible to bring about a reform iu this pension system which is robbing not only the people of the south but every section. “Mr. Livingston was elected in 1890, promising the people a sub-treasury bill, aud the repeal of the 10 per cent tax on thq state banks, and The Con¬ stitution quotes him as saying, ‘If I have not succeeded in repealing the 10 per cent on state banks after I have been there six months, yon can cut my head off,’ or words to that effect. 1 desire to say if I know the people correctly, that while it is a fact that he baited his hook with promises in 1890 and 1892, if he does not change his bait in something more substantial that he will be required to stay at home awhile and go among the people and learn their wants, for the people have come to the conclusion that a man who has been in congress for eight years, is not familiar with the nponle’s people s wants uauis. “Mr. Livingston failingto carry out his promises in 1890 appealed to the farmers in Walton county iu the fol lowing way: -I have been in Congress two years, just long enough to find out that the country is in the follow' iug condition, aud illustrate it to them in this way, that it remiuded him of a long cow' with,the rear end in the North and the head in the South, whereby the Southern laboring man did all the feeding to the cow, and the North did 32 ! Livingston, I will turn the cow around.’ , i Now-, Mr. Livingston, have you turned the cow around? If the peo pie will read the Congressional , Record, and the fact that you are on the pen siou appropriation committee they will realize that you have not only failed to turn the cow around, but you have held the calf (the sonth) off until that calf is almost a skeleton.” Mr. Brauan says “.Mr. Livingston will find it possibly an easy matter to work the Atlanta ‘machine’ politics, but w hen he gets out among the country people, with whom he associated very closely eight years ago, but very little since, that they know him. and know him well, many of whom have p jcketed a loss of several dollars taking bis advice to hold cotton, will find they don’t carry their vote in his vest pocket. Cotton was over 12 cents in New York when he was nominated iu 1890, and times have been getting harder ever siuce, and the people have come to the conclusion that he has been plowing in congress as a farmer for eight years; and the people are go¬ ing to blow' the dinner-horn on the 6th of June and have him take out and give mean opportunity to cut that rope with w hich he has been holding the calf off for some time. “The Democratic state executive committee has opened the way for every voter who believes in Democratic prin¬ ciple (many of whom were led out of this grand old party by demagoguery expressions of L. F. Livingston) to come back in the party and vote in the primary and be as we once was. Therefore, let me urge every citizen to do his duty between now and the primary in the Fifth congressional district, bearing in mind the fact that only one county has acted and there are seven to act on the 6th of June, and I will pledge them if I am elected to congress to protect the peoples’ interest. If I cannot turn the cow around, I will cut the calf loose. Yours to command, Charles I. Bbanax. ” The courts of Pennsylvania have de cided that skim milk can be sold in that state, provided no false pretenses are made. In other words, the skim med article must not be sold ns cream. It would seem that the intervention of a court ought not to be necessary to convince the housewife of the differ¬ ence between the pretended and the eenuine article. ATLANTA MARKETS. COR.ECTEI, WEEKLY.—19 Groceries. Roasted coffee $11.39 per 100 lb cases. Green coffee choice 12; fair 10; prime 1 feugar standard granulated 5%c; New Orleans white 5)£c; do yellow 5>£. byrup, New Orleans open kettle 25@40c. mixed 12>4@’20c; sugar house 26®35e. Teas, black 30£g5c ; green 20@50e. Rlc< , t hea d 6 )<c; choice 6fc®6c ; Salt, dai cy &c sacks $1.25; do bbls. 2.25; ice cream 9 ; common floe. Cheese, full cream a)^c; cream 7e: gingersnaps 7c. Candy, com mon stick 6c: faney 12®13c. Oysters, F. \Y. 1.65; L. W. 1.15. Country Produce. Eggs 10@Ue. Butter, western cream try, turkeys 9(S>10e: hen's"25®27Kc; spring chickens, large 22^'<fi25e; small 15®25c. ;£.€!= , . ... 5 Honey, dull, strained 6<®7c: in the comb 7©Se: Onions, new crop, $1.60©$1.75 per bu.; $3.75©4.00 per bbl. Flour, Grain and Menl. Flour, all wheat first patent, $7.50: second patent. $6.25: straight, J5.75: fancy, $5.50; extra family, $5.25. Corn, white, 56c; mixed, wTltol 0 thy large bales 95c; small bales 90e: No. 2 timothy small bales 85o. Meal, olain 54c: bolted 50c. Wheat bran ; large sacks S7c; sSf 11 ^borts Sl.oa Stock meal; *«.50 per too. Peas stock 60® 65c per bushel; common white 85©90c-. Lady $1.15(51.25. Grits $2.60. rrovIM ™ v *““** ns ,. , 6Ye: ice-cured bellies 8c. Sugar-cured hams ll®12Wc: California 7 l d < ’: breakfast tnron 10®lie. Lard, best quality 7c; seo oud quality 6?* ; compound 5^c. Cotton. Market closed quiet; middling 5 13-16. DECOY VESSEL SUN K . A Spanish Work Scheme Was Which Did I as Ex Pected. A Key West dispatch SaTg . r l United States cruiser Wilrn' <! 30 Commander miles east C. of C. Havana Todd, Monday' when^l four shells into a Spanish trap ■ ^ shape thus doing of a derelict, sinking n'H away with another pb the Spanish Wilmington trickery. had The commnn.i!^ J been warned wreckage dispatch boats drifting that some dan-. V' s°r! was about the mentioned and the cruiser st j ‘ that direction to investigate the ports. re ] An old Spanish schooner, with . iron, deck loaded wheels, to the etc., rails closely -with n-JI car p ac y track together, of torpedo was found boats floating j n ^ and dispat i boats. The iron laden schooner y harbor evidently in the been hope sent that out of Hays' to* small craft of the blockading a torpedo &t or f or would crash into it and be so damaged as to cause her to sink. As -wires were noticed ai’oand the I iron Todd rails believed on the the schooner Spanish CommamigB trap contain explosives, and therefore, ’f w ■ I ing off a considerable distance I0 © her, his guns promptly sent her to%B bottom. CHAHBERLA1N RAISES ROW, I His Speech Regarding An Allian^ J Strongly Deprecated. A dispatch to The New York WotlJ I from London says: The Russian ambassador has been I I directed to demand from Lord Safe bury, it is reported, an explanation I I of Mr. Chamberlain’s assertion that Russia is ineligible for an alliance be- 1 I cause of her perfidy. The prevailing opinion now is that Mr. Chamberlain's I speech, in which an Anglo-Saxon al-1 ] liance was advocated, was a grievous I indiscretion. It has excited jealousies and resentment throughout Europe I without promising to attain any com¬ pensatory advantage. His indirect calling the czar “tie devil” is sure, it is believed,to givem. dying offense in St. Petersburg. In the city of London (the financial district) great depression prevailed Tuesday. Rumors were flying aka that the government proposes ■ offer a large issue of exchequer bilk form a war chest. A further rise n the bank rate was freely predicted. Mr. Chamberlain’s main and imme¬ diate object is known to be to fot« France to evacuate Broussa, West Af¬ rica, even at the risk of war. SPAIN’S NEW CABINET. Personnel Of Ministry Is Given Out,] But Not Officially. It was announced semi-officialllj at Madrid Tuesday evening that the re¬ constructed cabinet will be made upas follow's: Presideut of the Council—Senoi Praxedes Sagasta. Minister of Foreign Affairs—Senoi Leon y Castillo. Minister of War—Lieutenant Gen¬ eral Correa. Minister of Marine—Vice Admiral Butler. Minister of the Colonies—Senor Gamazo. Minister of Finance—Senor Lopez Pulgceiver. F, Minister of the Interior— Senor R. Capdepon. Minister of Justice—Senor C. Grois sard. Minister of Public Instruction—Se¬ nor Romero Giron. THREE HAJORS FOR GEORGIA. The State Fares Better Than Expected In Army Appofnments. A Washington dispatch says: Geor *** ^ “ th « "W ments announced Tuesday. I href Georgians were appointed to staff . offices Tliev are Dr. Carlton, to be - inspector . , general^ , with .... the rank o major; Colonel Varnadoe, to bevznp chief commissary of subsistence with \ ho r * nk nf of ma J 01 > and i i ugh u G 0 r don, to , be an engineer officer with tn rank of major, Tl ? «" thr f s * 10 ^ v tha* they are to be placed up the staff of major generals. The appointment of Hugh Gordon was somewhat of a surprise. It wsS no t thought he was as certain of ap "Carlton Yarn*, There is no doubt that the great aa miration which officers of the army WORK FOR PRIZE COURT. Question of Seizure of Spanish Ves¬ sels to Be Adjudicated. At the request of Rear Admiral Sampson the attorney V general % has a P - pointed - , , Edward . K. Jones, „ oi \ e v - York, to act as special counsel in 0 f p r j 2e cases a t. Key West. Attorneys J. Parker Kirkiing anu Wekdmus Mynders, also of New YorKi willappearfortheclaimantsofthecar- Pedro,Cata goes of the Buena Ventura, llna aml Miguel Jover. Attorney <mu Denegre, of New Orleaus, has been retained bv the owners of the same vessels. Judge Locke will pre sule • i -
