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Conyers, Ga., May 80th, 1900.
THE DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
For Governor,
ALLEN D. CANDLER.
For Secretary of State,
PHILIP COOK.
For Comptroller Genotal,
WILLIAM A. WRIGHT.
For State Treasurer,
ROBERT K. PARK.
For Attorney General,
JOSEPH M. TERRELL.
For State School Commissioner,
v • G. R. GLENN,
r* For Commissioner cf Agriculture,
O. B. STEVENS.
For iViBon Commissioner, Full Term,
CLEMENT A. EVANS.
For Prison Commissioner, Enexpited
Term,
THOMAS EASON.
For ssoeiate Justice of Supreme Court.
i ,
(Vote for Two)
t WILLIAM A. LITTLE.
* HENRY T. LEWIS.
{For United Staton Senator,
,.
A. O. BACON.
For Congressman 5th Congressional
District,
L. F. LIVINGSTON.
For Superior Court'Judge, Stone Mouu
tain Circuit,
JNO. S. CANDLER.
For Solicitor General,
W. T. KIMSKY.
For Representative,
O. H. TURNER.
For Ordinary,
A. M. HELMS.
For Clerk,
L. H. S1GMAN.
For Sheriff
W. H. M. AUSTIN.
For Tax Receiver,
G. H. HULL.
For Tax Collector,
W. G.OU1TFKLTER.
For County Treasurer,
j. A. DUKES.
For County Surveyor,
R. A. GUINN.
For Coroner,
L. T FARRILL.
How smart! From the Tenuille
News: Every thing is on the move;
is on the move even the trees are
leaving for the summer "
T1 io Perry Home Journal puts
the the Third congressional dis
trio on notice that Houston coun¬
ty will l’usiiish the next congrcsi*
man for the Third.
Bainbvidge Democrat: The work
of mad dogs all over Georgia hut
emphasizes tin- need "t a general
dog law in the state. Nearly every
paper contain an account of si one
angry canine on the war path,
“Show me a country newspaper
says John Wanainaker, the great
Philadelphia merchant, “and I
will show you who are doing the
buieuess of the vicinity in which
that paper is published. It. will
| always be found that the progres
sive merchants who have some
i thing to sell and are not afraid of
competition.—Cedartown Seand
I ard.
TWO “MISSING WORDS’’
PLATFORMS.
Political platforms, in order to
he of value should say what they
means, and mean what they say.
Our RePuqlican friends are prone
to take things for granted. Thus
the Philadelphia Press summarizes
the Republican and Democratic
platforms, up to date as follows,
without due regards to the conse
cj nonces:
Wo endorse—
We rejoice—
Wo glory—
We are proud—
We support—
Wo heartily support—
We entrust—
We commend—
We repudiate—
We mourn—
We decry—
We are ashamed—
We condemn—
We denounce—
We disavow—
Whereupon the Boston Herald
remarks: “It is scarcely necessary
to ask which is which.”
Lost, however, there might be a
citizen whose arduous occupation
in keeping himself and family a
hove abject want, should not have
had time to solve the
word” puzzle, the Los Angeles
Ilerahl comes to rescue with the
following solution:
Wo indorse imperialism.
We rejoice in the trusts.
We glory—in Hannaism.
We are proud—of Mckinley’e
re lord as a (lopper.
We heartily support—a banking
currency.
We entrust—the country to boss
rule,
We commend—militaryism.
That is the Republican platform,
We repudiate—imperialism.
We mourn—the substitution of
of boss rule for popular govern
meut.
Wo decry--the control ef our
money system by the banks.
We are ashamed—of the war in
of Hie war in thePhilippines.
We condemn imperialism.
Wo denounce—Hannaism,
We disavow militaryism.
That, is the Demooraic platform
On which do you prefer to stand?
TO THE VOTERS.
To the voters of Rockdale I feel
very grateful to all of my friends
who have been so kind to me in
tlm past election and I m e this
medium of thanking each ono for
all kindness extended me prom is
ing that at any time I can do you
n foviwl will u i a „.:n • . nie
'
, do Again
gloat, p em-uie io so.
thanking each one I am yours very j
i
H. A, Moon. !
ROCKDALE’S SCHOOL
HOUSES.
Mr. Editor:—
With your kind permission, I
will endeavor to write a few arti¬
cles for vour paper in regard to
our county’s public schools. The
excitement of politics having
abated to some extent, I trust that
your readers are prepared for a
change of intellectual pabul um i
and, while their minds are not
otherwise occupied, I would like
to call their attention to the COll
dition of our couty’s school-hou¬
ses.
This is a matter concermug
which our people, generally speak¬
ing, are extremely negligent. The
school-house ought to be one cf
the prettiest, most commodious
and best houses in the communi¬
ty ; many of the so-called school
houses in this county are a reflec¬
tion upon the good judgment and
intelligence of their communities;
many communities provide, on an
average, better barns for then
stock than school-houses for their
children, wherein their minds are
shaped for life and eternity. The
average clnkl can-not enjoy the
school room where he has to sit on
a straight bench with liis feet un
able to reach the lloor and the cold
wind whistling through t lie rough
nails, or the hot sun Learning
down through the roof; the very
l dace naturally becomes repulsive
and * 0IK ls to crush out the hoppi
nesa childhood and to make
school-life a dread and a drudgery,
U'e school-house m my humble
i °pfifi 01 b ought to he as comforfca
j ns meeting house, for it is
j used much more and the work is
| I equally as important. The school
building and everything in and
about it teaches and makes its im¬
press upon the plastic child mind
and finds expression in his
thoughts and acts. It is utterly
impossible, it makes no odds how
able and capable the teacher may
be, to enoble, polish and culture a
mind (o its fullest possibilities in
an average school house of Rock¬
dale county.
i It is far economical for
more our
country people to build good
school houses and employ compe
tent teachers than it is for them
! to turn over their plantations to
j negligent renters and move to
town to educate their children, as
many a farmer who has made the
experiment can attest.
If on the farm is not a good
place to grow suddenly rich, it is
the very best place to raise good
healthy, industrious, independent
men and women. Our towns would
soon degenerate if they were not
constantly invigorated with good
stock from the county, A large
majority of our most successful citv
peop’e were raised in the country.
It. pays in dollars and cents for
a community to have good schools.
To persuo any vocation successful
!v, in these days of sharp conipeti
tion,requires considerable intedi- 1
£ onee , , * isth* inte 1
* w iero e £e 9 -
ligence to bo acquired if not in tim
school room? £ how mo a comuni
ty that has sorry schools, and I
will show you a community that
has sorry homes and sorry farms
and sorry people and sorry every¬
thing else. Good homes and farms
are the materilizatiou of good
thoughts’ and people can not build
beautifully, nor do any thing else
intelligently, unles their minds are
cultivated.
In some sections of our county,
the 1 ands which are naturally ster¬
ile are in demand and have advance
wonderfully in value, principally
because they are located near good
schools, while in some of the more
fertile sections the land are not so
eagerly sough, principally because
their owners manifest but little in¬
terest in their schools. It is a sin to
raiseup achild in thisday of enlight¬
enment without the advantages ©f a
common school education, at least.
As most everyone who has given
the subject any thought will ad¬
mit, summer schools are almost a
failure. children It is confined a p unishmentg to
kesp m a hot,
stuffy school room when theirphvs
ical systems are so relaxed and
most every one else around them
is at leisure and is having a good
time. Study, which taxes and
fatigues the body more than any
other kind of employment, can be
far more easily and profitably per
sused in winter than in the warm
summer months. But having such
sorry school houses, summer school
are well nigh unavoidable, We
hope that the day is not far dis¬
tant when summer schools in
Rockdale county will be a thing of
the past.
We the people of the Empire state
of the South of proud lineage are
wofully behind in education. On¬
ly about three states in the union
are lower in the scales of intelli¬
gence than Georgia, whiledO states
in the Union out rank us. Never
will Georgia be the state for which
our an lestors fought, died anfi
prayed for as long as 40 per cent of
the masses of the people, from ten
years and upward, can not real and
write. If we would put less mon¬
ey in our Court houses and jails
and more in our schools and col¬
leges no doubt we would be a wiser,
happier far and better people. It is
better to prevent crime than it
is to reform the criminal, and as
Victor Hugo well said “He who o
pens the door of a school 1 ouse,
closes the door of a jail.”
A. D. Hammock.
Magnet, Georgia., May 28, 1900
Dr. Nelson, Sweeden Oceulist.
Dear Sir:—
It is with great pleasure that I
can testify to your most wonderful
and skilled treatment of the eye
with your glasses.
Three months ago I was almost
totally blind. Now by the use of
your glasses I am rapidly recover¬
ing my eyesight. I can most cheer¬
fully recommend your treatment
to all suffering and trouble of the
eyes to (he public. Iconsider Dr.
Nelson a most skillful occulist.
Yours very greatfully,
Gordon G. Veal.
DO YOU TUMBLE?
A goose which had faithfully
stuck to buisness during the sum¬
mer and laid several dozen of fawn
colored eggs, complained that she
was nst appreciated.
"See that hen over there 1 said
.
the goose, The hasn’t, laid as many
eggs as 1 nor as big, but she has
books writen about her and verses
composed in her honor, while no
boby is saying a word about me.”
“The trouble with you is,” said
a wise rooster who was standing
near,“thatyoudon’ttelIthepub- he what have done.
you You lay
an an wadd,e on with out say¬
Ulg aw f d - but ^ sister of mine
never lavs one without letting
avaiy neighborhood know it. If
you want to cut. anv ice in the
'
you must advertise.”
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Do you cackle?
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