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VOL. XXV.
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democracy
OF GEORGIA
Assembles In Slate Convention
In City of Atlanta.
H9N. W. J. BRYAN IS INDORSED
Statehouse Officers Nominated
And Delegates to Kansas
City Selected.
The Democrats of Georgia held
their state convention in Atlanta
Thursday. The meeting was brief and
businesslike, with every evidence of
harmony on issues that have to do
with the well-being of the party.
The convention was called to order
iu response to Chairman duBignous’s
gavel at noon, and with no delay, and
an absence of friction throughout, the
task of the convention was disposed of
rapidly, until at 4 o’clock every duty
had been performed and adjournment
was taken.
For fully an hour the delegates
struggled with the contest over tbe
four places as representatives of the
state at large at the national conven¬
tion, but finally this difference was
Jisposod of by the withdrawal of V. T.
Saiford, of Floyd, and John Triplett,
of Thomas, from tbe race, leaving the
Ciinvention unanimous for Boykin
Wright, of Richmond; Jack J. Spald¬
ing, Qf Fulton; Louis F. Garrard, of
Muscogee, and Wylie Burnett, of
Clarke.
Tbe committee on platform, by a
Toto of 12 to 7, voted down a resolu¬
tion offered by Mr. Thompson, of
Hall, to put in a plank favoring local
aption.
William Jennings Bryan was en¬
dorsed as the Democratic nominee for
president.
The delegates chosen to attend tbe
national convention at Kansas City
consists of tbe following members:
From the state at large—Boykin
Wright of Richmond, Jack J. Spalding
of Fulton, Lonis F. Garrard of Mus¬
cogee, Wylie Burnett of Clarke.
Alternates—V.T.Sandford of Floyd,
C. II. Brand of Gwinnett, H. C. Fish¬
er of Coweta, John Triplett of’Thomas
First District—Georgo T. Cauu, of
Chatham; J. A. Branneu, of Bulloch.
Alternates, C. G. Edwards, of Tat
nall; E. K. Overstreet, of Screven.
Second District—S. S. Bennett, of
Mitchell; Dr. E. B. Bush, of Miller.
Alternates, F. P. Griffin, of Calhoun;
Martin F. Amorous, of Colquitt.
Third District—J. T. Hill, of Dooly;
J- P. Cocke, of Lee. Alternates, W.
E. Steed, of Taylor; E. T. Hickey, of
Stewart.
Fourth District—Price Gilbert, of
Muscogee; F. P. Longley, of Troup.
W. Alternates, G. P. Monroe of Marion;
H. Daniel, of Heard.
Fifth District—Charles Daniel, of
Fulton; Eugene L. Johnson, of Camp¬
bell. Alternates, Hugh Dorsey, of
Fulton; Joseph James, of Douglas.
Sixth District—B. F. Holder, Jr.,
of Monroe; F. M. Stafford, of Pike.
Alternates, ing; O. H. P. Slaton, of Spald¬
F. Z. Curry, of Butts.
Seventh District—W. C. Bunn, of
Polk; Albert S. Johnson, of Bartow.
Alternates, 4,, , O. N. _ T Starr, _ of _ Gordon; , H. „
' H ® r P er * P f F 10 ^
_ Eighth District—W. A. . „ Broughton, , .
of Morgan; David W. Meador, of Mad
i8on. Alternates, John W. W'right,
of Green; Moses G. Michael, of
ke A ,'V
v- Ainth District—Thomas . _ TT Hutchm- , , .
60n > of Cherokee; H. W. Bell, of Jack
oon. A. J. Alternates, J. H. Davis,of Towns;
Julian, °f Forsyth.
Tenth District—Lonis Cohen, of
Washington; H. A. Williams, of Glas
c ° c “- Alternates, Thomas Remsou,
of Linooln; W. R. Reed, of Taliaferro.
Eleventh District—John W. Ben
oett, of Ware; G. W. Smith, of Irwin.
Alternates, Glynn; Samuel E. Atkinson, of
Congressman E. T. Gentry, of Dodge.
Bartlett read the see
«ons of the platform indorsing the
Chicago platform of 1896 and pledging
we support of Georgia to William J.
* an . amid profound applause, dem
castrating jcints the fact that on these two
the Democracy of Georgia is a
The Rockdale
The platform calls for a limitation
of the power of taxation vested in the
legislature of the state, and suggests
a maximum tax beyond which the law¬
makers cannot go except in time of in¬
surrection or war, when the defense
of the state is necessary. Business
combinations of an unlawful nature
are condeinned in strong terms in the
platform, while the imperial policy of
the Republican administration with
reference to Porto Rico and the Phil¬
ippines is inveighed against in power¬
ful terms.
Governor Allen D. Candler with the
present statehouse officers, including
Captain R. E. Park, of Bibb, the uom-'
inee for state treasurer, were made the
nominees for the party in the coming
election by acclamation. Circuit court
judges and solicitors receiving the
largest votes in the primary were also
placed in nomination.
The convention expressed its thor¬
ough confidence in tie ability of Chair¬
man F. G. duBignon as the head of
the state committee, and in Vice
Chairman E. T. Brown, who as the
permanent and temporary chairman of
the convention, respectively, retain
their official positions on the stato
committee.
Two Democrats from each congres¬
sional district were named as members
of the committee, and at his leisure
Chairman duBignon will appoint in
a ditiou to these one member from
each district, who with the national
committeeman for Georgia will consti¬
tute the executive committee for the
next two years. An effort was made
to change the representation of the
controlling committee, but it met with
failure, aud in future the body will be
made up as has been the custom in
tho last few years.
At the close of the session Governor
Caudler appeared iu the convention,
aud as the “grand old democrat" from
Hull mountej to the speaker’s plat¬
form he was given a rousing ovation.
The governor, in expressing his thanks
to the assembled democracy, reiterated
the pledges he made to the couvention
two years ago.
The members of Georgia’s delega¬
tion to tbe national convention met at
tbe Kimball at 6 o’clock Thursday af¬
ternoon aud organized by tbe election
of Boykin Wright, of Richmond, as
chairman.
_____
The platform adopted is in part as
follows:
The Democracy of Georgia in eon
vention assembled indorse our state
administration aud commend our chief
executive, and oach of our state offi¬
cials, for their wise, patriotic and
economical administration of the
state’s affairs." Their unanimous nomi¬
nation and their certaiu re-election
will be but a justly deserved tribute
to their fidelity aud integrity.
W T e congratulate the people of Geor¬
gia on the present system of public
schools, inaugurated and brought to
its present state by tho Democratic
party, and we pledge tho best efforts
of tbe party to a oontinuauce of the
same.
We favor an amendment to the con¬
stitution of Georgia limiting the power
of the general assembly to levy and as¬
sess taxes for any purpose whatsoever,
exceeding a specified per suppressing centum, ex¬
cept for the purpose of
insurrection, repelling invasion and
defending the state in time of war.
We believe in ballot reform and fa
vor the enactment of suoh measures as
will secure honest elections, and be¬
lieve that suoh safeguards should be
thrown around the eleotive franchise
as will secure tho free and intelligent
expression of the will of the voter.
We favor an amendment to the Fed
oral constitution providing for the
eleetion of United States senators by
tbe direct vote of the people.
We are in f avor 0 f the immediate
construct i on an d control of the Nica
raguan caual by the United States,
We reaffirm and renew our belief in
tbe allegiance to the principles of
j) emocraC y a s contained and enumera
£ ed j n the national Democratic plat¬
f orln 0 f 1896, and we denounce the
Republican legislation in congress
hereby the single gold standard has
beeu f aatene d upon the people, for the
time being, we hope, and the control
of tbe curre ncy has been turned over
tQ the na ti 0 nal banks, whereby tbe
eatest a nd most oppressive of all
f rusts _the money trust—has been
created to feed upon the labor and
j ndugtr ies of the people, and to add to
the wealt]l and power of a favored
cla88i Tvho8e greed i 9 insatiable,
Tho 60 u ec ti 0 n of war taxes in times
of peace should be discontinued and
demand the repeal of the war rev
j euue tBX flct , -
CONYERS, GA.. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20,
We view with alarm the multiplica¬
tion of those combinations of capital,
commonly known as trusts, that aro
concentrating and monopolizing the
industries of the country, crushing out
the independent producers of limited
means, destroying competition, re¬
straining the opportunities for labor,
artificially limiting production and
raising prices, and we emphatically
declare our opposition to all such un¬
lawful combinations, and demand the
enactment of such laws, both state and
national, as will aid in the destruction
of these great combinations and trusts.
Public taxation should not be im
posed for private purposes; we, there¬
fore, adhere to the doctrine of a tariff
for revenue only.
We are convinced that the protective
tariff system is the hot-bed that has
produced these vast numbers of trusts
and combinations, and we demand that
they be suppressed by the repeal of
the protective tariff and other privilege
conferring legislation responsible for
them.
We demand that the 10 per cent tax
on state bank issues be repealed, so as
to permit a system of local state
banks, under such restrictions and by
the deposit of such securities as will
absolutely protect persons dealing
with them.
The Democracy of Georgia favors
the nomination of William Jennings
Bryan, of Nebraska, for president of
the United States, and the delegates
of this state ara hereby instructed to
unite with the Democracy of the other
states ol the union in making such
nomination.
Confident in the correctness of these
principles and policies, we cordially
invite all voters, irrespective of past
party affiliations, to join with us in onr
effort to give relief to tho p aople.
WILL PLEASE M’KINLEY.
Republicans Will Unanimously Carry Out
Wishes of President.
A Philadelphia special says: The
feature of the situation which oon
fronts the Republican hosts at the
olose of the week’s proceedings prior
to the assembling of the convention is
the absolutely unanimous disposition
to carry out fully tbe wishes of the
president in everything.
The overwhelming sentiment is that
having served one good term, McKin¬
ley deserves another, aud that good
faith and good politics demand that
the wishes of the candidate as nearly
as can be ascertained, shall be ro
spected.
THIRTY.FOUR STATES
Have Fl«tlge<l Tlielr Vote* To W. J. Bryan
As Candidate For President.
To nominate a candidate for the
presidency requires two-thirds of the
votes of the Democratic oonvention, or
G2L Mr.Bryan, by the favorable action
of the oonvention iu Ohio Thursday,
has 050 votes. Ho has carried every¬
thing before him sinoe Massachusetts
and Rhode Island led off iu the pro¬
cession of states.
The delegates to seleot him are
chosen by thirty-four states. They
are tho choice of free and open con-'
ventions and have instructions that
bind themselves steadfastly to stand
for him.
CABINET DISCUSSES SITUATION.
Hay l’reBonl. Facls Regarding Trouble
In the CUlnege Empire
The cabinet meeting Tuesday was
devoted largely to a discussion of tbe
Chinese situation. Secretary Hay laid
before the cabinet dispatches from
consular officers which indicated that
the situation is critical.
The steps that have been taken U
re-enforee Admiral Kempff were gone
over, aud it was decided to stand by
the policy which has been entered up¬
on of pushing measures for the pro¬
tection of the lives and property of
American citizens, and of acting in¬
dependently as far as possible.
GENERAL PILAR CAPTURED.
He Was the Modi Aggressive of Aguinal
do's Lieutenants.
A Manila special says. General Pio
del Pilar, the most aggressive and
most persistent of the Iuipino lead
ers has been captured and made a
prisoner at Guadaloupe, six miles east
of Manila, by some of the Manila na
tive chiefs. j
Hanna Will Hold On. |
A Washington dispatch says: It is ;
stated on high authority that Senator
Hanna will succeed himself as chair
man of tbe Republican national com- |
rcittee aud will conduct the coming
effuzawsm.
“UNIONS A MENACE”
Attack on Organized Labor Before
Industrial Commission.
THOMPSON’S EVIDENCE SENSATIONAL
Labor Lenders are Designated as Social¬
ists—Law Proposed as Remedy
Against Strikes.
A Washington special says: N. F.
Thompson, secretary -of the Southern
Industrial convention of Huntsville,
Ala., made a'somewhat sensational at
tack upon labor unions before the in¬
dustrial commission Tuesday.
"Labor organizations,” said Mr.
Thompson, "are tho greatest menace
to this government that exists inside'
or outside the pale of our national do¬
main. Their influence for disruption
aud disorganization of society is far
more dangerous to the perpetuation of
our government in its purity and pow¬
er than would be tho hostilo an ay on
our borders of the armies of the entire
world combined.”
Mr. Thompson declared that ho
made this statement from years of
close study, and a field of the widest
opportunities for observation, em¬
bracing tbe principal industrial cen¬
ters both of the north and south. In
support of the statement he said that
"on every hand, and for the slightest
provocation, all classes of organized
labor stand ready to inaugurate a strike
with all its attendant evils, and that
in addition to this, stronger ties of
consolidation are being urged over
the country among labor unions with
the view of being able to inaugurate a
sympathetic strike that will embrace
all classes of labor simply to redress
the grievances or light the wrongs of
one clasp, however remotely located or
however unjust may be the demands
of that class,
He asserted that “organizations
teaching such theories should be held
as treasonable in their character and
their leaders worse than traitors to
their country.”
Mr,. Thompson declared that many
labor leaders are open and avowed so¬
cialists; that their organizations are
weakening the ties of citizenship
nrnoHg thousands of our people, in
that they have no other standard these of
community obligation than that
organizations inculcate; that they are
creating widespread disregard for the
rights of others; that they are destroy¬
ing respect for law and authority
among the working classes; that
they are educating the laboring
classes against the employing classes,
thus creating antagonisms between
those whose mutuality of interests
should be fostered and encouraged by
every friend of good government; that
they are destroying the light of indi¬
vidual contract between employes and
employers, and forciug upon employ¬
ers men at arbitrary wages, aud that
they are bringing public reproach
upon the judicial tribunals of our
country by public abuse of these tri¬
bunals, and often open defiance of
their decrees, thus seeking to break
down the ouly safeguards of free peo¬
ple. Tbe remedy for the evils lies, he
said, principally in a correct public
sentiment touching tho relations that
should exist between capital aud labor.
"A law should be enacted that
would make it justifiable homicide for
any killing that oocnrred in defense of
any lawful occupation, the theory of
our government being that any one
has a right to earn an honest living in
this country, and any endeavor to de¬
prive one of that right should be
placed in the same legel status with
deprivation of life aud property.”
Strikes and boycotts, ho thought-,
should be made a felony both by na¬
tional and state legislation, and he
suggested the formation of state and
national boards of arbitration, author¬
ized and empowered to settle all mat
ters of differences between labor aud
ca pjt a i whose decrees should be bind
j n g on p ar ti e s affected,
Mr. Thompson j}fj expressed the opin
j on p U c sentiment in the south
wou | d j UBt ify the shooting of union
men w h 0 interfered with non-union
men at work. He said that the South
was holding out as inducements to the . !
manufacturers of textiles that they
will be free from labor strikes.
There is, he said, a movement on
foot to put it beyond the power of la
unions to disturb industrial condi*
fc on3>
Official Organ of Boekdale Coun¬
ty. Has Largest Circulation in
The County.
CUBAN ELECTIONS QUIET.
Little Interest Taken in the Mat.
ter-.National Party Elects
Its Entire Ticket.
General Alejandro Rodriguez, na¬
tionalist, was elected mayor of Ha¬
vana in Saturday’s election, polling
13,073 votes, against 6,034 cast for
Seuor Estrada Mora, independent.
The total voto fell about 4,500 below
the registration.
The national party elected its entire
ticket—eighteen couucilmen, tho treas¬
urer, one correctional judge and threo
municipal judges, The other correc¬
tional judgeship fell to an independ¬
ent candidate, ns (lid also the fourth
municipal judgeship. Of the Bix other
councilmeu four are republicans and
two nationalists; the latter ran inde¬
pendently.
Reports from every part of the
island go to show that perfect order
prevailed at the polls.
To an American observer of the
election, it seems as if the people re¬
garded the whole matter with absolute
indifference. There was not even a
crowd in waiting to hear the result de¬
clared. Not a cheer was raised, nor
were there any of tho ordinary indica¬
tions of election excitement, although
a demonstration in honor of the suc¬
cessful candidate took place Saturday
night.
The victory of the nationalists is
chiefly due to the fact that they were
first in the field, and had the benefit
of a well-disciplined organization.
The Associated Press correspondent
visited many booths which,were clean
and orderly. Thero was no confusion,
and voters were lined up awaiting their
turn. The Cubans, members of tho
boards said, were conducting the elec¬
tions in an exemplary manner, being
anxious to show their fitness for inde¬
pendence.
General Wood received nothing but
satisfactory accounts from all parts of
the island concerning the behavior of
the people during the elections. Gen¬
eral Lee, General Wilson and Colonel
Whiteside, all make similar statements
to the effect that everything was a
model of quietness and order.
WIRES ARE (JUT.
No Cables From Cliloa Are Working anil
All are GuoahI nff.
r Ahe Commercial Cable Company at
New York sends out the following
notice:
“The Siberian land lines are restor¬
ed and messages for Japan, routed via
Northern, aro now accepted without
restriction. The lines between Mai
matchim und Kagan, China, are inter
lupted. telegraphic
“We aro advised that
communication with Tien Tsin is to¬
tally interrupted.
The Western Union Cable Company
issues the following:
"Telegraphic communication with
Tien Tsin is interrupted.”
The central cable office of the West¬
ern Union at noon Saturday sent out
the following notice:
"In making connection with this
morning’s bulletin reporting the in¬
terruption of the Tien Tsin telegraph
liue we have been advised by tbe Great
Northern company that there is no
prospect of restoration of Pekin-Tien
Tsin lines. The Shanghai-Tien Tsin
line is totally interrupted beyond Bau
dau, near Tien Tsin, cutting off com¬
munication to Tien Tsin, Tako and
other stations in the north, The
above mentioned places are entirely
cut off telegraphically and messages
can only be forwarded at sender’s
BOERS IN PHILADELPHIA.
Stop Over to See Ifow a Presi¬
dent Is Nominated.
While the convention delegates were
arriving by every train in Philadelphia
the three representatives of the South
African republics, Messrs. Fischer, of
the Orange Free State, and C. H.
Wessels an$ A. D. Wolmarans, of the
also put in their appear¬
ance.
Mr. Wessels, when asked if there
was any significance in tho visit at the
time of the convention, said:
“Not in the least. We had ex
have meeting , here, . but
peeted to a
owing to the convention have given it
up. We are here simply as observers
—to see the manner in which your
nominations for the presidency are
made.”
NO. 23.
ARBITRATION FAILS
Gompers’ Plan to Settle St, Louis
Strike Falls Through.
THE TRANSIT COMPANY DECLINES
Strikers Declare War Will Now Bo
Waged With Boycott as the
Weapon.
War to the knifo was the slogan
adopted by the striking employes of
the St. Louis Transit Company Satur¬
day. This extreme actiou was decided
when the proposition adopted by tho
striking street car men looking to a
settlement of the strike was turned
down by the transit company.
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, an¬
nounced that negotiations between the
St. Louis Truusit Company and the
union looking to a settlement of the
strike on the basis proposed by the
union in mass meeting Friday wore
off. This announcement was made
at the conclusion of a conference
between Gombers, representing the
union, and President Whitaker and
Director McClure, representing the
Transit company. Mr. Whitaker said
at the conclusion of the conference
that he had no statement to make.
President Gompers made this state¬
ment regarding the failure to reach an
agreement:
"After three hours and a half dis¬
cussion with President Whitaker, I
am sorry to have to announce that tho
company has declined to submit tho
question of re-instatement of the men
to arbitration.”
President Mahon, of tho Interna¬
tional Association of Amalgamated
Street Railway Employes, when asked
what his association would do in the
premises, said: finish.
"This is now a fight to the
President Gompers told me this after¬
noon that he proposed to turn the en¬
tire power of the American Federation
of Labor, with its membership of
2,000,000 against tho Transit company
as a direct stab at tho vital principles
of unionism.
"The boycott to be declared will ap¬
ply uot ouly to the St. Louis Transit
Company, but to every person, every and
business man, every association,
in fact, every corporation or individual
favoring them in any way.”
MOB CHAHBS A WOMAN.
Mrs. Eva Doman was roughly
handled by a mob at Marion street and
Broadway Sunday. As she alighted
from a Transit oar she was quickly
surrounded by a crowd of girls who
shouted "scab” at her. A large throng
soon joined the" girls. Mrs. Doman
down several streets with the mob
in hot pursuit and sought refuge in
one Joseph Bone’s saloon, but Bene
pushed the woman back into tho .
street.
A woman living over the saloon sne
ceeded in getting Mrs. Doman to her
apartments, but not bofore both had
been pelted with mud and stones. Mrs.
Doman was escorted home by a police
officer. The police arrested Bene,
charging him with assault and battery.
The chief of detectives sent a cozen of
his meu to the neighborhood of Broad¬
way and Marion streets later in the
day to lie in wait for other crowds
that might attack women. X«ro detec¬
tives employed a woman as a decoy. the
As soon as the woman stepped off
car she was surrounded by a crowd.
The detectives used their clubs, doing
much damage to the heads of those in
the mob. The crowd soon broke and
ran.
BRITISH TROOPS DISMISSED.
Natal Volunteers Are Allowed to Quit
Service In South Africa.
A London special says: There are
some indications that Lord Roberts
considers the war’s end in South
Africa not far distant. One of these
is the fact that the Natal volunteers,
who had seen hard service, were dis¬
missed by Sir Redvers Buller Satur¬
day. They were cheered as they left
camp.
Another indication is the report cur¬
rent in authoritatively-informed mili¬
tary circles in London that a complete
division of regulars is to be withdrawn
from General Bullor’s army and em¬
barked at Durban for -China. The
troops drawn from India will probably
go next.