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About The Solid South. (Conyers, Ga.) 1883-1892 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 8, 1891)
k IS* A 0 4 m <w v A /■ A5I /s TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE PRINCIPLE: “EQUAL RIGHTS TO ALL MEN AND SPECIAL PRIVILEGES TO NONE.” ol IX. Number 2? tjEl.XDIAF TRO UBLES I situation in the territory BY AN eye witness— [ THINGS in A BAI) STATE. , t ’ 0£ readers of The Solid South? 0 . I have a few spare moments I will L [subject V0U a few lines to inform you on of the removal of the m y The work has begun in erg been best Mr. .Bennett has Led [the within four miles of this place, Ld 9th inst, he sent forty wagons with intruders and their hous |d goods— the people numbering L u t one hundred and fifty- They re unloaded on the sand beach of d river cn the Texas side^ They i mostly poor people, and of course ,y wifi suffer. There has been a eat many people just moved off and t their crops, and, according to law, « e of them who have been reported intruders will not be allowed to turn- Less Everything is in a stir. is dead. The report has Lout from here that Mr. Bennett [using violence and treating the bple roughly but it is not the case, [ I am personally acquainted with > procedure and I know just what d bow he is conducting the removal. Mr. Streuler an ex Congressman im Iowa has visited Mr. Bennett’s Imp. He spent the night with the iter and 1 accompanied him to Mr. Iiiiiett's Camp, and he spent the Ijr with Mr. Bennett. He says that |r. Bennett is the right men in the ■Lf place for in the removal of those ■ties he < xcr&set the best of judge Bnt in regard to the wellfare of the bple and also of the Government. IGovenor Byrd has just returned Im ’Washington. While he was pe he sent Mr. Bennett a telegram [tifyinghim to issue no more Per p and it has created a great con pion work throughout of the country and p the removal has stopped. Suppose at present. Mr. Bennett Ives here this morning for Wash kton. What he is goiug for we r’t know. At present the excite 7 tut is at white heat and I am not [ i-t k> is say what will occur next, rumored here that Govenor Igg of Texas, has objected to those ►pie being put into that state, lough I don't know whether it is pc or not. [Though D0 settled in my opinion immediately if this trou r ‘- it will pk the business of this country, for Pse people who have tried to abide fthe laws are becoming very much Satisfied. It seems as if the In p authorities intend to have all r k°°dle posible in the case for they | c °fi e <-‘ting one dollar per head |de fax and there is more oposition than there is to paying the F mit - In my opinion if they per I m the collection of the tax on | tbe y meet with resistence, 1 ^ be authorities attempted the pe thing i n this country three rs ago and came very having near Dus tr °uble and look for the same l g again. ften Mr. Bennett returns I will 111 tbc leaders of The Sorid ' H what the program is. ,, [hue it . is true that some of the l^rs ot your valuable fpaper may interested in such letters as but I am particu iar anxious for person who reads The Solid B to read those letters and keep ^es posted-in this matter for Y bo 0i importance to those of are m lbe midst of the exeite p aud “tore or less to the people Conyers, Georgia, Saturday, August 8. 1891- througout the country. We are having rain here at present and the outlook for crops is good. Georgian. STILL ON DECK. The temperance people in Georgia are still on deck. And they make heir influence felt every once in a while. The farmers may be deeply interested in alliance issues, but they do not regard those issues of more importance than the temperance issue. Mr. Peeples’ bill which finally passed the House on Wednesday, and which the governor will sign makes Georgia almost a prohibition state. When it goes into force no intoxicating liquor can be sold legal ly within a radius of three miles of any church or school house outside incorporated towns. An exception is made in the ease of domestic wines. The Quitman Sun says there is considerable complaint among some of the taxpayers about that $13 000 surplus the county has on hand. They contend that it ought to be .in the pockets ot the people. On Tuesday last the bank of Thom¬ son was opened for business with a capital of $25,000 and a surplus of $2,500. Now that Quay and Dudley are out Harrison finds himself no better off than he was before. Even now the majority against him in the repub¬ lican national executive committee is overwhelming. Notwithstanding all the condem¬ nation and obloquy that has lately been heaped upon Prof. Koch the recent report of a prominent Berlin physician states that in the treat¬ ment of tuberculosis by the Koch method satisfactory results have been attained in 45 per cent of the whole number of cases. That is a good deal accomplished. The annual trade icview of the Savannah Morning News, to be is¬ sued about September 1, will contain the nsual history of the trade of the city during the business year. -* Savannah News. As the popula¬ tion of Georgia is according to the last census, 1,853,000, this would allow about five melons to every person in the state. This is just about what the population of Geor¬ gia did consume this year, and the state had 10,000,000 melons to ship, Besides 1,000.000 or 2,000,000 to lot ia the fields. i The Farmers Alliance in Kentucky, only polled about 20,000 on the State ticket, but it is conceded that the majority of the next Legislature will be farmers. The new constitu tion was ratified by a large majori l y The new constitution will tax rail ways, banks and stock companies, abolish tbeoffieeof Public Printer, provide for a secret ballot system and municipal government reforms and also carries an anti lottery clause which will wipe out the half dozen lottery charters now being operated with semi-daily drwings at Covington and Louisville in the interest of “policy” games through¬ out the Umited States generally. Hayti is quiet again. The latest news from there states that the out¬ break predicted for July' 17, will not take place and since then there has been no indication of any outbreak. AT THE CAPITOL News from the Political’Center. What Occurs to Interest You at Washington. Representative Mills left Washing¬ ton for Iow a, where he goes to make a series of campaign speeches in aid of the democratic cause. His friend representative Crain, who is in charge of his canvass for the Speakership, says of his prospects. “Mr. Mills is in the race to stay and to win. He is stronger to-day than when Congress adjourned and he is gaining strength every day; he has made accessions in the east and his splendid fight in the west and north west has given him a degree of strength there which will astonish his opponent. Mr. Mills favors the free coinage of silver, but he also believes that it is a question to be settled inside the party; the democratic party is a unit for tariff reform, but is divided upon the silver question. Why eject an element of discord in the party platform? Let us go on with the contest for tariff reform and settle all subordinate questions in own ranks after we shall have won tlie victory.” Represent a tive Crisp and his friends are just as confident of his election to the Speakership as Mr. Crain is that Mr. Mills will be elected. A democrat of national reputation is authority for the statement that an organized effort, is to be made to have the next national democratic conven¬ tion held in Baltimore. I asked him if that involved a movement for the nomination of Senator Gorman. He smiled as he said: “Not necessarily; but the fact that the convention is held in Baltimore, if it should be held there, need not be regarded as a bar to the presentation of the claims of Maryland's f avoids son for the nomi¬ nation.'’ Representative Chipruan, of Mich¬ igan, who is now in Washington, says the democrats of Michigan propose pressing the claims of Hon. Don. M Dickinson upon the next nominating convention, and that it isn’t a move¬ ment intended merely as a compli¬ ment to that gentleman, but is the re¬ sult of much consideration on the part of men who believe that he pos- seases all the attributes of a )success ful Presidential candidate, one who could carry Michigan beyond a shad¬ ow of a doubt. Can “Me too” Plait, the New York republican boss, whose favor Mr. Harrikon has purchased by the ap¬ pointment of J. Sloat Fassatt to be Collector of the port of New Yoik, save the Harrison vessel from being overwhelmed by the Blaine tidal wave which is now rushing upon the seem¬ ingly doomed craft? is an interesting problem to those interested in tne re¬ sult. It is not believed that Mr. Harrison will give up without making a desperate fight and if Mr. Platt can control the New York delegation for him his friendship is well worth ctil tivating. A gentleman figuring up ihe votes that Harrison can control all the Southern States, unless some¬ body is disposed to put up money to buy their votes; he can get the solid Indiana delegation through his con¬ trol of the machine in that State; ex Senator Spooner, Senator Sawyer and Secretary Rusk are ralied upon to contaol the Wisconsin delegation for him; Secretary Foster can certainly divide if he cannot control the Ohio delegation; Vermont is already pledg¬ ed to him through Secretary Proctor and if he can get the New York dele¬ gation he will start out with a strength not to be despised.” At last the long hung up reciproci¬ ty treaty with Spain for Porto Rico and Cuba has been officially announc¬ ed with a temporary schedule to go into effect September 1, and a perma¬ nent schedule July. 1892. A similar agreement with San Domingo is also announce.1 to take effect September 1. The fact is commented on that the largest single beneficiary under the Spanish agrement is the Standard Oil monopoly. Senator Butler of t South Carolina, who is cow here has been warmly congratulated upon his success in de¬ monstrating the felly of the sub¬ treasury movement in the South With his usual modesty he declines to take any personal credit for what he lias done, saying that he oulv pre¬ sented an array of facts against the scheme which must at once become apprent to any ordinarily intelligent man who will make a careful study of the proposition, and its probable ef¬ fects, keeping in view similar attempts recorded by history. Since it became known among re¬ publicans that Maj. McKinley made an appeal to the nations executive committee for money to save him from defeat there is a noticeable di¬ nt intion in the amount of brag in which they indulge. They now real ize that although Ohio is ordinarily a repu blican state the election of Me Kinky, haudii apped by his nnpopu lar and unjust tariff bill, is very far from bung a certainty, and most of them are willing to admit that the legislature is in doiftit. This is a very great change, and it is significant There is only one member of the administration on duty to-day. That is Secretary Foster and he is prepar¬ ing to go to Ohio this week, he says to take a vacation, but it would be safe to bet that he will work harder while there than he does when in Washington. The cotton worm is making its appearance in some of the western cotton states. At the next, meeting of the Oak Grove alliance there will be a public meeting and some good speakers will be on band to entertain the crowd. All are invited to attend. The meeting will be at night. DeKalb county will have a big al¬ liance rally at Rock Chapel on (Sep¬ tember 3. Prominent speakers from all over the state will be on hand. The grand Army is about to draw the color line. It don’t wan’o any “brothers in black” in the arganiza tion. Mr. and Mrs. Mause Townsend are spending a lew days with his mother in the city. On Saturday the 13th inst there will be a grand rally of the alliance of Newton county at Salem camp ground. It will be a public meet ing and all are invited to attend. The Augusta Chronicle is now preaching tiie power of national conventions to bind the voters in its platform. It matters not what might be the sentiment of the people of one or now stales they ar e compelled to submit to a platform made by Henry Watterson and two or three others. This is the position oi the Chronicle now, but a few years ago the same paper was doing high Tricking at the democratic platfoi^n and the candidate ot that paper. The Chronicle should be more consistent. Price per Year, 81.00 Self-Help Self-Male* William Cohhett an EnsTishmar, not unknown to lame in nis day and age, says: “I learned grammar when I was a private soldier on the pay of sixpence a day.” And then, after reciting the incidental disadvanta. gos, which vvere many, that he was obliged to undergo as a soldier, he remarks in after times, when tie had realized name and tame tor his ta lents and acquirements: “If, under circumstances like the-e, 1 could encounter and overcome the task, can there be in the whole world a youth who can find an excuse for the non performance? - ’ All of which proves that early dis advantages are not an insuperable bar to great accomplishments and future success. William Cobbetfc was a distinguished illustration of this fact. His example ought to be an incentive to our young men who seek to overcome untoward condi¬ tions, and thus rise above their cir cuinstances to higher elevrtions. A resolute will and determined persis tence will accomplish this task. There is encouragement, here which ought to stimulate and rouse the diacouraged ones to action. Let William Cobhett’s example be point ed at to renew hope und inspirecour age. (Start, out. boldly and resolute ty in the battle of liie and you will conquer. Dr. J. M. Young of Atlanta, has entered suit to recover on services rendered his own mother. This eu titles him to the belt, as being the meanest man in America. There is talk among the Macon military ol, foi miug a icginiHnt made up exclusively of macon companies. The plan is for the volunteers to di vide into three companies, and for the Cadets to do the same, and these combine with theFloyd Riles and Macon Light Infantry. The Monroe Advertiser is oppos ed to the proposition of uniformity of school books in the Georgia schools. General Booth, of the Salvation Army, is going to South Africa. It seems that his purpose is io establish a colony. There are a gr< at many con¬ verts among the Zulus, The Army suits thier style and no doubt the col ony will do well. 1 I like the Democrat, because you may always rely on him on the w T his key question. He always wants “fiee whiskey, and plenty of it ” But you never know where to find a Republi can unless you lmd Inin at the oung hole of the bio re).—Mrs. Lease at The sum of $40,000, which was to be raised by the Merci r University in order to obtain a gift of $10,000 from Mr. Rockeldfelder through the American Bap ist association, is being raised with great rapidity. Nearly $20,000 has been raised through the efforrs of Dr. Nunnallv, and sa he has ’till January J, in which to procure the remainder, he will in all probabii itv do so, and thus make Mercer tl e richer by $10,000. One mdliou two hundred and fifty thousand dollars annually is the amount the Louisiana State Lottery offers the Sta’.e to let.them do business in its territory. The anti lottery ele went is w’dl organized and will make a vigorous fight, Fd by the venerable p> r . Palmer and assisted by the Wo mans’ Auti Lo tery League. An organization has been formed in favor of the lotfcuy company, and the State is in for a regular campaign of money against morals.
