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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.