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iLSlccUUj, J. N. HALE, Editor. OFFICIAL ORCAN OF THE COUNTY. OFFICIAL ORCAN OF THE'ALLIANCE The platform adopted by the State convention is the best we ever read. xt is sail that Hon. George Hillyer will be a candidate for Congress against Livingston. Judge Hillyer will have a hard road to travel over in Douglass and Cambell. The manner in which the Fulton county dele¬ gation to the late co iventi m treated the Hon Joe James will make it against him. Mr. Hil yer’s friends w v -re too anxious for him to go to Chicago. We know* of no act of Hon. L. F. Livingston since he has been in Congress to put him in had order with the Democratic party. He was elected as a Democrat; bus acted with the Democrats and has done as much or more for the Demo¬ party in the district as any man'in it. On the presidential question we stand where we have al¬ ways stood, l^ersonally, we prefer Cleveland for his honesty and ability, yet believe it lin posible for him to carr^ New York and think it best to nomi¬ nate a Western man. This is the way we have always ex¬ pressed ourselves. Rockdale’s delegation to the late convention worked for no man. We selected our candi date for chairman of the con¬ vention and our delegates for the State at large to the Chicago convention at the dictate of no caucus, man or set of men. We voted always as a unit, the vote being cast by Judge Geo. W. Gleaton, and did our utmost to carry out the will of our peo pie. It was remarked often in the convention that Rockdale’s delegation w*as on« of the best there. They never lost their heads. They went there unin¬ structed and remained so. Com¬ promising with each other and working for the best. PRIMARIES. We believe that it is the pres¬ ent and fairest plan for all. the people to have primaries, Let the polls be opened in every dis¬ trict and the people allowed to express their preferences freely and fairly. We will have more to “ primarily. ” say A COLD RECEPTION. C. C. I 5 ost came down and spoke to the Third I’artyites and the Democrats last Satur¬ day, The reception at the train was very cold. The highest esti¬ mate puts the number present at toe speaking at 325, includ¬ ing women and children, white and black. The speech is said to have been the best ever de¬ livered here on his side of the question, yet it was calmly re¬ ceived—but little enthusiasm be¬ ing awakened. A Third 1’arty was organized in the evening with less than 50 Third Party men present. It was a poor “ rally ” and showed plainly that the noble people of Rockdale county are not yet ready to divide and fol¬ low after Yankee turn-coats of the Post stripe, and leave them¬ selves at the mercy of negroes and their radical sympathisers. The situation iu the tenth district is beginning to look very Black for Tom W arson. The Hanging. SEABORN SMITH WAS SWUNG INTO ETERNITY AT COVINGTON, ON THE 20TH OF MAY. Last Friday at 12.55, Seaborn Smith, charged and convicted of rapeing a little 14 year old ne¬ g ro gj 1 -j > was hung at Covington* Ga. He ascended the scaffold without a tremor and went down to his death without a word of reproach for anyone. He said ho was guilty of the crime and that he was going straight to the devil. His neck was broken by the fall and he was dead in six minutes. Sher¬ iff Anderson had things admira¬ bly arranged and was ably as¬ sisted by his bailiffs and Sheriff Austin of Rockdale and the on¬ ly Newton Glass, the Sheriff of Henry. We return thanks 'to Sheriff Anderson for courtesies shown. There was only a small crowd present and everything passed nicely and without a hitch of any kind. Below is a history of the crime for which notice we are indebted to Col. James Anderson of The Star. HLSTORY OF THE CASE. On the night of December 27, 1890, Seab Smith committed a a brutal outrage upon the per¬ son Leila Aiken, a young mulat¬ to girl, 14 years old, near the Georgia railroad, about 400 yards west of Covington depot. The crime was committed about six o’clock in the evening just after dark. At the time the outrage was committed, Leila Aiken, in com¬ pany with several other children one of whom was her brother and another her sister, was on her way to the African church, near the depot, to attend a Christmas tree. Her home was not far from the railroad, and in going to the church the children were travel¬ ing along the railroad track. When they reached the strip of woods above the depot, they were met by a negro mail. He stopped them and asked who they were, and where they were and where they were going. They told him who they were, when he caught hold of Leila Aiken, and said: “You are the one I want,” at the same time dragging her away from the road, and Jnto the woods. She struggled to free herself from him, and swore she hollowed as loud as she conld for help. Two of the little hoys struck the man in the back, and the man drove them away. The children all ran away and cried for help. The man carried Leila a short distance into the woods, aw ay from the road, where lie threw her down upon the ground, choking her severly to prevent her from making a noise, while ho committed the outrage upon her person. The man then ran off and es caped. Some persons having heard the cries for help, came to I,ei la’s assistance, but Luc man was gone. He had dropped his hat or cap, however, la the scuffle with Leila, which was picked up by some of those who came to her rescue. The girl was carried to her home, when she immediately informed her mother of what had happened. Her clotles were tom, and her throat was considerably swollen from the choking she had received. The prints of the man’s fingers were left upon her throat. She spoke in a hoarse voice, and complain¬ ed of her injuries. Dr. Frank B. Wright, a prac¬ ticing physician, who was liv¬ ing near the Affrican church, was sent for, and made an ex¬ amination of Leila’s condition. He found her person badly bruised, and she was suffering from the injuries the man had inflicted upon her. Some colored men arrested Seaborn Smith, the next morn¬ ing after the outrage, and car¬ ried him to the court house, and turned him over to the sheriff. A preliminary trial was held before Judge John P. Harris, and after a thorough investiga¬ tion of the case, in which he was indentified Dy Leila Aixen and the other children as the man who had assaulted Leila, Seab Smith was committed to jail, to await the action of the grand jury,. At the March term of New¬ ton superior court, Seaborn Smith was indicted by the grand jury for the crime of rape He was put upon trial at the same term of the court, was promptly convicted, without a recomendation to mercy, and sentenced to be hanged in May following. Col. James F. Rogers was en¬ gaged as council for Seaborn, and the court appointed Col. Ca¬ pers Dickson, of Oxford, and Judge George W. Gleaton, of Conyers, to assist Col. Rogers in the management of the case. The prisoner was, therefore, ably defended by his counsel, but was convicted by the jury, and was sentenced by the court to be hanged. An application was then made before Judge Boynton, by his csunsel, for a new trial, which was overruled. Judges Dickson and Gleaton carrieu the case to the supreme' curt, which high tribunal affirm¬ ed the judgement of the court below, and the last hope of sav¬ ing the life of Seaborn Smith from the gallows was gone! There was, consequently, noth¬ ing further his counsel could do to save him, and at the March term of our superior court, 1892 Seaborn Smith was again Sen¬ tenced to be hanged, by Judge Richard H. Clarke, of the Stone Mountain circuit, who fixed the date of the execution May 20, 1892. by I he help of god IT WILL REMAINbO. Carnesville Tribune, The negroes of our count v are peace able iiua contented in u.« ir spheie Let them ieiu«ia oo. L uat "Lille man, unless he i>e a demagogue of tLe lowest type, desiie to make of the colored vote is of our country restless, dissiatislied hunters after place and power? what whi'e man in the south worthy to be tru-iteU a» a icaao. ui l tied times, would seek 10 Col Wl'tJbt irom white Demociats .the dig uity of governmental control? We of the South feel the weight of % grave responsibility in our deft ‘ n 6 s wiih an inferior and unlettered lace. We would give to the negro |the ut most security and protection and liberty iu bis humble sphere, bu this is a white man’s government In other days ot strife and dissension the white voters of the South have been enabled to hold the balance of power, and , . by the help 0 f heaven white supiemaey will endure, despite the treacheous efforts of cowardly men to heap indignity upon our ple that the most bitter peo¬ South-hater has Republican not dreamed of accom plishing. SHOES. Ask my agents for W. L. Douglas SW_ II n**t for sale In catalocneP. yoor n|n.. .-u " k dealer to send for yon? “ ecur ll 1 J7!?r the agency, and get them for ® t?“TAKE NO SUBSTITUTE., qy C ipfg, ■ “V IKl \ FOR iBffifrJxteaaK foh (W A 3 $ WHY IS THE ES W. L. DOUGLAS THE BEST SHOE IN THE mLDnRmMOm» It is a seamless shoe, with no tacks or wax thread to hurt the feet; made of the best fine calf, stylish and easy, and because ice make more shoes of this graae than any other manufacturer t it Equals hand sewed shoes costing from $4.00 to $5.00. £*£■ 00 shoe Genuine offered Hand-sewed, the finest calf Imported ever for $5.00; equals Freneh ^ shoes which cost from $8.0.i to $12.00 «A OO stylish, Hand-«ewed comfortable Welt apd durable. Shoe, fine The calf, best shoe ever offered at this price ; same grade as cus¬ tom-made shoes costing from $6.00 to $9.00. 50 Police Shoe; Farmers, Railroad Men ** ° and Letter Carriers al X wear them; fine calf, seamless, edge. smooth inside, heavy three soles, exten¬ sion One pair will wear a year. 50 fine calf; no better shoe ever offered at fen this price; one trial will convince those who want a shoe for comfort and service. 25 and $2.00 Workingman’s durable. shoes given are them very strong trial will and Those who nave a wear no other make. $2.00 and $1.75 school shoes are their vjO worn by the boys everywhere; they sell on I merits, $3.00 as the increasing sales show. Bom C* B 9 Dongola, liand-newed shoe, best imported shoes costing from very $4.00 stylish; $6.00. equals French Ladies' to Misses the 2.50, best fine $2.00 Dongola. and $1.75 shoe for Caution.— ar6 See that W. L. Douglas* Stylish and durable. price stamped the bottom of name and are on each shoe. W« L. 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