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A Democratic Victory.
The nomination of I’eckham to be a
justice of the supreme court of the
United States was rejected by the senate
Friday by a vote of 40 to 31.
Although party lines were not drawn
In the consideration of this nomination,
the result, nevertheless, is in the nature
of a democratic victory. A majority of
the senate has declared against re
warding any form of mugwumpery with
a seat on the supreme bench, and the
result is in accordance .with the desires
and expectations of the people. .
The infirmity of temper which has
been charged against Mr. Peckham is
not so important as the infirmity of tem
perament which has made him a mug
wump and an anti-democrat in politics—
which has arrayed him in whimsical op
position to his party whenever his as
sistance would have been timely and im
portant.
We heartily congratulate the senate on
the firmness it has displayed in reject
ing this man whose chief distinction
In New York state is based on tlie fact
that he Las made himself personally and
politically obnoxious to the democratic
leaders through whose efforts the demo
cratic organization in that state has been
made formidable and effective.
Now let Mr. (.'leveland please his party
End the country by sending in the name
of a man who is entirely worthy of the
place, both as a man and as a democrat.
If there is anything whatever in the
efficiency of democratic principles, it is
as important that they should make
their impression on the decisions of the
supreme court as on the legislation of
the country and the administration of
the laws.
Let Mr. Cleveland nominate a thor
oughgoing democrat to the place. The
country has had enou, h of m'ugwump
ery!
. . —< —
Did any statistical financier ever reuse
to reflet that the world's wheat crop of
1892 was less than that of 1887 by 120,(w.C00?
Wnat becomes of the theory of overpro
duction?
A Sarcastic Inquiry.
’A correspondent of The New York
Tieraid who writes over the signature of
makes this inquiry:
Wh it return an- these s>.::ti-.-ra and west
ern . tn •rats now makii ' by their income
tax Lili t > those democrat:; of New York
wit • a!. : vs "follow th? ’ver and km-p step
to tiie music" of the party organization?
< e.sidering the e< '.irse of r> cent events
we vnture to protest against any such
Inquiry as the for-going, which carries
sar asm far toward brutality.
U-.-.v far Lave ree< nt developments
h< ip I 1!;e < i ■ iiiion of the people of the
■ ■ :.?• Wh n the S i
a- t was Lroft'-'ht up for repeal, the dem
ocrats and ; publicans of tin* east,
statai ng sb .: ■ r p, shoulder, and form
ing a con.rolling e!em< -nt in congress.
Insisted that the repeal should be un
conditional. In other words they set
their faces firn iy against any substitute
legislation bus -d on the pledge of the
democratic party that both gold and sil
ver shall 1: • the standard money of the
country. They insist d and carried their
point. The Sherman act was repealed
mid silver as a money metal was left
without the sustaining force of substi
tute legislation pl< iged in t!:e <’ nioeratic
platform. The single gold standard was
established, and witii it the prostration
of business, the decline of property val
ues and the fall of prices. This was the
first gift of the united east to the south
•ind 4.west—the gift of highwaymen to
their victims.
The brutal sarcasm of The Herald’s
correspondent would have a deeper
meaning if the east had not thus far
seized and appropriated by far the
largest share of the results of legislation.
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.Mugwumpery will have to put a curb on
Its ambition.
On Hawks and Owls.
Hon. J. Sterling Moro n, the eminent
inti-granger who attends to the annual
Bisiribuiiou of squash and pumpkin seed
f"C ti.e government, semis The Consti
tution a circular postal card in which
Im remarks:
Replying to your request for a copy of the
bulletin on hawks and owls, issued by the
livision of ornithology and mammalogy of
; t, I i ret to say that the
edition is exhausted.
In vise another edition is ordered by the
next congress, you may obtain a copy by
applying to the congressman from your dis
trict.
This is very interesting, but as Tlie
Constitution has no recollection of hav
ing made a request for Mr. J. Sterling
Morton’s justly celebrated pamphlet on
hawks and owls, and has no possible
use for it. we are unable to say why he
Ihould fire his postal card sit us.
The profession followed by hawks and
owls has been pushed too far in
country already. We have reaso*
lieve that the people are the ’
hawks tiiat have more claws
ers, and of owls that fly »
daylight. We do not ne
I. Sterling Morton's *•
to find out about hawks and owls, nor
is it necessary to peruse the pamphlets
published by the bureau of ornithology
ami mammalogy.
We are told that the supply of Mr. Mor
ton's elegant and valuable essay on
hawks and owls is exhausted and asked
to write to our congressman tor a copy
in case the next congress orders a new
edition.
We are glad to announce, however,
that The Constitution doesn't want to
know’ any more about hawks and owls
than it already knows and that it does
not want to worry with Mr. Morton's
bureau of ornithology and mammalogy.
The Constitution hopes, moreover, that
this congress, as well as the next, will
devote all its time and attention to car
rying out the demands and pledges of
the democratic platform.
Let congress, instead of ordering now
editions of Mr. Morton’s great work on
hawks and owls, give the people the re
lief that the democratic party has prom
ised them.
Would a genuine democrat disgrace the
supreme bench?
India and tlie United States.
“A Georgia Banker’’ writes briefly on
the British policy .which has forced this
country to the single gold standard as
follows:
Editor Constitution—ln reading the ad
dress of Mr. Harcourt, who, in speaking for
the government in parliament, announced
that the mints of India would not be re
opened to the coinage of silver, I was
struck with the reason he gave for it.
"They will not be reopened,” said he, “be
cause India’s credit is not exhausted yet,
and it has still a limit of £9,500,000 on which
to borrow.” This presents the sum and sub
stance of the situation. In other words,
England will not permit the coinage of sil
ver until it has robbed India and caused
it to completely exhaust its credit, while
England becomes that much more thedebtor.
After that, England will have no objection
to free coinage, and as it is doing India,
so it is doing the United States. It wall
never consent to give up the single gold
standard until it has bankrupted the United
States, arid the only way to avoid bank
ruptcy is to return to honest bimetallism
and snap our lingers at Great Britain. And
yet we are doing today what poor, help
less India is doing, though the difference
is that we are supposed to be a free country
and can help ourselves, while India as a
British dependency must submit to its lash.
The English policy now is to exhaust the
credit of the United States, and after this
country is bankrupted and England tight
ens more than ever her hold as debtor, then
it may permit this country to settle its
currency problems without foreign dicta
tion. A GEORGIA BANKER.
Both India and tlie United States have
already been compelled to issue $50,000,-
000 in bonds as the first result, in each
instance, cf tlie demonetization of silver
and the establishment of the single gold
standard. India's limit will be reached
when $50,000,000 more are issued, but
the American republic is a goose that
can be picked indefinitely. Its credit is
supposed to be unlimited, but it will be
pushed to tiie verge of bankrputcy if the
shylocks have their way.
end? At what point will the British con
spiracy touch bottom? We shrink from
making the predictions that are justified
by the laws of cause and effect. There
fore we shall let the single gold standard
tell its own disastrous story day by day
in the market reports, hoping and trust
ing all the time that some unlooked for
and unexpected event will transpire to
give the people relief.
Peckham now knows how Hornblower
felt.
The Nebraska Episode.
The hanging of Hon. ,1. Sterling Morton
in effigy by the democratic club of his
own home in Nebraska may be regarded
from various points of view. It may
strike some as au unnecessary, even a
deplorable, exhibition of feeling over the
appointment of a republican official,
while to others it may appear in the na
ture of an emphatic rebuke to tlie man
who, since he has been in the cabinet,
has done more to weaken and destroy
the harmony of The democratic pa ty in
his state than all the long years of re
publican victory.
Whatever may be said with respect to
the propriety of the effigy hanging,
which will strike most people as a child
ish display, at once silly and impotent,
there is no doubt that the democrats of
Nebraska City, in common witii the dem
ocrats of tlie whole country, have reason
to be indiguant at Mr. Morton's desire to
reward a republican lender with oilice.
Th" flippant comment of Mr. Morton’s
son gives the key to his father's action.
“Battier is under obligations to few peo
ple in this section.” We have no doubt
that this pert remark is an echo from
Mr. Morton himself, and that it accu
rately describes the secretary's feelings
in the matter.
But this is where the trouble arises. A
democratic member of a democratic cab
inet ought to feel that he is under obliga
tions to tlie democrats of his own state,
as well as to the democrats of tlie whole
country. If he is a patriotic man and a
true democrat he cannot, ignore these ob
ligations. He should feel that he owes
h's position and his prominence to the
strength and influence of the party—to
the democratic voters who have made
his appointment to a cabinet place possi
ble.
There is another trouble that goes
deeper than the forget fulness of high
democratic officials. That deeper trouble
has as its nucleus the policy tiiat seeks
for cabinet material in tlie various nooks
and corners of the country until it finds
men who are willing to surrender their
convictions in return for official favor.
Tn one instance the whole body of demo
cratic loaders has been given the cold
shoulder in order that a republican who
happens to have a genial disposition may
- be appointed to the principal post in the
! cabinet. In other eases the whole coun
' try has been searched for democrats who
are willing to forswear the policy of their
party and give allegiance to the plans of
those who favor the single gold standard.
The cabinet has apparently been formed,
not. for tlm purpose oi' strengthening the
pariy and adding to its influence with
the people, but for the purpose of forcing
to success the plans of the eastern money
sharks, which are antagonistic to every
democratic principle.
This trouble goes deeper than the mere
desire of Mr. J. Sterling Morton to
wound the democratic party in Ne
braska. The influence which Mr. Morton
exerts is baleful enough, but it is not so
■rious or so disheartening as the policj’
ich seizes upon small men, who are
'ng to surrender their convictions for
r cut the .wrecking policy
viometallism.
-jyust and indignation have
THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION: ATLANTA. GA.. TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 20,1894.
taken possession of all democrats who
are waching the course of events. But
they have no doubt of their party—they
do not distrust the organization. They
are not indignant with those who are
striving for the sunermaey of democratic
principles. But they are doubtful and
distrustful of the policj’ that runs coun
ter to the hopes of the people and the
pledges of the platform, and they are in
dignant with those who are Browing
away’ a great opportunity—an opportu
nity that the party’ has been seeking for
more Ilian a quarter of a century—to re
form legislation and to give the people
the relief that republican maladministra
tion has made necessary.
This is the situation today, and, al
though it is a serious—nay, a danger
ous-situation, there is one fact that
gives us hope. The people are standing
together. They perceive that it is abso
lutely’ necessary to their welfare that the
democratic organization be held firmly to
gether. The divisions heretofore exist
ing have disappeared. The mutterings
of discontent with lhe party arc silenced.
The little movements and schemes look
ing to new’ movements have come to a
sudden end. The calamities that have
attended and followed the establishment
of the single gold standard have aroused
the people to tlie vital necessity of main
taining and strengthening thf’ democratic
organization.
Mugwumpery doesn't go in the senate.
Sherman’s Soldiers for Atlanta.
The men who marched to the sea de
sin* to march in that direction again!
The Sherman post of the Grand Army’
of the Republic at Bloomington, 111., the
old home of Vice President Stevenson,
is unanimously’ in favor of Atlanta as the
next meeting place of the Grand Army
veterans.
The overwhelming significance of this
ami other expressions of opinion from
the west and the east cannot be under
rated. Th<‘ matter is now entirely’ in our
hands. When our committee presents
Atlanta’s cordial invitation to the Grand
Army’ reunion at Pittsburg, there can bo
lint one response, and it will be just
what wo desire.
The Grand Army men have visited re
mote points east and west, and they now
desire to hold a reunion at a central
point—one that will carry them south
among the battlefields. Naturally, they
prefer the historic city of Atlanta. The
veterans in the east want a southern
trip, and Sherman's legions in the west
are unanimously in favor of taking up
the line of march which they made thir
ty years ago.
Atlanta is ready’ for tlie new invasion,
and her gates are wide open. We can
show some of the old-time scars of war,
but we can also show the rose gardens
of the new south covering the old re
doubts where Sherman and Hood met
in their death grapple. We can point
out here and there a ruin left by war,
but we can also point Io the stately
edifices which have risen in peace.
This reunion will be an object lesson.
The people of the south desire to shake
hands with the men who once came as
foes but who now desire to come as
friends, and the people of the north are
anxious Io meet face to face the men
who in peace have won victories far
more important than those of thirty
years ago.
Clear tlie decks for the Grand Army!
It is coming to Atlanta!
The "statistical” position of silver seems
to be more important than that of cotton.
A Parallel Case.
According to the latest advices by the
steamer Alameda, the Americans in Ha
waii have ostracised Minister Willis and
his family since it became apparent that
it was the minister's intention to restore
the queen.
While it is true that Minister Willis
was not responsible for the attempt to
restore the monarchy, it is only natural
that the Americans and other white resi
dents should refuse to hold social inter
course with him. Every southern read
er will understand the situation at a
glance. Under the provisional govern
ment the conditions in Hawaii closely’
resembled those which existed in the
south during the reconstruction period.
In those days the vital problem with
the whites was the establishment of a
stable government wliich would put
them in control and suppress the law
lessness of the blacks. This matter was
of such supreme importance that, when
carpetbaggers and aliens came here to
interfere with our institutions and dis
turb social order by organizing the
blacks against the whites, we were
forced in self defense to treat them as
public enemies and ostracise them. The
Americans and whites in Hawaii have
to deal with the same difficulties which
confronted the southern people at the
close of the war. They’ are doing their
b. st to maintain a government under
which civilization, progress .and peace
and order will bo assured. They find
it necessary’ to hold in check a semi bar
barous race of blacks, and if they cannot
do this their lives and property’ will be
endangered, and they will probably have
to abandon the islands to a people who
would soon relapse into savagery. Like
tlie southern whiles in the reconstruction
days, those plucky’ Americans cannot
feel kindly’ towards the outsiders who
are working against tlwir interests, and
attempting to place the blacks in su
preme control. This is why they’ ostra
cise Minister Willis.
With this understanding of the facts,
every southerner will naturally sympa
thize with, the Americans in Hawaii.
They are going through tlie same strug
gle that we went through after the war,
and tiie action of congress in deciding
not to interfere with them amounts to
a declaration that they are in the right.
It is to be regretted tiiat Minister Wil
lis has been placed in such an unpleas
ant position by the republican secretary
of stale. As a southern man, familiar
with our old reconstruction conditions,
ho is personally opposed to the policy
which he was instructed to carry out.
His good judgment caused him to delay’
action until the matter came before con
gress, and this discreet course saved our
government from what would have been
a very disgraceful complication. His in
structions. if executed. would have
turned the whites over to a savage race,
whose queen Mould have beheaded the
leaders ami confiscated tlie property of
others. Such a policy perhaps may’ suit
Mr. Gresham, but there is nothing in it
that can make it justifiable in the eves
of democrats, and especially southern
democrats. Fortunately, congress has
sided with our brother Americans in Ha
waii to the extent of leaving them to set
tle their own problems. Any other policy
would have been a blow to civilization,
and Mr. Gresham doubtless realizes by
this time that his fellow countrymen take
this view of it.
Cotton was IS cents a pound in gold in
1873. It is now about 7 cents a pound in
gold.
The senate seems to be laying in a store
of backbone. The house ought to find out
where the supply is.
Kxit Brawley.
Congressman Brawley, of South Caro
lina, has sent a letter to the house an
nouncing that he has forwarded his
resignation to Governor Tillman. Under
all the circumstances it is hardly proba
ble that the governor will have any seri
ous hesitation in accepting this resigna
tion.
The fact reminds us that Congressman
Brawley’ is one of the luckiest of south
ern politicians. Indeed, with one excep
tion, he is the luckiest of all.
Elected to represent the interests of
the people, ho. has steadfastly refused to
do so. He has persistently opposed every’
financial measure calculated to give re
lief to his constituents. He has voted in
favor of every measure which had lhe
influence of the banks and the money
power behind it. He opposed tiie finan
cial pledge of the democratic platform,
he voted against silver legislation, and
he has been from first to last a con
sistent, supporter of the financial policy
of John Sherman and the coalition of
eastern democrats and republicans who
take their orders from the great repub
lican financier.
But ex-Congressman Brawley's good
luck does not consist in the fact tiiat he
has steadily’ opposed every’ measure cal
culated to give the people financial re
lief, nor in the fact that he aided in
striking down silver and establishing the
single gold standard. Not at all. It con
sists in the fact that circumstances have
so adjusted themselves to his desires as
to relieve him of tlie awkward necessity
of appealing to his coiiMiluents to en
dorse his course so far as to give him
another term in the house.
Mr. Brawley's luck lias raised him
above that necessity. He has no need
to apply to the people for further em
ployment against their interests. He has
been given a federal judgeship, which
carries with it a position for life, to
gether with all the honors and emolu
ments that belong to the federal bench.
If misrepresenting the people of his
district and state .and supporting tlie in
terests of the money sharks of the east
constitute a measure of judicial ability’,
Mr. Brawley will certainly make a won
derfully able judge.
It is a remarkable coincidence that Mr.
Brawley, of South Carolina, the only
South Carolinian who voted against sil
ver as a money metal, and Mr. Herbert,
of Alabama, (lie only Alabamian, who al
so voted against silver, should have been
lifted high on the tide of oflicial favor.
Mr. Brawley, as wo have seen, has been
made a federal judge, and Mr. Herbert,
as everybody knows, is a member of the
cabinet.
It is a remarkable coincidence indeed
that these men, opposing the most vital
interests of their people, should have
been lifted into snug offices. If it is any
thing more than a coincidence it seems
to us that a few other industrious con
gressmen are drawing dangerously near
the hour of promotion.
Mr. Peckham can now devote himself to
mugwumpery in its worst forms.
Facts from William Street.
The most violent of the brethren who
engaged in the deal to force tlie uncon
ditional repeal of the Sherman law on
the country’ was the firm of 11. Hentz &
Co., of William street, New York. This
combination was for storming the cita
del. as it were. The gentleman who
writes their circulars would not listen
to any’ arguments going to show that
the Sherman law was not responsible for
the hoarding of money and currency that
was the fust symptom of the collapse
of property values and prices.
In short. Hentz & Co. were even more
vigorous in their efforts than the Claf
lins. Tlie Claflins flooded the country
with circulars, it is true, but so did Hentz
& Co., but there was a picturesque aban
don and recklessness about the language
and arguments of the last named firm
that the Claflins could not hope to rival.
Hentz & Co. believed that the existence
of the earth and the fullness thereof de
pended on unconditional repeal, and they
declared that prosperity would take pos
session of everything and everybody as
soon as the law was got out of the way
without substitute legislation. Other
wise the country would go speedily to
the dogs.
But, as our readers well know, there
has been a hitch in the programme. Tiie
obnoxious law has been repealed, and
there has been no substitute legislation,
but tlie prosperity that was waiting to
take possession of all things lias refused
to materialize. The country is in a worse
condition now than it was when Hentz
& Co., with others, w<’re engaged in
the great speculative deal of uncondi
tional repeal.
Tlie Claflins In making up lheir bien
nial report, have already discovered tiiat
there is something wrong somewhere.
Hentz & Co. are also beginning to dis
cover that results have not panned out
to fit their predictions. We have been
favored with two of Hentz & Co.’s re
cent circulars, and we discover in them
an “undertone” about silver that is ab
solutely amazing.
On February 9th these unconditional
repealers announce that they’ have in
formation that many mills at Provi
dence, R. 1., will adopt short time; that
some fine goods mills in New England
will be compelled to stop; and that pos
sibly some mills on export goods—“the
latter owing to the decline in silver.”
On February 10th Hentz & Co. have a
repetition about the shutting down of
New England mills, and then this: "De
mand for export goods has been seri
ously contracted. The low price of sil
ver is a bad feature.”
The low price of silver! Just think
of it! A firm that has been trying io
move the earth—and would have moved
heaven if it could—to lower the price of
silver, is now calmly’ sending out the
results of the wrecking policy which it
helped to carry out.
There was profit for tlie money lend-
ers in the deal that re-established the
single gold standard in this country, but
there is nothing in it for the people, or
for tlie business and manufacturing in
terests of the country but loss and ruin
nothing in it for the workingman but en
forced idleness and lower wages.
That is what gold monometallism
means in this country.
It is to be hoped that Mr. Voorhees won’t
strain his eyes looking for England to re
store silver.
Fleeing from a Dago.
And now conies the Princess Colonna,
fleeing from France to her friends in
America in order to escape a rascally
rake and gambler who is supposed to be
a prince in his own country. And so lie
is a prince—a prince of frauds and ras
cals—a dago prince from the crown of
his head to the sole of his foot.
Tints it happened that the Princess
Colonna, tlie wife of a dago prince, was
compelled to kidnap her children and
flee with them to her American friends.
But this lady, tlie step-daughter of John
W. Mackay, the California millionaire,
still clings to tlie title, in spite of the
fact that it lias an odor of stale vermi
celli and garlic about it. ami she would
no doubt resent, any’ failure on tlie part
of her friends to bestow it on her.
But what a pity it all is! What a pity
tiiat any self-respecting American girl
should so far forget her training and her
self-respect as to marry a man for his.
title—especially a man of a different
race! Alas! a young girl who has been
reared in the lap of luxury, rarely’ learns
the value of other things. She knows
that momw will buy everything she
needs, and she lias a. vague idea that it
will buy’ content and happiness.
When a rich American girl goes to
Europe, word goes around among the
rakes, roues, dagoes and broken-down
vagabonds who have their habitation in
the lands of fraud and misery. Where
upon they swarm around her and pay
court to her—princes, earls, marquises,
and what-not—an ignoble gang with no
ble pedigrees and titles made to order.
Money will buy an American girl any
kind of a title in Europe, but she must
take a vagabond witii it as lagniappe.
And it always happens that when the
vagabond goes with the tide, the rich
American girl gets more than she bar
gained for The money’ that bought Ihe
title cannot buy love, or happiness, and
the title without these is not worth a
handful of American mud.
All things considered it is a pitiable
spectacle the Princess Colonna makes in
fleeing from the dago who has abused
her, and who would now sei’ze her chil
dren as a part of his scheme of black
mail. It is a spectacle that ought to be
a warning to all American girls whose
minds have been perverted by false ideas
in regard to the dignity of European
titles 1 . There is not a washerwoman in
New York who has love in her house that
is not happier than the Princess Col
onna today.
It may be said of John W. Mackay that
he is a very manly man in all respects.
With millions at his command he his
never deceived himself In regard to the
advantages of the shams and frauds of
European society. He lias never ming
led in the vulgar show, and ho was nev
er for a moment deceived as to the char
acter of the dago prince. He warned
his wife's daughter—according to all
accounts—that the man was a vagabond,
a gambler and an adventurer; but the
girl said she loved the creature, and this
settled the matter. Mr. Mackay paid
the dago’s gambling debts, and settled
a princely’ income on bis step-daughter.
It is greatly to his credit now, after
the Princess Colonna had rejected his
fatherly advice, that he is ready’ to re
ceive her with open arms when she
comes to New York a fugitive from the
tith'd dago.
There ought to be a warning in all this
for American girls who look witii long
ing eyes ou the titles that are for sale in
tiie European shop windows. As a
matter of fact, however, the foolish girls
who inherit American fortunes will not
be warned. Mr. Mackay’s step-daugh
ter was deaf not only’ to the advice but
to the entreaties of those who knew bet
ter than she did the real character of the
vagabonds who wear titles in Europe;
and now the inevitable end has come and
her misfortunes are dragged up and
down in the columns of the newspa
pers of the civilized world.
Naturally’ the young woman is unhap
py, but her condition might be far worse
than it is, and assuredly it is now far
better than it has been. An American
girl who escapes alive from a titled dago
ought to consider herself extremely for
tunate.
EDI TORI A
Tlie sinking of the old Kearsarge Is a
great blow to the officers of the federal
navy. The ship made a line record during
our civil war.
Tn tho obituaries of the late George W.
Childs, much was said about his philan
thropy. A correspondent of The New York
Sun writes that two days before Mr. Childs
was taken ill he received letters from Can
on Farrar and the daughter of Charles
Dickens, in which both thanked the Phila
delphian for cheeks for SIOO each had re
ceived from him to be used among the poor.
Germany, whose population Is about 50.-
000,000, had 21,621 physicians in 1893, against
20,500 in 1892; that is, an increase of 1,521.
That makes about 4.37 doctors for every
10,000 inhabitants, but they are not equally
divided throughout tne empire; for in some
regions there are not even two doctors for
every 10,000 inhabitants, while in other dis
tricts there are thirty of them for the same
number of population. Germany possesses
also 915 dentists and 4.988 druggists.
FBOWEU AXD GARDEN SEEDS.
Announcement of the Enmons House
of W. Atlee Durpee dt Co. for ISO 4.
Tiie famous seed house of W. Atlee Bur
pee & Co., Philadelphia, announce that their
annual seed catalogue and floral guide for
1891 is now ready for the public. This
catalogue is probably the most complete
list of seeds, flowers and plants issued in
the United States. This house has for a
long time stood in the front line of Ameri
can seedsmen and has been particularly
successful in Its southern trade, making
a specialty of seeds adapted to this section.
As they guarantee all their goods to be
of the very best of their kind, they have
for a long time held a large list of cus
tomers in all the southern states. At this
season of the year, when every one is
preparing- for the spring gardening, their
illustrated seed catalogue is of great value
and should be in the hands of every
gardener in the south.
A postal or letter request to tlie above ad
dress will obtain their catalogue free of cost.
The Constitution cheerfully commcuds tha re
liability of the house.
THE SOUTH NOT RESPONSIBLE.
Unredeemed Pledfres Most Not Be Eaid
nt It» Door.
From The New York Herald.
Since the presidential aspiraHonn of the
Hon. Thomas Brackett Reed have
passed the chrysalis state, and he has
blossomed into a full grown candidate for
the republican presidential nomination, his
recent Philadelphia speech possesses a
deeper significance than appears on the
surface. Indeed that speech was delivered
more in behalf of the Hon. Thomas
Brackett than of that distinguished re
publican veteran. Hon. Galusha A. Grow,
the republican candidate for congressman
at large, in the interest of whom Mr. Reed
took the stump in Philadelphia.
The keynote of Mr. Reed’s address was
his attack on the south. He has always
been a south hater, and his political career
has been characterized, more than by any
thing else, by the persistency of his assaults
on southern interests. He is the prince of
the rapidly diminishing band of south hat
ers—the unconquered pirate who yet sails
under the Bloody Shirt, pursued by the
civilized and conservative sentiment of a
generation which looks upon his sectional
buccaneering pretty much as it would
upon the reappearance of Captain Kidd
upon the high seas.
But this savage enemy of the south —this
sectional desperado—surpassed himself in
the hostility of his warfare on the south
in his Philadelphia speech, and his wonder
ful ingenuity was never more clearly mani
fested than in the adroit plan of his cam
paign as appears between the lines of that
address.
The following paragraph from the speech,
which can be taken as the text of the
whole address, is a Tait* sample of his
revised plan of attack on the south:
“Are the people no longer the rulers of
this country? How much longer are we to
have over us a set of irresponsible ty
rants? Why is it that this country is in
the hands of one-fourth of its citizens? I
will not be accused of sectionalism when
I say that the southern men are in control
of the democratic party, for 1 am simply
saying the Lord’s truth.”
This is misleading trom beginning to
end! It is the most unjust extreme to
which even Mr. Reed has yet resorted in
the long series Os his quixotic attacks on
the south. As an humble but devoted south
erner I protest against it. and the senti
ment of every southern state will repudiate
the charge that southern influence is re
sponsible for the policy wliich iias uoml
nated the administration since it came
into power a year ago. It is quite ingenious
in Mr. Reed to justify his long warfare
against the south by holding it responsible
before the country for the evils which have
resulted not from carrying out but from
repudiating the most salient obligations of
the democratic platform.
It is true the south played a conspicuous
part in the making of the platform, but it
is equally true that it is not responsible
for the breaking of it. And yet it will be
hard to convince the country that the south
is not responsible for the evils which have
visited us like the plagues of Egypt, for in
the hands of such astute republican leaders
as Mr. Reed circumstantial evidence will
be used with powerful effect before the na
tional jury.
“Look at the cabinet,” they will say. and
emphasizing the fact tiiat three out of eight
of its members are from the south, they
will ask if southern sentiment is not large
ly responsible for shaping the policy which
is the outcome of cabinet deliberations, and
the voice of the dissatisfied and the discon
tented throughout, the north, unfamiliar
with the facts, may be Inclined to affirma
tive response; for when the pinch comes
will those democratic representatives who
have repudiated democratic obligation;; and
by co-operation with the republican minori
ty in congress have succeeded in outnum
bering the democrats who have stood for
party honesty, be brave enough and can
did enough to say to their constituents
that the south does not merit the responsi
bility which partisan prejudice seeks to
place upon it?
It is true that three of the eight members
of the cabinet are from tiie south, but there
is not one of the three who did not surren
der lock, stock and barrel, and burn the
incense of his convictions upon the altar
of cabinet promotion. Wha". better evi
dence can there be of tiie fact tiiat Mr.
Cleveland was not looking for representa
tives of southern sentiment in making up
his cabinet than his choice of three south
erners whose chief qualification v. as their
readiness to co-operate in the establishment
of the single gold standard, notwithstand
ing the fact that the states from which
tiiey were appointed were practically unani
mous in their opposition to the consumma
tion of the outrage!
Since the democrats came into power
nearly a year ago, southern sentiment has
been persistently ignored in shaping the
policy of the administration, and Mr. Reed
knows it. In tlie successful campaign in
the establishment of the gold standard and
the complete demonetization of silver, the
representatives of the south were helpless
against the combined forces of republicans
and democratic repudiators, led in the
house by Mr. Reed himself. Tln.<e was
never a day in that long contest when the
democrats who were co-operating with Mr.
Reed would have been willing to submit the
settlement of this vital question to a party
caucus. Why not? Because the south stood
like a rock wall between them and
the consummation of the conspiracy
to reduce valuations to the gold standard
basis and hold lhe currency of the country
to the contracted limit of the grasp of the
money power.
If, as Mr. Reed charges, "the people are no
longer the rulers of tills country; ' if ‘five
have over us a set of irresponsible ty
rants;” if “tlie country Is m tne bands of
one-t’ourth of its citizens,” it has been
because this alarming condition has been
brought about in spite of protests trom tlie
south. Southern men are not in centre; oi
the democratic party, and Mr. Reel dues
not “simply say the Lord's e uth when lie
charges it. Southern men are not responsi
ble for the appointment of mugwumps and
repub.icans to the highest offices with'.n
tin; gift of the admmistratioil. Southern
men are not responsible tor the indifference
wliich such appointments have created in
the ranks of the organized democracy
throughout the country, if tne country is
dominated by a “set of irresponsible ty
rants” they are not from the south. It
Mr. Reed tries to mike a sectioi.al issue
out of this argument he will soon rind
h'mself in deep water, lor in the general
complaint which ha . followed the repudia
tion of the democratic obligations none is
more emphatic than that which comes
from the south.
Mr. Reed's revised plan of attacic on the
south should have- at least one good effect.
It should put every democratic representa
tive from the south on notice that the south
is to be Li .*i responsible for whatever Is
or is not done. They shou.d, therefore, be
prepared to accept accountability, and the
only way to do so is to st tnd to the demo
cratic rack and carry out every p!?dge of
tlie democratic pla;t*?rm with er without
tiie consent ot’ the element which is being
used bthe republicans as a catspaw to do
that whieii even the republicans when in
power dai 1 not do. Mr. Reed has sounded
a note of warning to the southern repre
sentatives in congress, and if they do not
take advantage of it, it will be their own
fault, and the south will have to pay the
penait’. . Tiie situation is assuming a set.-
ous st tge now and the resuit de; n.tls en
tirely upon the determination of the demo
crats to carry out the pledges of their plat
form. CLARK HOWELL.
Atlanta, February lltli.
GEORGIA AND THE BONDS.
Frankling News: The gold sharks can
force an issue ot’ bonds at will. They do
so through the advantages they possess
through class legislation. They pay practi
cally none of the tax. But when an income
tax is talked of they denounce it as class
legislation, and declare it must not
pass. And the way congress is mon
keying with tlie matter it seems the sharks
will follow up the old role of having their
way. It will be a shame on the glorious
name of democracy if they do.
Irwin County News: We are unable to
see why Secretary Carlisle should not coin
the silver bullion now in the treasury which
is ample in amount to relieve the present
pressure, instead of issuing bonds, upon
which the government would have to pay
interest. The scheme of Secretary Car
lisle pleases the capitalist immensely, and
as it has been satisfactorily demonstrated
that the interest of the common people
cannot be harmonized, we may well scrutte
nize the merits of this alleged ultimatum.
The Democratic Imw.
From The Wilmington Messenger.
If Cleveland had told the people plainly
clearly—without circumlocution or cum
ning phrases formed to mislead ar perplex
—tiiat if eleceted he. would pursue the very
policy he lias in all particulars, we verily
believe that ho would not have received a
single southern electoral vote. He planted
himself squarely, unreservedly, openly, de
liberately, after fully considering the mat
ter, upon the Chicago platform, that is
the plain law that binds him. Any faiiuro
to honestly, fairly maintain that law is a
betrayal of his promise. It matters not in
the least what lie may have said or writ
ten or done prior to 1:92, that Goes not in
the least degree exonerate or relieve hmi.
He committed himself fully ami without
any hint of reservation, to the great funda
mental principles enunciated at Chicago,
and that binds every loyal amt genuine
democrat until in convention of ail the
states the law of 1892 is either superseded
or changed. That is the way we look at it.
That is what wo believe.
FIND THE MISSING
WORD
TO MARCH IST.
AN INTERESTING CONTEST IN WHTOH
EVERYBODY HAS THE SAME CHANCE.
The Missing Word competition craze .8 the
latest fad in England. It is exciting the
whole country, and hundreds of thousands of
people are raek.ug their brains for missing
words.
Several London weeklies have started what
they call “missing word competitions.” and
the craze has affected all England to such an
extent as to block the money order office and
embarrass the whole postal service. The
scheme is this: A sentence is printed every
week from which oue word .s omitted; for
instance, "Smith is a.” and people are
invited to send in their guess with a money
order for a shilling. The money sent in is
d.vided among the gueesers wijri name the
correct word. A fev weeks ago one paper
distributed $.15,0<J0 among forty-three correct
guessers, each man recelv ng over SBOO for
his shilling. ’l’he money order blanks have a'.l
been used up ar manv postoffices, the mails
are clogged, am! clulie nave been organized
to go into the guessing business.
To Constitution Readers
The Constitution makes this proposition:
Among those who supply the miss.ng word in
the following seutenee, between now and the
Ist of March, 1894, we will divide one
fourth of the subscrip "ion receipts of all those
who send guesses with their subscriptions.
This leaves us the bare and actual coat of
furnishing the paper to subscribers'for tne
year.
The Sentence.
“IN SOCIETY’ THE AEL ABSORBING
TOPIC IN ENGLAND DURING THE
QUARTER WAS THE PRINCE OF
WALES AND THE AFFAIR. .”
Supply the missing word in the above sen
tence, and if you guess tiie correct word you
wiii share with the others who are as fortu
nate one-fourth of the receipts from tho sub.
scr.ptions of all those who guees.
The Guarantee.
No one knows the word missing except ths
managing editor, who has placed it In a
sealed envelope and which will oe opened on
March Ist. We pledge our honor that the
d.vision will be made and published just in*
outlined.
The Prospect.
Suppose 5,000 guesses were made. This
wou.d leave $1,250 as oue-fourth of the sub
scription receipts, for so many names, to bo
d.vided am >ng the successful guessers. Sup
pose ten persons guessed Lhe Word, rhA would
give them $125 each: if twenty. $62.50, etc.
Suppotm there are 10.000 guesses—Wrich fa
not improbable—this may give from ,5100 to
SSOO each to the successful guessers. Checks
will be mailed immediately after March
1 t.
Conditions and
Inducements.
The terras of the contest are few and
simple.
J. Every gttc-s must be accompanied by one
year’s subscription to The Weekly Constitu
tion. sent to any address at sl.
‘2. Tiie sender of a club of five at $1 each,
for one year, is entitled to u free paper
year, and also a guess.
3. W.th every subscription, the missing
word should !>e written plainly, with the name
and address of the guesser. Tr is not necessary
to rewrite the s"nten."' simp.y write the word
and label it “ths missing word for March
Ist.” ,
4. Renewal subscriptions are entitled to
guesses just as new subscribers.
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This opens an interesting field to The Cbostj.
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llere are
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