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6 IWofcTmmoS CLARK HOWELL Editor W. A. HEMPHILL Husincßß Manager Entered at the Atlanta poatofKce as second-class mail matter November 11,1873 The Weekly Constitution SI.OO Per Annum. Clubs of five. SI.OO each; clubs often $1.(10 each and a copy to getter-up of club WE WANT YOU. The Constitution wants rn agent a» every postoffice In America. Agent’s outfit free and good terms. If you are not In a club we want you to act as agent at your office. Write us. "haser of Address. When ordering address of your paper changed s.ways give Uia old ns well as the new address. Always give postoffice, county and state. If your paper is not received regularly, notify us. If you send us an order for now subscribers please allow us a week to get the names on the list and paper started before you write a complaint, as we are very much crowded now. Do not forget to make your renewals In time. Watch your direction tug and see when your subscription expiree. The next six months will be full of interest, and you should not miss a single copy of The Con* stltntlon. Send your orders at least a week in ad vance to make sure. It may not take a week in every Instance; will get them on as soon as possible. A Voice from North Carolina. A lady of North Carolina sends us a very interesting letter. She says she doesn’t write as well as she could wish to, but. she writes well enough to de pict with some power the situation in that state under negro and populist rule. For reasons that are obvious she asks us to suppress her name and postoffice address; and, for reaons of our own, we shall present a synopsis and para phrase of her letter. The lady is a widow, wi.h nine chil dren, four of whom are able to help her to some extent in the management of a small farm which is in a country region inhabited mainly by negroes, among whom area, few populists, includ ing a populist magistrate. Her experi ence among these coalitionists may b<- imagined when she declares that it is the duty of the women of Georgia, especially the wives and daughters of the farmers, to use all the i'lflticnee they possess to defeat any and all such coa litions of the white men responsible for such movements. She says: “If they are not negro lovers now they will be; they will do anything and everything for the sake of office." The indictment is a. trenchant one, and vet it if true as to North Carolina. Why may not it turn out to be true in Georgia' Remarking upon tiie ar ticles which we have recently printed on t in-condition of affairs in North Car olina, our lady eori '. pondent says that the half has not been told. She inti mates, indeed, that, our informants must have covered up a good many hideous facts in order not to give the state a bad name abroad. As to this, we are perfectly willing to take our correspon ds nt's word for it. A v >man is u keener observer than a man, and she is more sensitive to her surroundings. “Could you but come and live here awhile,” says our correspondent, “you would discover for yourself that the half has not been told." She has been compelled to submit to all sorts of indignities and insults nt the hands of tin white coalitionists ami their negro coadjutors, ami when, in one instance, she would have gone to the courts for redress, her lawyer plain ly told her that it would be impossible to obtain justice so long as the popu lists and negroes 'nave control of the ma chim -y. Tile upshot of it. is that she is going to dispose of her property, if she < in, even at a sacrifice, and move with her children away from the stale, fb r daughter could help her by teach ing in the public schools, but she says she will go without such help rather than that the young woman should sub mit to an examination before such men as those who make up the school board. She declares, with increasing empha sis, that if the women of Georgia knew what, was in store for them under such rule, they would work night and day against those who propose to repeat here the experiment of corruption and degra dation whicti North Carolina is today the victim of We are also of the opin ion thm the wives and daughters of the farmers and tenant farmers .should warn the- husbands and brothers and sons ngr-.in.-t affiliation with or support of those men who are trying to fasten on them tlie unhappy results of a negro coalition. The element known as "poor whites" in North Carolina are having a terrible experience with the coalition and partnership which they have fast ened upon themselves; and their wives amt their daughters have had occasion to rue the hour when the coalition suc ceeded. If there is any such element in Geor gia as the “poor whites” the term has a meaning distinct from the ordi nary purport of tiie words it. is not large enough to be politically signifi cant. There are large numbers of poor nmn in Georgia, and many of them are populists, but they have a spirit, an in dependence and a patriotism that, are unknown to the class known as “poor whites;” and we think we can assure our North Carolina correspondent that they will resent in the most significant way the effort of the populist leaders to force upon them, their wives and their daughters, the degradation implied by a negro coalition. Nevertheless, the warning of the .North Carolina lady possesses impor tance. ft comes from one of the vic tims of negro and populist rule. It is a voice of a woman crying out in the political wilderness, and it should be heeded by the honest and self-respect ing populist voters of Georgia. _< What the Great Powers Own. The United States of America ranks fifth among the world's great powers in point of territory. This observation is pertinent at this time, when our flag is waving over remote islands which are destined soon to be included within the domain of the republic. With Hawaii added, the territory of the United States embraces 3,609,630 square miles. Os the four powers which rank ahead of the United States Great Britain comes first, with 11,371,391 square miles, Russia next with 8,660,394 sqtfcire miles, China next with 4,218,401 square miles and France next with 3,821,419 square miles. Immediately after the United States comes Brazil with 3,209,878 square miles, Argentina with 1,778,195 square miles, Turkey 1,576,700 square miles and Ger many 1,228,200 square miles. Even with Porto Rico and the Philip pines included the territory of the United Staes will fall short of that of France and consequently the annexation of the islands will not affect, the order in which the United States comes in the list of tho great powers. In conjunction, the great powers which we have named own three-fourths of the territory of the globe. The State Campaign. Though tho democrats are certain to be victorious in the Georgia state elec tion, it is gratifying to know that the fact has robbed neither the candidates nor the voters of the enthusiasm that should go to the support of every good cause. All the machinery of the party organization has been put in prime working order, and the chairman of the executive committee, Hon. Fleming dußignon, who has charge of the cam paign, is as vigorously at work us if there were some doubts of a party suc cess; and Colonel Candler, the candi date for governor, is making an ener getic canvass of the state. As the result of this policy, hundreds of voters who have for some years held aloof from the party, or wtio have acted with another organization, are falling into line, none the worse, so far as their democracy is concerned, for their truant experience. Colonel Candler is largely responsible for this change of attitude on the part of many voters who have heretofore acted with the populists. To see him and to hear him speak is suffi cient to create confidence in him. Integ rity, candor and simplicity glow in his face, in his words and in his gestures. Voters who see and hear him for the first time—especially those plain, honest voters wiio constitute the strength and safety of the state-say to themselves, “Why, here is a man as simple, as plain, ns unpretentious as we are; here is a man whose character sticks out in every feature, in every motion and in every word. We know we can trust him because he is one of us. He puts on no flourishes; he is one of the old fashioned kind; he is just tiie sort of man that will make us a good governor.” And it is a fact, that Allen D. Cand ler is just that kind of a man. That is why all opposition to him is futile; that is why those who opposed his nomina tion could never bring a charge against him that could live an hour after it was brought, to his attention; that is why the people made his nomination a sort, of political ovation; and that is why they will give him such a majority at tho polls on tiie sth of October. He stands for the whole people, and that is the reason the populist leaders in Geor gia today find themselves practically without a following- find themselves compelled to commit themselves to a most infamous coalition with the negro party. The fact, however, that these leaders ft <4 that they are compelled to entei into an alliance at once disgraceful and dangerous should not excuse them in the eyes of t heir followers. Their scheme is an insult, to every populist voter in the state, and if there are any who are blind to the danger of such a programme they should consult with their neigh bors and friends. The effort of these leaders to build up their political for tunes on such a basis should leave them stranded and exposed to the public con tempt. But we do not believe that any self respecting populist voter will follow them on so dangerous an adventure. The democrat!* party will be the refuge of these insulted and disgusted voters. The action of their leaders gives them an excuse for leaving the populist or ganization, and if any further excuse were needed, it is to be found in the fact that the democrats have for their candidate for governor a man in whose integrity and purity of purpose the whole people, without regard to party, may repose perfect confidence. As there is no doubt of a democratic victory, so there is no reason why all who believe in good government and an honest administration of the state’s af fairs should not go to the polls and vote for Allen I). Candler for governor and for the full democratic, ticket. We do not speak by hearsay when we declare that hundreds of populist voters have expressed t heir determination to support the democratic candidates; we speak with knowledge of their intentions. It need not bo said that, they are taking a wise step. Titey are. in fact, taking the only step that'is left to a consistent man who does not desire to become a partner in the newly amalgamated conglomera tion and mixture which is to appear when the populist coalition with the ne gro party is in working order. The Populists Coming Back. As the state campaign progresses, the collapse of the populist programme be comes more and more evident. Men who have heretofore been prominent, in that party have either returned to the demo cratic party or retired to the seclusion of private life. This result has been hastened by an ill-timed effort of the populist leaders to load tho voters of their party with the dangerous responsibilities and infamous results of a coalition with the negro party. In fact this attempted coalition is itself the result of a knowledge on the part, of the loaders that they can no longer control the white voters who have heretofore given their party its strength and respectability. They know that the democratic platform, free from evasions and subterfuges, commends it self to the indorsement and support, of honest and patriotic men everywhere; and they know also that tho democratic TIIE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION - : ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY,SEPTEMBER 19, 1898. candidate for governor presents in his character and career the very essence of the democracy that the people love. Consequently, to save themselves from utter political annihilation, they have played the dangerous card of negro coa lition. Like all cards held up the sleeve, it represents a swindling scheme. The victims of it will be the white farmers in the remote settlements, as the result of a like coalition in North Carolina has shown. In the blick counties, should the coalition be successful, the negroes will have the whip hand, and, as in North Carolina, they will take charge of the county offices and proceed with the work of corruption. But, from all indications, the populist voters do not propose to bo led into any such trap; they do not propose to sacrifice themselves in behalf of the unworthy men who have hatched the coalition scheme. — Mr. Billybynum Retires. It is authoritatively announced from Chicago that Mr. Billbynum, the author, editor, compiler and general manager of the justly celebrated Billbynum party, has retired from his exalted position as chairman of the executive committee or the National Gold Barty—*God save the mark. Our readers will remember that prior to 1896, Mr. Billbynum made himself conspicuous by howling for free silver. He didn’t care whether it was coined ot not so long as it was free, and he whoop ed it up on that line until the Cleveland rainbow appeared in the political sky. This rainbow was a very practical af fair. It was made in a tin shop not far from Wall street, and painted gorgeous ly without regard to cost. It was a thing vou could handle; Mr. Billbynum han dled it. One end rested in Wail street and Hie other in the treasury; by those signs Mr. Billbynum knew that the old nursery tale had been verified; there were bags of gold at both ends of the Cleveland rainbow. Yes, bags of gold! Mr. Billbynum placed an index finger on his marble brow and pondered. Gold! Could there be anything in it for Bill? He went to tiie proper parties with this inquiry shining in his lustrous eyes, faltering on his trembling and eager lips, and writ ten in his itching palms. W’e all know what. Hie answer was. Mr. Hanna was blandness itself; no doubt he was gen erous, too; at any rate, in the twinkling of an eye, Mr. Billbynum changed from a howling free silverite into a ranting •■hampion of gold—into a violent har ranguer for “sound” money. lie organized the justly celebrated billbynum party, nominated Granny Balmer and Uncle Bolivar Buckner, and drew his salary every chance he got. When the campaign was over, it was thought the the result would put a defi nite end to the billbynum party, but, for good and sufficient reasons, this was not. to be. Mr. Biltbynnin looked into the treasury and found there thirty-odd thousand dollars in extremely sound money. He consulted with him..< i’, and probably with Josiah Bat terson, and decided to keep up the campaign, lie carried his headquarters to V w York, put Josiah on the road as lecturer, and prove-<led to tat up s\26o of tiie thirty odd thousand dollars. < uher expenses were incurred and. in view of the empty treasury, Mr. Billbynum has handed in bis resignation al t bicago. 'i’his resignation was received with surprise- by tiie other leaders of the bill bynum party, and one of them suggested that he bp investigated. This idea of investigating a sound money saint is enough to horrify the whole country. At the worst, Mr. Billbynum is only guilty of a desire to make a living in the easi est way possible. Why should he be in vestigated? All the sound money lead ers are in politics for the "dough,” the “scads,” the “sluff;” why should Bill be selected to make an example of? The funny part about it is. that when Bill was going about the country earn ing his wages as a lecturer for the Han na syndicate, he deeply resented the statement that lie was a “sound money” man for the money there was in it for him. In Allam i, he denounced The Con stitution for suggesting such a thing. Josiah Batteison was a. sound money lecturer for the same reason; but noth ing more clearly exposes the whole sor did and shallow scheme than the resig nation of Mr. Billbynum because there is no money in the treasury. Ijet us be glad that obscurity is about to pull the cover over These so-called leaders. One of the War Prub'ems. In some quarters the republican breth ren are beginning to discuss the treas ury surplus which tiie over-issue of bonds and the increasing revenue from the new war taxes is piling up. 'The war, coming to an end sooner than was anticipated, has left some problems be hind it, and among them is this ques tion of a surplus which is partly the re sult of this sudden return to a state of peace. It is comforting to patriotism to know that the national strong-box is adequate to all demands, and it. is probable that events will justify the expectations of those who predict that some of the new taxes will be retained, at least tor some years to come. But there expec tations have nothing to do with he fact of a surplus in the treasury—a surplus which will go on growing until some definite step in taken to provide for its dispersion into the ordinary cnan u-ls of business, and to prevent it from ac cumulating. We are not sounding any note of alarm, nor are we seizing the question by its political ears, but simply calling attention to a matter which, in the course of a year or t wo, will have more importance than now attaches to it. We do not propose to discuss seriously the proposition made by some of the saints of sound money that the surplus be dis persed by redeeming and retiring the greenbacks. The Washington Bost thinks that such a proposition will npt be hospitably entertained, and we agree with it. Nevertheless, the surplus itself will, in tiie course of a few months, begin to attract attention. It will attract the at tention of business men because every dollar of it conies right out of the channels of trade and investment. Just at present it seems to be effective in attracting gold imports by hardening the money market in New York. While this process continues, the growing sur plus will not be troubles im?, nut after awhile it will begin to make its nfliteiice felt. It is, in short, one of the prob lems entailed by the war, and, like the Philippine question, must be settled by friendly and free discussion, not neces sarily along the linos of partisanship. A Significant Cart lid. The cartoon appearing in Tho New York Herald, of Saturday last, labeled “Are there not some tilings worse than the bad dollar?” suggests a significant trend of thought. The Now York Herald has always been extremely conservative on the side of the moneyed interests, and has tak en but very little stock in tho popular agrarian movements occurring within tho United States. During the rise and continuance of the silver discussion. The Herald has done its part in standing by those who upheld the gold interest. In doing so, however, The Herald is not to be accused of any wrong meaning, but simply of a mistake in policy and of having chosen bad bed follows. It has always been well known that, the origin of the gold movement came from tho shoddy bond holders of 1565, who, having fleeced their government in the name of patriotism, still used that con juring word to fleece the people at large out of their hard earnings and to double tho value of bonds which they had pur chased at a heavy discount. They were willing to trade upon the necessities of the government in time of war, and equally ready to prostitute tho name ot patriotism in time of peace. From their efforts to double the value of bonds, they were load on to that other effort to displace all the remaining forms of money by the sole use of the gold standard. In this way, the shylock in terests of Europe and tiie shoddy inter ests of the I nited Sta.-s became com bined, and it is this doable conspiracy against the welfare of the nat'on which has throttled its legisla'ion over since. What, was mine natural, therefore, than when another war began, those people should be in tiie midst of the plan* where contracts were to lie let, and where money was to be coined out of tho blood and suffering ot’ the mon at the front? The Herald, therefore, in acknowl edging that there are some things “wor.-e than Bryanism,” snap .v lifi.s the com r off tho condition of things which have existed ever sine, the late civil war between the states. The men who make money out of the suffering of our soldiers at the front are the same peo ple who have made money out of the suffering of the people during the last thirty years; and it is out of their op pressions that the - sty for “Bryan isrn” has grown. Tiie Constitution welcomes this lit tle ray of light which has been let in upon tiie leading journal of tiie United States, and hopes th t as it is beginning to see things dimly, even as though through a glass, it should continue in the work until it shall ally itself with the cause of the people, whelm r that be known by the name of “Bryanism or any other designation. Senator Foraker and the Cubans. Those newspapers amt people who are leading in tiie movement that has as its purpose tile build! ig tip of pal.'lie opinion ag.iin.s. tiie Cuha.ts, have resort ed to many devices in m-ir endeavors to carry theii point, even going so far as to openly misrepresent the attitude of public, men on what has become a most ui] ortam question. It is important particularly because it will devolve upon « . e.-s to provide a temporary govt-ri::t;< for Cuba and to say how Jong th t (.eminent shall be permanent; wh<” -. the Cubans who have struggled so gallantly for their freedom are to have it. or are to be de prived of that freedo n through the ma chinations of those who would have this government step in and take Cuba unto itself. That the ultimate fab of Cuba should bo annexation to t is country all true friends of the isle and of Hie inhabi tants thereof will agree. But that this country having gone to war with Spain to free Cuba from the yoke licit has for so many yea s galled her so heavily—having entered upon this war through the highest fe< lings of human ity—should turn around and gobble up the island, putting . sc- f in tho attitude of .simply lighting Spain in order to be able to stop into her shoes, must be ab horrent to every man in whose heart there is justice and b>vo for liberty. When, then ■■ ■ ■■. they : e what can scarcely be called anyth a else than a conspiracy whose object is to belittle the Cubans in the eyes of the world for tho evident purpose of giving color to the scheme to gobble up the island it is natural for those who love right and justice io rebel. It is not only natural that, their sense of justice should be shocked, but it. is natural that, they shou’d. with all their might, resent such a movement to put a stigma upon the good reputation of th : s nation. In their effort to give strength to thei contention that tho Cubans have been proven unfit for self-government, those anti-Cuban.s have endeavored to create the impression that most, if not al! of those who favored recognition of the Cuban republic in congress, have been converted to a contrary way of thinking. It is true that there may be a few men who, taking their opinions at second hand, have allowed themselves to bo fooled by the showing made by those conspirators in the press and out of it; but no man whose advocacy of recogni tion was the result of a study of the subject has changed. This clamor against tho Cubans ought to fool no body. and lias fooled very few. It. was announced with a blare of trumpets a few- days ago that Senator Foraker, of Ohio, had declared that ho was wrong in advocating recognition, and that he, too, had been converted to the anti-Cuban way o f thinking. 'l'his would have boon important, if true, for the senator from Ohio had mad'' a close study of t'm conditions in Cuba and had been, in consequence. one of the strong est supporters of recognition upon the I floor of the senate. But this announce ment, like others, turns out to have been absolutely untrue. In a talk with The Constitution’s Washington cor respondent, Senator Foraker shows that not only has he not had occasion to change his mind, but that he is more strongly convinced than ever that the proper solution of the Cuban complica tions is the recognition of the Cuban republic, this government giving it as long as necessary a strong sustaining hand. 'l’his does not mean that wo should rob the Cabans of tho liberty for which they have fought through all these years. It does mean our help and our sympathy: and it would result beyond question in the success of that infant government, and in the building up of such relations of friendship as would in tho end lead to the joining of our common interests. Senator Foraker has given his views nt some length. 11° has traced the growth of the anti-Cuban talk from the time when 14. was first heard. Curiously enough, that was just the time when the heat of the Cuban sun, combined with the intensity of Cuban fever and crossed with the good American malady of gout, had conspired to molt the back bone of the three-hundred-andMen pound American fighter who was the nominal head of the American forces. As that backbone melted, telegrams talk ing of retreat began pouring in upon 'Washington. One reason for such re treat kept prominent in those dispatches was the failure of Garcia ami his men to head off Bando, who had, according to these advices from the front, got into Santiago with several thousand Spanish The American commander complained of the dereliction of the Cuban general and his men, and then and there they were branded as cowards. It turned out, of course, that Bando never did get. into Santiago; that, indeed, he was not near there; but the dispatches hurled at the head of Garcia were never recalled, and on every possible occasion they have been repeated. The men who came in actual contact with the Cuban soldiers bear testimony to their bravery and good conduct. Even those who sneer loudest at the poor ap parel of those soldiers have borne wit ness to the strength of the men at the head of their movement —Gomez and Maceo, Garcia, ami the rest. As Sena tor Foraker points out, these are men <>f high class, men of ability, men of patriotism. We have no more right, to charge them with incompetency to pro vide a stable government that have the Unbans to charge President McKinley and the generals of the army with the a< t.s of ghouls among the volunteers who robbed graves in Virginia, or of the hoodlums who were sent to Santiago to do guard duty and who wore guilty of about all tho crimes that can be charged up against man. The anti-Cuban howlers have howled themselves out of court. They have been so loud in their claims and so gen eral in their misrepresentations that the trati. oarency of their case has revealed Itself to the world. There will doubt less boa strong effort on the part of these people to make congress outer upon a scheme of wholesale robbery with regard to Cuba, but although it is ’ vident. th,at this conspira* v is strong in administration circles and has many sup porters among tho republican leaders of congress, we do not believe they can succeed. Theirs is too unholy a cause for even the republican majority to father. Comment from New England. We find the following remarks in The Springfield Republican: A letter from Atlanta. Ga.. to Tho New V ■ rk Evening Post, says that the south still falls to ilc;iw desired immigration from Europe, but it. is gaining some from l o north .vest. S’ncc IX9? It Is said that ll.UOi.i persons have settled in Georgia from tho central western states, and the Illinois (’ennal railroad, through its colonization schi men, has ,-ettled a still larger number of western farmers on lands in Mississippi .m,I Louisiana. But it is rather surprising to h"it that the south wants immigrants from .my quaver. Judging from tile call lor territorial expansion into the tropics, which is made by such southern organs as Tim Atlanta Constitution and The Colum bia, ri. C., Stale, me south is already so congested won population and capital that it must have relief or burst. 'Ute Constitution is of the opinion that its esteemed contemporary would do well to discuss this Philippine ques tion on large; and more important lines. It is io be presumed that those who have favored the annexation of the group, or tuose who have leaned that way, or i nose who have resented tiie impossible idea of restoring the islands to Spanish misrule, have not been governed by any thought that it is necessary to provide an outlet lor our own population. Speaking for our-selVes, we may say that we have discussed the question in a purely tentative way, our purpose be ing to resist tiie claim made in some quarters that annexation cuts across tiie Monroe doelrineor democratic doctrine, in any shape or form. We have sought to show that the democratic party can not afi’ord to oppose annexation on doc trinal grounds. Annexation may be im practicable or undesirable; that is all ot nor matter entirely. We have tried simply to abolish the idea that terri torial expansion is undemocratic. In the course of Hie discussion, as far as the matter has been treated in these columns, we have suggested that if there is any promise whatever in the in stitutions which wo have inherited, it. might lie a part of our destiny to sow the seeds of liberty and self-government among peoples less fortunately situated, this sowing to take place in the fullness of time and opportunity. We think that some of the troubles of New England today are to be traced di rectly to the fact that her business men and her editors—especially her editors — have fallen away from that largeness of mind and breadth of view that may be found in Emerson and Hawthorne, and. in a. less degree, in I he south may never have had any great intellec tual guides of her own production, but to have had and to have lost, s surely a mark of decay. New England’s intel lectual guides have stumbled and fallen into tho pits of trade and speculation; and the result is that even the great question of human liberty, and the very idea of disseminating abroad tiie spirit of freedom, are viewed in their commer cial aspect. Will it pay? Do we got any returns? These are the questions that press more heavily on the New England conscience than any other. They are the lest. It was not so in the past, and we hope it will not be so in the dim future; but it is so now, and New England is paying heavily for it. in some material ways. It ought to be pointed out to her that ex- pansion of territory eastward toward the great channels of demand means an expansion of trade; but still the test questions would arise, and New Eng land’s guides would fall back stiffly on the state of the market and the price of securities. So be it. If New’England’s great cru sade against slavery exhausted the vi tality of her conscience and burnt out the resources that gave a keen eagerness to her spirit, the result will be an invit ing theme for the pen of some historian with the equipment of John Fiske. •The Result in Maine. Maine tells the same story that Ver mont did. The “legitimate results of the war” seem to be very surely slippn*;’ from the grasp of the republican poli ticians. Their hope of profiting by it to the extent of electing tiie next house of representatives looks, now very bar ren. Even the republican leaders who have been most certain of victory are now disposed to question their chances. As Vermont went in the early election, so has Maine gone; and no better indi cation of the trend of public sentiment could be asked. The tide has set in toward democrat ic victory. A little while ago the re publicans—Hanna, Grosvenor and the rest —were going about proclaiming that they were going to fight this campaign with the war as an issue, basing every thing upon the glory which the admin istration was sure to get out of its con duct of things. The news they got from Vermont made them change theii tune considerably, for they knew that the republican slump there ‘was signifi cant; now that Maine lias emphasized the impression made on them by Ver mont, they are in something very like a state of panic. They have been laying great store by these early elections in New Eng land. Those states are overwhelming ly republican, and the campaign man agers have been boasting of the certain ty of getting large republican majori ties there, feeling sure that in Maine and Vermont, if anywhere, their plan of claiming all the credit for the war belonged to Hie administration, would evoke enthusiasm and bring out a heavy vote. 'They have kept, up those claims even after it became evident that the war scandals would be held up against the administration in some other parts of the country, for they were confident, this sentiment against the administra tion had no foothold in New England. At the republican congressional commit tee headquarters all arrangements to make a great spread on the results in these states had been made. Now chair man Babcock and his assistants are busy trying to invest excuses for what may fairly bo regarded as their defeat. For although the democrats in these states will not enjoy the offices as the result, of these elections, they have in virtuality gained a decided victory. The elections in Maine and Vermont, occurring as they do earlier in the year than those in most of the other states, have always been taken as significant of the trend of sentiment throughout the rest of the country. When the repub licans have carried these states by a particularly large vote, it has turned out to be a republican year generally. When, on the contrary, the democrats have made gains, it has been found that the chances favored democratic vic tories generally. Even more significant than usual are the elections of this year, showing as they do distinct, republican losses in the face of the expectation of the re publican leaders to turn the war to their own account.. These results show that the people do not propose to let the re publican politicians take credit for that which they have no claim whalever -tiie splendid victories on land and sea—but do propose to hold the republican ad minstration responsible for the scandal ous treatment of the brave soldiers by the department presided over by the republican secretary of war. Significant at all times, these early elections are, therefore, more significant this year than usual; amt they mean that the tide is running strong against the republicans. With the certainty of this, the hope of democratic leaders naturally revives, and the campaign is being pushed with all the vigor possi ble. It is too early to talk in any but general terms, for in most of the dis tricts the campaign is just opening up, but the outlook is certainly far brighter than it was some weeks ago: and if the signs count for anything, dem ocratic victory all along the line is among the political probabilities. .«. Splendid War History. From The Augusta, Ga.. Herald. The lighting is over, but Robert Cramer is still riding The Constitution’s "war horse” and giving the public a splendid unofficial history of things as they hap pened down in Cuba. A North Carolina Freak. From Tiie Lexington. N. C.. Dispateh. Mr. J. H. Michael showed u- s-omctlilng of a curiosity Monday, 't was a yc-ung kitten having eight legs, two . i(.s, two separate bodies, but only me head, ' be cu riosity attracted a great dial of attei tion. Deer Hunting’ in Southeast Georgia. From 'Brio Woodline S. if. Georgian. Mr. George Mott, of Harriett’s Bluff, has been to Satilla Bluff and reports th it. they have killed five deer in his comm in.ty. The “king of Camden” says he is going out tomorrow and expects to have venison on his table Sunday. He is responsible for the foilowing: He says Mr. Jo- Mott went out yesterday and, as us ril. •vi rdid line thing. He saw tWo deer in the bushes, shot one <tnd went after 'he o'iier; he failed to get it and when he went back the first was gone. The Mocking Bird. When the shadows of the evening Creep across the grassy wold. Blithely singing near my dwelling Comes a saucy songster bird. Gay and plaintive are the carols That he sings in matchless si rains, While perforce my smile enkindles, For he sings my own refrains. Listen to his moekings aril. :»s, Deeply is this lesson taught: By our every act an impress On some other life is wrought. —EILLIAN FINNELL,. Tuscaloosa, Ala. “Sonos of the Soil” By FRANK L. STANTON. The Going and the Coming. 1. That. <la-- Tiutt day. When we heard tlhe bugles play And the boys It ent mardhlng— Went marching to the fray, There were while hands kissed in farewell-. There were lips that seemed to pray, That day— That day When we heard the bugles piay. IT. That day— That day. When tho, red flags drooped away, And the boys Came silent— Came silent from the fray. There were white hands wrung In angulsh 'Bhei’e were lips that could not pray, That day— That day When the red flags drooped away! The Cool Fall Time. Ole times in Dixie ain’t fergotten Co’n erap short, en de rain kid cotton, But hooray, 1 say, Fe- de cool fall time in Dlxlat We sweat en sweat in de summer season, En ’pears des lak Mister Rain los' reason; So hooray, I say, Fer do cool fall time in Dixie! G >od!>y ter snakes en* alllgatots, Walk in 'Bossurn en’ Georgy ’latent. I n hooray, I say, Fer de cool fall time,ln Dixie.! ♦ * ♦ ♦ * When the Crap’s Laid By. When the crap’s laid by. then we’re think in’ of the days An’ tlhe nights we’ll meet toffeti’ner round the cabin’s cheerful blaze; We never care for weather then-for snow flakes in the sky. It’s a. balleluia season when tho craps laid by! Whin the crap’s laid by, then tho cabin’, sandy floor is creakin’ to the music that we're glad to hear once more. The fiddle then sounds sweeter, as It echoes to tlhe skies. An’ time’s more of love an’ inugthter In your sweetheart's smilin’ eyes. When the crap’s laid by. then you’re hap py as kin be; An’ It’s How’s your health. Miss Mary? An’ you’ll dance tills danco with mo? An’ though every rose Is fadin’, an' the gray is in the sky, Life mows along in music when th* craps laid by! ..... Something to Growl At. When the rain is gone an’ tiie sun comes out Tn the beautiful garden plot An’ the rose Is friskin’ her buds about. It’s then-Too hot! too hot! (N' ver know what we want. I say Sun an stars, or a rainy day!) ( When the cyclone comes, an’ tlhe mills goes lame An' the sheriff swoops on the lot. It’s heaven, you know, that is most to blame: — Could a-spared us, well as not! (Never know what we want. I say— Sun an’ stars, or a rainy day!) The Welcome. When twilight bolls are ringing swset And evening echoes greet vie My happy heart seems singing sweet Os some one who will meet me. Os blue eyes ’neath a golden crown— Dear eyes! tlhat watch and wait— And little footsteps pattering down The pathway to the gate. Though sad t'he toil, in barren soil— Though Fortune has not found me, 1 know that night will bring me light And twine two arms around me. And let the day be gold or gray— What thought so sweet as this: "It drifts and dreams my darling’s way, Who keeps for me a kiss!" O love of lite, and strcng'.h in strife— O joy to sorrow given! O dear child eyes Uhat make life’s ski s And' earth as sweet as heaven, 1 still can bear with grief and care. And face the storms to be. If Lot., the comforter, will share Tiie crust, ti’." crumbs, with me! A Philosopher. In winter time lie’s sappy Wi en he's pelt, d uy th- snows; In summer time he's ting g If lit- gathers one sweet rose; And earth sc ms ever bett r For tiie happy way lie goes. If dark the tempest’s frowning And no stars are in the night, He thanks God for a shelter, And sleeps, and dreams of light. And somehow, eartli is brighter, For lie ever makes it bright. And so, in joy and sorrow He walks liis earthly way. And thanks God for tomorrow, 'Anil does liis will today. And somehow. Earth is brighter For that les. on.—love—obey! A Foor Unxortunate. 1. His hoss went dead an' his mule wel lame; He lost six cows in a poker game: A hurricane came on a summers day, An' carried the house whar ho lived away; Then a earthquake come when that wuz gone. An’ swallowed the land that the house stood on! An’ tiie tax collector, he come roun’ An’ charged him up fer the hole in th? groun' 1 An’ tiie city marshal—he come in view An’ said lie wanted liis street tax, toi*. IL Did ho moan an' sigh? Did he set an’ An' .wtiss the hurricane sweepin’ by? Did he grieve that liis ole friends failed to call W.hi n tho earthquake come an' swallowed all? Nover a word of blame he said. With all them troubles on top his head! Not him! * * * He climbed to the top o’ tho hill— Whar standin’ room wtlz left him still. An’, barin’ his head, here’s what he said: “I reckon it’s time to git up an' git; But. Lord, I hain’t had the measels ylt!’*
