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VOL. 13--NO. J "2 9l
Georgia Siftings.
On November 7th the Y. M. C. A. give
a reception to the printers of Atlanta.
We are glad to note the unusually
large hay crop of Newton county.
Mercer University expects to have 300
students enrolled by the first of Janu
ary.
Twenty-four members of tho last legis
lature will be returned. Twelve of them
are Alliancemen.
Peter Vickers is said to be the wealthi
est and best colored citizen in Coffee
•county. He owns nearly 0,000 acres of
land and is a first-class farmer.
Toccoa has a bank with a paid up cap
ital of $50,000; a tannery with a capital
of $ (5,000 ;a'furniture factory with a cap
ital of $15,000, and a chair factory.
We have just received the premium list
of the Columbia County Fair. We are
glad that this association is organized
and we doubt not that the fair will be of
infinite advantage to the county.
SIO,OOO will ba given away as prizes by
the North Georgia and Alabama Exposi
tion. The exposition is divided into de
partments. Opens on the sth ;of No
vember and closes on the 15th of the
same month.
Rev. James Rees, of Muscogee county
is dead. Mr. Rees was a Baptist minis
ter and was licensed to preach in 1825.
He was the oldest mason in Georgia,
having become a member of the Flint
Hi 11 lodge in 1838. fie was ninety years
old at his death.
Miss Adna C. Safford, whose recent
death occurred in Foochow', China, was
connected with the Lutheran Presbyteri
an Mission in China, where she did
special work among Chinese women.
Miss Safford was 'a native Georgian,
Greensboro was her old home. She was
a fine scholar and of deep piety and de
voted to tlie missionary cause.
The flags are lowered and folded. The
doors of bur political Jerusalem are
closed. The Sanhedrims have done little
for the great farming class, but hope lies
still at the bottom of the box. It is ar
dently desired that the next session will
be noted for something more than Mr.
Morse’s seat, Mr. Reed’s blue belt, Mr.
Houk’s, trousers and Mr. Springer’s pink
bouttoniere.
The Macon & Atlanta railroad, which
is being built by the Macon Construction
company, will make Fort Point on the
Colleton river, about twenty miles from
Port Royal, its water terminus. Five
thousand acres of land have been pur
chased, and large docks, grain elevators,
and other terminal facilities will be
built. It is claimed that the Colleton
river gives the deepest watei - on the At
lantic south of Norfolk.
A draft for $35,555.42 in full settle
■>iut pf the now celebrated Tregrout
has been sent Governor Gordon by
(!■« treasurer of the United States. Con
■e<> once before made an appropriation
■ cover this claim, but the comptroller
■efused to certify it for payment and
■rdered the amount to be carried on the
■looks of the treasury as a partial offset
■o the amount charged against Georgia
■on account of “direct taxes.” The case
■was then taken to the court of claims by
■ Mr. James Green, of Milledgeville, the
f state’s agent. It was argued by Mr. J.
G. Zachary, a prominent Georgia attor
ney and son of the senator-elect, Col.
Charles Zachary, of Henry county, and
upon the able presentation of the case by
Mr. Zachary, the claim was allowed.
The noted train robber, Rube Bqrrows,
was caught in Monroe county, Alabama,
and was carried to jail at Linden, Mo
rengo countyj October the 7th. The
Southern Express Company has spent
many thousand dollars in the endeavor
to catch him. The total rewards that
nave been offered for his capture amount
to SIO,OOO. Mr. John McDuffie who had
been set on‘his trail by the Southern Ex
press Company found him in a house
where he had stepped out of the rain.
Burrows was bound hand and foot and
placed across McDuffie’s horse in front
of him, and in this position was taken
to Linden jail, where he was guarded by
McDuffie and a negro. Carter—one of the
captors,, took the money $17,800 found
on the'person of Burrows and wont to
the hotel. Just before daylight on the
morning of the Btb, Burrows complained
of being hungry and asked for this sad
dle' bags saying, that there were some
crackers in them. McDuffie handed
'ihem to him without’opening them;Bur
rows put his hands into the bags and
soon defied McDuffie aud the negro—or
dered them to untie him and they did.
Burrows then disarmed them, unlocked
the front dpor, and made the negro take
him to the hotel where Carter was with
the $17,800. He shot Carter in the
shoulder; Carter returned the fire, hit
ting him in the abdomen, killing him in
stantly, There were originally five men
in the Barrows gang—now they are all
taken.
The oil mills of Athens are now mak
ing six hundred gallons of oil per day.
Dr. J. Thad Johnson, a well known
physician, died at Maidson last week.
Judge Samuel Lawrence, a prominent
mason of died in Marietta last
week.
Capt. B. It Tillman, the governor-elect
of South Carolina, is visiting with his
family in Toccoa.
Acworth expects a shoe factory that
will give employment to nearly a hun
dred hands.
The great poetic contributor to the
Congressional Record, ex-Congressman
Downey, of Wyoming, is a candidate for
United States senator from that state.
Six hands picked 2900 pounds of cotton
one day last week on the farm of Mr. G.
T. Wheeler. John Hargrove, cue of the
hands, picked 525 pounds.
The sugar cane crop of Appling couuty
will not be so abundant this year on am
count of the dry weather during
August.
Hon. R. H. Jackson, the first president
of the Georgia State Alliance, will repre
sent Heard county in the next house of
representatives.
The governor offers S2OO reward for
the arrest and delivery of James H.
Crawford, for the murder of R. S. Shep
herd. The crime was done on Septem
22nd.
i Mr. Henry J. Pratt, chief organizer of
the Rome Chemical company, died of
typhoid fever in Rome, Ga., last week.
He was a son of Dr. N. A. Pratt, the
chemist.
The rock work on the new factory at
Porterdale, Newton county, has been
completed. The company expect to
have the facitory ln rulinlng’order bytire
Ist of December.
Great interest was manifested over the
election of Mr. John A. Sibley of Cobb
county. Mr. Sibley was put out only
two days before the election. After the
death of Mr. Dempey, one of the nomi
nees, Mr. Sibley was elected to represent
Cobb county by one vote.
The journalist and evangelist Henr y D.
Howren,is dead. He parted with his life
in Charleston, S. C., October the 7th.
He was educated by Bishop Pierce, at
Emory college, and went to Florida. At
the age of 22 years, he represented his
county in the Florida legislature In 1889
he began to devote his life to temper
ance and preaching the gospel. He was
received into the Methodist ministry.
Mr. Charles Astin, a native Georgian,
and an accomplished musician, has re
cently composed a very inspiring march
entitled, “The Farmers Alliance March’ r
—and dedicated to Hon. L. F. Living
ston, president of the Georgia State Al
liance. Which piece of music will be
rendered daily by the Zouave band dur
ing Alliance week at the Piedmont Ex
position. The title page of the piano
edition has a fine likeness of Col. Liv
ingston, with his autograph. We com
merdthe music and composer to all
lovers of music.
On November 4th Alabama will elect
eight congressmen
Arkansas five.
California six.
Colorado one.
Connecticut four.
D jlaware one.
Fldrida two.
Georgia ten.
Idaho one-
Illinois twenty.
Indiana thirteen.
lowa eleven.
Kansas seven.
Kentucky eleven.
Louisiana six.
Maine four.
Maryland six.
Massachusetts twelve.
Michigan eleven.
Minnesota five.
Mississippi seven.
Missouri fourteen.
Montana one.
Nebraska three.
Nevada one.
New Hampshire two.
New Jersey seven.
New York thirty-four.
North Carolina nine.
North Dakota one.
Ohio twenty-one.
Oregon one—June 2,
Pennsylvania twenty-eight.
Rhpde Island two.
South Carolina seven.
South Dakota twr>.
Tennessee ten.
Texas eleven.
Vermont two —September 2.
Virginia ten.
Washington one.
West Virginia four.
Wisconsin nine.
Wyoming one—September 11.
THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE GEORGIA STATE ALLIANCE.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MOIiNING, OCTOBER 14. 1890.
THE BASIS OF WEALTH
IGNORED AND DISHONORED BY
THE GOVERNMENT.
The Sub-Treasury or a Setter Bill
By. W- E. H- Searcy.
A great deal has been written upon
the financial situation of our country,
and many plans suggested for relief. I
wish to contribute my mite towards the
solution of the great question, humbly
trusting that from all that may be said
or written upon it, the better bill, of
which we hear so much, may yet be
brought out to bless the naiion.
I wish to lay down a few propositions
as a basis of the though I shall offer:
I. AGRICULTURE IS THE BASIS OF
WEALTH IN THIS COUNTRY.
As an evidence sufficient to support
the statement, I need only say that it
our crops were a total failure for one
year only it would nearly bankrupt the
nation. It is not only true that agticul- 1
ture is the basis of our wealth, but it is I
alsb true that the superstructure built |
upon it is not much higher than the
base itself. It is hardly yet beyond the
growi ig crop of the year. In our rural
districts the commercial world does not
move a peg uutil the growing crop reach
es a point where failure is impossible.
It is then that goods ase bought and
monied arrangements made. It is then
that we airsmile, while the eye of hope
lights up the scene. The usual plan ot
procedure is for the farmer to give the
merchant his paper for about what he
will need during the year, tne merchant
endorses this paper aud turns it over to
the bank; the bank, if not in funds, en
dorses the paper and sends it to the
money centers, and thus “the farmer
runs us all.”
The farmer is at the mercy of the mer
chant, the merchant at the mercy of the
bank, the bank at the mercy of the cap
italist, and thus our nation sleeps while
its financial system reels like a drunk
ard. May God open, the tyes of this
great people to see that this condition
of affairs is too unstable to last!
The poor farmer, almost bereft of
reason, tied up in the fatal web of his
necessities, is strugs; in<; ' ke a fly in
the parlor’ t<‘ escape; but,
alas! alas! alas! his country ignores
him and his struggle waxes long. He
comes with his products and says “help
me or. these.” The cry comes back,
“they are perishable!” He comes with
his lauds and says, “help me on these.”
The cry comes back, “they are outlawed
and disallowed as a basis of credit, the
government having refused to allow our
banks to take it.”
What must the farmer do? He must
submit of fight.
When I say fight, I do not mean to
fight our merchants, our lawyers, our
doctors, or our preachers. We of this
section are all an agricultural people,and
are bound together by many ties. Our
interests are the interests of every class
in our sunny clime. Many an Alliance
man has sons in the mercantile business,
and many a merchant has sons who have
chosen the noble calling of agriculture.
There should be no conflicts between all
these. When I say fight I mean to fight
those who put the present financial sys
tem upon us, or who now refuse to lift
its burdens and let the. nation prosper.
That man who refuses aid in their hour
of peril, no matter what class he belongs
to, is unworthy the love and the affection
of any people.
2. The basis of wealth is a solid
basis.
Our government and banks fid
vance money upon stocks. and
bonds, and yet these constantly
fluctuate depending often them
selves upon the success of agricult
ure. I have read in the financial reports
that the crops in the west having some
what failed the rai Toad securities had
declined. Our lands however, will never
be of less value than now, and the con
tinued increase of oar population will
render more stable the value of our pro
ducts. An owner of a large amount, of
real estate come to me one day, and ask
ed me to secure him a loan. I thought
he had some stock and bonds on which
the amount could be readily raised; but
when be said he had nothing but land, I
saw that he was on a cold trail, and so it
turned out.
A piece of paper that represents
something of value is honored in the
commercial world but the thing of per
manent value itself is despised) and re
jected of men. Why is this so? It is
because our government has ignored and
dishonored our land as a basis of credit.
It is our lands and what we grow on
them that constitutes the basis of all our
wealth; and this nation and the people
can never have a permant and just finan
cial system without building ic on this
basis and fostering this basis with its
affection and the aid of all its powers.
4. Our sub treasury bill is a move in
the right direction:
The object of this bill is ts aid the far
mer by advances on his products. It
matters not as to the details of the bill
Dr. Macune, (who has a level head) in
his speech before the State Alliance con
vention warned the Alliance against be
coming wedded to any details whatever.
They were urged to cling to the principle
alone, whjch I have already shown is a
just and equitable one—the recognition
of agriculture, the baisis of the nation’s
wealth.
I have always thought this bill too
cumbersome in its details, but I confess
I did not know whereby to rem
edy it until “Georgian” in his
great article on the sub-treasury
(the ablest and best yet written
on the subject), suggested that we did
not need more than one or two sub
treasuries in the state. I now see that
we need but one, and that the better
bill should ,so require. A change in
this one point destroys forever the
charge that the system would fill the
south with republican office holders,
aud eliminates the chief objection in
political circles to the bill. Officials for
one sub-treasury to a state, and about
four inspectors to look after the govern
ment’s interests, would be all th» offi
cials to be appointed. The farmers with
their own fire-proof warehouses could
do the rest.
There is another objection to the sub
treasury bill which might be remedied;
that is the rate cf interest for advance
ments. The Farmers Alliance has for
its leading principle that just and equi
table declaration “Equal rights to all
and special privileges co none.” In ask
ing.au advance on our crops I am satis
fied we do not violate this principle, be
cause the advance will inure in one way
and another to the benefit of all Clasres
of people; since the success of ths
basis of wealth must necessarily help
every superstructure built upon it. But
there might be objection to ’ho rate of
interest on these advances. Other class
es would have aright to say that the
government should make these advanc
es at such an amount of interest as it
would lave to pay for the money in the
markets of the world. In other words,
that the government should be saved
harmless in the transaction. At the
present rate of 4} per cent bonds, I
should think the government could float
a bond at par for 3 orSApercent interest.
Again, the better sub treasury bill
should provide that any agricultural
products, not perishable, if further stor
age will not injure and impair their val
ue, may be kept in storage longer than a
r year if the owners of such products will
pay all interest, storage and other ac
counts that have accrued up to the end of
the first year. The object of this would
be to enable cotton planters, in case of a
corner about the end of the year, to car
ry cotton over if desired. It would per
haps only affect cotte?,i and tobacco,
My system, then, would be:
I. One sub-ireasury in a state. 11.
About four inspectors to look after the
government’s interests. lit. The farm
ers to build their own warehouses—just
as national banks erect their own build
ings. IV. Interest charges, say 3 per cent
per annum. V. Products (not perish
abh) to be carried over.if desired. VI.
A system of national banking on real
estate as we now have it on government
bonds.
These measures would hurt no class,
but bring relief to the entire nation.
Would it not, then, be better for
us to place the interest at 3 per cent
than at one? I know the national bank
system operates on less, but we
must not be unmindful of the
battle cry of our beloved order,
of equal rights to all. But as regards
the details of this or any other bill, we
all know that its discussion and the
amendments that will grow out of the
discussion before it can pass any legisla
tive body, will necessarily change it
greatly. We may never hear again of
the details of the present sub-treasury
bill. Who will care if we do not, if the
better bill is evolved from it? Let us
work for the principle as Dr.; Macune
said, and leave the details to the en
lightened judgment and experience of
those we send to legislate for it. The
lands cf the country are the mud sills of
agriculture.
As agricultural productions are the
basis of wealth. We should not forget
that our lands are the mud sills of agri
culture. We must demand that our
lands be recognized in the financial
world, and not ignored and dishonored
at the counters of our banks and govern
ment. A great banking system should
be built up on our lands, equal at least
in dignity, tvith those built upon our
paper bonds. Such a system would be
solid as gold and never fail. It would
rest on the true basis (wother earth)
from whence springs all our wealth, on
which is built all our homes, aud where
even our bones and dust will repose
when the fitful,scenes of life are ended.
If weffiave a hundred thousand dollars
in government bonds, we mny organize
a bank on them and the government
takes them and gives us money within
one-tenth of their par value to operate
upon. Why not do the same on our
lands to within three-fourths or even
half their value, and when we file our
mortgages in tne sub-treasuries, in the
state to be established. Why may not
the inspector, heretofore mentioned,look
after the titles and situations and have
appraisements made by honest men or
juries, and the government then give xis
money on them as on bonds.
Ah I My countrymen, we deserve this
much of our country and we should de
mand it.
Real estate loans that are .made by
real estate companies at”sixteen to
eighteen per cent for the first year, like
a night-mare hunts the pillows of the
distressed farmer, and brings a cloud of
despair over his hopes and life. Let us
marshall our hosts as one man and strike
for the right due us and oar fellow coun
trymen—asking only for that which is
equal and jusf-, to the injury of no man,
bat tho benefit oc all, aud may the god
of battles uphold our strong arms.
GEN- L. J. GARTRELL
ADMONISHES THE FARMERS 10
STAND BY THEIR CONVIC-
TIONS-
He Believes the Sub-treasury Plan
Constitutional and Would
Support It—A Letter to
the Fulton Alliance.
General L. J. Gartrell, in reply to a
communication of the Fulton County
Alliance has written the following let
ter :
Atlanta, Ga., October 7th.
To Colonel J. T. Austin, President of
County Alliance and Messrs. T. A.
Jackson, Chairman —J. C. P. Johnson,
R. H. Wardlaw, A. 5. Poo!, R. T. Baker,
Committee:
‘ Gentlemen: I had the honor to re
cieve through you, several days ago, the
tollowing resolutions adopted by the ex
ecutive campaign committee of tne
Farmers Alliance of Fulton county:
1 Resolved, That a committee of five
be appointed to address our fellow-citi
zen, General L. J. Gartrell, and request
for publication, bis views upon the or
ganization and principles of the Farmers
Alliance of Georgia.
2. His opinion as a lawyer of the con
stitutionality of the sub-treasury bill
and whether in his judgement, it should
be enacted, for the relief of the agricult
ural interests.
3. would he support the sub treas
ury bill as a measure of financial re
lief.
It affords me pleasure now that the
excitement of the recent election has
passed, to respond to vour request, and
present briefly and candidly my views
upon the important? questions pro
pounded.
It must be apparent to every observer
of passing events, that we have at last
reached a period in American politics
when the toiling millions imperatively
damaad. jl ßadical change in the adminit
trative policy of the government. The
great movement inaugurated by the far
mers is simply the logical result of laws
forced on the laboring classes by vicious
federal legislation.
Party platforms have been fertile in
suggestions of expedients to relieve
the people, and promises of reform and
retrenchment have greeted the popular
ear at each recurring presidential elec
tion. But the solemn truth stares the
country in the face that for the last
quarter of a century the “poor grow
poorer and the rich richer.” With a
soil and climate peculiarly adapted for
agricultural pursuits, it is a lamentable
fact that in some portions of our beloved
land great povery prevails. This state
of affairs is the result of legislation too
often in the interest of monopolies and
trusts; at the expense ot the poor,
and ib this contest no patriot—no lover
of his race—ought to hesitate to seek an
alignment with the noble men of toil,
who are battling for human progress
and the general prosperity of ;the coun
try.
That the interests of the agricultural
And laboring classes has been neglected
by state and federal legislation, no can
died man will deny. It was, therefore
not only proper, but right that the far
mers should form an Alliance for their
own protection aud preservation. I re
gard it therefore, as a praiseworthy or
ganization within the folds of the demo
cratic party, that can harm no one and
greatly benefit all classes of our people
who wish to prosper by legitimate meth
ods.
The assumption that the farmers can
notcapable of good self-government, is
wholly unfounded, as observance teaches
me that there are no more patriotic
or intelligent citizens than t e
great mass of agriculturists,
who have contributed, and are
contributing to the general pros
perity of the whole people. These noble
men of toil may truly be classed as the
“bone imd sinew of the land.” What
would become of our railroads, cities,
towns, banks, manufacturing interests,
but for these honest producers, who
labor “in sunshine and in rain?” For
these and many other reasons that might
be stated, I approved and advocated the
organization of the Farmers Alliance
from its inception, and now rejoice at
the triumph of the great principle of
right and justice advocated by its mem
bers. These great principles have been
incorporated in your platform, published
in the press, and may be said to be
“known to all men,” and are neither un
democratic nor sectional, and, as far as
I am informed, have been generally ac
cepted by the people of this state, ex
cept the sub-treasury bill, which I shall
allude to hereafter. Composing, as you
do, a majority of the democracy of this
state, it is to be regretted that our dem
ocratic friends of the minority should
resort to crimination, and it is to be
hoped that after the pending election
shall have been decided, all animosities
i will be buried, and Alliancemen and
auti-Alliancemen will march hand in
hand and shoulder to shoulder in the
grand democratic column. >
In answer to your other questions, I
beg leave to state, that as a lawyer, for
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my own information, and at the request
of others, I read aud carefully consider
ed the sub-treasury bill several months
ago, and freely expressed my opiuiou at
the time, that congress possessed the
constitutional power and authority to
pass it; aud am gratified that this opin
ion of its constitutionality has since
been confirmed by some of the best legal
talent in the state. Entertaining this
opinion and believing it to be a great
measure of financial relief far the great
distress now prevailing throughout the
country, I, of course, would give it my
earnest support. I have seen no better
plan suggested from any source.
A great deal has been written asd
printed on the subject and it is unneces
sary that I should fatigue by a repetition
merely of the many able arguments
made in its support. As to its fairness
and pracitability I have just read the
following pointed editorial by the able
and intelligent editor of the Southern
Alliance Farmer of this date and
which I adopt, in which he says:
“To make a currency equal to supply
and demand, is to make prices steady,
production profitable, business paying,
commerce great and vigorous, and the
people prosperous and happy. That
would nor. be class legislation or incon
stitutiona), yet it is practical—and that
is the sub-treasury bill.
The system that protects tho farmer
protects his creditor also, for it enables
him to pay bis creditor. This, instead
of doing good on'y to one class, does
good to all. It is not class legislation
when it does that. To help 'he farmer
is to help all, for he must feed them all.
That is the sub-treasury.”
In conclusion, gentlemen you will par
don me for saying that as a friend of the
great masses of our agricultural and
laboring classes, reared amid the scenes
of the farm yard, its consecrated associ
ations will ever be cherished and its
memories revived while I live.
Be true to your convictions, be earnest
in their advocacy, and place in office
those only who have the manhood,
courage and ability to dare to maintain
your rights and espouse your cause, and
very soon a brighter political era will
dawn upou this beautiful laud of ours.
With an earnest desire for the success
of your order and the triumph of your
principles, I am, with high personal re
gard, Very truly ywurs,
L. J. Gartueli..
From Batts County.
I wish to say through your paper, that
the 30th Georgia Reunion, which was
held in Jackson the 16th inst., that
pleasure of enjoying the meeting of the
old soldiers was destroyed with politics.
The first speech was to welcome the old
soldiers to Jackson; the next was to
i break up Gordon. The soldiers of Butts
; County hung their heads au* hoped it
would soon stop; but the speech went
> on and at last cried out for the 30th
Georgia Reunion to endorse Gordon, but
i the shout was weak, indeed. Ido not
: think there were more than twelve for
i Gordon. It was a sad time with me.
> The next speech was by a minister of
the gospel. He first said a few words
to the old soldiers and veterans, and
• then; with hands and eyes lifted to wards
i heaven, and at the top of his voice he
shouted, hurrah for Gordon. Alas, how
i sad it is! that he must be thus treated.
I Lave been a Gordon man, though I am
an Allianceman and cannot holler for
[ Gordon, with what I hear he has said
[ about the Alliance.. Brethren, stop and
. think who it is that are whooping up
i Gordon before you fall in the ditch.
. When our leaders ask for the things we
• need, let us stand by them. I am a
. member of the 30tii G eorgia regiment
and am a true Allianieman. I hope and
pray that President Livingston may be
blest in all his undertakings for the Al
liance. With best wishes for The
Southern Alliane Farmer.
R. J. Mayo, Pres’t. of Stark Alli
ance, No. 239
Brother Felix Sloan writing from Gor
don county, has this to say: “We are
moving slowly but spreading out rapitly.
A few more speeches from Felton and
Gordon will give unanimous control of
this whole county for Everette and the
sub-treasury”. He says Dr. Felton’s ob
jections to the sub-treasury plan falls
til’-born in that county.
Ho objects strenuously to Govei nor
Gordon’s plan in lieu of ours. He thinks
the governor had better try again. He
says be went through the same war and
same battles with our distinguished gov
ernor, but that he is not willing to risk
him on financial questions.
He sends the following verses as an
epitaph of a certain politician la his
county:
hbbi: is felton’s epitaph.
There was a man who lived of late,
Whom the people did impatient wait
With outstretched arms and hearts of love
To send him to higher courts above.
But while disputing for tho prize
(lathered around the lower skies (at Rome,)
He took a notion otherwise
And joined the organize.
Brother D. B. Holbert, secretary of
Bethsada Alliance, No. 848, writing from
Ballground, says that they are doing
very well. They are using cotton bag
ging. Have thirty members in good
standing. He says some will vote for
Brother R. T. Pickett, candidate for
1 congress in that district. He thinks
Brother Pickett superior to either of the
candidates, and will suit the farmers bet
ter than any cf the others.