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0 THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. The Atlanta Georgian. JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor. F. L. SEELY, President. Telephone Connections. Subscription Rstes: One, Year $4.50 Six Months ....... 2.50 Three Months ..... J .25 By Carrier, per week 10c Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday by THE GEORGIAN CO. st 25 W. Alabama Street, Atlanta; Ga. Filtered aa aceowl-etsas matter April 5, IP*. at tbs roatance at Atlanta. Oa.. under act of esnxreaa of March 8. 117*. Unjournalistic Methods. It la the Intention of The Georgian to preserve Its news integrity even at the risk of being regarded leas enterprising than Its contemporaries. It Is the Ideal and the aim of The Georgian to conflno its statements to facts. Certain Atlanta newspapers of Tuesday afternoon set new Journalistic standards by announcing as an ac complished fact the nomination of Hon. Hoke Smith by the convention at Macon hours before the event had taken place.' These newspapers.also printed the nomi nating speech of Hon. J. L. Anderson and Mr. Smith's speech of acceptance two hours before they were dellver- .ed at the Macon convention.' These speeches were not prefaced by the statement that they "would be deliv ered." Their Introductions contained the assertion that they “were delivered." Every reader of those newspapers in Atlanta and many outside, therefore, were Informed that things had happened two hours before they really did happen. The nominating speech of Hon. J. I.. Anderson was begun at 4:40 o'clock. The speech of Hon. Hoke Smith accepting the nomination was begun at 6:)0 o'clock. One of the newspapers |n question appeared on the streets at 3:46 o'clock with this statement spread across Its front page: “Hoke Smith Nominated for Governor Amid Scenes of Wlldeat Enthusiasm.” The interesting event, with Its attending scenes of enthusiasm, took place Just one hour and twenty min utes later. It need hardly be said that The Georgian bad In type the speeches of Messrs. Anderson and 8mlth— which were given, as to the other papers, with the un derstanding that they were not to be printed until de livered. But The Georgian saw no reason to betray Ita Ideals or Its readers. established, that perpetuity Is In danger of having a pe riod writ largely to IL That Is, as long as we have men who make grand-stand plays. We don't believe the courts will decide that the Bos ton millionaire has a perpetual cinch on the gas business In Atlanta. But It tier do. let them decide right away. The people are tired of being gouged. Tl\ey will set to work to create a bit of perpetuity for themselves. It will take the form of a gas plant. Mayt>e there can be found enough men willing to make grand-stand plays to take hold of the matter. We believe there are loyal, patriotic, honorable men In Atlanta who are willing to give of their time and brains and energy that the people of this city may be relieved. The Georgian has a few suggestions that It la going to make from time to time. They will, be In reference to a municipally owned and. municipally operated gas plant. We won't recommend tbs high, medium or low systems of pressure. We will outline a plan whtreby the people can construct their plant, operate It, own It and uie the profits to reduce the tax rate, send their children to school and Improve the road*. Grand-Stand vs. Hidden Plays. The Atlanta Gas Light Company la a corporation which does business In Atlanta. It la owned by another corporation known as the Georgia Railway and Eltctric Company, which also does business In Atlanta. The Georgia Railway and Electric Company la owned by a millionaire who does business In Boston. A man named Hammond Is attorney for tbe Atlanta Gas Light Company, which Is owned by the Georgia Rail way and Electric Company, which la owned by the mill, lonatre who doe* business in Boston. Mr. Hammond Is reputed to be -a fairly good attorney—as attorney* go. Also he la a native Atlantan. At one time he was member of tbe city council. He represented the people of this city. After that )xe was—and Is—a member of the legal staff of tbe corporation which Is owned by the mil' Ilonalre In Boston. Now be represents tbe gas company. Mr. Hammond Is said to be a very well paid attor ney. That must be true, and for two reasons: First, he would have to be an attorney worthy of good hire, oth crwlse the Boston millionaire would not want him. Sec ond, he would have to be well paid, otherwise he would not—being a loyal Atlantan—consent to represent the In' tereats of the Boston millionaire aa against the interest of the people of his native city. James L. Key la a young man who Hammond aay* la trying to make a grand-stand play. Mr. Key la an al derman. He la chairman of a special committee appoint ed to look Into tba history of a franchise granted by the state in 1856 for gaa to be manufactured and sold In the city of Atlanta for Illuminating purposes. The Boaton millionaire own* that franchise. He claim* he hat a perpetual right to do whatever be please* lu the way of the manufacture and sale of gas In Atlanta. He has employed the lawyer named Hammoad to defend his claim. Aa we said hofore, Hammoad must be well paid— we don't know how well. Key la not well paid. We know hit aalary. It la 125 a month. From Sir. Ham mond'a point of view, there may be some foundation for his assertion to the effect thgt Mr. Key la making a grand-stand play. Mr. Key ndmltted that he liked to win the plaudits of bis fellow cltlsene—and his own conaclence. He might hare added that he waa working In a cause which, It accomplished, would command the plaudits of his fellow cltlxeni. Hammond knew that Key waa working In a good cause, otherwise Key could never win the plaudit* of anybody—unless It was tbe corporations, and be waa their hireling. Mr. Key made the mistake of displaying soma heat He should have realised that Mr. Hammond waa trying to ridicule him. Aa we said before, Mr. Hammond Is evi dently a pretty ahrewd cltlxen. Also he must have done somo grand-stand playing In bis time himself. Knowing these things, he knew that to charge grand-atand play ing was likely to dampen the ardor or a leas manly man than Jim Key. So one likes to be charged with playing to the grand stand. We rather approve of grand-atand plays on the part of city officials. There baa been too much of this behind the scenes business. Afl» play made In full view of the grand, stand must be honest Alio It must be good; otherwise It will be detected and win a storm of hlaies. The special committee of which Mr. Key la chairman held a meeting at City Hall Tuesday morning. Attorney Hammond was on hand, as were other of the Boaton mil lionaire's hireling*. City Attorney Mayaon, a very excel lent city official, who probably wants to win the plaudits of his fellow citizens, as he is grossly underpaid, wss also on hand. He made a recommendation to carry the question of perpetual franchise to tbe courts and have the matter • eclded. . There la a member of council named Patterson. He la a member of tbe committee of which Key Is chairman. We don't know whoa* plaudits Mr. Patterson hoped to win, but he decided he didn't want the city to get mixed up In a lawsuit with this ga* company which Is owned by the Boston millionaire. What objection la there to trying the matter In tbe courts? If the gat company has a perpetual franchise, why not establish the claim to perpetuity. What It the The Georgian Wins Us Fight. On another page In this Issue appears a letter from Dr. Walter A. Taylor, chairman of the special commit tee appointed by council to Investigate tbe meat situa tion In Atlanta. In this letter Dr. Taylor, speaking for council and for the special committee, is good enough to express his cordial appreciation and that of hla associate* In council for the work which The Georgian has done In bringing about a healthier condition In thb slaughterhouses of Atlanta. The ordinance Just adopted by council la a far-reach ing and efficient one. It provide* that workers In the slaughter bouses mutt have health certificates stating that they have no contagious or Infectious diseases. The workera must wear sanitary clothing. The floors of slaughter houses must be built of concrete, properly gut tered and graded. All animals must he Inspected before and after being killed. Tbe slaughtering must be done In the presence of an Inspector between tbe hour* of 7 a. m. and 8 p. m. The minimum weight of calves must be fifty pounds, and for hogs fifteen pounds, and for sheep and goata twelve pounds. In overy abattoir there must be steam equipment for cleaning purposes. The maximum charges fixed for slaughtering are, $1.25 for cat tle, 35c for hogs, and 30c for sheep and goat*. No meat from outalde sources can be sold In the city unless it bears tbe government stamp and ha* been Inspected on Ita arrival in Atlanta. These are the salient features of the new ordinance which bat been adopted by council. Tbe Georgian takes particular pride In tba part which It hat played In bring ing about this' much-needed reform. It was through In formation gathered by The Georgian several weeks ago that the Investigation was first set on foot. From that day until now, having before us the best Interests of the entire community, we have fought thle battle for the peo ple and have Insisted that such an ordinance: as that passed yesterday should be adopted. The special com mittee of council Is entitled to the thanks of the entire community* for the part which It has played In this work. Dr. Taylor and his associates have been zealous and persistent In their efforts to ferret out all Irregularities In the matter of slaughtering and marketing meat In At lanta and to provide a sufficient remedy tor the future. Their wisdom and foresight was embodied In a municipal statute yesterday and ha* already become effective. This la a long step forward In the matter of reform, and once more we express our gratitude to tbe members of council and others who have upheld our hand* while The Geor gian made this fight for the people. The Atlanta Art Association. What we may call the civic consciousness Is slowly but surely awakening. Above the din of great cities a atlll, small voice may be heard by the few, prompting men and women to work for the common good; from the desolation of our alone, and brick and mortar, and from tbe bldtousness of our congested dletricts. Is born many a vision of the city beautiful. Even In amokjr Pittsburg, In Dayton, Ohio, In Hopedale, Massachusetts, andln other great Industrial centers too numerous tq mention, art and beauty are no longer abstract terms, They have been made concrete and manifest In the civic life. In public parks and buildings, In galleria* and museums, and often In art achoala whose Influence upon the elty and state Is direct and beneficent. Atlanta Is to be congratulated that within her gates a body of earnest men and women, organized aa the Atlanta Art Asaoclatlon, Is working townrd civic im provement and advancement. Under the auspice* of this organization an art exhibit, wblch brought to Atlanta the works of the best artists, and made them accessible to the public at a very low price of admission, was held last fall. A second highly creditable exhibit hat been planned for November next. The moet Important enterprise yet undertaken by the Art Association, however, It tbe establishment of an art school. As Is well known, the Instruction afforded in the arts and crafts by our Southern school! Is absurdly Inade quate. We have no trained artists and few trained arti sans,- so that what little work la done In tbe South along these very Important educational line* mutt be done by teachers brought from the North. Skilled craftmanablp not only givee most Joy to the producer, but la that upon which the highest commercial value la set, and yet our state offere to our children no opportunities to learn the crafts. The Atlanta Art Asso ciation la working to alter this condition, and It Is sig nificant to Georgia's educational advancement that the art school which la to be conducted this winter by the association will offer inducements to public sehool teach er* who desire normal training. On Thursday a meeting of the Atlanta Art Associa tion will be held for the purpose of electing a president In American and European cities In which art Interests are In any degree advanced, this office It Invested with the highest honors. The president and director of an art Institute and museum Is not necessarily an artist, but la always a man of ability and of broad culture. Under the able management of Mrs. Isaac Boyd, the Art Association has become s well organized body with several Important enterprises well under way. By her unselfish devotion to the Ideal of civic advancement wblch la the underlying principle of the organisation, the retiring president ha* won golden opinions. Just at this Important period of ita development. It Is earnestly to be hoped that the asaoclatlon will be wise In Ita choice, and that It will bestow the office upon the man or woman who can most powerfully atlmulate public Interest fa art matters. I JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES MAKES EARNEST PLEA FOR PLAIN DEMOCRACY Editor of The Atlanta Georgian Predicts Victory For Party If Clear-Cut, Popular Plat form Is Adopted. By Private Leased Wire, Chicago, Sept. 6.—In his speech last evening at the Auditorium hotel at a banquet given to William Jennings Bryan by the Jefferson Club. Hon. John Temple Groves, of Atlanta, Oa.. editor of The Atlanta Georgian, made an ear nest on<J eloquent plea for a clear-cut, popular platform and a definite De mocracy. ' He said: I count myself happy, gentlemen of the Jefferson Club, to be your guest tonight. , Wherever else the spirit of our party may have waned or weakened. It has been militant and unfailing here. For whether the Jefferson Club has led a forlorn hope against the Rooseveltlan avalanche, or whether It hae borne the banner or municipal ownership to an eventful victory, the quality of Its Democracy has been as undiluted as It has always been unterrlfied. I am fortunate especially In that your hospitality joins ms hsre with that Incomparable American whose vast renown was bom In the air of this marvelous city. For who that Is 1 Irlog can forget one fateful and lllus- trlous day when In a Chicago hall the name of a Western congreeeman leaped one lightning hour of elaetrlc om a poll us* of folding the matter up? Until th« claim Is clearly i Marshall college. Rev. J. Grant Walker. Ihe well-known Pittsburg re form minister, has accepted the call to the Hough Av» nue church. Cleveland, Ohio, to begin his work there early In September. He It a graduate of Franklin and speech from a political platform to _ matchless leadership which has filled the fair earth with the fame of Wll Ham Jennings Bryan? Future For Demoeraoy. Crowns of thorns have pressed upon many a laborer’s brow since then. Crosse* of gold have borne the broken bodies of many a victim of remorse less greed. But the shadows are lift Ing from the night of our slavery. The stone Is being rolled from the tomb In which the mercenaries have laid our liberty, and In the confident morning which,bathes the brow of Its stainless leader, our brave Democracy finds the prophecy and promise of a certain definite and triumphant resurrection. I am set upon your program to the sentiment, “Tho South and a Definite Democracy.” I am glad of that. Both the section and the adjective are enti tled to respect. You will permit me to ■ay that In the cataclysm of two years ago, when the storm of the bal lots was spent, the South was surely all that was definite, and In fact, all that was visible of any kind of Dem ocracy. Two years ago the Democracy was a sect Iona! fragment. By the rec ord of that November day the Demo cratlc party was tho solid South— with Maryland hanging by a hair— with West Virginia gone, and Missouri swept from the moorings of over 60 years. And even the South, proud and pathetic In ita splendid isolation, remained loyal not altogether In the compulsion of conviction, but as well In the sheer stress of danger and ne cessity-held In line by an ethnologi cal terror—forced by conditions, and solidified by the eternal shadow of a race problem under which there has been marshalled the most motley host of divergent convictions that ever fol owed and fought under the compre henslve banner of Democracy. South Hold* Faet. The South has been for two decades the saving remnaht of the party. Its faith Inspired by Its necessities has mad* the rendezvous of defeated and the renaissance of Imperishable prin clple*. The South has been the little leaven that will leaven the lump. It haa held faet the elements which Jef ferson bequeathed a* a sacrament to liberty, and the blood of the South In the veins of the president haa pulsed his sympathies In such power toward the people that more than once in the grapple of conviction and the wrestle with monopoly the grandson of Archi bald Bulloch, of Georgia, has seemed to say to the son of Thomas Roose velt, of New York, "Almost thou per- suadest me to be a Democrat.” And this will account for the pollt leal garments which Mr. Bryan missed In London, and later discovered upon Ihe person of the president of the United States. 51r. Chairman, the presidential elec tlon of 1804 was the most Instructive lesson that the times have taught to our Democracy. We have always fail ed and will always fall as a party of negation and a party of opposition. We failed then because we were unfaithful. We failed because we trimmed and hesitated and straddled. We failed be cause we compromised with the ap- K irently successful doctrines of the epubllcan party and surendered to men whose Interests and convictions are eo near akin to our political op ponent* that they ought In common honesty to espouse the organisation to which they belong. Wo failed because In our political hunger for victory we Imitated the platforms and pandered to the powers of the opposite party that held the government. People Repudiate 8traddl*rs. The Democratic party has not won In fifty years a national triumph upon a platform of hesitation. Imitation, apology or compromise. Every strad dling makeshift of the century has been repudiated by the people at the polls, and the only real and tangible vlC'jry which has crowned our modern Democracy waa when one brave and splendid leader spurned the suggestions of expediency, defied the timid leaden and the time-serving politicians, dared the doubts of his own cabinet, and con sented to be buried for a time with the brave body of tariff reform In order to share Its full and Inevitable resur rection. And the Democratic party owes a deathless debt for a dauntless triumph and a noble lesson of suc cess to the definite policy, the unfet tered conviction, the direct language and the bold Andrew Jacheon courage of the tariff message sent to the fifty- first congress by Grover Cleveland, of New York. “The Democratic party In It* name. In Ita history and in Its mission, stands tor the plain people of America—lb# great majority—the greatest good of the greatest number. So long as It holds fast In lip and life to this align ment, It preserves It* Integrity and commends the confidence of the peo ple. But whenever It sells out to the enemy—whenever it begins to enter competition with the Republican party for the favor and applause of the rest coquets with grasping corporations— whenever Ita campaign fund goes a- whorlng after the fat of the trusts and the favor of the syndicates—then It Is spewed out of the mouths of the people by some two million majority—as It was two years ago. Lessons of Democracy. “We have got to come back to the mission and meaning of the party. We have got to come back to the faith of the fathers. We have got to withdraw our worship from the golden calf of August Belmont and sit once more at the feet of Jefferson and Jackson and Bryan to relearn the lessons of the old but ever young Democracy. » If any man doubts that the South stands for a definite Democracy, let him read the returns of our state elec tions Just concluded. Braxton B. Co pier haa swept the ballots of Alabama upon a straight platform of reform, and In my own Georgia .Hoke Smith, upon the clear-cut issue of compelling the corporations to do right, has car ried 123 out of 145 counties, Ifeavlng only 22 counties to divide a scattering vote among four candidates of Indefi nite conviction. The South Is conserv ative, but the South knows what It wants and Is bold to speak Its wishes at the polls. Our national Democracy Is rich Just now In a leadership that neither trims nor straddle*. The echoes have not yet died upon the candid eloquence of our great Nebraskan speaking In Mad ison Square. He has not feared to speak upon the housetope the civic con victions of his secret soul, and hs may bs sure tfeat the responsive fervor of the people Is not to be measured by the timorous apprehensions of political expediency. They will follow him against any citadel of privilege which he storms, and If the government can not control tbe railroads they will march with him In unbroken rank to own them. Praise for W. R. Hearth Yonder In New York and Boston and here In Chicago and the West we have that dauntless and tireless editor whose eight great newspaper* have vied with Bryan's tongue In educating the masses to liberty, and whose fearless Injunc tions have loosened the grasp of more Iniquitous trusts than ths entire con gress of the United States. We refuse to credit any charge of his apostary to Democratic creeds. He has always been the strongest prop of Bryan and he wilt be the strongest prop In the great battle of 1808. Bryan ’ and Hearst—sent, both them, by the better angels of Democ racy—tho tongue .and the pen, the evangel and the executive of our creeds —to quicken the criminal apathy of a plundered people and to Inspire the courage and resistance of an omnlpo tent party. Bravest of Dsmocrsts. With all Its heart the definite D*. mocracy of the solid South wants Bryan and Hearst to have free course that they may be glorified and the cause of the people advanced. We are not afraid to follow In the path which Is being biased by the two best and and bravest Democrats that this gen eration of Americans has known. Be tween advocacy and execution there Is always the saving grace of time and reflection and expediency. ^Things that were radical In 1886 have grown con servative now. Things that were revo lutionary then are held reasonable now. Charges that were credited to anarchy In '86 have been vindicated now In ex posures that hare shocked the republic and startled the world. The eyes of ths people are wide open, tha courage of ths psople la high, and the extremity of the trust Is the heaven sent oppor tunity of the. Individual cltlsen. I am Just aa certain aa I am that I live, that a bold, definite platform of popular rights and public honesty will sweep tha ballots of 1808 Into a Demo cratic avalanche. Roosevelt ls the only Republican who has a hold upon the people. All that ls good about the president Is Democratic and all that Is Democratic In him hit party protests. He Is held aloof from the leadership by his solemn pledge and by an even more solemn precedent. His party convention would never build a plat form that Roosevelt could honestly mount, and any paltform of privilege or evasion will fall beneath the battle axe of Bryan and the ballots of the people. Platform Is Bsttleflag. I am not an oracle. 1 have no claim* to leadership. I hold no office and bear no representative commission. I am one of the people—nothing more. I am a high private In the rear ranks, and I know what the people ask and de mand because I am one of them. First and above all thlnge the people South and North want a definite Dem ocracy. They want a platform that means something. They are weary of platitudes and straddles. They want a platform expressed In sentences and not In pragaraphs. They want ex plicit declarations and they do not want cumbrous platitudes. They do not want too many Issues, hut with all their hearts and with all their ballots they would like to see vital Issues single ■hotted and central truth* made brief and clear. A platform Is not n blanket. It la a battleflag. It is not a symphony. It Is a bugle call. The people want a platform that will embody their principles without useless words. If the tariff Is robbery, soy so, and let It go at that. If the criminal trust Is an Iniquity, say so, and chal lenge the people's ballots for vindica tion. If we can't regulate the railroads of the country then H Is high time to own them. Go to the hustings for your, elaboration and explanation. Sprinkle your argument In pamphlets, and rea son In literature, but fulminate your cardinal creeds In sentences, and give us a platform that every American vot- pr ran MKto In til* hnt * Growth and Progress of the New South this lipnfl will npnear from time to time Information Illustrating th# rer^arkaMe development of tbe South which deserves something more than nau. Four New Railroads. The announcement of the organization of a 86,000,000 corporation for the development of the magnificent water power of Anthony Shoals, | B tills state, and the Increase of the capital stock of an Alabama steel com pany from 816,000,000 to 226.000,000. arc notable Indications of the stupendous Industrial development that Is In progress In Georgia and Alabama, and In other sections of the South. But great ns are these undertakings, they do not overshadow the smaller enterprises, large and numerous and diver sified In Character, which are being Instituted dally In this section. As an Illustration of this, 'the Georgia and Alabama Industrial Index, published at Columbus, Ga., tells In Its Issue for this week of the projection of four new railroads and applications for charters by two railroad companies pre. vlously organized In the two states. The Index gives advanco Information of two new banks, two brick- making plants, canning factory, compress, twenty-three corporations, two Ice factories, three saw-mills, machine shop, three mining companies, nav. lgatlon company, saw works, varnish plant, five warehouses, 371,600 en largement of steel plant, paving plans In three cities, sewerage system, water-works and seventeen business buildings, Including four banking houses, hotel and two railway passenger depots. Three new churches are reported. The awarding of ten Important contracts is announced. These figures and facts form an Interesting chapter of the story which The Index tells each week. Go to the country In nine ringing sentences, and if the country does not sustain you, then , there Is no merit In honesty and no. virtue In the people. The Republican party can have no lasting claim upon the confidence and support of the American people. It can not satisfy tho wants and the aspira tions of the American masses, and in the very hour of Its power and exalta- tlon we fling Into Its face the confident prophecy of Its disintegration and de feat. We are going to fight It as we have never fought before. G. O. P. is Party of Privilege. The Republican party Is the spawn of federalism. It was born of an Idea and an organisation that was always set to monarchy and not to liberty. It ■prang from a leadership more English than American, more aristocratic than democratic. It was. ever a party of privilege, always ready to subordinate ;he masses to the classes. It Is the party of a robber tariff that wrung tribute from the poor to prop the for tunes of the powerful. It Is the party of the criminal trusts that holds the commodities of life In an Iron and arbitrary grip, and beyond economic necessity or business law holds up the people with a coal trust In winter, with an Ice trust In summer, and a meat trust nil the time, and In solently answers to every protest, “You can pay our prices or you can freeze or starve.” Mr. President, the Democratic party never had a clearer mission or a bright, er promise than today. Defeat Is dis cipline and disaster Is education. Out of the wreck of our fortunes we will build a nobler and more enduring use' fulness. The Democratic party is go ing to be reborn, reformed and recon secrated to the constitution and to pop ular rights and liberty. We cannot af ford any longer to be a party of mere negation, a party of opposition, or a servile imitation of tho party In power. We are going to believe something and we are going to do something. W* are going to be a party of creeds axd not merely a party of hungry desires. We are going to quit crawling on our bellies before the Juggerndut* of pow er, and we ore going to quit truckling like cowards to the shadow of a merely temporary success. We are going to find and to follow real leaders If we have to smash every slate and anni hilate every politician that has fatten ed upon our suffrages for forty years, We art going to make n platform that will be an open opposition and a bold challenge to tho Republican creed ev erywhere. Democracy Won’t Dl*. The Democratic party will not die, because Its principles are eternal and It waa not bom to die. It haa survived the wreck of alt other parties and will servo as pallbearer to as many more. Other parties have come and gone, but the Democratic party does not die. The old Federal party, proud with Its afflu ence of intellect, came and went: the Whig party, rich In Illustrious names and boasting a history hallowed by pa triotism, came and went: the Repub lican party, obese In spoils and wrap- GEORGIA NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS mt the old Democratic party on forever, because Its- principle* can not die. Sfen may fall like leaves when the wind walks through ths forest on Its way to meet the roar of the climbing waves, but principles are as eternal aa the granite nllls. And the principles of the Democratic party, written In government and pledged In the rights and liberties of the people, will be young, fresh nnd tri umphant when the Republican parly, wrapping the mantle of Its sins about It, shall fall by the pillars of the con stitution that It has stained forever with Its history. Negroes Maks Wsr on Vico. Special to The Georgian. Rome, Qa., Sept. 6.—Rev. W. Gaines, colored. Is circulating a petition calling a mass meeting to be held at St. Paul's A. M. E. church at 2:80 o'clock p. m. on Sunday, September 8. for the pur- pose of organizing an association to moke wnr on Ignorance, vice and Im morality among negroes In Rome. Negro is Murdered. Special to Tho Georgina. Rome, Go., Sept. 6.—Henry Evam, a negro about 20 years old, was struck over the head with a heavy club Ista Saturday afternoon by Richard Col quitt, another negro, several miles north of Rome, and Instantly killed. Jr. O. U. A. M. 8tate Union. Special to The Georgian. Rome, Oa., Sept. 6.—Tho state union of the Junior Order will convene at Augusta next Tuesday, September 11. Those who will attend from Rome will be State Chaplain Rov. A. E< Sansborn and Dr. C. Hamilton. Booming Judge Henry. Special to The Gcorglsn. Rome, Ga., Sept. 6.—Since Judgt John W. Maddox has emphatically stated that he will.not be a candidate for one of the Judgeships of the new appellate court, the many friends of Judge W. M. Henry are urging him to announce hla candidacy for one of the places. Judge Henry occupied the ju dicial bench of the Rome circuit for several years. * Dead Negro it Pound. Special to Tbe Georgian. Columbua. Go.. Sept. 8.—The body of a negro man was brought to the city yesterday on the C. of Ga. train from Birmingham. -It was picked up flvi miles from horo by the trafff crew ly ing beside the track wltBvtb* skull crushed. College Begins Term. Specie 1 to The Georgian. Wrightsvllle, Ga., Sept. 6.—The fall term of the N. L. W. College will be gin today with a large attendance. To Open Department 8tore. Special to The Georglnn. Wrightsvllle, Ga., Sept. 6.—J. Fried man, of McRae, tin, will "|"!i department store here In one of the Kennedy stores on Bradford street Sep tember 8.- Cotton Rsoslpts Short. Special to The Georgina. Wrightsvllle, Ga., Sept 5.—The cot ton receipts for this place to September 1 was about 300 bales, which Is f*r below the receipts at this time laat year. THIS DATE IN HISTORY. SEPTEMBER 5. er can paste In his hat. Reform Robber Tariff. 1. Reform the robber tariff. 2. Regulate the criminal trusts. 3. Equalise taxation If it takes an In come tax to do it. 4. Object to the taxes laid upon the people to pay the watered stock of corporations. 6. Control the railroads In the Inter est of Justice or get ready to own them. 8. Shorten the houra and Improve the surroundings of labor. 7. Keep Infant children out of the factories. 8. Arbitrate the wrangles of labor and capital. 8. And put In stripes any man who 1664—Cromwell's first imrilamcnt assembled nt Westminster. 1666—Peter .ktu.vvesnnt, gorernnr of New York, headed an expedition ngnlnst tbe Swedish culnnles on Ibe I' ' ■wore rlter. 1774— Firm continental congress aeoeniHled In Carpenter's hall, Phllndelphln. 1781—Xnrnl encngenient off the Virginia rapes between the lirltisli and Krrhrli fleet-, 1812— United States brig enterprise rn|» Inre-l Hritlsh brig Ilnjer off Scgnln. Roil, commander* killed, 18S2—Confederate army crossed I'otomac river nnd entered Maryland. * 1900—Japanese and Russian envoys signed, treaty of itonce nt Portsmouth, N. U. • INDORSES THE GEORGIAN. To the Editor of The Georgian: I heartily Indorse all you have writ ten In regard to the negro question. One thing I would like to add and that thing Is a law that will rhalngang every, white man that causes the race to charge Its color, and I believe this would go a long ways toward correct ing the evils of the negro. May God speed the day when whit* men will not be allowed to dish out whisky to the negro and make him drunk, for he is beastly enough when he Is sober. Yours truly. W. A. BENNETT. Lognnvllle. Ga. *<1 Interests of capital—whenever It I buys or bullies an American ballot Concrete Block Plant Hpoctnl to Tbe Georgina. Balnbrtdge. Ga., Sept. 6.—The B»J"' bridge Cement Block Company h *» . . .about completed Its plant tor the msa- H. hivlni sold his intercut to j ufacturc of cement blocks for bulldinf Drug Busin*** Changes Hands. Special to The Georgian. Montlccllo, On., Sept. 5.—The Furse Drug Company has changed hands, Dr. R. L. Farse having sold his Interest to ! Mr. James Plttard and G. A. Tucker. Hou»* Famine In Brunewlek. Special to The Georglnn, Brunswick, Oa., Sept. l.-c-The demand for dwelling houses; In Brunswick It far and away btyond the available supply. All ths real estate concerns of this city State that they are overrun with Inquiries from people wantlni houses, and that they are unable to supply anything Ilk* the number de sired. Concrete Pit* Driving. Htieclal to The Oeorgtau. Brunswick, Ga., Sept. 6.—The Fore Rivers Ship nultdlng Company, which has the contract for the terminal* or Ihe new Brunswick Steamship Com pany. Is putting down concrete pH nn for foundations for the seven piers The success which has attended the driving of these concrete pilings has attracted considerable attention emonc engineers and pils-drlvlng concern* in various parts of the country. Company Is Reorganized. Spools! lo The Georglnn. , Columbus, Ga., Sept. 8.—The M. w. Kelly Company has applied to the su perior court for a charter, the company consisting of M. W. Kelly, Zske Kelly. John Kelly and O. W. Owen. The cap ital stock Is 260,000, nnd the firm a reorganization of the old one of » W. Kelly & Co. Cotton Oamsged by Rain. Special to The Gcorglsn. Covington, On., Sept. 5.—On account of the abundant rainfall throughout Newton county this year, the cottoa crops are not up to the usual stanoara of Inst year, although a fairly good crop Is hoped for. Prisoner Breaks for Liberty. Special to The Georgian. Tallapoosa, Oa.. Sept. 6.—Tuesday *• noon when Chief of l’ollc# I* L. 1 , was attempting to place James C. tm- bert In the Jnll here, charged wits drunkenness. Talbert broke loose from the officers nnd ran up the main str«i with the officer In close pursuit, firms a pistol, which created consider*#!* excitement. New Hardware Stars. Spedal to The Georgian. Montlccllo, On.. Sept. 6.—J. D. Hor sey has purchased a lot on Green street and will begin work In a short time on a large store for hi* Immense hard ware stock. utnou.- .-.Hnu uiv— -— , . g urposes. The plant Is located In vv m □tnhridge and was erected at a co« of about 85,000. Ten-Cent Store Opened. Special to Tho Georglnn. Wrightsvllle. Oa> Sept, i.—D- ”' Blount has opened a ten-cent storej* one of the Lovett store* on Elm street.