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VOL. 1.
FOR Al LUNCEMEiN.
Notes and Current Comment Regarding
the Great Reform Movement,
A PROSPECTIVE ALLIANCE DAILY PAPER
IN WASHINGTON —THE CASE STATED
BY TH.i PROGRESSIVE PARMER.
Now is a good time for the alliance
men to keep their own s crets. Attend
to your own business and let othei'3 do
the same.
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The movement to elect senators by di
rect v te is making noteworthy progress.
It has l een favorably reported in sub
committee of the senate.
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r l he graded income tax sentiment is
growing pdp-ibly stronger, If it can be
crystalized so as to be brought to direct
pressure upon the pr> sent congress they
m y grant it recognition. It-* shadow is
cast t.pon the dial plate of time.
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The Pioneer Exponent (Commanche,
Tpxhs) says: “The m rchants, farmers,
mtchanics ad all other classes are equal
ly interested in the prnsperty of the
country, and should begin to lay their
plan for its redemption from the etrors
of ttie past. Let us do the best we can,
and pull together in luture.”
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What is the use of an agricultural pa
per to teach the people h*>w to raise more
cotton, corn, wheat, tobacco or fine
horses, hogs, sheep or (attle while the
prices fur these things are bel"W actual
cost? If an agricultural paper cannot do
an\thi' g else it would be more useful if'
it should urge the people to raise I* ss.
Reform should be the motto of every
agriutltuial paper.
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The Union (Brookfi-Id, M 0.,) says:
What are the reasons which induced jou
to join a labor o ganizeion, aid what do
y iu expict 10 aceomp i*-h if you continue
to de-t’oy your power in the only direc
tion it can be of service to you? Why do
you vote against y ur brother whose in
terest* are yours in everything es-ential
t*i pr< speri y and comfort? How do you
expict to-get what you demand while
obeying the paity o mmand which has
brought about, the conditions of whi* h
you complain? Think of these questions
and give an answer which shall be ap
proved by your own common sense.
A Washington dispatch stytf: Ex- Sen
ator Ingalls, of Kansi, is reporte I to be
on a st ll hunt for forth r political hon
< rs. It i* said by bis friends that he
w 5.1 not be a candidate against Senator
Perkios lor the seat of the late Senator
Plumb, dow occup eu by Perkins, but
he will a k for a nomination as congress
man at large mxt fall. The cynical ex
senator says he would rather be in the
lower branch of congress than to occupy
a seat among the mirlionaires of the up
pr hr mch. The Al ace is anxl us for
the repub icans to nominate Ingalls be
cause they think he is the easiest man to
beat in the state. Jerry Simpson de
clari s that with Ingalls at the head of the
republican ticket the alliance candidate
would be elected by 40,000 mijority.
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The Alliance Dispatch (Tipton. Ind.)
says: All our lifetime we have been so
intimately connected with the masses of
the people to know that they are hoi est
and earnest in what they believe. We
are only amazed that the weight of op
pession now resting like an incubus on
the common people is n t quite sufficient
to enable every one of them to lay aside
all p irty prejudice and think and act
indepepdently, and in the light of the
clearest reason. Surely the time is not
far off when that will be ihe case. All
we ask is that with your characteristic
honesty you stu ly this que-tion your
selves. ‘"What legislation does either of
the old parties propose that wiil benefit
you or yours, or in any wav bring relief
to the masses of the people?” T'nen act
according to the answer you find to that
question
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’twould be a mistake.
A few days ago, according to the Pro
gressive Farmir, (llaleigh, N. C.) the
“Border Alliance.” consisting of four or
five counties in North Carolin i and six or
tight iu Virginia, met atDmvillc. A
motion was mide by a Noith Carolina
ipember to withdraw from both state or
ganizations and become a district organ
ization. This was voted down. He gave
as a reason that the counties comprising
this district Alliance were distinctly to
bacco counties and that they needed laws,
etc , different from those of other coun
ties throughout the various states. To
make a separate c>ncra would forever
keep them from getting anything, for
Ihey would be too small to have any in
fluence with congress. Besides that, the
persons who davor the idea evidently
don’t know what the tight is about. A
IWu tob cco legislation and cheap guano
is not the limit of the real Alliancemau’s
hope.
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WILL ESTABLISH A TAPER.
The Atlanta CoDSti ution’s Washing
ton correspondent r< cently wired the fol
lowing to his paper:
The scheme of the alliance congress
men to c tablish in Washington a con
gressional committee on the lines of the
democratic and republican committees
meets with generll fuvor among th<
lending men of ihai na ty, both i > and
out of congress Tney propose to go
further than the two old parties, in that
they will e>tab!ish a doily paper at the
national capital and run it all the yeir
round. A prominent aliianceman said
that instead of being represented
in the next congress by nine men
they would have twenty-five. “It is my
opinion,” he added, “that the two old
parties will be so evenly balanced in the
next bou e that we will control the b 1-
anoe of power and elect a speaker. We
do not look for much aid from the south,
but expect all our new men to come from
the west and northwest. It is bard,
he continued, “to make a strong alliance
man out of the average southern man.
He is a natural-bom democrat and on
party questions will be a'wavs, or nearly
always, found votmg with ttye democrat
ic party.”
THE DIFFERENCE.
We take the following from the Col
orado (Pueblo) Wotkman.
At one time u producer of wealth, one
with brain and brawn ad energy, was
consideied a valuiblc acquisi ion to this
country. He was welcomed to our shores
without a question as to the amount of
money he pos>essed. In those days the
homes, farm-*, shops, and other products
of labor were valued as adding to the
general stock for tha comfort and happi
ness of mankind. In those times the
happiness of the people seemed io be the
governing motiv*', and our country ex
t-siu.ed to uouest hearts ami willing
hands a cordial welcome and an opportu*
nity to build f* r himself and family a
home, and took pride in telling him that
in this free country he could eDjoy the
fiuitsof his own industry. But tinm
have changed. Human feeling has be
come obsolete. The wealth of
the country is no longer gauged
by it? capability of giving homes
and conieiitment to is citizens.
We have s< t up a heathi*m and become
land *>f idol iter*. Instead ofrevereing
those influences that act upon the minds
and hears of men inciting them to a
h gher civilization, we are bowing to a
lyrant, debasing in its every tendency,and
one which will eventually crush out every
impulse and i.spir (ion that makes life
worth living. We no longer sand upon
the shore and welcome the empty-handed
but stout-' earted foreigner who seeks to
escape from his oppres or, but instead
arm au officer with a mandate to drive
him back to slavery and despair, while
we stand with out-str. tched arms to em
brace h 8 oppiessors. We reject home
builders; we a<cept home destroyers.
Once we pr zed that virtue nd in 'u-try
which would buil-t up hum* 8 and add to
the liappines-* of the community; now we
welcome the agent of a foreign syndicate
who carrhs a bag of gold and a blank
mortgage.
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e@spS' “ignorance is not bliss.”
The Farmers Vidette (Al xandria, La.)
says: The old saying that “ignorance is
blips’’ will not hold good in our piesent
financial depression. Our business m n
are feeling the iron heel upon their necks;
they do not know the oppress r, but
their ignorance of the cause does not
cause them a blissful ignorance of the
facts. They are trying every means but
the right one to learn the facts‘in the case,
but they are as far now from a solution
as they were when they first started. This
is an agricultural couutry, and all the
business of the country, no matter what
kind it is, is dependent upon the pros
perity of agriculture for its final success.
We are surprised that there are so few of
the business men of the coun ry who
have ever blamed the right fellows for
our hard times. Most of the blame for
want of prosperity in the country has
been saddled up >n the shoulders of the
farmer. He has been fed on advice
ever since we can remember, and
is still blamed and advised just
as he was fourteen or fifteen years ago,
when there was a panic after the dem m
etization of si ver. and the hard times
followed on after. These business m n
do all their gathering information tr m
the enemies of labor, and of c mrae their
eyes are turned away from the true
source of all their troubles. The capital
ists of the world who live by the misfor
tunes of the working man are the real
cause-of the hard lines that h*ve fallen
in the way of the industrial classes. It
is their interest to keep up the s tme sys
tems of distribution and finance, and
they have sp< nt so much time educating
the people in false systems of pol tical
economy that it may take some years and
a few more financial crashes, along with
wholesale b mkruptcy of the country, to
force the business men to change teacher t,
and study for themselves as the farmers
have done,
TUB CASE STATED.
Says the Progressive Farmer ill its last
issue: “Let it be understood that the
Alliance, as an orginizntion, cud not be
convcrte I into a political party. I had
the largest delegation of t ny one organi
zation in the St. L >uis conference. But
it did not have more than one fourth of
the aggregate number. A largo majority
of the conference was for prompt action
by the body in favor ot anew party, but
in deference to this r* cognized restraint
on the Alliance, that action was defeired
until the wot k of the conference had been
completed and it adjourned. But almost
every delegate, in his capacity as a citi
i> n, with thousands of other citizens,
joined in the great ratification mass meet
ing, which was held immediately on the
adjournment of the conference and rati
fied its action and appointed a committee
to confer with the central c mmittee
of the People’s party to arra ge tor a
time and place to hold a National Con
vention to nomina e candidates for Presi
d nt and vice-prt sident of the United
States. 'I bis committee met and dec ded
on July 4th as the date, and the city of
Omai a as the place for the convention,
and issued an address calling upon the
people to hold meetings on the last Sit
urday in the present month and ratify
the pi itform adopted by the conference
and to arrange and organize for repre
sentation in the National Convention —
TRENTON, GA. FRIDAY, MARCH 18.1892.
four for each congressional district in the
United States Bud eight for each State at
large.
This statement of facts i9 made to
show that so far as the action of the con
ference went it did not change the rela
tion of the alliance or any other organi
zation, as such, to the political parties.
It did not nor could not bind the alli
ance. a** an organiz ition, to the democra
tic, the Republican or the People’s party.
No one man, no one thousand men, could
do this. No power could force its mem
bers to remain in the Democratic or Re
publican parties—no power could prevent
them fn m going into the n w party.
The conference left every man just where
the alliance principles places him— on his
own indtvit.uai respo sib lity t > do as he
pleases, guided by an honest and earnest
purpose to discharge the high du y of
taking such political action as will best
meet his hot est convictions and secure
the enforcement of hi- principles.
Then w! at is our duty at Alliance
men? Plainly, it is to stand closer than
ever by our organization. Attend the
meetings, promote in every honorable
way, its glorious principles and strengthen
it at every point in its graud work of
educating, elevating and unifying the
farmers of the country. Cultivate for
bearance, charity and fraternity among
ourselves. Discus methods and polici. s
in a spirit of kindne sand concession,
but stand as Gibraltar on principles. Vote
f* r no man nor paity wnicb opposes our
principles—vote only for the man > r
party which truly and honestly stands
by our principles. This has been the
teaching of the Alliance from the day of
itsbir'h. This is our only safety, our
only hope.
A MOB’S WORK.
Three Negroes Shot to Death as a
Sequel to Saturday’s Row.
At 3 o’clock Wednesday morning a
mob. quietly organized, broke into the
Shelby county jail at Memphis, Tenn.,
for the purpose of lynching the negroes
concerned in Saturday night’s trouble at
“The Curve.” Three negroes were taken
from jail and hurried off by the mob
There were twenty-seven in jail, charged
with assault with intent to kill
and for ambushing and shooting four
deputies. There were seven-tive men in
the mob, all masked. They broke in the
big doors, secur'd Calvin McDowell,
Tom Moss and Will Stuart, the leaders
of tbe gang. They carried them a
short distance and ri idled thim with
bullets. The mob turned about as so n
as it had completed its work and at the
first crossing s-para ad and disappeared
as silently as they had as enabled.
The mob gained admission by the old
trick of two men ringing the bell and an
swering the challenge by giving the name
of a well-known officer, Hugh Williams,
of White Haven, and say ng they had a
prisoner for the jail.
Great excitement prevailed among the
negroes, and threats of vengeance w r ere
free y made. Latest dispatches, how
ever. give no intimation of further
trouble, although word reached Mem
phis that the negroes were assembling in
large numbers at “The Curve.” Judge
Dubose immediately equ pped 150 men
with Winchesters and they left for that
locality.
A RACE CLASH.
A Row Retween Whites and in
Which Four of the Latter m^HuletL
A telegram from
particulars of a bloody fight whiiJu took
place at Clark’s cross roads, five miles
east of that place between a party of
twelve wagoners, white, on one side and
eleven negro farm hands on the other,
in which four negroes were killed and
three or four wounded and one of the
wagoners seriously hurt.
The wagoners, who haul lumber for a
saw mill, while on ther way to their homes
they met a negro farm hand who is em
ployed on the farm of John Anderson.
In passing, one of the wagoners struck
him with his whip, to which the negro
remarked that he would see him again.
The negro then went to the house of An
derson, who employs a large number of
negroes, and in company with ten others
started for Maxey’s distillery, a short dis
tance beyond, where the wagoners made
a business of stoppiug.
When they arrived at the distillery all
of the wagoners were inside the house
purchasing whisky except two. These
the negroes assaulted with rocks and
clubs, and would have made short work
of them but for the timely appearance of
the ten others, who sprang among them
and in a short lime shot and killed four
and Wounded three or four others, two of
whom, it is said, cannot recover.
L. L. POLK TALKS.
He Explains llis Status in Regard to
the Third Party.
A Raleigh, N. tj,, dispa.cn of Tuesday
says: At last L. L. Polk has defined hi-;
status. It can be now positively stated
that he is an enthusiastic advocate of the
third party. He declares that he believes
it will sweep the west, and will have a
very large following in the south. He
says he does not propose iu sihiv
tickets, but that a national ticket will be
vote! for. In Tuesd.y’s issue of the
Progressive Farmer, Col. Polk’s paper
and the organ of the state alliance, is an
address signed by the North Carolina
delegates who atti nded the St. Louis con
vention, in which they declare themselves
in favor of the third party, uncon lition
ally endorse the plutfoim adopted there,
ami call upon the people to e'ect only
m n who will carry out the third party
principles set forth. Among the names
to the address are those of Marion Butler,
president of the state alliance, and E. C.
Bedding, late state secretary, and now
member of the railroad commission.
NATIONAL CAPITAL.
What is Being Done in Congressional
Halls for the Conntry’s Welfare.
PROCEEDINGS FROM DAY TO DAY BRIEFLY
TOLD —BILLS AND MEASURES UNDER
CO.' IDERATION—OTHER NOTES.
THE HOUSE.
Thursda y.—The house committee on
public buildings an I grounds authoriz’d
a favorable report on the following nub
Rebuilding bills: Brunswick, Ga , $75,-
hOO; Newport News. Va., $75,000; An
niston, Ala., $40,000. Mr. Herbert, of
Alabama, reported the naval appropria
tion bill. Referred to a committee of
fne whole.
Friday. —ln the house, on Friday, on
tbesuggestion of McMillin, of Tennessee,
two hours on Saturday were set apart for
the consideration of private bills, andthe
feouse went into a committee of the
whole, (Mr. Blount of Ge irgia, in th"
chair) on free wool, and was addiessed
by Mr. Stevens, of Massachusetts.
Monday. —After unimportant routine
proceedings in the hous* Monday, the
floor was awarded to the committee on
the D strict of Colum 1 ia. Measures re
nting to the administration of the local
government occupied the gr ater part of
the day’s session. The house then went
into committee of the whole on the army
appropriation b'll. There was little op
position made to the measure, and Mr.
Cuthwaite. of Ohio, who had charge of
it, steered it cleverly through the legis'a
tive breakers, but as the hour was
growing late, the committee arose with
out disposing of the bill, and the bouse
adjourned to Tuesday.
Tuesday. —ln the house, on Tues
day, Mr. En'oe, of Tennessee,
lrom the committee on postoffices and
post roads, reported a bill to repeal the
mail subsidy act. It was placed upon
the calenoar, and the minority was grant
ed leave to tile a ntinoiity report. Mr.
Sayers, of Texas, presented a conference
?ep>rt on the urgent deficiency bill, and
It was agreed to. A finally pa-sed, the
-‘till appropriates $409,641, being s4l 227
more than was cariied by the bill as it
passed the house, and $ 3,244 less than
it carried >s passed by the senate. The
house then went the committee of the
whole—Blount, of G*orgia, in the chair
—on the Irce wool bill.
TnK SENATE.
Thursday. —ln the >enate, Thursday,
u .lr: Morgan offered a resolution which was
aened to, ral ing on the president for
copi's of the correspondence in regard to
the Venezuela awards since Ju e, 1890.
Friday. —ln the senate, Friday, Mr.
Stewart introduced a joint j-e-olution
proposing a cnnstltuti ma! wiendment
that, after 189§[ no person wlp has •ul
the office of president for tne term of
four years, or any part thereof, shall be
el gible to that four years
after the ex|%ati n of such term. Mr.
S ewart said th-t he had been considering
what commit tecs should properly have
jurisdiction of the subject, and that he
had come to the conclusion that it ought
to be referre 1 to the committee on civil
serviqa reform and retrenchment. He
thought an extension of the presiden
tial term was objectionable, because that
would make the stake too great and might
sometime lead to revolution. The great
advantage of the amendment would be
the rem >val of all temptation on the part
of the president to use the appointing
power for re-election. The j tint resolu
tion was referred to the committee on civil
service reform. The bill by Daniel, assent
ing to the privileges and grants given by
ihesta'es of South Carolina and Virginia
to the French Cable company was taken
up.
Monday. —ln the Renate, Monday, a
conference was order and on the urgent de
ficiency bills, and Senators Hale, Allison
and Cockrell were appointed conferees on
the part of the senate. The senate at 2
o’c'ock went into executive session.
When the doors were reopened, after be
in xcl sed for half an hour, the senate
resumed consideration of the p istoffice
building bill. At 4 o’clock the senate
again went into executive session,
on motion of Mr. Sherman, and
at 5:25 o’clock adjourned until Tuesday.
Among the papeis presented at the open
ing of the day’s sessoin was a protest by
the Baltimore conference of the Method
ist Episcopal church against the enact
ment of further oppressive legislation
against the Chinese people, as tendiug to
cripple the missionary work in Cnina
through r< taliatory measures. There were
also hundreds of petitions presented from
grangers prayin' for legislation against
gambling in “futures,” and on various
other subjects. Half an hour was occu
pied in the presentation of such petitions.
NOTES.
The tariff debate did not go on Monday
owing to other important business before
the house.
Tfye committee on the judiciary, Mon
day, resolved to report to the sena e U
of the judicial nominations, including
the nomination of Judge Woods, of In
diana, with tbs recommendation that
th y be confirmed.
Georgia postmasters were appointed
by the President, Monday, as follows:
Commissioner, Wilkinson county, W. B.
Hheridge; Haralson, Coweta county, M.
L. Stcwa t; Pearson, Coffee county. J
E. Rcketson; Valalbrosa, Laurens
county, N. C. Chandler.
On account of the large number of
members wh • want t-> speak on the tariff,
tue vote on the. wool bill miy be post
poned. It was exp ct and that the vot
would b" taken on th 21st. On the
the special order is the silver bill, bn
only three days are to be devoted to that,
and then the tariff debate wiilgoon, and
a vote will probably be reached by the
Ist of Apr*!.
Colonel Moses, of Georgia, made an
argument before the committee on pen
sions Monday in favor of a gmeral bill,
placing all ihe surviv es of the Indian
wars noon the pension list at from eigh
to twelve dollars a month. The com
mittee agreed to it and instructed him to
draw' up the bill. It will be report dto
the house mxt Monday. Colonel Moses
says there are about four thousand sol
diers and six thousand widows.
The president has issued a proclamation
of nciprocitv with Nicaragua under the
terms of s< ction Boi the McKiuiey tariff
act. Under this agreement *he govern
ment of Nicaragua will admit free of all
duty fr< m and after April 15th, into a’l
ports of entry of that countrv oertdn
enumerated articles of merchandise; the
product of the Uni ed States, in reci
procity for the adrni sion into the United
S ales of articles enumerated in section 3
of the act.
The committee on territories has com
pleted the consideration of the bill for
the admi-sion of New Mexico. The bill
will provide for ihe constitutional conven
tions to beheld next December,t-> be fol
lo*wed by the election for state offic rs in
April, 1893. The bill for the admission of
Arizona, will also be reported within a
few days. Both territories are democratic,
and when admitted into the house as
states, send four democratic United
States Senators.
THE SOUTH IN BRIEF
The News of Her Progress Portrayed in
Pithy and Pointed Paragraphs
AND A COMPLETE EPITOME OF HAPPEN
INGS OF GENERAL INTEREST FROM DAY
to day wrrniN her borders.
The governor of North Carolina on
Saturday, commuted the sentence of
Weiiihtman Thomson, convicted of kill
ing three persons and burning their
house. Thomson is not of sound mind.
On last Monday bight the town of Mr.
Pleasant. r lenn., was visited by the most
distructive fiie in the his'ory of that
town, 'ihe princijal business part of
the place was burned. Lss $30,000;
insurance unknown.
A conference of the sou'hern passen
ger men will soon be held to make rates
for the Grand A'mv of the Republ c en
cimpotent. A mass meeting of passen
ger men will also soon be held to discus*
world’s fair rale,.
The Hotel, Stanton, at Chattanooga,
Tenn., one of die largest hotels in the
south, was closed by attachment Satur
day afternoon. The amouut of indebt
ednees upon which suit is brought is
$16,000. All the boarders owing the
house were garnisheed to the extent of
their indebtedness.
A meeting of the women, held at
Charleston 8. C., Tuesday, in the inter
est of the World’s fair, was r ither stormy.
Thev began proceedings by requestim
several northern women, who we e pres
ent, to withdraw’, nnd after a very hot
discussion, ended by appointing a com
committee to endeavor to secure the re
movdof Mrs. J, S. R Thompson, lady
manager of the state at la ge.
A Nwshville telegram reports that,
upon the application of the holders of
$500,000 of fi st mo'tgage bonds. United
States Circuit Judge Howell E. Jackson,
on Saturday, appointed H. H. Taylor, of
Knoxville, receiver of the Charlotte,
Cincinnati and Chicago railway, known
as the three C’s, and which runs through
Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky and a
parr of Tennessee.
The announcement of an important
deal in newsaper property was made in
Atlanta Saturday. It is the stie, by Col.
,T'ihn H. Seals, of The Sumy South to
Messrs. Clark Howell, C. C. Nichols and
J. R. Holliday, of the Constitution. The
transfer will be made April Ist. The
terms of the sale srs not given to the
public. The Sunny South is an exceed
ingly valuable piece of newspaper prop
erty. It is the only distinctly literary
paper in the south.
The alliance of Georgia seems to have
taken up the interest that the people
generally share in the movement to send
orgia exhibit to Chicago, and the
Rome alliance has passed resolutions en
dowing the work most heartily anti
pledging the assistance of each member
in it. This means that the farmers of
G-orgia are alive to the fact that their
lands and agricultural resources must he
put on advertisement at the great Worlds’
fair, and it means that th* y are going to
do just that very thing.
A dispatch from Newport, Tenn., ssys:
In the later part of November Esquire
Bayid Boyer and sappeare i and was not
seen again until last Tuesday, when his
horribly decomposed remains were found
in a well on his farm with three bullet
holes in his clothing Mr. Boyer’s
twenty-five year old sou. Wash, who is
county supermtendent of schools, fled as
soon as the body was found and h and in
the cave. His brother offered SSOO re
ward fur him, dead or alive, and late
Tuesday night ho was captured. He is
now in jail, and there is stroDg talk of
lynchi>g.
Dispatches of Tuesday from Austin,
Texas, report that the senatorial situa
t on is taking mote dr finite shape ev* ry
hour. The Mills men expn-ss themselve
sure of victory. A prominent memberot
the house told a reporter that Mr. Mills
wis going through; that the members
h .and already made up their minds, and he
would be electe I on tbe first ballot. The
Mi Is party claim 75 out of 106 in the
hou-e, and they have such strength that
Governor Hogg and tae administrat onists
who are supporting Mr. Chilton have be
come alarmed.
COMMISSIONER CLEMENTS.
His Nomination is Sent to the Sen
ate by the President.
The nomination of Mr. Clements as the
successor of VV. L. Bragg, deceased, for
interstate commerce commissi ner, was
sent to ihe senate Wednesday by Presi
dent Harrison. Thus the prediction
made a m mth ago is verified. Once be
fore the president had decided to appoint
Mr. Clements. lie was about to send the
nomination to the seuate when
a protest was made. But # for
this Mr. Clements would have been
appointed a month ago. Since that
time the president has made inquiries
about Mr. Clements and came to the
conclu ion that no better man could be
found in the countrv to fill this high
office. It pays $7,500 a year, and
Clements will have a private secretary at
SI,BOO a year. The position ranks next
to that of a judge of the supreme court
and is practically for life, for if a com
missioner proves efficient he is never re
moved. It is a high compliment to Mr.
Clements, hut not more than his splendid
record while in congress entitles him to.
SKETCH OF HIS LIFE.
Judson C. Clements, of Rome, was
born in Walker c >unty, Ga., February
12, 1846, was educate i in the schools of
that county, also in the law school of
Cumberland University, at Lebanoo,
! enn.; was admitted to the bar
and began the practice of law in
1869 at LaFayette, Ga., and has
continued in the same till the present
time; was elected representative in the
general assembly of Georgia in 1872 for
the term < f two years, and re elected in
1874; was elected state senator in 1877;
was elected t > the lo’ty-seventh, forty
eighth, forty-ninth and fi tieth congress
es, and was reelected to t>e fifty-first
congress as a democrat. Mr. Clements
was bmten last time by Mr. Everett, the
present congressman. Mr. Felton ran
against Everett as an independent The
announcement of the appointment will
give general satisfaction throughout the
south, and especially in Georgia.
THE CENTRAL’S LEASE
Is said to be Void, as it was Never
Approved by the Terminal.
A New Yora dispatch tays: Anew
feature of the Central receivership and
the R chmond Terminal situation devel
oped Tuesday. The lease of the Central
to the Georgia Pacific has never been
confirmed by the directors of the Rich
mond and Danville, which is the lessee
of the Georgia Pacific. ~ v . ,
This leaves n good sized loophole
through which the Richmond Terminal
can escape any complications on acc unt
of a receivership b r the Central. Tne
directors of the Richmond and Danville
can refuse to ratify the lease of the Cen
tral by the Georgia Pacific, and that will
drop the control out of the Terminal
system.
The impression on Wall street was that
this would be done. The terms of the
lease require the Georgia PtC fic to pay
7 percent, on the Central stock. Ibe
Georgia Pacific has not been earning
money enough to p <j int rest on its own
stock, barely enough in fart to pay the
dx> dc’ arges. It has been a burden on
the Terminal compiny for six ra nths,
and iC there is any chance, it may be
dragged from the system.
NOT COMING IN.
Another new feitu e regarding the
entral rece veiship matter is that Mrs.
Clark and her attorneys have been disap
pointed up to the present time in their
expectations of a long list of the Central’s
minority stockholders to join in their ap
iilicition f r r a receiver.
MISSISSIPPI’S COTTON CROP.
Preliminary Statistics of the State’s
Production Issued from Washington.
The census office has is-ued the pre
liminary statistics of cotton production
in Mississippi. The acreage of cotton4n
that state in the years 1889-90 was
2,883.499, the number of bales produced
1,154,406, not including linters; average
yield per acre, four-tenths of a bale and
total value of the crop to producers
$50,484,053. The figures reported at the
tenth census for the yea's 1879-80 wtre
as follows: Acreage, 2,106 215; number
of baes, 963,111. and yield per acre,
forty-six-hunJre 1 tbs of a bale. No at
tempt was made at the tenth census to
ascer'E'n the value of the cotton crop
which it reported, but it was estimated
by the department of agriculture at
$38,223,000. The figures now i-sued are
subject to slight modification in the final
report, which will also include cotton
seed and oiher br nches of cotton inves
tigation which the census office is en
gaged in.
BLAINE IS VERY ILL,
Aud it is Impossible for His Friends
to Longer Conceal the Fact.
A Washington dispatch of Tuesday
says: Secretary Blaine is in an extremely
critical condition. It is impossible for
his friends to longer conceal this fact.
Dr. Hyatt, his physician, puts the best p is
si tie construction on hiscise when he says:
“There is no change, but he hopes for a
"bange to-morrow.” The servant at the
hou-e teplies to all inquiries, “Mr. Blaine
s no better.” All day long Mr. Blaine’s
tomperature has been high with fever,
and occasional periods <>f delirium There
is no douPt that his vitality is at a low
ebb, and that in his enfeebled condition,
the anx ety attending the Nevins con
troversy has had a depressing effect on
him. His family is greatly alarmed, and
those who Know his true condition are
apprehensive that there may be a eollapae
at anv time.
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