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UNION-RECORDER.
Milledgeville. Ga., Nov. 8,1898.
For Conprresman from Gtta District
HON. CHAS. L. BARTLETT, of Bibb co.
Election Tuesday. Nov. 8th.
THE PEACE COHMISSION.
The Demand for the Philippines Re
fused by Spain.
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Mitorial Glimpses and Clippings.
There will be elections in forty-two
i (Mates today.
The election for prohibition in Col
quitt county has been called for Mon
day, December 5th.
Hon. O. B. Stevens, Commissioner
of Agriculture, has appointed Mr. John
M. McCandless, of Atlanta, state
chemist.
Atlanta’s proposed peace jubilee for
the middle of December is being gotten
in good shape and the outlook is bright
for its success.
Georgia’s pension list is fast
proaching a million dollars. It is
ready more than the combined lists
all other southern states.
Dr. .1. G. Hopkins, a prominent
physician of Thomasville, shot and in
stantly killed Mr. Robert R. Evans,
a well known citizen on Broad street,
Tuesday.
The committee appointed to look in
to applications for pensions reported
that an additional appropriation of fifty
thousand dollars would be needed to
pay off applications now pending,
Trance will not fight. A semi-offi
cial note issued in Paris Friday even
ing says the government has resolved
not to retain the Marchand mission at
Faehoda.
The news from Paris indicates that
peace is not yet in sight. At the joint
session of the peace commission, last
Thursday, the Spaniards refused the
demand made by the Americans for the
surrender of the Philippine Islands, but
the negotiations were not broken off.
The commission adjourned until today,
(Tuesday.)
The United States is awaiting re
sults with equinimity in the realization
that the government is perfectly well
prepared for any turn the negotiations
may take. The navy, especially, is in
a state of preparedness.
Some of the European papers de
nounce the demand of the United
States.
The Fronde says: “The claims of
the United States on the Philippine
islands are looked upon with disfavor
at St. Petersburg. The powers might,
in case of America proving too obstin
ate on this point, be provoked to pro
test.”
The Evencment says : “Your money
or your life” is the attitude taken by
America in regard to Spain. The lat
ter, having no money, offers Porto
Rico and the abandonment of Cuba
and thinks she has thus discharged her
ransom. \
“Pardon me,” answers Jonathan.
‘You yet have the Philippine islands,
which are only an encumbrance to you.
I will relieve you of them. Why? Be
cause, with Fontain,I have the strong
est reasons for so doing.’ ”
Atlanta, Nov. 8.—Mr. A. R. Bryan,
the Republican nominee for congress in
this district; has withdrawn from the
race. This leaves the field clear for
L. F. Livingston, the present incum
bent.
It makes very little difference to us,
-sflflter all, whether or not Spain signs a
treaty of peace. We are in a position
to take all we want and if Spain does
not like it, she will have to submit any
way Macon Telegraph.
Dreyfus is to have a new trial. It is
nearly four years ago that Captain
Dreyfus was convicted and transported
to the Isle du Diable. The courtmartial
which convicted him met Dec. 19,
1894. In a general way Dreyfus was
convicted of selling “army secrets” to
the German Government.
The New York Herald, commenting
on Emperor William’s remark at Jeru
salem expressing his ardent hope for
peace, says: “The disarmament of Eu
rope may not follow this pledge, but it
is something to know that the two fore
most powers of the continent have ex
pressed their belief that international
controversies can be settled without
resort to Krupp guns and smokeless
powder.
Judge Jno. C. Hart whs re-elected
Judsre ol'Oemulgee Circuit, last Mon
day,without opposition. He has made
a very able Judge, and by his courteous
demeanor, while upon the bench as
well as in private life, has made many
warm friendships all over his circuits
H is record as a Judge is so free from
error that his re-election was assured,
and the bar and people of the circuit
are pleased that he has again been hon
ored.
The Union Recorder and the people
of Baldwin, heartily endorse the above
from the Greensboro Herald:
THE LEGISLATURE.
Senator Mann, of the Forty-fourth,
introduced a bill in the senate Tuesday
morning to abolish the stat£ geological
department.
Mr. Calvin of Richmond, has intro
duced a bill in the legislature, the pur
pose of which is to test the constitution
ality of the ten per cent tax on state
banks.
Mr. Speer, of Sumter county, has
introduced a bill in the legislature to
have the Railroad Commissioners of
the state elected by the people.
The legislature is determined to
study the Australian ballot system. A
resolution was adopted Thursday by
the senate and concurred in by the
house, providing that a joint commit
tee shall visit some state where the
system is now employed and observe its
workings at the election today. The
resolution provides that the trip shall
be made without cost to the state.
MR- WILSON BEFORE
GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
He Delivers a Strong Address on
“Territorial Expansion.”
OPPOSES PRESENT POLICY.
Thinks That People of an Alien Race
Cannot Be Governed.
The Cubans who have been employ
ed in cleaning and repairing the streets
of Santiago have struck for lngtier
wages, though they have been receiv
ing a dollar a day, or fifty cents and
two rations—higher wages than ever
before paid there for similar work —
The Cuban laborers at the best are lazy
and slipshod. They want an increase
of fifty cents per day. General Wood
absolutely refuses to accede to the de
mand and will adopt heroic measures
if the strike is not promptly declared
The Second Georgia regiment as.
sembled in Atlanta Friday after a 80
•lay’s furlough, but the regiment will
not be mustered out of the service as
was at first contemplated by the war
department. All the troops of the
command who wish to leave the service
will be mustered out and arrange
ments have been made to have the
places thus made vacant taken by men
from the First, the command now wait
ing in Macon to be mustered out. Ow
ing to the chances of the Second Geor
gia for active service in Cuba in the
near future it is probable that the regi
ment will remain largely as it is at
present, only a few of the troops desir
ing, it is understood, to be mustered
out.
Hood’s
Pills
Cure sick headache, had
taste in the mouth, coated
tongue, gas in the stomach,
aistreas and Indigestion. Do
not «>eaken, but have tonie effect. 29 eent3.
Thu eair Mils to take with Hood's Sarsaparilla.
Next Attraction Is At
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The full list ot committee chairman
ships of the senate committees is as fol
lows:
Appropriation—Blalock.
Academy for the Blind—Perkins.
Agriculture— Little.
Auditing—Webb.
Banks—Hand.
Constitutional Amendments—Hum
phreys.
Corporations—West.
Engrossing—Heard.
Enrollment—King.
Education—Nesbitt.
Finance—Wright,
Georgia Schools for the Deaf and
Dumb—Wood.
Georgia Sanitarium—Rawlings.
Hygiene and Sanitation—Green.
Internal Improvements—Odom.
Immigration and Labor—Under
wood.
Journal—Wingfield.
General Judiciary—Kouche.
Special Judiciary—Redding.
Military—Clifton.
M'iucs and Mining—Mann.
Manufactures—Bunn.
Privileges and Elections—Hodge.
Public Roads—Me Lester.
Penitentiary—Dickerson,
Pensions—Morrison.
Public Library—Thrasher.
Privileges of Floor—Thompson.
Public Printing—Lane.
Petitions—Davis.
Public Schools—Steed.
Public Property—Daniel.
Railroads—Bronner.
Rules—Dodson, Humphreys.
State of Republic—Terrell.
Temperance—McGhee.
Atlanta, Nov. 5.—Neither branch
of the legislature transacted much busi
ness today. There were so many leaves
of absence granted yesterday that the
attendance was little more than a hand
ful in either house.
Most of tlie members have gone home
to spend Sunday with their families
and take a hand in the congressional
•lection on Tuesday. They will not re
turn until Wednesday, adjournment
having been taken to that day, under
resolutions passed by both houses.
Eatonton, Ga., Nov. 5.—The large
eight-room Wright residence originally
known as the “Lumsden-place,” on
the suburbs of the city, was totally
destroyed by fire on Tuesday night
last.
of Hon William L. Wilson, President
ot the Washington and Lee University
be Virginia, delivered a strong address
fore the joint session of the general
assembly, last Thursday night, on
“Territorial Expansion.” An invita
tion had been extended Mr. Wilson
and he complied in an argument against
foreign acquisitions to our present
territory.
We make the following extracts from
the report of the speech in the Atlanta
Constitution:
Mr. Wilson said there were those
who claimed that the American com
roonwealth had always been expanding
its territory and that the present ex
pansion was but the march of progress
and the carrying out of a well defined
polioy.
“I beg to differ with those,” he
said.
Mr. Wilson then proceeded to re
view the history ot the territorial ex
pansion of the United States. He spoke
successively of the additions, one by
one. He told in a few words of the
great territories as they were added
and said that in this way the country
rapidly and gradually expanded.
“As the countries grew we establish
ed territorial governments tor them,and
as further development came the states
were admitted with the same power
as the oldest state in the union. By all
these conquests there was not a par
ticular of dishonor to the nation, and
throughout the entire expansion of
this country there was nothing but
the vigorous, healthy growth oi a na
tion.
“In the present instance it is not the
addition of lands for settlement
but rather of people for govern
ment.”
Mr. Wilson spoke of the warning
spoken by Washington when he told
the people of the United States not to
become entangled with the nations of
Europe. He spoke of the different
warnings that have been uttered by the
statesmen ot the country against terri
torial expansion.
“So,” he said, “we break company
with these statesmen of the past and
break the continuity of the country’s
policy.”
Mr. Wilson said the war with Spain
was declared to be one of humanity,but
the government is not following that
doctrine.
“While following a war of duty,” he
said, “the country has managed to come
home with a good amount of spoil in its
pockets. I thought the v/ar would be
proper, but did not think it would
eventually bring Cuba to be a part ot
our territory, which will sooner or la
ter be attached to us in some manner;
not to say anything of Hawaii, Porto
Rico and the Philippines.”
He said the country was now called
upon to incorporate 8,000,000 of peo
ple of an inferior race, descendants
of none of the great races of the
world, into the citizenship of our coun
try.
“Now, I want to ask you, gentlemen
of the general assembly, how are we
to govern these people? It may be for
awhile a military government,but when
war or quasi-war is ended every citi
zen is entitled to be governed by the
constitution of this country. The su
preme court has said that when a slave
has been emancipated, he becomes a
citizen and his right is the same as the
right of every other citizen.”
Mr. Wilson said there must be some
form of government for these people in
distant countries, but there could be no
i imperialism, as the constitution does
not provide for it.
“The provisions ol the constitution
give these people local self-government
and without that there can be no free
dom. If we goy«rn them from Wash
ington there must he some form of im
perialism, and then we engraft upon
the constitution a dangerous prece
dent.
“Let us see some of the effects of
this expansion: To have and to hold
them we must have a larger navy and
army.”
filr. Wilson said there could be no
free government with a large standing
army. He said England would not have
one.
“Think you, gentlemen of the gen
eral assembly, that your state would
stand an additional tax of $500,000
each year? Yov are already burdened
with enough taxes. Yet to maintain an
army that would be necessary to gov
ern these foreign countries it would be
little less than $500,000.”
Mr. Wilson then took up some of the
arguments advanced by supporters of
territorial expansion and said that the
principal one was “manifest destiny.”
He said it was not a new cry. He said
so trivial an illustration in the discus
sion ot so great a question he would say
that a Georgia negro never in the dark
of the moon came upon a watermelon
patch that he did not think it was
“manifest destiny."
Mr. Wilson used as an example the
civilizing and educating of the Indians
of this country. Only a few thousand,
he said, had the country been success
ful with, and the civilization of Alaska
was much the same. He said the ques
tion of civilizing the savage and alien
races is far easier to talk about than to
accomplish.
“I call upon the people of the south
to bear me out that race relations are
the hardest to manage. If there is
any truth in history, the race antag
onisms and difference are harder to
deal with than the force of nature it
self.”
Mr. Wilson spoke of the racial dif
ferences in Europe which,he said,have
always existed. He said another argu
ment for expansion was that trade and
commerce demand territorial expansion.
He said this country had never reached
that stage of development where it could
say that it did not need more develop
ment. The people are told to go to
Hawaii and the Philippines and develop
those countries.
“We cannot say we want more re
gions to develop and more resources
when we have 3,000,000 square miles
in this country yet undeveloped.”
Mr. Wilson said that the increased
trade would be small and that this
country by expansion could not monop
olize the commerce of foreign coun
tries. He reverted to the necessity of
large armies and navies to hold foreign
possessions. He spoke of the relations
of Great Britian and France on ac
count of their possessions in Africa, and
said it was one of the incidents of these
countries’ history. At times he said we
are warned against the policy of Eng
land.
“England” he said,“is not a govern
ment of a written constitution. The
last law of her parliament is the con
stitution. There is no supreme
court to annual it and none to
sustain it. England is not rent from
center to circumference by political
elections. She is strong where we are
weak. She can stand political contests
because her patronage does not depend
on them. So she is strong in just the
joints to carry on this imperialism she
is following, while we are weak, and no
man can say when we will be strong.
She may have ruled India and Austra
lia, but she has not succeeded in sub
duing her neighbors, the Irish.”
THE TERESA SINKS.
NEXT DOOR TO CASE’S DRUG STORE.
ATTRACTION NO. I.
Men’s Fine Satin, Calf, Lace or Congress
Shoes $1.25.
ATTRACTION NO. II.
Men’s Kip and Oil Grain Brogans and
Creoles, $1.00, $1.25, and $1.35.
ATTRACTION NO. III.
Men’s Fine (Jalf, Kangaroo and Vici Kid,
Tan or Black, Lace or Congress, any price,
$1.50 to $4.00.
ATTRACTION NO. IV.
Ladies’ Fine Calf and Oil Grain, Lace
Shoes, Light or Heavy, for $1.00 and $1.25.
ATTRACTION NO. 5.
Ladies Fine Kid Shoes, Black or Tan, Lace
or Button, any Price, $1.25 to $4.00.
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100 Pieces Dinner Sets at $12.50 upwards. You will also fini
anything in this line from a 5 cents Tooth Pick Stand to a $50,001
Haviland Dinner Set. If yon are thinking of purchasing you can’t
afford to miss seeing my stock.
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Trading Stamps with all cash purchases.
Jellico Coal!
The Spanish Cruiser Recently Raised
by Hobson is a Total Wreck off
San Salvador.
Charleston, Nov. 5.—The ocean tug
Merritt put into Charleston this morn
ing for supplies. She reported the
loss of the Maria Teresa, raided by
Constructor Hobson recently off San
Salvador, Bahamas, November 1, in
the midst of a furious storm.
The cruiser left Caimenera, Cuba,
on the morning of October 30, in tow
for New York. She had already pass
ed Cape Maysi and started northeast
around the Bahamas. A furious storm,
warnings of which had already been
sent out, overtook her and in her con
dition she was unable to weather the
gale. The strain opened rents in her
hull which had been patched to enublo
her to make the journey and she be
gan to fill rapidly.
The Merritt took off Captain Harris
and the crew from the sinking ship and
she soon went down. The Merritt
brought the captain and one hundred
and thirty-six men who will proceed
north by rail. No lives were lost so
far as known.
An Important Difference.
To make it apparent to thousands,
who think themselves ill, that they are
not afflicted with any disease, but that
the system simply needs cleansing, is
to bring comfort home to their hearts,
us a costive condition is easily cured by
using Syrup of Figs. Manufactured
by the California Fig Syrup Co. only,
and sold by all druggists.
Sayings of the Qreat.
Curses react upon him who impli
cates them.—Emerson.
God be merciful to me a sinner.—
Publican.
The Republicans have no more of
the glory of the late war than the
Democrats.—David Bennett Hill.
The funeral exercises ot Hon. T. II.
R. Cobb were conducted Saturday af
ternoon in Athens by Rev. T. Beatty
of the Episcopal church. The body
arrived on the 2:30 Seaboard train and
was followed to the cemetery by an
immense concourse of friends of the
that if he might be pardoned for using 'deceased.
The Milledgeville Coal Co. is
now prepared to furnish the
citizens ot this community with
the best quality of Jelico Lump
at $4.00 per ton delivered.
Milledgeville. Ga., Oct. 10,1898.
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Army nismanagement.
The Philadelphia Ledger makes
some interesting comments on statistics
in the pension office of army mortality
for four months up to October first.
These statistics show that three hun
dred and six officers and enlisted men
were killed in battle or died from
wounds received in action with the en
emy, while 2,600 perished in the camps
from disease. Commissioner Evans at
tempts to compare this showing favor
ably with the experience of the Union
army during the civil war, when about
forty thousand were killed in action
and three hundred and sixty thousand
died in camps and prison.
The Record, commenting on this
statement, points out that the men en
gaged in the civil war served under
hard conditions and actual warfare in
the field, in the prisons, and on the
march, while the encamped soldiers in
the recent war were subject only to the
ordinary chances of life at a military
training post. Even under similar
conditions, the Record says the note
worthy advances of the past thirty-five
years in medical knowledge and prac
tice and in sanitary science should have
served to reduce the percentage in
fatalities. This is a good point and we
fully agree with the Record when it
says it will be impossible for the ad
ministration to convince the American
people that the fearful mortality in the
southern camps was natural and inevit
able, tor the simple reason that the
people know better.
The occupation of Cuba will soon be
gin, and the Third Georgia will have
the honor of leading the van and show
ing the western Cubans what American
soldiers look like.
Coct of the War.
The Treasury statements covering
the month of October supply the basis
for an estimate of the cost of the war
with Spain. Up to date this amounts
to 1(50 million dollars, and expert opin
ion fixes the expense for the remaining
eight month of the fiscal year at 80
millions, thus making the total outlay
240 millions.
To meet this the government has the
200 millions derived from sale of bonds
and the proceeds of the extra war taxes,
which for the fiscal year to the end of
next June are estimated at 125 millions,
making a total war fund of 325 mil
lions. Unless these taxes are modified
by Congress there will therefore be on
the 1st of July a surplus of 85 millions
above the amount actually expended in
the conduct of the war.
On the other hand, under operation
ot the Dingley law, there is a deficit of
14 1-2 millions in the ordinary receipts,
which would mean more than 100 mil
lions defict for the year. It would
seem, therefore, that it the special war
taxes were to be modified it would be
necessary to adopt some new scheme of
raising revenue in order to enable the
government to make both ends meet.—•
N. Y. Herald.
ONE HUNDRED DEATHS.
Fearful Mortality Among Repatriated
Spanish Troops.
Malaga, Spain. Nov. 5.—The Span
ish transport steamer Gran Antilla.
Captain Bayona, from Havana on Oc
tober 13, via Porto Rico, with repa
triated Spanish troops on board has ar
rived here and reports that there were
100 death among the soldiers during
the voyage across the Atlantic.