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VOL X
TOM WATSON.
His Strong Arraignment
Os The Republicans.
A CLOSE CORPORATION,
Is McKinley’s Cabinet.—lt
Is Wedded to Trusts
And Monopolies,
New York, March 9. —And now
its Toni Watson.
McKinley having delivered his
inaugural address and Bryan hav
ing delivered what a good many
people would like to be his inaug
ural address, Watson steps before
the public and delivers something
ph his own account.
It is published in New York
World, and is, in part, follows:
Thomson, Ga., March 7. —There
is no suggestion of mugwumpery
about this new administration. It
is stalwart to the core . McKinley
has not obtained his election as a
republican with the purpose of an
tagonizing republican policies. Ho
is not posing as the big chief, who
is bigger and better than all the
other chiefs, and who is, therefore,
above i) 11 party shackles.
He is a republican of the strict
est sect, and ho brings all the
weight of a lofty character, super
ior intellect and amiable disposi
tion to tho maintenance <>f his par
ty’s creed. The cabinet he has
chosen is as decidely positive in
its make-up as tho president him
self. No democratic Gresham
holds a place in it. No Palmerite
secures recognition. Tho cabinet
is rigidly republican, and those who
compose it aro all inon of strength,
capacity and partisan natures.
Group tho whole official presiden
tial family together and you get
an impression of a most decided
character.
These men do not represent the
commons. There is no hint of the
“third estate” whatsoever. In Mc-
Kinley’s cabinet the privileged or
ders are represented as they have
never before in an American ad
ministration. With John Sher
man as centerpiece, the grouping
harmonizes perfectly with the po
litical size, shape and color of that
eminent spokesman of privileged
combinations of wealth. The
country at large knows Mr. Sher
man well, and the public opinion
concerning him has crystallized.
He commenced his public career
without money. He has been con
tinuously in politics; he has drawn
the small salary of a congressman
and of secretary of the treasury,
out of this he had to support his
family, and today he is a million
aire. This fortune was made hon
esty, no doubt, just as Cleveland's
was macle, but the world believes
that Sherman made his fortune
(as Cleveland did) by using the
advantages his poition gave him.
As secretary of the treasury he
had larger opportunities than any
other secretary ever had- There
were greater sums of public money
to be handled. There were mil
lions upon millions to be handed
over to favorite banks to be used,
without interest, at a time when
the banks found no difficulty in
safely lending it at large profits.
There were huge bond deals to
be manipulated. Hundreds of
millions of the national debt had
to be refunded and heavy commis
sions were paid, amounting to mil
lions. In these transactions Mr.
Sherman found himself breathing
the opulent atmosphere of the Bel
monts, the Morgans and the Roths
childs Immense fortunes wtre
made by private persons in these
colossal transactions and when they
ended Mr. Sherman was a rich
man. The coincidence is worth at-
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tention.
Not only is Mr. Sherman held
by the public generally to be very
embodiment of the poor politician
who gets rich by doing what the
corporations want done, but he is
also regarded as the especial repre*
sentative of the deadly policy of
contracting the currency. He is
held responsible for the destruc
tion of the paper money which the
people believes was so beneficial
to the country.
He is held responsible, more
than any living man, for the legis
lation which disturbed tho harmo
nious relations between silver and
gold, made trouble between two al.
lies and fettered silver with un.
friendly legislation in the interest
of gold.
He is also regarded as the espec
ial sponsor and champion of the
national banking system, which
system is detested by all those
who understand it and who do not
belong to the class which fattens
upon it.
To the masses of the people
therefore, the selection of John
Sherman as premier of the admin
istration is a significant and omin
ous fact, and Mr. McKinley has
made this impression indelible by
grouping around Mr. Sherman
other political magnates of the like
faith and order.
Mr. Gage stands for antagonism
to the greenbacks, friendship to the
national banks and hostility to
the increase of the currency by sil
ver coinage or otherwise.
He represents the kind of bime
tallism which all the metropolitan
bankers w'ant —the unanimous-
Eurcpean -agreement--sort—which
everybody knows he cannot get.
Mr. Bliss goes into the presiden
tal family redolent of the New
York chamber of commerce and
the peculiar notions about patrio
tism and government which eman
ate from that unselfish region,
colored in his views by his local
environment, as most of us are.
Mr. Bliss will appear to the
country at large as an ideal repre
sentative of the Wall street inter
est. Having been treasurer of the
McKinley campaign fund he, of all
men, knows which corporations
contributed, and w hat those corpo
rations were promised in the way
of legislation friendly to corporate
wishes.
His going into the cabinet will
appear to mean that the McKinley
administration intends to keep
faith with the said contributors to
its expenses. Mr. Bliss is a mil
lionaire banker, just as Mr. Sher
man was and Mr. Gage is.
General Alger is also a million
aire, and his views harmonize with
Sherman’s. Then comes Gary
another millionaire; then Long,
of Massachusetts, attorney for
trusts and corporations. Then
there is McKenna, of California,,
one of Leland Stanford’s confiden
tal men known on the Pacific slope
as a corporation lawyer and corpo
ration judge.
These are the strong men of the
cabinet: and of the commissioner
of agriculture, Mr. Wilson, it is
safe to say that he is in line with
the others. It is a distinctly cor
poration cabinet —a cabinet whose
members are identified in princi
ple, in purse and in purpose with
the privileged classes They not
only favor corporations and trusts
and combinations of capital, but
they are a part of the system.
They are cogs in the wheel.
McKinley’s cabinet, therefore, is
made up of those who feast on
class legislation; those who claim
that the laws should be framed in
their special interest: those who
preach the gospel of legal and pol
itical equa’ity, but whose practice
tends to concentrate all wealth, all
privilege and all power into the
, hands of a few, thus revolutionize
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, MARCH 17, 1897.
ing our republic into an aristocra
cy based upon wealth alone.
Even Mr. Cleveland allowed rep
resentation to the people in the
selection of his ctbint. Gresham
may not have been an appropriate
choice, but he was honest and poor
and had proved to the corporations
that he was incorruptible. He
was.honest, therefore, a man of tho
people.
The peculiar distinction of the
McKinley cabinet is that nobody
need nourish any hullucinations
concerning it. There is absolute
ly no room left for guessing. The
cabinet is a corporation cabinet,
and nobody can doubt it. If the
trusts who put up the money to
elect McKinley had been asked to
select their own preferences for the
cabinet they could not have chos
en a lot of men more eminently
qualified to give them satisfac
tion .
How to Cure a Severe Cold,
A few weeks ago the editor was
taken with a very severe cold that
caused him to be in a most misera
ble condition. It was undoubtedly
a bad case of la grippe and recog
nizing it as dangerous he took im
mediate steps to bring about
speedy cure. From the advertise
ment of Chamberlain’s Cough
Remedy and the many good recom
mendations included therein, we
concluded to make a first trial of
the medicine. To say that it was
satisfactory in its results, is put
ting it very mildly, indeed. It
acted like magic and the result was
a speedy and permanent cure .
The Banner of Liberty, Liberty
town, Maryland. The 25 and 50
cent sizes for sale by H. H. Arring
ton.
Revenue officers last week
searched John D. Stocks’ house in
Campbell county and was request
ed not to disturb his sick wife in
bed. After a diligent search they
couldn’t find any whiskey in the
house, and was about to leave,
when Deputy Marshal Rembert
thought the bed looked suspicious
ly large and pulled the cover back
and revealed a ten gallon keg of
whiskey in the bed with Mrs.
Stocks. She jumped out of the
bed and tongue lashed the officers
She had been sleeping with a whis-.
key soaked husband so long that
she didn’t know the difference be
tween him and a keg of whiskey.
Stocks was bound over on a $2,000
bond.—Marietta Journal.
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rington’s drug Store.
The Champion egg eater of the
world, according to The Paper,
lives in Richland. He once kept
bachelor’s hall, so he says, for
four years and averaged during
that time twelve eggs per day, four
for each meal. Three hundred and
sixty-five days in a year. Multiply
this by four and we have fourteen
hundred and sixty days. Multiply
this by twelve and you will find in
the four years the gentleman de
stroyed seventeen thousand five
hundred and twenty eggs.
Train robbers held up a passen
ger train on the L. & N. road, two
miles north of Calera last Wednes
day night and robbed the express
car of $3,000. The passengers were
not molested,
A WAR STORY.
Pathetic Incident of The
Late Civil War.
THE BLUE. AND THE GRAY.
Living They Were Enemies,
But Wounded And Dy
ing Made Friends.
From the Lexington Leader.
William Wilkerson, who was
for many years jailer of Fayette
county, and who was noted for his
fidelity to truth, related the fol
lowing pathetic incident of heroism
which he witnessed shortly after
the battle of Richmond, Ky., in
1862:
“A son of my friend, Cassius M.
Clay, was killed in the fight Rich
mond, and it was my duty to visit
the battlefield and identify the
body and take it to his father’s
home. While riding slowly over
tho scene of the battle, I heard
groans, which I was sure came
from a cornfield near at hand-
Looking down the cornrows I soon
discovered two wounded soldiers
lying about forty yards apart.
One was a federal and the other a
Confederate. A cannon ball has
broken and terribly mangled both
of the Confederate’s legs, while the
Federal was shot through the body
and the thigh.
“ ‘I am dying for water,’ I heard
the federal say, just as I discover
ed them. His words sounded as
if they came from a parched
mouth.
“ ‘I have some water in my can
teen. Yon are welcome to drink
if you’ll come hero,’ said the con
federate, who had feebly raised
his head from the ground to look
at his late enemy when he heard
his pitiful cry for water.
“ ‘I couldn’t move to save my
life,’ groaned the federal, as he
dropped his head to the ground,
while his whole body quivered with
agony.
“Then I beheld an act of hero
ism which held me spellbound un
til it was too late for me to give
the assistance I should have ren
dered. The Confederate lifted his
head again and look at his wound
ed foe, and I saw an expression of
tender pity come over his pain
distorted face as he said:
“ ‘Hold out a little longer, Yank,
and I’ll try to come to you.’
Then the brave fellow, by digging
his fingers into to the ground and
holding on to the cornstalks, pain
fully dragged himself to the feder
al’s side, the blood from his man
gled legs makeing a red trail the
entire distance. The tears ran
down my cheeks like rain, and,
out of sympathy for him, I groan
ed every time he moved, but I was
lost to everything except the fel
low’s heroism and did not once
think of helping him.
•‘When the painful journey was
finished he offered his canteen to
the federal, who took and drauk
eagerly, the water seeming to siz
zle as it passed down his parched
throat. Then, with a deep sigh of
relief, he reached out to the Con
federate, and it was plain to see as
they clasped hands and looked into
each other’s eyes that whatever of
hate may have rankled once in the
hearts of these men had now given
place to mutual sympathy and
love. Even while I watched them
I saw the Confederate’s body quiv
er as if in a spasm of pain, and
when his head dropped to the
ground I knew that a hero had
crossed the dark river. The feder
al kissed the dead hero’s hand re
peatedly, and cried like a child un
til I had him removed to the hos
i pital, where he, too, died the next
I day.”
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GADSDEN TO MONTGOMERY.
Chattanooga Southern Railroad
Will Be Extended,
Chattanooga, Tenn., March 14
It is semi-officially announced
here that the Chattanooga South
ern is to be extended from Gadsden,
its present southern terminus, to
Montgomery, Ala.
M. F. Bonzano, maneger for Rus
sell Sage, of the Chattanooga
Southern, states there will be a
line built from Gadsden to Mont
gomery, but denies that his road
will build it.
It is known that engineers are in
the field making a survey of the
line, and the information that the
extension is to be built comes
from such authority as to render it
almost certain.
ALABAMA NEWS.
Pickpockets and thugs made a
rich haul at Birmingham during
the Mardi Gras festival.
Lauderbale county people will
go out of the old beaten path of
raising cotton and try tobacco.
Pratt City had an SIB,OOO fire
on the 18th ult., destroying a
number of bussiness houses and
dwellings.
A meeting of the Alabama Sab
bath School Association will be
held in Montgomery, April 18th
and 19th next.
Sloss Iron and Steel Company
of Birmingham, will expend
$20,000 in erecting coke ovens
near that city at an early day.
John D. Dunlap, once a citizen
of Gadsden, who has been conduc
tor of a train in South America
several years, has been promoted
to superintendent of the entire
line.
The citizens of Colbert county
will vote on the bill passed by the
state legislature authorizeing the
issuance of SIOO,OOO of twenty
years bonds for building turnpikes
in that county.
The doctors of Madison county
in session last week, at Huntsvslle
roasted the drug stores for giving
counter prescriptions. They in
tend to fill their own prescriptions
and carrying their own drugs.
At a chicken fight near Gurney,
on Saturday, a quarrel arose on a
wager of 25 cents which resulted
in pistols being used. John Gen
try was killed outright and Picnic
Montgomery badly wounded in the
head aud arms.
The Ashville correspondent of
the Montgomery Advertiser says:
“A party of railroad men visited
Ashville some time ago, having in
view the building of a road from
Anniston to Oneonta. From all
that could be learned they were
well pleased.
The Selma Cotton Mill Compa
ny has just received a request from
the Acme Sign Printing Company
of Dayton, 0., for samples and quo
tations, on 75,000 yards of
“Shrunks” which they use for
printing signs. This will give
some idea of the various uses for
which cotton goods are applied
nowadays.—Selma Journal.
Scovel, the newspaper man, late
ly imprisoned in Cuba, by the Span
iards, has been released.
TIRED MOTHERS find help
■ in Hood’s Sarsaparilla, which gives
I them pure blood, a good appetite and
[ new and needed STRENGTH.
BIG COTTON MILL.
Eastern Capitalists Seeking a
Site at Huntsville.
Huntsvilte, Ala., March 12—A
party of eastern capitalists spent
several days here looking for a site
upon which to erect a $1,000,000
cotton mill. The proposed mill
will manufacture cotton goods of a
character not made by any of tho
mills of Huntsville. Under tho
laws of this state all new indus
tries are exempted from state and
county taxation for ten years.
Obituary,
Our allwise God in his wisdom,
called from our midst, a dearly
loved friend and sister Mrs. Han
nah Day, wife of Mr. A. Day, of
Menlo, Ga.
Mrs. Day fell mor
ning Feb. 5, 1897, having lived a
consistent member of the Baptist
church forty-five years. The fu
neral services were conducted at
the family burying ground near
Loop, Ala. ’ j
Mr. Starkey’s address was sin
gularly appropriate, dwelling’as he
did upon the thought of Job, when
he excuseth his desire of death “I
loathe it, I would not live always;
let mo alone for my days are van
ity.”
Wo would not live always : yet
the lips cannot be silent and hush
the “why” that will be spoken 1
Though we know God in his infi
nite compassion has taken her
from us, when she was so sadly
needed in this world; so sadly
missed in her own home.
All who knew and loved her may
dimly understand the grief and
desolation her death causes. Most
touching was her quiet endurance
of pain, weariness and confinement.
She must have suffered intensely
yet—not a word of complaining fell
from her lips. Surely the Ever
lasting arms were around her.
Sister Day was Vice-President of
our Woman’s Missionary Society;
an earnest worker always ready to
lend a helping hand in whatever
was undertaken. Oh how we will
miss her kind words of counsel
and sweet smile at our Missionary
meetings. May we learn a lesson
of wisdom from our dear friend.
Resolved that wo bow in humble
submission to our Heavenly Fath
er’s will. That we tender our
heartfelt sympathy to the bereaved
family.
Mrs. J. G. Williams, i
Miss Dora Neal, - Com.
Mrs. S. S. Lawrence, )
The editor of the Columbia Breeze
needs money, as well as the rest of
us poor grinders out of news. He
says: “Some newspaper man
started the report that a Mt. Ver
non girl kneads bread with her
gloves on, to which the hungry ed
itor replies: We need bread with
our shoes and with our pants on;
in fact with all our clothes on
We need it badly too, and if some
of our delinquents who are one or
two years in arrears'don’t pay up
soon we will need it without any
pants on at all.
The correspondent of a Georgia
weekly says he has a close friend
who bells his cows every day to
make sure of always finding them,
and at night removes the clappers
to keep from wearing out the bells.
Ripans Tabules assist digestion.
Ripans Tabules cure dizziness.
Ripans Tabules cure flatulence.
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