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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- THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS. ADVERTISING IS THE LIFE OF TRADE.===WHY DON’T YOU TRY IT, AND SEE? 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. Did You Ever Try Electric Bitters as a remedy for you troubles? If not, a bottle now and get relief. The medicine has been found to be pe culiarly adapted to the relief and cure of all Female Complaints, ex erting a wonderful direct influence in giving strength and tone to the organs. If you have Loss of Appe tite, Constipation, Headache, Fainting Spells, or are Nervous, Sleepless, Excitable, Melancholy or troubled with Dizzy Spells, Electric Bitters is the medicine you need. Health and Strength are gurranteed by its use. Large bottles only 50 cents at H. H. Ar 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.” Highest of all in Leavening Strength.— Latest U. S. Gov’t Report. iw & ABSOLUTELY PURE 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. No. 2