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THE DALTON ARGI S.
BATIK BAY. BK<'E.Wnr.R t»r<«. 1*92.
A. H. SHAVER, tdlior.
J. E. STERN. Business Manager,
Entered <1 the Bostolli'v in DiilUtu, Gh . as
second -class mutter, and United every Saturday
by Siia vEtt A Stern,
ONE DOLLAR A* YEAH.
Address all letters a(td make till <*|ieeks paya
ble to ,
Till: AHGVN. Bit! lon. <in.
Wake up, Daltonians!
Tear the present larili' up by the
roots.
WiiaT about 1 ton's big tobacco
factory? Who will start the ball to
rolling?
Alabama is legislating against pro
fessional baseball. Alabama has sense
like folks.
The Gober investigation seems to
be developing into a tragjco-fiirical-ex
travaganxa.
B. H akbisoa’ says he hopes for
B. Harrison has lots of nerve for such
a little fellow.
If (’leveland said “Damn”-—well, it
will make swearing a little mote popu
lar in democratic circles.
Nortr G£Qiiq|4> sends-lhis emphatic
command to the Georgia legislature:
“Accept the Soldier’s Home!”
The day is at hand’when Dalton
must be up and doing, or be left be
hind in the inarch of progress and
advance.
Do you believe in the future great
ness qf Dalton? Then give Tin; Ar
gus an “ad” of your business, and help
it to pull lor Dalton and for you.
The negroes in some sections of the
south, have been again attacked by
the “Africa” disease. “Mars Harri
son’s collapse is the origin of the com
plaint.”
If there is a ueiijoerat in Whitfield
county who does pot subscribe to The
Argus, it is about time he was step
ping into the c;;ptaji)’s olljce and
planking down his dollar.
Whe the legislators give opr dear
old Confederate veterans a hoipe in
tlit|ir old age, or will they condemn
them to D ie poor house? North
Gxairgia ijays. “Give then) a. home.”
Hi uston County, is now tjie '‘ban
ner county” of Georgia. ft g’op the
life, drum and bell offered ,to t,b,e coun
ty giving the larges) per cpnt of deipo
cratie votes in tlje recent presidential
election,
The Argi's is not yet what we
hope to make it. We will make it
better from week to week, and neater
as we go along, apd when we get into
opr pew quarters, we propose to give
ydu a perfect “daisy.”
: It is a reHeelion upop the good 1
name of our dearly-beloyed democ
racy, that its president-elect should
have to take tn the woods to escape
the hungry army of oilice-seekers.
Those cormorants should be sup-i
pressed - .
term “Atlanta Ring” copers a
mplitude of sins ip the legislator
from an outlaying county. If Ije ex
plains any action of h;s by saying he
did as he did to thwart the “Atlanta
Bing,” he reads his titles clear. Fully
one hundred of e»ir present salons
Seem to be working this “racket’’ for
all it is worth.
North Georgia favorsun increased
I
appropriation for the state militia.
The Georgia militia hiw never re
ceived the encouragement it has de
served, and no material recognition
has ever been made of its valuable
service to the state in the past. Help
our soldier boys out, Mr. Legislators—
the Dalton Guards included.
Headed by Cpl. J. B. Spencer, and
several olher gentlemen of Whitfield,
Murray, Gordon and Catoosacounties,
there is a movement on fqot to estab
lish a four-county fajr, with annual
pxhibitaous at Dalton'- —the first fair
to held next fall. This is, indeed, an
<*xeellent project, and r i JIE Argus
will have much more to say abourit.
It will derail it can to make this fair
a success ; such a fair would be a great
developer of this section.
THE ARCH'S: DALTON. GA., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3.1592.
irn.TOX MUST A.\i> WILL LI.AB.
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The next few rears will be ones
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that will murk a great progress in the
south, and ones iff wonderful prosper
ity and growth to its towns cities,
counties and districts. And every
hamlet in this god-blessed sunny
south.and is putting on its thinking
cap and saying, ’ \\’hat can I do
to push myself forward, and how cun
I best, advance myself. For I must
keep up with the murcli of progress—
I I must not be left behind.”
Such is the feeling that obtains
throng,pout the south, brought about
by the renewed confidence in south—
ei n iiv, estmeijfs which the democratic
victory and assurances of peace and
white supremacy nave created. T his
feeling npt only obtains in the south,
but il is general throughout the east,
north and west. The next few years
will be wonderful years for the south.
Will Dalton be found where she
should be found —ip the lead. That
depends upon whether her citizens do
theii duty or not. We sincerely hope
and honestly believe that Daltonians
will do theii duty that Dalian will lead
the south in the matter of develop
ment, and of enterprisitg progress.
We have an abiding faith in Dalton.
It has every thing needed. But one;
and that is, its share of the “lively
gas,” with which Jules Verne doctored
the Dutch town.
And that “lively gas” is easily ob
tained. Let two or three live st hits
."tart the ball of development rolling;
let them talk development from morn
ing ti',l night and interest every man
in developing pnd improving Dalton.
They can make Dalton lead ; they can
put her next tp AUanta in the list
of the live cities (?f this section.
Will they do it?
We trust so ; we believe they will.
God has in his bounty so endowed
Whitfield county, North Georgia and
Dalton that they rank aifiong the best
countries of the globe.
Shall \ye take tl>is talent and wrap
it in a napkin an I keep jt just as it is.
Surely not. It is our duty to improve
our talent; it is our necessity to In
crease it, lest it be taken from ps and
given those seetio'ps which have im
proved and increased tljeir talepts.
That is a rather figurative express
ion, but it is the exact trpth in a nut
shell. The world is advancing, and
unless \ye advance \yitb it. our wealth,
our backbone and sipew will go to the
sections that are keeping up with the
times and beginning tip l vigorous work
so necessary to the glpd new era of
prosperity.
•That's the exact truth.
NJIE IT soui:i.y,
Dalton needs a Board of 'Trade badly.
The greatest drawback to Dalton is a
lack of concert of action among her
business n;en. The value a Board
of Trade to a cjty hps been demoms
trated in the Jiistory of» Albany ar.d
Americus. Albany is about the same
rize as Dalton, and A piericus only a
fraction larger. And yet. they have
been made powers in the commercial
circles of the state by their energetic
boards of trade, and because their
bnsinee pjen all puli together.
By Board of Trade, we do not mean
a handsome building and big dinners
every now and then. We mean the
business organization, to discuss and
forward matters of vital importance
to the city to protect its merchants
against the jobbers and the railroads
(when they try any monkey business),
to advertise the'town pud to put on
foct enterprises and industries. It
can meet in the offices of either of
our banks 'or anywhere else for that
matter. There is no necessity for a
handsome building.
It is a live energetic and harmonious
businbsS organization that Daltqji
peeds and must have.
WIIY CiEI'SQ HA II?
Henry Watterson neyer spoke a njore
potent truth than when he said that
democracy represented “the brains ami
,the conscience of the country,” but
he managed to excite the ire of the
one-horse republican editors all the
same, even if he did give htterapco to
a gospel truth.
But why shopld these republican
scribblers allow their passions to rise,
because Watterson is brave and fear-
I< s enough to make that assertion?
( leVeland was elected by a majority of
l->2 in the Eh-etor.il ’Collage, and by a
plurality of 178; he recieved a popu
lar majority of oyer GUO,OOO. The
republic:)!! vote had a large proportion
of negroes in its ranks, and it would
sojm that if either party had the brains,
it would be the one in which there was
a majority of about a million white
voters, The pople have certainly said
in no uncertain terms that the demo
cratic party possessed the most' brains
and the most conscience..
We do not beljeye that cither party
has a monopoly of the brains
of the country, but certain it is
that t|ie bulk of them have come ov r
to ttie democratic party. As to con
science the republican parly has never
had any and has made no pretense of
exhibiting omp If there is is any con
science i n existence it certainly exists
within the ranks of Democracy.
T IME I 4 ItM !.!:•> A\l> THE SOUTH
AKE ALL RIGHT.
The Baltimore Manufacturer’s
Record has the subjoined cheery
words to say of the south and its
prospects. What better could tlie
farmers of Georgia desire than demo
cratic rule, with such material bene
fits already accruing from Clevelands
recent The Record says:
“The advance of two and a half
cents per pound in the price of cotton
during the past nine weeks means a
gain to the Southern planters of
$87,500,000 in the actual cash vi)|lie
of a single staple crop.
“ The increase in the sugar crop of
this season will give to the Sppth
$2,250,000 in bounty ale tie more than
was received last year. The rice crop
of this season is the largest ever grown
in the south
“The 2,500,000 acres withdrawn
from cotton this season have been
planted with food crops, chiefly corn,
thereby making the south more self
reliant and increasing the eas|i by
keeping it at home instead of sending
it west for food.
“Bankers, merchants, manufactu
rers, farmers and the newspapers
speak with one accord of the prosper
ity that not only awaits the Soutl), but
already is piesent. Confidence never
was greater business conditions never
wore more favorable.”
THE EE ASP SYSTP-W.
We feel constrained to speak out in
favor of the bill now pending before
the Georgia legislature to aboljgh the
lease system, and employ the convicts
in working anu improving the public
roads of the state. We are in favor of
the proposed bill for several reasons:
1. The present lease system is abom
inable in every plnise, and is fully in
human abuses.
2. I'he stale has po moral »ight to
make a profit out of crime.
3. The state is able to employ its
convicts upon the piibliu ro;ids.
4. Our present system of road work
ing is objectionable ami unjust; it
lacks method, ami it js full of abu
ses, being veiy costly to [be farmer in
proportion to the benefits derived.
5 It would cost, the liirmtrs far less
if the roads were-kept up by the con
victs than if the present system is
pursued.
6. The state of Georgp) badly neefis
good roads. In many seiujitns t|ijs
lack of roads is the greatest d! il "b:)(.-k
to the development of»the i)gricujtn
ral and mine)al districts.
7. It would retnove tI)S convicts
from competition with all classes of
free labor, would lift a burden from
the farmers, and would give us good
roads. •
The bill provides that tjie county
commissioners s p)ll haye charge of the
convicts employed on the roads of
their counties ami militia districts, and
with a good* m4ll at the head.of the
sy.-tem, it sirikrs us th;it it would be
a va.>t improvement upon the present
method ot joad workiTig.
The proposed system certainly has
enough recommendations in its favor
to warrant a fair trial of its merits.
Ax Atlanta real estate dealer by the
name of Ez/aird. of an old aristocratic
family, has been convicteif of fraudu
lent, breach of tnjstin the South Caro
lin Courts and wjjl very likely go to the
Bonth Carolina penitentiary. It seems
be sold some Geoigia lands for South
Carolina parties nt $2,500. and report
ed that he sold them for SBOO, and de
ducted S2OO commissions from the
SBOO. The South Carolina parties did
not 1-jck idxitit tlu ,700 shortage, but
,t|iey howled about the S2OO commis
sions, hence his arrest and the devel
opini-nt of the facts. Ezzaid does not
si-eni to have possessed Isaac Solo
mon's trait of “knowing when he-had
enough.’*
Ti|i; anti-option bill, it is claimed,
is of (he utmost importance to the
south and west. A well-nosttd poli
tician says:
“The south and west, produce the
staples which constitute our exports
and give life to internal commerce.
T'iie production of such staples gives
employment to 25,000,000 of our peo
ple ami to more than $ 1(1,000,000,000
of capital, yet the handful ot men—
not more than 50,000 all told—trading
upon the exchangA are able, by this
modern device of -future,’ to determine
the value o; all that these 25.000,000
produce and whether this-$10,000,000
000 shall be profitably employed.”-
The Rockdale county democrats
have decided to hold another primary
for ordinary, because in the former pri
mary republicans and third party men
participated an<| then on November
Bth voted against the democatic tick
et. The heads of the Rockdale demo
crats are level, Republicans and third
partyites have no business sticking
their lingers into the democratic pie
If those who conducted the cam
paign gloriously cl<;sed November
Sth, say we must have an extra session
of congress, then let us have it. We
are willing to leave it to them ; they
have vindicated their ability to decide
all such questions us that,
They are building a mud from*Je
rtisalem to Joppa. If this new road
falls into the hands of Jay Gould, there
will again because for the shedding of.
tears over Jerusalem,
You may call it depd’, dapo, deppo
or de-pot, but certain it is the “union’’
alfair in Dalton is a disgrace to the
city.
Assignments seem to be the order of
the day in Chattanooga.*
•
TJIE EDIIOR N t)A«Y CHAIR,
—An Athens, Tenp., beau has been
fined $7..T0 by an up roman tic judge of
that town for laying his arm around his
best girl, gently drawing frer nearer to
his his beating heart and imprinting a
rapturous kiss upon her sweet little
rosebud lips. Ye gods, pud shall free
Americans put up with such an outrage
as that? Well; wejl; so long a$ this
ruthless judge does pot inyade theedito
rial sanctum, and go to fining editors and
bankrupting the country press for exer
cising this most sacred privilege of
theirs, we won’t kii-Jj. But he had
betfer let editors alone : they’ll light be
fore they will give up their rights.
—The Memphis Scimitar and the
Rockwood (Tenn.) Free Ballot bob up
serepely among our exchanges. The
sight <4 their old familiar and beloved
faces is indeed a sight to -nake a poof,
ope-gallps editor’s heart glad.
• —ls yon haven’t got the cash, bring us
taters and perturnins, for The Argl’ s is
going like hotcakes apd you will be left
behind, if you don’t subscribe at onye.
And then, we are obliged to feed the old
hundprt-ss, even if salvation is free.
—The editor of the Blue Ridge Post
advertises that he “will pay cash for a
few loads of corn.” putting aside the
question as to where our brother laid
bold of the cash, we will respectfully
implire how much “corn” does it take to
load our brother? Dues be prefer “cop
per-distilled,” “sweef-masli,” or “mount
ain dew”’
—lt makes a poop editor feel awfully
lonesome to read the magnificent menus
of Thanksgiving spreads still appearing
in print.
—All great men exhibit a foulness for
pet dogs. Gladstone has a beloved mas*
tiff, Carlisle doted on a spaniel, Tilden
was fond ot his St. Bernard, l-’rank Stan*
t.oii and Wallace Reed of the Constim*
tjon each has his pet rat terrier, and we
liave a —but, excuse us; modesty forbids
us to mention our little Mexican pug in
this connection.
—The Cedartown Standard is a model
goiijitry paper. It is filled with newsy,
readable, instructive matter, sandwiched
iietween handsome, \yeil paying adver
tisement-. And it seypis to deserve its
wonderful success.
Some of opr exchanges are having
•‘ducktits” oyer the proposed “state bank
system.” Why, we cannot say; for what
business we poor editors have witii banks
is better imagined than told —we rarely
jiave cause to’grumble about the quality
pf our cash, it’s the quantity that wor
ries us. The boys are evidently under
another “free” silver hallucination. They
are afraid, doubtless, that the state banks
will gobble up the $.54) per capita that the
government is going to give them.
—Think of it—Ben Russell, editor of
the Bainbridge Deiitocrat, has beep
elected to eoncress, and will go to Wash
ington and board at a first-class hotel! A,
country editor elected to congress! Were
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ft not for the annoyance that Russell will
receive from the office-Heekers, every old
Martha Washington hamlpress in the
state would turn greeii.with envy. How
ever, the boys all wish Russell luck, and
trust that the good food in JVashington
will not make him s;ck.
—There is a deal of truth and pathos
in the foliowin,'; piece of doggerel which
is going the rounds of the press. It tells
the pathetic story of the moncy-lover’a
hollow life;
01. l Money bags, his whole life through,
W<»rk<-d—stormy Mays and sunny;
now his heir is uorkinji. too,'
To spend the old ma i s money.
—The Newberry (S. U.) Observer, one
of the best and most prosperous weekly
papers in the south is among onr new
exchanges. We welcome ita coming as
an angel’s visit— bringing pleasure, com
fort and no small degree of happiness.
—The editor of the Cedartown Standard
raises a yell of exultation and delight
that Cedartown at last Iris “a laundry—a
long felt want.” Had opr brother only
made his want of clean linen known,
socner, maybe some of tfie rich city ed
itors woulu have loaned him a biled
shirt. But, bj» the w >y, whose linen is
it that has been suffering so long—is it
Coleman’s or Russell’s?
—The leading pape-.-s of the east, wesfc
and south are leaving the Associated.
Press, which for several years has been
giving an inferior service, out in the cold.
The dav is approaching when the South
ern Associated Press and Western Associ
ated Press will serve all the leading papers
of the land, ai d the old Associated Press
will lx* monopolized by the lesser lights
that cannot alford the superior service.
—Editors and printers eat a heap, and
it takes a heap to keep a newspaper
going. Yerbuin sap.
—The Crawfordville Democrat is yell
ing aloud for the soldiers home, and yell
ing in a telling manner —it is doing so,;n,e
tall talking vigorously, and as -usual lias
treed the coon.' Nealon is a whole team,
and always jogs along smoothly.
Why don’t the Waycross Herald give
ns some more of its good articles on to.-
bacco culture?
l'he step from desiring office and im-.
agjning that the people desire you to have
office, is very short, and one tfiat an ed
itor is about as liable tu take as any one
else.
- Calhoun has a good papejf- in the
Times, and one that deserves a liberal
support.
-.—Editor Mitchell, of the Ringgold
Lekger, spent a day in Dalton the past
week. Charles Robert Jones, his former
co-laborer, has retired from the Ledger
and will in future edit the notjon coun-.
ter in a Chattanooga dry goods store,
and Mitchell now has full swing on the
Ledger. And he is ma..ing a goo'd paper
of it, too. Ringgold certainly has two of
the brightest country papers'ip the state,
AM> HKEEZY.*’
Editor IL A. Wrench, of the Bruns
wick Advertiser, formerly of The Argus,.
is pleased to remark editorially :
“ I'he Dalton Argus, with Mr. A. IL.
Shaver, editor and J. U. Stern, business
manager, in u greatly improved appear
ance, has been received, Tfie writer has
a parental fondness for Tpu
a pride in its well-doing. Mr. Shaver it*
one of the most conscientious and indus
trious of southern newspiiper editors
with h heart as true as steel, a temper all
serene, and a purpose never lacking i,n.
whatever he does. He is a sure catch
for the Dalton people, upd an addition
to Georgia journalism that wfil be
mar ed. The Advertiser hopes that bis.
future may be as bright a>s tfie sparkle of
his columns, and his success such as he
deserves.”
The Dalton Argus is yow a splendid
weekly newspaper. The fine Tennessee
hand of Shaver is eve) vvfbere visible iix
its columns. No weekly ptfper in th<\
state has shown so great improvement in
such a short period of time. —Atlanta
Constitution.
We are going i<<sell < ver\ thing fhr less
than the wlioh -ale ju ice from now to
Christmas at Crutcher’s N ivelty Store.
Our cut prie. s are mov ug many goods,
Jesse Trotter & Sons.
Fer bill beads, go to Tab Xrc.vs office.