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E HMMIIEWL jrWE HL STL.-L’ OF ROME Established. 1890. THE ROME COMMERCIAL Established. 1*». f Issued every evening, except Saturday. Sunday and weekly. ■ PHIL G. BVRD, EDITOR AND MANAGER. office, Wilkarson Block, Third Avenue LIST OF SUBSCRIPTION >nil. and Sunday,pnt year fS.(M I Miulay, per year SI.OO I Weekly (The Kome< «*( KiKßjpei year $0 IBY CARRIER IN CITY AND SUBUIBi. Dp 4 y ai.'i Sunday, lOeent* per I Remit by bunk draft. expfsn. I money order or registered letisr I Add-esa THE HUSTLER-COMMERCIAL, ROME, GA. ■ KUivreu al Ike Postolflce at Rome, Ga.. le aecouu clkhh matter. lACvertiaiug rates and sample co, lessor th asking, BUSINESS OFFICE P HONE 85 THE STATE TICKET. * 1 " " " For Governor, .» ALLEN 1). CANDLER, of Hall For Secretary of State, PHIL COOK, of Lee. For Comptroller-Generali W. A. WRIGHT, of Richmond. For Attorney-General. 'JOSEPH M. TERRELL, of Merriwether. For Treasurer, W. M. SPEER, i of Fulton, For Commissioner of Agriculture, O. B. STEPHENS, of Terrell. For School (Commissioner, G. R. GLENN, of Bibb. I ■ II I, ■! Texas lias 247 counties, Geor gia 137. Congress seems determined to inject a backbone into McKin ley’s administration. _______— Hanna says he is in favor of national honor—and if it can be bought, why we will have it. In all this talk of war and ru mors of war the rumor that Rail road Commissioner Atkinson had resigned is—only a rumor. In case of hostilities, it is to be hoped that Genera! Northern will be sent to Waycross. He is familiar with all the strategic points about that war center. Spanish 4’s are quoted at 54, ! while United States 4’s are worth 120. The Savannah News suggests thater that this shows that Spain is noton all four with us ■> ' ’ Miss Ima Hellpopper has just had her name changed in the Oklahoma courts to Ima Helper. Are we also to have an effete west? —Louisville Courier Jour nal. If the North West Amazonian regiment is attached to Georgia troops we are in favor of relega ting them to the mess halls and forcing them to light with brk jng powder. If your railroad commissioner s going to be governor, why lon’t he resign? Or does he (‘hold on” in order to create a vacancy at the right time to ‘swap jobs” with the retiring governor. The echoes of Alien Candler’s .peech are still ringing in the even hills of Home. —Augusta Chronicle. And from every corner of the Umpire State. This is the true ing in Georgia politics today— ts the ring and the only ring hat the people will consent to year. AGAINST JOINT DEBATES. The Istimaelit* dons not look with favor upon joint debates be tween candidates of th) sane party. .Between the candidates of opposing parties there would be more reason for them; but, even where the candidates are of nut g ouistic parties. the reason against them m excited political campaign, outweight the consid erations in their favor. 4 he voters , of the 10th district have had the i most realistic demonstration of this truth. Between candidates of the same < party, the reasons are even mere < conclusive. The Ishrnaelite knows i ot no instance in which such d<- ; bates have failed to arouse bitter ness and strife. Little as it may be conjectured, some of the per sonal antagonisms born of the joint deba’ee between Bacon and Gordon years ago, are 9.i1l alive and rankling. 1 The candidates for Governor i on the Democratic ticket are mainly agreed on matters of State policy. They are entirely agreed in the matter ot lojalty to the Chicago platform. The State I convention will fix the p'atform < on which the successful candidate i w ill have to stand, regardless of his views on any given question. I What issues are there, then, for debate, except such as are of a mere personal cast? The Ishmae- 1 lite can see nene. < This being true, such meetings 1 would necessarily degenerate into < a contest of personalism, in which < insinuate n and recrimination | would infallibly appear. The bit- 1 ter contention would be taken up 1 by the followers of the respective candidates, and the peace and un - ity of the party would be sorely 1 impaired. That has been the histo- 1 ry of these joint debates in the past. It will be the history of them in ’he future. If any of the candidates wish to speak to the people, there is no reason why he should not do so, but it is the part of wisdom that the joint debate should be elimin ated from the campaign. That is the way the matter presents itself t > the Ishrnaelite. To it the reasons given are conclusive of the impol icy of joint debates.—Sparta Ish maelite. M«n who can’t get on the police force can join the army. Another day and—beware of the April fool joke . The March hare is mad because of the eggs-tray work she must do for Easter. The race for Chief is like unfil tered water —a little muddy—but will settle itself in due time. Sound travel# #lowly. The Maine blew up a month ago and the re port ha# just reached Wa#hing ton. In this day of croakers it is in teresting to notice that tLe “frog journals” of Georgia are kicking, if they are not in the swim. General Northern, the soldier governor of modern days who sprained his thumb while cock ing a cannon at St. Mary’s bridge during the Waycross war has not been heard from. Poor old Spain, can’t even lick little Cuba, and yet she is crowhopping around Uncle Sam for a fight. The old man should tell the kid to “go get a reputa tion”—and make it do so too. Io all seriousness, the Rome Tribune asks editoriady “Is not that a cool dispassionate letter from Judge Spencer Atkinson in the reply to Col. Candler?’’ and in its “scare hea i“ on the first page, says, “This u a red hot i letter to Candler. ” That is con- i sistency, about as much us you I could expect from one of the trio t of political weather vanes who < never know just exactly where i they stand from one political ( breeze to another. —Americus Her ald. ! a A DECEPTION. The Mac<>n Telegiaph, a paper that takes neither candidate’s part in the race, has this to say of Colonel Candler’s refusal to i.eet his < pponents, and the stat) - ment that hr is “personalty anxious to do so.”—Columbia Ei quirtr sun. An Atkinson organ introduces a i editorial f-otn the Macon Tele graph with the ahov- introduction as show ing what a “neutral” paper thinks, etc. Dhs only shows what a d'shon est fight 's being made on the champion of pure politics and hi d honest methods In the first place, the Enquirer-Sun knows as well as it knows anything that the Macon Telegraph is not “neutral” but in fighting Candler for all it is worth. It know®, too, that the Tebgr: ph. being in bad order poli tically. d> re not espouse Atkin son’s cause openly, lest it do him more harm fau good, so that in pretrndn g to be neutral, and at the same time hitting Candler and boosting Atkinson at every op portunity, it is really giving At kinson the only sort of support it car give him or that h.i can afford to accept. It is true for newspapers would be willing to adopt these bush whacking methods, but the Tele graph is to some extent excusable on the ground that this is the only part it could possibly take in a Democratic campaign. It is not excusable, h wever, for the En quirer-Sun to try to deceive the people as to the Telegraph's atti tude. It knows, of course, that to say the feiegraph is “neutral” will give its utterances some weight,— which they would not otherwise have—but is the En- willing to resort to such deception? Why, even the Rome Tribune, as unscrupulous as it has been during this campaign, has iwt gone so far . The Tribune has re peatedly admitted that Mr. At kinson has the Telegraph's support and han placed it in the column of Atkins n organs. It. is all right for the Enquirer- Sun to reproduce from the Tele graph as much abuse of Candler — and of Bryan too, if it likes —and as much praise of Atkinson as it may desire, but it ehou’d, at least be honest enough with its readers to tell them that the Telegraph is not “neutral”—although it pre tends to be. And for further proof us it the Enquirer-Sun can refer to the Telegraph’s statement to the contrary. —Macen News. VESSELS DESTROYED DUR- ING OUR CIVIL WAR. As the United States is now likely to engage in a naval war, it may be interesting to note the casualties to naval vessels during our la'e Civil War. The fellow ing official statement is taken from the “Army and Na vy Journal” published at New York. “During the Civil War the Hat- I teras was sunk by the Alabama, the Keokuk went down in the battle of Charleston, S, C. the Mississippi was destroyed at Port Hudson, the Iren side was burned at League Island, and Peterhof sank in a coliisaion, the South field w’tts sunk by a rebel ram and Switzerland by Confederate bat teries, the Tuup blew up. Thirty eight, United States vessels were blown up by mines during the war and six by various forms of torpe does. Amcng these vessels were the Althea, Biron de Kdb, Ciir >, Commodore Jones Harvest Moon, Housatonic, Ida, Milwaukee, Nar cissus, Os ges, Otsego, Pa'asco, Rudolph, Sciota, monitor Tecum seh.” Senator Puil Cook is gaining strength f< r the position of Secre tary of State. Mr. Cook is a brainey young man, fully equipp ed for the position he seeks and without n flection upon his oppo- ' nents we believe the people of Georgia will make no mistake if * ele.it him. —Greensboro H«i- 1 a’d-Joiirnal. *( 'Woman’s Diseases Arc as peculiar as unavoidable, and cannot be discuss- t ‘y’ ?d or treated as we do those to which the entire human Xty;' family are subject. . • Menstruation sus tains such import- : l. A ant relations U ' I WJ health, that when ML j I Suppressed, Irre£u- -. / > j A I lar or Pa'tiful, ' i ‘\ she soon becomes languid, nervous and Writable, the bloom leaves her check and very grave complica tions arise unless Regularity and Vigor are restored to these organs. Brae 7“'« -y most noted FCn .physicians _ - iff the South, | where trou bles o f th i s sort prevail more extensively than in any other section, and has never failed to correct disordered Men struation. It restores health and strength to the suffering woman. “We have f> r tLe past thirty years handled Bradfield’s Female Regulator, both at whole tale and retail, an-’ in no instance has it failed to give satisfactir a. We w-n more of it than all I | other similar remedies crinbiued.” Lamas. F.amcin & Limas, Atlanta. Macon and Albany, Ga. The Braoi’leid Regulator Co., Atlanta, Ca. jotil li" ail Druggists al SI. it) per Bottle. Instead of ieaying Rome or going out of business (as some one reported) I am receiving the handsomest lot of stylish hats and bonnets ever brought to Rome. We will bo pleased to show all in quest of the late-t and most correct designs at low prices, Mrs. A. O. Garrard. 307 Clark block. FREE OF CHARGE 'lO SUF FERS. Cut this out and take it to your druggist and gt t a sample bottle free of Dr. King’s New Discovery, for Consumption, Coughs and Colds. T hey do not ask you to buy before trying. This will show you the great merits of this wo’ideii .! remedy and show you what can be ac complished by the regular size bottle. 'I his is no experiment, and would be disastrous to the proprietors, did they not know it would invariab’y cure. Many of the best physicians are now' using it in their practice with great results, and are relying cn it in most severe cases. It is guaranteed. 'Trial bottles free at Curry-Arrington Co. Drug Store. Regular size 50 cents and #IOO. YEAR’S SUPPORT. GEORGIA, FLOYD COUNTY 1— To all whom it may corcerm: Notice is hereby given, that the appraisers appointed to set apart and assign a j ear’s support to Mrs. Henry T, Clark, tbe widow of Henry T. Clark, deceased, hive filled their awar 1 , and un'eee ) good and sufficient cause is shown, j the same will be made the judge ment of the court at the A|>:il I term, 1898, of the C urt of Ordi nary. This March 7h, 1898. J- hn P. Davis. Ordinary Floy<l County, Georgia Those of our readers i ho find themselves growing uncomfort ably stout and are wmdering what cun He done to relieve this undesirable condition, will find encouragement in the article upm. obesity in the February number of the Monthly Cyclopaedia of Practical Medicine, We urn told here that fat people, “who are pale, soft and ll.il by and mclitind to oedema lose weight rapidly from treatment with the extract of thyroid gland that oxidation is increased and nutrition improved” Charrui reports a reduction of forty pounds in one of nis Cases by this treatmaii it is not however a universal specific as in some j cases it has failed to p oduce the desired results. Wanted. —To post your books, make out your bills and do your collecting. Will do the work reasonably and guarantee satisfaction. Address for infor mation, IL S. Shockley, Rome, Ga. i'e m's s s *Vi Wie Wit k; THE PLACE — ’ To get your prescriptions filled is e * at * C. A. TREVITT. Ln Prncr . . • -i :,u * D*® ' Best chemic’Js used in compound- mU ing, A complete line of druggist’s sun- dries and toilet articles at prices as JG reasonable as can be found in the market. All goods delivered to any s=* laa part of the city. i'S ■£ ■;5 C. A. IRIAITT__ —tk 331 Broad st. 'Lei. 110. JJ-s A WHOLE CLUB lu-'E ( -L B---: g - Ca ’t ‘ Make Ijg h J - ' D' | Better Ig ■ Running || uil Time tes ' ' liiii ..... -u. ii'il ’ ■ " jp-g Z0PV...C.., ,»„• . E ::: ' I carry a full and comploti? line of jewelry, iuclu- L::: ding D.am mds * My stock of silver notions and novelties was m v- er more complete. WEDDING PRESENTS A SPECIALTY. J. K Williamson y/;• ‘'J?': I .'-. .... .. ......... ... ........ !• ..... • • • !•»• !' •'••t • •- it‘ •r•' ! )'•••••>••■••!?! •• • • .. , SOO to go regardless of cio i s rr F iriiioi b? Y) i cut get just what you w r ant of ' M v M -Th 'iF> ' r ) ' ' ”•» -lu u‘ Up ill is We have A/HW Bicycles from TWELVE DOLLARS UP and they will be sold at prices to suit the purchaser. Pianos - Organs < y and several makes of which wii! be sold at prices never before known iT Rome- We also have in stock 1,000 copies POPULAR SHEET MUSIC at ioc per copy, Send for catalogue of this music. We also handle MANDOLINS. 1 GUITARS, VIOLINS, STRINGS; aid will rent pianos Or organs with purchasing privileges. Our piano case organs are great sellers. Call and see them. E. E. Forbes,’ 327 BROAI> STREET ’, OA.AZIS, Manager. LIVERY, SALE AND FEED STABLES, Offers the public the finest teams, best convev ances and most polite and courteous drivers. The best stock of horses'and mules on sale con stantly. 30E AND 308 BROAD STREET, RQML GEORGIA.