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IHE HUSTLEB-COOERCIAL THE HUSTLER OF ROME Established, 1890. THE ROME COMMERCIAL Established. 1895. Issued every evening, except Saturday. Sunday and weekly. PHIL (i BYRD. EDITOR AND MANAGER. offlce. Wilkerson |Block, Third Avenue LIST OF SUBSCRIPTION laily and Sunuay.per year ♦5 0C lunday, per year SI.OO Weekly (Tux Rome Couhikr) per year W BY CARRIER IN CITY AND BUBUI Be. D»"\y ar.dSunday, lOcents per woe). Remit by bank draft, exprsis. money order or registered letior Add-ess THE HUSTLER-COMMERCIAL. ROME, GA. Euiereu al the Postottlce at Roium, Qa., an secona class matter. Advertie-iug rates and sample c0,.1e» tor th asking, BUSINESS OFFICE P HONE 85 THE STATE TICKET. For Governor, ALLEN D. CANDLER, ot Hall. For Secretary of State, PHIL COOK, of Lee. ' For Comptroller-General, W. A. WRIGHT, of Richmond. For Attorney-General. [JOSEPH M. TERRELL, of Merriwether. For Treasurer. W. M. SPEER, of Fulton, For Commissioner of Agriculture, O. B. STEPHENS, of Terrell. For School (Commissioner, G. R. GLENN, of Bibb. Uncle Sam proposes to fatten the Cubans for the Spanish slaughter. Brave old Fitzhugh Lee. few men envy the old Confed his post of danger. C. A. Ryder names eight of the lynchers of his redhanded brother, Dr. Ryder.—Seed eight. All the republicans now being on the pension rolls of course the pension rolls will cease to grow. ' 'The prohibitionists of Georgia seem to have learned a lesson in politics from the last guberna torial campaign. Though Sam Jones has with drawn from the race Spencer R. Atkinson continues to follow his advice a id does not resign. Perhaps if we can get all the Cubans fattened up nice and sleek, Spain might be induced to send her expert butcher, Wey ler, back to the island. Descendants of the butchers who transacted business at the Alamo some fifty years ago are now plying the inherited trade and hereditary inclinations in Cuba. Some of the politicians ’are trying to put this county in the Atkinson column, but she won’t go there. Montgomery is one south Georgia county that will stick to Candler all the way.— Vidalia Star. The Spanish torpedo flotilla, now headed directly for Way cross, will reach our shores in about eight days. In the mean time let us pray for peace - Waycross Herald. Why not send for “Ginneral” Northern, the hero of your onliest war. JOINT DEBATES If we must have a joint de bate, if nothing but a joint de bate will do Messrs. Berner and Atkinson and their supporters, then, by all means, let’s have it —and let it be between the gen tlemen who are most anxious for it. In other words, let Messrs. Atkinson and Berner arrange to meet each other on the stump. The people will give them a re spectful hearing, and, if their estimate of Col. Candler’s ‘‘mistake” is correct, they will profit by it in exact proportion to the number of joint debates they indulge in between them selves. Now, gentlemen, let us see just how much in earnest you were when you raised that cry of joint debates. If you were sincere then in saying it is the only proper way to discuss the issues of the day, you, certainly, are still of the same opinion. And the reasons which you urg ed for a joint debate witft Can dler h jld good as between your selves. If there are issues to be discussed, there are surely as many issues between you two as between you two and Col. Can dler. If not, then one of you should retire and let the other fight it out. Now, deal frankly with the people, gentlemen; either ar range to meet each other on the stump, or confess that it was only Candler you were after. If the joint debate is a good thing,it is as good a thing for At kinson and Berner as for Candler By all means, lets have the joint debates. Don’t let Col. Candler’s refusal to swallow your bait stop you. His absence will hardly make the discussion less inter esting. The people are watching you, gentlemen. You must make your joint debate bluff good.— Macon News; Let the “jingoes” who are impatient for battles off our coast possess himself in patience —when the summer girl arrives then will the engagements be come hot and furious. The reason Col. Candler is op posed to a joint debate is because he has to ting by note, and this spoils the effect in a joint argu ment. —Waycross Herald. The above is a fair specimen of the “arguments” advanced by the anti-Candlerites against Georgia’s next governor, Allen D. Candler. Douglas Glessner takes issue with 'The Herald which said that it would be easier for Mr. Berner to get a wife than to get into the gubernatorial chair and wants to bet that he will get both. Glessner is kind, lie will not only place his friend in the chair but will furnish him v.ith a helpmeet as well. Douglas should start a matrimonial and gubernatorial bureau, satisfac tion guaranteed in all cases.— Americus Herald. Railroad Commissioner Spen cer R. Atkinson, candidate, the champion joint debater, in the great arguments he advances from the stump says “There are no common people in Georgia. Candler says the common people are for him. If there are any common people in this audience stand up. (None stood—-must have been vacant seats in the little court room where the vast multitude had crowded.) Mv friends I am glad to see that none of you are for Candler.” Loud applause—by the Capitol City Club of Atlanta when the! pape»- containing the report! reached its “scrappy” halls. AST- PAT ICK’S DAY FABLE. Once upon a time, says Har ner’s Bazaar, a very truthful man and a prudent chap were walking along the street, and as they walked tiny fell to discuss sing Truth. Said the very truthful man : “The truth should be told at all times. ” “I differ with you,” said the prudent chap. “When an issue is raised the truth should be told, of course, but there are times when an issue should not be raised.” Said the very truthful man: “You are wrong. I am surprised that a man of your apparent intelligence should make such a statement.” It being the seventeenth of March, the very truthful man and the prudent chap soon met a number of patriotic Irishmen who were parading in honor of St. Patrick. Stepping into the street, the very truthful man stopped the leader of the parade—a man with a large green sash. “Sir,” said the very truthful man, “why do you, an Irishman, parade in honor of St. Patrick? St. Patrick, sir, was a Scotch man.” Thereupon the man with the large green sash smote the very truthful man between the eyes with his fist, knocked him down and discolored both his optics. In short, the man with the green sash did not do a thing to him. Moral: If you must tell the truth about St. Patrick op the 17th of March be sure and tell a Scotchman. American harvesting machin ery is being sold largely in Rus sia. On April 13th wi l be the an niversary of Thomas Jefferson’s birth. There is a growing demand for a speech from Bob Berner on the money question. —Augus- ta Chronicle. Spanish bonds continue to decline, but the real work in the present labor is to strike Cuba’s bonds off entirely. No, Jane, dear, the “Scrapital City Club’s” kid glove kandi date will not resign. He remem bers Sam Jones’ advice. And now it i$ alleged that Markus A. Hanna had laid a submarine mine under the war cloud but could not Strike the current. Allen D. Candler, the old com moner of Georgia, steps down and out of his office as Secretary of State today and sets Railroad Commissioner Spencer Atkinson a good example. Col. Candler will now op n his campaign in earnest and will do so, so effec tively that he will carry 100 counties in the primaries. Col. Sam Whitmire, of wood en-leg chicken fame, is in Bruns wick on business. Sam is a member of the special staff of the great New York Sunday Journal. Floyd county is proud of her country boy’s contribu tion to yellow journalism. The wooden-legged chicken story was his starter. “The common people are for Candler.” Railroad Commission er Atkinson answers that state ment by saying there are no common people in the state of Georgia. This manner of force ful argument was acquired by the exponent of the “Scrapital City Club” when he was holding down a seat in the supreme court. A RYRB’S EYE VIEW. The Columbus Herald is in clined to be jocular when it says that the frankness and the fair ness of the Atlanta Journal during the present state cam paign is to be commended. If it would include the Macon Tel egraph and the Rome Tribune under the same head it would be positively humorous. —Amer icus Herald. Editor Eldridge takes this sensible view of one feature of the warfare being waged on Col. Candler: “The anti-Candler papers say that Mr. Candler’s speech in Rome was listened to with “respectful attention.” The fair and impartial sheets say that he received a genuine ovation. Which will we believe? Past events show that the anti-Can d’er oi gans pervert facts to serve their own selfish ends, hence the public can be allowed to be the judg.3.” * * * A few days ago I quoted a quote from Bob Taylor, the fol lowing ; “I think it comes in poor taste for Sam Jones to talk in this way. Had it not been for the pardoning power, Sam Jones would have been in hell long ago.” •«* Niw comes Sam, who says: *** “There’s no hair nor blood around that I know of. Bob has been guyed and jabbed at by the press until he’s like some children I know of; he’ll cry if you crook your finger at him— he’ll bawl. His liver is out of fix, and his lights, too, I think. When a governor’ pardons 398 criminals in a little over twelve months’ time, it is about time to disband courts and turn the moo loose. If Bob had as much head as lie’s got heart, he’d make a heap better governor than he is making. He is right when he says I might have been in hell if it had not been for God’s pardoning power. But God’s pardoned convicts turn out better than Bob’s In other words, the Lord knows who to pardon, and Bob don’t. I love Bob Taylor as a man, but don’t admire him much as an execu tive officer. Personally, we are good friends ; officially, we are unthick.” « * * Here is a croak from the Au gusta Herald, one of the “frog” journals alluded to by Col. Can dler in his Rome speech : “There seems to be something of a difference in regard to the size of the audience that greeted Col. Candler in Rome. 'Fhe Con stitution says from 5.000 to 7,- 500. The Rome Tribune says 700 and a great many ladies. Both agreed that the speaking took place in the court house, the seating capacity of which is about 350.” * * Now the facts. The people of Rome know that there were over seven hundren people in the audience who heard Col. Candler. They know that there were less than 25 ladies pres ent. As to the statement that the Constitution placed the the number at from 5,000 to 7,- 500, the Herald is again wrong. The typographical error did not appear in the Constitution, but in the Journal, an Atkinson pa per, but was an error easily ac counted for and so evident that the paper making it was not ex pected to notice it with a correc tion. * * > But the Herald, as a “Sunday bull-fighter” and discoverer of ago.” the Tom Hight letter, isgrasp-| ing at straws —when it is not straining at gnats and swallow ing camels. The anti-Candlerites are indeed desperate. It is Railroad Commissioner Spencer R. Atkinson, candidate, yet. Painting the white squadron black and sending negro regi ments to the front gives an omi nous hue to the American war cloud that hangs over Spain, Col. Candler’s remarks about the “frog” dailies and the “weakly” ‘“pap suckers” has raised a howl in every guilty camp. This shows that Railroad Commissioner Spencer Atkin son’s “venerable friend from Hall” knows how to hit the mark when he fires at a hostile foe. Didn’t Bob Berner wire an ac ceptance to Spencer Atkinson’s challenge to joint debate in Co lumbus? That is our recollection. Then why don’t they have the spate? They” are both “just dy ing” to have a “scrap” of this nature—at least one is led to be lieve so by what these great champions are saying for publi cation. Judge Atkinson’s reply to Col. Candler’s declination to have joint debates on the ground that they would stir up strife, is a vindication of Col. Candler’s judgment. Judge Atkinson’s “peppery” personal flings at Candler show that there is no issue to discuss but personal re cords, and that a joint debate, as Atkinson’s letter indicates, would degenerate into mud slinging, enmity and strife. No joint debates are wanted by the people.— Marietta Journal. Is the Macon Telegraph, the leading exponent of Republican ism in Georgia, trying to force Governor W. Y. Atkinson to take the stump for his political twin brother and legatee Spencer R. Atkinson? Or >s the “old siw er” posted and just paving the way for a few pre arranged speeches from Governor W. Y. Atkinso..? It matters not to Col. Candlers friends which horn of the diilema they elect to hang from, for a speech or two from that s urco Wont help the auti-Candler peo ple much. ■■■■■ ■ ■■■■ ■i ■i ; ■■■! ■— ■ ■ EPWORTH LEAGUE Convention, Macon, Ga., April 7-th 1898. On account of the above occa sion the Southern Railway will sell tickets to Macon, Ga,, and return at the rate of $4.85 or one fare for the round trip. Tick ets on sale April 6th and 7th, good returning until April 11 th. 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