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About The Rome hustler-commercial. (Rome, Ga.) 18??-???? | View Entire Issue (April 1, 1898)
eighth year smoke xtra good and rebel yell cigars EOITOBJ. *■ GAIK Os ThK Silnimerville News Silcceeds COL. THOMAS IK OFFICE Os secretary of State North And South Georgia. The transfer of the office of secretary of state did not take place yesterday, because Colonel William Clifton, who is to suc ceed Colonel Allen I). Candler, called when the present incum bent was at lunch. Colonel Clif ton took charge this morning and everything was in readiness for him. His predecessor in office has taken pains to see that, the voluminous records are in such shape as to be easily acces sible, and to provide in every way possible for the entrance of his successor upon the adminis tration of the duties of the office. Colonel Candler has attended to his work up to the last minute, and in leaving his office hp has done everything that he could do to make the installation of the man who was to succeed him devoid of technicalities. But Colonel Clifton threw a bomb into the camp of the local political observers by announc ing that his first official act would be to dismiss Col. Henry W. Thomas, who for many years has been the chief clerk of the secretary of state’s office. Nearly every lawyer in Georgia knows Col. Thomas, and thous ands of Georgians who are not. 1 iwyers have had business with liiin. During the past ten years he has been the representative of the secretary of state in near ly all matters that concern the public, and it has been almost universally assumed that he would be continued in the posi tion in which he has shown so much usefulness. In fact, there was never a question that he "ouidbe kept in his place until Jat eyesterday when Col. Clifton himself suggested that he and . 01, I'homas were not altogether 111 harmony. colonel tiiomas quits. iufoi mation of this sort reach the ears of Col. Thomas, and ile promptly wri)te out his re signation for presentation to °L Clifton. Most of the state 10Use officials called upon him t 0 express their regrets, and as soon as it became known that he Was really t 0 be dismissed from office his friends gathered ai "und so numerously that the muis of his official life were devoted to a sort of informal re lJl'on, in which he was the and honored figure. He “«<> »»>lnng lo 9ay about tl „. "•‘Hon ii, which h( , w go been placed, and to riienda who ,„a,.i him i 1 ' le to con dole with 11 declared that he was not rt humor to be condoled with, iirni ,Ml ' since the announce ment ? )1 ’ (:il!to "’ s appoint had not expected to be “ c «X'i'h' ffi “’ a " d tliat 11,0 }). b j " was to be removed least 1,1 Ul 1H * Setl 1111,1 111 tlie it lei \, Coffin 4 Thomas J 6 UMr JWCam. the. ditn r THE HOME HUSTLER-COMMERCIAL of the Summerville News, and a prominent an influential factor in demrcratic politics in Cbatfo.'tgn county. Mr. Cain is one of th<* ablest country newspapermen of the state and upto the time that Color el Clifton was appointed secretary of state by Gov- rirr Atkinson lie was a supporter of Colonel Candler for governor. Since then he hn ß been advocating the cause of Judge Atkinson Ilia daughter Mias Edna has al ready made a reputation us one of the moat brilliant young newspa per women of the south, and was a conspicu us candidate f r the position of assistant librarian a few months ago. HI 1 MILITARY CAREER. Colonel Thomas, who retir s as chief clerk in the office of secre tary of state, has become well known to nearly eve. y mnn who Ims had dealings with that depart ment. He was born in Eatonton in Putnam county and was a gal lans so'dier in the enlisting in the beginning and ser ving in the Twelfth Georgia reg iment t> the end. He was in the battles of Gettysburg and Chin cellorsvill. and - did not leave the service until the surrender at Ap pomattox. H',- was for a long time a clerk in tbe office of secretary of state, and don October 15, 1888 whs appointed th the chief clerk ship by Hon. M. C. Barnett. Colonel Barnett was ill during ’he last few months ot his ad ministration and on Colonel Thomas fell most of the duties of of the office. When General Phil p ook wa» appointed aecietary of state in 1890, Colonel. Thomas was eoi.- tinued in his position, and during the months that the general was confined to his bed, owing t> the accident which befell him in his later life, Colonel Thomas was the real head of the department. Whf n General Cook died and Colonel Candler was appointed Colonel Thomae was again contin ued in his office and has held it ever since. The legislatuie dumped upon h a. the du ies of the office of the old serveyor general, and he has been the custodl n of the law records of the state read ing hack to 1715. His familiarity with the duties of his position have won for him the personal esteem of the bar of the state, and he has found time to compile m a legal volume that has found place upon the shelves of most of the law libraries of the state, “ The Railroad Laws of Georgia.” y Editor Gain will arrive in town today to enter upon the duties ot his office. Colonel Thomas says that his removal has been so abrupt as to give him no oppor tunity for making plans for the I'uture, but that he will probably maintain bis residence in Atlanta. —Constitution . TO INVADE TEXAS, Plan of Mexican Spaniards in Case of War. Laredo, Tex., April I.—A dispatch last right from Guer rero, a town on the Mexican side, says : •‘Through information fur nished by Sheriff Haynes, of this county, the Mexicans have arrested the leaders of an or ganization of Spaniards in Mex ico. These Spaniards were pre paring to make a raid into Tex as in case of hostilities between the United States and Spain The organization consists of nearly 400 men, and it is said they arc well armed and mount ed.. Carrizo was selected by them as the place to commence opera tions. A courier of the leader has been caplured by Mexican troops, bearing letters and other evidence.” ROME GEORGIA. FR DAY EVENING, APRIL 1. 1898. SOLDIER’S HOME. Redeemed From Debt bij ibe Dadgbters of Confederacy. MRSROUNSAViLLK’SPART Interesting Paragraphs From Atlanta Meeting. In its report of the meeting of the Daughters of the Confed eracy in Atlanta yesterday, the Constitution among otner things says ; It seems assured that the aged and disabled confederate soldiers of Georgia will soon no longer find the doors of the soldiers’ homo closed against them, Ata meeting of the Daughters of the Confederacy yesterday, these patriotic women virtually took under their care and protection the soldiers’ home, and after August Ist, will assume the re sponsibility of its maintenance. 'This announcement will bring happiness not alone to those old soldiers who are promised a home a.id its comforts for life, but to the Daughters of the Con federacy throughout the state, who have long sought the means by which the home might be opened to those brave old men for whom it was built. - The story of the Lome and the subsequent refusal of the state legislature to make an appropri ation for its support is a matter of state history, and though for some time past it looked as if the home would be converted into an institution ei tirely dif ferent to that which it was in tended, the Daughters of the Confederacy have never given up the hope that powers that be would in time favor the old sol dier. When the meeting opened yesterday afternoon Mrs. John King Ottley presided in the ab sence of Mrs. Plane and trans acted those business matters that needed immediate atten tion. Various committees were called upon for reports and the ladies were in happy spirits over their success in securing the Ben Hur spectacular production for their benefit when the state regent of the Daughters of tbe Confederacy, Mrs. Hallie Alex ander Rounsaville, of Rome, Ga., appeared with Mrs. Helen Plane, the regent of the Atlanta chapter. Mrs. Rounsaville was recog nized and called upon to address the meeting. There was a radi ance in her face that suggested that she had something of a hap py nature to impart to the as sembly, and as she unfolded a paper there was visible upon it the tiny confederate flag that marks tbe stationary used by these patriotic organizations She announced that she had a message that would bring happi ness to every patriotic Georgian, and she read a letter from Gen. Clem ant A. Evans, in which he made a proposition 1 y which the soldier’s home may be put unencumbered into the hands of the Daughters of the Confed eracy and inaiidain< dby them. He suggested plans by which the home might at once be put (Continued on 7th page.) Bl Easter I? MMfeJWlw\ Preparation B AT ILOM Wf tt MIN B MlUull 11 wHaL sss sss $ $ ' . ■ . . ■<• ♦ g ■' ,* ■ A We iire working a full force on full time will have the prettiest display of EASTER ♦ W *• ’ ' to be seen in Rome. Our opening days will.,be TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY, APRILS AND 6. Come over and see our Great Display, For month the management of’our millinery de partment has been investigating every acceptable au thority on the all absorbing subject of the Easter bon net. FOR BIG OPENING. We hope every lady in and around Rome will call and see perhaps the most artistic and stylish millinery that will be shown in the city. Every department in seven stores invites and bids you come to the feast of I EASTER !| BEAUTY UHW 1 U CENTS PER WEEK!
