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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
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Every department in seven stores invites and bids
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