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EIGHTH year
smoke xtra good and rebel yell cigars
fl HOTGfIRD.
Mr. Aimer R. Danis is After
“Democrat's” Scalp.
DARES him from cover.
And Pays Tho Unknown Warm
Compliments
T O the K i tor Hl stleb-Com.mehci al.
I was very much amused at a
piece of transcendental tommy-rot
U1 yesterday’s Tribune headed,
“Rirgstwr's 1 rick.
The author of the piece is evi
dently a coward, for a man with
nothing to concea' would not hes*
jtate to sign his name.
\He is not even lair. He has
tried tc write something that will
bolster up the forlorn hope of the
Sanford ticket, but h« has only
succeeded in making himself an
umufferable nuisance. He makes
facts just as Mark Twain’s sea
captain did in the civil war—to 1
suit himself. 1
• I dont know who wrote the piece,
but whoever he is, he evidently
has a job-lot of fool ideas on hand
The people of this county are net
to be swayed oy the senseless
vaporings of a dolt and a dunce,
who is moved by petty personal
predjudices, and knows not the
meaning of reasons. T imagine
the author must be a cynical
lawyer who is making an attempt
to become solid with tbe “com
mon people’’ fur the furtherance
of his political ambitions.
He is a veritable litle dema
gogue, a yap withyearnings to
watds a seat in the legislature, yet
absolutely without the ability to
uulerstand primarily his own un
fitness. Now what are the facts
about which this “democrat” (?)
pra'es
Every man in Rome today who
has a thimble mil of sense knows
that John Vandiver is postmaster!
today not by McKinley’s grace, I
but by the grace of the God of bat
tles. It this Spanish trouble had
not arisen, a republican would b«
postmaster today.aud just as soon
a * this war isover with, Vandivurs
bead goes off.
Ihe inconsistency of the Van
divr oppostion is something
wonderful.
1 he soi-disant “democrat” tuk< s
Vandiver to tusk for trying to
g t out of the past affair, wnen I
have been reliably informed, that
hi» candidate, Vince Sanford, car
ried arout.d a petition asking the
president to appoint Joe Hamilton
iu \ andiver s place. If I have
been misfornied about this Mr.
Sanford ran deny it and disprove
it. Njw see if he does this. If he
doesn’t deny it the presumption
18 that its true.
knows, as do t a
everyone else, that Rome will no
have a negro postmaster if Van
diver goes out. And he will go
out but it will be io esc >pe t tie
office of tax collector of Floyd
county
Democrat” h s given us a
practical demonstration of the
«mall amount of brains it takes to
constitute a demagogue. A microbe
woulo die of lonelinet-s if it
chanced to get into his cranium.
h. Democrat who bears a
C‘JBe resemblance to one of
asm’s Chat-els, should -cork
111 “self. I will bet my head which
is no, great stake-that “Dem
ocrat was opposed to John Van
tor'ii ne was a candidate
*°r postmaster.
hind^^ 0300 *’ ' xet nut fro,n hfi
opin ffTo’u 1 “ nd *“ th *
all ’ u have ai y bravery at
Yours truly.
Alm er R. Davis.
=rnrJ ROME HUSTLER-COMMERCiAI,.
DEMOCRATS WON.
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War Retißiule Bill Ready and
Means no Bonds.
ISSUE OF $1 50,000,000
In Greenbacks and the Corpo
ration Tax Agreed on.
Washington, May 12.—With
the exception of a few adminis
trative features, the war reve
nue bill is ready for report to
the senate. This report probab
ly will be made tomorrow,
! though consideration of the
i measure will not be begun be
! fore Monday.
! With the assistance of Senator
Jones, of Nevada, the Democrats
had control of the finance com
mittee and adopted their amend
, meats, which include a corpora
tion of one-quarter of 1 per cent,
a provision for the coinage of
I the seegniorage.and the issu
, mice of $150,000,000 of green
backs. The bond provision is
eliminated.
It required only a little more
than an hour for the committee
to dispose of the Democratic
amendments. It was soon made
evident that Senator Jones, o f
Nevada, would vote with the
Democrats on all their amend
ments and as his vote turned
the scale against the republicans,
they did not enter into a stub
born struggle to prevent this.
The vote to strike out the bond
feature stood 6 to 5, as follows :
Jones, of Arkansas ; White,
Turpie, Daniel and Chilton,
Democrats, and Jones, of Neva
da, silver Republican, for it;
and
Allison, Aldrich, Platt, of
Connecticut ; Wolcott and Bur
rows, all Republicans,against it.
Senator Morrill, Republican,
and Mr. Vest, Democrat, were
paired —Vest for the motion
and Morrill against it.
The amendments for the is
suance of greenbacks, the coin
age of (he silver seigniorage and
the taxation of corporations
were all incorporated by the
same vote.
The Democrats changed their
rate on corporations at the last
minute, reducing it from one
half to one-quarter of 1 percent.
They made this reduction be
cause of the uncertainty as to
the amount of revenue the
amendment would produce. It
was the generally expressed
opinion that the sum would,
even at this low percentage, be
very large, but there was no op
portunity for even approxima
ting the figure.
This provision is a very com
prehensive one. Is covers all
corporations, with a few excep
tions, imposing a tax of one
quarter of 1 per cant upon the
gross receipts. The exceptions
are charitable, educational re
ligious and eleemosynary insti
tutions and strictly mutual ben
efit associations which are ex
empted, the exemption to mutu
al concerns being made so as to
include only those which loan
money to their own members.
Building and loan associa
tions were exempted from the
operations of the bill, but the
house provision dealing with
HOME GEORGIA, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 12. 1898.
THE NEXT SHERIFF
Clever Klip Williamson, a
Flatwoods Boy.
WHO HIS DEPUTIES ARE-
They Guarantee a Sp end'd Ad
ministration of The Office.
In the course of human events
the time draweth nigh when the
people of Floyd county, the
democrats of the county, will
be called upon to nominate a
man for the responsible office of
sheriff for said county.
A canvass of the situation
and a consultation of the an
nouncement columns of the
Hustler-Commercial will show’
that only two citizens have en
tered the lists.
Mr. J. K. Williamson, for
merly a Flatwoods’ boy but
now a representative citizen of
Rome has associated with him
on his ticket three ot as brave,
capable and efficient citizens as
ever served any county in a
sheriff’s or any other office.
Mr. Williamson is not a novice
as a public official, having been
elected to many responsible of
fices, both municipal and county,
and having by the faithful dis
charge of his duties in every
instance made for himself an
enviable record, he enters this
race backed by the prestage of
having never been defeated for
any office to which he has ever
aspired.
He also enters it enjoying tbe
full confidence of every friend
and acquaintance be has made
in his busy, energetic and hus
tling career, His fife is I’ke an
open book, he conceals nothing
from the people. He is the same
self-reliant and reliable, ever
considerate and honorable Klip
Williamson he was yesterday,
ten years ago, tomorrow or so
long as he lives.
With Sheriff .1. P. McConnell,
Deputy Sheriff J. Dallas turner
and Capt. Craws Moore lor bis
deputies Mr. Williamson offers
the voters as strong a tick't of
tried and true officers as can be
combined from the best citizens
of any county.
Sheriff McConnell, Deput}
Sheriff Turner, Capt. Crawl
Moore. They have all served as
public officers. Had there ever
been aught against either of
them it would have been brought
out during former heated cam
paigns.
As citizens their lives are
blameless. As public officials
their records are as clear as the
noonday sun. As deputies on
Sheriff Williamson’s ticket they
make that ticket invincible. Mr.
Williamson and his ticket, will
come to Rome with a handsome
majority and Rome will dupli
cate the same.
The ticket will be nominated
and elected. Mark that predic
tion.
this matterj was changed, an
the language of the exemptim
in the Wils m-Gor nan act prac
tically substituted for it.
The Wa cross Herald says that
with the Spaniards b hind h in
i-nii the ci-ndiduies before
him, the Georgia editor is having a
very intere ting lime.
LANHAM ASONS
THOSE BEMTIFUi KNOTTED FEME SASHES I
lii all the new plaids and stripes.
5*4 inches wide, 3J/1 yards long, worth and sold for
$2.75 each, now 7 as long as they last, $1.90. i
Al! the $3.25 sash, as long as they last for $2.10.
Knotted fringe scarfs, w orth and sold for $1.75, now 1.25
• 1
I hose worth 1,50, now 1.
The 1.25 scarfs, now 80c.
ihe 1.10 scarfs now 75c.’
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