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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. ■ 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.’ I •OUR MIIIINERY DEPARTMENT is turning out as fine work as any in the land and our | prices are always a little lower than eltewhere. Bet- 1 ter come and see our line before buying your midsum- i mer dress hat. I ORGANDIES l| in white and colors. j , I DUCK in white and colors. PERCALES, LiWNS, AND GIWHAHS all at prices that please. •''*A 'K’S •'■’’K •’’K •'X. X'- -fC- >*■'• X 1 ”- XV ■J0 r f X - New lot of ladies, belts just received. Come and see them. T A I,A HOSE <1 1 EAST BLACK f l V .J B 2 pair, sc; 3 pair. 25c; 2 pair 25c. « They are worth a little more but we sei! a v little cheaper than others. ? C) 11 i1 i l sp-111 your maiiey with us and it will do | you more good than if spent elsewhere, for we give < more for it than others. LANHAM'S IO CENTS PER WEEK