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WmiMIIIEM
T HEHUSTLER OF ROME
r Established, IWO.
THE ROME COMMERCIAL
Established, 1885.
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Sunday and weekly.
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BUSINESS OFFICE P HONE 85
THE STATE TICKET.
For Governor,
ALLEN I). CAI DLIB
of Hall.
IFor.Secretary of State,
PHIL COOK,
; of Lee.
For oniptroller-General,
W. A. WRIGHT,
of Richmond.
For Attorney-General.i
JJOSEPH M. TERRELL,
of Merriwether.'
For’Treasurer.
W.' M. SPEER,
• of|‘Fuiton,
For Commissioner of Agriculture,
O.JJB.JSTEPHENS,
. of.JTerrell.
For> School Commissioner,
G. R. GLENN,
I,Bibb.
ForfPrison Commissioner
JOSEPH S. TURNER,
of putnian.
The Hustler-Commercial is
the only afternoon paper in
Northwest Georgia. It has th'
combined circulation of the old
evening Hustler of Rome and
the Rome Daily Commercial
and is
THE OFFICIAL GAZETTE OF
The City of Rome
The City Marshal
The Sheriff of Floyd County
The Ordinary of Floyd Co,
« The Hustler-Commercial
lias the confidence of the classes
and the masses—because it mer
its and deserves the confidence
of all its readers.
Now is the time to tell your
neighbor to quit borrowing and
enlist his name as a subscriber.
Tne Spaniards will never forget
tc remember the Maine. e
As stilt as it is kept, Jit tak< s
water to maw an old whisky bar*
rel tight.
Spring is upon us, the gardner
is dressing the lawn grass, and the
grass widow her lawn dresses.
Douglas Breeze.
A war joke fiend has suggested
that President McKinley order out
all the actors and convict iu the
country for stars and stripes.
The beautiful ixponenent of re
publican doctrine, the Macon
Telegraph, continues to abuse
Georgia's nex‘ governor, Allen D.
Uardler.
The owners of the Royal Baking
powder lately refused $12,000,000
for the concern, a business built
up ani fostered by persistent ad
vertising
C( tigress is ge’tinu ready to sit
a l summer if the war lasts that
long. This adds another power
ful leaeou for the vigorous prose
cution of hostilities.
If Boh and Spencer dont hurry
up it is soon goii g to le everia“t
iiigly too late for them to keep
’h« ir promires and give the peo
pie limt-e “>:ni
THEY HAVE ANSWERED
Instead of calling it mud why
don’t the lingsters answer, re
fute or disclaim the charge of
illegally appropriating $4,451 35
of the county’s rrfoney to their
own use, by making the county
pay that amount lor the hire of
the county’s own convicts? —
Rome Tribune.
Now this is amusing !
The “ringsters” have answer*
! ed.
They have stated that thev
did draw certain sums from the
county commissioners as pay,
under the law, for services ren
dered the people of Floyd.
xliey paid out certain parts ol
this sums, paid by the county
commissioners, to constables,
justice of the peace and witness
es.
Will the “reform” organ tell
us who got th^r,other third?”
They have answered fully and
completely andnave shown that
there was as much equity and
more law for them having this
pay, than for the Rome Tribune
to draw SSO from the same
source (it asked for $100) for a
trade edition.
They have answered and
shown that as the jurors are paid
by the day and the judge is paid
a salary, and they, as court of
ficers, must get their pay under
the law, from fees, that they
have been treated no better at
any time than the present board
of county commissioners are
treating the court officers of all
counties from whom Floyd buys
convicts.
Yes, these “ringsters” have
answered, and have answered
fully and completely. They an
swered in the election of 1893
and again in the election of
1896, and on June 6th the “re
formers,” whom the people have
long since learned are “reform
ers-for-office-only,” will meet
their final Waterloo at the hands
of the people. Mark that predic
tion.
Every charge made against
these officers by the “reform”
organ is as groundless as the
ancient sensations injected into
this campaign for political pur
poses.
If these officers have robbed
the county, then every member
of every board of commissioners
since the organization of the
county chaingang, prior to the
election of the imaculate and in
falible Commissioner C. N
Featherston, is guilty of g rossly
misappropriating county' funds
The “reformer” is not sinner -
in his cry for “reform.” If lu
w.as lie would charge home tc
tne commissioners the crimes
• they must have committed be
fore the court officers could hav
looted the public funds. 'Phis
. the “reformer” dares not do. It
would loose too many votes.
“1 he county’s own convicts”
—when the county lias not yet
paid the sheriff, clerk of court
1 solicitor general, constable, jus
[ tics of the peace or witness one
’ cent for services rendered—and
when there is no law against—
and when the section of the law
easily admits that these court
officers must be paid.
If we remember correctly,
Col. Featherston, this same par
tisan commissioner and brilliant
( lawyer, refused to pay the news
papers that had been ordered to
publish the grandjury present
ments, claiming there was no
law for it. A newspaper man
showed Capt. Featherston a sec
tion, that he in his wisdom had
overlooked. He came down from
his high horse and since then
grandjury presentments bav<
been paid for as recommended*
and ordered.
And yet, because an arbitra
ry and partisan commissioner
discriminates against noii-sup
y
porters and accedes to all wishes
of his favorites, why a “reform ;
organ” comes forward after a
. lapse of more than four years,
, and a change of factional fiont
■ of a few weeks, and resurrects
“two tbir Is” of an anciept ex- 1
plod’ d sensation, accuses its old |
allies of robbing the people and
yet swears by the prophets that
it is not flinging mud.
'Phis is just too sil—but who
got that “other third?”
'1 he “reformers” disgorgeous
campaign is not so disgorgeous
as it w as.
The “reform” organ has not
yet quoted the of law
i providing for the payment < f
■ trade edition fees from public
funds.
The “reformers” continue to
I sling mud—they can’t help it.
But the “rt former” has dropped
I that cry of “disgorge.” It prov
ed alive wire.
The Savannah News claims that
( four hundred people turned out ii.
Atlanta to hear Atkinson orate
j Well, doesn’t the judge belong to |
the Four Hundred anyhow?—
Brunswick Times.
| ... ..
Some of Atkinson’s friends wai t
• him to sp ak in Glynn county. We
may be mistaken, but it seems the
[■ refinement of cruelty .to ask a man
to deliver hie own funeral oration
in advance. Brunswick Times
Paste this in you’’ hat, and bet
’ on it if you get ’he chance: When
the -ta’e convention organizes
5 Gaudier will have more than twic.
I as many votes as Berner and At-I
- kinson together. Mucou News.
5
j- If all of his si z..ire= are validated
by the c urt», Admiral Sampson
already has about SIOO,OOO of
prze money in sight. His is al
most as good a snap as the most
v aVured army contrac’or can
' hope to get.
The race will not, he won by the
t ‘elrquent and handsome” nor by
> the “uureeignable mud s’inger.”
, H jnest Allen 1). Candler, the can
didate of the people, wiU cone!
lirst unaer the wire —Americus
Herald.
I The Griffin tax fifa has been se.
r v rely let alone by the an ti
, Candler press. It created such ii -
dignation all ever the state th t
even the bitterest, opposition pa*
pers did not dare to follow rp
l heir attack. — A meric,us Record* r.
V The Pbillippine Islands are sev
. en thousand miles from our wes
, tern coash Hawaii is twe thous
, and miles. If we should conclude
0 to perman ntly hold the Phillip.
pints, the Hxwhiian nrchipelego
Aould then indeed justify its right
to the the mime of Saudwhich
Islands
S ’ ■
t Hawaii is a sugar producing
country. Cuba’s strong suit is
> sugar. The Philippines are
( strong on sugar. Maybe with
our prospects of home-made beet
sugar and colonial cane,
3 will be able to pull through
; without Aus'rian and German
help in that line
; According to the “reform”
1 organ, every county commission
er in Fioyd, from tne organiza
, f.ion of the county chainjan"
down to the election of the im
' m xcul 'ti and infallible Gornmis
-| sioner Featherston, who has
) | been guilty < f misappropiating
■ 'public funds. Capt. Featherston
'is the first board to refuse to pav 1
I the sheriff, the clerk of court,
the solicitor general , the con- ]
stables, the justices and the wit- 1
j nesses engaged in Floyd count . . '
{though he pays these officers in -
other counties every time l e (
. buys a convict. Is this justice,
j equity or law? Where did lie
. great and only honest commis- ‘
sioner of Fioyd learu this pecu- ,
liar doctrine of I
•The “r< Io m” org' n asked for
: $lO9 ami got SSO from the com
' missiom rs for a trade (dition.
■To date it has not cited the pub
-1 lie ti the law which authorized
! this.
If the present board of county
commissioners is so economic
why is it that the tax rate lias
been run upto 1.25? Ami why
is it the “reform” organ is ser
monizing on the city’s rate of
1.12 ) ami - i \ ing nothing about
the county’s r ite of 1.25?
'The “reformers” claim that
t must be now or not again for
twi nty years. This is an iidmis
*ien that John Vairtlivtr will
make such a model tax collector
that the people will retain him
as long as possible. And in this
instance the “refoi mer” betrays
the fact that he does-know a few
things not peculiar to ancient
history.
*
After sitting on the frigid
commissioner, before the i eople,
it is not necessary for Judge
George Harris to retire to a block
of ice behind the house. The
Judge-that-i 3 not only remem
bers to have thrown the lirst
rock, but will fling the last one
and the people will remember
it, even if the wanted-ta-be-judge
is past all chances at memor\
From ambush, the “reform
ers” have opened masked bat
teries on Judge George Harris
And yet, the “reformers” tell
us that this is a family quarrel,
and that no outsider has a right
to meddle. The man who signs
himsel/ “Citizen ’ may be a
democrat, hut his bush whacking
tactics are unworthy the name.
Lit him come out in the open—
if he is not a coward—a id stand
up—if he is- a member of the
democratic family and “give
aid take” like an honest man
should do.
tMaxu-vawu-rutMwam.-*-*rwi JnMum««»vjnxjr’
REABY
Every expectant mother fiat
j a trying ordeal to face. If she does not
' iV\ rea d- v f° r
there is no telling
( H—- - what rnay happen.
Lj Child-birth it full
of uncertainties ii
Mature is not given proper assistance.
Mother’s Friend
s the best help you can use at this time.
It is a liniment, and when regularly ap
plied several months before baby comes,
it makes t he advent easy and nearly pain
less. It relieves and preven is.“ morning
sickness,” relaxes the ovei. ained mus
cles, relieves, the distended f ling, short
ens labor, makes recovery rapid and cer
tain without any dangerous after-effects
Mother’s Friend is govd for only one
purpose, viz.: to relieve motherhood of
danger and pain,
$1 dollar bottle at all drug stores, or sent
by rrail on ipt <>f price.
Fhi r I’.-.o .s nontaining valuable informa
Mon for women, will be sent to any address
u<-»n application to
THE BR .DFtELD REGULATOR CO.,
Atlanta, Ga
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Mrs. A. li.ve n, residing at 720
Henry St.. Ai on, 11l , suffr.re<i
with sciatic rheumatism for ove
• ight months, rihedoct 'red for it
nearly the whole of il.is time,
using various remedies reoom
tn Hided by friends, and was
treit-d by the physiciaita, but re
ceived no relief. She then used one
and a halt bottles of ChamberlaiL’s
Pain Balin which effected a com
ple e care. This is published at
her request, as she wants others
similarly afflicted to know what
cured her. T e 25 and 50 cen>
sizes tor sale by Curry-An inc ton
Co.
.The need of a good Spring
Medicine is almost universal
and Hood’s Sarsaparilla exactly
meets this need. Be sure to (r et
Hood’s. ,
1 0 f 'die Primaries la lie Held
J ilne Bill.
! CHAIRMAN HAMILTON
Has Made The Following Gooof
Appointments.
The following list of managers
appointed 1)7 Chairman Harper
I Hamilton of the county demo-
• cratic executive committee, to
hold the primaries in the various
’ districts of the county on June
6tb.
MANAGERSi'F TH E PRIMARY ELEC
TION, June 6th, 1898.
Rome district—Walter Harris
[ Nat Harris and 1 lalsted Smith.
, Cave Spring district —J. G.
Watts, Eli Harrison, W. P
; Trout.
Flatwoods district —N. J. Hus-
- faker, John H. Rice, A.C. Mor
i rison.
Fosters Mill district—W. A.
Carr, J. M. Latham, A. J. File,
j Livingston district—W. H. 11.
Caiup, John Weblr, H. L. Huff
man.
■/ State Line district—Chas. V.
Irvine, ITtomas S. Millican, T
’ Tt.”lsnrly.
North Carolina district—L.
, W. Early, John L Hardin, N.
l H. Bass.
* Texas Valley district—W. M.
Hardin, Thomas McKinney, Bii-
! ly Selman.
Floyd Springs district—J. C.
- Garlington, J. O. Horton, Dug
I Barnett.
‘ Everett Springs district—J.
” P. Earle, Jr., J. Z. Lyncli, J. J.
i Mann, Sr.
Watters district—W. J. Brown,
Matt Penn. J. F. Ward.
Ridge Valley district—T. N.
Pinson, E. P. Price, James M.
Watters.
Etowah district—George A.
Gray, J. C. Eve, J. T. Carver.
Chulio district—John D.
Wade, Jonn Terhune, W. L.
W ade.
Howells district—ll. I. Brad
shaw, Will RiUh, C. T. Callo
way.
Barkers district—W. C. Bick
ers, John Marian, John Kyle.
Lindale district—ll. J. Pow
ers, George S. Black, John B.
Porter.
Vans Valley district—W. P. 1
Hunt, Alex White, W. O.
Weems.
As chairman of the Democrat
ic Executive Committee of Floyd
county 1 have appointed the
above well known citizens of
Floyd county to hold the demo
cratic primarv ol June 6th 1898.
i May 19th, 1898.
Harper Hamilton,
Chairman.
ST A .M P TAX ES
Are corning as a necessary war
and ns a conspquftnc©
medicines will be advanced in
price. If you have not yet begun
your course ol Hood’s Sarsaparilla
it is advisable to lay in a year’s
supply at once and b* gin to take
it today By so doing you will
save money and regain health.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla is America’s
Greatest Medicine. Be sure to set
Hood’s’ *
On the morning u s Feb. 20
18Ja, 1 was sick with rheuma
tism, and 1 lay in bed until May
21st, when I g->t a bottle ol
Chamberlain’s Pain Balm. ’The
Hist application ot it relieved me
almost entirely frcmthe pain
and the second afforded com
plete relief. Ina short tinrn 1
was able to be up and about
again.—A. T. Moreaux, Luv
erne, Minn. Sold by all drug
gists.
Hood’s Pills are easy to take,
easy to operate.
NOTICE OF DIVORcr '
State of Georgia A
Winnie L e Wuedw a
vs \ blt) el
William E. Woodward / r di ’
In Floyd County Sun-,.; 5 Ce ’
state of Georgia No
term, 1898. 0 “G July
To WWi„ m Edward
The defendant i 8 he b
quired, personally or bv . e
-y, to be and dr
next Superior court, toU i ! e
in and for said county n
third Monday in Jul/n ex ' t ‘ t , tlle
and there to answer th ’> 11
\\ itness the Honorable W M
Henry, judge o f said court (V
14th day of M rt rdh, 1898 ’ h ' !
Win. E. Beysiegel’
Clk Superior (foun.
Fioyd Co., G a .
ROME BUSINESS COLL£ GE
Rome, Ga., will receive yonnn
men and ladies now at the actual
cost to the College for camin,
them through a thorough coni
cial course, and furnish board,
books and commercial blanks and
accept an easy time note for tuition
payable after a position is seeumi
The College procured
92 POSITIONS THE PAST TEAR.
It supplies schools and college*
with competent teachers of pen.
manship and principals of conimen
cial departments; sends first lei
sons in Shorthand fully explained
for io cents in stamps; is strongly
endorsed by hundreds of busing
and professional men who employ
its graduates at Stenography n;
Bookkeeping. Address all letter*
to the Principal, 11. 8. Shookut
Rome, Ga.
RHEUM ATISM ~CURED~IX7
DAY.
“Mystic Cu p e” for Rheumatism
and Neuralgia radically cures in
1 to 3 days. Ds action npou th#
system is remarkable and myiti
nous. It removes at the cause
cud the disease immediately dis
appears. The first dose greatly
benefi s. 75 cebts. Sold by Curry-
Arrington Co. Rome, Ga.
Essns
ATTORNEYS.
J. BRANHAM.
Law Otfioe, 300 Eist Firs' Street,
ROME. GA.
CHAS, W. UNDERWOOD,
Atturne; at Law, Koine, Ga.
Corporat >n Law Only.
M B EUBANKS,
Atterney at law. ottlceKing Building.
Ruine, va.
WH ENNIS,
Attorney at Law Will Practice in all cornu
Office, Masonic Temple, Koine, Ga.
•W J NEJELj
Attorney at law. Will practice In all court*.
I Special attention given to commercial u
and the examlcation cl laud titles,
office iu Kiug building. Home, Ga.
■WAUTKR, HARRIS
Attorney at law and J. P. Office over 1 J
Kane & Co.’s.
LIF’SUO.MB <Sc WILLINGHAM
Commercial Lawyers.
Gffice in Armttrong hotel building,
J SA.NTI? if O3< A. WFOR C
Attorney at law, Rome, Ga. Collections >
specialty. „„
Masonic Temple Rome. Go.
DENTISTS.
J. A. WILLS, D. D. 5.,
Office 3401-2 Broad. * Over Cantrell * o**
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i J. L PENNINGTON. DO S.,M 0.
I m ENTIST:
Office, 305 1-3 Broad street. Over Hanks Fur
Hi lure Co.
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PHYSICIANS.
O’ HAMILTON. M &
Physician and Surgeon Office,
Buildlug Rome, Ga. O ce ’phone NO-
IL. F HAMMOND. M
Physician and Surgeon. Office in *J*
building. Residence, No. 4U3 West
Gttlce 'phone No tW.
LUMPKIN & PRINU™
ATTO{NEYS AT LAW,
„ . . Georgi*-
Rome, • : : ’ Oeor gi»-
General practice throughout Nori
Correspoudeuce solicited. Special atie
to mercantile collections.
STENOGRAPHER •
GEORGE;, WEIGHT.
Stenographer aodjTypew-tt*r.
Oflier. 14, AraaNroug RuiltHng. Tel. N