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IK HSJSTLLIi-CimmGlAL
THEHUSTLER OF ROME
Established, 1890.
THE ROME COMMERCIAL
Eslablisheil, 1895.
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THE HUBTLKR-COMMERBIHL,
ROME, GA.
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BUSINESS OFFICE P HONE 81
THE STATE TICKET.
For Governor,
ALLEN D. CALDLEE,
of Hall.
For Secretary of State,
PHIL COOK,
f L e.
For omptroller-General,
W. A. WRIGHT,
of Richmond.
For Attorney-General.
JOSEPH M. TERRELL,
of Merrlwether.
For Treasurer.
W. M. SPEER,
of Fulton,
For Commissioner of Agriculture,
O B. STEPHENS,
of Terrell. ,
For School Commissioner,
G. R. GLENN,
of Bibb.
For Prison Commissioner
JOSEPH S. TURNER,
of putman.
I'jie Hustler-Commercial is
the only afternoon paper in
Northwest Georgia. It has th
combined circulation of the old
evening Hustler of Romo and
the Rome Daily Cominetcial
and is
THE OFFICIAL GAZETTk|oF
The City of Rome
The City Marshal
The Sheriff of Floyd County
The Ordinary of Floyd Co,
The HUSTLER—COMMERCIAL
has the confidence of the classes
and the masses—because it mer
its and deserves the confidence
of all it-s readers.
Now is the time to tell your
neighbor to quit borrowing and
enlist his name as a subscriber.
AH quiet along the blockade.
This war is certainly dragging.
When “now here” rims together
it goes “nowhere.”
From Pigeenrocet to Peachtree.
On wi'h the dance.
Uncle Ssm's red tape mills are
b< mg inn on forced marches,
Klip Williamson willl be elected
sheriff. Mark that prediction.
June is with us once more—and
eo is the bill collector in all hie
gUwy.
Only a few more days and
il:e campaign liar will relegated
to the rear.
The Columbus dailies have
aboutooneeded Muscogee to Al
ien 1). Candler. Tranks.
—■" ———
Will Beysiegel will defeat the
“rel< rimr>.”candidate by a heavy
majority. Mark that prediction.
Secretary Hester reported on
May 20 that 10,689,295 baits of
cotton had been brought into
tight.
“Nov 'et us have some protest'
■ fr« in the Shah of Persia and the
Khan of Beer,” suggested the
Memphis ' ommerciaGAppeal. '
I FEATHERS TON’S REMARKS J
Under the heading of “ I'he
Law in the Case,” in which tin I
"reform” organ discusses at <
length Mr. Featherston’s im
maculate ideas on the errors of |
others, and his infallable inter <
pretation of the law, the “re- t
former” says : <
“For the benefit of those not i
lawyers and to set at rest, any i
pretense that it is merely“Fcalb
erston’s opinion,” he cites a few
of those decisions as follows :
FEATHERSTON’s REM A RKS.
“ ‘Before an officer can be
required to pay out public mon
ey, or be justified in doing so,
those who demand its payment
should be able to show a rleai
provision of law which entitles
them to receive it.' ” GO Ga.,
612. ‘ “tynnn law that, clearly
authorizes the expenditure.’ ”
82 Ga.
‘“THERE IS NO LIABILI
TY ON THE COUNTY FOB
ANY CASE WHATEVER,
except such as created b»
statute.’ ” 80 Ga., 490; 1 Code
§341.
The Hustler-Commercial cidh
“Judge” Featherston’s attention
to his own quotations of the law
and then asks him:
First: Under what provision
of the law did you pay Tax Col
lector Sanford $375 for extra
services rendered?
Second: Kindly quote us the
section of the code which pro
vides for the payment of sl4 or
any other amount for box-rent,
ice tickets, etc.
Let the Judge who is so char
itable to other judges and who
knows all the law, give the peo
ple a few sections bearing on
the above items.
The people are in the saddle as
asm 1 and its merely a question oi
of maj >rity with the “ring’ 4 can-j
didates.
Tax Assessor Bob Foster is
more of a favorite with ihe p< ople
tJs year ihan ever before, Hie
e action is assured. Mark that
prediction.
w
The “Big Ring” will comp ass
the defeat of the little reform ring.
Thais natural as well as a habit
witb the people’s choice —tie
“ringsters
Bill Ennis, after Munday next,
Senator Bill Ennis of the 42nd.,
goo more popular every day. fie
will win by a oig majority. Mark
that prediction.
Personal abuse of such men as
Beysiegel, McConnell, and Tuner
will win no votes for a cause which
is so desperate that it takes such
nefarious means to fortify.
Os course the people will elect
J. K. Will ■am;on for the next
Sheriff. With Sheriff McConnell.
Deput} 7 Dallas Turner and Capt .
Craws Moore for his deputies, Klip
Williamson will give the people
a« fine an administration as the
sheriffs office of any county ever
gave to its people.
Genial, honest, able, full of (
charity in his make up, John N.
Vandiver will make Floyd count v
\ a model Tax Collector. The people
believe so, and hence the peop'e
are for him. His majority will
pleasingly surprise his most san-i
guine friends. It will be crushing!
to hii oponents. Mark that pre
diction.
-
If the acc°ptance of pay for
services rendered makes the slier- ;
iff and clerk robbers, why dout ,
the “reformer” charge robbery to
the commissioners who paid the
money? The “reformer” rs not ,
sincere. He. knows the coun y has
not lost a dollar. The “reformer”
is hustling for votes. Will the '
“reformer” tell the public who
got that “other third”? Will hr
say that constables, justices of the 4
peace and witnesses should be •'
made to di.-gorge? o
DE■ I >LY PARALLEL.
Gau tlu‘ reformers be sincere?
Ci!'i the “reform” organ be hon
est in any utterance that has
any bearing on the present cam
paign? Il seems not. Below, we
quote in de idly parallel two
* ditorial paragraphs that appear
ed in the reform organs col
umn’s this morning, with only
a rule between. Here they are :
This I'fl irt of the The defeat of Vii.ee
ring * > ,s i. ng in the Sauforil would put.
111,111,01. V i' ! the dead the registration lists
to holster up their in the hands of the
disiepulaliie luitiiiies, ringsters. It w uhl
inlheiinist inlaniouK serve to keep them
poll.leal ti ick we In power for n any •
have ever I li years to come. That is
is an outrage upom ihe main reason they
common decency. have never been de
feated before.
In common decency we dis
pense with comment and draw
the veil. A disgusted people
have seen enough.
Spain’s Armadas have divers
ways.
Apprt nriations for the Span
ish nav\ could properly be class
ed unde, the head of the sinking
fund.
“Up in New England nowa
days one can hardly fire a boot
j ick at a cat without starting a
rumor of a naval engagement off’
rhe cons:,” ol> orvt s the Phila
delphia Ludgor.
The joke of the season is to
hear the “reformer” charge the
“ringster” with loafing in front
of saloons “Mighty Gods, men
of Jasper!” And this masked
battery opens from the garrett
window of .a glass house.
■ >
The mountain has labored and
brought forth —not even a
mouse. Col. Featherston has
utterly failed tn answer Judge
Harris. Let the frigid and im
naclaf.e warm up and rush into
print again. In braking his si
ence lie if betraying himself to
he people.
Men who have already resort
c 1 to such nefarious methods in
this campaign may be depended
upon to hatch out and put into
execution a‘ny and every dam
nable scheme that will secure
votes. Let the people be on guard
and on Monday bury the “re
formers” deep.
Your Uncle John Maddox can
not coine, so he sends word to
his people that he remains at his
post of duty in their service. He
does not miss it when he relies
implicitly and wholly upon the
love of fair play that permeates
the manhood of Seventh District
Democracy. Judge Maddox will
win out by more than two to
one in the nominating conven
vention. Mark that prediction.
Journalism is not yellow in
the vicinity of Rome ; it is red,
bright brilliant, lurid red, an 1
the way that the papers are
slinging pet (?) names at each
other and the opposition candi
dates would put Joey Pulitzer
t.i shame.—Americus Herald.
'I he Hustler-Commercial de
sires to remind the bright and
ever interesting Herald that
this paper has recognized from
the first, that this is a fight
among D< mograts, and conse—
q i< inly has stuck to facts and
has slung no mud.
The insurgent army under
lon. Gomez has turned out to
be a myth. 11, strikes us that we
are trying to force freedom on a
people who are not willing to
light for it. —Vidatia Star.
Thj man who wrote the above
ought to write one line more,
“Here lies a foul,” pm it to his
■ar and than shoot himself.—
Waycross Herald.
And i ius two more of the an
-1 i-Candler dailies quit the field !
md leave the people’s choice,
Alien 1). Candler, to his “ walk
over.”
SHEEP FOR GEORGIA-
In Georgia, according to im
investigation made by the secre-,
t'iry of agriculture of that state,
there is a natural pasturage for
5,000,000 in territory where •no
artificial shelter and no storage
of winter fodder are necessary
Commenting upon this the Wool
Record says :
“The soil, the water, the al
most endless sunshine from sea
son to sen on in these Georgian
highlands, and above all things,
the wonderful Bermuda grass ,
* which supplies an unfailing food
supply from January 1 to De
cember 31 for wool bearing ani
mals, should make this region
the home of perhaps the largest
sheep-growing interests on the
whole American continent. All
the elements have here combined
to invite the industry of wool
i culture, and a curtailment of the j
cotton crop, such as is now fa
vored by ihe capitalized suppor
ters of that staple, should, within
a very short time, result in the
stocking of these Georgia ranges
with innumerable flocks of
sheep.”
Candler has got the plum and
gone with i'.
Uncle Sam and Spain are still
fighting with bullet-ins.
Hug cold facts—and thereby
keep down the rising tempera—
, ture.
What Law Enclych poedia
Featherston don’t know about
law, could easily be spit upon,
by Judge Harris, and drowned
Rome is proud of her match
less sclools. Supt. Harris, Prin
cipal Montague Gammon and
the faculty of splendid lady
teache s have given R line a
school system that is inaeed
matchless.
We defv the “reform” organ
to name ought against the good
mime and the clean record of
Comptroller General Wright. If
the “reform” organ knows that
which would bl cken the name
o f this trusted official, why,why
has it remained silent, and still
further risked the inteiests of
the people of Georgia, in such
guilty hands? Has the “reform”
organ no duty to the people?
And why does the "reform” or
,gm wait until it has a favorite
i in the race for a local office—
. and the records of the comptrol
, ler general’s office show against
its favorite—before it seeks to
destroy W. A. Wright? Shame
on such political methods
1 Shame on partisan motives that
seeks the destruction of the in
, nocent, that a desire for office
may be gratified.
Woman's Diseases
Are as peculiar as m
unavoidable, and
cannot be discuss
?d or treated as we
do those to which
the entire human
family are subject, v •
Menstruation sus- q '*•
tains such import- 'V
ant relations to herl 10//
health, that
Suppressed, Irregu- -P , ■ ; A
lar or Painful, M't (J 1 U
she soon becomes ‘ | y
languid, nervous
and irritable, the bloom leaves her
cheek and very grave complica
tions arise unless Regularity and
Vigor are restored to these organs.
Bradfield’s
3f one of the |
FT* f most noted
remale physicians
of the South,
Regulator £ r :
sort prevail more extensively than
in any other section, and has never
failed to correct disordered Men
struation. It restores health and
strength to the suffering woman.
“W e have for the past thirty years handled
Bradfield’s Female Regulator, both at whole
iale and retail, an-’ in no instance has it failed
to give satisfaetka. We sen more of it than all
other similar remedies combined.”
Lamar, Rankin * Lamar,
Atlanta, Macon and Albany, Ga.
Tmk Bradfield Regulator Co., Atlanta, Ga.
Sold by an Drwygists at SI.OO per Bottle.
LEHTT £ £8 PROM
FLOYD CITIZENS,
Editor Hustler-Cout’iiercial.
“Tax Payer” in the Tribune
of the 25th says if Sanford is de
featod “It will be by the crim
inal INDIFFERENCE of GOOD MEN
in this city, and by the massing
against him of the influences’
destructive of th« well-being of
the city. •
To whom does “Tax Payer”
refer to as “criminal” good
men? And what part of the
masses does he claim as “de
structive of the well-being of the
community
Now the laboring men, such
as rai’roaders. mechanics, brick
masons, farm hands, and al! of
what is commonly known as the
bone a.id sinew of the city and
county go to make up the
masses—while the “criminal,”
good men and the ‘Goody good
ies,” who think common people
!or the masses are vicious, vile
land “destructive of the well-be
ing of the community.”
If “criminal” good men will
cease arrogating so great virtue
to themselves and so little to the
masses and pay their taxas and
do all other acts of citizenship
properly, they would be less
“criminal” and more “good.”
“Tax Payer” seems to realize
the certain defeat of Sanford and
his indignation attributes it to
the apathy of the “criminal”
good men on the one hand, and
the aggressive opposition of the
masses on the ether.
Now “Tax Payer” is evident
ly one of these “Goody Goodies”
who thinks all “crimininal”
and “destructive of the well-be
ing of the community” who dare
vote against his pet.
Now, in my long life’s experi
ence I have ever found more
real honesty and Christian char
ity in these “masses” than in
all such puffed up men as “Tax
Payer.”
a gain I deprecate “Tax Payer”
(and I presume he writes under
the approval of his candidate)
striving to pit the city against
the country and vice versa.
This is shameful. Each candi
date has friends both in the
country and city.
This race should be conducted
in good feeling for city and
country, so that when it is all
over we can harmonize and unite
on the successful man.
As a friend and supporter of
John M. Vandiver, 1 vouch we
shall hear nor taste no bitter
ness or gall from him or his
friends.
Neither John M. Vandiver or
his friends are denouncing good
people as “criminal,” or the
I masses as “being destructive of
the well-being of the commu—!
nitv. ”
Who ever heard of John Van
diver being cruel or harsh, un
dind or uncharitable toward any
person or class of people? His I
great big, kind, sympathetic
heart goes out to the masses.
His purse and his time is ever at
the disposal of those in trouble.
He possesses that rare, God
given combination of being gen
tle, open and helpful, while at
J the same time he ever performs
every official duty according to
law and bond.
3 here is no occasion for him
or his friends to cast slurs or re
flections on the “criminal”
“good people or on the masses
He need not fight with a vicious
pen or “knock down and drag,
out” with bis good, strong arm.
The great and good God has
made him a magnificent speci
men of physical manhood—Has 1
given him bone, sinew am’ cour- '
age of his connections, but in
his early days he was taught the i
Editor Rome "U»TLKA_doMMBBCUL
Please allow „„ space i„. out
valuable paper to make reply
Tax Collector Sanford’s cards o°f 0 ° f
May 21st and May 22st. I d esire
to state that Mr. Sanford did
collect the special tax from thi r
teen liquor dealers before Anni
Ist, 1898. pni
[ read Mr. Sanford’s card of
May Ist, and t once called hi a
attention to the mistake he ] )a
made. I stated to. him that I h .
paid him the special tax for t
W, Stoffregen, wh. Wil9
business in the Pavlovski h 0 J
IHe begged my pardon for | )ut
I ting my sister’s name in
paper, and said he would go and
• | ask her to excuse him for it
I desire to slate tl,atl. ssilM
Mr. Sanford m his race for tax
collector, and I think he will ad
' mit that I did as much, if not
’ more than any other one man in
. Floyd county. It seems to me
that this is the way he is tryin e
to repay my kindness bv adve--
tising to the world that my sij.
■ ter is conducting a business
without paying the special tax.
I She is not selling beer, though
, my brother is, and I paid the
' special tax to Mr. Sanford for
said business. I gave the tax I
1 receiver’s office a check for the
• amount in January and took a
j receipt for same. I have the re
ceipt. I hat check whs paid at
the bank on March 31st 1898—
and shows for its self—that data i
being stamped on the face of the I
• check. I showed this cheikto I
Mr. Sanford atter his card of I
[ May Ist appeared. |
, This is the $l5O that Mr. San- I
ford, in both his cards, says he I
did not get. I say he did get it, I
and I think the people of Floyd H
county know me well enough to |i
’ know ihat I would not say al]
thing if it were not true. I
Mr. Sanford certainly has col- I
lected this $l5O. He certainly ■
got it before April 1, IM He I
, certainly had his attentionc.iiied ■
to it after his card of May Ist '■
was printed. He certainly ac- ■
k nowledged his error alter see- I
ing the banks entry on the face ■
of the check. A-id yet, afterac- ■
k.iowledging his error then,he ■
republishes the statement nt ■
May Ist on Mac 21st. These are ■
ihe facts. Respectfully, ■
H. G. STomuMHX. B
spirit of “Peace on Earth, Goodß
Will to Men.” I
He was also taught th it"’ln■
dog’s (not men’s) delight to barkH
and bite for God hath inadethemH
so,” but that true manhoodwasH
gentle, kind and loving. ■
Then 1 appeal to all goodeitrß
zens to come to the suppei'l
this good and true man, ami
so doing you will place in
a tax collector who will ii |er 'K
discharge his whole duty
the same gentle spirit and
viction of right and honesty
has characterized his adinini'M
tiation as postmaster. M
N. H. Bass. M
I L'vender, May 27, 1898. ■
! Does Countv Commission®
Fea therston deny that he
to pay for the publication of
tain grandjury present
until a certain scribe shoiiei
a passage of law providi' l ;,'
such payment —anti then
the same. Well, we reckon
And yet the infalible and
maculate comniissione 1 1,1
makes a mistake. IB
* -- r—
'lhe Hustler-Commcicia 1
■ never taken
that the Featherston ,
has paid out money
gaily. But we du state tin
Featherston board has dis' l
nated against all precm L "
bv the former com lll1 ’ '
and against the coim" 011 *'
pretation of the law in* ll 0
counties —and that it Im
partisan in its interp"' tilt ' 0
the law.
And so every man "^ |o
stop on Broad streel iUI
change a word with ,lll '
man is one of those hidto'J
s'ters. Well, there’< I®