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IK HSJSTLLIi-CimmGlAL THEHUSTLER OF ROME Established, 1890. THE ROME COMMERCIAL Eslablisheil, 1895. Issued every evening, except Saturday. Sunday and weekly. PHIL (I. BYRD, EDITOR AND MANAGER. >lUce, Wilksrson Block. Third Avenue LIST OF SUBSCRIPTION •ally and Sunday,per year <5.0 Min lay, per year sl.o* Weekly ( I'nic ItoMK( OUKIEH) pel year 5< BY CARRIER IN CITY AND BUBULBB De‘ v ai.d Sunday, lOeents per wee’, Remit by bunk draft. PXpiß money order or registered letlsr Address THE HUBTLKR-COMMERBIHL, ROME, GA. Entered at the Postofflce at Rome, U»., u> seeolia class matter. Ai'vertisini: rates and sample co, its tor tl asking, 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®