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THE STATE TICKET.
For Governor,
ALLEN I).
of Hall.
For Secretary of State,
PHIL COOK,
of Lee.
For omptroller-Generali
W. a.. WRIGHT,
of Richmond.
For Attorney-General.
JOSEPH M. TERR ELI ,
of Merriwether.
For Treasurer,
W. M. SPEER,
of Fuiton,
For Commissioner of Agriculture,
O. B. STEPHENS,
of Terrell.
For School Commissioner,
G. R. GLENN,
of Bibb.
For Trison Commissioner
JOSEPH S’ TURNER,
of putman.
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 Commeicial
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
has the confidence of the classes
and the masses—because it mer
its am! deserves the confidence
of ifll its readers.
Now is the time to tell your
neighbor to quit borrowing and
enlist bis name as a subscriber.
~--'■' i ■ i i ■
Bill Ennis, after Monday next,
Senator Bill Ennis of the 42nd.,
grows more popular every day. He
will win by a nig majority. Mark
that prediction.
Os course the people will elect
J. K. William; on for the next
Sheriff. With Sheriff McConnell.
Deputy Dallas Turner and Capt.
Craws Moore for his deputies, Klip
Williamson will give the people
as line an administration as the
sheriffs office of any county ever
gav u to its people.
Genial, honest, able, full of
charity in his make up, John M.
Vandiver will make Floyd county
a model Tax Collector. The people
believe so. and hence the people
a’e for him. His majority will
pleasingly surprise his most san
guine friends. It will be crushing
to hii openents. Mark that pre
diction.
Your Uncle John Maddox can
not come, so he sends word to
his people tiiat 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 couven-
Mark that prediction. '
I SOME LAW QUIRIES.
Under the heading of “The
Law in the Case,” in which the
“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
former” says :
“For the benefit of those not
lawyers and to set .at rest any
pretense that it is merely**Feath
erston’s opinion,” he cites a few
of those decisions as follows :
FE ATII ERSTON’s REMARKS.
** ‘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 clear
provision of law which entitles
them to receive it.’” GO Ga.,
Gl2. * “Some law that clearly
authorizes the expenditure.’ ”
82 Ga.
** ‘THERE IS NO LIABILI
TY ON THE COUNTY FOR
ANY CASE WHATEVER,
except such as created by
statute.’ ” 80 Ga., 490 ; 1 Code
§341.
The Hustler-Commercial calls
“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.
Candler will carrv over 100
•/
counties.
John W. Maddox will cary ten
out of 13 counties Mark that pre
dict on .
Make up you mind and go to
the ballot box on Monday. You
owe it to yourself and your coun
ty to lebuke, overwhelmingly
rebuke, the slandeier
Jake Moore is a citizen and tax
payer of Floyd county.He has been
a citizen all his life and a tax
paver since his youth Then wh\
should he be denied the right of
citizenship? Why does the “re
form organ”howl when Jake Moore
comes home to say a word for his
life long friends? Jake pays tax' s
in Floyd and has all the rights ot
a good citizen.
Allen D. Candler will easily
carry more than two thirds of
the vote in the nominating con
vention and Comptroller Gener
al Wright will get them all.
And yet, the Rome “reform”
organ calls the former a dema
gogue and the latter a man who
“came near having to disgorge.”
Jake Moore is not the issue
in this campaign—Jake is only
a citizen of Floyd. But as a citi
zen—a man who was born and
reared in Floyd county —it does
look as if he would have as much
right to work for his personal
friends as the “reform” organ
he certainly has as much right
to his preferences as have men
whose citizenship had its origin j
more recently.
Jake Moore, who was not a
candidate, and who was attend
ing to the duties of his office in ’
the city of Atl nta was branded
as a robber by the “reform” or
gan. The same “reform” organ
would not give the name of the;
ex-officer who got the “other
third,” because ‘he is not a can
didate for office.” Oh consisten
cy ! And how impudent of Jakt
Moore to come home to enter his
protest at the ballot box 1
As certain as June 6th. rolls
around Pliill Cook will be i om 1 -
lated f< r secretary of State The
p >op eof Floyd are solid for him.
1 he reformer m ill net be able to
side track the mane I y making an
I assault upon Jake Moore or upon
i eX-Tax Collector John D.
! M on re.
♦
Hon. O B Stevena will be
in loinatut for stale agricultural
cc mmissii iier against the present]
tag —riculltiral Commissioner . '
Mark that prediction.
Do you appreciate faithful and
] effcient service from a public eer
v nt? If so, vote next Monday to
send Hon. John W. Maddox back
to Congress. Cedartown Standard
B yau has been assigned a reg
iment —now watch McKinley ass
sign Brvai ’s regiment to service
in the Phi lippmes and keep the
great leader out of the State as
long as possible.
If the c mity has paid out one
dollar il!t„ally why dout immacu
late lawyer and county commis
sioner C. N. Featherston bring
suit and recover it, Let Mr.
i Featherston do his duty.
Now wi;b Col. Rufe Hutchens
out of the race for Congress, it is
confide ntly claimed by the friends
of Judge Maddox that he wili
carry H raison and Paulding
counties in the primary next
Monday. .
The “re'' rm organ called Jake
Moon a “robber,” and now be
cause he comes home to enter his
defense at the ballot box, it raises
a bowl and undertakes to order
him. a citizen of F.oyd to keep
out and k< p li : s mouth shut. The
“reformer” is a “fail” fighttr.
-
The “reformers” fear to let
l Citizen Jake Moore talk to a few
of his fellow citizens in behalf of
his lifelong friends—such men as
j Beysiegel. McConnell and Dallas
Turner—and after the “reform”
organ has charged them and Mr.
Moore as being robbers.”
The populist paper has joined the
Berner-Atkinson forces in attack
ing Colonel Candler, hoping to de
fea' him in the democratic primary
j Os course the populists will oppose
j the democratic choice, and they
would he glad to nominated
some man they believe could be
defeated in the October elec'ion.
'Dawson News ,
Mr. Sanford says he has col
'ected $25 00U back taxes. Com
ptroller General Wiight says not
one dollar of it has been paid to
the siate and ex-TaX Collector
John D. Moore says the Floyd
county records do not show a trace
of it.lf T; x Collector Sanford has
collected u as he says he has, then
when is he going tc turn it in as
the law isquires?
The samt paper that cal’s Can
dler a demagogue and brands
Comptro'ler General Wiight as u
smoothe villain asserts that Sher
iff J. P McConnell, Deputy Sher
■ iff Dallas Turner and Clerk of
Court W. E. Beysiege! are thieves
robbers and pirates. Let the people
of Flnyd refute the slandei and
t the ballot box rebuKe the slan
derer with ■■ crushing defeat.
•
“Lc'orm’’ is the sLifboleth
t in, <i the R me Tribune is using
v' ’ n telling fleet in the ranks of
the Floyd county ring. Let the
goed work go on —Calhoun
I'im os.
You “shim y on your own side”
and show up something better than
Floyd county's “ring” before your
undertake *o read lectures Your
court < fiicers get pay for every
prisoner they send to Floyd county
—and the money comes from
Floyd iax payers. Is not the court*
officer of F loyd as worthy his fee
as is the court officer of Gordon?
ihe F.atherston board istoopart-i
san to say to—but you know
better.
MOTHER! SS
and about which such tender and
holy recollections cluster as that
of •• Mother ” -he who watched
over our helpless infancy and guid
ed our first tottering step. Yet
the life of every Expectant Moth
er is beset with danger and all ef
fort should be made to avoid it.
M, so assists nature
|Qf Q in the change tak
lUl U ing place that
B . the Expectant
r r 3 A n fl Mot h e r is ena
iTI IHI E 11 blecl to ,ool< for ’
I I IwllM W ard without
dread, suffering or gloomy fore
bodings, to the hour when she
experiences the joy of Motherhood.
Its use insures safety to the lives
of both Mother and Child, and she
is found strongcrafter than before
confinement —in short, it “makes
Childbirth natural and easy,” as
so many have said. Don’t be
persuaded to use anything but
MOTHER'S FRIEND
“ My wife suffered more in ten min
utes with either of her other two ch if
drenthan she did altogether with hei
last, having previously used four bot
tles of ‘Mother’s Friend.’ It is a
blessing to any one expecting to be
come a MOTHER,” says a customer.
Hendfkson Dale, Carmi, Illinois.
Os Druggists at *1 00, or sent by mail on receipt
Os price. Write for book containing testimonials
and valuable information for all Mothers, free
The Bradfield Regulator Co., Atlanta, Ga.
Slinging mud at Jake Moore,
dout answer the statements of]
John D. Moore
n
Go tc the records for your facts
—and stick to facts in discussing
records.
“Well,” said the Govtruor of
Manila, if this is a Pacific squad
ron heaven preserve us from their
quarrelsom one.”—Judv,
I
An exchange says: “The n gger i
won’t be in it during the war gt
after the war, the only time he «as
ever in it was before the war.”
It is predicted by many that
Col, Candler will get over two to
one iu this country over Atkinson
I ! and a good majority over Atki: son ■
and Berner combined. Atlanta
Commercial.
Farmers, turn out and vote next i
Monday for Hon. O B. Stevens,
one of ihe most practical and sen
sible farmers in the s ate, for
Commissionner of Agriculture.
Cedartown Standard.
What has Jake Moore’s nresei.ee
in the city got tc do with the $25.-
000 back taxes which Tax Collec
tor Sanford says he has col ected
and which ex-Tax Collector John
D. Moore says is not to be found
on the records?
John D. Moore was tax collector
for five mon’hs in 1896 and co'-
lec'ed on a one per cent basis, and
a $7,584,014 tax return, about
$74,010, back taxes included Mr t
Sanford has been tax collector for
more than 17 months and has on
per cent basis and a $8 010.145
return only collected about 105,-
000 all told. Any man can see that
while Mr. Sanford may claim the
earth, he don’t outshine John
Moore’s record even a little bit.
ANNOUNCEMENT.
I hereby announce myself as a
candidate for the office of tax
receiver of Floyd county subject
o the democratic primary to a be
held cu June 6th 1898.
J. N. Crozier
FOR THE LEGISLATURE.
Editor Hustler-Commerciar.—
Please kindly announce my can
didacy, for membership in the
lower bouse of the next general
assembly. Subject to an approval
by my countrymen at the ballot
box in the primary on June 6th.
proximo. Henry Walker.
announcement.
Please announce my name as
a candidate for senator from the
42nd senatorial district subject (
to the democratic primary to be
held on June the 6th. Respect- (
fully, R. T. Fouche. f
Dingley’s brand of protection ,
is not protecting < ur coast cities j
just now. 1
LETTERS FROM
FLOYD OITIZENS
Editor HuMtUT-Coni’iifrcial.
“Tax Paver” in the Tribune
of the 25th says if Sanford is de
seated “It will be by the crim
inal INDIFFERENCE of GOOD MEN
in this city, and by the massing
against him of the influences
destrut live of the 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
i 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 1
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
and “destructive of the well-be
ing of the comm unity.”
If “criminal” good men will
cease arrogating so great virtue
Ito themselves ard so little to the
I 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 tc
the apathy of the “criminal”
I 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” wlio 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.”
o 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, I 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
masses as “being destructive of ‘
the well-being of the commu
nih . ”
Who ever heard of John Van
diver being cruel or harsh, un
dind or uncharitable toward any I
person or class of people? His
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.
the same time he ever perforins
every official duty according to
law and bond.
There 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 1
pen or “knock down and drag : I
out” with his good, strong arm. 1
The great and good God has I
macle him a magnificent speci
men of physical manhood—Has !
given him bone, sinew ans cour ’
age of his connections, but in 1
his early days he was taught the s
Editor Borne H' ht
Please allow me space i Uyoui ,
valuable paper to make renl v
Tax Collector Sanford’s card’
May 21st and May 22st. | d Psir
to state that Mr. Sanford d d
collect the special tax f r < mt) ‘
teen liquor dealers before An,'-
Ist, 1898. p 11
I read Mr. Sanford’s card o f
May Ist, and t once called hi
attention to the mistake h e h*'
made. I stated to him that I had
paid him the special tax f or ]
W. Stoffregen, who whs doiit
business m the Pavlovskiy
lie begged my pardon for put '
ting my sister’s name in tu
paper, and said he would go and
ask her to excuse him for it
I desire to state that I ay
Mr. Sanford m his race for tax
collector, and I think he will ad
mit that I did as much, if n , )t
more than any other one man i n
Floyd county. It seems to m e
that this is the way he is trying
to repay my kindness by adve--
tising to the world that my b is_
ter is conducting a business
without paying the special tax
She is not selling beer, though
my brother is, and I paid t ] le
special tax to Mr. Sanford for
said business. I gave the tax
receiver’s office a check for the
amount in January and took a
receipt for same. I have the re
ceipt. That check was paid at
the bank on March 31st 1898—
and shows for its self—that data
being stamped on the face of the
check. I showed this cheik to
Mr. Sanford after his card of
May Ist appeared.
This is the $l5O that Mr. San
ford, in both his cards, says he
did not get. I say lie did get it,
jam! I think the people of Floyd
county know me well enough to
know that I would not say a
thing if it were not true.
Mr. Sanford certainly has col
lected this $l5O. He certainly
got it before April 1, 1898. lie
certainly had his attention called
to it after his card of May Ist
was printed. He certainly ac
knowledged his error after see
ing the banks entry on the face
of the check. A"d yet, after ac
k lowledging bis error then, he
republishes the statement of
May Ist on May 21st. These are
the facts. Respectfully,
H. G. Stoffregen.
spirit of “Peace on Earth, Good
Will to Men.”
He was also taught that“ Tis
dog’s (not men’s) delight to bark
and bite for God hath made them
so,” but that true manhood was
gentle, kind and loving-
Then I appeal to all good citi
zens to come to the support of
this good and true man, and in
so doing you will place in office
a tax collector who will there
discharge his whole duty with
the same gentle spirit and cou
i viction of right and honesty tha
’ has characterized his adminis
tration as postmaster.
N. IL Bass.
L'vender, May 27, 1898.
Does County Commissioner
! Featherston deny that he refused
to pay for the publication of cei
tain grandjury presentments—
until a certain scribe showed him
a passage of law providing I" 1
such payment —and then P al '
the same. Well, we reckon not.
And yet tlie infalible and im
maculate commissioner ne ul
makes a mistake.
r lhe Hustler-Commercial l'« s
never taken the grotur *
that the Featherston board
has paid out money i 6
gallv. But we du state that t a‘
Featherston board has discrimi
nated against all precedent » e
by the former commissioners
and against the common im el
pretation of the law in oblC
counties—and that it has
partisan in its interpretation
the law.
And so every man "Bo dar
stop on Broad street and
change a word with any ot i
man is one of those hideous i ing
sters. Well, there’s lots of him*