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THE HUSTLER OF ROME. THIRD year. •great clearing out sale* and Finest Stock of<> DIAMONDS, WATCHES CLOCKS, JEWELRY, SOLID ESXT-.’XTEIFt., Silver Plated Ware, Novelties, Raizors, Scissors, Pocket Knives, Drugs, Etc. in the City. THIS SABE L AST TTIST'T’TTj APRIL 15. THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY Never before Offered to the Citizens of Rome and vicinity to secure Honest Goods at your prices from one of the Finest Stocks in North Georgia THELAJHES ABE ESPECIALLYINVITED To inspect the stock. Everything will be guaranted as represented by the firm, who are responsi ble as you will see by refering to Bradstreet’s report, and will be sold without reset ve. ■W’E JVCEJkISr BTTSIWESS Come arid See for Yourself. LUCAS & CO.> DRUGI&TS and JEWELERS, 300 Broad Street, Rome Georgia. WIH \ Wai the Universal Verdict of the Joint Debate. i CLEARLY AN ATKINSON DAY. ' He Pressed the Atlanta Candidate . Hard, and yet Treated him Most Courteonsly. Athens today Rome Monday. While the Atlanta Journal ad mitted that Atkinson had the trowd up to a certain hour, and n«vor claimed it for Evans after the certain time and while The Atlanta Constitution admits that ‘’honors were easy 1 ’ between the two men in the Griffin debate, it might be of interest to Romans to read a few paragraphs from one , of the Atkinson napers. Therefore from the pen ©f th; t Veteran democrat and from the I co umns of that valiant democratic sheet, The N,. WB and Sun of Grif fin w« clip a fewparagraphs speak -IDg of the debate the News says: One »f the most conspietions jnga remarked upon, was the fact J at General Evans failed to say. Whe would take the stump for Mr ’Atkinson if the latter was nominated, though £Mr. Atkinson Wy announced that he would Tl f ° r Eva “ B until end * b canvass if Mr. Evans should ne nominated,” nt two thousand people cording to U th at th9 ’ PeakiUg ’ RC ’ to the coniencions of the ny newspaper men present, and a dear day, paid full a J ten _ laid.” ° 8 * ,tlat botll ’Peakers liaUw . Atk ?i QßGn ° peued the do “ was ° 10 statement that it cidence thaUl ?° teworth y coin " °fdebate ' ’ lira *' tbe series, cit yofGriffi° Uld be heldin th ® tovh n ® n ’ Where a wagon ing eet ‘“ ade blB first dallar haul 8Up P ed at "■« now ■. 1 6 gentleman who »kil« t °" r th " “ 6,tin « Qa d become a candidate for governor.” (This “gtatleman” refcred to wa none other than M yor Boyd of Griffin.) He reviewed briefly the work oi the Democratic congress and said that while it had not done all that was expected, it had done much. As Democrats there was much in which we might be disappointed, but noth ing to make us hang our heads in shame. On the main question, that of the tariff, the house, senate and presi dent 1a l worked hand in hand and battled for low taxes. The house had passed the tariff bill and the income tax. The seignorage bill had passed both houses and is waiting the signa ture of the president, and the idle silver will soon be in the pooketi of (he people. The election laws have been repealed. He demanded that every plank and requirment of the 1 platform should be carried out, and • thought every body ought to stand ■ by the old party—if some go wrong, let us repudiate them, but let us | stand by the principles of the party, * ♦ * In State affairs, Mr. Atkinson de clared in favor es enforcement of the law, keeping up the military for the preservation of peace, the maintain ance of the railroad commission, but to see that personal property in I railroads is not wrecked while the people are protected from exorbitant rates. Enforce the contract with the lessees ®t t ho* convicts and see that convict labor does not come in com - petition with free labor, Preserve the common schools and foster and en courage their growth. No farmer should have the excuse that he must move to town to-educate his children. He would encourage the building of public roads, economy and low taxa t on. We should look to the future and move on a practical line, guided by wise and broad states’ninsh p o develope our mines, increase our sac tories and double the yielding capaci ty of our farms. Coming down to persenol matte’' 0 , the speaker defended his vote upon the Confederate soldiers home and c xpressed Himself in favor of pensions. He asked his opponent whether he ’ ndorsed the attack upon his ( Atkin so. ’.•») vote on the soldiers home. He had not made it an Siue, but since ROME GEORGIA. FRIDAY EVENING MARCH 23. 1894, it had become one, he wanted each candidate to take his stand. * * * I know the hold the old leader s have upon the party, but as one oi the younger generation I now meet one who has rendered no known and signal service to his party for the last twenty-five years. If he posed as a leader in the dark days of re construction his friends have failed to shew i‘. In 1890 my friend had an ambition to be governor, an ambition which he only postponed till a more propitious occasion. To warrant such an ambition, he must have rendered some distinguished service to his } ar ty. If he did I call upon him to in form the people what it was. We note his activityin organizing Er. ns clubs in 1894; Low many Democratic clubs did he organize in 1892? Today you will hear his eloquent voice rais ed in behalf of his ewn candidacy: I call upon him to prove on how many occasions he has raised that voice for the Democratic party in 18H2. It is unpardonable t® doubt that a man so patriotic failed to offer his services; if he did, to whom were (hey offered, and when? A man who is a recogniz ed popular leader and who finds as spontaneous movement for himself in 1894 can not have been overlooked in that inauspicious year. But we have no record of such service. A man who is so able to organize for himself ought to organize a little bit for his party. The man who can leave his business and calling and make a stump speech for himself when his own fortunes are at stak*, ought to be able to do something when his party is m peril. A Democrat who does not do this hes no right to ask the people of Georgia for favors. One candidate must go down in defeat. If defeated, I will take the stump in every section of Georgia for the nominee. Will my oppo nent, if I am nominated, go before the people and aid in my election, as I would aid in his? Where does he stand on issu ; ng bonds. lam opposed, myself, to iseung more bonds. I ask these questions be cause I want to know on what he bases his candidacy, and I want to know, if he is net nominated, if he will join cur ranks and fight for us. In this struggle against our common foes we will call for every worl i'.g Democrat ana see if we can not make our majority this time, with Gen. Evans’ aid, more than 70,G00. * * * The News and Sun says that thara is doubt about the estimate, that fully two thirds of the crowds were Atkinson followers; and all who were uudecided before the debate recog nized, the abler man of the two and d cidtd to join the “wool hatboys“ after hearing the speeches, and that Atkinson carried the day by sto; m Today Mr. Atkmsoa and the Rev erend Evans met again. The occasion being their second debate and occur ing in Athens. On Monday they will meat ia the third debate is this city, when they will address probably 8,000 people. HE WAS IN THE POOL. and was assessed $250. by judge ANDERSON. Nashville, Tenn., March 22. — Judge Anderton this morning de cided the case of J. M, Overton, under indictment for misdemeanor in entering into the coal combine The case was decided upon an agreed statement of facts to the effect that the defendant had enter ad into the contract as charged and that the combine handled ex clusively the output of sixteen, mines, handling &b A *it 225,000 bushels of coal -ily, while the agents of sev mines not in th* combine handled only about 50,000 bushels. Judge Anderson decided that Overtou was guilty as charged, and fined him $250. A number of oth © members of the combine are un der indictment. DIES ON THE GALLOWS, Nashville. Tenn.. March 22. — The supreme court today affirmed the death sentence in the case of LaFayette Ritchie, colored, con victed of the murder of William Stephens, white . Richie was sen tenced to be hanged May 24th. The execution will be at Gainsboro, Jackson county. MRS. WERT SUES. SHE WANTS DAMAGES FOR THS DEATH OF HSR HUSBAND. Chattanooga, Tenn~ About a month ago G' .ge Hen ■on, a banker, shot B. Wert, a prominent real estate man and killed him while the two were de scending in the elevator of the Richardson building. The trouble grew out of Wert’s criminal inti macy with Henson’s wife. Today Mrs Jacob B. Wert, widow, for the benefit of herself and children, files a sensational bill for $50,000 for damag 's. Tbe case is to be heard tbe first week in May. PRENDERGAST RESPITED. GOVERNOR AL!GELD GIVES THE MUR DERER A NEW LEASE OF LIFE. Chicago, March 22 . —Judge Jen kins, Wood, Bunn and Saman constituting the United circuit, court, refused this morning to in terfere in the case of Patrick Eu gene Prendergrast. sentenced to hang tomorrow for the murder of Mayor Carter H Harnsen. They decided that they had no jurisdiction in the matter. The arguments of Prendergast s Attor neys would hold good in the sup port of a legal error, they said but were of no avail in a p ®titi on for habeas corpus. Prendergast has been respited until April B.h, by the governor. 1. ! =5 PRISE FIGHT AT GALVESTON Galveston, Tex., March 22. Tonight in the Tremont opera house, before a large audience Tom Monaghan, of this city, in a gloye contest, knocked eut Bob O’Hearn in tbe seventh round. The fight was vicious from start to finish. They fought for a purse of SSOC a ,d the lightweight ehampionshi; of Texas. Immediately after th' fight the principals of their as sistants were arrested and are now in the custody of th« police unde, thechaage of violating the law against prize fighting. The gram jury, which is now in session, wil undeubtedly investigate the cas 10 CENTS A WEEK KNOCKED OUT, THE RICHMOND AND DANVILLE MUST PAY THE TAXES ASSESSED. Charleston, S. C., March 22. Judge Simontoft today filed a de cree dismissing the complaint of the Richmond and Danville rail road . This suit was similar to the other railroad tax cases heretofore decided. In each case the roads claimed that their p’eperty was over assess ed for taxation. They paid th amount of taxes on what they cob sidered a fair assessment and the* brought suit against the county sheriffs and treasurers to restrain them from collecting the remain der of the taxes. Judge Simonton decides that the railroads h ve no remedy at law against the alleged over assessment-. DENOUNCES COL. OATES. EDITOR WILSON RESENTS A CHARGE MADE BY THS CONGRESSMAN, Opelika, Ala., March 22.—Hon. William C. Oates addressed the people of this section here today in advocacy es his nomination to the office of governor of Alabama. He spoke as the personal repre sentative Grover Cleveland, professing an inside knowledge of his policy and purposes. He de clared that Mr. Cleveland was ths uncompromising opponent of free silver coinage under all circum stances and that the bankers had such control of the government that terms had to be made with them, Celonel Oates in making reference to Editor Wilson, of this city, accused him of having voted for a negro. This afternoon Mr. Wilson publish ed the following: “In his speech in tbe ccnrthouse today, Colonel Oates allowed himself far beneath the digni ty es a naan worthy the high position to which he aspires by preferring or repeating a charge against me, and I take occasion here and now to say that any nun who charges that I ev er voted to j. ut a negro in office in the true meaning of such a charge, is a dirty, politics' hire ing and in famous liar, an unscruplous scoun drel and a coward. The epithets no gentleman deserves and under which no bravt man will iest. “HUGH.AR WILSON. 14