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Headquarters for bargains in
Clothing and Dry Goods.
We have the goods at price s to
meet the demands of a 5 cents
cotton Crop.
If you would save money you
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your dry goods, Shoes, Clothing
and Ge ntsFurnishing goods.
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- - - ’ME TUESDAY NOVEMBER 13 1894,
[GUT
P eduction on
La Country
. 'T. GRAVES
And Unlike Grover Kleeveland, i
Seab Writes a Letter. A Let
ter as is a Letter-A Reg
ular Seal.writish
Letter.
Below we reproduce, from the'
columns of the Constitution, Hon. |
Seab. Wright’s very latest contri.,
bution to the fields of literature: I
Editor Constitution : For sever
al years I have been a subject of
abuse by the politicians of my dis.
trict. My crime has been that I
have denounced political fraud
and corruption, regardless of the
party or man that perpetrated it.
With the silence and seeming
indifference of the democratic
press, the party, manipulated and
controlled by a few men, has gone ,
from bad to worse until its domin
ation in Georgia is an absolute
disgrace to the civilization of the
state. I said during the campaign
—I repeat it now— there is a min
iature Tammany hall in every
courthouse in Georgia. In the
name of democracy they con rol
the people, hoisting themselves in
to office with no fitness of heart or
brain for any trust.
The infamy of the Augusta elec
tiou be comas .conepicueua by the
daring boldness es the men wh>
cootroled it, but in a lass degree
frauds destructive of the »ABic pro
ciples of thp government in almo t
every county in the state are per
petrated.
I have lived in F’nyd couutyslnc*-
manhood . The business men,farm
era mechanics, all ihe rank and
tile of her people, are honest and
patriotic and yet with all the elec
tion machinery in the hand* of a
few political heelers they ara as
halpless as a lot of ten-year-old
school boys.
I am no partisan. I have large
ly lost faith in political planforms,
because as a rule, they are formvi
] .ted by politicians who use them,
simply as a lever to office. I do
believe with all my heart in a iee
ballot and fair count. Everything
of any political value to the Amer
ican people depends upon an ab
solutely pure, untainted election.
Not then as a partisan, but
simply to demonstrate what I al
ready knew, I watched the election
in Rome. I saw this: A populist
manager sworn in, and then given
a seat in the back of the court
house, thirty feet from the ballot
boxes over which the democratic
managers alone presided and then
the farce begen.
There were two ballot boxes,
one for congressional, one for
bond votes. I saw an open ticket
for W. H. Felton handed the man
ager of the bond box. Instead of
handing back to the voter and di
recting him to the proper box, it
was quietly deposited in the bond
box. I had this ticket taken out
and myself directed the voter to
the proper box.
I saw as reputable a gentleman
ns Mr. B. F. Camp deposit his tick,
et for Felton by mistake in the
wrong box, and was refused the
privilege of voting for Felton in
the proper box.
I saw such men as Green R.
Dukes refused the privilege of
voting for Felton because he was
not registered, I then saw such
men as John Boggs, William
O’Neal John T. Patterson and
many others vote for Maddox
without being registered, and
with no protest from the mana
gers.
I saw dozens of negro men come
to the polls to vote far Felton. I
saw their votes openly purchased
fo>. Maddox with a 25 cent ticket
to a barbecue just across the street
from the courthouse, I saw the
keeper of the Floyd county poor
house bring to the polls his in
mates, who had never paid a tax
or had brain enough to register,
and vote them for Maddox with
no protest from the managers.
I Th mj rilv for Job,t W. lai
d. in F vd county was J ,20 U" •
bud- of Id's majority n In- dig
tricl
lam no jopulist. I l ave twice
refused their nomination for con
gress when my ele> tion was assur
ed simply because I could not en
doise their demands.
But they are entiled as any oth
;er party in Georgia is entitled to
Au honest election. The man who
denies it has not an element of
honesty oi a drop cf pariotic blood
in him.
T..e ang u r that confronts the
I people of Georgia from corrupt
, elections is not imaginary—it is
' imme> seiy real.
I pray God for a spirit of inde
pendence in Georgia that will
sweep from power political
mountebanks who have disgraced
the state.
The Constitution has begun the
fight for pure elections. Will it
keep it up? No spasmodic effort
will accomplish the reform. The
men who have controlled the ma
chinery of the democratic party
will not readily submit to the en
actment of a law that will hurl
them from power.
You make a big demand when
you ask tho average officeholder to
cut his own throat.
Four years ago the rallying cry
us tb • Democracy was “Down with
intamouß Federal election laws I”
fhey were repealed but as sure as
you or I live to the end of this con
tary we will see them re enacted
with double power, if the states
themselves do not purify their bal
lot boxes.
I had rather a thousand times
«ew the weak and the strong alike
surrounded by federal bayonets at
the polls than the weak defrauded
by the strong of the priceless right
to be freemen.
I speak strongly on his subject
because of whathusbeon the sham'*
less indifference of the democatic
press of Georgia.
Strike "for an election law in
Georgia that will guarantee not
only a free vote, but an honsst
count — a law that will give to
every party offering a candidate
for office* manager at the polls—
a law that will make every le.'istrar
ineligil le ts office and the list free
at, 1 times to public inspection’
Seaborn Wright.
Rome, Ga.
FOR MURDER.
An American is Under Arrest in
Holland.
Philadelphia, November 18.—A
letter from Major Gordon W. Lil
lie, otherwise known as “Pawnee
Bill,” dated Nijmegen, Holland,
received here to-day, gives an in
teresting account of the imprison
ment of an Illinois man in that
place on the grave charge of mur
der and robbery.
The story, as told by Major Lil
lie, is to the effect that an old la
dy living near the place named,
was murdered and robbed of a
large sum of money.
Her servants who saw the mur
derers, said the iren were Ameri
cans. On tb« strength of this state
ment the Holland authorities caus
ed the arrest of George Conners, of
Pullman 111., who was seen with a
sum of money at about the time of
the murder.
He was formerly in the employ
of ‘The Wild West” show in the
capacity es hostler, and had been
discharged and paid off but a day
or two before his arrest.
The evidence against him, ac
cording tw Major Lillie, is of the
flimsiest character, but he aannot
be released except upon ths order
of the Public Prosecutor,which his
friends are making evey effort to
secure.
The geyser which appeared at
the edge of the desert in San Diego
California a few days ago is still
spouting water, and the flow is in
c easing in strength. The geyser is
in St. Felipe Canon, and the water
is impregnated with sulphur. Cat
tle wont drink it and vegitation is
not benefited by it.
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knows that the P esc ip i n
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and
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pure drugs.
They tlsj hivj t )3u': : j{ lia >
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latest Novelties. New goods arriving weekly.
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OPPOSITE FIRST NATIONAL BANK.
LTTJVEEEDRj
AAI kinds of Rough.
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R C. ATKINS & CO, CHATTANODGA TE<
MANUFACTURERS OF
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CROSS CUT Asl) HAM)
SAWS, ETC.
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A BRAN NEW ENTEiwRISE
Any up to dab Enterprise t hould be encour—
. aged. Great care will be taken to please my
customers.
Call at the Annex Bathing and Tonsoriaf
Parlors, if you Want to be treated right.
3[2 Broad Street.
Special attention given to Ladies and Children'
; HARRY CHAPMAN,
dilute Barber.
BOMIIBAWF
AND
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J. T.-Wilkie, Proprietor. No. 228 Broad Street -
FRmMaomommDo ’
Restaurant supplied with the beat the market affords.
Special attention to wedding orders and ornamental cakes
FRESH OYSTERS RECEIVED EVERY DAY.
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a speciality, at
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