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m r ti hp ShfWvflLU n UI Iv U U rui HfV ArArfrUrn — Wp handle the fine ,-t We sell the be-t You come and hv- • - , We do t he rest. Our School Shoes for Boys and girls have no superior. ffl! Win S’JJD THE Him] Thousands of pairs of lasting beauties for the ladies, Our mens bargains have no peers in this market. Ladies Spring Heels in oil eizesand styles, FEET DECORATORS AHDW KOMW Cantrell & Owensie* 240 BROAD STREET- Home Mutual Loan Association. HOME OFFICE ROME GEORGIA, 325, Bro Street. A Nc/’onal Building and Loan Company Fureiy Mutual, safe Investment and Good Prof Made by small I Monthly Payments, OFFICER-. J. A. fiLOyER, Preeiaent. J. D. MOORE, Sec’ty a Treae. QHAS. I. GRAVES, Vice President. J. H. RH.LDES, Mgr' Land Dept. HALSTED SMIT h , Oenerti Council. —ilja .juen .i-jjrs: h i'iIIIWW—— COA.L ! COJVL ! ALL GRADES, ROME COAL CO. !A KU VPPnnd AVO S Lowest Prices s Henry G. Smith, Ma'gr, Innb’ AiU. i“ R««« }J. H.King, Weigher. ABRAMSON. 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 Should by all visit us for your dry goods, Shoes, Clothing and Ge ntsFurnishing goods. . APRAMSON. „ 423 & 425. BROAD ST. HOME GA O'Neil M’fg Co SEIjL ®COAL® TELEPHONE 76- H STEAM 530 Market St. Chatanooga W.c. SMITH Agt, Proprietor ladies & gents clothing cleaned. dyedor repaired, AT LOWEST PRICES. PROMPT PROFESSIONAL WORK. - - - ’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. ,T <K KING. FlWidest. I.J.S.u ~ , • *«. W- I*. HIM F’SOV v : v-ddem MAwhanfq ItlVlVLr ... , OF ROME GA. INTEREST allowed on time DE I s. All Accommodations Con.-.isle.it withSaf 4*. tende 1 our Customers Every one in the city of Rome knows that the P esc ip i n business is a very delicate one and TREVITT & JOHNSON 206 BROAD STREET, Are prepared to fill your Prescriptions caiefully with competent help and pure drugs. They tlsj hivj t )3u': : j{ lia > of Pei ft me s& To et TREVITT & JOHNSON The Leading Prescription Druggists of the city Paul Re* se has cna geof the Prescription Department. ** •- t- 0+ e + Mrs J F V7'*'’ ivs « « . axnSrsK.’sr; N w stock, and a com lete lino of all the very latest Novelties. New goods arriving weekly. No. 208 Broadway, Rome Ga OPPOSITE FIRST NATIONAL BANK. LTTJVEEEDRj AAI kinds of Rough. Lumber sawed to or der on short Kotice* Callon orA_ddressv JOHN C- FOSTER Foster’s Malls Gra. R C. ATKINS & CO, CHATTANODGA TE< MANUFACTURERS OF CIRCULAR, BAM\ GANG. CROSS CUT Asl) HAM) SAWS, ETC. WHOLESALE a chinery, Mill Supplies anAo R~i•airing a >|a-chi i , 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 RES TAURA NT. 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. Polite waiters, Satisfaction guaranteed, give me a call Leather and Shoe Findings,’ Hand made ShoesiJbuilt tc|)rder, Repairing a speciality, at Masonic Te mpleS tore.