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INDIGENT VETERANS.
The county commissioners, on last
Wednesday, took up for hearing the
petition of Confederate veterans,
which had been pending since May,
asking for support without being re
quired to go or to stay at the county
almshouse.
We clip from the Atlanta Journal
this notice of the subject, as follows:
APPEAL FOR THE VETERANS.
Judge Robert L. Rodgers appeared in be
half of several Confederates, who have peti
tioned the county for support. The peti
tioning veteranshad been in the alms house,
but left it and asked to be paid a monthly
allowance.
Judge Palmer said the matter had been
before the alms house committe. The coun
ty attorney informed the committee that
having elected to go to the alms house and
haying elected to leave it, the veterans
would have to return to the poor house to
receive aid from the county. Tho commit
tee referred the matter back to the board.
Judge Rodgers stated that under the law
the Veterans could not be required to go to
the alms house, but could receive food and
clothing from the county.
Chairman Palmer explained that a num
ber of the Veterans were now receiving ra
tions and clothes from the county and allow
ed to remain at their homes. The only
question was, whetder, having left the alms
house, the petitioning Veterans could be re
lieved.
That was not the only question at
all. The main question or point for
discussion was whether dr not the
county authorities would comply with
the law of 1893. Poor veterans who
are entitled to participate in the pub
lic almsor “poor fund,” are entitled
to have so much of the fund as may be
necessary for their support and proper
supply of comfortable clothes, to be
used wherever they may see fit to re
side, without having to go to poor
house or poor farm. The only ques
tion is, “Will the county commission
ers comply will the plain law?”
The “Labor Day” parade in this
city was a splendid exhibition of the
arts of our laboring people, in the
various industries here. The line of
parading laborers of all vocations pre
sented a fine appearance. The tele
phone men, in black shirts and white
pants, were a fine body of expert work
• men in that craft. We are proud of
our labor organizations. They are all
a clever and intelligent set of men.
After the parade, they went on cars to
the Grant Park, and exercises of an
interest character were held there.
Mr. Jerome Jones, editor of the Jour
nal of Labor, made an excellent ad
dress. It was replete with fine ideas
of the decorum and duties,the highest
rights and obligations of laboring
men, and the correlative rights and
obligations of society and employers
toward labor. Such occasions and
such speeeches will produce good re
sults.
SEVENTH WARD PRIMARY.
West End Caucus.
On last Monday night, pursuant to
previous caucus arrangements, about
sixty of the inhabitants of West End,
Seventh ward, of Atlanta, held a meet
ing in Caldwell’s hall. Mr. E. V. Car
ter was chosen as the chairman. He
requested that some one state the ob
ject of the meeting. Mr. Eugene Mon
tieth was chosen as secretary.
Mr. J. W. Pope, the councilor of
the Seventh ward, “West End,” made
a statement, that the meeting was call
ed there according to an understand
ing of several gentlemen a few days
previously, to discuss the subject of
choosing a candidate for coun
cilor, as successor to Captain
J. 8. Dozier, to represent
the Seventh ward. After his state
ment, somebody suggested that Dr. J.
W. Nelms be heard on the subject.
The Doctor-Sheriff arose, and in his
usual suave and blandish manner,
stated thatata meetingof some gentle
men, a short time ago, such a matter
was suggested as a ward primary, and
since|’hat, the City Executive Com-
mittee had decided for a general pri
mary for the city, and in view of such
action by the general committee of the
city, he thought that this meeting, or
assembly of citizens, should not take
any action in the way of nominating
any candidate for the Seventh ward.
He then went on to say that he had no
choice of persons, but was ready and
willing to “abide by the will of the
people, ” which by the way, is a very
trite or common expression of the
Doctor-Sheriff. The Doctor seemed
to be entirely forgetful that he had
volutarily proposed to the editor of
this paper some time ago, that he, the
Doctor, wanted the editor, Mr. Rod
gers, in the next city council,and that
he would see to it that I, Mr. Rodgers
should be chosen, because he, the
Doctor, as he then expressed himself,
said, “we want somebody in there who
can talk.” Subsequent circumstances
seem to indicate that the Doctor has
come to the conclusion that we spoke
truly, when we replied to him
that we bad “quit talking.”
We write, our opinions now
about men and measures. Ou a
later conference with the doctor in
his office of the sheriff, he again assur
ed us that he would do all he could to
promote the selection and election of
this writer, and we thought we could,
at least, partially rely on such assur
ance, and yet, on at least two impor
tant occasions, when and where the
doctor had the very best of opportu
nities to express and to advocate his
avowed favor, he has not opened his
mouth in favor of one whom he had
thus induced to give some attention to
the subject of candidacy, in the idle
belief, as appears now, that the doc
tor was a potent factor in the success
of any candidate of the Seventh ward.
On suggestion being made to him,
during the exciting canvass for county
commissioner,that Dr. Lougino might
be a candidate, the doctor stated that
Dr. Longino could not be considered,
that he did not allow him (Dr. Lon
gino) to speak to him, (Dr. Nelmes)
nnd that he, Dr. Longino, was not a
proper person to be the representative
of Seventh ward in the city council.
We suppose Dr. Nelms may have
changed his mind. Sometimes some
men and women do such a thing. Will
he now support Dr. Longino, in his
idea of “abiding” by the will of the
people? In any event, it seems
certain that Dr. Nelms did not favor
us on important accasions, subse
quent to his asseverations of hearty
support for us. We have heard before
of some men who could not carry
any influence for their preferred can
didates, and sometimes not even their
own votes. In the ballot last Monday
evening we learn that Mr. Le Blond
received one vote. We wonder how
the vote of Mr. Le Blond was cast, as
we learn that the one vote for him was
put in by another. For whom did
Mr. Le Blond cast his “secret ballot?”
Who is Mr. Le Blond, that he should
be considered as a suitable candidate,
and how long has he been in the Sev
enth ward, and why was he voted for,
and who voted for him?
Mr. J. M. Hunnicutt, was there and
spoke as a member of the City Execu
tive Committee. He said that he agreed
with the views expressed by Dr.Nelms,
that this ward meeting should not
suggest or nominate any one now, in
asmuch as the general Executive Com
mittee had decided to have a general
primary, and had very emphatically
overruled the wishes of the members
of committee of Seventh ward to have
ward primaries. He then went on to
gay that the general committee was
dominated or ruled by three or four of
the members, who were slick or shrewd
politicians, and that the citywas con
trolled by three or four politicians
anyhow, and most of the others of the
committee were merely passive, or
acted by some sinister motives, or
peculiar influence, “in fact,” as he
stated it, “they had “been seen”—
and that he had seen,” too
but not enough,” and the result of it
was the general committee had over
ruled the members of the committee
from Seventh ward, when they were
moving in the committee meeting for
ward primaries. Mr. Hunnicutt did
not make any explanation of his
averment that most of the members of
the City Executive Committee “had
been seen,” but the inference of im
proper conduct was easily drawn, un
der the circumstances of his speech,
and he did not tell us who are the
“three or four politicians” who con
trol the city. We would simply ask
Mr. Hunnicutt if he saw any of them
in committee meeting with any “cut
and dried ari angements” of the com
mittee, or any “printed tickets” for a
general primary. Perhaps they were
on the line of Bret Harte’s “Heathen
Chinee.” Some men have a peculiar
manner of marching in a “procession”
when the baud plays.
Mr. Hilbert Culberson spoke and
did not agree with the gentlemen who
had preceded him, but he thought
this meeting was fully competent to
choose a candidate for Seventh ward,
so be favored an expression of prefer
ence now.
Mr. E. V. Carter called Mr. Pope to
the chair, or rather to the table, and
he, Mr. Carter, stated that he thought
this meeting could properl y express a
preference.
Dr. T. D. Longino thenajooAe . He
said that he was present at the gather
ing of some fifteen or twenty gentle-
LABORI’S APPEAL
FLATLY REFUSED
Jouaust Would Not Admit Vital Tes
timony In the Dreyfus Trial,
| COURT SEEMS PREJUDICED
End of the Weary Proceedings
At Rennes Approaching.
Advices from Rennes state that
Thursday ushered in the beginning
of the end in the Dreyfus trial. With
the speech of the government commis
sary, Major Carriere, the case entered
upon the final stage of pleadings.
M. Demange at once began his ad
dress for the defense. In eloquent
terms and with impressive delivery he
brought out the strong evidence
against Esterhazy.
Colonel Jouaust took tho most im
portant decision yet taken and took it
entirely upon his own responsibility,
although he is undoubtedly only the
mouthpiece of the whole body of
judges.
His decision to exclude the testi
mony of Colonel Schwarzkoppen and
Major Panizzardi was most significant,
as it meant that the court had already
reached a conclusion, and that the
pleadings of counsel were merely a
waste of time and might be dispensed
with, if they were not a necessity.
The court has made up its mind, but
which way? Both sides are equally
confident that the court will decide in
accordance with their view.
The Dreyfusards declare that the
judges cannot condemn Captain Drey
fus after rejecting the decisive evidence
which Schwartzkoppen and Panizzardi
would have given in his favor.
The anti-Dreyfusards, on the other
hand, explain Jouaust’s rulings on the
ground that the judges recognize that
the evidence of the two military at
taches would be worthless, because
they would be morally bound to save
their agent at any cost. A sample of
this reason was given by an anti-Dreyr
fusard journalist, who, when praising
Colonel Jouaust’s decision, explained:
“What weight could he attach to
the testimony of Schwarzkoppen and
Panizzardi? The receiver of stolen
goods must shield the thief as much
as he can.”
men when the subject was first dis
cussed, about a candidate
for the ward, and that he proposed a
meeting of the citizens for the pur
pose of considering it.
The doctor omitted to state that, at
the banquet discussion, he had ex
pressed himself as not disposed to
enter the field as a candidate. He
also went on to say that he had sent
out notices of this meeting, and hail
sent his notice to every citizen in the
ward, so far as he knew. The doctor
surely has forgotten something, or
else the mail delivery is at fault, as it
seems rather strange that such notice
as he says he sent oat has never come
to this citizen, who writes this report.
The doctor knew ns, and he well knew
what was said at the banquet by this
citizen about reserving his right to
discuss the matter of candidacy and to
make and receive suggestions to and
from our friends all over the city.
The doctor knows that no public
notice of the caucus suggested was
made until the Saturday following the
banquet of Mr. Pope, when notice was
first made of it in this paper, The
Georgia Record. We have the
record of events all regular, and we
do not favor “snap judgments, ”, in any
matter, or for any cause, or for any
man, or any set of men.
After the speech of Dr. Longino, a
motion was made to have a ballot.
We then left the scene, and went to
a meeting of more interest and im
portance, with a society of men who
may yet have some marks or remarks
to make about the peculiar methods of
city politics and politicians. We did
not participate in the ward meeting,
nor in its discussions, nor in its
“secret ballot.” We do not know,nor
pretend to say, how religion and
politics should be mixed and mingled,
but we may venture to suggest the pe
culiar appearance of things, in simili
tude, as to church combination and a
caucus nomination. A mere cursory
review will at once make plain the ap
plication of this suggestion, or as
“Capt. Jack Bunsby,” of nautical
fame in literary fiction, would say,—
“the bearing of these 'ere observations
lays in the application of ’em.” Oh!
ward politics, d—n badly mixed, so
full of tricks aud liable to get things
in a h—l of a fix.
NEW CASES AT KEY WEST.
Yellow Jack Seems To Be Getting
Good Hold In Florida Town.
The Florida state board of health
announces that there are thirteen new
cases of yellow fever at Key West.
W. Hunt Harris, state senator from
Monroe county and son-in-law of Dr.
J. Y. Porter, state health officer, is an
nounced among the number.
At Miami no new cases and no deaths
are reported.
GEORGIA NEWS ITEMS
Happenings In the State of Inter
esting Import.
Will Summon Advisory Board.
Governor Candler is preparing to
summon together for the first time
during his administration,the military
advisory board of the state consisting
of eleven prominent officers represent
ing the regiments of Georgia militia.
The advisory board has not been in
session since January, 1898, and the
coming meeting to be held before the
close of the present month will be one
cf the most important in the history of
the state militia.
The military board will pass on the
reorganization of state troops, and will
be called upon to recommend to the
chief executive what military compa
nies are to be pnt in the place of those
ordered disbanded. The military ad
visory board consists of the following
members,all of whom will be required
by executive order to meet in Atlanta:
General John M. Kell, adjutant gen
eral, Sunny Side; Colonel A. J. West,
quartermaster general, Atlanta; Colo
nel A. R. Lawton, First infantry, Sa
vannah; Colonel W. E. Wooten,
Fourth infantry, Albany; Lieutenant
Colonel E. D. Huguenin, Second in
fantry, Macon; Lieutenant Colonel W.
S. Shepherd, aide de camp, Colum
bus; Major Beirne Gordon, First in
fantry, Savannah; Captain W. A. Pat
ton, Third infantry, Rome; Captain A.
I. Renki. Sixth infantry, Augusta;
Captain J. S. Dozier, First battalion
cavalry, Atlanta; Captain W. W. Bark
er, Fifth infantry, Atlanta.
The work of reorganiztion under
taken by Governor Candler began dur
ing the early spring, when an order
was issued from the office of Adjutant
General Byrd requiring every military
command in the state militia to appear
before the inspector general for exami
nation.
...
Building: Car* In Georgia.
With the arrival at Americus the
past week of a large shipment of car
iron from a northern foundry, work
will be started at the car shops of the
Georgia and Alabama railway upon
the building of 1,600 freight cars for
that road.
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Delegates Appointed.
Governor Candler has appointed
delegates from Georgia to attend the
southern industrial convention, to be
held during the latter part of Septem
ber at Huntsville, Ala. The Georgia
delegation will consist of Hon. T. M.
Swift, of Elbert, Hou. J. Pope Brown,
of Pulaski, and President J. Harris
Chappell, of Baldwin.
Considerable interest has been at
tracted in the state to the proposed
work of the industrial convention, and
Governor Candler received requests
from a number of towns in Georgia to
appoint a delegation to represent this
state.
...
Itinerary of Mormon*.
The report of the Mormon work in
the south for last week shows there
are 488 elders laboring. During
the past week they walked 10,967
miles, visited 2,553 families, and were
refused entertainment 578 times.
President W. D. Rencher, of the
Georgia conference, whose headquar
ters are at Bowersville, reports 37
eledrs at work there. They walked
during the week 985 miles, visited 304
families aud were refused entertain
ment 98 times, held 49 meetings, and
baptized two persons.
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lieunion of Doles-Cook Brigade.
A reunion of the survivors of Doles-
Cook’s Brigade, Association of Na
tional Volunteers, will be held in At
lanta on October 24th and 25th, at
which time the members of four regi
ments will be in attendance.
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Georgian* Go to Bouton.
Governor Candler Les appointed
delegates from the state at large and
each congressional district to attend
the sessions of the farmers’ national
convention at Boston.
The governor has been notified that
the convention is to be in session
October 3d, 4th, sth and 6th and he
was strongly urged to name the Geor
gia delegates in time to allow all of
them ample opportunity to make prep
arations to attend.
From the state at large Governor
Candler appointed ex-Governor W. J.
Northen and Hon. Pope Brown, of
Pulaski, the first of whom is thorough
ly identified with agricultural inter
ests, not only in the state, but in the
south, while the latter is the presi
dent of the State Agricultural Society.
The folio wing delegates from each
congressional district are named:
First district, G. M. Ryals; second
district, Hon. O. B. Stevens; third
district, Hon. Jerry Owens; fourthdis
trict, George W. Truitt; fifth district,
C. P. Bowens; sixth district, R. J.
Redding; seventh district, J. A. Man
gette; eighth district, J. M. Smith;
ninth district, Nathan Bennett; tenth
district, P. J. Berkeman; eleventh dis
trict, Allen W. Groover.
Delegates from every state in the
union have been appointed to attend
the sessions of the coming convention
and Governor Candler regards the con
vention as one of the most important
to agricultural interests ever called to
gether. The members of the Georgia
delegation will undoubtedly exercises
controlling influence in the conven
tion, since from an agricultural point
of view this state is regarded as one of
the foremost in the United States.
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Will Sent North.
The troops stationed at Key West
will most probably not be sent to At
lanta, as it was first thought they
would be ordered, on aocouut of the
refusal of the Plant and Miami Steam
ship companies to accept them for
transportation upon orders from the
state officials. The war department de
cided to remove the troops at Key
West from that place because of the
appearance of four cases of yellow fe
ver in that city.
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Stock Eagerly Taken.
In July the Eagle and Phenix mill
decided to increase their stock from
8600,000 to 8750,000 and the present
stockholders were given an option on
this additional stock, each stockholder
being allotted 25 per cent of his hold
ings. September Ist was the day by
which stockholders should report on
the matter. When the stock applica
tions were consolidated it was found
that not only was the 8150,000 taken,
but there were applications in for
8150,000 more of stock.
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To Build Syrup Mills.
At a conference held between Mr.
D. G. Purse, representing the board
of trade at Savannah, and Commis
sioner Stevens regarding the sugar
cane industry in Georgia, they agreed
to unite their efforts to secure the
establishment of mills at various points
in south and southwest Georgia, to
wit: Savannah, Valdosta, Quitman,
Thomasville, Bainbridge, Helena and
other points, taking into consideration
the cheapest transportation to each of
these points and the amount of cane
grown in the territories adjacent to
each of these points.
There will be no trouble in securing
all the capital that will be needed to
establish the mills to grind the cane
and to refine the sugar.
The great object in view is to induce
the planters to grow a sufficient amount
of cane to authorize the building ol
these mills.
DEMAND EIGHT CENTS.
Georgia Farmers Determined To Get
Full Value For Their Cotton.
The farmers of Troup county, Ga.,
held an enthusiastic meeting in tho
courthouse at LaGrange for the pur
pose of organizing and putting on foot
some scheme by which the price of
cotton can be raised.
The following resolutions declaring
the intention of the Troup farmers to
hold their crop until the desired price
is offered and calling on planters
Oiroughout the south to join in the
movement were adopted:
“Whereas, the farmers, merchants
and bankers of Troup county having
this day met in pursuance of a pre
vious call to consider some plan of co
operation among the farmers, whereby
an adequate price may be obtained for
the present cotton crop, suggests the
following:
“1. The present cotton crop shall
not be put on the market for a price
less than 8 cents per pound.
“2. Until that price is reached the
bankers and merchants are to advance
such amount on all cotton received by
them as will meet the intermediate de
mands of the farmer storing said cot
ton in the warehouses and as security
hold the receipts of such eotton until
a sale is deemed advisable.
“3. The great difference between
the raw material and the manufactured
goods is proof conclusive that the
present price of the staple is but little
more than half its value. The sur
plus on hand is of such low grades
as not to be of much value save for the
very coarse fabrics and should cut no
figure us against the present high
grade.
“4. There is no such thing as over
production of cotton while more than
half the human family is in rags and
tatters,as a result of arrested distribu
tion.
“We, therefore, call on the farmers
of Georgia and every cotton growing
county in the south to meet at once
and organize similar' associations and
force the price of our principal pro
duct to that figure which will remu
nerate the industrial classes of the
south.
GEORGIANS GOOD SHOTS.
They Capture All Prizes In Sight At
Seagirt, N. J.
A dispatch from Seagirt, New Jer
sey, says: Georgia’s sharpshooters
have again taken everything in sight
in the shape of prizes, having won
three first prizes last Wednesday. All
there was to be won. The last stage
of the regimental team match was
finished on that day, the first stage
being shot Tuesday.
Carnegie Offers Public Library.
Andrew Carnegie has offered 350,-
000 for a public library building in
Oakland, Cal., provided the city will
agree to pay at least 84,000 a year to
maintain the library.