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GEORGIA’S PIATFORM
ADOPTED YESTERDAY.
Document Advocates Adoption of
Austraiiian Secret Ballot and
Instructs the State Delegation
to Vote for Alton B. Parker.
The democracy of Georgia in
convention assembled congratu¬
late the people of the state upon
the successful administration of
her civic affairs, the prosperity
and happiness < f her citizens,
and tho general satisfaction
which prevails throughout her
borders. We cordially indorse
the present state administration,
our chief executive, each of our
state officials, commending them
for the faithful, honest and effi*
cient manner in which they have
discharged the delicate and ar¬
duous duties of their several of¬
fices.
We congratulate the people of
Georg ; a that the rate of taxation
has been lowered, that all prop¬
erty, real and corporate, by rea¬
son of recent statute, is now
tnade to bear its proportionate
part of the burden of taxation.
This is as it should be, for it is
but just that every species of
property should bear equally the
burden of taxation essential to
the maintenance and enforce¬
ment of laws enact. d for the
general welfare.
We note with genuine pleas¬
ure the absorbing interest in the
came of education and cordially
indorse the efforts being (hade on
that line looking to a better and
still more efficient system of
public schools.
We favor just and liberal,
though not extravagant, pension
laws for the support of needy
confederate veterans in their de¬
clining years.
We reaffirm with emphasis the
previously expressed demand of
democratic conventions of this
state f >r an elective system
which will guarantee full protec¬
tion to every voter and will throw
around the ballot every safe¬
guard . Especially do wc riernand
th >t our primary election laws
be so amended as to give assur¬
ance that the ballot of every reg¬
istered voter may be an incor¬
ruptible expression of his judge
ment, and every ballot so voted
may be recorded and counted in
a manner that can leave absolute¬
ly no doubt as to the fairness of
the election and the accuracy of
the result announced.
Tu this end it is the sense of
the convention that the legisla¬
ture should promptly enact a law
providing that at all elections of
every character whatsoever, in¬
cluding all primary elections, the
Australian secret ballot 01 some
similar system-shall be adopted,
wherein shall be included every
safeguard necessay to insure an
absolutely pure and secret ballot.
ft is the sense of this conven¬
tion that the legislature should,
it is hereby requested to pass an
act to make all election and reg¬
istration laws, both civil and
criminal, now existing or here¬
after passed for the protection
of the purity of the ballot, ex¬
pressly applicable to all primary
elections, municipal, county,
state and federal as well as to
other elections, so fat as the
same may be practicable; and
that all persons violating any of
said laws in registering for or
voting at any such primary elec¬
tion shall be subject to the same
pains and penalties as are pre¬
scribed for such acts at any or¬
dinary election.
It is the sense of this conven
ihat the legislature should, and
it is hereby petitioned to so a mend
the existing primary election
law as to expressly provide for
contests before the proper exec¬
utive committee of the party, and
to authorize the said
through themselves or subcom¬
mittees, to subpoena witnesses,
ad minister oaths and do such
other acts as may be necessary
under the rules and regula¬
tions of the party to ascertain
and declare the person or per¬
sons entitled t§ receive the nom
iaation of the party, and to pro¬
vide for appeals, etc. We de¬
mand that this matter receive
the attention of the approaching
session of the general assembly
and the primary law be so amend¬
ed as to meet these requirements.
We favor the enactment of
such 1 iwsas will afford equal and
exact justice to labor and capital
alike, and the administration of
those laws in such a spirit of
fairness as will protect and fos¬
ter the interests which are al¬
ready in the state, and encour¬
age. the establishment of new en¬
terprises: thereby affording larg¬
er markets and wider fields of
industry for our citizens, d
We rejoice that the opening of
the present national campaign
finds the party of the states free
from disturbingdissensions, firm¬
ly resolved to retain control of our
own state administration, and
ready to co operate vigorously
with our brethren throughout
the union in a supreme effort to
recover possession of the federal
government. In common with
the democracy of our sister
states, we view with great alarm
the dangerous departure under
republican administration, from
the cardinal principles so'earn¬
estly inculcated by the fathers of
the republic as to the structure,
powers and limitations of our
federal government, and so re¬
peatedly declared and enforced
in the platforms of our national
democracy, and we now proclaim
anew our steadfast adherence to
those principles as are necessary,
in our judgment, to the preser¬
vation of our democratic institu¬
tions in their original simplici¬
ty, purity and power.
We charge the republicans
with establishing and maintain¬
ing an unnecessary oppressive
and unjust system of feckral tax¬
ation, and we demind relief for
the people from its burden.
We charge them with great and
reckless extravagance in the ex¬
penditures of the large sums
needlessly collected from the
people by their excessive protec¬
tion of favored branches of indus¬
try beyond all precedent or rea¬
son, and incapable of justification
or excuse. - .
We charge them with the ex¬
istence of fraud and corny)tion
in the administration of-many of
their public trusts, and with
sheltering guilty incumbents
from merited exposure and pun¬
ishment.
We charge that within the last
few’ years under the republican
tariff illegal combinations of
trusts and combines have been
encouraged and fostered until so
multiplied in number and power
as to excite the gravest alarm
that honest com petition is to be
stifled and finally crushed. We
demand the republican party
be stripped of the power it has
so mercilessly abused. We be*
lieve that the time and conditions
require a change of admirfistra
tion and we know the democratic
party may be relied upon to un¬
dertake the task of purifying the
administration.
We demand a change of sys¬
tem, a change of administration,
a change of measures and oi
men, and to that end we earnest¬
ly and confidently call upon the
people to rise in their resistless
power and apply the remedies
ready to be furnished by the
democratic party.
Whereas we believe that Judge
Alton B. Parker, of N6w York,
is the choice cf an overwhelming
majority of the democracy of
this state, as the democratic
nominee for president;
And whereas, it is the duty of
this convention to give force and
and expression to their wishes;
Resolved, That the delegates
from Georgia to the national con¬
vention to be held in St Louis be
and they are hereby instructed
to cast the vote of this state for
JudgeB Parker as the nominee
of the democratic party for
president so long as in the
opinion of a majority of the del¬
egates there is k reasonable
probability of his nomination;
and that said delegates shall vote
as a unit on all questions as a
majority may determine.
For A Hundred Years.
For a hundred years or more Witch Haz¬
el has been recognized as a superior
remedy, but it remained for E. C. De
Witt & Co., of Chicago, to discover how
to combine the virtues of Witch Hazel
with other antiseptics, in the form of a
salve. DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve is
the best salve in the world for sores,
cuts, bums, bruises and piles. The high
standing of this salve has given rise to
counterfeits, and the public is advised to
1 pk for the name “DeWitt” on the
package, and accept no other. Sold by
Lewis Drug Co.
$ 50 , 000.00
Cash Given Away to Users of
LION COFFEE
We are going to he more liberal than ever in 1904 to users of Lion Coffee. Not only will the
Lion-Heads, cut from the packages, be good, as heretofore, for the valuable premiums we
have always given our customers, but
In Addition to the Regular Free Premiums
the same Lion-Heads will entitle you to estimates in our $50,000.00 Grand Prize Contests, which will
make some of our patrons rich men and women. You can send in as many estimates as desired. There wili be
—-TWO GREAT CONTESTS
The first contest will be on the July 4 th attendance at the St. Louis World's Fair; the second relates to Total
Vote For President to be cast Nov. 8 , 1904 . $so,000.00 will be distributed in each of these contests, making
$40,000.00 on the two, and, to make it still more interesting, in addition to this amount, we will give a
9IIII Civ*# rirsi D*!«a rrU6 W a| te DVyUUUsUU A fin nn t0 contests, the oae w and ho thus is nearest estimates correct have on both two
HI your
■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ opportunities oi winning a big cash prize.
Five Lion-Heads 3S8MB Printed blanks to
cut from Lion vote on found in
Coffee Packages and a every Lion Coffee Pack¬
3 cent stamp entitle you age. The 3 cent stamp
(in addition to the reg¬ covers the expense of
G ular free premiums) our acknowledgment to
to one vote in you that your es¬
either contest: timate is recorded.
WORLD’S FAIR CONTEST PRESIDENTIAL VOTE CONTEST
What will be the total July 4th attendance at the St. Lonls What will be the total Popular Vote cast for President (vote*
World * Fair? At Chicago. July 4,1893, the attendance was 283,273. for all candidates combined) at the election November 8.1904? In
For nearest correct estimates received In Woolson Spice Com¬ 1900 election. 13,959,653people voted for President. For nearest Toledo. cor¬ O.,
pany's office. Toledo, Ohio, on or before June 30th, 1904, we will rect estimates received in Woolson Spice Ce.’s, office.
ifive first prize for the nearest correct estimate, second prize to the on or before Nov. 5,3904, we will give first prize for the nearest cor¬
next nearest, etc., etc., as follows: rect estimate, second prize to thenext nearest, etc., etc., as follows:
1 First Prise ............................12,600.00 1 First Second Prise ............................*2,600.00 1,000.00
1 Second Prise .......................... 1,000.00 i Prise .........*................
2 Prises—*600.00 each ..................1,000.00 2 Prises *500.00 each ..... 1 , 000.00
5 c Prize*— o-*---onnon 200.00 •• 1,000.00 6 Prises 200.00 " .... 1 , 000.00
10 Prises— 100.00 .................. 1 , 000.00 lO Prises— 100.00 ” _____ 1 , 000.00
20 Prises— 50.00 .................. 1 , 000.00 20 Prises— 80.OC “ ... . 1 , 000.00
50 Prises— 20.00 ..................1,000.00 60 Prises— 20.00 “ ..... .....2,600.00 1,000.00
250 Prises— 10.00 ..................2,600.00 260 Prises— 10.00
1800 Prises— 6.00 8 000.00 1800 Prises— 6.00 * .....9,000.00
.................. ,
2139 PRIZES, TOTAL, *20,000X10 2139 PSIZEZ. TOTAL, *20,000.00
4279—PRIZES—4279
Distributed to tho Public—aggrogating S45,000.00—in addition to whlch we shall giva $5,000
to firoeers’ Clerks (soi particulars in LION COFFEE eases) waking a grand total of $50,000.00.
COMPLETE DETAILED PARTICULARS IN EVERY PACKAGE OF
. LION COFFEE .
WOOLSON SPICE CO., (CONTEST DEP'T.) TOLEDO, -OHIO.
New Georgia Industries.
The. following nsw industries
are reported for the state during
the past week:
Columbus—Paper box factory;
§10,000 brick works.
West Point—§40,000 cotton mil.
Macon—$10,000 brick works.
Atlanta—$10,000 medicine and
bottling company.
Fight Will Be Bitter
Those who will persist in closing their
ears against the continual recommenda
tion of Dr. King’s New Discovery for
Consumption, will have a long and bit
ter light with their troubles, if not end¬
ed earlier by fatal termination. Read
wliht Mr. T. R. Beall, of Beall, Mass.,
lias to say: “Last fall my wife had ev¬
ery symptom of consumption. She took
Dr. King’s New Discovery after every ¬
thing else had failed. Improvement
came at once and four bottles entirely
cured her. Guaranteed by all druggists
Price 50 c, and $ 1 . 00 . Trial bottle free.
The Roosevelt administratu n
has cost the ci untry just §211,
000,000 more than the McKinley
administration.
Thrown From a Wagon.
Mr. George K. Babcock was thrown
from his wagon and severely bruised. He
applied Chamberlain’s Pain Balm freely
and says it«s the best liniment he ever
used. Mr. Babcock is a well known cit¬
izen of North Plain, Conn. There is
nothing equal to Pain Balm for sprains
and bruises. It will effect a cure in one
third the time required by any other
treatment. For sale by Lewis Drug Co.
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Some one has advanced the
idea that the fu’l consumer is re¬
sponsible for the high prices
prevailing, and there is some
truth in this. The consumer
could break up the whole rotten
system of protection that sus
tiins the trusts; but he goes
right along alloiing himself to
be taxed on all the necessaries of
life for the benefit of the million
ai res.—Memphis Commercial Ap¬
peal.