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The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-06-12

n The new bill just signed by Governor Hill,
of New York, substituting electricity for
capital punishment, has called forth vari-
ETY. of opinions.
Governor Hill and the friends of the meas
ure declare that a painless death for crimi-
nails is in the interests of humanity and civ
ilization. On the other hand, it is a little
singular that all the murderers now under
sentence of death who have been interviewed
have denounced the new method in strong
terms. They do not wish to die, but if they
must suffer the death penalty they prefer
the good old way.
A pertinent question comes up in connec-
ton with this matter. Under the new sys-
TEN it is evident that the main object is tc
put murderers out of the way without in
tlicting any physical suffering upon them.
Why not carry this tender regard for the
feelings of criminals step farther, and in
stead of killing them simply shut them up
for life in the strongest prisons of the stated
This would remove them from society for
ever, give them an opportunity to repent,
and be infinitely more humane and civilized
than even slaughter by electricity.
These reflections are intended for the ben
eft of the New Workers alone. They do moi
apply down this way, where people still be-
lieye that painful and disgraceful death is
the proper penalty for murderer. But il
is by no means certain that New York will
stick to her sentimental experiment. We
predict that the law will shortly be repealed
and the gallows will be re-established Oh
capital punishment will be abolished en-.
tirely.
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The WAY 10 Win.


We observe that some of our contem-
poraries are consoling themselves with the
thought that the republican victory in
Oregon was not due to the tariff issue.
Now, this sort of consolation goes to make
very poor politics indeed. 1t is better for the
party to look the facts squarely in the face
and make the most of them. Oregon was
carried on the tariff issue, and nothing can
be accomplished by ignoring the fact. The
issue has been discussed for all it is worth
in the Oregon newspapers, and the result
shows that large majority Of the voters of
that state are opposed to free lumber and
free wool.
Everything is to be gained by acknowledge
ing this fact. 1t ought to nerve the demo-
cratic leaders in the campaign that is about
to open to work harder and more enthusiast
tically than they have ever worked before.
There will be no walk-over. Every state in
the north where there is even the sign of a
fighting chance will be holly contested by
the republicans, and the democratic leaders
will make a serious mistake if they permit
themselves to become over-confdent.
The remarkable enthusiasm manifested
for Mr.. Cleveland at the st. Louis conyen-
ton was a significant sign, but that en-
thusiasm must be followed up by hard and
persistent works
The election OF Cleveland and Thurman
is of vital Importance not only to the south,
but to the whole country, and every south
ern interest that is worth preserving or that
has any influence will do all that can be
done to bring success to the ticket.
But the real campaign will take place at
the north. We have no doubts as to the re-
suit, but there would be grave doubts if, by
any chance, the democrats of that section
should become over-conident
There must be hard work from now until
next November.
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ATLANTA GA. JUNE IL. 1855.
pIsgnsted sonthcrn RepnhlLenns.

Between the conservative people of the
north, who desire to bury sectionalism, and
The prominent republicans Of the south, who
understand the situation, the shakers of the
bloody shirt seem to have no showing what
ever. THE CONSTITUTION has already had
the pleasure of presenting the views Of
Governor Bullock in regard to the condition
Of the negro race and Its treatment 10y the
whites.
II cannot be said that Governor Bullock
doesn't understand the situation. He
understands il thoroughly. lie is on the
spot, and no knows what he is talking
about. He Is as staunch arepubllcan as
John Sherman or Halstead, and he is as
much interested in the welfare Of the negro
Is any northern republican that ever lived.
According to Governor Bullock the ne
gro, especially In Georgia, is well treated
20 well-treated indeed that he Is not only
lettering his condition every day, but is
accumulatng property at a very rapid rate.
Governor Bullock also says that the negro
voter is not inundated or bulldoxed; and
he is so we'll satisfied with the situation-so
certain that democratic state adrninistra-
tion is best for the race In Georgia that he
proposes, republican as he is, to cast his
vote for General Gordon for governor.
Nor 10 this all the testimony In respect Of
the situation in the south. Colonel John A.
Mcdonald, lifelong republican, who set
tled in Florida at the close of the war, has
written letter to the Eustis (Fla.) Lake
Region, in response to some inquiries ad-
dressed TO him by the editor
eve northern republicans" says Colonel
Mcdonald, 'have been here quarter Of a
century. Our sons and daughters are south
ern born. They are white and they are
democrats, and all that we old fashioned
republicans can do would not make republic
cans Of our sons. And II is not the south
ern people, our neighbors, We have to blame
for it, but the northern demagogues whom
We affiliated with in former years. As
soon as they found that the south could be
held no longer for their party they com
mcnced q system of abuse of the southern
people, called 'bloody-shirtism.' which they
still keep up, and our sons, seeing these
false and damaging statements circulated
about our people and our section flor,
remember, this is now orr country. are
naturally disguised with northern republi-
canism, which must depend upon such mis-
representation of our own people, our
neighbors and friends, and they early be-
come democrats"
Disguised with northern republicans!
Well, II northern republicans who have set
tied in the south are disguised with their
brethren at the north because of the efforts
OF the latter to pcrpetuate the spirit of sec
tionalism, how must the white people of
the south feel?
We are inclined TO hope that the Sher-
mans In politics and the Halsteads in jour
nalism viii find the bloody shirt business n
very poor investment indeed.
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The real bone Of contention at st. Louis
has been the tariff clause OF the platform.
The committee on resolutions appears to
have INDUCED in considerable agony before
a compromise was agreed on-the chief
sufferers being Brother Watterson and Sena-
tor German. Both sides made concessions,
and the result is platform ON which the
democracy can stand harmonious and
united.
1t is platform, indeed, on which every
honest republican, who is anxious TO pro-
mote the welfare of the country and of the
people, can stand. 1t is broad enough and
comprehensive enough to suit every man who
is DESTROYS of perpetuating an honest and
economical administration of the affairs of
the government.
Certainly there is no democrat in any
part of the country that can refuse to stand
on it. 1t does what the Hon. Patrick
Walsh tried to do in the Georgia state CON
yention. 1t reafiirms the platform of 1884
and Endorses the message of President
Cleveland as an official Interpretation of
that platform. 1t is to be presumed that
neither free trade nor protection democrats
could ask more than this.
But, after all, the platform is nothing.
Mr. Cleveland is the candidate and Mr..
Cleveland is the platform. Any platform
that the convention might have made would
be q mere collection of words and phrases.
The vital, tie essential fact is Mr.. Cleve-
land himself.
AS the Augusta Chronicle says, when
Alexander II. Stephens was nominated for
governor of Georgia, the convention deemed
it unnecessary to adopt a platform. The
career and character of the candidate were
sufficient. So it is with Mr.. Cleveland.
The people have tried him, and they believe
thoroughly in his honesty, his candor, his
courage and his common sense.
While the politicians, both large and
small, have been quarreling over theories,
the president has been dealing with essen
tials. lie has administered the affairs of
his high Office with a conscientiousness, an
energy and an industry that have rarely
been paralleled in our history. He has SO
impressed the people with his firm and
unninching personality.
Therefore, we say that the real platform
of the party is Mr.. Cleveland, and the can
didate and the platform will win.
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not in the Platform.

There is one feature of the St. Louis plat
form that will probably set the mugwumps
to wailing. Comprehensive as that plat
form is, it contains not the remotest allu-
sion to the fetisch, or humbug Cor whatever
you please to call it) of civil service reform.
What is the meaning of this omission? 1t
was not due to forgetfulness, for the demo
Gratis of the country have had the matter
dinged in their ears for nearly four years.
No, it was not forgetfulness; it was some
thing better. Civil service reform is not in
the platform because the democratic party is
tired OF playing wet-nurse TO a sham and a
fraud.
If the mugwumps desire an honest and
economical administration of the govern
ment-ft they want to elect president who
has the confidence of the country-they will
have to take Grover Cleveland as a demo-
crat pure and simple.
To Mr.. George William Curtis, Mr..
George Jones, and Mr.. f.. L. Godkin, we
extend renewed assurances of our most
distinguished consideration.
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occupied with his farm, bought his wife a
few cows The natural increase of this
herd has been such that it now produces
sixty pounds Of golden butter per week,
which finds ready sale in Albany. The
farmers wife realizes from $500 to 81 900
on the yearly sale of her butter. The ac-
tual outlay, annually, is $50 for labor and
SO for wheat bran TO give BULK 20 the
cooked food. The rest OF the feed is raised
on the place to supplement the pasturage.
The other instance that the News and Adj
vertiser cites IS that OF a dairy farm not far
from the corporate limits Of Albany Here,
again, il is the lady Of the house that pre-
sides over affairs six graded Jersey COWS
constitute the herd, and there is no expend-
iture for food, everything necessary being
raised on the tWelve-acre farm. These six
graded Jerseys bring in a monthly income
OF $50, enough to support the family in
comfort.
All this is very gratifying, and il is still
more gratifying to know that the dairying
business is developing in all parts of the
state, notably in middle Georgia. The
county-of Putnam, for instance, ships
great many pounds of butter to Atlanta and
other markets every month. Mr.. b. w.
Hunt of Eatonton, who has one OF the
most perfectly equipped diaries in the south,
with splendid herd of Jerseys to back it,
ships butter to New York, and its grain is
so perfect and its flavor so fine that there is
a continual demand for it.
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Tnrlanla Now Dancer

For about generation it has been sup
posed that the northwestern frontier of
India was the only vulnerable point of the
English possessions in that region.
According TO recent writer, however, it
Is plain that on the frontier line OF north
eastern Hind0stan there are many passes
through which 1t would be an easy matter
for the Russians TO descend upon Bengal.
Within the past few weeks the matter has
been brought before the British cabinet,
and considerable alarm has been excited.
One significant fact has much to do with
this uneasy feeling. The British have found
that their exploring parties in the threat
ened quarter have been received in an
unfriendly manner, while on the other
hand, the Russians have been welcomed.
With this light thrown upon the situation
there is ample ground for the apprehension
that the Russians will find it an easy matter
TO steal march into the coveted territory.
A leading tory paper goes SO far as to say
that it will be possible in three months
time for Russia TO place the key to India in
her pocket.
If there is anything in this prediction,
and the Salisbury cabinet evidently takes
some stock in it, the English will cease to
be disturbed by imaginary fears of an inva-
sion. Here is a real, tangible danger.
The prospect of having swarms of Russians
and Tartars poured through the deiiles of
Thibet down upon the vast Indian empire,
conquered and made practically British by
Cline and Hastings and other warrior states
men. will send thrill of terror through all
England.
glance, perhaps only a superficial one,
at the situation, leads us to the conclusion
that these fears have substantial grounds.
The ancient policy Of Russia favors asgres-
sion in this direction. Ii short and easy
route into India has been discovered by this
great terror of European civilization, we
may rest assured that the discovery will be
speedily utilized
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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTIONS ATLANTA GA TUESDAY T. 1888

think that the early members Of the organi-
cation had been taught the use OF the DOW
and arrow as part of the art of war. A
notable feature of the celebration was the
presence OF the representatives of the Hon
orable Artillery company OF London, one OF
whose members held the first captaincy OF
the Boston company $50 years ago.
The Boston artillery had been drilling,
parading and fighting for about 100 years
before Oglethorpe settled his colony in
Georgia Not only in military matters, but
in many other things of equal Importance,
Massachusetts was more than century in
advance when our first settlers laid out the
town of Savannah.
All this is suggestive to reader whose
mind is strong, acute and capacious enough
to compare the relations existing between
the past and present history of our Amer
lean commonwealth Perhaps it is enough
to say that the lesson taught by this brief
glance at the past is a hopeful one. By the
time one OF our Georgia companies shall be
ready to celebrate its 2J0th anniversary, this
will be one of the most populous and pros
porous states in the union. In another CEN
fury we may pass Massachusetts and leave
her tagging behind. Stranger things have
happened.
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DR.. Hammond, in a recent article upon in
sanity, says there is no such thing as the in
sane temperament. He thinks the nervous
temperament more liable to insanity than any
other bat says that the sangune Emphatic
and choleric are not free from tendencies in
the same direction, the latter containing
almost as many instances of the mental aber-
ration as the nervous temperament. He takes
the position that the nervous temperament
goes into Mysteries, St. Vitus dance, catalepsy,
ecstacy, and insanity of all types; in the
Chocric form, ii takes the form of suicidal and
homicidal arrangement, or the most wretched
mental depression over some crime the sufferer
imaEines himself to have committed. In the
sanguine temperament insanity is not frequent
and when it does occur it takes the form OF
exalted mental ecstacy with alternating moods
of depression. The Emphatic temperament
he has found to take, when out OF balance, a
low grade of melanchoia. The person is
always suspecting plots against his life by real
or imaginary persons. He talks of lis wrongs
constantly, but instead of wishing to fight he
talks of his wrongs pleasantly and eyinces no
desire TO ayenge them.
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A Strnny Mans rcnrs.

II is matter of history that Horace Gree
ley, notwithstanding his devotion 10 the
union, was SO much opposed to the horrors Of
civil war that at the very outbreak of seees-
sion he was in favor Of allowing the south
ern states TO withdraw in peace The pop
ular impression, however, has always been
that when the war opened in earnest he all
vocated its vigorous prosecution.
Most people will be surprised to learn
from publication made for the first time
in the Century that Mr.. Greeley weakened
again after the battle of Bull Run. At that
time he wrote letter to President Lincoln
in which he spoke of his doubts and his
sleepless nights. He begged the president.
II the outlook indicated the success Of the
confederacy, to stop hostilites at once. and
said.
III the UNISON is irrcvocahly gone an arinlsticc for
thirty, sixty, ninety. one hundred and twenty DAVIS
--leiter sill, fog Nc0r-ought 40 once 20 40 pro.
posed, with view ~ peaceful adjustment Then
Congress should call 8 national convention. % meet
as the earliest possible day. And there should De
an immediate and mutual exchange or rclease Of
prisoners aud q d,shaudmont of forces 90 not
consider mysolfat pvcscuta jadge OF anytAin. but
She public sentiment Taat seems 90 me everywhere
gathering ana deepening against a prosecution Of
the war The gloom in this city is nlnereal-G uur
dead az Bull Run were many, and they lie uuburied
yet ON every brow sits sulleu sc1rvh.uy black la.
spair. IL would Dc easy 20 have Nj Crt:cu. len
move any proposition tlat ought 90 b. adopted OF Ia
have il come nom any proper quarter The inst
point s to ascertain what is hest that can he done
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peremptory withdrawal of Brother Blaine
has not only thrown the republicans into
confusion, but has brought to the front q
great many ambitious men of the second |
rate who are exceedingly anxious to be
nominated at Chicago
These candidates all have their friends,
Editor Ell elstead will prove to you that John
Sherman, the great Pinkstonian statesman,
has the inside track, and ought to be nomiS
mated. Editor Medill will tell you THAI
Judge Gresham is the right man who will
never be in the right place until he is in the
white house. Editor Clarkson informs q
not too gullible public that Senator Allison
is the man to lead the republican hosts to
victory, while Editor Halford, OF ldianap-
oils, is equally sure that Harrison, the SON
of q president, is the man for the republi.
cans to select. Then there are Depew.
Alger and Hawley, all anxious to be candi-
dates, and all equally anxious to take the
second place. Phelps and Levi P. Norton
are also spoken of for the second place.
1t is probably true, as Editor Halstead
SAYS, that John Sherman is the strongest
candidate for the nomination, but he win
he
AS a champion of the bloody shirt, which
means the perpetuation of sectional hate
and prejudice, he would be obnoxious to
! that conservative sentiment of the north
which believes in restored union and the
fraternity and unity of the sections. He
would also be weak in the silver states, and
weak everywhere, for the reason that he has
been working and sweating for the nomina-
ton for some years.
The democrats can we'll afford to look on
the republican struggle with curiosity and
| amusement. The candidates nominated at
St. Louis are invincible before the people,
because they represent the people.
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ThR Ticket

The democratic convention which accom-
plished its work yesterday and adjourned,
has simply recorded the will of the demo-
cratic voters of this country. The renomi-
nation OF President Cleveland was a fore
gone conclusion, and in making him the
candidate Of the party for the second term,
the convention has simply carried out the
desire and determination of the people.
Pretty much the same may be said of the
nomination of Judge Thurman. The mo-
ment that hesignifed his willingness to serve
the party as a candidate for the vice presi-
dency, his nomination was assured. The
old Roman, as the people love to call him,
is one OF the most distinguished democrats
in this country, and if it is possible to add
strength TO a ticket headed by Mr. Cleve-
land, the nomination of Judge Thurman
will strengthen it.
We congratulate the convention. The
platform is one on which all democrats may
stand with enthusiasm, and the ticket is a
winning one.
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Celebrat,on and It, succcstIons,

A recent celebration in Boston calls
attention in striking way to the age
OF Massachusetts, as compared with that OF
some of her sister states.
The occasiounSyas the two hundred and
iiitieth anniversary Of the Ancient and Hon.
cradle Artillery OF Boston. A few points
concerning the antiquity Of this company
viii be Of interest to orr citizen soldiery
aud TO general readers. The company was
organized in loss. Seven years later, the
general court ordered all the youth Of the
colony TO be instructed in the use Of "small
guns, half pixies and bows and arrows"
The Bostonans are proud Of this ancient
company, and they have good reason to be,
but /. must have tiekled their fancy when
they saw the artillerymen on parade to
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Dalrying I'm Georgia.

The Albany News and Advertiser has a
very interesting article on dairying In
Dougherty, Although It has been only a
comparatively short time since Jersey cattle
were introduced in the county. the breed
has increased amazingly, and it is supple
mented by hundreds of graded cattle which.
for all practical purposes, are rs good as the
pure bloods.
The result of this Improvement of the
cattle has been large increase in the butter
product OF the county. A great many
farmers have added to their other interests
the business of dairylng. and it is a bust
ness that is sure, with proper management.
TO bring large returns. The News and Adj
yertiser says that the possibilities of this
new business have only begun to be deyel-
oped. There are about $50 pounds of conn
try butter sold in Albany every week, and a
prominent groeoryman gives It as his opin.
ion that not more than one-third as much
northern and western butter WAS sold in Al
bany in 1887 as there was in 1877. 10 this
the News and Advertiser adds the following
pretty liale protection sentiment, which we
most heartily lndorse:
Eycry dollar saved 20 u country Is a dollar made
and while ,his may seem small business. YET AZ
little drops mtnglo 60 swell the stream 50 viii every
small, profitable industry increase the volume Of
trade Tie alchcuists OF cid wasted their cnergios
in The foolish effort % convert common Substances
into kolt hut the secret coveted ly them is
known 70 US hena grass and the other products OF
orr heles are coined into money Through the sim
plest method OF natursl transformation
The News and Advertiser gives two in
stances Of success in the dairying business
that have come under its observation. A
few years aSo, farmer Of Dougherty, fully