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oues.ious tina, Answer Themselves.

EDITOR COXsTIrUrIOS-YOu are a democrat and
partisan, pursuing the methods and standing
fairly by the principles of your party. While this
is TT, > you have the reputation OF being honest,
sQua.e and reliable. viii you stand up to your
principles, be true to your record and answer a
few plain questions which the plain democrats OF
the country would be glad to have replied to
frankly, fully and without evasion or equivoca-
ton?
!. Did President Cleveland appoint in the cities of
New York and Chicago, the two leading cities of
the north and west, republicans TO high office? Ii
SO what offices were they? Were there no demo
Gratis il those Cities-mcn III accord with the
principles of the party which elected him-com-
letent and worthy to fill mere offices?
2. Did President Cleveland nominate for the
highest and best paying office i'll the District OF
Columbia a negro? If so, are there among the
residents of the district no intelligent faithful
the appointment? Did he ever appoint southern
negro, or did he go north to find one?
,. Did he express desire to appoint negro
postmaster of Athens, Ga, the seat OF our state
university, and ask the congressman of that dis
trict TO name negro instead OF a white democrat
for the office?
under his administration? and how long
was it before he turned out
or allowed to remain until their time expired?
5. From the election OF Lincoln until his in
auguration were not all democrats ignored and
tabooed? Did he not seem to think republicans
were better and more competent than the demo-
Gratis who elected him? was his action explain
abe In OCLcr
G. Did he not oppose the partial coinage of silver
and is he not monometaist in full accord with
the goldbug mionaires? Has ne not and does IN, ne
oppose the free coinage of silver? Have not his
predictions Of injury to the country from the coin
age of silver proven to be false and absolutely tho
contrary of experience?
I. Is he not favorable to the contraction of the
currency and opposed to its expansion?
8. Is he not opposed to taking of the tax on
state banks of ISSUE and thus giving the people
home relief?
0. Are not the men in New York who favor
him the professed democrats who bolt demo-
cratic ,nolnina lions, and consort and bargain
with republicans, led by Tom Plattto defeat demo-
cracy and build up republcanism?
10. Did he not develop a weakness In his own
state in the last presidential election which de-
feated the national democratic party?
II. Where is the proof that he has more
strength IN New York now than he had then?
II. viii not his nomination handicap the party
defeat it at the start-drve away the alliance
democrats, build up the third party, and relegate
the republicans to another quarter century of
misrule, sectional strife and oppression of the
people?
If not too much trouble, please answer these
questions. BULLOCK COUNTY.
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The recent acquittal of Eugene Garcia,
late paying teller Of the Louisiana National
bank, makes o mysterious case more mys-
terious than ever.
Garcia was charged with embe2zling S194,
900 of the bank funds. lie admitted Me
shortage, but claimed that he had by mis-
take overpaid checks to that amount. In
1873 he made an oyerpayment of $50, 900,
and could not find out who got the money.
A month later lie lost another $4,000 in the
same way. He became nervous and made
other mistakes To hide his deficit he made
I'D bogus bundles, substituting one-dolar
bills for one-thousand-doll bills. Finally
the deficit reached $194 900, and was dis
covered. The prosecution ridiculed this de-
Tense, but Garcia proved good character,
and several witnesses testified that he had
overpaid them and had expressed no sur
prise when they refunded the money.
The jury came to the conclusion that
. Garcia had not appropriated the money to
his own use and acquitted him. But it is a
very queer case. 1t shows very plainly that
the United States bank inspectors are some
times very blind. For thirteen years they pre-
tended to inspect this bank, and yet did not
discover the loss of $4,000, nor 100000,
nor did they discover it at all until it reached
the large sum of $4,000
If bank inspectors cannot or will not in
spect, they are more ornamental than use
full. Their criminal negligence should make
them or the government responsible for the
loss incurred.
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Orr brainy contemporary, The New York
revenue tax should be abolished, sees an APP
parent inconsistency in our advocacy Of the
removal Of another war tax, the income tax.
The san quotes us as saying:
The men with the large incomes such men rs
81 900 millionaircs and others who rapidly
becoming millionaircs, GET more protection than
anybody else from the government, and they
should be made to foot the expenses Incurred by
TIC government in extending that protection.
Most of the work OF our officials, congress, the
legislature, the courts, the army, and other
branches Of the public service, deals with the pro
lection OF this class Of citizens, and they should
pay their pro rata for It.
Now, what sort Of reply does our contem-
n0rary make TO this fair proposition? 1t
says:
II the government Of the United States is
mainly devoted the protection OF 81 800 citizens,
and they are to be taxed accordingly, they must
not be taxed i'll excess of other citizens without
being represented in excess of other citizens. If
they are to be taxed a ruling class they
should DO allowed to be ruling class.
But it is superiuous to reduce to an absurdity
proposition absurd upon its face The pursuit OF
wealth is not an industry which the United States
can afford to discourage; nor is perjury an oifense
which the United States can afford to encourage.
Vet these are the alternatives which lie between
the collection and the evasion of an income tax
and experience shows that the tax is Giore often
evaded than collected. Which is human nature.
A single paragraph, and brief one, will
answer these objections. If we tax Gin ex-
cess our millionaires as "a ruling class it
does not follow that they should be repre-
sented in excess Of other cities. Pract-
cally, they already enjoy that representation
in excess through their influence and the
methods adopted by the money power. The
talk about discouragjng the pursuit of wealth
is idle pleasantly, but the point that an in
come tax would encourage perjury naturally
proyoles the reply that the people would be
just as active in sending millionaire perjur-
ers to the penitentiary as they are now in
Furnishing perjurers of less fortunate class.
An income tax, properly graduated is
just and equitable tax. 1t removes an OPP
pressiye burden from improbable visible
property, places it upon the shoulders Of
men able to bear it, and leaves no excuse for
taxing the workingman's tin bucket and his
wife's crockery. This is the way the people
look at it, and they are generally in the
right,
IT rs no wonder that the democrats of New
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LETTERS FROM TnE People
a Venerable Veteran.

ABHEE, Kaufman County, Texas, January 81
Editor Constitution: About year ago one oil
your correspondents wrote you that the last old
war horse had died. Al the time some OF yonr
subscribers here wrote you that there was one
stin living III this county, Old Dave" the prop
erty Of Ed King better known in Texas as Uncle
I'd. Uncle Ed volunteered i'll 1851. Think 1t was
Captain Kyer's company, Parsons brigade OF
cavalry, and rode Dave, then four years old-dId
active service during the entire war, on this
side of the Mississippi river until the surrender.
Uncle ed returned home and made crop each
year until three years ago Che quit farmlng), Old
Dave doing good service in the plow and then he
was his saddle horse until month before he
died-the 22d of January, 1892. He was buried by
lis master, who had tenderly cared for him in his
Old age, wrapping him in the old brigade
flag, under which he served so well and
long, that was presented to him at the
reunion of Parsons's brigade at kaufman, about
two years ago
Old Dave was certainly an extraordinary horse,
for he carried man during the war that weighed
over two hundred pounds and did good service on
the farm until over thirty years old.
Uncle Ed, the owner, has his pecuiiarltlos also;
is nearly seventy years old, never drank whisky or
coffee used tobacco in his life, and. although 1t
does not look reasonable, he had not decayed tooth
and never did have, but having neuralgia he
thought it was toothace, and had one extracted,
ana to his surprise 1t perfectly sOund-like all
his others tOday-not a speck on them
We venture to say thatthere is not another such
a man south as Uncle Ed King, and not another
such horse as Old Dave. Respectfully,
WI COLE
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A Halleluiall Lick

EDITOR CoNsTITUT1oN-It is necessary to demo-
cratic success to have the vote of New York, Con-
necticut New Jersey and Indiana and perhaps
other states. At any rate if the south is more
deeply interested in democratic supremacy, with
all its attendant blessing, than she is in repub-
lican rule with its blighting curse, why not sub
nit to the Judgment and wishes OF those four
states in the matter of the presidential nominal
ton and support their man, whoever he may be2
Why the necessity of quarreing and lighting
among ourselves and end by electing Harrison?
prefer any kind of a democrat to republican,
even if he is of the Greeley Ben Butler variety,
and ardently hope that southern democrats can
be satisfied with the most available man the
above named states may want, and not pursue the
policy of rule ruin. If the states which elect the
president wish to follow presidents and try new
man rather than defeated man, by all means let
them do it.
If the people were satisfied with one term each
by John Adams, j. G. Admas, Van Buren, Polk,
Taylor, Pierce, buchanan, Hayes and Arthur, why
not with Mr.. Cleveland? And il they were I'M
willing to try any of these the second time, or any
one who had once failed, why should Mr.. Ceve-
land force himself again on his party under the
circumstances? There are about 100000 demo
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Ehc Electric q &c.

The Boston Journal calls attention TO the
fact that the uses CT electricity are multi
plying.
Not only do we make electricity furnish
our light carry our messages, expedite
transportation and serve various arts and
sciences, but we are on the eve Of making
it stimulate and hurry the regular processes
ofnature.
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We print elsewhere in THE CoNsTITU-
1IOE of today letter from Senator
Joseph E. Brown on the political situation
which viii be read with interest, not only
throughout Georgia, but throughout the
country. 1t is clarifying document
representing the wisdom and ripe expe-
rience of distinguished public man
whose career has become & part of the
political history of Georgia, and whose
judgment and foresight have long ago
passed into a political proyerb.
In contributing his views to the public,
Senator Brown has no personal prejudice
or preference to subserve. He has prac-
tically withdrawn from the turmoil and
strife, and is able to view the situation
impartially and in the light OF history
He is as friendly TO Cleveland as to Hill,
perhaps friendlier, so far as their per-
sonal acquaintance and relations are con
cerned. lie has nothing to gain or to lose
from the success or defeat Of either in
the democratic convention. In the re
tirement Of his home, his personal ambi-
ton abundantly satisfied he can have
concern only for the success of the party.
Senator Browns letter is clear, simple
and direct. He deprecates anything like
an angry division among democrats in re-
gard to the personal merits and claims of
their favorite candidates What is the test
Of availability? The ability to carry New
York, New Jersey, Connecticut and In
diana-the doubtful states where demo
cratic success is essential to the election
of democratic president. These states
VIII soon select their delegates to the ma
tional convention, and their preferences
viii then become known. We must have
candidate who can carry all the south
ern states and the doubtful states.
Senator Brown pays a high tribute to
the usefulness of both Cleveland and Hill.
and then goes to the root of the matter
IN discussing party precedent in the mat
ter of denominations. He shows that
neither of the great political parties has
ever deemed it prudent or wise to nomi-
nate a candidate the third time. The po-
sition of Mr.. Cleveland is analogous to
that of Martin Van Buren,. Van Buren,
was nominated and elected by the demo-
Gratis. He was then renominated and de-
feated by General Harrison, the grand
father Of the present president. This
defeat was so notifying to his friends
that they determined to make him can
didate again. They went to the conven-
tion with majority of the delegates in
his favor, but the party, to prevent his
nomination, adopted, by the vote of his
friends, the two-thrds rule, and he was
shut out, the convention nominating
James X. Polk, who was elected. Neither
party has ever paid to any statesman the
tribute of third nomination. All other
considerations apart. can the democratic
party afford to make such an experiment
now?
1t is matter that cannot be too Sc
riously considered 1t involves the repu-
diation of party custom that has come
to have all the binding force of written
law, in that it appeals to that sense Of
propriety which gives form and shape to
what is called party policy. The fact that
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FEBRUARY 23 1892

structive floods and droughts Of Russia
threatens us unless we rapidly push the work
of reforesting. The criminal negligence OF
the Russian land owners in this respect
must not be repeated here.
This parallel outline Of the situation in
the two countries shows what dangers we
have escaped. We have done our duty to
the ex-slaves, and more, but have we done
our full duty to the soil? Are we not in
danger of allowing greedy spectators, trusts
and combines to lay waste our magnificent
forests, and thus bring upon us some OF the
misfortunes of southern Russia?
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EOreIyarnad Is Forearm ed.

Some of the Cleveland organs are en-
deavoring to create the impression that,
while the farmers are against Cleveland
on account CT his financial policy, the
cities and towns in Georgia are for him.
The scheme of these newspapers is to
.onvince the farmers that the cities and
towns are going to run the machine, and
thus cause the democratic alliancemcn in
the farming districts to hold aloof from
their county conventions in the mistaken
belief that they could DO no good there.
We warn our alliance readers in season
to beware of all such Misrepresentation.
They constitute two-thirds of the demo-
cratic party in Georgia, and if they win
turn out to their county conventions,
when they are called to elect delegates
to tie state democratic convention, they
will be in the majority, and will be able
TO make themselves heard and felt.
The very worst thing the farmers could
do would be 10 stay away from their local
democratic conventions. Their absence
would enable the town politicians to
have it all their own way; whereas, if
they viii turn ont and show the party
that they are on deck, the democratic
alliancemen will be -oo iii ~ in nearly every
county.
fortunate ., however, the sentiment Of
the to~nssfs not against the voice of the
pp this time, but in order that their
']Ua-o so chance to defeat the will of the
1rtsfple, the people themselves should speak.
nee Forewarned is forearmed. Let the farm
'oIors watch for the calling of their county
Jcconyentions and be prepared to turn out
in force. They have been the backbone
) and mainstay Of the democracy too long
TO be switched off the track now by
minority of town politicians who are try
ing to run the party in their own way.
let every farmer 30 his duty, and the
majority will rule. But their inactivity
and absence from the county conventions
would inevitably leave the democratic
party under the control of the minority.
THE EATERS Of horsefesh in Paris ought to
try their aDDetitas on the Georgia mule
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Mr.. Cleveland is unavailable as a demo-
cratic candidate at this time grows, as it
were, out of the essence Of democratic law
and custom. There may arise reasons why
this unwritten law should be temporarily
repealed, but do these reasons exist now?
These are questions not only for the
party, but for individual democrats to con-
slider. We commend Senator Browns let
ter to their attention.
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COLONEL Bon INGERsoLL does not believe that
Harrison viii be ren0minated lie says: "Harri
son ought to be satisfied. lie has had pretty good
luck for a man of his size, and he ought to give
some other great man n chance. There is nothing
to be said against him, and that is a good deal OF
praise, but four years are enough eight too much
There is plenty of presidential timber of the Har
rison kind-thc woods full of it-and so be-
levc i'll a change, in rotation--in q new deal-and
doc
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-02-23

Gratis in the United States. If VIC have but ono
man among them who is suitable person for
president, would it not be well to disband? Every
prominent democrat is for tariff reform, and
would stand sguarely on the democratic platform
anyway. So would it not be well to permit the
convention to nominate good man and let the
party support him, and bottle up our wrath for
the enemy, and not fight among ourselves ike
j. W. GOLDSMITH.
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Atlanta, February 10, 1892.
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EDITOR MCCLURE, of The Philadelphia Times,
will lecture in Nashville on the 2lth on Inc
Progress of tie South in the Last Decade ana It's
Future" He is steadfast friend OF the south
and looks on the bright side.
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TIE RICHMOND STATE thinks that "the prov
ince of public journal is to educate the pupc IN
right opinions" That was in the past. A-news-
papers province now is to give the news so that
an intelligent public can form its own opinions.
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THE FIRST money John Wanamaker ever maoe
was $50. He immediately paid it out for an al
vertisement in a good newspaper, and starred Oh
the high road to fortune.