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sZEz1i u farmers have had 4 fine
ckzuez 10 c.1ItiTate and put their crops
= good condition and they have used
tb4 opportunity sell | never saw
farms n nicer condition "A root
soaking rain nox would brighten the
situation very much. Although the
cold snap IL May hurt crops severely.
| heard but little complaint. If God
destroys what the people have. really
or pFospectisely il is all right. but they
are quick to resent any political fool
lshneS5 or snap dealings.
/ Mr.. Cleveland is away below par in
this State now and the Atlanta Jour
nal tHoke Smiths paper is bending
every energy TO restore to him the old
! time love coveted by ali would-be po-
! litical bosses, while the great Atlanta
Constitution insists, day by day, that
the President Is responsible for the
disappointment Of the people over the
money question. 1t is cast Of "a
house divided against itself" This is
admitted, but they say, I'VE will get to-
getber in time to defeat the Populists
in the coming election
There is new development ~ the
g,ibernatorial contest between Preach
or Evans and Lawyer Atkinson. Six
weeks ago it looked like Evans would
sweep the State, and as Sam Jones
SAID iP0p, Reed, of Maine, would do the
| billy goat In a tuttiag match "send
him home with the headache" But
what they call "the silent vote" has
| been heard from, which says the preach
Z. .,,.il not get there this time. 1t
! looks now like rt,4. lent vote Will
settle it. and Atkinson will be the Lem
ocratlc nominee for governor. In fact,
the cDuiest is practically ended now.
| Though Gov. Sorther aAd Senators
Gordon and Walsh are for Evans, ''the
silent vote has laid him out. THE 81
lent vote" at a critical period is more
potential in Georgia politics than the
three ready great Evans men, have
learned.
Does any one want to know what this
s'silal.t vote" is, and who controls it :?
Can't any one, with Gha eye and little
mother gumption," guess and hit it
the first time? 1t first came to notice
in the great county of Bib, in which
Is situated the city of Macon. This
ground was hotiy co4tasted; and the
Macon papers say ''up to noon (eiection
day, Evans was in the lead, but
at u. "a. the silent vote began
to be polled aud atkinson swept
the city and county by 633 ma
ity." But what is "the silent vote" that
can dc such wonders? There are more
than 100 saloons in the beautiful city
of Macon and none OF their proprie
tors think IA Preacher ought to dabble
in politics" What beautiful harmony
/ e ..N, oh m
bers and the saloon-keepers on this
subject! Can it be that their reasons
are tho sane? They are not divided
I'm opinion. party affiliations nor pur-
poses; what can be the diife.sGce in
their reasons for what they do? Let
! him who knows answer! 1t is spec
tarle that calls on angels to weep,
when church members act so as to
make saloon keepers the arDiters of q
great States destiny Nothing in our
public character grieves me SO much
az this unseemiy. hartfHl thing.
Some OF the best friends ever had
and God knows no man ever loved his
friends more than / stand in with the
saloon keepers and help to control this
great country and bring 1t TO wreck,
shame and ruin. With more pain than
/ can ever tell of, was impelled years
ago u. t9rp away from the degenerate
party of my loved daad and from po-
liticaI association with many "a ny
dearest friends, because ! saw that the
"silent vote" of the country was dictat-
/ ing the talicy of the party in whose
old-tim but now discagded doctrines,
was trained, and which doctrines
was taught to revere.
II any Christian thinks that the
Democratic party Is aot subject To the
dietatjon Of "tbe silent vote" even u,
Mississippi, With less than dozen
counties In which saie9Bs exist, Jet him
try 10 get its next State convention 70
endorse the anti-liquor policy OF tns
sixty odd white counties and see what
will become of IL, II cost me many a
pang TO differ with many good men IN
my acts as citizen of Mississippi, and
since came away have gone over the