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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-30
Ready for Rusiness.

What is to be the record of this legis-
lature? Will it devote itself strictly to
business, realizing that a great response
bility rests upon it, or viii it idle away
its time and do practically nothing?
The address of the speaker on taking
| the chair was in the right spirit. If the
speaker acts in accordance with that 2ad-
/ dress Throughout the session, and has the
earnest cooperation OF the great major
/ ity OF the members, record may be made
/ that will command the approval Of the
people, but if the members go home every
week and stay two or three days on each
visit, and il they show more interest in
politics and in legislation in which they
are personally concerned than in meas
ures demanded by the best interests of
the whole state, we shall have the history
Of some other legislatures repeated.
In taking the chair the speaker, among
other things. said: 1T is my ambition
and my earnest desire that this legisla-
ture shall go down into the history OF the
state noted for its wisdom, its justice, and
It's moderation"
tits to be sincerely hoped that the speak
er's ambition will be realized. Whether
it viii be or not will depend largely upon
himself. He has the appointment of the
committees, and it rests with him to @
great extent whether much or little work
shall be done.
There are some very important questions
that need attention, questions in which
the whole state is profoundly interested.
Upon their settlement much will depend as
to whether the state shall advance with
giant strides or make only slow progress.
The public school question and the con-
Wet question demand very thoughtful
consideration. With good schools we
may expect an inflow of immigrants OF
the very best class-immigrants who will
open farms and build factories. The con-
Wet lease system has been a weight on the
state for years. In a very short time the
leases will expire. The state ought to be
ready to make some other disposition of
the convicts. 1t would be folly to wait
until the end of the contracts with the
lessees before deciding what is to be done
with the convicts, because a decision would
then have to be made hurriedly. and the
probability of making a mistake would
be very great.
The people will give the legislature
every encouragement If they see that it is
disposed to look after their interests con-
scientiously and earnestly. If. however,
they find that the members are devoting
their time to politics. and to their own
,rfVyata Affairs thew will ha inclined 70
believe it is impossible to elect a legisla-
ture that has a proper appreciation of
its responsibilities.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-30
He Is No Servant.

Eastern tourists who cannot differen-
tiate between a California stage-driver
and an eastern coachman meet with many
a rude shock in the wild and woolly west.
and they soon learn that the Californian is
a knight of the reins several grades
higher in the social scale than the mental
of the east, says the San Francisco Post.
There is an old driver at Monterey who
is determined that his patrons shall make
no mistake concerning his exact status,
and in quiet way he checks all attempts
tc make a servant of him. short time
ago he was driving a party of tourists
about when one querulous old lady. who
had annoyed him not little by her air of
superiority, asked:
My man, do you know the name of
that wild fiower?"
Yep" he replied, and hicked one of
his leaders with his whip.
She paused for a moment for him to
give the name, but he merely clucked to
the wheelers.
DRIVER, do you know the name of that
flower?" she repeated, in an imperious
tone.
Yep" get up there, Ballyw
Man. don't you know the name of that
flower?'
yep; glong there, Peter
Then why don't you tell me?'
'Oh, you want to know, too, do you?
That's a wild rose"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-30
Mr.. McCarthy,s Famou. sneech

IL was in the Harrison and Cleveland
campaign Of 1885, says a writer in Harper's
Magazine. Dennis Mccarthy of the First
ward in the city Of - had exhausted the
| possibilities of his career in becoming the
trusted leader Of its Cleveland cohorts.
The kid gloves of the Seventh ward
had secured rather ornate club-room in
their district, and were branching out to-
wards the dimensions of semi-social as
well as an entirely political club, which
was 70 become, in their minds, the center
OF civic purity and the organ of an
aroused public conscience
They had already gone outside of their
own ward to secure eminent representa-
tVes OF the noble party of the great peo-
PIE. Generally these eminent representa-
yves had something more than a political
pull in their own districts They had in
huence. Here was Dennis's opportunity to
enlarge the horizon of his hopes. To be-
come trusted adviser, or perhaps more,
In the Cleveland Reform Club of the Sew
enth ward was now his sole aim.
One serious obstacle interviewed. Dem
mis- acquaintance with his step-mother
tongue was abundantly equal to the ext
! gencies of the famous first" but it was
not entirely adapted to the verbal re-
| quirements of the "kid-glove Seventh
However, Dennis was resourceful, and
finally succeeded The members of the
or without curiosity as to what Dennis
or rather, since his election, the Honora-
bic Mr. Mccarthy speech
would be. They felt, however, that some
how he would fill the bill. He did, speaking
| as follows: rs
''Misther Prisidint and gintlemn,-I
| thank yez for this great honurr, and oi
| think 1t the best to Expose me gratichude
| by comm down to bizness, which OF do
! know somethin av, and droppin' off fine
wurruds. Mr.. Prisidint, OF noticed We
We're discussin' the QUESTION av havin' a
torch-lght procession, and that the ex
pinse of it f1ured yez. Now, Mr. Prisdint
| as We all know, dim strong on torch-ight
| percessions and on expinse. OF was tow ID
| by one of yez that yez had been palaVeT-
in about it and so, Mr.. Prisldint, 1 re-
| move yez, sorr, that we have that perces-
sion. In the furrst place, we moight boy
| thin ovid Blaine and Logan torches OF
the last campaign chayp; but, gintlemin
| who wants to march under thin
things? Dim ag'inst it, sorr! In the sic
ond place. OF can get chayper vans; for
| sorr as OF wuz comm down the main
| aVenoo, OF saw the folowin' advertoise-
ment: Blanks Bronkile Torches, twin
| ty-foive cnts the box (Applause). Now
sorr, OF doan't know what sort av lie
| Bronkile is Cheers, but OF do know that
OIL saw the advertisement in a dhrue
| store av the furrst wather and no doubt
thin torches is good. OF remove yez, MI
Frlsldlnt, that we boy twilve dozen av
| Thin"
Twelve years have since passed but
| Dennis never has a sore throat that he
| IS not reminded of the healing virtues OF
| Blanks Bronchial Troches at twentv-fiva
! cents the box
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-30
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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-30
lNDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

Special Notices-Ship Notices, Strachan
& Co.; Resumption of Regular Schedule
10 Tybee; State and County Taxes, 1896
Check of A. z. Moynello & Co. Lost;
Special Soap Week, Adams Drug, Paint
and Oil Company; The Lutheran Fair and
Humboldt Cigars.
Military Orders-Orders No. 80. Savan-
nah Volunteer Guards; Naval Reserves
Artillery. Company B.
Amusements-Rola Reed in 1.-THE
Wrong Mr.. Wright" at the Theater, Oct.
30.
Steamship schedule-ocean Steamship
Company.
Mems Bicycle Suits-B. H. Levy & Bro.
Proposals-Proposals for Boring Arte-
sian Well on Sullivan's Island. South Car
olina; For Furnishing and Delivering Ma
terial and Constructing Battery on SulH-
vans Island, South Carolina.
That's the School We Were Brought Up
In-Falk Clothing Company.
Medical-Duffy's Malt Whiskey; P. p.
P; Hoods Pills; Johann Hoff's Genuine
Malt Extract; Shaker Digestive Cordial.
Cheap Column Advertisements-He
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-30

Gov. Atkinson is first in the line of
promotion" says the Augusta Chronicle,
referring to the senatorship matter. In
view Of the fact that ex-senator Walsh
has been mentioned as a candidate for the
place, and the further fact that he is the
good friend and faithful supporter Of an
other leading candidate for the place, it
was hardly to be expected that his paper
would thus boost the Atkinson boom.
However, the ex-senator and his paper
are fair fighters. 1t may be that he re-
members who did the fixing in his contest
with Senator Bacon.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-30
a Recognition of RANK.

Some one in the village store had asked
the drummer, who was making his first
visit in that section, what his political
sentiments were, says the Detroit Free
Press.
when I'm on the road" he answered
slowly I'm just a plain American. l
don't tie myself up to any organization
in private life, either. When l cast a vote
1t goes to the man whom / consider most
likely to do business for the nation in a
business-lfke way. But my general plat
form is that this is the best country men
toned in the geography, and that we have
earth"
That's right exclaimed an enthusiast
tic auditor. AN to them remarks I'd like
ter add tibet when it comes ter perducin'
great men, this here town of Higginsville
don't take no back seat ter none of EN-"
"Of course you have some very estima-
BILE cidzens,' said the drummer, in tone
of surprise, but 1 had reference to men
whose greatness has been recognized by
the world"
That's the kind of great men I mean.
too. We've got one of 'em right here"
'Of course, I'm not very well acquainted
with the people of the place; not nearly
as well acquainted as l hope to become )"
That accounts, mebbe, fur yer not
KNOWN ST Daggett"
'I must confess that 1 never made his
acquaintance"
wall, we don't know whit we'd do
wethout 81. He jes' takes charge of ev-
erything tibet goes on, from fireworks on
the Fourth of July ter camp meetin's
He's earned the right ter be looked up
to-"
'Still-er-is he a man whose greatness
you would regard as having been recog-
nized by the world"
Eyes, sir. Yes, street Why. ter nv
personal knowledge ST hez had three free
circus tickets an pass on a railroad
trainr'
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-30

The story that Great Britain would dou-
Bile her naval force in American waters
turns out to be a canard, Just as did the
story that F1tzhugh Lee was coming back
from Cuba with a red hot report which
would result in the calling of an extra ses-
sion of congress and possibly in declara-
tion of war against Spain. The campaign
prevaricator and the stock market manip-
ulating artist are very busy these days. 1t
IS well enough to keep an eye out for their
fairy stories. Lots more of them will prob
ably appear before election day.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-30

BY the way. how many stationary. full
length bath tubs are there in Charleston?
We observe that the News and Courier
has been blowing and suffering about
bath tubs, and instituting imaginary and
pharisaical comparisons between Charles
ton and this city in the matter of bath
tubs. But, while it leaves itself open to
the suspicion that it has found bath tut
enumerations rather more to its liking
than South Carolina politics, 1t has never
yet had the hardihood to assert positively
that there are as many as ten full length
bath tubs from the Battery to Line street
between the Cooper and the Ashley rivers.
Come, give us the figures! And let every
tub stand upon it's own bottom.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-30
Speaking TO ''The Enemy"
from the Cleveland Plain Dealer Dem.

Mr.. Bryan was fortunate in having
large numbers of republicans. shouting
for Mckinley. present at his ohio meet
ings. The novel experience OF having
calm argument cogently presented to
them by a political candidate must have
had its effect. The candidate is fortunate
who is afforded opportunity to address
men of the opposite party, provided they
come to him OF their own volition. Mr..
Bryan could we'll afford to have his meet
ings disturbed at the beginning, well
knowing that the minds Of the republic
cans present were far more seriously dis
turbed at the close.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-30
The October Cotton Movement.
From the New York World Oem.).

Cotton exports for October still show
the almost unprecedented gains which
were characteristic of September.
From Sept. to Oct. 26 this year the
exports were 1,2640OO bales, against only
$4,000 bales last year During the same
period there was a gain in receipts of over
500, 600 bales for 1886 as compared with 1896
1t is impossible to mistake the meaning
Of such figures. They indicate the in
crease not only of cotton exports but Of
our export trade generally. The prospect
is better than it has been in years.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-30

If Georgia had lieutenant governor.
by virtue of his office president Of the
Senate, there would be no kick-up about
a possible special election, and no such
possibilities for political log-rolling as ex-
fist under present arrangements
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-30

Mr.. Watson says pointedly that that let
ter will not be altered to suit Mr.. But
ler." He will not suffer the blue pencil
put into it. 1t must be published as 1t
came from the author. or not at all The
question is, will it be published at all?
Next week it will become ancient and
Improbable history.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-30

than great riches or the belief that ones
candidate will win. In the midst of the
last week of the campaign. when all
American is afre with anxiety and polit-
ical excitement. the Norfolk Virglnian
calmly opens and argues the question.
Where was Methuseleh during the del
uge?" Such imperturbability was never
known in Virginia before.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-30
CURRENT COMMENT.
Democratic Duty.
From the Nashville American Dem.).

The duty of democrats is to abate not
ono whit their-zeal, to work harder than
ever. to watch every move, to guard ev-
cry point, to be prepared for any and ev-
cry emergency, to make more perfect the
organization and above all to bring every
democratic voter to the polls. There
must be no stay-at-home democrats this
year.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-30

The country has to be thankful that the
week before election is only seven days
long; otherwise at the end of it we should
be a nation of grey heads.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-30

In Chicago the women vote on school
questions. Two years ago the registration
Of women voters amounted in round num-
bers to 10000. and 24OOO of them voted for
trustees Of the university. This year the
registration Of woman has dropped to e,2e
barely more than one-fifth what 1t was two
years ago. What does this mean? Is il
possible that woman suffrage is only a
fad, and as soon as women get the ballot
they do not care any more about it? Not
withstanding the Chicago women cannot
vote for President, it would seem that the
extraordinary interest in politics this year
would have spurred them UP to a fuller
registration than that OF 1894.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-30
Public Hangings.

The governor is frank enough to say
that he has changed his mind on the
question of public hangings. 1t will be
recalled that just before the law making
the executions private there was a great
discussion in the newspapers and in the
legislature as to whether such a law
would have a good effect. 1t was con-
tended by those who favored private ex-
ecutions that public hangings were brutal
izing. and that none of those who wit
messed them were ever deferred from
crime by them. The governor was one
Of those who held that view. He now
thinks he was mistaken and that hang
ings ought to be public. He says:
After a trial of some years, ! am, after
careful consideration, led to the conclu-
sion that the law passed several years
SINCE which abolished public hangings in
this state, of which 1 approved at the
time was a mistake 1 am still of the
opinion that the impulse which leads peo-
pie to eagerly seek to see one of their
fellow beings hanged upon the gallows is
not noble one. But we must deal with
people as they are and not as they should
be. believe that ten private hanglngs
are not so effective in lettering evil
doors and in commanding fear of and re.
spect for the law as one in public. To re-
turn to the old law, which left it to the
discretion of the circuit Judge to provide
for either private or public hanging,
would, think, be a proper course"
We are satisfied that this view, of the
subject is the correct one. The impress
sion made upon those who witness a
hanging is a lasting one. The horror of
the scene is so great that those who are
criminally inclined, but not hardened
criminals, having experienced that horror.
are apt to remember it when they feel
an impulse to commit crime and to be de-
tered from their criminal purpose.
The good results that were expected
from executing criminals in private have
not been realized. At least 1t is the OBJ
servation of the governor that they
haven't. and he has ample opportunity
to gather data upon which to base an
opinion in respect to this matter.
What he says on this subject of public
hangings in his message is very brief. 1t
is to be hoped that he has the facts upon
which he bases his opinion in such shape
that they can be presented to the legis-
lature The subject promises to be an in
teresting one. All the light obtainable
should be thrown upon 1t.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-30

A firm in Upper New York has posted a
notice to Its employees reading: ANY en-
ploye of this firm who does not vote as he
pleases will be discharged" Really this
matter of coercion has gone far enough.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-30
Louisinnn,s Nnto

We are surprised to see it stated in one
Of the strongest of the Bryan papers Of
New Orleans, namely, the States that
that city will, in all probability. give the
McKinley-Hobart ticket a majority. II
is known, of course, that there Is a very
strong gold standard sentiment there. hit
1t was not supposed that the republican
ticket had any chance of getting a major
ity.
But even if New Orleans should go re-
publican there is very little probability
that the state would. The northern Dor
ton Of the state is strongly democratic
and can be depended to overcome anv re-
publican majority that the southern part
may give.
There is no doubt, however, that the re-
publicans are going to make a great effort
to carry the state. They have the assist
ance of the sugar planters, who, hereto
fore, have been democrats. The sugar
planters think that if Mckinley and a re-
publican congress should be elected a duty
would be placed on sugar. They claim they
cannot make sugar profitably without
t''SsN~NASNAf
cally adopted the republican doctrine of
protection.
II there is a large registration Of negroes
the election will be close one, because
there are gold standard demo-
Gratis in the northern section as
well as in New Orleans, and
the sugar parishes. The negro vote will.
of course, be cast almost solidly for the
republican ticket. The negroes have com
petent leaders. who may succeed in get
ting a large percentage of the negro votes
to the polls. We do not believe, however,
that there is any probability that the state
will 80 republican. Manager Hanna doesn't
even class it as a doubtful state.
The Industrial Record of Boston says of
that wonderful cotton which the Atlanta
papers were exploiting some time ago-the
same of which it was said number of
South Georgia planters had tried to buy
up all of the seed at $1,000 bushel-that
it is a cotton familiar to Egyptian soil,
and is known as the Bamian variety Some
of it was sent to Texas several years ago,
where an exhaustive experiment was made
with it. The first year II produced about a
bale and half to the acre, and the second
year It proved a fiat failure. Not a great
deal was said about the cotton in Texas,
because 1t was such a disappointment. Ac-
cording to this, the new cotton is not as
good as the old varieties planted all over
the south. BY the intensive system of farm
ing almost any of the old cotton can be
made to produce bale and a half to the
acre, on choice spots and with the best Of
attention.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-30

Capt. Gen. Weyler tells New York Her.
aid correspondent that he win not take
the field against the Cuban insurgents I'M
less extraordinary circumstances should
arise. In his palace in Havana, he says, he
is in communication with all of his gener-
ais by telegraph, besides which he has
command of the railways, postoffices,
steamship lines, and everything else that
is calculated to give the Spaniards the adj
vantage. If he were to take the field he
would have TO trust all of these agencies
in the hands of others who probably could
not handle them for the cause Of Spain as
satisfactorily as he can. 1t is not to be for
gotten that the captain general has had
all of these advantages at his command
ever since he has been in Cuba; notwlth-
standing which the insurgents are strong
er now than they have been at any time
heretofore.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-30

This would be a good week for Charles
ton to take a city census.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-30

1t is hardly fair to Senator Bacon that
he should be bottled up in Delaware,
where the odds are greatly against his
eloquence making any applicable in
roads upon the enemy. He should be in
Indiana or Illinois. where there is glory
to be won.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-30

The author of Held by the Enemy
ought to be able to get a suggestion for a
thrilling melodrama from the Watson
Butler Acknowledgements incident. The
play could be called Held for Postage, -
and might bring in a scene showing the
candidate writing the letter upon asbestos
paper in characters Of electric fire with an
arc-light carbon pen. A Roentgen ray ap-
paratus might also be provided. to show
the wheels revolving at the rate Of forty
thousand times a second during the pro-
cess Of the writing. With a liberal dis
play of Greek fire and colored glass, the
scene could be made very realistic.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-30

DR.. Austin Flint, the celebrated New
York physician is the victim of bicycle
accident. He was run down by a beauti-
full girl on Tuesday night and was very
seriously hurt. 1t is a wonder there are
no more accidents. there are so many
reckless riders.