Birmingham state herald., 1897-07-31
CARROLLTON.
An Old Democrats Views on the Ding
 ley Bill-Gen. Pettus' Old Home <l.- GovernorlJohnston Indorsed.

Carrallton, Ala, July 2s.-(Special cor
 respondence.) .)-An old democrat states
 that about five pounds of sugar to every
 man, woman land child was imported
 into this country last year free of duty
 from the land of lepers as a concession
 to a combination of a few men who con-
 trol the beautiful islands of Hawaii, at
 present coveted by our jingoes in one
 branch of the government. That this
 same body has been governing the pres
 iuent and representatives for many
 years, and had to capture some weak
 democrats and silence a few populists
 and republicans by a heavy tax on raw and refined sugars in order to get the
 Dingley-Aldrieh-All bill through
 congress. That Tom Reed got hold of
 the famous senators in conference, and
 the latter had to yield, but, strange to relate, that the taxes on raw and re-
 fined sugars were so fixed thatthe math-
 ematicians in the uppsr and lower house were nonplussed. The refiners under stand the problem.
 The impression seems to prevail in this county that Tony Weller was in tha celebrated conference, and that he complacently buttoned up his coat after storing away his reward in his pocket for democrats, populists and republi- cans, who openly aided in passing the tariff bill or withheld their votes in the hour when the country needsd their ser vices.
 General F. W. Pettus lived for many years in this county, and he is very pop ular with the people. He is an able law yer, and has no fooiiShn ss in his com position. His speech on the dfferential tax shows that he can see the secret agency that is corrupting our govern m nit in Washington. That it is not bribes and monsy used directly in in- fiuencing votes in our great legislature, but the real power behind the throne IS the disposition to ask for part Of the plunder while the act of robbery is be- ing committed.
 The democrats of this county, with very few exceptions indorse the admin istration of Gov. Johnston. They believe that he is a business man, and that h s good common sense has been brought to his aid in all matters pertaining to the welfare of the state.
 The parties in charge of the railroad running to Aberdeen have been looking over the old Forrest road graded more than twenty years ago from that place to q point near the PickerfS county line. Those well vers21 in such matters say that Akron will soon be connected with Calumibus Miss via Piaken svi'ls. The merchants along the Tombgbee river need>a railroad, as they are without any access to markets during the dry sea- sons of the year except over dirt roads, which defy wagons. That whsnithe rainy )eH SelS III the DQdLS come III Ul1lS to carry off the last pickings of a short crop of cotton and too early for the farmsrs to ascertain the amount of supplies that will be necessary to make their m:a at and corn hold out whse fighting weeds and gras S. ThuSsthe ancient methods of trausporta- tion areapra ctically useless to the plant CTS and those who furnish them in this county.
 It is believed that the $10000 dollars voted to be loaned cut by the governor on personal security for the benefit of road l through Piekens county is available for the pls-pesa of buiilirle the short line 1 from Carrollton to Reform.
 |, If any traNelsr of the times prior Ito cur war will take a trip over the public road from Tuscaloosa. via Sipsey turnpike, Gor1o. Reform. FcrkViFe and Sharps to Columhus. Miss. he will fr1 tNat the gen ral lecture of the country has been 90 chang l that he h. s awakened from a s'eap thol. has laeted ne lG~g that If one of the colonists of New York who ventured to drink liquor with the spirits 1 irKa 7tslSil mountains An o'd frien1 of Dr. Frederick Hooper ard Col Louis J. Dupres states that if they could come back from tf- land of shades that they would be lcakine around the old S7uth Carolina church hunting for relics of the camp of De Soto.