The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-03-09
GLAD TO KNOW IT.

man charged thaC curing DIS TERM
president Mr.. Cleveland dined a ne
gro, one C. H. ]. Taylor, and also Mr.
Cleveland's emphatic and spirited dc
NAL of the Kansan's assertion.
The News is not an enthusiastic ad
mirer of the ex-president, but beinI
unalterably opposed to anything tina
even suggests race equality, AM
having always Loyalty supported
Mr.. Cleveland when he was the noml
nee of the democratic party, we arr
glad that he has so emphatically de
MED the story.
In their defense of the freak now II
the white house republican congress-
men are prone to make rash state
ments concerning their democratic
brethren, and the Kansan's effort 20
raise a hub-bub was not unusual.
HON. JOSEPH H. HALL of Bibb has
the sympathy of friends all over Geor-
ria in the death of his fifteen-year-old
son, Glenn, of pneumonia. In a notice
of the death the Macon Telegraph
SAYS: "The dead boy, SO suddenly car
ried away, was full of promise and pos
sessed a bright. intellect, This IS
shown bv his school record. He had
proved himself so apt and so ambitious
a scholar that he justified the hope OF
his family that he would prove worthy
in every way of the ancestry of which
he came"
A New YORK financial agency has
sent out a statement in which eX-Pres-
ident Cleveland is quoted as saying
that he "has very slight expectations
of the democratic party nominating
decent candidate for the presidency,
and the re election of President ROose-
welt is the best possible thing for the
country. The ex-president has evil
IDENTIFY abandoned all hope of securing
the nomination himself.
MR.. HEARST has bOuntifully helped
the democratic party in all OF its cam
paigns of recent years. He has kept
the pot boiling for many moons, and 1t
is said that the congressional cam
paign committee, of which Judge
Grlggs was chairman, would have
been compelled to suspend business II
he had not come down with the grease
when the party wheels got squeaky.
EVERY few days we see in the papers
where "Mr. So aud So has consented
to allow his name to be presented by
his friends TO the state convention as
delegate to the St. Louis convention. -
Why don't the boys be frank about 1t,
and say they are anxious to go TO the
convention and are hustling like forty
for votes?
THE Albany Herald makes terse,
true statement as follows: Good
roads help make good farms. Good
farms help build good towns. 1t Is
therefore equally important for farm
ers and city dwellers to enlist under
the banner of good roads"
THE Albaoy Herald thinks that at
the present rate of moving up the
state primaries it won't be long before
voters will have to go the polls IN
y II u
nrimaries TO have chilling effect.
Mr.. HOKE SMITH his volunteered tC
inform the democrats of Georgia thai
it won't do to send Hearst delegates tC
St. Louis. And the democrats o
Georgia will proceed TO do just as they
please about it,
BERTILLION, the French crimina
expert, has discovered method o
making the dead look life-like. There
will be many in Georgia on April 2ls
who would like to get hold of this
medicine.
A TEXAS congressman tried u
knock the free seed clause out OF the
agricultural appropriation, but it wa
no use. The congressman will con
rinue to send out seed at Uncle Sam
expense.
FROM all accounts John Tempt
Graves is not in such wretched health
as might have been supposed. Atlant
correspondents say he is Gas chippe
as a jay. bird"
THE Sava nnah News says that al
Panama will have to do will be TO 81
on the fence and watch Uncle Sam dii
that canal.
In the Rome municipal election tn
other day the dispensary candidate
won with hands down.