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CONTENTS
“ATLANTA WEEKLY SUN,’
FOB THE WKHK ENDING
. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14th, 18758.
EDITORIA.LS-
Beply to The CorutUuUon—Why Greeley should
be Toted for, page 2. An equally Friendly Chat—
Eeply to The Conttiuuion, 1. Strange Bedfellows, 3.
THE STATE HOAD LEASE—
Abstracts of the ilalorlty and Minority Reports of
the Legislature, page 3. Letters from Hon. B. H.
Hill Reviewing the Majority Report, 1, 8 and 7.—
Roily Rakestruw’s Letters to Filin’Joe, 1 and 4.—
The CoiutiU lionalitl on the 8tate Road Lease, 8.
Reply to the same by ‘*One of tho People,” 5.—
Keep {it out of Politics, 4. Letter o ICitizcn, 4.
HON. GARNETT UcMILLAN—
Speech on tho Fraudulent Bonds,'6.
POLITICAL—
Democratic Meeting at James’ Hall, 4. Call for a
State Democratic Convention, 4. Note from Colonel
Jaok Brown, 4. Short Letter from New York, 4.
The Greeley Lash, 6.
GEORGIA LEGISLATURE—
Proceedings, 2 and 5.
POETRY—
In memory of Hon. Linton Stephens, 8
ADVERTISEMENTS, Markets, Commercial, Tele,
grams, Ac., 7 and 8.
VOL. 3, NO. 7.1 ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1872. {
WHOLE
HUMBER
105.
A LETTER TO u FITIN’ JOE.”
Right Side up with Cure.
Church Relations and Foreign Rela
tion*.
A Stranger and ye Took Me in.
Simple Simon, the Sleek Spoliator.
A Curious Document—Now yon See It
and now you don’t See It.
Consequential Damages $180,000,
Rep air the Tenth Commandment.
A Dip Into the Past—Moving the Mud
sills.
A Hand-Shaking across the B-loody
Chasium.
The Damon and Pythias of Georgia.
Difference ’Twixt Running a Railroad
and Running a Horse.
Cards that are not Cotton Cards.
A Serious Matter Considered in a Merry
An Kquaily Friendly Chat.
A few Democrats in this place are u:
“straight” movement in opposition to Mr. Greeley.
We proposo to have a friendly chat with them. They
claim to be Democrats as we do. The National and
State Conventions of the party have spoken. They
propose to dW.joy that authoritative voice. That is
not Democracy. We propose to obey it. This is
Democratic. They should be ablo to give good rea
sons for and show practical results of benefit from
the conrse they suggest. They will not deny this.
Can thoy do it? Have they tho canseB to warrant
the grave step of repudiating the party action and
yet still claiming to be Democrats i—t'oruUlulion of
Saturday.
That sounds much like the crack of
the party lash—which is potent only
when it is applied by proper hands, and
in a just cause. When it is flourished ns
it is in the foregoing extract, and at
tempted to be applied to Democrats by a
leader of. the Greeley party, and an ad
vocate and exponent of the Cincinnati
. wing of Radicalism, it fails to reach its
object, and has no sting. It is the same
j whip which Sumner and Greeley have
I been using all their lives. It does not
j fit Democratic hands, and has no effect
[ upon Democrats.
The editor of the Constitution says
those Democrats who refuse to indorse
the Cincinnati Radical Platform and
I support the Radical candidate nominated
at Cincinnati, will disobey the authority
tivo voice of the party, whioh is not
I Democratic. He proposes to obey that
I voice and pronounces 4 liis course Demo
oratio. He further states thpt a refusal
| to do as he proposes to do is*,* repudiat
ing the party action and still claiming to
I be Democrats.”
To our mind this is a strange position.
{Tho action of the Baltimore Convention,
by which it adopted Radioal principles—
not a whit less Radical in any respect
whatever than the Grant Radical Plat
form; nnd its nominaticn of a Radical
candidate upon that Radical platform,
who is, certainly, and always has been,
more intensely Radical than Grant, is
sorely not Democratic. There is not a
particle of Demooraoy in it; but it is a
repudiation and an abandonment of all
I those principles whioh Democrats jhave
1 over held dear—of all that constitutes
[ Democracy.
The Baltimore ^Convention did not
I adopt Democratic principles nor nomi-
I nate Democratic candidates, and no Dem-
I oerat is bound to support their action.
Suppose that Convention had nominated
[Grant on either theCincinnati or the Phil-
ladelphia Platform? No squirming gen
ltlemen. Greeley is no more of a Demo-
lorat, aud has no better a Democratic
[Record than Goant. Greeley has
[equally Radical platform and is certainly
lot only less a Radioal, yet'you support
iini. He says he is os much a Republi
can as he ever was. Baltimore could
pot make him a Democrat, and did not
[try. For the life of us, we cannot see why
[Democratsshould support him, or how
lit can possibly be Democratic to do so.
[There is in our judgment, nothing to
[gain, but everything to lose by pursuing
|such a course.
facks, but that he could demonstrate like *
Kataline Creek, Orgusfc 1, 72.
My Dear Fiiin Joe: You cum outen
that last skrape purty well considerin.
I mean considerin your fitin rekord,
The Baptists about here say it was ruther
dnmagin to your church relations, but I
wasent aware you had any kin of that
name. You’re a shifty man, Joe, and I
never kontemplate you without thinkin
of a kat. It don’t matter how high
youre thrown up, youre shore to lite on
youre feet when you cum down. Youve
got your back up now, and tail curld,
and are in a proper fitin attitude, but I
wouldent press that bisness any further
at present. That Mitohell-air matter, I
suppose, is all sereen, but the State
Road lease aint by no means out of dan
ger.
If anything should happen to you,
Joe, Lokrain would reign, and Simon
Kameron would thro np his hand. They
are depending on you to run their ma-
sheens. You know that Lok is a poor
hand to put out tracks, and Simon lives
too far off. I never could understand
what you wanted with him, no how, but
a friend told me, “on the square,” that
you was only fulfillin Skripture—that
Simon was a stranger and you took him
in. You suppose you done the same to
Scott and Delayno. My opinyun is that
it would have been better to hav jined
in with home foaks, but I know you had
a good reason for preferrin a few furry-
ners. A man said that would give the
Federal Court jurisdikshun over the
lease, and that you and the Judges was
mity thik.
I axd if it was anything in your favor
to be thik with the Judges, and he sed
perhaps it was, in the short, run, but it
mont not be in the long run. He sed
Jim Fisk was mighty thik with a Judge
r \d that Jim was ded, and the Judge
T - , as on trial in Albany : for his thikness.
But I want to know if your Kameron is
the same fellow who is engineerin the
French Spoliashun BUI, and if so, has
the lease got anything to do with that
spoliashun or any other spoliashun?—
About what time is the Rebel Spoliashun
Bill to cum up, and can’t you git Simon
to engineer that bill through? Forney
says Greeley is goin to pay us for our nig
gers, and if that’s so, I’m fur him. I’ve
got a skedule all made out accordin to
age and sex, and i want you to
put it through, and I want intrust and
ho ^sequential damage for the wear and
tear of my wife’s patience. You and
Simon and Tom Skott and Delayno can
fix it np on shares like it was a lease. I
knoi^ you can, Joe, for you are smart,
and I never can kontemplate you with
out thinking of a kat. You are mity
smart, but the letter you wrote Co Col.
Phillips was a curious document to me,
One part was a fine* argument to show
that the lease was a darned poor thing,
and wonldent pay, and that a heap of
competin roads was about to be built,
and the bisness would dry np and you
and Simon & Co. was mighty nigh sick
of your bargain. In another part you
seem to git your back np (like a kat),
and swear you’ll hold on to the Ten
nessee end anyhow, and as to the bal
lance, youl go to the people about it.
You must have writ that letter at different
times, and got two or three tails mixed.
If the Lease is such a unfortunate thing,
what do you want with it? If the whole
road wont pay, will it pay to ran from
Chickamauga to Chattanooga?
If you was to go before the people and
y I don’t want the darned thing but
anaathymatiks thatBnllok got at least
eighty thousin dollars of that money for
signin’away the lease; for, he sed, Bullok
was before that a stealing out of the road
at least 75 thousin dollars a year for hifi
part, aud be had a year longer to run it,
and that he wasent obleged to have
leased it until his term was out, and that
therefer he must have got SO thousin dol
lars, or he wouldn’t have give up 75.
Well, you Bee, Joe, all sioh spekilatin
as that (I don’t mean your spekalatin,
but that man’s fancy talk) made me mad,
and I told him you would prove onten all
sich, for I knowd you, and that I never
kontemplated you without thinkin of a
kat. He winked one eye and sed he
wouldn’t like to be in your Category,
for fear of a katas tofy. He sed a kat
didn’t have but nine lives, and that the
Mitchell airs was your ninth big job since
you went back on your friend, John
Lumpkin, for Governor. . I told him I
didn’t think it was right to rake up the
old mud sills to find a ded kat Do you,
Joe?
But I do wish people wouldn’t italk so
much and expishun so much. Why a
man told me that your company hadent
give any legal bond and security. He
sed that Bullock pretended that them
other bidders couldn’t give a good bond,
and he leased the road to you without
any. He sed you got your company in-
korporated without iudivijual liability,
and you dident have a korporate proper
ty, except what the State lond you and
700 free passes shattered round promis
cuous like Dolly Yardens, 17 newspapers
sorter subsided (what does he mean by
that ?) a 7 years law suit in prospek, and
various internal suggestions and the bias
of jurisprudence. He sed your sekurity
was a lew railroad Presidents who signed
without authority, and he went off a
hummin a hyme about
Not Judge Ob not Judge O.
I want yon to kno what foaks is a sayin
Joe, so that you may kno how to dis-
tribit them possess and play your kards.
I dont allood to them old kotton cards,
for they is a ded isshoo—sorter like the
old isshoo of Konfed money, and your
isshoo of State of Georgia money. Ive
got them 100 dollar bills you advised me
to keep, and Ive always been sorry I
dident let you put mine with yourn in
that kotton yon shipd to Urope. Could-
ent you git Kameron to dip me into that
Spoliashun Bill ?
I heard a friend of yourn talkin about
you the other day, and he sed the lease
done one good "thing: That you and
Ben Hill had been hatin and abnsin and
slanderin one another for ten years, and
as soon as you- jined in the lease, you
shook hands akross the bloodi kasm and
wept as loud as the prodigal son’s daddy.
Another feller remarked that yon and
Ben dident slander one another; that
what you both sed was the truth. Cau
you tell me how Beu and Tumlin settled
their law suit. I heard a man say
it was settled, and he liadyonr name in,
and the lease and some stock, and a
Dolly Yardetl j ah mixed np, and I didn’t
git the hang of it, for he wasn’t a talkin
to me, but I gathered that you made me
shake hands akross the bloodi kasm.—
They tell me that Ben is mighty mad
with Judge Reese about somethin, and
swears he’l be durned if he is goin to let
the State commit suicide. Yours and
Ben’s patriotism is trooly magnanimous,
and the people will appreciate your self-
sakrificin disposition and your willing
ness to waste your substance in runnin
the road, rather than, see the State lose.
Speakin about that other bid, Joe, I
heard a friend say that your position was
very 4 much misunderstood. He said that
a Railroad Lease was a very pekuliar
thing—that when a shuriff put a Hosfor
sale, it was right to knock the Hos down
to the highest bidder, but that a Railroad
was very different. It had to be knock’d
down to the lowest bidder, bekause a man
had to be paid to run a railroad, and he
dident hav to be paid to run a Hos.
proudly aloof and indifferent, witnessing
the contest for spoils,
"We deny emphatically that the Balti
more Convention hod the right to aban
don the principles of the Democratic
party and adopt Radical principles, and
still demand Democratic allegiance. We
deny, with equal emphasis, the authority
of that Convention, or of the Greeley
press, to order Democrats to the support
of a candidate whose whole life has been,
and whose politics still are, utterly hos
tile to their most cherished principles, or
to give any sanction or indorsement to
Radical principles.
Sumner can well afford to support
Horace Greeley, for they were co-laborers
in the great work of destroying and de
degrading, not only the South, but the
Democratic Party, and they would now
raise their “fellow citizens” to social
equality with the white race.
Greeley and Sumner 1 Alas l in what
congenial compuny do many of our South
ern Democratic friends find themselves ?
This is the most wonderful thing that
ever occurred in the history of politics
in this country.
Let others seek to heap honors on
Horace Greeley—the Centralist and bit
ter enemy-of the South and of Demo
cratic Principles if they will; for our part
we do not think it becoming in
Southern Democrats.
► ••4-
The Majority Report on tire State Road
Lease—No 3.
Editors Constitution: I pass now to
the question of actual unfairness. Let
me say again, I will do no injustice to
either of the four gentlemen who sign
this report. If I mistake a fact I will
cheerfully correct it. Rut the facts I
will state, hurt whom they may.
First. Let us understand the actual
unfairness alleged by this report. There
is no charge of unfairness or improper
influences, in passing the lease act
thrpugh the Legislature. It was clearly
a Democratic measure. There is now
no charge that Bullock, or any other
State official, has an interest in the
lease. This was the “great fraud” once,
but it is exploded utterly by the evi
dence.
What then, is the only charge of un
fairness? It is that Kimball controlled
Bullock and induced him to grant the
lease to the present company, by promi
ses to be redeemed in money; that he
made this known to the lessees, and
that, in response to a demand by Gov.
Brown and Kimball, the company raised
and paid this money.
Here Is the charge: “But the fact that
large promises and obligations were en
tered into with Gov. Bullock, by H. I.
Kimball, to secure this lease, does not
rest simply upon inference, from the
fact above stated. It is established by
the admission of H. I. Kimball, a lessee,
after the lease was made.” Reader,
note the speeoh below—this peroration
of the report*,.’ I will showyou.its real
and only author before I am through.—
It was not Kimball, nor a witness. Here
it is:
“ The statement of H. I. Kimball can
not be misunderstood. It points to the
lease, not to the act of the Legislature
liked that idee, Joe, but I’m just siph a
fool I never would hav thought of it.
I’mafeerd the Legislature won’t see it,
unless you bring it very forsibly before
em. Yours, feelinely,
Rolly Rakestraw.
P. S.—For fear of more aKsidents, Joe,
; r ou had better scatter them Dolly Yardens
like measles, but be very keerfrd, for you
won’t find another fool, who wouldent
take em like that member from down
about Awgusty. R. R.
New York, August 5.—Tho Federal
ouneil of the Internationals, yesterday,
lopted au address to the people of the
Jnited States, setting forth the objects
af the Society.
The Herald's Raleigh special says,
eventy-seven counties have been heard
[from, and Merriman is now over 1,100
I ahead.
The remaining counties will probably
|be heard from to-day. The Times' Ra-
lleigh special says Clulwell (?) has 1,430
[majority in 74 counties, and returns from
[the remaining counties will probably re-
Iduee the majority to 300; but an official
I count only can determine the resnlt.
Ine Tribune, World and Sun still claim
| that the State has gone Democratic.
The Heral(Ts special 4ays Dr. With or-.
| and CoL Mushy hayo gone to Blaileu-
|bnrg to fight it ont.
I — j, 1 — itn-l Gr«nt — ent- _q
1-Saturday.
| ABrisUd it hod e Island dispatch say.- ; t ) u
I tkt return of Horace Greeley, to-day, to
[that place, ho will be given the honor of
la hundred guns salute, and a municipal
I reception.
| lest evening, Chief Justice Chase
| met Greeley at the house of Senator
| Spngue.
say
I’U be darned if I don’t hold on to it,
don’t you know they will vote it away
from you like a tellegraph, and give it
■> them fellers who bid a hundred and
forty thousand dollars over you. You
6ee Joe, the people would sympathise
with you, and would take it away just to
keep yon from wastin your substance.
Tney know how hard you worked for
J rour money, and they don’t want von to
ose it. Im afeerd you lost the deal by
♦hat letter, Joe, but you know best. I
notised you dident say a word in your
letter about that other bid. I would like
for you to state how it was they dident
get it.
Dear Joe, would you mind tellin me
on the square what that first item of a
hundred and 80 thousan dollars is on
your Books for ? I mean the one charged
up to “Aksidental expenses about lease,”
etc., $180,000, Dr. How cum it that you
had to pay for aksidents before you be
gun to ran the road, and I want to know
where you got that much money, and
whv Jack White wasent called on to pay
Up*h5s part of it and what .Tonfe
sell out, and what was the karakter of
the aksidents—was anybody killed, and
did tho money go to tlieir fatherless wid
ows and arfins ? I have no doubt of it
myself, Joe, but I heard a man say that
the money had to go because somethin
was broke.
When I axed him what was broke he
said the* tenth kommandment. I axed
him whoBroke it,and he sed yon and Bul
lok aud Blodget and Hulbert aDd Co.
He sed that he dident know the exakt
For the Atlanta Son.
Tile Greeley Lain, «te.
There is a strong disposition manifest
ing itself in certain quarters, to apply
the party lash to all who decline to as
sist in elevating to the Presidency, Bal
timore’s uncompromising Radical candi
date.
Now, we think it comes with a very
bad grace, and exhibits a great want of
proper consideration, for men who have
labored" to bring about the present truly
pitiable condition of the once proud Dem
ocratic party, to attempt to advise—or
worse—to threaten those who are unwil
ling to unite with them in doing honor
to a Radical hero on Radical prihoiples.
Were not these gentlemen warned that
if Horace Greeley was nominated, and
Radical principles adopted at Baltimore,
large numbers of Democrats in Georgia
and throughout the country would refuse
to sanction it ? Wei e they not distinctly
told that very many Democrats would
fail to recognize or admit the right of the
leaders to commit the party to Radical
ism ? These things were constantly and
“smelly upca them before
the meeting of the Baltimore Convention.
Surely they must have been folly alive to
the fact that Greeley is peculiarly obnox
ious to Democrats, and especially in the
South, and that the Cincinnati platform
is equally objectionable with tbat of the
Philadelphia. Yet, with all the lights
before them,theyhave endeavored to force
upon u» the bitter alternative of voting
for one or other of two who are equally
Radioal—one of them more so—and both
on Radical platforms; or of standing
There never has, to my know
ledge, been any claim made by any indi
vidual fer obtaining the lease, or for
money advanced for the lease.”
“Question.—I will ask you further, if
you have any reason to believe that any
undue influence was ever used, either
with the members of the Legislature in
getting the lease bill passed, or with the
Governor in getting the lease awarded to
the Company which now holds it ?”
Answer.—I cannot say that I know,
or have any reason to believe, that any
undue influence was ever used, either
with the Governor, or with the members
of the legislature in getting control of
the lease, or in getting the bill paseedin
the first instance ?” * * * Page 53.
Can answers be more direct ana posi
tive ? Yet those same positive answers
are repeated in different words by the
same witness no less than six times.
Still the report insists that the state
ment of Mr. Kimball, as proven by
Captain White, points clearly “to the
lease, not to the act of the Legislature
allowing the lease.” I ask my honest
reader if the answers do not point to
neither, but most clearly away from both
the Legislature and the Governor?—
Is it posible to misunderstand this wit
ness?
Well, who did Captain White under
stand these “outsiders” to be in whose
behalf this money was asked? Hear
him:
Answer— * '* * know
what they referred to, but I was left to
infer that these expenses were for some
outsiders that had been aiding them in
some way, to whom they (the Brown
wing) were under obligations to do
something for, and they thought these
people ought to have something from
the company. That was just my idea
about it.”
Question (by Mr. Nunnally)—‘♦Did
you infer that this money was to pay
lobbyists ?”
A.— “Yes, sir; that was just my idea.”
(Page 53.)
Can the semblance o£ honest fairness
doubt this outspoken language ? And
yet the report says “it points to tbe
lease” and “brings forward Bullook!”
Right here, let me state a fact, which
throws a flood of light on this “infer
ence” of Captain White. The qnesti
about these “outside expenses” was fully
debated in the negotiations before the
two wings united. Captain White was
not present at any of these negotiations.
The negotiations closed on the night of
the 24th of December. Captain White
did not arrive until the 27th. He never
heard of these ontside expenses until the
meeting of the 28th, and, of course, was
unable to connect them with what he
never heard—the previous negotiations
He, therefore, inferred the outsiders
were lobbyists. Every witness, how
ever, who knew fully the negotiations,
identified these outsiders as persons who
had aided and co-operated with the
Brown wing in forming their company,
and who had been excluded to make
room for our wing!
If the “outsiders” was Bullook, as
claimed in the report, then every witness
falsely, including Cantain
I will, in the next place, show how the
committee managed to fix up their con
clusion.
Let me say, again, though my language
is strong, I have no desire to damage the
gentlemon who sign this report. I be
lieve they have been misled, though
strangely and terribly misled, into griev
ons injustice to men os incapable of “un-
fairueatf’ with .the State as themselves,
and I am writing in the faith that these
four gentlemen are honorable men, aud
will repair the wrong they have done
when they see it, and see it they shall
Eenj. H. Hill, j
Hon. Danlap Scott for Congrtw.
Editors Daily Sun: The time is in tbe
near future when the people of the
Seventh Congressional District will have
to make choice of a Representative in
the next Congress. Fortunately for them
the list of candidates is long enough and
comprises talent enough to afford them
no excuse for a weak representation.—
The candidates are Lester aud Waddell,
of Cobb, Young, of Bartow, Scott and
Printup, of Floyd, and Johnson, of
Whitfield. Each and all of these gentle
men are wortay, and merit well of their
fellow-citizens. Perhaps any of them
would represent creditably, tho district
in Congress. Bat I-lo thiuk, and I think
it can he made manifest tu the dullest, that
Captain Scutt has more claims upon the
people of the district than auy other
man, while he possesses, in an eminent
degree, all the quilities the most partial
can claim for any of the others. Bis
war record is all that could be asked. Ho
came into active politic d life as a mem
ber" of the Legislature of 1868, where,as
the leader of the Democratic minority of
that body, he covered himself with un
fading laurels. His bold and fearless de
nunciation of the corrupt dominant fac
tion in the face of and menaced by mili
tary despotism, will long live green In
the hearts of the people for whom ho
did this and more. No man within my
knowledge has more backbone, more
manhood, more unaffected frankness,
more perfect candor than Captain Scott.
Say what else you may of him, no one
will accuse him of ever deceiving any
one. No one is ever deceived as-to his
position; no one is ever flattered
with the hope- of his doing what
he knows impossible or improper. He
speaks and acts candor. Danlap Soott
with these rare qualities, is a man of un
tarnished personal integrity. His great
est enemy will not oharge him with cor
ruption. His honesty, candor and fair
dealing, stand out in bold relief. If he
is chosen by the people of the Seventh
District, they will have a bold, defiant,
able and watchful representative, who
power nor place can -tempt from the
path of rectitude and duty. They will
have a man there able and willing if) tell
the nation of then* rights and wrongs.
A ms.n who would rather fight with mi
norities for principles, than with majori
ties for spoils. Fellow-citizens, if your
choice tails on him, you will have no
reason to regret it, but, to the last, will
be proud of your selection.
Dulap Scott has done more hard work
for the Democratic party of Georgia,
and received less political remuneration
for it thufin ay man in tue.Stuto.
Fellow-oitizens, compare the record of
all these candidates. Think of what
they have done, and what they have re
ceived for it, then choose ye between
them. My word for it, wheu you have
done thiq, you will not hesitate iu taking
the gentlemen whose name head., this
paper. Gordon.
allowing the lease. The statement
brings Governor Bullock forward, as no
man but he had the right to make the
lease. Yet, says Mr. Kimball to his as
sociates, I controlled, by large promises
to be redeemed in money, this lease for
your benefit.”
Was ever a graver charge made against
honorable men ? And yet, it is manu
factured, wholly manufactured, not only
without evidence, but in the very teeth
of the evidence—all the evidence l
All the voluminous evidence, suspi
cions and conjectures, about “ outsid
ers," “obligations and expenses to out
siders,” are strained by the report, to
establish two points:
1. That promises were made to “ out
siders,” or obligations were incurred, to
“outsiders.”
2. That the outsiders was Bullook; and
the promises and expenses made to pro
cure from him the lease.
Now, let us narrow the lease to the
naked disputed points.
It is shown by all the witnesses, was
openly admitted, and never concealed by
any member of the Company, that Gov.
Brown and Mr. Kimball did ask the Hill
wing to agree that the Company would
raise money to pay “outside” obligations,
which their wing had incurred or might
incur.
Then, this being admitted, the ques
tions are:
1. “Who were the outsiders ?”
2. On what account were they to be
paid?
The majority report answers to the
first question, “Bullock,” and to the
second, “To procure the lease contract.”
We answer, neither is true, both are
false, and proved to be fake beyond a
doubt.
The great; the chief, almost the only
witness relied on, by the report, is An
drew J. White. This witness exhibits
three examinations: Hear him ou the
first question as to whom these outside
expenses referred.
Question—“ Did they have any refer
ence to members of the Legislature
Answer—“No, sir.”
Q.—“Did they have«any reference to
Gov. Bullock ?”
A.—“They did not. * * * I did
not understand, from what was said, that
the Legislature or the Governor was im
plicated in the slightest degree. Evidence
page 55,
Can anything be more direct and posi
tive? And this same witness gives, in
different words, to the same questions
propounned in different forms, this same
positive answer no less than six times !
And yet in the teeth of all this the re
port actually affirms that the statement
of Kimball, proven by "White “cannot be
misundemtood,” but “brings Bullock
forward 1”
Next, hear Capt. White on the second
question, were these expenses incurred
to procure the lease?
‘‘Answer—I never heard him (Kim
ball! or any one else say that anybody
ought to be paid for getting the lease act
has sworn
White.
If the outsiders were lobbyists, or bet
ter yet, were persons excluded from the
Brown wing to make room for the Hill
wing, then all the testimony is clear, and
6very witness, including Captain White,
swears correctly.
But either in the meeting, or to Cap
tain White, or somewhere, Kimball said
‘the lessees owed their seats to these ob
ligations,” and this is the wonderful
“mare’s nest.”
In the previous negotiations, Kimball
did urge that certain friends of the Brown
wing had been excluded to make room
for us. We owed our seats to this exclu
sion, was the idea, and therefore ought
to be willing for the company to com
pensate the friends so excluded. Mr.
Kimball did not say the “whole’’ of the
lessees owed their seats. This is Cap
tain White’s inference only. Be did
not hear the previous negotiations, and
mistook the outsiders alluded to. That
is all.
But Brown and "Kimball would not tell
who they were—that is, would not name
them.
Why should they ? It was none of our
business. Besides, we resolved not to
pay them, and did not care who they
were, nor how much either one was to
get. This is all of this “suspicions
secret.”
Again, if Bullock was the outsider, and
the expenses were incurred to procure the
lease, and Bullock had thus, for a con
sideration, promised the lease to Brown
and Kimball, would Brown and Kimball
have consented to combine with twelve
other new men who notified them in ad
vance they would naver pay one dollar to
any, not even honest,, outsiders.
Yet again. If Bullock was the out
sider, Brown and Kimball were guilty of
a great crime. The evidence shows the
hostility between Brown and myself was
never greater than at that very time.
Would Gov. Brown so openly confess a
crime in the very presence of his ene
my, who.would have only been too glad
to disgrace him 2- Is Governor Brown
such an idiot ?
And still again. Did Kimball really
mean to tell such as King and Grant,
Johnson, Holt and White, and others,
that he had controlled Bullock by large
promises to be redeemed in money, and
thereby procured the lease for their ben
efit ? Did these men, of gray hairs and
honored names, sit sti'l in their seats
under such a speech ? If so, they were
all equally guilty of bribery, and ought
to go to the penitentiary.
Will any sane man believe a hypothec
which compels so many absurdities, which
mak-s ovary leasee a cri^'-ial rnd every
witness a liar, when fhere , - plain state
ment, made by every witness, who was
beat informed, by believing which, every
man is made honorable and every witness
is made truthful? With equal ease on
the hypothesis tbat Bullock was not the
outsider, and the expenses were not to
procure the lease, I can clear up every
possible apparent conflict in this entire
evidence.
To tlie Voters of tlio Seventh. Cor.gret»
atonal District.
Rome, Ga., July 31, 1S72.
In response to numerous letters, re
ceiving from gentlemen residing in the
various counties composing the Seventh
Congressional district of the State of
Georgia, I hereby announce myself a
candidate for representative in the next
Congress, subject to the Convention of
the Democratic- party of the District
hereafter to assembly.
My public duties as member of the
General assembly now in session will, for
some .time, prevent my mingling per
sonally with the people, and deprive me
of the opportunity of presenting my
views of present political issues in pub
lic addresses.
It is therefore proper with this an
nouncement to express my unalterable
fidelity to the principles of the Demo
cratic party, and my approval of the
nominations made by its conventions in
Baltimore and Atlanta, and to pledge to
their support, during the canvess, and at
all other times, whatever of ability and
enthusiasm I possess. •
In the grand effort which good men
are making in every State in the Union
to overthrow a military personal govern
ment, characterized by usurpation, ty
ranny and disregard of civil law, and to
substitute in its place the rule of the
Constitution and the law; to reinauguratt
the practice of honesty, and fidelity in
the public servioe, and to restore to a
distracted country universal concord and
fraternity, it becomes every good citizen
to co-operate, and devolves as a duty
upon all who seek the distinction of your
favor, to discern it by activity and unfal-
terjn g energy in this cause. To this duty
£ will never prove recreant.
As a member of the General Assembly
for the last four years, I have labored
unceasingly to prevent the plunder of
the State by persons placed and Kept in
power by the bayonets of' an usurping
President, in violation of both State and
United States law; and to restore the
old Commonwealth to the government
of her own people and to honest officers
of her own choosing. It is matter of
congratulation that the last is now ac
complished. „ _ •
I can only promise, if transferred to
to another sphere, the exhibition of the
same fideilty to truth, principle and hon
esty which I claim to have exercised
hitherto. -
If elected, I oan safely promise, upon
all questions which may come beiore
•Jongioss, affecting tha inter- .:- * thr>
people of the District, of the State ox
Georgia, or of the whole people of tbe
Ur.r -i industry, zeal, ’-' .pend
ent judgment, honestly and carefully
formed. State pride, the peril of the
times, the cause of good government, aU
demand the elevation of the ablest and
best men to public station. If one more
worthy and better qualified, be present
ed for vour suffrages, and be honored OF
your cnoice, I will • have no reasojj e ‘ en
di,-satisfied. Dcsla^ u £ t £, e