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Ik §unut Elista _A_. 3S£. O. RUSSELL, Editor' & Proprietor. ])ni>ii A’isfji. Jtiu’iom (’•).. <n- KKII'AY MMtNINO,, JULY 28, IHT. IVITIINAL DfMOCRATIC TICKET FOK PRKSIDKNT, SAMUEL J.TILDEN,; OF NEW YOItK FOR VICE PRESIDENT, THOMAS 1. HENDRICKS, OF IXDFANA. Hon. 11. It. Hinton oi Marion (U 1 V(|ll(il C 99. We place the A r<;us to-dav, by our choice, after exercising calm judg ment and mature deliberation, and by the advice of the Democratic Par ty of Marion county, given in con vention assembled, in favor of the nomination of Hon. 15. B. Hinton for Congress, by the Democratic Con vention for tbo 4th District. Wo shall advocate the claims of this de voted and distinguished Georgian as briefly and pointedly as possible, without casting any adverse reflect ions upon our present faithful Repre - sentative. The lib District has been guilty of unmerited sectional neglect. Time and again has the Democratic Party honored the Northern part of the district to the utter neglect of the Southern section. The Southern counties have always been loyal to the party and they contain fully as talented and educated men of states manship and eloquence. It is, there fore, unjust and ungenerous to long er continue tlie practice of denying to the lower counties the right to a division of Congressional honors. A blindVselfish sectionalism is totally at variance with the principles of De- moera/cy and, it persisted in, may ul timate in the disintegration of the party. The Southern section of the district is now entitled to the nomi nation it it over was or ever will be. H'on. B. B. Hinton, being a citizen of the lower portion of the District, we otter his name as a suitable per son to represent us in the next Con gress of the United States. He is a geiiLleman well qualified to fill and honor the position, as regards men tal ability, personal activity, moral worth am! honesty and party devo tion and iutcgrhy. An astute state man, he will be ever alert to the wel fare of the country, eloquent and of tine mental capacity, lie will ef fect whatever he undertakes, earliest in his patriotism, he will be dilligent in prosecuting the labors of the office, honest and uncorruptible, he will always do right. Col. Hinton is a popular man and will be strong in the field. In evi dence we cite his election in 1868. At that time the Republican majori tv ill tbi (thn OJ.tU) Souoiorlal Dia trict was about 1500. He accepted the leadership of his party in the race, and, in spite of bayonets, over came that stupendous majority and was elected over C. W. Chapman, a white Republican, by a majority of 261 votes. We refer with pride to his patriot ic aud effective course in the Legisla ture, during the time of his Senator ship. During the session of 1858 he was largely instrumental in defeating Joseph E. Brown, who was a candi date for the U. S. Senate, In 18T0 when Georgia was under process of reconstruction, he was carried before j a military commission to test his el- igibility. He defended bis right to his seat by an unanswerable argu ment which not only secured his seat in the Senate but those of thirty oth ers, who were in a simitar condition. Dining that year there jnito duced by a Radical a resolution pro posing to prolong their terms of of fice, by insisting that the Constitu tional term' dfd not. commence until after the close of the session l of 1870. The resolution was defeated by 'only a few votes, which he bud secured by his defence of his ami his thirty colleagues’ scats. This saved the State from four years of Radical mis ru'e and Mullock administration, flie journals show that from the first he was opposed to State aid to Rail ways, lle voted against the pur*, chase of the Opera House and the j house sold by John H. James for the | Governor's Mansion. He opposed j by his vole and argument the retro cede of the J/itchell heirs the lot known as the park, in the city of At lanta. In short Hon. B. B. Hinton was ever found voting and speaking against every measure of extrava gance and corruption, introduced during his torinTd office, when Radi calism ran riot at the capital and plundered the State of thousands, and corruption was rewarded and honesty punished. He stood up for our rights when it required the stout est nerve aud most uncompromising integrity to take a stand for the rights and liberties of tbo people. He is the same bold, intrepid, practi cal, active, astute statesman to-day that he was then. We ask his nomi nation for the good of the District and the welfare of the State aud na tion. Tlie notation System. Elsewhere in this issue will Vie fouud an able article from the pen of our talented and patriotic townsman, Hon. 15. B. Hinton, on the Rotation system, as adopted by the 24th Sen atorial District. Also, will bn fi,uud in flic proceedings of tbo Democrat ic meeting of Tuesday, last, a reso lution requesting the Marion delega tion to the Convention to insist <7ri the system being retained, and Chatta hoochee being permitted to name tire candidate. Chattahoochee and Marion are a unit on- the subject, Muscogee being alone in h 0 oppo sition to tlio system or usage. Mus- | cogee was its advocate four years ! ago, when Crawford was nominated. The Rotation Rule or system is the j only one, that will do equal and ini i partial justice to all the counties of I a Senatorial District, and is right and proper in every respect. We hope that iis continuance in force will be insisted on, and that it will • remain one of the established rules of this district. It is so ably defended by Col. Hinton, that it is unnecassary for us to enter into argument in its fa vor. A Soblc Act- -Col- Hai'iiemnuN Withdrawal. On our first page will be found a letter from Col.Thos. Hardeman, Tr., withdrawing his name from the gubernatorial race, lie give, his reasons, which could eminate only from a noble and patriotic nature, and which incites the high est encomiums of praise from ali true Georgians. , This worthy act of his life has rnispd him to tlxo highest pinnacle ot popular esteem, for, while he | had not a sufficient following to se cure his nomination in the conven tion, yet, under the two-thirds rule, |he held a balance of power with which he could have defeated the favored candidate and brought in anew man. Scorning to entertain so revengeful a spirit, and refusing to accept a nomination, which would not he the voice c f the ma jority of the citizens of Georgia, he modestly withdrew like the true, noble, generous, patriotic states - man that he is. —As we expect to attend the State Convention, which holds its session in Atlanta next Wednes day, tiie Anaus will probably not appear before Saturday. Wo wish to notify our people of the Conven tion's choice for Govenn.r. WRIT TEN Foil TUTS HYENA VISTA AHOUi Scituloi'iiil qnt’*lioii. HOX. 11. H. HINTON'S VIEWS ON THE I ROTATION system. Buena Vista, Ga. ) j July 25, 1810. f j Mr. Editor. I was very much astonished, on reading the Enquire r-Sutt, of the 21st hist,., to find an editorial insisting, in effect if not in words, that the rota tion system, so far as it. relates to the 24th Senatorial District-, ought to be abandoned. My surprise did not arise so much from the idea that the rotation system was wtong, as it did from the argument penned in its sup port. If I liavo not misinterpreted the writer, lie means to say that Hie Senator should always be chosen from tho city of Columbus, for no other reason than that Columbus be ing a city ought to have the prefer ence. Now, I hud not been accus tomed to think that locality had much to do with the ability or virtue of a, Senator. Yet, claimed to be the necessary qualification ft it ho true that these elements can only be found in a city, why then, I would say, let Columbus have the Senator, but I am not yet prepared to believe a proposition so absurd. In reading the history of our coun try I find some of the most illustrious names located not in ci ics but in the country. Washington resided at M-urnt Vernon. Il.urcl Webster at Marshfield, Henry Clay at Ashland. A. 11. Stevens at Liberty Hall, H. V. Johnson in Jefferson county near a lit tle sta'ion called Bartow, Toombs in Washington, &r. Now, my idea has always been that either of these gen tlemen might have rem esented a Sen atorial District with credit to them selves and profit to the S'ate, yet neither of them lived in a city. I d>> not make war upon the city, by claiming these men were gieat be cause they lived in the country. I mean simply to say that in electing to be country met. they did not their rightful claims to-the essential qualifications, virtue and iuttdligeiicof | It is to he hoped that the city gener | ally docs not indorse the editorial re ferred to.- The sentiment is as un pleasant- and distasteful as it is un just- and insulting. To be “hewers of wood and drawers of water” is a position not to be admired, but to be taunted with the announcement that we are iflcapub’e of a better posi tion, simply because our tastes do not incline ns to a city life, is unpardon able. If this is truly the feeling of j the city people, it is high time the i country citizens were made aware of | it, f .1 wish to state a little of the histo ry of this rotation system in this Dis trict, and when I do so, t think it will appear that it does not come with i very good grace from the city ( G op pose it now. In 1868 a convention Was called to assemble at Columbus, for the purpose of nominating a can didate for tho Senate, to represent this District-. Marion claimed that she was entitled to the candidate, and instructed her delegates to vote for me. When the Convention as sembled, no question was raised as to the tact that this county was en titled to the candidate. This -was conceded. But after much consul tation, it was thought that Col. Must in with his means, together with tim fact that lie opposed secession, ren dered him not only more available than myself, but more available than any one else. Marion with reluct anac guided by patriotic motives yeilded, not because it was under stood to be in abandonment of tiie ro tation system, which had been ob served with equal fidelity by the sev-1 eral counties composing it ; but it w as with the consent of Marion, jedding her right for the good of the whole. As soon as Col. Mustin was found to be irrelligrble, my name was proclaim ed as it was known that Marion had the right to i'hrnisli the candidate, and j had expressed her wishes that I ; should be the candidate. By a stir ring persistent t-flort upon the part i of nil the counties, much to the grat ification not only of mvsclf, but to live party electing me, I was chosen Senator and for four years filled the place to the best of my skill and abil ity. When my time expired, I heard nothing about the system of rotation being a pernicious practice. Marion understood that she was not to have the Senator, and never dreamed of asking it at the hands of the Conven tion. When the Convention met in 18- 72 to again choose a candidate, there was nothing said against the rotation plan, and [t.e only jar in the Conven tion grew out of ibe fact that boih Chattahoochee and Muscogee claim ed under this system the light to sup ply this candidacy and a difference of opinion as to the residence of Col Thornton at the time of his election. ! Maiion agreed with Muscogee that the county of Chattahoochee was the place of the residence of Cos). Thorn ton, Hence the nomination of our present Senator. Columbus claimed it then and received it. Now, what ever may have been the difference of opinion at that Convention, it cannot now be doubted Chattahoochee’s | time lias come. Let us deal fairly by ncr. In the hour of our greatest ] trouble Chattahoochee was known ns the residence of the Hon. Mc- Dongall, She has never faltered and has contributed as much as any coun ty in the Slate to the swccess of the great principles of our party. Very Respectfully B. B. Hinton. New Advertisements. To the Voters of Marion County. The undersigned respectfully informs the I voters of said county that he is a candidate I fur representative before them at the next | Nominating Convention. ltespectfulty, M. G. BMW. Tins is to certify that M. G. Brady has never wrote nor requested- me to use my in fluence with the colored voters of Marion Comity for him. July 19, 1876. ; W. 3rf. HaSbis. i . . Ai> >j 1 i<ji) 1 ()i tor Dismission. ,j GKORUIA—Marion County. Where*.-: Mrs. M. A. Butt, Administratrix of I ! I)o estate of W. M. Unit, deceased, bas petitiou jed for betters of Ihsmission, all person- inter- I ested in said -stare are hereby notified to file I their objec:)-ids to the same within the time pre j scribed byJttw. Witness my hand April bib, j !S7O. ‘ w 3A8.hl- fit*WE, npi7-3m f>'dinnTV i GBOR-OIA -Marion Cocn'ty. Whereas Thus. I!, l.umpkin and 1). S. I Bttrkhalter, Admr'.s, of If. N. Burkhalter, de | ceased, have petitioned the Court for led .'e to 1 sell all the real estate of said deceased. They i further ask for ait order to sell the wi and, un ' improved laud at private or public sale. All persons interested arc hereby notified !of the above application. Witness my hand, I June 30, 1876. je3o-lm Jas. M. Lowe, Ord'y. Marion County Sheriff Sales. \ \ 7 ILL he sold before the Court Horse r 7 door in Buena Vista within the legal hours of sale on the first Tuesday in Aug ust next, the following property, to wit: 1 -white cow, 2 yearlings, 1' wardrobe, 1 stove and utensils, 1 sow, 1 old buggy, levied on as the property of Mrs. Mildred Nutt to satisfy a Superior Court ii fa, Walton-& Har vey vs S. K. Nutt and Mil died Nutt, i>. N MAllDtlX, je3o-lm' Deputy sheriff. Welch’s PIMM llliT, foR /VI AN OR j^EAST, rllways Alleviates and Generally Cures RHEUM A TTSM, SORENESS and S WELLING of the Breast , PAIN and WEA KNESS in the Rack and .Taints , The severest BURNS can Speedily be cured and should be Applied immediately. 1% Horses & lilies, IT STANDS WITHOUT A RIVAL! And Speedily Cures Most of their Diseases requiring a Lminiment. ii*ii i And yon, will Never be Without it. Ask your Merchant for it,. Sold by learlezs im Brags, And By L, E. & H- E. WELCH, Sold Promt dors and WHOLES A I.*K .Drnjjfjifcis Nov, ip.-tf liI.iBA.WY, CtKOHGIA ir #* if® 1 ’ 2 OF MeMCIIAEL Si STEVENS Is an hand, consisting of .A. COMPLETE LINE OF DRY GOODS. NOTIONS, CLOTHING, lIATS, HARDWARE, TINWARE, CROCKERY EflM Hwi| GROCERIES, TOBACCO, CIGARS AND BOOTS AND SHOES, We assert that we will be glad (o duplicate the Regular Retail Pr ices Ooliimbus or Anterior.* on these Goods. We mean Easiness, Give ns a trill and bo convinced.- Our Stock of -Jb-UMI Amm is tlic largest in the place, and for the money can’t be undersold, Como arid see ns and oblige. Iff (’MICHAEL & STEVENS, Buena Vista, Gw., May 5,1876.-01 Legal Blanks! Legal Blanks! A T TIX ID ABOITS 2m OFFICE. We have on hand and for sale' at, tire Argus Office, a large number of Tjegnl Blanks, which we offer at One Dollar per Quire, Gash. They consist of the fol lowing named blanks: Garnishment Affidavit and Bond, Summons Garnish ment- Attachment- Sciere Facias. Dii; of Indlct irlant. Directions for taking; And Interrogatory Commissions. State Warrants. Mortgage FI, Fa* Executions. At tachment for Contempt, Magistrate s Summons, iFi Fa and Subpoena, Sup. Court Subpoena. Summons before Grand Jury. Clerk’s Certificate to Juror. Waiver of Homestead’’ Notes Cost Executions, Land Deeds. De* derations Bond for Ap pearance. Address A. M ; C KYSSEIL, JProjir BUENA VISTA GA. Miscellaneous Advertise niets. 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WARNER, RHODES 6c CO., Wholesale Fancy grocers (jfeneraf A {/cuts, jiine2-5W Pliila-dclphia, Pa. .IS Sf'l.f* AMERICUS, ------ GA. ! II HANKFUL far past favors I respect fully solicit ii continuance of the patronage ot the good people of Ma rion. Prices reasonable, and extra in ducements offered those at a distance to visit ruy office. Rooms on Lamar St, two doors from R C Black’s Shoe Store. September Bth, ..BBSS’ ST.RCK POLSH A GREAT DISCOVERY. Bj the ciae of which every family may give their Lioetl that brilliant polish peculiar to fine laundry w*rk. Saving time and labor in iron ing, rooru than its entire cost. Warranted. Sold by Druggists rind Groce, s Every where, ASIC FOR DOBRIIVS. DOBBINS, 13R0.¥. & CO., 15 . Fourth Street, jc3o-3m Philadelphia. n. o. pitixcE, j. k. parser:. n- €. & l k. mmm, —AND FMB STABLE Dealers in Horses, Mules, Carriages, Bug gies, &c. Horses, Buggies, Carriages and Hacks to let at reasonable rates—Good &i>eds and Lola tor Stock Drovers. 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