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TUESDAY AUGUST Slat 188a
DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
FOR PBE8IDENT.
WINFIELD ». HANCOCK.
OF PKNJfSYLTAWA.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT
WILLIAM H. ENCLISH.
OF INDIANA.
Inspired by the peril witfc which
the cause of the National Democ
racy i* menaced, that the Demo
cratic papers of this State make
an immediate and earnest appeal
to the Hanoock journals of Vir
ginia to eettle their differences suf
ficiently to agree on a single electo
ral ticket on the basis we have
suggested, or on any basis that
ill bring about the end desired.
(.otter or Kev. John K. R.spess
of Taylor County.
stick to it Thera is another thing
that in my judgement savors of a
bad spirit iu the majority. Imme
diately upon the heel of the two-
third rule they passed by a major
ity what has been called “a gag
law," saying h) effect, that no man
should be nominated save some
one of the candidatee then before
the body, whioh was saying, as the
sequel proved, that no man in the
State save Governor Colquitt
should be nominated, that no man
shonld be chosen for Governor of
Georgia nnleas he had announced
STATE HOUSE OFFICERS.
For Attorney General—Cuf-
fohd Abdeboom, of Bibb.
For Secretary of State—N. C.
Barnktt, of Fnlton.
For Comptroller—Wm. A.
Wright, of Richmond.
For Treasurer—D. N. Spear,
of Troup.
FOR GOVERNOR.
Gen. Alfred H. Colquitt.
The'National Democracy.
There ie no doubt that Gen.
Haacock is the choice both of a
large majority ot the States and of
the voters the United States;
from present indications we
.r that if he is elected it will be
by the skin of the teeth." We
not by any meant concede as
yet the election ui Garfield; but if
we are to achieve success the De
mocracy must be guilty of no more
folly and make no more blunders.
The Democrats of Virginia have
committed one of the greatest acts
of folly known to the history of po
litical parties. They are not only
divided on State issues but they
have actually put out two electori-
al Hanoock tickets; the effect of
this is to divide the Hancock vote
iu a Democratic State and give its
vote to Garfield. Wc are utterly
at a loss to understand why Demo
crats should be guilty of such sui
cidal folly. We still hope, (though
in. must confess that we do Dot see
auy ground upon which to base
this hope,) that Virginia Demo
crats will agree on a single electoral
ticket, and thus save the State to
the National Democracy.
The defection of V irginia will
make it necessary for the Democra
cy te carry New York, New Jer
sey, Connecticut and Indiana to
secure the election of Hanoock and
English. The course of Virginia
will have a depressing influence ou
the Democratic cause in the States
we have just named. In addition
to this, the Republican party has
imported at least five thousand ne
groes into indiuna. How the effect
of this importation is to be coun
teracted we know not. Moreover,
we tear that ex-Gov. Hendricks
like Achelles of old, is sulking in
his tout. We truBt that this dis
tinguished patriot will forget any
real or landed injuries or slights
and give his best efforts to the
i^iiuse of good government and the
constitution. We fear that if In
diana be lost in October, all will be
lost; and that this State will be
lost, we think there is every reason
to fear unless every Democrat in it
comes into line and does bis whole
duty from this time on to the
election.
If Democrats in Virginia would
pgree on a single electoral ticket for
Hanoock and English, such action
would be worth hundreds and
thousands of votes to the Democrats
of the "doubtful” States; and it
would go tar towards iusuring suc
cess inlodiana and New Jersey. In
view of this faot, while we have
nothing to say, nor anything to
Counsel with reference to the issues
now dividing the Democratic party
in Virginia, we do think that it
is the duty of every Democratic
paper in Georgia to call on the
Democratic press of Virginia to
take such steps, and to adopt suoh
a course as will lead to the with
drawal of one the Hancock electo-
.ral tickets now in the field in that
State. Or, il this is not practical
let ono half of the electors on each
ticket be withdrawn and consoli
date the eleotors that remaip into
a single electoral tiokat. THeJdtate
will thus be saved to the Democra
cy without tbe saoriflee effecting
Bcti.kr, Ga., August 18, 1880.
Editors Butler Herald :—The I himself as a candidate for that po-
The political opinions of an obeettre : sition and had tought it. Is that
citizen as myself are perhapa of a principle of the Democratic party
but little importance so that I that a man who gets an nffioe must
would not obtrude them upon the
public were it not that I feel it
due myself and those friends who
attach some little value to them,
to give the reasons why I cannot
vote for Governor Colquitt for the
next Governor of Georgia. You
know, and my friends know, that
I was an ardent supporter of Gov
ernor Colquitt prior to the recent
Gubernatorial Convention, and did
what little I oould to secure a dele
gation to the Convention in his be
half. I was a Colquitt man in
preference to any of the other can
didatee before the party, because I
believed him to be a persecuted
man, one whom the politicians
sought to destroy without a sauso.
I did not prefer him because
thought he was a better Democrat,
or because I thought he would make
a better Governor than either of
them, or any other distingnished
Democrats of Georgia would. My
preference was purely a per
sonal one; and whilst I yet
esteem him as a friend, I dare
not prefer him before the unity
of the party or at the sacrifice (if
principle; when 1 voted fur him at
our primary election as my choice
of them all for Govenor, no princi
ple was then involved, but to vote
for him now would be, in my view,
sacrificing principle and the unity
of tbe party to a personal prefer
ence; just what, os it seems to me
the majority of the late Conven
tion did. Therefore I cannot vote
for him, became to do it would be
infidelity to the trust committed to
me as a freeman and citizen,
hold the Convention committed
crime in refusing to make a nomi
nation for Govenor. I e»uld and
would have voted for Colquitt if at
first he had been nominated by i
majority, but not after the Con
vention had bound itself by a two-
thirds rale. I say they committed
a crime, because in making no
nomination they left a disputed
succession and all the train of di
sastrous consequences incid-nt to
it. The least it can involve in our
form of Government is strife, bit
ter feuds, and party destrnct ; on.
Our government is a government of
parties, upon which is devolved the
duty of naming our rulers and
their successors, and when the del
egates of the people selected for
that purpose and invested with
that power, refuse to do it, they
are guilty of criminal negligence,
for which the people should hold
them responsible. I charge this
guilt upon the majority party ol
the Convention, because it should
be laid ot the door of that party or
faction which could without a sac
rifice of principle have prevented
it, and which, to perpetrate it,
made a sacrifice of principle. The
majority voluntarily and of their
own accord adopted the two-thirds
rule, binding themselves to make a
nomination, and by a two-thirds
majority. It was their privilege
to do that or not to do it, juBt as
they choose, there was no com
pulsion; but after they did it, it
was not their privilege to set it
aside, but their duty to abide by it
there was then compulsion. It is
my privilege to go in debt; it is
not my duty, that is to say there
is no compulsion; I may or may
not as I choose; but it I do go in
debt, it then beoomea my duty to
pay mv debts, and it is not my
duty to refuse to do it. I am
bound; and so wa3 the Convention
by the two-thirds rule; and having
voluntarily bound themselves they
oould not without a violation of
principle throw off their obligation
There has been a good deal of talk
moral p inoiplea in oonneo}
always seek it P Was it ever
principle of the party before P
As to the minority, I know not
the spirit that actuated them, but
can only judge them by their fruits
and their conduct was right in the
letter. They made concessions,
yielding .their own personal prefer
ences and giving the majority the
selection of any two or three dozen
distinguished Democrats for wliom
they would cast their vote* and
harmonize the party. Could not
they have saved the unity of the
party by naming such men as Gen
eral Lawton Judge Crawford, Jack-
son and Stephens, all good and
true Democrats? Thus the ma
jority had the opportunity and up
on them developed the duty , of
preserving the unity of the party
by yielding a personal preference
without any sacrifice whatever of
principle or manhood. To this
they were bound by their own action
in pass ug the two-thirds rule.—
when it wss seen to be clearly im
possible to unite, the minority upon
Govenor Colquitt. But they per
sisted and sacrificed the unity of
the party to their personal prefer
ence,
annotated him. If I have chan
g«l I.do nat know it; I have found
out the facts and the right and
must act upon them.
J. B. RxsFEsa.
A Ooviugton young lady, who ia
worth $20,000 broke an engage
ment with a young man during
oouuuenoement because he paid
seveu dollars for a horse and buggy
to give her a ride. She argued
that a mao who would be so fool
ish as to pay that much for a lew
hours’ pleasure was not the kind
she wanted for a husband.
For Fifty Vents.
From the dale of this paper un
til the first of January 1881, we
will send the Butler Hekadd to
any address for fifty oente.
thi smrroBMM.
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of the year 1880 in its own fanhon
uaw pretty Well underetoi.d by every
body. From January 1 until Ducem
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two-third, rule, and have aaid to
the people of Georgia that they
prefer Governor Colquitt to the
Democratic party. This action 1
cannot endorse, nor ought it to be
endorsed by the Democratic party
of Georgia. The minority are not
responcible for it, because they
could not he'p it save at a sacrifice
of their manhood. They yielded
their |iernoual preferences and left
the selecti-.n of the candidate to
the majority, excepting Colquitt
only, and tbe majority had agreed
in efiV-ct, that if they couldn’t
nominate him by two-thirds, to
make a nomination by two-thirds
of some good Democrat. That is
what the Convention met fur, and
what they ought to have done.—
As to Governor Colquitt's vindica
tions, he was nobly vindicated so
far as the majority could do it by
their ballots and could have afford
ed to have made his aspiration a
peace offering to the party that had
so greatly honored him in the post
and in that very Convention.—
That they had a majority is noth
ing, as they did not have the ma
jority they agreed to have to make
a nomination. If they lacked ever
so little, that little was as great an
obstacle as if it were twenty times
as big I grant it presented a
greater temptation to do wrong and
violate their plighted faith than a
less majority would, but the glory
of rr-sisting the temptation would
have beeD iu the same ratio. Saul
lost the Kingdom of Israel by a
very little lack. He was command
ed ami assumed to do it, to slay
the Amalekitex, oxen, sheep and
all to spare nothing, and he came
very nigh doing it; he only laoked
a very little; he spared a few sheep
and oxen, and them not for him
self, but to sacrifice to the Lord.
When the Prophet Samuel went
down to inspect his work Saul went
out jubilantly to meet him exclaim
ing “I have fulfilled the command
ment.'' “If so grimly said the
prophet, what means the bleating
of these sheep and lowing of three
oxen which I hear?” Therefore he
lost the kingdom, and had as well
have done nothing as all he had
done, for all he did amounted to
nothing for the lack of the little
hq didn't do. Because the lack, or
what he didn't do, showed that he
had done all he did do in the wrong
spirit. This I honestly believe
was the way the majority did in
the convention, and I cannot follow
them. Tiuse are my reasons for
nitt men, though
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The year 1880 will he one in which
uo patriotic American can afford to
dose his eyes to public affairs. It
inqrosible to exsgerste the importance
of the poHticsl events which it has in
store, or the necessity of resolute vigil
lance ou the part of every citizen wl
desires to preserve the Government
that the founders gave us. The de
bates sud sets of Congress, the utter-
ancee of the press, the exciting con
test of the Republican sud Democrat 1 ,
parties, now utterly equal in strength
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