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HAMILTON JOURNAL.
OF HARRIS COUNTY.
VOL. XII.
A Card.
The democratic executive commit
tee of Harris county desires to impress
upon all democrats the importance
of sustaining their organization and
supporting the nominees ol the party,
Organizations are formed for the
rn aintai nance of certain principles or
to effect certain measures. We
should hold our personal preferences
subservient to the accomplishment ot
those ends. An army without dis
cipline is a mere rabble. A party
without organization has no power to
effect any desired measure and tails
to merit the respect of friend or op
ponent. By means ot democratic
organization our state government
has been rescued from the hands of
cupidity and ignorance, and placed
under the control of the intelligent
and conversativc element of the
country, and under its direction our
noble old state has passed through four
teen years of almost unprecedented
prosperity. Let us not abandon it
now. The man who offers himself
as a candidate indedependent of the
pirty organization may claim to be
a democrat, but he expects the lar
gest of his support from the opposi
non and his success is their triumph.
To surrender to superior numbers
and resources after a hard fought
battle is not dishonorable. But to
allow ourselves to be handed over to
the enemy by a pretended friend
makes us simply contemptible. Let
there be no successful independents
in Georgia. * .
By order ot Idem. Kx. Com.
Chas. L. Dendy. Sec’y.
September 2, 1884. ’
Ouce for All.
A heated political campaign never
occurs, but we are approached and
warned that if we pursue' a certain
course we will lose certain patronage,
If we pursued our calling for money
only, this kmd of argument might in
duence our action, but so long as we
are controlled by a nobler higher
HAMILTON, GA • « TTEMBER f 1884.
purpose it can have but little weight
j n shaping our course, We earnest
jy desire ti e good will of the peop’e of
Harris and crave their friendship, but
vve would be unworthy of it we sac
rificed principle for pelf. Respect
for them and to¬ ourself demands
that we pursue the course of right,
regarding not the present,
While our very nature demands
earnestness in whatever cause we es
pouse, we shall always endeavor to
avoid whatever will needlessly offend
our patrons. That we shall differ
as to matters of expediency, is hut
natural; that we should dislike each
other because of that difference is
not necessarily essential.
The columns of the Journal will
ever be open under our management
to any gentleman who wishes to reach
the people of Harris in what he con
ceives to be their interest, We in
v ite communications from all, asking
on ]y that they come within the con
ventional rules of the press govern
mg such matteis This is no parti
san sheet, but is designed to be the
organ of the people of Harris,
We shall ever endeavor to deal
fairly and openly with our patrons
and if any of them feel disposed to
sever the relationship heretofore ex
isting between us, let .hem do so.
Our sorrow will be for them; it would
be for ourself were we to sere our
conscience to save their patronage,
Personal 1 diameter of Candi¬
date's.
file personal character of a candi
da-e is a legitimate and proper sub
jeci ot’investigation. After a bad
man actually has been elected
office—his coiruption having remain
ed unknown until the revelation of it
could not alter the result of the elec
tion and could only disgust the pub
lie—it might be wiser tu let his char
icier pass tin hscussed; but when the
fact of his moral baseness has been
discovered before his election. it
would be wicked not to proclaim it;
no. ,r>. r -
and the shame and disgrace of the
revelation attach not to those who
make it from a true sense ot duty,
but to those who would deceive the
public by concealing or excusing the
iniquity. No worse or more endur*
ing evil can be inflicted upon the
world than that of making light of
moral rottenness, accepting insufli
cient excuses for it, and belittling the
need of sincere and thoroughgoing
atonement for it, and the more emi
nent the guilty man. the worse is the
evil of apologizing for him on the
giound ot his greatness.
The condition of the present cam
paign has rendered clear the obli
gation of Christian men in one re
sped, at the least. ] hey may not
l )e decided yet for whom to vote, or
l( > vote at a ^- But it is the duty ot
ewery good citizen to do his best to
defeat corruption in public ar.d pri
vate relations of life, and especially
dial teaching to which we have re
ferred—that it is no matter what a
man’s personal morals ar<? if he be
publicly-above reproach—should re
ceive such a prompt, unanimous, and
emphatic condemnation that nobody
shall ever again dare even to whisper
such a scandalous theory. Its dire
hil consequences are prompt to ap
pear. We already have heard * pi at
least two young men who boldly jus
thy t heir own vicious courses by th
plea, “J t is admitted now that
man’s private character is his own 5
affair, and folks only have a right to*
inquire about his life before the
world.” This is but a sample ot
what is coming, and there never was
a time in our national history when
Christians more need to pray for en
lightetmient in regard to their own
duty, and for the overruling of cor
rupt public teachers and teachin 'fit,
than to-day.—The Congregationalisf.
Political Straws.
Captain Persons has received # over
five hundred letters, representing fif
teen hundred people, mainly <h no