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FOB OOVKUNOII OF GEOIiUIA;
RUFUS K. LESTER,
CHATHAM COUNTY.
EDITORIAL BREVITIES.
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There is great immortality among ne
groes in Lexington, Ky.
“Every man has his price," said Wal
pole. Garfield’s was So,ooo.
The census returns indicate that Brook
lyn has a population of 550,000.
A telephone is reported at Pittsburg that
has not been out of order for two weeks.
More mosquitoes to the cubic inch in
Alabama than has been known there for
25 years.
A Mission homo for the reformation of
abandoned women has been dedicated in
Memphis.
“Of course, if they don’t want ns, wo
won’t stay' here,” is the way Mrs. Hayes
feels about it.
It was only a question as to precedency
in setting it forth, and the World takes
the cake with “Arfield and Garthur.”
The republican presidential ticket ha:
a credit mobilier head and a dishonored
custom-house tail.
James A. Garfield was a good J>oy.
When ho had an orange he never refused
his little brother a suck.
John Dougher, a ono logged man, went
to Easton to buy an artificial leg, met nn
old sweetheart and they were married.
Gilbert says it was called “Pinafore” in
order to rhyme with “tbreo cheers more,’
and that “Semaphore” was the first idea.
A Paris, Ky., landlaly is eighty-five years
old, has been blind fifteen years and yet
conducts a hotel and is noted for her char
ity to tho poor.
ltev. William Roberson, who died re
cently in Virginia, married when he was
fifty years old and lived with his wife 75
years, dying at 125.
The solid south, 138; New York, 35;
Indiana, 15. Total, 188. Necessary to a
choice, 185. But Now Jersey is suro be
sides.
Blaino receive 1 on tho first ballot four
years ago 285 votes tor the president nom
ination. This year ho received 284, ono
less.
Upwards of $400,900 was taken in at the
Chicago hotels while the Radical menage
rie was in that city. Some of this was lor
drinks.
Both Grant and Blaino nro for the presi
dential raco in 1884. They evidently
mean to fight it out on that line if it takes
them severul summers.
Philadelphia Chronicle says: Garfield
has eight letters in his name, Hancock has
but seven. Is this going to bo another
eight to seven campaign?
Moses Howe, ofDraent, Mass, is 92 years
old. He has married 1,908 couples, and
buried 2,530 persons. He p eached bis
first sermon sixty years ugo.
Hays Conkling: “The name of Grant
will glitter like a star in the diadem of the
Republic when those who have villified
him have mouldered in tho dust.”
Spurgeon is one of seventeen children,
their mother one of twenty-two. Ho was
converted a Methodist, and began to
preach at sixteen years of age.
An old man in Virginia jumped into
the well to spite his wife for running in
debt. She let him stand in 3 feet of ice
cold water until he agreed to deed her the
whole farm.
Philadelphia Times says: “It is begin
ning to bo suspected even by some of the
organs that General Garfield is greatly in
need of a certificate of character.”
A Gentleman in Paris has brought ac
tion against a cabman who was engaged
to carry’ him to a burial at tlie cemetery,
but who accompanied the wrong funeral
procession.
The czar is the only crowned widower
and Victoria the only crowned widow a
mong the European potentates. Alfonzo
and Christine of Spain are tho youngest
wedded couple: William Augusta of Ger
many the eldest.
Chester A. Authur is n big, broad-shoul
dered, soft-handed man with a red pulpy j
face and a pleasant soft manner. He is j
the sort of man who always gets up late !
in the morning and from the dinner ta
ble.
The latest estimate of the dead and
missing by the Sound disaster, as far ns
can be given with the information at hand :
is supposed to be: Lost, 33; missing, 17. :
The number known to bo saved is 3GG.
A prominent politician has informa
tion that all members of workingmen’s
unions throughout tho United States will
vote against Garfield on account of his op
position to the eight-hour law. Should
such a concert of action take place, he will
lose many thousand republican votes.
The first National Convention of the
present Republican party was held in
Philadelphia, June 17, 1856, when John
C. Fremont was nominaten for President
on-' the first doallot; in 1860 at Chicago.
Abraham Lincoln on the third ballot ; in
1864, at Baltimore, Abraham Lincoln on
the first ballot : in 1868, Grant on the first
ballot; in 1872, at Philadelphia, Grant on
the first ballot; in 1876, at Cincinnati, lb
B Hayes on the seventh ballot, an 1 in
1880, at Chicago, James A. Garfield, on
the thirty-fcixth ballot.
THE CINCINNATI DEMO
CRATIC CONVENTION!
THE NEXT PRESI
DENT ANT) VICE
PRESIDENT!!!
HANOI )CK
Unanimously Nomin
ated !!
WILLIAM H. ENGLISH FOR
VICE-PRESIDENT.
Tho Convention assembled on the 22ud
of Juno and was called to order by ex-Scn
ator Barnum, of Connecticut, Chairman of
the Democratic National Committee, at
forty minutes past 12 p. m. Prayer was
offered by tho Rev. Charles W. Wendt.
Hon. George Hoadly, of Ohio, was made
temporary chairman, and addressed tho
Convention briefly’, but with force and
judgment. The mention of tho namo of
Samuel J. Tilden was rocoivod with cheers
and great enthusiasm. Hon. F. O. Prince,
of Massachusetts, was elected temporary
Secretary’. Tho Hon. John M. Stevenson,
of Kentucky, was elected President of the
Convention. Gen. A. R. Lawton, was
elected by tho Georgia delegation as their
Chairman. The following Georgians were
elected officers of the National Conven
tion: Hon. J. It. Alexander, Vice-Presi
ident; Hon. John D. Stowart, member of
Committee on permanent organization;
Gen. P. M. B. Young, chairman of com
mittee on credentials; Hon. E. P. Howell,
member of committee on resolutions, Hon.
M. A. Harden,ono of tho Secretaries. The
Convention then took one ballot, upon
which Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock, of
Pennsylvania, received 170 votes, Hon.
Tlios. F. Bayard, of Delaware, 147; Hon,
Homy B. Payne, of Ohio, 91; Hon. Allen
G. Thurman, of Ohio, 08; Hon. Thomas A.
Hendricks, of Indiana, 49; Hon. Samuel J.
Tilden, of IJew York, 38; and the rest
scattering. Tho Convention then ad
journed to meet at 9 o’clock yesterday
morning, and met at that hour.
WINFIELD SCOTT HANCOCK I
On the second ballot Hancock received
360 votes and before tho ballot waS closed
he was nominated at hall past twelve
o’clock, amidst tho grandest enthusiasm,
and by a unanimous vote of the Conven
tion. No bettor man could liave been se
lected to bear the Democratic standard to
victory. His Union and war record are
unexceptionable. His reputation as a
General in the Federal armies was second
only to that of Grant and Sherman and
would have been greater than that of any
other Union officer, but that hewasalways
kept back and hampered by the Republi
can administration of the war period, be
cause of his political principles. General
Hancock has been a staunch and life-long
| Democrat. As soon as tho war ended, he
j sought in every possible way, to restore
S peace and harmony to the distracted coun
! try and to subordinate the military to the
civil power, and to the constitution and
laws of the Union. As one, who fought
so gallantly and successful for its preser
vation,he must ncedsjcommand the highest
| enthusiasm of every Northern patriot, while
by bis moderation, justice, and* kindness
in ameliorating the horrors of war and his
magnanimity to u defeated foe, together
with bis profound respect for those civil
laws, which still protected them from out
rage and oppression’in their defeat, he has
endeared himself to the whole Southern
people.
We have received the intelligence of
the nomination of Hon. William H. Ex-
I gush, of Indiana, for Vico President,
! just in time for this issue of our paper.
: This is truly a National, Union ticket, of
j peace, harmony and good will, and the
peopio of America will elect it and see
i that their candidates are not again de
frauded out of their seats. While we pen
; these lines, a Presidential salute of 13
guns, are being fired in front cf the Ga
zette office in honor of Wlnltlu) Scott
{HiN’ Oi K, th< coming President of the
1 United States.
IT tt* tIBATMTO MIX KtITGION ANB
IMMTiO..
A man’s politics ought to be as sacred to
him as bis religion, but in certain respects
the two ought to be kept ns fur apart as the
earth from the sun. These were tho teach
ings of our Lord and Saviour, when in
this world he said, “Render unto Caesar
the things that are Cusar’s, and unto God
the things that are God’s.” Before that
time,the man who took the oath of fidelity
to the Roman Emperor, had to include in
it an asseveration of his faith in all the Gods
from Jupiter to Priapns. Before the coming
of the milder dispensation, the Jews were
frequently required to slaughter whole na
tions, which differed with them in religion
and politics on that account. They suffered
destruction in turn from the same cause;
and centuries afterwards, the creed of Ma
homet, which tolerated no differences in re
ligion and politics,swept the Eastern world
with fire and the sword,in its enforcement.
In violation of the precepts of the Great
Teacher, His professed followers have, too
often in modem history, disregarded his
instructions and mixed politics, intoler-
ance and religion so-called, in such a way,
as to bring the direst calamities upon the
human race. Tho list is too long to name
them all, but we can recall here the folly
of the crusades—the horrors of the inquisi
tion in Italy and Spain—the thirty years
war in Germany—tho massacre of St. Bar
tholomew in France, and the subsequent
expulsion of six hundred thousand Hu
guenots in a single day 7 from that country;
the confiscation of church property by
Henry VIII —the bloody contentions of
Protestants and Papists in England and
Scotland,and the horrors of Cromwells’ in
vasion of Ireland, wading ankle deep in
Catholic blood. As between Protestants,
wlio can forget the star chamber of Charles
the I—the murder of that Monarch, great
er in his death than he had even been in his
life--the usurpation of Cromwell,by which
first Episcopacy fell, and then Presbyteri
anism, and then Independentism, leaving
nothing but the despot? His is an instruc
tive career. All, with him, was done for
the glory of God! He was a great lay
preacher and visitor of Sunday schools
and church associations in his day 7 . He
was gifted in prayer and exhortation
above the average man, an expounder of
the scriptures,and regarded by his follow
ers as a pure Christian Governor and a
great General, but he became corrupted
by remaining in office too long. The people
did not hold him to accountability, and
tho result was, that he began to use the
religion of his followers as a stepping
stone to absolute power, and through it,
he accomplished his purpose,and reduced
Groat Britain from a constitutional Mon
archy to an absolute despotism. Now all
these experiences, as well as many more
equally as disastrous, came home to the
American people, when they were forming
their government, and if there was one
idea above another implanted in their
minds and hearts, and into the Constitu
tion of the United States and of tho several
States, it was that there should be no
union of church and state, that religion
and politics should be kept seperate and
apart. So deep did this sentiment take
root in the American mind, that the Cath
olics, the Episcopalians,the Presbyterians
and the Independents,all of whom had in
turn persecuted more or less, for tho sake
of religion and politics, were at a discount
with the masses, and the Methodists and
Baptists, who were either too young in
their origin, or too small in their numbers
to have made a party in the affiirs of the
old world, and therefore had not mixed in
its religious and political contentions to
any great extent, became tho favorites of
the people and absorbed into their organi
zations a large proportion of the American
population. They agreed with the genius
of tho people, met their religious wants
and requirements and did an amount of
good, which can never bo calculated or
told. But of late years, these most admir
able religious organizations, as first con
ceived, went into politics in the northern
part of our Union. The samo disastrous
results, as those strewn all through the
pages of history, ensued. The churches
north and south were riven in twain. Tho
Sunday schools of the north were inun
dated with selections from uncle Tom’s
Cabin, and the refrain of “John Brown’s
Soul is marching on” rang out from great
audiences in sacred edifices. A semi-reli
gious war against slavery ensued, and a
million of men were offered up as a sacri
fice to the union of religion and politics.
That struggle has ended,but in its end has
the connection between redigion and pol
itics also ended? We fear not, although
wo do not know, from observation; but the
churches north and south have not reu
nited, and an able writer recently in a
Northern paper asserted,that “The Meth
odist Church north was a huge political
machine.” The churches south until re
cently kept clear of politics. Is this to
continue ? We hope so, but of late there
drops a circumstance ora remark now and
then which fills our hearts with forebod
ings. It is an expression in effect, that we
will vote fora certain man for Governor,or
Sheriff or Clerk of tho Court, as the case
may be, because he is of a certain reli
gion, or wc wont vote for him because ho
is not of a certain religion. The begin
ning is small, but if carried out the teach
ings of history will be repeated. We have
written with no interest or motive, save
that of tho welfare of our whole people,
believing as we do, that it is death to tem
poral liberty and happiness, to mix reli
gion and politics.
Senator Ben Hill says that the letter of
Hon. Samuel J. Tilden declining to be a
candidate for President, was “the grand
>st ever written in our political history.”
Tic letter will live after Samuel J. Tilden
has gone.
Tilt: ci'RRtK outrage.
Of all the judicial outrages which have
ili Kg raced modem American coarts, the
recent acquittal of the Texicn murderer
Currie, is the most abominable. Two gen
tlemen and a lady were quietly eating
their lunch in a Texas railroad restaurant.
This drunken scoundrel, Currie came in,
and without the slightest provocation
grossly insulted the lady, using language
which will not bear publication. Her es-
I eort mildly interfered for her protection,
j when the murderer instantly opened fire
| upon them, and in cold blood succeeded
!in depriving one of them of his life. This
is the plain, unvarnished statement. The
' facts were all proven on the trial. A Texas
i jury has acquitted him upon the groun 1
| that he was insane, that is, drunk; and he
is now at liberty to repeat his pleasant ex
ploit upon the next inoffensive traveler he
may meet in that delectable region. It is
useless to talk about his being a wander
ing Yankee vagabond, and ex-soldier in
the union army. That does not relieve
the people of Texas of this disgraceful,
denotement of his trial. We can think of
but one good effect it will have, and that
is to keep the restless part of our popula
tion in their safe and pleasant homes here,
rather than to go wandering off k to a stale,
where a man’s life seems to be regarded of
less account than that of a respectable dog
in Georgia.
Alt GEBSOS DOE* IT THIS TIME WITH
A KXIFE.
We have all been down on the Marshall,
Texas court, for the acquittal of the mur
derer, Currie. The ink was not dry in
our Georgia papers, denouncing that out
rage, when we have been reminded by
another playful exploit of the Macon, Ga.,
pet by the name of “Ab Gibson/’ that we
too have some glass in our house, which
ought to admonish us, how we throw
stones at our neighbors. About two years
ago the gentle “Ab" slew an inoffensive
man without provocation, and a Macon
jury acquitted him on the ground that
he was insane or drunk or something of
that sort. He has now tried his hand suc
cessfully upon another old and highly es
teemed citizen of Macon, Mr. Wolihen, be
cause that gentleman could not see the
propriety of permitting Mr. Gibson to in
trude his drunken person along with his
ruffiainly associates, upon the privacy of
the guest of the National hotel,over which
he presided. This time when the Bibb
county jury acquits this beautiful speci
men of ehivahy,of bis crime, they should
vote him a resolution of thanks for the
reputation he is achieving for his native
city, and take up a collection in order to
bestow on him a fitting testimonial of their
appreciation of his courage and manhood.
The Athens Watchman of June Bth
made the statement printed below. Is
this statement true or false. The Watch
man says: “Led Gov. Colquitt answer this:
Did not H. W. Grady bring from Wash
ington City to Atlanta, Gen. Gordon's re
signation as Senator, about may the 10th ?
—and did not the Governor keep the
whole matter quiet until May the 20th,
and then get a telegram, announcing the
resignation of which he had actually
known ten days previous ? Grady told
twenty members of the Pioneer Hook and
Ladder Company, of Athens, on their way
to Rome, about the whole matter on May
the 18th, riding on the cars from Lulu to
Atlanta. Told that Gordon was to get a
railroad position worth $14,000; that
Brown was to bo made his successor, and
that Colquitt was to be made Governor
again.”
Tne Philadelphia Item, Independent,
says: “The Chicago ticket has not created
the slightest enthusiasm. Nay, it has pro
voked bitter ’ criticism from those who
should be friends and supporters. Al
ready the party is on the defensive. Grant
and anti-Grant all say they wall work for
the ticket, hut with the former element at
least there is certainly nothing of enthu
siasm. The Grant men are sore, and take
a melancholy pleasure in talking OTer
their grievances. Privately, many of the
Grant leaders say they have no doubt of
the defeat of the ticket. Perhaps things
may take a favorable turn, hut at present
disappointment is general.”
The Savannah News says: “A Texas
jury has acquitted Currie, the murderer
of Porter, the actor, on the ground of in
sanity. Much has been said of the loose
manner in which criminal law is admin
istered in Texas, and we have always be
lieved that great injustice is being done
the people of the Lone Star State; but we
are forced to admit that a country where
Colt’s revolver in one pocket and a bottle
of insanity in the other, free from the re
straints of law and irresponsible for their
actions, is not a safe place to live in.”
The Chicago, St. Louis and New Or
leans Railroad management have notified
the Louisville and Nashville Railroad offi
cials that on the 28th inst., they will ter
minate all agreements existing between
the lines; that facilities heretofore given it
will be withdrawn.
The “grand jury at New Orleans have
visited the Chinese dens where white per
sons, male and female, assemble to smoke
opium, aud will make a special present
ment, directing the attention of the city
authorities to the evil.
“Was not James A. Garfield tho chair
man of the committee of appropriations in
the House of Representatives that report
ed the salary grap, and was not he a snq -
porter of that iufainons measure ?”
It is said that Queen Victoria is begin
ning to age pretty rapidly, and is grow
ing so whimsical as to cause a great deal
of trouble to court officials.
GEORGIA AFFAIR*.
The Atlanta Constitution had four of its
editors on hand at Cincinnati.
The tri-weekly Albany News reaches us
regularly and is a first-class paper.
Hon. Emory Speer ia going to run for
Congress again in the Ninth District.
To let Henry Washington Grady tell it,
Colquitt will bo elected by 20,000,000 ma
jority.
Judge Underwood, of Rome, will prob
ably be the successor of Attorney General
Bob Ely.
These columns are always open to the
public; all we ask is, to write your articles
short and to the point.
The colored Republicans in Augusta
have, declared that if Seymour is nominat
ed at Cincinnati, the will vote for him in
preference to Garfield.
The Atlanta Constitution, one of the
ablest d°ilies in the South, is now so
wrapt up in the Colquitt boom that it
pays but little attention to anything else.
It is said that the Georgia delegation to
the Cincinnati Democratic Convention
was composed of the finest crowd of men
that was ever sent out of the State to a
National Convention.
The Atlanta Phonograph says it is use
less for the young men in Georgia to make
an effort to hold any high office, it mat
ters not how capable they are, until all the
Colonels und Generals die and get out the
way.
Hod. Francis Fontaine, Georgia Com
missioner of Immigration,with head-quar
ters at New York, recommends that the
next State Convention, when it finishes
its business, resolve itself into an Immi
gration Convention.
Under the new Democratic administra
tration, Ben Russell, of the Bainbridge
Democrat, deserves the best Federal office
in Southwest Georgia. Ben is a good
Democrat and deserves a good position
and we hope he will get it.
The following from the Brunswick Ap
peal which we endorse: “Joseph Ghanal,
of Augusta, is spoken of as a candidate for
Attorney General. There is no gentle
man in the State for whom we have a high
er regard, or for whom we could vote more
cheerfully.”
We are glad tohear that Count Gorman,
of the Talbotton Register, is fast recover
ing from the snake bite he recently re
ceived. Every member of the Georgia
Press Association, besides all the girls in
the State, deeply sympathize with you,
John.
The Quitman Free Press says: “Oh !it
does our heart good to see such a large
majority of the weekly press of Georgia
coming right square to the scratch and
battling for the right. We won’t call the
boys one horse ink stingers any more,they
are whole teams.”
The Valdosta Times says: “Mr. Lester
is right. It is a question of personal pre
ference, and candidates for the nomina
tion have no right to galop over the coun
try and urge themselves as eminently fit,
above all others, for the highest office in
the gift of the people of Georgia.”
The Cartersville Free Press says: “The
Atlanta Daily Post is bravely contending
for the best interest of Georgia,politically.
But for it and the Phonograph the people
would know but little of “the deeds that
are dark and the tricks that are vain” in
connection with the Kirkwood Democracy.
Price $5 a year.”
John S. Bigby, whose nomination as
United States District Attorney for Geor
gia failed of confirmation in consequence
of the adjournment of Congress, will he
appointed by the President during recess
and renominated when Congress reas
sembles. The same action will he taken
in the case of J. Mason Rice as Collector
for the District of St. Mary’s.
In speaking of State Treasurer John W.
Renfroe, the Sandersville Mercury' says'
“This able and distinguished gentleman
who has for years filled this honorable po
sition of the State, is again a candidate
for that office. We know him. He was
born here in Sandersville, and here the
greatest portion of his life has passed. Our
people delight to honor him and elected
him to many r important offices of honor,
trust and profit. We know him to he
honest, able, faithful, just and upright.
In fact he is one of the best men in the
State being above reproach and beyond
suspicion, and it gives us pleasure to in
dorse him, and Washington county will
support him gladly and proudly for re
election to the position he so ably and
satisfactorily occupies, for in his hands
the financial condition of Georgia will
continue to improve and every dollar of
her money' be honestly and properly ac
counted for. He is the right man in the
right place.”
We heartily endorse the following from
the pen of Col. Alexander, of the Griffin
News: “We see from the press dispatches
that Col. Peter F. Lawshe, of the Gaines
ville Southern, has been appointed post
master of that place to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of Gen. Long
street, who has been appointed Minister
to Turkey. Col. Lawshe is in every way
competent to fill the place, and we are
glad he has been the fortunate applicant,
for if there is any class of men who works
faithfully for the success of their party
and friends, it is the newspaper editors.
Whenever a man becomes a candidate the
newspaper proprietors use the brains, in
fluence and capital to secure his election
without fee or reward. Some of them
work tor years for the success of their par
ty and friends, and are never rewarded for
it, even by some small honor in the way
of a recognition of their labors. When a
man announces himself for office, if ho is
nominated the party papers have to fight
his battle for him, and they do it faith
fully without the hope of any personal re
ward. Col. Lawshe has fought many bat
tles for his friends and he fought them
well, and we are glad to know his labors
were appreciated und rewarded.”
ii -N. A.. IS AEON AT* a THE GEORGIA
SESATOBSHSP.
The Hon. Augustus O. Bacon may now
be regarded ns fairly before the people of
Georgia as a candidate,brought forward by
his many friends and admirers,for tho seat
in the Senate vacated by Gen. Gordon. Mr.
Bacon possesses in an eminent degree tho
qualities which will make ft good Senator,
He has had an experience of ten years
in the House of Representatives Of this
Stste. During a large part of that time
he has filled the place of Speaker of the
House and filled it with a grace, dignity
and ability, in all of which he has not
been surpassed by any of his predecessors.
He is an able lawyer, a profound states
man and cultured gentleman. By the
peculiar circumstances of his life, Mr. Ba.
con must needs belong to all of Georgia
and cannot be a sectional representative
of any particular part of the State. Hr
was a low-country boy, born in Bry.m
county, he spent the early part of his
youth in Liberty. From thence his fami
ly moved to LaGfange, where he resided
for years. He was educated at Athens and’
has passed tire years of his manhsod in
Macon. We do not pledge ourselves, at
this early day to support him against all
who may enter the race, but we cam con
scientiously say that we do not know his
superior for the exalted position, and we
certainly have reason to be proud that i j
O. Bacon first saw the light on the old sea
board of Georgia.
Jt DfiK BLACK DEFENDS GARFIEI.It
IN IS I* CAPACITY AS A LAWYER.
A good deal of capital has recently been
sought to be made by the Radical press,
out of the letter written by Judge Jeremiah
Black, in the defense of Garfield, against
the charges of his corrupt connection with
the credit mobilier. Some of our people have
been imj>osed upon, not knowing the fact
that this letter was written by Judge
Black in 1873, not in bis individual capac
ity as a man, but as the retained counsel
of Garfield, in order to influence the ac
tion of the Poland Congressional Commit
tee, which then had under consideration
Garfield’s corrupt tamperings with this,
infamy. Judge Black's letter therefore
should receive just that amount of consid
eration at the hands of the public, which
the remarks of any lawyer defending his
client for theft heforea petitjury,would be
entitled to. That,and nothing more. But
even - Judge Black’s great ability was in
sufficient to save his client from the moral
stigma, attaching to the members of the
credit mobilier ring.
MAJOR !. N. SPEER.
Mr. D. N. Speer, of Troup county, is an
nounced as a candidate for State Treasur
er, subject to the Democratic Convention.
He is highly endorsed by those who know
him best, and no doubt would make a
faithful officer if elected. —Gainesville Ea
gle.
In this issue will be found the an
nouncement of Mr. D. N. Speer; of La-
Grange, who is a candidate for State
Treasurer, subject to the indorsement of
the State Convention. While we do not
go much on Conventions, we are compell
ed to say that Mr. Speer will make a good
Treasurer, with or without the indorse
ment of the Convention. —Gainesville tienith
ron.
Major D. N. Speer, of LaGrenge, has a
handsome following all over the State, for
the office of State Treastlrer, and no man
in Georgia is more eminently fitted for the
place, or more deserving of the confidence
of the people at large. His prospects for
being elected are being enhanced every
day. We do not fight the battle of any
candidate for office, but merely show up
things in their true light— Wa.skington
Gazette.
We publish to-day a notice of the candi
dacy of Major 1). N. Speer, of Troup coun
ty, fir Treasurer. We have not the pleas
ure of a personal acquaintance with Maj.
Speer, but have the evidence which satis
fies us that he is a gentleman of strict in
b-grity, exact and careful business habits,
thorough ability,and able to give not only
the heavy bond required of this officer,but
one whose perfect honesty and high sense
of duty will ensure the faithful discharge
of the onerous duties of this office— South
ern Fnierjmse.
The friends of Major Daniel N. Speer,of
Troup county, have announced hitn as a
candidate for State Treasurer. We have
known him from his boyhood as well as
any one living knows him. He has been
our constant personal friend for a quarter
ot a century. His candidacy has beexj an
nounce and by and with the advice of some
of the best business men of the State. Wo
know liim to be well qualified to fill the
office, p.nd that he can promptly give the
required bond of $200,000, composed of
nif-u of unquestioned responsibility, and
which will in no sense, bo regarded as a
straw bond. In fact, we know of uo man
who could do so with less trouble nor with
"better security. If Major Speer should be
elected, we stake our head upon his suc
cess us a faithful and honest officer. He
is not only a successful officer, but a first
clast; basinets man, as bis success in busi
ness fully demonstrates. We want men to
attend to our public affairs who have been
successful in their own business. Bpeer
is just the kind of a man. —Cartersville Free
Press.
The case of Currie, tried for the murder
of Porter, at Marshall, Texas, has termi
nated by a verdict of acquital on the ground
of insanity.
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JOHN BRESNAN, Manager.
M. L. ILXUNLIT, ia the office. aprdO-tf,