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HOME JOURNAL.
FRIDAY, MAY 21. USA
JUST THERE.
We do not believe that the his
tory of representative government,
not only in onr own country, where
it pretends to attain to its ideal,
bnt in other countries where our
theories have been sincerely, even
if imperfectly, adopted, presents
instances of official impudence, ego
tism and utter and studied disre
gard of the wishes and the will o
the people such as are dis
closed in the conduct of Mr. Con-
gressman Seaborn Reese of the
Eighth Georgia district. Time
was when the suspicion of pre
sumptuousness in an official who
owed his position and dnty to his
superiors, whom he was deputed to
represent and obey, would have
swept him into political
not to name such utter contumely
as has been hurled into the
faces of the citizens of this district.
If the level of politics has sunk
so low and the genius of demo
cratic government has become so
debased that, in a Congressional
district of the thirteenth State
which wrote in its best blood an
eternal protest against a paltry
tea tax, a man can ask or expect
re-election to the seat of govern
ment who has ignored every ex
pressed desire of the people; who
lias written insulting and defiant
letters in response to communica
tions bearing on his unperformed
public duties, and who has casl
aside unanswered respectful and
official inquiries that it was bis
business and his paid duty to treat
with decency and dignity—we say
that if we have cotne to this, then
let us tear off the mask of pretense
behind which we assume a form of
electoral franchise; let us do away
with the empty shell of fraudulent
popular government, at least in
Georgia, and let us bend our necks
gracefully aud submissively to the
yoke of the official who does not
represent this people and yet
dares ask to be retained by them
in the place he has employed to
humiliate them and contemn their
wisbee.
It is a truth, a stark, raving, star
ing truth that will not down, n
truth that we cannot evade, a truth
that we cannot escape, that a
man is wanting in this district who
has the confidence of the people
and who can be depended on to
fulfill his obligations in spirit and
letter to them and to the position he
holds. Without such a man it
would be well as to merge the aroa
of this political division with that of
some unrepresented territory, for
we know that an unrepresented
district is, under republican gov
ernment, far better than a raw
represented one.
We are untrammelled by a sin
gle political aspiration. We have
not a personal interest in this mat
ter that is not the common proper
ty of every freeman in Georgia.
We have no candidate for Con
gressman. We have consulted
with no known candidate. Our
preference has not been question
ed by ourself. We care not who
represents the Eighth Georgia dis
trict in Congress, so long as the man
elected does represent it! But we
are against the re-election of Mr.
Seaborn Reese, and we will oppose
to the uttermost any other man
who would seek to succeed him
in his high-handed public acts if
he were elected to succeed him
in his Congressional functions.
—The Eighth Congressional dis
trict of Georgia has all through its
history and up to the present in
terregnum been notably and proud
ly represented in the halls of the
national Commons. Looking back
over the grand past of its political
glory, the names of gifted public
men, nearly all of whom have
passed away, file before us. Shall
it be confessed that today no man
dwells within this historic and in
tellectual area whose talentß and
repute fit him for the task of re
deeming this district to its former
splendor ? Or is it, worse still, to
be feared that there is no ono
who, having the needful qualities,
will go forward to the fulfillment of
neglected duties and the reparation
of unrepresentative acts ?
—The fearless and outapokeu
Eatonton Messenger is handling
the derelict member from the
Eighth Georgia district without
gloves, The Messenger is of the
jpeopk with the people aud for the
THE THING TO DO.
Whatever shall be the method
of expression adopted, whether it
be by primaries or otherwise, the
object and the result ought to be
to fairly and fully disclose the
preferences of the people as to can
didates for each of the offices to be
filled by the votes of the Demo
cratic party. The Homb Journal
will abet that means which in its
opinion is freest for all who are en
titled to its privileges. The prin
cipal stain upon our nominating
system has been that it has either
opened its doors too widely or
not widely enough—that is to say,
it has either let in those who had
no business to enter or it has ex
cluded those who by every right
ought to have been there. Undei
just and proper restraints we believe
the primary method approaches
nearest to the best in vogue. At
any rate, it is superior in every re
spect to the underhanded and un
lemocratic caucus and it has clear
advantages in favor of honest sen
timent over the intolerant and des
potic “court house cliques.”
In our own midst the Home Jour
nal will advocate the primary as
the least of preliminary evils to the
nominations that are to be made
in this county, and to the conven
tions which are to elect dele
gates to nominating bodies else
where. But we shall insist that
it these primaries only Democrats
shall be permitted under any plen
whatever to vote, for these prima
ries—one or many—can have onh
the interests of that party with
which to deal and on which to de
termine. It must be no man’s
(white or black) prerogative to
approach the polls without chal
lenge unless by his antecedent rec
ord he is known to be in accord
with the party at whose primary
re seeks to vote; and uo man who
for any object shall in anywise abet
such an imposition at such a pri
mary ought to have his own vote
received, or, if already received,
counted upon casting up the re
sult.,
We remind a certain class of
our citizens who, like the same class
elsewhere, have usually held aloof
rom their franchises and duties
and privileges at these assemblies,
that most of the objectionable and
undesirable public officials who
have fallen like a nightmare upon
the unwilling and impatient mass
es have procured their favoritism
through the indolence and ab
sence of the respectable members
of the community at the very time
their presence was most needfu)
to shape the future of public af
fairs.
We shall continue throughout
the pending canvass to urge the
best class of our voters to their
plain and imperative duty; and if
they will take our prediction for it,
wherever the robust, wholesome
and respectable sentiment of the
several communities of this county
is seen to impress itself upon the
conduct of the campaign, both
upon the nominating bodies and
at the ballot box, victory will re
ward their interest in a matter in
which it ought not to be needful
to remind them of their transpa
rent political obligations.
THE HOME JOURNAL
If we have made energetic and
honest efforts to serve the people
for the sake of the people, and to
give them a public journal which
can and does go into every respoct
able channel where it ought to be
the ambition of a newspaper to
reach, it is but frank and just to
say that we have been encouraged
beyond measure by the very best
sentiment of this and other com
ma nities in those efforts. Our edi
tion of May 7 has been commend
ed everywhere, and while we ad
mit that it is jno easy task to pro
duce so wondrous and welcome an
issue, it is plain to those who read
the number now before them that
we were not staggered by onr own
herculean labors. The Home Jour
nal this week takes up the thread
of its enlightened purpose to excel
all others, and it will continue to
be sustained unstintingly by this
community, this county and this
State just as long us it continues
to deserve the uuexumpled partial
ity and patronage which iucroase
without intermission with the
march of the days. Renewed aud
emphatic evidences of this favor
itism, aud warm appreciation of
our endeavors handsomely evinced,
demaud our grateful thanks aud
eucourago ,us to iucompurahle
deeds and ambitions.
GEORGIA HOME JOURNAL: GREENESBORO, FRIDAY, MAY 21, 1886.-EIGHT PAGES.
NO, THANK YOU.
Our esteemed neighbor over the
way is poking fan at an Atlanta
paper which inadvertently credited
us with publishing its supplement.
It says:
That twenty-page paper of Editor
Knowles, of the Greencsboro Herald, is
an honor to his untiring industry and en
ergy. Twenty pages for a large city daily
is considered a big affair, aud the more
so should it be for a small place. Knowles
has good grit.
The above we clip from the Atlanta Cap
itol. For such a remarkably bright paper,
our esteemed friend seems to have got
things considerably mixed. Editor W.
Addison does not edit the Herald, and as
his “pet,” the Jouhnal, only appeared
with sixteen pages, we are at a loss to
understand what the brilliant Capitol
xvas driving at in the above squib. How
ever, the Herald did appear with twenty
pages, and it was a big affair; so—we
tliank the Capitol for its unintentional
compliment to us. We do not expect
Editor W. Addison to thank the Capitol
for his untiring energy in getting out the
Herald.
As our friend says above that the
Home Journal “only appeared
with sixteen pages,” we feel tempt
ed to compare our “only sixteen
pages” with the Herald supplement
or the supplement’s Herald. Let
it reduce the matter to columns, and
then to inches. The Herald print
ed 120 columns 20 inches long, or
twenty four hundred inches of matter.
The Home Journal proper con
tained 12 pages, and a supplement
of 4 pages, making sixteen. The
12 pages contained 84 columns
22£ inches loDg, or 1,890 inches.
Add to this our Atlanta supple
ment (which supplied the first
oage of the Greenbsboro Herald),
being four pages, twenty-four col
umns, or 480 inches, and we
find that the 20 pages of the
Herald made just 30 lineal in
ches more than the 16 pages of the
Home Journal. But there was
this important difference in the two
publications: Of the Herald’s 120
columns, or 2,400 inches, only 24
columns or 480 inches were put in
type or press in Greenesloro. Of
the Home Journal’s 16 columns,
or 2,370 inches, 53 columns, or
1,193 inches, were set in typo and
put to press in its office. The
Herald is welcome to the Capitol’s
oblique and, as the Herald says
tbove, “unintentional” compliment,
ihe Lord knows. We suspect the
Atlanta Capitol knew what it was
doiug when it said :
Mr. W. Addison Knowles, of the
Greonesboro Home Journal, has made
a remarkable success of his paper. His
last issue was a l(!-page publication, 112
columns, of which 52$ columns consisted
of advertising. It is indeed a fine spec
imen of journalism and an extraordinary
instance of enterprise.
“ANOTHER HEARD FROM.”
All over the Eighth Congression
al district are the prints of the
hoof. We suppose it pardonable for
an official to “pipe-lay” for his re
election when the opportunities are
fairly present and his public duties
do not suffer because of his private
interests. But we shall hold
till doomsday that no man is elect
ed in this State for the sole pur
pose of sapping and miuing certain
ways for his return to office. We
shall lay before our readers such
concurrent facts (thus far on hand
from four of the tioelve counties in
the Eighth district) as will disclose
to the people that Congressman
Reese has viewed his election to
Congress to meau nothing more
than a commission and empower
ment for him to peddle and scheme
for his own monopoly of the po
tion of “Representative” from this
district, with all thut the office im
plies save its duties to the citizens
who make up his constituency.
We are in possession of the de
tails affecting appointments in Mor
gan, Greene, Elbert, Clarke. They
do not all relate to “postmaster
ships,” however, although that
theme has seemed to be Mr.
Reese’s wild mania. The first two
of these cases we have pretty well
ventilated. The others are iu salt.
Our correspondence on the subject,
when sifted aud condensed, will
appear in time aud place. “A few
more counties are yet to be heard
from.”
—Wheu a mau finds himsolf in
an indefensible position he resorts
to bravado and becomes indignant
at an imaginary insult. If Con
gressman S. Ileese had paid the
attention compatible with poiite
uess and duty to the letters ad
dressed to him in his official capac
ity, he would uot have becu com
pelled to resort to the bombast
and transparency of his Gibbs let
ter,— Eatonton Messenger.
—Occasionally wo see this stere
otyped bit of humor in a ring pa
lter : “Heab House will havo a walk
over iu the Eighth," Mr. 1 loose
will haves walk over—the plank.
“WITH THIS,” ETC., ETC.
Mr. Beck is a Senator from Ken
tucky, and has three years loogei
to serve. He is the Democratic
leader in the higher branch of Con
gress. Mr. Beck, for not voting
against the confirmation of an un
desirable lady official who was nom
inated to be postmistress of Louis
ville has so embittered the people
of that city that they declare that
he will never again go to the Sen
ate from Kentucky.
And yet we have in Georgia,
uav, in this district, an official (not
a Senator, bat a Congressman di
rect from the people), who writes
haughty and contemptuous letters
to persons who helped elect him ;
who consistently ignores the wishes
of the great body of voters in his
district, and who, by his auto
cratic and unparalleled behavior
toward his superiors, the people,
has shown that he does not under
stand his business as a “represent
ative.”
But what would the people of
Louisville and of Kentucky have
said to a letter such as this if it
had been addressed to the Chair
man of the Democratic Commit
tee in Louisville in reply to in
quiries as to Mr. Beck’s public
acts in connection with that city :
House of Representatives, i
Washington, D. C., March 23, 1886. )
T. P. Gibbs:
Sir—Had you lived in Morgan county
longer, you would have known me too
well to have ventured to write your two
impertinent letters. You would have
learned that I have never shirked an
honest and fearless discharge of every
duty, whether private, professional or
political. Alumyx assuming whatever
responsibility, be it of a PERSONAL or
political character, that attached to the
same. With this 1 dismiss you.
Seaborn Reese.
The italics and the CAPITALS herein
are Mr. Reese’s.
A letter like this to a Kentucky
constituency would have reacied
against the impudent official au
thor, and ho would have been
hurled by public indignation into
political oblivion.
—To the commendations of the
Home Journal which so gratefully
poured into our sanctum from the
State press, and certain of which
were spread upon our first page
last week, we beg to add the fol
lowing :
(liarnemille Gazette.) ■
The last issue of the Georgia Home
•Journal comes to us a mammoth six
teen p age sheet, showing more enterprise
and pluck than has ever cropped out in
the weekly press before, ami crowns Ed
itor Knowles as the champion weekly
publisher iii Georgia.
(Eatonton Messenger.)
Mr. Knowles, ot the Greenesboro Home
Journal, publishes a model newspaper.
Besides being a fearless and successful
editor, Knowles is personally one of the
most popular members of newspapor
dom.
(Cherokee Advance.)
The Greenesboro Home Journal of
last week contained sixteen pages of in
teresting reading matter and advertise
ments. It is a real live, enterprising
paper.
—Bridges Smith, the genial and
gifted Bridges Smith of the “great
and good” Macon Telegraph, was
married in that beautiful city last
week. If there be one to whom
without alloy these columns can
tender its congratulations on an
event so fraught with benisons and
delights, that oue is Bridges Smith;
aud if there be another, it is she
who w’ill share with him through
life the royal jouroeyiDgs that his
jocund talents, his facile genius
and his great good nature will in
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