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GEORGIA HOME JOURNAL.
W. ADDISON KNOWLES, Prop’r.
VOLUME XIV-NUMBEK 27
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Triumphal Canvass
of the Statesman
of Clarke!!
CAPT. HALCARLTON!
The Next Congressman on
the Sure Way to Win.
THUS HIM II BETML!
AND FINDING HOSTS OF HEARTY
AND HONEST BACKERS IN
EVERY COUNTY.
From Oglethorpe, Morgan, Madison,
Hart, Eibert, Franklin, and even from
Wilkes, reports of the most gratifying
and encouraging nature are received, and
it is agreed on all hands that Captain
Carlton’s canvass has been the most re
mark able in political annals.
The incident of Carlton’s nomination
at Athens was in the form of an ovation.
We clip an account of the striking event
from the Banner-Watchman, as follows:
Clarke lor Carlton.
The call of the chairman of the exec
utive committee of Clarke county to se
lect delegates to the Congressional con
vention was responded to by the business
men, clerks, professionals, mechanics and
farmers of Clarke county. Stores were
closed that all men might attend the
meeting, and the fanners left their plows
and fields in the grass to give their vote
to the soldier and statesman of our coun
ty. Long before the hour of meeting the*
streets were thronged with the best men
of the county to give their aid to Clarke’s
favorite son.,
At 11 o’clock the opera house was filled
and business commenced. There were
over four hundred of the representative
men of the county present.
Capt. Yancy, chairman of the executive
committee, called the meeting to order,
and stated that the first business was to
select a permanent chairman of the meet
ing.
Capt. C. G. Talmadge proposed the
name of Capt. Yancy. This honor was
declined by that gentleman, and on the
motion of Mr. T. W. Rucker, Col. S. C.
Dobbs was elected chairman. Mr. T. W.
Rucker was elected secretary. Col. Dobbs
on taking the chair returned thanks and
stated the object of the meeting. The
chairman also, in his remarks, paid a
glowing tribute to Capt. H. H. Carlton,
and announced the meeting organized
and ready for business. Capt. Talmadge
offered the following resolutions:
Resolved, That we, the people of Clarke
county, in convention assembled, present
to the people of the Eighth congressional
district Hon. H. H. Carlton as one in ev
ery way qualified to represent this dis
trict in the 50th Congress of the United
States.
Rosolved, That in so doing we refer'
with pride to the public record of Clarke’s
gallant son, whether in the field or in
the forum, which will ever stamp him as
able, honest and with undying loyalty to
his constituents and people.
Resolved, That in his ability .and elo
quence the people of the Eighth district
will have a defender who will recall to
them the proudest days of the republic,
and in his fealty the surest guarantee of
the preservation of their liberties.
Resolved That with this record of a
noble son appealing to the most chivalric
and patriotic sentiments of an intelligent
people we ask for him the calm consider
ation and support of all good citizens of
the Eighth Congressional district.
Resolved. That the following delega
tion, with full power to appoint their
own alternates, are hereby selected to
present the name of Hon. H. H. Carlton
to the Congressional Convention on the
20th of July next as a candidate for Con
gress, viz: J. H. Rucker, Andrew J. Cobb,
John C. Johnson, W. L. Wood, W. D.
O’Farrell.
The resolutions were adopted unan
imously, and with loud and prolonged
cheering that shook the building.
After the cheering had ceased the nex t
business in order was to select a chairman
and executive committee for the county.
Col. Rucker moved that a committee of
five be appointed to retire and select a
chairman. Col. Dobbs appointed on the
committee, T. W. Rucker, Geo. Mnrrell,
W. D. O’Farrell and P. Benson. This
committee returned, and after thanking
Capt. Yancy for the faithful and efficient
manner in which he had presided as
chairman of the executive committee,
and as Capt. Yancy had declined to serve
longer, they nominated Col. S. C. Dobbs
for chairman. Col. D. declined, on the
ground that he had served the Demo
cratic party for several years as chairman
of the executive committee, and asked
that he he excused. Capt C. G. Tal
madge’s name was suggested, and he was
unanimously elected chairman for the
next two years, with power to appoint
one from each district in the county and
two from the city at large, to compose
the executive committee.
The meeting, after attending to all the
business, adjourned.
This was one of the largest and most
enthusiastic mass meetings ever held in
Clarke county, and will snow to the bal
ance of the district Clarke’s appreciation
of her favorite son. Capt. Carlton has a
record for bravery in times of war that
cannot be doubted. He was always at
the front, and the many scars now car
ried by this gallant soldier prove that
he was; one of the bravest of the brave.
In peace Capt. Carlton lias always been
true to his co’unty and his State, and if
elected to Congress Georgia can boast of
having a fearless and honest representa
tive in H. H. Carlton.
TROUPE ARTILLERY.
VETERAN EDWARDS HAS A WORD TO SAY
OF ITS DAUNTLESS CAPTAIN.
In a long letter to the Home Journal
Mr. J. W. Edwards, of Hall's Mill, Bar
tow county, and an ex-member of Troupe
Artillery, Captain H. 11. Carlton, Lees’s
Army, after congratulating, this paper
and the Congressional district upon his
candidacy, proceeds to recount some of
the salient episodes of that celebrated
battery in the war and its fearless com
mander.
The letter is a long one, and we are
permitted by limited space only to quote
from it here and there.
Mr. Edwards was a non-commissioned
officer under Carlton. He relates that in
those famous, sometimes useless and
often fatal “artillery duels” that every
old soldier will remember with horror,
Carlton’s battery never was silenced or
driven from the field. He made it a
point always to get the last shot. The
writer recounts an incident where he was
in camp, apparently at the point of death
with typhoid fever, just at a crisis when
a retreat of the army was ordered. To
be left sick in camp was to fall into
the hands of the enemy. Carlton direct
ed some of his men to remove Edwards
to a wagon and have him borne along
with the battery. The Captain was told
that to remove Edwards was simply to
hasten his death, which at best was con
sidered certain at almost any moment.
Carlton’s answer was characteristic: “I’ll
take him along with us, dead or alive!
The enemy shall not even have his bones
if I can help it!”
Edwards was accordingly dragged along
with the artillery, and through providen
tial interposition and kind nursing and
attention is alive to tell the story.
The Troupe battery fired the signal
gun for the great Fredericksburg battle,
the initial shot being aimed by Edwards.
The battery never went into action with
out Carlton, save when he was disabled
by wounds: and no matter how often he
was shot, lie was sure to come to the
front the very first moment his recovery
would permit. The sound of his guns
was as familiar as the voice of a friend,
and the name of his battery was a “house
hold” word, if indeed such an expression
can be pardoned where there were no
“households.”
Mr. Edwards sayß: “I would rather
trust Carlton than any other man I know
in Georgia. I have seen him and observed
him where it required nerve and principle;
and he was never wanting. I was wound
ed at Malvern Hill, and even in the heat
and horror of that terrific battle Carlton
coolly stepped to my side to examine my
wound and to encourage me. In another
minute lie was again at the front in com
mand of Ills famous battery.”
* * * * *
“Captain Carlton has the courage, the
ability and the principle to stand firmly
for anything involving the interests and
welfare of liis people.”
J. W. Edwards,
Late of Troupe Artillery.
June, 1886.
New Basis ot
At the meeting of tho Executive Com
mittee of the Democratic party of the
Eighth Congressional district in Athens
last week, Mr. Ira C. VanDuzer, of Hart,
made a motion to change the basis of
representation in the convention so that
it would be fair and just upon the small
er counties. There are seven counties
with a total population of 73,537, which
had two votes each, or fourteen votes;
and five counties with a total population
of 80,460, which had 4 votes each, or
twenty votes. Mr. VanDuzer held that
this was unfair, and basing it upon an
equal representation as to population, it
was not, and so moved that the number
of delegates be increased to three for
each of the smaller counties while the
number from the larger counties remain
as it was. This was strenuously opposed
by several of the delegates and a substi
tute w r as carried increasing the number
to three for the smaller counties and five
for the larger. Let us calculate a little
and see how near this comes to making
an equal representation. The seven
smaller counties represent a population
of 73,567 with twenty-one votes, or one
vote to each 3,500 of their population.
The five larger counties are entitled to
twenty-five votes for a population of 80,-
460 or one vote to each 3,218. Before the
change was made the small counties had
one vote to every 5,254 of their popula
tion, and the large counties one vote to
every 4,026 of their population, giving
them an advantage of the smaller coun
ties. Now it is just to the reverse. Al
though this change takes a little from
the weight of Oglethorpe county in the
convention, we are favorable to the
change because it is more equitable. It
is nearer right as it now stands, and we
admire fairness even though it works
against us. —Oglethorpe Echo.
A Strong Endorsement.
Never within the political history of
our country has there met a larger, more
representative or determined body of
men than assembled at the opera house
on Saturday last to endorse the candida
cy of Capt. H. H. Carlton for Congress.
From every district in the county you
saw leading farmers; the mechanic in his
shirt-sleeves was there; merchants from
Winterville and other points in the coun
ty had left their stores to be present; you
saw in that hall four-fifths of the minis
ters and business men of the city, many
of whom had closed their stores in order
to let their employes attend. And had
the slightest opposition to Capt. Carlton
been manifested, there were in call over
a hundred men, ready to come forward
and flatten it. This meeting meant death
to all opposition to Capt. Carlton at
home,'and was an endorsement by his own
people that must have its effect abroad.
The size and character of that meeting
cannot be lessened by jeers, and any one
that attempts it only makes himself ridi-
culous, It was an anti-Reese meeting,
too, and the delegates selected will, in
the event of Capt. Carlton’s defeat, cast
their vote for any good man in the dis
trict in preference to our present Con
gressman. The Oconee delegation, also,
is strong for Carlton, and was sent unin
structea because he had not announced.
So Congressman Reese will sea that in
this section of the district at least his re
cord has been strongly condemned.—
Banner-Watchman.
At JElbertou.
Capt. Carlton’s speech at the Court
house on Saturday was a revelation to
some of us of the plans and schemes and
methods of politicians in this district
Ilis speech was eloquent, was well re
ceived, and he was frequently applaud
ed.—Elberton Leader.
DEVOTED TO THE GENERAL WELFARE OF THE PEOPLE.
GREENESBORO, GEORGIA. FRIDAY MORNING, JULY t. 1886 -EIGHT PAGES.
MORGAN AROUSED.
MR. REESE’S NATIVE COUNTY
HAS ENOUGH OF HIM.
THOROUGH INDIGNATION THROUGHOUT
THE DISTRICT AT HIS OFFICIAL
AND INDEFENSIBLE ACTS.
[From the Home Journal, May 14.]
A thoughtful writer, signing himself
“In Earnest,” justly indignant, like thou
sands of others, at the haughty and des
potic conduct of the Congressman of the
Eight district, Mr. Seaborn Reese, writes,
to the Eatonton Messenger as follows,
among the other things:
I see from the columns of your valuable
paper that you have taken a decided
stand against the return of the Hon.
Seaborn Reese to the next'Congress from
the Eighth district. You are not alone
in your opposition. Hundreds, ves, thou
sands, of tnc best men in the district have
arrived at the conclusion that a change
in our representation in Congress is not
only desirable, but imperatively demand
ed. Under the American system of gov
ernment, which is emphatically of a rep
resentative character, the officers select
ed by the people are mere agents or
trustees to act for them and carry out
their sovereign will. The record that an
officer or representative chosen by the
people makes during his official term is
common property, and is always subjeet
to criticism. If this were not true, we
would be confronted by the remarkable
anamoly of an irresponsible officer in a
representative form of government. Pres
idents, Governors, Senators and Repre
sentatives are not rulers, they are simply
agents of the rulers, and their official
conduct is open to investigation and an
imadversion. Happily for the people at
this time, their channels of information
are broad and numerous. Few towns,
however small, are without a newspaper.
Nearly every home in this day of pro
gress and enlightenment is visited, at
least once a week, by a public gazette of
some character. The press is the great
and powerful medium through which the
people are kept informed of their rights
and of the incapacity and unfaithfulness of
their official agents, and the ballot box
is the medium through which the people
express their disapproval or distrust.
The press would be derelict in its duty
if it did not direct publio attention to the
official conduct of publio servants. Noth
ing ought to be left unreported. The peo
ple should be put in possession of all the
facts, so they can act intelligently and
with the strictest justice when they ren
der their final judgment at the polls.
The same writer continues:
Who will deny that it is the duty of a
Representative in Congress, when these
applications are transmitted to him to be
filed, to deposit them in the department
whether he see fit to endorse them or
not ? The assertion attributed to Mr.
Reese, that he controlled the appoint
ment, and that no notice would be taken
unless received through him, opens up a
broad question. Is it true that the ear
of tlie Executive department of this gov
ernment can be reached by a private citi
zen only through the agency and by the
condescension of his own immediate
Representative ? When did this country
lose its free, republican form of govern
ment ? I infer from the Home Journal
that it has in its possession written evi
dence against Mr. Reese. If so, let it be
published, so that the people of our dis
trict may read it for themselves. Apt is
the inquiry, “Upon what meat does this
our Cajsar feed that he has grown so
great ?”
But this is not all. I have been inform
ed that in the early part of 1885 a most
estimable gentleman of this place sent to
Mr. Reese, to be filed in tho Postoffice
Department at Washington, an applica
tion to be appointed postmaster here,
accompanied with recommendations from
a very large number of our best citizens,
lie never heard from Mr. Reese, and in
March last he wrote to the Postmaster
General inquiring if his application had
been filed, and he was informed it had
not been. He then wrote to Mr. Reese,
asking him to return it, but Mr. Reese
did not reply. It is true that Mr. Reese
may not have received the papers, but it
is fair to presume that if he had not re
ceived them he would have so informed
the applicant, whom he had known from
his earliest boyhood.
What is to be done ? Are the people
helpless ? Are their rights to be thus
tampered with and denied them ? There
is a remedy, an effectual remedy.
We have received other communica
tions covering a large area of the Eighth
Congressional district, all alike in spirit
and varying only in intensity of condem
nation, which will appear in these col
umns at the proper time. We will also
lay the particulars of still another post
mastership appointment in this district
before the people as soon as all the facts,
which we are having investigated, reach
us. This will be, like those already agi
tating the voting masses, a dumbfound
ing revelation to our readers and to all
who consider that the genius of our Con
gressional representation must be pre
served from abuse by any man, no matter
whom.
As to Putnam.
Capt. Carlton had the vote of Putnam
assured by an overwhelming majority,
for the people were embittered against
Mr. Reese and would have supported any
other man in the district in preference to
him. But our Congressman had extend
ed personal favors to two influential fam
ilies in Putnam, and then there was a
little question of Judgeship that needed
to be sharpened on Reese’s grindstone.
But the people could not be made to see
these combinations, and in order to keep
Carlton’s friends from the convention, it
was announced that Col. R. B. Nisbet
would be a candidate for Congress.
Hence, while a delegation was instruct
ed for Nisbet, it was composed of men
bound to Mr. Rcose by personal favors,
peculiar friendship and kindred ties.
Nisbet’s name had only been used as a
decoy duck, for he had not as much
chance for Congress as for being struck
by lightning. We cannot believe, how
ever, that Col. Nisbet lent his aid know
ingly to this scheme to defeat the will of
hisjown people, but that he was the vic
tim of designing politicians who took ad
vantage of his well-known ambition.—
Banner-Watchman.
Prof. T. C. Conaway’s school will re
open on September 1. The term will be
cfi'i/’flv frun
H. M.Wootten’s school at Hast
ings will reopen on next Monday, July
5.
DEMOCRATS 1 READ THIS j
WHAT DID HE DO ABOUT IT IN WILKES
WHEN THE TIME WAS RIPE?
J. F. Andrews was appointed by
President Grant (Republican) to
lie postmaster at Washington, Ga.
He was confirmed by a Republican
Senate. Mr. Andrews took posses
sion of the postoffice at Washing
ton, under this appointment, and
administered its functions to the
conclusion of Grant’s second term.
When Hayes (Republican) became
President he retained Andrews,
and the latter was postmaster at
Washington all through Hayes’
years of power. Then Garfield,
also a Republican, became Presi
dent. Garfield, too, retained An
drews, who continued to be post
master at Washington, Ga., daring
Garfield’s career as President. Ar
thur (Republican) succeeded Gar
field. Arthur removed Andrews,
on acoount, it is alleged, of faction
dissensions inside of the Republi
can party. This was, briefly, the
political state of things at the time
that Mr. Seaborn Reese (elected by
Democratic votes to represent the
Eighth Georgia district in the Uni
ted States Congress) made himself
known m connection with the facts
here related.
Well, what did Democratic Con
gressman Seaborn Reese do about
it?
Andrews had been a postmas
ter under four Republican Pres
idents, he having been removed by
the last who ever reigned. That
seemed indeed a good time for
Democratic Congressman to pat in
some party work for those who had
showered honors upon him and
who had blindly trusted him.
Did Reese do anything for his
Democratic friends ?
Not he.
Bat as soon as he haclconval
esoed from his lordly wrath over
Andrews’ removal he fell iipon the
latter’s neck and wept, and then
Democratic Congressman Reese of
the Eighth Georgia district wrote
to Mr. J. F. Andrews an eternal
troth—a letter burning with vows
and promises—from which is ex
tracted the following, word, far
ward.
Seaborn Reese wrote to John F.
Andrews : “And let me say to you
now, FOR ALL TIME, that if I
can EVER aid you IN ANY WAY
I shall do so, REGARDLESS OF
THE COMPETITORS. I shall
KEEP MY EYES OPEN, AND IF I EVER
SEE THE SLIGHTEST OPPORTUNITY TO
REPLACE YOU IN THE POST
OFFICE AT WASHINGTON, I
SHALL LEAVE NO STONE UNTURNED ! ”
VANDUZER.
Vanduzer is the hero of the Reap
portionment Bill which gives justice,
to the smaller counties. Carlton is
fighting for the protection of the peo
ple of the smaller counties on the ha
sis of the Vanduzer Reapportionment
Bill. Reese and his partisans are
warring against Vanduzer, Carlton
and the small counties, including
Morgan. Men of Morgan ! Stand to
Carlton and your colors 1
CARLTON SPEAKS.
Hon. H. H. Carlton will address
the people of Morgan county, at Mad
ison, on Saturday next, July 3, at 11
o'clock.
Also at Rutledge, in Morgan coun
ty, on Saturday night, July 3.
Let the People turn out en masse,
and learn the true inwardness of the
political situation in the B th district.
MORGAN COUNTY.
A primary election for delegates
to attend the Eighth Congressional
district convention mil be held at the
different precincts on Saturday 10fA
July. Morgan county is entitled to
three delegates. Convention to be held
at Athens 20 th July.
L. T. Campbell,
Chairman C. Com. M. C.
Farmers of Morgan ! You
will never do a better day's work for
your County, your State and your
Country than by going to the polls on
Saturday, July 10, and electing Cap
tain Carlton to Congress t
THE BTH DISTRICT.
SOMETHING FOB THE PEOPLE
TO BEAD AND PONDER.
UNPARALLELED OFFICIAL ARROGANCE
OF ONE WHO WAS ELECTED TO
SERVE THE PEOPLE.
[From the Home Journal, May 7.]
From voluminous and responsible writ
ten testimony volunteered to these col
umns, we present the case made- against
the official conduct of Congressman
Reese in Morgan county (his birth place)
in relation to the postmastership of Mad
ison, and we put the matter into the hands
of the people of the Eighth Congression
al district, merely premising that we have
the documents to substantiate this pub
lication, and the same can be viewed by
interested or skeptical parties on applica
tion in person at this office:
As soon as ifiwas definitely known that
Mr. Cleveland was elected President, Mr.
E. A. Furlow presented a petition to be
appointed postmaster at Madison, Ga.
Mr. Furlow is represented by our corres
pondence to have been a Democrat all his
life, to be peculiarly fitted by past expe
rience for the postmastership, and he
was indorsed for selection by a large
proportion of the Democrats of Morgan
county. “ Knowing that Mr. Reese had
assured several prominent gentlemen oi
Madison that a certain other applicant
would not receive his support," Mr. Fur
low inclosed his petition to Mr. Reese, re
questing him to present it. No answer
was received to this request. On learn
ing that Mr. Blackburn had been nominat
ed for the position, Mr. Furlow commu<
nicated with the Postoffice Department,
with the following result, his (Mr. Fur
low’s) letter being dated more than one
year after his application had been placed
in the custody of Congressman Reese:
Post Office Department, )
Office First Assistant P. M. Gen’l. >
Washington D. C., Mch 15, ’BO. )
Sir: Your communication of the 13th
inst. inquiring whether a petition recom
mending yon for Postmaster at Madison,
Ga., has been received at this office. In
reply I beg leave to state that no such
petition was received.
Very respectfully,
A. E. Stevenson,
First Ass’t P. M. General.
To E. A. Furlow, Madison, Ga.
On receipt of the above extraordinary
response from the Postoffice Department,
Mr. Furlow forwarded to President Cleve
land the following:
To His Excellency the President of Ok
United States:
I respectfully ask leave to lay before
your Excellency the following statement
of facts:'
Early in the year 1885 J made out an
application for the Postoffice at this place
and secured recommendations from a
large number of the leading citizens of
Morgan county. The application and
endorsements were at once transmitted to
Hon. Seaborn Reese, representing the
Eighth Georgia district, to be placed on
file in the Postoffice Department.
I received no notification of the filing
of the application, but, thinking that it
had nevertheless been filed, I made no
further move in the matter until March
of the present year, when, at the sugges
tion of the Chairman of the Democratic
Executive Committee of Morgan county,
I addressed a letter to the Postoffice De
partment, inquiring whether the applica
cation and endorsements were on file in
that department.
Within a few days I received a letter
from the First Assistant Postmaster Gen
eral informing me that they had never
been received. I immediately wrote to
the Hon. Seaborn Reese, politely asking
the return of my papers to me in order
that 1 might have them placed on file,
but as yet I have received no response
from lnm. Under these circumstances I
desire to renew my application, and 1
herewith transmit to your Excellency en
dorsements from gentlemen who are pat
rons of the office at this place, who stand
high in the community, and who are un
swerving in their allegiance to the Demo
cratic party.
Very respectfully submitted,
E. A. Furlow.
This petition was supplemented by an
other from the citizens of Morgan coun
ty, as follows:
To His Excellency the President :
We the undersigned citizens of Morgan
county, i from our own personal knowl
edge of Mr. E. A. Furlow cheerfully re
commend him to your Excellency’s con
sideration in making an appointment of
postmaster for this place. His character
and integrity are above reproach- His
intelligence and long experience in postal
affairs render him a fit and suitable per
son for the position, ne is affable and
accommodating in his manners and has
the confidence of the whole community.
From all we have seen and heard we hon
estly believe that he is the first choice of
a large majority of our people. Ho is a
strict Democrat in politics. That he is
ranked among “the most upright and in
telligent” of our citizens is evinced by
the fact that the Jury Commissioners
have placed him on the Grand Jury of the
county.
In view of these facts we cheerfully re
commend him to your Excellency, and
earnestly request that his. claims be con
sidered in making the appointment.
[Signed by Citizens of Madison.]
Meanwhile the applicant (Mr. Furlow)
wrote to Congressman Reese requesting
that his application be returned to him.
This was not done, nor was any notice tak
en of the request.
Falling in all efforts to obtain the at
tention of a public servant who in his ot
ficial capacity was being addressed in the
name of a majority ot his party on a mat
ter vital to the local concerns of a com
munity in the Congressional district
which he was supposed to “represent,”
the Chairman of the Democratic Execu
tive Committee of Morgan county wrote
to Congressman Reese for some explana
tion of these unparalleled circumstances.
Here is the reply of the official who is
presumed to have been elected to serve
and represent the constituency of an
American Congressional district, and it
was addressed to a citizen on whom it de
volved to question the said Congressman
on a subject of public import And this
was the very first response which had
been vouchsafed by the “representative”
germane to tho specific matter on which
he had been written to at divers times
and dates, as we have seen. Hero it is:
House of Representatives, J
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. Always assuming whatever
responsibility, be it of a PERSONAL or
political character that attached to the
same. With this I dismiss you.
Seaborn Reese.
The italics and the CAPITALS herein
are Mr. Reese’s.
We put this matter of the Madison
postmastersliip with intentional brevity
before our readers. We are content to
leave the matter with the people of this
district. If they can afford to have a man
in Congress who when he pleases can
“shut out” a citizen from petition; who
can when it suits his sweet will pigeon
hole, pocket or destoy a paper intended
to be conveyed byliim, in the exercise of
Ills functions as a public servant, to the
files of a department of the government,
and especially when that paper fairly
represents the wishes and involves the
public business of a majority of an
American community—we say that if
the people of this or any other district
will assume that such a public servant
ought to be maintained by re-election in
the offical relation which we deem that
he has thus forfeited by his public acts—
then it is not the fault of this paper.
Col. Nisbct’s Withdrawal.
Athens, Ga., June 23, 1880.—To the
Democrats of the Bth District: On the 15th
inst. the people of Putnam unanimously
presented mo as a candidate for the nomi
nation for Congress before the Congression
al Convntion of the Bth district. This hon
or was and ever will be most deeply appre
ciated by me. The field being already
occupied by two distinguished gentlemen, I
felt that my chance of nomination depended
upon the accident of a convention nearly
equally divided, when thero might have
been some possibility of my nomination.
The unexpected retirement ot Hon. H. £l.
Carlton, and in my favor, changing the
programme, I felt it my duty to my friends
to carefully consider the nomination. 1
have done so. The late hour in which 1
entered the race, the fact of several coun
ties being almost in the act of electing dele
gates, the impossibility of my meeting the
people face to face, has determined me to
withdraw from the race. I shall ever hold
in grateful remembrance the assurances of
support, and of personal friendship tender
ed me from different parts of the district,
and to you, sir, who so ardently sustained
me, I am under a debt of obligation
which 1 shall ever bear in mind. Most
respectfully, R. B. Nisbet.
Carlton’s iteannouncement.
Clovkrhubst, June 24, 1886.—T0 the
Democracy of the Eighth Congressional Dis
trict: When Putnam county, in apparent
good faith, interrupted my race for con
gressional nomination in tlie Bth congress
ional district by presenting as a candidate
for the distinguished honor, the Horn R. B.
Nisbet, I thought, as a true Democrat, re
garding party harmony paramount to any
ambition or political aspirations I might en
tertain, that it was my duty to retire. I did
so rather than endanger the party with a
triangular race between Democrats. Not
withstanding ray friends in the district may
have disapproved of this course on my part,
yet, believing that Hon. It. B. Nisbet was
a bona-fide candidate and that lie would en
ter the race as such, I retired, satisfied that
in the end, and when my true motives
were known, my course would be endorsed
and fully approved on the part of my friends
and supporters, as well as tlie Democracy
of my district. Col. Nisbet, after a few
days’ canvass of the situation, and finding
that his road to Congress, which necessitated
an active and positive opposition to Col.
Reese, tlie present incumbent, was Mocked
by a solid Reese delegation from his own
county, concluded to retire from so ques
tionable and anomalous a position, both for
himself and his county. The Colonel, re
markuble to say, does not say in whose in
terest he retires, whether for lieese, Carlton,
Putnam county or party harmony.
Fellow-citizens, having entered this race
in good faith, and thus having been disap
pointed and for the time been thrown off,
1 now in deference of those who induced
me to enter at first, as well as in the inter
est and advocacy of fair dealing, again an
nounce myself as in the field, and if those
who have not acted in Congressional mat
ters will hold off until 1 can reach and ad
dress them, I will promise to tell them
somewhat of political affairs that are now
being conducted in the Eighth Congres
sional district. This latter determination
I deem best for the Democratic party, even
though I should at this late hour incur
the probability of defeat. Very truly and re
spectfully yours, H. H. Caulton.
[Capt. Carlton will leave at once and make
another rapid and thorough canvass of the
district, acquainting the people with the
situation of affairs. Let the counties await
his coming.— Ed.]
The K. of L.
The Greenesboro Home Journal, while
admitting that the Knights of Labor as
an organization struggling against the
usurpations of monopoly and the abuse
of capital liavo made some serious blun
ders, laughs at the prediction of some of
its contemporaries that the labor move
ment will, in consequence of these mis
takes, “go to pieces.” It pertinently
says: “Ten thousand mistakes will not
destroy that movement. It is the' next
step in the great evolution that has made
tlie serf a freeman. It can be retard
ed by blunders and thrown into tempora
ry confusion by unwise acts; it can meet
with frequent failures and defeats; but
it can no more fail than tho movement
could have failed that gave England Mag
na Cbarta and America free govern
ment.” The Journal congratulates its
Greenesboro namesake on this manly and
candid expression of opinion. We assert
confidently that this grand order is now
stronger, purer and better prepared for
the consummation of victory than ever
before. Truth is eternal and time will
tell.—Atlanta Journal.
—Mrs. Garfield, widow or ex-President
Garfield, is said to be worth between S3OO
-and $400,000 and her income Is esti
mated at $20,000 a year.
TERMS S2.OO per Annum, In Advance.
WHOLE NUMBER 677
REESE’S BACKERS.
THEY ASSEMBLE IN THIS CITY
ON LAST SATURDAY.
AND, OF COURSE, ENTER A UNANIMOUS
PROTEST AGAINST AN ACT OF
THE PLAINEST JUSTICE.
The friends and supporters of General
John B. Gordon for Governor of Georgia
met at the Court-House at 12 m. last Sat
urday.
Judge W. M. Weaver, chairman, stated
the object of the meeting and Messrs. W.
O. Sanders and J. Y. McWhorter acted
as Secretaries.
Maj. R. L. McWhorter introduced the
following resolution, which was adopted
unanimously:
Resolved, 'That the following named
persons be and they are hereby appoint
ed delegates to the gubernatorial con'
vention to convene in Atlanta, Ga., July
28, 1886, towit: Judge W. M. Weaver,
John W. Wiight, James T. Gresham, J.
I). Anderson, J. O. Boswell, J. V. Mc-
Whorter, Dr. W. A. Moore. A. S. Lundy,
W. A. Reynolds, W. H. Stovall, A. L.
Kimbrough, Dr. J. L. Durham, Bartow
Florence, J. R. Bryant, J. 8. O’Neal,
Chas. B. Mitchell.
Resolved, That the said delegates this
day appointed, are hereby instructed to
cast tho whole vote of Greene county as
a unit for Gen. John B. Gordon for Gov
ernor; Kobt. U. Hardeman for treasurer;
Nathan C. Barnett for secretary of State;
W. A. Wright for comptroller-general;
and Clifford Anderson for attorney-gen
eral.
Resolved, That the delegates be author
ized to fill any vacancy that may occur in
said delegation.
The friends of Hon. Seaborn Reese
met at the court-house on last Saturday
for the purpose of nominating delegates
to the Congressional convention to meet
in Athens, July 20.
Judge W. M. Weaver called the meet
ing to order and stated its object. Mr.
Edward Young was requested to act as
secretary.
Prof. W. E. Reynolds introduced the
following preamble and resolutions:
Whereas, The Democratic party of
Greene county in mass meeting assembled
on the first Tuesday in June, 1886, adopt
ed a resolution authorizing the friends
and supporters of the candidate elect
ed at tho primary election held in said
county on Baturday, 12th inst., to assem
ble and elect delegates to represent said
county in the Democratic convention of
the Eighth Congressional district; there
fore.
Resolved, That we, the friends and sup
porters of lion. Seaborn Reese, the suc
cessful candidate in said primary election,
assembled together in pursuance of said
resolution of the Democratic party of
Greene county, after duo notice given as
prescribed by said resolutions, do select
as delegates to represent said county in
the Democratic Congressional convention
to assemble in Athens on the 20th of July,
1886, the following persons: Judge W. M
Weaver, Hon. H. T. Lewis, Judge Colum
bus Heard, Judge W. W. Moore, Dr. A.
A. Jernigan, Messrs. Joe Davison, W. O.
Sanders, A. P. Rainwater.
The resolution was unanimously adopt
ed.
Hon. H. T. Lewis offered the following
resolution:
Resolved, That it is the sense of this
meeting that the recent action of the
Democratic Executive Committee of this
the Eighth Congressional district, in
seeking to change the basis of represent
ation of tho several counties in said dis
trict, by allowing the smalle r counties in
said district three votes in the Democrat
ic convention, transcends the legitimate
powers of said Committee, and is without
authority, and is therefore a nullity.
This resolution was carried by the
unanimous vote of the meeting.
Upon motion, tlie meeting adjourned.
Tho Eighth District.
Our special from Athens states that Dr.
Reuben H. Nisbet, of Putnam county,
has withdrawn from the Congressional
nice against Seaborn Reese, the present
Congressman, and Dr. H. H. Carlton,
who withdrew in Nisbet’s favor, has re
entered the race.
***•*•• •
Dr. Carlton has the best chance of any
one of defeating Reese. He is better
known, mere prominent, more popular,
and a shrewd leader.
Carlton counted on carrying Greeue and
Putnam counties, each with 4 votes, and
these, with Clarke and the counties
around Athens, would give him the nom
ination. But he was traded out of Greene
by a small majority, and Putnam surpris
ed him by giving its vote to Nisbet.
Carlton, thus emasculated by his
friends, promptly withdrew in Nisbet’s
favor, in accordance with his previous
declarations that he would let any other
gentleman, that desired to, make the
race. Nisbet could not possibly be elect
ed. He is too little known in the rest of
the district. He has found out his weak
ness and sensibly retires, and Carlton
again comes out.—Atlanta Capitol.
A Serious Question.
If Mr. Seaborn Reese is re-elected to
Congress for a fourth term, what encour
agement can there be to a public officer
to faithfully and efficiently represent the
people ? For over five years Mr. Reese
lias represented this district in Congress,
and if he has done one thing except draw
his salary we would like to have it point
ed out. He has even refused his people
that common courtesy of answering their
letters. His most partial friends ao not
claim that Mr. Reese is endowed with
any unusual order of intellect. Vfi ly
then, we ask, should he be accorded such
honor as being returned to Congress for
a fourth term ? The truth is, the people
have had enough of Congressman Reese,
and it is the politicians of the district
that are trying to force him in this time
—under a promise from Reese that be
will then retire, that they may sooner
get a chance to scramble for the official
garments that he will cast off.—Banner
Watchman.
E, A. Yeazey.
We invite attention to the attractive
announcement of Mr. E. A. Yeazey to
bo found in another column. Mr. Vea
zey is the great merchant of the town
1 which bears his name, and he ranks with
,i lie greet merchants and dealers of Greene
laud Georgia,