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HOME JOURNAL.
FRIDAY. AUGUST IS, 1888.
FOR GOVERNOR.
GEN. JOHN B. GORDON,
OF DEKAI-B 00C5TT.
FOR CONGRESS.
HON. H. H. CARLTON,
OF CLARKE OOTJWTY.
ECHOES.
Greenesboro ought of right to
rank with the very best summer re
sorts.
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Mr. Tilden is dead. And now
comes a report that Mr. Tilden
didn’t write what Mr. Tilden wrote.
We wonder if Mr. Tilden could
read!
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We take pleasure in announcing,
especially to whom the fact may not
be known, that Mr. Grover Cleve
land is President of the United
States.
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hotel project will di
vide the public interest with pol
itics for a month or so. But the
new hotel will be here to stay when
it takes root in Greenesboro.
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There is not a finer or a health
ier climate in the whole United
States than (hat which our sensi
ble people enjoy by remaining at
home here all the seasons.
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We bespeak great good times for
this town when its superiorly strik
ing advantages as a healthful ref
uge have been more generally test
ed and are better appreciated.
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It is a fact that Kelly and
Thompson both grew corpulent to
the degree of obesity under their
“disappointments.” If their hearts
broke it was due to fatty degener
ation.
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Notwithstanding Mr. Cleveland’s
“ingratitude” to those who elect
ed'(!) him, he placed at the disposal
of Hubert O. Thompson the best
paying appointment under the gov
ernment.
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The malcontents now claim that
Mr. Tilden died an enemy to Mr.
Cleveland’s administration. We
don’t believe this, Bimply because
we are without facts to prove that
Mr. Tilden died a “disappointed
politician.”
Since it is lugubriously said by
the anti-Cleveland papers that
John Kelly and Hubert O. Thomp
son were hastened to their death
by the ingratitude of the present
administration, we expect to hear
that Mr. Tilden fell a martyr to
tho same epidemic.
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While the disappointed politi
cians and newspapers are vainly
striving to diffuse the baleful influ
ence of their antagonism and
discpntent, the people (as in North
Carolina, Alabama, and South
Carolina) are piling up indorse
ments of the Democratic adminis
tration of Mr. Cleveland.
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If a Radical President should
succeed Mr. Cleveland it would be
largely due to the implacable
disgruntlement of a few newspa
pers and politicians. But fortu
nately for the American people,
they formulate their opinions and
actron their convictions outside of
and uninfluenced by a few malcon
tents.
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The indorsement of the present
administration by the State con
ventions of Georgia and South
Carolina, a tremendous majority
in the Alabama election, and an
increase of 30,000 Democratic ma
jority in two years in North Caro
lina—all these in one week—ought
to silence the disappointed news
papers and politicians, so far as
the attitude of the American peo
ple toward Mr. Cleveland is con
cerned.
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We have never met a man who
expressed diegruntlement at the
Democratic administration who was
not alroadj a disappointed office
seeker, a "politician of fortune,” so
to speak, or who sought in some
way his own personal benefit by
antagonizing the President. In
an election today Mr. Cleveland
would lose this vote, but the peo
ple would snow tlio malcontents
under so deep that four tropical
summers would not thaw them out.
LIDDIE COBB.
The Atlanta Capitol of last
Thursday publishes a short biogra
phy of the “oldest person in the
world,” namely, a colored woman
who claims to have been born in
Greene county, Ga., in 1768—one
hundred and eighteen years ago.
She is named Liddie Cobb.
The Capitol reporter seems to
accept in good faith all that this
antique Ebonian says, but the
Home Journal regards the matter
as very “fishy.” We do not doubt
so much the likelihood of a person
attaining to such an age, for apart
from the great longevity of the
personages of the Bible it is entire
ly credible that certain of the
Arabs live to the extraordinary
age of three hundred years, who
have subsisted wholly on camel’s
milk all their lives. But this
Greene county Cleopatra didn’t
live on camel’s milk. She no doubt
mixed watermelon with her diet;
and no person ever continued an
interrupted exist§Uoß on thismun
daae sphere who monkeyed with
Greene county melons.
Not only this, but “Liddie
Cobb" knew too much in her day
and generation. She is perfectly
intimate with the particulars of the
Revolutionary war. She was but
seven years old when the “unpleas
antness" began, and there were
no railroads, nor telegraphs nor
stage coaches, yet Liddie got the
official returns just as soon as the
polls closed.
The war of 1812 found her forty
four years old. With its events
she is probably more familiar than
white men of today are with the
lato civil war. In a Bible whoso
date was 1796 she is recorded as
having been born in 1768. Liddie
rather splinters the authenticity
of this entry by saying that her
young mistress gave her this Bible
when she “was just grown." We
are sorry to spoil this detail, but it
won’t hold water, for the reason
that Liddie was twenty eight years
old when the Bible was published
and as it must have been publish
ed in England and was perhaps
several years old when it found its
way to America, it is likely that
the woman was born somewhere
about the date of the Bible—that
is, if indeed she is a remarkably
old person.
The account says that she works
at the washtub every day and gets
in full time. She eats well, sleeps
well, and lias beautiful teeth. She
must have dwelt in Greene county
at least one hundred and fifteen
years, as she wont to Atlauta ouly
a short time ago. Her age attract
ed no observation hero, however.
But she is coming back-to Greene
count} —“to de ole plantation,” as
she says—aud she also says she
“aint nober gwino ter loab hit enny
mo’ I” According to this, she will
live forever.
Altogether Liddie is a pretty
good liar—better than we like.
WAR RUMORS.
The Mexican news is read by
the old Confederates with unruf
fled equanimity, but to the young
men of the South it comes with
startling import and is met with
enthusiastic interest. The men
who “fit into the war” had all they
wanted, but our youth, always war
like, have learned nothing from the
pains and privations of their pre
decessors. If there should be a
war with Mexico the Texan boun
dary would swarm with ambitious
and invincible young Southerners
long before the slow and cautious
methods of the general government
could put a regular soldier into
the arena. Forty thousand “Lost
Causes” can never dampen the
martial spirit of the Southerner.
He is an enthusiastic soldier from
instinct and is fearless of death
from pride. We do not believe
anything serious will come of the
Mexican muddle, but if there be
war the South will again, as she
did forty years ago, settle the mat
ter, and she won’t beg for pensions
afterward, either.
BETHANY.
Elsewhere will be found an out
line of the ceremonies which
were begun on Thursday and
which will conolude on Sunday
next. Bethany, in this county, is
about twelve miles from Greones
! boro and seven from Union Point,
is the scene of this prolonged and
i interesting occasion, aud Sunday
; probably bo the great day of
I the four. On that day, hundreds
| from this vicinity, and |>orhapu
j thousands from all directions, will
orowd into Bethany.
GEORGIA HOME JOURNAL: GREENESBORO, FRIDAY, AUGUST 13,1886-EIGHT PAGES.
WHO “ELECTED” HIM ?
Who elected Mr. Cleveland ?
We ask this in view of the inno
cent or nnconscionable claims of
the posthumous champions of Mr.
John Kelly.
And truth of history answers:
Certainly not John Kelly. He was
the man who cast a firebrand into
the Democratic convention of 1876,
and bitterly opposed the nomina
tion of Mr. Tilden. But for the
discordant episode of that conven
tion the Republicans would never
have dreamed of defrauding the
Democratic President (Mr. Tilden)
of his election. Mr. Tilden’s ma
jority in New York city fell 15,000
short of Seymour’s a few years ear
lier, and on an increased vote.
This was then charged to John
Kelly.
In 1880 Mr. Kelly's malcontents
were shnt out of the Democratic
uatioual convention as mischief
makers and breeders of discord.
Hancock was nominated. New
York city’s vote defeated him. He
received 31,000 majority in Mr.
Kelly’s city, or 23,000 less than
Tilden. This, too, was placed to
Kelly.
If Mr. Kelly really had the
power that is claimed by his
friends (and we, who knew him for
years in and ont of power, never
believed that he had), then he kill
ed off another Democratic Presi
dent to appease his private malice.
In 1882 Mr. Cleveland was elect
ed Governor of New York by 192,-
000 majority. As he reached New
York city (beyond which point Mr.
Kelly never had any influence
either for good or evil) with a
round 100,000 majority, it will
hardly be claimed that Mr. Kelly
elected him then. On the other
hand, it might be claimed that Mr.
Kelly only failed to defeat him.
Then", who elected Mr. Cleveland
to the Presidency ?
In 1884 Mr. Cleveland’s major
ity in New York oity on the heavi
est vote ever polled was 45,000,
being 9,000 less than Mr. Tilden’s
in 1876. His majority in the State
of New York (official) was 1,442.
Now, when Mr. Cleveland got his
192,000 majority in New York
State he -polled really only 8,000
more Democratic votes than did
General Hancock. This would be
due to natural party increase. But
two hundred thousand Republicans
remained away from the pods, be
cause they would not support their
own party candidate, Mr. Folger.
Did any of these Republicans
afterwards support Mr. Cleveland?
Yes, at the very least, fifty thou
sand in New York city alone ?
Then why was not his majority
overwhelming, instead of being but
45,000? Because 60,000 foreign
Democrats in New York struck
their party colors and went over to
Blaine. Could Mr. Kelly have
prevented this ? No, for Mr, Kelly
never had sufficient political influ
ence to dispose of such a vote. But
if he had early in the campaign
taken a manful stand for Mr.
Cleveland he would have checked
to a great extent that movement.
Did Mr. Kelly support at last
Mr. Cleveland ? Yes, but not until
he became convinced that Mr.
Cleveland’s election was a fore
gone and unavoidable result. What
produced that conviction in Mr.
Kelly? The adhesion to Mr.
Cleveland of the great Republican
bankers, merchants, produce men
and such Republican institutions
as the stock and other exchanges,
backed by Republican associations
greater in number than those
which had everalligned before with
a Democratic nominee. If Mr.
Kelly and his followers had been
frankly and fearlessly true to the
Democratic party from the outset
to the end, Cleveland’s majority in
New York State would have been
at the lowest 125,000. It required
an apostate Republican vote of
60,000 to 75,000 in the whole State
to offset a Democratic desertion of
the same strength.
Again, who elected Mr. Cleve
land ?
Ordinarily it would be hard to
say; bat in close elections it is
unusual to compote unexpected
factors. If Blaine had “stumped”
New York State he would have
swept away Mr. Cleveland's 1,442
majority. Why did not Blaine do
it? Because lloscoe Conkhng (Re
publican ex-United States Sena
tor) prevented him. Coukling
took no part in the contest. He
aud Blaine were at daggers’ poiuts.
But Now York was Conkling’s
State, and he would have taken up
the cudgels against Blaine. This
kept Blaine sileut in New York.
Have we any proof that Conk-
ling’s influence elected Cleveland ?
Let us see. Utica is Mr. Conk
ling’s home. It is in Oneida oounty,
New York. It was always a strong
Republican county. In 1882 it
went Republican by 1,900 majori
ty. In 1884 it gave Mr. Cleveland
69 majority. This was due to Mr.
Conkling’s influence ’at home. If
Oneida had gone by its usnal Re
publican majority, Mr. Blaine
would have carried New York by
about 500 majority, aud he would
have thus been elected President.
Who, then, among individuals
elected Mr. Cleveland President ?
Undoubtedly Roscoe Conkling.
Has Mr. Conkling died from
Cleveland’s “ingratitude ?” No.
Has Cleveland rewarded Conk
ling? No.
This is a brief catechism for po
liticians and newpapers of short
memory.
DON’T BE HASTY.
We cannot too earnestly warn
the voters of our county agaiust
the inexpediency and, very often,
misfortune, of committing them
selves to certain candidates before
they know with any degree of as
surance who are to oppose them.
It is a common habit with the
thonghtless to fly with enthu
siasm to the standard of the first
candidate who approaches them,
and it is the case at times that
these early pledges of support are
directly instrumental iu defeating
the best of several aspirants.
Of course, there is a positive
honor involved in the promise.
It is for this very reason that it
should not be hastily yielded, aDd
it should never be voluntarily ten
dered. Let us find out who are to
run for the different elective offices.
Let the candidates announce
themselves publicly ia the prints
of the county, and wheu the list
is complete and the opposing as
pirants stand in array before the
critical partiality of tho voter, let
every man select for himself, with
out hampering or hindering either
the best candidate in his judgment
on general principles oy the man
who represents in his candidacy
the best principles, and then let
the majority vote for and elect that
man.
We hear of no discontent among
the business men and industrial
classes at the conduct of the Cleve
land administration. Truth to tell,
we do not believe there is a body
of citizens disconnected altogether
from politics who are not entirely
satisfied, nay, gratified, at the pres
ent state of things at the national
capital. We might go further, and
assert that only politicians, indi
vidually or collectively, disappoint
ed or otherwise, carp at Mr. Cleve
land.
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