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The Weekly Democrat.
BEN. E. RUSSEtL, - Proprietor.
Ben E. Russell, - - R. M. Johnston,
EDITORS.
Bainbridge, Ga., July 13, 1876.
The National Democratic Ticket.
FOR PRESIDENT ;
SAMUEL J. TILDEN,
OF NEW YORK.
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT :
THOMAS A. HENDRICKS,
OF INDIANA.
Democratic Meeting.
The Democratic Party of the 513 Dis
trict is hereby called to meet at the Court
House, on Saturday, July 15th, to send
three delegates to the Senatorial Conven
tion to be held on the 10th inst.
J. A. Butts,
Ch’r Cen. Oern. Club, 513 Dis.
Executive Committee.
The members of the Executive Commit
tee of the Democratic party of .Decatur
county will please meet at the office of
McGill & O’Neal, in Bainbridge, on the
19th of July, at 10 o’clock, A. M-, to tran
sact important business. The members
comprising the Committee are Maston
O’Neal, Simeon Brinson, A. A. Allen, T.
J. Dennard, C. J. Mqnnerlyn, Malcalm
Nicholson, Berry Curry, J. J. Higdon,
Jr., 6. A. Wight, Joshua Martin, T. A.
Barrow and A. B. Belcher.
Maston O’Neal,
Chairman, Pro Tem.
A Full Sheet
Next week we will issue the Democrat
in full size, and with decided improve
ments upon its former appearance. We
regretted the necessity which moved us to
reduce our dimensions a few weeks ago,
and hail with delight the opportunity of
■“returning to first principles.”
And now, Democrats of. Decatur, we
purpose giving you a lively, enterprising,
progressive, wide-a-wake ■ paper—one
that will readily class as “A No. 1,” and
we await with bated breath to see .what
encouragement we shall receive at the
hands of those we are working to benefit.
What will you do to help us to publish a
good paper/ We want subscribers. Will
the friends of the paper work them up ?
We shall see.
We have some advertisements, and
good many other important matters,
which have been crowded out this week,
and which will appear next week.
Specials from points In Montanna Ter
ritory, dated July 2nd, give accounts of a
bloody engagement between the com
mands of Gen. Custer and Maj. Reno, and
the Sioux Indians. It appears that Gen.
Custer discovered an Indian town of 2,000
lodges on the Little Horn river, and im
mediately attacked it, supported by Maj.
Reno, with seven companies. The de
tachment under Gen. Custer was annihi
lated, the General killed, and every officer
and soldier, the number being estimated
at 300. Reno’s detachment were then
surrounded, and were only relieved by a
reinforcement,who loaned their assistance
under Col. Gibbon. The soldiers fought
like tigers, but were overwhelmed by
brute force, the Indians numbering three
or four thousand. Reports of the battle
were telegraphed to Washington, and
created a profound sensation there. Many
anxious inquiries were made at the War
Department by relatives of those serving
with the commands.
THUS- HARDEMAN THE CHOICE
OF DECATUR.
The result of the election in the Mass
Meeting last Saturday, although fully ex
pected, was none the less gratifying to
the Democrat, and the friends of Col.
Hardeman throughout the State. The
meeting was one of the best attended ever
held in the county, and composed laige-
ly of the representative men from every
precinct.
The court house was well filled and
considerable interest manifested. The
vote was taken between Colquitt and
Hardeman by a division. Those for Col
quitt to take the left side of the house,
those for Hardeman the right. Pending
the question some discussion ensued as to
eligibility of voters, but no word was ut
tered either for or against either candi
date. When the division was called,
almost the entire mass of people surged
to the right side of the house, leaving but
a slight few on the left, when amid the
most deafening applause Hardeman was
announced the choice of the Decatur De
mocracy, and the delegates accordingly
instructed to cast their votes for him.
The farming element in this meeting
predominated, and notwithstanding the
strong Grange argument used by the
friends of Colquitt, five-sixths of the far
mers cast their votes for Hardeman, and
we are fully convinced that if . a bal.ot
box had been opened in every precinct
and every Democratic vote polled the
victory for Hardeman would have been
in the same ratio.
The result of this meeting also shows
most conclusively that the Democrat is
not “the mouthpiece only of a single in
dividual,” as has been frequently charg
ed within the past few months, but the
accredited and trusted organ of the Demo
cratic party, as it has ever been. The
Democrat did not take a stand for Har
deman until curtain that he was the
most acceptable man to its constituents-
But we claim uo particular credit for sa
gacity in determining before hand for the
people what they afterwards determined
for themselves. We have been iu inti
mate connection witli the people of Deca
tur county in a journalistic capacity for
a number of years, aud it is an essential
part of our legitimate calling to study and
to know them—their wants, their wishes,
their preferences and their prejudices.
We say it is our business. We are em
ployed by the people, our patrons, for
that very purpose. We are the mouth
piece through which they speak one to
another, and to the outside world. A
paper then that doe* not know the senti
ments of its people caunot prosper, or
even live.
We get another healthy indication from
rlns meeting and it is that the people are
waking up io the necessity of taking
some personal part in the politics of the
day—that they are determined to be
heard in future as to who shall role over
them—that they are tired of being pulled
along by “party leaders” and intend
working in the “lead” themselves. Every
man, henceforth, however humble, must
and will have a potent voice in party af
fairs, and henceforth we may expect to
know for certain what “the will of the
people” is. The people went to the
meeting to vote, and vote they did for
Thomas Hardeman; which would be done
everywhere if they were allowed or
would contend for their rights.
THE SENATORIAL QUESTION-
We shall answer “A Mitchell County
Democrat,” whose communication is
found in another column, upon the right
of Mitchell to the Senatorial nomination
oh the 19th inst., very briefly.
The Convention of 1872 nominated
Bolivar H. Gee, a Mitchell county man,
for Senator, who our correspondent says
was not the choice of Mitchell county,but
admits that his nomination was made
THE SENATORIAL QUESTION.
Editors Democrat :
Treasurer'*
Th « report of Mr u"
t.
In looking over the last number of the urer 1, » -•
Democrat I see a brief editorial setting the crowd***** J
forth some of the reasons which
have led have to^o' 1 ^ ° f ° u t
you to advocate the claims of Miller for the 1 ° ° Ver Un W new
Ci ty Urdlnand
candidate to t>e J^ominatcd by tlie approach-
ing Senatorial Convention, aud. also, an I —/•■inn
earnest endorsement of Hon. 1. A. Bush for ",° r(lin,ln «eto define,^
that position. I respectfully ask the use of the\« * a \° f ,he cit 3' of B*inbi
your columns to answer, in behalf of Mitch- ;* me relales to the oft.
ecutions:
unanimous by the Convention. Gee had j ell county, that part of youx editorial which I
lived in Decatur, but at file time of his j is intended as an argument in favor of Mil-' ^ . *
ler’s claims upon the convention. It i s my afterthe'* ^ ^ a * n, »ridg3
nomination he was a resident of Mitche l,
and hence according to the rotation policy
was her candidate. There is no way,
friend, to dodge the issue. Rotation is a
sword that cuts both ways. If a small
county will claim the candidate, the
larger one can select him, and dissatisfac
tion generally results.
One of the main reasons given by Major
Gee for retiring from the race, we give
in his own words, taken from his letter
to the party upon his withdrawal from
the candidacy:
* * * As to the manner in
which the party has redeemed its pledge to
its candidate, I have no charges to prefer
: “rdained J
opinion that this county does and will claim ; b e the d PaSS1SIe 8f
the candidate for the Senate at the hands of; n,-„ •„ . ° 1 Ie ^wsh*!
- . . ifcv y wtlnn ten ,i« vo , .
the coming convention, and that she has
reasonable and just grounds for so doing
some of which I propose to give to your
readers in this communication.
It is true that this county asserted her
claim or right to name the candidate before
the convention in 1872 ; and that claim was
respondel to by that convention tendering
the nomination to Maj. Bolivar II. Gee, a
gentleman held in high esteem by the best
citizens of our county, yet all lfer rights
were not respected by that convention,
Major R. J. Bacon was presented to ta it
ten days f roio .
executions now in llis ,
is to be found (
when
° n which to
no property can I* f (1 „
Hie (-hmrntiin of ij t , Fj„, n T
against, it, but only to point to those facts ^convention as the choice of this county by
and circumstances which are necessary to | a nearly three-fourth vote of the Democracy,
tlie vindication of my own course, and I j Major Gee, it is true, was from this county,
trust may also be a vindication of that large
number of the party, particularly in my own
county, Mitchell, by whose action I have been
induced to pursue the course that I have.
* * * There was dissatisfaction amount
ing to opposition to my candidacy in my
own county. * * * Now comes not only
requests but strong appeals, yes, almost
demands from the county of Mitchell on the
candidate of the party, aud her own inde-
pendeutjeandidate, to submit to some com
promise that the Radical candiaate might
be defeated. * * * An apptal in refe
rence to two candidates in the field on the
election for the Legislature also came from
Decatur county. In the county of Mitohcll the
feeling teas intense, and almost unanimous.
Those friends who had stuck to me the
closest began to yield under the pressure,
until pt appeared few were left, or at least
very few gave encouragement. Judge Maples
withdrew to the voice of his county, but iu
favor of the other independent candidate,
Maj. Bruton, The pressure was more di
rected on the party, candidate., and I began to
feel that 1 might be acting more from self-
pride than for my country’s aud my party’s
good, in thus withholding my consent to
submit to the appeals for compromise, com
ing almost unanimously from the parly of my
county, and sq large a portion of the party
iu Decatur.
Dtig correspondent can now see by Maj. ,
Gee’s own showing that he never would j
have retired but for the almost unanimous !
I but was really the choice of Decatur and
Miller, and not the choice of Mitchell, lie
having formerly resided in Decatur for a
number of years, procured the support of
the Decatur and Miller delegates, and
thereby defeated Mitchell’s right to say
whicli of her trusted sons should receive
the nomination at Bainbride.
But you say that we became dissatified
with the candidate of our own making, and
had him to withdraw from the race. It is
true that the nomination of Major Gee at
Bainfiridge was finally made unanimous by
that convention, but it was not doue until
this county saw that the man who was "her
choice co uld not obtain the nomination.
The Democracy of this county never showed
any dissatisfaction with their candidate al
ter Decatur had furnished an independent
candidate, and the Democracy of that coun
ty had petitioned them to have Major Gee
withdrawn in liis fivor. It war; this iuue- j
pendeut movement in Decatur, followed up j
by this petition, signed by the leading men
of your county, that was tlie real cause of
Major Gee’s withdrawal. He had been ten
dered the nomination by Decatur county,
aud besides was an intimate friend of Maj.
B. F. Bruton, the independent candidate,
which facts very naturally influenced him
to retire from the field.
Mitchell county, iu order to preserve har
mony in the Democratic ranks and secure
the defeat of a Radical candidate, uohly ac
quiesced iu tills change, which nad been
advised by the wisest men in the.party.
The work of this change was not hers
Sec. 2. Be it farther ordi
executions hereafter pWj
shall be levied or a rei uru
made within ten ,] aVj ffm
cieves them.
Sec. 3. Be ft ft, rlhcr #]
shall be the duty of the aij
vertise all property levied u
the next regular Marshal's,
pi rat ion of thirty daystrom
| at which time said sale shift
less stopped by legal frocea
Sec. 4. Be it further ord;
failure of the said Marshal
the provisions of this ordinal
on convicvion. fined iu a
ten nor more than one hunj;
All ordinances conflicting
are hereby repealed.
A true extract from the mi
Jso.
Cl
July 3rd, 187ft—It.
On account of large stock j
hand, and the scarcity of mol
them, 1 will repair Watches, (1
elry at tlie following rcduca
Mainspring tjd.oO, Cleaning |
2") to 75 cents per pair, Gti
For cash only. W|
The Struves of!
From the cradle to the gran
stniggles. Some struggle fin
far pleasure, some for honurl
struggle to rogain that gre«t|
sings—health—-and * in tin
often resort to means whichp'J
and farther out of their resell
drastic compounds, which sho
or violent minerals which |
un ! thus the vital enevgtea
Wish of his own county. Then Gee was ,
vour candidate—you were dissatisfied i acquiescence in tlie wish o: the party j n ""- ,l: '' <"unt.iii.isef de
j ■ for the purpose ioefore mentioned was. ail Mure provid s remedies tor
that she did. and if is from the vegetable
Fo we had a virtual change in the nomi- j Hu, Terrs Lever l’ 11 - 1 -*
natiuD, and this county was at last jireven- cheats, ami in then-use the!
ted from exercising her right to have the ! certainty that it they do no
with him—you brought him down—anil
you substituted Maj. B. F. Bruton. It is
too clear—there is no escape for you—
Mitchell has no just claim upon the party
for the candidate under the rotation ca “ < ^ t Bite,
but then All Her county-, you say, “refused
system.. to take any part in this arbitration,” as you
Your statement that Miller had out an | are pleased to term it, and “allowed the
independant candidate in the campaign is! election so far as she was concerned to go
by default.” And this you give as one of
the reasons why Miller should have the
lenil
Gen. Jubal Early says, “Governor
Hayes "served onty once with the Army
of the Potomac, and that wes at South
Mountain in Cox’s division from Western
Virginia. His militiary career was so ob
scure,that his name is not even mentioned
in the published reports, and though now
he is represented to have done wonders
under Sheridan in the valley, I never
heard of him before in that capacity.
“COLQUITT’S COLUMN ”
According to the Colquitt organ, the
Atlanta Commonwealth, the counties that
have announced a preference up to date
have placed its favorite far in the lead in
the race for Governor, It gives Colquitt
133 votes, Hardeman 25, aud Johnson 18.
In looking over “Colquitt’s Column” we
notice several counties which have sent
their delegates uninstructed, and one or
two that have announced for other can
didates, which very naturally leads us to
suspect the “Column” of being a fraudu
lent count.
In these days of political degeneration,
this “sharp practice” may be classed by
some as an able and clever maneuver, but
its perfect transparency will scarcely es
cape the notice of intelligent men ; and
dull indeed must be the man who cannot
readily detect the motives which prompt
it.
We admire the zeal and pluck which
characterize the Commonwealth in the ad
vocacy of its candidate, but there is such a
thing as overleaping one’s self, and these
“dodges” will avail nothing, as we are
firmly convinced the final court will
show.
not justified by the facts. Judge Isa c
Bush, though nominated and voted for by
a few discontented persons in this county,
positively declined to run, .
Again let us repeat that Miller took no
part in the arbitration that brought Gee
down. In this view of the case she was
sustained by the “party leaders,” and,
right or wrong, she had all party customs
and rulings on her side. If our friend re
members, that campaign of 1872 was
fought so far as the Senatorial contest was
concerned without regard to party. Par
ty was abandoned and we went into the
race with the cry of “anything to beat
Brimberry,” as the National Democracy
did with “anything to beat Grant,” even
if that 'anything’ was Horace Greely. We
were a Bruton man, and, viewed in the
light of four years of time, we do not re
gret our course, yet we cannot claim that
B. F. Bruton was tlie nominee of the
Democratic party.
no harm. But of their effete
who have been cured of
neys, spleen, stomach ami I
Jav to testify.
July 13—2t
Health Board. Hi
Look out for our big issue next week.
NOTE FROM COL- HARDEMAN.
The following is handed us for publica
tion:
Col. C. W. Styles—Dear Sir: Please
say to your ‘letter from a private source,’
that like your former ‘reliable authority,’
lie is simply a “false witness,” as I
was in Macon at the time the meeting for
the election of delegates was held in
Glynn, and not in Brunswick, and, more
over, please say to him, Colonel, I never
was in Brunswick in my life. I was not
even there when the “enthusiastic meet
ing” was held, that I did not endorse Gen.
Colquitt, nor send two delegates to the
State Convention for him, as reported by
another reliable correspondent.
Respectfully,
Thos. Hardeman.
We find the above in the Telegraph and
Messenger, of the 7th. We were absent
when the paragraph referred to, appeared
in this paper, and therefore knew nothing
about it, till we fell upun this card. The
information was not questioned, but we
are glad to learn that it was erroneous.—
Commonwealth,
candidate this time. But, Messrs, editors,
you have not told us all thhat tlie Democra
cy of Miller did for the party that year.
Did she not put out one of her own citizens
as a candidate in opposition to the man tiiat
the party united upon, and in that way se.
cured the election of the present incumbent?
This too is an “absolute and incontroverti
ble fact’’ which you sfeemed to have over
looked (?), and which I suggest for yonr
benefit. I think that every seusihle Demo
crat will agree with me, when I say that,
this very act on the part of Miller ;n 1872,
which caused our defeat then, will, if the
candidate is given her this time, oyer the
claims of this county, be the cause of an
other defeat more shameful than in 1872.
I am not the advocate of any individual, but
I do think that this county should have the
right to say who shall receive the nomina
tion in Bainbridge.
A Mitchell Go. Democrat,
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
In the District Court of the United
States.
For the Southern District of Georgia _
NO. 1346 IN THE MATTER OF) In
Belchers & Terrell A, P. Belcher, l Bankrupt-
S. L. Belcher and 11. R. Terrell, j cy.
The said Bankrupt having petitioned the
Court for a discharge from all their debts
provable under the Bankrupt Act of March
2d, 1867, notice is hereby given to all per
sons interested to appear on the 21st day of
July, 1876, at IO o’clock, A. M., at Cham
bers of said District Court before S. Wise
Parker, Esq., one of the Register’s of said
Court in Bankiuptcy at the office of White-
ley & Donalson, Bainbridge, Georgia., and
show cause why the prayer of the said peti
tion of the Bankrupt should not be granted.
And further notice is given that the second
and third meetings of Creditors, will be held
at the same time and place.
Dated at Savannah, Georgia, this 5th day
of July 1876.
JAMES McPHERSON, Clerk.
The Indians are playing the wild with
Uncle Sam's soldiers. Ain’t they ?
Notice is hereby given
tW
Board of Decatur county has|
ganized under the recent act «
ture and will hold regular
ing on the first Saturday in 1
Hie office of the Ordinary,
other interested ar« respectfil
to send in their reports
days of meeting, wlifoh will ,r
the Board in tjie important
a correct statistical rep°ft
our county,
E- J. Mfl*a
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