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The Weekly Democrat
BEN E. RUSSELL, Editor.
Bainbridge, Georgia Sept. 14. 7?.
The National Democratic Ticket.
FOlt PRESIDENT ;
SAMUEL J. TILDEN,
OF NEW YORK.
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT :
THOMAS A. HENDRICKS,
OF INDIANA.
The State Democratic Ticket.
FOR GOVERNOR :
ALFRED H. COLQUITT.
OF FULTON.
For Senator, 8tii District,
HON. ISAAC A. BUSH, of Miller.
t '■! «
Fob the Legislature :
A. A. ALLEN, R. T. PARKER.
Ur- Bush s Appointments-
Hon. I. A. Bush will address the citizens
of Decatur county as follows:
Bell’s District, Wednesday, September
13th; Wight’s Store, Thuisday, September
14th; Higdon’s Store, Friday, September
15th; Attapulgus, Saturday September 16th;
Whigham, Wednesday, September 20tb ;
Lime Sink, Thursday, September 21st;
Belcher’s District, Friday, September 22nd;
Fine Hill, Saturday, September 23rd; Face-
Tille Wednesday, September 27th; Bain-
bridge, Thursday, September 28th, Spring
Creek, Friday, September 29th
Saturday, September
55k rond,
To the Democratic Party of the 513th
District.
Meet at your club room on Friday night
in solid numbers. Three weeks from to
day we will have to elect a Governor and
members to the Legislature. We have
much work to do to perfect our organiza
tion and the time is short. Let every
Democrat who has the good of his coun
try at heart come forward and give his
aid to the support and work of this or
ganization. Ladies are especially invited
to give the club the encouragement of
their presence. Speeches will be heard
from several members.
J. A. BUTTS,
Z. T. CRAWFORD, Chairman.
Secretary,
During the discussion at Henderson-
«ille, N. C., between Gov. Vance and
Judge Settle, on the 27th July, Major
llhett, of South Carolina, asked Gover
nor Vance if he could tell how much
money the Revenue efficers had taken
from poor farmers who distilled a little
whisky from their twentysfive or thirty
bushels of corn, Governor Vance re
plied that there were only two who
knew, and thoy were the Almighty, who
had nothing to do with the Radical
party, and the Devil, who had so much
interest in that party that he would
not tell;
THE CONGRESSIONAL CONVEN
TION
After a harmonious meeting W. E.
Smith, our present able Democratic in
cumbent, the convention yesterday at
Thomasville nominated him on the first
ballot. The two-thirds rule was adopted,
and the vote stood W. E. Smith 27 and
James L. Seward 8. Mr. Seward did not
authorize his name placed before the body-
On motion of Col. A. P. Wright Smith’s
nomination was made unanimous—now
let us elect him.
The New Y ork Times supported
'Tilden, the Reformer, for Governor of
New York, against General Dix, the
Republican nominee. It investigated
and exploded every charge made against
Tilden, then. Now it re-iterates the
same charges, that it once proved false,
ana supports Hayes and Wheeler.
Hence, the Times is a liar.
Is Tilden a “sham Reformer ?” Let
the people of New York State answer.
Daring two years of his administration
he has actually saved that people the
stupendous sum of 88,000,000. Give
us more “sham reformers.”
We are permitted by M. M. Blood-
worth, Esq., to make the following ex
tract from a letter from his brother,
Mr. Timothy Bloodworth, who now
lives in Taylor county:
“If you see the editors of the Union
soon, say to them that I have read their
paper through over forty campaigns
and would like to read it through this.
There are some things in my life that
my oldest friends do not think of, if
they know. I am now in my 75th
year. I was a married man and had one
child at the reception of Gen. LaFay-
ette. I blew the fife to escort the Gen
eral to the dinner table, and viewed the
line of our revolutionary fathers. I am
still living with the same woman—both
as yet, able to pursue the same course
we have for nearly 54 years—I run
ning a farm fy my own labor, she spin
ning our clothes. I have never had a
fight or lawsuit with any one in my life.
I have attended every important elec
tion and never cast any but a democrat
ic vote. ”—Millcdgeville Union.
COLLOQUY BETWEEN MAJOR R
H WHITELEY CANDIDATE FOR
CONGRESS, AND TWO OF HIS
CONSTITUENCY—AN OLD LINE
WHIG AND A COLORED VOTER.
SCENE
Major Whiteley Setting in his Office, in
the Evening of the day of the Nomina
tion, with his heels higher ikon his head
—the Chicago Inter Ocean in his lap—
talking to one of his colored constituency,
when Mr. Old Line Whig ]\alks in.
Major W--Come in, come in. Take
a seat What is up now—anything
cheering?
O W—Well, Major, I don’t know
exactly. I suppose you mean politics,
and if you do things aint so cheerful as
you might suppose.
You know, Major, there never were
many of us Old-Line Whigs that sup
ported you, and if all we hear agoing
around is true, we have made up our
minds not to do so any more.
Major W—Ha! Ha ah!! well! well !!
And so my few good friends out there
have been listening to Democratic lies
eh? Well out with it—what do they
say?
O. W - —Now what you say about
“Democrat lies” brings to my mind the
first charge I hear. They say, Majoj,
that before the war you was a Demo
crat, and the bitterest kind—that you
used to write in the papers against the
Whigs and abuse them powerful. Some
of the Old Whigs J
"District, say
y^J^fTIed the best men in the Whig
party some ugly names—that they were
like Baacho’s ghost and wouldn’t
down—or something like that. Is
that so?
Major W—You say the Old Line
Whigs talk this way; Well, it is a
fact I was a Democrat before the war
and said some pretty hard things against
the whigs, but you see I was young in
politics then, and things are changed
now. You must tell them to come and
see me—I will satisfy them.
O W—But, Major they say you have
been a Democrat since the war. That
after the war you ran as a democrat for
the Georgia Senate and was beat, and
then you flopped right over to the
Radical party, because you said you
could get office with the nigger vote.
Major W—(Getting a little excited)
Now this is a democratic lie, and
Brockett for our Legislative candidates,
we will beat the Democrats so badly in
the October election, that it will give
me a better chance in November. Now
iD this view don’t you like the ticket?
O W—Well, Major,I see your points
verry clearly, and I admit that the card
you are playing, is a strong one, so far
as your election is concerned; but to tell
you the truth, Major. I don’t know, but
the very reasons that make you think
the ticket a good one, wi!l make the
ticket a very weak one in the minds
of the people—I mean of course the
white people, and the thinking colored
people. I heard your speech to-day and
to tell you the truth, I aint satisfied.
But I don’t want you to think lam not
a Republican yet? I have a great many
questions to ask you and it will depend
on your clearing up some things,
whether I can support you or not; but
but I am in a hurry now—have got a
long way to go—so good bye—I will
call again next week.
Major W—Well call again—I have
no doubt I will be able to clear things
U P-
Colored Voter—Do you reject to me
coming up next week, Major?
Major W—Oh! no! come up—come
Up ‘ .
(Exit O W and colored voter.)
(Maj. Whiteley soliloquizes)— Well!
well!! well!!! Now here is the devil to
pay. I have been trying to work on
the prejudices •! the old-line whigs by
curst ngtne (TemDoll&L, 1 ! 1 ! 1 ! Ill Iliil i flVl ’*fi'
recoiled on myself. Why couldn't I
O W—But Major the best men, and
old whigs mo, in our county, say you
did run as democrat for the Senate after
the war.
Major W—Oh! I admit that.but that
about my flopping over to get office by
the nigger vote is a
fc>
O W.—Stop, Major, you see the way
it comes is; Some old-line whigs say
Judge C. a noble old whig, who is now
dead, told them you talked that way to
him; and we can’t help believing it, so
you better let that pass—don’t curse
about it; you might make things worse.
J/ajor W.—Well I will take your
advice—but (aside in a whisper) how
my confidence was betrayed. I never
meant that to get out—I thought he
would go with me.
Colored Voter—Humph! Major, you
gwiue to swallow dat?
Major W—Here (takes him aside)
You know it is all a lie, but you see we
have to get some white men in the par
ty, or the whole thing will go to H—1.
You trust to me. I am your friend eh!
Colored Voter—Well, we has been a
thinkin’ so—but
Major W—(Interrupting him) Well
good bye, I will see you again.
Colored Voter—If you hab no rejec
tion I will stay and hear you gemrnen
talk some more.
Major W—Of course sit down.
(Sides up hurriedly, to O W and whis
pers) Be careful how you talk now, or
we might lose some nigger votes.
(Aloud again) Do they say anything
else?
O W—Yes! a heap more. They nave
been counting noses, and the old whigs
are laughing powerful about it—they
say you are abusing the Democrats and
nearly all the white men who support
you are democrats, and you give them
nearly all the offices.
Major W—Can’t you see a good
reason for that? These old democrats
are influential men in the county and
they wouldn’t come over without office.
Now I don’t like Bill Harrell at all,but
then he was an independent candidate,
and if the Republicans had oofc nomi
nated him, our ticket would be beat
sure, because he would take more negro
votes from the Radical party, than
white votes from the Democratic party
You see he has just forced us into
nominating him, for how could we dis
regard the claims of such an influential
family. The truth is we have got to
give more of that family offices yet.
Policy man, policy, that is the word—
“all things are fair in war” is an eld
adage. Now you all, I know, want me
elected, and we think with Harrell and
see that the old line whigs were as true
if not a little truer than the Democrats
themselves, in opposing this vile, rotten
party of which I am the leader in this
District. And then too, they have dis
covered, that nearly all my democratic
supporters fill the offices. Why, if I
don’t mind, these few old Union friends
that have adhered to me in my varying
fortunes will suspect even my honesty.
Too bad! too bad!! but I will not oe dis
couraged.
Havn’t I got the whole colored race
at my heels—they believe in me until
they may be said to belong to me, and
with what aid I can get from my white
office holders, I will go into office again
in November on the backs of the color
ed voters. Then I have another bobby
to ride. I will pretend to be the poor
man’s friend. I will tell them how the
Democratic party in Georgia issued a
million of non taxable bonds—and bow
they repealed the law exempting 200,-
00 worth of property &c. But then
here is a difficulty. Unfortunately I
put$l0,000,of the money that they gave
me, in those verry bonds, and they
might ask me, if the rich only should
bear the burdens, of taxation, why I put
my money in these bonds. The law
exempts my tin pans &c. too, and when
they see bow I get $10,000 out of the
way of taxation, the poor man might
think I was only grumbling because my
tin pans were taxed. Oh I misery !
misery !!!—at what point am I to
escape. I wonder too, what Mr. O. W m
is goiDg to ask me next week? I hope
nothing about National politics, or my
record when in Qongress,for if he does,
I am a gone coon skin, as the fellow
says.
My plan has been to ignore National
politics and my past record altogether
and simply abuse Democratic Legisla
tion in Georgia; il I am driven from
this line I am lost.
But I am a cool man—so I will
await patiently the coming of O. W.
next week, and what passes I will try
to have kept a profound secret. IFho
knows but matters will be better than I
imagine.
“Sufficient unto the day is the evil
thereof.” * * *
[From the New York Sun of Aug. 30.]
FACTS TO BE REMEMBERED.
Who nominated Rutherford B. Hayes
for President ?
It was Simon Cameron, Don Came
ron, Bob Mackey and Bill Kemble who
gave Mi. Hayes the vote of Pennsylva
nia, and rallied around him those ele
ments of the Republican party whose
motto was, “anything to beat Blaine,”
Blaine being disagreeable to Grant.
Who is conducting the canvass and
running the machine to elect Ruther
ford B. Hayes ? It is Zach Chandler,
Don Cameron and all that school of ma
chine politicians.
If Hayes should be elected he would
owe his election to those men, as be al
ready owes them bis nomination.
If he were President would he have
the determination and courage to quar
rel with the parry who made him, and
without whom he would never have
been nominated and never elected ? If
he should engage in such a quarrel,
could he succeed in it and carry
through his own purposes against his
party.
The history of John Tyler and An
drew Johnson sheds a clear light upon
this problem. Without disgrace and
ruin. Mr. Hayes, if elected President,
could never be anything but a represen
tative of Grnntism ; and as such his
election would be the continued dis
grace and the aggravated ruin of the
country.
HARRELL AND BROCKETT.
The above caption presents to the
people of Decatur county the name of
the Legislative firm, that the Radical
party propose to set up in Atlanta in
October next, to do the business of De
catur county for the next two years.
A t first view, it will appear to be a
very formidable ticket, but on maturer
consideration, it will be found to be not
so strong as at first considered. The
strength of the ticket consists in the
personal popularity and influence of the
candidates themselves. Mr. Harrell
has tor manyyars held public office by
the favor of the people of bis county—
his office too,that of Sheriff, has brought
him in contact with all classes of the
people of the county and that he has
been descrdvedly popular, no man can
doubt, lie has made a good and true
officer, prompt in the discharge of his
every duty,and nqverin our recollection
has his official integrity been impugned,
nor has he ever in our knowledge or
that we have heard of, been ruled for
a dollar of the vast amounts of money
that have passed through his hands.
It can be said further in justice to
Mr. Harrell that he has never used his
office to oppress defendants on the civil
or criminal side of the Court, but has
been uniformly kind and generous to
all parties in his official dealings. He
may as well then be put down in the
beginning as a papular and influential
man, and one that will be
Tis m the other candidate Mr.
Brockett, as much can not be said, he
never having had so wide a field in
which to display himself, his first offi
cial position, that of Ordinary of the
county, having beeD given to him by
the Radical party since the war. He
is a hard-sensed man and no doubt was
a locally popular man, before be ventur
ed into policies, and we regret for his
sake that he hao been allured bv love
of office, from the quiet seclusion of his
farm. He is nevertheless a candidate
not to be despised, for he has, like the
other candidate, a personal popularity
and influence, and friends that would
be gJad to vote for him, if it were not
for some insurmountable difficulties.
What tlmse iusu’mountuble difficulties
are in the cases of both of these Legis
lative candidates, it will become our
duty to make known daring this slioit
campaign, and we ask the people gene
rally, but more panicui n 1 v the friends
of these gentlemen to read and p-mder
well what wo say Un'.irc casting their
votes. We feel assured if they wi!l d >
so, however much they n>-iv think of
these ciiidid.ttes persona ly, they
can not cast their votes for them,
in a campagn invoicing such important
issues and principles as the one in
which we are now engaged.
It should be remembered lint of all,
that in a political campaign like this,
we vote, if we vote patriotically and
understandingly for principles,not men.
We might desire never so much to help
our friends get an office for its pecunia
ry benefit or honor, but if in helping so
to do, we are assisting in ovei throwing
the principles we profess, we can not do
so except at the cost of our fidelity to
our principles and honor. A man under
such circumstances could not support
his own father, much less a friend, nor
would a true father ask his son to for
sake his principles to support him in
his, much less then could a mere friend
ask such a sacrifice of a friend. The
test question then in this campaign
should be, if I support this ticket or
either of the candidates,would I be in
juring the success of my political prin
ciples, and as the answer might be, so
act.
Now we propose to show that the
support of this Radical Legislative
ticket would materially effect and injure
the success of the principles now being
advocated and supported by the Demo
cratic and Conservative pariy-—Id this
county and District and State and
Nation.
It must be remembered that this is
the year in which great national prin
ciples are to be decided. This Legis
lative election to take olaee in October
is but the precursor of the election to
take place, just one month later,’ in No
vember, when we are to elect a Presi
dent and Vice President of the United
States, and our representative to Con
gress. In the result of these great elec
tions are involved our principles—which
are Reform, Retrenchment, and the
perpetuation of the Government of our
fathers. We say the Radical party
speaking through its Convention at
Cincinnati and dv the acts of its Presi
dent and Senate, give no promise of
Reform and Retrenchment, while the
progress made toward centralization is
arlarming, as witness the last order of
the Secretary of War, distributing
troops throughout the doubtful States
in tbe South.
What effect then we ask will this
October election have on the great elec-
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
An Ordinance for Levying the Gen
eral Tax for 1876.
Be it ordaineil by the corporation of the
city of Bainbaidge, that one-half of one per
cent be levied on she taxable property, real
and personal of said city for extraordinary
expense account, and that three tenths of
one per cent be levied on said properly for
ordinary expense account for the year 1876.
A true extract from the minutes.
J.\ T 0. R. HAYES,
Sept. 5, 1876. Cl’k of Council.
Decutur Mortgage Sheriff's Sales.
Will be sold before the court house door
in Bainbridge, Decatur county, Georgia,
between the legal hours of sale, on the first
Tuesday in Sept, next ,the following prop
erty to wit:
One house and lot in the city of Bain
bridge, bounded on the north by Shotwell
street, south by street name not known, run
ning in front of premises of Jno. E. Donal-
son, on the ea3t by premises of I. M. Rosen-
feld and vacant lot of Jno. E. Donalson, and
on west by premises formerly owned by A.
T. Reid now occupied by H B Waugh.
Levied on as property of T B Hunnewell to
satisfy one Justice Court fi fa in favor of J
A Roberts & Co., vs T B Hunnewell. Levy
made and returned by Const.
L F BURKETT,
Sheriff,
tions to take place in November. Evi
dently a great effect and Major White-
ley knew it when he struck hands with
the man, we all know, he does not per
sonally like, and became a delegate to
the convention, that met last Saturday
and by his influence had him placed on
the Radical ticket for the Legislature
with Hiram Brockett. Under any
other circumstances we do not believe
Major Whiteley would have placed W.
W. Harrell on his ticket; but he knew
or hoped that a victory in October would
assure his friends and discomfort his
opponents. It would be heralded all
over the District and the State what a
victory he had won for as in tbe army,
a victory is never credited to the sol
diers, so a vetory in Decatur county
would be attributed t > his reat leader
ship and give him prestige and power in
theDistrict.lt would not only help him,
but it would also help Hayes and
Wheeler, against Tilden and Hendricks
It is in this light that we say that the
ticket Harrell and Brockett is not as
strong as it would appear on first view.
There are several other views strong
and cogent, that might be taken in this
article, showing tharthTticEeT"Should-
not be supported, but we forbear for
the present, promising another article
iu next weeks pjyjj er- * * *
TNg"oF THE TIDE
^PuTUolurabus Enquirer, in alluding
the prospects of our country, says
the indications are that the adverse for
tunes which have so long oppressed
our country are to bo lifted, and pros
perity again greet us with its pleasant
realities. Food crops are abundant
all over tbe land. For the first time
in years tbe Southern States will not
have their granaries in the West..
Heavy interest on the bread eaten be
longs to the bitter memories of past
struggles and hopeless regrets. It does
seeui that cotton will be, as it should, a
surplus crop. Being such, money will
become more plentiful and comforts
rendered necessary.—Hence, the mer
chant will receive a liberal custom and
every department of business be revivi
fied and animated, and a refreshing life
and impetus be given to trade. Econo
my, hard work and prudent husbandry,
really the product of necessity have ac
complished a wonderful reform, and
this fall and winter the blessings oi
iheir exercise will be experieue d in
their steady ripening and /raitini>. Hav
ing once experienced tbe delight deri
vable from ti:e new order of affairs, no
fears need be entertained of a relapse
into f ryier rum ms mod's. The burnt
chi d dread.? tire, and the Atlas leads of
debts once removed, r. til leave n » in
clination to resume the burden. Prices
are oouiing to hard money figures. Some
have already attained them, and even
at this rate tho margins and equities
exist to an appreciable extent. In a mon
etary view the South to-day stands bet
ter than she has since 18(36, the era of
high figures and enormous speculation.
Tne entire country, too is substantial
ly firmer, for the times have enforced
economies. Imports have largely de
creased. An immense mass of individu
al indebtedness has been liquidated,
while the weak brethren have balanced
the scale by bankruptcy, and started life
anew, some penniless and others with
plethoric pockets, filled with people’s
money. In three years the imports at
New York have declined $113,641,-
666. and further decrease is expected
this year. The senti annual statement
of Dun, Barlow & Co., show the number
and volume of failures to be very much
on the descending scale. It would ap
pear that the acme of the crisis com
menced in 1873, has passed, and we can
now hopefully look for a healthy pros
perity, and a return from the realms of
doubt to the clearness and surety of cer
tainties. The worst days are behind us,
though we still hear their mutterings
on the shore, but each wave goes fur
ther backward.
AQW POURING IN THE,
And will soon be one of the pretties "V
most attractive stores in town.
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Wish it distinctly nnderstoo d in tj:e out*'
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CAN’T BE UN DERSOLD
BY ANY HOUSE IN SOUTHWESTy
UiA, NOR ELSEWHERE.
We have on hand and are constantly re
ceivin'; a full line of
DRY GOODS,
CLOTHING, FANCY GOODS,
GROCERXES
OF ALD KINDS.
We invite the attention of the trading pub
lic to the inducements which we propose to
offer during the incoming season. We in
tend to sell goods at bottom figures, having
as our motto ‘Quick sales and small profits.’
GIVE US A CALL
And be satisfied of the trutn oiw hat we s
WEIL & LOEB,