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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. cd e Or C- <5^0 > GO GO E & GO O E m o p * Wish it distinctly nnderstoo d in tj:e out*' of the season that they 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,