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The Weokly Democrat
BEN E. RUSSELL, Editor.
Bainbndtre. Georgia Oct. 19th 76-
Tbe National Democratic Ticket.
FOR PRESIDENT ;
SAMUEL J. TILDEN,
OF NEW YORK.
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT :
THOMAS A. HENDRICKS,
OF INDIANA.
FOR CONGRESS :
WILLIAM E. SMITH,
OF DOUGHERTY.
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS
For the State at Large.
GEN. A. R. LAWTON, of Catbaro.
HON. JOHN W. WOFFORD, of Bartow.
ALTERNATES.
GEN. L. J. GARTRELL, of Fulton-
JUDGE H. D. D. TWIGGS, of Richmond.
District Electors-
1st Disk—A, M. ROGERS, of Burke.
2d Diet.— R. E. KENNON, of Clay
3d Dist.—J. M. DuPREE, of Macon.
4th Dist.—W. O. TUGGLE, of Troup.
6th Dist.—F. D. DLS.MUKE, of Spalding.
6th Dist —F. CHAMBERS, of Wilkinson
7th Dist.—L. N. TRAMMELL, of Whitfield.
8th Dist.—D. M. Dr BOSE, of Wilkes.
Oth Dist—J. N. DORSEY, of Hall.
election far President and Congressmen
comes off on Tuesday the 7th <f November.
Don't forget tie dag, and don’t forget to u-ork
in earnest.
WHERE THE MONEY GOES
Tax-payers, honest citizens of all
political parties, give us your ear while
Wo tell you where some of your oppres
sive taxes have gone. 'We want you to
know, so that you can vote intelligently
on the 7th day of November.
The records -rove that the public
expenditures during the six years of
Grant’s administration, ending June
30, 1875, have been four billions of
dollars,
The records prove that the defalca
tions by Republican office-holders du
ring the last six years of Republican
administration, amounted on Jane 19,
1876, to five millions, five hundred
thousand, five hundred and twenty-five
dollars.
The records prove that the robberies
of the Whiskey Rings amounted to ful
ly one huudred millions of dollars. >
The records .prove that the army of
office-holders has been Increased over
50,000 during Grant's administration,
The records prove that nearly 8194,.
000,000 have been stolen from the
South by carpet-baggers since the era
of Reconstruction.
The records prove that 70,000 color
■ed depositors in the Freedmen’s Sav-
ing Bank, (a Republican institution)
have been robbed t»f 83,000,000,
Now, intelligent voter, can you vote
to continue this corrupt party in pow
er ? Can you vote for Major Whiteley
for Congress, who is a member of and
supporter of this party ?
A Bet.—A gentleman in Atlanta
offers to make the following bets .-
85,000 that Tildcn carries Ohio.
85,000 that Tilden carries Indiana.
85,000 that Tilden carries N. Y.
85,000 that he can name 24 States
that Tilden will carry.
8-5,000 that Tilden will be elected.
The money has been deposited at the
Markham House, and awaits takers.
New York Sun .- ‘-Governor Tilden
is confident that his majority will reach
75,000 i» this State. He is not an
over sanguine man, nor one given to
loose statements, but rather a man who
speaks after cautiously examining the
grounds for his assertions.
In Brooklyn a Hayes and Wheeler
club, numbering 296 members, sent
word to the Tilden and Hendricks club
that they would like to join the Tilden
club. They w ere received with cheers,
and three other clubs there expres s
an intention to follow the example.
The Cnicago Inter-Ocean says that
“in almost every Southern State there
is an admitted republican majority.”
But the Inter-Oc-an will say any
thing, always remembering that it gives
truth the last chance. Hence the truth
got left when the above was written.
We see a good many papers are ur
ging different reasons why Mr. Hill
should be kept in the House and not be
sent to the Senate. Ben Hill will be
the next Senator nevertheless. Mark
the prediction.
A big hill of money rnd a roaring
whirlwind of tongue were wasted on
Indiana in the interest of Grantism.
NOVEMBER THE SEVENTH-
It is now less than three weeks ere
the day when the destiny of this nation
is to be settled for another four years,
and, perhaps, forever. When the sun
goes down upon that day the people of
this great Republic will have spoken
for pure and honest government, or for
a continuance in power ef the party
whose shocking maladministration finds
no parallel in the world’s history. If
the people approve of ^the corruptions
that have crept into every avenue of
the public service, by their ballots in No
vember, then the people themselves are
corrupt and are not worthy the name
of free Americans.
While we are not free from appre
hension as to the result, we cannot be
lieve that the people of this country are
willing to re-endorse this depraved par
ty with its damning record staring
them full in the face. Their acts are
on the public records, and the history
of th<*ir deeds will be the one foul blot
in American history. They trample
upon the Constitution, ignore the law,
plunder the people, and make the mili
tary paramount to the civil authority
Great States have been prostrated, and
are now prostrate, then plundered.
Not alone has the South felt the incu
bus of Republican rule—the whole
country is oppressed, and the people are
crying out in dispair.
Grant’s administration has in six
years, and in a time too of profound
peace, expended over 84,000,000,000,
or twice the amount of the national
debt. Add to this the millions upon
millions stolen from the South by the
carpet-baggers, and the millions stolen
by office-holders and rings, and we have
a load resting upon us as a people that
bids fair to crush us out of existence
An honest government would have by
this time paid the national debt, and
the country would be prospering. But
no ! The party in power spend twice
the amount of the public debt, pile up
more debt, and then ask the people to
Continue the reins of government
their hands. God forbid !
In less than three weeks the grea
verdict will be rendered. * People of
Decatur, black and white, you are
r—^ - lTral Jfarw.
Hayes, Whiteley and Corruption,
Tilden, Smith and lirform? We have
given you fact after fact, to stubborn
that no Radical dare resist them, show
ing how the country is governed, and
how, unless there is a check upon the
par^y in power, it will be ruined. Hence
there is no excuse for a reading man
voting to sustain Radicalism, and learn
ing, he should impart his information
to those who cannot read. Let every
man who can read become a missionary
until the day of election, in ..rder th it
all of our people may become fully en
lightened as to their duty in this crisis.
are before the country. “When the
devil wae sick,” no donbt his protesta
tions of intention to pat on sackcloth
were very fervent; unfortunately for
their acceptance, the country has had
a fuil sight of the devil when he was
well. Besides, if there be snch need of
Reform, who made it so urgent ? What
party has had exclusive control of
Treasury, Castem-House, Indian Bu
reau, Navy Department, &c.. while all
these abuses were growing rank ? Un
der what auspices have all the rogues
Ieai ned to sun themselves m our public
places so insolently ? To whom be
longs Grant, Shepherd, Babcock, Bel
knap, Butler, Chandler, the Camerons,
and all the long catalogue of graduates
in iniquity and shamelessness ? They
do not belong to the Democratic party.
They belong to you and your party, oh,
Republican doctors ! And, when the
people ask “what next?” the Demo
cratic party is at least able to offer a
change as their remedy. It cannot be
worse and it may very easily be better.
THE WESTERN ELECTIONS-
High Authority ou the Result
[From the N. Y. Herald—Rap.
The Republicans seem to concede that
the “solid South” is against them, and if
this impression should be verified it is as
certain as the rules of arithmetic that (heir
Presidential ticket will be defeated if Til
den carries his own State and the adjoin
ing Stares of Connecticut and New Jersey.
To be sure, the Democratic party can derive
little hope or consololation from the Octo
ber elections; but it must be considered
that the three pivotai States are already
Democratic, and that the Republicans must
not merely hold their own, but make con
quests to wrest them from Democratic con
trol. The Democratic party has also some
chances in Calitornia ana Oregon, which
would more than balance Sonth Carolina if
the Republicans should carry that one
Southern State. Tuesday’s elections, in
stead of deciding the Presidential contest,
will make it more close, doubtful, strenuous
and resolute than any national canvass in
the history of our politics.
.[From the N. Y. Sun — Dem.
The results of the recent elections enable
us to determine with reasonable accuracy
how the great question will be decided in
November. In Iliac contest, as our readers
will remember, the whole number of electors
to be-chosen is 369, and the candidate who
gets as many as 185 of these will be elected.
Here is the record as it stands since Tues
day :
STATFS CERTAIN TO VOTE FOR TILDEN.
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Candidates for all the offices within
gift of th
'J as bees.
busy^i°^ t ^ le next Legislature, are
WHAT NEXT ?
How much longer are these Repub
licon doctors to be allowed to play their
farce of “pacifying the South,” while
the stage on which they act is the
writhing and agonized body politic,
bleeding from a hundred wounds that
need healing ? Have we, the people,
no other concern than just to sit still
and see this wretched mockery perform
ed to the end, while our own 1 uin is
being surely and not slowly consumma
ted?
“What next ?” the people are asking
and they will noc be diverted from it.
You may send your Boutwells to search
for the hole in the sky, in Mississippi,
as often as you please. You may wave
the bloody shirt till your arms are sore;
you may shout yourselves hoarse about
“old issues,” but you will not divert the
minds of the people from the new and
ever present issue of the necessity of
living, and the necessity of getting re
form in order to live. All your nos
trums, all your subterfuges, all your lies
will do nothing to cure the universal
discontent which your measures have
brad in the hearts of the people, be
cause your measures have bred such
distress in the midst of the people. Af
ter you have done with your shouting,
your farce playing, your shirt waving,
your ridiculous capering on the ealum-
ny tight rope, the people are sure to de»
mand of you “what Dext ?”
And what will you answer, Republi
can doctors ? What, indeed, can you
answer ? Will you promise us Reform ?
You have had eight years of undisturb
ed power to reform in, and the results
Alabama
.. 10
Missouri
0
Connecticut...
....6
NewY'ork
. .35
Delaware....
....3
North Carolina
..10
Georgia
Oregon..
. . .o
Indiana
...15
Tennessee ..
Kentucky
.. 12
Texas
8
Louisiana
... .8
Virginia
. ii
Maryland
8
West Virginia.
.. .5
Mississippi
i .
—
Total...
.195
Or ten more than are necessary tv elect.
STATES LIKELY TO VOTE FOR TILDEX.
California .... .6 i New Ilamnshire... .5
i-icuiua 4 | South Carolina... i
Total ; .22
Certain Slates .195
Probable States 22
Grand total for Tilden 217
STATES CERTAIN TO VOTE FOR HAYES.
.11
Kansas
..5
Ohio
O’)
Maine
Rhode Island
4
Minnesota
Vermont....
5
Nebraska
...3
—
STATES LIKELY TO VOTE FOR HAYES.
Colorado
...3
Michigan....
11
Illinois
21
Wisconsin...
Massachusetts..
. 13
—
58
Certain Stales..
65
Probable States.
....58
Grond total for Hayes
.. 123
Or 62 fewer than are necessary to elect.
DOUBTFUL.
Pennsylvania 29
SUMMARY.
Grand total for Tilnen 217
Grand total for Hayes 123
Tildens majority 94
Less possible vote of Pennsylvania 29
States their whole army ofurators, mana
gers, Government clerks, repeaters and bal
lot-box stuffers and the campaign fund of
millions wrung from 90,000 public officials,
extorted from whiskey thieves or contribu
ted by candidates who proposed recouping
themselves from the public pockets. The
Republicans fought like cornered rats. They
had the Treasury before them—and the pen
itentiary behind. All that could be effected
by rousing prejudices of section, wee and
religion was done. The art of calumny,
falsehood and corruption were exhausted.
Tuesday’s sun went down on a battle
field all “rolled in smoke even now we
lack the uninterrupted view necessary for
precise computation of results at.d conse
quences. We know, however, that We have
won a decided victory in Indiana, and fought
a drawn battle in Ohio that is e luivolent to a
Republican defeat. Mr. Hendricks has
shown conclusively that he brings strength
to the national ticket; Mr. Hayes that he is
a load to his party, when a candidate of pos
itive character would have helped it. Ohio
is transferred from the “Republican” to the
“doubtful” column; Indiana is no longer
doubtful, but. Democratic. In each Siate
the full Republican strength, with all ex
traneous appliances, has been developed.
We enter on the November election with the
certainty that Messrs. Chandler and Mortob
cannot again concentrate their funds and
feVcnson tliosetwo States and that the “wait
ers mi .providence” will reinforce us.
While the gallant Democrats of Ohio and
Indiana thus have their work made easier
au"Vtheir brethren elsewhere have been en
couraged and heipen mightily, there must
be i» illusion, no over-confidence, no time
wasted in felicitations. We have the weight
of the initiative, but we have also a strong oe
made more desperate by defeat. The Repub
lican overthrow in November means starva
tion or hard work for nearly a hundred thou
sand fat officials and politicians, and for ma
ny of the greater rascals social ostracism and
the convict’s stripes. There is no weapon
from murder and high treason that they will
not employ. But happily to no purpose, if
we are only true to ourselves. Let there bo
no relaxing of effort to discipline; no selling
the bear’s skin till he is quite dead. Three
weeks more of such as the Army of the Ohio
has done, a simultaneous advance all along
the line, and we shall dictate peace at the
Capital.
LATE NEW^BREVITIES.
Servia is sick of the war,
Spuin is sending troops to Cuba.
A riot occurred in New York last Week.
Chamberlain continues to cry out for
troops.
The Democratic majority in Atkansas
is 33,992.
Augusta has raised her quarantine
against Charleston.
Russia and Servia are threatening
Austria and Turkey.
Increased Democratic gains and 12,000
majority are shown in West Virginia.
Sherman hits been petitioned to send
more troops to Carolina and Mississippi.
Governor Gaston declines the nomina
tion fol’Congttss from Massachusetts.
The yellow fever is slowly decreasing
in Savannah. They report it not epidemic
now in Brunswick
The otlicia. returns have been received
from Indiana, and Williams’ majority is
5.494. This is glorinti-.lv good.
The official returns fro a Colorado have
not been received. Both pattiescbiiti) the
State. 1
The official returns fr < n Ohio hive not
’Beet) rcrypnc-l- but it >* mor.-'t:>-■«> pfoba-
bje it has gone Radical.
The Sixth anti-Tamroasiv District met
in convention at Nc'V York and n imiuat-
ed Hon. S. S. Cox for Congress.
Mr. J. W. Lathrop, President o r the
Savonnali Cotton JE roll in re, died last
week of yellow fever.
Comptroller Greene has accepted the
nomination lor Mayor of New .York
tendered him by the Cooper Institute
meeting.
NEW GOODS
NOW POURING IN THE
And tvill soon he one of ih« prettiest an
most attractive stores in town.
The ^EYENTH
OF THE
SOUTH GEORGIA
Agricultural and Median^
association,
Commencing id ThodffisVilie, Georgia, October 3f st lg?g ,
’ 1 0(1
FIVE DAYS,
•S Ad
Weil & Loeb,
A splendid arrayof Premiums A magnificent display of (hr ,
South Georgia and Florida- Kuiehts in 6 P^uctio
With It distinctly understood in the
of the season that they
CAN’T BE UN ERS0LD
Georgia and Florida- Knights in gltMerYngTosC 1 ” 10 " ° f|
A brilliant Tournament.
Ample accommodations and room for Everybody Th„ t ....
did condition U1 1D & S 8re * n s plen*
ALL ENTRY TEES ARE ABOLISHED,
Excursion trains will run daily at reduced rates. The Am™." ,
tug nothing undone to make this yeat’s exhibition the grandest 011 *** U H
eating of any formor exhibition. South Georgia, Fiorida and th» “t!T ' nW ’l
mankind are invited. 18 balance
—— °ctl9td
(Under the Rankin House)
COLUMBUS,
GEORGIA.
BY ANY HOUSE IN SOUTH WEST GKO it
U1A, NUitBL8J-JYV HERE,
RESTAURANT
UlAkKOt
BILLIARD SALOON,
The Restaurant is now open and will be
supplied with fresh fish and oysters, and in
fact all the delicacies of the market. Par
ties visiting the city will find to their inter
cst to give Us a cn.l.
A, f . CLEMENTS & CO.,
psi-21-2ni Pr prietors.
hLABAJIA W
AREHOUSjl
COLUMBUS, GA.
-w *33 1fcw m
NEW HARDWARE FIRM.
J. A. FRA2ER & CO.
Dealer
Tilden’s sure majority 65
This is just the way the case stands since
the result of Tuesday’s elections has become
known, It leaves Tilden’s success about as
certain as Frank Pierce’s was after the elec
tions of October, 1852, We have no longer
any doubt of the complete triumph of the
Reform party. But it will not be achieved
without an earnest struggle. Tbe party of
corruption will aie hard. The possession of
power will only be surrendered after des
perate fighting. In the State of Ntw York
especially, the combat will be most intense
and incessant from this day forth until the
election of Tuesday, Nov. 7. Every trick
and device will be resorted to by the men in
office to save themselves from the dire ne
cessity of seeking a new occupation. But
no trick and no device, however cunning or
however audacious, can overcome the will
of the people to have a change, aud to turn
out the Grants, Robesons, Chandlers,
Blaines, Babcocks, Fishes, Shepherds, and
all the banditti who for the last seven years
have disgraced er plundered the country.
[From the N. Y. World—Dem.]
On Tuesday of this week we fought a
great battle where we had everything to win
and every chance of losing. West Virginia
was so surely ours that in our preliminary
reviews we did not even admit the chance
of its loss. We had hopes of Indiana, prin
cipally because of the local sympathy that
Mr. Hendricks as a candidate on the na
tional ticket: was sure to attract ; besides,
the average majority there to be overcome
was comparatively small. At the same time
we had our fears. Of all our antagonists
Mr Morton is the cleverest, least scrupulous,
most versed in the dirty and desperate
ways of politics. In Ohio we had confidence
that our Western brethren would make a
gallant resistance; we could hardly have
hoped for more Ohio is one of the banner
States of Republicanism, and the candidate
whom in effect tbe Republicans voted for
was an Ohioan, selected especially for his
local popularity and his success a twelve-
mouth before in the most desperate politi
cal battle ever waged in the State. The Re
publicans had the choice ot ground and
time, for they concentrated on these two
In the State elections so far held
the Democracy has not merely gained
on the popular vote of 1872 two hun
dred thousaud votes, but has secured
the votes of Alabama, Arkansas, Indt
ana. and West Virginia; in all thirty
six electoral votes from States which
voted for Grant in 1872. With Col
orado and Ohio yet in doubt, and of all
the States yet voting, only two, Maine
and VerB’ont, safe for Hayes, there can
be no doubt of the triumphant election
of Tilden and Hendricks by a large
majority of the Electoral College.
Alliance, O. 4—The Hon_
SchuyleF Colfax addressed the people
at the fair grounds this afternoon. The
Hayes and Wheeler guards paraded the
streets in t«rchlight procession. Alii
ance is wild with enthusiasm.
What can there be in the presence
on the stump of a venal legislator,
man who took money for his influence
in Cotigress in behalf of a job, and then
lied about it, a pious fraud, a smiling
pretender, and a disgraced politician
what can there be in Schuyler Colfax
to excite “wild enthusiasm?” But we
doubt not that however it may have
been with some of the people of AUi-
unce, thqjhonorable and thinking citi
zens looked with proper contempt on
this man, who had the effrontery to
come front his di graceful seclusion to
instruct the voters of a neighboring
State as to the casting of their ballots
at a time when there is so general a re
solve to rid our politics of the whole
crew of which this Schuyler Colfax was
once so conspicuous a member.—JV, T
Sun.
The Republicans are sad, and well
may they be so. After a fierce strugle
they have barely got Ohio in October
and stand a good chance of losing it
m November ; while Indiana,
which they crowded with speakers,’
and on which they lavished the mon
ey wrung from the office-holders, is
lost to them now, and will be against
them next month with a still more de
cisive majority ; and West Virginia
forcibly declares its detestation of the
men and ways of their party. The
Republicans can henceforth, nntdU
the Presidential election, wage only
a half-hearted fight. Their Western
straggle was in vain,, and they cannot
renew it.,
We have on band and nr** ron.-tlnfltly
ceiving a full line of
DRY GOODS,
HARDWARE
CUTLERY, and AGP [CULTURAL IMPLE
MENTS, .
Also, Gtltts, Carriage Mnleriitls, Iron, Steel.
Giu and Mill Gearing, Rubber Belt.
Ing, Mill Stones, Bolting
Cloths, l’aints, Oils, &v.
West Side Broad Street. COLUMBUS, GA.
CLOTHING, FANCY GOODS,
|y|RS. M. i. REYNOLDS,
FASHIONABLE
Milliner and Dress Maker,
Has just returned from the North with a
large and varied assortment of the
filanchapji, Williams 4 Co.,
Now We cliltfgfc Of this large FircPrJ
Warehouse, and solicit „ o{
Storage 25 cents a bate per month
',w s 1 ;;” 1 , i-«j
^S^iidattentiat, give,, to the nit'
-uni storage of Syrup,
t. J. mnc-E, «. j. uixtoBb, A, u, w,uu* v
PEARCE, BINF0RD & CO*
GROCE RS f
AND
CommiMion Merchant!,
NO 20, BROAD STREET, COLUMBUS, QJu
B®* Special attention to sale of cotton-
stp2l-3m
lOF THE*
GROCERIES Latest Styles Lowest Prices-
Call, Ladies, at once, and make your se
lections. oct 12-lni
OF ALD KINDS,
We invite the attention ot the trading pnV
He to the inducements which we propose te
eroff 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 Cha-trotb ot what we eay
WEIL & LOEB,
Bainbridge, Georgia,
BAKER AND CONFECTIONER,
And Dealer in
Family Groceries
The best, freshest and cheapest gro
ceries, at the lowest prices. Call on Fred
Smith, in Sharon Block. sepf8-6tn
W. H. H- STOKES
Next door to Barnett & Son,
BAINBRIDGE,*GA.,
Work done Cheeper tnan anywnere else in
in the City, and
IN THE BEST STYLE-
Give me s call before going elsewhere,
All that I ask is a trial
tGf Work warranted. eep28-3m
REDELL & CO
LIQUOR DEALERS,
ASH
tobacco agents
126 BROAD STREET,
Columbus, Geof
sep21-3m
j. kaufhahT
Wholesale Dealers in
GROCERIES,
LIQUORS,
Provisions, <8tc.«r
COLUMBUS, CA/
sep214f
James a. lewis,
jobber of
GEORGIA—Decatur County..
James M, Burnham as trustee for Sarah
B. Burnham has applied for exemption and
setting ajrarl of Homestead and I will pass
upon the same on the 4th day of Nov, at
my office m city of Bainbridge;
HIRAM BROCKET*,
Oct-12,1876. Ordinary, D. C;
DRYGOODS
NOTIONS, CLOTHING, HATS,-SHOES, SC
152 and 154, Broad Strtet,
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
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