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ESTABLISHED IN' 1843.
N. DWINELL, Proprtoler.
It. F. SAWYER, Editor.
Thursday Mornina, April 27,1876
DEMOCRATIC
always remained honest and always (.'oakling is his only peerin the Senate,
poor.” I However, 1 am quite aware that but
As Senator Bayard looms up so little appreciation will be felt in New
strongly as a Democratic Presidential
candidate, a brief personal description
may not be. uninteresting. As before
stated,he is very tall, in fact, one of the
tallest men in the House. As far as
physique is concerned, probably no
member of the Senate can vie with
him.
NATION.11. CONVEN
TION.
The following Delegates to St. Louis
were appointed yesterday at Carters-
ville: For the District—W. H. Payne,
P. M. B. Young. Alternates—J. W. H
Underwood, Gen. Hansell.
For the State at large—J. W, Wof
ford, Governor Smith, Geo. T. Barnes,
R. R. Lester.
The City National Bank of Selma
has commenced disbursing silver
change.
Little Fannie Aurelia, infant daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. A. It. Jones, of
Cedartown, died on Thursday morning
last. m m
The New York Herald says :
“ A Georgia minister preached from
the text, ‘ Where moth do not rust in
and steal.’ ”
This is a mistake. It was the text
of one of Don Piatt’s double-column
editorials.
We know not who will represent the
Georgia Democracy in the St. Louis con
vention, but this we do know, that if the
Georgia Democracy is fairly represented
it will insist upon measures and not men
Give us sound Democratic doctrine, and
let the North put its strongest man and
Georgia will coiue up to the sctatch with
out a flinch. It is not Tilden, not Hen
dricks, not Bayard, not Thurman we care
for but the Democratic party.
Press Excursion.—We are indebted
to Col. Estill for an invitation to join the
Savannah Hews excursion to Tybee on
the 11 of May. It will no doubt be a
very pleasant affair.
It is thought the coming meeting of
the Press Association, at Savannah, ou
the 16th of May, will be more numerous
ly attended than auv proceeding meetiu >
of thntbody.
The affable President with that con
siderate forethought which characterizes
him, accompanies the iuvitation with rail
road passes to Savaunah and return.
What an irreverent fellow that man
of the Knoxville Tribune is, to be sure,
Only hear how he speaks of Amos
the tinker. Our Amos? The big man
of Georgia:
Ackerman—the fellow whom Grant
grabbled out of the goober hills of
Georgia and made his Attorney-Gener
al—has been swearing at Washington,
Before knowing what was the matter,
he confessed to having paid Devenport
certain sums out of the secret Bervico
fund under his control. His misera
ble, cowardly and disgraceful request
for “time to frame his answer” only
shows the extent of the guilt. Can
evetl any decent Republican doubt
the guilt of his party ?
This is too bad—on the goober hill
—and we hasten to explain that it
wasn’t a goober hill at all out of which
he was grabbled, but one of those coni
cal little mounds usually found in
Bullock pen known in barn-yard par
lance as dung-hills, and he was planted
there from the State of Maine. He is
no goober and least of all a Georgia
goober,
A Chat With Bayard.
Spscl.l Corr.ipondeuc. of the Sunday Telegram.]
Washinoton, April 22.—The moat
conspicuous democratic candidate for
the Presidency, next to the old bachel
or at Albany, is young and handsome
Bayard. No greater contrast could be
imagined than exists between these
two men. Tilden Bmall: Bayard six
feet two. Tilden a regul v old maid
in his habits; Bayard an exuberant,
full-blood, impassioned and impatient
man. Tilden an indefatigable Presi
dential schemer; Bayard comparative
ly indifferent to the allurements of the
White House, and satislied with his
Senatorial honors. Bayard has cer
tainly reason to be proud, not only of
his personal achievements, but of the
political lustre which history has shed
upon his family name.
His father, now a venerable man of
seventy-five, and hiB grandfather, occu-
died seats in this very Senate of which
the present Presidential candidate is
one of the ablest and—what is even
more—one of the purest members.
Meeting accidentally this morning in a
street car—.hough he rides compara
tively seldom, being one of the most
indefatigable walkers—we chatted at
random on the topics of the hour, and
I happened to make a complimentary
allusion to his honorable family his
tory. He rather blushed and sunk his
head upon his breast, os though some
what embarrassed for the moment, but
then he caught up the expression and
said emphatically:—
“ I am not proud of the fact that
they were United States Senators, but
that they were honest men!”—pro
nouncing the last two words with im
mense relish.
“They were not connected with tho
whisky fiauds in any way ?”
“No. sir,” he replied, laughing and
vehementis shaking his head.
“ Nor with tho Credit Mobilier ?”
“ No sir,”—laughing more and more.
“ Nor even with the moth extermin
ator, Senator?”
“Nosir,” he replied, seriously and
with much vigor; “ they were men who
HE IS A PERFECT ATHLETE,
with tremendous breadth of chbst and
a powerful frame, but no spare llesli
whatsoever. Swifted-footed, sturdy-
limbed it is difficult for you to keep
step with him while ho is running up
Capitol hill, and mounting two or three
steps at a leap, like a lively schoolboy.
His head is of line shape, hut small
for his size, his face perfectly smooth,
his eyes small, and of a pale blue, his
nose straight, but not full, and his
cheek bones rather prominent. lie has
a small and peculiarly delicate mouth,
very much like that of a woman, and a
curious habit of curling up his upper
lip as he spoaks. lie is the most mild-
mannered, low-voiced, modest type of
a Senator, always pleasant,always civil,
and overflowing with genial humor.
Not a professionally funny man like
Cox, who always will be funny,because
that is recognized as his special busi
ness—no, but always having some hu
morous and striking criticisms to make
on the passing events of the day.
BAYAttn’s OPINION OP TILDEN.
While it would be improper to di
ulge what he said about the personal
ities of the Presidential contest gener
ally, I can, however, quote tho passing
opinion which he gavo of Governor
Tilden. He said :
“ I regard him as a man of unques
tionable ability, and there is no doubt
that the country at large so regards
him.”
Senator Bayard expressed himself
with perfect candor on ttie present dis
closures of corruption in Gen. Grant’s
administration.
Had we not had a Democratic
House in session,” he said, “ none of
these things would have come to
light.”
“ Oh, the President is going to reform
now.”
REFORM
“ Reform ?’; asked the Senator, with
i expression of withering scorn.
Where is it? I don’t see it? There is
Major Merrill, of Ku-Klux notoriety, who
fairly depopulated certain counties in
South Carolina, and after extorting from
the Legislature of the State $20,000 for his
infamous work, he has himself been de
tailed ou duty at the Centennial. When
Belknap resigns General Shc.ri.iuu and
Secretary Taft at once agree that l-e is not
a fit man to stay there and serve as a
specimen of tho American gentleman and
officer, and tranfer him. What does
General Grant .do? He coolly transfers
him back to the Centennial. That’s re
form.”
I asked him what he thought of the
Davenport elections revelations.
THE DAVENPORT. BUSINESS.
They are all the outgrown of the same
system. I say that any system of gov
ernment which places the power of the
goverment in the hands of such men ns
Whitley is damnable. The usual idea of
government is that it is a body of pure,
high-minded, men arraigned against
wrongdoers. But hero is a criminal
put in power. He is the very man of
whom Judge Blatchford said in a ease of
counterfeiting, that on testimony of fel
lows like him nobody should be convicted.
He and his set wore ostensibly paid to
prevent crime, and the fact was that they
created it. And yet the Secret Service
of the government is placed in the hands
of men like Whitley!”
MORE REFORM.
Here followed a pause, and then Sena
tor Bayard went on. “ Another instance
of reform—take this Howe, another chief
of the Secret Service. He was a man
mixed up in that Naylor business, and
one of the very worst members of the Cus
tom House band. He was removed by
Bristow, and what does the President do
to encourage Bristow in this effort to
weed out all disreputable and obnoxious
men from the service of the department ?
He appoints him Pension Agent of New
York, a much better offico than tho one
from which he had been removed by
Bristow.”
“ And, as though it were good joke
Senator Bayard laughed heartily.
THE PRESIDENT’S CONTEMPT FOR LAW.
“The President cares nothing To
law,” the Senator said in tho further
course of the conversation, “he tramples
the law under foot. The fact is,
President, I believe, ever went into of
fice with so little idea of wlmt civil
government is as Grant possessed. All
his ideas of government were military,
his cabinet ministers bo treated as his
aid-de-camps, and they learned from
him this contempt for the law.”
“And in spite of the President's nu
merous violations of law,” I asked, “the
party seem to follow him as faithful
ly as evei—there does not seem to be
for instance, a sundering of the party
now between him and the Republican
Senators ?”
“THEY FOLLOW HIM LIKE SLAVES.”
“O, no! not a particle,” he responded,
in that cool, unimpassioned manner
which clearly showed that he w .s not
BDeaking as a partisan, but ns a man.
“I never saw anything like it. They
follow him like slaves.”
I hope Senator Conkling, Morton,
Logan and the rest will not be dis
pleased of the expression; for surely
ft is better to follow, be it even slavish
ly, the leadership of a great and wise
man like Grant than to flounder in the
bog of Democratic fallacies.
I alluded to the many rumors of a
possible impeachment, and Senator
Bayard exclaimed, contemptuously,
‘Impeachment 1 impeachment! what
good would it do with a Senate like
this?”
From my acquaintance with Wash
ington politics, I must say that Bayard
is one of tho very best men in the
Presidential field. Not a breath of
Suspicion has been uttered against his
York for the recommendation of a
Delaware Senator when so many of
her own sons nre so worthily struggling
for the nomination. As Senator Bay
ard himself modestly remarked, “I
cannot expect much support from
Now York when she has so excellent a
candidate as Tilden to offer for
tiie position.
The Decline of Grantism.
There is something almost pathetic
in the havoc which the developments
of tho last few months have made of
President Grant’s power. We hear no
more of the third term now, either
phantom or fact, it lias disappeared
so completely that tho most relentles
and exacting of the Preisdent’s enemies
is forced to accept the fact. The ques
tion of the succession is being deter
mined in a. tumultuous discussion, in
which tiie President takes no part in,
which there is no part for him to take,
for the great authority over the succes
sion which ho was admitted to have, a
short time ago, no longer exists. Where
and how it lias gone, his personal
friends would find it difficult to ex
plain without recalling events which
Doth they and he may well wish to for
get forever.
No American president wielded such
a power over his party and the co.intry
as President Grant wielded two years
ago, and no other public man could
have so miserably dissipated it. At
the close of the last Congres one hardly
dared to breathe tiie name of any other
Republican presidential candidate
than Grant. It was not known that he
would claim a third election. It was
confidently asserted and feebly denied.
He kept silence on a question that was
beginning to fill the country with alarm
but his very silence awed all those Re
publican chiefs who secretly coveted
the prize into a meek and patient wait
ing upon his sovereign pleasure.
Blaine, Morton, Conkling, Bristow,
Hayes and Washburne stood dumb
and still as'tlio marble statues before a
rich man’s mansion, awaiting the ar
rival of the time, if it was ever to
come, when tho head and mastsr of tiie
party should graciously consent to dis-
vow the tiie third term allow hisduti-
ful lieutenants to scramble for the hon
or which he declined. That time never
came. The dutiful lieutenants are
scrambling for tho honor; indeed, but
not by the grace of their master. Ho
is no one’s master •now. The party
he ruled with so stern and hard a
hand lias slipped away from him, and
attaching itself to the standard of
those who once were his faithful sub
alterns, but no longer, now, recognize
his authority.
It would not bo a pleasant task to
point out tbeageDcies that have broken
tiie President’s power so signally and
in so short a t.me, particularly as those
agencies are Btill doing their mangling
work with such pitiless cruelty. We
have lit.le heart for the dismal suspi
cions and reports that connect the
President with the crimes of his vulgar
ex-secrotary, Babcock, the knaveries of
the District ring, or tiie misappropria
tions of public money to pay for the
partisan service of Supervisor Daven
port. We could wisli, for tiie honor of
tho high office, that these suspicions
and reports were without ground to
rest on, and that the country would be
spared the shame of tracing acts of
personal dishonor to its chief magis
trate. But giving to liim the whole
benefit of doubts on this point, the un
deniable fact still remains that the
President lias been ruined by his wil
ful association witii dishonest men of
bis party. And there is no' palliation
< f the offence. He made his choice
with his eyes open, lie was not ig
norant of tho real character of the Mur
phys, McDonalds, Babcocks and Wil
liamses, whom lie elevated to positions
of eminence in sight of a mortified and
remonstrant peopl
before ho made them shares of his con-
dcnco and participants in his power,
and he adhered ti them with tenacity
of devotion wich the angry clamor of
the country and even formal indict
ment by grand-jureies could not affect.
If the logical reward for this defiant
and persistent disregard of the proprie-
of his high office and of the moral sen
timent of a patient country lias fallen
on him, at last; if he lias lost that re
spect of his party and that cordial good
will of his countrymen which ought to
follow a retiring President, it is no
one’s fault but his own. It is tho re
sult of a folly and recklessness that
would be scarcely conceivable, if the
exhibitions of it had not for three
years been constautly Hung in our
faces.—St. Louis Republican.
Henry Kelsch tried to“ringin on the
crowd” in a Cincinnati saloon,.so said
a witness, meaning that he walked up
to the bar fora drink when tho others
were invited. The testimony also is that
he drank gin and sugar. One of the
party called his attention to this
breach of etiquette. Thereupon he
mounted a beer keg, drew a revolver,
and fired three shots, wounding the
same number of men. Ho is in jail
now, but when lie gets free doubtless
lie will “ ring in on the crowd” unrr-
buked.
For some reason or other the English
people during the last financial year
increased their consumption of tea,
coffee and tobacco, and diminished
their use of intoxicating beverages, as
shown by the customs and excise re
ceipts.
Young ladies and widows can knit
purees far marriageable men, with the re
sumption of coin. After they have
hooked their fish Ihey can empty the
same purses.
Tiie city council of Galveston lias re
fused *o confirm the appointment of
Gen. Braxton Bragg as oity engineer.
“ A little more grape, Capt. Bragg.”
The Presidential Campaign
may be said to have fully opened with
the organization of the National Demo
cratic Congressional Committee, who
are now installed at their rooms in Wash
ington. As State and local organiza
tions, and individual Democrats all
over the country, will have frequent
occasion to address the officers, wo pub
lish, at the request of the Commitee,
the following information :
Rooms of National Democratic
Congressional Committee,
1324 F street, Washington D. C.
Senate.
Hon. J. W. Stevenson, of Kentucky ;
Hon. W. W. Eaton, of Connecticut;
Hon. D. V. White, of Maryland ; Hon.
H.G. Davis, of West Virginiar ; Hon. J.
R. Gordon, of Georgia.
House o f Rcpresentatires.
lion. Hiester Clymer,of Pennsylva
nia; Hon. ('. W. Chapin, of Massachu
setts; Hon. J. W. Throckmorton, of
Texas; lfon. A. S. Hewitt, of New York;
Hon. C. E. Hooker, of Mississippi; Hon.
M. Sayler, of Ohio.
District of Columbia.
Mr. W. W. Corcoran, Mr. James E.
Harvey, and Mr. Charles Mason.
The Democratic organizations in all
the States and Territories are requested
to send the names of their Committees,
immediately, to the Congressional Com
mittee.
Applications for documents, speeches,
and other political matter, and all com
munications relating to the business of
the Committee, should be addressed to
the Secretary, lion. James E. Harvev,
1324 F street, Washington city.
Editors who send their newspapers
to the Committee will be furnished
with all documents free of charge
Hiester Clyiyer, Chairman,
W. H. Barnum, Treasurer.
James E. Harvey, Secretary.
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Petitions from St. Louis have been
forwarded to the President asking for
the commutation of the sentence of
Maguire, and from the tenure of our
Washington dispatches the President
seems inclined to listen to and heed
their prayer. I’ierrepont has been
invoked and we all know what a docile,
submissive man he is. Ifthe’President
wants petitions in favor of allowing no
guilty man to escape he can have them
in abundance, and Maguire is one of
the guilty men.—Rultimore Gazette.
The ladies will doubtless be interested
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The breaking up of the San Frgncis-
co whisky rings excites comparatively
little interest here, chiefly because they
are nearly as far off as Saturn’s.
Maj. Gen. Charles E. Furlong has been
H«“ir U n^ BU fLo„ elected major general of the Mississippi
Ho knew them State militi J a . 8 No other candidate wild
forty rods of an election.
Lewis Carroll’s new nonsense book
is called “ The Hunting of the Snork.”
The “ Snork” is a distant relative of the
Jabberwock.
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