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iXortli Georgian.
Belltoa, Ga., September 30, 1880.
To any person sending ns six sub
•cribers aud the money, the paper will
be sent gratis one year.
FOR PRESIDENT:
GEN. W. S. HANCOCK,
Os Pennsylvania.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT:
HON. W. H. ENGLISH,
Os Indiana.
FOR GOVERNOR:
ALFRED H. COLQUITT,
Os Fulton.
FOR CONGRESS:
HON. H. P. BELL,
Os Forsyth.
FOR STATE SENATOR:
B. F. SUDD ATH,
Os Banks.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE.
W. A. QUILLTAN/
Remember, next Wednesday is elec
tion day. We intend to vote for Col
quitt, Suddath and Quillian. If you
want to be on the winning side, cast
your vote for them.
Cheering reports come from the
Democracy in New Jersey and Con
necticut. In both States the party, it
is said, was never in better trim, “the
news from Maine” having inspired
the rank and file with unprecedented
entlsisiasm.
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Remember that Mr. Speer voted in
Congress against his party and with
the Radicals on several important
questions. This is probably why Har
rison Harris said last Saturday in his
epeech that his party had claims upon
Speer.—Madison Madisonian.
The friends of Judge Geo. N. Lester
arc urging his name as a candidate for
the Supreme Court Judgeship. We
trust members of the Legislature will
use their influence to push the claims
of North Georgia and Judge Lester to
a successful issue.—Marietta Journal.
A gentleman well known in Wash
ington, a native of Virginia,says Gen
Mabone told him a few days ago that
there was ud chance for the Republi
cans to carry the State; that if any
attempt should be made by the Re
publicans to enter upon an active
canvass, the two Democratic factions
would immediately unite upon a sin
gle electoral ticket, no matter at what
sacrifice of State issues.
One of the Republican speakers, last
Saturday, gave ns a reason why they
should support Emory Speer for Con
gress, was that they had claims upon
him. He failed to state what the
character of those claims was, but as
his party in convention endorsed Mr.
Speer, wo presume they are satisfied.
Possibly his voting with the Republi
cans in Congress against his party, on
one or two very important bills, ac
counts for the milk in the cocoanul.
Madison Madisonian.
The Atlanta Constitution, of last
Sunday, published a list of estimates
of one hundred nnd four counties, on
the Governor’s election, furnished by
the Sheriffs and Ordinaries. Colquitt
has ninety-one counties and Norwood
only thirteen. Colquitt’s majorities
are 37,380 and Norwood’s 4,050, leav
ing Colquitt's net majority 33,330 in
the one hundred and four counties.
The same proportion in the other
thirty-three counties would make
Colquitt’s whole majority 44,000.
It will be seen by our Atlanta spe
cial that Gov. Colquitt has been under
the necessity of refuting another vile
slander. If all the lies and slanders
that have been uttered against Gov.
Colquitt by lijs enemies could be
turned into votes for Norwood, our
distinguished fellow-citizen would be
elected Governor “by a large major
ity.” But it is more likely that these
campaign lies will count on the other
side on election day—that, like chick
ens, they will come home to roost.—
Savannah News.
Wc clip the following pointed item
from the Milledgeville Union and
Recorder: “The Gubernatorial cam-:
paign in Georgia, now progressing, is ,
one in which the people are far in ad
vance of the politicians. Indeed, they
have taken the leadership entirely out
of the hands of the politicians. To
be thoroughly convinced of this fact
one has only to look over the State,:
and seo who arc the prominent fol-:
lowers of Mr. Norwood, and he will !
find everyone of them, to a man, a
partisan—the great majority being'
broken down political hacks, and the
balance prospective place-hunters.— ;
This is no political license—it is solid
truth.” And the people will go to
the polls next Wednesday and vote
almost solid against these partisans.
SUDDATH AND 1118 CMITICB.
The people of this section haye cer
tainly had more than their share of
“advice” and direction about how to
vote, from anonymous scribbler# dur
ing this campaign. This is owing to
the fact that some of our larger towns
are filling up (the census shows that)
with a lot of trifling dead-beats and
goods box whittiers, who think that
the salvation of the country depends
upon them, and for this reason they
are scribbling for the newspapers
when and wherever they are per
mitted, with fulsome praises of their
friends and unprovoked attacks upon
those who may have dared to run for
an office without consulting them.
This is the position just now of Mr.
Suddatb. In the last issue of the
Gainesville Eagle, one of these scrib
blers, signing .himself Jackson, (to
try and leave the impression that he
is from Jackson county,) pitches head
long Into this gentleman, because
forsooth, he refused to submit his
claims to a position in the State Sen
ate to the dictation of the meeting
that assembled at Gillsville. We
know more about that meeting than
we want to tell, and more than would
be altogether creditable to it if the
same were told.
“Jackson” will see when the elec
tion is over, that lightning has been
at work during the campaign, and
when it is too late to save bis man,
he will discover where it struck.
Mr. Suddath is not an office seeker,
and ho is not making this race to
gratify ambition—he is the candidate
of a large majority of the influential
citizens of Banks county,'and by this
time next week, “Jackson” will know
who got Mr. Suddath out in Banks,
and who are supporting him.
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W. A. QUILLIAN.
We have said little, so far, in rela
tion to the candidacy of this gentle
man for the Legislature, and our
reason for it was, we thought little
was necessary. He is a descendant
of a long line of good and true men,
who have illustrated their devotion
to Gnd and country, and left as a
heritage—good names—that are and
ought to be the pride of their descen
dants.
W. A. Quillian is a sober man. lie
is a Godly man; he is a prudent man;
he is a safe man ; he is able to repre
sent his constituents and defend them
in committee or on the floor of the
House, and then his conduct on the
street or at church, or in any other
place where he might go, would re
flect credit on his constituents.
Mr. Quillian is an educated man ; a
safe business man, who has managed
his own business well. Is it not
reasonable to suppose he would man
age the people’s business the same
way? Don’t neglect to vote for
Quillian next Wednesday.
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Because an occasional correspondent
in the Ninth District sees fit to send
the Constitution a night dispatch to
the effect that Mr. Speer is annihilat
ing Mr. Bell, our readers should not
think we believe any such nonsense.
We print the dispatches as they come,
as a rule, but we reserve the right,
especially during a heated canvass, to
accept some as truth and to reject
others. The reader should exercise :i
similar right. No one should enter
tain the belief that Mr. Bell is not
making a spirited and brilliant can
vass. AU reliable information that
lias come to hand goes to show that
Mr. Speer has his hands very full in
<lefending his record in Congress. He
has been put almost wholly on (he
defensive, and the indications unmis
takably arc that Hiram P. Bell will
regain the place in which he served
the people of the mountain district
faithfully and in every respect well.
His efficiency and capacity have been
fully tested nt Washington, fie de
serves the hearty support of every
Democrat in the District.—Atlanta
Constitution.
The press is commonly supposed to
reflect popular opinion to a great ex
tent. If this be true, the Norwood
party lias, comparatively, a small
backing of popular favor. The Co
lumbus Enquirer is the only morning
daily in the State which has cham
pioned that side of the controversy.
Os the evening dailies on that side,
none, wc believe, have been estab
lished as long as three years—several
of them less than two. The weeklies
of the Norwood persuasion are, witli
: few exceptions, of the regularly inde
pendent stripe, and the bitterest and
! most conspicuous of them only re
cently established. This we take as n
strong indication that the majority of
tire conservatism and sound judgment
of the country are for Colquitt.—Dc
j Kalb News.
A dispatch from Richmond, Va., to
'■ the New York Times, says : “In the
next election thousands of the black
’ citizens of this State will of their own
free will, nnd knowing fully the im
portance of their action, walk delib
erately up to the polls and cast their
votes against the nominees of the
: national republican party and for the
Hancock and English electoral ticket.
HON. 11. P. BELL.
The gentleman whose name heads
this article is before the people of the
Ninth Congressional District of Geor
gia as a candidate to represent them
in the next Congress. Mr. Bell, as
the people of the District, most of
them know, is a man of elevated
religious character —a man in whom
the people who know him best, have
the most utmost confidence, both
religiously and politically. As a pub
lic servant, Cd. Bell has ever been
faithful to his constituents. The plat
form upon which he stands in refer
ence to the financial affairs of the
country, as well as other matters of
very great importance, we believe is
a sound one. Col. Bell is a Demo
crat, and has ever been faithful to the
party.
In view of the best interests "of the
country, it is our duty to put in office
the very best men that we can, and as
we honestly believe that Col. Bell is
the best man before us in the present
race, we hope we shall be permitted
to use our independence iu giving
him our hearty support, and if the
honest convictions of othcri lead
them in a different direction, we shall
not fail out and abuse them for it.
We only ask you to consider well,
and be thoroughly convinced before
you vote that you are voting for the
best man. “The law partakes of the
nature of the law-maker.” Remem
ber this, and be serious, sober nnd
candid in the selection of your law
makers.—Cleveland Advertiser.
GOV. COLQUITT.
Editor Georgian : I wish to say
a word to the readers^ - Hie Georgian
in regard to the Governor’s election.
The canvass will soon close and the
battle will be fought. Wednesday
next you will be called upon to vote
for the pure and staunch leader of the
untarnished democracy of tlrts State,
A. 11. Colquitt, or the self-appointed
candidate, T. M. Norwood, to rule
over us. The former represents the
masses of the people—the latter the
dissatisfied factions of both parties.
Go to the polls and vote fqr'Colquitt.
Can you support Norwood, after he
and his advocates have abused and
accused Gov. Colquitt of crimes that
all reasonable men know false.
It is our duty to consign Norwood to
the shades of forgetfulness, and tiie
writer believes that it will be done
by’ a large majority on tire Gtb day of
Oftober.
Look at the extensive credit and
prosperity of our State to-day under
the administration of Gov. Colquitt.
Can you, fellow-citizens, consign to
the shades of oblivion, so wise, safe
and pure a ruler as our Democratic
Governor, A. 11. Colquitt? Never.
Let your motto be: “Colquitt and
our country forever.” Democrat.
NEWS ITEMS.
Four inches of snow fell in Wyom
ing Territory, last Saturday.
Eggs are selling in Charleston at GO
cents per dozen, and scarce at that.
Judge Hilton has given his check
for fifty thousand dollars to help elect
Hancock.
It seems assured that Maine will
give three electoral votes to Hancock
and English.
They say that Norwood's prospects
in his own county are uot as bright as
they might be.
Most of our exchanges are rejoicing
over the fact that the State election
is near at hand.
Senator Wallace believes Pennsyl
vania will cast her electoral votes for
Hancock and English.
The repudiation amendment to the
constitution of Arkansas has been de
feated by 7,(MX) majority.
The next session of the Georgia
Legislature will convene on the first
Wednesday iu October next.
If you thirst for knowledge, run for
office. You’ll find out more than you
ever dreamed of—about yourself.
The population of Georgia is about
1,450,CU0. The probability is that on
: October Gtb over 200,000 votes will
| be polled.
Judging by an editorial in the Cin
cinnati Gazette, the Republican lead
ers there are not entirely sanguine of
their ability to carry Ohio iu October.
They liavn’t charged Colquitt, dur
ing the past week, with robbing a
hen’s roost. This last crushing charge
is probably reserved for the last week
in the campaign.—Exchange.
The next most important tiling to
the election of Hancock and English
is a good working majority of true
and tried Democrats in the House of
Representatives. Here is where most
' of the reforms must originate.
The present condition of the cotton
■ crop in the cotton belt is telegraphed
in Saturday's report, showing that the
■ crop prospect is not so good as it was
: on the first of September, owing to
rainy weather aud the depredations
of the cotton worm in some sections.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
[from Our Ker/ulur Corresponctent.]
Washington, D. C.j Sept. 25.
It appears that the-Chairman of the
Democratic Campaign Committee in
Washington has attempted to frank
through the mails, as campaign litera
ture, some speeches made by ex-Con
gressmen and ex-Senators, who are
not entitled to franking privileges. If
it were uot a mistake, as he claims, it
would be a crime for him to do so;
but when we remember that the Re
publicans are doing the same thing
on a much larger scale; when we
know that they are defrauding the
government by requiring campaign
work aud campaign money of gov
ernment employes; when we know
that there are now only two
officers at their posts, and that the
public service is most grossly neg
lected through absenteeism in all its
branches on electioneering schemes,
the noise that has been made over
three packages of Democratic mail
matter by the fraudulent minions of
a fraudulent administration, is more
ridiculous than burlesque fury.
Since the results of the Maine elec
tion have become definitely known,
Republicans here seem to have fully
collapsed in the apathy of despair,
realizing tiuit the four years that
they have eaten the dishonest bread
of fraud are nearly ended, and (hat
the great majority that elected Mr.
Tilden will now sternly demand a
vacation, under the management of
Hancock, of all their stolen places.
Then I think we may hope for civil
service reform, for no matter how
great may be the rapacity for place
and office among the Democrats, it
will be impossible for them, lacking
as they are in experience, to fill the
departments with as many useless,
incompetent supernumeraries as have
held place and drawn pay since the
war. If the people of this countrj’
could only know the immense sums
they are paying to thousands of ele
gant loafers, who do not work thirty
minutes per day, civil service reform
would be forced into prominence over
all other issues. If, when the Demo
crats come in, tliey shall show the
same ingenuity as Republicans have
shown in making useless offices and
bureaus, appointing incompetent men
to fill them, and then appointing in
competent assistants, both male and
female, to help the chiefs do nothing,
I shall join the opposition.
The Republican organ of this city
sounds a note of alarm this morning,
with reference to Ohio, in a long and
carefully written editorial. It con
cedes that there is danger of the State
going against them in October, nnd
gives reasons for the fear iu quota
tions from the Dayton Journal, oue
of the. ablest Republican papers.
With warning from Maine, with
the half-hearted support of Conkling,
with dissensions in their own ranks,
and mal-management by Jewell, the
Republican cause lias never appeared
gloomier. Nothing short of decided
majorities in Indiana and Ohio can
help the party that received National
condemnation in the Centennial year.
THE JOINT DISCUSSION,
Gainesville, Ga., (
August 31st, 1880. )
The undersigned, candidates for
Congress in tire Ninth Congressional
District, have agreed upon a joint
discussion on the following terms, to
wit: The party opening the debate to
speak one hour—the other to follow
iu a speech of one hour and a half—
the opening party to conclude in a
speech of thirty minutes. The par
ties shall open and conclude on alter
nate days.
Either party shall have the right to
rise and correct a misstatement of fact
without argument. The time occupied
by the correction not to be counted
against the speaker.
Eiwh meeting to be presided over
by a chairman selected by the parties
alternately, who shall preserve order
and keep the time.
All the people, and most especially
the ladies, are invited to attend these
discussions.
The parties agree to the following
list of appointments for joint discus
sion, and request all the papers in
the district to publish this agreement
and the appointments.
IL P. Bell.
Emory Speer.
Lawrenceville, Tuesday, Sept 14th
Dahlonega, Friday, ’ “ 17th
Dawsonville, Monday, “ 2uth
Gainesville. Wednesday, “ 22nd
Cumming, Friday, " “ 24th
Jasper, Monday, “ 27th
Ellijay, Wednesday, “ 29th
Homer, Monday, October 4th
Jefferson, Wednesday, “ Glh
Danielsville. Friday, “ Bth
Carnesville, Monday. “ 11 th
Athens, Wcdn’day night, “ 13th
Watkinsville, Friday, “ 15th
Miulison. Monday, “ 18th
Toccoa, Wednesday, “ 20th
Clarkesville, Friday, “ 22nd
Cleveland, Saturday, “ 23rd
Clayton during court week in Oct.
Both candidates being of counsel
for the defendant in a murder case in
Rabun county, are compelled to close
the joint canvass there.
Tiie bureau of statistics reports the
arrival of 50,508 immigrants to this
country during (he month of August.
GRAND ANNOUNCEMENT!
J. C. QUILLIAN & BROTHERS
ARE NOW DAILY RECEIVING THEIR LARGE AND WELL
SELECTED STOCK OF
FILL INI HIM M,
Which were purchased in the Eastern markets, by one of the firm, from the
leading Wholesale Houses and Manufacturers of the country, and they are
offering them to Hie public at ,
BO’X’TOIME KR ICHESS!
They have enlarged their Store, making it one hundred and nine feet
deep, which enables them to store away and exhibit oue of the Largest
Stocks of Goods ever brought to Northeast Georgia.
Having been in tiie Mercantile Business for nine years in this section,
and commencing at the bottom, they have, with energy aud perseverance,
run their business up to Forty Thousand Dollars per year.
With their experience and the large amount of goods they buy, they are
enabled to sell as low as any house north of Atlanta.
They keep on hand a large variety of
Ladies’ Dress Goods and Prints,
LADIES’ WATER PROOF GOODS,
CASSIMERES, JEANS, READYMADE CLOTHING, SHIRTINGS,
DRILLINGS, KERSEYS, FLANNELS, ETC.
BOOTS AXI) SHOES.
They have in store n large assortment of Children’s Shoes, and Ladies’
line and Coarse Shoes—all sold at the lowest prices.
GROCERIES AND HARDWARE,
SADDLES AND BRIDLES.
A largo lot of CROCKERY, bought direct from the pottery.
Also, Glassware, Lamps, Etc. A large lot of
Bedsteads and Cltairs.
They have one of the best Flouring Mills in the country, and manufac
ture their Flour from Kentucky wheat, shipped in bulk, and' therefore they
cannot be undersold. J
Always on band a fine supply of Flour, Meal and Bran—for sale at the
store or at the null.
They have for sale a car of Kentucky seed wheal. Call and buv and
improve the grade of wheat. J ’
Their Stcnm Cotton Gin is in first-class order, and entire satisfaction
guaranteed to all those favoring them with their patronage. ■
5 on will find all of the above goods at our Branch House, nt Wayside
which is m charge of GEO. M. QUILLIAN. ’
The highest cash price paid for Cotton, in seed or bale, at each house.
Thankful for the very liberal pafronage heretofore extended to them iu
the past, they feci sure that they can make it to the interest of all persons
to examine their goods and prices before buying elsewhere.
.1. <J. C£uillimi Ac Brother*,
sest3o-3m RELLTON AND JF.4 YSIDE, GA.
Homer, Ga., Sept. 23,1880.
I gave Mr. D. T. Bush a certificate
last Monday, the 20th instant, stating
that I had no letters in my possession
going to show that he was in favor of:
no one voting for Senator, unless he j
was a land owner, or being a Senator
unless he was a land owner.
Mr. D. T. Bush, in a conversation
ssrne four or five years ago with me,
did nay that the. Senate ought to be
composed of laud owners entirely,
and that land owners only ought to
be allowed to vote for Senator. If
my memory is not greatly at fault,
he further remarked that there ought
to be a Constitutional Convention
held, and that law incorporated in
the Constitution. In justice to Mr.
Bush, however, I will say his posi
tion had reference to South Carolina
and not to Georgia. I did not so un
derstand him. I understood him to
mean Georgia. I was in the Georgia
Legislature at the time. While iu
Atlanta I received a letter (not letters}
from Mr. Bush, on some private busi
ness, and in that letter Mr. Bush
stated there ought to be a convention
called to frame a new constitution,
and as a matter of course, my infer
ence was, Mr. Bush desired his politi
cal views embodied in the new con
stitution.
Mr. Bush certainly does not deny
the conversation with me, and never
has, only he insists there was nothing
in the letter about a constitutional
convention, etc., nnd that in the afore
said conversation he alluded entirely
to South Carolina. I regret that the
letter is lost—whilst if I had it now,
it could speak for itself.
Very respectfully,
James J. Turnbull.
The active business in New York
is described in glowing colors by the
Tribune, which states that the city
hn« never seen busier days. “Night is
being turned into day, and the work
of filling the orders of country buy
ers, especially in the dry goods'trade,
is carried far into the small hours.”
The Heathercotes.
This is the title of a new serial
story, by Miss Mat Crim, of Atlanta,
the first chapters of which will appear
in the Savannah Weekly News of
Saturday, August 28th. Without an
ticipating, we may assure the lovers
of pleasant fiction that a rich treat
awaits them in the perusal of this
charming story of home life. Sub
scribers, to have it entire, should send
in their names at once. Subscription,
six month, 81; one year, 82. Address
J. 11. Estill, Savannah, Ga.
Another Offer.
The publisher is determined to place
the Savannah Weekly News in the
hands of everybody in Georgia and
Florida who want a first-class news
and family journal, and to that .end
we offer to send the paper from this
date (August 14th) to March 14, 1881,
for ONE DOLLAR. This will cover
the election and inauguration of the
Democratic candidates. Send in your
dollar and get the biggest and best
newspaper in the South. Address
J. 11. Estill, Savannah, Ga.
The King’s Mountain Centennial,
commencing October sth, and ending
October Bth, will be a grand and
magnificent affair. The transporta
tion committee have received the tull
co-operation of all transportation lines
in the Southwest, embraced in the ter
ritory from the borders of Texas to the
Northern boundaries of Maryland, and
that tickets to King’s Mountain and
return will be sold—good for thirty
days from date of sale—commencing
October Ist and continue to sth, at a
rate of one and one-fourth cents per
mile each way. This is the lowest
excursion rate ever offered to the
public, embracing such an extensive
area of territory, and all should avail
themselves of this opportunity, as it
may be the last for this generation.