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The Weekly Democrat.
BUT* K. HU8SELI,, Editor and Pi c>i»‘r
THURSDAY. JTJNB 20. 1882.
Let every Democrat in Decatur remem
ber next Tuesday and be at his post. The
meeting will be called at half-past eleven.
■harp.
The “whole face of the yelh” is covered
with candidates for the office of Congress
at-large. Every nook and corner in the
land has a candidate, and if.tl.ey were all i
turned loose in a cotton field with a good
overseer they would furnish motive power
enough to make several thousand bales of
cotton. Is there no chance to utilize all
of this surplus labor,
Dr. W. J. Land, a prominent chemist of
Atlanta, committed suicide in that city
one day last week. He was a native
Georgian and a man of many superior
qualities. Suicide, murder and assassina
tion are becoming more and more fiequont
in the country. The courts and juries
might lessen the t r o last named crimes,
but strange to say they do not.
Senator Den Hill, God bless him, is in
Atlanta and his health is reported to be
improving every day. Ob, that this great j
and good man man be spared many years
yet to battle for Ms country and truth. This
country has never seen his equal since the
dtys of Clay and Webster; and should his
disease be mortal the brightest intellectual
light in all this broad land will have been
prematurely extinguished.
If the Two- Thirds Rule is abolished by
the Atlanta Convention when it meets the
19th of July, it will do more to disinte
grate and disrupt the Democratic party
than all other causes combined. This
time-honored usage has done more to pro
mote Democratic unity than anything else.
A candidate nominated under this rule is
always acceptable to the party masses,
whatever effect it has on the party lead
ers. It is impssible for a ring or clique
to pack a convent ion under the two-thirds
rule, and therefore we say, let it stand.
Had every Democrat in Congress iu
18TC been like William E. Smith of the
2d Congressional District of Georgia, that
great statesman, Samuel J. Tilden, who
was elected President and swindled out of
it through Democratic stupidity, would
now be serving his second term, and the
princely Garfield would have been iu the
land of the living. Mr. Smith’s vote and
stand against the infamous electoral com
mission ought to make him Governor of
Georgia But there is little justice in the .
bestowal of politi"ol honors.
To-morrow Charles J. t:w<enu, the as-
. sassin of President Garfield, will expiate
his crime on the gallows at the jail in
Washington city. Garfield was shot July
2. 1881, and Gitleau dies .Tune 30,1882,
or within a year lacking two days of the
fatal shooting. For our part we believe
the assassin is crazy now, and was a luua-
tic at the time he shot the President.
Still it is better for the Arthur adminis
tration that he be put under ground, and
he will be put there insane or not to-mor
row. The Rev. W. Watkin Hicks, the
veteran and onery Florida scalawag will
see the doomed man launched safely ofT
into eternity
Henry W. Grady, the most brilliant
young journalist and the abb st newspaper
letter-writer in the South, was spoken of
for the office of Congressman-at-large. A
majority of the press indorsed him with
earnest enthusiasm. His own city—At
lanta—approached him with a petition
containing over one thousand of the best
names in Georgia, and implored him to en
ter the race. Never was a more flattering
testimonial voluntarily otteied so young a
ia»n. But Mr. Grady declined the honor
for VliiMn^ou that he was wedded to his
nnjfessiomVd lie could nqUtemgtfcTtoTKe'
oue place without injustice to the other. Be
this as it may, we would like to see uouii-
uatiou tendered him by the July conven
tion anyhow. No writer has contributed
as much to the material development of
Georgia as Mr. Grady, and the compli- 4
ment of a nomination by the Democratic
party would be only a fitting recognition
of the people's obligation to him.
Capt. W. A. Wright is tue present very
efficient Comptroller General of the State.
He has held this office three years, and it
has never befoie been administered with
greater fidelity to the State's interest, or
with more solid ability. Captain Wright
is a one-legged confederate soldier, and a
son of the late General A. R. Wright, of
Augusta. Many of our old seidier readers
will recognize him iu the boy staff officer
with the blonde hair who followed the gal
lant General Wright over some of the
bloodi.-st battle-fields of Virginia. Capt.
Wright was carrying an order at Gettys-
> burg and while riding across the field a
cannon shot took off his leg, but nothing
daunted the brave fellow delivered the
message safely. A man with so high a
conception of duty as this can be trusted
anywhere ; aud we look for the Atlanta
Conveution to remomiuate him by accla
mation. And we hardly thiuk there will
be much opposition to any of the Stale
Officers. Old father Barnett, "the noblest
Roman ef them d11," will probably die in
the Secretary of State's office, while Clif
ford Anderson makes the best of Attorney
Generals. Treasurer Speer bas admims-
tered his office to the satisfaction of every
body, und while not long since it was
thought that he would have a formidable
rival for the nomination, now it is con-
ceeded tkatbe will probably have no oppo
sition.
:
GUBERNATORIAL.
TnE Democrat has had very little
to say in reference to the gubernatori
al nomination. One reason is that we
have uo desire to forestall the judg
ment of the people prior to the assemb
ling of the State Democratic Conven
tion ; the other, we have no special
favorite for the office of Governor, and
if we had we place to great an esti
mate upon the harmony of the coming
convention to imperil it in the slightest
degree b^he persistent “boosting” of
any man for that position. Unless
when the party representatives meet in
Atlanta on the 19th of July their action
be harmonious and friendly the cause
of Democracy in Georgia must suffer.
Hon. Alexander H. Stephens is the
most prominent candidate in the field
for the nomination at preseut. He has
long desired to be Governor. Indeed
it has been the great object of his life
to occupy the gubernatorial chair of
the great State he has served continu
ously for upwards of a half a century.
His election, so to speak,
would be a fitting climax to the dis
tinguished labors of a lifetime. A few
months ago, Mr. Stephens had abandon
ed hi3 hopes in this respect. Bending
under the weight of three score and
ten years and fatigued with the in
cessant labors of political position, he
expressed his firm determination to re<
tire from public life at the close of his
present congressional term. Later the
so-called “independent-coalition” paper
—the Post-Appeal— published at At
lanta, announced him as its candidate
for Governor, and placed his name at
the head of its editorial columns. Later
a caucus of Independents met in Atlanta
and nominated him for Governor.
While these manoeuvres were in prog
ress Mr. Stephens kept, silent, and his
silence wa? deemed of sufficient import
ance to call forth the severest criticisms
from such leaiing daily newspapers as
the Atlanta Constitution and Macon
Telegraph. The Constitution’s rep
resentative at Washington, in the mean
time, sought an interview with Mr.
Stephens, and was informed by the
distinguished gentleman that he would
accept the Democratic nomi’ ition for
Governor if tendered him b^tbe con
vention, nor would he run under any
other circumstances. Other emena-
tio.us to the same effect followed from
him. Therefore*the Constitution saw
fit to begin the advocacy of him for the
Democratic nomination aided by other
influential journals. At the same time
the Macon Telegraph find a respectable
number of the press began to oppose
him. The coutest between these sev
eral newspapers has been in many in.,
stances, extremly bitter, tending to
iuflame the passions of the people and
to inaugurate another campaign on the
style of two years ago. That they will
signally fail all true Democrats earnest
ly hope. We are proud to say, how
ever. that the great majority of the
State press are acting wisely and con
servatively—taking a stand for no par
ticular candidate, except the nominee
of the Democratic party whoever he
may be. This, in brief, is the history
of the Stephens movement. A great
deal in truth can be said against him ;
and much iu truth can be said in his
favor. If the Convention think he
will make the best leader for the com
ing race and should nominate him, Tue
Democrat will advoeate him earnestly
and to the best of its ability to the day
of his triumphant election.
lion, A. O. Bacon, of Bibb county,
and Speaker of the late Georgia House
of Representatives, is also a prominent
candidate for the gubernatorial nomi
nation. He has recently published a
letter announcing himself a candidate
His utterances are noble and patriotic.
What his chances are for the nomina
tion we are not able to say, but that he
has a host of friends throughout the
State, and that his popularity is uni
versal no one can gainsay. We con
sider him one of the ablest men in
Georgia, He is and has always been a
Democrat; he has never occupied an
equivocal position ia politics; he is
easy to locate for the reason that you •
will always fiud him in the front ranks
of the Democracy. Mr. Bacon is in the
prime of his manhood, being only 42
years of age, and one of the handsomest
men ia the South. Beginning life an
orphan and liiendless he has asceuded
the scale rapidly. As a lawer he ranks
with the first, and has built up a prac
tice which has made him indepeudeut.
He has served the people of Georgia in
many high and responsible positions
and has reflected credit upon them all.
He would make one of the best Gov
ernors the State ever had.
Among other distinguished men
whose names are not now before the
people, but who' would fill the position
ably and creditably, we might mention
Hon. William E. Smith, the only un
wavering Georgia Democrat in Con
gress when the infamous Electoral
Commission was oreated. If the people
should bestow the nomination upon
him, they would simply he honoring
their truest fellow-citizen. Gen. A. It.
Lawton would grace the gubernatorial
chair. He is as clear-headed, as able
and brilliant a man as there is in the
South to-day.’ Then we have gallant
and glorious old Tom Hardeman ; the
intrepid McIntyre; the gentlemanly and
polished Barnes; Lawson, Warren.
Screven, and a host of others. There
is no lack of good material for the con
vention to select from ; and if the dele
gates go to Atlanta uninstructed, and
with the good of the party alone at
heart, the nomination will be the mo6t
acceptable ever made.
STEPHENS XnD BROWN-
It is amusing to us to see newspa
pers who think they will go to Joe
Brown when they die attacking the
Democracy of Mr. Alex. Stephens.
True the “great commoner” has “toted
his own skillet” on various occasions,
2nd never Was beat at the business,
bat he always claimed that
he was a Democrat. He bull
dozed the “organized” convention of
the 8th congressional district a
time or two, and made them nominate
him unanimously under the threat that
if they did not do it he would appeal to
to their masters—the people. He also
gave some very solid comfort to your
uncle Bill Felton in his independent
races for congicsa. In fact Mr.
Stephens has done pretty much as
he pleased in and with the Democratic
party of his immeditate section since
the war. He has been threatened with
expulsion and political damnation, but
he wouldn’t expel worth a cent and,
claimed to stick only the tighter to the
party. Yet with all of bis failings,
shortcomings, idiosyncracies, etc., he
never deserted the South nor went off
after the flesh pots of Radicalism.
While Mr, Brown was “crooking the
supple hinges of the knee” before
Pope, Meade, Bullock & Co., “that
thrift might follow fawning,” Mr.
Stephens was engaged in Wiiting his
great work in defense of the principles
for which the South fought.
True S'ephcns pronounced a rather
fulsome eulogy upon General Grant, but
he didn’t go with a black and tan dele
gation to Chicago and help nominate
him nor did he vote for him at the
election. And to his everlasting hon
or be it said, he and his great brother,
Judge Linton Stephens, stood square
in the front of the Democracy during
the Reconstruction period and the days
of military domination. Where was
Mr. Brown during these dark and try
ing days ? Echo answers, where hut
in the camp of the enemy! During
the war both Brown and Stephens did
what they could to cripple the adminis
tration of President Jefferson Davis.
In that respect they were par nolile
fratmm, and we do not desire to separ
ate them. But in everything else
Alex Stephens’ patriotism and Demo
cracy is a high above Joe Brown’s as
the sun is above the moon.
We have written this article not as a
reflection upon Senator Brown. He is
a Democrat. He joined the party out
of tbe Radical fold; he was forgiven
and set upon the highest pinnacle pos
sible within tbe gift of the Democrats.
That he fills the place with credit to
the State we are ready and willing to
admit; but that he does it better than
many able Democrats who have grown
gra/ in the cause, and seme one of
whom ought to be in his place to-day,
we d.eny most emphatically. We have
written this article simply to call atten
tion to the inconsistency of some news
papers whose editors assume to lead the
Democratic party.
Observer Observed.
Colquitt, Ga., June 23,1S82.
Editor Democrat :—In your paper
of 22 inst., I notice an article signed
Observer, in which he draws the string
of his little bow and lets fly his main
quiver at me, but for the lack of force,
his light and silly arrow falls harmlessly
to the ground. Observer for some
reasou withholds his name from the pub
lic ; these reasons, I suppose, are best
known to himself, but says the Editor
may give his name if accused of being
a coward, then his name can be given
to the accuser, should he properly ap
ply for it. Now this is what I call a
bluff game, on his part, and as he made
the bluff on such a poor hand, I take
him to be an old busted poker player,
trying to raisr a stake by mentioning
the names of a few gentlemen in each
coanty as the best men for office, and
then confidentially telling them that he
wrote that article. Now Mr. Observer,
if you are a crank of that kind, yo*
have jumped up the wrong tripologue,
neither does Judge Baughn, Maj. Heard
or J. S. Clifton want to go to the
Legislature. So now old sneker, you
won’t even make a drink by that little
dodge. Oh, no, Observer, yon are no
coward; why should I desire to call
yon a cowanf? I do not know you, you
have made your shot in the dark as all
brave men do (?) At least I know you
to be harmless, ycur gun was loaded
with only a paper wad ; and if you
were the coward that you seem to think
you will be accused of being, yon would
have shot a leaden missel through
The Democrat and killed me dead,
instead of firing off that powder gun-
Observer speaks of not taking » flog-
ing, who would dare attempt it from
the tone of his letter. I imag’ne he is
a man of a sensative nature, muscular,
nerve and of a heroic and lion like dis
position. Oh, yes, you are a mighty
iion, your first roar has put my pen to
quivering.
Observer says “the good book says
while the wicked rule the people
mourn.” It is hard to tell from Ob
server’s letter whether he is one of the
wicked or one of the mourners. I think
he does a l'ttle of both Observer asks
»‘where are skunks to bo found.’
Why, sir, in ail classes; with men who
drink, with men who don’t drink, ic
the legal and medical profession, mer.
chants, farmers, mechanics and I ant
sorry to say in our Churches, yes even
in the pulpits cf our churches. They
are not confined to the Republican par
ty. I would like to know if a skunk is
not a skunk, and if there is any dif
ference in a Radical skunk aud Demo
crat skuuk. If observe is so very
anxious to see a skunk, if he will look
in a mirror he can see one quicker than
he will to hunt up Sam Morton.
I say again that I am not feeling for
aid or assistance from any party or
coalitionist, or a movement of any kind.
It is well known that there is but one
party in Miller county and I have for
the last fifteen yeaars voted with that
party; and it is before that party, the
poople of Miller county, that I look to
for my support, it is not to a few
Jack Asses, who do not even live iu
our county or district, who occassionaily
write for a newspaper under an assumed
name, and by meddling with other
counties’ affairs make themselves dis
gusting as well as ridiculous.
Observer seems to think that he is
better acquainted with me than the
people of tny county who have tune and
again elected me to several different
offices of honor and trust all of which.
I am proud to say, Lfilled to the satis
faction of my people. So well did I
dicharge nty duty as Clerfe of the
Superior Court, Justice of the Peace and
Judge of the County Court, that upon
the closest scrutiny and examination,
not an error or fault was found in my
books.
I have been a citizen of the county for
20 years and I think the people know me
well enough to use their pleasure in
voting for me, regardless of the advice
of Observer, or any spoony article that
he mav write. Neither Mr. Baughn,
Mr. CliRon or Mr. Heard desire to go
to the Legislature. It is true they are
clever gentlemen, and either one would
make a good Legislator, and as it is
Miller county’s time for the Senator.
Observer may yet have his pleasure
gratified by seeing one of these gentle
men from Miller in the next Senate.
When Miller county fails to be able
to select her own candidates and elect
her own officers, then, and not until
then will Observer be thanked to m ike
our nominations, or that is to say, who
should not be elected. Now for fear
that our county will require the serv
ices of some one out of the county to
advise tts in our county elections and
other affairs, and as Observer seedffe to
he a good hand at the business, we
wonld like to have his address in full,
and as he is the fir6t who offered his
services, his name will be first on
docket.
Now ' f r. Observer, in conclusion, 1
will say that every man has a plenty to
do to attend to bis own business, and
no doubt your own county will require
all your advice in her own political
affairs.
I do not care to know who Observer
is, his letter has done me no harm,
though he may have intended it. Ai
present I have nothing more for Ob
server to do ; however, should he at any
time have any business with me. my ad
dress is, Sam Morton,
Colquitt, Ga.
Alexander H. /Stephens is a great man ;
he has devoted most of his long life to the
public service of Geonria ; he is a man of
incorruptible personal honesty and integ
rity ; he is the most distingnished citizen
probably in the State to-day. Many of
liis public acts we have condemned, and
have never forgiven, as the readers of
'The Democrat well know, yet we never
have shut our eyes to the many superior
merits of the man; and if the Atlanta
Convention can satisfy itself that he can
best lead the Democratic party to victory
in the approaching gubernatorial campaign,
and should bestow upon him the nomina
tion for Governor, we want it distinctly
understood that this paper and this editor
will do all in their power to aid in his tri
umphant election. We are not partial to
Mr. Stephens, aDd never have been, but
above all passion, prejudice, favoritism and
self-interest we are a Demoorat.
Decatur Sheriff’s Sale.
GEORGIA. Decatur County: •
Will be sold before the court house door
in the city of Buinbridge, Decatur county,
Ga. between the legal hours of sale, on the
firrt Tuesuay in July 1882, the following
property to-wit:
13 pictures in frames, 5 small frames
half size, t water bowl, 1 water bucket, 1
chest, 2 chairs, 1 desk, 2 lamps, 1 dark
room, 1 half-size camera, 1 operating
chair, 2 head rests, 1 operating tent, 1 re
ception tent, 1 guitar—all levied on as the
property of F E Harwell to satisfy one
distress warrant in favor of R W Burrows
vs F E Harwell. Property in poscsssion
of defen lent.
L. F. Burkett.
June 1, 1882. isheriff
Decatur Sheriff’s Saie.
GEORGIA—Decatur County :
TH11 be sold before the court house doo r
in the town of Buinbridge on the first Tues
day in July next between the usual liours
of sale the following property to-wit, ;
Lot of land number 248 in the 15th dis
trict of Decatur coun y, Georgia—levied
on as the property of Taylor Williams to
satisfy on« mortgage fi fa in favor of C J
Donalson vs said Taylor Williams.
L, F. Burkett,
June 1, 1883. Sheriff.
Decatur Sheriff's Sale.
GEORGIA—Decatur County :
Will Vie sold before the court house door
in the town of Buinbridge, Ga., between
the usual hours of sale on the first Tues
day in July 1882, the following piop-
erty to-wit:
One gray marc levied on as the proper
ty of J E Rich to satisfy onefi fa in favor
of Groover, Stubbs <fc Go. vs J E Rich and
other fi fas in my possession.
L. F. Burkett.
June 1, 18S2, Sheriff.
Administration—Notice to Debtors
and Creditors.
GEORGIA, Decatur County :
Ail persons having claims against the
estate of the late Daniel Bussell, are here
by notified to present them to me in term
of the law; and all persons owing said
estate are requested to make payment at
once, or suits will be entered against them.
Darius H. B hirer,
Administrator on the estate of Daniel Bus
sell, June 21, 1882.— tiw.
Administrator’s Sale.
GEORGIA, Decatur County.
Will be sold ou the 1st Tuesday in July
next, between the usual hours of sale, at
the court house door in Buinbridge, at
public outcry : A law library composed of
over one hundred volumes ol choice books,
also one first-class Herring iron safe, also
onv. cast-iron tan bark mill and some old
irons—as the property of the estate of I. E.
Bower, deceased. Terms cash.
B. B. Bower,
Administrator,
Jnne 20, 1882.—2t.
GEORGIA, Decatur County .•
Whereas Henry Blount as Administrator
of Benjamin F. and George W. Blount rep
resents to the court, in his petition, duly
filed and entered on record that he has
fully auministe.ei on the estate of said de
ceased. This is, therefore, to cite all per
sons concerned, kindred and creditors, to
show cause, if any they can. why said ad
ministrator should not be discharged from
his administration, and receive letters of
dismission on the first Mnudav in August
1882. MASTON O’NEAL,
3in. Ordinary.
~ji- ^isjvto valT
This is to notify my friends, patrons and
the pubic 1 generally, that I have removed
my Harness Store next to F. L. Rabbit's on
South Broad street, where I hope to receive
:n future, the congratulations and patron
age of my friends. Thanking the public for
past favors, and hoping a continuance of
the same, 1 am Yours Respectfully,
J ACOB BORN.
Jan. 5. 1882.
E. A. POHLMAN,
THE LIVE CROCER
Will run a lightning schedule the present
year, and will keep on hand for the benefit
of the public the best and most select as
sortment of
GROCERIES,
Ever seen ia Bainbridge. Also,
FRUITS, *
CANDitS,
CONFECTIONS.
Country produce bought at highest prices.
All I ask is a triai, after which I know
you will be pleased.
E A Pohlman,
WANTED.
ICO.000 bushels of cotton seed
for the growing crop.
I am prepared to contract for the above,
F. L. BABBIT.
May 4, '82.—6m.
-ARE THE BOSSES IN THE-
Dry Goods and Grocery Trade,
AND THEY ARE NOW
Selling at Rock Bottom Prices’.
CALL AND SEE
H. I«. Ehrlich -Sc Co,
i. c. win l ea,
ARE READY F0RITHE
Spring and Summer
CAMPAIGNS
*
WITH A
FINE STOCK OF GOODS.
Consisting of Everything Usually Kept in a
FIRST-CLASS STORE.
COME AND SEE THEM.
South Broad St„
Thespian Building
Millinery and Fancy Goods.
W OR 1 o O d
Call and see me everybody, and examine my well seleefed stock of Millinery and Fancy
■ oo's, comprising everything kept in a first-class millinery establishment. Having just
returned from the north, I am prepared to give my customers every advantage of th*
latest styles and fashions. I have a splendid assortment of lace ana lalsle milts, gloves,
wares and fronts of every description. Fine cologue and Eiuer Down, the best face pol
iter in existence. Hats of every description from 2a cents to $1 Picture frames,
sizes, very cheap. I have the agency tor E. Butterick & Co’s, patterns and they c»n b*
be purchased o. me as cheap as of the firm. I pay postage on all patterns. Miss EH*
Hogue, an adept in the art of mantua-making can be found at my establishment at any
C n C 8 ^ e P* easfc d to serve her many friends. Ladies coming to the fity
should call and see me before leaving. AU orders will receive my personal attention.
Respectfully,
MRS, UK. J. REYNOLDS.