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WEEKLY BANNER-WATCHMAN. TUESDAY.. JUNE. i8S6
COUNTIES THAT VOTE TO-DAY
The elections of the Sth inst., un
less some county has been over
looked, ere the last we will be call
ed upon to report until the 13th
inst. The Gordon managers have
so arranged a bunch ot counties
they feel confident of carrying that
they will act upon the 12th. They'
hoped that these will go unani
mously for Gordon and thereby
give hisi*$g''F*^}uom a send-off.
The coJifffr .Pyccd for that date
are Ware, Paulding, Spalding,
Clayton, Fayette, Echols, Greene,
Rockdale, Clay and Pierce, casting
26 votes. All these, Ware,
Echols and Pierce excepted,
have been anti-Bacon counties. Of
the twenty-six votes they cast, twen
ty have heretofore ' been against
him. They have been selected and
grouped together for the purpose
of creating a false impression when
they act, if they vote lor the Atlan
ta candidate. Should these votes
1 be cast as they were in 1883, the
people may expect flaming head
lines. As a matter of lact, General
Gordon’s entire vote might as well
be arranged for the twelfth.
The scheme is a cunning one, but
somewhat threadbare, having been
used in the last half dozen cam
paigns. We make this statement
in order that the people may not be
deceived. It was the plan of the
managers to vote Gordon’s strength
in June the 1st, 12th and 26th and
July 6th. On these four dates his
counties are concentrated, and by
this plan they hope to get such a
lead 1 as .will impress close counties
with the belie! that the people are
ORGANIZE AND GET TO WORK.
are all too well known; they cannot
give a satisfactory answer to the
people, and hence seek to evade the
subject by screaming “slander!”
But we believe that this time these
well-worn tactics, characteristic of
I and peculiar to Atlanta politics—
wheu attempts are made to divert
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Atlanta, and rivets the chains of
political serfdom around his own
limbs.
We say to Major Bacon’s ene
mies, we defy you to show us one
good reason why Bacon should not
be elected governor of Georgia; or
point out'a single characteristic in
Gen. Gordon that befits him for the
responsible office he seeks! We
do not address the voters ot Geor
gia as idiots, but as sensible men,
who are capable of reasoning and
receiving reason. The issue in the
gubernatorial race is clearly defined
and is: The People of Georgia vs.
the Atlanta Ring.
KEEP THEM IGNORANT.
JOHN HARVEY'S MISTAKE.
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Bacon has lost several counties
that were overwhelmingly for him
by over-confidence and indifference
on the part of his friends, and
through organization and tiickery
on the Gordon side. This must not
be tolerated again. We have to
combat a shrewd and unscrupulous
enemy, splendidly organized and
commanded by the bes$ campaign
leaders in the state. A defeat to
them, too, means a political revolu
tion, that will strip this Ring of the
power they have enjoyed for years.
They will take every advantage of
the inexperienced Bacon leaders,
and hesitate at nothing that will
secure a vote or capture a county.
The present contest is like fighting
regular troops against raw militia.
The latter are overwhelmingly in the
majority, but are no match for their
disciplined opponents. The Bacon
men must not be too confident, and
must watch every movement on the
part ot their antagonists, and be
prepared to meet strategy with
strategy, and checkmate any unfair
ends that are attempted. The Gor-
donites are spending money on this
race as free as water, and will leave
no stone unturned that can carry
the day. Let Major Bacon’s friends
organize in each militia district, so
I as to be prepared for a formidable
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF
City of Athens and Clarks, Oconee & Bank*.
steps, and, after a pause, she raised bar head
and said:
“Children, yon may go.”
Quietly and decorously they trooped out
ot the room, but not until their footsteps
had died away did she turn to John Har
vey.
“Why have yon come heret” she asked.
“1 certainly did not come with any idea
that I should see you,” he replied. “I think
I need haidly assure you, that had I known
of your presence hero, I should have
avoided coming to Chippendale altogether.”
“Then you would still shun me!”
“1 would. It is the wisest, the only
course I can pursue”
She was silent, debating' within herself
whether to kid him go and pursue the same
course again, or to detain him and ask for
an explanation of the letter still locked
away iu her desk.
A life was passing away; softly end
gently itwan gliding into eternity. No em
inent physician watched its decay, no
wealth eased ite painful joltings along the
road to death; yet no word passed Clara
Lester’s lips, no traitorous cry that her bur
den was greater than she could bear cams
from her loyal heart. Pain had traced
many a wrinkle on her fair forehead, but
her brows had never been drawn together
in angry itnpntlenoe. I
Bel Urmson, loving her sister devotedly,
and tending her daily, was kept in ignorance
of her danger, and never suspected the slen
derness of her hold on life. Bel only saw
that Clara was young and beautiful and del
icate. Yes, she was delicate; but then
Clara had been delicate from her childhood,
and sinco that dreadful morning when non
came to them that the steamship
“Cawnpore” had boon wrecked oft
the African const, and Capt. Les
ter’s name had appeared among
tho passengers drowned or mtsing, his
young bride, Clara Lester, had, as Marga
ret expressed it, nevor raised her head.
Death and her sister were, however, never
associated in Bel Urmson’s mind. Clara
was delicate, and that was all
Three years had run their oourse since
the wreck of the “Cawnpore,” and Capt
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PAM. OF THE F.IGHTH DISTRICT
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
and slander—will prove a failure.
They have been attempted once too
often.
The Executive Committee of the 8th
Congressional District is called to meet
at Athens, June 17th, 1880, to provide for
a convention from the District to nomi
nate a Democratic candidate for Congress.
John P. Shannon, Chairman.
F, T.. Littu, Secretary.
Tho following arc the members of the
Committee :
John P. Shannon. Elbert—W. B. Bur
nett, Clarke—W. C. McIntyre, Franklin—
.1. C. Hart, Greene—,1. C. Vanduzer,
Hart—I. .1. Meadows, Madison—Troup
Campbell, Morgan—11. M. Jackson,
Oconee—.1. .1. Daniel, Oglethorpe—S. A.
Need. Putnam—Win. M. Sims, Wilkes-
Frank I,. Little, Hancock.
DEMocRATIO MEETING, (1CONEE
COUNTY.
people are naturally
sympathetic and just, but they have
cut their eye teeth on these old per
secution and slander dodges, and
they can never be again successfully
played in a Georgia campaign.
Their practiced ears can readily de
tect the ring ol the true and the
false slander; and they know very
well that the conundrums propoun
ded to Gen. Gordon are no more
slanderous than to rsk a servant in
your eniploy to give his reasons for
doing certain acts that turned out
unfortunately for your interests.
THE REaL ISSUE IN THE CAM
PAIGN.
„ It was more dignified,
more consonant with her self-esteem to
send hint away, but her weeds, loving,
womanly nature re be 1 led against the put
ting asMo of probable happiness.
“You sent mo a letter some years ago,”
she begauf hesitating and blushing like a
guilty child. “I never understood it; will
you explain it to me now?”
He looked at her and smiled. What co
quettes all women are! And Bel, beautiful
Bel, was as ficale aa the rest She had wav-
A Bacon lady says that she was
coming down town one day this
week on a street car and overheard
the following conversation between
a gentleman and a prominent poli
tician from a mountain city:
“Oh,” remarked* the politician, Hall,
Habersham, Uabun, and in fact all the
mountain counties, will send Gordon del
egates. You see the name of Gordon is
perfectly familiar to our people, and few
uf them have ever heard of such a man as
A. O. Bacon.”
“Not heard of A. O. Bacon!” the other
gentleman remarked, in surprise. Why,”
my dear sir, you ought to educate your
voters—to enlighten them.”
“We don’t want them educated or en
lightened,” was
going to him.
Before Bel had attained her 18th year
The Democratic Party of Oconee
county are requested to meet at the
Court House in Watkinsville, on
Thursday the 24th day of June, inst.,
at 11 o’clock, A. M. for the purpose
of electing delegates to the Guber
natorial Convention which meets in
Atlanta on the 28th day of July
next.
WM. Y. ELDER, Chairman.
D. E. C. O. C.
June 10th, 1SS6.
TIIK GUBERNATORIAL OUTLOOK.
tween them, and they had parted. Clara
used to say to her: “I aru sure there is only
some foolish mistake between you, and
some day Lieut. Hey wood will come book
to you, and everything will be explain' d.”
But Bel had laughed scornfully at Clara’s
prophecy, and refused to place any confi
dence In it. Her disappointment had
shaken her faith In human goodness and
integrity, and she became suspicious, reti
cent and sarcastic^ But gradually Clara
Lester’s intluonce effected a change; and
two years later Bel Urmson had learned to
love again, and was once more engaged to
be married.
One morning Bel was seated on a low
stool by her sister’s couch, her chin resting
on her hand and her eyes gazing vacantly
on the floor. Sho had been silent a long
time, when suddenly she sjioka
“I thought John ought to know that I hod
loved before, and so I told him the story of
my love. Was I right/”—and she turned
her dark, handsome face to her sister, while
her glorious brown eyes seeinod to repeat
the question, “Was I right I”
“Quite right,” Clara answered; “you have
claim his own, what could I do bnt abdi
cate/”
“IJout Hey wood!’’ she repeated, knitting
her brows in perplexity. “I have not seen
him.”
“Perhaps not lately,*’ he said and laughed.
Then, becoming suddenly grave, he contin
ued, “I wish you would try to understand
me, without forcing me to be more ex
plicit."
“.Speak plaihly. I have notning to fear
in any revelation you may make.”
Proudly, fearlessly her eyes met his, and
for the lirst time there dawned on him the
possibility that he had been mistaken in the
identity of Lieut. Hey wood; but no, that
was not possible! Nevertheless his manner
softened as he said:
“Then listen. On the Thursday that I
promised to return to Sutton, I did return.
At “The (i riflin’’ I heard of Mrs. Lester’s
death, and I hurried to the cottage, my heart
filled with tenderness and love for you; but
some one preceded me thither—a young,
good-looking man, with the unmistakable
military stamp upon him. Ho went to you
and I paused at the gate and saw you meet
him. I didn’t blame you, child; to be true
to him you had to be false to me; but,” with
, a flickering smile, “perhaps you know I was
very jealous, even from the first, of Lie: L
Hey wo- d.”
It was long since Bel Urmson’s face had
worn so happy and blissful** smile.
“It was not Lieut Hey wood who came to
me that evening, but my brother-in-law,
Capt Lester.”
“Capt Lester! He was drowned before I
met you.”
“So we thought; but we were mistaken.
He wo* picked up by an African coasting-
vessel and carried to Loango, and thence to
several places on the Congo. He was kept
a prisoner for nearly three years, and,”
with a little shudder, “I can not tell you all
the cruelties they made him suffer. Finally
W® Ikf&4 the ; y&fi fa
45t.fet.fc Priiui*
„ m “kVe would
hot find it so easy to control them.”
The above conversation is a true
illustration ol the tactics of the Gor
don leaders. They do not appeal
to intelligence and reason, but had
rather rely on prejudice and igno
rance—a class that argument can’t
penetrate. They do not want the
voters to examine into the question
of Gen. Gordon’s fitness lor the of
fice he seeks, but they must be con
tent with his name, and leave
it to a few strikers for
the /Atlanta Ring in the towns to
do their thinkiDg. They do not
want the people to be told about
Major Bacon—they want to keep
his spotless uame and record in the
background, and rely solely upon
the past glbry and chivalry that
enshrouds the word Gordon to carry
the Ring candidate to victory.
But we predict that the mountain
politician will find himself mistaken.
While the people of those
ranks, or Gen. Gordon’s gallantry |
on the field of battle, have nothing |
whatever to do with the election of |
a governor for Georgia in times of
perfect peace. No one who knows
Gus Bacon will believe that he has
a cowardly bone in his body, and
we hold that the humble private
who marched with knapsack strap
ped upon his back and a musket on
his shoulder, did his duty just as
efficiently, and is entitled to just as
much praise, as the General in com
mand; also that Gen. Gordon, or
any other high officer, is just as apt
to err as the humblest private. The
Southern army did not boast a bet
ter commander or braver man than
Gen. Longstreet, and yet he to-day
wears a brand upon his brow that
will never he effaced. We assert that
the only slandersin the present cam
paign come from the Gordon side;
and that the queries propounded by
Major Bacon and his friends are le
gitimate and entirely within the
bounds of political discussion. Let
the voters of Georgia carefully
weigh the public records and
abilities of the rival aspi
rants for their suffrage, and then
vote for the man they think best
qualified to guide the old ship of
state with safety and in honor for
the next two years. If Gen. Gor-
with the beliet that the people
endorsing the bad record ot John
B. Gordon. This explains the cry
tor primaries and the efforts to post-
T1IE PEOPLE’S CANDIDATE.
'Done the action of such counties as
are unfavorable.
Mr. Bacon has made no effort to
concentrate his strength. He has
not interfered with the proceedings
in any county, and hi. vote will rise,
county by county, until it lifts him
into the gubernatorial chair.
This explanation is based upon
facts that are assured, and should be
borne in mind. It matters not what
the vote is on the 12th. 11 Mr. Ba
con carries any counties besides
Ware, Kchols and Pierce, he gains.
If he fails to do this, and does not
carry these, he loses.—Telegraph.
A. O. Bncon-
For twelve
years
the People’s candidate for Govern
or—has been in public life, a great
er part of the time, we believe,
Speaker of the House of Represen
tatives, and notwithstanding he has
been the central figure in three
heated political contests, his ene
mies have never as yet been able to
a single dark spot in his
enough votes to lead Major Bacon
in the table. He has but a few
more strongholds, when you will
see the Bacon column take a steady,
gradual climb upward, until it ele
vates him into the Executive man
sion. This early action by
the Gordon counties was a
shrewd dodge on the part of Gen.
Gordon’s leaders to create a ficti
tious boom, but its effects will be
but short lived, as the steady ad
vance of the Bacon column will
prove to the people that they can
place just as much reliance in such
manipulated “spontaneity” as they
could in the Constitution’s promise
of neutrality. We say to the friends
of Major Bacon, do not get dis
heartened, for the chances of your
candidate were never brighter than
they are to-day. Gen. Gordon’s
hand is nearly played out, and you
will herealter see the Bacon strong
holds begin to denounce by their
votes the infamous tactics of the At
lanta Ring.
give you to-day. And he, Bel—wha did
Mr. Harvey say?”
A blush crept up to the girl’s cheeks, and
her oyelids drooped for an instant as she
said:
“I don’t think he liked it, Clara-he
looked so disappointed; but he said very lit
tle. I do love him and ho has no cause for
jealousy. But he is jealous—jealous as
C.ranfqrdj ^ gay!
Alberts
ticornia.
point to
private or political record. Even
his opponent, from the stump, ad
mits Major Bacon’s ability and
honesty, for the unimpeachable
integrity of this man wrings words
of confidence and trust from even
the lips ot an enemy. Can you
find in Georgia, aye. in the Sonth,
another man who has been so long
in public life, and has had such vast
opportunities to digress, who has
escaped with such a stainless man
tie? It is certainly a marvel in the
present age of official corruption,
when public servants, from the
highest to the lowest, are given to
speculating on the advantages fur
nished by their positions, and using
public trusts for private gain. Al
though the enemies of this gentle-
have dragged the cesspools ol
PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH.
MANUFACTURERS OF ALL KINDS OF
The longer the campaign contin
ues, the more transparent grows
the demands of the Ring candidate
and his backers. Gen. Gordon’s
big Atlanta organ set out by prom
ising Strict neutrality, and if there
was ever published a more parti
san, one-sided paper, we would
like to have it pointed out. The
Constitution was once a great
gather in agony at the thought.
“I have come earlier than usual” said
John Harvey, who now entered. “The fact
is, T have received a telegram from my
father, informing mo of his arrival in Eng
land, and requesting my immediate pres
ence in Southampton, because, as ho ex
press** it, he is not so well I do not sup
pose it is anything serious; nevertheless. I
am obliged to leave Sutton to-night”
“I am so sorry,” Clara said. “I hope you
will find fiim better.” “John,” she continued,
leaning over and laying her hand on his,
‘my life is so uncertain, I may never see
you again. Dou’fc start—the thought is not
now to mu. Promise me—I will not ask
you to swear it, for a man’s word should be
binding as his oath—but promise me now,
before I die, to be always kind to Bel”
Startled and surprised though he was,
without a moment’s hesitation lie answered:
“I promise. To the uftfcost of my power
I will be good to your darling; I promise.”
“Thank you,” she murmured as her sister
and the nurse made their appearance; “and
now, if you will take Bel away, Mar
garet shall help me to my room. Good-bye,
John.”
He shook hands with her, expressing a
hope that when he returned he should find
her stronger. Then he and Bel walked to
the small iron gate which divided Mr. Les
ter’s miniature garden from Sutton Com
mon, and pausing there, he asked:
“Bel, will you write to me while I am
sway?”
They had been engaged only a month, and
Chis was their first separation; nevertheless
she answered with warm decision:
“No, you will live ou my letters, and be
in no huiry to come back to me.”
That same night Clara Lester found the
release for w hich she had so long waited.
• * * • ♦ * *
“I will never listen to any of Bel’s mad
projects again,” was John Harvey’s mental
resolution as he stepped out upon the plat
form of Sutton station. “I have been only
a fortnight away, and it seems an age since
I bade her good-bye at the gate.”
As he approached the cottage, his atten
tion was attracted by the figure of a gentle
man walking before him—he was the stran
ger who had spoken to the porters at
8utton station. He was several yards in
advance of John Harvey, not walking in the
desultory, purposeless manner of a stranger,
but like one who, having an object to ac
complish, was already in view of the goal
for its attainment
“A fine fellow!” was John's soliloquy. “I
wonder who he is, and where he is going?”
Almost in answer to the query tho stran
ger pushed open the gate of the Home cot
tage, and entering, closed it behind him.
In a few seconds more John Harvey
gained the gate, and pausing outside, looked
once again on the dear familiar arena The
fine old chestnut spread out ite branches in
the sunlight, and yielded the same cool
shelter under ite leaves which it had yielded
a fortnight before; but Clara's couch was no
longer there. Only the small rustic table
and wide garden seat were there; and on a
low chair beside the table, her face buried
on her crossed arms, was Bel Urmson. The
itranger had walked silently and unnoticed
across tho green sward, and, standing within
a few yards of her, was attentively regard
ing her.
The girl raised her head and looked at
him, and then, grasping the back of her
chair, slowly rose to her feet.
With a little cry of joy she ran to him,
and he folded her in his arms and kissed
her. She did not shrink from hi* caresses;
on the oontrary, she put her arms around
his neck and kissed him.
Gently and tenderly he led her to the gar
den seat; and, seated there, their voices be
came an indistinct murmur to Jehn Harvey,
and he heard no more
“I know him now,” he muttered between
Ms clenched teeth, “Lieut. Hey wood—the
old lover—curse him!”
With the imprecation still on his lips, he
turned his back on the scene of his happiest
tours.
Tea o’clock was striking when John Hav»
vey returned to “The Griffin,” and half an
hour later he had left Sutton forever.
Two days after his departure Bel Urmson
held in her hands a letter from him, a letter
bidding her farewell, and telling her that,
though he could not but gratefully appre
ciate her endeavor to love him, yet, know
ing as he did know, that she had never for
gotten her first love, he had decided to adopt
the only course left open to him and go
•way.
With a pale face and trembling fingers
Bel read the letter; she then folded it up
and locked it away in her desk.
• * . e * * * * *
At ten minutes to 9 o’clock on the morn
ing of the 80th of June, five years after
Mrs. Lester’s death, the bell over the porch
of the village school at Chippendale, rang
out its summons. Ding-dong, ding-dong,
pealed along High street from end to
end; over the playground rolled the
rusty tones, and the children stopped their
play as they recognized the familiar “iron
tongue,” and with one accord hastened to
the door. Boys and girls rushed together,
pushing, laughing, shouting, striking out at
each other as . one or the other gained a mo
mentary advantage in the race to be first in
schooL
“Good morning, children!”
The voice was full and pleasant, and the
smile broadened into a grin on the little
faces as the speaker left her desk and came
towards them. She had a word and a smile
for each, for it was the opening day of
school after the midsummer holidays, and
rules were relaxed and a little license per
mitted by even so strict a disciplinarian as
Bel Urmson Yes, she was Miss Urmson still
—not quite the same Bel of five years before,
for- sorrow and care had washed the roses
from her cheeks; but no one, gazing on her
pals, beautiful face, ever doubted the fact
that her spinsterbood was maintained from
choice.
She was standing up, ths children gathered
round her preparatory to their dismissal at
noon, when the door opened, and the vicar
of Chippendale entered, followed by a gen-
• “Good morning, Miss Urmson,” he said,
ihaking hands with her, and nodding to the
children, “lam glad you have not dis
missed your scholars, ss I wished my friend
to see them. I cannot myself stay to give
himimy information about them; but if
you will kindly furnish him with any par
ticulars be may desire, I shall feel obliged.
Mr. Harvey, Miss Urmsom.”
Startling and unexpected as the meeting
was, Bel did not low her self-possession.
upper
counties may not have the educa
tional advantages of the voters in
the lower belt, they are endowed
with a rich store of sound common
sense, and will exercise it in select
ing a candidate for governor. The
mountain coves and crags of North
east Georgia have given to our
state some of her shrewdest finan
ciers, most successful business men
and ablest statesmen. The day
when a few politicians could meet
in a court-house town and set their
wires to entrap the rural voters
has passed, never to return. These
sturdy and honest mountaineers
now do their own thinking, and
have too much sound sense and in
dependence to walk into any guber
natorial trap set by the Atlanta
Ring, with triggers fixed in every
court house in the state.*
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“Do you blame me now,” she asked, and
then broke down in a wailing, piteous cry.
“John, forgive me, for I have always been
true in my love for you.”
“My poor love!” he whispered.—Adapted
from Mrs. Catherine Wallace in Ballou’s
Monthly.
Interesting Picture In Castle Garden.
The Copeland family in a group formed
an interesting picture in Castle Garden the
other day. They were John Copeland, wife,
and ten children. The ages of the latter
are 1W, 17, 15, 18, tl, 9, 7, 5, 3, and 1 year.
They arrived on the Baltic of the Inman
line, hail from Rothflnlaud, County Down,
Ireland, and are on the road to Philadelphia,
where they will be received by the eldest
son, who is ‘21 years of age.—New York
Telegram.
news-
paper, but to-day, clip out the arti
cles booming Gen. Gordon and at
tacking Major Bacon, and it will be
about as interesting as the average
patent outside. What reliance can
be placed in the statements of a
sheet that has so deliberately brok
en a solemn promise made its read
ers? Gen. Gordon sent up a howl
from every stump about Clarke’s
method’s, that voted for Bacon,
but endorsed Lee, that selected del
egates in the same manner lor him
self. Can such rot on the rostrum
change any fair-minded or reason
ing voter? But the most transpa
rent hypocracy was when Gen.
Gordon addressed that long-vend
ed letter to Major Bacon demand
ing primary elections, in which he
prated about court-house rings,
C. A. SCUDDER
men
slander, and endeavored to torture
the most trivial act into an outrage
—although he has been lied upon,
villified and his motives impugned,
the charges, when placed before a
just public, are blown away like
leathers in a tempest. Major Ba
con’s enemies have at last given up
all hope of fastening a particle of
their slanderous slime to his name,
and are now directing their appeals
to the ignorance and cupidity of
the voters.
JEWELER
THE TRUTH IS NOT SLANDER.
ABOVE
Every time an unanswerable
charge is made against Gen. Gor
don, the Constitution begins to lus
tily yell “slander!” and the Ring
candidate, in his righteous indigna
tion, completely ignores that topic
and seeks to divert the attention of
bis audience by keeping up a ter
rible racket on a kettle-drum, or
will give one of his old rebel yells
and tell how he did all the fighting
during the war. In this campaign
the Constitution is trying to take
advantage of the naturally kind and
noble natures of the Georgians, and
by appealing to their dislike for
what is false and slanderous, blind
their eyes to the defects of the Ring
candidate and elect him through
sympathy. But Gen. Gordon’s or
gan will not be able to make a
martyr of him this time. The vo
ters of Georgia are not fools, and
they can easily discern the differ
ence between stating a logical fact
and uttering a slander. There has
been some plain talk in this cam
paign, but all the abuse and slander
has come from the Gordon side.
The head of the ticket himself set
the example when he insinuated on
the stump that Major Bacon resign
ed his position in the armv through
cowardice, and it was re-echoed in
such foul and wretched slime as the
Hinkle letter, that the Constitution
rolled for days as a sweet morsel
under its tongue. This is what we
call slander, and the just and fair-
minded voters of Georgia will so
brand it at the polls. On the other
hand, when Gen. Gordon is asked to
select one from the many reasons he
has given for resigning his seat in
the senate and let the people know
it; when, to show his utter incapac
ity to fill the high office that he
seeks, reference is made to the re
peated business failures he has made,
and whereby he has lost hundreds
of thousands of his people's money;
and when a writer in the press asks
why was he the only democratic
senator that voted for the infamous
Huntington railroad bill,they are not
slanders, but reasonable and emi
nently propor question propound
ed for the enlightenment of the
voters. None of Major Bacon’s
iriends or the papers favorable to
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Examine Before Buying.
When you hear a State or Fed
eral officer howling for Gordon, see
if he does not wear the yoke of the
Atlanta ring around his neck. Ar
guments from such sources should
be cast into the waste basket.
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
They are trying what
bluff, bulldozing and political chi
canery will accomplish; but they
will find their task as hopeless
as when ^they attempted to
besmirch the good name of one of
the purest and most incorruptible
statesmen the 19th century has pro
duced.
But you will ask, why do the
People desire to defeat a man who
stands as high as Major Bacon—
why not, by a spontaneous upris
ing of the masses, render public tri
bute to a man so pure and virtuous?
We will reply t at the People want
Major Bacon for their Governor,
and have no desire to defeat him.
It is only a strong R ing of politi
cians in Atlanta that repudiate him,
and have imported Gen. Gordon
from New York with a hope that
by appeals to ignorance and preju
dice, and by the pcwerl political
machinery of said Ring scattered
throughout the state, that they may
be able to override the popular
choice, and foist upon Georgia as
governor a man of their own choos
ing, and who will obey the com
mands of said Ring. It elected O.
A. Bacon will be the Governor of
Georgia, and not delegate that pow
er to any band of political manipu
lators. He will represent his state
and his people, and not Atlanta and
a mere handful of men who assume
to themselves a dictatorship over
the political destinies of Georgia.
Had Major Bacon consented to de
sert his people, to sacrifice his inde
pendence, and acknowledge allegi
ance to the Atlanta Ring, he could
have been Governor of Georgia
when either Stephens or McDan
iel were elected: but with that
unswerving honesty and pa
triotic devotion to his people and
his state that has ever characterized
this pure and incorruptible man,
and lormed a shield for his name
that turned aside like straws the
most venomous shafts ol his ene
mies, A. O. Bacon spurned to ac
cept office on any such conditions,
and accepted defeat before he would
barter upon the confidence of the
voters of Georgia. Hence Bacon is
rightly dubbed the People’s Candi
date for Governor, for had he ac
cepted the yoke of the Atlanta
Ring, he would to-day be occupy
ing the Executive mansion. If
elected, the People will have in him
a faithful, honest and efficient ruler,
with no power or influence behind
his throne save the will and the in-
His election
A Carlton supporter from
Greeneslioro writes to ask us the
truth as to the current report that
Capt. Carlton voted for Emory
Speer for congress. This gentleman
has already branded the report as
false from the stump, and even the
enemies of H. H. Carlton will tell
you that he is incapable of evasion
or misrepresentation. We never
heard Capt. Carlton’s democracy
questioned until he entered the race
for congress against Mr. Reese. He
has always been true to his country,
his party and his friends, and has
filled with fidelity every position to
which he has been called. So far
as Mr. Blackburn’s attack on Capt.
Carlton is concerned, his friends
have not deemed it necessary to re
ply, as the public well know that
the editor of the Madisonian is un
der strong personal obligations to
Congressman Reese for appointing
him postmaster at Madison, Ga., and
it is but natural that he should sup
port his friend to the utmost.
The letter we publish to-day
from Dr. Felton literally takes the
hide from the Constitution. Skim
med milk isan intoxicating beverage
compared with thereply of Gordon’s
organ, for strength. Read it, and
if you are not hide bound against
solid argument, you cannot, as a
good citizen, votejor Gordon. It
matters not whether you like Dr.
Felton or not, give him a lair hear
ing.
A gentleman in DeKalb writes to
a friend in Athens that Gordon will
not cairy his borne county. His
leaders refused a primary election,
and depends on packing a court
house convention. We advise the
Ring candidate to let up on Clarke’s
methods for awhile and tell the peo
ple about Gordon’s methods in De-
Kalb.
The people are wondering how
Mr. Grady expects to “get even”
with that gentleman down in Ogle
thorpe.
There is no doubt about money-
being used in this campaign, and it
is not by the Gordon men, either.
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I MANUFACTURES*
ATLAHUa
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lljQjOllUS. TU&
How an Autauga County Man Sowed
Twelve Dolars and Heaped Fifteen
Thousand.
Mr. Win Hunt of Vineton. a small
place about twenty miles from Selma
in Autauga county, on the KastTenn..
Va. & Ga. R. It., was tile lucky mail in
tile May drawing ot the Louisiana State
Lottery. In conversation yesterday
with a Times reporter at li is home, th e
following questions were asked and
answers given;
“ l am told you struck The Louisiana
State Lottery rich?” said the reporter.
“Well,” replied Mr. Hunt, “I don’t
know whether you call it rich or no, but
I certainly have *15,000 which I drew in
the lottery on the 11th of May.”
“ How long have you been investing
in the Louisiana, and what have you
paid out?
“ I have been sendingadollar a month
for the past twelve months, and ttie
twelfth dollar brought me $15,000.”
“How.did you get your motley?"
“Well, you see I was notitied'lirst by
a printed circular, which hail all the
numbers that drew prizes In it. I de
posited my ticket on the 17tli of May
with tiie City National Bank of your
city, and on the 22d, live days later, I
had my money; and right here.”con
tinued tiie speaker, “I want you to say
that I had 110 trouble about getting the
amount my ticket called for. It came
promptly.”
In conversation further, Mr. Hunt
said: “ I am thirty-nine years old. I
have a wife and threo children. I own
the place I live on, and farm and rner-
cha dise some. I was behind five or
six undred dollars when I drew the
money from the lottery; but that put
me on my feet, and I paid my debts. I
have put out $1,800 on good interest,
and will turn the other into paying In
vestments. For $1 I drew a fifth of the
capital prize, and I am going to con
tinue to send one dollar every month so
long as I can raise that amount. I
believe tiie business is properly carried
on. and 1 shall patronize it in the future.”
—Selma (Al t., Tlrnea, June 1.
tentions into the brains of voters,
and then wilfully ard deliberately
break them before the public eyes?
TOO LATE FOR COMPLAINING
COTTON GINS and PRESSES
Cotton Seed oil Hilla, Cotton ****
Unters, Cone Mia, Saw HUH,
Shafting, Pulleys, nsngen, |
Wind Hills and Cnitlngi,
Pomps and Tanks.
E.VAN WINKLE & CO., Atlanta,^
We have no patience with those
of Major Bacon’s friends who, by
their ovcr-confidence and indiffer
ence, sit with folded hands and let
Gordon’s backers come in and cap
ture their delegation, and then send
a whining complaint to the papers,
telling how they were taken unjust
advantage ol and outdone, although
they had an overwhelming majority
of the voters on their side. It is
too late then for growling, and we
advise such “leaders” to exodust to
some land where political vigilance
and skill are not needed. These
fellows well know that the Atlanta
Ring has set all of its machinery to
going, with campaign headquarters
at every county site in the state,
and that this party depends upon
its own trickery and the indiffer
ence of its opponents to capture
enough votes to nominate their can
didate. If the Bacon men will
keep iheir eyes open, and talk less
and work more, they will be the
better prepared to tackle their wily
enemy. After you have lost your
county by gross mismanagement, it
is too late then to publish your
whine. We tell you in advance to
be prepared for any coup d'etat on
tiie part of the Gordon leaders, for
their whole hope of success lies in
catching enough Bacon counties
napping to give them a majority of
votes. There is no use in grieving
over spilt milk. Let the Bacon coun
ties that have not as yet acted profit
by the fate of those whimpering
and defeated “leaders” who let a
shrewd enemy take the prize from
between their fingers. If we were
so 'shamefully outgeneraled we
wouldn’t care to publish it to the
world. It is very poor consolation
to Major Bacon’s friends to know
that you could have carried a coun
ty for him—but didn’t. Work more,
and then there will be no necessity
lor sending up that commiserating
whine.
The longer the campaign lasts the
more disgusted decent people be
come with the methods of the At
lanta Ring.
The Fulton county primary was
a victory for Bacon. The Gordon
men sent letters to every voter, ap
pealing to them in the name of At
lanta to come to the rescue of the
Ring candidate.
If the State railroad should he sold
it will break up the public school
system of Georgia. Remember thi«,
and cast your vote for Hon. A. O
Bacon for governor.
That spontaneity of which Gen.
Gordon boasted is manufactured on
a letter press in the Ring headquar
ters in Atlanta.
Bacon’s fnenus nave lost several
counties by lack of organization.
They must get to work. Such leth
argy is inexcusable.
Absolutely Pure and Unadulterated.
HOSPITALS,
CURATIVE INSTITUTIONS,
INFIRMARIES.
And Prescribed by physicians Everywhere.
CURES
CONSUMPTION,
HEMORRHAGES
And all Watting Diteatra;
DYSPEPSIA, INDIGESTION,
MALARIA.
TIIK OJd.1T
PURE STIMULANT
For the Sick, Invalids,
CONVALESCING PATIENTS,
AGED PEOPLE,
Weak and Debilitated Women.
For »*lc by Drugglata, Grocers and Dealer*.
Price, On© Dollar per Bottle.
W Sold r In aealed bottle*, and non# genuine ex-
rapt mk u bMr eur Irade-uitik label oi the ol lchemUt,
M kbore, and the harm of ompany Mows In tottto.
t7/*t*bUMitoftk« Rocky Mountains (except the
Territorial, unable to procure It freto their dealer*,
can Rev# Half Detn cent, la plat* cm*, ttumarked. Is-
pr*M charge* prepaid, by rewlttlu* Six DeUara to
The Duffy Melt Whiskey Co., Baltimore, lid.
UrnTf rmWttmmp Jmr — rVnJmUimt Osa«i mptlm ftm-
■lAfMtWlM priaetpaHp •/ ram to/UMkmJmmr whim
kr%. Kf tally ralmaUt for />Ji$Mt<N, DfP*P*a,ami
rtMfwy/r*u att Wa*ln$ Dlaamam. Jr cm i» prepare*
l|lM|li«Mtwpw. JIHipUrto MMwWif fkwfwMl*
**4U«Mt«/*M- Mtoatrp tm «a» (turner, milt be cAeer-
/milt mmewered »y mmr MUiea I Dtpmrtmm*.
Bill Arp is an ardent supporter of
Hon. A. O. Bacon for governor, and
you knows he understands “what’s
what.”
Gen. Gordon demanded prima
ries in Clarke county, and denounc
ed our people for not holding one;
yet he denies the right to his own
county, DeKalb. This is a fair
sample ot the utter inconsistency
that characterizes the Ring candi
date.
G eorgia. ocoNBE county-to »n whom
It may concern, James W Daniel, Adm’rot
John B C Maicom, deceased, haa male applica
tion In terms of the law for leave to aell the landa
belonging to the estate of asid deceased, and 1
will pasa upon raid application on the drat Mon*
day in August, 1886.
JuneSwSt. B. E, THRASHER. Ordinary
''Crab Orchard
WATER.X!
i OHM LKGWIN, Et. Al. va. JACOB ILMcREE,
A roSITIVE CURB FOR
the court that thedefeudant. Jacob R. McKee.
Executor of Lott M, Lcgwin deceased, haa filed
his answer in the nature of a cross bill In the
above stated case, and prayed that the following
named parties, who rtalde out of the state of
Georgia, be made parties defendant to the said
otlginal bill, to-wlt: Martha Rosa, of the State of
Mississippi. Caroline Criden of the 8tatt of booth
Carolina, John Godflrey and William Godfrey of
the State of Alabama. Samuel Godfrey of the
/1.IIL..I. ..I • T. U’ V..I A <>
3 DYSPEPSIA,
CONSTIPATION. V
SICKHEADACHkO
Boar. :—<)na to two teaapoonfuls.
Patented 1S78. Improved 18S. rtlfnt* 4 "*
Prices reduced to one-hell lonner jrie*
No. 1 Mmch. *30.001 No. 2 Marti. ^
Beet Cleaner for S«d Cotton in the ^
Ho Pinner can afford to be without one-
E. VAN WINKLE * CO-
G eorgia, clarke county.
ci alien nPDotnled by mefrr
Genuine Cbab Orchabd Salt* in seal
ed packages at It and lieu. No gen-
.In. fl.1t. ..1.1 in I...tl-
nine Salto no Id in bulk.
Crab Orchard Water Co.. Proprs.
S- N. IQXliS. Maaager. LouMtUI*. Ky.
State of California and Asa L. W, Veal, O. C.
Wood. Ttilerro M. Wood, and Mallasa Crabb of
the state of Texas.
It la ordered by the court that the above named
parties be made parties defendant to said MIL
and that service of said bill and answer in the
nature of a cross bill be perfected on said parties
by the publication of this order once a week for
w o months in the Banner-Watchman, a news
paper published In Athens, Georgia, before July
G EORGIA, BANK8 COUNTY .-John R. Cham
bers, Administrator of tf. C. Smith, deceased,
haa in due form applied to the underal gaed for
leave to aell the lauds belonging to the estate of
said deceased, and said application will be heard
on the first Monday In June next, this fid day of
May 18S6.
mayllw4t. T. F. HILL, Ordinary.
terests of the People,
will sound the death-knell to Ring
rule in Georgia, and that host of
State and Federal pap-suckers
throughout the length and breadth
of Georgia, who are now working
to defeat Bacon, like Othello, will
find their occupation gone. Cast
your eye around, iu any county, and
notice the most blatant enemies of
Major Bacon, and you will find that
the bread that they eat and the
clothes they wear are portioned out
to them by the Atlanta Ring, or by
some influence tributary to it This
single argument should be sufficient
to convince every reasoning man
that when be vote* against Bacon
he votes to consolidate, power in
John .V Nicholson, Into of ..hi «
the twelve months support *^
allure to which oy 1*^ Mrs Marti
wioow ef said deceased and her 1c
ISC. Madison O;
J Kiehelson us enUtled, hew •
te me. which report t» now•oi “
Them uethoreforwtooUcsodJj
corned toihjw cause st *■?
Ol Jnli next, why wld inppo"
furniture ss spprslied tun •« ■
he irsnted Is ssld widow ot
under my hand at office, thU«
18 f«:sl5w4t. ASA M. J
/GEORGIA BANKS CO UNIT.-To all whom it
U may concern, M. L McDonald has in due
form appltod to the undersigned for permanent
letters of administration on the estate of James
McDonald, late of said county deceased, and I
will pasa upon said application on the first Mon
day in Jnlv, 1888. Given under my haad and
official signature. May 28th, 1888.
jnneSwdt. T. F. HILL, Ordinary.
mice bwuo powder co..
Sixty-nine for Bacon, and thirty-
one for Gordon, is the way the
newspapers stand on the gubernato
rial question in Georgia by actual
count.
A ddis mayfikld n. jiu mayfield.—
Libel of Total Diverue—Banks Superior Court
Maroh Term IMS —It appearing from the return
oT the sheriff that the defmeat. in-the shore
stated case does not reside lo th, ceontj, and i*
further appearing from tho evidence that the
■eld dsfeediet dess not reside In this state. Ufa
ordered by the coart that service be perfected
In the shore stated ears by publication at this
order sacs a month far four months in the Ban
ner-Watchmen, e newspaper published In
Athene. Ga., this Mush mhTSPS
J. B. ESTES. J.a C.
H. L. BBOOK, Libelant Attorney.'
Georgia Banks Countv,—I hereby certify
thettheehove ordcru etrue extract from the
minutes ot Butts Superior Court, this May 3d,
IMA
meyiswtm. L.N,TUBK,C. S. c„ B. c.
a EORGlA, BANKS COUNTY .—To all whom tt
may concern, G. w. Prickett end 0, H. Mc-
orter, Admlnletreiore of John N. Prickett,
deceased, bee In doe form applied te the ueder
signed for I cere to sell the lends end refined
•took belonging to tho eeteta of sold deceased,
end (aid application wifi bo heard on the tret
Monday In July next, this the 7th of Jana ltse.
Junetwtt. T. F. HILL,Ordinary.
Money is sent out from Atlanta to'
hire every team in a county, to get
voters of'the Ring candidate to the
polls. How many of our honest
yeomanry will sell their vote* for a
free ride?
Absolutely Pure.
for this year, here ***‘6ft 1 J?arhsrt^!
June 8tli, 1M6,
The above statement It ‘yKSh'l* 1 ’ 89
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