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Newspaper Page Text4 SOOTHERS BANNER: JULY 2, 1878 Jlflutjjcrn 56 muter. H. H. CARLTON, - Editor. Turing «»t Subscription. DNE COPY, One Year $2 OO :>NE COPY, Six Months 1 OO JNE COPY, Three Months 50 LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS. vilatiun for Letters of Guardianship $5 00 Titaiion :*or Letters of Administration 4 00 Application lor Letters of Dismission Admin- ^ Appli’tion tor Letters ol Dismission Guardisn 5 25 Application for Lease to Sell Lands 5 00 Notice to Debtors and Creditors —.. S 00 i lies of Land, Ac., per square 6 50 sales Perishable Property, 10 days, per sq... 1 50 Sstray Notices, 30 days .... 3 00 iherltf Sales, per square — — 2 50 Shorin'.Mortgage It. fs sales per square 5 00 Tax Collector's .Sales, per square-. .-... 5 00 Foreclosure Mortgage, per square, each time. 1 00 Exemption Notices (in advance) — 2 25 Sole Nisi’s, per square, each time.. I 60 u,«P The dmve legal rales corrected by Ordinary >f Clarke county. Hates of Advcrtlsins. Advertisements will tie inserted at ONE DOL^ LI R per square tor the first insertion, and FIFTY CENTS per square for each continuance, for any time under one month. For longger periods alib- ;ral deduction will lie made. A square equal to '.en lines, a.did. Notices in local column, less than a square, 20 :enls a line. To t ht» Democrats of the Ninth Congressional District. In accordance with a resolution adopted hy the Democratic Executive committee of this Congressional Dis trict, I would hereby notify the Dem ocratic party of said Congressional District ami the committee men of the different counties in the District to hold their primary meetings on the first Tuesday iu July next, for the Attention Democrats of Clark County. The following resolution was passed unanimously l>y the Executive Cmu- mittee for the 9th Congressional Dis trict which recently assembled in Gainesville: Resolved, That we recommend and earnestly request that primary meet ings or elections to be held in each cuunty in the district on the first Tuesday in July next for the purpose of selecting delegates to this conven tion.” In obedience to the above resolu tion- and in order that a fair expres sion oi the will and choice of the people may be had in the selection cf delegates to represent Clarke county in the nominating Conven tion to be held at Gainesville, on Thursday, the first day of August next, for the purpose ot nominating a candidate for the 46th Congress, I hereby respectfully request that on the 1st Tuesday, in July next, the polls in each militia district in the county be opened according to law, at which time, and at the places designated, the voters in the several precincts are requested to cast their votes for three (3) delegates and three (3) alternates to represent the county in the Congressional Conven tion. The following named gentlemen The Organized Democracy. purpose «f selecting delegates to the ' . ,, . , , , , i . are appointed to act ns managers a* Democratic Convention to be held at; . 1 [ Gainesville on the first of August next, to nominate a candidate to rep- r sent the 9th District in the 46th Congress. The Executive committee have changed the basis of representation, allowing counties having one member in the lower house of the G neral as sembly three votes in the Convention, and counties having two members, six votes, and have passed such other resolutions as they thought would se cure justice and harmony among the Democracy of the District. The com mittee did what they conceived to be their duty, and it now devolves upon each member of the Democrat ic party, of our District to fall into line and evince that patriotism they have here tofore done, by suppoitiug that party which by contending for the principles upon which our Government was founded, has brought the Empire State of the South, from a worse than mili tary Government, to her present, free and prosperous condition. Our ene mies are organizing. The tocsin has been sounded. Already has the ra dical party expressed its purpose to canvass the Congressional Districts of the South and has already called upon the office holders of the general Gov ernment to contribute of their means to pay expenses, with a view of divi ding* a solid South, increasing their numbers in Congress and thu3 con trolling the general Government In a manifesto issued by J. E- Bryant chairman State Executive committee of the Republican party in Georgia, h« contends for the organization of the Republican party, and that in those Districts in which it is thought best to support independent candidates, the Republican party should so decide in Convention. It is understood that an independent candidate is in the field in our District and some who claim to be Democrats are enlisting under his standard. In view of the above facts, is it necessary to warn you against u Radical combination witli independents, to recount the wrongs the countiy has suffered at the hads of Radicalism, and call on the Democrats of the 9ih to rally to the snppoit of whoever may be cur stan dard bearer, anti vote down not only Radicalism, but him who would for pevs v:»l aggrandizement destroy the - time honored party of the fathers and holt! up its usages, by which they gained such glorious victories— to ridicule and contempt. Surely when so much depends up on the success of Democratic princi ples, the Democracy of the 9th will in the approaching canvass as they have done in the past, work through one organization, in solid rank as one man, for the defeat of our political enemies. John IIockeniiull. Chairman Democratic Executive Committee of the 9th Congressional District. Newspapers in the District please copy. ti.-i-Ji 1 the polls of different election pre- : ciiicls. If they cannot serve they j are earnestly requested to ap|ioint j o.hera in their place: Athens.—(216) Town Hall, S. M. Herrington, C. G. Talmadge and A. C. Lampkiu. Mygatt’b Mill.—(219) D. L Pittman, John S. Save and William Yerbey. Mathews.—(220) Andrew J. Towns, W in. D. Tuck, and Robert Yerbey. Puryer’s District.—W. H Morton, J. W. N. Stone and Robert Tuck. Bkadberry’s. Duke Hamilton, Joseph E. Biadberry and Sherwood Wise. S. M. HUNTER, Chm’n. Dist Ex. Com. for Clarke. Notice. In pursuance of a call from Hon. John Iiockenhull, Chairman Demo cratic Executive Committee, for the Ninth Congressional District, the Democracy of Madison county are requested to meet at the Court House, in Danielsville, on the first Tuesday in July, for the purpose of selecting deligates to the Democratic Convention to he held at Gainesville, on the first of August next, to nomi nate a candidate to represent the 9th District in the 46th Congress. As it will be a meeting of great importance it is hoped that the Democracy will lay all other business aside and turn out e» masse promptly on that day. Julius A. Green, Ch’r’. Dcm. Ex. Com. Madison Co. To the Democrats of Oconee County. The Democrats of Oconee county are hereby earnestly requested to meet at the Court House, in Wat kinsville at 12 M. on the 1st Tuesday (the 2nd day) in July, for the pur pose of selecting Delegates to the Congressional Nominating Conven tion to be held in Gainesville on the first day of August next. In view ol the fact that efforts arc being made to weaken the party organization, which move, if successful, would sooner or later give our State over again into Radical hands. I trust that on the day appointed there may be a grand rallying of the Democra cy that we may take council together and elect as delegates^men who will represent with fidelity the true inter est of the county and the Democratic party. J. C. Wilson, Ch’r. Dent. Club Oconee Co. Elsewhere will be found a com munication from an “Ex-Legislator’’ strongly endorsing Hon. A. O. Bacon of Macon Ga., as a candidate for United States Senator. The writer has spoken well and truthfully of Mr, Bacon. He is one of the ablest young statesmen in Georgia, and if his friends and admirers should deter mine to present his name for Sena torial honors he will make a strong race. The following editorial front the Augusta Chronicle and. Constitu tionalist, is so fully in accord with our views so ably and happily ex pressed, and so unanswerably tone that we with pleasure reproduce it in our editorial columns. The Democratic party redeemed the State ot Georgia. This assertion needs no demonstration to prove its correctness. It is a proposition so appearent and so fully recognized that ev ?n a fool u ill not queslibn its accuracy. The State was redeemed by and through the instrumentality of the organized Democracy. The good people of Georgia would have been powerless to have worked out their political salvation unless they formed themselves into an organiza tion, representing the great princi ples of the Democratic party. Every county and every district in the State was thoroughly organized This was not the result of a few months’ work It was the result of several years’ hard labor. Without party organi zation the people would not have been able to have driven the liad'cal party front power. The organized Democracy has ae.eomp Ulu.-d a great and glorious work in Georgia. We enjoy the fruits of the victory. We have the blessings of good govern ment. The people of evety class and condition are protected in all their rights. We have an honest govern ment, and the laws are Impartiallv and faithfully admiiiistere t. All the people—white and black—enjoy tie- blessings of liberty, and they are fully protected in all their rights of person and property. These are the ft nits of Democratic titles—these are the results achieved by the organized Democracy. The power of the hon est people was invoked and expressed at the |K>lls by the instrumentality of county, district and State Conven tions. The people were united, the supreme effort was made and the State was redeemed as a necessary consequence of the thorough and complete organization of the Demo cratic party. * • . " ! Conventions are as necessary for the preservation of the party in th6 Dis tricts as in the State. If you abolish the Convention system in the Dis tricts, then why the necessity, *or rather the consistency, in calling a Convention to nominate a candidate for Governor ? We notice a desire upon the part of many aspiring politicians in differ ent pat ts of the State to cut loose from the organized Democracy and run upon the hybrid or independent platform. These men wear their Democracy loosely. They wore it loosely in 1868; and many of them found it convenient to remain as si lent as the sphinx during the year in which the Radical remained in power, aud by their silent acquiesenefl' gave aid and encouragement to our erne- inies. These men did very little toward redeeming the State. They did not by word or deed slid in the victory. Whilst others were nobly bearing the beat and burden of the contest, these independent Demo crats sulked in their hemes and saw no hope in the future of the State, of of the country. Liberty was dead ; there was no resurrection morn lor it. Republican government was no more, anil a military dictatorship was to rise upon its ruins. In a word, the whole country was lost. These craven cries deterred not the people. They frightened not the Democracy. The sunshine of victory perched upon its banners, and these men who saw no ray of hope before for the success of the party, catne out from their hiding places, and placed themselves in the van of the victorious column. They were erowned with the laurel wreaths and received political pre ferment at the hands of that grand party which they did so little to lead on to victory. * ' Has the time come—will it ever come in the history of this country— when the people who claim to be Democrats can afford to abolish Conventions ? What constitutes party? Does th<* ipse dixit of one man constitute a political rule of ! does come, when one titan can defy the Democratic party, then surely it [communicated.] Hon. A. O. Bacon. Democrats Read This. is and it ought to be tlead. The dqctrine «f “ I atn the State,” “ am the Democratic Party,” will never be submitted to by the people of Geor gia The Democratic people speak through the Democratic party, and the Democratic party speaks through its regulatly constituted Conten tions, whether said Conventions l»e called for the consideration of mat ters pertaining to county* district, • State or Federal political ’affairs.- Democratic Conventions, fairly and honestly constituted, are the only authorized bodies to speak authori tatively for the Democratic people of this country. No otie man has this authority, and when any one man arrogates this power and says “ I atn the Party, I am even greater than the Party,” he should be made to understand that he has made a mis take. No man is higher than the party which has given him office. Something is due to party allegiance. Party supremacy is above or ought to he above the poiii'u-tl dogmatism of any individual member of the party.’’ j There are signs of a vigorous R,., Mr. Editor:—Knowing the strong publican revival in several of tin- personal relations existing between j Southern States. In Georgia a part v yourself and the honorable gentleman j paper has been established at Atlanta We notice that the Georgia Rail road has adopted the wise policy of selling low-rate excursion tickets to those wishing to visit North Georgia during the summer. Why don’t the management of the North-Eastern Railroad do the sane thing? It would not only enable many persons in our midst to i-i joy the in.-un »iu scenery of their own native state, tints furnishing a most wujoyab e re creation and a most valuable relaxa tion from tlte arduous duties ot every day life, but prove profitable to the read. By all means let the North- Eastern Railroad offer low rate tick ets for the summer months, i: will prove beneficial to both the road and the people. Political Queries. If the independent movement is not against Democracy and favorable to Radicalism, why is the Radical party so anxious for the success of the independents ? If the people of Georgia should favor independcnlism and break up the Democratic organization, what would be the chances of defeating the Republican candidate for the Presideniy in 1880? Which looks fairest or most Demo cratic, for the majority of the people to select a candidate to represent them iu Congress, or for one ntan, backed by half dozen friends, to name himself as the most suitable candidate ? If the thorough organization of the Democratic party has brought relief to the country front Radical oppres sion and misrule, what is the sense cr wisdom in trying to break it up be fore the country is entirely redeemed? While the Radical party is earnest ly at work trying to more thoroughly organize their ranks for the Presi dential election in 1880, does it no , look hk«- madness and most nonsensi cal recklessness for Democrats to talk about disintegrating their ranks ? The Radical party iiV view of suc cess in the Presidential election in 1880, will t permit no independent movement in their ranks, then why should Democrats be so unwise as to t derate or countenance for one mo ment such a movement in their ranks ? If the Democratic party should now desert or abandon its organiza tion would it not have to reform its ranks for the Presidential election in 1880 ? Then what is the sense or political wisdom in suffering even a lemjmrary interruption to its organi zation ? “ Let good enough alone ” is a 1 wise an wholesome maxim, as sound in politics as in any other affairs of life. whose name holds this article I have concluded that what I ant about to say of him will be, to you, at least most acceptable matter for your columns. As is known to all it will devolve upon the next legislature which as sembles in November to elect a United States < Senator. I am well aware of the fact that our noble Gordon, the present incumbent has made a most worthy and acceptable public servant. ' B mg in th • legisla ture when he was elected I was an ardent and earnest supporter of his, I am still his friend and am prepared to unite my voice with the great masses of the people in awarding the plaudit “ well done good and faith ful servant.” But Mr. Editor I am satisfied that there arc other good ten in out state equally well qualified to represent our state in the councils of the nation, and furthermore I am an unalterable Ivliovcr in the dne- trum, l’.;u true merit should be re warded. These being my honest convictions, then I can say without the fear of successful contradiction, that no man in Georgia is more meri torious or more fully qualified to fill the position of United States Senator *hati lion. A. O. Bacon. Why do I say this ? Because, in making up the record of this Georgia statesman, we find the following to ho undeni ably true. lie stands to day one ot the first lawyers in the state. Able, learned, patriotic and with an ex perience few nu*n of his age have had, he has justly and surely won this honorable and exalted position. Mr. Bacon has an experience ns state legislator of ten or twelve years during which time, he has been un questionable the leader of that body. Twice was he made Speaker thereof, and being a member elect of the next. House will beyond doubt be chosen again as presiding officer. During this experience he has demonstrated more natural gill as a parliamentari an, than any other man within our knowledge who has ever preceded him in the general assembly of our State. This last qualification emin ently fits Mr. Bacon for the United States Senate, as such knowledge and such gift arc almost indispensable pre-requisites for a useful and suc cessful member of a legislative body. Ii is through this gift and knowledge that the great leaders of Congress maintain, their power, their influence and their control of the respective branches of Congress. With a few exceptions, the South has not equalled the North iu this respect, in the selection of representatives. Again, Mr. Editor, the honorable gentleman whose name £ have sug gested for the honorable aitd respon sible position he is so well qualified to fill, deserves consideration for his noble action in the last election for United States Senator. When the contest was so close between Mr. Hill atid Mr. Norwood, and when it was thought that it would be impos sible to elect either candidate, Mr. Bacon was earnestly and continuous ly pressed by a large number of the members of the Legislature to allow his name to be presented before the body He equally earnestly and continuously refused the use of his name, not thinking it honorable to do so, alter having declared himself fa vorable to the election of one of the candidates. Had he at any time during the contest been captivated by the glittering prize, he could have been elected by a very large majori ty. These tacts, Mr. Editor, you j know to be literally true. And fur thermore the members of the Legis latttre for the past eight or ten years know all I have s tid respecting Mr. Bacon to be true in every particular which is doing quiet but effective service. In Alabama the Republican Stale Committee lias been rc-ormn- ized, and an address has been issued calling a State Convention at Mont> gomery on July 4. There are eon- ditions in both these States which a*e encouraging to the Republicans. The recent declaration of the Alaba ma Democrats for a white man’s government shows that the Bourbons hav" full cotiir 1 of that organization, and when the Bourbons obtain swav in thaparty there is sure to be a split sooner or later. In Georgia the Democratic majority is so enormous it is full of d'ssension-s, and at the mercy of independent movement. By using discretion, and combining with independent candidates against the old negro hating elements of the Democracy* the Southern llcpibli- cans may do valuable service for their party in the Fall c.icu.n a.—X^c York Tribune. Tl(n Atlanta Constitution says that judging 1 frtJrtf Bryant’s Republican, the uegro vote, so far as it is under the control of the Republicans, will be polled solidly for the independents wherever they make the race. Hon. A. H. Stephens says he is not conduct for the people ? If that day ! opposed to Conventions. and t believe they will heartily en dorse my statements, my suggestions and my choice of the Lon. A. O. Bacon. Let h : s name be presented. He is able, faithful, patriotic and pop ular and will make a strong race, and a Senator who will reflect credit up on old Georgia, and add greater fame to his already well and worthily won reputation as a statesman. Ex-Legislator. June 26th, 1878. An Endowment for “Frank lin College.” With the exception of a grant of u few thousand acres of wild lands— for its primary establishment—three quarters of'a century ago, “ Frinklitt College,’’ from that moment io the present time, has received nothing as an endowment from the State ot Georgia. The Trustees of this College not being in the real estate business, these wild lands were found to be “an elephant’’ on their hands, and the same were finally sold to the State for one hundred thousand dol lars. The eight, thousand dollars she now receives annually, is but the interest on this sum. The great energy and enterprise exhibited by the sectarian colleges in Georgia; the vastly superior advantages offered the 8tudentsat“Yale” “University of Virginia,” “Vanderbilt” and other institutions of learning has left our cherished “old Franklin” far behind in the educational race. An endow ment of one hundred thousand dol lars (from the Rental of the Stale Road) would do a vast deal toward giving new life to this institution. The salaries of the Pro fessors should be increased, iu order that it should command and retain the first talent in the land. Railway corporations and banking institutions pay their presiding offi cers five and six thousand dollars pet- annum. The education of our youth is a matter of far greater importune • than “ transportation” or the hoard ing of money. Old Franklin College, with a proper endowment, could again stand by itself, and be compelled no longer to lean "pon the fund of the State College of Agri culture and Mechanic Arts for it partial support. The State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts separated from “ old Franklin,” could command the sympathy and support of all the farmers of Georgia (for whose benefit it was established) if the Trus tees of the University of Georgia would only permit them a voice in its management by allowing the Georgia Stale Agricultural Society to elect (in the same manner as the Alumni Trustees are elected,) four Trustees to their body. The Uni versity of Georgia in its present “amalgamated” condition can never attain that high destiny so earnestly desired by its Alumni, and its friends throughout the South. We are glad to know however, that there is one patriot and one intellect in the Board of Trustees of the University of Georgia equal t > the occasion, our able Senator the Hon. B. H. Hill in a recent letter to a graduate of “ Old Franklin ” use- the following wise and patriotic lftt> gunge. “ I will cheerfully favor an endowment for ‘ Old Franklin ’ not only of 8100,000, but of 8500,000. The State cannot make a better investment or do a better act for its own glory.” We are sure our other noble Senator John B. Gordon, a Trustee of our Univeieity will endorse these sentiments aud give his great influence toward tlte re-sussitation and permanent estab • lishmcnt of a State University ot which every Georgian may be justly proud.