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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.