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OT. L, OLESMER, Editor.
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FRIDAY.
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Pursuant to a resolution of the
State Executive Committee a con
vention of the Democratic party of
Georgia will be held at the capital,
In Atlanta, on Wednesday, June
18tb, 1884, at Ig.o'clock noon, to
select delegates to the national
Democratic convention, to be held
in Chicago, July 8th, 1884.
J. U. Kstill,
Chairman State Executive Com
j- John W. Akin, Secretary.
can now take
The Republican
down its "old ticket.’’
Bolting the Blaine ticket seems
to be the fashion among the Re
publicans.
It now seems piobable that Con
gress will not adjourn lieforc the
latter part of July,
Seven out of twelve jurors who
convicted old John Brown arc yet
living and pursuing their usual
avocations in their native county-
in West Virginia. 1
Mr. Tilden-'s letter of declination
seems to have taken the Atlanta
Constitution’s breath away, as it
gives the very shortest possible
editorial notice of it.
The defeat of Arthur, says the
Telegraph and Messenger, carries
with It the final overthrow of Mo*
hone and secures beyond question
- * tho vote of Virginia forthedemoc
racy.
As a Hopper the Atlanta Const!
* tution is not a success. It sudden
. ly flopped over from a revenue tar-
'J ill platform to one of protection
from Carlisle to Randall, and Ran
dall was defeated. It then enthu
siastically boomed Tllden and de
clared that tho tariff was not an
issue. Tilden declines and it will
find that tho tariff is a vory impor
tant issue.
TILDES DECLINES.
Samuel J. Tilden has written a
letter to the chairman of the Demo
cratic stale committee of New York,
positively declining to bo a candi
date for nomination tor President.
The letter is manly and patriotic in
tone, and is one which must ever
commend the writer to all lovers of
a pure administration of govern
mental allairs.
Oue curious feature of the letter
Is that Mr. Tilden says he has re
peatedly and positively declared
his determination not to be a can
didate, and yet the papors and
iwliticians who have advocated his
nomination have just as repeatedly
and positively declared that he
would accept the nomination if
tendered to him. That these pa
pers and politicians kucw the truth
in the matter cannot bo doubted,
and it must bo inferred that they
had no pure motives in thus seek
ing to mislead tho people and were
doing it to cloak their own personal
schemes. However, it may bo that
these meu builded wiser than they
knew, os their scheme has undoubt
edly had the effect to prevent any
wrangling In the parly as to pref
erences for candidates and leaves
the party free to calmly and wisely
select the best man for the position
at a lime when it is most necessary
to do so.
Mr. Tilden’s letter is a most
timely one, for it is time that the
Democracy were looking around
and discussing the merits of the
moat available candidates, and it
haa prevented the springing upon
the convention, without warning,
a candidate by a clique who were
hiding themselves behind Mr.
Tilden.
The Recorder has opposed the
nomination of Mr. Tilden for presi
dent upon the same ground that it
opposed the nomination of Mr. Ste
phens for governor—physical dir-
qualification for the onerous duties
which such an ofllce would place
upon him, and it is glad to sec
that Mr. Tilden has the patriotism
to recognize that disqualification.
The presidential title could not
make Mr. Tilden a greater man, or
more revered, than he now la; bnt
it might involve his party in such
tronble as wonld retard its ascend-
aney Jury tan.
TILDEN DECLINES
TO BE CONSIDERED A8 1 6aSDI<
DATE. FOB THE PBESIBEXIT'
poulbit for Him to r.rronu th«
Unties of tbs Oflics.
New York, June 11.—The fol
lowing paper from Samuel J. Til-
den baa been given to the Associ
ated Press;
New York, June 10, 1881.
To Dar.iel Manning, Chairman of
the Democratic State Committee
of New York :
In my letter of June 18th, 1880,
addressed to the Democratic nation
al convention, I said:
"Having now borne faithfully isy
full share of the labor and care In
the public service and wearing the
marks of its burdens, I desire noth
ing so muoh as an bonorablo dis
charge. I wish to lay down the
honors and toils of even a quasi
party leadership, and to seek the
repose of private life. In renoun-
cingarenomination for President, I
do so with no doubt in my mind as
to the vole of New York or of the
United States, but lieoause I believe
that it js a renunciation of an elec
tion to the presidency. To those
who think my renOmination and re-
election indispensable to any effec
tual vindication of the right of the
people to elect their rulers, violated
n my person, I have accorded as
long a reserve ol my decision as
possible, but 1 cannot overcome my
repugnance to enter into a new en
gagement, which involvesTonrycars
of ceaseless toil. The dignity of
the Presidential office is above a
merely personal ambition, but it
creates in me no illusion. Its val
ue is as a great power for good to
the country. I said four years ago,
in accepting the nomination:‘Know
ing a* I do, therefore, from fresh
experience, how great the differ
ence is between gliding tlnoughan
official routine and working out a
reform of systems and policies, it
is impossible for me to contemplate
what needsto bedonein the Federal
administration without an acute
sonse of the difficulties of tho under
taking. If summoned by the suffra
ges of my countrymen to attempt
this work, I shall endeavor, with
God’s help, to be the efficient in
strument of their will in such work
of renovation.’
After many years of misrule,
such a reform of a system and pol
icy, to which I would cheerfully
have sacrificed all that remained
to me of health and li r c, is now,
I fear, beyond my strength.”
My purpose to withdraw from
further public service and the
grounds for it were well known to
you and others. When at Cincin
nati, though respecting my wishes
yourself, you communicated to mo
an appeal from many valued friends
to relinquish that purpose, I reiter
ated my determination, uncondi
tionally. In tbo four years which
have since elapsed, nothing has
occurred to weaken, but everything
to strengthen, the consideration
which Induced my withdrawal
from public life. To all who have
addressed mo on tho subjeot my
iutention has been frankly com
municated. Several of my must
confidential friends, under the
Brnction of their own names, have
publicly stated ray determination
to be irrevocable.
That I have occasion now to
consider tho question is an event
for which I have no responsibility.
The appeal made to me by the
Democratic masses, with apparent
uuanimity, to serve them once
more, is entitled to most deferen
tial consideration, and would in
spire a disposition to do anything
desired of me, if it were consistent
with my judgment of duty. I
believe there is no instrumentality
in human sooiety so potential in
its influence on mankind for good
or evil as the governmental ma.
chincry for administering justice
aud for making and excouting the
laws. Not all the elemosynary
institutions or private benevolence
to wbioh philanthropists may de
vote their lives are so fertile in
benefits as the rescue and preseva-
tiou of this machinery from the
perversion thst make it the Instru
ment of conspiracy, fraud and
erlme against the most sacred
rights and interests of the people.
For fifty years, as a private citi
zen, nover contemplating an offi
cial career, I have devoted at least
as much thought and effort to duty
in influencing aright the action of
the governmental institutions of
my country as to all other objects.
1 Lave neve
atm of reform; which the Demo-
cratio majority of the .people de
sired to have worked out in the
of the State of Now York,
ved that I had strength
then to renovate tho ad-
nistratlon of the government of
he United States, and at the close
of my term to band over the great
trust to a successor faithful to the
samepeliey. Though anxious to
seek the repose of private life, I
neverthless acted upon the idea
that every power Is a trust and In
volves a duty. In reply to the ad
dress of the committee communi
cating my nomination, I depicted
the difficulties of the undertaking,
and likened my feelings in engag
ing in It to those of a soldier enter
ing battle; but I did not withhold
the entire-consecration of my pow
ers to the public service. Twenty
years of continuous maladministra
tion under tho demoralizing influ
ences of intestine war and of bad
finance have infested the whole
g overnmental system of the United
tales with the cancerous growths
of false constructions and corrupt
practices. Powerful classes have
acquired pecuniary interests in
official abuses and tho moral stan
dard of the people has been impair
ed. To redrew those evils is a
work'of great difficulty and 1-ibor
and cannot lie accomplished with
out most energetic and efficient
personal action ou the part of the
chief executive of the republic.
The canvass aud administration
which it is desired that I should
undertake would embrace a period
of nearly five years, nor can I ad
mit any illusion as to their bur
dens. Three years of experience
in the endeavor to reform the
municipal government of the city
of New York, and two years of ex
perience in renovating tho admin
istration of the State of New York
has made me familiar with the re
quirements of such a work. At
the present time the considerations
which iuduced my action in 1880
have become imperative, I ought
not to undertake a task which 1
have not physical strength to carry
through.
To reform the administration of
the Federal government, to realize
my own ideal and to fulfill the just
expectations of the 'people would
indeed warrant, as they would alone
compensate, the sacrifice which the
undertaking wonld involve, but in
my condition of advancing years
and declining strength I feel no as
surance of my ability to accomplish
these objects, I am therefore con
strained to say, definitely, that I
cannot now nssume the labors of an
administration or of a canvass, un
dervaluing in no wise that best gift
of heaven, occasion and power,
sometimes bestowed upon a mere
individual, to communioate an im
pulse for good, and grateful be
yond all,words to my fellow country
men who would assign such bene
ficial function to me. I am con
soled by the reflection that neither
tho Democratic parly nor the re
publio, for whose future that parly
is the best guarantee, is now, or
over can be, depeudent upon any
one mau for their successful pro
gress in the path of noble destiny.
Having given tothdr welfare wha’t-
ever of health and strength I pos
sessed or could borrow from the
future, and having reached the term
of my capacity for such labors as
their welfare now demands, I but
submit to the will of God in deem
ing my public career now forever
closed.
[Signed] Samvel J. Tilden.
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Contemplate a few quotations and note the difference in SPOT CASH prices and thirty
days credit:
Flour. Flour.
Tn this article we stand head and shoulders above everybody, having ransacked the big
markets of the West and Northwest in search of the best, and paid the CASH DOWN. We
will sell you First Patent, (entire Roller system)
For 50 pounds, $1.90. Old price, $2.15.
2d Pat., for 50 pounds, 1.70. “ 1.90.
Fancy, for 50 pounds, 1.60. “ ...... 1.80.
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In future we will keep on hand the best grades of GRAHAM FLOUR—cheap.
never accepted official ser
vice, except for a brief period fora
special purpose, and only when the
occasion seemed to require from
me that sacrifice ot private prefer-
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New York because It was si
that in that way only
So many merchants advertise
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“ “ lOf pounds New Orleans Clarified for. 1.00.
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Tobacco and ■»*
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