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Americus Recorder.!* 1 "*'? d f' e * v - e ,rom 8 f le >'- , Te ! 1! * in « la in ? tan< ; ein wh ‘ c '! th n T!“ us, Mr. Editor, upon wbat prlnci* been a departure in this District, W. L. QLES8HRR. Editor. Offlciftl Organ or Webster County. WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 3d,.ISM4. JtllHK CRISPS APPOINTMENTS. Charles F. Crisp, Democratic nominee tor 49th Congress from the 3d Congres- Hionnl District, will address such of his fellow-citizen as may come ont to hear him (all are invited) at the following times and places: Vienna .. Tuesday Sept. ». Montezuma Thursday Kept. 11. Oglethorpe Friday Kept. 12. KUaville Tuesday Kept. 23, llawkinsvilie, Thursday Kept. 26. Abbeville,.. Saturday Sept. 27. Irwin ville, Tuesday Kept. 30. Dougins . .\ ..Thursday Oct. 2. Preston, Tuesday Oct. 7. Marsfaallvilie, Wednesday Oct. H. Perry, Friday Oct. 10. “ Katnrday Oct. 11. Wednesday Oct. 16. ... Saturday Oct. 18. ...Monday Oct. ?0. . Wednesday Oct. 22. .. Katnrday Oet. 2V ... .Tuesday Oct. 2*. Friday Oct. 31* Fort V.ll.v, American,. . Lee,burg,... Last man MoHae, Dublin, Mb Vernon,. Lumpkin,.. THE HEMATURIA!, QUESTION. Kimtok Kkcoriieii—In your edi torial nl the 29th, instant, on the senatorial question, you show con- illusively that you do not approve ol the results or the manner in which they were aecomplislied. In tills opinion we fully con:tir; hut We think yon make a mistake when you intimate that because Sumter and a hall of one vote from the county of Macon was cast for the Hon. J. N. Hudson that thercloie he is,the nominee. Ordinarily that would be true. It would bo true lb this'instance, but for the fact thet the rotation system has been, and still is, the system recognized t heoretically in this, the Thirteenth Senatorial District. But the rota tion system, whether wise or un wise,changes the ordinary rule and makes nominations in tliu district peculiar. There are three coun ties in the district under the rota tion system. Each county has the right to select the candidate as their respective time urrives. Xow this gives the county whose term, or time, It is to select the Senator the right to make the choice. This right n;av ho exercised by select ing the candidate from the county, or from either of the three coun ties. as they, the citizens of the county, may determine to do. It would he lair to presume that in the exercise of Unit right, the citi zens of the county woiifcl make the select ion from bur own citizens, nut there is nothing in the rotation systom that makes ic obligatory so to do. To illustrate: it was eon- needed that it was Schley’s right, under thu rotation system, to lur- niili the candidate for the ap proaching election. Could not Sohley have exercised that right by naming a man from Sumter or Macon.' Anil if she had seen proper to have so acte/I, who would ! lie unwilling to say that she had not had the benefit of the rotation system as fully ns if she had chosen a candidate from her own county)’ Tim fact that she did sec proper to pie can it lie said that Schley nom-j except in the case of the nomina tion ot the Hon. .1. X. Hudson gix years ago. He was the nominee from Schley. When the convention assembled, notwithstanding this fact, there was upon the part of some of the delegates from Sumter a disposition to treat the gentle man on that occasion as Mr. Murray was treated oil this; but a sense of justice prevailed and the law of ro tation was observed and the choice of Schley ratilied. This is the only instance in which the princi ple as insisted upon by us has been questioned, and in that one instance was repudiated. Xow. the way the matter presents itself to inated the candidate? How does ft show that rotation has been ob served? Is he the candidate, or Is lie merely a citizen ol Schley? What would Schley give for a sys tern that, not only defeats her wishes, but puts upon her a man she does not want? Would not Schley have infinitely preferred to have Imd u mao from Macon or Sumter rather than to have forced ' I upon her one ol her own citizens whom she did not want? So much for the system; now as to the manner of its accomplish ment: Delegates were chosen from the three counties, but heloie the county of Schley bad acted, Sum ter had had a meeting and had made war upon Mr. Murray, and had elected, by a very small vote of her people, delegates whose known proclivities were opposition to Mr. Murray. Xo better reason was assigned than that lie was sup posed to lie at war witli the inter est uf Americus, and as was dem onstrated Ivy tiie speeches made on that occasion, his antagonism con sists of the fact that lie was treas urer of the Buena A'ista railroad. Schley, notwithstanding this ac tion on the part of Sumter, relying upon the good laitli of the dele gates ss Democrats, pursued the even tenor of her way and made her choice, nominated tier candi date, anil through her delegates met the delegates from Sumter and Macon, believing that the same faith Schley had always exhibited to Sumter anil Macon would he ac corded to her. Wiiat must have been her surprise when, at the very tlireshhold of the convention, her fidelity to the Democratic party was not only questioned, but site was placed in a position that forced her to support n resolution which virtually abrogated the rotation system or denied the privilege of placing before said convention the candidate whom she Imd nomi nated. As one ol tlie weaker comities,- she did not wish to abandon the system by her vote; lind because she was unwilling so to vote, she was actually prevented from plac ing before that convention the man she had nominated. To our mind, the resolution was an insult to the convention, ami es pecially to Schley, as it was well known that Schley Imd not only the right to nominate the candi date. but imd done so. It was in effect to say to Schley, “we do not believe that the man you have nom inated is a Democrat, and we do not intend that von shall have the chance of liaving his nomination ratilied uuleas you will pass a res olution which in effect annuls the rotation system." Mr. Editor, of all the most de- spicable tyranny kuown to the world, is that which seeks to op press and destroy under the form of well-sounding resolutions. The TOOLE, McGARRAH & TONDEE, Warehouse and Commission Herein says “heretofore all a county Imd to do was to present a good demo crat, a gentleman, a man of integ rity and a roan welt qualified 10,1111 the office." Xow it would be out. of the way, if not unjust, to say' ^|HTl'RN thank. to their Men.l. of Sumler-nut adjoin that Mr. Murray is not a gentleman ' " ['»■: vn-i soli- It ft routinusni'f nr the nine III III.' fu! or that he Is not a man of integri- ii- n-u «nd nuinvinuncoa or ty, but I respectfully suggest that j COL. T, M. FURLOW there seemed to be in the conven- ’ .. ^ k tliathf willbe with 11* the comink nea“0n tn thtA captivity Ml Scalesinart, lli* exncHi turn a difference ol opinion as to . pcrI bis Democracy and competency. One test of democracy is a willing- j ness to abide democratic nomiim- j tions, and, in truth, this is usually the easiest test of all, and yet Mr. ! Murray could not stand ii. Non as to competency, it wil! hardly lie insisted that Mr. Murray lias any ' more of that than Mr. Hudson. At ; that hf will be with u* the coming ne:«“on in the c neb*, coupled with his well known in»ecrit7, ln-ni r Amoricn«, On-, July 11,1884. mi s.for their v e t:ike pie; »iul fair iloallnj | u r M. B. COUNCIL. • •*- WILLIFOKn COUNCIL & WILLIFORD, PROPRIETORS OF GEORGIA WAREHOUSE, our mind is that Mr, Murray is the; any rate, if a convention settles [ Opera House Work, Americus, (in. nominee, liaving rcccvcd that honor! anything, if. decides for the occa-; ... . , , 7 , , . „ . . , . i .. • would call tbe attention of Cotton Planters that wo are uaain lirenimA. at the hands of Ills fellow citizens sion at least the question ol com- j handle and store tUeir cotton on the moat favorable terms. Our warehouse i.sneu of Sohlcv. whom under the rotation i potency, and the convent ion has i fire-proof, and separate fromnnyothor buildings, thus insuring low mtesof insiiran, , ; , , . ., , . . . . j *Ve propose to giveour customers f«ir weights, anil .oenre for them the hielieji system had the right to name the . decided that Hudson is competent, i bet piion. Thunkful for tile liberal patronage bestowed upon us last year, weask candidate. Can the fact timt that nomina- • just as Schley county didin 1877. If my answers are not satislac- eontinuance of tbe asine. AxOTHF.lt Df.mockat. tiou was not. confirmed by the dele-! tory, they arc at leost writen in! gates of Sumter and a half of a | good faith and spirit, vote from Macon destroy the faot that be was nominated? And can- . .. “ * ’ , . ... Among the recent promulgations 1 tbe fact that Sumter, with the as- f ... ’ from Washington is that in someol : sistance ol a half vote from Macon, | ... , , , , ’ ! the southern stales candidates for > assumes to declare that the Hon. ... ! congress me calling upon the re- j J. X. Hudson is the nominee so ■ warp facts as to make him such? | This is a fair way of putting it. j If we are right, we are unable to j sec how Mr. Murray fit’lie should | publican executive committees lor! money to defeat, the democratic 1 nominees. These men can’t possi- j bly amount to much as congress- 1 . , men, even if money could elect determine to run the race) can ,n | them They Hly t|jey , lannol any sense lie regarded as an l»dc-, ^ e|ecte „ v , ithoill pendent candidate. . | in election times in their respective It seems a strange perversion olj d . gtricte ^ [m terms that a man nominated under j . on ^ j, a tbe rules which have prevailed for lilnent t0 both tllcir con ' slit . twenty years is to lie denounced as unsound as a Democrat because lie sees proper to obey the voice of the District officially expressed. This theory, like the means of his so- called deteat, is the sophistry of the minds of those in whose inter est the departure was invoked. ScHi.gr. Hints and themselves. Ph EH Eh <1 M (ISV 1/1 Hi (b !0g o J choose one of her own eitizens docs , work of destruction had been con- not change the fact that she might I cocled,and the means of execution hive claimed the privilege of hav ing named the other county. Yon will sec, Mr. Editor, that rotation, when applying to the Sen atorial nomination, means nothing plnnued, before the convention met. man from some 1 Murray had to be defeated, it mat- ! terod not what Schley said. Ho mtiai not be confirmed, though to defeat him the precedents of twen ty years had to be trampled under more or lest than that the several | foot, and the Democratic party of counties shall each, in their turn, j the district split aesundcr. nominate, f. e., name the candidate Mr. Editor, one would naturally lor the district. The fact that i conclude that there must have been Schley did. on the present ocen-' some great underlying cause to sion, name Mr. Murray, a citizen I have made such a step necessary, of her own county, is no denial of i In your cdilorinl referred to you the right we have insisted upon in - intimate that personal ambition is this communication. Any other i at the bottom of this matter. We view ot the question, in our opin-- bad thought as much, and if you ion. Is eironeous. 1 have the evidence by which it can We want no better illustration ■ be demonstrated we would be glad of the correctness ot our opinion , if you would present it to tbe pub. ban that of the state of things, as lie. If tiie gratification of the am* they now exist, in this district. It i hition of any one mau is to the was Schley's time, under the rota-1 good of the Democratic party, then lion system, :o name—nominate— | wo. confess that the party has out- the candidate. In the exerrise ofI lived its usefulness. We do not that right, she did nominate the j believe it, and if the masses knew Hon. W. P. Murray. When the, that this thing was tbe result of conventiSn met, whose duty it was, i a cauous, and in the interest of one under the rotation system, to rati-' or more officials, without regard to f.v what Schley had done in the ex- ■ the good of tiie public, they would ereise of that right, said conven- repudiate it. O glllfj. Amkhicts, Ga.. Sept. 1, '84. E hi toe Kkcohiikk—In your issue of Sunday appeared, under the head of “Wants to Know," a com munication. The author expresses himself su well that I am confident that be already possesses the light of which he seems to bo in search, and 1 doubt not his enquiries are really intended as ingenious argu ments; but for the lienelll of the very few who may not know 1 ven ture to answer. There is no reason why “A Dem ocrat” should not vote for J. X. Hudson. Ou tliouontrary, theru is reason why “A Democrat," and all democrats, should vote for him. Hudson is “a democrat” himself; and is the regular nominee of a 1 Democratic convention. Besides - this, ho is an bonust and upright j man, fully competent, at least we ; had Schley’s word for all this in 1877. It makes no dill'crcuce. whether ue got Schley’s vote in i the convention or not. The noini- [ nation is just ns binding upon those j not voting for him and their eon- - stituents. In truth, if there is any | difference, it is moro binding upon J those not voting for him, for it is 1 to be presumed that those who voted for him will do so without! being hound. Tbe great object of - a nominating convention is to see ; and determine who we shall all! agree upon and vote for, and when ; thu nomination is made the nomi nee is the candidate of each and ; every democrat in the district., Now on the subject of rotation: 1 “A Democrat" does not seem to need light. There never lias been any such rule as that laid down by ; "A Democrat.'' Xo county in this , district ever pretended heretofore - to have nominated a candidate by its own separate claim, either by declaring for him at home or by presenting him to a convention. The county entitled docs have the j .^11-‘. 3I rigid to express her preference and to present him to thu convention. „* S tp'v »p 6 8>| 11 i % b , s Sh i«m. £ I ^ = 0 5 I P ^ rs 3 S 5 5 S',I I J5 /-> r. P S3 .2 Hi) DEALERS IS S CDliriM USE (IF PITRE IlltllS, nuglttf Amerious, Ga. NEW ADVERTISEMENT, „ _ „ JS ■. sjes'S Zi •f 3 r ' 2 £ 3 ?2 *•£ ti ^ o a? £ S SJBo 2 -i! A ~ '4 -S - o . sc - ! £ c T •£ t sSS 0-’£- g £ a o—9 3 ^ X £ vT Oj r C ^ 7Z It - o S SS P S o o a, — — SsZ S .= ° HUS. M.T. ELAM LEFT FOR NEW YORK ON TIIE 2.-.T11. WILL, HE HONE UNTIL ABOUT THE LAST OF SEPTEM BER. MBS. LEWIS Wll.l. HAVE CHARGE OP HER BUSINESS IN KER ABSENCE, AND WILL SERVE I1ER ITS- TOMERS FAITHFULLY. Jas.Fricker&Bro. AMERICUS, GA. About September first we shall move into our new store, at the old stand, Barlow Block, Public Square, where we shall open the most elegant assortment of goods in our line e\ei brought to Southwest Georgia. At our pres ent store on Cotton Avenue, we have a large stock of Watches, Clocks and Jewelry, Solid Silver and Plated Ware, Pianos, Organs ami Sewing Machines, and everything else usually kept in a Jewelry and Music Store, that must be reduced to save moving and make room for new goods. Therefore, for the next Twenty Days, or until we move, will sell any thing we have in stock at prices lower than have ever been reached before lion placed in nomination a man, j The next question we desire to and hy the unanimous vote of one county and a half vote of another county, claima to have nominated a candidate, a man who did not receive a vote in tbe convention ap. palnttog delagates, or a vote of a dibcuss is, who is the nominee for Senator in this District? We say, without the fear of contradiction, that under the rotation system Mr. Murray ii the uominee. We defv anyone in the District to show a For Sale or Exchange. n •tetionary engine*, thtee boiler*, planing But the convention does the uomi-1 "IT;!!;C, nating. Xow onr late convention ( SSjSL"*"622?£11'2d yellow pine lumber at fl per 1000 to last tbe mil 1 •everal sear*. Contraeta for million of feet o| lumber can 1* had In DaHen, wtoer* It can t>< united at any a« aaon of Ute year. A <a«h pur< • *- i u«e of hou«*9, barn*, comtnu* _ . a reasonable limo fr*«* of co t The a'lOVd property I«located on e*»i aide of Uc- uulpee river, 15 mile* south o Ilavkin*vUlo and 12 mUea eaat <»f Eaitman. The above property gave Hudson six votes out of eight, that is a three-fourths majority. I i Schley was not cast for bim. Bnt it is true it wan not east for Mr. ill be qpld cketp for caali or will be eTclian^i'Tl Murray cither. He got no vote at, all, and how a man getting no votes 1 A »«°“ 18M - «f at all ban been nominated over one who got six out of eight votes is DISSOLUTION. IV Jrm cl ).. II. TOMMEY ic CO. Itu dU- one of the mysteries or recent Sen- j aSkS: atorial logic. But “A Democrat-1 Come and examine our stock, get our prices, and we will guarantee that you will he convinced that we mean what we say Remember we have great bargains to oiler for CASH and the time in which to secure them is limited. Come one, come all. and don I fail to come early. 9 JAS. PRICKER & BRO. Americus, Ga., Aug. 13, 1884. Sflaiiiler Academy. Having opened the Bylander Academy I ptopoffe to open, on Monday the 18tU of August next, u School of High Grade Koysi and Girin. Terms, rates, eta, DURHAM’S IMPROVED STAMM ID TlRBI Vi: I* tlie*bf *t r give* b m-re oovf mouiy.. ,.|t.r percent •, and i» w 'l'l b» r 1 *• uiy. t*r ho#e l 41 *' 1 ' • .nroth rTnrbln-- 1“ _« , if MTHw p«m ph let * rer ’ DUOS-, Sew *or*. . u u..*.. i cheap Lumber enct- in condnetini acter I came: of the good a acter I earnestly solicit a liberal patronage