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liCOS TELEGRAPH AND MESSENSQ
FRIDAY, JUNE .9, 1882.
Tbs Pot'.Appeal it the organ of the new
oo&lition, and like all organs it is coo troll-
ed by a crank.
Tns Chronicle is sad because it say* we
cannot apppredate the very beat of joker.
Now letoorcontemporary buildup a new
one and try a*.
Tns Macon Tsleobaph ie evidently
troubled with a hot box.—Atlanta Consti
tution. The Atlanta Constitution is net
It has evidently been greased.
Tux Evening Herald ooniinnes to make
things li?ely for the Constitution's esteem-
ed colleague. The Herald is evidently not
tmder the control of the new coalition.
Tna Virginia Democrats are thinking of
making Farton Massey their candidate for
Congressman at large. It is a dangerous
htporirasut, Democre's should nominal*
only Democrats for offlos.
Co&pobax, Thornton's able striker on the
Constitution paper, having discovered that
there Is ‘ a considerable chunk of hog in
ward*” in the Stephens movement, is cer
tainly entitled to the bristles.
JcDono from the remarks of Horr, the
Congressional monkey from Michigan, the
Radicals have no higher regard for Chsl
mere, the renegade, than they formerly
Lad for Chalmers, the Democrat
Cox- Waish wants Mr. Stephens to be
Governor Stephens, and then Senator 8te
phens; bnt he doesn't want him to ba Con
gressman Stephens any more. Somebody
hold the eighth district and let it smile.
It took the new coalition daily, of Augus
ta, a long Uma to disoover that the Casey
letter of Mr. Stephen* was written under
"a misapprehension of the state of affaire
in the Eighth district.” The discovery is
well timed
Tux Chronicle “would not revert to sad
memories.” It will not refer to its back
files in order to see what was ita opinion
of Mr. Stephens, when ba proposed to re
main in Congress, as a representative from
the eighth district.
Tnx Macox Turn iu mi U evidently troubled
With a bot-box.—Atlanta Constitution.
Yes; but that is better than heating up
by devoted attentions to the bung-hole of
n beer keg. The esteemed colleague
of the Post-Appeal should try “a hot box.”
It is an improvement on a cool keg.
Tns Chronicle and Constitutionalist
greets the opportunity of getting Mr. Ste
phens out of the Congressional pasture of
the Eighth district with genial and whole
hearted gratification. In ita cunning joy
thereat, it actually builds up puns and
jokes, In the face of an astonished world.
Tns Columbus Wines, which, by the ways
taalwajs behind the times, think* the
work that the TaLxosani axd Mkxhe
. !• now doing Is “wild and scattering.”
ing a dead paper, the Times naturally con
siders signs of Ufa in a contemporary as
evidence of fearful recklessness.
It is said that General Hanooek will re.
eeive the Democratic nomination for gov.
ernor of Pennsylvania. If ha should, there
will bo but little doubt of his election.
Divided as the Radicals of that State are,
they coaid not withstand the enthusiasm
that would bear Hancock up on ita wings.
Thmi is something donbly remarkable
in Col. P. Walsh's admiration for Col.
Marcellas E. Thornton, the leading Repub
lican editor In Oeorgia. Pat think* M*r
cello* Is very nearly “right this year.’
This will be more agreeable to Marcella*
than to the Democratic voter* of the eighth
Congressional district.
Iris sold the colonels of the eighth district
have drawn lots for the wardrobe of Little
Aleck, and that hi* Coagreealoaal mantle has
'am-d drawn by CoL Walsh. That explains.
—Avails# Herald.
Fee, that explains. Bnt it doesn't yet
npl ear that the Democrats of tha eighth
district will ratify tha programme of tha
new coalition eon*piratore.
Ta# ChrenleU has simply stepped to the front
where the brass band Is in plan the TxLBuxAnt
prefers tb* tardy tones of the hurdy-gurdy.—
Auguste ChrenieU.
We can scarcely ba blamed for it, how-
ever, when it is remembered that in the
bras* band Thornton plays th> kettle drum,
Orady the cymbals, Howell the bass drum
and Eatill tha combination horn.
“J. R. R/* seems to think that thTSpl
vosed fact that the Democrats In Wash-
ington City desire that Mr. Stephens
should be governor of Oeorgia, ought to
put an end to all opposition to him. When
a Georgia editor gets to Washington City,
and gets loaded down with terrapin itew,
he is apt to go daft The Georgia govern
or- dp will not be settled, th e year, by the
ban. iclce that haag around Mr. Stephens
n Washington.
The Augusts Chronicle declares that
‘ then* is no teas" between it and the Tux-
nouAi it axd Mmsraon. Mr. Stephens and
Mr. Speer mutually indorse each other
The ('Km licit Indorses the former and, of
urre mart at least indirectly indorse the
tter. The Tsunsaru axd Md*
indoi-M- neither of these gentlemen. There
seem- to be a;mething of an issue in
t *tr.la QMqit will turn toyoter-
ly'aUimTu-BOKArn, tbty will tw.bl.to
rluU an Important relation threw, |
art to the politics of the lutt.-AU.srs
Vw, tl, y will jet «n «uet 14m of the r.-
that the Constitution bear, to Oeor.
a politic*. Io the lanrit.-o of ttw Cow.
m, “the portion of :h. Touoaara
u Ho.ihii i. oieoatllnjly nnwron,.'
A Wont Willi » Ulacouaolwto Content
poiwrj.
Th« MtaetMd Atlanta Constitution la
disconsolate at the position It hai pleated
this Journal to utume In tha cwnru. pre
liminary to the State nominating eonren.
lion. It low. Its patience that we cwunol
Join it In an attempt to nominal Ur.
Stephen. In adranre of any action upon
the part of the rank and file of the party,
and utterly refute, to be comforted In
that wo bare no candidate to preaeut.
tiaa warned ua that the “llmo la abort,"
that‘Che area are lit on the mountain
topa," and that “Ibe dint gather in the
ralley.” It lit. told ua that "eTerjr wall
regulated tiewapaper mutt hare a candi
date,” and hat exhorted ua that
If we do not hearken to the Tolce ol grace
end unbind our atlffucss of neck that tbo
gatea of political paradlae will be cloaetl
egainatua and that our chance In the
plauof aalTitiou will turely draw a
blank. We do not qneatlon theaincere
concern of our cateemed contemporary
forouruuregeneratecondition. Wecan l>e-
lieve that It "nightly abedt team orer the
wanderer*. way” and offer,
prayer, for Interposition A hit
behalf. We am neither flSbind*
ful or ungrateful for lit deep coneefn.
But In thla Juncture we d em It but wlae,
proper and Juat that tha Democratic par
ty of Georgia aelect Its own standard
bearer. We deem It our hlgheat duty to
help to elect e candidate and not to make
one.
Looking around and about the State
our eye felle on mauy worthy of the con-
ffdeuce and leadership of a party In wkoae
success »re concentrated the kopea not
only ofthemeniftbis day and generation,
but of those who are to come after them.
Joining our esteemed contemporary to the
full In the conalcllou and expression that
tba party at no period of ita history was
ever more united, we cen ice no reason
why, animated by e spirit of harmooy, it
may not make a selection Irom the long
Hat of those who hare given proof* of
capacity, intelligence and fealty.
Georglals prolific of men at to be candi
date! for governor; men true jnd tried,
and trained In Democratic methrfa by the
party conflicts of the pest. There are the
two Jeckaona, Jatree and Uenry, Martin
J. Crewlord, Judge Ilanscll, Judge Un
derwood, Judge McCulcheon, Robert 1*.
Trippe, James Y. Smith, Nat Uammond,
rhil Cook, Gen. Lawton, Rufus E. Les
ter, Hawkins, Barrow, Carlton, Turner
of Brooks, W. E. Smith or Dougherty,
McDaniel, McIntyre, Buchanan, Hall,
Trammell, Hardeman, Bacon, Blount, Ja*.
Brown, Simmons, Boynton, Fain, Gum
ming, Welsh, Barnes, Judges Augustus
and William Reese. Here la e wealth of
gubernatorial timber. We might, did
apace permit end the Illustration demand,
add to the Hat. We have not mentioned
a name that la not in full fellowship with
the Democratic party; not one to whom
the interest* of Georgia might pot .eefely
be confided. The convention cannot ae
lect one from that Hat that shall not he
our candidate, that may not command
from July to October whatever of Influ
ence and work there may be In thla
Journal.
We have yet to aee one reason worthy
of attention or dlacuteton why the name*
we have mentioned end other* ebould be
excluded from the convention cf July, or
why, lu the language of the chief magis
trate of the Slate, the ectlsn of that con
vention may he considered "died” weeka
In advance of lie assembling. In all dun
deferenco to our esteemed contemporary,
we have yet to see the necessity of our
possessing s candidate or of being
dragoooed Into the support ,cf oue who
proclaims that lie deilree to seek the re
tirement of private life Ie hie old age.
But our esteemed contemporary fur
nishes a reason aetiifactoiy to Itself why
we ihould not support its chosen candi
date. It must,be presumed to he elncere^ln
It* choice and honest In Its advocacy.
Granting this, It should avoid our eld and
alliance. It lays:
Colonel Umar, of the Macon Tauourn,
awya ha has no candidate lor the eovcmociblp.
As Colonel Uttutr’i rapport has been uniformly
foul to then who were favored wtUl It, this Ie
rood news tor the candidates.
IVrhapi the candidates, If there be such,
will Join our esteemed contemporary in
the Jubilee over tha “good newa.” They
will to glad to know that they stand au
vveu chance with tha candldateof wur es
teemed contemporary, In that they will
not have the support of one of wboee heat
efforts are "fatal" to success.
The public la hardly interested In lb*
assertion, and the readers of tbeTcuc
OBAI-U ere perhaps ta indifferent to It u
its editor, yet it ebould not eland If it la
not true. Let ue see. We gave our lint
political support to Uencbel V. Johnson,
in two elections. We supported Governor
Brown every lime that be rao. W* cored
for Governor Smith twlce.^ Since then
we have taken no part in .gubernatorial,
election. We tupported General Gordon
in lfltW. Can It ba pouibta that wa were
the political Jonah that brought dereat
and destruction to him end the hopes of
bia people f
We gev* our support to Judge Field
for the presidency. A coalition colooal
In the western portion of the Sure baa as
sert ed that this r. as fatal to hla fortune,.
Our esteemed contemporary should have
been In e position to know if tble charge
be true. It seems to be covered by the
paragraph which w* bare quoted.
told that the “Grand Army
• a rfflarlef nothing but
iu fact fighter* from tba
rrk of Bitter cre.lt, and
Keith eays that Captain
ty .d
i-l Ca plain Twain Mey.
i Army of the Itepjb-
Pat and Ifareollns.
On tnxe than one occasion recently, In
Georgia, have the Democratic papers,
that advocate the uncouditisnal surren
der of the organized Democratic party of
tha State to the “recommended” candi
date ol tbe^oaa'iUon, Illustrated the truth
that politics sometimes makes strange
bed fellows. We have seen these papers
stultify themselves, and do violence to
their past record, In order to dragoon the
Democratic party Into the support of a
candidate, that has not a single claim
upoa that party for either political confi
dence or political support We have seen
them attempt to wrest hy violent cunning
from the possession of tba Felton com
mittee their candidate—the candidate
who wrote Felton Out he
bad “managed matters admirably,” on
the occasion whin they “recommended”
the life-long Independent u “the people's
candidate” for governor. We have teen
them denounce this paper, and asperse Its
motive*, for refusing to taka a part In bu-
millailng tha Democratic party In the
State by committing It to Un nomination
of a candidate—a worn out and IncJBdsnt
candidate, who came to it bearing the tea-
Limoni als of coalition recommendations
and Radical indorsements. This la all
hi ‘
“people*.! candidate” would drive these
humiliated papers. So far as concerns
the Chronicle and Constitutionalist, at
least, tbit supposition was a mistaken
one. It possibly laments Its put manly
opposition to Mr. Stephens, on occasions
when ho defied the party which it is now
seeking to rally to his support. It is so
earnest in Ibis matter of bringing “forth
fruits meet for repentance” that It actual
ly goer to the extreme of inaxiug a whole
sale indorsement ol the Radical proprle-
toi cf the Post-Appeal, and hold* him up
to Democrats in the State as being “near
er right tins year” than the editor-in-chief
of this paper.
This Is pecul'ar. Indeed, it Is so pe
culiar as ( to sterile those Democrats who do
not consider it the part of folly or of faith
lessness to luslat tint the candidate cf the
great Democratic party shall be free from
the contamination ot a self-gratifying
radical and independent indorsement. The
Democratic party lias demanded this in
the pSHt and if the wisdom and the man
liness of other days (x* not dead, it will
demand the same guarantees again, when
the delegates are assembled in Atlanta.
Here is the exact language of the
Chronicle, on which we are comment-
log-*
Col Marcella* Thornton i» nearer right this
year than Elltor Lxmir. Thla Is a non parti
san statement of facts.
Col. Marcellus Thornton is nearer
right this year than Editar Lamar.” Why
“this year” ra’.lier than any other year?
Why “this year” rather than lari year?
Col. Thornton is just as earnest “this
year” In his purpose to destroy the “or
ganized Democratic” party as he has ever
been, and Editor Lamar is just as earnest
as an honest, life-loug Democrat could be,
lu laying himself out in defense of that
party from the attacks of Thornton and
his allies. And yet, in all this, “Thom-
too b nearer right,” in the opinion of
the Chronicle, “than Editor Lamar.”
This is singular language to he
used by a Democratic paper. It is
more than ordinarily peculiar. The
Chronicle is surely drifting from Its m wr
ings when it expresses a sweeping prefer
ence for the opiuions of one of the bitter
est enemies of the Democratic party as
compared with the opinions'of a man who
has grown gray fighting under the Demo
cratic banner. The Chronicle does not
stop at the expression of this preference,
goes on to claim credit for
great frankness In making the
statement “This la a non-partisan
statement of fact,” says the Chronicle.
We cannot say but there la some hardi
hood involved in the statement of a pref
erence forth* opinions of Radical Thorn
ton as against those of an uncompromis
ing Democratic editor. It is a matter of
taste. Thornton will be gratified. Tha
coalition candidate will be pleased. The
New York Tribune and the Washington
Republican, the foreign newspaper strik
ers for Mr. Stephens In the Georgia guber
natorial race, will doubtless be charmed.
It is probably best that a paper which is
willing to take a candidate at outside dic
tation should be charmed with the posi
tion of Thornton who, above all others,
represents the head ard front of that dic
tation. Col. Marcellus Thornton is a
very proper periou now to receive the
sweeping Indorsement of the Chronicle.
It is in accordance with the eternal fit
ness of things. To show that this Is the
case, let os see wbat Colonel Marcellus
Thornton says:
Meantime we aro masters of the situation,
and demand that the Democratic convention
shall uomins\u Mr. Stephen* for governor.
We have got * ticket composed of good men to
put on with him for all the Ktate hc.u- office*,
and will elect them all together.
Here we have the position of Colonel
Marcelhis Thornton. It Is h 1 * position
“this year.” It is bis position to-day; and
the Chronicle save “he ia nearer right
than Editor Lamar.” He places himself
In the attitude of an inexorable Warwick
across the track of tba Democratic party,
aud says: “Meantime we are masteri of
the situation, and demand that the Demo
cratic convtution shall nominate Mr.
Stephens ft r governor.” “Editor l.amar”
does not believe that the Democratic con
vention sLould submit to such dictation.
The TkLxoiArn axd Mksskxoeh has
restated compliance with the demands of
Thornton and the Radical adnlulstration
at Lis back; and for this reason it la dt
nounced and Thornton, “the muter of
the situationis declared to ba “nearer
right than Editor Lamar.”
This is a free country, and we suppose
tha Chronicle bu a right to accedo to
Thornton's “demand,” espedslly as it con
tends that he he Is “nearer right” id mak
ing it than “Editor Lamar” is In scorning
his idiotic Insolence.
It will be noticed that the Chronicle's
favorite atnoag the Georgia editors re
marks, still further: “We have got a ticket
composed of good men to put on with him
(Mr. Stephens) for all the Stale bouse of
fices, and will elect them alt together.”
This latter statement doubtless completed
the filling of tha Chronicle's cup of Joy.
The fact that its colonel—Ua colonel by
way of actual preference, even Colonel
Marcellus Thornton—had, In his great
mind's age, completed the ticktt whose
nomination be wu to demand, along with
that cf Mr. Stephens, probably accounts
for those capers cf extreme enthusiasm
with which the Chronicle essayed to be
guile the circus-going portion of Its read
ers, a few days ago.
In thv opinion of the Telco bam axd
MeuKXor.R, and in the opinion of Us
readers, “Col. Marcellus Thornton is” not
“nearer right this year than editor La
mar.” In 1U oplnlou, and In the opinion of
the anti-ring, antI-Ikms Democrats of this
Stste, Thornton is not a safe leader, aud
his opinions aro not near enough right to
command their respect, much lees their
admiration, eveu when be cornea with 4
tbe wholesale i odor* went of the Chron
icle and Conetilultonallet. The Demo
cratic party rf Georgia has not beea in
tbe habit of placing iu nomination, for
any office within ’ Ita gilt, men whose
party record* are not above suspicion,
it will hardly do aa now, simply because
Col. Marcellus Thornton demands it—
backed by a late Uourbon Democratic
P«P«r.
Axd now come* Unc'.s Remos’aod pro
tends that when he said there was “aeon
•iderabte chank of has let far the Stephans
movement,” ha h*l reference to “the in-
wavds of a txcf” instead of those of bog.
II we had reflected wn should kero known
this t tha old man's indignation at tbe
“comer in boll-beef,” ought to have shown
ns IU bant of hla outraged metaphor.
A Treacherooe Memory.
! and retain tbe thousand and one minutirc
We have heretofore taken occasion to and details that must day by day force
present to our readers aud the Democrats themselves upon the attention and action
tbo furthest point
oppose this
g» at Emory Speer, the
new coalition organa ought to romei
that Mr. Stephens says? “There la no is
sue between me end Mr. Speer.” If I
be no fseee U«mu Mr. Stephens and Mr.
Speer, how can there be any tesne bet
the sew eoa'i ion organ i and tha I
gentleman? Bpeek oat, young men; dmt
be baaHfnL
of Georgia g neraliy the reasons why, in
our Judgment, Mr. Stepheus should not
tecelve the nomination for governor from
tbe representatives of tbe Democratic par
ty, to be assembled In convention In At
lanta in July next.
One of tbe main objections discussed on
tbe occasion alluded to was the physical
Inability of Mr. Stephens to discharge tbe
duties ot tbe office, a disability brought an
by bodily sWmenti and the burden of
years. The first may, in some Instances,
be palliated or removed; tbe latter grows
heavier as years decline.
We have now to register an ob)ectlon
quite as weighty, if not a great deal more
serious. Mr. Stepheus has given evidence
of a mental condition which unfits him
for the pocltiou. Notwithstanding all of
the wonders of lu achievements, the
praisrs that have been sung of It, and its
subtle power, human memory is at best,
even in one of sound body, treacherous
and unreliable. It is frail and uncertain,
and iu all contests with recorded facte has
been compelled to give way. Mr. Ste
phens has prided himself on his memory.
Hit Bosnelis, of whom no man has had
more in numbers and abject devotion,
have paraded its powers to the public.
And yet it does not seem to have surpass
ed that of a score of men who have passed
their lives in public, and have acquired a
happy knack of re-calling uames and
faces. In this respect, his memory seems
unimpaired. We say seems, it is unim
paired iu obedience to a rule.
Tbe most maiked sign of decay of men
tal powers in old persons, is the incapaci
ty to fix in their minds the occurrences of
yesterday, whilst the impressions of many
years back are bright and frislu The old
man walks vacantly amid tbe exciting
scenes of to-day to wander back and live
over for a time in quiet enjoyment tbe
happy hours of hla childhood.
Mr. Stephens appears to have reached
this condition. It is not strange. It
would be strange if he were made supe
rior *o the days which must come when
the grasshopper la a burden. And for tbe
reason that he lias reached this condition,
Mr. Stepheus Is no longer fitted for the
duties cf public life aud the labor* and
details of an administrative office,
To the proof In point. On the 15ih
day of May, when tbe coalUtoulsta were
to assemble In Atlanta, Emory Speer tel
egraphed from Washington City to Dr.
Felton:
WASH1XGTOX. Mar r*. 1*82.— To Hon. IF. //.
Felton, Atlente t 1 hope the committee of In
dependent Democrats who meet to-day will
recommend Mr. Stephens as the people*)
didate for governor. 1 know poeUively he will
not reject such recommendation, and that if
elected he will be the governor of all the people
without regard to party. He will be controlled
by no rlnfr. Exonv Braan.
Speer bad previously prepared tba way
for this dispatch by another of the follow
ing tenor
Wasuixqtox, D. C., May 14.1882.—flon W.
It. Felton, Cartsrsville, Oat Have scut you an
Important telegram to Markham House. It
was submitted to Mr Stephens.
Emory Si-eeb.
These dispatches attracted marked at
tention in Georgia, as they were certainly
calculated to do, and were tbe subject of
wide comment.
On the 27th of May the Washington
correspondent of tbe Atlanta Constitution
writes:
To-night 1 asked Mr. Stephens if he had ever
authorized Mr. Speer to send such a telegram.
He replied promptly and with emphasis:
•*I never did."
“Did he rend it to you, as the dispatch to Dr.
Felton declares, before he sent itf
did I have completely forgotten it
Mr. 8[*cer came here and talked to me as 1 lay
in bed from my sprained ankle. He said
something ai»out sending a telegram to the In
dependents In Atlanta. I said to him distinct
ly: ’Send what yon please; you speak for
yourself; you send nothing by my authority.'
This waa all X knew of it until I aaw hta tele
gram in the papers. While there was nothing
in It, I must say It was sent entirely without
authority from me, and if I ever mw It, as Mr.
Bpeer says, 1 have completely forgotten it."
On yesterday Speer furnished tfce Asso
ciated Press with this statement:
! called on Mr. Stephens at his room Sun
day morning, the 14th Instant. I had learned
that morning that a committee of Independent
Democrats was to meet In Atlanta next day.
told Mr. Stephens that I would tele
graph them to recommend him as the people'i
candidate for governor. His secretary furnished
me some telegraph blanks and 1 wrote the tele
gram In his room, rend It to him, aud at hla
n altered It In two particulars. I hare
the original draft The telegram recited:
know positively he will not reject such recom
mendation, and that, if elected, he will be the
governor o( all the people without regard to
party.' The telegram was true every word of
Mr. Stephens adds the following:
“The above Is substantially tree. What Mr.
Bpeer telegraphed Dr. Felton was strictly true,
though not by authority from me. There Is no
Me between me and Mr. Sneer.
“ALXXAVDCK II. iTarUKXS.'
A plainer, more palpable or painfui
giving away of memory we cannot recall.
It Is doubtfril if one exists.
On the 14th Speer charges that he
called on Mr. Stephesm in his room, told
him that ho wocid telegraph the coalition
ists, received blanks from the clerk of
Mr. Stephens, wrote tba telegram, read It
to Mr. Stephens and altered U In two par-
tleulr-n at his suggestion. These facte
Mr. Stephens admits to be true.
On the 27th Mr. Stephens told the cor
respondent ot the Constitution if Speer
had ever read to liku such a dispatch be
hail “completely forgotten IL” In the in
terval on the 16th, Mr. Stepbeua bad
written a letter referring to tbe sutyxt
matter contained Hi that dispatch to Dr.
Fettou, iu which be uses the following
language:
"Allow ms to thank yeu for It (Felton's letter)
•ad to aay that 1 thiak you managed mat
ters at Atlanta lari Monday admirably, look
Ing, m | conceived, to the beat Interest* of tbe
Me."
We a re not dlacusakig the question at
to tbe evident understanding between Dr.
Felton, Speer and tbe coalUioniste sad
Mr. Stephens. We have nothing to do
with some other dispatch which was sent
from Atlanta to the West, nor Is this ques
tion at all complicated wKb what Mr.
Stepbeua may or may not ham authorized
Speer to do.
We aro looking solely to the weakness
of memory developed by Mr. Stephens.
On the 14th iust. Speer read hiu a tele
gram and altered It at his suggestion in
two particulars.
On the 18th M r. Stephens wrote to Dr.
Felton, to whom tbe dispatch was sent.
In relation to the vary action mentlooed
In the dispatch.
On tba 27th Mr. Stephens has “com
pletely forgotten” that the dispatch was
read to him and that be suggested aUera-
lions In it.
cf the governor uf Georgia.
It ia no fault of Mr. Stephens that the
burden of years has brought him this in
firmity. Ue cannot stay tbe ravages of
disease or the remorseless assaults of time.
If after this exhibition a Democratic con
vention should force upon biro labors,
duties and responsibilities to which be is
unequal, no blame for fail are could at
tach to him.
Ue hae said that bis physical and men
tal condition demand that he shall retire
to private life.
A» if couspiring to en'orce lilt state
ments, a chain of facte have wovea them
selves together to prove the correctness of
his position. Ue cannot bear in memory
for a few days the simple Incidents of oue
of the most important events in! !t career.
Why ilw*n a» mild a fsrtion In a great parly
put itself to woik to force him iuto a po
sition for which he is eminently unfitted?
C hroNlela Bluster.
The Macon Telegram! seems to regret that
this year, in Georgia, the people are more “rig-
i" than the rest of the bosses.—Chronicle
and Constitutionalist.
The above paragraph is a sample of the
absurd commentaries of ti e new coalition
organs on tbe position of the Tei.bgra pu
axd Messenger. The people of Geor
gia—tho Democrats of Georgia, ought to
bo more vigorous than the bosses of the
uew coalition, and wo earnestly hope that
they will stow the ins* We* to be so, when
the July convention meets, by defea'.ing
for tbe nomination tbe candidate of the
Post-Appeal aud the Chronicle. It ia
absurd for Thornton’s Augusta backer
to pretend that there has been
any great pcpular demand that Mr.
Stephens t-lrai I be the next governor of
Georgia. His name was suggested by the
old coalition, tilth which he flirted until
sundry officious Democrats determined to
supplant the old coalition in bis affections
by tendering him tbe support of a new
coalition, formed out or such elements of
tbe old one as would stick, aud such
Democrats as, through fear, favor or self-
interest, could be inveigled Into the move
ment. To say that Hero has been any in
dication of a purpose on the part of the
Democratic maues to tako Mr. Stephens
out of au office which be is confessedly too
feeble to fill, to place him in another office
for whose duties he is more unfitted than
for thoso of the Congressional office, is
to be guilty of making political history,
and very absurd political history at that.
Tbe Democratic masaci have not been
represented by any of tbe intercessory
squads of barnacles, bummers, dead-beats
and rlngstera who have, fr-jm first to
last, besaiged Mr. StepLena to allow lire
use of his name before tbe Democratic
convention, under tbe false plea that he
alone could thus heal imaginary divis
ions In tho party. lu what Demo
cratic community In tho State have
the people tpoken out, to call him to the
leadership of the Democratic part)? Will
tho Chronicle avouch the Democratic ori
gin of the letters and petitions which Mr*
Stephens claims to have received, urging
him to become a candidate for governci?
It was Col. Tborntoc who the Chronicle
claims Is “nearer right tips year than Edi
tor Lamar,” that sent forth into tbe State
tbe suggestion that letters should be writ
ten and petitions should be sent to Mr.
Stephens, to Induce him to stand for the
gubernatorial office. Does the Chronicle
suppose that Tbointou used Democratic
agents to carry out his purpose? U proba
bly knows that the rank and file of tlx*
Democratic party in this State does not
share in IU Intenso admiration for tho
wisdom of the Radical editor of the Post
Apptnl. Where, then, does the Chronicle
get Its evidence that the chance of pur<
pose on the part of Mr. Stephens waa
brought about by Democratic influence, or
that any suggestion whatever hat
come from them—looking to hit elevation
to tbe leadership? If the Chronicle has
any evidence looking in that direction, it
would not be amiss to publish it; if it has
not, then it should cease trying to create
the Impression that, in fighting their
whole miserable, cowardly, self seeking
basinets, the Tblkuraimi axd Mebsex
ger Is trying to thwart the will of the
Democratic masses. Let tbe Chron
icle furnish the evidence that Geor
gia Democrats are forgetful enough, fool
ish enough, to go into tbs coalition
camp, to get a late Independent for their
leader. The bluster and bravado of the
paragraph under review furnishes no ar
gument to sustain the Chronicle's posi
tion. It has the regulation strength of
tbe arguments advanced by tbe new coall
tion organs, but it ia too weak to stand
alone;
The Atlanta Constitution Invites us to
business. Wa accept tbe invitation, and
get to work. But at the risk of exciting
tbe concern of our esteemed contempora
ry at wLat it la pleased to term our waste
of space, we must be Indulged in a pre
lim'oary paragraph or so.
We have already tkken occasion to set
forth in full tbe objections which wa hold
to tbe candidacy of Mr. Stephens. Tbe
Augusta Chronicle and Constitutionalist
reproduced litem at length, and did not
attoaipt to answer them. Tbe Consftta-
tion attempted to answer them but failed,
and elao failed to state our positions cor
rectly and intelligently. To oblige
estaxned contemporary, we uto IU
proatiou and return again. We
to recapitulate tbe mata objections again,
bjt this must do for once and ail.
The dailr demands upon us render
impossible for ua to do this same wx
evetyday, ana still do justice te our
readers.
When tbe managing editor of the Von
slrtvtlon comes home we must not be ex
pected to work over next week the wusl*
nest of this. Oar ejections to tbe Domi
nation of Mr. Stepheus are that ha is
physically Impotent. Thu proposition
does not require diecuatlon. That bis
memory is ia such a condition as to ven
der him mentally incompetent. We have
disrtuaed this proposition at length In
nectloo with the Speer dispatch, the Fel
ton letter aud tbe surrounding circum
stances, and it cannot have failed to arrest
the attention of tbe ConstUutlon.
liia candidacy is based on a false as
sumption, viz: that there are dangerous di
visions in tbe party which be and be alone
can heal. We have the assurance of the
Couslliulion that the party waa never
more united and harmonious.
lie offers no hostage for bia administra-
tratfon, not even tbe pledge of tbe two
coming years, for bia health te so prerari-
out and hi- age so advanced that be bolds
candidacy corues Id q^stSjoable shape,! Constitution. Now, we have a lilllo bit
under circumstances unlooked for, at a ' of our own. The Constitution closet tbe
article to which we have beeu addressing
ourselves with the following paragraph:
Personal assaults on men who are candidate#
for nomination based on nothing but private
grievances Injure the party, and occasion strife
when there la uo need for It.
Taken as an axiom of moral philosophy
■ as a campaign motto, it is equally en
titled to our respect. But lu its precise
connection, with no other meaning than
these, it Is out of place.
The Constitution has, in its present po
sition, tbe active sympathy of a party
which is given to “formulating” its ex
pressions. Ia the discharge of Journalis
tic duties, It hu become our misfortune,
perhaps, to widely differ from an ericctoed
contemporary. Our positions have been
taken openly, and have beeu backed by a.l
of the resourcev at our command. As a
member of a party we have endeavored
to contribute our aid towards a wise and
harmonious result. We should be pleased
to learn from the Constitution if it pro
poses to make a personal application of
tho language of the paragraph we have
quoted.
time unexpected. As the dtectualon of
this point involves the challenge of tbe
Constitution aud the very pith and germ
of iu article, we quote it as follows:
get down to business. Colonel Lamar
charges that the Democrats who support Mr.
Btephcua have made a ‘ newcoalIUon"-that
there ta Juggling about the movement, and
that It will split Uie party If It Is persisted in.
Now, let him ■ peclfy on thise points. We ask
him to say in terms precisely what ho meane.
Where ia the Juggling—wiio aro the Jugglers—
what are they Juggling with and what are they
Juggling about?
We also quote the Constitution further
from iu issue of May 20th. It sayi:
There is a great conspiracy coming to head
lu the Democratic ranks, ami the object of the
conspiracy la to nominate Mr. Stephens. We
do not mind saying that we are taking a liand
in tills conspiracy ourselves.
The “coalition” which lately fretted
and vexed the soul of the Constitution is
in harmony with it as to the nomination
of Mr. Stephens. Speer has proclaimed
that Mr. Stephens is fits candidate. Par
son Fel'.ou, Colonel Thornton ct al^have
recommended and indorsed him as theirs.
It has been repeatedly charged and never
denied, that Gov. Colquitt, at a time
when the Consl'J-tton wu amusing the
people with tho suggestions of
the names of Blount, Baicou, Craw fore,
Jackson, aud even Spetr, as gubernatorial
candidates was visiting Washington and
holding conferences with Mr. Stephens
upon the subject of tbo governorship. It
is stated that ha has beeu there again re
cently and upoti the same errand. It Is a
well known aud accepted fart that Mr.
Willingham of the Cartersvilie Free Press
Is the close confidential and trusted friend
cf Mr. Stephens. We quote as follows
from his Journal of the 1st iust.:
He was under intense suffering on Sunday,
the 21st ult., when, as we understand, Senator
Brown, Governor Colquitt and ex-Governor
Bullotk were in hla room the a*o>t ol the day,
time he should not have been disturbed In
hla physical agony. His letter of tho 22d, In
which there were a few words too many, was
written the next day. That letter wa* not the
outcome of Mr. Stephens' cool nnd deliberate
Judgment, In our humble opinion. Even In
bis physical agony he did not forget to ur
that "the recommendation of my (his) name
to be voted for as governor hy the peoplo of
Georgia, by the highly respectable men recent
ly assembled at Atlanta, and whose good opin
ions and confidence I appreciate in no small
degree." Tho Independents had placed Mr.
Stephens, by their indorsement, in a position
where the so-called “organised" had to nomi
nate him or suffer defeat. This they knew,
and tb' tricksters, seeing this, have adroitly se t
to appropriate Mr. Stephens' promi
nence as a candidate for governor to them
selves. Mr. Stephens would prove untrue to hla
written declarations were he to attempt to
ignore the independent element that has been
the prime factor In presenting him asacandl
date for governor—In forcing the "organized"
to consent to hls nomination for that office on
the loth proximo.
And again:
Mr. Stephana is a thorough Invalid, perfectly
helpless now hy reason of a lame foot, has to
be lifted from hls bed like an infant, aud these
wily tricksters took advantage of hls feeble
ditlon to work trouble in hls feeble mind.
Shame 1
Colonel Thornton for months pari has
kept standing au announcerosnt that Mr.
Stephens would run for governor, and has
repeatedly declared that lie was author
ized to make Lite announcement. His
authority baa never been questioned or
denied. In tbe Post-Appeal of the 1st
Inst, heaayi
The time has come when we ran speal out
and tell all there Is in it since Ui* Bourbons
have agreed to nominate Mr. Stephens, and wo
can now force them Into a compliance. The
Democratic convention has either got to nomi
nate Mr Stephens or *nffer inevitable defeat.
If they now uomliiate any other man that will
be the result. • • • • Until the Democratic
convention slaughters Mr. Stephens, or In hls
letter accepUng the Democratic nomination he
repudiates hla friends by proclaiming strongly
against them, the Past-Appeal will have to per
mit hie name to remain at Ita masthead.
In the Columbus Enquirer-Bun, of tbe
1st inat., a Journal published at the home
of Judge Martin J. Crawford, au intimate
frlenii ol Mr. Stephens, we find Judge
Crawford quoted as follows:
He fnlly believes that Mr. Stephens sincerely
dea'red to retire at the end of hta present term
to private life, and that hi* new relations to
the party are the result of a conviction
mind that the use of hls namo as a candidate
for govcmoNwould harmonize the conflict be
tween the organized and Independent Demo
crata of the State, hcncu hi- consent to its use.
Mr. Stepheus himself, after the last
meeting ol the coalitioulsts, wrote to Par
son Felton List bo had managed that
meeting “admirably.
Let ui make a resume of this matter.
Governor ColqiliU goes to Washington to
confer with Mr. Stephen* u to tho gov
ernorship, while the Constitution was
busy getting up other candidate*. No
other Democratic pres* In the State took
part in this business at the time. Tbe
“coalitionists'' through their organa de
clared that they were In sympathy and
correspondence with him on tbe stmo sub
ject.
Senator Brown, Governor Colquitt and
Governor Bullock were wlb him just be
fore the publication of the Smith letter.
Speer announces him as bU candidate
Tbe “coalitionist*” recommend him as
theirs. Tbe Constitution, after declaring
ouo day that it had no candidate, rushes
to tbe support of Mr. Stephens. Tbe In
dependents support him. Tbe Constitu
tion supports him. Judge Crawford says
that Mr. Stephens desires to harmou.'ze
the conflict briween the independente and
the organised. And yet tha independents
proclaim that they will organize on Mr.
Stephens, and fight the Democracy for
every other office.
We took occasion yesterday to mention
the names of many distinguished
Georgians fit to be made governor. Men
to whom the party is indebted for great
and signal services, and anj one of whom
we would most cheerfully support. U is
safe to say that not one of these men
conid go before a Democratic convention
and ask it* support hampered, as Mr.
Stephens Is, by tbe conditions to which
we have alluded. That there would be
Jealousies and ambitions as Utwevn
themselves it is useless to deny, but these
would not he complicated by any coali
tion support and sympathy, and au the
road to harmonious action would be easier
and plainer.
We have had an active connection wub
Georgia polities since 16&G, and we can
•ay in all seriousness to the Constitution
that in all ol this time re have seen no
candidate in a position so calculated to
embarrass, dUlrae'. and divide tbe party
as Mr. Stephens at this present writing.
He comes with tbe assertion that he is a
Bourbon Democrat, and yet with a fol
lowing who denounce Bourbon Democrat*
and have struck bauds with the enemy to
destroy them.
Any candidate the Democracy may ae-
comct, then tbe memory of Mr. Stephens are met by two open sod utdUgulacd ro-
la la sock condition that It cannot gratp' volts upon his part against tbe party, lira
Wifely Devotion.
If from the memories of those who at
tended the celebrated Beecher trial, there
shall fade the face of tbe patient and good-
natured JuJge, the dark and dirty little
court room, tbe pudgy Jurora,tearful Tom
my Sbermau, the curious and variegated
crowd of listeuers, and the bold, bad aud
lascivious face of Beecher, as it blanched
snd blushed alternately, as Judge Fuller
ton dammed his gush and turned him
wroog side outwards, there was one face
so deeply dsguerreotyped as to defy the
wear of time,
No one who looked but for once upon
those worn Hid stolid features, from
which the light bad gone cut forever)
whose lineaments were ss grimly
marked as thoso of the central figure In
the great painting of the “C<-urt of Death,"
cau ever forget Mrs. Beecher. Day by
day, hour by hour, there she sat, looking
neither to tbe right or to tbe left, neither
up nor down, seeking no light of sympa
thy from other eyes,cold aud severe, illus
trating the mockery of wit in her sorely-
pressed husband, when he sought relief
from the merciless torture of a cross
examluation In au allusion to a “sllce-of
tbe oay of judgment.”
While wonder and contempt struggled
for lira mastery as one watched Beecher
dodging with tbe dexterity ot an athlete
the deadly thrusts ot the prosecutor, or
displaying all of the skill of an accom
plished actor in describing his emotions
while ou the “ragged edge,” or wlien he
“wished that he were dead” attar he had
vainly sought “the true Inwardness of
things” admiration went out to the sad
and neglected wife, who still stood true to
her vows in tbe day of trial and trouble.
Many days have passed since then. The
public Las not lusled itself about the wife.
Beecher himself has been iu a constant
straggle to keep at tbe front. Alternate
ly in the Ic cure room aud tbe pu'pit, he
still po%r» and spouts his bits of blaspbe
toy, hls platitudes and bis ribald wit, but
Jt is the clown with a dead heart, Harle
quin who will but lay bis cpangles aside
to seek the misery of silence and
concealment. Tbe great preacher
U not dumb, but hla voice can wako no
echoes in the human heart. Ue can teach
no more to eager listeners, nor can bo
again rally partisan mobs to the polls.
Tbe riches gathered In the days of kind
fortune aro scattered and gone, and it la
more than doubtful if tho man, one* the
idol of a great public, has a stngl; sincere
friend save bia broken and gray lialrcd
wife.
But a fow days since and a stray report
er waudered in or forced himself upon hor
retirement, snd dragged her before the
public. Ue found her living in two rooms,
in the bouse of one of her sons. Her own
beautiful home and over one huudred
thousand dollar* had gone to defend her
busbaud. She talked of him lovingly,
kindly—more particularly of the days
when be was nothing worse,perhaps, thau
atubilLus, when they lived in two rooms
over a stable on three hundred dollars
year, and she sighed for tt^ose days of long
ago and declared them to be the happiest
if her life.
And site declared, too, her faith In tbe
innocence of b«? husband, and was hap
py, poor soul, in the belief that tbe men
and women of the world had signed the
verdict made up In a wife's heart before
the trial had begun. Ol his accusers, she
laid:
“X could have told them doaens of things that
they could found more plausible charges on.
Not In hta relations to women, thouf h; In that
ho was always above reproach or suspicion.
He has hail fl»non;h ad'“attoo, almost adora
tion, from women to turn any man's head; has
had fooll«h and Imprudent letters, but he has
always come acd flung them down Into my
lap. Ho it Inherently and fMentially a
man. He has never bad sufficient confidence
In himself. He always face* an aodJenca with
hesitation. Sometimes when 1 want to go and
hear him lecture ho eays, quite eerloosly t
'Don't go. Eumro; I'm going to make a muddle
of It.' I used to let that Influence me to stay at
home; but lately I find that he U just as Ukeiy
to do well when he think* he Isn't. It la some*
thing of a trial to him to go Into society-to
little party, for Inatanee. at the house of our
neighbors. HU face will flush when we go Into
a room, as if bo were a perfect novice. 1
Only thebliudnosaof love could sustain
a faith so strong, so childlike and so
Simple. And yet as she talked, tbe noises
in tbe street called to her lace a look ol
nervous apprehension as !f waiting for the
announcement of some new calamity, and
she would reicb the window to look out,
and return with a satisfied air,that her hus
band bad not been brought home on a
litter, tbe victim of some outraged husband
or escorted by the offi mrs of tba law. She
had waited and watched for him In tlie
days when crowd hung on bis bis honeyed
lips, and when Iu his nightly forays he
carried In his pockets the night keys of
more than one ot hia' parishioners.
Beecher ia broadly turned into the down
ward path of life. Appetite, lust, gen-
erou* cheer anJ luxuries have not helped
a vigorous constitution. Before msny
fMrs bU frame will have been as sbtken
as his reputation. As departs the powers
to help himself will go tbe friends who
now bang to him from policy, fear or a
c mmunity of tastes, habits and interests,
but the wife wl>o has been blind to bis
fsulU and forgiving of hU neglecf, will
still cling to him with tbe devotion of
earlier and better daya.
It will be remembered that, abort
month ago, the Angaria CkronsrU vocifer
ously advocated tha nomination of “Editor
Lamar” for Congressman at Urge Low
Ntate lutereatM finiirerns.
In the rush of conflicting opinions over
tbe gubernatorisl succession, it will not
do to losp sight of the fact that thenf aro
many other offices at stake in the coming
campaign. It will not do to forget that
the Radicals In the Slate are organized as
they never bavo b*en since tbe dsys when
Grant defiled the White House in Wash-
ton. It must be remembered that all Uie
power and corrupt influence of tbe ad- D
ministration will bo used to secure tbo
return of Emory Speer from the ninth
district, of Fgiton from the seventh, or
Farrow, perhaps, from tho first, and some
so-called Independent or Radical from
State at large. This same corrupt Influ
ence, acting through Federal office-hold
ers In the State, will be exercised lo se
cure the election of a Legislature
that will U unfavprablo to the choice of
Democratic Senator. On a square issue
between the Democrats and atl tbe com
bined elements of opposition there can bo
conouul of an overwhelming triumph
for the former. But tbe outlook Is not
favorable to tbe making of a united Dem
ocratic resistance to the schemes ot tbo
enemy. It is idle to dttiy that the entranco
of Mr. Stephdhs Into the contest for tbo
governorship vastly complicates matter*
and tends to weaken the chances of Dem
ocratic success si more prints than one.
Tbe attitude which he has heretofore
maintained towards the Independent
anti-Democratic elements in the Stato
will make hia candidacy for govennr an
element of weakness to the Democrats—
especially in tboae yortlona of the Stato
in which their Is a Targe independent aid- \
ment. In the Ninth district, for Instance,
tha mutual statement of Mr. Speer and
Mr. Stephens that “there is no issue” be
tween them will certainly prevent thoso
who favor tbe latter from making a very
vigorous campaign against the former.
Tbe same cause will weaken the cam
paign in other districts against men who
occupy Speer's attitude towards the Dem
ocrat party. This is a truth to which
the Democrgts of the S'ate ought not to
cloao their eyes.
These are some of the elements of
weakness that enter into tho Democratic
campaign iu Georgia this year. To this,
it is proper to add another source of weak
ness—that which grows out of the great
greed for office, from tbe lowest county
office to the highest station in the gift of
tbe ppople. This has been a prolific cause
of local divisions in many counties in this
State, and there is a prospect of a bountiful
harvest of dissension from this source, in
the elections that are nigh at hand.
We wish to warn our Democratic read
ers against danger at ali of these points.
If there ever wav a time In tbe history of
the State when it behooved Democrats to
remain steadfast to Democratic princi
ples, this Is the time. If there was ever
one time, more than another, when It
would be criminal to shrink from tbe as
sertion ol Democratic doctrine, without
fear, favor or affection, that time is the
preseut. And while all Democrats should
now, of all times, be prepared to give a
reason for the faith Inat is in them, and
make baste to reject even the suggestion
ol political compj^nise, not ana of them
should be so ummnily or sq unpatriotic as
to hesitate in subordinating real or
supposed personal claims to the good
of the State and of the party. Let tho
Democratic organizations In all tbo
counties of tbe State be perfected, let per
sonal ambition be placed In subordination
to the public good, let every Democrat
resolve ta do his whole duty in the com
ing struggle, and the issue will not bo
doubtful. These remarks are suggested
by the unfortunate Issues that aro thrust
upon the party by the candidacy of Mr.
Stephens, and by premonitions of strife lu
a number of counties, growing out of
mere personal considerations. Principles
in this contest are more Important than
men. The State ia greater than any of
her great men. Let Its interests over
shadow every rnan'a Individual inarlts.
A Ilnglo e'en.
GirM girl*! just think of it! A real, live,
breathing, Eogtiah nobleman has arrived
in Philadelphia—not one ofyoar nickel-
plated, two for a quarter, razor- ui-camb-
in-tbe-pocket-sam tner.rffi >rt lord, bat a to-
the-manor-bora specimen eiri, with a long
hyphenated, antiquated, romantio cogno
men. lie ia John Adrian Lonla llope, Earl
of llopetoun, the seventh of that namo,
and resides at Uopetona House Queons-
ferry, Scotland. The question now is, how
■hall we go for him. for be it known he is-
only twenty-two and lawfal prey; and then
too, there it hia oonsin, a strapping, big,
handsome fallow, doubtless an h*ir—a tiod
oat bona to be brought np in the event of
a catastrophe to the favorite. Tho l’hilo*
matheana might elect him an honorary
member, and the Adelphians might invite
him out lo their annual ozhibitioa along
with that oooaln, and a general n<sauli be
ordered all along the Uno. Tho ocurin has
the “looks,” but the Earl, who !a small
“with a ruddy, good.hmnorod Lee and
sandy complexion,” has tho title. I.ot ua
advance on the foreigner at once, and may
the best girl* win. The opportunity for a
Scotch tour and a chance t» read Seott’sH
creations where they were created is not
offered every day. Oa with tho dreams!
The Gvvtfrnflnhlp.
Under this bead tbe A 1 Santa
Jhrald, after staling that Judge
had written a letter saying that he would
not be a candidate, adds:
In conversation with adtaingnUhed citizen
of tbe State, this morning, the Ueraid waa told
that Hon. A. O. Bacon, of Bibb, haa written to
a friend, mying, in reply to the direct questlon,
tbat ho had gone too ter in tbe matter of the
governorship now to recede, and that, there
fore, benight be considered a candidate for
the Democratic nomination. He la desirous of
•erring tb* people in that capacity, and ask*
the rapport of hls friends in securing:
hta nomination at the July convention. CoL
Baton is a representative man and would make
an able governor. If be maintain* bU prevent
attitude, be will receive a most «*JlaUupport
in tbe convention. OemGartrell waa’seenby
the Herald this noon. He replied to our quae
tion in emphatic terms;
"I am an laJn*nd«it Demomffe au.1U.lo
far foTcrnor, ,r.<1 binbm aim tb. nh of
Ttbnsorj. lalrnll tonUnot so sod! tb. bat
rote is cast on the day ot 1
mean to b- elected, too.”
Etenlnp
Crawford
Wecan do Bob
ally Coneltle
. lf . pot him upon its
pUUurm. A oar*, tUt Us. t tk, ur,, („
paper i<
Mag 4.
The Independent* have
Stephens as their Candida!
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