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Bern: ttar.oe should be mad* by Eprtu, Monej Order, or Resltterrd Letter. ■ ell eo&uaanicatloaa ihould be addreMfd to i.r.BiItOK.naaMcr, fiecon. Georgia. 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! knowledge and permission, ocratic party nominal-s hi worthy of being called a Constitution i The ally that tb. ChrooieU i, u .nUw,iuti. b*. “ 1 J—n.al doa n it rail] *«w 1« tb. fact 1 ' that " "F"'* ,l ”' J- r "l "•■ti .ii I “CoL Uanllaa rboraloa U BMnr riabt! Wa '■ -*»n ami Ulia by. frail ud unciuia Maun. 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