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_THE MACON WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 22,1886.—TWELVE PAGES.
FELTON
IT v-nT BUN AGAINST TUB NOMI-
ff SEK OF TIIB CONVENTION.
. .«,TH a !.»* of Questions, Salts
H« A " 0 Mr. Oleun and Clear. Up
Tbr I.OW around. Generally-
Othrr Campaign News.
Circle. June 18.—To-day a large
era™ I |
conct, •** . for tbe occasion, to hear Dr.
>' e fJ* * ak . Little Billy Glenn vras also
F ‘ 10 nd asked a division of time with Dr.
jSr.S, most cheerfully agreed to allow
•li the
| Lis seven
the
| of him
An Old Farmer Talks. ^ ^ ^ ^ »mumir
Antioch, June If..—Dear Sir:^ I have just I which, in tho'na'mes’of g" W. Oliver,* wilt!
and a half yoars’ service
Senate, actually begged
$30,000, is a slander,
Democratic organization, “I don't want I
£SErti^. ta “ &KE
I see in the Constitntion that some of I , . |H uoulo . OI „ „ w „ vl . r „
Gordons friends want to select delegates noticed a pieco in the Atlanta Constitntion, I w won's, W. T. SuxonT T. J’ Phillips J St
again m Columbia county, claiming that “ statement that ia purporting to be wnt- Redding and T. W. Goodrnm, and hosts of
nS ” already made was not fair. from this piace. The piece in the hrst truo women wbo KaYe their husbands to the
lT8 . ror “yth county a chance to vote in I'l“<> was never written in this town, but i u8t cause for Randolph county, we hurl
&orf«nE’fJuiS* 0011 f leU<U proposed to by a noted nng politician in LaGrange who back at him M an lng £ u t0 the manho0ll
aodthey may use money wl*he« very much to take Col. Harris b and the womanhood of the State. The
and Uacon will heat him. list the Gordon P ,ttcG >n the next Congress, were it not for world has never beheld anobler spectacle of
men would not agree to primaries. You I their intimate friendship. '
see it was tiled up, and the This is my opinion of its authorship, al
money waj spent, and ‘
not afford
own county
f ? r . tbe , r illustrates the hypocrisy 1 stories. Now Colonel Jemison made u no- I traveling thousands of miles to
of their professions. One or two w ; ords in ble effort hero for the sake of right, and beR a v nltocl state Senator out of his sal-
general, and I olose. 1 was one of Major did Bacon good. In this the gentleman aryl Widows of dead heroes writing im-
Bacons supporters who, at first, would not b “» tol J » direct falsehood or the change p i ot i nR letters, begging alms of one, and
WHO IS “VIRGINIA!’’
quiet submission to poveity nnd toil a d
hardships than the maimed veterans and the
up, ana tne am. in luj opimou ones UUVU01.0.JO ...- uariismpstl.an tile lusiuieil Vctorans and the
' »P«B. and they couhl though signediiy a mamnonr village,Now widows and clAldren of the dead heroes
“• By the way. Gordon’s 10 toe l ot ^ r : The gentleman says I was 0 { t he Smih h ive presented. Beggars!
don t want primaries, which changed by Jemison’s ridicule and vulgar One-legged and one-armed soldiers
S. thiVty-flvo minutes and then ho wns I an occasion to advance h"i7'seTfish"p^Uticai I WlR with him and carried him to Bo-1 ^rnheaut hero™ « tlm^beadng b wid*ows°
fin out. When Felton rose the Uowers aims Grange, where with a liar (lawyer) and a Why. if he wns so generous with his own
Km sway and the moonshine was lost in But I did not th’n know that he had dls- banker he was promised it he supported Ba i arv , when an opportunity offers under a
L dazzling rays of the logical argu- patched an emissary to Dr. Felton to try Gordon to be allowed to represent his coun- Democratic administration to aid these
meat aad sound reasoning of foots pro- and secure his support. I did not know fy in the Legielsture. The poor fel- hcroea from the government treasury,
,nted l)V him. The Doctor occupied all then that ho had sent his Montgomery low could not withstand the temptation does he turn his back upon
,h« time slloted to him snd only regretted speech on to Atlanta ahead of himself, that ond he gradually crawls over to the little j B dg e Lester, who carries on arm-
lhat hs had not more time that he might his friends might see what sort of a esm- 'mp a side, headed by aforesaid lawyer h egg gleeTe and tbrow biB influence
tdl the people of the details. He dwelt a paign document he had prepared. I did »nd banker. Now, Mr. Editor. 1 in fftTor o{ Mr Calhoua wbo never shoul-
.hort while ou some remarks Glenn made not know then that he had been oeundidato no has a right to change—so dered a musket nor buckled on a sword.
SncemiDg him when Glenn was here ai since last faU. These things are too baa any man: bnt torG" 18 for a district attorney's place? General
veeksgo and cleared them all up und placetl significant, in tho light of recent events, to tell tho truth and do not let Colonel Gordon is a floe stump speaker a success
f.lenn in a ridiculous light before the peo- ho passed unnoticed. By the way, Mr. 1 Jemison think he has injured Georgia by a0 far ag ulettt ons are concerned, but a
”i. lie showed Gordon up to perfection Editor, I wish you would ask Dr. Felton chacgi g this little pigmy s vote. He has I failure in argumeDU; spleudid at evasion
Si the Newcomb matter, in the Huntington who it wns that went to see him to get him | promised to carry his district for Gordon, 0 nd insinuation, bnt wanting in proofs to
matter in the convict lease and convinced to support Gen. Gordon. We would like to but we will beat him two to one. You may sn staiu hia insinuations nnd assertions. Ho
the people that he was totally unfit for the know. What has Dr. Felton done since write rr ° u P lor Baoon by a large majority, was a good fighter, but the South had eight
efflee After Felton had finished his last fall that makes him such a bad man, "“less she has lost her pristine valor and hundred thousand good fighters—just as
speech Glenn took tho stand again and what has Dr. Miller and Bill Hulsey yi«ne and forgotten the examples of our good os he And we deny most emphat-
id after the old Doctor had and Albert Cox and lost and least, lteub. fathers. . ically that these valiant men or thiir pure
gone eulogized extensively on the Arnold, done recently to moke them such , 1 am bnt a plain old farmer and do not a ud nob i e .heartcd widows are common
Sid men. He know tho Doctor was good (?) Democrats? These are pertinent boast, bnt the nng in Troup cannot contro beggarg . p or gbame lbat a great military
Mipeoff on the train and would not hear questions; and pray where was Dr. Miller ll , and I pray thst Atlanta may not control commander should cast such reflections
his closing speech, hence he reserved his I “eadurin" of the war? Better methods “»* State, lilt them heavy, for their sins „p on a devoted self-sacrificing people,
iii he was behind the Doctor's back, indeed. Truth, i no nnia them 1
He soon spun out again. He lasted only
fortv minutes. Glenn said in his speech
nt the reason his entire speech was
GARRARD VERSUS GUERRY.
directed to Felton was because there was History of the Railroad Commission BUI—
polking else to which he could direct it; How the Railroad Committee
that he ha 1 nothing to say against Major! Voted ou Its l’liMIIKO.
15 icon. This was a victory for Bacon, ike I coiumbos Enquirer-Sun.
ipenkiog has been over about one hour and
Mr. lSacon*A Sptecb-Muuii and Comment*.
Taldotton, June 18.—Hon. A. O. Bacon
| Cuthbert Liberal.
Campaign Note*,
j General Gordon'* boast after Julv Gth
| will be “I’ll get left Eli."
Bacon men up in Dawson county talk
addressed the citizens of Talbot county at men up in Dawson connty talk
the opera house yesterday, on the issues of I j sending delegates to tho gubernato-
the gubernatorial campaign. About two na ‘ convention.
Mr. Guerry, in an article of some length, hundred voters were out to hear him, and I There is a strangely similar tone about
a * ...... “■ ” **" the editorials of the Atlanta Constitntion
and the Atlanta Journal.
the I “* V fcU ? *** 11U *4 1 «v.va - The issue is not Bacon vs. Gordon, but
commission bill. He appeals to the record will develop in additional nup^u, because I the peoule of tieoruia vs. Hnntinoton
Uer I t n nvArn fiiia Hi* (lml Ddmn VAAn.,1 T mill I ttiA nnAitlu rppniiniva in him on atilo ilotau. I . 1 i r\__ i. • n D <
*— r . • . . v , . I true. tO*Wlt! auk. uuciiy meu uuuuuucu I w.» iwvuui»«utwt, ■«ivH*wiaviBi*Miuiui«ti
hid made his arrangements for othor bast- I ar g amen t on the Bailroad Commission I citizens would have greeted him. Major
ntst The crowd present stood ™nr t 0 question and showod from the journal of Bacon’s support in Talbot is being daily , v - ---
onem favor of Bacon. Surely the Gordon HoUge thftt tho rai i roftd committee of augmented atd by the 17th of July will ® ral Gordon was a good military officer, but
nun will not have the audacity to say ll J I the House, as appointed by Mijor Bacon have developed to such proportions as that I J® • raann g° craft of the great Empire
fitter of their papers tlia-. thev stood e<iual ^ 8 p ea h er hud always beea in the interest the county will go for him in a fall vote,
in numbers with Bacon on this occasion, o£ tbe ra ii roa fl g 0 nd that in this way the Seated on the stage with Msjor Bacon
ran the fact that when Fe ton had closed voice of tbo bad beon fl e f eatcd <> yesterday were Hon. J. W. Robins, Col. W.
bn *p«>ch aud left for the train, which was The i Iou f e * of Repreaentativs met on L Mumford, I)r, J. H. Bryan, Mr. JL G,
then spproaching the’depot; ovei'half the Wednesday, the 6th day of November, Barker, Hon. W. H. 8earey, G. H. Estea,
«'« d 1 “ 1 L°? fed , l W “’ * nd . 0, . lha two han - 1878. On Monday, the 11th day of Novern- E»q-. John H. Ha'l, Esq., Jas. H. Worrill,
State we would choose a man Tike Hon. A
0. Bacon.”
TheAugnsta Chronicle says; "A sensible
State exchange thinks that in this age when
speculators uro constantly damaging tho
agricultural and mercantile interests of the
tdtiw him hereafter to measure arms before
he begins to battle.
“BETTER METHODS” INDEED!
I .V Fonytk Coontjr Rian Shows up Gordon's I railroad committee.
Fort, Rankin nnd myself each introduced I The cause in which Major Bacon is on-1 ! 'd n >'t that God will do His part, hut not
S l e“" onrnal r -*8 a,fttln K I i8 . R K? od one ’ “ nd . 1 ‘? »P,I'eR™ before | ^‘ ho “ n l J “„* 1 *°. rt ll
I 'js! The*© hills
Practice ami A»k< Some Pointed ouch
t Ion a—A Good Letter*
St Uitors: In view of tho appeals of
theCoMtitutioc for “better nieth ids" in the
not report favorably on all of thete I against a triumvirate und confederation of
pie of Georgia.
hills, nsVatiy of thciV provTaions werecon'. I men who have trumpled under foot I 2 Vn® .®° ut b« n >eE and Appeal
dieting, and so the hill offered by Sir. ltan- bartered the suffrage* of a free people for I *“•, ollowin E warning; I ask •
tin Cecstitntinr for “hotter n.eth dV’lntl I kin wm selected as tho one on which toon- yea", while his opponont, a part of Ihe tri- MJJUs> spacelieijrour P«P«r to urge uponMa
for “better rueth xis in the Kra(t tbe committoe ' g amendments. These umvirate, stands as the day in the hands ot J or Bac0 “ » /npporters in this county to
Ital LMta^ : -endments wore so numerous that they the potter, ready to he ahaped os doBired. a ne ?j° : I
iK,?.T,k Tent i 0 u'? i D . V i? W ot f®ot we re put in the shape of a substitute which Come, every Georgian, to the rescue, and in Ju, T’ ®J e finestionis to be decided
fin, dthongh it c aim. to be a neutral pa- the “louse, after tha vote save a nohta people! “»“8 "“jf vbether railroad.peculator,
& ".”“■5 “ j sfSuUS k oT‘.
oovntj, on tho first of this ... .uh.titnt. ... «
page
at the first
motion of
hint'll,“n“ir.,T.mtHI I Hr. Colley tho snbstitnto was withdrawn
jfehie {‘he contomptibi’e. hypocnly^f I objection on tho part of tho com-
HANCOCK
this State, or whether tho people shall com
trol it. The Slate road is the stake the
Keeps Her l'roml.e and Sends a Bacon Wall Street sharks are playing for. Hnnt-
x>.legation, ington is now conspiring against the
Spauta, Jnno 18.— Hancock went for Ba- | government for his railroads, and to
necessary
rood.
Ilwe sho make such appeals. I *** Mr'onerrv refers to the vote on nsoe I 00Q to day, after a stubborn contest. All I complete bis system it is neo
pS e “u“ U tavor fe, the *° B ^SSSm d * oi 1301 ’ Wb *“ this vote was reached it P wL the prociuct. have heap heard from exoept fo«^ him to get control of the State
"wil rJZ tat ?! found that some amendments had been ones. Bacon s majority is ninety- ShallweplAcethisproperty in the hands of
v.* v Uordon * or Governor. «iloi)te<l ami in*erte«l in tha wionc ulace § * x * The returns from the balance of the * man whom Huntiogton claimed to "own,'
custom, almost Tbi * ’ have been iutfnttonnl’ precinct* will increase hislead to a hundred and who introduced Huntington's lhicilic
railroad bill in ConcreM—a fraud of greater
magnitude than the Yazoo awindle? By
*bi*
or *
•M
•fUe-
u l55
y
true ontofrnintl *nfiAr ZT:. Thia or may not have been intentional, P reclncU increase hiilMd to a nnndrcd
»e!e?tetl for tint mMitliw nn^ ^ was —fttholw1 true that aome of p r “ ore v The intluenco of the Atlanta ring
KwtVai. 1 • meeting and toe call made I ai. e i^-* uccBon of the bill had be«*n ren- U* decreasing very ruimlly in tins county, i ***»i5u.»uho » U nu tun mtuu iwiumo r uj
® x ® cntlT ® commit- dereduosramtnatieal andulmoetnninteUiiii* w ® we llae S»® t ousiitntion many thanks our vote* we will either indorse or condemn
^ ,h ? , 1” oc ? , * of,hecounl / to “- bl^ T^nwiioM Sne.Uon hid b«n Lor our victory I such scheme* This ccunty is Urgely for
tot!n“ d *fl*f 1 ^ ■1:i«^ L iV r , g1 :; called on th« P bill before thU was discovered, Th ”> ot « Culverton Bacon 07 Gor- »“<>»• No doubt. iL But ao waa Car-
expreMion of opinion a* a d tb j { u Hou „ no don 7; Devertanx, Bacon 28, Gordon 8; roll, Doolj, Semen, Ware and other coun
■JMjffKlSSSir t«rtb“.etion could b* taken to co^ect C^rs. Bacon 21. Gordon 1. A , h .‘” “?!
“8 (oil sod free
v ft “‘ r Choice, -..UU..V »UJ coususiou or
li moaeyTo buy votes "or oiitaM^inlwico I **“ bil1 wilboat unanimous consent Mr. |
l 'coiitrol tL J.ii,?^V £ Guerry will see on tbe same page to which
I iZ meeting. The | hu 13G1> that Mr Rail «ked unani
mous consent to correct the grammatical I
abortion, however, in the shape of a
UdMcrstio mass-meeting, changed the ens-
Bn entirely. As to tbe methods used, I nhl-eted to
SEN?.'•*•**«?.uuvsmishedfacts. °^K‘ 0 ;
Gordon delegates. Let ns not be caught
napping by Henry Grady's campsjgn club,
o„,„ ..wu. ..w.. | fiStyfc
l£zi2?S ““peo p~«»i
I home and gave the county away.
Gordon spSke in Cummiog on the , “ me ER Mr ' “‘"isonssxed nnan-
1 r AsaiS ss'ssar ssswfwr- of sucon conn,T>
I and assert hia preference. Tbe danger
I moat to be feared by the Bacon men in this
connty is over-confidence in their numerical
strength. This naturally tends to create
indifference to inch an extant as to keep
tah,*. m *n who went to Camming b thefight the oonnties of Greene, SumtorUxpected to attend. In several counties
S* treneral Gordon. After tho sneaking H. on “ ow .* J* 18 r8, ' r8 * , and Putnam would have been placed on the carriages and other vehicles have been hired
I J- 1 ' certain man offered the one towbom ‘I 18 8,8 ?f . on I? 18 B » ilr0 ‘d Commis- riKbt a j de 0 f t be campaign column. There for the pnt|iose of getting them oat, and
a h «h.Wa« ‘ b8 is no connty in thU.ecUon where victorythehill'ofe^n^ h. dimoSid to he “nt
•Pto to th„Tv 0 *“" ,a q0,dC "' “« ^1. i™ oTui JllS I !K ^ I '* ‘h? 1 ‘“ tatr81 ' P«Py^jj 8 Atlanta^
W h. ich . rrtu bw, Sf if* ta *° confidence which organization brings
-.... »..ii 1 Let it be remembered that MacoiTcounty I
I Utasy Wui (reel. R**™ 8 *** ot * d ' I unlike the bill which passed the Hons* on
Ifor uJni,,!,, in hlnnK . c ?uvey. 13(a tbat my {rfend 1Unk i n did not | j'"dZilZZV*hidtoI ?“• A "RustaChronicle says; “The hnr-
voters'nto town “ bnn 8' u B I rcoognixe it when it came back from the SouthwesUieoiEia, ami with twoLocpUona ^ '*JUL“1K!?} a
stitntion, for payment."
The Angnsta Chronicle says: “Tbe hnr-
. _ , . .... ■ Southwest Georgia, and with two exotptiona I IgT jt “Z g “ ,.nMvlta* kni li
fro '“ «?» bb c °uuty— votoon^thuSXstV. "“ not ^ 88 ^‘»» 8 <uS£ Htato
^1 'speaker mT r®*’ 1° ?. an ? 8y committee stood. Mr. Oaetry wUl find tho „? 0 ^ d ^“FnltoS l" it^toJe^mto^l “ ?“ b?? n unparalleled in Ita concepUon
tibE gl Vo'* ou pages l'-HW and l'dld of tho journal tba ?LMdsl efforts h.ulllc en m^tocl^ “‘‘^““nuance. Them are some features
^’h D^son snd Foiyth Xnto ° f 1S 7 S *? d ,, im , T , h ® the c” P nty for General Gordon »nd^th.^S Kd ‘cS^ inv^
paarasatf^-*^ 1 *- ••
h'c'-ave a n r“m^ D L;?iW i “«A°I wi’de^. This account.
YTlio Was the Itepresontatlve?
Editor TzLxoaArn; Tho only commu
nication which has appeared in Gen. Gor
don's newspaper organ, which attempts to
defend “his connection with Huntington,”
signed “Virginia,” and you attribute it to
former committee clerk of Gen. Gordon,
who was pqjd $2,200 a year to do tho Gen
eral's writing. I think yon must ho mista
ken, for your corrmtioudeut was acuuuiut-
' wiih the committee clerk long before he
drew that shlaiy, ai d was also an occasion
al correspondent. Inferring to eu old lot-
r, which I send you to hu sare yon get
tbe extract correctly printed, I find some
thing about Huntingdon, and it is hardly
possible "Virginia” can be tho same
person. I delight in defending innocent
persons, for I had made inquiries on this
particular matter of that person, and yon
will please note the reply:
“Got. 8, 1878 —In reply to your questions
to Huntington's agents at Wuuniugtou,
1 con hardly answer, us he has so many, or
: least so many have been puiatud out to
me as his jmid dtlradort of tbe Texas Pa
cific and of all who advocate the breaking
up of his immenRO Central Pacifio mo
nopoly. You would he surprised were I to
tell you who will bo his chief representative
at Washington next winter among South
ern men. Yon can guees, hut 1 will not
tell When you know yon will say 'What
fail was there,' eta
I shall not discass this matter further,
for tbe reason I cannot suppose a $2200
chrkship could thus alter his opinion.
"Virginia” must be somebody else.
Mr. Alfriend was then a great friend
of Senator Hill. No doabt of that.
It would not be impossible that “Virginia'
was written nearer the Constitution otfioe,
as I think I can furnish yon a slat* ment of
a reliable man tbat such things have been
done in times post.
I made further inquiries at the same timo
of other parties, and 1 will give yon another
extract and send the letter, that you may
print correctly. "You utk whether is
connected with Huntington & Co, Hunt
ington, yon know, is Jay Uoala's first man.
A man by the name of is theirjresident
lobbyist in Washington. He always resides
at Wormley's. Huntington is an often vis
itor here in Congress time; Jay Gould him
self is an occasional one. When one nr all
of them are here they appear daily in the
lobby in tbe rear of the Senate. is
said to be intimate with the lot. To what
extent this intimacy goes 1 cannot tell. To
see the head luon of su exten
sive railroad ioterest, who keep lob
byists in their employ from year to year
in familiar and. friendly intimacy, especially
when there c.\'. he no seetionul or political
rympathy—giv t justification for inferences
that the intimacy is mutually beneficial
lay Gould ia the financial partner in the
ew York Tribune, wldcb be is reputed to
own bodily.) A ’fellik’ can draw a hnge
conclusion if bis head Is in a thousand feet
of being on au even keel. It cannot be fur
political sympathy and sweet counsel. It
cannot be for sectional sympathy. Drive
to saying ho is for bcolt and his
Texas Pacifio and you will see what will be
come of bis intimaoy with Huntington. It
is no secret in Washington that is
friendly to those parties. Bee what
says about the Texas Pacific—drive him to
it; October 17, 1878. “I mention no
names, as yon ptreeivo, but there is not a
shadow ot donbt that the hurrah about
Torn Hoott was a blind to cover np the Con.
tral Pacifio scheme*. Now what are the
tteta,
On tho 12th day of January, 1877, Gen.
Gordon introduced a bill in the Henato -
which bad nothing whatever to do with
Tom Scott. Scott's name was not men
tioned directly or indireotly. This bill pro-
C il to reduce tbe amount of money which
tington was expected to be compelled
to pay to the government, it the. Thurman
fnnding bill passed. Tbe Thnrman bill de
clared they must deposit between three and
four million* annually to refund to the gov
ernment the Interest, on tho $‘J1,UUU,U00
loaned to thst monopoly by the govern
ment. The Gordon hill di dared it was too
much by nearly two-thirds, ai d this Gor
don bill was tbe hill Huntington colled
“our bill," in his letter to Colton written
five daysVifterwardson the 17th of Jannary,
1877. This was tbe hill he thought he
could pass with $2UO,OUO. Do yon not sec
how cheap such a hill would be to him at
that price? Tom Scott was not thought of,
nor mentioned, nor implicated. Tom boott
did propose at one time to build a rood
through the South, which wonld no doubt
have helped all the Southern States a great
deal, bnt Ilnotington'a money paid to lob-
K ists defeated it. When “Virginia" says
intington "asked for nothing," it will be
remembered he bad already received $01 .
000,WO, and millions of acres of |Iab-
lio land. Yst John B. Gordon intro
duced a bill to prevent tho tax-pay,
era from ever getting a dollar bsck-
so far as tho bonds themselves were coot
earned; end bis bill only proposed to al
low tbe taxpayers about one-third of the
amount we pay annually on these bonds.
Oo to the Record for the facts. Senator
Wallace, from Pennsylvania, said those Pa
cific railroads hail received $'J1,U00,0W fiom
the government np to the time Goidon in
troduced hit bill, which Hnutingtou called
“his bilk" Those bonds draw l> per cent,
interact, which the people of this country
pay every year. W* also pay intoreat on the
mtereat tons devoted to this debt; and
John B.Gordon desired to increase onr har
dens and reiievs the Pacific roads of obliga
tion to tbe taxpayers. The Constitution
says General Gordon was fighting Tom
Scott, and Huntington “asked nothing.”
This statement insults the intelligence of
ita reader*, and they refused to print Dr.
Felton'a letter that proved their mistake—
perhaps a moat wilful one. Now yon will
ask, where can I find these facts in the Con
gressional Record? Get toe volumes of the
liT“T- Friday. ‘ I bil1 . two did not vote UUUUIU IL , .
I;' their farmo " Il °I am eathfiled the error, as to the>ppoinl- ^ w ° f ‘in ^niStioX^tarill'Uer^era ,a£fto1° [1‘‘V h"* '7j mnt ° n C “pp r
1,0 to vote?*?; 1 ?* nj8 J° “.“‘.J 0 1 men t of this committee and their vfew. on I jJiei that the party Toterahadaccented I m ‘ th8 -K hm8 * Ut8 . WM.PPPoing
fr^ty with whfebhte9M^,tai »I1M r8ilro8d l *8 W8,ion ' iDto .r hic , h Mr :. Gn,rr > Gen. Gordon and repudiated Major Ihlcon TrSmatomdlliolMiX^dJil
^“'“pport in Ko™„g* I Ml* unintentionri on bU p«L I and tbat th.le«o«> of Saturday was that
GORDON SEFAKS AT COLUMBUS.
Ills Reference to 8inltna« One of Hie Sup
porters Received wllb Hisses-
Genera! Gordon
afternoon. He was
delegation in car-
|< to loth®-15? Presided over by parties
iNpiL 1 * “Wlj. questionable politico
bj 80m « * b ° Mv* nfflli-
l**k ms j‘* Ind 'I^udenta. With all their
|tu ou. .k W ne 7 ,b< J were enabled to mus-
in .k ToU * OBtof l.*» Demo-1
IjKot'! c °unty, whUa Major I Coixmoa, J an* 18.—
I bfc>t e(th-l?_ ^ , punning the even reached this city Ibis aft
III d ■fill hu . *7’ koowing thst be had, met a few mih-s out by a
I^BemU!.? 1 *" 8 ® 4 majority 1 rtages, beaded by a bias* band. BM$
Itasvtn of'd?' Tot# reof tbe county, anil, dressed a Urge audience at the opera house
^ teui-i-. 1 .. m *toods of the Odd* I ta-aigbt, ana was Introdooed by Judge_ J.
^ehlS^j 08 ?*! 8 Bnd l°»t the day. t. Pan. The friend* ot Bacon claim that
kfivtioo - Q 'he meeting, like the the speech made no vote*, and that they
I the dav 7r?l un * d “perfectly nentrei" wi'l certainly cany the connty for Bacon.
hsw^J"*®* meeting, although it is | The resnlt here U in donbt, and both
? Gordon cAncna. On- of I hides are working bard.
*sftii.,.,*****tad is a man who bos' n
WLea Oordon in hi* to-night re-
f**rrel to ez-Qovernor South ** one of his
rec«iTeJ with
ton Wrd him **▼, not many I nnpporter* tho reference
to participate inilhiaee*.
sra.'scst 2: to wn
could lie so.
they declared
ss»jys«J3is,v«5 as k.'xa/ssz:
given, it
tbe rcaponsi
bnt had he
he would have simply written: ‘In order to
•o far as Macon connty was concerned it
should not be to. Finally was the lesson
which the 832 voteis ot Macon connty—or
a majority of them—made up on rending
the thousand copies ot the Constitution.
Now we wsot to commend the example
of Mscon connty to the people of IIanco« k v
Warren, Ocone©, Lincoln, mil. Hurt, Talia
ferro, Jackson, Glascock, 0^icthur]»e and
other a.
W« i>«nx It.
General Gordon's iasinnation that mi
Confederate aoldw-m and tbe widoi
dead Confederate n< ldieri were a cl->i of
mendicants and who bad, duririg
get in a position where be can abase the
Macon Tmoura, Sidney Lewis, of the
Sparta Iahiuaehte, has concluded to sup
port General Gordon. Hancock county ran
now be pnt down solid for M
con.' Only this and nothin*; m<
ar.- in i" l hurry .ha; Sidney Lew
h;ih Ucotne so exceedingly wrought upov
tbi-* m-bit-r and hope he will cool off, f.
the effects of violent eX('item»*nt upon _
j ' hrain lik«- Lin ia calculated to enforce the as-
_ aid by taxation. This bill abandons prao- *
ticallv surrenders, all tho stipulations in fa
vor of tho United States to tho railroad
companies—for tho purpose of establishing
a siuking fund to pay tho debt of thine rail
road companies. Alter this bill has p insod
not a dollar cau go int) tbe treasury of the
United States to aid us in payiug tho inter
est on those bonds—ami there is t’ao striking
feature, the salient point of this bill. If
this bill pusses nil tho money that is provi
ded for by this bill goes into tho sinking
fund to pay tho debts of those companion;
the money which is now confess* lly re
served by law to aid the government
of the United States in carrying
on the operations of the governnu nt, is
diverted trorn tho Treasury of tho Uii.tod
States to a sinking fnnd, and these applied
with interest at G per cent,compounded, ia
order to do what.' To pay the debt of the
railroad companies. Wo cannot be prepaid
to surrender a property right in $77,000,000
to-day, which has already cr uted ft burden
"II I Ilf I" "pi" "f tin se I'nitcd States of
$21,000,000, outlaid and paid, and an annual
churgo on tho Treasury of $3,500,000, with
out any stipulation, exoept a remote one to
he paid a poition of this money in 1012.
We are dealing with a powerful corporation,
whose revenues arc gr«ater than thohu of
ftny oth* r country. These railroads are able
to pay G nnd even 10 per cent on every
dollar of their obligations, according to tha
sworn statement* they have published, not
only to the government but to the people
at large. In the year 1871 the Central Pa-
ciflo’s (Huntington's) actual earnin-s were
$13,8G8, ( j52, the operating expenses
$5,401,000. The payment in coin on
taxes, bonds, etc., were $ 1.101,000. Their
net earnings weie $S,4G7,18G. Is it n li'nd-
ship to say, out of this surplus earnings
you Bhall pny a million and n half of what
wo are bouud to pay? The United States
by its creditbnilt theso roads, and now they
are in pfasesHion of a property which not
only pays the interest on their bonds, not
only pays their operating expenses, with a
fair allowance for wear und tear, but gives
four millions of dollars surplus. Yet tha
government of tbo United States is now
taxing the people $1,070,000, to pay inter
est on those very bonds, and tho very
money that built that road, Tho Cen
tral 1’uciBo is able to nay it, and ought
to pay it, and any bill that surrcn lcrs
that right so far as tho low is concerned,
ioill bt wrong and will meet icilh general con-
deinnation. Tins company is able to pay
and ought to pay the interest on its bonds,
and now when tee are called on to levy taxes,
when everybody in feeling the burden of taxa
tion and diminished income, these railroad
comjHinies ought not to call on us to continue
the payment of this interest. • • • Under
this bill we shall not have ouo
c» nt, but on the contrary, the
$1,500,000 stipulated in this bill
does not go into the treasury of tho United
States, but coe* into a sinking fund, and is
Rcmi-annaaliy compounded at G per cent.
Mr. President, it seems to me monstrous.' 1
Will Governor Smith, late of tho Kailroad
Commission, and Mnjor Wallace, at present
commissioner, read thin plain statement,
to be verified from official docnmentK, and
yet tell yonr iradars this man Gordon
wonld favor allailroad Commission?
Will the Constitntion read this statement
and say sg«in it was intended “to build
Tom Hoott a railroad," and “Huntington
asked nothing!" Now le t us soo what Hunt-
iugton thought. Now is tho timo to em
phasize his testimony: “January 17,
*877.—Friend Colton: It costs money to
fix things so I wonld know Scott's bill
wonld not pass. I believe with $2inm i <■ »
can pass, our bill." (It* member i!. r # t
detractors,' as stated by tho committee
clerk. There was no *8cott’ a in Gordon's
bill.) “March 7, 1877.—The finking fund
bill did not pass, but it is in much better
shane to pass than over before. I stayed
in Wofchington two whole days to tlx np tho
railroad committeo of the Senate,” “March
14. 1877.—After tbo HenAto railroad com
mittee was made up, Scott went
to Washington in a special train, and got
one of our men put off and one of his men
put on. Gordon, of Georgia, wns pnt off,
and Bogy of Missouri, was put on.’ April 3,
1877. “We shonld bo very careful to get a
Senator from California that will bo dis
posed to uso us fairly, and then have the
power to help us. Bsrg-nt is worth much
to us if be comes as oar friend, and ho
should be returned." May 15tb, 1877.
“I think 1 have written you about Senator
Conovt-r. He may want to borrow some
money. We are so short this summer, I
do not see how we can let him have any in
California!" (Did Gordon borrow?) May
15tb, 1877* “1 have ju§t given Senator In
galls a letter to yon. lie in a good fellow,
and can do os mnch good."
August 21»t, 1877.—“Of rouno In treat
ing wtlli Jodm understandt!n> importance
of Keeping onr relation* witfi fiim friendly.
I am told be thinks yon did not tr.-.it hliu
well in aome mtniof; or stock mutters. X
write yon to yon can move undeistnnd-
iDgly. ’ December 17lh,1877. —“Jay Gould
went to WsabinRton abont two weeks aeo.
•nd I know saw Mitchell, of Or.-i;on, s ..
which time money has been used freely in
Washington. Goald has largo amounts of
cash, und he pay* it without stint to carry
hia point*.'' October'.“.ith, 1877.—“Ithink
our Und matters in Washington have teen
filed.”
October 30th, 1877.—“The railroad com
mittee is all right, hat I do not liko that on
temtoriee A different one vas hr isal
me.” November Uto, 1877.—“I do not
think we can get any legislation tliU ». ««ion
for extension of Lind gnmta or for ahang-
ing line of road without we pay more f..r it
than it is worth.” November 30th, 1877.
“When yon find parties personally known
to .members of either Hone* get
them to write letters or to sinn
suck as art written Jor them.”
After the Thnrman'tall passed, hear Mm
howl. June 2')th, 1878-“! think in all
“• world e history never btfor > was »nch
Forty-fourth Congress, second session, and • wild net of demag gnen honor.d“bv the
took on j»ge. 589, and. you will see where, name of Congress. We have been hart
General Gordon introduced the bill, which
proposed to liquidate the bonds advanced
to toe Central Pacifio and other roads by a
•inking fond bill. Tom Scott could
not possibly have been implicated in
each u hiii, nor dots his name or toe
Texas Pacific appear at any time in the de
bate. On page 1,308, yon will see where it
was reported to the Senate for considera
tion -when General Gordon made a speech
tor it and Senator Cockrell made a speech
against iL On page 1.383, it came np again
as unfinished bUrines., und tin u John Sher
man “knocked it in tbe head," calling it
monrfrou*. Let tbe Republican* of Georgia
Baton: “It the amendment offered by the
Henator fromUeorgis(Gordon) is adopted it
defeats toe bill reported by the jndicUry
committee. The amounts involved are
so vast, the delicacy of the position is so
great, that it shoaid not he voted on unfit
after the moet thorough scrutiny and inves
tigation. The two main roads huvo had
advanced to them $86,00U,ij<sX Besides
this, there are due to the United States for
interestfrom tome railroads $21,.7t5,i0i."
Mr. Paddock “Now or ut the maturity
Ba- of tbi
We Mr
»bond.-
annual interest that ia
the l'niled States for ti
is
1 tha
lhl be to g,vi to the sa_\ I
n:k It has long beet, entitled.
no
"* lie I tig paid |, }
benefit thee.
$3,3U.7, -Vl 1. The
$11
"ion, whosooitity j and the amount paid to theae couinanie*
patient
half per cent, of thi
Interest of the public debt That is now
some, but some of the worst (7) bills have
been defeated. We cannot stand many
more Congresses." Now I will givo yon the
names of the Hi nate committee m the 1.7th
Congress, tbat yon may seo who wai ap
pointed by Huntington—and who were op-
poaed to him-who didn't take pay to abuse
toe scare-crow Tom Scott: Thu com
mittee on Match 7, 1877, were •
Mtchell chairman, Howe. Dawes, L) 0 r-
aey. Tiller, Ferry, Morton, Ransom,’ Jfng V
Barnnm and Lamar. It would have been
Guidon m place of Bogy, if Huntington
had not been outwntod by tho opposition,
which be called "Tom Scott" tor abort In
the Mth Congress, we find Weat, of I.ouis-
Una, toe chairman, Mitchell, Sargent
D*we*,with WseLipok* for it, bnt no li.-m-
oorat -ritlu the s. Mitl. Kidd a » or.| but John
B. Gordon in its behalf. Plain Talk
T\-7 r' 'i-invr \ mo ot.~of Alabama, has
‘a brilliant war record." as did »-x-Trsa**
urer Polk of Ten, The foru.erTa
fugitive lrom initios, toe latter died in a
convict scell. It requires something more
than a brilliant war recot.l to constitute s
Valuable .State officer in times of
TLe Al , , 'ha.s U r7^7~ : I7 is rumored
. .t (, .r.lou is being rnn for Governor in
the Interest of Got- K. P. Howell, £
n'L® * dark?; ll ‘" ‘‘.'“J" 10 ,iri °8 Howell
n aa A dark home and throw Gordon's fol-
lowing in hi* favor. The people have ne-
, ' * r !T lor "vU'hng cons but hone.t
an 1 cspat.le men to the .Stale eon van tins "