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AND GORDON.
cpoKK AT DUBLIN, LAU-
8 * SCOUNVY^ TUESDAY.
larrl ,<1_Ile Wauts No One to
... H»n- Ul * t -' om,, ' ct Abont
* rued I'P a "Kccept'o".
r . j ttne 22,-lieneral Gordon
DTWf’ teien asked for a joint discus-
H "division of time here to-day, went
•“whUdresd of having his speech re-
>fa ,u * f * nnsatalements shown up, and
fcd UbW powtored, that ho violated
li sophworj k own committee, to si
te Hanson the use of the stand,
f tS erected under shade in a church
j M iddress the large majority of Ba-
^ « who were present, after the
“.Shad finished b& speech. Not only
“ lot he resorted to the childish
id “? B0 fatigued and his
»** ’’ i„ such bad condition
jjhe h ad frequent resort to BUgar and
WEiBVISO THE CROWD.
s.bsd begun to speak at 2 o'clock p. m„
fJJuv haif utter four when he
it was then almost time for the
_'tn leave for home, but ho even
‘*^ ,0 have Major Hanaon have the little
"wt to reply to his discordant, not to
***deOagog^l hnrrangue; so, when he
throogb, without taking hia seat, he
"k£d a young man named J. B. baun-
«bv the coat sleeve, and jorkiDg it, said
Ss’make vmir remarks; go on; now is
*LV" and he never did cease speaking
voting Saunders was on his feet
i Jean to speak. What do you think
‘v,? xbat ‘'General Gordon desired
to announce that he would be very
u./Msee any of his supporters at the
Jd to shake hands with him and to talk
41 him on the campaign.”
the UNWORTHY RUSE.
Tha crowd, which was overwhelmingly
saw at once through the unworthy
"^d began to guy the General and hia
Saunders in a fitting manner. A
iJjj r ry was made for “Hanson,” “Han-
■ M “Hanson!”
tL pressed around the Major and dc-
i-d that lie should go on the plattorm,
, that they would “clear it for lum.'‘
ilubs Major's good jndgment and love
isace and good order prevented that
inborn being cleared in double quick
j.. He positively declined to take the
^d while General Gordon was holding
(drummed up reception.
"Then we'll go to the conrt house," said
k R. II. Hightower.
‘•Yerj well," said the Major, “I think
ui better."
Captain Stanley, the president of the
hcou dub, then aroae and addressing the
topic, said that in the interest of good
rdu, Major Hanson would adjourn to the
out bouse, where be would address the
midi Instantly a rush was made lor the
out bouse, and in less than five minutes
i B. Gordon fouDd himself al-
; deserted, not more than forty or fifty
itn, children and men remaining to his
tnptiou."
IE TUB MEANTIME,
Lira,« lively spat was occurring be-
imu tbs caralier candidate and young law-
sGiiuer. Amidst cries of "You're killing
im," '-Tbat'a your way,” "That’s all yon
mifsrfelhar expressions of indigna
nt U tka vard politics display of that gal
sutcu&Ute, Mr. Grinersaid: “The com'
littl pranked ns the stand.”
Gordoa-"They didn't.”
Star- “They did.”
Codon-“I aay they didn't.”
Grm«-”They did.”
a ransE statement.
Hye mother man said “This ain't fair
u4 you know it, sir," addressing Gordoo,
•bo with face tlinhed an 1 ditshevclled hair,
'» nttled by the clamor against hia nn-
lirmethods, Gordon said:
“Not fair, oh, no; when I cannot got A.
t Btcou to even let mo divide time with
: ®. yet you have a man to follow
•* in » disgraceful manner.''
Already the crowd had began to move to
«court house. At first, when the sn-
tuaceuient was made that the General
Mid hold a reception at the stand, no one
pptoached. Then by direct personal inrf-
“oa to a few, they went forward and
took hin ts with Gordon, who would lean
win "his magnetic way," place bis loft
O ' thi ir shoulders and aay something
Moastothem. He walked up and down the
(UUorm,reshaking the hands of the few that
•m there. When be had finished this lit-
JeCi.pUy, thero were only a few left. A
” *<*<!« were said to them, and a half
■writer be had concluded his speech,
while Major Hanson was spooking in
**c-urt honse, Gen. Gordon was on the
Attest to 14 right* vide.
I. a uacoe cnown,^^^^^^®
The majority of the crowd, who were
j*Bicon, were not a little disappointed
“.“'being allowed to clear tho
J*td. They felt their strength and
®y were chagtinned to be thus tricked.
“~1 probably been misled into hia
u ‘« fact that when he attempted
■pollthe crowd, only about twenty-five
•««»• voters out of the three hnndred
«f* n Present held up hands for Bacon,
!J«Jw f*ty hands, including enthusiastic
A*7* O'ptq appeared for Gordon. But
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dined-had l,o alMajor Hanson de- [ fl ittf ring terms, and his
cuneu, nad no said tho word, the moAtinr* *. i „
wonld have been held in the forenoon, and
before Go.don arrived the people would
have been on their way home.
The weather was threatening rain The
Bacon men went to the Gordon committee
and offered them in case of rain the
use of the coutt house for Gen. Gor
don. This act overcame the Gordon
committee who then distinctly and in di
rect terms said that in case it did not rain
imd they held their meeting out of doors
the Bacon men could use their stand as
soon os General Gordon concluded his
speech.
• ? encrftl Gordon anived abont one
o clock, he saw his committee which he
sent to Major Hauson to say that he was
unwilling to let him follow him, and that if
Major Hanson did speak, he (Gordon) would
telegraph to his committee in Atlanta to
send a man after Major Bacon at his every
appointment and make it hot for him.
Major Hauson referred the committee to
the Bacon committee. There was no re
traction of the promise to allow the use of
tho stand.
TUB SPEECHES.
Judge Haynes of the County Court intro-
euced General Gordo , who was abso
lutely coldly received. Through
out his speech he was frequently
aaked quesions by the audience, all of
which he replied to petulantly. He was
frequently, however, put out, interrupted
end disturbed by two intoxicated Gordon
men, whose hideous and at times inane re
marks brought down the crowd.
GEN. (i OK DON N SPEECH.
Space forbids more thun brief extracts of
the General's speech. Among the points
he covered were:
The charges against him, which he said
if lie be guilty of ho ought not only to be
buried in this election beneath an ava
lanche of votes, but be driven from the so
ciety of decent and honorablo men. How
happens it, he said, that every one of tho
charges, except tho resignation, are of acts
done beforo his tinanimots re-election to
the United States Senate?
In regard to the slander on Major Bacon,
V mblished in extract from the Banner-
Vatchm&n in Sunday's Macon Telegraph,
he had only to * reiterate
the reply of tho Atlanta Constitution on
Monday. He wonld not foul his tongue by
repeating the charge. Major Bacon wus
man too lofty of character for such a thing
> be possible. Thero is not a more loving
husbaud and kinder father in ail Georgia
t'jan A. O. Bacon. [Cheers for Bacon.] Con*
tinuing he said:
I deeply regret that my honorable competitor it
here. Ho la a man of character, honor and
ability. He is acquainted with the affairs of the
State. If he ie nominated, no man will more
cheerfully support him than myaelf
—but he ( 1* not going to be nom
inated. He *in absent to-day not by my pro
curement. (Voice, "nor by bla own.’] It was
a atod the joint canvass waa to ceaaein tbo interest
of public peace. When I announced my»elf aa a can
dtdate, the bacon organa said they would make it
hot for Oordon; well, the only one who hae been
hot In the campaign la ’tother fellow. (Hurrahs
for Bacon ]
* never laid down any commission in peace
In war until he object for which
wae accepted waa accomplished,
until circumstancts demonstrated that it wae ini
poeeibleof accomplishment. I resigned my seal
when I was in debt, heavily In debt, because 1
thought It waa time for me to give eome thought to
that sweet woman who had given me her heart In
girlhood (aroans): who had sought me in the smoke
of battle to care for my wounds, and to whose mim
ing. under God’s providence, I owe my
life. I had declared more than a year be
fore that I Intended to resign and embrace
the first opportunity to rebuild my fortunes. The
opportunity did come It came when it compelled
ue to embrace it at once or lose it I resigned and
embracod it; and I would do It again a thousand
times under the same circumstances.
Oie thing I would do in your presence of
Almighty God, Whom 1 call to witness
with hands uplifted to heaven. 1 solmsnly
avow that I left the Beaate without
one stain on me as a man or Senator, or on my
duty to you, my country, self, or God I
Home men may not bcllove this. They are men
who do not believe that two and two luakea four,
especially if the Tklkgkapii had happened to say
they make five.
The man who chose to sell hia vote In Congress,
could make more money thau would buy the Bute
road many times over.
Uuutioghm and Scott wanted the right of way to
build the Pacific road. Hcoit wanted that and more
he wanted the government to Indorse $5o,ou>,h.O
' his private corporation boude. One printed to
build the railroad for nothing; another asked a pos
sible tax and the certain guarantee of interest by
the government on gfio.uuu.unu of hie private com
pete company’s bonds. The man who hae been clr-
cataUhg slanders about ms in this matter la W. H.
reception was nn
■rs. It W&S clear
from this “reception" that the crowd in
Dahlia was overwhelmingly Bacon. Major
Hanson laid:
I thank God this ts yet a free country; that in
Georg ia it la yet legitimate to criticise the records of
public men. oven though they ara candidates for
tho high office of Governor. I thank God that the
manhood of Laurens county will not be driven to
silence on any tnau'a public record. (Applause.]
The Btate machinery la outs for government of
onrselvea. Ageuta to run this machinery ate our
employees. The governorship is not an exception.
Geueral Oordon anl Major Bacon are applicant* to
us for the posltiou of Governor. We ought to be
governed iu the selection as wo are in the employ
ment of a salesman or a book-keeper. What rule
ihall be used In judging of their qualifications and
worthiness? The ftr*t .is,in regard to any appli
cant. is he honest? Then, is he capable? Has he
been faithful and true In hia former positions?
intend to examine the candidates by this rule, to
see whether they are qualified and worthy. Does
that policy commend itself to your judgment.
IVolcer, “ltdoos."]
With me this Is no personal contest. I only
care for the men's record*. How *u d* Gen. Gor
don? Let him stand on bis record and confessions.
If he is unwilling to be judged by his antecedents
when asking office, he i* unworthy ot support.
[Cheers.]
You heard him. folding his arms and looking sol
emnly to heaven to-day, and then raising hia U>nd,
register an oath that he left the .-euate without un
derstanding with any man. Bam Jons* says that if
he wauta to know a man's character, ho asks his
neighbor* about him, for he want* win.eases nearer
thau God Almighty. [Great laughter and ap
plause ] General Gordon's attack today on the le
gal profession is due to the fact that moat of the
lawyers are against him; they are used to making
up cases from the evidence, and their ca-e from
the evidence of record 1* against John B. Gordon.
[Applause.] 'lhit profession has produced the
grandest galaxy of statesmen ever known; and I
hore repudiate General Oordon'a slnra on that pro
tension. [Applause.]
Iu examining Geueral Oordon'a antecedent*. 1
shall only speak from the record. Th* Columbus
(O*.) Ban of August, 18HU, in reporting a speech of
Gordon’s *ay* he said that Governor Bmith, who
is now supporting the General, had asked why he
resigned from the Senate. The report goes on to
say the Geueral said he would tell, and tell the
truth. How, mars that; and yet in this very cam-
f 11 1 It "* kUl UUIUUU.
Kil . . dropped when he saw four-
l 0 : fito crowd leare while he was hold-
£ ^ ••reception” and (allow Major Han-
i“ e court h°i*e, whither ho had
r~» l **«oonsa Gordon had shown hiH
intending to hold hi, stand against
•A.V. 1H ot kin own committee, and in
T ®* stand was promised.
sitw i*. ‘ker or nut the Goi
promise to let the Bacon people
L,“ke'Unrt when Gen. Gordon shonld
ti' _ 1 ^his speech, no leu respon-
C*, * tM *J*»en than Messrs. Ware and
' Wlli Cuptain Btanley, ot tho Bacon
Kiv ,**' “e toy authority (or the asser-
Pctait'e 1 “ c *don committee did
«^, iUiorn ““ 0, ‘ arrired on Monday
lJ!","* received by a Urge delega-
W\“* ''epot, whi. li W two miles (com
'"’"rted to Dublin. Soon after
A, i-T’ “■ i ilseon committee waited on
M U '"tondttee, »nd said that while
%y,(;, n - tn wo .Id not ask to diridetime
Gordon, as it was tho Oener-
hen*
^ ,x “ e 10,0W,,
•• 10 F»y . Hn
ho - * had ocst %he Bacon men I tionslity.
i> ,w-iwn d-*— • ■ ‘ ~ -
Every regular Ufe Insurance company in tho coun
try allow w its i>oll<:y holder* the privilege after
making one, two or three annual payment*, or
mere, to surrender tho original policy and take
a paid up policy, payable upon tho name condi
tions aa tho original policy, for the total
amount of premiums paid the company.
D >os not General Gordon know tbis? ‘ la it possi
ble that a man who has managed what he is pleased
to term the most successful life Insurance business
ever known, and who has occup'ed the position of
United States Senator, and who aspires to tbo posi
tion of Governor of this Bute, is so ignorant a* not
to know the difference between the
main features of slife Insurance aa
against Are insurance? The man *ho docs not
know that what I tell you U true, la too ignorant
for Governor of Georgia. The man who, knowing
it, wonld Indulge in the miserable attempt to de
ceive you, which Gen. Gordou has done to-day. is
unworthy of your conffdeuce or support [Ap
plause.]
HI* conduct touching this matter Is an Insult to
every sensible man who heard him. [Great ap-
pUuee.1
Tho farmers here must have been struck with
Oen. Gordon's platitude a on their condi ion. From
what he said, the only inference la that the govern
ment ough to make mch laws as to give every on*
every thing he desires. I* not that puro demago
guery? The reasons of your poverty are that the
representatives in local and national asse" bile*
have not bten as able and aa true as they ought
to be. They ought in some manner
provide diversified Industries, for it ts the axiom
of observation, of all political economists that the
penalty attached to the independence and freedom
of a purely agricultural community, is poverty.
The remedy Is diversified Industries. [Applause ]
Business men of practical knowledge rnd large
experience are wanted in your publio offices, not
men of Mulberry Seller’s schemes and specula
tions. [Applause]
Notwithstanding General Gordon's difficulty in
understanding Major Bacon's position on the Rail
road Commission, the Major said in hia speech at
Augusta that be was unequivocally in favor of the
lUilroad Commission a* the law now stands, with
all ita powers and privileges unimpaired. That is
difficult, of course, of interpretation; as difficult as
it la for General Oordon to be fair. That he U not
fair, he demonstrated to-day when he referred to
the fact that the Macon Tkucoeapu and the Angusta
Chronicle, who are supporting Major Bacon
were the two papers most active in trying to have
tbo present law charged, and when he wjs aaked
where the Cc3stitation stood.be replied that the
Constitution is for the law as it stands. When
HU FI no Addr.-cs in r.u Grange.
LaGbanoe, Jnuo ‘2T According to an
nouncement, Hou. A. 0. Union addressedn loudly
large and enthusiastic crowd here to-day at j holds
paign in Leesburg, General Gordon said that I press**d to know where it stood last winter, ho
he had kept the reason i of his resignation a secret, avoided answering by replying that he did not caro
and Intended to take it locked in hts breast to the - • # - r
grave, but that now be would tell it [great laughter]
tor when a man wanted votes he wonld do a great
many things, which he demonstitted to-day [ap
plause.] Yet he said In 1880 that be did tell the
truth, wbtln la Leesburg, he says he had
Intended to carry the secret to his
grave. A contradiction at ouce [applause]
He got Newcomb’* offer at the same time his res
ignatlon wss sent to the governor, so he says.
(laughter) But mark you, he said in* speech in
Atlanta in Juu*, 1840 th*thehsd been induced to
resign by a tiatteriug offer from a friend named
Hogg, to go into a big railroad enterprise In
Oregon. Two different statements about the res
ignation (laughter) and two contradictions (Applause)
It is these irreconcilable statement* tnat have
turned the legal mluda of this Bute ugsinst General
Gordon.
There are important facta In connection with his
resignation that demonstrates hia nnfttneas for
Governor. Ue told you to-day that he had told the
erlng by replying
where it waa, that all ho wanted to know 1* where
1*. [Cheera]
But that is by no means the only sample
of tho General’* methods. He told yon
that Major Bacon waa not absent
to-day by his procurement. He tried to impress
you that he wr uld rather have Major Bacon here
thau not, when he knew that the published ap
pointment* of Major Bacon called him to another
part of the State. [Great applanae.] If yon can
convict Major Bacon of doing such a trick, telling
one of bis audiences that General Gordon 1* not ab
sent by his (Bacon's) pr«>cureuent, I will refuse to
vote for him. (Applause.) He wonld be unworthy
of your support, a* is any man guiltsiof such a dis
honorable trick. [Great applause ]
The joint discussion was discontinued for party
harmony, and it waa expressly stipulated by Colonel
Howell, as the representative of General Gordon,
and by Mr. Walsh, aa the representative of Major
Bacon, that the discontinuance shonld not be con
sidered aa being in tho Interest of either of
fortunes, and that he would
again under the same circumstance e.
I ask yon to witness tlst I do not misquote Mm
(voices, ‘ You are right," "He said it). Are yofi
prepared to elevate to the governorship a man who
tells yon that if something better is offered be
would abandon a high trui ‘
offer [criee, M Uue," “true."]
He said to-day that he had been a lawyer, but had
reformed. At Eaton ton when Major Bacon charged
him with being employed aa attorney for the Lonls-
Felton, who in that contest waa on 8cott's side,
and I waa lighting it. W. U. Felton waa tha de
fendant of that |fiu,000,000 lobby scheme, while 1
lad the attack on It. In order that the road might
be built without one dollar of tax. [Voice, “Hur
rah for Felton.")
“I wish I had the time to discuae the mattor
fully." [Voice, “Yoo’ve got it ,’J "I meen 1 wish
I had the ability. ]No vot :e. ] They sey I waa to go to
Californio. Yea, I tried logo. They said Huntington
would never build the rood, and 1 tried to get ben-
atom and Representative* to go. with all expenses
paid, to oouvinre them that Huntington waa build
ing the read at the rate of one mile a day, without
dollar from the government
1 am charged with tinfitnee* for Governor on the
ground thu I have failed in bnalnoea euurprlaee.
Well, It 1* true I did fail at the saw mill business.
I am not a success at ruuni g saw mills. Along In
when lumbar flutuated In one week from fto
$30, one eew mill nude a man It for the lunatic
aajlum, and I had five mills. [Laughter 1
I waa not a failure at the insurance business.
Th# Boutbern department over which I had con
trol, was an absolute success. The Insurance
journals of the day show that no company waa to
successful and bad done so admirably In ita short
existence, and up to tha hour when the parent com
pany, with which I had nothing to do, waa swept
away by a series of disasters iu the Mississippi val
ley. Those wfio did invest their money with me
lost nothing. Their insurance from year to year
waa the beat that could possibly be, aod they got all
they paid for. If you Insure your house a )e«r,
you pay so much for it; at the end of the year yon
don’t renew tha policy, do you aay you lost th#
monay you paid for tho risk for tho year? Of
course not; and nobody exports the company to ro
an adviser. Now, on May 30, 1880, the Baltimore
American publishes an interview with him, in
which he said that he resigned the Senate to ac
cept the position of legal adviser of the Louisville
and Nashville'railroad. [Cheers.] Isa 'legal ad
viser* not a lawyer? [Laughter.] He goes farther
and tells the American interviewer that he hod
several remunerative offers in the line
of his profession. What profession
•Legal Adviser.' And yet, rdty the spectacle, he
was forcod at Eaton ton by Major Bacon to confess
that ht> vet no lawyer. [Applause.] No wonder
he 'reformed* from that proteMlou at which he
conld not succeed, and for which he waa no* fitted.
If wo are to regard his statements on the law
qnaation of that Bait Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia railroad bill, which he says Major Bacon
Iu reference to that very bill, which
• wald Major Bacon argued before
tho.House committee waa nnconatitutteual. h« uLl
the only way to tell when a law la unconstitutional
1* by appealing to the courts; that no man. lawyer
or layiuau, can determine. Does he not know,
if he does not he is not fit for Governor,
that the Governor’s prerogative, his aworn duty,
is t-i veto bills on the very grounds of thalr nncou-
atitutlonallty? [Applause ] Is such a man fit for
Governor? [Cries, “no," ••no.”)
In connection with Gordon's attorneyship of the
Louisville and Nashville railroad. It Is known that
Victor Newcomb sought a man of poUti -al influ
auca, and that soon after having Oordon at a din
uer in New York, the General resigned his seat In
the Benate, with which came the unexpected offer
from Victor Newcotub. What did Victor Newcomb
want with a b-gal advisor of 'political influ
ence?' We know what h* proclaimed were bla
intentions: to get a lease of the Bute rood .for
ninety-nine rears at a nominal rent, and to abolish
tha Rtilroad Commission. [Cheers.] Those were
his object*, and the man ho secured in Oeorgia, of
political influence, was John B. Oordon [cheers],
and for sll evidence to the contrary, we do not
Snow that John B. Gordon Is not now lssal advisor
of the Louisville and Nashville railroad. (Applause.)
Oen. Gordon’s statements in regard to nil con
nection with the convict lease are more nn fortunate
tarn th# year's premium. Premium money
simply a contribution to a common fund to nay
those who lose. You pay ten or twenty dollars Ufe
insurance a year for one year. Tho money goes In
to a common fund and your neighbor dies; bis
family get* th* monay of the common fond, yon
bare lost nothing, for you had the Insurance for
the time you paid the premium,"
Hetbeouid be wu (or the lUilrotd
Commission, while it wu Impossible to
tell where Msjor IWon stood.
The Chronicle ud TEEEoiurH, Bacon;
strong supporters, fought the llailroad
Commission.
Voice—"How about the Conatitntionir"
Oordon—“It is (or the commission as the
commission now stands. ”
Voice -“How we* it hut winter?"
Gordon, excitedly: "I don’t cere how it
was, bat I do know it is (or the present
law.” (Great laughter at Gordon. ]
••B icon’s position on the commission lost
him the stsunchest snpporUr he hsd. He
was my most TitnpersUto opponent, but
become my aupponer. I *•“ -**-
of the Spsrta Isbmielite.
llacon defeated the bill that was inlro-
dneed to allow people along the line
of the Eaat Tenbetaee, \ugminand Geor
gia railroad to sue the company
(or damage done by it in the county where
the damage was done. He aays be did it
bectnse it «“ unconstitutional, that the
road was in the teceifer’. hunls, and tho
had he. n appointed by the United
'states Court. Now, is not that absolutely
s~™.-uim. ridiculous? How could he say tho
*«i. J ,7i r n 1 E toitBo declined to allow as hill was unccn.tituUonaL Th« o^y
'“S&.wto ws-s-SS
*'ls'J?Jf UnuiB *dto have the i p ech aaoura wtrii shcoit
the use of w. ch they the conTiet buMn.w.andclostdwUh ahosal
h» (•', • *bl* morning it looked IU) I ot now no was fc. "'US * ,tcon -
f*. Gordon was expected at »|
£;."((-“jSjlS!* ““■“* IiSsisrssMssti
■ tilt,, -is?s
the court house, about 500 voters being
present. Ho was introduced to hia audi
ence by Judge F. M. Longly in his usual
forcible And vigorous mani; r amid loud
and almost deafcDing chei rs ami hurrahs.
Hogansville, West Point and Heard county
were well represanted, Major bacon's
speech was indeed a fine effort. He spok«*
about two hours and a half and held the At
tention of his audience perfectly through
out his entire discourse. As ho continued
it waa perceptible that the people were be
coming more enthused and were worked up
to tho highest pitch of interest by the mas
terly eloquence and solid array of facts,
which he presented iu a forcible
man uer. His speech hns S created
quite a revolution hare as well as in Coweta
aud his friends are hopeful ot giving him
the Troup delegation. After pleasant al
lusion to his youth here he first t >ok ihe
Railroad Commission and said it wus a
question ot vital interest to our people. I
am in favor of it with its powers unimpaired.
I have helped to make the law and to enforce
it, and I am very earnestly in favor of its
fitrict enforcement to protect the private
individual against aggregated J. Not
withstanding I am misrepresented in this
ns on Bovcrul other questions, I am for
tho Railroad Commission as the law
stands. I am much opposed to the solo
of the State road for several rea
sons. Principally because its rental
pays the public school expens? and avoids
na increase of tAxes. I tun opnooed
to the State running that road itself be
cause it will bo run ns a political machine
and that machine will become corrupt. It
must be leased to the highest solvent bidder
with the best security, who resides in our
State, for tho present lease law is
violated by tho holding o^ stock by thu
trustees for tho Louisville and Nashville
railroad, not in its own name really. Tho
property ot this powerful corporation is
(Worth $30,000,000 or $40,000^00a There
were three principal bids heretofore; ono
company bid $36,500 per month, vet Bui
U>ck awarded it to Joe Brown and his com
pany at $25,000|per mouth. During the next
fowl mbs, the road must be rc-leased.
Already are monopolist, informed of
this prospect for them. These fel
lows will hover around the capital
and with a heavy moneyed power will at
tempt to control the .legislation and bids.
It is important to have a Governor who bar
f actory t vid nco of ttlujor Arnold and Capi.
Wingfield of Bacon’s faithful service, severe
illne> » ind unfitneas for military service
Ire* t long prostration, all of which was
•red. I Gent ral Gordou, who
If to bo the type of Christianity,
than were those aa to bis re*isaation. A few days
before the Full »n county primaries, be bad an in
interview In the Working World. In which Ue said
hia name dld-not appear in lb* partnarsbio of fee
peniteuliary company; yet here la bla contract «u
one of tb* partners and signed by him aa such.
(Applause |rbe law »aya toe .ease* shall not soil bla
inter* »t nor sublet any convicts. Gordon says be
baa aoli bis interest, and we know that be sublet
convict* and received pay for them, although
bo denies ever making money out of them. In
snbletliLjr. be baa vioUtad bis contract, and la lia
ble therefor to-day; and If be be under penalty to
the Bute, a* be is to-day, would you alact such a
man GoVernor to sue blmaeli? (Laughter and ap
plause |
It la section 5, of the lease act, that prohibits bis
subletting or subleasing. Colquitt aa Govtrfior
should have enforced the law and declared the
contract void, bnt be did not; neither baa McDaniel.
We people have not been fully Informed
of Una until within the last three weeks. The
next Governor, now that tbs people do know abont
it, will be called on to enforce the law, which Is
mandatory. I* It policy to trust General Oordon to
sua and collect the penalties due from hlmaelf and
confederate# for their own misconduct? [Ortas,
“We won't do IL"[ The law bolds every original
leasee reeponsibU until the lease shall have ex
pired, twenty years, soft tha business wound up.
Gordon la an original Isssei. If the Governor 91
Georgia would do hia duty be would vacate that
lease to-morrow, and the tun ought not go down
before ault be entered against Oordon. [Applanae.)
McDaniel fails in bla duty in failing to do that.
Gen. Gordon aays be was a failure at saw mills.
Us attributes it to fluctuation In the price of lum
ber. I understand that the people who furnished
him the machinery for bla five mills, have never
yet been paid a large balance due on !L Instead of
waiting for lumber to be cut, before be bad even
mills tn working order. U in said
harbor of Brunswick wss filled
with a fleet of ships waiting there on demnnnge
for lumber. lLaugbter an* applause.)
Bla large land grant for hts great international
Florida railroad [laughter] you have all beard of.
Well, they do say that the most of the land of
that speculative grant was, and la, under water.
[Laughter and applanae. ] p
General Gordon aay* mat bla Ufe Insuracea busi
ness waa the moat successful In the annals of life
insurance. How does it happen that eitUens of Lau
rens county, who Invested Utk* amounts tn premi
ums for Insurance in bla company,
find their policies valueless and ac
returns upon their investments? Who succeeded?
What constituted tha success of this swindle, by
which, ns I understand, gentlemen who ate present
here to-day were large losers? (Voice—I here are
ten in this bones who lost by tL)
To some. It may have proved successful. To
>me, it waa doubtless profitable. General
Gordon and bU aeaoclstae drew large amonots
In salaries and commission#. The quarter of a mill-
ton of dollars which ba says were tamed into thin
company and which were token from the pockets
of tbs people of this State, found their way Into the
pockets ot other men. Those who received the
money which yon lost and of which you were
wronged by reason of your confidence tn General
Oneitna. doubtteea think the oj«ration was success
ful. In’* ew is it with their victim*? [Orest sp-
ability of either .
soon, however, at General Oordon gets on the
•tump alone, be seeks to give tho Impression
that the debate had been discontinued because
Major Bacon's friends were sfrsld of the result of
it with him. [Laughter.] He knew better,
jght to bate brought a blush of shsme to
ik when, knowing better, be made tbo mis
representation. Aa soon as I became aware of hia
conduct, I telegraphed Mr. Fat Walsh that Gen
eral Gordon via seeking to use the disoontln-
usnoeof the discussion to bis own advantage,
and urged that the debate be at once renewed.
In this 1 waa overruled. If left to me, he would
have been rechallenged at once and forced to back
down, or tha Joint dtecuaaion would have been re
newed and continued at all baxards until the cloee
of the canvas*. [Great Applause.]
The farmers here know teat much progress
been made lu agriculture and Us methods. Borne
of that at least to due to the Btate Agricultural De
partment. The bill creating that department was
about to be lost Tbs rote on It was a tie. Tho
Speaker had the deciding vote. Major Bacon was
Speaker. Where was he? How did he stood ? Waa
he a friend to the farmer? That bill waa for thalr
interests. The vote was a tie. He could sillier kill
the bill or make it a law; and he voted for It
[Great cheering and hurrahs for Bacon.]
More than that for Major Bacon’* record: when
there was no Railroad Commission, and a bill was
before tot Bouse to prevent rata discrimination.
Major Bacon left the H^ker'e chair and advocated
the bill. [Applause ] And yet, the Gordon pcoplo
wvul '.ry to make you believe that Msjor Bacon
Is far railroads rgalost tbs people. Why. in refer-
enee to this very Railroad Commission
bUl, which Oen. Gordon is so much down on now,
bis staunch supporter, ex Governor Smith,
is said to have recommended the main features of
the measure at the very Ume when be waa himself
one of tee railroad commissioners. [Great cheer
You have been patient, courteous and kind. I
have rejoiced to be among the unpurcbsaabla free
men of Laurens. [Applause.] I have sought to be
Just. [Cries “You nave bean," **W# are satisfied. ]
I have occupied y ou longer than I wanted to, but
the issues are so many I could not be briefer.
(Cries “Go on," “go on," “go on."] In bidding you
goodbye, Iaay, from the bottom of my heart, God
bless the noble, patriotic people of Laurens coun
ty. [Great cheers and hurrahs for Bacon and Han'
son.]
When the Major finished speaking a
crowd thronged about the stand and greeted
him heartily. They nnfelgnodly thanked
him for his services, and begged that he
wonld come often to Dublin. Dflring his
stay here, he has made many friends. This
morning not leaf, really, than threo hun
dred voters called on him in Dr. Hightow
er's office. He urged all to work and voto
for Uajor Bacon, aud but v»ait here has
done much good.
A SMASH UP.
B« t tac attempts of Osn Gordon to make It ap-
psa. list whatever yon paid
lot las policies In bla rotten
w-a tamed In annual rieka,
trance, U unworthy at any man of
ante or character. In fire Insurance
An Engine Topplee Over Into a Small Greek
on Dublin Itoad.
Dublin, Ga., June 23.—The train for
tbia place (rom T. nncll, wu wrorked tlii*
morning at Bruton Creek. There were
onboard Genital Oordon, youroorreepond-
ent, and about twenty other*. Lut ui^ht
two (reight cor* bod mn off the
track mar Tennc-ll. Be(ore the track
coaid be cleared, the train hail
leave tor Dublin. 80 the old
engine, Howell Cobb, which had been awd
In building the road, had to be uatd. The
train, coiui.ting of the tender, engine and
one pauenger car, arrired at WrigbtsviUe
at V o’clock, when General Gordon and tho
moet of the pauenger* boarded. After
passing Danaldaon, which 1* abont eight
mile* (rom WrighUrille, there 1*
a little enrre leading to Bruton
creek a half mile below Don*ld*on. In
terning that enrre the tender jumped the
track. Before bra»e» could bebroughtjnto
effect the train had run into the little
bridge over the creek and *maahcd itin,
the engine toppling down eight feet. The
paraenger coach wu* only three (eet (rom
the brink when the train waa etopped by
the engine tailing through the bridge.
The engineer. It. W. Tarrer, eacaped nn-
hart, and wa* Boon calling for a bncket to
pat ont hi* fire. The bmkeman had jamped
off when the tender firat jamped the track,
and hart hia ahonlder In oo doing. The
conductor, L. A. Matthews, hit his heed
egninat a railing and cat hia forehead
idiglitly, and which bled freely.
General Gordon wo* Bleeping when the
accident occurred, in a double b. at. Nearly
erery body, was ont of the cor when he
aronied. Everybody wo» »afe when he and
your correepondent left the cor together.
Luckily the General bad a piece of court
planter, whicli he chirelrondy and with
great intrepidity pasted on the alight ent
over the condnctor’a 'eye. The General
went bock to Donaldson, where he got a
private conveyance to Dublin. Yonr cor
respondent struck the grit and counted the
crow-tie* to Dublin, eight mile., where be
arrived an boor after the General.
had no connection with tho*- gUiBRt.c
rood operations. Wcfctc... been
General Gordon's experience before the
laet five year* ho has been in railroad ope
ration* and in sympathy with them Rince,
and claim* to have qntt a seat in the Senate
to become general counsel of the Loniaville
and Naahvfllo railroad, who now seek to
oontrol oar State road. Then there is the
settlement to be had with the present lea
sees. A governor should bo elected wlio is
under no control of those leasee*. There
moat be n retain of a largo amoant of roll,
ing stock to oar State, nod the Governor
must poos on the claims of $1,1100.000
for what tho leasees call "betterments."
This claim will bo presented, as the State is
well advised, by this immense power of forty
million dollar*, and that is no mean antag
onist. This la no weak opponent. The
Louisville and Nashville road being owners
of controlling stock in the lease. It will re
quire all tho reeiitance pottible to prevent
its collecting a largo part of our money.
Tbo Western and Atlantic railroad have
filed tbeir bill in equity setting oat “this
claim.” Tbe object of this bill wu* to en
join the Railroad Commission touching the
affairs of oar Btate road. I declare there is
not a line of low to authorize the payment
of snch a claim'for improvements, called
betterments.”
I nm opposed to the present system of
leasing convicts. We shonld not delegate
l-i pm.it" l. - - tl - pm,.-In,.- i.t i.ut
convicts, nor shonld we pnt in competitioi,
with free labor that labor which pays bnt
sixteen dollars s year. If (roe labor doesn'
go down as unprofitable when in contact
with penal labor at sixteen dollars, it is re
markable. Already has that broken if}) the
making ot brick in and sronnd Atlanta by
free labor.
Two great principles wo should slwayi
insist on. The first is parity of the public
Horvico and freedom of Btate politics. An
officer owes it to the people to hold supreme
his obligation against his own gain and ad
vantage. No man ha* a right after being
trnsted to so look to his own private
gain OB to treat unjustly the people who
elected him. Did Gordon violate that dnty
from solicitations by T. Egleston Hogg
and Victor Newcomb in letters which Gor
don himself pat in pnblia print and which
I held np betore him? Ue reeigned to ■ urn
$14,U00a year to accept a railroad poaition
when he know that he never hsd any rail
road experience and knew that Hogg and
Newcomb who were demanding his resigna
tion knew he was no railroad man. A dis
patch signed “II. W. G.”— (bo is said to be
a mnn afraid of beta, bnt that is a mistake.
thus in i : . ..s me to aid bin
bbn-lien vour tame, Colonol Jones (point
ing to C lonel Barrongh* Jones), to 11-vato
'.in: • if. f- r V - I 1 .1 - 1 - li I.II l.o ter friend
to him ib,m I have. [Great c u-ti-.n-l ap
plause. J Sending for 1 ;. erne.
Daring the convention Jb - i n , mi.- u tbo
capital, and a gentleman, well
known, told me Governor Brow n wbilled to
nee mo. Well, I was not afraid to sea ,Joe
Brown; some men aro. [Laughter.] Brown
had a personal grievance against Jlo.vnton
and McDaniel, and not that ho
was for mo, bnt preferred mo
as least of evile. [Grint laughter.]
I had nothing to do with hia coming thero
nor sending for me. SVehoda tin minutes'
interview. I am willing for tho public to
koow it all. I besought him to do not' ing
for me, and asked nothing of him, nB Gor
don fancifally pictures. We aro threatened
with a loss of freedom of polities. Ability
and experience no lcngi-r n-eimiuit-n I a man
for Governor to a certain syndicate which
lives in a certain community nnd try to rnlo
tho State. This syndicate proposes offices
men for certain service to them. Men
this honse havo had proposals made to
them. As for myself, for the balance of my
life I prefer to be a private citi/.en nnd bo
independent than wear their oollar. [Very
hearty applaaso and cheering.]
Tho address was exscinded at about. J
'clock, after which the crowd repaired to
Cox's warehouse, where an olegant barbecue
had 1.. . n pr. par- .1. .Many favorable ex
pressions have been made of Major Bacon's
speech. Indeed, snch was its effect that
many havo declared themselves voluntarily
ns supporters of his, and somo that were
before Gordon men nnd others that wero
the fence. Ono youog mnn, n voter, on
ketag introduced to tho Major, saij: “I am
ono of four boys all of whom nre Bacon
men. My father has been on the fence, bat
I believe now, after having heard you, ho
will voto for yon." Many sncli expressions
have bocn made. It is doubtful bow tho
county will go. Both sides aro claiming It.
Were the election two weeks off Bacon
wonld carry it by a handsome majority.
A QUKSTION
»
Gordon will Nevt-r Answer.
Editor TsLEonxpn: I wonld like to ask
General Gordon ono question, viz; What
docs ho want with tho oflico of Govornor?
It cannot be for vindication, for in his first
speech to the people of Georgia ho statenlm
had done nothing for which to veek vindi
cation. It cannot be for honor, for tho
office ho resigned is regarded as being more
honorable. It cannot be for salary, bccanao
he gave np an oflico with doabfc tho in
come and one which removed him further
from tho old soldiers nnd their familii-H,
ho were, according to his own statamont,
preying upon bis meins. 1 havo never
seen nn answer to the above question. Will
he answer? D.
[It cannot be from fear of Bacon, because
he says Bacon will make a good Governor,
-Ed.]
!i:o iDicraccp, U unworthy at »ay
, T. - r I !i ir»ct. r. Ia Cm iaiarxr.es ; i |»> »>
loucb iirtmlumlocostrs «twa rt»k for* >ai#u
IWt-ut5er-rii.lt r »Luli li ; have pil-1
.. tua.t-r.Ua4 mat jour | j ' - • u .r* ■:
sa l tb»; It no tonu-r corrrs J..ar j.rep-
I sitzcn. ertr. to Ufa ilniun the rate 1* ■
r-B* to BDeak the <uii»ot AsoOcyof Ilf* wrannes nsraatml Warn
■ tijhtH J e£STi^toS *3
prtMfit He I tarts jour family ipjMt the risk of xoor death. [ “J* an 1
Prohibition In Colombia. ,
Aucuhta, Jane 23.—Harlem rom ten for
and Grovtiown thirty-five x<?ainit whisky.
No election at Appling. Other precincts
not Leant from.
llurke (iwr* Dry.
Jane 21—Bnrke cennty
on yesterday by seventeen major-
of nur — • lh< > ordinary hs* so d - and.
t ini—tu.<ntj. Tnere nut light vote polled.
its.) But "li. W. U." ssys
(General Gordon) needed a few weeks
rest, yet Gordon came home and
entered a heavy campaign for
Colquitt. He conld have rested as Senator,
I use Gordon’s own statement!. Criticise
them end he calls it Blunder. [Laughter.]
1 have read this (Hogg's letter, holding it
np) nine timee in Gun. Gordon's presence
and be has never explained iL He com
plained of my using interviews. I simply
told him to deny anything incorrect in
them and I would not ue it again, bnt ho
denied no part of them. They show a half
down different weak reasons (or resigning,
making up in number what they lock in
strength of solid reasons. |I..'uq-htt-r and
applause.] Bates Horn’s New York let
ter showed no railroad in Oregon
or Alaska either [laughter], I expect uoi
don’s resignation killed Hogg, for, ■
never heard ot him before,
we hare never heard of him since. What
Gordon ever did as counsel when ho was
lawyer for the Louisville and Nashville rail
road no mortal knows. Yet Gordon re
signed jut three weeks before Congress ad
journed to get rest “IL W. G.’* says, and
Gordon said, to work for Newcomb. The
tenth la Hogg simply wanted hia resign
lion. The alacrity with which Gtnnrsl
Gordon went to work in the Btate campaign
of 1880 or to advising Newcomb moat have
broken Hogg’s heart. [Lsnghter and ap
plause.] I never charge a fact which Gor
don himself does not pnt in evidence. I
take generally admitted facts which Gordon
does not deny, yet Gordon, to benefit hi*
cause, charges beta in the absence of all
testimony end in uoe ot sll creditable. evi
dence, and tiles to ineioaste statement*
which I deny. They are charge* which
mean ttut during the wsr I was a coward
and a poltroon- when I waa carried to s
hospital after li-htcen ’ .oulh'.' hard rcr-
viee and then,at a a *giy.u’sordcra, carri.d
home a shadow, moie of aghoat than a life
like man. After getting on foot I woe told
I could never be of service in the l M Le
conte ef the lasting effect*of disease, and at
a surgeon's direction reeigned the adjutancy
of the Ninth Geoigi v rag)meat. Investiga
tion wonld convince Gordon of the I: ath
SANDKHBViLLE
Hhcoii Club Formed*
Sandernville, Jnne 23.—An enthn«J&8tio
meeting of Major Bacon's friends was held
at tho ooart house last night, and a Huron
club organized. Hod. Mr. D. O. M. .Sum-
merlin was mado president. Tho hooks
were opened for enrollment ot nu inborH,
nnd Beventy-«ix names entered at tbo meet
ing, to which has been added cloven, mak
ing a total of eighty-seven at Lhia writing,
(9 a. m.) A vigorous campaign will be con~
• K. '-(<1 thl iJUglu'Ut t'ic foil it .
Csinpnlsn Notes.
Soveral of tho "tied ont" dark hones ore
tired ont dark horsei.
Tho vote in Dawsonville, it is said, will
be two for Bacon to ono for Gordon.
The movement to pat a third man in the
canvass came from General Gordon's
friends. It is a confession.
The efforts to trot in a dark horao comes
really from Gordon papers and "how how
little faith they have iu Lis success.
There ara (till no rumors of n primary in
Gordon's homo connty, DcKalb. Gordon
is in favor of primaries ia only tho Bacon
oonntlea.
Gordon’s speech at Valdosta, one day last
week:
X
—[Eastman Times.
Vonr-fiftha of tho conntiei that havo de
clared for Gordon voted in moss meetings,
and so will four fifths of those he it yet to
carry, Wbat a terrible frand is this “conrt
honse clique."
The Constitution wss for free trade. 1:
Sopped over to protection. It shouted for
modification of the Kailrood Comuii.-sion
bill. It nowoppoec3nll modification.—Bun-
ner Watchman. And a im nth or bo from
now it will be a most gtuhing supporter of
"H. W. O.” just tokos facta snd pUys with Hon. A O. Bacon.
them as toys.) But "li. AV. G.” says he The Savannah News is an earnest advo-
rocste for a third candidate, for whom Mr.
Bacon end Geuerul Gordon shall bo set
aside. We warn oar contemporary that, if
by any rbancoC'olonel l'.still Rlionld become
a candidate before tbo convention, thero
might bo peoplo who wonld rise np and
charge tho journal with haring moro fore
sight than patriotism.
Tho CLrksvillo Advertiser says: “Men
of Hnhcr.it.nm connty, think before yon
vote; dwell upon the isauen of the cam
paign; think of the interfat of Georgia.
We have two candidates—one a sncceoafnl
financier, a statesman tried nnd true; tho
other a financial wreck, a builder of monop
olies, snd s deserter from tho service of the
people.”
“It is no donbt trne that he did get four
millions of acres of the public lands of Flor
ida fur building a railroad that he did not
build. Well, wo can't voto for General
Gordon's nomination, even though he may
nmdlion&ire.*’—Ilawkinsville Dispatch. He
did not get 4,00*1,000 acres of laud. When
be got bis charter Florida bail granted ten
millions of scree more than it hod, and a
comm it tee so reported.
The Banner Watchman says:' "We c»ro.
fully read General Gordon's speech, pub-
lighed in the Mscon Tersorai k of .'-mu,lay
—snd the same harangue that ho h.-- been
yelling for weeks into the ears of tue un-
offeu ling voters of Georgia—and how it "an
change any man with a thimUefnl brain-
is E.ore than we can snnni.e. General
Gordon does not answer a at eh or; urnent
Riude by Major Bacon, or a t»my . to ex
plain the aerie us charges against his Utn.is
for the office of Gorernor; but it ■ tilled
with boasts ot what he chute d to
hive accomplished, end the tost
disgmtim; o> anu.it eelt-u udatiota. Om
eral Gordon es no. give a »i-i - ,n
any hr hen u be looted G. . rn .r, but
relief solely ac th. etthit be mad a good
soldi r. ill tu> people I ni h V. with
such chaff.' If they it: .it igh tiuis to
place* qfuhfylu,; tci* onv that wi
protect the ooantiy :rom - . •< u .it the
ballot-box. rh:- ct • '} >r-
don's, u :tther ith j .c D aa Mates La-
con, . \oul.’ be ph
ot thio, yet be belittles me to elavrte hmi
►.-If. I refer to the unsolicited »t. hm< ,u| voter in the Slat
of the brave officers of my regiment. [Here I flv* idle vaporing* of xh< on-
Judge Langley, by request, tt-d very satis- r . of the other.''