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THE TELEGRAPH AND MESSENGER: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1885.
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Old 8t bus converted jfam Small, and is
about to make a preicherof him.
Suppose Jce Brown should manege to
get the t^ate road Into Speer's coart.
On Deck at Last.
Less than a month since the Tele
graph pointed out to the public that
the Atlanta Constitution, a journal
that loves to plume itseli upon being
the leading Democratic organ of Geor
gia, was dumb over the proposed ap
pointment of the renegade Speer to be
a district judge in this State.
To this the Constitution replied m
language evasive and unsatisfactory,
guardedly withholding any criticism
upon the then ruling issue and indulg
ing in remarks concerning the Tkle-
UBAPn's course during the Presidential
campaign, an issue long since discussed
and laid aside in view of the fact that
its constituency had indorsed and sup
ported the Telegraph in the heartiest
manner.
One reason for silence as to Speer,
given by the Atlanta organ, was couch
ed in this language:
"Wo knew that anything we could «ay to a
Senate having a decided Republican majority
would do more barm than good. * •
Nothing we could aay would help defeat Mr.
Speer before that body.”
And again:
"It it were a Democratic Senate we would
haveaometbipgtosay." • * • "Wewlllbe
on deck when we can avail anything. The
time la abort and we are ready when
comes."
How to get office without asking for.it
fa now a great Democratic problem..
A strong hand in jacks: Logan, Jr.
Holman, Jr., Mahone, Jr., and Cowles, Jr.
The Arkansas Legislature bar refused to
wreck the railroads ot that State by the
passage of a railroad commission bill.
A toast: Woman; the finer clay in
beauty moulded, with which the Architect
ot the Universe, has keyed the arch of life.
Thi woman with biittle bones has
tamed up In Chicago. Chicago is an al
mighty poor place for women wi'.li brittle
bones.
Gentlemen who want office and aro
afraid of ruining their chances by apply
ing, might effect something by means oi
backet letters.
Tn* first spring pjem cami In yesterday
addressed to our waste basket, and was
promptly delivered. It is too soon yet to
aing about spring.
Orlt two quest'ons for Signal Service
Hasen thla morning: (1) Wrs it a torna
do or a cyclone that struck Mr. BItIne on
March ? (2) Does it matter much to Mr,
Blaine?
Onh New Jersey Irarnp recently stole the
pnlpit from a village church. Another
stole the leading dude, who was returning
iroin a candy-pulling, and held him until
juuomed.
Mb. Bayasd laid himself liable to da
me. tic inpeschment when lie laid of Cleve
land, “he it a man who baa all the advan
tage of a celebate's life." Is marriage a
disadvantage?
El Uaiiui pays oil hta troops every Fri
day. The superstitious will find in this
a reason to base had luck lo El M sbdi, but
at present It would eesm that the brave
little British army is In a bad fix.
Abx species of money that by common
consent passes for a dollar suits the aver
age editor, who occasionally has an oppor
tunity for shaking hands wish and bidding
U good-bye. £nn a bad coin that keeps
moving hurts nobody.
Tilsas ought not to be auy trouble In
finding a way to the North pole. There
are three hundred and s' sty degrees lead
ing light to it. All you need do la to se
lect the degree along which you would pte-
fer to travel, and than travel.
"It la apparent," lays the Philadelphia
Beoord, “that Senator Brown has very
small Influence with the Democrats of the
United Stetea Bpnate." It is also evident
that be has very large Inttusnce with the
Republican Senators of that body.
Tnm Republican preee la oppoeed to
Morgan’! bill giving the President power
to suspend the coinage of silver dollars
for one year, on the ground that It adde to
the already large powers enjoyed by that
officer. This la altogether a' new position
{or Republicans. But, then, the next will
be • new kind of President.
Nearly every respectable journal in
Georgia promptly denounced the ap
pointment of Speer, and appealed to
lie best element of the Senate to spare
the State. Enough Republicans were
secured to make the vote so near a tie
as to place Mr. Speer’s election or de
feat in the hands of the Democrats. The
Atlanta Constitution did not join in
this appeal to the “Republican Sen
ate” because it “had no influence.'
Why then did it not appeal to the Dem
ocratic element? Why then did it not.
speaking from Mr. Speer's home and
the scene of his official fife, make such
a showing as would have damned be
yond redemption any man wearing the
garb of Democracy who might dare
vote for Mr. Speer? Why did it hot
appeal to Mr. Brown,with whom it has
been upon terms of intimacy, and to
whom, by reason of support and de
fense, it had the right to appeal?
These aro questions the public will
have to answer for itself. As the mat
ter now stands Joseph E. Brown, the
so-called Democratic Senator from
Georgia, fs directly responsible for
the outrage put upon this people in the
shape of Emory Speer, and the Consti
tution has failed to condemn it.
“If it were a Democratic Sonate
wo would have something to say,”
said this journal. And when it was
reduced to the mere matter of one
Democratic Senator whom it had
pressed and pushed for office, it had
nothing to say. “We wifi he on deck
wt en we can avail anything.
The time is shor t and
aro ready when it comes,” said
this feeble party organ. The
time was ample, but tills leading
journal never put loot outot the cabin
when the cry “all hands on dock” rang
out amid the storm, hut sat with a wot
towel about its head in tho cosy depths
lielow. Now tliat treachery and au
dacity havo boarded the craft, we
doubt not that the Constitution will
come on deck where stalk Republican
Brown and Renegade Speer.
This simple-minded contemporary
was recently of the opinion that tiie.
rtrjpiiMi-H was in position to ask
favors of a Republican Senato. Very
well; wo asked openly a favor, the re
jection of Speer, and the Republicans
rejected him. The Constitution is now
in position to ask favors of Republican
Brown anil Speer. Let these favors
also he asked as openly os we have
asked for hfs defeat.
The henchmen of Brown raised
up McDaniel to oust from a small but to
him important position,the man pilose
ote had made Brown a political possi
bility. Colquitt is fiercely assaulted
tho man whom he
rescued from political degradation,
under circumstances which mean that
he or Colquitt must go down. Tho
end is not yet, and these two men
must contest in the political arena,
while the people of Georgia are the
real sufferers. Brown, backed by a
Republican Senate, of which one of
its organs declares he iB the hero,
stands and poses as the proud political
prestidegitateur. Will the hand of
Nemesis be laid upon him,
and when? This rises to the
lips of the mortified and
indignant people of Georgia. Retribu
tion that he has so long avoided and
escaped by an adroitness and inge
nuity that seem to partake of super
human power will halt at his doorj and
leave a scar on his pride. It is the
code of nature that no violation of her
laws can go unpunished. An excess
of exertion brings depression. Over-
indulgence of appetite is followed by
the pains of indigestion. And upon this
principle is founded the written
and unwritten law of human action.
Society has provided the gibbet and
the dungeon for criminals. There
are crimes against society, individuals,
and the masses of the people, whose
punishment is left to an invisible Ne
mesis.
A henchman of Senator Brown in
the fullness of pride for his late humil
iation of the people of Georgia asks:
What are you going to do about it?
The form and truculent spirit of the
inquiry are not new. Boss Tweed,
who once ruled a larger State than
Georgia with a rod of iron, who
squandered millions upon his fo^rites,
bought and sold legislatures and pub
lic offices, and rioted in the luxury of
power and place, asked this when con
fronted by tho officers of the law and
his crimes.
Tweed died a pauper, friendless and
alone in a convict’s cell. His family,
his friends and his riches were scatter
ed to the four quarters of the globe.
The honest people of New York
turned upon the creature who
had deceived, plundered and
insulted them find despoiled him
of his pomp and power. The people of
Georgia so long used to corrupt prac
tices and unworthy representatives,
seem to bo paralyzed beyond the
point of resentful action; but there is a
Nemesis that watches aud notes the
time when their wrongs shall be
righted.
undefended youths were convicted of
an offense of which they were not
guilty, and incarcerated in a distant
penitentiary.
There is no more pitiful picture in
all the outrages lieapedupon the South,
under the color of law, than this, and
Senator Brown helped to rivet the
manacles of the prison on these
boys and to burn the brand upon his
constituents of the false charge that
they had been guilty of ku-kluxism
The Republican whip was cracked to
this tune to drive unwilling partisans
to aid Senator Brown in his dirty
work, This is a fair specimen of the
political work that Senator Brown has
heretofore confined to Georgia. It is
upon a plane utterly low and contempti
ble, and calculated to debauch the men
who are to govern this State in the fu
ture. The suggestion at once rises in
force, will the State of Georgia resent
this wrong upon the part of one of her
servants.
Unfortunately, it must he written
that the demoralization of those who
are expected to speak out and lead an
indignant and outraged senti
ment, seems to havo gone be
yond even the power of protest.
The press is silent or so feeble in rc-
monstranee as to be inaudible and in
effective. It cannot be hoped tlial a
Legislature which meekly submits to
the unparalleled disgrace of being ad
journed by a drunken rabble wifi of
fend a man withmoney and patronage.
But there are some true men in our
Legislature. These may in some way
interpret the wrongs oi their constitu
ents.
At last, this outrage is laid upon the
shoulders of the Bemocratic party in
Georgia. This party claims to repre
sent the intelligence, the manhood, the
courage and virtue of the people.
If it does not rise in its might to re
sent and punish this crime against its
instincts, its interests, its traditions and
its honor, it wifi have outlived the days
of its power and usefulness and will
fall an easy victim to the conspirators
who have sought its ruin and disgrace.
JOSEPH AND EMOP.Y.
Senator Dan Vooiuru lectures long
■uulsiitily shout Thomas Jeffi-rson, ba
Senator Voohees permttn the confirmation
of Emory bpeer, who has non* of the
qualifications tbit Thomas Jefierson de
manded in public servants. The Demo
crats of Georgia will not eoon forget Sena
tor Voorhees.
Andbew Jackson Wiener, who was
quartermaster at Libby l'rieon and is
gratefully remembered for hla many acta
of kindness to prti -nets under hta charge,
is now living at the age of TO tn Central
City, Ill. Commitiioner ot Agriculture
Henderson became eo food ot old Jack
that be Invented some fundi with him for
sundry machine# to kill cotton worms.
The New York Time* lays: ‘“Joe
Brown is the hero ot the Senate to-night,
and bia victory oTer Mr. Colquitt, it is be
lieved, will greatly increase hie political
status In the eetimttlon of all Georgia.'
Joeeph was the hero of the Times and the
Senete, after baviog developed the Insin
cerity of both, by a joint movement to pat
a rank partisan in life office for which he
is unfit, in contempt of civil service re
form.
Ex Gov. Moexa, of South Caroline, is
engaged upon an extended tour of inspec
tion, his attention being directed chiefly to
the jails and barracks of the Union, their
methods, diet and general eystem. It la a
great work, and the method adopted fay
the ex-Govemor calls for time. We trait
that none of the States will become impa
tient if apparently neglected. Mr. Moeee
is now ready to report on ten, and if he
Uvea will do justice to the other twenty-
eight
The Philedel(fills Prett says: "Mr.
Speer entering Congress te a Democrat,
early law the Impossibility of independ
ent thought and action In the Bourbon
ranks, and followed the advice of Alex
ander Stephens, ealong ee that statesman
lived, and carrying oat what be believed
would here been bis counsel, bed be sur
vived, took the independent tack and
naturally gravitated into the Republican
party.” The Preee is authority upon the
eobject ad Republicanism that will hardly
he questioned, and Is thoroughly informed
as lo the member list of its party.
The Nnmesle ot Polities.
In tlio Georgia Senate of lSIO ap
peared among other young and able
men Richard II. Clark and Joseph E.
Brown. Luther J. Glenn was the sec
retary of that body, made so by tho
vote of Clark, and Alfred II. Colqujtt
was his first assistant. These men
havo been intimately connected with
Georgia politics and two of them
are still prominent figures.
Glenn rose well In his
profession and hla party, and was nom
inated for Congress in 1872, when he
was defeated by Alexander II. Ste
phens with one James Freeman, a
Radical, and by the nae of the Jeffer
sonian Democratic organ, the Atlanta
Sun. Clark also rose rapidly in hil pro
fession, becoming a circuit judge, one
of the codifiers of the laws of Georgia
and State counsel in the Dariem bank
litigation. He was very prominent in
the first rank of the Democratic party,
and his vote decided tho nomination of
Joe Brown when the convention had
exhausted itself in a contest over La
mar, Lumpkin and Gardner. Ill health
and a loss of property interferred with
hfs success, and upon the inauguration
of Governor McDaniel, whose nomina
tion was Bccured by the scurvy trick
of Brown's henchmen and fo! lowers,
he was removed from a place on the
bench he had adorned to make way for
a provincial attorney and politician
Colquitt served one term in Congress
before the war, has since been elected
Governor twice add it now in the Sen
ate of the U nited States by the favor and
exertions of Brown, whom .be bad
eliminated from s political thraldom
that else was Insurmountable. The
recent contest lictween these two has
resulted in the discomfiture of Colquitt,
who stands defeated in the presence of
a coalition formed by his more dex
terous opponent.
The Nemesis of politics has laid its
hand upon Colquitt, who dragged
Brown from the depths of political
degradation only to see him rise
np and punish the people who
have condoned his rank offense and
clothed him with high honor*.
Stephens, the intimate and trusted
friend ofj Brown, slaughtered .Glenn.
Comments of tho Preee on tho Latter's
Confirmation. .
Auguste Evening News.
With a grand flourish this morning, the
Chronicle exclaims: "Hon. Emory Speer
has been confirmed United States district
ju?gc for the southern district of Georgia.
Our Uncle Joseph allowed tfaat Emory
would be confirmed.” And then, Uncle
Joseph's organ complacently Inquires,
“Now, what aro you going todo about It?”
For our pari we shall have to submit to it
in common with every deceDt man in
Georgia. It la not the first time that the
good people of this State have been out
raged by Joe Brown, nor is this the only
instance In which hla outrages have been
indorsed and his course applauded by so-
called representative organa and self-
styled leading politicians, who "bend the
pregnant hioges of the knee," etc. It Is
rstber problematical what the people will
do about It, but what they will tninfe about
it is no secret. Those “organs” and corre-
apondenta who are manipulated and con
trolled by Senator Brown know exactly
what to do about it; but what the honest
voters of the State will do ia a question of
donut in their minds. Possibly our morn-
fii
_ one Senator from Georgia. The vote\ the MiHnupnr^ ’
against the consummation of thie/rntragsi one of ceorci*.
on public sentiment was’twen^Dem
ocratic Senators and four self-respecting
Diiniihlfaanc * da ihni ft mm. S. 1 ■ i
Republicans; so that it was to htm c! tho
"invisible soap" and the tangled, God for
saken record that the people of this Fed
eral district are entitled for their new-
made judge.
Lov.s Hie Kind.
MUledgcvllle Chronicle.
Senator Brown wante 8peer for hla judge,
Joseph has not been back in the Demo
cratic parlor longenourh to lose his affini
ty for the acalawag and renegade.
Joe Reproaente Joe.
Savannah Times.
When the 'senior Senator from Georgia
voted for Hon. Emory Speer’s confirma
tion, he represented neither his State, hla
party, nor his constituency. He repre
sented 5L° one in the world out Hon. Jos
eph E. Brown.
ing contemporary may be enlightened in
the lntore on this point. Mr. Tweed, of
New York, on a certain occasion pro
pounded the same conundrum to an out
raged New York people. The conundrum
was satisfactorily answered in the course
of time.
An Insult.
Rome Courier.
However corrupt other departments
may become there is ever hope of good
government while the fountain of justice
is kept pure, but the confirmation of Em
ory Bpeer is an insult to every honest and
true Georgiau and a disgrace to the Fed
eral judiciary.
Billy Mahore Worked up by the Attempts
to Defeat Hi* Friend Speer*
Richmond Dispatch.
8enator Mahone is very much worked up
about it.
Joe Did It.
Hartwell Sun.
The Senate has confirmed the nomina
tion of Emory 8peer by a majority of only
one vote, Senator ‘Brown being the onlv
Democrat that voted for it. -Thus it will
be seen that Speer was made judge over a
people, the great majority of whom were
opposed to him, by Senator Brown.
It was a Tragedy to Justice.
Newnon Herald.
Emory Speer was confirmed on Wednes
day as judge of the United 8tates Court of
the Southern district of Georgia by a ma
jority of one. The comedy is ended, let
the curtain fall.
No Tears.
8avannah Times.
The telegraph editor of the Charleston
News and Courier hits the nail on the head
when he says “Brown fastens Speer on
Georgia.” It was literally a fastening, but
t horns nn tt.a Arnlnivnira* anil# ...111.
No Innuence with Democrats.
Philadelphia Record
It is said that Senator Joe Brown, of
Georgia, is a warm advocate’of the con
firmation of Emory Bpeer for United States
Dietr ct judge of the Southern dletriot of
Georgia. But it Is apparent that Senator
ltrown has very small influence with the
Democrats ot the United States Senate.
Well Matched.
Charleston News and Courier.
Senator Brown Sharply Criticised
Action In the Sneer u a , ts ,_ H1
Editors Tikgraph and Mtmnner- J
March 13,1881, Senator Bln, of Ceo.^
rose tn the Senate of the United State/"
need these words: “Who Is ambition/,
do what no man in the history ofu
country has ever done—to be the first „
to proclaim from thi. proud eminence th"
he disgraces the commission he hnuT
emo- speaking 'of Senator Mahone, who ,
about to vote for his friend Riddleber,
of Virginis, tbe Republican nominee ot
Republican psrty in the 8enate.
He continued: "Gentlemen of the
publican parly, you can't organize um-
yon get the vote of eome man elected
Democrat. If I were to charge a rJH,
lican with having made arran«2
with a Democrat to vote with them
should Insult him and he would resent
as an insult.'j Joseph E.- Brown th!
other Senator from Georgia, studied r
untU March 23d. and then he rore no
said to General Logan: "Tne m.loritV
aright to defeat any constimffi.7
that the minority c.nnot defeat W,
ot means placed in He power bvfh...
of the Senate.” Senator Brown was th!
aiding Senator Hill lo denounce
The next day, the 21th, he raid-“ft
yesterday the air was fnll of remora
bargain, sale, bartering and 'canltsInrA.
standing.’ but I knSw nothing ."!',
them. For the honor ot your narttVS
the honor of tbe Senator from Virrini.
appeal to you not to take this nnwi»«.i>„
On the 27th Mahflne paid hi.
Senator Brown, and it is fair to savftS,
off hie "consistency" and po'itlcal vlv?
in huge flakes, leaving him in a condlih
tocry "enough,” and thereforehe'haa
dined to raise a row with the Republl
party in the Senate from that day to t
and has at last joined them.
No Senatorial encounter has taken n|
from that day, until Speer's nominal
came up; but “tbe honor of the Dei
cratlc party and the honor ot the Seek™
from Georgia" went down with Brown'
victory In this late tussle. Rlddleber**'
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1 Ho” 1
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1 ilttM
Bt*
inSav
| tfaev* 1
lie
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only aspired to be "sergeant-iTmC 1
is to bo a judge for life, to lit on thi
Altogether it is likely that the denuncia
tion of Senator Bi own's conduct would be
there’s no nse crying over split milk,
is done can’t be helped.
general but for the fad, which is plainly
intimated by the Enquirer-Sun, that some
uln ~‘ * . . _
Glorying In Georgia's Shame.
Augusta Chronicle end Comtltutlanallit.
Hon. Emory Speer h»s been confirmed
United States district judge for the South
ern district of Georgia. Our Uncle Joseph
of the prominent newspapers in the State
do not speak out for fear of Incurring Mr.
Brown's displeasure. These newspapers,
the Senator and tbe judge are well matched.
allowed that Emory would be confirmed.
Now, what are you going to do about it.
As to Senator Brown nnd Emory Spser,
One of the legitimate results of the
Senatorial dicker ot.1880, by which the
political disability of Senator Brown
was removed, was achieved in Wash
ington on Wednesday.
In return for the unheard ot magna
nimity with which he has been treated
by a people who havo in the past
heaped honors upon him, he joins their
bitterest enemies, nnd by persistent ef
forts hoa succeeded in putting upon
them a humiliation and insult
that defies language to properly
characterize it. Tbe readers of this
journal, in fact of any other respecta
ble journal published in this State, aro
familiar with tho circumstances which
have slowly but aurely led up to the
final consummation of the coalition be
tween so-called Democrats and Repub
licans, which now hold, supremo
power. A failure to crush the com
bination in Us infancy has given
time to grow from the weakly propor
tions of a sneak thief into the burly
and.truculent form of a highwayman
But for the conviction that the people
of Georgia hod become sufficiently de
based to submit to any imposition he
might presume to place upon them
Senator Brown, with all of his cool and
calculating audacity, would not lm.o
dared to stand and lead a Republican
is 2i * or! i** 2ss*-ls “iicii b w ills vote to
pat upon the peoplo ot bia State and a
profession to which he was once at
tached, a judge whoso ideas of justice
are measured by self-interest and
partisanship, and whose inclination to
wickedness ia only held in check by
his lock of physical courage. It is
too plain even for mention, much less
for argument, that Mr. Speer conld
not have been confirmed save for the
vote and personal exertions of Senator
Brown.
It is equally plain and fully aa well
established that the constituents of
Senator Brown were justly and unal
terably opposed to Speer, not alone on
account of his political course, which
can alone be described by the
word infampus, but for the
resson, apparent to all, of his incom
petency, resulting from an efflores
cent intellect and an entire lack of
moral sense.
The protests of the bar and citizenry
of the State were in the presence of
this Senator when he so sinned against
knowledge and right, and the fact that
he may have been politically indebted
to Speer and his pals constitutes no
resson that the people of Georgia
should have been called upon to pay
the debt in bitterness and mortifica
tion.
No array of respectable kith and kin
conld possibly make Speer clean and
respectable, and Senator Brown knows
tbst the names of best families in this
and other lands have often appeared
npon the dockets of criminal coarts
and the rolls of punitory Institutions.
Tbst Speer could ever make an im-
partial judge is met and answered by
the record of the case of the United
States vs. the Yarbrough boys. Avail
ing himself of the incapacity of a
drunken judge, and, as has been' charg
ed, by the subornation of perjnrcd wit-
neMes and the altering of bills of in
dictment, a number of poor, ignorant,
The Roller Skate.
It may he stated briefly, though
truthfully, that the roller skate has the
floor. Of all amusements, roller skat
ing is to-day the most popular. It has
for the time being outstripped the the
atre, dance, gymnasium and bicycle
and bids fair to hold its own against
boating, picnics, baseball and the
spring sports in general.
Tho roller skate seems to be irresisti
ble. In the language of the stump ora
tor, it “knows no North, no South, no
East, no West,” but regards the entire
united people as its own legitimate
prey, regardless of race, color or pre
vious condition.
Communities that have for years
successfully resisted the assaults of
metropolitan innovations fall down
before tho triumphant roller skate.
Tho most straight-laced hurst their
lacings and staggar helplessly when It
takes an underhold and gets down to
work. The rigid moralist, and the
evil and stiff-necked generation stand
upon the same foundation, and fall in
unison if not harmony before the
mighty conqueror. It causes not only
the snpple hinges to bend, but’all the
bingos of the human anatomy, creak
and shudder though they may.
It brings all men to h
common level, puts old Father Time
himself on wheels, and money tliat
was wont to take unto Itself winga.to
fly, now glides away and ia seen no
more. This bleaaod land of freedom la,
as we writo, filled with staggering men,
plunging women, sprawling children,
graceful and graceless, upright and
cost down. And all on account ot the
roller skate.
Tho rollor skate, however, lias an
enemy. The pulpit has arrayed itself
against the wheel. Which ia right in
the mighty contest now being
waged ia difficult to de
termine. It is likely that too much
is demanded by iuo skate auu too little
conceded by the pulpit. Beyond doubt,
under certain circumstances, the gifted
skate does develop the muscle and do
no damage to the mind; bat it is also
true that many who indulge too much
in the company of the fascinating skate
fall at times and strike npon their
moral hnmp. Moderation is the safest
rule in allsports; moderation and good
company. The roller skate must be
brought within the rule.
The Adjourned" Legislature.
Kufeula Times,
Emory Speer has been confirmed. Joe
Brown's hand in tbia matter should never
bs forgotten or forgiven. But It will he.
The Georgia Legislature never resents any
thing. It is, usually, a body of cringing
sycophants.
The People Appeal.
Sumter Republican.
Whether a Representative should op
pose his vote to the almost unanimous
wish of his constituents, however great
may bs the “judgment" ot the Representa
tive, nnd however small the intelligence of
the people, is a question that Senator
Brown has decided in the affirmative, and
the people wish to appeal from his de
cision.
Settling With the People's Money.
Amorlcus Recorder.
Emory Speer now spells his name with
Judge before it, and Senator Joe Brown Is
the man who did It for him. Joe Brown
always pays his debts, bat generally con
trives to do it at the expense ot the people
of Georgia.
Just Aliks.
Sf Iranis Telephone.
Senator Brown and Speer are of the
ia i
senator urown and Speer are of tl
seme ilk. and arc happily mated. It..
greatly to be hoped the eyes of the people of
Georgia will be able tdseethe true inward-
cess of Senator Brawn and eeese to give
him their support at the expiration ot his
termof office. It isneeleuto seymore;
oar sense ot duty would not allow ns to
say leas.
Joe Owns n Judeto.
Houston Home Journal.
Emory Speer was confirmed United Statea
Judge ot the Southern district of Geor-
§ ta, by the United States Senate Wednes-
ay. the vote being 28 to 25. Tho vote of
Senator Joseph E. Brown, of Oeorgta de
cided the result in favor of Speer. All tbe
Democrats and one Republican voted
agatnat the confirmation. Speer now be
longs to Joe Brown, end Brown hat heap
ed insalt upon the honest Democrats '
Georgia.
Disappointed In the Mnn.
Brnnawiek Appeal.
Tbns have tbe withes of tbe people of
Georgia been thwarted by one man, one
whom we naturally expected to work for
ear good. Senator Colqnltt will five In the
hearts ot onr people for the valiant fight he
has made for us. while Senator Brown, to
aay the least, will lose a large portion of
his following in ibis section.
of
Joeeph nnd Hie Orsnne.
. - - _ Eatonton Ucisengcr.
Joe and Emorv do Not Rnow what "“Georgia was handlisted and Insulted by
8hame Ie.
Camilla Clarion.
Senator Joe Brown appeared before the
Senete committee as the advocate for the
confirmation of Emory Speer’a appoint
ment to tbe judgeship. For ahame I For
tliame I If suon men are to be made
E " ss let It be over the remonstrances of
Southern Democrats. Joe Browu’a
ocrecy In this thing and other things
don’t enit ns. The peoplo of Georgladon't
want Speer for judge and Joe Brown knows
An Outrage.
Columbus Enquirer.
Ai will he seen by our newt columns this
morning, Emory Speer hta been confirmed
by the Senate ai judge of the United States
District Court for the southern district ot
Georgia The vote was 20 to 25, Senator
Joseph E. Brown voting with the Republi
cans in favor of hit confirmation. Such
acts u this will not go very far toward re
instating Senator Brown as a Democrat !n
the estimation of tbe people, and we ere
not surprised at the statement made by
the Rome Courier tint "the Democrats
are beginning to ask whet they gained by
selecting Senator Brown, instead ot a Re-
publican, to the Senate."
The confirmation ot Emory Mpeer tor
judge of the Southern district ot Georgia
was a poor thtrg, a wretched piece of bun
gling, partisan work. It is an affront to
tbe great mass o( our people, who have
Exrznr accountants ought to be able to
get employment in the book-balancing
business at Washington next month.
Tne out-do vr ceremonies at the dedica
tion of tbe Washington monument were
chilling, in spite of tbe burning eloquence
of Arthur and John Sherman. Perhaps
the vehement eloquence of John Daniel
and tbe fervid periods ot Robert Winthrop
caused aglow in tbe House of Representa
tives. The adJresMi of these last gentle-
men are too long for reproduction, end
really contain nothing new. Mr. Daniel'
speech should have been heard. Mr. Witt-
throp's should be read.
Ms. Bayard, ia an Interview with
World reporter, strengthens the recently
expressed opinion of tbe Txlxoexph, that
the chief difficulty in Mr. Clereland'e way
aa e cabinet-maker la the refueal of the va
rious parte to adhere: Stye Mr. Bayard
"Mr. Cleveland baa entire control of tto
subject of tho construction of fata cabinet,
and he is the only one who can, with pro
priety, disclose bis personal preferences,
could not tell much about it If I would,
take it that tbe President elect ie making
up hla cabinet es a whole, so os to make
known to tbe public at the proper time tbe
whole list There are a number of ques
tions entering into tbe cons traction of
cabinet not wholly upon one tide. Those
who are to be invited will naturally want
to know who art to be their amodatei be
fore finally deciding npon their accept,
once. Some take it that nothing can
absolutely settled to this matter until th.
.nUreliJtof cabinet miaixtere 1j comput
ed." •
the vote of one man.
Who Is that man ?
Joeeph E. Brown, to whom Georgians
confided t|je duty of voicing her senti
ments end defending her honor upon the
Boor of the United Stetea Senete! Geor
gia betrayed jby her senior Senator I Let
Democrats remember that Speer owes hla
confirmation to Joe Brown and his two
newspapers, the Atlanta Constitution and
the Auguitn Chronicle.
Forfeited the Reepeot of the Profession.
Philadelphia Times.
The nomination ot Emory 8 eereejudge
of the United States District Court for the
Southern district of Georgia wee confirmed
yesterday to spite of the strong opposition
of several Southern Senators. It wee a
nomination wolch ought not to have been
made. Mr. Speer hea not a single qualifi
cation for hie office. He has neither the
learning nor the age nor the dignity re
quired (or such a position, and, worst of
all, ha hae forfeited the respect of hie pro
fession in such a way that be cennot eoon
regain It.
A Poor Thine.
Atlanta Journal,
tho confirmation ot Emory
strenuonely protested against the confirm
ation of thla incompetent jurist end nc-
acrapulous political harlequin tom posi
tion for life for which he Is unfitted, which
he la unworthy to fill, end which be will
occupy against the lasting protest of the
bar and the people of Georgia.
How It wee-Done.
Baltimore Suu.
A vote wee .bout to be ordered, but It
wee discovered that tbe Democrats, who
were solid in their opposition to the con-
firmatiou with the exception of Senator
Brown, of Georgia, were in tbe majority.
Tbe presiding officer, Mr. Edmunds, made
the point that there was not a quorum
present, and tbe Senate went into oi
session and adjourned. Today the .
ublicaas, led by Edmonds and Hoar,
are been continuously at work upon two
Senators on that aide of tbe chamber wbo
ere said to be opposed to Spter’scoullrme-
tlou. On tbe Democratic side, Colquitt
end Vest have been ttnslly angaged in mak
ing np s tally-sheet and •olicliing pledget
from Democrats to stand film. At a lata
boar this afternoon tbe oppoeition to Mr.
Speer wet to formidable chat be will prob
ably be rejected unless every Republican
votes as the party leaders demaud.
Soma of the Conllilonlsts.
National Republican.
With singular unanimity many of the
first men in judicial station have urged
upon the President and the Senate Mr
Speer's special fitness for the jadgerhlp
Mr. lattice Woods, of tbe SapremeCourt
Circuit Judges Gresham, Bond Pardee and
others, and tbe Attorney-General himself,
testified in bis favor. Such dtstingnlihed
members of tbe House as Junes Kelley,
Messrs. Hltcock, Reed, Barr, Washburn,
Cannon. Rice and many others familiar
with hie character and poblic con-tuct
from four years SMoeUtion in the work of
legislation have been and are bis firm and
ecdve supporters. Over fifty leading mem
ben of tbe bar of Atlanta, Including the
Chief Justice of the Bute, certified to bis
high professional attainments. Over eighty
of the bankers, eapttalste and business
men ot the thrifty capital of Georgia make
bast, tossy that In every euential *
probity and integrity b. is the equal
any man.
Field for Renegades.
Albany Xewe end Advertiser.
Emory Speer Is jndge of th. Soathern
DiMrict of Georgia by the grace of twenty-
nine Republican Senators and tbe disgrace
A BOY EMPEROR'S GROUNDS,
The Beautiful Effaote Produced In the
Cnlneae Ruler's Cardens.
Belgravia.
Wonderful ingenuity wee displayed in ao
placing the Emperor's palace ee to secure
tbe greateit possible variety ot situation,
and to command the most varibd views.
Every natural featule of the ground has
been elaborated so aa to produce charm
ing landscapes which conld ecarctly be
recognised as artificial; hills,of from ten
to sixty feet in height, wera constructed,
divided by little valleys sod watered by
clear streams forming cascades and lakes,
one of which was five milaq In circumfer
ence. On its calm waters floated beautiful
pleasure boats, including one msgclfieent
house boat for tbe amusement of the la
dies of the palace. •
In every direction, winding paths 'ed to
qnalnt little pavilions end charming grot
toes, white artificial rock-work was made
the nursery for all manner of beantlfnl
Bowers, much care being bestowed on
securing a great variety for every season
of tbe year. Flowering trees were scat-
teredover the grassy hills, and their blos-
perfnmed the air. Each stream was
croased at frequent intervals by mostplo-
tnresqn. and highly ornamental bridges
of wood, brick or freestone, adorned with
fanciful kiosks, in which to repose while
admiring tbe view. Tbe triumph of art
was to make these bridges twist about In
such tn extraordinary manner that they
were often three times as long u It they
bad been led in a direct line. Near some
of them were placed some very remtrkablo
triumphal arches, either or elaborately
8-eer - . „ -
live? and property of thousands of Geor"
gians ot both parties.
It the honor of tho State of Vffginls wo«i
violated by Mahone, wbo did not receive a
commission from a regolor Democratic'
party in that State, whei has the honor o!
the State of Georgia suffered, from e men
wbo has thus betrayed the trust ot thorn
ends of Democrats in Georgia, who not
only voted for him last year, but gave him
a commission as the first and best man In
Georgia to shield and protect the Htatt in
her Democratic fealty, and especially pro
tect her against the tricks ot corrupt ind
treacherous Federal ippofn'ees, put in
solely to reward political treachery and
corruption 7
There are eeveral reasons for Senator
Brown’s action, and the Savannah Times
sets dawn some an given by tbe Senator
himself, and they should be noticed la jus
tice to htm;
1. Speer made a "skyward-soaring
speech to help Brown against Gen. Lav-
ton,” and ho must "pay a debt of grati
tude.”
- 2 Brown wants to push Speer Into a
iQdgesblp to get a place mode ready for
deoator Hill's son.” Shade ot Ben Hill,
has it come to this?
8. Speer would become a good Damocnt
under a Democratic administration.
Now. Messrs. Editors.lt thrse arefacts,
whOK 1> the honor of the State of Georgia,
resented by Senator Brown?
>ry Speer, who made the "skyward 11
j against Gen. Lawton, plainly be
trayed hla despicable motive. Brown bai
profesredly been figbtiog Independrntha
all that fall, and made gTeat capital tor
himself that he alone conld kill oot tbs
deadly fungus in Georgia. Speer had run
u an Independent, been elected assn In
dependent, though he never had any poli
tics but the spoils, and yet he appeared
with a "skyward" speech to applaud hh
* That ts too "thin” entirely. It has
panned oat into a filthy coalidon In whleb
all parties who ever touched either bin
been betrayed.
This .attention to Ben Hill's sou ti carry
ing coals to Newcastle. Has young Bin
Kill entered into inch an alliance? If so,
the race has quickly plived out, and fin
famous apeech against Mahone has dent
oped some mortifying features In this year
1885. "O! ahade of the mighty” good bye!
If Ben Hill’i son can permit his name thus
used before a Henato of Republicans and
Drmocrats, who, four years ago, listened
to this famous attack by hla dead father,
how low baa Southern honor fallen!
The lest point has eome pith In lb
Brown's Democracy apd Speer's Democ
racy will tally anywhere, for both ere
founded on spoils of office. A grain of
troth seasons this late but honest pies.
Their Democracy la like their Republican-
iim, commercial. -
Now, what Is to be the oateoms ef this
disclosure of Senator Browu’a politics in
the Senate. A week's hard work failed Ie
secure a single Democratic vote for Mr,
Speer, and four Republicans refused to
bolt the don and vote for him. Qov.
Cleveland Is about to iriaet Gan. Ltwton
for his cabinet, and Senator Brown joins
the Republican party to reward Spear lor
a "skyward” speech against Lawton I
It S.-imtor Brown has not made a coili-
tlon with tho Republican Senators to wrack
Mr. Cleveland’s administration, what does
It mean?
The signs are omlnooa. Senator Browa
was notlnvtted to Albany, or, if Invited,
he nrelerre-1 to etay away togetinan illy
on the Indlctol bench—bv snUxonlslng
every Democrat in tbe United 8titee-Sen
ate, toil Mr. Cleveland's hand should hi
thus weakened. Joseph will follow this
trail. Mark it!
But what are we to do about tbe ter
lslature ot Georgia, which bo unsnimou.
ly elected Senator Brown only a few weeks
ago? What are we to s«y, to console the
miserable lick-spittles wbo have been st
Brown's feet ever since the election to pi
bis Influence for office under 0 evelend?
And what will comfort Georgia Demo
crats who pnt aside their prejudices a:: 1
suspicions lo elect Senator Brown for ux
yean more to the Senate—when be esn
thus early outrage \every feeling of gjjj"
itudo and de-ency ? benator Colqoltt ts>
made him*elf a name by this upright pro
test In the Senate, and It will show t»
feet In the craning administration. : u*
the only breakwater between Georzisssu
treason. Reeces.
carved wood or marble.
Lowell, May «, trs3.-“For six years I
ad kidney disease with pain la bark IJJ
ips. I improved on one bottle of Hu”’”
ha-1
hips.
Kidney nnd Liver Remedy aud two
ties cared me," W. H. Blanchard, n
and Lowell railn
Behind thw Bare.
Arizona Hem Cult.
We edit oar paper this week from the
jell, where we are living for the present.
We have been put to the jog for a mooth
becaose we resented an inenlt altered os
by the pin feather jtorosllat who tries to
ran an oppotttloo paper in this town But
if be tbiaae be will mnzsle tbe prase in this
way he is mist tken. Like E lmnnd Yates
we sba J eome oatof jell stronger then ever
and ehsll take our place In the world with
renewed vigor end strength. A month Is
not a long Urns to a man with * good con
science, which Is oar case. We would re-
quaet our friends to torn in all items of
news to the gentlemanly jailer, who will
give them to us.
■ -the
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drecrib. Nevada's voice. One ears "it .<*
trickling rivulet of silver," and anothe
"es exquisite fas He parhyflpwtiw
a siran-l of beaten go. i.'
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