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THE LAIREKCEVILLE HEWS. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY Lawrenceville Publishing Co., Proprietors. ~GEO. D. RUCKF.R. Editor. Entered at Lawrenceville postoffice as second-class matter. All Communication*, to iwive prompt attention, must hr wi<lr«'H*rd to THE NEWS, Lawrenceville, Ga. Lawrenceville, Ga., August 17, IHII4. Mb. Cleveland is president nnd always will be a precedent. Our Georgia exchanges are hav ing a merry time goading the pop ulists. All that is needed to equip a fu-st class populist spouter is ig norance and mendacity. The populist party is dead in , the west, and in the south, too, hut its tail is still wiggling. That candidate who called the people of this county “the ri li ras' and rag-tag” will wish lie hadn’t. Congress bids fair to adjourn within the next few days. Who says we have nothing to he thank ful for? We advise the Sparta Ishmao lito to get right on the financial question. Don’t run oft after the populists. The indications are that Major Bacon will lie elected United States senator on first ballot. So mote it he. The hoys at Buford say that D in Irwin’s name stands for Dennis since he ran against Charlie Brand the other night. The men who have been dubbed “the riff-raff and rag-tag” will have a wonderful power when elec tion day comes. The Constitution and Journal are both satisfied with the plat form. That shows what democrats can do when they try. The way to judge a party is by its leaders. Look at the democrat ic leaders and compare them with third party leaders. If vour iTPrghlw js a reasonable -pepuiist, carry him your paper and get him to read it carelully nnd prayerfully. It. will save him. The price of cotton is advancing in view of the settlement of tlie tariff question, but we predict that it will decline in the face of nine million bales. If every democrat in the ninth district will do his duty Carter Tate’s majority will lie not less than six thousand. Will not every democrat do his duty? In 1892 Tom Watson said that free silver meant only 30 cents per capita. Now he seems to think it is the panacea for all onr polit ical diseases. Verily, Tom is a trimmer of the first water. The papers of the tenth distinct say that Hon. J. C. C. Black will beat Tom Watson worse than he did in 1892. So mote it be. Tom is a disturber of the public peace and ought to be sent permanently to the rear. Ik Judge Hines is depending on the votes of disaffected democrats to elect him governor, he might as | well be making his arrangements Pto continue the practice of law for the corporations for which lie is at present' attorney. The Athens Banner has improv ed wonderfully within the last few weeks. It is now one of the new siest local papers that come to this office. If it continues to improve it ought to receive the support of every man in Clarke county. The way to beat the third party, and beat it badly, is to organize in —fvery militia district. There ought to he at least 1,800 names on the democratic club lists in Gwinnett county, and it will re quire only a little work to put them there. It is said that Col. J. A. B. Ma hafty, the third party candidate for secretary of state, has aban doned the practice of law and tak en the stump for his party. Well, that’s all right. He will have plenty of time next year mid the year after to practice law'. Col. J. A. Dodgen, the demo cratic nominee for the legislature from Milton county, has already served two terms in that body, and will be a useful and able member. He will easily defeat the third par ty nominee, who is running just because his party had to sacrifice some one in order to keep up a show of fight. It will be a glorious time when all our people get back together and this pickering shall stop; when men go to the same shrine to worshib, send their children to the same school without jealousy, be neighbors in the true sense of { the word as they did only a few \j»rs there w as no third Of —l.lie pHtUD Passage of tlie Tariff Hill. The Wilson tariff bill, ns amend ed by the senate, has passed the lower house of congress, and now goes to the president for his ap proval. The measure, in its pres ent shape, does not go so far in the direction of tariff reform as was desired by the democratic party, but is a great step forward and a decided improvement on the Mc- Kinley bill. The main difference between the bill, as it passed the house of repre sentatives, and after being amend ed by the senate, relates to the coal, iron and sugar schedules. The house bill placed these articles on the freelist,and the senate amend ments make them all dutiable, and the party was forced to accept the measures in that shape or submit to the defeat of all tariff legisla tion, at this session. The democratic majority in the senate is not only small, but more apparent than real. Out of the 88 members there are 48 professed democrats in that branch of con gress, but, Gorman, Brice, Smith and Hill, who were elected as such, combined with the republicans and populists and forced the house to accept the sugar, iron and coal schedules in their prese ft shape. But for this action the bill would have been the end of tariff legisla tion for a long time to come; but the democratic party will not stop until a proper and satisfactory re vision of the whole schedule has been made. Immediately upon the passage of the bill, with the senate amendments, the house of representatives adopted three sep arate bills placing the articles re ferred to on the free list, and as this course breaks up the combi nation between the friends of these items, there is a strong probability of the passage of each through the senate. If, however, these recalci trant democrats persist in their opposition to the wishes of their party, the responsibility will he placed where it properly belongs, and their constituents will apply the nocossary remedy when their terms of office expire. In its present shape the bill makes a reduction of $75,000,000 per annum in tarilf taxes, and its beneficial effects will soon be felt .. , ■ tlju. people, especially in the prices of the necessaries of life.' In proof of this we place, in oppo site columns, the tariff on a few leading articles under the McKin ley, and this bill, as it finally pass ed : MoK iii- Senate Article*. ley Hill. KM. Cotton bagging 28.24 Free Woolen yarn* 278.88 80 Woolen shawls 150.80 B*'» Knit fabricks 188 «a Blankets 104 85 Hats of wool 10« 86 Flannels - - - - 104 85 Boots anti shoes - ... - 25 20 Binding twine 0.47 Free Whiting, dry, 142 71 Ground in oil (putty) - - 119.50 94.74 Iron ore 42 22 Bar iron - - - 4:1 25 Tin plates 78 42 Cast iron vessels 20 17 Chains 47.2 s 80 Saws ----- 40 25 Cotton cloth 85.17 25.05 Spectacles 00 85 Calf skins, Japanned, - - 80 20 This list includes only a small i portion of the items in the bill, and is given for the purpose of in- j forming the people of its charac ter, as a whole. It can readily be seen that the consumers of these articles will save, under the pres ent law, from 15 to 250 per cent.., and that a great work has been ac complished by the party for the people of this country. In addition to the reduction made in tariff taxes, this bill also includes an income tax of 2 per cent, on all incomes above S4,(XX), which will add at least $05,000,0CX) annually to the revenues of the] government. Heretofore owners of government bonds were exempt from taxation, both on the princi pal and interest of these securities, and the result was that men worth millions of dollars were, practical ly, free from the burdens of gov ernment, but hereafter they will j have to bear their just share of this j expense. Congress has been at work on j this measure for twelve months but \ the obstinacy of the senate, cou-! pled with the bad faith of three or I four pretended democratic sena- j tors, were largely responsible for this. But it must be taken into! consideration, when passing judg- j ment on that body, that all tariff legislation is, necessarily, the re sult of compromise and concess-1 ions, as there are so many differ-: ent and conflicting interests to be considered, and that the republi- 1 can party, although controlling both branches of congress by large! majorities, were two years in shap- j ing up and enacting the McKin-] ley law, which we have just wiped from the statute books. | Major W. E. Simmons, of Law renceville, gave us a pleasant call last Tuesday. Major Simmons is one of the moss-back democrats of this section and is one of the best posted men in Georgia on politics. He will take pleasure in meeting any third party man in the state in joint discussion.—Jackson Her- They Arc HiiniiltoniaiiM. Our populist friend# claim to be Jeffersonian democrats. We do not know whether they know what Jefferson believed and advocated or not, but if the/ do they must know also that they are not teach ing his doctrines. Jefferson was a states’ rights advocate, and always strenuously opposed centralized power. He himself said that he and Hamilton were “pitted against each other like t\£o fighting cocks.” Hamilton was anxious to give the national government all power and make it active und aggressive. Jef ferson desired that the states re tain their sovereignty and be al lowed to exercise all the rights of free governments. In other words, lie believed that the states ought to control the union, while Hamilton believed that the union ought to control the states. If Hamilton were alive to-day he would be a populist, advocating the purchase of the railroads, tele graphs and telephones. If Jeffer son were alive he would be the lead er of the democratic party, just as he was a century ago, when he op posed Hamilton and Washington. As secretary of state under Wash ington, Jefferson differed with all the cabinet, as well as with the president, and so reasonable was his position that he soon had the voters of the country at his back. They made him president, and his administration was the beginning of the democratic party. How it is that the populists can claim to be Jeffersonian democrats in the face of the fact that their platform contravenes Jefferson’s well known views, we do not un derstand. We suppose they are only practicing their habit of swearing that black is white. They are ns far from Jefferson’s views as the orient is from the Oc cident. The truth of the matter is, the populists are square-out Hamiltonians, and their doctrines would totally destroy states’ rights, the bulwark of the people’s liber ties. Whenever the national gov ernment, gets the people in its ty rannical paw we may say farewell to our boasted rights. The presi- dent of the union would have the power of the czar of Russia, and j the people would he powerless to ; help themselves. | If the man who is about to be ; mislead by the false cry of “Jeffor j sonian democrat” will only get liis j history down from the shelf and read it he will find that the popu j lists are trying to fool the people iin this matter. The only Jefferso nian democrats in this country are those who believe, as Jefferson believed, that the rights of the states ought to be preserved at all hazards. The fellows who are | wanting to buy the railroads are sinning in honest old Jefferson’s j name. They are Hamiltonian fed j eralists. Get your history and see if we have not told you the truth. The Atlanta Regency. We notice that a few soreheads in Atlanta are supporting Hines for governor. Wo are not sur ! prised at this, because there are j always a few men who want to run things their way, and if they fail of their purpose they invaria | bly try to upset the other side by 1 bolting the party and working for the opposition ticket. These fellows who have bolted the party are not democrats and never have been. They are mem bers of the Atlanta Regency, which has been controlling Georgia poli tics for more than ten years. They are shrewd manipulators, and have always been able to carry their points in politics. This time, however, they were foiled in tho attempt, and are sore over defeat. The people of Georgia rose up and smashed them and sent them to the rear, where they belong. There are only a few of them, and the party can well afford to lose them. In fact, there are many honest men who left the party because this band had been controlling it, and now that they have been routed these honest men will come back and vote the democratic ticket. There is no room in Georgia pol itics for an Atlanta Regency, or any other kind of regency. The people are the regents in this free state, and will control things in the future, whether this disgrun tled Atlanta crowd come back to the party or not. The vote in the recent gubernatorial primaries shows that Mr. Atkinson is the decided choice of the people of this state for governor, and we predict that he will bo elected bv the largest majority that has ever been given a candidate in this state. Run. Sidxkv Lkwis, of the Spar ta lshmaelite, is dissatisfied with the state platform. We fear that Tom Watson has hypnotized Bro ; ther Lewis. The lshmaelite raves about the free and unlimited coin age of silver, but we have never seen a word of argument in the paper concerning the question. The truth is, there is no argument on the Ishmaelite's aide of the question, hence the resort to abuse and billingsgate. Where Is Mr. Ilines At? Judge Janies K. Hines, who is ■ leading the forlorn hope in Geor gia. made a speech in Atlanta last Friday night and unbosomed him-j self ton large number of good At kinson and Cleveland democrats. He arrayed the democratic party on a charge of infidelity to pledges made two years ago, and declared that the party would do nothing for the people and ought to be suc ceeded by the populist party. We agree with Judge Hines that a par ty that refuses to legislate for the people ought to be turned out to grass, but we think a better party ought to be given control of the government. Would such be the ; case if the populists had control of things? We think not, and if we ] cannot prove what we say we will j join the thirds and work to put | llineH, Watson & Co. in power, both in Georgia and at Washing ton. Taking it for granted that the thirds would carry out their plat form if they were entrusted with power, let us see what the result would be. To begin with, there would be about ten billion dollars of worthless rag money in the country, with not a dollar of coin to redeem it. This step alone would put us into bankruptcy and barbarism. The next step would be to en franchise the women. Then we would have politics sure enough. The negro women would come to the polls and run things to suit themselves, and they would make things hum. A big black negro woman would walk up to a fellow and threaten to pull her razor if he did not vote her way. Of course ho would refuse, and then a United States deputy marshal would do the rest. Another plank that would of course have to be put into opera tion is the land plank. That means, if it mean anything, that all the lands shall be divided among the people. The land which belongs to the honest Gwin nett county farmer would bedivid ed and his lazy neighbor would get as much as anybody. Wo do not believe this would suit our honest farmers \\iln > have accumulated homes in the sweat of their faces. However, this plank would have to be put into operation to pacify that wing of the party which wants to eat without work. Now, m the light of these things, do you think the government ought to be turned over to a lot of fellows who want to carry out such legislation as we have described? Even if the democratic party had done nothing at all for the people, don’t you think it would lie infi nitely better to let the government remain in its hands rather than have these third party laws on the statute books? Of course, Judge Hines does not tell the straight tale when he charges tlult the democratic party lias done nothing, but we insist that if the charge were true, the populists ought not to have control of the government. They would run it in the ground within less than two years, and it would take us a half century to recover from the result of such legislation as they are demanding. Let Judge Hines tell the people in what way they would be bene fited if his party were in power.' Hon ('has. L. .Moses lias been nominated to succeed himself, as the democratic congressman from the 4th district, of this state. He went into the convention with I<> votes, just one half of the whole number, the other half being di vided between Harris, of Carroll, Grimes, of Muscogee, and Stan ford, of Harris county. The friends of the other candidates stood firm until the 317th ballot, when one of the Harris county delegates went over to Moses, thus giving him the nomination. Mr. Moses is a farmer, and was elected to congress as a democrat and Alli anceman, but remained true to his party and principles, and his re tention in congress by the demo cracy of the fourth district is a compliment well deserved, as lie! has made a faithful and creditable | representative. Rod’ i,lst speakers base their hopes of misleading the people up |on the presumption that they are ignorant, aiul will believe any : kind of a cock and bull story. One J. W. Haney, of Walton coun ty, who has recently bloomed out ns a leader in his locality, is tell ing the third partyites in his bali wick that the report that the seign iorage in the treasury is being coin ed at the government mints, is nothing but a democratic lie—that only if4oo lias been coined for the purpose of being placed in the: hands of democratic speakers. ; The presumption that the great j I masses of the people can be mis | lead by any kind of a lie that can |be trumped up by their speakers and papers, has done more than, anything else to weaken their par ty. The people are not fools, and the party banking on the belief; | that they are will always get left. [ Tim Greenback Party* Those people who are running after populism perhaps do not know that they are following a party which was in existence ten years ago, and was defeated in all parts of the United States. Such, ; however, is the case. The third party’s ideas of finance are the same as those put forward by the greenback party in 1884, when Ben Butler was its candidate for the I presidency. The greenback party was brought into existence by the financial cri sis of 1873. Their remedy for the distress was an unlimited issue of paper money by the general gov ernment, as during the war, this money “to be based upon the re ! sources of the country.” At a I national convention of this party, held in Chicago, June S), 1880, among other resolutions the follow ing was adopted: ‘‘We declare: Ist. That the right to make and issue money is a sovereign power to be maintained by the people for their common benefit. The delegation of this ; right to corporations is a surren der of the central attribute of sov ereignty, void of constitutional sanction and conferring upon a subordinate and irresponsible pow er an absolute dominion over in dustry and commerce. All money, whether metallic or paper, should be issued, and its value controlled by the government, and not by or through banking corporations; and, when so issued, should be le gal tender for all debts, public and private. “2nd. That the bonds of the United States should not be re funded, but paid as rapidly as pos sible, according to contract. To enable the government to meet these obligations, legal tender cur rency should be substituted for the notes of the national banks, the national banking system abolish ed, and the unlimited coinage of silver, as well as gold, established by law.” On this platform the greenback party went before the country and was badly defeated. The people I knew that an unlimited amount of | rag money would destroy the cred it of the country and entail great | losls on the people. They voted against the greenback party, and | it died the next year, and has not been heard of since that time. The third party has the same wild notion of finance that the greenbackers put in their platform, and the people will again relegate those ideas to the rear. A great many people seem to think that the government can make good money of paper, with out anything behind it. This idea is erroneous, and should be gotten rid of at once. The government is a pauper, and can get no money except that which it taxes out of the people. Suppose the govern ment were to issue two billion dol lars of paper money, and put it afloat in the country. Does any sane man believe that it would pass for its face value? Of course it would not, for the reason that the people would have no confi dence in the government’s ability to pay coin for it. The greenback party had no fol fowing in Georgia, yet the third party has a large number of sup porters. Why? Because the peo ple do not understand what it means. It means green back ism, pure and simple, with the railroad plank as a crowning atrocity. We advise our peoole, one and all, to let the third party severely alone. There is no good in it for any southern man. The Right Kind of Democracy. Mr. N. B. Bates, one of the can didates for the legislature in tho j recent democratic primary, has offered his services to the party, to ! be used whenever and wherever the central committee may see tit to I assign him to speak or work. This is the kind of democracy j that all true democrats admire.! It is the kind that deserves recog nition at the hands of the party, and ought to be rewarded by suc cess in all party contests. In tendering his services to the j party after other men have been chosen the leaders in the coming j race, Mr. Bates has shown that the party would have been honored had he been one of the nominees. And it shows, too, that had he been successful in the primary there would have been a democrat on guard. Mr. Bates steps into the ranks to do service for tin* party, whose suc cess he considers more important than his own. Such unselfish men deserve well of the party under any and all circumstances, and we predict that before the years are many tho democratic party of Gwinnett county will honor Mr. Bates with a seat in the Georgia legislature, Kihtoh Auks, of the Macon Telegraph, is the best writer on the Georgia press. For clear and j concise statement he has no sup erior anywhere, and the fairness with which ho discusses political issues is reallv refreshing. The Mild In Sight. The defeat of populism in Ala bama by a majority 125 percent, larger than that of Jones over Kolb in 1892. in the death of that party there. The people of the south are conservative, and the revolutionary and anarchistic teachings of populism will never obtain a permanent foothold here. Good citizens, who affiliated with that party under u ppivlc-n-i A'-al ;I to :>•• -I' such an tin ir midst and with the strife s^^^^Kind -ttimpi'ile tow,arils the democratic column. Democracy will sweep Georgia next October with such an over whelming majority that populism will be practically wiped out. We make the prediction now that this is the last contest that this party will ever make in this state for governor and state house officers, and that there will be no candidates in Gwinnett county, next January, for county officers, on that ticket. From every sec tion of the county we have cheering news, and there is not a district that will fail to give a democratic majority at the next election. The people of Gwinnett have determin ed that the bickering and strife which have been kept up for the past two years shall cease, and that peace, good order and quiet shall take their place. This is as it should be, for there is no reason for the continuation of the present condition of affairs. We are one people, our interests and destinies are the same, and we should come together in a united effort for the promotion of the best interests of the whole. If relief is needed it cannot be secured by strife and division among ourselves, but only by united and harmonious action. Contemptible Journalism. There is a paper published in the city of Atlanta for the sole pur pose of slandering certain promi nent Georgians, who have incurred the enmity of the parties whp own and control it. This paper is not supported by a subscription list, or advertising patronage, but is is sued and circulated at the expense of its publishers, who seem to find ample compensation for their dir ty work in the privilege of inflict ing their venomous productions upon the public. During the cam paign for the democratic nomina tion for governor, this filthy sheet was circulated all over the state, at the expense of its owners, and was filled with the vilest and most contemptible slanders upon the character of one of the candidates. At present, while pretending to be a democratic sheet, and anxious for the success cf that party, it is spewing its venom upon the chair man of the state democratic ex ecutive committee, and predicting all sorts of misfortunes and disas ters to the party, unless this gen tleman is removed from that posi tion. Of course the parties behind this attack do not expect anything of the kind to be done, nor do they believe their conduct will subserve the interests of democracy. Their pretense to the contrary is hypoc risy of the most transparent vari ety, and conclusive evidence of in difference to their reputation for voracity or common decency. We suppose this is the first in | stance in the world where any set j of men have started a paper solely j for the purpose of abusing people | they dislike, and with no expecta tion of any return for their labor [and money, other than the gratifi | cation of publicly airing their own j cussedness. From the Utter con tempt and indifference with which | their malicious assaults have been ; treated by the people, these misera | Ido creatures know their want of ! power to really damage any ob ject of their spleen, yet are willing ! to spend their money for the filthy privilege of vomiting their rotten ' ness. The motive behind all this out- I rageous conduct is no secret to the people of this state, and it does ! seem that any man, with three j grains of common sense and the 'slightest respect for his own rep | utation, would absolutely be ashamed to continue such exhibi | tions of littleness and meanness. We refrain from calling this pa per by name, for the sole reason that it ought not to be advertised |or circulated among respectable ; people. If this notice should make any dog yelp the reader can 1 take it for granted that that is the , “purp” we are flinging at. A cheat many men who have | been populists have decided that ! nothing is to be gained by keeping | up strife in the country, and have come back to the old democratic party, which has stood the storm lof years and bids fair tocarrv us all safe into the harbor of good government. Let them court, There is a warm welcome for them i all- Probably They Forgot It. We publish in another column an extract from the Gainesville j Eagle, criticising the Gainesville convention for not endorsing the administration. We agree with the Eagle that the convention, in failing to men tion and endorse President Cleve land's efforts to have the congress of the United States give the peo ple democratic laws, fell short of its duty. As the Eagle says, the democratic party is divided on the financial question, ttut it seems to us that this division ought not to have lfe|Kjribing to do with a theadmin man. the only friend the south liaiWid in the presiden tial office since the war. In season and out of season, he has been the friend of the south and her insti tutions. He has recognized Geor gia in making up his cabinet, and has given Georgians several con sulships. In the light of these things, we think the convention fell short of its duty in failing to endorse Mr. Cleveland in as strong terms as words would express. However, we do not think the si lence of the convention can be construed into a condemnation of the administration. It is probable that the convention was in a rush to get through with the perfunc tory business of nominating the candidate it was sent there to nom inate, and owing to this fact failed to do its duty to the president. We believe that every member of the convention is a Cleveland dem ocrat, and that they would have endorsed him heartily if a resolu tion of that nature had been pre sented to them. They endorsed the state platform, and that, in it self, was an indirect endorsement of Mr. Cleveland and his views on public questions. We trust that the democrats of Georgia will not think we are op !■ posed to Mr. Cleveland simply be cause the convention of the ninth congressional district failed to en dorse him. Last Sunday Leroy Templeton, the populist candidate for govern or of Indiana in 1892, Philip Rap port, editor of The German Trib une, a populist paper, and “Col.” Allen Jennings, late a member of Coxy’s army, who had just return ed from Washington, were arrested and jailed by the city authorities of Indianapolis, for holding a pol meeting and making speeches on the Sabbath day. Warning had previously been given that this desecration of the’Sabbath would not be allowed, but this was abso lutely ignored, and the meeting held in defiance of tho authorities. This gang were a representative lot of the controlling element in the ranks of populism in the west, and their conduct should open the eyes of the decent and law abiding citi zens of this country to the true character of their much talked of “western allies.” The rank and file of the populist party, in Geor gia, are, to a large extent, law abiding citizens, who respect the Sabbath day, and favor law, order and common decency, and we have faith that these will abandon this hybrid crowd, when they learn who and what they are, and their real purposes. Hoar, the republican senator from Massachusetts, and the Home Market Club, of Boston, supplied Kolb with a large amount of mon ey for the purpose of dividing the solid south, in the interest of re publicanism, but the people of Al abama could not be corrupted. Hoar and the Home Market Club now have the experience, while the Alabamians have their shekels. To the extent of this corruption fund, the populists of our sister state have obtained “relief,” but the general opinion is that there has not been a general distribution of the “per capita” among the faith ful. Kolb, and a few of his lieu tenants, have kept the bulk of the pile for their own use. It seems that the eastern republicans will never learn that the great masses of the southern people cannot be bribed into betraying their section and that money sent hero for that purpose only serves to fill the pock ets of the scoundrels who get it un der false pretenses. The third party in Hall and Gwinnett Counties is dead. Real dead, too, for in the primary in Hall last Saturday 2,171 votes were polled. Both parties polled only 2,700 votes two years ago, and now the democrats voted nearly that number themselves. Gwin nett polled 1,847 votes in a prima ry last Saturday, and the county will go democratic in October by one thousand majority.—Jackson Herald. Many counties in Georgia are settling the United States sena torship by primary, and it is a sig nificant fact that Major Bacon is far in the lead over all opponents combined. This shows that the people are for Major Bacon, and we predict his triumphant election. TAI /vloav- VTV The Democratic Flag for til*' Years 1895*0. Gainksvii.i.k, Ga., Aug. 8, 1894. Hon. F. C. Tate, Washington, D. C. —Dear Sir: The undersigned were appointed by the democratic convention of the 9th congressional district of Georgia, which assembled in this city to-day, to notify you of your unanimous nomination as demo cratic candidate for representative ho the 54th congress. Every coun ty in the district was represented by delegates present in the con vention, and the proceedings were ! harmonious. Your record in the ! 53rd congress was indorsed and I your course as our representative commended. When the conven tion commissioned you as its stan dard bearer, we feel it performed a duty the democracy of the district owed to a faithful, able, conscien tious public servant, and beg to as sure you, in our opinion, its ac tion will be universally indorsed by the party and on election day overwhelmingly ratified by the people of your district. We re quest at your convenience that you signify your acceptance of said nomination. Yours most respectfully, L. G. Edwards, C. H. Brand, J. J. Kimsey, It. 15. Russell, H. H. Dean. Washington, D. C., Aug. 14, ’94. Messrs. C. H. Brand, L. G. Ed wards, J. J. Kimsey, R. B. Russell and H. H. Dean, Committee —Gen« tlemen: Your letter notifying me of my renomination to the 54th congress by the convention of the demo cratic party held at Gainesville on I the Bth inst, represented by dele | gates from each of the counties | composing the 9th congressional \ district, and requesting my aceept : ance, received. Appreciating the honor done me and gratified by confidence and ord as your - cept there-nomiiifcMxin sense of the obligations it imposes. Permit me very earnestly to thank you, and through you the vast number wlfom you represent, for this high h/nor paid me. In fact, I can believe that any man in public life lia3 had more friendly consideration by all the people, irrespective of their politi cal affiliations, than myself, and I shall always highly cherish the af fectionate regard, support and con fidence of the people of our dis trict. 1 assure you that I have no higher ambition than to serve faithfully and well the people whom I have the honor to repre sent, and to return to them, when ever they choose to have me do so, the high and honorable official trust reposed in me without spot or blemish When my legislative duties are ended at the capitol for this ses sion, I propose to return home at once and to make a thorough can vass of our district, and should the people approve my record as their representative and ratify your action, I promise to apply, as I have done in the past, what ever ability I possess to a faithful and painstaking discharge of the duties of the trust. Accept my thanks, gentlemen, for your kind words of approval and for the courteous manner in which you have made known to me the wishes of those whom you represent. Very truly vours, F. C. Tate. A Question And Its Answer. A correspondent, who signs him self “Democrat,” has a communi cation on the first page of this pa per, in which he propounds the Ishmaelitecertain questions,which call for an answer. To sum them all up in one, the inquiry goes to the point whether a man, who takes part in a demo cratic primary, is bound in honor to abide the result. The Ishmaelite unhesitatingly answers in the affirmative. This would be the necessary answer, even though there were no reference to such obligations in the resolution under which the primary is held. But when, as was the case in our primary, the rule under which they were held expressly stipulated that participa tion in them bound the participant to acceptance of the result, there ceases to be any doubt .at all as to the course any intelligent, honora ble man will pursue. Participat ing in the primary involved ac ceptance of the conditions under which it was held. It involved the giving of an informal pledge to abide the result in good faith. No honorable man, unless he be too densely ignorant to understand the nature of either expressed or implied obligation, will ever reach any other conclusion. Speaking for itself, the Ishmae lite does not hesitate to say that it would havenoconfidencein even the oath of the man who, either through fear, favor or hatred, trampled upon a voluntarily as- ( sinned oath—the more, where he tries to cover up the shamelessness under the hypocritical garb of a ficticious virtue. —Sparta Ishmae lite.