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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. ATLANTA, GA.» TUESDAY JUNE 8 1886
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ATLANTA, OjL, TUJBPiY, JUNE »■ MR
TO AGENTS.
The Sewing Machine offered by in
premium for the largest Hit of eubsorlbets
eent in during the month of April baa been
awarded to Mr. Thomas W. Chatnbliaa, of
Union Springs, Ala. He sent 300 subscrlb-
era during the month.
GKXKRALGajtnos charges as gallantly as
I.ook ont for new charges against Oonlon.
You’ll bear ol his doing something worse
than stealing a horse and wagon if this thing
continues.
GENERAL Cl.KMXNT A. EVAXS H*jrs;
"There is no man in Georgia whom tlie peo
ple of tieorgia could not better afford to aae
defeated than General Gordon.”
Til K men who have been declaring that
Union wonld sweep every county on the lint
Tuesday in June are the same men who bare
been electing erery man in tieorgia for the
past six years until he was debated at the
polls.
Tn kv confess that Genera! Gordon beat
’em in the skirmish, hut say he CAn’t hold
out We don’t know about that Ha was
as Mont-hearted and as strong of arm at Ap
pomattox as he was when he led the “Jtac-
coon J.’Pughs” In their first charge.
T.v kiiy honorable man who votes in a
parly nomination will vote for the party
nominee, whether it Is his choice or not. A
man who votes in the primary thereby
pledges himself to stand liy the nomination,
and no honorable man wonld break this
pledge. <
The Voice ot the reopts.
We liavc frequently remarked in these
columns that "words are cheap.” Wind is
even cheaper. The quiet people who have
Iwcn reading the llncon organs, and hearing
the Ilacon partisans for the past lew weeks,
will realize when they read the election re
turns elsewhere how valueless are words and
bow tickle is wind.
The Ilacon managers lixed np n lot oi
“safe” counties for Tuesday, with which to
snow General Gordon under. There were
tacnly-six votes, which the litUo courthouse
cliques had promised to deliver on the “first
Tneedsy.” Tho little mass meetings were
all “ent and dried,” and it really lookad as
if tha programme would ho carried ont. lint
of the twenty-six voles they bad hoped for,
the Macon ring only got 4 votes. General
Gordon captured 10 of them, and tho other 0
werepnt aside to ripen. This result is
astonishing even to the most sanguine Gor
don men. ft moat be a crusher to oven the
least sanguine Ilacon men.
Tncsday’e elections are the people's
answer to the political joggling that has been
going on for the past few months. It is ths
people's protest against the hasty little court-
Imnse meetings that make the clique am
pri me nnd the party subordinate. It is the
demand far fair and deliberate and open ex
pression of popnlar will. It it the answer
to tlnrke county's little convention of forty-
one democrats speaking for a thousand.
The verdict of Taerity Is the protest of
the fair-minded people of Georgia against
the siaudere ami abuse which baa liecn heap
ed on Gordon, her chivtlric mid illnstrleni
son. It is the answer to the blind nnd per-
aistent malice that for tlx yean has followed
him into private life and sought to not only
blast bit character, hni wreck hit private en
terprises. lie oaks no vindication and lights
no defensive campaign. Tills is the voiau-
tary and willing reply of the ninny who love
him to the few who hate him.
As cheering as the result of Tuesday is,
it should cause no friend of Gotdon's to lay
vffhis armor. The oppeoition will only
grow more desperate from this unexpected
and stinging reverse. The abase of Gordon
w ill 1* deepened. The bnckles of the liUlo
"ring” will be tightened. The little most
meetings will be hurried np, and tho men
who have promised to deliver the aoveroign
counties of Georgia to Mr. Bacon and Ida
violent little "ring,” will only strive tho
haidtr to do it. As surely as the liallob of
yesterday tell the tioidon men that victory
is theirs with hard work, jnst ns sorely do
they tell that victory ia impomlble without
hard work. If Tueqlny'a brilliant skir
mishing but teaches that vigilance and ear
nestness is the price ofracvom, it will develop
by the first Tuesday in July into an over
whelming victory.
Let ns repeat here that words are cheap.
It it votes that count. One day like Tues
day it worths month of boasting. Work-
quiet, determined, systematic work—is what
whips in politic*, os in business. The friends
of Gordon should not rely too much on tho
amazing personal strength of their candi
date—on the Justice oi hit cause—or on its
popnltr strength as developed yesterday.
They il.oald bat work ths harder now that
victory is the more certain.
Artec lbs Weviatng.
The marriage in the white borne, Wednes
day was a notable eveut;and sixty million
of onr people felt something more than a
sentiment) interest in the nuptials.
Alter all, It woa just the thing to have the
Mrrioge take place in the whits haute.
The fair bride frit that she stood, not in
the bridegroom’s house, but literally in the
house of her fathers, a beriatge which the
shares in common with the American pee-
pie.
Everything about this wedding was
typically American. There was no royal
flummery, no foreign flourishes. The bride
groom was a plain man of tho people, the
bride was simply a bright and sweet Ameri
can girl.
If there is anything in the customary
wishes for a bright and happy ftitare, the
president and bis bride will bead a pathway
strewn with roses. Wednesday pertles and
sections were forgotten, and the men and
the women of the land, with one impulse,
let their sympathies and congrmtaUtions go
oat to the nation’s chief and ths woman ot
bis choice. Their is rejoicing everywhere.
It is in order to congratulate everybody.
This episode luu'to much of the bright side
I of human nature in it that it ia a good thing
for the country as well aa for tha president
tfo the people think, nnd they are generally
right >
A Word to tbe Farmers.
Every intelligent former feels that be
should take on interest in the selection of
public officers. It is part of bis dnty to see
that honest and capable men art chosen. As
a rule, tbe farmer is tire safest voter. He
for removed from the bewildering and mis
leading currents of city life, and makes np
his mind deliberately, impartially, and
usually wisely. That which encourages the
farmers In vote is to be commended—that
which discourages thsir voting to bo COD'
demned.
Wo call attention lo a conspiracy that will
practically disfranchise the farmer if it is
earried ont. Wo refer to tbe plan of little
mass-meetings held in courthouses for nornt
Dating democratic candidates. In the con
test between General Gordon and Major Ha
con, General Gordon’s friends favor primary
elections. Major Baron's friends favor
couitiionse meetings.
In a primary election each man votes in
his own precinct at any time during the day
he ran find it convenient. In u county
meeting ho la compelled to ride to the conn
ty town and most be there at a certain
hour, or he loses his vote. By voting at
each prednet it is only a ride of a mile or
two for each voter. The county town is
often twenty miles distant from many vot
ers. These last are disfranchised if they
cannot afford to ride so far.
In n primary election each voter is a sov
ereign. Ilia vote goes into the ballot-box
and counts as much. nr any man's. In a
connty-meeting some lawyer, witli a sharp
tongue and the gift of speech and pari inmen'
tary tricks, will take the floor and joggle a
hundred farmers ont of their rights. A “cut
nnd dried” programme will he rashed
through by the clique accustomed to sack
Uilngv while qniet and sonaible farmers,
knowing it to be nowise nnd unfair, have no
time to protest. The primary balances all
this. The ballot-box receive* every vote,
and one vote counts just ns heavily us any
other.
There is tbe comity of (iwiuetl. Tbe
Gordon men wanted a primary—the Bacon
men a mass meeting. In n primary esah
man wonld have voted in his own precinct
with little trouble or lorn time. As it is,
he is Toned to ride clear into Lawrence-
villc or lose his vote. When he gets iato
I-awrenroville he is apt to find n few mea ia
control of thoruceting and be loses his vote
and his trouble liotb.
Bear one thing in mind. Thoro ie no rev
son on earth for refusing to give tbe people
the right to vote in their own precincts ex'
cept the fear of tbe people'a vcidict. Tito
mass-meeting is the weapon of the "ring.”
It ia the method by which tho clique tries to
override the people by holding tbe meeting
so far from their homes that they cannot at
tend or by bamboozling them niter they gel
Into tbe mccting.The Bacon men fight againat
primaries liecause they ore afraid of the
people, Tlie Gordon men want primaries
because they are willing to trust the people,
lithe people rebuke tbe courthouse meeting
by beating their candidate there will be no
more gnullng in tbe ftitare, hut fair play
ail round.
Squally Times in England.
Tha excitement over the home rule bill
aurpasacs anything that baa been witnessed
in England during the present generation.
Nothing is thought of but the political situs-
lion. Business is a secondary considera
tion, and even the gayest society circle! sub
stitute polities fur their easterner/ small
talk.
Gladstone bos faced emergencies before,
and tbe courage ot his ronvietioaa baa sus
tained him in a many trying crisis. Bat
Ih* great premier bus never had to contend
with llerrcr opposition than that which con
fronts him now. The aristocrats denounce
the veteran statesman as a "traitor,”
"dotard,” "liar” and "fool." It it aahl
that the premier wonld ho In dauger of be
ing mobbed in tho lobby, if hosboaid show
himself unattended outside ol tho doors of
tlie house of commons, liut it is well kuown
that the men who surround him would be
eqaul to the occasion.
In spite of the frantic prediction of civil
war made by the opponents of heme rule
there it good reason to believe that the
measure is steadily growing in popular fa
vor. Its defeat and the dissolution of par
liament nuinot eliminate this issue from
English politics. The lUInro of home rule
in parliament simply means that th* dual
battle mnit lie fonght ut the polls. Mr.
Gladstone and his friends know how to tako
rare of themselves when they stand taco to
faro with the people. The home rulers,
therefore, still have a fighting chance, bit it
w ill take work to win.
The Kiesaco at Ontanlsatioa.
The very essence of party organization is
involved in accepting and abiding by every
verdict fairly rendered by tbe party.
A contest for n democratic uamiustion ie
worse than nselcsq unless the friends of
each candidate agree to support the nomi
nee. If the friends of each candidate declare
that they will oppose the nominee unions
their favorite is nominated, than hr neither
settee or justice in making a light Car the
nomination.
No man should engage in a contest for a
party nomination who does not intend in
good faith to stand by tlie nominee, wko-
tver he may lw, provided he ia fairly nomi
nated. Every man who goes into a fight for
a party nomination it hound in honor to ac
cept tho result when It la fairly amevtalnad
and declared. No man who joins la a party
straggle has tbe right to make his own opin
ion absolute over that of tbe party majority.
Dr. Felton, who Is actively engaged in
tho rented between General Gordon end
Major Karen, favors Mejor Bacon's nomina
tion. He ttys If Major Bacon isi
be win support him; that if General Gordon
is nominated ho will not aupport him. Dr.
Felton undoubtedly haatherigbt to take this
position. Every man has the right to decide
whether or not he would vote for any man.
But no democratic newspaper and no demo
cratic convention will nay that men who
take a leading part in the druggie for tbe
democratic nomination are not bound to
abide the result of tbe party vote when it is
fairly cast and counted. Without this being
instiled on, there ia no each thing art party
discipline and party organization become*
simply a by word.
We see no reason for pressing this point
further. We simply submitjt to a thought
ful and reaaonable democrats of the state.
Here is a gentleman pat forward as the lead
ing champion of Mqjor Bacon, whorls trying to
get tire democratic nomination forgovtmor.
He declares openly that he will not support
Major Bacon’s opponent eren if he is fairly
nominated. Democrats will see precisely
what this mnst lead to, and a* Major Bacon’s
friends continue Dr, Felton in the field os
their champion, they stand in tbe attitude
of indorsing his position.
Tammany's Leader.
Tire announcement of the death of John
Kelly is not unexpected. For months Iris
condition has been serious, nnd but for bis
vigorous constitution, he would have been
dead a year ago.
There ie lio doubt that John Kelly com
mitted many errors of judgment in the
course of hia career an chief ot Tammany,
hut he was driven to it by the strenuous op-
imsitiori which he met at tbe hands of demo
crats who were jealons of .his influence nnd
who sought to cripple him. It ivns this
strenuous opposition on the part of ambitious
democrats that placed John Kelly aud Turn-
many in a false attltndesome years ago, and
that gave the whole country reason to lie-
licvc that Tammany was ready to defeat the
democratic party for a consideration.
John Kelly was nbove bribery, hut Ire was
not above tbe small revenges that politicians
sometimes indulge In. This was his weak
ness. lfe thought that he owed it to himself
and to those he represented to try to punish
evety small fellow that crossed his path.
Tims, while he was a great manager of men
—second only to Mr. Tilrlen in this respect—
lie lacked the philosophy that enables one
fo enjoy the fruits of victory. While he was
not personally ambitious, bis management
was personal, 'and it iron owing to this fact
that Tammany, under his administration,
was both stronger nnd weaker than it lias
ever been before or mnee.
Mr. Ktephens, in 1880, laid that he regard
ed John Kelly as tits ablest, parest and
truest statesman he had ever met from New
York. Those who buvo only heard of Mr.
Kelly as a politician will be surprised to know
that he was a man of wide culture and a close
student. He had his frailties, as other mou
have, lint he was a true man and a good dem
ocrat.
The Masting la Haralson.
There has never beeu n piece of political
jugglery in Georgia to equal that recently
displayed in Haralson county.
Now mark it corcftilly! When the execu
tive committee met ten days ago the Gordon
men asked for a primary. The Bacon men
rcftiscd it nnd voted n mass meeting. Then
tho Gordon men asked for tho moss meeting
to be put off thirty days. Tbe Baron meu
rcftiscd this nnd ordered a mass meeting in
ten days, which put it on the first Tuesday
in June.
The Gordon men were outraged, bat ac
cepted the situation and went to work,
When the first Tnesdcy in Jane came thcro
were more people in Backauan than tire
court house could bold. Tho meeting ad
journed to a church, and the charch wonld
not hold them. An issue was mode for a
chairman, the Gordon men and tbe Bacon
men each nominating a man. It was ar
ranged that the matting should go out of
doors, and the Gordon men get in one line
and the Bacon men in another. This was
done. The Gordon line was at least three
times as long os tbe Bacon line. Borne of
oar accounts any fonr times as long. The
people bad become indignant at tbe action of
tbe committee and had turned ont in force to
relink* it.
When it was ascertained that Gordin's
friends had tho meeting by an overwhelming
majority the lktron men then demanded a
primary, and demanded thatit Ire pat off
nntil the first Tuesday in July. After con-
sidcruhlc wrangle the Gordon men accepted
tlie evidence of conversion on the part of the
Bacon men and agreed to postpone nntil the
first Tuesday in July, nnd then take n pri
mary. They had the meeting by three to
one nnd ronld have selected delegates. They
had a clear right to do to, os the llorou men
bad called the meeting and pnt it np early
over their protest; but they finally agreed,
nnd the matter waa niljonrned. Of conrie,
Haralson ia safe for Gordon whenever it acts.
Ulster Ready for War.
The province of Ulster threatens to give
the Britieb government no end of trouble.
It lias been rumored for sometime that
the Orangemen or Frotettauta in Ulster
would resist home role, and the indications
are that they wilt not wait for tha passage
of the bill, bnt will arm themselves in ad
vance.
Onr London ndvicee report a general nn-
easiness on the suhject tn England. The al
leged organization of an Orange army is not
n matter to be treated lightly, and the Fall
Moll Gazette's suggestion ns to tha unre
liability of British soldiers in any conflict
with the Orangemen is ftrtl of significance.
It is a matter of history that in the past the
Orangemen recroited their societies from the
rank and file ef the army. What they have
done they may do ognin. They may al
ready have a strong army element under
their control.
This Ulster titrable will test England's
fairness os well aa her power. Khe has al
ways been prompt in butchering, imprison
ing and beggaring Irish Catholics when they
dtfied the government with arms in their
hands Will she he equally prompt in pun
ishing Irish l’roteetants when they array,
themselves in open rebellion against the
government? Tire Ulsterites have always
boasted of tbeir loyalty to tbe crown, bat it
was when tbe crown sided with them agaiast
lire Catholic*. Now, that it is proposed to
give Catholic Ireland something like local
self government, the sincerity of Ulster will
b* pnt to a crucial test. If they attempt by
violence to defeat home rale, they should be
dealt with aa pnblie enemies. The greatest
many that ronld ha shown them would be
to aoppnm them before they get under full
headway.
Dr. Felton’s Alrosa of Gordon.
The moat remarkable speech in bitterness
and abnse that onr slate boa heard is that
now being made by Dr. Felton against Gen
eral Cordon. No other Georgian in oar mem
ory haa talked so malignantly of another
Georgian.
The titrable with Dr. Felton’a speech Is,
that in order to credit it, you mnst believe
that General Gordon is a tblet, a liar, a
bribe-taker, a perjurer and a coward. There
is no possible middle ground. Dr. Felton’s
speech means nothing or it means all this.
Tbe man who does not believe that Gordon
took bribes nnd then swore he didn’t—that
he haa tied and stolen—that he has dealt
criminally with his people, aud then, tike a
coward, took refuge in forswearing—tbe man
who does not believe all this of John B. Gor
don, can find neither sense or reason in Dr,
Felton’s poisonous words.
Can Georgians Ire brought to believe all
this uf tbe brave and illustrious soldier—the
stainless and distinguished civilian—the
Georgian whose body is covered all over with
scars won in fighting for Georgia's rights, aud
whose name is illumined with Georgia's
highest honors? Do even his enemies wish
that such a resnlt should he brought nbont ?
Does even his opponent desire to win by
sutlr means as these?
The second trouble with Dr. Felton'i
speech is that its snimns is plain. General
Gordon, at the call of the democratic party,
went into Dr. Felton’i district and led the
party hosts in the fight for organized demon-
racy. He alone of all prominent Georgians
(excepting the Hon. Thomas Hardeman)
went into tbe seventh, and from connty to
county fonght by the side of Lester. Many,
vve may say most, of Dr. Felton's supporters
recognized tire fact that in responding to the
call ol' his party, General Gordon simply did
bis dnty as he saw it, and they are now
among iris strongest supporters. Bat Dr.
Felton Iras not forgiven. And he takes his
hand at revenge.
The third trouble with Dr. Felton’s speech
is that he is always bitterer than the facts or
tbe character of Iris opponents will justify.
Take what he said of the sainted Hill—as
pare a patriot as Georgia ever produced,
When Mr. Hill was already suffering from
fatal disease which caused his death, Dr.
Felton wrote of him, what a member of hia
family called, "tho meanest words ever ut
tered or written of him.” Among
other tilings, after signing in
in detail that Mr, Hill had acted
corruptly ns a senator, Dr. Felton says that
he approached a door while Senator Hill was
speaking. Of his feelings while listening to
tbe great Georgian, he says:
“1 remembered also that some man approached
Peter when hu Master was on trial and sold to
Mm: "Thou also art a Gallllean: thy speech be-
Irsyctli thee." Lest 1 should be asked, “Art thou
alro a Georgian?” I left In shame and disgust,
bike Peter I would have dented the aoft Impeach
ment."
Think of tills! Think of Dr. Felton leav
ing a room in which Georgia’s peerless Sena
tor Benjamin H. Hill was speaking, for fear
be would he disgraced by it being discovered
he nl-o was from Georgia! Dr. Felton says
“he left in shame and disgust,” and avers
Hint if any one had asked him if he was from
lire same state es Mr. Hill he would have
“denied it” beennne of his “shame and dis
gust.” These wonts, incredible os they
seem, are quoted verbatim from Dr. Felton's
printed letter of January 19th, 1882, in The
Constitution.
This is not the worst of Dr. Felton’s abuse
of Senator Hill. He calls him “a deliberate
fnlsfier of the troth.” He says of Mr. Hill, as
gentle a man nnd as frank as ever lived,“Yon
can measure his malignity by his hypocrisy.”
He says ef ono of Mr. Hill's public acts:
“Thank God my democracy is not smirched
by snch a crime a* this.” Mr. Hill hod
written him a friendly aud affectionate let
ter. Of this latter he ssyi: "Although fail
of liti peculiar affection, it wo* so dogmatic,
impertinent presnmlng nnd offensive that
my wife Mid: "Lookout for an utroc'ous
attack on you.”
He (briber saysol Mr. Hill:
' Bos tbe man become tnssno that be Hum Id
thus belle hlmieir. • • 1 charge that be
Is dishonest la th* representation ot hb pcoplo
and patty In the senate. • * • Does he deny
his double dealings, fids* friendship and freed fbr
mcn-jr in the OolqulU-Murphy embrofUo.”
Let ns quote one more expression. He says
of Mr. Bill:
"The embodiment of self-conceit. • • * He
hu done nothing worthy fbr his country and state
that nlll live in th* memory of the true, thagaod
and the patriot.” '
The shaft of white marble which immor-
talixes the memory and tbe features of Sen
ator Hill, and nbont which 30,000 Georgians
lately gathered to honor hie name and fame,
testifies that Dr. Felton was, to say tho least
of it, mistaken in his prophecy concerning
Mr. Hill Ia it not fair lo presume be Is also
overreaching tbe troth in hia abuse of Gen
eral Gordon? He was just u positive and
os special and as bitter in his chargee against
Mr. Hill’i honor and character a* againat
General Gordon. Even worse, fbr he said,
while suffering with “shame end disgust” at
Mr. Hill's course in Washington, that if be
hod been asked If he "also woe a Georgian,”
be wonld have dented his own birth place.
We believe he has not gone so far a* thti even
with General Gordon. What he any* about
Gordon is in the vehemence of speech. What
he sold about Mr. Hill waa written in cold
deliberation in his own private room, and
read and re-read and printed. He was cer
tainly wrong then. Why is he not wrong
now?
We give Dr. Felton credit for believing
tint he regrets ever having written there
words of Mr. HilL In contemplation of
Mr. HUl’s grand and heroic life, he mast ad
mit that they were crnel and unjustifiable
words. The time will come when he will
teal jnst this way about the cruel and un
justifiable things be Is now saying in passion
about General Gordon. Neither Hill or
Gordon deserved such words. And to hurl
such abuse at two such illustrious Georgians
ia a very poor btuineas and utterly unworthy
a man of Dr. Felton’s intellect and position.
The time will come when be will realize
this.
Slavery In tlw Mill*.
The Bov. J. S. Mejnardie, of Angaria,
who is attending tbe convention of the
Knights of labor in Cleveland, gives a sad
scronntof affairs in the mills of that city.
He soys that native whitechildren fire years
uf age work in the mills from twenty min
utes to six in the morning nntil half-post six
in the evening, eating their dinners at the
mill while working. Many of the children
are compelled to go barefooted Id th* winter.
ThochiMisn earn from fifty cent* to aw
dollar a week, and nearly one hundred of
them are now in the lari stages of consump
tion. Mr. Mcynxrdie mokes other revela
tions, nnd the whole matter fans been trans
ferred to the executive hoard.
Viewing the natter from an impartial
standpoint, it seems to ns that the parents
who permit their five-year-old children to
work in the mills are more to blame than
the superintendents who permit It, though
there is blame on both sides. The remedy
is not a strike or * boycott, bnt the inaugura
tion of a policy that will prevent infants from
engaging in manual labor for which only
odnlts are fitted. Augusta should have a
society for the prevention of cruelty to chil
dren.
Bo far as the Knights of Labor are concern
ed, they should first.turu their attention to
the manufacturing towns of New England,
where white slavery ha* been in vogaofora
hundred years. There the children nnd tlie
operatives are in a worse fix than they are in
the south. Let tlie south inaugurate are-
form in New England^
General Gordon Gets Three to One-
General Gordon carried three counties Sat
urday and Mqjor Bacon carried one. Union
connty, which is still tobear from, undoubted-
ly went for Cordon. If It did, tbe rote ol yes
terday stands eight for Gordon and two for
Bacon. The vote of Saturday as heairrl from
is Gordon six and Bacon two.
No sensible man can doubt what nil this
means. In Douglas and in White the vote
was ten to one for Gordon. Tbe most sig
nificant resnlt was that oi Mitchell. Hera
is n connty in the territory Mqjor Bacon has
claimed as his own. He once lived in the
county, and Iras strong connections there.
It supported him strongly in 1843. He
made an elaborate speech in tbe county the
evening before the election. General Gor
don never visited the connty. He had no
organization there. But tire people rose up
and took care of liis interests, and smashed
tbe ent and dried programme Hint had been
fixed to give tbe county to Bacon.
Botue of Baron’s friends have said Gordon
wonld get no votes in southwest Georgia.
He Iras carried every county in southwest
Georgia that has acted since he came out—
viz: Lee, Dooly aud Mitchell.
These facts are cheering to General Gor
don’s friends us they are surprising to Mqjor
Baron’s. They should not delade the Gor
don men into a moment of ease or idleness.
It is work—constant, vigilant, systematic
work—that wins in politics as in business.
If the elections of Tuesday and Batnrday
make victory for Gordon sore, lot every
Gordon man understand that over-confidence
is the one thing that is fatal. Let erery
Gordon man redouble his efforts for his be
loved leader, anil victory will lie not only
sure bnt overwhelming.
•Dr.MIlburn on the Devil.
Dr. Miiburn, the blind chaplain of tha
bonce of representatives, is qnito successful
in shocking Washington society. A few
nights ago his description of the loves of
Goethe canaed cold chills to run down the
decollete backs of the married belles and
maidens. This was bad enongb, bnt the
doctor was not satisfied. He got his battery
in readiness for another shock, and lost Ban-
day he devoted a portion oi ills sermon to a
description of the devil.
According to Dr. Milbaro it is barbarous
nonsense to represent the devil as n person
age with hoofs, herns, toil and pitchfork.
That was the inedicival devil. Tbe devil of
today is a polished gentleman in appearance.
He but been^ in London, Paris, New York,
WnahiDgton'and Ban Francisco. He knows
the world, and knows human nature. He
moves in the best society and is much ad
mired, HedrcsMein faultless taste. So
much for his general description. But tbe
doctor goes into particulars. He says:
Bis cold grir e,e looks steadily at you and tss-
clnatcs yon perhaps. He has thin, delicate Ups
and fine nostrils that an tartly curved In acorn.
One xreat feature of the modem devil ia that he
never become! enthualaiUe over anything. You
may ahow him the meat beautiful nuuet or natur
al view, the moat ran and valuable painting or
piece of itatuary, aud with his cold gray eye he
n lll Ieoh steadily at 11 and makt some disparaging
remark. You cannot print out s man or a woman
that he will not disparage. He if a cynic, a
ihtitophlles. He eaten your drawlng-roomi
your churohea. He coatee trouble tad dtneu-
aton every when. He disparages the brethren.
Now tills Is pretty Mud on men with cold
gray eyes, thin delicate lipe nnd fin* nostrils.
It ia rough, too, on tho critics and men who
know human nature. We are not surprised
to learn that some very estimable aociety
people seriously object to Dr. Miiburn’s
portniturs'ofthe devil. Perhaps snch fiuicy
•ketches are in doubtful taste. Fortunately
pcoplo who desire Adler information on the
subject ore not compelled to go to Dr. Mil-
brun nor to the devil.
Blander Doesn’t Fay In Georgia.
We commend to those who think, in spite
of hitter awl repeated experience, that slan
der will pan in Georgia politics tlie follow
ing ringing resolntloas adopted by the
staunch democracy of the mountains in
White county on Batnrday:
Resolved, That ws hare witnessed with strong
est indignation ths conns of tlie opponent of lieu-
era! John B. Gordon, In the wholesale issue and
circulation of mallcloua and slanderous charges la
reference to him.
Second, That our confidence la him Uunshakcu,
and that hia purity of character aa a private citi
zen, and hit brilliant record as a gallant soldier,
and hit ability aa * statesman, challenge our
big heat admiration.
Thinl, That our delegates to the nominating
convention, to be held lu Atlanta July at, be in-
i trotted to vote for John B. Gordon first, tut and
all the time.
These resolutions will strike home to ten
thousand Georgia hearts today. Slander is
shout the poorest crop yoa can plant on the
good old red hills of Georgia.
Two Contrasts to Study.
General Gordon on the stamp bean will
ing testimony to the ability and integrity of
his opponent. Uopayt him a high compli
ment and deprecates any slanderous allus
ion to him.
In the meantime, General Gordon is
abased and slandered shamefully by the
Bacon men from one end of the state to the
other. . He is denounced os a liar, coward,
bribe-taker, imbecile and oorroptienist. The
dirtier (he slander and the viler the abuse,
the more eagerly it is sought nnd circulated.
General Cordon is a gallant man, who
fights with the frankness and courage of a
soldier. His opponents are jnst the reverse.
General Gordon, in bis Dawson speech,
declared that Major Baron waa an honorable
man, aud that if tltqnomination fell to him
be would support him heartily and sin
cerely.
Dr. Felton, who Is Mqjor Bacon’s leading
champion, said openly In hi* apeocb at
Monteonma, that if General Gordon wen
nominated he would not support him. Tbit
assertion wag received with applause by the
Bacon men, and has been repented with
great gusto by Dr. Felton.
General Gordon is a good democrat, and
will stand by the nominee whether the
choice of the party pleases him or not. The
Bacon men are wreckers, and nee the party
only as a means to serve their selfish ends;
They declare they will not support the party
unless it names their man.
We submit these two contrasts to tbe sober-
thinking, fair-minded people of Georgia.
They involve important principles that the
people themselves should settle.
General Gordon fights fairly and decorous
ly, and will abide the nomination. His op
ponents fight from the bush with slander,
and will bolt the nomination if it don’t suit
them.
Maxwell’s Big Mistake.
When the defense uf Maxwell, the SU
Louis trunk murderer, is summed np it
amounts simply tothis: He killed his friend
accidentally, and then got drank, and in bin
boozy condition conducted himself like an
ordinary criminal.
If Maxwell drunk managed to make hia
way to the antipodes, it is fair to presume
that Maxwell sober would have escaped en
tirely. lie is intelligent, nsed to traveling,
and he had money and a good start What
prevented him from elnding justice? I.!quor,
nothing else.
Few great criminals would have beeu so
foolish ns to follow Maxwell’s ’example if
they had stood in his shoes. If Maxwell
ever needed a sober head on his shoulders it
was when the dead body of his friend lay
before him. Bnt Instead of keeping hi* wito
nbont him this monumental fool conld think
of nothing better than to fill himseli up with
liquor. Like any other drunken mail he
then attracted attention wherever he went
His silly gabble aroused suspicion every
where. When he bought his traveling outfit;
when he had his hair cut; when he introduced
himself to the people on the train; when he
stopped in Son Francisco, and when he
mnde acquaintances on the steamer, he left
a broad trail everywhere, making it an easy
matter to trail him.
If this remarkable case shows that n crimi
nal cannot safely tamper with liquor, (tat
the same time points a very obvious moral
for men who are not criminals. It is just
this: In the emergencies of life demanding
a clear head, quick decision and complete
self-possession, tho man who tools with
liquor will get left if he idles upon himself
aloue. Maxwell’s career would make a
pretty strong temperance story.
Tbe General and the Private.
The Angusta News remarks that the pri
vate soldier who marches along, footsore nnd
weary, nnd who does the real fighting, de
serves os much credit os tbe general who
rides a line hone, never gets tired nad has n
safe position on the battle field.
That is true, every word of it. No man
honors the private soldier mare than General
Gordon does; and it ia the private •sol
diers that lave General Gordon. He was not
tlie sort of general tho News writes about.
He never rode when he saw a footsore soldier
walking. Wo have printed instance after
instance of where he got off his horse and
walked for miles while a tired or crippled
soldier rode. Many anightdid ho spend by
the side of a wounded soldier, ministering
to his comfort. He loved the private sol
diers, and they loved Mm. Ho shored with
them their dangers and privations. He was
not one of the News’ generals who held safe
positions on the battle field. He was always
in the thickest of the fray. He hears on Ms
body as many wonnds as any private soldier
in his army.
But don’t the general and tho private both
deserve os much honor aa the "adjutant”
who resigned from the regiment early in tho
war and went home?
Tbe members of Gordon’s old brigade stood
by hint with a devotion and love that la sim
ply unalterable. Do the members of tho
"Ninth Georgia” stand by Adjutant Bacon
with tho same sort of lore? General Gordon
has had dozens of letters, saying in sub
stance, “1 am for you. I was in the Ninth
Georgia, and I cannot sopport Hr. Bacon.”
Judge the general and tho private by tlioir
records; and Judge the adjutant by tbe samo
test.
Tbe State Road and General Gordon.
The main point nude by Dr. Felton
against General Gordon is, that if elected,
he will rob the state of the State road.
General Gordon boa declared politicly
again and again that be will never consent
to the sale of the Btate road, and that if
elected governor, will veto any hill looking
to the sale of the State road.
Does any man believe that General Gor
don, having publicly pledged that he would
never consent to the sale of the State rood,
wonld then consent to its sale?
The charge is eimply a desperate means
with which to bolster Mr. Bacon’s killing
cause.
Major Bacon and tbe "Atlanta Ring.”
We regret that we cannot get any oi the
Bacon organs to help as tell the people about
the time Mqjor Bacon sent for Senator Brown
and begged for his support.
It was daring the Boynton-Bacon conven
tion. Major Bacon had made a big fight
against on alleged "Atlanta ring,” said to
be headed by Senator Brown. His platform
was eternal opposition to th* alleged ‘ ’ring.”
He bad rallied M* friends on that distinct
and only issue.
And yet, when the crisis hod come in the
convention, and they were fighting on the
Hear against this alleged "ring,” Major Ba
ron quietly went down stairs; got in the
back room of the comptroller general’s
office aud sent a trusted friend to find Sen
ator Brown and oak him for a private inter
view. The friend found Senator Brown,
who went with him to eee Mqjor Bacon.
They had a private interview in the bock
room el tlie comptroller 1 * office. In tbe
meantime the matter got out. Bacon’s
friends were at first incredulous. But when
they were convinced, they become indignant
and threatened to denounce him on the liooi
oT the convention. And now, this is the
man that is leading another fight against on
alleged “Atlanta ring.”
These fiicta ore indisputable. They have
never been denied. They never can he. If
stands ns th* absurd and ludierant issue of
this campaign that Bacon, after fighting tha
slleged.ring fora year, got in a hack room,
in the very shadow of the convention, (ought
a private Interview with the alleged leader
ef the "ring” and earnestly besought his
support.
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