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07 THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. ATLANTA, GA.» TUESDAY JUNE 8 1886 THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. entered at tee Aitania fett-omro u mcaai-tum Rail matter, November U, 1*71 Weakly Conitltntion, ll.Mp»r annum. Onto orSvan.W3e*ch: club* of too *W0 ««* IBdoooff lonttoropd^tSuO. A WORD WITH YOU. IlrwtmoU aabaertbor to Tha Oonttl- tWUon, tbU copy U wot you ot a aainpla, earth * request that yon examine and daclda whether or not yon want to taka It. Yon need a food poporfor 18*8. Wo think Tho OonnUtntiaa 1. tho boot popor yoa can fot. Ploaoo|ozamlno?t canlnllr. Road It, com* para li with other paparo.and oond no your fabocrlptlon. It will bo tho boot lorootmont yon aror made. Try It one year and yon trill aoTcr quit It. 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. [ INDISTINCT print ^