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THE WEE&Z.Y CONSTITUTION. aTLANTA, GA., TUESDAY JUNE 15,1886
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ROUTED!
Continued from Tenth Pile.
would telYne with Ms own lire teat he did not re
sign In the lntereit of Joe Brown, end that he wu
not now making the race for governor at the bid
ding of Jm Brown, I would rapport him. laiked
General (lord on them questions at Forsyth Bator-
dar, and ho aald ha knew nothing of Brown’s ap
pointment to the senate, and, farther, wu not run
ning In Ms Interest now; and so, as I bare stated
Respectfully; T. B. Lyons.
A SLANDER NAILED.
- r fold for bis Influence, and that
he conspired with Stanley Mathews to sell the
presidency which Mr. Tllden had woo. Such a
S is too extreme and too preposterous to so-
day. It Is known tnat Henator Gordon,
DB COUld hSTO
uy resigned tils seat In the
neorrnptlbleahdnnapproachat^lsnd^ei
to Ms people with dean hands and
oown the commission which ho had spent
In trying to encode, General Gordon Is u
n man u ever came to Washington.’’
The tbovo expresses the general acntlment
in Washington.
Governor Smith on Dr. Felton.
A CpwtTmmoH reporter asked Governor
Smith If be had anything to ny about Dr. Felton's
charge that he had atone time a pecuniary In
tend In the convict leese. Governor Smith re
plied,
*’J noticed the statement and I have only to lay
that Ittaalto-a deliberate and wilful lie—and Dr
Felton knew It wu a lie when he uttered It.'
“There Is one thing further,’’ said Governor
Smith, "1 want to uy while on thle subject. And
1 want you tour It for me. The state df Georgia
bu never seen anything to equal tho persistence
and maglignaney with which thle old man hu
slandered almost every man In public life. No
matter how pure aman may be, the moment heln-
cun the hostility of this old fellow that moment
he becomes a corrupt scoundrel, and all the abuse
that malice can suggest poured on his head. To
heas him talk he huall the purity In bis own
heart and everybody else Isa villain. Nothing Is
too sacred for his dsdllng tongue, no character too
high or too dearly bought for his Infamous abuse.
“One man 'after another hu been villaed and
slandered by him until the patience of the people
is about exhausted. History hu never seen the
like of It but once. That Wu tho cue or Titus
Oates. You remember bln. He wu a reverend
slanderer also, and ho went about wlth hli hands
crossed an his breast, lying on and slandering the
honest men of Engltnd until tho people rose
against him ana the rascal wu soourged on his
naked hack Horn Charing (horn to the Tower. Fel
ton Is the only successor to Titus Oakes, and the
hands of the people of Georgia aio now Itching to
rise np end giro him a political hogging from
’near Cartenrllle to Ttbee light;' '•
The Republicans Carried Catoosa.
Bqisgold, Ga.,
toot a county, on tb*
tipn, which resulted _
tatea to the Atlanta convention, and thefanny
thing about it la the way they were elected. Ca
toosa has 800 voters, 200 of vrhfeh axe
republicans. Now, there were only about lour
hundred votes polled in the pi Ira ary, and over on
hundred of those were republicans, and there 1
-* *- i (>*„ fl n ,
only
have been badly d<
d. Ga. Jane 12.—FSDeclal/1—Ci*
on the 1st Inst, held a primary eleo-
resulted in the election of Bacon dele*
they will hot votaftwGordoi "if ho is nominated.
The executive commltteoof the county is to.blame
for all this for declining to limit the vote to d .mo*
crataonly. ‘ .
PROGRESS OF THE CAMPAIGN.
Editor Larry Gantt, or the Athena Banner-
Watchman, la well known u one of the most In
fluential licutcnaula.of Major llscon In Ihoprcscnt
candidacy of tho latlcr against. General Gordon.
Itlsbntjustlcoto him, however, to say that ho
probably found himself In this position before he
knew It, but haring got there dou his beat to
malntalnlt. In other words, he put his foot in tho
Bacon trap before General Gordon announced him-
•elf and then found that he could not convenient
ly extricate himself, being pretty much In the
same attitude u Statesman Walsh.
But Editor JGantt.hu dona his beat .to rastaln
his position and hu been foremost In urging that
It was fashionable for all tho other loxcs to have
their tails cut oft |Ho huldone this by denouncing
injthe Bsuner-Wetchmani General iGordon’ajrcsIg-
natlon In the moot vigerous manner, and hu been
kmd In hla sttackSof the "bargain and salo.” Uo
bu also defended the men meeting method of tho
Bacon following, and made hlSOwn, Clarke coun
ty, the model lor others to follow in carrying out
IhlspoUey.
It will bo remembered that Editor Gantt wu
once the editor and proprietor of tho Oglethorpe
Echo, published In Lexington, ft wu then, u
sow, one of tho foremost i weeklies of the state.
Tho paper, u conducted by Editor Gantt, became
famous throughout the state onaccouutof tho
Journalistic ability of Its editor,'which Indeed hu
bean displayed to a still greater utent In tho col-
mure of the Burner-Watchman.
The following axoerpte taken from some eld
flits of the Echo will no doubt boot Interest both
to Editor Gantt and the nubile:
Each paper bears at the head of Its columns,
“ThS Oglethorpe Ecbo-By T. L. Gantt."
Now for toot indent history.
The Echo of December 12,«», In an editorial on
"Party Nominations" says:
We think the Isolated suecaaaei of the Independ
ent party In this state can ha dinoUy traced to the
mania with the organised for nominating oonren-
m- a AamAPrat wnntrl hMlIala M stkaw
tlon let than bo bo eonrthoaae clique, bat s
IMr expression of tho will of the people clvtn
In b primary election, with ballot boxes
opened at ovary voUng precinct. By this plan
wo can taka the wind from the sales of the inde-
pendents, and lows them to either disband or light
snider a republican flag.
The same excellent paper, “By T. L. Gantt,”
aaya In lta Issue of February S, UN:
We do not believe that Felton car
the seventh district. Tna non ixw,
this caxTino imcnn has nix aaaooBi to
LIGHT, AXD HXISXOW HSU) » COXTXXrT BY ALL
■OHlsTxmi. Wo had rather saa Mr. Ackerman
(an avowowed republican) In congress than thia
political ahorttess. Ha » without ranv oa
rdowntho paityttat^u Kd
> save Georgia from negro end
The earn* pisper—“by T. L. Gantt-’-lu a leading
cdltarial published In the Issue of June 35, UN)
tgMM. Lied out word against tl
«<« SJ* ubsrecler »nd that of the gallant aud
patriotic Gordon, then we will unfurl tils name et
our masl beadjand batUa <er hla lodorwment by
tho nrrerelgn votara ol Georgia. 11
would he art sternal shame for tho
empire state to sfflx thl, unjust and degra
ding stigmanpon twouf her aiotfgallant soldiers
andimiwervlngpalitou that stood by the south
throoxh har d aft ett hour, of peril. The people ot
Georgia will not Indorse or tolerate such chines;
and the best way to re-elect Governor Colquitt la
for Ms enemies to pursue the contemptible, false
aid degrading coon* they have mapped out
The JowerstiUo Union u lor Bacon because “ho
bad least to do with the rebellion wu. 1 ' in fact
he sru nothing bat a tax gatherer.
bCfrgcoonty^democratewill select delegates on
TheSatonton Messenger Bays:
The true test of a man’s fitness Is made among
his own people. This is everywhere accepted u a
fact If a man cannot receive the Indorsement of
his own people, It Is with peer grace that he can
■ik the indorsement of otb era.
Bacon men will admit that In Bibb ceunty, had
Simmons .remained in the field:. Bacon would
' i 'created. Thle b extremely eig-
thla retirement,' Judge glmmoos
S teel the respective strength
the people ol Bibb and ad-
not carry his own end tne adjoining counties
a men will admit tbb to
. slgulflcant it is among
-best that a man should be
, „ ,hb own county of Bibb, Ma
jor Bacon Is not popular. . He Is regarded as being
selfish, arrogant and haughty. Be esteems himself
above tbe people, and b not Identified with them.
If elected governor he would not be tbe people’s
governor, but an autocrat. Uis standing with his
osrn people b established by the evidence of Ma
con men.
When Bacon waaa candidate for the legislature
from Bibb, he ran behind the other tiro gentlemen
elected, and barely escaped defeat
. If a primary election, at which aft tho people
had been allowed to rote, had been bold In Bibb
county, Gordon would have captured the oounty.
Macon men will tell you this.
As we have said, these thing, ere significant.
Tho best test of a man's fitness b to be madeat
homo, and according to tbb test Major Bacon b
weighed in tire scales and found wanting, Let
Unpeople giro heed.
The Clinch county meeting rivals that of
Cluke county. A few man got together at the
anirl housc._A^ cbalrman wa^ elected. _ He ap-
thsm being oh It themsclvss, and the regpnVrat
BHMHMBlgon
rail tied. They
for Bacon ^as
tteo went out ami brought
km being on It themselves, ■■NOTH
Hlf They were unlmtructcd, but said]
I. Bacon will pick up a county or d
wu u
Cataula, Harris Co., Ga- June?.—[Special.]
Sdltors Constitution: I see In Ibe Macon Telegraph
hat General Gordon b reported to have need Ian-
character of v
to have
krlmcnial to tho
[Ben 11111. 1 don’t
what be said In Hamilton. HS used no rnUBi
gusgetn hb Hamilton speocb, but on the con
trary ho spoke In the hlghesuemu of him.
That may be like tkeialegnin sent from Hamil
ton to the Macon Telegraph, reporting the Bacon
mast lug on the firet Tuesday. The sender of that
telegram was so anxious to Injure General Gor
don he didn't do jnatloe to Major Bacon.
“Only.' twenty-one . man. oaare eat to hear
Major Bacon and twenty of these for Major Bacon.
The truth of It Is, Impposs.tban two or three hun
dred men turnetCouCn hear Mr, Bacon, but four-
filths of them was for General Gordon. Wo ooald
have elected Gordon d*ltiatea,unt wo didn’t want
them that way. He telegraphed a falsehood and
he knew It. Or ft may be like
the telegram seat from CMplcy to the
same paper—all false. Shame on tbo paper that
would resort to such means to poll down a great
and good man. Let them keep on wUh.their abuse
and slanderous statements, they don't hurt Gener
al Gordon: they don't change anybody to Major
Bacon, but on the contrary, it causes them to flock
to General Gordon end makes hb friends stick
clesertohlm. Why didn't tbe Telegraph charge
him with all this meanness before ha wu a candi
date? Why didn't they tell the people that ha wu
unsound and untrue? I think it a shame that such
a good man should be forced to speak of himself
.in order to clear Ms character of the Infamous
MuimUsiion Mm. Soldiers of General
bader on the bloody fields of ....
to the world that we believe
him to be es pure end spotless u mortal
ever set on this earth.
lfiwuUreboss of the Macon To
couldn't get anybody but Irrespoaalbl'
port tor my paper, I would pull down my colors
tnd quit the fight u Major Bacon did In the lato
v We sriU give General Gordon e roaring majority
In thb county, P.T.
veto of 2213 to 1ft—, In a mass meeting held hero.
Tho county hu alsraye been oonriaered one of
the Wrongest for Bacon In tho sure, and the result
Is u both sides expected. Had the vote boon left
to a primary election, however. It Is more then
probable that the result would have bun different,
u most of ths tanners of the county were for Gor
don, and they did not tnra out generally. .,
After the vote today Koa.Tom. Watson addressed
the meeting.
Barnesville, Ga* June 8.—[Special.]—The
rapporters of General Gordon metat Granite ball and
organized a Gordon club. There wu:ebhty-flra of
the moet prominent citizens of
meeting. B-*—
gSSSj
■ y.| |
Mayor Murj-1
and carried ■■
ridtreblo exciteMut ererUU, 'but "no'fold bj
I county sclact^wo.WdMof Jnb arihoetscttoo
s for Gordon. 1 fought
ir, and Brill fight ondu
neral, and may hla cflb
xeneral, and may hla efforts be crowned v
Hnpqpi
A.—'To Atlanta." ,. J
pwple^OTtho lait*tix yean and fselthat If such a
life and character u bo bu Illustrated In-war and
In peace should not ho rewarded u tons u hs
1 seathsA there would bo no Incentive to tbe'T»e-
r boys" of the country to court honor and Juris-
'ctlon in the future.
Tho Chariesteo (S. c.) News aud Courier, a clou
ohserrer.esys:
■■f tbemaU|Bers.^H
M But the moet remarkable of aft b the following
(street from a leading editorial of the Echo, “By
T. L. Gantt,” published tit tho frna of June it,
B saya, Hsidu the headllasi ."Waa'thtn a
trader’ W» answer, “no r*s
'■asEssa 3B
^^^3^jj£ajrbaraa^piBll«.iftWB which
we were not satisfied, and'it required a more
^3
„ can cfior.l to
Is compara-
ilvslv roans: humuchlo laarn; is very ambi-
liaBwaMasM
■SHS
klou-i to Rflvlwmcn who
j rUkM their Utcson bat-
the democratic prrty totatbar in Ooonoe county. It
tassssssss&i^
ThaDaSas Argas, ohascrlat *as recent aunts,
rjsswys
ScoS? _ Matters are., sramtag^ JigL
m§ss
make a tangled web of mystery which wo cannot
unravel upon any other hypothesis
Dawson, Ga., Jans a—[Snecbl,]—la the
dispatch sent Tna CoxsmuTiox from here giving
a synopsis of General Gordon’s admirable speech,
receatly delivered In Dawson, bnt liltla mention
wu made of the Incidents and surroundings of the
occasion. Never hu there been seen In tub coun
ty such an outburst of popular regard for any man
u wu exhibited here fit be half of General Gordon.
Ho wu met at tbe depot by a crowd of hb old oosa-
raduln arms, and tho meeting between these and
their former brave leader wu thrilling. The line
of march from the depot to tho hotel
was full of Interest and pleasurable
exritement The Dawson comet hand played
.The speaking took place In the cool grounds of
tho public square, and a temporary
sure had been constructed on the out ride or the
doSiM
rSwrt-
tot-Biftlnp^
feted, and the comfortable rocking'chain,'marble
top tables, Hirer water service and eperauu of
sweet flowers all served to rive to tho stage a
striking and most pleasing sSieL On the float of
the stage, attached to a dark .back ground, srere
the words In largo gilt latten: “Welcome Gordo a."
A very beautiful; floral offering was presented to
General Gordon by the street little daughter of
our townsman, Judge U. 8. Bell, little Miss Caroll
na Gordon Bell. R sru taken by her father to
General Gordon In hla room after he had returned
to tbe hotel from the aquare, and the light of those
sweet flowers, and tho little girl's love which wu
thns expressed, refreshed and delighted the tired
general, who had spoken for tap hours and had
shaken hands with hnndreds of his old soldiers
and their wives, sisters and sweethearts. Indeed,
a great many of the ladles and children who were
present during the speech, eagerly sought an op
portunity to shake hands s'
and nearly aft came away
~ltb hb address, and read
das are counted and he ihL. ——
weraorol Georgia.
Nobwood, Ga., Jnno 9.—[Special,]—At a
lours:
Blddlcrftle, In Washington county, on being
jfolled, stood: Gordon, M; Bacon, 1; non-commlt-
Hon. M A Bhnrley, chairman, A' M Nassengalc,
secretary. F n MctiintT, Wm S Heath, JABondu-
rant, Ur ft D Nub, L F Scruggs, w HCooper, U K
Ghccsllog, W T Heath, Jno O Hill, George A Far-
ham, Benjamin L Parham, Dr G T Neal,
A 8 Hammack, M W Scruggs, B L Smith, F W
Brown, Oils Mftchel, R L Scott, F S McCarthy, E B
Hill, WUllam R Thompson, W Bello Thompson,
Samuel A Gbeesllng, William H Harper, K A
jjjrgr, Jojy. W^W T Culpegper, ^
wiuiitm
David Ga
Parham,
Wm 8 Hill. James
ham, FEBarinow
Abner Hearn, Roy B
I bon as Tho
Bowen, VV
wmA°-
Heath, E N Hill.
Hill, Jno T Gre^
H Jackson, JH Heath,
Johnion^Rpbert H Taylor.
w Benjamin
Chapman, B N
Albany, Ga., Jnna 9—Edltora Constltu-
Si ASL.’i'fR.SSSJ, LJE
SB
f some of
that tho
SSE&gg
■i£c:c will lea
ut rxiurtl
of their foes ^
A writer from LaGnnga says:
j*ws^»Msooonty, and says
r Mr, H. F.**WUrou, 'a prominent merchant of
Mobile, and formerly aGsorglan, writes to a friend
* '— allow me tossy that srere I In
“whoop .for John B. Gordon." As
ka l fbUpsred Mm. In many a
Having behaved like man In war, ItTa now rat
wmw *
i I bafilara I can quote Ttrisattan at llhcntlaL hb
rasdumun then boyish mind aaosaOtaJo
Kffe a A n iiSfdte ui t?a
and don’t you fomatlt.'f Governor Colquitt,
Tho Hamilton Journal bu measured Dr, Fel
ton’s slanders, and says:
. Ur. Felton's speeches will hardly advanoatha
Inteieste of Major Bacon, Dr. Felton will find
when it is too liu that tho boiler on in do*
■ are sot numerically strong enough in thb
yield to the greatest power In the land-the will of
"ibe aoertlon that Senators Jot. E. Brown and
Tatnol, and our citizens are perfectly
r democracy f
tettawsa
of the nominstion of lUjor Brcon, and ho hM a
f, c !fi».yfe a t'3? l £j5 VBSMTS
Seiten't’uUuanMS If h?b not^n'tjmpathy'with
^Thecocdnffofthe'Bacon manegere bt sustain-
Jog thb A reband b thns referred to:
. ft b noticeable that no one of the organs or
Major Bacon hue word to say against Dr. Felton
SQUr his ipoechesand letters'"and draw atteri*
tlon to them by complimentary comments.
Tho Nows then asks:
Why then is ho receiving so much attention
from the people of the different counties? Why
Is it that Major Bacon doesn’t rebuke him for
boldly asserting that General Gordon, If nomi
nated, cannot have hbrapport?
And in conclusion the News ieels called npon to
,*%omenwho compote the rank and Ala of the
democratic party, and who can alsraye bo depend-
ed npon to stand by lb prindoles are, doubtless,
wondering why Major Bacon contlnuu to permit
Dr. Felton to be hU leading advocate —
agrei
ivlii t
ithtc
like doesn’t do something of thb kind ha will
Had that aome of hb firmest supporters will drop
away from him. They may hare great regard for
him, but they have greater regard for thou party.
Aa a sample of the spirit which tho Savannah
Noire so earnestly condems, tho following from
the Franklia News, a Bacon organ, Is given:
Yea, Dr. Felton said that he would not support
Gordon If nominated. There are many or tho
twit and purest democrats of Georgia who will say
in same thing.
the seme
From t
««• that
_thbtho democrats of Georgia can cully
see that Gordon Is the man todefeai tbe ring co
alition against the party.
A Waycress writer asks:
Dou not Dr. gallon, the independent, slander
— governor Georgia bu had slnccihewar In
GORDON UNDER FIRE.
Letter From a Man Who Did Not Reelgn
From the Army.
Matthews, Ga., June 9,1886.—Edltora Con
stitution: I hare seen somewhere (I can’t remem
ber now where) that Ingratitude U the basest trait
tn the human character. I think that truth hu
been verified In the present campaign. But I mast
believe that the majority of those who are oppos
ing and trying to riander the name of the noblo
Gordon do not know him. I know him well, and
It maku my blood bqll to see hb namo slandered
u ft hu been rinoo this campaign optnad. Gener
al Gordon b .one of l£J grandest men,
bonb^Thcre are more good and grut*qualiUu
combined in him than lever knew In any other
man. 1 say I over knew, lor 1 do kix
mean ofocsr In hb brigade. Now for
ties: First, he wu u taare u any at
that c
In ths
.alflfo:
he had so strong .a hold on the affections ot ^u
hsvo
co-:nt:y
ul’.olll.at.
sissias;
land prow that Gacsgbns are not ungrateful
L’rho BtUtvUla Enterprise, having fully
sted the feelings of the people of TatoaT county
1 don't believe a man can flail from grace. .Than,
besides, General Gordon tea aw that hu a tender
heart, like all good man. I hare wen .him get.
dosrn off of hb hone tlmeand again and let a sol
dier that sru sick or footsore rid* hla hone.
Be did thb when ho sru a brigade commander
and whan he commanded a division. Ho ta also
one of ths prettiest speakers I sver beard and was
then about u handsome a man u I erer saw, Ol
ahana npon any people that will abuse and slan
der rack a good and great man without knowing
whether tho charges they accuse him of an true,
if we should not forget a faithful friend that hu
doieaareat favor for us surely wo should never
forget General Gordon’s services during the wu
and slnte the srer. If the people don’t want to
vote for him they have a right not to do so, but 1
entreat yon not to abuu a man that hu dono si
much for hb country u Gentral J. A Oowlon. Re
member the Bible ran speak aril of no man.
General Gordon's failures (If they srere failure)) b
no good reason he will not make a good governor.
SCOTT AND HUNtTnQDON.
'The Truth About Ganaral Gordon’a Part In
the Railroad Contest
Washington, Jnno 14—Editors Con-
atitotion,—I have observed with Interest tho
course of tho gubernatorial campaign In yonr
state. While I am not a specially close friend
of Senator Gordon, I have alwaja boon his ad
mirer. 1 am familiar with his course In tbe
senate, and have observed with amazement
the arsaults that are being made on hb Integ
rity u a aonator. I appreciate fully the dis
dain and contempt with which hla friends
treat these charges. I can understand why
yon, aa a respectable newspaper, and hla load
ing supporter, woald acorn to reply IndotaU
to any chargo that affects hla honor aa a citi
zen or hb Integrity u a senator, bat u the
feds happen to be in my posxsslen, and u 1
was myself interested in tho Scott Huntingdon
oonteat before congress, I take the liberty of
sending them to yon, that yon may make
such use of them aa yon please,and theta
senator of tho United States,
WBOO BECOBS If AS CLEAN Al ANY MAN
ever ut In that body may not suffer even
tho opinion of those who do not know him,
I think every man in Washington, certainly
those who arc acquainted with the events of
the put ton years, look with amazement npon
any attempt to Jbesmirch General Gordon’s ro-
oordasa senator. No man ever served hla
people more nnseiiiihly, held bis place in tho
unate with more honor, or laftitsrith cleaner
hands. This la the universal and unbroken
testimony of every man who knows Gentral
Gordon ta a senator. Bopnhlicana aa wall u
democrats. His eneraiee u well u hb friends.
In the senate ha waa above reproach, and his
private life sru one of marked add ackeowf-
edged purity.
BUT TO THB MATTER IN BAND.
General Gordon is charged in a vague sort
of way with having bad some tort of rela
tions with C. P. Huntingdon. The facta are
them: Mr. Huntingdon asked nothing of
congress. Ur. Thomas Scott, of tho Pennsyl
vania road, wu uklng congress to indent u
a subsidy fifty millions of dollars of hit Booth,
arn Pacific bonds. Thsee srere six par ceat
bonis, and when Indorsed would bavo been
worth about 130, which would have mad# tho,
subsidy sixty-flvo millions of dollars. Hr.
ButlojiloB was then building ths suns road
that Mr. Bcoti proposed to build. Huntingdon
bad not reoeived one dollar from the govern
ment on that read, and did not ask a dollar.
Bcctt asked for sixty-five millions of dollars
Indorsement. Huntingdon's fight wu this:
He stated that bo waa then building tho road
for nothing; that Soott was taking sixty-fire
millions of dollars to build, and ha asked
that eongnu would not give Scott sixty-five
million dollars when he wu ready to do the
tame work tor nothing.
THU WAS THE FIOIJT FUSE AND SIMPLE:
General Gordon wu recognized aa tho leader
of the opposition to Scott’s demand for this
enormous subsidy. Ho argued that it wu a nse-
expenditure of fcfae nxtion’f credit, bwuw
Huntingdon was then aetoally building at
the rate of a mile a day without one dollar of
government money or indorsement the very
load that Scott waa asking 165,000)000 to help
him build. For a long time it looked u if
Scott would gat his subsidy through; bat
Gordon's arguments ware simply unanswer
able and tbe Scott achsme failed and waa
yotod down*
The sequel hu justified the wisdom and pa
triotism of General Gordon’s coarse. Hunt-
ingdon hu finished tho road that ha wu then
building, and it is bow in operation. It filled
every need that Bcott'f proposed road would
bare filled and never cost the government om
cent in money or indorsement. If General
Gordon had remained client, I think n* *a«
who ta tamlUar with tho facts will deny that
TBE SCOTT BILL WOULD HAVE PASSED,
and that road which Huntingdon hid built
for nothing, would have cost the government
the Indorsement of 180,000,000 in bonds,
jworih in tbe market 605,000,000.
Thia la feet of tbe fight Huntingdon uked
for nothing. Scott uked for $59,000,000 In
dorsement General Gordon fought this
scheme of Scott’s, and it sru finally whipped.
Let me take the Impossible aunmptlon that
General Gotdon wu willing to barter hit In
fluence as a senator, would he not have been
found on the aide of Thomu Scott tho moat
notorious lobbyist this country hu over aeon.
Of him It sru raid that he literally osrned tbe
itate of Pennsylvania, its legislature, lta
beach and its press. He wu then ukiug tho
government for tho moet
EXOBUOCS INDORSEMENT
that any man ever petitioned
congress for within my knowledge,
waa not that the aide on which iarga sums of
money would be paid for Influence? It cer
tainly wu the tide on which tho strongest
lobby that ever beselged eongnu wu arrayed.
When General Gordon opposed It ho did what
required gnat courage. Many of tho boatmen
li both housee favored Scott’s scheme, and
any man who opposed it understood that ho
wu opposing the most powerful man that hu
gone before the legislative body in the history
of American politics.
So mnoh for the facta of the ease.
The next point la thet Huntingdon in hla
correspondence alluded to Gordon’! having
been taken off tho railroad committee and
Bopy, of Missouri, having been put on. In
writing about this ha alluded to General Gor
don u one of “onr man.” Thia allusion wu
perfectly proper and natural. Genaral Gor
don wu oppooing tho Tom Scott achemo. He
STOOD WITH HUNTINGDON
In this, Huntingdon’s allusion to him u one
of "onr men" simply meant that be wu a man
who wu in sympathy with hla opposition to
Hr, Scott’s scheme. Just u Mr. Scott would
have alluded to those who flavored hla aobema
u "onr men.”
In regard to the proposed trip to California,
I remember distinctly why that was proposed.
The main point msdo by Scott and hit frlenda
•wu that Huntingdon would never build the
road. They argued that he could not do on hla
own resources what Scott domanded an in-
donemut of 650,000,000 in bonds to do, and
that ha wu simply pretending to bnlld a road
without governmont help in order to break
down Scott, who wu trying to get governmont
•help. In order to anawer thia chargo Hunt
ingdon proposed to carry at hit own expenu
any members of oongross, whether for him or
against him, across the continent, show and
Just exactly what ha wu doing. Howes than
; building hla read at tho rate of a mile a day,
afrfi'ho wu anxious to show ths members of
congress that ha sru in earnest, that the work
wu progressing, and that several hundred
miles had already been bant. I assume If
Gordon or any other senator who opposed
Scott’s scheme wu anxious for thou who fla
vored it to take the proposed trip with Hunt
ingdon and get
FBOOF FOB THEMSELVES
that he wu In earnest and sru at work.
Now, three are the facts In the case. In
stead of being abused for the opposition ho
took in this matter, General Gordon deurvoa
a monument for having saved this govern
ment from writing lta name on tho back of
$50,000,000 of bonds to secure a trsns-oontlnen-
tal read that ha then contended would be bnlll
by Huntingdon without a dollar of indorse
raent, and that hu In fact already been built,
Eapodally should tho southern pooplo appro-
, elate tho light led by Gordon .against tho
scheme of ScotL Uis read whllo _ _ .
called tho Southern Pacific wu really a north-
'em read. It never entered tbo south this side
of Missouri. Huntingdon’s road on tho con-
trary wu entirely a southern enterprise. Its
eutern terminus ta Newport News, and there
is not a mile of It built north of the Potomao
river. It wu built without tho coat of one
dollar to the government. The Scott road if
it bad bean built would havs reoeived the la-
doraement of the government on $50)000,000
of bondf.
I think it very Ukoly that abuu of Gordon
wu heard by two men from Homo about tbo
hotel! at that time. Aa I havo aald before,
the strongcit lobby that ever beselged con
gress wu gathered there In the Interest of
Tom Scott’s schema. The hotels were fall of
lobbyists and they naturally
DENOUNCED EVEBY MAN
who opposed them. The $50,000,000 of bonds
whan indorsed would havo boon worth $65,-
000)000. The road Itself would not havo cost
over exceeding $40)000)000. Hero wu a mar
gin ol 6*5,000,000 between the government
Indonsmcnt and the eoet of ths road. Thia
la snrely large enough margin to have filled
the eoTTidon of every hotel in Washington
dty, with denunciations of Gordon who lead
the movement that crushed this scheme and
kept the hands of ths lobbyist off this enorm.
out subsidy. But tho charga or Insinuations
that Gordon wu influenced against this ter
rific and unscrupulous lobby by any motive
except the purest ta known to bo false to every
man wbowu In Washington at that time.
I have written this without consultation
and without tho knowledge of Ganaral Gor
don. I have written It ujustloe to onoof the
ablest and purest men that aver sat In the
United States senate. The feeling In Wash-
ington wu Intensely hitter daring this
Itroggie. General Gordon wu tire leas and
danntlau In demanding that the government
credit should not be lent to tho building of a
road that wu then being built without gov
ernment credit and that hu been elnco fin
ished
WITHOUT ONE DOLL AE
of government money. Thera were other
senators equally pore who contended that the
government should lend ita credit to Scott aud
Secure tho bonding of this road, and yet I can
say that I never heard the motives of senators
bn their side Impngred daring tho whole of
tbe [straggle, nor since. I do not belters It
wtf ever done, except by some miserable
lobbyist, whoso foe depended npon tho sao-
csss of the scheme in which ho wu engaged.
Certainly no such charga me ever made
against Gordon,'and hit colleagues of that
day, and hit successors in tho senate
and the members of tho house and all who
are acquainted with tho national legtaUtion
of the last ten years will Join in testifying
without a single exception, In my opmloh,
that the south never sent a man to Washing.
ten who bore MnuOlf more honorably or 11-
lust rated bit people bettor than John B. Gor
don. If there wu over a whisper against hla
perfect official integrity or his parity In pri-
veto life it wu nttered saddled in the cir
cles that were below repntabte notice or roc.
ognitlcn. He lived hero u most of the aouth.
era senators have lived, In poverty, thatwu
honorable when wo consider that it wuen*
dared in the midst of such temptations u
have never assailed legislators before or
since, , Virginia.
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