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MARIETTA, AUG. 2t>, 1878.
H)K HEeRFSENTAJIVK,
Of thr Seventh J)istri< 4 of Ge<>r
I yin ill the J t *jth Con (/re**.
llo.v W. H. Felton.
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n greased, ami is daily extend
ii Reaching all of the surround
rent unities, and hundreds of the
' Gold). The business
' v i is now about to open, and
i wbietW 8 °* Hie atten
~'p'o.ublie, will do well
Wo Vi li of our eireu
Hat ion. Our prices are moderate,
I *'d we never fail to do justice to
4 rnl Parties desirous of giving
]►,. |;, adverti*eiii*nth for estates
<>d lis paper, will please notify
he Ohiinarv. or brine them to us
Chemselves.
J.’ The business season is right be
t/pr us, if veu wish to have your
i u.ll share of it, advertise in the
ii"* l and Fireside.
"“The first year uuder the new
I of Georgia, the conn
with no fall in the
u the vuu h
1 *
Convention
ourth after seve
Ip l days balloting, failed to make
l and lliat district is
i, ll( /fair way to be turned over to
kv \val’l w *"dents.
Licet •
H u,, Ae yellow fever this year will
r Jive apparently the most fatal
scourge ever known. September
is the worst month, and already
f-t has increased and extended in
eihe Mississippi valley until there
is no hope of its abatement tin
til frost. In Memphis it is ra
giug, attended with incidents of
llihe most distressing character,
'parents deserting their children,
and children their parents. Kven
the camps improvised as places
of refuge Niave been invaded by
the pestilence. Chattanooga pro
fesst*H to be secure. Some cases
have been brought to Atlanta,
and fears have been excited ; but
we hope without eause.
Hi uohs ok War.—lt is said
that Russia made peace only to
prepare for war, and it is be
Ijcted is looking steadily to the
accomplishment of her mission to
annihilate the Turkish Empire.
The people of Russia regard tin*
treaty recently made, humilia
‘ing in the extreme to their eoun
■ry. The situation growing out
.|, the late conflict is uusatisfac
rk-Vy to other powers and may at
<‘i'iv time be changed to war.
tiV
‘Gln other Counties of the Sev
***th District Lester Clubs have
p’loen formed and a cal) is made
Club in every dis
Cobb These are rings
TWtViin a ring—minute men to!
~'wiag in the footsteps of the
’men of 184 W) -Clubs of
~he self same democracy who had
and tonuch to do in intimidating
*’ l people and precipitating sc
'/M.W' writing for the Const!
, IliniKK it was a great mis
ike that Mr. Trammell was
iced to withdraw- from the race
mist lit. Felton. We think
as the organized would
() *|{}efeu sooner used uj*.
h * ‘ complaint is that theinde
puvnt movement is sweeping
et-rgia.* All right ! Wh v not *.
piitovou want a government
'"'lAUlietijde If They have no
nee*
, lip or. if they have one it is as
softf* the whole state. Come in
l.v let the ]H*ople govern (Jeor
* We ean talk about the l*res
. Tx _ with some
t Can the financial problem be
.! satisfactorily -olved by legisla
non U All parties, extreme or
conservative, aHiria
live as fact aad base their heo
, nes upon U. Let us glance fora
moment at wliat we need anil
then at the theories for attaining
it.
We need a currency adequate
to the business uses of the eoun
try and sound as the gold or si 1
ver dollar with which it eireu
bites.
Theory No. 1. says, the Treasury
of the United States should alone
furnish the currency by substi
tuting for National Bank notes
Greenbacks to lie preserved at
par value by always being con
vertible into (told.
The fat theorists (litter from
No. 1. by insisting that the Green
backs shall rest for their value
upon the authority of the gov
eminent and bv demanding an
unlimited issue.
\t is enough to suv of the lat
ter theory that no government
has ever yet succeeded in fixing
the value of paper money by its
authority. It obeys a higher law.
And if this were attempted the
theory would lead us toacirciila
tion as worthless as that which
prevailed during the war.
The Theory of No. 1. is plausi
! ble. The people might save
money by it. They might have
an adequate currency preserved
at par value with gold. But
right here comes the trouble.—.
I
The National Banks furnish now
! a gold value currency though not
I adequate. The government may
furnish an adequate currency
! but will it be kept at gold value {
It will always be subject to the
j manipulations of the party in the
i ascendency. Will the currency
be stable and uniform under such
management t
The problem is not easily solv
ed but parties will allign them
selves upon it as the leading is
sue of the coming campaign.—
file necessity for more moony
must lie met and we hope it will
be wisely met.
That Letter. —lt is said that
on the withdrawal of Bulloch
from the State, a letter was found
in the Executive Department ad
, dressed to Bulloch and signed by
Geo. N. Lester. The editor of the
Rome 'Tribune went in search of
the letter, the existence of which
he says he has positive proof, and
I found that, like other documents
affecting this canvass of a like
character, it was not to be found,
j The Tribune says: “It was too
securely hidden to be discovered.
| It was too damning to the candi
j date of the great organized to be
allowed the light of day. Were
it discovered and its contents
made known, “it would drive Geo.
N. Lester from the State;" hence
it was not discovered. Rut the
proof is positive that the letter
w r as written, and was left ill the
Executive office of Georgia. The
Courier may chuckle over the
fact of its disappearance, but the
honest people of Georgia will
not support a man for a high of
fice who would write suyli a letter
to Bulloch. Bad for Lester that
the letter was written, and worse
still for Lester that it was hid."
file organized prints pretend to
deplore that whieh they are pleas
ed to designate the defection of
I>r. Felton, and sav he is solely
responsible for this independent
movement, and w ill regret the ef
fort to disorganize “the party.”
Though Dr. Felton is a man of
pre-eminent abilities—though he
has proven himself a great popu
lar leader—though he has won the
eontideuee of the people bv his
record and appeal to them, it is a
great mistake to suppose, either,
that he will live to regret the in
dependent movement, or that it
would die out without him. There
are other great mimls in the South
identified with it, ami were this
not so, the masses of the Southern
people have realized the tact that
THK FIELD AND FI RE.Si DE —MARIETTA. (GA.) THURSDAY. AUG I >T Tf 1^
lite time lias coate to rid the laud
off politici.in* who make otlice
•ceking a and who
have so ruinously controlled the
government of the country thro 1
organized rings. The sure heads
may derive some profit by con
templatiag the idea behind the
man, as it is just that which ren
ders Dr. Felton conspicuous to
day.
~ 4.
At the discussion in Dallas
Judge Leiden said that alter I>r.
Felton had made a speech in Con
gress for the silver bill he voted
against its passage. Dr. Felton
then and there submitted to Judge
Lester the Congressional Record
in refutation. Three days after
wards J udge Lester made a speech
at Cedartown and it is said re
peated the charge.
The Independents are free and
not bound by political rings of
any kind. In all the campaigns
coining vote, unfettered
by organized parties, for a gov
ernment “by the people and for
the people" and persistently urge
forward every movement calcula
ted to relieve our country from
the blighting curse of organized
politicians.
It was an admission, both frank
and true, made recently by Gov.
Colquitt, at the religious assent
bly at Ohaiituuga, New York. He
said:
“ Looking over the varied in
lerests of this great country;
knowing and feeling how it is that
we have been divided and sever
ed; conscious of the bad passions
that have existed in the minds of
men, having every day revealed
to my own eyes the consequences
i of alienation of sentiment by the
people that are the citizens of a
' common country, I have looked
forward day after day, and week
alter week, with the hope that
tiie clarion of peace might be
sounded and that the storm might
be lulled forever. (Great ap
plause.) Will it. be done ? (Voi
1 ces—Yes. yes.) My Christian
friends, if it is left for you to de
ride the matter it will lie done.
(Applause.) If it is left to puli
ticians, if it is left to ambiguous
! demagogues, in any section of the
country,.take my word for it to
| day. that this strife, this bitter
ii“ss, this confusion, this aliena
tion of sections will continue un
til their political fate is doomed."
That is the reason we are inde
pendent, and the Governor knows
it was the Southern organized de
luoeraey that precipitated the war
and all its consequences, and that
it will never cease t stir up alien
ation and strife in the interest of
its corrupt leaders. Help us,
Governor, to crush “the organ
ized body of death," that the
people may be free.
I>r. Felton’* ProttpM'ls.
We are permitted to copy the
following extract from a letter
received by a friend in this city:
“ 1 am delighted with the ap
pearance of things in Walker, Ca
i tuosa and Chattooga. Dr. Felton
spoke at Dirt Town on the 20th
imd. You never saw a mere at
tentive crowd. Some active sup
porters of Col. Dabney were the
most active friends of Felton.—•
Finance is the all absorbing to
pic. A prominent mau says Fel
ton will carry the district without
a doubt. At Subligna, the crowd
was also line, and Felton had four
to one at the speaking. At Vil
ianow, where the opposition has
always been heavy, he had a large
number of supporters. The Les
terites tried to get up a row, and
proposed to form a line iu the
road. ‘All right.’ said the Fel
tonites, *we will cover von;’ and
there were fully four to one, and
when the Lester men saw it, they
became quiet. A large, intelli
gent, enthusiastic crowd at La
layette, surprised and delighted
Dr. Felton. Friends of Dr. Fel
ton tell of large gains for him.
but no louse*. A well informed
man in Catoosa county told Judge
Lester that Dr. Felton would fai
ry one halt the county. “Oh!’
said the Judge, ‘they tell me 1
will take it solid.’ ‘Well.’ said
the man. • / loom, and they are
trying to deceive you.’ He is re
ported to have lung his head."
Thirty bales of new cotton ar
rived at Augusta on last Saturday
by the Fort Koval railroad
From Dr. Felton.
[<> the b tehl ami KirtSide:
Home advocate of.Judge Les
ter made a statement at Canton,
during court week, that I made a
speech in Congress in relation to
a contested election case from
Massachusetts, where a Republi
can was elected and a Democrat
contested it. Hermit me to ~av, 1
never made a speech in a contes !
ted election case in my life. So
much for this slander.
Yours, truly,
W. 11. FELTON.
[COM M I NIC ATk I>. J
The Hero Colonel and Hull-dozing
Judge.
I saw', some time back, that the
bull dozing Judge had threaten
eued some of Cobb's citizens, by
saying that he would make Cobb
county too hot to hold them.
Now, I have not, heard of any
emigration from Cobb, not even
a Dutch gal.
What does the threat mean, if
it does not mean this, that when
the bull dozer takes the bench a
gain, if certain parties come into
his court, then he will make it
hot for them ?
The people up here can see no
other solution of the threat, and
i some of us feel glad that we are
not in his circuit. Polk.
(lOMJdINIIAIKI).]
1 saw, some time since, that the
Atlanta Constitution volunteered
to advise Dr. Felton to be care
fill whose certificates lie took
hereafter. We think the Doctor
has been very careful—lie has not
taken the evidence of a single
loyal leaguer, Bulloch ringer, lob
bvist, or of an organized ring
master. Independent.
[COMMON ICATKO.]
It is well known that the main
object of the Kinggnld conven
tion was to “beat Felton.” The
crowd of disappointed office seek
ers in the Seventh District whose
“well laid plans” were interrupt
ed by Felton’s election in the two
campaigns—have now reserved
ou a desperate effort, to “rule or
ruin.”
Whenever you see a Lesteritc
in any part of the district you
find an angry man—one who can
give you no reason for bis anger
except that ho supports the “or
ganization” and bates Felton.
Judge Lester made a speech iu
the upper part of the district in
which ho said “Felton never in
traduced a bill into congress in
his life.” The “organized” took
it up, and you hear it repeated
from one end of the district to the
other. It is altogether immaterial
that the congressional record tes
1 tities to the contrary. It amounts
to nothing that he has been re
ported in the Atlanta Constitu
lion from week to week during
the last three sessions of congress
as an active member, and as the
author of various bills for differ
cut purposes. 1 repeat, that all
goes for naught, when Judge Les
ter made the announcement that
Felton bad never introduced a
bill in bis life. An honest farm
er in Walker county took his
horse and travelled to Lafayette,
found a copy ot the record and
his first search resulting in the
finding of a bill introduced last
winter to establish a mint at Mo
rietta. Said this man to the wri
ter —“ If Judge Lester is honest
ly ignorant of this bill, introduc
ed for the benefit of the town In*
lives in, I cannot support him ;
if he made the statement willful
ly, I will not support him."
Judge Lester makes the state
ment everywhere that Felton did
not vote on the Silver Bill. It is
immaterial that Dr. Felton has
told him otherwise to bis lace—
that the official record telfs him
otherwise, he still repeats the
story.
Judge Lester is not ignorant of
the facts.
Dr. Felton left the bed side of
(as he believed) a dying child,
to place his vote on the side of
the people. He is w ell aware that
the Allanti Constitution made
the matter plain at that lime It
!.- simply an effort to affect the
minds of those who are zealous,
for the'measure, and who may
be biased in their feelings by
this erroneous statement ti. Fel
ton’s injury. Judge Lester ridi
cules Dr. Felton as a•• Nicodemus
Democrat." Dr. Feiton could re
tort by saying that Jmfge Lester
was a ".J>u\ua democrat," because
he sold himself for 11,000 of Joe
Brown money, to betray the peo
pie of Georgia in tho#iatter of
ihe State Road lease. For J udas'
credit, we will say he went and
hanged himself-—Judge Lester
says “it was right and he would
do it again."
Nicodemus was honest, blit
timid—alas! poor Judas was both
quiet and slv in his deception.
Let Judge Lester explain why
Gov. Brown protested against
showing his receipt; let him show
why he did not deny the Cole
matter in Cole’s lifetime let him
explain why Weil wanted more
money, if Lester, had not exhaust
ed theslo,ooo immigration appro
priation. before he does assault
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vote* are uniformly right.
The report is current that Dr.
Felton placed SSOO in Marietta
to buy crooked whiskey. Who
started ii and who will step out
and repeal it in daylight, and be
fore witnesses? An honest man in
Cobb county receives his paper
with these words written on the
margin “can you vote for a man
who horsewhips his wife and
drives her from homo Will the
crafty writer step to the front and
assert the slander, or does lie
prowl in dark corners to injure
the innocent, hoping to cover it
up, with the assertion Hhut all is
ton in war or polities ?” Such
are the tactics of this campaign.
Thank God, there is ftkne and
friends ■ VliA*venth
district to
to their source and they wirWPecoi)
on the heads qf those who were
so misguided start them.
Brown's receipt will fasten them,
if you can get it—that is what
disgraced Geo. N. Lester.
Fakiikk.
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