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■.•f'fhajK-r< nth District of (tern
MMgWPot to the 40th Cunjt e*H, * '
. t<L W. H. Fklton.
H .'V I in- .Mmi-i**t t;i I’ajH'r Mjiuiit.i' tiir
n| 0.t,,,a.i V iiiaimfa<Tiir'* tlio la-st of
,■ .in*! YVrapping at lowest
ill S. A A Mll.H,son, Agvnt.
Hr oaper in tin- country con
I ‘Mmrc reading matteradapt
n e t a-I '■ uiml intelligence
r ,. rt |.ilers titan (lie Field and 1
, r le< Send in your l>olliir.
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jfriev*- to find among llu*
the pl-e \iil ill fever at
Uoupe, La., Iv\ GoV. S.VM
■V It A lilt, lew tin u luid a wider
paper notoriety, and few
liiliesucd a moie kindly disposi
' c.
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i Soutliern malaria scourge
■ uiuuueH unabated save from the
Reluct ion of subjects. New Or
./'ana, Canton, Vicksburg, Molly
"tunings and Memphis continue
"•'eir terrible death roll, and the
kk. alone will terminate its rage, i
pingjianooga is now one of the
‘Viaucted cities. Southern contri
'’visions for their relief have been
<1* * * J V a * > but the North and West
an active and lilt
KgVayinputhy above all praise.
■nil former years the negroes
Have not feared yellow fever.
■ "> year has taught them that
P*bir are not exempt.
Hjiflie people are becoming mas
It.tof the financial problem and
Iril parties are leaning to their
Secretary Sherman now
Insists “upon the largest amount
Hof currency that can be main
•tained at par with the establish
ed coin of the country.” lie has
also said that “a currency issued
by the (lovernment (Green 1
hiacks) would he superior to and
more economical than the nation
’aXTnuik notes.” Helms discon
tinned the contraction policy and
now inclines to an increase ol
Greenback currency so that the 1
Republican party is now antagn
Ifixed on tin’ currency only with i
the ultra (Sreenhackers. These
latter maintain that the whole
bonded debt ol the nation should
tie paid oil al once in (Jreeuhacks
except so much ol it (some!
$79,000,000 )t he principal of which !
was made payable in gold.
The issue is very much simpli
tied and is <|iii!e intelligible.
The (Ireenbackeis not only want
plenty of i urieney tint an abun
dance of it as quickly as possi
|ble relying upon keeping it at j
par by the authority or fiat oft
the <lovermuent. The Kepubli
cans and Democrats want plenty
lol’ciirreney but insist that it shall
not lie so abundant as to deprn
ciate its value below gold.
Already the tinancial question
has disintegrated parties in allot
the States. Old things—old po
litical issues—are passing away
and it is more than probable that,
in lew years, Republican ami
Democratic misgoveriimeut will
give place to the advanced ideas
of popular freedom.
The revenue laws as they at
feet the commerce in Whiskey
and 'Tobacco should be greatly
modified. They now oiler a
bounty to those who can success
-fully evade them, produce vi
lolcuce in their execution, to
pvhieh revenue officers are en
couraged by the emoluments of
fered them. Before the war
there was no more whiskey drink
than at present and it sold at
30 cents per gallon ; now it sells
at $2. owing to the revenue, and
the excess in price is largely ah
sorbed in the expense of collec
tion. A moderate tax would be
cheerfully paid and yield to the
government as much nett reve
■J•< * „ ’■L* iJejfsed to see
products of com
merce, products as indispensible
fas any others, of,Un- Useless and
, pernicioiis-btlrtheios imposed up
on them. Ijct us have peace and
ad valorem taxation.
The people understand the
! lloltzclaw trick of the Bourbons.
Let them understand and regard
with similar contempt all the
tricks and “Roorbacks” with
which they will be visited from
this time to the day of election.
tlndouhtedly Judge Lester at
tempted to bribe Mr. Hargroves
bv offering him his official influ
ence if elected, and it is said that
failing in that the organized suc
ceeded better with lloltzclaw.
Politics have been the domin
ant feature of the Kiki.o and Fire
Si ok for several months. While
it recognizes the importance to
the fireside of all political mat
ters Electing the welfare of the
home and w ill not be unmind
ful of the great political issues
crowding upon us, we will give
as we originally designed, the
prevailing features of the paper
to farming intelligence, choice
literature and current news. Our
desire is to make it the best tilled
sheet forthe family and fireside
in Georgia, and it gives us pleas
ure to have so many supporting
our efforts.
Someone writing for the Car
tersville Express says he will
not vote for Dr. Felton “because
he did all in his power to bring
upon us a useless war, which des
olated our fields and brought
poverty and orphanage and woe
and widowhood to our peaceful
homes.”
If Dr. Felton did this it was
because he obeyed the “iron rib
bed, ring-bound democracy.”—
That was what did the mischief
and the writer should join Dr.
Felton and all other true patri
ots who are waging war upon the
old Bourbon organization.
The Grcenbackers of the Fifth
Congressional District have is
sued a platform and nominated
Reuben Arnold of Fill lon against
Hammond nominee ot the Burns
ville Convention. Disorganiza
(ion spreads, and the people ex
lilt, however doleful ii makes the
( 'non! i tut ion
The articles of “Citizen” are
flimsy and unsound, but apart
from the insolence of an anony
mous writer, well written. Dr.
Felton did not know—the public
did not know—that Gov. Brown
said, in giving iu his testimony,
“here are three dead cocks in the
pit,” nor did the public know to
what extent Judge Lester had
been sucking public pap and the
way lie got at it until his record
had been fully exposed in this
canvass, and no one should be
surprised that Dr. Felton lias
changed his opinion of the man.
There are two Republican pa
pers published in Atlanta, one
representing Republicans iu prill
ciple, the other published by J-
K. Bryant. The former says
i “Bryant is the most obnoxious
carpet bagger Maine and the for -
i tunes of civil war ever imposed
upon our people; a man exclu
ded by Gen. David Tilson as an
attorney from the Freed men’s
! Court for fomenting trouble and
taking pay from both sides. The
indictments against him are too
numerous for notice here. The
last count of the bill of indictment
is on tlie lloltzclaw movement,
! upon which the paper before ns
I sivs i
To succeed, the Lester men
! must withdraw the Republican
vote from Felton. To do this, a
Republican must be in the field ;
and the better and stronger the
j man put ou, the more likely will
!he be to succeed. Trammell, the
man who got between $40,000
and $50,000 for lobbying through
la railroad bill in the Democratic
THE FIELD \yj) FIR EBir L)K —MA I* I ETTA. (HA.) THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2b. 187 b
Legislature of 1870. is the one sc
Ifcted to put the scheme into
execution. He‘sees’ Bryant(fees
Bryant, perhaps, we should say),
lloltzclaw straightway appears,
and the thing is done. But we
do not think that the Republican
voters of the seventh, white and
black, are to be thus sold. Such
as we have seen declare the
movement a trick, and aver that
the Republicans of the seventh
are too shrewd to be caught by
any such device. They point to
the canvass of Shouts, so vigor
ously made as to have hastened
his death, and the rideuloiriflhnall
ness of the Republican vot*. af
firming that there is now even
less disposition than then to
throw away their votes on a Re
publican candidate, who has not
a chance of success. —Atlanta
Hep old icon.
The scramble among the lead
ers of the “ring’’ of the Fourth
Congressional * District, finally
terminated at Newnan last week
in a failure to satisfy any clan of
the greedy concern and the Con
vention broke tip in disorder
leaving each “ring master” to
take his chances before the peo
ple. Another triumph of the In
dependents growing out of cor
rupt organization.
“Beast Butler,” so known in
the South, is the Candidate of
the democracy ol Massachusetts
for Governor, and is now a prom
inent representative of some of
“our” allies Col. Jim Brown ad
vised us “to stick to.”
It is said that iu former elec
tions a large number of voters
were imported from Alabama and
elsewhere into this district and
we understand that the effort will
be made to do this again. We
trust that the fraud will not be
permitted.
A CARD.
The report comes that Judge
Lester at Rockmart, character
ized the Field and Fireside as “a
notorious infidel.” 1 suppose the
accusation was made against the
Proprietor of the Paper as the
Publishers are both church mein
bers.
1 have approved the course I
the I'tiblishcrs in this canvass in
allowing grave charges to be
made against Judge Lester when
accompanied with the proof, and
would have insisted upon its col
umns being open to him for vin
dication. in having pursued this
course lie has thought proper to
meet me by, in Ins estimation, an
opprobrious charge. -
It is true that i have a religion
of my own ; one perhaps, not en
tirely catholic or orthodox ; but
an honest one, which knows neitli
er deception or hypocrisy ; that
never “clothed itself in the radi
ant garb of Heaven to serve the
devil in a religion if you choose
of the conscience, the rightful
ness of which is recognized by the
organic laws of the country and
for which I am not accountable
to Judge Lester. Respectfully,
U. M. Goodman.
[COMMI’XICATKD.]
To the Field and Fireside:
Judge Lester charged at Rock
mart last Saturday that the Field
and Fireside supported Dr. Fel
ton—called you “a notorious in
fidel —that Willingham, of the
Free Dress, supported Felton—
then he bent his leg, and went o
ver the stand mocking the brave
editor of that paper, whose fight
against physical difficulties is
Simply grand. Let Judge Lester
cease his made up tale about
sneers on empty sleeves. He ac
tually got down to a pitiful mock
erv of a man, whose self-made
reputation for ability and honesty
will shaino many who were bless
ed by nature with physical beau
ty. Bartow.
The ring is in a “flurry.” We’ll
all be in at the death, which will
take place in November.
ICOMXCNICAIKO.j
Rock mart, G.i.. Sept., 21, 1878.
lo the Held and fireside :
Please give me space for a few
lines in your paper.
Judge Lester spoke here to
da}'. Some few of us went over
to bear him. Tire most interest
ing thing the Judge said or spoke
of was his Greenback platform,
lie then sailed bis lance into Fel
ton and Feltonites. lie spoke of
what the colored orators of Fel
ton had said and that Felton
ought to he rebuked for it. 1 have
thisT® say about what he said to
me. That was that he (Lester)
lost his arm in a digraceful cause
all of which I did not say. 1 said
that it xvas pulling down to the
negro and a disgrace to him, and
the writer who wrote the above
sentence mistook my utterance.
Aaron M. Middlkdrooks.
f commcmcatkd.j
To the Field and Fireside:
The Rome Courier keeps stand
ing at its head the words of Judge
Wright in reference to Judge
Lester. On Saturday at Adairs
ville in his speech, Judge Wright
said :
“ Before God, if I had known
that Judge Lester had taken that
fee to lobby the Legislature of
Georgia, I would never ha ve wr it
ten a line of it. We lawyers are
easy on fees, as a general thing,
hot that fee don't suit me. Why
do they not publish all my let
ter ? I asked Mr. Harris, of the
Courier, why ? 1 0, said lie,’ we
editors can publish what we
choose.’ ”
This is Judge Wrights’ state
ment. Wait until you hear Gen.
Toombs on lobbying ! Wait un
til you hear him on Bullock’s lob
by ! Wait until you hear him on
the political Judge, grasping the
Judges pay in one hand, and
reaching for the pay of another
office ! Wait until you hear him
discuss the threat ,l / will make
Cobb count;/ too hot to hold Winn ,
Barnes , and Stripling."
Judge Lester impeached Jutlge
Knight. Let him get ready for
next winter. Judge Knight nev
er threatened the people of his
circuit with such “heat.” Judge
Lester made it too hot for Judge
Knight in the Georgia Legisla
ture. Ihe Senate cleared judge
Knight. “They do not find that
the people of said judicial circuit
have lost confidence in the law
as a|shiehl and protection to them
in the enjoyment of life liberty
and property. They find that
lion. N. B. Knight is a man of in
tegrity and honor, and has en
deavored to do his duty, faithful
l.v and impartially as Judge of
the Blue Ridge circuit.”
Judge Knight did not threaten
the men who were under him as
a Judicial officer. He never told
them he would maketheii homes
too hot to hold them. Shame up
on such a Judge! Gov. Oolquitt
may pet him—the State House
may help him. Bryant may use
his tools at the bidding of Wade
—who is the grand cyclops in
lower Georgia-while his brother
in law’, E. I*. Howell is the Mogul
of the Atlanta Constitution, but
it does not deceive the people.
They see what they have to fight
—lt may be hot, but we are not
quite ready to emigrate. We can
impeach also—and then try to
cool oft' the Flame.
I see Bryant and lloltzclaw
have taken the contract to elect
Judge Lester in the Seventh dis
trict. J. R. Brown wants to be
Judge; therefore, Bryant is em
ployed to get out some vainglo
rious fool to run and draw oil
votes from Felton enough to e
lect Lester. Thus Bryant will
raise his SIO,OOO to circulate his
sheet. —Atlanta Republican.
Griffin Sun : Not only the
Constitution but other Lester or
gans are puffing the distinguished
radical gentlemen who have been
engaged to do the seventh dis
trict. If this mean, contempti
ble, dirty scalawag trick does
uot open the eyes of the people
to the iniquity of the Atlanta
ring we have little hope of them.
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manufacture wool for mn custom, l>v the yard, into any of the above line of
o- f >o.ls at a reasonable price: sav, Jeans at 25 cents. Tweeds at 20cents and Lin
so vs at 15 cent -. Will make a discotn:, on large lots of wool. Those living in
tin- vieinitv of Marietta and wishing their wool carded into rolls, or exchanged
for ools. can I-.-iv- tin '.■ 00l at Haley Brothers, north side public square. Roll
earning 10 cents pei pound. Will take wool and return rolls or goods once a
wri-k free ol . ii.i’ w . H<• will make i: to rite interest of merchants to buy their
o-oods direct factory. W- pay freight on all wool shipped to lis. Al!
comnnniieat ions should he aiidn-s-'d to f.AI RET. M 1 1.1. S Ml- (J ( Oil RAN 1,
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