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The Koine 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 (tod, if I had known
that Judge Lester had taken that
.fee to lobby the Legislature of
i Georgia, I would never hove i writ
' ton a line of it. We lawyers are
i easy on fees, as a general thing,
but that fee don't suit me. Why
they not publish all my let
r ? I asked Mr. Harris, of the
trier, why ? said he, *we
rs can publish what we
e.’ ”
K To Campaign Sursuribers.- We
* e a large number of campaign
icTfhSTR on Our list and the
ttipuign is near its close. Will
a pleased to enter any or all of'
em as regular subscribers on
.ir books. Notify us by send
ing One Dollar, if you live in
■Jobb County, or One Dollar and
r .iteen cents if in another Conn
Fy, by the first of Novembet next.
\ '
la the Rome precinct on the
•th the lines were drawn inde
ideal vs. organized; ananima
d contest followed for the elec
nof a justice of the peace. A
of Hon. A. R. Wright, indepen
>eat Hillyer, organized, 122
Number of votes polled
a. * Hear the rumbling thun
Oh 1 ye organized, in the
.nice ot the people.
jj§ Possibly the* $5,000 to be used
hyrushingout the Evening News
gjnd re-establishing the newspu
lr monopoly in this city, is a per
son of the net protits received
for advertising for the city at one
dollar per square, which was
worth only ten cents. Those facts
re suggestive. But there is not
room enough for two papers in
Augusta. Oh, no! Two such
*apers as the Chronicle and Con
itutionnlist would be crowding
*5 tax payers, to be sure.— An-
cloqui
record that defies place too
I trivia pie aAd sAiatain lnonop-
Y* 'au V*i>ere t\ papers are es
olfsnod in a county or city,
Otha fair circulation, and the
prices for official advertising are
reduced by each one-half, the
public frill be benefitted by pub
hing m both papers.
The Constitution says ‘‘the in
ndents have warned Gordon
they will beat him for the
for having meddled in the
*igroßional canvass,” and adds
•Ghe independents may just as
ell understand now, as at any
<t|her time, that the organized de
mocracy has <lraton the linos, and
will remember on which side eve
ry man stands.” All right. The
will go for their
’it try against all organized
*gogues.
ocrats as well as liepubli
je in the market, it seems,
g money for the Florida
-H"**- ■J-ote. Tililon denies
7< the Jmi\ anything about it
Time and the Baltimore
tuna*democratic, says “the
slum jen—if there were any
whiliio-cOnccrned themselves
power ahamefuf trade were
with *fxits of democratic ideas
aghast, a ami sjfchttWl be cut
Judicial OMMluceisi ffrom the
sufficient aMntSjythe party
is supposed *ahui the garbage
) character suffici^st^'
* high obligations tliht cxveedv
the Judgeship. WhenW cid
l>i* (jhe ealh “f jetlice. kf-jU'orcuiy
l H *me Tax and it ti ,-'T ,
VV' Wf
1., i ‘.al*iiii-ki t.. there
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To the Field and Fireside :
the pas ft coppersmith, hath
okFsei.yuistice; may the Lord
i him. according to his works!"
dge Lester is unlike.St, Paul.
Hit “ much bearing hath not
. \im mad ;” still, be is mad,
f'ttes the Fiei.i> and Fire
is jet
om the stump, as “a dirtv
Cfi(Vt ,” and your humble servant
‘•as an infidel, unworthy the con
fidence of Christian people,” so
reported.
If the Fiki.p ani> Fireside has
sinned in this campaign, it is from
omission— not commission. As
tute correspondents have been
permitted to expose Judge Les
ters public record, but not to as
sail his private conduct. If there
was anything “dirty” in that re
cord, it was uncovered without
defiling those who exposed it.
I am not competing with him
for the judgeship; I am not run
ning against him for congress;
have not now, and never had, iny
desires centered in the public
treasury ! Why does he assail my
personal liberty? Has his hopes
in the race with Dr. Felton be
come so desperate that he turns
upon the friends of the people’s
candidate, and, with a venom a
Jesuit might envy; a malice that
knows no charity ; a bigotry wor
thy Cnly of the darkest ages of
man, assails the highest principle
of enlightened liberty in his de
nunciation of “the freedom of re
ligion?” It was bad enough that
he should denounce me as an in
fidel ; it was bad enough that this
rude civilian should pass sentence
upon my spiritual condition ; but
to fulminate against me the pen
alty “ unworthy the confidence
ot Christian people,” is so pre
sumptuous, so iniquitous, that it
should destroy the confidence of
all sensible men in the fitness of
Judge Lester for any public trust
whatever.
Socrates was made to drink the
deadly hemlock for freedom of re
ligious thought. Jesus was cru
cified because his freedom of
thought and purity of mind out
raged the bigotry of such men as
Judge <. N. Lester. The Catholic
Church, at an earty period, pano
plied in prejudice, and unscrupu
lous in the exercise of power,
struggled to suppress freedom of
thought, whether employed in the
advancement of science or sound
theology, for a thousand years ;
but truth and science continued,
more and more, to widen their do
main, and now they teach us more
of true religion—of nature and
of God, than Judge Lester ever
dreamt of. No doubt, like the
Pharisee, he would blot it all out;
no doubt he would carry us back
to the spiritual tyranny of the
Church ; but, as an able corres
pondent said last week, “he is too
late." Science has taught us too
much of the history of creation
for man ever to abandon the
search, and he will pursue it with
out fear that it will lead him away
from his God.
True to the spirit of fanaticism
Judge Lester would adapt his re
ligion to political uses. He would
outlaw his opponents]; excommu
nicate perhaps, exterminate
them, for non-conformity, if they
oppose him in his aspirations for
office. Verily, “the Lord will re
ward him according to his works.”
R. M. Goodman.
Fei.ton Ahkad.— Extract of a
letter, dated Rome, Oct. 21st: “1
give you some cheering news. We
had an election here last Satur
day for magistrate. The Lester
party put out a man and the Fel
ton party put out a man, and we
beat the Lester man 122 votes.
This shows who is in the majority
here, and had they not kept it a
secret that they were making this
ates Lease until the middle ol the
.day, we would have beat them at
tagstSOO votes in this district.—
|§ow, you see how Lester is run
wing in this section. Lester men
this as Lester's strong
holdNu&t tjiis don’t look like it.
Feltmyrfl iW Lester in Floyd
coupßKjpW votflV.
THE FIELD AND FIRESIDE—MARIETTA, (GA.) THURSDAY, OCTOIiER 24, 1878.
f coMVU'XU'atkk. j
Another Lie Nailed.
GEN. WOFFORD STILL FOR DR. KELT Og.
To the Field and Fireside :
Gen. Wofford is greatly bereav
ed in the death of his wile. Up
to the week before her death, he
had been actively engaged in the
canvass in favor of Dr. Felton.
The Lease- terites, with a propen
sity to misrepresent, never before
witnessed in any compaign, in
duced a poor besotted creature to
say that “Wofford had turned a
gainst Felton.” They had run
ners to carry the news. Before
the second day, they had it well
“ norated ” everywhere. General
Wofford never dreamed of such a
report being in circulation, and he
gave Dr. Felton permission to use
the following statement:
Cass Station, )
October 21. 1878. i
Hon. W. H. Felton :
Dear Sir : You asked for a de
nial of the absurdly false report,
that I had turned against you in
the coming congressional elec
tion. I have received a number
of letters from different parts of
the district, informing me of these
reports. They are untrue, and
without a shadow of foundation.
The death of my loved and la
mented wife has involved me in
great grief. Ivespect for her mem
ory and my own feelings is the
sole reason why I ceased to con
tinue an active canvass in your
favor. Very respectfully,
Wm. T. Wofford.
[communicated.]
The Whiskey Tax.
To the Field and Fireside:
1 was very much surprised when
I saw the hand bills sent out by
the Lester party, stating that the
Judge advocates and agrees, if
elected, to introduce a bill in con
gress to reduce the revenue tax
on whiskey. When he came to
Big Shanty about two years ago,
and made a temperance speech
for the Good Templars, he (Les
ter) said that the taxes on liquors
ought to be SO HIGH that a gal
lon of spirituous liquors could not
be made in the United States, and
that if it were in his power, he
would make the tax so high that
there would not be another gal
lon distilled in the world, lie al
so said, in the same speech, that
he (Lester) would get up at the
hour of midnight to vote the tax
on liquors so high that not anoth
er gallon would be made in the
United States. He then went on
and said that he had not taken the
Good Templar’s pledge, and that
his reason for not taking it was,
he had taken one similar to it.—
When he was a young man, he
joined the Sons of Temperance,
and the pledge he gave Jhen
would last him to his grave; that
he had never broke it, and never
would. Then, he thought, the
Good Templars were about to be
in the majority, and he was will
ing, to be on the popular side, to
tax whiskey awfully high. Now,
Judge Lester is the other way. or
his hand bills greatly belie him,
for they tell us that he is Ready
TO TURN WHISKEY LOOSE,
and throw it pell-mell to the poor
unfortunate inebriate, who has no
self-government of his reason !!
And for what ? To gain, perhaps,
a few votes, in violation of his
pledge, thinking it would make a
little on his way to congress.—
Whom shall we believe?
One who was present.
[COMMUNICATED.]
The Rare in the 7th.
To the Field and Fireside:
On one side stands “ Old lie
cord," calm, serene, patient un
der provocation—forbearing un
der abuse, although brave as a
lion, and faithful to the truth
which cuts like a two edged sword.
On the other side, Judge Les
ter, Gen. Gordon, Gov. Colquitt,
Col. Trammell, Judge Under
wood, Judge McCutcheon and all
tlu* other would-be Judges—Col.
Waddell, Col. Brown, <Jol. Shu
mate, Col. Fair and all the rest
of such Colonels, Maj. Blanee
and all the other lawyer Majors.
Including Maj. Biil Arp. Capt.
everybody that belongs to the
law. Corporal everybody that
belongs to the same profession.
Carv .Styles and all of his sort.
Jas. O. Dowda and a certain little
Linton Dean, hanging around
waiting for a job to slander some
body, if they can manipulate a
printing office. Yes, the whole
brigade is out —to fight one man
who has acquitted himself as
well as the best of them—who is
the peer of all in honesty—the
equal of the best in ability, whose
career is unsurpassed in every
particular by the best of them.
And yet he disdains to throw
mud at the mud. Slingers, only
gives the truth in reply to false
hoods, and with only the honest
•people at his bad who get their
living by the sweat of their brow,
he walks calmly to the onset.—
May the Lord stand by the right,
and the people’s champion !!
Justice.
[ Communicated. ]
Lb the Field and Fireside :
Did Judge Lester tell a lawyer
in Marietta—“that he had no au-!
thority to collect tax in kind, and ■
if Cox said he did, that he would j
cut his throat?”
Did Judge Lester attack the j
private character of Dr. F’elton at.
Tilton, and leave the inference!
that some circulars would be prin- j
ted just a little before the elec
tion ?
Does Judge Lester endorse the
villainous attack of certain law
yers in Rome and Canton on Mrs. j
Felton. Let him speak, or he j
will be held as much responsible, i
as was Dr. Felton for the negro's ;
! speech in Rome.
; Who are the eight good friends
that Trammell divided the State
Road swag ?-After the divide w as
made Chas. L. FTost says Kimball
! told him that “peace reign in
\ Warsaw.
\ Judge Lester says he left a
part of the Immigration money
I in the Treasury when he resigned,
j —Bullock received his resigna
tion on the 29th of August 1870.
On the 30th of August, 1870,
!he sends this message to the
Legislature. “I have the honor
! to report that there are no funds
in the Treasury at this time eith
j er from the amount placed there
by the Bill referred to, or from
any other source. The whole has
been expended in lawful claims
against the State.”
Rufus B. Bullock.
Now herds the positive proof.
He sent Lester’s resignation to
the Legislature on the 29th of
August. This letter to the legis
lature was written on Aug. 30th
i 1870. One day after.
When all the money was gone,
'peace reigned in Warsaw ,” and
Lester quit the commission at
that time.
Look at the House journal Sep.
; Ist 1870. Page. 529.
Truth.
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delivered. Please give me a call. Remember the place; 85 White
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A LITERAL AND ABSOLUTE FACT.
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