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MARIETTA. NOV. 7, 1878.
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HR' a large number of campaign
on our 1 i>t and tin
|!Knpuign is near its close. Will
HT pleased to enter any or all of
■ltem as regular subscribers on
pour books. Notify us by send
king One Dollar, if you live in
Hobb County, or < Mie Dollar and
cents if in another Conn
H bv (lie first of Novernbet next
H'bis issue closes the term for
|Huipuign subscribers. Send in
for the year or I II 11
s ’ x tu'intbs if you wMi
BhKih per continued.
||Ps|PF 1 lo\ok 'io < 'oiiii ! for tin
p BRte paid on Tuesday last to
Hrightsof milll to enlightened
HUVI to law, oi del and good
KflHHrunii-iil tbebighc-t interest
county. She has merited
distinction a- tlm
of the state. She has
won a distinction equally
High in her grand movement, un
Htr all disadvantages, in behalf
Pol social and political reform.
■May her progress in industry be
Equalled by her might in subordi-
Inating public affairs to the happi
Hess of the people.
Cotih County Election.
; the election Indd on yester
IHy'iii Cobb county lor Congress
: 'Hh, the lolloping is the official
Hf •> >
r • • <V
Districts. vs *
Pc c.
arietta. 766 463
iMerritts, 112 110
F Boa well. 7! 121
kCritta, 86 103
■Big Shanty. 146 70
Oregon, 115 78
Cowier Springs. 131 137
Coxo’s, 80 112
Lemon's, 41 55
SitfVrna, st! 62
. 1767 1520
k Felton’s majority, 271.
BmIIKOHOIA CONOKKSSION At. KI.KC
—Return# reported for the
JKirtd District give Nieholls, or
ganized, over Corker, indepen
-1 dent, 3500 majority. The Second
District reports Smith's majority
at 5,000. No news from the Third.
The Fourth District is doubtful
between Harris and Persons, both
independent. The Fifth District
eTects ihimmond. organized, over
Arnold. From the Sixth, the re
turns are meagre. Stephens, in
dependent, elected in the Eighth,
RHthout opposition. There is still
BjHe doubt of the result ill the
between Speer, iudt pen
Billups.
|HHk fo]lowing returns from the
RHventh District are nearly cor
rmst :
‘ Felton's minorities —Cobb 271,
Cherokee 720. Bartow 1084. Gor
don 125, l’olk 355, Paulding 18.
.Floyd 28, Whitfield 50—8251.
R Lester's majorities—Chattooga
■r a small majority. Haralson.
jHtoosa and Murray are yet (o
IgjH'Troni. Imt w ill not materially
IjHge the result.
HSHk General A- e 111 Id \ ol tic..,
1 Rufus E. Lester
President: W. A
of^Vorth, Secretary Hon.
of l|u>b. was elec,
of thgßhMi-e : Henry
i" the Mate
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The State Department of Agri 1
culture, under the present able
< ’otiimissioner, is doing noble
work for the advancement of ag
riculture in Georgia, and we trust
will receive that appreciation its
efforts deserve.
France has for her circulation
$12.48 per capita. The United
. Kingdom has $6,39. Germany
has $3,46. The United States has
$14,65. Now, if we want more
| good money, let us make some
thing more with which to buy it,
and watch more closely the col
lection and disbursement of the
public money.
•* As goes Chatham, so goes the
State,” was proverbial among the
•‘organized'’ in times past, but it
was tried once too often. It led
oil for secession, and the State
following, the devil was to pay,
and we paid him, but with a men
tal reservation, to place Chatham
in the future in the rear of North
i
i Georgia, where it would be more
likely to piomote the general
welfare.
A Chicago paper says that Bob
Toombs will stump the State for
| Grant, should the latter receive
I the nomination of the republican
party, lie might do that, as a
Greeley democrat, without any
sacrifice of principle.
The Columbus Enquirer says |
i “an amusing aspect of the can- j
vans was the endeavor to obtain
the colored vote,” and that paper j
speaks highly of that class of the
voting population as intelligent,
unpurchasable, property owners,
and conservators of society. As
far as our observation extends,
the negroes have shown thein
i selves orderly and sensible in the
heated canvass through which we
have passed, while standing firm
ly by the right.
The Ermine may now be taken
up, washed by a contrite spirit,!
cleansed of its impurities, and
once more grace the form of the
Hind (iod of Justice.
The “Old Record” is to Ire in- \
definitely continued.
The dirt cast upon the u Field I
and bln nidc" wouldn't stick. It j
only soiled the hands of the as ,
; sailant.
Now that the people have swept j
the glorious old Seventh District, |
let them, with calm, circuinspec- j
tive eyes, proceed to cleanse the |
A gean stables.
“D.” writes with strong prac- j
tical sense. The people demand j
a government “by and of the peo- J
pie,” and to secure this, we must |
do away with all party machine- ■
ry. The plan suggested is as un- j
objectionable as any yet submit
ted.
Jett. Davis denies that he said
a word in his Mississippi City I
speech favorable to the restora 1
tion of slavery.
The New York World, a lead
ing democratic paper, recognises :
the existence in this country of!
“an office holding class,” and says
“they fotm cliques, national,!
state and municipal, which con
trol all the approaches to the
Temple of Honor. Practically,!
the offices of government are not
open to men who their neighbors {
most love and trust, but to the >
few professional politicians who
contend for the control of a con
vention, and the best of these ’
may be men of wealth, or repu
tation at the bar, but the majori
ty of them are fellows who sel
r
dom deal in business further than
they can make it forward their
political preferment,or than they j
can make their political prefer
inhnt forward their business. In
thjMgowiinations of both parties
there is clearly to be
pljiy the result of this >\stem.
ill&ptt ml id at es for the most im
;rit positions in the <ninfr\.
|||ith a iejk bulmr.it.le . P
THE FIELD AND FIRESIDE—MARIETTA, (GA.) THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 7, I STS.
| lions, not the men whom the peo- !
pie want to represent them, or
| consider lit to represent them, j
but men who have nominated
themselves, or whose friends have I
nominated them, or whose partic
ular faction has nominated them
—men chosen out of the office
holding class by the professional
politicians.”
This is a tribute from the very
head-centre of the national dein
ocratic party to the independent
movement.
And now “the bloody shirt” is
| lokled away, let us hope never a
gain to be exhibited as a political
emblem in the Seventh District.
The Marietta Field and Fire
aide throughout the campaign has
been edited with great intelli
gence in favor of Dr. Felton.—
Atlanta Constitution.
The article we quote from the
Field and Fireside is cool and
deliberate, and if it was not writ-1
ten by Dr. Felton himself, then,
| at least, it was written by a gen
j tleman who is very close to Dr.
i Felton politically, and who knows i
precisely what he is talking about
—Atlanta Constitution.
For all of which we salute the j
great “organized” Georgia Thun
derer, but say that the re- i
ference to Dr. Felton is wholly
gratuitous and without the slight
est foundation in fact.
The editor of ttie Marietta Field and
Fireed strikes the key-note of the in
dependent movement, when he declares
t tint the South was not saved by the Or
ganized Democracy, hat by “the Itepnli
lienn policy of reconstruction.” It will
be seen that, after all lias been said on
one side or on the other, Dr. Felton and
lus brother Independents mean busi
ness.—Atlanta Constitution,
Yes, wo mean business, and as
a sample, we propose to furnish,
briefly, a history of re-construc
tion and of the “Organized Bour
bon Democracy” of Georgia.
The Constitution claims that
the “organized democracy” saved
Georgia. We have asserted that
it ruined Georgia in 1860, by
plunging it “into the outer dark
ness of secession.” How was it
rescued ? The conqueror’s heel
was upon the helpless, bleeding
and ruined State. Who lifted her
up and restored her to life ? Let
tts note all the stages towards res
toration. The first of the series
of reconstruction measures, the
thirteenth amendment to the con
stitution of the United States was
passed by a republican Congress,
and its terms submitted to Geor
gia and the other Southern States.
What did it propose ? It offered
to leave the race problem—the
civil and political status of the
colored race— to the States. Why
was it not accepted ? Because it
embraced a clause excluding the
leading Bourbon democrats from
any immediate chance for office.
They had so long been the State
that the idea of a State without
them, was not to be entertained
for a moment. What next? Then
came the fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments, republican meas
ures, giving civil and political
equality to the colored race.—
Then the people demanded peace
—the Bourbons accepted, in the
face of the then national demo
cratic platform, and Georgia was
restored to her present political
condition. Was it the republi
cans then who re-constructed
Georgia or the “organized demo
crats ?” who, seeing there was no
other way to office and plunder,
accepted the republican platform,
and carried out the mandates of
that party.
It is getting so now that a man
cannot state truth without being
accused of radicalism, or a ten
dency that way ; but, as we mean
business, we are prepared for any
injustice the Bourbons may dons.
We do not deny that they recon
strueted the secession democracy,
but affirm as a truth that they did
it on the republican platform.—
They first attempted it by sup
porting a losing republican—
one of the most ultra of radicals,
Horace Greeley, for President—
and failing in that, abandoned all
democratic principle, and in the
Tildeu platform professed to “rat
ify, approve and endorse” the
whole system of republican re
\ construction. They reconstruct
ed Georgia by getting upon the
I republican platform and securing
the offices and all official plunder.
We are against an organization
which has steeped itself in all Hie
; corruption which a total abandon
ment of principle involves; which
when it attained ascendancy in
j Georgia, began a history of fraud.
! extravagance and mismanage
ment hardly surpassed by Bul
lock, and which, after a lapse of
years of grinding exactions from
the people, finds us to-day with a
State debt almost as great and
taxation as high as ever.
No mistake about it, the people
are becoming entirely indepen
dent of the democratic organiza
tion, “ except these bonds,” and
these they will break in the
movement they are making for a
pure government for a free peo
pie, and, fear not, that in scatter
ing vour bands of “organized
tricksters,” they will fall a prey
to others. They bad a people's
government in the davs of Wash
ington, Jefferson and Jackson and
they will have it again.
Tuesday last was Independents
Day in the Seventh Congression
al District.
The reformation has begun!
Come out, young man, from that
filthy iron ribbed sty, or you will
have no more chance than a
stump tail bull in fly time.
Now, let the Headlight blaze;
the Tribune address the multi
tude; the Georgian stand firm
on its native heath; the Free
Press increase the diffusion of
knowledge, while the people
nourish the Field a\\<\ enliven the
Ft reside.
Passing along the streets yes
terday, we heard one of the year
lings mumbling the following
consolatory ode:
Felton eats the eve-melon,
Luster eats the rind ;
Felton will go to ('ongress.
Luster ’ll stay behind.
ltoltzelaw, lie (lid pull the strings
To help ns, ’tis true.
Hut the independent b’hovs
Did whollop us blue.
The railroads and ’seiirsion train
Made a little round,
Hut the old “Wool Hat” b’hoys
Did it up too Broun.
And the Constitution , too.
It is gone, pell incll,
Where Hades used to he,
Ah, yes! where! Ilou-'idi.
A Card.
To whom it may concern:
In past issues of your valuable
paper, there appeared a card over
the signature of William Ilake
straw, of Powder Springs. In
justice to myself, as I am guilty
of having told that Mr. Rakestraw
reported the “whiskey men” to
the authorities, you will please
publish the following statement:
In the evening of the same day
in which the whiskey men, to wit,
Win. F. Moore and brother, were
arrested, I was at Powder Springs
and in Mr. Wm. Rakestraw’s shoe
shop, and we were talking of the
arrest having been made. The
majority of the citizens of Pow
der Springs and vicinity, did not
approve of the action, inasmuch
as the whiskey men had been en
couraged with the patronage of
the people of said place. Mr.
Rakestraw said to me, “I will tell
von, Doc., why I reported them ;
the whiskey traffic conflicts with
business; one of my partners
drinks too much when the whis
key wagons come around. I did
it more for my own good than for
any other reason.”
The inference is plain. Any
person of common sense would
have believed from bis own stale
ment that Mr. Rakestraw report
ed them. Now, if the report is
“maliciously false,” Win. Rake
straw is the author of it, and if
he desires to “face” the party
who first told the tale, he had bet
ter get a looking glass and take a
peep. 1 should not have paid any
attention to his card, had not a
kind friend of mine informed me
that it was reflecting upon me as
the author of a false statement.
I told some gentlemen in Mariet
ta that Mr. Rakestraw reported
the whiskey men. I did not intend
an injustice, but simply reiterat
ed bis own statement. I have no
desire to appear in public print,
and only do so in vindication of
myself. (It) Zadoo B. Moon
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\ \ i
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Also Wool Lin so vs, ohoek and plain,
AT TUB LAUREL MILLS,
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rixHKSK Mills are exchanging their goods for WOOL, with farmers and nth-
A ers, on the most liberal trims, (our motto is live and let live) or we will
manufacture wool for our custom, by tin: yard, into any of tlie above tine of
goods at .i reasonable price; sav, Jeans at 23 cents, Tweeds at 20 cents and Lin
■ cys at 13 cents. Will make a discount on large lots of wool. Those living in
the vicinity of Marietta and wishing their wool carded into rolls, or exchanged
for goods, ran leave the wool at Haley Brothers, north side public square. Roll
carding 10 cents per pound. Will take wool and return rolls or goods ouce a
week free of charge. We will make it to the interest of merchants to buy their
goods direct fr uit the factory. AVe pay freight on alt wool shipped to us. All
communications should be addressed to I.A t T KKL MILLS M'F’G COMPANY.
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