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Just As I See It.
More Marvelous Things Have
Been Accomplished than
the Repealing of the- 14th
and iyth Amendments,
The censure by those who are not
interested in the race for
con gress in the tenth district of Mr.
Hardwick for the political trickery
and fraud that was practiced to de¬
li at Mr. Watson in 1892, when lie
ran for congress iji this district as a
populist, is unjustifiable as well as
i ill fair. It seems as if the Augusta
Tribune desires to place the burden
<>i the whole matter upon Mr. Hard¬
wick (which is too for much the for any one ol
man too bear) and purpose influence
gaining advancement populist votes of Mr. Fleming
for the
in the present race for congress,
while both aspirants belong to the
democratic party. The Tribune seems
10 have forgotten, “he that offendeth
in one point is guilty of the whole
law.” Mr. Hardwick may he guilty
of the charges brought against him in
by The Tribune, but it does not
any particular justify Mr. Fleming,
and he is no more entitled to popu¬
list votes than Mr. Hardwick.
The Tribune says that Mr. Flem¬
ing was the first man to recognize and
That paper, then The Wool llat,
made a plea for justice. If Mr. Flem¬
ing made a plea for justice and fair¬
ness, it is evident that he knew fraud
was being committed, and if so, why
did not Mr. Fleming, the man so
bent on political fairness, go to Wash¬
ington, D. C„ while Mr, Watson’s
seat in congress was being contested,
and tell to that body of national law¬
makers that he knew of this fraud;
the very thing that kept Mr. Wat¬
son from being seated; and also tell
them that his honest opinion was
that Mr. Watson was entitled to bis
seat upon the principles of justice,
3 say, as a populist, why didn’t lie
.do it? Instead we find him, like
I’eter after he had denied his Lord,
outside, the gates of populism warm¬
ing himself over the embers of polit¬
ical hatred. The truth of the whole
matter is Richmond county for two
successive terms sent her representa¬
tives to congress by stuffing ballot
boxes,and now she wants to continue
the jii'ocegs»Ji*44B' ; »g who
helped u) stuff them. The Tribune
seems to think that a denunciation
of populism in 1892-96 was unless too sacred
for anyone to engage in they
Jived in the couiN.y of Richmond. .1
don’t district think ought the populists let exposition of the tenth of
to an
these things hurt Mr. Hardwick in
his race for congress, as it lias been
kept a secret for six long years, and
now Mr. Fleming allows it to be told
for his own personal benefit. It
would have been more God-like in
Mr. Fleming if he had told it in the
interest of another man ; when t hose
things were being done to the hurt
.of Mr. Watson. Why does not Mr.
Fleming meet the present issues and
Jet the dead past alone.
Six years ago the populist party
was wrecked and ruined and those
things which the Tribune mention
are the tilings that wrecked and
ruined it and in its ruin Mr. Flem
jug with all the democratic party
gloried; as a consequence of its ruin
Mr. Fleming made his first appear
since in congress, as the democratic
member from the tenth district,
which had labored so persistently to
defeat Mr. Watson and his party.
Not being satisfied with three terms
without an opponent in the field lie
now proposes to go down into the
ruins of populism and dig the things
Tip that carried him to congress the
first time and ride them back again.
The Tribune intimates that Mr.
Hardwick is a luiic-brained fellow,
with a mouth like a wind mill,
eternally clapping and never saying
anything. It accuses him of being
erratic and visionary because he
proposes to agitate a move to repeal
the 14th and loth amendments to
the constitution, which it declares to
be an impossibility.
We think the people of the tenth
are able to judge the ability
of a man to represent them in con
gress, after they have heard and seen
him. Go back only little more than
half a century and the world stood
where it did in the days of the
patriarchs. that long Suddenly the waters of
stream, over whose drowsy
surface scarcely a ripple of improve*
jneut had passed for three thousand
years, broke into the wnite foam of
agitation; the world awoke
from the slumber and darkness of
ages ; the divine linger lifted I he seal
bom the prophetic book and brought
predicted and period when, men
run to fro and knowledge
be increased. Invention)fol-
lowed invention until man was able
to bind the elements to hie chariots,
and reaching up caught hold of the
very lightning itself, and made it his
message bearer around the world,
and it is only a matter of time when
the people of America are to sit in
conveisation with the seemingly people of Eu¬
rope, and these were great¬
er impossibilities 14th and 15th than Amendments the repeal of
tha to
the Constitution. Time, the great
pacifier, has been passing on for forty
years, and it is no telling what results
an agitation would of a repeal yield. of Negro those
amendments
suffrage is an imposition on the intel¬
ligence of the South as well as detri¬
mental to the negro lace, and as long
as their voles can be bought and sold
to elect men to office who care but
little more for their official acts than
the negro cares for his moral conduct,
politics will be stigmatized with
debauchery and congress, as well as
{■very national or state assembly, will
be pregnant with lobbyists and cor¬
ruption. Tribune Mr. Fleming is
The says
nearer populism than Mr. Hardwick.
In 1892, when the denunciation of
populism stained every democratic
longue, it would not have been well
lor the editor of The Tribune, or any
other man, to have said that Mr.
Fleming was nearing the borders of
the populists party. 13. F. Butler.
A FAIR OPPONENT.
Mf. M. „ I. , Branch _ , says Flem
ing Was Fair.
Berzelia, Ha., May/vO, lJOv.
To the Editor ot the Chronicle,
Augusta, Ga Dear Sir : J am en
tirely out ol active polities; hut alter
reading the card of lion. U, ii
Fleming in your issue ot today, J
feel that in behalf oi truth (and
without the knowledge oi Mi. Flem
ing) it is opportune ior me to say
that I served in the legislature during for
six years with Mr. Fleming,
a part of which time lie was speaker,
and was intimately thiown with him
in the ron tine ol daily work. At one
time there were fluty 1 opulist mem
hers, and I can unqualifiedly assei t
that every member was treated with
courtesy at all times by Mi. Flem
ing, and there could not have been a
fairer opponent. As to Mi. Haul
wick, I know nothing about his
record during the heated d«u*
Populism; but 1 do know w.ieieot i.
speak m regard to Mr. Fleming,
Yours truly,
M. I. Branch.
MA Ii TLN’8 X HO A DS.
The most of our farmers are
through chopping cotton for the
son.
The grain is beginning will to ripen
verv fast, and the crop be very
short in this section, owing to bad
stands and dry weather.
Ye scribe attended the Double
Branches debating society last Satur¬
day night. The subject, “Resolved,
that country stores have been a ben¬
efit to the country good, people.” The
speakers did very and especially
Dave Bivins. I think he is the best
I ever heard in this county.
Several from this section attended
the school picnic at Pine Grove h ;i
Saturday. It was greatly enjoyed by
those present.
T. L, Ulm has bought a new lop
buggy. We don’t know wluit will
happen next, for Miss Lizzie won’t
tell me.
Rev. W. II. Green and family, of
Amity, visited this place Saturday
and Sunday.
H. Murphy, of tills place, is vist
ing Greenwood, S..C., this week.
.John and Ed Dunaway passed
tlnoiigh here Saturday oil their way
to McCormick, S. C.
In the last issue of The Journal
we saw a letter from “Citizen,” stat¬
ing that several districts would go
solidly for Fleming. I would just
say to “Citizen” that I think lie will
find himself badly mistaken. I ex¬
pect to go to the polls on the lion. 5th of
June and cast my vote for T.
W. Hardwick for congress, as every
honest voter should do. Bears.
Holds up a Congressman.
“At the end of the campaign,’ (
writes Champ Clark, Missouri’s bril¬
liant, congressman, “from overwork,
nervous tension, loss of sleep and
constant, collapsed. speaking I had about utte -
ly It seemed that all the
org.ais m my body were out. of order,
but three bottles of Electric Bitters
male me all right. It’s the best all
around medicine ever sold over a
druggist’s counter.” Cher worked,
run-down men and weak, sickly
vitality women gain Electric splendid Bitlers. health mid
from Try
them. OnJ v 5uc. Gmiranteed bv 0.
”
ir.j
i
There will be a Grad Rally
and Barbecue given at Lin
colnton on Monday, June 2.
Ample preparations have been
made to take care of every
one.
Hon. T. W. Hardwick, can¬
didate for congress, will be
present and address the peo¬
ple, Hon. Matt Gross, of
Thomson, will also be on
hand. This will be a fitting
climax to the brilliant cam¬
paign of the Hon. T. W.
Hardwick, our next congress¬
man.
The ladies are invited to
be present.
Reply to “Justice.”
To the Editor of the Journal:
I again ask your indulgence and
that of the many readers of The
Journal, while I make one more
and last appeal to them for fair play;
one of the most commendable of
American ideas, in the approaching
primary. reader
Now every unbiased knows
that the only part I have taken in
this campaign is lo allay prejudice,
eliminate all dirty methods, to
contribute my little mite to reunit
j n n. (q )e white voters of our section
()U a ])ig) KT plain, politically, than
they have occupied in yearspast.es
| ((jC j H l]y is this true of my position
re g a rd to the candidates for con -
g resg . hut when 1 scan the last few
j ssue s of your paper, as well as many
Q j- t | K , leading papers of the district,
p. appears t 0 Ule that mv efforts have
| jee futile.
We were surprised and somewhat
disgusted by reading “A Card” in
the last Journal signed “Justice,”
> ( y e ,. e surprised that such a signature
would be placed to an article as one
s j ( ] et [ as the one referred to, and dis
g, |glet i a t the thought that one pos
hig as an advocate of justice would
^ to cram such stuff down the
throats of an intelligent people. We
j ull >j. knowwas— lldf 11 it^iA
< U
ma y a good friend personal Iv, su f
flue to say, in our opinion, lie must
have been ruled by prejudice instead
of a desire to act perfectly impartial
to both parties lie'starts out by
deploring arisen the contentions that has
in ihe present congressional
campaign as to who opened up old
sores, who worked against populists
most, etc, and goes on to give his
choice of the candidates, which is all
right and proper, every man has a
right to do this if he wishes, but
here is the injustice of “Justice.” lie
goes on and publishes a letter from
one Mr. Holmes, of Tetmille. Ga.,
one of the most rabid and bitter at¬
tacks against one of the candid..'
we have ever read, and, mind yo -
this happened uot to be hJsfavo.i'e,
or this would not have appealed.
This is justice with a vim; this is a
way to heal old sores. Now it is well
known to everyone that has taken
any interest in this campaign that the
party that “Justice” advocates has
injected this populist issue into this
campaign, and every charge that lias
been published in The Journal,
except what appeared last week, h
been against Mr. Hardwick. True
one ot your contributors, “Old Blis¬
ter,” lias made some reference to the
Augusta ring, etc., but everybody
that knows Pig will know that he
does not harbor a slanderous thought
or an unkind feeling toward a polit
ical opponent.
But as this matter has been forced
upon us let ns investigate a little
and see where or on wnich side the
preponderance of the evidence is;
The Augusta Tribune first raised the
question, Mr. Henning, editor, is the
News only witness here. The Tennille
replies; you have here three
good populists as witnesses on the
other side, two of them former op¬
ponents of Mr. Ilqrd wick for legisla¬
tive honors. Rest assured if he had
been the rabid partizau as now
branded they would have found it
out. Then comes this Mr. Holmes,
you lmd Ins testimony flourished be¬
fore you on two sheets last week,
you certainly have seen it.
As to the Holmes evidence we will
copy one short extract from a long
article in the Sandersville Progress,
of the 20th inst. We consider said
article a complete refutation of the
Holmes letter. We regret the lack
of space to publish whole.
EXT,
lawsuit “Everybody L ' "‘i hj
>,
peared as counsel in a case in which
Mr. Holmes was interested on the
other side. Hardwick's Every impartial conduct man
knows that of
that case was honorable, and that no
act of his was in the least wrong or
improper. Everybody knows that the
counsel associated with Mr. Hard¬
wick and Mr. Hardwick himself de¬
serves no censure and no blame, and
we are surprised to note that the con¬
duct of that case should have, so
angered Mr. Holmes at the time,
and are grieved that lie bar
bors that supposed today. Tli'is injury being in in
heart until
the nature of a personal attack upon
Mr. Hardwick, inasmuch as Mr.
Hardwick knew of these corrupt
practices to overcome the alleged
populist majority in this county. We
will leave this charge for him to
answer; we will say, however, that:
never before, by populist or demo
crats, have we ever heard this charge,
and these facts seem peculiarity and
exclusively within the knowledge of
Mr. Holmes and the organ of Mr.
Fleming, the Augusta Tribune.”
This is all we have to say. Now,
every one do as we expect to do,
vote for your choice. Reformer.
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L, Groves.
“Old Rlister” on the Situation
To the Editor of Tins Home Jolunai..
Please do not think that I am
takiqg charge ot your paper; it, is
j ,<11 mv disposition -it all lo do any¬
thing to hurt your paper or monop¬
olize its valuable space, but I uo
want a sav in the political campaign
through its columns.
I notice in the Augusta Tribune
under date, the 19th, of May,
another great big long headed arti¬
cle; “Hardwick has nut himself in a
ba< 1 p Wgh tta ttr "fvf fgtrtr 1
Well, that, old Tribune, it, seems to
me. is verv uneasy about Hardwick.
You suppose she cares what kind of
a plight Hardwick puts himself into?
No, we know what’s the mu'ter
with the Tribune, She is mad be
cause slie Can’t fool US. Now if
Hardwick is large enough to whip
we old Pops back into the Dem
cralic party, and yote us too, 1 think
he is big enough to take care I
of himself.
The Tribune has fooled us before,
but it won’t this time. I look at it
| in this wav: As Mr. Fleming has
allowed the Tribune to dig us up
and we looked around and could not
find any party in this state but the
Democratic party it, cert duly seems
she and Fleming ought Democratic to let us
have our choice m the
primary. No these old dead bones
are not doing like Fleming and the
IV,I. I I U> thmiM-bf- TtlOUgUr, til,would Ulty WOUIU dn UO, anu -uni
they want to btll'V US again. It’s
mighty • *. , 11 , artl i to tell , ii wbelt j old i i (lend i l
people J f will do; the Tribune ought to;
thought ot that betore She , went to!
allot that trouble digging us up
They.nniv need the Hardwick bill
yet . to disfranchise i- /. i • these .1 old i l dead j ]
Tieonles I .I votes '*
J\0, we have got some sense, XOll
•all know what the issue in this
campaign is. It is this: Hardwick
wants to go to congress and Fleming
wants to stay in congress. Just
think about it; am I not right? In
the name of good government, can
we afford to stir up all this strife
every time a man lias opposition
in running for office?
It has very nearly readied the
point in Georgia when any man that
attempts to succeed another in office
is a Liar and a Fool and a Rascal
besides; that is if the one
the office wants it again, and be is
mighty apt to want it again.
Now, it’s no use to leave it with
Watson nor that old preacher
Holmes nor anybody else, for the
majority of them old dead Fops that
the Tribune dug up are going to
vote for Hardwick, and then we are
willing to loan the old graveyard Fleming to
the Tribune to bury her
men in provided she will throw
away that old yardstick and quit
measuring people that she knows
liotning about.
It’s no use for the Tribune to
|k>on talking fought about for how did the all
ns, we
ir to fight them too.
not attempt to
that Hardwick was
county like Sampson, slaying \lown people in with Washington the
bone of'an and jaw¬
ass he was up there
in Augusta hiding from Hardwick
to save us from destruction, because
we know better than that. So you
will see that what Fleming has done
in congress and what Hardwick lias
uot done in the Georgia legislature
will not amount to anything in this
campaign. It will be who gets the
most Hard votes and that is a certainly—
a ink.
If Hard wick is such a strong
Democrat why is it that Augusta
Democrats are fighting him friend so? We
know that Augusta is no to
the People’s Party nor Hardwick
either. But both of them wants
our votes and we have decided to
give them to Hardwick. •
Now, one word to ‘‘Citizen.”
Don’t know who lie is, but I don’t
believe in bushwhacking a fellow,
Think be ought to show bis head or
tell his name, one or the two. But
that’s all right ‘Citizen,” you ain’t
made me mad. 1 am in too good
spirits to get mad now. But so far
as my buying any negro votes or
offering to buy them you are wrong
old man, and if you will prove in on
me i will vote for your man in the
election. Never did anything like
that in my life. I Jove to play
politics, but always play them fair,
and never get mad with any one for
their opinion. I took a notion to
play another game with. Augusta
this year for the first time since ’94
and I hope to beat her this time.
Now “Citizen” don’t tear your
shirt until die 6th of June an if we
will see who is the Neill in Lincoln
county. Hurrah for Hardwick !
O ED BLISTER.
I’ or I jotters of DiHmissiou
GEOliGXA— Lincoln County
Those Martin, Administrator upon the estate of
Elizabeth Marlin, late of said county, dcc'd.,
having filed his petition lor discharge, this is to
cite ail persons concerned to show cause against
the granting of this discharge itt the regular term
of the Court of Ordinary May. for said county to be
held on the 1 st Monday W*. in U. BENNETT, JM02. OnVy.
This Feb. 2, 11)02.
G EORG JA—Lincoln County.
Tlios. M. Bentley, Dili, administrator upon the es¬
tate of Mariah late of said county, deceased,,
having fi’ed his petition for discharge this is to
cite nil persons concerned to show cause against
the grunting of this diacharge at the regular
term of the court of ordinary for said county to
he held on the 1st Monday in June, 1002.
W. li. BENNETT, Ordinary.
GEORGIA—Lincoln County:
estate of Susan M. Eshom, late of said county,
deceased, having all tiled his petition for discharge,
ibis is to cite persons concerned to show
cause regular against the of granting the of this Ordinary discharge, at,
the term Court of for
said county to he held on the first Momlav in
July, RK)2. W. H. BENNETT, Onfy,
GEORGIA—Lincoln County.
L, I. Cnnnlnj'hitm ImvinL, app' e for twelve
months support out of the estate oi .>.ts. L. (. un
ninghani. mid appraisers duly appointed to set
apart same having tiled their return, all persons
concerned tire hereby required to sin »w cause
before the Court of Ordinary of said County, on
tlh* First Monday in .Tune. JR02, why said appli
cation should not be granted,
This May 5, 1002.
\V. II, BENNETT, Ordinary.
Noli it lo LVbloi h Mud (.'pf w
GEO KGIA—L i n con Conn t y.
Ail person indebted to to the estate of Ilattiie
Kennedy, and deceased, make immediate are requested to come and for- all
wajfl payment,
persons bavins' accounts against according said estate law are
requested to make them out lo
and present them at. once for settlement
S. k DILL,
Adm’r Est. Hattie Kenney.
Tax Receiver’s Notice.
i win be «t Lincointon cinrinjr court. April
*"rm. and the following named places >m dale*
vun |„.| ow< for , h( , |>nr ;> 0 so or receiving Tax
return? fur the prerent year. 11HI2:
lS5th (list.. Busby April 17. May 15 and June 5.
iREth ('LmiKiult April is. May Id; Lisbon
--,".1- is* Gosiici: ?• April A. li). May I» aim . -j , uih* 7.
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smith clUt. Dm. : Branches May *; uud 27;
r lS‘ ^ it
rtl 7
ai d 28 : Lockhart .Juneis.
JKJrd clist. Colvin's Store a. m.; Salem p. m.
May s. gu and June hj. May
li-nth dist. Amity a. m.; Loco p. in. 0, :j(>
and June 20.
‘Tvia'rch’ial jsmiidist. Lincointon May JO, 81 and June 21,
i, the day *ct tomak., rctnn>» for the
year lliu-l. After June Die luniks will close,
1 U ’'' ! b U s'."i4 0 renoe,
Tax Receiver Unaoln <So.
April S. HKI2
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BARRED PLYMTOH ROCKS
THE best all purpose fowl on
EARTH.
EGGS FROyi CHOICE STOCK FOR
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1 SETTING (13 EGGS) 50 CENTS,
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