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Jxo. Barton, - - Editor.
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Demooratlo Ticket. ISSB
- AND THURMAN!
For Congr 9. l h Distriot,
A- • CANDLER.
For Souator.
W- s. MCCARTY.
For Representative!,
J N COGGINS
Go to Work For the Party.
It is the duty of every democrat
to work for liis party. Work for its
principles. To do this you must
work for its organizations. In do
ing this you have its nominees be
fore you. Work for Uwm and you
are doing the duty of all democrats.
Turn loose all individual and pet
ty feelings. These do not consli
tute the democratic party. They
are void of consistent reason. They
alienate the true principles and
organizations ot any party. They
are the moans to corrupt all that is
elevating. The republican party
has proven this. It is time for
democrats to wake up.
No man can be a democrat and
oppose its organizations.
Every man in attendance at the
convention—to be sincere—must
admit that Mr. Coggins received
the unprejudiced will of the con
vention when it nominated him.
Then, why at this late hour allow
your sincerity to be convicted by a
hasty passion, fostered and steal
ing away your honest convictions
through some advice otyour friend
engendered into an imaginary or
petty feeling? This is not true
manhood. Neither can it bespeak
the praise of intelligence. All in
telligent people are presumed to
know right from wrong. Intelli
gent men never allow petty feel
ings to steal their reasoning pow
ers, If so Heaven would be void
a saint to-day, How many are the
vexations of life you have had to
encounter? You came outconquer
er by allowing your honest convic
tions to down petty feelings.
Messrs, i’ickeft, Griffin, and.Sud
dutii, as private citizens are good
men, and you dare sayin this sense
would oppose right. But lake
up their politics. Do they not in
dorse radicalism when they oppose
the i vinciples and organizations of
the democratic party? They do.
The Republican party is trying to
break up democratic principles
and organizations in every state in
the union, thereby to break up the
party. Messrs, Pickett, Suddath,
and Griffin are helping them. It is
useless tor them to say they are
democrats. Tliev may have been
iii lime gone by. By some means
(hey have allowed their honest con
victions to be downed and they
have gone over to the republican
party.
Montgomery, Ala., has quaran
tined against Decatur.
It has been affirmed that there is
no yellow fever in Texas
The Mormons are moving to ilex
ico to establish anew zion
Sparta says she is again restored
to communication.
Mr. Bowden, city editor of the
Jacksonville, Times-Union, died
with yellow fever, 19th inst.
The negroes of Guinnett have
held side-shows and endorsed Pick
ett's actions to be republicanism.
To 20th inst. Jacksonville had
13 J new cases and fifteen deaths of
yellow Fever.
Morton seems to be completely
“snowed under” in New York
Nothing is heard from him.
Thurman is still making his
rounds through the eastern states
with grand success.
'The republicans tried to force
the Chinese bill on the president,
but as yet they have failed to make
the president agree with them.
Bedell, a real estate clerk for the
firm ot Shipman, Barlow & Shoat,
of New York, has skipped with
$204,500, Canada, no doubt, is
enjoying his presence.
The reports that yellow fever
was in Hendersonville, N. C , and
Asheville, are false. Both of those
places are mountain towns, used
for summer resorts.
The democrats of Guinnett are
organizing throughout the county
for Candler. They intend to make
Pickett’s vote very small and far
apart.
Gov. Hill of New fork, will make
speeches in several states in the in
terestof the democratic party Gov
Hill is confident the democrats will
carry New York
The dates have been so arrang
ed there will be no interference
between Augusta, S. C., and Char
leston, 8. C., in giving their expo
sitions. The Charleston Festival
is fixed for November 19 and 25th.
Joseph Chamberlain, in his ad
dress at Bradford, endorsed Glad
stone’s policy. Chamberlain, evi
dently, is not a tenant The gov
ernment would be much better otT
if ho was.
Mr. L. Shackelford, editor of the
Enterprise, published at Watkins*
ville, died 15th inst. Mr. Shackel
ford made the enterprise a bright
and newsy sheet. His able pen
will he missed among the exchang
es, May he find the rest ot the blest.
Legislative politics in Barlow
county are pretty hot. The state
road betterments, etc , are the im
portant issues The fence question
is considerably divided in that couu
ty, and is a small item with the can
didates.
The yellow fever epidemic is
on the increase in Jacksonville. It
has struck Mississippi. Iler capit
al, Jackson, is reported to have
had several cases up to date, De
catur, Ala., is also infested. She
lias hud two deaths from the dis
ease so far, and a number of cases
now under treatment,
Mr, Pickett spoke in Harmony
Grove, Thursday. He speaks in
Belton Saturday,
Mr. Pickett’s platform, as yet,
no one understands. He goes otF
occasionally in a wild freak on
temperance. Again, in other places
he is just the opposite. He claims
to be a democrat. This is easily
done. Yet he is opposed to organ
izations. He believes in taking
hold of republicanism in an inde
pendent guise to break down all
organized democratic principles.
So you see he is a democrat.
The 9th district will hardly re
cognize Mr. Pickett as a democrat
ic opponent of Mr. Candler,
Communicaled.
[For tie Bauks County Observer.]
Mr. Editor —ln you r issue of Sep
tember 12th iDst.. I sea short article
on the Farmtr’ Alliance and the
Grange.
Believing that your utterances in
this article, and all snch expressions,
have a tendency to discourage the far
mers aud to deter them from making
the proper effort to rid themselves of
the many heavy burdens that oppress
them, I ask a short space in oar coun
ty paper to give my views.
Ist., You say, “What the Farmers’
V.liance will amount to, the fnture
can only tell. However, it will re
quire a good deal of capital to make it
amount to anything.”
Now, I do not belong to the Farm
ere’ Alliance, and will not have a great
deal to say about it. This much,
however, I will say, I have read the
principles ot that order and believe
that they are good and calculated to
accomplish good, if the membership
will bnt faithfully carry out the priii-
ciples of their organization. But when
yon say that “it will require a good
deal of capital to make it amount to
anything. 1 ' I think you may be mis
taken. If this be true, most of our
farmers bad just as well hang their
harps upon the willow* and meekly
submit to all the forms of degradation
and thraridom that all of the exactii g
combinations and trusts can impose
upon them. Because a “good deal of
capital’’ they have not got. 1 know
too well that money is power, and that
it is now beiug used with a profuse
hand to grind the farmer; and 1 also
know that if the farmers did only have
a good deal of this capital of which
you speak, they could do much better,
but they do not have it, nor will they
have it while all of these abominable
oppressions continue. While momy
is power, X am glad that it is not the
only element of power, potent as it
may bo. Associated action is also
power, and to this, more than to cap
ital, must tho farmers of our county
look for relief. Let them be encourag
cd to unite, and that with bonds not
easily broken, and act in concert, and
make a long pull—a strong pull—and
a pull together for the betterment of
their condition.
In your article of the 12th you furth
er say, “Several of Banks’ solid farm
ers said last Saturday they never did
got any good out of the grange,’’ etc.
Now. this sounds iuDuy to me. They
may have been solid farmers, bat I do
not think they were solid grangers;
where do they live? Sorely not in the
southern part of our county. They do
not belong to Banksvillo Grange, for
all of its members been benefited.
Nor is this all; uot only have the mem
bars of the grange been benefited, but
the whole community of farmers for
many miles around has been greatly
benefited. For fifteen years has onr
grand band of brothers and sisters
battled on, overcoming all opposing
elements, and stand to-day with their
colors bright, and with their banner
unfurled to the breeze, and au out
stretched hand to all solid farmers to
come and unite with us and wo will
do them good; knowing that there are
advantages in many ways by being
united in our noble order,.
J. P. Gunnells,
Bauksviil®, Sept. 20, ISBB.
The question of capital referred to
in the above, has been misconstrued.
It was intended for the association oi
which the farmer is to buy at cash fig
ures on timely payment, and then re
ceive highest market price for his cot
ton, with the privilege of selling io
any market, The grange confines h.s
trade, either in cash or credit. Edito-.
W. A. Qiullian & Go,
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