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CALHOUN, GA., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7. 1876.
FELTON REVIEWED*
Totter from Mon. John W. Wbt
ford.
Cartersville, Ga., Sept. 20,1876.
Editor Citizen : A letter From a
citizen of Dalton of the 18th, addressed
to me, says : “ Felton, in his speech in
this place last Saturday, said that he
had been informed that
you (i) had >md that
Z. IL Hargrove way*.The author of
his ‘ proposition ’ to submit the ques
tion of his candidacy to the people by
primary election, and if you (I) had so
stated you (I) was an unqualifi and liar.”
To say nothing of the decency of such
language by a ma.i who pretends to be
a preacher, what I did say was this :
“ That a delegate of the convention had
told me that Maj. Hargrove said he was
the author of Dr. Felton’s proposition.”
Mr. John li. Towers, Jr., of the Floyd
delegation had told me so that day. I
stated it in my spe eh as it was stated
to me. In su; port, of what I then said
1 introduce the following testimony :
On the afternoon of Wednesday, the
30th day of August. 1876, I met 55. B.
Hargrove on Broad s’reet, in Rome, Ga.,
near Caruochan’s store, and asked him
it it was t ue that a certain proposition,
known as the ‘ Felton proposition/ had
been made to and accepted by Felton.
He answertd that it was true, and he
further remarked that it is my proposi
tion— I made it a week ago and they
have just now accepted it.
John II Towers, Jr.
Sworn to and subscribed before me
this, the 18th September, 1876.
W. S Cothran, Jr.,
Notary Publio.
Here another witness :
- Some* time ago I was in front of the
postoffice in Rome, Ga., where a crowd
of persons were discussing the chances
of the different candidates, and Maj.
Z. IL Hargrove stated that Felton’s
proposition w-as one which he suggested
some time before it was made by Fel
ton ; in other words, l understand that
he claims to be the author of it.
John Harki js.
Mr. Towers is a young man of as
good character as any one. .Mr. Har
kins is an old citizen of Rome, and lias
been a leading member of the Metho
dist Church fot many years.
[ think I have established my au
thority for saying wl at I did. The
question of veracity is between Dr.
Felton aniTowersand Harkins. In view
of what has been proven on Dr.Felton in
matter cf veracity,! think their character
will not suffer when brought in conflict
with his. For Dr. Felton stated in a
public speech lie made in Rome in
1874, il Bass, Dabney, Printupor Les
ter had been nominated bv the Calhoun
convention that he would not have been
a candidate. He afterwards admitted
in a public letter, published in the Rome
Commercial, under the date of the 16th
of September, 1874, that he did say
on Saturday before the Calhoun con.,
venlion that he intended to run, no
matter who was nominated.
It’s a clear case, with a view to these
contradictory statements by Dr. Felton,
that he was not candid in what he said
before the Calhoun convention, and in
whut lie said in his Rome speech after
the convention; for these statements
show a conflict pai Hul to the conscience
of a truthful man.
\Ybile these things remain unexpla’n
ed, no respectable mart’s testimony can
suffer when disputed by his alone
Dr. Felton’s claim to paternity of
his proposition, if good, puts him in a
worse light than if it had been sug
gested by another and accepted by him.
ihe proposition is an insult to every
white Democrat in the district; if it’s
Dr. Felton’s own, it’s a deliberate stud
ied outrage.
To make his proposition as respecta®
ble a-; possible, in his Calhoun speech
on tbe 12th, he read extracts from the
Rome Courier and Athens Watchman
indorsing his proposition as fair. In
that Dr. Felton displayed his usual can
dor; for at the very moment be was
reading these extracts he knew, as a
matter of fact, that each of these pa
pers had confessed to a mistukeand had
withdrawn their indorsement. I now
challenge Dr. Felton to deny this state®
rnent.
Dr. Felton, in his spasmodic grabs
for Radical votes, proposes to put the
the negro Radicals of the Seventh Con
gressionai District on an equality with
the white Democrats in the election of
Democratic candidates. For he says in
his proposition :
On the day of the general election
in October, each voter in the Seventh
Congressional District shall record up
un the back of hR ticket for Governor
his preference for Congress, as between
myself and the nominee of the approach
ing Dalton convention, and 1 will abide
tbe result.”
The Doctor says each voter ; each
voDt is each negro and each white Rad
ical. Dr. Feifcon never made that prop
osition in good faith ; lie knew it would
not be accepted by the Democratic par
ty, and it ought not to be. It was a
pure Lid for negro votes He could
say, “ my colored supporters, you see
tbe proposition 1 have made these white
Democrats to allow each voter to vote
at a primary election to select a Demo
cratic candidate ar and that has been re
jected ; I thought you could render the
Democrats valuable aid in the selection
of their candidates, but they refuse you
the privilege ; row, as Dabney is the
head of the refractory Demo-rats, you
Truth Conquers All Things.”
cannot vote for him, hut each voter of
you can vote for me.” This is the
logic of Dr Felton’s proposition. I
wonder what Felton and his negro sup -
porters would think of the Democrats
proposing to go into the Radical family
and select candidates for them ?
'J here is another reason why I was
inclined to think it according to the
fit mss of things for Mr. Hargrove to
have suggested to Dr. Felton the plan
of the proposition. It is this: Major
Hargrove is the leading Republican,
and is known to be a warm and ardent
supporter of Dr. Felton. Major Har
grove is known to be hard at work in
the interest of Dr. Felton, with the
members of the Republican party.
When Dr. Felton arrived in
Mile from Washington, the first week in
August, he made a speech, but did not
declu’e himself a candidate. The mid
dle of the next week he went to Rome,
and I am told by good authority that
Maj. Hargtove was the first man who
called on the Doctor. He got to Rome
late in the afternoon of one day, and
left early the next morning. 'The next
morning on the train he said he was a
candidate, and would announce himself
formally in a few days.
Who doubts he consulted Hargrove
and got assurance of support? Who
doubts his candidacy was dependent on
the contingency of Hargrove’s approval
or disapproval ?
I have said Dr Felton was in league
with the Republican party. I say so
now. In this campaign he has made
speeches in Cobb, Cherokee, Bartow.
Polk, Gordon, Chattooga, Whitfield,
Walker and Catoosa. 1 now defy any
man to repeat a word Dr. Felton ever
tittered for Tilden or for Colquitt. I
defy any man to repeat a word he has
e\*er uttered against the election of
Norcross. I defy any man to repeat ?
word he has ever uttered in hostility
to the election of R. IL Hayes, Hayes
was a member of the 39th-40th Con
gress. and recorded every vote he has
over cast on all questions affecting the
South, inimical to the interests, the
rights and honor of tho Southern peo.-
ple. I defy any man to produce a word
Felton has ever uttered of information
to the people on this subject.
This testimony is easily produced if
it exists. It dees not, and Felton never
intends that it shaT, for that would
countermand his bid for the Radical
vote.
I said in my Dalton speech that he
never took ground in fa "or of Tilden
till 1 forced him to do it in my Carters
villc speech. 1 repeat that hero.
On the night cf his arrival from
Washington be made a speech io which
he used this language :
Cartersville, Sep. 18, 1876.
On the night of Dr. Felton’s arrival
in Cartersville from Washington he
made a speech to the crowd which as
sembled to hear him. In the course of
his remarks he said that there was no
difference between the Northern Dem
ocrats and Northern Radicals io feeling
towards the South. He spoke of Til
deti and Hayes being good, honest men.
Said each political party had put out
their best men for President and Vice
President. Said the race between TiL
den and Hayes would be doubtful. He
also said not to give the Democrats too
large a majority ; that it would have a
depressing and disastrous effect on the
Ninth ; that each party in the North
was bent on getting rid of the corrup
tion in the government, and no matter
which can ’idate was elected it would
be a great improvement; and told un
anecdote, which ended : “ anything ,
good Lord for a change.”
J. W. PITCIIETT,
11. W. Murphy,
R. S. Patillo,
G It. Bates,
F. M. Walker.
J. E. Field.
To this statement of what Dr. Felton
did say, a large number of names could
be got in addition to those already to it.
Part of those given above were Felton'
men in 1874. The purpose of Dr. Fel
ton iu saying what he did on that oc
casion was clear to a blind man. He
was bidding for Radical vo'es. While
he nominally for Tilden, he was
throwing cold water on the Democratic
cause. His statement that the issue
was and >ubtiul was enci uragement to tne
Radicals, and discouragement to the
DcuioC'ats. “ Kuc.i party bent on get
ting rid of corruption !” Dr. Felton
knew better than that when he said it.
The Republican party has been in pow
er since the 4th of March, 1861, and
not a sofitarv Radical rog te lias ever
been exposed till the Democrats got a
majority in the House in December,
1875.
lie siys both parties put out their
best man. No one kn ws better than
Dr. Felton that Hayes as President will
be clay in the hards of such men as
Morton and others to be moulded to
their will. He talks of anything lor a
change. We do not want a change of
men only; we want a change of parties.
We want a party the cardinal principles
of which are honesty in the adminis
tration of the government, and equality
before tbe law for the Confederate or
Union man ; for tbe Northern man or
the Southern man.
1 can ce no good to the people of
this country in an administration Gov.
liayes, when he approves the adminis
tration of Grant, and will be surround,
ed by the thieves, who have made
Grant’s administration a stink in the
nostrils of the world
'J his speech of Felton’s was made
j the first week iu August. I made a
speech the third week in August iu
which I replied to that part of Felton’s
speech, and showed by the record that
Hayes while in Congress Northern llad<
icals at his side had voted for every
measure of oppression to the South,
while the Northern Democrats to a man
had voted with us. Ft lion made a
speech that same day in the afternoon
and stated he w r as for Tilden.
But for my speech exposing the re*
cord of Hayes he would never have
opened his mouth for Tilden, and there
he said nothing except that he was for
Tilden.
fn his printed address to the people
dated 27th August, 1876. he does not
pen a word for tho Democratic candi
dates. He says that “if Tilden and
Hendricks ” are elected. lie takes
good eare never to men i<>n fch ir names
in any other connection and no word of
counsel or eneouragemement chi be
found in that paper for the Democratic
candidates. The name of General Col
quitt never appears in it at no ref
erence is made to him, even. Why all
tills? do you ask —he is bidding for
Radical votes.
His effort is to ride two horses through
this campaign, as he did in 1874. A
Radical horse and a Democratic horse
are not ho uogenious ; the people see
the incoLgruity, to say nothing of the
duplicity of the performance.
I warn the Doctor now, to be success
ful in his role,ht; needs the diplomacy of
Richelieu and the courage of Agamem
non. I have shown what 1 promised.
I new say there is no excuse for the
course of Dr. Felton but the gratifica
tion of his own selfish ambitious end.
The success of the Democratic party
and its candidates and principles are
nothing to him when interposed in the
path of his ambition To him the end
is all—the means nothing.
John W. Wofford.
Bottled liumbic Bees.
.No man can tell when a bo} of nine
or ten years is going to break out iu a
new spot. A Cass farm lad, who has
been noted for his quiet demeanor and
steady ways, all at once took a notion
to hunt bumble bees. He armed him
self with a wide-mouthed bottle and
tramped over lots and fields and entrap
ped many a luek'ess stinger. After sc
curing them he had no further pleasure
except to see them crawl up anu down
the sides of the bottle and whack their
stingers into each other. He was out
early yesterday morning, gathering in
the bees while they were benumbed,
and when he entered the house for
breakfast he had about thirty great,
ov rgrown, wicked looking bumble bees.
They were packed into the bottle heeds
and tails and ether ways, and the lather,
catching sight of them, spoke up :
“ See here, boy, I don’t want any
more of this fooling around after bees.
After breakfast you heave that bottle
out of doors, and don’t bring another
bee around this house.”
The boy placed the bottle behind the
dining/room stove. There was a gentle
lire, and the bottle had no cork. Ti e
family had got through the first cup of
coffee when they heard something go
ing:
“ Jing—ring—ding —■ ong long—
rong g !”
'ihe fire warmed the bees up, and
they left the bn‘tle to warm the family
up. It was a business affair, and the
bees went in to do their best. The boy
slid out at the first alarm, but the old
folks flourished their napkins until slid
ing out would have done no good. The
old gent got a sting on his left ear and
another on his head at the same second,
while the old lady was punctured in the
shoulder, and yelled *• murder ” with
all her might.
“ Maul —maul ’em !” shouted the old
gent, waving the butter dish around,
and getting another needle into bis
neck.
“ Police ! Police !” squealed the old
lady, diving under the table as a big
bee settled on the lobe of her ear.
It was a very even light for a while,
but then the old n an got down tbe cel
lar, and the woman flew for abed-room,
the one’s deep bass voice shouting,
“Gimme the camphor, Betty !’ and the
other squeaking, “ If you love me go
for a doctor I’ ’
No one knows what became of tho
boy. He is reported as mi.-sing, Sit
ting under the swaying head cf gon e
slunted thorn.-tree on the commons, he
looks ’ongingly towards home, but he
realizes that It’s reception will be red
hot.— Detroit Free Dress.
Foolish spending is die father of pov
erty. Do not be ashamed to w< rk. —
Work for the best wages you can get
but work for half price rather than be
idle. Be your own master, and do not
let fasi ion or society swallow up your
individuality —hat, coat and boots
Compel V' ut selfish b dy to spare some
thing for profits saved. Be stingy of
ymr necesities. See that you are proud,
and 1 1 1 your pride be of the right kind;
be too proud to he lazy.
“People can say what they please about
country air being so good for them/’said
Mrs. Partington, “and how they get
fat upon it; tor my part. I shall always
think it is owin’ to the vittles. Air may
and > for camamiles and other reptiles
that live on it, but T know that men
tnu-t have something more substatial
-1 r.
Having plenty of bread, we should
not be particular as to which side of it
is buttered.
In Advance.
An Amusing Speech.
The following is an extract from a
I speech delivered recently i.i New Or
leans by Grand Muster J G. Pleuiiug,
Louisiana :
Gentlemen : —I propose to tell you a
fable or legend of No ll's ark. When
the ark had been anchored on the sum
mit of Mount Ararat, and a sufficient
portion of the mountain hud become dry
to furnish them resting places, the aui.
mals were all released from their con
finement and allowed to ream at liberty
over whatever sp ce the water permit
ted them to occupy.
When they beheld the terrible scenes
of destruction around them, and the
dead carcasses of their respective spe
cies floating past on the receding wa
ters; when they saw the surrounding
eminences gradually rising in view,giv
ing the promise of the world being once
more given t hem for an abiding p ace,
they began to realize the magnitude of
the dangers they had escaped,and tie ir
hearts were filled with gratitude towards
Noah for their preservation and his kind
treatment.
After some constitution it was deter
mined that before they parted compa
ny forever —as they were likely soon to
do—they would meet in solemn con
vention in which each species should be
represented, and determined upon some
memorial or memento to be presented
to Noah, expressive of their appre
ciation of the services he had, rendered
them.
So soon as this measure was agreed
upon the fox at once went to carry the
interesting news to Noah, hoping of
course to get an extra chicken or two,
and also such information and instruc
tion us would make him to appear to ad
vantage in the as>embly.
\Y hen the convention met an unex
pected difficulty or contest arose, and
that was a contention about the Presiden
cy*
The friends of the horse urged his
claims because be was the most useful to
man and companion and friends as
well.
The friends of the lion came forward
with their candidate on uecouut of his
superior courage and strength. There
were some that set up a clamor for the
giraffe because as they said he was the
most graceful and genteel of all the an
imals aud carried his head the high
est.
Some even gave their voice for
the monkey because he was the only
one whose tail was longer than his bo
dy.
It was finally concluded, however, by
the election of the elephant not only on
account of his tremendous size and su
perior wisdom but because he had a
trunk—there were no carpet-baggers
then —in which to keep the record of
the procediogs safe from the Returning
Hoard.
The fox, being provided with the da
ta and other information obtained from
Noah .secured to himself the only paying
office they proposed to make—that of
Secretary.
The convention being duly organized
at last, there was found to be one ani
trial that was perfectly unmanageable
and that was the j ickass. Lie protested
and kicked against everything with such
vehemence and ferocity that he fright
ened all the smaller ones into acquies
cene or submission rather and in order
to compose matters,it was agreed to make
him chairman of the committee on res.
oluti ns.
The fox and him being associated in
this duty, came to the conclusion to
prolong the labors of the convention
and secure themselves fees and notorie
ty.
To do this they raised the question
whethei the resolutions should be ad°
dressed to the Almighty, who had di
rected Noah to build the ark or to Noah
himself. During the consideration of
the question in the convention the fox
proposed that one should be sent out to
canvass t he district ana take the vote of
the entire animal kingdom upon it, and
recommend the ass t r the position, on
account of the strength of his see and
his zeal in the cause The ass in oirn
so soon as he was chosen r quest
ed that the fox should be cent with
him to keep a correct count of the votes
cast.
The agreement between them was that
the ass should make the speeches and
enjoy all the honor,and the fox receive
all the pay
And this, my friends is how the jack
as became the prototype and god-father
of stump speakers and political ora
tors.
This is exemplified even to this day.
Let a business man step from his store
or counter-room,to take any part in pol
itics, or at least to go so fer as to make
speeches, and nine-tenths of Ire busi
ness community wili at once say he is an
ass; he had better attend to his own busi
ness.
And again.when worthy men are urg
i cd by their friqnds to take office upon
themselves for the public good, aod
discharge the duties of their office with
fidelity without regard to parties,friends
or foes, it i3 often that such men think
I themselves asso by the time their term
is expired; for if they have not some
| political fox in their employ or counsel,
they will be banished or ostracised for
their integrity.
If a man, prompt in his own ambi
tion, and the flattery of fiiends and ad
herents,and assurances of success, keeps
constantly putting himself forward as a
candidate for a series of years, spending
his time and money to obtain what be
never gets, the exclusion is that if b
don’t think himself; u ass at the last,he
u irht to.
Ratos of Advertising.
For each square of ten lines or less
for the first insertion, sl, and for each sub
sequent, insertion, fifty eentn.
rs . tie. .. Vi os. j o .Viol t yea i
Two $4.00 $7.00 I $12.00 j $2(I('0
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I column 9.00 15.00 25.00 40 00
A “ 15.00 25.00 40.00 05.00
1 25.00 40*00 65.00 ilfi.tO
Sheriff’s SaLesq each levy $-1 00
Application for Homestead 2 Po
Notice to Debtors and Creditors 1 00
Land Sales, one square 4 t'O
Each additional square.. 3 00
XO. 7.
Who I* Huyet* *
A reader of the Tin es makes this
not very remarkable request:
‘*\\ ill you inform, me throuHit your
pare who is the candidate for
! president ?”
Tne Republican candidate for ths
Prisidi ncy i- Kuthcr.'o and Rurchard
Hayes,of Ohm.
He is the man. wnou) Gameron the
chief of the notorious Pennsylvania ring
oi official plunderers caused to be m ru
inated.
He is the man who serving several
terms in congress, never lifted his voice
in favor of reform nor protested against
the infamous jpactic.s of the Grant ad*
ministration.
He is the man who in his letter of qc
ceptance, endorsed the Grant adminis
tration with a!i its iniquities.
lie is the man who as Governor of
Ohio for three terms has never taken
that first step in the directum ol" reduc
ing the tax burdens bmie by the peo
ple.
He is the man who pi*.,mists re
tain Grant's office holders in place, if
he be elected * resident.
lie is the man who committed perjury
in order to escape the payment of his
just taxes.
He is the man who belongs to the se
cret order which proposes to proven#
any foreign born citizens from holding
office.
He is the man who look four huiuL
red dollais from a condemned soldier,
during the war,and has not yet account
ed for it.
He is the man to help whose elec*
tion, Grant contributed a thousand uH
lars.
He is the man to whom Carl Bcburz
refered to in his Fifth avei ue addre s
as not equal to the demands of the
time.
And finally he is the plant tool select
ed by the Grant gang to con inue the
present administration, and the existing
condition of things.
Mystery of Dreams*.
It rs related that a man fell asleep as
the clock tolled the first str ke of twelve.
He awaken ere the echo of the twelfth
stroke had dud away, having in the in
terval dreamed that he had committed
a crime was detected after five years
tried and condemned ; the shock of find
ing the halter about, his neck aroused
him to consciousness, when he discover
ed that ali these events had happen .and
in an infinitessimal fragment of time.—
Mohammed w. : sbing to illustrate the
wonders of sleop, told how a certain man
being sheik, found himself for his
pride, made a poor fisherman ; that he
lived as one fur fifty years, bringing up
a family and working hard ; ami now
upon waking up from his lung
dreamed so short a time
bad he been asleep that the narrow
necked gourd bottle filled with water
which lie knew he overturned as he fell
asleep, had not time in which to empty
itself! How fast trie, soul travels when
the body is asleep! Often when we
awake, we shrink from going back into
the dull routine of a sordid existence,
regretting the pleasanter life of dream
land! llow is it that sometimes, when
we go into a place, we fancy that we
have seen it before ? ]s it possible that
wheu one has been asleep the 6oul has
floated awav, seen the place, and lias
tnat memory of it which so surprises us ?
In a word, how far dual is the life of
man, how far now ?
Out of Da ger. —He lounged up
to the office counter, picked up a tooth
pick, ard as he rried away at his molars
he said to the clerk :
Must be hard —mustn’t it ?—for
a man to be buried in a trance state’/”
“ Yes,” was tlie brief reply.
“ That’s all I’m afraid of,” continued
the confidential dead beat. I’m afraid
I’ll be buried before I’m really dead.”
I geess not,” replied the clerk, ‘ the
law regulates that.”
“ The law, how ?”
“It prescribes how long the body
shall hang before being cut down.”
The man softly laid the toothpick on
the counter, and went over to look at
the files of the daily papers.
“Speaking of bathing,” said Mrs.
Partinging, from behind the steam that
arouse from her tea as a veil to her
blushes when touching upon so delicate
a subject, “some can bathe with* per
fect impurity in water as cold as Green
land's icy mountains and Irdia’s coral
s'rands.but for my part l prefer to have
the water a little torpid.
This note from a Chicago girl to her
lover was made public through a law
suit : “Dear Sarnie, Pap’s wat email -
lions is ripe. Come and b*ing some
poetry l.ke you brought afore. My
love for you shall nevei flow like water
runnidir down a tater row. Bring a
piece as long as your arm, and have a
pesp more about them raving ringlets
and other sweet things. Come next
Sunday and don’t fule me.”
11 Mother,” said a little urchin when
he came home, “ I have seen such a
smart preacher. lie stampel and made
such a ntise, and then, he got mad ; ho
shook his fist at the folks, and tbeie
wasn’t anybody dared go up and fight
him.”
Because an Oglethorpe county yonag
lady couldn’t tell “*hy the lvn l wheel
of a wasou the largest,” she was re
fused a situation as school teacher by
the committee. This is a warning to
| pedagogues to keep themselves better
1 posted on such aflairs.
