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THE KNOXVILLE JOURNAL
VOLUME I.
To the Democratic Voters of
the S3rd Senatorial dis¬
trict.
Certain charges are brought against me,
and I take this method to deny them. It
has been said that I was brought out by
the upper part of Houston county for the
purpose of having the court-house moved
from Perry to Fort Valley. If I should
admit that I was alone brought out by the
upper part of Houston, which is not the
ease, they certainly did not mention tbe
matter to me. I do not wish to-be consid¬
ered a veritable fool and hope no one will
consider, for a moment, that I would make
such an issue in the campaign..
Another charge is, that letters ean be
produced in my own band writing and
with my own signature, in which I advised
the passage of a stock law for Crawford
county over a majority whoilid not want
it. This, I deny, and will state to the
contrary, f advised the senator of thiadis
trict and the representative of Crawford
county not to pass such a bill unless they
were satisfied that a majority wanted it,
This was when Col. R. D. Smith re pre¬
sented the district, and the Hon. W. M,
Hay represented tbe county. Matters of a
local nature belong to the people, and I
endorse the wisdom of the legislature in
referr ug the settlement of these questions
to the people.
The charge of being a religious fanatic
can best be refuted bv friends in tbe di«
t'ict who have known me from boyhood.
It has been my object to conduct the
campaign upon an honorable basis, avoid¬
ing personalities, and leaving the private
matters of mv opponent to be considered
by others.
Having denied the above charges and
defined myself on Iceal issues, allow me to
state that graver and more important ques¬
tions will come before the next legislature,
such as tbe disposition ot the state road,
the convict question and the relief of tbe
people from heavy and unnecessary taxa¬
tion. Having, in common vvitn the people,
an interest in all these questions, it will be
my endeavor, if elected, to protect and
faithfully guard that interest.
Very Respectfully,
B. W. San Ford.
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So Room For Fear.
There could hardly be a more conspicu¬
ous failure than that of the cranks who
bare prematurely opened their mud bat¬
teries on Grover Cleveland. The decent
public sentiment of the country will not
tolerate any such indecency and any one
found lending his name to it would be
thrust out from companionship with hon¬
est people, who hold the assassins of
character viler than the assassins of blood.
—St. Louis Post Dispatch.
SI' Vo*i Want to Keep Coot
In this hot weather, you must give the
committee the contribution for foreign mis
*ions without a word. Talk is cheap ; but
it takes money to buy collars and cuffs for
the heathen, who have never heard of the
bible, and arc forced to live on barren
tracts and dried missionary. The commit
tee is as frequent as poor relations, and
just about as popular.—Smithvilee News.
Prof. W. L. Duggan, ofTennille has
been elected principal of Gordon Institute
at Barnesvile. The people of Pennille do
not ratify the choice. They wish to retain
their teacher,
KNOXVILLE, GEORGIA., JUNE 29, 1888.,
Stems. l?rom Ceres.
Mr. B. H.. Ray of Macon spent Friday
in these parts.
“General Green” is a very prominent
fellow in this section, especially with those
farmer who can tell all about how the
rail) rad men are getting along.
Col, Walter Blasingame was in our ville
Friday on “courting business.” His suite
was coatinued. to Knoxville in the after¬
noon. Time only can reveal the decision
of the abarnoon session.
Mr. Marshall passed through our ville
Monday. He is the first candidate to
make his appearance in these parts. We
expect to have a double dose of them this
week.
Miss Bailie Smith, of near Ceres, spent
last week visiting friends in Macon.
Ouc of our citizens who visited the Gate
City seve al times last year, would say
when tie left home, “I’ll be back in about
four days.” Now he starts to the station
on the A. & F. railroad at 3 o'clock a. n>.
and tN's his good wife—“save me a little
supper tonight, Ill he back at 9.”
Miss Mollie McNoice is visiting her
brother, Mr. J. B. McNiece, of Macon.
Miss Julia Avera of Clarks Mill is
attending school a; the academy near Mr.
J. II. Saudefur’s place.
Tho d tides are only sorry that the old
maid published her refusal in The Jour¬
nal before they had time to propose. But
there is policy in her open refusal, as we
heard that an old widower said his con¬
science told him to marry an old woman,
but his finey dictated for him to marry a
certain ohl maid. Yucatan.
Hickory drove Happenings,
Hickory Grove, June 25. —The basket
and railroad dinner was posponed from the
28th of Jane ’till the 12th of July, on
count of tbe grass and farmers. Knox¬
ville always looks to the interest of the
farmers—talk about your city folks—the
Knoxville boys never have forgotten
time when they plowed and hoed the cot¬
ton and the corn. The Knoxville boys are
no “dluh si’ nevertheless, some of ye scribes
seem to think they are.
Qur neighbor city Culloden has a right
to feel estranged tov'ard us. We should
not accuse them ot setting the table for a
favored without the scribe had been there.
I for one will try to defend Culloden.
Why should 1 1 She has protected me hi
my adversity, and now in my adversity
still—she' slrall not suffer at my hands,
because . the people of Culloden never tire
waiting on and seeing that their guests
have all that heart can wish for. Then
lot us stop villifying Onlloden, our sister
town.
We had a singing at the bush arbor last
Sabbath evening. Our singing master Mr.
W. W. Parliam says the boys and girls
ought not to have laughed so much, be¬
cause their courting young man was with
them.
Crops are good, grass is better, but then
crops will make 85 points in the hundred.
Miss Bessie Adams, of Thomaston will
be in town two or three weeks at Hon. J.
Northrop Smith’s
Miss Lucy Bankston is in town.
The Chicago convention nominated for
President, Harrison of Indiana and for
Vice President, Morton of New York.
The strength of the ticket will be fully
known after the election.
A division of the Brotherhood of Locomo¬
tive Eng’ucers has been organized at Rome
The Mate Road ({ncstion.
The Augusta Chronicle published a
lengthy interview a day or two ago with
Senator Brown on the subject of the West
era aud Atlantic railroad lease. The
immediate occasion ot the interview ap¬
parently was the appearance in a number
of counties of candidates for the legislature,
who propose to make the questions oi
again leasing the road, and the paying o!
the present lessees for betterments, issues
in tbe legislative- campaign.
The present lease will expire Dec. 27,
1890, aud it is probable, therefore, tbatthe
legislature to be elected next fall will have
to determine whether the road shall be
leased again or sold, and also whether the
state shall pay for betterments. Senator
, Brown says that he will not be a bidder
for another lease, and that, so far as he
knows, no one of his sons will. He will
be only a taxpayer, so far ?s the road is
concerned, and, therefore, is Interested in
having the state make that disposition of
the property that will be best for the tax¬
payers, He does not hesitate to say that
the road ought to he leased, and that it
ought to be leased by a strong railroad
corporation. If the road were sold, the
money . odd not be applied to tbe liquida¬
tion of the state debt until the- debt became
due, and if the money were held in trust
it might be wasted or lost. A private
company could not do as well with the
road, be thinks, as a strong railroad cor¬
poration, like the Central or the Louisville
and Nashville, for the reason that in order
to make railroads profitable now they
must be parts of great sys'emt.
Tho lessees expect, of course, pay for
betterments, Senator Brown gives his
reasons at length why they should be paid
for them. These reasons are about the
same as those which he gave to the public
when the question of selling the road was
being agitated during the session of the
last legislature. He does not want to
have any legal contest, however, with the
sty '"Native to betterments, and does not
tfaurd there will be any if the legislature is
disposed to deal with the lessees in a spirit
of fairness. He suggests that tbe matter
be settled by a board of arbitration, com¬
posed of five members, each party—the
state and the lessees—selecting m eminent
lawyer and an eminent railroad man, and
these four selecting the fifth member, who
shall be a man distinguished for his high
character and who shall be free from any
bias He believes that a board thus con¬
stituted would give satisfaction to the
people and the lessees.
He places considerable stress upon the
point that candidates for the legislature
should be pledged neither for nor against
paying for betterments, because the ques¬
tion is one that should be heard upon its
merits, and by mer, free to decide in ac¬
cordance with the law and the facts. As
far as the Western and Atlantic lessees arc
concerned, they will not, he says, attempt
to influence the election of members of the
legislature in any county.
"The state road question is a very im¬
portant one, and is commanding consider¬
able attention from the people. It is not
improbable that it legislative will pUj campaign. quite an
important part in the
The aim of the people snould be to select
for tbe legislature men who are capable of
grappling with it, and settling it with
to all concerned.— Sav. Morning
News.
The above article gives the views of
Senator Brown in reference to the State
read. The people of Georgia should take
the question into consideration, and try to
come to that conclusion in the matter
NUMBER 23.
which would be beat for t hem. It is their
property and they are certainly vested
with this right. If their decision should
correspond with Mr. Brown’s views, alt
right; but, if their interests demand that
they differ with him, then they should not
hesitate to say so and to do whatever is
necessary for their own protection.
Editorial l%oies.
Rev. Warren A. Candler has been elect¬
ed president of Emory College by the trus
tees of that institution. Mr. Candlei is a
young man but a man of ability and force.
Crawford county does not stand badly
in need of men in her several offices that
try to creep in by some ether than tho
entrance marked out by her voters when
'.hey express their wishes by an honest,
voluntary and untrammeled ballot. If
any should try to deceive the people by
running an underground process, the peo¬
ple should, by all means, rebuke and
discountenance such an one by voting
unanimously and unqualifiedly against
him.
Daniel Dougherty, “tho silver-tongued
orator” who made the speech nominating
Cleveland at St. Louis, began life as a
stable boy in a Philadelphia livery sta¬
ble.—Ex.
Yes, once or twice in a long life-time,
we hear of a stable boy or a mill boy,
becoming a renowned man, but it is a
well established fact that a very la-go nw
jority of them never grow to distinction.
This thing of stable boys, or any other
kind of boys, making silver-tongued orators
is somewhat on the order of angels’ visits.
Ingalls has placed himself in such an
attitude before the public that he deserves
nothing short of censure and that of a
severe nature. The Dawson Journal
metes it out to him in these words:
“John J. Ingalls is not only the acting
president of the Senate, but he is the
Guiteau of tho republican party. He is
too cowardly to use the stiletto of the
assassin, but crawls about and spews out
his venom, hoping that the putrid source
from whence it came can send it with
sufficient strength to kill out the decency
of the country.”
The Editor of the Smithvillc News cer¬
tainly taros sumptuous] v every day.
However, when you read this do not look
at one side only and wi“h that you were
an editor; for, were you one, the luxuries
might not be so abundant. How lucky
they may be at times is another question,
and the following is one instance:
“If you don’t think a country newspa¬
per has much influence, just step around
and take a look at the watermelons that
piled up in our sanctum. Fruit speaks
than words.”
It is well enough for the people of a
to hold conventions aud declare
their stand on all public measures and in
this they should always endeavor to
on the right side of all public questions.
meeting of the democracy of Hancock
recently, passed a resolution de¬
opposition to a state prohibition
and at the- same time unanimously -
the local option plan in (Wee in
the county. Hancock is among the stron¬
prohibition counties of the State, but
its prohibitionists have not lost their goc«l
judgment and sound discretion. That
convention displayed wisdom and other
counties cannot do better Ilian to take:
similar action on this same issue.