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The Weekly Democrat.
BEN K. RtiNELL, Editor and Prop’r
THE ATLANTA CONVENTION
AND THE NOMINATION OF ME-
STEPHENS-
THURSDAY. JULY
,1882.
STATE
TICKET.
DEMOCRATIC
FOR GOVERNOR,
ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS,
Of Taliaferro.
FOB SECRETARY OF STATE,
N. C. BARNETT, of Baldwin.
FOB COStFTBOLl.EB-OEyF.BAL,
WM. A. WRIGHT, of Richmond.
FOB ATTOBKET-OEVEBAL,
CLIFFORD ANDERSON, of Bibb.
FOB CONGRESSMAN-AT-LARGE,
THOMAS M. HARDEMAN,
Of Bibb.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
—The nomination of Alexander H.
Stephens was carried by the conven
tion by acclamation. lie will be elected.
—Senator Brown has recently do*
nafod 850.000 to the Georgia State
University for the education of poor
but deserving young men. The Sena
tor has done many worse things for the
State.
—Every Confederate soldier will
delight to know that Billie Wright the
one legged solier boy, and son of the
illustrious Conferate General, Ambrose
R. Wright, was elected by acclamation
foi Comptroller-General,
—The “old commoner” does not ap
pear in the best of health, but when we
understand that he retired from public
life in 1859 and has been retiring ever
since wo can account for the fact that
he will be Georgia’s next Governor.
—It is said that the “bosses” con
trolled the late nomination at Atlanta.
If so, ‘they control well, and control
Mr. Stephens has been nominated Gov
ernor of Georgia: his nomination was
made almost unanimous.
There is no one better than we to un
derstand the relation he occupies to the
South'and to the Democratic party.
Notwithstanding the fact that Jefferson
Davis was President of the late Confeder
acy. a man whose love and appreciation
has been paramount to every ether senti
ment that lived or lingered in the breast
of the Bainbridge Democrat; Notwith
standing that the Democrat loved Mr.
Davis, still under the circumstances Deca
tur eounty had to pnt in nomination the
name of the Hon. Alexander H. Stephens.
In the first of the Convention it was
thought that there would be a row, and
there was a row over the two-thirds rule.
But the parliamentary practice which char
acterized the chairnan of the convention,
prevented that colision in the party that
all Georgians deprecated.
Mr. Stephens is an object for whom we
have always had an aversion. Mr. Steph
ens is a man whose name has clogged the
Confederate States of America. Mr.
Stephens, in the opinion of the writer,
did more to defeat the Confederate States
than any ten thousand men they placed in
the field against us. Furthermore, Mr.
Stephens has done more to foment inde-
pendentism than any other man ine Geor
gia. But, when, in the estimation of the
great Democratic party of Georgia. Mr.
Stephens could better lead the party to
success than any other man ; then it was
that the great Democratic party placed
their flagon the hands of the great old
comoner.. The people assetnbledM^'At-
Innt a f *./* m nil n ■ I n nf i L n „ i ' I * ! ''L n*
Democratic State Nominationt-
Savannah JCeins.
The State Democrttic Convention
The
Resolutions and Mr Bacons
Letter-'
Mr. II. R. Harris, of Metiwether,
has finished its work and adjourned. | from the Committee on Resolut
lanta from all points of the c’^P’Sps.
They all unified upon the nomin*iiiiS^ of
Mr. Stephens. The platform which is
published in the Democrat today, will show
the base upon which he was nominated.
But there was another nomin^icr
very mention of whose nanv\Js£Q4%a, the
of joy into tb«i a thrill
That p° ’ of every Georgian, i
the party’s delegates almost by^f l ^ ic | .one and that fame had nerved
motion. “Bossism” wbjw'fstate of.ra-
objected to by 31L-* r ’ is only
_ • i V1 n * n
ehov? cause. if rotes out of 35U must
bo^jiWSf^nd vox populi vox die.
—One reason why the old cemmoner
should be elected next Governor of
Georgia, is because he was Vice-Presi
dent of the Confederate States under
Jefferson Davis. Another reason is
that he is and always has been a better
Democrat than Joe Brown.
—The nomination of Thomas Har
deman for Congress-at-large was met
with more unanimity than anything
else the Atlanta Convention could have
done. Ho stands like the Chevalier
Bayard, in the estimation of all true
Georgians. Sans peur et sans reproacJie.
—We are sorry to see that Col.
Albert B. Lamar cannot harmonise cn
the candidacy of Mr. Stephens. He is
probably the best editor in the State,
and should not. let his personal prefer
ences go so far in antagonizm to the
party, of which he is so distinguished
a member.
—Our friend of the Macon Telcgrph
and Messenger, is under the impression
that gallant Tom Hardeman, the nomi
nee of the Democratic Convention for
Congress-at-large, will not be allowed
to take his seat if elected. We simply
inform our friend that the county of
Decatur will seat him at the point of
the bayonet, if necessary.
—What Bhall we do to be saved ?
Vote for Stephens and the entire Demo
cratic ticket. But we need not urge
Democrats to do that thing- -the old
commoner”s majority in the State will
80.000; He is not the best looking
man TO ever saw, but has an immense
■mount of personal magnetism about
him.
—Hon. Thomas Hardeman is the
Democratic candidate for Congressman-
at-large. His nomination has given
universal satisfaction. He is on the
ticket with Aleck Stephens. Four
hundred and sixty-five iron-ribbed
Democrats tried to be likewise. There
fore, let us all unite and elect the en
tire Democratic ticket.
—We still hold to the idea lately
expressed in The Democrat that Hon.
William E. Smith would have been the
*st candidate for Governor the party
could have nominated. His vote on
the electoral commission ought to have
made him Governor. But the conven
tion declared that Mr. Stephens should
lead the party “on wheels.” and Hon.
W. E Smith will give him his unani*
mous support.
—Our friend, Mr. Pendleton, of the
Valdosta Times, is hereby informed that
neither Bill Harris or Ben Russell had
the slightest idea that lightning would
strike either one in the Convention, for
Congress-at large. They did think
* that the harmony of the Democratic par
ty was paramount to every other con
sideration. Worth county was instruct
ed for the lion. William E. Smith.
Decatur county was and is in favor of
the two-tbirds rule, and sent her dele
gates untrameledand uninstructed.
ibBsM-.
oeorgiatis on the battle field of his country
and since on the civic institutions of the
land. We stand in delivering the name
before nearly two million of people. And
that name, above other names in Georgia,
is the name of Thomas Hardeman.
The nomination of State officers hardly
merits comment. The dilligent and effi
cient manner in which they have perform
ed their duties, showed that the people of
Georgia were willing to entrust them to
the end, if necessary, with their affairs.
Their names apperr in the Democrat of
to-day. and it will not be satisfied until
they are triumphantly elected. Now men
of all colors and of all conditions, previ-
vions or otherwise, come to the polls and
stand by the great comoner, whose name
was put in nomination by the county of
Decatur.
senator hill.
If there is a man in the world whom
Georgians delight to honor, that man is
now lying dying in Atlanta. The man
we refer to is no less than the distin
guished Statesman, Benj. H. Hill.
Rome had her Cicero, Greece had her
Demosthenes, Georgia has her Hill.
Grand, majestic, lovable; he sits in the
bosom of his friends and his country,
waitiug for the summons to go. There
is only one man in the world who has
ever approached him and he never
approached him to rival him, that pair
were par nobile fratum, and their
characters were so unspotted that they
were like the Chevalier Bayard, sans
peaur etsans reproaehe, knights without
fear and without blemish. South
Georgia owes her greatest debt of grati
tude to the gentleman whise name we
have just spoken of. When she stood
under the deep damnation of recon
struction there was hardly any hope ;
our country was crushed down, thiot-
tled by bayonets and iuvaded by
assasins; there was no chance, but we
saw among our deliverers the form of
Benj. H. Hill, the greatest orator since
the days of Cicero and Demosthenes.
The writer had the distinguished
honor to call upon this great man, whose
life is fast fading away. He muttered
the love that he bore for Decatur county
and his dear wife expressed it doubly
through her tears. God bless Ben
Hill! God grant that he may live out
his days. The people from one end of
Georgia to the other—the people from
the South—frotp the Potomac to the
Rio Grand would be proud indeed to
kiss the hem of the garment of the dy
ing Statesman.
The old state house officers were re
nominated by the convention by accla
mation. We believe Billie Wright,
the Comptroller, smiled sweeter after
the result was announced. The unani
mous nomination of these officers for
three terms shows the sobriety of the
Democratic party.
Fx-Goventor Hubbard, who weighs
three hundred pounds and who is combat
ing General Weaver’s Greenback argu
ments on the Texas stump, began a speech
at Mineola the other day: ‘-If I s : .t down
on Weaver I'll crush him.” The audience
all cot so uproarious that it was necessary
to adjourn for drinks.
The result was the nomination of Hon.
A. H. Stephens for Governor on the
first ballot by a well-nigh unanimous
vote, the selection of Hon. Thomas
Hardeman as Congressman-at-Large,
and the renomination of all the old State
officers.
This action of tbe convention will
we doubt not, meet with the sincere
and hearty approbation of our people
The utmost harmony prevailed, and the
spirit which seemed to take possession
of the body was to preserve the unity
of the party. During the preliminary
campaign previous to the assembling of
the convention, preferences for and
against the Gubernatorial candidates
were freely and unstintedly declared
and the friends, both of Mr. Stephens
and Mr. Bacon, lost no opportunity
and relaxed no effort to incline popular
opinion towards their special favorites-
When the convention did meet, how
ever, the spirit of antagonism seemed
entirely to he forgotten ; all bitterness
of feeling was oast aside : as soon as
the will of the people became positively
understood there was a general acquies
cence therein, and every idea seemed
to have been absorbed in the one desire
to preserve peace and harmony, and
present an undivided front to the foe.
Especially is this determination on
the part of Mr. Bacon and his friends
to be most highly commended, and it
must redound to the future advantage
of that gentleman. From th
first the opposition
from ->* w—-*•**"*' w nim proceeded
personal or unfriendly feeling
tiis ability was recognized. his loyalty
to the Democracy unquestioned, and
he'himself stood—as he still stands—
high in the estimation of the party.
When it was known, however, that Mr,
Stephens desired Gubernatorial honors
from the hands of his fellow citizens as
a fi'ting close to a half century dcvited
to their service, and when, besides his
long years of public life, it was remem
bered that he had declared that he
would unreservedly abide by the action
of the convention, as a true Democrat,
and that lie had positively lefused to
accept the nomination of the Independ
ent opponents of the Democratic party
—thereby effectually crushing out. that
mongrel organization, when by accept
ing he might have invested it. with
some claim to respectability and enabled
it to.have given the Democracy some
trouble—his claims upon the conven
tion could not be ignored. Popular
sentiment rapidly crystallized in his
favor, and it was generally concede^
ions,
submitted the following report, which
was unanimously adopted ;
1. Resolved, That the Democratic
party of Georgia, through its accredited
representatives assembled, reaffirm
with ail emphasis and fervor tbe time-
hooored principles . expounded by the
sages, Jetfiersnn and Madison, and
able men who have their teaching® and
practical enforcement of their political
faith, advanced the glory and promoted
the prosperity of this tJuion.
2. Resolved, That we will renew our
exertions to give fresh and increased
power to the operation of these princi
ples, being well assured by actual expe
rience and the teaching of history that
the triumph of Democratic doctrines
aud methods brings peace and prosper - !-
ty*to the people, and insures honesty
and vigor in the administration of the
government, while the exclusion of the
Democratic party from the pubi.c ad
ministration encourages contempt for
the Constitution, opens wide the door
for a ruinous waste of public treasure,
engenders a flagitious disregard ol re
sponsibility, aud begets a lamented
indifference to that common fraternity
which should unite us as a people.
3. Resolved, That we charge the
present administration with an undig
nified, partisan and corrupt interference
with local elections; with a proa
of executive patron
that his laudable ambition should be
gratified. It is alone to the peculiar
chain of circumstances which governed
in his case that his success and Mr.
Bacon’s defeat are mainly to bo attrib-
uted, and the latter gentleman has
no cause to feel mortification at his
failure. To the contrary, we believe he
to-day occupies a higher position in the
estimati in of his felluw Democrats
than he did before the convention as
sembled.
The selection of Hon. Thomas Har
deman as Congressman-at-large was also
judicious and just. Several of Geor
gia’s distinguished sons were aspirants
for that honor, and had it been confer
red upon anyone of them, the position
would have been ably filled. We had
hoped that the claims- of the seaboard
would have been recognized, and that
the Congressional mantle would have
fallen upon one of the gentlemen who
we have advocated for this nomination.
The convention thought differently,
however, and we acquiese in the deci
sion. Mr. Hardeman is known through
out the length and breadth of the State
as a gentleman of undoubted ability
sterling integrity and great public-
spiritedness. It is needless to say that
the interests of Georgia will be well
guarded by him in the Federal Legis
lature.
The prompt renomination- of all the
other State officers is also worthy of
commendation. They have prffren by
their acts that they each possess the
Jeffersopian qualities of public servants,
viz .* Honesty, integrity and capacity.
It was wise in the convention to deter
mine in their cases “to let well enough
alone,” and, with them retained in
office, there need no apprehension
felt lest the State will not continue to
prosper daring the next two years a9
she has during the present adminis
tration.
The convention, therefore, has done
its work patriotically and well. It now
behoves every Democrat in the State to
heartily indorse its course at the polls on
tbe 4th day of October next, and pile
up such a rousing Democratic majority
as will convince Independents, sore
heads and Radicals generally of the^it-
ter hopelessness of any attempts to Ma-
honeize the Empire State of the South,
Button
•ie in States for the
purpM^aR* ^ , „
’^■^..use of extending us lease ol power,
and under color of the collection ot in
ternal revenues, with setting on foot
armed raiding parties, who, ranging at
pleasure through whole communities,
subject the inhabitants to arbitrary ar-
re.-t-i, often involving the innocent in
loss of liberty, property and even life
itself.
4. Resolved, That we cordially in
vite and earestiy solicit every good
citizen of Georgia to unite with us in
the effort, by all honorable means, to
restore the ascendency in the Union of
the party of the Constitution—the par
ty which subordinates its policy, its
measures and its aspirations to the re.-
quirentents of law and the exactions of
eleguted morality, aud, by the adminis
tration of justice equally to all, brings
peace to communities, thereby securing
to our common country the saving
efficacy of a puli''can faith an 1 practice,
which h ive so stg-aliy vescu d our be
loved e iimnotiweahh and placed her
up..u such an enviable eminence.
Mr. Harris, of Metiweiher, further
submitted the following, which was
unanimously adopted ;
Resolved, By this convention, that
for the purpose of effecting a more com
pact and thorough organization of the
Democratic party ol’the State of Geor
gia the system of organization recom
mended by the National Executive
Committee be, and the same is hereby
adopted, by which the member of tbe
Na’tonal Executive Committee from
this State is made ex officio a member of
the Stale Executive Committee ;
the member of the State Axecu-
tive Committee from each Congressional
District ex-officio a member of the
Congressional District Committee ; the
member from each county constituting
the Congressional District ex-officio a
member of the County Executive Como
mittee, so as to preserve a complete and
intimate connection through the State
organization with the National, District
and County Executive Committees o f
the Democratic party.
THE VOTE FOR GOVERNLR.
The regular order being the nomina*
tion of candidates for Governor, the
call of the roll was ordered, when—
Mr. Barrow, of Clarke, said when
the vote on the rules was announced
he, in common with other friends of
Mr. Bacon, reeognized the fact
that tbe contest for the nominations
was practically settled. Mr. Bacon
had, therefore, authorized him to with
draw his name from the nomination,
and in doing so he desired to read the
following letter.*
Atlanta, July 19, 1882.
lion Pope Barrow, Atlanta, Ga :
My Dear Sir—As you placed my
name in nomination before the Guber
natorial Convention, now in session, I
ask to say'the following to you, to be
cammunieated to the convention :
There are but two candidates before
the convention, and it is conceeded that
a majority of the delegates selected will
vote for the nomination ofMr. Stephens,
I regard the abrogation of the two-
thirds rule, and the vote of the cooaen-
tion had thereon, as a practical settle
ment of the contest for the nomination.
The taking of a further vote would be
a useless formality, which would not
change the result thus already definite
ly ascertained. There is no practical
end which would be subserved by such
subsequent vote, and it would be un
reasonable in me to ask for any more
formal expression of that which has
already been thus announced with
sufficient certainty.
With my sincere thanks to the many
friends iD the convention who have
given me their eare;t suppo 1.1 remain,
yours very truly, A. 0 Bacon.
Messrs P. Houston, B. M. Burrongs. A
E. Willard and E. W. Blair have organiz
ed the Florida Fish Oil and Fetilizer
Company, with a capital of 825.000, in
shares of 8250. each. The objects and
pui pose of the company, as set forth in
articles of incorporation, filed June 27tli.
A%the manufacture and sale of fish, oil
fiish fertilizer, fish scraps, and the buying,
catching and sale of fish, and all other
things incidental to and necessary to fully
and successfully carry out the objects of
the companv.
We learn that the incorporators propose
to onv a suitable steamer and establish
their enterprise at a point on the Golf
coast where the business can be most,
successfully and pmfilaly conducted.
This is an enterprise that will certainly
yield very satisfactory return*, and v e hope
1hese gentlemen will make a grand success.
—Floridian.
Keep Cool! Keep Cool!
ICE ALWAYS ON HAND. Strictly
o Asm*
leap To Charge.
GEO. D. GRIFFIN..
M. KWILEGKI.
-AT THE OLD-
'W a, i* fie id Store.
A NEW SUITLY OF
Groceries and Grain,
Hardware & Wagon
Material, Paints,
Oii and Putty,
JC@"Agent for Sashes and Blinds.“^33
Sheriff’s Saie.
GEORGIA—Decatur County ;
Will be s tld before the court house door
in the town of Bainbridge, during the
usual hours of sale, on the first Tuesday
in August next, the following property
to-wit :
Three-fourths (5) undivided interest in the
Steamer Newton, to satisfy one mortgage fi
fa in favor of Weston & Davis, vs button &
Owen. Also, one undivided 4th interest
in the Steamer Newton to satisfy a mort
gage ti fa in favor of N. & A. F. Till & Co.
vs C. U'Barton, Tne entire interest in said
boat being hereby levied upon and adver
tised for sale to satisfy this an I other exe-
cutims in my iiauds*tevie I on the Steamer
Newten. L. F. BURKETT,
June 29, 1882.— Sheriff.
For Sale!
Attention Land Dovers.
The Fickling lands lie ten mile? below
Bainbridge, on the west side of Flint
river. Mr. C. F. Fickling lived on the
plantation until a few years since* and
made money every year. He bought the
lands before the war at a cost, of .<110.000,
and they comprise five whole lots and
five fractional lots, the whole aggregat
ing (1485) fourteen hundred and eighty-
five acres, all lying in the 21st District of
Decatur county, Georgia.
There has been cleared of this land
500 acres, leaving 985 acres of heavily
timbered pine land. Its location on the
Flint river, a stream of perpetual naviga
tion, makes it valuable for its timber and
terpentine ; while for cultivation it can
hardly be excelled.
I am authorized by Mr. Fickling to
dispose of this property at the lowest fig
ures for half cash—balance in one year.
Call on or, address,
Ben. E. Bussell,
July 10, 1SS2. Bainbridge, Ga.
I S 8 2.
E. A. POHLMAN,
THE LIVE CROCER
Will run a lightning schedule thejiresert
year, and will keep on hand for the benefit
of tlie public the beat and most select as
sortment of
GROCERIES,
Ever seen in Bainbridge. Also,
FRUITS,
CANDIES,
CONFECTIONS.
Conntry produce bought at highest prices.
All I ask is a trial, after which I know
rf ou will be pleased.
E A r*olilm»n,
s
TO
-ARE THE BOSSES IN THE-
Dry Goods and Grocery Trade
-AND THEY ABE NOW-
Selling* at Rock Rottoin Prices
Is supplied with Wines, Liquors, I
ger, Ales, and in fact everything goi
for the«imier man to drink.
-CALL AND SKE-
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ARE READY FOR THE
Spring .and Snmmei
CAMPAIGN
WITH A
FINE STOCK OF GOOM
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FIRST-CLASS ST OR
COME AND SEE THEM..
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Millinery ajd Fancy Gooi
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Call and see me everybody, and examine my well seleeted stock of Millinery
Goods; comprising everything kept in a first-ctass millinery establishment. H*’ 11
returne from the norths I am prepared to give my customers every adv»nt*J®
latest styles and fashions. I have a splendid assortment of lare and lalsle milt;.*
ware3 and fronts of every description. Fine cologne and Eider Down, the bestf*f*J]
der in existence. Hats of every description from 25 cents to $1 Picture
sizes, very cheap. I have the agency tor E. Butterick & Co’s, patterns ami'
be purchased of me as cheap as of the firm. I postage on all pattern!
Hogue, an adept in the art of mantua-making ea®be found at my establisl
e .^ e 8he be P !easttl t0 serve her many friends. Ladies coming
should call aud se© me be tore leaving. All orders will receive my personal a’
Bespectfully. .
MRS, M. J. REYNOLD*
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