The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-10-13
POLITICAL CAMPAIGN.
AcmoRrA. Oct. lib, 1876.

few facts connected herewith
Fret ! no ice il the Cherokee Geor
gian Of the 4th inst headed 'Ac
worth, saying hat Col Litchfeld
is supposed to be for Oabney this
,ime, While Capt. NJ NJ. Phillips
has a decided leaning towards Eel
ton. Any one not acquainted would
suppose that our town was about
equally divided between Daboey
aud FELTON, and that Col Litchteld
and Capt. NJ N. Phillips were the
two political leaders, but the facts
are that IN AcuorH there are ten
DaJaey men 10 one Felton man, |
mean white men. Also 10 that pa
per Of tue same date, headed 'anoth~
or county heard from, it says that
at certain saw mill in Paulding
county there at work eighteen men
and that sixteen Of them are for Fell
ton. | know Of no saw mill in
Padding where eighteen men are
employed, but do know of one
where not 50 many are employed
and from reliable information they
are all for Dabrey. And | was told
by Mr.. Gray, brother Of the Gray
Just elected to represent Paulding in
The next Legislature, that two thirds
Of The people Of Padding were for
Dabney, and against any man that
would attempt to break down dem
ocracy. | also notice under that
head in which that paper says that
family numbering % in connec~
ton, who were for Dabney at the
last election but now for FELTON,. |
think | know the family alluded to-,
who are relatives Of FELTON,, and |
underslaud two or three are going
10 vote fer him on that account
Col. Dabney and Dr. FELTON, met
in debate at this place yesterday,
and the DR.. was shown up to the
people by Col. Dabney in his true
night amid the applause OF nearly
the whole crowd. Col. Dabney read
the Hargrove's letter to Goodwin
and showed Felton's alliance with
the radical party and told the Doc
tor of bis visit to Rome to make an
alliance with Hargrove, the post
master at Rome, admitted to be the
most influential radical in the Eth
district. Mr.. FELTON, has not been
candid with the people. He told
them in a speech at Canton before
the Calhoun convention met that he
was an Independent candidate and
no matter who should be nominated
at that convention he was in for the
race and after the Calhoun conven-
ton he made speech 10 Acworth
aud there said that if Dabney, Less
ter. and several others, either had
been nominated, he would not have
been candidate. Oh, what dem
agogue 1t is true that there are a
good many democrats that did sup
port FELTON, bnt take away his re.
publican vote in 9TH district, which
vote numbers about six thousand,
and then how long would the Decor
be candidate But in the face of
all this the Cherokee Georgian says
he is the peoples candidate. In
Dade county, which votes about 900,
FELTON, got only four votes IN the
last election, and Dade always comes
to her place when called upon and
nearly all white men in the county
and always been democratic.
have been in several counties in
the eth district lately and | am cons
hdent FELTON, will not get majority
in any county except Barlow and
Cherokee and perhaps Polk, bat yet
Felton, is the peoples candidate.
FELTON, said in bis speech here
yesterday that he voted against the
repeal Of the Bankrupt law because
he thought the Senate (Which is rad
icaD would not concur with the vote
Of the House, Che House being dem
ocratic). The real reason for his
voting with the Radicals, was to
catch republican votes in this dis
trict. In his speech here yesterday
he never said one word against
Hayes and Wheeler, the radical can
didates for President and Vice Pres
ident, nor uttered a word against the
corrupt administration of our gov
eminent. FELTON, also said he liked
The conventions that nominated Til
den and the one that dominated
Speaker Kerr, bat he wants to nom,
mate himself in the til district aud
expects to be elected by the repub
lean vote with the help OF a few
democrats. Cot D4bney is decid-
eddy the most logical speaker of the
two and born aud raised in Georgia
and Identified with the interest of
the people Of the eth district. |
thiok every democrat should rally
to the polls in November and defeat
! FELTON, and chow him that ST melody
else is interested in democracy while
he is trying to crafty his ambition
and get a big salary at the e4pense
Of the white democrats OF the dis
.rict. and 10, Us give Tilden and
| Hendricks and Dsbuey solid dem
ocratir vote SO that independent
Candidates may Gle IN Georgia.
DEMOCRAT.