The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-11-23
THE SENATORIAL RACE.

EDITORS JOURNAL If you will be 80
kind as to. allow us space in your columns,
we will say few words upon the senatorial
| question that is agitated in our district
The writer does not belong to that class who
can shake the district to its center's core by
a nod of his imperial head, but he is one of
those who is entitled to a vote, and who
| feels deep interest in the welfare, pros
| perity and success of the ''banner county,"
| in all her just and audable undertakings.
That Cobb is in this instance entitled to the
senator is, we believe, a fact that is conced-
Ell ny all, except perhaps few contriving
| politicians who desire to elect one of their
| own Clique by any means either fair or foul.
Various and sundry means have been and
still are being resorted to by these few to
| lead to the defeat of Cobb and her candidate
in this race The latest is set of resolu-
| lions purporting to be a call for a convention
made by Clayton county, who it appears by
| some strange oversight or other, forgot to
appoint delegates 20 attend the convention
| of its own calling. That sort of a call won't
do. They should have delegates appointed
| and place to meet. Atlanta is big town
| and Clayton will be lost if she does not fix
| q more definite locality. If she was in earn
| est she would have told us whereabouts in
| Atlanta her delegates could be found Clay
ton is only testing about this matter She
knows that it is Cobb's .urn and will doubt
| less support our candidate, as she is in good
| faith bound to do under the agreement be-
| tween the three counties of the district
Another is little rumor that we heard
| the other day, to the effect that Cobb had in
inc Il lad l,.~
nation for senator This we are told by
many who were present at the meeting is
utterly false. Iadeed we cannot understand
how it took its rise, for an account of the
call was published by you as part of the
proceedings of the meeting, and its truth
| was likewise vouched for by Judge T. M.
| Kirkpatrick as chairman, and Thomas B.
Irwin as secretary of the meeting and we
hardly suppose that any one would ever sus-
pect, much less openly accuse either of these
gentlemen of certifying to ialsehood.
The true history of it is this. The chair
man of the Executive Committee, Mr. Nc
CATCHY moved to pull off the BRIDES for the
senate as well as for the house, but he was
/ overwhelmingly voted down when he took
up, not CHS bed, z" but his hat and walked.
Now it may be that there are some one who
think that mass meeting of the people can
not act without the presence of the Chair
| man OF the Executive Committee, but that
crowd did not happen to be of that opinion,
and so they went ON in his absense and
elected delegates to represent Cobb, which
they have done, and now we are told that
that action on the part of the people does
not bind anybody, and all because the Chair
man of the Democratic Executive Commit
tee moved to pull the b. dles off and was
voted down.
No such "crawfishing" as that can delude
any sane man who knows the temper and
spirit of the Democracy of Cobb The
party or parties who started the report (who-
ever they beg if they expect to be believed
reckoned without their host, and ought for
their own protection to be consigned to the
harmless department of the lunatic asylum
This is MOI fight for any particular man as
an individual but it is a battle TO. the rights
of our county of which we are Justly proud
Eve.y man among us from border to border,
whether lord or peasant, rich or poor who
is not false TO her interest should render to
her candidate hearty and cheerful sup
port. lie was brought out to stand for our
rights in this matter, and If he is betrayed
to Fulton it is the defeat of Cobb
The fair-minded people, both of Fulton
ohu CioJ wa, ui iSSoc5hiAC ehC JuSblCC vi Oul
claim, and will vote with us unless we
suffer ourselves TO be vctimized and sold by
politicians who would like to traffic in our
votes and whose motto ever is to rule or.
ruin. The people do not intend to be gull
ed in this mater. Fulton does not dispute
our right. The whole trouble has its origin
in little clique in our own midst, who are
trying to barter Cobb for Che sake of ''fu-
lures" for themselves. Who they are we
do not intimate, but will say that if they
would be respected at home, they had better
get at an other and more reputable business.
No political trickster or Spectator are yet
enjoyed that freedom of conscience which
is the Greatest blessing of an honest man.
He who follows the business long will
carry the stamp of Generalization upon his
face, and his final, but inevitable doom is
shipwreck and death upon the hard, cruel
rocks of political corruption.
VOTER.