The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1879-03-13
CEN. aoRpoN,s LETTER

charges of the political firm Of DIR.
and Mrs. FELTON,. 1t is a document
which is sure 10 attract the close at
,eniion of the reader wherever il is
published. 1t will be seen that the
General takes up the charges and
insinuations one by one, and though
we have thus far only his own word
for it, the letter contains internal
evidence enough to satisfy the un.
preiudiced mind that he speaks the
truth. Under no recognized law of
evidence is one required TO prove a
negative, Il is not for General
Gordon therefore to disprove the
charges, bat it is the duty Of the
Messrs. FELTON, to establish their
charges. When they shall have
submitted their evidence, then it
will devolve upon the Senator to
meet their evidence, and to over
throw it by countervailing evidence.
This we have no doubt he will be
abundanily able to do.
We have spoken Of the political
firm of DR.. and Mrs. FELTON,. Do
not the facts justify this character
ization of the anomalous combination
we now witness in this congressional
district 1t is generally believed
that DR.. FELTON, makes the stump
speeches 10 the week, breaches on
Sunday and occupies the seat in
Congress won by their joint efforts,
and that Mrs. FELTON, does the letter
writing and pulls the wires and ma
nipulales the ring. 1t has been
charged that she prepared and caus
ed to be prepared most of the anony-
nous communication in favor of her
husband which appeared from time
to time during his campaigns, and
she has avowed the authorship of the
now famous letter to a member of
the Republican National Committee,
asking for Republican aid to the doc
tor. That letter, by the by, has
never been published. Will mt the
Messrs. FELTON, crafty the eager and
reasonable curiosity of the people,
and let them eee the letter in print !?
Some people say that they dare not
publish it, otherwise they would not
hesitate to submit it to public in
spection.
1t will be seen that General Cor
don literally makes the fur fly. He
writes as he fought, and goes straight
at his foe. He bears himself like a
knight, yet strikes like a giant
The FELTON, tactics have not answer
ed 10 this case The weapons chief
ly relied upon by the firm hereto,
fore have been abuse and defama
ton. This one would hardly have
expected from a man of the doctor
gray hairs and sacred calling. The
reader has not forgotten how he
bounced upon Mr.. Trammell, and
abused hin like a pickpocket. He
treated Mr.. Dabney no better; and
when Judge Lester was nominated,
he poured out all the walls Of his sa
tanic wrath upon his devoted head.
Day and night, through the press
aad on the hustings, 10 secret and 10
the sunlight, the husband and wife,
the preacher and his spouse, fought
without ceasing," and no charge was
too bad to level at a man whom the
senior member of the firm had spok
en- of on a former occasion in the
highest terms. General Gordon will
teach the firm that this thing must
cease, else that they must prepare
receive blows as we'll as give them.
The doctor has even gone for Mr..
Hill, who did what he could to help
him in his last canvass. 10 his re
ception speech at Gainesville a
few days ago, on his return from
Washington, he opened his battery
upon Mr.. Hill for certain votes in
Congress Mr.. Hill is opposed to
the payment of war claims. and the
Feltons are not /; and hence this hos
tile demonstration. What are we to
expect nextR Upon what meat
doth this our Caesar feed that he has
grown so great ~ If one of our
Senator'S can not deliver political ad
dresses in any part Of his own State
when invited by his party, and the
other cannot oppose the Radical eff
forts to plumber the public treasury,
without mourning the dcSunciations
of the Feltons, then we have reach
ed pretty pass indeed in our pc
liIical history.
We can only account for the big
head" with which the representa-
tive from the seventh district seams
to be afflicted, upon the supposinon
that he has been associating too
much of late with Mr.. Stephens.
TWENTY years ago the wife of Mr..