The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1880-08-19
OUR POSITION.

stumbling block. After tbirty>two
ballots Governor CoIquitt lacked
niue votes of receiving the nomina>
ton. The minority insisted on nom
mating any one else. The seven
DAYS tedious session ended in the
majority recommending Governor
Colquitt for reelection. After adj
iourpment, the minority organized
convention and appointed a COM
mi.tee of eleven to select a candid
ate to oppose Governor COlqui't and
they foally prevailed upon Ex'
Senator Thomas M. Norwood, Of
Savannah, to take the field.
Now, here is two prominent or
ganized Democrats running for the
same office, neither a nominee of the
party, both representing a separate
/ faction. The Democratic party is
left without a standard>bearer. 1t
has no representative of its princi-
pies in the field. The whole matter
is reduced to a scramble for election
to the Executive office of tho State.
Party, patriotism and principles
have degenerated into personalism,
prejudice and passion. 1t is now
one man striving to defeat another
man and to elect himself. 1t is a
personal warfare of personal fac
tons. 1t is not the Democratic par
ty, panoplied in her strength, maxi
ing an aggressive war upon her in>
veterate enemy, Radicalism. On
the contrary, the shining worries of
broad>mouthed Radcalism is seen
on big grin, gIorying in the dis
sensions among Democrats, and re-
Ijoicing at the prospective view of
seeing Democrats taking each other
by the throat in a contest for per-
sonal rule. They are ready to
widen the breach and scatter fire.
brands of perpetual discord.
This is, indeed, a depIorsbIe and
shameful state OF affairs, and our
greatest fear is that this rupture Of
harmony, this division of the party
in the State, is but the entering
wedge of continued and irreconcile
able differences that will bring about
such a split in the party that
"statesmen" and "patriots" will find
that they will have raised a storm
that they cannot quell or control.
1--WE are not worst at once the source of
Begins so slowly, and from such slight
source,
An infants hand might stop the breach
with clay
But let the stream grow wider and Philos
opby,
Ay, and Religion too, may strive in vain
TO stem the headlong current"
For it is true in politics, IS in religN
ion, "Whatsoever a party sowetb,
that shall it also reap" The party is
sowing the seeds of personal preju~
dice, bitter afimosities, deep seated
diss4rslens and turbulent disorgan
iaskion, and if sound reason, sober
| judgment and self>sscriticing patriot
Ism does not assume control, it will
reap a whirIwind of fury, demorali-
cation and death.
We are not slow to perceive that
this will prove a fight of Democrat
against Democrat, friend against
friend, with ne principle Involved.
We do not deem it the part of wis
dom for us TO seek to inhame the
passions of our readers and widen a
chasm that should be closed. The
Democratic party has history too
grand in its past achievements and
q work too noble for future per
formance for its children ia a mo
ment of madness to disembowel and
consign it to an inhospitable snd
bloody grave. The action of the
two factions of the party tends
to its dissolution. 1t leaves demo-
Gratis without chart or compass
The want Of nominee absolves
members of the party from any bind
ing obligation to support one eau
didate in preference to the other. -
Had the party made nomination,
as was desired and which delegates
were sent to do, then our people
would not have had to antsgonize
one another, labor would not have
been demOraIized and business
prosperity would not have been
disturbed as will be the case during
this hot canvass.
We previously promised to sup
port the nominee, and in all good
conscience we would have dooe so
cheerfully. AS it is we are left
without nominee and with no al
tnrn q tive hut To 70 n,aka q nrafer