Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-09-22
TIE REPUBLICAN NOMINATION
FOR CONGRESS.
Col. James Atkins Aceepts-COrres-
pOndencP.

The following correspondence explains
itself:
SAVANNAH, GA. September Is, 1882.
James Atkins, Esq Savannah, Ga:
sIR-The Republican Congressional Con-
vention for the First Congressional district Of
Georgfa, in accordance with a call duly issued,
assembled in Empire Hall in this city on the
18th inst, and selected you by a very large
majority as the Republican candidate for
election to represent the district in the
FOrty-eighth Congress Of the United States;
and also authorized and directed the IN
dersigned as their committee, duly appoint
ed for the purpose, to notify you Of your
selection as their standard bearer, and to
ask you to accept the position to which
they have called you.
It becomes US, however, at the same time
to inform you that eleven delegates out Of
the forty six composing the convention, not
only opposed your nomination, but seeded
from the convention, and nominated Mr..
Tomlinson F. johnson, the Collector of
Customs at this port.
The only justification assigned, or as
signable for the conduct OF these eleven
men, is that the convention rejected, on the
one hand, two men holding proxies, tolwit:
VIM Cantwell and r. W. White, OF Chat
ham, claiming the right to represent Bull
to allow JuLe Gordon, q duly appointed
delegate from and for Mcintosh county,
with authority as one delegate only, to act
for himself aud his regularly appointed col
league, Samuel Russell, not present at the
convention; and that it did, on the other
hand, admit into the convention Jesse VIM
berly, OF Burke county, to represent Bull
Loeb upon duly executed proxies from the
duly appointed delegates from Bulloch
county, and also Tunis G. Campbell, Of
Mcintosh. as the duly authorized proxy Of
Samuel Russell. delegate originally ap-
pointed for Mcintosh.
This IS the sum total of all the complaints
urged or assigned at the time of the bolt
against the action OF the majority as such,
or their conduct.
They certainly did not intimate that their
objection to you as the candidate formed
any part Of their grounds for boiling. II
they persist, It can be only to aid the Demo-
cratic candidate; and this we will not as
sumo in advance, but count on their cordial
support OF yourself,
To satisfy you that you were fairly and
almost unanimously nominated, we enclose
herewith, for your examination, for your
SELF, the original credentials of the delegates
to the convention, and incorporate herein
table which will speak for itself, as follows,
viz;
II proxies are objected to, you can cast
out all the proxies, aud you have twenty
votes out Of the thirty-one regular dele
gates that were personally present in the
convention, while your opponent had but
eleven.
Let delegates and proxies ali vote, and let
your opponent have both votes from McIn-
tosh, instead Of neither, IS is the fact, and
both from Bulloch (for which they really
bolted) aud Sapp from Burke, who voted
for neither, and cannot be counted for
either, aud still you have Twenty-Five votes
to his sixteen. To claim sixteen for your
opponent is to be ridiculous to claim more
Is to be absurd.
We feel confident that you will not refuse
this call Of the Republicans Of your district.
We ask you to notify US st your conven-
fence Of your acceptance Of this nomina
ton, and accept our assurance and that OF
those we have the honor to represent, that
you shall be supported at the polls by the
Republicans of the district.
Very truly, your friends,
JAS A. SYKES,
LEWIS NJ. PLEASANT,
SCIPIO D. SCROeGINGs,
EDWARD HARPER,
TUNIs G. CAMPBELL,
Committee.