The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1884-08-21

IncHn al eXcuoG r'-,a,,,
cratic ticket. Harmony prc....so1..
every part of the State. In the Atlanta
district the only place where there
was any probability of trouble, every
thing has been settled by tho frank and
manly Withdrawal of Capt. Harry
JACKSON, leaving the field open for
Hon. Nj. Hammond, the present cx-
perienced and able representative in
Congress. The Republican who runs
against him will have more check than
the average lightning rod agent, and
about rs much chance of SUCCESS as tho
Ben Butler electoral ticket will in
Georgia.
In this the new tenth district the
Hon. Geo. II. Barnes received the un-
animous nomination, and the man, be
Inc Republican, or Independent, who
takes the field against. him, wilf have
even harder time than Judge Twiggs
did two years ago when he ran against
Hon. Scaborn Reese, the regular Dem
ocratlc nominee. Judge Twiggs is an
able man, fine speaker, brimming
over with" energy and pcrseverancc,
popular with the people, and yet he
found so little encouragement that he
deemed it cXpcdicnt to withdraw in
The middle of the campaign. A man
of less magnetism would have about
rs much chance as q whirlwind. And
yet the Republicans have determined
to put forward candidates for Congress
in every district in Georgia. AS they
have very little timber of their own
for that purpose, it is presumed that
they intend to make victims of aspir-
ing Independents wherever thew
can; and there arc, perhaps, enough
OF those gentlemen ready and willing
to take two bites at the political
cherry. In the first place, there is the
dclusivc bite OH election day, and in
the second, athc more substantial bite
before Congress if the Republicans
should happen to get possession Of that
body And herein is the secret of the
determination to make fight, in Gcor-
gla. There is not ~ man in the Re-
publican party who is so bereft of his
senses as to believe that any candidate
efthat illl can have any hope of SUCCESS
III single Congressional district in
this State. Bur in the contingency
have mentioned, every scat will be
contested on the ground of fraud and
intimidation. at the ballot box and
Judging from the past, every man of
them would propably get in. The
Republicans in Congress, were never
known TO seek after truth, and it
would make no difference how clearly
1t was shown that there is no intcrfcr-
once i'll Georgia with the right of the
negro to qotc.
In this district, and this. county cs-
pcclally, Maj. Barnes is very popular
with the colorcd people, and a great
many of them will vote for him. AS
yet no authoritative announcement of
ms republican or Independent oppo-
ncnt has been made, though it is said
that several nomadic and chronic Office
seekers in the district arc in the posi-
uon or Barkis. OF course, as | have
said,, they don't expect to be elected
III the regular way, but there is
always that beautiful possibility of q
republican House and contest with
the odds in favor of the contestant.
Even if the Republicans. majority
should be seized with sDasm Of viz
tue and keep them out, there will al
ways be the contcsting expenses paid,
VIII d0uCear over as balm to the
defeated spirit. Thus there will hardly
be any trouble TO find somebody in
each of the ten districts to lead the
republican forlorn hopc to certain
defeat. 1t will be the first general
light on that line for some time and
attended with some dcgreec of interest
on tliat account. independents have
invariably met with ignominious de-
ieat in this part of the State, and such
Is likely TO continue to be their fate.