Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-06-24

The MORNING NEWS published yestef-
day a strong letter from Houston county
in favor of uniustructed delegates. The
writer. who is a gentleman OF position
aud influence, SAYS that if either Gen.
Gordon or Mai. Bacon is nominated many
of the voters OF Houston county will not
support the nominee.
Doubtless the same feeling of bitterness
exists in the majority, if not all, of the
/ other counties. The extraordinary per-
/ sonal campaign which has been in prog
ress for weeks, and which Will continue
tor several weeks longer, has divided the
Democrats of about every county into two
! hostile factions. The friends of Gen. Cor
don and Maj. Bacon are doing what they
can TO secure the success OF their resp ect-
i've candidates, and among them there are
many who believe that the surest way to
defeat a candidate is to blacken his cnar-
acter.
Slander has played a very prominent
part in the present campaign. and it stIll
occupies a prominent place among the
means relied on by botn factions to secure
the victory. 1t can hardly be said that
one candidate has been treated with more
consideration than the otner, so far as the
SANDER business is concerped. About all
that can be said that is calculated to
bring them into disrepute with their
nelghbors and fellow citizens has been
said. For some time their organs have
given considerable attention to refutlng
ISLANDERS.
A day or two ago the MORNING NEWS
called attention to a number of ISLANDERS
which the organs of the two candidates
undertook to Tefute on Sunday. The Au-
gusta Chronicle of Tuesday, in two edito-
rial articles, calls attention to two ISLANDERS
which are now being circulated with the
hope OF damaging the Gubernatorial pros
poets OF Maj. Bacon. The Chronicle hav-
ing pointed out that the ISLANDERS are with
out truth, inquired: HAS it come to this
in Georgia? Are the people to be shocked
and politics to be debauched, and private
character to be blasted by the repetition
from foul lips OF fetid slanderr'
Yes, it certainly mas come to this in
Georgia, if we are to believe all that the
organs of Gen. Gordon and Maj. Bacon
say. The unfounded and shameful charges
against the two candidates for the nomina-
tion for Governor, which have been, and
are still being, circulated throughout the
State, are doing infinitely more harm to
the people and to the Democratic party
than they are to the subjects of them.
They are calculated to make the people
lose confidence in the purity OF their pub
lie servants and in the integrity of public
men. They are arousing animositles
among Democrats which cannot fail to do
the Democratic party harm.
The organs of the candidates seem to
admit that the condition of affairs that
has been brought about by this personal
campaign, which they are assisting to
conduct, is deplorable, but they do not
suggest any remedy for getting rid of the
ISLANDERS and restoring harmony and good
feeling TO the Democratic ranks. They
content themselves with denying the
ISLANDERS launched against their respec-
tive candidates and continue to pursue
the line of conduct which they have fol-
lowed from the beginning. They do not
seem to realize that the unity and
harmony of the party is of vastly more
Importance than the success of any men,
Der of the party. Neither they nor those
acting with them are willing, apparently,
to make any concessions for the good Of
the party. Ii they placed the interests
of the party above those who, unsolicited,
are sehshly struggling to crafty their
ambition for place and power, they would
join with the MORNING NEWS in demand
ing the election of uninstructed dele
gates to the State Convention. They
would abandon the personal campaign
in which they are engaged. and insist
upon the nomination of a man for Gov
ernor who has the confidence and respect
of the entire party. If they will take this
course they will have no occasion for
asking such questions about political
affairs In this State as "Has it come to
this in Georgia?' or for making such
EXPLANATIONS as "God preserve this
Statew