The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1886-09-16
A CARD.
70 the People Of the ssth Senatorial District

10 the People OF the 35th Senatorial District
| 1t has been known to the people of this distric
Tor weeks that was candidate for the Senate
made canvass OF the three counties, Cobb Fulton
| and Clayton, composing the district, and there was
not the slightest opposition To up to Tuesday
| OF last week, when the nyention OF Cobb count,
met 70 nominate candidates Tor the legislature
There 1t was that lew men who are nay personal
enemies set TO work to accomplish my defeat, anC
they did not hesitate to use the toulest Of means
and they have in some way managed to the dele
CATION from Cobb, for the accomplishment of thai
end. 1t comes to light in the convention that me;
| In Atlanta Saturday that gentleman who wanted
70 De nominated six years ago entered into private
agreement with some one, land no one seems t.
know who that the old established rule Of rotation
should be changed, and that Fulton county should
have the senator twice to Cobb and Clayton's once
The people OF Cobb and Clayton were not parties To
this agreement. Judge Watterson of Clayton, was
in the convention OF 1880, and he says there
such agreement.
1t has been whispered in Cobb such an agreement
was made by certain w0uld-be political bosses, but
m losZ the people repudated i by giving Mr. Fur
gerson OF Clayton, large majority an Attain
II man Now these would-be political bosses are
seeking TO defeat me by making tool Of man
from Cobb county, who had never been heard OF as
candidate until the morning of the convention
Their programme was to make the Cobb convention
believe that II they instructed the delegates for me
that they could not vote for any other Cobb county
man In the senatorial convention in the event
there was deadlock, and when the resolution was
oHered lnstruetlng the delegates for me first last
and all the tlme the vote OF the convention stood,
tor the resolu ton. % TO % against it, The UNDER
standing OF the convention was that the delegates
elected. should secure my nomination first il they
could, and II they could not, then the nomination
Of some other Cobb county man. From the action
OF the senatorial convention and the men who are
manipulating the Cobb county delegation, ii is mani
1est that personal tight is being made upon me,
and that Cobb and Clay counties are be forced
into an agreement which seems TO have been made
by one man, do not believe, and shall not believe
until the people Of the district say so AT the ballot
box, that any such an agreement ever was, or ever
will made. have always been what is known as an
organized democrat, and am still in favor OF Or
ganlzed democracy, but whenever the organization
resolves itself into machine to defeat Justice and
the VIII OF the people and to crafty personal Spite
am no longer bound by ii. therefore withdraw
my name from the convention to reasonable in At
anta at II O'Clock Monday morning and declare
myself an independent candidate for the senate to
represent the Both senatorial district in the ne xt
senate of Georgia, and will give the people chance
to say whether they will make their own agreements
and take their rights, or leave all in the hands OF
lew petty politicians to be manipulated at will, as
may best their purpose in advancing their own
personal interests. AT convention of farmers Of
Cobb county which met in Marietta August 10Th
1886, after going TO recite the fact that was the
sense OF the convention that Cobb county was as a
matter of simple justice entitled to the name for the
ensuing term, the following resolutions adopts
ed
Resolved, Thai we, a convention OF farmers, and
representing we doa considerable portion OF Cobb
county Democracy, commend to the district democ-
raey the name of w. p McClatehy We commend
him as gentleman, and patriot liability and ex-
perience, whose character is without blemish, and
Resolved, further, That call upon the press of
the district TO urge that justice be done the claims
OF Cobb county in the selection Of representative.
This convention was composed of farmers from all
parts OF the county, men who had right to speak,
and they have done SO, in unmistakahle terms, and
would be recreant to duty, and unworthy OF trust
II | sit quietly down and allow their will defeated
and their voice hushed, by few small politicians.
The farmers of Georgia demanding legislation
Tor their relief, and the promotion OF the farming
interests, and ought and will have it, not by the
grace OF Fulton county, but by the grace OF the
ballot box. There are many questions in which
the people vitality interested that should be leg
Isl upon. Among these Is the improvement OF
the public school system. If elected would favor
such legislation would enable our excellent COM
missioner, Professor Orr, to enlarge and improve
the public school facilities of all the people. /
would favor the adjustment of the present convict
system. The e0nyicts could and should be ham
died as to be self-sustaining and at the time
not come in competition with free labor ! would
also favor soma legislation providing for the o
our confederate dead and the preservation OF their
deeds Of vaOr would also favor the esta blishment
Ell a reformatory institution for children and ie-
males convicted OF crime. As to the temperance
question, am temperance man now and have
always been. expect 10 live and die temperance
man, but am not an extremist The temperance
question has heen forced (unwisely, | thinK,( into
this race, and it is all the ali-absorbing question
in Fulton county, must define my position. pro-
pose Tor Fulton To settle her own questions OF poll
cy. II the representatives who to he elected to
the lower house from Fulton county, should agree
upon bill modifying the prohibition laws as to Full
ton county, and get it through the lawer house,
when 1t comes to the senate would not oppOste il
are put through. shall endeavor between this and
the election tn meet the people all the district
upon the good people OF Cuhh Fulton and Clayton,
to say at the ballot box whether they intend to look
after their own interests, or allow few small poll
ieians 70 force upon them just such men and meas
ures as they see fit, for their personal advance
ment or benefit. Respectfully submitted,
w. p. McCLATCHY.