The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1892-09-07
BRIGHT BEN RUSSELL.
THE RECORD OF A SOLID AND TRUE
DEMOCRAT.

trict Congressman Has Spent Time
and Money for Democracy.
Below will be found an article taken
from the Savannah Press:
ben Russell of Decatur county has
been the ''head and 'front.' of democratic
offending in the Second confessional
district for the past twenty-five years,
and stands today pre-eminent for I'M
swerving devotion to the cardinal princi-
pals of the party.
His prominence as a Journalist and a
Democratic leader have attracted SO
much attention to him that brief re-
sumo of his career would be interesting.
When the cambridge Independents
volunteered for the war and marched
from her peaceful and shaded streets for
the din of carnage and battle BEN
was at the head of the colu mn beating
the kettle drum.
| A writer about Russell says of him: ''He
served the south during the entire war;
was never home on furlough, nor off on
a sick list He was with the chiy-
airy of the south at Manassas, when they
first wrote there claim to Immortality
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war; he was with them at the butchery
in the crater at Petersburg, and he saw
the stainless shields drop from the
nerveless grasp in the Wilderness, and
when at AppOmattox the warriors ban.
ner took its flight to greet the warriors
SOUL it left none more broken hearted
at its loss than the brave drummer boy.
"Ben was sounding the morning drum
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ed fields of Virginia when the dema-
gogues and third partyites who now be-
smirch his character and belittle his ge-
MUS were being spanked to sleep to
keep them from crying over a niger
rising in the quarters He has stuck to
his country through lean and fat.
through fire, blood and water, and now
that he is before his ceuntrymen for an
elective Office it will be an ignominy and
shame if his high claims for their graf
itude and Endorsements are to be ig-
nored. Pray the gods to intermit the
plague that needs n ust light on such in
gratitude
Since the War.
| Ben Russell is born editor. He has
edited the cambridge Democrat ever
since the war. He is a forcible writer
| anu a SCIOuS Spcdh0rs ne has repre-
sented his county in the legislature and
has always been worker in the ranks,
never having been an Office seeker. His
distinguished career as editor of the
cambridge Democrat has been series
of continued struggles and exalted tri-
umphs for the people he loves.
BullOckism first and then Whiteleyism
We're uprooted from the soil they polut-
ed The overthrow of 'Slippery Dick
Whiteley and his Punishment to the slums
of Colorado are direct results of Ben
RussePs brave and unceasing warfare
against radicalism and everything that is
radical in its tendency. Russell the was
first man who nominated Turner for the
place he so honorably filled. What more
fitting than he should be Turner's sue
| ceSsOr?
Ben Russell has spent both time and
money, many years and many dollars, in
advocating the claims of office for others
in all parts of the district. His vast work
has all along been unselfish and unre-
warded. Since the first election of Tete
Smith in 1874 there has not been break
in the continuous line of Democratic vic
tories. He was clerk of the committee
on privileges and elections in Washing
ton while Hon. FL. G. Turner was chair
man. He has done much to elect Mr.
Turner and helped him out this year.