The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1892-05-04


Democratic Executive Committee of tie
Second Congressional district, addressed
the following letter to Editor Rainey, cf
THE DAWSON News, and the Herald CAL
ries it not only to Editor Rainey, but to
the people of the district:
Ny DEAR Mr.. RAINEY-- l am in re-
ceipt of the marked copy of your issue,
of the 27Uh inst, and note with pleasure
the correct, clcar-cut style of the paper
because it is an evidence of the progress
and high order of intelligence which
Pervades our sister city, Dawson-not
Dawson alone, but the staunch county
OF Terrell. Well, now, after that little
dose of soft solder, won't you allow me
to comment just little bit ON your ar
ticle in which you essay to give the Con-
gressional Convention of this district
particular fits? so clear and distinct
that vince as we may, the exclama-
ton comes; ''Rainey is good fellowr
Yet, at the same time, it is clear that
he is welded to his idols-and like the
Brahmins of Delhi, can see no good
beyond the gods which his hands have
helped to set up. You accuse the COM
mittee of being swayed by ''waves of
passion and prejudice" Passion and
prejudice against whom? Not against
Democrats, surely, and not against
others, because the words of the commit
tee are couched respectfully, which pas
sion cannot do ;are couched conservative
ly, which prejudice cannot do. Neither
do the words of the committee encour-
age dissention, rather the reverse. They
encourage caution against avowed oppo-
nents-opponents in interest, opponents
in principle and opponents in fact-who
claim the right by reason Of past afiilia.
ton to control the councils Of Demo-
cracy.
twill not do, my dear sir, to say you
belong to the rock-nbhed Democracy,
and swallow at gulp the teachings of
your Oca!a confreres, the teachings of
your st. Louis masters, the teachings of
Peek, Post, Daniels & Co. Your intel
igence does away with the necessity of
enumerating the monstrosities which
have been put forth by this combination.
Yet, you will pardon the recital of few
cardinal virtues which are claimed by
them and put forth to the world as
equal almost in point of virtue to the
words of holy writ. For instance, the
warehouse system and sub-treasury plan
of the Ocala platform. Suppose a law
has been passed by Congress and is in
effect today, the cotton crop of last year,
under it's provisions, is stored in ware
houses in the towns and Ramlets of the
land two-thirds of its value was adj
vanced when stored, the farmers mort
gagged their farms, their stock and every
thing they had to secure the payment of
the advance. Interest, however low,
sleeps not; expenses, however light, ac-
cumulate. Loss in weight is an assured
fact, and a sale when it takes place is a
certain loss to the horny-handed farmer.
The Republican party is in power.
Imagine, if you can, the army of support
ers which your pet measure will give
them, unless you can presume that Dem
Gratis will be appointed to fill the fat
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show all this for the benefit of class of
the community-claSs,b because the arti-
san, the scholar, the student and the out
side world are excluded from the benefits
of your pet measure, and yet you call
this Democracy. VIII you let me carry
you to st. Louis? That grand conclave
of celebrities who proposed to capture
this hemisphere by the great and good
proposition to be honest to the Federal
pensioners, pensioners who have received
millions of the hard earnings of an i'm
poverished people. Your good ST. Louis
people say be honest to those fellows the
money paid them was not gold, only
greenback; let us give them so per cent
more as a discount for difference in val
uation n, and it was swallowed with
whoop. Not word was said about pay
ing the Southern cotton planter, or The
Western grain raiser, discount on the
money paid them all these years for their
produce, and yet you call this Demo-
cracy-iron-ribbed Democracy.
l well remember the day in the six
ties when, in company with some of the
truest men that ever drew the breath of
life. from Terrell county. we tramned