The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1892-08-17
ADVERTISEMENT
The Maledictions of Defeated Candidate.
From the Albany Herald.

l. loLh me Albany herald.
Elsewhere in the paper we publish a
letter from Hon. o. B. Stevens, the can
didate of the now well nigh deserted
Alliance political machine of the Second
Congressional district. 1t is in reply to
an editorial and communication signed
Dictator" which appeared in the Her
aid the Sd inst.
The perusal of these articles evidently
caused the fur of the usually dociie and
smiling candidate for congressional hon
ors to turn the wrong way, and we sus-
pect that he lost the cunning of the
shrewd politician for the nonce and
straightway proceeded to indite this in
teresting epistle while the evil spirit of
angry passion had control of him.
The letter is full of the anathema that
cones of disappointment and follows
despair. 1t is the i'll tempered wall of
defeated candidate whose vaulting ambi-
ton and vain political aspirations have
been overcome by an ADLER exponent of
more righteous cause.
If anything in the way of facts and
positive evidence were wanted by the
intelligent voters of the district to con-
vince them that Mr.. Stevens is unfit to
represent them in congress, this letter
of his would be sufficient. The man
who is thrown out of balance and allows
himself to be upset by little newspaper
criticism in campaign like this would
cut pretty figure on the floor of the
national mouse of representatives
The Herald has opposed Mr.. Stevens
in his congressional aspirations, but we
have never thrown mud at him, nor al
luded to him in nnparlimentary terms
The papers of the district supporting his
candidacy have been fair enough to ac-
cord this distinction to the Herald IN
the discussions that we hare had with
them during the present remarkable
campaign, and we regret that Mr.. Stevens
has now placed himself in a position to
invite, in retort, resort to billingsgate.
There is but little in Mr. Stevens let
ter for the Herald to notice, and we
would probably have given it to the pub
lie without word of comment or crit
icism if it were not for statement that
he makes which is calculated to mislead
talr-minded people when viewed in the
light in which Mr.. Stevens presents it.
He says that the Worth county mass
meeting on the 9th of June which select
ed delegates for him to the Convention
also selected delegates to the Senate
rial conventian which met and nominal
ed Hon. w. E. Wooten, and to other
conventions without opposition" This
is true, but Mr.. Stevens has omitted to
state in this connection that the meeting
on the 9th of June was called for the
purpose af electing delegates to the Sen
atorial and State conventions, but NOT
for the purpose of electing delegates to
the Congressional convention. Not only
had the election of Congressional dele
this meeting, but it had been recon-
mended by previous mass meeting,
and had been accordingly determined by
the Executive Committee of the county,
to order primary on the Both of July,
in compliance with the recommendation
of the Executive Committee of the dis
trict, for the election of delegates to the
Congressional C invention; but when the
crowd gathered the AllianCemen and
Seventies, including a number of Third
Party men, found themselves in the ma
jority and proceeded to elect delegates
to the Congressional convention then
and there. AS the election of delegates
to the Congressional convention was not
set forth in the call that had been issued
for this meeting, that part of the pro-
ceedings which related to Congressional
delegates was irregular and void, and
only had to be objected to by any re-
spectacle number of Democrats to be set
aside. while that which was done at the
same meeting with reference to the Sen
atorial and State conventions was regu-
lar and held good. The Democratic Ex-
ecutive Committee of the county, after
being purged of those of its members
who had gone over to the Third party,
evidently took the view that we here