Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-09-18
RING RULE.
John Temple Graves, GeOrgia's
Young Man Eloquent,
Charges Bargain and Sale in
Georgia Politics.
Patriotism SubOrdinatcd to Lust
for Office and Political
Power.
DcplOrablc Conditions Not PC
culiar to Georgia Only.

Editor Atlanta Constitutions
Upon my return from the
northwest | find that public ru-
NOR connects my name with an
intention to oppose the nominees
Of the State Democratic conven-
ton upon the hustings, and to of
fer as an Independent candidate
for congress in the Atlanta dis
trict.
| have neither of these inten-
tions-least of all the last-but
the prevalence of this rumor JUS
titles word as to my position.
From my place in the ranks,
where for twelve years l have
fought unsclfishly and without
reward, l have a right to speak
frankly to the respectful hearing
!; of the Democracy of Georgia.
No man has questioned my sim
cerity in the past, and | put be-
hind me here the possibility of
misconstruction, when | say that
| do not desire now, or in the fu
ture, any Office which the people
have in their ballots to bestow. |
am wounded in no friendship,
smitten in no ambition and steel
ed in no prejudice. But l am
profoundly concerned for the
condition of politics in Georgia,
and seriously apprehensive for
the welfare of the party to which
| belong.
You who write know as well as
| who speak that there is discord
in the ranks of the Georgia De-
mocracy, and discomfort brewing
bitterness and division. You
know as well as | do that this
boastful prophecy of 20, 600 Dem
ocratic majority is the mere BRAY
ado of politicians who realize the
possibility of no majority at all,
and who illustrate their appre-
hension by the tremendous energy
now being put forth in men and
money and management to per-
feet campaign against the most
formidable opposition that has
confronted us since the war. You
know, or you ought to know, that
thousands of veteran Democrats
stayed away from the primary
elections in order to hold them
selves free for the October issues,
and you know, or you ought to
know, that thousands of these
men will either absent themselves
from the polls in October, or 60
there to cast a straight and fear
less ballot against the nominees
of the party to which they have
been blindly true for a genera
ton. If you do not know these
things, you can easily verify them
by the scantiest investigation into
the sentiment of your own locali-
ty and of the counties round about
| it.
Georgia is ripe today with the
spirit of revolt These are bold
words, but they are the truest
you have heard since the campaign
opened, and challenge you to
refute them in fact, however much
your extreme of partisan loyalty
may lead you to deny in boastful
and swelling platitudes.
What is the basis of this dis
content in the ranks of long
united party
1t does not grow, abstractly,
out of the defeat of General Ev-
ans for Governor. With Evans
himself cOrralled on the stump In
excess of magnanimity toward a
victorious opponent, this explana-
ton will not begin to meet the
situation. 1t is not due to the
diversity of sentiment on the tar
iff issue. The tariff was long
since truthfully epitomized by
General Hancock as local ques-
ton, and the varying views of
Georgiaps for twelys years past
have never yet been precipitated
in real division nor the threat of
it. Neither can it be ascribed to
the financial theories which beset
us. In the conglomerate tumble