The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1894-01-31
TIE WATERS MOVING
In THE SECOND CONGRESSIONAL
DISTRICT.
Editor Howard, of the EARLY County News
Makes Some Interesting and Per-
tineut Comments.

axes Some Interesting and Pef-
tinent Comments.
From the Early County News.
Some days ago, that ever progressive
and de awake newspaper, The DAw-
SON NEWS, tookloccasion to name, even
at this early day, several of the most
prominent gentlemen in the second con-
gressional district who mig hit he willing
to run for congress in the next cam
paign. In answer to this, the Albany
Daily Herald of last Thursday comes
out IN open advocacy of Hon. Ben E.
Russell, incumbent, to the exclusion of
all Others
We do not object to the Herald's
open, manly support of Mr.. Russell; and
so far as MI. Russell is concerned, we
have not, yet, a word to say. But to what
the Herald says or intimates concerning,
without exception, that large and loyal
body of democrats who did not see
proper to support Mr.. Russell before his
nomination, we do earnestly object.
Here is the portion of the article in
the Herald to which we refer:
"The Herald has no desire to reopen
any of the issues of the last campaign in
this district, nor does it underestimate
the services of other loyal democrats to
the party during one of the greatest
trials to which it has ever been subject
ed: but as one who stood with the par,
ty and for the parry, at time when 1t
seemed to be battling against strong
odds and the organization threatened
with disintegration we do not hesitate
to saw that if it had not been for Mr..
Russell-brave, loyal, dauntless, bril-
liant Ben Russell-the democratic nOmi-
nation of the sec nd congressional dis
trict would not be worth scrambling for
to-day, Ben Russell took up the fight
after it had been abandoned by others
and when no one else in the district
seemed to want it. He took up the
banner of democracy when it seemed but
to seize forlorn hope and court defeat.
Through the district he went, appealing
to the people and proclaiming the eter-
nal principles of liberty and the party of
our fathers. His devotion to the party
and sheer intrepidity challenged the ad
miration of every loyal democrat and
soon brought to his assistance IN the
thick of the fight some of the ablest and
strongest men in the district. With
their help the tide turned and Ben
Russell was nominated by perhaps the
most enthusiastic democratic convention
ever assembled in Georgia-and was
elected"
One would sup ose form reading the
above that there was time, just before
the congressional nomination, when the
whole democracy of the End district was
drifting to hades and that brave, loyal,
dauntless, brilliant Ben Russell stepped
in and saved it. Who did he save it from?
Men inside the party or out? Who were
the ''strong Odds men who opposed him
before his nomination and who after
ward earnestly and honestly worked for
his election, or not? Who threatned the
disintegration of the party, the loyal,
liberty loving democrats who KNEW it
was the right and prerogative of each
county in the district to elect it's dele
gates on any day it chose, and who after
wards surrendered this right in order to
maintain the unity and strength of the
party or not? What was the fight for,
ifnot for democratic nomination in,
for and by the democratic party?
Who were the candidates? Stevens
and Russell-both democrats. Who
were their supporters? All democrats,
Who made the greater sacrifice, the Ste
vens men, who for the good of the party,
subordinated their wishes, forgot the in
Justice heaped upon them by their more
loyal bretheren, went home, worked
and voted for Russell, or those who had
nothing to do but to follow their own
sweet inclinations?
Away with the erroneous idea, whieh
seems even yet to pervade the minds of
the 'moss backs" that those who sought
tonominate Stevens in the last campaign
were not as loyal and true democrats as
those who supported Russell.
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