The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1902-05-22
THE ENDORSEMENT OF THE STATE
DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEES WAS
TJNANIMOUS

|
| UNANIMOUS.
Mr.. Motley says, the State Demo.
cratic executive committee decided for
Mr. Nesbitt by vote of I6 to H." The
/ Atlanta Constitution August nth, 1895
says, ''The committee by UNANIMOUS
vote declared Col. r. T. Nesbitt the reg
ular nominee.
And again, "The UNANIMOUS adoption
of the resolution by the committee de.
clares Col Nesbitt the regular nominee. y
And again, "The resolutions UNANI-
MoUSLY adopted by the committee are as
follows:
Resolved, That, whereas, the Sena-
torial Convention called for the purpose
| OF nominating democractic candidate
for the 35th Senatorial district, appears
to have been regularly called duly con-
stituted and legally held, and
Whereas, the sole question submitted
to this body by the term of the submits
| sion is the question as to who is the
regular democratic nominee for said dis
! trict, and
Whereas, it appears that Hon. r. 7.
Nesbitt received a majority of the votes
of which such convention was constitu-
| ted, Therefore, be it resolved That
| it is sense of this committee that the said
R. I. Nesbitt is the regular nominee of
said convention and of the democratic
party for Senator from the thirty-ffth
District.
| Before these resolutions were adopted
Mr.. Motley said, quote his exact words
as taken down at the time, 81 want some
! body to decide who is the regular nomi-
nee for Senator. If this committee says
Col. Nesbitt is, that is sufficient and l
will go to work and see that he is cleo
! ted If on the other hand, it says that |
am, I want you all to go to work to help
| me. | leave it all with the committee,
and will be perfectly satisfied to abide
| by the result of its decision. That is
| just exactly where l stand. "
l leave the public to Judge whether
Mr.. Motley has kept, or is keeping, this
promise.
Mr.. Motley now admits that he docs
not know that Mr.. Nesbitt was an origi-
| nal party to this political robbery
| Heretofore he has been charging that
schemed and worked for it. l think if
we will give Mr.. Motley time, he will
yet see things i'll their true light
FACTS IN REGARD TO THE SENATORIAL
CONVENTION WHICH NOMINATED
~ NEsBITT.
The following is taken from the At.
lanta Journal, July 9th, 1898:
MIR. Motley could not have been
nominated, if the Convention had voted
twenty-five thousand times instead OF
twenty-five hundred. Every delegate
who attended the Convention knows
this, and when it became evident, two
of the Cobb county delegation accepted
; another of their county men instead OF
Mr.. Motley and voted for Col. Nesbitt."
This was not the first time that Mr..
Motley was rejected for the Senatorship
of this District In 1886 his name was
before the district nominating conven-
ton, but the convention refused to en-
dorse him, and Mr.. Northcutt, of Ac-
worth, another Cobb county man, re-
Ceived the nomination. Mr.. Motley was
| told by his friends that his case was
| hopeless-this was after ballotting $500
tlmes-his reply was, Stick to me,
| boys; if l cannot get the Senatorship,
do not want any other Cobb county man
to have it."
So eager was he to secure the place,
| that he was even ready to sacrifice not
\ only his own county, but Clayton coun-
| ty as we'll He has publicly admitted
that he was willing to give up Cobb and
| Claytons rights to the Senatorship in
| the regular rotation, and yield to the
demands of Fulton, by giving the Sena-
torship to Clayton only once and Cobb
twice i'll fourteen years, if Fulton would
| accept him. And all of Mr. Motley
subsequent actions in bringing the fight
back into Clayton and Cobb proved his
determination to subordinate the har-
! inouy of the Democratic party to his
own ambition.
The Atlanta Constitution, about this
date, has the following: Col Nesbitt
is the regular nominee of the Democrat
iC District Convention"
The Atlanta Journal said eve have
never seen a palmer case presented, and
we cannot doubt that the Democracy of
| the District will stand by its candidate y
Before l accepted the nomination, it
was pointed out to me that since Democ-
racy had placed the duty upon my
shoulders l had no right to surrender
the fight to party irregularity or indie
| pSuu6HllSlIl.
In accepting the nomination I said;
IF left to my own personal inclination
| l would decline, but | recognize the fact
that my duty to my party is far beyond
any personal feeling. No democrat has
a right to refuse to respond to the call OF
his party, particularly when such "a re
fusal would be the signal for discord and
confusion"
have not sought this controversy and
I regret that it has been forced upon me-
publish the foregoing facts simply as
a matter of justice to myself and truth
to the people of Cobb county.
J Mr.. STEVENS FAILURE TO PRoTEc1
THE PEOPLE.
1t is not so much what I said or die
not say ten years ago that is of vital in
terest to the people now, but what Mr.
Stevens is doing and failing to do today
He is wasting the school money in un
necessary appointees, and allowing THE
oil companies to swindle the people il
! the quality and price of kerosene oil
both of which promise to remedy, il
elected