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TEDE REFORMERS.
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
OF GEORGIA.
THE PEOPLE'S CHAMPIONS.
A Brief Sketch of a Few of Our
Populist Senators and
Representatives.
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SENATOR 0. E. MoGREOOB.
Senator McGregor, of the 19th sena
atorial district, composed of the coun¬
ties of Warren, Green and Taliaferro,
after only one week’s canvass wan
elected over his opponent by over
1,500 votes, tho largest majority of any
populist in the senate. Born in
Wilkes county, Georgia in 1840, mar¬
ried in Warren county 1872. Major
McGregor’s career lias been checkered
with thrilling incidents and dangerous
episodes. democrat iu its highest
A southern
sense of love for the south and her tra
ditions, he fought in the foremost
ranks of democracy, serving his party
in the O orgia Legislature of 1882 and
’8 and other positions of trust ami
honor in his native state. He refused
to support Horace Greeley, and lias
not voted a national ticket since that
direful abandonment of true democra¬
cy by tho national party. As publish¬
er and editor of The Clipper, for five
years, at Warrentou, Ga., his paper
and tho Atlanta Hun won the distiuc
tion of being called the only democrat¬
ic papers in Georgia by that grand and
noble Georgian, General Toombs,
For bis bold aud fearless advocacy
of true democracy in tho columns of
Tho Clipper, ho was arrested by tho
military powers reigning iu Georgia
at that time.
Thousands of Georgians havo read
and appreciated liis articles in tho
People’s Party Paper, and “MoGreg
orisms” wore noted for their fearless
tone, clean out statements and sledge
hammer blows in this able organ of
southern reformers. At the first call
to arms iu l he enlisted as.s ’■ ant
of the Mac i Guards. 8th 0*
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gallant Gemta no Johnson aud
the storms of shot and shell upon
memorable fields‘of Manassas
tonville.
Espousing the cause of the
in 1892, this bravo soldier anil
writer has ably championed tho peo¬
ple’s cause upon the forum
through tho press.
The bosom friend of Watson, whom
all true patriots love to honor, he ac¬
companied him through his stormy
campaigns in Georgia, ever ready,
in tho ’00’s to bare his own breast
the attacks of the people’s enemies.
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HON. J. A. MURRAH.
As president of his county alliance
for the past three years, Hon. J. A.
Murrah may well be proud of the
fact that Carroll is the bauner alliance
county of this state. The alliance co¬
operative store at Carrollton, of which
he is a director and an active agent,
is a financial success and has saved
thousands of dollars to the farmers of
Carroll, Born iu Harris county, Ga.,
in the year 1855; for sixteen years a
farmer and school teacher of Carroll
couuty. He supported the democratic
ticket until 1892, when losing
confidence in a democracy ever
on bended knees to the money
power of the east, he sought the true
principles of Jefferson in the populist
ranks.
Defeated by his democratic oppo¬
nent by nearly 1,000 votes iu 1892,
he ran again for the house iu 1894
and was elected by a handsome ma¬
jority.
A bill introduced by him to abolish
the board of roals and revenues was
held by the democratic committee un¬
til the democratic senator of his dis
triot could ft get iu a similar bill aud
thus claim i the credit, 3 but A Mr. « f v, Murrah ,
■eoured au amendment to the senators
biU which saved seven or eight hundred
dollars for his county.
Besides serving on four regular
mittees, he was the ouly Populist on a
oomraittee of three to investigate the
status of the state’s interest in the
North Eastern Railroad; also on a
committee of five from the House and
three from the Senate to formulate a
Registration Law, on which commit
tee, by u firm stand, he was instru¬
mental in modifying the extreme idea#
of Democrats who were on the com
mittec.
Carroll county could not have se¬
lected two better men to cast her vote
than Messrs. Murrah and Spence.
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IION. E. N. ENNIS, OF
It affords me real pleasure to say En¬ a
few words about a man like Sam
nis, of Baldwin county, quiet and un¬
assuming, but as bravo and fearless a
man as ever trod the halls of Georgia’s
capitol. If every county in Georgia
had such mou to espouse the cause of
her people, then the foul blot of
moil honestly elected, turned out
by partisan spirit run riot, would
never have stained the fair pages
of her history. With commend
able spirit of fairness and submission
to the will of the majority, Ham in¬
formed Lis opponent that if defeated
he would submit without a murmur.
And if, on the other hand, he, Eunis,
u as elected and a contest was entered
to oust him from his fairly won seat,
thorn would be a funeral at which one
of the opposing candidates for the
legislature would be tho corpBe,
Ham was elected by a majority of
only 8 votes, and there was no content.
A democrat until 1892, he was
forced to quit tho party because it
failed to fulfill any of its promises.
Being the only avowed populist in tho
field, he was defeated for tax assessor
by 40 votes in 1893 ; in 1894 he was
elected as a populist to the house by
8 votes majority. far¬
Mr. Ennis is an allianceman, a
mer, and was born iu Baldwin county,
Ga., in 1858. True to his promises to
his people, he has supported appro¬ and
priations for the insane asylum
the girls’ normal school, which ant
located in Baldwin county, and the
principles of tho people’s party plat¬
form.
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HON. Wm. GRAY.
Hon. Wm. Gray, of Paulding
county, was born iu Franklin county,
Ga., 1827, and lias been a successful
farmer of his present home county for
54 years, liis portly person aud gray
hairs entitle him to the title not only
of the patriarch of Paulding county,
but of the populist representatives of
the general assembly of Georgia. Mr.
Gray waN a democratic member of the
legislature of 1877, and supported
the democratic party until 1890, when
it became evident to all right think¬
ing men 'hat this party did not intend
to carry out its promises to the people.
Nominated iu 1894 by the populists,
Mr. Gray was opposed by the richest
and most active democrat in his
county, but won the hard fought
battle in spite of money aud modern
democratic methods. As a member
of the fiuauoe and special judiciary
committees, two of the most import¬
ant of the house, Mr. Gray, in a firm
and conservative way, has availed
himself of every opportunity to earry
out the populist promises of reform
and economy.
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HON. J. R. SPENCE.
„ Hon. J. -r t> R. t? Spence, of , Carroll ~ t2 Co am
ty, is a graduate of Bowdon college;
has spent 11 years of his life teaching
school, two years of this time as pro
fess*>r of mathematics, seieuee and
philosophy at Bowdon college. Prom
inentiy identified with the farmers’
allianoe as leoturer, and lover of
true Jeffersonian demoip a
that these principles we/ aj, he saw
found in the populist p only to be
cast his lot with tfc . Jiform, and
party. As the popui people’s
for the house nomi
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he was defeated by 800 n ‘. n ’
ceivieg the nomination ag>
he won the race by i48 vof t i, showing
a change for the people vet modern
democracy of about 1,000 * is
He has secured the pa - of bill
securing pensions for a
widows, and to amend th>J onfederate
the town of Temple; intra? charter of
to prevent robbery of shji, need bills
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code so that tines for violaf: ° oi bnn „
day law school be fund turned and -u ]\ o *
common . ^Ifand
act prohibiting the m, f ., ^
sale of spirituous hqnou 1 CmM
county, subject to W l- loation C)f
the people of Carroll "
smothered in democratic e, t
Mr. Spence wan born
county who chose Ga., him 1866, as their &mov ’,“e 1,6 J?®?*® oeople
and be it said to h-s g Sv.
single be sustained charge by against his enemt fc ^rd'eouM
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HON. WM. WALDI r.
When tho legislature oi J ^
met at the first session tie
increased expenses by ocL democrats
number of pages. Hon, *° the
objected to this unnecessary- Waiaen
and in the vote whicj^ fof ex I ) ® n8e *
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favor of increasing expense, orb as in
populists as opposed to anuP aDtl the
Mr. Walden has never mia| increase, » corn
mittee or House meeting “ tt
possible for him to attend, t was
fought to the bitter end eve| lld tie has
agaut appropriation of thU7 extrav
rnoney. Mr. Walden believes in . ^people’s I
ance and holds policies to tbf* ife insur¬
of $15,000. Yet he introdv ^
to tax the money invested cef( a
surauce policies in this sti : n life in
bill, if it had become a lav This
have added $20,000,000 to tl v - would
property of the state, but t e taxab e
cratB objected, and the farmt 8 demo
lauds and stock, while tue * P a .F on
policy goes free. The cl ,n J a ®° e
house gets $70 per da of
' fc %oZ Ml of altlen e
per Uaj. VV
tried to reduce it to >0 and
$40, but the democrats , objected
again and the clerks are stilll getting
their $70 and $60 per day. ( Hasseock
is entitled to the banner, as it was the
first county in the state to go ] lopulist.
She acted wisely in sending I he pres¬
ent representative to the house and
could not do better than to Walc|i return him
in 1896. Hon. William en was
born in Glasscock county, Ga.; A. D..
1844, was a democrat until the party
departed from the true thousand^ principles of
democracy, when, like of true
ftlliancemen, he joined the populist
party because these principles were
embodied in their platform. ,
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HON. J. J. TOPE, HARALSON Ip
COUNTY.
Hon. J. J. Pope of Haralson county,
is a Primitive Baptist preacher who
stands high in the estimation of his
people, like most of his faith and order
he was a democrat of the strictest sort
until 1893, when he was compelled
go to the populist party to find the
true principles of democracy. Haral¬
son county is probably the banner
county of Georgia as regards per cent
ofehange from modern democracy to
populism, the democratic majority of
over 500 in 1S92 being changed
to a majority of nearly *00
for Hon. J. J. Pope in 1894.
Born iu Newton county, Georgia, in
1853 he has since 1855 lived in Har¬
alson county, his present home, ami
as a farmer and school teacher his
time has been spent profitably to him
sdf_and hie, fellow man, for ^ stand,
hififh ^ AS a teacher ana minister. At
reqaeBt nataire of his peop le he secured
Se^u^Lan, , of a bill ie chartering the o?
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his county.
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sleep of d ath in the bands of the pur
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1 has been well
Haralson’s interest
served by her present Representative.
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HON. L. F. SELL, OF JACKSON.
The Georgia Populist, one among
the first and best organs of the people’s
party, carries at its bead the name of
the Hon. L. F. Sell, one of Jackson
county’s representatives, as business
manager. 1892,
Mr. Sell was a democrat until
when he resigned his position on the
democratic executive committee be¬
cause of that party’s perfidy and ac¬
cepted a similar one with the populists.
He has been twice elected as a dele¬
gate to represent bis county in the
state convention. Nominated by his
party in 1894 for the general assembly,
he received a majority of 156 votes.
He has introduced bills to abolish
the city court of his county, which
would have saved heavy costs in the
judicial machinery of the county; to
make the justices of the peace the jury
revisers, in order to prevent the par¬
tisan appointees of superior court
judges from throwing good men out of
the jury box for partisan reasons; to
extend the jurisdiction of justice
courts so as to save superior court
costs,aDd a bill to reduce fees of coun¬
ty officers, but the great democratic
party saw fit to defeat
his bills, which would have
saved the money of the
tax payers and given the people more
power to control their affairs.
Mr. Sell was born in 1864 in Jack
son county, Ga., he is a practical
farmer of life-long experience and his
record in the house is a good illustra¬
tion of the wisdom of farmers and la¬
borers entrusting their affairs to the
cai'e of men of their own calling who
thoroughly understand their needs and
will guard their every interest.
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HON. S. D. GREER, OF HARRIS.
Hon. S. D. Greer, of Harris county,
was born in Taylor county, Georgia,
in 1844, moved to Harris county,
which, in connection with hie col¬
league, Hon. R. B. Traylor, he now
represents, during the year 1869. Mr.
Greer is a quiet, thoughtful farmer,
who, much against his will, was forced
upon the political arena by his per¬
sonal aud political friends. His con¬
servative politics have won for him the
approval of his supporters aud com¬
mendation of the democratic press of
his county. A democrat until
the people’s party sprang up
to advocate the cause of the people.
He was this party’s choice for the
house in 1892, but was defeated by
250 majority. As the populist nom¬
inee in 1894 he reversed this majority
and was elected by the votes of 2,500
of Harris county’s yeomau.
Mr. Greer was placed by the speaker
on the following important commit¬
tees, to-wit: Agriculture, lunatic as
iyurn, manufacturers and peni¬
tentiary. Mr. Greer has made a
brad working committeeman and
a faithful member of the
He has supported and worked
for bills no matter by whom intro¬
duced when they were in line with
the needs of the people and consistent
with the promises of the People’s
Party to the people of Georgia.
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hon. j. h. McWhorter.
Hon. J. H. McWhorter, of Greene
county, though a brave Confederate
soldier, was for years a republican in
shown him that the democrats party
county alliance, he has for several
.T ea r 8 been prominently connected
with the reform movement, receiving
the populist nomination for clerk of
the court. He was defeated by
over 500 votes in 1894 • on
the people’s party ticket for the
house he wa« elected over his oppo¬
nent by 426 majority, an overwhelm
ing condemnation by Green county of
democratic methods.
Mr. McWhorter is a member of the
general judiciary committee, one of
the most important of the house. He
introduced a bill requiring college
graduates to stand on an equality with
the other common school teachers and
stand the regular examination. No
member of the house has been more
faithful to attend its sessions and use
every effort to defeat ,bills
antagonistic to the welfare of the com¬
mon people. B irn in Chambers coun¬
ty, Ala., in 1849, he has spent his life
pursuing his chosen occupation, farm¬
ing, until the agriculturists of Greene
decided to send to the Georgia legis¬
lature a man after their own heart in
the person of Hon. J. H. McWhorter.
John I. Full wood.
(Continued Next Week.)
DIDN'T OCCUR AGAIN.
A Magnate’s Rebuke That the Con¬
ductor Remembered.
They are telling one now on an official
of a certain steam railroad company. This
gentleman is a very strict observer of dis¬
cipline, and if an opportunity affords to
teach an employee a lesson in being a
Jj*tie more careful, he always seizes it. A
jiftle while ago this official was riding
toward Baltimore in a train, and in charge
was a brand new conductor. lie knew
by sight, however, several of the officials
of the company, and lie did what he
thought was a most proper tiling, and one
which he thought would flatter the mag¬
nate. When he collected fares he simply
glanced at the gentleman in question, and
passed him by. Our disciplinarian saw
this, and when the conductor came back,
called him up.
“You have not collected my fare,”
said he.
“Oh, sir,” responded the conductor,
with conscious pride, “that’s all right.
You see, 1 know you, sir. You are Air.
-, aud. of course, you have a pass.”
“You should not know anybody, sir,”
rejoined the official in a tone that made
the conductor wonder whether he would
not, soon have to apply for another job.
No matter whether I ride on tnis train a
hundred times a day, you should collect
my fare. Punch this pass, sir, and be
sure you do not let this occur again.”
But he laughs best who laughs in
sleeve. It was but a few days after this
that Mr. Official caine riding back from
Baltimore, and happened to strike the
same train. The conductor observed him
quietly; and made sure he would not get
caught a second time. So at the proper
moment he approached the official and
made a remark about “lickets, please.”
The railroader looked up and saw stand
ing before him the man he had “roasted"
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“Ah,” said he, “quite right, K, quite -»
right,” and then he fumbled in his pocket
for his pass book. It wasn’t there Nor
was it in any of his other pockets.
“Strange, strange,” muttered he, “Where
qrould I have left it? How unfortunate.”
All of which language fell on deaf ears,
for the conductor looked stonily into
space, and then held out his hand again.
“Well, you see,” said the confused ofH
cial, “I have misplaced my pass book. I
ain Mr.--, you know.”
“f'an’t help that, sir,” responded the
conductor; “1 don’t know you, sir. I’ll
have to have your fare.”
The fare was not very large, it was true,
but the mortification was great, especially
as half the people iu the car had turned
around and were gating curiously at the
man who had stirred up all the fuss by
trying, as they thought to beat ins way
bo the magnate weut down into his pocket
again, and fished out sufficient iu bills to
pay for the fare. The conductor coolly
punched out a rebate ticket and handed it
over. “You can get the drawback at the
depot when ion get to Washington,”
said he, and passed on. He has been
waiting for several days for his discharge,
but it is not likely he will get it.
To Reduce and to Get Flesh.
T In , large cities, ... says Womankind, ... , . , mid- .,
die aged women throng he gymnasium
and physical culture schools to learn how
to reduce the too abundant flesh and keep
off the rheumatism which is too often
an accompaniment, The woman who
doe- her own housework has most of her
muscles called into exercise every clay,
and the danger with her is that they are
over exercised: still much relief can be
received by sponging every night after
hard labor with the following inexpensive
lotion: Two ounces of spirits of ammonia,
two ounces of spirits of camphor, one and
one-half cups of sea salt, one cup of alco¬
hol and one quart of rain water.
The woman whose face and throat are
thin can remedy the thinness by frequent
bathing iu cool water, and before retiring
rubbing in some good cream. In rub¬
bing the wrinkles should be be rubbed
against,so as to rub them out: it is as much
in the rubbing as in the cream, A nice
bit of soft white flannel rubbed several
times daily over the face will be beneficial,
and she whose double chin detracts from
her good looks can, by judicious rubbing
downward, get rid of the superfluity.
"Grand Old Man'* of South Africa.
Paul Krueger, the “grand old man” of
the South African Republic, is a third
term president ; e was elected to the
five-year term in 1883, and was re-elected
in 1888 and 1894. It has been largely
owing to his saga ity and courage that
the Boers have been able to combat Brit¬
ish influence in their affairs. The cele¬
bration of President Kruege:’s seventieth
birth,lay at Pretoria on October 10 wa
made a national fete day.
bpjght Gin.
He—Miss Reeder is a very bright girL
She—Yes when she reflects.
TOMS A MAH TO as ape.
that HAS
The Strange Disease Is Called Acro~
mygalia, and Only Twenty Previ¬
ous Cases are Recorded.
A CCORD1NG to scientific ex¬
perts, John M. Molansky, of
Bayard street, is gradually
^ undergoing a strange physi¬
cal metamorphosis, described as a re
version toward the primitive type, the
limit of which was called by Darwin,
*‘the missing link.”
Dr. Faneuile D. Weisse diagnoses
the case of Molansky as one of acro
inygalia, which is one of the most
mysterious, the most wonderful and
the rarest of human diseases. Compe¬
tent authorities declare, however, that
this is not a disease at all, but merely
a physical tendency to return to the
form of the original species.
Molansky, when seen yesterday, re¬
fused to talk of his case, but his wife
said that he had been sick for five
years and she appeared to be much
distressed at the marvellous change
which is coming over her husband,
who is only forty-one years old. The
retrogressive man lives with his wife
and four strong, healthy children in
a second floor flat; but his place of
business is in Chrystie street, where
a baker.
Molansky’s under jaw protrudes, his^.
lips are of enormous thickuess, his en¬
tire physiognomy is of simian charac¬
ter, which cannot be concealed by bis
stubbly beard and heavy crop of hair.
His hands and feet, in which there is
not a trace of inflammation, are grow¬
ing massive and unmanageable. His
appearance is so altered that his
friends of a year ago can barely re¬
cognize him.
This weird specimen of humanity
was presented as a clinical subject at
the New York College of Dentistry,
East Twenty-third street, two weeks
ago. Previous to his discovery by
Dr. Weisse, the unfortunate man for
months had been bandied about by
numerous East Side doctors, who could
not iathom the secret of his extraordi¬
nary condition, When introducing
the patient to his class Dr. Weisse
said:
“Molansky has suffered from gener
a j f ee bl e ness for about a year and a
half) com bi ne d with difficulty of artic
uIatiolL He is a vlc tim of acrorny
» thfl most uncommon affection of
£ category'of ° J ills that flesh is
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Molansky , . himself ,. ,, told . ln his story in
these words:
‘Until I was thirty-five years o ,__ ag
I was strong and healthy, then i pe
gan to suffer from headaches, which
eventually became almost unbearable.
After two years my voice changed and
my features altered so that no one
could recognize me. My teeth gave
me much trouble, and after trying
many doctors 1 Consulted a dentist,
w ho did some work for me, but my
j ower jaw grew misplaced and I have
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no8ed th ® “ au 8 trouble as acromy
anc * ^ ese * wo ominent phjsi
cians now have the curious case in
hand. With a view to saving the man
from a wretched and complete trans¬
formation to a likeness of our sup
posed simian ancestors, he is being
treated in an original and novel man
mer with thyroid extract, taken from
the thyroid body of animals,
Acromygalia was first recognized in
Paris by Dr. P. Marie, and from him
sometimes called Marie’s disease,
Only twenty cases have been record
ed) and a £ present time Molansky
8tands alone in the world as a 8peoi .
men of ita poS8ibili £ ty. It is always
attended Wlt enlargement R of all pro
Jf ... 0 * 1 ®* Potions of - the , body such as „
the k^ds, feet, chin, nose, lips and
ear8- Uhe lower jaw becomes under
shot, the supra-orbital ridges over
the lips project, the cheeks are flat¬
tened, the forehead becomes low and
retreating, the hair stunted and thick,
and the whole appearance resembles
that of the ape.
Freund, the German scientist, has
asserted that the disease is an actual
Returning to the primitive form of
human,ty, / and * t anato mist
K!ebg h ld thc same y ew< Virchow, ’
, however regards , aeiomygaha as a
nervous disease, and upon this hy.
P®thesis Professors W eiese and Starr
are treating Molansky. Freund’s
theory precludes all possibility of cure,
and in the few known cases no treat
ment has proved at all successful.—
New York Journal.
The Horse Jumped on a Sleeping Bear.
A hunter riding through the woods
near Gray’s River, Wash., the other
day came to a big fallen tree in his
path. The ground seemed clear on
the other side, and he leaped his horse
over the trunk. The horse landed
squarely on the back of a bear, which
evidently had been asleep there. The
bear was as much startled as the horse
and quickly made off, while the hunt¬
er was thrown to the ground, the horse
pitching him out of the saddle side¬
ways in its frightened leap away from
the bear.—New York Sun.
A Fake Broken Show Window.
The fake broken show window ad¬
vertisement is now popular along the
West Side avenues. By the skillful
application of a number of strips of
glass radiating from a common center,
where a bit of paper is pasted, the
pane is made to appear as if it had
been struck with a stone and badly
cracked. Thi3 draws a crowd, and
when the observer sees he or she has
been fooled they are even more inter¬
ested than if the break had been a gen¬
uine one.—New York Mail and Ex-
3tem