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CHANCE FOR BERNER
TO GET THE FINEST HAT IN
ATLANTA.
SPEAK OUT MR. BERNER.
Azmon Murphy Makes a Prop
osition.—Gain of the
Populists.
Mr. Azmon A. Murphey believes
that Monroe county will go to the pop
ulists.
In the letter given below. Mr. Mur
phey predict* that county will go pop
ulist, if there is a division of poil
managers and a fair election.
Monroe is Hou. Robert L. Berner's
home county. Mr. Murphey has been
over in that part of the state and
knows how the ‘•laud lies.”
If there is a fair election and the
populists do not poil 25 per cent, more
votes than they polled in 1892, Mr.
Murphey proposes to make Mr. Ber
ner a present of the finest hat in At
lanta.
Ip the congressional election in 1892,
the democratic vote, as counted, was
1,558; the populist vote was 933.
If Mr. Murphey's figures are correct,
the vote in Monroe this fall will bo
about equally divided between the two
parties.
Mr. Murphey*. Letter.
Editor Daily press : I see in Wednes
day’s Constitution another remarkable
revelation. ‘‘lt has leaked out,” says
the Macon correspondent, “that Clay
favored Watson's request for a division
of election managers at the polls, and
that Berper opposed it, and by his
efforts defeated Clay’s proposition t >
accede to the just request of Mr.
Watson.”
lam surprised at Bob Berner. He is
too clever a fellow to object to so fair
and so just a plan to insure an honest
electiou. Bob ought to know, if be
does not, that it is not unusual to hear
the charge of fraud in elections in his
own county. 1, myself, am a Monroe
boy and I know there are as honorable
men in the county of my birth as live
in the state. But it is nevertheless a
fact, if honorable men are to be be
lieved, that at some of the precincts in
Mouroe county, it is frequently the case
that fraud is perpetrated at the ballot
box.
If Bob Berner doubts what 1 say. let
him ask Col. G. G. Flint, an ex-repre
sentative of the county, and others
whose names I will give him if he de
nies that there is fraud perpetrated in
bis own county at the ballot box. Ido
not mean to say that my friend Bob
countenances fraudulentclections ; but
I do say that he is clearly wrong in ad
vising the democrats not to divide
managers at the polls with the popu
lists. An honest man ought not to ob
ject to being watched and a dishonest
man ought to watched.
I have a proposition to make to Bob
Berner, and it is this: If he will see
U> it that the democrats in his own
county divide election managers with
the populists at each and every polling
place, and if the populists of Monroe
don’t poll in October 25 p r cent, more
votes than were counted to them in
1892, I will make him a present of the
finest hat that can be bought in At
lanta.
Don’t Be Deceived
I see it frequently stated in the dem
ocratic papers that populists are being
persuaded every day back to demo
cratic ranks. Such is not true. I do
not believe ten men in the whole state
who voted the populist ticket in 1892.
have deserted their colors. It is all
deception on the part of democratic
editors and speakers to make the im
pression that we are losing. 1 travel
all over the state and I converse with
hundreds of people, and I tell you
there are thousands, literally thou
sands, of democrats who will not sup
port Atkinson for governor.
The populist party were counted
70,000 votes in October, 1892. If we
can get a fair election and an 'honest
count, we will poll over 100,000 votes in
October, 1894
All we ask is a “fair vote and an
honest count.” If we do not get a
division of electiou managers, it
means nothing more nor less than a
fraudulent electiou and a counting out.
A. A. Mubphey.
A GREAT BAY IN AVALTON.
Hines, Peek and Todd Speak
and Make Many Votes.
Bethlehem, Gn.. September 13.
(Special.)—Judge Hines, lion. W. L.
Peek and Rev. Mr. Todd spoke at Mon
roe yesterday the 13th.
The crowd was large and enthu
siastic, and the speeches were able and
convincing.
Judge Hines spoke before noon and
his argument in behalf of popular gov
ernment cannot be refuted by any one,
Hines will poll a big vote in this
county.
Mr. Todd made a fine impression and
showed clearly that he is a far better
man to represent the fifth congressional
district than Lovely F. Livingston.
Colonel Peek, tho’ his speech was
short and coming last, made one of the
best it has been our pleasure to hear.
He showed up the rottenness of the
democratic party in an unvarnished
way, and the round after round of ap
plause given him showed plainly that
he had the crowd by a very large ma
jority.
All we ask is a free ballot and a fair
count and old Walton will drop into
the people’s column.
The democrats are doing everything
possible to deceive the negro and get
his vote, but every intelligent negro
has had enough of modern democracy;
It comes high at any price and they are
finding it out.
Hurrah for Hines, Watson, Peek and
The Daily Pbess.
J. L. Moose.
Radies’ Auxiliary Meets.
This afternoon the yearly meeting of
the Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Y. M. C. A.
will take place at 3:30 o’clock in the
parlors of the association.
There will be new officers elected at
this meeting and the work mapped out
for the coining year.
Under Mrs. J. H. Morgan, the presi
dent, a great work has been done in
raising debt, placing needed fixtures in
the building, providing books and en
tertaining the young men.
Now the Auxiliary is in a flourishing
condition, entirety free from debt and
full of enthusiasm.
The work to be undertaken this year
is the beautifying of the interior of the
Y. M. C. A. building and providing
more books in the library.
W. C. T. U.
Atlanta South Side W. C. T. U. will
hold its regular meeting in steward’s
room of Trinity church Thursday after
noon, September 13, at 3 p. m.
Mbs. M. L. McLendon,
Mbs. E- A. CpßßlfiAN, President.
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THE DAILY PRESS: ATLANTA GEORGIA: FRIDAY EVENINGkSEPTEMBER 14, 1894.
The Situation in Bibb.
Bibb County, Ga., Sept 11, 1894.
Mb. Editor—We want togivc you a
few facts from our section.
The lawyers, bankers and political
healers are claiming 3,500 democratic
majority in Bibb county. The farmers,
workingmen and voters are saying
nothing, but are thinking, and if we
get a free vote and fair count they wul J
be glad to get 35 majority. z
It is amusing to hear them cuss tufe
farmers ami workingmen as anarchists
and enemies to the .south. They fip ve
forgotten the democratic record ass the
south's friendi When the war com
menced Joe Brown was the
uncrowned king of Georgia. Andrew
Johnson the democratic boss yf Ten
nessee, VVm. Holden the great demo
cratic sun light of North taropna.
After the. war Joe Brown .w as the
carpet bag chief justice of Georgia,and
trying to hang a lot of P t;< P" ex-con
federates at Columbus, Ga. \*m. Hol
den was the carpet bag governor of
North Carolina, and crying! for the
blood of poor old Jeff Davis. I
Andrew Johnson was the accidental
president of the United States aim try
ing to make “treason odious by hang
ing General Lee and others.”
Gen. Beast Butler, General Sherman,
General Logan, General Sickles, Mea
gher, Stoneman, ami others, all demo
crats before “do war” were in Wash
ington, victorious generals, proud of
having marched their hosts of northern
democrats through our sunny land and
laid waste the south.
Here all was desolation and ruin,
the moan of the widow and the cry of
the orphan wafted on every breeze and
poverty on all sides.
Who faced the situation and brought
order out of chaos? Our democratic
leaders? No! Wm. A. Graham and
Zebulon B. Vance, in North Carolina,
that noble Roman, Chas. J. Jenkins
and Benj. 11. Hill in Georgia; men who
before the war had never voted the
democratic ticket. And so it was ali
over the South. We have forgiven all
this, but we don’t propose to forget it,
and when the democrats claim that
they are the. only friends of the South
we will kindly remind them that they
brought on the war. The Northern
democrats came down and whipped us
and burnt our homes. Our great South
ern democratic leaders in the hour of
defeat rushed over and joined our con
querors for the sake of the spoils. But
that is characteristic of them. Where
evor there is a carcass you will find one
of Tom Watson's democratic buzzards
waiting to pick it.
There is a big stir in the democratic
camp on the senatorial question. It is
a secret. When Major Bacon intro
duced his silver resolutions in the last
Georgia legislature, it was a slap ia
Cleveland’s face,and his friends decided
to resent it, and as Hoke Smith wanted
to be senator, they went to work to
defeat Bacon. Turner was to praise
the administration and get all the votes
in the lower part of the state pledged
to him. Du Bignon was to be induced
to come down, Garrard encouraged to
remain in the race. Watson, etc., was
to have a few votes. But there was to be
no candidates from North or Northeast
Georgia, They wore simply to be elected
as administration men. if Turner did
not have enough to down Bacon and
elect him, he was to throw no influence
to Hokey Smith. And if Hokey could
not make it, both were to throw their
influence to sly old Jim Blount, and he
by stealing a few votes from his friend
Bacon, was to be elected as the admin
istration candidate.
But Bacon got onto the programme.
He was north tit the time, lie cam?
home, put on his war paint, paid no at
tention to Garrard and his challenge,
but went into Hoke's stronghold, an d
commenced to light in Canton, Gaines
ville aud North Georgia. And he has
made such headway that the comldnu*
tion has become frightened. Hokey
and Jim Blount are to take the stump.
Joe James and Hie other administra
tion pap suckers are rushing about bel
lowing like bulls and cussing the popu
ulists and trying to fix things for
Hokey or Jim. The Macon Telegraph
has had a hard time. It started to sup
port Turner, with Jim Blount helping
it on the sly. But when Bacon got
on to the scheme, his friends and public
opinion here at home caused it to
change its coat, and support Bacon.
But its support is not sincere, as it is a
.-old organ. It will be a bitter fight,
and may all the canines in it get badly
chawed. Y >ur good paper is opening
the eyes ol many in Bibb county. E.
An Attorney’s Fee Refused.
In the. United States court yesterday
morning a suit was filed by Mrs. Icilia
E. Davis, widow of the Into Charles A.
Davis, Sr., of Greene county, Ga , in
which she seeks to recover from the
executors of her husband’s estate the
sum of $11,535 dollars, as the balance
due her in the distribution of the prop
erty.
Back of this suit is a story.
Mrs Davis refused to pay 610,000 as
attorney's fee in contesting the will of
her husband. The attorneys brought
suit and the executors, knowing there
was litigation, refused io pay the re
mainder of her portion. This suit will
bring out all the facts in the case and
the attorneys’ fee will be measured.
The complainant is now 4 resident of
the state of Illinois, and lives in the
city of Chicago.
Odd Fellows Meet.]
The sovereign grand lodge of the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows
meets in Chattanooga on September
17th.
This lodge is composed of represen
tatives from all the Odd Fellows all
over the world.
It will be an imposing assemblage
and consist of the highest officials in
the order.
The representatives from Atlanta are
Mayor John B. Goopwin and Mr. John
B. Daniel.
Mavor Goodwin and Colonel T. P.
Rixley. of Missouri, have been selected
to deliver the principal addresses of
the occasion, although there will be a
large array of other distinguished
speakers present.
The railroads entering. Chattanooga
will give reduced rates.
The Alabama Society.
■ Last night there was a brilliant
meeting of the Alabama Society in the
Knights of Pythias hall over Maddox
& Rucker's bank.
While the company was assembling
delightful music was ren lered by
Wurm's orchestra. Xbe meeting was
presided over by’ Hon. Porter King,
who rapped for order about 9 oclock,
and asked that conversation be sus
pended.
Then followed a few exquisite num
bers rendered by members of the so
ciety.
The substantial feature was in charge
of Messrs. Gus Long and Fred Gaw,
and their "spread" received mtuiy’ com
pliments.
Six Days of Grace.
Six days more and the city ta : books
will close. After September 2C :h Bob
Collier and his assistants wil cease
collections at the usual figure . —costs
will be added.
It will require in round r umbers
about $171,529 to make the col ections
of this yea’- balance with the eceipts
of 1893,"and that amount must paid
in between now and the 20t . The
total collections last year were $ 91,024.
and the receipts so far this year amount
Jto $819,405e _ 1
DRZHAWTHORUE
nkVeb endorsed the bo
f Gt'S BRITANNICA.
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DON’T BE DECEIVED
By Deceptive Advertisements. —
The Constitution’s Cyclope
dia Scheme Exposed.
Judging from their advertisements
and the reports that come to me, the
cyclopedia boomers must be in desper
ate straits and are evidently realizing
the fulfillment of that scripture which
says: “Be sure your sins will find you
out.”
I am not interested in the sale of any
book or cyclopedia whatever, nor do I
bear the slightest ill will to any per
son connected with the Constitution or
the cyclopedia scheme, and have no
desire to add to their troubles, but
when I see the deceptive methods that
are resorted to, in order to dupe an in
nocent and confiding public into buy
ing a mutilated, photographic, pirati
cal edition of the Britannica at from
sl2 to S2O a set more than it has sold
for all over the east and west.and than
it can lx. bought for today, I feel that
it is a duty I owe to the people of my
native state, Georgia, and the south, to
expose the work and methods adopted
for selling it, that they may not be fur
ther imposed upon.
As the advertisement of the bogus
Britannica that appeared in Sunday’s
Constitution, September 2 is so remark
able for its misstatement of facts, de
ception and unqualified assertions, I
wish briefly to call attention to some
of its wild and extravagant claims, and
show that the opinions or endorse
ments which they publish, were not
given the bogus reprint but the genu
ine Britannica.
In the sixth paragraph I find this
statement:
“In preparing this new edition, not
one word or letter that appeared in the
original Edinburgh edition was omitted
or altered except where the original
Edinburgh edition was found to be in
error. In a few instances, the articles,
twenty-eight in all, were entirely re
written, bringing them in line with
more recent knowledge.”
This claim is so remarkable for its
misstatement of the facts in the case,
that it is alone sufficient to condemn
the sale(of the book.
lu my article published in The
Dally Press, Augtst 23, (the only daily
paper in Georgia that is not muzzled
by this corporation) I showed that the
38 articles, which they claim to have
rewritten, because found to be in error,
was not true, but were copyrighted
articles, and they could not use them
without infringing the United States
copyright laws.
For the information of the public I
will give a list of the 28 copyrighted arti
cles which they claim w*ere rewritten
because found to be in error. They
are: “Albert Gallatin, Galveston, Wm.
Lloyd Garrison. Georgia, Horace Gree
ley, Alexander Hamilton, Nathaniel
Hawthorne, Hayti, Homestead, Hon
duras, Honduras (British) Illinois, In
diana, North American Indian, Modern
History and Present Dirtribution of, In
dian Territory, Kentucky, LaFayette,
A. Lincoln, 11. W. Longfellow, Louisi
ana, Maine, Maryland. Massachusetts,
United States, History of Germany,
Fisheries, France and French Litera
ture. Heal.”
Now they can certainly have no ob
jections to pointing out some of the er
rors found in the above articles that
made it necessary to rewrite them.
Possibly they made the following
new discovery regarding
Abraham Lincoln.
The original Britannica, VOL.
XXIII, page 787, says he was the six
teenth president of the United States.
The original copyright article VOL.
XIV, page 058, which they could not
use, but which they say was found to
be in error, and bad to bo rewritten,
says: “Abraham Lincoln, the six
teenth president of the United
States.'’ In the "revised’’ article, the
the ’ rewritten” article, tho corrected
article in the new I’eale ' Werner re
print, the first words are "Abraham
Lincoln, the seventeenth president of
the United States.” If these revisers
had consulted some Alabama or Geor
gia school boy or girl in the prepara
tion of its article on Abraham Lin
coln, they would have been more accu
rate.
Why rewrite the articles on Hamil
ton, Hawthorne, Lincoln, LaFayette
and Longfellow and not the other biog
raphies? The article on Alabama is
much older and more defective than
the article on Georgia. Why did they
not rewrite the article on Alabama? I
am inclined to think the cyclopedia
boomers will have a herculean task on
their hands if they undertake to ex
plain these things and substantiate
their extravagant claims. Surely they
will not deny the public this informa
tion ?
Further on I find this statement:
"From a literary standpoint, the new
edition equals in every point and ex
cels in many points, the original cyclo
pedia Britannica.”
I n reply to this absurd and ridicu
lous claim, I will again quote from my
article published in "The Daily Press.
August 23, in which 1 showed that”
Noah Porter and the entire faculty of
Yale University’ had condemned the
bogus reprints of the Britannica as
being inferior in print and illustration,
mutilated, detective and unworthy
iionest support, and that it was false
economy to purchase the work at any '
price.” In that same article I also
showed this Peale-Werner Constitution
edition was nothing but one of the
photographic reprints, and not a sac
simile of the original, latest and ninth
edition, and that it was an unauthor
ized piratical publication.
The Rome Mothedist,
under date of September 10, says:
“The so called Werner book is a cheap,
blurred, photographic reprint of a por
tion of the original Britannica. It is a
travesty’ upon printing. Scarcely’ a
page of it is free from imperfections.”
1 next find this statement: "In pre
paring this new edition for publication
the Atlanta Constitution was able to
give valuable assistance byway of
criticisms and corrections, and it takes
a pride in the fact that it played an im
portant part in giving the public an
edition which possesses all the value of
the former, but which has corrected
the slanderous and untruthful reflec
tions against the people of the south.
It is partly as a recompense for these
services that the publishers have
granted a contract to the Constitution
whereby its subscribers can obtain for
a limited time ‘this great home edu
cator’ at remarkably low introductory
prices.” ,
.Their claim in the first part of this
statement, is so absurd that I do not
deem it worthy a reply. No one be
lieves for a moment that the Constitu
tion had anything whatever to do with
preparing this so called new edition,
and if it did, the so called corrections
dpd revisions do not reflect any credit
ort the Constitution, for the book con
tains the same old slanders on the
south and her people. The only differ
ence lam able detect between the
edition that is being sold here and the
one that is sold sp north is that they
have substituted he article on Ameri
can Literature witn an article copied
bodily from another work, and an edi
tion with this substituted article is be
ing sold in Georgia, while the same old
lies in the original are being circulated
nortu and west This is revision with
a vengeance. If the publishers are
going to circulate these slanders for
goodness saaedoa t sell them up north
where the people don’t know any better.
bc4. ti)em the reeled edition, and let
the people of GArg’a, who know them
to be false, havelue old edition.
In reply to the last part of their
statement, 1 have already shown in my
article published in The Daily Press,
August 4, that the Constitution has not
one dollar invested in this cyclo
pedia scheme, but have simply sold
out its prestige to this foreign corpora
tions. 1 alto showed that this same
reprint was sold all over the east and
west for $36.50 a set, and the complete
set was delivered on payment of $4-.uo,
while southern people, whom the work
villifies and misrepresents are asked
to pay from sl3rto 825 more per set,
and only half the set is delivered on
payment of 83.00.
Aby such a difference? Why this
discrimination against the people of
Georgia and
that if the publishers w anted to show
their appreciation for the “valuable
assistance” rendered by the Constitu
tion, they would at least sell the work
to their readdtoas cheap as it has sold
elsewhere. f
This bringyme to the “opinions of
some eminenhmen of Georgia concern
ing the (so cuffed) new edition of the
Cyclopedia Britannica.
Tile Opinions.
Now lets look at these opinions of
eminent men and see who they are and
how they were s.cured aud what they
are worth.
First, is the opinion of
Bishop C. K. Nelson.
Read it. He does not men
tion the so-called new Britaunica, for
the simple reason I suppose he had
never seen it anil he was too honorable
a man to endorse a work that he had
not carefully examined. The opinion
which they publish is about the orig
inal genuine Britannica, and not the
Peule-Werner-Constitution bogus re
print.
_ Next we luive the opinion of
Ifishop Haygood
regarding the original, genuine Brit
anica. He does not mention the Consti
tution or their so-wiled new edition.
Then comes the opinion of
Dr. Hwwtliorne,
who says he has used the Brit
tannica for many years—mark this will
you —many years; so that he could not
possibly have had any reference to the
bogus Brittaunica which he had never
used, much less examined carefully, if
at all. He may have been shown u
prospectus und deceived as many others
were about the work.
We next have the opinions of Dr.’s
McDonald and Father Connelly—aii of
whom refer to the original, the gen
uine, and not the bogus.
Skipping the foreign opinion, we
came to something new in the way of
indorsements —that of firms. The
Southern Agricultural Works, by S.
Laudauer, who is made to speak for
the company, but who, I venture to
say, only spoke for himself. Ido not
know Mr. Landauer and 1 do not ques
tion his ability or scholarship, but
when he says ha has found even the
original, w’hichne owns, the “best re
ference work in matters pertaining
to his business, J I must take exception
to his iudorsuiuAut and ask him what
benefit he has vffer derived in his busi
ness from the Britannica's 125 page ar
ticle on agriculture ? Lets see what
there is in the I Britannicas elaborate
article on agrieplture and agricultural
implements, that is so valuable to the
Southern Agrictltural Works, or any
other Americairmanufacturer of agri
cultural implements.
Beginning, we have an tS-pago re
view of Egyptian, Babylonian, Isreal
itish, Greek, Phoenician and Homan
agriculture, the Saracenic development
in Spain, the influence of the Crusades
and the feudal system, it also favors
us with two solid pages on Archaic En
glish.
Eighteen pages give an account of
farm buildings as constructed in En
gland and Scotland, notin America, an
account of English plows, harrows,
spades and grubbers, from the time of
Julius Caesar to the year 1850, a des
cription of a thrashing machine said to
have been invented eighty-three years
ago, and a reference to the fact that
Americans have recently’ (1870) made
important improvements in harvesting
and reaping machines.
The article gives considerable space
to the cereal Crops; wheat, oats, rye
and barley and has something to say
about beans, peas and lentils, but fails
to mention anything about corn, cotton,
tobacco, the sugar cane, sorghum or
the sweet potato, all of which must be
very gratifying to the American man
ufacturer of modern agricultureal im
plements as well as the American
farmer. I will not pursue the article
further.
As it is clearly shown from the fore
going. that no American manufaturer
of Agricultural implements or Ameri
can farmer can get along without the
Britannica’s exhaustive and up to date
(1876) article on agriculture.
Further on in the advertisement I
come to the opinion of Mr.
K. L. Shellaberger, a most
excellent gentleman. He told‘me he
had never examined the work adver
tised by the Constitution. 'That an agent
called on him with a small prospectus
to canvass him—and when he told the
agent that he had a set of the original,
the agent asked him for an indorse
ment, and he gave him an
of the original genuine Britannica and
not the bogus reprint. The agent
then proceeded to canvass Mr. C. I).
Nessmith who occupies part of the
store with Mr. Shellaberger—and fail
ing to sell him, got him to give an in
dorsement, which he did. Mr. Ness
mith, so I am informed, does not now
and has never owned a set of the Bri
tannica, so hisopinion will be espeei'
ally- valuable to those contemplating
the purchase of a cyclopedia.
Further on Icome to the indorsement
of
Mr. Henry Richardson,
who told me that he had
never examined the work now
being advertised by the Const tu
tion. but that an agent Wearing spee
taceless called on him and asked for
bis opinion of the Britannica, assuring
I him they (the cyclopedia boomers) were
selling the genuine Britannica, and he
gave the agent his indorsement under
that representation.
An indorsement was obtained from
Dr. W. F. Glenn
in the satne way. Dr. Glenn
had never seen or examined the
I'eale Werner-i’onstitution edition, but
on the representation of the agent that
it was the genuine article they were
selling, gave him his indorsement of
the original, genuine Britannica, and
not the Peale-Werner book.
A glance at all the other indorse
ments reveals a like state of affairs
and it is useless for me to pursue them
further.
I have shown, and furnished thd
proof that many of them were obtainejT
by false representation, and that thtAr
do not apply t 0 the Peale-Warner-Cofi
stitution booji, , Ajax.
MR. HARRIS WRITES.
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MORE CONCERNINftHIS RES
IGNATIONS
MR. CLAY’S STATEMENT.
Mr. Harris After the Teiqrraph.
The Constitution an<
Mr. Clay.
The resignation of Hon. Marion W.
Harris from the state democratic ex
ecutive committee continues to be the
sensation in political circles.
Y'esterday afternoon when Chairman
Clay returned from Elberton an inti
mate friend said:
“Steve, Marion Harris is after your
scalp. You had better see about it.”
Atter further conversation Mr. Clay
sent Mr. Harris a lengthy telegram.
It is said the telegram sought to
smooth matters over.
Today a Daily Press reporter
showed the following telegram to Mr.
Clay at campaign headquarters:
Macon, Ga., Sept. 14. —Daily Pressi
Atlanta, Georgia.—Your correspondent
called on Marion Harris today request
ing a statement relative to various
publications concerning his resignation
from the democratic state executive
committee.
Mr. Harris refused to say anything
except that he had been grossly mis
represented in the Constitution and the
Telegraph, and that both had made
some very dirty flings at him ; that he
was trying to find out from Chairman
Clay and others the responsibility for
certain statements made in these pa
pers. As soon as he ascertains, he will
probably publish a full statement to
the public.
Chairman Clay said:
“I don’t see what Mr. Harris could
be mad about. We have never said one
word which was derogatory to Mr.
Harris. Wehavemade.no statement
for publication to which he could ob
ject. 1 hear Mr. Harris has gone over
to the populists, but I do not believe
it.”
This morning, the following letter
was received from Mr. Harris :
Mr. Harris* Letter.
Macon, Ga., Sept 13.—The Daily
Press, Atlanta, Ga. —Gentlemen : The
statement is made in your issue of yes
terday, the 12th instant, that the fact
that 1 had forwarded my resignation as
a member of the democratic executive
committee to Chairman Clay was known
in Atlanta Monday night and that the
resignation was mailed in Macon on
Monday night. Upon this statement
of yours Mr. Clay has stated to the cor
respondent of the Macon Telegraph (at
least it so appears in today’s issue of
that paper) that “evidently I commu
nicated with the populists, because
Watson’s paper knew of it long before
I had even heard of it, much less
seen it.”
Now 1 know that it was an absolute
impossibility for anybody to have
known of it either in Atlanta or Macon
or elsewhere, till it reached democratic
headquarters Tuesday morning. If
you have published this statement
wantonly, and when it was not true, it
is your duty to correct it even though
you have to confess that you have
made a misstatement. If it is true
(though 1 cannot possibly see how it
can be) then it is your duty to give me
your authority, even though you vio
late newspaper confidences. You can
readily see that this is a serious matter
and that it is your duty to assist me to
place myself right.
Please write me in receipt, of this, if
you can make your answer briefly.
Yours truly, Marion W. Harris.
The Daily Frews’ Informant.
The reporter’s informant has been
seen. He says that he .was misunder
stood ; that he said the letter must have
been mailed in Macon Monday night in
order to reach Atlanta Tuesday morn
ing, and that The Daily Press mis
quoted him when it said that it was
known in Atlanta on Monday night
that Mr. Harris had resigned.
The Daily Press reporter simply
misunderstood his informant,
Mr. Clay's statement to the corres
pondent of the Macon Telegraph that
Mr. Harris must have communicated
with the populists, before Mr. Harris
did with him, is another one of Chair
man Steve Clay's bad breaks.
The Daily Press got its information
from a rock-ribbed democrat who be
lieves in a fair election aud an honest
count, and thus disagrees with Mr.
Clay.
Hou. Seal). Wright on the Stump.
Special to the Daily Press.)
Cedartown, Sept. 14, 1:40 p. m.—Mr.
Watson passed here at noon. Seaborn
Wright is making a speech to 1,200 peo
ple. Great enthusiasm prevails.
Warren Democrats.
Warrenton, (5a., Sept. 13.—The
democrats of Warren county met yes
terday to nominate a candidate for the
legislature. Mr. John Adkins, a stanch
democrat, was nominated. Hon. Hal
T. Lewis, of Greenesboro, spoke for an
hour. The delegates from the three
counties composing l the nineteenth sen
atorial district —Greene, Taliaferro and
Warren—met and unanimously nomi
nated Mr. Ed. Young, of Greene, to be
their standard bearer.
Bill to Pay Up.
It is understood that Bill Brown, the
I young man convicted of gambling, will
! pay his line of 8700 today.
Friends have come to Brown’s relief,
and he will net have to go to the chain
gang.
I9th Senatorial District.
Delegates from Warren, Taliaefrro
and Green counties to the senatorial
convention of the 19th senatorial dis
- trict are requested to meet at Craw
j fordsville. at 12 m., Saturday. Septam
■ ber 15th, to nominate a candidate for
state senator.
J. A. 'Woodall,
K. E. Davidson,
C. E. McGregor,
Committee.
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Bartender Shot.
Macon, Ga., September 13.—(Spe
cial.) —About midnight, Tom Allen
shot Charles Carr without any provo
cation.
Carr lias only recently come here
from Asheville, North Carolina, and
bought a half interest in James Cassi
dy’s bar.
Tom Allen was on a spree and enter
ing the barroom fired on Carr who was
tending the bar.
The wound is not necessarily fatal |
but very dangerous.
The Democratic League.
A few nights since, the young men’s
democratic league, said to number
more than 1,000 members, met at the
court house to prepare to push the
present campaign.
Fifty-eight persons were present
The attempt to get the young men to
come together, has failed so far.
A mighty attempt is being made to
arouse some enthusiasm for Atkinson,
but it works very slowly in Fulton.
Fulton county will go to the Hines
column.
At Douglasville.
Tomorrow at Douglasville, the great
democratic rally will be held.
Os course Mr. Joe James will preside.
Hon. Chas. F. Crisp, Hon. A. L. Ber
ner, Captain Evan I’. Howell and Mr.
James will speak.
A barbecue is advertised.
Mr. J. J. Barge.
Mr. J. J. Barge, who for some time
past has been at his father’s home in
Campbell county suffering with appen
dicitis, lias recovered sufficiently to re
turn to his office at 40>j South Broad
street.
Mr. Barge is one of Atlanta’s finest
young attorneys. -
His friends are gladly welcoming him
back.
Chief Joyner’s Barbecue.
Chief Joyner's barbecue, near Mari
etta yesterday, was a great success.
A large party of ladies and gentle
men went out from Atlanta on a spec
ial train.
Petition for Charter,
STATE of GEORGIA, Fulton County
—To the Superior Court of said
county: The petition of W. J. Cooper,
E. O. Miles and 11. Linch, all of the
county and state aforesaid, respectfully
show that they desire for themselves
and their associates to be incorporated
for the term of twenty years with the
privilege of renewal under the name of
H. LINCH COMPANY.
and by that name to have the right to
sue aud be sued, to have aud use a com
mon seal, to make and adopt by-laws
and amend them at pleasure.
The object of this incorporation is
for pecuniary gain to its stockholders ;
and the particular business desired to
be engaged in is that of buying and
selling hides, tallow, grease, oils, bones
and any aud all the materials used by
tanners in the manufacturing of
leather or preparing the same for mar
ket, of buying aud selling all kinds of
leather, the manufaturing, buying and
selling any and all kinds of commercial
fertilizers or the ingredients thereof.
The capital stock of the company
will be .ten thousand (810,090) dollars,
ten (10) per cent, of which has been
paid in, and they desire when incorpo
rated the privilege of increasingto fifty
thousand ($50,000) dollars, whenever a
majority of the stockholders by a ma
jority vote desire it best to do so.
The shares of stock in the said com
pany are of par value of §lO9 each, and
no stockholder shall be liable for debts
Os the company, except to the ex. Lent
of his unpaid subscription.
Petitioners desire the power and au
thority, when incorporated as the
11. LINCH COMPANY
to make any and all contracts that are
incident to the business, for which the
company is incorporated, to hold any
and all kinds of property, both real and
personal, to buy and sell or lease any
and all kinds of property, both rral
and personal, to borrow money, and to
secure the same by notes, mortgages,
bonds or otherwise and to have all the
rights, powers and authority as are
allowed such corporations under the
laws of Georgia, and particularly those
set out in section 1676 of the Code of
1892.
The office and principal place of bus
iness of the 11. Linch Company, will
be in the city of Atlanta, Ga., but the
power and authority to establish
branch offices anywhere in the state is
desired.
W. I. Heyward,
Petitioners Attorney.
Filed in office, this 14th day of Sep
tember, 1894.
G. 11. Tanner, Clerk.
State of Georgia. Fulton County
—I, G. 11. Tanner, Clerk of the Supe
rior Court of said county, do hereby
certify that the foregoingisa true copy
from the tiles of said court, of petition
for charter of the
11. Linch Company.
Witness my hand and seal of said
court, this the 14 th day of September,
1594. G. 11. Tanner,
Clerk Superior Court.
Fulton County, Ga.
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INFAMOUS OUTRAGE.
ATTEMPT TO MURDER A
POPULIST SPEAKER
AT COYINGTON LAST SIGHT
Mr. Osborn the Man.—He Es
capes and Walks Ten
Miles.
Covington, Ga.. Sept. 14.—(Special.)
—Last night a dastardly, outrageous
attempt was made at this place by
democrats to mob Mr. J. B. Osborn,
who spoke here yesterday.
Hon. Robert S. Todd and Mr. Osborn
spoke in the morning to an audience
which tilled the court house.
In the afternoon Mr. Middlebrooks,
the democratic nominee for the legis
lature, spoke, and was answered by
Mr. M. D. Irwin.
Mr. Irwin made the speech of his
life, simply riddling the democratic
speaker.
Mr. Osborn spoke from 11:30 to 1:30,
making a tine plea for populism.
The speaking ended about 4 p. m.
He went to the train with Mr. Todd
and Mr. Irwin, and when he came
back up town at 5 o’clock, all the popu
lists had gone home. He inquired for
Dr. Anderson. tA democrat by the
name of House Jones told him that Dr.
Anderson was at Brown’s livery stable
and volunteered to go there with him.
When the stable was reached Jones
saiii to Brown:
"Are any of the boys here now?”
Brown replied:
"They haven't got here yet.”
Then without any words at all, Jones
began to strike at Osborn with brass
knucks.
Osborn got back a few feet and
looked at Jones straight in the face.
Jones did not push the attack and Mr,
Osborn walked away.
Mr. Osborn was stopping at the “Lee
House.” The democrats of the town
then organized a mob to kill Mr. Osborn
that night In carrying out their plans
they sent about 9 o'clock for Mr. Clint
Lee, proprietor of the hotel at which
Mr. Osborn was stopping, and re,
quested him to turn Osborn out of his
hotel. Mr. Lee refused.
The result was a baud to hand fight
between him and Jones, the leader of
mob. Lee is a democrat, but he wants
fair play and was determined to pro
tect his guest, as was his duty to the
best of his ability. He returned to his
hotel aud armed himself. Mr. Osborn
was unarmed.
He was acquainted with the designs,
aud movements of the mob, and know
ing he had no friends who were or
could be apprised of his peril, and in
order to relieve Mr. Lee, he did the
only thing left to save his life. He
escaped by going out the back way
from the hotel, and has not since been
heard from.
Mr. Osborn doubtless would have
been killed last night had the mob
succeeded in finding him.
Mr. Osborn arrived in Atlanta this
morning. His experience was a terri
ble one.
“At one time,” he said, “I feared I
could not escape the violence of the
mob. Their only idea was to kill me,
and cowardlj as they are they waited
until every populist had left town.”
“Where did you go last night, Mr.
Osborn?"
“I left Covington at once, and made
my way through the country ten miles
to the homo of Mr. M. D. Irwin, in
Rockdale county, arriving there about
1 o'clock.”
Mr. Osborn took the night Georgia
train and reached Atlanta this morn
ing at 6:30.
The whole matter was a cowardly,
dastardly, outrageous attempt by a
democratic mob to do do violence to a
defenceless man, simply because he is
a populist.
Such are democratic methods.
Mr. Watson At Summerville.
Summerville, Ga.. September 14.
(Special.) Hon. Thos. E. Waton
spoke here yesterday to a large crowd,
and greatly strengthened the populist
cause in Chattooga.
Hines at Washington.
Washington, Ga., Sept. 14—(Special)
—Judge Hines spoke here yesterday to
a crowd of 1,000 people.
It was a great day for populism in
Wilkes. The democrats are doing all
in their power to intimidate the voters.
A fair election will give Wilkes to the
populists.
Judge Hines’ speech was.au able one
and aroused much enthusiasm.
The Press’ Telephone.
The Daily Press' telephone is num
ber 554.
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