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rHE Hl S I LER OF ROME. THIRD year. ASSst &I&ES >■-. ■;. >,.+■• ® / vSk ,<» »«* • j m\ ’“MX ; . hmBBBk Jr FOR COUNCIbMEN :• IWMMHHk «\ fuu. y McC,ftr JWB *** - T ~7"^ ~^*j — "*- "*‘~t~ "fj~^ — 5 - « - W* :=> ' r —Z" ~"' •' ‘., - ■"" 1 Lffl SLIDE. Tht Moore Ticket by a Reus ing big Majority COONB PENNED LIKE SHEEP. voted L’nderGaaris in “blocks •ffiie built did'nt Save the gay. <3O votes at 12 o'clock Moor* Resehiag about 490, she moat exciting election that has ever witnessed ia in Progr.w at the City Hall today. At 12 o’clock 730 votes had *•»* polled and a conservative es timate gave John D. Moor* about or a majority as about 240, Several of the Seay workers at ton hour hare conceded the alac ‘loo, but are bravely trying to •tem the tide, while the Moere ’‘•‘•Land its workers are jubu- I*ntbut are .till working like bea iha* 41 there in great At about 6:30 thia merniag, Sheriff Moore. M brother of Mr. John Moora, Rome’, next Mayor; went and t Duwbw ’ f jfrienda, all citizens ax P*yWß to the city hall, to tb2 Cltl2 * B ' mounUl tho stair way the H n PJ * r ‘“tending to enter voter eal ™ 8 the 64 cdored all ni u ° been gartered there “•» b .r» »ltn who ' leß «atbem who is C * and Wh ° defied th « Sheriff RMM ’ “ dhis ’ rate X Were and pri eri IZeD? ' * Bd law abiding tax pay- r and Urß "ho J ® Te BUPP°r tt«ir ballots •So r ipid was the work This is the Elephant that run over the Seay-side people By their own boots are they trampled. that the Hubtlbr of Roms naan cast ballot no 117 at 7:20 o’clock and at 8 o’clock 274 votes had been depr | t ed. Shortly before 8 o’clock, the first rush of the Moore men was over and the Seay-mon began turning out the imprisoned negroes from the hall above. As the ’‘sheepish” looking “coons” with red eyes wore let out in squads of from four to six the guards, led by Mr. Henry Lansdell candidate on the Seay ticket from the Second ward surrounded them *. rd marched down the stair to the ballot box which stood in the door way of the Marshals of fice. No man was permitted to speak to a one of the “prisoners.” And as fast as they were voted the guards would roturn them to the “sheep-pen” for another squad. A policeman stationed at the out side upper hallway says he saw paper money pass to the “prisoners as thoy were started from the “pen” to the polls. Os course this matter will be looked into by the Grand jury at the proper time. 1 Bo outrageous was the “sheep-pea’’ arrangment, that a number of gentle men upon hearing it before they vo ted, changed tickets and east a Moore ba’lot. After the first little unpleasantness, every body got into a good humor and overy body went to work. The * ‘sheep-pen 1 ' however had fired the friends of the Moore ticket, and they went to work with such zeal that no powor from the Soay-sido could stem their work. After 8 o’clock it began to rain, but even the elements could not dampen tho ardor of Moore men, and votes upon votes wore deposited for Mr. Mooro, with an occasional few for Capt. Seay. About 9,30 o’clock the real fan be gan; when the Moore workers open ed up their “fun batteries’ and guy- ROME GEORGIA. TUESDAY EVENING MARCH 6. 1894, ed and twitted - the Seay workers in a most rolicking manner. Each ticket had fino barbecued pork to serve the hungry, and they served it in the most approved style —This was especially the ease with the Moore people who had uearly a ton of the finest barbecued pigs, which had been “done tea turn” by the kings of the craft; Burt Allen and John Ware assisted by “uncle 1. Si Cothran, Many Judicious things happened around tho polls, but one of the best was when a colored individ ual wearing a discarded suit of Col. Harper Hamilton’s clothes walked up and voted the “straight Moore ticket”—then there was soen a painfully ludicrous expres sion to sweep over tho patrician face of the handsome young poli tician. But many of his friends he had turned loose shoe-things extended deep sympathy. At 12 o’iflbck, though tho rain is falling the Majority is climbing higher and higher, and while the skies are o‘er cast, there is much “blue”—ness ill the Seay camp. 7 CUT WITH A HATCHET, ■<• JU I a ciriar or polios booghlt usbd bt a bad nbgko. ,•. Elborton, Ga., march, 6 -*-W.i H Irvin, chief police was seriously eat yesterday morning by Abe Loveless, colored. Abo was in a disorderly house. Chief Irvin wont in to quiet a row. The ne gro drow a hatehet and made several blows at tho ehiof which were warded off. Loveless sue oeodod however in cutting Mr. Irvin on tho arm and the leg. The wounds wore drossod by Dr. Long and Mr. Irvin is resting well. The negro escaped. SB UV’WIUM Vm-W V«WS ■<rw.i:ri :oo.w w h ■> wwi 1 ’ll sag ■ EEI •jk'l -u'.vi >no|iK%M f S k -qi|A\ ouioq bJjTuBK AB H BrJI Mljg an tom pub ■■ HI! Vmi raw J ' i ' f Waa The Prorata of the Moore and Seay Ticket. AND MOORE HAD “THREE! That* tho way they stood la»t night aad WLes the Polls close Tonight Tho Moore Ticket will have the Majority Claimed all along. . The excitement of the pres i i municipal campaign reached its “highvoter’’limit last night whew each sido pitted its strength in a mass meeting. All day tho enthusiasm grew and waned not, and when the af ternoon, came and the Seay—sides insported kid negro brass, band of Chattanooga arrived, the Seay peo ple made a desperate efiort to ral- Lator on they discovered that tho members of the old Hymo baud had secured two mon,, and tho horns of tho Codartown band and’ worn ready to movo and checkmate thorn if possible. Bo just after dark tdo “kid band” was put in motion, and after pared ing “Wall Street” and lower Broad thoy marched towards “Tammany Hall ” and tried overy effort to pack the city Hall—but only gathered about 150 voters. After they had eut their caper tne Rome band headed a tremendous procession of voters at 3rd. Ave. and Broad St. and swept past “Tamm sny” on tow: r Is tho County Court House. In the two halls, “Tammany” with her 150 and the“ County Democracy” with her 600 voters, speaking be gan. At tho Court House ringing speeches were made Bob Holmes, col|, and Prof. Mack Parker the colored school teacher and natural born orator and by Hen. W. J, Neel candidate on the Moore ticket from tho Second Ward. At about 11 o’clock, Jake Mooro mads one cf his inimitable Jake Moore talks, and told tho boys how tho colored voters in the Sesy meet ing had been shut in like sheep and would bo voted on the following morning like brutes. He told them to go home and sleep and meet their friends at tho polls thia morning “end thev dun it.“ At th* Seay meeting, imported and tho “kid band” with ibout i 5 voters end a lot of negro school beys hold forth all night This naorniug thu school boys were permitted to depart those coasts m time to attend school—if they wanted to. At 7 o’clock this forenoon the voters of the big meeting were at the polls. At about 8 o'clock those of tfie little meeting were ‘'escort ed under guard” from thb 2, Vnpper chamber” and voted like cattlo and liberated. Tjin imKXOoi. ’ At I o'clock this afternoon 150, votes had boon polled, an d* to any observer it woo evident that tho en tire Moore ticket was climbing stead ily away from the other, Tho groatoat good humor waa still prevalent everywhere and not a sin gle difficulty was reported. The Moore mon were working with a “hallelujah lick“ while grim de termination was writton on tho coun tenance of the Seaj —ride people, One of the jokes of the afternoon was perpetated by John Goddard dry goods clerk for Mr. A. B, Mc- Arver of the First ward whan he persuaded Miss Betty Lewis of the Flatwoods that she had a right to vote. The plucky old lady ace m aine 1 Mr Goddard through the dense throng and presented herself at the pdls with a J h . D, Mooro tic! o‘. IO CENTS A WEEK. She was challenged and beat a re— luctant retreat. Annt Betby John D. Mooro to bo eno of Gods-? noblest men and she- wautecT re help elect him. The sun is out and the cloud are floating away. Hundreds d good humored voters are throng ing the City Hall and Fourth Av« enue, while many hacks and car riages are dashing along overy section of the city, seeking out the tardy voters. It is estimated that 1125 vot<?t will be poll* ut cf the 1213 reg istered, and that John D. Moore's ticket will be elected by not less than 800 majority. AT THE PONCE. St. Augustine, Fla , March 6.—late Governor Pattison, W, F, chairman democratic national committee: W. W. Greenland; jutant' General James B. I Harrity’s business partner/ Cochran, of Williamsport, T! Bradley are some diitiii' Pennsylvanians who have arrived.', at the Ponce de Leon. They leave tomorrow for Bopal Poinciana and.’ Disaton’s sugar plantation at Krtw immeo, ATTEMPT TO WRECK A TRAIN Houstan, Tex., March 6 —Last night, for a second time, an at tempt was made to wreck the Southern Pacific passenger trairr.. near Stafford, rocks being placed on tho track for that purpose. A freight train ran into the pile, but nobody was hurt. The passenger train coming aleng later ran. ovezr and cut the head off of a negrn> woman named Mary Jones. She had been paid a consid&ralil*- sunt: of money an hour bofozß,.Nd mon ey being found on hor pornos, it is thought she was killed and placed on tho track.