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WIH \
Wai the Universal Verdict
of the Joint Debate.
i
CLEARLY AN ATKINSON DAY. '
He Pressed the Atlanta Candidate
. Hard, and yet Treated him Most
Courteonsly. Athens today Rome
Monday.
While the Atlanta Journal ad
mitted that Atkinson had the
trowd up to a certain hour,
and n«vor claimed it for Evans
after the certain time and while
The Atlanta Constitution admits
that ‘’honors were easy 1 ’ between
the two men in the Griffin debate,
it might be of interest to Romans
to read a few paragraphs from one ,
of the Atkinson napers.
Therefore from the pen ©f th; t
Veteran democrat and from the I
co umns of that valiant democratic
sheet, The N,. WB and Sun of Grif
fin w« clip a fewparagraphs speak
-IDg of the debate the News says:
One »f the most conspietions
jnga remarked upon, was the fact
J at General Evans failed to say.
Whe would take the stump for
Mr ’Atkinson if the latter was
nominated, though £Mr. Atkinson
Wy announced that he would
Tl f ° r Eva “ B until end
* b canvass if Mr. Evans should
ne nominated,”
nt two thousand people
cording to U th at th9 ’ PeakiUg ’ RC ’
to the coniencions of the
ny newspaper men present, and
a dear day, paid full a J ten _
laid.” ° 8 * ,tlat botll ’Peakers
liaUw . Atk ?i QßGn ° peued the do “
was ° 10 statement that it
cidence thaUl ?° teworth y coin "
°fdebate ' ’ lira *' tbe series,
cit yofGriffi° Uld be heldin th ®
tovh n ® n ’ Where a wagon
ing eet ‘“ ade blB first dallar haul
8Up P ed at "■«
now ■. 1 6 gentleman who
»kil« t °" r th " “ 6,tin «
Qa d become a candidate
for governor.”
(This “gtatleman” refcred to wa
none other than M yor Boyd of
Griffin.)
He reviewed briefly the work oi
the Democratic congress and said
that while it had not done all that
was expected, it had done much. As
Democrats there was much in which
we might be disappointed, but noth
ing to make us hang our heads in
shame. On the main question, that of
the tariff, the house, senate and presi
dent 1a l worked hand in hand and
battled for low taxes. The house had
passed the tariff bill and the income
tax. The seignorage bill had passed
both houses and is waiting the signa
ture of the president, and the idle
silver will soon be in the pooketi of
(he people. The election laws have
been repealed. He demanded that
every plank and requirment of the
1 platform should be carried out, and
• thought every body ought to stand
■ by the old party—if some go wrong,
let us repudiate them, but let us
| stand by the principles of the party,
* ♦ *
In State affairs, Mr. Atkinson de
clared in favor es enforcement of the
law, keeping up the military for the
preservation of peace, the maintain
ance of the railroad commission,
but to see that personal property in
I railroads is not wrecked while the
people are protected from exorbitant
rates. Enforce the contract with the
lessees ®t t ho* convicts and see that
convict labor does not come in com -
petition with free labor, Preserve the
common schools and foster and en
courage their growth. No farmer
should have the excuse that he must
move to town to-educate his children.
He would encourage the building of
public roads, economy and low taxa
t on. We should look to the future
and move on a practical line, guided
by wise and broad states’ninsh p o
develope our mines, increase our sac
tories and double the yielding capaci
ty of our farms.
Coming down to persenol matte’' 0 ,
the speaker defended his vote upon
the Confederate soldiers home and
c xpressed Himself in favor of pensions.
He asked his opponent whether he
’ ndorsed the attack upon his ( Atkin
so. ’.•») vote on the soldiers home. He
had not made it an Siue, but since
ROME GEORGIA. FRIDAY EVENING MARCH 23. 1894,
it had become one, he wanted each
candidate to take his stand.
* * *
I know the hold the old leader s
have upon the party, but as
one oi the younger generation I now
meet one who has rendered no known
and signal service to his party for the
last twenty-five years. If he posed
as a leader in the dark days of re
construction his friends have failed
to shew i‘. In 1890 my friend had an
ambition to be governor, an ambition
which he only postponed till a more
propitious occasion. To warrant such
an ambition, he must have rendered
some distinguished service to his } ar
ty. If he did I call upon him to in
form the people what it was. We
note his activityin organizing Er. ns
clubs in 1894; Low many Democratic
clubs did he organize in 1892? Today
you will hear his eloquent voice rais
ed in behalf of his ewn candidacy: I
call upon him to prove on how many
occasions he has raised that voice for
the Democratic party in 18H2. It is
unpardonable t® doubt that a man so
patriotic failed to offer his services;
if he did, to whom were (hey offered,
and when? A man who is a recogniz
ed popular leader and who finds as
spontaneous movement for himself in
1894 can not have been overlooked
in that inauspicious year. But we
have no record of such service. A
man who is so able to organize for
himself ought to organize a little bit
for his party. The man who can
leave his business and calling and
make a stump speech for himself when
his own fortunes are at stak*, ought
to be able to do something when his
party is m peril. A Democrat who
does not do this hes no right to ask
the people of Georgia for favors.
One candidate must go down in
defeat. If defeated, I will take the
stump in every section of Georgia
for the nominee. Will my oppo
nent, if I am nominated, go before
the people and aid in my election,
as I would aid in his? Where does
he stand on issu ; ng bonds. lam
opposed, myself, to iseung more
bonds. I ask these questions be
cause I want to know on what he
bases his candidacy, and I want to
know, if he is net nominated, if he
will join cur ranks and fight for
us. In this struggle against our
common foes we will call for every
worl i'.g Democrat ana see if we
can not make our majority this
time, with Gen. Evans’ aid, more
than 70,G00.
* * *
The News and Sun says that thara
is doubt about the estimate, that
fully two thirds of the crowds were
Atkinson followers; and all who were
uudecided before the debate recog
nized, the abler man of the two and
d cidtd to join the “wool hatboys“
after hearing the speeches, and that
Atkinson carried the day by sto; m
Today Mr. Atkmsoa and the Rev
erend Evans met again. The occasion
being their second debate and occur
ing in Athens.
On Monday they will meat ia the
third debate is this city, when they
will address probably 8,000 people.
HE WAS IN THE POOL.
and was assessed $250. by judge
ANDERSON.
Nashville, Tenn., March 22. —
Judge Anderton this morning de
cided the case of J. M, Overton,
under indictment for misdemeanor
in entering into the coal combine
The case was decided upon an
agreed statement of facts to the
effect that the defendant had enter
ad into the contract as charged
and that the combine handled ex
clusively the output of sixteen,
mines, handling &b A *it 225,000
bushels of coal -ily, while
the agents of sev mines not in
th* combine handled only about
50,000 bushels.
Judge Anderson decided that
Overtou was guilty as charged, and
fined him $250. A number of oth
© members of the combine are un
der indictment.
DIES ON THE GALLOWS,
Nashville. Tenn.. March 22. —
The supreme court today affirmed
the death sentence in the case of
LaFayette Ritchie, colored, con
victed of the murder of William
Stephens, white . Richie was sen
tenced to be hanged May 24th. The
execution will be at Gainsboro,
Jackson county.
MRS. WERT SUES.
SHE WANTS DAMAGES FOR THS DEATH
OF HSR HUSBAND.
Chattanooga, Tenn~
About a month ago G' .ge Hen
■on, a banker, shot B. Wert, a
prominent real estate man and
killed him while the two were de
scending in the elevator of the
Richardson building. The trouble
grew out of Wert’s criminal inti
macy with Henson’s wife. Today
Mrs Jacob B. Wert, widow, for the
benefit of herself and children,
files a sensational bill for $50,000
for damag 's. Tbe case is to be
heard tbe first week in May.
PRENDERGAST RESPITED.
GOVERNOR AL!GELD GIVES THE MUR
DERER A NEW LEASE OF LIFE.
Chicago, March 22 . —Judge Jen
kins, Wood, Bunn and Saman
constituting the United circuit,
court, refused this morning to in
terfere in the case of Patrick Eu
gene Prendergrast. sentenced to
hang tomorrow for the murder of
Mayor Carter H Harnsen.
They decided that they had no
jurisdiction in the matter. The
arguments of Prendergast s Attor
neys would hold good in the sup
port of a legal error, they said but
were of no avail in a p ®titi on for
habeas corpus.
Prendergast has been respited
until April B.h, by the governor.
1. ! =5
PRISE FIGHT AT GALVESTON
Galveston, Tex., March 22.
Tonight in the Tremont opera
house, before a large audience Tom
Monaghan, of this city, in a gloye
contest, knocked eut Bob O’Hearn
in tbe seventh round. The fight
was vicious from start to finish.
They fought for a purse of SSOC
a ,d the lightweight ehampionshi;
of Texas. Immediately after th'
fight the principals of their as
sistants were arrested and are now
in the custody of th« police unde,
thechaage of violating the law
against prize fighting. The gram
jury, which is now in session, wil
undeubtedly investigate the cas
10 CENTS A WEEK
KNOCKED OUT,
THE RICHMOND AND DANVILLE MUST
PAY THE TAXES ASSESSED.
Charleston, S. C., March 22.
Judge Simontoft today filed a de
cree dismissing the complaint of
the Richmond and Danville rail
road . This suit was similar to the
other railroad tax cases heretofore
decided.
In each case the roads claimed
that their p’eperty was over assess
ed for taxation. They paid th
amount of taxes on what they cob
sidered a fair assessment and the*
brought suit against the county
sheriffs and treasurers to restrain
them from collecting the remain
der of the taxes. Judge Simonton
decides that the railroads h ve no
remedy at law against the alleged
over assessment-.
DENOUNCES COL. OATES.
EDITOR WILSON RESENTS A CHARGE
MADE BY THS CONGRESSMAN,
Opelika, Ala., March 22.—Hon.
William C. Oates addressed the
people of this section here today
in advocacy es his nomination to
the office of governor of Alabama.
He spoke as the personal repre
sentative Grover Cleveland,
professing an inside knowledge of
his policy and purposes. He de
clared that Mr. Cleveland was ths
uncompromising opponent of free
silver coinage under all circum
stances and that the bankers had
such control of the government
that terms had to be made with
them,
Celonel Oates in making reference
to Editor Wilson, of this city, accused
him of having voted for a negro.
This afternoon Mr. Wilson publish
ed the following: “In his speech in
tbe ccnrthouse today, Colonel Oates
allowed himself far beneath the digni
ty es a naan worthy the high position
to which he aspires by preferring or
repeating a charge against me, and
I take occasion here and now to say
that any nun who charges that I ev
er voted to j. ut a negro in office in
the true meaning of such a charge,
is a dirty, politics' hire ing and in
famous liar, an unscruplous scoun
drel and a coward. The epithets no
gentleman deserves and under which
no bravt man will iest.
“HUGH.AR WILSON. 14
