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THE HUSTLER OF ROME.
THIRD year.
AflrTlftW COUP
Iw 1 lull Mfcßta
WATCHES DIAMONDS JEWELRY.
Clocks Silverware Statuary and Bicycles.
Desiring to close out our entire stock, AV e will offer at puiblic Auction
Commencing Tuesday Morning March 27th, and Continuing every Morning from 8 to 12,
Afternoon and Evenings from 2 to 4 and 7 to 10, Until Sold.
« A DAY WILL BE SET APART ON WHICH WE WILL SELL FIXTURES. ♦
t
•rLADIKS ARE ESPECIALY I .WLTEI) TO ATTENI>
The sales, "Where the utmost decorum wil ue rigidly enforced.
Everything will be guaranteed as represented by the auctioneer and sold without reserve.
WE JVEELAJST BTJSIKTESS
Come and See for Yourself.
LUCAS A CO..**
DRUGISTS and JEWELERS, 300 Broad Street, Rome Georgia.
■M’S IM.
The Veterans ar.d the 'Wool
Hat Boys git Together.
EVANS NO MATCH FOR HIM
The Atlautian Drove as lee waffOß
Throaifh tke Evans club Rasks or
the eld Soldiers Home Atlanta
Scheme, The Fighting B«m*erat*
field the day,
0a account of the bitter c >ld.
this morni g, the Evans people
•ontened that the joint debase
•hcuid be hold in the Court house
»nd therefore only about, from
s o 850 people including, per
?*?• 50 ladies heard the joint de
bate to day.
Before it opened the Hustlbr
porter niet a gentleman who
on the Carrollton Special
f 0 ion the crowd and
_ n o 6 Atkinson men, 15 Evans
lieu tral. Thia itdica
caaie *l )rora 'a of ths crowds who
drath of General Colquitt.
thi« C f r ’ CCUrr #d in Washington
mnl ' l )' D -t° lj ’ hll d was teie-
L, p* ( . T ~ 118 . 118 Hustler of Romb
e l oo ' " °h' l w . Madd*x, throws a
g ear : ° T * r entire country
the ha* n3oUri * s , and wall aha may
Qe 10M of such a son .
l’’Judge Henry finished
1!l ? the Grand Jury and just
glvin ß a recess for the
v D read in a subdued
m «BHags from John W.
ins ti * l ° lli:1 G- Byrd, announc-
Sftn ° (i, ‘ a th this morning of
Colquitt.
rece ’ved by the
" h 0 l0 “ k ■' i“ "i'b i
lenße silence.
recesß^ 9 then announced a
p/ui ,UQtll about4 o’clock this
Col
Bt and a J lamiltoD 1330111116(1 the
announced, that, owing
to the cold weather, the debate
would be held in the Superior
Ceurt room and would begin about
11:30.
The court room then was almost
full at that moment, and a heavy
stream of eager humanity was
pouring in.
Col. W. F. Price of the Macon
Te'egraph says that there were at
that stage of the crowd, '&• mere
countrymen than had attended at
either of the former debates.
A gentleman who came in on
C. R. &C. rail road south bound
said to a Hustler reporter that he
had polled the } assengers this
morning and they s’ood Atkinson,
26; Evans, 5; non-committal, 3.
Amcmg the non-committal were
mayor Shropshire, of Summers
ville, but his wife voted for Atkin
son, there by saving the political
prestige of the family.
At 11 :30, it was evident that
the court house . would not half
hold the people.
At 11:37 the candidates'entered
the Court room from the Judges
room accompanied oy Sheriff Jake
Moore, Mayor Sam King, Mayor
elejt John Moore, County School
Commissioner Bridges, Gen. Cum
mings, Col. Graves, Coas. Under
wood, Messrs. Jake Moore. John
Black, Sanford Harris,
and Steel, who took the stage.
At 11:45 Mr. John Black an
nounced terms of debate and in
troduced Mr. Atkinson who was
greeted with deafening applause.
Mr. AtkuMwn acknowledged
tire applause and opened by allud
ing to two years ago when he came
to Rome to do democratic mission
ary work, but had found the peo
ple of Fiovd —democratic applause
He paid a fine tribute to the life
and character of General Evans
which was greeted by mild ap
plause.
The Democratic party under the
present admiuistra i >n d> n ' muc i
for the country, the repeal of the
infamous federal election law, the
legislation on tariff, etc.
There is yet much to be done
ROME GEORGIA. MONDAY EVENING MARCH 26. 1894,
If men prove reereant, do net de
sert the party but strike them
down.
He said he was in favor of an
income tax, the repeal of tha ten
par cent tax on state banks, of the
unlimit d coinage of si Ivor,put ting
the mettlers on a parity, was not
willing to wait for the nod of the
European monarchs head and sit
idly by while the money of cur
fathers is demonilized aad siruck
down. [Loud applause.]
Was seeking to conduct this
campaign upon high grounds,what
the equipment of each candidate
for the office we seek. Which of
us by reason of experience could
better take the party’s banner to
success.
General Evans has charged that I
should not be governor, because I
represented the state in certain liti
gations and had received a fee.
He then went into the betterment
charge. He gave the history aid then
asked the General not to dodge as he
did at Athens. (This brought a storm
of applause )
Suid General Evans was not satis
fied to be a “General but wanted to
swap his title fcr that of a ‘ Lawyer
Colonel.’ ( Laughter.)
Hs then read the receipt.
He says Atkinson has but two
planks in hie platform.
He said he had used a good many
“I‘a” but his record proved he had *
right to them and he defied the Gen
eral to deny it.
He scored the General for trying
to make It appear that he was fight
ing the Confederate soldiers. He re
viewed his record and said he bad
never tried to organize Confederate
Veterans or the sons of Confederate
Veterans into a machine by which to
foist myself into office.
He asked Evans where he was in
the dark days of reconstruction when
other Generals were at the front
Spoke of Evans wanting to run in
1890, but like Job’s war hois, ho
scented the battle from afar, and see
ing the Alliance—said he was not in
it. (Laughter and applause )
Where was Evans in 1892? the i
turning to Evans he asked: “General
were you asked to speak in ’92, I ana
informed you were; now tell us what
3our answer was? " ( Applause.)
Touched up the General on hie
claim of already having iCOeeun
ties and 100 news papers.
Then hit him oa the letters to
the preacher*. Evans wrote the
first letter and asked Editor Coop
er te put it down, and th* date was
Jan. Ist. (Jeers, laughter and ap
plause.)
Then bit the Soldiers home snd
scored the “General” to the sati -
faction of the Rome audience.
Asked what big thing the Gen
eral had done while, before th*
war, he was a State Senator.
Why should the old Generals,
who rode hereeback, have the
right of way and the private have
to voto for him at all time*.
Ha had never said that there
was an Atlanta ring but that the
A' lai ta politicians ware fighting
him and h« defiiad them. (Ap
plause,)
Atkinson then closed iu a most
eloquent appeal to the old m»n as
they descend tne hill us life, to
reach back and extend a helping
hand to the climbing yowng man
on the sunny side of the hill.
Tim* was called by time beeper
Bridges, and amid a storm of ap
plause, took his s*at.
Chairman Black, then announc
ed th* Reverend Clement A. Evans
i f Fulton, who was greeted with
laud applause and the waving of
hats.
General Evans epened by saying
that at Griffin, Mr. Atkinson had
introduced himself as a wagon,
while at Athens be was known as
a aoliege boy. [Applause,]
On national issues, w* agree
We both want money I believe io
the free and unlimited coinage of
silver of course, and on a parity.
We all agree on the income tax,
on the tariff, and eu bavißg ne
more bonds issued.
We are agreed on state matters,
on the Fchoo! questions.
Implored the p« ople if they bad
not den* no to please study th*
natura' resource* es this state.
Bpoke of ths mineral resources
jof North West Georgia and this
matehlees City of Rome.
Th* issue in thiseonfed have bees
raised by Mr. Atkiasoa. Mr .Atkin
son injected bimeelf into this race
and thereby op] osed ©antral Evans
Candidacy and caused the first issue
Hpoke of his age and was powerful
touchey, blamed the Tribune for th*
Hustlers statement and tried to in
jure Atkinson l»y claiming that “the
1 morning paper was for Atkinsen.”
Charged Atkinson with , having
practiced far 25 times the hsrs*
epeaeh over and over, and then had
it printed and circulated it over th*
state'
Here the attention es the boys of
th* press was called to a member of
lb* Evans club who was sound asleep
Had only enjoyed 15 minutes and
was— off.
Made a desperate effort to prove
that A‘kinaon had done nothing,
while as a legislator, for th* Cen
• darate Veterans.
Touched up the Betterment ques
tion and thought Atkinson should
not have taken the SI,OOO, but
that it was a|matter of taste.
Charged Atkinson, iu a demo
cratic manner with having defeat,
•d the Beldiers Home and paused
•re:t and expected, for a storm
• ' app'auee—but it wae “the ap
plause that never came ’
He then preached a funeral on
the poor dead Soldiers Hobjo but
tho people failed to weep.
He then boasted of having rais
ed one tenth of th* money that
built the home and had eerved a*
a trustee without pay er reward.
For 30 urinates he whooped up
th* old veterans and seemed to be
laboring under the delusion that At
kinson was making a war on the o’d
soldiers.
H* then made a Jig at Douglass
IO CENTS A WEEK
I Glesaner, of the ft'-iffln News and
Sun, a vigorous Atkinson man and
charged him with being a Norther#
man and said a j .od yankee had in
formed him that, that editor had no’
er smelled gun powder.
(Mr. Glessner was in the hall as
‘plead guilty’’ to Tub Hustlsr say
ing that he was now only 38 years
age, and that General Evans knew
him personally )
Claimed to have helped 72 young i ,
men in Georgia, to secure an educa
tion
C miinued to harp on the charge
that he was an aged man, claimed
that he was only 61 years and 1
month old (applause)
Claimed that ere long all Georgia
would be as Evans Club, (applause.)
Would scorn to use the Confede
rate veterans organizatien to o into
office with, or not more so than Mr.
Atkins ,n would use the Legislature
for the same purpose, (applause)
He closed amid loud app'ause, but
it took no practiced ear to tell that
the enthusiasm was more strained
,v I
and there was less of it than when
the General begun. A large number
of the Evans club undertook to leave
the hail but found the doors so jam
med by Atkinson men, who could
not get in. and who would no' give ■
back, tl at they had 'o itano' fc
When the cheering had died away a
Atkinson, the champion of the ' jr
“wool hat boys'* and “ths demo- '
crat with a record,” advanced to £
the front. Then the wildest sheer- J
Ing of the meeting broke out, and i
the Evans people who eould not
escape knew what to expect, and
showed that they felt it.
After fully three minutes of w
wild enthusiam, Mr. Atkinson got '
the ear of the crowd and in a most :
eloquent manner, defended Geor* I •
gia and Georgians from the insuP |
placed at their door, charginjli
them with m iking war on Confed- I
erate Veterans and things Confed lil
erate, and scored the demagog! jj
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