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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 continued top Fifth colt:inn Second page jli