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FIOPPER JLTON,
Thc Political Acrobat of the
“Bloody Seventh.”
IHE CIRCUS ACTORS NOT IN IT. :
Old M«» in HU Dotage, Willing tc
Advocate Any Cause to He Ke-
Eleoted to Contres*.
(From the Ringgold New South.]
The greatest political acrobat evoi
heard of in Georgia polities is known
w Floppy Felton, of the -bloody Sev
,, jf jjg was not anchored to the
Atatehy his worldly possessions, there
18 U o telling where he would be “at.”
\s usual, at this season of the year,
the feebie old doctor is running for of
fice- , T ,
Fourteen years ago he ran as an Inde
pendent Democrat; 12 years ago he ran
M m Independent Republican. Four
wars ago, in his own words, he “ai
lhe no linee of the iron bound, steel
ribbed, bottom Democrats.”
"in his second race against Judson
Clements, in his speech at Augusta,
Qa he advocated the Republican’s high
ZtecHve tariff, opposed any modifica
tion of the silver law at that time and
the issuing of any wh ich was
pot redeemable at the United Stated
treasury upon demand, instantor. Not
only did he do this, but he went further
•than the Republicans themselves in de
manding the federal supervision of elec
tions, in other words the force bill.
The present race Dr. Felton is “try
in ’em a round” on the Third Party
platform.
No one should think for a moment
that the doctor is wedded to the third
jm-ty, because if the people will organ
ize another party and tell the fickle old
flopper that he could go to congress on
the proposed platform of the new party,
“Barkis would be willing” to renounce
the third party and join the now one to
morrow. His aim in life seems to be to
go to congress at all hazards.
To the people of the Seventh congres
sional district this political acrobat
needs no introduction. He was discard
ed by the Democrats and Independents
en account of his fickleness and lack of
stability.
Dr. Felton joined the third party be
cause there was no other party to which
he could take his old crippled political
hwse, with the expectation of having
him entered in the race.
The third party has taken in many
old political hacks; but they have offer
ed the worst of the collection to tho
voters of the Seventh district. How
any third party man can vote for Felton
1 cannot understand.
To show many of the inconsistencies
of this old flopper, it is only necessary
to read a portion of his record which
the Ringgold New South presents for
the benefit of those who are desirous of
perusing his whimsical and delusive vi
tuperations.
Both m congress and in the Georgia
legislature, Dr. Felton has done many
things which the people, regardless of
party, have placed their seal of condem
nation on.
Io mention a few of his most obnox
ious actions in the Georgia legislature,
shows sufficient reasons for the people
to refuse to vote for him.
He was a strong advocate of the state
University at Athens, and in order to
Sustain it he proposed to take the money
from the free schools, and give it to the
Athens school.
He wanted to take the free school
teoney from 18,750 children in Georgia,
e children of the poor man, in order
to give a college education to 185 boys;
the sons of Georgia’s rich men.
Not only did he do this, but he voted
tgainst- the bill to allow counties to es
tabiish six months free schools by ad-
Jaloium taxation, upon the recomineu
tion of two successive grand juries.
These tacts are a matter of record and
can be found in the house journal of
889, page 192; aud iu tho j ourual of
1888, page 561.
Ur Felton’s speech against the Olive
m the Georgia legislature, caused
s defeat, as can be testified to by
'cib.tnds of widows and orphans who,
® a result, are left penniless to mourn
air loss. I'his speech can be found in
lbs ( Atlauta Gonstitutiou of Oct. 11,
Dr. Felton now poses as the friend of
negro, but he cannot fool even
nem, because in 1889, on page 1,460 of
? USe ourna L it will be found that
. m
wr the black.
Q niuous other instances could be
havn Wllere the flopper is found to
a red against the masses, but to
nice " V °y °C hiS lack of sfcabil ity. utter
fiuoed ° * iß ° WU fidso lipS are re P ro '
j K * Won,< ’ »•» Make th. K»c.
18% the Atlanta Journal of July 15,
Benn.H an iat6rview with Claud N.
the ran T* tU wbetber b ® would enter
t o ,r con *< reHB or uot, Dr. W. H.
lisve I cJnM lkly °° nfeaß Ido not be-
Thlnpo u d get tbe nomination.
Warmlv k Ve i already Ixsoll Pushed too
Cftndi flate ß . Everett is
y the alhauoe candidate and that
THE HUSTLER OF ROME, MONDAY NOVEMBER 5 1894,
; order is largely pledged to him. Clem
j ent has his following fairly well worked
l up, and it would be hard for a now man
| to split the ranks. Besides, the Alliance J
i would oppose me because consider ’
i their pet subtreasury scu- n;. ridiculous. ;
' Many outside farmers would oppose me j
j because of a mistaken idea that I fa-'
vored higher education more than com-.
mon school education. M of the ,
good organized Democrats wc uld use J
my former races as an im. >endent
j against me. And the result is that I
, would be defeated.”
I “Tell me, please, about your former i
i Independentism and how you stand on ’
that question now?”
! “Well, sir; I honestly believe that I
saved the Democratic party. The party
jin this district was corrupt. The or
i ganized Democracy was clique. I
purged it, defeated it, saved it. There
, is now no longer any necessity for an
Independent. The Democracy is all
right. lam fully confident that I could
be elected as an Independent, but I
never expect to—nay, I never will run
independent again. The white people
• in the south must stand together; and
. I am for white supremacy and pure
Democracy forever.”
The Federal Election Laws.
i Os this egregious infamy, Dr. Felton
said:
“There is no need whatever for such
a law. There is not a man in the south
, vannnt Vote ns rw y« ases - , There
is hardly any doubt, fcibont its
passing. But when it passes, won’t
do any harm. The idea of afiyJSv'lT
being counted out in an election is ab
, surd. There is much demagogtxeism in
the fuss that it is creating. Now, if
military supervision should come, wc
I could not stand it. We would certainly
. resist by force of arms.”
I I suggested, more as a Isafer than to
show my feelings: “In that event we
would be whipped.”
The doctor answered in tragic: tones:
i "Better death than slavery.”
i Mrs. Felton: "All the hullaballbo'rfiik
ed in congress over this law by So th
parties is to defeat the new candidates
.of the Farmers’ Alliance. They halloe,
‘Party! party! party! Stand together
and return the present officers. It will
make a solid north and solid south.’”
I Dr. Felton: “By making a solid north
and a solid south (since the north is
I larger than south), I fear that all
, this strife will defeat the Democratic
party, which is the oyly breakwater be
tween the south and uegro tiffin:nation.
The Alliance contains the best Demo
crats we have. I am a reconstructed
I Democrat, heart and soul.”
Mrs. Felton: “I am not one to hurt.”
He Decided to Run.
Notwithstanding what he said to the
Atlanta Journal on July 15, that under
no circumstances would he accept the
nomination, Dr. W. H. Felton is found
on September 3, 1890. less than two
months later, bowing and scraping to
the Rome convention, in his speech of
acceptance of the nomination.
In that speech, in referring to the Al
liance, Dr. W. H. Felton paid his re
spects to that organization in the follow
ing toast:
The Origin of the Alliance.
“Let us see the nativity of this new
j political party, for it is neither more
nor less. Where were its platform and
principles originated? Whore was it
born? In Georgia! No, sir; in St. Louis,
Missouri. Who composed the organize
tion that formed? They were not ail
, Democrats; they were not all farmers;
they were not all southern men. It was
' a conglomerate mass, a conglomeration
1 of screhc:-.is. (Great cheering.) Mark
you, in this discussion I draw a broad
i line, as broad as that between heaven
| and the dark abyss, between the honest,
j true and patriotic farmers of Georgia
; who have gone into that organization
: with pure motives and honest purpose,
! and the leaders, cunning, crafty leaders,
! the cunning, crafty lemagouea who
[ seek to despoil.
I “The St. Louis platform has two lead
ing features. The first is that we want
the subtreasury system. That is, we
want the government to build ware
houses in every rich county in the Uni
ted States. It does not read that way,
but that is what it means. I suppose
there would be two in the Seventh dis
trict. (A voice—‘Clements says five.')
Well, may be so. I did not know there
were five rich counties in tho district.
Then he argued that to build 1,000
warehouses would cost $50,000,000, and
put horde of federal officials under the
appointing power of the administration.
Probably Republicans would bo sent
here to administer on your cotton, said
he:
“Mark,” he said, “the bill says the
| owners of these products, cotton, corn,
' wheat, tob »cco and oats, may deposit in
the warehouses and draw 80 per cent on
their value. Richardson, the great Mis
sissippi farmer, and the cotton speculat
ors could by up all cotton, put it in the
warehouses and draw money. Liver
pool would say, ‘We don’t want your
cotton. We can get our supply from
India, Egypt and Africa, but as a favor
we will give you 4or 5 cents a pound
for it.’ Dalrymple, the great wheat
man o f Dakota, and Old Hutch, the
grain cornerer, could buy all the grain
and put it in the subtreasury. The
! margin would lie exhausted and the gov
i ernmont would have to redeem money
based on oats. In the meantime the
i Norway rats will have done their work
and the subtreasury notes will have to
bo redeemed in coin, taxed out of the
people, for the collateral will have gone
down the stomachs of the Norway rats.
Then he drew a picture of the farmer's
home. Os all men,who can least afford
i the results of a panic that is sure to re
. suit from this inflation and the coutrac
-1 tion of tne currency. Your home may
I be an humble one, but it is yours; your
| pillow not of down, but rest upon it is
. sweet. It is the home of your wife and
your child, and let me beg of you not to
imperil that home, for all this business
is to be settled in the federal courts. It
Was not Georgia that constructed this;
; it was done in St. Louis by 50 men, who
sent it here to lie crammed down the
throats of the honest, industrious farm
ers of the Seventh district as the nation
al Democratic party. Fellow-citizens, it
is my honest belief that that little crowd
assembled there at St. Louis knew
no more about, and cared no more for,
and had no more to do with national
Democracy than the devil has to do
with holy water.” (Great laughter and
applause.)
Dr. Felton Than and Now.
The Marietta Journal, of recent date,
adds the following fact as to Dr. Fel
ton’s occilating character:
“Politics makes strange bed fellows.
As the truth of this we take the follow
ing extracts from a speech delivered by
Dr. W. H. Felton in at tlie
courthouse, iq September, 1890, when
fee was, Jeffersonian pemocratio ct\ft.
didate for congress:
"I am the uOmlaefi of iron bound,
steel ribbed, rock bottom Democrats. I
Iha been a prodigal in the past and
Wanda’ fid tmt thank God, I have
got back home at last. I am b;,;k in.
the Demociatic party to stay and 1 feel
comfortable iu b’iag back. Who nom
inated Everett anyhow? It was a skew
balled convention; he was put out by
sub-alliances, a secret order, a dark
lantern crowd; where they had to pay
25 cents for a whispered pass word to
‘ get to sling a vote. God save my occu
pation as a farmer when it peters until
it required 25 cents to be paid for the
honor'of casting his vote.”
The doctor then compared them to
the* Knownothing party, Spanish in
quisition and the star Chamber of Eng
land.
“My fellow citizens, ain’t you asham
ed to belong to such an order? If I was
you I would quit it. ”
Then continued the doctor:
“These subtreasury fellows want to
get an office. If you ask them if they
are in favor of free coinage, they will
say I am for the snbtroac.ury or some
thing better. That is their cry. The
subtreasury bill would fill this country
with a swarm of President Harrison’s
appointees, like the locusts of Egypt to
devour your substance. It is absurd
and un-Democratic. It would make the
poor farmer poorer, and the rich man
richer. It would corner wheat, oats
add corn in those warehouses in the
west, and raise the price of flour, etc.,
imposing burdens upon the laboring
people-of this country and make the
government a pawn broker. The Nor
way rats would nest in the warehouses
and carry off the wheat and the gov
ernment would be th- loser.”
Thus spoke Dr. Felton in 1890. Now
in 1884 he accepts the Third Party nom
ination for congress, swallows the Oma
ha platform, sub-treasury, Norway rats
and all.
Can you vote for such a flopper? We
should think not.
Can You Vote for Him ?
Dr. Felton has denounced every cause
the Third Party advocates in the bit
terest language lie could command; he
has exhausted his vocabulary in apply
ing to them obnoxious names, that
should cause even a hardened politician
like old Dr. Felton to blush with shame.
In his lexicon of old age, he knows no
such word as shame; and he now goes
to these same people and begs that they
support him for congress.
His claim that he could give the peo
ple relief if he is elected to congress is
unfounded; because, if such a visionary
delusion as his election is to be consid
ered, he could not carry out his prom
ises. If he was elected as a third party
ite to congress he would wield no influ
ence, and could gain no recognition be
cause his party is in the minority, and
those present in the last congress did
not accomplish a single object.
If, after perusing this assembly of
facts, a man can vote for Felton, then
there is no use in trying to further ar
gue with him as to the old Hopper’s in
consistency, lack of stability, and his
desertion of every political creed to
which he ever belonged.
W. Tkox Bankston.
An As»anlt Near Atlanta
Ati,anta, Oct. 29.—About dark on
Thursday afternoon, the 13-year-old
daughter of Mr. Matt Griggs, section
master between Atlanta and Bolton,
was met by a large negro who attempt
ed to assault her. Her screams and the
approach of a handcar frightened him
away and caused him to flee. The alarm
was given and searchiug parties form
ed, but the negro made his escape.
Entombed lor Forty-Threo Koun.
Iron Mountain, Mich., Oct. 29.—The
work of rescuing imprisoned miners at
the Pewabic mine was accomplished be
tween 6 and 7 o’clock, and they were
hoisted to the surface as sound as a dol
lar, and without a mark, after having
been entombed for more than 43 hours.
Thereto great rejoicing in the commu
nity.
.3 FOLSu
BY MRS. LEVELAXH.
THK PRESIDENT’S WIFB TO CHRISTEN
STEAMER ST LOUIS.
Philadelphia. Pa. Nov. 5.
Mrs. Cleveland reaffirmed today
her acceptance of the invitation to
chri-ten the American steamer 8t
Louis, which will he launched at
Philadelphia on Munday Noveni
her 12. The President will not at
tend the ceremony.
Mrs. Cleveland will leave Wash
ington on a special train Monday
morning, November 12, accompan
ied by a party of her own selection
including the wives and daughters
of the Cabinet o hoi rs, and a num
ber of personal friends. They will
return to Washington in the after
noon after the launching.
PRACTICAL WOMEN.
“Yrs,” said Mr. Jaaop. “I al
low that women are the wntimen
tai sex, aud all that sort of thing,
\v« always noticed that
when a couple git engaged it is tin
woman that first thinks m
out how they are to live an his sal-
EIGHT
[ SHE MAN WHO KNEW YOUR
MOTHER.
No end of objecti on; hie people
might be done away \ i if the
agreeable half of the wi'r.’d would
only exert itself once in awhile
and put them down, but, because
they are agreeable, they endure
them and every-body else has to.
It is like the man who was ac
quainted with your mother when
she was a young girl. He doesn’t
hesitate to tell family secrets
before a room full of asks
you questions about your private
affairs, if you have made a good
marriage, aud what in the world
have ’you had' such a large family
of children for. and then, to cap
the climax, gives you a mouthy
sort of kiss, al! with the same
weak claim.
What you can't understand is
why, ui early life, your mother
didn’t cut him : or why, if he con
t;n ied the acquaintance, your fat! -
er didn’t shoot him. Usually,
though, ho seems to have that
friendship for your mother when,
as he describes it, she was “just so
high,” and he measures about a
yard from the floor; so, of course,
she couldn’t know what a heritage
of discomfort she was preparing
for you.
A NF > FORMULA.
The Count—Dearest, I am nor
worthy Gfyour farther,# money.
The Heiress —Says not so! It- is 1
who am not worthy to marry into
vour poor but L«ble family.
TIE KIND OF BOOK SHE
WANTED.
What funny things one' hears in
shops. The other day’l’was in one
of those places where they cheat
frhe publishers and the authors by
selling books under price, and yet
where we all go to get books for a
few pennies less. A woman picked
iipa copy of the “The Heavenly
Twins.” and said to the girl be
hind the counter:
“Is this a good beok?”
The answer came: “It has had
a very large circulation.”
“Well,” she said, leaning across
the count er, confidentially, “thf
<ind of a book J like is one when
;he heroine dresses real stylirh.
hey tell everything they have t<
sat, and a hero and they love oacl
>ther passionately until somethinj.
happens, and then the detectivi
c nes in ; but in the end the vil
ian is foiled and she gets marrie<
■n satin and point lace.”
The saleswoman looked nervoiu
•.nd said she was afraid it wasn
hat kind of a book. 1 te'.l this i’
me anyone wishes to write a por
:lar novel, so that they may knov
the requirements.
M a recent binquet in Denver
ven in honor of th« wom n i.t c»»
fidates for the legislature, a loc
* an offered this toaet:
“To the women of Colorado.
< rod bless’em. Formerly our sv
perior; now our equals.”
MISPLACED QUOTATIONS.
A LITERARY NKWSGIRL "ETS A CUS
TOMER INTO TROUBLE.
The little newsgirl who sells pa
•ere every evening at the foot ol
he Twenty-third street elevated
stairs is something .f a Shakes
pearean scholar as well as being
pretty thoroughly posted on Scrip
ture. Those who buy the papers of
her are often astonished to find
•vritten on the margin some queta
tion from one or the other
It may alarm eoaiebody to be
confronted by a finely penciled in
criptiou on the margin of hie fa
vorite evening paper:
“Prepare to meet ( hy God,”or‘ G»t
‘hee behind mo, Satan,’’ or “L >ok
ot upon the wine when it is red,”
■'r something of that kind,'.when
he expects to find nothing but the
lews of the day in printer’" ink
y?ven‘Grains tliou art and|mince—
meat thou shalt be,”or individual
.vhen it appears in a y/ouians s
uindwriting under such circum
sUnces.
Nor is tlujt tlie worst ''
gentleman who hasn’t been ma?' 1 ' 1 '- 41
,ery long, and whose wife conse
quently cannot bear t<> have her
young husband look at the con
tents of a family clothesline across
the way, invested in an evening
paper the other day and threw it
>n the table wliile he went to din-
ner.
Being a very intelligent wife and
naturally anxious to learn the lat
est from the Lexow Committee, she
got the paper first on retiring from
the table. The first thing to catch
her vye—in fact, both eyes—was
inscription in a neat feminine hand
“A rose by any other name would
smell as sweet.” When unsuspect
ing husband came upstairs she ask
ed in the most casual manner—you
know how they tackle these things
—whom he had met during the
day.
Oh, nobody in particular, but he
yawned and named a couple of
male friends.
Are you ipiite sure, love?
Yes, Why?
1 thought perhaps you might
Slave met some lady friend, that’s
all. Very sweetly
“Haven't seen a lady I'm r >n
speaking t rinswith te-day ,’* said
ip, with apparent regret.
“Y®u haven’t, eh? Now, how do
rou account fur that?” And she
sprang the tell-tale paper on him.
kt the same time she looked him
sharply in the face, ae if wonder
ing how he would lie out of it.
“I was that floored.’said he telling
the story, “that I couldn’t speak. I
had no idea at the time how that
o mfounded thing got on there.
Ttu-n I happened to remember the
bright little newsgirl on tbe cm
uer, aud I made it all right. But it
vas a narrow escape, I tell you.”
—New York Herald.
Poor Browning! One would think
■ hat the clubs which bear his name
might have educated theworH in
:he meaning of his name. But it
seems that they haven't. In a lit
tle New England village among
he mountains where the country
store served as post-office, c rcu
ating library, shoe-store, and ev
erything else combined, a Boston
tidy, glancing over the books, in
piired: “Have you Browning?”
No,” said the attendant, some
th t regretfully, and j o knowing
just what kind of an article Brown
ng might be, “we have not.”
I'hen, more brightly: “We have
(lacking and bluing and a man
vho does whiting. We occasional
y do pinking. Would any ot these
lo?”
Apropos of the death of Dr. Oli
erWendel Holmes, this story is
old: The proprietor of a well
mown religious weekly once con
ulted a friend of bis as to the ad
isability of having a domestic
•olumn in his paper. “You know,”
i? said, “it would be no expense.
Anyone can get hold of a few cook
ery books and so forth. For in
stance, there’s ‘The Autocrat of
he Breakfast Table.’ ”
PROFESSIONAL COLOO
DENTISTS
J A. WlLLS—Dentist—2oH 1-2 Broad a tree
a over Cantrell and Owenii store.
—- -
ATTORNEYS
J. fl. Spu lock, Attorney at Law, Mason
Temple Kuiididg
Temple Buil ling Rome Georgia.
JAMES B NEVlN—Attorney at Law Offit
Poverty Had postoftie.a corner 3rd Avenue
CHAS. W. UNDERWOOD-Attorney at
Masonic Temple
Rome, Ga.
REECE .v DENNY—Attorneys at law. Office
in Masonic Teutnle. Rome, Ga.
WW. VANDIVER—Attorney and Conn
o eel lor at Law—Rome, Ga.
WH. ENNIS-.lno, W. STARLING—EnoIs
Starling. Attorneys at Law. Masonic
Temple, Route, Ga. feb2X
PHYSICIANS *rn SURGEONS.
DM. RAMSUR—Physician and Surgeon -
Office at residence sl4 avenue A, Fourth
ward.
LP. HAMMOND—Physician and Burgeon-
B Offers his professional services to the peo
pie of Rome and surrounding country,
tffice at Crouch and Watson*s drug store. 20ti
'road street.
DR. W. D. GOVT— Office at C. A. Trevitt
drug store. < r o. 331 Broad street, Telephon
110. resides is. No. 21
Frank A ■ Wynn, Physician and Surgon
office at Tre - . itt Johns >u drug store
Telephone 13 Residence 406 Second Ave,
u-ivou .q| professional call
’rompt a. teu.... r
NOTICE.
The AVUmiion of the readers of
I'he Hustler o’s Rome is directed
to the advertisement of E. C. At
kins & Co., manufactures and re
pairers of all kinds of saws. This
is one of the very best aud most
reliable houses in this line in all
(he county. Their saws are the
very best in quality and the most
reasonable in price. They make a
specialty of mill supplies and re
pairing. \\ hen in need of a saw or
anything in their line write to E.-
C. Atkins & Co., Chattanooga
Tenn.
NOTICE OF LOCAL LEGISLA
TION.
Rome. Ga., October, 80th, 1894.,
Notice is hereby that ap
plication will be made du
ring the present session of the Leg
islature of Georgia, for the pas
sage of an act entitled, “An Act to
Amend the Charter of the City
Electric Railway Company, of
Home. Ga., so as to authorize and
empower said company to furnish
electric lightsand electric motive
power, to tlie city of Rome, and to
other persons and companies who
may contract for the same.
J. King, Pres.
W|li> ms for Rem or
We have On hand a
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for rent or sale. These
farms have come into
our handsat very rea
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we are in position to
offer them at low
prices and on most
favorable terms. Ten
antsand buyeiswould
do well to consult us
before trading. We can
runt or sell. To good
parties, wishing .time
on Farms we are pae
ired to offer bargains
? •me and see us
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