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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. 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