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operate very beneficially to Our county,
How long this state OF things would contn-
ue wits all uncertain.
DISCUSSION AT THE CAVE.
IVA friend gives us the the following
account of the discussion at Weyer's Cave,
on the 23d ultimo:
Mr.. MERIDIAN, Sept. 81, 1910.
Mr. Editor I'VE were disappointed yes.
terday at Mr.. Mohler's in the speaker we ex-
pected. We received letter few days a.
GO from Mr.. Alexander Rives, saying that he
would come if he was not prevented by some
thing unforeseen. The other party were
| well fortified, having young Mr.. Gordon
| and the Charlottesville champion, who think
might also be termed Extra for he is truly
| extra in appearance as well as assertion; not
wlthstanding we came off gloriously We
told them we were disappointed in a speaker,
but that they were welcome to open the ball.
After some time they consented; Extra
Leake then took the stand, and took up the
abominable stale ISLANDERS upon General Har
rlson with this addition: that the late northern
elections had sealed the testimony that he is
an abolitionist. He alluded particularly to
Maine, but conceded the North mostly to the
~ "ArS' OSh' iLNNio iCpilCus iCiulUO III d
most powerful manner every charge against
Gen. Harrison, and showing most conclusive
ly, that Martin Van Buren, is an abolitionst
of the deepest dye. Mr.. Leake rose again,
and with some ingenuity slipped round, and
jumped over, and garbled many things. Gen.
Harrison's Militia Bill was much the most
Objectionable. To introduce it in the schools,
from the best estimate, would cost $50, 600
600 per annum. Among other thing, he
said that Augusta voted for Rufus King a.
galnst Mr.. Madison. He was contradicted,
and told that she voted for Dewitt Clinton.
but like man he stuck to it, and said that he
I had the very best authority-that the Clerk
books would show Isl majority for King
would thank you if you would examine,
and lift is not true that you would state that
such was not the fact. / think if it was
great crime III Augusta to vote for Clinton,
that 1t was thousand times greater for Van
to vote for him, as he knew him thousand
times better. He spoke of the Sub-treasury
as one ofthe greatest leading measures of the
governMent-that he had examined il three
years before he understood it. | observed
that that was the strongest argument against
1t that ever heard, that if it took great poll
tlclan three years to understand it, what was
to become ofthe common people! suppose
he did not hear me, or did not wish to hear
think this question might be propounded-
If 1t takes great politician three years to un-
derstand the Sub-treasury scheme, how long
would ittake common farmer to understand
it! Between sunset and dusk young Mr.
Early, of Greene, took the stand, and think,
In the finest vein of humor | almost ever
heard, he refuted and turned into ridicule al
most every thing Leake had said. He asked
him that if it had taken as great man as
him three years to understand the sub-treasu-
ry, how in the name of Heaven, could he
expect to make the people understand it in
three minutes He kept up peals of laugh
ter at the expense and chagrin of Master
Leake, throwing in some severe personal re-
marks occasionally. He pretended to take it
well, and when Mr.. Early quit he attempted
to put the joke on him, but Early turned the
tables upon him, which caused tremendous
laugh against Leake again. But presume
there was nothing done on either side; things
stand as they were. My object in writing to
you is to know how the King vote stands.
NOTE BY THE EDITOR.
We know the fact, and it may be seen by re-
ference to the files ofthe Richmond Enquirer,
that Dewitt Clinton was the Peace or FEEDER
al candidate all over the country in 1912 a
gainst Madison. In Augusta, we find the T.
lectoral ticket was simply headed "Peace,
Union, and Commerce, and no Foreign ALI
ance." 1t was in 1916 that Rufus King was
run for the Presidency, against Jas. Monroe,
and we have understood that the latter re-
ceived majority of the votes in Augusta,
though we have not had the means of ascer-
tanning the fact. In the brief search we had
the opportunity of making the poll-book
could not be found.