The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1875-05-27
Our Atlanta Correspondence.
ATLANTA, GA, May

ATLANTA, OA., may ~, 1919.
Ben Hill is elected at last, and has made
another "Great Atlanta Speech" AS he said
in his discourse, he entered politics twenty
years ago, and since that time he has been
constantly striving to rise, but strange to say
this is his first election. Why it is we cannot
understand, for to our mind Hon. B. II. Hill
is the smartest Georgian we ever saw. Is it
because the State of Georgia, until recently,
has been unable to appreciate the man, or is it
simply prejudice? Shortly after his election
hand bills were distributed over the City an
nouncing that Hon. B. H. Hill would address
the people on Thursday evening following.
This put expectation upon tiptoe. Before dark
on the stated evening your correspondent re-
paired to the Capitol, with a view to obtaining
the most comfortable seat, but was surprised
upon reaching the door to find the street lined
with carriages and more so upon entering the
Representative Hall, to find that the comforta-
BILE seat we had set our heart so much upon
was already occupied, and not only it, but all
the rest also. The hall was already literally
iammed and crammed. The elite Of the City
were there the leaders Of fashion as well as
those of politics were there; Tom Collins and
Josephus Mayfeld were there; in fact every
body was there. We looked around and took
in the situation; and, having taken it in, the
astonishing revelation burst upon us that if we
heard that speech, and we had made up our
mind that sink or swim, we would hear it, that
we would in the absence of seats, be compelled
to exercise our pathological abilities during the
evening. never in my life heard a man make
speech before such mixed audience and
trammel himself so little. Just in this con-
nection, to show that he had an eye to this, in
leaving the hall after the speech some gentle
man remarked to Mr.. Hill, "Sir, you did not
hit the Yankees very heavy this evening"
"Aye," said he, 81 tell them about the Yankees
up in the circuit, but it will not do here" To
understand this remark your readers should
remember that very great portion of the pop
ulation of Atlanta is composed Of Northern
abounding in the most stirring, patriotic and
eloquent language. For instance in the mid
die of his speech, when the audience were
spell-bound as only he can bind them, every
thing else was forgotten, the orator was pour
ing his soul into his words, and rising even
above himself, he cried, "There must be no
hand-cuffed dynasties at the centennial of in
dependence"
A cotton factory project is the excitement at
present. With H. 1. Kimball at its head, it
will hardly fail to make pretty heavy haul
on the City and State Already they are try
ing to get the City fathers to give them water
as subsidy. The Commonwealth is fighting
it with all its little might. The other papers
are very reticent on the subject 1t seems to
US that although the factory would no doubt
be of great benefit to the City, that to grant
them what they ask would be to establish a
dangerous precedent
An excursion has left Atlanta every day
since the first of May, with very few excep-
tions, to pic MICS at some point in the country
Stone Mountain is the most popular resort
This pleasant little village is situated at the
foot of the mountain bearing its own name.
The mountain itself is one solid mass of rock
Excepting now and then tussick of grass or
sprout peeping from the crevices, it is perfectly
bear. 1t is situated Immediately on the Geor-
gia Railroad, only sixteen miles from Atlanta,
so that it can be and is made very profitable
There are extensive stone works now in opera
tion, and an enormous amount of stone is