The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1882-08-31
DIR. FELroN,s SPEECH.


preacher politician aud Independent can.
didate for Congress, spoke at the court
house in this place ON last Saturday to a
large crowd, one half of whom were negro
Republicans, and the other half were hide
pendent Feltonites and organized Demo
Gratis, the latter being present through mere
curiosity.
The Doctor did not speak with his old
time fire and eloquence, although the "hal-
lelujah lick" of slapping the hands togeth-
err, played prominent part. The doctor
evidently labors under the modification Of
his last defeat and the dread of the one sure
to come. The enthusiasm of his audience
was not such as to inspire him as formerly,
for now and then some colored brother
would cry out in religious fervor Amen +
Bless God !" then general litter would
follow The speech lost the Doctor votes,
as several old independents were heard to
say that the doctor leaned too far towards
Radcalism.
The doctor dwelt largely upon the guber-
material candidates in fact half ofhis speech
was devoted to showing up Mr.. Stephens
political record and in eulogizing General
Gartrell He professed great friendship for
Mr.. Stephens, but took particular pains to
insert Joabs blade beneath the fifth rib of
the "Old Commoner" with an unctuous
pleasure Unsuitable In fact his opponent
Gartrell could not have treated Mr.Stephens
more mercilessly. Yet the doctor proclaim
ed Mr.. Stephens incorruptible, but in the
next breath he would contradict the sinceri-
ty of the uttersnce by portraying him as a
plant tool of bosses, false friend and a
hypocri!e Such was the only intelligent
deduction of his Janus.face speech
1t was not so much the leint praise that
damns, as it was the Judas kiss that betrays.
1t was an insiduous attempt of cunning
Dellah to clip the locks of the mighty
Sampson and turn him over to the Philis
tines to suffer the modification of
defeat. For the whole DRIFT of FELTON, ar
gument was to prejudice both Independent
and organized Democrats against Mr..
Stephens. Notwithstanding his assertion
that he will vote for Mr. Stephens, yet his
fulsome praise of Gartrell shows that he is
working for Gartrell's success. In this it is
quite apparent that he has selfish end in
view for no doubt that way down in the
deep recesses of his office looking heart he
prays that the Independent candidate for
Governor may defeat Mr.. Stephens, hoping
that the defeat Of the democratic nominee
in October, would strengthen him in No
vember. IfDr. FELTON, is Il friend of Mr..
Stephens, then good Lord deliver us from
such friends.
The doctor touched the Markham House
coalition caucuses quite gingerly. The first
meeting he said was where he met some
friends, " TO discuss his formula, but he
failed to tell his audience the political com
plexion of those friends. Four of them
were Republicans, Oongstreet, Farrow,
Wilson and Bigby,) and three were indie
pendent democrats; the Republicans having
one majority in the caucus. But in allud-
ing to the second ring caucus he held, he
said they were all democrats. See the diff
ference of his recital Although in this
last meeting was Judge Heck, who, it is
said voted for Garfield, and Mr.. Lawshe,
the Federal postmaster at Gainesville
On our first page we give connected
history of the whole coalition movement,
and we hope our readers will study it, and
they will see in it a concert of action, a
well planned scheme to Mahoneize Georgia
aided and abettcd by Longstreet, Farrow s.
Co., and Arthurs administration.
The doctor further said that he was to day
lust what he was seven years ago, and a
little more So" We presume this 'little
more so" means to include the radical Goa
| ltion, for certainly the doctor has drifted
| far from democratic moorings, and anchored
| in strange waters. We remember the first
speech Dr. FELTON, made in Marietta during
his first race. In that speech he declared
himself heartily in favor of conventions and
party organization. And to further show
his loyalty, he said if your fellow citizen,
Geo N. Lester, had been nominated, 1
would have come down and supported him,
but he was only running to purify the party
of corruption. But to show you how far he
has drifted from his first position, in his
speech last Saturday, he thanked God that
Independentism, once so small, had grown
so large, he denounced conventions and
party organization, and said the democratic
organization was completely destroyed, and
to be nominated now was equal to defeat,
and SO help him God he would never enter
another caucus or be handcuffed by party
allegiance. He further said if he was cleo
ted to the next Congress he would vote with
Republicans or Democrats just as it suited
him that henceforth he was above all par
ties, and presented himself as q candidate
fer Congress simply as ''man.
He denounced the Democratic patty for
passing the pension bill and said it was
measure TO catch the soldier vote to elect
Democrat governor In Ohio. We presume
if it had had tendency to elect Republican
governor the Doctor would not have opened
his mouth in denunciation of it, for we ask
any of his supporters To point out where he
said aught against the Republican party and
its corruptiOns, although he abused the
Democratic party with unrestrained volu
biity On the contrary he lauded President
Arthur for vetoeing the River and Elarbor
bill and stigmatized it as "plundering
| steal" and condemned the Democrats for
passing it over the Presidents veto. He
said when he was in Congress the River
and Harbor appropriation was only eleven
million dollars and out of that he got $780,,
900 for Coosa and Etowah rivers, but says
out of nineteen millions appropriated Mr..
Clements only got $4,000 and yet the
| Doctor very inconsistency complains of Mr..
Clements because he did not get as much as
| he did of the ''plundering steal" In view
| of the fact that the Doctor had Democratic
| Congress to help him get his appropriation
and Mr.. Clements had to contend with a
Republican Congress, it shows rare ability
in Mr. Clements to get anything. And If it
was plundering steal for Mr.. Clements to
get an appropriation. it was equally plum
| dering steal for Dr. FELTON, also. In this
| the Doctor launches boomerang that re-
bounds and lays his own vulnerable record
bare He finds fault also with Mr.. Glenn
ents' vote against reducing the internal
revenue tax on bank checks, proprietary
medicines etc vet he did not exnlain Why