Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-08-19
Dark-LantDrl Meeting
AT THE COURT HOUSE WORSE
THAN A FIZZLE.
LEDGER REPORTER FORCES THE
"FREE SPEECH MEN
To Show Their Hands, which They Did
Most Beautifully.
"Farmer" +. III. Mitchell the Leader.
SOreheads at Work.

Monday at , p. N. a meeting of
the disorganizers who want to pull
off or defeat r. Creed Carter, the
Democratic nominee for the Legisla-
ture, was called at the court house.
Z. II. Mitchell, real estate agent of
this city, and L. A Bolts, the gentle !
man who first proposed in the con-
vention to pull Of Locke and Clay |
and nominate some one else, were the |
first to arrive. This was at 2:1O. A |
good deal of Gaping and drumming
had been done by Mexico politicians
but the suckers appeared to be
scarce. The LEDGER reporter then
waited patiently TO report something,
while Bolts and Mitchell went out in
the hall to caucus. Al Campbell
came up at 2:15. Then came DIR.
Gartreh, M. Blum, b. f. James,
james Green, John Y. Brown and
McCord, who used to drive the
Perry hack. The meeting then,
through whispered signal given by
John y. Brown, adjourned to the
grand jury room. A LEDGER re-
porter followed. James Abbay, MIR.
Brown and TW. Atkins then arrived.
also one or two young men whose
names we could not learn. Four or
five men then came in who are not
dissenters but wanted to see what
was going on. A. B. Daniel then
came in. Bob Graham was the next
acquisition, who was followed by John
Atkins. After that We noticed the
following gentlemen, whom we knew,
, come in: C. B. Crews, j ohm Robbins,
ID. Burroughs, j. L. Crews. b. I.
James then called the house TO order.
There were twenty-three people in
, the house counting the boys. John
Brown and Mr.. Burroughs both de-
, clined to act as secretary. Frank
Mitchell suggested Mr.. Robbins, who
, also refused Gerge Batterton, Col
J. A. Judy, and William Stuart then
arrived. The question then came
0 up about shutting out people who
q had not signed their petition, the
object being to get clear of the editor
of the LEDGER. Frank Mitchell, j
0 Y. Brown and Tom Bolts were il
q favor of driving us out. Bob Gra
ham, Mr.. Burroughs and others wert
. in favor of making the meeting pub
lie. Bob Freeman then came in
G VIM. Stuart withdrew because W,
We're to stay. The matter was again
brought before the meeting. MIR
Burroughs made few remarks, ia
70 voring our stay. He said if this wa
p II Democratic meeting VIC hat
right to stay and should not b
e ruled out because we did not look q
things as he did. He was for tn
good of the party. WhcE the meet
ing was declared a ''ifrk lanterl
" meeting" several of the best men LEI
e with us. The motion to shut us on
then prevailed and meeting fo
the good of the Democratic party
closed its doors, under the leadershi
of Frank Mitchell, who, by this tim,
~ we are sure is thoroughly understoo
by all the Democrats of Mexico
~ Bob Graham and Burroughs favore
an open meeting. Not much wa
a done under closed doors. We M
ticed Judge VIM. Stuart come up an
r go back in again after j, Y. Brow
told him that the LEDGER had bee
shut out, but at that time nearl
everybody had left. From what "
O., could learn the petitions to be car
vassed were few and far between an
y, the names on the same, altboug
small i'll numbers, were even tho'
:. sands less in representation of ID
mocracy. The meeting was dar
lantern "liZzle.
e. Thos. A. Bolts, Jas. Abbay, Rob
Graham. VIM. Stewart and L. /
he Mitchell were appointed a committ'
- to receive the petitions in circulation