Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-30
LAST NIGHTS RALLY.
A Shower of 2O's, los, 5's, rs
Half Dollars, Quarters, Dimes,
NICKELS AND MANY COPPER COINS
Made Merry Music in Franklin Street
School House Last Night.
TO-DAY BIG WITH THE FATE OF .FLEMON

The attendance at the meeting of colored
people, held last night at the Franklin
street schoolhouse to continue the agitation
in the Flemon extradition case, was rather
slow in gathering. but it got there all the
same.
Broadax Smith was called on Immediately
after prayer by Rev. Watson to defend his
name, objection being raised by Rev. Wat
son that such term should not be used, but
Mr.. B. S. stuck to his integrity, and again
intimated that Broadax suited him as well
as d. d.
The first thing taken up was the question
of providing for the expense of some MEM
bers of the committee on their visit to Har-
risburg. Richard Keys thought there was
neither resolution nor precedent that re-
quired anyone to pay his own fare, no
matter whether a minister or a gambler.
Broadax Smith didn't believe in greasing
fat SOW behind the ear, and therefore op-
posed Mr.. Morton's motion to count the
cash necessary to pay fares. For himself,
Broadax reported "Dead broke"
After considerable discussion Mr.. Foster
moved that all members of the committee
who had not secured the sinews be stricken
from the roll, but the Chair refused to recog-
nize him.
THE GOLDEN SHOWER.
There was q break in the proceedings
when Mr.. John A. Martin (Milkshake) was
introduced. He called on the audience to
come up and blow in their cash, and the
dollars rolled in with a mighty jingle.
Milkshake proved himself a regular Boan-
erges, a wild-eyed pulpiteer, and showed
that he had evidently missed his vocation as
a church-debt raiser. He first captured a
man named John Nolan for $50. Then
John NJ Clark, of 1916 Wharton street,
Smithside, dumped in $40, James Renzie-
hansen came to the scratch and dropped i'll
S. bill. Milkshake next called for the
dollar fellows and the buzzard dollars rat
tied on the table like hail tor time. When
the dollar shower ceased Mr.. Martin called
for the half dollar, then for the quarter dol
lar, then for the dime and finally for the
nickel-sized people, and those tumbled over
each other. When all had exhausted them
selves Martin topped the pile himself with
several bills.
Though Broadax had announced himself
dead broke, Mr.. Martins eloquence
Mr.. Clark dropped 500 Broadax got his half
dollar back in advertising by announcing
that Mr.. Clark was partner in the Brodddr.
| A suggestion was made that Ajax Jones
| be called on, and Martin applied the pump
and Ajax yielded several half dollars after
| he got the power up. Ajax's donations
were announced with cheers, which drowned
some censorious criticism on the part OF
some people in the rear of the hall who in
timated that Ajax was talking more than
| giving.
He was forced to yield the floor tempo
rarily in answer to calls for Mr.. John NJ.
Clark, who made very brief speech, to the
effect that he would head a file of 10, each
to put In another $40 bill. Various people
dropped in ones and fves thereafter, and
| Mr. Smith, who has been an indefatigable
| collector, announced $40 more and surren-
dered his subscription paper. Near $500
were realized.i
AJAX AND THE FLORA
Ajax Jones could no longer be held, and
the Chairman called on the crowd to give
| Mr.. Jones room, and he made the most
fowery speech of the evening, none of his
rhetorical fora being less than big SUM-
| flower. He adjured the meeting to listen to
the echoes from the graves of their ancestors,
which howled down the corridors of old
| time, Liberty, peace ana freedom
| for the colored citizens of Penn
sylvania and for South Carolina
! Let all the sons of Ethiopian and
| Anglo-Saxonian echo back the cryl We
have pulled the throttle valve of the Third
ward, and have here the noble-hearted Mar
tin and Renzehausen, and if those minis
ters don't get to Harrisburg tomorrow
morning, it will be because they oversleep
themselves. Let these ministers go to Har-
risburg with the Bible in one hand and the
Gospel in the other, and bring us back good
news from Governor Beaver"
There were some people who thought Ajax
rather fervid in his remarks, but he more
than defed the lightning, and Chairman
| Washington insisted that he should be
heard at the eleventh hour, he, Mr.. Jones,
had given good account of himself, and
! Ajax said that no one should do more than
he, as cit was now the eleventh hour, save
me, Cesar, or perishP'
WAYS, MEANS, ETC,
James Smith. of the committee, said he
would be unable to go, and Rev. Messrs.
Robinson and j. w. w. jenkins were
added.
Mr. Jenkins made a spirited speech in
| Flemon's interest. He said that in an in
terview with the South Carolina deputies
they had said that if Flemon gets there, and
they get him good lawyer he might get a
| fair trial. Mr.. jenkins concluded by say