The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1890-10-02
DR.. W. FL. FELTON,.
HE xAKEsA SPEECH In MARIETTA.

tHdIu Ills IrleuuS naQ secured the silver
Cornet band and they were there playing
stirring music, expecting the train to ar
rive every moment, but II did not come
Finally The telegraph office was visited
and it was subsequently, announced that
the Rome train was ditched near Kingston
and DR.. FELTON, would not arrive until halt
past twelve o'clock. The Doctor, however,
arrived on the one o'clock train The
band was playing when the doctor stepped
off the train and quite crowd had gather
ed around him and began to shake his
hand. He was escorted through the
streets, followed by crowd, and when he
took the Judges stand, the court house
was filed, some 500 or 900 people being
present
Mr. ". W, Jolly, farmer, introduced
DR.. FELTON,. He said he had never voted
for Dir. FELTON, but he was going to do 90
this time
DR.. FELTON, began his speech by thank
ing Mr.. Jolly for his complimentary allus-
ion TO him as farmer. that his whole life
had been devoted to farming and his en-
tire living came out of the farm, and he
was the farmers friend.
He said that he was the nominee of the
Rome convention, which were composed
Of iron-bound, steeLribbed and rock-bot
tom democrats. Said that he had been
prodigal in the past and had wandered off
but he was back in the democratic party
20 stay and that he felt comfortable in be-
ing back He contrasted his nomination
with that of Mr.. r. W Everett, the regu,
lar organized Democratic nominee, and
said he was nominated by a skewbald con-
vention and was put out by sub-alliances,
a secret order, dark lantern crowd where
they had to pay Is cents for whispered
pass word in order to get to sling their
ballot. he said personally Mr. Everett
was very clever. christian gentleman, but
IN speaking OF his candidacy, he wanted to
know what democrats outside of these sub
alliances had anything to do in nominating
him. He said God save his occupation as
a farmer, when it peters out until it re-
quires Is cents to be paid for the honor OF
casting his vote. He said it had become
a secret political organization. The know
nothing party of 1854 was also a se>
cret political party, but twelve months
after it was organized, it would require a
microscope to have found a man willing
to acknowledge that he ever belonged to it.
He then compared the Farmers Alliance
order to the Star Chamber of England,
during Edward II and Charles and II, a
secret political body, arrestiDg men with
out due process of law, trying and con-
demning them in secret and sending
them to the block He also compared
tkem TO the Council of Ten in Venice, or
iginally organized for good purpose, but
1t became despotic and absorbed the legis>
lative and commercial business of that
government. From this commercial cham
Der of ten, bridge lead to massive prison
dungeon, and it was called the bridge of
signs" owing to the fact that those who
passed over that bridge vet it with their
tears and had their hearts broken, doomed
to the tagot, the block or exile. The
Spanish inquisition was also alluded to
This secret Alliance order was proscrib-
ing every occupation and profession but
their own in the same way He spoke OF
the development and prosperltyot the coun-
try and paid glowing tribute to the mar
velous growth of Fallapoosa and Harietta.
come to Cobb and l find that in ten
years time that your wealth has absolute
ly doubled, a nagnifcien: railroad leading
to mountairs teeming with wealth, marble
mills, new school houses, splendid resi-
dences, etc, and it seems that the God of
love is in your midst, and yet this Farm
| ers' Alliance is making war of proscrip-
ton against these Industries, which are
just as valuable as my farming industry
What would the farmers products be worth
II 1t were not for the manufacturers, the
mechanics, the carpenters, the lawyers,
the doctors, the bankers and laborers, with
out their commercial transaction. We
would go back to barbarism. Then
why make war upon them. He spoke Of
the suo~treasury yardstick which rejected
every mon for Office if he did not measure
up to it. 1t reminded him of old Freder-
lex the Great who determined TO select
regiment of men exactly six feet high.
That brave old warrior would take his tape
measure which he carried in his pocket
and walking or riding through the streets,
be would see man engaged in business.
he would have his officers to arrest the
man and bring him before him and he would
apply his tape string. If he measured six
feet high he was marched off without no
tice, to camp and enrolled, no matter if
ne was an idiot or physically deformed
Joshua selected 300 men and only those
who could lap water with their tongues
were accepted. Here comes Livingston.
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