The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1890-10-16
HON. R. w. EVERETT
HAKEs A SPEECH IN MARIETTA.

According to appointment, Hon.
r. w. Everett,the Democratic NOM
inee for Congress in the TIL district,
made speech at the court house
last Wednesday week to large
| crowd.
Col. Moultrie Nj. Sessions intro
duced Mr.. Everett in a few appro-
pirate remarks. Col. Everett
thanked the audience for the en-
thusiastic reception rendered him.
He said he was there as the regular
chosen standard bearer of the Dem
ocratic party. He had obtained the
nomination by virtue of the prima-
ries and mass meetings held in the
several counties in the district call
ed by Democratic Executive Com
mittees. Every Democratic usage
had been complied with anu not an
irregularity appeared. These pri-
maries had been held in the open
sunlight of day, and the people had
cast their ballots and he was the
choice. He was opposed by DIR. w.
FL. FELTON,, who charged he was
nominated by dark-lantern crowd,
but the Democratic primaries refut-
ed the charge DR.. FELTON, had a
right to run for Congress, but he
ought not to run under falls, colors.
Who nominated DR.. FELTON,? What
mass meeting or primary elected del
egates from Cobb to nominate Eel
ton? Was there any held, and were
the people put on notice that one
would be held? Were not the del
egates seH-appointed? Eight men
in Paulding, six or eight in Haral-
son, some 20 odd in Whitfield and
80 in Polk, were the numbers that
composed the mass meetings that
sent delegates to nominate FELTON, vt
Rome, and yet DR.. FELTON, claims to
to be the nominee. Did you ever
know of DR.. FELTON, running for
Congress as a nominee? He had
always run as an independent
against the regular organized Dem
ocracy and he is that kind of 4 can
didate to-day. Mr.. Everett then
took up several charges tpreferred
against him which he said were
ISLANDERS and falsehoods. He read
from the journal of the house rela-
tive to his vote on the tenant and
landlord contract and said he stands
recorded as voting nay. He said
one Mitchell in Paulding county
had sworn that in 1868 or 1869 that
he was cutting wheat for Everett in
Polk county, and when he and a
man named Hitchcock a d one 9TH
er white person, were eating dinner
at Everett's house, that said Everett
seated two negroes at the same table
with them and they got up and de-
handed their pay and left. He said
that he did not know Mitchell, but
in the year charged he was living in
Houston county, did not own farm
in Polk county at that time and in
fact never moved to Polk county
until 1872 and never owned farm
until 1876. Hitchcock has given an
affidavit that MitchelPs story is un-
true and that he had not met Ever
EFT until this year. AS to Grifin's
affidavit that he said that a man
should be worth $1,000 before be-
ing allowed to vote, it is untrue
that in 1876 he was not worth but
$500, and he would not advocate
distran chising himself, besides he
was candidate for the Legislature
that year, and that he would not be
very apt to solicit mans vote and
then tell him he ought to be disfran-
chised. He said DR.. FELTON, in hig
Augusta speech advocated the force
bill, the putting Of Federal super
visors around the polls. Think of
it, citizens, having to march
up to the polls with bayonets on eth
er side.
Having spoken forty-fve minutes
time was called, and Hon. lack
Hargroves was given As minutes,
which he used by advocating Repub-
lican doctrines and his own candi-
dacy for Congress, being the Repub-
lican nominee.
Col. T. Warren Aiken followed in
a speech in behalf Of Mr.. Everett.