The Globe-republican., 1892-11-04


meeting by disturbances that would suppress
| free speech. At 8 p. M, wheE our meeting
was supposed to be under full headway, the
Democratic club, 500 strong, with banners
flying and bands playing Dixie, marched
into the very midst of our meeting, and
speech was drowned by the frenzied yells of
a mob who were ready for any deed of vio-
lence, incited by the democratic leaders, to
laugh at lawlessness and clap hands with
murder. After the mob had become unman-
ageable, had bombarded the hotel with rot
ten eggs, assaulted Mrs. General Weaver,
driven our party from the balcony and
pressed into the hotel until the proprietor
| was concerned for his building and the safe
ty of his guests-the chairman of the demo
cratic club, Mr.. Atkinson, accompanied by
the principal of the Macon university and
DR.. Heldt, NJ. E. pastor, implored me to ad-
dress the mob, if only for Ave minutes, that
the odium might be lifted from their city.
The university professor assured me that
their young men had heard naught save DEM
ocratic talk for twenty years.
| ''Mr. Atkinson has since stated that but
one bad little boy threw but one good little
egg, which happened to strike Mrs. Weaver.
An unqualified falsehood, as from sixty to
eighty eggs were thrown while We were on
| the balcony. But falsehOod would naturally
60 with egg-throwing and ballot-stuffing.
THE ATLANTA PROGRAM.
"At Atlanta Congressman Tom Watson
held at bay the night before the date of our
meeting a brutal and murderous mob, and
barely escaped with life. We learned that
extensive preparations had been made for
our meeting. Turkeys were in readiness to
be lowered on the speaker; tomatoes, cab
bages, and eggs III profIsiOn, and along with
| all, dire threats of armed men; and the DEM
Ocrats openly boasted that they would not
permit Yankees and foreigners to disturb
their institutions Our chairman was not
1 tt1I
Threats were freely made; pandemonium
reigned, and General Weaver decided to
cancel all dates in Georgia and leave the
| state"
'Was Georgia the only state in which you
were offered violence:'
"NO; eggs were thrown during the meet
I ing at Richmond, Va, and at Greensboro,
| n. G., the ladies' waiting room of the Rich
mond Danville railroad was invaded by the
sciOns of the old slave-holding aristocracy
| that disrupted the country thirty years ago,
| and that now comprises the Young Mems
Democratic club. insolent staring, insulting
remarks, vicious yells for Cleveland, and vile
remarks in hearing of Mrs. Weaver and my
self constituted our treatment from the chiv-
| airy there. The policemen-and l noticed
| them in the room-were unable or unwilling
| to cope with the mob, and they joined in the
! rudeness aud laughed approvingly. At Pu-
| laski, Tenn, notwithstanding the presence
of the police and thirty-tive deputies appoint
ed at the special request of the national GEM
Ocratic committee, the mob came to the
hotel and ordered us out of town. Here. as
General Weaver's carriage drove along the
! street old ladies came out on their porches
and spat at him and h:ssed. At Atlanta, the
capital of Georgia, it was thought necessary
to put on sixty extra police while we were
there"
IF CLEVELAND IS ELECTED.
'Did the fact that General Weaver
was a Union soldier influence or cause
the Disturbance"
partially, no doubt, but the impel-
ling motive was to preserve inviolate
the solid south. General Weaver spoke
in the south year ago and was accord
ed hearing. This year he is the
standardized of new movement that
threatens their dlsintegration and the
political destruction of the enemies Of
free speech and free ballot"
"What, in your opinion, would be the
effect of Cleveland's election?''
Confronted, as we are, by condition
Of affairs SO appalling in the south that
it appeals to the patriotism of every
American citizen, the election of Cleve-
land would, all these facts being known,
be matter of astonishment, as it would
be practical Endorsement of these
things, and as such would be at once
the shame and danger of the republic"
"In your opinion, then, Weaver can
not hope to carry any of the southern
states?"
"If we could get fair count under
federal supervision We might. The farm
ers are with us but the negroes will be
intimidated and the white vote counted
out. The Georgia Democrats might
aev had 10000 majority as easily as
10000. They know how to count. Their
moral perceptions are so blunted that
they do not seem to know how vicious
~ wicked they have become. They re-
sort to lawlesness, murder and fraud.
They rejoice in high-handed wicked
ness, in villainous artifces, and in every
wicked device and combination by which
the democratic party can be served and
saved. They are an organized appetite.
Their sole conception of party is an Or
ganization that acquires and distributes
OAuCc6. w AdI Guo UOuIDOU
cy of the south has not learned of ways
that are dark and tricks that are vain,
Satan never taught the children of men,
HONEST ELECTIONS OBSOLETE.
'There has not been an honest elec-
ton in the south for years." continued
Mrs. Lease. AFTER the negro had been
enfranchised the democracy started out
with the proposition that it was right
to count out his vote, and they have
followed that up with the idea that it is
right to count out any political op-
ponent. Democracy holds power in the
south by fraudulent voting. They
openly boast of their ability to have
full account, and while crying out
against force bill they have fastened
force bill of the most dangerous de-
scriptition upon the people,
"Iou have been speaking of Georgia;
let me ask what was the general attitude
of the democracy throughout the
corfh ~,