Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1892-10-20


Who had made a specially Of collecting
nidavits in regard to General Viewers
var record at Pulaski, and who had
us persistently to incite
.owdyism, was present at this meeting,
and as usual, attempted a disturbance.
Enough Of our people were present,
however partially to suppress IL, but
we suffered good deal Of indignily.
LEADING DEMOCRATS TAKE A HAND.
"At Macon the trouble eliminated.
This time not the hoodlnms OF the city |
but the leading citizens In the Demo
cratic club, as was shown by notice
sent out the previous week, prepared
to show their strength at our meeting
by disturbance that would suppress
free speech, At 8 p. IN. when our
meeting was supposed to be under full
headway, the Democratic club, 800
strong, with banners flying and bands
playing "Dixien marched into the very
midst Of our meeting and speech was
drowned by the frenzied yells of mob
who were ready for any deed OF vlo-
lence, melted by the Democratic
leaders, to laugh ut lawlessness and
clap hands at murder. After the mob
had become unmanageable had bonn
barded the hotel with rotten eggs,
assaulted Mrs. General Weaver, driven
our party from the balcony aud pressed
into the hotel until the proprietor was
concerned for his building and the
safety Of his guests-thc chairman Of
the Democratic club, Mr.. Atkinson,
accompanied by. the principal OF the
Macon University and DR.. Heidi. NJ.
4. pastor, implored me to address the
mob, If only for 1--we minutes, that the
odium might be lifted from their city.
The universits professor assured me
that their young men had heard nanght
save Democratic doctrine for twenty
years.
"Mr. Atkinson has since stated tina,
but one bad little boy threw but one
: good little egg, which happened tC
strike Mrs. Weaver. An unqualified
; falaehoodl as from sixty to eighty Eggs
were thrown while we were on the
balcony, But falsehood would natur
T ally go with egg throYing and ballo
stuning.
THE ATLANTA PROGRAMME.
9 AT Atlanta Congressman Ton
Watson held at bay the night before
- the date Of our meeting a brutal an,
n murderous mob, ana barely ESCAPED
- with life. We learned that extensive
] preparations had been made for on
meeting. Turkeys were in readiness
to be lowered on the speaker; tomatoes
, cabbages, aud eggs In profusion, ant
! along with all. dire threats of arme'
men; and the Democrats optnll
, boosted that they would not pelmi
I, Yankees and foreigners to disturb
, their institutional Our chairman wa
-, not permitted to make even an an
, nouncement. Threats were freel
made; pandemonilm reigned, an
a General Weaver decided to cancel al
a dates in Georgia and leave the State.
:. "Was Georgia the only State /
A which you were offered violenceY"
q "No. Eggs were thrown during ou
a meeting at Richmond, Va. and a
4 Greensboro, N. O., the ladies waitin
a room Of the Richmond Il Danville Raj
4 road was invaded by the soions Of III
"a old siaveholding aristOeracy that 81
10 rupted the country thirty years Hg
AZ and that now comprises the Youu
- Mems Democratic Club. Hsolrn
ir staring, insulting remarks, viclu'
wells Tor Cleveland, and vile remarl
- in bea,a"g Of Mrs. Weaver aud my5e
-, constituted our "na!ment from u
y. chivalry there. The policeman "N
m noticed them in the room-wers unab
of or unwilling to cope with the mob, M
I'd they joined in the rudeness and laught
or approvlngly. At Pulaski, Tenn, no
" withstanding the presence of the poll,
ct and thirty'llve deputies appointed
al the special request of the Nation
60 Democratic Committee, the moi can
at to the hotel and ordered us out
as town. Here, as General Weaver
he carriage drove along the street, o.
~ ladies came out on their porches an
4, spat at him and Kissed. At Atlant
MS the capital of Georgia, 1t was though
re necessary to put on sixty extra poll,
co while We were there"
IT, IT CLEVELAND Is ELECTED.
mo- "Dld the fact that General Weav,
was Union soldier influence or caui
a. the disturbanceY"
a. Partially, no doubt; but the impel
M ing motive was to preserve inviolA
- the solid South, General Weav
spoke in the South IA year ago and W
nj accorded bearing. This year he
No. the standard bearer of new NOV
~ ment that threatens their disintegr
40, tton and the political destruction
,h the enemies of free speech and #