The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1892-10-29
all dates in Georgia and leave the

all dates in Georgia and leave the
state"
"Was Georgia the only state in
which you were offered violence?"
"No. Eggs were thrown during
our meeting at Richmond, Va, and
at Greensboro, n. c., the ladies' wait
ing room of the Richmond and Dan
vile railroad was invaded by the
tocracy that disrupted the country
prises the Young Mems Democratic
club. Insolent staring, insulting re-
marks, vicious yells for Cleveland,
and vile remarks in hearing of Mrs.
Weaver and myself constituted our
treatment from the chivalry there.
The policemen-and I noticed them
in the room-were unable or unwil-
ling to cope with the mob, and they
joined in the rudeness and laughed
approvingly. At Pulaski, Tenn, not
Nithstanding the presence of the
police and thirty-tive deputies ap-
pointed at the special request of the
national democratic committee, the
mob came to the hotel and ordered
US out of town. Here, as Gen. Wea-
ver's carriage drove along the street
old ladies came out On their pOrches
and spat at him and hissed At At
lanta, the capital of Georgia, it was
thought necessary to put on sixty eX-
ira police while we were there"
"Did the fact that Gen. Weaver was
union soldier influence or cause the
disturbances"
'Partially, no doubt; but the inn
pelling motive was to preserve invio-
late the solid south. Gen. Weaver
spoke in the south a year ago and was
accorded a hearing. This year he is
the standard bearer Of a new move
ment that threatens their disintegra-
tion 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 condi-
tion of affairs so appalling in the
south that it appeals to the patriot
ism of every American citizen, the
election of Cleveland would, all these
facts being known, be matter of as
tonishment, 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
cannot can aottge hope to carry any of the south
"If we could get a fair count under
federal supervision we might. The
farmers are with US, but the negroes
will be intimidated and thewhite vote
counted out. The Georgia democrats
might have had 10000 majority as
easily as 10000. They knew how to
count. Their moral perceptions are
so blunted that they do not seem to
know how viciously wicked they have
become. They resort to lawlessness,
murder and fraud. They rejoice in
high handed wickedness, in villainous
articles and in every wicked device
and combination by which the demo-
cratic party can be served and saved.
They are an organized appetite.
Their sole conception of party is an
organization that acquires and dis
tributes offices. What the Bourbon
democracy of the south has not
learned of ways that are dark and
oricks that are vain Satan never
taught the children of men,"
"There has not been an honest elec-
tion in the south for years." contin-
ued 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 was right to count out
any political opponent. Democracy
holds power in the south by fraud
ulent voting. They openly boast of
1,oi hi fn fp,n
and while crying out against a force
the most dangerous description upon
the people"
"You have been speaking of Geor-
gia; let me ask what was the general
attitude of the democracy through
out the south?"
"Its general attitude toward us was
intOlerant and bitter. The people car
ried their hatred to such an extent
that they refused US a building or
other place in which to speak; de-
MED us admission to the leading ho-
tells. They can't stop here was the
reply given to our committees, who
sought to engage us quarters. Some
places the proprietOrs could scarcely
treat Us with ciyility, and they, and
members of their families, donned
Cleveland badges in our presence to
show their contempt for us as their
guests. Southern chivalry is a
myth"
"What was the general attitude of
the southern press toward yourself
md Gen. Weaver
SIN reporting our meetings the
press was vindictively false to a
marked degree. They carried per-
sonal and political hostility to the
bounds of savage warfare. They
sought to incite prejudice against me
by calling me Yankee and a disciple
of John Brown, until l found it nee
essary, in order to allay this prejudice
to ask the chairman of each meeting
to introduce me as an Irish woman
The full spirit of slave holding intol-
erance has found it's last intrench-
mento in the south and guards it's
depotism by that same species Of law
lessness that brought about the
frenzy of Sumter and the despair of
Appomattox. To exterminate this
spirit every local citizen should come
to the rescue and made the question
Of free, Snaach free vote and fair