The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1892-06-22
A THIRD PARTY CIRCUS.
MEETING OF THE PEOPLES PARTY
IN BLAKELY.
They Had Pretty Lively Time All Around.
and q Row Was Narro.uI.- A.a..a.,

Third party in this county. In addition
to the speeches that were to be made. a,
picnic dinner had been made mart of
the programme. SO this morning there
came to town large number of people
not only men who sympathized with
the new move, but also others who came
to see the fun.
The meeting was called to order in the
court house at II o'clock, and j. J. King
was made chairman. DR.. j. III. Pickett.
OF Ty Ty, was here and he was put up
as the first speaker. He spoke about
half an hour. As he took his seat Capt.
W. II. Stuckey asked permission to read
the st. Louis platform and to comment
on it. He was allowed to read the plat
formy bnt when he began to strike it a
few telling blows in the short ribs. he
was informed that he was at a meet
ing of the Peoples party an, It
his remarks were out of order, ar y.
sequently he was forced to take hi J..
Then, Mobley, of Decatur count,
forty minutes As he was about t., Ike
his seat some of the audience began to
ply him with divers questions concerning
his past career, giving him considerable
trouble to clear away the fact that there
is true bill against him in Decatur
county for bigamy and that he had been
conspiring to murder man in Alaba ma.
AT this point the discussion became very
warm and it was with difficulty that the
chairman succeeded in getting the house
to anything like order The chairman
appointed committee en- organization
and sent them out to make a report.
BY this time there were nearly 800
people in the court house, of whom
about one-third were those that favored
the Third party move while the balance.
- s---oI0wu wUrU composer OF other
citizens who were there as spectators,
and about thirty negroes who had gath
cred in one corner of the room Just as
the committee on organization retired,
two hot champions, one of Democs acy,
the other of Third partyism, became
involved in a dispute. Just as they
were about to resort to blows, friends
rushed up and tried to part them This
occasiOned great deal of noise, and
somehow it got circulated i'll the crowd
that the two factions were about to en-
gage in riot.
Men began to call for the police Off
GERS, and as they did so Dr. Pickett and
Mobley, who did not wish to be involved
in such a difficulty, made break for
the doors. Mobley succeeded in break
ing the lock off the grand jury room
and ran in there, while Dr. Pickett made
precipitous fight down stairs. This
was signal for general disorder, and
in ten seconds the court room was Bed
lam broke loose.
A stampede was made for the door,
and here went the Third party and many
of their friends, pell-mell, hully-burly,
split and peit, rough and tumble, down
stairs, while within the court room ak
was confusion worse COMPOUNDED.
Two of the negroes, who had sat WITH
their mouths open and had listened to
the war cries of the orators of the day
until they were ready to believe that
war was imminent every minute, be-
came so frightened that they jumped
out of the window twenty feet to the
ground. 1t is supposed that they hit
terra frma, heel end up with care, as
neither of them were hurt.
In two minutes time, out of the 800
that were in the court room, not over
fifty were left. The chairman retained
his place, and as soon as the police Off
GERS could get things quiet he adjourned
the meeting until o'clock p. m.
In the afternoon the crowd met again
and no further trouble was realized. A
report was received from the committee
on organization. Several committees
were appointed and plans were formu-
lated for a more thorough organi zation
of The party in this county.
In Early county there are about 100
cltlzens that are in sympathy with the
Third party movement, although only
about third Of that numoer have allie6
themselves with the organized party. H
is not thought that the Third party win
have much effect on the politics of the
county,as the champions Of it are early
all men Of little political strength.
Base Ball.
Who're will be a came of ball hetweela