People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-04-28
CHARLEY'S NERVES.

10y S"Al"he CldoSIndCo Oh ola udYcs
Hon. Charles L. Moses, went to St.
Louis to attend a Convention Of
several thousand earnest, active ex-
cited people.
1t was the first National Conven-
ton he ever attended. He evidently
expected that the quietude of the
school room would prevail and that
the machinery Of the grand convention
would move s'to the sound of soft
music"
Charley ought to have known bet
ter than this. Charley should have
remembered that the American ami
NAL is noisy one and that whenever
he is excited he manufactures fuss.
Charley should have prepared
himself for the ordeal his nerves
were about to unergo by reading the
proceedings of the National Conven4
tons of the two old parties
especially of those conventions where
Tammany is taking a hand.
Had he done this he could have
spared himself the painful disclosures
Of the way he was riotously sat upon
at St. Louis by 1000 men and women
who could not see the force of the
proposal that he (the Hon. Charles
L. should deter the convention from
doing what it was called to do.
Ny esteemed friend is perfectly
sincere in believing that any line Of
policy which lessons the chance of
his coming back to Congress IS bound
to ruin the South and alter the course
of modern history. The convention
did not agree with him in this belief
and the emphasis with which they
differed from him reused his wrath
and Jared his nerves.
To show my friend how the Amer
lean animal always does the same
thing under the same circumstances,
| beg him to read the accounts of
the Democratic meeting held III
Augusta, Ca, last week.
Augusta is a staid, sober, ortho-
dox town. No short haired women :;
no long haired men; no anarchists !;
no atheists.
Yet in convention Of only some
23O Democrats, with no Ram Hackers
to disturb the graceful amenities Of
the occasion, we find that all the
papers in Augusta (none Of which
are friendly to u.s. were IN LII al
perspiration to find words stro>g
enough to describe the tumult.
The Herald called it "Pante-
monium."
The Chronicle called it "chaotid'
'wild confusion &C."
This rumpus was not kicked upby
poor factory people, or working men
who have never had the advantages
| of wealth and cn1t11ra
No. It was created by some Of
the brightest lights of Augusta aris-
tocracy.
In other words the ssrucus" was
kicked up by some of the "nost
principalist" men Of the town.
The Chronicle says that ''c1iaos
ruled supreme that half a dc zen
men spoke at the same time; that
hats and canes were wildly wav ed;
that the distinguished Democrats
jumped up on chairs, desks and upon
each others shoulders that Chair
man Lamar, with long stick, bang
ed Judge Ewes stove to attract at
tention. The stove was more or
less damaged but no attention att
tracted. Lamar, the Chairman,
tried to count the members voting,
Could not do it on account of the
respectable, aristocratic riot whey
prevailed.
Here is the language of the Chron-
icle: il
'The widest picture of unyield-
ing, chaotic confusion, Of clamof,
turbulence and contention, of pluper-
feet pandemonium, could convey no
idea of the confusion which, almost |
from beginning to end, prevailedP
If muet have been a dalph+f1ll |