The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1894-11-01

warehouses would cost $50, 600, 900, and
put horde of federal officials under the
appointing power of the administration.
Probably Republicans would be sent
here to administer on your cotton, said
he:
Mark" he said, "the bill says the
owners of these products, cotton, corn,
wheat. tobacco and oats, may deposit in
the warehouses and draw so per cent on
their value. Richardson, the great Mis-.
sissippi farmer, and the cotton speculat-
ors could by up all cotton, put it in the
warehouses and draw money. Liver
pool would say, We don't want your
cotton. We can get our supply from
India, Egypt and Africa, but as favor
we will give you or cents pound
for it. Dalrymple, the great wheat
man of Dakota, and Old Hutch, the
grain cornerer, could buy all the grain
and put 1t in the subtreasury. The
margin would be exhausted and the gov.
eminent would have to redeem money
based on oats. In the meantime the
Norway rats will have done their work
and the subtreasury notes will have to
be redeemed in coin, taxed out Of the
people, for the collateral viii have gone
down the stomachs of the Norway rats.
Then he drew picture of the farmers
home. OF all men, who can least afford
the results of panic that is sure to re-
suit from this imitation and the contrac.
ton of the currency. Your home may
be an humble one, but it is yours; your
pillow not of down, but rest upon it is
sweet. 1t is the home of your wife and
your child, and let me beg of you not to
| imperil that home, for all this business
is to be settled in the federal courts. 1t
was not Georgia that constructed this;
it was done in st. Louis by so men, who
sent it here to be crammed down the
Threats of the honest, industrious farm
ers of the Seventh district as the nation
al Democratic party. Fellow.citizens, it
is my honest belief that that little crowd
assembled there at st. Louis knew
no more about, and cared no more for,
and had no more to do with national
Democracy than the devil has to do
with holy water" Great laughter and
applause)
| DE-. FELTON, Then and Now.
L
The Marietta Journal, of recent date,
adds the following fact as to DIR. Eel
toms occilating character:
Politics makes strange bed fellows.
AS the truth of this we take the follow.
ing extracts from speech delivered by
DR.. w. H. FELTON, in Marietta at the
courthouse, in September, 1890, when
he was Jeffersonian Democratic can
didate for congress:
~ am the nominee of iron bound,
steel ribbed, rock bottom Democrats.
have been prodigal in the past and
wandered off; but thank God, have
got back home at last. ! am back in
the Democratic party to stay and I feel
comfortable in being back. Who NOM
mated Everett anyhow? 1t was skew
balled convention; he was put out by
sub alliances, secret order, dark
lantern crowd; where they had to pay
25 cents for whispered pass word to
get to sling vote. God save my occu-
patton as farmer when it peters until
it required rs cents to be paid for the
honor of casting his vote"
The doctor then compared them to
the Knownothing party, Spanish in
QUESTION and the star Chamber of Eng
land.
"My fellow citizens, amt you asham-
ed to belong to such an order? If was
you would quit it,"
Then continued the doctor:
"These subtreasury fellows want to
get an Office. If you ask them if they
are in favor Of free coinage, they will
say am for the subtreasury or some
thing better That is their cry. The
subtreasury bill would fill this country
with swarm of President Harrison s
appointees, like the locusts of Egypt to
devour your substance. 1t is absurd
and un-Democratic. 1t would make the
poor farmer poorer, and the rich man
richer. 1t would corner wheat, oats
add corn in those warehouses in the
west, and raise the price of flour, ETC.,
imposing burdens upon the laboring
people of this country and make the
government pawn broker. The Nor
way rats would nest in the warehouses
and carry off the wheat and the gov
eminent would be the loser"
Thus spoke DR. FELTON, in 1890. Now
in 1884 he accepts the Third Party nom
ination for congress, swallows the Oma
ha platform, sub-treasury, Norway rats
, and all.
Can you vote for such topper? We
should think not.
Can You Vote for Him?
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