The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-20
A SLIP-UP IN LIVING PICTURES.
ATLANTA's SILVER ORGAN SEEMS
TO BE INACCURATE.

Out of n Total of 43 Men Represented
I'm Its Cuts as at the silver COnven-
tion Mt Griffin Only 23 We're Really
on the GrOund-AI the Men Erro-
neOusIy Represented rs on Hand
Held Up as Leading Lights in the
Gathering.
Atlanta, Ga, July 19.-when Hon. 10
seph S. Turner. principal keeper of the
penitentiary was handed a copy Of she
Atlanta Constitution by his porter. as he
awoke this morning. he glanced a mo-
ment at the pictorial account Of the Grif-
fin silver convention. and then rubbing
his eyes in a bewildered fashion, softly
inquired of the porter If he noticed any
thing peculiar about him.
Am 1 all right. Jim?" he queried, "or
do look as II my mind had gone out for
walk. never touch liquor, but" and
Judge Turner took up the paper again
and gazed earnestly at a large, hand
some portrait of himself adorning the
front page.
Look at that, Jim. wasn't in Griffin
yesterday, was I, Jim?"
mo. sir, Judge, you wuz at de base ball
mostly and at de capitol mostly, too
But you see, there's my picture, jim
There 1t is, as natural as life, and right
under 1t in plain type, they say 1 was
one of the conspicuous figures at the
Griffin convention yesterday. Are you
sure now that there's nothing wrong? Am
! all right. or did l dream about seeing
n ~.~sGI.
Atlanta team yesterday"
You sho' Is all right, boss, why dat
picture Amt nothn' but er joke"
Judge Turner, to satisfy himself that he
was not wandering in his mind got up
and. dressing quickly, sauntered out into
the Kimball house, and meeting Secretary
Dick Johnson OF the executive depart
ment put the case before him AS It hap
pened, Judge johnson accompanied Judge
Turner to the ball game yesterday and
soon put his mind at rest.
He had been no nearer the Griffin sill
yer convention than-i5 miles all day. But
yet, there was his portrait, looking boldly
out from the front page of the Atlanta
Constitution. this morning, with the in
scription, lone Of the leading spirits at
the Griffin convention yesterday" 1t was
no wonder Judge Turner was bewildered.
But there were others. He was not the
only well known Georgian who doubted
his sanity this morning If he happened
to see the Atlanta Constitutions account
of the Griffin fiasco.
To keep him company, Judge Turner
might have counted just nineteen others
on the pages of his paper. EX-Congress-
man Barnes of Augusta was one of them
He was doubtless shocked when he found
his portrait among those of the big guns
at Griffin yesterday, and so must
Congressman Black and Seab Wright
of Rome and Capt. Pringle the prohibit
zionist leader, and Chairman Boynton of
the House committee on finance.
Martin Calvin and Boykin Wright of
Augusta were also doubtless given a CON
niption fit from the same cause, as well
as a whole lot of others, who thought
they were at home attending to business
all day, but awoke this morning to find
their portraits boldly placed among the
leading lights" Of the Griffin conven-
ton yesterday.
Out of total of forty-three portraits
published in the famous pictorial journa-
listic feat. but twenty-three were actually
those of men who attended the conVeE-
ton. The other twenty were in bissful
ignorance of what was going on there,
happily removed from the scene, some of
them a hundred miles. In the case of
Chairman Boynton of the House finance
committee, whose picture was doubtless
used to add extra weight to a weak cause
he was nearly $50 miles away. The use
to which the portraits of these well known
Georgians was put by the silverite organ
has been widely commented on to-day by
those who were present at the conven-
ton.