Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-04-04
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MOBILE FOR JOHNSTON
Said Mobile County Clarke Man Who Knows
What He is Talking About-Smallpox
in Montgomery County. -,

montgomery, April IA
gentleman from Eufaula tells this coed
story:
Recently in the city of Eufaula one of
Captain Johnston's good Barbour county
friends was making a Johnston speech
to=the employees of the cotton mill. Now,
the employees of the cotton mill are all
for Johnston, while the management of
the mill is strongly and strictly for
Clarke The fact that the employees
would turn out to,shear a Johnston talk
was a matter of sore disappointment to
some of the Citizens OF Eufaula who have
a Clarke way of thinking. Some face
tieus individuals, intent perhaps in
pleasing the mill management, deter
mined to cut the speech short, so an
agent was secured, who was provided
with a liberal supply of liquor and was
instructed to go to the cotton mill meet
ing and call the audience out to partake
of the liquor, without money and with
out price. The scheme was a tip top
one, and the great heads which had
thought 1t out waited with glee for the
return of the agent with the news that
the whole cotton factory contingent was
on a glorious old high lonesome; but the
news which the agent brought back with
him was not calculated to produce hilar-
ity in the crowd of ableminded diplo-
mats, who had dug the plan out of their
brains The agent did all he could to
run the game to a successful close, but
soma how or other the cotton factory
people did not relish the delicate little
attentions which the diplomats proposed
to,pay them and when the agent opened
up his stock in trade, instead of Swig-
ging it with thanks, the ungrateful fell
lows smelt a mouse, and taking the
liquor they emptied 1T on the parched and
thirsty earth and then rolled the agent
In, antf1 ha laA fha off or r1Ir-
ings of a distilery. When he went back
to the good pious people who had cut out
his nights work for him he found that
they could not hold converse with him
until they closed their nostrils with
clothes pin for fear of an attack Of in
fictitious delirium tremens The special
correspondents about Eufaula failed to
report this incidentally, no one can Inn
agine for 1t was surely worth mention,
honorable or otherwise.
The Clarke Men Paid the Band. r
Another interesting story comes from
the enterprising little town of New De
catur, where no ballot box stuffing is
charged, even by the most enthusiastic
Clarke man. On the day of the primary
the gentlemen who We're engineering the
Clarke movement in that place We're ac-
tive, and, though all the earth should go
against the honorable Richard, they were
determined that New Decatur should
give him a practically unanimous vote
Early in the morning they turned out
with a brass band, banners galore and
any number of gaily decorated wagons
to haul Clarke voters to the polls. The
| band played White Wings, annie
Laurie" Casey at the Bat" ''MeGinty''
and other well known airs, while the
| wagons were kept at work from early
| morn to dewy eve transporting the work
| ingmen from the shops to the polling
place and back again. 1t was evident to
the Johnston contingent who looked on
that there was a slump for Clarke and
they expected to be showed under by an
overwhelming majority, but when the
votes were counted out of the box Clarke
was only about twenty-five votes ahead
| of the man who had neither band nor
| a wagon. The workingmen of New De-
catur enjoyed the Clarke ride and listen
| ed with pleasure to the Clarke band but
| they voted for Johnston all the same.
| The Johnston men at New Decatur are
| was not raised as to this box as well as
| to the box at old Decatur.
! Almost Ready to Surrender.
| A well known citizen of Mobile, who
| stated that he was a Clarke man and
| intended to vote for him, was in this
| city a day or two ago, and in talking to
| friends here said there was no use de-
| nying it, Johnston was going to carry
| Mobile county. This was strange talk
! for a Mobile county Clarke man to be
/ making, and Montgomerian who heard
| him. seeing another Moblian who is
/ quite close to Candidate Clarke, asked:
"You know s. D of Mobile, do
| you not?" The gentleman from the in
| ner chamber answered: Certainly"
| We'll" asked the Montgomerian, what
| kind of a man is he regarding truth and
4 Judgment" oh" returned the gentle
! man from the inner circle, "he's all right.
/ You can bank on anything he says
| Just then 1t dawned on the gentleman
that there was a negro in the woodpile
| and he FASTENED to add But he talks
| too much; too confoundly much" The
| gentleman from the inner circle had
| probably heard of the wild and woody
| talk of the gentleman from Mobile.
| Smallpox in Montgomery County.
| Three cases of smallpox have been dis
1 covered on the plantat ton of Dr. Henry
| Stone, about eight miles from this city,
and some alarm Is felt here at the close
ness of the disease. Competent physi-
4 clans are in charge of the cases. and ev-
| cry precaution has been taken to pres
vent the spread of the disease.
1 Daniel Stone, a Mobile negro, came to
| the Stone plantation about two weeks
ago to visit relatives there, but soon af-
1 ter his arrival he was taken i'll with what
| was believed to be a bad attack of mea-
| sizes. Several days afterwards man
and a woman in the house with Stone
| became sick with the same symptoms,
| Dr. Stone called and examined them and
| diagnosed their cases to be smallpox and
| the visitors to be variolOid, mild form
| of smallpox. Physicians went from here
| and examined the cases, and they all
| agree with Dr. Stone as to the disease be-
! ing smallpox. There were two other ne
| eroes in the house with Stone, but both
| having been vaccinated, they escaped
| The physicians consider that this is a
| fair test of the virtue of vaccine pre-
| tentative. The authorities have inaugu=
/ rated systematic vaccination of all of
| the negroes in the section of the county
| in which the Stone place is located, and
| will see that the sick negroes are not
| communicated with by any except those
| who are authorized by the physiciansoto
| attend them. of.S
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