The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-09-19

eponsible for the development OF his
genius and his education was in no
sense neglected, IL one may judge from
his subsequent career. Some time be-
fore he went to the Constitution he
failed utterly. miserably with n little
sheet that bore the name Atlanta Her
aid.
II was but natural that a man of
his mind should in time force himself
to the position of managing editor CT
the paper, and that he should also ac-
quire a share in its capital stock.
Boldly. fearlessly, he wrote on the
questions of the day. and If his fellow
southerners at times resented his tone
as hitting them or their customs and
manners too hard, they reflected that it
was Grady who gave it to the world,
and the clouded brow gave way 10 the
smile. They would take more from
Grady, perhaps, than from any other
living man without holding it up
against him.
Atlanta is to-day the stronghold of
the temperance movement--so far as
the government of the traffic Of liquor
IS concerned, though it can well hold
its own with all other cities in the
matter OF whisky consumption-and ii
is probable Grady who more than any
one else made IL so. He was q persis-
tent fighter of the rum traffic. and his
private life was consistent with his
public utterances. There was another
nf fnnnanaa N n ne
the Constitution-Capt. Evan p. How
ell. who had gained his title at the
head of a confederate battery during
the war. He was as stout an advocate
of liquor as Grady was an opponent.
1t is related that during n redhot local
political campaign in which the issue
was simply rum or no rum. Grady &C.
cupied one page of the paper champion
ing the cause of the reformers while
on another page OF the same issue each
day, Howell stood up for the cause of
the liquor dealer. To the outsider it
made the paper appear freakish, but
the fight was local only and as How
ell was equally well-known with
Grady in the city, their personalities
for the time went forth ahead of the
individuality of the paper. History
says the temperance element won the
day.
Grady's reputation as a writer was
by this time well established. but IL
remained for a destiny that he himself
conceived and shaped to make of him
one of the foremost orators in the
country. This destiny was simply the
following out of his hobby. the healing
of the wounds that had been left by
the war To do this he began to- ap-
pear on the platform with his mind
stored with fact. his imagination ripe
with the creative power. his heart
filled with enthusiasm for his subject
and his tongue ready to give utterance
TO the words that were 10 show the
north not only that he was a finished
speaker. but hat he came as a repre-
sentative of large element that had
forgiven IL not forgotten, and asked
their brethren of the north to do the
same His first speech attracted uni
versal attention. the news bureaus car
rying It into the homes of the east.
north and west. One speech followed
another. some in the south. but most of
them in the north, until the invitation
came TO address the New England So
ciety in Boston, the heart of the old
time abolitionism, the head-center of
all the bitterness that marked the cam
paign against slavery and the slave
| Holders before and during the war.
1t was an annual banquet. and there