Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-24
JOHNSTON At DADEV|LLE
He Received a Grand Ovation
From the People
OF TALLAPOOSA COUNTY
The Captain Is Waxing Fat on the Work He is
Doing.
MANY JEFFERsoNlAN CONVERTS MADE
by Asking Him How He Could De-
bate the Financial Question
With Moseley.

tain Johnston arrived here yesterday
afternoon on the train from Montgomery.
The weather was clear and pretty this
morning and at an early hour the people
from the country began to reach town.
His coming had been fairly well adver-
tised, and it was not late in the morning
when it developed that the speaker was
going to have large crowd. Captain
Johnston had quarters at the New
Ridgeway hotel, and by 8 o'clock the
people began to call on him, and con-
tinued to call for three hours. He was
besieged by his friends and supporters
from the different sections of the county
At IL o'clock the court house began to
fill up and in a few minutes standing
room was at a premium. The court house
will comfortably seat about $50 people,
and there was at least 450 people in the
room when Judge w. M. Lackey, prom
inent practitioner at this bar, aScended
to the judges stand and in a short, but
eloquent speech presented to an enthusi-
hstic audience of 450 people the next gov
ernor of Alabama. The speaker was re-
ceived with prolonged applause. Not
withstanding the continued canvass
Captain Johnston has been engaged in
he was in fine trim and is holding his
own finely. He appears to fatten on it.
The speaker began his speech at 11:15
and spoke two hours. He answered, to
the entire satisfaction Of all his hearers,
all the objections that have been put
forth by Clarke and the Montgomery Ad-
vertiser. He made sevc.al clever hits in
replying to some of the remarks made by
Clarke in his speech here about him last
Monday. One was that he thought he
could stand his hand with Goodwin about
as well as Clarke could his with Bob
Moseley were he and Moseley to become
nominees. Another was that it did not
require any ropes to tie him in order to
get him to meet the enemy from 1861 to
1866; neither had there been any great
amount of rope used in tying him in order
to keep him in front of and face to the
political enemy of this people since 1866
Taken all together 1t was an able
speech and made converts to the john
ston cause in this county. Since the
speaking many heretofore Jeffersonian
democrats have been heard to say that
they were going to come back to the
party. The speech not only benefited
Johnston in this county, but 1t will be of
immense benefit to the party. There
were leaders here today from every beat
In this county, and there is no mistaking
the fact thatin the next state convention
Tallapoosa countys eight votes VIII go
down in the Johnston column. The
Johnston forces here are active and en-
thusiastic, while the Clarke people look
hacked and forlorn.
The rebuke of the Advertiser from De-
catur and by Clarke men In Decatur,
printed in yesterdays State Herald, set.
tied the question as to whether or not
there was fraud in Morgan county. The
answer of those Clarke men from Nor
gan county fully satisfied all the fair
minded people here that the Advertiser
had no ground whatever for it's charges,
and good citizens of both factions here
condemn the course of that paper In that
matter. Many say plain out that they
think the Advertiser Is preparing to bolt,
seeing already that its man has no
shadow of a chance. Sundays State
Herald was in great demapd here today,
and they passed from Land to hand
among the people from the country,
many of whom were anxious to read the
answer from Clarke men of Morgan
county to the malicious charges made
against their neighbors by the Adver-
tiser This was certainly Johnston
day in Tallapoosa, and he is a dead sure
winner in this county, as well as in the
state. Captain Johnston left on the 2
O'Clock train for Birmingham. looking
perfectly serene. as he had right to,
after his magnificent reception here to-
day.