The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-06-08
CARTER QUITS THE CAPITAL.
ABANDONs HIS ATTEMPT TO GET
MEN IN ATLANTA.

Decision by the Governor That the
state Capitol Building should Not
BE Used as Recruiting oHice May
Have Influenced the Big POpuIist.
lie Has "a Very Poor Opinion of the
Patriotism of the Young Men of
Atlanta.
Atlanta, Ca, June 7.--Capt. Yancey Car
ter, the big Populist senator from Hart
county who was some time ago commits
eioned to raise a company of immunes,
has given up the job OF recruiting in At
lanta as a very bad one.
In his own picturesque words TODAY
'IIe had never hunted moonshiners in the
mountains harder than he had recruits In
Atlanta" and yet but little success has
crowned his efforts.
He thinks that there is little chance to
get recruits for any sort of command in
this city. because the people are not anx-
ious to go to the front, and for that rea-
son he has gone to other parts.
From here he goes direct to Augusta, TO
try hts luck, and II he does not get men
there he Will proceed somewhere else.
When Capt. Carter first came to Atlanta
Secretary Of State Clifton to make his
headquarters In his Office Gov. Atkinson,
however, thought that the capitol building
wasn't the proper place for recruiting
Office for commando of the regular
army, and an order was issued to request
the would-be Populist warrior to hunt an
other holdng-forth place. II Is not inn
probable that this has had something TO
do with the disgust with which Capt. Yam
cey regards the patriotic spirit of the
! youth Of Atlanta, for Capt. Ed Wilson,
who has an office down town to raise a
battalion for the immune regiment, says
that he IS getting men almost as fast as
they can be attended to by the mastering
and examining officers.
To-day a rather sensational scene was
enacted In the recruiting office of Capt.
| Wilson when an excited lady rushed in and
demanded her son. She was Mrs. w. II.
Hammond, and her son Sam, who was her
sole support, had enrolled himself with
Capt Wilson. When she heard IT, his
mother became frantic and setting out to
find him, brought up at the recruiting sta
ton on Alabama street. Her hair was
disheveled and other evidences of great
excitement were visible about her dress
and department The young man was In a
private room being examined by the sur
geon, when his mother arrived but on or
der Of Capt. Wilson he was brought forth
and sent back home with his hysterical pa
rent. AS the boy left the office he re-
marked that he would be back again.
In addition to the companies being rails
| ed by Capt. Wilson and the recruits sought
I by Capt. Carter, there are two other COM
panic bseing recruited for In Atlanta as
| part Of Col. Rays "immunes" One of
| these Is to be commanded by Capt. c. K.
4 Maddox, who organized the Atkinson
/ Guards and offered them to the state I'M
| der the first call, but was turned down by
! the governor, for whom they were named.
! The other company is being formed by
/ officers Of the Atlanta Rifles under Lieut.
! Halalson
If all these commands are completed here
| Atlanta will have contributed about as
! many as now appear to be anxious to go
| to the invading army.
| If Col. John S. Gambler of the Fifth Reg
| iment IS appointed to command the Third
/ Regiment under the Presidents second call,
! 1t is understood that he will undertake to
| carry along with him the various compa-
] MES of his regiment with their present Of
| fcers. Col. Gambler is very anxious TO go
| TO the war and Il seems to be pretty gem
| orally understood here that the Governor
| will name him for the third colonel
| Three of the Georgia volunteers have
| been brought TO Fort Mcpherson hospital
/ for treatment. They are Corpl. Harrell
/ OF Company G, of First Regiment station
/ ed at Griffin, and Privates Hates and Bos-
worth of Light Battery A from Griffin. All
are suffering from fever and are reported
70 be doing well
| -s-~o-s--
-Vicarious Thlnking-"Do you suppose
his grace the Duke thinks of marrying?