The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-18
A WARM ROAST FOR MARTIN.
HE Is CHARGED WITH TRYING TO
HUN THE GATE CITY.


Failure of the Peace Jubilee Is
Charged Up TO Him, md Now the
CaunciImcn Are Denouneing Him.
IL Is all Because of II Card He
Wrote CritIsisinG Their Attitude as
10 Cotton Factories and Calling
Them ''Pig-headed officials"
Atlanta. June l7.-Mr T. II. Martin.
who has become known as the "Poo-bah"
of the town on account Of the fact that
be has made a try out OF almost every
sort of job that came within his sight
since his residence here, is the target for
some hot shot fired by city officials this
afternoon.
DESPITE the fact that he has lived in
Atlanta but a short time. Mr.. Martin APP
pears 70 have become impressed with the
idea that it was his natural duty to run
the town or the town would stop. He be-
gan operations with the alleged peace jul
bilee some months ago, which was declar-
ed one of the most ignominous failures
that was ever perpetrated in the name of
Atlanta. Some people wanted TO ride him
OH a rail for this, but public disgust was
smothered for the sake of the towns rep
utation, or at least for what reputation
was left after Martin pulled the peace ju-
bilee off.
But. as people who witnessed the alleged
peace jubilee must nave realized, the man
who ran il, had his nerve with him, when
he came to town. Mr.. Martins nerve did
not desert him after that jubilee. In
point of fact while his was the hand that
pulled the strings, thee fake was perpe-
trated in the names of several well-known
and highly esteemed citizens who with
Mr.. Martin in the background naturally
came in for the "cussing."
suI Trying to Run IL.
While his scapegoats in the jubilee fraud
were trying to crawl into their holes and
pull the holes after them 10 escape this
msdireCted abuse, Mr.. Martin was Sc
renely carrying out his plans for running
the town" Before people really found
out who was responsible for the jubilee
fiasco. Mr.. Martin bobDed up as secretary
OF the Atlanta Business Mems League,
an organization founded with view to
overthrOwing the Chamber of Commerce.
Then little later he came on the track
again as secretary of the State Fair AS
The Carnegie Library came along, and
Mr.. Martin made a leap for the band wag-
on. lie finally lighted as a director, but
not until after one Of the most sensa-
tional scenes that has taken place in the
City Council in many days. He had been
nominated by the library association by
the skin of his teeth, but sentiment among
the City Council was about to crystaliZe
against ms confirmation on account OF MS
penchant for running the town
Col W. ). Thompson, one of the most
highly respected citizens, and a member
OF the Council got up on the floor, de-
nounced Mr.. Martin, and proposed that
he be turned down, but other councilmen,
who before the meeting were of the same
mind, became sorry for him and he was
These incidents have not served to add
90 the popularity of Mr.. Martin, as may
be imagined, so that when yesterday ne
bODDHU uD again with a long. fierce
paper card abusing and criUczing some of
the city officials for what they had said
about cotton factory wages, there was a
suiphurous atmosphere about the city hall.
Cause OF the New Trouble.
Mr.. Martin called these councilmen
"Pig-headed city officials, and referred
20 them as "damnably ignorant" Among
other choice bits OF rhetoric specifying
them as busy-bodies and anything else but
good city fathers.
The councilmen to-day say that what
they said al the meeting of their COM
mittee was none of Mr.. Martins business,
since they We're attending TO the city-s
interests, and he is neither the guardian
OF their opinions, nor a cotton factory.
Councilman LaHatte declares that he
was one Of the few who stood by Martin
in Council, when he was about TO be hu-
inflated because he was a Outlying brag-
CART as he had been styled by other
councilmen. LaHatte now says he thinks
he was wrong in taking Martins part and
mat ms colleagues VINO thought him a
bullying braggart trying 10 run the
town were right, as they knew him bet
ter than he did a that time Finally
Councilman LaHatte concludes by telling
Mr Martin that if he intended TO impugn
his motives, he is unworthy of the notice
of an honorable citizen"
Mr.. Walter Taylor, another city off,
clal, connected with the Mayors office
also makes. a Lively stab at Mr.. Martin,
and in cold type tells him thai he must
be more discreet in the selection of his
subjects in future, or he viii get his face
punched.
As an issue in local affairs Mr. Martin
BIDS fair TO cause more trouble than Joel
Hurt, or even "YellOws tone Kit" who I'm
the days of the prohibition campaigns,
was such a thorn in the flesh that he final
~ had TO get away between suns.