The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1899-08-24

EJTIzENs' MEETING.
betting Of citizens at Marietta
Adefny building Monday night
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. sixty were
All who came were invited
Il 81 NJ. WE. Gilbert, Col.
Il. 2tVas called to the chair and
Mr.. lelse svas requested to act
aIen| was then requested to
sta1 HE oI of' the meeting. He
lDe1an ~ q where it first origi-
mated from & ussion between him
an<i another citizen in regard to for
aner rice for mayor and aldermen,
when The waterworks question was in
;yolved. From that he went to his Of
fee and called into consultation two
rlon-partisan citizens in Marietta, and
i list Of names of about one hundred
and fiftyof the leading citizens was
made up. Upon going to see them
nearly all expressed themselves as in
favor Of the movement and meeting,
which was for the purpose OF meeting
and considering the question OF allay-
ing factional strife, and the putting
out of conservative citizens ticket
and running the city's affairs in the in
terest of the city, instead of for or
against faction He stated that all
the honor hesWanted from it was the
satisfaction of seeing better state of
affairs in city politics. and repudiated
the idea that he sought in any way to
control the large body of shrewd BUSH
ness men who were in favor of the
He stated that what he
wanted the people to do was to- take
hold of and control the affairs OF the
city themselves. For years factional
fight had been waged, and the tickets
for city officers were usually made up
by three or four in some back room,
and then it was pull Dick, pull Devil"
to get the people to vote for this ticket
or another similarly put out. He re-
ferred to card by Mr.. T. M. Brumby
circulated on Monday afternoon, and
showed wherein his motives were mis-.
and that he was making a
fight for Marietta and her welfare. He
said many important things would
come before the next mayor and coun-
Gil that something like $4,000 of tax
money was to be collected each year
from the people and disbursed by this
body; that for water works and electric
lights alone about $4,000 was paid on
the city's public use of same that the
contract for electric lights would ex-
pire in August next year, and then the
city would have to make another con-
tract with the present owners or have
the city's lights shut off; that it was in
the power of the light company TO ask
what they pleased for lights, and that
we were now paying about $1,000 per
year for the lights, and in another con-
tract they could easily demand double
this sum from the city and taxpayers,
and the city would then face serious
issue,
At the conclusion of Mr.. Cheney's
speech, Mr.. Will Trammell spoke on
public ownership on the part of the
city of her public necessities like water
and lights, instead of giving monopo-
ly of these to private companies and
granting them the free use of the city's
He said measures, be-
fore men, should control.
On motion of Mr.. Winters the Chair
appointed the following committee
from different streets and sections of
the city to take the whole matter in
hand, and if they deemed it best call
another meeting for considering their
report:
Atlanta Street-John r. Winters,
Chairman; Jordan Black, ]. HI. Bate,
Leon Faw, DR.. j. ID. Malone.
Powder Springs Street-H. A. Barnes,
DR.. H. V Reynolds, s. G. Motley, d.
f. McClatchey, Jr.
Other Streets-Will Trammell, G. Z.
Henderson, w. b Metcalfe.
Church Street-Joe p. Legg, DR.. 2.
r. Cortelyou, Mike Moore.
Kennesaw. Avenue-W. H Trezevant,
DIR. B l.. Mcintosh, Il. N. Holland, DIR.
T. s. Stewart.
Lemon Street-C. s. McCandlish, A.
H. Legg. and James W. Legg.
Cherokee Street-W. Z. Gilbert, w.
P Stephens, Geo. s. Owen, M. II. Lyon.
Lawrence Street-James Hilburn, ].
N. CAN'T, @. B. Barkalow
Washington Avenue.--D. G. Cole, J.
s. Warren.
Roswell Street.-W. 4. Granting, @.
p Stephens, H. Meinert. p. A Beavers,
f. Faw.