The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-01-01

hostility to me She has been the apostle
In that State Of the extreme wing OK me
woman's rights party she represents
the element to which Cady Stanton, susan
B. Anthony and Mary Walker belong
the element who think that the strong
minded wife should wear the hablliments
OF her subjugated husband. She has had
a career as "A political Stump-speaker.
When that phase of the new woman
movement was under discussion IN
Georgia, / took my stand, with the over
Whelming majority OF her people, IN OF
posing any such unfeminine aspirations
and demonstrations. Up to that time Mrs.
FELTON, regarded me as one Of the wisest
and bravest men In America. She often
embarrassed me by the extravaganza OF
the compliments which she bestowed
upon me. Just as soon as antagonlzeu
her anti-Pauline. anti-Southern, anti
American movement. J. was transformed.
20 her minds eye into "a slanderer'
braggart. = slick-headed. slick-tongued
pecksnifiian. pulpit b!atherskite.'
The respectable men and women In
Georgia so completely squelched her at
tempts at raising a womans rights party
that she gave IL up and then she cOnse-
Grated her elOcutionary powers 20 ire
work of generating sentiment IN FAVOR
Of mob law. Her enthusiasm IN th@s
cause eliminated with the famous Iyoee
speech. the climax OF whlch was, hdns
a thousand CT them every week III
ANYBODY has indOrsed her. II was some
midnight assassin or some one connected
with an organization OF whitecapS.
There are scores OF the most dlsun-
guished and best beloved public men ia
Georgia who have received from MIS-
Feltons tongue just such vitupeIauol ~
she has bestowed upon me. III inc great
Georgian. BENJAMIN II. Hi. had been
guilty OF the things OF which Mrs. Felton
accused him, his name would Do loaasd
with infamy. II Bishop Gambler or the
Methodist Church, one OF the most learn
ed, wise, self-sacrfcing and sanity men
OF the Christian ministry. could be con-
victed Of the Offenses for which Mrs Eel
ton has indicted him. he would be DC.
posed from his high office and relegated
10 ignominious obscurity. If that big
Drained. big-hearted and incorruptible son
of Georgia, who is now the CHIEF masis-
trate of that state. had done the things
which Mrs. FELTON, says ne mas 9ohe'
every true Georgian would desplse MN,
claim TO be a gentleman. l claim 10 oe
a Christian gentleman My code or social
and Christian ethics was taught me py
father who was esteemed and honored
for his rentlemanly and Christian bear
ing | was reared In a community ulspn-
guished for its social ana ChrlsIIsn ~ ~
fure There was nothing In my environ
mont in childhood. bOyhood ana young
rnanbood that tempted me in the direction
of rudeness Vulgarity and PROFANITY BE
ieving that "evil commumcaNohs cul-
rtnt Good manners" and that "tnc com
nario1 Of fools shall be destroyed. ]
never associated with people whose hps
,yero noruted with any such speech as
that of which Mrs FELTON, IS master. j
was never familiar enough with the uehls
zens Of the FISH market or with tnose oi
s.--i.rl,. .s0ueoze" and "Buzzard Roost
such rural localities "a Postum Irot.
10 cultivate any fondness FOR the phrases
which are I'm vogue among them.
FEW FOLLOWERS.
The only object 7 had In referring 10
Mrs Feltons inhamatOry speech at ~
bee was 70 remove from the minds OF me
peOple Of the north the raise impression
which she had made II II be true As
she says. that the virtue and MANHOOD Oh
Georgia support her advocacy OF mon Vio-
lonce and have applauded her slogan:
"Iot us hang a thousand a week
Georgfa IS no place for a civilized man
or woman 70 live 7 know Georgians.
and 7 know that only very insignificant
element have any sympathy with such a
sentiment. More than % per cent or
: the people Of that State are law-aoidlng'
and condemn every demonstration or mon
violence II. in attempting 10 uphold
the good name Of Georgia and the SOUTH
have offended this sensation. dramatic
and MISUNDERSTANDING daughter OF Eve she
can make the most Of IT,
To me there is something In the specta-
Gle Of this woman's madness that Is ap-
Mailing II enlarges my conception OF the
rossibilites Of human depravity. II
shows "a depth OF mahgnity which 7 I'D
not suppose any woman could reach. Not
able 70 digest the venom Of her spleen.
an inflammation sets mp and spreads until
She is crazed with agony Then follows
q rage which nothing can allay she
soeme n wish that cher tongue were IN
tho thunder's mouth" that she might
shake the world
Living lightning flashes from her eve,
And screams of anger rend the affrlghted
sky;