The Savannah morning news., 1901-05-12
JONES ON SAVANNAH
HE Is COMING PREPARED TO DO UP
THE CITY.
LET THE TWO GANGS LINE UP.
AE WILL NOT BE ASHAMED OF THE
CROWD ON HIS SIDE.

S1Iuar1On mere - AheES Is
thing AiIing Savannah and He Is n
Good Doctor He Is Not Afraid
That He VIII BE Run out of Town.
He Does Not Expect to Get the CO.
operation of Some of the Classes
of the People, But He VIII Not BE
Ashamed of the Crowd That Lines
Up on His side.
Waycross, Ca, May n-Rev. Sam P
Zones was seen by the Morning News cor
respondent in his room at the home OF
Col. W. W. Sharpe. on Gilmore street,
where he is being entertained during his
stay in Waycross.
He received your reporter cordially and
thanked him and the News for the true
reports of his meetings sent in from here.
You have been fair and impartial" said
he, land I thank you"
II am charmed with Waycross," said
MIR. Jones, land with her clever people.
This town and Valdosta 1 regard the
most vigorous growing towns in the state
They are rivals because of their relation
TO each other, and the growth Of one is
an inspiration to the other"
His analysis of DR.. Broughton is this:
He weighs only 145 pounds-l40 pounds
of that is backbone and the other Ave
pounds is hair"
Yes, nearly everybody in your beauh-
dul city are members of the church." said
the evangelist. The two Methodist
churches have LOO members, and the
other denominations nearly 1000, so that
the average population is nearly all in the
church; but the Methodsts fall from
grace, the Baptist's backslide and Pres
byterians suffer with mixtry of both,
while the Episcopalians say but little
about their condition; and 1 reckon the
least said the better it will be for them,
though the finest type Of Christians l
ever saw were Episcopahans
When asked about the Savannah meet
ing and the stir caused there by his an
toipated visit next week, Mr.. Jones smil-
ed and said:
Yes. The Waycross meeting seems to
be stirring Savannah about as much as it
is Waycross. The Morning News has CIV
en- fair reports of our services, but there
is another paper down there-I forget its
name-that seems already to have hydro
phobia. Its own reports of what l say
and do seem to be producing the dire dis
ease that it's suffering with.
"One of the pastors from Savannah
came yesterday evening to see me and re-
port the condition of things. The devil
and his gang are circulating pamphlets
and writing non de plume articles to show
me up and do me up before 1 get there.
mo doubt many of the inhabitants of
that city of Wings and Angels regard me
as a monster and a mountebank and a
BLACKBOARD. Gamblers, breaking whis-
key dealers, politicians and some of the
officials, regard my promised visit to Sa-
vannah a scourge, worse than cholera
or even the bubonic plague. Some of
them propose to show me up to the
world. They seem ignorant of the fact
that my life is an open book, and has been
for thirty years A mans reputation may
suffer for awhile at the hands of the
devishees and devils, but his character is
as fmpervious to their attacks as the
shining sun is impervious to fogs and
clouds that play and dance under his
burning rays.
The Trouble With Savannah.
when a mule has the collie he rolls and
wallows and blows; there's something all
ing those fellows over at Savannah they
need a doctor, and 1 am a champion mule
doctor-I hardly ever lose a case. Some
are mad, some are scared, and the Saints
are troubled. They just don't like some
things that have said, or 1 am reported
as having said here in Waycross. There's
talk of drumming me out of town. some
say he ought to be killed, others say he
ought to be horse whipped, but when the
convention gets down to business 1t seems
that they can find nobody that will serve
on the horse whipping committee, or the
killing committee, and l am sure they
won't drum me out of town, because I've
got the drums in my possession and won 4
loan them to 'em; I'm gwine to drum them
out, see If / don't.
81 was invited to Savannah by the Min
isterial Association. They have built
large, commodious tabernacle in the park
extension OF the city, and 1 have agreed
to go to that city and preach for two
weeks, and God willing shah go. in spite
of all the whiskey dealers, gamblers. and
drunkards in Savannah, or all the devils
in hell
His Only Object.
$50 far as am concerned. 1 have but
one object in view, the glory of God and
the salvation of sinners. But sometimes,
when 1 am bear hunting, turn aside
and shoot a skunk and occasionally turn
a rabbit over in the grass at the crack of
my gun, but that is merely incidental
I am after bear on the hunt.
This much 1 affirm without the slight
est fear OF contradiction anywhere: that
in all the cities and towns where l have
worked for thirty years, / have had the
earnest prayers and cooperation of the
pureSt, pest women ana the modest pest
men, and this class of people everywhere
have stayed by me and my work and
never uttered a criticism.
I'm no city have / ever had the CO.
operation OF the saloon keepers, brewers,
gamblers, perjured officials, hypocrites,
strumpets. or so-called society people; this
fact Is worth something to me. When
see I'm town like Waycross, thousands
sitting under my voice with faces that
show their appreciation and hand shakes
that are but the expressions of their good
will, and then hear on the outside that
those who run blind tigers and the eccle-
slastical bigots are lined up against me,
then 1 say the maledic tons of the bad
is better proof of right than the praises
and cooperation Of the good.
81 am fifty-four years old, nearly. Since
j was "a years of age I have studied to
know what is best for my country, for
my town. for my home, for myself, and I
have championed things that / believe
are acceptable. and that will bless human
ity and nowhere and at no time have I
ever denounced anything but that which
hurts and harms, dooms and damns nu-
manity."
Then after a pause, he said:
Let Savannah Line Up.
LET Savannah line up-the two sides.