The Savannah morning news., 1901-09-24
BOASTS HIS CRITICS.
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speeches for the night, but l see our
friend Jake in the hall, and, as the
preachers would say, l suggest that
the services conclude with little bene-
diction from Mr.. Collins"
Mr.. Collins emerged from a doorway.
amid the vociferous applause of his
supporters.
Il had not intended to say anything
tonight" he said. Il don't like to be
accused of talking too much. But since
L am on my feet, l want to deal with
the young men who criticised me at the
McAlpin meeting.
Il am not going to say anything
harsh about them, for l have nothing
but kindly feelings for them; they are
young yet, and they have got a whole
lot to learn. You will have noticed
that l referred to some of them as
sprouts There are such things, you
know, and there are human sprouts
as well as vegetable. I'll give you an
Illustration of what 1 mean
Some years ago. l made quite an
extensive trip through Canada, and
kept my eyes open. l learned some
thing. l found there a class of people
who refuse to marry outside of their
own crowd-the French Canadians. In
the city of Quebec l watched these
people, and l noticed that very many
of them were physically defective One
of them would have a crooked nose,
another squirting eye, a third some
thing the matter with his ear, a fourth
a skin eruption of some sort, a fifth
would be mentally deficient. Well they
were sprouts. To have healthy off
spring, there must be intermarriage
among peoples. If the same old crowd
keep on marrying among themselves
for generations, the results are
sprouts
Now first of all, there is Mr. w. c.
Mcintyre. He's not such young man,
either. He is the engineer of a COM
pany in which 1 am largely interested,
or in which at least, l have made
large investments. / don't know how
much l am going to get out of it.
Now he says l have never done
anything for the advanment of the
South Side. Well, he has been engin-
eer of that company for five years,
and l have at least contributed to his
support He breathes the South Side
air and 1 am sure he would feel that
1 have done something for this section
by helping to make him able to live in
it.
"Mr. Mcintyre never paid dollar
poll tax in his life. l am reliably IN
formed that in 1876 purse of $24 was
made up by several gentlemen and
paid to the tax collector in order to
qualify him to vote.
Next comes Mr.. Killorin. Mind, L
don't deal with him as 'sprout, be-
cause he isn't one. He says l havn't
done ANYTHING for the South Side. Is
there a man in this audience who can
tell me of one single thing that Kill
lorin has done?' =,
He bought votes for McAlpin, ="
yelled a man in the crowd.
He got a man to swear TO lie ana
make false affidavit" said another.
Yes" said Mr. Collins, land L want
to say now that any candidate who
will go into a barroom and get hold OF
a moor. unfortunate man and take adj
vantage of his weak mind, is not mt to
hold the office of ordinary.
'Now. there's my friend, Mr.. Nor
wood. About all he could think of to
say was that the man who hlled the
office of ordinary should be an able
LAWYER. Well, is there anybody around
here who thinks Mr.. Norwood is an
able LAWYER?
"I'll promise one thing. If l should
be elected to the Office to which l as
pire. and it should ever chance that
needed legal advice to decide case,
| should be certain that Mr.. Norwood
would be too much occupied in attend
ing to his large and lucrative practice
To give nv question proper attention,
and I won't go to him. I'll promise you
that.
About young Falligant, who sald
nothing unkind of me, I'll say nothing
unkind. I'll quote what his father SAID
to me. He said: I have felt aggrieved
that Raiford should have attended that
meeting. He should have known ina.
I am for you, that you are my frleno
and that l shall do everything IN my
power to assure your election;
II believe that disposes of about all,
said Mr.. Collins.
why, no." somebody yelled, there
was our friend Myrick."
"Why. of course" said Mr.. Collins.
But about the only thing he had to
complain of was that he had been
forced to argue, before country orol-
nary. all day long a case that should
have been disposed of in half the time,
and he can't hold us responsible Tor
that. I'll tell him one thing though
and that is that If he ever has a case
before me, should be electeu' ne WON
argue it that long
"I,ast but not least there is Cream
or Now. | haven't got anything to say
against him, but this is the fact: Mr..
Dreamer is now feeding at the pupnc
crib The city and the taxpayers, OF
whom | am one, are paying for his
services and they ought to be receiving
them The fact is they are not. Mr..
Creamer has a perfect right to support
whom he pleases, but when he is paid
Inv the city he ought to devote MS
time to the city.
Nov that's all, isn't it,
"No /" said one of the audience,
there's Dixon"
'Who?" asked the spe aker.
"Dixon. Dixon" the man in the
crowd explained.
"Now 1 had completely forgotten
Dixon" said Mr.. Collins, plaintively
you know" he broke off suddenly
think the laboring man is the worst
abused man on earth. Every candi-
date who wants an office poses as the
laboring mans friend. no matter what
his past record has been. Every can
didate is besieged by a horde of men
like Dixon, who claim they control the
labor vote.
"Of course. ] know they don't. l
know what the principles of these Or
carnations are as well as Dixon or
snvbody else, and l know that no one
of them that is worthy of the name
con AFFORD TO indorse the candidacy OF
"Mr Dixon called TO see me some
weeks ago. and told me that he was
rrcsident of the carpenters union or the
bricklayers' union-I nave IorsoVeeh
which" 49,. - ,ho an
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