The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-09-29
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hold up your hands. (Great applause and cheers)

nave something more to say to you Hush
talking. Let me go CA voice. "How about
Tom Hardwick?') will tell you about him.
want to single out these men who try to
break up this meeting. I will brand them with
the name that justly belongs to them The men
who came here tonight to break up this meeting
had better be careful what they do. CA voice,
''You are mighty right And, "Let Tom do the
talking.)
The Atlanta Journal presume, belongs to
somebody else than Mr.. James r. Gray. Why?
Because when he went into bankruptcy not so
very long ago, he solemnly swore all his property
consisted of watch and shotgun. Laughter and
applase.) Who does the Journal belong to? CA
voice. ITO Hoke Smth)
Hoke Smith; you are right 1t belongs to Hoke
Smith just much this pair of shoes belongs
to me. (Laughter.) And he rules it very much
as l rule these. (Voices "You are rightly On
the morning after the outrage at the Auditorium
on the Saturday morning afterwards, do you re-
member that outrageous editorial that appeared
in the Journal? (Voces, 81 do, do')
told in the Journal that if did not de-
sst,-the idea of me dessting Oaughter) that
it | did not desst, that which occurred to at
the Auditorium would be a gentle breeze
(Voice, Summer breeze.') summer breeze COM
pared to cyclone.
Mark you, what had occurred at the Audi
torum. According to the Atlanta Journal and the
dispatch which it sent out, the audience at
me and Kissed me off the stage. And that i'm
preston has gone abroad, together with another
one that I tainted. Do 1 look like who
would fall about and faint because somebody
would squal at me?
Previous to that night we had rented the Audi
forum from the city of Atlanta. That night the
Auditorium and the people who were
there assembled my guests, invited just as
you are. Voice: THAT is true.O You in
my house, for the time being you my
pany and I am doing my best to entertain
(Applause and cheers) Any man who has been
properly raised and has the true principle would
retire without making any troub1esif what l said
distasteful to him. (Applause and cheers.)
My assembled guests and it is no less insult
to every lady who is present here by my invita-
ton, no less an insult to every gentleman who
has come here, from city, town and country than
it is to me. When they insult me they insult you,
and the men who come here and do not respect
are the who do not respect you ladies.
(Applause.)
Now that occasion we not only invited peo-
pie from other parts of the state but specially
invited ministers of the gospel, having done that
through the newspapers, my purpose being to try
to set myself right with the preachers in regard
to foreign missions. I believe in missions as Paul
taught, and the church practiced for the first
1900 years of her history. But what I do object
to is such extravaganza sending silk hat to
an African negro. applause and cheers.) For
they do say it is of the most grotesque spec
tacles that human eyes gazed to see
negro in Africa a silk hat and broad smile
and nothing else. (Laughter)
1 say we had not only invited people that way,
in the papers but had sent out about 900
special invitations and I myself had mailed in
vitations to such as Bishop Gambler DR..
White and such good ladies Mrs. Sam P Jones
and Mrs Rebecca FELTON,. And the platform
were some of the most eminent clergymen, and
/ stood before finer audience than that
which appeared before at the Auditorium on
the night of September End. Still, they do say,