The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1915-10-08
SOCIALISTS STILL
FLETCHERIzE THE RAG
Over that Interrupted Har-
rangue-Madison More
Modest in Demands.

At the meeting of the city council
last Tuesday night Alderman Henry
M. Fearnside, diletante, polished,
suave, and in a quiet manner impress
ing sincerity, explained that his COM
mittee, owing to the continued Illness
of the mayor, had been unable to get
statement from him concerning his
orders in the matter Of the recent in
terruption of the lady who was max
| ing socialist speech at the corner
of Lemon and Second streets; he read
statement from DR.. Chandler, the
physician in attendance on the mayor,
to effect that that official was not phy-
sically able to be interviewed, and
therefore the alderman asked for fur
ther time. This was granetd.
Among the spectators was Mr.. Mad
ison, the personal representative of
Nine. Ida Crouch -Hazlette, the lady
with the grievance. He looked wor-
ried; he may only have been tired. He
had been waiting more than an hour
for that report, and when it came it
was Disappointing. He chewed the
rag for a time in silence (noise not
being necessary in rag mastication)
and then asked the privilege of the
foor-he wanted to present some af-
fdavits and facts and the legal opin-
ion of the judicial auxiliary to the To-
cal socjalitic propaganda.
Alderman Walton stated that the
council had legal adviser who was
present, and it did not care for out
side advice, but if the gentleman had
any facts to present, he for one would
be glad to hear them.
Alderman P. Jack Becks said that if
Mr.. Madison had any affidavits, that
he be requested to present them to
the council and that they be turned
over to the police committee Mr..
Madison said he had Al of them and
these were handed in.
Then Mr.. Madison relieved himself;
he was mild in manner compared with
| former utterances; he made no de-
Fmands. He said he represented Mrs.
Crouch h-Hazelette in this controversy
with the city; that the lady had de-
cided to dsmount from her attitude
or threats to sue for $4,000 cases, and
would now be willing to call the
matter off provided the council would
locate the guilty official and publicly
Ireprimlud him. Mr.. Madison talked
Tor some distance by the face Of the
clock, perhaps Is minutes. The coun-
eli yawned and sat through the ora
ton patiently.
Mr.. Madison is a socialist, but he
don't look it. He has more the re
Isemblance of a theosophist; his face
is stamped with those marks Of intel
lectuality which bespeak a deep re:
search into those pantheistic teach
ings which lead to evolution and the
doctrine of transmigration. Any way
he is carrying a burden of responsi-
bilitv on his mind that has every out
ward appearance of an overload. We
wish he had Tie cheerfulness of anoth-
er socialist we know in this town; it
woJd help him over this mental crisis
and land him in his paint shop,
where his artistic temperament is
manifest in every slap of his brush.
He is a good man, this Madison; but
he is overloaded with the burdens of
others, and he may slip in the toting.
The Al affidavits were compiled by
four citizen tax payers of Palatka.
That is to say, each one of the four
made several affidavits, each one of
which had to do with some one fea
ture of the interrupted speech, the
total of the four making Al atfidavits.