The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1916-09-01
TRAP SET FOR CLAY
PROVES A BOOMERANG
(Alpharetta Free Press ,

Inc Australians have simple
looking little contrivance called the
boomerang, which, when thrown by
a green fellow who does not know
how to handle it, sails out through
the air and then comes back with
terrific force and sometimes knock &
down and kills the man who threw it.
Well, sir, we had one o. them
things out in Sam Giltsrap's pasture
on Thursday of last week, and the
people who were there are laughing
about i, even till now.
( -Four years ago Herbert Clay wad-
ed cut into the waters Of Blue Ridge
politics and broke up the most cruel
the most heartless, the most DISGRACE
full money machine that ever bound
and squeezed free white people. He
Broke that dirty machine into smith
Greens.
after four years of sad experience
in the Down-and-O Club. the feI
lows who constituted that machine
have come back. 1t is the same old
machine, only it comes Butt foremost
this time. Every one sees and
knows that closely behind Wilt
Butt crouches, beneath sleazy veil.
the same Shylock with itching palms
who operated the machine when ii
was an instrument of terror to the
people during the years 1909, 1910,
1911, 1912. The people have not for
gotten how this machine squeezed
widows and orphans and fattened it.
self on the blood of unfortunates.
Well a. we were going to say.
these fellows got up fine barbecue
and prepared succulent edibles to
tempt the people. They invited Butt
and Clay to speak-invited old
Hub" to walk into their trap and he
deVoured. And old Hub" CLAW
walked in, yes, sir, he did And he
took the candy. too, and ate it up
and left the other fellow jes' a-stand-
in thar and a-cryin' and lookin'
hungry. When old Hub" got I'D to
speak the whole hill seemed to turn
to Clay and they cheered the old boy
and yelled and declared they would
vote for him or die. They kept on
yelling and cheering and jumping up
and down till it looked like all the
men and women on the hill were 60
ing TO get held of Clay and make him
Solicitor right on the spot. 1t was
plain that three-fourths of the pao-
pie were for Clay, and nothing could
curb their enthusiasm. They said
they loved him because he loved them
and because he was not trying to
suck their blood for the sake of a
dollar They want him to continue
in the office of Solicitor General be-
cause he has a heart in him, and
while faithfully representing the
State, will not try to tramp his iron
boOt-heel into the eyeballs of those
who may happen to be brought into
court
When Butt got up tc reply to Clay
the people rose up and refused to let
him speak. Then il was that Her
bert showed his fine spirit. He got
up and waved his hands for silence
Men, friends" he said, please let
my opponent have a patient respect
full hearing. We are all right and
he cannot hurt us. We are going &c
beat him badly, so let him speak. 3"
And thus were the voters induced to
hear Butt in reply, and thus did
Herbert Clay win the hearts of the
people. He showed that he was fair
and fearless.
The Free Press has heard many
citizens say that in their opinion the
old machine lost numbers of votes on
this occasion and that Clay won a
large number of supporters.
In our opinion these fellows will
never again try to catch Herbert
Clay in trap of this kind. They
are cured. adv.