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HOT AND FURIOUS.Meetings of the Bull-Penners ano the Primary Men.CONVENTION OF GEORCIA LAWYER?.lintlu riiiK or !«•!« tothe State Conven.Uon- Tin* Constitution Gets tli® State Printing—Clontl Kcfninl a New Trial.10, )r- 88. IMacon TnwsAra Bubbao No, 8S Whitihau 8t*bit.An AKTA. Oa.. August 6. 1688.Handbills were Scattered about to-day printed in glaring type. The anti-bullpen people issued the following:Grand Democratic rally •tarteeian well, this (Tuesday) evening, August 7th, 1888, at 8 o’clock.Let every Democrat in Fulton county wbo is in favor of a free and fail expression of the party by a fairly conducted primary, consistent with manhood and the exercise of suffrage by freemen, and who are opposed to the sweat-box, bull-pen plan of imprisonment propofed by an ex treme and fanatical majority of the present executive committee, be present at the meeting to-night, and express your protest and take suitable action.Come with the courage of your convictions, and show a little partisan clique what freeman can do, and that the right of suffrage cannot he obstructed and prevented as proposed.The manhood of freemen resents a plan of suffrage accompanied by imprisonment, and in which three-fourths of the P®rty would be excluded and disfranchised. Come.Remember the time, 8 o’clock p. m.The bull pen people put out a bill reading r« follows?At the court house Tuesday evening, August 7,1888. Democratic grand rally. Independent Rebuked! Repeaters Condemned! Come out to hear Judge Hammond, Dr. Miller, Henry Hillyer, Judge Anderson, Phil Dodd and others discuss repeaters and independents.Come to the Democratic rally. Don’t forget the time.And they supplemented this with a handbill as below;Crme to the Well! Grand Coalitionists rally to-night! Coalition of M. A. B’s, Repeaters, and a few of Frnnk’6 other friends, who are willing to bolt ihe Democratic party. Independentism against Democracy. Lieutenant Colonel Yellow[1ct■aI1wItostone Kit, the great apostle of personal liberty, will be ‘*thar^” and as a citizen of Fnlton county (?) will protest against the Democratic Executive Committee’s action.itaid,titluoloioilbteresotilt;psto.Come to the well—the Bunker Mill of tiie latter day “minute men.” *1 iio well— the* “mecca” of the tribe of Kit and Texrfs Jack—hallowed by the prayer (?) and memory of Jack Carter.Independents, come out!The two mass meetings called for tonight were the talk of the town to-day. Both factions showed much activity, withnagoit*a);ticthralt;monre*la;andibo
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Macon Weekly Telegraph
Macon, Georgia, US
Tue, Aug 14, 1888
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