Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1892 — Weaver’s Tale of Woe. [ARTICLE]

Weaver’s Tale of Woe.

Hon. \V. Y. Atkinson, Chairman of tho Democratic Executive Committee of Georgia, says, in reply to the published address of Gen. Weaver and various special telegrams which have been sent out from Georgia by Mrs. Lease, that they do great injustioe, not only to the Democrats but to the people of the State. - • = fte says: “According to his own admission, Gen. Weaver received a respectful hearing at Wayeross and Columbus. At Albany h.s speech was listened to by several hundred people, and no effort whatever was mode to prevent him from speaking. A prominent negro of that place, at the conclusion of Weaver's speech, took the stand to refute what he had said, and bitterly attacked Weavqr and the third party. Weaver was so indignant that a negro should attempt to answer him that he immediately left the platform. The only possible foundation for the greatly exaggerated egg story spread broadcast by Gen. Weaver and Mrs. Lease is that a small boy in the open-air audience at Macon threw an egg, and he was promptly, arrested and punished for It."