On the afternoon of the day they were to speak the Evening Journal contained the following spirited notice under the head of “Howell and Grady”:
Jack Spratt
Could eat no fat,
His wife could eat no lean,
Between them both
They cleared the cloth
And licked the platter clean.
The reproduction of this ancient rhyme is not intended as an insinuation that Mr. Henry W. Grady, the silver-tongued prohibition orator of to-night, has any of the attributes of Jack Spratt, or that Colonel Evan P. Howell, the redoubtable champion of the antis, has any of the peculiarities of Jack Spratt’s conjugal associate. The idea sought to be conveyed is that the fat and lean of prohibition will be energetically attacked by these gentlemen to-night at the same hour from opposite sides of the table.
It goes without saying that between them both the platter will be licked clean, and it is to be hoped that this hearty prohibition meal will be thoroughly digested and assimilated to Atlanta’s system, that growth in her every tissue will be the result.
It would be hard to select two more effective speakers and two more entirely different.