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•WAYNESBORO, Mvh
. i 1,1892,
EDlTOEIAi liOiXS.
Vox pepuli, vox cici.
Who's scared, not t!ic people’s
Party.
Turn the rascals out regardless
of party name.
Stand to your guns Allianccmen
and the victory is yours,
What is the largest party of the
season ? The People's Party of
course.
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THE OCALAPLYTFORM.
(a) We demand the abolition of na
tional banks.
(b) We demand that the government
shall establish xuo-treasuries or denosilo
fries in the several states, which shall loan*
money at a low rate of interest not to ex
ceed 2 per cent, per annum, on non-perish
able farm products, and also upon real
estate, witn proper limitation upon the
quantity of land and amount of money.
c) We demand that the amount of
the circulation medium be specially in
creased to not less than $50 per capita.
2. We demand the.congress shall pass
•vuch laws as will effectually prevent the
tdaling in the futures of all agricultural
aed mechanical productions; providing a
((tningent system of procedure in trials
crat will secure the prompt conviction,
hnd imposing such penalties as shall se
cure the most perfect compliance with
the law.
3. We condemn the silver bill recently
passed by congress and demand in lieu
thereof the free and unlimited coinage of
silver.
4. _ We demand the passage of laws
prohibiting alien ownership of land, and
tiiat congress take prompt action to de
vise some plan to obtain all lands now
owned by aliens and foreign syndicates;
and that all lands now held by railroads
be reclaimed by the government, and held
for actual settlers only.
5. believing in the doctrine of equal
rights fo all and special privileges to
/ione, wo demaud—
(a) That our national legislation shall
be so framed in the future as not to build
up one industry at the expense of another.
(h) We further demand a removal of
the existing heavy tariff tax from the ne
cessities of life, that the poor of our laud
piast have.
(c) We further demand a just and
equitable system of graduated tax on in
comes.
(d) We believe the money of the coun
try should he kept as much as possible in
the hands of the people, and hence we
demand that all national and state reve
nues shall be limited to the necessary ex
pense of the government economically
and honestly administered.
C. We demand the most rigid, honest
and just state and national governmental
control and supervision of the means of
public communication and transportation,
and if this control and supervision does
not remove the abuse now existing, we
demand the government ownership of
such means of communication and trans
portation.
(7)„ We demand that the congress of
the United States submit an amendment
for the constitution providing for the
election of the United States senators by
direct vote of the people of each state.
What is coming next ? Every
thing is getting very quiet, waiting
for orders, \vc guess.
The Independent of Elwood,
Nebraska, is making it hot for the
plutocrats in that state.
Select well your committeemen
for the People's Party.—Many will
he called but few chosen.
The crack of the party lash has
no terrors for reformers now. It
is principal or nothing with them.
Two Thousand or more sub-all i-
anccs have already declaircd for
the People’s Party, and still they
come.
The tariff reform dodge won’t
work gentlemen, give our full de
mands or we will take them by the
ballot.
The People’s Party will put can
didates in the field from justice of
the peace to president, in the next
election.
What will become of Georgia’s
big T-H-R-E-E, Livingston, Wilson
and Moses, after their term of
office expires ?
are no exceptions to this rule
compare their records in coi
with their jiromises to the peyl’l"-
Thcre was a brutal murdej nn
Tuesday last iu lhyatu Gijnty
Virgil N. Butler, was shot'from
ambush with buck shot, whil- qui
etly riding along the road. |oim
Judge and Cyrus Sherman'have
been arrested and placed ii jai
for the crime.
What does the Atlanta'' Cvrfsti-
tution think now about the! peo
ple wanting a new party?. | Old
Granny Constitution is setred,
and badly scared, as its Jays
are numbered it will have to ipray
the Irishman’s prayer, wheif he
was on the scaffold to hang, “Jord
make us thankful for what wc'arc
about to receive.”
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What will the partisan press do
with the public denial of U F.
Washburn in regard to the lie pur
porting to be an interview with
chairman Taubeneck and himself,
which has been published by sim:
of the partisan papers, anting
which, was that great exponent i*
truth and right, the Atlanta Con
stitution. Mr. Washburn bruids
the whole statement as absolutely
false.
According to R. G. Dunn &
,0.,
ALLIANCE DIRECTORY.
BURKE COUNTV FARMER’S ALLI
ANCE.
W. C. Sandeford, President
E. 4. Carter, Secretary; P. O. Waynes-
Loro.
Meets quarterly on the first Thursday
|n January, April, July and October.
SUB-ALLIANCES.
Waynesboro Alliance—
E. I'Tilchcr. President.
J. M. Ward, Secretary, P. O. Waynes
boro.
Meets Saturdays before the first and
third Sundays in each month.
Hendricks’ Alliance—
S. K, Fulcher, President.
Wilcox, Secretary, 1*. O. Shell
bluff.
Meets Saturday before the second and
Jourth Sundays of each month at 3 p_ m.
Prone Alliance— •
W. J. Cates, President.
J. J. Skinner, Secretary. P. O. Drone
Meets Wednesdays before the second
and fourth Sundays in each month.
Midvillc Alliance-— *
J. M. Jones, President.
0. M. Sconycrs, Secretary, p. o. Mid
viilc.
Meets Saturdays before the first and
third Sundays in each month.
Green Fork Alliance—•
E. M. Wallace. President.
The bosses have read the hand
writing on the wall. They are
scared anti seared bad. Stand firm
men and the victory is ours.
Let our pcojiic turn out cn-mass
on next Saturday and so thoroughly
organize that we can fill all our
county offices in the next election.
had
J. li. Williamson, Secretary.
Green Fork.
P. O.
Meets Saturdays a. m,, before the first
ftnd third Sundays in each month.
JIabcrshan) Alliance—
J. H. Perkins, President
Geo. Chance, Secretary. I>, o. Haber
sham.
Meets Saturdays p. m., before the
second ;i»d fourth Sundays in -adj
month,
Milicn Alliance—
P, L. Johnston, President.
G. W. llelcher, Secretary, p. o Mil
|cn.
Meets Saturdays before Hie Ijrsl and
(bird Sundays in each month,
pry branch Alliance —
T. Y. Herrington, President.
G. F. Cates, Secretary.
Meets Saturdays before the first and
third Sundays in each month,
Union Alliance—
C. T. Herrington, President,
K. J. Ellison, Secretary,
Meets Saturdays before the second and
Jourth Sundays in each month.
brush Creek Alliance—
J. G. Lively, (•resident.
James Hanky,'•Secretary. P, O. brush
Peek. .
Meets Saturdays before the first ami
|hifd Sundays ir. each month.
It seems as if some one had in
tended to burn the rascals out.
There was a $15,000 fire in the
Congressional halls, TvuKflay last-
Stand square to your principles
farmers, for something is going to
“drap.” The people arc going to
take possession of this government.
Take no bulldozing or threats.
You have set forth your demands,
now support them, or crouch like
whipped curs under the crack of
the party lash.
Bob Ingcrsoll gives this deffini-
tion: “A politician wants the peo
ple to do something for him; a
statesman wants to do something
for the people.”
It is thought that the name of
James L. Orr will be before the
people of South Carolina for gov
ernor. Look out for Larry’s an-
nouncmcnt next.
Determination and perseverance
arc the only two things that will
insure success to the People’s Par
ty. With this, success is assured,
without, we are lost.
The People’s Party is not con
fined alone to the Alliance, but
those out side are beginning to see
the justice of our demands and are
joining in the fight for reform.
Only tile old moss-backs are
kicking at the St. Lotus platform,
and they arc such a small minority
that their kicks don’t amount to
much, The people stand
on it.
the mercantile failures in the Uni
ted States for 1891 were 12,273 as
against, 10,907 in 1S90. Oh cs!
Wc are skipping along the sunny
road of prosperity at a very rand
rate, if business men will only keep
right on voting with the two old
parties that arc engaged just now
in kicking the farmer’s movemc; t,
they will all be wearing diamond;
(on tbeir trousers) in a few more
years.—Ex.
JAM MANY IK. Eli HILL.
On briday the 18th inst., tiic pri
vate car bearing the great "I’m a
jdimicrat” Pammany Tiger Hill
passed through our city.
Major Wilkins was in Savannah
and wired that the train would
re tch here at 4 p. m. Thereupon
a notice printed on cloth, two ne
groes and a cow bell paraded the
streets for two hours and succeeded
in getting a small crowd at the de
pot, among which were the B. L.
I’s, who fired a salute. We doubt
if one-third of the voters in the
crowd would vote for Hill, if they
had the opportunity to vote for
Wall street's man, Grover Cleve
land.
i he great Hill (too large for us
to swallow) was introduced by
Hon. W. II. Davis, as being the
man who lias the wisdom to know
tiic right, the inclination to do the
right and tiic moral and political
backbone to turn the rascals out.
Mr. Hill made a few remarks,
which were about on the same line
that we have listened to from our
infancy during a campaign, which
.consisted of telling what could and
should be done. 11c paid a com
pliment to our soldier boys, and
after stating that this was the first
town in the southern states in
which lie had been shot at, ex
pressed the desire that they vote
next November as they shot, (as
011c man.)
Mr. Hill will receive a volly next
November from Burke county,
more damaging to him than the
one he received from the I!. L. I.
We want no Hill in ours.
Tis' tliosu who ride in palace cars;
Along with them their “private bars,”
To make an impression,get yourvotc
And after the election cast you afloat.
TIIAT TWELFTH PLANK.
aATIO.XAL E\Et:( TIYE COM 1*IT-
TEE PEOPLE’S PARTY.
ST. LOUIS PLATFORM.
square
The coming campaign will he a
hot one if the working men will
stand unflinchingly to their colors,
victory is ours. Party vs. princi
ple is the issue. Which will you
take ?
The difference in the wants of
tiic laborer and the average con
gressman is, one wants relief legis
lation, the other wants to get back
to congress. What a difference in
feeling.
How long will it take the parti
san press to find out that the St.
Louis convention was a harmoni
ous meeting and is being endorsed
by every one except the plutocratic
bosses. ;
"Past f.tvor^tre soon fu;
:m old maxim. Some
fotten,
of our
present congressmen from Geornia
FINANCE.
First. We demand a national
currency, safe, sound and flexible,
issued by the general government
only, a full legal tender fqr -all
debts, public and private; andS.'itrf
without the use of banking corpo
rations, a just, equitable aild effi
cient means of distribution direct
to the people at a tax not to exceed
per cent, be provided, as set forth
m the sub-treasury plan of the
Farmers Alliance, or some better
system; also by payments in dis
charge of its obligations for public
improvements.
a. We demand free and un
limited coinage of silver.
b. Wc demand that the amount
of circulating medium he speedily
increased to not less than $50 per
capita.
c. Wc demand a graduated 1 in
come tax.
d. We believe that the money
of the country should be kept as
much as possible in the hands of
the people, and hence we demand
all national and State revenue
shall be limited to the necessary
expenses of the government eco
nomically and honestly adminis
tered.
d. We demand that postal sav
ings banks be established by the
government for the safe dejiosit of
the earnings of the people and to
facilitate exchange.
LAND.
Second. The land, includin^all
the national resources of wealth,
is the heritage of all the people
and should not be monojrolizedior
speculative purposes, and alien
ownership of land should be pro
hibited. All land now held by
railroads and other corporations in
excess of their actual needs, and
all lands owned by aliens, should
be reclaimed by the government
and held by actual settlers only,
TRANSPORTATION.
Third. Transportation being a
means of exchange and a public
necessity, the government should
own and operate the railroads in
the interest of the people.
a. I he telegraph and telephone,
like the jiost-olfice system, being a
necessity for transmission of news,
should be owned and operated by
the government in the interest of
the people,
Union Hill fully endorses the
action of the conference and IrfTVIs;
the movement with jov.
J
If Ilro. Christian of the People's
Party Paper has so maliciously
lied, let the accusers bring forth
their proof and nail the lie. The
fact is, they have no proof, but arc
simply trying to mislead the peo
ple^ . Tt lias been positively .do
med there being any such plank in
the people's platform, as the much
abused twelfth plank, as it is
termed. Wc wish to deny it again;
it was only a part of some resolu
tions which were drawn up to be
engrafted in the platform, but
was objected to ami did not become
a part of the platform any more
than tiic womans' sufferage or the
prohibition plank, which were in
the same resolutions.
It is of no use for the partisan
press, from the large dailies to the
little country weeklies, trying to
mislead the people of a free coun
try, as they know what they want
and are going to have it, and will
not be controlled by the party lash
any longer. But suppose for ar
gument sake, that the twelfth
plank was just what the Constitu
tion and its allies would have the
people to believe it is, is there any
crime in it? has not every so-called
democrat voted for it or skulked
off to the Cloak room to avoid it?
Again, has not the bond holder
been paid on his bonds the differ
ence in greenbacks and gold; then
what is the difference between the
men who fought us from ’61 to '63
and the men who have fought us
from ’65 to the present time?
There is no such plank, and if
there was, we would cast our vote
at Omaha in July next, to elimi
nate it with the same honesty of
purpose, that we would for the
abolition of national banks.
This is a fight of party vs. princi
ple, and we don’t propose to lie or
mislead any one to whip the fight
Tii Tin: Pi:oit.h:—
The call issured by the joint
committee for a national conven
tion to nominate candidates for
President and Vice President,ema
mating from the great industra! con
fercnce, held in St. Louis Feb. 22
and tile national central committee
of the People’s Party, to be held
in Omaha, Neb., on the 4th day of
July, contains the followin
request:
“Wc urge that all citizens who
support these demands shall meet
on tile last Saturday in March next
in their respective towns and vila
ges and hold public meetings and
ratify these demands and take steps
to organize, preparatory to elect
ing delegates to a national conven
tion.”
The executive committee would
respectfully ask that all the pco
pic who believe in our principles
arncstly lend a helping hand and
meet in their cities, towns villages,
in halls, lodge rooms or school
houses, to ratify the work of the
great conference and assist in car
rying out the programme as indi
cated in the call. 1 his is a move
ment of the people, by the people,
and for the people, and they mils'
take charge of the work. We sub
mit the following suggestions:
1. In the meetings on Saturday
March 26th, to ratify the work of
the conference, form local organi
zations, appoint a committee of
three [unless one already exist]
which should meet at the county
scat as early as possible and not
later than April 16th. The duty
of this committee is to fix time,
place and basis of representation
for the county convention.
Said committees, when they
meet jointly in their respective
county scats, shall also select a
committee of three from each
M. C. Rankin, Terre Haute, Ind.,
who will receipt for same. We
also ask the reform press to push
the work through the columns of
their papers, as much as possible.
It will not do from the position we
have taken. This is a fight for our
country, our flag and our homes' in
which every producer is equally in
terested.
II. E. Taubeneck, Chairmrn.
Robert Schilling, Secretary.
M. C. Rankin’, Treasurer.
National Executive Commit
tee, Pcoble’s Party.
A Lottcr.
Shell Bluff, Ga„ Mch. 23.1S9;.
Ed. Farmers' Friend.—The
great and only True Citizen in its
last two issues, published wilfully
and maliciously some editorials for
no other purpose but to try and
mislead the people of liurkc county
as to the platform adopted by the
St. Louis conference and People's
Party. The Citizen undertakes in
rather a miraculous way, to make
t appear to its limited number of
readers that a resolution passed
together with a number of other
resolutions at the St. Louis confer
ence in regard to paying United
States soldiers the difference be
tween tiic currency they were
paid off iu and gold, was embodied
the platform adopted by said
conference. This of course, was
copied from other subsidized parti
san papers. There is no one that
nows better than the able corpse
of editors of the Citizen, that at
this conference there was a plat
form committee and their report
was adopted, am* that these reso
lutions are no part or parcel of
said platform, unless when passed
they were ordered embodied in
the platform. Which the Citizen
knows as well as every one else,
was not done, and therefore, form
no part or parcel of same. When
the Citizen undertakes to mislead
the true-minded and honorable
county [unless such a committee citizens of Burke county with such
A Short Card From Uuolo Joo.
wcl mistur editur.
ukanheerde partic whip ur
krackin cn ivry dcrccshun, but
hour pepul doan keer ennie thin"
urbout hit. wel mistur editur cs
mi rumetiz cs hurtin me tu da i
kaint right much, but da tcls me
de dimikrutick partic lies bin cold
tu mete in mai bi 2 men wot kun-
stitutid dc bole kurmitty if hour
partic kaint beet thet less quit i
wil sho b tu loun sadday let de
bawl rolle we ar goin tu win.
Uncle Joe.
If reports be true ilill nor Cleve
land are suitable lor president,
flu democratic papers make them
out about the worse men in the
' land.
already exist] whose duty it shall
be to confer with a like committee
from all other counties belonging
to the same legislative, and con
gressional district, for the purpose
of fixing time, place and basis of
representation to bold legislative
and congressional conventions.
3. Wc also urge that the execu
tive committee of each state meet
as early as covenient and fix time,
place and basis of representation
for holding a state convention and
designate how the delegates from
their state to the national conven
tion shall be chosen.
4. When delegates are elected to
the national convention their
names and post office address
should be forwarded immediately
to Robert Schilling, Milwaukee,
Wis., secretary of the national
committee, so that he will be able
to prepare a roll by states before
the convention meets.
5. We caution the people to take
great care in selecting delegates to
the congressional, state and nation
al conventions. Select no one un
less be is known to be true to our
cnise. Take men who have been
tried and not found wanting. Wc
have already received word from
New York and Pennsylvania that
the old parties intend to pack our
primaries, select delegates to the
state and national conventions who
are not in sympathy with our cause,
and v.-ho will go there to bring con
fusion and name objectionable can
didates. It is also very important
that each state should have a full
delegation at the national conven
tion, and for this purpose we urge
that all meetings called to select
delegates to the national conven
tion, and before such delegates are
selected, a collection bo taken up
to defray the expenses of those
who are unable to go on their own
account.
6. We again urge upon you the
neeesity of pushing the work. To
!o this, money must be raised.
Therefore wc kindly earnestly ask
all when meeting in primal capac
ity on March 26, to ratify the work
done by the great conference that
a collection be taken uptopromui-
ate our cause. I.el ihe donation
from each individual be ever so
email, il each one will assist a lit
tle it will collectively amount to .1
reat deal, Forward qll money to
false and malicious statements, and
hen they denounce in such a
contcmptable, rh.alfci6us~and dirfy”
way. Such reform papers as the
People’s Party paper the true and
brave champion of the people's
;hts. The Citizen is merely
jging their own grave and
hastening the sad hour of burial,
and I fear that a continuance by
e Citizen, of their wilful and ma
licious misrepresentations, abusive
ami slanderous editorials of the
people, their platform, their party
and its advocates, that when the
sad hour of death comes, they will
be friendless and without pall
bearers, unless they arc imported
from Tammany. A word to the
wise is sufficient.
One or- the People’s Partv.
di
A Preferred Creditor.
A good story is going the rounds
about a New York merchant who
recently failed for a large amount,
says the Paper Mill. He called all
his creditors together and offered
to settle with them at 10 cents on
the dollar, giving them his notes,
payable in thirty dpys. As most
of the creditors had little hope of
getting anything, they eagerly ac
cepted the proposition. One man,
however, stood out for bettce.,
terms, and all efforts to get him to
agree were futile. Finally the
bankrupt took him into the hall
and said: ‘‘Now you come in an'
sign mit de udders den I make you
preferred creditor.”
“All right," said the kicker, “un
der those circumstances I will
agree to a settlement."
The papers were signed and all
the creditors left excepting the one
who hail been told he was to be
preferred.
"Vat arc you vating for?”
said the man who had failed.
“Why, you said I was to be pre
ferred. I am waiting to know
what I am to get."
"Ydl. I tell you—you get noth-
mg.”
“Get nothing?" Why, you prom
ised to make me a preferred credit
or if I would sign with the rest."
And so you are. I make you
preferred. 1 tell you now you get
notings. Dc udders wait thirty
days before dey know i t, ami deq
Y get nothings.”