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THE PEOPLE’S PARTY PAPER. PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE People’s Party Paper Company, 117 1-2 Whitehall St. •Subscription, One Dollar Per Year, Six Months 50 cts., Three Months 25. In Advance. Advertising Rates made known on appli cation at the business office. Money may be sent by bank draft, Post Office Money Order, Postal Note or Registered Letter. Orders should be made payable to PEOPLE’S PARTY PAPER. THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1892. Moses and Livingston were elected on the St. Louis platform of 1890, which de clared for government ownership of rail roads, and the Alliance emphatically urged the members not to vote for any one who did not stand on every plank of it. Both these men urged the same thing on the stump all through their canvas for election to congress. Now they de nounce what they then commended. What has caused the change? Is is it malaria? They say the flats about Washington are full of malaria. Can it be that malaria produces such changes in men’s opinion?, or are there other in fluences about Washington that produce such results on men who are delegated by the people to represent them at the National capital? Such things appear strange to common people and ought to be inquired into. The Democrats say there was no use passing the silver bill as the Senate would defeat or the President veto it if passed by the House. Well, what, then, is the use of fooling away time on tariff bills ? Wont the Senate or the President defeat any good tariff measure also? Oh, yes, says the Democrats, but we want to put ourselves on record as favor ing and the Republicans as opposing a reduction of the tariff. Why, then, did you not put yourselves on record in favor of free silver and force the Republicans on record as against it? The anwer is plain ; it was because you yourselves were not in favor of free silver. The railroad stock of the country is three-fourths water. Besides this, most roads are bonded for more than it cost to build them. Rates of freight and passenger fares are fixed high enough to pay interest on the bonds and dividends on the stock, water and all. Thus the people pay for the roads every four or five years, and still do not own them. Had we not letter fix. it so that when we Lave paid for them we will own them and thereafter get transportation at cost? Any sensible man will say we had. If the Democrats wont give the people free silver now when they are begging for votes and know they will lose many by refusing, does anybody suppose they would give it after they were safely in power where they could not be ousted for four years ? It is not reasonable to suppose it. Once safely in power, they would spit in the face of the people and snug up closer than ever to the plutocrats. The Democrats say they have had no chance to obtain relief for the people. They say falsely. They have had the power to compel the Senate to pass any bill they chose to offer for the relief of the people by blocking all other legisla tion until the Senate consented to what they asked. The truth is, they have never tried to do anything, and the people know it. The Democrats are scared fo’ sho’. They are going to import Dau Voorhies, of Indiana, and any number of other Northern Democrats, to instruct Geor gia people how to vote. It is funny how much worse it is for Post to advise the people to vote for Sally and the babies than it is for some other Northern born man to advise them to vote for the Democratic bosses and Wall street. Money is the tool whereby the wealth producers make their exchange of wealth. The. government will not allow the in dividual wealth producer to make this tool so necessary to his prosperity. Therefore it is the duty of the govern ment to make the tool and furnish it to the wealth producers at cost. That is the St. Louis platform in a few lines. Lawyers, doctors and merchants are welcome in the party of the people, if they choose to come in. We welcome all callings and professions, and will treat all fairly and squarely. But we can woik our own flatboat, if needs be. and can pilot the old ship of State into heap smoother water than she is sailing in now. Livingston, Moses, Everett, and ail the rest, were elected on a platform that de clared for government ownership of rail roads. Now they are denouncing that plank in the St. Louis platform and say ing it would ruin -the country. It is just a little strange how they came to change so. Washington air must be bad. Stand by your principles and vote for Sally and the babies. What is “party” to you? CONSPIRACY. In my last article on the silver bill I laid before our people the proofs that Mr. Crisp is thus far responsible for the non-passage of that measure. The rule of the House giving his committee at any time the power to bring any bill to a vote; his promise to Mr. Bland that the power given by the rule would be used ; the giv ing up of the contest by Mr. Bland upon the faith of that promise ; the action taken by Mr. Crisp and Mr. Bland afterwards to carry out the agreement; then the sudden change of front on Mr. Crisp’s part and his refusal to bring in the resolution as provided for by the Rules because of his caucus pledges—all these points were given. I defy Mr. Crisp or any of his friends to meet them. Now I go a step further. I al lege that it has been the distinct pur pose upon the part of Tammany, Hill, Springer and the Gold Bug Demo crats not to pass a Free Silver Bill at all this session and that a common understanding has been had among them all along. On Dec. 31, 1891, David B. Hill in his Albany speech said “Pass no Free Coinage Bill.” On Jan. 8, 1892, Hon. Wm. Mr. Springer, leader of the House, said at the New York Banquet: “Congress will pass no Free Coin age Bill.” Frantic efforts were made in Free Silver sections to deny these state ments and explain them away, but those who carefully observed and re flected began to suspect that a secret understanding prevailed among the Democrats. On Jan. 11, 1892, the Washington Post published interviews with Sena tor Carlisle and other leading Demo crats the drift of which led to the conclusion that the Free Silver Bill would not pass but that an Interna tional Conference upon the subject would be had. These proofs show beyond all dis pute, that Hill, Springer, Carlisle and others were holding a well defined policy favorable to Wall street and ruinous to the people. Hill’s forces in the House were tireless in their work against Free Coinage. Hill’s confidential lieutenants led the fight. These men are the main supports of Mr. Crisp. They made him Speaker. His election was a Tammy tri umph ; so claimed and so conceded. Now keeping this chain of evi dence well in hand, let every citizen ask himself why it is that Mr. Crisp refused to redeem his promise to Mr. Bland •, why it is that the New York World was so confident that Mr. Crisp would change his attitude ; why it is that week after week goes by without the Silver Bill being brought to a vote when it is within the power of the Speaker to do so any day? To these questions there can be but one reply. A conspiracy exists among Demo cratic leaders to nullify their plat form pledges and to deceive the masses of the people. T. E. W. HON. THOS. E. WINN. The Augusta Chronicle, to convict Mr. Winn of inconsistency, insin cerity, &c., publishes a letter he wrote to a friend in February to the effect that he was opposed to the People’s Party upon the ground that the relief of the people was best attainable through the Democratic party. At the time this letter was written I have no doubt that Mr. Winn honestly entertained the opinion therein expressed. It must be borne in mind, how ever, that it was the action of a Democratic House on the Silver Bill which convinced Mr. Winn of the uselessness of waiting longer fur that party to redeem its pledges of Re form. The vote on the Silver Bill was not taken till about the middle of March. Its results created universal surprise. With a majority of 148 votes the Democrats refused to pass the Bill. Then Mr. Winn saw that the peo ple must look elsewhere for recovery of their just rights and he acted accordingly. For myself I believe he has acted honestly and conscientiously. T. E. W. CHARLEY’S NERVES. My gallant classmate of old days, Hon. Charles L. Moses, went to St. Louis to attend a Convention of several thousand earnest, active ex cited people. It was the first National Conven tion he ever attended. He evidently expected that the quietude of the school room W'ould prevail and that the machinery of the grand convention would move “to the sound of soft music.” Charley ought to have known bet ter than this. Charley should have remembered that the American ani mal is a noisy one and that whenever he is excited he manufactures fuss. Charley should have prepared himself for the ordeal his nerves were about to unergo by reading the proceedings of the National Convem tions of the two old parties— especially of those conventions where Tammany is taking a hand. Had he done this he could'have spared himself the painful disclosures of the way he was riotously sat upon at St. Louis by 2000 men and women who could not see the force of the proposal that he (the Hon. Charles L.) should deter the convention from doing what it was called to do. My esteemed friend is perfectly sincere in believing that any line of policy which lessens the chance of his coming back to Congress is bound to ruin the South and alter the course of modern history. The convention did not agree with him in this belief and the emphasis with which they differed from him roused his wrath and jarred his nerves. To show my friend how the Amer ican animal always does the same thing under the same circumstances, I beg him to read the accounts of the Democratic meeting held in Augusta, Ga., last week. Augusta is a staid, sober, ortho dox town. No short haired women ; no long haired men; no anarchists; no atheists. Yet in a convention of only some 230 Democrats, with no Ram-Rackers to disturb the graceful amenites of the occasion, we find that all the papers in Augusta (none of which are friendly to us) were irTrSX’Mi perspiration to find words strong enough to describe the tumult. The Herald called it a “Pande monium.” The Chronicle called it “chaotic”; “wild confusion &c.” This rumpus was not kicked up by poor factory people, or working imn who have never had the advantages of wealth and culture. No. It was created by som? of the brightest lights of Augusta aris tocracy. In other words the “rucus” was kicked up by some of the “most principalist” men of the town. The Chronicle says that “chaos ruled supreme,” that half a dqzen men spoke at the same time; that hats and canes were wildly waved; that the distinguised Democrats jumped up on chairs, desks and upon each other’s shoulders ; that Chair man Lamar, with a long stick, bang ed Judge Eve’s stove to attract atl tention. The stove was more or less damaged but no attention at tracted. Lamar, the Chairman, tried to count the members voting Could not do it on account of tli9 respectable, aristocratic riot wine* prevailed. Here is the language of the Chron icle : “The w ildest picture of unyield ing, chaotic confusion, of clamor;, turbulence and contention, of pluper feet pandemonium, could convey no idea of the confusion which, almost from beginning to end, prevailed.” It must have been a delightful assemblage, and I can only regrdt that Charley Moses w r as not there. In a gathering of several thousand desperate chracters, such as CharW describes, considerable uproar is to be expected; but it is really queer that 200 Democrats (of the Blue blooded sort) cannot get together in a good, quiet, constitutional, preach er-paying town like Augusta without creating a rise in the price of rtd paint and war feathers. Take a Nervine, Charley, dear T. E. W- Please make your communicators short and to the point. TO ELECT DELEGATES TO OMAHA. Agreeable to the instructions of the executive committee, and the au thority with which they vested us, we hereby fix the eighth day of June as the date for the election in each of the congressional districts of Georgia of delegates to the national convention of the People’s Party to be held July 4th for the purpose of nominating candidates for president and vice-president of the United States. Each county is entitled to twice the number of delegates to the con gressional convention that it has members in the general assembly. Each congressional district con vention will elect four delegates from the district and vote for eight dele gates from the State-at-large to the Omaha convention, and will re port the vote on delegates-at-large to the secretary of this committee, who will compile the total vote from all the districts, and the eight men who shall be found to have received the largest total vote from all the districts when counted shall be the eight delegates-at-large from the State. The different districts will meet in the following places on the eigth day of June next, at the hour of noon, and proceed to elect delegates as above: Ist Districh—Savannah, Chatham county. 2d District Camilla, Mitchell county. 3d District—Fort Valley, Houston county. 4th District LaGrange, Troup county. sth District Atlanta, Fulton county. 6th District Griffin, Spalding county. 7lh District-—Rome, Floyd county. Sth District—Athens, Clark coun ty- 9th District Gainesville, Hall county. 10th District— Thomson, McDuf fie county. 11th District Way cross, Ware county. The chairman of the different county committees should call a meeting at some convenient place in their respective counties of all who propose to act with the People’s Party not later than June 4th, at which time and place delegates to the congressional conventions should be elected. By order of the campaign coiii mitteee. C. C. Post, M. I. Branch, M. D. Irwin, John T. West, A. W. Ivey, Oscar Parker, Secretary, 1174- Whitehall St. Atlanta, Ga., April‘2s, 1892. Again we say, do not pay money to your enemies to fight you with. T'he Constitution, of Atlanta, is con stantly, persistantly and intentionally sending out false reports both of their meetings and of ours, of their speakers and of ours, and in every way possible seeking to destroy both the Alliance and the People’s Party. Its pretended friendship is a sham; its smile the smile of a cycophant; its pretense of favoring your views a trick to hold your confidence while it transfers your vote to your enemy that your home and your liberty may follow your vote. Shun it; spit upon it; refuse it entrance into your house. Pay no money to it or to any other plutocratic paper for any purpose whatever. Be as wise as are your opposers, who never, for any cause, pay a dollar or a penny to the papers that support your cause, and in your turn pay nothing to the papers that support them. THEY MUST SWALLOW IT WHOLE. The Democratic Executive Com mittee of the Second Congressional district have ordered that all prima ries at which the Alliancemen en dorsed Mr. Stevens as a candidate for Congress be entirely ignored and that a new set of primaries be held at which no one be allowed to vote who does not pledge himself to swal low the whole Democratic platform and vote for its candidate on Na tional, State and local tickets, no matter who the candidates are or what their platform may be. WHO HAVE HAD CONTROL OF THE LEGISLATION OF TRIS COUN- TRY EVER SINCE THE WAR .’ * Not the farmers. Not the laboring men. Not the wealth producers of any class. Not the merchants in town or country. But the same class of petty-fog ging attorneys and professional poli ticians that are now going over the country or standing in the county seat towns and shouting : “Don’t leave the grand old Demo cratic party.” They are responsible for your pov erty ; for the fact that your wives are illy clad; that your children are growing up without proper educa tion ; that your farms are mortgaged; that the country is going to the devil at a two forty gait on a plank road. They have held themselves as wiser and better than the men who till the fields or work in the shops. They have told you to work hard er and eat less and they would attend to the politics. You did what they told you to do. And they attended to the politics as they said they would. And the result is bankrupcy of the people and the nation, while they wear fine raiment and faie sump tuously every day. And they have the impudence to come before you again xmd advise you still as to what you should do. It is the same advice they have al ways given you. “Trust us.” “Stick to the old party.” “Elect us to office.” You might as well trust to Satan for your eternal salvation. Did they ever do you any good ? The politicians on both sides plunged you into an awful war. By their advice we beat our plow shaves into sabres, North and South) and made one great battle field of our Southland. The graveyards that mark our hill sides where are laid to rest the fallen brave are monuments to the imbecil ity, the selfishness, the lack of states manship of the politicians North and South. The work of making widows and orphans by war was their work—the work of the politicians. They come to you now—the same class of men from the town and cities —telling you not to depend upon yourselves, not to trust to the sense of right and justice inherent, planted by Almighty God in the breasts of the common people, but to trust still to them, the same class of men who have always ruled and always wrecked. Will you do it ? Will the wealth producers again listen to the wealth consumers ? Will the industrious still allow the idle to manage the ship of State ? From all over this broad land comes the thunderous answer : No. By the God of our fathers, no. By our love for our wives and children—by al) we love and rever ence—we swear to redeem our homes and country from the grasp of the dispoiler and make it, in fact, what it has heretofore only been in song— the land of the free, not less than the home of the brave. The Democrats are playing sharp tricks to get crowds out at their meetings. They advertise a joint discussion when they know none has been arranged for and then accuse the People’s Party of not daring to come to time. This is as disrepu table as their false and exagerated statements of their own strength and the size of their audiences. We advise our readers to pay no attention to their pretended joint discussions unless they are informed on reliable authority that there are to be such. Don’t give your enemy a club to beat you over the head with. If the People’s Party men keep away from Democratic meetings wo can easily tell where the majojitv of the voters are. Great Democratic Mass Meeting at Fairburn April 9th, not reported in Constitution or Journal. Present 30, all told. Six of those were People’s Party men. ! DOWNING WATSON. The Augusta Evening news has this : “Every effort will be exercised to down Watson, and if his death knell is rung in November it will also be • the funeral of the Third party, which ■ will be buried out of sight.” The death knell programme is to be started at Washington, Ga., next ■ month by Hon. J. C. C. Black and Hon. F. G. Dußignon. Mr. Black is Attorney for the Central Railroad & Banking Co. Mr. Dußignon is Attorney for the Plant Railroads and for that tender little monopoly, The Southern Ex i press Co. It is certainly significant to see the simultaneous action of the Rail road Lawyers in the death knell business. Mr. Watson has always fought the . special privileges of the railroads, the exemption from taxation and their extortionable charges. No wonder they wish to “Down” him. Suppose the government were to pass the sub-treasury bill and also issue legal tender notes and purchase one main line of railroad across the continent, after first squeezing the water out of it. The U. P. railroad owes the government over one hun dred million dollars now, which amount might be deducted from the sum paid. What would the men who sold the road do with the money paid them? Loan it ? They could not get more than 2 per cent for it if they did, for with the government standing ready to loan under the sub-treasury law at 2 per cent, private individuals could not loan for more. No, they would not loan it; they would use it to help develop the country and its industries in some legitimate way. They would have to do so or let their money lie idle and so bring them nothing in any way. But using it in any kind of busi ness they would give employment to men now idle and so add to the pros perity of the country and of every one in it. And in five years, without increas ing the rates of freight, the govern ment would have got back every dol lar paid for the road and could put rates down to cost of carriage on that road while it used the money to buy another road and so on, until all the roads were run by the govern ment and the whole people had transportation at cost, or as cheap as they have it in Australia, where one can ride for a half cent per mile. When a politician from town comes out to talk to you and advise you not to leave the old party, stop and think a moment before you answer him. Suppose you take his advice and things run on as they are doing, whose children will be leaders, mas ters, a few years hence, yours or his? His children. Who will own the land, your chil dren or his ? His children. Who will work the land which his children own ? Your children. Will you accept of such advice and from such men ? Can you listen to such with patience even ? They do not wish that equal jus tice should be done to all men. They have had the shaping of the legislation of the country always* and could have done justice if they had wished to do it. They speak falsely when they tell you now that they will do justice in the future. They, intend to continue the same old systems of injustice in the future as in the past and they come to vou with pleading voices and tales of the ruin you will bring on yourselves if you attempt to run things without them to advise and manage for you, in order to deceive you. r l hey—the men who have already ruined you financially and seek to perpetuate and intensify these con ditions in your children—ask vou to trust them again. How now will you answer them. The man who votes fofi a rascal, know ing him to be a rascal, is no better than the rascal.—Cincinnati Herald.