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THE
PEOPLE’S PARTY PAPER.
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PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE
People’s Party Paper Company,
117 1-2 Whitehall St.
THOS. E. WATSON, - - President.
POST, - - - Vice-President.
I). N. SANDERS, - - Sec. & Treas.
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FRIDAY’, MAY 13, 1892.
Please Take Notice
Os tlie change in price of this pa
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of 10 for 50 cents per year is with
drawn, and in the future we will be
compelled to have 75 cents in clubs.
We will, however, permit those who
are now making clubs on that rate
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The 10 cept trial rate is continued
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“Driven from Sea to Sea,”
by C. C. Post, a work that has had a
sale of over 50,000 copies, or.
■ “Congressman Swanson,
A new work just from the press by
the .same author.
Or for a club of 100 with $lO, we
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getter up of the club.
Both of these books are intensely
interesting, being in the form of fic
tion, but illustrating the “terrible
wrongs” done to the “common peo
ple”
Everybody should read them, and
anybody who will can get up a club
of trial subscribers and get at least
one of them. Try it.
Hon. Thos. E. Watson’s Address
Should be Read by the Millions.
The friends of Reform cannot do
a better thing for the cause than to
circulate the address of Hon. Thos.
E. Watson, which appeared in the
People’s Party Paper of March
17th.
In order that it may be circulated
at very small cost, we will put it into
a two page supplement form and fur
nish it to the people at 75 cents per
hundred copies, or in smaller num
bers, not less than ten, at one cent
each.
Send in your orders.
Bring the matter before your Sub-
Alliance, union or lodge, and have
the Secretary order a lot.
This address places the whole sit
uation clearly before the people, and
wherever read will greatly strengthen
the People’s cause.
Address orders, with the money,
to People’s Party Paper,
Atlanta, Ga.
The campaign committee urges
that every possible effort be made to
get subscribers for the People’s
Party Paper. It is the safest, surest
and cheapest campaign work that
can be done.
Speakers Appointments.
S. A. WALKER.
Fan in Co., May 13. '
Pickens Co., May 14.
j. r. robins.
Lumpkin Co, May 13.
Union Co., May 14.
Towns Co., May 16.
Baburn Co., May 17.
Habersham Co., May 18.
White Co., May 19.
Bro. Walker and Bro. Robins’ ap
pointments will be at the county seat
towns in each case unless other ar
rangements are made by the friends
and notice given headquarters in
time to change. The hour of speak
ing may be fixed by the local com
mittees, who must, however, con
sider the arrival and departure of
trains, and when a trip across the
country is necessary the friends w’ill
please make arrangements to see that
the speaker is so conveyed.
By order of campaign committee.
Col. W. L. Peek has accepted in
vitations to speak at the following
places:
Manassas, Tatnall Co., May 14.
Knoxville, Crawford Co., May 28.
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.
Bth District—Athens, Clark coun
ty.
9th District Gainesville, Hall
county.
10th District— Thomson, McDuf
fie county.
11th District Waycross, 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 com
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 25, 1892.
A mass meeting of the citizens of
Heard county will be held in Frank
lin on May 14th, for the- purpose of
organizing the People’s Party.
Everybody who loves their, homes
and liberty better than a party name
is invited to come out. Cols. W. R.
Gorman, W. L. Peek and others will
make speeches. *
STILL SPEAKING OUT.
Endorsing the Action of the
St. Louis Conference.
DOOLY ALL RIGHT.
Organized Last Saturday—Ellington’s
Speech.
Last Saturday a meeting composed
of about four hundred men, all true
bue People’s Party men, met at the
court house in \ ienna to hear the
speech of Hon. C. H. Ellington and
to organize.
Senator Ellington spoke for an
hour in his usual strong and con
vincing style, and threw hot shot in
to the plutocratic gang. As the boys
say, he put the wipers into them and
they yelled with pain like a coon
does when you twist him out of a
hollow log with a pair of gun-wipers.
The democratic people were dumb
founded on account of the enthusi
asm as well as the dogged determi
nation to shake off the galling shack
les of the old party and go with a
party which means relief from the
present depression and a rain-bow of
promise to all men who desire purity
in politics and the affairs of the gov
ernment controlled by the people.
Dooly county people are in dead
earnest, and the county is sure to go
for the People’s Party.
Vienna, like most little towns, is
against the farmers, while the magic
city of Cordele is with the people in
this fight. Cordele has political sense
as well as business foresight, and her
fight for the farmers will materially
aid the town in a business way.
Y our correspondent secured 25
subscribers for the People’s Party
Paper in five minutes.
The people are waking up to the
importance of supporting their own
party papers and dropping all demo
cratic papers which call them an
archists, fools, republicans, and every
other sort of hard name.
That is right. A preacher cannot
preach the gospel unless he reads
the Bible ; neither can a • reformer
preach the doctrine of reform unless
he reads reform literature.
side notes.
The democratic rally at Oglethorpe
last Saturday was a very tame affair.
Nobody except a few town people—
the old gang—attended. The far
mers have been advised often by the
town bosses to stay at home and
plow and they are doing it, except
when called out to w-ork for the
People’s Party.
That little gang of democrats
must have felt awful small when
they got set dowh on so fiat.
You can put Dooly, county down
solid for the People’s Party.
The P. P. folks in Dooly county
want a newspaper to advocate their
cause. There is a good opening for
a paper at Vienna that will help to
fight the battle of the producers.
The friends of the cause in Macon
county are determined to have a
newspaper. If they can’t buy out
the Citizen they are going to buy
new material and go ahead
COBB COUNTY.
Cobb county held a Democratic
mass meeting Tuesday for the pur
pose of bolstering up their party and
to fill vacancies in the executive com
mittee caused by resignations of
members who had joined the Peo
ple’s Party. Col. Charlie Phillips,
who had not attended a Democratic
meeting in 10 years and who had
fought the organized Democracy 2
years ago, spoke, urging the farmers
to stand by the Democracy and re
turn to the fold.
Steve Clay made the best* speech
of the day, pleading for the Alliance
to return, but he made no converts.
He opposed the government owner
ship of railroads, but that was ex
pected, as he is attorney for the Ma
rietta and North Georgia railroad.
That the State of Georgia paid SIOO,-
000 (one hundred thousand dollars)
to, that by rights belonged to the
State. Captain Hudson arraigned
the Alliance for going into politics;
said they no longer discussed agri
culture, but should go home and
work harder ; that only by the sweat
of their brow could the farmers get
relief. There were probably two
hundr.ed and fifty persons present,
many belonging to the People’s Par
ty (some estimate one-half, others
two-thirds.) The People’s Party en
joyed the efforts of the speakers in
trying to bolster up on Bloody Shirt,
Force Bill, Twelfth Plank and negro
supremacy.
A resolution was offered statino
that the Democratic party was a
white man’s party, but as many m
the meeting saw they were digging
their political graves and it was
amended. Cobb county is stronger
for the People’s Purty to-day than it
w’as prior to to-day’s meeting.
John A. Sibley.
PAULDING COUNTY ALLI
ANCE.
Whereas, The common people of
this country are in a depressed con
dition, brought about by class legis
lation, which tends to make the rich
richer and the poor poorer; and
Whereas, This state of affairs was
brought about by the Democratic
and Republican parties, and
Whereas, The Democrats have
fallen down and worshipped the gold
en gods that the Republicans have
set up, and
'Whereas, Neither of those par
lies show any disposition to relieve
the oppression that is now bearing
down with so much weight upon the
people ; therefore be it
Resolved, That we, the people of
Paulding county, in convention as
sembled, do this day declare our in.
dependence and sever our connec
tion with both of the old parties.
Resolved, That we fully endorse
the address and platform adopted by
the conference at St. Louis, Feb. 22,
1892, and
Resolved, That we wilt support
no man or men for office, county,
State or national, that does not stand
on said platform.
Resolved, That we ask the Paul
ding New Era, Southern Alliance
Farmer and People’s Party Paper to
publish these resolutions.
B. T. Drake, Pres.,
W. 11. Morgan, Sec.
Johnson county Alliance, in call
meeting April 30, 1892 :
We noting in the Southern Alli
ance Farmer, our State organ, the
action of L. F. Livingston and part
of his executive committee of the
State Alliance, charging the sub and
county organizations with gagging
their members in their political free
dom, declare that no resolutions re
ceived by us from our sub-Alliances
were dictatorial, but to the contrary
speak boldly for independent politi
cal action, allowing to every one
perfect political freedom. Wherein
we are in harmony with our consti
tution and the action of our supreme
council. And that we look upon L.
F. Livingston as a traitor.
Resolved, That we again de
nounce L. F. Livingston for betray
ing his trust and not having the
honesty' or manliness to resign a
position which he continues to hold
only to injure those who have hon
ored and trusted him.
Resolved, That we favor a call
session of the State Alliance at once
to dispose of him and elect a presi
dent who is honest" and true.
Resolved, That we request our
brethren to unite with us in calling
together the State Alliance for this
purpose.
Resolved, That these resolutions
be published in the Southern Alli
ance Farmer and People’s Party
Paper. J. T. Suell,
President pro tern,
James P. Hicks, Secretary.
HARRALSON COUNTY ALLI
ANCE.
Resolved, That it is the sense of
this body that the Hon. C. H. Elling
ton would be the right man in the
right place if the voters of Georgia
would place him in the Governor’s
chair for the next session, and that
the People’s Party Paper be asked
to publish the same.
Rev. B. D. Cooke,
Presisdent pro tern,
A. L. Newcmax, Sec. and Treas. •
Tallapoosa River sub, of Harral
son county, denounces Livingston
and defies him to revoke their char- ‘
ter.
From Senator Gordon’s Ranch.
Reynolds, Taylor County, Ga., )
April 30, 1892. J
A large and enthusiastic meeting
of the people of Taylor county, com
prising fully sixty per cent, of the
white voters of the county, met at
Butler to-day and organized a Peo
ple’s party, electing county commit
tees and delegates to the congres
sional and gubernatorial conventions.
The St. Louis platform was en
dorsed, and three cheers given for
Thos. E. Watson, hoping in the fu
ture they may have an opportunity
of better showing their appreciation
of his manly defense of their rights.
This county will vote seventy-five
per cent, of whites for the People’s
Party. D. T. Montfort,
Secretary.
GWINNETT COUNTY.
A joint discussion was held at Har
mony Grove church, Saturday, April
30. The People’s Party was repre
sented T. Y. Nash, W. W. Wilson,
J. W. Singleton and J. L. Chupp.
At the conclusion the voice of the
audience was taken. There were
about two hundred present. Out of
that number only eleven stood for
Democracy. W. L. Lankford.
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Bro. W. W. McClure writes us
that at the mass meeting of the Dem
ocracy of Marlboro county, S. C., the
St. Louis platform was endorsed
without a dissenting vote. Don’t
hang any hopes on that, my brother.
Such endorsements may do very 'well
to catch reform votes with, but the
Democratic vote on the Bland silver
bill ought to satisfy any sane man
that Wall street has as complete con
trol of the Democratsc party as of
the Republican party. Your young
est child will never see the demands
of the St. Louis conference enacted
into law by a Democratic Congress.
If you don’t know now you will live
to learn that the farmers and labor
ers of this country will never get
justice from any party that depends
upon Eastern capital for campaign
boodle. Wall street never gives
something for nothing.
PAULDING COUNTY?
Paulding county Alliance in con
vention assembled passed the follow
ing :
Resolved, We -want our State
president to publish his reasons for
withdrawing our lecturers from the
field.
As we are willing and do pay for
their services, we therefore demand
that they be put in the field to work
at once.
B. T. Drake, President.
W. 11. Morgan, Secretary.
Bro. S. M/ Taliaferro of Cornell
sub, of F ulton county, writes us that
his Alliance is building up since Col.
Livingston has tried to sit down on
it. Old members -who had dropped
out are coming back and new appli
cations for membership coming in.
The sub sends in strong resolutions
endorsing Tom Watson and the
policy of the Southern Alliance
Farmer under Bro. Irwin’s manage
ment, and denouncing Livingston
for his treachery.
Bro. 11. C‘. White of Hickory
Grove writes us : We are glad to see
the great battle for the rights and
liberties of the people springing up
all over the State. Let us wage it till
equal rights are secured to every cit
zen. We feel proud of Tom Watson
who is now defending the cause of
the people, Let him hold the fort,
for we are going to send him rein
forcements in November.
The people of Upson held a grand
rally at Thomaston on April 30th
and fully organized a People’s Party.
Bro. W. D. L. Duncan writes us
that the People’s Party has been fully
organized in Schley county.
Good News From Hancock.
Governor Northen’s home county
has declared for the People’s Party.
On April 30th six or eight hun
dred earnest men met in Hancock,
and, after speeches by W. T. Branch
and Uncle Sam Walker, the St.
Louis platform was endorsed by a
rising vote, and organization of the
People’s Party effected. Verily, the
days of plutocratic rule in America
are numbered.
Col. C. B. Sale writes that the big
Lincoln county democratic rally was
not big to hurt. The Lincolnton
News had advertised the rally for a
month, announcing good speeches
for the occasion and a barbecue and
basket dinner. These various at
tractions and a beautiful day brought
out about eighty bourbons to partici
pate in tlie rally, about twenty P. P.
men who came to look on, and a
score or more of boys who came to
help dispose of the dinner. Lincoln
will go three to one for the People’s
Party.
Brother J. W. Morris, of Carroll,
writes us that the People’s Party is
on a boom in his county; that the
farmers have gone to the democratic
tree for thirty years looking for fruit
and have found nothing but leaves.
Hence the verdict has gone forth,
“Hew it down ; why cumbereth it
the ground?”
Col. Tutt, the chief speaker, of
fered to endorse the Ocala demands,
sub-treasury and all, if the farmers
would only come back into the bour
bon fold. That would have been a
fine bait two years ago to catch suck
ers, Colonel, but it is stale now —too
stale for even a gudgeon to nib
ble at.
Emanual County Alliance sends
sesolutions endorsing the present
policy of the Alliance Farmer; also
indorsing the action of Colonel
Ellington and Mr. M. D. Irwin in the
recent muddle over the state organ,
and denounces the action of Messrs.
Livingston and Calvin.
Mc Whorter sub., of Douglss coun
ty, requests Colonel Livingston to
stay in Washington and attend to his
duties instead of running over the
country making war upon the Alli
ance, or to resign and come home.
Mr. E. B. Barrow -writes us that
the People’s Party was fully organ
ized in Schley county on May 3d and
delegates appointed to the gubernato
rial and congressional district con
ventions.
Friend W. 11. Buck, of Larned,
Kansas, writes: “I like your fear
less, Out-and-out paper
excellently, and wish more people
could be induced to read it.
Extracts from an essay read by
Miss Minnine E. Watson before the
Harralson county Alliance:
“Are our laws equitable and just,
giving equal rights to all and special
privileges to none ? Is it right that
the farmers, who own only 22 per
cent, of the national wealth, should
be called upon to pay 80 per cent, of
the taxes, while the wealthy classes,
who own 75 per cent, of the nation
al wealth, have to pay only about
20 per cent, of the taxes? Is it
right to put a high protective tariff
on such articles as must supply the
daily needs of the laborer and allow
rubies and diamonds to be imported *
almost free of duty ? Is it right for
the government to loan the million
aire banker money at one per cent*
and refuse to lend to the farmer on
his land at any figure ?
The land can neither be hidden
away nor destroyed. The security
is just as safe as the bond. Then
why should not a one per cent, loan
be based on the one as well as the
other ? ‘ # •
Why should the government dis
criminate against the farmer and
laboring man, who creates all
wealth, and in favor of the bond
holder, who is only a consumer of
wealth ?
You farmers and laboring men
hold in your own hands the remedy
for these monstrous evils—the silent
but all-powerful ballot. If you
would loose the grasp of monopoly
and plutocracy upon your throats,
you have only to will it, and it is
done.”
Let us educate literally, commer
cially and agriculturally, but above
all let us have such legislation as will
secure equal and exact justice to all.
Ihis we can only secure through the
St. Louis platform and the People’s
Party.
The Topeka Capital and the Clay
Center Limes copy quite freely from
the Atlanta Constitution. The Dem
ocratic opinions of the Alliance in the
South are warmed’ over or reproduc
ed Republican editorials in the North.
—Clay Center (Kan.) Dispatch.
And vice versa. Verily, the Plu
tocratic political Siamese twins are
becoming painfully affectionate.