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THE PEOPLE’S PARTY PAPER. ■ • 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. 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. FRIDAY’, MAY 13, 1892. Please Take Notice Os tlie change in price of this pa per in clubs. Our temporary offer of the People’s Party Paper in clubs 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 to complete the clubs already begun at the 50 cents rate, but after that will be obliged to require 75 cents. The 10 cept trial rate is continued until further notice, and we trust will continue to be taken advantage of by our friends to introduce the paper whenever possible. 10 Cents. For Two Months We will send this paper on trial Two Months, for only Ten Cents, in clubs of not less than ten. For Clubs of 50, accompanied with $5.00, we will send to the getter up of the club a copy of either “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 wil! send both books post paid to the 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. * 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.