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DEMOCRATIC MASS MEETIG
At Carnesville Fully one-half Pres
ent People’s Party Men.
West Bowersville, Ga.,
May 4th, 1892.
Pursuant to the calLof the chair
man of executive committee and by
every means possible to induce a
attendance to the mass meeting,
there was about four or five hundred
persons present and at least one-half
present were People’s Party men.
In proof of the fact that the Demo
crats were aware of this they took
care not to call for a division in or
der to test each other’s strength.
Cong. Lawson, who bydhe way,
according to his own statement, had
got leave of absence from his post of
duty in Washington ten days to come
home to look after his own private
business, had ascertained by some
means that his interests were fast
going to wreck in old Franklin coun
ty, was on hand and labored for over
two hours in trying to teach the yeo
manry of this county how to vote.
And although his fourteen dollars
per day now is due to the fact that
two years ago when he offered him
self as a servant of the people of the
Eighth Congressional district,his elec
tion was due to the fact that he was
a member of the Alliance, or as one
of his opponents said, he had the Al
liance bait. It has never been my lot
to hear a more abusive, lying and
misrepresentation of the facts per
taining to our platform. He boldly
denied the declaration that we as a
nation were on the verge of moral,
political, and material ruin. The
Land Plank he read, “The land in
cluding all the natural resources of
wealth, is the heritage of all the peo
ple.” He stopped there (while the
remainder explained the above) and
he tried to make his audience be
lieve that that part was Powderly’s
work—that he represented a class of
men who wanted all the property di
vided up equally, etc. He abused
and tried to blacken the character of
all the leaders of this movement.
The Judge has struck a different
kind of bait to what he had before
when he solicited the sufferages of
the people. To be up among the
Eastern banks and capitalists has a
peculiar effect on some people. As
a sample of this meeting I will give
you the committee of the delegates
to the State convention :
W. IL Little, attorney; A. N.
King, attorney; N. A. Fricks, teach
er; W. A. Mitchell, merchant; L.
J. McConnell, ex-merchant; W. O.
Trible, farmer. If there had been
a little larger per cent of merchants
in this committee the Democratic
representation as to callings would
have been o. k. as to old Franklin
county. . Justus.
LaClede Illinois.
Editor People’s Party Paper :
Dear Sir and Brother :—Hav
ing been recently called from my
Kansas home to Illinois to wait on
an invalid father, I had my People’s
Party Paper forwarded to this point,
and one day last week I gave a copy
of the paper to William Keen, jr.,
an earnest F. M. B. A. worker and
an ex-ITiion soldier. He was so
well pleased with the paper that he
immediately went to getting up a
club for the paper, and has handed
me forty-two names to send to you.
He said I should tell you that the
county convention of the People’s
Party of Clay county had decided to
keep in the middle of the road, and
he further said I should say to you,
for him, that he and his comrades in
in blue Extend a fraternal hand to
the boys in gray of the South ; that
no longer should the plutocratic poli
ticians of the two d. o. p’s. keep
the honest producers of wealth apart
by the bloody shirt or any other
means. The dynamite of thought
is working in the craniums of the
Illinois farmers as well as those of
Kansas and Georgia, and when the
eighth of November comes you will
find that Illinois will have cast many
thousand votes in favor of a “Gov
ernment of the People, for the Peo
ple and by the People.”
Yours for victory,
O. W. 11.
Suppose you let up on Livingston,
brethren. What’s the use of wast
ing ammunition by firing into the
carcass of a dead dog.
WHICH BRANCH OF IT I
Mr. Editor: We are told here
in the south that our best and only
hope to get relief is through the
democratic party. Will some one
please inform a “howler” to which
branch of the party he is to tie on ?
Is it to the high tariff, or low
tariff, or free trade ?
Is it to the Gold-bug or free silver
democrat that we must look for
help?
Why all this racket about pen
sions? Guess a democrat never
voted for pensions, did he?
If the democratic party is so in
love with the south, why don’t it
give her the tail-end of a presi
dential ticket now and then ?
The New York World, a -few
weeks ago, in speaking of Senator
Carlisle, said :
“He was born a few hundred yards
too far south to have any chance.”
At Omaha you will see a southern
man placed on the ticket, and he will
beg put there largely through the in
fluence of men who wore the blue.
The old bosses may fret and fume,
but the alliancemen and wage
workers of the country have buried
the dead past beyond all resurrec
tion.
All this cry about the leaders of
the reform movement being broken
down, office-seeking' politicians is as
a “sounding brass and a tinkling
cymbal.”
Why, you’d think from the edito
rials of the great dailies that the
democratic leaders were angels
dressed in “breeches.” They don’t
want office; never did; wouldn’t
take it if it could be avoided.
Why, if these bourbon and moss
back officials were paid according to
quantity and quality of work done,
as other wage earners are, two-thirds
of them would come out in debt to
the government every time.
Now, what have these men done
for the country or the people in re
turn for the big salaries they have
drawn ? They are the servants of
the people, and if they have not
earned their wages, let the people
bounce them just as other worthless
servants are bounced and employ
other men who will do the work re
quired# of them. A Howler.
A Mistake.
People’s Party Paper:
The Augusta Chronicle, in its is
sue of the 21st of April, speaks in
flattering terms of Mr. J. R. Ken
drick as Chairman of the. Democratic
executive committee of the eighteenth
Congressional District, in which are
some mistakes needing correction.
The Chronicle says he (Mr. Ken
drick) “is a strong and popular Alli
anceman.” The truth of the matter
is, Mr. Kendrick stands suspended
from his Alliance for non-payment of
dues, and has stood so for a year or
more, consequently the popularity
and strength he posses as an Alli
anceman is quite different from what
the Chronicle? would have people be
lieve. We have no objection to
compliments being bestowed upon
the gentleman, but don’t use the
Alliance in connection with it when
he is in opposition to and fighting it
with every argument he can hatch
up.
Mr. Kendrick is neither strong or
popular with the Alliance of Talia
ferro county, as the members of that
order well.know.
True Allianceman.
People’s Party Paper :
As politics are warming up in
Tatnall, I will say, for the benefit of
all concerned, that the three P’s is
ail O. K. in this county. Our coun
ty Alliance has adopted the St. Louis
platform and we are not going to re
scind our principles or return our
charter either, and Mr. Livingston
can make any demands he likes, but
we are for the People’s Party world
without end. Killing the silver bill
by those eighty Demagogues is suffi
cient proof that the laboring people
will not be benefitted by the present
Congress. You may bet on Tat
nall doing her duty next fall.
With my kindest regards for your
success and the cause you represent,
I am your brother,
G. W. Smith.
A voter wants to know when Gen.
Gordon is going to trot out that bet
ter thing than the sub-treasury.
. BI ALWAYS.
The Advantages of Public Ownership
in Germany.
I was’ very much impressed during
my stay in Germany this summer by
the superior service of the state con
trolled railways of that country as
compared with the careless manage
ment of our own lines. There was
scarcely an accident in Prussia during
the whole summer, while in this coun
try nearly five times as many passen
gers are injured or killed outright.
The American railways have not
enough employees to insure safety
and attention. England has four
times as many men, and Germany
has even more.
There are no unguarded crossings
allowed to menace the public. Even
at the stations there is no crossing
the tracks to reach the outgoing
trains, as is the case in our union
station. To get on the other side in
Germany you must descend a flight
of steps and pass through a tunnel
under the track.
The stations themselves are models
of beautiful architecture. The new
one in Frankfort cost eighteen mil
lions of dollars. When the govern
ment intends to erect a new station
it offers a prize to architects for or
namental designs. There is a maxi
mum of comforts in railway travel,
as the stations are all union stations,
which is possible since the govern
ment controls all lines.
Since I was in Germany, ten years
ago, many improvements in speed
have been made, fifty miles an hour
being the schedule time* for many
trains. The express from Berlin to
Hamberg made fifty miles an hour,
all stops included.
Government ownership also opens
up away for the use of the railways
for social purposes.
The general opinion is that the
population is too much centralized in
the large cities, and by the cheap
zone or belt railroad system soon to
be opened in Berlin, workmen may
live in the suburbs and work in the
city without much expense.
The government management of
the railway finances has also been a
brilliant success, surpassing all ex
pectations. ‘ (
In Prussia alone last year, after
paying the interest and part of the
principal on the bonded debt, there
was a surplus of twenty-five million
dollars. The reduction in fares and
freights annually amount to to a gen
eral distribution of over twenty-five
millions of dollars.
I must say a word for the high
quality of the freight service, which
is fully equal to the express traflic in
many parts of our country. A trunk
can be sent all. over Germany with
perfect safety and convenience for a
mere trifle, while a few cents extra
will insure it, and a few cents more
guarantee its delivery at a certain
hour.—Prof. Ely, of Hopkins Univer
sity.
Old Party Bosses Paralyzed.
Southern Mercury, official * organ
Texas F. A. & I. U.:
The seed of reform is bearing
fruit. The political campaign of
1892 in Texas will stand out on the
pages of her history as the most
hotly contested and remarkable since
the Loan Star was added to the
Union galaxy.
Old party organizations are going
to pieces precipitately, in spite of the
frantic efforts of bosses to hold them
in line. Thousands upon thousands
of both the old parties, disgusted
with the trickery, cowardice and
faithlessness of their old time lead
ers, are repudiating the machine
methods with a unanimity that pre
sages their annihilation in Texas
next November.
The seed of reform is bearing fruit
all over the State. But a few
months ago no one pretended to
place the Democratic majority, next
November, at less than 120,000.
Now, the shrewdest politicians have
great fears that it will be complete
ly wiped out. The old time party
manipulators are paralyzed. They
see their mistake. They realize that
they have lost their grip on the peo
ple. They see the people organizing
everywhere, irrespective of former
party affiliations, St. Louis
and Dallas demands, and that they
j are powerless to stay the tide.
The Third Party.
The Wheel, Arkansas.
No matter who started it, who is
in it, or coming into it, we are with
it and for it.
Born of a great necessity, it comes
; on the throb of time as a factor long
needed and capable of more good
than has ever been accomplished by
both the old parties,, Had the old
parties been true to the best inter
ests of all the people, instead of
being skinners of industry for the
benefit of partisans, there would be
no need, nor desire, nor demand, nor
determination of the people to form
a third party. To-day there is no
more difference between the two old
parties than there is between one
hog with its nose in a pail of milk
and another that wants to get its
nose in.
. With both the old parties it is
simply a scandalous, disgraceful
scramble for spoils of offices held by
the favorites of one or the other of
the old lines of plunderers. With
both the old parties the reading
between the lines is—
THE PEOPLE EE DAMNED I
For years we contended for the
supremacy of the Democratic party,
believing it to be an aggregation of
honest men contending for a line of
•honest principles. No man in this
country has done more in defence of
genuine democracy than has the
editor of this paper and the writer
of this article. No man has oftener
found his life and liberty in peril as
he has contended for democratic
principles through the machinery of
the democratic party organization.
But none of this work has brought
benefit to humanity or betterment of
the conditions of the poor. He has
found the Democratic party to be a
slip from the same dirty carpet of
greed as is the Republican party.
He has found the machinery of the
! party to be in the hands of dirty,
' dishonest, ignorant, drunken dema
gogues and robbers. He has seen
the Democratic party driven out of
power by an outraged people.
Has seen the Republican party
driven out by an outraged people.
Has seen the Democratic party
driven out again and the Republican
party again come into power, and
. yet not one measure of financial re
lief for a terribly outraged and
under-valued people. Now that a
third party is born, we are with and
for that party. We wish to help in
all good reforms. To help inform
the people wherein they have been
robbed and how they can apply the
remedies that are in their hands—
their votes.
To go with the third party is to
progress toward the front. To keep
out of it is to go back to the hog
wallows that have been dug. From
this time on it is not which of the
old parties is the least rotten and
corrupt, but what can be done to
help the honest men who have al
ready come and who are coming out
from the old parties to help humani
ty and to improve our country.
Therefore, so far as we .are con
cerned, both of the old parties are
things of the past.
Now for the party of the future.
Only a Million.
A most decided sensation was
caused iu Berlin, Germany, Wednes
day, by a report that Herr Jaeder,
chief cashier for the great banking
house of Rothschilds at Frankford
was a defaulter. According to this
report Jaeder . had succeeded in de
frauding his employers of over one
million marks.
Inquiries developed the fact that
Jaeder had held the position of chief
cashier for years. He was implicit
ly trusted and there has never been
a breath of suspicion concerning him.
Some time ago he was missing from
his post and, as time elapsed and he
did not appear, a partial examination
of his books was made and this re
suited iii the declaration that he is an
absconder. The examination of the
books has not yet been concluded
and the exact amount of the defalca
tion therefore is not known.
The two old parties have been
settling the tariff question ever since
their existence, and it is no nearer
settled to-day than it was fifty years
ago. Now the proper thing to do is
to settle the two old prrties.—Cin
cinnati (Ohio) Herald.
THE ST. LOHS PLATFORM.
It’s Strength grows more and more Ap
parent aS the Weeks pass by.
The News and Allianceman.
As the weeks pass by, the strength
of the platform adopted at St. Louis
becomes more and more apparent.
Being confined to finance, land and
transportation, it is necessarily short
and comprehensive. Its position
upon these propositions is absolutely
impregnable and will stand the test
of discussion and the attacks of the
opposition. Its brevity, conciseness
and clearness is not only a surprise
to its enemies, but a growing wonder
to its framers, and seems to point di
rectly to an over-ruling influence
which many will consider as a sure in
dication of ultimate success.
As a political platform it will stand
unrivalled during the coming cam
paign for directness, clean-cut decla
rations, and an effort to make plain
and distinct the principles and de
mands involved. No one can read it
ever so carelessly and fail to discover
its real aims and purposes. It was
written to define, and not to deceive.
When the platforms of the two old
parties are prepared, if the usual
methods are followed, it will be with
a single purpose to mislead as to real
intentions, confuse as to ultimate
methods, and to straddle every na
tional proposition of interest to the
people.
A fair sample of this jugglery is
seen in the Democratic platform late
ly adopted in ths State of New York.
No person has as yet been able to
interpret its real meaning or give an
intelligent synopsis of its aims and
purposes. The people have learned
to look upon party platforms as ex
amples of partisan cunning and trick
ery, constructed for the one purpose
of obtaining support under false pre
tense.
For this reason the St. Louis plat
form is a refreshing reminder of
those by-gone days when political
declarations of this character meant
something, when the contest of a
campaign was fought out on clearly
defined lines and the humblest citi
zen knew the object of his vote. It
is but fair to presume that this plat
form will receive the support of thou
sands who have been deceived in the
past by the concealed purpose, or un
fair construction, that, as a rule, is
applied to a party platform when its
provisions are met with the test of
application.
FLORIDA AS IT WAS.
A Land of Ants and Scorpions, Heat
and Mosquitoes.
The Ranch.
It is reported of John Randolph of
Roanoake that when the purchase of
Florida from the Spanish govern
ment was under discussion in the
House he cried out from the floor of
Congress, in his high, harsh voice :
“Mr. Speaker, I am opposed to this
measure. Flomla worth buy
ing. It is a land of swamps, of quag
mires, of frogs, and alligators and
mosquitoes! A man, sir, would not
immigrate into Florida. No, sir! No
man would immigrate into Florida—
no, not from hell itself!” This frank
opinion seems to have been, in a
measure, shared by those officers of
the army and navy who were sent
into Florida during the Seminole
troubles, for they certainly found
there but little of the charm and
glamor which makes it now such a
paradise to the thousands who rush
there every year in search of all the
lavish shine and glitter of summer in
the depth of winter. “Ordered to
Florida” meant —what did it not
mean in the way of discomfort, of
privations innumerable. It meant
vermin of every sort and kind every
where—black ants in the sugar, red
ants and running riot
over everything, chigres in one’s feet,
scorpions under the pillow at night
when one turned it over to get the
cool side, and hanging by their queer,
pointed tails around the ceilings and
walls; no decent drinking water, no
ice to make rain water palatable ;
mosquitoes and heat everywhere and
always, except when a “norther” blew
up suddenly, and then one was half
frozen to death !
Within the past half century the
Democratic party has declared in
favor of free trade, protection and
. “tariff for revenue only.” Which of
these is Democratic “tariff reform”
in 1892? Which is “Jeffersonian
Democracy ?” Cuthbert Liberal
Enterprise.
Money a Thing of Law.
Carthage Press.
Referring to the fact that a move
was on foot to hold an international
silver congress with a view of re-in
stating silver as legal money in
Great Britain and Germany, the
Kansas City Journal [Rep.] says :
The disuse of silver as a money
was, and.is, a banker’s policy, and Is
directly at variance with the inter
ests of the masses.
Finance for ages has been the
science of the usurer, and there has
been a sort of occult power supposed
to reside in money—gold—that the
people could not know, or that ob
tained from some other power than
human laws. It has only been since
1860-65 —or since our civil wdr—
that the popular mind has known
that money was a thing of law. The
education of the world in that short
time has been marvelous, and anoth
er generation will not pbnnit a few
owners of money metal to fatten off
the ignorance of mankind ahy longer.
Threadneedle street will be a retail
street and the Bank cf England a
warehouse just as soon as the public
mind understands what mdney really
is. In the meantime silver will come
back into use and thus pave the
way for the reign of money by the
people, which is to be before man
can really own himself. As long as
a few rock quarries—or quartz lodes
—owned by a few men, supply the
world with its measure of values,
just so long will men who create
values be subject to tb’e “men who
get the standard out of the rocks.
That the intelligent world has not
seen this long ago is one of the
wonders of human blindness—but
the eyes are opening, and it will not
be fifty years more till man will be
money free as well as free in other
respects. And so it is that the
world is moving to a common point by
so many ways—not the leasf? of
which is in the direction of money
freedom, and thus industrial liberty.
It is simply the money system that
holds the labor of mankind in bond
age. L
COAL TRUST SCORED.
—— . •
Sixty Thousand Men Made Idle to Add
to Reading Dividends.
Racine Advance. ;
New York.—The Herald devotes
a page to-day to the Reading combi
nation. This is its double-leaded
summary of the matter : ’“The com
bination has been in active existence
.three weeks. In the great Lehigh
Valley * coal region it • has thrown
60,000 men out of employment half
of the time. In the flourishing cities
of the lower valley it has deprived
2,000 workingmen of half of their
employment and saved from their
wages $75,000. Its restriction of
the coal product is a sure forerunner
of the coming advance of coal prices,
which is to increase the cost of
manufacturing in all the Eastern
stites, the price of manufactures for
the whole country, and the cost of
living for the people of New York.
The only cause for all this distur
bance of business and misfortune to
the people is an attempt' to make an
unprofitable railroad pay excessive
dividends for two other railroads
which it has no right to possess.”
THE SUB-TREASJJRY.
In Operation, in France—Official Let
ter by Our Consul in France.
Bordeaux, France, Oct. 13, ’9l.
Mr. H. L. Loucks:
Dear Sir :—ln reply to your let
ter of inquiry, will say the Bank of
France has almost since its establish
ment, early in the present century,
loaned money on non-perishable pro
ducts, such as wheat, .corn, wine,
spirits, metals, etc., provided such se
curities were deposited in reliable
warehouses, or warehouses desig
nated by the directors of the Bank of
France. Receipts were of course
taken for the same, and these become
negotiable just as are warehouse re
ceipts in America. The amounts
loaned upon products of this descrip-*
tion was usually equal to about two
thirds of its appraised value and the
rate of interest charged for the loan
was 3 per cent. The same rate is
applicable at the present time.
Horace G. Knowles, Consul.
OUR OFFICE
Is up stairs in the elegant new McDonald
building 117 1-2 Whitehall street, where our
friends will always find the latch string on
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