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HON. JOHN B. GORDON.
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That's about the size 'of it.
After all, it seems to be a question
of who owns the ox.
The negroes are going to vote with
us because it is to their interest to do
so; because bad laws hurt a black man
just as they hurt a white man.
\\ hy should we take to our heels
just because the negroes are willing
to vote with us in repealing laws
which you, yourself, say are infa
mous ?
In looting the Treasury and in
grinding the Tax-payer the privileg
ed classes do not stop to ask whether
the skin of the victim is white or
black.
In casting off this horrible slavery
of Class Rule we are going to appeal
t<» all citizens to help us; and we do
not propose to reject a vot/ because
it comes from a man whose skin is
black. T. E. W.
P. S.—Among those who voted for
the Resolution which resulted in giv
ing some $60,000,600 to the Bond
holders as Premiums are the follow
ing gentlemen who denounced the
sub-Trcasury plan which only asked
a loan of some of the money on good
security and at a reasonable interest:
Carlton, of Georgia.
< ’lenients “ “
(’risp, “ “
Blount, “ “
Barnes, “ “
Stewart, “ “
Turner, “ “
To the honor of Grimes and Nor
wood, be it said, they voted against
the Resolution. T. E. W.
THE WHEELSBEGINTOHRN.
At last Bourbon Democracy can
preserve its stolid, hide-bound con
ceit no longer.
It admits that the condition of the
people is well nigh desperate and
that “something” “must” be done.
In the Augusta Chronicle of May
1, appears an Editorial headed
4 ‘Help the Farmers” I quote
from it the following sentences :
“There is great distress among
our farmers.” “We know that
many of them are pressed for money
to make a crop.”
“The time is at hand when the
farmers need our assistance. We
must help them generously. The
cotton men, the merchants and the
Banks must aid them to make a
-crop.” “We appeal to our business
men to aid the planters * * * the
men upon whose labors the pros
perity of the South so largely de
pends.”
These are manly, patriotic words.
Would that they had come earlier.
Would that their scope and purpose
were broader and deeper.
It has not been two years since
the Chronicle charged me with being
a Demagogue, because I made state
ments contained in this Editorial,
and denounced these statements as
untrue.
In its editorial columns it bitterly
and offensively denied that our far
mers were not prospering.
But the wheels are beginning to
turn, and the Chronicle honestly ad
mits now that my presentation of the
base was truthful.
That being so, may it not be, O
ye able Editors, that my remedies
are likewise the correct ones ? Is it
not barely possible that as I was
right on the disease, I may be right
as to its treatment?
What do you propose as a
remedy ?
You appeal for individual aid to
the individual farmer. This is gen
erous and good, so far as it goes.
But does it treat the real disease ?
Does it seek to remove the causes of
the disease?
I propose a Constitutional treat
ment which will renovate the entire
System.
You propose a local Salve which
leaves the “causes” of the disease
untouched.
Let the wheels continue to turn.
After awhile you will see that this
movement has a deep significance,
and we will not be frightened off by
the fact that you and Mr. Black de
nounce us as “unprincipled Politi
cians,” “who only want office and
money.” If you and he really have
any arguments to use, you had bet
ter get them ready. Bulldozing and
frothy, sophomoric abuse amount to
nothing in this Campaign.
T. E. W.
NORTHEN AND BRADWELL. •
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Is it possible that a suit for divorce
is pending between that affectionable
political couple,Northen and Bradwell?
I actually see in the papers that Nor
then is to make a speech at some town
or other and no mention is made of
Bradwell.
Now this is disquieting. We had
cosily settled down to the belief that
the Siamese Twins were not more
firmly welded together than Northen
and Bradwell. »
Wherever one spoke on “Education,”
the other spoke on “Education.”
The nearer the time for re-nomina
tions came, the oftener this “Educa
tional” question needed turning and
stirring.
Where Northen stirred, there Brad
well turned.
Where Bradwell turned, there Nor
then stirred.
It really began to look as if, by her
culean efforts, they would succeed in
keeping the people from abolishing
the schools and crucifying the school
masters.
The nearer the time for re-nomina
tion, the more hopeful the outlook be
came that the two together (Northen
and Brad well) would probably succeed
in preventing our folks from relapsing
into unlettered barbarism.
But we thought all the while that
neither one of these strong men could
accomplish this feat alone. We hon
estly supposed it would require the
desperate exertions of both. We fear
ed that if either of these strong men
ceased their efforts that we might at
any moment hear the people call the
dogs and begin to chase the School
masters.
Really, there must not be any divorce
between this fond couple. We are ac
customed to see them hunt in pairs,
and we distrust any sudden change.
We think we should at least have been
put on notice that there would be a
separation, and thus gradually have
accustomed ourselves to bear it..
To spring it on us in this extempor
al fashion is not pleasant. It is not
“good form.”
The school houses must not be al
lowed to disappear. The closer we are
to nominating conventions, the great
er the danger of their being suddenly
burned up.
To a man unacquainted with our pe
culiar and complex institutions, this
would appear to be an imaginary
danger.
But it isn’t.
By no manner of means!
Northen and Bradwell scent danger
in the air. Together they have been
staving off the evil. They had almost
got the,.enemy where Waller had the
But division means disaster. Let
Nort hen ahei Brad well get together
some more. Let mutual apologies be
made. If each has grown tired of the
other’s speech, it is a fair set off, and it
is no reason why any blood should be
spilt. The same thing has happened
before.
But by all means let them unite
again.
Where Northen stirs, let Brad well
turn.
Where Bradwell turns, let Northen
stir.
By this patient perseverance (aided
by a little sweet oil), it may be that
they can accomplish the apparently
impossible. The school houses will not
be the subject of systematic Arson, and
the schoolmaster will quietly wend his
way as heretofore, uncaught by orga
ized Kidnappers.
As soon as the nominating conven
tion shall have met, the danger to our
schools, it is hoped, will have passed
away, and these eminent Political
Twins can have rest from their labors-
T. E. W.
The attempt to prevent the or
ganization of a citizen’s alliance in a
certain Georgia town recently, by
bulldozing and threats, is character
istic of the plutocracy and the tools
which it uses to attain its ends. The
bulldozing of working men has been
one of the main reliances of the plu
tocracy in the North, but here was
an effort not only to bulldoze labor
ing men, but threats were actually
made to manufacturers employing
large numbers of men, that extra
burdens would be laid upon those
who dared to exercize the rights of
free men and vote the People’s Par
ty ticket or organize a citizen’s alli
ance.
The full particulars of the attempt
ed outrage are known to us, includ
ing the names of the leaders in it,
and we only refrain from holding
them up to the scorn of all honest
men and all lovers of free institutions
at the earnest request of friends,
who assure us that ; Jhe parties have
promised that no further attempt of
the kind will be made, and in order
to do no injury to honest people who
have invested their all in that town,
and who rightly fear that further
efforts to build up the town will be
futile if the facts of the attempted
bulldozing be made known.
BILLY AND THE BILLY-GOAT.
Billy had a little Kid —
(Angora breed, you know;)
And wheresoever Billy went,
The Kid must up and go.
They went to school in royal style—
(Not heeding any rule;)
It made the children slyly laugh,
To see them both at school.
They tramped the Georgia uplands
and
They tramped the wire grass;
They tramped the city and the town;
And so it came to pass,
That Billy and his little Kid,
Made what they call “a team; ”
Where one would go the other went,
As queer as it might seem.
At County Fairs they put on airs,
Both Billy and the Kid;
No end of plaudits by the Press,
Was given all they did.
The people somewhat wondered at
The strange ways of the pair, ’
But Billy said, “In love or war
All things are counted fair.”
So on they "went faem place to place,
But to the Watchful Eye,
The path they traveled surely le i
To pastures green and high.
For Billy said, “Those fields are
ours;
They nourish well my pride;
You’ll crop the grass, I’ll pluck the
■ fruity
And there we will abide.”
The Kid knew what was in the wind,
As well as I or you;
He winked his eye and scratched his
ear,
As little kids will do.
And Billy’s manner seemed to speak,
“I’m on the track to stay;
Let Sydney Lewis hoist the hymn
Called ‘Happy on the Way.’”
T. E. W.
GILMORE.
A great many of the opposition
journals are gaping with amazement
because the reform still goes on in
spite of the fact that J. L. Gilmre
was turned out of church for getting
drunk.
The crime seems to them to con
sist less in the getting drunk than* in
the being turned out.
The world finds it hard to forgive
the man -who “gets caught.”
Yes, Gilore got drunk, as many a
better man has done, and was ex
pelled from his church. He owned
up like a man, left Savannah and
went to teaching school in the
country. Having taken his punish
ment and profited by it, he went
back to his church a penitent ;* was
received again, and has ever since
done his work humbly, earnestly and
devoutly while teaching.
He was made lecturer of the first
congressional district for the alliance
before the Third Party was ever
heard of. He did his work so ac
ceptably to Livingston that at the
state convention of 1891 he was
mde assistant state lecturer of the
alliance.
Later on in this convention he in
curred the hatred of Livingston by
having the convention vote me its
thanks for the railroad speech I had
just delivered, and by aiding in the
victory which was gained over Liv
ingston and his railroad policy.
Further on he went to Indianapolis
and helped foil the old plotter and
scheemer there.
Then at St. Louis he was again in
the way of the Boss and “My Com
mittee.”
Os course these were unpardon
able offenses. The man who was
good enough to be made assistant
state lecturer was suddenly discov
ered to be about the worst ruffian
that ever “cut a throat or scuttled a
ship.”
Ah, gentlemen! if you will kick
out of the democratic party all the
men who have taken too much of
“the rosy” at some time or other
there will mot be enough of you left
to sit on the election.
How drunk Gilmore got we have
not been told. It was several years
ago, and proof is canty.
* Whether he was so completely
gone that the barber shaved off
all his beard before he “came to”
does not appear.
Maybe Livingston knows.
Stand to your guns, Gilmore!
T. E. W.
Make your communications short,
friends, or we cannot put them in.
we cannot give one brother a half
dozen columns while dozens are ask
ing a hearing. Cut down your eight
page article to one or two, and you
will be surprised to see how much
stronger you have made it.
THEY ACKNOLEDGED IT.
The Atlanta Constitution of March
13th last had the following acknowl
edgement in its editorial columns of
the fact that the republicans and
democrats work together in New
York to arrange the candidates of
both parties. The Constitution said:
“The claim is made that the Cleve
land democrats are uniting with the
republicans in New York state. The
Cleveland papers, in fact, boast of
it.”
Now think of the cheek of the
democrats in accusing the People’s
Party of working with the republi
cans, when they themselves are do
ing it.
The most encouraging reports
come to us from all. portions of the
Union regarding the People’s Party
movement. Instead of dying, as the
old party papers report, it is grow
ing more rapidly than ever we had
dared to hope, and a few weeks more
will demonstrate the fact that the in
dustrial people are everywhere intent
to abide by the action of the St.
Louis conference, and are going al
most solidly into the People’s Party.
One whole congressional district in
Mississippi moved over last weeek
bodily and without a dissenting
voice. Tennessee is preparing to
move. In Alabama they are estab
lishing a state paper at Birmingham,
and President Adams of the Far
mers’ Alliance has declared that he
is for the People’s Party straightout.
And it is just so everywhere. The
leaders, so-called, have about aban
doned all effort to hold the people
back and are now trying to catch up
with the procession, which is miles in
advance of them. We veture the
assertion with perfect confidence that
the first day of August will see the
entire south and west united, con
solidated and immovable and the two
old parties disorganized and on the
run. Victory will be with the peo
ple in October and November, and
relief from their financial difficulties
will speedily follow.
The democrats passed the free
wool bill to help the republicans. It
will hurt the wool-grower and the
republican orators will say to them,
“Look there I The democrats cut
rL-'vn the price of your wool by
. making you compete with the Au
stralian wool-grower!” But they did
not take the 40 per cent, tariff off of
manufactured goods. You get less
for your wool but pay the same price
for your clothing that you did be
fore. Evidently the domoorats don’t
want the republicans to be without a
club with which to club their depart
ing voters back into the republican
ranks.
Friends should remember that
this is a poverty campaign ; that we
are all poor; that while a few men
of moderate means are giving with
great liberality, they cannot bear the
expenses of all the speakers that go
out. When you have a rally, make
up a purse and pay the speaker’s
expenses. This is not a politician’s
war, but the people’s fight for equal
justice to all, which means comfort
able homes, freedom from debt and
money in pocket to those who labor
when the fight is won.
Remembering this, chip in a dime
or a dollar now, that the victory
may come the sooner.
Colonel Post’s meeting at Chatta
hoochee Park on the 7th was a suc
cess, as are all Peopled Party meet
ings in the slate generally. Coloael
Post spoke over two hours in the
forenoon, and by urgent request
spoke for an hour again after dinner.
The day was beautiful, and in spite
of the fact that tw’o other pic-nics
were a few miles distant, fully three
hundred people were present and re
mained until the meeting broke up.
Gentlemen, it would be much
easier to supply speakers Jbr yoifr
rallies if some daj* besides Saturday
was selected for them. There were
at least twenty calls for speakers for
last Saturday, and fully as many for
the 14th and 21st are already in and
the committee has not that many
speakers at command.
Don’t furnish ammunition to your
enemies. They never subscribe for
papers that support your cause. Why
do you support their papers? You
cannot afford to do it.
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington, D. C.,
May 9, 1892.
When this Congress came togeth
er back in December ’9l, it had the
commission of the people of this coun
try to legislate actively and wisely
and economically. Thoroughly dis
gusted with the extravagance and;
and waste of the last Congress, the
people made the Democratic majori
ty in the existing House so over
whelming and so secure that no leg
islative fribbles or dilatory tactics
could hinder the Democracy from
carrying out their wishes.
Have the Democrats executed this
trust ?
They have not! They have not
only failed to execute it but signally
failed. * They have not only signally
failed but they have stultified them
selves by refusing to a|tempt to undo
or even modify legislation heretofore
enacted that experience has taught
us to look upon as hurtful to the great
laboring masses, whom they profess
to represent but whom they do not
represent.
Elected to revise and modify the
tariff, they have spent nearly six
months in the work of preparing and
presenting to the country a few bills
covering separate articles wffiich
stand no earthly chance of passing
through the Republican Senate. In
stead of attacking the audacious rob
ber bill known as the McKinley act
with sledges and catapults, they have
frittered away their opportunity by
assailing it with tack hammers and
icp picks.
Warranted to pass a Free Coinage
bill, Southern and Western Demo
crats have yielded to the threats and
bullying of Wall street and Eastern
monopolists and by the act of an ir
resolute Speaker, this greatly desired
measure has been buried, it is feared,
beyond resurrection.
Charged to exercise the most rigid
economy and to bring the country
back to a safe financial anchorage,
they have, according to the testimo
ny of one of their own leaders, Mr.
Beltzhooverof Pennsylvania, outstrip
ped the Billion Dollar Republican
Congress in the matter of wasteful
ness and appropriations.
And this is the party that the far
mers and laboring men of Georgia
and of the balance of the country are
asked to support and continue in
power!
Passing over for the time the fail
ure of this Congress to enact laws for
the relief of the people, let us regard
for a moment the figures, the note of
warning uttered by Mr- Beltzhoover,
one of the most trusted Democrats
on the great committee of Appropri
ations. Said he to the correspondent
of that staunch Democratic daily, the
New York World :
“We are making our appropriation bills too
big. If a halt is not called we shall ourselves
have the odium of a billion dollar Congress to
bear. We are on the way to making such a
record, and the Republicans, are of course,
helping us might and main. Extravagance on
our part will be quoted against us as an in
dorsement of the Reed Congress. I have just
had prepared in the rooms of the Appropria
tions Committee a comparative statement
showing the money bills passed at the first
session of the last Congress and those that this
House at this session has passed or will pass,
and this House is already ahead of that.
Now let us adopt the World’s fig
ures and see if the alarm sounded by
Mr. Beltztrover has any plausible
foundation, and if it be true that this
Congress means to outstrip the Reed
Congress in the matter of public ex
penditures. According to the World
the total appropriations made by the
first session of the Reed Congress
was $463,398,510.79 while this Con
gress so far has agreed to expend
$486,804,679.82 —the excess over the
Reed Congress being nearly $23,-
500,000. These enormous items are
simply what the House has agreed
to, and the Republican Senate, which
Mr. Beltztrover justly remarks, is
helping these expenditures with
might and main, has yet to pass upon
them and swell them to still greater
proportions.
But this is not all “before Con
gress rises” says the World, “there
will be an addition of at least $lO,-
000,000 to the Pension bill and at
least $5,000,000 to the Sundry Civil
bill, so that the actual excess of ap
priations of this House over those
made at the session of the last or
Reed House will be $38,000,000!”
And this is the party the laboring
people of the land are asked to con
tinue in power!
The working masses of the United
States are poor but they are not fools!
The farmers of the land may be
wretched and needy and in debt, but
they do not read of these happenings
in their national legislature and close
their eyes to their responsibility as
voters. If they are wise they will
hold their public servants to a strict
accountability for all of their acts of
commission and omission. If they
are wise they will cut loose from
both of the old parties whose mottos
seem to be power and plunder, and
align themselves under the white
banner of the Party of Reform and
of the People!
For thirty years—ever since their
houses were laid waste by the exe
gencies of civil war—the Southern
agriculturist has been a docile fol
lower of the Democratic flag. In
season and out he has marched up to
the polls and deposited his ballot that
the so-called party of reform might
perpetuate itself in local affairs and
at last gain control of our national
governmen.
For three decades the solid South
has been a crystalized reality to the
hindrance of its industrial progress
and to the end that its individual and
political manhood has been well nigh
suppressed.
And what are our gains ? What
has the harvest been? Ashes—all
ashes!
We see our State governments in
the hands of a few men who appear
to be banded together to retain
their power. We are faced by an
intolerant press who seek to perpet
uate the state of affairs and to- bully
and browbeat those who have the
courage to cry out against it.
We have witnessed the installation
of a Democratic president whose
chiefest aim was to avoid promoting
Southerners and w hose only ambition
appeared to be to cater to the mug
wumps and monied influences of the
East!
And you are asked, farmers of
Georgia, to align yourself again with
this party and do its bidding!
It would seem that to do this would
be simply to continue on in the stony,
hopeless road beaten by your feet
and wet with your sweat. Let’s
strike for political independence^;
let’s arise as one man and swear feal
ty to the only party that offers you
the genuine blood of life—the Peo
ple’s Party, the party of reform and
progress. e T. F. P.
The conference of the southern
alliance presidents and executive
committeemen, held at Birmingham
last week, passed resolutions urging
the membership to remain firm in
support of the principles of the or
der without wavering, and pledged
the brethren of the west that the
south would stand by them to the
end. Nothing was said about par
ties in the resolutions, but means
were taken to learn the political
standing of all members present, and
but three were found to be opposed
to the People’s Party; three or four
more had taken no stand, and the
rest were all outspoken for the Peo
ple’s Party.
The Atlanta Constitution boasts
of having had a sneak reporter at
tempt to witness the organization of
a Citizen’s Alliance at Tallapoosa
recently. The Constitution might
have made a rather interesting ar
ticle of it by describing the foot race
that followed the discovery iff the
sneak at the window. We are un
able to report more than the start,
as when they went out of sight the
reporter was still two jumps ahead
of the dog, and each appeared to
have about reached the limit of their
speed.
The Democrats of Columbia held
their meeting at Appling on the 20th
inst., and after gathering up the
“pieces” they succeeded in getting
together 70.
Can it be' an oversight that they
failed to pass a resolution endorsing
the* 83 Democratic Congressmen who
defeated the passage of the free coin
age bill ?
Miss Emma Glent Curtis of Canon
City, Colorado, writes: “We moun
taineers are eagerly watching your
gallant State and are intensely pleas
ed at the progress you are making.
The growth of the People’s cause in
your State is a subject for discussion
everywhere. Our great hope is that
we may be able to keep up with you.