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* • N People’s Party Paper VOLUME 1. IN SOUTH CAROLINA. The People Agreed to Let Themselves Be Called Democrats Just one More Time. BUT REFUSED TO CONDEMN THE PEOPLES' PARTY OR TO PLEDGE THEMSELVES TO VOTE THE DEMOCRATIC TICKET. A Condition of Things That Worries the Mossbacks Greatly, But is Nuts to the People’s Party Folks. What it all Means. The Democratic State Convention met in Columbia on the 19th for the purpose of electing delegates to lhe National Democratic Nominating Con vention. It first proceeded to adopt the Ocala platform word for word. Then somebody introduced a resolu tion denouncing the People's Party which was promptly voted down. Then the following resolutions were introduced and passed : Resolved, That the Democrats of South Carolina in convention assem bled, and representing as we do the people of our State, declare Ist. “That we are true and loyal Dem ocrats and endorse and will support the principles as enunciated by Thom as Jefferson and reiterated by such statesmen as John C. Calhoun and An drew Jackson, and on these principles we plant ourselves and will remain. 21. “While we arnestly favor and de mand reduction of the import duties and that the burden of such taxation be fixed upon the luxuries and not ne cessities of life, and that only a suffi cient revenue be levied for the main tainance of our gouernment economi cal ly administered, we hold that a matter of equal and paramount impor tance for the relief and prosperity of our people is an increase of our cur rency, and that mir government issue its money direct to the people at a low rate of interest and on such solvent se curity as they can furnish. “3d. We see with displeasure and ap prehension that the money changers of Wall street have invaded the sacred temple of Democracy, and that they will try and force upon our party a candidate representing, not the wishes and well being of our people, but their own selfish interests. We assert that Grover ('leveland does not represent the principles of Democracy as taught by our forefathers and as we under stand them. “4th. We t herefore after our protest against the nomination of Grover Cleveland,or any other candidate known or believed to be selected in the. interest and at the dictation of Wall street ; but we demand for our standarnd bearer a man for the people and with the peo ple, and who will serve the people and not any class or action. “ssh. We shall look upon the nomi nation of ex-President Cleveland, if forced upon the party at thej Chicago convention as a prostitution of the principles of Democraco, as a repudia tion of the demands of the Farmer’s Alliance, which embody the true prin ciples of Democracy and a surrender of the rights of the people to control the finances of the country. “Oth. We believe we voice the senti ment of a large majority of the white voters of South Carolina when ws as sert that a nomination of a Wall street candidate would create dissatisfaction in the State Democracy.” Tilman and the other State House officers were endorsed and recommend ed for re-election. Then delegates to the Democratic National Convention were selected, all of them being men known to be in sympathy with the Alliance demands, and a resolution pledging them to sup port the nominees of the Democratic nominating convention was knocked out by substituting “State” for “Nation al ’’thus leaving lhe delegates virtually instructed to bolt the Democratic Na tional Convention if it failed to put the Ocala demands in the platform. The convention was naturally a strong one, but the Alliancemen had their own way and all the mossbacks could do was to howl and tear their hair. WHAT IT MEANS. It means that the people of South Carolina are going with the people of North Carolina and of Georgia and all the Southern and Western States into the People’s Party after the meeting of the National Conventions. Watch and see if it don't. “lECcpujieil Rights to Special Privilege® to None.” The Platform Adopted by the Demo cratic State Convention. The platform adopted by the state democratic convention in Atlanta is as follows: 1. Resolved, That we, the democrats of Georgia, in convention assembled, reaffirm our devotion to the time-hon ored principles of our historic party. We believe that the powers delegated by the people should be strictly con strued; that the autonomy of states and the rights of local self-government and home-rule should be zealously guarded; that no money should be taken from the people under any pre text for other than public purposes; that the strictest economy should be exercised in all governmental expend iture, whether local, state or national; that legislation should be confined to the legitimate objects of the govern ment; that public office is a solemn public trust. 2. We believe that the same care and caution should be used by the govern ment, both state and national, in the expenditure of public money as is used by prudent men in their own private affairs. 3. We believe that the right of taxa tion was delegated to the government, both state and national, to be used only for absolute necessities, and any other use of this power is dishonest and ty ranical. 4. A surplus revenue in the treasury is a glittering prize to be sought after by political thieves and plunderers. 5. We are uncompromisingly opposed to the enlargement and concentration of federal powers; to the usurpation by the central government of the func tions of state; to every species of class legislation and government partner ship with private enterprises; to the whole theory and practice of patern alism. 6. We, who have within a generation seen elections opened by the tap of a drum, and the judicial powers of the state usurped by courts martial, and a legislature seized by a military clerk, and the legally elected representatives of the people turned out of office to make by force b subservient majority, have no desire to take any chances on the political,future. 1 7. We consider the government con trol of postoftices as necessary and proper, because the seal of the letter, protects the private affairs of the citi zen from governmental espionage, but we protest except in the regulation of prices against extending this control over telegraphs and telephones, and placing in our midst a horde of office holders who will only be amendable to national laws and may at any time, by the will of the majority, or, as often happens in our federal affairs, by the will of a minority, be turned into spies and informers. While we oppose gov ernmental ownership of railroads we endorse our state railroad commission laws, and demand that the powers of the interstate railroad commission be enlarged so as to provide a “rigid, hon est and just control” of railroad trans portation. 8. We demand the free and unlimited coinage of both silver and gold on a parity with each other to the end that the money of the people shall be such in quality and quantity as was originally contemplated by the constitution. 9. We demand that the prohibitory 10 per cent, tax on state bank issues be stricken out of the national bank law, and when this is done, we desire that a uniform system of banking be provided for by the legislature of Georgia, with a flexible, expansive state bank currency. We further demand that the prohibition in the national bank law against accept ing real estate as security for loans shall be stricken therefrom. 10. We demand that the amount of the circulating medium be speedily in creased on a sound basis sufficient to meet the needs of the country. 11. We demand that congress shall pass such laws as will effectually prevent the dealing in futures of a':l agricultural and mechanical productions : providing a stringent system of procedure in trials that will secure prompt conviction, and impose such penalties as shall secure the most perfect compliance with the law. 12. Believing in the doctrines of equal rights to all and special privileges to none, we demand — a. That our national legislation shall be so framed in the future as to not build up one industry at the expense of another. b. We regard as the most important issue before the people a reform of the present iniquitous tariff, and we demand a removal ot the existing heavy tariff tax from the necessities of life, that the poor of our land must have. c. We further demand a just and equitable system of graduated tax on income. ATLANTA, GA, FRIDAY, MAY 27, 1892. ! d. We believe that the money of the country should be kept as much as pos sible in the hands of the people, and hence we demand that, all national and state revenue shall be limited to the necessary expenses of the government, economically and honestly administered. 14. We dem' 1 nd retrenchment and re form in the expenditure of national revenues, and especially a correction of the present pension system, which rests like a mammoth war tax on our section of the union. 15. We, therefore, in a spirit of mutual concession, offer this, our platform, to the democracy of Georgia, and pray that a divine providence may incline our hearts to wisdom, justice and modera tion. Grand Rally of the People’s Party in Decatur County. Early in the morning the honest, hard working, over-taxed and uncared-for farmers (only for their votes) came pour ing into Iron City until over five hundred people had assembled to participate in the People’s Party’s first grand rally in our county and listen to a joint debate between Rev. E. B. Mobley and Ben E. Russell, the chairman of the democratic executive committee. Mr. Mobley is the fearless champion of the People’s cause. He is a man of fine appearance, whose whole soul is enlisted in the cause of the people. Mr. Russell is senior editor of the Dem ocrat, and has served one term in the legislature. Mr. Mobley opened the debate, and showed how the democrats wore a Wall street collar around their necks with “this is my pup” inscribed on the same, and showed beyond any contradiction the perfidy of democrats, their coward ly dickering to Wall street and their paid hirelings at the National capital, and how, if we left this country’s cause in the hands of either of the old parties, that rather than leave the offices and the chances of spoil, they would see our farms desolated, our wives and children homeless wanderers and begging their bread. He certainly had this immense crowd with him, judging from their ex ultant cheers. Hob. W. H. Drake, countv lecturer, was master of ceremonies, and promised Russell a patient and respectful hearing from the crowd of People’s Party men, which was accorded. Russell labored on the tariff —that soft taffy—but it fell flat on that intelligent people. The few democrats had been grooming him for some time for this day. He came out from Bainbridge with all his glory and pomp, feeling that he would have an easy and glorious victory, but he returned humiliated and demol ished completely. Poor fellow I He would not even partake of the bounte ous dinner the people had spread. Too badly whipped And the last report was that he was making lor the sea-coast at Brunswick —for what purpose we could not learn. “Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad.” Hope that Mr. Russell has not got it that ba !. Mr. Mobley skinned L. O Jackson for going around last summer making Peo ple’s Party speeches and now trying to hold the people in the democra’ic party. Well, he may hold some weak-kneed, soft-heads, but the bold and fearless yeo manry of our county will never again become cowering sycophants. Jackson called the Cuthbert convention to get himself endorsed, but it did not work just that way. He joined the Alliance as a stepping-stone to some office. Some charged him with that hankering then, but we all know it now. Our neighbor, Mr. F. A. Thomas, dis tributed fifty copies of your great paper, and it will be like bread cast upon the waters. Would that every man in Geor gia could or would be a subscriber. Our victory over corruption would be sure and as lasting as the hills. The fight is on this county, and will be to the finish. If our reform is success ful, then prosperity will return ; if it fails, then will follow confusion, an archy, and finally the overthrow of the republic. May God speed the right. I. C. U. p. S —The grandest thing that hap pened at our rally was the proposition thai all who were for the People’s Party to fall into a line, which they did with a yellfand all went except a very few, and they looked lonesome indeed. I C. U. In Receiver’s Hands. Tallapoosa, Ga., May 23. —The Mer chants’ and Miners’ Bank of this place was to-day placed in the hands of Book keeper Gilbert as receiver. An inspec tion by the state bank inspector showed , irregularities. Vice-President Spencer has been placed under arrest, charged with being instru mental in violations of the state banking law, which prohibits the loan of over ten per cent, of the capital to any one firm. THE RAGING WATERS. CONTINUED AND INCREASING FLOODS IN THE WEST. Many lives lost and Thousands of Dol lars Worth of Property Destroyed. Associated Press Dispatch. Omaha, May 18. —A special to the Bee from Sioux city,lowa,says : “This morn ing a great wave came down Floyd riv er which flowed through the center of the city and which was already bank full. The wave came a few minutes after 7 o’clock. Warning had been giv en but a short time before to the in habitants of the lowlands, but only a few of them had been notified. The first intimation was a volume of water spreading over the banks to a depth of three feet and throwing a mist of foam from it. In a few minutes the water had risen above the first floors and several hundred fled in terror to higher grounds. The water rose four €eet in one hour and a half, and from 9 o'clock continued to rise steadily, but not so rapidly. Probably 1,000 inhabitants of the city live on the low ground which is overflowed. So rapid was the rise of the tide that great numbers were una ble to escape, and the work of rescuing engaged the energy of the people. Sioux City, la., May 19. —According to the latest telegrams the flood has been even more disastrous in its result than was at first anticipated. The es timates as to the loss of life vary from sixty to one hundred. No list can be given of the dead. In fact the terrified people have sought refuge in so many quarters that it is impossible to exactly figure what the number on the death roll will be. sad scenes witnessed. Some heroic scenes were witnessed in attempts to save unhappy victims. At the Omaha bridge Mrs. West and her little five-year-old girl were una ble to get away from the flood in time. The father and two children were safe and the rescuing party was returning for Mrs. West and her child when the waves swept the house away. They floated down with the roaring current until the bridge was reached. An en gineer succeeded in saving the woman, but her strength failed her and she was compelled to relinquish her hold on the child. With the despairing cry of “mamma,catch,” the child disappeared beneath the waves. At the manufacturing suburbs of Leeds nine persons are known to be drowned. Four were drowned at Springdale. Observers on the high bridge counted fifteen bodies that swept under it. Matt Roe, an old sai lor, saved twenty-eight lives. A wo man who managed to wade to a box car was there seized with labor pains and gave birth to a child,and two hours later was rescued. A WHOLE FAMILY DROWNED. A woman named Hinton and three children were drowned in their own house. Two Swedish families were swept away. A CYCLONE ADDS ITS TERROR. St. Louis, May 19.—A destructive cyclone swept over St. Louis county yesterday, contributing to the misery of the flood-stricken inhabitants. A funnel-shaped cloud wrecked several farmhouses. Great damage was done to crops, trees and fences. At 1 o’clock a. m. the river passed the thirty-six-foot mark and is still slowly rising. The warehouse at 721 to 729 South Main street fell in 'yesterday with thousands of dollars’ worth of cement, tobacco, sugar, malt.and barley, which will be a total loss, having all gone into the water. CUT OFF FROM THE WORLD. The city is practically cut off from all communication with the outside world by high water, and such is the confusion within the city that it is very difficult to obtain the names of the vic tims of the flood. The estimates on the loss of life vary greatly. Some say twenty-five, while others place the es timates as high as 165. Few bodies have been recovered as yet, and it is doubtful if they will ever be found. The following is the list of those who are given up as lost so far as was known at 1 o’clock this afternoon • Nellie West, Mrs. Louis E. Homer, A. Anderson and wife and child, A. P. McLaren, William Stone, William Row en, Mrs. Louise Homer’s two children, Mrs. Frank Luther and child, a 1-year old son and 7-year-old daughter of E. Leonard, George Cox, a child 4 years old, George C. Miller, Aaron Johnson, Andrew Anderson, Robert Harney, Frank Henderson,wife and child; two unknown boatmen, Mrs. H. Pickers, Mrs. Peter Rasmus, son and two chil dren; six unknown men. THE STOCKYARDS SWEPT AWAY. The union stockyards have been swept away and other heavy damage done. The city waterworks are sur rounded and there is great danger that the supply will be shut off, which, with fire and a high wind blowing, would be certain disaster. The loss to the rail roads is estimated at $200,000. Floyd river was almost back to its banks at noon today and hundreds are returning to their homes, which they were compelled to abandon yesterday. Scores of houses were swept away from their foundations, and others badly wrecked. The damage to movables is large, w here houses were not floated off. Fifty or sixty retail stores on the low ground were destroyed or badly dam aged. Floyd river cut across the bend and scooped out a great channel, start ing in about lower Eighth street. All the houses but very few in that vicini ity were utterly wiped out. Railroads and stockyards will sutler the greatest individual losses. THE DISASTER AT ST. LOUIS. St. Louis, May 19. —Word comes from the National stockyards in East St Louis that all the railroad tracks lead ing to the yards were submerged to day, that no cattle could be got in or out of them. Therefore there was no market. The union stockyards on this side of the river, however, are still in tact. THE COUNTRY FLOODED. - Keokuk, la., May 19. —The Egyptian levee, which protects a vast area of bottom lands five miles below here, broke this morning. The waters of the Des Moines river flood the entire district. The high wind prevailing will cause immense damage. The whole town of Alexandria, Missouri, is com pletely submerged. All the trains on the Keokuk and Western St. Louis, Keokuk and Northern railways, south of this point have been abandoned. THE LITTLE SIOUX SPREADS. Ckerckke, la., 19.—The Lottie Sioux has been running bank full for some time and the heavy and contin uous rain of Tuesday sent the river over the bottom lands. The river this evening was still rising. Some of the smaller buildings have been carried away. The damage to crops in the Little Sioux valley will be very great. The Illinois Central tracks are badly washed away north, east and west of this city. The city pumping works are under water, and the city is threat ened with a water famine. The Des Moines river has risen ten inches, and is still rising. All the low lands are under water and hundreds of houses have been abandoned. AROUND KANSAS CITY. Kansas City, Mo., May 19. —Water everywhere is the situation around the two Kansas Citys today. The Mis souri is rising slowly, and the Kaw is booming. Argentine and Armourdale are again submerged. Harlem is a lake, and on this side of the river the Missouri bottoms are disappearing un der the wet element. The Kaw river is six inches above the high-water mark of last week, and is still rising. The great packing houses, all of which are situated in the Armourdale flats, suspended work this morning, and put their men at work at the building of embankments about their establish ments, hoping thus to check the threat tned invasien of their premises. By Associated Press to The Herald. St. Louis, May 19. —A destructive cyclone passed over St. Louis county yesterday, contributing to the misery the flood-siricken inhabitants. A fun nel-shaped cloud wrecked several farm houses. Great damage was done to crops, trees and fences. At 1 a. m. the river passed the 36-foot mark and is still slowly rising. A warehouse at 721 to 729 South Main street fell in yesterday, with thousands of dollars worth of cement, tobacco, sugar, malt and barley, which will be a total loss, having all gone into the water. The exact loss cannot be given. Governor Pennoyer, of Oregon, De clares for the People’s Party. Portland, Oregon, May 20, ’9’2. To the People’s Party Paper: The governor of the state has bolted the democratic party and will vote the People’s ticket. The leaders are dismayed. Organization and propaganda goes on steadily. We expect to carry the state in November. Martin Quinn. NUMBER 35 MILES OF LAM) UNDER WATER. , mi ■< A (yelone Adds to the the Situation. By United Press to Journal. Chicago, May 20.—That the situation cannot become much worse is the only consolation left the flood-scourged in j habitants of the Mississippi valley. I From the source of the father of wa | ters down to La Delta the story is one of I desolation. Farms'are ruined, houses I swept away, lives lost, railroads idle, human lives in danger. Such is the history of the big flood. Beginning at St. Cloud, north of Minneapolis, following the Mississippi down to Keokuk, where the great Egyptian levee yielded, flooding thou sands of acres of the richest farm laud on the continent; then in succession passing the cities of Quincy and Al ton, where the work of the wind and water has been disastrous, the first great stage of the desolate journey ends at St. Louis. On the Missouri and tributaries the waters are abroad to a greater extent than ever known before. Throughout the Dakotas farms are under water, bridges carried out, railroad tracks un dermined. Sioux City is still engag ing attention, and the. full story of the deluge is not yet told. Thess. O’Neal Released From Jail. Thess. O’Neal, the man that killed Joe England, a fireman on the Georgia Pa cific railroad last week, was released from jail Tuesday on a bond of SI,OOO. The facts in the case are familiar to the public. England had frequently visited the home of O’Neal, and at tempted to force his attentions upon his wife. She was of unsound mind, and O’Neal had frequently warned him to stay away. England’s refusal to do this resulted in O’Neal’s blowing his brains out. SAYS IT IS JUSTIFIABLE. Tuesday morning the attorneys for O’Neal appeared before Judge Richard Clark and made application for bail. Accompanying their application was a letter from Solicitor Charlie Hill. The letter stated that he had carefully investigated the facts in the case and could see nothing like murder in it. and doubted very much if a true-bill w ould be found by the grand jury. Judge Clark, after considering the case, fixed the bond at SI,OOO, and Mr. ( W. M. Scott and O’Neal’s father signed it and O'Neal was released from jail. O’Neal left the jail unaccompanied by his father, aud started immediately to see his wife. He said that he had never felt the slightest anxiety about himself, and had worried only about his wife. The Sub-Treasury Bill to be Reported. Washington, May 23. —In the House to-day the river and harbor appropriation bill wdth the senate amendments, was referred to the committee on rivers and harbors. THE HOUSE. The House met at 11 o’clock to-day with less than 75 members in attendance. Mr. Watson succeeded in having passed his resolution requesting the committee on ways and means to report the sub treasury bill. The senate bill granting a pension to ex-Senatcr Geo. W. Jones, of lowa, was also passed. He Killed His Friend. A special from Dalton says that while Kittells was searching his house Monday night for a burgler, he shot at the sup posed criminal, sending a bullet into the brain of Walter Wright, who was assist ing him in the search. The “Brick” Pomeroy Offer. Subscriptions to “Brick” Pomeroy’s matchless 32-page paper “Advance Thought” have been received as fol lows : May 16—3 copies, Douglasville, Ga. May 18—3 copies, Cartersville, Ga. May 18—4 copies, Thompson, Ga. May 18 —2 copies, Harlem, Ga. May 25 -3 copies, Stellaville, Ga. Friends, let your subscriptions comti forward rapidly. This is a truly greaS paper, and will spread the light wherever it goes. Mr. Pomeroy has generously given six hundred copies to aid us in our awful struggle against the combined forces cf plutocratic monopoly in Georgia this year, at the greatly reduced price of $2.00 for three copies for one year. Address all orders to Oscar Parker, Sec’y. 1171 Whitehall St., Atlanta, Ga. The Democrats of the Ninth Con gressional district will hold their con vention at Gainesville, July 13, to nominate a man for Hon. Thon. K Winn to beat.