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THE PEOPLE’S JRARTY PAPER. PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE PEOPLE'S PAPER PUB LISI NG COMPANY. 117 1-2 Whitehall St. Til OS. E. WATSON, - - President. C. C. POST, - - - Vice-President. D. 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. n » FRIDAY, MAY 27, 1892. Please Take Notice Qf the 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 cent 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 wftl send both books post paid to th‘e 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. Thus. 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 Bach. 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. 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—Statesboro, 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 Griftin, 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 Way cross, Ware county. The chairman of the different county committees should call a meeting at some convenient place in thfiir respective counties of ali 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, Whitehall St. Atlanta, Ga., April 25, 1892. Notice to Members of Congressional Executive Committees. Members of the Congressional Executive Committees are requested to meet on June Bth at the respec tive places already mentioned in another column, for the meetings of the Congressional conventions for the election of delegates to Omaha. At this time the respective Execu tive Committees should organize bv electing Chairman and Secretary of same, also set a time and place for holding a convention to nominate Congressmen from their respective districts. By order of Campaign Committee, Oscar Parker, Sec’ty, 117 f Whitehall st. Atlanta, Ga., May 10, ’92. Speakers Appointments. Good speakers will be sent to speak for the People’s Party as follows: Perry, Houston county, Saturdav, May 28th. Vienna, Dooly county, Monday, May 30th. Sumner, Worth county, Tuesday, June Ist. Adel, Berrien count, Wednesday, June 2d. Moultrie, Colquitt county, Thurs day, June 3d. The land sharks, grain sharks, loan sharks, trust sharks, railroad sharks and all other kinds of sharks are members of the old parties, and dominate the party policy of both. These call the People’s movement as “anarchical and dangerous.” Yes dangerous to sharks!—Allen News, Neb. 800 Hoo; Wee-e-e-e. I says to Sarge the other day, “Sarge, as sure as you’re a living man the Democratic papers all over the land are weakening in their fight on the People’s Party. They’re scared, Sarge, and they are getting ready to take water, every dog-on’ed one of ’em.” “I tells you its natural to want to go with the prosesh ; in spite of prin ciples people always try to keep close to the band wagon. And then you know the Democrats ain’t got any principle to hold ’em back and so they’re meditating a speedy adjourn ment in our favor, and are fixing up their toys and are getting ready to fall into line. Their papers are beginning to quarrel among themselves and to ac cuse each other of being to blame in driving the Alliancemen out of the Democratic fold ; and they are near ly all asserting their own innocence in the matter, and urging each other to use gentleness and persuasion and brotherly love in their relations with us to entice us back again. These papers are—some of them —weeping, evidently from the tone of their voices, and saying, “I didn’t do it, oh, People’s Party, don’t blame me.” And here is a paper quoting from the Fort Valley Leader—both of them Democratic saying, “The Democratic party is not in a position to be dictatorial; it should be pa tient, kind, indulgent etc.” And then it pleads that the Democratic party has not been in power for thirty years and the People’s Party ought to consider this and not put too much blame on it. Mighty well I know what this kind of cringing means ; it means present alarm and future repentance and co pious tears. 800-hoo, wee-e-e-e-e.” They Begin to See It. What part will the new Third Party play in the coming presidential campaign ? This is the question that the politicians are asking one anoth er, and the leaders of both parties are unable to answer. There can be no denying the fact that many of the southern representatives are very much alarmed at the and strength displayed by this new ele ment in national politics, The Re publican representatives from the west ami northwest are also worried at the outlook.—N. Y. Herald. The only consolation we can ten der the G. O. P. bosses is of the kind offered by the negro foreman to his massa on returning from a tour of in spection after a hail storm. “The crap is ruined, said the old man, but thank God massa, it is a general thing.” The great reform movement will show no distinction, gentlemen, but will destroy both machines, with the utmost impartiality. Pinkerton Thugs to be Investigated. The committee having in charge Congressman Watson’s resolution calling for an investigation of the Pinkerton cut throats, has found the pressure so strong that it is compell ed to report the resolution to this house. This is another triumph of of the People’s Party delegation in that body. Mr. Watson has insisted that he did not care whether the committee should make a favorable or an adverse report. All he has asked is that it make some kind of a report that will bring the subject be fore the house. This done, our rep resentatives ■will make it exceedingly interesting for the plutocratic sup porters of this infamous gang. The discussion will make mighty interest ing reading. Notice to P. P. Men. Cannot the county committeemen and other zealous workers in the re form cause interest themselves in collecting a quarter or a dime from each earnest P. P. man for campaign purposes? The enemy say that we will fail for want of election funds. We neither seek nor desire a corrup tion fund, but w r e do need a fund to disseminate reform literature and to pay the expenses of the speakers. It is the people’s fight; let the peo ple sustain it. Send contributions to Oscar Parker, Secretary Campaign Committee, 1174 Whitehall Street, Atlanta, Ga. YE UNTERRIFIED. The So-Called Fulton Bounty Demo cratic Mass-Meeting—A Monkey and Parrot Pow-Wow. Gentle reader, did you ever wit ness a red hot difference of opinion among the boys on a base-ball "round ? Well, this so-called mass-meeting, last Saturday week,was somewhat like unto it—only a good deal more so. I have attended many conventions in my day, but must say this one takes the cake. With a very few exceptions the whole thing was run by the kids of the former Democratic party. A few old men took seats, but when the row began they began to sidle ’round till out of the thickest of it, and were only lookers on. There never was sufficient order in the house for any proposition to be heard or intelligently acted upon; but the Cleveland element being overwhelmingly in the majority, de clared a straight Cleveland delega tion elected. Then little Clarkie Howell called the Hill boys together and amid great confusion, soon declared a di vided delegation elected. One fact was clearly demonstrated by this unsuccessful effort to hold a convention, viz : The people in town, as well as in the country have determined to do away with the little ling business and have a voice in public affairs. The effort of the two little “clubs,” through a few officers, to fix the whole thing was the climax of assumacy, The newspaper boys and the pin feather lawyers ruled the roost. The country men were not in it— they were conspicuously absent. Outside of the few young aspiring politicians, the crowd seemed to take it as a good-natured frolic. And these are the fellows who pre sume to open the eyes of the “mis guided farmers” of Georgia, and dic tate to them how to vote. Verily, the g. o. p. is in a bad way, so far as Fulton county is concerned. E. C. The Boss Joke of the Season. And now comes your uncle Joe Brown—the grandest old Democrat of them all—and says to the people of Georgia that it would be a fatal mistake to go into the People’s Party. He’s another one of the old guard, who “saved the State” in the dark days of reconstruction. Who ever thought that he would join the bloody-shirt brigade and unite in the crazy yell of “negro su premacy ?” When the other fellows “saved the State.” this grand old Democrat is one of the fellows that had her down. Ain’t it funny ? Joe Brown went out of the Demo cratic party at the back door, at a time when there was some sense in this cry of “a white man’s govern ment,” and became Bullock’s Su preme Justice, and only abandoned the Republican crowd when they were hopelessly routed. But your uncle Joe, he’s a sly old coon—like Dickens’ fellow, “devilish sly”—and he did’nt have to slip back into the g. o. p. at the back door. No sir—not your uncle Joe. He’d been quietly working the wires, and the first thing anybody knew, in stalks Joe Brown through the front door—as big a Democrat as anybody. “Who left that front door open ?” asked the former bosses. “Alf and John 8.,” was the an swer. And it was even so. The old horny-handed farmer, Gordon, couldn’t live in Washington on that little $6,000 a year, and Joe got him a job as a railroad attorney at $14,000 —notwithstanding the fact that he wasn’t any lawyer—and John stepped out, and Alf opened the door, and Joey stepped in—was a full-fledged Democratic Senator be fore he had time to get out of his Republican uniform. When you come to think about it, this letter of our venerable old friend is the biggest joke of the sea son—and so it will be considered by the great mass of the sober, thinking people of Georgia. E. C. FALLING INTO LINE. Tattnall County Organizes. Reidsville, Ga., May 14, 189’2. The People’s Party of Tattnall county was fully organized to-day. A large and enthusiastic crowd was present. The meeting was called to order by W. E. Southwell, chairman of the county executive committee. Colonel Peek was introduced to the large audience, and for an hour and’a half held the attention of the people. His speech was a gem ami clearly showed that the only relief to be expected would come by the people uniting under the banner of the People’s Party and marching on to victory. At the close of his mag nificent address he called for a vote of those who would support the People’s Party, and out of a court house full of people only three held up their hands as being opposed to the movement. The rest went solid for the People’s Party. In the afternnoon an organization was perfected and delegates elected to the various conventions and com mittees for each militia district. In our delegations we selected alliance men and non-alliancemen to serve. After the organization, that grand old war-horse, F. D. Wimberley, shelled the old parties, and laid it on to the satisfaction of all present. He surely gets there Eli! Now for work ! And you can count on Tattnall doing her dead level best. B. F. Alexander, Secretary. Morgan County. May 14th, 1892, will long be re membered by the people of Morgan county as a Waterloo to bossism and ring-rule. i The day was bright and sunny, and the occasion was the meeting of the Morgan County Farmers’ Alliance at Madison. Brothers Walker and Chupp had been invited to address the Alliance on reform, and the democrats (so called), fearing a bolt from the tyrant yoke of plutocratic misrule, called the Morgan county democratic club to meet in Madison on the same day and invited Mr. Burnett, an Athens attorney, to deliver an address to them. Brothers Walker and Chupp, to gether with a large number of intel ligent and substantial Alliancemen, having expressed a desire to organize a People’s Party, and the democratic club having proposed terms for a joint discussion of questions of pop ular interest, the Alliance, which though a training school in political and democratic economy, is strictly non-partisan, attended as rapidly as possible to its business and then turned the court house over to the democratic club, thereby pursuing the even tenor of its way in a strictly non-partisan manner and granting to its members, as it has always done, that liberty of thought and freedom of speech which is the sacred birth right of every American citizen. After an agreement as to the time to be occupied by the respective speakers of the democratic and Peo ple’s Party, the fun began. The ball was opened by Mr. Bur nett, of Athens, who told us that it was a lovely day and that “the wheat was locking the sunshine in its gol den grain”—as we have often heard Mr. Grady exclaim. He also told us that “the Lord is good, very good, to us”—which we have always be lieved, having been taught in our early youth that only “Man’s inhu manity to man makes countless thousands mourn.” lie wreathed in memorable' rhetorical garlands, ex patiated on the silvery moon, and occasionally soared away on eagle’s wings into such etherial altitudes that we lost sight of him entirely. His whole address was a tirade of abuse heaped upon Post, Peek and Watson, together with a general waving of the bloody shirt and de nunciation of the nigger and yankee. He served the usual course of tariff scrap-pudding, made from the leav ings of the various offerings by dif ferent priests at the tariff shrine of demagoguery. He bemeaned and villified everybody who had sense enough to form an opinion and cour age enough to maintain it. He honored the People’s Party by call- ing it the modern Moses, and then turned right around and said, “If the farmers will follow me, I will lead them to the Land of Promise, peace and rest.” We believe him;, for,, from all appearance, he had been resting all of his life, and we are sure that as soon as the so-called democrats see the class of work he is now doing, and its results,, they will be sensible enough to give him another long resting spell. Finally, after time had been called more than once and Mr. Barnett had gotten out of breath and had for gotten his little speech, he consented to come down, and Brother Walker took the stand. At once a crowd of “Dudie Towny Chaps,” scarcely bigger than your fist, whose mothers had forgotten to send their nurse-maids along with them, began to hiss like geese, while a number of men whose bald pates should have indicated age, but was probably an indication of softening of the brain, continued to carry on a conversation in quite a loud tone of voice, so as to greatly annoy the speaker and every one who wished to give polite attention, though dif fering, perhaps, in opinion. Brother Walker was equal to the occasion, and, in spite of the hin drance offered by the tools of plu tocracy, mastered the situation and came off more than conqueror. He picked up Mr. Burnett, toyed with him for a moment, and then buried him under such an avalanche of facts that the old democratic sore heads have been looking for him ever since. He said he could not talk “pretty” like Mr. Burnett, but he would give the people facts and prove them as he went. Brother Walker is a capital de bater, plain and forcible, and when he drives a nail he never stops till it is clinched. Brother Walker was to divide his time with Brother Chupp, but when he resigned his place to Brother Chupp, Mr. Burnett jumped up and wanted to speak again. Then the uproar became so great that all the People’s Party people started out, but when those who had raised the disturbance saw’ that everybody was going out, leaving Burnett on the stand, they tried to bariicade the doors, and went so far as to take hold of some of the country people to force them to stay, but to no pur pose. Mr. Burnett, seeing that he had no audience save empty benches, like the Beduoin of old, “folded his tent and quietly slipped away.” In a few moments things had somewhat calmed, and when the People’s party leaders took posses session of the court house again and gave notice that they were going to organize, the large hall was filled as if by magic, and then, amid the shouts of an enthusiastic multitude, the followers of Washington and Jefferson unfurled their banner to the breezes and sounded the tocsin of war against the plutocratic ty rants, while hundreds of the horny handed sons of toil pledged to fol low that banner wherever it should lead. Watchman. HANCOCK COUNTY. Whereas, our State president, L. F. Livingston, and a few other official members of the State Alliance have had a meeting in Atlanta and marked out the political road that loyal Al liancemen must walk, and the politi cal thoughts that we must think, and Whereas, we, the members of Lin ton Farmer's Alliance of Hancock county, are tired of such usurpation of power by our president. Therefore be it Resolved, That we will not rescind our resolution endorsing the action of the St. Louis convention, nor give up our charter. Resolved, That we urge and de mand a meeting of the State Alliance for the purpose of removing our pres ident, vice-president and executive committee of the State Alliance, and for transaction of such other business as may be necessary in the premises. By order of S. J. Pyron, President, B. M. Miller, Secretary. Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be sent to the Southern Alliance Farmer and People’s Party Paper with the request to publish same.