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THE PEOPLE’S JPARTY PAPER. PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE PEOPLE'S PAPER PURL! SI NG COMPANY. 117 1-2 Whitehall St. TH OS. E. WATSON, - - President. 0. C. POST, - - - Vice-President. 1). N SANDERS, - - Sec. & Treas. Subscription, One Dollar Per Year, Six Months 50 cts., Three Months 25. In Advance. Advertising Rates made known on appli cation at the business office. Money may be sent by bank draft, Post Office Money Order, Postal Note or Registered Letter. Orders should be made payable to PEOPLE’S PARTY PAPER. FRIDAY, MAY 27, 1892. PEOPLE’S PARTY CONVENTION. The state convention to nominate a governor and state house officers meets in Atlanta July 20th. Each county is entitled to twice as many delegates as it has representatives in the lower house of the general assem bly. (td) HF HE SAID IT HE LIED. In his speech at Sparta recently Governor Northen is reported to have said of myself and Mrs. Post: “He is an infidel. lie is an An archist. Are you going to closet yourself with him ? “How do I know? lie says so. 11 is wife says so. Perhaps I should not thus attack a woman, but she has unsexed herself. She has written letters against the Democratic party. An athiest herself, she makes 81,000 a month selling her damnable heresy.” Duiiig the trouble concerning the Haymarket riot, Post’s wife mailed the Anarchist’s wife money. Post was told that un less he took it out of the office he would be tarred and feathered, and ttbs infamous cur took it'out.” If Governor Northen made these statements, I reply, simply and plain ly, that on every count made, except that of having written letters de nouncing the Democratic party, Gov erno* Northern deliberately lied. C. C. Post. 4 f t become more and more that Georgia will not send a Cleve * land delegation to Chicago. Georgia democrats are for principles first and men afterwards. -A Hill Organ. Os course! Os course! That’s the reason they are rushing into the arms of Davy Hill—the executor of the Tweed ring; the man who “knifed” Cleveland in 1888 and elected Harrison; the man who is kept up by Tammany, which has no principles at all and no platform at all The Atlanta Constitution is doing great work to redeem the 10th dis trict from the Third party yoke.—A Kill Organ. ' Certainly it is and Tammany furnishes the boodle. Hill and his gang will spend thousands to “down Watson.” He is in their way. Wo received one hundred and one •ew subscribers on an average every day last week, and expect to reach two hundred daily before June goes out North Carolina is certain for the . People’s Party. Even the mossbacks virtually acknowledge this. TAKE NOTICE. J Changed to Statesboro. ’ At the request of the friends in Hie Ist Congressional District, the place of meeting to elect delegates to Omaha, is changed from Savan nah to Statesboro. The date re mains the same. June Sth. THEY HUG EACH OTHER. RICH ARISTOCRATS ARE WILD WITH JOY REPUBLICANS AND DEMO- CRATS ARE BOTH ONE HOG. Roger Q., the royal Bengal tiger of tariff for-revenue only and McKin ley, the roaring lion of tariff-for pro tection, met after R. Q. was elected to the United States Senate and hug ged each other! Actually embraced one another. Oh, how affecting it must have been to see these two old pampered up prize fighters stand on the grave of the free silver bill and hav a neck-licking. I exas hugged Mills and Mills hug ged McKinley. Texas hugged Mc- Kinley by proxy .—Decatur Times. “A LITTLE MORE GRAPE, CAPTAIN BRAGG!” Just a little more, and the Old Party lines will waver and break; and the field will become a confused scene of retreat and confusion. 11ere goes ’ On Feb. 11, 1880, there came up in the House of Representatives a bill to give increased power and priv ileges to the National Banks. This was a splendid opportunity for the Democrats. Their party was founded by Jefferson and Jackson upon a bitter hostility to National Banks. In 1886 it could no longer be claimed by any one that a war ne cessity existed anywhere for such a system. Hence Democrats not only had a good chance to go on record against an increase of the power and privi lege of the Banks, but to make war upon the undemocratic power and privilege they already possessed. Did they do it ? •/ Not much. The Ocala platform had not yet opened its eyes. They could not an ticipate that the day would come when the outraged Farmers would rise up on their hind legs and teach Pat Walsh and Evan Howell what Democracy was. Therefore we cannot be surprised that the Banks got what they asked for by a vote of 130 to 120. Among those voting for the Banks I find 37 Democrats. Among these Democrats (voting for the Banks) I find the following members from Georgia: Hon. Allen I). Candler; lion. Chas. F. Crisp. Among those voting against the Banks I find the following members from Georgia: lion. Judson C. Cle ments, Hon. N. J. Hammond, Hon. 11. G. Turner. The other members from Georgia are not recorded; excepting that Mr. Norwood’s name appears among those voting for the motion to lay on the Table the motion to Reconsider. Among the Democrats from other States voting with the Banks I note the inevitable Oates of Alabama and i SiGifccr of Illinois. *• * - Among those Congressmen voting “no,” I was pleased to see the name of Gen. James B. Weaver. I trust that Dr. Nance, will not worry Allen Candler too much over his vote on this question. FREE SILVER. But according to the Democratic organs of to-day, they have at all times been ready to restore the Free Coinage of Silver “if they had the ’chance.” Let us see. On the Bth of April, 1886, there came up in the House of Represen tatives a fair and square vote on a “Free Coinage” bill. It was defeated by a vote of 163 to 126. I low many Democrats voted against it? Seventy! And among them were the follow ing Georgia members: Hon. J. II Blount, T. M. Norwood, 11. G. Tur ner. The other Georgia members voted for it. Among the Democrats voting against Free Silver then, it is signifi cant to note Gen. Catchings of Mis sissippi, who is now on' the Commit , .ee on Rules which refuses to fix a day for a vote on the Bland bill. The inevitable Oates is on the list i- on the wrong one, as usual. SQUANDERING THE SURPLUS. On April 16, 1888, there came up in the House a Resolution declaring that the Surplus should be applied to the Bond Purchase Scheme. I have already explained tjiat this Surplus was composed of the Tax Money of the people in excess of the Government’s needs. Hence it belonged to all the peo ple and should have been disbursed in some manner benficial to all classes. In the days of Andrew Jackson when our Bosses had not forgotten what Democracy was, a similar state of things existed. What did Jackson do ? He gave that money back to the Taxpayers to whom it belonged. He returned to the States 828,000,000, which the Government had accumu lated beyond its needs; in order that the States might apply it to the ben efit of the Taxpayers generally. This 828,000,000 was divided among the States as a loan, in case the Govern ment might afterwards need it. Democrats at that early day had not made the curious constitutional discovery that the money of the Peo ple can be loaned to Expositions, Na tional Bankers, Rotgut Whiskey Owners and Railroads, and cannot under any circumstances be loaned to the people to whom it belongs. But of late years they have lit on this discovery and they make the most of it. Hence instead of disbursing the Surplus m some generally beneficial way they adopted a plan by which sixty odd millions of our Taxes have been wasted on Bonds which were not due, in the way of Premiums. In other words 860,000,000 were given to the Bankers as an inducement to persuade them to accept full pay ment in advance. Those voting for this improvement on the Andrew Jackson plan num bered 138. Those against it, 64. Eighty one Democrats voted “yes.” Only thirty-one voted “no.” Among the negative votes it is pleasant to note Messrs. Bland, Dock ery, Grimes, Holman, Kilgore, Nor wood, Stockdale, Tillman, and Gen. J. B. Weaver. Among the Democrats voting for the Bondholders it is not so pleasant to find Messrs. Barnes, Blount, Carl ton, Catchings, Clements, Cockran, Crisp, Amos Cummings, Enloe,Hatch, Herbert, McMillan, Oates (of course), Peel, Randall, Sayers, Springer (of course) H. G. Turner, Gen. Joe Wheeler and Mr. Carlisle. The Georgia members, other than those mentioned, do not appear to have voted. PENSIONS. An immense amount of discussion has been had recently about Pen sions. The statement has been made that this Congress increased the General Pension list 817,000,000 that the People’s Party members voted for the measure. It isn’t true. J Not a single law has passed aiding a dollar to the amounts carried by the general laws already in force. During Cleveland’s administration, however, the Independent Pension bill was passed—adding enormously to the Pension burden. Mr. Cleve land bravely vetoed it. How many Democrats voted for this tremenduous addition to the Pen sion list? SIXTY-NINE. How many voted to pass it over Cleveland’s veto? Thirty-eight. Tell it not in Gath. Among these Simon-pure, rock-ribbed, all-wool-and a-yard-wide Democrats who voted to override the brave President who was trying to save the Taxpayers from this tremendous raid were Messrs. Bynum, of Indiana, (who re cently went to Atlanta to teach mod ern Democracy), Samuel J. Randall, (who was so much admired by the Protection Democrats like Howell and Walsh), and Holman, of Indiana, chairman of the present Appropria tions Committee. Springer voted for the bill when it was on its passage. He flunked wgen Cleveland hurled his veto. , The Georgia members who ’• 1 are recorded against the bill. They are all recorded on the vote except the Hon. Allen D. ( u d ler. It should be stated that after the bill passed the House on the first vote where 69 Democrats gave it their support it was transmitted to the Senate and passed there without a division. Where wore tlie Democrats ? Had it not been for the brave man at the White House the Democrats would now have to defend a Pension list which in a tew years would have re quired such an outlay as was never dreamed of in that celebrated St. Louis Resolution. Nor was there any redeeming fea ture of “issue of legal tender notes,” which the Bankers could never mo nopolize. It was a clean cut issue of levying enormously upon the products of la bor without furnishing a currency expansion to alleviate the distress and to break away from the galling chains of the National Bankers. What a pity Mr. Bynum didn’t preach a little on this text in his At lanta sermon. They are a nice crowd to say “Pen sions” to us! NEGRO TROOPS. By the way, while I’m on the sub ject, let me remind “our friends, the enemy,” of a vote of Senator Joseph E. Brown, who has recently written a letter for the Public. On March 19, 1888, he voted m the United States Senate to take $109,000 of the money of the Tax payers and erect a monument to the negro troops who fought us during the war Let him deny it if he dares ! He wasn’t so much afraid of the negro vote at that time. Nor was he afraid of it during the Colquitt cam paign of 1880. What’s the matter with the negro all of a sudden ? Is he so different since Senator Brown was the grand mogul of the liepublicans in Georgia? The negroes seem to be very quiet. Nobody is likely to arouse them as Joe Brown did in his Marietta speech during the dangerous time of Recon struction by telling them (as he did) that our dwellings and gin houses are a guarantee that we must treat them fairly. None of us would thus light the torch of the Incendiary! Has this Appointee of Bullock for gotten his own record? The more quiet he keeps the less he will hear of it. If there is one politician in Geor gia who had better stay in the house and keep quiet till this shower passes over it is Joe Brown. LOANS TO WHISKEY DEALERS. In the last issue of this paper I gave the vote on the Distillers’ Ware house bill. The printer broke the force of it by an error. I will try my hand at it again— hoping that the printer will let me get in this time. The bill passed by a vote of 118 to 116. 103 Democrats voted yea ! There fore only 15 Republicans supported the measure. Hence the law is a specially Dem ocratic law'. “Plain case,” as the late Daniel Dennis would say. In stating the amount which this law lends to the Whiskey Dealers I was entirely too moderate. I find that it is about $65,000,000. This is the annual Tax. This mag nifi cient sum, which belongs to the people the moment the Whiskey is ready for the market, is loaned to the Liquor Dealers for three years at 5 per cent interest. This interest is charged only for the last two years. Now' suppose a merchant or a far mer were to walk up to Uncle Sam and say “I don’t feel like paying my Tariff Taxes or my Tobacco Taxes this morning; I want three years’ time, at 5 per cent interest. Wouldn’t Uncle Sam faint? Yet that’s exactly what the Whis key Ring says. And Uncle Sam (under Democrat ic management) doesn’t faint at all. He readily and politely yields to the request. Suppose the Farmers of Georgia were banded together in a “Cotton Ring” and were to come here and say to Congress, “Our Tariff burden is about thirty million dollars. We i are hard up. Won’t you lend us i those Taxes for three years on good security at 5 per cent interest ?” Does anybody suppose they would be allowed to escape with their lives? Wouldn’t the Mililia be called out at once? Yet any citizen who will turn the question over in his mind fairly, will conclude that the Democrats did pre cisely that thing for the Whiskey Ring. To-day there are millions of gal lons of Whiskey stored in Govern ment Warehouses upon which, in round numbers, $65,000,000 are due as Taxes, this minute. If this enormous sum were paid into the Treasury to-day, (as it would be but for that law) think how great ly it might lessen the weight that now bends down the other Taxpayers. But the Government says to this Special Class: “Keep your Taxes three years at 5 per cent interest; if the people don’t like it, they can lump it.” So it goes. Lectures, Speakers, Editors! Dou ble shot your guns w ith grape and let ’em have it all along the line! T. E. W. POLK FOR PRESIPENT. Another good thing they did over in North Carolina the other day— they agreed to present Col. L. L. Polk’s name at Omaha for the head of the ticket. We make no doubt that Georgia, and every other Southern State w ill second the nomination. In fact, had opportunity presented, Geogia would like to have been the first to have nominated the man w hom all men re spect and honor. We believe, too, that the West will not contend too strongly against the head of the ticket coming from the South. The West has a great big gener ous heart and w ill w e know’ consider the situation calmly and without prejudice and w ithout selfish ends in view. The West will remember that ow ing to that which has past the South has had no candidate for President for very many years. So long has it been since the South had a candidate for President that she is no longer regarded by the two old parties as having any right to recognition in this respect, and no act of yielding on her part is construed as an act of generosity. The South cannot be generous in this matter of candidates. Even in the new party the North out votes her in convention. If generosity is shown, therefore it must be by the North, by the West —by the great hearted and open handed men of the West. And there are reasons w hy it w ould be the part of wisdom to be generous in this matter —reasons which will occur to ever thinking person. The New Party is not only to bring financial relief to the people of the whole country, but it is to bring harmony between all sections. Rather it is to bring harmony that by united action we may obtain financial relief. We will not say that harmony can only be secured by giving the South the head of the ticket for it would not be true. The South will stand gallantly and loyally by the West in the support of any good Western man who may be put at the head ; but it would be regarded by our Southern people as a most kind and brotherly act; it would create a new and indissoluable tie ; it would make our contest for victory over a relent less and bitter enemy here in the South a hundred fold easier if the West were to concede the head of the ticket to that section which has so long had no honors shown it— which has so long felt that it had no staunch and generous friend to coun sel with and stand by. C. C. Post. A Scheme to Shut Off Mr. Watson. Representative* Tillman, of South Carolina, does not like the rule by which the objection of one member prevents consideration out of the regular order of bills to which there is little objection, and yesterday he introduced a resolution directing the rules committee to report a rule providing that whenever unanimous consent is asked for consideration of any bill, the objection of ten mem bers shall be necessary to prevent its consideration. Washington Post, May 18. We had free coinage of silver in this country prior to 1873, for over eighty years, and the nation kept up a constant development and growth in prosperity. Since 1873 all evils that curse a people have been in a rapid state of development until their mag nitude today is appalling. And the gold-bugs tell us that free silver will bring disaster, yet there has been no free silver since 1873. Democratic ( ? ) congressmen went so far, during the recent silver discus sion, as to say that if a free-silver plank were inserted in the national democratic platform they w’ould sup port the republican party. Let them go. There is where they belong Cuthbert ( Ga.) Enterprise. WON THE FIGHT. Washington, D. C., Have won the fight on the Sub-Treasury. The House this morning adopted my Resolution and ordered the Committee on Ways and Means to Report the Bill. Oates, of Alabama, told the House they must quit “dodg ing” and face the issue. Yours truly, Thos. E. Watson. May 23, ’92. GOVERNOR NORTHEN. May not be aware of the fact that he occupies a position which is some what peculiar. He was a delegate from Georgia to the St. Louis convention of 1889. As a member of the convention he helped make its platform. One of its planks calls for the Govern ment ownership of railroads and tele graphs. Will Gov. Northen tell us whether he has gone back upon his own work ? It so, why has he done so and when did he let it be known ? As a member of that convention he helped formulate the demand for the Sub-Treasury plan. Has he gone back upon this part of his work ? If so, why ? These are public questions and the people have a right to hear from him. He beat Hon. Tom Hardeman for Governor on that St. Louis platform. It bore him to the front and made him Chief Magistrate of a great state. What speech has he ever since made advocating the principles of that platform ? What measure or line of policy has he adopted looking to the success of that platiorm? The Reform Movement based upon this platform did all it could for William J. Northen. It took him up from obscurity and made him governor. What has he done for the move ment byway of grateful return ? What increase of strength does the agitation founded on the St. Louis platform owe to him ? Where has he ran along the lines cheering on its friends ? Where has he gone to the rescue of a struggling comrade ? Where has he caught the standard from k out the hands of a wounded and falling color-bearer and borne it fearlessly to the front? No where has he done it. No where has he shared the dan gers ot the battle. In every combination of our ene mies his name has been conspicuous. In every dash of cold water thrown upon us and upon the very demands he aided to formulate, we have re cognized a chilly contribution from him. And today w’hen a million men are up in arms against the most stu pendous system of legislative rob bery the world ever saw, and are making their march along the road this man helped mark out at St. Louis, where is he ? Is he one of the leaders with his lance in his hand and his spur on his heel ? Not so. Is he one of the loyal men of the line, doing a duty just as noble tho’ less conspicuous? Not so. Then where is he ? Where is the Great Reformer of St. Louis who helped outline a mag nificent fight on railroad robbery, National bank spoliation, ami the legalized thievery under the guise of of an inflexible and contracted cur rency ? Where is he—now that the flag is up and the battle is on ? Why bless your life he is meander ing around the state denouncing eld erly ladies for sending alms to the wife of a prisoner lying in jail under the awful penalty of death; and varying the gentlemanly and Chris tian performance by telling the farm ers that all their troubles flow from “Guano and Mules.” T. E. W.