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THE “OCALA FRAUD.” That’s what Pat Walsh called it less than one year ago. Today, most of it is admitted to be good, sound, rock-ribbed, Simon-pure Democracy and Mr. Walsh is an hon ored leader in the convention which so decides. This is encouraging. It is an unfailing encouragement to those who believe in the “final preservance of the Saints!” It is likewise a source of renewed vigor to those who believe in the re deeming qualities of “Patience, Per severance and Sweet Oil.” I have said all along that if we would just give the boys time, the medicine would work. Sure enough, it is working. Han cock county first showed signs. It's Democratic platform was a mild stag ger towards our embraces. The gen tle spirit of Sidney Lewis breathed all through it. But we did not think the good work was finished. We knew the medicine was just beginning to take good hold. So in the soft, encouraging words of “Uncle Pumblechook,” we sat by and said: “Lead her on, Joseph; lead her on.' 1 Sure enough Patience met its us ual reward. The Lincoln county platform came duly to hand. It “saw” the bluff of the Hancock Democrats and went -‘one better.” It began to seem that m the pleasant and somewhat excit ing game of “Hunt the Switch” Col. Joe Strother and his friends were reaching the point where we could clap our hands and say, “You’re burning.” But still, bearing in mind the ad monition of Uncle Pumberchook, we said, “Good in you, Joseph; lead her on.” The medicine continued to mean der up and down and all around the delicate and decaying Democratic System. The game called “Hunt the Switch” grew yet more interesting and excit ing. In the midst of it. the Georgia State Convention of the elect and Simon-pure Democrats got together in that town of Brotherly Love called Atlanta. It was a rich turn out. If in all the Lanes and back streets of Georgia Politics, a single man was left out, we cannot discover it. The “old crowd” was there in great shape. Out of the “milky way” of Demo cratic Ringism not a star was missing. Among all those who had most bittesly abused the Ocala platform none were left at home. They were all present to testify their sincere devotion to the princi ples they had denounced. They were eager to prove that those very principles were what they had wanted all along; but that owing to defects of memory they could not think them up as soon as we did. So the Protectionists, like Pat Walsh and Evan Howell, sweetly smiled as they swallowed the Pill on she Tariff Question. And the Cleveland men, like Hoke Smith, tried to look pretty as they voted for Free Silver, which Cleve land repudiates. And the “Alliance Democrats” strove to appear happy in a conven tion which scornfully spat upon their demands for the abolition of Nation al Banks, the issue of Legal Tender notes direct from the Treasury to the People, .and their Sub-Treasury Plan, to which they have heretofore been most positively committed. Barring these little episodes, how ever. the convention was a glorious recommendation to the drastic quali ties of good medicine. It left the Hancock platform away out of sight. It left the Lincoln county Produc tion where even my genial friend, Col. Joe, would see the uselesness of keeping it on ice any longer. In the political game of “Hunt the Switch” it authorizes us to call out, “You're on tire!” So you are. So you are. But you'll miss the Switch* all the same. When you go to your National Convention the trail will grow cold and colder and coldest. Your little game will be up in 45 days ! You have told the people that al most the entire Ocala Demands con stitute good sound Democracy. What will you do when your Na tional Convention declares they are not good Democracy? Put on your studying caps, gentle men. That's the issue you must face. You can never again say “Ocala Fraud.” Yon can never deny that we taught you the doctrines you have so reluc tantly put into your Platform. Now when Tammany Hall scouts and rejects that platform what are you going to do about it? Will you cleave to the “Party' 1 which repudiates your Democratic Principles ? Or will you do as we did—cleave to the Democratic Principles irre spective of the party name? Boys, you are in the soup this time. T. E. W. P. S.—When a lot of Politicians set up a trap and catch themselves in it, what’s the law on that “p’int?” Do they have to go to the chaingang, or can we let 'em off with a fine and a lecture from the Judge ? W. NORTH CAROLINA. So far as the Alliance and the far mers arc concerned, North Carolina is solid for the People’s Party. The politicians are striving to con ceal this from the people of Georgia and the country generally for fear of the effect it will have on the peo ple of other States, but it cannot be done. We stopped the press last week to insert a telegram from L. L. Polk an nouncing the fact that “North Caro lina had gone solidly and with en thusiastic unanimity into the People’s Party.” We could do no more then than simply make the announcement as it was telegraphed to us by Bro. Polk. Since that time we have learned the particulars which are these: The president of the State Alliance, Bro. Marine Butler, while believing that the People’s Party was a neces sity and that the great majority of the Alliancemen were in favor of the the People’s Party, was himself with a few others in authority, opposed to taking immediate action, but thought wisest -to go into the Democratic State convention and capture it as has been done in Sonth Carolina. To this proposition of Butler's there was great opposition, and finally a con ference was called to meet on the day previous to the meeting of the 1 )emocratic State convention, and to this conference every county Alliance was urged to send their ablest men. The object of the conference was not definitely stated but was said to be one of the greatest importance, and called as it was at the same place and but one day in advance of the Dem ocratic convention to elect delegates to Chicago, was perfectly understood to be a conference to decide whether the Alliancemen of the State would go with the People’s Party or not. The telegram referred to stated the simple fact of the result. With en thusiastic unanimity the Alliancemen of the entire State voted to go into the People’s Party. Having done that, they proceeded to select a full delegation for the State at large to Omaha, and fixed the time ot hold ing Congressional District conven tions for the election of District del egates. The counties will hold their con ventions June 11th, and elect dele gates who will meet in their respec tive Congressional Districts June 16th. The State meeting also elected an Executive Committee, the same as has been done in Georgia, and issued an address to the people—in fact, put the whole machinery of the People's Party in place in the State, and are prepared to go in and whip the fight —something that even the moss-back papers of Georgia indirectly ac knowledge that they can do easily. Why not send Jack Turner as one of the delegates at large from Geor gia to the National Convention at Omaha? Nobody made a better fight at St. Louis than Turner. No better man any where than Jack. Let’s show him this honor. He is worthy of it. THE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM. The platform of the Democratic party of Georgia is a specimen of what a set of politicians knowing little and caring less about the needs of the people, can do when frightened by a threatened revolt of the masses. In an effort to deceive the people into believing themselves and their party the friends of the masses while at the same time giving satisfactory proof to the money power of their intention still to serve it, they have made themselves rediculous in the eyes of all sensible people, and have succeeded in deceiving no one. Making a pretense of conceding to the demands made by the farmers, they have shown an utter ignorance of the principles involved in those demands, and have offered in place of a government issue and loan direct to the people, the taking off of the tax on the notes of state banks, thus adding insult to injury by increasing the number of persons given “special privileges,” and doing it under a pre tense of conceding to the rightful demands of the people. In to deceive the Alliancemen, they have exposed both their ignorance and their hypocracy. Their ignorance of how closely the farmers have studied this question of money, and their intention to use him as a voting machine to keep them selves in office as in the past. . The politicians deceived themselves vastly more than they will the peo ple in this instance. They have made themselves be lieve that they can continue to de ceive the people, but they are mis taken. There is not a militia district in the state, nor a sub-alliance in Geor gia, where the farmers will not take up that state bank plank and after riddling it with argument, put it under their feet and spit upon it, The people are determined to have their tool of exchange, money, at cost, or as near it as possible, and to have it direct from tlie government without the intervention of any bank. Only so can they retain for them selves the fruits of their own toil; only so can they protect themselves in their right to make their domestic exchanges untaxed of the banks, and they will resent any effort of the politicians to flatter them into accept ing anything less than this as an in sult to their intelligence and a pre meditated attempt to continue and perpetuate the wrongs under which they suffer. But the plank declaring for state banks, is not the only one that con ceals a poison beneath a coating of sugar. In fact, the wholejflatform, taken in connection with the election of Cleveland delegates, is a master piece of intended double dealing. Take for example the plank in which they declare themselves “Opposed to every species of class legislation.” This sentence is of itself so general in its terms as to convey no pledge of reformation in the control of cor porations, but lest even this inde finite reference to the corporations that are consuming the substance of the people should offend the monop olsits, the resolution continues with out so much as a pause wherein the reader may catch his breath, with, “ And government partnership with private enterprise.’’ Read these two parts of the sen tence together and it is plain when taken in connection with the declara tion in favor of extending the privi leges of the National Banks that this plank of the platform is intended to give the fullest assurance to the whole litter of monopolistic wolves that the party that adopted it could be depended on not to interfere to any extent in their exploiting of the people—that nothing like the sub treasury plan would receive the slightest countenance from the Dem ocratic party in Georgia, and that any little reference that might be made to “class legislation,” was in tended—as the Hon. Chairman of the Democratic convention said of the pension plank in the Democratic platform of 1868 —“to catch votes.” Agaiiq in the silver plank, the de mand is that gold and silver be placed “upon a parity,” meaning thereby to cateh the Alliance vote by a demand for further coinage of silver, while the gold-bug is given to understand that if this is done the amount of silver put into the dollar will be increased about 25 per’cent., thus making the dollar that much harder to get, and the advantage to the'people an apparent and not a real one. For this would not only prevent any rise in the*price of silver—thu s enabling England to still get cheap silver with which to buy India cot ton in competition with ours; but by increasing the amount put into the dollar, very few if any more dol lars could be coined than now. Again : “We demand that the amount of the circulating medium shall be speedily increased on a sound basis sufficient to meet the needs of the country.” “On a sound basis.” That is the exact language—the pet phrase of the gold bugs, and is always interpreted to mean a basis of gold, or silver, or both—of bank notes based on coin, every dollar of which the Banks control, and by controling which can control all other forms of money based upon it. No wonder that a full score of the honest intelligent farmer delegates left the convention and the party after witnessing such evidence of hypocri sy on the part of the Democratic Bosses. SOUTH CAROLINA. In South Carolina the People’s Party men have done what was at first proposed to do in North Caro lina—seize upon the democratic ma chine and break it. The democratic state convention in South Carolina last week was run by Third Party men entirely. They called themselves democrats, but they do not expect to vote the democratic national ticket, and when the state convention meets in September will no longer wear even the name demo crat. They endorsed the Ocala platform word for word and sent delegates to Chicago to the democratic conven tion, but refused either to denounce the People’s Party or to pledge themselves or the delegates elected to. support the candidates to be nominated at Chicago. There can be but one conclusion derived from their action: They intend to present the Ocala plat form to the democratic convention at Chicago, and when it is rejected to bolt the convention and go on to Omaha to the People’s Party con vention, which meets there a few days later than the democratic con vention in Chicago. It is a rather round-ab-?ut way of getting home, but we have known for months that that was the way the South Carolina boys had selected to go, and we said nothing and just sawed wood. Some of the leaders in North Carolina proposed going the same long way round also, but the men from the farms got together and said that was not the best way, and they led off on a straight shoot and got there directly. They are in the People’s Party, and at home there and comfortable. We welcome the North Carolina men most heartily. They have acted wisely, in our judgment—wisely and patriotically, and are at home, safe from any possible entanglements. We will welcome South Carolina just as heartily when she gets in July 4th —as she will do. We know the people are loyal to the principles at issue in this cam paign, and that she will follow them home in a little time. We only re gret for the sake of the brethren themselves that they did not take the short cut as they have done in North Carolina and joined us at the fireside of the great party of the people a few weeks sooner than they can now do. —The Democratic party gave itself another black eye by the action of its Nebraska state convention, in voting down a free coinage resolution,229 for to 247 against. This insures a third party victory in Nebraska, if anything can. —Lincoln (Neb. ) Farmers' Alli ance. Your paper is a hummer. Chas. Herald. Queensburg, Ind. THIRD PARTY MAN. HE EXPRESSES HIS VIEWS ON THE SPARTA MEETING. He (alls Tom “Our Own Richmond County Cracker Boy.” His Views. From the Augusia Evening Herald. Editors Evening Herald. —Yester- day’s Chronicle had a glowing account of “The Grand Democratic Rally at Sparta on Saturday.” Why was it the reporter failed to give the number pres ent? I would have thought that ac cording to the Chronicle’s way of re porting the Democratic meetings that he would have reported fifteen hun dred good Democrats there and about twenty-five People’s party men (all there was in the county). We are left to draw our own conclusions, and my conclusion is that there were about one hundred Democrats and one hun dred and fifty “Third party” men there, but of course, it was fa “moss back” meeting and the People’s party men took no hand in it, for they make it a point to act as become gentlemen at other folks’ meetings. They never take part unless invited, and then tbey always accept and manage to hold their own. These Plutocratic leaders may thank their stars they did not invite them to a joint debate. I could not help but notice one thing and that was that Governor Northen should be invited to come and speak at the same time that Mr. Black did, which proves to my mind that the party horses were afraid to risk getting a crowd together with Mr. Black alone, and as the rule of the old parties is to intimidate voters by having their “mas ters” come and speak to them, which means with some people submission without a murmer. This being Gover nor Northen’s home county it was thought his appearance on the scene would have an electrical effect upon the farmers of old Hancock. It might have done so at one time, but that time has past, and these grand old patriots have thrown off the party yoke and stand and act today as free men. The writer was at one time a strong Northen man, and even to this time, have looked upon him as an exemplary Christian gentleman, but when I read his speech at Sparta, I must say that I have been in a measure deceived. I did not think that the Christian gov ernor of the great State of Georgia would stoop to the level of a political trickster and abuse every one else who, by their God-given right, differed with him. His references to Mr. and Mrs. Post are enough to drive voters from the Democratic parti instead of bring ing them back. The idea of our gov ernor dragging the name of a lady into a political discussion. He charges Mr. and Mrs. Post with being infidels and anarchists, Suppose this to be the ease, what difference does it make to oppressed people ? An infidel is one who does not believe in the Christian religion. We have never heard the word “anarchist” defined, but if the principals as laid down in the People’s Party platform is anarchy, then you can just put us down as anarchist and we glory in the name. Who can bring reasonable objections to that platform? No one but party machine bosses and those who do not understand it. I am just as strong a believer in the existence of an Almighty God as our distinguished governor, and look upon His promises through the same denom inational spectacles as does Mr. North eu and Mr. Black; yea, and I believe His word so strongly that I am convin ced that he who would follow Him here and yet assist the moneyed kings and monopolists of this land to press the heel of tyranny more firmly upon the necks of the poor but humble followers of His son. will have their portion with the damned in the region of despair. Yes, governor, when it comes to pol itics we had rather follow an atheist in his efforts to place men in power who will serve the people and not Wall street and railroad combinations, than a Baptist governor or congressman un der these influences. Mr. Black said Tom Watson did not have sense enough to know what the democrats have done for the country. Now, surely Mr. Black did not say that and if he did I am bold to say that if Mr. Black was to express the honest feelings of bis heart, unbiased by par ty feeling, he will admit that Tom Watson is one of the smartest and brainiest men in congress today. Mr, Black has surely forgotten some thing when he says the democrats have done so much? How about the silver bill, the recent appropriations, Mr. Hill traveling through the south in his own interest ae a presidential candidate, re turning to Washington and drawing fifteen hundred dollars of a salary never earned; Livingston and Moses stumping Georgia for democracy at a salary of fourteen dollars a day when they were sent there by the very peo ple who they so freely abused in their speeches to make laws for them. How about that 150 democratic ma jority and yet the house left without a quorum while these men who think so much of the “dear people” (in elec- tion times) were off attending horse races ? We refer him to the editorial of the New York World and ask him what he is going to do about that, for the B orld is the leading Democratic paper of this country. Has Watson been guilty of a neglect of duty? We defy anyone to show where. You may call him a traitor, a deserter, an anarchist, or anything you please, but every at tack you make on him only endears him more to his people, and they will take care of him when election day rolls around. In the meantime prayers rise from thousands of hearts all over this country to the Allwise Ruler to raise up a thousand more “traitors” like him. Mr, Black referred to and repudiated the idea of a subsidized press. Has he forgotten the indigna tion meeting at Market Hall several years ago to defend him against the attacks made on him by the editor of the Augusta Chronicle? Some of us have not, yet that same paper is now championing his cause. When the people wanted Mr. Black the bosses did not. Now the bosses want Mr. Black and the people are sat isfied with little Tom. j Allow me to say in conclusion, Mr. Editor, that I look upon the governor of my state as a distinguished person, but, nevertheless, a servant of the peo ple, put there by their votes, and when it comes to his influence over me polit ically he has no more than a country constable, for we are all created by one God, and are far from infallible. I consider Mr. Black one of the grandest men in this country, but not grand enough for me to support instead of our own Richmond County cracker boy, Thomas E. Watson. A People’s Party Man. Augusta, Ga., May 16, 1893. Let Us Sing. Nothing cheers the heart like song. Nothing so stirs to courageous defense of the right as song, [f we could set the people of our southland to singing songs descriptive of our wrongs and demanding our rights, the forces of plutocracy would fade before us as the mists from before the sun. Brethren and sisters, let us sing. Start the tune somebody in every Al liance and in every neighborhood and about every hearthstone, and let us sing of our hopes and our fears, our trials and our hardships, and of the glorious victories to be won by a union of the tried hearts of the nation—the men and the women of the South and the West who will not longer listen to the tales of the slanderers who would keep those enemies who long to be friends. We have published several good songs in the People’s Party Paper re cently, and we intend to publish more. Set these songs to familiar tunes, or compose new songs to old tunes famil iar to everybody and go to singing. No matter if you can’t sing high C, sing the best you can and set everybody else to singing. There is a little book of songs en dorsed by the National Alliance and published and sold by Sister Florence Olmstead, of Eldorado, Kansas, that we ought to have scattered over Geor gia and the South. The book has thir ty songs in it and sells for 10 cents per copy or a dozen copies for SI.OO. Send and get some songsters of Sistor Olm stead and let us sing our way to liberty and our enemies to defeat. Millions and Millionaires. The millionaires increase from day to day— The multi-millionaires come on apace—- The billionaire is well upon the way, And soon will show his shining yellow face. Meanwhile the millions of the human race, Whose ceaseless toil supports these mighty knaves In want and misery forget disgrace, In freedom’s name degenerate to slaves. Languish and die and fill ignoble graves! Simon Durst, In New Nation. The following is a copy of a letter that is being sent to numerous editors in Indiana, says the Stockton Signal: Dear Sir: —The banking company has a number of very nice farms in North Dakota which it has secured at very low rates under fore closure, and which it will sell at from $4 to $7 per acre. These farms are all improved and under cultivation, and are at a great bargain at the price. The company has also ac quired a large number of cattle and sheep which it will lease on shares. Here is a rare opportunity for ambi tious young men in your State to ac quire homes. Enclosed please find fifty cents for which please insert the above in your local columns. John N. Berlew, Agent. That is the way it is done. “As the days go by'’ the soil changes hands, but every time for the benefit of the banker and lender.—Republic, Manhattan, Kan. —Those who oppose the St. Louis and Dallas demands will have a tough time capturing the offices in Texas, in this year of grace, 1892.—Southern Mercury.