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Peopl Party Paper VOLUME 1. OFF WITH HIS HEAP. Execution of Ravachol, the Anarchist, in Paris Yesterday. Paris, June 11. —Ravachol, the an archist, murderer and thief, was exe cuted t his morning. Ravachol was not in the least concerned when awakened at 2 o’clock this morning and told to prepare for the execution. lie dressed himself carefully without assistance. When he was asked if he had any wish to express he replied that he wished to address the crowd and was disappoint ed by the reply that there would be no crowd. When the prison chaplain asked if the prisoner wished to see him Ravachol replied : ‘‘l have no need for your services. I never had any religion.” Notwithstanding this answer, the chaplain approached Ravachol, say i n • “I come to bring you for the last t ime the consolation of religion and to put before you the image of Christ, whose law you disregard.” “I don't care a rap for your reli gion,” said Ravachol. “I don’t want to see your crucifix. If you show it to me, I will spit upon it. You are like ail your people who encourage super stition and try to make people believe what you cannot prove.” Ravachol jibed the executioner and his assistants while they prepared him for the block. Turning to the chaplain he said : “Religion ’ What folly ! How the world is besotted The executioner here took hold of him and pushed him toward and into a van that was in waiting, which at once started for the guillotine. A crowd that was behind a cordon of soldiers, members of which had been uproarious during the time of waiting, became hushed and silenced the instant the van bearing Ravahol appeared. Amid the scilence the imprecations and blasphemous words of the condemed 'man could be distinctly heard. The preri -led jßavachol t o the foot of 'ocxu’oid,?Thowiug him the crucifix. “I want to speak,” shouted Ravachol, as the assistant executioner seized him. “Don't prevent me.” So rapidly did the executioners work that his head was already on the block and his neck fixed in the lunette before he had finished the sentence. Just as the knife fell he shouted, “Vive repub lique,” and instantly his head was in the basket. The remains were placed in a wagon and taken to the cemetery. Clevelandism and the Force Bill. Dr. M. G. Ellzy in National Watchman. The doings of plutocracy, of which the bank party are the dominant ele ment, exhibit a malicious cunning which would be dangerous if it was not so transparent. Let the people once fully realize that there is a bank party which, like a colossus, bestrides both the Republican and Democratic par ties, and they will take in the situation. Between the bestriding legs of this colossus every Democrat or Republi can who hopes to receive a nomination Wust creep and crawl. When the peo ple take in this fact they will see clear ly how this hybrid colossus plays one party organization against the other, setting men by the ears and disabling the people fram thinking, or under standing, or acting for themselves. For months it has been known to the leaders of the Alliance and the Peo ple’s party, that the bank party had selected the Republican and the Dem ocratic candidates; put its mark in their foreheads and its chain in their collars, and written the platforms on which they should stand. These plat forms are lying declarations made to be kicked aside as soon as they have answered the base purpose for which they were gotten up. If the term platform-breaker can be truly applied to a man, there is no more infamous term by which to designate him. A platform is a series of solemn pledges of public faith to be kept with voters whose suffrage is given and received in consideration of their false pledges deliberately made with the deliberate purpose of violating them. The can didates having made their bargain with the colossus, turning to the peo ple, salute them with untruth on their lips and deception in their hearts to accept in solemn form the platform they have bargained to break. There upon the two sides rush madly upon each other like two herds of devil-pos sessed swine, with a loud uproar of gongs and stink pots; a hideous dis cord and stench of bedlam, and sodom and hell. The plutocrats regard the strife with utter indifference as to the outcome. The people seem now at length interfere in behalf of honor and truth and decency; and to “JEOq-uxeil to -AAI Special to None.” suppress these obscene tumults to pull down this colossus, and to overthrow the candidates having the mark of this beast in their foreheads, and wearing his chain in their collars. Under such auspices and in such guise come now for the second time Benjamin Harri son and Grover Cleveland to present themselves before the people asking their votes. It|js an exhibition hu miliating in the last degree to man kind. It is a shame and a disgrace and a degradation to the American people. It is thus that the bank party have once more, let us hope for the last time, set up a Democratic and Republican can didate for the presidency, each on his own lying platform, not caring so much as the paring of a finger-nail which par ty succeeds in the mock contest which is to follow. But in the present case a new purpose is to be accomplished and a new method devised to accomplish it. The West and South threaten to combine for the overthrow of plutocratic rule once and forever. The West and South ac cordingly must at all hazard be kept apart. A threat of '.he force bill is there fore given out from the Republican side to force the South to remain solidly Democratic and swallow Clevelandism, thereby driving the West away from the South ; and by driving the South from the support of free coinage to prevent the coalition of rhe South and West along that line. The South is to be driven into its corner of the arena by the force bill, and the Northwest into its corner by the anti-silver crusade, as the leader of which Cleveland is known to have been nominated. The force bill is fosced on the Republican platform to drive off the South from the North. Clevelandism is forced upon’ the Demo crats to drive off the silver States and the wheat States from the cotton States. The People's Party believe that they know their ground before venturing up on it; they are fully assured of two things, viz., these : The force bill can not pass, ana the People's Party will hold a decisive balance of power in Con gress iro- x m ixw on. Iu imcm- sions let the people of the South rest secure. A proper and just federal elec tion law the people of the South have no reason to object to, and will not resist if it be the judgment of a majority of Congress that such a law would be ex pedient, or is necessary to secure fair and free elections. The People's Party assure the people of the South that a political entente cordiale between the South and West is their surest and safest guarantee that a force bill cannot pass, which, under the pretext of the constitutional power to regulate the manner of holding federal elections by the States, shall enter the States with armed posses to set aside elections by the States and hold mock elections for the States. The mission of the People s Party is to unify the West and South in a true Democracy, and once and forever to destroy and root out plutocracy’ from the whole land. From this purpose neither threats nor blandishments, nor bribes can drive or seduce them. The purity of this grand purpose is able to quench, and assuredly will quench all the fiery darts of plutocracy. THE STATE CONVENTION Os the People’s Party Which Meets in Atlanta July 20. One and one-third fare for the round trip to the People’s Party Convention which meets at Atlanta, July 2q, has been granted by all railroads in Geor gia. Tickets to be on sale July 18th and 19th, good for one continuous trip going, and good to return on any time up to and including July 24. If you get on at away station where through tickets to Atlanta are not on sale buy a ticket to the first station where such tickets are sold and there buy your round trip ticket. C. C. Post, A. W. Ivey, M. D. Irwin, M. I. Branch, John T. West, Campaign Committee. Oscar Parker, Sec’y. The Homestead Investigation. The Congressional committee of investi gation at Homestead, Pa., is taking tes timony. Chairman Frick, of the Carnegie steel works, was among its witnesses. He could not be prevailed on to give a direct answer to the question whether he had anything to do with furnishing arms for the Pinkerton men, but his replies amounteb to an admission that he had. Sheriff McCleary said the people would not serve on his posse because they were afraid of being killed This statement caused a general laugh. Mr. Boatner said the war feeling was not strong here. ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, JULY 15, 1892. A REGULAR BATTLE BETWTEEN UNION AND NON-UNION MINERS IN IDAHO. The World - Wide Effort to Perfect Capitalistic Control of Wages Again Manifest. Wallace, Idaho, July 11. The strained situation in Coeur d’Alene labor troubles culminated this morning between 5 and G o'clock. The events of the day previous consisted of challenges from the non-union men at Frisco and Gem mines to the union miners at the town of Gem, and seemed to indicate a speedy rupture. Both the Gem and Frisco mines were guarded by men be hind barricades, armed with Winches ters. and as the canyon is narrow where the miners are located, the men behind the barricades could sweep the two rail road tracks and the country with bullets. The Gem mine barricaders were within 800 feet of the center of the town of Gem. This morning at 5 o'clock a miner from Gem started from Burk. When oppo site Frisco mine he was fired upon. He ran back several hundred yards to Gem, where the shot had been heard, and soon the miners in town gathered with arms They marched in a body toward the Frisco mill, located directly in front of the mine. When scarcely within rifle range, a volley from Frhco mill greeted the miners, and lead whistled all about them. They scattered, and a regular battle ensued. One miner and one non union man were killed and six wounded during the engagement. The miners, in the meantime, went around the hills up the canyon above the mines, loaded a car with seven hundred and fif:y pounds of giant powder and sent it down the track toward the Frisco mine. Directly in front of the mill the explosion oc curred, shattering the mill to splinters and making it a comple e wreck. The non-union men showed the white fiae\ and ( ’irrendet T', O v «- marched down to the miners’ union hall and guarded. While the fight was going on at Frisco, the guards suddenly began firing volley after volley into the town of Gem, rid dling buildings with bullets. John Ward, a citizen, was shot through the arm, and Gus Carlson, a union, man. was shot and killed. Attempts to recover Carlson’s body were met with volleys from the Gem breastworks, and when the body was re covered an hour afterward it was life less. another bullet having been sent through the breast. No shots were re turned from the Gem until armed miners from the Frisco, half a mile above the Gem, returned. At 8 o’c'ock a. in. a truce occurred and the sheriff, district attorney and deputy United States marshal appeared on the scene. The train was stopped by an armed guard at the Gem mine. The sheriff took the mail on his shoulders and passed on to Gem. The guards leveled their rifles at him but dropped them when they learned his identity. At Gem several hundred men were gathered in the streets with rifles and re volvers. Peace negotiation were imme diately set on foot, and at 12 o’clock the non-union force surrendered to the union men. The number of killed, so far as can be learned, is four, and about ten wounded, though there may be bodies under the Frisco mill. Frisco and Gem were the only non-union places in the east end of the Coeur d’Alene. The cause of the strike was the de mand of the union miners of the dis trict for $3.50 per day for every man working under-ground. The mine owners held that laborers should be paid only $3. When the miners re fused to accept the scale the mines were closed. The owners declared excessive freight rates were the cause of the re duction. A lockout was begun April Ist by the Mine Owners’ Association, and 3 000 miners were thrown out of work. Since then the mine owners have been making a struggle to run their mines with non-union men and guards. The tension has been great for months, and the opinion has prevailed that only a spark was needed to start the flame of riot. The example at Homestead and the decision of the United States court at Boise, making perpetual the injunc tion against the Miners’ Union, brought matters to a head. The fear is expressed that the scene of violence may extend to other parts of the State, necessitating the proclama tion of martial law. The Governor has called on the'President for troops. The union miners are described as an undis ciplined mob of from four to five hun dred, armed with Winchesters and re volvers. They are elated with their success and will not be satisfied until eveiy new man is driven from the mines. Before 9 o’clock Wednesday morning all of the Bunker Hill and Sullivan forces walked out of the mine and surrendered. The Sierra Nevada forces also surrender ed. Not a shot was fired. What will be done with the non-union men is not yet known. The Frisco and Gem companies begu i paying their men off today. DISORGANIZED SOCIETY. Murder, Arson, Riot and Lawless Con fl ets Throughout the Country. II imest&ad. Pa., July 12. —Everybody expected the troops would invade to-day by c /break, but 7 o’clock, 8 o'ciock and ! 9 o'clock passed without any news from them. At a few minutes past 9 o’clock tin v suddenly went up: “The troops are < >ming, the troops are coming !” and instr otly the greatest excitement pre vailed. The militia came by rail from above the town and at once surrounded the h'-irnegie mills. They received a few cheers from the surrounding bystanders as the train rolled in, and a most re spect id consideration was accorded them in every respect. The first detach ment of troops numbered at least 3,000 men, and was in command of General Snowden. They comprised the Second and Third brigades, first division. The Fourteenth a .id Eighteenth regiments from Pittsburg are here, and Battery D, of the First brigade, has shown up with two Gatling guns and three field pieces. Portions of the Fifth, Tenth and Fifteenth regiments are on the field, and companies A, C, E and H, of the Eighteenth regiment, are also recog nized among the bluecoats. The trbops came from the point of ren dezvous, two miles this side of Greens burg, and it is stated that the First bri gade is now at Mount Gretna, where it will remain until further orders. Immediately on the arrival of the tram .i there was great bustle and excite ment. but the militia themselves pre sen <. perfect order and responded am’ promptly to every order of j u perioi s. Rapidly descending from the train the troops formed in a column at the switch yards, just beyond Munhall sta tion. One company was at once de tached on picket duty and a line im mediately thrown out among the mill yards. Then the main body of troops marched down the streets, headed by the regimental band, and along what is known as “scab hill.’’ This* is an eminence overlooking the mills and the scene of last week’s hostilities, and its bluff was covered with spectators mostly women. There was not the slightest manifes, tation of hostilities, and although the troops arrived so suddenly that all the. leaders of the strikers were absent, it did not require their presence to main tain proper respect from the rank and file. Once or twice there was a little hand-clapping from the younger ele ment as jaunty militiamen hove in sight, and the band was the object of much interest. The carefully prepared reception, of course, was frustrated by the sudden arrival of the militia, and it was man ifest that the officers in command did not desire to be made the objects of a ceremonial reception from a people. A RIOT IN PADUCAH. The Negroes Armed and Marching the Streets. Cincinnati, July 12.—A Commer cial-Gazette Paducah, Ky., special says : Shortly after 9 o’clock last evening while the city council was in session the chief of police threw a bomb in their midst by announcing that the re port had just reached him that two or three hundred negres, armed with Winchester rifles, had congregated in the vicinity of the jail prepared for attack. The council at once adjourned. The mayor sent a dispatch to the gov ernor asking him to order out Com pany C, of the State guard, located here. Every able-bodied man is now in the streets, and everybodj that can obtain arms of any kind is doing so. The sheriff has charge of a posse com posed of fifty or seventy-five men armed with shotguns and revolvers, procured from the vasious hardware stores. The underlying cause of the uprising is the lynching of Chas. Hill, the negro who made an assaul upon Lydia Star some weeks ago. Monday night a ne gro named Burgess was arrested, and his friends now lead the riot. At 11 -.30 o’clock the marshal and mayor returned to the jail from a round of the squads of negroes who, when the mayor and marshal promised that no violence should be done the prison er in the jail, promised to disperse, and began to do so. The marshal addressed a crowd of white people and told them to go to their homes, as the negroes were dispersing and no violence need now be feared. This the people began to do,and in a few minutes the crowd was reduced to the militia and about forty armed citizens. A WHITE MAN SHOT DOWN. At exactly 12 o’clock a band of sev enty-five negroes suddenly appeared marching down Sixth street, and open ed fire upon the men collected at the jail. At the first fire Elmer Edwards, a young man of twenty years of age. fell, shot through the abdomen. He is dying. He was a member of the mili tia company, and a harness maker by trade. The fire was returned by the militia and armed citizens, and the negroes beat a precipitous retreat. The militia also retreated in disorder back of the court-house, where they kept up the firing until the negroes had disappeared down the street. FEDERAL TROOPS UNDER ORDERS To Help Quell the Riots at the Idaho Mines—The Governor’s Report. Boise City, Idaho, July 12. —The fol lowing message was sent by Governor Willey to President Harrison last night: “This morning riot and bloodshed by the, miners at Cour d’Alene district com menced. The mill was blowm up by dy namite and many men killed and injur ed. Inspector General Curtis, I. N. G , informs me that four hundred or five hundred armed men constitute the mob. The legislature is not in session and can not be promptly convened. The civil au thorities of the county and State are wholly inadequate to maintain the peace. The immediate available military force of the Idaho National Guard numbers only 198 men, which is, in my opinion, far too few to successfully cope with the mob, though I will order it at once into the field. In this emergency I deem it necessary to call for the assistance of federal troops. 1, therefore, request that a sufficient force be detailed from Fort SF.rr- -ar. vr-' o r.N in concert with the State authorities in maintaining public order,” THE ORDER FOR TROOPS. Washington, July 12.—Following is the President’s order to General Schofield, issued in response to an appeal from the governor of Idaho : “Saratoga, N. Y., July 12. —12.30 a. m. —To the Secretary of War, Washing ton, D. C. : The governor of the State of Idaho has called upon me for assistance in suppressing a domestic disturbance which the State authorities are unable to control. You will at once send to the scene of disorder an adequate force of troops from the nearest station under an officer of rank and discretion with orders to co-operate with the civil authorities in preserving the peace and protecting life and property. 1 will reach Washington tonight.” Benjamin Harrison. McDuffie County Alliance. Thomson, Ga., July 7, 1892. McDuffie County Farmers Alliance at a regular quarterly session, unani mously passed the following resolu tion : Besolved, That in the death our Na tional President, Brother L. L. Polk, the Alliance has lost a talented and efficient officer. We therefore deeply deplore our great loss, and in unity of heart extend our sympathies to the family of our deceased brother. Whereas, We, the McDuffie County Farmers Alliance, at a regular quar terly meeting, deem it to the best in terests of our beloved order that a new man be elected as president of the Georgia State Alliance; Therefore be it resolved, That the McDuffie County Farmers Alliance unanimously recommend Bro. C. 11. Ellington as being in every respect qualified to fill that honorable position, and if elected, we believe he will fill it with honor and credit to himself, and especially to our grand order; and we believe he would be the means of build ing up and binding the brotherhood in every section, North, South, East and West; we therefore recommend him to the next State Alliance as a suita ble and well qualified person to fill the chair now occupied by L. F. Living ston. J no. A. Wilkinson, Brest. J. G. Worrill, Sec’y. Thirty Persons Buried. Paris, July 12. —A terrible accident has occured at St. Gervais Les Baines, in Savoy, resulting in the death of at least thirty persons. A heavy land slip occured in the mountains that al most overhangs the village and with out a moment’s warning a number of houses were buried beneath immense masses of rock and earth. Already thirty dead have been taken out of the ruins. A number of persons have who have been badly injured were resoued, while some were taken out unhurt. It is thought more bodies are under the debris. NUMBER 42 SILVER SLAUGHTERED COMBINED DEMOCRATIC APOSTACY AND REPUBLICAN TREACHERY. The People’s Party Members All True, While False Representatives Betray the People. Wednesday, the House formally killed the hope of the people that Con gress would heed the demand of the people for free silver coinage. The Democracy divided, and one wing put itself under the leadership of Thomas B. Reed, of Maine, who conducted the discussion against free silver and se cured its defeat. A small section of the Republican party joined with the friends of silver, and voted for its re monetization, while the larger part stood with Reed, as of yore. The ten members of the People's Party were firm for free silver, and every man in his seat and voting. So died the hope for free coinage. The direct question before the House was, to take up and consider the Stew art bill, which recently passed the Senate. On this question the yeas and nays showed an unusually full House voting as follows : Yeas 136, nays 154. Adverse majority 18. For the resolution the vote included 118 Democrats, 10 People,s Party mem bers and 8 Republicans. Against the resolution there were 94 Democrats and 60 Republicans. The fight for free silver is ended, for this Congress. In a House where there are more than two-thirds Demo crats, a majority of that party person ally pledged to free silver, and with the unbroken Democratic declaration of adherence to the money of the Consti tution in the party platforms until set aside by Cleveland, almost half the Democrats called to their leadership Tom Reid, the hissed, hooted and maligned leader of the Republicans, and under his guidance severed the last estige of c. .in: to l! :.' a - . people who gave them this majority. God help the people! English Parliamentary Elections. The English elections are held under separate writs for each borough, and at times designated by the Government. As a consequence polls are had first in localities where favorable returns are expected by the party in power. A large part of the boroughs have made returns, and the latest indicate that the conservatives have 214 members of the new house ; liberals, 183 ; liberal-union ists, 31 ; anti-Parnelites, 35 ; Parnelites, 5: labor candidates, 3. The net liberal gain is thirty-seven, while that party only wanted thirty-four in order to ex tinguish the government majority. The aggregate of the polling so far is : Ministerialists, 1,518,131; opposition, I, a popular majority against the ministerialists of 80,106 votes. Misrepresentative. I see in the Warrenton Thumbpaper a communication signed J. (Whether J. Gould or J. Bird deponent saith not.) J. says that the impression has gone out that Mesena is Third Party, but that there are only two Third Partyites in the place. To those who know J. and know Mesena it is useless to say anything, but there are some people in Warrenton and McDuffie who are not posted, and to these I want to say that having been born and reared within 2 miles of Mesena I claim that I am as well acquainted with the people around here as J. is; and know bow they stand. There are only 6 white men at Mesena. Three of these are People’s Party men, two are so-called Democrats and the other has not declared. J. says further that within a radius of 3 miles he can count 20 Demo’s, when the truth is there are not 6. By the way, this same J. says he quit the Alliance because he found out they were running off after Tom Watson. I guess he was like the fellow who left his country “for his country’s good.” Alliancemen will see the point when I tell them that this same J. (who can see Democrats where none exist) is a Georgia railroad agent. J. had better submit his next communi nication to the “Judge” for revision before sending it in. Veritas. Bourke Cochran to Tammany, July 4: The American Constitution as it stands on paper did not give us this government. The very conventions that have just been held for the choos ing of candidates for President is a bulwark of our independence. It is an invention of American people out side of the Constitution to broaden and supplement the Constitution. That’s what the people are kicking about.