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A Gratuitous Insult.
The evening Her'eid, of Atlanta,
led its editorial columns Tuesday with
the following gratuitous ins*. It to the
farmers of Georgia:
A THREATENED DANGER.
We want to call attention to a serious
danger that threatens the people of
Georgia. It is the probable strength of
the Third party in the next legislature.
Four out of five of the members of leg
islature are elected from what may be
called the country counties —that is,
the counties in which there are no large
cities and in which the farmers are de
cidedly in the majority. In those coun
ties the Third party is strong. It is
possible that the new political organiz
ation may electa majority of the next
general assembly, and in that event the
judges and soliciters who are to be
elected would be named by the Third
party, and most of them from that par
ty. This would be a calamity as the of
fices would go to political hacksand to
men of no ability. The result would be
a blow to the State that we cannot af
ford. Let the Democrats of every coun
ty go to work and avert the threatened
evil.
The people who live in “what may
be called the country counties” will
find it to their interest politically, as
well as consonant with their self
respect, to take the hint and see that
the counties that have large cities do
not control the organization of the
next Legislature, or put in the attor
neys of monopolies, trusts and corpo
rations as judges and solicitors.
Tom Watson’s book, “Not a Re
volt; It is a Revolution,” is now out
and being mailed to subsc) ibers. It
is the first number of the National
Watchman Economic Series, and
has been enlarged by additions to the
original scope until it now contains
384 pages. It’s a daisy. Everybody
should have one.
The Atlanta Constitution practical
ly admits that Cleveland is beaten in
the electoral college, but pulls up
strong on the result in the House.
The Constitution Iras several times
called the attention of the purblind
leaders of its party to the fact that no
recruits may be expected in the East,
and since it has abandoned the hope
of favorable silver legislation puts its
dependence in a failure to elect in the
College. Alas’ that the despised Peo
ple’s Party should be its dependence
now. The Atlanta Constitution says:
The action of Kansas alone will
not throw the election into the house.
But suppose the silver republican states
h< aid elect the People’s parly
ei< cioi cl
tolerably certain that the house would
be called upon to elect a president,
and in that indirect way Grover C.eve
land would reach the white house a
second time. The plot thickens, and
the presidential situation bristles with
points unrivaled in interest since the
historic campaign of 1860. All the
signs point to a democratic victory.
At last the Democrats have demon
strated that the force bill is the only;
issue before the people. But to make
the demonstration most striking,
they lent Tom Reed ninety-four
votes, in order to add a respectable
show of strength to his following of
sixty Republicans.
The Atlanta Constitution’s special
report from Washington furnishes
this suggestive information :
The vast majority of southern
democrats declared for it, and work
ed for it, but free coinage was defeat
ed by a combination of eastern demo
crats, aided by a few southern and
western democrats, with the republi
cans. These men, under the leadership
of Tom Reed, and combined with the
republican-, formed a majoiity of the
house, and defeated the will of the
great mass of democrats of this coun
try. To go deeper down into the
cause of the defeat, it is found that
the bill was defeated by southern
democrats who have heretofore voted
for free coinage, but who now, for j
reasons best known to themselves,
but for reasons that, perhaps, will be
difficult to explain, changed front to
day and voted with Tom Reed and
his republican followers. Had they ;
not changed, the result would have
been different.
The Constitution has explained it ;
all. Tom Reed is now the leader of.
Democracy.
The DeKalb County Alliance met
at Redan, Wednesday, J uly 13. The
attendance was large, over 2000 peo
ple being on the grounds. Besides
the business meeting of the Alliance
there were strong speeches by Messrs
Walker, Chupp, Irwin and others,
and the People’s Party doctrine
aroused much enthusiasm. There
was practically no opposition to the
People, and the splendid basket din
ner was enjoyed in harmony and,
peace. DeKalb is all right. J
GENERAL WEAVER ON OUR DEAD.
Sunday afternoon, at the memorial
services in honor of President Polk
and ex-Congressman DeLaMatyr,
General Weaver was a speaker
At the mention of bis name a
mighty cheer rent the air. As he
walked to the front men leaped to
their feet and waved their hats as
they cheered for the man who is re
cognized as one of the leaders of his
party. He spoke as follows:
“Truth is the longest lever in the
universe. It is within itself the pow
er to elevate the human family, to eno
ble it in the scale of human excell
ence and power, and all that the peo
ple or any individual needs in this
world to make them successful and
powerful is to lay their hand upon
the lever. This is a sad occasion, yet
there are ideas connected with it that
are within themselves exalting. Eor
it needeth the death, brothers, of Col
onel Polk, as it requires the death of
all the great and good to turn upon
the conscience and the emotions of
the people, their virtues and excell
ency in their great character. Col
onel Polk wag the most transparent
person with whom I ever became
acquainted. He lived the truth, and
despite the fact that he had a perfect
knowledge and complete understand
ing of the great wrougs under which
Ihe people of this country are suffer
ing, yet his faith was superior to all
difficulties and he saw in the future
that triumph which is certain to come
Ito the people who are now striving
to relieve the struggling and down
trodden of this nation. He had a
faith that was superior to all difficul
ties Knowledge is power, truth is
power, but faith is more powerful
than both combined. In fact it is the
instrument in the* hand of knowledge
and love. Truth gave him that faith
that was his. Have you never noticed
that there are some circumstances in
life that seem to be completely sev
ering us from all the surroundings of
our nature and to give us a glimpse
of God and at the same time a com
plete impression of the grandeur of
human nature. I remember on the
battlefield of Shiloh I came to a dead
Confederate boy, not past sixteen,
with his golden hair tinged in blood,
a smile still playing upon his face and
in his right hand he held a testement.
I looked upon the open page next to
where he held his thumb, I read the
words “I am the resurrection and the
life, he that believe th on me, though
he were dead yet shall he live again,”
and the very sweet look of his face
seemed to reflect the hope of all man
kind as I looked mto that dead face
of that confederate boy and read
these words of the scripture. His
faith rose superior to battle and death.
So was L. L. Polk’s faith in the ulti
mate triumph of principles which we
advocate. It rose superior to all un
toward circumstances by which this
movement is surrounded. It was the
triumph of his faith of the realization
in this life, in the present generation
of our great ends, the glorious tri
umph of the people of this country.
Listen to the grand words which fell
from this man’s lips on the 4th of
July, 1890, in concluding an address:
“I am standing now just behind
the curtain and in full glow of the
coming sunset. Behind me are the
shadows on the track ; before me lies
the dark valley and the river. When
I mingle with its dark waters I want
to cast one lingering look upon a
country whose government is of the
people, for the people and by the
people.”
These were the words of the great
and good man, and although he was
not permitted to behold the triumph
of the people, yet he did live long
enough to see the forces organized
that will in the near future wrest the
government from the grasp of plu
tocracy and restore it to the people
to whom it belongs. [Great cheer
ing.] We owe to Col. Polk and to
his memory more than we could ever
pay. I have said in bis own pres
ence, in h's own State last September
in addressing an audience as large as
this, that I believe that he has done
more than any man living in this age
to exterminate the feeling of ani
mosity among the North and South,
and how did he do it ? By his great
intellectuality. He did it by his
heart power, by releasing the pent
up feelings of love that existed be
tween the common people of the two
great sections and permitting them
to meet as brothers and fellow-men.
He did it by simply releasing his feel
ing, which was held in abatement by
permitting it to solidity into a solid
feeling of love and fraternity. I feel
on such occasions and in the pres
ence of such problems unable to
characterize the great movement of
which he was the head. We can
feel more than we can express. I
never meet a man in any of the walks
of life for whom I had such perfect
love. Most lovable character that
he was, so transparent, candid, man
ly, courageous that we could not help
but love him. His name will remain
for ages a monument of power in
this country and a great bulwark
against the surging tides of hatred
and political animosity. May we
emulate his virtues. May we cheer
ish his memory, and may we take
care of his family and to see that
that family which has been deprived
of a head and a father by the effort
which he has made in behalf of all
the families of the nation shall be
wards of the whole nation and of
this movement. Let our hearts go
out, let your hearts go out to that
family, go out to every other family
in this country who is suffering, and
let us pledge ourselves to make our
best efforts of heart, body and mind
to stay by that family and by this
movement until it shall be trium
phant to stay.
Importance of the State Conven
tion to Meet July 20.
Do not fail of attending the People's
Party Convention which meets at At
lanta July 20th.
Let us make the convention a mem
orable one both for its size and the
excellence of the ticket nominated.
The men who will be nominated at
that time and place will be elected.
In order that good men may certain
ly be selected, delegates and friends
should reach the city as early as possi
ble in order that they may confer to
gether and learn who are the best men
lor the different places on the ticket.
Unlike the old party’s convention
there will be no log rolling and no wire
pulling by candidates, but the repre
sentatives of the people will come
together to talk the whole situation
over as brethren, and citizens interest
ed in the common welfare, and it is
essential that they come at least a day
in advance of the convention in order
to have time to do this before making
nominations.
Another thing, presidential electors,
one from each congressional district
and two from the State at large, will
need to be selected at that time. Also
a State Central Committee to replace
the tempoary committee now, existing
and which was organized simply to
facilitate the work until the people
should meet in State Convention and
select a permanent committee.
All this means a good deal of work
and suggests and emphasizes the need
of thoughtful and unselfish considera
tion, and I urge not only delegates but
all friends of the cause, who can possi
bly spare the time and money to come
to the meeting not later than the morn
ing of the 19th, and that they confer
together informally in the spirit of
brotherly love and devotion to principle
upon all these matters to the end that we
may put forth a ticket and a platform
worthy of the support of every patri
otic citizen of the state.
C. C. Post.
To the People of Georgea.
On my return from Omaha I found
that the Democratic party had told
over the county that a negro, Green
Battle, was running for the Legisla
ture; and on the heel of this report,
Lad persuaded many men, in the excite
ment, to sign a pledge to vote for the
Democratic nominees.
I went to work at once to ascertain
Battle’s whereabouts —soon secured an
interview, and found that it was a mis
erable falsehood; that Battle and all
his color were just waiting for the word
from our side; that they intend voting
for the People’s Party, and would take
down at once any colored man who
might be fool enough to offer his name
for any office.
I also learned that they made the
•'soldiers’ reunion” in Twiggs county
on 6th July a regular Democratic pow
wow, and spread the “news” that a ne
gro was running for the Legislature in
Pulaski. This was done to prevent Ihe
people of Twiggs from coming to my
appointment at Jeffersonville un next
Monday, 18th July.
They have also started the false re
port that another negro. Sine Slappey,
is running for Congress. Sine came
to me just a moment ago in utter amaze
ment that such a falsehood had been
started against him,and in the strongest
terms declared the same sentiments
uttered by Green Battle.
Conclusion of the whole matter : The
Democrats, while pointing the finger of
scorn, and calling us a “colored affair,”
are moving heaven and earth to keep
the whites from uniting, and to insti
gate the blacks to unite against us.
Now the time has come for the whites
to explain the truth to the blacks, and
let them know that, while it is the
white man’s country, we propose to do
them justice and give them a chance in
life. Blaze the way, brethren; they
will gladly follow.
All they have published about my
speeches,about my character, about my
lite, is a batch of falsehoods; and it is
plain that they are blaspheming and
slinging mud on me,because they can’t
answer my arguments, and because in
Schley and Macon counties I com
pletely annihilated those who came in
conflict with me. I did especially make
a “sick kitten” of Dr. Engram, of Gid
eon Band notoriety. As 1 reach other
counties, turn out en masse —I promise
to give the truth, and to each man a
full portion. F. D. Wimberly.
The appearance of cholera in
Western Europe leaves little doubt
that it will cross the Atlantic. With
the better knowledge of sanitary
science the people might be better
aide to cope with this dread enemy,
were it not that the greater poverty
of the masses makes impossible ne
cessary precautions among the very
poor.
A convention of delegates from the
bounties composing the sixth con
gressional district, will meet in For
syth, Monroe county, at 10 o’clock
a. m.. on Tuesday, the 2d day of
August next, for the purpose of nom
inating a candidate for the People’s
Party for Congress.
Reduced Rates to the State Alliance.
Secretary A. W. Ivey has been no
tified by M. Slaughter, assistant com
missioner of the Southern Passenger
Association, that a rate of one full
fare going, and one-tbird of the high
est limited fare returning, on the cer
tificate plan, will be charged to those
who attend the meeting of the State
Farmer’s Alliance, at Gainesville Au
gust 17-23, rates to apply from any
point in Georgia.
Persons coming from points at
which through tickets to Gainesville
cannot be procured, should be in
structed to purchase tickets to At
lanta, Macon, Albany or Savannah
(as may be most convenient) and re
purchase to Gainesville, taking cer
tificates from both agents from whom
tickets are secured. The certificate
obtained from the agent at Atlanta,
Macon, Albany or Savannah, (as the
case may be) will be honored at
Gainesville for the reduced rate re
turning to the point at which it was
secured, and the other will be hon
ored for the reduced rate returning
thence to the starting point, if pre
sented on or before August 27,1892.
People’s Party Club No. 1.
The first weekly meeting of the
People’s Party Club No. 1, at No.
East Alabama street, was suf
ficiently interesting to give promise
that Tuesday evenings at that place
will henceforth be quite lively. The
plan of having an agreed subject for
discussion at each meeting is a good
one, and the members will find that
after disposing of the question of
the evening a general discussion will
naturally follow. The club is in
tended as a nucleus, and it is ex
pected that in a short time several
more will be organized, in the city,
preparatory to nominating candidates
for all local offices.
Milton County.
The Executive Committee of the
People’s Party in Milton county met
at 10 a. m., July 9, L. Thacker, chair
man, A. H. Lowry, secretary.
The committee ordered a mass
meeting of the People’s Party July
18 at 10 a. m., to select our choice
for Congressman and State offices.
A mass meeting is ordered for Au
gust 13, to select a candidate for
Representative and a full county
ticket.
The following gentlemen are in
vited to address the mass meeting in
August, viz.: Hon. T. E. Watson,
Col. C. C. Post, Col. J. A. B. Mahaf
fey and J. L. Chupp.
Carroll County.
All People’s Party men are hereby
reqiwjtsd to attend a mass meeting
to be held at Carrollton on Monday,
the first day of August next, for the
purpose of electing delegates to at
tend the Congressional convention
which meets at West Point on the
third of August next. Other busi
ness of importance will come before
the body.
J. W. 11. Russell,
Chm. Ex. Com. People’s Party.
A gentleman in business in At
lanta sends in a note anent Warren
county:
I have been on a visit to Warren
and adjacent counties, and beg space
in your popular paper to give a short
account of the politics and crops in
that section of the State. I found
that a large percentage of the citi
zens believe in the principles of the
People’s Party. These citizens com
prise the best people—such reliable
and substantial citizens as old Capt.
Dyer and Mr. A. J. Roberts. There
are but few who will vote for Gov
ernor Northen. Tom Watson is very
popular, and will easily be re-elected
t> Congress. Such is his great popu
laiity that the people are naming
their male children Tom Watson.
While on my visit, I attended a bar
becue, and out of three hundred peo
ple in attendance only two were
opposed to the People’s Party. The
crops are fine, and the fajmers are in
high spirits, believing that the suc
cess of the People’s Party is sure,
and that as a result the country will
be restored to prosperity.
Mr. Black isn’t in it.
That these labor troubles are not
campaign thunder for but one party
is shown by the Wheeling, W. Va.,
Intelligencer:
When the row was on and the rifles
were cracking over Calvin S. Brice’s
Tenn ssee convict miners did we hear
the leather-lunged Democratic poli
ticians advising American labor to
vote the Republican ticket, as the on
ly logical protest ’ Nir. Brice was
chairman of the Democratic Nation
al Committee, elected to the United
States Senate by a Democratic Legis
lature. The Democratic politicians
were dumb as clams. Andrew Car
negie is so little an an American that,
he has bee talked of as a candidate
for the British Parliament, yet the
Democratic politicians seem to re
gard him as a political issue in this
campaign.
Hon. T. P. Pickett will make an
address at Clarksville, July 8.
Capital vs. Labor.
The Toiler.
Andrew Carnegie, the many times
millionaire, the man who writes con
gratulations to the nominees of the
old parties, the man who puts up a
liberal campaign fund that his pri
vate interests may be well cared for
and that he may feel free when he
assumes the roll of a lobbyist, the
man who can buy congressmen and
have just such adjustable tariff rate
fixed on foreign articles which com
pete with the products of his shops
and mills as he desires, the man who
dictates the wages for five thousand
workmen in his own shops thus in
fluencing the wages. Yes, absolute
ly fixing the price of the labor of ten
j thousand other steel and iron mold-
■ ers. This man, the typical product
■of the legislation of the last twenty
years, is the one who declares a war
of extermination on organized labor.
Deliberately he has planned his
work. Read in our news columns
how he laid his wires. With all the
"shrewed cunning of an imp of hell
he anticipated the righteous indigna
tion of his outraged laberors. When
he thought the arrangements were
complete and the moment had ar
rived for him to strike down the few
remaining rights of labor, namely,
the right to fix its own compensation,
he dealt the blow. He reduced the
wages of his workmen when he was
hoarding away millions of dollars, the
bulk of which this labor should have
received because it was its product.
Down went the screw of oppres
sion on thousands of real producers
that Andrew Carnegie, a foreigner
by birth, but an Arnericin-made mil
lionaire, might increase his already
swollen income. ’
The result of this clash between
capita! anct labor is given elsewhere.
The great private army, the Pinker
ton thugs, the mangy set of curs
which lie at the feet of capital al
ways ready to snarl and bark when
a laborer comes to ask for justice,
were sent to fire upon, slay and de
stroy the very men who had built
up the fortune for Andrew Carnegie,
its real producers. The result was a
decided reaction in favor of justice.
Inspired by the cries of their wives
and children the laboring men be
came desperate ; armed for a death
struggle they proceeded to avenge
their wrongs. They proved them
selves masters of the situation and by
a desperate resort, to which they were
forced, they have proclaimed to the
world that for a while yet, even un
der the existing laws of favoritism,
labor shall not be shackled m slavery.
It was because of the private in
terest of such men as Andrew Carne
gie that the two old parties fought off
the Pinkerton investigation resolution
of Tom Watson in Congress. It was
because of the menace to liberty that
the National convention of the Peo
ple’s Party declared for a disbanding
of this private Pinkerton standing
army which moves only at the com
mand of selfish capital.
Jefferson County.
The Jefferson County Alliance met
Thursday at Louisville, and was per
haps the largest and most enthusi
astic since its organization.
After the usual order of business,
an open meeting assembled in the
court room to hear “Sam Jones”
Smith, First Congressional District
Lecturer, talk on Alliance topics. If
you have never heard him, do so; he
certainly “gets there.” He is doing
great work for the cause in the
“wire grass.”
The primary the day previous re
sulted in the election of Judge J. W.
Brinson and Dr. C. W. Salter as can
didates for the Legislature. The
former is an experienced legislator,
long devoted to the cause of reform,
and has by frequent tests proven to
be the strongest man in the county.
If elected, he will be the peer of any
member in the House. The latter is
a solid citizen, and will stand firm to
the principles of his party. The
ticket is a strong one, and will be
elected.
The cause in this part of the State
is onward and upward.
Grand Rally in Hancock.
The colored citizens of Hancock county
will have a grand rally at Brown’s Chap
el, A. M. E Church. Friday. July 22, at
10 o’clock a in. The intelligent negroes
of this county, tired of being dupes of
the Dtten Republican party and bull
dozed by the corrupt Democratic party,
bid farewell to Quayism and henceforth
propose to think and vote for themselves.
The farmers and their families will be on
hand, and wll prepare a bounteous
spread. Speeches will be made by
prominent men —among them Rev H. S.
Doyle, who is known as n able fearless
reformer. All friends of the People’s
Party, white and colored, are invite!
Come out and hear Republican fraud
and Democratic hypocrisy ventilated
and rebuked. Jno T. Wells.
Sparta, Ga. July 13, 1892.
Whitfield County.
There will be a mass meeting of
People’s Party at Dalton, Ga., on the
second S iturday in August, for the
purpose of electing delegates to go
to Cartersville to nominate a candi
date for the seventh congressional
district.
How He was Weaned.
A. C. McCarthy has assumed edi
torial control of the Paola (Kansas)
Times. His first leader, giving his
reasons for leaving the Democratic
party, will be read with a fellow-feel
ing by many a good Georgian :
WHY I LEFT THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
Well, it was because I became con
vinced that the National Democratic
party was bidding for the vote of
New York and New England, and
seemed to think they had a life lease
on all Democats in other localities,
regardless of their protest; when
Gold Basis Bayard and National
Banker English declared that the
party was the friend of the National
Bank I thought they only expressed
the opinion of a few Eastern Demo
crats who were a detriment to the
party. When Randall and a few
others declared the Democratic party
was a party that believed in pro
tecting the manufacturing industries
of this country I thought that they
would surely be rebuked by the
Democratic party.
When under a Democratic admin
istration the sixty millions of idle
money was turned over to the Na
tional Banks, without interest, to be
loaned to the people at rates from 6
to 36 per cent.; when Mills intro
duced a measure into Congress that
allowed the Secretary of the Treas
ury to pay a premium of 25 per cent,
on Government Bonds, thus bank
rupting the Treasury of Gold so that
when other bonds would be due that
there would be an excuse for funding
them, thus costing the Government
$70,000,000 in premiums paid on
bonds; we became disgusted and
said the Democratic party merrited
defeat. And when the new organi
zation sprung into existauce which
brought the Republican from the
party be had so faithfully followed
we concluded the time had come
when the great common people of
all parties were going to unite to
overthrow the old parties that looked
alone to the State of New York to
select the President. And since all
that time we have watched for any
sign of reformation in the Demo
cratic party and see it only stultify
itself on the silver question as it did
in the lower house of Congress in
the last session.
When I saw the great Democratic
Party Convention at Salina declare
for free silver and for Cleveland, the
avowed enemy of silver ; when I saw
the great Democratic party m Na
tional Convention at Chicago adopt
the unit rule to keep an expression
of that Convention from going out
as to who might be the choice of all
the delegates and to smuggle, an ex
pression of the free silver Sentiment
of that Convention ; I concluded that
the Democrat who will still look for
the Democratic party to place itself
on record as in favor of the common
people against the moneyed interests
must be one who will confess th it he
has not studied the record of the Dem
ocratic party or one who hopes to
receive a personal benefit from the
.party. Therefore we are more de
termined to stand with the new or
ganization which declares for equal
rights for all and special privileges
for none. As there will be but one
party in the field advocating those
principles ever held dear by Demo
crats we think there can be no ques
tion as to where the honest Demo
crats of this great country can be
found in the coming contest, battling
for the principles of Jefferson and
Jackson. As to the Democrats of
Kansas, even though they were light
ing alone to destroy their veteran
enemy, the Republican party; there
is but one place where they could ex
pect to put their ballots to make them
count, because a vote for any other
than the People’s Party in Kansas
will be a vote for the Republican
party.
We believe sincerely that the same
power that directed the nomination
of Harrison and framed the Minne
apolis platform also directed the
nomination of Cleveland and framed
the Chicago platform. But we do
not believe that the rank and file of
the Democratic party can be carried
by any set of leaders, no matter how
shrewd they may be, into the Repub
lican camp. They will prefer to meet
the rank and file of the Republican
party on the St. Louis platform
where they will be as certain to over
come both old parties as right is cer
tain to prevail over wrong. The
majority of no party are office-seek
ers and hence do not vote for selfish
motives, but for what they believe
to be the best interest of county*
State and Nation as a whole.
He Weighed His Words.
Detroit Free Press.
He was a ponderous preacher, or
rather his sermons were ponderous,
and the young people of his congre
gation were prone to complain of
them.
“I always weigh well what I say
in my sermons,” he said to a fair
young parishioner with a sharp
tongue.
“Indeed,” she responded, quickly.
“Do you use hay scales?’’