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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?’’