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FRIDAY, JULY 29, 1892.
PEOPLE’S PARTY TICKET.
FOR PRESIDENT,
JAMES B. WEAVER, of lowa.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
JAMES G; FIELD, of Virginia.
For Presidential Electors,
At Large—A. L. NANCE, of Hall.
W. It. KEMP, of Emanuel.
1. GEORGE 11. MILLER, of Cha>bam.
2. A. R. JONES, oflThomas.
3. JOSEPH J. STEWART, of Sumter.
4. J. W. F. LITTLE, of Troup.
5. W. O. BUTLER of Fulton.
(5. W. F. SMITH, of Butts.
7. A. F. WOOLEY, of Bartow.
K G EORG ET. MURREL!, of Clarke.
9. J. N. TWTL’TY, of Jackson.
10. D. N. SANDERS, of Taliaferro.
11. R. T. HYMER, of Johnson.
Lor Governor,
W. L. PEEK, of Rockdale.
For Secretary of State.
W. H. GORMAN, of Talbott.
For Comptroller General,
A. W. IVEY, of Thomas.
For Treasurer,
J. E. H. WARE, of Fayette.
For Attorney General,
J. A. B. MAHAFFEY, of Jackson.
For Commissioner of Agriculture,
JAMES BARRETT, of Richmond.
Please Take Notice
'Of 'the change in price of this pa
per in clubs. Our temporary offer
of the People’s Party Paper in clubs 1
of 10 for 50 cents per year is with
drawn, and in the future we will be
compelled to have 75 cents iu clubs.
We will, however, permit those who
are now making clubs on that rate
to complete the clubs already begun
at the 50 cents rate, but after that
will be obliged to require 75 cents.
A convention of delegates from the
counties 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.
NOTICE.
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less than five dollars, as the banks ob
ject to receiving them on deposit. Do
not send stamps if it can be avoided.
Never send them unless oiled paper is
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keep them from sticking fast. If
they are rubbed over the hair it will
usually prevent them from sticking so
they cannot be separated.
The Democratic House of Repre
sentatives passed a bill to reduce the
tariff on tin. Tin pails didn’t fall a
cent on the market, because the Sen
ate dul not also pass the bill. The
House also passed a bill to take off
the tariff on wool. Clothing did not
fall a cent in consequence thereof,
for the same reason as in the case of
tin. But wool, the raw material, did
fall, an average of about 6 cents per
pound, and all the wool buyers said
it was because of the action of the
Democratic House. Funny fellows,
those wool buyers; they generally
favor the free wool bill, just because
it reduces the price of wool and
doesn’tjlower the manufacturers’ pro
fit. And funny fellows, the Dem
ocratic House, that helps the farmer
by taking 6 cents off the price of his
wool and adds it to the profit of the
manufacturer.
The People’s Party Paper is
often ordered by friends to the ad
dresses of persons who themselves
know nothing of this fact. No
names are entered on credit, and
therefore no one need hesitate to
take the copy addressed to him from
his post-office.
THE PEOPLE’S FORUM.
PUBLIC SENTIMENT AS GLEANED
FROM CORRESPONDENTS.
J. T. Cox, Crawfordville, Ga.,
writes:
“The servant is not greater than
his Lord.” These w r ords were spoke
by the only perfect being that ever
lived on this beautiful earth of ours,
and I think they are as applicable to
us today as they were to the people
of that day. Although they were
spoken to the followers of Him who
spoke as never man spake, and yet I
think that we as a nation profess to
follow the same Lord, and should we
not honor Him in all that we do and
even remember that the “servant is
not greater than his Lord.” But it
set>ms to me that as a rule our public
men take a different view of it now
as regards public offices; when a
man wants an office he is one of the
best servants there is, if not the best
that can be found. He is willing to
pledge himself and all that he has to
the support of the G. O. P., and will
vouch for his good wife and all of
children doing the same, if the good
people will only elect him to this
office. He don’t care a fig for the
office, but would like to show these
people whot a good servant he is,
and how willing he is to serve them.
But when this good and faithful ser
vant gets the girdle of office around
his loins, he then begins lo see how
important it was for him to hold this
office, and decides at once that things
have changed, and he becomes mas
ter instead of servant of the people.
Then he looks around to see if there
is anyone like unto himself, and he
continues to grow in his own estima
tion until he becomes satisfied that
there is not, then he raises his party
whip and says, since I have been
elected to office I have seen as I
had never seen before, that is, I am
a powerful man, and am able to do
many wonderful things. Why, sirs,
my mind has expanded until it is
broader than the minds of all the
people put together. I can see far
better what you need than you can,
so I will do for you as I think best,
regardlessjof your wishes or demands.
I now have it in my power, by your
vote, to control you and yours, for
you thought you were electing me
for your servant, but you made a sad
mistake, for I have, by your consent,
become your master, so you must
serve me and not I you. 1 will lead
you if you will follow', but if you will
not obey then you see I have the
whip of the G. O. P. and I will lay it
on without fear or favor, for I regard
not nor do I fear God, for who is
like unto me, a great master, and
you all know that the great and good
book says, “the servant is not greater
than his Lord.” Oh, that men would
be as humble and honest after they
are elected to office as they are when
seeking that office by the vote of the
people.
“ Semi - Democrat ” writes from
Hootenville, Ga., somewhat at length .
Embry’s Chapel is a small house
located in Hootenville and built some
five or six years back by contribu
tions from the people living near the
place, and named in honor of Rev.
11. L. Embry, our beloved pastor who
served us so faithfully in 1887. The
committee that solicited contributions
urged the great need of a place in
that community for divine worship,
and left the impression that it would
be used for that pujpose and for
schools. All orthodox Christians w r ere
permitted to enter and worship. But
alas! scarce could we believe our
ears -when the rumor begun to float
upon the breeze that no Third Party
persons were allowed to preach, sing
or pray to his God in Embry’s Chap
el. We did not want to believe it,
but 10, and behold.' we go around to
either of the three doors seeking to
enter and we are confronted with,
“Notice! No Third (3d) Party per
sons are permitted in this house for
any purpose.” We find beneath five
names distinctly signed, one of which
is that of a Methodist steward, fol
lowed by the word “Trustees.” Who
ever heard of such a thing? A per
son required to be of a certain politi
cal stripe before he will be allowed
to worship his God. Shame! Can
not men differ in their political views
without descending to such diaboli
cal practices? Oh, Democracy of
Hootenville! you may post every
door over which you have author
ity, it will be no purpose; for they
are marching to victory and your
conduct is utilized to accelerate their
progress. You have a few friends
that want to serve you, but they are
so blinded by their zeal that they ren
der themselves odious. Oh, Democ
racy of Hootenville! when your zeal
ots take to themselves the audacity to
approach the minister in charge and
give him to understand that if he put
a member of the People’s Party to
preach they will vacate the house, they
simply reflect their own character upon
you and makes you look the more hei
nous. Strange how easy some people
can be duped by men, the very mention
of whose name is heard with horror
and indignation—men who are only
known by the baseness of their do-
ing. Your leaders cry force bill and
have a great horror for it. Yet they
want to force men into the Democrat
ic party, or into hell by shutting them
out from the gospel. When men be
come so anxious for it to be noto
rious that they are men of power as
to post the church doors with their
names ; and, at the instigation of men
who have lost all feeling, break up
schools and thus add ignorance to the
burdens already upon the poor chil
dren around them, it is high time for
modesty to blush and for the good
people of Hootenville to enter their
protest.
Oh, Democracy of Hootenville!
when we look over the list of voters
filed in the clerk’s office we find the
name of a man who says he never
voted in your nomination—never
went to the polls—but was sick and
staid at home. Explain up. Has
your conduct made him ashamed to
confess he was with you, or did you
vote him by proxy? If one, how
many more ?
J. May Dungan, of Villa Rica, Ga.,
an aged and thoughtful man, makes
a suggestion relative to the Federal
Executive that is worthy of consid
eration :
The dictates of humanity and com
mon sense admonish us, that a
change in our constitution is impera
tively demanded. If it is politic to
have a plurality in the judicial de
partment of government, it is more
so in the executive. Three presidents
instead one, one from each section of
the United States, holding office for
the term of nine years, this would
give us a more harmonious and stable
government. After the first election
let them cast lots which one would
go out in three years, and which in
six years. At the expiration of three
years, an election in the States he
represents for a successor for the full
term of nine years, and so on three
years after for the second one going
out. This would confine the presi
dential election to one-third of the
country. Give each one a salary of
twenty-five thousand dollars a year
and let him furnish his own house;
keep our present executive' mansion
for their joint meetings, consultations
and all executive business. We have
been violating the constitution of the
United States in furnishing the ex
ecutive mansion free to our presi
dents. The second article of the
constitution says:
“The president shall, at stated
times, receive for his services a com
pensation, which shall neither be in
creased nor diminished, during the
period for which he shall have been
elected, and he shall not receive with
in that period any other emolument
from the United States, or any of
them.”
If a hou c erent free is not an emol
ument, our lexicographers fail to
give it the proper definition. This
plan of election will confine the tur
moil, confusion and dangerous ex
citement of presidential elections to
one-third instead of the entire coun
try. In the Tnden and Hays elec
tion there was an uncertainty which
had been elected. The commission
deciding in Hays’ favor so irritated
Tilden supporters that they were
ready to march to Washington and
seat him in the presidential chair.
W. T. White, of Hickory Grove,
Crawford county, w'rites :
It is useless here to say anything in
praise of the People’s Party Paper.
Its good work makes its praise uni
versal wherever it goes.
J. 11. Boone, secretary, writes from
Hazlehurst, Ga.:
A joint debate took place at Bax
ley, July 22, between S. A. Walker,
representing the People’s Party, and
W. A’. Atkinson and W. W. Webb,
representing the Democratic party.
After the speaking the »People’s
Party was organized by electing
S. A. O’Quinn chairman, and J. 11.
Boone secretary, with an executive
committee consisting of two mem
bers from each militia district. Peo
ple’s Party folks feel jubilant, and
expect to roll up a majority vote for
their party at the election. The
work of the State convention was
endorsed.
W. B. Townsend writes form
Dahlonega, telling how Lumpkin
county acted last Saturday :
Many tillerg of the soil and the
laboring class generally met here in
convention and elected delegates to
represent our county in the Gaines
ville congressional convention and
nominate Capt. J. W. Woodward for
the legislature. The delegates go
uninstructed, but it is known that
they are divided as to Winn and
Pickett, and 'will vote accordingly.
Mr. Woodward is the present edi
tor and proprietor of the Dahlonega
Signal, and w’as a captain in the Con
federate army. The Captain has
done much towards the advance
ment of the reform movement in
this section. He never waited to see
whether it would be popular and
strong before he started out but
stepped boldly to the front when
this grand movement was in its in
fancy and has left no stones un
turned from that day to thig.
We may expect the usual amount
of campaign lies, indulged in by our
enemies, as the convention had
scarcely closed i s work before a
hot-headed, shallow-brained, white
washed Democrat called us a lot of
thieves and rascals. You can very
easily recognize a good, true Demo
crat after hearing him talk a little,
for he never uses any such language
above referred to, but goes gently
on and attends to his own business.
An Allianceman writes from
Lowndes county:
In the one-sided paper published
in Valdosta, a writer stated that he
lived in Lowndes county, signed his
name Democrat, makes this false
statement:
“On a call for a rising vote, as
near as I can guess, about one-third
of the house arose on the Omaha
platform, and some of them were
not Lowndes county men.”
I do not say he lied, for he only
guessed. Now for the facts : When
the vote, was called for there were
150 or 200 men in the house. All
stood on their feet in an instant ex
cept “Democrat” and one other.
When Mr. Sneed said, “All who
will vote with the Democrats, rise,”
not one would show his head, so
those two must surely belong to Mr.
Tom Heed, of Maine. Would you
not think so? He has 94 out of 235
Democrats in Congress, and I sup
pose that he has our two. Let me
quote more from Mr. Democrat of
the Heed persuasion. He says :
“I was once a member of the
Alliance, but am out now. I love
the principles, but when the poli
ticians got in I got out.”
I think I know the young man, and
wish you and every one else could
have heard him say what I did, that
he “never would vote for no for
no office that did not stand square on
the Ocala demands.”
The People’s Party in our county
is here, and here to stay by a large
majority, or I am badly fooled.
Count on a majority for our beloved
Peek.
A correspondent m Monroe county
writes for publication:
Our State Convention has had a |
peculiar effect upon some people
down here. They are somewhat be
wildered. We boys think the eight
teenth funeral is the next job on
hand for the Democrats.
They say Col. Alex. W. Bealer
was at the Convention and seemed
to feel the need of his 500,000 Dem
ocrats to aid him in killing the Peo
ple’s Party. It said he pulled his
hair wildly—that he also now needs
a wig, and we voted him one, which
he can obtain by calling on Bob
Abernathy—also a resolutionjof sym
pathy, voted him by a crowd at
Ham’s corner, which Bob carries in
his upper left vest pocket.
A)n this same day a benighted
Demo, came by Ham’s corner ask
ing for information as to the where
abouts of Montgomery Folsom. Said
“Mont.” had one of these machines
what grinds out money like a hand
organ grinds out music. Mont, was
the inventor and patentee of the ding
thing and he wanted to see it. He
was going to have him put a tariff
reform handle to the thing and grind
him out a peck of money. We re
ferred him to Capt. C. F. Gibson, as
the one most likely to give him the
desired information in the absence
“Mont.”
The latest from the Barnesville
Gazette : Coz. B. H. Hardy has with
drawn the last atom of his sympathy
(?) for the People’s Party, and an
earthquake is the result. Now he
calmly views the situation as Cleve
land dictates, and allows Uncle Billy
Waggoner to keep the flies off him.
They will elect Cleveland and lunch
with Freddie Douglas, too.
Captain Corley has, up to now, held
the back door of the Democratic
household ajar for the P. P. boys to
sneak back through, but now he says
“By Jack, we had better try ’em a
whack at the front.”
If anybody wants to fight just let
them ask Uncle Monroe Moore about
the tumble bug crop. It is said the
buzz of a horse fly will put him into
a 2:10| trot.
Uncle John Abercrombie has re
gained his equilibrium—he walks on
his feet once more. Uncle Billy
Parker is having prepared a fine,
large sized crow, for his own special
benefit.
Uncle Tom Dumas now sings, “I’m
happy on the way,” while Tom Mc-
Cowan takes a back seat and prays
for more ammunition. Ingalls should
send him his photo to entertain him
while he is out of a job. He is on
the hunt for the “pension plank, ’ has
worn out and lost the force bill. He
sees Tom Watson is sure to be elect
ed, and Col. Post has resigned the
chairmanship of our State—et tu
brute. Now Tom hunt up another
job. Say, why not pilot Billy North
en back to his dairy. The modern
Cincinnatus is ready and needed at
the ploughshare and among the
churn.
And now Charlie Goodwin has
caught the whoop from Brother Mack!
and sends it echoing and reverber-!
ating among the hills and through
the land. Whoopee! Whoopee'!
While Keddie Harris sets his music
to the tune of Goody Jim.
Cleveland, (Ga.,) Progress is still
alive and healthy, and makes the fol
lowing criticism of a report to the
contrary:
What induced this author to write
such a “Special” is something we are
incapacitated to comprehend, unless
it was because of his repugnancy to
wards the Progress and the People’s
Party. Our paper is well patronized
by the Alliance and People’s Party
and with its present patronage its
success is assured. Howbeit, if the
reportorial work of the Constitution
is made up with such notices as the
one we have clipped, how can the
Democrats or anybody else put any
confidence in the matter they pub
lish. We will ask the Constitution
for a correction.
A colore 1 man at Lafayette writes
to the paper:
I get your paper every week. It
brings me good news and good tid
ings, and I want you to know that I
am for the People’s Party ticket. All
I want now is for my race to be edu
cated to the reform movement. I
know that the change must come,
and I shall do all in my power to ed
ucate my race in this district. I soon
will organize a colored club in Li
thonia. We are twenty men strong.
From Emanuel.
In accordance with a published res
olution passed by the People’s Party
Executive Committee of said county,
we, the undersigned consolidators of
a primary nomination held on the
21st instant to nominate a People’s
Party candidate to represent said
county in the next general assembly
find that Capt. A. C. Flanders was
unanimously nominated. We there
fore declare him the choice of the
people and the candidate of the party.
W. K. Kemp, Chm. P. P. Ex. Com,
B. W. Durden, Sec’y,
H. W. Hall, J. P.
J. L. Sumner, F. H.,
Charles Aaron, F. 11,
L. W. Trewett, F. IL,
W. G. M. Thompson, F. H.,
Wm. Cannedy, F. H.
Noticel
By authority vested in me by the
executive committee of the People’s
Party of the Seventh Congressional
district, I hereby announce that the
nominational convention will convene
in Cartersville on Thursday, Sept. 1,
at noon, for the purpose of nominat
ing a candidate for Congress.
H. D. Hutcheson,
Chairman Ex. Com.
Newspaper for Sale.
An established newspaper now in
second volume is offered for sale
cheap. Has good subscription list;
an active worker can double it in
a few weeks. Only paper advocating
People’s Party cause in the Congres
sional district. Good reasons for sell
ing. A bargain. Address at once,
“Ned,”
Care People’s Party Paper,
Atlanta, Ga.
Labor in the Grasp of the Millionaire.
The laborers in the • mills and
mines are to all intents and purposes
abject slaves. Without voice either
in the regulation of wages or the
hours to constitute a days work;
bereft of hope for anything for
themselves or their dependents; jaded
tortured and worn out with incessant
toil, what shall we think of a system
of labor which fosters and builds up
a state o.f things like this? How are
such victims of oppression ever to be
made into American citizens under
an intolerable grind like this ? What
have the politicians of the old parties
done for their relief? Promises in
abundance, they have made them,
but what the degree of performance ?
Before election the “dear people,”
the prop and stay of the Republic,
the creators of the country’s vast
wealth, oh! how overmastering our
love for thee. Give us your votes,
my dears, and all that pertains to
health and happiness shall adorn for
you the glowing pages of our Statute
Books. After the election, alas !we
know it all. The golden light to be
reflected from the pages of those
Statute books, fades suddenly away.
The corpoi ation lobby is in full blast.
The laborer’s hopes vanish out of
sight in the presence of corporate
power; and law after law, and charter
after charter, for the benefit of the
favored few, grace or disgrace our
legislative halls. Not much longer
can this be so. The laborers now
know full well their relations to the
politicians and to incompetent law
makers. They have weighed their
friendship and in the hour of need
have found it wanting. New men,
new measures, with fresh guidance
of the truth are needed. God grant
that our new party may, by its faith
fulness to principle, work out a
change that shall be an honor to it
and to the people, in all the walks of
life. F. J. W.
Tom Watson’s book is for sale at
the store of P. L. Johnston, Miller,
Ga.
THE TAX-PAYERS’ MONEY.
Friday, July 22, a conference be
tween the Senate and House having
failed to agree to several items in
the general deficiency bill, the mat
ter came before the House and
an amendment was proposed to
pay to the legal representatives of
seven deceased members of this
Congress and one member of the
last, something over $50,000. Mr.
Watson was given the floor in oppo
sition, and is reported as follows:
Mr. Watson. I offer the resolu
tion which 1 send to the desk.
The Clerk read as follows :
Resolved, That the conferees on the
part of the House are hereby authorized
with reference to the amendment num
bered 78 to the general deficiency appro
priation bill, appropriating $5,000 to pay
to the widows or legal representatives of
deceased members of the House, to pro
pose as a substitute therefor a provision
to pay to the widow or legal heirs of
each deceased member of the present
House the balance of the salary and
mileage which may be due to such de
ceased member under the law, irre
spective of what has been the custom in
regard thereto.
It is the sense of this House that the
law forbids the payment of two salaries
for one position at the same time ; that
if the deceased member shall have re
ceived as much as three months’ salary
for the Congress no further pay can be
allowed to the widow or heirs at law of
such member ; and that the salary of his
suucessort shall commence at the time
that of the deceased member stopped.
The speaker. The Chair would
state to the gentleman from Georgia
[Mr. Watson] that this resolution is
not in order at the present time. It
will be in order if the House should
by a vote disagree to the pending
amendment and ask a conference.
This coifld then be offered in the na
ture of instructions to the conferees.
But as yet the bill is not in con
ference. The gentleman will be
recognized to offer this resolution at
a later period.
Mr. Watson. I would like to be
recognized now to oppose the pend
ing amendment.
The Speaker. The Chair recog
nizes the gentleman for fifteen min
utes in opposition to the pending
proposition.
Mr. Watson. Mr. Speaker, the
question now presented is simply
whether we will apply to ourselves
the same rule we have applied to our
subordinate employes. At an earlier
day in this session a proposition was
made by the gentleman from Mary
land [Mr. Rusk], from the Commit
tee on Accounts, to allow extra pay,
running beyond the life of a subor
dinate employe of this House. That
proposition was antagonized by other
members of the committee, notably
by the gentleman from Georgia
[Mr. Moses]; and the House voted
it down by an overwhelming ma
jority, establishing the precedent of
“no work no pay;” that when the
service ceases the pay must cease,
because there is no provision of law
authorizing us to give a bounty or a
pension to our employes or their le
gal representatives.
Now, the question which confronts
every member of this House is this:
Will you make one rule for subordi
nate employes of the House and
another for Representatives and
Senators? Mr. Speaker, this ought
to be regarded purely as a question
of law. If the law allows this
money it ought to be paid; if the
law does not allow it it ought not to
be paid. We are here as adminis
trators of a trust fund ; we are act
ing in a fiduciary capacity for the
people; we have no right to spend a
dollar of their money unless we can
produce a voucher in the form of
some law authorizing the expendi
ture either by express terms or by
reasonable intendment or construc
tion.
You can provide for furnishing a
committee room, because it is a rea
sonable construction that members
are entitled to the use of committee
rooms for the discharge of their du
ties. Y r ou can supply, documents;
you can provide for messengers and
pages, because these are presumed
to be necessary in connection with
our public service. But when the
law specifies that a member of Con
gress shall have $5,000 per year for
his services, that necessarily means
he shall be paid at the rate of the
services he renders, and the compen
sation cannot by any reasonable con
struction be extended for any length
of time beyond that. You can just
as reasonably and legally pay a
member ten years’ pension or grant
his widow five years’ extra pay as
you can make such an allowance for
five days or five months.
Here is the law on this subject:
When any person who has been elected
a member of or delegate in Congress dies
after the commencement of the Congress
to which he has been elected, his salary
shall be computed and paid to his widow,
or, if no widow survive him, to his heirs
at law, for the period that has elapsed
from the commencement of such Con
gress, or from the last payment received
by him to the time of his death, at the
rate of $5,000 a year, with any traveling
expenses remaining due for actually go
ing to or returning from any session ot
Congress.
That is from the Revised Statutes,