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IN NORTH CAROLINA. Things are considerably mixed in the Old North State, and it seems that a People’s Party flavor is given to the mixture. Last week when the regular Democratic nominating con vention of the Third Congressional district met, the present member, Mr. Grady, was renominated without op position. Mr. Grady is a member of the Alliance, a school master and farmer, and recognized as a believer in the Ocala demands, which were made an issue in the last election. A motion to indorse the Chicago plat form was voted down, and when it was proposed to nominate an elector for the district an amendment was adopted that he be instructed to vote for Weaver and Field. The minori ty withdrew and reorganized, nam ing their elector for Cleveland, and by every precedent the regular Dem ocracy of the Third North Carolina district is instructed for Weaver and Field. The Republicans do not seem to be in better shape. While the politi cians and officeholders favor a State ticket, the rank and file have gone largely over the People’s Party, and the old party seems to be all leaders and no followers. In a recent num ber of the Progressive Farmer, Dr- Mott, a leader and a man of great force, advised the Republicans to vote for the People’s Party State ticket, and while the committeemen seem to generally oppose the proposition, their protests are receiving little consideration outside the Democratic newspapers. It is within the easy range of prob abilities that the vote for the Peo ple’s Party in North Carolina will ex ceed that of both old parties com bined. A DISCREPANCY. Tuesday in the primary election in Fulton county, but 1,990 voters put themselves on record as Democrats on State issue, and 2,076 as desiring to put out a candidate for Congress. The total vote of Fulton county is not less than 12,000, and at the pro hibition election two years ago over • 1,000 votes were actually cast. The lail\ papers of Atlanta constantly laim that there are no People’s party heretics here, and the vote for Har ison four years ago was but 2,164 in Fulton county. All things consid ered, there is a discrepancy in Demo- Tati c calculations. EVERY WORD FALSE. The Augusta Chronicle says : • The Third Party seems to be on the trade and ready to fuse with any party that promises additional votes for their candidates. They are fusing with Dem ocrats in the West, playing with the Republicans in the South, and in Geor gia trying to make a dicker also with the Prohibitionists.” Does not the editor of the Chron icle know that there is no truth in any statement contained in its para graph ? The People’s Party is evi dently meant by its term, Third Party, and the People’s Party has everywhere refused to fuse or to turn to the right or the left to dicker with any party in any State. The Constitution has not disavow ed its lately expressed opinion that Cleveland need not look for recruits in the East. Harrison will lose the West. How then, Mr. Constitu tion ? When the Young Men’s Demo cratic Club ratified they almost filled the Hall of Representatives with voters of all parties, ladies and a brass band. Last Tuesday the club . seems to have sort of “swunk.” I Such members as Hooper Alexander, I the talented young man who knows I everything about silver, should study . this intricate problem. Hoke Smith, too, should come in out of the wet and explain how the fumes of the dead force bill tarnish the tinsel of Democracy. The gubernatorial election in Ala bama next week will be a settlement of scores between two Democratic factions. No other party has nomi nees. The Populist, a spick span brand new People’s ,Party paper comes to ' our table from the neighborhood of Senator Gordon’s ranch in Taylor county. We are not sure that a man whose time is so fully occupied in giving advice to other people cares to pause long enough to listen to a sug- gestion ; but we would whisper m the General’s ear that he is very likely to lose his own home county while he is striving in vain to break Tom Watson’s hold on the Tenth District. Better be looking after your own beat, Senator. J. L. Gibson writes: “Put Pike county down as solid for the Peo ple’s Party.” Sam Small is being so roundly abused by the daily papers that the people will soon -want to know why ? Then Rev. Sam’s innings will come, for few men have a better knack of telling why than he. Now that Judge Ilillyer has car ried Fulton, do his 1,100 supporters know whether he really desires a free coinage of cart-wheel silver, or of mieroscopic gold dollars ? The People’s Party does not fuse. It don’t have to. The best element of all other parties come to it and give it their support because it is right and makes no compromises. The People’s Party convention of the Eighth district, assembled at Athens, July 26th, nominated Dr. J. R. Robins, of Greene county, for Congress. Macon County. A mass meeting of the People’s Party was held in the Alliance ware house in the town of Montezuma on Saturday, July 23, for thej purpose of electing delegates to the congres sional convention for the third dis trict, to be held at Americus, Tues day, the 2d day of Augast next. Also, to elect delegates to the sena torial convention which meets at the same time and place. The following were elected delegates to the con gressional convention : J. W. Souter, W. 11. Hall, W. D. L. Duncan, J. M. Walters, J. H. Claxton. Delegates to the senatorial conven tion : J. C. Tarrer, B. C. Brooks, W. 11. Killebrew, J. F. Souter, T. S. Brooks. A resolution was offered by J. W. Souter, and unanimously adopted, that the People’s Party of Macon county aid the colored people all they can by spreading reform literature into their hands, and assist them in organizing themselves into People’s Party clubs; also that we have a basket dinner at the Miona Springs on Flint River, near*Montezuma, and invite the people of Taylor county to take part with us ; and we invite Hon. W. L. Peek, of Rockdale coun ty, Hon. Thomas E. Watson, and others, to address the people on that day. The day to be set by the com mittee on arrangements in the near future. Everybody is invited to come, and bring baskets well filled. Hurrah! for the People’s Party Pa per, Thomas E. Watson, and W. L. Peek, our next Governor. W. D. D. Duncan, Sec’y of Ex. Com. Colored Organization in Macon County. The colored farmers of the Grange ville district met, July 4, with wives, and children, and baskets well filled with refreshments, at Sutton’s School House. After a good dinner, John Crittenden, of Schley county, made a ringing speech on the principles of the People’s Party. He proved, be yond a doubt, that the contraction of the currency, and the establishment of national banks, were working de struction to agriculture and impover ishing labor, and the bosses of the Republican party, who freed us, and the bosses of the Democratic party have combined together and sold to Wall street and England the agri cultural, and laboring people of America, and today we are all, both white and colored, financially slaves for the old parties. He said that the poor people who fought to save us when we were bodily slaves, and the agricultural and laboring people of the South are calling upon us to unite with them and again throw off the shack les of slavery and restore the gov ernment back to all the people. His speech was good, and had the effect of converting the already con victed, and of convicting those who never had thought of the condition of our government and the reason that they were unable to make a living for themselves and families. After the speech, Rev. Mr. Bass was called upon to speak for the Republican party, whereupon Mr. Crittenden soon seated him by ask ing him why the people who do all the work were so poor ? The meeting then organized by electing Thomas Collins chairman and J. E. Duncan secretary, with a membership of 23 names. We believe the only relief for the laboring people of America is to come together on the St Louis platform, and we are going with the People’s Party, for we believe it to be the only party of the people, by the peo ple, and for the people. J. E. Duncan, Secretary. Legal Tenders. National Watchman. The following resolutions were in troduced by Senator Morgan: Whereas, Under the existing laws gold coin of the United States is the only full legal-tender money which cannot be dis pensed with by contract, and under the influence of that legislation the private indebtedness of the people to each other and to foreigners is being rapidly con • verted into contracts payable in gold; and, Whereas, The bonded debt of the United States is being paid, as to interest and principal, only in gold coin, and amounts to more than a thousand mil lion dollars ; and, Whereas, The Uni ed States is bound for the ultimate redemption in gold coin of gold certificates amounting to $156,- 598,929, and of United States notes amounting to $346,681,016, and of na tional bank notes amounting to $172,- 682 850, and of currency certificates amounting to $30,320,000 ; in all to $706,- 283,745 ; and, Whereas, There is in addition to these liabilities the sum of $101,712,071 of treasury notes issued under the act of July 14, 1890, for which the Secretary of the Treasury has failed to provide the means of redemption in silver dollars and treats the same as a gold debt; and, Whereas, The entire gold debt of the United States, as it is considered and treated by the government, amounts to more than $2,000,000,000, more than half of which is due on demand ; and, Whereas, The private debts of the people can all be converted into gold debts on the demand of the creditor classes, and amount to more than two thousand million dollars ; and, Whereas, According to the statement of the Treasurer of the United States, made on July 1, 1892, the whole amount of the general stock of gold coined or issued in the United States was $589,- 509,061; and, Whereas, The disparity between the amount of gold in the United States, now or prospectively, and the amount of debts, public and private debts, that rest upon gold coin for ultimate redemption is so great as to create distrust in the soundness of our paper money system, and to place the debtor class and their property in dangerous subordination to the power of those who have money and credit to loan or sell. Be it Resolved by the Senate, That the com mittee on finance be, and are hereby, di rected to report a bill to the Senate, with all convenient dispatch, to give to all the paper money issued directly by the United States as a legal tender for debts, public or private, and to all standard silver dollars of the United States, the full legal tender effect that is given by law to the coins of gold issued from the mints of the United States, so that the same shall be a full legal tender for all debts, public and private, without excep tion or restriction. During the discussion Senator Mor gan said: A legal-tender law is a law which com pels a creditor to accept the money of the United States in payment of his debts at the end of the judgment. No body administers legal tender laws in this country but judges ; it is not within the power of the executive or the parties to the contract or of any other personal tribunal except the courts; but when a contract is made payable in gold and you sue upon it and you recover a judgment for so many dollars, then it is the right of a citizen of the United States ; if we have got the rights of any of the civilized or semi-civilized powers of this world, to pay that debt in the money which the lawful authority of the United States declares to be legal tender money, and that the sheriff or the marshal or the party himself is bound to receive in liquidation of the debt. The Senator from Ohio, by the legisla tion for which he has been more respon sible than anybody else, has struck the legal tender law to death until you come to gold coin and abraded gold coin. He has left no legal tender in the statute book except gold coin coined by the United States, and he makes that a legal tender, if not upon its face, yet by weight. He can weigh it out, and make a legal tender of it to his creditor. That is the situation of our legal tender law. Based upon that are a half dozen false or hypocritical pretenses expressed in the statute that greenbacks, coin certifi cates, gold certificates, silver certificates, silver dollars, demand notes and cur rency notes shall be a legal tender. Every pretense of that kind is a false hood, for the reason that they are not a legal tender, and for the reason that the courts cannot, under the existing state of the law, compel the creditor to re ceive in satisfaction of his execution that sort ot money. It is good between the common peo ple ; it is good between innocent men ; it passes current from hand to hand ; but when it comes to the satisfaction of a judgment of the law, the creditor, the plaintiff in execution, can put up his debtors’s property and sell as much of it as he chooses to buy in satisfaction of his debt, unless that debtor can go and afford to pay a premium for gold. That is our situation. The above clearly discloses the helpless condition of the people, and the urgent necessity for an imme diate change. The Atlanta Journal is prone to quote General Weaver’s speeches in his first campaign for Congress, when he was running as a Republican against an lowa Democrat. There is no doubt Weaver did abuse the Democrats soundly, but there is no evidence that he abused the Southern people, as the Journal charges. Horace Greeley said that though every Democrat was not a horse thief, every horse thief was a Democrat, and the Democrats ran him for Pres ident. A good brother in this reform movement says he remembers help ing to hang Abe Lincoln in etigy, and now he considers Lincoln as entitled to a top place in the niche of fame. Really, the people are not bothered about how Gen. Weaver abused the lowa Democracy twenty years ago. Senator Stewart’s Speech. [CONTINUED FROM IST PAGE.] of protest, is death. The condition of the laboring man in Europe is fast be coming what it was in the dark ages, and in this country the same iron hand of contraction is being laid upon him. He is the only one who stands to resist it, and he is denounced by the law abiding citizens of this great Republic for protesting against the falling prices of his wages, and he must ultimately be subdued if this goes on. Ah, the evil lies deeper than the mere dealing in futures, speculation in futures, and business transactions. It is brought about by the destruction of half of the money of the world and by the impossibility of increasing the other half. All the gold that is pro duced is consumed without making any appreciable increase in the gold coin of the world. It is estimated by stat isticians that the gold coin of the world is no greater in amount than it was eighteen years ago. Nearly $40,000,000 of the annual product goes to Asia, never to return, because their exports always exceed their imports. The bal ance is used in the arts. Still, the gold kings insist that those who are at tempting to use any other kind of money shall be forced to buy gold in order to increase the value of gold, the property they own, to make bonds more valuable. That is what is being done. We passed a bill of relief here, to supplement gold coin with silver coin. But the edict of the gold kings went forth operating upon parties, upon men, and upon conventions, to make them forget their constituents, to make them forget the sufferings of the peo ple whom they had robbod. How long this will continue is a question for the future; but if it is not stopped we shall have a money famine the like of which the world has never seen. Between 1810 and 1840 when a money famine was created by the Spanish- American wars the production of golc and silver was between $30,000,000 and $40,000,000 per annum, and some of that could be put into new money. From 1840 to 1850 little was added to it, about $10,000,000 from the gold mines of Rus sia. From 1850 to 1875 the world’s pro duct of gold and silver was more than $200,000,000 per annum. We had then rising prices, and business was con ducted on the basis of high prices. Since 1875 no addition has been made to the gold coin of the world, and we are marching more rapidly to decline than we were in money famine in the early part of this centu ry. Still we are here proposing relief to the people, getting patriotic over side issues, and allowing the evil to go on increasing Much has been said about the reasons for the fall of silver. Silver has not fallen. It will buy as much of all the commodities produced by man as it ever would. It is gold which has gone up. The average price of a bushel of wheat has been an ounce of silver in Liverpool every year for the last twen ty years. The Indian farmer will take his bushel of wheat to Liverpool, sells it for an ounce of silver, take his silver home and coin it into $1.37. That sil ver has for the farmer of India the same purchasing power it ever had. The American farmer, on the other hand, takes his bushel of wheat to Liv erpool, takes his ounce of silver for it, and brings it here and sells it for 87 cents. He is put in competition with the farmer of India, and in that way we are driven out of the foreign mar ket. Russia is similarly situated in this respect to India. So we go on putting up the price of gold and putting down the price of property, and the gold men say what a terrible thing it would be for some of this gold to go out of the country. If we had this gold in Europe, where we sell our products, the price might be higher there and we would be ben efited. There is no place on earth where our gold would do us so much good as in Europe, where we sell our commodities. It is the falling of prices that casts such a financial gloom that no business man can contend against it. From Washington County. We are thoroughly organized. Out of about 1,600 white voters we will give the People’s Party 1,200, and all the colored voters, about 900 strong, will vote the People’s Party ticket. We demand reform in our county and we will have it. We have been controlled by that Sandersville clique and ring as long as we will stand it. We are going to down them at the polls in October and November. I notice that the little Thomson convention has nominated Maj. Black to run against our Tom Watson. I hate to see as good a man as Black get beaten. He ought to make the race for some office he could get. We are going to nominate our Senator, Representatives and county officers on the 28th. We expect Tom Wat son to be here. Col. Post is also ex pected. It will be a grand rally for the People’s Party of Washington county. We would like to have Northen, Black, Gordon and Atkin son come down and speak for us; they have done good for the Peo ple’s Party wherever they have been. Hurry them, up and send them down here, and Washington county will be more solid than ever. There are some men in our midst who, I am sorry to say, are controlled by friends or men with whom they trade. We are met by a few enemies—of the old mossback variety—who are using every means, however low, to beat us. They spent $1,200 dollars and four barrels of whisky in Glascock county, and then got defeated the worst you ever heard of, except when Washington county’s time comes for action. I understand that there is a corruption fund of $3,000 or $4,000 made up in this county to defeat our Tom, but it, like all the rest, will be spent in vain. I see from returns of the meeting at Thomson that the delegates pledg- ed every county for Black except lit tle Glasscock, and would have done that had it not given the Peo ple’s Party a big majority. Our noted lawyer and fellow-countryman, Col. Geo. C. Evans, of Tom Webb notoriety, pledged old Washington, but he will not live long enough to see the day that he will carry it. It seems to be their sole aim to defeat Tom by any means, fair or foul. It seems that Gordon and Bob Lewis have about gone by the board. I havn’t heard Gordon brag since Watson reflected to his Gibson war whoop. I reckon he is still saying, “Hear that, Third Party men! Hear that!” while Northen reads for him. I havn’t heard of Bob Lewis until the Thomson harangue in a good while; guess he’s had some tongue affection. He generally talks lots and does lit tle. What has become of Sid Lewis ? Is he dead or sleeping? I reckon he is doing both. Well, just tell them all to come down as soon as possible and give us a few rounds of good old time Democracy, it will help us. Third Partyite. Pulaski County. The People’s Party convention met this day in the courthouse, called to order by J. G. Wright, chairman executive committee. On motion elected T. C. Allen chairman, and W. C. Solomon secretary. After a few pertinent and pointed remarks by the chairman it was resolved that we proceed to nominate candidates for the legislature and county officers. Nominated James Coody and J. D. Pearce as representatives to Georgia Legislature. Nominated the following ticket for county officers: Ordinary, M. T. Sikes; clerk superior court, W. M. Wynne; sheriff, C. C. Portar; tax receiver, W. G. Barbar; treasurer, S. D. Stephens; county surveyor, S. C. Carroll; Cor oner, D. J. Skipper. On motion, should any of the above gentlemen not present refuse to accept, the executive committee was given power to make nominations in their place. Adopted the following resolutions offered by F. D. Wimberly : 1. That we ratify in its entirety the platform adopted by the People’s Party in convention at Omaha, on the 4th day of July 1892, and hereby pledge an unremitting effort in behalf of the national ticket, J. B. Weaver for President and J. G. Field for Vice President. 2. That we ratify the platform adopted in State Convention at At lanta July 20th, and proudly hail our state ticket with W. L. Peek as the head. 3. That we demand of the next Legislature, to abolish the county court and board of county commis sioners and to place the duties dis charged by them in the justices of the peace and of the ordinary; to change the law as to jury commissioners so that each militia district shall elect one commissioner and the whole of them shall compose the jury commis sioners; to have the new road law abolished and the old law established again; to have all county officers elected by the people; to keep in mind in all legislation a government of the people by the people and for the people. Elected as delegates to the Third congressional convention to meet in Americus, August 2, 1892, the following gentlemen: Dr. J. B. Carroll, T. C. Allen, Ed. Pearce and S, D. Stephens. The executive committee of Pu laski county instructed to confer with the different county executive com mittees of the 14th Senatorial dis trict in reference to a candidate for the Georgia Senate from said dis trict. T. C. Allen, Chairman. W. C. Solomon, Secretary. Democratic Free Wool. An honest Georgia farmer stated to us last week, that he had recently carried his wool to a certain factory and was told that the price of wool had fallen six cents a pound since Congress had passed the Free Wool Bill. There is no law mak ing wool free, nor is there likely to be. The House did vote to take the tariff off the wool which the farmers have to sell, but to leave a tariff of 40 per cent on the jeans and blankets which the farmers and laboring men have to buy, but the miserable fraud has not become a law nor will it be come a law. The Democrats are always ready to give the people taffy, but never ready to give them relief. Among the recent accessions to the People’s Party reported in the West, Hon. George L. Yalple, of Michigan, is notable. He has served in Congress, and was the last Demo cratic candidate for Governor of his State. Like Governor Pennoyer, he finds the surrender of the party to Wall street too rancid for his con science, andaligns himself on the People’s side. Mr. Cooper, of Indiana, July 16, in a discussion of the sundry civil appropriation bill, made the following statement : Mr. Cooper. If the gentleman will allow me a moment, I wish to say that I hold in my hand the report cf the Senate Committee on Apjpropria tions upon this bill; and I refer to this document to show the importance and the urgency of this amendment. By this report (page 19) it appears that at the Presidential inauguration March 4, 1889, there w r ere here on the public grounds under the pay of the Govenment, a number of these Pinkerton men. I read : 15 Pinkerton men, 3 days, at $lO, $450 10 Pinkerton men, 1 day, at $lO 100 15 Pinkerton men, expenses, 3 days, at $5, 225 10 Pinkerton men, expenses, 1 day, at- $5, 50 These men were brought here from distant places ; and if they were thus brought here to attend npon the inauguration ceremonies, it is more than likely that unless some expres sion be made by the House against such a proceeding, it may be adopted on the occasion for which we are providing. I have thought it impor tant in this connection to call atten tion to what has been done in the past. All arrangements for the inaugu ration of Harrison were made by the Cleveland administration, and the Democratic party is responsible. Debate in Johnson County. The voters of Johnson county assembled in mass, about six hun dred strong, in the town of Wright ville, at the Nannie Lou Worthen Institute, and heard one of the most interesting debates that ever took place between our home people. The discussion was upon the plat form of the People, and that of the Democratic party. The speakers that represented the People were Dr. Ivey, Mr. Helton and Mr. Snider. Those that represented the Demo cratic party were Col. Daly, Col. Robinson and Dr. Flanders. When the boys began to shell down the clean cannon in defense of the Peo ple’s platform the lawyers on the other side, through excitement or mistake, would address the people as “gentlemen of the jury,” forgetting that they were not in a justice court but confronted by a jury of about five hundred voters, who were ready to convict the Democratic party, as its foul deeds were uncovered ; they would also drift into the unreason able attitude of construing the land plank in the People’s platform to mean a division of the land belong ing to the private citizens as much so as the land owned by the rail road corporations and alien men, but in all of this they were met to the fullest, and on the part of the Peo ple it was a grand success, for in the conclusion Dr. Ivey asked all who were in favor of the People’s Party to rise and it appeared that there was an upward tendency of a level headed assembly. A Citizen. A. C. Jackson, of Watkinsville, Ga., tells how the workers for the cause make hay when the sun does not shine: On the Bth inst. the writer had the pleasure of being at a gathering which was to have been a sunday school celebration, but on account of the rain the piogramme of the sunday-scliool was called in, and the day spent in working for a cause next to that of sunday-school and church, viz: That of the People’s Party. There was fully three hundred pres ent despite the unceasing rain, and after several speeches, Uncle George E. Griffeth, a tried and true man, requested the audience all to be seat ed, then he requested all who favor ed this move known as the People’s Party to rise, and the entire audience rose*, with the exception of about half dozen who refused to vote eith er for or against. Attention. Voters of the People’s Party of Berrien county are hereby respect fully requested to meet in mass meet ing in the court house at Nashville on Aug. 27, by 10 o’clock, for the purpose of electing delegates to the Congressional and Senatorial conven tions, also to nominate a man for legislative honor, and attend to other matters of importance. N. E. Patterson, County Chairman. NOT A REVOLT; IT IS A REVOLUTION. Tom Watson’s Book Now on hand. For sale at the Office of the Peoples Party Paper. A campaign terror. Everybody needs it. Speakers must have it. Price, One Dollar.