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THE PEOPLE’S PARTY PAPER. Entered at the Post Office at Atlanta, Ga., as second class matter, Oct. 16,1891. Published Weekly in Atlanta, Ga., RY THE PEOPLE’S PAPER PUBLISHING CO. THOS. E. WATSON, President. C. C. POST, Vice-President. D. N. SANDERS, Sec. & Treas, R. F. GRAY, Business Manager. This Paper is now and will ever be a fearless advocate of the Jeffersonian Theory of Popu lar Government, and will oppose to the bitter end the Hamiltonian Doctrines of Class Rule. Moneyed Aristocracy, National Banks, High Tariffs, Standing Armies and Formidable Na ives: -all of which go together as a system of oppressing the People. TERMS—SI.OO PER YEAR. 50 “ SIX MONTHS. 25 “ THREE MONTHS. Send Money by Postal Note or Money Order. DO NOT SEND STAMPS. CLUBS : In clubs of 10 we will send the Paper at 75c. OUR OFFICE Is up stairs In the elegant new.McDonald building 117 1-2 Whitehall street, where our frtends will always And the latch string on the outside. Get Up Clubs. We want the Industrial Classes to feel that this Paper is THEIR FRIEND. It is conduct ed by men who are intensely interested in the .Reform Movement, and have been battling for it many years. The price shows that the Paper is not being fun for money. If the People support it lib erally it will pay expenses. It cannot do more. As long as I am President of the Company, the Paper will never be found on any other line of policy than that which I sincerely be lieve is best for Georgia, best for the South, and best for the country at large. THOS. E. WATSON, President People’s Paper Publishing Co. CAMPAIGN LITERATURE. For sale by the Campaign Committee, the proceeds to go to help defray the expenses of the campaign of the People’s Party. HON. THOS. E. WATSON’S ADDRESS to • the people of Georgia. Price $5 per thousand, 75 cts. per hundred, or one cent per copy for any Less number. A LITTLE LIGHT ON SOME DARK PLACES, Tom Watson examines the records made by the moss backs and informs the peo ple as to the facts. Price, same as the above. SPEECH BY J. H. TURNER, Sec’y of the National Alliance, delivered at the great Douglasville meeting, with synopsis of speech by C. C. Post at same place. Price same as for Watson's Address. BOND HOLDERS AND BREAD WINNERS, a pamphlet by S. S. King, of Kansas, of great value to all >ho wish to be posted. All Peo ple’s Party and Alliance speakers should have a copy. Price 25 cts. SEVEN FINANCIAL CONSPIRACIES which have enslaved the American people.— This little book is worth its weight in pure gold. Greatest “eye-opener” you ever saw. Price 10 cents, INDUSTRIAL FREEDOM, contains a cogent and forceful statement of “The Money Question,” “The Railroad Problem,” “The Sub-treasury Plan,” and also the arguments pro and con. upon “Should The Government Own The Railroads.” Send 25 cts. for a copy. POLITICAL PLATFORMS-Every Political Platform Adopted by a National convention, from 1800 to 1888, with a brief but comprehen sive History of Political Parties in the United States. Price 5 cts. DRIVEN FROM SEA TO SEA. OR JUST A CAMPIN’, and CONGRESSMAN SWAN SON, by C. C. Post, two political novels of intense interest and extremely valuable as showing how the com mon people have been robbed and plundered. Price of each 50 cts. Address all orders to OSCAR PARKER, Sec’y. H7J-£ Whitehall St.. Atlanta. Ga. Notice to P. P. Men. Cannot the county committeemen and other zealous workers in the re form cause interest themselves in collecting a quarter or a dime from each earnest P. P. man for campaign purposes? The enemy say that we will fail for want of election funds. We neither seek nor desire a corrup tion fund, but we do need a fund to disseminate reform literature and to pay the expenses of the speakers. It is the people’s fight; let the peo ple sustain it. Send contributions to Oscar Parker, Secretary Campaign Committee, Whitehall Street, Atlanta, Ga. Mr. Pottle’s Speech. Among the notable incidents of the People's Party convention on the 20th was the speech of J. E. Pottle, of Mil ledgeville, Ga., as follows: My Fellow-Citizens: A great deal has been said to-day about ex-Confederate soldiers and by ex- Confederate soldiers. Their presence here gives a profound meaning to the purposes of this convention. I speak for the young men who greet them here and as a representative of that class who come with the vigor of young manhood on their cheeks and the fire of a devoted determination in their eyes to prove to those who left their limbs at Manassas and Gettysburg and carry the bullets of a ruinous war in their bodies that the sons of their dead comrades are ready to give them the hand of encour agement and the God-speed of their hearts in this battle for God, for home and for native land. I know not what motive may actuate other men, but as for me, I am a Peo ple’s Party man because I am Southern man; because I expect to live beneath Southern skies, and at last mingle my dust with Southern soil. Just as thous ands of other Southern men did, I looked honestly and deliberately at the history of the past, the condition of the present and the prospect for the future. I saw that the past showed an almost unbroken line of legislation since the war at war with Southern interests and blighting to Southern homes I saw a present wherein, by some strange com bination of circumstances, the principal mission of Southern toil and sacrifice is to fill the coffers of those who are utter ly out of sympaty with our needs and at enmity with our interests. Looking to the future with a fervent desire to find one ray of light, I saw only hopelessness and despair, and seeing it so I would have been recreant to my trust as a Georgian and untrue to every sentiment of honor, of patriotism and of right, by a veteran of the civil war, had I not promptly and emphatically declared my determination, to the best of the weak ability God had given me, to remedy the evils of the past and brighten the hope for the future. If the speech of General Gordon, re cently delivered at Gibson, was correctly reported, he told the people of Georgia who are in this new revolution that they had as well abandon the idea that the government can make them rich. 1 want to tell General Gordon, with the utmost respect for his superb character and his glorious career in the past, that this is not a movement of fools or pau pers, hoping or expecting to get some thing fox* nothing, but that it is a demand of freemen that hereafter the produce of their toil shall bring its le gitimate value, and that not a day longer, if they can help it, shall Southern policy be dictated by Wall street and Eastern money sharks. For many years the Southern States, in their political demands, have been ignored in the councils of the Demo cratic party—the party which, without the united aid of these same Southern States, would have Jong ago been wiped from the face of the earth. The policy of this party —the so-called party of the peop e—has been dictated by Wall street and Tammany Hall and its candidates selected by the same unholy, selfish power. We propose to-day that a new policy shall be inaugurated and a new era begun. Let them bring on their force bill howls and negro supremacy cries Southern people are fighting for South ern rights and self-preservation The people have never yet been de feated ; Truth is with them ; Right is with them ; God is with them. But even if defeat shall follow and our banners trail in the dust, we can say, like the great Whig statesman of England on the occasion of the defeat of one of his favorite measures, “Oh, glorious defeat I May thy memorial be fresh and green to the latest gen erations 1” To-day, fellow-citizens, the South, once the proud queen of this Federal Union—proud of the splendid intellect and supurb character of her sons and the freedom and prosperity of her peo ple—groans vnder the burden of partial legislation and class-selfishness and greed. We have come to fear that this South, once the garden of the nation, will, under the present system, reach a point where there will not be “A rose of the wilderness left on its stalk, To tell where the garden has been,” and we propose now to do our best to prevent the approach of that evil hour. I thank you for your patient atten tion. Hayseed in Burke County. Politics are getting mighty hot down here in old Burke, and everybody thinks he is right ; but it seems strange to an old hayseeder like me, who belongs to the People’s Party, to hear the leading Democrats, who have been cursing and abusing the negro for the last twenty years for voting the Republican ticket, now advising them to stick to their party ; that it is a good and honorable party. Why this change ? Have the Republicans become more honorable ? or have the Democrats just found out what the party is? or is it because the two old parties are so much alike that one can’t abuse the other without being guilty of seT-abuse? Why is it that the Democrats are hal looing negro supremacy so persistently ? Is it because the negro has refused to take their advice and stay’ in the Repub lican party, or is it because the negro People’s Party Club here won’t give those leading Democrats the positions of vice-president and secretary, as was done here in days past ? or is it because the house in which the negroes hold their meetings has no loft in which those great leaders can hold a caucus? Why is it that the bosses have raised such a howl because John Mack, he negro, went to the State convention held in Atlanta on the 20th to represent his race, and also seconded the nomination of W. L. Peek for governor? Are they not citizens of the State, holding the same rights under the law that the white man does ? If so, isn’t it better to give them representation in the convention, that they may know for whom they* are voting, thereby getting them to vote with the white people at home than to ignore them till the day of election and then try to buy or force them to vote, thereby driving them into the Republi can party, which the Democrats have so recently found out is an honorable party ? Is not all this howl be cause the bosses see that their little game is played and the negroes of this county are going to vote with the Peo ple’s Party ? I only ask these ques'ions because, as you see, I am no politician, but simply an old bayseeder, who was born under a Democratic roof, rocked in a Democratic cradle, sung to sleep with a Democratic !ulaby, and have always voted with the Democratic party, but finding, in my humble judgment, that the party had drifted from the land-marks of its founders, and that the People’s Party had the pure, unadulterated principles of Jeffersonian Democracy, I enlisted in that party to fight in the humble way of an old hayseeder to the finish. Am I right ? If I am not, why is it that most all of the white people of the country, as well as the negroes, have acted so foolishly? Is it possible that we have all acted the fool except a few of the court house rings ? Is it possible that we Georgia boys who have stood a foar-years’ war—after which we stood what is known in Georgia’s history as the days of reconstruction—have 'we departed from everything that is true, noble and manly, and become a band of anarchists, simply because we are fight ing for American freedom? This is what the bosses would have us believe. Are we right? or are they right? Let our ballots answer. Hayseeder. Resolutions by Elbert County Alliance. Resolved at a regular meeting of El bert County Alliance, That we feel ic a duty and esteem it a privilege to thank the Hon. T. E. Watson, of the Tenth congressional district, for the manly way in which he espoused the cause of the mases, and that we heartily com mend him to the voters of the Tenth congressional district; that we ask the secretary to forward these resolutions to the People's Party Paper, and that we ask the county papers to publish the same. L. H. O MartiN, Pres. • J. R. Booth, Secretary. P. P. stands for people's p rty, and also for purity in politics There is no use in having one unless we can have the other. What is to be gained by a mere change of leaders, unless we can get good men by the exchange—men who will remain true to the interests of the people who elect them : men who cannot be “ bought” or “sold” ‘‘bribed” or ‘ influended,” or cor rupted in any way ; men whose personal character is above reproach ? It is vain to hope that a bad man will make a good political!. He never will. The tempt ations in public life are ten folded harder to resist than in private life. The farmer or mechanic who will get scared at the g. o. p. cry of “cheap money” is an ass. Can he not remember when he had cheap money—when took only one-half the amount of labor to secure a dollar that it does today ? Was not that cheap money much easier to get? And was there not a job for every man that wanted to work? But provisions were higher, but after you had supplied your family and paid your taxes did you not, as a rule, have some money left; and if perchance you were slightly in debt did you have to let your children go bare footed and hungry in order to keep up the interest? Compare the present with the days of cheap money, you party blind gumps, and tell, if you can, who the fellows are that have been benefitted by dear money—Nevada Silver State. Cleveland is called a vote getter by his worshipers. He is At the November election in 1888 he got in Alabama 40,000 votes less than the Democratic candidate for Governor ; in Louisiana more than 50.000 less, and in New York nearly 15,- 000 less. In Virginia, North Carolina, Missouri, Maryland, Kentucky, Delaware and Connecticut his vote was less in 1888 than it was in 1884. Yes, C.'eveland is a vote getter.—Kansas City Mail. In Wilkes County. A People’s Party Club was or ganized at Mt. Zion, Wilkes county, Ga., July 2, 1892, named the Watson Invincibles, with 35 members. The following resolutions were passed : Resolved, That we endorse the Omaha platform, and that we will support no man for office who does not stand squarely upon said plat form. Resolved, further, That we fully endorse the course of the Hon. Thos. E. Watson in Congress. You can put Wilkes county down as safe for the People’s Party. W. S. Kendal, G. V. Shipp, W. T. Hudson, Committee. Polk County. In the Polk county primary for Congressional nominees Congressman Everett received 43 votes and Judge Maddox 127. This looks like a poor endorsement for Mr. Everett in his home county and considering the vot ing strength of the county it makes a poor show for Democracy. A county school house rally on a hot night will show up more Third Party voters thanthis county primary. Fayette County. There was a People’s Party mass meeting in Fayetteville on the 25th instant. The court house would not hold them. Fayette will go two to one for the People’s Party. To The Brothers. lam prepared to assist in starting local People's Paity Papers in the center of any congresional district or other available points where it will do the most good. Address, H. N. Cramer. 555 Marietta Street, Atlanta Ga. Back Numbers. We have many calls for back num bers. The demand for samples has been so heavy of late, that no back numbers are left in the office. The campaign committee urges that every possible effort be made to get subscribers for the People’s Party Paper. It is the safest, surest and cheapest campaign work that can be done. TO OUR READERS. Notice is hereby given that the offer to send the People’s Party Paper to subscribers for two months at 10 cents is withdrawn. All per sons who have collected money on lists under the 10-cent offer will please forward at once, without seek ing to add to the number, and the paper will be sent as ordered. Henceforth, besides those who have already paid the money to some one kindly acting for us as agent, no names will be entered on our subscription books for less than 25 cents and three months. SAMPLE COPIES. We receive a great many requests for bundles of papers for distribu tion. While we are perfectly willing to send a sample copy to any one desiring it, we are not able to fur nish the paper to subscribers at cost and at the same time send out large numbers of papers free. We will, however, send bundles of papers at actual cost to those who wish to dis tribute them in aid of the campaign. The State Executive Committee of the People’s Party has organized by the election of M. D. Erwin as chairman and Oscar Parker as sec retary. PEOPLE’S PARTY PAPERS IN GEORGIA Farmers’ Light, Harlem, Columbia county. Farmers’ Friend, Waynesboro, Burke county. News and Allianceman, Jackson, Butts county. Banks County Gazette, Homer, Banks county. Hinesville Gazette, Hinesville, Liberty county. The Allianceman, Atlanta, Fulton county. Southern Alliance Farmer, Atlanta, Fulton county. The Enterprise, Carnesville, Frank lin county. The News, Ball Ground, Cherokee county. People’s Party Paper, Atlanta. Farmers’ Herald, Wrightsville, Johnson county. Alliance Plow Boy, Buford, Gwin nett county. Progress, Cleveland, White county. People’s Advocate, Greensboro, Green county. Signal, Dahlonega, Lumpkin coun ty. Bullock Banner, Statesboro, Bul lock county. News, Jonesboro, Clayton county. The Wool Hat, Grace wood, Rich mond county. HAS YOUR COUNTY ORGANIZED ? If Organized, Has It Reported to Headquarters ? The following counties are reported as organized for the People’s Party, but only a portion of them have sent the names and post office address of the chairman and secretary of their com mi; tees. These are wanted at head quarters, and should be reported at once. Baldwin, Jackson, Baker, Jasper, Bartow, Jefferson, Berrien, Johnson, Brooks, Laurens, Bullock, Lee, Burk, Lincoln, Butts, Lowndes, Calhoun, Lumpkin, Campbell, McDuffie, Carroll, Macon Catoosa, Madison, Chattahoochee, Marion, Chatooga, Merriwether, Cherokee, Miller, Clark, Milton, Clayton, Mitchell, Clinch, Monro?, Cobb, Morgan, Coffee, Murray Co quitt, Newton, Columbia, Oconee, Crawford, Oglethorpe, Dade, Paulding, Dawson, Pickens, Decatur, Pike, DeKalb, Polk, Dooly, Pulaski, Douglas, Richmond, Early, Rockdale, Echols, Sch'ey, Elbert, Screven, Emftnuel, Stewart, Brwin, Sumpter, Fannin, Talbott, Fayette, Taliaferro, Flojd, Tatnall, Forsyth, Taylor, Franklin, Thomas, Fulton. Twiggs, Glascock, Upson, Gordon, Walker, Green, Walton, Gwinnett, Ware, Habersham, Warren, Hall, Washington, Hancock, Wayne, Harralson, Whitfield, Harris, Wilkes, Hart, Wilkinson, Heard, Wilcox, Henry, Worth. The counties not enumerated here have not reported at all, though most of them are believed to have organized. NEW OFFER I Mr. Watson’s Book has been received at this office. Any one sending us $1.50 can get a copy of the book and this paper for one year. In clubs of ten we will send ten copies of the book and ten papers one year for $14.00 and send one book and one copy of the paper one year to the club raiser. YOU CAN SAVE MONEY By sending your orders for ALL KINDS OF PRINTING TO ELAM CHRISTIAN, Printer and Publisher, 114 Loyd St., - . ATLANTA, GA. Tie Mwai Waktoai. A PEOPLE’S PARTY PAPER An Eight-page Four-column Weekly. PUBLISHED AT WASHINGTON, D. C. Under the Direction of the Congressional Committee of the People’s Party. N". DUN NING Has been selected as Managing Editor. It will be impersonal, impartial and aggres sive, and at ail -times seek to place before its readers carefully piepared matter such as a residence at the seat of government is calcu lated to furnish. The high character of the men interested in the papei, the ability of Mr. Dunning, and the advantage of being at the Capital are sufficient guarantees for the kind of paper that will be issued. Among the contributors will be— Senators W. A. Peffer and J. H. Kyle ; Con gressmen T. E. Watson, John Davis, Jerry Simpson. W. A. McKeighan, B. F. Clover, J. G. Otis, O. M. Kem. K. Halvorsen, T. E. Winn, W. Baker, Dr. M. G. Elizy, and many other well known writers. TERMS, - - - FIFTY CENTS PER YEAR. Twenty-five cents until Nov. 9, 1892. Address all communications to THE NATIONAL WATCHMAN CO., No. 13 C Street N. E. WASHINGTON, D. C. B. VIGNAUXj FRENCH RESTAURATEUR. RESTAURANT AND LADIES’ CAFE. No 16 Whitehall St., Atlanta, Ga Open Day and Night. Telephone 201. Run on New Orleans Style, Merchants’ Restaurant and Lunch Room. 27 S. Pryor St., Atlanta, Ga. FRENCH COFFEE. FRENCH COOKS. Eggs For Hatching. Silver Laced Wyandots, Silver Spangled Polish, Golden Penciled Hamburgs, Silver Spangled Hamburgs, Partridge Cochins and Cayuga Ducks. Eggs, $1.50 for 13. All first class stock—none better in America. Address Mrs. J. H. Davis, Hapeville Poultry Farm. Hapeville, Ga. ts PERKINS MACHINERY COMPANY. THE FARMER’S' > FAVORITE ” A NEW saw MIEL that 13 BOUNB " to lead all others. Superior to any belt feed g mill made. Prices low and terms easy. Wa* * | i jVOylk ile manufacture the best top-runner corn mill <<*- 2 11 tho market, and dealers in engines, toil- ers, cotton gins, presses, feed mills, shaft ing ’ P ull eyß. belting, woodworking machin ery; also, second-hand machinery at loir .prices. ~_. -r-v. - - - PERKINS MACHINERY CO., 41 S. Broad St., Atlanta, Ga. MIKE HAVERTY. $25,000 WORTH OF -:- FURNITURE!-:- To Be Slaughtered. PARLOR, BED ROOM, KITCHEN AND DINING ROOM ITTTZR/ZEL REED AND RATTAN GOODS, PICTURE TASELS, BABY CARRIAGES, LADIES’ DESKS, BOOK CASES, MATTRESSES, BED SPRINGS, PILLOWS, ■ WARDROBES, FOLDING BEDS, LAWN BENCHES &CHAIRS. All these Goods MUST BE SOLD by JUNE Ist, as I intend to make alterations in my store, and must make room for mama. Zb/E. TTJLVER.T7Z-, CHEAPEST FURNITURE MAN SOUTH. 77 Whitehall Street, 64= S. Broad Streets ATLANTA, GA. Igf I make terms to suit all purchasers. HON. TOM WATSON’S BOOK. CONTAINS 390 PAGES. ITS TITLE “ NOT A REVOLT: IT IS A REVOLUTION.” Contains a Digest of Political Platforms since the days of Jefferson. Contains a History of all Political Parti®*. Os the National Bank Act. Os the Income Tax Law. Os the Leg&l Tender Notes. Os the Demonetization of Silver. Os the Contraction of the Currency.. Os the Way Tariffs are Made. Os the Squandering of Public Lands. Os the Pinkerton Militia. Os Tammany Hall. Os the Alliance Platforms. Besides Arguments, Facts, Figures on all’ the Leading Topics of the People’*' Party movement, —ALSO Speeches of the “ Nine ” at this Session. Also a Synopsis of the Work of this Session. The Book should be in the hands of * every Lecturer, Speaker, Editor and Voter. PRICE SI.OO. Send orders at once. Address THE NATIONAL WATCHMAN. 13 C. St., N. E. Washington, D. €k fT COSTS A DOLLAR TO SECURE EMPLOYMENT THROUGH BREESE & LOWE, 17Li Peachtree St., Atlanta, Ga. To Brother Alliancemen and Others. On account of the low price of cottou we have put down our machinery to correspond. We can sell rebuilt gins—good as new—for SI.OO per saw. Gin Feeders and Condensers $2.00 per saw. We have in stock the Gullett, Van Winkle, Hall, Pratt, Gate City, Whitney and Winship. We can furnish Feeders and Condensers for any make of gin, new or second hand. We have some good rebuilt Engines—4 horse pow er SIOO.OO, 6 horse power $200.00. 8 horse power S3OO 00. 10 horse power $400.00, &c., to any size required. Saw M ills worth S3OO for $200; those worth S2OO for $125. Corn Mills worth $250 for $150; those worth $l5O for S9O. Water Wheels worth S3OO for $l6O. Gin Saw Filers sls to $25; Gummers S2O to 30. Terracing Levels (good ones) $5. Theodolites $6 to SB. Sulky Com post Distributors S2O. We have also the best and cheapest Mill on the market, for grinding corn and cob, peas, cotton seed and table meal, for SSO. You can make fertilizer that costs S3O per ton for sl3 with this mill. We send formula with mill. If you want any kind of machinery or want ad vice as to the best kind or capacity, &c., write us. We take machinery on commission and repair at our own expense. Gin and engine repairing done. Old gins made new for one third the cost of new ones. CRAMER & ABBOTT, 555 Marietta St., Atlanta, Ga. P. S. We have several 40 saw Gin outfits, with engine to puil them, and a press for s2tio. .50 saws S3OO. Wswws $4Ol SO saws SSOO. Wc sell, swap or trade to suit customers. 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