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PEOPLE’S PARTY PAPS.
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1892.
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PEOPLES PARTI 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. R. KEMP, of Emanuel.
1. GEORGE H. MILLER, of Chatham.
2. A. R. JONES, of Thomas.
3. JOSEPH J. STEWART, of Sumter.
4. J. W. F. LITTLE, of Troup.
5. W. O. BUTLER, of Fulton.
6. W. F. SMITH, of Butts.
7. A. F. WOOLEY, of Bartow.
8. GEORGE T, MURRELL, of Clarke.
9. J. N. TWITTY, of Jackson.
10. D. N. SANDERS, of Taliaferro,
n. It. T. HTMEE, of Johnson.
For Governor,
W. L. PEEK, of Rockdale.
For Socretarv of ■ML -■ -
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For Comptroller General,
rA. 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.
The Executive Committee of the Peo
ple’s Party of Georgia organized by
electing M. D. Irwin president, and
Oscar Parker secretary. The address of
the secretary is No. 117| Whitehall street,
Atlanta, Ga.
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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 m the offiee.
TRADE BALANCES.
It seems that by virtue of our great
industry as a nation last year we
were able, through commercial ex
changes, to deliver int© the hands of
foreign traders a neat little exeeas of
$200,000,000 in value over what we
got in return. This excels has been
a varying but increasing quantity for
several years, and taken altogether
now sums up $700,000,000.
But for the latest invention of the
arch enemy of mankind, internation
al debt, this sort of thing would ulti
mately impoverish the world and
enrich us beyond the dreams of
avarice. Under the system of interna
tional debts, if we annually invested
this vast sum in interest-paying debts
of the nations to which we ship, it is
easy to show that soon we would
have the whole world tributary to us,
and would, in the certain process of
time, have a mortgage on the produc
tive labor of civilization.
But, unfortunately, the devil in
vented international debts at a time
when we were not exporting an ex
cess of merchandise. The American
people have, on the other hand,
mortgaged their enterprise to foreign
creditors on a scale unexampled in
the history of the world. Seven
years ago, according to Dr. Norvin
Green, England alone of foreign
creditors was due annually in divi
dends and interest from us $120,000,-
000, of which she reinvested part and
took part home in balance ®f trade.
That England is able to take more
now, after seven years of unexampled
opportunity to increase her invest
ment, is a natural result of the con
tinued and intensified conditions
which made it possible to take $120,-
000,000 then.
The newspapers are puzzled and
somewhat alarmed at the exportation
some days ago of a very large amount
of gold from New York. It is too
late to be alarmed, and there is no
reasonable need to be puzzled. The
foreigners hold our obligations and
can demand payment upon them.
There is. no international legal ten
der, heiice the creditor takes Jhat we
have which he elects. lie might take
wheat, cotton, or silver, but in this
choice was doubtless made for a self
ish reason, but for a reason that can
not be gainsaid. He knew that, to
take gold, the only complete money
of the American people, just at a
time when the movement of wheat is
active and new cotton is on the verge
of the market, is to serve notice to
this country not to expect that our
export commodities will pay the en
tire annual debt charged to us. He
will take some gold, and what wheat
and cotton he takes will be at his
own valuation. He is the creditor,
and will fix the conditions of pay
ment.
The export of gold bullion to Eu
rope in August may safely be render
ed to mean that prices in America
must yet go lower. The foreigner
will not worry himself about the re
sult to us ; we owe him, and as there
is no legal tender in such cases, he
takes from what we have that which
he waats. He wants gold bullion
now. Perhaps he will want wheat
and cotton, if is cheap enough, and
the way to make it cheap is to take
part of the money out of this coun
try. When we got in debt to him
we laid the foundation for depend
ence upon his whim. It is still true,
that he who borrows serves the len
der.
ON THE STUMP IN MICHIGAN.
Col. Post has gone to Michican to
fill some appointments in that, his
native State. He will be absent two
or three weeks, and will then return
and re-enter the campaign in Geor
gia. Look for an entertaining letter
or two from the Colonel during his
absence.
The moment the Third party begin to
ihonkey with the negro vote that mo
ment they open the door to evils from
'which they will be unable to run. —At-
lanta Constitution.
That’s fresh considering the stren
uous efforts made by Evan P. How
ell’s (proprietor of The Constitution)
and other antis to get out the negro
vote in Atlanta several years ago to
defeat prohibition. The negroes
were corralled like sheep, dosed with
liquor, and led to the ballot box in a
procession. And now this solemn
warning not “to monkey with the
negro vote I”—N. Y. Voice.
TIE PEOPLE’S FORUM.
PUBLIC SIMTIMENTS AS GLEANED
FROM CORRESPOIDSNTS.
S. L. Harvey, Centerville, lowa,
write*:
T) hile I am a Democrat, I do not
belong t® that class of Democrats
wh© draw their inspiration from
Cluay Castle or Buzzard’s Bay. 1I
admire your paper and its fearless
aud worthy editor, Congressman
Watson, whom the people should re
turn to Congress with double his
former majority. He has stood at
his post of duty while other Demo
crats, elected as he was, on a plat
form pledging to remedy the evils
of the Billion Dollar Congress, were
either not in their seats or voting
with Tom Reed to pauperize the
South and West. Are we to step
into the Republican camp and go
with the enemies of the South and
West—follow Tom Reed and Gro
ver Cleveland ? Here is one who
will n©t; and there are thousands of
others who will take to the woods
before they will vote for a man re
sponsible for the defeat of the free
coinage of silver for the benefit of
Wall street and a syndicate of cor
poration attorneys, of whom Cleve
land is chief. The revolution of the
Democratic party South is going to
spread over the Southwest and unify
public sentiment so that the minions
of the East will find “Jordan a hard
road to travel” four years hence.
When the Democrats make a
National platform on finance that
meets the approval of Senator John
Sherman, it is high time the rank
and file of the party begin to inves
tigate the cause of such harmony.
S. B. Meadows writes from Vi
dalia, Montgomery County, Ga.:
I am so anxious to have your pa
per in my family, and have my
friends read it. Its name thrills my
bosom and its precepts cheer my
very soul. And when I think of
Thomas E. Watson’s manliness in
defending the party, I wish I was
still a voter in his district, as I once
was, so that I might have the pleas
sure of voting for him time after
time; but I trust the strong arms
that held him up so manfully before
will see the necessity of doing so
again. Never let our banner trail
in the dust until every effort of
honor has been exhausted. The par
ty is growing rapidly in this county.
Success! to your valuyble paper.
N T : Vs hitcomb, Seer** ’y Put
The fight for home and liberty is
on in this State, and we intend to
burn all bridges behind us until we
have our rights as citizens under a
government of the people, by the
people, for the people. Pour m
your shot, and it will count in Octo
ber and November. Speak with no
uncertain sound, for this abominable
cowardice that cannot muster enough
manly independence—a God-given
heritage—to hold in contempt the
crack of the old party lash should be
shown up by just such papers as
yours, and manly independence—
American independence encouraged.
Go on, brethren, with your good
work of showing the condition of us
as producers and where we and our
children are drifting.
J. A. Shirly writes from Tell, Camp
bell county, Ga.:
Thinking you or your readers
might believe that the People’s Party
dead, I write to tell you that if it is
dead it is a very live corpse. So
live that the court (whi«h is in ses
sion) gives the lawyers about two
hours per day to kill Third Party
with their eloquent speeches. Col.
Joe James tried his skilled hand yes
terday (Wednesday). Relating the
demonetizing of silver he said, “Put
the blame where it belongs”. He then
said the bill passed in the House and
Senate by a majority of four and
that only four democrats voted
against it. I don’t know whether
Col. Joe meant what he said or
whether it was just a case of lapsis
linguae.
A prominent democrat from Flor
ida made an open boast that the
democrats would elect their man re
gardless of the number of votes.
Said he, “If the Third Party cast
ninety thousand and the Democrats
ten thousand the Democrats will elect
their man; they won’t count the
Third party votes.”
Jefferson County.
At a meeting of Jefferson county
Alliance, held in Louisville, July 7th,
the following resolutions were adopt
ed :
Whereas, there is a law that Con
gressmen shall not receive any per
diem when absent from their post of
duty, and
Whereas, it has been asserted in
some of our State newspapers that
our Senators from the State at large
have violated this law, we think this
matter should have the careful con
sideration of the people of our grand
old commonwealth, and if our sena-
ators are innocent they should be ex
onerated from all censure and »o
declared by an indignant people, but
if on the other hand they should be
found guilty of so grave a charge the
relentless hand of justice should be
laid upon them.
Resolved, that we request every
sub-alliance in the State to take ac
tion upon this important matter and
request their members to the next
general assembly to have the matter
thoroughly investigated and show to
the people whether they have dis
charged their duty.
Resolved, that a copy of these res
olutions be sent to the Southern Al
liance farmer and People’s Party pa
per for publication.
* B. S. Caswell, Prost.
J. L. Rains, Sec’y.
Barks County.
Pursuant to call of chairman, the
Burke county Executive Committee
of the People’s Party assembled at
Waynesboro, Ga., July 27th with a
full quorum present.
The object of the meeting was
stated by the chairman, and the body
proceeded to business.
On motion of J. T. Wileox the
nominees of the party, State and Na
tional, and also platforms of same
were unanimously endorsed by a ris
ing vote, with the request to every
every voter of the county to use every
effort to secure the election of every
nominee of the party, county, State
and National.
Delegates were elected to the Con
gressional convention at Savannah,
Ga., August 10th.
The following were elected dele
gates to the Senatorial convention at
Millen, August 11th : W. A. Roberts,
J. B. Williamson, J. B. Gregory, Si
mon Reeves, J. G. Lively. Alter
nates : J. S. Cates, H. V. Bearfield,
E. L. Thorn. J. FI. Chance, J. L.
Buxton—with instructions to vote for
the People’s Party choice of Bullock
county for Senator from the 17th
Senatorial District in the next Gen
eral Assembly of Georgia.
The People’s Party primary elec
tions for members of the General As
sembly and for county officers were
consolidated, and ordered held on
Thursday, the Bth day of September.
It was unanimously decided to
hold a grand county rally and bar
becue on the Ist day of September.
A special committee was appointed
to perfect all necessary arrangements
and secure speakers for the occasion.
(The committeemen of each district
*ire requested to solicit contributions
find forward to Wijmesboro commit
carcases the day before, and
Jr; collected not later than
y-c f the rally.
’ The scc2--t. ar y was ordered to for
ward copy oi proceedings of this
(meeting to The People s
hnd Bullock Banner, with request to
publish same.
By order of the committee.
W. 11. Chandler, Ch’n.
J. T. Wilcox, Sec.
Hancock County.
On Saturday evening, July 30, a
large crowd comprising about nine
tenths of the voters of the 113th
district in the county of Hancock as
sembled at Mt. Hope church and
there deceived a treat in the way of
three grand speeches. The political
issues of the day were discussed and
made plain why we should be Peo
ple’s party men indeed and in truth.
There were only three or four as
near as I could learn that still hold
to the rudderless old ship which is
rocked hither and thither by the
horde of office seekers which infest
our little county. They are about
all that is left and they are scramb
ling for office like hogs for slop.
From Indiana.
Freedom, Ind., July 25,1892.
Having iespoused its cause, with
all my ability I intend henceforth to
work and do all I can for the Peo
ple’s Party.
I would Tike to have this letter
published in the reform papers in
Georgia, for this reason: I was in
the Northern army, Company F,
Seventeenth Regiment Indiana Vol
unteers, and July 22, 1864, near
Atlanta, Ga.,’ I was taken prisoner,
and was carried to Andersonville
and remained a prisoner until Sep
tember 19, 1864, when I was ex
changed through a contract between
Hood and Sherman.
Now, the point I wish to make is,
after I regained my regiment in the
spring of 1865, we went out on what
was known as the Selma campaign,
and in the fight there we captured a
Confederate lieutenant belonging to
a Georgia regiment, whom I guard
ed from Selma to Macon; and it
happened that he was in command of
Ihe guards that carried me from At
lanta to Andersonville in July, 1864.
After we had been in camp a few
days in East Macon, the Confederate
prisoners were all released and my
lieutenant prisoner spent some time
to find my company and legiment.
When he found me he invited me to
go home with him. He said he was
whipped, and was whipped with
kindness, and proposed getting even
with me by whipping me with the
same kind of arms and ammunition.
So you see I liked one Johnny
during the war, and I had him badly
whipped, and I know if he is living
he thinks of me often. I, too, think
of him. I learned to love him and I
wish I knew where he is, if he is
living; and if he is dead I know his
home will be clear of class legisla
tion, for I hope he is in heaven.
I am informed that our worthy
senator, Voorhees, is in the South
telling the people down there that
the Republicans of the North will
not vote the People’s ticket. He
knows, or ought to know, better.
They have been given false promises
long enough by politicians. My ad
vice to him would be to go back to
the Senate and vote on the silver bill
again and then come home and look
after his own fences, for he is just as
certain to stay at home the next six
years as can be. He may get out of
the lions’ den, but will never go back
to the United States Senate.
I hope if my old ex-prisoner is
alive he may read this and write me
a letter. L. D. Marley.
Brown Replies.
Montezuma, Ga., Aug. 3d, ’92
Editor People’s Party Paper :
Very recently my attention has
been called to a premature attack on
me in the Telegraph of July 26, and
while not abstractedly, it was cer
tainly unauthorized by me, and, so
far as I know, by the other gentle
man mentioned. It should be the
policy of the Telegraph to fight
principles and not men. Whatever
we may have to say or do in this
campaign (it anything at all), we
propose to risk our case on the prin
ciples involved in the issues—not
attacks upon unsuspecting individu
als. In politics we have always
belonged to the Republican tenet.
As yet our party has formulated no
preliminaries either for State or
county. After some decision of that
kind, or a failure at an early date,
we shall feel authorized to be govern
ed by circumstances and make the
best of the situation we can. Our
county Democracy have met and
made their nominations. All their
nominees are personally and indi
vidually known to us as gentlemen,
and our failure to support them
would alone be based upon the issues
involved in this campaign, and not
the nominees individually. We
must say, too, that our reasons would
be founded upon just and honest
motives. We have always felt that
some few local concessions (not
social equality) should be made, and
the advanced guards will be heartily
met, regardless oDtheir former name,
action or section.
The Telegraph claims to be in
formed that myself and Mr. W. T.
Christopher have in charge the task
of debating Judge Crisp for Con
gress with Mr. Christopher. The
charge is certainly premature if not
untrue, to this date, as neither Mr.
Christopher nor any other man,
white or black, has to this date
spoken a single word to me upon
this subject. Office mania has never
given me any trouble either in State,
county or national politics; though,
as an outline of our views, we might
say that while these revolutions are
passing over us we feel it our duty
to watch every event and take such
part in the drama as shall appear
most conducive to our best interests.
It is apparent that the National
Republican party will never be able,
in the face of such strong local oppo
sition, to furnish just the local pro
tection and benefits most needed by
the Southern negro; still he is to,
and must ultimately obtain them;
and they should come spontaneous,
as any other method would, be fraught
with evil consequences. It further
appears, and more clearly, that the
Democratic party has had almost
absolute control of Georgia and the
South for nearly or quite a quarter
of a century without offering any
thing better, but on the other hand
using what we might call the “ clip
pers.” They had monopolized the
office and election machinery so that
none voted in their primaries unless
he was a “ simon pure.” Os course
all this array of intelligence com
bined against the negro, together
with other political tactics, engulfed
him into political insignificance
where he is now found; and nothing
but the mysterious hand of the white
man, guided by the providence of
God, can permanently raise and
establish him. And it appears fur
ther that the hand of the Southern
white man must largely figure in
this matter. This would be far
better that a force bill. But a fail
ure to fuse with the whites in poli
tics and bring about such a condi
tion, then something like the force
bill is inevitable soon or late. A
Jww federal offices amount to but
little compared with the general
benefit and protection needed by the
masses locally. We need court
house rights, ' without which we can
not protect burselves. Now then,
the People’s Party, North and South,
is mostly composed ,of farmers, and
more than eighty per cent, of the
negroes are farmersj, hence their in
terests are identically the same.
The motto, “ Equal ’Rights to all—
Special Privileges to None,” is pre-
cisely what the negro needs in the
civil sense of Jhat expresiion. We
have been led to say this much in
advance of any action of our old
party for the reasons expressed in
the beginning of this article.
Negro supremacy is not wanted
nor asked for by the negroes. We
want intelligence and virtue to rule
wherever it may be found, but let it
rule right. The. Democrats have a
perfect right to put in their bid.
All will be considered; but we don’t
mean to do much mere “ credit busi
ness” in politics. The deeds will
now be expected simultaneous and
without regard to name.
L. 11. B.
P. S.—ls our vote makes the
People’s Party successful and they
fail to give us any better showing
(in a civil way) than we have had,
then we will drop them, and without
ceremony. L. H. B.
Major Black Has Been to Lincolnton.
“Major Black spoke at Licoln
ton,” so a correspondent of the
Augusta Chronicle says, “to seven
hundred people.”
Now, Mr. Editor, it is passingly
strange to my mind why a corres
pondent can’t give facts as well as
so many figures.
I have heard prominent Demo
crats place the crowd at four hun
dred.
There were a few from Lin
coln county, some from Wilkes, some
from McDuffie, and a good crowd
from South Carolina on Saturday,
the 16th of July; and of all the
cheering when Mr. Black got up to
speak—well, sir, when I read it in
the Chronicle I wonder that I did not
hear it, if I was 9 miles off. That’s
about the distance I was from the
place. Well. I heard a gentleman
that lives in Lincolnton say that the
Democrats tried mighty hard to get
up a little cheer for Black, but made
a grand failure.
That same correspondent says that
Lincoln county will go solid for Air.
Black. Yes, Ido believe so myself,
but it will be for him to stay at
home. So good-bye, Jimmie; you
had as well hang your harp on the
willow-tree, for you won’t have the
chance to play her in Congress soon,
if ever; and if you are such a great
friend to the farmer, why don’t you
place yourself in a position that you
can have a chance to prove it?
Why are you with a crowd of
national bankers, railroad attorneys,
Bunco streeters, monopolists and
theiT kind. Why don’t you come
out on the Lord’s side.
Tom Watson would carry the day
even if he didn’t get home until after
the election.
Air. Black has no more chance for
election in the Tenth district than I
would have. That is cut, and if it
isn’t dried it will be dried long before
election day.
Not a Pair, but a Half Dozen Lies.
Below I copy an item from a late
issue of the Americus Times-Re
corder which I desire to notice :
“Christopher, who expected to get the
empty honor of being snowed under by
Crisp and didn’t, wouldn’t be satisfied
wi h the still emptier honor of running
a Third party paper in Americus right
under the eagle eye of the great and
good Times Recorder. He impaired his
eyesight, but he cut his eye-teeth run
ning the Montezuma Record into the
ground and reducing the list of sub
scribers from 2,000 to 27. His present
contract with the Republican, party does
not call for his sinking the salary they
pay him in trying to grind an “organ”
for the edification of the little handful
of Third party freaks in this congres
sional district.”
In the first place I did not seek
the nomination—not a single county
visited, letter written or delegation
asked to vote for me. Every dele
gate from my own county will tes
tify that I did not ask them to sup
port me, because I did not m any
way seek the place, and the little
Alec editor of the Times-Recorder
knew he was writing a lie when he
wrote it.
The statement that the list of sub
scribers of the Record had been re
duced from 2,000 to 27 is another
outrageous falsehood. The Record
never had 2,000 subscriber, and
never lost over five when it com
menced advocating the People’s
Party. Twenty-five were gained for
every one lost.
As to my present contract with
the Republican party. I have no
contract with that party; anybody
who says to the contrary utters a
wilful and malicious falsehood.
Col. Buster My rick, who has run
the Times-Recorder into bankruptcy,
had better be careful how he attacks
the character of men or he might
have to be appointed receiver of the
bankrupt concern again.
Col. Buster Marick may yet have
to give his paper away to get it in
circulation in the Third district. I
advise all People’s Party men to stop
taking such a sheet and subscribe for
some decent People’s Party paper.
If the Democrats expect to win
this fight by abusing every man who
belongs to the People’s Party, they
will surely come out of the little end
of the horn.
W. T. Christopher.