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PEOPLE’S PARTY PAPS. PUBLIBHE® WSFICIA’ BY THE PEOPLE'S PAPER P9SLIBHB 99&PMY. 117 1-2 Whkobmall Sr. THOS. E. WATSON, - - President. C. C. POST, - - - Viee-Preeidtnt. D. N. SANDERS, - - Seo. & Treas. R. F. GRAY, - Bnainess Manager. Subscription, One Dollar Per Year, Six Months 50 eta., Three Months 25. In Advance. Advertising Rates made Isnewa ©n appli cation at the basinets office. Money may be sent by hank draft, Post Office Money Order, Peatal Note or Registered Letter. Orders should be made payable to PEOPLE’S PARTY PAPER. ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT. W. H. Lowe, Roes* 8, 17| Peachtree Street, is the advertising ageat of this paper. TO ADVERTISERS. The circulation of the People’s Party Paper is now 17,000 ©opies to antual sub scribers. No better medium could be found for reachihg the farmers of Geor gia and of the South, and advertisers are requested to consider its merits. The following certificate of the postmaster at Atlanta, Ga., the office of publication, needs only the additional remark that the paper used in the publication weighs 44 pounds per ream to fully explain itself : Atlanta, Ga., July 25, 1893. This is to certify that The People’s Party Paper, during the week ending July 23d, 1802, mailed sixteen hundred and sixty-three (1,663) pounds at this office. J. R. Lewis, P. M. The circulation i* steadily increasing, and most advantageous arrangements can be made for space. FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1892. ■MMBmmMMmMMMmsgmirr'imi rirwi'ia imii i ■in 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 -■ - rr'. m. 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. Please Take Notice Os the change in price of this pa per in clubs. Our temporary offer of the People’s Party Paper m clubs es 10 for 50 cents per year is with drawn, and in the future we will be compelled to have 75 cents in 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 7 5 cents. 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. Notice Subscribers and Club Raisers. In ail instances the cash must ac company the names sent in. No paper can be run on credit. In another column it will be seen that the 10 cent offer has been withdrawn, and no subscriptions for less than 25 cents will be received. Long term subscriptions are better all around. 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.