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Tweul/-Sixth Senatorial District.
The convention of the People’s
party of the 26th senatorial district,
composed of Fayette, Butts and
Spalding counties, convened in the
office of the Alliance warehouse,
Griffin, at 11 o’clock to-day.
On motion Captain W. B. Malone,
of Fayette county, was elected chair
man of the convention and W. L.
Taylor secretary.
A motion was unanimously adopted
that this convention select a candi
date for the senate regardless of the
rotation system.
Ad journed to meet at 2p. m. The
.adjournment was called that the con
vention might go to the court house
to listen to the people’s gifted leader,
Hon. W. L. Peek, discuss the present
issues of the day. The democratic
leaders asked for a division of time
which was cheerfully granted by the
People’s party.
Colonel Whitfield, of Milledgeville,
the gifted democratic candidate for
Congress in the sixth district, was
listened to and appreciated by the
People’s party men. Col. Whitfield
is a gentleman, every inch of him,
but his arguments were but bird-shot
compared to the mighty cannonading
from the obi columbiad, the war
horse leader of the People’s party,
Hon. W. L. Peek.
A.t 2 p. in. the convention convened
as per adjournment. On motion a
committee of three from each county
was appointed by the chair to select
candidates for senate. After a few
minutes of harmonious balloting Hon.
John W. Clumbers, of Inman, Fay
ette county, was nominated, which
was ratified by acclamation.
A motion was made that Fayette
and Spalding select two each as ex
ecutive committee to confer with
Butts at a time hereafter selected by
Butts. Spalding selected Col. T. W.
Flint and B. N. Miller. Fayette se
lected Captain W. B. Malone and T.
J. Bottom.
Twenty-second Senatorial District.
People’s Party of Twenty-second
Senatortai District met in convention
in Forsyth Augusbllth. L. A. Pon
der. chairman Executive Committee!
of Monroe county, called the conven
tion to order. On motion, W. B.
Meek was elected permanent chair
man, and W. J. Mullins was elected ’
secretary. The following persons
answered to their names as delegates :
Pike county—J. N. Jordan, J. E.
Slade, W. J. Mullins and W. 11.
Holmes.
Bibb county—J. Y. Howe, C. C.
Hamlin, W. M. Kitchings and G.W.
Burnett.
Monroe couuty —W. J. Meek and
T. J. Cheeves.
On motion, the delegates from
each county be allowed to cast the
full number of votes to which it is
entitled.
On motion, W. A. Poe, of Bibb
county, was nominated by acclama
tion for the candidate for the Senate.
On motion, the Bibb county dele
gates were appoint* d a committee to
notify Col. Poe of his nomination and
request his acceptance.
On motion, L. A. Ponder was ap
pointed chairman of the Senatorial
Executive Committee of the People’s
Party of the Twenty-second Senato
rial District.
Ordered, that a copy of the above
proceedings be furnished The Peo
ple’s Party Paper and the South
ern Alliance Farmer for publication.
On motion, the convention ad
journed sine die.
W. B. Meek, Chairman.
W. J. Mullins, Secretary.
From Tennessee.
Our county (Jefferson) organized
yesterday for the People Party. We
had a large and enthueiastic meet
ing, more than two hours being con
sumed in ringing speeches, fall of
facts, by two men who had been
Republican Union soldiers but who
are now with us.
The Circuit Court was in session
and the Republicans bad called a
mass meeting for the same day, but
we secured a large upper room in
the court house, and our meeting
was an eye-opener to moss-backs.
We are the pioneers of this move
ment in East Tennessee, but we hear
that other counties are going to fol
low our example.
We are watching Georgia with a
great deal of interest. Tell the noble
W atson that I bid him God-speed,
and to let the good work go on.
John C. Welsh.
Mossy Creek, Tenn., Aug. 9, 1892.
People’s Party Convention.
It is ordered by the Executive
Committee of the People’s Party of
Bartow county, Georgia, that each
and every militia distiict therein hold
a mass meeting at its court ground
on the afternoon of the fourth Satur
day (27th) of August, to ajjpoint del
egates to a county convention to be
held at Cartersville, Georgia, on the
following Monday, 29ih day of Au
gust, the object of said county con
vention being to appoint delegates to
the District Congressional Conven
tion, and also to take action on any
and all matters tending to the suc
ess and promotion of the People’s
Party. r
Each militia district entitled to
same number of votes as heretofore
prescribed, but no limitation to the
number of delegates.
And we most cordially invite all
patriotic men—all fair-minded voters
who want an honest government that
will give relief to the (oiling masses—
to unite in their militia district meet
ings and in the selection of delegates.
Militia district mass meeting Au
gust 27tb, 1892.
Bartow county convention August
29th, 1892.
Seventh District Congressional
Convention September Ist, 1892.
Done by order Executive Commit
tee People’s Party, Bartow county,
Georgia, August Btb, 1892.
W. 1. Benham, Chairman.
P. 11. Larey, Sec’y.
Home, Sweet Home!
Bluffton, Ind., July 25, 1892.
By the kindness of some one, I am
receiving your excellent paper. I
think it should be more generally
read in the North; it would do good
in opening the eyes of a certain class
of Republicans here who think the
reform movement is a Democratic
plot to divide the North and carry
the* election for Cleveland.
It is the business of some papers,
both North and South, to hunt issues
that will keep the sections divided.
It is the mission of the People’s Par
ty to find something upon which we
can all agree.
I have read somewhere of two
armies—one from the North and
one from the South—being en
camped upon either side of one of
the i ivers of the South; a band of
the Northern army played “Yankee
Doodle;” it was immediately an
swered by the Southern boys with
“Dixie.” In the musical contest that
followed, each side played the airs
most popular in their section, until
at last a lone fifer commenced that
immortal production of John Howard
Payne; some one on the other side
of the river joined him; the drums
followed their leaders; one band
after another fell in until all the
bands of both great armies united as
one and softly, as if afraid to break
the spell, played it through.
Many a soldier that night dreamed
of “Home, Sweet Home.” We are
dreaming of it now—a home for
everyone who wants a home; a na
tion of homes; not places to live
where the landlord is the most fre
quent visitor, but homes of freo
American citizens, the product of
who>e labor is not taken to build
places for thievesALet us unite, both
North and South, and work and vote
for home. Wm. E. Harvey.
It’s a Revolt.
Five hundred Democrats came to
the People’s Party Saturday, July
30. The • force bill oath of the ex
ecutive committee of the Democratic
party of Decatur county did it.
Freemen have asserted their rights
and will no longer be bossed by
rings and bullies. The revolt is last
ing and complete, and we will meet
them at the polls with a freeman’s
weapon—the ballot!
Carry the news to Susie ! Decatur
county will give the People’s Party,
Sthte and National, five hundred ma
jority in the coming election !
In the primary Saturday’, out of a
white vote of 45, the Democrats
: could only get 14, and they polled
i their full strength. At Recovery,
out of a white vote of 56, the Demo
crats only polled 11, and only 6 of
them were permanent citizens of the
district. At Fowlstown, out of a
white vote of 69, the Democrats
polled only 16.
Where is the man now wdio says
that Georgia is not for Weaver and
1 Field, our noble Col. Peek and the
i full State ticket.
I The People’s Party is in the sad
i die, and there to stay in this county!
j Oh! how good we feel, and the
j Democrats are despondent.
i L. B. Wilson and G. W. Kendrick,
it is presumed, will carry the Demo
j cratic banner to defeat in October —
for defeat awaits whoever it may be.
W. B. McDaniel,
Secretary Executive Committe Peo
ple’s Party, Decatur County.
Mass Meeting in Screven County.
In pursuance of a call previously
made by the chairman of the execu
! tive committee a mass meeting of the
People s Party was held at the court
house in Sylvania on Tuesday, Au
gust 2. Something over two hun
dred of the party were present. The
meeting was called to order by W.
L. Mathews, Jr., chairman of the ex
ecutive committee of the county, "who
stated the object of the meeting to
Ibe the selection of delegates to the
i congressional and senatorial conven
tion.
Capt. W. M. Henderson was then
selected as chairman of the meeting
and B. F. Scott, Jr., as secretary.
On motion a committee of five was
appointed by the chair to prepare a
. list of names as delegates to the
! two conventions to be submitted for
i adoption. That committee consisted
iof Messrs. J. M. Thompson, A. C.
. Cabaniss, C. H. Moore, L. P. John
| son and J. C. Hollingsworth. While
the committee was engaged in their
work, Dr. J. F. Brown, who was a
delegate from the First district to
the Omaha convention, was requested
to give the meeting a sketch of that
grand meeting, which he proceeded
to do in a very interesting style. The
return of the comini’tee, .however,
cut short his remarks. The com
mittee reported as their selection of
delegates to the senatorial conven
tion, which meets at Millen, Ga., on
Thursday, August 11.
The convention then proceeded to
nominate a candidate for representa
tive. Mr. R. L. Singellton presented
the name of Rev. H. G. Edenfield,
the present representative, who was
unanimously nominated by a rising
vote.
It was unanimously agreed upon
that the candidates for county offices
should be elected by primaries in
each of its militia districts, to be held
on the 21st day of September next,
under such rules and regulations as
might be pr( scribed by the county
executive committee of "the party.
Resolutions were passed endorsing
the National and State platforms and
nominees, and the following:
Resolved, further, That we feel
that we would be recreant to the
great principles which we advocate
if we should remain silent and not
give vent to our high appreciation of
the invaluable services of our gallant
Tom Watson, and pledge to him our
moral support and our prayers in his
great struggle for “equal rights to
all and special privileges to none,”
and that he may be sustained by the
God of Truth and Justice to defeat
the effort which is now being made
by his enemies, the cowardly ma
jority in Congress, to accomplish his
destruction, and assure him that the
great heart of the people throbs that
divine approval of his labors, “Well
done, good and faithful servant.’
The meeting then abourned sine
die. W. M. Henderon, Ch’m’n.
B. F. Scott, Jr., Sec’y.
A Voice from Burke.
Lawtonville, Aug. 9, 1892.
I think the democrats are the most
uneasy set of people I ever saw; they
are circulating so many curious re
ports. One is that the democrats
must win if they have to steal the
ballot-box.
The People’s party does not want
anything but fair and honest dealing
at the ballot-box, and they had rather
step down and out with a fair and
honest count than to step up and in
with a dishonest count. And I think
it will be well for the democrats to
act accordingly, for if they start to
monkeying with the ballot-box in old
Georgia the ball w r ill open and the
fur will fly. It makes no difference
whether the fur be long or short,
thick or thin, it will all be snatched
out by the roots; and the gasping
aspect of a lot of bald-headed, tooth
less democrats would be almost
frightening to the grave. So, in the
name of peace, let us all act honestly
toward each other, irrespective of
results.
Another report the democrats are
circulating is that they know the
People’s party has the numbers but
the democrats have the machinery.
This the People’s party will acknowl
edge. The democrats may have
used their machine in the Alabama
election, and they may make one or
two round trips with their machine,
but ere long their machine will en
counter with landslides, snowslides,
blizzards, cyclones, washouts, tunnels
broken in and filled up all along their
line, world without end.
Still another report the democrats
are circulating. They are advising
the negroes to vote with the republi
cans if they will not vote with the
democrats. Now, Mr. Editor, is not
this proof enough that the democrats
are in perfect harmony with the re
publican party ?
I heard an old mossback say a few
days ago that he thought probably
that Mr. Watson would win in the
coming election. Fellow citizens,
one and all, we do not w r ant a man to
represent us m Congress who will
prowl around in the city of Augusta
on election day till just before the
polls closes and then vote a wet
ticket, because that ticket was in the
majority. I heard a citizen of Au
gusta say that he saw J. C. C. Black
do this very thing. It is a well
known fact that the whisky men of
Augusta, with the aid of their
money, won the day there, and if
Mr. Black will yield to the whisky
men and their money in Augusta
against the will of his Christian
friends and neighbors, what on earth
would he do for Wall street in the
halls of Congress against the poor
farmer and laboring man *?
If we want a man to represent us
in Congress who has the manhood
and bravery in him to vote for the
right and just cause irrespective of
numbers and money, then vote for
the Hon. Thomas E. Watson.
Mr. Watson was elected to Con
gress on the Ocala platform, and he
has stood by it ever since. lie has
fought for its demands from Genesis
to Revelation and through the
Psalms twice.
And now to do justice to Mr.
Watson and ourselves, we must send
him back to Congress, for he is one
of the true and the tried.
The enemy are resorting to various
means to break up the People’s
party movement, but still it grows
with great rapidity.
“If God is with us, who can be
against us?”
“He that made the eye, can He not
see?” Abednego.
Twenty-First Senatorial District.
At a meeting of the Executive
Committee of the People’s party of
the twenty-first senatorial district,
composed of the counties of Jones,
Twiggs and Wilkinson, the Hon. J.
M. Hunt, of Jones, was elected
chairman and Capt J. A. Mason, of
Wilkinson, as secretary.
The following resolutions were
passed:
1. That a convention of the Peo
ple’s party of the twenty-first sena
torial district be held at Gordon on
the Bth day of September at 10
o’clock a. m., sharp, to nominate a
candidate for senator of said district,
said convention to be composed of
fifteen delegates from each county.
2. That we refer the matter of ro
tation to the different county con
ventions of said district, that each
county select the delegates to said
convention as the County Executive
Committee may direct.
" J. M. Hunt, Ch’n.
J. A. Mason, Sec.
Johnson County.
At a recent meeting of the Peo
ple’s party Club for 1326 District,
Johnson county, Georgia, it was un
animously resolved that we express
through the columns of the People’s
.Party Paper our condemnation of
the unmanly, cowardly, brutal as
sault made upon Cols. Peek and Post
at Quitman, Georgia. We fail to
find language that expresses our
supreme contempt in denouncing the
base perpetrators in their attempted
assassination of Cols. Peek and
Post.
We take occasion to here pledge
to Col. Peek our support and pro
tection as the standard bearer of the
Peoples’ party for governor of Geor
gia,
We will never resort to any un
fair or dishonorable means to ac
complish our aims. Our cause is
righteous, and the hand of Him who
controls the destiny of nations, we
are sure will give us victory over
wrong, and the cruel oppression of
the plutocrat.
We would be pleased to have Col.
Peek to make an address to the citi
zens of this section of dur
ing this campaign.
We want to have a look at our
next governor of Georgia,
Earnestly contesting for the
right, we are respectfully,
E. M. Kennedy,
J. A. JoiINTON,
C. T. J. Claxton,
T. Stapleton,
Committee.
Schley County.
In accordance with a call of the
Executive Committee of Schley
county, the Peoples’ party met at
the court house in Ellaville on the
13 inst.
The object of the meeting was
explained by the chairman of the
Executive Committee of Schley
county.
The meeting was organized by
calling J. 11. Bivins to the chair and
E. B. Barrow as secretary. The
object of the meeting was to nomi
nate county officers, whereupon the
following gentlemen were nominated
to fill the various county offices, to
wit: For Ordinary, E. B. Barrow;
Clerk of Superior Court, C. A.
Thompson; Sheriff, L. A. Giles;
Tax Collector, Chas. Womack; Tax
Receiver, G. L. Massey; Treasurer,
L. P. Clark; Surveyor, S. B. Hal
stead; Coroner, S. K. Holstead;
Commissioners of Roads and Reve
nue, G. D. Hays, T. J. Dozier, T. J.
Hixson, C. K. Tondee and J.L.
Murray.
Dooly County Mass Meeting.
The Peoples’ party of Dooly coun
ty met August 5, in Vienna, for the
purpose of nominating a candidate
for and for county
officers. Mr. H. C. Wilkes was
nominated for Representative, for
Ordinary, R. B. Lane; for Clerk Su
perior Court, Alonzo Summerford;
for Sheriff, Adam Calhoun; for Tax
Receiver, J. G. Thurman; for Coro
ner, F. H. Berry; for Surveyor, 11.
D. Royal. Then agreed to have a
meeting on the first Friday in Sep
tember and invite some prominent
speaker. All People’s party men,
and all persons friendly to the Peo
ple’s party cause are invited to at
tend.
J. G. Thutman, Chairman.
S. E. Lawb, Secretary.
Thirty-Fourth Senatorial Convention*
The senatorial con
vention, held at Stone Mountain
August 10, to nominate a senator,
was called to order by Z, Este. P. B.
McCurdy was elected chairman and
J. B. Gresham secretary.
After the names of the delegates
present were enrolled, a committee
consisting of J. B. Gresham, W. L.
Brown, W. L. McDaniel and J. W.
Corley was appointed, and after a
short absence returned with the fol
lowing report:
“We, the senatorial convention of
the People’s Party of the Thirty
fourth senatorial district, in conven
tion assembled, this 10th day of
August, 1892, do exceedingly regret!
the absence of the delegate from
Henry county. Trusting and hoping
that tl ey will ratify our action, we
do enter into the nomination. It be
ing the sense of the convention, we,
the committee, present the name of
J. L. Chupp for nomination.”
The report was unanimously
adopted by a rising vote, and J. L.
Chupp was delared the nominee.
After passing suitable resolutions
and appointing a committee to notify
Mr. Chupp of his nomination, and
requesting friendly papers to publish
a synopsis of the proceedings, the
convention adjourned.
P. B. McCurdy, Ch’m’n.
Jno. B. Gresham, Sec’y.
Action of Campbell County.
According to the request of the
Executive Committee of the People’s I
Party of said county, the people of
the People’s Party met in Fairburn
on the 13th instant in mass meeting,
and unanimously, without a jar or
a cross word, nominated Bro. W. 11.
McLarin as our candidate for the
next race for representative, and we
believe “he’ll get there just the
same” in October next.
Bibb County.
The speaking at Summerfield, Bibb
county, August 6th, was a grand suc
cess.
Pottle’s masterly argument carried
conviction to many who had not yet
made up their minds to cast their lots
with us.
All the Democratic speakers in
Bibb county were invited and urged
to meet us in joint debate, but not
one speaker out of the whole lot
would meet our champion—and well
for them that they did not. Put her
down in your list as thoroughly or
ganized and at work like beavers.
We have a great help here in the
Telegraph, with its abuse and mis
representation, and all People’s Party
men owe it a debt of gratitude for
its intolerance and vicious lying
about plain facts which the people
themsejves knew were false, for
these methods have reacted upon
them and driven many honorable
men into the People’s Party ranks.
Let the good work go on, Mr. Tele
graph ; we thank you for your help.
Put this in your pipe and smoke it;
that the Democratic majority in Bibb
will not hurt the other People’s Party
counties in this district much. As
T. E. W. would say, “Indeed it
won’t.” Nothing but cheering news
from this county; not a day but adds
members to our lists.
Loraine, Ga. Guy Taylor.
Silver Twins.
The clauses of the Republican and
democratic platforms in regard to coin
are as follows:
REPUBLICAN PLANK. DEMOCRATIC PLANK
The American We hold to the
people from tradi- use of both gold
dition and interest and silver as the
favor bimetallism standard money of
and the republican the country and to
party demands the the coinage of both
use of both gold gold and silver
and silver as stand- without discrimi
ard money, with nating against eith
such restrictions er metal, or charge
and under such for mintage, but
provisions, to be the dollar unit of
determined byleg- coinage of both
islation, as will se- metals must be of
cure the mainte- equal intrinsic and
nance of the parity exchangeable
of values of the value, or be ad
two metals, so that justed through in
the purchasing and ternational agree
debt paying power ment, or by such
of the " dollar, safe-guards of leg
whether of silver, islation as shall in
gold or paper, shall sure the parity of
be at all limes the two metals,
equal. The inter- and the equal pow
esls of the producer of every dollar
ers of the country, at nil times in the
its farmers and its market and in the
working me n, de- payment of debts;
maud that every au d we demand
dollar pa per o r that all paper cur
coin, issued by the rency shall be
government shall kept at par with
be as good as any and redeemable in
other. We com- such coin. \V e in
mend the wise and sist upon this pol
patriotic steps al- icy as especially
ready taken by our necessary for the
government to se*- protection of the
cure an interna- farmers and labor
tional conference, ing classes, the
to adopt such meas- first most defence
urcs as will insure less victims of un
ft parity of value stable money and
between gold and and a fluctating
silver for use as currency,
money throughout
the world.
There is practically no difference in
these two planks, and besides, no one
can tell just exactly what either mean.
This jumble of words is for the pur
pose of deceiving the voters and there
by gain an advantage for some persons
or party. Contrast the above with the
People’s Party plank on the same ques
tion :
We demand free and unlimited coin
age of silver and gold at the present
legal ratio of 16 to 1.
A Florida Note.
Linden, Fla., Aug. 11.
Politics in this neck of the woods
are getting quite lively.
We have two parties here the
Democratic and the People’s I’arty.
Our beat has about 115 or 1-0
white registered voters and a dozen
or so not registered. ,
About one month ago the People s
Party was organized at Webster (the
voting place) with 36 names. At
the next meeting, one week later, the
number had grown to 76 —and still
they come. Yet the Democrats say
there are no People’s Partyites in
our county. We are willing to let
them do the talking, but when the
proper time comes the boys will be
there —and don’t you forget it!
We will hold a mass meeting at
Sutnterville, the county site,on Thurs
day, August 18, to put county ticket
in the field.
I am glad to see that our sister
State is leading off so grandly in
this cause.
Tell the boys to send Tom Watson
back to Congress, and we will send
him a Mann to help him in the glo>
rious fight he has undertaken.
We are looking forward with great
anticipations to the election in Octo
tober, as we feel confident that suc
cess will be ours.
Jno. L. Hayes.
TO THE REFORM PRESS.
The following resolutions were
adopted by the National Central Com
mittee of the People’s Party, and an
earnest request made to have the
Reform press take them up and pub
lish the same and do all in their power
to assist the committee in carrying
them out. The time has come for
battle, no shrinking from duty now.
Everybody must do what is in his
power to advance our cause.
Resolved, That the National Com
mittee of the People's Party request
the Reform press to urge, with all its
force and influence, that upon the
24th day of July, or as much earlier as
possible, every People’s Party club
and organization in the United States
meet and collect funds for the national
campaign; that they then adjourn to
meet again on the 16th day of August,
the anniversary of the battle of Ben
nington, the first battle of the Ameri
can resolution, and that on that day
meetings be held in every township to
collect funds for the national campaign
since without funds we cannot make
the fight for reform with any hope of
success. The people must sustain this
campaign with their means as well as
their votes, or it may fail, and with it
the hopes of the people for justice and
prosperity in this and all future gener
ations. The meetings in country
districts shall be at 10 o’clock a. m.,
and the meetings in the villages and
cities at 8 o’clock p. m., and all money
collected shall be at once transmitted
to M. C. Rankin, of Terre Haute, Ind.,
treasurer of the National Committee of
the People’s Party. And we suggest
that on the said 16th day of August
the people devote the day to this great
work with speeches and festivities.
And we further request that at each
of such meetings a finance committee
shall be appointed, whose duty it shall
be to make a thorough canvass of the
township or precinct for contributions.
And in addition to the above method
raising money we hereby establish four
funds to be known as the “Ten Dollar
Campaign Fund,” the “Five Dollar
Campaign Fund,” the “One Dollar
Campaign Fund” and the “Fifty Cent
Campaign Fund,” and we request that
all friends of the cause, who are able to
do so, shall send their names and con
tribution directly to our treasurer, to
be published in the Reform press of
their respective states; provided that
contributions to these funds shall be
allowed, if they desire to do so, to pay
in monthly installments.
We also urge tliatrevery speaker for
the People’s Party shall take up col
lections for our national campaign
fund wherever they may address the
people.
We would also argue that the ladies
who are in sympathy with the People’s
Party in the respective states shall be
urged and requested by the Reform
press to form clubs for the collection
of funds and the forwarding of our
work.
The National Committee of the
People’s Party says to their friends
that there is a reasonable probability
that the party will sweep the country
and elect their candidate for president
and vice-president if they are riven
means enough to put speakers in the
field and supply the people with cam
paign literature.
A striking evidence of the revolution
now going on is found in the fact that
a Kentucky delegate offered the follow
ing resolution, and it was unanimously
adopted. J
1 hat the People's Party of the
United States earnestly request the
women of the country to organize at
once and help us in this contest, be
cause we are fighting to save not’only
them and ourselves, but the coming
generations from plutocratic slavery. 6
11. E, laubeneck, Cha’rn.
M. C. Rankin, Ties.
J. 11. Turner, Sec’y.
Her e m Colorado it goes this way :
“A vote for Weaver is a vote for
Cleveland.”—Denver Daily Republi
can.
In Alabama it reads this way :
“A vote for Weaver is a vote for
Harrison.”—M ontgomery Daily
io tell the honest truth; a vote
for Weaver is a vote for Weaver
and M eaver is going to get enough
ot the North West and Sonth to
elect him.—The Road.