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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.