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PEOPLE’S PARTY PAPER.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE
PEOPLE'S PAPER PUBUSING COMPANY.
117 1-2 Whitehall St.
THOS. E. WATSON, - - President.
C. G. POST, - - - Vice-President.
D. N. SANDERS, - - Sec. & Treas.
R. F. GRAY, - Business Manager.
,FmDAY7AUGeSr 26, 1892.
MR. WATSON’S APPOINTMENTS.
Louisville, Monday, August 29.
Lincolnton, Wednesday, August 31.
Douglassville, Monday, September 19.
<!&<lartown, Wednesday, September 21.
Gainesville, Friday, September 23.
Qordele, Tu-sday, September 27.
Sylvania, Friday, September 30.
Col red people are invited to attend.
Remember that we ask no favors
of the big-headed Democrats. We
are running on an independent
schedule. Reep in the middle of
• the road.
The full militia force of two great
States called out to suppress work
ingmen ! Lawlessness should always
be suppressed. But how is labor to
make protest against unjust systems
of. laws ?
Since the Seventh district Demo
cracy has turned down Mr. Everett;
the People will doubtless secure the
votes of a large number of voters
who would otherwise have been
counted as “Ocala Democrats.”
There seems no doubt that the dis
trict will be carried by the People.
The effort to take Watson’s crowd
at Sparta was a waterhaul for the
Governor and his friends. Half a
dozen campaign orators and a free
dinner attracted one-third as many
voters as listened to Mr. Watson at
his appointment at the same hour
•in. the same town, The people of
Georgia care more for reform than
-for buncomb and barbecued meats.
In seeming ignorance and good
faith the Ashburn Advance makes
the statement that certain resolu
tions published in the Constitution as
having been adopted by a local
meeting of Republicans in Atlanta
were passed by the State Republican
convention. The resolutions in ques-
• tion were never adopted in any pub
lic meeting in Atlanta, and it seems
that the Constitution was imposed
upon. No public meeting was held
at the time stated in the local by any
considerable number of colored men
>in Atlanta. No such meeting has
declared for the Democratic ticket.
Mrs. Watson accompanied Mr.
W atson to Bishop, August 18. The
assemblage to welcome them con
tained many ladies, whose interest
in the movement for reform is not a
wliit less than that of the true men
of Georgia. The ladies had prepared
a basket of exquisite flowers, which
were presented with the following
mote:
“To the noble champion of the
People’s cause, and to the devoted
little woman whose help he so mag
nanimously acknowledges, his wife,
this slight token of appreciation is
presented by the
Ladies of Oconee.”
Delegates to the State nomination
convention will remember with pleas
ure Dr. N. C. Osborn, of Dallas,
Texas, who made a short address to
the assembled delegates. Dr. Os
born was unanimously nominated for
the State senate in Dallas, August
-10, by the People’s party convention .
The doctor has spoken since July 20
in seven or eight counties, and finds
that in most of them the People are
aggressive and strongly in the ma
jority. lie will go at once to Texas
to take up the campaign there, and
expects to be elected, as will the
State ticket.
Assistant Secretary of the Treasu
ry Nettleton, in a letter, gives the
total bond purchases from the begin
ning of Cleveland’s administration to
the present year, at $597,168,500, at
a cost to the government of $657-
581,573. Thus the premium paid is
shown to have been $60,413,073. It
will be remembered that R. Q. Mills,
of Texas, introduced the measure in
the House, authorizing this bond
purchase, and that the Democrats
controlled the House. The premium
.paid by the government for 4 per
cent bonds ran as high as 28 per
cent, and the average premium was
over 10 per cent., or equivalent to
‘-more than two and one-half years’
- Interest m excess of face and interest
< to date of purchase.
SOLDIERS AS POLICEMEN.
The late efforts to settle labor dis
putes by military arbitration presents
a strong view of the tendency of the
times toward standing armies and a
government of force. The closest
analysis of the dispatches sent out
from Tennessee do not indicate that
more than four or five hundred
miners were in actual rebellion,
though the favorable sentiment of
the community doubtless gave them
great advantage in the campaign
waged against them by several
thousand militiamen equipped in the
best style known to warlike art.
In Georgia, as this is being writ
ten, an effort is being made to arouse
military enthusiasm by a demand on
the Governor for ammunition in suf
ficient supply to enable two or three
companies to encamp on short notice
at certain coal mines in this State.
There is no evidence that the mines
are objective points of an invasion
or attack from any source, but evi
dently the managers of the mine,
old and adroit politicians, think
something is to be gained by playing
on the military spirit of the young
men who comprise the militia, and it
would not be a matter of surprise if
several companies were yet en
camped in the neighborhood of the
mines, to test their capacity for
camp life and—blind obedience.
In New York the entire national
guard was called under arms, to
bulldoze some 500 striking switch
men, of whom it is said by the local
papers less than 10 per cent, are dis
posed to be rowdyish or to violate
the law. The Buffalo Enquirer,
published at the scene of the trouble,
discusses the matter, and suggests
some compromise that should make
the people, including governors and
sheriffs, think. The Enquirer says :
To-day out there at East Buffalo
8,000 men are under arms. Heaven
alone knows what they are there for.
Sheriff Beck and Major Bishop don’t.
Gen. Doyle dosen’t although he
probably thinks they were created
for the express purpose of forming
starvation patrol camps to guard the
the property of his employer.
Do you know how large an army
8,000 men make? General Wash
ington didn’t have that many availa
ble men when he gssumed charge of
the armies of the Continental Con
gress. He fought the battles of
Long Island and the Jerseys with
less than that number. He made the
attack on Germantown with a third
number. When General Taylor
moved on Corpus Christi at the be
ginning of the Mexican war he had
4,000 soldiers all told. When he
advanced to the assault of Monterey,
defended by 10,000 Mexicans, he
had 6,625 men. At the bloody bat
tle of Buena Vista when he engaged
General Ampudia with 20,000 Mexi
cans he had 5,400 troeps. General
Worth had only 3,500 men at Molino
del Rey. Sheridan’s raids from
Winchester to Petersburg were
made with a force of 10,000.
An army of 8,000 men is larger
than the force under the command
of General Winfield Scott at Buffalo
when the war of 1812 was in pro
gress. It is almost as large as the
immortal corps of which Xenophon
wrote. It is almost as large as the
army which William the Conqueror
landed upon English soil. It is
more than half as large as the force
which William of Orange disem
barked at Torbay. It is one-fourth
as large as the army w T ith which
Alexander the Great conquered the
world.
Gen. Porter said that he would
not come to Buffalo until he was
sure there were troops enough here.
He says that he can forward 5,000
more if neccessary. He had better
send them along. They are needed
just as much as three-fourths of the
men here in the field. If it is such
hard work for 8,000 men to preserve
the peace against less than 10 per
cent, of less than 500 striking switch
men, it is neccessary to have the
other 5,000 in order to prevent over
work.
It is unfortunate for the National
Guard that incentive to serve in its
rank and file should be removed by
this system of police scavengering.
If the intention is simply to render
the militid offensive as an engine
for reducing wages and hurrying
striking laborers, it is evident that
those high-minded young men who
gain for the patriotic purpose of
guaranteeing protection from public
enemies will soon leave the ranks, to
return no more.
A NEW PAPER.
Col. C. M. Jones, of Bartow, real
izing that a live People’s party paper
was needed in Cartersville, has taken
steps to supply the need. He has
organized a stock corjipany, put in a
good plant, and secured the services
of Mr. R. B. Goodwir., till now em
ployed on the People’s Party
Paper, and the new venture is
within the days of grace. Mr. Good
win will be manager. The name of
the leading editor is not yet an
nounced, but the paper will be vigor
ous. Col. Jones wants it understood
that he is no half-way man, and will
keep the paper in the middle of the
road.
A PIECE OF VILLAINY.
If the farmers of Georgia discover
a report of the “ jag” committee do
ing service for the democrats, they
may not understand why the minor
ity report that should accompany it
is not part of the publication made
at the expense of the taxpayers.
The following, from the National
Watchman, clears the matter up :
The conspiracy to crush Hon. Tom
Watson culminated in refusing to in
corporate the minority report of Mr.
Simpson’s in the printed report of
the investigation. It hardly seems
possible that political methods has
reached such a desperate condition,
but such is the fact. A printed
volume of the testimony taken at the
investigation, together with the un
fair and infamous report of the “cow
ardly majority,” has just been ob
tained, but the defense of Mr. Wat
son by Hon. Jerry Simpson consti
tuting the minority report does not
appear. It is also stated that a large
number of this document are to be
sent into Mr. Watson’s district.
Such action leaves no room for doubt
as to the miserable unscrupulous
methods that are being put forth to
destroy the leaders of the People’s
party. When the proper authorities
were asked as to the facts in the mat
ter, they said that after waiting
nearly two days for the report of
Mr. Simpson, Speaker Crisp was ap
prised of the fact, and asked what to
do. He ordered the report to be
sent up without the views of the
minority. This shows that Mr. Crisp
was a party to this infamous proceed
ing. When asked where the report
was, and why withheld, the reply
was evasive, but the inference drawn
that it was given a drunken clerk in
the file clerk’s department at the
House, who mislaid it. The report
of Mr. Simpson’s was the first one
handed in. It was put out of the
way for some reason, and the
Speaker of the House ordered an in
complete report made without at
tempting to look up the alleged lost
document. This is a matter that
should stir the blood of any fair
minded man, and should nerve every
true reformer to renewed efforts to
clean out that nest of boodlers, bums
and corporation thieves. Here is a
deliberate attempt to destroy the
character of an honest man just be
cause he chanced to call things by
their right names. But to have the
head and front of this conspiracy the
Speaker of the House, as it now
seems he is, should cause the cry of
shame to come up from all quarters.
MR. HOLMAN PROTESTS.
June 6, 1892, when the pending
appropriation bills showed about
$30,000,000 less on their face than
when finally passed, Mr. Holman, of
Indiana, chairman of the Committee
on Apppropriations made a speech
made his fellow Democrats winces,
but did not reform them. His pro
tests is as follows:
The House having under consideration
the following resolution:
“Resolved, that the House nonconcur
in the Senate amendments to House bill
7820, entitled ‘An act making appropri
ation for the construction, repair, and
preservation of certain public works on
rivers and harbors and for other purposes,
and agree to the Senate’s request for a
conference thereon ’ —
Mr. Holman said:
Mr. Speaker: I think it is a very unfair
practice to restrict debate this way. I
admit, however, that when gentlemen
feel that they have overwhelming
strength they are apt. to disregard con
siderations of fairness.
Mr. Speaker, I have never appeared
before the House of Representatives to
address the Speaker either in time of
peace or of war, indulging the apprehen
sions that I feel this morning, or so op
pressed with anxiety and alarm. What
ever may be your views, gentlemen, the
vote to be taken now may gravely affect
for the present at least the true interests
our country and the fate of the Demo
cratic party. With this bill, or this bill
substantially, becoming a law, how will
our appropriations compare with those of
the first session of the last Congress
which has been so signally rebuked by
the people of this country?
As the account stands between the pres,
ent House and the last House of Repre
sentatives our appropriations will pro
bobly reach $508,000,000 against $494,-
030,000 at the first session of the last Con
gress; a margin against us of $14,000,000.
gentlemen, do you intend to consum
mate this record?
Mr. Goodnight. Will the gentleman
permit a question just there?
Mr. Holman. Yes; but it must be
merely a question.
Mr. Goodnight. Merely a question.
Does not the excess of the pension appro
priation bill of this session more than
double the difference you have stated?
Mr. Holman. No; the excess for pen
sions does not double the difference.
But lam speaking of the condition of
the bills as they are now, not as they
will be when this session of Congress
shall have closed.
Gentlemen, you have incorporated into
this bill the most odious and indefensible
feature which was inaugurated and
adopted by the last Congress, and the
one which the people, as a rule, most in
dignantly denounced—the contract sys
tem, the pledging and mortgaging of th
future labor of the people. That, bey ond
all other features of your legislation here,
is to be condemned. How does this bill
stand upon which you propose to ask a
conference? Twenty-six million dollars
in contracts when the bill went to the
Senate, the Senate adding $5,000,000
more, with $11,000,000 coming down
from the last Congress, swelling up to
$42,000,000 in contract pledges upon the
labor of the people and upon your Treas
ury for the future. Is that the record
that this Democratic House intends to go
to the country upon? We came here
pledged to economy in government
We came here, gentlemen, upon the
fierce and indignant protest of the peo
ple of this country, the Democratic
masses and a portion of the Republicans,
against the profligacy of the Republican
party, and shall we now make a record
still more to be condemned ? Will you
go before the people of this country,
gentlemen, in the coming campaign, de
manding a reduction of the burdens rest
ing upon the shoulders of the people, de
manding a reduction of taxation, when
you have yourselves piled up appropria
tions until you are compelled to look
about to see what further burdens you
can lay upon the shoulders of our people ?
* We denounce the burdens of taxation,
yet we deliberately provide for increasing
them. Can we go before the people de
manding that the Democratic party shall
remain in power for the purpose of se
curing purity and honesty in the admin"
istration of our affairs, when is this very
bill we are adopting a system inaugurated
by the Republican party in the last Con
gress—a system of making contracts for
the future which will sap the very foun
dation of virtue in this Government and
in our legislation, and, as gentlemen all
know, open up the sluices of fraud and
corruption ? So far as I have seen, not
a single Democratic paper north of the
city of Memphis—not one—has failed
to condemn this measure in unqualified
I terms.
Here is a bill which, including con
tracts and with the amendments, runs
up to $53,000,000. Fifty-three million
dollars 1 Gentlemen, can we face our
constituents without blushing when we
present to them such a record as this ?
Can we stand before Democrotic audi
ences and def end such a record? What
justification can we make when the
whole country believes that this Demo
cratic House should compel a reduction
of expenditure to the extent of at least
SIOO 000,000.
It is not for me to criticise the record
that any gentleman has made here.
We have all a right to vote as we please.
But we have made the record which I
have shown up to the present time.
With this bill passed, there is no hope
that this record will be better than that
made in the first session of the last Con
gress. Now with that record, I repeat
again, can we afford to go before the
Democratic masses who believe that in
tegrity, frugality, and honesty in the ad
ministration of the Government are in
dispensable for the preservation and per
petuation of our Republic?
We came here pledged by our national
and State platforms in favor of frugal
and honest government. The Democra
tic party have never hesitated in their
approval of that platform; and what is
more they have never violated their
pledge. Shall we be able to leave this
Hall within the next few months feeling
conscious that such has been the case ?
I do not criticise the course which any
gentleman has chosen to pursue. I
know how these measures press. But
that a measure involving this enormous
expenditure which does not benefit one
man out of twenty five in this country,
not one out of fifty in my own State
—not one in twenty in my district’
although it borders on the Ohio River
for 70 miles —that such a measure as
this should be made the means of unex
ampled extravagance is marvelous be
yond all degree. Excessive pension
appropriations are inevitable; but there
is no necessity for this prodigal measure
Mark you, gentlemen, if this measure
is not defeated now, it will not be defeat
ed at all; if it commands at this time
two-thirds of the votes of the House,
there is the end of it. Let me appeal to
these young men who come into Congress
under such favorable conditions and
have such a grand future before them,
let me appeal to them to pause and re
fleet before they commit the Democracy
to a policy which will leave our constit
uents but one alternative —the repudia
tion of this House or the placing of a
stigma upon the great record of the
party for more than a hundred years.
Gentlemen, we are pledged to economy.
While I do not criticise other gentlemen,
I am here holding my seat on this floor
upon a solemn pledge made to my con
stituents to stand up for f ruga!, plain
honest government. I have held mj
seat on this fluor for more than a quatei
of a century upon that pledge ; and if I
violate it—speaking for myself, if I viol
ate that pledge may the Almighty snnt*
my lips with eternal silence. [Applause
I warn gentlemen that if this bill be
comes alawaspart of this system ol
unexampled extravagance we can not
expect to receive public approval; and
gentlemen, when these seats shall be fill
ed by others than ourselves, and when
hat most infamous of the measures car
ried through this House in the last Con
gress shall again come up for action,
when your ballot box both North and
S uth is in the hands of the Federal
offcials, and the majesty and power of
the people of the States is under the heel
of Federal despotism, shall we be able to
stand before our Democratic constituents
without blushing? Shall we?
CORRESPONDENCE.
Hon. Caleb R. Ramsay,
Danburg, Wilks County, Ga.:
Dear Sir—We, the undersigned
committee appointed by the late sen
atorial convention to notify you of
the action of said convention of the
People’s party of the Twenty-ninth
Senatorial District of Georgia, held
on August IG, at Smith’s Mills, to
nominate a candidate for senator at
the next election for members of the
Georgia Legislature, beg leave, in the
discharge of this very pleasant duty,
to inform you, officially, that into
your worthy and capable hands, by
the unanimous choice of said conven
tion, has been committed the great
reform standard of the People’s party
as their candidate for senator in the
coming State election.
And with this for our motto:
“ Equal rights to all, and special
privileges to none,” we bespeak for
you the hearty support, by the use
of all honorable means, of every one
who favors the repeal of all laws that
build up and foster all wealthy cor
porations by discriminating against
American laborers, thus robbing
them of their homes, their liberties
and the fruits of their labors. And
we trust, with due reverence to our
God, in the success of our cause upon
the principles of justice and right.
Respectfully,’
A. E. Strother,
11. A. Story,
Wm. McDaniel,
J. G. Fanning,
J. W. Bellows,
Committee.
Danburg, Ga., Aug. 25,1892.
Hon. A. E. Strother, H. A. Story, Wm.
McDaniel and others, Committee :
I appreciate the honor of being
chosen the People’s party candidate
for State Senator for this, the Twen
ty-ninth Senatorial District of Geor
gia, and I entreat you to accept my
thanks for the same. I esteem it,
coming from a people I love, from
the people with whom I have been
reared, and for the love I have for
the party —believing the principles
demanded in its platform are equita
ble and just, and if ever enacted into
laws the laboring and producing
classes will be relieved of the oppres
sion and burdens that they are now
enduring. I favor rigid economy in
all public legislation, and every pos
sible reduction of taxation during the
present oppressed condition of the
people, Respectfully,
C. R. Ramsey.
Notice.
Whereas Hon. H. T. Hollis de
clines to be a candidate for Con
gress, the convention is called to
meet in Greenville on the Bth day of
September for the purpose of nomi
nating a candidate for Congress for
the Fourth congressional district.
John H. Traylor,
Chairman Executive Committee.
Rotten Egg Argument.
Often when men are in pursuit of
a certain end, upon finding out that
years of patient toil have been spent
in vain, they have been known to be
come desperate and slay their fellow
men and even commit suicide in their
madness. Despair is a terrible thing.
It has caused men to commit almost
every crime in the catalogue.
Death is preferable to defeat with
some. To revenge themselves, hon
orable men have challenged their
opponents to the dueling grounds be
cause they were not able physically
or mentally to cope with them upon
the rostrum or on the hustings; but
it has remained for the year 1892 to
develop a class of bipeds, the first
I known to history, who were so low
bred, so entirely foreign to all that
roes to make up a good citizen, who
attempt to avenge their (dis)honor,
relieve their despair and answer ar
gument and facts by throwing rotten
eggs at an honorable opponent.
Their case is certainly desperate.
The latter years of the nineteenth
century are certainly developing
some rare birds.
The speakers of the People’s Par
ty have recently been pelted with
rotten eggs in Georgia and Ala
bama and Arkansas. They were all
honorable men. When I read the
accounts of it, I blushed with shame.
I took myself to a looking glass, and
after a few sober thoughts, I ex
claimed to myself, Are you a Geor
gian? I turned away without an
answer, yet, my gray-haired father
and mother are native Georgians
and I was conceived and brought
forth among her red old hills, and
love and cherish every memory con
nected therewith.
It is a disgrace to the State,it slan
ders the names of such men as Ben
Hill and Alex. Stephens, to have
such vagabonds encumber Georgia
soil as threw eggs at Col. W. L. Peek,
our beloved candidate for governor,
who will soon don the robe so lately
worn by Alex. Stephens, Georgia’s
greatest statesman.
“Whom the gods would destroy
they first make mad.” Truly these
rotten egg disciples are desperate.
When the People’s Party speak
ers prove that the cowardly Demo
cratic majority of the present Con
gress sold out toWall street and kill
ed the silver bill, the Democrats an
swer the argument and facts with
eggs.
When they are arraigned for in
competency to legislate and general
worthlessness they howl, “Force
Bill,” and throw another egg.
When they are asked why they
pigeon-holed the sub-treasury bill
and did not report it till the very
last day of the session, when they
knew there would be no time to dis
cuss it, they cry out, unconstitution
al, and throw another egg.
When asked how it is that at the
beginning of the session of this Con
gress they so roundly denounced the
billion dollar Congress, and went
right on and were even more ex
travagant, they cry out “Pensions!
pensions!” and throw another egg.
So it goes all the way through.
They are just simply not in it
when the boys meet them on the
stump—not further than their eggs
go.
That’s right, give them the facts
and figures; make life miserable for
the cowards. The Farmers’ Alli
ance has been educating you for the
last five years for just such work.
Let rotten eggs, lies, slander and
villification fly thick and fast, but go
right on with those arguments, back
ed up with the facts, and you will
receive your reward when the ides
of November roll arouwd.
w. H. Turner. *
Watson and Lawson.
Bishop, Ga., August 18.
The debate between Mr. Watson
and Mr. Lawson was very quiet and
agreeable. I propose to give the
facts. We do not want to carry our .
points by misrepresenting things, as
some of the Democratic newspapers
have done in regard to the discussion
between Mr. Watson and Mr. Law
son at Bishop on the 18th of August.
Mr. Watson and his accomplished
lady arrived at Bishop on the 11:50
train, and it was met by a large and
enthusiastic crowd of People’s party
men, and also a goodly number of
ladies were present. There were
also about two hundred colored peo
ple. The crowd was estimated at
about fifteen hundred or two thous
and. It was a very easy matter to
size the strength of the Democrats.
All the Democrats that were present
wore badges; the Oconee Democrats’
badges had the words “ Oconee Dem
crats.” Those in that mark were
very scarce, not over thirty or forty.
So you see how the county stands.
N oticing closely, I do not think there
v as over one hundred and fifty Demo
crats on the grounds. The Demo
crats expected to have Hoke Smith to
meet Mr. Watson; but Mr. Smith
did not come. So Judge Lawson
agreed to meet Mr. Watson, and the