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THE CANVASS IN 8188.
ADDRESS OF A MEMBER OF THE
PEOPLE’S COMMITTEE.
A Vigorous Arraignment of the Oppo
sition—A Reason the Faith
That AVe Hold.
To the People of Bibb County:
As an executive committeeman of
the People’s Party of Bibb, repre
senting the great common people, I
desire to place the cause we represent
fairly and squarely before the people
of our county, and particularly be
fore our life-long friends, with whom
we now differ in our political views
ditiering chiefly, however, in the
manner of obtaining the reforms we
need, and not the reforms themselves.
in the face of the crisis upon our
ask a careful considera
tion of the reasons which, to us, are
of such force as to drive us, for self
preservation, to seek relief from op
pression in independent political ac
tion.
Religious and political freedom is
the precious heritage which our gal
lant forefathers wrung from the ty
rants of England. Shall we sell this
birthright for so small a mess of pot
tage as the privilege of wearing the
Democratic collar?
If we are forced to be governed by
the commands (as we have been in
the past) of a little clique of court
house politicians—a score acting for
a thousand—who have stolen the
name of Democracy while casting
aside all the principles which make
that party the party of the people ;
and who tell us we must abide by the
actions of all future party conven
tions, adopt its platforms, vote for its
candidate regardless of what that
platform contains, or whether the
nominee is in harmony with the planks
contained therein, then, we ask, are
we not political slaves ?
What are the reasons which have
driven us, ihe men who labor in fields
and shops, to sever our connection
with that once loved party ? Have
we cause for breaking the ties which
have bound us so closely and so long
to the Democratic party ?
Have we not trusted the promises
of the leaders implicitly for years,
voting blindly and believing that our
interests were being cared for by our
servants?
For a long time we have felt the
ever-increasing oppression, but could
not see the iron hand of the oppres
sor. Sometimes doubts of the good
faith of our leaders would present
themselves to our minds, only to be
cast aside as unworthy to And an
abiding place in our loyal hearts.
Unquestioning faith! matchless de
. • vol ion
AA~e have seen our once fair coun
try almost stripped of the old set of
noble men and women who were
once free to pursue happiness and
wealth wherever they chose, driven
by increasing hardships to flock to
the city, their places filled by strang
ers. We have witnessed our prop
erty and homes snatched from us by
process of law.
We see daily enforced idleness
among our city workmen, men beg
ging work, women desperate and
working for only enough to keep soul
and body together—misery, want and
rags!
Yet we are told that the country
was never more prosperous. Possi
bly it may be just right for the money
bugs, but to the workers slavery—
nothing more, nothing less. No sen
sible man will deny that our country
has reached a crisis more blasting
in its far-reaching effect than any
that has ever befalled this once pros
perous land.
Legislation adverse to the interest
of the people, is acknowledged by all
intelligent and fair minded men, to
have caused this depression which
hangs like a pall over our country.
That it has fallen heaviest on the
toiling masses no candid man will
deny. Compelled by stern necessity
to bend our every energy to gain our
daily bread, trusting while we
worked—sleeping over our rights—
listening to the siren voices of these
leaders “to work on and lehve to us
the management of the government
and all will be right,” we have at
last awaked from our Rip Van Win
kle sleep, only to find our goodly
heritage gone and the welfare of a
trusting people betrayed.
We see now we have heeded too
long their .cry for office, beguiled
into returning them to office only |o
be repaid by fresh treachery. The
republican bosses tell the Northern
and Western farmers and laborers
to vote for the g. o. p., the friend of
the people, and that they will get
their demands, and that the demo
cratic party is the cause of all their
ills. Our democratic masters tell us,
“Stick to the old rock-ribbed, unter
rified democracy, boys, and you shall
have eveiything yon want and more
too; the republicans have made all
these laws which have hurt you so ;
send us back and w hen we get full
swing and a little larger ‘working
majority’ we will set ’em up right.”
Have we not tried in every way
in the past to get relief before taking
this final step ?
Feeling the need of instant relief,
and confident of success in the house
of our friends, we deluged Congress
with petition after petition begging
for measures whicn we believed
would lighten our burdens. We
were told to work harder, live closer
and make more to sell—that wouljl
remedy everything.
Like slaves obedient to their mas
ter’s nod, we labored and made such
an abundance of cotton and food
products as the world never saw, re-
PEOPLE’S PARTY PAPER, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1892
ducing prices below the actual cost
of production. Now what do our
Job’s comforters tell us? “You
fools, you have run the thing in. the
ground ; you have made too much.”
An overproduction of good things!
Too much food, with hunger and
starvation all around us!
Too much cotton, with. rags End
nakedness everywhere among the
laboring poor!
AV hen we see abundance and star
vation, overproduction and rags
walking hand in hand, we fefel con
vinced that something else is needed
of far more importance than that
wonderful democraiic-five-per-cent.-
tariff reduction.
Something else, Governor Northen,
is the cause of our depression than
“guano and the mule.”
We fear starvation even more than
that wonderful democratic scare
crow, the force bill, kindly lent to
them by their twin brother, the re?
publican party, to use to scare the
third party chickens back on the old
roost, where the demo-republican
owls feast nightly. A very good
cracker on the party lash, but it will
never pop loud enough to drown the
voice of an oppressed people crying
aloud for financial relief!
All our just demands have been
repaid with scorn by the old party,
after promises to give us relief if re
turned to office. Realizing the hope
lessness of obtaining our demands
by harmless petitions, as a little note
of warning to the bosses we sent
thirty-five members to Congress
pledged to push our demands for re
form till every congressman was
placed on record on the various
measures. Twenty-five of these
members bound themselves *to act
with the old party, still trusting the
promises made in the campaign, and
what has the result been ? Swal
lowed down by a party who itself is
owned and controlled by the bitter
est enemies of the welfare of the
people, the money kings of AA’all
street. This will be the fate of any
further efforts for reform through
the same party.
AA r e demand more circulating me
dium and less taxes.
The promises that won the un
precedented majority of 148 in the
House were distinct and unequivocal.
1. Free coinage of silver. Plain,
straight along free coinage, and not
that miserable jumble of meaning
less words found in the Chicago plat
form, intended to stand for the
genuine article in the South and
AVest 1 , and in the East just the re
verse.
2. Tariff reduction.
3. Opposition to billion dollarism.
Has the democratic House made
good these good democratic princi
ples and promises? Let us see.
Speaker Crisp, who, it will be
remembered, was elected over Mills
solely on his professions of undying
love for the white metal, killed the
Bland bill by his little patent back
action Rule committee, consoling
themselves with “Oh, well, the re
publican Senate would kill it any
way.” But when the Senate passed
the Stewart bill and handed it over,
the same little Benedict Arnold act
was done by ninety-odd good demo
crats rushing to the leadership of
Tom Reed and his gang. Demo
crats uniting with republicans to
keep from doing the very thing the
promise of which won their offices!
If you want to make an orthodox
democrat faint, just say Free Silver
to him. Before Congress met, the
edict had gone forth to “pass no free
coinage bill this session.” AA z ho was
obeyed, the people or Wall street ?
AVhere is the relief from taxation ?
A few little two by four bills like the
free wool farce, that takes the little
protection from the farmer’s wool,
but takes particular pains to keep the
tariff on the manufacturer’s woolen
goods. Wonderful relief!
Have they reduced the expenses
of the billion dollar Congress?
Go to the records and see if it does
not show forty-eight million dollars
more spent this session than the same
session of Reed’s billion dollar Con
gress.
Now, our friends, in the light of
all these broken party promises, and
with financial ruin staring us in the
face, have we not acted as brave men
should, scorning to go cap in hand
before our bosses and begging further
for those measures which we had a
right to demand, but choosing rather
to stand by our rights and principles
rather than party?
The farmer, owning only 20 per
cent, of the total wealth, paying 80
per cent, of the taxes. Is this
j ustice ?
The rich man’s bonds and stocks
exempt from taxation, while the very
sewing machine of the mechanic’s
wife, that stitches his rags together,
and the farmer’s plow must answer
to the tax-gatherer’s call. Is that
equal j ustice to all ?
Congress giving to banks the power
to issue money to lend to the people ;
a favoied few growing rich on the
interest of their own debts.
AVe demand that that law should
be repealed, and the government issue
money direct to the people without
having to pay banker’s toll, good for
all debts, public or private, SSO per
capita.
AA’hat does the Democratic party
propose to do about that ?
Why, the nicest little trick in the
world—have a lot of wild-cat State
banks of issue to feed upon the
people.
More masters to support where we
only had a few before.
That is relief With a vengeance.
AVe demand an income tax, which
we once had, and which was repealed
by Democratic votes. Any hope of
getting this? Not much. This
would reduce our taxes and make the
millionaire pay his share on his law
made wealth.
How can you expect this law when
the rich men control both old par
ties ? They will hardly vote money
out of their own pockets. Whitney,
Brice & Co. will not be in much
hurry to give you this. AVe charge
the Democratic party with being
partly responsible for most of the
vicious legislation which has brought
about the present condition of affairs.
They made no fight on the demon
etization of silver in ’73 and ’74.
Where were the boasted champions
of the people ? Did they raise their
voices in behalf of the men who sent
them there ? Ah, no !
They were there, it is true, but
were quietly sleeping the sweet sleep
of innocence while the fiendish work
went on—dosed, possible, with “sooth
ing syrup,” administered by that
“ eminent English financier,” Ernest
Seyd, sent to AVashington by Eu
ropean bankers loaded with gold to
influence legislation.
That was a black page in the his
tory of the country.
If that party enacts into law every
demand in its platform (which is
barely possible), even then where is
the laboring man to be benefited ?
An attempted straddle on the tariff,
a successful straddle on silver, sums
up your hopes of relief. No demand
or promise of increased currency;
their ideal tariff demand (the Mills
bill) only five per cent, less than that
iniquitous McKinley bill.
Their first campaign cry was that
that paltry 5 per cent, reduction was
the great and only issue of the com
ing battle ; but some how or other,
since the People’s party has shown
such a disposition of coming to—after
being buried so often —they have de
cided to get a companion piece for
tariff reform, so they dressed up the
force bill for duty.
The democratic party is hopelessly
divided on every issue which, if en
acted into law, will prove beneficial
to the common people.
Take the free coinage question,
94 congressmen voted against it, 118
voted for it, in the face of the fact
that a large majority of the party
were pledged to pass it if elected.
The Speaker was elected over
Mills solely on that issue.
Take the tariff question. Hope
lessly divided there.
When the committee was sent out
to make the platform at Chicago
they brought in a majority report to
straddle that also, Cleveland’s right
bower stating that it was just as his
chief wanted it. A virtual back
down on a little five per cent, reduc
tion.
The difference between the Mc-
Kinley bill, (the republican bill
which all good democrats agree in
calling the Robber Tariff) and the
Mills production, which is the demo
cratic ideal of tariff reduction, is just
five per cent. The one is a 54 per
cent, robbery, the other, a 49 per
cent, robbery, justly pronounced a
sham battle on the tariff. If the one
is a 54 per cent, monstrosity, the
other is a 49 per cent, variety of the
same animal, and no amount of word
juggling can make it anything else.
A small difference it makes whether
a poor devil is to pay a 54 or a 48
per cent, tariff, when he has not the
dollar to pay it with.
Having looked into these reasons
carefully and studied the situation as
men who are vitally interested
should, it is our unalterable intention
to sever our connection with a party
which has treated our every just de
mand with scorn and contempt, and
whose leaders have broken every
campaign pledge made to a people
almost in despair.
AVe take this step knowing full
well the importance of it.
AVe prefer to join our destinies
with the laboring West and North
west rather than be always controlled
by a plutocratic East, whose only in
terest in us is our labor, upon which
they fatten.
It would be an insult to us for the
AVestern farmer and laborer to ask
us to join the republican party, be
cause memory will not sleep; so,
also, for the same reason it would
be useless for us to tell them to join
us under the democratic banner,
hence the need of anew party, under
whose banner all wealth producers
may unite to wage one last desperate
battle with plutocracy.
If we lose this fight, farewell Lib
erty and Hope, for never again will
the common people dare lift their
hand or voice against their lordlv
masters. Hewers of wood and
drawers of water, a nation of cow
ardly slaves, fearing to oppose lest
answered by the sharp crack of the
Pinkertons’ rifle, plutocracy’s answer
to labor’s demand for bread.
Now, look the situation fairly nnd
squarely in the face ; no dodging.
Are you not personally responsible
for this state of affairs? Did you
not vote it upon yourself? Nothing
but votes made this law—made de
pression and want. You were 21
years old when yen voted or you
ought not to have voted. Nobody
compelled you to vote it in. You
were the boss then. You are the
boss now. V oer vote now can undo
what it then fastened upon you.
Take your choice, but blame no
body but yourself. If you can stand
it, no doubt it suits the money-bugs
just as it is. They are happy and
contented. Are you?
No ! fellow-laborers, cast aside all
prejudice and sentiment—the situa
tion is too grave. Stir up the
smouldering fires of patriotism;
Stand up and be men once more.
Study the situation and do your
duty accordingly.
Plant your standard firmly upon a
foundation of justice and inscribe
upon your banner in words of living
flame :
“Equal Rights to all and Spe
cial Privileges to none,” and vote
according to principle.
Guy Taylor.
Lorane, Ga., Aug., 1892.
County Organizations.
Clubs ought to be formed at once
in every militia district in every
county in Georgia. Keep things
warm,
THE PEOPLES PAETY.
State Platform, Adopted at Atlan
ta, July 20th, 1892.
We endorse and reaffirm the preamble,
resolutions and platform adopted by the
People’s Party in national convention as
sembled at Omaha, July 4, 1892. AVe
indorse the ticket nominated and
pledge the party when it shall come
into power in the State to frame and
administer the laws in the spirit of
the Omaha platform, which is equal
justice to all, and special privileges to
hone.
2. AVe condemn the convict lease sys
tem.
3. We demand rigid economy in all
public matters and inist on every pos
sible reduction of taxation during the
present impoverished condition of the
people.
And we call public attention to the
fact that the producing interest in both
city and country is bearing more than its
fair share of taxation.
National Platform, Adopted at
Omaha, July 4th, 1892.
Assemoled upon the one hundred and six
teenth anniversary of the declaration of inde
pendence, the People's Party of America, in
their first national convention, invoking upon
their action the blessing of the Almighty God,
put forth in the name of the people of this
country, the following preamble and declara
tion of principles;
The conditions which surround us best
justtry our co-operation; w& meet in the
midst of a nation brought to the verge of
moral, political and material ruin. Corrup
tion dominates the ballot box, legislatures,
Congress, and touches even the ermine of
the bench. «
The people are demoralised; most of the
states have been compelled to Isolate voters
at polling places to prevent universal in
timidation or bribery. Newspapers are
largely subsidized or muzzled; public
opinion silenced; business prostrated; our
homes covered with mortgages; labor im
poverished ; and the land concentrating in
the hands of oapitalists. The urban work
men ar© denied the right of organization for
self-protection; imported pauperized labor
beats down their wages; a hireling standing
army, unrecognized by our laws, is estab
lished tc shoot them down, and they are
rapidly degenerating into European condi
tions. The fruits of the toil of millions are
boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes
for a few, unprecedented in the history of
mankind; and the possessors of these in
turn despise tbe republic and endanger
liberty. From the same prolific womb of
governmental injustice, we breed two great
classes—tramps and millionaires. National
power to create money is appropriated to
enrieh bondholders; a vast public debt pay
able in legal tender currency has been
funded into gold bearing bonds, thereby
adding millions to the burdens of the peo
ple. Silver, which has been accepted as
coin since the dawn of history, has been
demonetized to add to the purchasing pow
er of gold by decreasing the value of all
forms of property as well as human labor,
and the supply of currency is purposely
abridged to fatten usurers, bankrupt enter
prise and enslave industry. A vast con
spiracy against mankind has been organized
, on the two continents and it is rapidly
taking possession of the world. If not met
and overthrown at once.it forebodes terrible
social convulsions, the destruction of civil
ization or the establishment of an absolute
despotism.
We have witnessed for more than a quar
ter of a century the struggles of two great
political parties for power and plunder,
while grievous wrongs have been inflicted
upon the suffering people. We charge
that the controlling influence dominating
both these parties has permitted the exist
ing dreadful conditions to develop without
serious effort to prevent or restrain them.
Neither do they now promise us any sub
stantial reform. They have agreed togeth
er to ignore in the coming campaign every
issue but one. They propose to drown out
the cries of the plundered people with the
uproar of a sham battle over the tariff, so
that capitalists, corporations, national
banks, rings, trusts, watered stock, de
monetization of silver and the oppression
of the usurers may all be lost sight of.
They propose to sacrifice our homes, lives
and children on the altar of mammon; to
destroy the multitude in order* to secure
corruption funds from millionaires.
Assembled on the anniversary of the
birthday of the nation and filled with the
spirit of the grand general-in-chief who es
tablished our independence, we seek to re
store the government of tbe republic to the
hands of “the plain people” with whose
class it originated. .
We assert our purposes to be identical
with the purposes of the national constitu
tion —to form a more perfect union and es
tablish justice, insure domestic tranquility,
provide for the common defense, promote
the general welfare and Secure the bless
ings of liberty for ourselves and our pos
terity. We declare that this republic can
onlv endure as a free government while
built upon the 1 ove of the whole people for
each other, and for the nation; that it can
not be pinned together by bayonets; but
the civil war is over and that every passion
and resentment which grew out of it must
die with it, and that we must be in fact, as
we are in name, one united brotherhood.
Our country finds itself confronted by
conditions for which there are no prece
dents in the history of the world. Our
annual agricultural productions amount to
billions of dollars in value, which must
within a few weeks or months, be exchang
ed for billions of dollars of the commodi
ties consumed in their production.
The currency supply is wholly inade
quate to make the exchange. The results
are falling prices; formation of combines
and rings; and the impoverishment of the
producing class.
We pledge ourselves that if given power
we will labor to correct these evils by wise
and reasonable legislation in accordance
with the terms of our platform. We be
lieve that the powers of government—in
other words of the people—should be ex
panded as in the case of the postal service,
as rapidly and as far as the good sense of
an intelligent people and the teachings of
experience sliall justify, to the end that op
pression, injustice and poverty shall event
ually cease in the land. While our sym
pathies, as a party of reform, are naturally
upon the side of every proposition which
will tend to make men intelligent, virtuous
and temperate, we nevertheless regard
these questions—important as they are
as secondary to the. great issues now press
ing for solution and upon which not only
our individual prosperity but the very exist
ence of free institutions depend, and we
ask all men to first help us to determine
whether we are to have a republic to ad
minister, before we differ as to the condi
tions upon which it is to be administered,
believing that the forces of reform this day
organized will never cease to move for
ward until every wrong is righted and
equal rights and equal privileges securely
established for all mep aud women of thia
country.
"We declare, therefore:
1. That the union of the Labor forces ci
the Uniled States this day consummated
shall be permanent and perpetual. May
its spirit enter into all hearts for the salva
tion of the republic and the uplifting of
mankind. x
2. Wealth belongs to him who creates it,
aud every dollar taken from industry ’with
out an equivalent is robbery. “If any will
not work, neither shall he eat.” The in
terests of rural and civic labor are the
same; their enemies are identical.
3. We believe that the time has come
when railroad corporations will either own
the people or the people must own the rail
roads: and should the government enter
upon the work of owning and managing all
railroads, we should favor an amendment
to the constitution by which all persona
engaged in the government service shall be
placed under a civil service regulation of
the most rigid character, so as to prevent
an increase of the power of the national
administration by the use of such addition
al government employes.
We demand a national currency, safe
sound and flexible, issued by the general
government only, a full legal tender for all
debts, public and private, and that with
out the use of banking corporations ; a just,
equitable and efficient means of distribu
tion direct to the people at a tax not to ex
ceed 2 per cent per annum be provided as
set forth in the sub-treasury plan of the
Farmers’ Alliance, or some better system;
also by payment in discharge of its ob
ligations for public improvements.
We demand the free and unlimited coin
age of silver and gold at the present legal
ratio of 16 to 1.
We demand that the amount of the cir
cuKtiug medium be speedily increased to
not less than fifty dollars per capita.
We demand a graduated income tax.
We believe that the money of the coun
try should be kept as much as possible in the
hands of the people, and hence we demand,
that, all state and national revenues shall
be limited to the necessary expenses of
the government economically and honestly
administered.
We demand that postal savings banks be
established by the government for the safe
deposit of the earnings of the people and
to facilitate exchange.
Transportation being a means of ex
change and a public necessity, the govern
ment should own and operate the railroads
in the interest of the people. The tele
graph and the telephone, like the postal
system, being a necessity for the trans
mission of news, should be owned and op
erated by the government in the interest of
the people.
The land, including all the natural
sources of wealth, is the heritage of all the
people and should not be monopolized for
speculative purposes, and alien ownership
of land should be prohibited. All lands
nok held by railroads and other corpora
tions in excess of their actual needs, ano
all lands now owned by aliens should be
reclaimed by the government and held for
actual settlers only.
’ Supplemental Resolutions,
Whereas, other questions have been present
ed for our consideration, we hereby submit
the following, not as a part of the platform of
the People’s Party, but as resolutions expres
sive of the sentiment of this convention.
First—Resolved, That we demand a free bal
lot and a fair count in all elections and pledge
ourselves to secure it to every legal voter
without federal intervention through the
adoption by the States of the unperverted
Australian or secret ballot system.
Second—Resolved, That the revenue derived
from a graduated income tax should be applied
to the reduction of the burden of taxation now
resting upon the domestic industries of this
country.
Third—Resolved, That we pledge our sup
port to fair and liberal pensions to ex-Union
soldiers and sailors.
Fourth—Resolved, That we condemn the
fallacy of protecting American labor under
the present system, which opens our ports to
the pauper and criminal classes of the world,
and crowds out our wage earners; and we de
nounce the present ineffective laws against
contract labor, and demand the further re
striction of undesirable immigration.
Fifth—Resolved, That we cordially sympa
thize with the efforts of organized, working
men to shorten the hours of labor, and demand
a rigid enforcement of the existing eight-hour
law on government work, and ask that a pen
alty clause be added to the said law.
Sixth—Resolved, That we regard the main
tenance of a large standing army of mercena
ries, known as the Pinkerton system, as a men
ace to our liberties, and we demand its aboli
tion ; and we condemn the recent invasion of
the territory of Wyoming by the hired assas
sins of plutocracy, assisted by federal officials
Seventh—Resolved, That we commend to the
favorable cons.deration of the people and the
reform press the legislative system known as
the initiative and referendum.
Eight—Resolved, That we favor a constitu
tional provision limiting the office, of President
and vice-President to one term, and providing
for the election of Senators of the United
States by a direct vote of the people.
Ninth—Resolved, That we oppose any sub
sidy or national aid to an private corporation
for any purpose.
“The People’s Party at the outset to secure
permanent control of the party organization of
the people unaffected by the interests of those
in public service does hereby in national con
vention assembled at Omaha on the 4th of
July, 1892, establish this ordinance as funda
mental law of party organization, viz: No per
son holding any office or position of profit,
trust or emolument under the federal or any
state or municipal government, including Sen
ators,- Congressmen and members of the Leg
islature, State and local, shall be eligible to sit
or vote in any convention of this party, and a
copy of this ordinance shall be annexed by ev
ery call for any future convention of the par
ty.”
RESOLUTION OF SYMPATHY.
Resolved, That this convention sympathizes
with the Knights of Labor in their righteous
contest with the tyrannical combine of cloth
ing manufacturers of Rochester and declares
it to be the duty of all who hate tyranny and
oppression to refuse to purchase the goods
made by said manufacturers or to patronize
any merchants who sell such goods.
Machine Politics.
Jonesboro News.
Every true, liberty loving Georgian
who is not blinded by partisan pre
judice, must surely feel alarmed
when he reads the subsidized press
of the machine Democracy.
Eminent and true pa
triots, like Washington, Jefferson,
and Madison, have left their warnings
with the people of this great republic.
‘That when party fealty rose above
principle and issues were subordinated
to party success, the real danger of
the destruction of this government
would be near at hand.” Never
since the birth of this republic has
the public press of Georgia been so
completely under the control of ma
chine politics and direction of the
bosses.
The great dailies of the state are
under the immediate control of the
the money power and corporate in
stitutions that exist here and control
the legislation of the country.
Even in our last legislature, though
two-thirds of its members were com
mitted to the policy of correcting
the abuses of syndicates and com
bines, yet they were handicaped and
beset by lobbyists; working in the in
terest of corporate institutions, until
they were unable to make a single
law, that would in the least operate
against the interests of the corporate
powers.
The editor of the Macon County
Citizen has been boycotted so much
of late by the People’s Party men
that he is awful mad, and threatens
to do violence. He says he will have
to cease friendly relations with them
sooner or later, and it is best to do
it now r . Well, he can go back to
Florida if the good people of Macon
County are not good enough for him
There is no law to prevent it.
Boycott all the little nose-rag
weekly papers which make it a regu-.
lar business to abuse you, and take
People’s Party papers. The Demo
crats would not subscribe for one of
your papers to save your lifej
Notice To Subscribers and Club
Raisers.
In all instances the cash must ac
company the names sent in. No
paper can be run on credit. In
another column it wil] be seen that
the 10 cent offer has been withdrawn,
and no subscriptions for less than 25
cents will be received. Long term
subscriptions arc better all around.
The campaign committee urges
that every possible effort be made to
get subscribers for the People’s
Party Paper. It is the safest, surest
and cheapest campaign work that
can be done.
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Farmers’ Friend, Waynesboro,
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News and Allianceman, Jackson,
Butts county.
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Banks county.
Hinesville Gazette, Hinesville,
Liberty county.
The Allianceman, Atlanta, Fulton
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Southern Alliance Farmer, Atlanta,
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The Enterprise, Carnesville, Frank
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The News, Ball Ground, Cherokee
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Farmers’ Herald, Wrightsville,*
Johnson county.
Alliance Plow Boy, Buford, Gwin
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Signal, Dahlonega, Lumpkin coun
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Mitchell. S. D-
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