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4 PEOPLE’S PARTY PAPER. PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE PEOPLE'S PAPER PUBUSING COMPANY. 117 1-2 Whitehall St. THUS. E. WATSON, - - President. D. N. SANDERS, - - Sec. & Treas. R. F. GRAY, - Business Manager. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1892. A CHANGE. The appointment of Mr. Watson at Douglasville is changed to Con yers the same date. So that it is now decided that Conyers, Septem ber 19, should be the reading of Mr. Watson’s appointment. Rev. Thad Picket and J. L. Chupp will speak at Covington Saturday. The Democrats go on the theory that the past is secure and the devil is welcome to the future of Georgia. Colonel Peek has authorized the announcement that he will address the people at Talbotton, Friday, September 16. If it should really be true that Crisp was a member of the Loyal League, what then ? Ah ha! That ‘‘old wretch Weaver!” J. C. C. Black is adroit. When he thought he made a point he ex pressly desired bis audience .to know th:-t he was not quoting the Consti tution. That witness he knew to be already discredited. John Sibley shook up Joe James at Marietta Monday until he didn’t know where he was at. His discus sion at McDonough with three doughty champions of plutocracy settled it that John can take care of himself anywhere. Oh I Mr. Wimberley ! How could you 1 Crisp 1 Our Crisp ! A mem ber of the Loyal League! Surely you mistake ! He was too fresh a young singer then to have been into such deviltry ! Be very sure you are right, and then think of the scandal. Mr. Speaker, where was you at? Hon. James Barrett, of Richmond county, nominee for Commissioner of Agriculture, has no middle name, or initial. Some reform papers print his name “James G. Barrett,” which is wrong. It is important that this be correct on the tickets printed for the polls. Print it plain “James Barrel’ /hoot I f Congressman Livingston has ac cepted Mr. Watson’s challenge for Douglasville, September 19, and fur ther challenged Mr. Watson to meet him at Warrenton, Louisville, San dersville and Thomson, the time to be agreed on before the October election. Presumably the change from Douglasville to Conyers will not make any difference. The speakers who discuss the rail road proposition of the People in op position assume that the government must buy the roads at their stock value and pay the debts in full in addition. Just as if a purchaser paid the full market price for a house and paid off all the mortgages in ad dition. The steady increase in rail road debts may really be designed to cover such a contingency. Is it the conduct of a gentleman to sit by and hear infamous lies told in his behalf without even a disclai mer? To the average manly man, it would seem that a positive denun ciation of the methods of his friends is due from that “peerless gentle men,” Major Black. But then, the average man lacks breeding, you know, and cannot criticise the re finement of hypocrisy in the con duct of “cultured gentlemen.” Pah! Major Black has been paraded for two months past as a “peerless gen tleman.” This is a perilous claim, because it renders the more con spicuous any lapse from conduct possible to none but a perfect man. M 'jor Black’s lapses have been no table, and some of them might be construed as showing something of as well as want of a good breeding. Is Mr. Black justified in speaking of J. B. Weaver as “that old wretch, Weaver ?” The Atlanta Journal proprietor, who doctors com munications giving accounts of his joint debates until the writers de- do not know their own reports, is expected to lack some thin of breeding, but not the “peer less” blue grass candidate who runs almost solely on his being a gentle man. And is not Major Black somewhat off his points when he expresses relief that his enthusi astic followers save him from read ing the signature of C. C. Post? Such delicacy belongs to what a Kentuckian would call the “weed” of thoroughbreds. PEOPLE’S PARTY PAPER, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1892. SOME LIVELY LIES. The Atlanta Constitution is easily the leader in the campaign of lying now in progress. From its position as the best equipped paper in the State, it sets the pace for the small prevaricators, and doubtless deceives many of its small weekly followers into believing that what they publish from its columns is true, or merely embellished to ordinary Democratic taste. The Associated Press touches up and colore the outside telegraphic reports to suit the views of the Trust owning all the wires, and therefore allows a concentration of the energy of the editors on State and local affairs. Young men are furnished railroad passes and paid to visit places where discussions cause the people to collect, and reports go out to the people that great crowds are converted to Democracy; that the People’s speakers are pigmies intel lectually, and that all is serene for the “ organized Democracy ” in all parts of the State. These reports are rehashed throughout the weekly press, often by men who do not be lieve them, but who know the people are interested in campaign news, and who publish to keep up an appear ance of enterprise to their readers. But not only in its news columns does the Constitution misrepresent. In last Sunday’s paper, over the sig nature of its managing editor, Clark Howell, one of the most infamous falsehoods ever given to the people was made public. The following is here reproduced, that this criticism may be specific and undeniable: “The white and black vote of the dis trict being almost equal, the negro be comes a most important factor in the re sult. Watson slops at nothing short of absolute incendiarism to enlist him. Ever since his return from Washington he has been chasing the black vote all over the district, sprinkling salt on its tail whenever he gets within reach of it. The negroes in some parts of the district are wild about him; they hail him as a divinity; they touch the hem of his gar ment and talk about it with intoxicated delight; they are suddenly bold and de fiant and point to him as their Messiah who will wipe away the color line. A few days ago he spoke in Sparta to the negroes, and indulged in some of the most fanciful talk as to what he propos ed to do for them. That night they as sailed the house at which he stopped and literally overrun it. The modest and re fined matron, a southern woman, expos tulated at the intrusion, but was brush ed from her own door by a burly negro, who exclaimed, ‘I come to see my Jesus ■Christ; anJ’TwtT “Watson afterwards explained to her that his remarks concerning political equality had been misunderstood by his hearers, and had been construed into an endorsement of social equality beyond his intention.” The article from W’bich this is ex tracted is a letter to the New York Herald, which the Constitution states was published in the New York and Paris editions of that paper. Mr. Watson spoke at Sparta August 26. His speech was publish ed in full September 2, the language being reproduced as accurately as a skilled stenographer could report it. That republication was in the Con stitution office, Saturday morning, and besides Mr. Watson’s speech of the day before is reported by the Constitution correcting the statement garbled by Mr. Clark Howell. Mr. Watson left Sparta at 2 o’clock in the afternoon of the day on which he spoke. No negroes visited him at his room. Clark Howell does not state what Mr. Watson said, but characterized it as “most fanciful talk,” and leaving the inference that he endorsed the lies reported. Now the grave charge is here made, that Mr. Clark Howell intended that the language he uses in his letter should sustain the lie about what Mr. Wat son said, and he repeated the lie about what occurred in Sparta that night knowing it to be untrue. If he can stand under such an imputa tion, he will of course enter no dis claimer. But does he realize the in famy of such conduct? The Democratic papers have for a week or more been copying and gloating over a document said to have “found its way into the hands of” the president of a Democratic club at Cedartown. It purports to be a statement, under oath, by one W. J. Brown that he heard a conver sation in a hotel at Knoxville, Tenn., in which “a rank Republican” boast ed that he had paid SBOO on the salary of a man at Villa Rica to pub lish a papar and burst up the Demo cratic party in Georgia, and that the man so employed was C. C. Post. Brown gives no date, names no ho tel, and fails to locate the Republi can further than to say his name was “Major Wilhoit.” Now, a plain statement will set this lie to rest. C. C. Post never ran a paper at Villa Rica, and at no time has resided in that town. The whole thing is too absurd for anybody but a fool to believe, and too villainous for any but a scoundrel to‘concoct. But the daily papers of Georgia play into the hands of the villains by using it to influence fools. • , Among the most virulent cases of constitutional lying, those about General Weaver are now conspicu ous. J. B. Weaver is the peer, intel lectually and morally,* of any man who has aspired to be President since his advent into political life. In the campaign now going on he stands for a great principle. Har rison and Cleveland represent the political theory of party rule, and serve as agents to secure office by their respective followers. The whole “theory of the defense” by the Democrats of Georgia, to borrow an illustration from the lawyers, is that the other side must be discred ited and prejudice created in the minds of the people, that the merits of the case may be forgotten. Livingston gets off a quibble very nearly one, though it hardly counts among the able-bodied misstatements that go the rounds. He says that he did not refuse to meet Pickett at Gainesville—only demanded that ladies should be present to protect him. Os course, there were no la dies in attendance at the Gainesville meeting, and the putting' in of an impossible condition lacks something of a positive refusal. But it was dreadfully near it. Mr. Livingston should not get so much Democratic jaundice in his eye. e Hon. Joe James puts out just a little one, but it is as dishonest as any campaign lie on its rounds. Mr. James said at Jonesboro that “Wat son and Post had collected $20,000 from the people of Georgia to run a paper which was being run for $4,000 a year.” A paper is being run, as the reader-of this must know. The $20,000 part of the lie has no per centage of foundation. The balance is immaterial. The Democratic papers report at 1 every joint discussion that the Dem ocrats make the most eloquent speeches ever beard, and the People hang their heads in shame for their sins and their speakers, and declare their conversion to ring rule. THE CHANCE THEY HO- nr - When friends to free silver are pleaded with to give the Democrats a chance, it should be remembered that that party controlled the Forty sixth Congress by clear majorities in both branches. In the House there were thirty more Democrats than combined opposition, with -twelve Greenbackers begging for financial reform and ready to increase the majority to more than forty. In the Senate there was an absolute Demo cratic majority ‘of four, and two in dependents reddy to increase that majority to eight on questions of financial reform. The Democrats elected every officer and controlled every committee of both houses. The Forty - sixth Congress was Democratic in all its branches. The grand old party then had a chance. How they improved it, it is the pur pose of this article to tell. On page 1403 of the Record, dated May 16, 1879, may be found the following proceedings: The Speaker. The question recurs on the following amendment moved by the gentleman from Texas [Mr. Mills]: “Strike out section 3 from the fourth to the fifteenth line, inclusive, and in sert : “Sec. 3520. That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and di rected to purchase, without limit, all silver bullion, trade dollars, and foreign silver coins that may be offered for sale at the market value of silver, and such purchases shall be continued as long as 412 f grains of standard silver can be purchased for one dollar of legal-tender Treasury notes. All such purchases shall be paid for with a new issue of legal-tender Treasury notes. And all holders of any of the silver coins of the United States may present the same in any sum not less than S2O and receive therefor legal tender Treasury notes at par for the same. That all silver coins of the United States shall be receivable in pavment of all Government dues and shall be a legal tender in payment of all debts, public or private, for any sum whatever. And the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby directed to have the silver bullion, trade dollars, and foreign silver pieces coined as fast as possible in to American silver coms and to apply all silver coins of the United States that may come into the Treasury to the pay ment of the interest and principal of the public debt before using any of the gold or Treasury notes of the Government for such purpose.” Mr. M Ils. Mr. Speaker, there are two objects which may be obtained by the coining of silver, and I understand that it is the desire of the people to utilize for the attainment of these two objects. One of those objects is proposed to be reached by the bill, and one only, and that is to increase the volume of money, thereby dejK-eciating the value of money and increasing the value of all property and labor, and lead to the employment of the idle labor of the country. The other object is to utilize ail the silver in the payment of all public and private in debtedness of the country, and that ob ject this bill does not propose to reach The amendment which I offer proposes to cover both grounds. Instead of free coinage of silver, permitting the mints to be run in the interest of the bullion holders to their profit, and the coinage of silver to be made by the Government mints and thrown into circulation, I pro pose that the Government shall purchase all the silver it can with Treasury notes or with gold, or with both. The gold dol lar is at a premium of sixteen cents over the silver dollar. The Treasury- note dollar being based upon the gold dollar, is of course just as valuable as a gold dollar. * It is sixteen cents premium over the silver dollar. Mr. Atkins. The legal tender ? Mr. Mills. No, the silver that may be made into a legal tender. Mr. Warner. Not its purchasing power ? Mr. Mills. Yes, its purchasing power. If the legal tender dollar is the same as the gold dollar its purchasing power is the same. And that.it is the same is proved to-day by the Treasury having ons hundred aud forty or one hundred and fifty millions of dollars of gold in its vaults, which can be called for in ex change of the Treasury notes of the Government. But the holders of the Treasury notes refuse to demand the gold ; the Treasury note being equal in all power to the gold dollar. Now what I propose is that the Gov ernment shall purchase silver in unlim ited quantities and coin it; coin it all for the benefit of the people and give it all the debt paying power of the legal-tender dollar ; that the dollar, half dollar, quar ter dollar and dime—in a word, all the silver coins struck from your mints shall be invested with all the functions of money, that they shall measure value, exchange value and pay value Well, what will be the result of that when you give them all this debt-paying power ? Then the silver that comes into the treasury can be used in payment of your public debt. You cannot pay it with treasury notes, for tne creditor holds you are bound to pay to him in coin. But you can pay it with the cheaper metal, with silver when it is cheaper than gold. And it is the duty of the Government to pay the people’s deb' , just as you would pay your own debts, with the cheaper metal. But you cannot pay the public debt with silver if you merely coin for the bullion-holder who owns the Nevada mines, because you simply coin his bul lion for him, and he takes it back in the form of coin. But if you purchase the silver you help to bring the treasury note into circulation, and you coin the dollar as your own, and then you make use of that dollar in the payment of your in debtedness. I further provide in my amendment that all persons having these silver coins may bring them to the treasury in any quantity, $50,000 or SIOO,OOO or any oth er amount, and exchange them at par for legal tender notes. Now, the treas ury note is much more convenient money than the silver money. It is not so heavy, of course. It is equally valuable with gold. And just as long as the treat; ury note is worth £ per cent, more than the silver dollar all the silver would go into the treasury to get the benefit of the i per cent, premium. And when it goes into the treasury either by purchase or exchange, the Secretary is directed to pay it on the public debt before using the gold or treasury notes. When a large amount of silver shall be coined and in circulation it will seek the treas ury to be exchanged for the more con venient and equally valuable treasury note money, which may be constantly applied in reduction of the public debt We cannot pay the debt in gold. The creditor will not accept it in paper, and silver is our only hope for deliverance from its burden. I trust we shall not disappoint the reasonable expectations of-OUF people by refusing to use It for that purpose. [Here the hammer fall ] A vote was taken on this amend ment the same day, and showed 60 members for and 155 against. Os the minority voting with Mr. Mills were the 12 greenhackers. The utmost that the Democrats can claim is that of nearly 200 members less than 50 would avail themselves of the chance they then had to grant free silver. The true cussedness of the Demo cratic position on this question is dis closed when Mr. Mills, then hon estly endeavoring to do his duty by his people, tried to make provision for the payment of the principal and interest on the public debt in coin, in exact compliance with the law which provides for payment m com of weight and fineness current when it passed. That Mr. Mills had an insight in to the truth, his cstatement that the public debt could not be paid in gold alone clearly proves. Since then, the people have en dured depreciation and practically bankruptcy in their efforts, and the last admission of the treasury is that the bonds will have to be renewed when due. Mr. Mills is now against the peo ple—and a Senator. Give the Democracy a chance. Yes, several more chances, and then the people will rue at their leisure. The Democrats held a primary election in Fulton county Tuesday to select members of the legislature, there being the six names voted for and three chosen. The voting popu lation of Atlanta is not less than 12,- 000, that number having voted in the last prohibition election. There were 3,118 ballots cast, leaving B>- 882 voters who could not be carried by “organized Democracy.” A few days ago the daily papers of Atlanta reported that at the Glasscock pri mary of the People’s party but 390 votes were cast. The people of Glasscock are nearly all farmers, and consequently some were detained away from the polls. There are said to be about 680 voters in Glasscock, and if every one of the two hundred and ninety who did not vote should vote against the People’s party a clean majority of 100 would remain. The minority in such a case would include both Re publicans, and Democrats. But the Republicans will largely vote the People’s ticket, as they have none of their own. This comparison of Glascock and Fulton is commended to the comrades who are making the good fight. Fulton may yet be ours, as Glasscock and other farming counties certainly are now. When Mr. Watson went to San dersville to speak, a party of ladies and gentlemen at Mitchell built them selves a pine-knot fire and waited for the train. When it stopped they in quired if Mr. Watson was aboard. Answered in the affirmative, a collec tion of beautiful flowers was put aboard for him. That was at 9 p. m., and they had been told that it was doubtful about his going. The following note accompanied this gift of the young ladies of Mitchell: To the Hon. T. E. Watson, with com pliments of the Mitchell Girls. May the God of Heaven and' earth crown you with success in all of your no ble efforts that tend to bring relief to the people. _______ The Democrats having practically conceded that New York is lost, the question arises, what recourse have they left ? The West offers some inducement, so they claim, and a vigorous effort will be made iu Illi nois, Indiana and lowa. Meantime the People are certain of the silver States, several agricultural States West of the Mississippi and on the slope, and upsetting the calculations of both parties. If it takes a round hundred thous dollars to beat ’Watson, a “.cultured gentleman” is to go to Congress in his stead. Asjlngalls quotes, money does not stink no matter how ob tained. Office does not either, with those who expend money and get it. If the hundred thousand is ex pended and Watson not beaten, what then? Os course m the nos trls of the cultured bribers, office will stink. Arkansas furnishes a good exam ple of abuses possible under the force bill. The law of that State is al most exactly that proposed by the Lodge bill. The polls are conducted and the returns made by State ap pointees. The people have no hand in it. As yet no returns are in from last Monday’s election in Arkansas. The Democrats will be satisfied with the returns when they do come in; they make them to order. Whatever law” hurts the white farmer, hurts also the colored farm er who lives under exactly similar conditions. Whatever law would benefit the white laborer would benefit the colored laborer who lives under exactly similar conditions. Col. Peek at Fort Gaines. Col. Peek addressed the voters of Clay county September 6, and cap tured the crowd. The moss-backs had made strong efforts to muster strength by distributing hand-bills all over the county, calling for a grand Democratic rally, with the hope of carrying the day by storm. The boys rallied pretty well; but have learned to shinnie on our own side, as was shown by the vote be ing largely in the majority for the People’s darty. Col. Peek has made good impressions with the South Georgia boys, as will be proven by his majority over our lyorld’s Fair Governor. It takes all of our spare nickels to keep up our Sunday, school, and all the eggs to raise chickens for Betsy and the babies. Col. Waters, all the way from Albany, was up to pitch the old tariff song for the few moss-back but the hall soon sprung a leak, and before he got to the chorus there was hardly enough left to tell the tale, that modern Demo cracy in Clay is dead. When Mr. Watson arrived at Sparta last Tuesday to engage in joint discussion, he found awaiting him some tastefully arranged flowers and the following short note, testi fying to the high appreciation in which he is held in the neighboring county of Greene: Hon. Thomas E. Watson —Please ac cept this very small token in honor of the noble cause you are so gallantly de fending ; and may God lead and guide you safely. “I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the afflicted and the right of the poor.” “Then hear Thou in Heaven their prayer and their supplication, and main tain their cause.” Ladies of Greene, Sept. 6, 1892. Habersham County. A meeting was held at this place Thursday, September 1, addressed by Rev. Thad. Pickett, D. H. P. Garrison, of Banks, Hon. John B. King, our candidate for Representa tive, and Hon. Devereaux Jarrett, candidate for State Senator. About 200 people were present. Mr. Pick ett won many friends, even among those who had been opposed to him. Habersham county is safely in line for the People’s nominees, wi‘:h a reasonable amount of work. Mr. Jarrett’s nomination gives satisfac tion. The pleasing address and manly bearing of Mr. King will make him a general favorite before he fin ishes his canvass. 0. W*. Powers. CORRESPONDENCE. Newxax, Ga., Sept. 6, ’92. Hon. M. D. Erwin, Chairman State Ex ecutive Committee of the People's Par ty, Atlanta, Ga.: My Dear Sir—l learn through the press that J. B. Weaver, the nominee of the People’s party for President of the United States; General Field, and Hon. J. H. Davis, of Texas, will speak at a number of places in Geor gia during this month. If these gen tlemen, or any of them, speak in Georgia, I request through you as the official head of your party in this State, that they agree to a division of time with democratic speakers at each of their appointments. Wq de sire these debates that the people may hear both sides from the same platform, and judge intelligently be tween the parties. I ask of you a prompt reply. If you consent to the joint debates, I will confer with you and we can arrange about time and other details. Yours truly, W. Y. Atkinson, Chairm’n State Dem. Ex. Com. Hon. W. Y. Atkinson, Chairman Exec utive Committee of the Democratic Party of the State of Georgia: Dear Sir—Your letter of even date to hand and contents noted. In re ply will say that General Weaver, candidate of People’s party for Pres ident, will gladly meet Hon. Grover Cleveland, the candidate of your par ty for President, at all his appoint ments. Hon. James G. Field, the candidate of People’s party for Viqe-President, will also be glad to meet at all his his appointments the candidate of the Democratic party, Hon. Adlai Stevenson. The Hon. J. H. Davis, of Texas, will meet any one man you may name, who represents the Dem ocratic party in Georgia, at all his appointments as published. This ac ceptance of your proposition for joint debate is conditional only on sug gestion by you, that you and I agree on a fair division of time as suggest ed in yur letter. Asking an early reply, I am youre truly, M. D. Erwin, Chairman Peapie’s Party State Ex- 4 ecutive Committee. Announcement. To the People’s Party Paper : It is with great pleasure that I an nounce on behalf of the convention assembled at Carlton, Madison coun ty, August 27, the unanimous nomi nation of Mr. J. L. Heard, of Elber ton, to represent the thirtieth Sena torial district in our next General Assembly. And I am more than gratified to announce that he has accepted the nomination. Mr. Heard needs no introduction to the people of this district. The family name and the man are known abroad. A perfect gentleman in every sense of the word, and* fully competent in every respect to ably represent the district in a manner highly creditable to himself, to us and to the State. We cheerfully recommend him to the suffrage of the people. James J. Green. Crawford, Ga., Sept. 7. FIRST CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. Hon. W. R. Kemp will address the people at the following times and places, to-wit: Statesboro, Bullock county, Sept. 15. Reedsville, Tatnall county, Sept. 17. Hinesville, Liberty county, Sept. 19. Clyde, Bryan countv, Sept 23. Savannah, Chatham county, Sept. 24. Pooler, Chatham county, Sept. 26 Springfield, Effingham county, Sept. 28 Sylvania, Screven county, Sept. 30. The brethren of Mclntosh county will select the place of speaking and write Mr. Kemp at Hinesville, Ga. He expects to give his undivided time to the cause from now until the elec tion. ATTENTION". SIXTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT Grand Rally for the District Thursday Night, September 22. GENERAL WEAVER SPEAKS. Every county in the District, and all adjoining counties, expected to furnish strong delegations. Hope to secure reduced rates on Railroads. Chairmen of various counties write us as to size of crowd expecting to come. O 3 Come One I Come All I W. A. Poe, Chairman, Guy Taylor, Secretary. Macon, Ga., Sept. 5, 1892. NOTICE. The Delegates of the Peopled par ty Convention of the Seventh Con gressional District are requested to reconvene at Rome on Thursday, September 15. at 10 a. m. Robt. Dougherty, Chairman.