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SOME CORRECTIONS. In the confusion which reigned at Sparta much of the time, it is natural that the reporter should have made some mistakes. 1. As to the tenant bill intro duced by me. It provided that a tenant who was unable to give the guaranty bond required by law should have the privilege of making oath to that fact, and that he should thereupon have the privilege of coming into court and being heard 2. In the paragraph where I am am reported as saying that the ten ant could buy him a home at 8 or 20 per cent, interest, I said this, “That under our land loan plank a tenant who is now barely making a living while paying two bales rent could borrow (say $400) and pay for a piece of land. Instead of giving 1,000 pounds of cotton rent he would pay $8 interest and save the balance. This saving would, of itself, soon pay the S4OO. 3. In speaking of Livingston an d Ham, I did not wish to be under stood as speaking except hy hearsay. I simply quoted a few of the sweet things the Journal said about Leoni das before his recent nomination. And as to Ham, I quoted what Liv ingston said in reference to the Ocala force bill resolution—“it was fished up out of the spittoon and pieced together by Ham.” Brother Northen got it printed in the Jour nal. Now that they are all dwelling together in such unselfigh harmony, perhaps they can adjust the dispute among themselves. 4. I named as voting for the so- called slavery bill Hon. W. T. Gary and Hon. J. S. James, the two electors for the State-at large on the presidential ticket. I hope the Dem ocrats will let this cheerful fact be generally known: T. E. W. REV. BRADWELL. That blue-ribbon Donkey, W. J. Northen, carried this colored man down to Sandersville to tell the col ored voters that I had called the regular order on his claim, and that therefore I should be beat for Congress. Did Northen investigate this claim? Does he know its nature? Does he know it has been paid? Dnes he know I was calling the the regular order to get the Sub- Treasury Bill up? Does he know that Bradwell is complaining that his Bill was not not taken up out of its regular order? Does he know that I was obeying the instructions of the Alliance peo ple in trying to force up the Sub- Treasury Bill—so that a measure to help millions of people should have a hearing? Does he know that I succeeded and won what the National Econo mist called “our first victory?” Does he know that Bradwell’s Bill is there on the calendar just like many others,to be dealt with accord ing to the miller’s rule of “first] come first served?” No. He does not know any of these these things. Why? Because he has more whiskers than sense. * * * How crazy the Democrats are. In one breath they say “Watson has no influence.” In the next breath they say he killed a bill which Livingston was trying his best to pass. * * * Bradwell’s claim was for many thousands of dollars—a claim for cotton burnt or taken during the war, or just after. Congress con sidered his Bill, reported the sum which the evidence showed to be due and paid it. Bradwell accept ed the money, and entered no pro test as to the amount. Now he wants the tax payers bled again. He gave me the above facts in Wash ington, and I told him I thought his claim was settled by said payment. What do the tax payers say? Can a man sue you for SIOO, and after getting judgment for SSO, and you have paid the money, then turn round and sue you again for the other $50.? Surely not. Then why does not the same rule apply in favor of the tax payers? If Billy Northen would trim* his whiskers perhaps his brains would grow some. ®♦ * • Hit me again, bo vs! T. E. W The editor of the Democrat, Dade City, Florida, heads his column thus ly: “Campaign lies hurts no man.” And immediately proceeds to lie most outrageously on Tom Watson. Take the camp aign lies out of the PEOPLE’S PARTY PAPER, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER '9, 1892. average mossback, Democratic sheet just at this time and these would be precious little left except the head lines and the weather reports. CRAWFORDVILLE ECHOSE. How scared the Democrats are! They poured in from every city in Georgia. No wonder they declined to debate off the Rail Roads. Their crowd has to be imported. * * * • Brother Black lost the thread of his argument and had to ask:“ Where was I at?” Os course anybody will get lost who will try to argue the Demo cratic side. • * * * The Crawfordsville Hotel was well supplied with colored people. They were in the rooms up-stairs as well as down-stairs. Yet the Democrats raised no row, Why? They were Democratic negroes. That makes all the difference in the world. See? * * * An imported Democratic negro stood on the hotel steps and said “any man who will vote for Watson is a G-d d-n fool.” This was wildly applauded by the Democrats, and they took the negro over to the court house steps and had him to address the crowd and repeat the insult. Suppose one of us had done such a thing! T. E. W. The crowds who go out to hear the People’s speakers are in strong contrast with the difficulty encoun tered by Democrats in securing au diences. The people are interested in political reform. The Atlanta Constitution of Mon day makes an important admission in an editorial on the force bill issue. After calling attention to the fact that Mr. Halstead ridicules the force bill as a humbug, and that the third (presumably People’s) party agree that it is not an issue, the Constitu tion says: At the North the republicans are ap pealing to the conservative business ele ments for their aid and support, and the editors and orators know that if these elements can be convinced that force bill legislation is to be the result of republi can success, the party of fraud and sec tionalism would be promptly voted down. This is why the democrats are making the force bill a prominent issue in the contest. This feature of the cam paign is not confined to those democrats who nave a notion that the democratic platform goes further than even Mr. Cleveland thought desirable, but it is endorsed by those democrats who are out-and-out free traders. This gives the whole case away. The Southern people know that there is no probability of a Con gress favorable to the force bill, un less, as has been threatened, the democrats of New England join the gold-standard republicans in its pas sage, in which event it is still doubt ful if it can be passed. The Augusta Chronicle admits that Mr. Watson was purposely mis quoted at Bishop. It says of the incident at Crawfordsville: The platform went down again yesterday, but had hardly settled on the ground before Mr. W atson was upon the table smiling and bowing to the crowd, He took the oppor tunity to say that he had said on a former occasion that he could speak from any platform that anybody else could, meaning the speaker’s stand, and not any political platform. Everybody knows what Mr. Watson meant, but the other construction was so natural and true that the press could not fail to make the point on it. And it seems to have hit the quick. How natural lying is to some peo ple is here illustrated. It is reported that a Democratic campaign speaker named Drake was making a hot canvass of Eman uel county last week. The sheriff now "wants him. A peculiar and forcible effort at practical social equality is the charge. A Nebraska Woman. Kearney, Neb., Sept. 3,1892. I have just laid down the People’s Party Paper, and it gives me great hope ; the debates, rallies and barbe cues of which I have just read are all in full blast in Nebraska. Yes, we go a step further. The women, ■who share our poverty, are organiz ing clubs, and getting in their handy work. Some may ask what they can do. I will answer by telling a few of the things our club has done to raise the necessary funds for the cam paign. We had a huckster stand on the fourth of July and cleared $25. At rallies we sell photos of Weaver and h ield and our nominee for Gov ernor; also campaign badges, and now have nearly completed a histori cal quilt. In the centre block the pictures of W eaver and Field are stamped, and on another the People’s nominees for Governor and Lieutenant Governor. The blocks around these contain the names of our candidates for State and county officers. On the outside blocks are the names of the Women’s Club. It is pronounced very pretty and ingenious. It will be sold by numbers, 25 cents a number, and we expect to realize twenty-five or thirty dollars. It takes a great deal of money to run a campaign, and there is just where the people always get left. Our oppressors depend upon their money and our poverty. I write this to encourage the good women of Georgiaf to lend a helping hand. All can do something to re move tliis yoke of corporate bondage. We must work in the tgood cause or be monopolized from he fa ce of the earth. Mrs. Julia A. Spinks, President Women’s Pioneer Club, z From Kansas. Winfield, Kan., Sept. 3. ’92. Kansas is now undergoing one of the most bitter political campaigns ever waged in the history of the State. At last we have the lines closely drawn between the corporations on the one hand and the people on the other. The Republicans do not deny that they are receiving help from the rail roads ; yes, even boasting of it. Their campaign treasury is kept full. They have unlimited means at their command—and are using it. Nowhere else have we seen such an avowed attempt on the part of the corporations to set aside the will of the people. We have done here what must be done in every State before we win. That is, secure the support of all the honest Republicans and Democrats, and force the balance to fall in with plutocrats and to the defense of the Carnegies, Vanderbilts and Goulds. This movement, as understood by us, is not a fight between the Peo ple’s party and the old parties for offices, but it is a fight between the Nineteenth century American aris tocracy and the people. In short, it is the irrepressible conflict between organized and rapidly centralizing capital and labor, and free govern ment is now undergoing the crucial test. The old parties are the allies and true friends of aristocracy because it is their child, and they could not be expected to disown it. How near is our country to the brink of material ruin. We of times wonder, do the people of the South realize these conditions that confront us as we do ? The reform movement in Kansas is no new thing any more.- It is feared by the corporate powers, and at last they have awakened to real ize that it really means the struggle of labor, the foundation of wealth, to wrest from the hands of the cor porations, the basis of aristocracyj that government for which our own Washington fought. How long, in Heaven’s name, will the people of this country defen,d plutocracy? We have driven the Republican party in this State into the last ditch—the arms of the cor porations—and in November will finish the job. Now, will the South land come to our assistance by wip ing out the other defender of plu tocracy, called the Democratic party, and give back to the people their lost liberties. Brethren of the South, many earnest, anxious prayers are going up from the firesides of Kansas homes that the people of the South will realize the true conditions which we have to meet and unite with the West, for we must conquer or we die so far as free government is concerned. Our party is rallying everywhere, animated by one thought, that is, that it is a question as to who shall rule, the people or organized capital. We mean tight to the end at the ballot-box. The hour demands men who are good and true, men who are willing to lay their all on the altar of their country for freedom’s sake. We are inspired by the thought that our Southern brethren will be with us. I have always been a Democrat, am yet, after the fashion of Jefferson and Jackson, and was born in the South, old Virginia, and I had inherited the most bitter opposition to the Repub lican party, yet the happiest moment of my life was when I could take my republican neighbor by the hand and together go down to battle in a common cause, for our country and our homes. We are a happier peo- and united because we know what confronts us and the danger of being disunited. Breth ren, come to the rescue of the re public. “We must hang together or hang separately.” J. H. Ritchie. NOTICE. LaFayette, Ga., Sept. 5, 1892. The Executive Committee of the Peapie’s party of the Seventh Con gressional District is called ]to meet at Rome, September 10, for the pur pose of organizing and attending to oth*er business of importance. Robert Dougherty, Chairman. Tell the Truth. National Watchman. The committee on the investiga tion of the charges of drunkenness on the part of Members of Congres, contained in a campaign book by the Hon. T. E. Watson, of Georgia, a member of the House, report the charges “false and unfounded and an assault upon the honor and dignity of the House.” The honor and dignity of the House, let that pass. L T pon the question of drunk enness the report itself is the false and unfounded part of the proceed ings. The usual row in such cases was worked over. If a man makes a public exhibition of himself, act ing foolishly, disgustingly, or inde- cently under the influence of dnnk, he is drunk. Whether merely “gen tlemanly tight” or “hog drunk”'is a fruitless question. As to the whisky mill kept for the private use of members in the basement of the Representative Hall, it is an offense that smells to heaven. That dis grace being a matter of public no toriety, it has been thought best to “tell the truth” about that. As to Mr. Watson himself, he has shown so much ability, so much readiness in debate, so much accuracy of in formation, that it has been resolved at every hazard to put him out of the House. If a million of dollars can beat him before the People, that or as much more as is neccessarv is going to be put up. Democracy iu Pinetucky. Fine samples of democracy we have down in old Pinetucky. We have all sorts of democrats in this county. Some are democrats for want of light, others for want of sense, others for want of money, others for want of office, others for want of principle, and some for the want of all these things. At the same time, if a man wants to be a democrat it is nothing to me, for I have close kin people that are demo crats (or say they are), but let me tell you right now I am not a demo crat by name. I heard a man say, «I am a democrat because pa always was.” Now, if my pa had always plowed an ox, must I plow one just because he did ? If I can do better, no. I know another man that said, “ I would vote for a yellow dog if it was nominated by the Democratic party.” Now, don’t that show you that thej? don’t care for our welfare, but will stick to party rather than principle? That is what is the mat ter. They have voted for the yellow dog too much already; that was what killed the party. Another says, “ I am a democrat because I was born a democrat.” Now, the people around here that know say that the nearest kin he had that had ever voted a democratic ticket was a great uncle. Now, that is another fine sample. Some of the democrats around here praise Major Black because he voted a wet ticket. Now, I have nothing against Black for that, if he had not said he was a prohibitionist. He was a prohibition man, and thought it best until he saw this county was go ing wet by a large majority, then voted for the sale. I am not a pro hibitionist at all. I don’t believe in prohibition unless it will prohibit, but I fall out with anybody— that is, if you are one and think it best, it is all right with me. They say prohibition split the People’s party, but it didn’t. We are in for the People’s party and Hon. Thomas E. Watson, whisky or no whisky. I want m y brother damocrats to read the 18th chapter of think over it. There is something in it that you don’t want to hear, I am afraid. You must remember that the New Testament says: “And I gave her space to repent of her forni cation, and she repented not.” So we gave you a chance to do. The democrats had 148 majority in the House, and then had no chance. What sort of a chance did they want ? But let me say, it was your last chance, if we get an honest count, and they don’t try to do like they did in Alabama. We must have our rights. I have a few words to say about the Augusta Chronicle; it has got its reputation up for lying, as sure as you are born,, and you can put that down, Jakie. D. S. Blackstone, Bath, Ga. Over the Country. August 31, 1892. I feel just like I want to put my brethren readers of the People’s Party Paper on notice. Brethren, I beg of you to keep cool and make a still hunt in this matter, especially in State politics, for I am where I can catch on occasionally, and I do know that the policy of the pluto cratic Democracy is to keep up na tional political excitement among the People so they can slip into all the state offices and thereby carry Georgia for Cleveland. Now, look around. Here for instance in Spald ing 33 and 500 other Democrats, (SUO guess woik) urging Judge Jno. I. Hall to take a seat in the next Georgia legislature, step down from Senate to lower House, (next step to baliff I expect.) What for? “Oh Judge, he is such a good man, and we of Griffin must have the agricul tural college. A. O. Bacon, (a chro nic office seeker,) will help Hall get the college, and Hill, of Meriwether, (anothe/chronic seeker.) Just watch the boss lying papers all over Geor gia and they want the big day in politics. Why now “Peeping Tom” has found out one little secret. Bill Atkinson, the chiefest of chronics, has been greased 1 suspect by the big city of “Religion atad Licker” (Atlanta) to make just such legisla tors as as will receive that gracious gift, the Soldiers Home, an infam ous scheme for Atlanta and a cursed paupers’s home for the poor Confed erate soldier. What does Atlanta care for a poor Confederate soldier? It is the rich Confederate soldier Atlanta is after. Again, what will become of the poor Confederate sol dier’s old decrepit wife? She, I presume, can stop at the county poor farm. Bah! Such love. It is damning the lost cause and her gal lant heroes. But that is not all. Some $550,000 other appropriations to be distributed among the colleges to educate the rich bond-holder’s boys and girls is asked for besides $5,000 more tor the |btate encamp ment at Griffin for the white besides $5,000 for a colored encampment. For Gov. Northen has promised the colored troops an encampment pro vided they vote straight-out Demo cracy against the Thtrd party in State politics. To the colored farmers and labor ers of Georgia I appeal. You who suffer as we suffer, who, through cold and heat, rain and shine and all kinds of weather, carry this State Government and its rascally officers in sweat, don’t be fooled by these rascally town foppish negroes who are bought by Democratic lead ers to catch your vote. More anon, if necessary from a poor Confederate soldier who to-day carries a Yankee bullet in his body. Peeping Tom. No Hope in the Democratic Party. Mr. Editor :—lt is evident that the last ray of hope of ever accom plishing reform through the Demo cratic partj* has vanished. While we hold that the Republican party is mainly responsible foe. our class and oppressive laws, yet we hold that the leaders of modern democ racy are responsible for a full share, especially from an indisposition to attempt to repeal them. We have been admonished by the press and modern leaders to stand by the party and we could get our reform de mands. Have they proven by prac tice what they preach ? With a ma jority of 148 in the lower House, led by Tom Reed, they defeated the sil ver bill passed by a Republican Sen ate, one of the least of reform meas ures. They also defeated a bill to repeal the 10 per cent, tax on State banks, both of which were prominent planks in our State and national platforms. But can we be much surprised. For thirty years we have had meaningless platforms and have been fed on unfaithful prom ises. Democratsj|voted to repeal the income tax (among -whom was our much loved Gordon), the only method by which the millions of un taxed property could be reached. Democrats, our Gordon included, voted on the side of the Pacific rail road steals. Democrats voted for the act calling in the greenbacks, and having millions of them burnt, carry ing out the policy outlined in 1862 by English bankers to American bankers in the Hazzard circular. Democrats are responsible, as much so as the Republicans, for the de monetization of silver, as there was no opposition vote against it. Now they say they did not know the act demonetized. Yet they say intelli gence must rule. (I reckon they were under a maudlin sleep or at the horse races.) But still they, with a majority of 148, refuse to remone tize, and worse still, have voted an international conference by which, if there should be a treaty between nations, fixed. ai agriculture robbed. This will per petuate the power of English lords to rob by depressing the price of our products. Os recent date, modern Democrats, led by R. Hobbs & Co., enacted a force ‘bill, connected with a party gag oath, to-wit: “I do solemnly swear that I am a citizen and resident of this county and pre cinct, and endorse, and will support the Democratic platform adopted at Chicago this year, and the Demo cratic candidates upon same for Presi dent and for Congress, and have not voted in any other primary election for said delegates now being elect ed to represent this county at this convention to be held at Albany Aug 17th next.” Yes, they sw r ear us to support the platform and can didate of the bosses. They take away by force the time honored usage of county sovereignty to fix the time and mode of choosing delegates. They also, by force under the Al bany police, or Pinkerton’s, suppress a minority of free speech. In plain terms the Hobbs force bill and gag 'oath has robbed a large class of vot ers of an honestly expressed will at the ballot box. Any party so full of corruption, and which so far forgets the fundamental principles of our American liberties should die. They are no longer the representatives ©f the House of Jefferson and Jackson. For thirty years they have been drifting with the tide of cor ruption as practiced by the Repub lican party with nothing in view but party success. We have followed blindly like a good boy. But the veil has been lifted from our eyes, and because we refuse to be led fur ther hence the Hobbs force bill and gag oath. But thank God as this old house have decayed and rotted we have a foundation left whose builders were Jefferson and Jack son, the pillars of which is “Equal Rights to all and Special Privileges to None.” Upon this foundation, the People’s party is founded, and will press forward for the rights of the people until our government is res cued from the clutches of English noblemen and American plutocrats. G. W. Crapp. Fort Gaines, Ga. ♦ Upson County. Thomaston, Ga., August 25. The People’s party executive com mittee met at the court house in Thomaston and transacted the fol lowing business: On motion, Saturday, October 22 next was set to nominate candidates for county offices, to be by primary. The following gentlemen arg re quested to act as managers at the different, voting places. Town—Simon Brooks, J. W. Shu mate, Hardy Brown. The Rock—R. H. J. Garland, P. G. Holloway, Walter Brannan. Galesville—R. G. Harrell, W. D. Adams. Jug—John M. Smith, Will Boyt, Henry Birdsong. Hootenville—E. Y. Birdsong, J, M. Pound, B. R. Birdsong- Blackankle—William Lamb, Bill Slaughter. Reeves —T. D. Ferguson, .0. V. Collier, Mareball Richardson. Flint—D. R. Womble, J. W. Jones, J. T. Beverly. Peugh’s Mill—-C. J. Pengh/A. S. Waller, R. W. Gordy. Debray—John W. Gordy, W. P. Burnett, J. E. White. One of the managers at each voting place is requested to bring the re turns to Thomaston on Monday fol lowing by 12 o’clock for the purpose of consolidating the votes, the men having the highest number of votes to be the candidates. On motion, each district is ordered to elect one committeeman for “the next ensuing two years. After consultation, we have made the following request of the chair man of the democratic executive com mittee, to-wit: That said committee appoint one man each at the different election precincts in the county to act as managers in connection with the civil officers in the different dis tricts at the approaching election. Ordered, that the Thomaston Times and the People’s Party Paper be requested to publish these proceed ings- J. D. H. Thompson, Ch’mn. J. W. Warren, Sec’y. Seventh Congressional District. Cartersville Voice. The convention of the People’s party, called for the purpose of nominating a candidate to represent the. Seventh congressional district in the Fifty-third congress met at the court-house in this city Thursday, September 2, at 12 o’clock, and was called to order by H. D. Hutchinson, chairman of the People’s party ex ecutive committee. Hon. Robert Dougherty, of Wal ker, was elected permanent chair man and John D. Cunningham, jr., of Cobb, and P. H. Larey, of Bar tow, secretaries. The calling of the roll of delegates showed a full delegation from each county. On motion of Dr. D. M. Russell* of Polk, the convention adopted, in to to, the national and State plat forms of the People’s party, and, on motion of Col. Blance, of Polk, the nominess of the party for president and vice-president—Generals Wea ver and Field—were endorsed. The hearty endorsement of Hon. Tom Watson and his course in Congress was given by the convention. Nominations were then declared in order, and on motion of J. Daniel, of Polk, it was decided to ominate by acclamation. P--Cpl* Blance, in an c)loquent_ speech, placed in nomination the name? of~ Hon. Seaborn Wright, of Floyd. The nomination was seconded by W. L. Palmer, of Floyd, P. H. Larey, of Bartow, J. D. Cunningham, jr., of Cobb, W. W. Shields, of Catoosa, and G. M. Christian, of Whitfield. R. H. Dodd, of Bartow, moved that all be allowed to second the nomina tion by a rising vote. The vote was then declared unanimous. On motion of E. O.* Stafford, of Murray, a committee of three was appointed to notify Mr. Wright of his nomination. The committee ap pointed by the chair were E. O. Stafford, J. A. Blance and M. L. Palmer. One delegate from each county was elected to serve on the executive committee, the chairman of the con vention to be chairman of that com mittee. The following named gen tlemen were chosen : Robert Dougherty, of Walker, chairman; R. H. Dodd, Ford, Ga.; G. P. Harris, Ringgold; A. J. Moore, Gore; W. P. Bas well, Smyrna; J. E. Patterson, Wildwood; G. W. Fleet wood, Floyd Springs; D. B. Clark, Adairsville; M. V. Sewell, Talla poosa ; E. O. Stafford, Dennis; J. T. Whitworth, Roxana; L. Sutherlin, Cedartown ; H. Y. Puryear, Villa now ; G. M. Christian, Rockyface. From Wilkinson. The Democrats of this county got the negroes to have a big Republi can barbecue on the first of Septem ber in Irwinton,- our county site. It leaked out this way, that they got a good Democrat negro by the name of John Brown to go around to see all the Democratic white friends to throw in money to go to Macon and hire Jeff Long and another negro to come down and speak to the colored people of this county, but there were few colored people out. The negroes said they could not catch them that way, as they intended to vote for the People’s party. Col. Frank Cham bers, of Irwinton, the Democrat!® nominee for the Senate,was the very man that went to Macon and made the trade with Jeff Long to come and do the work. We are solid in this county, and gaining every day. NOTICE. According to a call of the Execu tive Committee of the People’s party of the 7th Senatorial District, dele gates from Thomas, Brooks and Col quitt counties met in McDonald, September 2nd, 1892, in convention, and unanimously nominated J. M. Odom, of Colquitt county for the Senate. The above was ordered published in the People’s Ecomomist, the Peo ple s Party Paper and the Southern Alliance Farmer. W. A. Barrow, Secretary. * 5