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MR. WATSON’S APPOINTMENTS.
Atlanta (at night) October 10.
LaGrange, October 12.
Sruarr’s Station, October 14.
Macon (at night) October 17.
Gordon. October 19.
Dublin, October 21.
In Atlanta and Macon I desire to
speak alone and will not divide time.
In LaG-range I will divide time
with Mr. Moses; at Smarr’s Station
with Mr. Cabaniss; at Dublin with
Mr. Turner. No substitutes need
apply at any of the appointments
The Congressmen of the different
districts must dance up and “tote
their own skillets.” This especially
applies to Mr. Crisp at the Cordele
appointment.
This challenge carries with it the
division of time as already indicated.
Southern Alliance Farmer please
copy. Thos. E. Watson.
September 12, 1892.
Oh, Major where are you
nt? You have just a little bit of a
record of your own.
Rev. Thad Pickett is cruel to the
animals. He made Livingston say
that he never said it, or if he said it
he never meant it. And he rubbed
it in!
The effort to steal the People’s
audience which had assembled to
hear Cyclone Davis in Atlanta
Thursday night wasn’t a blooming
success. The audience didn’t stay
out the performance. If Mr. Liv
ingston desired joint debate he took
an odd way to get it. He might
have let the speaker know.
The people of Atlanta can be
brought out to a political meeting;
Cyclone Davis can fill any hall in
the city, stranger that he is. After
the pitiable attempts of the Demo
crats to arouse interest, such improv
ised meetings as that of last night
are truly refreshing.
An old Georgian says that the
railroad was in politics in this State
some years ago. Then Joe Brown’s
managers gave it out that the em
ployees on the roads he leased must
vote for Bullock or be discharged.
Many gave up their places, but more
stayed and voted. Then, the old
Georgian says, Evan Howell was
Bullock’s solicitor-general. He and
Joe Brown now help out Democracy.
The Atlanta Constitution made
copious extracts from Harrison’s let
ter of acceptance, but really gave
its readers less than half of the
rather lengthy document. Os course,
it was the duty of the editor to re
print only such parts as was inter
esting to his readers. Ben Harrison
is President of the United States,
and the people might take an in
terest in his letter beyond its literary
merit. But the editor is—the editor
The many compliments paid the
admirable reports of the joint dis
cussion in the Tenth district are de
served. The truth is, that after the
first reports, at Thomson and Sparta,
the dailies have not dared invent
language for Mr. Watson. The re
action after comparison with the full
report in this paper has been too
great for their nerves. Mr. Driscol
has done credit to his profession and
won an enviable popularity with the
people of the tenth district.
PEOPLE’S PARTY PAPER, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16. 1892.
REY. BRADWELL AND HIS CLAIM.
CONGRESSMAN TOM WATSON DEFEATS A
WORTHY COLORED MAN’S CLAIM IN
CONGRESS.
Read what the Rev. Chas. L. Bradwell
says :
“As a constituent of Hon. L. F. Liv
ingston, Member of Congress from the
sth District, I make the following state
ment :
“Mr. Livingston had in charge for me
a claim against the Government, which
was regarded as just and equitable by
the Senators and Members of Congress
from Georgia. The claim would have
passed had it not been for Hon. Thos. E.
Wateon, who called the regular order on
his colleague, and placed every obstacle
in the way. If Mr. Watson is the repre
sentative of the Third Party, his party
and himself are not friends to the col
ored people, and I advise my people not
to vote for him.
“Charles L. Brad well.”
Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 37, 1892.
That blue-ribbon donkey, W, J. Northen’, went down into the Tenth
district, taking along with him the Rev. C. L. Bradwell, and told the
colored people they should vote ag’inst the entire People’s Party Ticket
generally, and Mr. Watson specially, because the latter prevented Brad
well’s claim from being paid.
Our readers will see from the above Private Bill, approved by the Presi
dent four years ago, that Bradwell’s claim has been paid in full.
They will further see that said Bradwell is trying to swindle the tax
payers, black and white, by having the claim paid a second time.
They will further see that L. F. Livingston is the member of Congress
who is specially endeavoring to help Bradwell rob the tax-payers.
They will further see that both our Senators were willing that the swin
dle should be perpetrated.
They will further see (by authority of the above circular) that every
member of Congress from Georgia was willing that the steal should be
consummated—with the sole exception of Mr. Watson.
If the circular is to be credited, then Mr. Watson was the only member
of Congress from Georgia who stood between the tax-payers and this band
of treasury looters.
Hit us again, ye heavy-headed Democratic jackasses. T. E. W.
DEMOCRATIC INSANITY.
Oh, didn’t they make a mess of
it on Anthony Wilson?
And in their wild endeavor to
catch on their feet they stumbled in>
into the most disgraceful mess any
campaign committee encountered.
Regardless of expense they flood
ed the State with an illustrated circu
lar on the Bradwell claim.
The People’s party was to be des
troyed because Mr. YVatson in his
effort to call up the sub-treasury bill
had blocked the way of the “just
claim” of a “worthy colored man.”
This worthy colored man had all
the ropes in good working order and
would have got his “just claim”
paid had it not been for that imp of
Satan, Tom Watson.
But lo and behold! Said Watson
quietly sends to "Washinpton and his
friend Dunning (ever faithful,
prompt and true) sends him “the
Record, showing that in 1888 Brad
well was paid some fifteen
hundred dollars “in full payment of
the claim.”
What will* the honest white and
black people say about that ?
Will they not have unlimited con
tempt for Governor Northen and the
Democratic party when they see how
completely his fraud has been ex
posed ?
Will they not see how completely
this incident illustrates how the tax
payers have been robbed by fraudu
lent claims, and by careless Repre
sentatives ?
Will they not despise a party
which is trying to retain offices they
are so unworthy to fill?
Will they not despise campaign
methods so false, so fradulant, so
utterly at variance with honor?
In their blind hatred of Mr. Wat
son and their efforts to crush him,
they have only succeeded in bring
ing to light another attempt to de
spoil the treasury, wrong the tax
payer and fatten the lobbyist.
According to the campaign circu-
Livingston and all the rest were try
ing to loot the tax-payer on a dis
honest claim.
Let them come to the front and
explain—or stand disgraced before
the indignant Tax-payers of Geor
gia! T. E. W.
P. S.—Hit us some more—ye
Democratic imbeciles.
Mr. Watson’s appointment at Syl
vania has been changed to Augusta,
October 1. Notice of this change
came after the page containing the
original appointment had been
stereotyped. The appointment of
Gen. Field for Shady Dale, Monday,
Sept. 26, is changed to Monticello,
the same date.
It is a matter of gratification that
the joint debate at Thomson was in
marked contrast with that at Augusta.
In the larger city Mr. Black’s friends
seemed determined that Mr. Watson
should not be heard, and in howling
him down the most opprobrious epi
thets were used, such as traitor, sold
out, bought out, and betrayer of a
trust. Every rule of hospitality was
violated, and the most lying report
[Private No. 745.]
An Act for the relief Chas. L. Bradwell.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States
of America in Congress assembled, That
the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he
is hereby authorized and directed to pay
to Charles L Brad well, late of the coun
ty of Chatham and State of Georgia,
and now a resident of the county of
Bartow, in said State, the suin' of one
thousand five hundred and thirty-two
dollars, the value of cotton belonging to
said Bradwell and delivered by him to
the Federal authorities in the winter of
eighteen hundred and sixty-five under
orders issued by General W. T. Sherman;
and the amount of money necessary to
pay said claim is hereby appropriated
out of any money in the Treasury not
otherwise appropriated, said sum to be
IN FULL SETTLEMENT AND PAYMENT OF
SAID CLAIM.
Approved Sept. 24, 1888.
possible published in next morning’s
paper. At Thomson, on the other
hand, courtesy prevailed, and the
most orderly debate of the series
was conducted. At Augusta the
audience was almost evenly divided.
At Thompson more than three for
one were for Mr. Watson.
HON. J. 11. DAVIS, OF TEXAS.
This stalwart representative of
the People’s cause spoke at Rome
Thursday to an audience of between
700 and 800 people. The arguments
were unanswerable, and were pre
sented in a-manner so forcible as to
capture the audience outright.
When the address was concluded Mr.
Davis asked all who would vote for
the People’s party to rise. Almost
the entire mass arose, amid cheers
and waving of hats and handker
chiefs.
A voice cried out. Hurrah for
Cleveland I and Mr. Davis at once
requested the audience to be seated,
that |he might have a stand up for
Democracy. At his request for all
would vote for the Democratic party
to stand up, about twenty-five of the
unterrified came to their feet.
Thursday night Mr. Davis neces
sarily spent several hours in Atlanta,
on his way to Monroe. Though
short notice was given, the basement
of the court-house was well filled
with an audience anxious to hear the
“cyclone” orator. In a deliberate
and argumentative manner Mr. Davis
sustained the platform of the Peo
ple’s party m its positions on the
great questions of land, transporta
tion and money, leaving no daw to
carp upon. When Mr. Davis had
concluded, Congressman Livingston
demanded joint discussion, but as
Mr. Davis had had no intimation of
the presence of that doughty cham
pion of Clevelandism, and must take
the train in half an hour or miss his
Monroe appointment, the People’s
speaker simply invited him to pro
ceed and take his time, as there
could be no rejoinder. This Mr.
Livingston did, starting out by say
ing that all Mr. Davis had said was
pure democracy.
Wherever Mr. Davis may go, there
is no doubt that he will secure large
audiences, and those audiences will
be repaid for their attendance. He
is a clear and forcible speaker, with
perfect presence of mind and self
possession, and fully equipped by
study to present the People’s side.
GENERAL WEAVER.
The infamous method of personal
abuse adopted by the Journal audits
satellites, in publishing scandalous
falsehoods about General Weaver,
will react upon the detractors. The
military record of General NVeaver
has never before received criticism
from friends or foes, and his simple
statement, in another column, is
sufficient to shame whoever may
have repeated the story of the Pu
laski incident. General Weaver was,
in his military service, the same con
scientious devotee of duty as now,
and if ordered to force a contribu
tion from the town would obey. It
zas no more than was done in Penn
sylvania by Early, and no more than
has been done by invading armies
through all ages. The sum was
small, and it was collected in the
usual military fashion. It was im
posed by the commanding officer,
and Weaver was in no way responsi
ble for it. All else published in the
Democratic papers about Weaver at
Pulaski is plainly false. The truth
is, that at that time General Weaver
was a Christian gentleman, just as
he is now.
The quotations from political
speeches made twenty-five years ago
in a heated campaign are subjects
only of contempt.
The men who quote them daily
make as fierce denunciation of the
People’s party in Georgia, and only
fail to see the absurdity of the posi
tion in which 'they are placed
through anxiety to secure a suppos
ed point against an opponent whose
character they do not understand,
and whose ability and popularity
with the people they dread. That
the Democrats of that day justified
denunciation, the conduct of Demo
crats of this day, proves. In no
authenticated quotation has Weaver
ever been shown to have denounced
the people of the South, men or wo
men.
A STRAIGHT FIGHT.
The canvass in Georgia is to be
without compromises. The true pol
icy of fighting for everything is the
right way to win, and the People
must win. In every county there
should be a legislative ticket, and in
every senatorial district a candidate
for the senate. This will get out the
full vote of the party, and it will
doubtless secure the next Legislature
of Georgia to the cause of reform.
We |want not only Peek and the
State house officers, but we want the
law-making branch of government
even more imperatively. Remember
that the best man the Democrats put
out is not for us, and may be against
us. He may honestly believe in his
party; honest men are often de
ceived. True-blue People’s party
men to the front. The legislature
must be ours.
JACK TURNER.
The nomination of J. H. Turner
by the People of the Fourth con
gressional district is a recognition of
sterling honesty and unflinching de
votion to the cause of reform. 9 When
it became necessary to organize the
Alliance in Georgia, Mr. Turner un
dertook the work, and it proceeded
at a rate almost unexampled in the
history of the movement. His or
ganizing capacity made possible the
splendid fight two years ago in the
congressional elections, the fruits of
which were largely lost through the
political apostacy of Livingston and
Moses. Mr. Turner’s election would
be a green spot in Georgia politics.
The nomination of John Sibley for
Congress in the Seventh district
Thursday, assures the People all
over the State that a vigorous cam
paign will be fought. Sibley is one
of the younger men who have forged
to the front in Georgia recently, and
there seems no doubt that he will
receive a good majority in his district.
F. D. Wimberly is making a vigor
ous fight in the Third district, and
Mr. Speaker Crisp will find it right
absorbing work to keep from being
so rattled as to ask hjmself, “Where
am I at ?”
Attention, Second Congressional Dis
trict.
There will be a big People’s party
rally for said district at Thomasville
Sept. 23.
Addresses will be made by Cyclone
Davis and other distinguished
speakers.
Large delegations from each coun
ty in the district are cordially invit
ed and requested to be present.
Bartow County Convention.
It is ordered that the delegates
appointed to the People’s party
county convention on the 27th of
August, last by the several militia
districts re-assemble at the court
house at Cartersville, on the third
Saturday,!7th,of September,!B92, at
10 o’clock A. M., sharp, either in
person or by written proxy, to nomi
nate a candidate for the legislature.
Done by order of the Executive
Committee September 10, 1892.
W. I. Benham, Chairman.
P. H. Larey, Secretary.
NOTICE.
All members ot the People’s party
are earnestly requested and en
joined to have their names, and the
names of all persons friendly to our
cause, register as the law requires.
Register, Register Register. Then
vote like freemen.
Suggested by Executive Commit
tee ofPeople’s party,Bartow county,
September 10, 1892.
W. I. Benham, Chairman
P. H. Larey, Secretary.
GENERAL WEAVER
Answers the Falsehoods about His Army
Record in Pulaski, Tennessee.
To the People’s Party Paper:
My attention has been called to the
publication in 'various democratic pa
pers concerning my administration as
commander of the post at Pulaski,
Tenn., in the winter of 1863--4. The
charge that I ever imprisoned anyone
and then released him for a moneyed
consideration; or that I ever oppressed
anyone, male or female, or ever charg
ed the people of that locality for passes
through the lines of the federal army,
or that I ever in any manner extorted
money from the people of that locality
and appropriated the same to my own
use, is an unmitigated lie.
I was assigned to the command of
the post at Pulaski by order of Gen.
G. M. Dodge, commander of the left
wing of the 16th army corps. Upon
entering that part of Tennessee, Gen.
Dodge issued an order and made it
public, in which he stated that his
army was in need of supplies of every
kind, and that if the people would
bring in supplies, vouchers would be
rendered for the same without making
any inquiries as to the loyalty or dis
loyalty of the parties. The people
brought in their supplies and vouchers
were given and they were all paid by
the assistant commissary general Cy
rus C. Carpenter. The left wing, 16th
army corps, consisting of several divi
sions of troops, was encamped at
Pulaski during the winter with Gen
eral Dodge in command.
During my administration as com
mander of the post a large number of
refugees came within our lines. They
came from the Confederate army in
Alabama and elsewhere. They were
totally without supplies and destitute,
and at that time they could not be
allowed to depart without restraint.
Gen. Dodge issued an order command
ing me to make a levy of S2OOO, as I
now remember, from wealthy citizens
■ living in the vicinity, for the purpose
of paying for supplies necessary for
the sustenance of these refugees.' In
obedience to that order I issued an or
der reciting the authority under which
I was acting and served it upon cer
tain parties, doubtless the parties nam
ed in the circular sent out from Pulas
ki. The money collected was paid
direct to Col. Cyrus C. Carpenter,
assistant commissary general of the
left wing 16th army corps, and did not
pass through my hands, if I remember
correctly, and the wants of the refu
gees were supplied. In no event was
one cent of it retained by myself.
Gen. Dodge is well known to the
people of the whole country, being at
present in charge of an extensive rail
way system in the Southwest, and Col.
Carpenter has since served as an officer
in the treasury department, as a mem
ber of congress, and as governor of the
state of lowa. To those officers, and
to all others who knew me in the army
I refer all questions concerning my
rectitude and honorable conduct as a
soldier. There is not a human being,
man, woman or child, living or dead,
that I ever, oppressed or mistreated
whilst I was in the service of my coun
try. I did not disposess any one of
their dwelling houses and appropriate
the same for officers quarters during
my stay in Pulaski. My headquarters
were in the Court House and I board
ed with a private family, that of Mrs.
Ballentyne. The officers of my regi
ment lived in their tents in line with
their respective companies. The sev
eral divisions, brigades and regiments
encamped at Pulaski were not under
my authority—not even my own regi
ment—while I was in command of the
Post. It is manifestly absurd and silly
to charge to my account the misfor
tunes and misdeeds incident to the
military occupancy of that part of the
country. It is promulgated for an
evil purpose and is too transparent to
deceive any one.
The confiscation of property is cruel,
the taking of life is cruel, every phase
of war is cruel, and unfortunately our
unhappy country had a surfeit of it.
For my standing in the , community,
and during the time I commanded
the said post I refer to Mr.
Harris, the Ballentyne family, Rev.
Robert Caldwell and others who
lived in Pulaski at the time of my
sojourn there. My association with
the people was as peaceful and
fraternal as possible during the exist
ence of hostilities, and remarkably so
in all that region of the country.
No complaints were ever made to
me concerning the matter now hatched
up, and so far ag I know none ware
ever made to Gen. Dodge. The troops
at Pulaski were under the command of
of Gen. Dodge and I was acting under
his authority myself. Had I been
guilty of the outrages charged, he
would, upon being made acquainted
with the fact, have removed me in
stantly. Fraternally,
J. B. Weaver.
A Kansas Paper for Ten Cents.
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this paper can get the Beacon, pub
lished in Great Bend, Kansas, until
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Beacon, Great Bend, Kansas.
A clean-up of the city should be
the first duty of the authorities.
Cholera might hurt the police and
aidermen more than People’s party
success.
Echoes from the Augusta Meeting.
Lookout for the truth abaut the
Augusta meeting next week. “ A
chiel’s among ye takin’ notes.”
A Chronic(le) liar said that “it is
liberal to say that they (the People’s
party) composed a tenth of the au
dience.” Then what a contemptibly
cowardly figure they cut, if one could
hold his own against ten. Bah!
Mr. J. W. Hill, of Norwood, is a
tower of strength. Surrcftmded by a
score of the toughest toughs from
Hancock, he more than held his own
in repartee. Long may he wave.
Taking Monday night’s meeting as
an indox, Mr. Watson will not only car
ry the Tenth district overwhelmingly,
but will actually carry the city of
Augusta. Notwithstanding the fact
that the Georgia Railroad has been
transporting drunken crowds from
point to point, if labeled for Black,
Watson actually had a majority at
the meeting Mouday night, both in
numbers and courage. Let the bull
dozers try any game of fraud in No
vember, but before had
better leave their measures with the
undertaker.
Mr. Watson was deluged with
flowers. Below are a few notes ac
cpmpanying them :
Augusta, Ga., September 12.
Hon. Thomas E. Watson:
We, the ladies of the Fifth ward, pre
sent to you these bouquets in honor to
you and your just cause of the people,
and more especially the third party. W e
will continue to extend our aid to you
and your cause, for we know the injus
tice of the political parties heretofore.
Ladies of the Fifth Ward.
4 To Hon. T., E. Watson: This bouquet
of flowers is presented to you by the la
dies of the Fifth ward of Augusta, and
we beg you to accept as a token of our
sincerity.
Compliments of Mrs. R. L. Swan, to
Hon. Tom Watson.
Compliments of Mrs. W. L. Parish.
With compliments of Mrs. W. C. Chap
man, to Hon. Thomas Watson.
Presented by Little Mamie Raynolds,
West End, to Hon Tom. Watson.
From Augusta.
Augusta, Ga., Sept. 8.
The Fifth Ward People’s Parte
Club in regular session. After thy
disposal of the important business
matter before it, unanimously passed
the following resolutions without a
desenting voice:
1. That we do most heartily en
dorse the St. Louis and Omaha plat
forms, and will not vote for any man
who does not stand squarely with
us on these demands.
2 That we fully endorse the
course of Hon. Thos. E. Watson, and
promise him our support as long as
he stands by the demands of the
people.
3. That we do endorse the full
People’s party ticket, National,
State and county, from President to
coroners clerk, and that we will do
all in our power to elect them, be
lieving them to have the interest of
the people at heart.
Chas S. Abney,
Chairman,
Green B. Lively,
Secretary.
Second Senatorial District*
This convention was called for the pur
pose of nominating a candidate for senA
tor for the Second Senatorial District.
Was called to order September sth, 1892,
by electing G. W. Smith, chairman, and
J. N. Sullivan, secretary.
After a fervent, deliberate and unbiased
consideration of the good and interest of
the country .and the people, Mr. R. K.
Walker, of Crescent, Ga., was unani
mously nominated and put before the
people for election to the senate.
On motion, the following committee
was appointed to notify Mr. Walker of
his nomination: H. C. Smith, Dr. A. I
Hendry, W. H. Hall.
G. W. Smith, Chairman.
J. N. Sullivan, Secretary.
Letter of Acceptance.
To the Members of the People’s Party-
Convention of the Eleventh Senatorial
District:
Gentlemen—Through your committee
I have been notified of your action. I
must say than the honor, on my part, was
unsought for; and further, it was under
my protest—not because my heart, souL
time and strength was not with you; not
because I was deterred from fear of criti
cisms, the justice of the move, nor doubt
of the triumph of so just a cause—but
because I had no aspirations for political
honors; and further, because I knew
there were others better qualified to serve
in this honorable and important position.
But as you have seen fit to place the ban
ner in my hands, I feel that I would be
recreant to trust and duty not to accept.
Therefore, thanking you for your confi
dence—the honor of placing me as the
standard-bearei’ of the People’s party of
the Eleventh Senatorial District, I will
do all in my power to carry the banner
ro victory, and no action of mine will
ever cause it to trail in the dust, and if
honored with the suffrages of the people,
my influence and votes will be in the In
terest of the people and of the principles
and platform upon which you have placed
me. G. W Crepps.
Fort Gaines, Ga.
FIRST CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.
Hon. W. R. Kemp will address the
people at the following times and
places, to-wit:
Statesboro, Bullock county, Sept. Iff.
Reedsville, Tatnall county, Sept. 17.
Hinesville, Liberty county, Sept 19.
Clyde, Bryan county, Sept. 23.
Savannah, Chatham county, Sept. 24.
Pooler, Ch a; ham county, Sept. 26
Springfield, Effingham county, Sept. 23
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 ::rom now until the elec
tion.