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SOKG or A PEERLESS POLITICIAN.
IS SUNG BY HIMSELF AT DIVERS PLACES IN
THE TENTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.
[BY PERMISSION OF w. S. GILBERT.]
When I entered the race for my friend
Watson’s seat
(Said I to myself—said I),
A sharp trick I must play or Til surely
be beat
(Said I to myself—said I),
Bo I’ll simply assume that a trust or a
ring
Is a very good thing—yes, a very good
thing ;
Os this and much more I’ll presently
sing—
(Said. I to myself—said I.)
Arcadia will do for the heyday of
youth *
(Said I to myself—said I);
But the ring’s charmed circle bears
much richer fruit
(Said I to mystlf—said I);
For a peerless Kentuckian, as everyone
knows,
In the evening of life seeks luxurious
repose,
And all things come to him who indus
triously sows
(Said I to myself—said I.)
To get there I’ll throw dust in Alliance
men’s eyes
(Said I to myself—said I),
And I’ll hoodwink wage-workers, who
are not very wise
(Said I to myself—said I);
I’ll tell them its wrong to desert the
partee,
Which for twenty years robbed them
and they did not see
How adroitly we managed that slick
robberie
(Said I to myself—said I.)
Ere I go on the stump I’ll get my piece
by rote
(Said I to myself—said I);
I’ll instruct them just what they should
and should not vote
(Said I to myself—said I);
That their wrongs are delusions and
snares for their feet;
That I’m their friend, but their demands
do not meet
My lordly approval, so they’d best take
their seat
(Said I to myself—said I.)
In other professions in which men en
gage
(Said I to myself—said I),
The Army, the Navy, the Church, and
the Stage
(Said I to myself—said I);
Such professional license is not just the
thing,
But then everything’s fair once you’re
inside the ring,
So, my friends, that’s the reason that
thusly I sing
(Said I to myself—said I.)
BLACKGUARDISM REBUKED.
1 Black Clacquer Insults Mr. Watson.
Mr. Watson Puts a Black Badge
Under his Left Eye. Even
Democrats Applaud.
*1 right the wrong wherever given,
E’en though ’twere in the court of
Heaven.”
As the train pulled out of Thom
son about 1:30 o’clock, on last Mon
day, going to Augusta, your reporter
was joined by Mr. Watson and a
young gentleman, Mr. Sanders, of
Warren county. Mr. Watgon took
the inside seat, facing Augusta, Mr.
Sanders to his left and I on the op
posite seat. The train stopped for
some cause, and while we were con
versing a fellow of the genus black
guard named Jordan, as I got it
from the Chronicle, entered the car
and when opposite the seat in which
Mr. Watson was sitting he said in a
loud tone, though many ladies were in
the oar, “Hurrah for Black, by G—d!
Tom Watson was elected as an Alli
ance Democrat, turned traitor and
sold out to the Republicans.”
With an agility that would do
credit to Sullivan in his palmiest
days, Mr. Watson sprang across Mr.
Sanders in two strides, saying, “You
are a liar,” and dealt three or four
stinging blows on the miscreant’s
face. 1 doubt whether he knows
yet where he is at. He carries a
black mark as a badge.
A gentleman whose name I could
not learn, from Augusta, who had a
wife and baby on board, spoke in a
loud tone asking for peace on ac
count of the ladies. Mr. Watson
said that he was always for peace in
or out of the presence of ladies, but
he would always resent -such an in
sult no matter where or from whom
it came.
Although at least five-sixths of the
occupants of the car were Black
men, yet there was not one who did
not applaud the act. Mr. Watson
emphasized his words at Sparta }
namely, “that no white-feathered
man could represent the Tenth dis
trict, for the Tenth was not a white
feathered district.”
After it was all over the conduc
tor came to Mr. Watson and began
expostulating with him for striking
a passenger, stating that he did not
know at the time the nature of the
insult but since learning the facts he
thought he had ample provocation ;
but, he continued, it is a bad place
for a difficulty, and put it in the light
that he was the one to attend to all
«u ch matters. Mr. Watson promptly
PEOPLE’S PARTY PAPER, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1892.
told him that if he offered such an
insult, conductor as he was, he would
as promptly knock him down; that
he had no favors to ask of the
Georgia Railroad; and let him or
any other hirelings of the Georgia
road repeat the offence and they
would find him just as prompt in the
future as on this occasion to punish
the agressors.
People of Georgia, it is a desper
ate state of affairs when railroads
pass stump speakers from point to
point, and transport train loads of
drunken rowdies to browbeat and
insult the citizens of a free State.
There is a very potent remedy close
at hand—take advantage of it. By
your ballots show the enemies of the
people that you are not to be either
brow-beaten or bought.
I have it from scores of reputable
gentlemen that men with Black
badges are passed free. Strike
down this monstrous iniquity. Not
only strike down but bury it so deep
that it will not again dare to raise its
gorgon head among a free and inde
pendent people. J. L. Driscol.
MR. JAMES BARRETT, FARMER,
On the Management of the Georgia
Agricultural Department.
Augusta, Ga., Sept. 1, 1892.
Hon. J. A Sibley, President, and Mr.
Frank Burt, Secretary:
Gentlemen —Your favor, enclosing a
resolution of the People’s party in mass
meating, inviting me to be present on
the sth instant, was received while I was
absent from home, and under the circum
stances it was impossible to avail myself
of the opportunity of meeting with the
good people of your county.
Every citizen of Georgia has a right to
know the position occupied by candidates
for the suffrages of the people and their
views upon public questions.
I have always considered the office of
Commissioner of Agriculture as non-po
political, and that the administration of
its affairs should be non-partis&n. It was
established for the sole benefit of the
farmers, ■without being used to injure
other interests; but I fear that it has been
used to foster other interests to the detri
ment of the agriculturists. If Colonel
Nesbitt did not get his nomination over
Henderson by a trade, and then give the
cold shoulder* to the worthy gentleman
who secured him the nomination, rumor
has done him great injustice. Mr. Hun
nicutt could give valuable information on
this subject; and if the same be true, then
a position which was created for the
farmers, and in their interest, has been
made the subject of trade by a scheming
politician. The appointments which fol
lowed, and the office-holders under Nes
bitt are the surest index to the manner in
which the office is managed. As most
of them are from your section, it might
be interesting for you to inquire and as
certain their connection with the farmers
of Georgia.
Colonel Waddell was dropped for Mr.
Hunnicutt, a practical farmer, and said
to be practical and successful. When Dr.
Hunnicutt was dropped, who succeeded
him ? Why ? If there has been a farmer
among them I have been misinformed.
It looks like somebody had to be paid
for influence, and that they have been
and are being paid. No wonder that not
one man of five hundred of our farmers
has ever realized the slighest benefit from
the Department, and no wonder there is
a strong feeling to have this bureau
closed, and the treasury door closed
against it.
Colonel Nesbitt himself charged abso
lute inefficiency when administered by
Judge Henderson, and said, give me a
trial; and if I mistake not, said if he did
no better, then abolish the Department.
If I could admit or believe that all the
wisdom of the State was embodied in
Colonel Nesbitt, |and that it’could not be
made useful to the farmers if he failed,
I would agree with him and the people
who demand that the Department should
no longer be a tax to the people without
benefit; but -when Colonel Nesbitt has
proven himself a pronounced failure as a
farmer, as ahown by the condition of his
own farm, and bis help like failures when
on the farm, jt does seem the sublimity
of folly to expect anything but failure at
their hands. If the farmer voters of
Georgia, without regard, to party affilia
tion, will ask themselves the question,
and see what benefit they have derived
from Mr. Nisbet’s administration, and
vote accordingly, my judgment is that
he will get only as many votes as he has
offices and the favored few who have
sold or received seed nt the expense of
the toiling farmers of the State.
“This distribution of seeds” would be
laughable and rediculously funny but
for the cost. The farmer pays a small
tax—yes, very small, as Col. Nesbitt
says—for the inspection of his fertilizers,
when not one of his inspectors could
analyze if his life were at stake. But
this small tax is like all our other
taxes —amounts to a large sum, taken
from the people without any just or
adquate compensation. The farmer pays
the tax on his tag and raises the money,
for the dealer gets his pay, just as the
importer of foreign goods does, and
charges all cost to the consumer. Col.
Nesbitt gets the money and employs the
sons and relatives of men who helped to
elect him and pays them out of the tax
money, and from this money buys
beans, peas, and all sorts of seed of the
same variety and kind our grand
mothers had, and then gives them,
freight and postage paid, to all, “my
supporters around town and few friends
in the country.”
The tax is small—indeed not felt when
the guano note is signed—but when all
the other taxes, all small, are added to
gether, the farmer finds when his cotton
is sold that he has nothing left, except it
be the consolation of knowing that he
has, by hard labor of himself, wife and
children, supported in comfort and ease
Georgia’s Commissioner of Agriculture,
his wife and children, and the attachees
of his department, their wives and chil
dren, and all for the unselfish reason
that they could not support themselves,
their wives and children; but as the tax
is small, we farmers (for I am a farmer)
might pay it just for the luxury of
having so valuable a Commissioner of
Agriculture. But when he notifies Wall
street and Liverpool and the money
sharks of the world that we can make
cotton for 3| cents per pound, I regard it
in all seriousness the most fatal and
deadly stab he could have made at ot!r
interest. It is folly and a sin against
light and knowledge to-day that the
money to buy our cotton comes from
Wall street and the Eastern cities, or
from Liverpool and Europe through
New York and the East, and that Wall
street and the East, in conjunction with
Liverpool, fix the price upon the basis of
India cotton, regulated by the value of
our depreciated silver bullion.
We have no money. We can’t hold
our cotton. They fix the price and it
must go at their bid. They fix the price
upon our toil and labor. Gold and not
labor is the unit of value, and Col. Nes
bitt says that our labor is only worth
3| cents for every pound of cotton we
make, when he could not make it for
ten cents per pound. CoL Nesbitt denies
saying, or meaning, what he did say. I
will give him credit for not meaning
what he said, for I have no idea that a
Georgian, who had the most remote
idea of the relation of labor to capital,
or the least interest of his people at
heart, would have made a statement so
full of disaster to his people. But what
did Col. Redding, his Superintendent of
the mis-called Experimental Station at
Griffin, say on the same subject? Let
the delegates present answer. The only
reason that we have not seen and felt the
effect of that statement is that nobody
w’ho had ever made a bale of cotton by
his own labor, or had it done and kept
an accurate account, believed it. But
mark it in the opening prices. Wall
Street will hold cotton down as low as
possible and see how cheap we can make
it.
That experimental farm is also a. part
of the same department, with Col. Nes
bitt at the head. You farmers are taxed
for that too. Unlike the Atlanta affair,
farming in the Capitol building with
workmen who don’t know the use of
tools, they have a farm at Griffin and
have demonstrated what can be done in
Georgia, on Georgia soil, without regard
to cost. They can make enormous crops
of cotton, and the cereals, and grasses,
and have demonstrated that they can
make cheese,-and that dairying is profit
able ; and yet have not made forage or
hay enough to feed their own horses that
are used on the farm. Here is another
luxury for which you are taxed.
It is rumored that Col. Nesbitt is pro
posing to establish a cheese factory in
Cobb. If on the same principle as ex
periments of the Griffin concern, the
cows will be fed on bought food—cotton
seed meal and hulls, I suppose. The
salaries will not, I assume, be so good as
at Griffin, for the State won’t pay them.
We need and must have cheese factories,
dairies and larger yields of all crops
which our soil aud climate favor; and
we must know what they are, but we
will never know but instead get deeper
in the dark until we organize and man
age our Department of Agriculture very
differently from the present and adopt
methods which will be a blessing to the
toiling farmers.
If elected I shall apply the means and
adopt the methods which have done so
much for France and Germany, Eng
land and other countries, and if I, like
my friend Col. Nesbitt, prove to be an
other failure, don’t surrender your de
partment but yet some man who has the
knowledge and ability to help you im
prove your methods of farming and to
realize some profit on your labor. You
create the wealth and should have the
profit which you do not get at present
prices while burdened by iniquitous tax
ation.
Very respectfully your fellow-oitizen,
James Barrett.
DeKalb County.
The following named gentlemen
were nominated by the People’s
party for county offices at a meeting
held in Decatur, Ga., Sept. 6 :
Ordinary—P. B. McCurdy.
Clerk Court—J. W. Corly.
Sheriff—J. M. Hunter.
Treasurer—H. M. Lankford.
Tax Collector—T. R. Floyd.
Tax Receiver—W. G. Akin.
Surveyor—H. B. Morgan.
Coroner—W. F. A. Dickerson.
After the nomination CoL Sara
Taliaferro delivered a telling speech.
He knocked the force bill out on the
first round. The tariff and financial
questions were discussed in a mas
terly manner. J. L. Chupp then de
livered a short address and the meet
ing was declared adjourned.
W. P. Lankford.
To Sub-Alliances of Burke County.
Our regular quarterly meeting will
be held on Thursday, September 29,
instead of the first Thursday in Oc
tober as heretofore. I make this
change to avoid conflict with the
election for State officers, which
comes off the first Wednesday in
October.
I hope every Sub-Alliance will be
fully represented, and that as many
brethren and sisters who are not
delegates will attend as can conven
iently do so.
The Farmers Alliance is the
strongest and most successful organ
ization farmers ever had.
It has disseminated more knowl
edge; destroyed more prejudice, and
imbued more people with a feeling
of brotharly love in its short life
than almost all other farmers organi-
zations combined. These are rea
sons fully sufficient for its perpetua
tion. Just now the enemy is invad
ing our ranks and steadily seeking
to destroy our noble order, for they
see its power—they see the strength
and advantage it can and will give
to us if properly granted, and our
utter helplessness without it.
V ith these plain facts in view, let
every man and every woman nerve
themselves up to a prompt perform
ance of duty, and my word for it
God will bless us. Let every one
say I will do my whole duty this
year.
At Union Academy at 10 o’clock
sharp, Thursday, September 29.
Fraternally and truly,
Wm. C. San deford,
. President.
From Carroll County.
Rett, Ga., Sept. 12.
I have wondered, when hearing
accounts of Moses’ speeches in his
district, why it is that he should de
vote the bulk of his eloquence to
abuse of Tom Watson and his
book, when none of his hearers
could have the privilege of voting
for Tom, no matter how strongly
they may be that way inclined.
But in reading the published report
of his speech tn Carrollton, I think I
see what is the matter. He says
Tom Watson has a gold mine in his
book and paper. Mr. Moses is
afraid we are reading Tom Watson’s
book in the Fourth, and that is the
sorrow that kills him. Hence all
his abuse of Tom and the book. Let
everybody in the Fourth District
buy Tom Watson’s book and read it
and see if Moses is right about that.
It would be a pity if his laborious
efforts to give it a free advertise
ment should go unrewarded. And
Moses says that Tom Watson is
afraid to meet him. Tom Watson
afraid! The man who stood up for
the Alliance demands in Congress
against the combined forces of the
plutocratic world, and the Demo
cratic Congress, and the Associated
Press, and stood alone! The only man
from Georgia who dared to do what
he was sent there to do, and that
in the face of such tremendous op
position! This required a magnifi
cent courage. And now he is afraid
to meet Charley Moses! I do not
believe Tom Watson knows how a
man feels when he is afraid. But
the Democrats have shown . conclu
sively every time the two parties
have met that there is one thing
they are very much afraid of, a>id
that is for the people to hear the
other side of* the question. The
methods they take to' prevent the
People’s party speakers from being
heard show how much they dread
the effects of the truth upon the
voters of the State.
Let us take a brief review of the
situation in the Fourth District.
Two years ago, when the conven
tion met to nominate a candidate for
Congress there was no question
made as to whether the man was a
Democrat or notjthat was not empha
sized at all, for they were all Demo
crats. But the fact that gave Moses
the advantage over Grimes and Har
ris was that he was an Allianceman,
pledged to work and vote for the
Alliance demands as formulated in
the St. Louis platform. This plat
form demanded the abolition of
National Banks, the enactment of
the sub-treasury, free and unlimited
coinage of silver, Government own
ership of railroads, opposition to
alien and corporate ownership of
lands.
Ail these things Mr. Moses most
heartily pledged himself to advocate,
and being measured with the Alli
ance yardstick, was pronounced all
wool and a yard wide, and so was
nominated in spite of the fact that
the Carroll delegation voted against
him ot the last.
No fair minded man can claim
that he was nominated because he
was a good Democrat, for to do so
would be to reflect upon the Demo
cracy of Parris and Grimes. Hence
it is plain that Moses owes his first
allegiance not to the Democratic
party, but to the Alliance demands,
and whenever these two sepai ate he
should in honor be found with the
latter, and not the former. The Al
lianceman who prefers party success
to the success of the Alliance princi
ples is unworthy of the name. Now
Ido not think Mr. Moses as an Al
lianceman could consistently go into
a Democratic caucus,because by that
he agreed to vote with the majority
of the caucus no matter how they de
cided, thus sacrificing Alliance prin
ciples to party policy. The Alliance
did not at fiist contemplate going
into a new party, but, Tyhen they
found their demands rejected by
both old parties they were forced,
either to abandon their demands or
the old parties. A number of them
wanted to go into a new party at
Ocala, others were opposed to this
course. They all agreed to wait
until February, 1892, and then hold
a convention to decide what shall be
the political course of the Alliance.
A large majority of the Alliance
of Georgia were convinced before
that time, that the only course left
for them was to go into a new party.
But they were restrained by exhor
ta ions from the Alliance leaders,
htsded by Livingston and Larry
Gantt, to wait till the St. Louis
convention and abide the action
taken by that body. Moses was a
delegate from the Georgia Alliance
to the St. Louis convention. He
took part in the convention and is in
honor bound to abide the action of
a majority of that convention.
What is Mr. Moses’ position to
day?
He has been nominated by the
Democrats upon a platform that en
tirely ignores every demand of the
Alliance. He is pledged to vote for
a presidential nominee who is known
to be relentlessly opposed to every
demand of the Alliance. He is
using all his efforts to injure Tom
Watson, who advocated Alliance
principles in Congress as well as
while making his canvass in Georgia,
and he is trying to aid in the election
of Black, a man who denounces the
sub-treasury as unconstitutional, un-
Demooratic and wrong. He is ridi
culing in his speech the very prin
ciples which two years ago he
pledged himself to advocate.
Under these circumstances, I do
not see how any Allianceman can
vote for Charley Moses. Os course
the Democrats will vote for him.
They love him like the Atlanta
Journal loves Livingston. They
take him as a man takes a dose of
quinine, to keep from having a chill.
But sometimes the man takes the
quinine and then has the chill.
L. T. Russell.
Good-bye Jimmie.
From the Pinetuck Times.
Oh, just give us a chance. Te
have never had a chance yet. That
is what the Democrats say down
here who had the majority in the
last Congress. Well, I believe it
it was Democrats who killed the
free silver bill. I d@n’t know, I
think it was Democrats. Yes; well,
what did they kill it for? I think it
was to keep down the force bill.
Well, you are easy bluffed. Who
was going to pass the force bill? Re
publicans. How could they pass it
through a Demodratic house if they
are not in together? Their excuse
will not do, and their promises we
cannot stand. They don’t like Tom
just because he will stick to his
principles, party or no party.
I saw a paper the other day that
said, we will give Major Black all
the votes in Richmond county, and
then Tom will carry this district.
This is true, but we expect to let
them know on election day that we
are not all Black men in this county.
I want to be true about it, and I
don’t want to lie like some of t.e
Democrats did that went to Craw
fordsville the other day and thought
they were the only men there. This
county is about equally divided be
tween Democrats and People’s party
and this is the strongest Democratic
county in the Tenth District. All
■we ask is our rights. They are try
ing to buy all they can to vote their
ticket down here. One man has sold
out for a dollar and a half. It was
more than he was worth. I believe
a man who will sell his vote is dis
honest, and a man who will buy one
is the same.
It will be good-by e Jimmie Black
this fall.
Major, why do you ask for the
colored vote? ,1 thought you -was
afraid of negro supremacy.
Hon W. H. Fleming thinks that
we are fools because we are People’s
party. If we are he will find out
that there is more fool men than
Black men on election day. I have
a nice sample of Democracy, we
have a man down here who says, if
it was not for the laws of the coun
try he would take is gun and kill all
his fool kinfolks because they are
People’s party. We are not afrrid
of him, for if he was fool-killer he
would commit suicide first thing.
Mind, John, don’t kill yourself. The
Democrats would not be responsible
for it. John, we are all glad that
the law is such a protection to us,
and if you don’t like such laws you
ought not to get so mad -with us for
wanting better laws.
I believe in peace and plenty, but
as long as Wall street has control of
us we will not have either for a man
has high temper when low victuals.
The idsa of running a railroad
lawyer against Tom Watson is
enough to open your eyes, boys, and
then trying to buy votes is another
thing I object to. Why can’t you be
honest and truthful,
The Augusta Evening News said
the other day that the Republicans
met to nominate a man for Congress
from the Tenth district, but decided
to support Major Black rather than
to nominate one of their own party.
I tell you, boys, there is another
fine sample of Democracy.
Our lines are filling in every day.
It is nothing strange to see a man
crawl out of the Democratic ditch
and say, “Well, I am a People’s
party man.” Why? “Well,when I
thought I was a Democrat I did not
know what I was, and I don’t know
precisely yet, but I do know enough
to know I am not one”.
Bath, Ga. D. S. Blackstone.
AN OPEN LETTER.
Hon. Thos. E. Watson:
Dear Sir and Bro: For and
in behalf of the North Carolinians of
the People’s party, who have, with
the keenest eye of appreciation and
sense of gratitude, watched your
noble, patriotic and most manly acts
in the United States Congress the
past session thereof* as Congress
man of the Tenth District of Geor
gia, I extend to you the cordial, aye,
expressed demand of our people, if
your health and opportunities af
forded you will permit, invitation to
address the citizens of eastern North
Carolina at Goldsboro, any date you
may fix upon in the next forty days,
to be announced by you through the
People’s Party Paper and communi
cated like a ise to myself. Trusting
this may meet your approval and ac
ceptance, to the end that we as North
Carolinians may greet you in a grand
rally of the People’s party, as a meri
torious act toward you, and in re-
buke to the fawning,cringing and re
viling policy of the past Democratic
House toward, its more meritorious
member, Hon. Thos. E. Watson, of
Georgia. Abbott L. Swinson,
Chm. Ex. Com. 2 Dis. P. P. N. O.
The Second District.
Hon. Alexander R. Jones, People’s
party Elector for the Second Con
gressional district, spoke at Isabella,
Worth county, and Nashville, Ber
rien county, last week. Mr. Jones
was greeted by tremendous crowds
at both places. In Berrien county a
platform had been erected in a beau
tiful grove near the town. The la
dies had decorated the platform with
lovely flowers, and a crowd of from
1,500 to 2,000 was present.
The gifted-orator began his speech
by thanking the ladies for their pres
ence and their floral offerings, and
stated that not until his country had
reached that state of depression that
not only the brave men but fair wo
men were forced to meet poverty and
distress, and make unnecessary sacri
fices, did he enlist his services in the
cause of reform. He discussed at
length the platforms of the three
parties and showed by clear, convinc
ing argument that neither of the two
old parties offered the relief which
all good men admitted was needed.
He then fully explained and upheld
the Omaha platform. His reference
to the Democratic cry of “force bill”
was highly amusing and brought
forth tremendous applause. Mr.
Jofies is one of the most forcible
stump speakers in the State, and
many Democrats who heard his
speech pronounced it one of the finest
political speeches they had ever
heard. His speech abounded in
clear, convincing reason and argu
ment, free from all abuse and mud
slinging, and completely captivated
the crowd. The Democrats present
were tagged with blue badges, but
many were seen to discard their
badges after Mr. Jones had con
cluded his speech.
A Campaign of Villainy.
National Watchman.
The Democoatic party in Georgia
are conducting the most infamous,
villainous, and unprincipled political
campaign that ever cursed a State.
Both party and press have demon
strated thus early in the contest, the
utter depths of degradation and dis
honor to which they will descend in
order to perpetuate a reign of ignor
ance and repression. It began some
time ago with an assault on Watson
and Simpson by Senator Gordon and
that pious woman slanderer, Gov.
Northen, and has intensified upon
these lines ever since. Nothing is
too vile, slanderous, or abusive to be
used, and that, too, by those who
assume to wear the garments of res
pectability.
If this is Southern Democracy*
free from disguise or concealment,
then God pity the people of that sec
tion. If this is Southern chivalry,
robbed of its glint and glamor, how
completely and wickedly the world
has been deceived. If such infamous
methods are based upon the dis
tinction of being “a Georgian,” let
those who live in the slums and
vilest section of the country thank
heaven they were not born to live
in that State. If this wicked, cruel
onslaught does not react upon the
party making it, justice and fairness
has fled and the milk of human kind
ness is exhausted. Such conduct
surely proves the crying need of re
form and discloses the courage and
self sacrifice of those engaged in the
effort. It is hard to believe that the
common people, the farmers and
laborers of the empire State of the
South, those who are to be tne final
arbiters of this great contest, will
consent to such an atrocious and
,outrageous course, since it is an open
and unblushing attempt to coerce
free speech and liberty of conscience.
If ancient Bourbon Democracy must
rule in Georgia, if this political
oligarchy must dictate the political
principles of the people without
objeciionor even criticism,then indeed
is the rule of the majority at an end
and the sum of all villainies accom
plished. Let the fair-minded people
of this great State arouse themselves
to this danger and demand that these
outrages upon common decency shall
cease.
The Militia and Labor.
The Tarrytown (N.Y.) people’s
party campaign club has passed re
solutions advising every workingman
member of militia companies to re
sign. Erastus Wiman is not far
from the position taken by the club.
He said the other day: “I .have a
son with Troop A at Buffalo, engaged
in opposing 475 laboring men who
have struck. He is supporting, I
regret to think, unjust organized
capital. They represent organized
labor. I regret that he is there. I
regret that 6000 of our state militia
should be there overawing men who
wish an hour’s pay for an hour’s
work. One of the roads engaged m
this same switchmen’s trouble the
Lehigh Valley road, is a party to the
so-called coal trust. It controls 20
per cent of the anthracite coal land
in the country, the New Jersey Cen
tral controls another 20 percent, and
the Reading system, as I was told in
my own house only two months ago,
controls 52 per cent. The possibili
ties of organized capital are ten
thousand times more dangerous to
the public than the possibilities of
organized labor. I know that lam
guilty of outrageous heresy in so
saying, but I read news every morn
ing which stirs my blood and I must
let out.”
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