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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.” 5 I ■