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GIBSON AND APPLING.
Mr. Watson will speak at Gibson,
October 3, and at Appling Octo
ber 4.
Grant free speech, and the domin
ion of error ends.
When a Christian woman stands
behind her husband, encouraging him
in a high mission, hit her with a rot
ten egg!
The People’s Advocate, of Atlanta,
is doing yeoman service for the Peo
ple’s party. It is true to the best
interests of the colored race, of
which its editors are representative
members.
Lawyer Col. Watterson, of Jones
boro, met the enemy in Panhandle
district, Clayton county, and he is
theirn. The enemy in this instance
is Glenn Harper, colored, also of
Jonesboro. A Democratic lawyer is
small potatoes and few in a hill, in
debate with a bright People’s party
darkey.
The effort of the Atlanta Typo
graphical Union to establish a better
rate of wages receives the sympathy
of all who believe in fair pay for
honest work. The boys have started
The Daily Citizen, which evinces the
capacity of the graduates from that
best of schools of journalism, the
composition room. May they accom
plish their purpose and build up an
honest newspaper.
The People of Cobb and adjoin
ing counties will have a splendid
barbecue Tuesday, October 4, at the
foot of Kennesaw mountain. The
Marietta and North Georgia Bail
road will sell round trip tickets for
one fare to Elizabeth, and the grove
is less than half a mile distant. The
Western and Atlantic will make a
like concession; the Borne express,
leaving Atlanta at 8:10 a. m., stops,
and passengers returning are due in
Atlanta at G:3O p. m.
Senator Hill has made his prom
ised speech. For his Democracy all
the papers vouch. Here is his tariff
utteranc:
I sud in the campaign of 1888, in my
opening speech at the Academy of Music
in New York City, that if 1 believed that
the Democratic party favored absolute
free trade 1 should not advocate its cause,
and I reneat the statement here to-night.
That is the orthodox position of
the organized Democracy. Keep up
a lively row with the Republicans foi
another generation over tax sched
ules, while the people are being
robbed. If the robbery be reduced
5 per cent, the Democrats gain all
they contend for. To displace the
system seems not to have entered
their heads.
Mr. Black is in desperate straits.
Last week Governor Northen headed
a committee of fat-fryers and made
the rounds of Atlanta. His assess
ments were high, and by no means
ungrudgingly paid. In Savannah,
newspapers published that at certain
business offices lists would be found
where any who desired might con
tribute to Mr. Black’s fund. It is
admittedly a fight of boodle against
patriotism, and the people of the
tenth district know it. A candidate
cannot claim to be blameless who
permits his friends to resort to such
means. Oh, peerless gentleman 1
ATLANT A GEO RGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30. 1892.
BILLY NORTHEN.
Will this long-whiskered imbecile
please tell us whether he has ban
ished any poor men from their
homes lately, as he said last year
society ought to do?
Will he please tell us if he still
considers it a crime worthy of pun
ishment that a man should not be
able to read and write ?
Billy is a sad humbug. The sub
ject which he knows anything about
has not yet been found. Perhaps
he is a little better posted on plow
lines than anything else. “Sixty
cents plow lines,” coming from a
“Farmer Governor,” is a good sam
ple of his comprehensive ignorance
Will Billy please write to that
Greensboro paper and ask them
what they mean by their allusions
to his coffee pot and to the rat which
is therein. Let Billy do this if he
dares, and he will hear something
fully as interesting as those charges
he wanted to make on Livingston.
Challenge that editor to say what he
means, Billy. We dare you to do it.
T. E. W.
CAMPAIGN NOTES.
Mr. Black refuses to meet Mr.
Watson any more in joint debate.
He knows when he has got enough.
The people can now decide who
was getting the better of it.
*■ * *
John Maddox, Democratic nomi
nee, failed to come to time at
Cedartown. He evidently had no
faith in the newspaper accounts of
the previous debates.
* * *
Carter Tate didn’t show up at
Gainesville, and Crisp will not be at
Cordele. How they are taking to
the woods, to be sure I
* * *
Will Taddie Horton please “go to
Albany and secure affidavits as to
Cleveland’s bastard children, and
then follow Cleveland round the
country shaking these affidavits be
tween his fingers?” We would like
to have Taddie do this; we would
indeed.
* * *
Does “Sugar-cured’ 5 Ham remem
ber a man who got SSOO for de
livering nine votes to a certain can
didate for judge before the Legis
lature ?
* $ *
Did you ever hear Thad Pickett
speak ? He’s a good one. The
Gainesville politicians have a whole
some dread of the man who has
told them in the plainest terms that
he would not submit to their count
ing him out any more.
* * *
The series of insults offered to
General Weaver and Mrs. Lease in
Georgia are a disgrace to the State.
The present Democratic campaign is
the most shameful carnival of lies,
bribery, bulldozing and bloody-shirt
ism this county ever saw. And it is
all done to keep in office a lot of un
scrupulous politicians who have
violated every pledge upon which
they were elected, and who have
no motive of action save the lust for
office.
# * *
The Democrats in the Tenth have
an Arcadian candidate, Mr. Black.
That’s the reason they carry a bar
room on every one of their ex
cursion trains and sell beer to the
faithful in prohibition counties. No
body but an Arcadian could afford
to violate the law in that way.
That is the reason they have regis
tered in Augusta so many men from
South Carolina. Nobody but Arca
dians could afford to do it. That is
the reason they so openly spend
their slush fund, and so openly ex
press their intention of doing by
fraud what they cannot accomplish
fairly. None but Arcadians could so
calmly admit the disgraceful meth
ods of their campaign. T. E. W.
I
TO JUDGE GEORGE HILLYER.
You are a good. Democrat, and
not to be set aside as having no in
terest in good morals. To you these
columns are tendered to answer
some current reports, which are
said to be backed by proofs if de
nied.
Did you point out one of the glee
singers who opened Mr. Watson’s
meeting as having been convicted of
crime before you as a judge? De
port says you did, and that it is a
falsehood.
Did you lead off in the hissing
when Mr. Warson quoted Cleveland’s
public acts and the claims of his
friends to show the position of the
Democratic party on pensions, which
he had just been challenged to discuss
by jeering Democrats ? Deport
says you did.
Did you make nojmistake in iden
tifying the farmer boy you pointed
out as a felon? Did you not help
destroy free speech when you helped
howl down a public servant who was
defending his own record and strik
ing every blow fairly in the face of
the political enemy, calling in evi
dence public acts and public utter
ances? You are wont to decry the
degeneracy of the times and to ex
press pessimistic views; are you
without responsibility?
THE AUSTRALIAN BALLOT.
At Conyers Mr. Livingston read
the first resolution supplementary to
the Omaha platform, and declared,
‘There’s your force bill I” He then
instanced Arkansas, where he said
147,000 voters had been disfran
chised under the election law of that
State, passed by the Democrats in
pretense that it was the Australian
ballot law, and executed by Demo
crats to secure party supremacy.
Nearly half the States of this
Union have adopted laws incor
porating some of the features of the
Australian law, but all differing from
it, and from each other. This has
been done, evidently to make a pre
tense of concession to workingmen,
who demand the right to vote
without espionage, but in fact often
to incorporate new provisions
which will perpetuate the power
of the dominant party. The law
of Arkansas, which Mr. Living
ston instances as presenting such
difficulties to the voters as to prevent
more than half of them from casting
their ballots though fully qualified
otherwise, is a pretense and fraud in
the interest of organized Democracy.
The generic name “Australian”
has been applied to all Laws passed
in this country which compel isola
tion of the voter in the preparation
of his ballot. This causes confusion.
The Australian ballot has for its pur
pose to give the voter an opportu
nity to prepare liis ballot in secrecy,
and to cast it free of intimidation.
To render greater security, each indi
vidual ballot shall be exactly like
each other, save, of course, in the
marks put upon it by the voter him
self in preparing it for the ballot
box.
In Australia the ballots are printed
by the government, and furnished
the election, managers in stubbed
books, like receipt or check books.
As the voter applies for his ballot
his right to vote.may be questioned ;
once the ballot is issued he cannot
be estopped from voting it. The
voter goes into a booth with his
ticket and prepares it. In case he
cannot read, he is at liberty to call
in an inspector, -who is an officer
sworn to secrecy, and together these
two prepare the ballot for the box.
Should the ballot be mutilated or
mismarked, it can be delivered to
the managers and another issued to
the same voter, that returned being
preserved as a voucher against
the stub. Thus the number of
ballots issued correspond to the
number of qualitied voters who may
vote them. The voter can not vote
after having left the booth, as that
would destroy the guaranty of se
crecy.
In Australia the names of all the
candidates are printed on one straight
slip, or ticket, and forgery of this
legal ballot is a crime. The voter
simply makes a plain cross opposite
the names of the candidates he fa
vors, and erases nothing on the
ticket. The following example will
suffice to illustrate this. There are
three candidates for sheriff, with but
one to be elected, and four candi
dates for representative, with two to
be elected. The legal ballot cast
would appear as follows:
FOR SHERIFF.
(One to be voted for)
JOHN JAY.
x ROBERT RAY.
CONRAD KAY.
EOR REPRESENTATIVE.
(Two to be voted for.)
JOHN DOE.
x RICHARD ROE.
x SAM JOHNSON.
WILLIAM THOMPSON.
This ballot shows that the voter
prefers Robert Ray for sheriff, and
Roe and Johnson for representatives.
If the voter cannot read, the sworn
inspector marks the names for him.
Voting under this system is easy,
and the count and tallying much
facilitated by the fact that all tick
ets are uniform and the names in a
fixed order. The voter is isolated
from the time he receives his ballot
until he presents it at the box, and
as all tickets are unseen by any but
the voter until cast, it is impossi
ble to depend upon his compliance
with any bribe he may have re
ceived. Any ticket having unusual
marks designed to identify or en
able it to be separately described, is
rejected in the count. As the voter
can call on any of several inspectors
in case of illiteracy, it is evident that
greater secrecy is possible than un
der the old plan.
In this country the device of print
ing the party tickets separately and
parallel with each other is common.
It is a recognition of party organiza
tion not found in the Australian
law.
ATTENTION, REFORMERS!
Our appeal to the Governor and
the Democratic Executive Committee
of the State of Georgia to act with us
in securing a free ballot and a fair
count in the approaching election has
been treated with contempt. This
can mean nothing less than a delib
erate intention on the part of the
Democratio leaders to carry the elec
tion by fraud.
We do not believe you will at
tempt any fraud on the one side, or
permit any on the other side. De
mand that one People’s party man
be sworn in as a manager at every
polling place. If this just and reason
able demand is refused, see to it at
all hazards that the box is empty
when the voting begins. Do not, on
any plea or pretext, permit the ballot
box for one moment out of your sight
till the last vote is counted. Keep
an accurate tally of the number of
ballots deposited in the box, and a
list of the voters. While the ballots
are being counted, see to it that every
vote for the People’s party ticket is
counted for that ticket. Your dear
est rights as freemen are in danger.
A free ballot, a fair count are well
worth all the vigilance and courage
that may be necessary to secure it.
GENERAL WEAVER IN ATLANTA.
When General Weaver arrived in
Atlanta it had developed that an or
ganized body of ruffians were deter
mined to hoot him down. The events
of the night before showed who they
were and what would be their meth
ods. The statement since, by Demo
cratic Chairman Atkinson, that Gen.
Weaver could have spoken without
interruption is coupled with the
falsehood that at Macon but one egg
was thrown and the thrower would
be punished, and hence w r holly con
temptible and discredited. The
writer of this was one of a group in
the Kimball house the next day to
whom an insurance agent named
Thorne stated that he knew that
there were hundreds of eggs in the
pockets of his friends, and no oppor
tunity would have been given Gen.
W eaver to speak. Thorne, who was
one of the most conspicuous dis
turbers. said' the mob had a live
turkey and two hams up in the third
gallery, and intended to lower them
by strings to the auditorium at such
time as might best serve their pur
pose.
Any pretense that order would be
preserved was ridiculous, and no bet
ter evidence of that need be adduced
than the fact that when it was an
nounced in the evening that there
would be no speaking, Judge James
Anderson refused to act as one of
a committee to personally convey
assurances to General Weaver. An
derson a few minutes later spoke
and fully indorsed the howling down
of Mr. Watson the evening before,
and was cheered by his friends.
Governor Northen told the assem
blage, with all the assurance of a
man speaking to his friends, it made
no difference who spoke, or how
many times, in Georgia, that his
ticket would be elected by 25,000,
and Cleveland would be the next
president. In a mild way he de
clared he did not favor disorder, and
hied him home.
Let it be known, that after all
this, when Judge James Anderson
had made his infamous declaration,
he called for a show of Democratic
hands, and not more than one-third
of those in the audience raised their
hands. The opposition was not
called on to vote.
THE OUTRAGE AT WASHINGTON.
The spirit of mendacity and scur
rility exhibited by the Democratic
press of the State is developing a
spirit of lawlessness and brutality
without a parallel in the politics of
Georgia. Whether this is intended
or not, the fact still remains.
Read the following statement by
Mr. W. T. Wilson, of an outrage on
the Hon. Thomas E. Watson, at
Washington, Wilkes county, on the
13th day of September. Mr. Wilson
is a citizen of McDuffie county, an
old Confederate veteran, and a man
who stands as high morally and so
cially as any man in the tenth dis
trict. He says:
“ I went over to Washington to hear
the joint discassion between Mr. Watson
and Judge Lawson. Owing to the rain
the debale was declared off. The crowd
dispersed, the countrymeii going to their
homes the way they cam^—in wagons,
in buggies and horseback. We (Mr.
Watson and I) went to the depot about
five o’clock, Mr. Watson went into the
car to rest; I waited until the ticket office
opened and bought tickets. After a little
three other friends came in and joined
us in the car. About twenty-five min
utes before the time for leaving, the
crowd that came in on the train came
down to the depot, five or six hundred
strong. As many as could crowd into
the car where we were did so, whooping
and hollering, ‘'Hurrah for Lawson!
Hurrah for Black! ” etc. We occupied
one end ot the car. Several of them
waved their hats, and one of them, I saw
distinctly, waving a club, yelling for
Lawson and Black, and cursed Mr. Wat
son as a “G- —d d—d traitor’’ several
times. The crowd outside joined in the
cry as though they understood it all.
They jeered every time a man would
curse him. We could do nothing except
stand on the defensive. I fully believed
they came down to provoke Mr. Watson
into resenting, and then killing him. In
fact, I thought all of us would be killed,
but determined, as the other three friends
did, to stand by him They kept that up,
I suppose, fifteen minutes. We finally
appealed to the two Arnold boys—Capt.
Charles and Tuck When we appealed
to them, they said that they did not know
the insults were offered; that they did
not intend it to go that far, and they did
go to work and got the mob out of the
car. It is my honest opinion that these
two Arnold boys saved Mr. Watson’s life.
I feel crteain that the object was to pro
voke him into resentment as an excuse
for murder.
I want, to state this: I am fifty-three
years old; I served four years in the Con
federate army; I have seen a good many
prisoners taken, and captured some my
self in time of battle, but I have never
seen any man, prisoner or any one else,
treated so shamefully as he was. I could
not overdraw the picture. It cannot be
overdrawn. W. T. Wilson,
McDuffie County.
THE ATHENS APPOINTMENT.
The notice that General Weaver would
not speak at Athens Monday was insuf
ficient, and a large number of the faith
ful congregated there that day. Senator
Gordon was on hand, and with a brass
band made a counter demonstration,
assembling not over one-fifth as many
as attended the People's rally. Local
speakers made addresses, and good order
and determination were exhibited. The
following was unanimously adopted :
To the Law-Abiding and Upright
Voters of Georgia :
Mrs. General James B. Weaver was
assulted on the balcony of the hotel at
Macon, Ga. The meeting at the same
place at which our presidential candi
date. General Weaver, was speaking, was
broken up by a mob; General Field,
our vice-presidential candidate, a Con
federate soldier who lost a leg on the
battlefie'd, has been insulted at every
meeting he has held in the State, and
even assaulted. The noble congressman
from the tenth district, Hon. Thomas E.
Watson, ever watchful of the interests of
the people, has been denied the privilege
of speaking in the capitol building of the
State, and his meeting, after beginning
his speech, broken up by a mob. General
Weaver has on two occasions also been
prevented by a howling mob from speak
ing the State capitol building. The
people have been told that no party but
the Democratic was henceforth to be
allowed the used of the capitol building.
It has been openly andjfrequently stated
that the People’s party was not going to
be allowed the privilege of holding pub
lic meetings in any of the large cities of
the State ; the education of the people
on political matters except the Demo
cratic policy was to be forbidden. It has
been stated that “hayseeds ’ and laborers
had no right to use the capitol building
for political meetings which the hood
lums were bound to respect, and that
they would not be permitted to hold such
meetings, and this hoodlum element—a
mob —backed up by persons from whom
the people of the State had reason to
hope for better things, that “hayseeds”
and laborers had “no right there and
need expect none.” The governor of
the State lent his sanction and winked
at the horrible proceedings to prevent
free speech and the education of the peo
ple upon matters pertaining to their wel
fare, all of which demonstrates that the
ability of the laborer and honest yeo
manry of the State are to be deprived of
and denied even the right to peaceably
assemble and discuss the wrongs of which
they have a most just right to complain.
Free speech is guaranteed by the con
stitution, yet we have been deprived of
that right even in our capitol.
The governor of the State has, by
countenancing a mob, the object of
which was to prevent the right of free
speech and peaceable assemblage, dis
graced the gubernatorial chair of the'
Empire State of the South, and we most
earnestly request that he resign the trust
the people bestowed upon him, in order
that it may be placed in more deserving
hands.
We denounce the assault by the Bour
bon Democracy upon a lady of high per
sonal and Christian character, for no
other reason than because she "was the
wife of our presidential candidate, as far
below the boasted chivalry of Georgia,
and we desire to enter our most emphatic
protest against this horrible act, and to
publish to the people that the People’s
party desire to reclaim and maintain our
former Southern chivalry ; that this trail
ing in the dust of our chivalry is a foul
blot upon the fair name and reputation
of Georgia for which only a minority is
responsible, one of which is the governor ;
the first act in his opening of the cam
paign being an attack upon a woman.
The waving of the “bloody shirt” is as
much to be condemned in the South as
in the North, and we do condemn the
same. The attempt to revive sectional
ism is an effort of plutocracy and shy
lockism to detract the attention of. the
people from the vital principles of finance,
transportation, land and corporate mo
nopoly, which have been robbing labor
of its just reward, sapping manhood of
its vigor, robbing womanhood of homes,
depriving children of their education,
and making slaves of us all.
We denounce the numerous efforts to
deprive the citizens of Georgia of free
speech on grave political questions as a
crime not only against the present gen
eration but against posterity.
We request of ail good and liberty
loving people their assistance at the bal
lot box in rebuking the perpetrators of
these most heinous crimes.
Adopted unanimously by mass meet
ing of People’s party of Clarke and ad
joining counties this September 26, 1892.
Chairman Atkinson is said not to
believe in a conscience. It has not
even a rudimentary development in
his case.
An amiable gentlewoman, noted
for her piety and practical Christian
charity, has been struck full in the
face with a stale egg. Many eggs
were thrown. A Democratic pro
cession one thousand strong was at
the time marching and counter
marching through the vast assem-
blage, with the purpose of creating
disorder. This in Macon, Georgia.
No lying can obscure the fact. It
is written on the everlasting scroll
of history, and carries everlasting
dishonor. Alas! for Georgia.
GENERAL WEAVER’S LETTER
Withdrawing from the Canvass in
Georgia.
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 23.
Mr. M. D. Irwin, Chairman State
Committee People’s Party, Atlanta,
Georgia:
Dear Sir : At the urgent request
of your committee I entered this
State on the 20th instant tor the
purpose of addressing the people of
Georgia upon the political situation
and the issues involved in the pres
ent national campaign.
The places named for said meet
ings were: Waycross, Albany, Co
lumbus, Macon, Atlanta, Madison,
Augusta and Elberton.
I find the spirit of organized row
dyism, at some of the points visited
within the State, so great as to ren
der it unadvisable for me to attempt
to fill the engagements at the points
not already reached. Personal in
dignity was threatened at Waycross,
but was suppressed by the attendance
of a large number of our friends and
the careful management of Mr. Seed,
the local chairman.
At Albany we met with a howling
mob, which refused to accord us a
respectful and uninterrupted hearing.
Our meeting at Columbus was a
grand success, thanks to the superior
management of Mr. J. C. Thornton.
About three thousand people attend
ed this meeting and gave us respect
ful and enthusiastic attention. At
Macon the conduct of the mob which
greeted our advent into that city -was
simply disgraceful beyond descrip
tion. Rotten eggs were thrown prior
to the introduction of the speaker,
one, of which struck Mrs. Weaver on
the head. Eggs were thrown repeat
edly during the continuance of the
mob. Turbulent crowds continued
to howl and hoot until past midnight.
At Atlanta a similar crowd of row
dies gathered at the point of meet
ing, bent on tumult and disorder.
Learning of this Mrs. Lease and my
self refused to appear either in the
forenoon or evening. lam convinc
ed that similar treatment awaits us
at the points not yet visited. I de
cline to meet said appointments.
The members of our party, al
though apparently largely in the
majority in the State, are unable to
secure for us a peaceful and respect
ful hearing.
I wish to call special attention to
the fact that the disorder is almost
exclusively confined to the young
roughs who infest the towns and who
are incited to violence by persons
who keep in the background. The
country people are uniformly courte
ous and are anxious to hear. It is es
pecially worthy of note that the dis
orderly conduct does not proceed
from the ex-confederate soldiers who
are, almost without exception, manly
in their conduct and generally in
sympathy with our movement.
The police force at the disorderly
points named made no effort, so far
as is known, to preserve good order.
In some instances they gave open
countenance to the tumult.
I think it is but fair to say that
many good people, who are not in
sympathy with the People’s party,
openly denounce these outrages, but
they seem powerless to assert them
selves. The mayor of Waycross
made every effort to protect our
meeting at that point.
J. B. Weaver.
Aii Open Letter.
Wichita, Kan., Sept. 20, ’92.
Hon. T. E. Watson;
lam astonished at your course in
Georgia!
You, who ought to be a gentle
man and an associate of gentlemen,
and attempting to lead the ignorant
and degraded laborers into a revolt
against the genteel and wealthy part
of society! Farmers and laborers
cannot expect to enjoy the comforts
and luxuries of life like the specu
lator and capitalists, and any man
who teaches otherwise is only fit to
occupy a place in the grave-yard.
What does the lives of a few of
these pack-horses amount to when
packed m the balance against the
ease and comfort of the refined and
aristocratic part of our people ?
Brawn must be ruled by brain, and
poverty by wealth, and the sooner
you learn this fact the better it will
be for you, for as sure as there is a
God, such men as you shall not live
to teach these lower orders that they
are the equals of ladies and gentle
men. Change your course, and you
will find it conducive, both to your
health and finances, for wealth never
forgets its friends nor forgives its
enemies. I remain,
A Cleveland Democrat.
To the Third Congressional District.
Judge Crisp and myself met in de
bate at Hawkinsville, Cochran and
Americus. He declines to answer a
note from a committee of my friends
addressed to him twelve days ago,
in which’ they invite him to choose
a similar committee for the purpose
of conferring and arranging for a
joint discussion.
I now challenge him to stand up
face to face with me before the peo
ple in every county.
No other lawyer need apply. 1
enter the arena against the lion of
the Democratic tribe.
Yours to the death,
F. D. Wimberly.
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