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PEOPLE’S PARTY PAPER. PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE PEOPLE’S PAPER PUB LISI NG COMPANY. 117 1-2 Whitehall St. THOS. E. WATSON, - - President. D. N. SANDERS, - - Sec. & Treas. R. F. GRAY, - Business Manager. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1892. This Paper is now and will ever be a fearless advocate of the-Jeffersonian Theory of Popu lar Government, and will oppose to the bitter end the Hamiltonian Doctrines of Class Rule. Moneyed Aristocracy, National Banks, High Tariffs, Standing Armies and Formidable Na- Ives: -all of which go together as a system of oppressing the People. TRMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. TERMS—SI.OO PER YEAR. 50 “ SIX months. 25 “ three months. Bend Money by Postal Note or Money Order. DO NOT SEND STAMPS. CLUBS: In clubs of 10 we will send the Paper at 75c. OUR OFFICE up stairs in the elegant new McDonald building 117 1-2 Whitehall street, where our friends will always find the latch string on the outside. Get Up Clubs. We want the Industrial Classes" to feel that this Paper is THEIR FRIEND. It is conduct ed by men who are intensely interested in the Reform Movement, and have been battling for it many years. The price shows that the Paper is not being run for money. If the People support, it lib erally it will pay expenses. It cannot do more. As long as I am President of the Company, the Paper will never be found on any other line of policy than that which I sincerely be lieve is best for Georgia, best for the South, »nd best for the country at large. THOS. E. WATSON, President People’s Paper Publishing Co. 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. 4