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TO THE VOTERS OF GEORGIA: Georgia is in a state of political chaos. There is unreai, uncertainty— poverty—privation—-suffering—gloom— distress of mind—bankruptcy, and general financial depression among the laboring classes of the State. There is arrogance, insolence, bull-dozing, insults and intolerance in the cities whenever there are speakers present who propose remedies for these evils that arc oppressing the labor of the country. Thus it was in old France in the days preceding the Revolution—when the opulent classes and moneyed aristocrats made light of the evils every where present; and these well-to-do people attempted to beat down all opposi tion and suppress an expression of public opinion. It is so in Georgia to-day. The scenes that have been enacted in Georgia during the month of September are only repetitions of revolutionary France before the crisis came. The “howling down” process is the forerunner of the “counting out” process. It is genearally believed that plans are being perfected to defraud the People’s Party of its vote. Vehement rage prevails xvhercvci People’s Party speakers obtain a hearing, here they have orators ol line ability, the mob is encouraged to howl down the orator and create general confusion. In country places better order is maintained, but in cities there is disgraceful conduct and most unfair behavior as a rule. General eaver s treatment in Georgia is a disgrace io the state and the nation. General Weaver was maltreated because he was a union soldier and obeyed the commands of his superior officer in authority. This conduct is not only disgraceful and revolutionary, but it is dangerous. It will bring its inevitable result. Next winter when drunken hoodlums and foul-mouthed Clevelandites have eaten and drank up the money that has been paid them to disgrace themselves and the State, this disorderly conduct and these attacks on a federal General in time of peace will doubtless become matters of federal in vestigation. If Georgia had a Governor worth a cent, the disgraceful antics of the drunken mob at Macon and at Albany would have been promptly rebuked, even if it had taken the military to do it. But when rotten eggs were collected in the Capitol of Georgia to be ready for General AVeaver and his wife, and Gov. Northen took possession of the meeting to make a Northen demonstration, after General Weaver declined to expose his noble wife to the filth and stench of the State Capitol, this Executive is necessarily held re sponsible for the suppression of free speech in the Capitol of Georgia. The times are ominous. They resemble the days that preceded secession and civil war. There will bo bloodshed and death unless there is a change. The people of Georgia were uniformly taxed to build the State Capitol. They will not be denied the right to invite Presidential and Congressional candi dates to this building—especially when Gov. Northen has opened it to the use of all the politicians in the State who agreed with him in regard to mat ters of public interest. It is a notorious fact that Gen. Dan Sickles, a demo cratic politician from New York State, could be entertained by Gov. Northen and the freedom of the city given him to speak for the democratic party. Sickles had abused the South until Southern newspapers denounced his ap pearance, but Gov. Northen found no contamination from his presence. He had the eulre of the Executive Mansion and the State Capitol. This failure to allow General Weaver, (the chosen candidate of the People’s Party, with tens of thousands of supporters in the State of Georgia) to speak in the Capitol building, after it had been opened to Northen’s followers and Cleve land’s adherents marks the Governor as a bitter partisan and unworthy of a re-election to his present position. The rotten egg that was hurled at the wife of General Weaver in Macon is like the cannon shot that was heard around the world—it will be heard from in more places than is now expected. It will not down. It was an insult to the intelligence of Georgia. It was also an insult to the farmers who were taxed to build the Capitol—that their candidates were shut out in Atlanta, because of Governor Northen’s antipathy to Gen. Weaver’s followers in Georgia. It was an insult to the laboring and producing classes, that no man can be given a quiet and respectful hearing unless he belongs to Gov. Northen’s political party; for it is a well-known fact that gangs of yelling hoodlums are transported from speaking place to speaking place to howl down the People’s Party speakers and to cheer the Clevelandites. On ordinary occasions this can be tolerated, but when the Capitol of Georgia is turned over to Gov. Northen’s friends, and the friends of the People’s Party are rotten-egged—then has come the time to assert the rights of freemen, and put a fairer man in Gov. Northen’s place. It will not be forgotten that the Legislature of Georgia was once adjourned, the mob mounting the Speaker’s desk when Cleveland was declared elected eight years ago. This unlawful act in a northern state would have been denounced all over Georgia. That might be tolerated in one case, to be no more repeated; but the usurpation of power to shut out freemen from a Capitol building, built for the entire people, and for which purpose the farmers of the State were uniformly taxed, cannot longer be borne. This outrage de serves a thrilling rebuke. No man was compelled to hear Gen. Weaver who was unwilling to listen to what he said. The people who object to his views were at liberty to stay at home; but no man had the right to rotten-egg the speaker, who was invited by any number of people to speak in this building that belongs to the State, and not to Gov. Northen and his yelping pack of Clevelandites. The people of Georgia owe it to themselves to assert their rights and privileges. The People's Party raised Gov. Northen from obscurity, and gave him prominence. Nine-tenths of the alliance in Georgia are members of the People’s Party. Wm. J. Northen advocated the sub-treasury, government ownership of railroads, as well as all the tenets of the People’s Party. He would never have risen above his natural mediocrity, unless he had been an allianceman and taken the obligation that alliancemen take. He was elected two years ago as an allianceman,and not as a democrat. Livingston run as an allianceman opposed to Stewart as a democrat. It was alliance doctrine as op posed to democracy that these alliancemen, each and severally, adopted. Not until Gov. Northen was taken up into the mountain, did he betray the alliance that made him and supported him. The “Mansion Caucus” and the election of a railroad lobyisc to the United States Senate followed. A man that would thus betray a constituency to whom he was bound by ties that no honorable man would recklessly break, is unworthy of trust. He will betray any other party when opportunity is offered. There is no zeal that will compare with that of a turncoat. Northen hates the alliance because he betrayed the faithful men that elected him two years ago. The blandish ments of office seekers and his desire for re-election transformed him into a malignant foe to the farmers of Georgia, and an insane follower of Wall street and its candidate, Grover Cleveland. No man is so far removed from the producing and laboring classes today, as Wm. J. Northen, the ally of plutocracy and gold bug politicians. He says “poor men are a burden to any community.” They are obnoxious to his excellency. He is above and out side of the necessities of the common people. He forgets the rock from which he was hewn. He consorts with people who mock the suffering farmers of Georgia. They are “calamty howlers,” and not worthy to sit in the capitol building over which his excellency rules with a tyrant’s rod. The people of Georgia are not fond of bloaters, as a rule, and a bloated office holder is especially a nuisance to all fair minded, sensible people. Another two-years in the executive’s position would be more than even his new associates could tolerate with patience, for the People’s Party left him long ago in supreme contempt and disgust. Wm. J. Northen tells the people to “strike down their wives, strike down their children, strike down their homes, but never strike down the grand old democratic party.” * Ten thousand Alliancemen in the state of Georgia can bear witness that two years ago he was equally anxious to strike down any party that was striking down the wives, striking down the children and strik ing down the homes of Georgia farmers. Men of Georgia! Protect yourselves from such tergiversation and political trickery! Vote out all such failures as he has proven himself to be! His administration has done less and cost more than any administration since the war. The state and county taxes are a long way ahead of Bullock’s. He is paying out £25,000 per annum to train the military to shoot down strikers and poor men made crazy by poverty and unjust legislation. Occasionally they parade in company with his excellency, but the whole thing comes high. It is an expensive luxury to the tax payers, who raise seven cents cotton to pay for it. It is time to put a check on spendthrift extravagance. Men of Georgia vote down these purse-proud tricksters that played with the farmers to get into office and are now playing with Wall street to continue to be office holders. Two years ago the democrats scoffed at the Alliance because they dug un and elected an unknown school teacher down in the 4th district, because he was supposed to be unused to the tricks of politicians. He xxas elcctcu on the platform of honesty and reform, and xxbile conscious of his iniciioiitj, they banked on his supposed fidelity. Washington atmosphere and AV m. a. Northen’s exampit* soon wrought a change. “Leetle Moses has noxx the check to sav “that any man who votes against Cleveland is a t.aitoi. Ixxo years ago Moses would have said that any man who would vote for Cleveland would be a traitor. Beware of small politicians. They are of no value except as spies and traitors. So soon as the Cleveland democtacy uses idle Moses for their present purposes he will be retired to seek his lex el. Let the honest voters of Georgia, black and white, rise up and put a man in his PEOPLE’S PARTY PAPER, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1892. place that can be relied upon, to be faithful to his party, faithful to his pledges and faithful to common honesty. Vote him down and out! Leonidas Livingston is the man who, bne year ago, was the chosen com panion of General eaver, Congressman Jerry Simpson and Mrs. Lease. He is the man who brought them to Georgia—who encouraged them to come to Georgia as exponents of the People’s Party. He told General Weaver he xvould support him as the candidate for the presidency oh that issue. He did more than any living man to induce the revolt in Georgia against Abe demo cratic party. No man denounced the intolerance, the injustice, the unfair ness of democratic methods more violently. As president of the Farmers’ Alliance, he became the head and front of the revolt. Less than a year ago, he was denouncing Grover Cleveland as unxvorthy of support of the farmers of Georgia. Yet this man has been turned into a rabid zealot for Cleveland. To denounce the farmers of Georgia who now oppose him, is his meat and drink. He has, like Northen, become the representative of the bull-dozing, egg-throwing, hoxvling, unfair and unjust democrats, who aim to prevent the People’s Party from getting a decent bearing on the hustings. This change means more than appears on the surface. He has proven himself a traitor and it is a rule in law—once false, always false. AV e warn the people of Georgia, Beware of Livingston! He betrayed the Alliance! He will betray the interests of the country! Men of Georgia, we warn you to look out for your own! To sum up the dangers that threaten the people of Georgia at the ap proaching state election, there is one fact clearly apparent, that these traitors to the Alliance are not to be trusted longer in the prominent positions they are noxv holding. Governor Northen has shoxvn himself inimical to labor, for he did not wait to be requested or entreated by the governor to send ammunition to shoot down the free miners in Tennessee, but he forwarded sixty thousand rounds of ammunition upon a mere hint from a subordinate oflicer in the goxeinor s office. He congratulated the state of Georgia in a public interxiexv that he could move a small army with more facility than either Tennessee, Nexv York, Pennsylvania or Idaho, to suppress .labor troubles. It is apparent that xve need a great change of methods to reduce taxation for the common people. It is xvell known that our taxation, state and fed eral, is enormous and exceedingly burdensome to the labor of the countiy. The destruction of the free coinage measure in the present congress has run out farm products doxvn to starvation prices. Yet it requires nearly three millions of dollars to keep up the state officials and the expenses of Goxeinor Northen’s administration. Every man xvho thinks for a moment on this subject must be convinced that it is time to call a halt, foi self preservation and self protection. It is folly to expect the old moss backs in cilice to deduct a cent of salary or relieve the people of a single burden. A ote them out, and save your own pockets. Put in a nexv set. There is nothing to be lost by a change of men in state matters, and much to be gained in federal affairs, for reasons that xvill now be presented. Be it noxv remembered that Governor Northen is considered abroad as the promoter of the attacks on General AVeaver at AVaycross, Albany, Colum bus and Macon, as well as in Atlanta. One word from him, one proposition to suppress these rioters, one small effort to promote good government in either of those cities would have put a stop to the disorder. He knoxvs these men were not rebuked by any of’ his public speakers or democratic newspapers, and the whole state was alive with democratic spouters and heelers on the bastings and in the crowds. These indignities were open, brazen and malicious, and endorsed by that party. It was a pander to the worst elements in the state. The attack on General AVeaver’s military record pleased the wild, drunken men who gave no thought to the issue that will grow out of this assault on General AVeaver in the north and west. Georgia stands in the most unwise and unenviable position known to any commonwealth in the union at this time. The politics of Georgia noxv center about these disorderly attacks on a union general. The bloody shirt is noxx r revived all over the north. It will solidify every soldier in the north, either to vote with AVeaver or to vote for Harrison as a measure of safety to the union. General Sherman devastated Georgia from the mountains to the sea, gave orders to burn Atlanta, and his inhumanity has been the text of rabid Georgia speakers for twenty-six years. Yet General Sherman was hospitably received in Atlanta, and apologies were made for the inhumanities of civil war, at the banquet given to GeneralSherman,xvhere everything xvas condoned, forgiven and wiped out by prominent democrats. General Weaver, a clean man in public and private, xvho only obeyed orders when commandant of the military post at Pulaski, Tenn., a quarter of a century ago, is'now arraigned in Georgia and rotten-egged out of the state, because he opposes Grover Cleveland for the presidency, and threatens to carry a large; farmer vote in the state. This persecution of a union officer, for acts alleged to have been committed as a general in the army, indicates surely the insurrectionary spirit of the democratic party, -whenever they are opposed- in a political . campaign. One prominent candidate for congress denounces General Weaver I as “that xvretch,” because of his sayings against the Bourbon democracy of i the south and his alleged acts as a union officer. General Weaver xvent into the federal army to fight as a brave soldier against the south—while Grover Cleveland fought the south as fiercely through a hired Hessian substitute. Men of Georgia, which man is most xvorthy of respect? AA’hen General AA 7 eaver came to Georgia, he xyas the courteous gentleman to all visitors—and to ladies. When he met southern ladies in Washington he was ever the courteous host and perfect gentleman. Compare this conduct xvith Grover Cleveland’s when he xvas invited to Richmond, Virginia, to meet the elite of the city and make the acquaintance of the southern ladies xvho xvere # ever loyal to refinement as xvell as to the confederacy. To please his masters in AVall street, Grover Cleveland—a president elected by a solid south—coolly declined to alloxv the ladies of his family to appear in Richmond, lest they might meet Miss AVinnie Davis, the daughter of the confederacy. Such is the difference betxveen the candidates! One proves himself a cultivated and refined gentleman—the other a rough man—xyithout the sen sibility of average frontiersman or Hottentot. Yet this is the candidate that is embraced in Georgia politics—xvho spurned the hand of Jefferson Davis’ beautiful and innocent daughter! This is the candidate that Georgia soldiers, xvho folloxved Jefferson Davis to Appomattox are commanded to fol low. This is the person, whose folloxvers threw rotten eggs at General Weaver’s good wife at Macon! This is the south hater, that Governor Northen eulogizes, and General AVeaver is the man that Governor Northen denounces from every stump in Georgia. Men of Georgia! Remember you are being led into mistakes by these corrupt politicians. So far this has been a campaign fight on ladies as well as farmers, by Governor Northen and his friends. Georgia is disgraced by these attacks on women. It is a pity that General Toombs is not in the flesh to wither xvith his inimitable sarcasm, any man or speaker xvho xvould dare to insult xvoman hood as Mrs. AVeaver xvas insulted, and driven from the state! Men of Georgia, xvhenyou go to the ballot box on the sth day of Octo ber and the Ist Tuesday in November, do not forget that this political madness is driving capital from your state,that it is destroying the confidence of outsiders in your ability to make good laws or enforce them afterwards. Do not forget that Georgia will stand disgraced as a lawless and ungoverna ble lace of people unless you vote doxvn such promoters of dissension and discord. Always remember that you xvill be judged by your votes and not by the blatant boasts of Cleveland’s folloxvers. V’ote doxvn the insurrection ists! Shoxv to fair-minded northern and western men, that Geargia xvelcomes all good citizens to her borders, by rebuking these unxvise and disorderly politicians, and removing them from official positions. AVe are tired of war; xve xvant peace. AVe must no longer be dominated by madmen in tne state capitol or be represented by tricksters in AVashington. Yote the People’s Party ticket, and give your enemies a final overthrow at the ballot box. To the poor man xve-xvill say, there is no hope for you, unless you change men as xvell as methods. The Wall street agents xvill never give you an increase of currency. Y"ou have tried Bourbon democracy twenty odd years,-and you are growing poorer every hour. Vote for free silver candi dates! Be content with nothing else. YMur remedy lies in the ballot alone. To the colored voter xve would say: vote solidly for your oxvn interest as laborers and as freemen. The colored man has liberty at this time to vote his oxvn convictions and have his ballot counted; provided the People’s Party themselves are not counted out by the managers of Gov. Northen’s party. Time and again have requests been presented to democratic committees and to Gov. Northen himself to alloxv managers of both parties to superintend the October election; but up to this time no answer has been made, and no permission has been granted. This has a bad complexion. To off-set this in justice, let the colored people vote in such numbers that no opportunity for counting out may be entertained. This is the poor man’s fight. Money has been imported to keep the poor man doxvn; and noxx' is the grand oppor tunitx' to redeem the land from ballot-box stuffers and shot-gun democracy. If the farmers fail in this fight, their enemies xvill gain increased strength and arrogance. On the October election depends yoar deliverance from local evils. Y’ou xvill get deliverance from AVall- street corruptionists and those xvho degrade honest men by bringing convict labor in competition xvith honest labor. t AVhtte men and colored men of Georgia! Laboring men of every class! Rally to the polls on the sth of October! It xvill be the battlefield where your liberties xvill be lost or won. The question is; Shall you be slaves to the bankers, capitalists and monopolists of this State, or of the United States? Shall you enjoy tl e ro vard of your honest toil, or shall you be serfs to con tinue to enrich the millionaires of the land? Shall you pauperize yourselves and your children for the aggrandizement of AA’all street and its money kings? The ballot-box is your only xveapon. It may be mighty, through God, to the pulling doxvn of the strongholds of the oppressors and the tyrants of this country. Rally to the polls! Come, trusting in God and your own righteous cause, to hurl from power these men xvho, with their rotten eggs, have for ever stained the honor and chivalry of our native State ! ! M. D. TRAVIN, Chairman People’s Party of Georgia. lit Is Easy PURCHASING AT The Fair. Because Every Article is Marked in Plain Figures, Very gPlain, so a Child Can Buy as Safely as a Man ; One Honest iPrice, too; No Sliding up of Prices. Our | Dress Goods Stock is the Completest to be Found. Five Thousand lYards All Wool, 40-Inch Henrietta, 44c. Yd. Our CLOAK |otock, Under the Care of Mr. Orchard and Assistants, is a I Most Inviting One. > The Fair, 74, 76, 78 Whitehall Street. ATTENTION, TENTH DISTRICT. Let every Peoples’s party candi date in the Tenth District remem ber that Air. Black has entered into an agreement with Mr. Watson that at every voting precinct in the dis trict there shall be one People’s party man on the board of mana gers. See to it that this agreement IS OBSERVED. Demand that one of our men sit on the election at each precinct, and see to it that this man is one whose intelligence and fidelity and courage are above question. He must see every vote counted and never alloxv the ballot box to get out of his sight. The Democrats in Sparta and Augusta especially need watching. They will do anything on earth to i carry this election. Demonstrate to them in a firm, conservative spirit that the agreement between Mr. Black and myself shall be kept. Demonstrate to them that while we mean to be the cause of no trouble, we also mean to have our rights, as men and as citizens. T. E. W. THE PEOPLE’S PARTY PAPER. Friends, we ask you to do all you can for us in the way of new sub scribers. AVe have given you a first class xveekly paper for nearly a year at a dead loss of ox’er $3,000. All this burden has fallen on Mr. AVat son. He has not only lost $3,000 on the paper, but has given it eight months’ work free of charge. AVon’t you do your share in the reform work by aiding us? AVe have had to contend with very many difficulties, and have done the very best we could. the future we hope there will be less complaint about the mail, for we are exerting every energy to rec tify every mistake. The joint debates outlined by Mr. AVatson will appear regularly in this paper, stenographically reported by,Air. Driscol. No other paper in the State has them. Help us friends. Each ought to do his part in this noble work. People’s Paper Co. Please Take Notice Os the change m price of this pa per in clubs. Our temporary offer of the People’s Party Paper in clubs of 10 for 50 cents per year is with drawn, and in the future we will be compelled to have 75 cents in clubs. We will, however, permit those who ire now making clubs on that rate to complete the clubs already begun at the 50 cents rate, but after that will be obliged to require 75 cents. IMPORTANT NOTICE. The chairmen, secretaries and others friendly to the People’s cause in the various Mihtia districts in the several counties of the Fifth con gressional district are requested to send their names to me at once, so that we may put ourselves in close touch and harmony for the approach ing campaign. Immediate action re quested? L. P. Barnes, Sec. Fifth Cong. Dist., 49| E. Hunter St., Atlanta, Ga. 1 June 28, 1892. CHANGE IN MR. WATSON’S AP POINTMENTS. Owing to the fact that Mr. Wat son was denied a hearing in Augusta by the Democrats on the night of the 12th inst., he finds it necessary to make another appointment there, and in order to do so is compelled to cancel the engagement at Sylv vnia. This he regrets, but cannot help. t He will speat at Gordon on Thurs day, September 29, and at Augusta on the night of October 1, This cancels the engagement at Gordon, October 19. J. 11. Turner’s Appointments. Lagrange, Troup county, Sept. 26th, 11 o’clock a. m. Union Grove, Heard county, Sept. 27, 10 o’clock a. m. Texas, Heard county, Sept. 27th, 3 o’clock p. m. Walnut Hill, Heard county, Sept. 28th, 10 o’clock a. m. Roopville, Carroll county, Sept. 28, 8 o’clock p. m. Carrollton, Carroll county, Sept. 29, 1 o’clock p, m. Whitesburg, Carroll county, Sept 29, 8 o’clock p. m. Newnan, Coweta county, Sept. 30, 1 o’clock p. m. ■ Hogansville, Troup county, Oct. 1 1 o’clock p. m. Greenville, Meriwether county, Oct 3,1 o’clock p. in. * Chipley, Harris county, Oct. 4, 11 o’clock a. m. Hamilton, Harris county, Oct. 5, 1 o’clock p. m. Columbus, Muscogee county, Oct. 5, 8 o’clock p. m. Chattahoochee county, Oct. 6th and 7th. Talbott county, Oct. Bth and 10th. Marion county, Oct. 11th and 12th, PEOPLE’S PARTY PAPERS IN GEORGIA The Voice of the People, Way cross, Ware county. The Revolution, Augusta, Ga. The Globe, Bainbridge, Decatur county, Ga. The People’s Voice, Cartersville, Bartow couniy. The People’s Herald, Bloomingdale, Chatham county. The People’s Rights, Montezuma, Macon county. Farmers’ Light, Harlem, Columbia county. Farmers’ Friend, Waynesboro, Burke county. News and Allianceman, Jackson, Butts county. Banks County Gazette, Homer, Banks county. Hinesville Gazette, Hinesville, Liberty county. The Allianceman, Atlanta, Fulton county. Southern Alliance Farmer, Atlanta, Fulton county. . - • \ The Enterprise, Carnesville, Frank lin county. The News, Ball Ground, Cherokee county. People’s Party Paper, Atlanta. Farmers’ Herald, Wrightsville, Johnson county. Alliance Plow Boy, Buford, Gwin nett county. People’s Advocate, Greensboro, Green county. Signal, Dahlonega, Lumpkin coun ty. Bullock Banner, Statesboro, Bul lock county. News, Jonesboro, Clayton county. The Wool Hat, Gracewood, Rich mond county.