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THE SUPREME COUNCIL.
The Executive Board of the Na
tional Farmers Alliance and Indus
trial Union have decided to hold the
lext meeting of the Supreme Coun
cil at Memphis, Tenn., on the third
Tuesday in November (15th). Ap
plications have been made to all rail
ways for special rates.
In view of the denial by Mr
Cleveland in last Sunday’s Constitu
tion, it may be pertinent to say that
bo charge stated in his letter is new.
That about Fred Douglas was made
En a letter from Col. Washington
written almost immediately after the
Chicago nomination, and was exten
sively copied. Mr. Cleveland admits
the facts, but says Douglas was an
official, and entitled to the courtesy.
In this Mr. Cleveland misrepresents.
Douglas had been replaced many
months by another man as register
bf deeds, and it does not appear that
lhe other man was a guest of Mr.
Cleveland’s wedding reception. If
it were simply official recognition, the
then incumbent of the office was
wrongly slighted.
THE GEORGIA ELECTION.
The People’s Party Parer goes
to press without being able to report
lhe result of the election on Wednes
day. The paper must be printed
Thursday night, and details are not
at hand upon which to base an esti
mate of the People’s vote.
It is evident that the estimate of
the Democratic dailies is very much
above the truth. It is equally evi
dent that the returns will show the
defeat of Col. Peek and his ticket.
plain fact is that the colored
vote is counted largely for organized
Democracy. What influence or reason
effected this result is not so evident
as the fact, and need not be discussed
until definite reports of the election
are accessible.
Another fact more plain is that
there was a very large percentage of
the white vote that did not go to the
polls. Why, it is also best to discuss
when the facts are all m.
In Atlanta, the registration was
about 7,750 of possibly 15,000 male
adults competent to register. Os
this registration, less than half voted.
It appears that the abstainers were
principally People’s party sympathiz
ers. Why ?
In some of the nearby counties,
the vote was equally light, and the
result as much a problem as in Ful
ton.
The People failed to be represent
ed in proportion to membership.
For a new party, making its first
canvass, the People have gained
much. Three months old, and mak
hg the organized Democracy hump
n Georgia!
PEOPLE’S PARTY PAPER, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7. 1892.
SEE THEM SQUIRM.
Below our readers will find an
article from the National Watchman
which Mr. Watson used at Conyers
and Gainesville.
The occasion was the public re
ception at the house of Gen. Fitz
hugh Lee, governor of Virginia, dur
ing the fair in 1886. Observe how
Mr. Findley asks Mr. Cleveland
about another matter entirely, and
gets a positive denial.
If Mr. Findley is really hungering
after the truth let him ask Mr.
Cleveland the following questions.
1. Why did you at eleven o’clock
at night cancel the engagement
which you already had made for
your ladies to be present in Rich
mond on the next day?
2. Why did you render no ex
cuse at the time?
3. Why did you not correct the
Democratic newspapers of Rich
mond when they charged you with
cancelling the engagement because
yoti learned that Miss Winnie Davis
would take pan in the public recep
tion?
4. "Why did Dan Lamont, when
these charges were brought to his
knowledge, content himself with say
ing “The ladies did not choose to
go?”
Why did he not give the real ex
cuse and contradict the false charge?
If Mr. Findley is really anxious to
sift this matter, let him re-state his
case to Col. Cleveland of Gray-Ga
ble-ends so as to bring it within
range of what I said.
When he shall have done this let
him ask Col. Cleveland the questions
1 have outlined and give us the bene
fit of the Colonel’s answer.
T. E. W.
“ NOT A SINGLE IOTA OF TRUTH.”
SO PRESIDENT CLEVELAND CHARACTERIZES
ONE OF WATSON’S STATEMENTS.
Atlanta Constitution.
Gainesville, Ga., October 1. —Editor
Constitution: I enclose correspondence
between vV. F. Findley and Hon. Grover
Cleveland, which please publish in Sun
day's issue and oblige yours,
L. D. Puckett.
MR. FINDLEY TO MR. CLEVELAND.
Gainesville, Ga., September 24, 1892.
Hon. Grover Cleveland, Buzzard’s Bay,
Mass.: Hon. Thomas E. Watson, mem
ber of Congress from the tenth district
of Georgia and People’s party nominee
for re-election, said in a public address,
“ That Mrs. Grover Cleveland refused to
attend the unveiling of the statue to Gen.
Robert E. Lee at Richmond, Va., giving
as her reason, ‘ She said she would be
forced to meet Miss Winnie Davis, daugh
ter of President Jefferson Davis,’ on that
occasion.’
Os course I do not believe this “ rot,”
but as his followers are industriously cir
culating the charge to day, I address you
this inquiry to know if she ever gave ut
terance to the statement quoted.
By kindly answering the above you
will oblige, very truly yours,
W. F. Findley,
MR. CLEVELAND TO MR. FINDLEY.
Gray Gables, Buzzard’s Bay, Mass.
September 27, 1892. W. F. Findley,
Gainesville, Ga: My Dear Sir: I have re
ceived your letter of September 24, bring
ing to my attention the newest falsehood
which has been circulated on the South
ern stump for the purpose of prejudicing
Democrats, against the support of their
ticket in this canvass.
There is not one single iota of truth in
the story, which in your letter you at
tribute to the Hon. Thomas E. Watson in
a public speech. Very truly yours,
Grover Cleveland.
CLEVELAND AND MISS DAVIS.
National Watchman.
After a careful examination of the
Washington, Richmond and New York
papers with reference to the reason why
Mrs. Cleveland did not accompany the
ex-President on his visit to the Virginia
State Fair in Ootober, 1886, there is but
one conclusion She did not attend be
cause Miss Winnie Davis was there, a
guest of Governor Lee’s, and was to have
taken part in the reception to Mr. and
Mrs. Cleveland. Invitations had been ex
tended and accepted, and Governor Lee
had spent bothtime and money in prepar
ing for the occasion, when about eleven
o’clock on the night previous to the day
of reception the following curt letter
was received from President Cleveland.
Washington, D. C , October 20,1886,
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, Richmond, Va.
Mrs. Cleveland aud the ladies will not
accompany me to Richmond, and my en
gagements are made to return to Wash
ington at an early hour. I regret that I
am compelled to forego attending a re
ception at your house on the occasion.
(Signed) Grover Cleveland.
Rumor at once took up the matter and
it was openly charged that Ntiss Davis’
presence was the cause of Mrs. Cleve
land's remaining at home. In fact, it is
stated that the matter became so serious
as to form the topic of a cabinet meeting,
and that measures looking to a pacifica
tion were vigorously applied. Mr. Cleve
land never denied it, and when Dan La
mont was questioned, he replied that
“ Mrs. Cleveland did not choose to at
tend.” Mr. Cleveland would like to use
the solid South, but he proposes to have
it keep strictly “ off the grass.”
The Campaign in Kansas.
The People's papers in Kansas
are circulating in a two-page sup
plement two very notable speeches.
One page is devoted to the speech of
Hon. P. B. Plumb, in the Senate in
April, 1888, when discussing the
Democratic measure to purchase
bonds. The part dealing with con
traction is here reproduced :
But this contraction of the cur
rency, by means of the retirement of
national-bank circulation, has been
going on for more than ten years,
and all the committee has to say now
is that it has considered some bill,
but it is not yet completed. If the
committee will. not complete some
measure, the Senate must. If the i
Senate will not, and if the other House
will not, then the country is going
upon the breakers of financial dis
turbance. As a Senator says in my
hearing, it is there now. I think it
is there now. We are dealing with
a question which has more to do
with the welfare of the people of the
U nited States, which is of more con
cern to them than any other thing
that is pending in either House of
Congress, or which can be pending—
the volume of the circulating medium
of the country, the value of its pro
perity, the difference between debt
and bankruptcy, on the one band,
and freedom from debt and prosper
ity on the other.
It is estimated that there are in cir
culation, including that which is lock
ed up in the treasury and held in
banks as a reserve fund, about 1,600
million dollars of all kinds of curren
cy of the United States, gold and
silver, the overplus of gold and sil
ver certificates, greenback notes, and
national bank notes, all told, and
their are more than 60 billion dol
lars of property which must finally
bo measured by this volume of cur
rency. It has been contracted dur
ing the last year more than 5 per
cent, in addition to all that has oc
curred by reason of abrasion and loss.
No man can tell the volume of green
backs outstanding. Nominally it is
346 million dollars and a fraction,
but that volume has been subject to
all the accidents which have occurred
during the past 25 years, whereby
money has been consumed, worn out,
lost, and it is doubtful if the amount
is really over 300 million dollars to
day.
But saying nothing about that, the
retirement of the national-banking
circulation during the past twelve
months has been five per cent, of the
total amount of currency outstanding.
There has been during that period a
phenomenal depreciation of the prices
of property. There has been the
greatest depreciation of the price of
agricultural products the country has
ever known.
The contraction of the currency
by five per cent, of its volume means
the depreciation of the property of
the country three billion dollars.
Debts have not only increased, but
the means to pay them have dimin
ish sd in proportion as the currency
has been contracted. Events based
upon non-legislation have proved of
advantage to lenders, but disastrious
to borrowers.
Mr. Ingalls’ speech was in favor of
free coinage, January 14, 1891, his
last great effort before his retirement
from the Senate. Discussing these
prevailing conditions, he said:
Labor and capital should not be
antagonists, but allips rather. They
should not be opponents and enemies,
but colleagues and auxiliaries, whose
co-operating rivalry, Js essential to
national prosperity. But I cannot
forbear to affirm that a political sys
tem which under’such despotic power
can be wrested from the people and
vested in the few is a Democracy
only in name, A financial system
under which more than one-half of
the enormous wealth of the country,
derived from the bounty of nature
and the labor of all, is owned by a
little more than 20,000 people, while
1,000,000 American citizens, able and
willing to toil, are homeless tramps
starving for bread, requires adjust
ment. A SOCIAL SYSTEM WHICH OF
FERS TO TENDER, VIRTUOUS AND IN
DEPENDENT WOMEN THE ALTERNA
TIVE BETWEEN PROSTITUTION AND
SUICIDE AS AN ESCAPE FRON BEGGARY
is organized Crime, for which some
day unrelenting justice will demand
atonement and explanation.
Mr. President, the man who loves
his country and who studies her his
tory will search in vain for any na
tional cause for this appalling condi
tion. The earth has not forgotten
to yield an increase. There has
been no general failure of harvests.
We have had benignant skies and the
early and the late rain. Neither
famine nor pestilence has decimated
our population nor wasted its ener
gies. Immigration is flowing in
from every land, and we are in the
lusty prime of national youth and
strength, with unexampled resources
and every stimulus of their develop
ment ; but, sir, the great body of the
American people are engaged to-day
in studying these problems that I
have suggested in this morning hour.
They are disheartened with misfor
tune. They are tired of the exac
tions of the speculators. They de
sire peace and rest. They are turn
ing their attentian to the great indus
trial questions which underlie their
material prosperity. They are in
different to party. They care noth
ing for Republicanism nor for De
mocracyjas such. They are ready
to say, “A plague on both your
houses,” and they are ready, also,
Mr. President, to hail and to wel
come any organization, any measure,
any leader that promises them relief
from the profitless strife of politicians
and this turbulent and distracting
agitation which has already culmi
nated in violence and may end in
blood.
Such, sir, is the verdict which I read
in the elections from which we have
just emerged; a verdict that was un
expected by the leaders of both par
ties, and which surprised alike the
victors and the vanquished. It was
a spontaneous, unpremeditated pro
test of the people against existing
conditions. It was a revolt of the
national conscience against injustice;
a movement that is full of pathos
and also full of danger, because such
movements sometimes make victims
of those who are guiltless. It was
not a Democratic victory. It was
a great upheaval and uprising, in-
dent of and superior to both,
s a crisis that may become a
ophe, filled with terrible ad
r, but not without encourage
c those who understand aud
toy to co-operate with it.
A Fictitious War Debt.
At the close of the late civil war,
the national debt was about $3,000,-
000,000. The people generally sup
pose that this entire sum was neces
sarily spent in supporting the govern
ment and putting down the rebellion,
in addition to the regular income of
the government. This is very far
from the truth. Full one-half of
this enormous debt represented com
missions on bonds, interest on bonds,
aud discounts on government money
in buying coin to pay interest, etc.,
c . total expenditure of the gov
e or 1862 were $475,000,000.
ng to the report of the Sec
- f the Treasury, $13,000,000
was for interest on the public
5 4,000,000 of it was discount,
n n ,000,000 received for taxes,
leaving only $341,000,000 of a debt.
In 1863 the expense of the govern
ment was $715,000,000. Os this
sum interest, discount and taxes
make up $310,000,000, leaving a
balance of actual debt of $.405,000,-
000.
In 1864 the public expenditures
were $865,000,000. Os this sum
$78,000,000 was paid in interest,
$405,000,000 on discount, and $264,-
000,000 received from taxes, leaving
only $118,000,000 legitimate public
debt. The public expenditures for
1865 amounted to $1,297,000,000.
Os this sum $77,000,000 was interest,
$389,000,000 discount, and $338,-
000,000 taxes received, leaving only
$493,000,000 net honest public debt.
If the government had continues
the policy inaugurated in 1861, of
meeting the public expenditures, over
and above taxes, by the issue of legal
tender currency, there would have
been at the close of the war $1,257,-
000,000 government paper money in
circulation, and not a dollar of public
debt. From this showing it is clear
that the people were robbed of over
$2,000,000,000 daring the war, that
this robbery has been going on ever
since in the form of interest on an
unnecessary public debt, and that we
still owe, after having paid over $5,-
000,000,000 principal and interest,
nearly as much as the actual cost of
the government during the war.
This money has gone out of the
pockets of the producing classes,
into the pockets of the non- producing
classes, through a system of financial
legerdemain deliberately planned and
persistently carried out.
When a man says justice should
be done, hit him with an egg.
Honors Easy.
The Silver State.
It is reported that the Bank of
England has contributed $500,000,
and two banks at Berlin an equal
amount to “our American campaign
fund,” to be equally divided
between the two wings of the
gold standard party. The European
gold-bug papers speak of the presi
dential contest in this country as
“our American campaign” as glibly
and familiarly as the Republicans
“point with pride” or the Democrats
declare “silver be damned”. The
manufacturers of Eastern cities have
added half a million to the Republi
can fund and the Standard oil trust
has planked down half a million to
quiet Tammany in the interest of the
stuffed buzzard. We may expect
Mr Strother back now in a few days
with five or six hundred dollars to
hold the combine in the West in the
party traces. It is thought by chair
man Carter, that this sum will be
ample to keep up the organization of
the bolters as the Silver party and its
candidates will not spend a nickel
to debauch the unsuspecting or to
buy the sell-out members of bolting
conventions 'or committees. All
that is required by the administra
tion of the Republicans in this State
is to keep enough in the traces so as
to have a State central committee in
th3 event of Harrison’s re-election.
No showing at the polls is expected,
as the Silver party has such over
whelming ma ority. But it is hoped
that the “silver-craze” will subside
after this election and that the grand
old party in Nevada may recuperate
within the next two years and send
a gold-bug to Congress instead of
Mr. Newlands. The lazy, lousey,
sack hunting snoozers in the West
will be a little ashamed of themselves
when they ascertain that they must
be content with dividing five or six
hundred dollars between them as
their reward for their base treachery
to the State and the silver cause.
Chairman Carter was engaged in the
cattle business in Montana several
years ago and he is thorougly posted
on the value of long ears and
oreanas.
If a man says labor is noble and
holy, howl him down.
FLO WEBS.
At Augusta a large quantity of flowers
were received by Mr. Watson, but so
many cards were lost off that it is impos
sible to name ail the donors. The fol
lowing are preserved:
“The protest of the minority is the
watchword of progress.” These flowers
are esen ted to our much-loved friend
and u ur? congressman, Hon. Thos. E.
Wa on, by Misses Eva and Ella Steed.
Cmpliments of Mrs. Dr. J. M. Posey
and Mi s Posey. Our choice.
Cmpliments of Little Birty Birnes.
We EnJ.
Compliments of Mattie Bagnell.
Compliments of Mrs. R. P. Dousherty,
Compliments of Mrs. C. G. Barnes,
West End.
Onr Most Dangerous Foes. 1
Progressive Farmer.
Mr. Editor: Our most danger
ous foes are those who profess a
friendship for the Alliance and form
a confidence among the brethren and
then betray that confidence by smooth
advice to vote for men just because
they belong to our party, who are
opposed to every Alliance principle.
Among those most damaging to our
cause are partizan plutocratic jour
nals. They come like the midnight
assassin and with their secret poison
puncture the bladder they have set as
a decoy to deceive the unwary. They
play the part of confidence men, such
as we find in New York and other
large cities. Notable among those
journals who have damaged the re
form movement the most is the State
Chronicle and the Atlanta Constitu
on. These journals were once in
tifavor of the free coinage; now
hey are willing to add more silver
o the silver dollar at the behests of
our alien creditors and home money
mongers. There is not a principle
or policy even in their own party.
They are not willing to forfeit for
success, which means place and
plunder, and how can an Alliance
man expect them to adhere to Alli
ance principles? A partisan, either
as a journalist or a candidate for of
fice, or as a mere voter, is a time
server ready to sell principle, honor,
justice, right and his country for par
ty success. Then all journalists, can
didates for office or voters who are
partisan will betray every confidence
imposed in them by an honest, un
suspecting people. So when you see
a journal professing the principles of
the Alliance as the State Chronicle,
the News and Observer and the At
lanta Constitution once did, and the
North Carolinian now does, they al
ways do it with a proviso to help my
self to subscriptions or to switch off
some of the Alliance vote into old
ranks. We say always, but they may
be honest and sincere at first, but
when the party slogan of battle is
sounded every position is deserted
at once which may hinder individual
or party success. To such a foul
depth has party journalism descend
ed that no man can conduct such a
paper without resting under the
shadow of being a dishonest hypo
crite.
Beside the party press who are
ready to betray, there are partisan
Alliancemen in public position. They,
too, become party servers and time
servers. They would advise y&i to
vote for Cleveland or Harrison, the
i most antagonistic enemies of the Al
liance in the nation, to vote for any
man, black or white, Democrat or
Republican, so he is a nominee of
the party, regardless of all principle.
These parties profess to have a prin
ciple away back in the vaults of the
past, but what account are they
when they hold no principle of the
present sacred? The honest man
and the honest party will stand to
his principles, either in victory or
defeat, but the man or the party who
measures his principles by the rule
of success is a moral skunk and a
slavish, venal coward.
We were much rejoiced to see
such able and influential journals as
the State Chronicle and the Atlanta
Constitution admit the justice of the
grievances complained of by the
plain people of America, and espe
cially the people of our own section,
and still would rejoice if they would
not repudiate these well-meant decla
rations and advocate men for office
hostile enemies thereunto. But they
strip their backs to the party lash
and bow cringing at the feet of king
gold.
Will S. B. Alexander, Elias Carr,
R. J. Powell, J. J. Young, J. B.
Holman, N. M. Culbreth, A. 11. A.
Williams, B. F. Grady, W. A.
Branch and others tell us why they
advocate the election of Grover
Cleveland and others hostile to
every essential demand of the Alli
ance, if not on partisan grounds? A
man is a man who follows his prin
ciples and endorses them wherever
found. An Allianceman is a true
Allianceman who endorses his prin
ciples wherever found. The Alli
ance did not come to bring office. It
come to bring right and justice.
Right and Justice is often found in
the woeful minority. Shall the Al
liance desert its principles because it
is too weak sometimes to elect? God
forbid! “The battle is not always
to the strong. There is a just God
who presides over the destinies of
men.”
It certainly pains us to see so many
makeshift arguments made as an
excuse to wave certain rights to the
people. It shows to what a low
depth of moral degradation partisan
politics has brought this country at
last. It also shows what a righte
ous cause has the non-partisan Alli
ance, and what a black host of moral
enemies stand ready to do battle
against it. Like the protestants in
the Lutheran reformation, institu
tions crusted with age and seething
with crime are fighting against it to
preserve life. Mammon and all his
hosts are fighting us. The protest
ants of Germany stood firm amid
fire, blood and smoke, though the
biack clouds of desolation rolled
over them and their enemies gather
ed around them as thick as the frogs
ot Egypt. They offered them gold
aud office, happiness and promotion,
and many went astray but those
whose faith was grounded in the
truth stood firm and American free
dom and Christian civilization are
due to their moral courage to-day.
1 o the Alliance standing firm to
principle wherever found belongs a
moral political revolution no less
weighty and momentous. Will it be
equal to the responsibility? Will it
like the protestauts of Germany stand
the fire of the enemy? They sneak
around with gold in one hand and
office in the other. They frighten;
they intimidate, they lie and slander.
Upon the destruction of the Alliance
rests the hopes of plutocracy. De
stroy this and its last enemy is de
stroyed ; every vestige of popular
rights is destroyed and hell reigns
supreme. This is not an overdrawn
picture. The churches are powei less
to correct political turpitude and is
only waiting to be drawn in the same
cesspool. Protestantism will sink
first and a more shadowy and gaudy
religion will follow and we will have
re-enacted on the shores of America
the tragic crimes of the fallen nation
alties of the East.
We repeat, our most dangerous
foes are our confidence men, the
allurements of gold and office. Stand
by the fight of 92 and we will be
thoroughly prepared by ’96.
W. R* Lindsay.
At Fayetteville and Greensboro.
Progressive Farmer.
We announced last week that
General Weaver and his esteemed
wife, accompanied by Mrs. Mary E.
Lease, arrived here on Sunday
morning, the 25th. He did not ex
pect to come to our State until the
29th, the day of his Raleigh appoint
ment, but having struck the bottom
of the rotten IJemocracy of Geor
gia at the third of his seven engage
ments there, he found that be would
be lowering himself and the cause
he represented to efigage in any fur
ther assaults upon a party which was
sick unto death and upon whose
body gangrene was already making
such rapid progress as to insure
death in a very short time. In fact,
the unpleasant odor of the almost
breathless corpse was that of rotten
eggs, and it was so offensive that it
would not, it could not possibly live
longer than November 8, and tc
make further warfare on it under the
circumstances would be considered
cowardly in the extreme. So the
General and party came to North
Carolina.
Monday morning, the 26th, when
Chairman Wilson came in he found
the General in fighting trim ready to
give two days’ extra work to North
Carolina. Upon short consultation
it was decided he should speik at
Fayetteville Tuesday and at Greens
boro Wednesday. These appoint
ments were telegraphed from Ral
eigh about 9 o’clock Monday. Tues
day at noon 2,500 farmers greeted
the speaker at Fayetteville. Never
before in the history of this State
were so many country voters drawn
together in so short a time (less than
24 hours) to hear any speaker on any
subject. The telegram to Greens
boro announcing the appointment was
miscarried, and but for the announce
ment in the Progressive Farmer but
few of our friends would have known'
of it, still the court house was packed
with a large and, with few excep
tions, appreciative audience. A mi
crobe from the decaying gangrenous
Democracy of Georgia had floated
over the Piedmont Air Line and there
were evident signs that the fatal dis
ease had set in in North Carolina,
and the saddest of all sad things is
the fact that it spread rapidly, and
the persons affected by it lost their
reason at once, and gave themselves
over to commit such deeds as none
but those frienzied by sudden death
and everlasting destruction staring
them in the face would be guilty of.
The writer heard the speaking at
both these appointments and he never
saw more earnest, serious attention
paid to sermons in the midst of a
great revival. He never heard the
truth more plainly told nor saw such
effect upon the audiences. Sick De
mocracy and Republicanism stood
and writhed and squirmed like
worms in hot embers, while many
came to us rejoicing after the speak
ing declaring tlmir conversion to our
cause. Many others went away al
most persuaded, and the enthusiasm
and confidence was strengthened in
those already true, so that the good
which will flow out from these two
meetings will keep on until every
nook and corner of the State will be
reached and strengthened by it.
Cheer up brethren, we will most as
suredly succeed if we stand firm.
Lcok Out for Frauds.
It is stated on reliable authority
th at the Democrats of Macon county
are determined to manage the elec
tion and entirely ignore the People’s
party. A demand has been made,
but up to the present time no answer
given. The Democrats held a meet
ing in Montezuma Monday night last,
and offered to put in a negro as one
of the election managers, it is sup
posed the negro is to do the dirty
work of the managers. These bour
bons are over-reaching the mark in
their greed for control when they
say that they will control the election
if the managers are not killed. What
has become of your boasted form of
republican government? They mean
to rule or ruin. Recent developments
in Alabama and Arkansas has built
up a strong sentiment in those States
for a force bill. Our party must
make a demand at once for an equal
division of clerks and election man
agers, so that the votes will be hon
estly counted and everybody satisfied.
If refused, get up a petition at once
asking for Federal election supervi
sors to be at the polls on Bth of No
vember? Play.
Hoke Smith’s paper brags that an
order has oeen received from Kansas
for Tad Horton’s, little edition of the
libel on General Weaver. No doubt
the Republicans can use it to advan
tage to show how a brave Federal
soldier is hounded in the South.