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A GENTLEMAN’S LETTER.
Mr. Iverson L, Harris, a prominent
Easiness man of Macon, has published
over his own signature an account of the
outrage on free speech in that city. It is
not strange that the honest blood of any
gentleman should boil when it is known
tbat a refined, white-haired woman has
been stricken full in the face with a stale
egg. The people of the whole country
will indorse Mr. Harris’ views:
It is not pleasant to be too specific, but
a sense of duty leads me on. Observe
the Constitution on Gen. Weaver’s trip.
This paper is mentioned as it makes the
unfairest report in its columns and
treats, Gen. Weaver more shamefully on
the editorial page than any other I have
seen. This sheet is the leading Southern
journal, edited and owned by men of
heart and men of brains,yet it is so far lost
in the mire of partisanship, it cannot or
will not tell the facts. The editorial in
substance says:
The sum total of Gen. Weaver’s wrongs at
Macon consisted in the trifling matter of a
small boy throwing an egg, said small boy be
ing at once arrested.
If the paper desired to publish the truth,
it could have learned a different tale.
one seeing that impassioned crowd
could have pictured it so mild. Some of
ths facts are as follows:
General Weaver, after several efforts
iqade to start, spoke about a dozen lines
when the egg or eggs were thrown and
struck Nirs. Weaver, a gray-haired lady,
on the bead. Gen. Weaver then with
drew. Would any man do less ? The
crowd continued throwing eggs, think
ing, doubtless, that Gen. Weaver was still
upon the stand. It was as wild and
passion-full a crowd as I have ever seen;
and yet the Constitution says “ a small
boy did it all.” Can this be true ?
Since writing the above, Mr. Atkinson,
chairman of the State Democratic Execu
tive Committee, has used about the same
language as the Constitution did. Does
Mr. Atkinson dare let the world know
the truth ? If so, why publish what he
did ?
With joy I claim many good people
frown on the whole affair, but it is cow
ardly to charge the rabble guilty of it all
The next day, after calm reason should
have resumed her sway, a number of
prominent and respected citizens, some
of them so-called followers of the meek
and lowly Jesus, whose central doctrine
was to do to others as you would have
others do to you, appeared in public
prints approving every act that was done
—some said he was treated too well.
Democracy attempts to take some ben
efit to itself from the fact that at the
meeting of the Young Men’s Club in
Macon on the night of Gen. Weaver’s
visit its speakers gave some good advice
and resolved to give Gen Weaver a re
f'peotful hearing. Were the speakersand
was the resolution honest ? I will make
no argument from the fact so well known
that the Democratic meeting was not
called till after Gen. Weaver’s date had
been advertised; let this dumbly speak
for itself.
The meeting was opened by the presi
dent with a formal address. Hon. Du-
Pont Guerry was the first orator of the
occasion. * * * With his earnest
voice and pleading way he bade the boys
throw no eggs at Gen. Weaver; with the
next breath, in high ascending voice, he
gave his reason for the good advice. Was
it wrong to egg a man? Should every
American be protected in his native right
of tpeecli? Mr. Guerry did not say. The
reason gitfen was as follews:
If you snoulfl break every ancient egg in
town on Gen. Weaver’s filthy carcass you could
not make him Stink the worse in the nosrtils of
decent people.
Mr. Hardeman’s first admission was:
“The third party are misguided friends ”
Then; without ope word of proof or show
of reason, he gave expression to this bald,
bare statement: “The People’s party
platform has not one single principle on
which to test.” He then grew tragic,
and with awful voice and pose, gave birth
to the kind, peace-loving words below:
The Populists are a rainbow gang; thej r are
many hued ; they are red with the red of com
munlsni. blue wit h the blue of woman suffrage
and black with the black of negro domination.
Were these men honest when they
spoke their pacific lines?
The club, upon adjournment, left their
ball headed by a loud and lusty band,
with torches waving high and yells that
no native American Indian would have
been ashamed to call his own. marched
down the street where the other crowd
appeared, and with this retinue of braves
split midway through, and then, with
the tumult growing fast, turning about
and we. t through again. We all have
heard th° wise old saw, “Actions speak
louder than words.” Was this conduct
observing either thelettei or spirit of then
resolution?
“ I am native here and to the manner
born ” I have been a regulation Demo
crat all mv life. Therefore, I know
whereof I speak and speak what I do
know. My parents and grandparents were
Georgians born and reared, their wre
fathers for many generations were South
ern people. For this reason and the
larger one of love which is brink-full in
for every great achievement
of the South’s grand past, acknowledge
ment is to no man made of deeper, broad
er. higher nor more perfect interest and
hope m everything which can affect hei
future, I express/ 11 ® opinion that nno
change is made in Democratic methods,
Ol- if the party be not overthrown, we will
soon become abject slaves to party yoke,
and will not dare, as we have scarcely
dared for two decades, to say what we do
think
If this conclusion to no other mind
seems true, then give me the credit of be
ing myself convinced.
from the Hayseed Mansion.
Gresham vile, Ga., Sept. 27.
My heart burns within me, 1 ex
claim with the prophet of old, Oh,. that
mv head were water, and mine eyes a
fountam of tears, that I migh ' v P*
Oh that I had in the wilderness a lod„-
in/ nlace that I might my people
ami go from them, For I feel that Ge °riU a
has disgraced herself in the wav that
General Weaver was while her
guest. Macon, Madison and Atlanta may
say, with a host of other towns, that lie
was not the guest of Georgia, but we say
per cent of the population of
Georgia are farmers and laboring
and the majority endorse the P
party platform, and Georgia •
gates to Omaha, they helped to nominate
General Weaver for president-a ma
that endorsed the platform of
He’s party of the United States This is
a free country yet awhile. Ji e
party of Georgia was glad to h
Weaver, wife and Mrs. L . eaS ® battle
their guests to help on m the o _ an : ta i
that is now being between camtal
and labor, by making speeches m da,
ent towns of Georgia, explaining
form, defending our cause and show “g
Up the corruption in the two u t ‘
The laboring class and Ormers had to
• lave General AV eaver to'th f ron j the
tie towns, they being sca | te s^ nl t i ie Sa
fountains to the seaboard, fr ga nded
innah on the east to the
( hattahoochee on the west, and burden
id with debt, many of them, and some
■in. deep poverty, did not ha* e .
cr suitable clothes to enable them to be
vith General Weaver to defend him from
the towns. Oh, what shall meD
<on? Gall for the mourning worn:.
that they may come, and let t
PEOPLE’S PARTY PAPER, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7. 1892.
haste, and take up a wailing for us, that
we may weep. Macon, the beautiful
city by the river, in our fair Southland;
the mother of colleges; how hath she
fallen! She has forgotten that it was the
farmers of Georgia that built her colleges,
supported and kept them up by sending
sons and daughters to them to be edu
cated. She has forgotten that it was the
farmers that made her merchants rich;
in fact, made her, as to wealth, what she
is. How has she rewarded them for
this toil? The rotten eggs that were
thrown at General Weaver in Macon
were not at the General any more than
at the farmers and the farmers’ wives of
Georgia. Shame, shame on the city, the
mother of female colleges, that she should
rotten egg a lady who came to Georgia
in the interest of the hard worked, poor
paid mothers of Georgia —mothers who
denied themselves of the comforts of life
that they might help a son or daughter
that w’as at school in Macon to finish
their education. Where were the minis
ters of the gospel, the college professors
of Greek and Latin, teachers of English
language ? Have they done Macon no
good? Have they been for fifty years
teaching and preaching in the city, and
yet the city don’t know what good man
ners are? Mothers, fathers of Georgia,
keep your sons and daughters away from
towns that don't know what good man
ners are ; that don't know how to treat
visitors and strangers, and, forsooth, if
visitors and strangers don’t think and
talk as these town people think and talk,
the way to reprove them is to throw rot
ten eggs at them. Macon has built her
self a monument in one night that rises
far above her loftiest tower of college or
church, and that monument is a rotten
egg. Aunt Polly Hayseed.
Is It Not So 2
Genuine Democracy and true Republi
canism presupposes common honesty,
justice and fair dealing.
In the face of these common sense ideas
results are obtained by the grossest fraud,
misrepresentation and trickery. And
this is done in the name of Demooracy
and Republicanism. It should properly
be called atrocity, deviltry or diabolism.
A glaring instance of the above may
be found in the throwing of rotten eggs
at General Weaver and his lady travel
ing companions in the great State of
Georgia, which boasts of its honor, gal
lantry and chivalry.
Away with such hypocrisy and mean
ness. Language fails to express the ab
horrence we feel for this burlesque on
justice, and hence we will say no more,
except to aid, we hope the thoughtful
better class may yet vindicate the good
name of the State of Georgia, at present
under a cloud. American Liberty.
Blue Anchor, N. J.
It is Here to Stay.
From the Toiler.
Turn your eyes to the great West and
Northwest. Look closely at the political
situation there. In Nevada there is only
one electoral ticket in the field and it
stands for Weaver and Field. It has
been endorsed by all political factions.
In Colorado the Democratic convention
of the State with a thousand delegates
instructed their electors for Weaver and
Fields In Kansas, the Dakotas, Oregon
and Washington, the Democrats have
endorsed our electors, and thus it is that
the great West stands in a solid phalanx
for those grand champions of the Peo
ple's cause. Weaver and Field. In Ne
braska dozens of bourbon papers have
torn off the mask. Prominent politicians
and business men by the thousands have
come out squarely for the party of ‘ equal
rights.” In that State the election of our
ticket is conceded. Every prominent
daily papei’ in the mining region of the
West, whether Democratic or Republi
can, has rushed to the defense of the only
party which pre poses free silver. It is a
mighty ground-swell out there.
Then do we not become convinced that
we are here to stay? The inevitable re
sult of this year’s political contest will be
to combine the forces of monopoly against
the producing classes. In the faraway
Northwest this amalgamation has already
been perfected among the two old parties
boodlers. The rank and file of the old
parties has allied itself with the people,
and time will serve to convert the com
pact. This is no temporary upheaval, it
:s a political eruption which will leave its
trace upon history’s pages. It is no child’s?
play. The ‘Lonest yeomanry are up in
arms. Let the South do its duty on the
Bth of November, and the country will
draw a breath of relief.
Cleveland and Pensions.
New York World.
Gen. Sickles said at the recent
meeting of the Grand Army :
The people of the United States will see
that no man is ever elected to an office of
profit and trust in this country who op
poses the payment of pensons to the sol
diers of the rebellion.
Some of the more reckless of the
Republican organs are parading this
sentiment and applying it against
Grover Cleveland.
If Gen. Sickles had meant to ap
ply it to Mr. Cleveland he would have
said so. He does not usually micne
his words. As an -honest and well
informed though occasionally too im
pulsive man, Gen. Sickles could not
have had the Democratic candidate
in his mind, because during President
Cleveland’s Administration more pen
sioners were put upon the rolls and
more money was paid in pensions
than had ever before been added or
disbursed in the same length of time.
The only criticism that could with
justice be brought against Cleveland
is that he signed too many rather
than too few pensions bills.
For 1886-7-8 Gen. Black, Presi
dent Cleveland’s Pension Commis
sioner, issued 359,452 certificates, ex
ceeding by 168,231 the last three
years of the preceding Republican
Administration. The disbursements
for the same period exceeded those
of the Republican Commissioner by
34,000,000.
There were 345,000 pensioners on
the list when President Cleveland as
sumed office. When he left there
were 489,000 —a gain of 144,0.00.
The increase during the proceeding
four years of Republiican rule was
only 95,000.
President Cleveland vetoed ex
actly 250 private pension bills during
his. four years in office, all of them
for good* reasons. But he signed or
permitted to become laws 1,825,
which was 259 more than were ap
proved by all the Presidents from
Grant to Arthur, both inclusive.
Does this record look like hostility
to soldiers or opposition to pensions ?
When Georgians assemble to hear
a servant render his account —howl
like wolves and bray like asses, so
all the people may leave in disgust.
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1171 Whitehall St., Atlanta, Ga.
All persons wishing to correspond
with the State organizer, Knights of
Labor, will communicate with J. F.
Foster, State organizer K. of L., Rox
ana, Ga.
PEOPLE’S PARTY PAPERS IN GEORGIA
The Voice of the People, Way cross,
Ware county.
S The Revolution, Augusta, Ga.
The Globe, Bainbridge, Decatur
county, Ga.
The People’s Voice, Cartersville,
Bartow county.
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, Grace wood, Rich
mond county.
THE PEOPLES PARTY.
State Platform, Adopted at Atlan
ta,. July 20th, 1892.
We endorse and reaffirm the preamble,
resolutions and platform adopted by the
People’s Party in national convention as
sembled at Omaha, July 4, 1892. We
indorse the ticket nominated and
pledge the party when it shall come
into power in the State to frame and
administer the laws in the spirit of
the Omaha platform, which is equal
justice to all, and special privileges to
none.
2. We condemn the convict lease sys
tem.
3. We demand rigid economy in all
public matters and inist on every pos
sible reduction df taxation during the
present impoverished condition of the
people.
And we call public attention to the
fact that the producing interest in both
city and country is bearing more than its
fair share of taxation.
National Platform, Adopted a
Omaha, July 4th, 1892.
Assembled upon the one hundred and six
teenth anniversary of the declaration of inde
pendence, the People's Party of America, in
their first national convention, invoking upon
their action the blessing of the Almighty God,
put forth in the name of the people of this
country, the following preamble and declara
tion of principles;
The conditions which surround us besn
justnry our co-operation; we meet in the
midst of a nation brought to the verge of
moral, political and material ruin. Corrup
tion dominates the ballot box, legislatures,
congress, and touches even the ermine of
the bench.
The people are demoralized ; most, of the
states have been compelled to isolate voters
at polling places to prevent universal in
timidation or bribery. Newspapers are
largely subsidized or muzzled; public
opinion silenced; business prostrated; our
homes covered with mortgages; labor im
poverished ; and the land concentrating in
the hands of capitalists. The urban work
men are denied the right of organization for
self-protection; imported pauperized labor
beats down their wages; a hireling standing
•army, unrecognized by our laws, is estab
lished to shoot them down, and they are
rapidly degenerating into European condi
tions. The fruits of the toil of millions are
boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes
for a few, unprecedented in the history of
mankind; and the possessors of these in
turn despise the republic and endanger
liberty. From the same prolific womb of
governmental injustice, we breed two great
1 classes—tramps and millionaires. National
power to create money is appropriated to
enrich bondholders: a vast public debt pay
able in legal tender currency has been
funded into gold bearing bonds, thereby
adding millions to the burdens of the peo
ple. Silver, which has been accepted as
coin since the dawn of history, has been
demonetized to add to the purchasing pow
er of gold by decreasing the value of all
forms of property as well as human labor,
i and the supply of currency is purposely
i abridged to ratten usurers, bankrupt enter
prise and enslave industry. A vast con
spiracy against mankind has been organized
on the two continents and it is rapidly
taking possession of the world. If not met
and overthrown at once it forebodes terrible
social convulsions, the destruction of civil
ization or the establishment of an absolute
despotism.
We have witnessed for more than a quar
ter of a century the struggles of two great
i political parties for power and plunder,
while grievous wrongs have been inflicted
upon the suffering people. We charge
that the controlling influence dominating
both these parties has permitted the exist
ing dreadful conditions to develop without
serious effort to prevent or restrain them.
Neither do they now promise us any sub
stantial reform. They have agreed togeth
er to ignore in the coming campaign, every
issue but one. They propose to out
I the cries of the plundered people Wh the
uproar of a sham battle over the tariff, so
that capitalists, corporations, national
banks, rings, trusts, watered stock, de
; monetization of silver and the oppression
I of the usurers may all be lost sight of.
i They propose to sacrifice our homes, lives
■ and children on the altar of mammon; to
i destroy the multitude in order to secure
j corruption funds from millionaires.
Assembled on the anniversary of the
I birthday of the nation and filled with the
' spirit of the grand general-in-ehief who es
, tabliahed our independence, we seek to re-
I store the government of the republic to the
, hands of “the plain people” with whose
» class it originated.
We assert our puxpfts©! t® bfi
to the constlttitldh hy which all persons
engaged in the government service shall be
placed under a civil service regulation of
the most rigid character, so as to prevent
an increase of the power of the national
administration by the use of such addition
al government employes.
We demand a national currency, safe
sound and flexible, issued by the general
government only, a full legal tender for all
debts, public and private, and that with
out the use of banking corporations; a just,
equitable and efficient means of distribu
tion direct to the people at a tax not to ex
ceed 2 per cent per annum be provided as
set forth in the sub-treasury plan of the
Farmers’ Alliance, or some better system;
also by payment in discharge of its ob
ligations for public improvements.
We demand the free and unlimited coin
age of silver and gold at the present legal
ratio of 16 to 1.
We demand that the amount of the cir
culating medium be speedily increased to
not less than fifty dollars per capita.
We demand a graduated income tax.
We believe that the money of the coun
try should be kept as much as possible in the
hands of the people, and hence we demand,
that all state and national revenues shall
be limited to the necessary expenses of
the go\ ernment economically and honestly
administered.
We demand that postal savings banks be
established by the government for the safe
deposit of the'earnings of the people and
to facilitate exchange.
Transportation being a means of ex
change and a public necessity, the govern
ment should own and operate the railroads
in the inter cat oi the people. The tele
graph and the telephone, like the postal
system, being a necessity for the trans
mission of news, should be owned and op
erated by the government in the interest of
the people.
The land, including all the natural
sources of wealth, is the heritage of all the
people and should not be monopolized for
speculative purposes, and alien ownership
of land should he prohibited. All lands
now aeld by railroads and other corpora
tions in excess of their actual needs, and
all lands now owned by aliens should be
reclaimed by the government and held for
actual sextieis onlv
the national constitu
tion—to form a more perfect union and es
tablish justice, insure domestic tranquility,
provide for the common defense, promote
the general welfare and secure the bless
ings of liberty for ourselves and our pos
terity. We declare that this republic can
only endure as a free government while
built upon the 1 ove of the whole people for
each other, and for the nation; that it can
not be pinned together by bayonets; but
the civil war is over and that every passion
and resentment which grew out of it must
die with it, and that we must be in fact, as
we are in name, one united brotherhood.
Our country finds itself confronted by
conditions for which there are no prece
dents in the history of the world. Our
annual agricultural productions amount to
billions of dollars in value, which must
within a few weeks or months, be exchang
ed for billions of dollars of the commodi
ties consumed in their production.
The currency supply is wholly inade
quate to make the exchange. The results
are falling prices; formation of combines
and rings; and the impoverishment of the
producing class.
We pledge ourselves that if given power
we will labor to correct these evils by wise
and reasonable legislation in accordance
with the terms of our platform. We be
lieve that the powers of government—in
other words of the people—should be ex
panded as in the case of the postal service,
as rapidly and as far as the good sense of
an intelligent people and the teachings of
experience shall justify, to the end that op
pression, injustice and poverty shall event
ually cease in the land. While our sym
pathies, as a party of reform, are naturally
upon the side of every proposition which
will tend to make men intelligent, virtuous
and temperate, we nevertheless regard
these questions—important as they are—
as secondary to the great issues now press
ing for solution and upon which not only
our individual prosperity but the very exist
ence of free institutions depend, and we
ask all men to first help us to determine
whether we are to have a republic to ad
minister, before we differ as to the condi
tions upon which it is to be administered,
believing that the? forces of reform this day
organized will never cease to move for
ward until every wrong is righted and
equal rights and equal privileges securely
established for all men and women of this
country.
We declare, therefore:
1. That the union of the Labor forces of
the Uniled States this day consummated
shall be permanent and perpetual. May
its spirit enter into all hearts for the salva
tion of the republic and the uplifting of
mankind.
2. Wealth belongs to him who creates it,
and every dollar taken from industry with
out an equivalent is robbery. “If any will
not work, neither shall he eat.” The in
terests of rural and civic labor are the
same; their enemies are identical.
3. We believe that the time has come
when railroad corporations will either own
the people or the people must own the rail
roads : and should the government enter
upon the work of owning and managing all
should favor an amendinent
UPPLEMENTAL RESOLUTICNS.
Whereas, other questions have been present
ed for our consideration, we herebj’ submit
the following, not as a part of the platform of
the People’s Party, but as resolutions expres
sive of the seiitim- nt of this convention.
First—Resolved. That we demand a free bai
tlot and a fair count in all elections and pledge
ourselves to secure it to every legal voter
without federal intervention through the
adoption by the States of the unperverted
Australian oi- secret ballet system.
Second—Resolved, That the revenue derived
from a graduated income tax should be applied
to the reduction of the burden of taxation
resting upon the domestic industries of this
country.
Third—Resolved, That we pledge our sup
port to fair and liberal pensions to ex-Union
soldiers and sailors.
Fourth—Resolved, That we condemn the
fallacy of protecting American labor under
the present system, which opens our ports to
the pauper and criminal classes of the world,
and crowds out our wage earners; and we de
nounce the present ineffective laws against
contract labor, and demand the further re
striction of undesirable immigration.
Fifth—Resolved, That we cordially sympa
thize with the efforts of orga >ized working
men to shorten tha hoursof labor, and demand
a rigid enforcement of the existing eight-hour
law on government work, and ask that a pen
alty clause be added to the said law.
Sixth—Resolved, That we regard the main
tenance of a large standing army of mercena
ries, known as the Pin jrton system, as a men
ace to our liberties, a we demand its aboli
tion ; and we condemn the recent invasion of
the territory of Wyoming by the hired assas
sins of plutocracy, assisted by federal officials
Seventh—Resolved. Tbat we commend to the
favorable cons.deration of the people and the
reform press the legislative system known as
the initiative and referendum.
Eight—Resolved, That we favor a constitu
tional provision limiting the office of President
and vice-President to one term, and providing
for the election of Senators of the United
States by a direct vote of the people.
Ninth—Resolved, That we oppose any sub
sidy or national aid to an private corporation
for any purpose.
“The People’s Party at the outset to secure
permanent control of the party organization of
the people unaffected by the interests of those
in public service does herebj’ in national con
vention assembled at Omaha on the 4th of
July, 1892, establish this ordinance as funda
mental law of party organization, viz: No per
son holding any office or position of profit,
trust or emolument under the federal or any
state or municipal government, including Sen
ators, Congressmen and members of the Leg
islature. State and local, shall be eligible to sit
or vote iu any convention of this party, and a
copy of this ordinance shall be annexed by ev
ery call for any future convention of the par
ty.”
RESOLUTION OF SYMPATHY.
Resolved, That this convention sympathizes
with the Knights of Labor in their righteous
Contest with the tyrannical combine of cloth
ing manufacturers of Rochester and declares
it to be the duty of all who hate tyranny and
oppression to refuse to purchase the goods
made by said manufacturers or to patronize
any merchants who sell such goods.
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ber, we sell you cotton checks and sheet
ng at actual factory prices. COME and
SEE US.
$10,000.00
GIVEN AWAY.
To Our Patrons Who Are Lucky Enough
To Solve Our
W
WE The p uwißber9 ° f the cincijj
J nati Herald, one of the most in-
fluential Reform newspaper’s published in this part of the world, and one of
most able People’s Party, Farmer’s Alliance and Labor Advocate journals of the world,
has undertaken to guarantee to the party throughout the United States and to its adver
tisers (40,000) FORTY THOUSAND additional subscribers by January 1,1893, and in Or
der to secure this large number in so short a time, necessitates a big outlay of money. We
fully appreciate the fact that if we put agents into every county in every state in the union
to canvass for subscriptions it would cost us not less than TWENTY THOUSAND DOL
LARS to secure 40,000 subscribers, and then it would take these agents one year or longer
to secure this number and hence to get so large a number of subscribers’in so short a
time, we have carefully calculated that the cheaper and best plan is, to offer a CASH
DONATION of SIO,OOO and give every man, woman and child iu the universe a chance to
get a part of this large sum. t < v
40,00 u additional subscribers will bring to our advertising columns $50,000 of advertising
each year and hence we oan well afford to pay out in cash to secure this list.
Any school boy ten years old can see the philosophy of our argument.
This is the greatest country on earth for NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE and the pub
lishers of The Cincinnati Herald do not propose to allow any other newspaper on
earth to get a head of them in generous boneflde offers to subscribers. i
FORTY THOUSAND SUBSCRIBERS means to us $40,000 to say nothing of the
large amount of money we will get through our advertising patronage, find we can well
afford to GIVE AWAY SIO,OOO in premiums or rewards to those who are intelligent enough
to solve our Word Puzzels as given below. This is the fairest and most original, just and
straight forward offer ever made. 4
It is estimated by publishers generally who have offered premiums and rewards to the
lucky guessers or solvers of their puzzles and riddles that ONE out oi every TWENTY
are successful, and taking this as a basis we would be called upon to pay cash money to
2,000 persons out of 40,(XX) subscribers entering the puzzle contest. Hence, SIO,OOO divided
between 2,000 persons would be $5.00 a piece for each person. It will thus be seen
that each person who is lucky enough to solve our word puzzle will receive $5.00. If we
should not secure more than half of this large number of subscribers, we would pay each
lucky contestant $5.00 In getting 20,000 subscribers, we would pay out, figuring accord
ing to the same rule $5,000 to 1,000 persons. If we get 10,000 subscribers we would pay
out $2,500 to 500 persons. If we got 5,000 subscribers we would pay out $1,250 to 250 persons,
and hence it will be seen that the rule applies in any case and we can well and ably afford
to give each contestant to the word puzzle $5.00 if he should be successful in solving it.
Each oerson can solve as many of the words as he or she may choose. e
THE OQLY aOQDITIOQ: %ffer is to secure subsribers AT
ONCE and in large numbers to The Cincinnati Herald one of the best newspapers
published. It is aggresive, fearless and independent and is brim full of news from the
whole world. Tiie People’s party principles are ably and thoroughly discussed editorially
and by the best writers of the day. The Laboring classes. Farmer’s Alliance and the in
dustrial classes generally will find in the columns of The Herald just such reading
matter as they can not find in any other paper of the day. It’s Woman’s department
is read with a deep interest by every mother and young woman in thousands of homes
and copious extracts, and articles are copied in all the leading magazines and newspa
pers of the world. The farm and other departments sparkle with interest and in short it
is one of the most able and interesting newspapers of the age and should be in every home
in christendom. It is seven column folio in size and printed in plain neat type on good
paper and can be read by old as well as young with the greatest ease to the' most trying
eyes. We therefore require that SI.OO be sent with each and every answer to the word
puzzle to pay for a years subscription to The Herald, elf you send an answer to more
that one word you will be required to send SI.OO and a separate name for each word you
sob’e. RE MJEiI BE 11 we will pay you $5.00 for each word you solve correctly. If you solve
one word you will be required to send SI.OO to pay for a years subscription to the Herald.
If you solve two words you will be required to send $2.00 to pay for two yearly subscrip
tions and so on for each word you solve. But in every case you must send a separate
name and address for each word you solve. The whole amount of cash you receive for
correct answers can be divided among the persons whose names you send, or you can
keep the whole amount yourself just as you may arange among yourselves. In every in
stance we will pay the cash rewards to the person sending the names.
■(Don’t Send answers to the puzzle without subscriptions and SI.OO for each subscription
as they will not receive any attention.
HERE ARE THE “
FIVE WORD PUZZLES?
Can any body solve all or any one of them?
S' a ? O O Each dash appearing in the partially spelled
AAIVaAf J. 1 w Asa words indicates tne absence of a certain letter,
and when the proper letters are supplied the original word selected to form each puzzle
will be found complete. Example: B—A E, the name of one of the greatest states-
imen of the age. In this ease the word selected is Blaine, and when the omitted letters 1,
and n, are supplied the completed word is found and the puzzle solved.
RK 1 The name of one of the best Known
_ k j— Statesmen and Public Officials of the
“ ek Ea Name of a well known animal. ©
X "W*” I wort * or term that might be rightly
O kb I sa J vj ® applied to the Peoples party. >f
R | u Something a man likes to have about
La Ls 818 whether in or at leisure.
—■ t--' * 1 ■■■ * ——
Admired by many newspaper men and
hundreds of others.
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“S 83 S? 53 B S 3 To guard against even an appear-
Ax-y has k J U I | f ance of any thing that might look like
g E s S s x®*' a « s irregularity a copy ©f the five word
puzzle spelled out correctly, has been sealed and deposited in J. R. Hawley’s steel vault,
to be kept there safely and not touched or looked at until December 31st. 1892, when they
will be opened in the presance of Mr. J. R. Hawley and three witnesses, after the con
test ends.
Mr. Hawley is Cincinnati’s most prominent news dealer and one of her most re
spected business men and citizens, and has been in business in Cincinnati since 1861
and located at 164 Vine Street, and is known to the whole newspaper world,
Cincinnati, Ohio, Aug. 26.1892: I have received from the Herald Publishing Company,
a sealed copy of the Five Word Puzzle, properly sealed, and to be deposited in my steel
vault and not to be opened until December 31st, 1892, and then only in the presence of three
witnesses. *s> J. R. Hawley.
The complete list of five words with the correct answers will be printed in our
first issue of January next so that all who have sent in an anwer to the puzzle can see
wherein they have failed. THIS WE CONSIDER FAIR AND HONEST TO ALL.
a IN ANSWERING ALWAYS GIVE THE NUMBER OF THS
WORD YOU SOLVE.
a t ; m a C? solve more of the word puzzles than we can
I V w W Su S O Ln Sb afford to pay rewards, we will withdraw the
offer, but every one sending in correct answers will get $5.00 for each word they solve, un
til the offer is withdrawn.
A IM OST AQ n We will £ ive extra as a grand reward
iu iTs boa to the first ten persons sending in correct ans-
wers to all the five words. The $25.00 is additional to the $5.00 for each word solved, mak
ing $50.00 to the first ten. This is offered as an inducement to send in five subscribers at
once. Try hard at solving all the words correctly. Address all letters and make
all remittances payable to
The Heuald Publishing Co.,
< 5S LONGMORTH STREET. CINCINNATI, O.
ION. TOIWATSOTS BOOL
CONTAINS 890 PAGES.,
ITS TITLE—
“NOT A REVOLT:
IT IS A BEVOLBTIfIH.”
Contains a Digest of Political Platform#
since the days of Jefferson.
Contains a History of all Political Partiea.
Os the National Bank Act,
Os the Income Tax Law.
Os the Legal Tender Notes.
Os the Demonetization of Silver, --
Os the Contraction of the Currency*
Os the Way Tariffs are Made.
Os the Squandering of Public Laada,
Os the Pinkerton Militia.
Os Tammany Hall.
Os the Alliance Flatforms.
Besides Arguments, Facts, Figures on aS
the Leading Topics of the People’s
i Party movement.
—also >
Speeches of the *' Nine ” at this Session,
Also a Synopsis of the Work of this
Session,
The Book should bo in the hands of
every Lecturer, Speaker, Editor an 4
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