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THE SUPREME COUNCIL.
The Executive Board of the Na
•tional Farmers Atliance and Indus
trial Union have decided to hold the
aext meeting of the Supreme Coun
sil at Memphis, Tenn., on the third
Tuesday in November (15th). Ap
plications have been made to all rail
ways for special rates.
THE MACON TELEGRAPH HOWLS.
For every statement contained in
ray article on Gen. Weaver’s treat
ment in Macon, I had the authori
ty of credible testimony.
The facts were given me from
sources I believed and still believe
to be reliable.
I have not the slightest doubt that
every statement in the article is
strictly true.
Thomas E. Watson.
ENGAGEMENTS CANCELLED.
Hon. T. B. Cabaniss having noti
fied Mr. L. A. Ponder that he w r ould
not meet Mr. Watson at Smarr’s
Station that engagement is can
celled.
The same is true with the Dublin
appointment—Judge Turner not be
ing certain he could be there.
The Macon appointment is also
cancelled.
Mr. Watson recognizes that the
combined forces of the democracy
are now fighting him in the Tenth,
and that all his time is needed
there.
The Australian ballot law is badly
needed in Georgia. Last week thous
ands of men had to vote an open
ticket before employers and land
lords, or meet the certainty of
having to lose their employment or
their homes. The secret ballot
would have remedied all that.
Mr. Moses argues that whereas tho
Senate proposed to lend $5,000,000
to the Chicago fair, and the House
only consented to make a gift of
$2,500,000, the House saved half of
the misappropriation. A loan upon
a good bond is certainly a better
asset to the tax-payers than a gaping
hole where half the sum disappeared,
leaving no consideration. The truth
is that the Democrats wanted to
make the loan but feared that they
could not meet the argument of the
financial reformers, that the country
can safely money on personal
security. Apprehension that they
could not meet the farmers in debate
after making the loan cost the people
ju«t $2,500,000 in that instance.
PEOPLE’S PARTY PAPER. ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1892
STEADY MEN, AND FORWARD!
Did you join this movement for a
holiday campaign, thinking that there
was no work to do and no trials to
bear ?
Did you merely want an office,
and did you choose our side simply
because you thought it the strongest
side?
Were you only a sore-head, seek
ing a vantage ground from which
you could best wreak your ven
geance on the Democrats for having
slighted you ?
If so, my friend, you will at once
leave us—and 3-011 will be better off,
and so will wc!
But if you enlisted in the war for
good reasons: if you became one of
us because you honestly thought
this country was badly governed, its
laws shamefull} 7 unfair, its people
suffering from unjust burdens, and
liberty itself well-nigh extinct under
the crushing despotism of class rule,
then, my brave comrade, you are
fuller of light to-day than on yester
day.
You now know that the Demo
cratic leaders have deceived you,
mocked you, and defrauded you.
A’ou now know that every species
of force and corruption which th
told you the North practiced as
against Democrats, they, the Demo
crats, have practiced against you.
Your presidential candidate and
his aged wife were shamefully in
sulted. Your speakers have been
silenced. Bribery of the most fla
grant sort has been practized under
your eyes by the men who de
nounced Quay and Dudley; whisky
has been copiously measured out
around the polls by the good Demo
cratic apostles of prohibition ; pistols
and knives have been used to drive
our workers away from the polls,
and the victory which in many coun
ties we won in spite of these meth
ods, has been taken away from us
on flimsy technicalities by Demo
cratic managers who have for twenty
five years denounced the same acts
when committed by Republicans.
All these things you have seen.
They will sink deep into your
minds. If you were w’ith us from
principle before, you will be with us
now more earnestly than ever,
more aggressively than ever, more
hopefully than ever, for none of us
can think that the people of the
South are going to tolerate the infa
mous plans which have won the
Democrats the State election.
The preliminary brush with the
enemy is now over. The Novem
ber election looms up ahead.
Bend down to the task, men, and
work as you never worked before!
The People’s party sentiment is
here, and it is here to stay.
Help to organize it. Help to get
it into fighting shape. Help to
infuse life and purpose into it. The
individual voter must be taught that
we will protect him in the exercise
of his franchise. He must be made
to understand that this is an issue
upon which depends his future, his
home, his liberty.
Comrades, show that you are
worthy of a place irt our ranks.
Show that you can be constant, and
brave, and true. Show that you can
throw off the gloom of repulse and
compel a victory by your indomi
table pluck. Remember that no re
form movement ever went to success
save through the grim ordeal of re
peated failure. Remember that
those privileges which we hold most
dearly to-day cost the blood of the
brave men who struggled for them
through years of discouragement
and defeat.
Here is one man who means to
fight for the sacred cause until they
fold his exhausted hands over his
breast.
Who will follow? T. E. AV.
DEMOCRATIC FRAUDS.
In AVilkes county the managers
threw out every precinct which gave
Ramsey a majority. This was done
on the slimmest and most absurd
technicality in the signing up of the
returns. The Tyrone district went
for Reese. The returns had the very
same alleged defects. AA ere they
cast out? Not much.
Such are Democratic methods. A
crime committed in behalf of De
mocracy is a virtue.
* * * *
In Wilkinson county the registrars
(mostly Democrats) examined the
individual voters, and being satisfied
with such examination, gave a cer
tificate of registry.
On the day Mr. Watson was to
speak at Gordon, the county com
missioners summoned 360 of these
duly registered voters to Irwinton to
show cause why their names should
not be stricken from the lists. Those
summoned were inostly colored peo
ple of the People’s party. Without
any legal testimony the Democratic
bosses struck off 116 names from the
lists—9o per cent of whom were our
voters.
Such are Democratic methods. A
free ballot and a fair count is meant
for Democrats. The People’s party
must make out the best it can in the
face of frauci, tyranny and suppres
sion. ** ’
* * * *
In Hancock county Rev. IL S.
Doyle, a prominent colored leader of
the People’s Party, was assaulted
and barely escaped with his life.
The Democratic county officials led
the crowd .of assailants. The Demo
cratic County Judge and the Demo
cratic Ordinary were, prominent in
the use of knives and pistols. This
colored preacher has had to leave
his parsonage and come to McDuffie
county for protection.
Hancock county is Governor Nor
then’s home county. He has claimed
to be a friend to the negro. He evi
dently means Democratic negro. A
People’s p&rty negro hide out.
He must be shot at, ’threatened with
opened knives, and flee for his life.
The Governor was in Hancock
county at the time. He did not lift
his finger to protect this colored di
vine from homicidal assault or to
secure to him the safety of his home
and parsonage.
Such are Democratic methods.
Yet they talk to colored people of
ku-klux!
* *„ * *
Mr. Black is the apostle of pure
politics—of Arcadianisni. That’s the
reason so much Democratic money
and whisky flooded Jefferson county
the day of the election. That’s the
reason so much intimidation, bribery
and repeating were practiced in the
city of Augusta.
Democratic Arcadianisni means to
get the vote in any way known to
man. The dirtiest method is com
mendable because it keeps in power
the dear Democratic bosses.
T. E. AV.
MR. BLACK’S BACK-OUT.
It will be remembered by our
readers that when Mr. Watson
reached home he challenged his com
petitor to a joint debate in each
county.
Because claimed the right,how
ever, to first go over the district
and give an account of his steward
ship, the Democratic papers were
full of sneers at what they called his
fear of Air. Black.
Only five meetings out of the
eleven to which Mr. Black was chal
leged did'he accept.
The refnaiiiin’g six were postpen
ed upon Air. assurance
that they would be arranged at some
future day. ■; m
That promise he has violated. He
now refuses to redeem his word and
have Air. Black meet Air. Watson in
the remaining counties.
A completer back-out has never
been seen. 17 »’
Air. Fleming knows quite well
that we have the proofs of the frauds
and briberies practiced by his gang
at the Stats election, and he knows
that Air. Black w T ould not dare to
face the proofs.
So they run—being ashamed to
confront the evidence of their dis
honest and corrupt methods.
If the Tenth wants to be repre
sented by a “white feather” man,
they will now know who he is.
- O{ T. E. AV.
This is Air. Fleming’s answer to
Judge Gross’-request that the bal
ance of the debates he had:
Augusta, Ga., Oct. 8, ’92.
Judge B. M. Gros?, Thomson, Ga.,
Dear Si,i^: — Yours of yester
day to hqnd, in reference to further
joint between Air. Watson
and Mr.;slack. In reply I beg to
say that Mr. Black considers that
the issues & have been fully
discussed in tne meetings already
held, and ffe,;se£S no good to be ac
complished for tjie public by having
further joint debates, especially since
the election tp£ " October sth shows
that there is practically no People’s
party iu State, thus making the
issue more than heretofore personal
to yourself. Air. Black and his
friends think that under the changed
condition we should avoid the con
tentions and asperities that attend
these joint debates,and do what we
can to assay the that has
been aroused, and restore as far as
possible among the people of the dis
trict the. peace and harmony which
all good citizens desire.
Very respectfully,
Wm. li. Fleming,
Acting for Air. Black.
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The law of Georgia closes every
bar-room on election day. The
Democrats of Georgia provide th.ir
whisky over night, and on election
day there was more drunkenness
than on any other ten in the calen
dar year. j
LETTER FROM COL. PEEK.
Editor People’s Party Paper:
After so much has been said of
the recent election we still have
much to be proud of in Georgia.
Our party has grown to fully one
half of the white voting population
of the State in less than eight months,
and no one dares dispute the fact
that it is composed of the best citi
zens of the Empire State of the
South—men who have the courage
o
of convictions and tenacity of pur
poses, men who, under all circum
stances, dare to advocate and main
tain the doctrines and principles
upon which our government was
founded and established. It is
amazing to know that, in this land
of bulldozing, hoodlums, suppression
of free speech and plutocratic in
tolerance, the determined advocates
of equal rights have been successful
in pushing their army to an equal
division of the white voters of the
State. A victory for the people has
been achieved, a principle establish
ed planted by the river of waters
eternal in the South; this, too, when
the Democrats,with the whole money
power in all departments, were com
bined against us. White men in
debt were threatened, tenants were
intimated, employes in many in
stances were refused time to vote, to
others it was said, you will get out
or vote the Democratic ticket.
They wined, dined, breakfasted and
even penned the poor negro the pre
ceding, night and with blue ribbon
and brass band the proud merchant,
aristocratic doctor,and their captains,
lieutenants, sergeants and corporals
marched the negro to the polls and
voted him against his convictions.
Fired by the whisky ring,social equali
ty was established. In my own county
the above tactics were also resorted
to to defeat me. They went so far
as to rob the poor-house of its in
mates, hauling them to the polls and
voting some who on account of
lunacy cannot find their way back
W’hen a hundred yards away from
the poor farm. Such are competent
for Democrats to use to defeat the
will of the wealth-producers. To
what extent these frauds were prac
ticed, we have only to say that this
little county of Rockdale, with a
voting population 1028, cast 1154
votes. A noted hall was filled with
negroes, who were made -yy by
mean liquor, locked in for the night,
breakfasted the next morning and
headed by the leading moneyed men
of the city, were marched in a line
to the polls and voted as soon as
they were opened. It was also cir
culated that if I was elected Gov
ernor of Georgia I should not take
my seat, but should die the death of
Lincoln and Garfield.
AVith boodle, bulldozing and in
timidation, they used the 103,567
colored voters in Georgia, and did
what the refusal to divide managers
at the different precincts indicated to
all intelligent people they would do
to save the glorious old party from
negro supremacy. AVhen the color
ed voters could not be bulldozed,
bought or intimidated into voting
the Democratic ticket, they were
driven from the polls, only a few be
ing allowed to cast their ballots for
the People’s party, though the large
majority would have done so if al
lowed.
Despite all this we have made a
most wonderful move for our cause
and have burnt the bridges behind
us with orders to the front. No
revolution was ever started with
such force. No people ever fought
under such disadvantages as we
have. We have met the enemy on
every field with his old political
generals in command, equipped with
boodle for buying, munitions for in
timidating, counting and stuffing.
Ours was a campaign of poverty.
AVithout a dollar, without an ambu
lance to carry the weak who fell by
the wayside, without trained po
litical generals, we have fought a
good fight and have enlisted in our
army for relief and reformation
more than half the white voters of
Georgia. The fight is on, and there
will be no grounding of arms, no
white flag raised, until our demands
are granted.
AA'e never expect to kiss the hand
that is smiting us, or to lap like a
dog; neither do w'e intend to heed
that satanic voice crying “come
back.” AVe have nothing to regret,
but much to be proud of. AA’e have
no personal war to make, but our
political sword is unsheathed and
crossed with parties of promises and
nd not of deeds. On the Bth of
November I, with the many thous
ands of other Georgians, will say to
the world that we know no North,no
South, no East, no West, but one
common country with equal rights to
all, by voting for our People’s party
Congressmen and AVeaver and
Field. W. L. Peek.
TO THE PEOPLE OF GEORGIA.
The State election is over, and
now let us look over the field and see
the result.
Less than six months ago the cam
paign opened in this State. Not un
til the fourth of July was the new
party fully formed. From that day
the fight has been on, and the result
has been grand to the reform forces.
In three months of debate we have
succeeded in marshaling into the
armj 7 of reform over 70,000 sturdy,
honest voters. Never did a new
movement accomplish so much in so
short a time in the history of the
world.
This has been accomplished in the
face of the fact that the new organi
zation lacked that compact and close
organization that the old parties
have.
This was accomplished in the face
of the bulldozing and proscriptive
policy of the aristocratic Democracy ;
in the face of the mortgages and the
debts which were flaunted by the
merchants in the face of the people
who owe them. The tenants were
threatened that if they voted the
People’s ticket they would be driven
from their homes, and in many parts
of the State their threats have been
carried out and the men who dared
to vote their convictions are without
a home and their families are out of
doors on the charities of the world.
The colored voter, w T hose every
interest is with that of the laboring
white man, was bulldozed, intimi
dated, driven from the polls, and in
some instances shot for attempting
to exercise the rights of citizenship
and vote as they pleased. By intim
idation, by bribery, by the use of
whisky, by force, the larger part of
the colored vote was either c? s st for
the Democratic ticket or kept from
the polls.
In some places Democratic officers
had professional witnesses to swear
out warrants against innocent colored
people to prevent their voting for
the People’s party at the State elec
tion.
There is no doubt but the working
classes, white and black, would have
voted with the People if left unin
fluenced by the bulldozing jmd in
timidating process outhe Democratic
party. *
The frauds that were committed
in the name of Democracy at the
ballot box were many throughout the
State. In some places reports state
that parties watching saw the mana
gers change the ballots put in for the
People’s ticket to Democratic before
they were put in the box.
This is the reason why Chairman
Atkinson and AV. J. Northen refused
to request their party in ths several
counties to divide managers of the
election. It was a premeditated
plan by the leaders of the Demo
cratic party. The orders were sent
out for 70,000 majority accompanied
by at least $200,000 of boodle to
bribe the voters of Georgia.
With all the bribery; with all the
bulldozing and intimidation; with
the merchants and money pow T er
threatening the people with foreclos
ure ; with the shot-gun brigade driv
ing the colored people from the polls,
the Democrats on a fair count did
not secure over thirty thousand ma
jority.
There can be no question that the
honest sentiment of the State is
with the People’s party, and an hon
est, open ballot would have given
the election to the reformers by a
good majority.
There is nothing to discourage the
movement in Georgia. AA r e must
meet the desperate and dastardly
means of the enemy with back-bone
and determination.
At the approaching November
election let us have a fair election or
none.
AVe don’t need men with cotton
strings for back-bones in this fight.
AVe want men who will stand up for
their rights to the finish. Let no
set of men bulldoze you from doing
your duty. You have the methods
of the opposition; now meet them,
and meet them successfully.
Let every reformer in the. State
go to work, and let Cleveland and
his rotten-egg crew go down in
November.
See to it at every polling place in
the State that there is a free ballot
and a fair count. Maintain your
rights, and allow no set of men to
conspire and defraud the people of a
free and unintimidated expression of
the majority.
The farmers and working people
are in this movement. In every in
stance where either of these classes
vote against the reform it is because
of a want of proper knowledge upon
the great questions of the day. AVhen
these people stop and think, they
will join the reform and fight for
their own relief instead of that of
their enemies.
“Keep in the middle of the road,”
and let the fight go right forward for
principle and right. The people will
repudiate such methods as that of
our enemies at the last election;
they will repudiate the action of that
party that promises and never ful
fills.
Stand by your colors, and relief
will come through victory.
M. D. Irwin,
Ch’m’n People’s Party of Georgia*
HANCOCK COUNTY
Is Billy Northen’s home county.
He got a majority therein during the
recent election. How? AVithin
three miles of where the said Billy
lives the vote was as follows :
For Northen, 15
For Peek 148
This was too billions to be borne,
and so the managers at Sparta threw
that precinct out. Billy’s neighbors
w r ere entirely too rough on him, and
the bosses knew it would look too bad
to print the truth. So they sup
pressed the vote.
At the Powelton precinct the said
Billy attended in person to beseech
and influence the benighted voters.
The result was 150 majority for
the People’s party.
This was also too bad and the
Sparta bosses threw that out also.
In Sparta itself negroes were de
frauded of their ballots by the substi
tution of Democratic ballots for those
of the People’s party. This subter
fuge being not quite sufficient, ne
groes were chased away from the
polls to the music of pistol shots.
That’s the way Billy Northen
“carried his home county.”
T. E. AV.
AYE A VER AT PULASKI.
Saturday, October 8, Gen. AVeaver
spoke at Pulaski, Tenn. An audi
ence of several thousand was on
hand, and splendid order was
maintained. As to the libelious
falsehoods fashioned by the
Atlanta Journal, every allegation
was specifically denied and de
nounced, save, that he did levy , a ,
cvavribution <j. $2,000 on
wealthy citizens of the town to be
expended in behalf of the refugees ;
this in obedience to orders from
Gen. G. M. corps commander.
Such enforced contributions are part
of the annals of every war of which
history treats, and were levied on
Chambersburg, Md., and A’ork, Pa.,
by Gen. Early in his celebrated in
vasion. Gen. AVeaver made a splen
did speech, and was right royally
cheered by the vast audience. There
was a small meeting in the court
house that evening, at which the
chief liars of Tennessee Democracy
tried to stem the tide of sentiment
and sustain the oft-repeated false
hoods, but it was a most con
temptible failure.
WILKES COUNTY.
FREE SCHOOL TICKET.
For Governor,
AV. J. NORTHEN.
For Secretary of State.
PHILIP COOK.
For Comptroller General,
WILLIAM A. WRIGHT.
For Treasurer,
R. U. HARDEMAN.
For Attorney General,
JOSEPH M. TERRELL.
For Commissioner of Agriculture,
ROBERT T. NESBITT.
For Senator 29th Senatorial District,
M. P. REESE.
For Representatives Wilkes County,
ED. Y. HILL.
L. W. LATIMER.
The above is an exact copy of the
ticket by which the Democrats fooled
the negroes in AVilkes county. They
w’ere made to believe that unless
they voted for Northen they w r ould
lose their free schools. Such a de
ceptive device as the above renders
the ticket fraudulent and void. Un
der the law each one of these bal
lots is illegal.
Had the People’s party violated
the law in this way the whole pre
cinct would have been thrown out.
Democrats did it, therefore it is
all right. T. E. AV.
Yin the face of the fact that the
Democrats voted almost the entire
colored vote in Georgia last week, it
was amusing to the verge of hys
terics to see the white Republicans
of Atlanta, led by Bullock, go to the
polls and vote for white supremacy.
The trouble with the Democracy
of Georgia is, that it Has ceased to
believe in reason. Force is its ar
gument.