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4 PEOPLE’S PARTY PAPER. PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE PEOPLE'S PAPER PUBUSING COMPANY. 117 1-2 Whitehall St. THOS. E. WATSON, - - President. D. N. SANDERS, - - Sec. & Treas. R. F. GRAY, - Business Manager. T' ” ' ~ This Paper is now and will ever be a fearless advocate of the Jeffersonian Theory of Popu lar Government, and will oppose to the bitter and the Hamiltonian Doctrines of Class Rule. Moneyed Aristocracy. National Banks, High Tariffs, Standing Armies and Formidable Na ives: -all of which go together as a system of oppressing the People. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. TERMS— SI.OO PER YEAR. 50 “ SIX MONTHS. 25 “ THREE MONTHS. Bend Money by Postal Note or Money Order. DO NOT SEND STAMPS. CLUBS : In clubt. of 10 wo will send the Paper at 75c. OUR OFFICE tip stairs in thfe elegant new McDonald building 117 1-2 iiiteliall street, where our friends will always find the latch string on the outside. Get Up” Clubs. Wewantf n e Industrial Classes! to feel that this Paper i a THEIR FRIEND. It is conduct ed by men who are intensely interested in the Reform Movement, and have been battling for It many years. The price shows that the Paper is not being tun for money. If the People support it lib erally it will pay expenses. It cannot do taore. As long as I am President of the Company, the Paper will never be found on any other tne of policy than that which I sincerely be eve is best for Georgia, best for the South, ind best for the country at large. TIIOS. E. WATSON, President People’s Paper Publishing Co. ten, ■■ ' ' ' 1 ■ - ■■■■'- APPOINTMENT. Mr. Watson will speak at Jewells, Hancock county, on Saturday, the 15th instant, at 7 o’clock p. m. A CHANGE. The appointment of Mr. Watson to speak in Macon on the night of Oc tober 17, has been changed to Octo ber 15, at night. NOTICE. Mr. Walter IL Lowe’s connection with this paper having ceased, all subscriptions and all sums due for idvertising will hereafter be paid to the undersigned. D. N. Sanders, Sec. and Treas. People’s Party Paper Company. 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. ■ JI I» ♦ 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.