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ECHOES FROM THE ELECTION. Details of the late election are now coming in from all parts of the State. The letters of correspondents relate facts which disclose the means bv which the result was reached. And the means were fraud, bribery, drunk enness, intimidation, murderous as sault and homicide, all traceable to the door of organized Democracy. Here follow some samples. The first is from Hancock county, the home of Governor Northen: One of the most glaring outrages ever committed in a free country was perpetrated at Sparta, Georgia, on the day of election. Rev. 11. S. Doyle, a colored min ister who is striking such telling blows for the People’s party, was as saulted by a mob of Sparta’s most re spected citizens. Using the privilege of a freeman, he was working for the success of the party’s State ticket, when he was ap proached by a crowd and informed by the leader that he had come to cut his throat. Several colored men were around him, and pushed him out of reach of the knife, when im mediately pistols were displayed, and as he attempted to escape he was shot at like a dog. This was not the only attempt on the life of Mr. Doy le. Once before a crowd, led by the mayor of the town, went to his par sonage for the purpose of mobbing him in broad daylight. He happened to be out, but the mob, not satisfied, went all through the house with pis tols, searching for him. This is justice, this is fairness of the Democratic sort. It is enough to make the cheeks of every man with one iota of self respect mantle with shame. It should be the rally ing cry of all colored men as they EO'iiid the clarion call for People’s party men. Not so much because Rev. Doyle was outraged, but 'be cause this is a fair sample of Demo cratic methods. They mean to silence by force every man whom they can not otherwise intimidate. It is the duty or every man to rise and bury the party of bulldozing, of assassina tion and intimidation beneath a shower of ballots, too deep to rise ever again. Mr. Doyle is now compelled to leave his home and seek safety else where. It is no secret—men have openly sworn it—that they mean to have his life. Hence he is an exile, driven from home because he dared to tell his people what he believed to be right. Whoever votes for the organized Democratic party votes to perpetuate 'this system of political persecution— a system more repressive than the Siberian exile system of czar-ridden \ nuse, men, wnite and taatk-, vuu with the People’s party, and give life to the party whose object is to bring about a peaceful reconciliation of all on the broad plane of equal justice, a free ballot and fair count for all men alike, both white and black. The Democrats find nothing sacred in the cloth of the divine, and allow no right of asylum even to the par sonage. Then comes a letter from Albany, Dougherty county: There was a complete steal. We had over 200 majority in this town. Discovering that ballots were being substituted at the polls, 25 tickets were soiled so as to render them easily distinguishable when folded, and given to as many men who de sired to vote for the People’s party. We would watch through the win dow and could see none but clean ballots go in the slit in the box. Twelve witnesses saw no less than 50 changes in succession. One voter then folded his ticket in diamond shape and passed it in. The manager who took it dropped his hand behind the box, and when it came up he held a long-folded, clean ticket, which went into the box. If we could have had any show of justice, the People’s party could have carried the county, as the colored people voted nearly solidly, there being only about 25 traitors. At one precinct in the west ern part of the county, where every voter favored the People’s party, the polls were not opened, the blanks be ing returned and 400 men deprived from voting. In Albany of 937 votes they stole all but 175. The murders in Elbert county are reported as follows: At Ruckersville, Elbert county, Ga., J. W. Rucker, a highly respect able citizen, and from one of the best families in the state, (I mention this as we are called by the Democrats rag-tags) was going quietly to the polls with a squad of negroes and white men to cast their votes as free men. B. H. Heard saw some negroes in the squad, who had once lived with him, and who bore the name of Heard; he commenced cursing them for wanting to vote against the Democrats. Rucker tried to quiet him, but only received a cursing. Rucker then told the negroes that if any one of them wanted to vote the Democratic ticket they had both the right, and his consent to do so. None of the negroes moved. That so ex asperated Heard, that he took up a wagon standard and struck an old negro. The negro’s son, then struck Heard, after which Heard ran across the street to his house, loaded a double-barrel shot gun, walked back and deliberately shot down two ne groes, one of whom has since died. George Hall, another white Demo ci at, drew his pistol and shot three negroes. The negroes had committed no crime, except the unpardonable sin of wan finer to vote aaainst the PEOPLE’S PARTY PAPER. ATLANTA, GEORQIA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1892 Democrats. A mob then surround ed J. W. Rucker and Oscar F. Bell and treated them most cruelly, strik ing them with fists, feet, and stones. The Democrats finally drove the Peo ple’s party from the polls, and wouldn’t allow them to cast a single vote. They were mostly negroes who are easily panic striken. As the Democrats have all the law in their own hands. We do not hope for justice is this case, but can’t we have protection in November? If the law can’t protect us, we will protect ourselves with Winchesters. We will never be driven to the Demo cratic party again. From Bulloch county the follow ing shows that counterfeiting may be added to the list of Democratic virtues : Lying, red whisky and counterfeit money (of which I have a SIOO bill in my possession) has run the thing over us—not defeated, not beat. I consider that we have gamed a grand victory. Such fraud and corruption will in the end help to destroy the party that resorts to such base means to carry their point. The people of this county have never before seen anything like it—the law openly vio lated, drunken negroes led to the pollsand voted; sober ones bribed, and many of them, no doubt, with counterfeit money, and those that would neither get drunk nor be bribed were driven by sheer force and made to vote by threats of driving them out of their hom es and-off the lands where they were living. And I heard one negro begging, within five feet of the ballot box, to be allowed to go away without voting, and saying that he did not want to vote, and the fel low that was forcing him told him if he did not vote he would shoot him. Some of the negroes who did vote the People’s party ticket have since been made to leave the houses in which they were living. But our people are giving them houses. 1 have heard of a few men who were Democrats and voted the Democratic ticket, but now say that they are so disgusted at the way things was done, that they never intend to vote with the party any more. God grant that thousands all over the country have become disgusted. As far as I have been able to learn our people are not disheartened, and are still in the fight. I am till death. Richmond county did not escape. Beside shooting down a negro preacher at the poor-farm precinct, because he was endeavoring to instill manly independence in people of his race, the Democrats are subject to charges of gross fraud. Our corres pondent writes: Defeated but not discouraged. This carried by bribery, repeating. Victory has been bought m this county at I the sa’crifice of self respect and honor. The officers of the Superior and County Courts aided and urged on the rascality. We had money, offi cial power and the tyranny of the employer to fight. There are two solutions for the November fight— money or the United States’ protec tion of our homes and ballot. I pre fer the latter. NOT DEAD YET. W e have just received a com munication from a People’s party club in one of the counties where our ticket was snowed under by crooked methods, asking our best terms for 1000 copies of the Peo ples Party Paper for one year. These brethren are on the right line and will whip the fight at the next general election. How many coun ties will follow suit in educating the people? A brother in another county writes,! sent in a three months sub for nineteen Democrats and Republicans. All but two voted our ticket Octo ber 5 th. Put the People’s Party Paper in the hands of the people, and it will prove more than a match for bulldozers, boodle and mean whisky. In several States of the West the Democrats have indorsed the Peo ple’s party candidates for electors and Congressmen. There seems to be no difficulty in the way of doing this in States ordinarily Republican. In the South, however, the Demo cratic scheme includes anything to prevent the people from electing either electors or Congressmen. The address of the Democratic State con vention of Colorado, adopted m lieu of a platform, printed in this paper, discloses most clearly the regard in which the People’s party, with its candidates, Weaver and Field, is held among the Western people. Let the people of Georgia compare this with the conduct of the Democratic leaders of Georgia. THE AUSTRALIAN BALLOT LAW. John Morley, a London newspa per man, makes some comments on the Australian ballot law: Each ballot has a number printed on its back, and on its face a coun terfoil containing the same number. At the time of voting the ballot paper must be marked officially. It is then delivered to the voter within the polling station and the register ed number of the elector is marked on the counterfoil. It is then taken into a closed compartment, marked and folded, and placed into the bal lot box, the official seal uppermost. The returning officer at the close of the polls counts the ballots in the presence of the candi dates, or their agents, and at once declares the candidate or candidates receiving the largest number of votes elected. Incidentally, it might be well to call attention the American voters to the ease with which a vote can be invalidated. The courts have de cided that the following markings on a ballot are illegal, and make the ballot void. A cross in the upper left hand corner outside the space for names ; a cross at the left and below; cross at both the right and left; cross on the back of a ballot, opposite the name of the candidate; two crosses; cross the letter above or below; cross with additional marks of any kind; cross with the candidate.s names in addition ; cross with another name written in ; cross and voter’s signature on any part of the ballot; cross in form of ornate script; cross with small lines run ning in several directions ; circles or ovals; spiral designs; star or aster isk ; lines not forming a cross ; sin gle line instead of cross; blot or scratch in ink below candidate’s name ; straight line on the back. THAT LETTER. The daily papers of the Demo cratic persuasion have reproduced part of a letter from Capt. D. N. Sanders to Mr. Watson, being a con fidential communication of a trusted agent to his employer. Because the letter -would hurt and not help the Democratic scheme of campaign, only such part was printed as suited the purpose of the editor. The letter was gotten by the meanest device ever acknowledged by men claiming to be honorable. No copy was kept by the writer, and hence the reprint from the Augusta Chronicle is ac cepted as materially correct. Here it is, reproduced and presented as containing some practical suggestions to the People’s party men that the Atlanta Constitution did not dare give its readers: Dear Colonel—l find your letter on my table on my return from home. I knew you were not at home when I telegraphed for means to pay freight on paper, but I did not dream that the telegraph operator would do otherwise than send the telegram to your house, where it would be at once opened. I went to Buck as a last resort and borrowed the money from him, stating explicitly that you were from home, and I could not reach you in timl’ifwrr answer my purpose. He knows full well that it was done without your knowledge. The Telegraph asked us a favor to sell or lend them ten rolls of paper. I could sell at a small profit, and as funds were scarce and we had a sup ply for several months, long enough I thought for it to be definitely deter mined whether you would run the paper permanently. I would not have sold without consulting you, but the Telegraph was without pa per to get out its next issue, and it had done us a mean little trick.. I was anxious to treat it generously. From what I could learn on Sun day the Taliaferro boys are not hacked. They tell me that my pre cinct, which gave Peek a majority of 53 out of a little over 100 votes polled, will give you a dozen more votes than Peek received. We can get around some of the bulldozing in this way : Let tickets be sent to good men in each county just a week before the election comes. Some full People’s party and some with Harrison elec tors, and let these tickets be distri buted to good men in each militia district and by them given to poor white tenants, as well as to negroes, who were bulldozed into voting the Democratic ticket. These poor devils who are afraid of their bosses can put these tickets in their pockets and receive tickets from their bosses as before and quietly exchange tickets and vote as they desire. It is pitiable to think how many poor men of Georgia are reduced to slavery. I learned from my wife that a few days before election, the negroes in my neighborhood were told that I had denounced the Peo ple’s party and declared for Northen and Cleveland. Several of them went to my wife to know if it was true and when told that it was a trick to deceive, they went off more determined than ever to vote our ticket. I have about 200 more campaign books than I am likely to dispose of. We are getting very few letters giv ing accounts of the election. From what we hear, the amount of bribery and bulldozing is beyond all calcula tion. God help the people who are selling their birthright for a dish of pottage. Get back into your own district as soon as you can, and stay there. I -would as soon lose my right hand as see you beaten. Yours, till the end, D. N. S. Os the 137 counties in Georgia, 125 voted on the legislative tickets as follows: Democratic 120,537; Peo ple’s party 61,957;*8epub1ican,2,123. As there were a number of coun ties in which the People had no can didates for representative, Peek’s vote was presumably several thous and greater than noted above. Put t down as being 75,000, and you will not miss it much. A greater vote than the Republicans ever cast in the State by 12,000, and sufficient to defeat the Democratic vote. A majority of the whites are evidently with the People’s party. The Dem ocratic majority is less than the Re publican vote, and the colored voters controlled the balance of power in favor of the Democrats. THE FLOWERS. The following aresome of the cards accompanying flowers received by Mr. Watson at Gibson and Appling. Somepf the names of donors were lost because of difficulty in handling and preserving the prized testimonials which they accompanied: of Miss Gus Hie Sturgis. Compliment# of MaUd Hall, Thomson, Georgia. < ; ; From Lillie LanscLlL To Hen. Thos. E. Watson. ' ' Hon. Thos. BcWataon, from Miss An nie Marshall. * Hon. T. E. WatsoiUc From Mrs. M. M. Lasseter. Compliments of Hiss Lizzie Toole and Mrs. R. E. Neal. Compliments of'Sirs. J, W. Neal, to Hon. T. E. Watson..r With best wishes, to Mr. Watson, from Emmie Magruder,. Appling, Ga. Compliments of Miss Ada Clary, to Hon. Thomas E.-Watson. c Harlem, Ga., Qct.A 1892... Compliments of Mrs. Phillips to Hon. T E. Watson.. May you live long to advocate the cause of the People. Hon. Thos. E. Watson. May the God of Heaven crown you with succes. Your friend, Mrs. B. M. Gross. October 3, 1892. To the Hon. Thos. E. Watson, the champion of the people’s rights. May God give you courage and strength to fight the enemies until the victory is gained. Marie and Alice Evans. Thomson, Ga., Oct. 4. Those eggs seem to have left a stench in Macon.i THE CAMPAIGN IN TEXAS. ~4, , Judge Nugent, the nominee of the People’s party for Governor|of Texas is a strong man, fully in line with the reform movement, as is shown by the following extract from one of his re cent speeches. His election is reas onably assured, though there are three other full-fledged] candidates against him. The census bulletin, issued by the chief of the census bureau, shows that in 1880 the nin<a North Atlantic States—Maine, Vermont, New Hamp shire, Massachusetts. Rode Island, Connecticut, New York,-New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, had '29 per cent of the population of .the United States, and that during the decade ending in 1890, they secured 41 per cent of all the wealth gained in the Union; while the 21 States, Mary land, Delaware, West’ Virginia, Vir ginia, North Carolina, South Caro lina, sissippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennes see, Kentucky, Ohio,’ Indiana, Illi nois, Missouri, lotva, Kansas and Nebraska, with 56- per - cent of the entire population in 1880, secured during the same pnly 23 per cent of the aggregate wealth gain of the country. And yet the nine States mentioned ; contain 168,665 square miles of territory while the 21 States contain 98p,(55 square miles. Moreover the njpe States in 1880, had an aggregate assessed value of $7,559,928,915, shife the 21 States had in the Same year an aggregate assessment of $6J83D,554,628. Thus the nine States, with little more than half the labor, about one-sixth of the land, and about the same amount of capital, secured, during the decade mentioned, nearly 1 twice as much of the aggregate wealth gain of the country, as the 21 States. Again, comparing the State of New York, the financial center, with West Vir ginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Flor ida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, Illi nois, lowa, Kansas and Nebraska, fifteen States, we find that, in 1880, the fifteen States had nearly four times as much population as New York and about one and one-half times as much assessed value, and that their territory as compared with that of New York nearly sixteen to one. Yet, New York gains, in the decade mentaioned, >6,197,719 more wealth than the fiffeeii States. The following clipping the Dalia News of August wotild seem to indicate that the enormous wealth gain of the Nortfy Atlantic States is not likely to suffer Any curtailment under the fosterihg ! ca¥e 'of the Mc- Kinley bill: 91 nu ' “The Mills GrpAving richer—Cot ton Manufactures’ ."Wore Prosperous Than Ever Petorb.-- Fall River, Mass., Aug. 14.—Published returns from the mills here fpr the past quar ter show they arbnow Henjoying the most prosperous seaitfry ever known in cotton manufacturing in Fall River. Thirty-one corporations representing 46 millions have paid dividends-of 8538,880 on a capital of $18,128,000. The total dividends paid for the cor responding quarter last year amount ed to $233,25ft In addition the mills have unburdened* themselves of debts and interest accounts and made extensive alterations 'And additions.” Thus it is plain to see that the manufacturing and financial centers have no reason to complain of pres ent conditions. "''Gorged-to repletion with the good things that a paternal government has showered upon them for lo these many years, what caie they if barefoot Texas women and children pick decent cotton to supply their mills, or Kansas farmers raise 10 cent corn to pay interest on their mortgages ? But this is not all. The farmer from 1850 to 1860 found himself in possession of about 70 per cent of the national wealth, and growing richer each year. The gold miners of California were annually adding to the circulation, enhancing prices, em ploying labor and diffusing prosperi ty through all the avenues of our social, commercial and industrial life. Farm values went up and farm pro ducts commanded ready sale at good prices. The farmer’s sons and daughters, as they grew “up and married, were easily provided for and settled around the old homestead, or at least in convenient reach of it. But what a fate has overtaken this plodding, conservative, brave and honest citizens. Poverty and debt press him, taxes press him, freight rates press him, and it has become his hard and burdensome lot to toil from January to December for the bare necessaries of life. Wife and children must relinquish the small comforts and luxuries which once were within their reach. The boys, as they giow up to manhood’s estate, vanish from beneath the paternal roof to seek their fortunes in the facinating and mysterious West; but, alas’ they find no West that prom-i ises fortune. The speculator, the railway and the syndicate have pre ceded them and occupied the ground. The railroads own 281,000,000 acres, foreign and domestic syndicates own 84,000,000 acres, making a total of 376,000,000, and 787,906,375 are in farms. There is probably not now left of our vast public domain more than an average of three acres per capita of our population and much of this is desert or barren land, unfit for many reasons for occupation by the housekeeper. Thus cut off by the policy of our government from ac cess to the cheap public lands, is it wonderful that such a large portion of our people are tenants —that in fact over 700,000 farmers in the United Stabs are compelled to share their crops with landlords ? But not only are the money and lands monopolized, but railroads as well. In the present adjustment of our social and industrial life rail roads, as a means of exchange and distribution, have become an abso lute necessity. The use with which a railroad is charged, being public in its character—being in fact the ex ercise of a function belonging more to government than to private indi viduals—there is the same reason for reducing rates of traffic on these lines of transportation as exists in favor of a reduction of public tax ation. Every person feels that high rates of taxation are burden some, and hence the demand for the reduction of public expenditures to the necessary expense of govern ernment economically administered. A moment’s reflection will serve to convince any candid mind that the same rule should apply to the ex pense of operating that system of intercommunication by w’hich the products of labor are exchanged and the social and business life of the country is so largely maintained. Certainly agencies which affect every member of the political com munity and which largely determise and give shape to the complex re lations and functions of society— which in fact deeply affect and in volve its organic life—ought not to be mere matters of private specula tion and gain. The inter-communi cation of intelligence and the ex change of wealth products by the railroad and telegraph certainly lie at the very foundation of our indus trial, and thus our social well-being, since our complex social life finds expression (evolution) in our com plex industrial system and their maintainance must be seen to be rather a function of government than of the individual. And government ought to take care that the expense of maintenance shall be reduced to the minimum like any other public tax. With this in view, the enormity of the tax levied upon production by the railway and telegraph system of the countiy may be appreciated, when it is understood that of the $10,000,000,000 of stocks and bonds representing the nominal cost of the railway system of the country, ap proximately one-half is fictitious or waetred, and that the gross income derived from the operation of this system amounts to more than sl,- 000,000,000, a sum probably exceed ing the entire amount of money in actual circulation among the peo ple. The net earnings of the sys tem for 1890 are put down in No. 226 of the Statistical Abstract at $346,921318. But while the manufacturer, the banker and bond-holder and the rail roads thus levy tribute upon the productive forces of the country, the government adds its own increased burdens. Look at these figures, showing appropriations z by the con gresses and for the years named : Congress. Time. Forty-third, . . 1875-76 $633,794,000 Forty-fifth, . . 1879-80 704,527,000 Forty-eighth,. . 1885-86 655,269,000 Fortv-ninth, . 1887-88 746 342 000 Fiftieth, . . . 1889-90 817,963,000 Fifty-first, . . 1891-92 988,417,000 These figures are correct, as they have the indorsement of Senator Gorman, a prominent democratic candidate for the Presidential nomi nation, who contends that the annual expenditures of the government are “justly growing.” He is also the Senator who justified the building of a great navy as a means of subsidiz ing “the great steal industries.” Around us on every hand may be seen the evil results of the vicious policy which I have but briefly out lined, and these results may be gathered up and expressed in the statement that for thirty years past, in this great republic, dedicated in blood to human liberty and the rights of man, the “rich have been growing richer and the poor poorer.” A million tramps, homeless and hopeless wanderers, trudge along our highways and gaze despairingly over illimitable areas of unused land, monopolized and withheld from set tlement by the speculator, the syndi ■ cate and the corporation, for the sake of the “unearned increment”— that deep and ineffaceable stigma upon our statesmanship and civiliza tion. For the tramp no flower blooms, the grass does not grow, and Mother Earth, with her generous bosom affords no nourishment. A fugitive and vagabond, no human sympathy follows him as he flies from the face of his fellow man, only to find rest when crime forces him within prison walls or the grave opens to receive his wasted and wearied body. But the tramp is fortunate in at least one respect—he has found his way out of the cities into the country, where beggary may prolong his useless existence. Thousands of poor in our cities are ess fortunate. “In New York 40,- 000 working women are so poorly paid that they must accept charity, sell their bodies or starve. In one precinct twenty-seven murdered ba bies were picked up, six in vaults.” In California girls are paid wages ranging from $1.12 to $1.90 per week. “In the sweating establish ments of Chicago,” says the Sociolo gic News, “the wages paid girls and women range from $1 to ss“a week, dishonor or death being made a ne cessity.” The same authority says: “The average wages paid street car drivers in Ohio is $1.53 per working day of twelve hours and thirty-five minutes. The average pay of men in street car stables is $1.37 a day, working eleven hours and a quarter. * * In the Pennsylvania mining regions the miners] receive $178.40 a year. Out of this pittance they pay to the mining companies for the hovels they occupy 40 per cent of the value of the hovel.” But here is another picture. There are 9,000,000 mortgaged homes in the United States. In the last de cade tenant farmers have increased in number in Kansas more than 20 per cent and more than 11 per cent in Ohio. Texas alone had, a few years ago, 66,465 tenant farmers, leading all of the producing States except Illinois. I have alluded to the decline in prices. This will strikingly appear from the following comparison of prices by decades: From 1860 to 1870, average price of wheat per bushel, $1.99. From 1870 to 1880, average price of wheat per bushel, $1 38. From 1880 to 1889, average price of wheat per bushel, $1.07. Price at this time 80 cents. From 1860 to 1870, average price of corn per bushel, 96 cents. From 1870 to 1880, average price of corn per bushel, 63 cents. From 1880 to 1889, average price of corn per bushel, 46 cents. Price at this time, 38 cents. In 1870 wheat brought $12.76 per acre ; in 1890, $8.60 ; loss per acre, $4.16. Corn brought in 1870, $18.75; in 1890, $8.73; loss per acre, $10.02. Rye brought per acre in 1870, $19.75 ; in 1890, $6.26; loss per acre, $12.18. Cotton brought per acre in 1870, $32 ; in 1890, $9.96 ; loss per acre, $23.94. In like man ner it may be shown that there was a loss on barley of $12.57 and on oats of $9.79. The aggregate loss on these crops will run up to many hundred millions, but falling prices and shrinking values only affect the farmer, the laborer, the artisan, the producer and the worker. The bondholder still clips his coupons and draws gold from the treasury, the banker to the same pleasing per formance adds the taking increased usury and the manufacturer still holds his clutch on tjae market by means of the protection against com petition, which a compliant govern ment gives him. As a result society is rapidly dividing itself into two classes—the very rich and the very poor. Look at this statement, com piled by a most accurate and consci entious statistician, of the wealth of the United States: 200 people are worth, $ 4,000,000,000 400 people are worth, 4,000,000,000 1,000 people are worth, 5,000,000,000 2,500 people are worth, 6,250,000,000 7,000 people are worth, 7,000,000,000 20,000 people are worth, 10,000,000,000 31,100 people are worth $36,250,000,000 Thus it appears that one-twentieth of one per cent of our population own three-fifths of the entire wealth of the country. Your Secretary’s Request. Friends to whom packages have been shipped by express from me, are earnestly requested to call and take them from the Express office paying the charges (25 cents) at once. We would have sent them every one prepaid but we had no money with which to do it. So in order to get the express company to take the packages I had to become personally responsible for the charges on every package shipped. Now unless you take the packages out the whole bur den will fall upon me. It is only 25 cents to you but it is fifty dollars to me, and 1 am not able to stand the loss, for after nearly a year’s work for the people’s cause with no compensa tion except that which comes from the conscious preformance of patriotic duty, lam entirely without money. Get the literature, read it, and have your friends and acquaintances to read it. Yours always, Oscar Parker. 5