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PEOPLE’S PARTY PAPER, ATLANTA, GEORGIA. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 30, 1892.
THE TRUTH ABOUT THE ELECTION.
In another place in this issue will
be found the popular vote at the
November election. It is well to
study these figures. The results are
most encouraging to Reformers.
By Democratic admission, “that
miserable old wretch,” Weaver, was
voted for by upwards of one million
equally miserable wretches, both old
and young.
By Democratic admission, they
themselves cast all their votes in
C’olorada, Idaho, Kansas, Nevada,
North Dakota and Wyoming for the
despised James B. Weaver. Not a
single Democrat in these six
States voted for Cleveland.
Every mother’s son of them marched
up to the polls and voted for “that
miserable old wretch” whom the
Democrats of Macon rotten-egged.
and for whom the Atlanta Ring had
prepared a similar reception.
If our people needed any further
proof of the monstrous game of bluff
and deception and fraud which was
practiced on them by the Democratic
Bosses, this Table of Figures, fur
nished by the Democrats themselves,
will afford it. How can any Party
live in the respect of the people
when it denounces a thing in one
section and praises it in another?
When it hugs a Candidate in one
State and rotten-eggs him in an
other? When it viilifies the Peo
ple’s Party, its Leaders and its
Platform in the South while it glo
rifies them in the West ?
It will be seen from the Table that
we cast 99,688 votes in Texas. Just
a few years ago this State bore the
Banner of Democracy. It was al
most solid for that Party. Now the
Democrats are fighting for dear life
against a revolted vote of one hun
dred thousand men !
Look all down the column of figures
and see how narrow is the Demo
cratic majority in a dozen of the
States ! Consider what a very heavy
vote we polled South of the Potomoc
as well as in the West.
Then note the total vote at the
foot of the columns and get a good,
clean and retentive grip upon the
splendid fact that
Cleveland is a Minority Presi
dent.
Tell your wife to remind you of
this the first thing every morning.
It will start you out in a pleasant
and forgiving frame of mind.
Yes, Sir! '
After all their brag and bluster,
we have put the Democracy in a
Minority on the Popular vote, and
their President is a Minority Presi
dent !
5,607,842 voters said he ought to
be Chief Magistrate, while 6,425,516
said he ought not to be.
Study the condition of Political
affairs as disclosed m this Table,
kindly furnished by our friends, the
Democrats, and you will fully re
alize, for the first time perhaps, how
magnificent are the possibilities of
the People’s Party.
Knowing what we know about
the frauds of both the old Parties,
and making a fair estimate based
upon these facts, it is my deliberate
judgment that Gen. Weaver actually
received Two Million votes, and
that Cleveland and Harrison did not
receive, by one million, what is
counted for them.
Chew on these figures, Brethren,
and keep right in the Middle of the
Road.
Think of the advantage the old
Parties had over us; think of their
money, newspapers, machinery, lies,
frauds, tricks, and coercions, and
then say whether you don’t think
we did wonderfully well. Your
brave wife will say so, I’m sure. I
know her quite w r ell. Met her
during the campaign ; drank the cof
fee she made for me when I was
tired; ate the good things she pre
pared when I came into your house
hungry, and felt her motherly kind
ness when I was sick. Heard her
talk, and know her views. She is
not one of the give up sort. She’s
full of pluck, and she will say some
thing like this:
“Why of course we’ve done won
derfully well. You didn’t expect to
get the earth the very first lick, did
you ?
“Why, how long did it take you
to get that ‘New Ground’ so it would
make stuff? Don’t you know how
hard you and all the neighbors had
to cut x and clear and roll and burn
out there in the woods before you
could plow? And don’t you re
member what sort of a double
jointed time you had trying to
plow it?
“Don’t you know you wanted to
take your letter out of the church
awhile so you could cuss that mule ?
Don’t you know the first crop didn’t
more than give your seed back ; and
the second was scanty, and that the
third was the good one ?
“What makes you forget things
that way ? When the Rings have
been ruling us twenty-five years,
how could you expect to break them
down completely the very first time
you tried ?
“So now, Bill, you just quit growl
ing around. You help clear the
track for the next race. Don’t you
feel down in the mouth. You just
hump yourself and send in sub
scribers for The People’s Party
Paper. Help spread light on these
questions that our speakers talk
about. Next year we’ll have a great
educational campaign and win con.
verts all along the line. Two years
from now our boys will move out
and meet the enemy again and you
must be at the front. And the way
you country men are going to clean
up those City Rings will be a sight!”
That’s the way your wife will
talk! There’s never any discount on
her courage, on her loyalty, or on her
splendid readiness to do all in her
power for the Cause or its
Take her advice, Comrade, and
hump yourself accordingly.
T. E. W.
* AN INCOME TAX.
While the purchasers of clothing
and of household and kitchen and
plantation supplies are all paying a
monstrous Tax to the Government
byway oi Tariff duties, it is a na
tional disgrace to see how the col
lossal fortunes, amassed as a result
of Class Legislation, go untaxed.
Jay Gould’s Estate amounted to
$72,000,000.
How much did he pay Taxes on ?
Only $500,000.
And he grumbled and growled be
cause he had to pay anything at all.
A Joint Committee of the New
York Legislature is now conducting
an investigation of the way the great
Corporations and the Millionaires
dodge their Taxes.
Some of the developments are of
interest.
The whole taxable property of the
City of New York is estimated at
$1,700,000,000.
It is taxed on a basis of only
$823,000,000-.
The balance of it escapes through
the broad avenue of Perjury.
The great Reading Combine (which
is a Democratic coilcern) has a capi
tal of $5’06,000,600. J
The Millionaires who .compose it
pay no Tax on their holdings, or
their enormous profits in this huge
and heartless Trust.
One witness before the Committee
was asked to explain how the system
of tax evasion was carried out. With
out giving the names of the concerns,
Mr. Coleman stated that one com
pany moved its plant out of the city,
but retained its office in the centre of
trade circles. The bonds, stocks and
cash were likewise removed where
the city could not reach them. Its
business and revenues remained the
same, while it evaded a large assess
ment. Another case cited was one
in which a company had a capital of
$1,000,000. It anticipated a large
tax on that capital, say an assessment
of $500,000, so it placed that much
in Government bonds, which are not
taxable. Then it claimed a deduc
tion and obtained it.
So it goes all over the land. The
strong man evades the Law, jumps
his Taxes and fattens on Class Legis
lation and special privilege.
And we go on submitting to it,
just like a lot of helpless fools!
4 T. E. W.
THE SILVER SITUATION.
Ten days after the recent elec
tion, the Chicago Herald, the lead
ing Democratic paper of the West,
summarized the result as it re
lated to silver, as follows:
Free silver coinage will have little
chance in the next House of Representa
tives, in spite of its 100 Democratic ma
jority. President Cleveland would stran
gle a free coinage bill in the White House
if it went to him, but the membership
of the next is such that it can
safely be predicted that no free coin
age biil can pass there.
The total membership of the new
House will be 356, of which 178 are suf
ficient to defeat any proposed legislation.
Careful figuring upon the attitude of
members whose position is known indi
cates that not less than 71 Democrats
and 113 Republicans would vote against
the free coinage of silver at the existing
ratio, unless as the result of an interna
tional agreement.
Now that Congress is again in ses
sion, the New York Herald, the
staunchest supporter of Cleveland in
the East, gives this graphic jiortrayal
of the sentiment of its section of
Democracy:
Four thousand tons of silver ! That is
the amount the treasury has thus far
bought under the Sherman law’, which
went into effect last August. Just think
of it 1 Four thousans tons of two thou
sand pounds each I The paper issued
against the one hundred and forty tons
bought every month is redeemable, not
in the white metal, but in bright, yellow
gold, on demand of the holder, and if
the government should refuse to honor
one of these notes gold would that in
stant go to a premium, and the mischief
would be done. What are our Senators
and Representatives going to do about
it ? The vast volume of paper currency
is swelling every day, and every day the
gold is being drawn away from us by
the hard-headed foreigners, who perceive
that disaster is inevitable unless prompt
action be taken. On Tuesday two and a
quarter million dollars of our gold coin
went out to Germany. On Wednesday a
million was shipped to France. On yes
terday, in response to cabled orders, half
a million left this port on a freight steam
er for Germany, and it would not be
at all surprising if to-morrow's steamer
for England should carry two millions
more. It is impossible that Congress
should, in bland idiocy, remain passive
until the country is whelmed by the
threatened catastrophe. Here, day by
day, under our very eyes, the props are
being knocked from under our currency
structure. What are the people in Wash
ington thinking about ? Will they wait
till gold goes to a premium before wak
ing up ?
These quotations disclose the po
sition of the dominant faction of
the dominant party. To the tender
mercies of those advocating the
policy outlined above have the pro
ductive interests of the country been
relegated. Almost as certainly as
that the Fifty-third Congress will
convene, will an effort be made to so
direct financial legislation that this
country will be permanently and
irretrievably enlisted with the gold
standard nations.
That there will be a protest is
evident; but will that protest be
effectual ? The Democratic party is
as completely controlled by the gold
ites as it was thirty-odd years ago by
the element friendly to chattel sla
very. No more prospect of any
compromise exists now than then.
Indeed, the plan seems matured, that
the minority of the party will join
with a majority of the Republicans
and defy the people, who demand
legislation in behalf of silver. The
effort will be not merely to maintain
silver in its present position of quasi
recognition, but to make it an out
law, and it seems that the influence
and efforts of Mr. Cleveland are
pledged to that end.
With how tender a stomach, there
fore, does the average Georgian learn
that Mr. Crisp seems to have con
sented to this scheme of plutocracy,
and is now making overtures to se
cure the consent of the President
elect to his candidacy for the Speaker
ship. As his lackey telegraphs to
the Constitution, the Speaker is now
in New York for a conference with
the “great leader.” It is safe to say
that the conference will effectually
decide both the Speakership question
and the policy of the party on silver.
It is a fair inference, from what
has been disclosed of Democratic
purposes, to state that there is no
longer an issue between the or
ganized bodies of Democrats and
Republicans. But the people of the
South and West are in dead earnest
about this silver question. They
want free coinage, and they want it
speedily. If the Democracy does
not grant it, wholesale fraud at the
polls will not be sufficient to con
tinue the present Representatives in
power. The next Congress will be
composed of new members in a pro
portion even greater than was the
last. And the new members will,
like those now in office, be pledged
to free and unlimited coinage.
WATCH OUT!
The ordinary of each county de
cides the legality of bondsmen of
each county officer.
Therefore it is on important office
to capture.
If a Democrat is elected to that
office it is in his power to prevent
your other officers from making bond.
Judging the future by the past,
don’t you know what the result
will be?
Therefore capture the office of
ordinary.
If a Democrat is elected to that
office, all kinds of captious objections
will be made to the bondsmen offered
for the other county offices, and the
Democratic ordinary will rule against
our friends.
Therefore capture the office of
ordinary.
When the Democrats fought the
Republicans in 1868 and 1870 they
resorted to that kind of a trick in
the counties where the Republicans
had the majority and drove them
from the offices to which the people
had elected them.
They will do the same way now
if they get the chance.
Therefore capture the office of
ordinary in preference to any other
county office.
R. F. Kolb, who was defrauded of
the office of Governor of Alabama,
has made an appeal to the Legisla
ture of that State for justice. The
statutes do not providejfor’contest for
State offices, though the constitution
expressly states that the Legislature
shall enact such a law. Mr, Kolb’s
appeal to this time has borne no fruit.
Democratic exigencies require that
Jones shall be Governor, and Jones
is willing.
NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL.
Washington, Dec. 23, 1892.
There is nothing which shows the
advance of civilization better than
the change which has taken place in
the way of fighting.
The other day there was a big up
roar in the French Chamber of Dep
uties. That’s the name they give
their Congress.
The Panama Scandal was the topic
of talk. Accusations flew thick and
fast. Nearly every honorable Depu
ty charged the others with having
been bribed.
A member named Deroulede ac
cused a member named Clemenceau.
The latter said to the former, “Sir,
you lie.”
The former said to the latter, “ Sir,
you’re another.”
Now right here is where civiliza
tion steps in and shows her superion
ity over barbarism.
In the uncultivated times of' our
rude and hasty forefathers, one of
these Statesmen would have mashed
the other’s mouth, got his nose bunged
in return, and both of them would
have apologized to the Presiding
Officer and been handsomely for
given in some neat and eloquent re
marks.
But those uncouth days have passed
away.
When the fatal words of insult
had passed between these two French
Statesmen, things rested right there
for the moment. But everybody
knew the storm was brewing. Dread
ful preparations had to be made, and
in the meanwhile, these civilized war
riors must hold a check-rein upon
the turbulent desire for immediate
action.
Friends hurried to and fro getting
the fighting apparatus of modern en
lightenment ready.
It consisted of Pistols, Carriages,
Surgeons, Newspaper Reporters and
that valuable piece of furniture known
as “ the Mutual Friend.”
The morning for the Duel came.
Both of the Combatants hugged and
kissed everybody in sight before the
battle opened. For fear I may be
charged with misstatements on such
a serious subject, I quote literally
from the newspaper accounts:
AFFECTING SCENE BEFORE THE DUEL.
The parting between Deroulede and
his friends on his start for the dueling
ground, was very affecting. He em
braced and kissed them repeatedly, and
assured them that he would die in a man
ner worthy of the Legion of Honor. He
fully expected, he declared, to Jose his
life.
M. Clemenceau, who had spent the
morning with Mme. Reichemberg, gave
directions about the issue of La Justice,
and left orders to the management of the
paper in the event of his death. The staff
crowded around their chief, and he kissed
and embraced them each in turn. Some
of them shed tears, and M. Clemenceau
gently rebuked them, saying: “I have
stood on the field of honor too often to
have any apprehension now.” He said
that he preferred death to dishonor, and
spoke in a tone of resolution that evoked
the admiration of his assistants.
It must have been an affecting
thing to the nerves to hug and kiss
so many bearded men, and that’s
probably one reason why neither of
these men could hit the other.
A large crowd witnessed the fight.
The Duelists were fifty feet apart.
After each shot was fired the seconds
measured the ground again. No
fudging was allowed. Nobody was
hurt—not even a reporter.
I remember a few years ago when
Pat Calhoun and a man named Wil
liamson, both Rail Road Presidents,
were chasing each other along the
Tennesse Line in Palace Cars, that
one of the Reporters, Bruffy I think,
came near having the skin shot off
one of his fingers.
Since that time the Reporters have
become less reckless and more wise.
Instead of standing twenty 'feet to
one side, they now take position just
in the rear of the shooters.
These two Frenchmen shot at each
other several times and the ground
was as often measured to prove to
the critical and exacting public that
none of it had run away, and then it
was discoverd that there was no good
reason wby these two men should not
be the very best of friends. So they
at once stopped shooting, began to
shake hands, hugged and kissed their
friends all over again, and went to
breakfast.
Now that’s what I call a real nice,
civilized fight. To ride out m a Car
riage ; to have all your friends ride
along in their carriages; to have an
admiring crowd of people look on;
to have blank cartridges fired at you
some fifty feet away; to have all
your male friends, washed and un
washed, hugging and kissing you;
and then to shake hands in the
friendliest w r ay with the man you
have been apparently trying to kill—
that is indeed an immense improve
ment on the old way of having your
snout mashed with an impulsive and
irreverent fist.
* * *
HOKE SMITH
Is having considerable fun poked at
him by the Democratic Press. I
seems that Mr. Smith has imbibed
the idea that Cleveland never goes
to bed at night without sworn testi
mony that Smith is on deck—pilot
ing the old ship of State safely
through the breakers. So intoxicated
has tt Mr. Smith become over this
strong political beverage that his pa
per, the Atlanta Journal, prints things
to that effect.
Hence, the ridicule which is being
cast upon him, the said Smith.
With Mr. Smith running the Pres
ident, it’s no wonder the Howells
cling so fondly to the coat-tails of the
recreant Warrior and Greenbacker,
Mr. Stevenson.
The only thing that troubles me is
that Mr. B. M. Blackburn seems to
have got tangled up soffie where and
lost.
•fr * *
NOBODY HERE.
We have been without a Quorum
almost constantly this Session. Mem
bers just won’t stay here.
They will ride around on Free
Passes and attend to everything ex
cept Congressional business.
* * *
MEXICAN SOLDIERS.
These old veterans enlisted 46
years ago. They did splendid ser
vice. They added upwards of two
hundred millions acres of the finest
lands to our National Domain.
They are now old and feeble—most
of them poor. We have just passed
an Act giving to such of them as are
unable to do manual labor and who
are in dependent circumstances an
increase of Pension from Eight Dol
lars to Twelve Dollars per month.
This is the only general law of im
portance we have passed.
* * *
SPRINGER AND CRISP.
Last winter there was some indig
nant protests in Georgia when I
stated that Crisp owed his election
to the Speakership to a trade he
made with Springer.
In another column will be found a
clipping from The St. Louis Republic
(Democratic) in which the same
charge is made.
You see the big bugs are falling
out and are in danger of telling the
truth on one another.
* * *
THE NICARAGUA CANAL.
Senator John Sherman, from his
Committee, has reported favorably
the Bill to lend the Credit of the
Government to the Canal Corporation
to the modest sum of One Hundred
Million Dollars.
When the Farmers ask a Loan,
they cannot even get the matter con
sidered.
Big difference.
The Farmers hire no Lobbyists,
buy no Editors and bribe no Com
mitteemen.
That’s the difference.
* * *
lending to rail roads.
When the Pacific Rail Roads were
projected the Government was
asked for the same kind of Guarantee
now asked by the Canal gang. All
sorts of precaution were to be taken
to make the Government safe—in
cluding Mortgages, first Liens, etc.
The upshot of it was that the
Government loaned its credit; has
had to pay interest to the extent of
some Sixty Millions of Dollars, and
now the principal is on hand for set
tlement.
What is our Mortgage worth ?
Seemingly nothing. The Rail Road
magnates decline to pay, and by the
use of those means so familiar to
Lobbyists they have got the Com
mittee in favor of extending the Loan
for a long term of years at a low
rate of interest.
So there you have it.
The Canal Corporation is to get
8100,000,000, and the Rail Road Cor
poration a still larger sum.
W hat will the Tax Payers get ?
They will get Taffy and nice
speeches, made at elegant dinners in
New York and Washington.
They will get hunks of advice
from claw-hammer-coat Statesmen
who gracefully rise from their Ban
quets of Terrapin and make elo
quence to this text, “Work harder
and live closer.” T. E. W.
Wendell Phillips once said: “ The
mainspring of our progress is high
wages—wages at such a level that
the workingman can spare his wife
to preside over a home, can command
leisure, go to lectures, take a news
paper, and lift himself from the dead
ening level of mere toil. That a dol
lar left after all the bills are paid on
Saturday night means education, in
dependence, self-respect, manhood;
it increases the value of every acre
near by, fills the town with dwellings,
opens public libraries and crowds
them, dots the continent with cities
and cobwebs it with railways. The
one remaining dollar insures progress
and guarantees millions to its owner,
better than a score of statutes.”