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6 PEOPLE’S PARTY PAPER. PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE People’s Paper Publishing Company. 117 1-2 Whitehall St. THOS. E. WATSON, - - President. D. N. SANDERS, - - Sec. & Treas. R. F. GRAY, - Business Manager. This Paper is now and will over be a fearless advocate of the Jeffersonian Theory of Popu lar Government, and will oppose to the bitter end the Hamiltonian Doctrines of Class Rule. Moneyed Aristocracy, National Banks, High Tariffs, Standing Armies and Formidable Na v.es: -all of which go together as a system of oppressing the People. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. TERMS—SI.OO PER YEAR. Send Money by Postal Note or Money Order DO NOT SEND STAMPS. OUR OFFICE is up stairs in th» elegant new McDonald building 117 1-2 ** aitehall street, where our friends will always find the latch string on the outside. Get Up Clubs. We want the Industrial Classes to feel that this Paper is Til El R FRIEND. 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Will keep accurate time. Re member you do not have to send us any certain number, but the one send ing us the largest full paid list will receive the watch. 2d. To any one sending us six yearly subscribers, we will send a nickel case, stem wind and set watch, which will keep excellent time, wear white and not tarnish. A very hand some time-piece. Tammany’s Sinews of War. Philadelphia Ledger's New York letter. New York saloon keepers are no longer, it is stated by enemies of Tammany Hal), to* treat with police captains, but to make their political contributions direct into the treasury Qf I’ammany Hall. As there are 8,000 saloons, and as $2 a week would be a small contribution for each to make, the aggregate, even on this basis, would be 8800,000 a year. If this were true, what a fund Tam many Hall would have, in addition to its other income, to use in main laming its power in the city. 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.”