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CORRESPONDENCE. _
The Populists of Augusta.
Augusta, Ga., Jan. 17, 1893.
- Wfe People of Richmond county
hear very little of the progress of
our cause in other sections of the
State, for the reason that very few
of our people read the one-sideded
Democratic papers.—and when they
do they can find out nothing about
our party except that we have been
routed at every point, when we know
that such is not the case.
I want to ask our friends through
out the State of Georgia to give us
the news from their county and sec
tion through the columns of The
People’s Party Paper. Let us
know how your county went in the
January election; what vote the
People’s party polled, and what the
Democrats polled. We are anxious
to know, as it will encourage our
boys in their fight against ringsters,
robbers and repeaters in this county.
Everybody knows we did not
carry this county in the past elec
tions, and don’t expect to carry it
soon, on account of the methods em
ployed by that greatest of frauds,
the Democratic party of to-day.
And I am satisfied that if the bulk
of the people in the country who
are calling themselves Democrats
could see into the workings of these
city rings they would leave their
party in disgust. AU we ask them to
do is to investigate for themselves.
W hat do you think of hiring low
down white men and negroes to re
peat at the rate of two every five
minutes? This is done in every
election in Augusta.
Right here I will ask the reader
to calculate a little. Here is the
proposition:
Suppose we have five hundred
whites and negroes who vote once
every two and a-half minutes, how
many votes will they poll in eight
hours (the time the polls remain
qpcn) ? And what chance has a
party that does not nor will not re
sort to such damnable practices to
win ?
But we can assure our friends
throughout the nation that we intend
to keep fighting as long as there is a
repeating, vote-buying, bulldozing,
intimidating, job-lashing Democrat
in sight.
They say we are dead. Well,
just let them think so, for we are
the liveliest corpse you ever saw.
Kicking ? You cm bet we are kick
ing worse than a young Georgia
mule—and you all know how he
kicks.
You say we did mighty poor in
the last election. Well, so we did;
but we didn’t go into the field until
one week before the election, and
very few of our people had regis
tered, so we did not expect to accom
plish anything. We can afford, to
wait, for the time is not far distant
when the best element of the men
who now vote with the Democratic
humbug wiP find cut that wo are
, after the right and are not trying to
get office for ourselves.
Friends, give us the news. We
have several strong People’s party
clubs m this city, and are growing at
every meeting—meet every week |at
that. Boys, write us a letter once
in awhile, and we will read it to our
club and write one to you in return.
Keep up the good work. We
have two years now to organize, so
let every man pull off his coat and
go to work, for our cause is just, and
our hope is strong. Let there be no
laggards in our ranks, but let us
press forward and stand by our
grand leader, Thomas E. Watson,
looking forward to the time when
. our beloved America shall be freed
fryra the baneful influence which
now controls us.
Silas C. Read, Jr.,
Pres. Fifth Ward People’s Party Club
From the Hayseed Mansion.
What is the relation we sustain to
the laboring class ? With reference
to that question I feel impressed that
our noble order bears the same rela
tion to the laborer that the good
Samaritan did to the man that went
down from Jerusalem to Jericho
and fell among thieves, who stripped
him of his raiment and wounded him,
leaving him half dead, and then pass
ed by the Levite and priest, but they
left him on the other side of the
road. No doubt they thought he
ought to have stayed at home and
worked a little harder. The good
Samaritan took him up, carried him
to an inn, dressed his wounds and
• paid his expenses.
The Alliance is the good Samari
tan. The farmers and laboring class
are among thieves -who have stripped
them of their raiment and robbed
them of their money. The law
makers, congressmen, legislators, law
yers, doctors, merchants and preach
ers, all have passed us by, with a toss
of the hand and the remark, “You
ought to have stayed at home and
worked harder.” But the Alliance
came along, had compassion on us,
took us up, carried us to her lodges
to educate us and teach us how to
defend ourselves from the enemy,
and to show" us where and who our
enemies are. My, my! Has she
not thrown the light on the record of
our law-makers and pointed us to the
bright star of hope, if we are true to
her teachings ? She hath shown us
that it is victory or slavery. Which
shall it be ? my brother and sister of
the Alliance. Oh, let us put on the
whole armor of Alliance principles
and stand firm. Stand up against
the enemy of liberty, the enemy of a
fiee country and a free ballot. Lib
erty (for which our great grandfath
ers fought seven years, for which
they bled and died), how hath she
PEOPLE’S PARTY PAPER. ATLANTA. JANUARY 27. 1893.
been wounded and her beautiful gar
ments are trailing in the dust! As
she lifts her tear bedimmed eyes and
bleeding hands, she says to the Alli
ance and Industrial Union of these
United States: >‘See how Demo
crats and Republicans have wounded
me in the last elections w’ith money
and whisky! Every bought vote
was an arrow that wounded me. Oh,
I am full of wounds from the crown
of my head to the foie of my foot.
Come, ye honest sons of toil, and
rescue me from the hands of my
enemy, of your enemy, or I will die.”
Who hath ears to hear, let him hear
and come to the help of Liberty
against the mighty. Let the bugle
notes of freedom, justice and truth
be heard from mountain top to moun
tain top, North, East, West and
South. Let there be a mighty shak
ing among the dry bones of the val
ley as they hear the voice of Liberty
crying, to the rescue, to the rescue!
Oh, my brothers and sisters, let us
rally our forces, agitate and educate
the masses in Alliance d octrines;
never tire; talk, sing and pray for
the success of our demands.
For the oppression of the poor, for
the sighing of the needy, now will I
arise, saith the Lord. And will He
not do it? Yes, for God is on the
side of truth, justice and right.
Aunt Polly Hayseed.
January 20.
McDuffie RairzMings.
I’ll take the task of informing the
people of the State and country gener
ally how McDuffie goes, as she is, or
has been, the political storm center
of Georgia.
Not being any opposition for coun
ty officers except for Ordinary, there
was no effort made to reach high
water mark, as in November. She
climbed up in the neighborhood of
five hundred majority for the Peo
ple’s party candidates. There is no
going back in McDuffie. She is more
solid for the People’s party and the
principles uhe advocates than before
the fall elections. She has made her
calling and election sure by electing
those to office who are in sympathy
with her principles. We have sought
the responsibility of the county gov
ernment, and we are able to shoulder
it. Justice will be administered ac
cording to law, without fear or favor,
with out regard to parties. McDuffie
can boast of having a free vote and
fair count. No districts are thrown
out on account of errors on the part
of managers of elections.
When every county and every dis
trict in Georgia are willing that every
voter shall cast his ballot and have it
I counted, let the political scales turn
for or against whatever party it may,
then there will be no accusation
against her honesty; then the ballot
box will be a final test, the law vin
dicated, and the people will bow in
submission to the will of the majority.
It was thought by some of our op
posers that the first defeat would
send us back into the “ fold,” but not
much. The political differences of
the three parties are as wide as the
two seas.
If you would bring the bile to a
narrow Democrat’s gastronomical ap
paratus, just say “ Weaver ” to him,
and he goes for the spittoon. All
such reminds us that ignorance is
more prevalent in this country
than we were aware of. I am get
ting in favor of extending the free
schools to ten months in the year,
and limit the ages from six to sixty
six, especially when I hear some say
(at this late day) that it is a Republi
can scheme to defeat the Democratic
party! Let us have patience with
them ; they will discover after awhile
that the war is over. We will al
ways have some “ flat earth ” fellows
in every county and in all ages.
I believe in reading all sides of the
political question. We should read
the best paper of each party. But I
do not believe it is an unpardonable
sin because you don’t take all the po
litical papers that happen to be in
your district. Taking papers is a
matter of business and taste, and is
the prerogative of the individual.
It is a matter of congratulation to
see how the colored people have im
proved in many respects. There is
good will exhibited by them, and
they have commenced work with a
“ move ” on them ; nevertheless, it’s
the first month. Though the negro has
been freed twenty-seven years, he
knows now better than ever that he
must work out his own destiny. He
knows he has an equal chance with
the white man to make a living. He
knows he receives as much benefit
from good laws as his white friends
receive. He looks not upon the white
man as his former owner and an an
tagonist to his interest, but regards
him as a friend and colaborer in the
same cause—that of making his own
living, paying nis own taxes and up
holding the majesty of the law.
Right here, Mr. Editor, I want to
personate a little, and say this im
provement has come about by the
People’s party, as taught by Watson,
West, Gross and company.
According to the proceedings of
the last session of the North Georgia
Conference, as published by the Au
gusta Chronicle, there ■went up a
squall from some of the “ circuit
riders ” of the tenth district in regard
to the shortage of their salaries. It
said also that the gospel w’as boycot
ted in “Tom Watson’s bailiwick,”
thus throwing the blame on Mr.
Watson as the exponent of the Peo
ple’s party. To that charge, will say
that those ministers who preached
the gospel, and the gosjiel only, were
paid their salaries in full. The pure
gospel preached will never suffer at
the hands of politics. But politics
preached in pulpits will certainly re
sult in the falling off of quarterage.
There is much weeping and gnash
ing of teeth, so to speak, among Dem
ocrats, fearing that the “contest
fund ” will not be raised. Give your
selves no uneasiness about that mat
ter, brethren; it will not cost you a
cent. Just as certain as Solomon had
to stop the people from contributing
to the building of the Temple, just
so sure will the “ contest fund ” be
raised. And among those that have
contributed most to the gospel will
be found those who will contribute
to the contest fund also.
A lor.g /elt want has now been
supplied in the way of a People’s
party paper. It has issued but one
edition yet, but will be a hustler
when it gets in full sail. We have
had three weeks of the coldest
weather in seven years. The 9th of
January, 1886, it was ten degrees
colder than now. Chunk up your
fire and keep your machine in order,
and give us your paper every week.
We must have it, and Democrats are
reading it and passing it around.
Let the work go on. J. P. L.
Thomson, Ga., Jan. 17, ’93.
t Warren County.
Norwood, Ga., Jan. 21.
As I have seen nothing in your
valuable paper concerning the recent
election for county offices in this
county, I will state that th' ' ’eople’s
party carried this county from
450 to 580 majority.
Some of the officers had been in
office ever since the war, and it.
seemed like they thought the places
belonged to them, but they have
learned that the so-called dead party
is a very lively thing.
There were a great many bogus
People’s party tickets given out by
the Democrats. For instance, so ne
of the tickets had only one Dem >
crat’s name on it, and that at the L *.
tom of it.
Truly no people ever needed heir
any more than we farmers, and ail
laborers. Neither do we believe any
people ever followed a nobler leader
than we. Here in Warren county a
number of men have declared that
Tom Watson ought to be killed.
What for? Because he has lifted
the covering from Democratic rotten
ness in Congress and elsewhere over
the country.
It makes our blood boil to read the
accounts in the People’s Party
Paper about the low down methods
that were used to defeat our candi
date in the November election.
We were glad to learn in your
paper that Lincoln county went solid
for reform in the county election,
and think all the counties should re
port.
Your humble scribe has been a
subscriber to the Atlanta Constitu
tion for seven or eight years, but as
it is such a bitter enemy to our cause
I have stopped it and do not expect
to take it any more.
C-i.; So' Puller.
Echoes from the Eighth.
Bowman, Ga., Jan. 20, 1893.
That was a jolly crowd convok
ed at the Butler Academy on the
30th ult. Everybody came with a
grand purpose, and that purpose was
to devote a day to the study of
the system of things under which w
live; to inquire into the things and
wherefores; to familiarize with the
general legislation of the country;
to become better acquainted with
the various political parties, so as to
be able to know what party to charge
with the good and what party to hold
responsible for the pernicious legis
lation now being enacted. A new
order of things is dawning. The
common man has worked harder,
and yet he has grown poorer; he has
economized, and yet lived harder;
he has mustered enough courage to
ask the question, “ Why is all this ?”
From the humble cabin, from the
lonely cottage, from the dusty,
burning field, from the ringing an
vil, from the blazing furnace, from
every niche and corner of the labor
world, men are earnestly looking for
the cause. They will not quail.
The march is irresistible. The edict
has gone forth. The few shall not
dictate the policy of the nation and
gloat forever over the wealth of the
many.
Well, funny things have happened,
but the funniest thing yet was the
election for Justice of the Peace in
this District (Goshen). You see,
both the incumbents—that is, the
Notary Public and the Justice of the
Peace—were Democrats. Early Sat
urday morning Col. R. H.Gleen, that
solon of law (who is Notary Public
by accident), received a telegram
from Royston stating that his pres
ence in the flesh and bones (mostly
in bones) was absolutely essential for
the further existence of the town, so
this learned magistrate proceeded to
neglect the duties of the office he
had solemnly sworn to discharge,
and to obey the imperative demands
of the telegram. But did he go to
Royston? is the query. Not so much
of a query either. Now, this dis
tinguished custodian of law and or
der has a son-in-law who lives hard
by Bowman, and early in the morn
ing he was seen climbing the steps of
his son-in-law’s residence, where he
remained until about two o’clock,
playing with the grand-children.
Great men are fond of children, so
much so that they will even neglect
a public trust to be with them.
Col. Bob, -why did you run away
that day to keep from holding an
election? Now, there is that Black
stone of law and justice who knows
as much as Gladstone, Esquire Dee
Moon, who by a mishap was (but
who by a right-hap is not) Justice of
the Peace. On tie morning of j th©
election he was takui unexpectffdly,
suddenly and dangerously ill, tybt he
did not know what aisti him. /Reas
onable supposition ha. n 'that the
knowing Doctor of the Law had
taken an overdose of Cleveland De
mocracy, and then his learned stom
ach (the seat of his information) fail
ed him when the hour for holding
the election came. None of the
commissioned officers could be found.
Well, what little these two resplend
ent lights did not know about law
the People’s Party did, and they be
gan to hold the election as provided
for by law. The Democrats, seeing
that there was no alternative but to
come, concluded to rally their shat
tered forces, so they selected their
1 three most gallant leaders, the elo
, quent Butt Cut Goss and the no less
brilliant Ten Cent Frank Smith, with
that effulgent Elbert Ray, but the
People’s Party, led by Messrs. John
S. Colvard, Tom House and Lonk
Moon, got their scalps by a majority
of one hundred and ten. Yes, these
Democrats are exceedingly wonder
ful reformers, and it seems that they
propose to begin the work of refor
mation by refusing to hold elections.
Oh, boys, you may die hard, but
nevertheless you have to die. This
is quite natural, for whenever the
new comes the old protest, and the
old fights for its place as long as
it has a particle of power. There
are intellectual diseases, the same
as diseases of the body; intellectual
mumps and measles still affect the
Cleveland Democrat part of man
kind. We are now having the same
warfare that there was between the
stage coach and the locomotive, but
the stage coach had to go. It had
its- day of glory and power, but it is
gone. In this fight we are the loco
motive, Bobby. You can leave the
town to keep from holding an elec-
■ tion, and, Devy, you can get too bad
( off to come to town to hold one, but
this will not be a wee straw in the
i current of the great Mississippi that
is spreading over this country with
, its precious waves, and will have as
little effect on the great common as
■ the drying up of the Savannah would
have on the Atlantic Ocean. At last
the eagleistic spirit of a long-suffer
ing people has been awakened, and
they have fastened their talons in
iniquitous laws enacted by men elect
ed by the people to represent all
alike, but are controlled by central
ized lobby in favor of soulless cor
porations. They will not desist their
manly protest until our government
is returned to its original purity.
Three cheers for the grand old
county of Franklin, the banner
county of Northeast Georgia. The
People’s Party elected their en
tire county ticket, with the exception
of one office; and the boys in the
grand old county of Hart waltzed to
the front with a People’s Party
sheriff and tax receiver. In our
county we didn’t get a single county
officer, but we got several Justices
of the Peace, and scared Crusoe and
his Fridays nigh unto death. Just
before election day the People’s
Party met and put out a full ticket for
county officers intending not to say
anything about it until the morning
of the election, but some over-jealous,
wholesouled People’s party man un
intentionally let the cat out of the
wallet, and I tell you there was a
hustling among the unterrified. Cru
soe (the chairman) called his Fridays
(the executive committee) together.
On assembling them he said: “Now,
gentlemen, you know just after the
November election we hung the
People’s party in effigy, shot it and
buried it, you know, but it is back
here now in the form of a ghost.
Times are immensely squally, and
something must be done. They
are two of you candidates for every
office in the county, and one for each
office will have to come down. My
Fridays will adjudicate the matter.”
Sb the executive committee proceed
ed to ballot for candidates, leaving
the country boys high and dry on the
Ohio. As usual, the court-house
ring got it their way. “Now the
people are murmuring, why are we
such fools ? ” The Democrats are
superstitious in spite of themselves.
Yes, we are back here to haunt you.
As Mr. Watson says, “what God in
tends to live gloriously refuses to die.”
If Charles Darwin were living now
I think he would be able to find the
missing link in his evolution chain
in the luminous person of an Alliance
Democrat. He is the fellow who
says to the hungry man, “ Here is a
luscious bowl of soup—perfectly de
licious, and and a silver spoon to sip
it with, but don’t you touch it. He
says to the Good Templar, your reso
lutions are all O. K., they suit me
exactly, but you must vote for a bar
keeper to have them enacted. This
is the logic of an Alliance Democrat,
and we don’t care to mix up with
him.
Mrs. Nancy Holbrook is in all
probability the oldest subscriber to
the People’s Party Paper, being
in her eighty-sixth year. She can
see to read without spectacles and
takes a special delight in reading Mr.
AVatson’s letters in Roman history
and his masterly letters on the issues
of the day. She desires very much
to see Mr. Watson, and hopes the
People’s party principles will finally
and powerfully prevail.
Commoner.
From Bulloch County.
We, the People’s party men, are
never to stop until we gain the fight
and set things right. They may say
what they please, but it don’t hurt
us. We have been smart enough to
find out that the two old parties are
combined together, and we are de-
termined to stick to the principles
until we are satisfied about the gov
ernment, and if we will stick until
1896 we will gain the victory.
Now, I want every man that' is of
the right grit to stand to his order
and principles, and- go hand and
heart, and let us be solid. I know
that if the people of Georgia could
just lay down prejudice and not be
controlled by men who don’t care for
them nor their families, we would be
the strongest party on the globe.
Brothers, all read, study, think and
work, for our time will come if we
will do our part. The old parties
have gained the election this time by
fraud, and we need not expect any
thing from them that will help the
poor people. If we don’t stand up
for our rights we will never get them.
The old parties fight us on all sides;
they don’t want us to have a paper
or anything else. If they could
smash us up and destroy the last one
they would do it.
I want to say to the party that we
have got as good men in Bulloch and
Emanuel counties as there are in the
State of Georgia, and men who will
stand right where they are until they
die. lam glad to see so many giv
ing their views on the subject.
T. J. Hart.
Bliss, Ga.
Free Schools Our Dependence*
Ty Ty, Ga., Jan’y 18, 1893.
The great need of the country is
education of the people, but from
what I can see, the Democrats are
working against the education of the
poor people, either directly or indi
rectly. They have taxed the poor
people until they have to keep their
children (boys and girls) at home
and work them in the fields so that
they can be able to get the money to
pay their taxes, support and clothe
their families, and then some of them
don’t do that as they want to do. So
their children grow up without the
proper knowledge to compete with
their rich neighbors’ sons, who are
educated at the high schools of the
State at the expense of the poor chil
dren. Under the present manage
ment of some of the county commis
sioners, there is no encouragement to
teachers to teach schools; then as in
Colquitt county, they can’t make up
a good school in some parts of the
county, with plenty of children in
the vicinity of the house, which could
be remedied if the board of education
would, if they were allowed by the
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law, by dividing the county up into
school districts, and pay the teachers
a salary. Then we could have more
schools in the rural districts; but as
it is, some neighborhoods are so badly
divided that no schools can be had.
I have failed to make up a school
from just this cause. I want to see
some one who has the interest of the
country at heart take hold of this
and see if something can’t be done
for the education of the poor children.
The law is good enough to tax the
poor farmer; now let us see if some
legislator has not enough patriotism
to try to give them some of the ben
efit of their tax money.
Now, brothers, let us who are for
this government being run for the
people and by the people, keep this
subject (education) before the people
and the legislature, for without edu
cation how can a man have the
knowledge of the government, as he
has to depend too much on some one
else for information, thereby he can
not make a good voter or citizen, for
he may be led wrong by some one he *
has confidence in. It is claimed the
school law was made 'so the poor
children could go to school, and we
have to pay a tax for that purpose.
I don’t mind paying my tax if I can
see that the children who need it will
get the benefit of it; but as it is, I
don’t think those who are robbed of
their privilege should be forced to
pay the taxes. If we are to ever se
cure our liberties and justice, it will
bo by educating the people. Don’t
be contented that your children are
educated, but see that the laws are
so the poor can be educated as well
as the rich.
I am glad to see that defeat does
not discourage the boys, but that they
are determined to push on and con
tinue demanding their rights and
changing officers until we get our de
mands enacted into laws. Let us
keep our eyes open and watch that
we do not fall by the same powers
that have about robbed us of our lib
erties ; but let us watch and pray
that we may yet be a free people, as
our revolutionary fathers intended
when they fought and bled for
freedom.
Now, brothers, if we expect the
Lord to be with us and aid us in this
fight, we must not follow after false
gods, but we should cast off our false
gods (Democratic and Republican
parties which are parties of the devil)
and return unto the Lord and serve
him, and He says He will deliver us
from our enemies. (2d Samuel.) Let
us take truth and justice as our mot
to, and continue the fight, and we will
succeed in the end. W.
All Wool fieiled in all colors, 10 cents.
All Wool filled in all colors, cents.
CLOTHING.
In this Department wo are beyond comparison
Children’s Wool Suits from 75 cents to $1.25.
Men’s Good Wool Sults at $4.00, $4.25, $4.50 and
$5.00, an alliwool suit that cannot be bought
elsewhere at less than $7.50.
Pants at 50c. worth 75c.
Pants at 75c. worth SI.OO.
Pants at SI.OO worth $1.50.
It will pay any person needing Pants to give
’is a call before purchasing.
itehall street and 152 Decatur Street.
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