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CHANGED LOCATION.
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comes the official organ of Talia
ferro county. With its enlarged field
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torial charge.
THE BIGGEST PENSION.
Mr. Blount, of Georgia, seems to
have fallen into the nicest thing out.
He is to get a salary from the Cleve
land administration, considerably
larger than that of a Cabinet officer,
lie is to have his expenses paid, be
sides. He is himself to do whatever
he thinks best for the administration
and to advise others what to do.
He is to keep his mouth shut on
what he knows when asked for news
by a reporter, and generally to re
port to nobody, and to care for no
body. This is just the job for an
average red-nose, but if the Cbnsff
tution is to be believed, Mr. Blount,
the most influential and experienced
member of ther Georgia delegation,
will close his career by accepting it.
To become a virtual pensioner, even
at §IO,OOO a year, is no compliment
to Mr. Blount, or to the State he has
so long represented.
PEOPLE’S PARTY PAPER. ATLANTA. GEORGIA. FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1893.
THE PEOPLE’S PARTY PAPER.
Mr. Watson having returned home,
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We will spare no pains to fill every
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on such thin and watery tipple.
We propose to give you original
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This paper is now a year and a
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gle against every obstacle. But its
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have steadily increased. Never for
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bled. It took the middle of the
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has held ever since. It has the un
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because it deserves it. It has the
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Os this we are all proud, and
justly so. And what we have done
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Send ’em thick and send ’em fast.
The time has “rolled by,” Maggie,
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Let us have it, men, and we will
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We cannot promise to send as big
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the Atlanta Constitution* for in
stance, sends out, but we do promise
to send you a journal, which, so far
as quality and contents is concerned,
will be as far superior to the huge
bundle of nothingness the Constitu
tion gives you as a pone of brown
bread and a slice of red ham is to a
warehouse full of syllabub and Dem
ocratic promises.
THAT SALARY GRAB.
A Congressman is elected in No
vember. His pay begins on the
fourth of March following. Hi;
work does not begin till December,
following. In his term of two yeans
he serves the long term, which is
about nine months, and the short
term, which is always three month s.
This constitutes twelve months’ work
for which the Congressman get s
SIO,OOO, besides mileage and 825 0
for stationery. ‘
So, therefore, when Messrs. Liv
ingston, Moses and Lawson voted
themselves a clerk at 8100 per mo nth
during the sessions they add $1,200
to the magnificent salary of SIO,OOO
for twelve months’ work.
Now, when it is borne in, mind
that, with very little variation* Con
gress convenes at noon each di ay and
dismisses at five in the afternjoon, the
patient tax-payer can appreciate the
value which these salary grabbers
have put upon their
Under the Clerk Resolution passed
at this session, each member can
agree to pay his wife, or ty.is son, or
an outsider, 8100 to. do/the work
which the Congressman /is paid to
do, and thereupon the person named
by the member draws th/e 8100.
In other words, the jyeople elect a
gentleman to discharge/certain duties
for a term of two ye&rs. To keep
his brain apparatus from tearing
itself out of socket they give him
twelve months’ vacation during the
term and only require five hours of
actual work in the House during the
sessions. But some of the men who
represented that they would be glad
to have the place at 85,000 a year,
now say that they must have a
clerk to hold them up to scratch.
It never occurs to these weary
laborers that a part of the salary
they draw during the twelve months
they do not work should be applied
to clerk hire. The view they take
is much more simple. It is that
their position is one of dignity and
parade, and that if any real work is
to be done, another man must be
paid to do it. T. E. W.
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A SETTLED PURPOSE.
President Cleveland seems deter
mined to secure the complete suprem
acy of gold as a coinage metal-
Though for fifteen yeftrs successive
Secretaries of the Treasury have
adopted the policy of treating the
public debt as contracted to be paid
in gold, the pretense has always been
maintained that bimetallism was of
itself desirable, and would be gladly
made the policy of the government
but for the necessity to maintain a
high national credit.
In the administration of the gov
ernment, however, it seems that Mr.
Cleveland is the only President who
has had the courage to declare that
silver coinage was intrinsically bad
and must cease. So strong was his de
termination upon this question that
eight years ago, before he had been
inaugurated, he wrote a memorable
letter to the chairman of the com
mittee on coinage of the^House, set
ting forth his wish, practically m the
terms of a demand, and endeavoring
to influence the course of Congress
while yet his predecessor possessed
the patronage and the veto.
Again this year has he endeavored
to secure the same result by sending
his emissaries to lobby with a Con
gress with which he has no official
connection, holding out the threat
that the patronage of his high place
would be distributed to reward or
punish as the record should disclose
the positions of members upon the
question of silver coinage.
The failure of Mr. Cleveland in
his effort to override the Fifty-second
Congress, has caused him and those
who are in his confidence to cast
about for a scheme that will effect
his purpose by indirection. Failing
to drive the silver men from their
position, and discovering that the
next Congress would probably be
less amenable to his wishes than the
las the division of administration
pa. onage having preceded its meet
ing and organization, the friends of
M?. Cleveland have formulated a
compromise. A most ingenious de
vice for accumulating a hoard of
gold, and making every form of debt
and currency turn on gold redemp
tion, has been invented. An appar
ently secondary effect by which bonds
will be issued ad libitum and ad
nauseam is blandly presented as a
part of the scheme, though evidently
the main purpose.
By reference to the third page of
this paper, rhe reader can study at
his leisure this diabolical contrivance,
of plutocracy. It contemplates the
redemption and retirement of every
species of paper money, by convert
ing into bonds and the substitution
of silver instead—the silver to be
tokens redeemable in gold, and valu
able only as gold is held in reserve
for their redemption. To guarantee
the tokens the Government must sell
bonds whenever there is an apparent
decrease in the quantity of gold in
the Treasury. Thus the provision
is made for a perpetual public debt.
All over Christendom the combi
nations of capital seem to be working
toward a perpetual debt. Here, in
the United States, it is apparent that
the scheme is as much under consid
eration as in England or Austria.
A perpetual debt bearing interest
means a settled aristocracy. No
construction is tenable which omits
this fact, and in permitting its impo
sition the American people would
secure the overthrow of the Re
public.
But notwithstanding the fact that
Mr. Cleveland’s personal friends are
said to urge the scheme here dis
cussed, in that they will be disap
pointed, as they have been disap
pointed in their efforts to secure the
passage of their pet schemes in con
nection with demonetization. The
people will not submit. The putting
of Mr. Carlisle’s name behind it will
not help it one whit. The school
master has been around and has told
the people a silk purse cannot be
made from so badly scarred a sow’s
ear.
STIRRING UP THE ANIMALS.
The Atlanta Constitution is in
mischief. It has discovered that
there are tens of thousands of offices
which it is in the power of the ad
ministration to fill, and that a
fair apportionment by population
would furnish over 2,700 berths for
Georgians, of which at least 2,400
are at present cumbered with aliens
and strangers. There is no dispute
as to the Constitution's facts, and
where that paper advises the boys to
charge upon the administration till
every necessary decapitation is ef_
fected and a Georgian safely placed,
it must strike a responsive chord in
the hearts of the gang who bulldozed
at the polls and dispensed the whis
ky, to which the party’s success in
Georgia was so largely due. The
Democracy of no State did its duty
more nobly than did that of Georgia
and if there are 2,700 fat positions to
be filled, no State has a hungrier
horde willing to feed at the public
crib. This means an average of
nearly twenty places in each county,
and boodle galore for the red-nose
hangers-on at the county courthouses.
By all means let the boys demand
their rights, and hold their Senators
and Representatives responsible for
failure. Mr. Michael H. Smith should
not be allowed to enjoy a vicarious
dignity which should be shared by
thousands of his fellow-citizens. He
alone bosses enough offices to dis
tribute the entire quota to the State.
But in advising in this matter the
Constitution seems to have forgotten
a material equity. The colored peo
ple of Georgia are to the white in
the proportion of four to five. The
proportion of colored Democrats, —
voting for Cleveland and his elec
tors, —was quite as great as that of
whites. Therefore any distribution
of offices omitting this class would
be manifestly unfair, and undemo,
cratic. Though the negroes have
not so large a proportion of red
noses, they voted early and often and
helped the dear old party in its need.
Hence in making an equitable distri
bution of places certainly not less
than twelve hundred should be as
signed to the negro contingent. And
this division should include a fair
share of first-class places.
It is to be hoped, in the spirit of
fairness, and in ackdowledgement of
the great service done the dear old
party, that the colored contingent
will not be assigned merely a few
menial places, where spittoons will be
cleansed and waste baskets emptied.
To be content with such treatment
would stamp the colored Democrat
as unworthy of his political associa
tion, and no better than the environ
ment he accepts.
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EDITORS BARRED.
Mr. Cleveland has decided that
while he will reward a few friends in
the profession who have been super
serviceable, as a rule no editors need
apply. He evidently thinks the boys
follow the game with more purpose
and more energy when they are
hungry—a theory advanced by many
of the old regime of fox hunte rs
What the editors think will be more
fully disclosed when it is known who
are not among the number of friends
to mark the exception.
GRESHAM’S QUANDARY.
Mr. Cleveland’s first cabinet was
closely identified with him in his
financial theories. His second has
evidently been selected with a view
to the single gold standard, if we
except Mr. Gresham, who said last
July that he favored the silver plank
of the Ocala platform, and whose ap
pointment as Secretary of State seems
to have been designed to close up a
gap in the judiciary where the rail
road interests doubted their own
power to control. By kicking Judge
Gresham up-stairs, he was placed in
position where his influence will be
completely annulled in domestic af
fairs, whether as to disputed land
titles, or the currency question, or
the reform of the tariff, or the forma
tion of trusts, or the encroach-
ments of railway corporations. The
best friend of Judge Gresham must
admit that by accepting the appoint
ment he has voluntarily retired from
his position as champion of the peo
ple. His enemies can claim that he
has traded upon his exceptional pop
ularity with the masses, and that the
high office he holds is the price of
newly-formed convictions which con
cur -with those of his chief.
However viewed, the placing of
Mr. Gresham in this particular folio
he takes in the Cabinet, is pleasing
to the railroads, and in connection
with the leading railroad lawyer o*
New England as Attorney-Generab
opens a large field for surmise on the
part of the “ common people.” It re
quires but little sagacity to foretell
that, if Mr. Cleveland adheres to the
policy indicated so far, Judge
Gresham’s future is of as little im
portance as was that of Hayes or
Holt after retirement.
RETURNING PILGRIMS.
Since Mr. Cleveland has given out
that though the exigencies of the
case except him individually from
the rule, he is theoretically a one’
termer, the colony of Georgians
at Washington shows signs of de
crease. The boys who filled offiial
chairs six or eight years ago now
despair of again doing so. They re
turn home poorer by the expenses of
their jaunt, and wiser by contact
with the politically inevitable. Per.
haps they will hereafter use their in
fluence to promote the career of a
man who prescribes for others the
course he chooses for himself.
But in view of the fact that Mr.
Cleveland was so signally defeated
four years ago, when he had the
prestige of the Administration and a
full retinue of Federal place-holders
to aid him, he may now be convinced
that he could lose nothing in chang
ing the personnel of his then official
supporters.
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SOME VIGOROUS KICKING.
It seems that Hon. Buck Kilgore,
of Texas, is kicking most vigorously
because he does not go to Mexico as
Minister. He attributes his failure
to Senator Mills, and has a knife up
his sleeve for that worthy. Mills
and Kilgore voted in their respective
chambers for the repeal of the silver-'
purchase law, and it was supposed
they were at least co-operative in
thus antagonizing the silver senti
ment of their State, and in opposing
all their colleagues. Ex-Governor
Isaac P. Gray got the plum, and it is
Mr. Cleveland’s luck to create a
rumpus and produce a kick in the
very quarter he evidently intended
to harmonize. .Gil Shanklin, editor
of the Evansville CbwHer, the prin
cipal Democratic paper in Indiana,
has given his views to the press. He
is reported as follows :
In objecting to the nomination of Mr.
Gray for a high diplomatic post, or his
distinguished consideration in any way
at the hands of the present administra
tion, I voice the sentiment of nine-tenths
of the Democrats of Indiana. The fact
that he has been named as minister
plenipotentiary and envoy extraordinary
to the republic of Mexico is to ns a sur
prise and humiliation. It is a surprise
because after he had been shelved as a
Cabinet possibility we supposed that he
had been given enough of the shifting
saiids of office-seeking and would retire
upon his absence of laurels.
It is a humiliation because he does not
represent in any sense the Democrats of
a State which cast its electoral vote
against one of its own sons in favor of
Mr. Cleveland, of New York. He was
not a Cleveland man; is not now, and
will never be. I am, and the people for
whom I am speaking have been, constant
supporters of the man who will be our
Executive for the next four years.
Mr. Gray was at one time a bitter Re
publican. In 1869 he locked the doors of
the Indiana senate to confine the Demo
cratic members, thereby securing a quo
rum for the passage of the fourteenth
and fifteenth amendments.
Mr. Shanklin goes on to tell an
amusing incident illustrative of the
new minister’s political sagacity. He
had visited the Governor to secure
his support for Cleveland, and ten
der his aid in getting Gray the sec
ond place on the ticket. He says:
He flatly refused, saying that he did
not want the Vice Presidency, and that
the only man who stood or could stand
between him and the nomination for the
highest office within the gift of the na
tion was David Bennett Hill, of New
York. I laughed, telling him that Indi
ana would be glad to see him the Vice
President, just as I would be glad to see
him, but that 90 per cent of its Democ
racy were in favor of Mr. Cleveland
against anybody.
He said that Grover Cleveland’s name
would not be mentioned in the conven
tion save in a casual manner. I said it
would ; that not only would its wearer
be mentioned, but that he would be
nominated and elected.
‘Gil Shanklin,’ he declared, ‘you think
that you are a politician ; I am a politi
cian. That is my business, and lam
willing to put my judgment against
yours.’
So it seems that the very men who
did most MrTcleveland al.
ready him with ig
noring their claims and advice.
REFORM IN THE WEST.
Hon. Paul Van Der Voort, of
Nebraska, gave his views to a re
porter of the Washington Post a
few days ago. He talks confidentally
of the future:
See what the Populists have done,
even with the poorest sort of an org&ni
zation and with only $3,800 in the hands
of its national committee. Though
counted out of many ballots, especially
in the South, we are admitted to have
cast 1,000,000 votes. We split the solid
South till they had to rely on the negro
vote in several States of that section to
save them to the Democracy. In the
South we polled 456,000 votes, and to
day we have a white man's party in the
cotton States that sooner or later will
be in the ascendant.
In the West we beat every United
States Senator that voted against free
silver, including Paddock, who went
against us at the end. The Populists
held the balance of power in the legisla
tures of Montana, Wyoming and Wash
ington, and they kept those States from
sending Republican Senators. Next
time every one of them will send a
Populist Senator. Having annihilated
the Republican party we will proceed tp
turn our guns on the Democrats, and
mean to sweep them out of political ex»
istence. Can we do it ? It is
Already the elements of disintegration
are at work within that party. How
will the Cleveland administration differ
from the one that has just died? Not
one iota of difference will there be. I
predict right now that the Democrats
won’t even revise the tariff. Cleveland
himself, the representative of Wall
street, has the same financial policy that
Harrison had. In no essentials xvill the
administrations differ. But a big ele
ment of the Democratic party favors
free silver coinage and many other
things advocated by the populists. This
element, made up of Southern and
Western men, will not tamely submit to
Cleveland’s dictation on the money ques
tion, and then look out for the storm. It
will be a whirlwind and will wreck the
Democratic party.
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A DEMOCRAT FOOLED.
Thought It Was More Boodle, and is
Sorry Because It Was Not.
Constitution Special.
Irwinton,Ga., March 12.- During
the Black - Watson campaign, Col.
Boykin Wright, of Augusta, would
occasionally send an express package
to Col. J. W. Lindsey, chairman of
the Black club here. A wrapper of
one of these packages was picked
up by a merchant of our town a few
days ago and taken into his store to
be used for wrapping up goods. On
yesterday one of the clerks in this
store sold a cheap suit of clothes to
a darky and wrapped it up in this
paper. In wrapping it up the old
address, “Col. J. W. Lindsey, Irwin
ton, Ga., From Boykin Wright,
Chair. Augusta League,” could be
plainly seen on the package. The
darky left the bundle on the counter
and stepped out of the store for a
few moments. While he was gone
some one seeing the package called
to Colonel Lindsey that “Boykin
Wright had sent him another ex
press package.” The Colonel imme
diately came over and took the bun
dle to his home. Soon after the
darky to whom the bundle belonged
returned, and not finding it, began to
make some inquiries, and was told to
go to Lindsey’s house and ask him
for his clothes. When the negro
reached the Colonel’s house the
Colonel was trying on his new suit,
and his wife was standing near by
admiring it. The darky stopped a
few moments at the door and heard
the Colonel say to his wife:
“Darling, this is a mighty shoddy
looking suit Wright has sent me, and
it doesn’t fit.”
“Well, honey,” said Mrs. Lindsey,
“you know this is an economical adi
minisrration, and they have sent yoi
a cheap suit so that you might start
out with them on an econimical plan
I guess all the Augusta folks arif
wearing these sort of goods now.”
About this time the darky called
for his clothes, and the Colonel wai
so mad that for a long time he re
fused to take them off. But his wife
finallo prevailed upon him to gne
them up, and the negro went on hs
way rejoicing.
Notes From the Old North State.
Hoods, N. C., March 12.
There are are not many Peopl’s
party men in this community, |it
there are some good Democras.
Talking to one, the other day, lie
said that he voted the Democr|ic
ticket last election, but if they lid
not do better than what they are |o
ing at present he would not vote it
any more. We must have ref dm,
and if we do not get it I would Ike
to know" what will become of tin la
boring class of people. They dll
be nothing more than the negro ras
before the war. I heard a Deme rat
say the negro’s and poor a lite
man’s votes -were for sale, and hat
they had as well have it as anypdy
else.
There is a Reading Club at Sjbut,
N. C., which meets every Wdnes
day night to read selections from
different reform papers. The sfecial
papers are Our Homey Beaverpam,
N. C., and the People’s shty
Paper.
I am going to have a Riding
Club organized in this commuijy, to
meet once a week. Mr. Alliam
Yandle, at Stout, says he 3®tas
soon do without his a<
miss a copyj^th. 6 Uwille, Ga.
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