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The People’s Party Paper
VOLUME 11.
THEY READ THIS PAPER
AND LEARN WHEN MR. WATSON
OPENS HIS CAMPAIGN.
Democrats Crying Aloud for a Leader
Who is Capable of Exposing and
Rebuking.
The Atlanta Journal pleads guilty
to reading this paper—and that re
minds me, they all read it, even
though they will not acknowledge
it. It has a fascination irresistible.
Truth always has. They may hide
behind some friendly fence, they
may cover themselves with the
friendly shadow of their barn, they
may slip into their office and pile
down in some dark corner where
they will not be so readily discerned
when they slip it under the unwieldy
ledger, but they all read it neverthe
less. To them it’s stolen sweets.
There’s a charm about stolen sweets.
Perhaps they do enjoy it better
■when read secretly. Don’t envy
them, boys.
The Atlanta Journal learned
through these columns that Mr.
Watson proposes to open his cam
paign in July. This intention gave
them so much concern that they
actually forgot or else quickly aban
doned the ignoring scheme so lately
determined upon. The Journal
commented upon the fact. While
the Journal hoots the idea of
danger or even concern—oh, yes—
yet they sounded aloud and
earnestly, an alarm for old moss
backism. “No danger, oh, no, not
.the slightest, but we must, muat,
must wake up and prepare to do.”
The dear Atlanta Journal does
.not know what campaign Mr. Wat
json contemplates opening on the 4th
|bf the said July. '1 hey fail not
(however, to jump at a conclusion by
presuming that it is the guberna
torial, and that Mr. Watson is in the
iraue Oh, how laboriously*they build
away at this side-track from the
Tjntli district. And how persist
ently they endeavor to run Mr. Wat-
Ison on it. They are indeed anxious
to change the base of his operations,
get him out of the Tenth. This
is now their great aim. They know
a thing or two, they do. That’s the
reason they industriously and so
carefully labor on this side-track.
They will soon begin to try and
make it attractive.
Democracy does not wish the
privilege and pleasure of running
another campaign against Mr. Wat
son in the Tenth district of Geor
gia. They have run one. That was
Jthe greatest of sufficiency. They
are fully convinced that they would
rather oppose anybody else. In
short, they are not hogs, and they
know when they have enough. The
awful strain on their befuddled men
tal faculties, the appalling drain on
their procket-books, the total wreck
age of their nervous system by
doubts, was enough for them during
the campaign of last fall, and they
would prefer, cheerfully, gladly pre
fer for Watson not to do so any more
i/bis is why they work so hard on
the aforesaid side-track. The side
track will be mercy for them—the
pnly mercy they wish—the mercy
they would intercede for if they
were not ashamed.
But, dear Journal, your side-track
won’t work. Mr. Watson is m the
same old light and on the same old
stamping grounds. You might as
well trim your lip and prepare to
pucker, for you have got to whistle.
And there’s no time to lose. Soon
green, green grass will be growing
under your feet. You had better
start the begging for another slush
fund to buy the votes of the de
bauched and ignorant; better get
your “father before me was,” “don’t
hit the Democratic party,” “flag
trailed in the dust” orators in condi
tion to import them, without excep
tion, to the Tenth Georgia; better
practice up your quill drivers in the
art of getting off campaign rot and
affidavits from everywhere and no
where, for they will soon be needed
—badly needed. The side-track
you have laboriously constructed
won’t hold the engine, bud.
We know that you would be glad
to learn, positively learn, that Mr.
Watson contemplated moving far
\ y est and opening a campaign out
r
■- f - - •-
to All Special Privileges to None.”
there. We also know that your sigh
of relief would be greater and the
thrill of joy through the emaciated
body of Democracy would be more
intense if he would only decide to
immediately emigrate to Honolulu
and stand for coronation of that lit
tle realm; but, dear bud, another
dose is going to be administered to
Democracy right in the old Tenth.
No use to kick. And this time we
are going to give the medicine in
concentrated form—and deadly quan
tities. And it’s going to do its
work. If it don’t turn your toes up
to the daisies, it will make you the
sickest gang God’s sun ever shone
upon.
The Journal having settled upon
the fact that Mr. Watson is going to
run for Governor, speaks as follows:
“The leader of the Democratic party
should be a man who is capable of
exposing and exploding the fallacies
which a shrewd and reckless dema
gogue will attempt to impress upon
the minds of our people.” Welb
what’s the matter with boss Nor then
—are you afraid to risk him?
Where’s Gordon of open letter
fame? Also the “trailed-in-the
duat ” leader from the Tenth? Why
did the Journal fail to suggest one
of these—or lonely, “forget-me-not,
much faded Livingston ?” Is the task
beyond their ability?
Trot out the leader who is going
to expose and explode. A hungry
people are waiting, most patiently
waiting, to be set aright. They are
anxious to be shown where Mr. Wat
son’s views are off and need to be
set aright. Why keep us waiting so
long? Why forever go howling
around “expose and explode” instead
of pushing forward the man who is
going to perform according to the
programme ? If you don’t imme
diately proceed with the “exploding
and exposing” instead of saying “we
are going to,” the people will be jus
tified >in believing mat you are all
talk and no do. Soon we’ll begin to
think that you are straining over an
impossible task. Brace up, Democ
racy, and proceed with the show.
Why don’t these dear editors
light out and do this job themselves
instead of calamitously howling for
some leader or brother of the quill
to arise and “expose and explode?”
Oh, why ? How many times must
I repeat this question ? Gentlemen,
the opportunity of a life-time awaits
you—gently taps at your door—only
this and nothing more. You may
never have such a chance again.
Oh, why let people go blindly fol
lowing a demagogue ? When the
people learn more fully about your
crimiminal procrastination they will
censure instead of bless. Let me
beg you to “arise and shine” at this
hour when the opportunity is here.
Keep on procrastinating and peo
ple will come to one of two con
clusions—either that you are lying
about there being anything to “ex
pose and explode” or that you are
incapable of being public teachers.
If you are incapable, step gracefully
down and let some one who is
capable step in. This is your duty.
You are certainly poor quill drivers
or apologies for public instructors if
you see that a certain demagogue’s
teachings need “exposing and ex
ploding” and yet you can’t expose
and rebuke. Seeing that a thing is
wrong or fallacious, are you inca
pable of explaining how it is so?
Is that why you are /startling the
woods -with your cries for a leader
with such a capacity? If so, get
out of the editorial chair, for there’s
plenty of men with half the brains
you are “cracked up” to have who
are capable of showing a thing to be
wrong when it is wrong, and they
will promptly fill the vacancy you
leave. If it is true that you can’t
show a thing to be fallacious when
it really is so, what a speculation it
would be to buy you at your actual
market value and then sell you at
what you think you are worth.
The whole truth is that you have
nothing to “explode” or “expose.”
It is all talk—something your gang
is good at, and all that you are good
at. You would make good auc
tioneers, and by entering the journal
istic field you missed your calling.
The people know you better every
day. As they learn they like you
less. Don’t grieve too much over
these few truths Diogenes.
ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, MAY 12,1893.
THE GERMAN CRISIS.
CAPRIVI’S ARMY BILL DEFEATED
IN THE REICHSTAG.
An Election Has Been Ordered Which
May Have a Far-Reaching Re
sult in European Affairs.
Berlin, May 6.—The army bill
was rejected to-day by a vote of 240
against the bill to 160 in favor of the
bill. The rescript signed by the
Kaiser dissolving the Reichstag was
immediately promulgated and the
Reichstag is now dissolved.
Immediately upon the result of
the vote being announced, Chancellor
Caprivi read the imperial message
decreeing the dissolution of the
Reichstag. The social democratic
members of the Reichstag displayed
the wildest enthusiasm over the re
sult. They hurrahed repeatedly, fol
lowing cheer with cheer. Great con
fusion and uproar prevailed in the
house, and public excitement is at the
highest pitch in Berlin.
The result of the vote on the army
bill caused no surprise to the gov
ernment. Chancellor Caprivi at
tempted yesterday to rally the
wavering members to the support of
the measure by offering to reduce
the peace effective even below the
number proposed in the amendment
offered by Freiherr von Huene..
The offer, however, did not gain a
single vote. The house had made up
its mind to reject the bill and the
speeches made on the subject were
addresses to leaders rather than to
Reichstag.
Dr. Leiber, who is a leader in the
councils of the party, after attacking
Chancellor von Caprivi for having,
as he puts it, resorted to the worst
form of Bismarckian methods to se
cure the passage of the bill, said :
“The center party fights to-day
against the ambition of a centralizing
Cmsarism. We protest against the
militarism -which translates itself in
persistent endeavors to extend the
principles of the Prussian state into
-x.he domain of imperial legisiMiuu.
In the interest of the empire we de
mand that the Prussian policy be
confined to the Prussian Diet, while
the Germnn prevail in the Reichstag.”
Neither Chancellor Von Caprivi
nor Von Manteufel, the Prussian
conservative leader, attempted to re
spond to Dr. Leiber’s attack. All
the speakers on the government side
simply ignored the expressions of
anti-Prussian sentiment. The chan
cellor commented vaguely upon the
democratic tendency that has re
cently been developing among the
centrists and suggested that the
policy now pursued by that party
had its inspiration in the vatician,
which he said was now the friend of
republican France and trying to
draw the whole Catholic world in
the same direction. The German
government, the chancellor added,
had hitherto appreciated the support
of the central party on social ques
tions, but it had now learned a les
son. The central party was Catholic
first, and German afterward. The
party stood ready to commit itself
to whatever democratic evolution
foreign influences might choose to
dictate.
Dr. Von Benningsen, the leader of
the national liberals, gave moderate
tone to the debate in a long speech
urging the houses to accept the con
cessions offered by the government.
He deplored the inability of the
reichstag to sink party differences, in
the face of questions involving the
external safety of the empire and its
prestige abroad. The difficulty of
successfully conducting the affairs of
the country had always been en
hanced by the absence of a stable
parliamentary majority. A govern
ment driven to rely upon a fortuitous
majority could never present to the
country a really consistent national
policy. What the reichstag ought to
try to obtain was a strong, moderate
party, established on a broad, natural
basis. It seemed pitiful, that no ma
jority was forthcoming in response
to the government’s appeal in behalf
of the national honor and the ex
istance of Germany. It was a bad
contrast to the parliamentary life of
other countries, notably England,
where the most violent party antago
nism never militated against the con
tinuity of the imperial policy.
Emperor William has sent to Dr.
von Benningsen his special thanks
for the tone of his speech.
Hurriedly convened meetings are
being held in Berlin and other popu
lous centers to-night.
The promptness with which the
reichstag has dissolved immediately
after the defeat of the government
was announced, has taken everybody
by surprise. The social democratic
leaders alone are really ready for the
electoral campaign. Herren Bebel,
Singer and Liebeknecht will leave
Berlin tomorrow and begin at once
to stump the country in behalf of the
socialist candidates. In every dis-
trict in which the socialists have a
fighting chance, candidates will be
nominated and the party expects to
have an increased representation in
the next reichstag.
Emperor William will not allow
the dissolution of the reichstag to in
terfere with hie coming to Europe.
Before starting for North Cape, be
-will go on a deer stalking expedition
in Preckelwitz. Subsequently he will
hunt over the estate of Copnt Hock
berg, in Silesia.
Count Hoensbroech, who was form
erly a member of the Society of Jesus,
has been excommunicated by the
church in consequence of disclosures
recently made by him and which are
held to have been breaches of the
confessional.
AN OMINOUS ADDRESS.
Berlin, May 9.—While reviewing
the troops in the field at Tempelhofer
to-day, the German Emperor ordered
the principal officers of the imperial
guard to gather around him and ad
dressed them as follows:
“ I have been seriously disappoint
ed in the patriotism of the late reich
stag. I hope the coming reichstag
will adopt the military bill, but if the
coming reichstag should refuse to
adopt it, I am determined to carry
the bill into effect, despite the un
patriotic opposition. I know myself
that I am alone with the federated
princes and people.”
The spepch of the emperor is caus
ing great excitement among the peo
ple. It appears in the North German
Universal Gazette in double leaded
prominence. Those who heard the
emperor speak say that he spoke with
unusual emphasis, pausing at every
word in order to convey the sense of
his determination to abide by his
declaration.
There is a profound and wide
spread impression that the emperor
would not hesitate to risk a conflict
with the new reichstag should it
prove hostile to the bill. The em
peror’s concluding words in address
ing his officers were:
“ 1 felt the necessity to tell you
candidly my decision as I told you
my hopes when the bill was first pro
posed.”
The officers who heard the em
peror’s words maintained ‘Mjuie
silcnec,-idthougL. eviutiiUy .* A creep
sympathy with the kaiser's views.
Leading men in German politics who
have heard of the emperor’s speech
now consider that he lias embarked
on a policy of Prussian high toryism,
and that the chances of the freissin
nige party to bring about a moderate
liberal era have vanished.
The Public Debt Increased.
Washington, May 2.—Secretary
Carlisle will return to Washington
to-night and will be at the Treasury
to-morrow. It is expected that he
will then put in motion the machin
ery to build up the Treasury gold, as
it is understood here that he has
made arrangements, as the result of
his New York conference, to secure
a considerable block of gold there.
His Chicago conference is looked
forward to with interest, and it is
believed that Chicago banks will
supply of their $20,000,000 gold as
the New York banks will some of
their $57,000,000 gold. In the mean
time Acting Secretary Hamlin is re
ceiving daily small offers of gold,
three being accepted yesterday morn
ing.
The operations of the Treasury
Department during the month of
April, as indicated by the debt state
ment issued yesterday, show a net
increase in the public debt of $3,726,-
819.40. The bonded debt decreased
$421,008 and the cash in the Treas
ury decreased $4,137,824.40, the net
result being an increase in the debt.
The total cash in the Treasury was
$756,544,116, against which liabilities
were outstanding, including $97,011,-
330.08 gold reserve, amounting to
$732,072,542.63, leaving and availa
surplus of $24,471,563.73.
The receipts for the month of
April were $28,599,942.29 and ex
penditures $33,771,365.73, In March
the receipts were $34,437,844.99 and
expenditures $32,372,997.73. Cus
toms receipts decreased from $19,-
664,874.60 to $15,418,667.53. The
payments for pensions decreased
from $13,839,e20.10 to $12,871,-
761.38.
The Treasury Department yester
day purchased 320,000 ounces of
silver, as follows: 30,000 at $0.8400,
100,000 at $0.8419, 25,000 at $0.8420,
100,00*0 at $0,8424,15,000 at $0.8425
and 50,000 at $0.8435. The offers
were 403,000 ounces.
Watching the Nicaragua Revolution.
Washington, May B.—The dis
turbed condition of affairs in Nica
ragua will probably result in the
United States sending a war vessel
to the west coast of that country.
Such action is being considered by
Secretary Gresham. No information
has been received at the State De
partment concerning the uprising
since Consular Agent Holman wired
last week that a serious revolt had
occurred. Newspaper accounts, how
ever, show the administration that
the affair is of no mean dimensions.
OH NOW, COME OFF!
A DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR TO A
MUGWUMP PRESIDENT.
Oregon Does Not Smile Under Insult —
Pennoyer Makes a Pertinent Sug*
gestion to Cleveland.
Portland, Oregon, May 3.—The
following telegraphic correspondence
today passed between Secretary of
State Gresham and Governor Pen
nover:
Washington, May 3.—Governor
Pennoyer, the Capitol, Salem, Ore:
Apparently reliable reports indicate
danger of violence to the Chinese
when the exclusion act takes effect,
and the president earnestly hopes you
will employ all lawful means for
their protection in OOregon.
W. Q. Gresham.
Governor Pennoyer immediately
sent the following reply :
Salem, Ore., May 3.—To W. Q.
Gresham, Washington, D. C.: I will
attend to my business. Let the pres
ident attend to his.
Sylvester Pennoyer, Governor.
Governor Pennoyer, speaking to
the Southern Associated Press repor
ter said:
“ The Gresham telegram is an
insult to Oregon. I will enforce the
laws of the state and the president
should enforce the laws of congress.
It was with poor grace for the pres
ident to ask me to enforce the state
laws, while he, without warrant, sus
pends the exclusion law. ”
SHERMAN AND PLATT.
Interesting Political History Coming
to Light.
New York, May 3. —Some inter
esting political history is coming out
in connection with the feud between
Senator Sherman and ex-Senator
Platt. A story comes from Raleigh,
N. C., today, to the effect that at the
Republican National Convention of
1888, nearly all the delegates from
tb it State, includin '- James A Mott,
Colonel W. P. Canaday, J. C. L.
Harris and Green B. Raum, were
pledged to the support of Senator
Sherman, and that Mr. Harris being
appointed a committee to arrange a
deal with Platt for the 72 votes of
New York interviewed the ex-Sena
tor and then waited upon Senator
Sherman with this proposition:
“ Mr. Senator, ” he said, “ the sup
port of ex-Senator Platt of New
York will secure you the 72 votes of
that State, and you will be nominated
as soon as it is known that New York
is for you. Under these circumstan
ces will you not authorize one of
your friends to say to Mr. Platt, if
he can see his way clear to support
you, that in the event of your elec
tion you will make him Secretary of
the Treasury?”
Mr. Sherman hesitated for a
moment before he answered and
then said:
“Mr. Harris, as much as I desire
to occupy, at the hands of my fel
low-citizens, the highest office within
the gift of men, the gratification of
that ambition would be too dear at
the price suggested by the consent
you desire and the promise to be
made for me.”
Mr. Harris combated this decla
ration of Mr. Sherman, and argued
that it was a perfectly legitimate po
litical act that he was asked to per
form and that on the score of ability
and service rendered, Mr. Platt was
entitled to the Treasury portfolio.
Mr. Sherman repled :
“The Presidency would be too
costly at such a price.”
Mr. Platt has never made any se
cret of the fact that he defeated
Senator Sherman’s ambition in the
convention of 1888, and his friends
claim that a deal was made by which
he was to support Harrison and be
made Secretary of the Treasury in
the event of his election. As is well
known, Mr. Harrison repudiated this
bargain.
How the Water Came Down.
Toledo, May 4.—The Great Mi
ami river has its source in Lewiston
reservoir, and begins at the waste
way, which broke. The first break
took away 100 feet of the waste way
directly in front of a covered bridge
150 feet long, which spanned the Mi
ami river only about seventy-five feet
from the reservoir. This bridge was
supported by heavy piling driven into
the ground eighteen feet. This
mighty force of water, covering 17,-
000 acres and making the second
largest (the St. Marys being the
largest) artificial body of water in
the world, struck the bridge. These
pilings were as matches, and the
heavy wooden bridge, weighing tons,
was hurled down stream and lodged
upright 200 feet from its original
place. The continual rush of water
tore away another fifty feet, and
then only a short time elapsed until
the entire country for three miles
south of the reservoir was inundated,
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and the distance across the wrter
east and west is three miles. Col.
Perkins,chief engineer; Col. Bachtch,
assistant engineer; John O’Connor,
superintendent of division, and Hon.
Frank McCullough, members of the
State board of public works, are on
the scene and doing everything that
can be done.' Col. Perkins places a
rough ’estimate of the damage at
$150,000. The loss to Logan county
in pikes being washed out, and the
displacement of the bridge near the
reservoir will amount to $120,000.
Farmers along the river will not;lose
much but their fences and crops.
The water is still spreading over the
country around Lewiston. As soon
as the level is reached, then the river
will begin to rise rapidly. The warn
ing has been ample, and no great loss
of life of man or beast should result.
Mexican Water Famine.
Zacatecas, Mexico, May 3.—The
water famine in this city and along
the line of the Mexican Central road
in the States of Coahuila, Zacatecas
and Chihuaha has become alarming,
and the traffic of the road on this and
Northern divisions is seriously inter
rupted. Word reached here today
that seven freight trains are tied up
owing to a lack of water to supply
the engines. The situation in this
city is growing worse daily and what
water there is here comes from poi
nted wells, causing an epidemic of
sickness. There is a total failure of
crops, and the poorer classes have no
money with which to buy the corn
shipped here from the United States
and sold by public boards of charity
at cost price. The same condition
of affairs exists in San Luis Potosi
and other cities of Mexico.
Official.
Washington, D. C., May 1,1893.
To the Officers and Members of the Vari
woub State Farmers’ Alliances:
Brethren :—By the unanimous
action of the Executive Committee
of the National Farmers’ Alliance
and Industrial Union, Brother D. P.
Duncan has been chosen as Secreta
ry-Treasurer of the National Far
mers’ Alliance and Industrial Union,
and all businvi^pertaming -1 no that
office, including remittances, should
be addressed to ( him, Columbia,
South Carolina.
The Executive Committee very re
spectfully, but urgently request that
all delayed remittances be forwarded
to Brother Duncan as soon as possi
ble, as funds are very much needed
to carry on the necessary work con
nected with the National offices.
By direction of the Executive Com
mittee of the National Farmers’Alli
ance and Industrial Union.
Fraternally yours,
H. C. Demming.
Sec’y Executive Committee.
Public Monopolies.
Private monopoly is odious. Public
monopoly is a blessing and the test
of experience proves it. Again and
again it has been tried with fear and
trembling, but the results have in
the long run been gratifying. Public
ownership and management of rail
ways have in Germany succeeded in
many respects even better than their
advocates anticipated, and the opin
ion of experts in Germany favors
them almost, if not quite, unani
mously. The writer happens to know
of no exception.
The right of purchase of a natural
monopoly without paying anything
for the franchise itself, but only for
value of capital actually invested and
for its value in its condition at that
time of purchase, ought always to be
reserved. Local natural monopolies
ought to pass into the han 3 of local
authorities as soon as possible, and
no charter ought hereafter to be
granted for private gas, water or
electric lighting works.
The income from them may be
diffused in two ways. First, charges
may be placed so low that the price
will simply cover the cost, as is done
in our postoffice and by the English
Telegraph company. Second, a
profit may be derived from these
pursuits, and this used to lower
taxes, or to do things of benefit to
the people as a whole, as to improve
our roads and streets and parks, and
all our schools, to encourage art, lit
erature, and the like.
Richard T. Ely.
The Truth Follows After.
Faison, N. C., May 5.
In an article published by the At
lanta from a Raleigh
correspondent, it is said that Mr.
Butler made the statement that all
parties would become corrupt after
holding power for a long time, even
the People’s party. Why should he
pervert the truth? I heard Mr. But
ler make the same declaration, with
a proviso, which the correspondent
was very particular to leave out—
which was if the Farmers’ Alliance
organization went down there would
be nothing to hold in check, as ex
perience has already shown. As
Colonel Polk said, you must wait a
week for the truth.
E. J. Faison.