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Newspaper Page Text4 PEOPLE’S _PARTY PAPER PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE People’s Paper Publishing Company. 117 1-2 Whitehall St. THOS. K. WATSON, President and Editor in-Cbief. R. F. GRAY, Business Manager and Managing Editor, D. N. SANDERS, Secretary and Treasurer. MISS LULU PEARCE, Assistant Secretary This Paper is now and will ever be a fearless advocate of the Jeffersonian Theory of Popu lar Government, and will oppose io 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. Bend Money by Postal Note or Money Order DO NOT SEND STAMPS. OUH OFFICE ie up stairs in th.- elegant new McDnoald building 117 1-2 " nitehall 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 THEIR FRIEND. It is conduct ed by men who are intensely interested in ths Reform Movement, and have been battling for it many years. . The price shows that the Paper is not being run for money. If the People support it lib erally it will pay expenses. It cannot do more. A s long as I am President of the Company, the Paper will never be found on any other line of policy than that which I sincerely be lieve is best for Georgia, best for the South, and best for the country at large. THOS. E. WATSON, President People’s Paper Publishing Co. TO ADVERTISERS. The circulation of the People’s Party Paper ie now 12,000 copies to actual sub scribers. No better medium could be found for reachihg the farmers of Geor gia and of the South, and advertisers are requested to consider its merits. The circulation is steadily increasings and most advantageous arrangements can be made for space. Write for ad. rate card. Watch the Yellow Label. Look at the date on your address label. It tells to what time your subscription is paid. If there is any error, write at once and the correction will be made. If your subscription has expired, WHY DON’T YOU RENEW? And assist in making the People’s Party Paper the great medium of in formation for the party in the South The P. P. P. family now numbers 13,500 Help swell the number to 25,000. don’t put it off. Ts your time is nearly out send in your dollar and you will not miss a single number. It saves time and trouble and will pay you in the end. NEVER forget, In ordering a change of address, to give your former address as well as the new one. Here’s Your Chance, The Missouri World, published every week at Chillicothe, gives the general news, and is People’s party through and through. It is straight goods and circulates in the North, South, East and West. You want the World, and we will send it and The People’s Party Paper both one year for sl.lO. If you want a free sample copy of the Mis souri World, drop a curd to it at Chilli cothe.Missouri. Under this offer you can send stamps, silver, express order, post office order, currency, cash draft, postal note or private check. SKETCHES FROMHOMAN HISTORY. BY THOS. E. WATSON. Price, - - - - 25 cents. Beautifully printed in handsome board covers, and illustrated with Photo-en graving of the author. Send in your or ders at once to THE PEOPLE'S PARTY PAPER, DON’T SEND STAMPS. Don’t send stamps if it can be avoided. Under no circumstances send stamps of large denomination; we can neither use them nor sell them. Hereafter we will be com pelled to return stamps of larger de nomination than two cents to the sender. An Authority. “ The present tariff will not only have to be borne for an indefinite time, but in all likelihood will have to be increased.” So said William R. Morrison in his now famous New Orleans inter view. No man has fought harder to redeem Democratic pledges of tariff reform. No Democrat under stands the tariff question better. Give the dear old party a chance. MR. CLEVELAND'S CIRCULAR. Mr. Cleveland has issued an adver tising circular, stating that he would refuse to receive callers who may de sire to advance their claims for office. He tells the public that “ applicants for office will only prejudice their prospects by remaining in Washing ington to await results.” Quite a fluttering is heard as the’ flight home begins. It will be remembered that Mr. Cleveland made nearly a similar proclamation from Buzzard Roost soon after his election. The flurry in Wall street last week seems to have been but temporary. But it demonstrated anew that those who have the money never suffer in such times. Jim Keene, for instance, hauled $5,000,04)0 out of the pot. PEOPLE’S PARTY PAPER. ATLANTA. GEORGIA. FRIDAY. MAY 12, 1893. WHERE WILL IT END! Twin brother to the lunatic who believes that “God made money,” and that we must take whatever ills our financial system brings us, is the man who believes that Governments just ‘-happened so,” and that what ever things are done by the ruling powers must be endured because they can’t be helped. There is nothing so depressing as the man who talks but does not think; who repeats a phrase until he ceases to know its meaning; who al lows himself to be dominated by a dogma without, stopping to reflect whether it be sound. The Eastern farmer -who scratches the soil with a stick just because his granddaddy did it, ought to come over to the Chicago Fair just for the keen joy of meeting some of his mossy brethren on this side; not that we have any farmers who would con sider it a sacrilege to use any other plow* than that which was approved by Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, but because we have so much the same type of man, whether farmers, law yers, doctors or merchants—men who seem to think that their minds were made to act as waste-baskets to the errors and absurdities of the past. But to those who believe that “man made money,” and will con tinue to make it; who believe that the people make and modify and unmake Governments, the situation is little short of appalling. Knowing as we all know that cer tain beginnings and certain ten dencies lead inevitably to certain re sults, we find ourselves, with fear and trembling, asking., “Where is it to end ?” What destructive consequences are creeping toward us, almost un suspected by their victims ? In the lair of the near future, what foul beasts threaten our progress ? When the Chief Magistrate of ‘all our magistrates deliberately sets aside the law of the land in the payment of silver notes, by refusing to pay them in anything but gold ; when he insolently informs the America-: people that Wall street, preference, and the private interests of his National-banker friends, con stitute his law; when he thus, with imperial disregard of the rights, the sufferings and the demands of .the producers, turns the lambs over to the w-olves, who can fail to appre ciate the fact that the instinct of self-preservation should suggest the inquiry, “Where will it end ?” When eight million dollars are taken from the common treasure of all the people and patd out as a boodle fund to the sugar-kings of Louisiana, to keep them quietly within the ranks of the dear old Democratic party; when $300,000 is, taken from the same source and spent on the feastings and dancings of the naval officers in New York; when sums aggregating, directly and indirectly, the enormous total of ten millions of dollars are ravished from the tax-payers and given outright to a greedy corporation at Chicago, how can the citizen, w’ho feels that his interests are bound up in those of his country, fail to ask, “Where will it end*?” When the servants of the Repub lic, elected to carry out the fishes of the people, deliberately break every campaign pledge they publicly made ; when they fail to do at Wash ington what they promised to do. but succeed in doing what the}’ - promised not to do; when they spent more than a Billion dollars, to emphasize their displeasure with the Republi cans for doing the same thing; when they increased the the Pensioners by adding all the Army Nurses to the roll, to prove to. the people that the pension business had been overdone ; when they subsidized the Richmond and Danville Railroad to the tune of $150,000, to make it clear to those whose eyesight is defective that the dear old Democratic party is utterly opposed to subsidies; when they gave SIO,OOO (as a starter) to a lobby of Bicycle dudes, to commence tink ering with our public road system in the interest of the great Bicycle Manufacturers; when they gave $6,000,000 to the Central Railroad to deepen their harbor at Savannah, disregarding the fact that God Almighty had given us a much finer harbor at Port Royal which the Cen tral Railroad kept bottled up as a part of the scheme of its monopoly, and when these Congressmen round ed off the symmetry of their mis deeds by voting themselves valuable books for their private libraries, and $1,200 increase to their SIO,OOO sal ary, the tired observer of these mon- strosities of legislation may well con sider, “Where will it end*?” When the President of the United States and his Cabinet give testimony every day to the influence which the huge Corporations have in shaping their policy; when the whole Demo cratic concern (including Gresham and the other Republicans) sneezes every time Wall street pulls out its snuff box, and begins to dance even before the Gold-bugs have finished tuning the fiddle; when Cleveland fears to take out of the National Banks the $10,000,000 of our taxes which they are using free of charge, and fears to press to collection the $85,000,000 mortgage we hold on the Pacific Rail Roads; when the mill ionaire Importers of New York have as a loan, $19,000,000 of the Tariff Duties which should be in the Fed eral Treasury, and |when the Whisky Trust have the use of $150,000,000 of the Internal Revenue Taxes, as a loan; when the entire National sys tem of Finance and Taxation is man aged as if it were the private concern of a few monster Corporations, the voter, if he be not a fool, will sadly reflect, “ Where will it end ? ” When fair elections by the people have become impossible, when votes are openly bought or the voter driven from the polls, or the cor rupted elector is made to vote a dozen times; when the evil has be come so notorious that the man who thus debauches himself, his neighbor, and his country, boasts of his dis grace and is proud of the perfection of his infamy: when the mails are tampered with in the interest of the spoilsmen; when a gentleman will consent to hold a place (in the Geor gia Senate for instance) which is the gift of four counties, and which he obtained in the face of the admitted facts that three of the counties voted against him, while m the remaining county his majority was carried to the necessary point by throwing out nine 2yrecincts and retaining only two; and when a Christian gentle man (of the breed called “Peerless”) can still claim to be a “mirror of honor” while holding on to a con gressional office which he secured by a series of mysterious devices—one which was to count 13,000 votes in a county where the limit was a pos sible 9,000 —how can a person who believes there is no stopping place prescribed for human passion or human greed when law is once put under foot, fail to see the dread im port of the question “where will it end ?” T. E. W. THE HASH KETTLE. Cleveland has bumped his head again. This time it was against a Western Governor, instead of a car riage door. Here’s the way it came about. The Republican Member of the Cabinet, Mr. Gresham, telegraphed to Governor Pennoyer, of Oregon, that Mr. Cleveland hoped that he, Pennoyer, would employ all lawful means to protect the Chinese. Whereupon the said Pennoyer tel egraphed this Republican member of the Democratic Cabinet that he, the said Pennoyer, hoped that Mr. Cleveland would attend to his own business. Whereupon Mr. Cleveland rubbed the bump and made the name re marks which were used by the boy the calf ran over. NEGROES APPOINTED TO OFFICE. It seems to me that I heard it whispered around last Hummer that if the People’s Party succeeded, one bad result (too dreadful to think of without swearing) would bo that some of the negroes might get hold of an office, here and there. This used to haunt Charley Moses to such a degree that his fevered dreams were peopled with endless processions of ambitious coons climb ing up the golden BtairH to office. In pensive remembrance of the pretended madness which afflicted the Democrats last year, and which they have so conveniently shaken off this year, I quote the following from the Atlanta Journal: “Resolved* That we heartily en dorse Secretary Hoke Smith, of the Interior, for the stand he took in ap pointing two colored men to positions ■which they are competent to fill.” This resolution was passed by a meeting of colored Democrats in At lanta, Georgia. Really our Mike is doing well. He has appointed one rampant Re publican, two negroes and several Democrats including, of course, thoue who used to work on the Journal. In the mean time Charley Moses has our best wishes. The procession is moving on, and Charley must gradually train himself to understand that the only fear a Democratic poli- tician has of the negro vote is that the other fellow will get it. NEGRO POSTMASTERS. In North Carolina they have some colored Postmasters who were put into office by Harrison. The Dem ocratic Congressmen of that State are moving “heaven and earth” to get them ousted. Cleveland says it shan’t be done. He says there shall be do color line drawn on these men. What do you say to that, Charley? You came near whining the bridge of your nose off last summer because Mr. Watson said in opening his campaign that the color line should be wiped out of politics. That was in August, 1892. Less than a year has passed, and now we have the Democratic President say ing just what you abused Mr. Wat son for saying. How do you feel when you think of it, Charley ? Will you abuse Mr. Cleveland, too? WATT OF COLUMBUS. The ex-postmaster of Columbus, Ga., in a letter to the Postmaster General, refers to brother Moses as “ a little Squirrel-headed School teacher. ” This is rough on the Squirrels. THE MAN ON HORSEBACK. The Atlanta Journal founders along under the impression that this country wants to know every day just exactly how the Hon. Mike H. Smith looks, feels, walks, or rides. This is a cheerful delusion which to some extent comforts the lonesome young man who was left in Atlanta to run the Journal* and “ to push his fortunes on Georgia soil,” at the time that Mike and the balance of the boys’went to Washington, by tele graph, to “revel in partisan spoils. ’’ The last mournful effort of this young man to gratify the intemper ate thirst of the public for every little scrap of information about the looks, the doings, and the sayings of the Hon. Mike, consists in giving us an account of the said Mike riding on horseback to a Cabinet meeting. Next to the dissolution of the Ger man Reichstag, it is the most inter esting thing the Journal contains. The account starts out in this emo tional way. “ Hoke Smith is coming on horse back ! ” Palpitations of the heart immedi ately became prevalent in Washing ton of course. Around the White House the excitement was painful. Baby Ruth quit rubbing, for the moment, the place where Tom Gib son “ Kissed his way into a Consul ship ; ” Mrs. Cleveland almost forgot the bandage which she keeps wrapped over the spot where her queenly hand was royally kissed by the Italian Min ister, Baron Humbuggero Jackassi; old Grover poking his head suddenly out of the window to catch a glimpse of “the solitary horseman,” inadver tently bumped his head again—just between the New Work bruise and the Oregon scratch. The Atlanta Journal says that the White House attendant sent the news (about “ the solitary horseman ” who “might have been seen, etc.”) fly ing through the Mansion. I should think so! “Flying” was the only gait which would have been appro priate. The chambermaid paused with her broom; the cook almost forgot his soup and his dignity, and even the stately butler had some doubts as to where he was at. “ Mr. Smith came up at a smart gallop, ” says the Journal. Os course. How else could he gal lop? Smart man, smart gallop. The two things just naturally go together. A man named Mike might gallop a horse all day in the ordinary hum drum manner w’ithout causing the bubble of reputation to swell itself into radiant gladness to catch the myriad brightness of newspaper com ment, but when plain “Mike” is dis carded and the stately “ Hoke ” is exclusively adopted, the only kind of gallop which can be allowed is the “ smart gallop. ” The Journal says : “He wore a black Prince Albert coat, with*dark trousers” (not breeches) “which were prevented from ‘hiching up’ by straps passed beneath the shoes. A silk tile ” (beaver, I guess) “ was on his head, and it did not deviate a frac tion of an inch from the perpendic ular.” Can’t say whether this alludes to the head or the hat. But in either event, it shows that Mike has forgot ten how to ride. The perfect horseman leans slightly forward in galloping. I can prove this by Bill Fleming. “Two colored men were ready to hold the horse when he stopped at the portecochere ” says the Journal* For a man who is displaying Jeffer sonian methods two negroes seem rather an extravagant supply to hold one horse. But then, you see, it may not have been a common horse, and then, again, a “portecochere” is not a common stopping place. I am willing to affirm that one negro is enough to hold a common horse at a common gate, or horse rack, or on the sidewalk, or in the big road, or in front of any im aginable kind of door. But when it comes to holding Hon. Mike Smith’s horse at a new-fangled Democratic contrivance which the Journal calls a “portecochere,” I am not prepared to say that two negroes are more than sufficient. “Mr. Smith dismounted and brushed the dust from his garments and walked briskly to the cabinet room. When the meeting was over, he rode back to his office,” says the Journal. Os course he did What else could the man do ? Mr. Smith’s memory being fairly good, he recalled the thrilling narrative o< the French King who marched his troops up the hill, and then marched them down again. Consequently, in an humble way, he imitated the monarch’s ex ample. Having ridden up to the “portecochere,” he then rode away again. During that whole day only two topics of conversation stood any chance at all in polite circles at Washington. One was the horse back riding of Hon. Mike Smith, the other was the riding of the German Reichstag by the Emperor William. T. E. W. A .... SKETCHES FROM ROMAN HISTORY. BY THOS. E. WATSON. Price, - - - - 25 cents. Beautifully printed in handsome board covers, and illustrated with Photo-en graving of the author. Send in your or ders at once to THE PEOPLE’S PARTY PAPER CLEVELAND’S POLICY As Boldly Proclaimed by the Post master-General. Cresco, lowa, Plain Dealer. Editor the Sun— Today a lifelong Democrat of lowa, and the publisher of a Democratic paper since 1858, applied for the postoffice in his place. This man found only seven Democrats in his county when he commenced the publication of his paper. He has made his county Democratic. Today he saw Post master-General Bissel, who said he would give him five minutes to state his business. This Democrat in formed him of his work for the cause of Democracy in his county, and that he was recommended for post master by the Democrats of his place. The postmaster-general said : “You are for the free and unlimited coin age of silver, and you are therefore not in accord with the administra tion.” The Democrat replied: “I am in accord with the Democracy of lowa.” The Postmaster-General in formed him that he could not be ap pointed postmaster at his residence, and this lifelong Jefferson and Jack son Democrat left for his home at PREMIUM OFFERS! THE BEST YETI FIRST. To every subscriber sending full price ($1.00) for The People’s Party Paper, we will send the paper one year, and also a copy of “SKETCHES FROM ROMAN HISTORY* BY THOS. E. WATSON. Beautifully printed and illustrated with a Photo-engraving of the author. SECOND. For two subscribers anp $2.00 we will send as a Premium WATSON’S CAMPAIGN BOOK, Brim full of the most suseful information, and containing nearly four hundred pages. 11 a. m. to-day, as firm (and deter mined a Democrat as he ever has been. He would not abandon his lifelong Democracy to get an office at the hands of an administration placed in power by the votes of the Democrats. Think of a man being turned un der because he is a Jeffersonian or a Jacksonian Democrat, and take warn ing that there is a vile conspiracy by this administration to overthrow the party of Jefferson, and of Jackson, and to organize the Hamiltonian Whig party on its ruins. The con spirators will be disappointed. The old Democracy will be instantly reor ganized and the conspirators will be run out of it, and kept out of it. Susquehanna. Washington, D. C., March 11. [This ia the first intimation we have seen that free silver is a cardi nal principle of Jacksonian or Jeffer sonian Democracy. Mr. Bissel charg ed this man with being for free silver and nowhere in the above letter is the charge denied. We incline to the opinion that the biggest Demo crat in lowa is its governor, Horace E. Boies, who is not for free silver;' and the lowa Democrat who is not in accord with Boies on this silent point may expect nothing in Wash ington.—*Ed. The Sun.] —Williams- port, Pa., Sun, March 16, 1893. The editor of the Williamsport Daily Sun confesses to greater igno rance than can be attributed to even the average Pennsylvania newspaper man. By reference to the Revised Statutes, sections 3511, 3513, 3520, 3524, 3527, 3585, 3586, passed in 1792, it will be seen that silver was placed on the same basis as gold in re spect to coinage. It will be further observed by intelligent men that these provisions remained on the statute books substantially unchanged from the organization of the government down to 1873, having the approval of both Jefferson and Jackson and the long line of Democratic presidents down to Grover Cleveland. Jan. 28, 1791, Alexander Hamilton submitted to the house of representatives a re port recommending that the unit do not attach exclusively to either gold or silver, but to both, and Jefferson in returning this report to Hamilton, said ; “ I return you the report on the mint. I concur with you that the unit must stand on both metals. ” It will be further noted that both Jefferson and Jackson were opposed to al! banks of issue, insisting upon issues of paper money by the government, if money beyond the supply of coin was essential to meet the publia needs. In lowa, Horace Boies is supposed to be favorable to the free coinage of silver. Upon that issue he has twice carried the state, and if he is to be the U. S. senator from lowa, he must stand up for the debtor class, the pro ducers of the West, against the cred itor class, the millionaires of Wall street, who are interested in the gold standard solely for the purpose of increasing the purchasing power of money to the injury of producers everywhere. Backbone Wanting. New Nation. The country will tolerate no in crease as the national debt by bond issues in time of peace for the pur pose of protecting the gold standard. An institution that requires to be propped up in that manner is alto gether too costly a luxury. A stan dard that will not stand by itselfi fails in the first quality of standard.