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The People’s Party Paper
VOLUME 11.
THE CRAZY QUILT,
Here’s a pleasant paragraph from
one of the Democratic papers:
Senator Stanford had a pleasant
call at the White House a few days
ago. He had not previously met
Mr. Cleveland, and called to pay his
respects. The President recognized
him at once, and said some compli
mentary thing to him about the Stan
ford University and the Senator’s
identification with the development
of the Pacific coast
“Well,” said the Senator, as he ac
knowledged the President’s compli
ments, “1 simply called to pay my
respects, and not to ask any office.”
“That may be,” replied the Presi
dent, “but I want to say that I know
of no one whose advice or sugges
tion 1 would more willingly follow
than your own.”
Now, let it be remembered, that
Stanford is a stalwart Republican,
and we can appreciate the good un
derstanding which Cleveland seeks
to establish with him. When a Dem
ocratic President goes out of his way
to seek Republican advice it is
enough to put even Bill Arp to
thinking. Cleveland is now a Mill
ionaire and a President. A few
years ago he was a common Sheriff
who was glad to earn the fifty-dollar
fee for hanging a felon. Stanford is
a Millionaire and a Senator. A few
years ago he had nothing.
How did he get his millions ?
Stole them from the Pacific Rail
road.
How did Cleveland get his?
By being let into the deals of Wall
Street Corporations and gold-bugs
who now control his policy.
No wonder he and Stanford feel
friendly.
EVEN JOHN SHERMAN.
A Press dispatch says :
Washington, May 6. Senator
Sherman called at the State Depart
ment today and had a short talk
with Secretary Gresham about the
International Monetary Conference.
It is the first time the Ohio Senator
has been there since tfle change of
the* administration.
This is sweet. When John Sher
man openly advises with Democratic
Cabinet officers on the financial ques
tion, it is high time for Alike Smith
to swap off Possumphat and get him
another “critter.” We did hope the
Democrats would be decent enough
not to hob-nob with old John Sher
man.
But after taking into the Cabinet
a Republican like Gresham, they can
hardly expect Gresham to shut the
door on an old comrade like Sher
man.
So we have to grin and bear it,
while these two Republicans confer
together about the financial policy
■which is best for the dear old Demo
cratic Party.
We hope Jack Gordon will head
off these men before the plot goes
too far.
NEGROES IN OFFICE.
The Atlanta says that
Landers, the colored man who did
such fine work against Watson,” is
to have a Government place.
All right.
We can stand it if Rev. Gad John
son, Bev. Tom Gadsen, Noah John
son, Jackson Showers, and the bal
ance of the colored Republicans of
the Tenth can.
The Republicans are having a
good time, in various spots and cor
ners. With Gresham in the Cabinet,
taking financial advice from John
Sherman, we dont see why Landers
should not be in the mail service.
At the same time it is a “leetle’’
tough on the white Democrats of the
county, none of whom have been
provided for and who said last sum
mer that the danger of our move
ment was that the negroes would get
office.
DEMOCRACY IN WILKES.
Capt. E. M. Anthony, of Wilkes
Bounty, publishes a strong article in
the Washington Chronicle denounc.
ng the manner in which Democratic
fury Commissioners of that county
lave thrown out People’s party Jur
»rs. He states that the Democrats
laim to be following the example
et them by Populists in the Tenth
District.
The claim is absurdly unfounded.
Io such thing has been done by Pop
lists in the Tenth, or elsewhere.
Upon the other hand, the Demo
rats in several counties of the Tenth
RigHt® to A.ll Special F’r'ivito None.”
have done just what they so illegally
and unjustly did in Wilkes.
CAPT. BILL STARNES.
Among the thousands of Atlantese
who have journeyed to Washington
City since Cleveland came in is Capt.
Bill Starnes.
When he got back he was chock
full of talk. He hardly hit the
grit in Atlanta when his mouth began
to go like a run-away mule, Os
course the Atlanta Journal caught it
all. It is there for the purpose.
Here’s the way Starnes talks ;
“Oh, I caught on to a thing or two
while I was in Washington. I am
one man that didn’t go there to get
office. I was on private business. I
nosed around a good deal and got on
the inside of a few things.”
Observe the modest candor of
this kind of talk. It’s refreshing.
He confesses to nosing around, and
he elegantly claims that he got on
the inside of a few things.
How many things got on the in
side of Starnes, we must be content
W’ith guessing.
He says: “I visited all the de
partments of Government. I met
politicians from all parts of the
Union. And let me tell you right
now, Hoke Smith is the greatest
man in the Cabinet. On all sides
you can hear people talking about
him, etc. The people of Georgia
ought to feel proud, etc. I actually
felt proud when I told people I was
from the same State” as the great
and only Hoke.
It will be noticed that the pro
noun “I” plays a big part in Starnes’
talk, but he is willing to concede (for
the sake of argument) that Smith is
the biggest man of the two.
It must have been a touching
sight to have seen Starnes meander
ing around Washington (after hav
ing gotten on the outside of a few
things), stopping people on the streets
and in hotel lobbies to announce:
“Gentleman, you may not believe
it; perhaps I don’t look the part •
but I am from the same State as
Hoke Smith and Possumphat.”
Captain Starnes continued his talk
by saying that he had made a “very
careful look into the situation,” and
that Renfroe would get the Mar
shalship.
The situation must have been un
usually dark on the inside at the time
Starnes took his “very careful look,”
because Renfroe did not get it.
A red-headed rooster named Dun
ap got it. Says he is going to keep
it, too ! These red-headed men are
terrors when you get ’em started.
If Starnes is as far off the track
about the alleged excitement prevail
ing in Washington over Smith’s
greatness as he was about Renfroe
and the Marshalship, he had better
stay in Atlanta and get on the out
side of a few broken doses of salts.
He needs cooling down.
T. E. W,
He Has Cooled Down.
Troy Times.
The author of “Maryland, My
Maryland,” Mr. Randall, of Balti
more, is to have a good position as
soon as the United States Senate
meets. —Ac?o Press.
Janies R. Randall, though a native
of Maryland, was an editor in Au
gusta, Ga., in 1861, w r hen he com
posed the well-known rebel war
song, some verses of which are as
follows :
The despot’s heel is on thy shore,
Maryland
His touch is at thy temple door,
Maryland,
Avenge the patriotic gore
That Recked the streets of Baltimore,
And be the battle queen ot yore,
Maryland, my Maryland!
Dear mother, burst the tyrant’s chain,
Maryland !
Virginia should not call in vain,
Maryland !
She meets her sisters on the plain.
“Sicsemper I” ’tis the proud refrain
That baffles minions back amain,
Maryland I
Arise in majesty again,
Maryland, my Maryland !
1 hear the distant thunder hum,
Maryland 1
The “Old Line’s” bugle, fife and drum,
Maryland !
She is not dead, nor deaf, nor dumb ;
Huzza ! she spurns the Northern scum—
She breathes! She barns ! She’ll come !
She’ll come!
Maryland, my Maryland !
That was pretty lurid, even for the
redhot times of 1861. And now to
think that the author of these heroic
lines has taken back all that he said
about “gore,” “the tyrant” and
“minions” and is willing to accept a
comfortable office and emoluments
from “the Northern scum!” How I
he must have cooled down I
ATLANTA. GA.. FRIDAY. JUNE 2. 1893.
THE
It is Rapidly Reaching Its Lowest
Point. *
Washington, May 29. —To-day
the Treasury Department was noti
fied that $3,000,000 in gold had been
withdrawn at New York for expor
tation. After business hours a dis
patch was also received stating that
about $1,500,000 more of gold would
be demanded by the middle of the
week. These figures do not, of
course, show yet on the Treasury
books, but an unofficial estimate
based on them places the gold re
serve at $91,764,000. As the Treas
ury is receiving no offers of gold it
is, therefore, very probable that the
next official statement, which will be
issued on the Ist proximo, will show
the gold reserve at the lowest figure
to which it has declined since the
resumption of the special payments.
Since January 1, $60,000,000 in
gold has been exported to Europe.
Most of this gold was taken from
the United States Treasury and
practically all that is now being ex
ported comes from thq> same source.
In that time the Treasury Depart
ment has sustained a net loss of
$25,354,243, the net total gold in
the Treasury on January 1, 1893,
having been $121,266,662, while to
day it is only $95,912,419. The gold
holdings within the five months of
this year have at times fluctuated,
but since the first of May the gold
has been nearly always below the
limit of the reserve of $100,000,000.
Shot to Death.
Piedras Negras, Mexico, May 29*
—A few days ago Don Luis Cara
vanges, of the Bank of Durango,
started to visit a ranch owned by
him 400 miles from Durango. It was
in the possession of squatters, and
Caravanges had often attempted to
make them pay rent. His trip was
for the purpose of enforcing pay
ment. The squatters learned of
this and decided on the death of
Don Luis, drawing lots as to who
should commit the murder. Four
men were selected, and they am
bushed and assassinated Caravanges
and his servant.
When word of the crime reached
Durango the governor telegraphed to
the captain of the Rangers at Ta
poua, and fie proceeded with a body
of picked men to the scene of the
tragedy. There he learned the par
ticulars of the plot and the names of
the conspirators. They were arrested
■without difficulty. Sixteen of the
twenty-two have "been summarily
shot to death. The others, who con
fessed, may be spared.
Cholera Hamburg.
Hamburg, May 29.—The com
mittee on the prevention and detec
tion of cholera constituted by the
Senate of Hamburg, declared offi
cially today that a clerk who was
supposed to have been suffering the
previous week from diarrhoea, died
on Saturday last from Asiatic cholera.
Echoes from the Eighth.
Your correspondent heard Gov.
Northen’s address to the people of
Elbert county at Elberton, May 20,
and, oh, how his heart did go out in
sympathy for “those little sons and
daughters whose faces -were tanned
too soon by the summer sun, and
whose hands were hardened too soon
by constant contact with the plow
or the hoe how he did lament the
fact that “Georgia is retrograding
intellectuallyhow he did score the
parents for “howling paternalism
when they are taxed to educate the
children of Georgia!” “Oh,” said
he, “God pity the man. who will
allow his child to grow up in illit
eracy I” “Oh,” said he, “how it
should stir your dull and sluggard
wills when you realize that you hold
in your hands the destiny of an im
mortality !” He said that the pa
rents are to blame wholly for this
state of illiteracy.
But I beg leave to tell the Gov
ernor that the parents are not to
blame, in the light in which he
wished it to appear that they were.
It is not their close-fistednesß that is
to blame. If to blame at all, it is by
putting Cleveland Democrats in
office—men bent on perpetuating our
infernal monetary system —a system
which, like so many little streams, is
draining Georgia and all the pro
ducing nation of its wealth and run
ning it into the coffers of the idle
and affluent.
Oh, how our “dull and sluggard
wills have been aroused,” and how i
determined we are that our children I
shall enjoy a common school educa
tion ! How determined we are that
msn who pity father as well as son,
and both more than they do the
gold-bug of Wall street, shall be in
trusted with the destiny of this na
ticn. How determined we are that
the men who have rode into the
holy sanctuary of our government
on a Democratic side-saddle, men who
profess Christianity and practice
deril-anity, men who ignore the voice
of the people, men who treat justice
with a profound contempt, men who
hug to their hearts such injustice as
was practiced in Goshen district of
Elbert county last January—how de
termined we are, I say, that they
shall be driven out, by and through
the education of the common people,
and their places filled by men who
have nobler ambitions, men who are
prompted by purer motives than
that of trying to deceive and mis
lead an honest people.
Ob, little did the big-whiskered
Governor think that far down the
crowded aisles of that crowded hall
sat one whose “face has been tanned
too soon and whose hands have been
hardened too soon,” who did not
care to swallow his hash just as he
had served it.
Yes, Billy, there are too many
' such societies in our community as
the “Tom Watson Liberal Club” and
the “Fork Creek Commoner” for
I you to attempt to mislead a man
I from the rural districts.
God pity the Governor who does
not know what we call paternalism.
If Billy will attend some of our
societies in Goshen district, some of
our tirelve-year-old school boys will
tell him what kind of paternalism
we howl about. They will tell him
that after he and his father, together
with his mother and his sister, the
highest, the grandest, the noblest,
the purest type of womanhood that
the world has ever known, that after
they toil from Christmas to Christ
mas and their almost every earning
turned over by law to a class of peo
pie “whose only claim to distinction
is that they havq inherited a legacy
of luxury and a lien on laziness,” and
when he asks for a law to protect
him from this greedy grasp of
money-gods, they tell him it is un
constitutional. The school boy says
that this is paternalism. But through
your long whiskers it may look like
patriotism. God speed the day when
our people will be sufficiently edu
cated to see that if plutocracy seated
upon European thrones continues to
•dictate the policy of American gov
ernment at Washington, that the
common people, America’s pride,
will be wiped out and only two
classes left—paupers and million
aires, both dangerous to a republican
government, both foreign to a repub
lican government—and when the
day comes that all the people are as
earnestly seeking after the truth as
are" the people of Goshen now, big
whiskered Billy will have to stop his
tours or change his tune.
Yours for Reform,
Bowman, Ga. Goshenite.
Colquitt County Committee.
Moultrie, Ga. May 27.
Upon call of Chairman of People’s
Party Executive Committee, the com
mittee assembled.
The chairman being absent, the
body was called to order by Mr. A.
J. Twitty, who moved that Mr. S. L.
Hayes act as temporary chairman.
Motion carried.
Moved by Mr. Jones, that J. H.
Cooke be elected Secretary tempora
rily. Carried.
Upon statement being made by
Mr. Jones from Mr. W. M. Adams
that his business was in shape
and that he lived so far from Moul
trie, that it would be impossible for
him to serve another year, but he
still had faith in our demands and
ever expected to fight for them until
gained, it was moved that Mr. W.
•R. Stallings be chosen as Chairman
for one year. Carried.
Moved that J. H. Cooke be select
ed as Secretary for one year. Car
ried.
It was moved that the Chair ap
point a committee of three to select
one committeeman from each G. M.
District in said county to serve as
the Executive Committee of the
People’s party of Colquitt county for
one year. Chair appointed Messrs.
S. L. Hays, M. C. Weeks and James
Murphy. The committee returned
and made the following selections
which were accepted;
Greenfield 1445—G. Tanier, Dott
postoffice.
Bobinson’s 1020 —W. N. Croft,
Hempstead.
Lower Warren 1184-M. C. Weeks
Obe.
Upper Warrior 1374 —B. C. Weeks
Moultrie.
Moultrie - 1151—S. W. Woods,
Moultrie.
* Mill Creek 1373—T. J. McCon
nell, Moultrie.
Thigpen 1482—M. S. Cheshire,
Tuton.
Bridge Creek 799-Richard Tucker
Bay.
Upon motion of M. S. Cheshire,
the Executive Committee of the Peo- :
pie’s party for Colquitt county en
dorsed the organization known as the
Industrial Legion of America.
Upon motion, it was resolved that
this Executive Committee co-operate
with the Executive Committee of the
county of Thomas in replying to the
request of Mr. H. B. Neesmith, as
published in the Globe, in reference
to a grand rally in the near future to
be held at Chastain, in Thomas
county.
Upon motion, the secretary was
requested to send proceedings of this
meeting to the Globe, at Bainbridge,
and The People’s Party Paper,
of Atlanta, with a request that they
publish the same.
ITpon motion, committee ad journed
subject to call of the chairman.
W. R. Stallings, Ch’n.
Moultrie, Ga.
J. H. Cooke, Sec’y,
Hartsfield, Ga.
ELECTED SURE.
The following conversation be
tween a Populist and a South Caro
lina Democrat was overheard on the
streets of Atlanta the other day:
Populist—You don’t believe Judge
Black really beat Colonel Watson,
do you ?
S. C. Dem.—l certainly do. A
lot of us South Carolina Democrats
went over to Augusta the day of elec
tion for that very business, and we
elected him sure.x,
As the Populist walked off a by
stander remarked :
“You ought not to have said that.
He will go off and repeat what you
have said.”
“I can’t help it,” replied the Caro
linian. “It is all true. We did go
over into Georgia to vote for Black,
and we did vote for him and elected
him.”
We understand the Carolinian is
now employed as a teacher, and he
will doubtless train the youthful
Georgians in the methods of con
ducting a fair election—and voting
their man in.
A BOGUS ARISTOCRAT.
Xf < »
Sidney Lascelles, alias Lord Beres
ford, is now a lumber checker in the
convict camp of the Gress Lum
ber Company, Cramer, Ga. He
found that on coming to this coun
try that live lords were a fad rich
Americans were wont to indulge at
any expense. So he improvised
himself into a title, and thus secured
unlimited credit. This credit he
abused, and now enters the service
of a convict lessee of the State of
Georgia. It is predicted that if he
behaves himself he will fare about as
well as lumber checkers usually do,
THE DEAD CHIEFTAIIN.
The respectful and general partici
pation of the people of Atlanta in the
ceremonies attendant on the recep
tion of the remains of ex-President
Jefferson Davis, shows a just appre
ciation of the trials and services of
the dead chieftain. The procession
to the Capitol was through streets
lined with people, and the remains
lying in state were viewed by a very
large proportion of the people. The
attentions to Miss Winnie Davis
would have been an ovation had the
circumstances permitted.
Here’s Your Chance.
The Missouri World, published every
week at Chillicothe, Missouri, 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 card 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.
Clevelandistic.
Buffalo Commercial.
It appears that Crisp has gained
Cleveland’s favor in the Speakership
contest by agreeing to go back upon
the men who did most for him in the
previous election.
He was a Missouri man and feels
the old-time prejudice against any
town that does not happen to be St.
Louis. “Well,” he said to the Ill
inois citizen, “I seen the Chicago
money market has been celebrating
the World’s Fair, too.” “What do 1
you mean ?” “At last report it was '
tight.”—[Washington Star.
Fond Mother: Here’s something
about a baby whose head measures I
twenty-five inches in circumference.
Is there any danger of our darling
being so deformed? Skeptical Fa
ther: No, dear; not unless he could
understand and believe all the things
you say to him.—Tit-Bits.
NUMBER 37
PREACHING YS. PRACTICE.
DEMOCRATIC PAPERS PREACHERS
OF WHAT THEY DON’T PRACTICE.
Evidence ot How Mr. Watson Is Mis*
represented for Political Capital
and Because of Intolerance.
Some thousands of years after
the very disastrous flood spoken of
by Moses in the book of Genesis,
Editor Gonzales, of the city of
Columbia, S. C., charged Tillman
the reform Governor, with being ac
cessory to the crime of lynching, be
cause, for the purpose of identifica
tion, he allowed a negro charged
with a heinous crime to be carried,
without proper protection, to Den
mark, w T here he was lynched by a
wild, revengeful and bloodthirsty
mob. The Evening Herald, of Au
gusta, in editorial comment on this
fierce attack of Governor Tillman by
Editor Gonzales, partially stood by
or took sides with the Governor by
giving expression to the opinion that
the charges were originated and
made for political capital, and be
cause of political antagonism, hatred
and intolerance on the part of said
editor, and especially because of the
act of—say indiscretion. The popu
lar voice agreed with the Herald's
condemnation of so unfair and unjust
methods as Gonzales used to politi
cally cripple Governor Tillman.
And, again, a few days, more or
less, after the “some thousands of
years after” the aforesaid deluging of
old mother earth, the Augusta Her.
aid published an editorial which
justly denounced and very severely
criticised the scandal-monger letter
writers who defame and endeavor to
rob good citizens of their excellent
names and popularity wuth the peo
ple. It held this class of quill
i drives for p’.L lc
and public censure.
These two editorials, so oppor
tunely written, were indeed com
mendable in their sentiment, and
there is hardly any doubt but that
they caught and pleased the public
ear. But the trouble is, that they
were seemingly written only to please
—judging by the practice that fol
lows the preaching. These nice lit
tle and dainty morsels of high and
ennobling sentiment, dished out to
the public, so far as the Herald is
concerned, ended in mere idle talk.
The motto that mockingly swings
above the door ot their entrance into
publicity reads as follows : “Written
to please, but not to be put into
practice.”
The Herald cheerfully and almost
eloquently measured out this advice
gratis to their readers, but they have
never taken it home and thoroughly
digested it themselves. The beauti
ful sentiments and advice, while it is
so highly commendable and worthy
of absorption by the public, evidently
magically vanished from the editor’s
mind before the ink was dry on that
day’s edition of the paper. Theo
retically, this paper is certainly pol.
ished eloquence ■when it comes to
preaching, but practically their
preaching is never found to be the
governing rule of their own indi
vidual conduct.
W T hy do we make this assertion,
and are we justified in making it ?
We will give our reason and let the
thousands of readers of these columns
be the judge of the right on the
premises.
On last Friday, in Augusta, Henry
Ramsey, the murderer of
Harris, of Summerville, near Au
gusta, paid the penalty of his crime
on the gallow's, and the Augusta
Herald, after giving a lengthy and
very graphic description of the exe
cution, uses the following sentence
in writing up the history of the crime
hat the executed man committed:
“A sensible man would at once have
submitted to the authority of law.
But not so Ramsey. The night be
fore Tom Watson had delivered one
of his incendiary harangues in the
vicinity, and his remarks had turned
the negro’s head. He felt himself
good as a w’hite man,” etc.
Your correspondent heard that
harangue of Mr. Watson’s referred
to, dotted dowm a synopsis of the
same, and there was nothing of an