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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