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The discussion will be confined
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calm, dispassionate examination of
our present methods of legislation
and administration as compared
with the principles of Jefferson and
as compared with the constitution
itself.
It will be my aim to so treat these
questions that no Democrat present
will have cause to say that his feel
ings or his convictions are treated
with disrespect.
Where we must continue to dif
fer, it is my wish that we may do so
with mutual good-will and mutual
forbearance.
To avoid as far as possible all dis
agreeable incidents and all excessive
display of partisan zeal, I will de
cline to enter into “Debates” with
anyone, whomsoever.
May 17, 1893. T. E. W.
Special Notice.—The policy adop
ted by President Ellington is to
keep the Alliance meetings separate
from People’s Party Rallies.
I think this is wise, and it is my
purpose to conform.
Therefore, I put my friends on
notice that ray meetings are strictly
People’s Party Rallies. They are
purely political, and they are my in
dividual appointments.
Local committees are requested
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At each of the aboved named
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10 o’clock, railroad time, and will
commence my address at once.
If this arrangement conflicts with
the preference of the local commit
tee at any of the above appointments
they will please notify me and I will
make another date, at which time we
can have a People’s Party Meeting,
pure and simple.
To mix Alliance business meeting
with People’s Party political meet
ings, would necessarily cause em
barrassment.
The Alliance is growing and de
serves to grow. The People’s Party
is growing and deserves to grow.
And each can best grow by having
its meetings separately.
T. E. W.
PEOPLE’S PARTY PAPER. ATLANTA. GEORGIA. FRIDAY, JULY 7.1893.
ENGLAND ADVANCES ANOTHER
STEP IN ESTABLISHING ITS
FINANCIAL DESPOTISM.
The Mints of India have been
closed to private coinage of Silver.
In other words, the free and unlimit
ed coinage of the white metal is no
longer permitted.
The orders to this effect have been
duly issued from London, where a
dozen Millionaire bankers control the
destinies of the 300,000,000 human
beings in India.
This order makes a distinct ad
vance of the Gold conspirators. It
is the taking of another bold, defiant
step by those who seek to gather
into their coffers the small amount
of the yellow metal the world con
tains, and to force the balance of the
universe to pay them tribute for the
use of it.
AU the varied produce of industry
everywhere on this globe, excepting
that which the producer consumes,
seeks to exchange itself for money.
It is a plain, literal fact that we take
our cotton, corn and wheat, and la
bor, and we purchase money with it.
We cant pay our mortgages with
corn, cotton or labor. We must get
legal tender cash. Hence we swap
our produce for money. We buy
the money with the produce.
Keeping this fact always before
us, we can never lose sight of the
dangers of the gold standard.
When the Financial conspirators
shall have accomplished their aims,
when all debts are brought to the
point that they can only be paid in
gold, where is the citizen who does
not appreciate the terrible advan
tage which gold will have over pro
duce ?
Who can tell how much cotton, or
wheat, or labor it will require ten
years hence to buy enough hoarded
gold to pay off a thousand dollar
mortgage ?
The closing of the Mints of India
to private coinage, is a fearful blow
to the friends of a liberal currency.
The Atlanta Constitution in an
able editorial last Wednesday, ven
turesjthe opinion that this action onthe
part of England was taken in order
to keep the price of Silver from going
too low.
We cannot think this view is cor
rect. If the accepted theory
of the way in which the British
traders have manipulated Silver,
as against America, be correct,
it seems to us that the cheaper our
Silver could be purchased by Eng
land, the greater would be her profit
in buying it, and sending it to India
for Free Coinage into Rupees.
We cannot understand how it
would help England to befriend
American Silver, when she has made
such constant and successful efforts
to depreciate it.
We believe the true reason for
England’s action lies in ,a different
direction.
Her astute financiers know that
the Sherman Act is to be repealed.
They know that the wires have
already been laid, that Cleveland’s
plans are determined upon. They
know that he has used his patronage,
and his influence, in every possible
way, to coerce and corrupt the Con
gressmen and Senators who owe their
positions to their avowed friendship
to Silver. England knows that the
‘Crime of 1873” is now to be made
complete by a Democratic ratification
of a Republican fraud. Hence Eng
land takes her precautions.
She knows that American Silver,
outlawed in the country to whose
mines God gave it, will seek to go to
India, and reap the benefit of the
free and unlimited coinage which has
so long prevailed there.
Being wffiollj 7 excluded from Amer_
ican mints; for either public or pri
vate coinage, the American silver
owner would be compelled to bear
all the expense and all the risk of
Ocean shipment to India, in order
that he might have the privilege of
coining his bullion into rupees.
Having done this he would be
compelled to find a use for the In
dian money. This would be the
purchase of Indian produce. The
American silver owner would thus
turn his rupee into Indian wheat,
cotton, etc. which in turn he
must transport to Europe for sale-
Therefore, the English merchant
would find competitors where he now
has a monopoly.
Hence England closes the Indian
Mints to private coinage. Th e
English government will continue to
coin as much as English commerce
may require.
In our judgment this simply means
that England foresees the repeal of
the Sherman law, the stoppage of
silver coinage in this country, the
consequent drop in the price of sil
ver, and the attempt of the silver
owner to get his bullion coined some
where else. England wants to keep
to herself the advantages of coining
silver in India, while it is not coined
in England. Hence her orders to
close the mints of India to private
coinage simply means that she wants
the American Silver owner to “keep
off the grass.” T. E. W.
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CLEVELAND UALLS THE EXTRA
SESSION.
Those irresistible “ calamity howl
ers,” smashing banks and failing mer
chants, have at last lit the fires upon
the back of our Presidential terrapin,
Grover Cleveland. Before taking his
paunch off to the seaside for a month’s
tender nursing, he has issued a Proc
lamation convening Congress in
special session on August 7".
This is the beginning of the end of
the “old regime.” Things are going
to “ happen ” henceforth in away
which, in the long run, will bring im
mense benefits to our people.
The gage of battle between con
tending issues is down. They can
shirk each other no longer. Men
have got to choose between principle
and party. The Republicans have
got to take position ; the Democrats
ditto. Free silver men in the Re
publican party have got to choose
between the name Republican, and
the cause of just finance.
Democrats like Mr. Bland and Mr.
Morgan have got to say whether they
will continue to act with a party
which, from their standpoint, com
mits a crime when it perpetuates the
demonetization of silver. In other
words, this Extra Session will mark
the time when men must seek politi
cal alignments which conform to their
political faith. Men will gravitate
towards that party w r hioh professes
principles in accordance with their
views.
The strange spectacle of two polit
ical parties, each of which has a large
faction holding to the doctrine of the
opposing party, will cease.
Democrats who hold Republican
doctrines will be driven to the Re
publican party; and vice versa.
Members of the two old parties w’ho
really hold Populist views, finding
no support in either Democratic or
Republican ranks, will be driven to
the People’s party.
Never more can any political party
do what the Democratic party did in
the last election—profess a different
creed for every different section of
the Union.
Such colossal humbuggery is gone
forever.
In the very hour of its evil victory
it begins to die. Cleveland had no
idea ten days ago of calling this ses
sion. Dis?stere amounting to more
than a billion dollars have forced his
hand. Reluctantly he recognizes the
situation. His official action is solemn
confession that something is terribly
wrong.
By calling on Congress to convene
he admits that the wrongs proceed
from national legislation, and must
be remedied by the same methods.
Good! Better I! Best 11.’
That much of our case is admitted
by the greatand glorious Grover, and
is therefore settled for all time to
come.
Now what follows?
Sixty milltons of people will watch
these Congressmen as they were
never watched before. No man can
dodge or straddle. Every vote will
be canvassed by the people at every
fireside in America.
All the subsidized newspapers on
earth will not be able to fool the peo
ple as to what is done at that extra
session. The work of education we
have done has schooled the people to
the extent that they can unerringly
judge of the effect of every act of
legislative omission or commission.
England closing her Indian mints
ten days after Ambassador Bayard
gets to England, and John Sherman
pulling the wires in Washington to
have the same thing done in America,
affords a spectacle that will rouse our
people like the clarion notes of a
trumpet. For the records show that
these two men—John Sherman and
Thos. F. Bayard—acted together in
1873 to secretly destroy silver, just
as’they are acting together now.
This extra session is a God-send to
us I Into the clear light, w'here all
honest citizens can see, it will bring
the schemas of the Bosses.
On with the dance ! By the beard
of my uncle, I think we shall now
have what D’Artagnan would de
scribe as “ some entertainment.”
T. E. W.
THE CENTRAL IS RUINED!
Thus spoke Judge Jackson in the
U. S. Court last week.
What is the Central?
It is one of the old standard Rail
Roads of Georgia. She was built
with Georgia money, was fostered
by Georgia laws, and was granted
many a special privilege which other
citizens did not enjoy.
At this moment her stock is owned
by many a widow and orphan, many
a farmer, many a merchant in the
State who thought the old Central
was “as good as the bank.”
But she is ruined 1
Who ruined her ?
Pat Calhoun and his Wall street
gang—aided and abetted by Lovely
F. Livingston, and some other nice
men “of influence.”
What did they do ?
They gobbled up the property,
signed away its liberty and its life in
guaranty contracts, plundered it of
its revenues, and then turned it over,
helpless and shattered, to meet the
creditors to whom it had been be
trayed.
Was there no law against this raid
of the New York brigands?
Os course there was. The consti
tution of the State declared against
such methods.
The statutes of the State were
hostile to them.
The Legislature of the State was
armed and equipped with full power
to rescue this grand old piece of
favored property from the clutches
of the hyenas that were rending it
in pieces.
Did the Legislature have the mat
ter called to its attention ?
Certainly it did!
By speech, by resolution, by ap
peal every possible effort was made
to arouse the Legislature to the
gravity of the situation. But to no
purpose. The combination against us
was too strong. The Wall Streeters
had made themseves irresistible. AU
the newspapers were on their side.
All the leading politicians were on
their side. All the Rail Road law
yers were on their side. L. F.'.Liv
ingston, President of the Farmers’
Alliance, was on their side.
In vain did a few unpurchasable
men plead for law and for honor!
In vain did Clarence H. Ellington
stand like a hero, in the Senate, and
endeavor to have the laws of Geor
gia enforced her constitution re
spected and her property protected.
He was overridden and defeated
by Calhoun, and Livingston, and the
Rail Road lawyers who were in the
Senate.
One of them was the Hon. Tom
Cabaniss, who is now in Congress.
With oinly persuasiveness, the Cal
houn gang carried all their plans to
success.
Who does not remember the sweet
talk of Pat Calhoun ?
Who does not remember the rosy
things he promised to “dear old
Georgia ?”
Who does not know how he rode
around in his palace car with Living
ston and Moses, convincing the peo
ple that Calhoun was abroad-minded
statesman, of unbounded benevo
lence, while “Tom Watson was an
incendiary, wishing to stir up strife
between the people and the rail
roads ?”
Well do we remember it.
Now comes the proof of the pud
ding. Now comes the time when
events show who was right.
The Court decides that the mag
nificent system of railways known
as the Central is ruined. It must be
put up and sold at sheriff’s sale!
Why ?
To pay off the debts Calhoun’s
crowd saddled on it.
What condition was the Central
in when Calhoun, John Inman and
that crew, took hold of her?
She was one of the finest proper
ties in America.
In what condition do they leave
her ?
A water-logged wreck—helplessly
driven through the black sea of liti
gation.
The Wall street pirates plundered
her, scuttled her, and are now doing
all in their power to drive her to the
bottom.
Many a home in Georgia is made
desolate by these results. Ruin faces
many a man who has fancied that his
fortune was perfectly secure.
Gradually we learn that the rob
ber most to be dreaded is not the
paltry thief who enters the dwelling
at night and loots it of handy valu
ables, but the smooth, polite, per
suasive rascal who observes all the
forms of honesty and violates its
every principle.
These are the men who steal mil
lions of dollars a manipulation of
stocks, bonds, guaranties and mort-
gages, whose effect is only known
when some presiding Judge coolly
remarks
“The Central is Ruined !”
T. E. W.
SKETCHES FROM ROMAN HISTORY.
BY THOS. E. WATSON.
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THE PEOPLE’S PARTY" PAPER.
WHO IS RESPONSICLE, HARRISON
OR CLEVELAND!
The gold-bugs (and Mr. Cleveland
is one of them) have labored indus
triously to create the opinion that
silver bullion is purchased with gold,
and that the ability of the silver
certificate to remain in circulation
was owing to the fact that the gov
ernment redeemed them in gold, and
that the redemption of such cer
tificates would exhaust the gold of
the government.
Mr. Cleveland, in a late interview
given to the*press, holds out the idea
that the falsehood is a truth. He
boldly asserts that “gold is thus
taken from the treasury by other
nations for the purpose of strength
ening their own credit.’”
If he tells the truth a great wrong
or outrage has been perpetrated, and
the American people will hold the
perpetrators of the outrage to ac
count.
Mr. Cleveland and the gold-bugs
create the opinion that this great
outrage of “purchasing silver bul
lion with gold” was executed by the
Republican party, and the Demo
cratic party must put a stop to it.
Now what are the points ? Here
they are from the lieeord:
The silver certificate is by law
payable in silver; it is an order on
the United States Treasury for sil
ver dollars, and the Treasurer is
without the authority of law to pay
in anything else. There never was
a gold dollar paid for a silver cer
tificate by any Treasurer of the
United States except the present one
chosen and installed by Mr. Cleve
land.
That there may be no mistake
abount this matter, we publish the
following letter :
Treasury of United States, I
Washington, July 13, ’92. j
Sir : I have the honor to ack
nowledge receipt of yours, in which
you ask whether silver certificates
have been redeemed in gold coin, in
what amount and on what authority.
I have to state in reply thereto that
so far as this office is concerned, it
has never been done nor have any of
the sub-treasury offices been author
ized to do so, and no departmental
instructions have been issued to that
effect. Respectfully yours,
E. H. Nkbeker,
Treasurer, U. S.
Hon. H. M. Teller, U. S. Senate.
Thus it will be seen that the Re
upblican Treasurer of the United
States never allowed “gold to be
thus taken from the Treasury by
other nations for the purpose of
strengthening their own credit.”
If “gold is thus taken” (and Mr.
Cleveland says it is “thus taken”)
who is responsible for this ?
Who is responsible for the deple
tion of our gold reserve “that other
governments may be strengthened,”
Harrison or Cleveland?
Will the Atlanta Constitution,) in
its manly fight for the preservation
of the money of the people, please
show its readers what Mr. Cleveland
has done and Mr. Harrison didn’t do
on this line ?
The prosperity of this country is
more important than party suprem
acy.
MR. WATSON’S FOURTH OF JULY
SPEECH.
We have printed a considerable
number of extra copies of the Paper
containing the above, and will sup
ply these extra copies at five cents
each, or forty cents per dozen.
The Southern lieformer, an eight
page weekly, published at Butler,
Ga. (subscription price $1.00), is a
power. Taylor was the first county
to put Judge Crisp in nomination for
Congress, but largely through the
good work done by the lieformer
the county gave a majority of 368
against him at the last election. The
Reformer and the People’s Party
Paper will be sent to one address
for $1.50.
CHANGES IN’ APPOINTMENTS.
On account of several general
church meetings in the the territory
adjacent to Thomson on July 29th, I
have been requested to postpone that
appointment. Therefore the Thom
son date is canceled; and I will
change the Elberton date to the 26th,
and will speak at Bowersville on July
27th. Thos. E. Watson.
WATSON’S CAMPAIGN.
No political canvass this year will
attract more attention than that
which has been outlined by Mr.
Watson for the three months next
ensuing.
Major C. E. McGregor will accom
pany Mr. Watson throughout the
campaign, and will write it up for
this paper.
It will be full of stirring incidents
and interesting features.
If you want to keep in sight of
the band-wagon, subscribe for this
paper.
FROM GENERAL WEAVER.
The following telegram was re
ceived last week, just as our paper
went to press:
Concordia, Kansas, June 28.
To The People’s Party Paper, Atlanta, Ga.
England has struck another blow
at the industries of the world by
closing the mints of India to the free
coinage of silver. Will any self-re
specting American allow his Govern
ment to join with Great Britain in
the robbery of our own people ? Let
us throw off the British yoke a second
time, and let the American people
arise in their might and issue a second
declaration of independence. We will
have our own system of finance,
whether crowned heads like it or not.
Raise high your banner and open
your ranks to all who love liberty. Let
us see who among us will follow the
lead of England in her effort for the
financial conquest of the world; who
will follow the stars and stripes, and
who, the cross of St. George.'
James B. Weaver.
- CONFOUNDED FOOLS ! ”
The Washington correspondents of
the Democratic press of this State
especially the Constitution and the
Telegraphy are lamenting the failure
os President Cleveland to recognize
the wiregrass region in the disposi
tion of patronage.
Now why don’t they tell what
they know?
Why don’t they tell what Mr.
Cleveland said to Mr. Crisp when he
called on the President in the in
terest of Bascom Myrick?
Why don’t the free silver Demo
caats of South Georgia get Bascom
to tell his readers what occurred at
the interview between himself, Crisp
and Cleveland?
Bascom ain’t afraid to do so. He
is a man of conviction and truth,
and didn’t fail to class Mr. Cleveland
as a mugwump when he was a mug
wump. He didn’t fail to say Mr.
Cleveland could properly be classed
with the Republicans when he knew
his inclination was in that direction.
In those days Bascom spoke “right
out in meeting.”
Bascom believed in the free coin
age of silver, just like every other
Democrat in Georgia did—including
Speaker Crisp—and he wern’t afraid
to speak his sentiments publicly.
Neither was Mr. Crisp afraid to do
likewise.
The Bth plank of the Georgia
Democratic platform was, and is,
the sentiment of Georgia Democrats,
Now, boys, if you want to know
how the great and only Grover C.,
President of these United States, re
gards you South Georgia Democrats,
just get Bascom to give, in detail,
the conversation and dramatic ac
tions of your President when he and
Mr. Crisp called on said President.
It will read, perhaps, like this :
President—Mr. Crisp, do you en
tertain or endorse the financial views
of the Georgia Democrats ?
Crisp—Well, Mr. President, they
are my constituents, and of course I
ought to respect their sentiments.
President (Rising from chair
and bringing his ponderous fist down
upon the table with cyclonic force) —
They are a set of confounded fools!
Exit Crisp and Myrick.
If that kind of a scene did not
occur, why, Bascom will say fto, and
tell you what really did occur—per
haps.
And then you wiregrass boys—in
cluding Bill Harns, of Worth—can
form a faint idea why Turner and
Russell could do nothing for you.
You fellows get Bill Harris to pre
sent your cause to Grover next time.
He can’t scare Bill with his sul
phurous epithets and cyclonic de
monstration. Not much, if any.
But by all means get Bascom to
picture the scene to you. Jf he
won’t do it through his paper, get
him off on a fish fro lie and he’ll let
her roll.
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