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THE DOUGLASVILLE MEETING.
The trip from Atlanta to Douglas
ville was enlivened by the genial
smile of Joe James and the political
enthusiasm of Uncle Jimmie Car
michael of Coweta.
Mr. Watson was met by a commit
tee and conducted to the ‘hospitable
home of Bro. Weddington, where he
and bis friends were elegantly enter
tained by Mrs. Weddington and
family.
The rattle of farm wagons awoke
the people of Douglasville long be
fore the sun peeped up. For the
people of the country had heard
that Tom Watson was to speak on
the 4th. They came, many of them,
as far as thirty miles to hear, in their
opinion, the “truest man in Georgia.’
Mr. Watson was the recipient of
flowers and fruits from Democrats as
w r ell as Populists. While Joe James
was feasting on government plums,
William, Joe’s brother, furnished
Tom with a copious supply of mag
nificent native Chickasaws.
Before the hour for speaking arriv
ed the crowd had grown larger than
the grove in which the speaking
was to occur—fully 2500 farmers
had got there, and every one seemed
to know where he was at, while, per
haps 2000 lingered around the streets
and stores.
When Mr. Watson ascended the
stand he was received by a shout
that made the welkin ring.
After a fervent prayer by Rev. A.
J. Colston, Mr. Watson took charge
of the crowd. Not as the politician
usually does, with stale anecdotes,
but with solid chunks of argument.
The crowd "was thoroughly respon
sive, throughout the speech—which
occupied about two hours and twenty
minutes. The speech appears in lull
in this issue.
At the conclusion, Mr. Watson was
litterally besieged. The platform
could not accommodate the rushing
enthusiastic friends. They climbed
on benches, chairs and railing to get
a chance to shake his hand. The
ladies loaded him with beautiful flow
ers and many happy “God bless you”
lent sweetness to their fragrance.
Among the cards accompanying the
flowers were the names of good Dem
ocratic wives and. daughters.
A telegram of congratulation was
received from the Populists of Tala
poosa about noon.
It is pleasant to note that if there
are any Democrats in Douglasville,
they have the happy faculty of being
gentlemen, and waved their partizan
ship in the interest of the courtesies
and conventionalities of life. Me.
Crowded Out.
Quite a number of interesting com
munications have been crowded out
for want of space. Often very good
letters have to be rejected because
of their length, or because they are
written on both sides of the paper,
or because the writer fails to give his
real name.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
Why is it that we hear no abuse of
the “Calamity Howlers” this year?
Because the “Calamity” is doing
its own howling. Smashing banks
and ruined enterprises have voices
loud enough these days to command
universal attention.
a mostly cow.
For many ages the Eastern people
have practiced animal sacrifice as a
part of their religious ceremonial.
In Hindostan last week the Natives
were about to sacrifice a cow in one
of their temples.
Au English magistrate forbade
them the privilege which they had
been exercising hundreds of years.
Not being prepared to lay down
their religious convictions in this
sudden manner, they persisted in the
attempt to worship as they had al
ways done.
The English magistrate, a repre
sentative of the people who worship
Jesus, ordered out the troops and
bred upon the Natives, killing up
wards of twenty.
Thus did the enlightened Christian
magistrate slaughter a score of hu
man beings to save one old stump
tail cow.
It is just such brutal practice as
this, upon the part of alleged Chris
tian rulers, that keeps the religion of ;
Jesus Christ in the minority, when
compared to the other great re
ligions of the world.
bayard and silver.
In 1873 England sent Ernest Seyd
&ver here with $500,000 to strike
iown Free Silver.
It was done. Thos. F. Bayard
lelped John Sherman commit the ’
trime.
In 1893 Cleveland declares against
foe only remaing law under which
re get any silver coinage at all. He
PEOPLE’S PARTY PAPER. ATLANTA. GEORGIA? FRIDAY, JULY 7.1893.
sends Bayard to England as Ambas
sador. Lord Roseberry (the Roths
child man) takes him in charge, and
great honor is paid him.
Within a few days afterwards,
England closes down the only Free
Coinage mints in her vast Empire.
Does it not look suspicious ?
Do you not believe that Bayard
was sent to England to do certain
work in the great conspiracy against
silver ?
The Lincoln Home Journal.
We take great pleasure in adding
to our exchange list the Lincoln
county Home Journal., the latest ad
dition to the Reform press of Georgia
Our infant sister is a beauty,, and will
doubtless make things hum in the
next campaign. There are no better
people to be found anywhere than
the sturdy yeomanry of Lincoln coun
ty. We congratulate them in having
such a paper as the Journal to advo
cate their home interests, and we con
gratulate the Journal in having such
a clientage as the farmers of Lincoln
county.
Bro. P. P. McCurdy, Alliance Lee.
turer of the sth District, called to see
us Wednesday morning. He reports a
steady and healthy grow’th among
most of the sub-Alliances within his
teritory. The Alliance everywhere
is recovering from the injury done it
by those who sought to use it for sel
fish purposes.
Editor Shumate of the World,
Birmingham, Ala., paid us a short
visit yesterday. He reports a heal
thy and steady growth of reform sen
timent in his state. The reform
Democrats, known as Jeffersonians,
are becoming convinced that it is
easier to reform the country than to
reform the old party or the party
bosses. Alabama will show up all
right in the next campaign.
Save your bad eggs for Tom Watson.
He is bound to give an opportunity to use
th«m.—Albany News and Advertiser.
The individual who penned the
above paragraph for the News and
Advertiter has done himself, his cause
and the News and Advertiser an in
justice that he cannot repair. He
evidences a narrow, cowardly mind,
a depraved heart and a wanton dis
regard of the peace and welfare of
the public.
The News and Advertiser, by pub
lishing it, has done violence to the
respectable people of Albany and
south Georgia, by giving public cur
rency to a base and depraved senti
ment.
Neither the author or publisher, as
individuals, would hurl a rotten egg,
or a good egg, or any kind of an egg,
at Tom Watson or any other Tom.
As individuals, they would be the
first to tuck their tails between their
legs and run for dear life when the
egg battle opened. For it would be
a battle, and a royal battle, too—a
battle to the finish. If the individual
who wrote it, and the publisher who
gave it circulation has any doubt
upon that line, let them make inquiry
of the coantryman, the farmer, and
his doubt will vanish.
This is a free country. The free
dom of speech is guaranteed every
body. If they do not wish to hear
Mr. Watson, they need not attend
his meetings.
If the writer of the paragraph and
the publisher of the paragraph, and
every reader who approves of the
sentiment embodied in the paragraph
have regard for the lives of them
selves and their fellow-men, they will
refrain from inciting some crazy,
drunken crank to put the rotten egg
act into execution.
Mr. Watson is a gentleman ; he is
a Georgian; his followers are gen
men and they are Georgians. An
insult to him is an insult to them ; a
personal violence upon him is a per
sonal violence upon them, and the
News and Advertise?, as well as all
others of like kind, are hereby put on
notice of the fact.
You had best eat your rotten eggs,
sonny. Populist.
From Greene County, Missouri.
Editor People’s Party Paper:
Your paper, through the Missouri
JFbrZd, is reaching many people in
Southwest Missouri, and all whom I
have heard speak of it are well
pleased with it, because the Hon.
Tom Watson can express our senti
ments to much more forcibly than
we can that it does us good to read
after him.
I see the Hon. R. P. Bland, of this
State, is using the “Where am I at”
in regard to the Democratic party.
He says the all-absorbing (before
the election) tariff question is rele
gated to the rear and finance brought
to the front. This seems very
strange, because the Democrats told
us before the election that finance
was not a question of any importance
to the American people at that time.
A great many Democrats say that
if there is not some wholesome leg
islation in favor of the laboring, peo
ple when Congress meets they will
not vote the ticket any more; and if
they keep their word we will have
their help next time, for isn’t Grover
m the chair? and isn’t Wall street
manipulating the machinery ?
We are not dead here, but waiting
for another opportunity to vote for
that glorious old man, J. B. Weaver,
or some other honest man.
J. L. Maxey.
ITEMS OF STATS NEWS.
PAID IN FULL.
The Gate City Bank, which closed
its doors last February upon the dis
covery of the heavy defalcation of
1 Cashier Lewis Redwine, has paid the
depositors in full. The stock-holders
will get about seventy-five cents in
the dollar on their stock.
Redwine, the trusted employe who
appropriated something over a hun
dred thousand dollars of other peo
ple’s money, will probably get about
half the term in the penitentiary that
a Georgia judge recently gave a
“nigger” for stealing an old shot-gun.
severe sentences.
Judge Bartlett, who some weeks
ago sentenced a man to the peniten
tiary for twenty years for stealing a
shot-gun, has just sent up a small
boy for two years for stealing forty
five cents worth of old newspapers.
Moral: Don’t steal if you can
help it, but if you are born to steal
and can’t help it, try your hand on a
bank or a railroad, where you will
have at least an even change between
the penitentiary and the L T nited
States Senate. By all means steer
clear of shot-guns and old news
papers.
DOES JUSTICE DISCRIMINATE ?
Hun Brotherton, the 19-year-old
son of Ex - Police Commissioner
Brotherton of Atlanta, who was un
der arrest on the charge of assault
with intent to murder, has been al
lowed to plead guilty to the minor
charge of shooting at another, and
was fined SSOO.
Boggan, whose curls were clipped
by young Brotherton’s bullet, says
that he was offered $2,500 to com
promise the case and that he refused
to do so. He claims that the action
of the solicitor in substituting the
lighter for the graver charge was
without his knowledge or consent.
Query : If the case had been re
versed would Boggan have been al
lowed to escape with a light fine ?
BEHEADED HIS MOTHER.
In Reynoldstown, a village just
beyond the city limits, there lived a
poor but happy family, consisting of
father, mother and seven children.
The oldest child, Tom, a youth of
nineteen and an imbecile from birth,
was the pet as well as the care of the
household.
J. M. Fagan, the father, and the
three next oldest children find em
ployment in the city—leaving the
imbecile boy and the three little chil
dren at home with the mother.
On Thursday, afternoon Mrs. Fa
gan lay down upon a pallet for a
nap. The idiot son coming in from
play and observing his mother asleep,
went back into the yard, secured an
axe and beheaded her.
After severing the head from the
body the imbecile in idiotic glee con
tinued to chop the dismembered
head in pieces.
Tom was considered harmless, and
idiot as he is, was loved and petted
by every member of the household t
He will never realize the enormity
of his act nor the grief he has
brought upon an humble but happy
household. He is now an inmate of
Fulton county jail, where he will re
main until carried to the asylum.
GEORGIA STATE FAIR.
Col. John Waddell, the president
of the Georgia Agricultural Society,
has been down to Augusta making
arragements for holding the fair in
October. The society has never had
a better president than Col. Waddell.
The fair, under his management, is
bound to be a splendid exhibit of
Georgia’s boundless resources, and
we hope it will also prove an equally
splendid financial success.
THEY GET AAV AY.
For the third time within a few
months the prisoners confined in
Monroe county jail have made their
escape. A ram-shackled jail is not
altogether a bad idea. It is much
cheaper sometimes to get rid of a
bad citizen by letting him escape
than it is to convict him. It cost
Bibb county, a few years ago, some
$20,000 to convict a prisoner. A
ram-shackle jail can be kept up in
definitely for less money.
ATLANTA BANKS ALL RIGHT.
The yearly statement of the city
banks shows every institution in
splendid condition—every vault well
supplied with lucre, though these
corporat-ons create no wealth of any
kind. They open their doors at 9a.
m. and close at 2. p. m.
But how about the farmers? They
begin work with the rising of the
sun and labor till night. They feed
and clothe the world. Starvation
would be upon this great city if their
products were withheld for a single
month. Yet there is not to-day a
per capita circulation of 50 cents
among the farming population of the
South.
MACUNE AS A FINANCIER.
HE LIVES HIGH ON A SMALL
SALARY,
And Buys a Fine Residence on the
Profits of Stock that Had Never
Declared a Dividend.
Washington, June 29, 1893.
Hon. Tom Watson, Thomson, Ga.:
Dear Sir and Brother There
are two kinds of evidence by which
crime and rascality are proven. One
is direct evidence ; the other circum
stantial evidence. Each is equally
conclusive and* brings conviction.
In these times of almost universal
bribery, especially in matters of poli
tics, it is quite difficult to obtain
direct testimony, owing to the fact
that years of practice has reduced
this system of prostitution to a
science.
If a man steals my wheat and the
theft is witnessed by others he is
convicted on direct testimony. But
if he succeeds in getting the wheat
unseen, then indirect or circumstan
tial evidence is relied upon to con
vict. If the wheat is found in his
possession, he having no land upon
which it could be produced, he must
prove to the satisfaction of the court
and jury just how he came in pos
session of this wheat or stand con
victed of the theft.
In this letter I shall prove by both
methods that C. W. Macune has been
in possession of money that he did
not nor could not have earned
through any known legitimate ef
forts of his own. In a letter to Col.
R. J. Sledge, of Kyle, Texas, Mr.
T. A. Clayton, of Louisiana, says:
“I paid Macune, as representing
the Economist, very handsomely for
the aid the paper gave the People’s
party in the late fight. Part of
the money paid him he said was for
the paper; $3,000 was the amount
that he said went to the Economist.”
Again he repeats:
“Macune ought to account for $6,-
000, of which $3,000 was for the
paper and $3,000 for the speakers.
He got more than this, but the Econ
omist was not interested in it.”
This I submit as direct evidence of
the fact that Dr. Macune did receive,
in 1891, over $6,000 as political
boodle.
In the winter of 1889 Dr. Macune
came to Washington with but S4OO,
and that was borrowed of Col.
R. J. Sledge. In proof of this I re
fer to Col. Sledge, H. C. Saffell and
Harry Tracy, and could name many
others. I have heard Dr. Macune
make this statement a number of
times.
He at once began the publication
of the National Economist. The
National Economist Publishing Co.
was composed of ten stockholders,
and each share of stock was $2,000.
The stockholders paid in SI,OOO
each in cash and received $2,000
each in stock. While ten shares had
been subscribed for, a few failed to
meet their promises and it was some
time before they were all finally
taken. Dr. Macune held but one
share. He was appointed editor and
manager, with a salary of $2,500.
From that date until I left the paper
in' the summer of 1892, this salary
was his only visible means of sup
port, except $2,000 'which he re
ceived as chairman of the executive
committee of the Alliance in 1890.
In proof of this I refer to every
stockholder in the company and
every person acquainted with the
business.
I call especial attention to these
two propositions: Some time in
1891 he notified the stockholders
that the concern was in debt about
$12,000; that he would pay it if an
additional issue of stock would be
made on the same basis of the old,
which was done, and the stock in
creased to $44,000. Early in 1892
he bought the stock of R. F. Gray,
J. A. Mudd and H. C. Saffell, paying
each 81,500 per share. Latterly he
bought my share for $1,200. At
that time he held $32,000 of the
$44,000 stock in the company. Du
ring the whole time he has "been in
Washington he has lived in absolute
profligacy. In proof of this I refer
to Col. Sledge, Tracy, Saffell, Gray
or Dr. Mudd. I have asked a num
ber acquainted with his manner of
living as to its cost per year. Col.
Sledge put it at $6,000 ; Harry Tracv
at $5,000; Saffell at $5,000, and no
one less than $4,500. He bought a
four-story brick house within eighty
rods of the Capitol for $8,500 early
in 1891. Since then he has been
compelled to pay SIOO.OO per month
and $300.00 interest annually. While
I believe the house to be free from
incumbrance, I am certain the $3,500
above the trust mortgage is paid.
Col. Sledge and Tracy so informed
me. He bought out Col. Sledge after
election, paying him $7,000. He
also bought out Harry Tracy, paying
him $3,000. At that time he claimed, :
as he had previously, that the Na
tional Economist Company owed him
about $9,000 as a balance on account.
In proof of this I again refer to
Sledge, Tracy, Saffell, Mudd, Al
britton, Loucks, and could name
others. Dr. Macune’s business would
therefore stand from the time he
came to Washington until he bought
out Sledge and Tracy about as fol
lows :
CK.
By cash, borrowed of Sledge, $ 400
“ Salary four years, 10,000
“ “ Executive Committe 2,000
Total • $12,400
DR.
To 13 shares of Stock $12,000
“ 3 “ “ Grav, Mudd,
Saffell, 4,500
“ 1 “ “ Dunning 1,200
“ 1 “ “ Sledge, 7,000
“ 1 “ “ Tracy, 3,000
“ Four years family expenses,
$4,500 per year, 18,000
“ Amount paid on house, 3,500
“ “ due from “Economist” & 000
Total $58,200
To be accounted for, $ 45,800
Where did this vast sum that is
traced to his possession come from ?
Did it come from • the Economist?
No I indeed, that paper never paid a
dividend and was always on the
verge of bankruptcy. In proof of
this I refer to the same persons men
tioned above. At the time I left the
paper the entire concern Was not
worth the debts against it. In proof
of this I refer to Milton Park, John
Albritton, 11. C. Saffell or Dr. Mudd.
In the Economist of October 22nd,
1892 Dr. Macune stated editorially :
“It is not the purpose of this paper
to make money, and it never has de
clared one cent of dividend to the
stockholders.”
Now I submit this question to eve
ry candid person. How could Dr.
Macune, honestly, with a salary of
$2,500 as his only visible means of
support, save an addition of $2,000
for one year, with a bankrupt news
paper that never paid a dividend ex
pend during four years and have in
his possession at the end of that time
the vast sum given above. The evi
dence is all against him and unless
he shows to the satisfaction of the
people that he came honestly by this
vast sum of money he must stand
convicted of being a traitor and a
boodler. I will leave the matter
here, with the further statement that
other direct testimony will doubtless
be presented in the near future.
Yours fraternally,
N. A. Dunning.
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Music, Chicago.
The violin reached nearly its pres
ent perfection under the Amati fami
ly, leaders of the Cremona school
(1520-1650), and received its finish
ing touch from Stradivarus, who was
in all probability a pupil of Amati.
It is assumed that the bow origin
ated in India, passing thence into
China and into Persia, where the
conquering Arabs appropriated it.
The most ancient stringed instru
ments were twanged with a plectrum
of quill or wood, which was gradual
ly lengthened, and its original bent
bow form flattened into its present
shape.
Officer Flynn : Come now ;av
yez don’t get away from there I’ll
run yez in. Boy (peeping through
fence): Say, cap’, if you’ll le’ me -
see dis doublee play out I’ll let ye
take me to dis lan’ fer life.—[Puck
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Alliancemen I
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