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. PEOPLE’S I’ARH PAPER
Published Every Friday At No. 8
South Broad Street
Thos. E. Watson,
W.T
Lulu M. Pearce, "'-:Zz r
A I Advertising
j. itiri, Manager.
reopie's Party State Ticket.
For Governor :
JAMES K HINES.
For Secretary o: State:
A. L. NANCE.
For Treasurer:
C. M. JONES.
For Attorney-General:
J. A. B. MAHAFFEY.
For Combtroik-r-General:
W. K. KEMP.
For Commissioner of Agriculture:
JAMES BARRETT.
Halt, Mr. Guerry!
' The Brunswick Tinies-AdvertZ .
,in its report of the speech of Hon.
; DuPont Guerry, recently delivered
in that city, says:
“The speaker spoko of Tom TKat
sor?s claims, and, by quotation from
Watson’s campaign book, showed
that h was practicing deception on
t the people. He read a letter from
Judge Allen Fort, state railroad com
missioner, declaring that the state
ment made by Watson that he was
in favor of the government owner
ship of railroads 'was unfounded.
‘Judge Fort wrote to Watson two
‘ yea r ago correcting the statement,
and t Watson reprints the state
ment in his campaign book this
£ ihe SI,OOO which was con-
Hf7 I'ed by ‘the poor down-trodden
Ij; !_■'s of the tenth’ to pay W:U
--.... expenses in his contest for
black s seat in congress, has never
, been refunded by him, although
congicas appropriated money Htilfi
oientto pay the said expenses.’”
We have already disposed of the
Ju Ige Fort matter by publishing the
! letter he wrote us in 1892. If any
democrat can extract comfort from
that document, he is smart enough to
. distil Cognac front broornstraw. In
1892 Judge Fort went no further
than to say tljat Mr. Watson was
*sliyht.ly inatfi-urati ” He admitted
that the ktailioail question bad
greatly interested him and that he
Mfltlzfiots'e’c decidi Iwhetherhe was
for governmental ownership or not.
Coining from a member of the Geor
gia Railway Commission this admis
sion is significant. Taken in connec
• tion with the fact that Judge Fort
readily r. meml cred our conversa
tion in the K imball I louse, we think
an v unprejudiced reader will reach
conclusion that Judge Fort must
■Mbave'i > d langum/e which warranted
9? Mi Watson in believing that their
’ views harmonized.
t; As to the 81,000, Mr. Guerry
|H makes an insinuation which is much
M more grave.
fir lie impliedly charges that Mr.
jp Watson pocketed the fund which the
’ Tenth District raised, by voluntary
sub. 'ription, to contest the outrage
ous frauds by which the people were
depriced of representation in Con
go ss.
We have repeatedly said that this
charge was untrue. Wu have re
p-.itclly referred the democratic
’ --.ch who trouble themselves so
ii about “the poor, downtrodden
fa.Tnc.rs” of the Tenth, that they
c- .Id get the facts of the case from
1 ’ : Bank of Thomson, Thomson,
Ga Thu President of this Bank is
'1 T. A. Scott, a democrat. The
i diier is Mr. .1. T. Neal, a detuo
t. The in okkeeper is Mr. A. L.
N I.can, < democrat.
Now as Mr. Guerry seems to be
fond ' f writing letters, wc beg that
he will v 'ite to those gentlemen and
ask them what went with the 81,<>00
which has raii.-ed so much crocodile
grief in democratic circles.
The mi ney was spent in the ex
penses of the contest over and above
the amount allowed by Congress.
The Books of the Bank show the
disbursements and Mr. Guerry is
hereby requested to ask for a copy of
the aecoui:’
Finally submit this to Mr.
Guery we id him that his
charge is tu ' ’.•!« d wt> have refer
red him to lie-evidence to satisfy him
upon that pomt. If he avails liim
lelt of this f,.ii proposition he will
lease to mak the charge he made at,
I Brunswick, bicatu. he will find that
be is wrong.
[ if he tail to inform himself of
the facts ami continues to make the
keousatioii which we have ottered to
move is ui.tr. . he will be guilty of
conduct unbecoming a gentleman.
A private letter, which we have
received from a trusted friend in
Brunswick, informs u.i that Mr.
Guerry made still another charge
against us.
r r Ho says that when Mr. Watson
was m Congress he did not protest
against the extravagance which lie
has since written up for Tut; iT.o
elk’s I’aiiiv Paper, ami which has
been issued tu pamphlet form.
This exposure of the wicked waste
of public money in Washington has
worried tha bosses immensely The
depth of their despair is shown bv
the fa-t that they do not deny a >iu
jh st stem-nt made in that pamphlet,
n n r d . < n attempt to defend
themselves from the fearful indict
ment of pilfering the nation’s cash
k box. They rest their whole ease
L upon the counter-chartze that Mr.
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Watson is a party to the crime be
cause he did not protest against the
corruption while he was in congress.
Weak as this plea is it shall not
avail them.
J/r. Watson did protest—both by
speech and vote.
On page 6637 of the Congression
al Record, Ist bession, 52nd Con
Congress, Mr. Guerry will find, to
his intense amazement perhaps, that
Mr. Watson is recorded as being in
active pursuit of jhe very abuses he
afterwards wrote up in that trouble
some pamphlet on “government ex
penses.” Mr. Guerry will find that
i.M. Watson exposed the manner in
which 4,, e words “contingent ex
penses of the Senate” were used to
cover up lemonade, toilet soap, tooth
brushes, quinine, cold tea, etc.
That was the first time the expos
ure ever was made by a member on
the floor of the House.
On page 6853 of the same volume i
<>f the Record, Mr, Guerry will find I
Mr. AValson putting the probe into '
the Maltby House Scandal.
On page 6862, same volume of i
Record. .Mr. Guerry will find .Mr.
Watson voting against the whole |
Legislativu Appropriation Bill be
cause it did contain the very items of
illegal expenditure set forth in the
pamphlet. On pages 3668 and 3669
of the Congressional Record, Ist Ses
sion, 52nd Congress, Mr. Guerry will
find a speech by .Mr. Watson against
extravagance in the Navy Depart
ment.
( )n pages 7303, 7304, 7305, 7301',
7307 of the same volume of the Re
cord, Mr. Guerry will find where
’Watson led the fight against
paving to the families of deceased
Members salaries which had not
been earned. In other words we
contended then, as now, that when
a Congressman died his pay ought to
stop. We did not believe that the
law authorized tbo payment of $5,000,
or any other sum, as a gift to a Con
gressman’s widow; nor did we be
lieve that it was right to bury the
salaried officials of the government
at the public expense.
We voted against all such bills,
just as we voted against the extra i
pay allowed the employees of the i
House and Senate, and against the '
indirect increase of the salaries of I
the members which was accomplish- j
ed when a Democratic House voted '
themselves clerks at SIOO per month I
to do the work the members were
elected to do.
<>n page 730.7 of the Record (the |
velunie last quoted) Mr. Guerry will i
limithat the attempt Mr. Watson I
made to reform these abuses \i as de
fy ited by an overwhelming demo
cratic vote.
Now in view of these proofs from
the official Record what will the peo-|
pie of Brunsivick think of Mr. ,
Gucrry's indictment, of Mr. Watson?'
Is it not. perfectly clear that Mr.
'Guerry did his opponent a serious I
1 injustice?
Is it not painful and humiliating |
| to find a democrat so able and so j
j eloquent as DuPont Guerry driven
' to such straits, in his attempt to <to
' fend the cause of his party?
What excuse did .Mr. Guerry offer
to the people of Brunswick tor the
shameless manner in which this Ad- j
ministration had violated democratic
; pledges and pursued republican;
p licit ? None whatever. Why?
Because no inau living is so able and [
so eloquent as to make a decent de
fense of that which is so notoriously
indefensible.
j Ful cnenty I've years democrat!
have been hiding behind the republi- I
leans. I'er a generatimi Lee hrxe !
hid their sins by charging them to |
Snerman, Morrill, Edmund--, Blai’ |
Harrison ami Reed. •That screen
' has now been so completely remm ml I
i that it can be used ho more, and the 1
; democratic busses, with the natural,
instiucts of political cowardice ami
self-conscious guilt, begin to hunt
. for something else to dodge be- i
hind.
; And behold! the i.ha -*■ ‘B-i outfit.
from General Wheeler down to the '
candidate for constable, trying to
hide their guilty heads behind Peffer, J
and Allen, and Simpson, and Davis,
and Watson.
• Stand by the party because Wat
son was there and did not protest”
pleads Mr. Guerry.
But Mr. Watson did protest:—
Now what will you do about it,
Brother Guerry?
We are prone to make mistakes.
You have made a serious one. Will
you correct, it as publicly as you made
it ?
Atkinson at Greenville.
From the speech of the AVagon
Boy of Coweta, delivered Thursday ;
at. Greenville, it appears the demo
cratic muiiinae is not content with |
the platform that, was put under him 1
by the state convention. He has!
I seen the “band writing on the wall”
i and the disastrous effects of trying I
to make the honest yeomanry’ of!
I G'-orgia swallow the financial plank |
lof the state and national platforms. I
i Now. after securing the nomination,!
I when it. is too late for opposition to i
j centre on another candidate in his
party, and seeing how islim the at- !
j tenaance is on Democratic speak
ings, lie paralyses his adherents and
makes them wonder “where they are
al” by saying “you cannot value sil
ver while it is under the ban of ad
verse legislation. If you should pass
a law that white worses should not
be sold they would lose their value. I
When silver was driven out of the '
market by demonetization it is no!
i wonder that there arose a difference
in bullion value.”
Now this is what the populists have
been try ing to maul into William’s
head for two years, but up to yester
day c< uld not make him admit it.
He also stated “one of the con
gressmen did not vote for silver and
they doomed him when besought re
election.”
How about the other four that
voted with Cabaniss, did you down
them? Did you fail to renominate
Black, Lawson, Lester and Turner ?
“The president has taken hold of
: the currency question.” Right you
| are, he took, hold of the wrong end i
Iso far as the people of Georgia are J
I concerned, as will be testified by j
! their votes.
“But, say the third party people, |
I Mr. Cleveland vetoed tbe seignorage |
I bill. What would you think of a
I man who quits his parly because!
| some man from New York is agaius
'one of its principles? It teaches
lus that wo should watch out morel
closely. Next time wo will get a
num who will stand by the party.”
The people did not leave tbe dem
ocratic parly because Cleveland alone
was a traitor to tlie teachings of Jef
fen <>n aud J ack s< >n, but .because the
national democratic party had been
I republieanized by’ the men who con
trol, who endorsed every act of his
I administration.
They left it because it is essential
‘ that the We-t ami South be united;
this can only be done through the
adoption of a new party name, as
there is too much hatred to the
names of Democrat and Republican.
There is one thing certain, the
I democratic ship is not sailing with
lus much ease as in 1892. Whether
| this n duo to the overload of Atkinson
! freight or to the lack of confidence
I the people have m the man at the
helm, r tho shifting of the Blue
11..', ballast, is not known, but it is
evident that a majority of the good
people of the stale fear th 't the ship
i wi.” t- unde: .1 it is to bo run by such
a crew. Atkiusou lias learned this,
| and is trying to steal the populist
I silver plank. Next we will hear of
I iiis appropriating government owner
ship ol the railroads. Hu will swal
: low any p’ank that he thinks will
i aid him.
A Limping Horse.
I Col. W. Y. Atkinson delivered bia
I liift speech sine he wa , formally’
m Gr.ienvilL the uav
fore yesterday. It is a somewhat
remarkable fact in connection with
. this speech, that while the demo
cratic journals are claiming that na
tional affairs have nothing to do with
the state campaign, Mr. Atkinson
devoted his entire speech (as re
ported by democratic papers) to the
discussion of national questions.
He entered largely into the dis
cussion of the silver question, and
asserted that the state democracy
had “declared in favor of the free
and unlimited coinage of silver,
right now, without the delays which
the outside world would impose
upon us.”
The esteemed Journal has failed
Ito notice its candidate’s speech en -
I tirely, and passes over the meeting
! with some surface notice. For har
l mony’s sake the Journal swallowed
I being branded in effect a wilful pre
varicator while it inwardly ratified
! the Constitution’s estimate of the as
piring candidate as a “Yellowstone i
i Kit statesman.”
' “Open up the mints,” exclaimed
I Colonel Atkinson, “let us have the
| double standard. 'l’he way to have
free silver coinage is to elect con-
I gressmen whom you cau trust to vote
for it. That is what our democratic'
congressmen will do.”
How Mr. Atkinson could stand be
fore an audience and get off such
buncombe so much at variance with
facts is one of the mysteries which
can only be explained by an all
; consuming thirst for office. Was
! not the silver bill defeated in a house
having a democratic majority of 92?
i Did not 124 democrats vote to re
i peal the purchasing ciause of the
I Sherman bill while only 68 democrats
voted for silver?
. “One of the Georgia Congress
men voted against silver,” said Mr.
Atkinson, “and they doomed him
when he sought re-election.”
That was Mr. Cabaniss, but the
wily speaker failed to tell his audi
ence that Messrs. Black and Turner
voted just as .Mr. Cabaniss did, and
yet received a democratic re-nomina
tion.
If, as Mr. Atkinson said, the way
to have free coinage is to “elect con
gressmen who can be trusted to vote
| for it,” is there any sense in electing'
! democrats, some of whom actually
i voted against it when they had a
i chance, and all of whom stand on a
platform which does not favor it af
ter the election, and whose hands
i will be tied in a caucus controlled
I by’ the eastern gold-bug wing?
I Even the brilliant and erratic
statesman from Coweta will not ba
I able to convince the voters of Geor
gia that there is any hope for silver
! coinage through the democratic par
ty, ami since he regards his chief
I claim for election to the governorships
!of the state to lie in the desire and
ability of the democratic party to re
store free and unlimited coinage, he
rides on a very lame horse.
Favor the People’s Party.
The democrats want the negro
■ vote and are resorting to all sorts of
1 methods in their effort to secure it.
I Aft r refusing him any voice in the
selection of candidates or the framing
of the platform, they now ask him
to support them. Refusing him any
recognition where they could get
along without him, in the hour of
, need they appeal to him to come to
I their relief.
| i Refusing to concede the negro his
political rights they seek to gain his
I support by’ unworthy’ methods, ap
■ pealing to prejudice, and seeking to
degrade him by treating his great
. est privilege as a inaiketable com
modity’.
Tue guise of this pretended friend
ship is so thin that it deceives no one.
The colored voter will not be duped
I into the support of a party the meas
i tire of whose friendship for him is
shown bv the attempt to lower
! Lis manhood by making merchandise
i of h: most sacred right. The Geor
• gia Baptist, the leading negro paper
in the state, sums tbe situation
; thus:
“The Georgia Baptist man notes
that bis few remarks two weeks ago
in reference to the coming elections
i has been largely quoted by other
. papers.
“Our wish is to advise the people in
i political matters from no partisan
standpoint; but from such a stand
point as will best subserve the inter
est of the whole people. We have
no personal end to accomplish and
i speak for the interest of the whole
, people. Alreadv the People’s party
in Georgia has been a great benefit
to the masses of the colored people.
This party opened the way to
tho ballot box for the colored
i men of Georgia two years ago as it
: had never been opened before. In
! many counties colored men went to
; the ballot box and voted as they
pleased two years ago and this was
the first time they’ had done so. in
25 years. From the very nature of
the case the people’s party musk
treat tho colored people fairly and
so it is to the political interest of
tbe colored voter to cast his lot
with any party that will recognize
his political manhood. The demo
cratic party of the south has never
' recognized the colored vote except
as a purchasable commodity’ in the
market. When colored men arc
urged to vote the democratic ticket
by' democratic managers they always
i offer some consideration in the na
| ture of compensation. They pro
-11 pose to buy the colored man’s vote
I as they buy meat and corn, but do
1 not intend to recognize the political
manhood of the colored voter. This
i is seen in the fact that when the
i democratic party holds primaries, or
nominating conventions, it excludes
the colored voter. If they recog
nized colored voters as political
, equals they would invite them to
assist in the nomination of candi
. dates as well as invite them to vote
for men which white democrats have
■ alone, nominated. We favor the
people’s party in Georgia state affairs
because they have opened the way
for the poorest and humblest colored
voter to go to the poll and vote ac
cording to the dictates of his own
, conscience,and then consent to count
his vote as it was cast. We have
other reasons for supporting the peo
ple’s party but for the present these
, are sufficient.
Democratic Misrule lu Georgia.
; The Enquirer-Sun, of Columbus,
having a surfeit of our exposure of
. democratic maladministration at
j Washington City, throws down the
gauntlet, challenging us to show in
. stances of democratic misrule in the
state of Georgia.
Since the challenge has been made
, we accept it, and thank tho Enquirer-
I Sun for it. Today' we propose to
make a few charges in which the
, Enquirer-Sun will doubtless be very
much interested ; hence we feel sure '
that paper will take particular pains
to answer them.
First, we charge that through the
> I connivance of the democratic ad
-1! ministration of Georgia, the third
■ national bank of Columbus, Ga., ob
’ jtained the control and use of $3Ol,-
? 450 from the state treasury’, the eame !
1 ■ being part of the taxes paid into the
’! treasury’ by the overburdened tax
fl payers; that this money' was $251,-
f 450 over and above the amount for
5 1 which the bank had given bond;
that this money was held without
9 1 warrant of law and without ade-
9 1 quate security therefor, aud that it
-! was not at all impossible for the
3 1 state the have lost that amount.
-1 Second, that the state had daily de
mand for this <-301.436 with which
.co pay' the teachers of the common
•! schools.
Third, that in consequence of the
I j fact that this money,’belonging to
- the people, was held iy the third na
s tional bank of C«mbus, Ga., for
r its own use and bet Wit, the teachers
b| of the common schools were forded
- to sell their accounts at a discount
r - ranging from 124 to 25 per cent., for
a periods of three months and less, a-id
frequently at a more ruinous discount
than this : that the banking institu
tions of Georgia, styled depositories,
the third national bank of Columbus
being one of the number, made that
profit possible to the money sharks
and usurers because they held the
money belonging to the state, which
should have been used to pay the
teachers.
Fourth, that these charges are sub
stantiated by facts disclosed in the
legislature of Georgia.
Fifth, that the democratic admin
stration of the state of Georgia was
responsible for such a state of affairs
and inexcusably so.
Sixth, that other banka in
Georgia were accorded like illegal
favors by and through the influence
of the “men who control,” and with
out tbe knowledge of the taxpayers.
Seventh, that the taxpayer of
Georgia is more directly interested
!in the defeat of the “men who con
’ trol” than the “rag-tag and bob-tail.”
We are loaded for bear on this
line and we invite the democratic
press to follow us up by publishing
our facts where their readers can see
them and refuting them if they can.
Hon. John Maddox’s Little Game.
The Washington correspondent of
I the Atlanta Constitution says:
“Judge Maddox went to the treas
ury this morning and gave a twenty
dollar gold piece for twenty new sil
ver dollars coined last month. They
were done up in a small wooden
box shaped like a dynamite brick.
The judge expects them to have the
effect of dynamite among the popu
lists in his district. The latter, he
says, are still claiming that no silver
is being coined, and the silver dollars
which he will carry home as object
lessons, are coined from the seign-1
iorage.”
Five years ago such a trick as this'
might have been successfully played I
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the readers of the People’s Party Paper of the good news that wo have
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aud it will pay every reader of this paper to call and see us.
Read, a Few of the Prices.
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Letter ” 1 15 - “ Calf “ - - 125
“ “ best “ 1 25 “ “ Dongola But'n Shoes 1 00
Boys’ “ Kip “ 75 “ “ “ “ “ 1 25
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“ Best “ 2 00 50c, 75c, SI.OO, 1
Women’s “ Plow Shoes, - 75 Men’s & Boy’s Hats, 25c, 50c. 7 >c, 1
“ Lined Flow Shoes 100 aud up too
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! Handling Shoes and Mats. We guarantee to duplicate prices of
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I discounts for cash. Orders by mail receive our personal attention.
for samples.
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Upon the people, but it
done now. We have
newspapers read}’ to expose
the people themselves are ■ '777
posted to be taken in bv it.
A new silver dollar which
only be pulled out of the treasury W
by giving a gold dollar for it. is a ■
luxury which nobody but high sail- 1
ried Congressmen can adequately I
enjov.
What benefit will it do the people to i
coin such silver dollars?
What good is it to the business
men of this country to tell them that
they can take twenty gold dollars to
the treasury and exchange them for
twenty silver dollars?
Judge Maddox must have the low
est possible opinion of the people of
his district if he thinks they can be
humbugged on a scheme like that.
Democrats may be taken in by it,
because your average rook-rib con
stantly craves a diet composed of
one fourth pretence and three-fourths
humbug. But the Pops can’t be
fooled on any such grub.
Since Cleveland vetoed the Seign
ior; ge Bill we are not aware of any
Silver bullion which can be coined
into new silver dollars excepting that
which was bought under the Sher
man Law of 1890.
Treasury Notes were issued in
>aymont of this silver bullion, and
be law authorized the coinage of a
sufficient amount ofvit to redeem the
Treasury Notes, so issued, whenever
they should be presented for re-
Icmption.
Under this law Mr. Carlisle can
run the mints and coin silver dollars,
but he cannot put them into circula
t on till the holders of the Treasury
notes present them for redemption.
When a citizen having a Treasury
note desires to swap it for a silver
dollar he can go and do so; but as
the silver dollar goes out the paper
dollar must go in. Hence there is
co more money in circulation after
the silver dollar comes out than there
was before.
When Judge Maddox got those
twenty silver dollars out of the
Treasury he had to put twenty gold
dollars in their place. Hence the
amount of money in circulation re
mained exactly the same. Nobody
was helped and nobody was hurt.
We all knew that a man who had
gold could go and get silver—or
anything else. What we want to do
is to help the fellow who has no
gold. We want to put silver where
the man who has cotton and wheat
and labor to sell can get some of that
new silver money—and the Demo
crats have denied them the privilege
by repealing the purchasing clause
of the Sherman law.
A good deal has been said about
silver certificates and their redemp
tion. In strict law a silver certifi
cate is issued on coin which the gov
ernment holds for the depositor. The
holder of a can go
1 ar
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Il'-uce it 1 c
• i-CTur
increase of the
is made by the transaction.
The fact that the democratic Con
gressmen whose votes shutoff our
supply of silver money are so des
perately anxious to prove that th>
people are still being supplied with
silver money shows that conscience
is at work, and that the fear of ret
ribution hangs heavy over their
guilty heads. You can’t hide your
crime, gen-tlemen 1
| The people are “on to you” this
I time, and they are going to punish
you for selling them out to Wall
I street.
