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PEOPLE’S PARTY PAPER
Published Every Friday At No. 8
South Broad Street
Thos. E. Watson, Edlto p r e?; , (le nt
W7j7 Henning, A6Ssoeia ‘ o E(lltor .
Lulu M. Pearce,
A. J. Smith, Adr.msw M>nnger
People’s Party State Ticket.
For Governor :
JAMES K. HINES.
For Secretary of State:
A. L. NANCE.
For Treasurer:
C. M. JONES.
For Attorney-General:
J. A. B. MAHAFFEY.
For Comptroller-General:
W. I?. KEMP.
For Commissioner of Agriculture:
JAMES BARRETT.
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Watson’s Appointments.
Hogansville, September, 28.
Lawrenceville, September, 29.
Col. C. .1. Thornton’s Appointments.
Butler, October 1.
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Dr. W.H. Felton’s Appointments
Calhoun, September 29.
Cartersville, October 1.
Judge Hines’ Appointments.
Elberton, Elbert county, Friday,
September 28th.
Gainesville, Hall county, Saturday,
September 29tb.
Col. J. A. Arnold’s Appointments.
Jesup, September 28.
Baxley, September 29.
Dr. E. 0. Stafford’s Appointments
For tho seventh congressional dis
trict are as follows:
Cohutta Junction, September 28.
Spring Place, September 29.
Tilt n, October I
Dalton, October 2.
Hoit. W. J. Campbell’s Appointments.
Savannah (at night) September 27.
Guytoii, September 28.
Sylvania, September 29.
In Baldwin County.
SV. S. Whitaker, nominee for con
gress from tho sixth congressional
district, will address the people of
Baldwin county at the following
places :
Salem, September 28.
Milledgeville, September 29.
Xev. 11. S. Doyle’s Appointments.
Wadley. Sept. 27, 7:30 p. m. •
Toombsboro, Sept. 28, 10 a. m.
Griffin, Sept. 28, 8 p. m.
Sord m, Sept. 29, 10 a. m.
Atlanta, Sept. 29, 7:30 p. m.
The local committees please have
place arranged for the speaking and
everything prepared.
J. B. (Isborn’s Appointments.
Sparks, September 28.
Naylor, September 29.
Bainbridge, October 1.
Camilla, October 2.
AU day appointments are under
stood to be at 10 a.m.
Rev. S. A. Walker’s Appointments.
Acworth, September 28.
Big Shanty, 1 p, m.) Septem
ber 28.
Smyrna, (at night) September 28.
Boswell, 41 a. m., September 29.
Chamblee, (at night) Septem
ber 29.
The hour for the day appoint
ments when not otherwise specified
| will be 10 a. m.
How to Hold the Election.
Hear in mind that the custom is
for one officer to preside with two
freeholders.
The custom is a good one. The
officer thus represents the slate,
officially, while the two freeholders
represent the great mass of the peo
ple.
We think the practice of having
the election held by three officers, to
the exclusion of the free holders, is
a bad one.
Bear in mind that if the proper
officer does not put in appearance by
ten o’clock any throe freeholders
may open the polls and hold the
election.
After the freeholders open the
polls according to law and commence
receiving the ballots, it is too 1 ite for
the officer then to come forward and
oust the freeholders.
If a magistrate to whom the blanks
have been sent by tho Ordinary re
fuses to act or refuses to allow the
freeholders to have the blanks so
that the freeholders can act, let the
freeholders go right ahead and hold
the election—using the blanks which
they will get elsewhere.
Tho law never intended that the
magistrate should be able to revolu
tionize our government by refusing
to act. Tho law has provided away
by which the people can assert their
rights and hold the election any
how.
No “dog in the manger” policy is
PEOPLE’S PARTY PAPER, ATLANTA. GA., SEPTEMBER 28, 1894.
tolerated by the law.
After holding the election, in the
manner already described in the
paper, then comes the signing up of
the papers in the manner we have
explained.
Some confusion is apt to arise in
reference to the disposition to be
made of the papers after the elec
tion, and perhaps we have not been
clear enough on that point.
When the election is over at the
Precincts, all the papers, including
the ballots, can be put into one
sealed package and sent to the
county site for consolidation. The
practice has been to send the ballots
in a separate envelope, and it may
be best to conform to this practice.
The law, however, makes no such
requirement as to sending ballots
from the Precincts to the county
site.
But after the Superintendents have
met at the County Site, and have
consolidated the Precinct Returns,
then the ballots must be sealed up in
a separate envelope and deliver’d to
the Clerk of the Superior Court.
Suppose a People’s Party Manager
refuses to sign the papers with the
Democratic managers? This will be
a violation of law which I’hope no
Populist will be guilty of, but the
election is not thereby made void.
The papers will show on their face
that the election was duly held at
the proper time and place by the per
sons qualified to hold it, and the fail
ure of tho Populist manager to sign,
will not invalidate the election.
The Democratic managers can
make a note of the fact that the Pop
ulist was present, was asked to sign,
and refused to sign.
In section Four of the Code of
1882 (paragraph 5) it is provided
that
“A joint authority given to any
number of persons or officers, may
be executed by a majority of them,
unless it is otherwise declared.”
This language is quite plain, and
in my judgment covers the case.
If three persons, or officers, are
charged with the authority to hold
an election and sign up the papers,
that work cannot be obstructed by a
minority of one. The other two
can go ahead and execute the com
mand of the law.
Suppose a democratic manager re
fuses to sign the papers?
Let the Populist managers go
right ahead, sign up the papers, and
make a note of tho fact somewhere
on the papers, that the democratic
manager was present, was asked to
sign, and refused to sign.
I advise that a Democratic mana
ger bo allowed at every precinct
where the Populists are in control
The greatest issue before the people
today is that of Honesty in Elections.
As a reform party we must show
to the people that we practice what
we preach, and that we give to the
Democrats what we have vainly
asked the Democrats to give to us.
Don’t allow the ballot box to get out
of sight of the voters. Don’t allow
the ballot box to go to dinner. The
law of the land gives you the right
to an honest election.
When Mr. Steve Clay refused to
sign the agreement for a division of
managers at the polls, he virtually
confessed that the only hope of the
Atkinson ring to defeat Judge Hines
lay in swindling you in the count.
It is for you to say whether the
people shall rule, or whether the
ringsters shall ruin.
Thos. E. Watson,
Chairman P. P. Ex. Com.
Paid Dear for Their Whistle.
Two years ago the democratic
stump speakers and editors pled with
the voters not to forsake the dear old
party. “Give us a chance” was their
cry. Unmindful of, the fact, that
without democratic assistance none
of the baleful legislation which
has been enacted during the last
twenty years could have been placed
upon the statute books, they urged
with some show of plausibility that
their party has had no chance to ab
solutely control legislation and pass
just such laws as the party favored,
in spite of all opposition of the other
parties.
“Give us the chance,” they
begged; let us have full control one
time of every branch of the govern
ment, and we will surely restore pros
perity to the country'. We will re
duce expenditures; we will restore
the coinage of silver ; we will in
crease the money supply by the es
tablishment of state banks; we will
reduce the tariff; we will fill ths
land with the music of industry and
send sunshine into the homes of the
people.
In spite of the earnest warning of
the populists the voters believed the
false promises made them, and the
democrats were given the chance
they had begged for so lo; g. They
were given control of tho executive
department and of both branches of
congress.
The trusting democrat voted the
ticket straight and now looks over
the appropriation bills that were
passed by the first session of the 53d
congress only to find that, the appro
priations exceed those of the 52d con
gress by four millions, and was ahead
of the 51st congress, the extravagant
“billion dollar congress,” by over
twenty-seven millions. The trusting
democrat has paid dear for his
whistle.
The faithful my-father-before-me
was deposited his ticket with un
shaken faith and with tears of joy in
his eyes read of the glorious victory
of his party the next morning. He
felt assured that now the cowardly
makeshift would be brushed aside
and silver be restored to its ancient
privilege, increasing tho price of his
cotton as it increased in value itself.
. But instead of restoring free silver
coinage, a special session closed the
i doors of the mint to silver altogether,
and falling prices have changed his
• tears of joy to tears of sadness. The
i faithful my-father-before-me-was has
: paid dear for his whistle.
i The dear mossback marched to
■ the polls and voted for the party of
, promises. Te toted the torch in the
■ nrocession which celebrated the vic
: tory and waited for the coming of
the good time when the state should
be Hooded with wild-cat money. He
, is waiting yet and begins to think be
paid pretty dear for his whistle.
The honest farmer was (persuaded
to vole the democratic ticket. Hu
, felt light of heart when it became a
certainty that at last the party had
1 the chance to redeem its pledges.
Ilia labor was lightened by hope, for
now class laws would be repealed,
the price of the articles he bought
would be reduced while at the same
time his cotton would bring a better
price. He built airy castles of a
bright home w’itbout a mortgage, of
a dear wife not saddened with care,
of his children going to school in
stead of being put into the cotton
patch. But his castles are shattered-
Instead of 10 cent cotton the price
has almost come down to 5 cents and
is still going lower; the pi ice of his
sugar has been increased, so has his
. bagging and tics, so have his state
taxes. Sadly he re Ilzes that ho
, misplaced his trust when he put it in
| the democratic party. He has p. id
. dear for his whistle.
■ The democrats now c’aim that
, their contract was for four years, and
having carried out two-thirds of
their promises, they must have
; another chance to carry out the re
mainder. Another whistle is for
. sale. Those who bought before can
buy again if they arc satisfied with
the way the democratic party has
redeemed its pledges.
. But they will pay very dear for
• their whistle if they do.
A Plain Case.
IVe believe that th • democrats of this
state are now convinced Hint democracy
and populism are as far apart on the
currency question as they are on the
, question of government ownership of
railroads.
This little clipping is from the
• dear Journal, which does not mince
matters and calls things by their
, right names. On the question of
government ownership of rail,
roads the democrats are dia-
metrically opposed to tho populists ;
on the currency question the Journal
1 says they are as far apart. The
populists ad*’oca e the free coinage
of silver at the ratio of Hi to 1, and
of the issuance of a sufficient amount
of paper money issued without the
intervention of banks to suit the re
i quirements of trade. The demo
, crati advocate the opposite policy;
I the free coinage only of gold, and a
contracted volume of currency i -
sued to and controlled by the Innk
her Otm fov. r~ ib 1 -"I' the
■ people; the other a privileged coterie
I O . . UllvvS.
This is the confession of an honest
” democratic paper.
1 Good Times in Sight.
t There is every reason io believe that
we are about to enter into a period of
' genuine, healthy prosperity. From all
5 the primary markets in the east comes
the same story.
, A new low-price record was male
r for cotton today when October con
tracts sold at o.'-'i' and further sold off
to G. 24. 'The lowest previous record
, was in IS'.l'J, when March contracts
soidatG.2S, In ante-bellum days still
3 lower prices were occasionally current
under slave labor, but never before in
‘ the history of the Cotton Exchange has
. the price of the staple touchid the low
figure now current,
'The above is from the Macon
’ Telegraph. Wo will say that the
’ two clippings are not from the name
- article.
1 One is a political editorial, de
j signed to show the voters why they
.'■ should vote tho democratic ticket
I straight. The other is merely news
1 I matter.
Why the beautiful fictions of demo
’ I cratic editors do not harmonize with
, facts is one of the mysteries which
I can only be explained by partisans
’ i who believe that the end justifies the
’ : means—if the end be to give the old
i party another cha ce.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
On the State Executive Committee
of the dear old Democratic Party
there is one farmer.
Only one.
His name is James M. Smith, of
Oglethorpe.
And who is he?
lie is the convict lessee whose
maltreatment, of the unfortunate
slaves he buys from tho State at sll
per head was exposed by Dr. Willis
Westmoreland, of Atlanta.
Tbs Democratic Platform says the
party will attend to the convict ques
tion “when the proper time comes.”
Yes. So it will. And to show
you what sort of attention the ques
tion is apt to get, Jim Smith, the
Convict King, is put on the com
mittea.
The kind of attention a convict
will get from Jim Smith belongs to
the same variety of thoughtful care
which the wolf bestows upon the
lamb.
* * *
Bill Sturgis, a Convict from Mc-
Duffie county, was worked by the
Convict bosses on a hot summer’s
day till he was exhausted. He wa g
then unmercifully whipped because
he could work no more.. Then he
was inhumanly chained to a tree to
writhe and die in hopeless agony.
Died? Yes: died like a dog un
der the lash of a democratic Convict
boss.
Search the records of the investi
gation held by Governor Gordon
and deny the facts if you can.
Yet when we say the Convict
Lease System is a disgrace to the
Christian civilization of Georgia, the
“men who control'’ answer us by
saying they will attend to the question
“when the proper time comes;” and
as proof of the Sort of reform they
intend, 'Jim Smith of Oglethorpe,
whose Convict Camps have been re
ported time and again, is put on the
State Executive Committee of the
Democratic Party.
Did not Jim Smith of Oglethorpe
belong to the Company which was
found guilty of maltreatment of con
victs? Did he not have to pay a
part of that 82,500 penalty which
the Governor imposed?
With its customary fondness for a
rich criminal, the dear old demo
cratic party leaves the convict to his
fate while tlje wealthy lawbreaker is
elevated to a position on the State
Executive Committee to attend to
the Convict question “when the
proper time comes.”
* * *
The Federal authority is getting
there in great shape. Under demo
cratic rule the doctrine of Homo
Rule and State Rights has received
crushing blows which the republicans
never dared to deal. In Illinois the
protest of a democratic governor was
unavailing to prevent the United
States Army from being marched into
the State and put in despotic control
of a question which had universally
been left to the State to deal with.
No wonder Benj. Harrison was
glad. No wonder Chauncey Depew
telegraphed congratulations to the
aristocrats of England, No wonder
J udge Cooley, the republican railroad
Dwyer, expressed joy that Cleveland
bad settled a “doubtful point in Con
stitutional law.”
Settled it how?
With blood and iron. Settled it
just as Napoleon, and Bismarck, and
Crispi, and the Czar of Russia settle
questions which are “doubtful.”
From the invasion of a state to the
arrest of a Governor is only a short
step.
I fence nobody should have been
surprised when Cleveland and his
railroad lawyer, Olney, arrested Gov
ernor Stone, of Mississippi, like a
common thief and dragged him be
fore a United States Commissioner
for trial.
Trial for what ?
For issuing Mississippi State Bonds
or warrants, in small sums which
a common citizen could get hold of.
Had they been bonds of large de
nominations winch could only have
been bought by the Bankers who
were holding the State’s money, no
arrest would have been made.
* * *
What are State Bonds?
In effect they create a mortgage
upon all the property in the State
They bear interest and they pay no
tax, and the interest paid to the
Bondholder comes out of the taxes
of other folks.
Has Georgia issued any Bonds
lately ?
Yes, in 1892 the dear old demo
cratic party issued 8200,000 in
bonds, thus putting a bran new
mortgage upon all your taxable
property. Who bought the Bonds?
That estimable gentleman, Mr.
Gunby Jordan, whom Governor
Northen recently appointed Railroad
Commissioner.
What else is Mr. Jordan, besides
being a very lucky man?
Ist. He is President of a National
Bank, and a Railroad Magnate of
robust proportions.
2nd. He had the use of some
8300,000 of your tax money free of
interest.
3rd. He was the fortunate client
of the Hon. W. A. Little, the then
Attorney-General of Georgia.
4th. He enjoyed the Jeffersonian
privilege of stepping into the State
Treasurer’s office any day he was
short of cash and getting pocket
change to the gentle melody of $lO,-
000, or 817,000, or 840,000, out of
your cash box.
sth. He could buy cotton or bonds
whenever he felt like it, with your
money, and after turning a neat
penny byway of profit could return
your money, when he felt like its
without payment of interest.
6th. He could buy the entire issue
of the Bonds of 1892, on which you
must pay him four and a half per
cent interest, and he could pay for
those bonds, if he felt like it, with
your money on which he paid you
no interest at all.
If you don’t believe there is such
a thing as being born lucky you just
light a good fat pine knot and devote
a few minutes of your after supper
leisure to a solemn and awe struck
contemplation of the “Curious for
tunes and wonderful Career of Mr.
Gunby Jordan, National Banker,
Railroad Commissioner, State Bond
holder, Railroad President, Deposi
tory of State Taxes, and Cotton
buyer-with-State-money.”
If Mr. Jordan does not swallow
the whole State some fine morning
it will be on account of the prema
ture collapse of his digestive organs-
Go it, Jordan I
* * *
The Atlanta Journal says that the
new Tariff Bill is lowering the price
of merchandise.
Is it the Tariff which is also low
ering the price of cotton?
* * »
The hardest job on this earth is
that of getting an average democrat
to realize that the shutting off of the
supply of money is one reason why
the people cannot get more of it.
. If the government makes the
moniey, the people can get hold of
it. 'lf the government does not
make it, the people cannot get it.
The South is full of merchants
and farmers who will never admit
the force of this little fact till they
have had a round or two with the
lawyers and the sheriff.
Hon. Hoke Smith has left the
Cabinet and is stumping the state of
Georgia.
Mr. Cleveland has left the seat of
government and is luxuriating at
Blizzard’s Roost.
Mr. Carlisle has left Washington
and has gone to join Mr. Cleveland
in Massachusetts.
Bj' the f ye, who is running the
government now, anyway.
The President is gone: cabinet
officers gone: Congress gone: the
office-holders are all making speeches,
and we really would like to know
who is firing the engine and watch
ing the steam guage.
* * *
The Hon. Hoke Smith in his
speeches lingers fondly over the al
leged fact that previous to the Civil
war we had less money in circulation
than now.
Mr. Smith should tell his audi
ences that until 1857 the money of
foreign nations was current here, and
was legal tender. Counting this, i:i
addition to our own stock, we had
more money in circulation in 1857,
and previous years, than we have at
this time.
He should also tell them that the
Act of 1857, which shut out from us
the money of other nations, caused a
panic in this country, because the
cutting off of the supply of money
resulted in a tremendous shrinkage
of values—such as we are now suf
fering from. Before this panic was
over, tho war came on and the gov
ernment was compelled to increase
the amount of money by issuing
Treasury Notes.
After the war, in 1886 for instance,
we had wonderfully good times be
cause the country was plentifully
supplied with money'.
The government began to burn up
the paper money at the command of
the Bondholder and the National
Banker, and prices began to fall.
Having destroyed most of the
government’s paper money, these
same heartless manipulators of the
money market began to make a raid
on silver.
Hence prices have continually'
fallen, simply became the supply of
money continues to grow, relatively,
less and less.
Produce has to be swapped for
money.
The less money there is, the less
of it produce will get.
Falling prices of produce and labor
and land, simply mean that the price
of money is going up.
The democrats of 1892 went into
power denouncing the Republicans
for giving you only 84,000,000 each
month, based on silver.
Pledged to give you 86,000,000 per
month (the amount which “free sil
ver” would have furnished) they not
only did not give you the 86,000,000,
but stopped the 84,000,000 per month
which the Republicans were giving
you. What is the result? Five
cents cotton.
* * •
You have to take a smaller amouut
of money for your cotton because
the Democrats shut off the supply of
new money—although they well
knew that the amount of money
already out had been “cornered’’
through the manipulation of the
Wall street Gold Kings.
* # *
Mr. Atkinson says “the govern,
rnent cannot create money.” Then
what does the Georgia Platform o f
the Democrats mean when it de
mands that the amount of circulating
medium be “speedily increased” to
meet the requirements of business?
The Georgia Platform of 1892
contains the above demand. The
convention which nominated Mr.
Atkinson endorsed the Platform of
1892.
Mr. Atkinson probably has not
read the Platform upon which ho is
running.
• • *
If the government cannot “create’’
money who can?
And if the government can only
give the value of a dollar to a thing
which is already a dollar, why make
any money at all ?
And, if the government stamp is
worth nothing to a coin, why is it
that two silver half dollars always
pass as equal to the silver dollar,
when, as a matter of fact, a silver
dollar contains 4124 grains while the
two halves contain only 391 ?
We would like to see some “in
trinsic value” crank or some “parity”
lunatic, try to solve this puzzle upon
a line which tallies with his anti
diluvian idea that the fiat of a great
government amounts to nothing.
Hon. Frank Little, of Sparta, tells
of an honest, but slightly illiterate,
democrat who complained that it
was very difficult to get up an “en
thuse” among their men this year.
When cotton is fetching five cents,
while jute bagging and sugar and
taxes are climbing up every day, the
article of “enthuse” can only be
found around the house of the man
who holds a fat office and rides on a
free pass.
Amid the gathering gloom of
farmers who can’t pay and of mer
chants who jean’t collect, the only
serene face is that of the officeholder
who rides on a free pass and draws
a fixed salary which grows more val
uable every day.
Our Congressmen, Governors, etc.,
can buy twice as much land, twice
as much produce, and twice as much
merchandise, with tho salaries they
now draw, than they could have
bought with those same salaries in
1892.
Consequently your Democratic
office holder bitterly reviles the “Ca
lamity howler,” and rosily paints the
future with the same brush which in
1892 painted rainbow promises for
1893, and which in 1893 colored for
us a gaudy illumination of tho flush
times we were going to have in 1894.
Give the artist another “chance.”
We really want to see just how
long these salaried humbugs can keep
up the game of eternally painting
pictures on the clouds for the people,
while they pass laws which add to
the purchasing power of every debt
held by the North or East against
the merchants and farmers of the
South and West, and which will as
surely beggar our producers and
bankrupt our merchants as the inex
orable law of cause and effect.
Our offer to send the Peo
ple’s Pa ty Paper for four
months for 25 cents wilt be
withdrawn on October 15th.
He Docs Not Deny It.
The editor of the Georgia Cracker
stood on his head last week and de
manded of us the author who fur
nished us with the information that
Atkinson promised the boys at Cher
okee if they would vote for him he
would pardon them out if they got
into trouble. Let Mr. Atkinson
deny it, then we will furnish proof.
! —Dahlonega Signal.
Just a Little Too Previous.
The old fable about the good
housewife who counted her chickens
before they were hatched is forci
bly brought to one’s mind by the
Ausgusta Chronicle in its article yes.
terday on the “Decline of Populism.’’
The dear Chronicle puts its eggs
into the incubator :
Populism is now old enough to have
made a record. The theories which it
advocates have been put into practice
and the fallacy of populist claims has
been proven.
And without waiting for the pro
cess of incubation to be completed
counts the chickens:
Populism is rapidly approaching the
period of its dissolution.
Will the Chronicle kindly point
out what theories advocated by the
populists have been put into prac
tice? Surely it is not the govern
ment ownership of railroads. The
Railroad news in its own columns
will refute that claim. Rate wars,
strikes and rumors of strikes, arbi
trary rates for corporations, gigantic
combinations boding ruin to lesser
roads and filling with apprehension
the business men and real estate
owners of various cities, are proof
that the railroad theories of the pop
ulists have not been put into prac
tice.
The shrinkage in values and de
clining price of cotton is evidence
enough that the populist theory of
free silver at 16 to 1 has not been
made the law. That it should be
adopted by the Chronicle is credit
able to that paper, but unfortunately
does not make it the law of the land.
The populist land plank remains
only a theory as yet, for if it had
been put into practice, 61,900,000
acres of land would not now be held
by alien owners for speculative pur
poses, while millions of native
Americans arc tramping homeless
wanderers in the land which was
bought with the blood of theii
fathers.
The populist demand for the abol
ishment of the national banking
system and the increase of money to
850 per capita is not yet put into
practice, as the insufficient amount
of money will bear witness.
Economy and retrenchment in
government expenses is only a pleas
ant theory so far, as the four-million
dollar increase in appropriations
voted by a democratic congress will
show.
In a modified form the few popu
lists in congress have been enabled
to engraft the populist income tax
feature on our laws. It meets the
approbation of the people and give s
general satisfaction except to the
goldbugs, as will all the other meas
ures advocated by the populists after
once they become the law.
In state matters fair elections may
pass beyond the stage of theory next
week if the democrats carry out in
good faith the promises recently
made by several of their leaders that
there shall be a fair division of elec
tion managers. In this connection it
may not be amiss to state that the
editor-in-chief of the Chronicle, Hon.
Patrick Walsh, was among tho first
to publicly declare in favor of it, and
deserves the praise and substantial
remembrance of the people for it.
The populist theory in regard to
o mviot labor is as yet but a theory,
while convicts become the chattel
property of sordid lessees, and the
farm laborers are taken out of their
fields to work the roads at the caprice
of a road master.
The furnishing of text books for
primary schools is still an unadopted
theory, while the school book trusts
extort four times the value of text
books from the poor, and the only
books furnished free by the state are
costly books for certain privileged
institutions.
Oh no, dear Chronicle, the theories
advocated by populists have not been
put into practice (with the one ex
ception noted above), and conse
quently have not been proven falla
cies, and the tremendous gains which
the populist vote will show this fall
will demonstrate that the people
still hope that the “plans of the pop
ulists will accomplish some good.”
Wait till after the fall ylectiona
before you count your chickens,
brother.
A House Divided &e.
The law, by the way, doesn’t say
that the seigniorage shall be coined;
it says that it “shall be accounted for
and paid into the treasury,” leaving
the matter of coinage to tho discre
tion of the secretary. As Mr. Cleve
land vetoed the seigniorage bill, it is
not likely that Mr. Carlisle will un
dertake its coinage.—Constitution.
Everybody who is informed on the
subject knows that the Secretary of
the Treasury is coining tho seignior
age and is using it for the benefit of
the country. Only the enemies of
the administration and those who
wish to fool the people assert that he
is not doing so.—Journal.
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