The People's party paper. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, September 28, 1894, Image 7

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Newspaper Page TextGetting' Together. Our friends'of the democratic per suasion form in this state two very distinct wings, -which differ from each other about as much as populism differs from one of them. They vainly try to make each other believe that they ought to contend for the principles they advocate within the same party organization, and they are most industriously engaged in the impossible task of blending gold bug oil and free silver water. Before the meeting of the state convention democratic editors de. lighted in giving reports of meetings and writing wordy editorials showing how the democrats were “getting to gether.” Since the convention they have labored industriously to con vince the people that they have got together by calling each other pet names, and each faction proclaiming that its peculiar views form the proper construction of the silver plank in their party platform. Be tween their irreconcilable claims and conflicting assertions the poor my-fa ther-before-me-was-democrat is be ing driven well nigh distracted, and in utter despair is asking himself the question: “Where am I at, any how? ” But while the getting together of the different factions of our demo cratic brethren has not been a howl ing success, the republicans and democrats are rapidly getting to gether. The leaders of these two wings of the plutocratic party are accomplish ing the work without making any great deal of fuss about it. In our issue of last Tuesday we _ - placed together the Nebraska repub lican silver plank and the Georgia democratic article and showed that they were as much alike as two black eyed peas. We give today the sil ver plank of the New York republi cans adopted in their state conven tion yesterday. Can any democrat point out any material difference be tween New York republicanism and Georgia democracy as defined by their declaration on the silver ques tion ? Here is the republican plank: We favor an honest dollar and oppose any effort, whether by the repeal of the tax on slate bank issues or the free coinage of silver, to lower our currency standard, and we favor an interna tional agreement which shall result in the use of Loth gold and silver as a cir culating medium. Even the esteemed Constitution, favors silver coinage, but has ‘‘eor.t together” with the party which opposes it, sees where it must evidently land. It bemoans its con dition, and in pathetic helplessness sends forth the wail: The democratic party of Georgia can not be fish at one end and fowl at the other. What is good republican doc trine in New York cannot by any pos sibility be good democratic doctrine in Georgia. fl here is one fact that both the farm ers and business men of the .South sinould take into consideration—namely ' that although this country has estab lished tl’.e single gold standard, we con tinue to sell our crops and our staple commodities for silver prices. In other words an ounce of silver will buy no less cotton now than it bought in 1873 —no less wheat, no less calico, no less iron. But it will but only half as much gold. This ought to open the eyes of sensible business men as to the increase in the value of gold, but they do not seem to regard it in that light. But there are other facts to which they can hardly cio.-e their eyes. As the value of silver is increased, Great Britain and Europe will have to pay an increased price for our staple commod ities. An ounce of silver would buy a bushel and ten pounds of cotton in 18"::. It will buy a bushel of wheat and ton pounds of cotton now. The price of these commodities is fixed in London or Liverpool. In whatever proportion the value of silver is raised, in that proportion the price of our commodities is raised. If silver is 90 cents an ounce, England will have to pay 93 cents for a bushel of wheat and nine cents a pound for cotton. That is the interest the people of this country have in the silver question. It is special and important—it is pressing! Believing in a double standard, the Constitution is harnessed to the single standard chariot. It attempts to reach a certain point by going in an opposite direction. It can’t be done. Call a Halt! The “pops” of the county have be rome so mad over their defeat, that they are endeavoring to boycott the democratic gins in the county. They are writing letters to those operating gins, telling them that the “pops” will not patronize them. This is a mighty big scare, when it is*l:nown that there are but very few gins in the county, and they are all thoroughbred democrats. It is to be regretted that such sen timents as are expressed in the above clipping from the Baxley Banner should be so flippantly stated. What does it mean? “The ‘pops’ of the country have become mad over their defeat?” How have they been defeated? It is nearly two weeks till the day of election, so it was not a defeat at the polls which made the ‘pops’ become mad. Was it the defeat of their effort to secure an honest election and fair and honorable treatment at the hands of their political oppo nen's? And have they in the bitter ness of their feeling at the unju t treatment they received, decided U PEOPLE’S PARTY PAPER, ATLANTA, GA., SEPTEMBER 28, 1894. retaliate upon the democrats by an industrial boycott? Such a state of affairs is to be deplored, for it will work an injury to every individual to a greater or less degree in that entire section. “This is a mighty big scare when it is known that there are but very few gins in the country, and they are all thoroughbred democrats.’’ Let not the democrats presume upon the advantage they may have in re gard to gins. Granting that the democrats own all the gins in the county now, would it remain so? And granting that no opposition gins would be started, would their exulta tion over the advantage they hold tend to fester amicable feelings. It is a most deplorable state of affairs when there is such bitterness in a community that general boycotts are thought of, which is bound to retard the progress of that commu nity. Let there be no division among our people, no feeling of re sentment of one party against the other which would be a bar to prog ress. We can disagree on political questions without becoming es tranged in our social and industrial relations. But each party must treat the other as honest men, and be willing to accord them the rights which they demand for themselves. Let the campaign and the election be so conducted that after it is over we can all join with a hearty good will and work together in a fraternal spirit for the common good. Two Lady Editors. We have in the state of Georgia two lady editors, who each edit and manage their own paper. Miss Ellen Dortch is known as the editor of the Milledgeville Chronicle, and the fame of her enterprise and ability has spread beyond the limits of the state. While she is an enthusiast upon the subject of the Girls’ Nor mal and Industrial School, and to her untiring efforts in its behalf much of the success of that institu tion is due, she has not hesitated io enter the field of politics. Her paper is democratic ; and not only democratic, but extremely partisan. Until quite recently Miss Dortch had the distinction of being the only managing lady editor of a paper in Georgia, but now she has a rival- The Carroll County Populist was launched by Mrs. L. T. Russell, who is also its editor and business man ager. As its name indicates, it is a populist paper, devoted to the cause of the people. Her brave action in taking up the burden and responsi bility of starting a paper, her sublime courage and devotion in entering the field of reform journalism, has been an inspiration to all who labor in the cause of the people. While the labor and care to edit and manage successfully any kind of a paper is far greater than the average reader is aware of, to ass ime control of a paper already established is very smooth sailing compaied to starting a new one, and should the new ven ture be in the cause of reform, with unreasoning and deep-seated preju dice to oppose it, the labor and cour age required is doubly hard. Without wishing to detract in the least from the credit due Miss Dortch, wo glory in the fact that our cause has produced a lady editor to contest the honors with her; and as our platform is the plainest, our cause the noblest, our leaders the most loved, it is meet that we should also have the lady editor who is the most enterprising, who dared to enter the field in the face of all obstacles to supply a pressing want, and who ad vocates a just cause in a worthy manner, which places her in the lead. We append a clipping from each of the papers we have mentioned: The first is part of an editorial from Mrs. Russell’s paper ; the second is an extract from Miss Dortch’s paper, and though printed on the first page, it bears the appearance of an edito rial. If the work of the two lady editors is a criterion by which to judge the merits of their respective parties, we commend the clippings to the careful perusal of the public : The serious and pressing duty of every man in this country, who regards himself as a man of honor and patriotism is to examine into the con dition of this country, and to find out to what extent he is responsible for that condition and in what manner he can most effectually use his personal influence to remedy that condition. In order to do this he will have to lay aside party prejudice. Os course if a man refuses to believe that there is anything wrongin any policy pursued by' his party, and that any course of legislation must be defended by him when it is adopted by his party, then he is not in a- condition to cast an in telligent ballot, and is rather a disad vantage to his country than otherwise. —Carroll County Populist. In short, the little third party orator is a white negro, belonging body and soul to the big bosses. He does ot dare to think for himself. He has long ago relegated this privilege to the great lam of his party. He is ready to sell his convictions, to betray the party that has given the white peopl of the south whatever blessings of le.„ islation they have enjoyed, for short lived political preferment. Heaver pity the cringing, orator evolution yl the third party. He needs the com mis seration of honesty.—Milledgeville Chronicle. The Democratic Party Doomed. , The sugar growers of Louisiana se vered their relations with the demo cratic partv yesterday in a formal man ner at New Orleans and organized :■ political party in affiliation with the national republican party. Thei platform of principles contains bu one word, “protection,” and their cm. and aim is to obtain a bounty upon their sugar. They expect to make a trade with the republicans and give them two or three congressional dis tricts in return for this bounty; it is. of course, absurd to talk of their d> - livering the state or the senatorshi]. These are not theirs to give, if t c next congress proves to be evenly di vided or very nearly so, the republi can party may be disposed to m ike the trade, but if the addition of two or three congressmen from Louisiana will not give the party a majority in the house, the offer will be rejected, that is to say, the Louisiana sugar growers will get nothing in return for their secession from the democratic party. It is our opinion that they will get nothing,—Mobile Register. The great significance of the ac tion of the Louisiana sugar men is this: They regard the overwhelm ing defeat of the democratic party in the coming election as absolutely certain. That they were prompted to adopt the course they did by purely selfish motives, is plain, and were they not well convinced that the republican party would control the legislation in the next congress, they would have remained in the democratic party. Certain it is that their action leaves them nothing to hope for from the party they have renounced, and knowing this they would not have gone into the repub lican camp without feeling satisfied that that party would again be in the majority. They simply acted as the prover bial rats; and left the sinking ship in order to get a profitable berth on the one which will survive. The democratic party is doomed, and all who oppose iniquitous class legislation must come together in the people’s party. Get Genuine Tickets. Two years ago counterfeit popu list election tickets were sent into the various counties of the state, and numbers of tl.em were innocently put into the ballot box and were never counted by the partisan man agers of election. We printed in Tuesday’s Pkess and in this week’s issue of The People’s Party Paper a form which has been approved by the ex ecutive committees of each party and two of the judges of the su preme court. The chairman of the executive committee in each county should give this matter his immediate atten tion and see that each precinct in his county is supplied with tickets. Populist voters should get their ballots from men known to be thor ough populists, and thereby avoid being duped and fooled into voting a counterfeit ticket, which will never be counted. Where home establishments are not prepared to print tickets, orders sent to this office will be filled at the rale of SI.OO for 3000 tickets. Write the name of candidates plain and and distinct, also the address to the party to whom the tickets are to be tent. The cash must accompany your orders. Democratic Gall. Speaker Crisp opened his cam paign in Georgia with the following beautiful specimen of Democratic gall: We have repealed the McKinley law. We have greatly reduced taxation. We have made living cheaper. We have made all money taxable. We have taxed surplus incomes. We have restored freedom of elec tions. We have reduced public expenditures, and we have declared undying hostility to all trusts and monopolies organized for the oppression of the people. Every one knows that it was the sugar trust and the whisky trust that dictated the repeal of the Mc- Kinley law, and that the democratic party acted in the main as agents. Whether it reduces taxation or not remains to be demonstrated, so no one can tell what a juggling of tariff schedules will result in. As to mak ing one’s living cheaper, that is ex actly what causes the present hard times. Cheap bread means cheap boots, and that means starvation and distress to the producers of both. We want nothing cheap in this coun try but money. We have had a cheap day’s work and a dear dollar until the whole country is in want and distress. Wbat we need now to restore prosperity is a dear day’s work and a cheap dollar. This as sertion of Mr. Crisp is in line with every effort of Wall street for thd last thirty years and from suoh effort the country is now suffering. Green backs are taxed, if we understand it, only where the states enact a law for that purpose. The income tax is a distinctive populist measure, and was forced in the bill by populists, and would never have been enacted into law by the free action of the democrats. Every one acquainted with the facts understands such to ba the case. Populists aided in the repeal of the lection laws, and to Senator Stew irt belongs the credit of defeating he so-called force bill. There has been no saving in this administra tion. It is another “billion-dbllar congress,” and more, too, as the ap propriation bills will disclose. The democratic party since it came nto power, as admitted by President Cleveland, precipitated the greatest panic of modern times in order to force by unfair means the repeal of the Sherman law. It has eliminated the use of silver as money metal, and issued in times of peace $50,000,000 interest-bearing bonds. In detail, the democratic party has, during its brief reign, created a de structive panic; issued $50,000,000 interesting-bearing bonds; destroyed -date rights; increased public expend itures, and has prostituted the pub lic service to the benefits of mo nopoly. These are the fruits of democracy and for such it should be held to answer.—National Watchman. The State’s Business. That “the men who control” in the democratic party were levying a heavier tax rate than Rufus B. Bul lock and his crowd dared levy, was unknown to the average citizen and tax-payer. The Daily Press made ihe fact public. Wc showed from the record that Bullock’s legisla ture levied a tax of 40 cents on the hundred dollars, and Northen ad ministration levied a tax of 40 cents and 1 mill on the hundred dollars. Bullock had only $210,000,000 of taxable property to raise his revenue from while Northen had over $450,- 000,000 of taxable property from which to raise his revenue. The people rebelled against the extravagance of Bullock’s adminis tration. We believe they will rebel against “the men who control” the present democratic administration. Bullock, Kimball and Company used the state’s tax money and credit for speculative purposes. “The men who control” the present administra tion have done identically the same thing. The records show it and no man or newspaper has dated deny it. If there had been no political di. vision among the people of Georgia, these facts would never have reached the public. It Will Be a Waterloo. Our dear neighbor, the Journal, is ir a peck of trouble. It has our sympathy. ’Though we cannot com mend the principles it wo can and do commend iHJPtfe'con sistency and honesty. It does not sail under false colors. It is an ex ponent and advocate of modern democracy, and it does not fight for goldbugism under a silver banner. It knows that modern democracy is goldbugism and it does not try to hide the fact. The Journal is beginning to see the handwriting on the ■wall. As the lines are being formed for the great battle in November, it sees that a disastrous rout awaits the democratic party. Though it fight* on heroically, yet a moan will escape it now and then as it realizes that a position it had considei ed safe has been lost. Poor Journal, its disap pointments come thick and fast. Scarcely had the loss of three rep resentatives in Lousiani been fully confirmed before the news from Ohio is flashed over the wires. Ohio is a close and doubtful stale. It has 21 representatives in congress, of whom at present eleven are democrats. The Journal wails that the demo cratic convention of that state “was absolutely dominated by Cal. Brice,” (one of “the men who control” in Ohio) and that the party in that state is prepared “for the worst thrashing it has had in thirty years.’ The democratic party will only be a skeleton after the election next month. Coming events are casting their shadows before. Shellaber ger’s The S Fenco Tote Fair, Gentlemen. Much adverse criticism of Judge Hines is being indulged in by several of our exchanges because of a vote he cast for a bill to le entitled “an act for the better control of farm labor,” while be was a m ember of the house in 1884-5. For this vote Judge Hines is being severely and mercilessly criticised by editors who a short while ago were, and indeed are today apotheo sizing the shadows of men who did exactly what Judge Hines did— voted for that bill. Wo want to tell our brethren of the press that Mr. Clay and Mr. Everett, and other good men in that same legislature, voted for the “farm labor” bill. Tote fair, gentleman; be candid, tell the whole truth. Don’t try to deceive. In the future when boosting your favorites you may be confronted with your editorials about Judge Hines.—Cal houn Times (Dem). The Daily Press will be mailed to any address in the United Slates four mouths for two d< 1 ars. ClWliik ■ I Chronic Nervousness Ccu!d Not Sleep, Nervous Headaches. Gentlemen:—l have been taking your Restorative Nervine for the past three months and I cannot say enough in its praise. It has Saved fly Life, for I had almost given up hope of ever being well again. I was a chronic sufferer from nervousness and could not sleep. I was also troubled with nervous headache, and had tried doctors in vain, until I used your Nervine. Yours truly, MRS. M. WOOD, Ringwood, 111. Dr. Miles 9 Nervine Cures. 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