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EDITORIAL NOTES.
“Hit-the-grit” Barnes may now
rest his wearied yarn-faotory.
Douglass county has repudiated
the slanderer who had to run away
from Newnan to escape being
lynched ; and it has also repudiated
the politicians who bought this con
temptible creature after we refused
to buy him. Having failed to get
he position he wanted from us, and
having failed to get the SIOO he
wanted from Judge Hines, he sold
his decayed and rickety lye-hopper
to the other side.
If they paid much for it they got
bit in the trade.
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Gus Fite! Speak up, man, and
tell us all about Bartow.
Did the Negroes do it?
Charley Brand and Bill Simmons
say that was the troublein Gv innett.
Joe Terrell says there is where
the misery lay in Meriwether.
Joe James is busy in the prepara
tion of a map (copied after Bill Flem
ing’s) which is intended to give to
Cleveland a bird’s eye view of the
reasons why Douglass county, 'slip
ped from under.
Dick Howard and Bob Whitfield,
over at Milledgeville, are attending
divine services regularly, and are
gradually getting used to the sight
of the populist flag floating over the
Old Capital.
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Think of this: a Judge of the
Superior Court of Georgia said in
public “If you Populists were to
carry the State in the election do
you suppose we would bo fools
enough to let you have it? ”
And yet they say we have ro po
litical judges in Georgia. What are
the people to do when their rulers
talk this way and act in line, with
the talk ?
In a short while the bosses and
the people are going to clash, and
the bosses will be sorry they got on
the track. Rascals, who openly
brag of their rascality, cannot bull
doze this people always.
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Observe how education improves
a man. The crude, unlettered pick
pocket filches your purse and goes
to the chain gang. .
The educated politician passes a
statute which taxes your money into
his bank and if he desires to do so
he goes to the legislature or to Con
gress, or becomes Railroad Commis
sioner.
Nice systems we Christians have.
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The rumor that Miss Dortch
of Milledgeville has challenged Mrs.
Mary Ellen Lease for a joint debate
lacks corroboration.
We have not yet decided which to
congratulate.
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Hon. W. Y. Atkinson, with that
carefully cultivated modesty which
makes Boykin Wright so mad, says
that the reason the dear old demo
cratic bucket spilled so much of the
water during the recent tote,
that the campaign orators did not
follow his able advice on the silver
question.
Come now, Bill, don’t bo too hard
on the hoys. It isn't every cam
paigner who was born with your ca
pacity for straddling-
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" If ever a chieftain fairly won the
title of Billy Bowleg?, it is the Hon.
W. Y. Atkinson. A man who can
straddle the silver question so as
to win golden opinions from the
Journal and from the Constitution,
at one and the same time, is certainly
gifted with wonderful pair of legs.
If he keeps on improving in that
direction his pants pattern will have
to be cut out with a circular saw.
* * *
Speeches are good things, but
people sometimes remember the way
the speakers voted.
We mildly suggest to the Hon.
Billy Bowlegs that the growth of
populism in our party is largely due
to the growth of republicanism in
his.
When democratic Congressmen
follow the lead of John Sherman,
close up the mints, stop the making
of money, shrink the currency to the
gold standard, and thus bring cotton
down to fiye cents and wheat to
, forty-five, the people are in no mood
to be wheedled with speeches.
The votes which brought ruin to
our people cannot be swept out of
their memories by the eloquent chin
music of the office-holder. The peo
ple know that the very votes which
brought down the price of cotton,
wheat and labor, added to the pur
ihaaing power of the salary of the
Congressmen who cast the vote.
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impudence ? Did the world ever
iea its beat ?
Here come the office holders who
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, Atkinson : Boys, the clays of the Ring are numbered.
sacrificed the prosperity of the South
and West to the unholy greed of the
East and North; who deliberately
sold their constituents to Wall Street;
who violated every pledge of 1892
by voting in direct conflict with
promises publicly made ; who went
to Washington breathing out threats
against John Sherman and wound
up by enrolling themselves among
his loving disciples—these are the
appostles, the recreants, the conspira
tors, who have the cheek, the un
blushing effrontery, to come back to
the people they have beggared by
base betrayal, and to ask those peo
ple to bestow further honors and
salaries upon the authors of national
calamity 1
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The most mournful sight to be
seen, nowadays, ft that of a poor
one-horse tenant or cropper, listen
ing to a “Tariff Reform” speech, and
wildly the speaker, whose
vote on Silver helped to bring that
tenant’s cotton <jown to five cents.
Give ns rags and hungry stomachs
if you will, but don’t you stint us on
“Tariff Reform” speeches!
Five cents cotton makes us grunt
a little, to ba sure, but then the
the clouds all pass away when we
fall under the spoil of the democratic
Congressmen who tells us about the
heroic efforts he had to make to get
the Tariff tax taken off of slate
pencils.
Twenty dollars lost on a bale of
cotton is a diet which reminds us
slightly of green persimmons—but
then, you see, slate pencils are going
to be cheap and democratic oratory
abundant, —so what is there to fuss
about?
Let us all be thankful that Cleve
land didn’t wring our necks clean
off; and let us eat less and vote
oftener.
If any calamity howler comes
fooling around, reshape his mug with
a brickbat.
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“ There never was a time when
the farmers of Georgia were in a
more prosperous condition, or had
more money in their pockets.”
Thus spake that ablo warrior Gov.
Northen.
Gov. Ngrthen is the man whom
wc so victoriously defended when
nearly every simpleton in the state
was trying to laugh at him for call
ing out the army, navy, newspaper
reporters, steam engines, and $1,700
of our hard cash, to keep the Jack
sonville prize-fight from spreading
up to Waycross.
When Gov. Northen spoke so
hopefully and confidently about the
condition of our farmers, he had just
recovered from the fatigue of read
ing our defense of Ijis Waycross
Campaign, and he, perhaps, did not
know what he was talking about.
If Gov. Northen had to turn loose
his salary and go back to his Han
cock farm to earn his living, he would
no doubt become u good Alliance
man again, and would help the farm
ers frame a Populist platform de
manding “relief” for a distressed
people just as ho did in 1889.
Gov. Noithen, like Moses and Liv
ingston, got his “relief” by getting
otlice. The people are still out in
the wet.
It would bo more becoming in a
man who deserted the farmers'
movement, as Northen did, not to
jusult the people who lifted him from
obscurity by talking about a “pros-
i perity” which he knows they do not
• possess.
Hoke has gone back to Washing-
> ton, and he had hardly hit the ground
; before he began to explain the re-
- cent Earthquake in Georgia.
. If Hoke had only come earlier and
[ spoken oftener no amount of vote
r stealing could have kept Hines from
. being Governor.
We regard Hoke as the very best
. campaigner the pops, had in the
, field.
If, he and Cleveland and Sherman
- just keep up their present gait we
[ will guarantee a populist President
pl in 1896.
According to the 'Washington
Post the Deficiencies for this fiscal
1 year will amount to $11,000,900.
, In other words the appropriations
made by Congress will fall short of
' the expenses incurred by them to
’ the extent of $11,000,000.
' Thus the Claim of democratic
economy is gradually sneaking under
• the bed.
1 They claimed to have saved $28,-
000,000 in expenses as compared to
' the Billion dollar Congress.
1 But what were the items? One of
! them was the Sugar Bounty expense
’ of $12,000,000.
Did they save us that item? Yes ■
' by giving us a Tariff tax on Sugar
1 which will cost us $43,000,000.
That sort of economy which swaps
■ an expense of 812,000,000 for one of
1 $43,000,000 could only be boasted
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': of by a party which promised “more
I ’ money” and gave us less.
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; i Taking their own figures, for the
i sake of argument, their $12,000,000
. I saving on the Sugar Bounty proves
i to be a loss to the taxpayers of $31,-
>' 000,000.
j Then bear in mind that according
; to the Washington Post it will re
i quire $11,000,000 more to meet the
debts made by this economical con
gress.
! Add these two ugly facts together
and you get a lovely result which the
j office holders ' call “democratic
i economy.”
■ Such economy as this is enough to
’ ’ make a government mule weep.
i About Cotton.
i In the “Commercial and Financial
! Chronicle” of New York, (June
• 1894) we 11 nd the report of Presi-
• dent James O. Bioss, of the New
I York Cotton Exchange.
It is juicy reading. Bioss says
; that
I “The transactions in cotton for
> future delivery have aggregated 40,-,
> 962,300 bales”—during the twelve
t months ending with May, 1894.
Bioss also says that the sales of
i real cotton, spot cotton, amounted to
t 295,57 5 bales.
Bioss also says that “another An
i ti-option bill has been introduced
into the House of Representatives
I and is now awaiting consideration
■ and debate by that body. * * *
■ It is to bo hoped that Congress will
- see the wisdom of defeating * the
I measure, etc.”
! Ths hopes of Bioss are well sup-
• I ported by a stout underpinning of
; ■ previous democratic record. The
II fact that the platforms, notably of
■ Georgia democracy, demands the
i passage of a law to prevent this
’ i gambling in Cotton futures, gave the
>. best of reasons for Bioss to hope
11 that nothing would be done.
j To see a thine in a
platform is almost I’ke seeing it in
one of Joe James’ speeches.
Did not a democratic House in
1892, previous to the elections, pass
the anti-option bill and claim credit
for it with the public ?
And did not that same House
afterwards, when the elections were ;
over, vote it down when it came I
back from the Senate ?
Certainly it did. Consequently,
Bioss is not a man who “hopes” in
the dark. He knows what he is
talking about. The anti-option bil' l
he"speaks of passed the Rouse, just
as in 1892,, and hangs fire in the
Senate. After the elections are over
it will be defeated in obedience to
the wishes of the New York Cotton
Exchange.
The peerless Christian statesman
who now holds our seat in Congress
by virtue of the extraordinary voting
capacity of his city, was one of those
who had the courage and conscien
tious manhood to vote on the side of
the gamblers, in spite of the fact that
the platform upon which ho was
elected demanded that he should
vote against them.
Such lofty courage as this would
be rare, if it had not become so com
mon. It must bo very encouraging
to the speculators to find that our
peerless Christian statesmen are so
bold and so conscientious aa to come
out fearlessly in favor of gambling,
when the platform and the campaign
pledges tried to hamper them with
vows in behalf of morality.
But the question we started out
to ask is this: if the New York
Cotton Exchange sells in one year
forty millions of bales of imaginary
cotton, and only, two hundred and
ninety-five thousand bales of real
cotton, is not that fact a proof that
the price of real cotton is most, se
riously affected by the sales of ficti
tious cotton ?
As we understand it, tho specula
tors sell 40,000,000 bales during the
year in the New York Cotton Ex
change : —a concern which handies
less than half a million bales of Teal
cotton.
Or course the statement that 40,-
909,000 bales were sold for tuturc
delivery carries with it the proposi.
tion that 40,000,000 bales have to be
bought to fill the contracts. Thus
it might seem that a balance would
be maintained.
But everyone knows that 40,000,-
000 bales of real cottcn cannot be
really sold, simply because the
world’s supply does not furnish the
means of satisfying the contract with
actual cotton.
Therefore, what is the situation?
These huge transactions in imagi
nary cotton dwarf the dealings in
actual cotton ; and in tho great bat.
tic between the speculators in ficti
tious cotton the owner of real cotton
gets run over.
Turning to the report for the Liv
erpool market we find that for the
week ending June 2, 1894, tho sales
of spot cotton were 9000 bales, while
the sale of futures were 370,500
bales.
Between September 1, 1893, and
June, 1894, Liverpool sold 31,658,700
bales of “futures.”
Whoa the great commercial cen
tres are gambling on cotton to the
amazing extent these figures show,
dees the man who deals in actual
cotton stand any chance of having
his property priced upon ajy legiti
mate basis ?
Is he not dragged along in a
resistless tide of speculation which
he is powerless to stem?
Is he not a helpless piece of drift,
wood upon a current of lawless
gaming—compelled to float, and un
able to resist?
It seems to us that when eight
millions bales become the subject of
gambling operations to the extent of
a hundred million bales, tho price
of the eight millions will be abso
lutely at the mercy of the gamblers
The Railroad Question, dis-;
cussed -by Thos. E. Watson
is now ready for delivery.
Price 10 cer ts per copy. Ad
dress DAILY PRESSS Atlanta.
Hou. W. E. Smith’s Appointments.
Colquitt, Thursday, October 18.
Newton, Friday, October 19.
Arlington, Saturday, October 20.
Blakeley, Tuesday, October 23.
Fort Gaines, Wednesday, Oct. 24.
Cuthbert, Thursday, October 25.
Georgetown, Friday, October 26.
Camilla, Friday, November 2.
Thomasville, Saturday,November 3
I will be glad to divide time with
Hon. Ben E. Russell at any or all of
these appointments. None other
need apply. W. E. Smith.
Appointments of Hon. J. Ji. Twitty.
Ellijay, October 11, at 12 o’clock.
Talking Rock, October 12, at 12
o’clock.
Ball. Ground, October 13, at night.
Hiawassee, October 20, at 2 o’clock.
Homer, October 27, at 2 o’clock.
“Utterly Indefensible.”
The Atlanta Journal, the most
outspoken administration paper in
Georgia, has the following to say <?f
the democratic thieving of last
Wednesday :
We do not hesitate to say that the
throwing oat of votes in several
counties at the recent state election,
because of purely technical imper
fections in the returns, is utterly in
defensible. It is not enough to say
(what wo believe to be true) that
elections in Georgia are conducted
more fairly than they are in most
of the states. They should be abso
lutely lair. The graver sins of
ethers do not excuse our own short
comings.
If our election laws are imperfect
le/t us amend them at the first oppor
tunity.
If election managers anywhere
violate the law they should be in
dicted and punished. A violation of
the ballot is a crime and must be so
considered. We believe tho people
of Georgia have made up their minds
that no tampering - or trickery at
elections shall be tolerated, and the
man or gang which attempts to do
so is in danger of heavy but just
retribution.
Give us an honest and incorrupti
ble ballot.
“ Paternalism.”
The old party -writers and speak
ers are warning you against a “pa
ternal” government, and most of you
repeat “paternalism” as an argument.
Paying 20 cents for 2 cents worth of
oil is not paternalism, O, no! But
they don’t kick against that. Pay
ing $3.50 for coil that they pay the
: miners 30 cents for is not paternal
. ism, O, no 1 But they don’t kick
egainst that. Paying t>s cents for a
telegraph message that Wanamaker
says can be sent by a government
system for 10 cents is not paternal
ism, O, no! But they don’t kick
against that. Paying the sugar
trust 6 cents for sugar which could
be furnished by the government for
2 cents is not paternalism, O, no!
But they don’t kick against that.
Paying 3 cents a mile to travel on
the private monopoly railroads when
you could travel for -J- cents a mile
lon a government system is not pa
itemaiism, O, no! But they don’t
kick against that.
i If you were not so blind as your
! forelathers who fought, bled and
I died to maintain murderers, licen-
tious kings- on their thrones, yon
could see that the men and their
hired heelers who inveigh against
paternalism are practicing it in its i
worst form, and want to keep on I
skinning you by it. Public owner
ship does not mean paternalism, but |
fraternalism, because we all own it, i
all have a voice in it, and all share '
in its benefits. It is not as a father j
giving commands to his children, ■
but as partners in a business con- I
suiting in its management for the. i
mutual benefit of all. Can’t you get
the mote out of your eye ?—Coming
Nation.
AtKinson’s Boast.
Mr. Atkinson said in a speech in
the campaigns just closed that not a
single nominee on the populist ticket
would carry his home county. What’s
tho matter with Washington, Eman
uel, Jackson and Bartow counties—-
and Hall county, where both the can
didates for secretary of state live?
There the democrats only had a ma
jority of .38. Every county surround
ing Washington gave a populist ma
jority except one, -while every county
surrounding Coweta gave , also a
populist majority except one. Judge
Hines carried Air. Atkinson’s con
gressional district; also his senato
rial district, and made it decidedly
interesting for tho gentleman even iu
his own county of Coweta.
Now, it does appear to us down
here, Mr. Atkinson, that that fellow
whom you said “thinks he is running
against me” did do something like
“strike a trot.”—Augusta Herald.
The Augusta Herald,' is prodding
Mr. Atkinson for a little bit of in
formation. Listen: Come, Mr. At
kinson, you told us in Augusta, that
“everybody in Coweta county, white
and black, is goiug to vote for me,
and there is more votes to the square
inch up there than you ever saw.”
How about that?
She Is Business Manager.
A lady business manager for a
daily paper is but rarely found. Miss
Lulu Pearce, a young lady hardly
out ot her teens, was yesterday
elected business manager of Tin-:
Daily Press, of this city. She suc
ceeds Maj. Charles E. McGregor,
who was but recently elected to the
state senate from his district, and
who, on that account, has severed
‘his connection -with the paper.
Miss Pearce is a young lady of
! splendid business qualifications. She
has been connected with the peo
ple’s party publication for two or
three years and has shown unusual
ability in the management of the
business end of that paper.—The
Constitution.
Miss Lulu Pearce has been elected
business manager of The Daily
Press to succeed Charles E. Mc-
Gregor, who was recently elected to
the state senate from his district.
Miss Pearce has been connected with
tho People’s Party Paper since
its birth several years ago.—Atlanta
Commercial.
Must Aid tire Tenth.
Hon. Fleming G. dußignon is in
Atlanta sizing up tho situation at
headquarters. He will do some ef
fective work m the congressional
campaign if called on. He will
probably put in some heavy licks up
in Tom Watson’s district as well as
in the first. A Macedonian cry,is
expected from tho tenth and Savan
nah will have to come to the aid of
the Augusta brethren in speakers
and money for election expenses.
The first being solidly democratic
and merely a matter as to whether
the majority shall bo 4,000 cr 5,000,
the first can afford to help the light
against the archangel of populism,
Tom Watson.—Savannah Press.
The'Daily Press four months for
two dollars.
Hou. W. M. Whitaker to Speak.
Hon. W. M. Whitaker, populist
candidate for congress, will address
the people of Monroe and surround
ing comities October 11, at the court
bouse in Forsyth.
Has Gold Risen in Value?
The correspondent whose letter
upon the silver question was printed
in the New York Press the other
day made tho following observa
tion :
“You say that under'the influence
of rising gold prices have fallen.
When has gold risen in value? It is
silver that has declined because of
its overproduction; and the decline
in prices is not due to the status of
gold at all, tor its status has not been
changed for years.”
It is clear that if, for example, the
law should forbid wool to be used
for clothing the price of cotton would
at once advance. If the use of beef
for food should be prohibited the
price of mutton would immediately
rise. In either case a demand here
tofore borne by two commodities
Would be thrown upon one, with the
inevitable result to enhance the value
of the favored article.
For centuries, down to 1873, the
demand of the civilized world for
metallic money had fallen upon gold
and silver. In and about 1873 silver
was demonetized, and the whole
stress of the demand came upon
gold. Under such conditions the
rise of the value of gold was sure to
occur. That it would occur was
foretold by eminent men who con-"
sidered the subject. The rise was
indicated by the decline of the prices
of commodities. That is to say, be
cause of the artificial scarcity oi
metallic money, a gold dollar was
worth so much more that a greater
quantity of the fruits of human toil
were required to obtain possession
of it.
This fall of prices occurred only
after the demonetization of silver.
From ,1849 to 1873 general prices
rose 83 per cent. They began to
fall as soon as silver was displaced,
and they have been falling ever since.
That fall of itself, oven'if no cause
for it could bo plainly discerned in
familiar acts of legislation, would
have supplied conclusive proof that
gold was gaining in value. Sir VV.
Houldsworth, a British delegate to
the International Conference held in
Brussells in 1892, expressed the fact
with perfect accuracy when lie said:
“ It is said that the appreciation of
gold has never been proved. If
there has been a general fall of pri
ces, that is tho proof. The one ex- ’
pression is the converse of the other.
They respectively imply one
another.” But there is addi
tional evidence. While gene
ral prices in countries using the
gold standard have declined in the
20 years beyond anything recorded
in history, prices in the silver stand
ard countries, like Mexico, the South
American countries and India, have
not declined at all. In our case,
values are measured in gold, and
they have fallen. This can be
explained in no other manner than
upon the hypothesis that gold has
appreciated. It is true that there is
monometallism in both cases; but
the silver using countries, never hav
ing used gold as standard or meas
uring money, have had no distur
bance of ancient and ordinary condi
tions, while the countries now using
gold alone have lost one-half of their
metallic money. '
It is asserted by the correspondent
referred to that silver is overpro
duced. There is indeed overproduc
tion relatively to the demand, be
cause the demand has been dimin
ished by the arbitrary rejection of
silver as standard money. But the
quantity of silver produced, rela
tively to the quantity of gold, is not
excessive. It will probably surprise
mrny persons who have been misled
by misrepresentations of this subject
to learn that from 1862 to 1893,
thirty-one years, the world’s produc
tion of the two metals was as follows:
Gold, $2,359,422,000.
Silver, 82,925,144,000.
Thus, while of the precious metals
produced during tho period referred
to, 53.45 per cent., or more than
half, was gold, but 46.55 per cent.,
or less than half, was silver.—New
York Press.
Come At Them Again.
The populists of Whitfield were
not quite as successful as their breth
ren in other counties, but the Dalton
Feople’s.Tribune shows the spirit of
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tho true reformer in these words:
Democracy has won in Whitfield
county. Starr and Longley are no
doubt elected by a good majority.
We haven’t heard anything definite
from Murray county, but no doubt
the democrats have been successful.
Gordon has elected her populist can
didate for representative, but Colo
nel Stair got a majority over Gid
dens. Atkinson is a long ways
behind his ticket in the state, and the
prospects at the'present are favora
ble for Judge Hines’ election. From
a private telegram we learn that out
of nine of the largest counties in the
state Atkinson received only 8,000
majority, Gentlemen, it is over, and
if the worst has come we accept it as
cheerfully as possible while we buckle
on our armor a little tighter and spit
on our hands and come at you again.
We have enlisted for the war or dur
ing life, and we will hang our ban
ner on the outside wall and continue
to battle tor the oppressed laborers
of our land.
Why This Reduction ?
It is neither sound sense nor good
politics to seek to disguise facts or
suppress the tri tii. The reduction
of 40,000 in the democratic major
ity in Georgia had a patent reason
back of it, and it is the duty of dem
ocrats to find this reason and take
such a lesson from it as will prevent
a repetition of the result iu the No
vember election.—Ex.
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