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The Democratic Press on the Result.
Glory Enough for One Day.
The Evening Bee, of Milledgeville,
jhows how thoroughly ill-informed
and unreliable democracy is' by
bringing out its rooster on the even
; ing of the election over these boast
ing words, which are about as near
the truth as democratic campaign
promises:
The latest dispatches bring cheer
ing news from over the state. At
kinson’s majority will probably climb
above Northen’s. Glory enough for
. one. day. Eighty thousand demo
cratic majority will be the result of
today’s work.
Tries to Got Down Easy.
*The Columbus Enquirer-Sun, like
a frightened child shutting its eyes,
tries to make itself believe that the
populist victory is not real.
We shall advise the populistsnot
to grow too hilarious over the re
turns. They must remember that
they have not at all won a victory.
The unexpectedly strong showing
that they made is not real, but will
prove to be ficticious. That is to
say, their strength has been artifically
magnified by the unusual difficulties
with which the democracy has con
tended.
Eats Crow Gracefully.
The Worth County Local faces
the music like a little man :
The Pops get there—last Wednes
day’s election was one of the closest
and most hotly contested ever held
in Worth county. The calm that
seemed to have settled over the
county for several weeks, broke forth
in a thunder storm on that day.
Party feeling ran high, and the day
was marked by numbers of hot alter
cations, and a few personal en
counters.
This is the largest vote ever polled
in. Worth, and only a few behind the
number of total poll tax payers.
Nothing can be said against the
populist representative. He is a
good man, a life-long citizen of the
county, an industrious farmer, and a
man for whom we could have cheer
fully voted under other circum
stances.
The Local, together with Worth’s
democracy, has a large dish of crow
set before it. This it can eat grace
fully.
Glad it Wasn’t Worse.
The Atlanta Journal, while it
cannot forego the pleasure of twist
ing the Constitution’s tail, yet con
gratulates the goldbugs on escaping
complete annihilation:
The state is lucky in that the pro
fessed friends of the democracy,
who have spent their time circulating
populist slanders against it, did not
succeed in altogether eliminating the
democratic majority.
Still Misstating Facts.
The Savann/th News tries to min
ify democratic defeat by falsely as
serting that the populists made no
gains:
The populists, however, do not ap
pear to have increased their strength
in the counties in which they were
strong at the last state election. In
fact, in the Tenth congressional dis
trict, the district in which Mr. Wat
son is a candidate for congress, the
vote in some of the counties is con
siderably less than it was two years
ago.
Claims a Fair Victory.
If the Cuthbert Liberal-Enterprise
is correct in the following statement?
it would seem that the democrats of
Randolph county are not of the or
thodox sort:
“The populists cannot cry fraud
in Randolph county. We have met
them fairly and we are the victors.”
. Saved by the Negro Vote.
The Fort Valley Leader flatly
contradicts the Journal’s assertion
that the “nigger did it,” when trying
to account for the democratic water
loo.
“Yesterday was a quiet election
day, but the democracy did good
. work for themselves and for their
party. The colored people seem to
have voted the democratic ticket
nearly and the populists to have re
ceived a very small modicum of their
support.”
A Kebnke to Ring Rule.
The Acworth Post piles it all on
Gober, Clay and Brown :
Ring rule don’t go in Georgia. If
such men as Gober, Clay and Brown
continue to be appointed to respon
sible positions which they are utterly
incompetent to fill, the democratic
taajority two years hence won’t even
be 20,000.
Flames “The Mon Who Control,’’
The Rome Tribune makes a very
suggestive hint: ■
When General Evans and Mr. At
kinson were preparing for joint de
bate, the former named D. B. Ham
ilton, of 1 Floyd, Clark Howell,’ of
Fulton, and Bascom Myrick, of Sum
ter, as his friends to arrange details.
Mr. Atkinson named Hal. Lewis, of
Greene, Warner Hill, of Meriwether,
and W. E. Simmons, of Gwinnett.
Floyd, Fulton and Sumter went
democratic Wednesday; Greene,
Meriwether and Gwinnett went for
, the populists.
A Benighted Brother.
The Oglethorpe Echo, published |
in the county which in proportion to
its population, gave the biggest ma
jority for the democrats, explains
why it was thus by publishing two
days after the election,'the following:
Though at this writing we do not
PEOPLE’S PARTY PAPER, ATLANTA. GA., OGnWBFIS, 1894.
know definitely' the result of Wednes
day’s election, we feel 'that we are'
entirely safe in saying that tho popu
lists have been badly beaten in, every
section; so badly that it should con
vince the followers of that party
that they are on a wild goose chase.
It Isn’t Glll-Edsed.
The Hustler of Rome lays it to
the fight between the Journal and
the Constitution :
Thirty-thousand democratic ma
jority despite the sulkers, the “sore
heads” and the fight in the lines be
tween the Atlanta Journal and the
Atlanta Constitution. That’s not as
bad as might have been even if it
isn’t gilt-edge.
A Brave Confession.
The Macon Telegraph is the first
of the hardened sinners to confess
that the populists arc right.
“In politics you cannot increase
the chances of winning your fight by
confessing that your enemy is right
and yourself wrong. In several
Georgia districts this confession has
virtually been made by democratic
leaders and newspapers.”
A Democratic Revolt.
The Augusta Chronicle does not
like to think it was a populist land
slide :
We do not believe that Wednes
day’s election was a populist land
slide, but that it was a democrs.tio
revolt-—a revolt of the masses of the
party against machine politics.
Tnrng to Poetry for Relief.
The Valdosta Times takes a philo
sophical view of it, and drops into
poetry, which begins with the line:
The democratic boat has gone
afloat.
Slow to Take ft In.
The Vindicator has been com
pletely stunned by the landslide in
Meriwether:
As we go to press Thursday morn
ing it is impossible to obtain definite
information in regard to the* election
in Meriwether Wednesday. The face
of the returns indicates a victory in
the connty for the third party candi
dates.
Very Plain Case.
Tho Rome Tribune thinks it must
be attributed to dissatisfaction in the
ranks:
What prevented the majority be
ing larger is so plain that all realize
it. It was dissatisfaction, pure and
simple. And the dissatisfaction was
not due to the attitude of any mem
ber of the democratic party on buy
national question. The cry of ring
rule in Georgia has frightened the
people. The cry of wolf produces
terror if beleived whether the wolf is
coming or not. The cry of ring
rule was believed by many and they
acted accordingly.
Voted Everything in Sight.
Spalding county was one of the
few where the mossbacks’ ranks
were not completely broken. The
Griffin News very innocently gives
the reason therefor:
“When you talit of banner coun
ties and consider all the surround
ings, Spalding was no laggard in the
race.
“The democratic workers of Grif
fin took the admonition of the News
and Sun literally and not only voted
themselves, but voted everything
else that came in sight.”
Summing It Up.
The Buchanan Messenger ex
presses itself in very laconic lan
guage:
We met the enemy—and we are
his. As to Haralson, the following
tells the tale:
Hines .... 933
Atkinson - - - 611
Hines’ majority • - 322
McGarrity - - - 919
Spinks .... 645
MoGarity’s majority - • 274
Pope .... 895
Holcombe - - • 621
Pope’s majority - - 274
Brock - - . - - 60
Polk county went third party by
40 for McGarity, 60 for representa
tive and 121 for Hines.
Carroll county went populist by
150 majority.
Chargeable to Goldbug Soup.
The Americus Times-Recorder
charges the defeat to the Journal
and goldbug soup:
Belated Georgia editors who drink
goldbug soup out of John Sherman
spoons will now proceed to befog
their readers with explanatory ex
planations as to why the democratic
majority of 71,000 in ’92 is now
only 29,250. The slump is charge
able to the goldbug compafgn of
John Sherman’s disciples in this
state. If Hokus P. Smith, D. G.
(doctor of goldbuggery), and Henry
G. Turner, S. J. (Snerman Johane
sis), had made speeches in every
community in the state, Hines’ ma
jority would have been 25,000.
As coadjutors of republicanism
and populism, these eminent doctors
of gold buggery are an eminent suc
cess.
Feels Satisfied.
Unlike Pyrrhus, whose foresight
on a like occasion led him to ex
claim: “One more such victory and
I am - undone,” the Jonesboro News
says:
Tho majority is not as largo as
that of two years ago, but then it is
large enough to prove that the dem
ocratic party in Georgia is safe.
Democrats Could Beat the D—l.
One of tho most corrupt of the
smaller counties is Elbert. The
methods practiced in that county are
truly illustrative of the dark ages?
and the county is to be pitied
for being in the grasp of such a
hide-bound ring. The Elberton Star
says of the methods practiced in its
county:
“The past week has demonstrated
beyond a peradventure what good
work for democracy and good gov
ernment, a well-rounded party or
ganization can accomplish. To use
the expression of a leading and en
thusiastic democrat the other night,
‘the third party, the republican party,
aided by tho d—l himself, couldn’t
beat that crowd assembled at head
quarters, if they all go to work with
a will.’ The result? of Wednesday’s
election showed that he did recon
without hishost, for the plain truth
of the matter is that nothing short
of superb organization enabled the
democrats to achieve their victory.”
Democratic Mails;
We are not disposed to make any
effort to conceal our disappointment
at tho result of "Wednesday’s election
in this state. At the same time we
have no inclination to exaggerate the
importance of the falling off in the
democratic vote. We see in that
falling off no indication that the
party is soon to lose its control of the
politics of this state. We regret the
apparent decline of democratic
strength—we think it far more ap
parent than real—mainly because it
will probably delay the passing away
of the populist delusion.—Macon
Telegraph.
A Tale With a Moral.
The dear Journal never fails to
draw a moral from every passing
event, and with a singleness of pur.
pose, no matter what the tale, the
moral with which the Journal adorns
it is that the gold-cure would be a
panacea for all our ills.
In the discomfiture of its party in
the recent election the Journal finds
tlte usual lesson, and prescribes its
cure-all nostrum. It has delved into
the record and finds that:
It is a very significant fact that
the congressional districts which are
represented by the five men who
voted against the free coinage of sil
ver at 16 to 1 by the United States
alone, in last Wednesday’s election,
gave a total democratic majority of
19,255, while the five districts repre
sented by the extreme free silverites
in the Georgia congressional delega
tion, gave only 3,180 democratic ma
jority. Here wo have 16,075 more
democratic majority in the five dis
tricts which came out for sound
money and the true interpolation of
the democratic platform, than we can
find in tho five districts where the
democracy eleaned toward populist
financial theories.
The tigures are as follows :
District. Congressman. Majority.
Ist - Lester - - 4,046
2d - - Russell - - 4,371
6th • - Cabaniss • • 3,859
Sth - - Lawson • 2,844
11th - Turner • • 4,135
Net majority - - - 19,255
District. Congressman. Majority.
4th - Moses - 392
sth - Livingston 2,382
7th - Maddox -1,490
9th . Tate (Pop.) 391
10th - Black(Pop.) 609
4,174 904
994
Net Majorities 3,180
Sound money districts - • 19.255
Unlimited coinage districts • 3,180
Net majority for sound money 16,075
It is useless to point tho moral of
this little tale. It stands out like the
noonday sun, and throws a flood of
light on the situation in Georgia.
Accenting as correct the Journal’s
figures, the moral of its little tale
does indeed stand out like the noon
day sun. Here it is :
If the people desire a return of
prosperity the sooner they place the
people’s party in power, tho sooner
will their desire be realized. No
man not an oflice-holder or in the
possession of a fixed income but
what demands that tho mints be re
opened to silver, and that silver b c
freely coined at the ratio of 16 to I.
That this pre-requisite to a return of
bettor times will never be attained
through the democratic party noth
ing could demonstrate more plainly
than the illustrative figures used by
the Journal. In all those districts
where the populist party is strong
the members of congress voted in
the interest of the people, whereas
in those districts which were safely
democratic the representative dis
regarded the interests of their con.
stituonts and allied themselves with
the goldbugs.
Democratic supremacy means a
continuation of the present condition
of industrial lethaigy, and silvfer
coinage, which will break the corned
on money, will never be restored as
long as the people Can be deluder
with democratic promises and duped
by democratic leaders.
That is the plain moral to be
drawn from the Journal’s little '
tale; and it knocks the pegs from
under the hobby it rides so persist
ently. .
The Daily Press will be mailed
to any address in the United States
four months for two dollars.
Wednesday’s Election.
Warren stands by her. record of
1892, and shows that she is true to
her interest and the welfare of the
people. Instead of a majority of
six hundred as was anticipated by
many populists, she went 703, From
the returns as given by the demo
cratic papers today, Thursday, the
tenth district is for the populists by a
good majority, while two years ago
it went -democratic by 1,500. We
populists are dying a glorious death.
Columbia county is the banner
county, she gives Hines 906 ma
jority.
The returns show that grand old
Warren is in hot pursuit, giving 703
majority, with quite a number of
counties rolling in 600 majorities.
The Augusta Chronicle of today
gave us fifty representatives and
eight senators. Os course we will
beat that. Major Charles E. Mc-
Gregor and Hon. F. R. Pool, as was
confidently expected, are elected by
splendid majorities.
Major McGregor beat Young in
the nineteenth senatorial district as
follows:
Warren, 675; Taliaferro, 287;
Greene, 574.
Major McGregor is a trump, and
is by far tho strongest man in the
district. He made a very brilliant
campaign in Greene county, and it is
safe to say that he polled 400 more
votes in Greene and 200 more in
Taliaferro than any man we could
have nominated from Warren. The
populists made the proper choica
when they made Major McGregor
their standard bearer.
Hon. 11. R. Pool, as all expected,
ran ahead of his ticket about 40
votes. He is one of the strongest
men that ever entered politics in
Warren, and will make an excellent
representative There were only
1220 votes polled in the county and
the democrats only got 294 of them.
Get out of the way moss bdeks!
Wo are tired of five cents cotton,
high sugar, no silver, and tariff rob
beries.—Warrenton Clipper.
Populism—Young Giant of Polities.
The nows from Georgia, printed
elsewhere in the Times today, does
not seem to entirely harmonize with
that reiterated statement that popu
lism is dead in the south.
Georgia, in the general nature of
things, ought not to be a happy
hunting ground for populists. It has
been mightily honored by the dem
ocracy. From it President Cleve
land drew—to the wonder and
amaze of the rest of the country—
his redoubtable secretary of the in
terior, Hoke Smith. From Georgia,
too, hails the statesman whom the
national democracy through its ma
jority in the house of representatives
made speaker thus giving him
power second only to that of tho
president. More than this, a sena
torial contest- impends in Georgia,
Speaker Crisp being one of the chief
contestants. The legislators elected
Tuesday will have a senator to
choose. There was every possible
political incentive for the democrats
of the state to turn out in a body,
and vote the straight party ticket.
Yet the latest news from Georgia
is that tho populists have made enor
mous gains, and their vote is grow
ing rapidly as the returns from the
back counties come in. From pres
ent indications they have carried
three congressional districts, and
will have forty members in the legis
lature. Their success overthrows all
democratic plans for the senatorship,
and if a democrat be elected to that
office he will have to be a true Jef
fersonian—committed to free silver,
the income tax, and the rights of the
people. It is a phenomenal victory
for the people’s party.
It were idle to attempt to minimize
the importance t>f this Georgia elec
tion. Whether it may be taken as
an indication of what is to bo ex
pected of other southern states is a
mere matter of speculation, but that
it will vastly encourage the populist
managers all over tho country is but
natural. The Tinies expects that
the one great surprise to hide bound
politicians in tho returns of next
November, will be the showing made
by that young giant of politics, the
people’s party.—Chicago Times.
Flection Methods Contrasted.
One of the best evidences that the
populists are willing to do the fair
thing is that in this and the other
counties where we have the ma
chinery we accord to the democrats
a fair division of managers and
clerks at the polHs. Does that look
as if we wanted to swindle them'?
In Wilkes county, on the other hand,
where the democrats are in control,
they refuse to give us a fair division
of managers. If they propose to
have a fair election, why do they not
givens representation’? If they ex
pect to do right, why not give us
representation, so we can know we
have been treated honestly?—Mc-
Duffie Enterprise.
Who’s Shellaberger?
Can Differ, Yet Be Friends.
The democrats made the biggest
effort ever put forth to carry this
couvity, but she went populist all the
sariie.
We hope after the election that
every man will lay aside any little
bitterness that may have been en
gendered. Men can bo friends and
'still differ politically.—Georgia Pop
ulist.
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