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The Peoples Party Paper
VOLUME IV.
THE LATEST- NEWS.
HAPPENINGS AS TOLD BY
DAILY PAPERS.
A VARIETY OF NEWS ITEMS
Collected and Condensed from
the High ways, By-ways and
the State Press.
Ten thousand dollars have been
pledged for a free library in Washing
ton city.
There are now 1800 men at work on
the exposition buildings and grounds
at Atlanta.
The Parkhurst testimonial fund, New
York, now amounts to over 829,000.
The money will be turned over to the
City Vigilance League.
The Comptroller of the Currency has
declared a first dividend of 50 per cent
in favor of the depositors of the Doxer
National Bank of Dover, N. 11.
James Samuel Thomas Stranahan,
one of the oldest citizens of Brooklyn,
by whom the town sets great store,
was eighty-seven years old on April
25th.
Frank Bowes, assistant general pas
senger agent of the southern division
of the Illinois Central Railroad, has
been oppointed general freight agent,
to succeed D. B. Morey, resigned.
There is tala at Albany of creating
two additional assistant district fattor
neys for New York city to help out Dis
trict Attroney Fellows. The office has
e,OOO cases to look after, and is run
ning behindhand 1,500 to 1,800 cases a
year.
Mrs. Hetty Green has satisfied the
k Ne wk York tax board that her legal
L residence is Hempstead, Long Island,
that the assessment on her per-
Bkial property, valued at 81,500,000, as
■fcisident of the city of New York,
maintained.
EjjaW’amerlane;'’ the anonymous first
HBSok of poems published bj- Edgar A.
was sold by auction in Boston and
Bp bid’in by Dodd, Mead & Co., of New
■ York, for 81,450. The only known com
panion to this copy is in the British
Museum.
The Kansas City Democrats object
to the application of the “Pingree
plan” in that city, as all the vacant lots
are needed for housing bogus voters
for regristration purposes. The Au
gusta, Ga., Democrats could object
upon like ground.
The Republican State League met at
Topeka, Kansas, on the 25th inst, with
an attendance of 1,000 delegates. They
expressed satisfaction with the Demo
cratic tariff legislation, and pledges
a monetary system that will imme
diately add the product of our silver
mines to the currency.
Secretaries Herbert and Lamont,
Postmaster-General Wilson and Presi
dent Cleveland, while on their way to
attend a meeting of the .Farmer’s Club
near Philadelphia, had their photos
taken in a group. The Farmers’ Club
is ahead of the Chicago goldbug club
in the estimation of these illustrious
politicians. After the election they’ll
gravitate to the tail end of the pro
cession.
The Governor of Maryland has made
a requisition upon the chief justice of
the Supreme Court of the District of
Columbia for Belle Farrall, who is
wanted in Charles county, Maryland,
where it is charged that she poisoned
her husband. Frank Farrall, December
17 last, by mixing strychnine with his
medicine.
The will of Mrs. Mary E. Richmond,
of Batavia, N. Y., widow of Dean Rich
mond, the famous railroad and steam
boat man, leaves an estate of $15,000,-
000 to be divided among her children.
Notice has been given, however, that
the will will be contested by Miss
Rosalind A. Richmond, of New York, a
granddaughter, on the ground of undue
influence by other heirs. Miss Rich
mond and her father were both over
looked in the division of the estate.
June 11th has been selected as the
date for the lowa State Populist Con
vention at Des Moines. Chas. A. Lloyd,
of Muscatine, will be temporary chair
man. Leivas the candidate of his party
for congress in the Second district last
year and refused to withdraw in the
interest of Judge Hayes, who was de
feated by George M. Curtis, Republi
can. He is opposed to political combi
nations. Expressions for free silver
were freely made by members of the
committee.
The famous Fort Brown (Tex.) mili
tary reservation case which has been
pending before the War Department
since 1848 and before Congress since
1870, was finally settled last week by
the payment of $160,000 to John A. Gar-
“ E£cju.eil Rights to All Special Privileges to Nome.”
vin, of New York, the attorney for the
land owners. Before paying the
amount the War Department insisted
on the payment of taxes since 1848 to
clear the titles to the property. These
amounted to SB,IOO.
Judge Thomas, assistant attorney
general for the postoffice department,
has issued fraud orders against the Pub
lishers’ Collection Agency, which con
tinues to use the “so-called newspa
per laws” to force collections. Post
masters at St. Paul, Pittsburg and
Chicago, where the company has offi
cers, were notified to stop its mail
matter.
Harry Raymond, a young crook who
recently drifted into Atlanta, entered
into a plot to marry a certain young
lady of the city on condition of being
paid SSOO in cash. The police, however,
happily discovered the foul conspiracy
in time to nip it in the bud.
In 1892 20,000 horses were slaughtered
in Paris, three-fourths of which went
into sausages. An effort is being made
to force butchers to stamp all saus
ages in which horse meat is used so
that the public will know what it is
eating.
A firm of manufacturers of time and
combination safe locks at Rochester
have been at work for the past six
months perfecting a detachable combi
nation lock to be used on strong steel
safes which have been adopted by the
Southern and Western express com
panies to guard against the depreda
tions of train robbers and desperadoes.
The New York World says that if the
China-Japan treat} 7 as outlined is rati
fied, it will bring American working
men in competition with 400,000,000
Chinese who can live on five cents per
day. The World thinks the opening
of China to trade will be a disaster.
United States Minister Willis of
Hawaii has transmitted to Secretary
Gresham a number of sworn statements
of American citizens who were arrested
by the Hawaiian Government for com
plicity in the recent rebellion, and
were permitted to leave Hawaii only
under promise not to return during
their lifetime.
Ca.ptain William H. Beanham, agent
of the Mill Creek Distilling Company,
and a member for the last six years of
the Newrtlrleans board of police com
missioners, committed suicide on April
25th at Long Beach, a summer resort
on Lake Pontchartrain.Jwhile suffering
from nervous prostration. Captain
Beanham was very prominent in mili
tary and social circles over the entire
country.
Secretary Morton believes that he
has found away to made effective his
warfare on the distribution of seeds.
The appropriation for the purchase,
propagation and distribution of seeds
says “as required by law,” The law,
in its turn, distinctly limits the pur
chase and distribution of seeds to such
as are rare and uncommon in this
country Accordingly the Secretary
will be justified in restricting the ap
propriation to the purchase of rare and
valuable seeds, as expressed in the lan
guage of the statute, and refusing to
purchase the hundreds of tons of ordi
nary garden seeds, such as have been
distributed year after year. A few
thousand dollars would purchase all
the rare and uncommon seeds this
country could get, and their propaga
tion would be a part of the work of ex
periment stations. After their utility
had been tested it would then be the
duty of the Department to distribute
them in such parts of the country
where they would be best suited for
cultivation.
Beef Trust Gags Butchers.
The New York World says when the
price of beef went up several days ago
the retail butchers loudly denounced
the Western trust, which, they said,
was responsible for it all.
All this is changed now. The retail
ers no longer blame the trust They
are even inclined to deny that they
ever knew or heard anything about a
trust.
The World has discovered the reason
for this sudden change of front. When
the discussion of the trust’s despotism
was at its height word was passed
along the line that the combine would
cease to furnish meat to those who
talked too much. Several large whole
sale firms through whom the trust fur
nishes this city with meat conveyed
the intelligence to the retailers, and
there immediately ceased to be any
clamor about the trust.
Under a solemn promise to withhold
their identity several butchers impart
ed this information yesterday to a re
porter for The World :
“When we are now asked why beef
is so high priced,” said one in Washing
ton Market, “we have been instructed
to ascribe it to over-demand and under
production and to the circumstance that
cattle have been fed this season on the
best corn. The truth is just the other
way. Cattle are not scarce at all, and
their feed is for the most part nothing
but oil-cake.”
ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, MAY r 3, 1895.
A LIVE CORPSE.
THE POPULISTS STILL WIN
NING VICTORIES.
MORE ELECTION RETURNS.
The Flag Being Planted Where
It Has Never Wared Before.
Clean Sweeps at the Polls.
As the returns from the wagon train
come in it becomes all the more certain
that the Populist part}’ is not “dead.”
as declared by some of the reckless or
gans of the old parties.
While making these assertions the
organs magnanimously ignore the evi
dences of continued life as manifested
in the election returns. This is the
kind of information which they don’t
want to dispense to their readers, be
cause it might destroy a delusion.
The Populists, however, seem to have
been attending strictly to business all
along the line at the spring elections
and at every polling place made their
influence felt either by a victory or a
close contest.
In the list of victories achieved Colo
rado leads the procession. The returns
in that State show the following re
sult ;
Leadville.—Entire ticket elected.
Pitkin—A sweeping victory.
Victor.—The entire People’s party
ticket was elected.
Silverton. —The Populists won every
office in town.
Louisville. There was only one
ticket in the field, all Populists, and
the whole town board is now of tha.J
party. 1
Rockville.—A complete victory. fl
New castle.—With one or two exitM®
tions the Populists won everything®®
Red Cliff. —There was but one
in the field, the Populist
Florence, —The People’s tufft-jagMgjf
od bl Tl.or.ias llol.insi Ui.
of the city, was re elected.
St. Elmore.—The Populists
their entire ticket.
Lake City. —The Populist ticket
the only one in the field and receivM
all the votes. 1
Ouray.—The Populist being the onljt,
ticket in the field, the election passed
off very quietly.
Castle Rock.—The People’s ticket be
ing the only one in the field, was
elected.
Altman. —The entire Populist ticket
was elected by a big majority.
LaFayette.—The usual Populist ma
jorities were given.
Alma.—The town election in Alma
yesterday resulted in the election of
W. H. Poyless, Populist, for mayor,
and Mrs. Ellen Hunter, Populist, was
elected treasurer. The board now
stands three Populists and three Re
publicans, with a Populist mayor and
treasurer.
Rico.—The Populists got every man
except one trustee, and he was elected
by one majority.
Aspen.—ll was a complete Populist
victory. The Populists have, a hold in
Aspen which no power can shake, and
will administer the affairs of the city
in a business-like manner.
Mount Dora, Fla., went Populist by a
I large majority.
In Illinois the Populist elected a
large number of county supervisors.
Decisive victories were achieved at Ma
lone, Onieda and Spring Valley.
Michigan follows Colorado close in
the number of victories. In Henrietta,
that state, the Populists elected the
county supervisors and signal victories
were also won in Liberty, Tompkins,
Springport, Hanover, Whitmore and
Kalamasoo counties.
Last year Julius Caesar Burrows, Re
publican, was elected to Congress from
the Third Michigan district by 12,000
plurality. This year, A. M. Todd,
Populist, put the Republican majority
down to 1,014. Todd will contest the
result.
At East Grand Forks Minnesota, the
Populists elected the mayor and did
likewise at East St. Louis, Mo.
All of the Populist ticket at St.
Joseph, Oregon, was elected except one
name. Last year there were only two
Populists in the city.
In Pennsylvania, Union Township
was carried by the Populists as were
also the townships of Sayere, LaFayette
and Meadville.
Out in Wisconsin Dr. Frank Powell
known as the “White Beaver” Populist
has just been declared elected mayor of
LaCrosse.
Future elections will show decided
victories everywl ere, as the people
are becoming gradually educated up to
the principles of the People’s Party,
and to realize that the salvation of the
country can only be hoped for in their
triumph.
GEORGIA’S HOKE.
HIS ACTS IN THE INTERIOR
DEPARTMENT CRITICISED.
TEN THOUSAND DOLLAR FEE
Which Ex-Attorney Garland Says
Didn’t go Where it Belonged—
An Investigation Threatened
Affairs in the Interior department of
the United States are likely to undergo
a very vigorous investigation.
Ex-Attornej’ General Garland has a
grievance against Secretary Hoke
Smith which has sprung a lively sensa
tion.
It is all about a lawyer fee of 810,-
000 which Ex-Attorney Garland claims
was due him but in some mysterious
manner found its way into the pocket
Col. James Cobb of Texas. The circum
stances through which this fee was
diverted from its legitimate destination
have caused no end of talk, and it is
said that the secretary's brilliant and
precipitate stroke of nepotism will cost
the United States government nearly
8135,000 per annum.
The New York World prints the fol
lowing story on the subject:
“Ex-Attorney General Garland, of
President Cleveland's first cabinet, has
a grievance against Hoke Smith, Sec
retary of the Interior, and threatens to
get an investigating committee of the
the next congress to look into the leas
ing of 2,250,000 acres of grazing land in
Oklahoma territory at 6 cents an acre
claims, could have been
cents an acre."
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of the Interior. Jar. Garland was joined
in the matter by polonel James Cobb,
of Fort Worth, Tejsas, a cousin of the
Secretary of the Interior. Colonel
Cobb came to Washington and was a
guest at Mr. Hoke Smith’s house. The
secretary the contract sub
mitted by the cattlemen and the latter
thought they succeeded by reason of
the fact that Colonel Cobb was a cousin
of
“They* intimated that they did not
care to pay Mr. Garland the amount
agreed upon.
“Mr. Garland complained to the Sec
retary of the Interior and the cattle
men paid Mr. Garland his fee. *The
same tiemen wanted to get the con
tract i.ain this year. Mr. Garland
claimed that his original understanding
was that if he succeeded last year, he
should have SIO,OOO, and that if they
secured it again the coming year, he
should have another SIO,OOO. Mr. Gar
land informed Secretary Hoke Smith of
this alleged agreement some time ago,
and he says he understood the secretary
to say in reply, that he would see to it
that Mr. Garland received his fee this
year before the leases were renewed to
the same cattlemen. Mr. Garland relied
upon this understanding, but the leases
were simply extended today for an
other year to the same cattlemen, and
Mr. Garland’s .fee has not been secured.
“Within the last two month’s Secre
tary Hoke Smith has been notified in
writing that the lands thus leased for
6 cents per acre would bring 10 cents.
In fact, a resolution was introduced in
the last house calling upon the secre
tary not to lease those reservations for
another year for less than 10 cents per
acre, but its was smothered in the com
mittee.
“In the written communication re
ferred to, the secretary was asked to
require competitive bids for the leases
this year, and he was assured that if he
would do this he would certainly get 10
cents and probably 12 cents per acre, or
from $90,000 to $115,000 more per annum
than the present lease brought.
“It was also stated that soon after
the last lease was approved, the secre
tary's cousin, Colonel Cobb, was paid
by the cattlemen securing the lease,
SIO,OOO for his infience or services. The
secretary was also informed in this
communication that the Chief of the
Kiowas, Quanniparker, is receiving $750
per month from the cattlemen byway
of keeping him quiet, and that other
Indians likely to comprehend that they
are only receiving half enough rental
for their lands, are placed on the roll of
beneficiaries by the cattlemen doing
business with the interior department
through Colonel Cobb.
“Io this communication the secretary
made no reply. About the time that
bids should be received for next year’s
leases, inquiries were made of the sec
retary as several competitors desired to
file bids. Assurance was given that
Captain Baldwin, the Indian agent,
would be instructed to receive bids for
the new lease dating from May Ist.
"A few days ago Colonel Cobb again
appeared in Washington, and Secretary
Hoke Smith received word that the
me-sage to Captain Baldwin had ‘mis
carried’ and that hence no bids had
been received by him. ♦
“Upon this, the secretary concluded
that he would not have time to receive
bids and would dispose of the matter
by extending the leases for one year.
“It was stated by a member of the
House from the West, who is familiar
with the whole matter, that in the
event the reservations were again leas
ed at the ridiculously low figure of 6
cents per acre, he would offer a resolu
tion to investigate the matter. In the
face of today’s developments, the same
member states that the matter will
most certainly be investiga'ed. As the
house is Republican, it is certain that
even if Mr. Garland is pacified, he and
others, including Colonel Cobb, will
have a chance to tell what they know
about the transaction.”
Secretary Smith denies that Colonel
Cobb is related to him and says that
Garland has no real grievance against
him.
FREE
Mayor Pingrees’s Plan to Assist
the Poor.
Mayor Pingree of Detroit, who by
the way is a Populist, has originated
a philanthropic measure which is caus
ing the poor and indigent of the cities
to rise up and call him blessed.
Soon after assuming the duties of
Mayor he set himself to work to evolve
some scheme by which he could give
substantial aid to the poof of Detroit.
As a result he hit upon the novel plan
of turning over to them the unoccupied
suburban lands of the city to be culti
vated By them in vegetables.
Each applicant i* allowed a pre
scribed amount of land free of rent and
the seed tojjlant it with is also furn
ished gratuitously’ by~ffie fife city.
Those who can do so, but fail to take
advantage of the offer are denied other
charities dispensed by the city.
In this way mayor Pingree reaches
that class whom it is both humane and
politic to aid—the most worthy—the
people who are willing to help them
selves.
There are thousands of hard-working
people in every city who never know
the luxury of a cabbage or a squash.
They may be on sale in the market
places but their small earnings have to
go for other necessaries which life de
mands. By the benificence of Mayor
Pingree such unfortunates in Detroit
can not only have squashes and cab
bages occasionally, but a great variety
of other vegetables that are fresh and
palatable.
Other cities are adopting the plan.
Omaha, Nebraska, was the first to fol
low suit and now the board of trade of
Washington City has the matter under
discussion. There are a great many
poor people in Atlanta and other South
ern cities who would like to see other
wise useless surburban lands so util
ized.
Maruice Deitsch, the Southern man
ager at Savannah, Ga., for the firm of
Bennett, Sloan & Co., tea importers at
No. 100 Hudson street, New York, com
mitted suicide sometime during last
week at the Grand Union hotel, Forty
second street and Park avenue, by
shooting himself in the head with a re
volver. Business troubles were the
cause of the rash act.
Pullman Denounced.
Chicago, April 24. —The committee of
clergymen consisting of Rev, George R.
Mitchell, Rev. T. H. Coglan and Rev.
John Rusk, as a result of tueir investi
gation at Pullman, recommend a mon
ster entertainment as the means of
securing funds to colonize 150 families
who must leave the town.
Rev. Mr. Mitchell said : “The com
pany absolutely refused tocontiibute
one cent. Not only that, but our inves
tigation revealed the fact that the
money raised by the Hussars some time
ago to help deport Pullman people fell
into the hands of the company.”
“Pullman is not the model town one
is asked to believe it is,” said Dr. Rusk.
“It is a whitened sepulcher filled with
dead men’s bones. Without, it is fair
to look at, but after you pass the impos
ing front there is much to be condemn
ed. We went through
model flats, and found
shackle affair on the t<<®3 , ;
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NUMBER 33.
WAS NOT SETTLED.
L. IV. JAMES, OF LITHIA
SPRINGS WHO BOUGHT
A BARREL Os WHISKEY
And Would not Pay for it is
Bound Over Unders2oo
Bond.
Mayor L. W. James, of Lithia Springs
who was arrested in Atlanta on a war
rant charging him with cheating and
swindling, sworn out by the PottsJ
Thompson Liquor Company, was car
ried before Justice Bloodworth last
week and bound over to Superior Court.
Lithia Springs is located 20 miles
from Atlanta in Douglas county. A
prohibition law was passed for the
county and has been in force about ten
years, yet “blind tigers" exist around
Lithia Springs and the good people of
the county have been considerably
annoyed by the violation of their law.
The murder of Bill Glover, a marshal
at Lithia Springs, in 1893, yet remains
a mystery, but is attributed to the
illicit sale by the prohibitionists.
Solicitor Richardson in 1893 succeeded
in convicting John M. James, the
father of L. W. James ; also Jack Smith
and his wife, the sister of L. IV. James,
as blind tigerites. Judge C. G. Janes
placed a fine upon them which was
paid. Bud Moody, one of L. W. James’
chums, was convicted as a blind tigerite
and is now serving out a term in the
chaingang.
A great deal of the political bitter
ness which exists in Douglas county is
attributable to the fight the Alliance
made against these blind tigers, and is
now being upheld by members of the
People’s Party.
An effort was made by Mr. L. W.
James’ counsel to have the case trans
ferred to Douglas county but Justice
Bloodworth 1-hled that the warrant
charged the crime of obtaining goods
under . .Ise protense was committed in
lulton county, and there being, suffi
cienfrevidence to !■.■•’•' the defendant-he
bound him over to Fulton Superior
Court under 8200 bond.
JOHN’S RELIGION.
It is for Sunday, Not the Bargain
Counter.
According to the Washington Post,
John Wanamaker, the bargain com ter
saint of Philadelphia, lives up to the
theory that it only pays to be pious on
Sunday. The Post says :
“John Wanamaker, whom may the
gods continue to stuff with eloquence
and unction, presents the pathetic
spectacle of a righteous man who can
not afford to be truly good more than
one day in the week. In the April
number of To-Day he makes the sad
admission that if he were to conduct
his business on the principle of Broth
erly Love—the principle he promul
gates so sweetly and so smoothly every
Sunday—he would be in the sheriff’s
hands before the next slaughter sale in
summer underwear could roll around.
“That this remarkable statement will
occasion wide comment and discussion
need hardly be said. Here is a good
and pious man, redolent of the odor of
sanctity, bubbling over with holy ad
monition, reeking with the spirit of
rectitude and charity, who confesses
that he cannot afford to practice what
he preaches, and admits that, since he
cannot fall into the Lord’s hands with
out first passing through the sheriff's,
he prefers to keep his Christianity for
the Sabbath and give six days to god
lessness at the shop. Religion, as he
sees it, is all very well at Bethany
among the elect and where it costs
nothing save a little language, but it
won’t do for the Chestnut street biv.-ar
where merchandise is on tap and Paris
thoughts prevail John can manage to
be a saint on Sunday. He can swim
sweetly into Bethany Chapel- «=’ “(’jpg'
love at every inn". apriimg bliss
into the sister-’ .»earning hearts, but
-au t nrtord any nonsense during
the other six days of the week and he
frankly confesses that he does notnm—
pose to try it -jgMMraßiKa
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