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CORRESPONDENCE.
Alabiima Election Frauds.
Editor People’s Party Paper :
After several weeks’ continuous
•work in the examination of wit
nesses and tbe taking of testimony
in the ease of Judge W. C. Robfti
son, Populist contestant, against
Gev. Geo. P. Harrison, Democratic
contestee, for a seat in the Fifty
fourth Congress from the Third con
gressional district of Alabama, has
been concluded.
The testimony of record shows
the greatest frauds of every con
ceivable character known to ballot
box manipulators or ballot box staf
fers to havfl_b.een practiced.
I will give you a few methods of
the Democratic bosses in the per
petuation of frauds as appears on
record and-developed from sworn
witnesses, and which stand undenied,
in our last election.
-1 will first explain how the elec
tion managers and assistants are* se
lected to serve.
In Alabama they have an official
board in each county composed of
the sheriff, clerk, circuit court and
probate judge.
The law requires the official board
to give each political party a repre
aentation by a manager or inspector
clerk and marker of tickets. They
have small enclosures called booths
within the poll-room, where each
voter is required to go and prepare
his ballot before voting.
A marker of tickets is one who is
selected by tbe managers or inspect
ors to take his place within those
booths, and there remain and mark
or fix ballots for the illiterate voters.
The voter who receives his ballot
from the marker receives it folded,
and has to vote it as received if he
votes at all.
Now, the Democratic machinery
which controls the appointing board,
and the board itself, in appointing
managers of the several beats
throughout the black belt portion of
the district, appointed two partisan
Democratic managers to represent
the Democratic party and an igno
rant negro, who could neither rtad
nor write, to represent the Populist
party ; and in every beat the man
agers refused to allow or give tbe
Populist party representation by a
fixer in the booths with the Demo
cratic fixer,or a marker of tickets to
see that the illiterate voter got his
ticket or ballot fixed as he desired it
and not be swindled but of his vote.
They also refused to give the Popu
lists a clelk in each beat.
So it can be seen that it is no
trouble to swindle the honest voters
out of their votes through the
markets or fxers of tickets in this
State. The testimony of record will
show that prior to the election the
county re gistrars took their registra
tion books and went from house to
house, farm to farm, and insisted
upon the negroes registering and be
coming qualified voters before the
election. One negro manager testi
fied that it took about an hour and
a-half for the two white bosses to
prepare and fix the poll-list after
the polls were closed, and the count
was finished before being signed up
as correct.
The managers in each beat are
furnished with a registration list of
the qualified voters on election day,
and the poll list shows that the
names cn said list had been copied
from the registration list as fur
nished. The poll hst shows the
names to appear alphabetically. A
great many’ with the first letter or
sur-ntme beginning with J, one right
after another, and letter M, N, A,
W, and so on.
The poll lists, without other evi
dence, is enough to press the Demo
cratic party of Alabama cut of ex
istence.
'I he election frauds, as uneaithed i
in the contest by Judge Robinson,
the contestant, have made many I
honest Democrats blush with shame '
and say, “It wasn’t us, and we could
not approve of such methods.” Aj
few others are bold enough to say,
“It was politics and was forced upon
us to save the party.”
It has always keen the policy of
the Democratic party to discourage
the negro in becoming a qualified
voter and a prominent factor in
in the South, but in this
State in- the Democratic
piaity, as shown by testimony, is
to force the negio into politics,
ify him as a voter, and then get him
a t home on election day, but
ywffiSljSitne time stuff the ballot-box
'-''■Bt anti count it for their
m<.i■ rats in Alabama
HMlliis in order to save
pleat majority
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PEOPLE’S PARTY PAPER, ATLANTA, GA., MAY 3, 1895.
voters. The evidence on record will
show that the managers actually
voted several hundred negroes in
each best who in fact did not leave
their farms on election day. These
managers voted men who had re
moved from the county and who did
not reside within many miles of the
election precincts. They voted ne
groes who had besn dead from one
to ten years before the election.
They voted a white man who died
in the early part of last year. They
counted several thousand fictitious
negro voters who were not in exist
ence, and also negroes who don’t go
to the polls at all, well knowing that
their votes would not be counted as
cast. They had to do this to offset
the honest white vote in the white
counties.
Judge Robinson is a strong man
with his people, having seived six
years as clerk of the circuit court
j and eight years as probate judge of
Lee county, the office which he is
now filling. He is a strong Populist.
The action of tbe Democratic
party in the past, and what has been
developed in this contest case, has
driven many good citizens from the
I femocratic ranks into the Populist
party in Alabama.
Opelika, Ala. S. C. C. ■
Chufas! Chufas! Chufas!
Great Hog Crop. One peck plants
one acre—sl.so per peck. So far as
we know no other house in Georgia
has Chufas. Write at once for this
magnificent hog crop. The Howard
& Willet Drug Co., Augusta, Ga. (ts
What Is Sound Money?
From The Washington Post.
Editor Poet: Replying to your
editorial inquiries of to day under
the caption, “Time for Plain Talk,” I
beg to submit:
1. Sound money is that which
rests uj on a foundation strong and
broad enough to warrant and in
spire implicit confidence among its
users.
2. Honest money is that which is
at all times and continuously an
equitable common denominator of
values, that will honestly act as a
standard for deferred payments, and
that may not beceme the plaything
of spculators; the unit of which
shall remain absolutely changeless in
its purchasing power or command
over commodities.
3; Theie can be “sound” money
which does not rest on a gold foun
dation; furthermore, money that
rests on a gold foundation is inevi
tably unsotfnd. This is true, also, as
to silver, or a combination Os gold
and silver: wjib-4bis that
! the use of two metals broadens the
foundation, and to that extent in
creases the stability of the monetary
structure.
4. A dollar that will grow either
greater or less in general purchasing
power with the lapse of time is dis
honest and unsound. No “com
modity” dollar can be otherwise.
5. Gold is not, never was, and can
never be a “measure of values.”
Science truly asserts that “a meas
ure must be homogeneous wrth the
thing measured.” How then can
cold “measure” pig iron or corned
beef?
0. Value is a ratio or ielation ex
istirg between two powers or ob
jects. Being a ratio it can be
expressed only by figures, which are
immaterial, and deal with quanti- 1
ties; never by substances which are
material and deal with qualities.
Further, values or tatios can be ex
pressed, but never “measured.”
Again, value being a ration between
two things, it can never be possessed
by any one thing; hence, the theory
of intrinsic value lias now been dis
cat ded by practically all economies.
7. It is clear, therefore, that the
so-called “standard of value” is not
only an absurdity but a nonentity,
whether it be assumed to be of gold
or silver, or both.
8. What we call a “gold standard”
is merely an arbitrary arrangement
whereby we attempt to conform the
exchange value of our dollar of ac
count—i. e., its purchasing power—
to the ratio of exchange currently
existing between the world’s gold
bullion and the general commodity
mass, which ratio is constantly shift
ing, and with it our dollar of ac
count. By this unnatural complica
tion we not only do not secure for
ourselves that first grand requisite
of a sound and honest currency—a
i -'“'“ngeless monetary unit—but we
actually monetary stability im
possible. Take Professor Jevon’s
figures for proof: Between 1789
and 1809 the relative value of gold
fell 46 per cent; from 1809 to 1840
it rose 145 per cent; from 1849 to
1874 it again fell 20 per cent, and
since 1874 it has appreciated not
less than 25 per cent. Could any
thing be more absurd than to speak
of a “standard” subject to such fluc
tuations ? A rubber tape-line would
reliable.
■ BHaiiree silver” of the Stewart-
Sgkriety would simply mean
jjjglfrpn tallism until such time
Kibk law s of supply and
dSHulil restore the two
fijggural parity of I'l to 1.
•g&ans in f id, alternate
Smtallistu or the con-
tinuous single use of whichever
metal may remain the cheaper.
Practically, free silver wotlld add to
the soundness of our, present in
flated gold currency by broadening
its base, and to this extent would re
store confidence, raise prices, and
thereby stimulate trade.
10. Secretary Morton says in your
interview that “money is the sound
est for which throughout the com
merce of the civilized world there is
the most universal demand.” The
honorable gentleman here falls into
the common error of confounding
the monetary function with its phys
ical existence, just as the idol wor
shipper of the East associates a
wooden image with the occult
power it iff thought to represent.
The secretary ignores the fact that
money is a national, not an inter
national, creation. When he says
“money” he undoubtedly means
“gold,” and in grains (commodity)
not in dollars. If so, he is quite
right. The grain of gold is the cur
rent international. medium of ex
change, but -not as money ; it may
remain so forever, and will unless
some international money system
shall be hereafter adopted. Gold is,
perhaps, of all commodities, the best
adapted to the settlement of inter
national balances; but gold is not
money any more than baled hay, ex
cept by the incident of its use for
coinage, and in this respect paper is
its equal. Gold can never be a
“measure” or a “standard” of values,
nor can it be “money” except within
the jurisdiction indicated by the
stamp it bears and even then it is
the stamp and not the bullion that
endows it with the monetary func
tion.
11. Finally that money is the most
sound and honest (1) which most
perfectly and equitably performs the
monetary function of facilitating ex
changes ; (2) which represents, not
in its substance, but in its basis or
foundation, actual wealth so great
that its purchasing power remains
undiminished and its integrity un
tarnished ; (3) which, being divorced
from commodity, shall be freed from
the laws governing commodity, and
(4) the supply of au
o m re gnja t m -
With all
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Spanish Peanuts.
For hogs. Two crops a year. Next
to the Texas Rust Proof Oats. Pos
sibly the biggest Southern boon. One
bushel plants an acre 51.50 per
bushel. The Howard & Willet Drug
Co., Augusta, Ga. ts
The Ballot in the South.
From The Buffalo (New York) Express.
Editor Express : My attention was
directed to an editorial in your paper
which commended the ballot-reform
movement in the South, which I
have the honor to lead. It is grati
fying to me to see great papers all
over the country championing the
cause of the people of the South,
wdio are detei mined to have a free
vote and an honest count. The peo
ple of the North have understood, in
a general way, that election frauds
were characteristic of Southern elec
tions. There was a South of seces
sion and chattel slavery, and then a
South of reconstruction and so
called carpet-bag rule. Following
RIC(C & O’CONNOR SHOE Co.
ABOVE EVERYTHING! Is a high elevation. That’s the altitude of our values , they’re
the biggest in the State. Our stock of SHOES and HATS
§ is a mountain chain of BARGAINS.
,<T We have fried the fat out of our prices and are giving our patrons
‘ S such values as:
- -A/ — Our Gents’ $3.00, Iland-sewed, Calf Shoes for[£2.so.
Our Gents’ 2.25 Calf—all solid—shoes for 1.50.
Our Gents’ 2.00 Calf—all solid—shoes for 1.25.
Our Gents’ 1.25 Calf—all solid—shoes for 1.00.
tJ/X'y'r'i Our Gents’ Kip Brogans for 90c. 1.00 and 1,25.
1 Our Ladies’s3.oC Button Boots for 2.00.
. _ A§\ I i Our Eddies’ 2.00 Button Boots for 1.50.
_i » Our Ladies’ 1.50 Button Boots for 1.00.
n Our Ladies’ 1.00 Button Boots for 75,
\ I vSy" j\/\ YAV Our Ladies’ all solid Polkas for 75.
\ JiyN 1 1/ ' Gents’ aud Boys’ Straw and Wool Hats, 10c, 25c, 50c, 75c and SI.OO.
Merchants are invited to give us a call as we duplicate any
J Northern bills, and give same discount
Rice & O’Connor Shoe Co.,
V LEADING SHOE AND HAT DEALERS,
f i.No. Stores
A.TTG-TTSTJL, GA,
* f , Mention this paper when you write or callS 1
this came the South of Bourbon do
minion. Boarbonistn ascended to
power defiantly counting themselves
in, and by perpetuating themselves
in office by the same method. The
so-called rule of the carpet-baggers
had its abuses. The rule of the
Bourbons has been no less abusive
to the interests of the people in the
South, and an awakening sentiment
is aroused from its lethargy and
there is dawning no w a new politi
cal South. Its foundation is being
reared on reason and justice, and
sentiment.
After theTAnk and file of the peo
ple of the South have been dropping
away from the political leadership of
the Bourbons, they have found out
that the Bourbons will count them
out as quick and boldly as they did
what they called “negroes, radicals
and carpet-baggers.” The remark
able feature of the election.frauds in
Alabama to-day is that the Bour
bons hold the State government be
cause they have used the negro vote,
fraudulently counted, to overcome
the white vote of the State of Ala
bama. There are fifteen counties in
Alabama in which three-fourths of
the voting population of each are
colored. The remaining counties in
Alabama, populated almost entirely
by white people, have revolted
against the Bourbons and it is in
these fifteen black-belt counties that
the Bourbons count up majorities to
overcome the vote of the other conn
ties. Os course, the negroes do not
vote the Democratic ticket. Gov.
Oates said in New York that the
negroes had gotten so they didn’t
care to vote, and generally went
hunting on election day, which is an
admission that while the negro goes
hunting, the Bourbon ballot - box
stutters do the rest.
The Bourbons have so gerryman
dered the Congressional districts of
the State as to put a black-belt
county or two in each district, that
the Bourbon counting machine could
run up big enough majorities in the
black counties to overcome the hon
est majorities of the white counties.
This is the situation in Alabama. In
one Congressional district in Ala
bama it could not be arranged to
have the black county at its com
mand and the consequence is the
Republicans and Populists elected
their fusion candidate. However,
we have elected five other Congress-
Imen in Alabama, and, as their cases
Mre evident and just, they will be
Ekted when the next session con-
HKes, and the Bourbons will feel ti e
■lTect of this inroad being made
|mto the>r oligarch in Alabama
i I have come North to give the
country an intelligent understanding
of the efforts of the new political
South and of the methods of the
Bourbons. When the press of the
country turns the forces of public
sentiment against the dark crimes
committed against civil liberty in
the South, the business element of
this section, as well as the whole
people, will say : “The eyes of the
country are looking with scorn at
the political methods of the Bour
bons and it is causing capital and
emigration to refuse to come to us
aud we cannot afford to longer tol
erate this condition of affairs.”
The same national sentiment that
caused Black, of Georgia, to decline
to become the recipient of a stolen
seat in Congress, can cause the bene
ficiaries of no less political crimes in
Tennessee and Alabama to go down
before a wave of public disapproval
and of national outraged sense of
justice. In this work of agitation
and of education I feel sure that we
will have the co-operation of all
those who love republican govern
ment.
J. C. Manning (of Alabama).
New York, April 19.
From .tlabaiftn. <
Editor People’s Party Paper:
Enclosed please find .'sll.oo, for
which forward to following names
and addresses on accompanying
sheet The People’s Party Paper
twelve months from date.
I have read your paper with great
interest for two years, having sent
clubs through the Missorri World.
The people are delighted with both
papers,
Times are very close in money
matters; but 173,000 people—yes,
that many voters—in Alabama are
S clamoring for reform, and by No
vember, 1896, will be fighting for
j civil liberty under the banner of the
'i People’s party.
I thank God for the privilege of
; having lived to see the two old par
i ties die. Cleveland and Sherman
j did the work.
Alabama bids you Godspeed. I
will send more subscribers soon.
Yours for the right,
H. E. Brock.
Annie, Coffee Co., Ala., April 27.
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