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A Boycott not the Remedy.
“There is a movement on foot in
the Tenth districi,” says a corres
pondent, “to ship this year’s crop of
cotton to Charleston instead of Au
gusta.”
The correspondent further adds
that the movement had its birth in
the treatment that has been and is
being accorded Mr. Watson at the
hands of the Augusta politicians.
The People’s Party Paper ad
mires the loyalty which actuates Mr.
Watson’s friends in this matter, but
retaliation as a means of righting a
wrong is a bad policy and should
only be inaugurated as a last resort.
It should be the aim of every good
Populist to maintain friendly rela
tione with the people of Augusta so
far as business transactions are con
cerned. It is true that the Tenth
district has elected Mr. Watson to
Congress three times and that Au
gusta has permitted him to serve
only one term out of the three. But,
many of the business men who would
be injured by a boycott, are in no
way responsible for the injustice
done Mr. Watson and should not be
made to suffer for the sins of others.
There are hundreds of good people
in Augusta who hang their heads in
“ shame when the election frauds of
Richmond county are mentioned,
and who would willingly invest the
ballot box with the sanctity of the
altar if they could. The will
of such people ultimately triumphs,
and like leaven it has already begun
to work in Augusta. The frauds
practiced on Mr. Watson and the
majority which overwhelmingly
elected him to Congress three times,
are stinking in the nostrils of every
honest man in the district, and in a
little while public sentiment will wage
a boycott which will know the
lintels that are sprinkled with
blood, and fall like the blight of death
upon guilty heads alone.
The only obstacles that now stand
between Mr. Watson and Congress
are a handful of Augusta politicians
and W. Y. Atkinson, the Democratic
/ Governor of Georgia. For the sake
I of Democratic expediency they are
f "delaying the election which under
terms of a sacred compact should
HLe been called within thirty days
HLr Major Black repudiated the
forced upon him by
But such tactics, conceived as they
were in partisan conspiracy, will
only strengthen the loins of justice
for the inevitable emergency which
the Governor must sooner or later
name.
Then the PEOPLE will speak,
and in the echo of their voice will
thunder the edicts of an effectual
boycott.
Wait.
What Does This Mean !
The Executive Committee of the
■ Georgia Weekly Press Association
met at the Kimball House last Thurs
day.; Those present were S. W. Cole
man, Cedartown; W. Trox Banks
ton, Ringgold; P. T. McCutchen,
Franklin; W. A. Shackelford, Lex
ington; Alf. Herrington, Swainsboro;
Si. W. i Hawkins and J. W. Ander
son., .Covington ; S. W. Ryals, and
Miss Ellen Dortch, of Milledgeville.
They met to decide upon a place
for the annual meeting of the Asso
ciation. They conln’t decide. They
met once before this to settle this
question, and when they adjourned
the question was unsettled. They
tackled the question at their last an
nual session, and the question whip
ped the tight, and when the Execu
tive Committee departed from the
Kimball last week the place for the
aunnal meeting remained an unsolv
ed factor.
Having disposed of the business
for which it was convened in truly
Democratic style, these promulgators
of Democratic thought, according to
the Atlanta Journal tackled a mat
ter of vital importance—
“ That of regulating the county
printing. It seems that as soon as a
Populist is elected to office he lays
his plans to capture the county print
ing by using his prestige as a county
officer, and establishes a newspaper.
Now it is a well known fact that
most weekly papers have to struggle
for existence and this county print
ing is their largest source of revenue,
and when that is taken away old es
tablished newspapers are likely to be
compelled to suspend- The com-
PEOPLE’S PARTY PAPER, ATLANTA, GA., MAY 3. 1895,
mittee decided to have a bill intro
duce! in the legislature next year
providing that the official organ of
each county shall be named by the
Judge of the Superior Court in
whose circuit the county is.”
Who is scared and what are they
scared about, anyhow ?
Sister Ellen Dortch and the other
brethren of the Democratic press,
have been telling their readers that
the Populist .Party in Georgia was
dead, and only a remnant remained
to wag the tail. That in the elec
tions last January for county officers
that Democracy recaptured the lost
counties, and the Pops had gone to
their long sleep. And now here
comes Sister Ellen and the other
Democratic brethren crying because
the Populists are getting some of the
county printing which—according to
this Executive (Committee —is very
injurious to the vitality of the Dem
ocratic newspapers.
Just why a Democratic newspaper
can’t subsist without public pap as
well as a Populist paper can, the
Committee has failed to state.
It appears to us, however, that a
Populist paper couldn’t get the coun
ty advertising unless the county of
ficers gave it to them; and the coun
ty officers couldn’t award it unless
the Populists elected them; and the
Populists couldn’t elect the officers
unless they had a majority of votes;
and that majority couldn’t be ascer
tained without a fair count; and a
fair count couldn’t be obtained with
out a division of managers; and a
division of election managers was re
fused by chairman . Steve Clay and
the partisan Judiciary.
Therefore there must be some
other cause for the appeal which
Sisters Ellen, Si, Trox, Jim and Sam
intend making to the Georgia Legis
lature. What is it, dear sisters?
Is it a move to stiffie the freedom
of the press, and thereby prevent
honest criticism of partisan judges?
It could result in nothing else if the
statement that “without the county
printing the old established news
papers are likely to be compelled to
suspend,” as made by sister Dortch
and the other brethren, is true.
Conservative Georgians who have
heretofore believed that Democracy
meant the rule of the people would
do well to make a note of the rapid
strides their leaders are making to
ward centralizing all power over
their freedom and franchise into the
hands of the judges of the Superior
Courts.
With the Reform Ga-ld-bug Club
of Wall street writing editorials for
your county Democratic papers, and
the judges of the Superior Courts
threatening them with starvation if
they tell the truth, you will have lit
tle opportunity to gain healthy infor
mation in reading them.
Manacles! Yes. Then—slavery 1
How Would it Do to Change I
“Representative business men and
Bankers” have been running the
policy of this government since 1873.
How do the common people—
farmers, doctors, lawyers, retail mer
chants, mechanics and day laborers
—like the result ?
Don't you think the time has come
when the Representative Business
Men and Bankers should take a
back seat and let the common people
take a hand ?
We have existed so long upon
prospective prosperity which the Re
presentative Business men have
promised us that a square meal of
sweet potatoes is becoming a luxury.
Silver aitd Silver.
Gradually the old parties are com-,
ing around to accepting the princi
ples of the People’s party and the
time is not far distant when all the
planks in the People’s party plat
form will be embodied in probably
both the old parties’ platforms. The
Illinois Democracy will meet June 4
at Springfield to decide on the stand
to be taken on the currency ques
tion, and from the present outlook
will declare in favor of free silver.
The Democrats are not extra good
at sticking to their platform, and if
such a move is made by the national
party it must be to catch votes. This
don’t go, and people who are in fa
vor of free silver clear to the back
bone will remain working with and
for the People’s party. The free
silver party ’lately organized is also
another means to detract votes from
the People’s party. Another scheme
is for the Republican press to be di
vided on this question, being for free
silver in States where they want it
and against it in States which are
against it. We would be very much
pleased to have either one of the old
parties take up the Peop.e’s t arty
doctrines, and would be willing to
join in an! help them as much as is
in our power, if we could believe
that they were doing it, not to catch
votes, but because it is right—a
tney know it to be. The best way
to do is for the members of the Peo
ple’s party to stick together and fight
all oncomern, and if a matr is honest
in hi« convictions and knows what
he is doing, the name ot the party
advancing his belief will cut no
figure, but he will j it and work
lor it. It is a great work but we
are gaining, and it is pleasing to a
Populist to find tae old parties recog
nizing the fact that it is necessary to
declare for one of our principle
planks or die. Work for the Peo
ple’s party and you work for free
coinage and equal rights to all and
special privileges to none.—Central
Citizen.
The Administration Arrigued.
Three or four men have conspired
to secure a practical monopoly of
this country’s meat supply. These
men are worth from $25,000,000 to
$50,000,000 apiece, but they are not
centent. By virtue of their mo
nopoly they are at this moment
making all the people in the nation
pay them two prices for every
pound of meat they eat.
Another group of men have se
cured a monopoly of the mineral oil
supply. They, too, are multi-mil
lionaires of insatiable greed. They
are at this moment compelling
everybody in the country to pay
from two to three times as much for
light as they should.
Another small group of conspira
tors have control of the anthracite
coal supply. They are levying black
mail upon the people in precisely
the same way.
Another small group of multi-mil
lionaires have control of sugar, and
are intrenched in their monopoly by
laws purchased in the Senate of the
United States. They are taxing
everybody in the country to add to
their already preposperous wealth.
What are we going to do about it?
We have compelled Congress to
enact laws for the punishment of
the conspirators and for the re
straint of their consmracies. But
the administration wnr*h was in
power when those laws were en
acted u.terly failed to enforce them.
Its alliance with the conspirators
was open and flagrant and the pur-s
chase price of it was a campaign
contribution. J
We elected a new administratisH
pledged by every possible
to execute these laws a
pledged to enact more
laws if necessary. The CongfiSß
did its duty in part. The
tration betrayed the people utterlß
and again the price was a campaign]
contribution. It put a trust attorney,
in the attorney-general’s office. He
seized the opportunity to discredit
the anti-monopoly laws in his first
official report, and even to deny the
authority of Congress to pass any
laws at all against trusts and mo
nopolies. Such pretenses as he has
made of efforts to enforce these laws
have been transparent shams, de
signed solely to discredit the law
and prevent its enforcement.
The president, though elected in
part on this issue, and though spe
cially and personally pledged to
carry out the declarations of the
platform, has steadfastly refused to
remove the whisky trust’s attorney
from the law department or in any
other way to respond to the popular
desire for relief from the intolerable
trust oppression.
Now, what are we going to do
about it ? This is really the domi
nant question in American politics.
New York World.
The Silver Party.
The People’s Party is the only
straight silver party in existence.
Had it not been for the devoted, un
selfish labors, of its 2,000 newspapers,
10,000 orators, 2,000,000 voters, the
cause of silver would (have been for
ever lost. During all the time that
we have made this fight without a
dollar of aid from any source, except
the contributions of the people, we
have been constantly opposed, ridi
culed and vilified by some of the men
and organizations claiming to repre
sent the very essence of the silver
cause. While they have squandered
thousands of dollars in useless efforts,
they have, by adhering to the two
old parties, or trying to create a new
one, thus divided the silver forces
and been a constant hindrance to our
progress.
The mass of our voters are not
mine owners. They represent the in
dustrial classes, and have lost more in
one day by the demonetization of sil
ver than the mine owners do in a year.
By Senator Jones'estimate, the wheat
growers lose $100,000,000 a year,
the cotton planters $250,000,000 and
the wage workers, since 1873, enough
money to build and equip all the rail
roads in thejUnited States. We will
continue the battle for free coinage
of gold and silver at the ratio of 16
I, without consent of any foreign
nation on earth, and we extend fra
ternal greeting and the warm hand
of fellowship to all who advocate the
vital doctrines of the People’s Party
on the money question, and invite
them to join with us in this great
struggle, with the full assurance that
the People’s Party fetters the con
science of no human being, that we
are simply moving on educational
lines until we can all m<et in 1896
and prepare a line of battle to n eet
the enemy. There is no hope from
either of the 010 parties. The Peo
ple’s pa-ty polled the second highest
vote in twenty-two states. The
Democratic party is dead in the West.
It is reeking with fraud and odious
with ballot box stuffiing, and if we
had an honest election it would not
carry a Southern S'a e.
It deserves to die, and both it and
the Republican party, as represented
by their leaders, are in the grasp of
the money power, and each wants to
preserve the clutch of the banks over
the nation. If 4,000 national banks
were not fighting silver the battle
would soon be won. Their power to
issue notes must be destroyed, and
on this line that the government
shall issue the money, we will wage
the battle, inviting all the forces who
favor this doctrine to unite with us.
—Advance Thought.
How it Is Arrived At.
Ever since gold and silver have
been used as money the ratio has
been ascertained by taking all the
gold and silver in the world available
for money and coin the same number
of dollars out of each metal. For
instance, if there is one ton of gold
and ten tons of silver, the ratio would
be 10 to 1 ; if one ton of gold and
six, en tons of silver, then 16 to 1 ;
if one ton of gold an I twenty tons of
silver, 20 to 1. This i swhat is meant
by the coinage ratio —“that propor
tion by weight which will give the
exact same number of full legal ten
der coins from each metal.” The
statistics show that if all the gold
and silver available for money were
coined, the present coinage ratio
would be about 16 to 1. If the pro
duction of gold were to cease
altogether, and the present produc
tion of silver continue, even then it
would require many years for the
coinage ratio to reach 17 to 1, the
annual production being so small as
compared with the quantity in use.
When the raiio has been ascertained
by this rule, established by the
and followed by mankind
coinage of
MBgjgKakohl and silver nil:
Sjm.ilit yine: . mge
W&d labor. Tim
.1 the o eent
WP? ■ reiemlteil
§||ri:ir, ■; lon cent
SSKlue. The idea
MBPnioney is a recent
bug to contuse
value in
no existence in truth, it
exists only in the imagination of some
benighted gold monometallist; the
leaders of the gold sentiment know
better, but it answers this purpose.—
Wetzel Republican.
“The Crusader.”
This is the suggestive name of a
new straight-out prohibition paper,
recently started in Atlanta. It is
edited by Rev. Sam I’. Jones, Dr. W.
A. Candler, President of Emory
College, and Dr. J. B. Gambrell,
President of Mercer University ; and
numbers among its contributors Hon.
Walter B. Hill, Hon. C. R. Pringle,
Mrs. W. H. Felton, and other strong
writers and workers in the temper
ance cause. It is a small paper, but
a decidedly live one. It is published
by E. Christian, the veteran journal
ist, at 102| Whitehall St., at 50 cents
a year.
Dr. Bowes Sick.
Dr. AV. W. Bowes, the eminent
specialist of Atlanta, who is so favor
ably known in the South, is seriously
sick at his home. Dr. Bowes’ long
residence in Atlanta and his conspic
uous success in the treatment of stub
born diseases, hate won for him the
confidence and admiration of the
public, and his illness will occasion
general regret. It is to be hoped,
however, that he will soon regain his
health.
The farmer who votes with either
old party votes to increase the bur
den of his taxes, his interest and his
mortgage. He is voting all luxuries
and even the common necessaries of
life away from his family. He is
voting educational advantages away
from his children. Yea, worse than
that, he is voting them a heritage of
interest, mortgage and perpetual
serfdom. A man who will do this
does not deserve the name of father.
He ought to be compelled to inhabit
a lone island ten million miles from
civilization, without the cheering in
fluence of wife and children. He
ought to be denied the use of the
ballot until he has taken a reasonable
pride in cultivating his brains so as
to comprehend his financial needs
and interests.—Pittsfield, (ID.) Ad
vocate.
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