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The Peoples Party Paper
VOLUME V.
ANSWER TO BOTKIN.
HON. J. R. HOGAN OF THE
COUNTY OF LINCOLN
TELLS THE PLAIN TRUTH
And Pats the Letter of the Au
gusta Frandoerat Under
Foot.
Knowing that the Augusta . Demo
crats have sought to justify, or at least,
palliate the open and flagrant frauds
committed in Richmond and Hancock
counties at the recent special congres
sional election in the Tenth district, by
the assertion that equal frauds were
committed in Lincoln and other Popu
lists counties. We sought an interview
with Hon. J. R. fPbgan, of Lincoln,
whose word goes without question
wherever he is known.
“Mr. Hogan, tell us something about
the charge of corruption made against
the Populists in your county by Mr.
Boykin Wright in his letter to the At
lanta Constitution some three weeks
ago?”
Mr. Hogan—“ Charging fraud ag-ainst
the Populists is a repetition of the old
fable of the wolf accusing the lamb
which was below him of muddying the
stream. How could the Populists com
mit fraud, if they had the will to do so,
when the Democrats had control of the
registration machinery.”
“Mr. Wright, in his letter, says that
his Legal Advisory Board, in their great
desire to give the Populists no just
grounds of complaint, rendered a decis
ion whicli enabled Lincoln county to
pole six hundred fraudulent votes.
How about it?”
“The few,Democrats of Lincoln county
like their brethren in Richmond, em
ployed a board of legal advisors, which
consisted of my friend Joe Strother, of
Lincoln, and Representative Fogarty,
of Augusta. These gentlemen with
mere zeal than legal wisdom, hatched
the tollowing plot to disfranchise sev
eral hundred Populist voters: They att-
Vfssed the Democratic registrars that all
names placed on the inv< stigation list
acd not examined should not be allow
ed to vote, and also that sueh districts
as were not reached by the time of
closing the books should be entirely
disfranchised. The registrars went to
work in this manner. They took up a
certain district, and whenever they
came to a name which they thought
that should be or could be thrown out
they placed the name on a list for future
investigation. It was plainly their
purpose to do this work so slowly, that
the time should expire before all the
districts could be examined. For in
stance. my own district, which con
tained but three registered Democrats
and one hundred and fifty Populists
was not reached at all, and according
to the plans of Messrs. Strother and
Fogarty would have b. en completely
disfranchised: thus losing the Popu
lists one hundred and fifty votes while
the Democrats lost but three. Now
when Mr. Fogarty returned to Augusta,
he was informed that he had made a
terrible blunder, that under the law,
every man iwho had not been legally’
summoned to appear before the regis
trars and given a hearing to show his
rights to remain on the voters list,
would be entitled to vote. Hence, Mr.
Fogarty came back to Lincolnton in
hot haste, bringing two men with him,
whom he said were expert clerks, and
volunteered their assistance to the reg
istrars to help finish up their work.
Mr. Fogarty and his clerks were noti
fied that their services were not needed
in Lincoln county and they’ returned
to Augusta. Boykin Wright knew
when he wrote that letter that his
charge of fraud in Lincoln was false.
He was sore because Strother and Fo
garty's scheme to unlawfully disfran
chise several hundred Lincoln county
Populists had proved such a dismal fail
ure and they had been “hoisted with
their own petard.” WhenFogarty return
cd to Lincoln and notified Joe Strother
and the Democratic registrars that Joe
Cumming and the other Augusta law
yers had declared the scheme to dis
franchise the Lincoln Populists was too
plain a violation of law for even a par
tisan Democratic judge to tolerate,
the registrars waked up and went to
work like fighting fire and sent out sev
eral hundred summons to different par
ties whose names had been previously
placed on the investigating list. The
right of all those who were summond
to vote was investigated and about 80
names were stricken, nearly half of
whom were Democrats. All that talk
about a row with Mr. Fogarty and his
clerks and the use'of shot guns is false.
There is no county in Georgia more
law-abiding than Lincoln. Suppose a
committee of Lincoln Populists had
gone to Augusta and offered to take
to p>e>d&l IF’x~l vllegew to None."
charge of the Augusta registration
lists? What would Boykin
have said about that? The election
was fair and whoever charges other
wise speaks ignorantly or willfully
falsifies the truth. All we want is that
the right thing be done, and if faiily
beaten none will more cheerfully sub
mit than we.
McGREGOR-fSMS.
I close cut the McGregor-isms this
week. For the next forty or fifty days
—more likely fifty than forty—l have
agreed to answer roll call in the Sen
ate, and be respectful to its presiding
officer, for which I will be paid twiee
as much as The People’s Party Paper
now pays mo for ten and twelve hours
of work per day. As I can’t be in two
places at one and the same time, 1 drop
two dollars per day and ten hours’
work, for four dollars a day arrt a re
volving chair to earn it in. If I have
made anybody mad by my squibbing
there is a “haven of rest’’ beyond Mil
ledgeville, if 1 cannot calm their anger
this side of the Oconee. If I have of
fended any one I regret it, and will
coca-cola the chasm any day they will
meet me at Jacobs’ Pharmacy. If I
have clone any good, the beneficiaries
can give me credit at their local bank
and I’ll draw on it when my “four-dol
lar-per-day” iob plays out.
The People’s Party Paper has
grown into national repute, and is now
the leading political paper of the South
in circulation and influence. I am
proud of the distinction of having con
tributed a mite to its prosperity.
Backed, as it is, by the country people
—the working men—the combined in
fluence of all the city dailies have been
powerless to overcome its influence
with the honest voters of the country.
Stand by your colors comrades ! You
have driven the enemy to the protec
tion of a partisan judiciary, and the
sheltering care of the legislature. An
other conflict, and you will rout them
from their places of temporary refuge.
In 1894 every Democrat denied there
was fraud permitted by the election
managers in Richmond county. Later
on they admitted it and apologized for
it on the ground that the Pops commit
ted frauds also. In 1895 they held the
election under a new law but kept the
management the polls in the h*»r»ds
of the same men who permitted the
frauds in 1894. J it not reasonable to
suppose that the thief who is convicted
of robbing your smoke house, but not
punished for the act, will commit the
same crime if necessity and opportunity
arise ? Does not every man in Georgia
know the frauds of 1894 could not have
been committed without the aid and
connivance of the election managers,
and dees any man doubt that the ras
cals who robbed Mr. Watson of his elec
tion in 1894 would not do the same
thing in 1895 if given the opportunity ?
That’s all wool and yard wide !
There was a spasmodic demand for
one issue of the Augusta Chronicle last
week. The proprietors had advertised
a “McGregorism” would appear in that
issue.
♦ * ♦
Even Ham of the “Georgia Cracker”
recognizes the death-gurggle of “Aunt
Nancy” of Augusta.
* * *
For at least six months the Augusta*
Chronicle has been lying in the morgue
awaiting recognition an ‘ interment.
Ham, of the “Georgia Cracker,” is the
only acquaintance who has thus far at
tempted to identify. Funeral services
will be. announced when the coroner
and sheriff turn the corpse loose.
* * *
The Atlanta Consti should not desert
the Augusta Chronic in its dying mo
ment. Pat and the Chronic stood by
Evan P. and the Consti, when Jim Bar
rett was throwing dynamite bombs.
Consti ought to stand by the Chronic in
its bombardment of McGregor.
* * *
Ten dollars reward for any evidence,
taken from any live newspaper in
America, showing that the Augusta
Chronicle is alive and doing business at
the old stand. References to the ‘Mc-
Gregor-ism” which appeared in its col
umns last week are barred.
* * *
“Brother McGregor says to Watson :
‘I can’t get the negroes out at night.’
Why was it, do you suppose, Brother
McGregor? They say Mr. Watson
fared the same way in Washington
county. The Democrats down there
say the negroes are tired of Watson
and his unfulfilled promises. See?”—
Augusta Chronicle. Yes, I not only
see but I saw and I partly eonquored.
There is a dirt mound at Hall’s X Roads
in Washington county, which removes
my answer from tiro realm of supposi
tion. The mound covers John Hall, a
Populist, whose body received a bullet
intended far Rev. If. S. Doyle, a colored
man who was exercising the right of
speaking and preaching to his own
color. ’ It was fired by a hired white
Democrat from South Carolina, (in
“fulfillment” of the threats made by
ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1895.
the Democrats), at the conclusion of a
Populist meeting of colored voters of
AV ashing ton and Jefferson counties,
held at night! That is why I could
not get the “negro out at night.” Fur
thermore, it is currently reported in
Washington county that this mid-night
assassin, who died recently, confessed,
upon his death-bed, that he was hired
by the Democrats to kill one of the
colored speakers who was advocating
Mr. Watson’s election. At a Democratic
judicial investigation of this assassina
tion of a Populist by a Democrat, the
accused was acquitted. Another reason
why I couldn't “get the negro out at
night” I have a few more reason of
the same sort applicable to other coun
ties. Do you want them ?
* * *
The Chronicle says: “The Demo
crats in Washington county say the
negroes are tired of Watson and his
unfulfilled promises. ” The negroes,
who ought to know more about it than
the Democrats, told me they were
tired of the Democrats having them
killed, and afraid to meet in a political
meeting at night in consequence, of the
“fulfilling” of the promise made by the
Democrat who killed John Hall.
Feel that knot on back of my head ?
It is the result of a fall from a fainting
fit I experienced upon reading in the
Augusta Herald that the receipts of the
People’s Party’ Paper “cannot be less
than forty thousand dollars.” Oh, rny,
what a liar the Herald is. First, it
said: Mr. Black was assisted by his
friends to the polls and deposited his
ballot for the Democrats nominee.
Second, it said: Mr. Black did not
vote at all and denounced any one who
30 DAYS EXTENSION!
More Money More Grace!
■Victory is in Sischt.
i.
*
The Advance in Cotton Advances Our
Subscription List at the Rafe of
01TE HUNDRED PER DAY!
The Last Week in September swelled
Our subscription List Beyond 17,000.
IF THE HOYS WILL KEEP UP TEAT LICK
WE WILL GO TO
25,000 in October and Rescue Georgia in 1896!
P J The prize in sight invites you to sac-
I rifice something now that peace and
U Uli 11 UUvu prosperity may reign then and here
after in old Georgia and the Union.
50 Cents invested in The People’s Party
Paper will do. more to convert your friend and neigh
bor than SSO invested in. liquor and Brass Bands.
Every man who has tried it has made a convert from
Hamiltonism to Jeffersonism.
The fight of 1896 will be drawn upon these lines.
THE DOLLAR VS. THE CITIZEN
will be the issue. The Demo-Republicans will take
the side of “The Dollar.” The People’s Party Paper
and the Populists will defend the cause of “The Citizen!”
In such a contest the Farmer and the Laborer be
longs on OUR side. The banker and his minions
will endeavor to Force them by the ‘party lash” to es
pouse the cause of “The Dollar.” The issue is now
before you.
PREPARE FOR THE BATTLE
By supplying your neighbor and friend with good amu
nition. To enable you to do it, we will extend the 50
cent offer till November ist, when this proposition will
positively close. 50 cents pays for the People’s Party
Paper one year if your order is put in now.
Address all orders to
People’s Party Paper,
39 West Mitchell St., Atlanta, Ga.
said he dirt as a liar—did not use the
word “liar.” but one that meant liar.
Now it says “McGregor has the easiest
snap be ever had ; gets nice salary for
his newspaper work, much more than
the Herald pays any of its staff 1 ’ or
words to. the same effect. Again, it
says “Watson has seventeen thousand
subscribers to his paper at one dollar
each —seventeen thousand dollars.” All
this in face of the fact that the Herald
has been gratuitously advertising that
The People's Party Paver could be
obtained at 50 cents per year instead of
one dollar I Oh my, ray, my, what an
incomparable liar the Herald has de
veloped into I “McGregor is verj’ fond
of McGregor ; the peace of the people
be damned is his motto" exclaims the
Herald as it folds its “mantle of
silence" upon McGregor and opens its
lying columbiad upon Watson. Writh
ing, twisting, sweating, under this load
of eoneentarted potash. I calmly kick
from under the “mantle of silence”
Ito remark : If the Herald regards its
' ward-heelers, its 2! year-old negroes.as
j “the People,” I acknowlege the pa
-1 ternity of the motto quoted, and The
Herald has my consent to sterotype
the motto and keep it as “standing
matter.”
* * *
If your Democratic Registrars, your
ward-heelers, your 21 year-old negroes
and your Democratic managers of elec
tion (the same who allowed the ballot
boxes in Richmond county to be stuffed
| with thousands of fraudulent ballots
[in 181)4) have suddenly grown honest
under Mr. Fleming’s Registration law,
; the Democratic papers in the city of
Augusta should aid us in a legal effort
that might establish that fact. Why
do you object ?
* * *
The Augusta Herald is getting hot
under the collar; it had out-grown
the Chronicle's three hundred-out-of •
town-subscribers; the proprietors of
the Chronicle announce the appearance
of a “McGregor-ism tomorrow;” out-of
town-circulation jumps 500 per cent:
this feat put the Chronicle about even
with the Herald; Herald gets mad and
informs it readers that Watson's paper
ean pav McGregor more than the
Chronicle and therefore no more “Mc-
Gregor isms” will likely appear in the
Chronicle. Selah.
11 * *
Texnii.le, Ga., Sept. 20th, 1895.
Dear Tom : —Got here Monday. Had
a small mectir g at Limestone Spring,
and made appointment for same place
Saturday night. Little better luck last
night at Hall Cross Roads. Have an
appointment for Monday- night in Wo
macks.
I find the rank and file firm, bravo
and anxious to whip the fight. They
need<leaders and directions. Can't get
the negroes out at night. My plan to
carry this county by 800 is to mass every
available man in Sanderville on Octo
ber 2nd, by sun up. Take possession
of the town and polls and vote every
negro the Democrats haul there. It can
be done under their law, and the boys
here are willing and anxious to do the
work. It will be using the stick they
cut for our bead against them. If we
can do this we can send telegrams ev
ery hour to Augusta having' “Watson
leading at Sandersville,” and blast the
expectation of Wright A. Company, if it
does not demoralize their workers at
the Augusta polls.
II e can carry this county by 890 ma-
jority if the above move can be per
fected. Yours truly,
C. E. McGregor.
The above is the letter which has
created a demand for the Augusta
Chronicle. I wrote every line of it.
The program of the Democrats as given
to me was to carry the negroes from
the Populist precincts to the precinct
at the county cite and vote them. To
counteract this I advised our white
voters to meet the Democrats at their
own game. That five or six hundred
of t hem rendezvous at Sandersville and
see that the negro had an opportunity
to vote as his individual choice dictated.
I advocated this publicly, and coun
seled against any Populist carrying
even a pistol or a drop of liquor. The
Democrats from some cause, not known
tto me abandoned the herding pt the
negroes at Sandersville, and thus pre
vented the necessity of our men going
to Sandersville. The day of bull-doz
ing the Populists has passed in the
Tenth district, and the Democrats out
side of Richmond and Hancock coun
ties, lam glad to say, so act. It will
be a blessed day for Georgia when the
men who control the Democratic party
in those two counties, abandon bull
dozing and thieving tactics. lam sat
isfied that the readiness of the Popu
lists of Washington county to peace
ably enforce their rights, had a salu
tory effect upon the handful of Demo
crats who desired to secure a victory at
any price. A comparison of the vote
of the Sandersville precinct with
former elections will show that “Mc-
Gregor’s plan” had a quite healthy
effect.
* » *
While the Augusta Chronicle is en
gaged in unearthing election incidents
will it please turn its search light upon
the march of Fogarty to the county of
Lincoln '.’ Who sent him and his ex
perts into Lincoln county to take pos
session of its registration machinery
What superior court judge appointed
him and his experts Registrars ? Fo
garty is almost as Irish as McGregor is
Scotch ! Who is Fogarty and where is
he from ? How long did he remain in
Lincoln comity, and why didn't he stay
longer ? Ta-ra-ra-ra-boom de-ay !
* » *
The lawlessness of the Creek Indians,
who fled from middle Georgia to the
banks of the Chattahoochee river, seems
to have been imparted to the present
denisons of Muscogee county. There
has been two vacancies in public offices
in that county since the Georgia Legis
lature passed Bill Fleming’s disfran
chisement act, called a Registration
Law. One of the vacancies was occas
sioned by the death of the Sheriff—the
other vacancy was caused by the death
of Representative Morgan McMichael.
The Democrats of Muscogee ignored
Fleming's law in the election to fill
these vacancies. The illegally elected
Sheriff is discharging the duties of his
office, all the same as if he had been
legally elected. While the newly elec
ted Representative. John D. Little was
sworn in as a member of the Georgia
Legislature with all the solemnity that
usually aceompan es the taking of the
oath by a legally elected Representa
tive. Great is Georgia Democracy 1
They can’t frame a law that they will
respect after they enact it. i
It is not the radical man who is need
ed to lead the people, it is the honest,
sober, fearless man who loves human
hood. and who is as cool as he is brave
in the presence of the foe —Ex.
NUMBER 6.
THE LEGISLATURE
AND 8 TATE ALLIANCE CON
VENE IN ATLANTA.
IMPORTANT LEGISLATION.
The Former Wrestles With the
Registration Law, the Latter
With the Exchange Fund.
On Wednesday the Legislature and
State Alliance convened in regular
session. The Legislature met at the
appointed hour, passed a few resolu
tions and adj' urned for the day. They
draw a milage of ten cents a mile from
the State Treasury, and free passes
from the Railways as also a per diem
of four dollars from tha State. Hence
they are in no burry to dispatch
business. For them the Cleveland
parade and the Midway present attrac
tions superior to any that ean be found
at the Capitol.
The farmers draw no milage, no per
diem and no free passes. They also
met at the appointed hour and imme
diately’ buckled down to business.
May be business has greater a'traction
for them or may’ be they have no spare
funds to invest in the seductive myster—
ries of the Midway’. Among the ques
tions of most general interest coming
before the Legislature will be the
"Anti Barroom Bill” and the Regis
tration Law. The outcome of the
former is in doubt, with odds in favor
ol the Bill, but it is certain that the
Bill will not go through without a hard
fight.
As to the latter, there is no doubt
but that the masses of the people with
out regard to party, desirt fair and
honest elections, but the democratic
politicians and office holders know that
an honest vote would sweep them out
of place and,power.
They control both houses of the Leg
islature as well as the Executive veto
and ourfai .h in the old baptist doctrine
of human depravity is too strong to
permit our hopes of securing an hon
est and fair Election Law to assuue a
very roseate hue.
The most knotty’ question before the
farmers is to determine wiat to do
with the remnants of the Exchange
Fund The question will likely elicit
earnest discussion.
State Peoples Party Executive
Committee.
The State Executive Committee con
venes just as we are going to press.
Hence we are not able to give any ac
count of their action in this issue. Will
give a full report of their proceedings
in next issue.
If the members of the State Commit
tee correctly represent the .spirit ani
mating the rank and file of the party,
nothing—not even Fleming’s Registra
tion law nor Tammany- methods can
prevent the Populists from carrying
the State next fall.
Gave Birth to Five Children.
Delate, 0., Oct. 15.—Mrs. John
Langdon, the wife of a farmer living
near here, gave birth yesterday, with
in a space of three hours, to five chil
dren, all of them males. For a time
the unique event was given no cred
ence. Investigation, however, con
firmed the report. The five children
are apparently fully developed, though
frail specimens of humanity-, and the
attending physician believes they will
all live. Mrs. Langdon has experi
enced no serious results from the ex
traordinary- accouchment. She is past
35 years and has three other children.
She weighs 140 pounds ana her hus
band 165.
The Journal Guilty of Telling
The Truth!!!
Headlines from Tuesday's Edition.
“The seat of Government Vansferred
to Atlanta. The leaders of the Nation
accorded an unprecedented welcome
upon their arrival in this city at 4:30
o’clock this af.erno'n. Trip from
Washington. It was one continuous
series of demonstrations at every stop
ping point . Their arrival in this city.’ l
AU true [--Upon his arrival a dense '
crowd of several score met him, and by
actual count, six men took off their
hats. A special of ten cars from Mont
gomery, Alabama, bringing admirers
of the I’resident and his cabinet was
journeyed with just TWO people I!
Oh, yes, the welcome was both “un
precedented” and merited.
Mr. T. A. Lee Dead.
We have received notice through the
Tallrpoosa Alliance of Carroll county,
of the death of Mr. T. A. Lee, a leading
member of that Alliance. Want of
space prevents our publishing the reso
lutions accompanying the notice.
An exchange say’s the Union ccunty,
lowa, Democrats at Creston, Sept. 27,
pulled off the county fight and nom-t
i nated a Populist - The Populists are
I dying out. See ?
