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People's Partu Paper,
Entered at the Post C slice nt Atlanta, Ga., as
second-class matter, Oct. 15, 1801.
Office 39 West Mitchell Street.
(Concordia Hall Ituilding'.)
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v raoum
Ard Meeting of Board of Direc
tors of Our Publishing Co.
A convention of all the stockholders
of Our Publishing Company is here
by called to mett at the office of Tub
People's Party Paper in Atlanta,
Ga., at 10 o’clock a. m., on Dec. 18,
1895.
New officers are to be elected and
a new Board of Directors chosen.
Other matters of importance may
come before the Convention and
every stockholder should be present
either in person or by proxy.
This October 28th, 1895.
Tu os. E. Wats ox,
President.
Mackie Sturgis, Secretary.
Comrades, Bead This.
This paper is not the property of
any individual. No one person owns
a controlling interest in its stock.
The People’s Party Paper be
longs to the people, to the hundreds
■who own its stock.
The President of the company has
done hie level best to make the paper
a success. In his’judgment, it is the
best piece of newspaper property to
l be found in the South, when the
small amount of money invested in it
is considered.
But we have not run it for profit.
Our chief aim has been to make it an
educator of the masses,—an instructor
in political history and political
economy.
During the dull summer just passed
we put the price down to fifty cents,
to enable our people to get the paper
if they really wanted it.
On thrt basis, we have enrolled
some 18,000 names.
We honestly believe that no other
Populist weekly paper in all the land
has so large a list of yearly prepaid
subscribers.
But now the dull season is over.
Eight cent cotton has put money into
your pockets. To carry the paper
through without loss on these 18,000
names, we are compelled to go back
to our regular subscription prices.
One dollar per year; seventy-five
cents for clubs often.
Remember this friends, and re
member that your paper has a right
to expect your constant friendship
and your constant efforts to extend
its circulation.
This is your paper, and you must
guard its welfare just as you would
that of any other property belonging
to you.
Without your help, we can do
nothing. Yours respectfully,
Tiios. E. Watson.
President.
So Tom Watson is actually to con
test Mij or Rlask’s seat in congress.
Watson will have another oppor
tunity to speak in the house. Every
contestant is allowed to make a
speech in his own behalf.—E. W.
8., in Atlanta Constitution.
Os course every contestant is al
lowed to make a speech in his own
behalf. That was the unbroken
rule of the American Congress until
it fell into the hands of a modern
Democraay which refused Tom Wat
son the privilege of making “a
speech” in defense of his rights.
yoChat is not the only honest rule of
tivection that Tom Watson has com
indi«lled the Democrats to violate that
But w might retain office.
t ia the p-
PEOPLE’S PARTY PAPER ATLANTA, GA,, NOVEMBER 1, 1895.
To the True-Blue Alliancemen
of Georgia.
The People's Party Paper has
battled for your interests until your
principles have been encorporated in
to the platform of the strongest po
litical party in Georgia. When
other city papers abandoned you
and your cause the People’s Party
Paper stood by you and your prin
ciples. When your chosen leaders
deserted you and your principles for
office and patronage, the editor of
this paper fought the harder for you.
When you most needed a friend, you
found it in the Peoples Party Pa
per. In your days of prosperity we
joyed with you, and in your days of
adversity we sorrowed with you.
Your people have been our people;
your God out God.
We believe you are our friends
and co-laborers in this great cause o’ (
political reform, and that you are
willing to do all in your power to
aid and extend tho grand' work
which you have so ably and persist
ently advocated.
The pro-rata of the Exchange
Fund which will be distributed
to the different Alliance organiza
tions, in accordance with the action
of the Trustee Stockholders at their
late meetii g in Atlanta, will be an
insignificant amount to each organi
zation— a mere bagatelle. Yet if it
could be concentrated to one object
it would accomplish great good. We
therefore make you two propositions
as follows:
First. To invest the amount your
Alliance is entitled to in stock of
Our Publishing company.
Second. To place the same as a
deposit with Our Publishing compa
ny, and use it as a missionary fund
to plant the People’s Party Paper
in the home of such friends as you
may direct.
if ycur Alliance should adopt
the first proposition, it would be an
investment and a nucleus to keep
your Alliance together for future
usefulness. If you should adopt the
second proposition, it would make
converts to your principles and bal
lots for your party.
When your Alliance meets bring
this ma’ter before it, and if it adopts
either proposition notify J. T. Dav
enport, of Douglassville, which one
you adopt and instruct him to for
ward us the amount due your Al
liance and take our receipt for the
same. C. E- McGregor for
Our Publishing Co.
Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 28th '95.
Populist State Convention.
In accordance with the Resolution
adopted by the Executive Committee
at its recent meeting, I hereby call
for ameetingof the People’s Party of
Georgia in Convention at the Capitol
in Atlanta, at noon, on the 18th day
of December 1895.
Each county will be represented
by delegates chosen in a county meet
ing called for that purpose by the
Chairman of each county.
Each county will be entitled to
twice as many votes in the State
Convention as it has Representatives
in the General Assembly, but the
number of delegates each county
shall tend is not limited.
County chairmen should call their
county conventions at once so that
delegates may be chosen.
The State Convention is called for
the purpose of selecting delegates to
the National Convention of the Peo
ple’s Party.
These delegates will probably be
instructed by the Convention as to
what changes, if any, the party in
this State desires to make in the Na
tional Platform.
Consequently there should be a
full representation of the party in
this important meeting.
The undersigned deems it proper
that he should give notice that he
will, at the approaching Convention,
tender his resignation as Chairman
of the Executive Committee. He
gives this notice in order that the
party shall have ample time to con
sider the choice of his successor.
Tiios. E. Watson,
Chairman Ex. Com.
Two Heroes who Deserve Success
One day last summer two weary
dust-covered travellers tramped the
“big road.” from the rail-road station
of Mclntyre to the county-site of
Wilkinson county, the beautiful vil
lage of Irwinton.
As they trudged into town and in
quired for Judge Cannon, the village
loungers (who are inevitably Demo
crats) looked upon them sneeringly
and wondered who those tramps
were, and wbat they wanted.
In good time the information ar
rived.
It developed that the dusty travel
lers were printers, that Judge C innon
had determined that the Pops should
have a newspaper in Wilkinson; that
a printing press, and a lot of babies
and other necessary family furniture
was on the way to Irwinton; that
the press was put down-stairs in an
empty store, while the wife and
babies were quartered up-stairs; that
the printers had hardly got their c iats
off before the first issue of their
paper was out; and that these two
dusty travellers were as full of grit
and brain and push as any two men
in the glorious Tenth District.
All honor to the Leidy boys I
They have made “ The People's
Guide", a banner and a pioneer.
In no paper that comes to our
desk is the editorial work better
doae.
Their leaders are clear, strong and
convincing; their paragraphs are
veritable bullets which hit the bulls
eye every time.
If our friends in Wilkinson and
adjoining counties do not give The
I’eople's Guide their warmest sup
port, they will certainly make a
grievous mistake. T. E. W.
Clippings from ' The Peoples
Guide
There are 409 national bankers in
New York prisms. There are4,ooo
outside who ought to be in there with
them.
* * ♦
A Democratic exchange says, on
the failure of the Democratic agita
tors to discuss finance in the recent
special election, that “the lamb and
the wolf had lain down together.”
Yes, the silver iamb and the golden
wolf lay down together until the day
of the election, then the golden wolf
anointed his stomach witir the silver
Jamb. As sjpn as Mr. Black gets
ano! her chance to vote on the money
question the lamb will discover that
the only use they had for him was to
assist in fattening the wolf.
The Atlanta Constitution, the chief
hypocrite ia newspaperdom, says if
Hoke Smith had made any speeches
m the Tenth during the recent cam
paign it would have been disastrous
to Mr. Black. One other thing which
the Constitution doesn’t mention
would also have been disastroui to
Mr. Black, and that is a fair election.
The Reason Why.
Tom Watson has decided to con
test the seat of Major Black in con
gress, and has employed the Law
firm of Glenn and Rountree, of At
lanta, to represent him. He was in
the city yesterday and held a long
conference with the gentlemen as to
the case. He claims that Major
Black was not 1< gaily'elected and he
will ask for the seat he is to hold.
Mr. Boykin Wright, who managed
Major B ack's campaign and who is
an ardent believer in free silver,
when he heard that the firm had
been employed, telegraphed Mr.
Glenn and asked why it was that a
populist, when he w «nted a lawyer,
ha ito employ a gold bug To this
Mr. Glenn re died : “Because they
want an honest man to represent
them.”—Journal.
Precisely !
A straight-out gold bug is always
an honester man than the free silver
ite who talks silver and votes against
it.
Black an “ardent Gee silver man,”
is he ?
Voted to close the mints however,
and John Sherman himself couldn’t
have done any more.
Give us a consistent gold-bug any
day, rather than a free-silver sneak
who talks one way and votes another.
_
What Wall street wants is for the
| free silverites to stay in the old par
! ties, and that is just what Bland,
Jones, Harris, Morgan, Teller, Wol
cott and Dubois and advidng them
to do. Wall street may not be pay
ing anything for that advise, but it
is worth lots of money to it.—Ten
nessee Current.
Editorial Notes.
At its recent meeting, the State
Executive Committee of the People’s
Party of Georgia unanimously recom
mended that our National platform
be modified in several important par
titulars.
(1) That the Land-plank be re
written so as to free it from the sus
picion of Socialism.
(2) That tae Sub-treasury plank
be dropped.
(3) That the Tariff question be
manfully met, as was done in the
Ocala Platform. ■
(4) That a new plank be added
demanding the abolition of the In
ternal Revenue system.
(5) That cowardice and stupidity
be put behind us and a brave stand
be taken on the Liquor question.
(6) That a distinct declaration be
made demanding the separation of
Church and State, and forbidding the
voting away of public funds for pri
vate or sectarian purposes.
• * #
It the National Convention of our
Party adopts the Platform recom
mended by the Georgia Executive
Committee, and puts two strong and
conservative men of undoubted
character upon it, we will sweep the
country.
But if, on the other h and, our lead
ers in National Council permit our
platform to be loaded down with all
th© political donkeyisms which the
long-haired men and the short-haired
women can devise, then we may look
out for another dose of 1892.
* - *
At Tennessee City, in the State of
Tennessee, an association of honest,
earnest men is making an experiment
in practical Socialism.
The Association is composed of
members carefully selected from the
mass of our entire population. In
other words, these gentlemen have
65,000,000 people to choose from, in
order that they may get the suitable
few.
If it should prove that one of the
salect is not what he is cracked up
to bei, he can be expelled.
If it should appear to one of the
select that the association is not what
it is cracked up to be, such disgrun
tled member can secede.
Unless we have been misinformed,
both of these “ifs” have borne fruit
at Tennessee City.
Now consider for ope moment that
real Socialism, if put into practice as
a system of government, would allow
no room for choice, —would allow no
privilege of secession or of expulsion
—and you at once get an idea of the
immense revolution contemplated by
Socialism.
• • *
At Tennessee City all the work
men co operate ; that is, all the work
men pool their earnings and share
the profits,—“share and share alike.”
Now co-operation of that kind is
entirely practicable for -the simple
reason that if the association finds
that it has been joined by an incom
petent workman, or by a lazy work
man who will not bring up his
reasonable share of the labor, —out
he goes 1
He can be expelled, and his place
supplied by a capable, industrious
workmen who will bring up his rea
sonable share of the labor.
* * *
But if the government were run
ning the whole country on the
Socialist plan, how would you deal
with the incapable and the idle ?
You cannot expel them.
The superior workman will not be
willing to work for the idle and the
inferior, and to have them get a pro
rata share of the earnings produced
by his superior sk 11 and industry.
Yet, what can the superior work
man do about it ?
He cannot secede.
The superior workman and the in
dustrious laborer would be caught in
a trap where they would have to pay
a royalty on inferiority and indol
ence.
This would be pleasant to the lazy
and incompetent, but how long would
the skilled and the industrious enjoy
such a government ?
» * *
“All men are created free and
equal” is true in a certain sense, only.
Each citizen is entitled to the
same freedom as all others—freedom
of property, of speech, of person, and
of conscience.
Each citizen ir, or should be, the
equal of every other citizen before
the law.
But no two men are any more
equal in bodily strength, in mental
power, in capacity to do and to earn,
than any two horses or trees are ex
actly alike.
Any community of men, anywhere
on earth will show inequalities which
exist in the very nature of things.
No two leaves are alike, no two
rivers alike, no two seas alike, no two
continents alike, no two clouds alike,
no two placets alike.
Yet our Socialist brethren are at
tempting to establish a system of
political economy whose cardinal
doctrine must be that all men are
alike—equal in their capacity to earn
and in their willingness to earn.
Our bumble opinion is that, in the
pre>eut edition of human nature, no
such doctrine can find proofs to rest
its tired feet upon.
* * *
The “competitive system” is the
“dearest foe” of the average Socialist.
He has verily persuaded himself that
competition is a legitimate off-spring
of the devil.
He totally forgets that in ninety
transactions out of every hundred,
competition med never to touch the
average citizen at all, —except that
competition which is a law of nature.
The choosing of chat which is best
for the purpose, is a species of com
petition which even Socialism could
not abolish.
Now admit all the evils of Com-j
petition, and grant that Socialism
should be substituted, how will you
defend the radical injustice of shar
ing with the incapable and the in
dolent the earnings of the capable
and industrious ?
W hat’s the use of revolutionizing
the world to exchange one wrong for
another ?
The Socialist claims that all men
are equal—that is equal to perform
labor and to produce wealth.
I On no other ground can the Social
ist defend his system which shares
all produ e equally among the
laborers.
If the Socialist denies the obvious
fact that no two men are equal in
capacity to work and in willingness
to work—then he denies what every
observant person knows to be true.
If the Socialist admits that the
producing capacity of men differ,
then he must abandon his idea of
dividing their earnings equally or he
must confess that he favors a system
which takes from the capable work
man that which he has earned in
order to give to the incapable work
man more than he has earned.
Give to Brown 100 acres of land,
and put him to work,upon it; he prill
make it a garden—fruitful and pro
fitable.
Give to Jones an adjoining tract
of 100 acres, and put him to work on
it; he will make it a desert—a para
dise of fennel, scrub-pines and jack
rabbits.
Now is it fair for the Socialist to
compel Brown to divide his profits
with Jones?
And yet that’s Socialism I
♦ « #
•‘The following answer was re
cently made by W. H. Harvey
(‘Coin’) in answer to the question,
‘What are your polities?’ ‘lf the
Republican party declares anew the
principles of Lincoln, I am a Repub
lican. If the Democrats declare
anew the principles of Jefferson, I
am a Democrat; but if both the old
parties declare in favor of Great
Britain and the gold standard finan
cial policy, then 1 am a Populist.’ ”
We do not know how the balance
of you boys feel on this subject, but
as for us, we have no hesitation in
saying that a man, like W. 11. Harvey,
who cannot state his political where
abouts, at this late day, without the
assistance of three “ifs” and an ex
tension of time for observation, ought
to be given a special pallet to rest on
until he feels strong enough to tell
us in plain, motherly English where
he is at.
This “if” business is getting to be
blamed tiresome to ws.
“It” W. 11. Harvey and Billy
Bryan and old Miss Nancy .Bland
would go off to one side and juggle
with one another, and make up their
able minds, once for all, to take posi
tion somewhere, and be done with it,
we should feel devoutful, grateful,—
“if” we know ourselves.
« * *
Mr. Cleveland having finished his
five months vacation, and having
embroidered it with a palace-car ex
cursion to the Atlanta Exposition, is
now in Washington receiving the
salaams of the faithful.
A five months vacation at four
thousand dollars per month is not
only a fine specimen of modern
D mocracy but is also a luscious lump
of “Civil Service Reform.”
T. E. W.
Populist Platform for 1896.
Recommended by the State Execu
tive Committee.
Resolved that it is the sense of
this Committee that the next Nation
al Convention of the Peoples Party
should adopt the following Platform
of principles: *
1. The direct issue of all money by
the Government: abolition of Banks
of issue: no more Bonds to be issued:
gold and silver to be coined upon
equal terms at a ratio of 16 to 1.
The volume of currency to be in
creased to SSO per capita.
2. Government revenues to be
raised by a graduated tax upon in
comes : and by a Tariff tax upon the
luxuries of life: the necessaries of life
to be placed on the free-list and the
International Revenue System to be
abolished.
3. Government ownership of trans
portation lines which are the high
ways of modern travel: the tele
graphs and telephones to be run as
> adjuncts to the Postal service. ■■
4. Alien ownersnip of land to be
prohibited : public lands granted to
corporations by the Government,
and not earned by the said corpora
tions in accordance with the grant,
to be forfeited, and restored to the
public domain.
5. U. S. Senators to be elected by
a direct vote of the people.
6. Church and State to be forever
kept separate, and no public funds
to be appropriated for any private
or sectarian purposes. All subsidies
to be,prohibited.
7. An honest-election law to be
enacted ih each state to the end tha.
each citizen, qualified to vote, shall
have the privilege of a free and pri
vate ballot, and the assurance of a
fair and public count.
8 A better system of Common
schools to be had, in which sjstem
the State Governments shall supply
the books to be taught as well as
the teachers to teach.
9. The Convict Lease system of
punishing criminals to be abolished
in every state: the fee system to be
abolished: and more stringent im
migration laws passed.
10. A state D spensary system un
der which the Liquor traffic shall be
controlled, the element of profit
eliminated, and the barrooms abol
ished.
Democrats Disregard the Lavr.
Mr. John D. Little on October 231
was swern in as the Representative
of Muscogee county. At the last
session of the Legislature the Dem
ocratic majority passed a Registra
tion law. This law, while specially
designed to aid Mr. Black and to de
feat Mr. Watson at the special elec
tion in the 10th District, was a gen
eral law and applied as well to Mus
cogee county as to the counties of
the 10th District. Under this law
no man was entitled to vote unless
he bad registered according to the
provisions of this law and had his
nams entered on the voters list by
the duty appointed and qualified Reg
istrars, We are credibly informed
that no Registration books were
opened in Muscogee county, hence
there was no legal election and no
qualified voters.
If this is correct, Mr. Little holds
a commission based entirely upon
illegal votes. We presume, how
ever, this will give Mr. Little no
trouble. He is a Democrat, and
according to the judicial decisions in
our late contest cases nothing ap
pears to be illegal that seats a Dem
ocrat or unseats a Populist,
Among our late exchanges we find
the Prohibitionist, anew temperance
pipir edited by D. R St. John, of
Lithonia, Ga. I; is only a seven by
fourteen sheet, but it has every in
dication of being a healthy infant
and will doubtless grow. We wish
it luck.
