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BRYAN AND WATSON
Ratification Meeting at the Tabernacle in
Atlanta on the Night of August 6th.
HON. THOMAS E. WATSON WILL SPEAK.
Other Distinguished Speakers, Populists and Demo
crats, will Address the Meeting.
CHEAP KITES ON ALL ROADS HAVE BEEN APPLIED FOR.
ATLANTA, GA., July 29tb, 1896.
TO THE PUBLIC: You are cordially invited to attend the ratifies
.ion meeting of Bryan and Watson at the Tabernacle in Atlanta, Ga., on
tho night of August 6th, to begin promptly at 8 o’clock.
Hon. Thos. E, Watson, the Populist nominee for Vice President of
the-United States, will address the meeting. Other distinguished Populist
and Demooratio speakers will also make short addresses.
We hope to secure cheap railroad rates from all Southern points.
It is expected that thia will be the largest as well as the most important
political gathering ever held in the Gate City of the South.
JAMES K. HINES,
A. A. MURPHEY,
J. L. SIBLEY,
Local Committee on Arrangements.
A DEMOCRATIC PAPER.
'The Atlanta Commercial) for
Bryan and Watson.
PATKIOTIBM AGAINST MONEY.
The next campaign will be con
dusted on. the basis of patriotism
against money—soul against gold.
It will be Bryan and Watson
azainst McKinley and Hobart,
Mr. Sewall will decline. Ho will
1 e obliged to decline in answer to
tbo demand of the people. He can
not be regarded as a true friend to
tb.o silver movement, if he fails to de
cline.
In the Chicago convention the
heart of the people was dominant
when the Democrats nominated
Bryan. The convention was drunk
with enthusiasm or something else
when it presented Sewall-for second
pl ace.
At St. Louis the heart o£ the peo
ple dominated the entire convention
in its aereotion of a Presidential
! ticket.
Bryan and Watson both sprang
from the hearts of the people, and,
together they will electrify the na
tion with their oratorical fervor, and
we hazard nothing when we say,that
Nebraska will have no advantage
ever Georgia in forensic display.
Mr. Sewall must decline. The
success of silver demands it. The
impoverishment of the people cry
out aloud for it. Watson is in sym
pathy with every demand made at
Chicago. Sewall is not. Let us
play honest with the people. The
idea of nominating a national bank
president on a platform that repudi
ates the national banking system, is
inconsistent with every requirement
of common honesty.
Watson is in accord with every
principle of the Chicago platform.
He says so, and he means what he
says, for he is a patriot, who breathes
with the respiration of the toiling
masses.
In Nebraska, there are more Popu
lists than Democrats—less of either
than Republicans. The same condi
tion exists in Kansas and other West
ern states. Mr. Bryan knows that
ha has no chance of carrying any
Western state without Populistic aid.
Every sane man knows that, without
fusion, Democracy and silver is doom
ed to everlasting defeat in Tennessee
and North Carolina.
Why not combine? Why not
make our wish good by bringing the
Populists back into the Democratic
party ? This can only 1c done on
the basis of fairness It will not do
for the Democrats to eat apple dumpl
ing,while we give crow pie to the Pop
ulists. The Commercial does not favor
sujh courtesy. It believes in that
whole-souled Southern and Western
hospitality, which recognizes that
there is nothing too good for the in
vited guest.
We wouldn’t give Tom Watson
for the whole state of Maine—for
there is no more chance of electing a
Democratic candidate in Maine, than
there is for the Democracy of the
union taking wings and flying in a
solid body to heaven.
Give us Bryan and Watson. That
makes tha issue square, and will save
the people from financial enslave
ment.
Vice Presidential Nominee of the
People’s Party.
While the wild tumult raged in
the St. Louis convention last night
and his name was being cheered to
the echo, Hon. Thomas E. Watson
quietly slept amid the country peace
surrounding his pretty farm-home in
the outskirts of Thomson. Mr. Wat
son has the wholesome habits of the
farm and the placid indifference of
Dick Bland. He heard the news at
the telegraph oilice in the afternoon
and went to his home for a night’s
rest. He was not dull enough to
fail to perceive that he was squarely
in the track of the Vice Presidential
lightning. He said nothing. In
fact, the atmosphere was already
eleoric with prophecy, but it did no }
dietur bthe calm of the Honorable
Thomas E. Watson. He has lived
in the hotbed of contest for too many
years to allow tlie conflict to pertuxb
him, even when the lightning is turned
his way. 80, it was that he did not
spoil the rest of the staid operator at
Thomson last night. That operator
goes to his rest at 8 o’clock, and not
oven tha making of Presidents and
Vice Presidents interferes with bis
habits of years. He shut out. the
noisy clicking of the outside world at
his accustomed hour, blew out the
lamps and went home. He had a
sort of feeling that when he came
down this mor; ing at 7 o’clock, and
found time to get a word with At
lants,he would learn that his brilliant
fellow townsman had been named for
Vice President at St. Louis. But, in
the msantime—rest for the night.
Thus it was that last night Thomas
E. Watson was out off from communi
cation with the teeming world, and
—slept; slept while the delegates at
St. Louis thundered; slept while the |
reward of years was coming to him I
in the nature of tumultuous cheers;
slept while the men who mentioned
bis name were being carried around I
the hall on the shoulders of yelling
and applauding delegates; slept while
the noise-echoing hall at St. Louis
was thundering tribute to his popu
larity. He will learn of his nomina
tion today. The Constitution tried
in vain to reach him last night. A
little after 8 o’clock an operator spent
many a half hour trying to rouse the .
operator at Thomson. His indus- I
tnous efforts were fruitless. Opera
tors all along the line broke in with I
the information that Thomson always I
closed at 8 o’clock. A message was
fired around by Augusta in the hope
that the operator might be caught
from that end. But that operator
was asleep. Tom Watson bad not
deemed it of enough importance to
keep the fellow awake. Eight o’clock
is bed-time in Thomson, and some
thing of vast importance must be in
the air to keep a citizen up later than
that hour of night. There is no more
vivid figure in Georgia public life
than Thomas E. Watson. He has
carried into his public career the gifts
of thought, of oratory, of earnest
ness and simplicity. He first attract
ed public attention through his ability
as a speaker. He is eloquent. He
can clothe a thought in the most
poetic words. lls never fails to stir
up his hearers. There is a silver
ring to his words that always causes |
KjfTT FAFE K, AT LANTA, GA.,
"« ; \v j s ..hi,
of 'sSI
figure f to
1883; tie took 8 Jiranihent stand
in legislation. He was a Democrat
then. Be was elected to Congress
from the tenth district as a Demo
crat, but the Populist party coming
into life soon after his election he
joined his fortunes with its future,
and has since been a leader in its
ranks. He has been a candidate for
Congress twice since, bnt has been
defeated both times. Both times he
has contested. The hot raoes in ths
tenth came into national notice. Wa:-
son became a national figure. He
became talked about the nation
over. He has been the idol of his
party in Georgia. He practically
dictated its policy aud its nomina
tions. He became a national power
m the counsels of the Populist party,
and his fame is perhaps greater than
that of any living Populst, for his
career has been full of stirring activi
ties and he has been constantly be
fore the public. That he is a man
of exceptional ability not even his
' worst political foes deny. He is a
man of scholarly attainment. He
graduated from the State university.
He is an industrious reader, and hie
information on political topics is ex
ceptional.
So-called “Newspaper Laws.”
It Is observed by the Inland Printer
that in the newspaper field as well ai
, ' in other commercial pursuits there
are those who, not content with the
returns of a legitimate enterprise, en
deavor to continue their financial
existence by a species of blackmail—
by sending so-called newspapers to
any one whose address they may
obtain, or continue sending after
original subscribers have ceased to be
j such, and finally writing threatening
. letters inclosing the following:
NEWSPAPER LAWS.
1. Subscribers who do not give
express notice to the contrary are
1 considered as wishing to renew their
i subscription.
2. If subscribers order the discon
tinuance of their periodicals, the pub
lishers may continue to send them
, until all arrearage have been paid.
i 3. If subscribers neglect or refuse
| to take their periodicals from the
i I postofiice to which they are directed,
! they are responsible until they have
| settled their bills and ordered them
discontinued.
' 1. If subscribers move to other
I . places without informing the pubiish
; I era, and the papers are sent to the
. j former address, they are held respon
’ I sible.
5. The courts have decided that
- i refusing to take periodicals from the
i post-office or removing and leaving
i ; them uncalled for iayirima facie evi-
! denoe of intentional fraud.
i 6. If subscribers pay in advance
they are bound to give notice at the
end of the time if they do not wish
- to continue taking it; otherwise the
publisher is authorized to send it, and
the subscriber will be responsible
until express notice, with payment of
arrearages, is sent to the publisher.
7. The latest postal laws are such
that publishers can arrest any one for
fraud who takes a paper and refutei
to pay for it. Under this law the
man whow allows his subscription to
ran along for some time unpaid and
then orders it discontinued, or orders
the postmaster to mark it “refused,”
and have a postal card sent notifying
I the publisher, leaves himself liable to
i arrest and floe, the same as for theft.
We quote in full what The Inland
Printer says futher on this subject;
j “In the interest of the honor of
journalism every legitimate news
paper should notify the public that
there are no such laws as these en
acted by Congress or established by
the Postmaster-General. We know
of no State laws on the subject, and
the ‘American Digest’ and the ‘Ameri
: can Encyclopedia of Law’ cite no
decision on the subject, so far as we
I have been able to find from an in-
I spection of those books. The fact
I is, the relation between the publisher
• of a newspaper and the subscribor is
; that of contract, and the same rules
1 of law apply in that case as apply in
I other business transactions between
man and man.
“The Revised Statutes of the
United States require postmasters to
notify publishers of any paper when
any subscriber shall cease or refuse
to take the paper from their office
for a period of one month; and also
when he changes his address, without
notifying the publisher, the regula
tions of the department require the
postmaster to notify the publisher.
If the first notice be disregarded a
second wifi be sent, calling attention
also to the previous notice; after this
the matter will be held thirty days,
and if not recalled by the publisher
will bo placed with the waste paper.
! “There is nothing in the postal
laws or regulations concerning the
| liability of a subscriber for the sub-
eriotion price of a newspaper er
periodical. If a postmastet bhonld
cause less to a ndiliSher because of a
failure to comply With the provisions
of the law i-bgafffing tiotloe, his
ll&biiity Would have to be determined
in the courts and not by the postoffioe
department.
“One of the oldest of the English
writers upon the common law says
all law is based upon reason, and
when the reason ceases then should
the law also cease. There is no reason
why the so-called ‘newspaper laws’
should exist, for, if applicable to that
class, why not to merchandise which
is now largely sent through the mails?
As one lawyer expressed it: ‘lf one
should send my wife a lace handker
chief, daily or weekly, because she
had ordered one, should I be called
upon to pay for the others, if I re
fused to taka them' from the office ?
If this were law, the mails would be
flooded, and suits would be without
number or end, The fact is, the
fraud is at the other end of the line.’
“The Assistant Attorney-General
of ths United States, who has charge
of the legal matted relating to the
post-oflice department, saysi ‘I have
held that the publisher of a news
paper may-be guilty of an attempt to
obtain money under false pretenses
when he makes demand for the sub
scription price of a newspaper which
is not legally due, accompanied by a
threat to enforce these so called laws
in case of refusal to pay. Aud the
scheme of writing dunning letters
and attaching a printed slip of these
so-oalled laws is one devised to de
fraud the people by the pretense that
there are certain laws which have no
existence in fact, and literature and
letters concerning it are non mailable
under the provisions of the Acts of
Congress (25 Stat., 873, and 26 Stat.,
465), and render the parties liable to
prosecutions thereunder for using the
mails for fraudulent purposes.*
“In the interest of the honor of
our profession the publio should be
warned against such fraudulent at
tempts, and the agitation should be
kept up until publishers and patrons
of the newspapers and periodicals of
the country know and understand
their relative righ% obligations, and
liabilities.”—Literary Digest.
Populist Convention.
The 16th Senatorial convention of
the People’s party met in Swainsboro
July 11th and wascaljpd to order by
Jno. A. DougksX of Johnson aour iy.
Wm. Cannady, of Emanuel, was
made temporary chairman and Geo.
T. Brown temporary secretary.
Mr. B. B. Linder of Laurens coun
ty was made permanent chairman
and Geo. T. Brown permanent sec
retary.
The purpose of the copvention
being stated, it was moved that the
delegates from Emanuel retire and
nominate a candidate for recom
mendation. After a few minutes re
tirement the Emanuel delegates
made the following report:
“We the delegates from Emanuej
unanimously recommend Hon. W.
R. Kemp of Etpanuel, for Senator
from the Sixteenth Senatorial Dis
trict.”
The delegates from Johnson and
Laurens immediately endorsed the
nominee, and Hon. W. R. Kemp was
declared the People’s Party candi
date to carry the people’s banner in
the coming campaign for the office of
Senator from the Sixteenth Sena
torial district.
Mr. Kemp was immediately es
corted into the convention and ac
cepted the nomination with strong
words of thanks for the honor cen
tered upon him by trusting to his
care such honorable duty. He said
that he would carry the People’s
party banner to every corner of the
district and proclaim the justice and
equity of his platform.
On motion the following executive
committee was appointed for the 16th
Senatorial district: J. L. Keen, J. M.
Lawery and S. L. Page, from Lau
rens; J. T. Snell, Jno. P. Mixon and
Jno. A. Duglass, from Johnson and
Jno. T. Smith, Wm. Cannady and S.
A. Scott, from Emanuel. .
This committee was instructed to
meet at Wrightsville at the date of
Johnson county’s convention for the
purpose of transacting such business
as may come before the committee.
On motion the convention ad
journed.
B. B. Lindeb, Chm.
Geo. T. Bbown, Secy.
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The L’ongressionsl of
the People’s Party of the sixth Con
gteseiiiohai district of Georgia is
hereby called to meet at Forsyth on
Thursday, the 20 th, day of August,
for the purpose of nominating a can
didate for congress.
The counties constituting this Dis
trict are requested to select their
delegates to said convention on or
before the 13 th of August. Each
oounty ! s entitled to (two delegates
for eaoh member of ths Legislature
representing said county.
At this convention the Executive
committee of this district will be re
organized, also to fix some time for
a convention to nominate a Senator
for the 22nd, district.
0. F. Tubneb.
Chm. Ex. Com.
Elbert County.
The Bth, Congressional conven
tion will meet in Elberton, Elbert
county, August 12 th, to nominate a
candidate for congress.
Let each county send a fall dele
gation. A good time is expected.
J. L. Jbbbel, Chm.
E. E. Pabsons, Seo.
Mass Meeting.
The Populists of Franklin county
met July 23rd, and put out a full
oounty ticket, composed of good, able
men, who can and will carry our
banner to victory in October.
Direct Legislation League.
All advocates in Georgia of Direct
Legislation and the Initiative and
Referendum principle are asked to
meet in Atlanta at the county court
house on August 6th, at 10 : 30 a m.
to perfect a State organization.
11. P. Blunt,
Vice President for Georgia of Na
tional Direct Legislation League.
Senatorial Convention.
Tho delegates to the People’s
Party Senatorial convention for the
87th Senatorial district, comprising
the counties of Carrol), Heard and
Troup are requested to meet at the
Court House at Franklin on Mon
day, August 3rd, 1896, at 12 o’clock,
for the purpose of nominating a
Populist candidate for State Senator
from said district, and to attend to
such other business as may properly
come before said convention.
Tmos. B. Davis,
Chm, 87tb, Sen. Dis.
Mass Meeting,
The Populists of Spalding oounty
are requested to meet in the Court
house iu GrlUI, Saturday, July “sth,
for the purpose of selecting delegates
to the State convention to convene
in Atlanta, Aug., 6th, 1800, also for
selection of delegates to Senatorial
and Congressional convention.
Other business of importance will
be transacted. T. W. Flynt,
Chairman.
Attention Muscogee Populists.
A mass meeting of the People’s
Party of Muscogee county is called
to meet in the Superior Court room
in the city of Columbus at 12 o’clock,
Saturday, August Ist, to select
delegates to the State convention
and for other business as may
come before the meeting.
Abb Wooldridge, Chm.
Twenty-seveth Senatorial District.
The convention to nominate a Sen
ator for the 27th Senatorial district
will be held nt Social Circle on Satur
day, August Ist, at 11 o’clock.
Wm. L. Peek, Chairman,
P. P. Ex. Com., 27th Dis.
State of Ohio, City ofToledo, )
Lucas County j 8B-
Frank .1. Cheney makes oath that
ho is the senior partner of the firm of
F. J. Cheney & Co., doing business in
tho City of Toledo, Oonntv and State
aforesaid, and that said will pay
the sum of ONE HUNPREJII DOLLARS
for each and every case of Catarrh that
cannot bo cured by the use ot Hall’s
Catarrh Cube.
FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed
In my presence, this Oth day of De
cember, A. D. 1880.
i T'T I A- W- REASON,
( J Notary Public.
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Irwin County Populists.
The executive committee of the
Peoples party, lately selected in the
various militia districts is hereby
called to meet at the court house in
Irwinville, August 3rd, for the pur
pose of organizing the oounty execu
tive committee. Let every commit
teeman be sure to attend as business
of importance will be before them.
Geo. T. Young, Chm.
D. J. Henderson, Seo.
Senatorial Convention.
The Chairmans, of eaoh county
Executive Committee, of Dooly
Dodge, Pulaski and Wilcox counties
composing the 14th, Senatorial dis
triot, are hereby called to meet a
Cordele on August Bth, for the pur
pose of nominating a Senator from
his the 14th, Senatorial district.
J. O. Mercer.
Chm. Sen. Ex. Com.
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