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THE MACON NEWS
SEES THE HAND WRITING
ON THE W ALL.
ACKNOWLEDGES THE FRAUDS
Os Past Elections—Warns Denio
crats That They Only Have
One Vote This Tear.
From the Macon News.
There is no sense in trying to deny
that the Populists have pat ont a
strong State platform and ticket this
year, and that they are going to give
Georgia Democra's something to do.
The time has passed when victories
for Democracy can be won in this
State by merely claiming them. We
have learned from experience that
Populism cannot be laughed dow ,
and the sooner we quit ridiculing ou
political foes and go to work to con
qaer them, the sooner will we win
the fight and stop the growth of
Populism.
Now, let’s get down to brass tacks
and see just how we stand. The
Democratic plurality in this State in
1894 was only 24,161. Wa must all
admit that it is a much easier matter
to cut down this plurality than to add
to it. A great many people voted
the Democratic ticket two years ago
who will not vote it this year. A
great many people who never dream
ed of voting the Populist ticket will
vote it this year because of that
party’s attitude on the prohibition
question.
It is all very well to sit back on
our dignity and claim majorities of
fifty and sixty thousand for the party,
but none know better that these
figures are gross exaggerations than
the men who give them out.
The fact is, and we mutt admit it
and go to work on that basis if we
expect to win, that there is a dis
agreeable element of uncertainty in
the outlook even at this early stage
of the game. The chances favor a
Democratic victory and we expect to
see the party victorious, but we
know, and everybody elso knows,
that Democracy will have no walk
over. » ,
In the first place, the Populists
have put out a ticket the personnel
of which is hard to improve upon.
Wo risk nothing and surrender no
principle when we say the candidates
of that party are men of high charac
ter, recogniz d ability and standing
With equal frankness we can say the
Democratic candidates, so far as their
personal characters are concerned,
are neither any better or any worse
than their opponents.
The issue then must ba between
the parties and the principles which
they advocate. This, in the opinion
of old-time Democratic bosses, may
be dignifying the Populists by ac
cording to them too much import
ance, but such talk is mere sentimen
tal vaporing and not sense. The fact
is, whether they be right or wrong
the people have dignified the Popu
list party by giving it a very great
number of their votes.
Right here in Georgia it now has
the sanction and influence of some of
the best men in the State. Not Dem
crats, it is true, but men whose pa
triotism cannot be called into ques
tion. The Populist party has gathered
strength and character, and to deny
it is to be guilty of foolhardiness.
I o treat with Populism as an unim
portant, irresponsible movement is to
make the same mistake that was
male with the free silver craze—to
ba callous and facetious until a little
flame has grown into a great conflt
gatiou, sweeping all before it.
If Georgia Democracy continues to
treat with Populism as our goldbug
friends treated the free silver craze,
they may expect to stamp it out with
quite as much success.
What then is to be done? Only
this—wokk. Work for the Demo
orat’c ticket and every man on it
Don’t let your personal animosity
allow you to scratch a name on that
ticket. To do so is un-Democratic
and unfair to your party. Every in
dividual Democrat has a work to do.
All that is necessary to bring about
Democratic defeat this year is for in
dividual Democrat! in “solid Demo
cratio counties" to depend on the
other fellow to do the voting—to
remain away from the polls. Popu
lism is growing more and more
ominous, but it is not yet as strong as
Democracy in Georgia. Given the
prohibition vote it is more dangerous 1
still; but still Democracy is stronger. I
If past customs prevail, however, i
I
Demccracy in Georgia is weaker than
Populism in lack of enthusiasm, of
intense devotion to party and prin
ciples and a love of voting, which
seems to be inherent in a Populist.
Democrats should remember that
they have only one vote each this
year. A most commendable reg’s
tration law has circumscribed the
voting capacity of those who at one
time could be depended upon to swell
majorities. It is only one vote each
this year, and every loyal Democrat
should see to it that that vote does
not fail to be counted for the Demo
cratic nominees in October. Other
wise he has cist half a vote for the
Populists.
He Feels Responsibility.
Tom Wa’son is the hero of the
Populist party. lie has been their
leader. They trusted and worship
ped him and tince he joined the
party it has grown rapidly. The
Democratic party, which has
so much abused him, has
now very largely endorsed the posi-
tion for which he has stood all the
“bile. Wo believe he is a better
man than the Democratic party has
said he was.
An incident of the Populist con
vention in Atlanta last week throws
light on his character. It followed a
great demonstration in his favor by
the ddegatis to the convention.
Watson wai overcome.
•‘He tried to speak but could not.
lie muttered his half tearful thanks
I and left the stand. He hurried
■ down and ont of the hall to the re
fuge of Mark Hardin’s office. Those
who spoke to him as he went he
neither heard nor saw. Tears stood
in his eyes. Ha threw himself upon
the lounge in Hardin’s office and his
great, dreamy, sentimental blue eyes
guzid dimly upon the sky. An over
whelming sense of all those cheering
thousands expected of him seemed to
j have fallen upon him with crushing
weight. Little able to help them
selves, they expected all things of
him. He was their hope. What
could he do. Now they cheered and
trusted him. How would it be afier
a little space of months or years?
They trusted him wholly. They
10110 wed'his slightest beckon cr tod.
They were building upon him for
their future. Nu wonder the tears
broke through the leades trembling
eyelids.
We cannot believe that a man
who so appreciates his leadership and
his responsibility can be at heart a
j dangerous man.—Barnesville Gazett.
This is eminently true of Mr. Wat
' son. Far from being a dangerous
’or bad m an, he is both wise and
good.—Commercial.
How it is in Nebraska.
This paper is unqualified y in fa
I vor of the election of William <J
Bryan for President and Tom Wat
i son for \';ce J’resideut of the United
States. Their candidacy represents
every interest of the people in the
struggle for supremacy over the
baneful influences of gold specula
tors and gigantic trusts. Their in
viduality is such that they command
the respect and confidence of al’, and
the immense wave of sentiment for
silver coinage will elect them. They
represent the unity of all the reform
parties in this country, who conti
dently believed that their election
means a quick return to a govern
ment conducted upon the lines’ it
was before speculators and trusts
gained complete control of it.
The voters of the country will
give Bryan and Watson such a vote
■ oa November 3rd that it will look
like a complete revolution of opinion
] had occurred and a return to the
i first principles of American govern
i ment was settled beyond doubt.
Thomas E. Watson, of Geergia, is
a man of great ability, and is recog
nized in the entire country as a can
didate that will have a powerful in
fluence in the South towards con
centrating that vote for the ticket
and insuring a majority of the elec
toral votes in the Southern States.
The salvation of the people is being
worked ont by such representative
men as William J. Bryan and Thomas
E. Watson, backed by the patriotic
Americans who constituted the
I Democratic national convention at
Chicago, the National Silver conven
; t on and the National People’s party
convention. There is victory in
sight, and what is now required to
secure it, is unity of purpose in a
cause that is conceded by all to be
in the interest of humanity an ! free
dom.—New Era-Standard.
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PEOPLE’S PARTY PAPER, ATLANTA, GA., AUGUST 2«, 1896.
AGAINST THE TIE TRUST.
The Farmers of Spalding County
De . ounce an Atlanta Firm.
Editor People’s Party Paper:
On last Saturday the farmers of
Spalding county held a meeting for
the purpose of beginning a fight on
the cotton tie trust.
Mr. W. D. Griffin was called to the
chair and the entire question fully
debated. It was elioted that Messrs
Langston and Woodson of Atlanta
controlled the ‘‘trust output” for
Georgia, which fact greatly enraged
the farmers. As long as these trusts
have been manipulated by Northern
firms, the people felt that it was an
alien movement, but when a Georgia
firm, on Georgia soil entered into a
trust to rob the people of this State
of their right to buy a commodity at
its fair value in the marts of trade
they just boiled over with indigna
tion; and they determined, if the
farmers of the State would help them,
that they would wage war on these
enemies of the people. They there
fore declare a boycott, and call upon
the farmers of the State to join them
in it. Had these people raised the
price months ago so that the farmers
would have had a chance to procure
ties elsewhere, it would not have
been so bad, but to wait until the
season for marketing cotton to arrive
and then make this movement, there
is nothing too bad to be said cf such
an action.
Col. W. E. 11. Searcy, formerly
Vice-President of the State Alliance
of Georgia submitted the following
resolutions, which with slight modi
fication were unanimously adopted :
Resolved, That we condemn the
trust which has been organized to
put up the price on ties for baling
cotton as iniquitous and unjust to the
farmers of the South.
Resolved 21, That a committee of
five be appointed by the chairman of
this meeting to seek for the best pos
sible substitute for cotton ties with a
view of immediately substituting the
same for the trust tie, if they persist
in wanting the present price.
Resolved 3 1, That we learn with
regret that. Messrs. Langston A
Woodson, of Atlanta, control the out
put of the trust for this State, and
i are parties to this unjust monopoly;
i and, therefore, we condemn said
I Langston A Woodson and pledge
. curselves and the farming community
t in which w>‘ reside not to trade with
‘ ■ any merchant who trade with said
Langston .t Woodson unless they
dissolve themselves immediately from
this iniquitous trust.
Resolved 4th, That our delegates
I to the State Agricultural convention
be instructed to report and urge the
adoption of these resolutions there,
and that Che farmers throughout the
State meet and take similar action.
The farmers throughout the State
should endorse this action and keep
I this ball in motion. To take unjustly
I a million dollars from ihs cotton
planters of the South in times like
these by an illegal and iniquitous
j trust is worthy of the severest con
demnation on the part, not only of
the farmers, but of the whole com
mercial world. W. B. Gbiffin,
Chairman.
Mr. Brinson’s Speech.
Tho following is the text of the
speech of Mr. Fred O. Brinson in
seconding the nomination of Mr.
Wright :
Mr. Chairman : I rise to second
the nomination made by the gentle
man from Fulton (Judge Hines)
From the depth of my scul springs
a feeLng of pride as I witness the
consumation of lawful and most na
tural marriage of Prohibition and
Populism in Georgia It is with a
feeling of pride that I behold this
beautiful and blushing bride of pro
hibition, giiiug hrr trusting hand in
holy and natural marriage to this
plumed and dauntless knight of re
form. From this union comes to us
a son whose name is the theme, of
honor’s tongu ; a man who possesses
all the sweet and unaffected grace of
conscience, the glowing love and un
compromising spirit of truth and jus
ties and the lightning zeal of elo
quence and patriotism; a man who
can not be appalled, corrupted or
compromised; a man that knows no
basenes?, cowers to no danger, linked
to no custom, bound hand and foot
to no prejudice or promise; a man
who in the midst of battle is oak and
rock, but whose private life is as
genial as a morning in May; a man
who has the courage of his convic
tions and the manhood to speak it,
I and with lips of eloquence and policy
of brain will carry your flag when
j the tight is thickest even at the psril
of bis life, his limb, his liberty.
Citi z ins of Georgia this is a fight
|of truth against error, oi virtue
, against vice, of love against tin and
of patriotism in the defense of our
; homes and instiiutions. Mr. Chair-
mar, speaking the heart of a hun
dred thousand Georgians, I second
the nomination of him whose char
acter rises like a dome above that
of his opponent, a man at whose
mention William Y. A’kinson like
the glow worm that tells ihe matin of
Georgia’s deliverance to be near must
’gin to pale his ineffectual fire.
Mr. Chairman, with this platform
of honest thought, with God and the
brave men and good women on our
side, lead by such a man as Seaborn
Wright we expect to make the o’.d
common weal h of Georgia rock to
her center. We will eweep the old
common wealth all the way from
where the sun bright summits of her
mountains mingle with the sky, to
where the vast pine organs of her
forests rolls I aok in softer cadence
the majestic music of the melancholy
sea.
Mr. Chairman, I second the nomi
nation of that chivalrio son of Qeorj
gia’s soil, Seaborn A. Wright, of.
Rime, who is the embodiment of all
that is honest, of all that is true and
an honor to his name, an honor to his
country, and an honor to the very
God that made him. —The Daily Tri
bune.
Missouri Speaks Out.
The People’s Party, of Howell
county, Missouri, in Convention as
sembled on the 7th day of August,
1896, passed the following reso
lutions ;
Whereas, the Democratic national
convention assembled at Chicago,
nominated W. J. Bryan for Presi
dent anl Arthur Siwall for Vice
Presiden, and whereas, the People’s
party in a national convention as
sembled at St. Louis nominated T,
E Watson for Vice President and
W. J. Bryan for President.
Therefore be it resolved, That, wo
most emphatically decline to support
W. J. Bryan for President unless he
accepts our nomination and platform
in terms satisfactory to u>, and the
name of Arthur Sewell is withdrawn
as such nominee for Vice President
and the name of T. E. Watson and
his electors names ate put on the
Democratic tickets.
As a prolonged disease is a sure
death:
j Resolved further, that wa respect,
i fully- that our National Exe
I cutive committee proceed without
any delay to ascertain the positive
reply from tho Democratic Presi
dential Nominees; and, in case of
their refu tai, they will prove their
insincerity to form a unity, in which
case our Executive committee at
once shall nominate some one of our
own men, and piece him with T. W.
Watson on our own ticket, leaving
the responsibility with the said Demo-
I cralic Presidential nominees.
William Monks,
Jambs Chesnut, Chairmar.
Secretary.
i Re-called Congressional Conven
tion.
i A Convention of the Populist
Party of tie 10th Congressional Dis
' trict will be held at Harlem, on
Tuesday the 25 of August, 1896, at
10 am., for the purpose of nominat
ing a Congressman for said District,
and for tho transaction of ary other
business that, 'may be brought up.
Each county in the District is
J entitled to double the number of dele
gates as they may have members in
the Legislature.
Every delegate’ is earnestly re
quested to be present.
James Bakbett,
Ch’m P. P. 10th Congressional Dis.
W. C. Chapman, Sso.
Mr. Smalley’s Literary Mission
Abroad.
George W. Smalley, the famous
American editor-author, Ins been
granted a two months’ holiday by his
paper, ths London Times, and has
gone abroad on a special mission for
The L dies’ Home J ourna’. He has
engaged to prepire a short series of
articles for that magazine, and is
gathering the material for them in
Europe. The work will necessitate
his spending part of the summer in
England, and the remainer in Ger
many.
Important to Candidates!
We want the name and address of
every Populist candidate in the State
at once. We desire to help you get
elected. We ask the county chair
man to send us the list aid the oflioe
to which each has been nominated.
Do not delay your answer. If you
have not nominated send as quick as
you nominate.
The Reform Wobld.
Winder, Ga. *
Harris Countr.
There wid be a gran i rally at
Hamilton, Harris county, first Tues
day in September. J. L Sibley is
invited to speak. Other speakets of
note will’ be present. Come one,
come all.
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