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AWAY WITH IT.
THE NAME OF DEMOCRACY
NO LONGER CHARMS.
A DEMOCRAT OF AMERICUS.'
■ Heard Wright and Was Con- \
verted—Appeals to His Fel- I
low Democrats.
Americus, Ga., Sept. 16, 189 G.
Editor Tribune:—lt was my hap
py privilege to sit under the elo- .
quenoe of the Populist candidate for
the gubernatorial chair tonight and j
it affords me much pleasure to state :
that his address to the people was
timely and food for the serious think- |
ing white people of this beautiful lit- ,
tie city of Americus.
Mr. Wright is not of my party ; ■
but I must say that hie utterances as '
they touched upon moral as well as j
political issues more truths that
should command the serious consid
eration of every voter (let him be
Democrat or Populist) throughout
the state. I honestly believe that if
the honest people of this state will
lay down party prejudice and lot
their good judgment govern them in
the coming election Hon. .Seaborn
Wright will be our next governor.
I must say that I have continually
contended that the mistake that
some good men made was that of ■
bolting the Democratic party, but
let me say that it, cannot be a mis.
take (looking to the coming welfare
ot our country) that Mr. Wright has
made when he left the party ranks
and accepted the nomination for the
gubernatorial chair of the Populist
party of Georgia. 1 have always
voted the Democratic ticket and
have said repeatedly that when I
could not vote the Democratic ticket
I then I would not vote at all, for the
L time being; but let me say that after
fL Tying forced to realize the fact that
right is, as I think, a God-sent
ggg%gßßjEttfor this particular purpose®
RK&lifiHK a voter wno would deal h r ASj
MaKSEHjpvith my fellow-man, myjSffl
must lay asidw w&n
io; my manliflM
s■? 11 and come from that BJK
I have loved as my
s|fiKW|gS|»and support the man with my
S’" ’D'Sflrot who will do the most for the
F uplifting of humanity and the wel-
J fare of our state.
The Hdn. Seaborn Wright is the
man if my fellow-Demoorats will
only stop and think seriously where
we are drifting, and let that God
given principle winch God has im
bibed in their nature, move them in
the coming campaign then they will
put principle above party and vote
for the man or men in this coming
election that will lid toe honored po
sitions the most acceptably in the
fear of God and to the credit of their
country.
My fellow democrats, let me ask
you how can we expect the so much
needed reform in our government as
long as we vote for a party irrespec
tive of their nominees. I regret with
all my heart to give up the name of
Democracy; but if I am compelled
to accept men as my standard bear
ers who, I feel in my humble judg
ment, are not the men that my God
would Lave rule over me, then I say
as a serious thinking honest man,
away with the name and let me vote
for the man that I can conscientious
ly vote for, as I pray, “Thy kingdom
\ coma and Thy will be done on earth
' as the angels do it in heaven.”—A
> Democrat, in Augusta Tribune.
A Card from Mrs. Sibley.
Editors Chronicle: Judging from
f the frequency and manner of allu.
stone by the newspapers of our city
that are opposed to Hon. Scab.
Wright, it would seem that the floral
offering presented him by good
women of Augusta at the time of his
address, ware the means of or sating
considerable disrelish among that
fraternity.
Don’t let it worry you, gentlemen.
It was merely an expression of
womanly gratitude to a brave, good
man, that had come to the rescue of
the homes, and the liquor curse. Or
if it does worry, let it be to the stirr
ing up of heart and conscience, till
they inspire you to the duty that Gad
and horns and humanity and your
country are calling so loudly upon
you to do.
If there was anything seemingly
suggestive of “death” in that warm
hearted expression of gratitude and
endorsement upon that very lively
enthusiastic occasion of Mr. Wright’s
address, it must have been seen
through the distorted vision of terri
bly frightened political eyes. As
perhaps in prophecy of the death
blows to the liquor traffic, in answer
to good women’s prayers and brave
men’s hearts.
Who could doubt God’s answer to
prayer, when looking upon those
gathered there, in the Court House
yard in the interests of prohibition,
gazing eager, upturned faces of ex
pectancy upon the words ot a Pro
hibition nominee for governor, and
remember how women and children
a few years ago had knelt there in
tears and agony sending up prayers
to God against the saloons and for
the awakening of public heart and
conscience toward their overthrow?
“Prohibition”was said to be “dead”
when the struggle met with so called
“defeat” But it was very lively
“corpse” that night of Mr. Wright’s
meeting. Instead of dying it has
been steadily growing and growing
till it is the main issue before our
people today and will soon be the
law of our State.
God hasten the day of deliverance
from the incubus of sin, debauchery!
ruin, misery, corruption, injustice,
oppression, lawlessness, crime, finan
cial distress and anarchy that is now
weighting us down through the sa
loon system and clogging every path
way to prosperity, good government,
morality and peace.
Messrs Editors: When neither
you nor those with you in your ad
vocacy of the saloon system can de
ny these awful results, how in all
conscience can you plead for its con
tinuance? Not one argument of all
you might attempt to advance could
counterbalance these terrible evils or
atone for them.
And yet, yon are working for the
perpetuation o' these blights upon
the happiness and prosperity of our
people and blots upon ths escutcheon
‘ of our State.
, And you are denouncing a brave,
patriotic statesman, for taking his
Rween his hope and such a
i applauding his opponent,
ids for the saloons while be '
j a mau for committing a
en drunk in a saloon, and
minal ia cryjng.out
from the gallows.
litics! What a reerrd of
rongs and crime are being
gainst thee 1
People of Georgia! think of
these things and ask yourselves if
the times are not ripe for the putting
down and putting away of the evils
that so sorely beset thee and hinder
the things that belong to thy pros
perity and peace.
Mrs W. C. Sibley,
President W. C. T. U. Ga.
N. B.—Stale papers will please
copy.
Is This Democracy To-Day?
Here is an old plank from the
Democratic platform of 1856;
“That congress has no power to
charter a national bank; that we be
lieve such an institution one of dead
ly hostility to the best interests of
| this country, dangerous to our re
publican institutions and the liber
! ties of the people, and calculated to
place the business of the country
. within the control of a concentrated
) money power and above the laws
j and will of the people.”
That declaration applies with al-
I most equal force against the present
\ national banking system, which,
through close association of the
banks and co-operation in their ao
-1 tions, is creating a concentrated
! money power which undertakes to
[ ord sr that legislation shall be as is
j desires, or it will precipitate panics
i at will and ruin thousands of our
business men.— Brockton Diamond.
Fair Elections.
In Columbia county last week the
I Populists in mass meeting, requested
; the Ordinary to give the Demooiats
a manager and clerk of their own
selection at each precinct in the
county. The majority of the board
of Registrars are Democrats. So no
fair minded man can say the Popu
lists are not offering the fair thing
in Columbia county.
Now the same thing will be done
! in other Populist counties We have
j always done so in McDuffie
Will the Democrats of Richmond,
Hancock and other Democratic coun
ties do the same thing? If not, why
not? If they do not, will the hon
est democrat not know it is because
a fair deal is not intended? Will the
1 honest Democrat still support a par-
I ty that thus boldly procl sims almost
I in so many words that it intends to
j debauch the ballot box. —McDuffie
j Entsrprise.
PEOPLE’S PARTY PAPER, ATLANTA, GA, SEPTEMBER 25, 1896.
TOM WATSON IN KANSAS.
From a Woman’s Point of View
-2000 People Hear Him.
There is always a sense of uneasi
ness as to whether an ideal formed
through the written words of an in
dividual will reach complete satisfac
tion in the reality of a personal en
counter, but those who have formed
an opinion of the man Thomas E.
Watson, through his spirited, fearless
and spicy editorials in the People’s
Party Paper, had no ideals shattered
when he appeared before an audience
at Abilene, Kansas, which numbered
2,000 despite the drawbacks of but
a four days notice and rains
to within a few hours of the meeting.
A reception committee of twenty,
Populists, Democrats and silver Re
publicans, met Mr. Watson on the
arrival of the middight train at Abi
lene, and from breakfast hour the
next morning to the time of meeting
at the Wigwam in the afternoon, he
was waited on by a motley crowd
comprising every shade of political
color. Middle-of-the real Pops,
timid Pops, fusion Pops and panic
stricken Democrats elbowed each
other for a word with Mr. Watson
while chuckling gleeful Republicans
as the small boy in the gallery j a~t
of the audience, cheere.d the play.
Order came out of chaos, however,
when after a talk of an hour and forty
minutes, Mr. Watson closed a speeoh
which has left no doubt of the admi
ration in which he is held by even
those of differing political creeds,
and which has left a spirit of earn
estness and zeal working as leaven
in the minds of those who heard
him. Only universal praise of the
speaker is heard on all sides, and the
judgment of one of the leading law
yers of the county, and a McKinley
republican, whose opinion has weight
with hundreds, was that the speech
was the best built-up and most log
ical political speech ever delivered in
Abilene.
Not the least enjoyable portion of
the speech to those who enj >y origi
nality and humor, were the Wawon
ian bits of sarcasm and tumor with
which it was interspersed, one is
tempted to carry his witty simile of
Sewall’s mild attack of varioloid in
thepreserit small pox free silver
eptfbmvc further suegest that
Dame Columbia’s children may be
suffering from an attack of political
measles. The eruption has come out
beautifully over all the states except
poor “bleeding Kansas” where the
malady has “struck in.” But “while
there’s life there’s hope” and a speedy
resort to good nursing and such hot
ap plica'i ms; mustard drafts and
fomentations as the doctor, Thomas
Watson, can so skillfully apply, we
expect to see a glorious rash break
out all over Kansas yeti
One thing is certain whether a
Bryan and Watson flag is unfurled
or not on the Kansas breezes, many
hearts beat loyally for the candidate
of the People’s Party cbo'ce; hearts
which need no drum corps to beat
them into their position in the line
and it is with no disparagement
toward the head of the Populist ticket
to assert that the man who occupies
second place on that ticket is first in
the hearts of the rank and file of his
Pooulist countrymen.
The juvenile allusions to Bryan
have been run into the ground, but
at risk of being trite we can hazard
the comparison of Bryan in his awk
ward position at the head of the
Populist ticket to an overgrown boy
suddenly thrust into a room-full of
company; neither knows what to do
with his hands and “manners” forbid
the comfortable luxury of pants
pockets. However, anyone who has
listened to Thomas Watson’s hearty
and earnest expression of good faith
aptly expressed as an endorsement
I to the Bryan and Sewall promissory
i note, and has personally felt his
warm hand clasp, will rest assured
that the boy has one friend in the
room who understands his plight and
will extend that sama ready clasp in
, an earnest spirit to make his position
1 one of greater ease ami less embar
ressment.
Mbs. John D. Haskell.
Abilene, Kansas.
Stop printing our State ticket un
less you can do it properly. Mr.
Wright has no Ain his name. Yon
will defeat him if you let his tickets
be printed with the Ain it. It is
Seaborn Wright.
Send Address “Populist Plant.”
We have several answers to an
advertisement addressed to ‘ Populist
■Plant.” The advertiser will pleast
send his address to the People’s
Party Paper so that letters can be
forwarded.
SEWALL OF MAINE.
Something About the Democratic
Candidate for Vice President.
Prof. L C. Bateman, People’s
party candidate for Governor of
Maine, under date of August 21st,
writes a Texas friend as follows:
“In answer to your questions in
regard to Sewall, I will say that he
is the millianaire president of the
First National bank at Bath, and a
director in several others. He has
been the president of the great Maine
Central railroad system until lately.
He is still one of the directors and
heavy stock owners. His last act
before resigning the presidency of
the road was to strike down the
wages of the entire body of men em
ployed 10 per cent. At the same
time the road was pajing 12 per
cent, interest on millions of
watered steefc.
His ships all over the world are
boycotted by the National Sailors
Union on account of the low wages,
poor food and inhuman treatment
accorded the men who man them.
He is a plutocrat by birth, instinct
and education. He has frequently
been known to say that $1 per day
is all that any workingman ought to
have. Only last week he ordered a
score of granite cutters discharged at
Hallowell,Me.,because they could not
work one day when the thermome
ter stood 102 in the shade. He is
despised by all who know him on
account of his avaricious, hard heart
ed and cruel nature. He will be de.
featrd two to one in his own ward,
city and county. But I might go on
for hours and the half would not be
to'd. It is enough to know that he
is entirely unfit to represent a move
ment of this nature. It is the meet
outrageous,inconsistent and wretched
nomination that the entire history of
American politics can disclose. Hie
son is now stumping this State for
McKinley and gold. It is a case of
heads I win, tails you lose. All the
Democratic candidates for congress
are gold standard men and Sewall is
supporting them heartily.- Independ
ent Banner.
A purer man was never honored
with a nomination than Thomas E
Watson, ho is the soul of honor, wi.h
,r nA 4 inter uilspCtted—» friend to
t-hoeo fi-i o need fr iends, a born soldier
in the grand army of progress, a hero
in the lead of the common people.
If Watson ever did a dishonorable
act it is not recorded. If ho ever
slighted a friend the records are
silent. If he ever lowered his okra
in the faco of an enemy the heralds
never proclaimed it. Mr. Watson is
a small mau but he is all man from
the ground up. Nothing small about
Watson but his stature. The oharao
ter of the modern politician would
look like a mustard seed beside a
mountain when compared to Watson.
The pretended political reformer and
moral teacher is, in nine cases out
of ten, a fraud. Watson stands for
all reforms that are right. His voice
is heard in sanction of any measure
that is just. Watson is a modern
hero—Southern Mercury.
Tossed Them Out.
List Wednesday night when Co'.
W. L. Peek was speaking at Palmet
to, Campbell county, two or throe
ycung men continued to interrupt
the speaker.
They were repeatedly warned to
desist, but repeatedly kept up their
ruffianly tactics until the chairman of
the meeting and one or two others
seized the leader of the gang and
tossed him headlong through the
window.
The balance of the gang fled pre
cipitalely through doorsand windows
in utter dismay and the meeting pro
ceeded without further interruption.
—Atlanta Commercial.
A Discovery Made by a Preacher.
A discovery has been made by
Rev. J. W. Blosser, M. D, of this
■ city, which marks a new era in the
treatment of catarrh, bronohiiis, as
thma, etc., of which he has made a
special study for the last 20 years
The remedy is applied in a praotica
I way, which brings it in direct con
tact with every affected spot. It de
stroys the disc ise germs, or microbes,
and makes a radical cure. Its use is
convenient and pleasant. He desires
to place it in the hands of every suf
ferer, and will mail a trial sample
free to every one who will address
Dr. J. W. Blosser & Son, 12 and 13
Grau; building, A.ianta,Ga. ltf
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Slop printing our State ticket un
less you can do it properly. Mr.
Wright has no Ain hie name. You
will defeat him if you let his tickets
be printed with the Ain it. It is
Seaborn Wright.
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