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LEYERING-JOHNSON
Wright, Hill and Gambrell Ask
Votes For Them.
THEY ISSUE AN ADDRESS.
Call on Populists to Support the
Prohibition Candidates— bet
ter From Wright to Hill.
Hon. Seaborn Wright, Hon. Wal
ter B. Hill and Rev. J. B. Gambrell ,
call on the Populists of Georgia to
vote for Levering and Johnson, the
Prohibitionist nominees for president
and vice president.
The correspondence and state
ment follow:
Rome, Ga,, October 26, 1896
Hon. Walter B Hill. Dear Sir: Yon
ask me for a brief statement of my
reasons foi supporting Levering and
Johnson.
I shall vote for them because they
stand for the abolition of the licensed
barroom. They are the only candi •
dates whose platform sounds a call
to the defense of the homes and
altars of the people.
The more I study the liquor ques
tion, my friend, and realize its awful
bea'ing upon the moral, social and
economic life of the people the more I
am :onvinced it will soon become
the leading political issue before tho
Am riean people. It is useless to
talk about keeping it out of politics.
Tira the doors of the first liquor
sho were opened in this republic it
has oeen a political issue and until it
ceases to pauperize and brutalize the
peode, until tho red stream of blood
and crime ceases to flo w from its un
hallowed abode it will be a political
queition. Men are foolishly, crimi
mjiL blind, who fail to see tl at the
lq.* shop is the controllin power in
Am rica politics. Your great brewers
and’distiilers are the uncrowned po
litic. I kings of the republic. Moral
season cannot reach these men Local
option cannot abolish their damna
ble traffic. Nothing but the strong
arm of the state and federal govern-
Ifcienf will ever teach them to respect
H‘he jberty and life of the people. A
is of more value than a dollar,
.And'Tife auu inoie'unportaiu.v
relative value of coins. The
V people will somo day awake to this,
> and - h«n the liquor shops are doom-
Do you remember, my friend, the
words of Henry Grady—his terrible
arraignment of this traffic?
“Tonight,” said he, “it enters an
humble home to strike the rosea from
a woman’s cheek and tomorrow it
challenges this republic in the halls
of congress.
“Today it strikes a crust from the
lips of a starving child and tomor
row evies tribute from the govern
.'ni itself.
“i-iere is no c tttage humble enough
to escape it, no palace strong enough
to shut it out.
“It defies the law when it cannot
coerce suffage.
“It is flexible to cajole, but merci
less in victory.
“It is the mortal enemy of petoe
and order, the despoiler of men and
terror of women, the cloud that
shadows the fate of children, the de
mon that has dug more graves and
sent more souls unshrived to judg
ment than all the pestilences that
have wasted life, since God sent the
plagues to Egypt, and all the wars
since Joshua stood beyond Jericho.
“It comes to ruin, an i it shall pro
fit mainly by the ruin, of your eons
and mine.
“It o;mes to mislead human souls
and to crush human hearts under its I
rumbling wheels.
“It comes to bring gray, haired
mothers down in shame and sorrow
to their graves.
“It comes to change the wife’s
love into despair and her pride into
shame.
“It comes to still the laughter on
the lips of httle chil iren.
“It comes to stifle all the tnmic of
the home and fill it with silence and
desola ion.
“It comes to ruin your body and
mind, to wreck your home, and it
knows it must measure its p r osperi
ty by the swiftness and certainty
with which it wrecks this world.”
If this be true, my friend (anil
who that is not blinded by the lust
of office or the greed of gold doubts
it), then how can any Christian man,
who would follow in the footsteps
of his Master, how can any man
with home and wife and children
question his duty?
I would give n uch tonight if I
could reach with my voice the 86,-
000 strong men who went down
with me a month ago battling for
this great principle. Tne brave and
chivalrous man for whom many of
them would have voted can no
longer be helped by their votes
fll hat a victory, even in defeat, it
would be it their voles could be
registered in a national as in the state
election for this sacred principle.
Seaborn Wright.
ToG orgia Populists—We aided
your ticket in the recent campaign
.to the utmost of our ability. Now
that your national electors are with
drawn, we appeal to you to oast y< ur
votes for the principle of Probibi'ion
—a principle which has the cord.al
support not only of your leader in
the state campaign, but also your
honored national leader, Mr. Wat-on.
If anti-barroom legislation is good
for the state, it is good for the nation.
The Democratic party ever since
1876 has antagonized prohibition at
the dictation of the whiskey ring by
its famous anti sumptuary plank,
and forced the issue into national
politics. Tne Republican party has
played for the liquor vote with a
double-dealing dec’aration in it) na
tional platform. These two parties
have surrounded the liquor traffic by
their platforms as wita breastworks;
and if it cannot be dislodged from
its political defenses, it will continue
to wreak moral ruin, financial loss
and political corruption in the na
tion.
Mr. Levering is the first Southern
man nominated for the presidency
since 1860, and we ought to meet
half way tho patriotic northern Pro
hibitionists who have left their old
parties for the sake of this principle.
Walter B. Hill.
J. B. Gambrell.
Firm as Gibraltar.
The Commercial was the first
Democratic paper in the country to
announce for Mr. Watson for vice
president.
It will be the last one to desert his
standard.
It matters net how this position at
this time, may affect the political
well being of the editor of this paper.
He will be true to the pledge volun
tarily made, “that come weal or woe.
G fin shiue or showers, ho would
remain steadfast to the Watson stan
dard in this fight, and, under no cir
custances would he desert that stan
dard, or vote for the man from
Maine.”
Whether politicians applaud or
condemn our course, we are deter
mined to remain trift to tho position
then taken, and if defeat finally
comes, we will at least have tho satis
faction of having stood by our pledge
and to our acception of man y revolt
against sectional hatred.
However much we may he criti
cised, no man can truly say, that we
ever turned our hand on a friend in
the hour of defeat, or violated a
pledge that could be fir filled.
We believe that Tom Watson is
the worst treated man in America to
day. We believe that ha is the vic
tim of base desertion by his own
party leaders, and an utter lack of
magnanimity at the hands of the
Democratic leaders of this State.
The Commercial still believes that
it was not only ungenerctu but un
wise to deny to Watson the empty
compliment of Georgia’s full vote, in
return for the consideration shown
Mr. Bryan by the Populists in Ne
braska, who allowed the full vote ci
that State to be cast for Sewall.
We still believe that a contract
wai made with the Populists at St.
Louis by Chairman Jones, and that
this contract was violated.
We have not changed our origi
nal position that Sewall is an enemy
of the South and against the Chi
cago platform.
Believing this, we can’t get our
consent to commit deliberate stulti
tication by voting for a man who
hails from a state that hates our
section, and who is running on a
platform that ho does not endorse.
We are for Bryan, and we believe
that he making a crusade that will
take its place in history along with
that of Peer the her nit.
We are against McKinley and all
that he represents.
If there is not another such billot
cist, ia Georgia, we intend to vote
for Bryan and Watson electors.
We never desert our fl ig. We
would rather be right than success
iul.—Atlanta Commercial.
It ought to please the chu-Qh
members to know that Mr. Brya
and Maj McKinley are both seen
church every Su'div,—Ex.
PEOPLE’S PARTY PAPER, ATLANTA. GA., OCTOBER 30, 1896.
Texas Wants Watson to Stand
Firm.
Grand Saline, Tex. Oct. 19.
Hon. Thomas. E. Watson, Thom
son, Ga-
Dear Sir and Brother—The fol
lowing is found in the St. Louis Re
public of the 15th inst.
“Tcm Watson must yield or he
will not be considered.”
The above words mikes the heart
of every true Populist burn with in
dignation, for we have trusted in
you all our hopes and to even think
of you varying from the stand you
have taken would be demoralizing to
every true Bopulist in America.
I know this expresses the sent -
ment of every Populist ia Vanz mdt
county, and the chairman of h ■
ccunty will bear me up in this aseer
lion.
We have bowed at the feet of th 3
Democratic party, both State and
Naiionaly and they only ridicule us
the more. They smote us on the
one side and we turned the other
only to receive a harder blow. We
have acted the part of a Christian
while they have acted the part of
the d—l.
Stand firm and denounce fusion
with the Democratic party, for they
had rather kill the Populist party
than to gain free silver.
We have left our banner in your
hands, in the name of God carry it
through though Bryan is defeated
Yours for good government,
James L. Scoggin.
G. M. Goldsmith,
Chm’n. Ex. Committee.
From Minnesota.
St. Cloud, Minn., Oct. 18, 1896-
Hon. Thos. E. Watson:
Drab Sir—l notice in the Demo
cratic papers that there is an influ
ence being brought to bear to have
you withdraw your name from the
ticket. I would never fergive you
if you did. lam one of your ardent
supporters and will only vote for
you and your electors unless Sewall
withdraws. I believe he is only re
maining on the ticket to defeat is
for many Populists here will not
vote for Bryan unless Sewall with
draws. He can make himself the
biggest man in the United States if
he will withdraw. The Populists
have claimed over since their exist
"eiice as a party that the F e.t
South must unite in this fight and we
were the only party that cou’d
reach out our hands and give a
friendly shake by placing a South
ern man on the ticket. We Popu
lists of the North, I mean true Pop
ulists, meant when we placed your
name cn the ticket for you to be the
n-jxt vice president, and I am confi
dent that our Minnesota electors will
go to Hobart before Sewall, and if I
was one of them and had the decid
ing vote it would stand no Watson,
no Bryan; and I would oast my vote
for McKinley and Hobart or Tom
Watson would be vice-president. If
McKinley is elected Sewall will ba
to blame. With best wishes and
with a imitation of your noble man
hood, I am, traly yours,
L. D. Foster.
Johnson County Went Populist.
Editor People’s Party Paper:
Johnson county went Populist
from Governor to Coroner. Wright
beat Atkinson 175 votes. The Dem
ocrats used red liquor freely. They
polled near 700 votes. I tliuk it
safe to estimate at least 300 of them
as floaters. They voted almost the
entire colored vote. Johnson county
is Populist by a big majority among
those who own and cultivate her soil.
Tom Watson’s plan of vote for
Bryan if Watson goes under won’t
work in this county. It reminds me
of an incident that cccured during
the late war. A farmer in Virginia
hauled several loads of stout oak
rails and dumped them cut in a line
preparatory to making a fence. In
the evening we met the Yankees
near said rail piles and a brisk, stub
born fight ensued. About the time
the fight was at the hottest our cap
tain yelled out, “iie down.” Bill
Dixon, who was our orderly sear
gent, took in the situation ‘ at a
glance, and exclaimed: “Who in the
h—l ever sa v anybody iie down on
the wrong side of the rail pile. Fall
back fifteen paca-i and lie down.”
Bill was promptly obeyed, notwith
standing a contrary order was given
by our superior.
Tom’s plan is full of unselfish pat
riotism, and we love him for it,
though we as Populists cant support
Bryan with such swindlers as Sena
tors Jones arid Stewart tied to him,
and old Sewail still on the ticket. I
for one will vote for the principle*
Tom Watsop advocates under all
circumstances, but for the Jones,
Stewart, Sewall oonspiritore, never
to never. Yours truly,
J. B. Howard.
P. S. To vote for them, in m;
opinion, would ba like lying down
- tho side of the rail pile neare
b enemy. J. B. il.
From California.
Ontario, Calif., Oct. 18, 1896.
Hon. Thomas E. Watson-.
Dear Sir—Whan in St. Louis 1
had the pleasure of assisting in the
tight against the national banking
system as represented by Sewall and
the Democratic delegates to the con
vention, which ended in your nomi
nation for the vice presidency. Yon
will find the position I held at the
convention by referring to the vote
of the California delegaws. I am
still in that position, viz: middle-of
the-road. When I returned to Da
tvro I 'cund our Peoples party club
had been bodily swallowed by the
Bryan Democratic club and tba. the
majority of our former Peoples part'
club had no use for a m 'ld e-of-road
P pulist and that they, with the
Democrats, denied that there was
ever any agreement made between
J nes, etc, at St. Louis for the with
drawal of Sewall and the ticket to
be headed by Bryan and Watson.
So rabid are almost all here for
fusion that anyone opposing it is
spoken of with vituperation, frem
yourself to myself. 1 also have failed
to hear any of the Popoeratic speak
ers here at the public meeting men
lion your name as a cinlidate for
vice president. Ei her they only
manticnad Bryan or Bryan and
Sewall. From the conupt fusion
combinations here and elsewhere, I
am satisfied that the Populists are
merely being usid as a means of re
habilitating the Democratic party
As their record is cna of treachery in
the past, treachery at St. Louis,
treachery here today, can we have
any faith in them in the future?
As I look at it you have been used
as a bait to deceive the Populist
voters and will certainly be sacrificed
for Sewall. Now while I would like
very much to have you elected, I
see no possibility of its occurence>
and so from time to time it, is pub
lished here by the Democratic press
that you have resigned, I would take
the liberty as one who hasyour cause
at, heart, to suggest that if you intend
to resign, that you withhold your
resignation until November 2d, and
then telegraph it to the Populist na
tional committee; thus depriving the
Democrats of an opportunity to per
suade voters to vote for Bryan and
i so those who kfe’TaitEiuT’to
Bryan and Watson will so vote, but
as you have withdrawn the tricksters
will be unable to have your votes
counted (or them. It will rejoice my
heart to see the entire lot of treach
erous scoundrels who worked for the
betrayal of humanity at St. Louis fail
ts reap the plunder they were after.
I know of several here who will
not vole any fusion ticket.
Kindly let me know if ill's meets
with your approval; if only with a
few words.
The above is fully concurred in by
one of our most loyal Peoples party
men, Dr. E E. Wheeler.
Yours truly,
E. E. Duncanson,
“No Watson; No Bryan.”
Editor People’s Party Paper:
1 heartily endorse the action of our
executive committee in withdrawing
the Bryan and Watson electoral
ticket. After the contemptuous re
fusal of the Democratic committee to
recognize us by placing Mr. Watson’s
name on their ticket, I cannot see
how self-respecting Popouliss can
continue to support Mr. Bryan, mush
less to give their votes to Mr. Sewalf
The Constitution is just now very
sweet on the middle of the-road Pop
ulists, but it wont go down. The
Populists of Georgia have ceased to
heed or to believe any thing found
its columni. Indeed the political
editor of The Constitution has long
since ceased to believe what he sees
in his own columns. Tne Populists
have been outrageously treated from
the very inception of fusion of the
silver forces in this campaign. Ths
Democratic position put into plain
language is practically this:—we, the
Democracy, will furnish the platform,
tie candidate's and accept all the
offices if you, Populists, will destroy
your own organization and furnish us
enough votes to fleet our ticket. Can
any self-respecting Populist aid the
Democratic ticket on such degrading
terms?
This fusion w>u d have been bad
enough to swallow, if Mr Bryan had
shown some little manliness in giving
proper recognition to M . Watson
and the tw million votes who s ood
behind him, instead of running after
the man from M line who cou d not I
bring ten vo'es to h s support. It |
would be bad enough for M . Bryan
■r hit manager, Senator Jones, had I
ever rctraded or apolog z- d f-r th-. I
Liulal insult of the sailor whv-n he j
said “let t ie Populists go back to the
niggers, where they belong.” (In
I justice to Senator Jones, however,
I must say that I don’t think he
would have made the remark if he
had ever heard of Mr. Atkinson and
, the Dunean circular.) Still it was a
brutal remark—one not to be ex
’ plained away and one that should
j not be condoned. It would be bid
cn nigh to ask Populists to set aside
tne patriotic, brainy and ctiivalrou-
Tom Watson for Se wall if the latter
I represented anything or anybody but
himself. Sewall never had any busi
ness on the ticket and none knew
that better than the Constitution and
the politicians who put him there and
who seem determined to keep him
| there though they kuow he is a dead
Wright on the ticket.
; He is not only a dead weight but
he stultifies the platform and eve-y
i speech which Bryan ai.d his support
ers have delivered during the cam
paign. He does not claim to stand
tor but one idea in the platform and
if free silver is wrong, I conclude
fr- nt 3 careful pertnal of -ewall’s
letter of acceptance and the fact that
he makes obligations due i imself
payable not in curre t money but in
gold, that Mr. Sewall has committed
the free silver crime in its m'ldest,
i forme.
Mr. Editor, I am not in sympathy
with the Republican platform. Six
months ago, I did not imagine the
contingency could ever arise that
would induce me to vote the Repub-
I lican ticket. At the approaching
' election Georgia Populists have three
courses open to them. Tiey can
choose between Sewall ami MoKinle,
or they can stay at home. In my
opinion it is more manly to vote than
to sulk at home. If I could vote for
Bryan without voting for Sewall I
would do so, though Bryan h: s
treated our party and our candidate
with scant courtesy, but I cannot vote
for Bryan without voting for Sewal;
and this I cannot and will not do. I
have little in common with McKinley,
but I can admire his genuine Ameri
canism. With Sewall I have nothing
in common. lie stands for absolutely
nothing but his own selfishness and
greed. Every Populist should re
pudiate the ticket which carrici his
name. A vote for Se vail is a vote
1 against Watson. A vote forMcKin
> ley may prove to be a vote for Wat
! son, because it will lessen the number
5 of votes needed by Mr. Watsan to
’ give him the balan eof power in the
electoral college. Our only way to
* \ effectively strike back at the men
' I who sought to degrade and humiliate
• us is to give the vote of Georgia to
1 i McKinley. Wo cannot do this by
| sulking at home. We must go to the
’ i polls and vote. D. N. Sanders.
i
From Mclbiillie County
Editor People’s Party Paper.
There is no fusion in thia part of
the political vineyard that will fuse.
The Populists are disgusted and
chagrined at the tricks and trades of
some of our would-be leaders. We
will on the 3rd of November vote
' for our congressman and then go
home. We are not yet slaves or
| sheep, to be lead to slaughter in the
proposed manner. Wa claim to be
freemen yet for a season.
That recent Chicago conference
i of our National Committee was an
other attempt at a sell oit, in my
opinion. They could have with
drawn Mr. Watson from the disgrice
ful race with more propriety than do
what they attempted, and such a
course would have accomplished
greater results anil left us our man
; hood as well. That committee, be
it remembered by all Populist every
i where, was at the St. Louis conven
tion clothed with plenary powers.
, Tne Populist here are disposed to
i vote for McKinley rather than Bryaa
| unier present circumstances. I tell
the boys we can’t afford to act thus.
' I think there is more manhood not
I to vote at all than to stultify myself
\ in such manner.
This, McDuffie county, Georgia, is
Mr. Watson’s home county. We
! have known Mr Watson from his
boyhood up. We have followed him
from the plowhandlee to that of the
sage, and we are yet to find him fol
lowing after “ial»- G -ds.” We are
willing to honor him in every wav,
bit not willi- g to saer lice him polit-
I icaliy or other wise
Our advice to brother Populist is
j to go to the eleoticn, vote lor their
I c.myr.a.iman and indignantly spurn
| all fmions of any ki.:d. If Brya
has n- better sense t an to be le d
I about by such tricksteie let. h m b
| saorili- ed, not our party. It tnot
I yet accomplished i s mission, if it has
one, and this 1 verily believe.
I Tais ia written solely for tho pur
; pose to let Populist e. rj boro
I know what v e will do on i:t dj.
I election. You-.--1 > iht- fiu..v
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