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THE PEOPLE’S PARTY PAPER.
Established October 15, 1891.
ATLANTA • GEORGIA.
OUR PUBLISHING COMPANY.
THOS. E. WATSON, • - - President.
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Official Organ People’s Party
State of Georgia.
Populist National Organization Committee
C ,T. H. Harris, Oak Bower.
Alabama / Z Gaston, Greenville,
(I. C. Watson, Jacksonville.
(W. S Morgan Hardv.
Arkansas < A N Files, Little Kock.
(J E. Scanlon, Bee Branch.
< F. H. Lytle, Stanton.
Florida. /
(A. P. Baskin, Anthony.
(Gen Wm. Phillips. Mari»tta
Georgia < W D. Hawk ns, Flowery Branch
(.Dr. R. W. Mays, Jackson
(J H Ferri.s, Joliet
Illinois. / L. D Reynolds, Chicago
LG. W. Wickline, Nashvl.le
(N H Motslnver, Shoals
Indiana {JH Allen, Terre Ha .te
IT B Rogers, Logansport
(J O Beebe. Wever
lowa. <A W U Weeks, Winterset
I,Alii Reed, Muscatine
(John F Willits. McLou’h
Kansas / Abe Steinberger. Girard
(. I V B Kennedy, Fort Sc ,tt
( To A Pa-ker, LouiS'’l | le
Kentucky/ W B Brldgifoid, Frankfort
(.Samuel James, uwensooro
(NF Naff. Naff
Louisiana / J C Rocket, Shearvllle
(B W B.Hey, Winfield,
( lohn O Zabel, Petersburg.
Michigan / J E Mi-B ide. Grand Rapids.
I. Ro ert Blemuuker, Marquette.];
(J B Du>es, M nneapolis.
Mlnneso a< J*l oanie. -i I’.ul
ILL Foste', St Cloud.
(F ankßu kitt Okolona.
Mississippi-! 8 H ho ilrgsw. r h, Dry Grove.
( R B ewer. Memphis.
( Pau 1 J D to-, Chillicothe.
Missouri / J H HiUls, McFall
(p W Eskew, Poeiar Bluff.
( L Stebi Ins, North Platt.
Nebraska /
(. H M ®tewart, C ayton.
Rhode Island/ G»o ge Arnold.
{«m Mullins, Antioch.
* B McClanahan B echville.
B G W st, ,U 9 Folk, Memphis.
(Chas Jenkins Brownwood.
Texas /O'* Kbkuatrick acKinley.
’ 1. E O Meitz-n, Halletsrllle.
(IP fngw 1 . Taco-ra.
Washington/ D. RtiM Lean. Spokane.
(. F A D .aajes Pomeroy.
(HZ Martin, Neponset.
West Virginia./ Dr J W Shull, Pleasant Dale.
I HA Aitizer, Arno dsburg.
(R belt Schilling, Ml Iwaukee.
Wlsoonoin /
( Wm Monroe, West Superior.
( A A Gun Sy. Louisiana
J lenatlus D nne y,
Executive Committee ) W L Peek. Georgia-
| J E Mcßride, Mich.
La Steinberger, Kan.
Chairman-Milton Park, Dallas,Texas.
Secetary W S Megan,Pardy Arkansas.
Treasurer-Di. G B Crowe, Alabama.
Popullat State Executive Committee.
First DisD-iet-D C Newton, R M Bryan
Seco, d Dl-trl t L G ColHns C R Narramore,
Third D -titct-J Go>don Jouee. L Montgomery
Fou th Distr ct—H A Flo enc*>. W A Waite,
Fifth Di tr • t- H G Gunter, w L Peek,
Slx’h Di r, c’- -w P Glover 0 E Turner.
S v» nth District—J K Davis, J D Cunningham,
Eleh'h Idstr ct-wY U.rter, Ge PBrightwell
Mn'h Dli'ilct—L L Clements ww wi'son,
T • h Di-t ct—James Barrett, J 'hn T west,
Bliveutn District—S w Johnson, B B Lindley,
We don’t belong to
IT IS NOT AN the University, Mer
cer or Emory. Never
‘INFANT tad the chance to at-
INDUSTRY “ tend either, there
fore have no bias or
reason'to favor one above the other,
but for the life of us we cjn’t see or
understand why the friends of the
University should expect the Legisla
ture to annually pick the pockets of
the unprotected tax payer and give the
pickings to their alma mater.
What has the University done or
what is it doing to educate the young
men, that Mercer or Emory has not
done and is not now doing? They all
turn out fine lawyers, doctors and
preachers, and occasionally a farmer
or mechanic. If there is any marked
difference of superiority in the general
output of these educational machines,
which renders the University product
more valuable to the State than the
product of Merc«r or Emory, the
friends of the University should hasten
to point it out. Th** over-burdened tax
pajer is gnorant of any such superi
ority and needs enlightenment of brain
■while you are lightening bis pocket.
There was a time in Georgia when
the alumni of the Univeisity controlled
the Legislature and the 8-ate had it
all their own way bv force of members
and tnte lees Th*>n it was that they
grabb'd $226 794 7 proceeds from the
sale of land script donated by con
gress in 1872 and 1873 to the Agricul
tural and Mechanical inte eats, and
gave It to their b -loved alma mater
They subsequently grabbed under the
1890 act an add tic nal congressional
donatio" of 815,000 with an annual in
crease of 81 000 until the sum reaches
B’s 000 an' ua'ly. and gave it the same
delightful direction. I appears that the
“Agri u’tural and Mechanical inter
ests" w« re too insignificant at that
t’me to be counted as a factor in the
makeup of ths S'ate and there was
nobody who cared enough for them to
hsz’a d his political life by fighting
the University.
But Mercer and Emory were gradu
atirg boys at a cost of about 8180 per
annurr(witboutState aid) while it costs
a' out 8400 per annum to pull a boy
thrrugh the University, which was re
ceiving thousands of dollars from the
State.
And now legislative and state honors
are about easy. Mercer and Emory
have got about as many alumni in po
aitions of honor and trust as the Uni
versity, and the Mercer and Emory
boys don’t see any common sense or
honesty in fleecing the tax payers of
the State to support a college that is
doing no better work than is being
done by their factories, and they nat
urally kick against it. So do we.
Mac.
Elsewhere will be
SENATOR found a card from
Hon. A. E. Strother,
STROTHER’S . , . ...
in reference to his
CARD. vote against the
amended Bush bill.
As we understand Mr. Strother, he
admits that he is under written con
tract with the people of his district to
vote against bar-rooms , and that he is
not under contract to vote for Prohibi
tion.
In order that his position may more
clearly be seen, we quote, at this point,
the written contract referred to :
“A CARD.
“To the people of the 29th Senatorial
District:
As there seems to be a misconception
as to my position upon the whiskey
question, I adopt this method to inform
my Populist friends that I am in entire
accord with our State platform and
unalterably opposed to the barroom
system, and it elected will vote to abol
ish barrooms.
Very Respectfury,
A. E. Stbotheb.
P. S. The McDuffie Enterprise and
Farmers Light will please copy.”
This is the card which Mr. Strother
says was suggested in the private con
ference with his friends, after the
“confusion” got up in regard to his
position on the whiskey question.
This card, published all over the
District, at once removed the confu
sion, and put Brother Strother into the
Senate.
Now we ask Brother Strother, in all
kindne‘s, if he only turned against the
Bush bill after the Prohibition amend
ment was accepted by Judge Turner ?
Was Brother Strother a supporter of
the bill while it was nothing but an
anti-barroom bill? Would he have
voted for the bill as it stood last ses
sion ; and as it stood until within the
last few days at this session ?
The Prohibition amendment was not
substituted for the anti-barroom pro
visions till week before last: and yet
unless Brother Strother has been most
shamefully misrepresented he was an
enemy to the bill in its original shape.
Last summer, when the members of
the Senate were polled upon the ques
tion, M*. Strother was set down as one
of the Senators who would oppose the
bill. At that time the Bush bill was
strictly an anti barroom bill.
We do not say that Senator Strother
was correctly quoted. He may have
been misunderstood—just as Senator
Brooke seems to have misunderstood
him—hut his name certainly was class
ed with Carter’s and Golden’s as being
opposed to the Anti-Barroom bill.
I was asked at that time to write to
Senator Strother, and the others, ar J
to use my influence with them to fr.vor
the hill. I declined, first bec'.uae I
could not assume that they would vio
late our contract with the people ; and,
second, because it is my ’ ule not to do
anything which the restive and the
sensitive might consider as savoring of
dictation. Never have I sought to in
fluence a single Populist member of the
Legislature in his official conduct by
any personal appeal A man who is
getting old, is suffering from the liver
malady called Cirrhosis, and is wormy
on general principles, has to be ex
tremely careful with himself, else he
will be called a Boss, a Dictator —after
the election. While the campaign is
going on, while the fight is hot and the
issue doubtful, Watson is a very con
venient fellow for a Populist Senatori
al candidate to have on hand. No
trouble about old age then. No liver
disease called Cirrhosis. No worms to
hurt.
We are glad that Senator Strother
has made use of the opportunity to set
himself right. He is a good man —hon-
est, manly, fearless, patriotic.
As we understand him he has ever
been, and is now, ready to vote for the
Anti-Barroom Bill.
Luckily Senator Gray’s Temperance
bill is just that sort of a bill: and it is
the special order for Nov. 16th Inst.
By the time this paper reaches our
readers, the Gray hill will probably
have reached a vote, and Senator
Strother’s name will have been enroll
ed among its supporters.
“All’s well that ends well.”
T. E. W.
The Augusta (Ga.)
EDITORIAL Chronicle thinks it
strange that we
NOTES. should throw cold
water on the Demo
cratic jubilation over the recent elec
tion. The Chronicle believes that the
Democrats won “glorious victories."
Where at ?
They carried Kentucky, and lost
Maryland : —lost Gorman and got
Blackburn. They carried Nebraska,
and lost Kansas, got one Judgeship In
Bryan’s state, and lost nine in Simp
son's state A Democrat was elected
Governor of New York, but what sort
of a Democrat ? A Gold bug.
Last year Bryan Democracy buried
David B. Hill: this year David bobs
up serenely and buries Bryan Democ
racy.
Is not that true, sister Chronicle ?
Then what are you crowing over ?
Tammany Democracy carried New
York City—but how ? By a secret and
corrupt deal between Croker, the
Democrat, and Platt, the Republican.
Did the candidate run on the Chicago
Platform ? Not at all. He and Hon
James K. Jones agreed to “waive" the
PJatform.
Most significant of all, the election
was barely ended before Tammany
showed its teeth at Bryan, and gave
him a premonitory growh
Now with New York state committed
to the gold standard, and the City
Government divided between Croker
and Platt, where's the “glorious vic
tory” for Bryan Democracy ?
It’s all well enough to crow for the
boys and pretend that everything is all
right, but deep down under the surface
the Chronicle must see that troublesome
signs exist. The truth is that all the
political symptoms indica’e almost
universal discontent and unrest, and
the next campaign is apt to be any
body’s fight.
With Democrats fusing with the
THE PEOPLE’S PARTY PAPER; ATLANTA, GEORGIA: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1897.
Republicans in New York and Colora
do ; Populists fusing with Democrats
in Nebraska and Kansas ; and Popu
lists fusing with both Republicansand
Democrats in North Carolina; and
Free Silver Democrats rejoicing at the
election of gold-bug Democrats, the
situation is beginning to promise all
the variety that the most fastidious
could wish.
* • #
Will some zealous believer in'Mary
Ann Butler tell us what that eminent
fraud has done with The People’s Par
ty ?
Where was it during the recent elec
tions ? What figure did it cut ? What
was its vote ?
In the off-year elections after the
Presidential year of 1892, The People's
Party was intact, well organized, ag
gressive, coherent and effective. It
polled nearly two million Populist
votes, cast for Populist candidates
running upon Populist Platforms.
From North to South it was united :
from East to West it knew but one
doctrine and followed but one flag.
Where is the Party now ?
Where was it during the recent elec
tions ?
Who can say it is intact, well organ
ized, aggressive, coherent and effect
ive ?
Who can say it cast two million
votes? Who can say that it is united,
that it has but one doctrine and follows
but one flag ?
Was it a Populist victory in Nebras
ka ? By no means. The Democratic
name covered the whole thing: the
Democratic colors waved over all the
troops; and a Democratic politician
got the only office that was at stake—
the Supreme Judgeship The Pops
got two miserable little college regen
cies that would not be called offices
anywhere else on earth except in a
convention where Fusion tactics had
made lunatics out of sensible men.
Did the Populists win any giory in
Kansas ? By no means. They went
down in the slime of a common defeat
with the Democrats-a disgraceful defeat
because the fusion between Democrats
and Populists was a mere corrupt bar
gain for the spoils of office.
In Colorado how was it —Colorado
where a few years ago a Populist Gov
ernor ruled triumphant ? Democrats
and Republicans united and routed the
Populists who h»d been torn into fac
tions by the Fusion of 1896.
Our party in 1892, 4 and 6, was grow
ing in Virginia and Maryland ? Where
is it uow ? Gone I
■sot a grease spot left in the pan.
In Kentucky how was it ? Brave
Joe Parker led the Middle of the Road
fight and did it brilliantly, but with
Butler knifing him all the time, he was
powerless to make headway.
In .'iowa how is it—the home of
James B Weaver ? Less than six thou
sand Populist voters rema'n; the oth
ers are Democrats in name, in policy,
in principle and in organization. As
Populists they absolutely have no sep
arate existence. The Democrats have
swallowed them “bodaceously ”
So it is all around. A magnificent
Party of 2 000,000 men has disappeared
It has been swallowed up as though
the earth had opened and taken it in.
Such annihilation has not been known
since the Earthquake of Lisbon.
Will some zealous Butlerite please
tell us what that eminent fraud has
done with the People’s Party? Has he
lost it: has he hid it: has he loaned it
out?
We trusted him withit: it was in
good condition when he took it; and
now we ask him:
What have you done with it ?
You are the last one that had it. We
want you to account for it.
In 1892 and 1894 we could turn to the
official returns of the elections, and tell
to a man how many Populists voted.
Can you do it now ? How many Pop
ulists voted in Nebraska to give that
Supreme Court Judgeship to a Demo
crat ?
You don’t know, and nobody on earth
does know.
How,many Pops voted in Kansas ?
You can’t tell, and nobody else can.
How many Pops voted in Ohio, in
Kentucky, in lowa, in Virginia ?
lon don’t know, and nobody ese
does.
You are Chairman of a once great
party, are you not?
How many voters are in your party
now ?
You can’t answer.
You miserable failure and fraud,
you must go back to the tables of 1892
and 1894 before you can even guess at
the Populist vote. You can’t, to save
your worthless life, tell what the
strength of your party is today.
You are a nice fellow for Chairman
ain’t you? You are a good Pall-Bear
er, —that’s about what you are.
Bryan editors tell us that Free Silver
is not dead yet No : not exactly : but
if it has to swallow much more medi
cine of the kind administered to it by
the Democratic politicians in the last
campaign, it’s a gone gosling The
success of Democratic candidates who
are gold bugs, of those who “waive”
the silver question, would probably be
fatal to the silver question if it didn’t
have more lives than a cat.
The fact of the business is that the
Democratic bosses have got about all
they wanted out of the Silver question.
They took hold of it for the purpose
of destroying The People’s Pa-ty with
it, and with Butler s help and Allen’s
aid they have pretty well done it.
We look to see both wings of the
Democratic party come together, a>d
Free Silver the Peace offering decorat
ing the altar.
»»»»**«
There’s just one way to ressurrect
The People’s Party: reorganize from
the ground up, and rigidly exclude
from control every leader tainted with
Fusion—the people are all right: its
the corrupt leadership which has hurt
ua. T. E. W.
As a political party
A FINE we have not eaten
much public pie from
RECORD. st a (, e counter.
Got a few sheriffs
and other county officers, a few repre
sentatives and a handful of senators —
that's all.
But we have by organization and
persistent fighting, done more for the
state in the six years of our exi-tence
than the Democratic party did in
thirty years.
We have forced the Democratic Gov
ernor to make the Banks pay interest
on the State’s deposits.
We have made illegal voting so dis
reputable that even Augusta (in the
10th District) is ashamed, and wants a
better and more effl nent law than
Fleming’s Registration Law, which we
compelled to be enacted.
We have made election frauds so
repugnant that the present legislature
will adopt our Australian ballot sys
tem, or something like it.
We have hammered at the corrupt
method of electing Judges until the
people have changed the Constitution
so far as it applies to the election of
Supreme Court Judges.
We have made the convict lease
question so infernally hot that the
Governor has ordered all the misde
meanor convicts to be returned from
private chain gangs to the counties
where they were cmvieted.
We have made the School Book ques
tion a prominent feature for legislation
at the present session.
We have exposed extravagance in
the management of public trusts, and
caused the appointment of the Blalock
Investigating Committee, which has
made a voluminous report to the Gov
* rnor, in which grave errors are said
to exist in some of the departments.
Os course we did not have the nu
merical strength in the general assem
bly to control legislation, but would
the Democratic party have inaugurated
these reforms if we had not been in
existence as a political party ready to
enact them if th* y did not.
We may never elect a Populist Gov
ernor and State House officers, and
thereby gain access to the pie counter,
and feast at the public crib, but so
long as we hold our organization and
be true to our platform promises, we
will leaven the lump and if the politi
cal party in power don't heed the
leaven the people will heave them out
and us in.
The most insignificant member of the
Populist party, by his fealty to its
principles, has done more for his state
than hundreds of Democrats who have
worn her honors.
If you are a patriot and love your
state stand by your colors. If you are
a pie hunting-office seeker, take your
clearance papers and walk out. Don’t
be a Benedict Arnold or Marion Butler.
Mac.
The d feat of the
CHANCE THE Bush Bill by tue
lower house of the
TACTICS. General Assembly in
’95; the defeatof Hon.
Seab Wright (the Anti-barroom Prohi
bition champion) in the Gubernatorial
contest of ’96 and the recent defeat of
Mr. Turner’s Anti-barroom and Prohi
>ion bills by the upper house of the
General Assembly two weeks ago is in
dicative of one of two things:—opposi
tion of the people to a change from lo
cal option to State control, or a deca
dence of morality in our Representa
tives Electors and Senators.
It was the votes of Democratic Rep
resentatives which defeated it in the
lower house in ’95; it was the votes of
church members and p r eaehers wh’cb
defeated it in the general election of
96, and it was the votes of Populist and
Republican S -nators which defeated it
in the Senate the other day. Therefore,
its defeat cannot be charged against
either political party. The Populists,
like the preachers and church members,
having voluntarily assumed the posi
tion of God father gives more signifi
cance to the votes of its Senators thin
attaches to the votes of Democratic or
Republican Senators, and will naturally
excite genuine surprise and cause much
adverse criticism.
I am inclined, however, to the belief
that a majority of the people of the
State are sufficiently satisfied with the
Local option law as to fear jeopardy in
making a change. This satisfaction is
born of the good results obtained under
that law —the liquor traffic having been
driven out of 102 counties of the State,
leaving only 35 counties exempt from
Anti barroom legislation. This belief
was intensified into a potent fact by
the defeat of Hon, Seab Wright, who
gallantly and fearlessly carried the
Anti barroom banner into every sec
tion of the State during the last Guber
natorial camp »ign. That flection con
vinced me that there are minis’ers pro
fessedly serving God who would ac
tively carouse with the devil, if
branded Democracy, in preference to
aiding the cause of their Master if ia
the aiding their Democratic friends
would lose an office.
While I do not intend to palliate or
excuse the strange votes of my politi
cal Senators which defeated the bill in
the Senate, I contend that every ad
verse criticism of their votes falls with
equal, if not greater justice upon the
ministers and church members who
voted against Hon. Seab Wright in the
General election. If honesty of moral
convictions has departed from the pul
pit it is rea'onable to expect it to take
flight in all departments of life—the
Georgia Assembly included.
The defeat of this Christian measure
at the General election and by the
General Assembly does not m»an the
death of the Prohibition cause. Its
friends may have been over zealous in
their desire to free the state from the
liquor curse, and as the blacksmith
sometimes does, struck hot iron in the
wrong p'ace; but the forge is handy
and coal plentiful. Learn wisdom from
defeat and experience and concentrate
your energies to the Local option field.
A battlefield wherein your banner
flies in victory nine times out of ten.
Make the fight a home fight, as you
recently did in Morgan and Hancock
counties. All the odds were against
you, but you pitched the battle where
the ministers, church members and
politicians had to face the agonized
tears and heart pleadings of the wives
of unfortunate drunkards and the
mothers of wayward whiskey drinking
sons, and you are bound to win.
The battles you have heroically
waged in the political fields while bar
ren of immediate success have made
your cause a burning,,living issue that
the machinations of wiry politicians
can never outten if you will gain wis
dom from your defeat and profit by the
lessons of experience.
Why longer permit the local politi
dans to use your sacred cause as a
hood-wink to conceal their designs as
well as their incompetency and unfit
ness for legislative duties, and this has
been done all over Georgia.
After they “got in” on your Anti-Bar
room Bush Bill, they generally “took
to the bush” or were unable to give
your measure any force by their pres
ence. And so long as you allow these
one-gallused stump-jump=*rs an oppor
tunity to use you to gain a position
they would never reach without your
aid just so long may you expect defeat
Take it out of the political field and
save many ministers, electors and leg
islators from the crime of moral per
jiry.
If Senator Turner will turn his valu
able attention to the passage of an
amendment to the present Local option
liw, whereby elections may be held
every seven years instead of every two
years, as the law now prescribes, he
will, in my humble opinion perform a
great and valuable service to the coun
ties from which it is yet to be driven
Two years isn’t sufficient time for an
old sot to get the liquor stink out of his
liver, to say nothing of his hide.
Mac.
It will be remem-
WILL THEY bered that Mrs. At
kinson, when she so
ably managed Bill
CONTROLLED. Atkinson’s fl st cam
paign for Governor,
wrote to her friends that her husband
would be elected because he had the
suppo r t of the “men who control” the
Democrat'c party.
The question now arises, will the
“men who control” be “controlled” by
the aforesaid Bill Atkinson?
Will men who have been considered
worthy of congressional honors become
mere footballs to the political ambition
of the aforementioned Bill Atkinson?
Will men who have been honored by
the General Assembly and by the votes
of the people to positions upon the
Bench of the Superior and Supreme
courts prostitute themselves and their
too-confiding constituents, by allowing
themselves and their exalted offices to
become foqtmats to the inordinate po
litical aspirations of Mrs. Atkinson’s
William?
If Spencer C. Atkinson resigned the
trust given him by the people—not by
Atkinson or the legislature -the affirm
ative wins, and wins by a large major
ity. The constitution of the State for
bids members of the General Assembly
(who are elected by the people) from
accepting a"y office or trust or emolu
ment during the term for which they
were ejected. It is reasonable to sup
pose the omission of the framers of the
constitution to include justices of the
supreme court in the inhibition, is at
tributable to the fact that the justices
were elected by the legislature—not by
the people.
But the people in 1896 changed that
section of the constitution so as to
make the election of Justices "of the
Supreme Court by the people— not by
the legislature. Then why should not
the principle of law which prohibited
those elected to the legislature, by the
people, from accepting any office of
trust or emolument during the time
for which they were elected, apply to
Justices of the Supreme Court who are
now elected by the people, just as the
members of the Legislature are elected?
If Judge Sampson Harris, who was
an applicant for Railroad Commis
sinner—not for Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court—accepts an appoint
ment to an office that was made vaca-t
te prevent him from getting the one he
sought, the affirmative wins again, and
Mrs. Atkinson in writing to her friends
in the future will be able to write:
*’William controls. ” Mao.
The Atlanta Con-
LET EM stitution has un-
earthed a mare’s nest
HATCH. j-he Populist camp
with Yamey Carter
sitting on the eggs.
According to the ever-truthful Con
stitution, Yancey is going to crowd
out all the Watson eggs and produce a
hatch of Republican-Pop chicks.
The incubating process is quietly
progressing while the Legislature is
noisily wrangling over immater al mat
ters to the exclusion of important
measures. A consultation, in which
none of Watson’s close friends will be
invited to take part, is to be held at an
early day in Atlanta and the Republi
can Populist fusion with Yancey Carter
at the head or helm will be launched
So says or intimates the Constitution.
If the Constitution had not been so
unfortunate as to miss the ma*k in all
of its political and business cumula
tions for the past twelve months, we
might attach some importance to this
incubation story.
There were fusion fools at our St
Louis convention and there may be
fusion fools in Atlanta, but the chances
are largely against it.
However, Mr Watson nor any of his
close friends will not lose any sleep
from the random talk of the Constitu
tion, nor from the sarcastic mutterings
of amb’tious co laborers.
•■Sufficient tin’o the day is the evil
thereof.” Mr. Watson and his close
friends will meet the evil when the evil
arrives, you bet. Mac.
The liveliest ques
ts THE tion now before the
General Assembly is
UNIVERSITY the <<Land Scrfpt
ENTITLED TO IT F und,” which the
University (Frank
lin College, properly speaking) has
been using for the past twenty-five
years. We give below a synopsis of
the acts of Congress creating and dis
bursing the same. The caption of the
first act which was approved July
2nd 1862, is as follows:
“An act donating the public lands to
the several states and territories which
may provide colleges for the benefit of
agriculture and the mechanic arts.
“Sec. I. Appropriates.3o,ooo acres of
public land for each Senator and Rep
resentative in Congress under the cen
sus of 1860.
“Sec. 11. Provides for the sale of such
lands at 8125 per acre, or is*uing land
script at the same price, the proceeds
thereof to be applied to the u*es and
purposes prescribed in the act and for
no other purno e whatever.
“Sec. HL Protects the fund from
discrimination by requiring the State to
bear certain expenses.
“Sec. IV. Allows the fund to be in
vested in United States or State bonds
bearing not less than 5 per cent inter
est, and shall constitute a p rpetual
fund for the support and maintainance
of at least one college where the lead
ing object shall be to teach such
branches of learning as are related to
agriculture and the mechanic arts—it
does not exclude other scientific and
classical studies.
“Sec. V. Provides that the state is
to keep the fund in tact, apply the in
terest to the purposes mentioned, al
lowing only 10 per cent fobs'expended
for pure ha e of lands; to provide not
less than one college within five years ;
no sta’e while in rebellion or insurrec
tion to receive the fund ; governors to
make report to Congress of sale of
lands, amount received and what was
done with it.
Georgia's quota under this act was
270,000 acres, this land was sold by
Mil ton Smith, governor, under legisla
»ive act of Dec. 12, 1866, for 1243.000 —
90 cents per acre. The first payment
of 850,400 was invested in 7 per cent
Sta‘e bonds which was turned over to
the University trustees. In 1872 $90,-
202.70 was paid into the treasury and is
still there but 7 per cent interest is
paid to the trustees. In 1873 the last
pavment, $94,192 was made—this pay
ment we bilieve was invested in 8 per
cent State bonds and turned over to the
trustees of the university. The actual
amount, therefore which was invested
in State bonds was $236,794 17 instead
<>f $243,000 for which the land was sold.
The difference of 86 205.83 was lost
through discounting the purchase
notes—a good-sized grab for somebody.
Ia 1877 Congress ms.de another ap
propriation of about 815.000 per annum
to be applied to the maintainance of
the state college of Agriculture and
Mechanics. The trustees of the Univer
sity laid hands upon that sum and con
tinued to claim it until the legislature,
through a commission or committee,
took it from them and established an
“experimental agricultural station” at
Griffin.
In 1890 Congress made an additional
appropriation of 815,000 annually to
the colleges of ‘ Agriculture and Me
chanics,” sa’d appropriation to be in
creased at the rate of 81,000 'per annum
for 10 years when it shruld remain at
B’s 000 per annum to be equitably di
vided between the', white and colored
races. 3 Two-thirds of this fund is paid
to the Trustees of the University and
one-third to the colored school at Sa
vannah.
The above statements include all the
facts, so far as we know regarding the
“Land Script” and other f inds appro
priated by Congress to Georgia for the
maintenance of a college devoted to the
Interests of Agriculture and Mechanics,
and what has been done with said
script and funds.
The duty devolves upon the legisla
ture to decide whether the intention * f
Congress hss been honestly construed
and the University honestly entitled to
receive these several funds.
Is the “Agricultural and Mechanical
College,” which was created and then
hitched on to Franklin College, any
thing more than a college in name—on
annex, the chief function of which, is
to annually divert those sacked funds
from Agricultural and Mechanical pur
poses to Professional uses? Mac.
Contemptible.
There are some mighty mean men in
this wor'd ; their principle is that when
a man or woman is down, it is the first
duty of a Christian and patriot to kick
them.
We have been striving to raise a fund
to purchase a home for Mrs Mary E.
Lease, who is homeless We have re
ceived all sorts of letters from parties
in Kansas against Mrs. Lease. Some
of the writers of these letters pretend
to be Populists We received the other
day one such letter, to which we paid
no attention, but a day or two after
wards, we found the substance of it
given in an article in the Minneapolis
Journal. It was very evident that
while writing to us as an assumed Pop
ulist, the author of the letter had, at
the same time, written to the Minneap
olis Journal (a Republican paper), so as
to head off, if possible, anything being
don ito assist Mrs. Lease, The follow
ing is the Journal article:
IGNATIUS, THS INNOCENT,
“Brer Donnelly is a victim of mis
placed confidence, not for the first time,
perhaps, for Ignatius has put trust in
a good many badly frayed creeds and
people since his kaleidoscopic careei
began.
His robust appeals for 10-cent sub
scriptions to aid that poor and down
tro iden friend of the people, Mary B
Lease,in her pathetically de*c ibed at
tempts to redeem he" h >me from the
urazp of the mortgage shark —the same
mortgage shark in this instance being
a very inoffensive Eastern widow who
depends on the Lease mortgage inter
est for a portion of her living—have all
been turned to ridicule by the facts.
Leading Kansas Populists have sent
Mr. Donnelly the sad intelligen'*e, that
Mrs Lease doesn't need any 10-cent
help, that she is electioneering in New
York on a big salary and is able to
wear silks and satins and diamonds
and live at a fashionable New York
city hotel.” These Kansas Populists,
whose wives, probably don’t wear satin
and diamonds, added that Mrs Lea'e
was able to mingle with the nabobs
she had for years denounced in the
choicest expletives at her command and
that, oh, unhappy woman, she seemed
not to dislike the comnrnglement.
And so another doll is stuffed with
sawdust. Alas for too confiding Igna
tius! Alas so- misguided Ma'y Ellen!
Alas, too, for Kansas Populism whose
high priestess has mingled with the
enemy!”
This is very contemptible to the last
degree. Mrs. Lease is not only por>r,
but very poor; she is not lecturing on a
big salary in New York, but there in
hope that change of climate may bene
fit her young daughter, who is exceed
ingly sick and in danger of death. Mrs
Lea e, herself, writes us that her own
health is failing, and that she C"mtem
plates removing to the state of Wash
ington on account of the milder climate
When a lady is engaged to lecture
before a large and possib’y fashionable
audience she is expected to wear at
least decent apparel. The contempti
ble dog who is writing these letters
against her, would perhaps like to see
her appear on the s’age of an opera
house; clad in a straw hat and a gunny
sack. His manly heart would then be
satisfied.
Why these people should pursue a
woman, and an able woman and a poor
woman in this way. passes our compre
hension. We hope such attacks will
simply be an incentive to Populists to
take hold and carry out the purpose for
which we started this fund.
For God’s sake let us have some char
ity for the unfortunate, especially
when they have been laboring for our
benefit I. D.
Populist Meeting Meeting Postponed.
Owing to the busy crop gathering
season in this section it was decided
by a number of active Populists
assembled at the court house on
October 23d, to postpone our county
mass-meeting to the fourth Saturday,
27th day of November, 1897; when
every genuine reformer is expected to
be on hand at the court house at 11
o’clock, a. m., sharp.
P. H Labey
Sect’y Ex. Com., Bartow Co.
Hsrris County Meeting.
The Populists of Harris county are
requested to meet at Hamilton oi 2nd
Tuesday, 11th day January, 1898, at 10
o'cleck a. m. for the purpose of electing
or appointing a new executive com
mittee for the ensuing two years and
to consider the matter of nominating
state and county officers- If it is deem
ed expedient by those pres“nt, nom
inations wi Ibe made on that day. So
come prepared brethren for the emer
gency. Look over the fi**ld carefu ly,
select the right man for each and every
place, both as committeemen and for
the’several offices.
R. B Traylor, Chm.
R. S. Stanford S«c
Notice Alllancemen.
An Alliance mass meeting will be
held at the court house in Car-ollton
at 11 a. m , the first Tuesday in Decem
ber. Alliancemen everywhere are in
vited to attend. The object of the
meeting is to revive interest in the Al
liance. By order of the CarroU County
Farmer's Alliance.
State Committee Call.
The Executive Committee of the
People’s Party of this State is hereby
called to meet at the Jackson Hotel,
Atlanta, Ga., at 11 o’clock a. m. Decem
ber 8, (the second Wednesday) to con
sider such business as may come be
fore it.
J. D. Cunningham, Chairman.
J. L. Sibley, Secretary.
When y fought their own battles
the Populists were steadily gaining
ground in ill’he Western states Since
fusion with he Democrats the Repub
licans have in many instances defeated
the comb ed forces.
Moral: Better let the Democrats
severely alone —Advance Courier.
Uncle Sam is puzzled. At least his
faithful servants are. They have been
confronted with a silver dollar the su
perscription on which does not exactly
correspond with the stamp of Uncle
Sam’s mint Yet it has the full amount
a"d exact quality of silver that the law
provides. But they call it a counter
feit, because Uncle. Sam did not stamp
it And these same puzzled statesmen
will tell you that it is gold and silver
that make monev and not the law.
Away with all such humbugs!—Dallas
Herald.
Fulton Coumy Populists.
All Populist are earnestly requested
to attend a meeting of th". Party on
Saturday, Nov. 27, 1897, at 10 o’clock,
a. m, at the county court house Every
mill'ia district should be represented
A chai’-man, secretary and executive
committee are to be chosen, and work
of systematic organization mapped out.
Counties are being rapid y organiz’d
and we should not allow Fulton to be
a laggard. Prominent speakers will be l
present to'address the meeting and our |
members of the General Assemble will
attend to aid us with their valuable
counsel. 1
R-member the date, Saturday, Nov- ,
ember 27, 1897. I
H. P. Blount, Chm.
R H Wadlow Sec.
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