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2 THE PEOPLE’S PARTY PAPER. Established October 15, 1891. ATLANTA • GEORGIA. OUR PUBLISHING COMPANY. THOS. E. WATSON, • - - President. MACKIE STURGIS, - - Becty-Tre»snrer. AUSTIN HOLCOMB, - Advertising Mgr. Office 84 1-2 South Forsyth Street. SUBSCRIPTION! One Year SI.OO Six Months SO Always In Advance. Steve W. Floyd. Special Eastern Agent, I No. 1318 American Tract Society Building. New York City, tor all business exclusive of Southern States. Money may be sent by Express Order, Post Office Money Order or Regist red Letter. Do not send stamps. Orders should be made payable to THE PEOPLE’S PARTY PAPER. Subscribers desiring to change the address of their paper will please give the old ad dress as well as the new. We must have your old address to find your name on the mailing lists. 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. WATSON’S ! 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