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THE PEOPLE’S PARTY PAPER.
Established October 15, 1891.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
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Official Organ People’s Party
State of Georgia.
Populist National Organisation Committee
ST. H Harris, Oak Bower.
Z Gaston, Greenville,
I C Watson, Jacksonville.
( W s Morgan. Hardv.
Arkansas ’A N Files, little bock.
(J E. -canlon, Bee Branch.
( F. H. Lytle, Stanton.
Florida. ’
( A. P. Babkin, Anthony.
(Gen Wm. Phil ips. Mari-tta
Georgia / A D. Hawk i s,Flowery Branch
(Dr. K. W. Mays, Jackson
(J H. Ferri s. Joliet
Illinois. / L. I> Bern • ds, Chicago
(G W. Wickline, NashvlJe
(N H M<’tsl n eer, Shoals
Indiana / J H Al-n, Terre Ha te
U 8 Rogers. Logansport
(JO Beebe Wever
lowa. /A W u Weeks, Winterset
1 A 1 Beed, Muscatine
(John FWillits. McLou’h
Kansas < n-Steinberger. Girard
(.1 V B Kennedy, Fort Sc tt
< f . A Pa ker, LruiS’l'le
Kentucky/ W B Bridgrfoid, Frankfort
(Samuel James, uwensooro
(N F Naff. Naff.
Louisiana/ J C Roc-ket, Shearvtlle.’
(B W Bailey, Winfield,
{Tohn O Zabel, Petersburg.
J E Mcß' Ide, Grand Rapids.
Bouert Blembuke , Marquette.
(J B Dukes, Minneapolis.
Mlnneso a, J 0 Hanley, st. Paul.
( L L Foster, St. Cloud.
(Frank Burkitt Okolona.
Mississippi/ S H Ho lingswor'h, Dry Grove.
( R B ewer, Memphis.
(Paul J D xo", Chillicothe.
Missouri < JB Hillis, McFall
( D W Eskew, Poplar Bluff.
[L Stebbins, North Platt.
Nebraska /
(H M Stewart, U’ayton.
Rhode Island! Geo’ge Arnold.
(Wm Mullins, Antioch.
Tennessee ' w B McClanahan B echvUle.’
IB G W,st, IOS Polk, Memphis.
(Chas Jenkins Brownwood.
Texas {C W Klrkcatrlck, McKinley.
IE O Meitaen, Halletsville.
( A P Tugw 1 . Tacoma.
Washington ! Dr R H M Lean, Spokane.
IF W D Mayes, Pomeroy.
(HZ Martin, Neponset.
West Virginia./ Dr. J W Shull, Pleasant Dale.
IH A Altizer, Arno dsburg.
(Robert Schilling. Ml Iwaukee.
Wisoonoin <
IWm Monroe, Wrst Superior.
(A A Gunbv. Louisiana
J Ignatius D nne y,
Executive Committee ( W L Peek. Georgia-
I J E Mcßride, M>ch.
IA Steinberger, Kan.
Chairman —Milton Park, Dallas, Texas.
Secretary W S Morgan, Ma-dy Arkansas.’,
Treasurer—Dr. G. B. Crowe, Alabama.
Fopullet State Ex-e-<*tv« Committee.
First District—D C '■’ewton, R M Bryan
Second Dbtrlot-LG Cil'trs C R varramore,
Third District—J G udon Jones. L Montgomery
Fou th District—H A Flo enc“.W A Wuite,
Fifth Dt-tnct—H G Gunter, w L Peek,
Sixth DI t-ict W P <4l wer C E Turner.
S-venth District—J K Davis, J D Cunningham,
Eighth Distr ct-w Y C.rter, Ge P Brightwell
Ninth District --L L Clements w w wi wm,
Tmth Dlrt-ict—Jam's Barrett, J ’hn T west.
Eleventh District—S w Johnson, B B Lindley,
A dispatch from Lincoln, Neb., says:
“Mies Alice Thomason, the present
superintendent of sehools of Burt
county and the Populist candidate for
re-election, was defeated by her repub
lican opponent, C. L. Laughlin, last
Tuesday. Yesterday invitations were
sent out ann< uoeing the coming mar
riage of Mr. Laughlin and Miss Thom
aeon ” That woman was determined
to have the office. The New West
heartily approves of this kind of fusion.
New West.
The execut ve committee of the na
tional committee of the People’s Party
elected at tbe Nashville conference,
will meet at the Laclede hotel, St.
Louis, on Nov. 23. This is a meeting
of the executive committee only.but all
the members of the national organiza
tion committee are invited to be pres
ent and aid with their counsel. The
object of the meeting as stated in the
call is “to consult on matters of im
portance to the party, and to take such
action as may be deemed expedient by
the committee.”—Missouri World.
The last year of the Populist admin
iatrat'on the taxes collected in Pauld
ing county, excluding poll, profession
al and railroad tax, was sllslO 46
This year—the first year of that “just
give us a chance Democratic party”—
excluding po'l, professional and rail
read tax is $18,867 08, or $1 327.63 more
than the Populists collected. Where
are those men who pleaded and begged
and cried to get votes for this “chance”
party because the Populists were ruin
ing the county with excessive taxation?
With cotton at 5 cents and $1,327 62
more taxes to pay than when the Pop
ulists controlled the county it looks
like something was “dead up the
branch.” We hope the time is not far
oft when the people will see that the
election of a Democrat or Republican
means higher taxes and less money for
your products and labor.—Dallas Her
ald.
A solid fusion was forced in all the
counties in Kansas this year except
nine, and the result of the election
shows that the oppos tion to the Re
publican party has registered a loss of
33,000 votes. In counties like Elk.
where the Populists in years gone by
have been able to elect their ent’re
ticket, when they stood up and. fought
a straight, middle-of-the-road fight,
this year, with a fusion ticket, they
were wiped off the map and the Re
publican ticket elected. This means
something. What is it? Simply that
the people have no earthly use for the
rotten old Democratic machine, and
that when they are forced to embrace
it, they will rebel and kick out of the
traces. When fusion is banished for
ever by the Populists of Kansas, the
state will come back into hue as a
Populist state, choose clean men as its
standard bearers and become so thor
ougly Populistic that all the powers
of the Republican party and. its twin
relic, Democracy, cannot prevail
against it—Girard World.
Thomas Jefferson
IS THIS A said it was, and he
was “top of the
COVERNNIENI gang” that made it
OF THE PEOPLE Is GeOr * ia * part
of that Government?
Its constitution and
laws so proclaim.
Then why don’t the Legislature al
low us to practice what we preach by
p-omptly paying Senator Hopkins’ bill
submitting a constitutional amendment
providing for the election of Judges
and Solicitors by the people ?
That the people demand it is evi
denced by the fact that the people
twice defeated the proposition to en
large the Supreme Court through leg
islative election, but when it was sub
mitted with a process that the people
should elect it was adopted by an over
whelming majority.
The present system is rotten to the
core and is largely responsible for the
lawless epidemic existing in the State.
The people have no confidence in the
judiciary because they have no voice
or influence in its creation. It is a
creature of corruption, bargain, barter
and sale, and the people know it
The bar has no confidence in its de
cisions, because they know it is influ
enced and controlled by the “gang”
who made it, and the modest self re
specting lawyers who kept aloof from
the “gang” who controls”—who would
not button-hole numbers of the general
assembly, in the interest of the “slate”
and the slate makers, are compelled to
adjudicate the interests of their clients
in the Supreme Court. That is one
reason if not the main one why the
business of the Supreme Court grew so
rapidly that it required double the
number of justices to keep the docket
clear.
Under the practices in vogue our ju
eiciary system is a political machine of
fearful proportions. Really wo-se than
under Government appointment. When
the Governor appointed them, he se
lected men who would advance him,
and then his political party, but under
the present system the judge is ex
pected to build his individual congress
ional fences; the congressional fences
of his brother judges; the Senatorial
fences of his monied banker?; the leg
islature fences of the tools who made
him; clean the jury boxes of political
opponents; put none but politicians in
Notary Public and Ex-officio Magis
trate’s positions; and see that the “ring
lawyers” who maneuvered him into a
judgeship are not maneuvered out of
court by their more honest and able
competitors. It’s stenchy and sicken
ing.
Make an honest effort to purify it by
taking its creation away from the
‘ ‘men who control” and place it where
the people can control.
The Atlanta Journal —whose able
business manager, H. H. Cabaniss,
spent several years in the clerical de
partment of the General Assembly—
knows how rotten the present system
is, and has been firing into it for two
years. We take the following from
its issue of the 20th inst.:
“Early in tbe former session of the
present legislature Senator Hopkins
introduced a bill to submit to a consti
tutional amendment providing for the
election of judges and solicitors gen
eral by the people.
This bill embodies a demand which
has been growing for many years and
which is now very general. There can
be no doubt that a great majority of
the people of Georgia want a change in
the method of electing judges and so
licitors. The abuses of the present
system have been evident almost ever
since its adoption. It is useless to deny
what whenever judges and solicitors
are elected there are combinations,
swaps and trades in the legislature.
This thing has gone on and grown
worse until it has become notorious
and discreditable in a high degree.
The exchange of votes, the formation
of combinations and the construction
of “slates” seem to be inevitable under
the present system. These practices
have obtained in every legislature that
has elected judges aud solicitors under
the present constitution, and there is
no way to prevent them except to
strike at the root of the evil by chang
ing the system under which these
abuses thrive.
A pointer which shows the drift of
public opinion is to be found in the
fact that the proposition to enlarge
the supreme court was defeated twi -e
when it was provide! that the justices
should be elected by the legislature,
but received an overwhelming majority
the first time it was submitted with a
proviso that the people should elect.
There can be no valid objection to
the proposition to let the people declare
whether they desire the election of su
perior court judges and solicitors to re
main in the hands of the legislature or
to be left to popular vote.
The legislature has already given the
people the right to elect supreme court
judges and it is absurd to say that they
cannot be trusted to choose judicial
officers of lower grade.
The present plan of electing these
officers cannot be successfully de
fended. No member of the legislature
will deny that it has been subject to
abuses every time it has been tried. If
any member should take tbe position
that the people do not want a change
it is a sufficient answer to him to say
that the best way to determine whether
the people desire a change or not is to
submit the question to them.
Surely no member of the legislature
will take the position that even if the
people do want to take these elections
into tbeir own hands they should not
be permitted to do so. The legislature
is the servant of the people, not their
master.
Go where you will in Georgia and
test public opinion, and you will find it
very strongly in favor of electing
judges and solicitors by popular vote.
If tne press can be taken as an expo
nent of pubi c opinion the demand for
this reform is overwhelming, for there
are few newspapers out of the hundreds
in the state that have not spoken out
against the present system aud in favor
of the popular election of judges and
solicitors.
With the evidence before it as it is
THE PEOPLE’S PARTY PAPER; ATLANTA, GEORGIA: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1897.
the legislature cannot afford to deny
to the people the right to express their
will on this important question.
We have some curiosity to see on
what line the opposition to Senator
Hopkins’s bill will be made. He will
be an ingenious man who can present
an argument against it, and he must be
a bold man who defends the present
plan of electing superior court judges
and solicitors.—Atlanta Journal.
The Savannah Press calls attention
to the fact that judges and solicitors
general are flocking to Atlanta from
all parts of the state since the bill to
provide for the election of such officers
by the people has been favorably re
ported.
The presence of these gentlemen at
the capital may have no connection
with the pending bill, and we hope it
has not. If there is one thing certain
about the state of public opinion in
Georgia it is that popular elections for
judges and solicitors is demanded.
The Savannah Press says :
“The feeling has been growing for
seve al seasons that election by the
general assembly is a vast mistake In
the light of the trades, combinations
and abuses which crop out during
every session of the general assembly
where these elections are carried on
the people of Georgia have been seri
ously considering a change in this re
spect It will be remembered that the
constitutional amendment increasing
the number of judges of the supreme
court was never ratified by the people
at the polls until the election of these
judges was placed in the hands of the
people themselves. This was a straw
which showed the trend of public opin
ion in Georgia. The election of judges
and solicitors take up a great deal of
t ! me of the earlier session of each gen
eral assembly. It is impossible to
transact business while these crowds
are present and these elections impend
ing.
“The amount of trading in votes and
shi<ting of combinations in the last
elections opened the eyes of the peo
ple, and, we trust, of the legislature.
The present method, fixed in the con
stitution of 1877. has been found cum
bersome and unsatisfnctory. Tne best
possible judic'ary is that appointed by
the governor, if that official is always
a man who selects men on account of
fitness and character. But as politics
too often creeps into the executive
office it was thought necessary by the
framers of the present constitution to
take the appointive power away from
the governor and place it in the general
assembly.”
The several depart-
IT’S TOO ments belonging to
Franklin College and
EXPENSIVE. t 0 the Slate CoUege
of Agriculture and
Mechanical Arts as classified by Prof
White, put niuety-nine in Franklin
College and ninety-five in the State
College—extract from report of Trus
tees of State University to the Legisla
ture for 1891.
Let’s see what it cost per annum to
educate these ninety-five young men in
the College of Agriculture and Me
chanical Arts.
An-wnl rcooMrec! thkt J-om
Land-c Ipt fund ,*...327,954 14
Mat iculatlon fee per student.Jlo 00
Lib a-y fee per student 500
Uniform “ “ “ 19.00
Board and lodging per student 150.00
Washing, fuel etc., “ “ . 80.00
For use of labratory “ “ .5.00
Multiply by 95 20,8t5 00
<48,759.14
Divide 348,759 14 by 95 (tbe number of
students attending the College of Agri
culture and Mechanical Arts) and you
have $513 25 as the cost p«r pupil.)
What did it cost to educate boys in
the same studies at Mercer?
Dr. Gambrell who was President in
1E94 is on record as saying $l7O 00 was
sufficient.
Wh*t did it cost to educate boys in
the same studies at Emory where a tu
ition fee of $60.00 was charged. Only
3185 00.
Don’t you see there is something
“dead up the creek,” and the common
people have commence! to smell it.
No use put..ng on high fainting airs
about the courtesy of this committee
and the discourtesy of that committee;
about the high chancellor having to
address the legislature at night or the
high-cock-a-lorum of the Board having
to wait a few moments at the door of
the General Assembly before he could
discuss it at all.
The University is a great institution,
no doubt, and a great many great men
have been turned out from its mental
workshop. Its greatness is not ques
tioned.
Is it doing anything more for the
Agricultural and Mechanical Arts than
Emory or Mercer. That’s the question.
It is being handsomely paid to accom
plish more, and if it can’t make a show
ing after twenty-five years trial, it
ought to turn loose the rope.
Mac.
Shall the Land
WHAT HAVE Script fund be taken
from the University?
YOU DONE WITH „, . .. . .
That the agncul-
TH AT FUND, tural and mechanical
interest of the state
are dissatisfied with its present man
agement is demonstrated by the annu
al fight which the trustees and friends
of the University are compelled to
make before the General Assembly to
enable the University to retain it.
There must be a cause for this dis
satisfaction which annually manifests
itself.
Is it to be found in the jealousy of
Emory and Mercer —the two denomi
national colleges, and natural rivals of
the University ?
That appears to be the leading
thought of the friends of the Universi
ty, and has precipitated a controversy
between Hon. N. J. Hammond, Presi
dent of Trustees of the University and
W. A. Candler, President of Emory
College.
A rivalry between them is quite na
tural and can exist without malice,
hatred or envy, and the friends of the
University make quite a mistake when
they erect such “men of straw” to
divert attention from the main facts,
which are:
Are you—under the congressional act
donating that fund to Georgia—legally
en titled to it ?
Have you honestly and conscientious
ly applied it to the “benefit of agricul
ture and mechanical arts” as the donors
stipulated ?
You have had the use of that fund
for twenty-five years, and of the sup
plemental fund since 1890, to what use
did you apply it, and where are the
beneficial results therefrom ?
The interest on the Land Script
fund amounting to 816 954,14 annually,
has been paid you for twenty-five
years, making the neat sum of $253,-
312,10. You have received from the
“act of 1890, 3148,000—a total of $401,-
312,10 which should have been applied
to the college of Agriculture and me
chanical arts. Where are the products
of this handsome sum of money ?
Outside of the $26,000 given the col
ored school at Savannah, your reports
the legislature fail to explain.
The people are not caring whether
the “Brown Committee” and “Bia ock
Committee” visited the “Trustees,” on
"invitation” or without “invitation,”
whether the “Trustees” were kept
waiting at the door of the General
Assembly or whether the General As
sembly were kept waiting upon the
trustees.
They want to know if you have been
sacredly discharging that t r ust.
To remind the people that the Trus
tees of Emory lost $40,000 of the Geo.
I. Seney endowment fund by irjudi
cious investment, is not calculated to
blind their eyes to “what have you
done with the ‘talent’ given to you.”
The fellow that wrapped the one tal
ent in a rag would perhaps have retain
ed the use of it if he could have shown
the master that he made an effort to
use it. But he.didn’t.
Mac.
Hurrah for Judge
OUR NEW Sampson Harris of
the Coweta circuit
ASSOCIATE „ . .
He wan*ed to get
JUSTICE. on the Railroad Com
mission, which was
an easier position to fill than that of
Judge of the Superior Court. Less
work, more idle time and better pay.
Somebody d dn’t want him on the Rai'-
road Commission and Gov. Atkinson
declined to appoint him, but made a
vacancy on the bench of the Supreme
Court for him and tendered it to him.
Harris, being a man who knows what
he wants, refused it. Showed manhood
and considerable self-respect when he
declined to be used as a foot mat.
The Governar then offered it to Hon
Hal Lewis. Lewis wanted a position
on the Railroad Commission, just as
Harris did, but the Governor wouldn’t
give it to him. Lewis wanted to be
United States Senator when Bacon was
elected, but the Legislature, for rea
sons not necessary to state, preferred
Bacon. Ever since the nomination of
Bryan by Lewis at Chicago, Hal’s
friends have been wanting to give him
something and Hal, it appears, had no
objection, in i&ct Lire’us was willing.'
He is now Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court. Gov. Atkinson han
appointed him and he has accepted.
He will make a good one. He’s got the
brains, the pluck, the ability—and the
offi e.
But why he would lay aside a law
practice that paid him twice the salary
of a judge—a law practice that was
growing as the p°ople became acquain
ted with his honesty and uprightness -
to assume more onerous duties for less
pay must be relegated to the “Serbo
nian bog” of politics for solution.
Mac.
Now that Chair-
IVIEETINC man Cunningham has
called our Executive
OF EXECUTIVE „ ... t
Committee to meetm
COMMITTEE. Atlanta on the Bth of
December, it is your
duty Mr. Private P<p to get a move on
yourself.
The list of the committee is publish
ed in this paper for your benefit. They
are your servants and will do what you
want done, if you will let them know
your wants.
If you want an early convent’on at
which you can readjust your lines for
the battle of 98 you should make your
wishes known to the members of the
Executive Committee from your Con
gressional District. It wou'dn’t be
amiss for the chairman of the different
counties to call meetings at once and
appoint delegates to attend the State
Convention whenever it is called. If
wu are going to make a fight in ’9B we
ought to be “up and doing” right now.
The present legislature is going to
hack and haggle about the convict
lease, the educational interest and oth
er reform legislation, and do nothing’
We ought to be ready to take up the
fight where they leave off, and press
these matters before the people while
the spirit is on —while the iron is hot.
We need the convention, to reinv’g
orate those who have been sick by the
fusion tactics of Butler, Allen and
Weaver, and to kill any fusion germs
in the future.
The State needs the convention to
pr< vent the “men who control” from
trading the rights of the people for a
m>ss of pottage from the pie counter.
Every county should hold a meeting
within the next 30 days. Mac.
Opinion of Plutocrat*.
“The capital of the country is organ
ized at last and we will see whether
Congress will dare to fly in its face.”—
York Tribune, (Rep.)
“If the working men had no vote
they might be more amenable to the
teachings of hard times.”—lndianapolis
News, (R p p )
The American laborer must make up
his mind henceforth not to be so much
better off than the Euroneao laborer.
Men must be content to work for less
wages. —New y irk World, (Dem.)
It is a disgrace to the'state that our
law makers cant devise some way to
put the convicts on the public high
ways, to work, and give the boys a
chance to go to school. If the boys
could vote they would force said law
makers to do something on that line—
Colquitt Courier.
FUSION,
Point* to be Considered Before Deciding
this Impoitant Question.
There is no short cut to f artune. Al
though the truths of the People’s Party
are fast growing popular, so that it is
no longer nearly so hard as formerly
even in the face of great odds, to fight
for them, yet men are already, previ
ously, asking if it is not now time to
step into the offices. Perhaps the last
battle is near being fought. But it is
much to be hoped that the splendid
purpose of the People’s Party shall not
be wrecked on the spoils system. A
government for and by tbe whole peo
pie cannot be obtained by men meeting
together and agreeing between them
selves how to divide the offices. The
people are already tired of that sort of
thing in the old parties. They certain
ly will not tolerate the hypocracy of
“turning the rascals out” in a party
with the least pretentions to reform.
Some of these fusionists remind one of
lazy school boys, who, just before
solving the problem of “equal rights,”
run io their big brothers, Bill Demo
crat or Bill Republican, asking their
aid, and then they fight together to see
who shall get the credit. They have
none of the wisdom of the apostle Paul
who says’ O, Populists, * Be not yoked
unequally with unbelievers.” (Demo
crats and Republicans), “what com
munion hath light with darkness ?”
Others seem over-sangume and in tbeir
eagerness to subdue injustice are blind
to the ordinary laws of human progress.
They believe in miracles. Bless their
simple confiding natures, they would
entrust their most i-npjrtant errand to
their old enemy, the Republican or
Democrat, if either comes with a
hypocritical smile and specious out
ward show of friendship. Remember
it is not so easy for a leopard to change
his spots. Our orators, who have al
ways excoriated the old parties, are
now giving themselves the lie, when
they favor fusion. Tnat wise old devil,
the money power, having failed to
dwarf the People’s Party with ri dcule,
now in fear as he listens to the oncom
ing muttering of countless hosts, an
irresistible army of wronged and op
pressed people, has tasen his onlv
mode of defense by setting brother
against brother, by foolish flattering
offers, by false spies, by hostages of
silver.
The war now on is greater than that
of the rebellion. This is a war to free
both the white and black slaves, and
consequently far more effort is called
for. It is easy to swap principles, easy
to false ideas into a common platform
on which to drift into office, when
there is no initiative and referendum
with imperative mandate, compelling
those elected to do as they promised
before election; or when, if they do,
the courts will not uphold them. But.
let the real refo-mer remember that a
political party can no more suddenly
change its whole past nature than a
man can. In advising for or against
fusion we should not be influenced by
what a few well intentioned D’mocrat
ic or Republican inoividuals may say,
but on'y by the historical whole of
their respective parties. And what
that history has been that the party
will certainly continue to be irrespect
ive of yrhat individuals in thqse parties
may do or say. Such individuals do
not dictate the policies of their parties.
The real inside history of those parties
is dictated by the Tammanies, Mark
Hannas and Platts of our great cities.
They are in turn controlled by the mo
nopolies which the People’s Party so
earnestly desires to hand over to the
government. Therefore I ask how can
parties holding such divergent views
fuse with each other? The Democrat
ic and R -publican party alike througn
their rinus believe that it is not wrong
for any man, company or monopoly to
accumulate without restriction any
amount of land, means of transporta
tion, or power overlabor, yes, aud even
if necessary to enforce such power with
gatling guns. Both of the old parties
are equally responsible for the evils
that have arisen since the war. They
have both constantly increased tbe
burdens of the industrial classes for
the benefit of those who prer uoon
them. Both cater to the trusts and do
pe nd upon the spoils system. The his
tory of both of these old parties in all
our great cities conclusively proves the
truth of this statement. It is unneces
sary to refer to the countless examples
of collusion with gas, railroad, tele
phone, telegraph and banking schemes
to take advantage of the peop e. Eve
ry one knows how these are patronized
by the minority rings controlling the
machinery of the Democratic and Re
publican parties. Nor do we have to
go back of the last presidential elec
tion for our illust r ations to see what
these parties really are. The spoil-»
element is the power behind thethron<*
in both Democratic and Republican
camps. That spoils element holds
President McKinley by the throat and
compels him, even in the face of pro
testations of Republican newspapers,
to s’eal $80,000,000 of the people’s mon
ey for the benefit of the Morgan syndi
cate in the U niou Pacific deal, rushed
through before the meeting of congress.
It cannot be denied, by any man with
a head on his shoulders that the credi
tor classes of the east will never allow
either of the old parties to be domina
ted by the reforms, especially in fi
nance, which characterize the People’s
Party. Therefore fusion is i J le talk ;
or, if it is not idle talk, it lays the men
indulging in it open to serious suspi
cion.
What now ? The cause of reform
will be most advanced by allowing
those who think they are Populists,
but imagine they can fuse with such
parties, to fuse with them. They must,
however, remember that “no man can
serve two masters,” and cease to call
themselves Populists On the other
hand individual members of the old
parties are fast learning the same
scriptual lesson, and as they learn to
hate mammon, they leave . the old par
ties to serve the cause of the people.
Finally I do not wish to be under
stood as opposing all fusion, in the
narrow sense of the Socialists, but only
that I have not, with one exception,
had, as yet, any form of fusion presen
ted to my mind which appears feasible.
That exception is presented in F. U
Adams’ excellent book, “President
John S i ith.” In this book the author
recommends ridding the platform of
the many minor planks which confuse
tne public mind, causing bitter differ
ences, and uniting on only two princi
ples, on which to initiate successful
agreement. Without these ’wo planks
no other reforms c mid ever be en ’o> e -d
the author claims, even if enacted.
These two planks are the right of the
majority to rule (initiative and refer
endum with imperative mandate), and
the right of every man to have work.
Perhaps the author is right in thus
recommending a new party, whenever
the People’s Party shall have finished
its course. At any rate it is remarka
ble that these are the very planks “the
fusionists,” in their loud and multifari
ous professions have omitted.
Henby B. Fay, M. D.
Fledge* Violated.
Hon. Thos E. Watson in last week’s
issue of the People’s Party Paper gave
Senator Strother, of Lincoln, and Sen
ator Yancey Carter, of Hart, soma hard
rasps for casting their vote in the Sen
ate against the anti-barroom measure
that was recently before that body. By
their vote and the vote of another Pop
ulis Senator the measure was defeated.
We fully endorse Mr. Watson’s position,
and think the Populist Senators acted
in bad faith towards their constituents
and the party they represent, from the
fact, in order for them to secure their
election, they had to endorse the State,
plats >rm, which had embodied in it a
prohibition plank. These Senators
who have violated their pledges made
to the people, should be delegated to
the rear.
The cause that made it necessary for
a People’s Party was due to the broken
pledges made to tbe people by both the
two old parties, and now that our own
Representatives are guilty of the same
thing, we are inclined in the language
of Mr. Watson that “we have moved
into a glass house.”
But this action of the three Populist
Senators, should not deter the rank
and file from doing their duty, in fact
it should put the people on guard here
after, in the selection of Representa
tives, to know that all the allurements
offered to them by lhe whiskey ring
will have no contaminating influence
to lure them from doing their duty to
wards their people.
There are and have always been too
many designing politicians in the
Populist rank, and so long as they re
main and are allowed to dictate to the
party, so long may we expect principle
stultified and pledges broken —Far
mer’s L’ghL
Words of Cheer,
Dear Sir and Brother —I for one com
mend your manly courage and honesty
of purpose for the criticism of those
who faltered by the path of duty. If
we can not first cast the motes from
our own eyes, or in other words if we
cannot fight corruption, broken prom
ises and the like in our own party, as
you say, the sooner we know it the
better. Amid the taunts and je«rs of a
gainsaying people I have believed you
to be true. May you live long and
well, and steer our party in the true
channel If it should fall may you
pave the true way for parties yet un
born.
With good wishes I am sincerely
yours in the cause,
Asa G. Bbaswell.
Odomville. Ga.
POPULISTS HELP FARMERS.
Shylock Can’t Stand Before Good Gov
ernment.
A statement of great interest, says
the Fanner’s Voice, is that recently
Issued Dy'Bank Commissioner Brideh-*
that of Kansas, in which he shows
that the farmers of that State will this
year pay off at least 325,0 , '0,000 of their
mortgage indebtedness and will release
about 340,< 00,000 more under the Kan
sas law that permits mortgagors to
make partial payments of SIOO or mul
tiples of that sum. After it has been
paid there will remain only about $50,-
000 000 of the mortgage indeb’edness
on the farms of Kansas, which in 1887
amounted to fully $250 0000,000. The
people have prospered and reduced the
debts which had been stealthily fas
tened upon them wherever they have
united aud tu-ned the old party politi
cians out of puwer. It is seen that
with the assistance of a few wise laws
enacted by the people in their own in
terest, the lopping off of superfluous
officials whose only service was to
pocket bigsalaries, the farmers ot K«n
§as, under Populist government, have
paid ' ff two hundred million dollars of
debt in a very few years, thus saving
to the State at least twenty million
dollars annually. So it was here at
home in Paulding county. In the brief
space of four years the Populists paid
twenty thousand dollars of debt the
politicians had created, brought coun
ty warrants up to par from 75 cents on
the dollar where the politicians had
run them down to for the benefit of a
few speculators, and had seven thou
sand dollars in the treasury when the
politicians wormed themselves back in
to power and celebrated the event by
an increase in the tax levy on thirteen
thousand dollars more property to levy
on than the Populists had. The poli
ticians always look out for their own
welfare; if the p rnple are ss smart as
the politicians they will promote their
interests by dispensing with the ser
vices of the professional p 'liticians
everywhere as thev are largely doing
in Kansas. —Dallas Herald.
The Union Paclflo Swindle.
The report of the Government Direc
tors of the Union Pacific Railroad
shows the surplus earnings for the
railway, aside from the branches not
covered by the government lien, to
have been for the last fiscal year $4,-
927 681. or just a little short of enougn
to pay 5 per cent interest on $100,000,-
000 of debt And the total amount of
the first mortgage debt and the
go'ernment’s claim was but 335,-
OCO 000 or thereabouts. Yet the gov
ernment sold its c airn for 318 000,000,
or according to the government dine
tors for $13,000,000 less than its face
We are quite aware that a mendacious
press, if not a mendacious administra
tion, is spreading the report that the
government got every cent of the face
value of the claim. But under date of
September 4 h, and when the agree
ment of Ex Attorney General Harmon
to sell the road and sinking fund for
$45,753 059 was still unchanged we have
the government directors writing in
their report that from the “then ex- '
peeted realization from the foreclosure 1
sale of the railroad property, and of
the sinking fund of 345 754.059, it would ,
follow that the loss of thu United States
will be abou'. $25,000,01'0.” Since then
the did for the property and sinking .
fund waa raised bv 313 250(100, or to
SSB 000,0'10. i-t which p-ice he property :
wai aoid. How much then, according 1
to the government director*, did the |
governra nt * tand to lose by the sale?
Clearly sl2 750 000, and apparently the 1
goverum-m directors to k no account <
of the cash in the sinking fund of over
$4,500 000, and which passed over to
the purchaser. I <
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