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02V7? DOLLAR PE’R YEAR
VOL. Vll. NUMBER a'.
THE POWER AND OF MONEY.
An Able Review of What it is, What it Can do and How Affected
hv the Statutory Law.
SEVERAL BROAD PROPOSITIONS FOLLOWED BY ABLE ARGUMENTS
An Easily Understood Discussion to be Read to Your Neighbor.
The Best Campaign Material of the Year to Circulate.
— _ Concise^,-Ctear Statements That Can Not Be
Met by Old Partyites.
11. H. Hogan.
This article I dedicate to posterity, well know
ing that the people of the present ag’ are
too bigoted to either understand or appre
ciate its teachings.
I lay down and will prove the follow
ing proposition :
Proposition.
When a debt has been honestly in
curred for value or worth received that
debt is never cancelled or paid till an
equal value or worth has been return
ed for it in full.
Money pure and simple is in no sense
a value, consequently cannot, and does
~ pay individual indebtedness.
What is Money ?
Is money the sum of all values ?
Jones, Weaver and others.
Does it represent values without be
ing possessed of them, or has it a mon
ey value distinct from intrinsic value ?
—(Many old-time Greenbaekers.)
Is money in any sense a value ?
last of these questions only is
mine, and I will prove that the answer
to each and all o f these is no.
Aristotle, re-’ \ lived in the fourth
century before Christ, declared that
money existed nowhere in nature, but
was a creation of law. But money is
«•- more than a creation of law, and while
Aristotle’s declaration is true, he does
not define and tell what money really
is. The only definition I have ever
seen that I cannot criticise is one put
forward by myself a number of years
since, now see no reason for changing
, it:
; Money Defined.
“Money is the law, will, edict or de
> cree of the sovereign stamped, printed
' or impressed upon seme substance sus
Acopttele of receiving and capable of
'
seal or impression, and the substance
so stamped carries with it not the val
ue of the substance, but the law, will,
edict, decree or fiat of the sovereign to
every subject of his realm.”
Law an of Arbitraey VPo wei.
The existence of a law presupposes
a creator endowed with arbitrary pow
ers to promulgate his decree, and the
validity of that law rests entirely in
his to enforce his decree. The
the Almighty presuppose an
■ omniscient Creator whose laws are of
B universal application, which, however
| arbitrarily put forward, are equally
F binding upon all, and beyond all possi
-Jbility of repeal. The laws of a coun
try presuppose a sovereign or power
endowed with plenary and unquestion
ed right*; t-e • v'tL forward and enforce
those laws, but those laws are of no
force outside of his own domain. The
laws of the parent to the child presup
pose the right in the parent to put for
ward and execute those laws, but here
his powers do not extend beyond his
own child.
How the Money Daw Differs from Statu
tory Daw.
I have defined money to be the law
of the sovereign expressed upon some
substance. Here it differs in no sense
from statutory law, which is the will
or decree of the sovereign expressed on
some substance, generally paper. But
it differs from statutory law in this:
If the same statutory law is printed or
stamped on ten thousand different
leaves, on all it is the same statute,
whereas if the same money law is
stamped or printed on ten thousand
different leaves each separate leaf is an
entirely separate, distinct decree of
itself, having no reference to any other.
The Daw Creating Money Statutory.
The law creating money, the sub
stance to be used, the size, shape,
amount of debt-paying power inscrib
ed thereon and every step in its crea
tion till it is turned out a finished pro
duction at the mint or place where it is
manufactured is statutory: but each
piece of money, when coined, is a
statute of itself.
Each Piece a Statute in Itself.
Statutory law depends for its validi
ty upon the power of the sovereign to
enforce his decree, and in this respect
the money law is the same; it depends
for its validity upon the power of the
sovereign to enforce his decree, and in
no sense upon the value” oF'-worth of
- the substance upon which it is stamp
ed.
Statutory laws may be different de
crees on various subjects. The money
law is always the same —the substance
bearing the decree must be taken in
cancellation of indebtedness by every
subject of the sovereign to the amount
specified in the decree upon the sub
stance.
But the chief distinction between
statutory and money law is in their
administration. While.statutory laws
generally are administered by men
elected or appointed by the people,
commonly called officers of the law,
the possession of money constitutes its
possessor an officer of the sovereign,
empowered equally with him to exer
cise one of the very highest attributes
of sovereignty—the power to cancel
debt whenever found in the realm of
the sovereign, without other process of
law, to the amount specified in his
warrant of office : the amount of mon
ey in his possession.
Money in Realty and Money in Use.
One great difficulty in understanding
the money question arises from the fact
that people do not consider the differ
ence between money in realty and
money in use. The completed locomo
tive standing in the shop is a very dis-
THE PEOPLE’S PARTY PAPER
ferent thing from that same locomotive
in the full exertion of its powers.
Money in realty is the engine at rest,
and money in use is this same locomo
tive fulfilling the purposes for which it
was constructed.
Before discussing this question fur
ther I will place before you some ex
tracts from the writings and speeches
of Senator Jones of Nevada, to which I
shall have occasion to refer.
He asserts that “there is one princi
ple of monetary science that if held
steadfast in view will constitute an
unerring guide through what would
otherwise be a path of inextricable
difficulty.
“That principle is that the value of
the unit of money in any country is
determined by the number of units in
circulation. In other words, the value
of every dollar depends on the number
of dollars out.”
The following is his definition of
value: “Value is human estimation
placed upon desirable objects whose
quantity is limited ”
Again, speaking of value, he says :
“Value does not reside in any article
or the substance of any article ”
Resuming the discussion, take any
piece of money in realty from the ban
ker’s tray, and, referring to my defini
tion, you will find it some substance
fashioned in accord with and carrying
upon its surface the law, will, decree
or edict of the sovereign, signed with
his undisputed signature and seal, and
this decree is that every person within
his realm must take this substance so
ftehioned and signed in full cancella
tion of any debt to the amount specifi
ed in the edict upon the substance.
Here no reference is made as to what
the substance shall be, and, so far as
the money quality of the substance is
affected, it is entirely immaterial
whether the decree is impressed upon a
leaf of gold or a leaf of paper. Stripped
of verbiage, money is the edict of the
sovereign borne to his subjects upon
some substance, and the I’ai’dity of
that money rests in no sense upon the
value of the substance, but in the
power of the sovereign to enforce his
decree.
Still, referring to the piece of money
taken from the banker’s tray, did the
consecration of this substance set apart
by the sovereign for the purpose of
money and rendered saered by his seal
impart value to the substance in any
amount whatever ? Let us take from
the same tray a twenty-dollar gold
piece and a twenty-dollar greenback,
each stamped with the same stamp,and
each a legal tender for twenty dollars.
Here, according to Senator Jones, we
have twenty gold units of money and we
have twenty paper units of money,
each of the same value. Erase the
stamp from the gold piece and the
greenback, and if “value does not re
side in any article or the substance of
any article,” will the gentleman kindly
tell us what property or quality it is in
the gold piece that enables us to still
sell it for twenty dollars, while for the
greenback we can only get one mill?
So far I have spoken of money in real
ty—at rest ; I will now discuss the
powers and properties cf money in
use, and here I introduce my main
proposition :
Proposition.
When a debt has been honestly in
curred for value or worth received
that debt is never cancelled till value
or worth has been returned for it in
full; or, in other words, all trade or
traffic, whether money has been used
or not, in the end is a barter transac
tion.
Money In Use.
Suppose that A and B each owes his
grocer, Mr. D., twenty dollars for the
same quantity and quality of sugar,
the purchase having been made by both
on the Ist of May, 1896. On the Ist day
of June each calls on D and pays him
according to agreement, A giving him
a twenty-dollar gold piece and B giv
ing him a twenty-dollar greenback.
The Sovereign Circulates His Wealth for
Money.
Let us further suppose that A and B
each received his money from their
sovereign in payment for twenty bush
els of wheat. What did D receive from
each of his customers ? From Ahe re
ceived a gold piece hearing a communi
cation directly from and signed by his
sovereign, informing him that unless
he accepted that piece of gold as fash
ioned he would be forever barred from
getting his pay. The individual in
debtedness from A to D ceased at the
moment of the transferral oi the twen
ty-dollar piece, and A has no further
interest or concern in the debt what
ever, while D holds in his possession a
substance the commodity value of
which has been declared by law to be
exactly twenty dollars, forced on him
by his sovereign. While the twenty
dollar piece has paid the debt cf A in
full, has D received his pay ? In oth
er words, does the twenty-dollar piece
belong to D, or is it still the property
of his sovereign ? While it is in the
power of D to dispose of it in any way
or for any purpose, the right, title and
ownership of it still undoubtedly vests
in the sovereign. In the possession of
Ditis in a sense a surety for the in
debtedness of A, but when D disposes
of it, which say he does for flour, the
flour purchased and paid for with the
twenty-dollar piece is unquestionably
his property, and now, a">d not till
! now, has D value or worth in flour
equal to the value or worth of the su
gar.
The Sovereign Circulates His Debts for
Money.
From B he receives a piece of paper
bearing a communication from the
sovereign addressed personally to D,
informing him that by decree he had
empowered B to offer this piece of
paper in full payment of his indebted
ness of twenty dollars, and that, unless
accepted, payment would he forever
barred. The individual indebtedness
of B to D ceased at the moment of the
transferral of the twenty-dollar green
back, and B has no further interest or
concern in the debt. Up to this point
the decrees on the substances and
transactions have been the same, but
now comes a change. A gave D a sub
stance the commodity value of which
was twenty dollars; B gave him a
substance the commodity value of
which is not one cent.
Value Did Not Fay the Debt of B.
Now, if it was value that paid the
debt of A, it certainly was not value
that paid the debt of B, for a debt can
never be a value, though it may or may
not be a worth, and when the sover
eign put out that identical greenback
he made a debt against himself of
twenty dollars, and in making up the
account of his possessions this green
back is a minus quantity.
The Sovereign Forces D to Transfer B’s
Indebtednoes to Himself.
What the sovereign really did in this
last transaction was to force D to
transfer the indebtedness of B to him
self, and D now virtually holds the
note of hand of his sovereign for twen
ty dollars, payable on demand against
either himself or any of his subjects.
Except the fiat of the sovereign on the
greenback forcing D to take it, the
transaction differs in no sense from
those of daily occurrence in every ham
let in the United States where the note
of hand, due bill or other evidence of
indebtedness against some individual
known to be solvent circulates in the
community in full payment of indebt
edness by mutual agreement between
neighbors. In the one case the sov
ereign put forward his wealth for
money ; in the other he put forward
his debt for the same purpose.
D Remove, the Stamp from the Gold Piece
and Greenback.
To show more fully the difference be
tween the two substances used, sup
pose that while in the possession of D
he removes the stamps, or edicts, from
both pieces. When he removed the
decree from the gold piece he robbed
his sovereign of twenty dollars with
out enriching himself in the least, and
has made of the twenty-dollar piece a
commodity that he can sell the same
as he does his sugar, wheat, flour or
any other commodity. When he re
moved the stamp from the greenback
he virtually destroyed the note of
ha id oi Ills sovereign to himself, there
by robbing himself of twenty dollars,
and enriching his sovereign by that
amount; that is, one of the notes of
the sovereign for twenty dollars has
been cancelled.
D Is an Importer and S-nds Both Pieces of
Money to His Sovereign.
Instead of effacing the decree, sup
pose that D is an importer, and owes
his sovereign forty dollars for duties,
and sends these two identical pieces of
money in payment. In the hands of
the sovereign the gold piece differs in
no respect from bis other property,
and he alone can deface the seal with
out committing a crime. When he re
ceived the greenback from D for duties
to the amount of twenty dollars he
simply took up and cancelled a debt of
his own, made, it may have been, ten.
fifteen or twenty years before, and in
his hands that greenback is of no
worth whatever. It differs in no res
pect from the note of hand of an indi
vidual with the name of the maker
torn off, and should he ever again put
it forward he will again incur a debt of
twenty dollars An objection may be
here raised that the greenback is not
a money in realty, but is merely a
promise to pay gold. In theory this is
trre, but in use it is endowed with all
the powers of gold, and in sums of less
than fifty dollars it is a money in realty.
(To be continued.)
COTTON WEAVERS STRIKE.
All Over >tew England there is Much Suf
fering.
Over four hundred cotton weavers
and spinners at New Bedford, Mass.,
have refused to accept the ten per cent
cut in wages and are now on a strike.
When the men were paid off last Mon
day, they invested all their earnings in
food supplies so as to be able to resist
the reduction for a long time.
At Providence, R 1., the Worsted
weavers struck Monday for a restora
tion of the 1892 schedule.
At Manchester, N. H., over 1100 looms
are now idle, there being a strike
against the ten per cent cut.
At Pawtucket, R. L, the spinners
have had a 25 per cent cut but will not
strike at present-
Hot Times Around Atlanta.
Congressman Lon Livingston’s shoes
are much envied by several Atlantians
just now and entries in the congression
al free-for-all canter are being made
rapidly.
B. M Blackburn, of the Commercial,
first announced as the silver democrat
candidate. This was followed by C. I.
Brannon, the well known grocer whose
efforts to put Fulton county officiate on
a salary instead of fees, has antagon
ized the official class.
Then came T. B. Felder, Shilton's
representative in the legislature.
George G. Glenn, a young attorney
late of Whitfield county, is now out as
the republican candidate.
Other entries are expected so as to
make the contest warm and spirited.
Livingston will try to again capture
the place he has been filling for several
years.
Bishop Turner’s Wife Dead.
The wife of Bishop Henry M. Turner
the best known colored bishop in
America died in Atlanta last week. She
was one of the hardest workers for
the uplifting of her race and conducted
several successful charities.
“EQUAL RIGHTS TO ALL; SPECIAL PRIVILEGES TO NONE."
ATLANTA, GEORGIA: FRIDAY JANUARY 14. 1898
WASHBURN’S ADVICE TO POPULISTS.
The Massachusetts Leader Trains His Guns on Bateman of Maine
and Says he is a Dangerous Man.
SAYS THAT THE MAINE MAN’S LOGIC IS SIMPLY FOLLY.
Argues for “Party Regularity” and Warns Populists to Stay by
the Old Executive Committee and Capture the Next
Convention —To Nominate Now Would be a
Bolt and Would Repel Voters.
George E. Washburn, Boston, Mass.
It was my intention to summarize in
one article the reasons why the spring
nominating convention should not be
held, hut I will diverge enough to re
ply more fully to one point contained
in Mr. Bateman’s tetter of November
24, in the Missouri World. I cannot
resist the temptation of showing how
shallow is his argument and how ab
surd his claims. This political acrobat
seeks to ride two horses in opposite
directions. The “funny men” must
look to their laurels or they will find
them resting upon the brow of Bate
man. To write on both sides of the
same question at one time and hotly
support propositions diametrically op
posed to each other is a new feature of
journalism for which we are indebted
to this genius from Maine. Observe
his logic. He says, “I have steadily
maintained that we must defeat the
fusionists in our national convention
or the People’s Party is doomed,” and
in the next breath he proposes this
spring convention, every participant in
which could be excluded from the next
regular called Populist convention, if
challenged.
Would that Defeat the Fusionists?
Again he says, “As I stated in my
last letter, bolting candidates and fac
tions never receive a large vote,” and
yet this political Pickwick offers as a
solution of the problem, the biggest
bolt ever proposed by any Populist.
He urges a separate convention to nom
inate separate candidates, all of which
would be outside of the legal machin
ery of the party and ignored by the
Australian ballot system.
It would be a meeting of a faction
rather than a party. He then hastens
to give his own argument a black eye
by proving that such a movement
would receive “a small following and a
smaller vote.” He proves it by saying:
“Party loyalty and regularity is indeed
strong. The straight Populists of lowa,
‘bolted the regular acoiva or iffeir ovate"
convention : their cause was a just and
a holy one. , . If ever a bolting fac
tion could receive a big vote, it could
have been done here. Behold the re
sult. The great bulk of the party vot
ed the fusion ticket, and the middle of
the roaders only received a beggarly
5,000 votes. They are now wiped off
the political map and no longer have a
standing under the Australian ballot.”
Please notice that from these crushing
facts he argues that white a bolt was
a dismal failure in one State, it would
be a howling success in forty-five ; that
though “party regularity” defeated
his plan in a State campaign, it will
have no effect in a national one. If my
office hoy could not think more clearly
than that I would discharge him.
To Save Our Party
Mr. Bateman advises this gigantic na
tional bolt in general, a policy he con
demns in particular. He kindly offers
to save the fusionists the trouble of
doing us up in the convention by doing
us up in advance. “As things are
now going,” says Mr. Bateman, “Wm.
J. Bryan will ba the next regular nom
inee of the People’s Party. The great
mass of the party will follow the regu
lar action of the national convention.
The bolting faction will not even be a
spot upon the political map; its votes
will be counted as scattering.” Then,
in true Pickwickian style, he continues
his argument in favor of this same
bolting policy, which he assures us
will not result in “even a spot on the
political map,” and that its votes will
be “counted as scattering.”
Did anybody ever hear such fool
logic as this ? Does Mr. Bateman for a
moment suppose that if he organizes
this stupendous bolt, whose votes he
assures us will be counted as “scatter
ing,” and Bryan is nominated by the
fusionists, that Wharton Barker or any
other man could poll any part of the
fusionist, any part of the silver Repub
lican, any part of the labor vote ? The
bolt Bateman proposes would elimi
nate from the party the only men who
could oppose in the national conven
tion the endorsement of Bryan. Bate
man and the fusionists are both pray
ing for the same thing. Bateman’s
plan would leave a clear field for the
fusionists to arrange with the Demo
crats undisturbed.
No, no. This scheme is all folly.
We have but one hope, and that is to
stay in the party and
Capture the National Convention
within the party just as the silverites
captured the Chicago convention. This
connot be done by bolting the party
any more than the silver Democrats
could have succeeded in the last cam
paign outside the regular Democracy.
I sound the alarm to call a halt in this
mad rush to political suicide.
Our last national convention selected
a national committee —three members
from each State. This committee alone
is empowered to call a Populist nation
al convention. Any bolting faction
calling a convention not regularly and
legally authorized by this committee is
outside the Populist party. These
three men from each State are the
sole national representatives of the
party, and no others can take their
places except by the action of the reg
ular State conventions; therefore, no
matter how strong the movement or
how zealous its advocates, the legal
authority of the party is vested in
these men. If we elect delegates to a
national convention not called by this
committee, we bolt the party, we se
cede from the national organization,
from the national movement, and
place ourselves in exactly the same
relation to the Populist party that the
gold Democrats sustain to the regular
Democracy. We become a mere side
show with neither numbers, influence;
or standing.
If we desire to win we should
Attract Voters, Not Repel Them;
we should inspire confidence, not des
troy it; we should build up our party
and not divide and pull it down ; we
should keep what we have and secure
more.
I hare here offered only one of sev
eral good reasons why the proposed
nomin -ting convention should not he
held next spring. The other reasons
will follow in other articles.
I am satisfied that if the “men in the
trench's” do speak through the refer
endum the convention will never as
semble Let us be honest and meet the
issue; et there be no evasion. Let
it be understood that every man who
votes for the spring nominating con -
ventiou without the sanction of the
National Committee also votes to leave
the Populist party and organize an
other.
I do not, however, assail one plan
without stating my reasons and offer
ing another. I have not space to out
line or e now, but it is easy to formu
late and present one later if desired,
that would be strictly in the middle of
the road, and free from the objections
I refer to.
Yours for wise action,
George F. Washburn.
Boston, Mass.
Note —The above article was omitted
last issue because of being received too
late for publication.
TO DOWN BELL TELEPHONE
Atlant ■■ Gets an Independent Company
After a Loner Wr.it.
The Standard Telephone Company,
an independent company, is now put
ting up its wires in Atlanta and will
start off with over 3,000 subscribers.
The Southern Bell Telephone Company
having used every means to keep this
new competitor out of the field is now
laying low for another opportunity.
The new company furnishes telephones
at about one half the pries charged by
the old company and proposes to re
duce the cost from year to year. The
Bell people as they have done in the
West will probably cut under the new
company and thus force them out of
business.
“I am a firm believer in government
ownership,” said the president of the
new company last week, “and to that
end, I think it would be a good plan
for small towns to look up the cost of
telephones and see how exchanges can
be put in under public control at a
very small expense. All our patents
are now secure against the Bell monop
oly and the concern that builds and
equips the exchanges does not care for
any monopoly or franchise.
“For instance, a town of 1,000, say,
can get an exchange fitted up in the
best manner at a low price. The com
pany wid operate the exchange at a
small expense, giving the town the
privilege of purchase, either at one
time or gradually, so that in a few
years time, the town will own the ex
change Or a mutual concern can be
organized so that there is no stock to
be watered or, bought up and this com
pany can be so chartered so that after
a few years, after the first cost has
been paid for, the exchange becomes
the town’s property.
“There are a dozen towns in the
Union which have such exchanges and
will own them in less than ten years.”
Confessed and Sentenced.
Mrs Mary Traylor who set fire to an
Atlanta residence last summer and
then gave an alarm and helped the
firemen to put out the blaze confessed
her crime and was sentenced last week
to ten years in the pen. She stated she
had stolen the family jewelry and to
hide the theft fired the house but be
came frightened and gave the alarm.
She was under the influence of whis
key at the time and ascribes her down
fall to that. The owner of the resi
dence and others are asking for a
pardon.
Durrant Dies Game,
Theodore Durrant, the noted Califor
nia murderer, who kilted two girls in a
church ante room and concealed their
bodies in the church loft was hanged
last Friday after a series of remarka
ble trials. Every human effort was
used to save him and several appeals
taken to the U. S. court but to no
avail. On the gallows he was deter
mined and collected and protested his
innocence with his last breath.
Fruit in Danger.
The fruit crop of Georgia is in great
danger. The abnormally warm weath
er for January is making the sap rise
and fruitgrowers predict that the trees
will bud and blossom and in February
and March suffer from the usual cold
snaps and freezes. This will cause a
loss of thousands to Southern fruit
raisers.
Bruce Again Register.
The President has again appointed
the notorious B. K. Bruce as Register
of the Treasury. Bruce has held the
same position under several republican
presidents.
♦ Here is a New ♦
I« K KLONDYKE. |
:* The new and wonderful'vanety oi cotton already J
so well advertised in every part of the South, known ♦
Z as JACKSON’S AFRICAN LIMBLESS COTTON is J
still the rage. Those who raise a good crop of the ♦
seed in 1898 will find in them a veritable Klondyke X
since the seed is now selling for S2OO per bushel, $7 X
per pound or SI per 100 seeds. This new cotton is ♦
♦ raised in hills 8 inches apart, and rows 3 feet apart.pj
X It grows 6to 8 feet in!height, 40 to 100 bolls to the* I
♦ stalk which is entirely limbless’andjffie yield on good ♦
♦ land is over f +
Four Bales
To the Acre ♦
* Os a soft, fleecy staple, one and one-half inches in J
Y length, which sold in the Atlanta market this season ♦
♦ at 10 cents per pound. A New York syndicate has X
X ><pu’ chased nearly all of the present crop of the Jack- J
Ty son farm and will plant a large section in Mississippi, ♦
S ’ for the seed, which will net them thousands of dollars J
next season. A small part of the crop was held hack. ♦
Thousands of dollars were offered for this portion and X
refused. A conservative estimate shows that one *
pound of seed carefully dropped will plant one acre ♦
♦ and the crop of seedsshould amount to 120 bushels in X
X addition to 4 hates of lint. The lint at the present Y
♦ price averages 850 per bale or 8200 for the crop The ♦
X seed at one-half the present price would bring 812,000. £
X This estimate is borne out by the fact that in 1895, ♦
♦ Mr. T. A. Jackson, the original owner started with ♦
| Only 59 t
Z Stalks of Cotton |
♦ His land-was well fertilized and no other variety X
of cotton grown anywhere near this plot. He re- j
* planted all his crop of seed in 1896 and this year, he ♦
♦ harvested 6 acres from which over 25 bates of cotton X
!* will be taken. The main crop of seed be sold for Y
820,000 to one firm alone. Os coursa care must be X
used to allow no mixing with other varieties, and with X
special heavy fertilizing and attention to insure the ♦
♦ best results it will repay you ten fold. Commissioner X
X of Agriculture Nesbitt, of Georgia 1 says “it is a new -Y
Y -'variety and a wonderful cotton. Planted on good (♦
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DEBS VISITS ATLANTA.
The “Social Democracy” Laader Makes
Several Fubllc Talks.
Eugene V. Debs, the recent leader of
the American Railway Union whose
strike at Pullman, near Chicago, a few
years ago, caused Cleveland to send U.
S. troops to Chicago in spite of Gov
ernor Altgeld’s protest and who was
subsequently put in jail by an injunc
tion of the U. S. court where he has
remained until recently was in Atlanta
last week.
Debs is of a remarkably magnetic
type, broad browed, smoothfaced, a
tuft of red hair on each side of an
otherwise bald head, a keen eye and a
fluent talker.
His speeches were attended by hun
dreds and were remarkable for their
mild character and tone. He arraigned
the capitalistic classes for their com
bines and plots and confined his re
marks to reform in government.
Southern on Trial.
The U. S. court at Macon has been
investigating the Southern R’y. Co.
President Samuel Spencer a few days
ago swore that the Central R, R. is not
owned nor controlled by the Southern
but is a competing line ; that the south
ern does own the Georgia Southern and
Florida from Macon Ga. to Polatka,
Fla., Atlanta and Florida and Middle
Georgia and Atlantic R. R from Col
umbus, Ga., to McDonough, Ga, and
that the Southern does not own any
lines competing with these. He also
stated that the rates on the two last
lines had voluntarily been reduced and
the service increased.
Another Railroad Combine,
The Louisville and Nashville system
has secured the complete control of the
Georgia R. R. and now has a through
systsm from the west to Charleston or
Port Royal, making this system the
most formidable opponent with which
the Southern railway must contend.
Grain from tbe west will be delivered
direct to foreign steamships at Port
Royal, S. C.
Will Use Electricity.
The new cotton mills at Columbus,
Ga., have abundant water power and
electricity has been substituted because
of its cheapness.
Let us line up and move forward.
May Lynch Frlsoners.
Sheriff Davis, of Calhoun county, in
taking to trial four prisoners charged
with assassinating Julian King, a
young Calhoun county planter a few
weeks ago was accompanied Tuesday
morning by the Dawson Guards, whom
Governor Atkinson called out for ser
vice. Several score of King’s friends
were seen around Dawson Monday and
it is believed that they will try to lynch
the assassins.
Wants Another Judge.
Congressman Bartlett, of Macon, has
introduced a bill to create a new U. S.
circuit judge and thus secure for this
district another judge. Bartlett and
Judge Emory Speer are at outs and it
is said the new office may not be filled
by Judge Speer’s advancement but by a
new appointee.
A Trestle Wreck.
An Atlanta and West Point train on
Monday, 21 mites east of Montgomery,
ran into a mute on a trestle. The
trestle gave way and the train turned
over. Conductor Henry M. Law, was
killed, also llagman W. W. Pope. Sev
eral passengers were injured, two
probably fatally.
Bond-Caldwell.
At the residence of the bride’s pa
rents at Neely, Tenn , on Tuesday
Jan. 10, Miss Lazinka Caldwell and
Mr. Sidney S. Bond were married.
The bride is a great niece oi President
Polk. The groom is one of Tennessee’s
staunchest Populists. The good wishes
of hosts of friends are extended them.
In the Ninth District.
Congressman Carter Tate, of the
Ninth District, wants to go back to
Congress next fall on the Democratic
ticket, but Hon. Howard Thompson, of
Gainesville, will give him a hard fight
for the nomination. Thompson has
called on Tate for a series of joint de
bates.
Mothodist May Unite.
A joint commission met in Washing
ton last week representing the North
ern Methodist and Southern Method
ists and decided to submit a favorable
report to the general conference from
which they were sent. The church
divided in 1846 on the slavery question
but during recent years, the desire for
a general re-union has become popular
and the meeting at Washington was
the result of this feeling.
ONLY 38 WEEKS——. men.
To election day. What are you
doing for the People’s Party?
Write ng now!
ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR.
WHOLE NUMBER 381.
MARK HANNA HAS WON
McKinley’s Boomer Goes Back
to the Senate.
THE BOODLE BAGS WIN THE DAY.
By a Scratch, the Ohio Deglslature Returns
Him to the Front—A Woman Comes
Near Turning the Tide
At the Dast.
Marcus A Hanna, he of the dol
lar mark brand, the agent of the Mc-
Kinley band wagon of prosperity is
elected to the U. S. Senate by a major
ity of three.
Ohio has been the scene of the
greatest fight on record, Hanna’s
agents using every means to bribe
and pull over the anti-Hanna republi
cans.
If he had been defeated,it is believed,
a woman would have been the main
cause.
The story runs that Representative
Griffeth, one of the Hanna men who is
a delicate man and in miserable health,
arrived in Columbus last Friday and
stated to several parties that he was
not certain to vote for Hanna Imme
diately the Hanna men clamored
around him and tried every effort to
drive him into a solemn promise. But
Griffeth wavered and his wife who ac
companied him requested the politi
cians to leave.
That night Griffeth left his hotel os
tensibly to attend a caucus. At mid
night, his wife was awakened and
handed a note ostensibly written by
her husband to come to him as he was
ill. She accompanied three gentlemen
whom she knew and whom she suppos
ed were friends. They guided her to a
a distant hotel and there imprisoned
her in a room for nearly 24 hours, so
that the heelers could get in their work
on the husband.
When Griffeth returned to his hotel
and found his wife missing, he became
suspicious and securing help located his
wife and released her.
Solemn promises were swept aside
and the supposed invalid became a
terror to the politicians. He hunted
for the men who enticed his wife away
and threatened to kill them on sight and
swore he would die rather than vote for
Hanna or any man of the crowd and
has become in a day the leader of the
anti-Hanna forces. The indignity to
Mrs. Griffeth has caused such a revolu
tion among the legislature that it was
expected many who were counted on by
the ‘ring’ would either refuse to vote or
would vote against Hanna. Strange
to say on the ballot Tuesday, Griffeth
changed and voted for Hanna.
Dade County Meeting.
Pursuant to call of the county chair
man, the People’s Party of Dade coun
ty assembled in convention in the
courthouse at 12 o’clock, on January
1, 1898, and was promptly called to or
der by the chairman. After briefly ex
plaining the object of the meeting,
which was to re-organize the Populist
party, elect a new executive commit
tee, also to elect delegates to state con
vention to he held in Atlanta on the
3rd Wednesday in March next. After
electing a chairman in each militia
district, they then proceeded to name
the delegates to state convention: J. B.
Lea, of Creek District, was elected del
egate, Dr. S. R. Deakins, of same dis
trict, alternate; A. M. Tatum, of Mill
District delegate, S. B. Austin, alter
gate. Then the chair appointed a com
mittee on resolutions, consisting of Dr.
S. R Deakins, A. M Tatum and E. D.
Amos, who soon reported strong reso
lutions opposing fusion with any and
all political parties in an effort to hood
wink and deceive the unsuspecting Pop
ulist to fuse with good men in other
parties in order to carry the state for
the referendum, and we declare our
selves opposed to such steps and we
favor only Populists for office, and a
straight-out middle of the road policy
and that we recommend the name of
the Hon, W. L Peek for governor. The
convention was then polled and was a
unit for Peek. We feel we owe it to
him. We also favor Judge J. K Hines
for Attorney General We believe we
can win with Peek to head the ticket,
no man has said or done more or made
greater sacrifices for the common peo
ple than he has.
S. B. Austin, Chm.
That ’Fossum Dinner.
The recent ’Possum dinner at New
nan, at which Georgia’s “ring” cele
brated in grand style has provoked
much comment among the Georgia
papers, All the politicians, big and
little were present in force and had a
general love feast. Governor Atkin
son left the next day in a Western and
Atlantic private car for a trip to Mexi
co, where he now is and has missed
reading the many comments.
Reduced Fare to Atlanta.
Delegates attending the coming state
convention of the People’s Party which
will be held in Atlanta in March are
especially advised to secure from their
railroad agent a certificate which he
will furnish if called upon. This cer
tificate when presented at Atlanta will
secure transportation home at one-third
fare, thus making the round trip cost
four cents per mite. Be sure and ask
for certificates.
Atlanta Will Celebrate.
Allanta will celebrate her semi-cen
tennial on May 4. Sham battles, mili
tary displays and every form of amuse
ment will be given to draw visitors to
the city.
Fopuliets Elect Mayor.
Austell, in Cobb county, elected John
Runyan as mayor last week. Mr.
Runyan is a staunch Populist.
The Democrats want state bank mon
ey 5 which is worse than national bank
money. The Populists want all money
to be issued by the government, and
made a legal tender.
Keep it before the people that the
leading fusion advocates are
holders or office seekers. ji