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VOL. VIL IL. 25
WITH ONE VOICE
COMES THE CALL.
Georgia Populists in State Convention Place the Name
of Thos. E. Watson at Their Head.
BUTLER’S ABDICATION DEMANDED.
In Many Features Platform Similar to the One of 1896, it Con
tains Ringing and Clear Cut Positions that Cannot be
Mistaken by the People.
NO BACKWARD STEP WAS TAKEN BY GEORGIA POPULISTS.
Nominees Selected From the Various Sections of the State—Able Men
Good and True, Put in the Field.
The east has been made.
The Populists of Georgia in their State Convention Wednesday night, over
his many protests, amid an outburst of enthusiasm which in its way surpassed
any exhibition ever before seen in Georgia’s state capitol called upon Hon.
Thomas E. Watson to be their standard bearer in 1898 in Georgia, modelling a
platform in the same mood that would suit the nominee and naming in the
other positions, the best known men of the party.
It was a storm of loyalty and devotion that was suppressed as the clans
came together on Tuesday and early Wednesday, cropping out ever and anon
as the Convention rushed its work rapidly and with business like dispatch,
which at last came forth when the nomination was offered with all the old
time zeal and fire for which the true blues are noted.
The name bad been on the lips of every delegation from the time o. arrival
in Atlanta. No one else was mentioned in a case of contingency. "He will
not forsake us” said a gray haired veteran of the wire-grass. “We can carry
every county in my district and be counted too” he continued —a dozen dele
gates surrounding the group re-echoed the remark.
As a further evidence of their perfect trust and confidence, resolutions de
claring that the party nationally to be without a head and calling on the
national executive committee to elect a new chairman; calling for a National
Convention July 4, 1898, and denouncing fusion in no unmeasured terms were
unanimously passed.
Nominating speeches had been limited to five minutes by motion, but when
the gubernatorial nominee’s name .was offered, the convention would not listen
to a speech—none was wanted. Confederate veterans, whose empty sleeves
told the story of past services climbed as nimbly on the top of desks as. the
younger men of the party, each vieing with the other to give the fullest ex
pression to their long pent-up enthusiasm. Delegates who had attended
ouz.-l cumw«i«BTawepi. aside sat down In aulpsdse as 'A® tteox
ing was resumed again and again, finally dying out only because of the late
hour and the fact that much business remained to be transacted.
Below will be found the important points of the convention, hurriedly
written, the People’s Party Paper being delayed one day in publication so as to
convey the complete story to its thousands of readers, scattered from Maine to
California.
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RESOLUTIONS AND PLATFORM.
♦ The following is a complete copy of the platform, as adopted by the state ♦
4 convention at a late hour last night: ♦
X Taxation of the state having under Democratic administration, in- X
Y creased more than 100 per cent since the Republican administration of R. B. Z
♦ Bullock, notwithstanding the taxable property of the state has doubled in X
♦ value since 1879; we pledge ourselves, if placed in power, to reduce the Y
< present high rate of taxation without a reduction in the pensions or common ♦
Z school funds. ( ♦
Z Resolved by this convention of the Populists of Georgia, That as a X
Y political party, we are without a national chairman, and call upon the na- X
tional committee to remedy the evil at the earliest possible moment. Z
Resolved, That we indorse the action of the Nashville conference, and Y
the action of the reorganization committee at St. Louis, January 12th, and Y
favor a national convention to be held July 4, 1898, and we protest against ♦
all fusion and urge thorough reorganization of our party along the most ♦
! progressive and advanced lines. X
PLATFORM. X
1, We indorse the St. Louis platform. X
2. Civilization, to say nothing of religion, has entered np judgment of *
* condemnation against barrooms. X
v The public conscience revolts at the license system, which fosters the x
* saloon and generates its manifold evils in consideration of revenue that pays *
T 'ess than a tithe of the public burdens it entails. It is monopolistic and es- X
♦ scntially immoral. We favor the passage of an anti-barroom bill which shall «
♦ close the barrooms at once, which shall make secure the local prohibition X
♦ already obtained and provide for the sale of intoxicating liquors, otherwise X
X than in barrooms under public control. Y
X 3. We emphatically condemn the convict law passed by the legislature ♦
J of 1897, as being the enactment of a system more iniquitous than the old ♦
♦ lease act. X
♦ We believe that the state herself should keep possession of her prisoners X
X and should employ them upon the public roads, and not allow them brought X
in competition with free labor, and that reformatories be established for J
X juvenile criminals. ♦
Y 4. We declare in favor of improving and extending the public school ♦
Y system to the end that all our people can receive a good common school edu- X
♦ cation. We favor the furnishing of primary school books by the state to «
! avoid the burdens put upon our people by the frequent changes of textbooks, i
We also favor the payment of teachers monthly. y
5. We emphatically condemn the practice of late becoming so prevalent x
of public officers accepting free passes from railroad corporations and franks ♦
♦ from telegraph and express companies. We intend this condemnation to ♦
X apply to the executive, legislative and judicial branches of our national and X
X state government. Y
X 6. We condemn lynching and demand of our public servants the rigid X
enforcement of our laws against this barbarous practice. X
J 7. We demand that all public officers be elected by the people. We ♦
♦ favor the election of the judges and solicitors of the state by the people ♦
X residing in the respective judicial circuits, and that said judges and solicitors t
X must be residents of said judicial circuits. We pledge ourselves to secure an
J amendment of the constitution of the state which shall provide for the elec- 1
X lion of these officers in this manner,’and we regard the system of electing x
♦ these officers on state ticket by nominations secured by political conventions Y
♦ productive of partizanship in our judiciary. X
♦ 8. We denounce the present fee system and demand that all publfc t
• officials where practicable be placed upon salaries proportionate to the de- X
X pressed financial condition from which the laborers of the country suffer. X
X 9. We declare for a free ballot and a fair count, and pledge ourselves J
Z to the enactment of laws securing this to every legal voter. ♦
Y 10. We favor the continuance of pensions to needy and deserving con- ▼
♦ federate soldiers and to the widows of confederate soldiers. t
X 11. We favor an amendment to the constitution of this state providing $
initiative and referendum and the imperative mandate in legislation.
THE PEOPLE’S PARTY PAPER
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® For Governor, 1
I THOMAS E. WATSON, McDuffie, |
For Secretary of State, f
L. O. JACKSON, Decatur.
For Comptroller General, f
BEN MILLIKIN. Wayne. |
For Treasurer, |
J. H. TRAYLOR, Troup, |
For Attorney General, ®
CAREY J. THORNTON, Muscogee. |
For Commissioner of Agriculture, ®
Wm. L PEEK, Rockdale. g
For School Commissioner,
B. M. ZETTLER, Fulton. |
For Prison Commissioner, t
J. S. DAVITT, Polk.
Suggested (By Resolution.) f
For Chief Justice, |
WALTER B. HILL, Bibb. f
For Associate Justice, 1
r* (Long Term.) I?
CLAIBORNE SNEAD, Columbia. g
For Associate Justice, ®
(Short Term ) ®
® W. R. LEAKIN, Chatham. |
The Convention Opens.
The fall of the gavel in the hand of
Chairman John D. Cunningham at 12
o’clock announced the opening of the
largest People’s Party State Conven
tion ever held in Georgia
Every district was well represented
and much enthusiasm was displayed.
Chairman Cunningham’s opening re
marks were well timed, and were
cheered to the echo.
i ne rfal azicH were packed and cheer
ed equally with the delegates as Chair
man Cunningham rapped the “men
who control” and “the machine.”
Mr. Cunningham said:
Brother Delegates, It was so confi
dently expected that this convention
would prove the death of the Populist
party, that the chairman of the State
Democratic Executive Committee has
called it to meet in this city tomorrow,
presumably to act as our pall bearers.
If any of those gentlemen, in their
zeal to lead the procession, have come
a day ahead of the funeral, one glance
at this body must convince them that
this occasion gives no opportunity for
crepe, sack-cloth and ashes or the
shedding of crocodile tears.
We say to them do you wait for us to
act to know the will of the people ?
Don’t hang on the outskirts of our en
campment hoping to see a break in our
ranks for one or the other of your ma
ny candidates and thus determine for
yourselves which one it is best for you
to pull for. I tell you I voice the sen
timent of every true Populist in this
State, when I say you have none in the
field that politically is not well worth
the killing.
Do not glean the fields of political
wisdom and justice, from which we
have reaped Populist principles, hop
ing to create from the husks and straw
we discarded, Democratic policies and
Democratic promises. If in the future,
as in the past, you prefer to serve your
party rather than your people or your
God, turn again to your original meth
ods, grease the joints of your political
heelers with the oil of “O, be joyful”
and line their pockets with the dimes
and dollars of our daddies, devise new
mechanisms for your ballot boxes,
revise your registration lists and coach
your registrars. Rewrite, and if possi
ble, make more damnable your infa
mous rape circular. For I put you on
notice now that in 1898 you have got to
meet the same brave united,umcompro
mising foe that in the past you defraud
ed but could not honestly defeat or
destroy.
HUNDRED THOUSAND MAJORITY,
It has been declared that the Demo
cratic ticket must be given a hundred
thousand majority this year.
Are you Populists going to give it ?
If you do not it* will never be given,
because if they get it from the niggers
they have got it to buy.
BERNER.
Can you give it to their “Young Na
poleon,” who fought the Populists so
long and hard that he is practically
converted to their belief and policy ?
He is against the railroads. He is
against the trusts. He is against the
corporations. He is against every
combination, even that of “Solicitors
and Judges.” It would seem from the
reports of his speeches that he is against
everything, whether it be in the heav
ens above or the waters under the
earth, but not against the whisky ring
and ballot-box stuffers that flourish
upon the face of the earth. You dare
not give him a hundred thousand ma
jority, for fear that with the blind zeal
of a new convert, he will fail to temper
his justice with mercy.
ATKINSON.
Or can you give a hundred thousand
majority to that other Democratic can
didate of unfortunate name, who it is
•< EQUAL RIGHTS TO AU • SP Jft CI Al. PRIVILEGES TO NONE.’*
ATLANTA. GEORGIA: FRIDAY MARCH 18, 1898.
eo difficult to place as office seeker or
office holder, who wrote an elaborate
and comprehensive platform, but who
in the eyes of some of his own friends
made an unpardonable blunder in not
declaring as plank “No. 1,” “I am not
related either by blood or marriage to
the great and only W. Y., but am sim
ply a friend of the family of the men
who control.”
We have at last reached that most
interesting period of Democratic r» ■
form, wueu the kettle stands on 'its j
hind legs and declares the pot Is black,
when the tail of the kite, that has kept
the whole thing floating, declares that
the stick, paper and twine, deserves to
be kicked sky high.
Like a coachwliip, realizing that the
skin which has protected him is over
run with parasites, and is a stench in
the nostrils of the people, he adroitly
attaches it to what he believes is a
twig of popular sentiment and un
blushingly crawls out brazenly de
claring to the people, there lays your
serpent, “I’m only a snake in the
grass.”
Can you give a hundred thousand
majority to “Brer Fox?” who lay so
low in 1894 and 1896, who snugly wrap
ped in the cocoon of silence during the
winter of his party’s discontent, now,
believing that his season and hour has
come, would break from his surround
ings and appear as the attractive and
gaudily bedecked butterfly of reform.
.If you say to me that he did not run
with the hare, can you deny that he
held with the hounds?
I f he did not go through the mire
and shadows of political corruption,
he basked in the sunshine of office ob
tained by such methods and buttered
his bread with the spoils.
Talk to me of Populists supporting a
candidate who for years remained
silent, but now has become outraged
because his party was seduced into
nominating W. Y. Atkinson; yet lifted
no voice of complaint when the voters
of this state were ravished of their
franchise and his party’s nominee was
declared the Governor
Talk to me about supporting a can
didate with cotton at five cents and the
tax rate out of sight, and whose only
remedy is a tinkering policy of stop
ping leaks. I say to you that the hour
demands a man with enough force and
backbone to thrust his fist into the
bunghole of extravagance and hold it
there until the tax rate of the state is
reduced, at least thirty-three and a
third per cent.
“The men who control” have many
political scalps dangling at their belts
it will be interesting to note if the next
one taken shows evidence of having
covered a bump of deceit as well as a
bump of conceit.
There is but one opportunity for the
Democratic ticket to have a hundred
thousand majority in the coming elec
tion, and that is for their convention
to endorse the candidate we shall to
day nonfinate.
The roll call was dispensed with and
the districts sent up their nominations
to the chair.
During the morning, the various con
gressional districts had held meetings
and the nominations and platform had
been thoroughly discussed, so that
upon the opening of the convention,
the usual confusion displayed in large
gatherings was almost totally avoided.
The committee on order of business
reported at 1 o’clock.
Settled Down to Business,
The election of a temporary chair
man and secretary resulted in Hon.
John A. Sibley being chosen for the
first named place and Mark D. Irwin
for the last.
Upon the announcement of the choice
of the various districts for committee-
men, by acclamation the list was elect
ed as a whole and the committees ad
journed to the lobbies.
By unanimous choice Hon, W. L.
Peek, of Rockdale, was elected perma
nent chairman of the convention and
was escorted to the rostrum amid
much enthusiasm. The temporary
teeretary was made permanent secre
tary.
Col. Peek spoke for ten minutes upon
taking up the gavel. His severe and
scathing arraignment of the Demo
cratic record both national and state
brought applause from every ■ portion
of the House. The galleries were well
filled, many ladies being present The
warrior of the party excelled himself
in well rounded periods and word pic
tures that held the entire convention
in silence, only to be broken by storms
of applause.
At 1:30 o’clock, adjournment to 3
( ’clock was had to give committees
1 J us to arrange their work.
An Unusual Proceeding,
Upon the reassembling of the con
vention, numerous speeches were made
which culminated in a proceeding that
v '<s both unusual and unexpected.
Azmon A. Murphy took the stand and
in a burning five minute speech pro
posed the name of Hon. Thos. E. Wat
son for governor. The house was
packed to its limit. The enthusiasm
that had been long pent up came out
in full force when a motion was made
to suspend the rules of the order of
business. After remarks by delegates
Flynt, Branch and Parker, the chair
ruled that the two thirds rule would
apply and the motion to table was
passed.
FOR FREE CUBA.
The following resolution introduced
by Hon. Mel Branch of Columbia, was
unanimously adopted:
Whereas, The Populists of Georgia,
in convention assembled, believe that
the people of Cuba are engaged in the
same patriotic cause as that which led
to our freedom from British rule, it is
therefore,
Resolved, That we hereby tender to
i the people of Cuba our heartfelt sym
i pathies in the gallant fight they are
making for independence and freedom
from Spanish domination.
Resolved further, that we call upon
the officials of the United States to
properly represent the sentiment of
the American people by according bel
ligerent rights to the Cuban forces, and
if necessary, to go further and give
such suitable aid as may be necessary.
Mr. Palmer of Floyd, introduced the
fallowing resolution :
Resolved, That we hold that the
thorough reform of our methods and
la affecting the conduct of elections
V-i z corgi a is the most vital and living
! issue before the people of Georgia to
day and that if entrusted with power
we pledge ourselves to secure such re
forms as will secure to all citizens the
unrestricted right of a free ballot and
a fair count. The resolution was pass
ed unanimously.
Gen. Phillips Endorsed.
A resolution from the Seventh Dis
trict recommending the election of Gen.
Phillips as a member of the National
Executive Committee was passed by the
house unanimously.
After another rousing speech from
Azmon A. Murphy on ballot box stuf
fing by the Democratic party, the con
vention adjourned to 8 o’clock.
THE EVENING SESSION.
Executive Committee.
The following state executive com
mittee was selected by their respective
district delegations for the coming two
years.
First District —D. C. Newton, of Chat
ham; R. M. Bryan, of Screven.
Second District—George W. Crappes,
of Clay; W. E Smith, of Decatur.
Third District —Seab Montgomery, of
Taylor; M. E. Chastain, of Macon.
Fourth District—J. H. Traylor, of
Troup; J. D. Sims, of Coweta.
Fifth District—S. M. Taliaferro, of
Fulton, J. R. Irwin, of Rockdale.
Sixth District—C. F. Turner, of Mon
roe; Dr. J. F. Dickey, of Upson.
Seventh District—M. L. Palmer, of
Floyd; J. A. L. Born, of Cobb.
Eighth District —J, P. Elder, of Oco
nee; J. A. Neese, of Greene.
Ninth District—L. L. Clement, of
Milton; W. W. Wilson, of Gwinnett.
Tenth District—C. E. McGregor, of
Warren! William T. Flint, of Talia
ferro.
Eleventh District-B. B. Linder, of
Daurens; Ben Milliken, of Wayne.
On the re-assembling of the conven
tion, the house was packod, the galler
ies being almost as well filled as during
the afternoon.
Chairman John A. Sibley of the
platform committee read the commit
tee’s report. An hour’s debate on the
second plank in which full and free
discussion was given to all side re
sulted in the adoption of the platform
as reported “without the crossing of
a “t” or the dotting of an “i,”
National Delegates.
The following delegates were select
ed to the National Convention by their
respective districts and elected by the
convention:
First Congressional District—J. S.
Franklin, Bulloch; H. S. White, Screv
en; C. S. Grice, Tattnall; W. P, Prewer,
Liberty; D. 0. Newton, Chatham; H, G.
Edenfield, Screven. t
From the Second District —L. O.
Jackson, Decatur; John A. Sibley, Ber
rien; M. G. Statham, Terrell; William
Colliers, Mitchell; H. G. Smith, Early;
11. C. Newton, Randolph.
From the Third District—Se be Mon
ganry, Taylor; S. A. Waters, Sumter;
J, C. Hilburn, Macon; J. B. Brazier,
Stewart; W. T. Mathew, Ijooly, state
at large; F. D. Wimberly, Pulaski.
From the Fourth District—J. T.
Traylor, Troup, from state at large;
1 Brown Williams, Meriwether; J. D.
Arnold, Coweta; C. J. Thornton, Mus-
cogee; Howell T. Hollis, Macon; G. W.
Burson, Carroll.
From the Fifth District—J. K. Hines,
Fulton; H. P. Blount, Fulton; W. F.
McDonald, Newton; W. T. Biggs, Ful
ton; Robert Todd, Fulton: Ed. L. Sut
ton. DeKalb.
From the Sixth District —Dr. J. T.
Dickey, Upson; C. F. Turner, Upson;
R. W. Mays, Butts; W. P. Glover, Bibb;
T. A. Ward, Pike; A. A. Murphey, Pike.
From the Seventh District—Dr. E. O.
Stafford, Murray; J. I. Fullwood, Polk;
J. W. McGoritv, Paulding; General
William Phillips, Cobb; J. D. Perker
son, Cobb; M, L. Palmer, Floyd.
-From the Eighth District —R. E.
Donsen, Greene, from state at large;
S. W. Rucker, Elbert; Reuben Miller,
Morgan; B. E. Overby, Oconee; Jones
Lebrd, Hart; J. J. Grear, Jasper.
From the Ninth District—M. D. Ir
win, Jackson; A. M. Baxter, Gwinnett;
J. A. Parsons, Newton; G. B. Reden,
Thomas Bell, Hall; L. M. Orr, Hall.
From the Tenth District —Mel Branch
Columbia; William Walder, Glascock;
W. L. Flynt, Taliaferro; S. F. Walton,
Richmond; R. P. Warren, Jefferson;
Thomas E. Watson, McDuffie.
From the Eleventh District —E. W.
Morcock, Laurens; D. W. Buchan,
Dodge; T. C. Allen, Coffee; J. W. Ho
gan, Lowndes; H. W. Reed, Glynn; W,
J. White, Johnson.
National Committeemen.
The resignation of Mr. J, L. Sibley
being read and accepted, the report of
the committee on resolutions favoring
July 4, 1898, for a National Convention
was adopted and Messrs. C E. Mc-
Gregor, Gen. Wm. Phillips and W. D
Hawkins elected as members of the
National Executive Committee.
Kentucky Goes Right.
Acting Secretary Holcomb then read
the following telegram of greeting
from the People’s Party State Conven
tion of Kentucky:
Louisville, Ky.. March 16, 1898.
Secretary People’s Party State Conven
tion, Atlanta, Ga.
The People’s Party of Kentucky in
Convention assembled stands by the
true faith promulgated at Omaha with
no compromise or surrender and send
greeting to Georgia.
Jo A. Parker, Chm.
W. P. Marsh, Sec
Amid much cheering, the Secretary
upon motion was instructed to reply to
the telegram saying:
“Old Georgia stands in the middle of
the road opposed to Butlerism and
fusion forever.”
The Nominations.
When the call was made for nomina
tions, Major C. E. McGregor, in a mas
terly speech presented the following
resolution.
“Believing the judiciary should be
lifted from the mud and filth of parti
san polities, we suggest the names of
•.aaW LLuxlACTili jUrISUo i
less of their political affiliations as
worthy of the suffrages of the people
for the positions of justices of the
Supreme bench.”
Major McGregor explained that the
resolution carried with it no nomina
tion but simply lined up with the plat
form, giving no one cause to accuse the
■ People’s Party of inconsistency.
There were other delegates who in
sisted upon the naming of purely Pop
ulist nominees and here the hitch
came.
The resolution was subsequently
adopted by a vote of 144 to 66, suggest
ing the names for chief justice.’Hon.
Walter B. Hill, of Bibb; Associate
Justice, (long term 6 years) Claiborn
Snead of Columbia; Associate Justice,
(short term 2 years) W. R. Deakin of
Chatham.
Then followed the nominations vira
voce of the state ticket as shown in an
other column, amid continuous enthu
siasm and applause.
The following resolution was unani
mously passed :
Resolved, That Major C. E. McGreg
or be hereby appointed the messenger
of this Convention to convey to the
Hon. Thos. E. Watson his nomination
for the position of Governor.
On motion, the selection of chairman
of the state executive committee was
left to Mr. Watson.
At midnight, the convention adjourn
ed sine die, having completed more
business in 12 hours in a smoother
manner than any ever held in the
capitol. Austin Holcomb.
PATRIOTIC CORPORATIONS.
Send Boodle Money to lowa to Torn an
Election,
Des Moines, lowa, has a mayor with
a backbone. John MacVickar is his
name and a good one too.
The electric light company was bleed
ing Des Moinas charging t 126 per year
for each arc light The mayor found
parties who would give the same ser
vice for 875 per year, or who would
build a plant, charge $125 per year per
light and at the end of 5 years sell the
plant to the city for one dollar.
MacVickar brought the question to
an issue in local politics and council
adopted the last plan. All the leading
electric light companies contributed to
a fund to defeat him the other day but
he was re-elected in spite of the boodle.
Atlanta tax payers want to own the
lighting plant. Mayor Collier favors
it, leading public spirited citizens favor
the plan, the people want it but so far
the electric light company has defeat
ed all their plans and municipal ow
nership is put aside. Eventually it is
bound to win but only after the corpo
ration lawyers are suppressed.
DeKalb County Meeting.
The Populists of DeKalb county will
meet at Clarkston next Saturday, the
19th, at 10 o’clock, a. m., for the pur
pose of electing a county executive
committee and to attend to other busi
ness.
Let every Popu.ist and those who
believe in reform be on hand.
G. F. Mobbut, Chm.
W. P. Lankford, Sec.
MILLIONS FOR WAR.
Preparations Being Pushed to Pro=
tect Our Sea Coasts.
ATLANTA MADE HEADQUARTERS
Supplies, Coal, Guns and Ammunition Being Bought by the Car
Load-Uncle Sam Spending Much Money But
Hone in the South.
The “war scare” has not yet passed I
away as has been freely predicted.
On Monday last, the War Department
removed the headquarters of the de
partment of the gulf from Galveston,
Texas, to Atlanta, with General Gra
ham in command Tnis brings a large
number of clerks and headquarters
employes to Georgia and makes Atlan
ta the principal point for mobilizing
troops and distributing ammunition
and supplies for the South Atlantic
states.
The Spaniards still insist that the
Maine blew up accidentally, while the
U. S. board of inquiry it is rumored
will report that she was destroyed by
a submarine mine.
England has in a round about way
suggested that her moral support will
be with Uncle Sam.
The reports ot several vessels being
sold to Spam have turned out to be
fakes. Spain having no money to pay
for them.
On Tuesday, the U. S. purchased from
Brazil, now building in England,
two war ships, one of them the
“Amazonas” is completed and
ready to sail. She is a very fast and
large steel sheathed cruiser with a
speed of 20 knots and carrying a for
midable armament besides enough
coal to enable her to cross and recross
the Atlantic. The other vessel has not
been named.
Every department is working day
and night at Washington and the vari
ous government works. Torpedoes,
dynamite,guns, mortars, gun carriages,
ammunition of all kind are being hur
tied to the coast cities and the troops
at the various army posts have been
placed under orders so that a general
movement to the coast could commence
in 5 hours after a telegram was sent
from Washington. Contracts for thou
sands of tons of coal have been made
and train loads are being rushed to
Key West, Savannah and other points.
All the railroads interested have
arranged schedules for hand ing the
os and tracts (for....the flame
signed.
One of the discriminations during
the recent activity that hurts the South
is the exclusive purchase of coal from
Northern mines. The South has sold
nothing to the government while Eas
tern factories and supply agents have
received orders for millions of dollars
worth of their respective materials.
The navy is short of men and recruit
ing is going on rapidly.
The torpedo flotilla of Spain sailed
from Cadiz Spain for Havana on Sun
day. With these several of Spain’s
strongest ships, so that in a few days
Cuban waters will have the pick of the
Spanish navy.
It is now confidently believed that
President McKinley will recognize
Cuba inside of the coming ten days
This will cause an open rupture be
tween Spain and Uncle Sam and when
the United States makes a demand for
indemnity in addition to an apology
for the destruction of Maine, the fight
ing will commence. This appears to
be the plan according to newspaper
reports.
THE MAINE TRAGEDY.
Washington, March 14.—The crisis
in the relations between the United
States and Spain is expected this week,
when the court of inquiry into the loss
of the battleship Maine makes its official
report. War preparations continue
here.
Odkland, Cal., March 11.— The vet
erans of the civil war living in Oakland
have decided to offer the services of a
full company to the government in the
event of war with Spain. A company
of 100 with C. N. King as captain is be
ing organized.
Miami, Fla., March 12.—Senator Proc
tor and party left hero at 8:25 this morn
ing for Washington. Before taking his
departure Senator Proctor refused to
talk, but intimate friends state that the
senator is in a frame of mind to indorse
anything that promises to end tho atro
cities in Cuba.
Rock Island, Bls., March 10.—Act
ing Comma idant O. B. Mitchell of Rock
Island arsenal has received orders to put
tho men at the arsenal on ten hours
time and to enlist a night shift at once.
This will swell the forces in the shops
here to 1,000 men. Captain S. E. Blunt,
commandant at the arsenal, is now in
Washington.
Charleston, March 15. —Wax pre
parations are being hurriedly made on
the fortifications guarding the entrance
to Charleston harbor. The orders re
ceived recently to get the forts ready
for action a, the earliest possible mo
ment. are being carried out by -the au-
The employes of the Wheeling steel
plant in Benwood, W. Va , about 500
in number have been notified of a sec
ond reduction of wages within twelve
months. The present reduction affects
all employes, and runs from 12 to 25
per cent
It ought to be constantly kept before
the people that it was the Democratic
party that demoralized silver in 1893.
and placed us on the present gold
standard system ; yet it is this same
party that prates so much about free
silver.
Note the vote on the salary grab in
the 53d congress. Bryan voted for it.
The bill passed although the Democrats
had a majority of 148 in the House. A
majority of the Democrats voted for
the bill.
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fhorities, and wist -he guns work
ffig it will be difficult for a hostile fleet
to enter the harbor.
Washington, March IS.—Tha war de
partment has promulgated an order cre
ating the departments of the gulf and
of tiie lakes and abolishing the de
partments of the Missouri and of Texas.
The department of the east will em
brace the states on the Atlantic coast to
and including North Carolina; the de
partment of the lakes will include Wis
consin, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio,
Kentucky and Tennessee, with head
quarters at Chicago, and the department
of the gulf will comprise the states of
South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Ala
bama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas,
■with headquarters at Atlanta. Majx
General John R. Brooke will command
the department of the lakes, and Bri
gadier General William M. Graham the
department of the gulf.
BRYAN IN GEORGIA.
Draws An Immense Crowd in Atlanta but
Disappoints Them.
Hon. Wm. Jennings Bryan spoke in
Atlanta Monday night, March 14 clos
ing his campaign in the state, having
spoken at Rome, Macon and Athens.
Ten thousand people attended the
meeting, fully two-thirds going out of
pure curiosity.
An Atlanta Democrat attempted to
introduce the speaker.
The crowd howled and after ten min
utes of this kind of enthusiasm, grew
quiet.
Then Mr. Bryan rose and with" s'
majestic wave cf the hand asked for
quiet and o der
But the crowd di ’ not want quiet
and another period of enthusiasm
forced ihe orator to stop and appeal
for order.
As a last resort Governor Atkinson
who was on the stand arose and a-ked
for a cessation of the applause “Mr.
Bryan is an honored guest He shall
be heard” cried the governor.
That sobered the crowd and Mr.
liryair pi uueettect
The speech was one of the be’st de
livered by the famous Nebraskan since
his campaign opened in Georgia. It
was exclusively confined to free silver
and in the main a reiteration of the
much printed arguments advanced by
the free silver organs.
Before the close of the speech, fully
one fourth of the audience had left
going out quietly one or two at a time.
Mr. Bryan’s speech was a disappoint
ment even to some of his most zealous
admirer, while those who went out of
curiosity did not hesitate to ridicule
his speech which occupied upwards of
two hours.
Few if any converts to the cause of
free silver were secured by the taber
nacle mass meeting which through
free admission drew one of the largest
audiences ever assembled in Atlanta.
Omaha, March 10.—Dr. W. O. Rodg
ers, head physician of the Woodmen of
the World, died today from rheumatism
of the brain. He had been ill but a few
days. Dr. Rodgers’ identification with
fraternal insurance orders has been ex
tensive during the last decade.
London, March 10. A special dis
patch from Allahabad says the Kaohfaia,
a Burmese Hill tribe, have risen and
massaered five military policemen, cap
turing their guns. The Kachina, it ap
pears, have also driven back a small
force which was sent to punish them.
Keokuk, Ia», March 15.—Fred Bron
stine, a German living in Lewis county,
Mo., 3 miles south of Williamstown, has
shot and killed his wife and then shot
himself, inflicting a slight wound. The
couple had domestic difficulties. Bron
stine has been lodged in Kahoka jail.
i Jefferson City, Mo., March 15.-r-The
supreme court, in an opinion by Chief
Justice Gantt, has decided that the in
heritance tax law passed by the legisla
ture in 1895 for the benfit of the state
university is unconstitutional. The opin
ion was concurred in by all the judges.
Fremont, 0., March 12. Spiegel
Grove, the home of the late ex-Presideat
R. B. Hayes, has been advertised, to be
sold at sheriff’s sale April 11 to satisfy a
judgment of $5,000. The judgment was
damages for injuries sustained by Mrs.
Addie M. Smith in a runaway caused by
the Hayes’ family dog.
London, March 12.—The recovery of
the Marquis of Salisbury from his recent
illness is very slow indeed. He is only
allowed to peruse the most impor
tant papers, his weakness is exces
sive and no date has been fixed for
his going abroad, although Lady Salis
bury goes to the Riveira next week.
Carroll,llls., March 15. —Perry Gard
iner enticed Will Rogers into an unoc
cupied building at Pulaski, Ills., and
beat his brains out with a club. He then
escaped, although officers are searching
for him. Gardiner and Rogers were
playmates, aged 16. The former had a
grudge against his fellow and took this
means of avenging it.
San Francisco, March 14.—Lata last
night Andrew Schuller, a financial
broker, fatally shot his wife and then
committed suicide at his lice, 420 Cali
fornia street. It is believed the fatality
was caused by a dispute over bssiness
affairs. Schuller, who was 70 years of
age, had been separated from his wife
for more than two years.
The fusionists need not lose any
sleep about little irregularities which
the organization committee may have
committed ; it will all be made regular
as soon as the “boys in the trenches”
have the opportunity to speak.