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k Sen.k 25 Cents for flic People’s Party Paper to January 1. THE PEOPLES PARTY PAPER. ONE DOLLAR "'L Oi h VOL. VII. NUMBER 46. SHALL THE POPULIST CARRY GEORGIA. We Put that Question to YOU not the Other Fellow, but YOU-Fair and Square. All Great Reforms are Successful only by Individuals Working in Concert to the Same End. All political success comes the same way except when delayed by fusion schemes which must first be stamped ous. The State Campaign of Georgia is just 9 weeks off. Weeks roll by quickly and before you realize it the fight will be on —then it is too late to build and prepare for the enemy's attacks, —^-Educate! Eclncsuto! Educate ! " There are <0 000 Populists of Georgia who are not reading Your Paper—lots of them in your community. How can they convert intelligent voters unless they read, keep up to date with the party ? We must build to-day, not to-morrow. Delays are dangerous. NOW is the time to lay good foundations. The harvest is-ripe, the people are suffering and are already with us in spirit, bring them into the fold before they are led off by false prophets and scheming demagogues. Put into EVERY house a reform paper. It works for the cause night and day and hammers into the head ot the blind partisan the great truths which you already accept. Open his eyes with sledge hammer arguments. When you leave him, the paper is still at work, convincing and converting. 25 CENTS TO JANUARY i, 1899. Be special arrangement, we have secured for campaign purposes a limited number of subscriptions to the People’s Party Paper, commencing now and ending Jan. i. 1899. Wl will send you one copy every issue for the term for 25 cents ; 4 copies, One Dollar; 10 copies, $2.50: 20 copies, $5, all to different addresses. Every day you wait you lose AOl R Opportunity. Special —We want to put out 10,000 copies AT ONCE for the campaign. Send us one dollar and we will send you a package of 10 copies of the P. P. P. every week until. the state election. E\ER » earnest populist who means business will in some way raise that dollar so he can scatter 10 copies every week to advantage. Send it today. See every Pop you can and lalk to him, show him t Lit suecesb ,s assured the party in Georgia if we can but reach every Populist in the State every week and encourage each to action. A quarter is a small amount, and before January he will be able to renew for a year and can send an extra copy to a neighbor. If EVERY reader, if YOU will see to it that every one of “the boys” knows of this offer, the ball will start to rolling. A quarter from each subscriber for another fellow who is not able to pay for the paper, or for the fellow, who is NOT YET ready to join us will put the People’s Party Paper into 50,000 homes. Send today. Delays and indifference always lose Campaign Department, PEOPLE S PARTY PAPER. .Atlanta, Georgia. THE 1 ROOPS are nmc. Disappointed Over Not Being Sent Forward. PE.ACTIC ' DRILLS BEGUN Volunteers at Chickamauga Continue Their Hou tine Work as Though Expecting Orders to Move and Take Part In Actual Warfare. Chickamauga, Ga., Aug. 10.—The disappointment among the seven regi ments here which were to have gone with General Wade to Porto Rico is keen and the complaints are numerous, of the officers and men have now abandoned all hope of seeing active ser vice and the air of expectancy which has prevailed in all the camps at the park is now missing. Notwithstanding the prospects of peace and lack of service work is going on as usual in all regiments. The men are worked as hard and the training is as thorough as it was at first and every thing is conducted as though the men were to go into vigorous warfare in the near future. Practice marches will probably begin next week. The men will be inarched out by brigades, each brigade remain ing out several weeks. These marches are exdected to prove highly beneficial as well as a great diversion to the men. The paymasters are prosecuting their work vigorously today. On account of the general review only a few regiments c-uld be paid yesterday ayd the lost time is being made up today. Brigadier General McKee is still in charge of the Second division, First army corps. He is the senior brigadier commander in that division, but it is said that a brigadier general will be transferred from another division tc take command of this organization. There are several brigadier generals at the camp who outrank General McKee. General Breckinridge has appointed as a commission to report on the gen eral health of Camp Thomas Generals Sanger. Roe and Mattocks and Captain ■ I't-abody of the Eighth Massachusetts. NEW CAMPS FOR TROOPS. Volunteers May Soon Go to North Carolina and Kentucky. Washington, Aug. 10.—The war de* partment has decided to establish an army camp in the blue grass region of Ke; itucky and an order to this effect will soon b-a issued. It is probable troops now at Chickamauga will be marched to the new camp, rhe exact lo cation of which cannot now be stated. The war department has under con sideration the establishment of army camps at Lexington, Ky., Knoxville, Team, and Tryon, N. C. Army officers have been detailed and are now ex amining into the suitability of each of these places and if their' reports are satisfactory the cartips will be estab lished and orders issued directing vari ous commands now at Chickamauga to move to the new camps. Spuulsli Fours Advancing. London, Aug. 10.—Spanish 4s opened at 43t», an advance of-? 8. Paris Spanish 4s opened at 42.80. Yester day’s closing price was 48.10. AttaT'iity Thousand Majority. Ala., Aug. 10.—The ' ' ' ■k !y Klil -il. ■raft- 1 :-.-.. M/... ft ft ft oil b ll Jihf m '/ff HON. B. M. ZETTLER. Berrien McPherson Zattler is a native Georgian—a descendant of the Salz burgers of Ebsnezer, Eflingham county. His father, Nathaniel Zettler, was for many years the chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Lutheran congre gation at Ebenezer. He received his elementary education at the county academy at Springfield —one of the old time county site academies supported in part by the State. In 1859 he entered Lutheran college aS Newberry, South Carolina. On the secession of Georgia in January 1861, in company with all the other Georgia students he left for home determined to take part in the war that seemed inevitable. Immediately on reaching home he was made a lieutenant in the state militia, but when news came that Bartow’s company—the Ogle thorpe Light Infautry of Savannah had been accepted for service by President Davis and would leave at once for the seat of war in Virginia, he hastened to Savannah and secured admission to the company. He participated in valley campaign of Joe Johnston, was in the battle of First Manassas, at Yorktown, the Seven Days battle around Richmond, at Thorough Fare Gap and Second Manassas. At the last named battle he receiv ed a severe wound, which in a measure disabled him for life. On recovering, being unable to enter active service in the field, he was ap pointed government agent for the collection of the farmers, “tithe tax” at Guyton, on the Central Railroad. When Sherman’s army on its march to the sea reached that point, he went out to his father’s farm, six miles distant, took his best horse and and tendered himself as guide to Gen. Lewis, who commanded a Kentucky cavalry brigade in Sherman's front. On learning that Savannah was to be evacuated, he got permission of Gen. Lswis to cross the Savannah River into Carolina and passing up reerossed to the Georgia side and joined Gen. Wheeler, who was in Sher man’s rear and j ust then at Springfield. After the fall of Savannah and the withdrawal of Gen. Wheeler to Carolina he was instructed to report to Gen. Iverson, who was left with a small force on the Georgia side, with whom he remained until the news came of Lee’s surren der, when he returned home. He assisted his father and the one negro man who remained on the farm in making a crop. In the fall he opened the Guyton Academy which he taught till the follow ing spring, when he went to Savannah andsecured work in the Central Railroad. On the organization of the Savannah Public School system in the summer of 1866 he was elected Principal of one of the schools and remained there till 1873, when he was called to the Superintendency of the Bibb county public schools which he organized and managed for twenty two years. In 1894 he concluded to retire from school work and the following winter removed to Atlanta. While in the school work be was a zealous member of the Georgia Teachers Association and was a regular attendant upon its annual sessions. For two years he published in connection with his school work in Bibb a small weekly “The School Times,” which was distributed tree and through which he familiarized the people with all important matter connected with the man agement of the schools. In 1884 he started the Georgia Educational Journal, which he published for four yearn. He served as lecturer in the Peabody Institutes under Dr. Orr and Commissioner Hook and the County Institutes under Commissioner Bradwell RIGHTS TO ALL; SPECIAL PRIVILEGES TO NONET ATLANTA, GEORGIA: FRIDAY AUGUST 12. 1898, and was always very popular with the teachers, especially the younger element in the profession. He was a strong supporter of Gov. Northern in his first election and was an unsuccessful applicant for appointment by him to the office of State School Commissioner, his application being endorsed by every city school superintend ent and by a large number of the leading teachers of private schools in all parts of the state. The school system of Bibb county which has a national reputation—one of its single room country school houses planned by the Super intendent having been recommended by the committee of the National Educa tional Association as a model for the U. S.— is a monument of which he has reason to be justly rroud. Tn politics he was a “nominee Democrat” and tee straight ticket, but the Dernocri’.t’e rational *aihx *o eight yeaiS ago, disgusted liim and he has never claimed to be a Democrat or paid any attention to its nominated ticket It was while he was superintendent cf the Bibb county schools that he first became acquainted with Mr. Watson, who going out from the Sophomore class of Mercer University a seventeen year old lad, taught his first school in a re mote rural district in that county and he has followed his career with increas ing pride and admiration. In religion, he is a Baptist, having joined the Baptist church in Guyton in 1863 while on furlough on account of his wound. He was made a deacon in the Savannah church under Dr. Sylvanus Lan drum and is now serving in that capacity in the First Baptist church cf Atlanta. HOGAN GAINING RAPIDLY. Every Meeting Wins New Converts to the People’s Cause. Hon. J. R Hogan passed through Atlanta last Friday en route to his Greensboro and Madison appointments. Since his first speech in the campaign Mr. Hogan’s candidacy has been grow ing stronger and stronger and the three weeks start which our speakers have bad cannot be set aside now by the enemy’s stump orators. The people who have attended Mr Hogan’s meetings have had time to sit down and study over the views pre sented by the People’s Party standard bearer and the result is that letters from all parts of Georgia are pouring into campaign headquarters showing that the “independent” element in Democracy does not propose to be crushed out as Col. Caddler intends it to be. Mr. Hogan’s health since he took the stump in July has steadily improved and his vigorous though conservative campaign has enabled him already to some thirty or forty counties in which he has been entertained frequently by prominent Democrats as well as Popu lists. All ot his meetings have been attend ed by thinking Democrats and the re ception that he has met with at every point has been indeed flattering. As a representative in the legislature Mr. Hogan earned the lasting respect of his opponents and wherever he goes they are, one and all showing their sincerity by helping to make his meet ings a success. The other Populist speakers on the stump all report largo meetings well attended. The month of July has been well used since over 75 counties have been reached with introductory speeches which will be fcllowed later by old time rrllies in which voters of all parties will be invited to take part In Early county there are two Gets of Democratic candidates. In other coun ties there are factional fights so that every day sees the cause of the people brightening. The campaign may turn out to be a bit livelier than the Demo crats wish for. What is now needed is literature to be carefully circulated in every district County committees can do no better work than in putting out a liberal sup ply at once so that the seed will be well sown before the campaign liar gets abroad to stir up prejudice and blind bigotry among those who will naturally vote with the Peopl&’s Party. PUSHING THE CAMPAIGN. Good Work Going on in Many Counties Through Literature. The state election is now only ten weeks off and every day of that time should be used to full advantage by the true blues. The circulation of the P. P. P. has been growing steadily since the full state ticket was announced and coun ties heretofore solidly democratic may be expected in the Populist column in October. D jmocratic dissatisfaction on all sides has encouraged Populist workers to redouble their efforts. To assist local candidates and cam paign committees to thoroughly cover their districts with literature the People’s Party Paper recently made a very favorable offer. This offer has been accepted by scores of counties and the work has already been started. Jefferson county last week added 140 copies to the already large list going to that county. Zealous workers and campaign com mittees should address the campaign department of this paper at once for special rates on bundles for distribu tion. Washington <?ouuty Nominates. Sandersville, Aug. 2 —Judge J. K. Hines delivered today one cf the finest addresses ever heard in this place. A large crowd was in attendance. The Peoples Party nominees for Washing ton county are : Sheriff, E. A. Ennis; Clerk, N. B. Bateman ; Tax Collector, W. A. Jordon; Tax Receiver, G. R. Doolittle; Surveyor, W. L. Jackson; Coroner, B. H. Brantley; Treasurer, L. A. Gladden; Senator. R. L. Stephens; Representative, W. L. Kelley, W. L Knight. Up in HabMßbam. The Populists of Habersham county held an enthusiastic meeting at Demc rest on the 4th inst. Hon. J. P. Brooke was with us and made an excellent speech showing himself to be thor oughly competent to take Carter Tate’s place in congress, to which place we propose to elect him. After Mr. Brooke’s speech CoL M. D Irwin WB£ introduced and spoke for one hour and fifteen minutes He took up state issues mainly and dealt sledge hammer blows in defence of Populist principles. He showed ud the Demo crats in their true light and I believe that Hogan will get the vote of evary man in. the convention. The conven tion endorsed Hon. J. R. Hogan for Governor, Hon. D. Jarrett for the Sen ate, Hon. Tillman Perkins for the Leg islature and Hojj, J. P. Brooke for Congress. PROTOCOL IS AGREED UPON Important Step Taken In the Direction of Bestoriim Peace to America. AN OFFICIAL STATEMENT Secretary Day Announces That the Terms Virtually Accepted Are Those Laid Down by McKinley and Sent to Spain Several Days Ago. Washington, Aug. 10. Secretary Day at 1 o’clock today made the follow ing statement to the Associated Press: “We have agreed upon a protocol em ' bodying tne proposed terms for the ne gotiation of a treaty of peace, including the evacuation of Cuba and Porto .Rico and it is expected this protocol will be executed.” It can be stated that the terms are precisely those laid down by the presi dent in his original note about a week Sgo- It is believed that nothing but a few formalities remain to be disposed of to secure the signature of the protocol. The statement of Secretary Day showed that events had led up to logi cal steps to the agreement reached some time after noon today on the terms of the protocol. The conference between the president and the French ambassa dor at the White House last evening, it was practically admitted this morning, was not conclusive in all respects, but there was a manifestation of a steadfast confidence in administration circles that seemed to presage an early agreement upon the basis of a peace. Carnbon Ready to Answer. Foundation for this belief was af forded when Ambassador Carnbon called at the state department during the fore noon and it became known that the ambassador was prepared to give a re sponse to further inquiries that had been necessarily put last night in rela tion to the Spanish position. Although no definite statement could be obtained from any one acquainted with the details of the situation, it was ' surmised that the ambassador, having presented certain Spanish requests yes terday in connection with the acceptance of the four bases of peace laid down by the president, had been authorized to modify or withdraw such of these addi tional representations as should prove unacceptable to the United States. The answer of Spain is not en tirely satisfactory to this government and "further negotiations are necessary and are in progress today. A definite result in the way of a probable com plete acceptance is looked for by tomor row night, possibly late today. The points on which the disaj.l eo lent rests are not known. That farmer con cessions of the Spanish government to our demands are awaited is certain, however. One prominent administra tion official who has participated in the conferences, while refraining from mak ing any direct statements, had this much to say today: “The answer is not enough, but we are hopeful of the result.” “Further negotiations, then, are nec essary ?’ ’ “Yes, but we look for something defi nite tomorrow. ” Holding the News Back. Beyond this no member of the cabinet is willing to go. The president and Sec retary Day are exerting every effort to prevent news of the progress of the ne gotiations transpiring until a definite re sult can be announced. Today several of the members of the cabvcet were in conference with the jjrasidcni regarding the situation. Sec- ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR. WHOLE NUMBER 411. retaiy Ij&Hg was tae earliest of the councillors to cull aud Secreary Alger soon followed. Commander Crowninshield of the war board was called in, but the meeting did not last very long and had no im pcrtant bearing on the situation. Shortly before 11:30 o’clock Secretary Day, who had been in conference with the French ambassador at the state de purtment, called to consult with the president regarding the peace negotia tions. The plainest evidence that peace had . not yot come Jis the admission practix cully official through several authorita tive . Ratine ’ iiat a-'gofiatious are “till in progress, added to the fact that iho utmost secrecy was imposed by the president. That these negotiationswill not continue long is practically settled and an early and satisfactory termina tion is looked for. Members of the cab inet believe hat by Friday morning at the latest and probably before then the definite peace outcome will be assured beyond doubt. Another Noto to Spain. At the White House it was under stood that Ambassador Cambon would transmit to Spain today a cablegram stating that . complete and immediate acceptance of the terms imposed, with out reservation, would be essential to effecting peace under the present terms offered by the United States. In this connection it has developed that just before the Spanish answer was de livered late yesterday President McKin ley announced that an extra session of the senate would be held doubtless in November. With the peace situation at a stage where a complete agreement is regarded as likely at any moment, discussion has again started as to the convoking of an extra session of congress, but President McKinley, within the past '24 hours, has said positively that he has no intention of calling the house together, though of course the senate will have to meet in extra session to ratify the treaty of peace unless unforeseen and most im probable delays should occur. The president added that preliminary details incident to a treaty of peace would take so much time that the sen ate would not have to meet until some time in November. COAL DIGGERS QUIT WORK. Strike Is the Result of Resolutions Adopted Some Timo Ago. Pittsburg, Aug. 10. —If the resolu tion adopted at the recent general con vention of the United Mine Workers if obeyed, all diggers in the Pittsburg district not receiving the district price will quit work today, inasmuch as it is not generally known how many mines are running contrary to the Chi cago agreement’s provisions, it canno! be estimated how many diggers the strike order will affect. The strike will probably center in th< river region, where numerous mint owners are alleged to be constantly vio lating the agreement. The struggle will be the hardest in the third pool, against which an unsuccessful strrkr was prosecuted some weeks ago. Ultimatum Expires Saturday. Colon, Colombia, Aug. 10. —lt if learned from a reliable source that th( Italian ultimatum, demanding the pay ment of the Cerrutti claim, expire# during the evening of Aug. 13. Anx iety as to the ultimate action of th( new vice president, Scnor Marroquin f who was inaugurated last Sunday, (th# anniversary of the battle of Boyaca) and his cabinet, is daily increasing. is reported that the Italian warship Carlo Alberto is at Curacao. Cars Down an Embankment. Middlesboro, Ky., Aug. 10.—Whilf 1 a northbound train was coming froff Norton, Va., it struck a landslide neai Pennington Gap and three coaches aU tached rolled down an embankment feet. About 20 passengers were aboard, all of whom wei-e more or less injured. Another Honor For Curzon. London, Aug. 10. —Should the Hon. , George N Curzon, the parliamentary 1 secretary for foreign affairs, be ap pointed viceroy of India m successior Vo the Earl of Elgin, as appears certain 1 e will probably be raised to the.pee Uffnra in*