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2 THE PEOPLE’S PARTY PAPER, Published Ev« ry Fri lay at ■><’2 B°. Broad St. Atlanta, Ga. • OUR PrULISHIN’ti COMPANY, PROP’S. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Always in Advance.) Ono Year With Premium.) ?1 00 B>x Mouths. (No Premium.) . 50 For Tli- Campaign, (to Oct. 10.) 2a Eart.”-u Advertising Agent, Stkvr W. Floyd, 1: Ar -rican Tract Society Building, New York City. OFFICIAL ORGAN PEOPLE’S PARTY, STATE OF GEORGIA. ♦ CARDINAL TENETS OF THE ♦ ♦ PEOPLES PARTY. ’ ♦ Z of an Hon- ♦ ▼ < 2 I id Silver. * ♦ Ownership and Opera- ♦ ti«-n of F..iilr>>;id, Telegraph and Tele- A phon* Lin l s. ♦ ♦ * ♦ Opposition to Alien Ownership of ? ♦ Land and Court-made Law. X ♦ R.- < gnition of the Right of the People ♦ ♦ ■ .. .j. C.. Tie and Refer- J ♦ endum. ♦ z ♦ People’s Party State Ticket For Governor J. R. HOGAN, Lincoln. For Secretary of State, L. 0. JACKSON, Decatur- For Comptroller General, BEN MILIKIN, Wayne. For Treasurer, J. H. TRAYLO?, Troup. For Attorney General, FELIX N. COBB. Carroll. For Commissioner of Agriculture, A. H. TALLEY, Cobb. For School Commissioner, B. M. ZETTLER, Fulton. For Prison Commissioner, J. S. DAVITT, Polk. *tate Executive Committee People’s Party of Georgia. W. F. Cajiteh, Chairman, Atlanta, Ga. J. R. Inn ix, Vice Chairman, Conyers, Ga. Aorix Hoecomb, Secretary, Atlanta, Ga. Fhcst lii- ikk t —D. <'. Newton, Claxton, R. M. Bryan. Sylvania. S:.< oxi. DIHTBICT—<R*o. W. <’rapps, Ft. Gaines, W. E. Smith, Bainbridge. Tiilßß District—-Seab Montgomery, Butler, W. C. Chastain, Montezuma. Foi :th DisTUicr—J. 11. Traylor, Lovelace, J. D. Sims, Newnan. Fifth Disthk t—S. 11. Taliaferro, South Atlanta, J R. Irwin, Conyers. Sixth Distcict—-C. F. Turner, Brent, J. T. Dickey, Thomaston. Sevfath District—M. L. Palmer, Lavender, A. L. Born, Acworth. Eb. th District—J. P. Elder, Elder. J. A. N-ese. Carn, sville. Ni x ' h Dr -L. L. Cbriu nt. Ocee’, W. W. Wilson. Buford. '» T:;.xm District—C. E. McGregor, Warren l Ei.i.Vr.xiH Dish:kt—B. B. Linder, Dublin, B> a Milikui, Jesup. Peoples Party State Platform, For George.. Adopted in Convention March 16, IS9B—Readopted May IS, 189 S. RESOLUTIONS. Taxation of the state having under Demo cratic a•iministration. increased more than 100 per cent since the Republican administration of R. B. Bullock, notwithstanding the taxable pr< .perty of the state lias doubled in value since IS?.'; we pledge ourselves. if placed in power, to reduce the present high rate of taxation with out a reduction in the pensions or common » hoo! funds. R.'M'lvislby tffsee;.vention of the Populists of Georgia. That as a political party, we are without a national chairman, and call upon the national • . nimittee to remedy the evil at the earliest possible moment. R« s. .Ived. That we indorse the action of the Nashville conference, and the action of the re orgarhzatb 11 < •mmtr ee at St. Louis, January 12th. and favor a national convention to be held July 4, IsUs. and we protest against all fusion and urge thorough reorganization along the most progressive and advanced lines. PLATFORM. 1. We indi rse the St. Louis platform. 2. Civili. ati< n, to say nothing of religion, ha> entered up judgment of condemnation against barrooms. The pul >lic conscience revolts at the license svsteni. which fosters the saloon and generates - manifold evil' in consul ration of revenue th; p;.v - less t hou a titheof the public burdi ns :• entails. It i> monopolistic and essentially immoral W. favor the passage of an anti- Larrv. ni bill which shall close the barrooms at o:ic< . which 'hall make secure the local prohi bition already obtained and provide for the tale of intoxicatir g liquors, otherwise than in twrrt'onis under public control. h. XX e emphatically condemn the convict law parsed by th. legislature of 1897, as luting th<- «•»:.< ttwit of a system more iniquitous than "he old l< ase act. Wei. li -o t the state herself should keep n <>f in r pi i'oners and should employ them up<ni th public roads, and not allow th. nil tight in competition with free labor, and that ref rotatories be established for juve nile criminals. 4. We devlar. in favor of improving and ex tending the publi< school system to the end that allour peepi ean receive a good common e h.■<»! .-.lucao -n. XV. favor the furnishing of primary wh.-ol books by the state to avoid the t urdeß'put u] • n our p.s.ple by the frequent chances, r 00’-; s. XX’e also favor the pay xu< nt >f teaeh. rs monthly. &. XV. einpb:;;ically condemn the practice of late I-o mir.g '. prevalent, of public officers a.-, opting : re. p..". < from railroad corpora- Ti. i'and trank- fr< m telegraph and express ;•<■uipiune'., XX e intend this condemnation to apply t th.-ex. -itive, legislative and judicial I ra:;. In -• f our nat. nal and state government. 6. Wv coixi. inn lynching and demand of our • public 'crvants the rigid enforcement of our law* against this barbarous practice. 7. XVe demand that all public officers be ele. ■’■<ll,v the ]s<>pl. XVe favor the election of the ju \... and solicitors of the state by the jtcopiV- r- ding in the re- pective judicial cir cuits, ano that said judg.-s and solictors must Pk resid.-nt- of 'aid judicial circuits. XVe pletlge ourselves to secure an amendment of the const inti.m of the state which shall pro vid* for the t lection of these officers in this manner, and we regard the system of electing these officer- on -fate ticket by nominations by pobtieal conventions" productive of partizansnip in our judiciary. b. We denounce-the present fee system and demand that ail public officials where praeti rai.lc be places! upon salaries proportionate to the depressed financial condition from which the laborers of the country suffer. 9. We deciare for a free ballot and a fair count, and j ledg. <>ur: . Ives to the enactment of laws securing this to every legal voter. In. We favor the continuance of pensions to n> <-dy and deserving confederate soldiers and % tv the widows of confederate soldiers. W’e favor an amendment to the constitu :/of this state providing for the initiative referendum and thv imperative mandate k 1 - The famous “Duncan” circular refuses to down. It NOW WHO l§ was so well circulated among the intensely ignorant negroes of Georgia that it has proven a fire brand that RESPONSIBLE? cannot be quenched. Sent out by the Democratic State Executive Committee from the official headquarters in 1896 it attracted attention immediately and was openly denounced by thousands of honest democrats and unanimously by Populists. During the recent democratic contest in the June primaries, the democrats used it on each other and thousands were sent out again by democrats —men who knew its true nature and who had themselves denounced it. So much for their sincerity. In every section of Georgia negroes were handed this self same circular, which was then being used by one gang against “the ring” candidates. This second use of the Duncan circular was by Demo crats and no Populist was interested except to again feel the infamy and disgrace that had been brought on all the people of Georgia by this second use of the most damna ble piece of campaign literature ever sent out by politicians who claim to be respectable. No self-respecting negro in Georgia will support these candidates who have willfully paraded his race as responsible for these crimes, much less the pres ent candidate for Prison Commissioner who is known far and wide as its author and who has been endorsed by the democracy of the state as its candidate. Can any honest democrat support such party methods and vote the demo cratic ticket without holding his nose. Allen D. Candler was on the democratic ticket in 1896 as secretary of state when this “Duncan circular” was sent out broadcast. He was in the democrat ic primary of June 6 in which race the same circular xvas used. Joseph S. Turner was in the 1896 race as the appointee for Penitentiary keeper. He is now the candidate for the same place to be filled this time by election and not appointment. Other men were elected in 1596 on tho same ticket and are again candi dates. Why did Atkinson run 20,000 votes behind Candler in 1896 ? Because that many people made him the target of their wrath and not democracy whose campaign managers were responsible. Now there are thousands who believe and sincerely too that Governor At kinson knew nothing of that circular, was innocent of the charges and had he known of its being published would have prevented its use. The facts seem to bear out their belief. Then who was responsible ? Steve Clay &. Co. were then managers of the party, the trusted leaders. Today their candidates are on the state ticket as democrats, true and good. Are they ? Candler slipped in as Secretary of State in 1896, so did Turner and others. Now they are out again as candidates and finding that it did good service in 1896, one set used the same method to sand bag the other set in the June primary. But it didn’t work. The crowd who had won with the circular in ’96 won again in the primary. Endorsed Joey Turney and the whole ring— approved so to speak of this kind of party methods. Here is some cf the fruit—the latest. Griffin, Ga., Aug. B—(special)—John Meadows, a mulatto, was lynched here at 4 o’clock today by a mob of over 500 citizens of Meriwether, Pike and Spald ing counties. The victim was a 7 year old girl. The brute was hung on the same limb on which Oscar Williams was hung July 22, 1897, for a similar crime, (more of Duncan circular fruit). This makes the third lynching to occur in the city of Griffin since 1896 ” There it is, read and digest it. Feed black brutes on this kind of literature and then prate of white su premacy, expecting to trap Populists into coming back to you. Get caught, profess ignorance of the text and then two years later use it again but in an other way almost as infamous and then say “we are holy 1 accuse us not 1 ” If you tax payers want that kind of a democracy, “rule or ruin, fair meth ods or infamous —but rule,” you are welcome to it. Self respecting negroes denounced this literature in 1896 and now it has been scattered again—of course it will bear fruit. Watch the papers and you will see that between June SLiVlctober there will be a second crop. Democracy did the sowing—let it bear the of the lowest. Harvey Hgxvard. Texas democrats busted wide open in convention SNAP SHOTS last week. One crowd opposed annexation of new ter ritory, another crowd favored it. Joe Bailey took the OF THE HOUR. anti-annexation side and got beat. Culberson and Hogg sided with the imperialists and won hands down, Plat form had 13 planks nearly all about national matters not state issues so as to fool the voter again like they did in Georgia. Indorsed the Chicago platform, congratulated the sailors and soldiers for the Cuban and Manila victories ; pledged support to the president in conducting the war; denounced the repub licans for the Dingley tariff and the war revenue bill; declared for Bryan in 1900 and favored increasing navy but not the army ; reaffirmed faith in Monroe doctrine and yet favored annexing Cuba, Porto Rico and all other Spanish pos sessions except Phillippinee. It was a great convention. Wrangled two days and a night and had a regular Kilkenny cat time of it. And yet democracy is said to he again united on true democratic lines. Bah ! it makes a mustang tired to think of it. Texas democrats are a consistent lot I must say. Ditto Georgia. Democrats in Nebraska got the little end of the Nebraska fusion trade in Lincoln last week. But they made the Populist nominee for governor, Poynter swear he was a life long democrat, of Kentucky democratic parentage before they would fuse. That's it, denied his party and his principles to get the job. Then the democrats sent a long telegram to ’Kernel Billy Bryan pledged them selves to run him in 1920 for President. There goes another Bryan torpedo. Next thing you will hear will be the name of some second-fiddle fusionist to catch the Pops. Watch ’em boys! ****** Florida democrats met in Ocala last week. Defeated plan for nomination by primaries by overwhelming vote. Nominated state treasurer, supreme court justices and railroad commissioners. Condemned territorial aggression, congratulated army and navy and overlooked state issues completely. The same old gag vou see. Flem dußignon, gold bug chairman of Georgia democratic executive com mittee announced his new committee last week. Slick scheme that to give the chairman the right to name 11 new members, making in all 33 regular members, chairman, vice and your friend Clark Howell national committeemen giving a total strength of 36. Chairman names one third of the committee, the districts select two-thirds. Committee met Aug. 10, to outline the policy of the party in the present campaign. Democrats are all sure of a victory—big victory, say 100,000 more or less. Nene of them can give any definite reason for such a slump but they are all joyful and confident Some don’t care to make a hard think it is unnecessary. Others are a little suspicious and want to make Rome howl once more. Os course, the railroads and bar rooms will be milked in the same old way for campaign funds. Candidates will be assessed the same old figure—so look out boys and get your money ready for the boodle gatherer ! The Whiskey Trust is now openly in the market as a trust or pool. Com bined last week and took complete control of all leading distilleries in America. Got a lead pips cinch now in the business, so antagonistic legislation can be de feated wherever offered. Watch the trust from now on. Soon you will see “dry” counties going wet and bars will spring up on all sides where before not even a blind tiger could exist. The trust will fight all legislation looking to county dispensaries or state control. The fight for open saloons everywhere is now on. * * • • • * Atlantiaus are kicking about tMfr'”s3? tfhetL* Atlanta has a hog pen for a union depot that would disgrace Yamaeraw. Has had it ever since the war and bids fair to keep it through this and a dozen more wars Tne Railroads say the car shed is good enough for the ——■ public. Railroad commission can & get its spine stiff enough to investigate the hog hole although two of the com missioners go through it daily en route to their summer homes. Something makes them blind and deaf when they strike the depot on a trot for their trains every evening. When the vets were here, the crowds come near being drowned out getting to their trains. Sewer water ran all over the tracks and ladies, children and vets had to wade through the slime ankle deep to get out of town. But what do the railroads care ? The head “bosses” laugh as they get into their private cars and watch the fun until they get tired and retire to the priv acy of their sanctum. A railroad commission is a big man when it comes to tearing some little saw mill road into obedience to the rules, but when Atlan ta’s car shed nuisance comes up, he is in doubt as to “the constitootionaiity z of the matter. Americus has been trying for 2 veaxs to get a aew ataXixw. da»oL THE PEOPLE’S PARTf PAPER: ATLANTA, GEORGIA; FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1898. Central fought it and up to date no new depot has been built. Passengers’ rights are a joke you know. And now the democrats are wondering where the decrease in tax values in Georgia will stop. Reports to the Comptroller show a net decrease so far in about 160 counties of over 2 million dollars. That means higher taxes again next year boys. It was 2X mills in 1883 and it has crept up to 5M mills in 1897 and still a climbing. Looks like economy don’t it ? A careful estimate shows the rate for 1899 will be 6M mills instead as Only 26 counties out of 100 re ported an increase which amounts to little. All the strong democratic counties showed a decrease in the returns. If democracy has helped us to double taxes in 1898 where will she take us by 1800 ? Study up the records boys ? ****** Speaking of tax values and. the changes since 1883 when the total returns reached 300 millions. I find in 1892 Georgia Was way up the ladder about 463 millions being the total of returns. Well, she has been dropping lively of late. Last year returns reached 412 millions, a drop of a million from 1896 and 51 million less than that cf 1892. Think of it: Taxable values fell in 1897,51 million less than they were iu 1892. Well, 1898 will probably show another 2 million decline so that the drop will reach 53 millions by next January. You can figure it out for yourself. If taxable values go down, a million dollars a year, and official salaries and expenses are kept at the same standard or creep up higher, you have got to keep increasing the tax rate to keep up with the “endless chain” business. What are you going to do about it? Keep the same set in who have bsen such economical ( ? ) managers as to double the rate on you since 1883 ? You can change when you get ready and you know how. Think of 463 in 1892 and 412 in 1897, a drop of 51 millions in 5 years or 10 millions a year. Some reason for this dropping—reason it out I ****** Wh&t’a a railroad commission for anyhow ? Last week the Georgia commis sion ordered the Southern Express Company to stamp all receipts instead, of making the shippers do so. Company kicks and will appeal—result: will get out of the tax. Now you watch and see i Flem dußignon, gold bug chairman of the Georgia Democratic campaign committee is attorney for express compa ny. It will be “fixed” all right and the shippers will pay the tax. See if he don’t. Express company claims that the tax would cost it $300,000 per year and that it is too poor to pay it, hence the shipper must. Democratic chairman can’t afford not to help out his client express company and of course the express company will reciprocate in September and October. It’s all one gang boys, you can’t throw a rock at one of them without hitting some relative. Fulton county is a fine specimen of a democratic county. Pays the big share of Georgia’s taxes (to hear one of these Fulton politicians, she pays it all) Well, Atlanta is in Fulton. Has fine schools but they are too small. Crowds of children must be turned off in September because of no room in the schools. Nobody complains of that of course, but the parents and—well they are no body. Fulton county commissioners ordered a new jail. Put to the people on a vote and they voted it down. But that didn’t suit, the commissioners went ahead and raised the tax rate and built that jail in direct opposition to the people’s expressed will. That was democracy for you—the Atlanta brand. Then they taxed the tax payers ail around extra to pay for the jail—and the people will have to pay it. Fine jail, costs thousands and thousands and looks like a castle. Great stone towers and massive stone front. Inside it is fitted up elegantly with fine cells, bath rooms and hotel accommodations. Jailor’s house next door is equal to a Peachtree residence. Furnished handsomely and equal to a club house. Os course the jail wont be filled up at first but you see we are preparing for the future. Expect to do a big jail business in the next few years hence we build a big jail at a big expense. If it is empty half the time that’s all right. Let the school children wait! Crowd up the present school houses, poorly arranged, heated and ventilated, but keep up the jail in fine style. First-class jail, second-class school house—that’s Democracy with a vengeance. How about it in your county ? I know some others iu the same fix. ***** In his Atlanta speech June 4,’Kernel Candler said, “I never said I would reduce the taxes of the people if I were elected governor. I was not fool enough to say that. Taxes have been doubled since 1883. In 1883 it took 25 cents tax on each $lO9, in 1897, 62 cents. In 1883, it took two pounds of cotton in 1897, it took twelve pounds.” Ard Colonel Candler after taking a job under Atkinson when he had 4 years to step seme of the “leaks” now wants another whack at the j jb— but this time as governor. Colonel Candler doesn’t claim he ever stopped any leaks. He was conveniently blind to all of them until Bob Berner and Spencer Atkinson con tested his pre-empting the nomination. Then tho Colonel rared around and wept crocodile tears over the poor farmer being taxed double in 1897 than what he was in 1883. Oh yes, he would stop all the “leaks” and would gat the taxes down to a fair rate. But when the ’Kernel was pinned down to the point by Berner, he backed out and said “I didn’t say so.” As a first class straddler and political acrobat the ’kernel takes the blue ribbon. The Latest Scheme. From Atlanta comes a strange story today. It is to the effect that the governor will call an extra session of the legis lature to make an appropriation for a commission to visit the Georgia camps to get the soldiers’ votes, unless citi zens will lend him the money required for that purpose, which he promises the legislature at its regular session will refund. Nothing could show better than this, how undemocratic the democratic par ty is, and how the men who control would sow the wind, for a temporary little advantage, regardless cf the whirlwind which is bound to grow out of it sooner or later. Os course, the governor expects the soldiers to vote the Democratic ticket. Nothing is said about this, aud the inference is left to be drawn that the governor is only concerned to see that the soldiers lose none of their privileges of citizenship by serving in the army. But those who remember how Mr. At kinson declared, on the stump in 1894 that he would prefer to see the state visited by an epidemic of Asiatic chole ra rather than that the Populists should get control, will understand that he counts on getting a solid party vote out qf the soldiers. In spite of their boasting that they expect to carry the state by an increas ed majority for the dear old party, the governor and the demecratic campaign managers must feel very shaky about the result when they resort to such a step. The state is bankrupt in treasury. Already the governor has bean to Wall street and borrowed money to pay running expenses, and while the tax rate has been increased, returns from the various counties now being sent to headquarters show a further heavy slump in values. Facing such a condi tion, is this the time to incur a heavy expense not warranted by law, that it may be made easy for a few men to vote! The registration and election laws made no exceptions in favor of soldiers Why should they be set aside then in this instance ? The law s&ys that a voter, in order to be qualified to vote, must be registered, and it prescribes certain limitations as to time of resi dence in the county. Let the soldiers register as other good and law abiding citizens must do, and if there are legal obstacles which stand in the way, whether it be in consequence of having enlisted or from other causes, let him as a good citizen honor the law even though it cause him to lose his vote. But we desire to direct attention to .wUnt aIJJoJa. ®xil, TJuwt Gar. Atkinson should trample the law un der his feet and put the state to a heavy expense to get a few hundred, or thou sand votes for his party is but a very small part. We have become a military nation now, and having to hold foreign colonies we must keep large standing armies. Just what our Governor is proposing to do to help his party in the state, the Republicans are figuring on with the United States troops to for ever retain them in power. Soldiers shou’d not be allowed to vote at all. A soldier is a mere machine taught to obey orders, and on this account a most undesirable voter, who in a large ma jority of cases wou!d vote as directed by his officers. How long would it bo, after we make special provision by law for soldiers to vote, before we would have a military dictatorship ? Free the soldiers from restrictions in regard to voters which apply co other citizens, and send a military commis sion to the various camps to collect the votes, and the army will elect our pres idents and state officers, and the days of military dictatorship will have be gun. It is to be hoped that Gov. Atkinson will find no one to lend him the money he wants for this purpose; and if he should put the state to the extra ex pense of a session of the legislature, it is to be hep id that there is enough Democracy left in that body to impeach him for this crime, instead of voting him money.—Augusta Tribune. A Bad Disease. The greatest enemy to progress is prejudice. There are thousands of good men who cannot see their duty on account of this little word that so dwarfs their minds they are blind to every argument which appeals to the reason and judgment. Prejudice keeps them from investi gating, it keeps them from reading re form papers or hearing reform speak ers. Prejudice is a terrible disease with which to be afflicted, and while easily diagnosed is difficult to care. Are you one of its victims? —Jackson Economist. You can’t be a reformer and remain in either of the old parties. If every man who honestly wants reform would open his eyes to this truth and have the nerve to act, the Populist party would soon sweep the country and give the people the legislation so badly needed. —Jackson Economist, We are told that Spain was weaken ed by corruption and jobbery in her government. It might be well for us to take a lesson. Corruption and job bery are not confined to Spain and they are as disastrous in one country as THAT LAST PLANK. A Clean Statement of Direct Legisla tion for Georgia. What is meant by these terms and what are the benefits to be derived from their use. What is meant by these terms? —It is often the case that there are laws and acts of the legislature that the people do not approve and also, that there are certain principles that the people de sire to have put into law; but the law making power refuse to comply with the will of the people. In either one of these cases if the constitution of the state or nation was so amended that the people could file a petition of 20 per cent of the voters with the government and that would compel the calling of an election on any question that the people desired a vote taken on; the people would re peal all bad laws, both state and na tional and would prevent the putting into operation of laws such principles as would be beneficial to the masses without the aid or hinderance of the legislature. The getting up and filing of the peti tion with the state or nation, is called the initiative and the referring of the questions to the people for a vote, is called the referendum. If you hire a man to work for you, or if he does not do your work as you want it done, you would be sure to dis charge him at once. We hire people or put them into office by our votes; but we cannot dis charge them. When in office they be come our masters and not our servants. We need the state and national consti tutions amended so that a majority can elect and a majority also, can discharge from office. This is the Imperative Mandate with us. We see these prin ciples in operation in all Baptist churches. If a church elects a man to preach for them, and he does not suit them, they will discharge him. Or, if they elect deacon and he does not suit them, or does not sustain a good moral character, the church will use the Im perative Mandate by taking the office away from him and bestowing it on another more worthy. Benefit —If these principles were put into operation, we would have much better officers. The bribe taker and giver’s business would be gone in city council, state and national legislatures. It would be useless to pay a city coun cil, a state legislature or congress to pass any measure if the people had the power to vote it down. It would also do away with the control of the people by political leaders through political p ejudice as now. To illustrate this, take the income tax. If all the leaders of all the political parties were to op pose the income tax the people would vote for it 19 out of 20. And again, take the silver question, which has been before the people for 35 years and we are to-day further from a settle ment of this question than when wo commenced in 1873. By the Initiative and Referendum, we could have set tled this, or any other question in sixty days. The stamp act was parsed June 1 13th, and on July Ist, just 17 days after stamps were printed and sent to all parts of the U. S , and the law put into operation, which was far more trouble than ordering an election, as all very well know. We would not have had this war on us if the people could have voted on it. Instead of spending $500,000,000 to mur der and get cur people murdered, the people would have voted to spend this amount in creating wealth by building some great national railroad or some improvement by which the idle would have been employed and the nation w'ou’d have been made happy and pros perous, instead of the sorrow, misery, destruction of wealth and bloodshed we have. With these powers in the hands of the people it would be next to impos sible to have a war and especially a civil war. The rights and liberties of the people would be protected, and peace, happiness, joy, pleasure and contentment would be the abode of every home in this land. We would lead the world in civilization, wealth and morality, and our religion would be changed from a system of strife, covetousness and competition, to one of love on earth, peace and good will toward men; in which our sympathies would know no bounds. These conditions would be brought about by the people voting outof exist ence all combines, trusts and monopo lies, that rob and oppress the people. Our battle cry should be relief to the oppressed the world over and to lift up the race and bind them together in love, our religion. What a noble work. Who would not be a follower of such elevating and ehristlike principles. I thank God I am in this move and re joice to know that we shall be able to leave even to our enemies and their children such a rich inheritance that cannot be taken from them. If the millenial reign of Christ is to be brought about by man, or if man is to have anything to do with it, the use of the initiative, referendum and im perative mandate will be part, if not all the means necessary to bring about the reign of peace on earth. But those working at, and advocating these meas ures have but a faint glimpse of the real possibilities in store for the people when our work ia completed. Thia is the form of government that was given to the first Christians by the apostles except a community of goods, and remained in operation among Christians for over one hundred years after the destruction of Jerusalem, and was prohibited then by the enemies of the race, and is opposed by the same ciass now. We are battling to restore to the more than 20,000.000 of white slaves of America their rights and liberties and put into their hands the initiative, referendum and imperative mandate, a protection that no people ever had. When this is done, their liberty will be so strongly rooted and firmly fixed, and watchfully guarded, that no set of tyrants will ever bo able to disturb it. Then we fold our banrers of reform and wait our departure without any fear of the oppressors hand ever being laid on our children. Coming genera tions will delight to do us honor and sing cur praises, not as heroes who have slain thousands, but as benefac tors of the race. I appeal to you in the name of humanity and in the name of the 4,000 000 tramps and in the name of the 20,000 000 of helpless men, rag. ged and destitute women and striving children, to come and help us lift up and protect the oppressed people The election of People’s Party candidates tc the legislature will insure for Georgia an amendment to the state constitution giving the people this system. Will you not support such a movement ? 8. J. McKnigiit. Dalton, Ga., Aug. 3rd. 1898. Sweep Your Own Yard. Efforts are being made in democratic quarters to make capital of the facl that two negroes were delegates to the Populist nominating convention. It is in keeping with democratic methods tc resort to such devices to get office but in this they will fail. These negroes are true and tried Populists, as are ma ny others m the country of their race and democratic money and I‘quor cun not buy them and accounts for all this cry about their being delegates to the populist convention. While the demo crats are bellowing over the county about this matter we will call their at tention to the record of their party or the negro question. During Mr. Cleveland’s two terms o*. office as president of the United State; he appointed many negroes to office and during his last administration his most notorious negro appointment was that of C. H. J. Taylor, a former Atlan" ta negro, to the office of Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia. This is a very important and lucrative office and in the cilice at the time of this appointment were em ployed a number of white girls and they were compelled to either work under Mr. Cleveland’s negro appointee or give up their positions and most of them were poor girls and dependent on their positions for a livelihood. Why don’t the democratic party tell you about that ? We know this story i« not going to be relished by the bosses, but it is a fact as cold as a wedge. The appointment of Taylor, who appears tc have been a life-long democrat, to some position may have been a necessity, but it was not incumbent on Mr. Cleveland the democratic president to give him an office where so many white girls were employed. Do you think so‘i Again, during Mr. Cleveland’s first ad ministration he invited Fred Douglass and his wife to his receptions at the White House and Mrs. Cleveland, then a bride of only a few months was fore ed to entertain the wife of a negro, while Grover and Fred ch Cted i: social equality prevailed throughout the land. Fred Douglas was a negre of massive intellect and good charactei and barring the color line there was no reason why he should not have beer invited into Mr. Cleveland’s parlor. Again, some of the democratic politi ticians of the state endorsed 11. I. Los ton for the office of post master at Ho gansville. They promised him theii support for this position two years ag( for his help in electing Gov. Atkinson. The bosses helped the negro get th< job and then had him shot because he got it. Populist. Register. Roys, Kegiser! Are you a Populist? If not one, are you an old time democrat sick and tired of the present “ring rule?” Or are you a republican nationally and in state issues independent ? Do you know you can do no good for the reform cause unless you are regis tered, so you can vote in October? Do you know that you can do the most good for the cause by seeing to it that every man who believes as you do ia also registered. Don’t wait a day but get your name on the list in time so they can’t throw out your vote and while you are about it, watch that reg istration list and if you find a single name illegally registered, show it up and get it off now. Don’t wait until election day 1 Now is the time to purge the registration list and get it true and correct. See your democratic ordinary or judge who appoints managers. Have your chairmen furnish him with a list of Populists from which to appoint Popu list managers. See to it that you are given an equal number of managers and an equal number of clerks The law says you are entitled to an Kquan represetaticn in registrars. Public sentiment demands you should have equal representation in managers and clerks. See to it that you get your rights. Don’t wait until election day but act in advance and have the matter settled beyond a hitch. Reform press please copy. Here is Frankness. One candidate has been found whe has han the honesty and manhood tc give a reason for his candidacy. It is indeed refreshing to find a man who will boldly and publicly tell the people why he wants the office and leave it to them to decide the matter. The an nouncement is interesting and is as follows: Announcement. To the Citizens of Oconee County : I hereby announce myself an inde pendent candidate for the office of Re ceiver of Tax Returns of Oconee coun ty in the election to be held in October next. Having been Receiver, lam fa miliar with the duties of the office, and if elected I shall endeavor to do my duty faithfully. I have no money sueud or whieuey to give t’ic p.ace :o • the inouey gH JH