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Bynum’s Letter.
About three years ago I was as
flitter an opponent ot you populist
as any democrat or republican :n
the United States could be. T
thought your leaders all weraa set
of political cranks, fools and dis
appointed office seekers and that
you intended tc defeat the only
party that was true to the penile
and could give relief to my suffer
. ing countrymen. I got this by
blindly reading after my democrat
ic leaders and taking the advice of
democratic papers which declared
in every issue that Tom Watson,
-J. B. Weaver and all your leaders
were a set of political prostitutes
who sought to mislead the masses
into anarchial rule and ruin; and
at that day and time I‘would have
hailed Chairman Jones tirade of
abuse of your southern populist
delegates who met in St. Louis as
a sweet morsel from democratic
headquarters.
1 was as blind to democratic
treason and treachery as any mor
tal man could be and followed as
meekly and submissively in servi
tude to these political masters of
xtzii.e, as ever a slave under his
master’s lash obeyed him.
But when these leaders of mine
Assembled in Washington in full
control of all the three branches of
our legislative government the
scales over my political eyes com
menced to fall off and I thank God
that Ido now see and know that
these spurious democratic leaders
are just what they lead me to be
lieve you were.
I saw my president and party
fully enthroned at Washington
and witnessed them debauch them
selves and violate every pledge and
promise they bad made to us.
I have witnessed a sight in your
nomination ot Bryan for president,
that shows patriotism and love
for country and humanity that >x
cells in devotion to principle and
political rectitude any act ever
before heard of in the whole
world, and it makes my heart beat !
with .joy andgriiijjucie *-•> -fee. I
1 have limbered mv political for
tunes with tli' populist party.
Let old Jones and the dirty and
detestable political skunks like
him call us and our noble leaders
by all the vile and mean names
they can invent and relegate us to
the negro clans where we, as he
lias said, ought to be; but in spite
of his venom, and hatred
.we will stand true to Bryan and
Watson and power damn his bell
weather Arthur Sewall who all his
life has been with the gang of ban
kers, railroad kings and trusts who
have impoverished all.
I know little young Jackasses
over Georgia who are yelping after
Jones and Sewall and in their big
oted political ignorance denoun
cing Tom Watson and such men
are a dishonor to their state and
section and a disgrace to the name
of'lhe parents they have prostitu
ted the names.
The young bigoted sots of Geor
gia who after 1400 delegates repre
senting 1,800,000 free men can
have the impudence and mean
uses to slander and belie Tom
Watson aftr his nomination
unanimously by the St, Louis con
vention ought to be slaves for the
ring rule, ballot thieves of Geor
gia for all time to come.
It makes my blood hot to hear
such upstarts slander and traduce
Watson whose shoe strings they
are unworthy to unloose, just be
cause their lieing leaders have
taught them to so do.
Their tongue ought to swell and
burst when pronouncing his- name
in slanderous language.
You populist for years and years
have had heaped upon you every
vile and mean name that is known
to the English language and this
venom has given you 10 recruits
where you have lost one coward
and tr it or,. Errors when combat
ted will sink, luj truth when
crushed to earth will rise again
and the populist have truth for
their guide and it makes no differ
ence who or what party name gives
reliof to thiscountro your princi
ples will have to be inaugurated if
prosperity eVor blesses the common
people of Ameri :a.
The blind leaders of their
blind followers travels down into
our black belt sections where not
ten negroes out of one hundred
would vote the democratic ticket
and through bribery of them, and
ballot box stuffing manufacture a
fraudulent vote that counts out
white voters and installs over us
the thieves and sc undrels who
manipulate these frauds.
We are told to purge and purify
these democratic wrongs by re
maining m the party. If we had
dene this Bryan never would have
been nominated by them and the
populist sword of correction hang
ing over them is all the thing in
this world that can make them
even promise to do right.
You might as well hope to see the
damned in hell make a heaven oc rest
and peace f r its inmates; as to purify
the democratic party from within irs
own ranks.
Three-fourths of the most reliable
holiest upright men and women have
quit it and become amocrats indeed
by joining the populist and in fact the
true and Jeffersonian democrats and
Lincoln republicans are all fast coming
into ycur party where no divisions on
tariff finances and other great reforms
are either known or tolerated
When you meet a democrat, or repub
lican yon don’t know whether he is for
or against a protective tariff, silver or
any other great reformation; but-one
item in the tolitical bill ot accouut are
t-bey united upon and that one is for
office aud spoils thorn it. This last is
applicable only to their leaders and how
in heaven’s name can you purify these
parties under suoii leadership.
Tunes now are very much like they
were in ISiiO when that party nomina
ted two presidential candidates.
The abolition or republican party then
as now lead the waring factions on as
Liiey-kiuimkJH a’great humanitarian is
sue.
The whigs trader Bell and Everett
held out the olive branch of peace aud
waved the white fi ig of brotherly love
between these great waring factions
and bid themto pause and be calm
without avail.
I saw then that the union or whig
party was lor union, peace and prosper
ity and went with them.
I now see under the people’s partv
banner that floats Bryan aud Watson
flag to the breeze the only party which
gives promise and hope to my country.
If this ticket can triumph all will be
peace aud prosperity.
If the republicans under McKinley
triumph that party under a single gold
standard aud high protective tariff will
have reversed its action of 1860 and re
establish white and black slavery under
more goading and degraded servitude
than that was we had prior to the war.
African bondage was nothing to com
pare with the gold bondage the Hanna-
McKiuley republicans intend to bind us
down under if they are successful. No
intelligent, well posted man can for one
moment doubt the truth of this prophe
sy.
Iu i960 I predicted a war as the result
of the Elections and this idea was hooted
at and treated with contempt and I told
my friends I would (being largely inter
ested in negro slavery) prefer to give up
my entire interest in them rather than
to see a war inaugurated for protection
to slave ownership:
The war came and was ended and
with it ended negro slavery as I fore
saw and predicted.
Ido not believe this election will re
sult in a war, but if the single gold
standard republicans under the Hanna
and McKinley rale is established over
this Country, I believe it will entail
more wars, sorrows, miseries and
wretchedness than any war has ever
inflicted upon any country in the whole
world.
Already we can see its awful conse
quences all over our laud. 3,000,000
tralnps hungry, starving and wandering
over the country seeking and not find
ing labor all on accouut of money con
traction.
Our country is growing under full
productions in fo and and other p odurts
of the spinid s an i looms and our coun
trymen going half clad and fed because
they cannot get l ib >r with the proceeds
from which they can purchase food aud
raiment.
Just before oar la e war our m n no
ted as statesmensbip and great men
were the most stupidly, b ind and igno
rant of any class we ha 1, and it seems
to me that such is tue truth.
Alauyo: these od and young men
told us there would be no war, and if
there was they would drink aJ the blood
spilt, that one southern man could lick
five yanks etc , aud when it did come
such men in many instances never load
ed a guu or tried to lies one yank; but
got boom proof statio is anti pfleeced the
whole Southern land.
Methinks they arey now working for
more lucrative positions aud that they
intend to fl ieoe every lamb the can de
ceive into .voting their way.
Give us more irredeemable greenbacks,
silver free coinage. In short, more
money aud less misery ani the great
populist creed of Initiative and Refer
endum and Imperative Mandate system;
so we can settle great political ques
tions and without much political
friction.
Will we vote for what we ought to
pray for in October and November?
Col. Massey made a goldbug-McKin
ley speech near here lately but he failed
to tell his republican friends facts as to
ree coinage of silver.
Can any McKinley man tell me why
ttie silver in a do lar prior to its demon
etization in 1873 was worth Scents more
than the gold in a gold dollar.
Was it not on account- of its right to
free aud unlimited coinage under our
legislation then?
I it was not its government fiat qual
ities what was it that made it dearer
than gold and gold more abundant and
more in general circulation than was
silvei ?
If tree coinage of silver prior to 1873
d:d not drive gold out of America and
put us upon a silver basis how or why
could free coinage of gold and silver
do tins?
I want these goltiiugs to explain this
to me before they ask us to help them
to establish a dearer and dishonest sin
gle gold standard.
They are advocating shylocks dishon
est dollar where they cry down silver
and up gold.
Gold is our oppressors and shvlocVs j
money and the poor ignorant fool wiio j
votes to engraft it. upon this country
wi.l c -st his vote to enslave himself and
family
, A single fail'd st ilidaidmeans bondage
find universal slavery to the moneyed
olass and many poor ignorant fools will
vote for it
These money devils of America have
heir claim i already forged which to
bind us to this damnable scheme of rob
b ry and ruin, and if the people vote to
have themselves shackled under it they
ought to bear the cross of gold that will
press them down under it.
A man who hasn’t got common sense
enough to know that all this hear and
cry ab .ur .31 c nts silver dollar and abou 1
a sound dollar when ft is stamped by
onr government aud by law made ale
gal tender, is the lies of money sharks
ought to be in the lunatic asylum, in
stead of exercising the right of a ballot
with which to impoverish and ruin
himself and fallowmen.
He isn’t worth as much to the human
race in any sense of bettering it as is a
rotten knot on a hickory stick.
What is the difference between Cleve
land democracy and McKinley republi
canism; none under the sun unless it is
as Sam Jones says one is high cock a lo
rum and the other is low cock-a hiratn,
one is tweedle-dee aud the other is twee
dle-dum aud they remind me more of
the dutchn\.au’s tale as to a bad smell
than anything else on earth. He said
just take two or three bed bugs aud two
or three tumble bugs and roll them up
together and he had just as soon [smell
nothing at all.
The goldbug democrats under Cleve
land and Carlisle aud the goldbug re
publicans under the Sherman aud Han
na each have their candidates and roll
them together and you can’t tell which
is totlier under the best financial sme'l
in America. They are political skunks
that will stink themselves to death as
wall as follow after them.
The pure and honest republicans un
der Teller aud the same kind of demo
crats under Bryan have disowned and
denounced them and every honest dem
ocrat, republican, populist iu the United
States ought to join hands aud hearts iu
one united and supreme effort to anni
hilate them at the November election.
God in mercy, love and kindness help us
all to sink party aud do this by voting
for Bryan aud Watson.
John Gray Bynum.
Miscellaneous Items.
We have just been scant)ii irjjpver
the damnable campaign circulars
that’s being sent out ever the state
1> V Bill Atkinson and his depraved
co-workers. It is enough to make
the blood boil in an honest man’s
veins to read such base literature,
an<t the more so when we see men
who claim to he respectable still
posing as the friends of this arch
enemy of our state. Since the
campaign opened in Georgia there
lias not been .me word uttered by
Atkinson’s gang to encourage those
who are laboring for the building
up of a better citizenship. ' On the
other hand, these men are doing
everything possible to lower the
standard of moral sentiment, to
encourage the vicious and degraded
element of people, both white and
black, to thrust upon us a set of
officers elected pledged to the crim
inal and debauched element of the
state, men who oncourago crime of
the most heinous typo, men who to
day are boasting over the act of
freeing a black devil after twice
having outraged -in innocent white
woman, men who are promising to
do more of this pardoning business
if these tow down wretches will
vote for Bill Atkinson, .
It S9ems to us that no one who
honors virtue, no one who believes
m the protection of the peaceful
homes and the sweet womanhood
of his state c- uld ask himself the
question “must I support the deni
ooratic nomin-e for governor?
But it seems to us that a cry
should come from the depth of
every man’s soul that we will not
sit idly by and allow Bill Atkinson,
Steve Glay and a lot of debased
scoundrels to wage such a low; vi-
cious damnable campaign in the
grand old state of Georgia,
The manhood of the state should
rise in mass and say to these polit
ical devils, “thou shaltgo no fur
ther.”
Wo believe in a free pr<>s and
free speech, but wo / iu', opposed to
to the encouragement of crime at
any time and by any one, and wo
are doubly opposed the fostering
of crime when it comes to the
chief executive "of a state bidding
for office through his executive
clemency toward the brutal and
fioudish element ot the races.
No man who has any respect for
the better element of the state,
who loves his mother, his wife, his
daughter can support Bill Atkin
son.
This is neither populism uor de
mocracy, but it’s pure and una
dulterated Georgianism, and a
Georgian who is so partizan that
ho cannot rise above party preju
dice to help defeat such a political
prostitute as Bill Yellow Stone
Kit, is a disgrace to his state and a
sore on the community iu which
he lives.
Don’t say our words are too
hard. We are only saying what
you know to be true.
Think of the fair daughters of
Georgia, think of the bid that Bill
Atkinson is making to the low and
vicious element of the colored vo
ter, agitating crimes of the most
disgraceful kind saying:
I stand behind .you and if the
courts convict you I will pardon
you.
Bill Atkinson in his disgraceful
circular to the colored people vir
tually says —go to the homes of the
respectable white and colored peo
ple, drag there .from, insult, and
assault the mother, the wife aud
the sweet girls that nestle around
the family altar, treat them as
seemoth good in thy sight, and if
the law overtakes you I will deliv
er you. Don’t you remember
Adolphus Duncan who twice out
raged a white woman and was sen
tenced to hang, why. says Atkiu
son, I pardoned him, and if you
re-elect me g vi-rnor I will do
much more for your race. To vote
for Atkinsod menus the following:
Barrooms, ba lot box staffer I ',
black rapist, boodle dogs, bootlicks,
bad laws, bad in jrals and a bad
man. Who can -i > it? 'We wait
to see, J. L. M.
Worse than Tyranny.
The sale o L iwrenoe B. Peak into
iuvo uutarv servitude at Elizabethtown
Ky., in the ear y part oi the month, is
only a sample of whut the American
people will co lie to unles? they reas
sert their in iopesdei.i eiu tones more
vigorous tiian polite. The spectacle of
an American c tiz n being auctioned
from tire block lo the highest bidder,
and bound into a taskmaster’s care for
sl2 75 is enough to make revoluiionary
blood leap to the veins oT Benedict Ar
nold. and any legislator, be he from
Kentucky or Sieberia, who won and vote
for such a law directly antagonizing
not only the constitution, but human
decency, ought to be crucified on a por
cupine cross warmed to white heat.
The same officer who soid this indi
vidual auctioned off a jackass immedi
ately after from the same block, aud
fiendishly remarked that the animal
would bring more than the man, which
it did soiling ior s.'7. Asa justification
o: the outrage, the officers allege that
the man was a cjmmon drunkard, a
sot, a scapegrace, and the shame of the
town. Hid he never drawn a sober
breath from tne time of his bir:h aud
committed crimes which would put Os
car Wilde to shame, no justification
would appear for Che sale of Human
fljs.-i in a civilized nation, aud ihe pro
ceed, ng is more of a di-graco co this
Kentucky hamlet than a regim mt of
wnisitey sots could pos icily be. It is
Russian injustice Americanized and ty
ranny gone to .seed.—st L mis J i-arnal.
THE HOUSEHOLD.
Up t.o Date Picture Hanging The Work
Can Wait—Peach Marmalade- A
Pretty Dish For Dessert.
The advanced and improved arts of
the present include the hanging of pic
tures. Well arranged pictures are not
hung in regular order—one large picture
in the center of a wall with smaller
Duos at each' side, as was the fashion of
onr foremothers—and consequently an
inartistic eye must criticise at first and
perhaps dislike- the seoniiu£iy less; stud
ied effect. But a writer in Decorator
and Furnisher affirms that time will
remedy this defect and discourses as fol
lows on picture hanging as it should be
practiced:
The average reader is trying to make
much out of little, and at the present
time it needs not a heavy purse to sup
ply attractive colors for our walls. Let
us say for the average parlor, allowing
for space consumed by doors and win
dows, we can use eight pictures. The
largest should not be more than 20 by 24
inches, and two of this size are suffi
cient We have six more to furnish.
These should range from (S by 8 inches to
16 by 18 inches.
Water colors of these dimensions,
with an inch frnmo of a white wood, or
painted white, will harmonize best
with the average wall. These water col
ors, even by our best artists, are not
expensive aud altogether add tone to a
room if properly arranged. No matter
how many or how expensive your paint
ings may be, the beauty of tho room
they are in depends mainly on the stylo
used in the hanging of them.
Photographs of paintings by old mas
| ters are good substitutes for the real ar
j tides and with a narrow frame of pol-
I ished oak make interesting aR well as
1 attractive bits for our walls. Etchings,
too, may be used to advantage, if good
; taste is displayed in the selection of
subjects. Above all things, do not hang
these small pictures from a molding. A
one inch pin nail will not damage tho
I finest wall and when withdrawn will
not leave a mar behind. A nail of this
size will hold many pounds of weight,
and the effect obtained by the absence of
cord or picture wire will fully compen
sate for tho damage (lone if by accident
| one should be unfortunate in tho driv
; ing of the nail.
Odd plates of Davenport or Stafford
■ shire ware or Dresden china are used to
I great advantage for wall decorations,
rounding and smoothing tho sharp
angles or spaces that cannot be reached
by pictures and helping to cover tho
long, unbroken walls so often ( ..coun
tered in the averago iiouso and which
; are a perfect bugbear to tho decorator.
The Spartan Helots were so called
from the name of their city, Helos,
which refused to acknowledge tho sov
ereignty of Lacedaemon aud was de
stroyed by the Spartans.
A glass of cold water tho first thing
after rising and the last before retiring
is strengthening to tho stomach and
good for inaction of tho bowels, dyspep
sia and all the troubles caused by a sed
entary life.