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THE MU ECONOMIST PUBLBIIED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING. Subscription Rates. Onk Year, - - - *I.OO Six Months, - - 50 Three Months, - - -25 Knteivd at the Winder Dost-office as second clans mail matter. M. I). IRWIN, Editor. Jj. F. SELIj, Business Manager. WIN UK Li, <l-A., Au(?. 20. 1890. PEOPLES PARTY TICKET. FOR PRESIDENT, WILLIAM J BEY AN, of Nebraska. yi. \ I'KKif . DKNT, ■ THOMAS E WATSON, of Georgia. FOR 55 CONGUKSS, 9th DISTRICT, T. E WINN, of Gwinnett. STATE TICKET. FOR GOVERNOR, SEABORN WRIGHT, of Floyd FOR skcrf.tary of state, ,T. A. PARSONS, of Milton. FOR TREASURER, WILLIAM O. SIBLEY, of Richmond. FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL, DONALD H. CLARK, df Chatham . FOR COMPTROLLER GENERAL, SEA BOHNS. BELL, of Burke. j FOB COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE, / WILLIAM E. SMITH, of Decatur. FOR SENATOR Bv<rd DISTRICT, W. D. HAWKINS, of Hall. COUNTY TICKET. For R pr< sentatives: L. F. SELL. . GEO D. BENNETT. Ordinary—L. Y Bradbury. Cilork an 1 , C Sheriff—A. R. BraSn’ton. —Deputy, It. M. Patrick Tax Collector—W. F. Head. Taxß-ceiver—R J. Fleemau. Surveyor—J. 11. Hardy. Corouer—M P. Wood. Mr. Key’§ Card. We publish ebewinre a card from Mr. T. E. Key writh n lo tl e Harmony Gnve Echo n tie re cent democratic primary in Jack eon county. Mr, Key is one of Jackson couu ty’s Lest citizens, having been hon oretfin the past with representing hie county in the general assembly Mr. Key states the case cle rly when he says that it is such meth ods that makes the populist party. It was just such deception in our public official, both in national and state affairs, that drove the thousands of populist from both fpld parties and caused them to organize the great party of the people. It was t e failure of these pub pjCJ>lT\ciaK to keep their pledges to t|lie people t - I,J P eo l' le tb repudiate them. Wo desire to congratulate Mr- Key upon the stand he lias . Mai list these “ring tail politicians. ” J \Ve know he is acting fioin patriot ic; motives and thousands of others will read his card with interest and begin to think of-the situation which confronts them. What is true of Jackson county is true of every county almost m the state and we are glad to see such men as Mr. Key taking a stand against these politicians. It is given out that Rev. Sam Jones will follow in the footsteps of Rev, Warren Candler on the whiskey question. Sam may do it, but we must hear from him first, at he is not in the habit of follow :,, 'g in beaten tracks. • As OtherspJee Them. Where are .'lafwe good Populists now who a few' months ago would take up arms and shed blood to secure the de mands of that party and relieve the down trodden laborer? Without bloodshed one great party and largo faction from another have agreed to aid in this great work aud settle the question peaceably at the polls. Yet these same patriots for the sake of one man and party ma chinery, will stand in the wayj of re form, and defeat all that for wh?eh they have been crying during the lorg years. Salvation should be accepted by a sensi ble man whenever and however offered Stand up, gentlemen, and be content with your demands, or confess that of fice is a demand nearer your heart than relief to the down trodden masses.— Jackson Hera and. J Someone lias said that there is only on© thing that equaft- the gal of tho republican party aid that is the cheek of the democratic party. This saying is made true by the above quotation from the ’Jackson Herald. Coming as it doeß from* a gold bug, who by his action has advo cated the present faith of the re publican party, it would be a "sweet morsel to the populist,” He now appeals to the populist to be patriotic. It is true that the pops have gone over half way—have furnished all the patriotism so far used, but still our democratic friend desires them to disband their organization, throw overboard ev ery other demand and surrender completely to be swallowed by that inveterate foe to free silver, the democratic party. This, in sight of this gold-bug free-silver-democrat would be pa triotism worthy of praise. The populist is much more than a free silver party. It is essenti ally an anti-monopoly party and while it has gone over half way to break the gold monopoly it is not willing to cease its battle for the destruction of all other trust that flourish and grow under dem ocratic and, Tub-. / It is true that the democratic l arty was captured at Chicago, contrary to the avowed wish of my democratic friend, and forced to declare for free coinage of silver. It even put at the head of its ticket a brave man, who has stood for populist principles in the past and thrice been endorsed by the popu list, but it could go no fuither and as if it were sick of even having started to do something right, it turned to the east to a bloated mo nopolist and national banker for bis running mate, hike the dog, to its vomit and the hog to its wallow, the democratic party turn- ed to its promoter and protector. The democratic party torn asun der, with its face besmattered with mud beyond recognition—a help less orphan in the political world, without an issue, it turned to the populist, this young giant, in the hour of its hopeless despair, and cried for help—fur recognition to -ide on just one of th > populist planks, free silver. The popul’st having held principle above party plead for a union of reform forces and at St, Louis took this political orphan, the free silver democratic party into its fold. We could not take monopoly and trusts, railroad syndicates and national banks, hence we discarded this and put in its stead a typical southern statesman, whose pulsa ting heart beats in unison with the great south and west —whose every interest is our interest and whose life has been given to the defence of the people’s rights. Now, let our democratic friends show some patr'otism—show some desire for free coinage legislation instead of the destruction of the people’s party. If we could be assured of our de mands being enacted into law we would be perfectly willing to sacri- fice the- party, if that sacrifice would bring about the desired re sult, but we have no assurance of anything of the kind. We are willing to trust Mr* Bayan, but there is no dependence to be placed in the democratic party. It has been placed in power on the silver question and instead of giving the ppople more silver it closed the mints. A demooratfte'congress elected in 1896 will not differ materially from those of the past. Most all of the old members are nominated to rbturn and a vote in that con gress would not show any material changes if democracy should con trol. Hence, to deijtroy the populist party, as our friend wishes, would ihelast hope of free silver sHjos country for the next The nation canyxpect nothing in the shape of remedial legislation from a party split from stem to stern and running two national tickets for the presidency. The populist rose above party, above office holding, to that high and patriotic plane of love of coun try—love of humanity and made a union of all silver forces possible and the responsibility for division rest upon the shoulders of our dem ocratic friends. It is with them to show some patriotism —some prin ciple and let the world BGe that they are fer free silver before “spoils” of office or the destruction of the people’s party. Will they do it? Truly Severe or Severely True — Which? “Col. J. A. B. Mahaffey addressed the populist last Tuesday. He was conservative in general, but severe on local politicians, we are in formed.” —Jackson Herald, We would llive been much pleased to the man present, t*tt the severity might have been commented upon iby a non-part'zan paper. Doubt less the readers of the Herald would like to know whether the severity consisted of a statement of facts, and logical conclusions drawn. We are not disposed to complain on account cf the absence however, p or we are satisfied that, press of business was the true cause thereof. If there be anything that ! can tax, to the full extent, the time 1 tact and ability of any ordinary country newspaper man, we would suppose it would be to run a non committal, non-partizan, conserv ative, free-silver democratic paper, by proxy, with a red hot, full fledged gold bug editor. The situ ation must indeed be trying, and just how the paper keeps so verv nicely harmonious with itself, avoiding all disputable questions in politics, until the popular cur rent makes its appearance, and sa credly preserves its non-partizau reputation, never allowing its tem per to be rilectyja; -yn? thes° ziziog hot days, while passing through a lively campaign, and knowing too, that a fourth democratic party is in the throes of parturition, se renely crooks thp interrogative poll t heavei -sard, preceded by —“how can the thing be did?” The answer to this question would solve the metaphysical enig ma. and psychological wonder of the age. The course of the Herald is, at least excusable, under the trying circumstances, if not to be com mended or imitated. We wish to state that this is not intended as ffrttery, uor indeed as bra -y or irony, but only a compliment that comes welling up from a loving heart. That the Herald if it feels so in clined, may inform its readers whether the severity was just or uncalled for, we w'ill here state the j charges that were made against the local politicians. These local politicians are the fellows that compose the political firm, that ; was recently advertised in the Gainesville Eagle, by the enterpris ii g and thoughtful Craig, the pub licity fellow to be omitted. By way of interjection, we wish to say that Craig ought to have said eith er more or less about these fellows. That there may be no mistake about the identity of the fellows, in regard to whom severity is said to have been used, we will state that they were —and indeed are — the same persons so vaguely re ferred to in the Echo by Hon. T. E, Key. The same criticism made on Mr. Craig’s ad, applies, in our opiniou, to the billet doux of Mr. Key. All the charges apply in full force to that distinguished member, of the more distinguished compa ny, now thought to be the demo cratic candidate for ordinary of Jackson county ; these charges or something worse, also are applica ble to two members of the county, the democratic candidate for the office ot sheriff as well as the one for the office of clerk. It was charged, and is hereby reiter ated, that the present democratic candidate for ordinary Had been untrue to the democrats, false to the populist, insincere and false to the colored people, unfair in aid ing and manipulating the contest, and treacherous to the ex-confeder ate soldier sentiment. Honestly believing each and every one of these charges to be true we made them openly and publicly in the presence of a large, intelligent, ap preciative audience composed of democrats, populist, white and colored. The evidence to sustain the specifications in the bill of in dictment is at our command, and a part of it is hbrewitlj submitted for the dispassionate, unbiased consid eration of the fair minded and truth loving public. Honest, upright democrat read this letter —read it with care and judge its author with candor. “Jefferson Ga., April, 19, 1892 Mr. Jug Tavern Ga. Dear Sir and Bro:—Since our People’s party meeting here Satur day this town has been on fire — they have —mostly the town people —had two political meetings—Sat urday night and last night. They are approaching every man that comes to town and asking him if he is a democrat, and if so will he not sign a list—when they get his name they claim him as being against the people’s party. I have had -everal who came to me after they nad signed this paper android me they signed it and was demo crats but would vote with the peo ple’s party. I write tins to urge you of the importance of perfect ing your organizations over there atonce—get every man committed to the people’s party before this other crowd can approach him. Armistead, a lawyer of Jefferson, i has gone to Jug Tavern to-day to j get the people of that town organ- j ized against the movement —-look | out be vigilant, we have the county | by a large majority if we can hold : them, which I believe we can. Write me. Respectfully, H. W. Bell.” Now honest colored man read the following extract from a letter, and if you have any race pride or self respect you cannot vote for its author. “Jefferson Ga., April 29, 1892. I am now fully convinced as long as this southern sentiment domi nates every other political senti ment and as long as we have among us an element of population which menaces our social fabric aud as long as there is a republican party to foster t he negro tiiere will n vver be tolerated but oue political par ty in the south. H. W. Bell.” The first of the foregoing letters showing, in part, the author’s falsity to democracy, is in our pos session, the other showing the in sincerity and want of candor in ap peals for the colored voters’ sup port, can lie seer, in the file of the Jackson Herald, dated April 29th, 1892. Several other letters of similar sentiment are in the hands of citi zens in the county. This same extra ordinary candi date for the office of ordinary, af ter serving for twenty consecutive years, and notwithstanding the pa thetic style'in which he has so long urged the people to ever keep fresh in the memory of our people, and send down 4o posterity patriotic sentiments relative to the ex-con federate soldier on the 30th of June 1896 closed his eyes to the dangling empty sieve of the poor ex-confederate— and greedily took the plum unto himself. “Oh for a forty-parson power to chant Thy praise Hypocracy.” As to unfairness in aiding and abetting the contestants in defraud ing the duly elected sheriff and clerk out of the offices is perhaps the blackest chapter in the history of Jackson county politics. The tax fi fas that were in the ordinary’s office were turned over to these contestants, Bennett and Collier, by H. W. Bell, without re quiring any receipt or making any memoranda whatever. These fi fas would, of course be the test and highest evidence against a voter, and it would be raesonable to sup pose that, in an election where so large a vote had been cast, some defaulters had voted on each side. These contestants selected a num i befrof tax fi fas. oh < pf, the '1 j nunfter turned over to theAi by candidate Bell, and introduced them against populist-none against democrats. The highest and best evidence having been thus put be yond the reach of Mr. Braselton or Mr. Chandler, the contestants, Bennett and Collier introduced candidate Bell to impeach a part of the secondary evidence, to wit the Tax execution Docket. Though this record had ever been kept by democrats. Candidate Bell testi fied that it was not correct. The next best evidence on this branch of the contest would have been the tax defar’leiv. book. This book was delivered to Coll ier and Bennett, by this same can didate Bell. When Braselton and Chandler desired to use that book it could not be found—Collier denied having ever seen it, though the proof was clear andfunmistak able that the book hadjbeen deliv ered to him. This defaulters book was kept concealed until after the contest was over and the infamy of these political traders and trick sters had been consumated —then the book found its way back into the court house,j which has been converted into a den of political thieves, Hon. T. E. Key*is, doubtless jus tified in his lucid and manly ar raignment of Collier*& Cos, and in exposing the rascality of such dirty politicians. The deadly work of this trio in defeating Key in the recent primary was a pious deed of angel of charity [compared with the navery and venality of the conspirators in the contest two years ago. Honest men, true democrats who know the facts will not vote for these wretches. “Calm, thinking villians whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels, and dark pol itics. j. a. B. M.