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THURSDA /. JULY 27. 189f.
A Precocious Editor.
The Newbaud Messenger Editor takes
issue with The Economist because we
laid last week that the people of Geor
gia a-e to be congratulated on having a
Populist Chancellor for the University.
The bigotry of ignorant bias displayed by
Ihe learned and precocious editor of the
Nows and Messenger is quite amusing,
and his lack of knowledge of cu..eut
evouts elicit: our sympathy. He is very
much troublod in miud and sou' that
Tuk Economist shou’d dare make the
itatoment that Mr. Walter D - Hill is a
Populist; and if he had read a few more
tsf Aesop's fables, as applicable to him
*olf as the one quoted in his editorial
this woek, he certainly would have de
roloped a fatal attack of colic of the
hrain, which could have been oas’ly
located in the region of his stom
ach.
We quote from him the follow-
;ng:
•'A popu’ist is a mornber of the popu
nt party. Mr. Hill has never at any
liino been a member of such a party. He
would be infinitely amused at the idea.
He is a man whose proud and lofty
spirit binds to no party, least of a" to
the most puerile ‘party’—the Popu
list.”
From the above language, it will be
seen that the News and Mossouger ed
itor admits that Mr. Hill is a man whose
pround and LOFTY spirit forbids him
from belonging to the Democratic par
ly; and we trust, therefore, we may be
allowed by this presumptuous editor to
Modify our statement of last week by
sayitiß: The people of Georgia ere to
bo congratulat-d on NOT having a
DEMOCRATIC Chancellor for the Uni
versity.
Now to the point at issue, Iu 189(1 at
the state Popu’ist convention in At-
Atlanta, immediately after formulating
our platform and nominating
our candidate for governor, Mr. H :, l
arose iu the gallery of the hall of repre
sentatives and spoke the following lan
guage:
“Mr. Chr.irman and gentlemen of the
Popu'ist convention. I thank God a par
ty has now been organized to which I
can cheerfully give my support and for
which I can work.”
And again. In 1898, Mr. Hi'l was
nominated by the Populist Sta' c conven
tion for supreme cou t judge. He de
clined by saj-iug he thought he coa'd
do the party more good by working in
the ranks r 3 a private than he could as
sue of its candidates.
We submit the above facts to the in
telligence of those who may read them
and let such render the verdict The
Kews and Messenger editor admits that
Mr. Hill’s LOFTY spirit will not a’low
him to bend to the Democratic party,
aud if he is not a Populist, he was a
philosopher of such eouud philosophy
that he supported the Populist party in
preference to the Democratic party.
The News and Messenger editor goes
beyond the question at issue to belittle
populists and charges ns with being a
party of wild and erratic doctrines.
Still he, as well as many other papers of
his faith and order, have often begged
as to come back, as the demooratio party
had adopted all the measures for which
we have been contending. The demo
cratic party has become so wild and er
ratic in its views that at a recent cau
aos of socialist in New York it wr.s
boldly stated that the organization and
maintenance of a socialist organization
was useless as the democratic party
oooM be depended on to secure all so
cialistic legislation. The statement of
the editor that the best element of the
populist party had gone back to democ
racy is without warrant of truth in any
county in Georgia.
A few men in different section who
wanted office and who wo e never pop
ulists from principle have gone back, be
cause such characters find democracy
more oongenia 1 and more suited tc their
makeup generally. But the Lest ele
ment, the men whc went in o the pop
ulist party from priu-ip’o, from con
scientious motives and becaused they
believed those principles right and for
the good of humanity, we usiert without
fear of contradiction that they aro rli
still populists and that rot one of them
ha- gone back to the democratic pa>-ty.
The News and Messenger editor’s a •
sertion, that Walter B. Hill is a gentle
man of the p- rest type, rn l hence is
not a populist, is not only an insult to
Mr. Hill, but to the 803 or more honest
and honorable gentlemen of Walton
county who are populists and who a-e
among the best citizens of that county.
If ihe News and Messenger editor is a
fair specimen of the quality of brain
turned out by the University, and if he
is considered a representative democrat,
we beg to aga ; n s-y that, The people of
Georgia are to be congratulated on NOT
having a Democratic Chancello. 1 for the
University.
There is not much brotherly love
among Kentucky Democrats.
How long will the people be deceived
by promises not iuteade 1 t > be fr.'fil'ed?
The new bridge jr .i ba’!* over Broad
river on the line of Oglethorpe and El
bert con ities fell in Tu sdry r. and two
negroes were drowned.
Mr. John N cksou, c ie of the old citi
zens of Clarksboro district this county,
died at his home Tuesday. He wa~
seventy-five years old.
The only hope for tha cdunti/ is
through the Populist party. All think
ing men are beginning to rer'ize there
is nothing good in either of the o’d
pa-ties.
When men get to the poi it where
they love right and justice better thau
party name there won’t be many thous
and Republicans aud Democrats left iu
this country to do the bidding of cov
i upt pol'.tiei. as.
Both old p' ties are against the peo
ple. Any intelligent mr.a can dLcover
this by investigating for himself one
day. Just lay aside prejudice rid take
up the records of both for the pr t thir
ty years cud you will soon see as you
never saw before.
Tuere will be two democratic t ; ckets
iu the field iu the coming state election
iu Kentucky. The poor old p vty is
getfciug in bal shape. It is ir. .by poli
ficians aud the rank and fie a-e getting
tired of following these politicir is to
destruction.
Sound Sense.
Let no Populist despair. Thiugs ar e
looking brighter for the People’s p—ty.
The great trouble heretofore has been
that one or the other of the two old par
ties has pretended to adopt Popu'ist
principles. Both, in 1896, pretended to
be for bimetallism. Now the Repub’i
can party boldly advocates the gold
standard, while the Democratic party
will relegate bimetallism to the wood
shed and make irnper; lism their issue
to unite the estranged wiugs of Dem
ocracy. By next election it will be
found that the People’s party is the
only one contending for legal tender
government money, railroad ow oership,
municipal ownership and against land
monopoly- Then the People’s party
will g.ow again if it avoids fusion and
sticks to its doct due These questions
are not settled.—Winterset, la., Re
view.
Brevity is the best recommendation of
speaoh whether in a senator or an orator.
—Cicero.
A Party Slave.
The following editorial is from a
K-ntuoky county paper, the Carlisle
Mercery, upon the recent Democratic
State Convention of Kentucky and the
duty of Democrat! towa-d the ticket
nominated. It equals the statement of
the Deacoc.at in this county who said
he would vote for the blackest African
known if nominated by his party. It
is also on a par with the statement of
the Republican who asserted that he
would not endorse the Ten Command
ments if they were supported by the
Demooratic party. Georgia is full of
Democratic editors who have a 1 little
mind of their own and who are as ser ville
as the Kentucky editor.
• Party prejudice has done more to en
slave the people than all other things
combined. Just such men as the Mer
cery editor have been the greatest en
emies to liberty and pure politics and
are the base tools of politioiens to do
their bidding. H ‘re is what the Mer
cury 3 ays;
“The Mercury, as has been its custom
for thirty-odd years, places the Demo
cratic ticket at the head of its columns,
and shall give it th 6 best support it can
uuder the oircumstances.
“In urging the Democrats of Nicho
las to ‘rally around the flag, boys,’ we
know we are committing a sin against
all decency and honor, yet our loyalty
to the Democratic party impills us to
submit to the edicts of the convention,
even when we know that fraud, lying
and treachery were used lavishly to ac
complish the end reached at Louisville
last week. Faithful Democrats cannot
stop to question the method of the gaeat
leaders of the party, and the right to
pass upon the acts of our shrewd mana
gers is net reserved for the common folks.
It is enough for the ordinary plug of
the country to know that the thing has
been done, and it is his duty to submit,
and to join with on? new State org-n,
the Courier Journal in shouting ‘Hail
to the King.’ Let every Democrat who
believes in fraud and every other form
of vice in politics join with us in giving
the ticket a herrty support.”
Commenting on the above, the Charlot
te Observer says:
“We have never seen anything in the
way of abject surrender of individual
opinion to the behest of party that ap
proaches this. Here an editor confesses
that he is committing a sin against all
decency and honor,’ yet he cannot stop
to question the methols of the great
leadersof the Democratic party.’ ‘lt is
enough.’ he says, ‘for the ordinary plug
of the country to know that the thing
has been done, and it is his duty to sub
mit,' and this man calls upon ‘every De.
mocat who believes in fraud and eveiy
other form of vice in politics’ to join
with him in ‘giving the ticket hearty
support.’”
The Demand for
Cotton Fabrics.
New York Sun.
But the great thing which willbeuefit
the cotton grower is the extrcordinaiy
and peremptory demand which has aris
en for manufactured cotton all over tho
world, and especially iu this country,
bidding fair to continue for twelve
months at least. The prosperity of the
cotton manufacturing business is, in
fact, at preasant unmatched by that *of
aDy other American iudustry, except
the manufacture of iron and steel With
in four years, indeed, the world’s con
sumption of cotton has increased 1,000,-
000 bales. The vast stores of cotton fa
brics which cumbered the warehouses of
Fall River and Providence have been
swept away. Ninety thousand opera
tives in the cotton mills here have had
their wages raised 10 per cent, within
two weeks. A million spindles which
were silent in New England last sum
mer are bnsy to-day and before long, we
venture to affirm, will be singing as mer
rily in the small hours of the morning
as now they do at noon. If the cur/ent
crop is but between 10,500,000 and 10,-
750,000 bales, this crop and the reierve
stock will be barely sufficient for con
sumption until the winter. Shor’d, in
addition to this, the crop of 1899-1900
prove to be small or even of only fair size,
and its prospect of being great is star, lily
declining, the planter will get prices for
his raw cotton which will more than re
pair the hovoc caused by the mrl-proph
etic Neill, and he will see aga’.a the bet
ter times of the past.
Beauty is the first present nature gives
to woman and the first it takes away.—
Mere,
Some Solid Facts.
Below we give an extract from a letter
published in the Philadelphia American
written to that paper by Mr. J. F. How
ell of Lousiaua It is full of sound sense
and worth rereading. Ever/ w ord of it is
true aud no genuine Populist in the
South will ever consent to fusion again
under any circumstances.
The tacties of the Democrats in 1896
had the effect of mislead’ng many into
the belief that the leade-s of that old
party sincerely repented their surrender
and long service to the money mongers
and monopolies to the great-injury of
the people, and that they had returned
in good faith to their allegiance to the
people. But the disposition of those
leaders now, to shift theissue3 raised in
1896, to meat on half way g ouud those
who repudiated the Chicago platform
and bolted tbe,movement then, causes
thiuking men to doubt, to question the
sincerity of the professions and motives
of those ler !ers who engineered the
Chicago convention, aud put out the
candidate whc ( aptured the St. Louis
nomination at a later date. T’ is dispo
sition to trim, now, raises the suspicion
that the Chicago platform wrs not the
result of honest convictions of right
working in the minds of men determin
ed to do their duty by their people, but
that it wa3 a bundle of expedients of a
lot of political nondescrips to be used to
carry them into office; and, failing this,
it would, at least accomplish the des
truction of that young giant, the
People’s party, the only organization
that promised relief to the people by the
destruction of their oppressors, the great
corporations and their agents in the lead
ersbip of both the old pc ties. To have
captured and destroyed this great spon
taneors movement of the people would
have been a great work in the interest
of the money power and monopolies. It
has been almost effected. Shall we rest
supine’y and permit the final consum
mation? The people of the South are not
dispo ed to do so.
JJWhile the Populists of the West see in
the Republican the chief agent!
of the money power in fastening upon
them the new slavery, which Horace
Greely characterized as “a little more
refined, but none the less cruel than
chattel slavery,” and can, therefore,
never have any common grounds of
coalition with Republicans, so the Pop
ulists of the South look upon the Demo
cratic leaders in the nation as equally
traitorous to their people, aud, holding
that, “once a trairor always a traitor,”
Populists can never consent to be merged
by fusion into an organization so led by
traitors. Continued fusion means ex
tinction of the People’s party.
More Altgelds Needed.
John P. Altgeld see: the futility of
palliative measures, and even frem the
politician’s standpoint—which with Mr.
Altgeld means the statesman’s stand
point—he advocates the necessity of a
straightforward deck ation for govern
ment ownership. He says: v';*
For a quarter of a century both polit
ical parties have denounced corpora
tions, and monopolies. Nearly every
state in the union ha t legislated against
them. The federal government has
legislated against them. Yet, in spite
of this denunciation, they have gone on
multiplying, fctate legislation ha3 been
found to be absolutely futile, because
federal judges uniformly declared it to
be unconstitutional. Federal legisla
tion has likewise been found to be fu
t ie. The trusts are masters of the sit
uation. It is ev‘dent that to simply go
on denouncing trusts is an insu't to the
intelligence of the American people.
They have come to stay, and therefore
it is the mission and the duty of the
Democratic party to secure the benefit
of the monopoly for the public, for the
people. That means municipal aud
governmental ownership of all monopo
lies, which it is practicable for a gov
ernment as yet to control. That politi
cian makes a mistake who thiuks that
by a mere denunciation of trusts he cc.n
fool a great number of Democrat’ iu
1900. The people want to know what
we propose to do about it. .^-55
John F. Altgeld talks sound sense and
like a statesman. He believes in a par
ty cai.rying into practice what it preach
es. The democratic party, of which he
is still a member, is opposed to these
views of Mr. Altgeld and its leaders
hate him because he does not believe in
deceiving the people. If the democrat
ic party had a few more Altgelds iu it
there would be 3ome hope of its doing
something for the people.
Bid For Nomination.
Steubenv’le, O.—P p, Sc . tt .
ventor and manufacturer of Cadi 6
aspires to the Republican
for congress and who in his first * v° n
ledder denounced boodling m J >Ubllc
and stated that he word not
to it to be nominated, is out in asp!??
letter. ec ° Q 4
He proposes to all the candidate* that
the nomination be pat up to the huh *
bitter, and knocked down at a Jr
Scott str. ts in with a bid of
He agrees, if elected, to use all the' • i
ary in educating four students each year
from each county in some college u
believes this a legitimate way of
.ng money instead of prostituting t h •
voter. He also proposes that thecal*
ditates stand civil service examination'
for the position. He says:
‘•lf bossism and corruption a -e war
ed then shame should be ca-t aside and
all go into rollute politics.”
And he agrees to put more genui n6
corruption into the canvass than ani
other candidate or suffer deserved de.
feat. Scott’s proposition has stirred up
the other candidates and a hot fight f o j
tbe nomination is anticipated.
Why not? Iu the rotten days of the
Roman empire the chief place was put
up to the highest bidder, and the army
took the money.
R-ad the following and see how lit*
erty is disappearing in this country;
Here is a copy of the agreement tt t
it is said Gen. Merriam forced all mir
ers to sign before applying for work in
the min s of the Coeur d’Alene:
I hereby make application for issu
ance to me of a permit allowiug me to
seek employment in the mines of Sho
shone county.
I did not participate actively or other
wise in the riots which took place at
Wardner on April 29, 1899. Believing
that the crimes committed at Wardner
on said date were actively incited, en
couraged and perpetrated through and
by means of the influence and direction
of the miners’ un ; ons of the Coeur
d’Alene, 1 hereby express my unqualifi
ed disapproval of said acts, au \ hereby
denounce and forever adjure any alleg
iance to the said minors’ union, of which
I was a former member, and I solemnly
pledge myself to obey the law and not
to again seek membership in any society
which will encourage and tolerate any
violation of the law.
Isn’t that a pretty state of things,
when a man seeking work must have
a permit from an officer of the
army?
A permit to work, therefore a permit
to live, in FREE America!
Ye gods! What r.re we coming to?—lg
natius Donnelly’s Representative.
Reformer to Old Party
Voter.
Do you own any national bank or tm't
stock?’*
O.P.V. “Nob, but the great men of
my party—the statesmen do.”
R. 1 ‘Why do yon vote for their inter
est and not your own? ’
O.P.Y. ”0, what do I know about
such things, like “money power, ’
“banks,” “trusts,” “railroads,” &>•
That’s the business of our great states
men. ”
R. Why do you vote at all if yon don’t
know anything about your interests or
that of your government?”
O.P.V. sThis is a great nation. It is
a great privilege to vote for great men*
Everything will right itself iu time, l
don’t have to do anything but vote my
party ticket straight. Great country this.
See her expand over the seas 9reat—
coun
Enter son John. “Pa. that chec
that mortgage, that deed, a’l need stamp
and here is a notice from the tax- board
that your assessment is raised 25 P er
cent. You didn’t give me enough mom
ey to pay for the nails nor the gasoil
nor the coal oil nor the crackers. The
grocer said the trusts have raised the
price—sl.6o more he said you owed him*
Dewey will be home by next steamer,
and you promised me I could go to the
reception at New York- fair round trip
sls. Hurrah for Degeyl”
O.P.V Stamps! taxes raised! coal 01 ,
gasoline and crackers raised? Why
damn It, son, you have got the l* 3 "
cent of money I have! Dewey the dev
il! That tax board is a set of asses! Why
I can’t sell a piece of property at any
price. What do they know about t. *
values? Great Scott! A great country,
mean.”
Exit Reformer, laughing. —Ex.
Recently a railroad magnate who
being interviewed by a writer in the
na, Thus expressed himself: "W'e
own this country are going to rua it-
Waverly Tribune.