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THURSDAY. MAY 81, 1900.
POPULIST STATE TICKET.
For Governor —J. H. TRAYLOR, of
Troup.
For Secretary of State —Dr. L. L.
CLEMENTS, of Milton.
For Attorney General—F. H. SAF
FOLD, of Emanuel.
For Comptroller General—J. T. HOL
BROOK, of Franklin.
For State Treasurer —J. W. PARK,
of Meriwether.
For Commissioner of Agriculture —A.
H. TALLY, of Cobb.
For State School Commissioner —Vf.
T. FLINT, of Taliaferro.
For Prison Comissioners— rT \ J.
DICKEY, of Upson, and S. C. McCAN
DLESS, of Butts.
Don’t forget to read the letter of Col.
Peek in this issue.
Congress will adjourn in a few days
to the relief of the country at large.
Getting Scared.
The Walton News and Messenger is
getting scared and is feartul the demo
cratic State ticket may be defeated this
year by the Populist State ticket.
In a tong editorial this week headed
“Breakers Ahead. What Should The
Democratic Convention Do?” it says
some very fuuuy and inconsistent
things.
The News and Messenger claims to be
a sincere advocate o State prohibition,
aud in fact, most of its editorials for
the past few months have been appeals
to the people for State prohibition ver
sus Local option. It has boldly main
tained that State prohibition was one
of the greatest moral questions before
the people of Georgia at the piesent
ti.ue, and one in which every good citi
zen was interested and should indorse.
In its editorial this week, The News
and Messenger, which has been posing
as the apostle to Christendom on all
matters pertaining to prohibition, is
very much frighteued for fear the Pop
ulist party, the only party that has had
the nerve and moral courage to come
out squarely in its State platform and
deolare its position on this important
question, may defeat the democratic
State ticket.
This fear prompts it to utter the fol
lowing language:
"The State ticket of the democratio
party haa NOTHING to do with the
PROHIBITION QUESTION ”
The News and Messenger might as
well take the position that its State
tioket haa NOTHING to do with any
question that affects the morals and wel
fare of the people. It further says that
“the state tioket wants all the demo
cratic voters to support the tioket. They
want all the wet democrats in the wet
counties and all the dry democrats in
the dry oonnties to rote the tioket,”
The State tioket wants it dearly un
derstood that the Democratic State tick
et stands for NOTHING where moral
questions are involved, and is willing to
be silent as the dead on these matters.
It is a mystery to us how a party or
State tioket so oowardly oan retain the
respect of those who oppose State pro
hibition, leaving out altogether the
Walton News and Messenger the
preachers and professed ohristians aud
State prohibition advocates. We would
like for the News and Messenger to ex
plain It. .
This Is The Way
They Come.
A good man and citizen of this county
told us a few days since that he had
never voted anything but a democratic
ticket in bis life. That his father was
always a democrat and he thought he
must vote as his father did, and never
investigated or thought any on the sub
ject, bulieveing it woula be a disgrace
to vote auy other way. He said, how
ever, that for the last year or more, he
had been thinking some for himself,
had been reading The Economist and
other reform literature, laying aside his
prejudices, studying conditions as they
exist and what the democratic party
had done to help bring on these condi
tions that were making slaves and serf*
of the farmers and others who produce
all wealth. He said he had reached the
conclusion from honest thought and in
vestigation that the Populist party was
right, that it was the only party advo
cating principles and measures lor the
benefit and good of the people generally,
and from this ou he wou’d never vote
any other ticket.
We admired the gentleman’s candor,
sincerity and his honesty. He deter
mined to iuves:igate and think for
himsalt and was brave enough to de
clare himself with us after being con.
viuced we were right.
We agree with the editorial of last
week in the Jackson Herald. The
Herald says:
“When men are guided by prin
ciple and conviction, a change of
party by either politicians or individual
voters alike, is honorable and praise
worthy.”
The gentleman above referred to was
guided by priucip’e aud conviction aud
heuce it was honorable and manly in
him to forsake the democratic party
with which he had heretofore affiliated
and go with the Populist party after he
was convinced that the populist party
was right. It only takes a little think
ing for a man to reach this conclusion
and there are hundreds of men in Geor
gia who are beginning to put on their
thinking caps.
If there be a single populist iu the
state who has ever thought of goiug
back aud forsaking populism, we im
agine he would feel like goiug behind
the house aud kicking himself after
reading the abeve.
The idea of a populist leturn
ing to the democratic fold to
make one honest, long pul! iu defense of
his principles!?) We cant believe there
is one who is so big and ignoramus as
to entertain such rot. Tne suggestion
is too ridiculous to be considered save
by one who is controlled by the basest
aud most selfish motives of which we
can conceive or an ignorance of politi
cal parties aud their history that forces
us to exercise that charity we owe to
such characters.
Populists everwhere are enthused ever
the action of the Cincinnati convention
and going to work in earnest.
Read the letter of Col. Peek in this
issue and let every true Populist in
Georgia renew his allegiance to the
cause and go to work.
The news from all over the country
is very enconragiug to all true popu
lists. Our cause U growln in popular
favor aud will dually triumph.
The gold democrats are going to have
some recognition in the ooming demo
cratic convention at Kansas City or
there will be a big row on hand.
There will be no difficulty this year
for one to find a presidential ticket to
suit him. If you are hunting one,
however, that will benefit all classes
and that will restore the rights and
liberties of the people, yen will have to
vote for Barker and Donnelly the tioket
nominated by the Populist party at
Cincinnati.
We learu on best authority that the
Sioux Falls people adopted an emblem
of a crawfish backing into a mudhole.
It is and eminently fit design.- Ex.
To The Populists
Of Georgia,
(Writtea for The Dalton Herald.)
By Hon. Wm L. Pkf.e
Now fusion is a thing of the past, and
those who were with us for position
and personal profit have beeu driven to
the old parties, begging crumbs that
fall from their masters’ table.
After a hard struggle for the past four
years we are free from enemies within
oar ranks. The battle has been suc
cessfully fought. We have routed the
enemy that assassinated Mr. Watson,
took their forts and spiked their can
non. They are now wandering in the
wild West, while the Pogulist banner
of ’9a has been recaptured, washed in
the love aud devotion of all the people,
and kissing the breez sof heaven un
stained by fusion aud upheld by Mid
dle of the Roaders.
VOX POPULI VOX DEI.
Barker and Donnelly will carry our
banner to victory. They are farsighted
patriots, philanthropists, statesmen,
clean, pure Chr stian gentlemen stand
ing on a platform of principles;principles
advocated by our forefathers, Jefferson
and other great mem who loved and
died for our country. These principles
must be made the laws of our land or
our Republic dies, as others have done
who cared not for the common people.
That Georgia Populists will gird on
their arms and make our great declara
tion of principles the laws of the land
aud oouutry aud save this nation from
the fate of Rome, from the f tte of
Egypt, there is no doubt. I care not,
though he may have been fatigued, a
little doubtful as to our success, or to
ple.vse a friend have voted in the late
primary, he is a Populist still, and next
October and November will be found in
the front rank at the polls fighting for
pure Populism, that inate principle
within the hearts of all true Americans
uever to die.
There is but uue way to accomplish
this great end, aud that is through our
State and National legislatures, by the
Peoples party. No other party will do
it. Tney will promise to do it. They
have promised to do it. They have
never done it. They will never do it.
But the Populists oan do it, aud they
will be untrue to themselves, untrue to
their children and to their country, if
they do not continue the effort.
To do it we must capture the legislat
ure in every county iu the State. There
has never been a more favorable oppor
tunity since our organiz itiou to elect
she Georgia legislature. If Populists
be wise, discreet and determined, victo
ry is sure.
Trust uo Democrat, let him be ever so
conservative or so uice a guntleiuan, if
he endorses or acts with modern Dem
ocracy, when your Populist measures
are to be passed upou he will be absent
from his seat or vote against them.
Vote for a true Popu'ist; make the
campaign warm, aud let it be under
stood right uow that a P.pulist ticket
for the legislature will be ruu iu every
county.
My countrymen, my pea trembles,
my heart sickens and yet my blood
boils when I read the decree of the
dominant party, aud to think of the
awful fate that o’ershadows our grand
old State. He who reads the signs of
the time in this State, even if hia eyes
are dim, can but see that it will be bat
a year or two until Georgia is to share
the fate of Mississippi, Kentucky, North
and Soath Carolina and Louisiana.
Then the liberties of two thirds of our
people will be crushed, tc rise no more
forever, and we m ids industrial slaves,
to do the will of our lords and masters.
Georgians, fear not to throw yourself
into the breaoh and save our oountry.
He who fights for home and liberty is
honored and loved by all, even though
he be defeeted. WM. L. PEEK.
Fountain Hill, near Conyers, Ga.,
May 35, 1900.
Gold Exports.
Three million, two hundred and thir
ty one thousand, four hundred and six
ty five dollars of gold was exported last
week and less than twenty-five thosand
dollars worth of gold imported. This
heavy exportation of gold in a single
week following a year of stupendous
balance of trade in favor of the United
States may indicate that American cap
italists are loaning money in Europe or
what amounts to the same thing, are
buying bonds of European capitalists.
In the last year the people of the United
States have sent to foreigu countries
about a half a billion dollars worth
more of goods thau foreign countries
have sent to this oouutry, that is to say
oar exports hare been about half a bill
Some Facts
==OF==
INTEREST TO YOU
I sell the best Buggies on
the Market.
I sell them at the old prices
for Cash.
A good Note gets them at
the same Figure.
You Want to Know How I Can do This?
I ANSWER:
Because I buy them in Carload lots.
Because I pay the spot Cash for them.
Because I bought them before the Advance.
DO YOU WANT ONE?
IF YES, then why should you go where you can only see
two or three differenFstyles, when *you can come to my
place and see A HOUSE FULL, no two alike, and
take advantage of the above prices.
Thos. A. Maynard,
The Largest Dealer in Vehicles in North East Ga.
Winder, - - Georgia.
ion more than our imports. Aud yet
we are shipping to Europe. Is it pos
sible that Europeans have sufficient an
nual interest and profits coming to them
from loans and investments in this
country to offset such an immense bal
ance of trade? If so, when the balance
of trade is only a small amount in favor
of this country, will we not have to ex
port hundreds of millions of gold? Aud
will not such contraction of our money
volume work great mischief to business
and enterprise in this country? Who
can feel safe in his business with such
a probability staring him in the face?
Over three millions contraction last
week by exports of gold—exports of part
of oar medium of exchange. This is
not much it is true aud may be more
than made up for by increased national
bank currency and the government re
leasing idle money from the treasury by
the payment of bonds, but it was
one week’s shipment, aud few such
weeks would cause a pinch and many
of them would bring disaster. Proba
bly as unreasonable a system as exists
in this country is our exportable money
system. It is an automatic prosperity
destroyer. We have a bit of better
times, we bay more abroad, a lot of onr
money goes there, and we are thrown
back into hard times. If we had a home
currency, paper money only, our mon
ey volume could not be contracted by
its being exported. Suppose Rockefel
ler, the Goulds and Vanderbilts and a
half dozen more of the richest men of
the United States should decide to
London or Paris. They could take
their wealth with them by converting
it into gold aud they would take all our
gold, and as long as we cling to the
present money system it will be in thair
power to do this and bring bankruptcy
to millions of people. But if we had
the good sensegto issue paper money in
the place of the gold they took away,
they and their wealth would not be
missed, their removal of their persons
aud wealth would not cause the slight
est ripple in the general business affairs
of this country. Bt if we didn’t have
gold how could we do business with
foreign countries? Eiy enough, do it
]U9t as we would do nearly all ot our
business with foreign countries —offset
one account against another. Besides
if we did not use gold we have aud here
after obtain could be used in transact
ing business with foreigners withdut
causing disturbances of our home busi
ness. But with gold as a part of our
money, its export means great mischief
every time it goes in any considerable
quantity.—Exchange. _ MM
National Platform.
The People’s Party of the United
States, assembled in national conven
tion this tenth day of May, 1600, affirm
ing onr unshokon belief in the cardinal
tenets oj the People’s Party, as setforth
in Omaha platform, aud pledging our
selves anew to contiuued advocacy of
those grand principles of human liberty
until right shall triumph over might
and love over greed, do adopt and pro
claim this declaration of faith:
First—We demand the initiative and
referendum and the imperative man
date for SU' h changes of existing fun
damental and statute law as will ena
ab'e the people in their sovereign ca
pacity to propose and compel the enact
ment of such laws as they desire; to re
ject such as they deem injurious to their
interests and to recall unfaithful public
servants.
Second—We demand the public own
ership and operation of theta means o'
communication, transportation and pro
duction which the people may elect,
such as railroads, telegraph and tele
phone lines, coal mines, etc.
Third—The land, including all natur
all sources of wealth, is heritage of
people, and should not be monopolize
for speculative purposes, and ali*n
ership of land should be prohibited. A
land now held by railroads and other
corporations in excess of their actua
needs, and all lands now ownedof
aliens should be reclaimed by the Gov
ernment. and held for actual settl
A scientific and absoffite pa
per money, based upon the ®“
wealth and population of ibe
redeemable in any specific o°‘ Ul “
but made a full legal tender for all debM
and receivable for all taxes P ,
dues and issued by the Government
only without the intervention of ban* .
and in sufficient quantity to meet n
demand of commerce, is the ness
rency that can be devised; and
such a financial system is
which we shall press for
favor the free and unlimited comag*
both silver and gold at the leg*
1 **Fifth—We demand the levy wd col
lection of a graduated tax - l “ iona i
and inheritances and a const u
amendment to secure the amt,
6 *Sis*h—We demand tbs eiection
President, Vice p J; es ‘d® n *> , ors by
judges and United States sen
direct vote of the people- M
Seventh-We are °PP° se * * Ttbe
and declare the c .ntention be iOQ is
old parties on the monopoly <1 ®. 0 f
a sham battle and that no s bont
this mighty problem is 0 f publio
the adoption of the prinoipla* V
ownership of publio utilities.