Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

THE J—T Official Organ Ordinary. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF WINDER. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY EVENING JEFFERSON OFFICE: With the Ordinary in the Court House P. W. Quattlebaum will represent the paper and take subscriptions. SubscriDtion Rates* Year, - - - *l-00 A. G. LAMAR, Editor and.Publisher. THURSDAY. JUNE 7. 1900. People’s Party Ticket. For President — WHARTON BARKER. For Vioe-President— IGNATIUS DONNELLY. 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 Franltlin. For State Treasurer —J. W. PARK, of Meriwether. For Commissioner of Agriculture —A. H. TALLY, of Cobb. For State School Commissioner —W. T. FLINT, of Taliaferro. For Prison Comissioners— ' r> . J. DICKEY, of Upson, and S. C. MuCAN DLESS, of Butts. STATE ELECTORAL TICKET. From the state at large—J. A. Mal lory and W. L. Peek. First district—H. S. White. Second district—L. O. Jackson. Third distriot—F. D. Wimberly. Fcnrth district—R- H. Hollis. Fifth district—J. R. Irwin. Sixth district—R. M. McFarland. Seventh distriot—J. D. Perkerson. Eighth distriot —J. R. Leard. Ninth distriot—A. G. Lamar. Tenth district—J. R. Hogan. Eleventh district—J E. Page. STATE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. S. J. McKniqht, Chairman, Dalton, Ga. J.E. Booumh \mer, Seot’y., Dalton, Ga. First Distriot—R. M. Bryan. “ M D. C. Newton. Seoond District—J. B. Watkins, “ •* W. E Smith. Third District —T. F. Rainey, “ “ Seab Moutgomeiy. Fourth District—M. T. Edge, “ “ John Caldwell. Fifth Distriot —W. F. McDaniel, •• '* C. T. Parker. Sixth District—S. C. MoCandless, " " Dr. J. T. Dickey. Seventh District—M. L. Palmer, " “ J. A. L. Born. Eighth District—W. J. Elder, “ '* M. A. Adams. Ninth Distriot—G. B. Riden, •* " W. W. Wiison. Tenth Distriot—W. J. Henning, “ Wm. T. Flint. Eleventh District—J. W. Hagan, “ “ A. B. Pierce. Most all the large cities are haring strikes. Men ean be honorable and honest in politics as well as in any other avoca tion. A gentleman is a gentleman wherever yon find him. ▲ gentle* man always treats another with respect and oonrtesy however mnch they may differ politically and religi ously. Our political views should not affeot our personal friendships for those who may differ with us. There are men who are not in accord with us political ly for whom wo would do any personal favor in our power. There is not but one class of men for whom we have the most supreme contempt, and that is the little fellows minus any brain, who know nothing but to follow and boot lick, and who think that because they belong to the democratic party they are Blue Bloods and a little better than any body else. We would like to express our opinion of such characters if deoen cy permitted. BIG POPULIST RALLY. The Populists of Jackson County Will Meet Several Thousand Strong at Jefferson on Saturday, July 14th. SEVERAL NOTED SPEAKERS Will Address the People and a Good Time is in Store for All Who Attend. The Populists of Jackson county will hold their annual rally at Jefferson on Saturday the 14th day of July next. There will be several noted speakers oresent and it is expeoted to be the big gest day ever had in this county in the history of this grand reform party, Populists are true to their principles and it is not neoesary to urge them to get ready for this great rally. We feel that every populist in the county will go to work now to help make it that suc cess all future rallies have been. Go to talking it and telling your neighbor about it and be sure and arrange your business so yon can be on hand. The 14th of July will come after you have finished your work aud you can go and carry your family. Lets have several thousand people in Jefferson on July 14. In next week’s issue of The Economist the call will be made for nomination of county officers and members of the leg islature. The fellow who thought populism was declining is beginning to realize that he was only dreaming. Democratic primaries are run alto gether in the interest of the bosses, and •he fellow who is not one of the ring has about as little chance of winning a nomination as a yellow dog. The national platform of the People’s party will be found every week in The Economist. Read it and study it, and you will soon be convinced that it is the cnly platform offered to the voters of this Uunion that is worthy the endorse ment of patriots and those who want to better the conditions of humanity at large. Hiawatha, Kansas, is greatly wrought up, all on account of a wealthy woman having died. She left a will directing that SSOO of her wealth be appropriated to the improvement of the cemetery in which she should be buried. When the managers of the graveyard in which she was not buried found this out, they be gan trying to have her body moved and the people began taking sides. This seems to be a case in which the people of Kansas cannot agree on a plan of fusion. Jerry Simpson and the few democrats of that state ought to be able to reoonoile the waring factions of the two graveyards by some means or oth er. The democratic bosses always hare about one doaen prospective candidates for every oounty office and tell each one of these dozen men to get himself in shape as he will be the man two years hence. They then get off in a oorner and make fun of the fellows they are duping. We have known of them promising for the next election for the office of reoeiver and collector as many as twelve or fifteen men for each of these plaoes, telling eaoh one of them to get himself in shape as HE was the man they had picked out. A prominent democrat friend of oars in this oonnty 'told ns on one occasion, that by this means of flattering and fooling men they had been able to keep hundreds of men in the old party* “What fools we mortals be.” The Democrats have dropped silver. Nothing has been heard of it from Democratic sources except the lone yelp of Billy Bryan, and his voice is grow ing very weak on that subjeott—Ex. Facts About State Taxes. Mr. Hooper Alexander, editor of the DeKalb New Era, gives some plain facts about our State taxss that should cause every man to stop and consider. He shows clearly how the people’s labor and property are being absorbed by the tax gatherers without any return and that our state taxes have more than doubled in the past sixteen years. Mr. Alexander is a democrat editor, bnt dif fers from most of our brothers who edit democratic papers, from the fact he is not afraid to show up the extravagauoes of democratic administrations and bow they are placing burdens on the people that are getting unbearable. But read for yourself what Mr. Alexander says on this line in the following editorial: “The amount of taxes paid by the people, and the dispoeition of the mon ey, is on# subject that it behooves the public always to keep dearly in view. A close grip on the purse strings is the euly wy to prevent extravaganoe and waste in the public expenditures and fair methods in the collection of the revenues. The following table shows the rate of taxation in Georgia for State pur poses during the past sixteen years, and invites very earnest and thought ful reflection: 1868 $3 50 1884 S 00 1885 3 50 1886 3 50 1887 .. 3 77 1888 3 56 1889 4 00 1890 3 96 1891 5 08 1892 4 85 1893 4 61 1894 4 37 1895 4 56 1896 4 56 1897 5 21 1898 6 21 1899 5 36 Consideration of these figures shows some startling facts. While there have been occasional reductions from one year to the next, the steady trend has been upward, until now in 1899 the rate is more than twice what it was in 1883. But this does not show the worst feature in the business. The State’s expenditures must naturally grow larg er, and have so grown, and if the amount of property ;in the State re mained fixed, it would be necessary to raise che rate. But as a matter of fact while the expenses have been increas ing; so that the increased expenses ought to have been met out of the in creased values without increasing the rate. Thus in 1883 the total taxable values were $930,958,548 which at the rate of $2.50 yielded the very modest sum of $587,338.87. In 1999 the values were $516,850,488. If in 1899 the tax rate had been the same that it was in 1883 it would have yielded $1,042,151.22, or nearly twice as much money as was raised in 1883. Perhaps it would not have been extravagant to spend in 1899 twice as much money as was raised in 1883. But it could have been done without increasing the rate a ceni. As a matter of fact not only did taxable values double but the rate more than doubled,so that in 1899 the rate yielded $2,235,172.21, or four times as large rev enue from the ad valorem tax as in 1883- These figures call for thought. Is this increase in the rate to continue? If so, how long? If things go on as they have been going, we may expect, by 1916, to pay $11.49 for every $9.50 expended in 1888. Can the industry of the State stand it? Yon may say what yon plsase, but there were many hard working, industrious men in Georgia last winter whose children were de prived of some of the very necessities of civilized life in order to pay the $5.36 tax. If it goes to $11.49 there will be good men sold ont of house and home to pey the tax. Unthinking people,—people who think they think—are ready always to denounce one as a demagogue and a fraud who wants to check public ex penditures. There is always a sneer ready for anybody who grumbles on this subject. They say such a one is uuprogressive. i Bat they don’t tell you how the money is to be raised by the poor fellow who is already put to his ut most to pay for living. Now the State of Georgia can raise and spend every cent aa much money and more next year as it did last with out levying a tax of more than $9.50. It is oapable of absolute demonstration that this can be done. The method is very simple. All it needs is that the legislature shall obey the constitution of Some Facts -=OF== INTEREST]!) 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 different styles, 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. the State and so shape their tax act as to require ALL property to pay a uni form rate. The railroads, the street railroads, the gas companies, the tele phone, telegraph and express compa nies, the private water companies, the heat and power companies, the cotton mills —all these are practically exempt ed from the ordinary rules of taxation that apply to the property of private persons. In them is covered up and concealed one half of the taxable values of the State. If the representatives of the people will uncover this wrong and put the corporations that are monopo lizing the great and growing field of of public utilities on the same footing as the poor wretch whose toil and sweat gives the value to these great proper ties, the tax rate can be put bank to $2.50 without diminishing the State’s revenues a dime. In the name of the poor and the suf fering the Era cries for justice!” The success of] the Populist State ticket is the only hope *for the people and the only way to reduce our taxes. Read and think and then vote for your interest. Rich men oombine and raise the pric es of goods they oontrol and refuse to permit the people to use them unless they pay the extortion. They are up held in this by the coarts and the police force; thongh their action is against the public interest, though they are public enemies, the publio protects them and their property. When laboring men combine and demand their product, la bor, shall not be used except on ment of csrtaiu condition, the courts and police force are called on to sup press them and imprison them. The working people are made outlaws for demanding what they mast have or die, while the rich are upheld by law for demanding what they do not need. But laboring men are the majority, they have ten votes to capital’s oue, they fill the police force and army, they elect the judges and law makers. They have so little political sense that they contin ue to vote the same tickets and for a continuance of the same policies that have outlawed them. The capitalists’ strength ia in the courts, they never hesitate to use it; tfee laboring people refuse to use their political strengh and henoe are little above the cattle of the field.— Agpeal to Reason. National Platform. The People’s Party of the United States, assembled in national conven tion this tenth day of May, 1900, affirm ing our unshokon belief in the cardinal tenets oj the People’s Party, as setforth in Omaha platform, and pledging oar selves anew to continued advocacy of those grand principles of human liberty until right shall triumph over might aud 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 such 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 snch 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 those means of oommunieation, 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 the people, and should not be monopolized for speculative purposes, and ership of land ehonld be prohibited. All land now held by railroad* and other corporations in excess of their eotuai needs, and all lands now b J aliens should be reclaimed by the Gov ernment and held for actual settler* Fourth—A scientific and absolute pa* per money, based upon the entire wealth and population of the natl redeemable in any specific oommoai y, but made a full legal tender for all debts and receivable for all taxes and public dues and issued by the Govern only without the Intervention of and in enffloient quantity to mee demand of oommeroe, is the best cur rency that can be devised; but unu such a financial system is w® ol ** which we shall press for “'Joption, of favor the fre i and unlimited ooin a ß . both silver and gold at the legal ra l6 Fifth—We demand the levy and col lection of a graduated tax oal and inheritances and a constitutional amendment to secure the samoi **sSkh—We demand the elec £° and President. Yioe President Fede:rm judges and United States senators j direct rote of the people. Seventh—We are opposed * {ho and declare the contention bet . g old parties on the monopoly que 0 ot a sham battle and that no so this mighty problem is possible the adoption of the principles o ownership of public utilities. ?. TANARUS, T