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THUR3DA7. JUNE 28. 1900.
People’s Party Ticket.
For President —
WHARTON BARKER.
For Vice-President —
IGN ATIUS DONNELLY.
POPULIST STATE TICKET.
For Governor—J. H- TRAYLOR, of
Troup. T r
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—Y.
T. FLINT, of Taliaferro.
For Prison Comissioners— f *\ J.
DICKEY, of Upson and S. C. McCAN
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 district—F. D. Wimberly.
Fcurth district —R H Hollis.
Fifth district—J. R. Irwin.
Sixth district—R M. McFarland.
Seventh district—J. D Perkersou.
Eighth district —J. R. Leard.
Ninth district —A. G. Lamar.
Tenth district—J. R. Hogan.
E eveuth district —J E Page.
STATE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
S. J. McKniqht, Chairman, Dalton, Ga.
J.E. Bodknhamkr, Sect’y . DaltoD, Ga.
First District—R. M. Bryan.
• • * D. C. Newton.
Second District—J. B. Watkinp,
•• “ W. E Smith.
Third District—T. F. Rainey,
• “ Seab Montgomery.
Fourth District —M. T. Edge,
“ “ John Caldwell.
Fifth District —W. F. McDaniel,
•• '• C. T. Parker.
Sixth District—S. C. McCandless,
•• “ Dr. J. T. Dickey.
Seventh District —M. L. Palmer,
“ “ J. A. L. Born.
Eighth District—W. J. Elder,
•• ■' M. A Adams.
Ninth District—G. B. Riden,
“ " W. W. Wiison.
Tenth District—W. J. Henning,
“ “ Wm. T. Flint.
Eleventh Distriot —J. W. Hagan,
“ “ A. B. Pierce.
Talk up the rally at Jefferson wher
ever you go.
It is getting time for Oconee county
to get to work like men and sustain its
past :eputation.
Bea man in politics as well as in
everything else. Dont change your
mind every day in the week. Be firm
and true and do your duty.
We are glal to know that Jackson
couuty Populists are not made of stuff
that produces weaklings and vascillating
characters. They believe in standing
flatfooted and firm to their convictions.
Notice Populists.
The Populists of House’s distriot are
requested to meet at the court ground
of said district on the sth Saturday in
June at 3 o'clock in the evening for the
purpose of electing delegates to the
county convention and a now executive
committee for the district. Lot every
one who cau come out and dont forget
he date, Juno 30—after dinner.
A. G. Lamak, Chairman.
COMMITTEE OF
ARRANGEMENTS
For The Populist Rally at Jef
ferson On Saturday, July 14.
The following committee of three
from each district has been appointed
as a committee on Arrangements for
the big Populist Rally at Jefferson on
July 14th.
We hope that every member of this
committee will gladly take hold of the
work assigned him and do his best to
make this rally a grand success. Now
the way to do this is to become interest
ed in the work. Don’t be a f raid to
spend a few hours in your district see
ing other men and getting them en
thused and pledged to be on hand that
day with their baskets aud as many
other friends as they can bring with
them. If you believe your cause is
right and that >ou are battling for the
establishment of great principles that
will not only benefit you but humanity
generally, beman enough to stand by
that cause under any and all circum
stances and ready at all times to work
for those principles. Don’t be laggards,
don’t be political oowardi, don’t be
slaves. God heps those who help
themselves and He detests a man who
is afraid to stand by what he feels is
right.
This is a fight that should enlist every
mnn who helps to produce wealth, and
the way to succeed in this fight is to
keep it np. We all have friends who
oppose ns and have not yet advanced to
that stage where they can grasp the
grand principle of the fatherhood of
God and the brotherhood of man. Per
sonally we dislike to antagonize these
friends, but there is a duty we must
perform, believing as we do, aud that
duty not only demands but forces ns to
fight on and keep fighting uatil these
great principles triumph aud the masses
get their just rights. The man who
has ever caught the inspiration that
gave birth to our party, to talk now of
showing the white flag, of surrendering
these principles, of forsaking this party,
is of all men most to be pitied for his
lack of lability and conviction. If Pop
ulism wasright in its incipiency it is still
right and there would be less excuse for
abandoning it now than ever before.
The Populists of Jackson county are too
brave and mauly, too sincere to forsake
these principles aud worship false
goods. We earnestly appeal to every
man who has espoused our cause to
stand firm and true and go to work for
our rally aud for our success at the
coming election.
The following is the committee on
arrangements:
Jefferson district—A. L. Venable, T. A.
McElhauuon and’N. T. Elder.
Harrisburg district. —W. A. Carter,
J. C. Dooly and J. H. Boggs.
Newtown district.—W. M. Potts, C. L.
Bonds and L. C. Estes.
Harmony Grove district.—J. M. Lord,
J. B. Rogers and M. P. Wood.
Maysville distrio ■—Bad Adams, J. M.
..Hill and D. J, Hoopaugh.
Miller’s district.—W. J. Harwell, W. B.
Patrick and B. H. Hancock.
Cunningham’s district.—J. S. Loveles,
J. W. Wood and A. J. McDonald.
Randolph district.—S. P. Higgins, J. J.
Maddox and Andrew Evans.
Hoschton district.—W. E Hill, W. C.
Pirkle and T. T. Cooper,
i House’s district—J. J. Wallis, J. H.
House and W. H. Lay.
Chandler’s district.—J. E Dunuahoo,
J. L. Harris and M. B. Eley.
Santa Fe district.—W. D. Holliday, J.
I. Burson and J. W. Thurmond.
Clarksbore district.—J. W. Dottery, J.
C. Shields and M. V. B. Lankford.
Grand Rally In Walton*
Hon. M. W. Howard, the gifted ora
tor and Statesman, from Alabama, and
Hon. J. H. Traylor, the gand old man
from Troop, have both promised to ad
dross the people at oar great rally in
Monroe on July 10th. This will be a
big day for Populism in Walton. Let
Oconee, Jackson, Gwinnett, Rockdale,
Newton and Morgan turn out to hear
these gifted men speak.
HE ACCEPTS!
DONNELLY DELIVERS HIS
FORMAL LETTEROF
ACCEPTANCE.
Discusses The Money Question
and Other Matters Dear to
the Populists.
By Wire From Hastings, June 18.
Ignatius Donnelly, who was made the
Mid-Road Populist candidate for vice
president at the Cincinnati convention,
has formally accepted the honor. Mr.
Donnelly’s letter of acceptance follows:
Hastings, Minn., June 11, 1900—Hon.
M. W. Howard, J. M. MaUett and W.
S. Morgan, Committee People's Party—
Gentlemen: I have received your val
ued letter of the 15th nit., formally no
tifycation, on the 10th ult., as the can
didate of the People’s party for the of
fice of vice-president of the United
States.
I acknowledge the great honor done
me in that nomination, and, if elected,
shall strive to discharge the duties of
the position to the satisfaction of the
whole country.
1 indorse every word of the platform
adopted by the convention. Anxious
to be brief, they did not perhaps, cover
every question upon which they were
agreed.
Money is a necessity of civilization.
Without it the productions of the peo
ple cannot be exchanged. Without it
all trades and commerce must end. If
it is furnished in insufficient quantities
its purchasing power increases aud the
prices of labor, aud all commodies pro
duced by labor, corresponaiugly fall.
The rich therefore become richer and
the poor poorer.
To supply the people with morey is
the supreme function of government,
for the only end of goverment is the
prosperity and happiness of the gov
erened.
Hence th 9 constitution declares that
congress shall “coin money and regu
late the value thereof.” And in the
same section it provides that congress
shall “declare w-ar, raise and support
armies” and ‘‘provide and maintain a
navy.” Congress has no more right to
authorze private banking corporations
to coin money and issue it to the citi
zens, than it would have to authorize
similar private corporations to declare
war, raise and support armies and pro
vide and maintain a navy.
And when the issue of the money of
the nation is left in the hands of private
corporations, whose interest it is to
make it scarce, and therefore dear, not
a dollar of it can come to the people
aeross thoir counters until someone
borrows it aud pays interest on it.
The country is then in a horrible con
dition. It is as if we were charged for
the air we breathe. It is as if our army,
controlled by private corporations, re
fused to resist the invaders of our coun
try until every citizen came forward
and paid them a private bonus for de
fending his home.
Orginally all business was barter, and
gold aod silver, valuable because the
pagan priesthood adorned therewith
the temples of the sun aud moon, be
cause standard commodities; and being
compact and portable, were all used
in making exchanges, and called “mon
ey;” and so descended to our own times.
Lately , however, a c iminal conspir
acy was organized among the capitalists
of the old and new worlds to deny the
moon’s metal, silver, access to tne
mints. They have thus reduced the
metalic barter basis of all business over
all the earth one-half.
Political necessity has forced them,
in this oountry, to issue paper bank
notes to supply this silver vaccum; but
these are only to reach the people by
being borrowed and paid for—with
more interest and more eventual bank
ruptcy. And so they have set the pyr
amid of currency upon its apex—the
gold supply of the world—a cube about
27 feet square, which all nations are
straggling to secure: and now the in
verted pyramid is tottering to its fall,
and the bankers will scarcely be able to
prop it up until after the next election.
And when it falls mankind will be over
whelmed with calamities for which
history affords no parallel
While we regard the redemption of
the money of our country in gold and
silver as a relic of barbari-m and a sur
vival of pagan suberstition, neverthe
less, we demaud that if either metal is
so used, both shall be so used. If there
is to be a metallic basis for our curren
cy, it must be as broad as possible.
There is no more reason for making
our money of metals than there is for
engraving our national bonds on plates
of gold, or printing our postage stamps
lon tags of silver.
When silver was demonetised it fell
Some Facts
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INTERESTTO 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.
one half in value, gold similarly treated
would shrink in the same way. There
is little intrinsic usefulness in either.
Civilization could endure without both
of them; it could scarcely live without
iron or copper.
In our civil war government paper
money, without bankers savbd the
nation; and its life cau be maintained
in times of peace by the greenbacks.
It is a crime to compel 80,000,000 of
free people to depend for the first es
sential of human society upon a few
thousand bankers, who make the peo
ple pay heavily for doing for them what
the people are abundantly able to do
for themselves. The bankers’ note is
redeemable in greenbacks. Why not
destroy the bark notes and issue the
superior paper—the greenbacks?
The world in today trying to solve
the problem, shall Wealth or manhood
rule humanity?
A great republic, based on the theory
of ‘'equal rights to all and special piivi
leges to none,” and which, by its con
stitution, prohibits monarchy and aris
tocracy, needs a political party that is
devoted to liberty rnd nothing elße.
‘‘Of what avail
Is flag or sail,
Or land or life
If freedom fail?”
Can we reach the ends we have in
view through the Democratic party?
Suppose that the old Whig party, in
stead of decently dying in 1856, when
it had outlived its function, had ling
ered superfluous on the stage, and the
people of the United States had tried to
use it as an instrumentality to destroy
slavery, could they possibly have suc
ceeded?
No; they would have found oue half
of its membership favorable to slavery
and one-half opposed to it; and instead
of reform, we should have had continu
nus internecine warfare.
Slavery was destroyed by a party,
every member of which was opposed to
slavery.
Plutocracy will never be overthrown
by the Democratic party, with its head
in Wall street and its tail in the Miss
issippi valley.
We mast have a pa-ty dreadfully in
earnest and in which there is not a
single plutocrat. If ten horses are
hitched to the front of a cart, and ten
horses, equally strong, are fastened to
the tail end will not the cart stand still?
Regret it as we may, plutooracy is as
much of a sectional question today as
slavery was in 1836. It is the battle of
the money-lending region against the
money-borrowing region; the section
where the dollar is bigger than the man
against the section where the man is
infinitely bigger than the dollar. It is
Threadneedle street against the spirit
of 1776. Its roots reach down to the
issue of monarchy versus republic; nay,
they go even deeper. It i3 the forward
movement of God for the blessing of his
children, against the troglodyte in his
cavern, cracking the leg-bones of his
victims to extract the marrow for his
cannibalistic feast
The families, the suffering, the strikes,
the poverty, the wretchedness, the sui
cides of the multitude, are all canniba
listic; but the banqueters are batter
dressed than their predecessors of the
caverns. They do not beat their vic
tims’ brains out with clubs, they crush
them with laws and combinations,
or petrify them with false statements
and false arguments.
This is anew country, based on anew
idea—the sovereignty of the oommon
people. Europe furnished U3 with our
settlers and it is overwhelming us with
its ideas. Aristocracy today rule3 the
greater part of Europe and America.
Our government is a republic, and yet
our rulers have stood silently by while
a monarchy has trampled the life out of
two of our fellow republics in South
Africa.
Give the People’s party power and we
will put a stop to this state of things.
War is evil, national degradation is a
greater evil.
Better the eagle on the mountain top,
‘‘nigh famished in the fellowship of
storms,” than the oeastly reptiles in the
swamp, bloated with filth and sleeping
away its wretched existence.
Abraham Lincoln spoke of ‘ ‘keeping
the jewel of liberty in the fanrly of
freedom,” but we have no “family of
freedom.” Everywhere the tendency
is toward despotism.
If this nation is to live, as a free re*
üblic, it needs the People’s party, with
its heroic breed of statesmen; who aim
at something higher than a squabble for
petty offices.
“Tis notin mortals to command success;
But we’ll do more—we’ll deserve it.”
(Signed) IGNATIU3 DONNELLY.
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