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THE REFORMER I*cbi.i*hcd Every Friday EyWWo at FORT GAINES, GA. rORt OAIMER. <JA., JULY 27.1804. POPULIST TICKET. For Gotemot: I. K. HINES. For Secretary of Stale: htL. A. L. NANCE. For Treasurer: (J. M. JONES. For Gotnj troller (tenoral: ” W. R. KKM1’. / For Attorney General: J. A. B. M’HAFFY For CotnmiMiioncr Agncultnre: J. B. BAllUETT, For Representative Glny County: HON. It. M. BROWN. MANHOOD vs. MONEY- 111 the lamb to hastening ills a prey, Where width accumulates and men Princes and lords inf.y flourish or may fad**; A breath can make os a Inrath has made; But a ■ dd voeiiu s rv, its country's lit! supplied. pride, *Vbe» B iee dii,tr< V •*<! run never Thus wroto Goldsmith more than A century ago, both as a prophecy and a warning of the fate which awaited the policy of England. Today that prophecy i« fulfilled, and the stag and hounds course over tho land obco burdened with tho ripen iug fruits of holiest toil. The fcame sontiment with a trifling change of wording expresses con¬ cisely tho danger which threatens the great common people of Amer¬ ica. It snould be remembered that while it required four hundred years for English plutocracy to about this deplorable condition, American prototypes liavo nearly succeeded in a similar effort during tho past quarter of a century. Gradually under old business methods but with unprecedented rapidity since tho beginning of the war between the St V., has tho power ©C money to oppress undot dishonest manipulation becoino ti prime factor in every relation of life and in all matters of national and minor legislation. Now those pluto¬ cratic cojspirators who control tho three great co-ordinate branches goverumeti, trusting in their strength aro determined to fully enslave the j*coplo of this nation. No one who has given tho subject tho least consideration will deny that the struggle is now on in this coun¬ try between manhood and money, with tho entire civilized world anx¬ iously awaiting tho result. Hereto¬ fore for ages victory upon victory lias followed tho onward march of tho money changers. Nation nation has succumbed to their sub¬ tle power, and peoplo after have become captives and hold in industrial slavery. Ml eyes aro turnod toward < ntrv and all hopes of tivi dorr aro centered in tho outcome bis conflict. While money i * »rs all powerful and able to over¬ come all opposition, there is an creasing number of noblo men women whose honor and loyalty far beyond tho reach of tho deaden¬ ing influence of gold, Tho persistent work of education they are pursuiug is making rapid roads in the ranks of tho of plutocracy. Wo believe that havo hung so and threatening above tho heads Wo believe that the clouds that havo hung so and threatening above the of American toilers are lifting, and the gray of the early morning of liverance is now visiblo to those carefully scan the horizon, fruits of a long aud tedious tioual propaganda are fast and a rich and bountiful seems assured in the near future. Intelligent manhood is itself, aud every day briugs strength and self-reliance. Tho tle has well begun in the west, being pushed in the south, ewer the contest has boon made manhood has triuniphod money has gone down. So it will ever bo until tho common people of tho earth lea rood the lesson and enforced principles that all men wero equal and havo the same right life, liberty, and the pursuit of piness. . . J. U Ward was on the streets a days ago with several pears—tho fruit we have, seen this season, the famous watermelon. FROM TEXAS Bhivk, Tcx., July 13, 1891, Editor Clay County Reformer-. I have received many letters from friends in Clay county inquiring about this portion of the Ijone HtAi State, and I take this op portunity of replying through the columns of your paper, if you will kindly publish it for me. This county (Hamilton,) is located in what might bo called|Middle Western Texas, and consist* principally of prairie, with some timber in the northern and southern edge of the county, The prairie furnishes the major portion of the farm¬ ing land, About enc-third of this County is good farming land, the balance is demo ninnted grass land, only suitable for graz¬ ing purposes, and that very fact of having two acres of gia*s land to raise stock on where one is in cultivation, makes this one of the most prosperous [outs of the State, The farmers here all raise more or less stock, and when the crops are short, they always have a few steer yearlings, »r a dry cow or two, a horse or mu U to sell to help pay off accounts, and it is very seldom that a merchant has to carry over any j art. of a farmer’s account to another year. Crops usually consist of whatever a man wishes to plant—from ground peas to cotton. Cotton, of course, is the principal money crop, and 1 am satisfied has not averaged under on** third of a bale per acre, for the past six yars. Another thing—your expenses of from $2.50 to .f.VlH) per acre, for fertilizers, is unknown here, aud if you talk to one of thes farmers about fertilizers he would not understand you; mention guano, and lie might grasp your meaning; talk of phos¬ phates, tuid he mould think of something to drink. Com usually makes from 15 to 10 bushels per acre, and whim cultivated in Georgia style, ii never fails—that is, by giving plenty of distance; but hero they usually put rows about 3 1-2 feet apart, and in th< drill from 18 to 21 inches, and from one to throe stalks in a hill, and whenever a drouth comes, their crop is injured or ruined. The wheat crop was cut short this year by the heavy freeze in winter, and dry weather in the early spring, but has averaged from 10 to 20 bushels per aere in this neighbor¬ hood, (kits about 40 bushels per acre. The crop J judge, is about the same the county over. Jleallh is geoil, nml doctors aro useless here, except in cases of obstetrics. Thore is a great deal of land bMngllir* * \v n on tho market, to be divided to suit pur chasers—cut, up into farms. The sheet ) men nearly all own large tracts of land, and they are goiiif* out ot the business on account of 'ow prices of wool (which ls soiling at from A to S cents per pound, thanks of the Devil is *!ue the democratic party; he can get it cheap to wtum ‘.hem with, and they can get it cheap to pull over tho eyes of the people,) and a great deal of their land is be¬ ing offered for sale, on the purchaser’s own terms and time A great deal of tin- unim¬ proved land can be bought entirely on time. Ail that i-* required, is for him to to imp rove and and put it in cultivation, Raw land sells at fivsn .« to . pci* »a.;v; iuipiuvvn land from $5 to $15 pci acre, There is very littlo excuse for any one being without a home in this country. This is not all —but this letter is already too long In conclusion, lot me congratulate Tho Reformer that it is not ‘ weakly,” and is the brightest, and newsiest paper that has come to me from Fort Gaines since Tom Jomigati used to handle those copper col¬ ored sons of Ham with gloves olT The Re¬ former should be patronized by both adver Users and subscribers. As to politics, it is after my own heart. Mother wrote mo .some some time ago that I was just like < Yapps. I do not know the gentleman, but I pre sumo we are brothers by affinity, both doing our just duty, as we see it. L. Paulun. POPULIST PROPHECY IN 1893. Wo venture to predict that the fu¬ ture of President Cleveland’s admin¬ istration will contain many surprises and disappointments during the next two years. Theie will bo no legisla¬ tion friendly to silver. Thore will bo no legislation un friendly to the protected industries. There will be an issue of interest bearing bonds. No income tax law will bo passed. There will be an attempt made to retire the greenback currency. Tho tax on stato banks will not be repealed. Silver will be demone¬ tized as money, and made subsidary coin. The national banks will issuo bills to the par value of tho bonds, i ;Tho Pacific railroad indebtedness will bo extended fifty years. Upon this record the Democratic party will go to tho people and be badly routed. Tho Peoples’ party will havo a majority in the next Con¬ gress, and elect a president in 1896. Outlaws Seeking Legal Protection. ‘•Every United request of the railroads fer tho States deputy mar shals to protect their property is granted ual inquiry without eveu the most cas whether special protec¬ tion is desirable or necessary. While the country has to foot the bills for these Federal janissaries, and their bills are always extravagantly high, no sorious objection could be" raised to this costly method of protecting railway property, were it not for tho constant defiance of the Federal statutes by regulating intcr-State com mere© the railway-managers. “Those who want lo invoke the law and tho power of the govern¬ ment for their own protection should be willing at all times to set an ex¬ ample of obedience to law and sub¬ mission to the regulations estab¬ lished by law for their government. The trouble with the railroads is that they' everybody aro always outlaws, but want else, including pa¬ trons, employees and tho public at large, to be submissive to such laws as hapnen to favor or proto :t their interest,”—Omaha Bee. HOW IS THIS? Tho was onee a business man in a certain town, who was considered an honest, Christian gentleman, made a contract with a certain farmer to loan him $100 dollars to run from March until October, at fifteen dol¬ lars iuterest on amount borrowed. Tho farmer who borrowed the money, while in conversation with tho business man, said he was going ,f to , support ihe Peoples party , candi Jutes. Then Mr. Merchant began to reason with tho farmer, which was was all an u ri'dit 0 nr, but out auer after the u e merchant muiuiai i saw that hts arguement had been to no avail, he then , remarked , . to the . farmer, "when yon were in a tight this spring vou came to me and I befriendeJ you, ami I tell you if you vote that ticket I will close down on you.” Now, that is all wrong; the mer¬ chant showed tho same spirit of Chicago strikers. lie simply showed the amount of devil that ho had aboard; and for the sake of carrying out what he believes to be right, will do something that ho knows to bo wrong. Mr Merchant, remember when you bow before tho altar and pray “Our Father Who at in heaven, hollowed be Thy name, forgive our trespasses as wo for givo those who trespass against us” that when you get to this point, you stand a con¬ demned man before God Almighty ! Your business relations with the farmer have nothing to do with po¬ litical views. You say you befrienti¬ the farmer. Did not the farmer pay you for your friendship by giving you $13 interest, and be gets noth¬ ing out of the transaction but a fore¬ closure of the moitgage, which adds more cost: if you do what you say you will. HYPOCRISY. (iold continues to go out and tho so-caHod reserve in the treasury has reached the point at which bonds wore issued last winter. The dismay followed by letters, telegrams, and delegations from boards of trade de¬ manding an immediate strengthening ot the “reserve,” for some reason, does not enter in to the present situ¬ ation. In fact, the treasury department, the Wall street gamblers, and the subsidized press all look with appar¬ ent complaisanco upon tho situation, ami seem to ignore at tho time a condition which less than eight months ago nearly drove them to distraction, This is ueither change of sentiment nor but positive proof of the hypocrisy and deception which actuated the money owners and their friends in the administration and congress. Tho final destruction of silver money the object thon, which, in or¬ der to appear consistent, had to followed by an issue of bonds. Now, that silver has been destroyed is no further excuse for this alarm, hence tho apathy which vails. It’ tho people will not learn lesson from this they are dull deed. If 40-cent wheat, 6-cent ton, and II cent wool, together the plain hypocrisy which all financial legislation, will not open tne eyes of the producers of country, they deserve to be everyone of them. TOM REED ON THE WILSON “1 take it for granted Mr. Speaker, the gentleman to whom the letter was dressed to which wo have just listened, has observed til the proprieties which men ordiuairiiy observe with regard to correspondence, and that a letter which marked ’personal' haviug been addressed him, he has not been guilty in any way making it publie in this fashion without express consent of the author. • Hence we have here today the remarkable spectacle of a message sent tne President of tho United States tw house of representative through his committee on ways and means. This to be a just reciprocal action on his part; the house will recollect that the on ways and means communicated to house its intention of having an income through the kindness of the President the United States. (Applause on the publican side.) “Whether this relationship thus intimate between a committee of this house and president of the United (States plated by the constitution of the United States or not, is hardly worth the trouble inquiry in the shape in which the now stands before the house. Least of ail, would anybody on this sido find fault with the severe language which the president— tho democratic president—has seen fit use about a democratic senate and applause on the republican side.) “Undoubtedly his personal intercourse with the members of tliat body and his offi rial relations with them have enabled him *° E ut in al1 his strength of a reproof which that letter contains. But the transaction ns it stands today, is between them and him. Far oc it for us to interfere. If he had made a righteous charge their char¬ acters are blackened; and if he has made a false charge it is for them to see that jus¬ tice is done to the truth of history. (Ap¬ plause on the republican side.) We have no concern with it except as spectators. " The Democratic Executive Commit¬ tee of Clay county is requested to meet at 10 o'clock at the conrthouse on July 31st, 1894, J, R, Irwin, Chr’m. STATE PLATFORM Of the Peoples’ Party—Read and Reflect. \\ o hereby renew our unqualified endorsement of the national platform of in the Peoples’ Georgia party, and wo favor ,ha State of the following retotin. L T J\ e abolition of ^ Present convict , lease which gre*ed system prosti tutes to tho of private Vightto avarice the State’s sovereign pumsh her citizens ror violation of law. \Y e bebeve lllf * State herself should keep •*,..! 1 should . employ them upon the public roads and llot a i| ow them brought i in com pernio,, with honest free labor. *' tavor the furnishing of _ — e pn plo books. by the \\ frequent e also favor changes the payment of of the teachers monthly. 3. Wo favor the enactment of an unperverted Australian ballot Jaw to be so framed as to allow illiterate blind voters to receive aid in the they preparation of their ballots, when election. so desire, from the mauagers of 4. We emphatically condemn practice, of late becoming so preva¬ lent, of public officers accepting free passes from railroad corporations. We intend this condemnation to ap¬ ply to the executive, legislative and judicial branches of our national ami state government. 5. Do ieving, as wo do, that these eternal principles are necessary to good government and to the preset 1 - ration of onr republican and, believing that a supreme neees sitv now exists for a determined and organized struggle against tho rupt despotism of centralized we this hereby pledge ourselver anew to sacred task, and we invite the earnest co-operation of all good citi¬ zens, these irrespective of party; and upon united efforts in behalf of th i causo of constitutional liberty reverently invoke tho blessings of Almighty God. C. II. Ellington, Chairman P.atforni Committee. CLEVELAND A HERMIT. The Washington correspondent of the Chicago Times says: ‘•No hem it ever kept more rigidly or re ligiously to himself than does Mr. Clove land now, To the people of Washington Mr. Cleveland is but a name. They never • * .. him, they . hardly of his existence; see mow never Is he Seen upon tho street. When he goes out foi a drive it is in a coupe, with the windows tightly closed, and then ho takes his course through the'parts of city where no one will see him, He did come out of his seclusion long enough to at¬ tend the funeral ceremonies of President Carnot, but that was (lie first glimpse that Washington has caught of him for weeks and months. “Mr, Cleveland never goes out to church. lie has a pew where he can listen to the preaching of Dr. Sunderland the aged min¬ ister who performed the marriage ceremony in tne White House parlors. But unless Mrs. Cleveland attends divine worship this pew is always empty. Employees at the House, who have had their positions for years, say that never in their have there been so few callers and so few people who really wish to see the president. “During his former administration lie was accustomed to have admiring friend s of party . rush , to , the .. \\ lute tt House m • squads. •. perfectly content if they only exchanged a word of greeting to the leader of their party. But im-..- whole days go bv without a caller making a repuest to see him. Even his inet seem to shun the Whito House. He chummy with only 2 members of it. and Bissell, and the friendship is the of old association and past memories than anything else. He secs no one in office and he will not go out to see He refuses invitations of every and shuns publicity in every form. HE DID SAY IT. The Jonesboro News speaks as lows: The report we made last week of Mr. Atkinson’s speech has caused much citement all over the State, as we received letters from prominent men in regard to it. Some say we him and that he meant “social If he meant that, why did he not say We sat upon a table directly in front him and believe we heard every word he said, and if he did not used the follow¬ lish, ing language we do not understand Eng¬ and there several of our best citi¬ zens who will give affidavits if necessary that he did use such language. We quote him as near as we can: “I had rather see our fair land be seiged with the most malignant type yellow fever, cholera, smallpox or any other terrible disease, than to see populist party in power.” Some construe this to mean something else. W. T. R. Mann is quoted in Bluftton News as saying that ft hen be¬ longing to Mis. W. O. Beard which ’ posited to eggs in one day, was a dem*. cratio hen. I deny this. She xs dently a Peoples’ party hen—in favor the free and unlinlted coinage of legal tender—as eggs havo become a legal tender in this section. If a customer owes the merchant a dime and offers him a dozen eggs and he refuses to ac¬ cept them as pay, he seldom ever gets his pay. Another evidence that she is not a democratic hen, is, that those eggs were genuine, and not mere shells. She is opposed to the single gold standard. Pop. CHAMBERS A TENNILLE Are prepared to do all kinds of Car¬ riage Wagon, Harness and General Black Smith work. Anyone having anything in this line to be done, will find it to their interest to give them a trial. Shop near the calaboose. Subscribe for The Kfforhb. ANNOUNCEMENTS. V*E are authorized to announce J* B. t t gia Bussey's as subject a candidate for the Geor¬ Senate, to tlie-action of the party, of Eleventh District. For Tax Collector. Thanking mv friends for past support and bp myself faithful before in the you future with a in guarantee the past, »* as ask the support of the voters of mv W. E. HARRISON. ' 1 , , hereby announce myself for Tax Col , with people the of position. Clay county I will see discharge fit to honor the me duties of said office to the best IIAISTEn/ of mv-ability. H d. For Tax Assessor. j w.by Clav ammonce mys.lt re-elected, lov T« W sor of comity, aud if prom TS,1 Z *° T, R. DAVIS. MELON CARDS. GEO. E. MARKS, JOS. RITTINER. —— MARKS .V ltlTTIKEit, COMMISSION . . . . • • (MERCHANTS, Whosale Fruits & Produce, r>3 Poydras Street, NEW ORLEANS, LA. References: Metropolis Whitney Nat'l Bank of New Orleans, La. an Bank of New Orleans, La. vilh! 1 Mi'ck CUurCh & C °’* Bi,1,kers ' Urecn ' N.' W. Mather, Banker, Howard Citv, Mich. bradstreefs Mercantile Agency, — EDVt ARI) BE1LSTEIX (Successor to Beilstein & Spangler,) WHOLESALE PRODUCE C o m ill i s s i o n Merchant, 631 Liberty St. Pittsburg, Pa. PHYSICIANS. D. F. GUNN, PR ACT ICING P R YSICIA N, jHT Offlce next to Wallerstein’s. DR. J. M. HATCHETT. Practicing Physician and Druu( »s -, I'OK , T GAINES, --y G A. Also nice line Stalioney. School Looks l !‘^ ° iis ’ Varnishes and Perfumery All cut. Prescriptions _ fine sizes glasses day or night with accuracy and disjxdch. W. S3 L. Douglas SHOE NO 13 SQUEAKING. THE BEST. And other specialties for Gentlemen, Ladies, Hoys m and Misses are tho Best in the World. See descriptive advertise¬ ment which appears la this h paper. AM I Take no Substitute. Insist on having W. I,. . DOIGLAS’ SHOES, pt with name and price ->. v. ' *■* stamped on bottom. Sold by A. M. WALLERSTEIN. Rule Nisi. Maud It. Simpson, vs Clav Superior Court, H. B. Wash. March Term 1894. Present, the Honorable James Griggs, judee ot said court. It appearing to the court bv the petition of MamlR. Simpson that on the 17th ■ ay of June, in the year of our Lord 18RI, II. B. Wash of said county, made and delivered to Maud R Simpson to secure the payment of j 1(?r of mortgage, whereby he conveyed 362. to her lots of land Nos. 352.353, and 117 1-2 acres of lot 163; all being in 7th Dis trict of Clay county containing 725 acres, more or less, conditioned that if said H. B. Wash should pay off and discharge said mortgage according to its tenor and effect, that then said deed of mortgage and said note should be void. And it further ap¬ pearing that said note and mortgage re¬ main unpaid: It is further ordered, that said II. B. Wash pay into this court by the first day of (he next term thereof, the prin¬ cipal. interest, attorney’s fees and cost due on said Maud K. Simpson or show cause to the contnity, if there be any; and that on failure of said H. Bi Wash so to do. the tquity of redemption in and to said mort¬ gaged premises be forever thereafter barred and foreclosed. Ii. E. Kennon, Petitioners Attorney. J, M. Griggs Judge S. C. P. C. GEORGIA—Clay County.—I, J. W. But live, Clerk of Superior Court in and for said state and county, hereby certify that, the above aud foregoing is a true and correct copy of the "Rule Nisi granted at March term 1894, ot said court in case of Maud R. Simpson vs. II. B. Wash. This May 23rd. 1894. J. W. SUTLIVE, C. S. C. TYBEE RAILROAD. We beg to .J iso that the Savanngli & Atlantic R. R. (better known as the Ty bee R. R, ), running from bavannah to Tybee, Ga., which was damaged by sT rm last August, is being repaired, and wilt in operation in time to handle t he :sual Summer business as hereto fore. Contract calls for the ruuning of rains over that road on the 1st of May. The summer schedules will be put in operation as soon as possible, due notice of which will be given. Conecctions are requested jdaced to prepare sale round trip tickets to be on as in previous F. years. J. C. Haile, W. Shellmak, Traffic Man’g’r, G. P. A SUBSCRIBE FOR THE REFORMER! PEOPLES’ PAR fY PLATFORM -a ADOPTED BY THE OMAHA CONFEKHNCE OP l.AltOKlMi PEOPLE, JULY 4, I8i)3. conditions which surround us best justify our co-operation We meet in the ,, f SomIIinti runt1on r, , Sht t l i e Vt>rK0 ° f ,nom1 ' PoHtloal and material ruin. Cof the ermine miil of h?h*m/h t « ' | T n he people * box J tlu> are lo 8 demoralized. 1filHturo& ’ the congress, Most of and the touches States have even t>oon ro bShlre r ,! - S? ; t0 11)0 vot «® ai Iht> polling places to prevent universal Intim id it ion m- 4n "^ v$PaP T al '° larg0,y subsidized muzzled, public opinion sill need be iut'f - d or idiwl h ' °" r homos covered with mortgages, labor hnpovwS neif’are nrn do do^r, d. d tf . oon ng .°®“ tra ° ; in ? R Vga 1,1 ,V i?ation hands fop of sell-protection: the capitalists. Imported The urban pauperized work labor beats Yi le' o'’ H hireling standing aimy, unrecognized by laws, is onndit\o»ic -ii Am l th , down our ti 1 hoof o J ,n i - ftml they »» rapidly degenerating into European fortunes the toil of millions are bohHy stolen to build up colossal fm ' ! l 't ,,, ' t ‘edentod in the history of mankind! and the ti es - ~ n .'ovunTrai Him ri , ubl,c U!l1 ^danger possessors of mode* r< ;F : liberty. From the same prolific aii\i © * c t injustice we breed tne two great classes—tramps and million The national vast public debt bonds, thereby adding million* to the burdens of the people. 2 J 1 -^I^OLS ARRAIGNED.—Silver, which lms been accepted as coin since „ U ^; ;V has demonetized to add to the purchasing of imld i, 1 ' of property, well human power th.. mmnu, ......----- - ^ as as labor, and ... I" ‘A \ . r ! IU0 UStry °y | . s purposedly -C bridged to fatten usurers, bankrupt enterprises ' \ a t it co, 18 P imc J' «8»i“8t mankind has boon organized o . two > lit oneS ne, ii « d ls - ' «*Pi«lly u taking . possession of the World. If not met and establishment^f^nn at f v th dostruCtiou overthrown ° ° f civi,liiatio11 ’ ic-d ih-SSr r'irt?JS'fn, io lP™ WitnC88ed er a ”d ;° plunder, r , rao J , ° tlmn while a grievous centui T I be: struggles have of boon tho two inflicted great pollt .lcpiople. i Wocharge that tho wrongs upon V ? E tt d the controlling influences dominating both these par ♦ l '” ,,, restrain e tliem. existing dreadful conditions to develop without serious effort . <H ^' Neither do they r * 1( y luvo agreed togethei ignore in now promise us any substantial re ' rpi to the coining campaign every issuo but oiu; ci ham battle .* *‘WV . propose the to drown Dio outcrios of plundered peoplo with tho uproar of a . over tariff, so that capitalists, corporations, national bunks, rings uustb. watered stock, the demonetization of silver and the oppressions of tho usurers may be all be lost sight of. f J hey propose to sacrifice our homes, wives and children fro lu.. V^ 1011 ’ to d(J8tl ' 0y U le multitude in order to secure corruption lundb m t Hi on air on the anniversary of the birthday of tho nation, and filled with tho spirit or the grand generation who established our independence, we seek to restore it'origiiiafed 0Uti ° f 11C republic to lho hauds of “ t ho l ,laia people,” with which c'ass of <I the V national l IK .) VA J l constitution—“To rs OVER.—We assort iorm our purposes perfect to be union, identical establish with the purposes a more justice, in sure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general wel are and secure the blessings of liberty for ourselves and our posterity.” We declare ], the -•'(’public whole people for can each only other endure and as for a free the government nation; that while built upon tho love of it cannot be pinned together t»> Duyonels; that tlie civil war is over, and that every passion and resentment which gievi out of it must die with it, and that we must bo In fact, us wo are in name, united brotherhood of freemen. one Our country finds itself confronted by conditions for which there is no precedent in tho history of the world—our annual agricultural productions amount to billions of ? 111 V! i up ’ vv}l »ch must within a few weeks or months be exchanged for billions °* * ( 11 ‘Ol.ais of commodities comsumcd in their production; the existing ply is wholly inadequate to make this exchange; tho results falling currency sup¬ • it ion ot combines and rings arid the impoverishment tho aro prices, the for pledge ourselves of producing classes. Wo that if given power wo will labor to correct these evils by wise and reasonable legislation in accordance with the terms of our platform. believe that the powers of the government—in other words, of tho peoplo— shou.d be expanded (as in tho case of the postal Service) as rapidly and as far as tne good sense of an intelligent peoplo and tho teachings of experience shall justify, to tho end that oppression, injustice and poverty shall eventually cease in the land, THREE! OLD DECLARATION.—While our sympathies as a party of reform arc naturally upon the side of every proposition which will tend to make men intelli¬ gent. virtuous and temperate, we nevertheless regard these questions, important as they are, as secondary to tho great Issues now pi easing for solution, and upon which not only our individual prosperity but the very existence of free institutions depend; and we ask all men first help us to determine whether wo aro to have a republic to administer before wo differ as to the conditions upon which it is to bo administered, believing that the forces of reform this day organized-will never cease to move for¬ ward until every wrong is remedied and equal rights and equal privileges securely established for all the men and women of the country. We declare therefore: 1. 1 hat the union of t he labor for es of the United Btatea this day consumatcd, shall be permanent and perpetual. ' its spirit enter into all hearts for the salva¬ tion of the republic and tho uplifting of mankind. 3. Wealth belongs to him who creates it, nml every dollar taken from industry without an equivolont is robbery. -‘If any will not work, neither shall he oat.” The interests of rural and civic labor aro the same; their enemies aro identical. 3. We believe that the time has como when tho railroad corporations will either own the peoplo or the people must own them, and should tho government enter upon the work of owning and contioiling any or all railroads we should favor an amend, nient to the constitution by which all persons engaged in tho government servico shall be placed under a civil servico regulation of the most rigid character, so as to prevent the increase of the power of national administration by tho use of such addi¬ tional government employes. The Planks of the Platform. L We demand a national currency, safe, sound, and tlexiblo, issued by tho gen¬ eral government only, a full legal tender for all debts, public and private, and that without the use of banking corporations; a just, equitable and efficient means of dis¬ tribution. direct to the people, at a tax not exceeding 2 percent., bo provided, as set forth in the’subtreasury plan of the Fanners’ Alliance, or some bettor system; also by payments ^1° in discharge of its obligations for public improvements, ld't C * emant * 100 anc * ualim i te d coinage of silver and gold at tho presont ratio f b. We demand that the amount of circulating medium bo speedily increased to not less than $50 capita. c. We demand a graduated income tax. d. Wo believe the money of the country should bo kept as ranch as possible in the hands of the people, and hence wo demand that all State and national revenue shall be limited to the necessary expanses of the government, economically and honestly administered. c. We demand that postal savings banks be established by tho government for safe deposit of the earnings of tho peoplo aud to facilitate exchange. 2. Transportation being a means of change and a public necessity, tho govern¬ ment should own and operate the railroads in the interest of the people. a. The telegraph and telephone, like the posloffice system, being a necessity tor the transportation of news should be owned and operated by tho government in the interest of tho people. 3. The land, including all the national resources of wealth, is the heritage of all the people, and should not be monopolized for speculative purposes, and alien own ership of land should be prohibited. All land now held by railroads and other cor porations in excess of their actual needs, and all lands now owned by aliens, should be reclaimed by the government and held for actual settlers only. SUPPLEMENT TO THE PLATFORM.—Whereas other questions havo been presented for our consideration, we-hereby submit the following, not as a part of the platform of the Peoples’ party, but as resolutions expressive ot the sentiment of this convention: 1. Resolved, That we demand a free ballot and a fair count in all elections and pledge ourselves to secure it to every legal voter without Federal intervention through the adoption by the States of the uriperverted Australian or secret ballot system. 2. Resolved, That tho revenue derived from a graduated income tax should be applied to a reduction of the burden of taxation now resting upon the domestic indufu tries of the country. 3. Resolved, That wc pledge our support to fair and liberal pensions to ex-Union soldiers and sailors. 4. Resolved, That we condemn the fallacy ot protecting American labor under the present system, which opens our ports to the pauper and criminal classes of tho world, and crowds out our wage earners; and wo denounce tho present ineffective laws against contract labor, and demand the further restri3tion of undesirablo immi¬ gration. 5. Resolved, That wc cordially sympathize with the efforts of organized workings eight-hour men to shorten law the hours government of labor work, arid demand and ask a that rigid pouulty enforcement clause of bo tho added existing on a to tho said law. 0. Resolved, That we regard the maintenance of a largo standing army ot merce¬ naries. known as the Pinkerton system as a menace to our liberties, and wo demand its abolition; and we condemn the recent invasion of the territory of Wyoming by the hierc-d assassins of plutocracy’, assiated by Federal official's. 7. Resolved, That we commend to the favorable consideration of the peoplo and the reform press the legislative system known as the initiative and referendum. 8. Resolved, That we favor a constitutional provision limiting the office of Pros-* ident and Vice-President to one term, and providing for tho election of Senators of the United States by a direct vote of the people. 9. Resolved, That we oppose any sudsidy or national aid to any private corpora¬ tion for any purpose. SUBSCRIBE FOR THE Daily Press '9 PUBLISHED IN ATLANTA, GA., BY HON. THOMAS E. WATSON. SUBSCRIPTION RATES! ZVo^h 1!