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THE REFORMER Published Evkhy Friday Evening at FORT GAINES, OA. FORT GAINES, GA., AUGUST 31, 1894 POPULIST TICKET. For Governor:' JAMES K. MINKS. Fqr Secretary of State: Dh. A. L. NANCE, For Treasurer: ;<). M. JONES. For Comj tr oiler.General; ,W- 11. KEMP. For Attorney General: J. A. It. M’HAFFY For Commissioner Agriculture: J. B. BARRETT. For Representative of Second Oongres. siouul District: W. E. SMITH. For Representative of Eleventh Senato¬ rial District: N. T, CKOZIER. For Representative Clay County: HON. It. M. BROWN. BOMBSHELLS. Libor makes till but owns Iho least. The way to secure reform is to vote for it. WImt is pure, undefiled democracy, any¬ how? Let us liavo public ownership of public utilities. The democratic party w ill soon have a chance—-to get out. The American Railway Union will strike at tlu» ballot box Home of those alliance democrats make first class cuckoos. The plutocrats can never blind American people by force. The jteople ure now on a single punts basts—just got one pair. « Ex President Harrison’s boom is no bet¬ ter. It is just able to bo out. The money pirates seem to have tho gov¬ ernment, under complete control No matt is a good populist who is not do tug something for the cause. The Arkansas democrats stole a large sec¬ tion of the Omaha platform. A western man calls Grover “a Buffalo chip.” That's a pretty hard hit. A* we drift away from an honest ballot we come nearer the deadly bullet. If you want good times vote for them. Any kind of a fmt dollar is better than a democratic promise. We have no objection to Cleveland fish ing; he does less harm then than any other time. Any man who takes the trouble to think knows there is something wrong. Everything is all right with tho fellow who don’t work aud lives better than tho fellow who does. Plutocracy don’t dread strikes half as much as votes. If you want to hit them where they live, defeat their candidate Idle money and idle men and women! Tint is the condition of the country today, and the democratic party is at the bat. A good paj*er dollar, like a good Christian, doesn't need any redeemer. It redeems it¬ self everytime it pays for labor or produce. The people are paying rather high for the kind of government they ave getting. The peoples party hasn’t got any million¬ aires in it. They don't feel at home there. There is plenty of money in the New York banks. Yes, audit is going to stay there too. An exchange says that the democratic patty is going to the dogs. This will be bad for the dogs. Tac struggling of the masses is for em¬ ployment and a fair share on the results of theii labor. Repealing the silver law to cure haul times was like piecing a dog's tail to make it shorter. When the people get hungry enough they will ask for a new deal. The bondholders and bankers are the only men who ever pretended to doubt the credit of the United States. The Israelites created a golden calf and worshipped it. The morkingmen create capital and then bow to it. Congress knows what to do to relieve the people, but congress is not working at that kind of business just now. The sugar trust preserves a “parity” be¬ tween both old parties. With it both are equal intrinsic value. The American Rai’way Union has con¬ cluded to go into politics, and now the or¬ ganization will amount to something, Capitalists have control of the old parties, and the old parties have con¬ trol of workingmen. Party is a con¬ venient bait to catch suckers with, and capitalists have a clinch on the republican worm and the democratic fly! What a dandy financial system you are upholding when of which you approve of the government, be assuming you all are supposed sponsibility to connected part, with the bank¬ re ing business, whilo the bankers got all the profits l Can you think ? JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES’LETTER. from Editor the northwest Constitution—Upon I find that my return public rumor connects my name with an inten tion to oppose the nominees of the state democratic convention upon the bust ings, and to offer as an independent can didate for congress in the Atlanta dts trict. I have neither of these intentions— least of all, the last—but the prevalence of this rumor justifies a word as to my position. From my place m the ranks, where for twelve years I have fought unself ishly speak and without reward, respectful I have a right to frankly to the hoar ing of the democracy of Georgia. No man has questioned mv sincerity ‘ttfe in the \ ast ami I put behind mo here pos sibilitv of misconstruction, when I say tlmt I do not desire now or in the fti- 1 lire atir office the people have in their liallots to bestow. I am wounded in no friendnliip, ssfsssfz smitten in no ambition and :.z.k politics i.ensivo in Georgia, and seriously appre for the welfare of the party to which I belong. You who write know as well ns I who apeak that there is discord in the ranks of the Georgia democracy, and discon tent You brewing bitterness and division know as well as I do that this boast ful jority prophecy is of 70.000 democratic ma the mere bravado of politicians who realize the possibility of no major ity at all, and who illustrate their appre hension by the tremendous energy now bemg put forth in men and money and veteran democrats stayed away from the primary election in order to hold them selves free for the October issue, and you know, or yon ought to know, that thousands of these men will absent themselves from the polls in October, or go thoro to civst a straight and fearless ballot against the nominees of tho parly to which they have been blindly true for a generation. If you do not know these things, yon can easily verify them by the scantiest investigation luto the sentiment of jour own locality aud of the counties about it Georgia is ripe today with tho spirit of revolt! These are bold words, but the they arc the truest you have heard since campaign opened, aud I challenge you to refute them iu fact, however much your extremes of partisan loyalty nm y lead you to deny them iu boustfiil and swelling platitudes. What is the basis of this discontent in Ihe ranks of a long-united party? It does not grow, abstractly, out of the defeat of General Evans for gov ernor. With Evans politicians at work and General Fvans himself corralled on the stump in nn excess of a magnauim ity toward a victorious opponent, this explanation will not begin to meet tho situation. It is hot due to the diversity of the sentiment on the tariff issue. The tariff was long General since truthfully epito mized by Hancock as a local question, and the varying views of Geor giaus for twelve years past have never yet been precipitated in real division nor the threat of it. Neither can it be as cribed to the financial theories which beset us. In the conglomeveat jumble of platforms—state, national aud congres sional—presented tisans and by compromising t<;xv heroic latitude interpreted liberally and with there by partisan newspapers, is satisfaction for every separate view and an ample basis for joyous bar mony into which even the populist may gather in the old faslioned ratio of 16 to 1. But neither the bitterness of parti straddle sauship, nor the i-ins of tariff, uor the of the financial issue, cau ex plain the deep discouteut that is grow iug You in the state. will explain it? If not, I will. I will tell you where the trouble lies. It is in the protest of tho thinking masses against the methods that are objection able aud a drift in our politics that is dangerous and deadly. Let me tell you, Constitution, that, although it may sleep long and sluggishly under the reign of the demagogue, there is nothing iu God's great universe of thought keener aud truer and wises and bolder at lust than the awakened judgment of the peo pie. The man or men who discount this fact, discount history, reason aud common sense. And the woods of Geor gia, like the streets of your cites, are full of men who are carrying in patriotic hearts a protest, silent now, but tremen dous hereafter. I am tho humblest of these men, per haps. unworthy. Perhaps the w eakest and most But I will voice this protest lor them. I will speak without fear aud without apolopy, in the freedom of a citizen, and iu the most unselfish love for the real interests of the democratic party. • 1. They believe—thousands of them— that there is a ring formed in Georgia— a ring of small men, of keen, schrewd, active themselves aud ambitious politicians, loving first, aud Georgia incident¬ ally as the mother ot offices and the dis burser of spoils. They believe that these men haye secured control ot the machin¬ ery of the party and intend to throttle the free expression of the popular will. They believe that these meu, confident ia the fancied strength of their position, aud reckless of public opinion, have met m secret conclave and parceled out the offices of Georgia for years to come, without cousultiug their masters, the people, w ho are expected to ratify iu slavish and truculent ioj alty the edicts of convention which these men shrewdly manipulate 2. and selfishly “control.” them— They believe—thousands of that a goodly number, if not a majority, of the judges aud solicitors of Georgia - monstrous their thought!—have wrapped splendid energies and their polite cal fortunes in the future of the riug, an that this highest aud noblest aud most sacred branch of our civic life is being stained by political manipulation, and prostituted by the selfish scramble of place. This is the protest which is rolling in silence and gai henug in menace in the hearts and the hands of the people. They believe these dangers to be real and they are rising to meet them. You shall not doubt the truth of the asser tiou. I dare you who doubt it—whether in personal or official state—to go with me or send with me one w ho shall fairly gauge this sentiment and fearlessly report tho sweep of in Georgia. And the people have a right to be¬ lieve this dreadful danger. If it is not threatening, they it is not their fault No that cherish the apprehension. ef¬ fort has ever been made to disabuse them of this fear. Both of these mon¬ strous apprehensions have been estab¬ lished to their convictions; established in circumstantial evidence powerful enough to seem conclusive; established in the open and oft-reDeatcd charges of democratic orators and democratic news¬ papers, whose fiery allegations have never been retracted or explained; and established finally in the silence with whi °b those charged with their burden bave me t the serious aspersion, For whether it be confidence in the strength their plans, or an insolent contempt for the opinion of the people, ox a pars¬ ‘lexical regard for truth of statement, it charges an apparent justification for these that they have never been met "'I rtth 1 * 1 brave and consideration manly definite or answered denial, prompt d these AlJ R things be true, there is no extreme of action to which the hon est protest of Georgia should not be car rled - 1 he issue involved is greater than parties, her than deeper than the tariff, and dead any theory of currency. These "‘tig moUll y «itn changing partus, but “the t lie °P°, n sore on the body politic eats and cankers aud destroys. lhe of a P«*e judiciary towers bke a mountain , peak above every other question of the campaign. Mark you. it 'V l e shibboleth of _ thousands m SSi,’,Sar:r,sr;: f his at !last , thinking and reading is a a P eo P lp - lho la f fc tour yenrs-the last two campaigns—have been lull of edu catl freely V u< and £ n mil 4 t , tLo vote peo P le fearless aru thinkin than 3 more tho J have eve ? ( \°ne bKf °re. You can not any longer shake the red rag of ue f?r u supremacy m the face of the masses aud make them think that life and death aud salvation depend upon voting the democratic ticket. They are thinking J or themselves now, and erecting inthdr b'eemmds and brave hearts a higher to which meQ and meaanres , n „ st „„ ^ r „, queuce. It is galling enough if this riug easts, for free and independent men to know that henceforth they are mere automatons made to register the deeis ions of a star chamber caucus—mere hg ure to dance and vote when these score ° r more bosses pull the strings. But Bu* might be borne. Govern meats have dispersed conspiracies before, and the people of Georgia have smashed more tliaa oDe .«“« lu t ‘ lei r glorious aud eventful history. But .. the . , entrance of the judiciary into tho selfish unbearable scramble of ^Irtesis monstrous aud It touches the holy of holies m the state. Think of one who wears the sacred er “fine of the courts, aud sworn to dis peuse impartial justice under the law, owning his seat to a cabal and forced to tico recognize the obligation ! Think of jus held in any chair of dependence or poisoned by any coward fear of interest! Think of these high aud noble seats. glorified by the great names of the past, ambition prostituted into altars of self-seeking and degraded into tribunals for compounding the felonies of political henchmen, or lor spiteful vengeance or political antagonists ! Better monarchy than republican infamy like this. Bet tion ter despotism masked or populism than corrup in the beautiful lineamenrs of law. Better a king than a prostitute judge! Better a Caezar than Jeffries! I tell you, Constitution, that these things are boiling in the noble veins of Georgia. If the charges which base them are untrue, it should be made crys tiU clear to the comprehension of the people. No pompous denial, no blataut protestation will alone suffice for this, Farnldy, repeated fairly and explicitly these oft cliarges must be met aud the iruih made manifest in the light of day. If tUese charges are true, tiiere is yet time to purge the evil and redeem the party from disaster. If the riug is formed, if the coalition exists, and if the judiciary is in it, let the ring be openly dissolved and let the ccurt officers, over their own names, renounce all future connection with political huckstering iu the state. This bold, frank course is the only way—the noble way—clear always and open to patriots and statesmen, As a democrat, as a lover of my party, I plead with all my heart and soul and strength for the purification of that party—from the shadows which becloud it- Nay, more ! As a citizen aud au unimpeached representative, speaking from my place m the ranks, I demand t bis vindication before we go out to do battle with a strong, clean and forrnid able foe. There is no treason in these true words—at least none that 1 fear, either now or hereafter. Liberated at last and and finally from any desire for public office, without hope of reward or fear of punishment, I speak them fearlessly for the essential good of the party aud above all for the glory of the state. If the fears of the people are unfounded, it is time to make th s clear. If they are just there be is forgiven, time for public sinners to repent aud -but if these denied, things are neither ex plained uor thousands I swear Georgians to you that there are of w ho will hold their ballots as the expression of their political consciences, aud hurl them fearlessly in October at the head of this open an defiant shame, JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, You say the law can not make money, but are compelled to admit that law can unmake it. The fact that law has unmade money, argues that law had previously made money, don’t it? If not, why not? „ LABOR. ** Labor is robbed by the politician and votes tor the robber. Labor non-producer. produces wealth and votes it to the Labor builds fine houses and votes them to those who don’t labor. Labor produces everything to eat, oios it to those who are uot hungry, and goes hungry itself. Labor makes fine clothes for those who don’t labor. Labor builds fine carriages for drones to ride in. Labor builds railroads and is rob¬ bed by the railroad companies. and Labor creates capital is tyran ized over by capital. the world and Labor feeds goes hungry itself. Labor clothes the world, but wears ragged Labor clothes. fool, has been is a hese eighteen hundred years and will Be' until it uses ite best weapon—the ballot—in self-defense. Democratic tariff reform is now seen to be a good deal like the pecu¬ liar mermaid you have heard about, too much fish to embrace and too much woman to fry. NOTICE ! J. R. McLendon desires to inform the public that he Eiaperators, ia prepared Kettles, to furnish Etc., Cane Mills, Call on short notice. Cheap ron cash. to see him. Jxu STATE PLATFORM Of the Peoples’ Party—Read and Reflect. '> o hereby renew our unqualified endorsement of the national platform of the Peoples’ party, and we favor j n ,the State of Georgia the following re f orm . j The 11 ® abolition ™°“ lt:[0U of ot the ® nresent P use ^ convict lease system which , . prosti tutes to the greed of private avarice btate ssoveremn right to punish her citizens for violation of law. tie believe the State herself should keep possession “ of her prisoners P and should : j th u ¥ n fhe DU ** bH c roads ' and . not allow them brought . . in . com petition with honest Free labor. avoid 4 the burdens put ple freauent upon our peo j 1 bv y the Tr changes fu S of b ?°, , vS w " ® a >0 * av ° r the P a y ment . * of the teachers monthly. 3. W e favor the enactment of an unperverted framed Australian allow ballot illiterate law to be so as to or blind voters to receive aid in the -1 1 * t ; f th • ballots * ’ when they , so desire, from the . managers ot eU'cUon. 4. We emphatically condemn this co . mnati _i to ap , . judicial P y *? [ ne branches executive, ot our legislative national state government. 3. Be ieving, as we do, that eternal principles are necessary to (TOO l „ 0 vernmont and to the f 'atmu .. *' ot our n republican .•" " an,1 > believing that a supreme sity now exists for a determined organized struggle against the nipt despotism of centralized we hereby JLi pledge ®i. ourselver anew t . • t rl invit« « n wp ‘ ‘ ‘ « ,, . . . earn est co-operation ot all good Cltl zens, irrespective of party; and upon these united efforts in behalt ot th 3 cause of constitutional liberty reverently invoke the blessings b * AlmJo'htvGod ° ^ f v^. 1 TT 11 . Fr i^LLUNbiON, r typtoxt Chairman „ . 1 .attorn Committee. NOTIf’F iMUllh. 1 Tc My Many Foiends and Customers: t I am still on i.« hand n a at „„ my Old «, btand, , Whiskies wi 1 lo ^ those a A°„ whom j ie I Lave; . (,rades car- ot ri °d over dm lngsnmmei season, I must say that my obligations are now due, "V ai * d a “ ° b ?’ pleasa call . and[settle, as the demands 011 tlns mq»est ot you without delay. Respectfully, au{ = ^ohen. Capitalists control both cf the old parties. You workingmen of Amer ice will fret no moro fhvonrrh ol‘l n parties «i than the . 1 capitalists .' who , control them are willing you should have. Citation. GEORGIA—Clay To all whom County; it may concern: Harriet Goodman lias in due form ap¬ plied to the undersigned for a twelve month support for herself and her child, Hfjsa Lee Goodman, out of the estate of Samuel Goodman, deceased, aud I will pass on said application on the Given first Monday in September, 1804. under my hand and official signa¬ ture, this August 6 th, 1894. R. T. FOOTE, Ordinary. When you hear a reform or former spoken of contemptuously, ask yourself recommendation whether that is not strong in favor 0 > both. Saloon! J. L. HURST, Hancock St., FORT GAIXES, GA. Encouraged by the prospects of good crops, the Proprietor of this well known and popular estab¬ lishment, has ordered, and has on hand, a large stock of WHISKIES WILD-CAT CORN, CHAMPAGNE RYE, WINES OF ALL KINDS, ICE-COLD BEER, TOBACCO & CIGARS. His friends and patrons are to call. aug 3 A LETTER OF 1863. The following letter shows its re¬ lation to the Buel-Hazzanl circulars, and was, no doubt, connected with that glaring conspiracy: Rothschild Bro’s., Bankers. London, June 23,1863 Messrs Iklehedier, Morton and Vandergould, No. 3 Wall Street, New York, U. S. A. Dear Sirs:—A. Mr. John Sherman ^as written us from a town in Ohio, v g A in’the a s to 1he profits that mav be ma(ie National Banking ° bus¬ • 1 , d ^ ce n . * i fc . c VOnr C • Sf e ® s > a copy ot which . act accompa nied hlS . le t ‘ er - Apparently this act has , been drawn I 'upon the plan forrn u i ate d here last summer by the Brit ish g&g.aagg'g 11 Bankers’ n can 1 Association nt s as one and ia bv it that ei. " . uld high!y .profitable a< , l ?}° to the w banking ? P r0 ^ fraternity throughout the world, Mr. Sherman declares that there .,* , .! fircanitaliite , , , , accumS ltunit ^ to lat f . that Presented , bv tins . . e ,n V U * y ’, net , and that the old plan of State Banks is so unpopular, that the new sc h em e will, by mere contrast, bemorofavorablvregarded,not\vith- fact standing tho that it guves the ft au ^ « taolBto gy^tem,” he says “will either bo so j j n terested in its profits, or so depend e ©DDoStion nt on its favors thatXs that there’ll he no from while on ,, ie ,, ler an ^ k l t“a . °ty . .. > *i tbe P C 0 P‘°> mentally incapable of compredending the tvemondous ad vantages that capital derives from the system wd i bear its burdens wit b ou t complaint, and perhaps with P u 1 t ® v( : n ^ P^cting that the system . T!? 1 lease adv.se ! e us ‘ rl ! fully i, as t to rh' this matter, and also, state whether or uo t y OU will be of assistance to us, * if w e conc i ude to establish a Na- 1 . i t» . • t] • J « N v , It,- ^ aVG acquainted • . with ... Mr. M bher the man National (he appears to have introduced glad Banking act), we will be To know something of him. If we avail ourselves of the mtorma tion ho furnished, we will of course ™nr,!l 1 ,i n „ Zr Awaiting A ... ait ; n „ j our lepiy, we art, Y our Respectful Servants, BOTHCHILD BROTHERS, ANNOUNCEMENTS. v'w'.'vwwwv' W E are authorized to announce J, B. gia Bussey's as a candidate the for action the Geor¬ the Senate, subject to of Democratic party, of Eleventh District. For Tax Collector. placing Thanking myself my before friends for with past support and be huthful in the you future a in guarantee tho ; i to tE as discharge of duties as of Tax past, Col ’ 1 e my | lector, l again oiler my service, and respect fully ask the support of the voters of rny county. W. li. IIAKnISON. I hereby announce myself for Tax Col¬ lector of Clay county. I am physically u« able to do manual labor, and should the good with people of position, Olay county I wiii sec discharge fit to honor the me the duties of said office to the best of my ability, II D. HAISTEN. For Tax Assessor. I hereby of annuonce myself for Tax Asses¬ sor faithful Clay county, discharge and if re-elected, the duties prom¬ ise a of of my office. their Thanking the voters of Clay for past support, I respectfully ask to be remembered again. T, R. DAVIS. MELON CARDS. GEO. E, MARKS, JOS. RITTINER. MARKS k RITTINER, COMMISSION . . . . • • • ■ MERCHANTS, Whosale Fruits & Produce. 53 Poydras Street, NEW ORLEANS, LA. References: Whitney Nat’l Bank of New Orleans, La. Metropolitan Bank of New Orleans, La. Chas. J. Church & Co,. Bankers, Green¬ ville, Mich. N. W. Mather, Banker, Howard Citv, Mich. Bradstreet’s Mercantile Agency. — EDWARD BEILSTEIN, — (Successor to Beilstem & Spangler,) WHOLESALE -:- PRODUCE Commission Merchant, 531 Liberty St. Pittsburg, Pa. . PHY SICLAJNT S. D. F. GUNN, PRACTICING PHYSICIAN jS^Ofilce next to Wallerstein’s. W. $3 L. Douglas SHOE NO IS SQUEAKING. THE BEST. And other specialties for Gentlemen, Ladies, Boys and Misses are the Best in the World. See descriptive advertise¬ ment which appears In this paper. Take no Substitute. Insist on having W. L. DOIGLAS’ SHOES. “ with and price name \ stamped on bottom. Bold by A. M. WALLERSTEIN SUBSCRIBE FOR THE PEOPLES’ PARTY PLATFORM. ADOPTED J!V THE OMAHA CONFERENCE OF LABORING PEOPLE, JULY J, 1898. A SSEMBt.Ef) upon O one hundred and sixteenth anniversary of tho declaration of independence, O Peoples’ party of America, in their first national convcn tho name t;on X - au invokingJ-pon oenai their action the blessing of tho Almighty God, puts forth in ration of principles: , following preamble and dechi The conditions which surround us best justify our cc-operation. Wo moot in tho midst of a nation brought to the verge of moral, political and material ruin. C 01 - 1 option dominates tho ballot box, the legislatures, tho congress, and touches oven tho ermine of the bench. The people ate demoralized. Most of the States have boon compelled to isolate the voters at the polling places to prevent universal intfin or bribery. The newspapers arc largely subsidized or muzzled, public opinion silenced, business prostrated, our homes covered with mortgages, luhor impover¬ ished, and tho lands concentrating in tho hands of the capitalists. The urban work¬ men are denied tho lijht of organization for selt-protection; imported pauperized labor beats down their wages; a hireling standing at my, unrecognized by our laws* is established to shoot them down, and they are rapidly degenerating into European conditions. Tho fruits of tho toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes for a few, unprecedented in the history of mankind, ntnl the possessors of these, in turn, despise Hie republic mid endanger liberty. From tho same prolific mode of governmental injustice we breed the two great classes—tramps and million¬ aires. 1 ho national power to create money Is appropriated to enrich bondholders. A vast pubiic debt payable in legal tender currency 1 ms been funded into gold bearing bonds, thereby adding millions to tho burdens of tho people, HIE OLD PARTIES ARRAIGNED.—Silver, which has been accepted as Coin since tho dawn of history, has been demonetized to add to the purchasing power of gold by decreasing the value of all forms of property, as well as human labor, ami the supply of currency ispurposedly abridged to fatten usurers, bankrupt enterprises and enslave industry. A vast conspiracy against mankind has been organized o 1 two continents and is rapidly taking possession of the world. If not met and overthrown at once it forebodes terrible social convulsions, tho destruction of civilization, or the establishment of an absolute despotism. » We have witnessed for more than a century the struggles of tho two great polit¬ ical parties foi power and plunder, while grievous wrongs have been inflicted upon tho people. We charge that the controlling influences dominating both tlieso par¬ ties have permitted the existing dreadful conditions to develop without serious effort to prevent or restrain them. Neither do they' now promise us any substantial re¬ form. They have agreed togethei to ignore in tho coming campaign every issuo but one. They propose to drown the outcries of plundered people with tho uproar of a sham battle over the tariff, so that capitalists, corporations, national banks, rings, trusts, watered stock, the demonetization of silver and tho oppressions of the usurers may bo all be lost sight of. They propose to sacrifice our homes, wives and children on t he altar of Mammon; to destroy the multitude in order to secure corruption funds from the millionaires. Assembled on tho anniversary of the birthday of tho nation, and filled with tho spirit of the grand generation who established our independence, wo seek to restoro the government of the republic to tho hands of “the plain people,” with which c’ass it originated. THE WAR IS OVER.—We assert our purposes to bo identical with the purposes of tho national constitution—“To form a more perfect union, establish justice, in¬ sure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote tho general wel¬ fare and secure the blessings of liberty for ourselves and our posterity.” Wo doclaro t hat this republic ettn only endure as a free government while built upon tho love of the whole people for each other and for the nation; that it cannot be pinned together by bayonets; that the civil war is over, and that every passion and resentment which grew out of it must die with it, and that we must be in fact, as wo are in name, one united brotherhood of freemen. Our country finds itself confronted by conditions for which there is no precedent In the history of the world—our annual agricultural productions amount to billions of dollars in value, which must within a few weeks or months bo exchanged for billions of dollars of commodities comsumed in their production; the existing currency sup¬ ply is wholly inadequate to make this exchange; tho results are falling prices, tho for¬ mation of combines and rings and the impoverishment of the producing classes. Wo pledge ourselves that if given power wo will labor to correct t hese evils by wise and reasonable legislation in accordance with the terms of our platform. We believe that the powers of the government—in other words, of the pooplo— should be expanded (as in the case of the postal service) as rapidly and far as the good sense of an intelligent people and the teachings of experience shall justify, to the end that oppression, injustice and poverty shall eventually cease in the land, THREEFOLD DECLARATION.—While our sympathies as a party of reform are naturally upon the side of every proposition which will tend to make men intelli¬ gent, virtuous and temperate, wo nevertheless regard those questions, important as they are, as secondary to the great issues now ptessing for solution, and upon which not only our individual prosperity but tho very existence of free Institutions depend; and we ask all men first help us to determine whether we are to have a republic to administer before we differ as to the conditions upon which it is to be administered, believing that the forces of reform this day organized will never cease to move for ward until every wrorg is remedied and equal rights and equal privileges securely established for all tho men and women of the country. We declare therefore: l. That the union of the labor forces of the United States this day consumated, shall be permanent and perpetual. May mankind. its spirit enter into all hearts for the salva t i on 0 f the republic and the uplifting of 2 . Wealth belongs to him who creates it, and every dollar taken from industry without an equivolent is robbery. “If any will not w»rk, neither shall he eat.” The interests of rural and civic labor are the same; their enemies are identical. 3. We believe that tho time has come when the railroad corporations will cithor own the people or the people must own them, and should the government enter upon the work of owning and contiolling any or all railroads we should favor an amend¬ ment to the constitution by which all persons engaged in tho government service shall be placed under a civil service regulation of tho most rigid character, so as * prevent tho increase of the power of national administration by tho use of such ad . tiouai government employes. The Planks of the Platform. 1 . We demand a national currency, safe, sound, and fiexiblo, Issued by tho got, oral 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 1 . tribution, direct to the people, at a tax not exceeding 2 percent., be provided, as set forth in the’subtreasury plan of the Farmers’ Alliance, or some better system; also by payments in discharge of its obligations for public improvements. a. Wo demand free and unlimited coinage of silvor and gold at the present ratio of 1 G to 1 . b. We demand that the amount of circulating medium be speedily increasod to not less than $ 0 O capita. c. We demand a graduated income the tax. should kept much d We beltevo the money of country be as as possible in the bunds of the people, and hence wo demand that all State and national revenue shall be limited to tho necessary expenses 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 people .and to facilitate exchange. 2. Transportation being a means of change and a public necessity, tho govern¬ ment should own and operate the railroads in tho interest of the people. а. 1 he telegraph and telephone, like the postoffice system, being a necessity for the transportation of news should be owned aud operated by tho government in the interest of the people. the national of wealth, Is the heritage of all 3 . The land, including all monopolized resources for and the people, and should not be speculative purposes, alien own¬ ership of land should be prohibited. AU 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 have 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: all elections and 1 Resolved, That we demand a free ballot and a fair count in . pledge ourselves to secure it to every legal voter without Federal intervention through the adoption by the States of tho unperverted Australian or secret ballot system. Resolved, That the derived from graduated income tax should be 2. revenue a applied to a reduction of the burden of taxation now resting upon tho domestic indus¬ tries of the country. liberal pensions cx-Union 3. Resolved, That we pledge our support to fair and to soldiers s&ilors* protecting American labor under 4. Resolved, That we condemn the fallacy of the present system, w'hich opens otw ports to the pauper and criminal classes of tho world, and crowds out our wage earners; and we denounce tho present laws against contract labor, and demand the further restriction of undesirable 8 ^ ! of organized 5 Resolved, That we cordially sympathize with tho efforts men to shorten the hours of labor and demand a rigid enforcement of the existing eight-hour law on government work, and ask that a penalty clause be added to the said law. large standing ... of . б Resolved, That we regard the maintenance of a artry merce¬ . liberties, and demand naries. known as the Pinkerton system as a menace to our we its abolition: and we condemn the recent invasion of the territory of \\ yoming by the hiered assassins of plutocracy, assisted by Federal officials. 7. Resolved, That we commend to tho favorable consideration of the people 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 1 res¬ . tho election of Senators of ident and Vice-President to one term, and providing for the United States by a direct vote of the people. national aid to private corpora-. 9 . Resolved. That we opposo any sudsidy or any tion for any purpose. TT SUBSCRIBE FOR THE Daily Press, PUBLISHED IN ATLANTA, GA., BY IION. THOMAS E. WATSON. subscription rates: