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THE REFORMER Published Every Friday Evening at FORT GAINES, OA. \ PORT GAINES GA., OCT. 19,1894/ t ; POPULIST TICKET. For Representative of Second Congres¬ sional District: W. K. SMITH. Not Ashamed of It. Tho democrats havo elected At¬ kinson and ought to l»o ashamed of it. But they aro not They denounced bonds and issued $,'*0,000,000 worth of them, and ought to bo ashamed of it, but they *re not They proclaimed tariff for rove* >rno only, an passed a protective bill. They Ought to be a • homed of it, hut they aro not. They declared themselves against corporations and trusts, and then sold out lo them. They ought to be ashamed of it, lmt they are not. They said that they favored tho free coinage of silver, and when they received control knocked it out at one full stroke* They ought to be ashamed of it, but they aro not. They declared themselves to be puro men and special proved investigating to be so cor¬ rupt that a eommittoo had to be appointed to whitewash tho entire sonato. They ought to bo ashamed of it, but they aro not. . They drew their corporation andimpvis- reproson o uosom, «od tin- poor who came to them on ho na mission. They #ught to un d of it, hut they aro not. ic} le and promised represented to represent the tho exclusively. They ought money power to bo ashamed of it, but they aro not. Tho populists' platform demands they a graduated income tax, and tackod it onto the tariff bill. Thu democrats say the income tax was their measuro. 'They havo lied, and ought to bo ashamed of it, but they are not. They claim that they give us .fc free bagging, when in fa,ct it«JKAR 1 > orv*r ciyrnTtho* southern farnwr®. Tho Semoerats say that UU’A iW ' j „„1 ought to be ashamed of it, but • h„v aro not. •ntQv wl,cn LniVdTt? ^ Sp ° n mid ought to bo bni 1 thoy aro not. ’ Thoy denounced Rood IXS *1 0t h i? rulin f* and mado 1 t' » T'” , '’, at 5uoh tyranm- ijrannj, m, and when they *«» power the adopted Reedl gained Ruling made a Czar of Crisp, who proved ought equally as tyrannical as Read Thcv * to bo ashamed of it but th ey *ro not, u •and They proclaimed States’ riirhts then wiped them out, and ought to bo ashamed of it, but they ^ are They said that the republicans «cro scoundrels and thieves and botq Favored and practiced class and proved ought IhcLoTvcs to bTthn ft r "" D d they to bo ashamed of 1 are not. * In fact they ought to be ashamed fiimI aome CrV wholesale b th | np l the apologizing * V haVe (Jone » or republicans.-Farmesr' Outlook. to the The only thing tha tney ,nro trulv 0t 18 that tb< v' h «ve not waded deeper iuto * rascality Atktason’s I Boast. Mr. Atkinson said i >n n speech in IiO C <mpaigns just closed that nominee not a ngio on the populist ticket m * i i La* rry his home county. mi R t LAV m litter with Washington, el, Jackson .xml Bartow couu nd Hal] county, where both the didates for secretary of state l i:ore the democrats only* had * majority . . of 38. * naa igtton Every county surrounding \Yash county, the old home of Judge Hines, gave a populiftt major¬ ity except one, while every county uhst •°^ C0VVeta * POP majority exeqp m one. Judge *£ 1 Mr. Atkic« n - S grwa .OM d ,,tn8t; also hi 3 seoato ot. ftiid made it decidedly eeutleman eren Now it the timeToTi ! fly for t your J bscrptioa. s The Atkinsen boodlers are ing us down to a state of Anarchy. They aie destroying law and order they are murdering the principles of popular society government;thev are disrupt¬ ing and are threatening every institution reared upon the 'oundation of honest elections. Let these reckless offict-seekers Honest men of all parties are stir they have never been before the pnblio indignation is blazing The Atkinson Anarchists. Without fairness at the ballot box, there is no use in voting. If law and justice dio at the very place where they are most needed, what becomes of all the social, industrial and polit cal institutions reared upon this foundation ? If we allow a lot of needy, greedy, and unscrupulous adventurers to get together in every city, and in every town and hamlet,'|and to seize the ballot box and to throw out just such votes as are objectionable to them, what have wo got but Anarchy? Such a government is not a ‘rule of the people.” Nor is it a “rule of majorities.” It is not the rule of aristocracy. It is not the rule of a king. A rule of the people nuans a gov¬ ernment of legal majorities under obedience of the law of the land. A rule of aristocracy is bad enough, heaven knows—but such a govern¬ ment has always had its legal forms, its checks, its responsibilities and its duties. A rule of tho king, however ob jectionablo to our notions and prin¬ ciples. is yet a government based on law, order, responsibility and duty: therefore, ander any form of govern¬ ment whore law is respected, respon¬ sibility felt, and duty discharged, there may be hope for “the peace, good order, and dignity of society Hut when the governing machinery is seized at each county-site by a gang ot swindlers—lawless, deprav¬ ed, unprincipled—and the will of the people as expiessed at tho polls is insolently and defiantly defeated, we have no government at all. Wo havo Anarchy and nothing else. A government managed by ir¬ responsible vote-stealers is no gov rnent at all. They murder government us Mac¬ beth murdered sleep. They strike down tho supports upon which our Republic stands. They undermine the foundation upon which our tem¬ pi o rests. Tho result is a rule of a band of conspirators in each locality—con¬ spirators who feel no responsibility, discharge no duty, o ey no law, fear no punishment! Will honest democrats stand this ? If so, let them dread the day when the chickens como homo to roost. In every city these greedy ndven hirers will seize the power, take pos session of the taxing machine, and p.f>4 , ' v fiits1Ti^9S mnft’ evOt-y uuffar ue Can yon throw off the tyranny estn blished ? WhWi 7ir 1 "' " Ul bo ll I Wb «t are we •- > v hen demo Crat{ ° " afifi:crs ^row out returns 1 ^ a US j°,° th ” ,1em °eratic managers rofus r , ed to sign them correctlv ? are we to do when cratic managers leave the polls, as in Manon county, so as ef o invalidate tho eloction which the populists had won ? What aro we to do when demo emtio mnntgcr, as in Hancock coun¬ ty, refused to allow Negro voters to the oath and vote the populist but who allowed those same to come back later and vote democratic ticket! What are we to do when 1 ike and Wilkinson countie< ° U ; ** 8uffic:ent ^ US bodi1 ber ^’ b of - v num votes to the Atkinson majority f U ‘ t k6 hdd that Democrat ' c !*T man Can onnt some of ‘heir duties ln up returns, and that those omissions will only b • used to throw out the precinct when the majority against tho democrats, then the reduces itself to this: > ill people submit to rascality or will reseut The populists are as hillarious an outfit of Utes at a white dog bake Ihey are shooting all sorts of ar¬ rows in the air and promising mgh fifty as fourth as populists in the Fifty may be congress. the But what the^e even fifteen populists with thirty or ofpowe, would hold the balance a * n< ^ ff Andthis conti 2 and Babcock s erowds. by both FaulkneFs It is a condition not easily explain ed, but £• the narrow sort found iu this entire seaboaid country would rather the other would succeed than that the populists should attain belligerent and respectable stature as Old toes like a dear*^ party. old friends are and both of the old parties almost 0 0Ve t h °l her in the iut ®" 0t ’ hatred ? , tdeir Times. for the popn- Tho law says that no return shall be thrown out ou account of these technical points. The law savs that no raauager disfranch Uu ^ can I * f ^ do , people - by his re nis dut T* The Ia * an °' vs no man, and party, to take no advantage of his own wrong. ® ut tbe Atkinson democrats have violated . the law, disfranchising the people, and revolutionize R our gov eroment. LOST ! A promissory note given by R. G. abShe ks\°of NWmber PsS vS? J ; alls 1ox tlie amount of el.750. All arG warned ner same. agaiDs ^ trading for more fiercely every day against the lawless methods which adopt Crime as an honored ally to political am¬ bition. THIS IS THE LAW THEY VIOLATE, S -ction 1334 of the Code of Geor¬ gia reads as follows: “No election shall be defeated for non-compliance with the require¬ ments of the law, if held at the . proper time and place by persons qualified to hold them if it is not known that by that non-compliance tho result is different from what it would have been had there been proper compliance.” In piain violation of this statue tho democratic managers at the comity sites, have thrown out a suffi¬ cient number of election returns to defeat the will of the people in more than twenty counties. Tho acts of “non-compliance with the requirements of the law” were committed by democratic managers at the precincts. Advantage of those defects was taken by democratic managers at tho county site. Thus the democratic party, by violating the plain letter of the law, wins the election by having demo¬ cratic managers make errors in the signing up of the returns. In no solitary instance has the democratic party been allowed to suffer on account of democratic mis¬ takes. In each and every instance it is tho populist party which is made to suffer for mistakes they could not possibly help. And in each case the law wo have copied has been wilfully violated by officers who swore to obey it. What are we to do when our laws aro trampled under foot in this man¬ ner by tho “Men Who Control ?” If ever there was a time when honest men of all parties should unite to put down the Atkinson An¬ archists it is NOW !—Daily Press The sentiment in favor ot fair elections is steadily growing, and it is a healthy symptom. The man who tampers with the ball should be made odious. If he bo an election officer he is perjurer. If not, he is an unworthy citizen.—Sunny South. Georgia Amazes Them. The result in Georgm engages teniton. Both republicans and ocrats attest alarm. It has calculation and swept prophecy its feet. If the same violent of pomiiisun 8h0 * atmnvon, ^ f° ’X i- :T ......... fO” ’ a there are reasons to belie, e the con ditiotm exist, the -.publicans will be smvered and analte n iu all their . which -eorgia, in enterprise and f Mar-making the is the New England south > looked on bv both democrats and republicans ‘ as the least likely of all the son if 1 OW*' "•umtcttlius LO g lye way or even waver before the third party. Ro cent results, which leaves the demo¬ cratic majority not over 15,000 where 75,000 was expected, is there¬ fore m its sort a shock, and has left the great mentalities in charge both at Faulkner’s and Babcock's head quarters in a state of not for publication—declare generally—albeit trouble Georgia, that tbe m while in part tar¬ iff and in part finance, was mainly Cleveland. The party everywhere is sick and worn out with hisgoldisms, his bondisms, and his Pharisaical eastern As a consequence of the result in Georgia neither democrat nor repub¬ lican is able today to pierce the fu turn a little bit. They havo awak ened to the beauty of the injunction, oufficient unto the day is the evil thereof,” and cannot be lured into Prognostications of any sort local ° ni r . ’ And MWu'JSSb. other specialties Gentlemen, Ladle*. Bor* and Misses are the ! ’=s, Best in the World. t-1 See descript Ire advertise tnent which appears In this Paper. Tax* >0 Sotetitnte. Insist on having W. L. | DOUGLAS’ SHOES. with name and price stamped on bottom. Bold by A. M. WALLERSTELV. Hon. W. E. Smith’s A ppointments. - The following is the the appoint¬ ments of Hon. W. E. Smith, populist nominee for tho 2nd Congressional Dis¬ trict: Colquitt, Thursday, Oct. 18th. Newton, Friday, 19th. Arlington, Saturday, <1 20th. Blakely, Tuesday, 23rd. Fort Gaines, Wednesday, 24th. Cnthbert, Thnrsday, «l 25th. Georgetown, Friday, Nov. If 26th. Camilla, Friday, 2nd Thoraasville, Saturday, II 3rd. I will be glad to divide time with Hon. Ben £. Rnsseil. at any or all o! these appointments. None other need apply. W. E. Smith. NOTICE ! The stockholders and Board of tors of The Reformer are requested to meet at this offiee on Wednesday 24. The meeting is still in progress at the Baptist church, and it is said that much interest is manifest. May it continue ! Road Notice, GEORGIA— Clay County: Whereas certain petitioners have made their application to this court, praying an order granting the establish¬ ment. of a new road commencing at a land line near Harrison’s Mill, and run¬ ning the land line directly north, be¬ tween J. M. Harrison and H. U. Harri¬ son and S. D. Colemau, Mrs. Milliner, W. H. Jackson and W. T. Green, Robfc. Brooks and W. T. Green to a point about 400 yards north of Robt. Brooks. Thence leaving said land line following the old road bed in front of W. T. Green’s dwelling, continuing said road¬ bed until striking original land line be¬ tween H. M. Green and Mess Horton & Fuller’s, thence on said line between Mrs. Anna McKimmies and Wllio Kimmie, mtersectmg the Coleman and I'ovt Gaines road at a point, near Willie McKimmic’s house, and whereas Com. missioners appointed for that purpose have reviewed and marked out said con templated that road and r; ported to me said road would be one of much pubHe utility and convenience—Now sons l.nVVL that Clt L on and wi U after aL n the *h U1S otli o) a day i 1>ei of f November 1893, said new road will be granted if no good cause is shown to the contrary. Given under my hand and seal this October the 3rd,, 1894. J. W. SUTLIVE, Clerk Clay County Com. Court. Notice, Notice I The month of October, a. time and season of the year when everybody is expected to have make an effort to settle, is upon us. I been very lenient to my debtors and have asked them for money as little as necessity would per¬ mit mo, and now that I have outstand¬ ing obligations that must be met, I re spectfully urge all who are due me any thing to call and settle. I need the money—must lmvo it, nml I ask my friends to come and settle with me. Very Respectfully, J. L. HURST. LOOK AT THIS! SINCE THE DEMOCRATS HATE IiEEN IN FULI ’ F0 ' VEIt JUST « EE ™ VOTE SMbTAZr ?OU NOT AT ALL, THAN W VOTE THE DEMOCRATIC TICKET VOTE t’ "ITU THE PEOPLES' ’ p tT'TV * M . THE OLD RELIABLE Market! TO MY FRIENDS AND PATRONS. I am still in the Ring, and Pre vW tl)an am you Nice before to servo and Choice Line of FRESH:MEATS "ELF, PORK and SAUSAGE. I buy the Best and Fattest Beef cattle and can always give the Choicest Meat you on the Market Thanking the Public for past patron¬ and asking a continuance of the, I am i i T ours Respectfully, L A. Duke. WILD-CAT CORN, CHAMPAGNE RYE, "WINES OF ALL KINDS, ICE-COLD BEER, TOBACCO A CIGARS. His friends and patrons are requested «*> Call, aug 3 STATE PLATFORM \ Of the Peoples’ Party—Rend and Reflect. We hereby renew our unqualified endorsement of the national platform of the Peoples' party, and we favor in the State of Georgia the following reform: , 1. 'pi the abolition i .... of - the present . convict lease system which prosti tutes to the greed of private avarice the State’s sovereign right to punish possession of her prisoners and should employ them upon the u-JLi.fi,. public roads an i not allow them brought m com pet iron with honest free labor. 2. We favor the furnishing of pri mary school books by the State to a avoid } the burdens bin dens nut put unon upon our om neo peo pie , by the freonent changes of text books. We also favor the payment of the teachers monthly. t3. We f,i\oi the enactment of an be unperverted framed Australian ballot law to so as to allow illiterate or blind voters to receive aid in the preparation of their ballots, nnnLer* when thev t ey so . o desire ties i ,, troua from the tho mauag.r. of ot election. 4. \» emphatically . condemn the e practice, of late becoming so preva lent, of public officers accepting free passes nnsses from nom railroad railioaa corporations. oornomtinn* We intend this condemnation to ap ply to the executive, legislative and judicial branches of our national and state government. K 5. Be ieving, as we do, that these eternal principles are necessary to good government and to the preser vation of our republican institutions: and, „ i . believing t- that . a suprotne neces Slt >’ n ow exists for a determined and organized . struggle against the con¬ rupt hereby despotism of centralized wealth, this we pledge ourselver and anew to sacred task, we invite the tamest co-operation 1 of all good * citi i zcni? _ irrespective • .. of c party; . and , 1 * upon th ese united efforts in behalf of the cause of constitutional liberty we reverently invoke the blessings of Almighty God. C. H. Ellington, Chairman P.atform Committee. THE ONLY Billiard : : Parlor IN TOWN 1 Mr. T. J. Smith Coxdiahy invites his Friends and the Gen era! Public to call on him iu the rear of J. Hursts where he willusc every effort to make them white ajaytt.em lei.ure tune, V,r - v K <*P<*tfelly_, T. J. SMITH NOTICE! TcMy Many Friends and Customers: ^tol'erve von thSsL to R tlie Best T Giado^of To whom have or t? owe on f r MS ™‘ke r4™“ demi -' ou "‘thont delay. Respecting, this of ! “' e 24 L. a Cohen. F. GUNN, ^Office. PRACTICING vr<u.i<?rstem’s. PnvfitmAn, now.* *- Saloon! J- L. HURST, Hancock St., POET GAINES, GA. known and populai estab¬ lishment, has ordered, and has on hand, a large stock of SUBSCRIBE FOR THE Daily «r * ** Press, PUBLISHED IN ATLANTA, GA. > BY HON, THOMAS E. Watson. SUBSCRIPTION rates. * «r ONE T M< Ww * s * •» • tuPi.cS* rAitfY PLATFORM. ADOPTED BY THE OMAHA CONFERENCE OF LABORING PEOPLE, JULY 4, 1802. A IBLED upon the one hundred and sixteenth anniversary of the declaration of independence, the PeopUA party of America, in their first national cohven tinn, *^ vok * n P u P°o their action the blessing of Almighty God, puts forth iu raUon Tb. of condition's princiuSsf f ° f ^ peop,e of thls countr y> tho following preamble and decla which surround .« best Justify our ec-operation. Wo meet in the ' n, ,“ ie ?! *. h ® b /' n ? h ; Hie people are demoralized. R^blhg ptacos Most of tho States have kUMon ' to prevent universal lbtlm or briberv r i newspapers are largely subsidized or miiszfad, public opinion si.enced, business prostrated, our homes covered with mortgages, labor ImpeveiS lsh ™, and the lands concentrating In the hands of the capitalists: Tho urban work* |L n ® rQ denied the right of organization for self-protection; imported pauperized iLeLhifjv! established> A 1 °, to v ' n snoot < them down, a hireling and they standing aro rapidly at my, degenerating unrecognized into by our European laws* conditions The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes for a few. unprecedented in the history of mankind, and .ho possessors of these, in turn, despise the republic and endanger liberty. From tho Same prolific alrcs ° f fer ° vo,|,moutal in just ice wo breed tho two great classes—tramps and million- 4 ho national power to create money is appropriated to enrich £^ bondholders bearing A vast bonds, public debt payable In legal tender currency has been funded gold g THE thereby OLD adding millions to the burdens of tho people PARTIES ARRAIGNED.—Silver, which has boen accepted as coin “ a ' v h of hiet °ryt has Ijoen domonrti -ed to add to the purchasing power of !$?. h J decreasing the value of all forms of property, as well as human labor, ahd the supply of currency ispurposodly abridged to fatten usurers, bankrupt enterprises and enslave industry. A vast conspiracy against mankind has boon organized o r two continents and is rapidly taking possession of the world. If not met and overthrown fore bodes terriblo social convulsions, the destruction of civilization, or the ° 6ta wf VV ,/ h ““‘“ V " itnessed “S”/ ^ or 1 ? 0 rao <“ !' S c P°. than U6 “’- a century the struggles or the two great polit leal « i parties foi power and plunder, , while grievous wrongs havo been inflicted upon the people. We charge that the controlling influences dominating both these par ties have permitted the existing dreadful conditions to develop without serious offbrt to prevent or restrain them. Neither do they now promise us any substantial re¬ 0 n „ °- 2 mT h hcy «y propose huve a « to re drown ^ togethm tho outcries to ignore of in plundered the corning campaign every Issue but sham , battlo over tho tariff, that capitalists, people with tho uproar of a trusts, watered stock, the demonetization so corporations, national banks, rings, of silver and the opjiro&sions of the usurers may be all be lost sight of. They propose to saC Hico our home s, wives and childron on the altar of Mammon; to destroy tho multitude in order to seeuro corruption funds from the millionaires. Assembled on tho anniversary of the birthday of tho nation, and filled with the spirit of the grand generation who established our independence, we seek to restore the government or the republic to the hands of “the plain people,” with which e’«3S it originated. ' l liE w AR 18 OVER.—Wo assort . our purposes to bo identical with the purposes of the national f constitution—“To form perfect union, domestic tranquility, a more establish justice, in¬ sure fare and provide for the common defense, promote the general wel¬ that this secure the blessings of liberty for ourselves and our posterity.” Wo declare republic can only endure as a free government while built upon tho love of tlie whole people for each other and for tho nation; that it cannot bo pinned together by bayonets; that the civil war is over, and that every passion and resentment which grow out of it must dio with it, and that wo must bo in fact, us ivc are in name one united brotherhood of freemen. Our country finds itself confronted by conditions for which there is no precedent ih the history of the world—our annual agricultural productions amount to billions of dollars in value, which must wit hin a few weeks or months be exchanged for billions of dollars of commodities comsumedln their production; the existing currency sup¬ ply is wholly inadequate to make this exchange; the results are falling prices, the for¬ mation of combines and rings and the impoverishment of tho producing classes. We pledge ourselves that if given power wo will labor to correct these evils by wise and reasonable legislation in accordance with tho terms of our platform. We believe that the powors of tho government—in other words, of tho people should be expanded (as in the case of the postal service) as rapidly and as far as the good sense of an intelligent people and tho 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, we nevertheless regard those questions, important as they are, as secondary to tho great issues now picssing for solution, and upon which not only our individual prosperity but the very existence of free institutions depond and we ask all men first help us to determine whether we are to havo a republic to administer before we differ as to tho 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 lights and equal privileges securely established for all the men and women of the country. We declare therefore- 1. 'That the union of tho labor forces of the United States this day eonsumaterf, shall be permanent and nernettjai. May its spirit enter into all hearts for tho salva¬ tion of the republic and the uplifting of mankind. beliove^that J f Vobbe'rv° C1 L tcs ifc ’ and Gvcr ^^^r^ar^TdenlltfaL . v dol)ar *«kon from ™* 3. We the own work the people of owning or the and people must own them* and^ r^n 6ho r u ^L d lr tho f °. ad 8° cor v «rnmcnt Poratlons will cither 33 contiolling anv bss or nil . W 5 enter upon SLS s *■ of ~ “ *» uddi* The Planks of the Platform. gen p CD dis payments n. Me in demand discharge free of and its unlimited ob 1 igat fotwfor P nid b H'L° l ira P r <>yements. f 8 ° rae , ae X c set of i6 to 1. comage of silver and gold at the b -n at the present 2 not less lha c $.<50 capita. amount of circulating medium bo d £ew graduatod speedily increased to d- We 8 income tax. •a o Ul 8 ]?mited P d l Sand thaSl^tatf UCh s jb P ll be to 1 ’ a “ ’* n ™ an(T nS p0fisfbIft ia ““TVff , po”°' vss,,onM °™ d *; pmpo^ c s^: u 0t « c or secret ballot ssppssssr ” le ' 1?6 °“ r 8UPPOrt '° f “ r “ d libaral I *" 6lo " a '» -V»ion ST” co,,tr “ ,!t labOT ’ SSSkTSSE eight-hour men to shorte^thJhoure'jfjaKS law on 1 ° e ^ orte »' “Wwliod working said Jaw. government work, natiee, ^ 1 llt known i and as theTPinkerton ndem^th ^ y vat ?eeSit *, mainnanc6 8 inv^ naCe of to a Jargo )ibe standi ng army of merce th the ni«L on; wo Cf e , our n—” riies and we de mand o f officials.° i ■ i f Wyotnin v. Kesolved, That t we corumend^nTh * e0eraI 8 the F' ^ Ide R a“,° pS^ at ™ «W» .»«yo, tion ror natlona! aid to any private corpora-.