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E 0RMER ' .............. ~ PcBusnxr) Evert Fbidat Evening at FORT GAINES, GA. CHAR. H. VANDEVILLK, Fell tor. FORT GAINES, OA. DEC* 7, 1894 Wot. Atkinson's Message. Governor Atkinson^ recent message to the general assembly of Georgia is an oddity, both as to time and substance. The more it is studied the more absurd and redicnlous it becomes. It would take a profit of former ages to explain to one, not well acquainted with existing circumstances, wlmt effect lie intended the message should have upon tbo legislature. We do not propose, in this article, to diaeusa the message in its minutivc, but reserve that for future articles, which will appear from day to day. In the first place, the governor’s dis Ms>ion of the state's affairs, and his rec¬ ommendations to the legislature, are without precedent in tho history of the Mate. Bo far as we remember, no governor heretofore has rushed to such lengths, and so hastily, into the recommendation role. Before the harness hud settled well to bia shape,*hc prepared a long winded address to tho Inwly which had barely finished inaugurating him. No Unusual circumstances existed, which ribade such a message necessary. The mcaaage itself shows dearly that Uiero was no necessity for it. To show the absurdity of tho govern¬ or’s address, it is only necessary to say that it was delivered to tho legislature just altout two weeks before its closo. Gov. Atkinson has ulegislutivo expe¬ rience of about eight or teu years, and he knew foil well tliat it would be almost an utter impossibility to introduce and l»ave passed through tho legislature any bill in accordance with his reco'umenda tion* before tho adjournment of that body. A bill oannot bo prepared, introduced into one branch of the legislature, Rent to a committee for insi>ection, returned to tho honno with recommendation that it do pass, read the second time, read the third time, carried to the other branch, and go through the same routine—nil in • day. Very rarely is it done in a week or oven two weeks. Mr. Atkinson knew this when he wrote. Then why did ho write ? Buncombe, we suppose; or probably it was to be heard. Either one makes him appear silly. The only matters mentioned in tho message wherein tho governor could pos aibty have hoped to influence the legis¬ lature, were the appropriations for the military and the Georgia Normal aud Industrial school at Milledgevilie. We take it for granted that the gov¬ ernor realized this. It was generally understood that it Hot Ivw IGa il.at it woe proposed in the legislature to give the MiUodgeville school an extra $25,* 000 . This school ir ono of tho governor’s pet*. Ho devoted to it pogo after page of hi* message. Instead of realizing the impuvished condition of the people and attempting to economize, he makes the deliberate at¬ tempt to increase tho burden of taxation by an expenditure of money useless at the prenent tiruo. Ho recommended liberal oxcourage ment and aid to the militia. That meant a useless expenditure of $25,000 of tho people’s money. If the governor realized that these were tho ouly two matters wherein he hoped to influence tho legislature, ho most feel “sat upon,” siuce both reooui mendationa have been ignored in the ap¬ propriation bill.—Daily Press. Thousands starved last winter, thous¬ ands sintered, aud congress talked and talked, Nero fiddled while Romo burn¬ ed. The people's cry for bread went up all over the laud and Grover fished. — If we must be reduced to a gold stan¬ dard or quit doing business with Eng¬ land, we had better let England go by the board. We can't afford to starve onr 'millions simply because England •ay* we must have a certain kind of money and no other. Our governireut should be rutt in tue interest of onr own people, and let England do or say what¬ ever she pleases about it. Thousands of men who still hold to the democratic party do so with but lit¬ tle hope of ever realizing any benefit* from it. They are just ready hi turn loose the “sinking ship.” Duriug the next two years Ihere will 1 k> a hiirger ; landslide to the People’s Party than ever. It will be a geuitine political np hoavaL—Our home. What this nation vants—what the world want*, is not >< srstcni nnde|*whieh human Ivou^h are compelled io be,* for a chsnoe to work, hut a system under . which a chance to labor, and the eujov. ment of the fruit* of one’s labor, shall be guaranteed of the lwric right* of ov¬ ert hnmtn being — New Charter. Th- «lilnr ol tb. BttWilt* my* he joined the chnrcU on Sunday •ad on Mondav, *ix of hi* wife’s kin folks cams to spend the summer., “ Wbom Lord loveth he chaeteneth. ” \ A Great Cooa Dog. Several enthusiastic coon hunters the other day were discussing the Times, “ring-tailed” chase, “Himo” says the Wabash when Wellman, of Urbana, came in and in a few min¬ all utes was doing more coon talk than the balance of the put together. “I’ll tell you,” said “Hime,” “Iv’e got the best cold trailer on a coon track that ever anyhohy owned, and he is only eight months old. to* ! I took tho pup out the other day just to see if he couldjrun a track and to give him a little exercise, and ne hadn’t been in the woods ten minutes until I heard him bark, and he kept narking in snch a way as to make me believe he had ‘treed’ his game, and then I came to tho conclusion that he was a ‘still hunter.’ I found him at I he mouth of a six-inch tile ditch ami he had pulled out one o tiles with his teeth and was chewing the end of it to pieces. As ho was a young dog I did not want him to ruin his teeth and I pulled him away from the tile, but as soon as I let go of him he would jump back and tackle tho thing again with renewed vigor. I led him to the mouth of tho ditch and stuck his nose in the end of the tile, but he paid no attention to that but ran back to the other end. “That sort of carrying on bothered mo and I at last led tho dog away, remarking that he was no good on earth, After awhile I turned him loose once more and in less than threo minutes he was hack at that tile biting pieces out of it and bark¬ ing like an old-timer. As I saw tho pun was determined to ruin himself by breaking off his teeth, I picked up the tile, determined to carrv it to the house, so as to keep it out of his reach. As I walked along look¬ ing at the marks of tne pup’s teeth I made a startling discovery, and what do you think it was ?” Trio spell bound listeners of tno strange story held their breath for a moment and in a chorus asked: “What ?” “Well, right, on the inside of that tile I saw plainly the imprint of a ,coon’s foot, which had been made there when tho tile had been first molded and tho clay was soft and yielding. Tho tile had evidently been made late in the evening and set away through to dry and the’coon had run it tho very same night and mat * e Uie track. The tile, of course, was afterward dried and burned in tho kiln, and it has been in ‘.hat ditch for more than six years, and I say an eight-months-old pup that can smell as cold a trail as that is cer¬ tainly the champion ’coon dog of the world.”—Ex. Ami wo may safely add that that ’coon dog’s master is the monu¬ mental liar of his district. The Game. The gold trusts two years ago opened their barrels for the demo¬ crats and they swept tho countrv. The republicans were thought by many to be too dead to skin. If trie trusts had aided the democrats at this election as they did at the last, the republican party would have «« |>iuutivialljf Itlinuvl<>n«4 no (X na. tional ‘party and the contest two years hence would be between the democrats and populists. To keep these two old parties in good trim the money power aids them by turns, as tho exigencies de¬ mand. In the northern and western states boodle was distributed to the republicans, and in the southern states to the democrats in the lute election, to keep the populists in check as much as possible. Two years hence no doubt the Wall street sack will bo used mainly in the in¬ terest of the democratic national ticket so as to keep the two old par ties “on a parity” and “interconverti¬ ble” wherever it may seem necessary to defeat the third party and the third cause. So long as these two parties enn be kept active with a hocn of suc¬ cess they are not so liable to be dis¬ integrated so as to make tho success of the third party dangerous, And thus reason the gold trusts, and so long as boodle is furnished abund¬ antly to the old partis there will al¬ ways be a large class of damphools stick to them, notwithstanding thev are forging chains of slavery for themselves and their posterity and riveting them around tbeir necks constantly.—Th 0 Silver State. The cry is heard throughout the eutire land that we want a monov *r with which to trade with foreign nations. Our foreign trade is only 4 per cent, of the entire yeaaly transactions ? Shall the 96 per cent, suffer serious injury simply oecause we are asked to cater to the whims of persons who have b«-en hired to change monetary affairs so that a eeriain few may be the gainers thereby f—Noncon formist. Mr N Peck—I think if any cne is entitled to a pension, it’s me. MftdfO—Yon were never in the war. were you ? Mr. N Peck—No, but the fellow my wife was engaged to got killed at Shiloh. A* Alleged Conspiracy. On several occasions a rumor has been current that Mr. Cleveland made an agreement with eastern plutocracy to wreck should the democratic be elected party in case he again. This rumor has been receivhd and can democrats. be traced directly to prominent It is claimed that the money owners and aristocrats of the east became alarmed at the growing independence of democrats from the south and west, any determined to destroy the democratic party before this independent element obtained control of it They reasoned with great force and accuracy that the republican party could be relied upon at all times and under all circumstances to serve plutocracy wherever found. They also reasoned, and correctly*, too, that in case of the destruction of the democratic party, the pluto¬ cratic portion would join with the republicans, and in this manner form a strong and controlling party based upon tho rule of the classes as* against the great, plain people of the nation. They further reasoned that long before these scattered elements could be concentrated, this dominant party could entrench itself behind class laws and judicial interpretation, and defy all peaceful oppositions. - To th>s end, Mr. Cleveland received the nomination, and to accomplish this object money flowed during the cam paign like waters T ■ ■ object was to giv;e democracy complete control, and then demon strate its inability to conduct the government. This object was ac cotnplished, and President Cleveland is carrying out his part of tho con tract to the letter. U pen no other hypothesis can this conduct be ac coun 0 or * . form, The of pH Mteefon Gresham premier of his cabinet uas the fii - direct blow at his party. The extra session and repeal of tho purchasing clause of the Shermau act is now known to be another. m. 1 ho issue • ot , interest-bearing . . , , bonus , arbitrarily and without la w is no v considered another. The appoint ment of colored men as consuls to white countries is another. In tact, there is r.ot a single plank in the party p atform that he has not pur posely It and flagrantly violated. has remained for him to finish his work of destruction by hie vie- 10US, unmanly and unprecedented course toward the new tariff bill, Nothing can now save democracy. As a political power it is dead, and President Cleveland ha, fulfilled his contiact. The Solid South. The solid south is broken, and if the next congress does its full duty tho infamous methods ty which it has been kept solid will be hid bare f o the public. With a full, fair vote and an honest count, tbo democratic party would not have two dozen members from that section. The republican party has for two years sought to show up this condi¬ tion. It has even gone so far as to enact election laws ami attempted to pass a force bill so called. Now, however, conditions havo changed and an opportunity is pre¬ sented through which thi» wholesale debauchery of the ballot can be ex¬ posed. The question is, will this op¬ portunity be improved? Will the republban party take hold of this matter, and hold up to the gaze of the world the long series of crimes for the suppression of an honest bal¬ lot that has continued the solid south solid. The disclosure would bring to light the rottenness and cor¬ ruption that reigns supreme in the breasts of so many solemn senatois and actuates the being of many bright and conspicuous congressmen. A full disclosure of this infamy at the present time would totally anni¬ hilate the democratic party. Wo de¬ mand that such action be taken, that these crimes be made public aud the guilty ones punished. We believe this is the sentiment of every popu¬ list as <vell as every other honest citizen.—National Watchman. The Japan plums constitute a race as distinct from our native varieties as is the Le Conte pear from the Bartlett. The trees resemble somewhat our vigor¬ ous varieties of the Chickasaw type, but the foliage is larger and quite distinct. Some are hardy as far north as where the wild goose succeeds, and for our southern states they open a new era in plum culture. Nnrserymen have fruit¬ ed many varieties of this type and found a number of decided value for both mar ket and home use. The I ot m typ* be longs ^ to the hardier group, and has giv en good , results ... in northern ., and .. western states. Botan, Burbank and Ogon are familar varieties of this tvpe. The Kelsey type is leas hardy, : aud is recom- ‘... mended , . , for sections „ _ below the ^ thirty fourth degree of latitude north. The Kelsey, Sat-uma and Masn are familiar varieties of this type. ' Potatoes In North Carolina. A North Carolinian writing to Coun¬ try Gentleman says: We all of us adopt the two crop sys¬ tem. Our first crop is marketed in the great northern cities from Jane 1 to 15, and in July we plant the second crop, which matures in October, Our second crop has heretofore been used for seed and home consumption exclusively, but this year I shall be disappointed if we do not meet your northern growers in even terms in the city markets. I can¬ not see why it is not entirely feasible, or why, with potatoes at $1 a barrel, it will not be vastly more profitable to us than erowinreorji sad caftan. GENERAL REMARKS. The Weather Favorable for Gathering Crops. COTTON'S CONTINUED DECLINE. It Shoald Teach an Important Lcason to tha Planter —The Crop Will Hardly Exceed That of Cast Year —Estimate ol Tlald of Stapla Crops in the State and Their Market Value. Department of Agriculture, Atlanta, Dec. 1, 1894. Since the November report the weath¬ er has been favorable for the gathering and moving of crops and work has pro¬ gressed rapidly. COTTON. The continued decline in the price of our great staple crop upon which we have reiied implicitly for the puymeut <Sf obligations to tho factor and supply merchant, is necessarily a cause for de¬ pression. But as stated in our last issue wo should learn a lesson, and whatever influonoesj may be affecting tho market, be certain, by a proper policy, that no part of tho fault rests with us. With the picking of the crop we see no reason to change our former osti¬ tes of the yield and adhere to the opin¬ ion that it will little, if any, exceed that of last year.- £ / *'*fi?ost. Frost during the mouth came too late to damage the crop in Middle and South Georgia, but the fanner in North Geor gia, who had put his low lands in cot - ton, suffered materially, and even on uplands where the land was rloh and the plant thrifty, the injury was severe Especially was this the case where lands had been-replanted late in the spring or the growth groatly retarded on account “Tr “rr ? ,hat , several plant marked;features. Soon after the had begun to jprow a cold spell with frost came, which seemed through I?* 1 6 North Uoorgla and portions even of . ^ th f T* * most beyond repair. If illustrations of the remarkable recuperative powers of the plant were wanted none better could he found. t ‘ 1 ^ P^Bod the prospect in the department. the & On contrary, south ern Georgia, With a fair stand, gave promise of a good yield. With sunshine ®j low ® r » however, SSSTitBPS in North Geor even month the after most propitious season, and month brought reports of ftU improved prospect throughout that se ^ io !V ., _ ._ SSlS* . various Cn vicissitude* of weather, plant disease and destructive insects, wit¬ nessing tion each l^outh a decline in condi¬ until at the close of tho season of growth for largo and picking began the outlook favorable. a yield could not be regarded fts OTHER CROPS. As various other crops upon which we and partially rely to support our farms families and in some instances for moneV, found have matured we have at least some comfort has in the fact that the yield per aore in not been below and nas been many instances above an average and that the general result in¬ dicates that wo are fast progressing to t.Lo koo( 1 of southern agricultural inde penaanoe if not prosperity. Were each and every individual land owner aud tenant to resolve upon and carry out a policy that would render his farm self sustaining it would go far, without agreed co-operation towards the solution ^ of the much vexed and all important problem the reduction of the cotton acreage. COTTONSEED. We have often in these reports dealt with the question as to when it pays the farmer to sell his cottonseed and buy meal. Various conditions of price effect the decision at which we should arrive. We have no hesitancy in stating that at tne present pridft of cottonseed $8.00 a ton, and of cottonseed meal $17.00 to $18.00 aud even $20.00 when sold to the fertilizer farmer; it is better to keep them as a and for oompostmg than to sell and purchase meal, etc. CROP ESTIMATES, The department from carefully com¬ piled the information yield gives the following in as estimated of staple crops the state with their market value: ^, r q 0 Cotton..950,000 Cotton.. 40.000, bales, “ s. staple..$25,650,000 ,r Corn....40,000,000 bushels, .. 0,400.000 Oats.,...6,000.000 " .. 20,000,000 Rye..... 100,000 “ .. 2,400,000 Wheat.. .. 75.000 R. Rug..159)000 2,000.000 lbs. “ ... 1,200,000 8. Cane. 8,500,000 gal. syrup .. 1,095.000 Sorg’m.. 8. Peta.. 2,030,000 “ “ .. 400,000 I. Pota.. 6,000,000 bushels .. 2,400.000 1,000.000 “ .. 760,000 Hay..... i60;000 tons .. 800,000 SEED. ► - On the sried sent out by the depart¬ ment and on .the policy of the depart¬ ment following in the future in m the this regard) the appears report to the governor: i.*»J *? . *’ ‘'Following the department the precedent of former years, >ut out number of select during the year bracing -' a and seed, em some new untried varieties. I he advisability of a general seed dis¬ tribntion is, however, in our opinion, to be questioned, and we are convinced t ^ at more satisfactory results are to be fr ° m P^cations than from such distribution. The policy of the department, therefore, for the coming year will be to only send out snch seed which, not only in variety, but in character, have hitherto not re¬ ceived sufficient investigation in the state. The work of the experiment farm has largely done away with the necessi¬ ty of general seed distribution, as here variety test can be made with painstak¬ ing care, which, by application, can be had in the bulletins of the station.” May God grant that the eyes of the men who are assisting plutocracy by their yote, to bind the poor of this coun¬ try in slavery, l>e opened before it is too late, so they may be enabled to see that they arc assisting to forge the very chains with which plutocracy is binding tbeir own hands.—Populist, Trenton, j Tenn. STATE PLATFORM Of tlie Peoples’ Party^-Reud and Reflect. Wo hereby renew onr unqualified endorsement of the national platform of the Peoples’ party, and we favor in the State of Georgia the following reform: 1. 1 he abolition of the present convict lease system which, prosti¬ tutes to the greed of private avarice the State's sovereign right to punish her citizens for violation of law. We believe the State herself should keep possession of her prisoners and should employ them upon the public roads and not allow them brought in com¬ petition with honest free labor. 2. We favor the furnishing of pri¬ mary school books by the State to avoid the burdens put upon our peo¬ ple by the frequent changes of text¬ books. • We also favor the payment of the teachers monthly. 3. We favor the enactment of an ho unperverted Australian ballot law to so framed as to allow illiterate or blind voters to receive aid in toe preparation they of their ballots, when election. so desire, from the maungers of 4. We emphatically condemn the 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 and state government. 5. Be ieving, as we do, that these eternal principles are necessary to good government and to the preser¬ vation of our I’epublican institutions: and, sity believing that a supreme neces¬ now exists for a determined and organized struggle against the cor* rupt hereby despotism of centralized wealth, we this pledge ourselver anew to sacred task, and we invite the earnest irrespective co-operation of all good citi¬ zens, of party; and upon these united efforts in behalf of the cause of constitutional liberty wo reverently Almighty invoke the blessings of God. C. II. Ellington, Chairman P.atform Committee. PHTTSICIANTS. D. F. GUNN, PRACTICING PHYSICIAN, JS&“Gffiee next to Wallersteiu’s. 1 55 $ .1 1 J. L. HURST, Hancock St., FOET GAINES, GA. Encouraged by the prospects of good crops, the Proprietor of this well known and populai estab¬ lishment, has- ordered, and has on hand, a large stock of WHISKIES. WILD-CAT COHN, CHAMPAGNE RYE, WINES OF ALL KINDS ICE-COLD BEER, TOBACCO & CIGARS. His friends and patrons are requested to call. aug 3 PEOPLES 1 PARTY rLvrq)Hftf ADOPTED BY THE OMAHA CONFERENCE OF LABORING PEOPLE, JULY 4, 1892. \ . A SSEMBLEf) upon the one hundred and sixteenth anniversary of the declaration il. of independence, the Peoples’ party of America, in their first national conven¬ tion, invoking upon their action the blessing of Almighty God, puts forth in the name and behalf of the people of this country, the following preamble and decile ration of principles: The conditions which surround us best Justify our cc-operation. We meet ir. vho midst of a nation brought to the veige of moral, political and tnaterfci ruin. Cor¬ ruption dominates the ballot box, the legislatures, the congress, arid touches eveii the ermine of the bench. The people aro demoralized. Most of the States have been Compelled to isolate the voters at the polling places to prevent universal Intim¬ idation or bribery. The newspapers are largely subsidized or muzaled*; tiblic opinioh silenced, business prostrated, our homes covered with mortgages, lator impover¬ ished, and the lands concentrating in the hands of the capitalists. The urban work¬ men are dehied the right of organization for Belt-protection,* Imported pauperized labor bents down their wages: a hireling Standing aimy, unrecognized by our laws, is established to shoot them down, and they are rapidly degeneratihg into European 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 the possessors of these, in turn, despise the republic and endanger liberty. From the same prolific mode of governmental injustice we breed the two great classes—tramps and million aires. The national power to create money is appropriated to enrich bondholders. A vast bonds, public debt payable millions in legal tender the burdens currency has been funded into gold bearing * thereby adding PARTIES ARRAIGNED.—8ilver, to of the people. TIIE OLD which has been accepted as coin since the dawn of history, has been demonetized to add to the purchasing power of gold by decreasing the value of all forms abridged of property, as well as human labor, and the supply of currency ispurposedly to fatteh usurers, bankrupt enterprises and enslave industry. A vast conspiracy against mankind has been organized o i two continents and is rapidly taking possession of the world. If not met and overthrown at once it forebodes terrible social convulsions, the destruction of civilization, or the establishment of an absolute despotism. We have witnessed for more than a century the struggles of the two great polit¬ ical parties fot power and plunder, while grievous wrongs havo been indicted upbh the people. We charge that the controlling influences dominating both these par¬ ties have permitted the existing dreadful conditions to develop without serious effort to prevent or restrain them. Neither do they now promiso us any substantial re form. They have agreed togethoi to Ignore in the coming campaign avory Issue but one. Thoy propose to drown the outcries of plundered peoplo with the uproar of a sham battle over the tariff, so that capitalists, corporations, and national banks, lings, trusts, watered stock, the demonetization of silver the oppressions of the usurers fnay bo all be lost sight of. They propose to sacrifice our honi«3, wines and children on the altar of Mammon; to destroy the multitude in order t'o secure coiruption funds from the millionaires. Assembled on the anniversary of the birthday of the nation, and filled with the spirit of the grand generation who established our independence, we seek to restore the government of the republic to the hands of “the plain people,” with which c’ash it originated. identical with the THE WAR IS OVER.—We assert our purposes to be purposes of the national constitution—“To form a more perfect union, establish justice, Jn suro domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general wel-. fare arid sccurothc blessings of liberty for ourselves and our posteiity.” We declare that this republic cun only endure as u free government while built upon the love of the whole people for each other and for the nation; that it cannot be pinned together Which by bayonets; that the civil war is over, and that every passion and resentment grew out of it must die with It, and that we must be in fact, as we are in uome, one united brotherhood of freemen. Our country finds itself confronted by conditions for which there Is no precedent Ik the history of the world—our annual agricultural productions amount to billions dollars In value, which must within a few weeks or months be exchanged for billions of dollars of commodities comsumed in their production; the existing currency sup ply is wholly inadequate to make this exehunge; the results are lulling prices, the for mation of combines and rings and the Impoverishment of the producing classes. W© pledge ourselves that if given power we will labor to correct these evils by wise and reasonable legislation in accordance with the terms of our platform. people— Wo believe that the powers of the government—in other words, of the should bo expanded (as In the case of the postal service) as rapidly and as far fta the good sense of an intelligent people and the teachings of experience shall justify, land, to the end that oppression, injustice and poverty shall eventually cease in the THREEFOLD DECLARATION.—While our sympathies as a party of reform are naturally upon the sido 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 the great issues now piessing 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 we are to havo a republic to administer before wo differ as totho 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 lights and equal privileges securely established for all the men and women of the country. We declare therefore: 1. That the union of the labor forces of tho United States this day eonsumated, shall be permanent and perpetual. May its spirit enter Into all hearts for the salva tion of the republic and tho uplifting of mankind. 2. Wealth belongs to him who creates it, and every dollar taken from industry without an equivolont is robbery. “If any will not work, neither shall he eat.” The interests of rural and civic labor are the same; their enemies are identical. , 3. We believe that the time hns come when the railroad corporations will cither own tho people or the people must own them, and should the government onter 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 the government service shall bo placed under a civil service regulation of the most rigid character, so as to^ prevent the increase of tho power of national administration by tho uso of such adtfl* tionaJ government employes. The Planks of the Platform. 1. We demand a national currency, safe, sound, and flexible, issued by the gen¬ eral government only, a full legal tender for all debts, public and private, and that - without the tise of banking corporations; a just, equitable and efficient means of dis¬ tribution. direct to tho people, at a tax not exceeding 2 percent., bo provided, as set forth in thejsubtreasury plan of the Farmers’ Alliance, or some hotter system; also by payments in discharge of its obligations for public improvements. a. We demand free and uniimited coinage of silver and gold at the present ratio of 16 to 1. b. We demand that the amount of circulating medium bo speedily Increased to not less than $50 capita. c. Wo demand a graduated income tax. d. Wo believe the money of the country should be kept as much as possible In the hands of the people, and hence we demand that all State and national revenue shall be limited to the necessary expenses of the government, economically and honestly administered. for c. We demand that postal savings banks be established by the government safe deposit of the earnings of the people and to facilitate exchange. the 2. Transportation being a means of change and a public necessity, govern¬ ment should own and operate the railroads in the Interest of the people. a. The telegraph and telephone, like the postoflice system, being a necessity for the transportation of news should be owned and operated by the government in the interest of the people. 3. The land, including all the national resources of wealth, is tho heritage Of all the people, and should not be monopolized for speculative purposes, >-.nd alien own¬ ership of land should bo 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 TIIE 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: • 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 unperverted Australian or secret ballot system. .. , 2. Resolved, That the revenue derived from a graduated income tax should be applied to a reduction of the burden of taxation now resting upon the domestic indue- ,V trie8 of the country. ( 3. Resolved, That we pledge our support to fair and liberal pensions t 9 ex-Union soldiers and sailors. 4. Resolved, That we condemn the fallacy of protecting American labor under the present system, which opens our ports to the pauper and criminal classes of the world, and crowds out our wage earners; and we denounce the present ineffective laws against contract labor, and demand the further restririton of undesirable immi¬ gration. 5 Resolved, That we cordially sympathize with the efforts of organized working¬ 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. 6. Resolved, That we regard the maintenance of a large standing army of merce naries, known as the Pinkerton system as a menace to our liberties, and we demand its abolition; and wo condemn the recent invasion of the territory of Wyoming by the hiered assassins of plutocracy, assisted by Federal officials. 7. Resolved, That we commend to the 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 Pres¬ ident^ the United and Vice-President States by direct to one term, and people.’ providing for the election of Senators of a vote of the 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: