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WEAVER £nd CLEVE¬
LAND.
Grover Cleveland is the chosen
standard bearer of the national
democratic party. One James B.
Weaver, by duo authority, boars
the flag of the People’s Party.
Lot ue, for a moment, look into
their respective records
Eacli has been a trusted pubU •
servant. Cleveland was first called i
to the mayoralty of Buffalo; J
thence to the Gubernatorial chair
of New York and tlienco to the
Chief Magistracy of the United
States, the foremost republic of all
the ages as well as of the world.
At the expiration of his presiden¬
tial term he was renominated with¬
out opposition for the high office
upon which he had shed only hon¬
or ami glory, and was defeated by
republican gold extorted by re¬
publican party managers, as con¬
tributions, from protected pluto¬
crats, the manufacturers and spin¬
ners of the East, and the great
iron kings and tariff barons of
which tho multi-millionaire Carne-
gie, who now revels in a kingly
castle on a foreign shore, paid for
by dollars coined by an amalgama¬
tion of republican legislative cor¬
ruption and the sweat of the face
of unrequited labor T every
trust Cleveland has been true. So
faithfully, ably and patriotically
did he administer every office to
which he was called that a term of
service was but an occasion for his
people to bestow the worthily won
plaudit : “Well done, thou good
and faithful servant ;”step up high
er.
And here is James B. Weaver's
official record.
We first hear of him as Provost
Marshall of Pulaski, Tames
where he took advantage of his of¬
ficial position to oppress the citi¬
zens of Giles county. Of him at
that time, the Pulaski Citizen says:
“Men were arrested and impris¬
oned on trumped-up charges, which
could not bo proven, and released
if they could pay a ransom. A
tax was levied on many of our citi¬
zens to support Federal tro »ps and
refugees. Cattle were stolen and
smoke houses robbed. Weaver was
a merciless foe, without principle,
mid exercised his authority in an
unjust and cruel manner.’'
Next we hear of him in the halls
of Congress as a 1 utter, south-hat¬
ing, partisan republican advocat¬
ing a Force bill which was design¬
ed to place a bayonet behind every
ballot in the South. Next w • War
of him as an Independent, then a?
a Democrat and Green
Cleveland selected L
sissippi Democrat and an ex-Cox-
federate soldier, for a pla ’e in his
Cabinet and afi Twr.rd appointed
him a member of the Supreme
Court of the United 8tat Bit
Weaver speaks of such men in tii
following ungener and untruth-
ful terms:
iff flic same old e xcept thosi
who were shot or hung, ar? again
conspiring to got possess f tin
government. Woe* t the: > t
the royal host will crush thorn f
ever and forever out of li. |-
danger of such in ik lIIa
common country, •T> ,1
can can over urn 1 o.
stances, have any par
the hungry, rei .s, ms
woman-selling gang n.corpora;-*
under tho name of Deni :rr.ey. ce
name so full f stench and po 2
that it should oe hu I ted i real
V OCR bill A if 1 civikzed man and
CARNESVILLE FRaNKLIN COUNTY GA. WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 14 1892.
handed over to il barbarity that
i-tn w and at all times, has so fitly
represented.”
How any honest, true-hearted,
sal f-respecti 11 g ex-0 on fed* > rate sol¬
dier or the son of one, can get his
consent to so tar forget the memo-
ries of the past and the duties of
the pr oatas to vote for so unre-
ion i old scoundrel and slan-
as James B. Weav.u ; " 01
Pn : of the United
pass- all understanding.
“I had rather be a dog and bay
at the mo m” than support a man
who could speak thus of my party
and people and never retract or ex-
press sorrow ov< r it.—Meridian
Miss. Standard.
FIFTEEN MILLION
J he Montezuma Record truth-
Ltniy says tu* loaders of the third
pan v advise their papers and
speakers not to mention the tariff
in either speech or editorial.
Tho farmers of Georgia pay fif¬
teen million dollars each year in
tariff luxe 3. Don mention it,
xoop it hid. the people might
i t.-iC'-n off, and the^ third party
bo SSSS get left. Hoodwink the
people ot Georgia,- keep them in
ignorance if you can, or these third
party s uip buobles wiff burst and
the lit: :e id lows with plates and
spoons hanging hid under their
coats wont get any soup.
My third party triend, get your
pencil and calculate, if you were
to ffike ol ‘t the tariff of fifteen mil-
lion dollars in Georgia each year,
or tliis year, how much would it
increase the circulation of the cur-
rency in this state by being retain¬
ed here and not paid out for tariff.
Let us all pull together and
hammer away on this thing and
reduce the tariff by voting for n
Itck 't it it is pledged to one thing
more than another, it is pledged to
reform the tariff. We mean the
democratic ticket. When wo do
this we put in circulation or retain
among the people 815.000,000.
Now when a paper advises the
press and tho speakers of a party
not to mention these great fiuan-
oial siutkholes that keep the people
impoverished,or a speaker, whether
public or private, by advice or oth¬
er means attempts to keep these
facts from the people, that they
may blindly lead them away from
their own relief, then that man is
a traitor to the good of his country,
and such people take a place beside
Arnold and Aaron Burr and th*
evil they would do is only limited
bv their ability.
i
Mi n LOANS AT 2 A 3 0.
We are ready to negotiate loans
i real estate mortgage security at
the rate i t\v per cent on ten
year- time and three per cent on
ts time.
u e tenth of amount or rove A.
to h repaid an r; ually o Ik P ff
plan. me
the fi ve ye ar plan.
This is the rate at
W€ W as v.\ ; 1
I
we 03 1 -tiy solicit investigation
£ od citizens of Franklin,
Banks, Hart and Elbert.
Addr, -s
S. J. Tribble,
?. Ga
\v i negotiate t r.r 3
Parties d* siring
m write me and I will arrange
.a neet them at Carnesvilla or
Isewlff re
8. J.Tribble,
FRIENDS OF THE NEGROES.
WIliT DEMOCRACY HAS DONE FOR
THE RACE.
Ayiavta, Ga., August 26.—-Gev.
Northen lias written a letter to the
Afro-Ameriean Democratic Club,of
Chicago, on an inquiry from that
club ask-ing what the democratic
party of Georgia- has done to d O-
serve the votes of the negro. In his
letter, which is an interesting sta-
tistical paper, the governor says:
While the people of this state have
done nothing with the direct view
securing the vote of the colored
people they have done a great deal
which should go toward inducing
colored voters to array thera-
selves on the democratic side in the
coming fight, both as between the
democrats and the third party and
between the democrats and the
ro pub 1 i e a n s. I th i n k th a t tho re¬
cord we have made will have its
e p; ec t in showing to the negro that
j n this state, as in every other state
[ n the south, his best friend is the
white man of his own section, the
man vv j 10 best knows him, best un¬
aorstands his needs, sympathizes
most <!> ply with him and feels for
him the truest friendship in a time
G j c j oe p and universal distress.
Under the republican regime in
this state the negroes were given no
facilities and no opportunities for
education. A fund for
purposes had accumulated in the
treasury, but this was seized upon
by the republicans and used to pay
members of the legislature their per
of $9 a day, and the schools
did not get-a cent, The u r.nocrats
on getting back into power im-
mediately res tor. I the'fund and
j iav9 been steadily increasing it
ev ry year, until 1891 (the last
year for which we have complete
figures) it reached $1,125,000.
The white people of the state own
$145,000,000 of the property:
the negroes own $14,500,000. It
mar 30 stated briefly that the
negroes pay for school purposes to
the state treasury $19,000, while
the whites pay $1,063,000. The
school attendance among the negro
is about 40 per cent, as compared
with the white attendance. The
negroes receive about 40 per cent,
of ihe entire fund of $1,125,000.
The whites, having 60 per cent of
the a- tendance, receive 60 per cent,
of th funds. In other words the
negr >.-s pay taxes for school pur¬
poses in the sum of $19,000 and re-
ceiv - tor school purposes from the
state the sum of $450,000. The
school facilities offered both races
are xactly the same, the o?ily dif¬
ference being that the white people
p:\wtieffily support the schools for
:>oi i In 1878 the negroes owned
>erty in the state
Unde ' the dentocral i.• admia' :
Uatioii of affairs they have bee
given such opportunities for acqui
mg !i> :n and other property the
they now own $ 14,200,000, an n
cf $9,075,125 i il thirt
ye democrats in this staff
in the present campaign are
ing use of the figures just given
you as showing the pros tv
the negro under this party. T l
are r ■' few of the things we have
H ho x) e to t—^ o. I hope that
who; I have au iver
*'
nci ct to fil * V3 th
don ; M a r ea t M ?ai a Cu 'A v -i
a c* sir ng claim
vote of Georgi a.
WHAT IS THE FORCE BILL?
There are many people who hoar
democratic campaign speakers de¬
nounce the Force bill as an ini¬
quitous measure without under¬
standing just what the fore** bill is.
From what they hear ami from
what they read, they know it is an
iniquity of come kind which the
republican party will try to per¬
petrate, if it is given control of
the government; they know it is
aimed at the freedom of the ballot
in the South, and that its effect
would be to menace white suprein-
1 This much they know with¬
acy.
out knowing the actual terms of
the bill.
Speaker Crisp has recently writ¬
ten a letter to one of his const!tu-
entc which gives a very clear in¬
sight info what the fores bill re¬
ally is. It is ft synopsis of the
leading features of the bill, and
will repay a careful perusal. Speak -
er Crisp wrote as follows :
“The republican party is pledg¬
ed to the enactment of a federal
election law. I have before me as
I write, the bill passed by the last
republican house on that subject.
This bill may be fairly considered
as an authoritative expression of
the kind and character of law
which republican success at the
next election will inflict upon us.
I cannot, within the proper scope
of such a letter as this, enumerate
ail its remarkable provisions.
“It gives the judges of the bait¬
ed States circuit courts tbf power
of appointing election officers of
the states. It gives to the election
officers so appointed the power to
designate an unlimited number of
deputy marshals, who may be em¬
ployed for a number of days prior
to each election, at $5 per day. (A
thousand or more might be ap¬
pointed in each congressional.dis¬
trict in Georgia.)
“It authorizes the use of the ar-
miea of the United States to pre-
servo the peace at the polls,
“It gives to judges of the United
States circuit courts the power of
appointing a canvassing or rettirn-
ing board for each state, who shall
certify whom the people have
elected to congress.
“It requires the clerk of the house
of representatives to place on the
roll of members-elect the names of
the persons holding such certifi¬
cates, so that they may participate
as members in the organization of
the house.
“it authorizes officers of the
United States to supervise and
Control the registration of voters.
“It authorizes such officers to
make a house to house canvass, to
ascertain the legality of any regis¬
tered voter.
“It provides for the payment of
all these officers out of the federal
treasury, and authorizes the
ph yhieat of many of them a-s
much as eight days before the
election.
“And finally it in TK'rnn:-
uent appropriation of vour money
for the execution of tho law.
“Tiffs enumeration of the pro¬
visions of the bill, meagre though
it is, must make it plain to all man
that if it were enacted into law the
peer would lose all voice in the
selectk ■a or control of the officers
who manage and certify th re-
suits of the elections.
“A judge of the circuit court of
the United States, who is himself
appointed by the president and
ii' his office for life, 'pemts
lection offi All
t , are repub!i« m
cs. If election officers ahiue
ray thiir trust th are not
th ^ - 0 p i 0 The
d author-
appointed
I mean judge to
j - t! ts vf his party,
trus le would not,
L li i a/». oaie a law, bo
spot' the people. Our
ration utemled that he
tout d lodged
'J A g a
M o ot imp. j
' th;
amoves
re* by p rmitting
judge to deter-j
i yo nr duly
representative. If a partisan
appoints partisan election officers,
who falsely certify that lie whom
you have defeated at the polls is
your duly elected representative,
what remedy have you? The par¬
tisan election officers are alone re-
sponsible to the partisan
and the partisan judge can
bo impeached by representatives in
congress who hold their offices
virtue of a certificate from the par-
tis: n election officers. This is a
moekerv of responsibility.”
FOOLING NEGROES.
Fousyt.i, Ga., September 6.—
Never perhaps in the political his¬
tory of Georgia did such a state of
affairs exist as at present in Mon¬
roe county. This county is, and
has always been solidly
ic, and no-county in the state can
boast of more gallant, true and
tried democrats than she, and as
I the days go by the constituents of
the grand old party become more
enthusiastic and determined than
ever, and daily, numbers who were
led to Voliove that the party of
their forefathers was rotten and
corrupt have once more sworn al¬
legiance to the grandest and purest
party the world has ever known.
The people’s party grows weaker
and weaker, and only the leaders
will be left to see it vanish into
oblivion—seeing as they do the
party of Watson, and Weaver fad¬
ing fast away, a few unprincipled
and debased leaders in this county
are cmployii g the same miserable
methods to get the negro vote as
their “own” Watson in the tenth.
Almost nightly negro school
houses and sometimes barns are
the scenes that would make any
true Southern man regard them
with shame and contempt. A few
ignorant cornfield negroes assem¬
bled in a rustic school house, dimly
lighted by a pine knot, an Alliance
lawyer who represents several
northern loan associations, and an
Alliance preacher, who lias forsak¬
en Christ and is devoting his time
to advocating the omnipotence of
Tom Wat -on and third parfcyism
was the scene that was enacted a
few miles from here on Saturday
The negroes were sworn to secre¬
cy, so that no white mail save the
speakers would know anything
about these meetings, and it was
purely accidental that the leaders
wore detected in their diabolical
actions. A trusted farm hand
working on the plantation of a
prominent farmer told him of the
wonderful things he had heard the
night before at the school house.
How negroes became frantic with
joy as they were assured that if
they would vote with the third
party that Tom Watson was going
to usher in an era of prosperity
that they had never kn nvn before.
They would be paid $1.50 and
$ 1.75 per day, thus enabling them
t > live more comfortably, and that
they would then join hands with
the whites and become as one.
Such scenes were never before wit¬
nessed. as the negroes in genuine
barbaric style clapped their hands
and danced to the music of sacred
songs and offered prayers to the
speakers who had so unmercifully
deluded them in their ignorance.
The extreme measures adopted by
the leading dement of the people’s
party is doing it incalculable harm.
Sober men realize the inevitable
result of such proceedings-and are
thoroughly disgusted with the new
party, and are now more thorough¬
ly democratic than ever. Every
district in the county has organiz-
ed a democratic club and are doing
magnificent work fori the party,
Unless a great change, unforseen,
is brought about, every county
office will be presided ever by a
d emocrat.
The third partyites attempt to
appear sanguine, but they are rap-
idly beginning to realize that they
are painfully in the minority, and
with the strength they have at
• it, they cannot accomplish
• ing. On the ides of Novem¬
ber the grand old county cf M
roe will pile up a magnificent
jerity for C leveland, Ca' :ss
democracy.
VOL XVII—NO. 37
THE FUNNY THINGS.
A TLA XT A. Ga., Sept. 5.—In
parts of the state the third
movement has run into a
cism which would be
were it less lament ble. Toni
son is indeed deified in the eves
hundreds and hundreds of his
lowers.
An exhorter over in the
district preaches that Watson
immortal. He believes it, too.
The negroes call him their
and it is positive sacrilege the
they boast of him. No wonder
democratic leaders are
about reaching this class of
who have gone wild and will
listen to reason. John W.
ertson. of Habersham, declared
his speech at Conyers two
ago that up in his county
wore suffering from too much
litical preaching. One would
so after hearing Rev. Thomas
Postello and learning that he
only one of many.
Early in the week Joe Ja mes and
W. C. Glenn journeyed to Blairs-
ville in Union county to talk
the mountaineers. The Rev.
telle asked for a division of time
and was granted it. He is one of
Rev. Thad Pickett’s typo and a
rampant Third nartyite. Here is
an extract from his speech and
Col. Glenn tolls me that there
were many such passages:
“Fellow citizens,” exclaimed the
parson in an enthusiastic outburst,
“the Third party will bring about
the millennium. It will bring
about the union of the Methodist
and the Baptist churches. It will
unite alEseetions of this country
and that union will continue until
the resurrect i m. On the morning
of the resurrection, the man who is
president of the United States will
take the flag of the Union up to
heaven and lay it down at the feet
of George Washington, an 1 George
Washington will take it and lay it
down at the feet of Jesus Christ!”
Down in Liberty county a
preacher by the name of Hall is
running for the legislature on the
third party ticket. Hall has split
his church on the old question, “is
the child kin to its mother?’’
Hall declares that there is no rela¬
tionship between mother and
child. A part of his church seced¬
ed and the question has entered in¬
to the campaign. If ho is elected,
which is highly improbable, he will
be likely to introduce some bills
calculated to upset the present tes¬
tamentary law.
These incidents would be humors
of the campaign if they were not
serious facts showing the timber of
a class which is not small
Among the humors which are
less serious is the charge made by
wire grass orator that Gov.
Northen vetoed the silver bill.
Another story is told of a third
nartyite who is “agin the democrat¬
ic administration of Georgia, be¬
it is supporting a fort and a
standing army at McPherson bar¬
racks which the people are igno¬
rant of.”
WE A V ER’S CItUELTY
TESTIMONY OF ONE WHO WITXI
IT IN TENNESSEE.
Tallapoosa, Ga., August 23.
To the editor of the Journal: 1
see in your issue of Saturday tlie
20th inst., an extract from a letter
written by an old citizen ofPulaski.
Term.; .alsoa copy of a clipping
from the Giles County Democrat
of the 20th of July, charging Gen¬
eral Weaver, the people’s party can¬
didal.’ for president, with beastly
cruelty towards the citizens of Pul¬
aski and Giles county while in com¬
mand of the Union army at that
place in 18(54.
I can fully substantiate a number
of the charges contained therein,
and could add many others of like
character ail from my own recol¬
lection. Although quite young at
the time such a state of terror o c
we were kept in by this brute in
human form made an indellibE
impression upon ray mind.
My father, Dr. Perkins, was
kffing in Pulaski at this time. Om
uouse my grandmother’s (Mrs
Dr. Ordway now of Nashville),
md Major Jones,a relative of ours,
wore used as officers' quarters. Wo
were all subjected to many insult?.
Major Jones’ family were ordered
out of their house at about It?
o'clock on a bitter cold night in
Decembt r. They wore not allowed
time to dress. Mrs. Jon<*s had to
wrap her sick child in hod-clothing
and carry it in her arms to a neigh¬
bor’s house. Many acts of bar¬
barous enmity committed on my
relatives and friends are fresh in
my memory. Mon of the highest
standing, both young amt old, wore
thrown into prison, kept there for
months and some shot down like
dogs with never a charge entered
against them.
Ladies were insulted on th streets
—it was indeed a reign of terror.
Such acts of vandalism and crime,
have never even read of in a civil¬
ized country. All of it was done
by the order, or with consent of
General Weaver.
Mrs. Annie E. IIall.
ILLUSTRIOUS MR. BLACK.
Tom Watson will never again l e
eloquent as h<- was wh n he intro¬
duced to the Georgia legislature in
1882, as a candidate for United
States Senator, the peerless states¬
man who now 'warsthe Democratic
standard in the Tenth distil k
Watson was then a Democrat,
Here is what he said :
“I am proud of the privilege of
seconding, as I now do, the nomi¬
nation of so illustrious a man as
Mr Black. I know him. his intel¬
lect is as lofty as the flight of the
eagle,and as pure as the cloud
that bathes his pinions. His char¬
acter is as strong as Gibraltar’s
rock,and as lovely in its glow as the
evening when it bows itself out
amid the stalw. Raising Ins pure
banner here, om’ band will gather
around it,side by side, shoulder to
shoulder, and move on with the step
a proud conscientiousness that
we honor a leader whose plume is
the plume of Navarre, a plume
that may not always lead to victory
but that never carries away a stain
upon its snow}'surface. What the
may be, fellow members, g
for you. For my part, 1 had rather
be a mourner at the defeat of right,
to be king of a carnival of vic¬
might. (Applause. )
1. PIKE,
A TTOR N K Y-AT-La W.
JefTerson, Ga.
B. PARKS,
A TTO1 1 N E Y-AT-LA W,
Carnesvillo, Ga.
N. KING,
A TTC m X E Y-A T- L A W,
Carnesvillo, Ga.
It, LITTLE,
Attorn e y-a t-L a w,
Carnesville, Ga
W. mu
A TTORXE V-AT-LaW,
Jefferson, Ga.
OIIN W. OWEN,
Attorney- at-Law,
T ecoa, Ga.
EWIS DAVIS,
Attor r-A t-L aw,
Toccoa, Ga.
A. U. McCunity, P. P. Proffitt,
Elbert on.
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