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'I t/2 2SS32u»iaJS!fi J. 1 ESTABLISHED 1875. T>V x ) A- TRADING WITH HOOD *) ft NDERSOI Sc GO. HART-IONY GROVE CxA* The More Yon Buy the More Yon Save yu I Si 5L - n m r it ! i 9 i r. '4 / i & e We sell everything. Call and see us before you buy any goods elsewhere. It will cost nothing to look and get prices. If you w j* ds and prices you will be sure to buy. 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. M cCURIiY A At PROFFITT, roKNE y s- at-Law. General Law Practice in all of the Georgia Co a cs. MM* MMM M. 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