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T ■ i r> Tribune. s?f 1 AT. \ jam n * vkt.tn county Ttll.MS Jit< V v.vCM F;XEN J. DoUTCII, EdITOK. Car.'Esv uui, Ga., Sept. 28,1S92. oercr zrz.rz*. Ti J election for governor, state houf officers, and members of ths general assembly will be held on < -ctober 5th. Q jorgia’s enemies have cried “fra k 1!” before, aud the third par¬ ty follows only publish their own weakness in taking up tho cry be¬ fore their defeat at the ballot box. Tho democratic party is the same old party that it was when Dr. Holbrooks was a democratic can¬ didate for tho legislature two years ago. It is tho samo party that he has been voting with for thirty years. Dr. Holbrook* and Jarrette fa¬ vor disfranchising about voters ot Georgia. If Dr. Hol¬ brooks and Jarrette could get into power, many of fhe men who help¬ ed to give them power would vote again. There is no! a mm in Franklin county that c m! I I, license to teach school after miking such a speech as Dr. Boltins delivered to tho reformers l ist Friday. And yet the doctor b dioves that iio is wise enough to “save she ment.” “Fibvoto the LhLti party L' il is the last time ] ever said c negro the ot her tiny. Aud will be the last ballot lie will east if the third party gets power to disfranchise him and islates up to its platform. Dr. Holbrooks had never recognized as the poor man’s in this county, until he sought fice. 1 la has refused to visit white and colored peoplo sickness without an order their landlords. How many poop I e will vote for Holbrooks? The third party is iu favor of election law that will a majority of t he negroes of A majority of the white people opposed to the third party. If third party gets into power, it be by the voles of the colored men whom It promises to The Uiird party clued that was going to sweep Irwin county. The ot her day a meeting was eall- ed at Irwinsvillo for nominating a third party man for the legislature. Only eight reformers responded to the cali, and the cause of Weaver ,v. t Leek wav abandoned in dis¬ gust. Strife and contention are abroi d in tho land. Though creating this is tho brightest record the third parry lias made, yet this is dark enough to condemn it in tbe eyes of good men. And t he good men of Georgia will express their con¬ demnation at the polls next Wed¬ nesday. William Martin, nominee of the third party for representative from Dawson county, has withdrawn from the race and will support the' standurd-bearer of the democracy. One by one, tho good men who act¬ ed hastily in going off into the re¬ form movement are returning to the party of the people. i cucks,-Wardell, Robinson and Yancey Carter, of Oak Bower, Hart c .nfv. were billed to speak at ; -niel* -vilie last Saturday, and Dr. jvritcnjBrUs ou hand to present e-efscy’s-aitite to the people. < .13 followers of Weaver, after :u!i g miles through the country, found that they didn’t have time to *p?ak, and fled the field. Potllo, the third party candi- 0 i(c for congress in the sixth di®- ■ "lat is ut of the race; J. V. Mc- v, horttfr, one of the third party’s s at- executive committee, haa r«- t ,! o*d* ; o democratic folds; Post . ' banished.to Florida. It ■mos *ui that the reform party is in a bad way. No wonder that Georgia made Weaver and the fe¬ male orator, Lease, sick. Nsws has reached thia place Franklin county that the third party had compromised with Tnoma® Gideonite Underwood for his untiring services to that party W giving him bailiff’s place in the town diitriot. Hereafter the sale notice® will be «igned this Hon. R C '* ai - Thomas ----- way: - sou Gideon- -rr , di8 ‘ ews. DESERT YOUR COLORS! FR AN KLIN COUNTY MEN. There was a time when few re¬ spcctabie white men were found outside of the democratic ranks in Georgia. The democratic party has been tbs only respectable political par¬ ty iu the South. Thesw conditions will exist again a fp. r election in November. q u t ]io 5th of October the intel- au d patriotism of Georgia will bury the third party iu our proud old state. After the NovemKu elections the ro/ormers will bo too sick in ev- ’ery state of this Union to hold a Gideonite prayermeeting. The loyal and liberty-loving cit¬ izen of America will meet Weav¬ er’s little decrepit gang at the bal¬ lot boxes in November. It will not be the first third party movement that has been crushed by the free men of this country. They have sung the funeral dirge of hair a score before now. No secret political movement ha* ever triumphed on American soi. or in a free land and never will. What good, honest man in Franklin county is ready to desert t he colors of the old party that has stood as the bulwark of bis liber¬ ties during all those years, to fol¬ low Weavei, the South-hater, Post, the republican, and the dema¬ gogue, office-seeking crew that i.- leading the reform movement in this country? How many of you will follow a man that intuited th® noble men of the Southern Coufedera.es ? How many good citizens Franklin county will desert own people to follow a republican hireling who has been sent to gia to divide the white people our state. Why men of Franklin, thiid party gang offers you a form that shames your and insults your intelligence. They sey that you need “relief” and do they propose to give it to By taxing you to buy up ton lion dollars worth of railroads ; by taxing the poor people of Georgia to pay the Union soldiers 000; by dividing out tho earned homesteads of the farmers; by robbing many of the white aim calored of the light to vote; by a laud loan scheme which would make of the government a groat banking establishment, lending money at two per cent. If the platform of the [third party embodied wise, patriotic and just meas- 1 ures, w hy is it that no American statesman has yet endorsed it? Why 1 b it that the men who have defended tlio constitutional free¬ dom of this country in times of war and peace, have risen in re¬ volt against the platform of third party from Maine to Cai forma: Why is it that only the demagogue scum of all political parties that have ever existed in this country is leading in the reform move¬ ment as office-seekers? It cannot bo true that Weaver, Post and their followers represent the political purity of the Ameri¬ can republic—that there is not an honest political.leader in thia Un¬ ion outside of the Third party. Don’t desert Your colors men of Franklin. The reformers are whipped, and what man in Franklin wants to stand with that crowd in defeat? Tho third partyites say, “If you don’t like the election system pro¬ posed in their platform, it will not be forced 011 you; but be sure and vote the third party ticket, and then if you don’t want the Austra¬ lian ballot system, we won’t have it.” That is the way they argue all th® way through their platform. “If you don’t want to buy the rail¬ road®, we won’t do it,” etc. They thus acknowledge that it ia not their principles that they are try-' ing to enact into laws, but the vote which th® demagogues need, that they are earnestly working for. If you are opposed to an election law that would disfranchise fifty thou¬ sand white and colored men in Georgia, you will not vote for third party, which is pledged by ita platform to such a measure,al- though its spokesmen declare they von t force it on you. •* — The great third party lights of Franklin favor lynching. Northen Davis and Little oppose lynching. How many colored voters will sup- port a man who is not willing to S ive them a fair trial courts this country. DON’T DRAG OUR GOOD WO- MENJ1N T(D THE CAMPAIGN. The third party bosses of this county are making a determined tight on Lewis Davis. Jarrette hasn’t the ehr.dow of chance of being elected. Ho hot be heard of in Habersham Hart and in order to save from bmul defeat, they are ing heaven and earth to Lewis Davis’ following in county. The boss «3 will not succeed. After scouring around in a fruit¬ less effort to And charges that could bo brought against the pub¬ lic or private life of Lewis Davis, the bosses have stooped, and henv- en pity th® man that couli stoop so low, to drag the good name of Lewis Davis’ mother into tile cam¬ paign. Let these cowards and traitor* desist. They are treading on dan¬ gerous ground. They arc n>;t. wor¬ thy to breathe the name of Lewis Davis’ noble mother. There is pot a right-minded man on the faceof the earth,that would not scorn to strike at a man through a woman. One of tho latest campaign sto¬ ut the bosses is that Lewis Davis’ mother called the crowd that was in Toccoa last Saturday to Lear Pickett and Carter, “‘a trashy, dirty looking set.” By this slander of Lewis Davis’ mother the bosses hope to prejudice the poor and ignorant people of this _ounty against Lewis Davis. We suspect that it was a some¬ what disreputable looking set that gathered to hear the scalawag, Iliad Picket, tell thorn how to dis¬ rupt the democratic party. Let the demagogue democratic deserters overthrow this free gov¬ ernment of ours, lot them disfran¬ chise and rob our people, but in the name of everything that it= high and true, don’t drag our good women into the campaign. FORTY CENTS FOR CAMPAIGN PURPOSES. 1 he part) of political purity held a meeting at Grots Plains last Sat¬ urday night. Abner Paul Narcissus Under¬ wood and P. C. Holbrook were the i orators of tho occasion. A.bner, Paul Narcissus stated that he had been traveling exten¬ sively during the last few days, and if there was anything in the signs of the times, the third party was on a boom. Brother Holbrooks then arose, discussed the tariff in a statesman¬ like manner, and proceeded to take up a collection for the benefit of the state campaign fund. He stated that it was a poor man’s party, but that it was their duty to contribute something and he was willing to open ais heart and his purse and give ten cents to help pay tho expense!' of Wearer, Lease and Cyclone Davis’ trip through Georgia; Btovo Payne followed with teu cents; Blant Brown and Ralph Brown each contributed ter. cents, and then the meeting ad¬ journed, and the saints dispersed to their homes to dream about how liberal they had been. The Tribune suggests that an eye be kept on the treasurer oi Cross Plains Alliance. J. C. McCarter in the special fight he is making on Neal Little, is.not adhering as strictly to the truth as honorable men do. Here is one of the campaign fables that Sheriff McCarter is telling tho col¬ ored men—that if they vote for Neal Little on a third party ticket the whole ticket will be thrown out. Now there are some very dark spots in Mr. McCarter’s career h* an officer and citizen, that it given to the public would forever blast hia influence with both white and colored men of thh county. We should dislike for several reasons to expose Mr. McCarter, but if we hear of any more unfair means taken by him to defeat democracy we shall be forced to do it in our next issue. W e are willing to save Mr. McCarter, if you will al- low us, for the sake of an old man whose memory we have to cherish who waa rich in human kindness ant ^ more.than once helped you ouo of the trouble. But re- member, there are to be no more falsehoods circulated by you against our democratic candidates, \ou seek office and seek to lead tbe people, aud under these condi- tions, your record is the property the public THEY CAME, THEY SAW AND THEY FLED. The third party circus, by Weaver, the South-hater, the Kansas statesman, fled from Georgia in disgust, the campaigning tour was finished. The democratic enthusiasm mot at every appointment powered them—made thorn and they hastened to shake soil from their feet. Wo regret, a* every true and democrat must, if the least courtesy was shown she third ty craters at any of their ments. While Weaver and Leas® sent a crowd that doesn’t believe in freedom of speech—a boycotting, strife-creating crowd, and they oanw among us for the express purpose of dividing our own ple and turning our proud old state over to the scalawag, demagogue sknn nt from which our people rescued it just after the war—still it is not Georgia’s way to d®ny any stranger within her border®, a respectful hearing, and most espe¬ cially if that stranger wears a dr«ss. We are persuaded, notwithstand¬ ing Weaver’s lament alien on the discourtesy shown him and Lease, and the effort to pus - as a martyr, that democratic enthusiasm which met him at every^ step in Georgia, and not discourtesy drove him from the state. In Atlanta although more than 3,000 people assembled to hear Weaver and every policeman in the city was o'utigeJ to preserve order and tho governor of the state promised him a respectful hearing, Weaver refused to speak. According to our Southern way of thinking, women ere made for something better than political muff-slinging. Gur Southern man has bee.i queen of th-s hold, saint of the church, and at her shrine the best manhood of the 8011 th has bowed. When States¬ man Lease v-ume to Georgia to low in political mire, to mount hustings, call Georgians “liars” and denounce the party that has guarded the sanctity of Southern homes, she descended from nigh pedestal upon which our men have stood. But the out ot her garment protected her from insult or injury. Georgia wants none of Lease and Weaver—none of the party they represent, and realizing it they beat a cowardly retroat. WHAT A FALSIFIER! Gen. Benjamin Jay hew Cleve¬ land was in Big Smith district on stock law election day circulating the report that Alias Ellen Bortcii nas given up the Democratic tight and acknowledge that the third party was “in” m Franklin county by a large majority. Great scott, Ben 1 why didn’t you say that the heavens and the earth has changed places, or that Alias Ellen had ceased to revere and cherish the memory of her dead father, or spurned and cast off her mother. Hiss© statements might be believ¬ ed by some idiot. But the one you miiKe would never be credited by any one. No, no, Ben, you have completely destroyed your force as a misrepresenter. Nothing you might say hereafter will !*e credit¬ ed or reported aven by Parson Stonocypher or John Stott. Tom said he thought it would have been better for the third party if you hadn’t made that speech in your district, and what do you reckon lie will say now? I shouldn’t be surprised if \ouaro order«d to withdraw iroai the third party at one i and if you are you will have no one to blame but yourself, and you will not deserve the of your washwoman. — Toccoa News. Gen. Benjamin Jay hew Cleve¬ land, it is rumored, is mentally unbalanced. There ia a strong suspicion that he will be given a place in tho home that the Demo¬ crats have provided at vilie for third party lunatics. General Fields, in his speech at Birmingham, Ala., began by de- ploring the hardships of the farm- ers, saying they are getting poorer all the time, because the money that belonged to the people has been ruthlessly taken from them, Who is to blame for this? The democrats eay the north is guilty, This is partly true. The high tar- iff' has partly done it and the re- publicans are the guilty ones. They have enacted all the hostile rnoas- ures. So far I agree with the South- era democrats. The democrats deny responsibility by saying they have not had control of the posi¬ deucy, senate and house at the same time. A SENSIBLE LETTER. The alliance was organized for the benefit of the laboring classes, end was a power for good. It had accomplished a great deal—whip¬ ped the bagging trust, adjusted tbe difference between the farmer and the merchant. The democrat were ready and had already con¬ ceded every just demand. Living¬ ston, Moses and others had proven beyond a doubt that a man could be a good democrat and at the same time a true allianceman. We seem to have forgotten that the alliance had any bounds. Wc should not lose sight of the fact that we are one people. Our interests are identical. Why then the Democratic party to fol¬ low men whose only desire is to use the alliance as a stepping stone into office—traitors who suffered flag to trail in the dust and then have the audacity to say to “follow me, I am the way.” We will agree that theirs is the way into the republican party, where all of the third party leaders finally land. Who are those bosses? Tom Watson and Winn? Traitors. Weaver who not only 3ought every oppor¬ tunity to abuse your party public¬ ly but said your women would sell out—your mothers, wives, listers and sweethearts. Cursed be the infernal tongue that would utter one word of slander against the best, grandest and most patriotic women on God’s green earth. Weaver, the standing candidate on any platform. Col. Post, the athe¬ ist, regarding not God nor man. You Christian men, are you wil¬ ling to keep such company? Ar® you willing to be led by thorn into the republican ranks? Look at the platform ! Two wise men could not stand on it side by side with¬ out Crushing through. If adopted, it would bankrupt the government in twelve months. The only ob¬ ject sought is to split the solid South in the interoat of the repub¬ lican party. Suppose you had $50 per capita, how long would it remain here, while you pay millions of dollars to pension northern soldiers, and an average of more than thirty dollars tariff on every hundred you spend. Will not the money as naturally flow back north water will run down hill? This is republican legislation, and wher* the third party is intentionally or unintentional ly drifting. Why not tell the people the truth? Tell them that outside of the protected industries north, the tariff is sapping the life out oi them, and that the republican party is responsible for it? Now, my friends, to is is the party toward which you are drift¬ ing, and the one in which yeur loaders will land. You are prodi¬ gals. While you have suffered wrongs, these wrongs have been magnified, and you have strayed far away from home and friends. Why stay away longer? Return to your own homo before you suffer and cause your own people to suf¬ fer any more republican misrule. I call upon you in the name ol the great democratic party—the party that embodies everything that 13 grand, noble, patriotic, wise and just; I oaii upon you in the name of your good women, in the name of your dead heroes, to come back home. We are going to have a great feast Wc propose to form a new alliance—one tuat embraces all professions of this beautiful Southland. The qualifications shall be wisdom, justice and mod¬ eration, and its name shall be Pure Democracy. W. A. Daniel. A SENSIBLE COLORED MAN. Editor Tribune : Please giv# me space in your valuable paper to speak of a democratic suppar giv¬ en at Martin Saturday night. Oys¬ ters were our chief ^delight. Both white and oolored enjoyed them¬ selves to the highest. I did not see any difference manifested at the supper. All were treated alike. There was quite a number ol third party men present, who were invited into ths hall to partake 01 °y Bter 8 U PP* r > which we a11 en ' joyed finely. Th© democratic party is proving to the colored man that it is his best friend in the South. The colored race feels that what is the democrats’ interest is their interest, and that they are not afraid of being misled by the de¬ mocracy of this Southland of ours. The colored man’s best friands are in the South. Rev. E. D. Bradley, Colored. To the colored voters of Frank¬ lin : When you vote tha third par¬ ty ticket you vote for a party that is pledged by its platform to dis- franohisa a majority of your race. Will you give them th® power to take the ballot away from you, as they declare in their platform they will do? |THE PEEK SLAVERY BILL. Tho Slavery bill has been traced back to where all such infamous cratic measure! originate—in tho demo¬ rank*. Col. \V. D. Tutt, a democrat, is the author of it. vVhen Peek put an amendment to flic bill giving the tenant as fair a fliance aa the landlord, the demo¬ crats rejected it. Now get up an- >ther lie and we will put it back in he same old nest.—Last week’* Enterprise. The adjourned session of the general assembly of Georgia met m Atlanta Wednesday, July Gth i 387. On Thursday, July 7, Billie Peek introduced this now famous bill: “A bill to make it unlawful for any person or p®r*on* who receive advance* upon a contract to work the land® of another in the capacity of cropper, renter, or for itanding wages, and failing to comply with said contract, without a good and sufficient cause, and to prescribe a penalty for the same. Referred to committee on agri¬ culture.”—Senate Journal, page 10, July 7, 1887. REPORT OF COMMITTEE. Your committee hare had under cenaideratiou the following bill, which they recommond do pass, by substitute herewith submitted, to- wit: “A bill to make it unlawful for any person or persona who receives advances upon a contract to work on the lands of another iu the ca- pacity of renter, oropper or for standing wages, and failing to comply with same without good aud sufficient cause, to prescribe a penalty for samo. Respectfully submitted, S. C. Lamkin, J“Chairm&n pro. tern.” Senate Journal, page 58, July 20, 1887. “On motion of Mr. Peok, the bill of the senate to make it unlawful for any person who receives ad¬ vances upon a contract to work the lands of another iu the capac¬ ity of a renter, cropper or for ing wages, and failing to comply with said contract, without good and sufficient caus®, and to pre¬ scribe a penalty for th® same, etc., was made the special order for Wednesday next, immediately af¬ ter the reading of the journal.”— fleuate Journal, page 67, July 21, 1887. “Th© senate took up tho ipecial order of this day, viz: The report of the committee on agriculture on the bill of the senate to make it unlawful for any person or persons who receives advances upon a con- bract to work the lands of another m the capacity of renter, crepper or for standing wages, and failing to comply with said contract with- out a good and sufficient cause; to prescribe a penalty for the same. “The committee reported in fa¬ vor of its passage by substitute.”— Senate Journal, page 93, July 27, 1887. “On inetion of Mr. Peek, the bill of the sauate to make it unlawful for any person who receives ad¬ vances upon a contract to work the lands of another in the capacity of renter, cropper, or for standing wages, to fail to comply with his contract, and to fix a penalty there¬ for, was taken up from the table And recommitted to the committee on agriculture.”—Senate Journal, page 148, August 11,1887. “The senate took up tho report of tha committee on agriculture, on the bill of the aenate to make it anlawful for any peraon (or per¬ sons) who receives advances upon a contract to work the lands of an¬ other in the capacity of renter, cropper or for standing w r ageg and failing to comply with *aid con- tract without good and sufficient cau®e; to prescribe a penalty for the same. “The committee reported in fa¬ vor of its passage by substitute, which-was adopted and the report igreod to.”—Senate Journal pag* 345, September 13, 1887.: ^ ^^ Some of the third-party leaders have been stating that this bill was not introduced by Billie Peek out was fathered by Bill Tutt. Now these leaders have falsified from ignorance or intention, and are trying to shield Peek from the responsibility of this infamous oill. The record as quoted above recites the facte. Peek introduced tho original bill on tha ®econd day of the session, and had it man® the special order of th® day for Julv 27th. He waa anxious for its pass¬ age, as the record ihow^and stands to-day as h^did when he was try¬ ing to get thia bill saddled upon the poor renters of this state. Can renter, cropper or tenant sup- port this man for th® highest of. fice within the gift of the people of Georgia? The third party bosses didn’t resolute any about the of the Grand Army of the lic in tho capital of the nation a few days ago. But when the old Confederate Veterans of Frank¬ lin county, some of them home¬ less and friendless, kicked out to die in destitution by the Alliance legislature, resolved to hold a re¬ union, the bosses resoluted againit it, calling it disloyalty to this r§- united republic. Announcements. FOR SENATOR. Louis Davis is hereby announc¬ ed as the Democratic candidate for the State Senate from the 81®t Senatorial district. FOR REPRESENTATIVE. Neal Little is presented as the Democratic candidate to represent Franklin county in the next Legi®- lature of Georgia, and pledg- inghimself to guard carefully th® interests of all classes of our peo¬ ple, his friends are urged to make active canvass in his behalf. FOR ORDINARY. To tho voters of Franklin coun¬ ty—The undersigned hereby an¬ nounces himself a candidate for re-election to the office of Ordina¬ ry of Franklin county at the ensu¬ ing election in January next. Thankful for your support in the past, he solicits a continuance of the same in the future, with the promise on his part that if re-elect¬ ed, he w ill continue to discharge to the best of his ability, with ii- delity and punctuality, the dutiei pertaining to said office. Respectfully, Daniel McKenzie. FOR SHERIFF, To the citizens of Franklin coun¬ ty : I hereby announce myself as a candidate for sheriff of Franklin Having county at the ensuing election. been'born and raised under Democratic principles I will make the race on the Democratic plat¬ form, as 1 see no plausible reason why I should forsake the party now. If elected I will discharge my duty as an officer to the best of my ability without fear or favor Respectfully, J. H. Hathcock. I hereby anuounce myself a can¬ didate for sheriff of Franklin county at the election to be held in Jan. 1893. If elected, I will honestly and fearlessly fill the office to the best of my ability. So¬ liciting your support I am yours respectfully, J H. Gunnin. FOR CLERK. To the Voters of Franklin coun¬ ty’ : I hereby announce myself a candidate for re-election to the of¬ fice of Clerk Superior Court of Franklin county, at the ensuing election in January next. I am thankful to the people for their support in the past. I do hope to have your support in the future. If you will re-elect me I will dis¬ charge the duties faithfully, promptly aud impartially, as I have tried to do in the past. Being more familiar with the office I can do the business more efficiently than before. With many thank® for past favors, I am Respectfully, etc., J. M. Phillips. FOR TREA8URET. At the solicitation of many friends I announce myself a candi¬ date for the office of Treasurer,and respectfully ask the support of the people. J. R. COX. I announce myself a candidate for Treasurer of Franklin county and respectfully beg the support of my fellow citizens. T. C. Burton. FOR TAX COLLECTOR. To the Voters of Franklin coun¬ ty : For the benefit of inquiring friends I respectfully announce myself for re-election to the offic® of Tax Collector at the January election, 1893. With thanks for past favors, I respectfully ask for the continuance of the same for one more term. Your faithful servant, GEO. W. CARROLL. I announce myself as a candi¬ date for the office of Tax Collect¬ or of Franklin county, and respect¬ fully beg the votes of the people, for one term. C. W. L ark. To the voters of Franklin coun¬ ty : I hereby announce myself as a candidate for the office of Tax Collector of Franklin county at the election to be held January, 1893. If elected I will honestly endeavor to fill the office to the best of my ability, and respectful¬ ly ask your support for one term* M. H. Dcnca-v. 1 _ _ FOR TAX RECEIVER. date I announce for Tax Receiver myself of as Fraukltf a candy county and respectfully solicit t# votes of my fellow citizens, P ro J ising, if elected, to discharge F duties of the office to the bestjf my ability. H. J. Rumse I anuounce myself as a cat 1 ' date for Tax Receiver of Franf® county support aud of the respectfully citizens of thejp begjP® 1 " tj*j £Jessb Lecij-