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FOR ALLIAMJEMEN.
Holes and Current Comnuat R garding
the Great Reform Movement.
ECHOES OF THE GREAT ST. LOUIS COVEN-
TrON-THE PLATFORM TO BE REJECT¬
ED OK RATIFIED THIS MONTH.
An exchange remarks that the man
who joins the Alliance for t ie purpose of
gettiug a lit le cheap sugar or a little
office of some kind, is generally the one
who is found kicking the hardest.
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The Virginia Bun, the State organ o
the Virginia Alii nee, is a brigh orb i>
the reform world. It is both fe tries
and able in its championship of Alliance
principles and in the advocacy of he
Ocala demands.
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The fight in this country is now o’ be-
tween the money power and the pf>ple.
Wall street and London have dikated
the policy of our government long
enough. The people will now puta stop
to it in a peaceable manner at the ballot
box.
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The Pennsylvania Farmer las been
that adopted as State organ of the ^1 dance iD
State. It is an old an 1 ridable pa-
pi r and has stood for reforn all t ese
years. We predict great grod jto the
people who read it.
/
cratic An exchange committee says: The Texas ij Demo¬
of the state ha ruled
that no m .n who advocates (he sib-treas¬
ury system can vote in the Dimocr^tic
primaries. This has split the party wide
open with a majority going wip the sub¬
treasury crowd.
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The alliance will not becoae a politi¬
cal party, nor the kite to if iy political
organization. It will hold /tself intact
as However, an organization, separau/and distinct.
its members hav^ig been edu¬
cated science up of to government that intelligent that enables point in the
a man
to vote that for principles, wi|l vote with that
party represents thrir views of re¬
form.—So. Alliance Farhicr.
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In addition to the platform the follow¬
ing resolutions were Adopted at the St.
Louis meeting:
Resolved, That tbe question of female
fliiffragn be referred to the legislatures of
the different states for favorable consid¬
eration.
Resolved, That the government should
issue legal tender notes and pay the
Union soldier the difference between the
price of the depreciated money in which
he was paid and gold.
Resolved, That we hail this conference
as the consummation of a perfect union
of hearts and hands of all sections of our
common country. The men who wore
the gray and the men who wore the blue
meet here to extinguish tbe last smoulder¬
ing embers of civil war in the tears of
joy of a united and happy people, and
we agree to carry the stars and stripes
forward forever to the highest point of
national greatness.
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President Polk, in his address beforo
the recent labor congress, among other
things, siid that on Wall street “and on
■the board of trades money was one and a
Lalf per cent. In any of the small towns,
on the other hand, money was at from
ten to twenty per cent. That was what
had to be righted. The farmer paid over
twenty per cent of taxes, and it money
can be borrowed in New York on cotton
and wheat at one and a half per cent,
why can't the same thing be done in the
west? He compared the gain in wealth
of the New England states as compared
with the producing states of the west and
south, saying that the gain of the New
England states was five to one against ihe
south and west. He entered a so eran
protest against these unequal conditions.
The time has come, he declared, when
the great northwest, great south and
great west shall lock their hearts and
hands together and take possession and
Tun the government in the interest of the
people.
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farmers’ catechism.
Paste this in your hat and read it to
every man who asks your suffrage, al¬
ways pausing after each question long
enough to sea that you are answered
without equivocation, yes or no.
1. Are you in favor of abolishing the
special privileges enjoyed by national
banks ?
2. Are you in favor of putting tb
producers of cotton on an equal footing
with the producers of silver and gold,
by allowing them to store cotton as a
basis for circulation, within safe limits?
3. Are you in favor of ri storing tbe
volume of currency to the same ratio
that it sustained to the population and
business of the country, when our public
debts were contracted?
4. Are you in favor of prohibiting tbe
monstrous system of gamoling in agri¬
cultural pro iucts, that robs the farmer of
all his hard earned profit, and demoral¬
izes the counts y?
5. Are you in favor of free coinage of
Btlver ?
6. Are you in favor of prohibiting tbe
ownership of land by aliens, and syndi¬
cates? *
7. Are you in favor of a tariff for
revenue only, and that levied upon the
luxuries rather than the necessaries of
life?
8. Are you in favor of a graduated tax
on income?
9. Are you in favor of limiting all
state and national revenues to the neces-
sary expenses of the government.
economically and honestly administered?
10. Are yon in favor of honest and
just but rigid control of nulroad and
telegraph lines ?
11. A e you in favor of election of
(Jn tedS tates senators by direct vote of
t e pe>P le ?—Cotton Plant.
THE PLATFORM.
p f ,lowing in the p'at form adopted at
the't. Lou s meeting, to ratify or reject
wh?‘h every county in th Union will
no ri a mass meeting on the last Saturday
,ifihis month:
First.—We demand a national curren-
safe, sound and flexible, is-ued by the
.eneral government only, a full legal
ender for all debts, public and private;
and th .t without the use of banking cor-
, rations a ju4, equitable and efficient
m of distribution direct to the peo-
p • at a tax not to exceed 2 per cent be
prov ded, as sri forth in the sub treasury
plan of he Farmers’ Alliance, or some
better system; also, by payment in dis¬
charge of itS obliga ions for public im-
iftrovcments.
a. We demand free and unlimited coin¬
age of silver.
b. W. otmand that the amount of cir¬
culating medium be speedily increased to
not less tba" $50 pi-r capita.
o. We demand a graduated income tax. the
d. We neiieve that the m >r ey of
country should be kept ns much as possi¬
ble in the hands of the people, and hence
we (Oman ' all national and slate revenue
hall be limited fo the necessary i xpenses
of th<* government economically and
honestly ad mi istered.
e. We demand that postal savings
bank* be established by the government
or the safe deposit of the earnings of the
tople and to facilitate exchange.
Second.—The land, including all the
natural resources of wealth, is lh j herit¬
age of all the people, and should not be
monopolized for speculative should purposes,
and alien ownership of land >e
prohibited. All land now held bv iail-
roads and other corporations in excess of
their actual net ds, and all lan’s r.ow
owned by aliens, should be reclaimed by
the government aud he'd for actual set ¬
tlers Third.—Transportation only. bring
a means
of exchange and a public necessity, the
government should own and operate the
railroads in the interest of the people.
(a.) The telegraph and telephone, like
the postoffice system, being a necessity
for transmission of news, should be own¬
'd and operated by the government in
he interest of the people.
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CONVENTION' ECHOES.
The Natioaal Economist thus comments
on the 8t. Louis conference: “The great
St. Louis conference of all organ zitions
)f producers in the United Suites, will¬
ing to co-operate in securing reforms in
the interest of the people, has come and
gone. It is now a matter of history, but
its effects will be far-reaching aud im-
poitant; they will affect the history of
the near future more, perhaps, than any¬
thing which has happened sine* the
foundation of the government. There
was almost a full representation of al¬
most every labor organization in all parts
af the nation. The action was harmoni-
dus and the platform was adop'ed unani¬
mously. It is a shorter and better platform
than any political party e^er put forth in
this country. It practically has but
three parts, finance, transposition and
loud. The platform, boiled down to its
ast analysis, means ‘more money and
less taxes.’ Every citizen of this nation
is called upon to rally to this platform,
not for the sake of any political indictment party,
but because it is right. The
in the first part of the platform is terrible
but true, and the remedy proposed by
the last part of the platform i* just and
equitable to all, and will certainly prove
adequate and efficient. Who, then, dare,
lay any claim to honesty and object to
tie call lor all honest citizens to array
t emselves under this bauner in prefer¬
ence to any political par y?
The convention adopted the platform
and resolutions, and then adjourned sine
die, and immediately after adj"UEument
was called to order as individual and in¬
dependent citizens who loved their coun¬
try, and organized into a mass meeting.
A committee of twenty five was then ap¬
pointed to confer with the executive
committee of the People’s party, which
#tands on practically ihe same platform,
and fix a time and place for holding a
national convention for the nomination
of President and Vice-Presideut upon
this platf rm. The committees met aud
decided upon Omaha, Neb., as the pluce,
the 4th of July, as the date, and 1,776
as the number of delegates.
This is immediately following the na¬
tional democratic and republican devuted conven¬ these
tions, and all who are to
principles will have seen them rejected
by both tho>»e parties, and will not leave
their old parties to participate in the new
because, having been turned out of their
old party for the principles of justice
they believe, they have no home but in
the new, where they can worship God
according to the dictates of their con¬
science. Mats meetings are to be held
in every county in the Union in March
for the’ ratification of this platform and
the selection of delegates to repre-ent it.
The delegates to tbe St. Louis convention
did not seek to bind their constit¬
uents or force them into a new party,
but realizing the fact that neither of the
old parties would in good f rith accept,
reform that would place capitalists and
the great common people on an equal
footing, they took steps which insures
the organization of a party on their prin¬
ciples, Now is the appropriate time for
active work in behalf of this platb rm.
Politicians do not believe the move¬
ment will amount to anything
because it has no money with
which to push the campaign,
but the facts are, that that will not retard
the onward march of this grand cause of
justice. The common ptoirie are tired of
a party that is run by boodle from men
who, as a recompense, control Congress
and the administration, and for a change
the people will arise ia a “pauper cam-
paign.” with no rewards for party work
«xcept that m rit shall be lecognizi d,
au.i fairly ov rwhelm the corrupt meth¬
ods of those who would hribe
American fru men with money * * *.
FREE BAGGING BILL.
The Report in Its Favor as Prepared
by Mr. Turner, of Georgia.
Following is the report of Mr. Turner,
of Georgia, from the ways and means com¬
mittee, in favor of the bill to admit free
of duty bagging for cotton, machinery
for manufacturing bagging, cotton ties
and cott >n git s: justice
The bill proposes an act of tardy
to those who contribute the chief item of
our export trade. We sent abroad dur¬
ing twelve months ended December 31,
1891, 5,927,852 bales of cott-on, of the
aggregate value of $227,038,511. The
conce^ion which this measure contem-
plntes is coincident With the greatest de¬
pression which the producers of cotton
have suffered in a generation. The time
is ripe lor some mitigation of their bur¬
dens. Cotton, when sold in the markets
of Europe, is subjected to
a tare, or deduction, for
bagging and ties. The American price
is fixed relatively to the price paid for
cotton abroad. The cost, therefore, of
covering and ties, which inclose lint, is a
sacrifice inflicted on the cotton grower in
both foreign and home markets. The
argument which inveighs duty, against while the the ex¬
emption of ties from
bund, iron or steel, from which they are
made is still subject to duty, is
without force under these circum-
srances. The principle of bag¬ the
drawback applies here in full force;
ging is covered by the same* sort of
equity. The right to resort to imported
bagging and ties will, it is confidently
believed, protect farmers and laborers
engaged in ihe production of cotton
against corners and combinations among
those who, under the present tariff, con¬
trol the supply of those indispensable ar¬
ticles. The exemption of machinery used
in the manufacture of bagging, is pro¬
posed in this bill for the benefit of Amer¬
ican bagging factories. They already
ha/e their raw materials free.
An additional reason is suggested by
the fact that, if these very simple ma¬
chines cun be imported free, the farmers
themselves can join in the production of
bagging. Tncy will thus have in their
own hands a final defense against trusts
and monopolies. They are still smarting
from ihe oppression which a very recent
combination imposed, the raising of the
price of bagging nearly 100 per cent.
The effect of the McKinley rates upon
bagging and ties has not yet been fully
eeveloped. The first result has articles. been to
cuf ( if the importations of these
The next 3tep will be an augmentation
of price. Trust is always a possible sup¬
plement to pr tection.
COMMISSIONER CLEMENTS.
His Nomination is Sent to the Sen¬
ate by the President.
The nomination of Mr. Clements as the
successor of W. L. Bragg, deceased, for
interstate commerce commissi >ner, was
sent to ihe senate Wednesday by Presi¬
dent Harrison. Thus the prediction
made a month ago is verified. Once be¬
fore the president had decided to appoint
Mr. Clements. He was about to send the
nomination to the senate when
a protest was made. But for
this Mr. Clements would have been
appointed president a month has ago. made Since inquiries that
time the
about Mr. Clements and came to the
conclu-ion that no better man could be
found in the countrv to till this high
office. It pays $7,500 a year, and Mr.
Clements will have a private secretary at
$1,800 a year. The position ranks next
to that of a judge of the life, supreme court
and is practically for for if a com¬
missioner proves efficient he is never re¬
moved. It is a high compliment to Mr.
Clements, but not more tba« his splendid
record while in congress entitles him to.
SKETCH OF III8 LIFE.
Judson C. Clements, of Rome, was
born in Walker c >unty, Ga., February
12, 1846, was educate i in the schools of
that county, also in the law sch >ol of
Cumberland University, at Lebanon,
Tenn.; was admitted to the bar
and began tbe practice of and law T in
1869 at LaFayette, Ga., has
continued in the same till the present
time; was elected representative in the
general assembly of Georgia in 1872 for
the term i f two years, aDd re elected in
1874; was elected state senator in 1877;
was elected t > the lo'ty-seventh, forty-
eighth, and forty-ninth and fi tiuth congress¬
es, was reelected to t e fifty-first
congress as a democrat. Mr. Clements
was beaten last time by Mr. Everett, the
present congressman. Mr. Felton ran
against Everett as an independent The
announcement of tbe appointment will
give general satisfaction throughout th<
south, and especially in Georgia.
SPRINGER IS IMPROVING,
But His Doctor Says He wlU Have to
Take a Rest.
A Washington dispatch, says: Mr.
Springer was reported to be better Tues¬
day morning and improving slowly.
Dr. Vincent, his physician, says
that even should Mr. Springer begin
to rally at once and continue to im¬
prove from this time on, it would be
impossible for him to attend to any busi¬
ness for the next two months. The doctor
declares that under the most favorable
circumstances Mr. Springer could three not
leave his hou*e with.n the next
weeks. After that the doctor wifi insist
that Mr, Springer go to Fortress Monroe
for four or five weeks. According to this
progrun, therefore, Mr. Springer has
practically concluded his services as chair¬
man of the ways and means committee.
THROUGH GEORGIA.
Interests Notes Gatherad From Here
and There Oyer the State.
The thirty-fourth annual coramence-
mfnt of the Atlanta Medical college oc¬
curred Wednesday night at DcGive’s
opera house. A large audience was pres¬
ent to witness the closing exercises of this
splendid institution. Sixty-live gradu¬
ates were given diplomas.
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A long petition from the lawyers
from McDuffie county has been presented
to Judge Ciarke, asking him to preside in
over the trial of a celebrated will case
Thomson during the month of April.
Judge Clarke will probably exchange
benches with the judge of that circuit
for a few days then.
Governor Northen offered two rewards
Wednesday for fugitives from justice.
John Booker murdered Fielding Lewis
in Warren county some time ago, and
Andrew Booker committed an assault
with intent to murder Henry Lewis at
the same time. The governor offers a re¬
ward of $100 for the capture of John
Booker and $50 reward for the arrest of
Andrew Booker.
The premium commi* tee of the Geor¬
gia Agricultural Society, and the special
committee of the city council met in
Macon last Thursday afternoon, and after
a long discussion in a friendly spirit, all
differences between the city of Macon,
and the society were settled. It was de¬
cided to hold the state fair in Macon next
fall. It is determined to make the exhi¬
bition the grandest ever held in Georgia.
An important and interesting sale of
property took place in East Macon a few
days ago. The property sold was a part
of the estate of Mr. R. A. Woolfolk,
father of Tom Woolfolk, who murdered
an entire family to gain possession of this
and other property. The property is com¬
posed of about eleven acres on the east
side of the Ocmulgee river and was all
unimproved. The entire tract brought
$0,028.
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On Tuesday payments of old soldiers’
pension money was in order. Many an
old war-worn fellow who wore the gray
drew his check on Georgia’s treasury,
and within two weeks $200,000 will be
paid out to them, there being about three
thousand old confederate soldiers in
Georgia to draw these pensions. None
but the maimed are given pensions, and
the state officials have regular schedules
by which they deal out the money.
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On Tuesday the rental of the Western
and Atlantic railroad was paid into the
state treasury for the month of February.
A check for $35,001 was sent to the
comptroller general to pay the rental and
was smoothed out in its place in the
state’s money safe. It is well to have
such checks as these come into Georgia’s
this treasury from time to time, especially at
period of the year, when many of
the counties have to have their school
warrants paid by the state.
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George Kennan, the Siberian traveler,
will lecture in Atlanta for the Young
Men’s library on the loth and 16th of
March. The library is making great
preparations for the occasion. The press
of the state will be invited, and the lec¬
tures will be advertised all over the state.
The Hebrew citizens of Atlanta are tak¬
ing especial interest in Mr. Kennan’s
visit, because he is expected to tell them
the condition of their oppressed brethren
m the Muscovite empire.
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Savannah has, in the case of Epstein
& Wunnbacher, one that may assume a
similar aspect to the Ryan case in Atlanta.
The firm, wholesale grocers, failed, and
the unpreferred creditors tried to break
certain mortgages and prove fraud. The
jury sustained the holders of the mort¬
gages, but held that over $17,000 was
uoacc<mated for, and held the firm re¬
sponsible. The unpreferred creditors
now want to know where this large sum
of money has gone, and propose to take
steps to find out what has become of it.
General Freight and Passenger Agent
E. R. Dorsey, of the Georgia road, has
resigned. His resignation is to take ef¬
fect as soon as his successor is appointed.
While this was not wholly unexoected to
a few it was a great surpr se to mo*t rail¬
road men. Mr. Do'sey has been think¬
ing of this step for some time. He has
been in the service of the Georgia road
for fourteen years and hae been a valu¬
able and esteemed official. He has de¬
voted the best years of his life to the
company.
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The committee of the grand lodge of
Odd Fellows of Georgia having in charge
the locating of the Odd Fellows’ orphans'
home, met in Savannah last Thursday
morning as per appointment. It re¬
mained in session several hours, and care¬
fully discussed the different offers and
sites. There has been no agreement as
yet, except in that it was decided to -e'ect
the site off. red by either Atlanta, Griffin
or Gainesville. The committee has ad¬
journ- d to meet again in Griffin on the
10th inst. They will then examine care¬
fully the sites offered.
Another move was made in the Atlanta
ind Florida receivership case Wednesday.
Judge Speer passed H. an Plant order at Macon
appointing Mr. R. permanent
receiver of the road, Mr. Plant, as is
known, h iving heretofore been appointed
onlv temporary receiver. Judge Speer
stated to ihe reporters that the appoint¬
ment was only a move in the natural or-
der of the case and could not be eon
ered as foretelling the issues that
follow. Exceptions were fieri t 0 |
judge’s rule absolute. In the "vent Ju|
Clarke sustains Captain Garrett, tne
may United keep in the courts until it
the States supreme court.
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The Ryan case will come up
in the superior court at. Atlanta, andi
probably occupy several da>s. The
as it now comes up will in no wise a|
the contempt case. It is to decide mortJ ui
the validity of the numerous
held • n the stock, and to direct the
tribution of the money now in the ha
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cieditors of the firm. Rece ver Kin
bery now has in hand about onehuod
and twenty-five thousand dollars, i
ore ditor* representing about one mil
dollars’ worth of claims want their r
of it. The mortgagees, of course, els
preference, and the fight will be a gei
ral one.
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Pleasure lur tlie Editors.
A movement is bring inaugurated 1
Major W. L. Gles-sner. the weij kno?
president of the Georgia Pres* Associ
tion, for an ex ende trip by ’he men
bers of the association from Savannah
Boston, then to all points of interest
New England, then to New York,
the Hudson river to Siratoga and on
Canada and back homo by Wa-hingto
Arrangements will probably be co
pleted and the journey ink n up abc
the last of May. The, Georgia Weel
Press Association will go to Mexico
Governor Northen and wife will
pany them. All in ail the Georgia ea
t< is will have a glorious outing.
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inflow of Tax Money.
The state of Georgia is beginning no
to get its taxes in hand in a way th
looks like business. They have bei
slower than usual coming to the com
troller general’s office this year, butf
the past week many counties have mai
their settlements, and the tax moD
been laid to rest m the big vault in tl
treasurer’s office. The tax books sho
that the total receip s up to date a
more now than the entire receipts 1
year. Last year’s taxes amounted
$1,449,500.12. This year the tax lev
runs up to $2,200,000. The slate wij
get in Dearly $000,000 more than
year when the collections and annual
tlements are all in hand.
Inspecting tlie Military. Satt#.*
For some time past Lieut euant
'ee has been making a tour of Georgii
for the purpose of inspecting the volus
teer force of the state.
When his work is completed he
go with Quartermaster General intothl A. iB
West to Griffin and look further
w ork of getting the encampment site is
good trim and shape for the great mili Thl
tary encampment the soon grounds to begin. be]
work of grading is now
ing pushed rapidly to completion ground! by
force ot forty bauds. When tp-\
are erected well graded electric the barracks will b|
and the lights at d water
works turned on for the encampment
It is said that the people of Gr ffia ar
working with a unity of atm to make
encampment this year all that it
to be.
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Election ul School Commimionen. I
la every county being in made Georgia preparal elec-l
tions are now for the
tion of new county Bchool commissioners,I
The 10th elections of this month have by been the fixed state tor school! the]
commissioner of education, and will b«
held in all but three counties of the
state. They will not be conducted sim¬
ply as elections, but each candidate will
have to stand an examination before he
is classed as an available candidate. The
examinations are to be held in each
county by the president of questions the county for
board of education. The
these examinations have already been sent
out in sealed packages from the
state school commissioner’s office!
to the different counties, and along with
the examination questions go a list of in¬
structions as to how the selection of the
r ew county school commissioners is to be
made.
First, the candidates are to stand the
examinations; then those who are classed
satisfactory are placed on a list and given
to the county board for action. The
commissioners are eh cted from those can¬
didates who satisfactorily passed the ex¬
amination.
The boards are instructed to take into
consideration the moral chancter and
general availability of the candidates. A
majority of votes in the board will elect
the county school commissioner, and tie
bond is to be fixed by the county board.
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Convention Dates.
The democratic convention to elect
delegates from Georgia to the national
democratic convention will be held in
Atlanta Wednesday, May 18th. The
democratic conventioj to nominate can¬
didates for the state eh ction will be held
in Atlanta August 10th. Both conven-
tions are to be held in the hall of the
house of representatives, aud will be
called to meet at 12 o’clock on the days
already named. All this in accordance
with the action of the state democratic
executive committee which met in the-
senate hall at the stnteh"use in Atlanta,
Wednesday. The following is the call
issued by Chairman Atkinson: 2.
Atlanta, Ga., March
To the Democrats of Georgia—In pur--
su mce of the instructions this day given
me by the state democratic executive
committee, two state democratic conven-
tions are hereby called to convene in the
city of A'lanta, one at 12 o’clock Wed-
uesday, May 18tb, and the other at 12
o'clock Wednesday, August 10th.
Each county is entitled to twice as
many votes in each of the state conven-
tions as it has members in the lower
house of the general assembly.