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Grima. Georgia. Sept. IH, IBHU.
The Henri Watterson club, of
L misvilh-. Ky . has endorsed Bryan.
A Republican club of forty mem
bers in the western part of North
Carolina has declared for Bryan.
James Creel man telegraphs the
New York World that 30,000 lowa
Republicans have bolted to Bryan
and silver.
As some one else has said, the Re
publican papers fear Bryan’s speech
es so much now that they do not
print them.
Possibly there can lie purity in
politics in Georgia with Sam Jones
left out. That is, if there is a possi
bility of leaving Sum Jones out of
anything.
-O' —
A great many of the Mexican dol
lars circulated in this country by
Republicans are counterfeit. This
is like a great many other Republican
campaign documents.
The Detroit News reminds us that
it is wicked for the jioor to be prej
udiced against the rich, but as for
the rich being prejudiced against the
poor, you know how it is.
The Journal is after the World. The
latter paper said that the owners of
the Anaconda mine had promised to
contribute $300,000 to the Bryhn
campaign fund. The Anaconda
mine is not a silver mine and is
owned by goldbugs.
The Si .-.inna.h Press can’t under
stand ho* it. is that the Populists
are having a campaign without Col
encl Tom Barrett on their ticket.
But Colonel Tom understands, and
he is letting younger and less expe
rienced members of the pirty run
these days.
——— — ———
The Colorado Populists voted
against endorsing Watson, and now
Tom has concluded to go out and see
what is the matter, instead of going
to Nebraska and tackling Bryan.
Tom has a hard row to plough in
this campaign, sure enough.
The Republicans first laughed at
Bryan for making so many speeches,
but now they say McKinley must
take the stump and answer them.
Poor Mae can never catch up with
all the arguments his opponent has
advanced and is ahy about attempt
ing it.
When you read about those “vis
iting delegations” that go to Canton
to see McKinley, it is well to know
that they go on free railroad tickets
and are treated to free dinners, etc.
The expenses are all paid out of the
general corruption fund raised by
Hanna.
————
Two men in St. Augustine have
already paired on the silver question.
One hud a single standard knife and
the other a double standard revolver
and both got in their arguments with
killing effect, and they have gone
whore the news of the returns may
be a long time reaching them.
There was an incident or two at
the Chicago labor day celebration
that may have some political signifi
cance. Mr. Bryan was invited to
make a speech and Mr. McKinley
was not. Chairman Jones, of the
Democratic national committee, was
invited to a seat on the platform and
Chairman Hanna was not. And it
was intentional.
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According to Secretary Difenderfer
of the national silver committee ap
proximately 36 per cent, of the
members of the newly-formed silver
clubs under the auspices of the par
ty’s organization in Indiana, Ohio,
Illinois and many other Western
States, are ex-Republicans. C. H.
Pirtle, of the Populist headquarters,
adds tiiat there are 1,000 Bryan clubs
in the State of Nebraska, having ex-
Republicans as presidents.
Hon. Hoke Smith, ex-secretary of
the interior, has tendered his ser
vices to the State campaign commit
tee. He will speak at Dalton on the
19th, and will afterwards be heard
at Brunswick, Valdosta and Augus
ta, delivering four addresses in all
in l>ehalf of the regular Democratic
ticket. General John B. Gordon
will also make a series of sjieeches
for the regular nominees, opening at
Buena Vista yesterday.
HERE IS YOUR BOSS FOR YOU!
The great cry of the Populists in
(leorgia, loudly echoed by their aHies
among the sutlers ami skulkers of
the Derinx-ratic- army and campft, is
' against what they are .’’JcasttWo
denominate as “boSSism.” Coming
and going at the beck of Tom Wat
son’s little finger, the Populists cry
out against every Democratic leader
as a “boss” who ought under no
; circumstances to receive the slightest
attention from any good Democrat,
and therearesoine in the Democratic
ranks who think it brave and patri
otic to follow the advice ot their
opponents. As if any fight could
lx; won by every fellow fighting on
his own hook and according to a
different plan !
But now comes one who proposes
to boss the whole business, includ
ing everybody in all parties and
every justice of the peabe or Imiliff
of any ]»irty in the State. Having
sethimielf up as superior to his
own church and defied the bossism
of a bishop as well as the sanctities
of a religion tiiat he professes to
preach, it was only a short and
natural step for Bam Jones, of Car
tersville, to set himself up as the
king boss of Georgia politics. For
this is the way of all of them —those
think themselves Cuesars who never
learn, like him, to first be lieu
tenants.
So Sam has written a letter to
Hon. A. 8. Clay, chairman of the
Democratic State committee, saying
that the coming election must be
conducted according to all the
rules and regulations laid down by
Hon. J. D. Cunningham, chairman
of the Populist State committee, and
approved by liim, Sam Jones. In
vain had Mr. Clay protested that he
had gone as far as he could to secure
a fair election and non-partisan
boards and that thereat must be left
to the machinery of the law, and
something trusted to the honesty of
those w hose honesty had never been
seriously impugned. In vain did
the records show that no serious
charge of fraud had been made
against the State Democracy of
Georgia for years pist. Sam Jones
had once been a Democrat himself
and had chewed up ballots, and he
never could be made to understand
how any man could be better than
he. But let that pass ;■ the best is to
come.
“You say you cannot do anymore
than yon have done,” writes Mr.
Jones. “There is one thing lam
sure you can do. If you cannot
control your crowd to the under
standing and settlement of a method
by which this election can be con
ducted fairly, you can resign and
let some other fellow try it. I
wouldn’t be the chairman of a dog
kennel if I couldn’t manage my
dogs.” Here yon get the true
idea of a party leader as
the concept of a mind like Sam
Jones. Ho is. the owner of a
kennel and all others are his dogs—
not even rising to the dignity of
“flop-eared hounds, ” which is Mr.
Jones’ usual term for mankind, but
simply dogs, to be kicked and cuffed
and made to do as their master
pleases.
Mr. Clay recognizes and treats his
fellow-Democrats as men of mind
and honor, like himself; but if there
are too many of them itho do not
appreciate this treatment, they can
get what they would in such case
deserve. For Mr. Jones “holds
out the hope, ” as one fawning news
piper spaniel expresses it, that if his
orders are not obeyed by the present
chairman, he will enter the ring next
time and then Mr. Clay's “name will
be Dennis in Georgia,” in the re
fined language of the master of the
kennel. Great will be the whining
and the barking, the fawning and the
jumping about Among the mongrel
curs now snapping at the heels of
Democracy when Sam Jones takes
the whip; but we are inclined to
think he will have to adopt different
tactics to tame the Democratic tiger
which he Iso loudly taunts from
the safe top of a tree.
Nevertheless, if the Democratic
party of Georgia wants a real sure
enough boss in place of its present
leaders, here is one who has signed
in his own handwriting a diploma
that he is up in all the degrees and
for whom nothing is too small or too
big—and who announces thus far in
advance his eagerness to take the
job.
MR. WRIGHT’S REGRETS.
We liave over his own signature
the following remarkable statement
of Seaborn Wright, the gentleman
who is running for governor against
Mr. Atkinson:
“As to the other statement that I
am president or director or own stock
in any national bank , , n ]y p,
say 1 regret it is not >•
The objection that' Watson,
the Populist^)f or v j w pres
ident, as an api>eal to high
JrfSrt'l n against Mr. Bewail, the Dem
ocratic candidate, is tiiat Mr. Sewall
is president of a national bank. For
Mr. Wright, the Poptflist candidate
for governor in Mr. Watson's own
State, to say that he only regrets he
is not in Mr. Sewall's position might
seem more remarkable in anybody
else than a man with Mr. Wright’s
record for inconsistency. Y'et this
is doubtless the feeling of all the
members of that party. They re
gret that they are not the very things
tiiat they denounce. Their leaders
opp>.se the party in power only lie
cause they want in themselves.
They seek tiiat “Reign of the
Demagogue” which has appealed so
powerfully to their fancy in the
pictures of John Temple Graves, the
smallest and yet the rankest of them
all.
We believe that Mr. Wright al
ready regrets entering upon his sin
gular campaign for on a
plank that no more fitsjfne Populist
platform tiiat it does 3®f. Wright’s
record. He looks and slieaks like a
man who lias no heart or*hop» in his
cause. He lias suffered defeat so
often and on so many different issues
that he can distinguish its premoni
tions far in advance. In fact, his
actions the past week show’ that he
has virtually abandoned the field.
Coming in from a tour, he made ex-*
aggerated estimates of his strength
that showed the hectic fever of des
pe rat ion, and was too disheartened
to be present at an intended big rally
at Locust Grove in our neighboring
county of Henry, leaving Azmon
Murphey to try the vain task of
arousing enthusiasm in an audience
of two or three hundred.
Friday night next finds the sore
champion of Populism and his own
issues, not filling an appointment of
his own, but drawn irresistibly
to listen to the eloquent defense and
overwhelming countercharge of his
opponent. No erect or defiant atti
tude is his, and no words of anaw’er
arise to his lips, as he sits in a dark
and obscure corner on the outskirts
of the great crowd assembled in
Macon to applaud the arraignment
of his own record. He was spied out
by a reporter and pointed out to his
friends and fellow partisans, but on
their approach placed hiUCiand over
his face and refused to recognize
anyone. He listened to his antago
nist’s speech until near its close,
when he slunk away to his hotel and
left Macon before daylight, having
arrived after dark. It was a strange
visit for the most prominent figure
in his party.
If Mr. Wright, confronted by the
well-known spectre of defeat, al
ready feels regrets that he is not a
bank president instead of a dema
gogue running for office and pitch
ing his campaign upon abuse of his
opponent, against whom or whose
administration not one word can be
honestly said, it should not be sur
prising to anyone. For with a tem
perament naturally refined and sen
sitive, though given to erratic im
pulses and inconstant and restless
ambitions that have led him into
many devious piths, he has not be
come so low that he can not feel a
sense of shame at his own unworthi
ness and the bad company into which
he has fallen. It is neither too soon
nor too late to drop a tear for poor
Scab right now.
TOMMIE HAD BETTER COME HOME.
While Tom Watson is out West
arguing that Sewall is a wart, the
editor of his piper gets off this guff
in the editorial columns :
“And now the news comes tiiat
pretty little John West is capturing
everything in the Tenth. When we
have candidates as good looking as
John West and Seab Wright how we
would whip the Democrats if the
women could vote. But thank
goodness they can’t, for some of the
rest of us want office.”
“Pretty little John West” can not
stand much of this kind of support
before the sturdy voters of the
Tenth district.
“If at any time during this cam
paign my voice and influence can be
of any service to the cause of Dem
ocracy and the people, ” wrote Mr.
John Temple Graves to Chairman
Clay on July 24, 1896, “I shall be
glad to answer any call tiiat you
may make upon me.” It would
seem that Mr. Graves had reached
the conclusion tiiat the best service
he could render Democracy and the
ixiople, would be to oppose them.
Maybe he is right, thinks the Macon
Telegraph.
THE TESTIMONY OF AN OPPONENT.
One of the strongest advocates of
General Evans' candidacy two years
ago, as we well remember, was the
Gainesville Eagle. But the editor
was conscientious in his judgment
then, and being equally conscien
tious now he piys just tribute to the
admirable administration of the man
whom he opposed. His testimony
is pointed and just, as follows :
“We take pleasure in adding our
testimony to the almost universal
verdict that W. Y. Atkinson has
made a good governor—one of the
very beet our State has ever had.
No man can say otherwise who has
a conscientious regard for the truth.
His course has been safe, conserva
tive and courageous, and his record
is one that will safely withstand the
assaults of all his tradueers, who
wage a war against him not for the
good of the commonwealth, but for
the sake of obtaining his place.
“Mr. Atkinson was elected to be
governor of Georgia, and he has
been governor. He has shown that
he has a head of his own, and a good
head at that; and when he believed
a certain policy was good for the
people he went ahead on that line
without inquiring as to who would
be pleased and who would not. He
has had the grit and backbone to
tackle a number of public questions
that former governors were unable
to solve. He has stood for the en
forcement of the law; he has made
commendable efforts to suppress
lynching; he has been the friend to
education ; he has niade the banks
pay interest on the State deposits ;
he has taken the convict lease ques
tion in hand and shown his ability
and determination to enforce the
laws in tiiat direction ; he has stood
as the unwavering friend of prohi
bition ; he represents the element of
law and order. He deserves at the
hands of the voters of Georgia an
overwhelming endorsement, and we
believe he will receive that endorse
ment at the pollsjnext October.”
SOBER JUDGMENT.
Sensible and conservative people
of all parties, in this period of sen
sationalism in politics and religion,
will be glad to read the following
sound editorial from the Christian
Index:
“We desire to express our com
mendation of the course pursued by
Governor Atkinson in the Hanye
murder case. Concerning the in
trinsic merits of the case wo can only
rest on the known character of So
licitor Hill and Judge Candler.
When such men refuse to recognize
pleas for mercy and the injection of
new evidence, it is because the case
has already been fairly dealt with.
Governor Atkinson has all along
been painstaking in his efforts to get
at the right of the matter. Against
efforts based on nothing but sympa
thy, he has stood firm and rightly
so. To commute a sentence because
of the importunity of friendship, is
to do injustice to the friendless
and laugh at law. Especially to be
deplored is the appeal of certain
young men on the ground that they
had prayed for the commutation and
so the governor ought to grant it.
This is silly, and dishonoring to
prayer. No one can help feeling
sympathy in such a case, but the
law must stand and justice lie done,
despite sympathy. Governor At
son has done his duty as an honest
man and needed no forgiveness from
the condemned man. He has stood
for law and order. The sober judg
ment of the citizens will commend
him for it. ”
Steve Clay declines to be bossed
even by Sam Jones. Steve may be
wrong, but the Democratic party of
Georgia doesn’t think so.
GEN. JOHNB. GORDON.
He Was for Evann Because He Knew
Him and is Now for Atkinson
For the Same Reason.
Buena Vista, Ga., Sept. 10.—
General John B. Gordon spoke to an
enthusiastic audience here to-day.
His tribute to the old soldier call
ed forth by the presence of so many
veterans was touching and tender.
His tribute to his distinguished com
patriot and fellow soldier, Clement
A. Evans, was beautiful and impres
sive. He recited the fact that in
the last gubernatorial campaign he
naturally took the side of his distin
guished friend because, he said, he
had seen General Evans tried; had
seen him face the cannon’s mouth ;
had seen him risk his life hundreds
of times for his country’s sake.
General Gordon said he had had
his faith in Governor Atkinson
strengthened day by day, as he bad
watched the unflinching devotion to
duty, justice and right of Georgia’s
present chief executive. He had
noted the keen acumen, fine judge
ment and rare discrimination of the
prerent governor. He said he had
never doubted in the least in the ca
pacity of the man who was destined
at that time to administer the affairs
of this great commonwealth, and
that the opinion and confidence of
tiiat grand old party that had saved
Georgia and this fair Southland so
often from degradation and despair
had been ably sustained and honor
ably upheld. *
General Gordon told of many offi
cial acts that have taken place dur
ing the present administration—
some very recently, some of which,
he said, were being twisted and
turned for political capital.
The general declared that this
would redound to the great and j
gixxl name which Governor Atkin-|
son has made with the people of
Georgia. ,
Never did a public speaker carry
with him the sympathy and co-oper
ation of an audienee more than when
he was reciting these facts.
He spike ar some length on the
temperance question. He warned
the people of the danger of relaxing
their grasp on a good thing—local
option—and jumping at shadows
for political purposes especially.
He said our present local option law
if properly enforced, would take
care of the liquor question better
than anything that has ever been
offered as a substitute.
He cited the experience of Maine
and South Carolina and other States.
The cause of temperance has my
undying devotion, he said, “but we
must not be spasmodic or fanatical.
We must not try to shove an untri
ed reform on the people too rapid
ly.”
His resume of what the State of
Georgia under Democratic rule had
done in the matter of education for
both races was full and exhaustive,
and he admonished the people
strongly not to be caught by traps
set by other political parties, prom
ising to do more for them .in this
respect; that a promise to furnish
school supplies followed up might
lead to paternalism.
He concluded by introducing to
audienee Hon. W. C. Adamson, con
gressional nominee, who delivered a
stirring, strong and sensible address
to his constituents.
REQUEST OF GEN. EVANS
That Governor Atklnion Should Run a
Second Time.
Following is the letter written by
General Evans at the time Governor
Atkinson had in contemplation a
flattering business proposition that
would have prevented him from be
coming a candidate for governor a
second time:
Atlanta, March 7,1896. —Governor
W. Y. Atkinson, Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:—l read in this afternoon’s
Journal that you contemplated the
possibility of declining the assured
nomination and election this year
for the office of governor. I beg
leave to say most sincerely to you
that in my judgment your candidacy
is of the highest importance at this
juncture, and I hope you may be
able to render that service in this
present exigency.
I am very respectfully,
Clement A. Evans.
”■ —-——'
The Opinion of Two Newspapers. /
Americus Tlmes-Recorder.
The Times-Recorder vigorously
opposed the nomination of Mr At
kinson for governor, our opposition
being liased purely upon personal
grounds. We had long known the
great and good Christian soldier,
General Evans, and we desired to do
him honor.
The people of Georgia in a great
majority declared Hon. William Y.
Atkinson their choice. The able,
fearless and gloriously Democratic
administration of Governor Atkin
son has proven that the people have
chosen wisely.
Hon. W. Y. Atkinson has made
one of the best governors the State
of Georgia ever had.
Sparta lahniaelite.
In the opinion of the Ishmaelite
Georgia has never had a truer, bra ver
more patriotic executive than Win.
Y. Atkinson. It has never had a
more watchful one. It has never
had one readier to spend and be
spent in the public service. It isn’t
in the rattling, visionary, erratic
Wright, who makes it a rule to be
wrong in everything but in name, to
make anything like so fair a record
under the same conditions. Atkin
son will succeed himself.
The Hope of the Country.
Findlay (O.) Courier.
The Republicans expect to carry
the coming election through the use
of an enormous campaign fund.
They no longer make a concealment
of this fact. On the part of the Re
publicans this is to be the most cor
rupt and corrupting campaign ever
known in this country. This cor
ruption fund will tie used in every
State, county and election precinct
in the country. It is being used to
day even in this county. Let the
voter ask himself why tire monied
men and wealthy corporations of the
country are contributing these im -
mense sums of money to control the
election. Do you suppose it is in the
interest of the farmers and laboor
ers? Ls it not more probably in
their own interest? The only hope
of the country Ls in the conscienci
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“NEW YORK IS LOST.”
Ilannalti-< Irrular l>«s>liiw« Many CountlM
\rv "Hotten «<» Mlvvr,"
New York Journal.
Major John Byrne, president of
the Democratic Honest Money
League, has in his own words,
“sounded the alarm in abundant
time to warn the friends of honest
money of the danger of losing Now
York in the coming elation.”
Ho has traveled all through the
States, and found on all sides indi
cations that Bryan and Sewall will
sweep everything before them, “un
less contributions to the anti silver
campaign fund are instantly forth
coming.”
What Major Byrne said was put
in the form of a circular, which was
sent to all Republican and gold
standard newspapers of this city.
It is said that a leading Republi
can newspaper was so impressed
with the immediate necessity of se
curing subscriptions to stem 4 the ene
my’s tide, that the circular was to
have been minted in last Wednes
day's issue. When the major's
words, however, were seen in type,
the confession of weakness appeared
so appalling, that it was decided to
bo the wiser course not. to publish a
report that would surely throw Re
publicans into dismay, and display
the weakness of their cause.
The first, reading of the disagreea
ble message affected the other Re
publican and half-hearted Demo
cratic newspipers in much the same
manner, and the document has
never, heretofore, appeared in print.
“rotten on silver.
Major Byrne reported that the
central. Western and Northern sec
tions of New York State “are rotten
on silver, and unless something is
done to reclaim these sections we
will lose the State. Bryan had wild
ly enthusiastic meetings and has
left an ugly trial behind him. ”
Continuing, he says:
“I am thoroughly alarmed, be
cause if the estimates on the other
critical States are as erroneous as
the estimate on New York, there is
no hoi>e for the country. To-day an
election would give this State to
Bryan with 100,000 majority.
“The truth is, the campaign is
going by default. There is too much
confidence and not enough work.
It is based on a fancied security as
to this State by estimates made in
past campaigns.
“This year all past bearinirs are
valueless. Republicans and Demo
crats alike are pledged to silver.
Unless an active educational cam
]Miign is prosecuted day and night,
from now until election day, New
York will be lost.
“My estimate is made frotn the
inside of a middle section said to tie
a fair average, where I was told by
a man that agreed with me
but said that ho could not
take part with us and con
tinue to live in the community.
Part of the plan of the enemy is to
lull the friends of honest money
into security until too late to save
the State. It is this that is now
succeeding.”
— o
A Hannacratic Convention.
The Hannacrats of Georgia will
put out a presidential electoral ticket
on September 23d.
A State convention of the gold
men will be culled for that date.
The convention will meet in Atlanta
and name an electoral ticket
pledged to vote for the nominees of
the Indianapolis convention —Pal-
mer and Buckner.
' The official call for the con ven
tion has not been issued, but Capt.
T. P. 801 l is authority for the state
ment that the call is to be made find
he says that the convention will as
semble at the State capitol on the
date stated.
The gold men will probably take
no jMirt in the State campaign. That
is, it is understood that no nomina
tions for State offices will be made,
the coming convention simply be
ing for,the purfx>se of naming elect
ors to vote for Palmer and Buckner.
This Was Written Before Arkansas
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what is to lie expected in every jsirt
of the United States when the peo
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