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About Crawfordville advocate. (Crawfordville, Ga.) 189?-1??? | View Entire Issue (Aug. 2, 1895)
■‘INS1DE--THE-PARTY” NO HOPE EXCEPT THROUGH THE PARTY. Ad<lrens of Senator Jon(*». Harris and Turpi©—Preliminary 8tc*p» In the Grand Ilolt to the; People's Party— The Only Course. Memphis, Tenn., June 26.--Imroedi ateiy after the -adjournment of the re cent silver convention in this city a number of prominent Democrats who attended that gathering met, and plans were outlined for an organization of free silver men within the Democratic party for the purpose of carrying on the silver campaign within party lines. As a res,Ht of this meeting the follow iriK address has been sent, to Democratic leaders throughout, the country: "Soon after the adjournment of the silver convention, held in this city on the 12th and 13th inst., many Demo¬ crats, representing several states of the union, held a meeting here for the pur¬ pose of considering the best method of securing the free and unlimited coin age of both silver and gold into full le gal tender money of ultimate redemp tion, at the ratio of 1C to 1, without re¬ gard to the financial policy of other countries, and it was unanimously agreed as the confident opinion of that conference* . "1. That 'the onlv hope of securing the free and unlimited coinage of silver at 16 to 1, is through the action of the Democratic party. "2. That a large majority of the Dem erratic party of the country and a very large majority of the people of the United Stales Irrespective of party fa vor such coinage. “3. That the success of the Demo cratic party in the campaign of 1896 largely. If not wholly, depends on the earnest and active advocacy of the free and unlimited coinage of silver. "4. That a thorough organization of the Democrats of (he several states who favor the free and unlimited coinage of both silver and gold, on terms of equal¬ ity at 16 to 1, is necessary, and there should be proper means of controlling tho action of the National Democratic convention of 1896 upon this vital and Important question. ”6. That in order to avoid friction and tlie complaint of such Democrats as oppose the free coinage of silver, we will not invoke the action of the regu¬ lar machinery of the party, whose duty it Is to act for the whole party without regard to differences of opinion upon a single question. * “Therefore, we, the undersigned, wore appointed a committee to take such steps as may be necessary to a thorough national organization of sil¬ ver Democrats, and, for that purpose, wo respectfully Invite you to meet us ut Washington, I). C„ on the 14th day of August, 1895, in order that we, may confer and co-operate in establishing such organization, and you are request¬ ed to bring with you such Democratic friends as are in full sympathy with this purpose, it. is important that a Democrat acceptable to the Democracy of your stale and willing to represent it on a National executive committee should attend this conference. "An early answer, addressed to Hon. Casey Young, Memphis, Tenn., will greatly oblige, respectfully. “lslinin G, Harris, J. K. Jones, David Turple." NOTES AND COMMENT. Carl Brown and Mamie Coxoy, both of Commonweal fame, signed a mar¬ riage contract on the steps of tlie Na¬ tional Capitol on the morning of July 4th. Brown was chief of Coxey’s army In its memorable march to Washington, and Miss Mamie Coxoy is the is-year old daughter of J. S. Coxoy, of non-in¬ terest-bearing bond and good-roads fame. Tho couple will return to Cali¬ fornia, Brown’s former home, from whence Carl says he will return to Washington as a congressman. * Valuable information in regard to tho English telegraph system is to be fonud In an official letter of Henry Martin, United States consular clerk at South Hampton. England, which is printed in the Consular Reports, No. 147, Vol. 47. The British government took posses sion of the telegraph lines by purchase in 1870, paying a total price of $53,526 000 . Great extensions of the servioe were immediately made, more than 15. 000 miles of new wire being put in op eration the first year. The service has been improved in punctuality. As for charges, the English rate is 12 cents for 12 words; wlnle in this country, with private ownership and presumably free competition, we must pay 20 cents to send 10 words, and as distance in creases, a proportionately larger rate. The adoption of a postal telegraph has been recommended by several postmas tor-generals, anil is growing rapidly in public favor. It is one of the demands o f the Omaha platform, and another clement of its strength. General Pan) Van Dervoort has re ’centiv perfected a plan for raising money for the campaign of 1896. He has had designed and printed a beau fill certifieat of membership in the People's party and Industrial Legion. He ,i ,-es this with a lot of reform I it - cr till ' and sends it all out for $1 In til tv he hopes to be able to raise a “5 dllum dollars for the ca If 1 . the Populists who voted it 'J VT 1 We ver in 1 or one-third C th who vc y iokot in 1SV*4, will sc ^ n. rvoort$1 h. re elvm U. "t n p; n fund that CUE 11 the nemy out c e tip tho earth wit: big earn to some peepk pared with what we are paying aa trib¬ ute to the trusts and combine* every year, it is not a drop in the bucket. As a souvenir the certificate will be prized by generations yet unborn, as evidence of unflinching and self-sacri¬ ficing patriotism, and none of us will ever regret the investment. Don’t de¬ lay sending at once, for the money is needed now in pushing the work of or¬ ganization. Address General Paul Van Dervoort, Omaha, Nebraska. The recent speech of Justice Brown before the students of Yale college, in which he openely advocated the ad lability and practicability of t - government ownership of public utln together with the general trend of P«Mlc opinion in our cities towards municipal ownership of the water and »*»>tlng privileges, shows that this particular feature is gaining public fa vor, and will ere Jong press for public action. On this question, as on the all ver issue, the People's party has done more to educate the public mind that ail other forces put together, Thai plank Is one of the bulwarks of the platform, and call it "socialism,” “pa¬ ternalism,” what you please, the day is not far distant, if it is not already at hand, when it will be one of the great¬ est elements of strength in the plat form. * * ^hose «*»?. truMng. goody-goody . . Democrats who want free silver, and, fro "' the way they talk, want ought to , be able to see by this that hey have no possible show in the world to win in that way. lo . , ™ ,, the Democratic .. party . for , fl '« : «»*« «» equivalent to a complete “"'render to the gold bugs The free ‘ was turned down bodily in the Kentucky convention, and are now subjected to the humiliation of running their candidate for governor on a gold-standard platform. In Ohio, under the leadership of the younger Thurman, son of the Old Roman, they fought tho machine inch by inch, but 1,,8t ™‘ry now curled up on the floor. In Indiana the machine won t he battle over the people, and in Missouri, while the people succeeded in fore jug a convention, it will amount to nothing, except to add to the evidence already existing, that tho men who want free silver "inside the party” will lie made monkeys of next year. The Democratic voters have been sold, and the first installment was de¬ livered at the state convention in Ken¬ tucky. The delivery in other states will take place from time to time within the next twelve months. Some of the states are holding conventions and go¬ ing through the motions of protesting, but the general agreement is that they will permit themselves to be delivered according to the contract, provided it «o decreod by the national conven tion next year. It is not known what price the leaders get, but it Is the general understanding that the masses, the high privates in the party, will re coive nothing but the privilege of shouting and yelling for the grand old party, and the consolation of saying, ‘ they never scratched a ticket.” * * * Wo are pleased to note that the num¬ ber of preachers espousing the cause of the poor is rapidly increasing. We have long been of the opinion that the church must get on the side of the masses or perish. One of the strongest criticisms we have read on tho income tax decision of the Supreme court of the United States is from Rev. J. A .11 Wilson of the Eighteenth Street Metho¬ dist church, New York city. He said; “After tlie passage of tills law it war, shown in one of the newspapers that there were many families in this city whose income (ax at 2 per cent would amount from $75,000 to $136,000 per year, and that there were hundreds whose incomes tax would reach $10,000 and more. “It did really appear as though the government had found out that it was for, by and of tlie people, when it went back and readopted a method of tho Lincoln administration to lay the bur den of public expense upon tlie surplus. rather than wholly upon the necessities of the people. Hut to let the burden fall upon the shoulders that can most easily bear is not the way of the class that was to be affected. Nobody for one moment supposed that they would quietly and gracefully submit. "The great legal pettifogging contest is over; the lawyers have retired cov (rod with victory and their pockets lined with plunder. The tax-dodgers now button up their pockets, knowing that they will not have to pay toll. The amount lost from an untaxed surplus will simply be , redistributed ,, by some tariff iniquity upon the necessities of the peoie, to increase the strug glc of the workingmen and the pov erty of the poor, while the money saved from just taxation will be spent in revelry and luxury, as before, or go to swell the surplus of private individu als and families. Back of this discarded income tax was the call of the work man for a living wage and the cry of the poor for bread. "Think of the spectacle of our groat jurists and legal thinkers degrading ; ho high intellectual gifts of God to the service of Mammon. The courtesan of the street who sells herself for the price of sin is a vestal virgin compared the men who for a price set their great abilities to perpetuate poverty and re Keve riches of a righteous return to the government which protects them. Thcse nun have taken the load from th : wealth which bore it rz n in d laid it on the break ’x - oks of the oppressed. The national banks are increasing their circulation, and Carlisle is hold irrr the greenbacks in the treasury. r.ex: thing in order will be the de .ruction of greenbacks. Jk- i W X. / If c V- !i \ mm \ M <r \A •/ \ A /// mm % mm / M g§^ pipa ■A gggi V: mm / ?sI§IL s. lili (7^ 77 As v/. ' a 77f/ #□ i t 4a \ V f!\ . 7 \i. 'V /-- HQ zs w m M\\\ JB l i K* mm m & 18 k i ifM i \1 —sna smm I 'C ./ iSSSg ml , e&m?: [O’ /m IE a 7 : «j r J /) 1 ■*-— t ill m Tm WM VC: m i <V it % Zm(ft m m ( \ \1 m < ;> "\'s 8 ® Vs y -■ M - n : my f m > yd fm =3 .. m m 7 > r%f' - m *• THIS LOOKS FUNNY. The Gold Mon of Both Parties May Make Cleveland Their Candidate in 1896 —Eastern Paper. AN ELOQUENT PLEA. UNION OF FORCES WILL WIN A VICTORY. lilauton Duncan Hopeful of ai“ A .»an«« - Hetween Populists. Democrats stul Re¬ publicans on the Omaha Platform — Karly Convention Wanted. General Paul Van Dervoort, Comman der-in-Chief, Omaha, Neb.; My Dear Sir—Is this republic to be destroyed; its flag to be torn into tat ters; its constitution to be obliterated, and the states blotted out? That is virtually the question now before its people, the decision of which is to shape the destiny of the Union for succeeding generations. Partisanship everywhere crushing down patriotism. The, most insulting of all propositions that can be made to any self-respecting man is, that certain leaders shall control com ing movements inside of their old party lines, and that every factor, every voter shall trail in behind them. There are such men among the Democrats, the Republicans, the Populists, the Bimet allist League. And some of these very men in the Democratic party, though professing to be now so zealous in be half of free coinage, have been in other days and upon other issues the most veritable mossbacks in America. The leaders in the Republican ranks say the masses must follow them and fight the silver issue inside of party lines—to yield to the will eventually of the ma¬ jority, which we know in advance is controlled by Sherman and his adher¬ ents—as Senator Hansborough—a type —“declaring that he will abide by his party’s decision, made in convention.” This is not a day for bosses, if the coun¬ try is to be saved. When some free ooinage Democrats talk about fighting for the question inside of party lines alone, they demonstrate at once their non-appreciation of the situation, and the folly of patriotic Democrats follow¬ ing them in an ignis fatuus chase. It is not desirable to break up the machinery in thp various states> which indorses true Jeffersonian Democracy—but that the true men shall capture it, wherever possible, and strengthen it and organize for the great coming contest. In the same manner the Populists, the silver Republicans, the bimetallists should or¬ ganize in full and energetic manner, under their own selected leaders, and go on to the decisive battle, which de termines the continuance or destruc tion of the Union. After we have a coun t r y, ’f a republic, then will be time en0U gh or factions or parties to ad V ance the diverse antagonistic policies which we may vote upon in successive elections. j n b 0t }j yi e Republican and the Dem oora ji c parties, the masses have blindly followed leaders, who have deceived lhem in their individual interests, brinffin g t jj e presen t situation of ruin, ^ogi-aja^on an( i destitution, to be sup pj emente< | th 8 treasonable con ;p j racy t0 ma k e a despotism for the am bition and greed of those piratical bosses. If the spirit of party is still to prevail, and that citizens are to yield their obedience to a machine, instead 0 f following their own instincts and in teiligence, there $eed be> no further struggle at the but then will come the abject surrender of millions, or a bloody struggle. It has been said that God Is generally on the side which has the heaviest artillery and wields the greatest number of regiments. In the battle at the polls it may be conceded I\S>y< if bosses and partisanship prevail, the result is declared in' ad*-f e». J.u the last election the Populists did not carry a state—Holcombe, in Nebraska, being only an incident—and the Re¬ publicans taking everything else. In the whole Union the Republicans car ried every northern state, with De!a ware, Maryland (2,696), West Virgina (13,359), Kentucky on congress, Demo cratic, 160,382; Republican, 166,190; Missouri, 3,044; Tennessee on congress, governor, 748; Evans counted out. (tnd yet some former Democratic bosses stand up and prate about “fighting it out in party lines,” well knowing what Cleveland and his adherents will do; and that in a contest with the Repub¬ licans they could not have a chance for a northern state, and that the Popu¬ lists would wrest more than half the South from them in a party contest. We who struggle for the safety of the Union have no heart for such a contest, brought upon vis by the imbecility and the arrogance of Democratic bosses but we appeal to the masses to think once for themselves, and to act in uni son for themselves and for their fam ilies. It is only by mutual concessions in the days of grave emergencies that victory can be won against apparently hopeless odds. As in the 30 years’ war, which was waged against vastly great¬ er strength by Gustavus Adolphus with the petty jealousies constantly cropping up among his 30 or more generals, and so losing victories, which should have otherwise been won—and all finally sue cessful through the great warrior’s sa gacity and conciliation, his life given on the battlefield to crown the prin ciples for which he had struggled, so too, in our revolution there was self abnegation and surrender of person ality on the altar of patriotism. Where would our forefathers have found them selves—swung on gibbets—if each sep arate state had demanded the right of fighting under its own banner and fol lowing its boss? Or if the French had insisted on fighting battles at their pleasure, and not under the command of Washington? What would be the re sult of deadly danger to all Christen dom, if the hordes of paganism, from Turkey, India, China, Africa and else where should assemble their thousand millions — requiring perfect discipline and harmony to prevent destruction of the allied Christians—if Protestants should demand from Catholics and Greeks the yielding of their rites, their worship, their church government, or the others would not train with them? Or that other denominations should re quire the Baptists to surrender immer sion? Could there be but one result— entire, utter destruction of the divided camp? We have magnificent patriotic dem onstrations from along the line already showing wise and appreciative knowl edge of the situation. Especially do we find this in that grand journal, the cinnati Enquirer, which boldly says: “Neither party names nor collateral issues will prevent them (the people) from uniting against the common enemy. When such a time arrives, it will then be apparent which group of lien overhanging u ■then It would make little difference as to the conflict within party lines of a Democratic con¬ vention, in which there would be an absolute disruption, and in the forma¬ tion of two fragments, such as emerged in the Baltimore convention of 1860. But the issue is as grave to-day, as it was, followed by our four years’ war, and all the miseries, loss of life and de struction of property. To permit a disruption of the Demo¬ cratic machine to-day, without making an effort to coalesce all the conserva¬ tives’ Union-protecting elements before hand would be madness, and would re¬ sult in the same end, though far worse —a civil war In every hamlet, instead of what we had in the war carried on by the states. The pigmy brains in the Populist ranks (few, I trust) which assert that they intend to swing the world by the tail, and that the Democrats must come into their camp, with silver Re publicans, and adopt every line of a platform, made when there was not a speck of war visible—are just as useless i and unprofitable members of the or- 1 ganization, as would be the anarchists, who would gleefully rush in, to have an opportunity to still furthe stir up strife and appear as leaders when the conflict did actually arise. The man, who will not look down deep into his soul and ask sincerely what is his duty now un¬ der such terrible conditions as present themselves in view, distinct, not shad owy—the man who has not brains enough to understand what is coming— the man who shouts for a machine or for a special leader—all these need not be expected to join with us, but will be found against us when the crisis comes, either at the polls, or in battle array. It is a sad, a dreadful, a portentous picture upon which we must look, if truth directs our gaze. There can be ! but one path for you to pursue, under the duties intrusted to you—to orga¬ nize— organize—organize — with the constant adjuration, “Do not bicker with your neighbors who agree with you but are not yet ready, or do not see the necessity of leaving his party lines. Harmonize every element. Dis¬ cuss the situation without acrimony or Yield to the argument of silver men will constitute the strongest and best nucleus, around which all may gather, and if the Democratic party shall not by that time have gained the right of leadership, it will be com¬ pelled to make way for those who have. If it leads, its doors of concession should be wide open to all the friends of the ‘sound money’ of the donstita tion.” Can there be a grander expression of sincere and noble brotherhood than that? Could we say less on our side? Chairman Farris, of Laclede County Missouri, calls for a state convention, the state committee refusing to call one, after 40 counties had demanded it. He says, “Will the Democratic party submit to such domination, and allow itself to be muzzled by its state com¬ mittee If not, a convention must he called by a higher power than the state committee. The masses of the party must make its platform and direct its policy; and we must maintain our in¬ dependence, or surrender to the Wall street crowd. What will we do?” The convention was called. Ninety out of 110 Democratic editors in Ohio have de¬ clared for free coinage, and the com¬ mittee chairman was forced by public sentiment to convene the state commit¬ tee on June 25th. Cleveland’s crowd got a stunning slap on both cheeks. The Indiana editors have met, and they, too, will force a convention in spite of Goldbug Chairman Taggart. In the battle before us there should be but one object in view—to go on in the respective lines, each zealously teaching to the masses the dangers now threatening us; and asking for aid mu¬ tually in the assembled conventions, which will finally be called together at the same time and placed by the re¬ spective authorities of the several or ganizations; to agree upon the views which should be presented through eon ference committees, and be indorsed separately by each of the conventions and similarly the nominees to be agreed upon, and then hold a mass convention 0 f all delegates to ratify the action, Life in every respect is a compromise, Each man could not expect to obtain all that he believed was true doctrine; but the will of the majority should be adopted for the benefit of all in these days of peril, leaving to each individ U al a struggle for his own view's there after, when the signal victory for the republic and the people had been won. The Populists cannot win alone; nor the silver Democrats, nor the silver leagues. All would be overthrown by the Republican legions, aided by the whole power of the administration. when It is asserted in the newspapers that Mr. Carlisle and others in the ad ministration say that they have no other choice than to support the Re publicans, in the event of a national Democratic convention declaring for free coinage, what are such persons in any manner different from Sherman and the gold leaders of that party? It j S very cool and brassy, to demand con gjderation and support of their views under threat of defeating their associ ates, if the majority chooses to reject their proposals! If the country was in prosperous condition and not in ruin; r peaceful clouds illumined the hori ZO n; if there was not shown the intent 0 f force and fraud and despotism; if elections could be held without full knowledge of the disaster and calami- those who say they will co-operate whenever the emergency arises. As St. Paul says, "Be all things to all men, and do not irritate and drive off those who walk In paths which run par¬ allel to ours.” Let us hope that Prov¬ idence has not in store the devastating cyclone of chaos and brutality, which the inflamed passions of millions can so easily precipitate, almost in the twinkling of an eye. At the appointed time there will arise, if God is with us, the chosen man to direct us in safety over the wilderness and all the threat¬ ened dangers. Switzerland would be a good model for us now. The man who aspires to office is disfranchised—tho man who refuses office is dismissed from his own canon, as unworthy of For once iu our^history let our motto be that “the office shall seel? the man.” Yours truly, BLANTON DUNCAN. Los Angeles, June 15, 1895. No lionsrer a Republic. Debs and his fellows xyere denied the constitutional right of trial by jury and sent to prison at the command of their accusers! How would you like to be charged with a crime by an enemy and then have that enemy sit in judgment and send you to-prison, refusing you any voice or form of a trial? That’s this case exactly. You may perhaps think their conviction makes no differ¬ ence, to you. But it does, and a big dif¬ ference, too. If they can be thus treated as men are treated in Russia, it will ba your time next. You are never safe, not even when crawling and cringing at the beck and call of some monopoly’s hired wage-slave driver. Denial of trial by jury upsets all the fundamental law of liberty this nation ever had. It is no longer a republic. It is an oligarchy— a country ruled by wealth—a country where judges are absolute and no pun¬ ishment can he meted out to them. Tyranny always creeps on its victims like a cat. Beware, Americans! The Rubicon of liberty has been passed. Men are no longer free to walk the land or speak as of old. The mailed hand of the despot is clutching at the throat of liberty. How can men be im¬ prisoned without trial when this is a part of the constitution of the United States Article 3, section 2, clause 3, consti¬ tution United States—“The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by a jury, and such trial shall be held in the state where the said crime shall have been committed.” Article 5, amendments—“In all crimi¬ nal prosecutions the accused shall en¬ joy the right to a speedy and a public trial by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, shall be informed of the nature and cause of the accusa¬ tion, and be confronted with the wit¬ ness against him.”—Coming Nation. Good Old Party. Well, dear old party friend, how do you feel? Goin’ to whoop’er up for tha old party again this fall are you? Goin’ to vot’er straight? Grand old parties! So pure! Grand in principles! Great leaders! Grand statesman! Pros¬ perous country! Happy people! No¬ body poor! No tramps! Everybody employed! No failures! Business on the rush! Good times everywhere— what did you say?—“d—d lie,”—tut! tut! man, you mustn’t swear that way —“won’t never vote another old party again” did you say? Why, man, you are evidently thinking a little for your¬ self, and there is hope for you.—Lima Sentinel. Debs is in jail but his spirit is en¬ tering into the bosoms of millions oj patriotic defenders of liberty.
