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The Crawfordville Advocate.
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C. K. ATKIN' SON, ’t { Kditois.
J. A. FLUKY.
CkaWEoRDVILLK, Ga., JULY 24. 18%
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fore LIST STATE CONVENTION,
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Tbe State Convention of the People's
party of Georgia is hereby called to
meet at the capitol, in Atlanta, Ga , at
noon,on Thursday, the bth day of Au
gust 1890.
The purpose of the convcntiou is to
put out an Electoral Ticket, to nomi¬
nate State House ofticors, to choose a
new Executive Committee,and totems
act such other business as may legi
matcly come before a geucral State
Convention of the party.
Each county is entitled to twice as
many votes in the Convention as it has
representatives iu the legislature, but
the number of delegates is not limited.
A full Convention should be bad, as
it will be the most important meeting
we have ever held.
TlIOS. E. WATSON.
Chairman.
OscAlt Parker, Secretary.
Junc 22,18%.
Wc take no Democratic fusion stock
in ours. Wc are dead against Demo
cracy and its hypocritical methods.
Dr. J. B. Gambrcll has become one
of the Editors of the Texas
Standard, and will make his head¬
quarters in Atlanta.
The Democratic party has virtually
admitted that the principles or the
People’s party are right, and now it is
the plain duty for that party to conic
to Uh, aud not for the People’s party to
return to it.
The Democratic party desires the
People’s party to sacrifice principle
and return to their ranks. The rank
and file of the People’s party hold
principle above party and honesty above
corruption, and therefore cannot re¬
turn to the Democratic ranks or en¬
dorse its ofliccis.
If the Democratic party of this State
desired to do the fair, clean thing by
tbe People’s party, they would, have
made some concessions to the Popu¬
lists in the selection of State house
officers; but as it was,they selected the
same old crowd that went into office by
questionable means in 1894.
The populist who wants to stand in
the way of financial reform at this time
doesn’t really bcliovc iu it.—Constitu¬
tion.
The only Populist that is standing in
the wav of financial reform at this time
is the one that endorses Bryan and
Sew all the Democratic nominees.
The Seaboard Air Liuc Railroad, has
reduced rates on through freight aud
passeuger traffic, and now the Georgia
Railroad Commission takes part in the
matter, and requires that road to re¬
duce their rates on local freight aud
passenger traffic in proportion to the
through rates.
The National Convention of the
People’s Party is iu session in St. Louis
this week. That Convention will
adopt a platform and nominate a
President aud Vice-President. Should
that convention endorse Bryan, the
Democratic uominee for President, it
will make a serious mistake, and one
that the reform party will live to re¬
gret.
No good can be accomplished by the
Populists endorsing Democrats for
office. The Democratic party has
proven recreant lo every trust reposed
in them by the people. Where is the
consistency in following a party that
has violated every pledge made to the
people ? For tbe Populists to endorse
Democrats for office would be a vio¬
lation of the pledges made to the peo¬
ple by that party.
A trust has been formed ou cotton
ties and bagging, and tbe price on the
fonuer has been doubled from last sea
sou, and a slight advance made on the
latter. The trusts that use such
methods as these, should be dealt with
as a midnight robber. This trust has
taken advantage of the farmer at a time
that he cannot help himself. If na¬
tional legislation was worth a cent to
tbe toiling masses, their might be
some relief for the people from thiev¬
ing trusts and combines. No doubt
the moDcy that is now being unjustly
wrung from the people goes right back
into the hands of the very men that are
poeing as tbe friends of the people.—
We believe so long as our national af¬
fair* remain in the band* of either of
the old parties, to long will wt have
trust* and combines whose pappose it
Will be to rob the people.
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Special to the Liout.
Wasiiinotok, D. C., July 21,1896.
Doth old parties, with their checker¬
ed and discredited records, have had
their say. All eyes now turn to the
action of the giant young People’s
party of St. Louis next week. There
lias never been any doubt as to what
this convention would do. It is true
that a few Populists, with more < n
thusiastu than judgement,rushed hasti
ly into print, and said that their party
W ould endorse the action of the Demo
cratic Convention;but even these,upon
a sober second thought, have seen tneir
error. The people of the country know
to whom the crcd'tof forcing the finan¬
cial question to the front as the over¬
shadowing issue of the coining cam¬
paign is due. The politicians of both
^ parties made a desperate effort to
cont j nae t0 keep this question in the
jjackground, as they have |been doing
f or t wcu ty years; and to again force a
„i, an j battle over the tariff and other
minor i()Kue8> j t wa8 t |, e People’s
that opened the eyes of the
cmjntrV( jn 8 pj te G f t h e 0 j ( j j )ar ty poli
tjcian ^ U) tlie real trut |, alK i j 88U e.—
Thcy ljave shelled the woods around
the old party politicians, and have
driven them from their hiding places
^ ( ],. c( .ptj on and fiaud.
The Democratic and Republican poli
ticians in 1892 agreed to write their
financial planks so nearly alike that not
even the members of their own party
could tell them apart. The People’s
party exposed this game, and smashed
their future straddling schemes. In
sheer desperatiou the Hcpublicans
| were this time foiced to declare square¬
ly for the gold standard, as were the
Democratic politicians for free silver.
But, had it not been for the existence
of, and the light thrown upon the
situation by, the People’s party, these
| old party politicians would have again
straddled this question, and again
written their planks so nearly alike
that the authors of them could not
have told them apart. So far, this is a
tremendous victory for the People’s
party, aud every honest voter io
America owes it a vote of thanks for
1 thus drawing the issue squarely and
forcing the hypocrites to take a stand.
Thus the political atmosphere has
been cleared—thus an opportunity (has
bceu given to all who oppose the mle
of mouopoly and the gold trust to see
how and where they can unite in a
common effort for the cause of hu¬
manity. The follower of Lincoln, who
has been so long deceived by the Re¬
publican party, now, since that party
has openly declared for monopolies and
the gold trusts, will at once join the
People’s party; tbe follower of Jeffer¬
son and Jackson, who for a quarter of
a century has been fooled and betrayed
by the Democratic party, will now, of
course, since that party has confessed
its treachery and betrayal, join the
People’s party. Every voter in the
country knows that the People’s party
was formed because these old parties
had deserted the fundamental princi¬
ples of Jefferson and Lincoln; and. in
as much as the financial question has
been and always will be the greatest
economic question of any government,
nnd, in as much os the treachery of
these two old parties has been greater
ou that vital question than on any
other, the People’s party at its birth
planted itself firmly on the principles
of true republicanism and true demo¬
cracy, and declared that financial re¬
form was the overshadowing issue.
Every voter knows also that when
the People’s party took this position
the Democratic leaders, north, south,
east, and west, as well as the Republi¬
can leaders, at once denounced the
People’s pNrty leaders as “silver
cranks” and “financial heretics.”—
None were louder than the Democratic
politicians iu declaring that the finan¬
cial system of this country was all
right; in fact they said that we had the
best financial system the world ever
saw, and further declared that the
tariff was the only great issue before
the country. But, during these four
yea’s the People’s party has so thor¬
oughly convinced the masses of the
voters of the country as to the real
cause of hard times that now these
same Democratic politicians arc forced
to confess that they were wrong and
that the People’s party was right.—
Now, who will tbe voter, wbo believes
in free silver and financial reform, fol
low ? Can he afford to trust the lead
ers whose action at Chicago was a con
fession that they have in the past
either ignorantly or wilfully deceived
the people, or will he follow the leader
ship of those whose patriotism and
courage has forced to the front this
great and vital question ? The voters
are terribly in earnest, and will, there¬
fore, follow leaders who have been ia
earnest, and who have shown their
sincerety and their honesty from the
beginning. Therefore, the action of
the Democrats at Chicago in nominat
mg Mr. Bryan and in declaring that the
People’s party platform was right, will
add wonderful to the ranka of the Peo
pie’* party; for the voter* now see by
the confessions of tbe old parties that
they wilt be right ia following the lead -
ership of tbe People’s pnrty. *
The votets know further that in ss
much as the existence and growth of
the People’s part? has forced the
Democratic party into making this
declaration, that if the People’s party
were to disband to-morrow that these
leaders who have baen unwillingly
forced to declare for the truth would,
at their next National Convention .
voters know that what good has al¬
ready been accomplished is due to the
People’s Party, and they know further
that if this country is ever redeemed
from foreign domination, and prosper
ity restored, that it must come through
the People’s party. Therefore, when
the People’s party at St. Louis nomi
nates its candidate and puts out its
platform, 1 ’ its action will not only have
the endorsement of ,,,11 all who have a 1
ready left the old parties, but it will
also have the endorsement of the
great masses of the honest yeomanry
of this country, from ocean to ocean.
But the question arises: what will
be the result of such a campaign ? W ill
the fair promises of the Democratic
convention fool enough houest voters
—that is. will it prevent enough of
them from rallying to the standard of
the People’s party to make the election
of the gold bug candidate for the Pres¬
idency possible, or even probable. ?
Yes, this is the very danger which the
narrow, partisan and hypocritical ac¬
tion of the Democratic party threatens;
but the people can trust the People’s
party, true as it is to the great question
of financial reform and the interests
of the people, to steer the Nation clear
of this danger. It will be remembered
that at Chicago the leaders refused
every overture and spurned every
proposition made to them, by which
the silver forces of the country could
be united in the coming campaign.
Their action shows that they would
rather see the gold tiust win in the
coming fight than to have the Demo¬
cratic machine make the concessions
that were necessary on its part to make
victory certain. Their desire was
more to cripple the People’s party
than to win a victory for the people.
But in the coming campaign the
People’s party can be trusted to rise
to a higher and more patriotic plane
than this. They will put the sincerity
of the professions of the Democratic
politicians to the severest test. They
will give them an opportunity in every
state in the Union to unite the silver
voles, where necessary, to make the
defeat of the gold bugs certain. They tHS
will give them an opportunity in
electoral college to do the same. thit |
We are told in the Holy Writ
upon one occasion a dispute arose be¬
tween two women as to which was the
mother of a child. The dispute whs
submitted to KingSolomoD, who, with
that wonderful common sense that has
made his name synoymous with wis¬
dom through all the ages, ordered that,
in as much as there was no way to de¬
cide as to the child’s maternity, that
the child be split in twain and one-half
given to one woman and the other half
to the other woman. When this order
was about to be carried into effect, one
woman smiled and looked on with sat¬
isfaction: while the other, with true
motherly instinct, cried out: “No! not
do not kill the child, but spare its life
and give it ro tbe other woman.”
Whereupon King Solomon reudered
the verdict that the true mother of the
child was the woman who wanted to
preserve its life, and was willing to
make even such a sacrifice to do so.
So, in this campaign, the People’s
party will prove to the American jury
—America’s King Solomon—that it is
the true mother of financial reform
and the true friend and guardian of
the interests of the American people.
The false mother at Chicago would
willingly see the child divided, its life
lost, and the American people left to
mourn in poverty and despair; the true
mother at St. Louis will rise to tbe
patriotic position of doing that which
is necessary to save the life of the
child, even though we have to treat
with the false mother to aceomplah it.
Rather than see the child of financial
reform crucified the People’s party
will this year do that which is neces¬
sary to save its life, and to defeat the
gold bugs, as well as their allies, the
Democratic party-bugs; and before
1900 the great American jury—the
American King Solomon—will render
the verdict that will leave no doubt as
to wbo is the true mother of financial
reform, and the faithfu 1 guardian
of American liberty and prosperity.
SHALL THE PEOPLES PARTY
ENDORSE BRYAN ?
The following from the Missouri
World fully expresses our sentiments,
and no doubt every true Populist
throughout the entire country will
heartily endorse what is said below:
Should the Populists endorse Bryan,
the Democratic nominee for President?
We believe they should not. There
are many reasons against endorsing
the Democratic nominee. One is the
platform pro raises ao relief except free
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63 Uasma Si„ NeW York.
silver. Another is the Democratic par
ty does not keep its promises. Anoth¬
er is the reformers cannot be united
under the old disgraced and dishonored
banner of the Democratic party. “Dem¬
ocratic reform” brings before the vision
Let us suppose the Populist convention
does endorse Bryan. Then what will
become of the People’s party? We
cannot tight both for and against the.
Democratic ticket. In the South we
would have to practically disband. In
other localities where the Democrats
are not weak it would be a question
whether we could keep up our organi¬
zation. Even in Kansas, Nebraska and
other Western States it is a question
whether we would not be swallowed by
the Democrats. And what would the
people get in return for this annihila¬
tion nnd suppression of the greatest,
most intelligent; the most patriotic and
the most far-reaching reform movement
ever known in all tbe history of the
world? At most, free silver. But very
doubtful whether we would get that.
Even if Bryan were elected a free sil¬
ver bill would probably never reach him
for his approval. No free silver bill
reached Cleveland. Gold standard
Democrats are being nominated in
many States which sent free silver dele¬
gates to Chicago. Add the Democratic
goldbugs alected to 'the Republican
strength in the House and whewfwouid
a free silver bill be? Besides it is ut¬
terly impossible to rally all the reform
forces under the old disgraced and pol¬
luted Democratic banner on the silver
alone issue. A discussion of the mon¬
ey question upon the redemption and
intrinsic value idea will muddle the
people. It will be worse than the tariff
ou tin campaign of ’9*2. “Intrinsic
value,” “jiarity,” “dumping ground
for ftjlvef“50 cent dollar,” “driving
out gold,” “silver basis,” &c., Ac., are
arguments that cannot be refuted ex¬
cept by lakiog the correct position that
law makes money, that the volume of
money controls its purchasing power or
value. The Democrats will not take
the true position and will uot permit
Populisms to do it. No Populist orator
who would advocate the money of in¬
telligence would be wauled by the fus¬
ion campaign committee.
This refusal to discus^ money in its
broadest sense would be to the great
advantage of the goldbugs. They would
confuse the people and nobody would
dare straighten them out. During the
.heighth of the confusion the treasury
reserve will probably be raided, Cleve¬
land issue another big batch of bonds,
gold cornered, silver refused on gold
coutracts and gold held at a premium.
This game the money power could play
for a brief time without any great loss
to themselves. Such a bluff would not
move a Populist, who knows that the
law makes money, but would stampede
those silver men who still cling to the
intrinsic value superstitiou.
Whatever may be the result of the
election the endorsement of the Demo¬
cratic ticket mcaus an injury to the re¬
form movement that may not be cured
in years, aDd there will be do compen¬
sation for this great loss.
We are not partisan, wo care not
what part}’ gets the credit of reforms.
We would most cheerfully vote any
ticket that would bring about just and
equitable laws and systems. We would
be perfectly willing for .the People’s
party to die tomorrow, if its doing so
would be for the benefit of the people.
But from every standpoint we reason,
the conclusion is forced upon us that
an endorsement of the Democratic
ticket by the Populyds would bring all
the sacrifices reformers have made to
naught. If there ever was a time
when the People's party should stand
firm and in the middle of the road, it
is now. Tbe day of its triumph is at
hand. The long looked for disruption
of the old parties is here. Now, shall
we be caught by old party tactics just
as we are upon the threshhold of vic¬
tory?
At a primary election of the People's
party held in Warren couDty on last
week, Cal. Wm. M. Hawes, of tbe
W&rrcnton Clipper was nominated for
the Legislature. Col. Hawes srWesabe
as able Representative.
ARE WE RIGHT P
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IS H gOOU give US geniUS
and ambition,and then an energy that never
tires, a mind that never wanders, an eye
that never sleeps, and a nerve that never
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(JUIVCI’S. W e (leal ill
GOOD GOODS
and not trash, and believe the people will
patronize that house that sells the
Best Goods for the Least Money.
For instance
2000 yards yard wide Sheeting 4cts per yatd.
1000 ltemnants yards yard of good checks calico 3 3-4c per yard. and 4cts yard.
Black Cashmere wool going 20ets at 3 1-2 yard. per
36 inch per
30 inch Chameleon Dress goods wool 15cts per yard.
All Straw Hats at half price.
50 Dozen Ladies Fnst Black Seamless Hose at 10c worth double.
Cottouades that were 12 1-2 and locts., now 8 and 10c per yard.
Ladies Dongola Patent Tip Button Shoes 90cts pair, worth §1.25.
26c choice men’s neckwear closed out at lOcts.
Ladies and childrens Oxfords in both tan and black at reduced prices.
What is the use of wasting a dollar when
you may save it. Call at once for bargains in
Lawns and Laces.
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We have determined to increase the cir¬
culation of The Crawfordville Advocate, and
in order to do so have reduced the subscrip¬
tion price of the paper from one dollar to
sixty cents per annum in advance, or 30cts
for six months. Now is the time to sub¬
scribe.
our cxiussxzra lzst i
We will club this paper with the following papers at the
prices named below :
Atlanta Weekly Constitution, §1.35.
People’s Party Paper, : 1.35.
New York World, (Thrice-a-week.) 1.25.
We Wish to Say
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Repairs on Machinery. We make a specialty of Repairing
Engines, Boilers, Gins and Grist Mills.
We build one of the best ENGINES on the market, also one of the best
SAW MILLS in Georgia.
We always keep on hand a large assortment of Brass Goods, Injectors, Jet Pumps,
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sep6 Washington, Ga