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Bat4ks County Gazette. VOL. 111. —NO. 19. PRLN'CIPLESOIU'AiU’I WHICH DO YOU STAND FOR, NOW THAT YOU ARE ON TRIAL! What Right Have Yon to Snpport a Party Which Opposes the Principles You In dorse—Yon Are Xot an Honest Reformer If Yon ho Xot Vote as You Think and Talk Looking over the situation now and hearing the party bosses crying, “Don’t desert the party; stay inside the party lines,” brings very forcibly to my mind this question: “Which shall we stand for, success of principles or success of party?' The two old parties have met in their national conventions, and have put forth their declaration of principles and nomi nated candidates. What are their principles and who are their candidates? Never before have the two old parties bowed so low at the feet of the money and corporation kings. Never before were their platforms more identical. So near are they alike in principle of the leading issues that only a partisan politician can tell the differ ence. We see them both bowing at the feet of Mammon, its willing tools, ever ready to do its bidding. But we can see afar off from them a gallant band,'their ban ners floating to the breeze, and on them we can read these, words; “Rights to every one; special privileges to none.” Their platform contains declarations of principles of justice and equity—prin ciples we have put forth from our coun cils; principles that would build up and foster all legitimate industries; that would rob money of the power to op press; that would build up agriculture and elevate labor: that would break up trusts and combines that are robbing in dustry of the fruits of her labor. We have put forth those principles. They have stood the test of the most rigid dis cussions of friends and foes. They hnvo stood the most relentless abuses and criticisms of the party politicians and the partisan press. They have been in dorsed from sea to sen and from the great lakes to the Gulf of Mexico; in dorsed in sub, county, state and national Alliances; indorsed in precinct, county and state conventions, and yet both Republicans and Democrats havo spurn ed them. We have piessed our principles in the halls of congress, and have been denied them there. We have passed resolutions time after time that wo would support no one for public office who would not advocate these principles. We have published these resolutions to the world. And now are we going to desert these prin ciples, and show by onr actions that we were just trying to scare somebody and that these resolutions were nothing but wind? Are we going to cringe at the crack of the party lash and vote for onr enemies, and vote ourselves into eternal serfdom? Or will we stand for our principles and vote for liberty and jus tice? The die is cast. The fight is on, and he that is not with you is against you. If you have faith in our principles show your faith by your works (votes). The man wb will talk reform and vote for its enemies is either a hypocrite, a traitor or a fool. But then you know “onr party,” our much loved and honored party. If we vote for these principles, we will defeat the grand old party. Now, in all fairness, if a party don’t represent the principles that we believe are founded on justice, of what use is that party to us? But we are told that if we leave our party the other party—that horrible wolfish party—will capture the country, and we will lie at their mercy. So keep on in our noble party and keep out the wolf that will devour our industries, and just give us a chance and all will be well. So plow on, boys, and rest assured we are your friends. Yes. vote out the wolf aud vote iu the lion. Which is the worst? True, the lion can make the most noise, but both alike are beasts of prey. Which shall we vote for —the wolf, the lion or for equal rights to all? Choose you this day whom you will serve —justice and equity or Mammon. Will you stand upfor rights of the down trodden aud oppressed people? If you proclaim to the world where you stand, if you are on the side of the money power and conscientiously be lieve you are right, you have a perfect right to bo there. But you have no right to vote for principles not con sistent with your belief. Neither has any man a right to claim to be a re former and cast his vote for a party who opposes reform. If your love for party is above your love of liberty and justice, then, by the eternal, vote for your party, and vote yourself into a life of servitude, com pared to which the days of the chattel slave would be a paradise. This is the decisive conflict. We must proclaim to the world as did our Revolutionary fore fathers of old. that we are a free and independent people, or else we must bow in meek submission and accept the state we are so rapidly approaching—a class of serfs and money kings. Which shall it be? —B. H. T. in Cot ton Plant Texas Democrats. The democratic convention at Houston, Texas, a few weeks ago re sulted in a split between the Clark and Hogg men, and two state tickets were nominated after a most disgrace ful and uproarious proceedings. Both factions showed their fealty to the national democratic party iu the patronage of the saloons and bawdy houses. All saloons put on extra men, while at the ba\Vdy*houses the delegates awaited their turns. There was one saloon in the convention building, and two right across the street frefm ft, both erected far the occasion, while within a stone’s throw was a large bawdy house, and all were crowded to the utmost. Both fac tions were equally guilty. Although Hogg is usually regarded by prohibitionists as better than Clark, no man was more bitter in his denunciation of prohibition in the amendment fight of 1887 than was Hogg, who was then attorney-general of Texas, and who left the duties of his office to take the stump against prohibition. In a speech at Tyler he referred to women in such a way as to disgust all pure men, many of whom immediately left the hall whore he was speaking. No newspaper in Texas would report that, speech; it was 100 low and dirty.-.-The Voice. Ownership of h Letter. Under the postal regulations of the United States and the rulings of the highest courts a letter dot's not be long to tho person to whom it is sent until it is delivered to him. Tho writer has a right to reclaim and regain possession fir it, provided he can prove .to the satisfaction of the postmaster at the office from which it was sent, that he was the writer of it. Even after the letter has arrived at the office which is its destination, and before it has been delivered to the person to whom it is addressed, it may be recalled by the writer by telegraph through the mailing office, Hie regulations of the postoffice department of course require that the utmost care shall be taken by the postmaster at the office of mail ing to ascertain that the person who desires to withdraw tho letter is really the one who is entitled to do so, and the postmaster is responsible for his error if he delivers the letter to an imposter or an unauthorized person. The vital principle in our political system lies at the bottom of this matter. In this country tho state is tho servant or agent of tho citizen— not his master. It remains merely his agent throughout the transmis sion of a letter. The state may pre scribe regulations under which its own servants may carry a message for the citizen, but it cannot shirk its responsibility to him.—Youth’s Companion. Abandoned Farnin a Kleasing. So far as has come under our notice, the well known general aban donment of hill farms in New Eng land is almost universally bewailed. Though a sentiment of slight melan choly must usually attach to an abandoned homestead, we take a brighter view of the conditions, since these are to the advantage of the country at large. Abandoned hill farms especially will he allowed to grow up forests, and these afford their chiefest advantage to climate when they exist in elevated situa tions. In such positions they not only serve to prevent evaporation of the moisture stored in the soil from rain falls, but are more influential as rain producers than in equal extent on low lands. In such elevated position they are generally regarded as pre ventives of lightning, as they serve to quietly equalize the electrical con ditions of the atmosphere and earth, especially in the season of thunder storms. The abandonment of these hill farms is the states' ;ity, since they may be purchased at a low figure, rescued from the greed of the dealer in cord wood and preserved forever to please the eye and to im prove the climate of the country about.—Practical Electricity. No Excess in Loving. There is a joy in loving, and in this joy there can never be an excess, where the love is a love to which we have any right. Overloving, in any proper sphere of love, is an impossi bility. No parent ever loved a child too dearly, nor any child a parent, nor any brother or sister or brother, nor any wife or husband a husband or wife, nor any friend a friend. The standard of loving set before us is that of the Lord himself for those whom he loves. We are to love one another as he loved us. Who will claim that his love for a dear one, HOMER, BANKS COUNTY, GEORGIA: SEPTEMBER 13, 1892. whom he has any right to love, is stronger or deeper than Christ’s love ? Until he has reached that standard, his love is short in its measure, in stead of over.—Sunday School Times. The Welsh Tongue. The author of “Yorkshire Folk Talk” tells an amusing story of an English bishop’s struggles to master the Welsh tongue. He had been ap pointed to the Welsh see of St. Da vid, and on taking up his abode in Wales engaged, a native Welsh schol ar to give him instruction in the lan guage. The pronunciation, and es pecially the 11, bothered the bishop, and the Welshman was almost at his wit’s end to explain the lingual proc ess by which the formidable sound was to bo uttered. At last a bright thought struck him, and beiug very obsequious in manner he thus addressed the bishop: “Your lordship must please put your episcopal tongue to the roof of your apostolic mouth and then hiss like a goose.” w * Tennyson's First Money. Lord Tennyson, the poet laureate, is one of twelve children of a poor country clergyman, the Rev. George Clayton Tennyson, rector of Somers by, Lincolnshire. He began writing verses at a' very early age. When his grandmother died, his grandfa ther asked him to write a poem on the sad event, and when the boy had read it to him he presented Rim with a shilling, remarking: “There, that’s the first money you have earned by writing poetry, and take my word for it it’s the last.” This was an unfortunate predic tion, for he has earned moro money by his poems than any other person in the history of the whole world.— London Tit-Bits. Chicknifi<GHt Grasshoppers. Common barnyard fowls are very efficient destroyers of grasshoppers. In one case referred to by a special agent of the department of agricul ture an almond orchard containing 360 acres was attacked by migrating swarms. The house and bam were situated in the middle of tho orchard, and the chickens browsed around them over an area of six or eight acres, which by August looked Iff - a green oasis in the desert, the trees everywhere else having been stripped of their leaves by tlie voracious in sects.—Washington Star. Great Discoveries*. All great discoveries come in sim ple form and are ushered in without music or loud rejoicing. The great est inventions come with the least outward show and noise. The sci entist generally makes his experi ment when wearied and discouraged, and when he is about ready to abandon the study.—New York Tel egram. Unite Thin Year. “Keeping the people divided over a phantom.” That has been the aim of both parties these many years, and in their success has been the people’s un doing. Divided and conquered. Wliat they have succeeded in doing all these years they will move heaven and earth to do once again, and in this campaign. Let us dedicate ourselves to thwart ing them. Let us for once be as wise as our enemies, as farseeing, as reso lute, as devoted to the maintenance of our rights as they are to their destruc tion. Let the people unite, and let them refuse to be divided upon any issue by their enemies, and this year of grace will witness the salvation of our repub lic, its restoration to the principles on which it was founded.—Mrs. A. P. Stevens in Vanguard. Strong, but Near tho Truth. Our daily papers continue to ruako the most malicious and false reports con cerning tho reform movement. It is unworthy of such papers to so deceive their own friends, Such sheets are un worthy of public patronage from any class of people who are seeking tlie tmth. It should be the desire of every one to obtain the facts, but you cannot get them from our “newspapers.” There i3 but one way to bring these lying rheets to their senses, and that is to drop them until they can publish the truth If our people will do this you will soon see their tone change.—Southern Alli ance Farmer. A Great Campaign. The campaign of 1892 will be a his torical one. It will be recorded as a cam paign in which the liberties of a nation were involved. In this gigantic struggle in which so much is as stake tho fellow who fools away his time “knifing his brethren” or “paying np old scores” will stand about as high in the estima tion of the people as Benedict Arnold.— Broken Bow (Neb.) Beacon. Cleveland hired a substitute; Har rison resigned in tfie face of the ene my; Weaver entered the army as a private in April, 1861, and returned home a brigadier general of volun teers in October, 1865. Which de serves the most consideration at the hands of the comrades of the grand army?—Alliance Plowboy. THE SITUATION Fact* and Conclusions Concerning tin Selection of the Next President. It requires 223 electoral vote3 for either of the old party nominees to win in November. Failing these, Mr. Har rison steps into well merited oblivion, for in tho house he has not the shadow of a chance. It is practically conceded that he cannot deliver for himself these 223 votes. Neither can Mr. Cleveland. In which case the contest goes to con gress under conditions unrivaled for in ter-. st and result in the history of this country, because the money power and the people would be faco to faces—with i the former at bay. The constitution 1 provides: tf do such person have euch majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers, not exsoediug three, on tho list of tho. o vote,! I for as president the house of representative# Blind choose immediately by ballot the pro i dt-nt. Hut In choosing the president the votes shall be taken by states, tho representation from each state having one vote: a quorum for this purposo shall consist of a member or members of two-thirds of tho states and a ma jority of all these states shall be necessary to a choice. And if the house of representatives shad not choose a president, whenever tho right ttf choice shall devolve upon them, before the Ith day of March next following, then the vies president shall act ns president, os in the CMS of the death or other constitutional disa bility of the president. The person having tho greatest number of votes ns vice president sl.all be vice president, if such number be a majority of the wholo number of electors np poiutcil, anil ff no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on tho list the senate shall choose the vice president; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two thh ds of tho wholo number of senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be neces sary to a choice. As there are forty-four states it will require twenty-three votes to elect a president, and ha must be one of tho three having the highest number of votes in the electoral college. In Iho Fifty second house the Democrats control Ala bama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, lowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massa chusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missis sippi, Missouri, Montana, New Hamp shire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Ithode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia and Wisconsin—Bo. The Republicans control California, Colo rado, Idaho, Maine, Nevada, North Da kota, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Da kota, Vermont, Washington and Wyo ming—12. The People’s party control Kansas and Nebraska—2. Should the P publicans and the People's party com bine to prevent a quorum, it would re quire every vote of the thirty Democratic states to be present to make a quorum, ami should a quorum be present it would require twenty-three Democratic states to elect Cleveland. With the south and west in revolt against las record and platform, and warning echoes of the battle waged ring ing in their ears, will lie get these votes? Will their representatives commit (at the bidding of party dictators) personal po litical suicide for the elevation of a proven ingrate? These are questions for the future to answer. Should the elec tion be blocked in the house the secre tary of state, under provisions of the law, is acting president; but said secre tary’s term of office expires March 4, 1893, as does that of the remainder of the cabinet, and the spectacle presented is that of an irresistible force encounter ing an immovable body, and chaos come again. This contingency is remote, yet existent. Tho senate would choose from the two highest for vice president in the electoral college. It requires the presence of sixty senators to act, so that either the Republican or Democratic party could prevent a quorum if they should choose to do so. Should the senate proceed to vote it would require forty-live votes to elect. There are at present forty-seven Republican senators, but it would not be possible to get them all to vote for White-law Reid as the gold bug candi date of the Republican party. Neither could forty-five votes bo secured for Mr. Stevenson on tho Wall street Democratic platform. Should three silver senators refuse to indorse Reid he could not be elected. Stevenson has no show in the upper house (it being Republican, a.3 shown) nor Harrison in the lower.—National Economist. Colorado All One Way. If tho Democratic and Republican state conventions, to bo held this year in Colorado, shall bo representative bodies and fairly reflect tho sentiments of their respective constituencies, they will re pudiate both Cleveland and Harrison and adopt tho People’s party electoral ticket. The proof of this is found in the attitude sustained by the state conven tions, held a few weeks ago to choose delegates for Chicago and Minneapolis. A test of the Republican convention called for that purpose showed only one voto in favor of Indorsing Harrison, and Cleveland would have fared no better in the Democratic convention had any member possessed the nerve to propose a commendatory vote. —Rocky Mountain News. The people of this country want relief from financial oppression and legalized robbery, and they are going to bavo it or know the reason why.—Cotton Plant. The democrats take theirs straight, now where is your Ocala democracy ? Where are the farmers nominated by the democrats ? The towns and cities take it'straight. No alli iucemaii or farmer in hers, if she did endorse “your main demands.” Jonesboro News. Tlie “Dollar” Liars Load. The banker who is loudest in his de nunciation of the "seventy-eight cent’ silver dollar will accept the same dollar on deposit at 100 cents. And should a customer, having in his possession a certificate of deposit obtained from him for silver dollars, request that it be cashed in either greenbacks, national bank notes or gold, his request would be granted readily, because depositors are the kind of customers that bankers like to please, and because the deposited silver was worth as much ns either of the other kinds of money. Bankers are not iu the habit of making, even their best customers, a present of twenty-two cents on each silver dollar deposited with them. Take it all in all, even the tariff is not so picturesquely and ear nestly, not to say religiously, lied about as the “dollar of our daddies” is.—Na tional Economist. Wearer’* Calamity Howl. Tho first man in this nation io lift np his voice against deroouetk.a ion of sil ver was “Calamity” Weaver. There is where he won his title. The Democratic and Republican tools of the gold party dubbed him “calamity" because he pre dicted the calamity that r.ow hangs over the industrial classes of this nation. Any ono who told tlio truth then as now was dubbed a “calamity howler.” But say, friends, the calamity howlers aro getting there, and don’t you fail to recognize the fact!—Road. Labor Protection In Pennsylvania. Tlio most liberally “protected” state in tho Union, though it is the state most blessed by nature in tlio abundance of its natural deposits, lias been the state most cursed since tho war by dissatis faction and convulsion in the ranks of labor aud by tho number of collisions between labor aud capital. In the face of this irrefutable lev: on of domestic history, how can it be claimed that pro tection of tho Republican variety bene fits labor?—Rochester Herald. Preaching and Practicing. YYlnit does labor think of candidate Harrison’s protected protege, Andrew Carnegie? This man of millions says ho made every dollar of his money from -he laboring men in his employ. He has pet notions of the relations between capital and labor which he has printed in magazines tuid repeated in utter din ner speeches. The country is amazed ,<t the difference between his preachment and practice.—Toledo Blade. Two Mottoes. “Silver crushed to earth will rise again,” “United we stand, divided we are not in it,” were mottoes that adorned the opera house in Ouray, and attracted notice of all delegates and visitors dur ing the congress. Words more true wore never uttered. Unite on Weaver and we will bo taking a step forward. To vote for Harrison or Cleveland means four moro years of bondage.—Durango (Colo.) Herald. Will Carry Nevada. The People’s party held its first con vention and nominated three presiden tial electors pledged to vote for the nominees of the Omaha convention. Everything is progressing as well as possibly can be expected, and that the People’s party is going to carry Nevada next fa?) is as certain as the sun shines. —Cor. National Advance. Georgia, with a full People’s party ticket, composed of leading citizens, and supported by tho stanchest Georgians, is in tlio fight in “dead earnest.” When font Watson and the other eloquent ex ponents of honest government get to work on the platform the empire state of the south will bother the machine politicians “most to death.” They tinrictf tho Shirt. The brethren in Kansas have buried the bloody shirt too deep for resurrec tion by the ghouls of either old party. When a state such as Kansas, where formerly half the voters wero Union soldiers aud nearly all former Republic ans, nominate for congress an ex-con federate colonel it is time for us of tlio south to stop the months of our own bloody shirt wavers and meet onr Kan sas brethren in the middle of the road. And we are going to do it. Any man who waves the bloody shirt north or south ought to bo hissed off the stump.—Southern Alliance Farmer. What “Calamity** Dock. Keep this before the people: When the “calamity party” captured the state iu 1890 tho average rate of interest on farm loans was 10 per cent, per annum, and with “calamity” tho rate of interest is down to 6 per cent, and money goes begging for takers at that. Moral— Keep up the howling and it will soon come down to where it ought to be I —2 per cent. —Concord (Kan.) Blade. Tlio fifty-second congress gave $65,000 for an intercontinental rail way survey in South America. How much did they "ive the Mississippi flood sufferers? That was unconstitutional.—Economist. Yon can have lots of fun pasting the republican and democratic silver planks side by side' on a sheet of SINGLE COPY THREE ( ENTS. ; paper and then asking your oW party friends to tell which is which; not otic in fifty of them can do it. Add the Omaha plank with its clear silver ring, and note the difference'—lnde pendent., Marion* lad. Keep it before the people that eastern democrats at the capitol ami at the Chicago convention, threatened their congress, saying, “if you force that free coinage, look out for the force bill,” —Economist. A REVOLT AT HAND. Tlio Old Party Leiulvra IS*, u: Pc.-d y. fs Mad aid Will lb Destroyed. The old Greek truism that “whom tho gtkls would destroy they first mjko mad” is being strangeTv ( . .1 iu tho present national cn'.npaigii. The two old parties liavo entered the eniivttsH under the domination of the money power as' repfosofited bv Wall street. Relying on that feeling of partisanship that they have so long and ;•> actively generated nod treeing ug.iin topirly loyally, both of tile great national or ganizations have entered tho campaign ignoring tiie really live issues before the people of the emery, while to the power that controlled both national con ventions it is a matter of indii.V :, nco which wins. Wall s: root in either event will have prolonged its r. ,gn. Sub servience to the money power alone con trolled the Minneapolis and Chicago conventions. The Omaha convention, which inau gurated a third party movement, has been laughed at by the old politicians. Not always tho wcatherwiso, however, aro correct in their pr< dictions. Tho cloud not bigger than a inat/% hau l when tir.st m-;u m m.it. os envni/p,-. the whole heaven.?. Events now iu progr -? indicate that Weaver mid Fiolfl tm) cer tain to prove ce re formidable candi dates tiuri Hi" o’ 1 time political prophets aro willing to admit. Par.ir.tinhip is not retaining its usual hold on too poo ,pie, and tho People's party is liable to gather to it the votes of till tho dir---,.bi lled elements of the jh i.pio. A land slide, as is raid iu politics, may lie the result. In the mining states tho repudiation of silver by both the old parties will influ ence tho people to vote for Weaver and against Harrison or Cleveland, in tho south and tho agricultural slabs of tho middle west tho farmers are up in arms against both the old parties. Tlio laimr unions every where, ary against t': and tho parties whose laws permit Pink erton detective.; to shoot down working men whoso only crime is a demand for sufficient wages with which to fed and clothe their families. Tho defeat of tlio silver bill, the cattle barons' raid into Wyoming, the Homestead affair, tho Idaho trouble aro all certain to bear fruit at the polls next November. In any issue in this country in which it is a contest between money and ballots it is a certain thing that the ballots will ul timately win. In turning a deaf ear to the just de mands of the silver miners, to the .ju t complaints of the i.. user.., to the jo t claims of labor—lo tlm prevailing dis satisfaction with enisling conditions among all cl a-• <of j r.i.luivr- the Re publican and Dcnioera ic par!if.* have both commit hi a tier ions blunder, which is certain to make large inroads into tlicir ranks. When pnHiv.-o io stand for the people and place ihem- dvoi under tho dominion of tb . money power, when Democratic snccoss or Republican success has but one real meaning, tho coutil.i.: 1 l ulo if \v nil eet, then in deed it is time for a revolt of the masses. That revolt is coming; it. is even now at hand.—Rocky Mount; i.t News. An 1 : Meat at < , When tho tihtifortu was a-hq•; -1, such cheers greeted that act that it was nearly an hour and a quarter before business could be resumed. The audience rose as ono man aud cheered and cheered and cheered again, tho state banners were waved aloft and carried onto the chair man’s platform and grouped together, a drum corps struck up a march, and round and round that great hall they marched. An old Union soldier and con federate were marching arm in arm. when, passing tho Texas delegation where an old gray headed Colored del egate was seated, one said, “Here is ot: of tho rascal* we wei r- lighting over.** when they : iscil bin :,nl, ranting him on their sltonlderK, marched abound tho hall amid the storm of clu-crs Dint greeted them.—OH-rlin lie;aid. Don’t Fool with Ivans:**. The Advocate gave the warning last week that this state wan being colonized for tim purpose of defeating the will of our citizens at the coming election. Wichita has received an installment from Tennessee. Watch these fellows. They have been brought hero for cor rupt purposes. No ’former resident of another state can gain a residence that will entitle b;m to vote at the coming election. Challenge every dgvil of them and sin that they do not voteb-Topeka Advocate. An Irishman walking through a cemetery and reading on a tombstone the inscription, “Here lies a lawyer and an honest man,” sagely remarked, ‘ Faith an’ there’s l\vo in that grave/' -A4,v white .