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GEORGIA.
The representatives of the Dem
ocratic party of the Uonited States,
in National convention assembled,
'do reaffirm their allegiance to the
principles of the party as formu
lated by Jefferson and exem
by the long and illustrious line of
his successors in Democratic lead
ership, from Madison to Clevland;
we believe the pnblic welfare de
mands that these principles be ap
plied to the condnct of the Feder-
rl Government through the acces
sion to power of the party that ad
vocates them; and we solemnly de
clare that the need of a return to
these fundamental principles of
free popular government, based ou
home role and individual liberty,
was never more urgent than now,
when the tendency to centralize all
power at the Feperal capital has
become a menace to the reserved
1 rights of the States that strikes at
| the very roots of oar Government
■ under the Constitution as framed
I fay the fathers of the Republic.
I FEDERAL CONTROL OF ELECTIONS.
We warn the people of oar com
mon country, jealous for the pres
ervation of their free institutions,
that the policy of Federal control
of elections to which the Re
publican party has committed it-
1 self is ‘ fraught with the gravest
| dangers, scarcely less momentous
than would result from a revolu
tion practically establishing mon
archy on the ruins of the Repub
lic. It strikes at the North as well
as the South, and injures the color
ed citizen even more than the
white; it means a horde of deputy
marshals at every polling place
armed with Federal power, return
ing boards appointed and controll
ed by Federal authority, the oat-
rage of the electoral rights of the
people in the several States, the
subjugation of the colored people
to the control of the party in pow
er and the reviving of race antago
nisms, now happily abated, of the
utmost peril to the safety and hap
piness of all; a measure deliberate
ly and j ustly described by a lead
ing Republican Senator as “the
most infamoas bill that ever cross
ed the threshold of the Senate.”
Such a policy, if sanctioned by law,
would mean the dominance of a
self-perpetnating oligarchy of of
ficeholders, and the party first en
trusted with its machinery could
be dislodged from power Gnly by
an appeal to the reserved rights of
the people to resist oppression
which is inherent in all self-gov
erning communities. Two years
ago this revolutionary policy was
emphatically condemned by the
people at the polls, but in con
tempt of that verdict the Republi
can party has defiantly declared in
ite latest authoritative utterance
that its success in the coming elec
tions will mean the enactment of
the force bill and the ornrpafcion
of despotic control over elections
in all the States.
Believing that the preservation
of republican government in the
United States is dependent npon
the defeat of this policy of legalized
force and brand, we invite the sup
port of all citizens who desire to
see the Constitution maintained in
its integrity with the laws pursuant
thereto which have given our coun
try a hundred years of unexam
pled prosperity; and we pledge the
Democratic party, if it be entrust
ed with power, not only to the de
feat of the force' MU, bat also to re
lentless opposition to the Republi
can poEey of protiigate expendi
ture which, in the short space of
two years, squandered an enor
mous surplus and emptied an over
flowing Treasury, after piling new
hardens of taxation upon the al
ready overtaxed labor of the coun
try.
PBOTYCTIOH DENOUNCED-.
We denounce Republican pro
tection as a fraud; a robbery of
the great majority of the American
people for the benefit 6f the few.
We declare it to he a fundamental
Congress as the culminating AEree-f guards of legislation as shall in-1 water. When any waterway of the | SECOJiD CROP IBISH POTATOES. "Whence COMES OUR POVERTY?
ify of class legislation; we endorse i sure the maintenance of thapuri- Republic is of sufficient impor- ^
the efforts made by the Democrats j fy of the two metals and. the equal j fence to demand aid of the Gov-j " 3r ° nroe AdTE " ti ® !r -
oE the present Congress to modify j power of every^oUar at aS times | eminent, such aid should be ex- When grown, successfully, the; It is a known fact that [he motfe.
its most oppressive features in the j in.the markets and in the payment [tended upon a definite plan of con- j second crop of Irish potatoes, that mg people ir. oar govern meet, as a
direction of free raw materials and. | of debts; and we demand that all f tin nous work, until permanent im- planted in mid-summer and class, are not laying up
cheaper manufactured goads thatipapar currency shall be kept at | provement is' secured. harvested in the fall, is more tobej hum. their labors for s <
NICARAGUA CANAL.
enter into general consumption, ; par with and! redeemable in such
and we promise its repeal as one off coin. We insist npon this policy I For pnrposes o£ nationaI defense ,
the beneficient results that will fol- j as especially necessary for the pro- and ^ promotion of
valued by the average grower than day; that their comfortable
! the spring or early summer erop. ; roundings, instead or being
So in the home gardens we have ■ creased and added to, are being
low the action of the people In £»J|jgpiB Tanner* and laboring: tfeState^ we j “S”*?
trusting power to the Democratic,
the first and most-defense-
party. Since the McKinley tariff f less victims of unstaple money and f|gg^ Canal and its protection
went into operation there have been j a fluctuating currency,
ten reductions of the wages of la- repeat, qf state bane tax de
the early construction of the Nica- ^ ^ the first
one. For every row that is plant
boring men to one increase. We
deny that there has been any in
crease of prosperity to the. country
since that tariff went into opera
tion, and we point to the dullness
and distress, the wage reductions -
and strikes in the iron trade, as
the best possible evidence that no
suctx prosperity has resulted from
the McKinley act.
We eall theattention of thought
ful Americans • to fhe fact that af
ter thirty years of restrictive taxes
against the importation of foreign
wealth, in exchange for oar agricul
tural surplus, the homes and farms
of the country have become bur-
deued with a real estate mortgage
debt of over $2,500,000,000, exclu
sive of all other forms of indebted
ness; that in one of the chief agri.
cultural states of the West there
appears a real estate mortgage
debt averaging $165 per capita of
the total population; and that sim
ilar conditions and tendencies are
shown to exist in other agricultural
exporting States. We denounce
a policy which fosters no industry
so much as it does that of the
Sheriff.
against foreign control as of great
importance to the'United Sfetes-
M A SDED - THE WORLD'S FAIR.
We recommend that the prohib- Recognizing that the World’s
itory TO per cent tax on State j Columbian Exposition as a nation-
bans: issues be repealed. ■ a | undertaking of vast Importance,
CIVIL service BEF0B3L j iu which the General Government
Public office is a public trust.' his invited the co-operation of all
We reaffirm the declaration of the j the Powers of the world, and ap-
Democratic National Convention I predating the acceptance by many
of 1816 for the reform of the dvil j of suck Powers of the invitation
service, and we call for the honest j so extended and the broad and Iib-
enforeement of all laws regulating i era! efforts being made by them to
the same. The nomination of a j contribute f8 the grandeur of the
President, as in th6 recent Repnb- j undertaking, we . are of opinion
attention should be given the see- j ping away from them.
of this class who were in
bly comfortable
ed in the spring; at least two rows
should be accorded the second.
We were a long time iu finding
out the best method to be pursued
with this late crop, and we experi
enced altogether a considerable
loss in time and money in endeav
oring to get at the best method of
culture with this crop-
More or less (generally less)
success followed the observance of
other method^ but the plan that
is now given is the only one that
will-be regarded as a good one—
until some better one is discover-
lican Convention, by delegations that Congress should make such ed, evolving perhaps the discovery
composed largely of his appointees; j necessary financial provision as
holding office at his pleasure, is a j shall be requisite to the mainte-
TEADE RECIPROCITY.
Trade interchange on the basis
of reciprocal advantages to the
countries participating is a time-
honored doctrine of the Democrat
ic faith, but we denounce the sham
reciprocity which juggles with the
people’s desire for enlarged for
eign markets and freer exchanges
by pretending to establish closer
trade relations for a country Whose
articles of export are almost exclu
sively agricultural products with
other .countries that are also agri
cultural while erecting a custom
house barrier of prohibitive tariff
taxes against the richest countries
of the world that stand ready to
take our entire surplus of products
and to exchange therefor commod
ities which are necessaries and
comforts of life among our own
people.
TRUSTS AND COMBINATIONS.
We recognize in the trusts and
combinations which are designed
to enable capital to secure more
than its just share of the joint
product of capital and labor a nat
ural consequence of the prohibi
tive taxes winch prevent the free
competition which is the life of
honest trade, but believe their
worst evils can be abated by law,
and we demand the rigid enforce
ment of the laws made to prevent
and control them, together with
such further legislation in restraint
of their abuses as experience may
show to be necessary.
LANDS FOB ACTUAL SETTLERS.
The Republican party, while
professing a policy of reserving
the public land for small holdings
by actnai settlers, has given away
the people’s heritage till now a few
railroads and non-resident aliens,
individual and corporate, possrsi
a larger area than all our farms be
tween the two seas. The last Dem
ocratic administration reversed the
improvident and unwise policy of
the Republican party touching the
public domain, and reclaimed from
corporations and syndicates, alien
and domestic, and restored to the
people nearly one hundred million
(100,000,000) acres of valuaole
land to.be sacredly held as home
steads for our citizens, and we
dge ourselves to 'canthrue this
policy until every acre of land sb
unlawfully held shall be reclaimed
JL—P®dy
that the Federal Government bug
and collect tariff duties except for
the purpose at revenue only, and
we demand tha: the collection of
scandalous satire npon free popu
lar institutions and a startling il
lustration of the methods by which
a President may gratify his ambi
tion. We denounce a policy under
which- the Federal
usurp control of party conventions
in the States, and we pledge the
Democratic party to reform these
and all other abuses which threat
en individual liberty and local
self-government.
FOREIGN POLICY.
The Democratic party is the on
ly party that has ever given the
country a foreign policy consist
ent and vigorous, compelling re-
uanee of the national honor and
public faith. *
THE SCHOOL QUESTION- -
Popular education being the on
ly safe basis of popular suffrage,
we recommend to the several States
most liberal appropriations for the
public schools. Free common
schools are the nursery of.'good
government, and they have always
received the fostering care of the
Democratic party, which favors ev
ery means of increasing intelli
gence. Freedom, of education, be
ing an essential of civil and reli
gious liberty as well as a necessity
for the development of Intelli-
spect abroad and inspiring confi- gence, must not be interfered with
dence at home. While avoiding' under any pretext whatever. We
entangling alliances, it has aimed | are opposed to Stats interference
to cultivate friendly relations with | with parental rights and rights of
other nations, and especially with; conscience in the education of chil-
our neighbors on the American
Continent whose destiny is closely
linked with oar own, and we view
with alarm the tendency to a poli
cy of irritation and bluster which
dren as an infringement of the
fundamental Democratic doctrine
that the largest individual liberty
consistent with the rights of oth
ers insures the highest type of
is liable at any time to confront us I American citizenship and the best
with the alternative of humilation government,
or war. We favor the maintenance
of .a. nayy strong . enough for all
purposes of national defense and
COINAGE.
We denounce the Republican
legislation known as the Sherman-
act of 1890 as a cowardly make-
make aR of its sapporEersv as well
to properly maintain the honor and
dignity of the country abroad.
THE OPPRESSED IN RUSSIA AND
IRELAND-.
This enquiry has always been
the refuge of the oppressed from
every land—exiles for conscience
sake—and- in the spirit of the
founders of our Government we
condemn the oppression practiced
by the Russian Government upon
its Lutheran and Jewish subjects,
and we call upon our National
Government, in the interest of jus
tice and humanity, by all just and
proper means to use its prompt
and best efforts to bring about a
cessation of these cruel persecu
tions in the dominions' of the Czar
and to secure to the oppressed
equal rights.
We tender our profound and
earnest sympathy to those lovers
of freedom who are struggling for
home rule and the great cause of
local government in Ireland.
IMMIGRATION.
We heartily approve ail legiti
mate efferts to prevent the United
States from being used as the
dumping ground for the known
criminals and professional pau
pers of Europe; and we demand
the rigid enforcement of the laws
against Chinese immigration and
the importation of foreign work
men under contract to degrade
American labor and lessen its
wages, but we condemn and de
nounce any and all attempts to re
strict the immigration of tne in
dustrious and worthy of foreign
lands.
PENSIONS:
This convention hereby renews
the expression of appreciation of
the patriotism of the soldiers and
sailors of the Union in the war for
Its preservation, and we favor just
and liberal pensions for disabled
Union soldiers, their widows and
shift fraught with possiKBfes of d * ffl f
but we demand that
as the standard
country, and to the
coinage of both! gold and silver
without discriminating against
or charge for mint-
the work of the Pension Office
shall be done industriously, impar
tially and honestly. We denounce
the present administration of that
office as incompetent; corrupt, dis
graceful and dishonest
Waterway improvements.
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such taxes shall be limited to the
of the
and economically of both metals must be of equal
. , value,
We denounce the McKinley tar-
ADMISSION OP THE TERRITORIES.
We„approve the act of the pres-
of a potato that wiE grow right on
through the season like sweet po
tatoes.
Lay aside all the small potatoes
from the size of an enhuEed wal
nut down to that of a small hicko
ry nut as the crop is dug in June
or early in July. .Accumulate as
many seeds as it is desired to
plant and expose them to the sun
until they assume a greenish
Then take and dip off the seed
end of each smaE potato, throwing
this cEpping away.
Near a well, or other convenient
source of water, scoop out a place
in the soil eight or ten inches deep
and line the same with straw or
Spread out the potatoes
in this hollow three or four inches
deep; cover them with a little
straw, and then throw on several
inches of soil. Wet the seed be
fore covering wltli sod from time
to time, every few days. If rain
does not fall ou the bed apply
enoogh water to keep the potatoes
steadEy moist After ten days
have expired, begin to watch for
their sprouting, and as soon as this
is indicated have the soE made
ready to receive the seed. Have
the land well plowed and the fur-'
ent House of Representatives in [ rw?s laid off in good time. If a
passing bills for admitting into
the Union as States the Territories
of New Mexico and Arizona, and
we favor the early admission of all
the Territories having the necessa
ry population and resources to eu-
title them to Statehood, and while
they remain Territories we hold
that the officials appointed to ad
minister the government of any
Territory, together with the Dis
trict of Columbia and Alaska,
should be bona fide i esidents of
the Territory or district in which
their duties are to be performed.
The Democratic partj^ believes in
home rule aad the control of their
own affairs by the people of the
vicinage.
PROTECTION OF RAILROAD
EMPLOYES.
We favor legislation by Con
gress and State legislatures to pro
tect the Eves and limbs of railway
employes and those of other haz
ardous transportation companies,
and denoance the inactivity of the
Republican party, and particular
ly the Republican Senate, for
causing the defeat of measures
beneficial and protective to this
class of wage-workers.
THE SWEATING SYSTEM DENOUNCED.
We are in favor of the enact
ment by the States of laws for
abolishing the notorious sweating
system, for abolishing contract eou-
vict labor and for, prohibiting the
employment in factories of chil
dren under 15 years of age.
SUMPTUARY LAWS.
We are opposed to sumputnary
laws as an interference with the
individual rights of the citizen.
AND ON THIS THE PARTY STANDS.
Upon this statement of princi
ples and policies the Democratic
party asks the inteEegent judg
ment of the American people. It'
asks a change of administration
and a change of party, in order
that there may be a change of sys
tem and a change oE methods, thus
assuring the maintenance "unim
paired of institutions under which
the Republic has grown great and
powerful.
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sorely "do you good, if you have a
Cough, Cold, or any trouble with
Throat, Chest or Lungs. Dr.
King’s New Discovery for Con
sumption, Coughs and Colds is
guaranteed to give relief, or money
rill be paid back. Sufferers from
La Grippe found it just the thing
i and under its use had a. speedy
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sippi River and other great water-' P^ e bottle^ our expense and learn
law enacted by the Fifty-first al agreement or by such safe- and cheep transportation to" tide- Larue size 50d. and 81.00!
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ram occurs to wet this open furrow
just as the seed potatoes have
sprouted (sprouts just started to
grow so they wiE not break off in
handling), it rill be a decided
gain in starting the crop to drop
the potatoes in the furrows as soon
after the rain as can be done and
not too wet to plow. Drop the
seed every fifteen inches and press
them firmly into the mellow soil
with the foot. Then with a turn
ing shovel run a furrow, and far
enough off to make a square bed
over the seed. By this operation,
moisture wiE be conserved to the
use of the already sprouting pota
to to bring - It op in fen days or two
weeks if another rain should oceur
in two weeks after planting,
On naturally moist soil,rain may
be deferred some weeks without in
terfering with germination. When
the potatoes are np keep tha soil
stirred shallow. If the necessary
plant food is in the soil the second
crop frequently is much larger
than the first one. A trial of
plan rill show that a second crop
is more easEy grown than you. now
think.
Cholera infantum has lost its
terrors since the introduction of
Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy. When that
remedy is used and the treatment
as directed with each bottle is fol
lowed, a cure is certain. Mr. A. W.
Walter, a prominent merchant: of
YY altersburg, III., says; “It cored
my baby boy of cholera infamtnm
after several other remedies haJ
failed. The cfaEd was so low that
he seemed almost beyond the aid
of human hands or reach of any
medicine.” 25 and 50 cent bottles
for sale by Holtzclaw & Gilbert,
Druggists. Perry, Ga.
Hicks pond, in Palmyra, Mp , is
a strange body of water. It is onlv
twelve acres in area, ’ but is mare
than 100 feet in depth. It has no
visible inlet, although a fair-sized
stream flows from it into Se-
basticook. 'The volame of its wa
ters is not materiaHy affected by
water is always cold.
How fearful those blotches look
on your face! Are you aware that
few years ago,and had some prom,
ise-of prosperity, are not so to-diy..
They have delved and t^edand
labored, but a gradual increase of
poverty has been their annual re-
ward.
It Is that thgrg comes
right out of the heart of every la
boring. toiling man the earnest
question, “why are we poor and
gro wing poorer?” The plain, sim-
ple^ truthful answer to ques
tion is, “because we are taxed to
Multiplied reasons are assigned
as to the erase of the poverty of
the people, and aE these may have
their bearing, but the main, the
unequal and unnecessary taxation.
vemment, through unjust laws,
has laid the heavy hand of nnned
ary taxation upon the tndm of
the land; monopoly has grasped
I must and wfll have the lion’s
powers have com
bined, and, controling the markets
of the world, are saying to the la
borers, the profits of your toil
must come to us. These, all th^ao
and more, are accursed taxation
indirect, the fruit at which is mul
tiplied poverty to the working
classes of this country.
If any laboring man will ascer
tain by accurate calculation how
much unjust tax he pays annual
ly, he will then see the true reason
why he is, and remains poor, and
can not and does not hayeany
equitable share of the comforts of
Efe. And when we allude to taxes,
we refer to every species of tax,
including even" those that are self-
imposed.
When we remember that taxation
comes upon the people through mo
nopolistic maneuverings, through
moneyed manipulations of the
world’s markets, through high rates
of interest, through credit extor
tions, through extravagance in the
administration of the government,
then may we form some concep
tion of the burden of taxation un
der which the laboring people of
this country are staggering, and
are being ground down to poverty.
Herein lies the nest egg of our
poverty. For no man, men nor
people can evade poverty who
dump into the coffers of the tax
gatherers more money annually
than they make. There is not an
indrvidaai in this country who
drinks water, eats bread and wears
clothing that is not paying an un
just tax. Hence, tins questfonof
taxation is one of tremendous mag’—
nitude, and one that deserves the
Mr. 1
Mo., Meteor, went to i
at Hillsdale, Iowa, aad asked the
to give
ra morbus and locsenes of the
bowels. Hie says; “I fefe so i—t
eluded to call on the physician and
get him to fix me” up a supply of
the medicine. I was -surprised
when he handed me a bottle of
Chamberlain’s Colie; Cholera
Diarrhoea Remedy. He airfrl he
tice, and found it the best he could
or prepare, I can testify to its
icy in my case at aE events”
For sole by Holtzclaw A Gilbert,
Druggists, Perry, Gs.
The French newspapers are just
now testing a novel sort of type,
• made of malleable gigs* by a
new process. The new types pre
serve their deanEness almost in
definitely. They are said to wear
better than those made of
of line that will print i
ly than is possible with, the
old style type. La Patrie is now
or in ted entirely on glass type.—
.Sxehange.
Do i
rjfc':
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~ by
and Blood Maker wfll not onlv
move them, but cleanse your blood
so that they wfll not appear agian? i
Sold and warranted by L. AUEel-i, . ,
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Rigans Taimles r best liver tenie.
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