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About The Solid South. (Conyers, Ga.) 1883-1892 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 14, 1891)
hull! OVER. The Work Satisfactory to the Friends of Reform. THE REAL HI SLETS NEXT YEAR. ItejKly Fir tin- Great Meetings at Indlan aj>n!i-t- A Splendid Gathering of the Reform Leaders Assured—Exposing the Lying Kneiuy. (Copyright, 1831, by Reform Press News Asso¬ ciation, New York.] The election is over and well over. The plain people have good reason to be satisfied widi the results of their efforts wherever they attempted to assert their Independence. In states where there wa a general People’s party ticket in the field there was a very creditable showing, though nowhere was it at¬ tempted to enure the election of gen¬ eral i -.ecutiveofficers. All that has been left for n< \* year. In (several states like Massachn.-ett s where, the Australian ballot law is in effect, the chief reason for putting out a full People’s party ticket i id y ; r was toeecure a sufficient vote to compel the printing of the candi¬ dates of the party upon the official bal ii i next year. This result lias been ac¬ complished, and its effects will bo felt opightily in 1892. But most of the work done by the People'; party in the campaign just closed has been in tho matter of local ifeun h and in the election of members of legislatures. In this direction much has been accomplished—much more, in fact, than appears on the surface, and more than the plutocratic press will ac¬ knowledge. The reward will come next year, and it will be one worth waiting for. In fact, the friends of reform north and south, east and west, may well con¬ gratulate themselves on the results of the election. * » Attention now turns undividedly to the more important subject of the meet¬ ing of tho champions of reform to be held at Indianapolis during the week or ten days beginning Nov. 16. The elec¬ tions have been so close that there is still greater necessity for warring against the plots and temptations which the old party politicians will spread for the un¬ wary at Indianapolis. Tremendous ef¬ forts will he made to derail or side track the new party both ut Indianapolis and at tho February convention. And of tho many f am glad to see there is a movement started to change the place of meeting of the February gathering from Washington to some city which is not so much the hotbed of cor¬ rupt politics. I indorse such Expressions os that of The Economist, when it says: “The National Reformer calls for votes from tlie National Reform Press associa¬ tion as to the place of holding the Feb¬ ruary convention. This is right and will give the executive committee, which meets in Indianapolis on the 16th of November, information as to the will of the people in regard to the place of meet¬ ing. “Washington was selected by a ma¬ jority of the committee, who agreed by mail because it was impossible to get a meeting of the committee prior to the 22d of August, and the law required six months’ notice. This has now been given, and if there is strong enough sentiment shown the committee in favor of a change of the place of meeting, there is no law to p.-i u>ut them changing, It is entirely vd'r the committee, and the chairman of the executive commit tee of every or:; uhza ion of producers willing to co-op; rate is entitled to a seat as a member ot that committee.” The ii’ierestin Indianapolis this month will out hi confined to the convention of the supreme council of the Alliance. Kindred reform organizations will be represented there and the cause of the people will boom in a truly inspiring manuer. Chairman Taubeneck, of the national committee of the People’s party, will be !h io, and so will lbs associates and ninny other prominent friends of the reform movement. 1 expect to meet there the very ablest leaders of the new reformation bs»th inside and outside the Alliance—men whose names will take a prominent place in the history of the country in toe near future. The readers of this Re term Press page will get the benefit of much of their advief and sug¬ gestion in the great movement now thoroughly under way. It may not seem worth while to ex¬ pose over and over again the arrant fraud and deception practiced by the leaders uf the old parties to hold their followers; but if the exposure is com plete. it eci-ius 1 a me it must evidently compel self respecting, intelligent men to repudiate and desert such bars and mountebanks, So 1 am imjH'lled to quote the Topeka Advocate’s latest and ino>t decisive conviction of these lyiug blackguards; “The Republican press and the de¬ praved tods of the Republican ring in Kansas continue to pursue President Folk with the malignancy of fiends. They appear to think that if they can stain the reputation of a few leaders of this movement it will prove the prin¬ ciples tor which we ore contending false Las: year the story, which, like the pres¬ ent ouc, was published on the testimony of an old soldier, related to the shooting of prisoners at Gettysburg. “We have published unquestionable testimony, including a letter from the Union officer in command of the regi¬ ment from which the prisoners were said to have been taken, certifying that no such thing occurred. The bloody shirt must be kept on exhibition, however, and hence the scene is changed. Other old soldiers are found who are willing to prostitute themselves to the unholy cause of sectionalism and partyism, and the Salisbury story is originated for this campaign. been thoroughly “When thi3 lias as exploded as its predecessor, another will probably be invented for the campaign next year, provided there is enough left of the Republican party to make a show of a campaign. The- testimony is con¬ tinually accumulating and we add an¬ other installment this week. We do this with no expectation of producing any impression upon those who .are conduct¬ ing this campaign of falsehood and per¬ sonal vilification, because they are act¬ ing under instructions and because they have no argument to offer against our principles instead of this slander, but we do it to show to the people the ani¬ mus of the opposition. We add the fol¬ lowing testimony this week: “Nouni Carolina Exkcutjvc D::pt., f “Kai.eioh, Oct. 6, ISM. “This is to say that Colonel L. L. Polk was never more than a lieutenant in the Confeder¬ ate army, never had charge of the Confederate prison at .Salisbury, or any other pri.yon. i do not remember who had charge of Salisbury prison all the lime, but during the latter part of the war it was in charge of Major Gee. “Thomas H. Hour, “Governor of North Carolina. “The following is the statement of Mr. Thomas S. Kenan, Mr. Polk’s superior officer; “It A LEIGH, Oct. 5, 1801. “Mr. L. L. Polk was a lieutenant in the B’orty third North Carolina regiment, which I com¬ manded as its colonel, and was never in charge of any prison that I ever heard of. Ho never held any other position in the Confederate army than that of lieutenant. I make this statement at his request. T. S. Kenan.” H, R. Ch A5IBERLAIN. New York’s Alliance President. The president of the New York state Alliance, Harvey Arnold, is a splendid tyjie of a New York farmer, and a dig¬ nified, thoroughly posted and business¬ like American citizen. In choosing him to fireside over the destinies of the farm¬ ers’ organization of the great Empire State, the Farmers’ Alliance convention i7 fm . rtptffir mm 1 lpll§!l PH HARVEY ARNOLD. made no mistake. He is a man in every way worthy of the position and is equipped for the duties that may fall upon him. As a delegate in the conven¬ tion in choosing him said, “Ihaveknown him intimately for forty years, and live in his vicinity; l never heard man, wom¬ an or child speak in any but a respectful and complimentary manner of him in my life.” As an Alliance man he became the first sub-Alliance president and the first county president in Wyoming county, and is an Alliance man from the crown of his head to the soles of his feet. His father, Gideon Arnold, and his mother, Lavina Williams, both of good old Con¬ necticut Yankee stock, cairn' with the contingent early in the century to build up a home in the unbroken wilderness which is now Arcade. Here, on the farm he now tills, in 1826, Harvey Arnold first saw the light of day, being the second eon of a family of two boys and two girls. Here in this town has been spent his busy and useful life, in continuous intercourse with a large vicinage of fel¬ low farmers. Here he has sowed and reaped and realized the divine promise of a seed time and a harvest. Always identified with the local interests of his town he has since its foundation, thirty odd years ago, been a member of the academy board. As supervisor and assessor he has served the town faithfully, though never aspiring to office nor never in any way seeking it. lu his caise “the office cer¬ tainly sought the man” under all cir¬ cumstances. in politics, lie began with the Whigs, later became an ardent Re¬ publican, but for some years past has acknowledged no party as his master and voted conscientiously and independ¬ ent. Ilis home surroundings are highly pleasant His handsome farm of about 300 acres is well tilled and a model place. His family is his pride and home Life his happiness. Alliance Workers. Elections from state Alliances have been reported as follows: Michigan—President A. EL Oole. FovrlerviUe; secretary. Miss Anna EL Potter, Lansing; dele¬ gates to supreme council. Eugene U. Bolden, Horton; L. E- Luck wood. Cold water, W.tlV ter, Three Rivera; state lecturer, u. E. lx)ck wood, Coidwatcr; executive committee, George R Wilson, Jackson; Thomas Nicol, Wick ware; Martin Smith, Haslett Park; J. W. Ewing, Grande Ledge. Texas—ITesident, Evan Jones, Dahlia; sec¬ retary, Mrs. N. Li. Barrett, Dallas; lecturer, J. M. Perdue, West Mountain; delegates to Bu;>reme councii, Evan Jones, Dublin; R. W. Coleman, H. S. P. Ashby, Harry Tracy: execu¬ tive committee, G. S. Clark, R. A. High, Blooming Grove; J. Jt. Baird, Colorado—President, R. Q. Tenney, Fort Col¬ lins; secretary, Charles F. Patterson, La J unta; lecturer, J. K. Bolmger, Silver ClifT; delegates to supreme council, R. Q. Tenney, FortCoiiins: R. A. South worth. Denver; executive commit¬ tee, A. L. Kellogg, Rocky Ford; R. B. Willis, La Veta; John 11. Cochran, Monte Vista. Kansas—Presiderit, W. H. Biddle; secretary, .MVs. Fanny Vickery; lecturer, 9. M. Scott; delegates to supreme council, L. H. Gest, Mrs. Laura L. Lowe, M. A. Householder, W. H. Bid¬ dle, A. Shearer, Joseph Darling, Mrs. Fanny McCormick. If a man has the courage to tell the truth; if a man has the courage to ex¬ pose the rascals who have systematically robbed the people of their earnings, that man is called a calamity s’nrieker by the old party editors, editors who whitewash and apologize for the crimes of their po¬ litical leaders, all because the system that enables these party leaders and their allies to rob the people also en¬ ables these old party editors to share the spoils.—Hamburg (la.) New Era. lietter Meu Vt in An old woman I once knew in the Tennessee mountains expressed a great economic taath in these words, “Poor folks has poor ways.” Too often it is the poorness of their own ways, not the aggression of wealthy neighbors, which has plunged these folks into poverty. If a man spend a day in the harvest time in efforts to send a fool to the legis¬ lature, or a knave to congress, should he ‘complain if the laws the fools and knaves make add to his own taxes? Who but he is to blame, if the laws ostensi¬ bly made in his interest simply shift the burden from one of his shoulders to the other? , If he stand all day in the public square spellbound by a tramp with an accor¬ dion, or still worse, if he lounge about on the sawdust floor of a saloon, talking the vile stuff we agree to call “politics,” never reading a boolc, never thinking a thought above the level of the sawdust floor, need he be surprised if his opinions do not meet with respect? The farmer needs men whose time is money, and whose labor is worth the labor of other men—men who know how to do the best things in the best way, and can thereby do their part in alle¬ viating industrial depression.—President D. S. Jordan in Forum. How Docs It Look Now? Will this pass for good Democratic doctrine? It is a plank in the national Democratic platform of 1856. We de¬ clare: “That congress has no power to char¬ ter national banks, that we believe such institutions of deadly hostility to the best interests of the country, dangerous to our republican institutions and the liberties of the people, and calculated to place the business of the country within the control of concentrated money power and above the laws and will of the peo¬ ple; that the separation of the money of the government indispensable from banking institu¬ tions is for the safety of the funds and rights of the people." This is exactly the view the Alliance men of the present day. We opine such if a Democrat (?) of today should make an assertion in a Democratic executive committee in Dallas county he would be naked to resign install ter. See? Mirrors III the Middle Ages. In the Middle Ages, when steel and silver mirrors were almost exclusively used, a method of backing glass for the same purpose with thin sheets of metal was known. Small convex mirrors of glass were made in Germany before the Sixteenth century, and were in demand until comparatively modern times. They were produced by blowing small glass globes, into which while they were hot was passed through a pipe a mixture of tin, antimony and resin. When the globe was coated inside it was allowed to cool, and was afterward cut‘into convex leases, which formed small but well defined images.—Wash¬ ington Star. Not In Stock. An old lady from way back region came to the city to do-some “trading.” As she looked around the elegant store with vague wonder a dandy floor walk¬ er approached her. “What can I do for you today, mad am?” “I wanter to go to the place where you sell dry goods.” “It is right here, madam. What kind of dry goods do you want?” “Dried apples, mister.” And for once a floorwalker was non¬ plussed.—Detroit Free Press. Artk • • i Ottetititina. “Is that ch, - -o mghbred?” “Yea” “How much do you want for him!” “Five dollars.” “Why, do you sell a whole eagle for a half eagleP’—Harper's Bazar. 'When Baby ni sick, we gave her Castcris, When she was a Child, she cried for Cestotia, When she became Kiss, she clans t° Csstoris, When she had Children, she gave them Castoria, Many Persons Are broken down from overwork or household cares jBrown’s Iron Gittci’S •sbailds the system, aids malaria. digestion, Get the removes ex «^ss of brie, and cures genuine Sit Mk J v%|fss.4 j, ®r*HIS is the machine that is used in the Office, Court-room^ arid for reporting lectures and sermons. While its speed is greater thaa aay other Icnawn oeetfecd, it is so simple that any intelligent person can gain a speed of mo or more -words per min¬ ute, in five cr abr weeks, without the aid of on instructor. 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