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t FFICIAL ORGAN OF THE COUNTY.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE’ALLIANCE
THE C0NVEN110N.
The convention which met in
Atlanta, May the 10th, to send
delegates to the national con¬
vention which meets in Chicago,
,j une the 21st, and to make a
platform ^embracing the senti¬
ment of the Democrats of Geor¬
gia- was one of the grandest as¬
semblies of brains and jpatriot
lsm ever seen in this State. Ev¬
ery man seemed to be fully en
ilt used with a spirit of true, old
lashioned Jeffersonian Democ¬
racy, and with a determination
i hat there should be no break
among the noble white men of
•>ur State. All were willing to
compromise jjupon every issue
and to join heart and soul in
the grand work of keeping pure
the politics of our country and
in keeping our offices and Gov¬
ernment aloof from the vile
horde of anarchists, infidels and
cowardly deserters, who are
just now trying to get a foot
hold in our fair land.
A call of the counties showed
that a majority were for that
great American, Grover Cleve¬
land, and the Honorable Pope
Barrow, of Clark county was
made chairman.
It soon become evident, how¬
ever, that tariff reform alone
would not satisfy the represen¬
tative of the people of Georgia,
and that financial reform as
well as tariff reform was an
issue that the people were for
and unless Mr. Cleveland is
willing to subscribe to this plank
in the magnificent platform
which was adopted and which
we pulish, he would not be acj
ceptableto the people of Georgia
The following gentlemen were
elected delegates from the State
at large:
F. H Richardson, Fleming du
Bignou, James Smith, Dupont
Guerry.
They are all good, honest, able
democrats and will vote for no
man who is not in favor of both
tariff and financial relief. The
22 gentlemen who represent the
11 different districts are, also,
good men and not one of them
raised an objection to the plat¬
form upon which they were
asked to stand. As to the sen¬
timent for Mr. Cleveland or
against him, we are satisfied
that at least 14 out of the 26
would prefer that some other
inan be the standard bearer of
Democracy.
is «.
It is wonderful that not one
of the one thousand delegates
who were in the hall raised a
single objection. It is the plat¬
form the people of Georgia, of
eVery section and of every class
barring anarchists and infidels.
We print this week the Ocala
Demands; compare them with
our platform and see how well
they go together. Them is not
one good thing embraced in the
Ocala demands that are not in
ourplatform, and there are some
good things in our platform
winch are not in the Ocala de¬
mands. We print, also, that
all may see, the St Louis plat¬
form. Compare it, Georgians,
with its " Government owner¬
ship of transportation lines ” and
its infamous pension resolutions,
to that grand document the
Ocala Demands and the mag¬
nificent platform of the Democ¬
racy of Georgia! Men who love
Georgia and who love the South
with its dear memories aud no
l?ie institutions, w ifi uot be glow
to chose, and when they have
been read by every true son of
Georgia, Post and his servile co¬
leaders, will have no followers
here.
THE PLATFORM ADOPTED.
1* Resolved, That we, the democrat 6 '
of Georgia, in convention as embled,
reaffirm our devotion to the time honored
principles of our historic party. We
believe that the powers delegated by the
people should be strictly construed; that
the autonomy of spates and the rights of
local self-government and home rule
should be zealously guar led; that no
money should be taken from the people
under any pretext for other than public
purposes; that the strictest economy
should be exercised in all governmental
expenditures, whether local, state or na¬
tional; that legisution shonld be confined
to the legitimate objects of the govern¬
ment; that public office is a solemn public
trust,
2 • We belie’ e that the same care cau¬
tion should be used by the government,
both state and national, in the expendi¬
ture^ public money asjis used.by.prudent
men in their own private affairs •
3. We believe lhat the right of taxa.
tion was delegated to the governm ent
both state and national, to be used only
for absolute necessities, and any other
use of this power i-dishoneat and
tyrannical ■
4. A surplus revenue in tha treasury
is a glittering prize to be sought af ,er by
political thieves aud plunderers.
5. we are uncompromisingly opposed
to the enlargement and cone ntiation of
federal powers; to the usurpation by the
central government; of the functions of
state; to boundties and subsidies in every
form; to every species of class legislation
aud government partnership with private
enterprises; to the whole theory and
practice of pafcernalisn.
6. we who have w ithin a generation
seen elections opened by the tup vi a
drum, and the judicial powers of the
state usurped be court martial, aud a
legislature seized by a military c.erk,and
the legally elected representatives of the
people turned out of office to make by
force a subseivient majority, have no
desire to take any chances on the politi¬
cal future.
7. we consider the government control
of postoffices as necessary and proper,
because the seal of letter, protects the
private affair of the citizen from govern¬
mental espionage, but we protect except
u the regulation of prices against ex
tending this control over telegiaphs and
telephones, and placing in our midst a
horde of office holders who will only be
amenable to national laws, and may at
any time, by the will of the majority, or,
as often happens iti our federal affairs, by
the will of a minority, be turned into
si ies aud informers, while we oppose
governmental ownership of railroads we
endorse our state railroad cammission
laws, and demand tliat the powers of the
interstate railioad commission be
enlarged so as to provide a “rigid, hon¬
est and just control” oi railroad transpo
ation.
8. we demand the free and unlimited
coinage both silver and gold on a parity
with each other to the end that the mon¬
ey of the people shall be suclyn quantity
and quality as was originally contempla¬
ted by the constitution.
9. wc demand that the prohibitory
10 per cent tax on s ate bank issues be
stricken out of the national Lank law,
and when this is done, we desire that a
uniform By stem of banking be provided
for by the legislature of Georgia, with a
flexible expansive state bank currency,
we further demand that the prohibition
in the national batik law a gains ^accepting
real estate as [security for loans shall be
stricken there from.
10. we demand that the amount o f
the circulation medium be speedily in¬
creased on a sound basis sufficient to meet
the needs of the country.
11. we [demand;that congress Shall
pass such laws as will effectually prevent
the dealing in futures of all agricultural
and mechanical productions; providing
a st ringent system of procedure in trial's
that will secure piompt conviction, and
imposing such penalties as shall secure
the most perfect compliance with the
law.
12. Relieving in the doct/ines of equal
lights to all and special privileges to none
we demand
a. That our national legislation shall
be so framed in the futere as to not
build up one indusuy at the expense of
another.
b, we regard as the most important
issue before the people a refoim of the
present iniquitous tarifl' and we demand
a removal of the exiting heavy tariff tax
from the neeesssities of life, that the
poor of our land must have.
c. wc further demand a just and equit¬
able system of graduated tax on income.
d. we believe that the money of the
country should be kept as much as possi¬
ble in the hands of the people, and hence
we demand that national and state reve¬
nue shall be limited to the necessary ex¬
pense of the government, economically
and honestly administered.
14. We demand retrench and reform
in ’he expenditure of national revenues
and especially a correction of the present
pension system -which re»ts like a mam¬
moth war tax on our section [of the un¬
ion.
15. We therefore, in a spirit of mutual
concession, offer this, our platform, to
the democracy of Georgia, and pray that
a divine providence may incline our
hearts to wisdom, justice and modera¬
tion.
The Ocala Platform,
1. ( a ) We demand th6 abolition of
national banks.
( b> ) We demand that the gov¬
ernment shall establish sub-treasu
rifs or depositaries in the several
Sta'e?, which shall loan money di
nct to the people at a low rate of in¬
terest not to exceed 2 per eent. per
annum, on non perishable products,
and also upon real estate, with proper
limitations upon the quantity of land
and amount of money.
(c -) We demand that the
amount of circulating medium be
speedily increased to not less than
$50 per capita’
2. We demand that congress
shall pass such laws asjwill effectually
prevent the dealing in futures of all
agricultral and mechanical produc
tions; providing a stringent system of
procedure in trials that vs ill secure
the prompt conviction, and imposing
Such penalties asphalt secure the most
perfect compliance with the law.
3. We condemn the silver bill
recently passed by Congress and de¬
mand in lieu thereof the free and un¬
limited coinage of silver.
4. We demand the passage of la a b
prohibiting the alien ownership of land
and that congress take prompt action
to devise some plan to obtain all land
now owned by aliens and foreign
syndicates; and that all lands now
held by railroads be reclaimed by the
governnent, and held for actual set
t ers only
5. Believing in the doctring of
equal rights to all and special priv¬
ileges to none, we demand—
( a) That our national legislation
shall be so framed in the future as
not to build up one industry at the
expense of another.
( B) We further demand a re¬
moval of the existing heavy tariff tax
from the necessities of life, that the
poor of our laud must have.
(C) We further demand a just
and equitable system of graduated
tax on incomes.
(d) We believe that the money
of the country should be kept as much
as possible in the hands of the people
aud hence we demand that all national
and State revenues shall be limited to
the necessary expenses of the Govern¬
ment economically and honestly
administered.
( 6 ) We demand the most rigid,
honest and just State and national
government control and supervision
of the means of public communication
and transportation, and if this control
and supei vision does not remove the
abuse now existing, we demand the
government ownership of such means
of communication and transports ion.
7 ) We demand that the congress
of the United States submit an amend¬
ment for the Constitution providing
for the election of the United State
Senators by direct vote of the people
of each State.
The St. Louis, or Peoples
party Platiorm.
We demand a national cur¬
rency, safe, sound and flexible,
issued by the general govern¬
ment only, a full legal tender
for all debts, public and private
and that without the use of
banking corporation a just,
equitable and efficient means of
distribution direct to the people
shall be established, at a tax not
to exceed 2 per cent., as set
forth in the sub-treasury plan
of the Farmers’ Alliance, or
some better system. Also by
payments in discharge of its ob¬
ligation for public improvement.
We demand free and unlimit¬
ed coinage of silver..
We demand that the amount
of circulating medium be speedi¬
ly increased to not less than
$50 per capita.
We demand a graduated in¬
come-tax.
We believe that the money
of the country should be kept
as much as possible in the
hands of the people, and hence
we demand that all National
and State revenues shall be li¬
mited to the necessary expen¬
ses of the Government, econo¬
mically and honestly adminis¬
tered.
We demand that postal sav¬
ings bank be established by the
Government for the safe depos¬
it of the earning of the people
and to facilitate exchange.
TRANSPORTATION.
Transportation being a means
of exchange and a public neces¬
sity, the Government should
own and operate the rail¬
roads in the interest of the peo
pie.
The telegraph and telephone,
like the postoffice system, being
a necessity for the transmission
of news, should be owned and
operated by the Government in
the interest of the people.
LAND.
The land, including all tlu
natural sources of wealth, is
the heritage of all the people
and should not be monopolized
for speculative purposes, and
alien ownership of land should
be prohibited. All lands now
held by railroads or other cor¬
porations in excess of their act¬
ual needs, and all lands now
owned by aliens, should be re¬
claimed by the Government and
held for actual settlers only.
ADDIPIONAL RESOLUTIONS.
Resolved. That w<j hail this
conference as the consumation
of a perfect union of hearts and
hands of all sections of our com¬
mon country; the men who wore
the grey and the men who
wore the blue meet here to ex¬
tinguish the last smouldering
embers of civil war in the tears
of joy of a united and happy
people; and we agree to carry
the stars and strips forward and
forever to the highest point of
national greatness.
Resolved, we demand that
the Government issue legal ten¬
der notes and pay the Union
Soldiers the difference between
the price of the depreciated
money in which they were paid
and gold.
Communicated.
We are in favor of fairness
in everything. Some time since
our Commissioner of Agricul¬
ture, Mr. Nesbit, issued a letter,
or a statement in which he said
cotton had been raised at 3£
cents, at the same time stating
that it was raised upon land
that had been brought up to a
high state of cultivation. He
also gave the names of the par¬
ty who raised the cotton and he
also gave some reports from
different farmers who had rais¬
ed cotton even cheaper than
this. An effort is being made
to divert the facts to the injury
of Mr. Nesbitt. It is claimed by
his enemies that he says cotton
can be raised for 3| cents upon
any kind of common land and,
therefore, he is not fit for the
position Which he fills. This is
untrue and grossly wrong. Mr.
Nesbitt is a competent, honest
conscientious officer "and has
saved the tax payers of Georgia
thousands of dollars by the hon¬
est, fair and economical man¬
ner in which he has managed
his office. He does not advo¬
cate the raising of cotton under
the idea that it can be rais¬
ed at 3£ cents, but says, upon
the average farm, it costs from
7 to 10 cents. All that he asks
is a fair statement of the facts
and an honest verdict from the
people.—X.
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