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ATLANTA. GA.. OCTOBER 29. 1894.
Where the Producer Stands.
The democratic party is ruining the
producing class.
For ‘ls years the democratic party
has been aiding to decrease the amount
of money in circulation, per canila.
They tirst had nearly all the paper
money burned.
In 1870, one bale of cotton brought
>l3O.
In 1873, the aupply of silver money
vras cut off by the old parties.
Cotton started down.
In 1879, the government began to
make a small amount of silver money
each month. * *
But the supply of money did not
meet the necessities of the people.
And in 1880, it took two bales of cot
ton to bring 8120.
No remedy was applied. And in 1890,
nearly three bales of cotton were re
quired to bring 8120.
The same people continued to con
tract the currency.
Mr. Cleveland, the great democratic
leader, was made president in 1898.
From that time until now, the demo
cratic party has had entire control of
the government.
* During the summer of 2898, that
party passed a law which provided that
not another dollar of silver should be
added to the money in circulation.
In 1894, the farmer has to take nearly
five bales of cotton to town in order to
get 8120.
This is what democratic rule is doing
for the southern farmer.
If continued in power, where would
that party lead the producer.
Democratic Statesmanship.
Some idea of what the democrats
have done, and what they would do if
continued in control of the govern
ment. may be gathered from the meas
ures which they have passed, and those
which they have introduced and urged
by their representatives in congress.
We give below a list of some of the
bills which democrats have introduced,
some of which have passed. We give a
reasonable estimate of the amount of
money which would be required to
1 carry out the provisions of each:
Tariff on sugar . . . $ 50,000,000
> Democratic statesman
ship by cutting off the
supply of silver money;
by throwing the coun
try onto the gold
standard, and by giv
ing full swing to the
exchange gamblers;
reduced wheat from 85
cents per bushel to 45
cents; and reduced ,
cotton trom 10 cents
to 5. Thus they have
in one year robbed the
South of . . , 1 200,000,000
And the west of . . , 380,000,000
To the national debt
they have added . . 50,000,000
In the national expen
ses they have gone be
yond the limit of . . 1,000,000,000
They introduced a bill
to give the Nicarauguu
Canal thieves . . . 100,000,000
To lend for 100 years at
f 2 j>6t cent interest to '
IMm the Pacific Railroad
thieves . . 184,000,000
To give to the Dakota
Laud Syndicate, for
the purpose of getting
rid of the Russian this
tle , 1,000,000
To lend money on land,
railroad stock, wheat,
oil, peanuts, dried i .
fruit, etc., us per bill
introduced by Senator
John M. Palmer, demo
crat .... 38.000,000.000
Similar bill introduced in
the house by L. F. Liv
ingston, of Georgia, to
lend S4O per capi ta to
all the cities, towns,
state». eta each year, 28,000.000,000
•'Pantocracy" bill, intro-
duced into the house
by Miller (dem.), of
Wisconsin, providing
that the government
should own all the ho
tels, wash houses;
newspapers, railroads,
gas companies, and any
other little odds and
ends that might be
left lying around. . . 27,000,000.000
Private bills introduced
by other democrats in
fifty-second and fifty
third congresses, about 6,000,000.000
Total $1)0,285,000,000
These estimates do not include any
duplication nor any items of expeudi
uire proposed in the bills named, nor
W they include salaries of the thou
sands upon thousands of officers to be
appointed under their provisions. As
the total estimated money of the world,
including paper, gold, silver, copper,
brass and iron tokens does not exceed
>10,100,000,000, it appears that the
amount of money called for by the
bills named is over ten times th'e vol
ume of the currency of the World.
What our paper would be worth under
such circumstances any one of ordinary
intelligence knows.
Livingston's Record.
He was with the republicans when
the south was in the throes of the
reconstruction.
He was au independent against or
ganised democracy.
He was with Mrs. Lease. Jerry
Simpson and General Weaver when j
they came to Georgia to organize the
third party.
He fought the soldiers’ home.
He was the leader of Gideon's ;
baud, which was organized to defeat 1
the democratic party.
He was at the St. Louis conven
tion which declared for independent
political action.
He has proven himself a hydra- ,
headed hybrid politician who has
done anything and will do anything
to get public oflice.
This record has been proven.
You will be called upon to cast
yonr vote tomorrow. Can you sup- ,
port such a man ?—Atlanta Journal, !
Joly, 1894.
Sketches of Roman History, by Hou. j
Tiios. E. Watson, sold at this oflice j
THE DAILY PRESS, ATLANTA, GEORGIA. MONDAY EVENING. OCTOBER 29, 1894.
EDITORIAL MOTES.
Gov. Atkinson’s inaugural cere-
I monies bad all the frills ai.d floun
ces, furbelows and embroideries,
which stage management could in
vent. He modestly arrayed the At
kinson family on the front bench,
and then paused till “My girls’’
■ from the Normal School, to the
number of 200 could distribute them
selves throughout the legislative
Hall. Then be delivered a speech
which came as near saying some
thing that meant anything at his sil
ver speeches did during the late
campaign.
After the address, came the taking
of the oath and the kissing of the
Bible. Then the Great Seal of the
State had to be handed by the Sec
retary of State to Governor Northen,
then by Northen to Atkinson, then
by Atkinson to the Secretary of
Stat 2. At each pause in the prog,
ress of this interesting piece of time
honored humbug and child’s play,
“appropriate remarks” were made
by the high functionaries engaged.
Had not this solemn farce about
the “Great Seal” been acted accord
ing to custom and tradition, Atkin,
son’s whole administration would
probably be unconstitutional, null
and void. Having safely transferred
the seal from the Secretary to Nor
then, from Northen to Atkinson, and
from Atkinson back to the Secretary,
everybody felt that tbe crisis was
past, the worst over, and that the
Country could breathe easier.
Then, and not till then, Atkinson
was Governor, and Northen a com
mon man—and a very common one
at that.
• • e
Mr. Cleveland is constantly at
tended by three detectives who guard
his person from harm.
It is difficult to imagine Jefferson
or old Andrew Jackson showing dis.
trust and fear of the people in such
style as that.
Cleveland is evidently as great a
coward now as when he skulked from
duty during the War.
• • •
The democratic candidates for the
Senate in Georgia all opened bar.
rooms in Atlanta and whiskey drink
ing was a prominent part of the
campaign work.
Think of gentlemen like A. O.
Bacon, L, F. Garrard, H. G. Turner,
and Pat Walsh turning saloon keep
ers to get votes; and hiring servants
to dish out fine wine, brandies and
whiskies to the politicians and the
members of the legislature,
How can we wonder 'hat poor
ignorant negro voters should be ac
cessible to the influence of whiskey
in elections. When we see our mos l
eminent statesmen resorting to the
same means in dealing with the
chosen white representatives of the
people?
It is a disgrace to the state that
men like Bacon, Turner, Garrard
and Walsh cannot make a race for
the United States Senate without
the aid of the special bar-room g
which they have opened in the Kim
ball House.
• • •
Attorney General Olney has cauied
the resignation of a district attorney
named Bede because he took an ao.
tive part in politics this year.
Were it not for the fact that the
speeches of Joe James and Hoke
Smith did us so much good durring
the recent campaign g in Georgia, we
would call upon Mr. Olney to bounce
these two distingushed gentlemen
also.
We regard them, however, as hav
ing been sufficiently punished by the
less of Douglass County, and of 50,-
000 votes in various other counties,
and will not press the case.
We are not revengeful.
• • •
Mr. Herbert, Secretary of the
Navy, says he will want >31,000,000
next year, for his Department.
This is a heavy increase over the
“extravagance” of the republicans.
The “rigid economy” of a Cleve
land democrat seems to have a rav
enous appetite for empty cash boxes
hatching deficits, spawning bonds,
and bringing off new broods of
taxes.
• • •
Gen. Schofield wants the army in
creaeed and concentrated near onr
large cities.
• • •
Our bosses seem to fear that the
people will not always slave and
starve under vicious class legisla
tion, and die, like poisoned rats, in
peace and quiet.
Be easy, “My Lords.”
The people are growing so poor
that resistance to tyranny will be
come impossible.
Just scare tbe democrats with the
dreadful republicans, and frighten
the republicans with the dreadful |
democrats, or paralyze them both by
, crying, tbe “Populists are coming”'
i —and they will cheerfully hunger
1 on fonr cent cotton and thirty cents
! wheat, and die of want in the midst
' of plenty, happy in the belief that)
had they not voted against the Peo
ple’s Party, something unpleasant
might have happened.
• • *
The Atlanta Journal editorially
condemns the Slate-making which
prevails in the contests over Judge
ships and Solicitorships, and says
that the present system of electing
J udges and Solicitors by the legisla
ture is unsatisfactory and demoraliz
ing.
So say the Populists.
We put it in our platform that
these officers, and all others, should
be elected by the people.
We are glad to note the growth of
populist ideas.
• * •
Governor Stone has issued a cir
cular invitation to the governors of
cotton and grain growing states, call,
ing for concerted action to put down
gambling in futures. .
We hope the Georgia Congress
men who voted against the anti-op
tion plank of the Georgia platform
of 1892, will also be invited. They
need re-generation upon that sub
ject.
« • « i
The Atlanta Constitution is still
supporting the democratic Congress
men who voted to repeal the Sher
man law, and who thus cut off our
sunply of money and brought us
down to five cents cotton.
Free Siltensm which supports
Contractionists is very much like the
“rigid economy” which spends all
the money.
Watch Out For Repeaters.
We have it on good authority
that tho democratic campaign mana
gers intend to resort to repeating by
the wholesale in the November elec
tion.
Heretofore this practice has been
confined to the large cities; nowit
>s to invade and debauch the country.
Be on yonr guard, Populists.
Watch the voters in each preoint.
If you see any suspicious wagon loads
of voters driving off in the direction
of the next precinct, put some of
your best men on horses and let them
follow. See to it that these voters
do not vote a second time.
In well known populist Counties
special watchfulness is necessary.
The democrats intend to take
squads of their voters and multiply
them by having them vote at each
precinct.
For instance in a county like
Columbia they mean to take a lot of
twenty-five voters and by running
them in wagons from poll to poll
make those twenty-five votes coqnt
up one hundred.
The purpose is two-fold. First,
to reduce our majority.
Second, to give an appearance of
fraud to returns from populist coun
ties. They are desperately anxious
to get something on us that will be
a set-off to the self-evident frauds in
Augusta, and other cities. Hence
as we will not stuff the ballot boxes
our selves they mean to do it for us.
Watch this game and stop it.
You can do it by keeping your eyes
open and by following the wagons
which will be run from precinct to
precinct.
In populist counties it is in our
power to keep a democrat from vot
ing more than once, and we must do
it.
We will not violate the law our
selves, and we will not allow the
democrats to do it.
Taking; Their Own Medicine.
Such a howl as is going up from
many quarters of the state has prob
ably never before been heard.
Tne trouble is the democrats are
taking a dose of their own medicine*
It’s bitter and vile, but they have
to take it.
Some yelp, squall, hollow, yell and
kick, but it’s no use. The medicine
must be swallowed, and down it
goes, and soon all is forgotten.
No set of men on the globe can so
easily accommodate themselves to
circumstances as the average demo,
crat.
Within the past few days, their
capacity to swallow any and all sorts of
medicine, has been sorely tested, and
while some have had to hold their
noses, and others made several at
tempts before the swallowing process
could be accomplished, yet, as a rule,
it has gone down.
Since the day the legislature met,
democratic papers all over the state
have been reading the several mem
bers of that august body, daily moral
lecturesjabout judicial and solicitoria!
combines and trades.
Every paper had its favorite, and
j each wanted bis man elected, and
i was in mortal fear less a combine
would be made against his man.
The “ring” business works to snit
, tbe average democrat when its be
; heats are favorable to him. Other
wise he does not like it.
For years past, it has been gener
' ally understood that a “ring” existed
in Georgia, and that it had for its
purpose only one thing—to control
every office in the state, so as to deal
jt out to one of the members of the
'Ting.”
Last week, the democratic caucus
met, and to those who understood
all the surrounding circumstances)
its action was no surprise.
The “ring” triumphed in every in
stance, the caucus nominating the
ring candidates in every instance.
It seems an honest democrat, one
above buying and selling votes, and
above “slate-making” need not offe r
for office.
Again Georgia justice is to be
meted out for two years by a judici
ary elected by one of the most cor.
rapt political organizations ever
known in America.
Buying and selling votes has gone
on openly and above board.
This is true to the extent that
democrats admit it; democratic pa
pers admit it; not one denies it.
When the “ring” was first formed
a little political pie was dished out
very nearly all round, and hence
no one raised any serious objection.
But now, the bosses, enjoying the
fruits of their combine, have grown
a little more anxious, and want every
thing in sight.
Men and papers saw fit to advise
before the democratic nomination)
thus making a faint pretense of ob
jection.
The caucus was held, the nomina
tions made, and the people were not
“in it.”
The ring won.
Did democrats raise their voices in
condemnation ?
Publicly, only a very few.
Privately, many.
Some of the maddest politicians
who ever lived in Georgia were
found in Atlanta immediately after
the caucus.
But what did they ?
Raise their voices publicly against
the practice of bartering and selling
offices in Georgia ?
No; not much of it.
Some few have said publicly that
it was all an outrage on the name of
the state, thought the matter over,
and finally concluded to submit, and
let the “ring” rule.
The trading just prior to the demo
cratic nomination for judges and
solicitors, has never before been
equaled in Georgia, bad as it has
been heretofore.
It was not done privately. Every
one knew that the work of buying
and selling votes in blocks of five>
ten and even twenty, was going.
A man with ten votes under hi g
control, could sell them a number of
times, and thus secure his own nomi
nation.
And it was done.
The buying and selling of last
week will play an important part in
tbe selection |of a democratic can
didate for the United States.
Shame upon the state of Georgia
when such practices are openly in.
dulged in, and not denounced by
every honest man.
The indignation of the people of
the state should express itself in
such a manner as cannot be misun
derstood.
It is not a party matter.
It should rise above that level.
Every honest man in the state
should express the indignation which
he must feel.
What Livingston Said.
Rome, Ga., July 13, 1894.
To the Editor of the Journal:
I see from the papers that Colonel
Livingston denies that he came
through North Georgia making
speeches in the interest of the peo
ple’s party, in company with Hon.
Jerry Simpson (Soekless Jerry) and
General Weaver. The writer of this
heard the speech of all the above
named gentleman at the fair grounds
at Rome, Ga., and remembers dis
tinctly hearing Livingston compare
tbe democratic party to “an old sow
at tbe swill trough.”
He said, “after she had filled her
old paunch with all it would hold,
she would lay down in the trough to
prevent the smaller hogs from drink
ing.” He said the spoils were what
the democratic leaders were after
and they didn’t oare for the farmer
after they had his vote. I was at
the time a member of the alliance,
and heard him as an allianceman.
As soon is the alliance drifted into
p'olilics and the third party I with
drew. 1 have never voted any other
than the democratic ticket, and write
this in the interest of fair dealing
and an honest showing.
H. B. Pop*.
There are thousands of other good
and truthful Georgians who will give
testimony like the above.
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