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2 . JTHE DAILY PRESS. Entered at 'he Poet Office. Atlanta. Georfla. Julv 4, IBIU. aa aecouo cltie m.ll matter. PUBLISHED EVERY HAY EXCEPT SUNDAY AT NO. 8 SOUTH BROAD STREET. —Telephone .... - No. 554. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: Daily Edition, One Year F> 00 •• Sat Months 3 00 “ “ Three Months 1 50 The People’s Party Paper, One Year 1 00 invariably in advance. 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. (•eor*ia <onsre«»loB*l N via lure*. Ist.—Dr. J. F. Brown. 2nd W. E. Smith. 3rd.—G. W. White. 4th.—C. J. Thornton. sth.—Robert S. Tood. 6tb.—W. 8. Whitaker, "th.—Dr. W. H Felton. Bth.—W. Y. Carter. 9tb J. N. Twitty. 10th.—T. E. Watson. 11th.—S. W. Johnson. Send four annual subscribers to People’s Party Paper and get a year’s subscription free. ts. Watson’s Appointment*. Augusta (at night) November 2. Sparta, Monday, November 5. Now is the time to subscribe for The People s Party Paper, ts Hon. C. J. Thornton’s Appointments. Buena Vista, October 30. Giles Postoftice, November 1. Hamilton, November 3. The Railroad Question, dis cussed by Thos. E. Watson, now ready for delivery. Ten Cents per copy at The Daily Press office. Hon. W. S. Whitaker’s Appointments. Fayetteville, Saturday, Nov. 3. Speaking will begin at 10 o’clock when not otherwise specified. Dr. W. H. Felton’s Appointments. Tuesday, Oct. 30, Floyd Springs. Thursday, Nov. 1, Calhoun. Friday, Nov. 2, Dalton. Saturday, Nov. 3, Marietta. Monday, Nov. 5, Cartersville. Dr. E. O. Stafford’s Appointments’ Seventh District. Villanon, Walker county, Oct. 30. Wood Station, Catoosa county Oct. 31. Cohutta, Whitfield county, Nov. 1. Gordon, Whitfield county, Nov 2. Liberty, Gordon county, Nov. 3. Hopewell, Gordon county, Nov. 5. Ball Ground, Murry county (at night), Nov. 5. Appointments made for 10:30 a.m. Hon. W. E. Smith’s Appointments. Camilla, Friday, November 2. Thomasville, Saturday,November 3 I will be glad to divide time with Hon. Ben E. Russell at any or all of these appointments. None other need apply. W. E. Smith. Judge Hines’ Appointments. Dalton, October 31. Spring Place, November 1. 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We give Personal Attention to all business. DAVISON & FARGO, . Cotton Factors, • Augusta, Ga. >1 HIGHEST PRICES. 1 I BEST WEIGHTS. J* I QUICK SALES. I PROMPT RETURNS. ’ I Liberal Advances on Cotton in Store. I MODERATE CHARGES, j