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2 NO TICKETS PUT OUT Georgia Republicans Neither Fuse Nor go it Single-Handed. THE STATE CONVENTION IN ATLANTA. Proposition to Support the Populists Failed to Past, as Did Also the One to Nom inate State Officers—Warned to Avoid Democrats. Atlanta, August 30. —The Georgia state republican convention was called to order at twenty minutes past 13 o’clock yesterday by J. 11. Johnson, of Savannah, the negro secretary of the executive committee. About eight hundred delegates were present. It. L. Johnson, a negro lawyer was elected temporary chairman. lie was opposed in this and the mo tion was declared out of order. Colonel R. 1). Locke, of Macon, was called upon to make a speech, lie responded, and for a quarter of an hour preached re publicanism to the convention. His re marks were in favor of a fusion of the republicans with the popttlists. Other speeches followed. Permanent Organization. Permanent organization was not effected until late in the afternoon. A tight was soon sprung over a state ticket. One faction wanted to endorse the populist ticket, a second faction in sisted on putting out a straight repub lican ticket, and a third element fa vored letting members of the party do as they pleased about voting for candidates. After many speeches and much confusion it was resolved not to put out a republican ticket. Then the proposition to endorse the populist can didates was defeated. Republicans, however, were put on notice that they must not enter democratic primaries or caucuses. The platform endorsed the Minneap olis platform of 181)3, declared for a liberal pension policy, a ' rotective tariff, an increase in the currency, the Nicarauguan canal, the Cotton States Exposition to beheld in Atlanta next year, and declared against lynching. The Financial Flank. The financial plank says: “We favor the coinage of all the available silver product of American mines.” After demanding that parity be maintained the plank goes on to say ; “We de nounce the democratic party for its hostility to silver after solemnly pledg ing to the country its purpose in favor of its coinage and whose leaders every where gave the people assurances friendly to this precious- metal whose use as money is as old as recorded history; and who, after such assuran ces and after many promises not intend ed to be kept, shamelessly violated every pledge and every promise given and at the same time the confidence of that portion of the people they ‘had deluded into the belief that they were sincere.” The convention adjourned at 11 o’clock last night. LAWYEffBROYLE’S threats. Valuable Property la Home Claimed by Cedartown Parties. Rome, Ga., August 80.—A suit was filed in the county clerk’s office yester day afternoon that involves over 8100,000 worth of the most valuable property in Rome. The suit was filed by the heirs of Jonas King, deceased, through their attorneys, Broyles & Broyles, of Atlan ta. The heirs are Mrs. Charley Jonas, wife of Judge James of Cedartown, and Mr. John King, of the same place. The suit is brought under the plea that James King held only a lifetime interest in the property, jind that it would re- | vert to the heirs at his death. The i property involved is the magnifieant home of Captain L. Lyle on the out skirts of the city, the Masonic temple and considerable other property in the heart of the city. It has created a gen uine sensation in Rome. TRAMPS AND ROBBERS COLLIDE Highwaymen in Indiana go Through a i Train Devastating all in Their Path. Larote, Ind., August 30 —Lake Shore local freight No. 55 westbound . was boarded by three highwaymen near Nudson Lake, this county, last night. They beat and robbed every man on the train before it reached the station. James Gardner and his brother from Bertrand, Michigan, -who were stealing a ride to Chicago were terribly beaten, the former being shot and both being pitched from the train. ‘ They were found by the roadside later and taken to New Charlilse. j Seven other tramps were beaten and 1 thrown from the train before it reached 1 this place where the robbers disem- . barked and disappeared. The Pythians Have Washington. Washington. August 80. —The visit ing Pythians had an inspection and re view yesterday afternoon on the White lot. Owing to the lateness of the hour, half the Pythians only, about 4,000 in number, took partuin the review. In i honor of the visiting Pythians, an j industrial parade was bold later on Pennsylvania avenue. Judging from j the great number of spectators, it proved the most attractive feature of the encampment. —Are the rights of man paramount to the rights of property? The people’s party says yes. The demo-republican . party says no, and all laws for thirty j years have ignored human rights.— Anderson (Ind.) People's Paper. I THE LIVING ISSUES, ATLANTA, GEORGIA; AUG. 30, 1894. (Follow tht Course of the Arrout.) " there IS MIGHTY L.ITTLE LEFT. The origin of wealth is in the soil. It is enhanced by labor. The producer gives up plenty and gets back a pit tance. The consumer pays dearly and receives a dole. Middlemen stand between and levy tribute.—Ram's Horn. OUR CARTOON. Speaking in general terms there are but two persons in ideal commercial life. They are the producer and the consumer. These two individuals, or classes, if you please, ought to reach each other without the intervention of middlemen and speculators who rob each of the reward of his toil. Our artist presents a lesson in political and moral economy which will not fade from the mind when the names of our money czars will be buried in oblivion. For the problem stated in our car toon we offer the following solution: Eliminate the middleman and para site from our commercial order and allow producer and consumer, as far as possible, to deal directly with each other. How? 1. By inaugurating industrial co-op eration whereby capital and labor will have mutual interest in failure and success. 3. Put railways and telegraphs under government control or absolute own ership. 3. Establish postal savings banks for deposits and loans. 4. Suppress gambling and begin at the stock exchange and boards of trade. Are we not right? —Ram’s Horn. INDUSTRIAL EQUALITY. All Monopolies Must Ise Administered by a Public Corporation, the People's Govern ment. Monopoly in private hands has proved injurious politically, industrial ly and ethicrJly. The essential fea ture of despotism everywhere is power without responsibility to the people, whether it be found in the bureaucracy of the sovereign, as in Russia, in the board of directors of the Standard oil, gas, water or railroad companies, uri controled by the public. Free compe tition in large undertakings has grown into the monopolistic trust, syndicate or combine. This evolutionary devel opment is logical, but it is also equally logical and in the proper order of things that the people alone should exercise exclusive control in all mat ters relating to the general interest in city, state or nation. Every private monopoly must be transformed into a public one. Then the curses which flow in such abun dance from private ownership will cease. The bitter waters of Marah will grow sweet. There is no middle course. The people must assume sov ereignty industrially as will as polit ically. With Lincoln’s emancipation proclamation political equality was es tablished throughout the land: indus trial equality, or equal opportunities for all, is yet to be secured. One can not long exist without the other. Such is the history of all past ages. There is no affinity between plutocracy and democracy. We must bring the repub lic into our industrial life. The peo ple must trust themselves. —Donahoe’s Magazine. POINTS FOR THE PEOPLE. —The national bank act is the most infamous, the meanest, the vilest law ever put upon the statute books of a civilized nation. —Road. —The land of every country is the common property of all the people of that country, because the Creator made it as a voluntary gift to them.—Bishop Nulty. —-In the coal fields of Pennsylvania there are, under present conditions— for the landlord, millions: for the min er, a fight for a bare subsistence. Are the “conditions” properly adjusted?— Ottawa Journal. —Labor applied to land produces wealth: wealth used to produce more wealth is capital. Then if labor has free access to land it will produce what capital it needs, and capitalists will be powerless to oppress laborers.—Single Tax Courier. —The man who denies that the value of money is its exchangeable relation to the commodities with which it is compared, is crazy nougli to say the only way to measure the value of a dollar is to compare it with itself.— uay Center Dispatch. —They are slaves who fear to -speak For the fallen and the weak: They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing and abuse, Father than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must think. They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three. —Jatncs Russell Lowell. —Every act on the part of plutocracy adds to the evidence that the lantl question is the main point. Landlord ism will make slaves of the American people as completely as it has of the tenants in Ireland, if the British sys tems are alio wtd to prevail.—Chicago Express. —The right to labor for his own sup port is a privilege that belongs to every man and yet there are some who are simple enough to think they are doing a great favor to the laboring man by giving him work, when the man who labors is really supporting them.—ln dependent. —Shall the public needs be supplied by public agencies as demanded by the people’s party or shall they be sup plied by private corporations as now provided by the republican and demo cratic parties? This covers the whole ground of American politics.—Com monwealth. —Any money -endowed with purchas ing and debt paying power by the gov ernment is honest money, and when made a full legal tender for all pur poses, has never gone below par, and never will, whatever the article may be on which the government fiat is stamped.—Chicago Express. —Land, labor and capital produce all wealth, yet in presence of vacant fields, surplus capital and idle men starvation and misery abound. Why?—Ottawa Journal. WHY WAGES GO DOWN. The Monopoly of Land and of Money Are ~ the Prime Factor* in the Production of Tramp*. The strenuous efforts of the repub lican press to persuade employers to reduce wages in order that the result ing distress of workingmen may be charged to democratic tariff reduction are likely to prove something like a boomerang. The crusade for poor wages begun by the Chicago Tribune months ago has been taken up by the republican newspapers one after another until now the whole pack is howling in unison to employers: “Re duce wages and show these people who vote for lower taxes that you can dis cipline them by forcing wages down.” As senseless clamor can start a bank ing panic so constant reiteration of this plea can produce and already lias pro duced its effect in a concerted effort of protected manufacturers to cut down the pay of their workmen. For this the people will not lie slow to put the responsibility where it belongs—on the partisan and conscienceless republican press. Wages, however, will go down to a great extent independently of this alarmist outcry and without relation to any tariff legislation. The twin is sues of the land and the currency are the prime regulators of the rate of wages. Wages have been high in the United States in tiie past because the vast area of unoccupied land suitable for farming purposes afforded refuge and employment for that, now super fluous, labor which crowds our cities and by eager bidding for work forces down pay. Wages will be lower in the Unitetl States, first, because this outlet for superabundant labor is closed, and, second, because the appreciation of gold has so greatly reduced prices. It is inevitable that the price of labor shall presently follow the downward course of the prices of the commodities it creates and the commodities it needs for its sustenance. The influence of the tariff on wages is at most trivial. Wage-workers of every class —clerks, salesmen, account ants, mechanics and laborers—inter ested in earning high wages will do well to ignore the clamor of partisan sheets and study intelligently the twin problems of monopoly of money and monopoly of land.—Chicago Times. The Venerafa Sunk, fhe‘Frew Saved. London, August 30.—The bark Ven erata (Norwegian) Captain Persen.from Savannah, July 35th, for London, was sunk on August 35th, by collision witli the British Steamer Norham Castle. The crew of Venerata were saved and have arrived at Madeira. Texas Repuiicans Adjourn. Dallas, Tex., August 30. —The re publican state convention adjourned last night. The platform re-affirms the national platform and condemns the state administration. HAIL TO WILSON, wliEF Delegate. Meet Him nl tlie Depot, ami Ite nomlnate Him by Acclamation. MARTINSBtJItG, W. Va. August 80.— The congressional convention for the second West Virginia district met here nt 10 o’clock yesterday to renominate William L. Wilson for congress. As it was so evident that the conven tion was unanimous for Wilson all the committees except that on resolutions were dispensed with. At every men tion of Wilson’s name the cheers were almost deafening. At II o’clock the convention took a recess until 3, nnd the delegates were instructed to assem ble at the B. & O. station at 1:30 to meet the Hon. W'. L. Wilson of the United States of America. Long before that hour, the station anil its approaches were packed by an enthusiastic throng. The train bearing the distinguished tariff reformer rolled into the station to the strains of “Hull to theUhlef ’ by numerous bands and amid the hoarse hurrah from a thousand throats he was borne to a carriage decorated with lings and a hundred willing hands drew him in triumph to the hull. Mr. Wil son was accompanied by Governor elect Oates, of Alabama, and Repre sentative Tracy of New York. At 3:30 the convention re-assembled and resolutions were reported and adopted endorsing the Chicago platform, espe cially the tariff plank therein; the ac tion of the house of representatives; of Grover Cleveland and of W. L. Wilson and accepting the tariff bill as passed in tlic same spirit as diil President Cleveland. In a short but brilliant speech John T. McGraw. of I*rcston county nominated Mr. Wilson and he was made the nominee by acclamation. THANKS TO THE ABETTERS. The Director* of I lie lointn stair* Kxftoul* tlim Grateful For Timely Aiii. Atlanta. August 80. -Resolutions of thanks to all who have assisted the Cotton States and International expo sition in securing the passage by con gress of the bill making an appropria tion fora government building and dis play were unanimously adopted yester day by the directors, with the request that they be given to the public. One of them reads: “In expressing the thanks of the di rectors of tin'Cotton states and Inter national exposition company for the . friendly help of all those through whose assistance the enterprise is iu depted for the success of its effort to have the government fitly represented as an exhibitor, we pledge the faithful application of the management of the exposition to the making of such a suc cess of the enterprise as will in every way comport with the dignity of the government’s participation." LOST HIS HEAD IN ANGER. Farmer Hums 111* Kntlro Fmlilrr Harvest Through Spit* l , Merely. Waycross, Ga., August 80.—News reached here yesterday from Berrien county that a farmer there set tire to his fodder yesterday. It seems that he was trying to stank his fodder before the rain come that afternoon, anti the fodder “bulged out” and fell from the pole. Three times in succession after he had a bout completed the stack, as many times he failed. The last at tempt vexed him. The rain had begun to fall in drops here and there and the fodder bulged for the third time, throw ing him down beside the foot of the pole. Wearied of the task, the man fired the fodder. The rain never came, but the fodder was burned. FIRE IN THE GRAND STAND. For the Hecoad Time In One Season the Chicago dull Lose* by liicrmtiarlrim. Chicago, August 30. — A1l but fifty feet of the grand stand of the Chicago baseball club, at Polk and Lincoln streets, was destroyed by tire shortly after 1 o’clock yesterday afternoon. The stand hail practically been re-con structed after the fire of several weeks ago which destroyed about half of the stand. Ail of the reconstructed part and some of the old structure went up in the flames yesterday afternoon. The origin of the fire is believed to be incendiary. The loss is estimated at 810,000. ' MASSACHUSETTS’ DEMOCRACY. Call for Stnto Convention to he Held in Ho*- ton in Ortober. Boston. August 80.- The democratic state central committee has Issued a call for the state convention to be held in Music hall, Boston, October Bth, at 11a.m.. U nder the new caucus act the committee designated September 30, and 31, as the dates for holding cau cuses for electing delegates to the state councillor and senatorial conventions. SLAVEN PUTS UP THE WAGER. The English Heavy Weight Challenge* the Winner in the Corlictt-Jackson Fight. London, August 80. —Paddy Slaven, the heavy-weight pugilist, deposited yesterday 1,000 pounds with Sporting Life in support of his challenge to Jackson and Corbett, or the winner of the fight between them. He wishes to light for 8,000 pounds a side and the largest purse offered in England or America. Kush on the Custom Houses. New York, August 30.— The rush at the custom house continued yesterday. Much more business was done than Tuesday, but it was conducted expe ditiously. All the work consisted of withdrawals from bond. It was said at night there had been nearly 3,000 with drawals. The receipts for the day ' were nearly 51.000.000.