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The Chicago convention was made up strictly of the plug hat crowd. Crips says Cleveland is a good can didate. We expected Mr. Crips to say just that thing. The railroads will give us one fare to our State convention of the 20th of July. There should be a large crowd. Col. Livingston says that Cleveland’s nomination was a mistake on account of his views on the financial ques tion. What will South Carolina do in the premises? Cleveland and Stephenson the Wall street candidates were nom inated at Chicago. There is but one solution to the tariff and that is income tax. With this you need no tariff and the great question is solved. The convention at Omaha promises to be of immense proportions. It is estimated that there will be from forty to fifty thousand people in the city from every quarter of the United States. The Chicago convention did not rep resent any wealth producers. They represented only that element that grows rich on the wealth but produce nothing. We offer no excuse this week for the amount of space taken up by the different platforms. The people are interested in them. Cleveland and Stephenson. Harri son and Reid all belong to the same gang and it makes no difference which two pair are elected its all the same to Wall Street, If you believe that The Southern Alliance Farmer placed In the hands of half a dozen or a dozen of your neighbors will do good, and help along the work, get thefn to subscribe from now till the election. Farmers arc going to have their let ters deliverhd to them free. It is not going to cost old Shylock so much time and trouble to “dun” his farmer friends. See? We arc advised by a negative refor mer to use “cool logic” to convert our political enemies, the “gold bugs” and monopolists. Yesl That is all right in theory, but in practice you want to emphasize with a club. They never “convert” while alive. Neither convention of the two old parlies said one word abput financial reform. The cry of the laboring—peo ple was not heard—it was only the voice of Wall street speaking through the politicians. It is given out-officially that Cleve land’s plank on the tariff was one of straddle and as strong for protection as the republican tariff plauk. This plank was not adopted, but it was reported by the comwittee and received nearly half the votes of the convention. The Two Platforms. If it were not a serious thing as evi dencing the decoy of the spirit of true democracy, the verboseness and semi tarily of the two platforms the one adopted at Minneapolis and the other at Chicago, would be fit subject for laughter. No great political party, having at heart the well being of the people, and struggling to establish or defend a principle ever found it necessary to drown the meaning of its utterances in words. The declaration of Independence published to the world a hundred years ago by• our forefathers, and which gave birth to a nation of free men is of less length than the democratic or republi can platforms. Drafted by men in whose bosoms the love of liberty and justice sat en throned, and whose hearts throbbed with a love of country and a detesta tion of tyrants, the declaration of In dependence has put the power to thrill the hearts of men and inspire them with nobler ambitions. When the hands that signed it have long since crumbled into dust. But who is inspired to noble thoughts by the reading of the democratic and republican platforms. Who will honor the memory of the men who wrote them a century hence? Looking forward a hundred years and imagining the race to have even held its present civilization, who would wish the men of that day to recognize In him the drafter or signer of the democratic or republican platform of 1892? Is there a man living that believes the people of the next century will honor these men for the declarations set forth in those platforms? Is there a man living, who, in his sober moments, would care to have his name read bo posterity attached to one of those documents? Per contra, is there aman living who believes that the generations to come will fail honoring the men whose names are attached to the declaration of rights put forth by the united indus trial organizations at St. Louis, Feb ruary, last? Filled like the patriot of 1776, with a hatred of tyjauy and of tyrants, their uiteranccs find a response in the hearts of the people, and like the utterances of the patriot fathers will go ringing down the centuries,while the platforms of the plutocratic party is like the utter ances of the Tories of the revolution ary days will be like themselves, for gotten, or remembered only to be' scorned. Some one has said that language was invented to conceal thought. Evidently the democratic or republi can politicians have so used it in the drafting of their platforms. Take some rainy afternoon to read them and see if you do not agree with us. Read separately and apart from each other. They are as nearly without meaning as it is possible to conceive the same number of words and sen tences to be. Courting the favor of every class, condition and nationality of citizens, they drown every promise of justice to any in an ocean of words until their promises become meaningless. It is only when the two platforms are compared that their meaning be comes clear and the intentions of those who dictated them become obvious. Remembering that the two parties— democrat and republican together have power to enact any and all laws in this nation, let us compare their declara tions of intentions. The republican platform starts out with a declaration in favor of a policy of pretection, and proceeds to argue the case at length in favor of a pro tective tariff, but ends with a eulogy of Benins policy of reciprocity, which virtual free trade—is free trade so far as it is carried out. The democratic plank touching the same subject as written by Cleveland, and adopted by the committee on plat form, began with a defense of free trade and ended up with a promise to continue the protective tariff, and was only ckanged to a more pronounced declaration in favor of tariff reform by a vote in the convention which liked nearly four hundred of being unani mous. Upon the vital issue of the currency, the main plank of the two platforms might be transfered, each to the other platform, and no man would be able to say that the position of either party had changed upon this question, while both are plainly and openly in the in terest of the money power and prove conclusively that the two are but dif ferent wings of the one great army of plutocracy. Both declare in favor of civil service reform, something that neither party has honestly attempted to enforce. Having power to pass whatever stat utes they chose, yet doing nothing, THE SOUTHERN ALLIANCE FARMER, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 1892 both declare for laws restricting pauper and criminal legislation, for greater en couragement of popular education; of the control of corporations; of the bet ter protection of our citizens in their homestead rights upon the public land, make equally land and equally indefi nite assertions regarding the control of monopolies, put the ex-Union soldier on the same shoulder, are in favor of the same appropriations for the navy, both endorse the Nicarauquan canal scheme, both favor further appropria tions to the World’s Fair, both make the same hid for the Irish, Jewish and Palock vote, are agreed in accusing each other with incompetency, dishon esty and treachery towards the people, and being agreed on all things, even agree that in order to keep the people apart and themselyes in office as the servants of the money power, that the one shall advocate and the other op pose an offensive election law which to make doubly offensive shall be call ed a force bill. Our faith in the intelligence of the people and in a power which is over all, enables us still to believe in the perpetuity of our free institutions and in a better time coming when the wretched characters if statesmen and patriots who thus insult the people shall have been dethroned and scorned as they deserve, but that the leaders of great political parties could dare to so insult an oppressed and suffering peo ple is sufficient to convince every un prejudiced mind that none too soon have the people awakened, arid none too soon begun the work of organizing a party of the people which shall wrest the reigns of government from the hands of men who thus proclaim their subserviance of the money power. He who does not now throw off the collar of old parties and allign himself with the people against these two old plutrocratic parties is unworthy to be free. “We’ll Whip Them Back.” “Whip them back.” It cut like a two edged sword, the very words. They demonstrate just the feeling of the “upper ten” as they are want to call themselves. While on an outgoing train a few evenings since the question of Cleve land’s nomination was being discussed by three distinguished gentlemen, They all seemed well pleased with the nomination, but one spoke up and said he “feared that Cleveland would lose several southern states, that the farmers of South Carolina and North Carolina and others did not like Cleve land and he apprehended they might bolt the party.” “Oh, that don’t amount to any thing,” spoke up the other, “we’ll whip them back into ranks, whip ’em back.” This seemed to meet the perfect approval of both the other parties and all was safe. The words were spoken by an officer of the supreme court of Georgia and he emphasized them with the author ity of a czar. This has been the plan of the bosses for twenty-five years and it has worked successfully, but the day is past for “whipping them back” like slaves. It is true the bosses 'have not realized it yet, but they will on the first election day. Do these plutocratic office holders, who are living fat on the taxes of the people, think that the farmers of Georgia are a set of cowards who bare their backs to the party lash and be driven back into the service of the bosses? This is their opinion when expressed honestly, and yet so long as the labor ing people “will vote her straight” to keep them in fat positions they are all right, but the minute the farmers break over the traces “they must be driven back” like cattle. Men who receive large salaries do not realize any necessity for reform, but the poor devils who dig all day in the heat to make a little produce to pay these -salaries are the ones who suffer and seek relief. These are the ones who are to be “whipped back” into the service of the bosses by the party lash in the hands of these high salaried officers—these men who ought to be the servants of the people who pay them, but who are in fact the peoples bosses to “whip them.” God knows it is time tile people were waking up. It is time that they were opening their eyes to the situation and standing up for their rights. When liberty is lost and people are but slaves to be “whipped” at will by the bosses the republic is near at end. Southern wealth producers, Geor gians, rise in your might and man hood and hurl you salaried bosses from power. Prove yourselves free men and save the republic from the hands of plutocracy and ruin. The Platforms. We publish this week the republican platform, the democratic platform and the People’s Party plat form. There is little difference be tween the two former, in fact none ex cept on tariff and force bill. The dem ocrats demand a reform \of the tariff but find themselves in poor shape to do it. The present tariff seems hardly sufficient to meet their extravagant and profligate expenditure. This necessa rily renders this part of the platform a vote catching plank only. Then the democrats tear their hair about the force bill, while the people look on in astonishment. A few years ago such frantic yells from the party bosses would have driven every man inclined to break over the traces back into the party ranks, but not so now. The people have become more enlightened and no such use will change their pur pose. In all other points the democratic and republican platforms are essential ly the same. On the great financial question, which is the question of all others, both parties are as silent as the tomb. On silver they are the same, both seeking to deceive an honest downtrodden people. Nothing could suit the WaR street gang better. With Harrison and Cleveland it makes no difference with the money power which wins. It is with them, “Heads we win tails you lose.” Both platforms are a conglomeration of meaningless bosh, thrown together in such away as to deceive the public. Read all the platforms closely and then lay all prejudice aside and you will have no difficulty in reaching a conclusion as to which one fills the bill. Vote for that one that is honest, bold and outspoken for the reforms which the country needs. Beware of the two-faced and deceptive instruments made solely for the purpose of deceiv ing the people. Vote for principle and not party. We desire to call especial attention to the following dispatch signed “E. W. B.” dated Washington, D. C., June 26th, to the Atlanta Comstitu tion, and want the People’s Party to read and and consider it carefully and< if they like tell us what they think of it. We will tell you what we think of it now. E. W. B. is speaker Crisp secretary at a large salary, which is all right as some one has to get the money and no doubt his services are valuable, for he has shown an exceeding apti tude for some time to always have a congressman or some man of equal value ready to tell what the situation is. Now that his hopes and friends, Speaker Crisp, Senator Colquitt <nd Congressman Everett and others have been left out entirely in the cool by Cleveland and his mugwump crowd* they seem to have a little time to con fer and consider the interest of the common people enough to have the special correspondent of a leading daily to tell that a leader is wanted for the People’s Party and that a southern Congressman has found it out. Who told him so is the question? Now to relieve the whole body of southern Congressmen who are not square on the demands of the People’s Party, we feel safe in saying there is no danger of “lightning striking any of you” for with a clear majority of 148 democrats in the house you had neither the votes or the speaker the courage to stand up for the people, clearly. Southern democrats, none of youare leaders or even posess thecour ageof your convictions. Tell E. W. B. to write about “Force Bill” he is a great leader for the gold bugs. As to the People’s Party, every man is a leader and voter. THE DESPATCH. “Washington, June 26.—A south ern congressman in a position to view the situation intelligently has prepar ed this statement. It is interesting. He says: Now that the great conventions of the two great parties are over,immense interest is concentrating around the headquarters of the Third Party in this city. It is well known that the leaders of that party are not satisfied with either of the platforms. This is not surprising, as nobody ex pected they would be, but as neither of the great parties came out for full free coinage under the present ratio of coinage between gold and silver the Third Party leaders express the hope that their party will take on a great boom. Macune’s paper, the organ of the Farmer’s Alliance, has heretofore maintained a position that would ena ble it to go with either the old or with the new party; but judging from the declarations of Macune it will flop to the new party in its next issue. SEAKING FOR A LEADER. There is no doubt that there is great activity among the leaders of the Third Party uow. Above all things they are seeking for a leader for president who has not been depreciated by connec tion with the flat money craze, or the greenback era, or the wild vagaries of the extreme Third Party people. Weaver is discounted by his oscilla tions in the past. He has espoused every party in existence today, and was the leader of two that are dead. He has been in congress and the record shows how extreme on all questions he has been. He was the author of the so-called twelfth plank in the People’s Party platform. Davis, of Texas, it is understood here, endeav ored to take it away from him by offer ingl it at Cincinnati, but the fact is, that Weaver introduced a bill in con on the 11th day of January, 1886, to pay the soldiers the difference between the money they received and gold. He is also in favor of a snb-treasury bill and the judgment of the best men in the Third Party is averse to making that a plank in the platform. JUDGE GRESHAM SOLICITED. A committee within the last few days has waited upon Judge .Gresham, of Indiana, with a view to getting him to consent to make the race. He insisted that he was too poor to make the cam paign. He talked, however, and led the committee to believe that he might he induced to run if the con vention at Omaha will purge the plat form _of the vagaries of sub-treasury and railroad ownership which he be lieves are impracticable and absolutely indefensible. Some of the committee have return ed here and they believe that the platform will be reformed at Omaha and that Gresham will lead the hosts' at the coming election. He is a strong man and wonderfully popular. The only drawback in the move ment is in the indisposition of the Third Party people to change their platform again. Promulgated first at St. Lovis, it was materially altered at Ocala. Then again the Ocala plat form was changed at Cincinnati in some particulars. Then again the Cincinnati work was changed. Again, at St. Louis, the second time, and now to be called upon by the great men of their party to eliminate the said vagaries from their platforms, breaks the hopes of the average granger to borrow money at 2 per cent or pawn his truck with the government for 20 per cent of its vatue. It is now reasonably certain, how ever, that no one fit for the office of president can be induced to accept the candidacy unless the convention at Omaha will reform the platform and omit from it the wild and visionary scheme of government ownership of railroads, sub-treasury and the pay ment to soldiers of the late war the difference between the money they re ceived and gold. E. W. B. Mr. Livingston how do you feel now, is your organ authority. The Chicago Times says: “There might have been a break in the solid ity of the south were it not for this menace of the force bilß by Harrison and the republican party. Blaine opposed this measure, but Harrison, not Blaine, is the republican candidate. The demand in this country is for peace and prosperity that shall come of free intercourse between the people. The merchants of every ciiy of the north—New York probably, more than any other city, Chicago to the extent with which it has southern trade—are vitally interested in the prevention of the monstrous programme indicated by that bitter partisan and opponent of the south, Benjamin Harrison.” The above explains it. Illinois and New York went for Harrison in last election. Gray could not agree to de liver Indiana to Cleveland because Har rison is King in that state. New York must have an excuse to divide and always throws its vote to the party that will insure most protec tion to money power. Stevenson’s nomination was purely of local character. It is this. The great World’s Fair, Chicago is the place, money must be appropriated and distinguished guests looked after and entertained from taxes collected from the poor people. With 148 democratic majority in the house and most of them new men it will be hard to get them to vote away the peoples money unless they are assured by the bosses that they will be returned. Now just let a Georgia con gressman come home and tell his con stituents that there is but one issue before the people, World’s Fair and a ten million appropriation, and Mr. “Force Bill” is the only way to save the country and he will be received with open arms for defeat. Powderly declares that he will not be a candidate for President, vice President or for any other position but adds: “The principles of the People’s Party are right; they are the only ones that stand the masses. I will vote for them this year, next year and every other year until they become success ful.” Peek in Hart. Hartwell, Ga., June 26th, 1882. Editor Southern Alliance Farmer: This has been a grand day for the cause of the people. We had a grand speech from Hon. W. L. Peek of Rockdale and he presented the cause of the people in a clear and concise manner. His time was limited but although I have read of the grand speeches he has made in other portions of the state, -we think he was at his best Saturday. One of our substantial farmers said “Peek is a good man but he could not talk as he does if he did not have the cause of right and justice on his side.” Col. Peek received a regular ovation after his speech. • Our audience was not as large as we/ hoped for because our farmers are be-/ hind in their work and in the midst o/ their oat harvest. There was not ova four hundred present and a good mat of them were town people, but wh< Col. Peek asked all who favored tl People’s Party to hold up their han over three fourths of the audien done so. Col. Peek is a farmer and a man the people. I would not write this I am with him in the fight but I kn< the dailies from Atlanta will repc small crowd, no enthusiasm and Pe pie’s Party dead, hence I say Ha county will vote a majority for tl People’s Party. I will send full report for next weed paper. W. P. « Mr. Garrard seems to have gotten i his pet scheme at Chicago, the repei of ten per cent tax on state bank iss ues. This section has already provei a source of great weakness in the stat, campaign and no doubt it will prov more fatal -in the national platform However, Mr. Garrard seems deter mined to push his solution of the plat form, “getting rich on the interest o what you owe.” The trouble with th, solution is the farmers would have ti pay the interest and the class whicl does not produce any wealth woul< reap the benefits. Why could not the republican com mittee on resolutions have told whai they ment concerning the silver ques! tion? It is easy to say: We are not in fa. vor of free and unlimited coinage of silver. 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