The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1891-06-17
A GENERAL DISCUSSION
or the Topics of the Day BY Terrell
AlIianceman.

PLEASANT HILL, Terrell County Ga.
June 10, 1Sa1.-Editor NEWS: 1t is
raining to-day, and everybody is glad OF
it.
Pleasant Hill is school house, and
we have good school under the control
of Professor j. W. Edwards. Ii is two
and half miles south of the Sumter
county line ON the road leading from
/ Dawson to Americas, and we are noted
up here for nearly agreeing on all things.
hope this may spread until all the peo-
! pie see as nearly alike as possible.
We have a Sunday school of over sixty
pupils, and have preaching often by di-
vines of most all denominations. Pray
er meeting every Sunday night, in which
we find much to encourage us spiritual
ly. The Sabbath day is indeed pleasant
on this Pleasant Hill,
We hope to build a Presbyterian church
soon. Clever J. w. GamTage has kind
ly given us the land, and aided in many
ways to make this a pleasant place.
Our old and Reverend brother, Mr..
Weekly,is stll confined to his bed. May
his latter days be pleasant ones.
We have about one hundred alliance
members from 10 to Is years of age.
We teach truth morality and some other
things. Hon. Vim. Jennings is a mem
Der of our alliance, and we hope he will
be with our noble A. c. Hill at the next
meeting of the legislature We look for
all our people to be fully and honestly
represented with such team too look
after their interests
just now, perhaps, Mr. Editor, there
is reason for more vigilance on the part
of all of us. One generation, just ON the
stage of action, is confronted and tan
gled up with and in two great political
parties of about equal strength, neither
party giving satisfaction to that large
class of people to whom they are due
some consideration. This brings us to
the third party matter Many of us re-
member what the third party did for this
country from 81 to 60. The widows have
not quit mourning their lost husbands
neither the orphan ms long lost father,
nor the mother her lost boy. Our lead
ing statesmen say this and that measure
are unconstitutional. am afraid many of
them know but little about the constitu-
ton, The American people are very
patient people The party of the south
is the same old democratic party Ger
tainly there are fewer objections to 1t
than to the republican party; yet there
are some objections that have got to be
removed, and it seems that our states
men are inclined not to turn listening
ear until it is too late. Is the all anee
responsible for all this? Not so. The
alliance surely sees and feels. The alli-
ancemen only ask to be allowed certain
rights in their old parties. Let the alliance
have what is fair and this great Union
will have no better people than the ALI
ancemen. If this is not granted the alli-
ancemen will surely cast their votes
where confidence reposeth. | was glad
to see that our state alliance president
said in Louisville, few days ago, that
the southern alliance was not for third
party. The democratic party, after il
gets in it such men as Livingston and
Watson-men that can stand ND and
maintain their rights-the old ship will
sail nicely. That we may have no Jars
OF l..Ve IL i
l rec no reason for lis to differ. We are
all one party. The merchant and the
lawyer and the farmer all help each 9TH
err There is no reason why the mer-
chant or the lawyer should care if the
alliance could buy all the warehouses
in Dawson. The merchant and the
lawyer could get along some way.
wish that every man who wants
to be an allianceman could be one.
[ believe that every good man
and boy in Dawson would be one if
they could. Since | have belonged
to this noble order | have done all |
could my my feeble way to assist in
bringing the alliance up to what it
should be.
1t is the men we elect to office who
make our laws and our politics.
Now, in your last issue, Mr.. Editor, |
some one asks who will be the next
Congressman from this district. II
will tell you. He will be an alli-
anceman. So, should you see any
aspirant please say to him he must |
get the alliance to measure him. We
have private yard stick, and no man
can long serve the alliance that can't |
come in through The right door.
| still think that Governor North
en- treated the alliance a little strange. |
He sent the mayors Of Dawson and |
Sasser-botha good and worthy men
tickets to represent anything in Ter
rell county but the alliance. The al,
lance don't care its only little |
matter as We look at it. But our
mayors had good alli4.nceman,
Hon. o. b. Stevens, appointed to
position which, | am sorry to say, will
not confer much honor on him if he
serves. ! only know of four things
that the alliance of Terrell county
will allow to 60 to Chicago, and the
state will not be asked to spend one
dollar to send them. One OF them is
Mr.. ID. A. Gammage's fine COW. She
can go owe, a lawful or an unlawful
fence. Another is Mr.. Lott Jennings