People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-10-14

throughout the State were counted
out and others counted in. BY the
same unblushing methods we are in
formed that in the State elections,
which occurred in Arkansas Sept
TENDER 5, at least $4,000 Of the
qualified voters of the State were
deprived of the right of suffrage, that
the returns were inaccurate, that at
this election the Peoples party the
number polling large vote was de-
MED representation in the appoint
ment Of judges and commissioners,
by whom the election was to be con-
Quoted, In consequence of these
methods the viii of the legally au-
thorized voters of the State has been
defeated.
After an experiment Of many
years it is apparent that neither the
Republican party nor the Demo
cratic partycan or will accomplish
the much-desired end-to-Wit: The
restoration of the ballot to fair and
honest basis in the States Of the
Union. The Peoples party alone
can secure the desired end. If the
people of the whole country who de-
sire honest elections and the repeal
of class laws will rally to the support
of this great industrial movement,
and place the party in power under
whose banner the whole people of
the South are now marshaling them
selves, this vexed question will be
settled forever. It is certain that
the people of the South will not join
the ranks Of the Republican party.
1t is equally certain that the Repub
licans will not unite with the Demo
cratic party.
WHAT THE PLATFORM OFFERS.
The Peoples party affords the
only solution Of these important mat
ters. All who desire the revival of
business, all who wish for the return
Of prosperity to our country, all who
desire to relieve the depressed in
dustries and wage-workers of our
common country, all who desire an
adequate increase of our currency
and the free coinage Of silver, all
who desire the abolition of banks OF
issue and the constitutional control
of the great instruments of commerce
by the Government of the United
States, all who desire that the laws
of taxation shall be equitably adjust
ed to the property of the country, all
who desire that the public domain
shall be sacredly held in trust for the
people, all who desire that the high
ways between the States shall be
rendered subservient to the popular
good, and finally, all vino desire the
restoration of fraternity among the
people and the obliteration of sect
ional animosities, should at once re-
gard it as their conscientious duty
to align themselves under the ban
ner of this great industrial and fra
ternal movement. 1t seems to us to
be quite impossible that the liberal
and iu stice-loving people of this
country should longer cast their
ballots .~,r the corporations and
money changers. 1t would seem
impossible that they should refuse to
make common cause with the fair
minded majority Of the people of
the South, who have risen up to de-
mand justice and good government
in their respective States.
With the aggressions of capital on
the one hand and the overthrow by
fraud of free elections on the other,
how is it possible for our civilization
to last? The new party has its face
turned to the glorious future, Its
sublime mission to usher in an era of
fraternity and justice among men.
In the presence Of such an opportu-
nifty to emancipate our country from
misrule of every kind, let party lines
be forgotten, and let the generous
fame of a common patriotism nerve
every heart and move every soul.
JAMES B. WEAVER.
JAMES G. FIELD.