People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-08-12
TIE PEOPLES FORUM.
PUBLIC SENTIMENTS AS CLEANED
FROM CORRESPONDENTS.

S. L. Harvey, Centerville, Iowa,
writes:
While l ana a Democrat, I do not
belong to that class of Democrats
whe draw their inspiration from
Cluny Castle or Buzzard's Bay. I
admire your paper and it's fearless
and worthy editor, Congressman
Watson, whom the people should re-
turn to Congress with double his
former ma ority. He has stood at
his post of duty while other Demo
Gratis, elected as he was, on a plat
form pledging to remedy the evils
of the Billion Dollar Congress, were
either not in their seats or voting
with Tom Reed to pauperize the
South and West. Are we to step
into the Republican camp and go
with the enemies Of the South and
West-follow Tom Reed and Gro
yer Cleveland ? Here is one who
will net and there are thousands of
others who will take to the woods
before they will vote for a man re-
sponslble for the defeat Of the free
coinage of silver for the benefit Of
Wall street and q syndicate of cor
poration attorneys, of whom Cleve-
land is chief. The revolution of the
Democratic party South is going to
spread over the Southwest and unity
public sentiment so that the minions
of the East will find "Jordan hard
road to traver' four years hence.
When the Democrats make a
National platform on finance that
meets the approval Of Senator John
Sherman, it is high time the rank
and file Of the party begin to inves-
tigate the cause of such harmony.
S. B. Meadows writes from vi
dalia, Montgomery County, Ca:
I am SO anxious to have your pa
per in my family, and have my
friends read it. It's name thrills my
bosom and its precepts cheer my
very soul. And when I think of
Thomas E. Watson's manliness in
defending the party, I wish | was
still a voter in his district, as I once
was, so that | might have the pleas
sure of voting for him time after
time; but trust the strong arms
that held him up so manfully before
will see the necessity of doing so
again. Never let our banner trail
in the dust until every effort of
honor has been exhausted. The par
ty is growing rapidly in this county.
SUGGEST to your valuyble paper.
y " hitoomb, Score y Put
nam Gov =; Arizss9, = : = ~,
The fight for home and liberty is
on in this State, and we inteud to
burn all bridges behind us until we
have our rights as citizens under a
government Of the people, by the
people, for the people. Pour IN
your shot, and it will count in Octo-
Der and November. Speak with no
uncertain sound, for this abominable
cowardice that cannot muster enough
manly Independence God-given
heritage-to hold in contempt the
crack of the old party lash should be
shown up by just such papers as
yours, and manly independence
American independence encouraged.
Go ON, brethren, with your good
work of showing the condition of us
as producers and where we and our
children are drifting.
J. A. Shirly writes from Tell, Camp
bell county, Ca:
Thinking you or your readers
might believe that the Peoples Party
dead, write to tell you that if it is
dead it is very live corpse. So
live that the court (Which is in ses-
stony gives the lawyers about two
hours per day to kill Third Party
with their eloquent speeches. Col.
Joe James tried his skilled hand yes
terday "wednesday. Relating the
demonetizing of silver he said, ''Put
the blame where it belongs. He then
said the bill passed in the House and
Senate by majority of four and
that only four democrats voted
against it. | don't know whether
Col. Joe meant what he said or
whether it was just case Of lapsis
lingu@.
A prominent democrat from Flor
ida made an open boast that the
democrats would elect their man re-
gardless Of the number Of votes.
Said he, E'If the Third Party cast
ninety thousand and the Democrats
ten thousand the Democrats will elect
their man; they won't count the
Third party votes"
Jefferson County.
At a meeting of Jefferson county